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THE DAILY ILLINI
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Vol. 147 Issue 59
THE DAILY ILLINI EDITORIAL
GPA does not play major role in hiring BY REBECCA WOOD STAFF WRITER
With finals approaching, students might be relieved to hear that the Career Center and various companies hiring Illinois students have said GPA does not always play a major role in hiring decisions post-graduation. Jennifer Neef, associate director of career and professional connections at the Career Center, said the number of employers screening for GPA is typically inversely related SEE GPA | 3A
UI attempts to combat faculty poaching
KENYON EDMOND THE DAILY ILLINI
Student journalists and employees of The Daily Illini gather at their daily news conference to plan out the following day’s content. Student newsrooms across the country are currently banding together to bring awareness to the importance of student media on college campuses.
Save student newsrooms
The Daily Illini is an independent student newspaper, which means we don’t take orders from the University. Being independent means our publication can publish what it wants, when it wants, without constraints or censorship from the administration. The majority of student newspapers across the country are not independent — they publish what their schools tell them to. Often, they are prohibited from publishing important information regarding their university.
We understand it’s a privilege to learn and grow at an independent publication free from these constraints, but we still experience struggles. Many of our readers already heard that our company is moving locations from Green Street to the University YMCA for financial reasons. Journalism is always evolving, and we, as journalists, understand the need to evolve with it. There are a lot of people on campus who might not agree with everything The Daily Illini does. We have our fair share of crit-
BY THERESE POKORNEY STAFF WRITER
The state of Illinois is to decide whether the University System will receive additional funding to combat faculty poaching by other peer universities. University faculty members have been targeted by other colleges due to the recent budget impasse, said Barbara Wilson, vice president for academic affairs. She said although the budget crisis has ended, the University has remained a target of faculty poaching. “We track how many people have had offers from other institutions, and it has gone up 40 percent during those three years of the budget impasse,” Wilson
On Wednesday, student newsrooms across the country joined together in a movement to bring awareness to the problems university publications are currently dealing with. The Daily Illini acknowledges the present issues and will work to help solve them in the future; we ask that you help in our fight to save student newsrooms. ics, but it’s important to remember we are still students learning our trade. We are not perfect, nor do we try to be. There are serious problems in our industry at the moment. Professional publications all over the world are criticized for their subjectivity, their re-
porting techniques and their presentation of facts. In order to help fix these aspects of the industry, we need to learn and experience what it’s like to work in a real newsroom. Almost everything we learn as journalists doesn’t
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Illinois tends to lean liberal in ex-con voting rights Felons can vote after release BY HAIPEI WU STAFF WRITER
Although former felons are allowed to vote in Illinois, Mike Ingram, a Democrat running for the District 6 seat on the Champaign County Board, said he has encountered many former felons on the campaign trail who are unaware they can vote.
State felon voting laws
“During my campaign for the county board, I always have a couple of people telling me that they can’t vote because they are ex-con,” Ingram said. “People seem to be very excited when I told them that they can vote.” Although some states have banned people with felony convictions from voting, Illinois does not take away voting rights from former felons. A study by ProCon.org, a site that specializes in SEE VOTING | 3A
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May lose vote permanently (10 states)
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Vote restored after prison, parole and probation (20 states) Vote restored after prison and parole (3 states) Vote restored after prison (15 states) Unrestricted; may vote from prison (2 states)
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