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More students seeking help for mental illness dents seeking help. While new clinicians were hired over the summer, the center actually has one-and a-half clinicians less than in the spring. “In all reality, we’ve done a lot of hiring over the summer, but we also lost a lot of clinicians during the spring,” she said. “It was just a really tough year last year in terms of response to emergencies on campus and I think clinician salary compression.” McCowan said the center provided resources for
SAMANTHA JONES TOAL ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
One in 10 college students has made a plan for suicide at some point. At the University alone, that means as many as 4,400 students have contemplated taking their own life. But, in recent years, more students than ever are seeking solutions. Carla McCowan, director of the Counseling Center, told The Daily Illini in April that the center was low on clinicians and that it was “very hard” for the Counseling Center to keep up with the increase of stu-
State Farm construction on track ASSISTANT DAYTIME EDITOR
After two years of construction, the State Farm Center will launch its “grand reopening” with a series of concerts featuring The 1975, Dierks Bentley, Pentatonix, as well as a men’s basketball game during the last weekend of October. From Oct. 27 to Oct. 31, the State Farm Center will host an event every day. This “grand reopening” will mark the fi rst use of the facility since complete renovation, said Kevin Ullestad, director of the State Farm Center.
The planning for this weekend began early last semester. It’s part of the reason the Center remained closed to the touring industries and started sending offers to artists in the past year. For instance, Ullestad said the Center sent its offer to The 1975 back in March. “We intentionally opened up that weekend, we have been working at this for seven to eight months, trying to get shows in that grand opening weekend,” Ullestad said. “We wanted to kick it off in grand fashion with three shows and a basketball game, so
it will be a big event.” The overall renovation process began in March of 2014. Since then, the arena has seen an onand-off relationship with construction, with most of the work occurring in the summer as to keep it open during the men’s and women’s basketball seasons. Right now, the arena is in the last stage, called “phase six.” Phase six entails the following updates to the center: all new dressing, training and locker rooms, restrooms and concession stands are being added to the upper concourse, a new
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ten millimeter scoreboard/ videoboard (which Ullestad said is twice the size of the old one), a new 220-footlong LED ribbon board above the premium seating space area, a new sound system and a new Hall of Fame showcase in the west lobby. “Those are the highlights. Of course, there are the mechanical issues at play, but those are the highlights of phase six,” Ullestad said. Manager of C om mu n ic at ions a nd External Relations for
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The State Farm Center will open with a bang the weekend before Halloween.
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UIPD tests out body cameras BY LILLY MASHAYEK STAFF WRITER
University officials discuss sexual assault regulation and impact.
The University Police Department has begun testing different models of body cameras to fi nd the best one for their officers to wear in the future. “We have six offi cers that we’ve identified two from each shift and they’ll comprise our core group of people who are doing the testing,” said Matt Myrick, deputy chief of operations. “As we get more (cameras) in ... we will open to a few more (officers).” Myrick said the officers are looking at various aspects of the cameras while testing them, such as how they work, what the view from the camera looks like, what the video quality is and if it will hold up in harh conditions. “They’re told to keep a list of pros and cons for each element,” Myrick said. Right now UIPD is only focusing on testing out the cameras because
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IL updates sexual assault BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER
Sexual assault remains an important safety concern on college campuses, urging many support groups and organizations throughout the University of Illinois system to develop more advanced resources for victims of sexual assault. At Wednesday’s Board of Trustees subcommittee meeting, UI officials were presented with updates about sexual assault policies and ways the school is trying to combat sexual assault. Three sexual assaults have been reported this school year on the Urbana campus. University of Illinois Police Department spokesperson Pat Wade said there were 12 reports of rape on campus in 2014, but that UIPD knows rape and other forms of sexual assault are a widely underreported crime. The “Illinois Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education” act mandates establishing a single comprehensive policy across campus for reporting and responding to sexual assault, calls for confidential advisors, an anonymous online reporting system and mandatory victim-centered training. The act was implemented Aug. 1, and campuses had one year to prepare for the implementation of the new
guidelines. The Urbana campus launched a “We Care” website in July 2015 that has tools for reporting and can link people to information and resources. “We think we’ll see a slight increase in reporting because we are increasing the amount of ways that students can report,” Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said. The UI system is in its second academic year of using an online system to teach students and faculty about preventing sexual assault, Executive Director of Ethics and Compliance Donna McNeely said. Around 25,000 students have completed the training this fall. “The training component is designed to help students recognize social and environmental factors or cues that allow students to play a more active role in protecting themselves and others around them,” she said. The program also asks students various survey questions, and each campus will be able to take the data and use it to determine whether additional faceto-face programs would be benefi cial or if they need to modify programs already in existence. It also asks students if they’d like to be notified of volunteer opportunities for various sexual assault prevention organizations.
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Anyone who submits an anonymous tip must receive a response within 12 hours under the new act. McNeely said employees are completing their second year of training in the spring and will be reminded that every single employee is responsible for notifying the Title 9 office if a student or employee who has been sexually assaulted reports an incident to them and to ensure they get the support they need. In the past, an employee has served as the Title 9 coordinator, among many other responsibilities, but Wilson said the University is going to hire its own Title 9 officer who will solely focus on compliance. A job description is currently being written and a national search will be conducted. Wilson stated that along with FYCARE, a peer-led program that each freshman and transfer student must take, students can also take ICARE, a new bystander intervention program. In its fi rst year, 1,000 students were trained. A new intensive training program called Guard was also recently established. It is a weekend-long seminar which specifically targets fraternity and sororities.
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inches and weighing 5.5 ounces, the camera can clip onto the front of an offi cer's uniform and is legally required to have at least 10 hours of battery life. In order to start recording, the officer swipes down on a large pad that is on the front of the camera. The video can then be saved to a computer via Wi-Fi. “I haven’t had a problem remembering to turn it on,” Tison said. “I’m very aware that it’s here.” Tison said he hasn’t noticed any changes in i nteractions between himself and civilians while wearing the camera. Tison said because the camera is attached to his uniform using only a small plastic clip, it is easy for it to get accidentally knocked off. However, he said the video and audio quality of the camera is “fantastic.” He considers it “a great
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the department cannot currently absorb their cost into its budget. Instead of buying the cameras out right, each officer pays a monthly rate to use them. Myrick said that the packages they have seen range from around $50 to $100 per offi cer, per month, and they are not yet ready to commit to fully purchasing them. “Even if we decide (on a camera) you still gotta fi nd the money,” he said. Besides the price of the cameras themselves, he said there are several other variables that factor into the total cost of getting the body cameras, such as storing the video data and managing it. Officer Brian Tison has been testing out the cameras since mid-August. The new technology quickly became part of his daily patrol. The VIEVU LE4 is the fi rst body camera that the officers have been testing out. About 3 inches by 2
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