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The Daily Illini
Monday February 4, 2013
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Event to aid homeless raises $40K
Dancing through the February blues
Just 75 of expected 200 participants took part BY ATOOSA SAYEH STAFF WRITER
About 40 students and community members slept outside in cardboard boxes Friday to raise awareness for homelessness in Champaign County. The sponsor of the event, C-U at Home, is a local chapter of a national campaign called 100,000 Homes, which seeks to house 100,000 chronically homeless individuals by July 2014. The second annual One Winter Night event was expanded to include a second location on the Quad this year in addition to the downtown Champaign location along Neil Street, where about 35 people attended. Participants arrived for the event at 6 p.m., when they constructed their own shelters out of cardboard boxes. The intent was to spend 12 hours outdoors, but some participants went into the Illini Union to warm up. “Sacrificing a warm place to sleep is making a statement that we want to help people who live like this every day,” said Melany Jackson, executive director of C-U at Home. Jackson said she was expect-
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Student dancers in the College of Fine and Applied Arts participate in February Dance at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts on Saturday. February Dance is a weekend-long event put on by the Department of Dance to showcase the talent of the students that put the show together.
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ISS proposes constitutional changes Revisions would offer greater voice for graduate students, direct election of ISS president BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER
Graduate student senators may have more of a voice and the student body may elect the student body president and other leaders under a new Illinois Student Senate constitution proposal. The senate met Friday to discuss these changes to its constitution, among others, but adjourned early because it was not able to keep a required 25 senators at the meeting, ending with 22. The senate will convene again during its regular meeting Wednesday. Some of the constitutional revisions were responses to changes that were implemented the last time the senate’s constitution was amended in spring 2011, said Jim Maskeri, undergraduate co-chairman of the Commission on Constitutional Reform.
graduate student senators more autonomy. The student body will also have more of a say in senate leadership in the proposed document, which would require that the student body president, vice president and treasurer are elected from and by the student body. Currently, these positions are filled by student senators and are elected by the senate. Having the “direct mandate” of the student body, Maskeri said, the president will also be encouraged to take on additional responsibilities on behalf of the senate outside of meetings. Because the senate currently elects the student body president, he or she acts as the speaker of the senate. “The powers remain within the student senate; however, we’re giving some additional authority to the executive branch to really work outside of the student senate structure and work for the student body,” Maskeri said. If approved at Wednesday’s meeting, the senate will then need to gather 5,000 student signatures, representative of 5 percent of the student body,
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The last revision altered the senate’s structure by minimizing the role of graduate students within the senate by reducing them from a standing committee to a subcommittee. The senate then created a special standing committee for graduate and professional students until a new constitution could be ratified. In the proposed constitution, the Graduate and Professional Council would be formed, made up of 30 council members from different academic backgrounds. A graduate leader would also be elected from the graduate student population as a representative. Maskeri said the senate’s structure accurately represents the undergraduate to graduate ratio on campus, but the new constitution will give
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to announce the results of the Campus Spirit Revival symbol selection survey by Friday. Read about it on our website,
before petitioning the Campus Student Election Committee to place the new constitution on the spring elections ballot for the March 5-6 election. “We are going to have the ability to effectively advocate for students’ needs, and we are going to be able to fulfill the promise that this University makes to every student,” said Carey Hawkins Ash, graduate co-chairman of the Commission on Constitutional Reform. Hawkins Ash said he was eager for Wednesday’s discussion. “I was inspired today,” he said. “I look forward to Wednesday’s meeting to put a document before the student body and say: ‘This is what we want you to approve. Will you support us in making sure that we have a strong student government moving forward?’”
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Students build cardboard shelters in preperation for sleeping outside Friday night as part of One Winter Night, an event to help the homeless.
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UC Senate to vote on new programs
Tyler can be reached at tadavis2@ dailyillini.com.
Urbana to discuss annexing home STAFF WRITER
After the failure of a home’s septic tank on the outskirts of town, the Urbana City Council will discuss an emergency connection to city sewers at its regular meeting Monday. If the connection is approved, the property will be designated within Urbana’s city limits. Susan Bruce’s family was in the process of putting their Coler Avenue home on the market this winter when they noticed a problem with their septic tank. Because a city sewer line runs through the property’s back yard, the family is requesting that the Urbana City Council approve an
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emergency connection to the city line. Bruce said the annexation is necessary because they were not given the option to replace the septic tank. “This was a surprise,” she said. “We never had any problems with it. But as part of an inspection, it’s something you discover.” Robert Myers, planning division manager for Urbana, said failure of the septic tank is leading to sewage that is not properly disposed. “They need to either install a new septic, which is very expensive — $6,000 to $10,000, typically — or they need to hook up to the public sewer system.”
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If the annexation is approved, the property will be designated within the Urbana city limits. This means the homeowners will have access to all city services but will have to pay higher taxes. To offset the increased tax burden, annexed property-owners are offered a tax rebate for several years. Brad Bennett, senior civil engineer of Urbana, said homeowners wishing to be annexed into the city lines incur the costs to run their line to the city line, but there are no associated fees with annexation. Myers said rural properties ask to be annexed into the city sewer lines once or twice a year, but the
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ing about 200 participants between both locations, but turnout was low, which she attributed to the cold weather. She said the most participation came from members of student organizations like the Stamps Scholars and Marching Illini. Anthony Bruno, member of the Stamps Scholars Program and junior in Engineering, said the organization participated last year as well. “It was just a great experience knowing that such a small sacrifice of a warm bed is a small thing to give up, but it makes a world of a difference for some people,” Bruno said. “It’s great knowing (that we’re) making such a big impact.” A 2011 Community Report released by the United Way of Champaign County reported that an estimated 418 people in the county are homeless at any given time. “It’s very important for people to come out here and understand that this is happening all around us,” said Heather Clark, event volunteer and graduate student. “I think that people
BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER
Members of the UrbanaChampaign Senate will vote to approve proposals for the establishment of new degrees, majors and minors at Monday’s meeting. These proposals include the addition of new graduate programs for the College of Engineering, a new graduate minor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, a new undergraduate minor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and a new graduate major in the Department of Plant Biology, according to the meeting’s agenda. Programs will ideally go into effect in Fall 2013 if approved. Also at the meeting, members of the senate will review
requests are becoming more frequent than in years past. Alderman Eric Jakobsson, Ward 2, said the annexation will be routine for the city council. However, he said it is still important to discuss zoning for the property, as it will be considered a part of the city of Urbana. “I think the area will be annexed to the city and will rezone to a single-family residential district, which I think is highly appropriate,” Jakobsson said. “This is a very successful residence. I don’t think that area is appropriate for multifamily zoning.”
Corinne can be reached at cruff@dailyillini.com.
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a proposal for a Center for Farmland Research. The center will be a unit in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and will be committed to providing research opportunities and outreach activities “related to agricultural asset valuation and financial performance,” as stated in the proposal. Another proposal under review will be for the Confucius Institute, a unit within International Programs and Studies. This institute is designed to provide support for Chinese programs and activities on campus. The proposal will also seek to enhance knowledge of the Chinese language and culture throughout the community.
Lauren can be reached at rohr2@ dailyillini.com.
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