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THURSDAY October 19, 2017
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Police issue 22 underage drinking citations on Oct. 13
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The Illinois State Police performed an identification check at five local bars on Friday, Oct. 13, and 23 citations were issued. Assisted by the Champaign Police Department, the purpose of the ID check was to deter underage drinking, according to a release sent out Oct. 17. Among the list were: KAM’s with six citations, Joe’s with 10, Brothers with two, the Clybourne with zero and Red Lion with four. One citation was issued in a “street sweep.” Those issued a citation for fake IDs are facing the suspension of driver’s licenses, which could last a year or longer. Minors charged with consumption, purchase or possession of alcohol “face a one year suspension of their driver’s license,” according to the report. The checks were funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Ending the stigma
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Although the University’s College of Engineering has been traditionally male dominated, the gender discrepancy has been significantly narrowed in recent years. The College of Engineering was 15 percent women about 10 years ago, but the number has grown to 20 percent now, said Bill Bell, executive director of marketing and communications of the college. Devin Oliver, junior in Business, created a visual representation of data regarding gender discrepancies in different colleges and majors at the University. “There’s so much information; I think it’s really interesting information as well,” Oliver said. “You would expect the engineering majors will be quite male dominated, but I kind of wanted to see over the years, has it gotten better?” Oliver said a lot of what he’s seen is consistency over the last few years. “You see progress; it’s slow progress, as in maybe it goes from having 8 percent female in a major to maybe 15 (percent),” he said. “So that’s progress, but it’s a slow road to getting to that more equal gender diversity.” There has been a lot of improvement in gender diversity within the college, Bell said. However, the last two freshman classes in the college were 25 percent women, he said. “We’ve seen a real acceleration in the number of women in the freshman class,” he said. “That’s a really promising sign for it, certainly. Some work left to do, but we're making progFemale faculty in the College ofSEE Engineering GENDER | 3A ress and making (it) rela-
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The entire College of Engineering faculty consisted of 8 percent women.
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The fate of undocumented students all over the U.S. is uncertain, but the Illinois Student Government says it wants to provide support in any way it can. ISG and the executive department said they wanted to focus on many different levels when dealing with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: student, administration, state and federal levels said Chief of Staff Spencer Haydary, senior in LAS. “We focused on calling upon the administration to do several different initiatives, and we also tried
to get some undocumented ally training for student government members,” Haydary said. “(We) pressured the UIUC administration to provide mental health resources for DACA recipients. Their lives are in jeopardy at this point. They are uncertain of what the future is going to be.” Speaker of the Senate Sam LeRoy, senior in Business, said the resolution discussed if ISG should pursue financial aid for students affected and provide support to La Casa Cultural Latina in helping these students. La Casa is holding ally training sessions for faculty and staff on how to help
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students affected by DACA. La Casa has opened up the fall training session to ISG members for them to better understand how to help undocumented students, said Haydary and LeRoy. Rahul Raju, senior in Engineering, was one of the sponsors of the resolution and is continuing to stay involved while the executive branch executes the bill. “(The DACA repeal) caused a lot of real genuine anxiety issues and raised a lot of genuine concerns among the people who are affected,” Raju said. “I think it highlights just how pow-
Students struggling with mental health issues may feel uncomfortable utilizing the resources provided on campus because of the social stigmas attached to it. “A lot of people say they don’t want to go to to the Counseling Center because they don’t want people to think they’re crazy,” said English Henderson, junior in LAS. According to a study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, over 45 percent of participants surveyed reported believing people with depression were unpredictable and over 20 percent believed people with depression are dangerous. Although the National Institute of Mental Health estimates that nearly 18 percent of people over the age of 18 suffered from a
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ISG supports DACA students through passing a resolution
tively quickly at this point.” According to Bell, the Computer Science department and the Bioengineering department both have 45 percent women in their freshman classes. “We’re pushing parity at that point,” Bell said. Sarah Habib, sophomore in Engineering, said that although she often finds herself to be the only girl in a discussion section, the overall experience of being a female engineering student at the University has been positive. “There are a lot more females in my major than I was expecting, even though it’s still not as many as guys,” she said. “It’s nice seeing other girls, I guess; it’s just that simple.” Habib said she has had a couple of female professors in her engineering classes, and it is an encouraging sign to see. “I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about women in academia, specifically,” she said. “What people like to say is that it’s like a leaky pipe; that girls are dropping out of the path to becoming a professor or some other high-end job every step of the way, so it’s definitely encouraging to see people who have made it through all of those obstacles.” Bell said the number of female faculty members within the College of Engineering has also seen an increase, from 8 percent female faculty in 2007, to having 8 percent female fulltime professors, 14 percent female associate professors and 32 percent female assistant professors in 2016. Angela Wolters, director of Women in Engineering, wrote in an email that the decision by women to begin
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Students rest in La Casa Cultural Latina March, 2016.
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