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Renovations expected for UI buildings Altgeld and Illini Hall may receive renovations in 2017 hours later the squirrel was captured. “It looked like World War III in there. It was just unbelievable,” Fireman said. “I have a bed in my office because I had a bad back. When I came back, it was all thrown out, all over the place. It wasn’t the squirrel, it was the fight with the squirrel because they had to fight with it.” This recent squirrel
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On Nov. 23, Statistics Professor Karle Laska saw squirrel paws scrambling underneath the door of professor Ellen Fireman’s office in Illini Hall. She had seen the squirrel scramble into Fireman’s office the previous Friday, but didn’t expect the squirrel to be trapped in her colleague’s office for the whole weekend. Facilities and Services were called and two
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Altgeld expects to see renovations in 2017, including changes to the Mathematics Library.
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GWS promotes campus solidarity Recent events call for a safer campus BY CHRISTIN WATKINS STAFF REPORTER
Following a Black Student Solidarity rally and the creation of an Illini White Student Union, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies looked to promote solidarity at the University. “I think solidarity means you recognize that you can have different positions on a particular topic, but that we find common ground,” said Karen Flynn, associate professor in GWS. From Dec. 1-3, GWS hosted solidarity hours “in support of students working for racial justice on our campus,” according to the event description. “Solidarity means people putting themselves out there to support you in some way,” said Terri Barnes, associate professor in GWS. “When you say ‘I support what you stand for or what you’re doing, and I want to go out of my way to show that.’” Students and faculty met in the GWS building, 1205 W. Nevada, to discuss current issues of discrimination and to provide a safe space for ideas and conversations about these problems. “We want to have this campus be a place where different groups of people speak
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to their reality, in terms of what’s occurring, what’s happening on this campus,” Flynn said. Discussing the reality of discrimination on college campuses is essential to reducing it, she said. “We have to admit that racism is still current,” she said. “[It is] still much a part of our reality.” The solidarity hours were held two weeks after the creation of the ‘Illini White Student Union’ Facebook page Nov. 18. The page decried
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“Recognition of existence sometimes, of the existence of these issues, can be really comforting,” he said. “Everybody’s not against you.” Allowing an open dialogue is also key, Barnes said. “I really believe in the power of discussion to educate people, to change people’s minds, to show people what they have in common,” she said. This allows people to collectively overcome differences, she said. “People can learn things together,” she said. “That’s a wonderful and a powerful thing. If there’s anything that’s going to save the world, it’s that.” Conversations can prevent the feelings of alienation that may lead to violence, Eldridge said. “I think communication is vital,” he said. “It comes to a boiling point where violence can happen. If people feel like they just don’t have any other way to express their emotions or feelings, it can result in violence.” Linking people through life experiences helps to reduce discrimination from differences, Flynn said. “I believe we have to teach people love,” she said.
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“I think solidarity means you recognize that you can have different positions on a . . . topic.” KAREN FLYNN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN GWS
the Black Lives Matter movement as terrorism and threatened to identify students who had attended a black solidarity rally on the Main Quad earlier that day. “This campus isn’t always a safe place for students of color,” Flynn said. Realization that these issues are prevalent is a step that is necessary to prevent future controversy, said Jakob Eldridge, freshman in LAS.
Talks shed light on issues of undocumentation BY STEPHEN NYE STAFF WRITER
As students across the University face the stress posed by finals, term papers and group projects, an additional stress is placed on some students that constantly hangs over them: their immigration status. “We The People,” a dialogue on U.S. immigration history, was held Friday at Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall in cooperation with La Casa. Dr. Gioconda Guerra Pérez , director of La Casa, gave a lecture called
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“Undocumented” about the evolution of undocumented immigration legislation in the U.S., and then held a brief question and answer section. The lecture spanned the Naturalization Act of 1790 to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which was expanded in 2014. Brandon Rodgers, junior in LAS and a PAR residence assistant, helped organize the event with encouragement from several residents, including Jonathan Alanis, a freshman in DGS. “As a hispanic student, (undocumented status) is a topic that is important to me. I wanted to get the news out there,” said Alanis. Alanis said that students at the University don’t know about the experiences of
undocumented students, and has helped planning the event for about three weeks. Pérez hopes that the students walked away with a renewed interest and awareness about issues surrounding undocumented immigrants. “La Casa is happy to present to anyone interested ... I encourage anyone interested to get in contact with CASE, and to spread awareness for these issues,” Pérez said. “(Being undocumented) is the only crime in which, if your father commits a crime, the son or daughter has to pay the price.” The Coalition for Accessible Scholarships for Everyone is a group of students,
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University student Leah Matchett named Marshall Scholar BY DIXITA LIMBACHIA STAFF WRITER
Leah Matchett ended up at the University by chance, but her experience on campus gave her the opportunity to become a Marshall Scholar. Matchett, a senior, double majoring in global studies and geology, is one of 32 students to be selected as a 2016 Marshall Scholar. The scholarship will give her the opportunity to pursue a postgraduate study at the University of Oxford. Originally from Grand Haven, Michigan, Matchett ended up at the University by accident. In her sophomore year of high school, Matchett won a Science
Olympiad event and won tuition to the University as the grand prize. Matchett initially applied to be a Schwarzman Scholar, a graduate program in China, but one of the advisors at the University’s National and International Scholarships Program encouraged her to apply to the Rhodes Scholarship based on the strengths of her application and the recommendations from professors. After going through preliminary interviews, one of the committee members on the board thought Matchett was an exceptional candidate and decided to endorse her for the Marshall Schol-
arship as well. She ended relations between the U.S. up receiving the Marshall and U.K., according to the instead of the Rhodes Schol- program’s website. Because arship. the British T h e government funds M a rsh a l l the scholS c h o l arship proa r s h i p grams, it s te m m e d limits the f r o m World War number of II when students to 30 to 35 the Marshall Plan students was introTIM WEDIG each year. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR IN LAS duced to Matchett GLOBAL STUDIES is interestrebuild ed in nucleEurope. ar policy The cooperation fostered during this and found that the U.S. and period of redevelopment led U.K. have a similar nuclethe creators of the plan to ar policy which encouraged look for new ways to sustain her to study there.
“Part of my role is to help students . . . with what happens after the degree.”
“There’s a lot to be learned from retrospective analysis,” she said. “It’s hard sometimes in the U.S. to think critically about our own policies and (think) about how we can improve them from a multinational perspective.” Tim Wedig , associate director in LAS Global Studies and Matchett’s mentor, really wants students to grasp the idea of how an advisor aids students throughout their four years. “As a faculty advisor, part of my role is to help students beyond this university, with what happens after the degree,” Wedig said. “I spend a lot of time
in my classes relating content to career paths to academic options and try to build that throughout their entire academic career experience.” He encouraged Matchett to apply for many different programs because of her variety of qualifications and “inspiring abilites”. “Every way I interact with Leah is amazing,” he said. “She is highly motivated, so, as a mentor, motivating her is never a problem,” Wedig said. “She’s always prepared and has the desire to explore different opportunities.”
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