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Oooh Wee Sweet Tea gives back BY TAYLOR HOWARD CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Leeandre Mahomes, freshman in LAS and founder of the Chicago-based tea company, runs Oooh Wee Sweet Tea on the second floor of Mia Za’s.
Leeandre Mahomes, freshman in LAS, is balancing more than school work this semester. He opened his Oooh Wee Sweet Tea business, located on the upstairs level of Mia Za’s, on Jan. 16, as a way to give back to the black community. “I am a firm believer in black ownership,” Mahomes said. “This could create more opportunities for black people.” Oooh Wee Sweet Tea is an organic sweet tea company originally founded by Mark Walker in Chicago in 2014. Walker sells his tea
by the cup at pop-up tea stands in select Chicago restaurants, including Morrison’s Soul Food and Harold’s Chicken. It’s also where Andrew McGowan, freshman in AHS and Mahomes employee, first tasted the tea. “The tea is gluten free, caffeine free and it has no artificial sweetener,” Mahomes said. “It is a good plus, because not only is it delicious, but it is healthy.” Simone Johnson, freshman in Business, said that the tea business is giving back to the black community on campus. “Just seeing someone who is
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Dr. Bennet Omalu, sports medicine researcher, speaks about his struggle with depression and alcoholism, emigrating from Nigeria and embracing his individuality at the Illini Union on Wednesday. The event, An Evening with Dr. Bennet Omalu, was hosted by the Illini Union Board and Phi Delta Epsilon. Omalu studies head trauma among athletes, which made a large impact in the field of sports medicine. His research inspired the 2015 film “Concussion,” which starred Will Smith.
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President Donald Trump’s “budget blueprint” proposes to slash funds for a variety of federal agencies, possibly including the National Science Foundation (NSF), which would be detrimental to the University’s research. The National Science Foundation a federal agency serving to “advance the progress of science,” is one of the University’s largest sources for research funding. In the 2015 fiscal year,
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Diane Marlin proved victorious in the Urbana mayoral race against Rex Bradfield on Tuesday. She accumulated 86 percent of the vote in all 23 precincts, according to the Champaign County clerk’s office. A total of 428 votes were cast on campus. As mayor, Marlin said she’ll work for a more effective government, hospital property tax exemptions, economic development, safe neighborhoods and engaged citizens. “I have several goals,” Marlin said. “One is to fill the vacant city administrator position. It’s been vacant for about 10 years, and it’s very important for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the city.” The city administrator would have the qualifications and experience of a city manager. They would be important in implementing the policies passed by the council. The city administrator would also be in charge of Urbana’s city employees, roughly 250 people, and $55 million budget. “Cities these days are complicated operations, and even in communities like Urbana with a mayor-council form of government,
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The National Science Foundation gave more money to the University than any other college in the nation for the past six years. The foundation is facing proposed budget cuts
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Some University students receive more printing cost breaks than others; however, several colleges on campus are campaigning for equal printing rates campuswide. “We in (the College of) Media have started conversations a couple of years ago with some of the other colleges about how to share some printing infrastructure,” said Mike Bohlmann, chief digital officer of the College of Media, “So it’ll be easier to run things because you have some commonalities between the colleges.” Bohlmann said that the longterm goal is for students to pay the same for black-and-white printing and share the same billing process all over campus. Although no students have free printing on campus, the rate of printing can vary by major and printing location. Many majors on campus pay a tuition differential, meaning certain majors might have to pay more than others. Part of the extra tuition is used to provide a free printing quota for the students. Er ic Meyer, associ ate professor in the College of Media, said every student has some degree of free printing, depending on the classes they take. “Each class has a different number (of pages) that is based on actual experiments on how much somebody might need,” he said. The system used for printing will also log the items printed to ensure nobody is abusing the printing privileges. He said doing so will ensure availability for students in need of printing for their curriculum. “If we just have labs that have open printing in them and everybody can walk in and do
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anything, before you know it, these (fraternity) brothers are going to be in there printing their party invitations for free and then it won’t be available for the kids who need it,” Meyer said. In an email, Bohlmann said that for the College of Media, jour na lism students a nd advertising students have a quota of $11 because they are paying a tuition differential. Other students in the college have $7.70 and non-media students have $3.30. While most students on campus print through a printing system called Papercut, engineering students can do their printing through the Engineering Work Station labs, which have 100 locations on campus. At these labs, they receive a printing quota, the fee of which is included in their tuition differentials. According to Bill Bell, executive director of marketing a nd c om mu n ic at ions in Engineering, the college currently provides engineering students with a quota of 300 pages for $24 for freshmen and sophomores, 400 pages for $32 for juniors and 500 pages for $40 for seniors. Steven Harris, a freshman in Engineering, said that he prefers having a quota so that he doesn’t have to worry about paying each time. “I don’t have to worry about ‘this assignment is coming up, do I have enough money in my student account to pay for it?’” Harris said. Engineering students are also given the option to purchase 100 additional pages of printing for eight dollars. This means that engineering students pay two cents less for each page of printing compared to students from other majors. The normal rate of printing is 10 cents per page. Jenna Kurtzweil, sophomore in LAS, said she has a lot of required printing for her course curriculum. As an English major, she is not offered any deal on
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black and a freshman at the University is motivation for me,” Johnson said. “It gives the black community a lot of ambition, motivation and shows us that we can do anything if we just put our minds to it.” Mahomes’ drive for business did not happen on his own. Growing up in an entrepreneurial based family, Mahomes observed both the truck driving and the heating and air conditioning companies that his parents own. His stepfather was the reason he got into the sweet tea business in the first place,
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