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THE DAILY ILLINI
MONDAY April 29, 2019
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Champaign hosts 2019 Illinois Marathon
Orchestra cancels UI show amid fight for pay BY MEGHANA KAZA STAFF WRITER
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra canceled its show on April 16 at the University because of its musicians’ seven-week strike. The strike ended on Saturday, though all patrons will get a full refund. The CSO musicians have said they were fighting for better pension and pay. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association approved a new fiveyear contract, which will give the musicians a 3.5% salary increase by the fifth year of the contract. Eileen Chambers, public relations and communications officer for the CSO, said the parties have been at the negotiating table and that the two remaining issues were over salary and the proposed pension plan and retirement benefits. “This particular set of negotiations actually began over a year ago, last April, and part of the reason they have continued for an extended period of time is that the parties agreed they would explore an alternative to the current defined benefit pension plan,” Chambers said. “Pensions and retirement benefits are relatively complex, and the parties needed additional time to review the alternatives.” Chambers said the strikes were disappointing to more than just the loyal audiences and supporters of the orchestra. “Certainly, it is a difficult time for all the parties involved — the musicians, the organization that supports the musicians and the concerts that we do here, and mostly it is incredibly disappointing for our loyal patrons and our community here to not be able to share the music of our great orchestra,” Chambers said. Because of the strike, all concerts throughout the month of April have been canceled including the concerts scheduled by the University’s Krannert Center for Performing Arts. “It’s not what we want,” Chambers said. “We want to be able to resume conSEE STRIKE | 3A
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Panuel Mkungo finishes the Illinois Half Marathon at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Mkungo won the half marathon in 1 hour, 3 minutes and 50 seconds with an average pace of 4:53 minutes.
University terminates partnership with Huawei BY ZIHAN WANG STAFF WRITER
The University has decided to cancel further partnership with Huawei, one of the largest Chinese high-tech telecommunications equipment companies, which granted fundings and research awards for University faculties. The decision was not publicly posted on University websites but only announced in an email sent to the College of Engineering faculty and staff. Rashid Bashir, dean of Engineering, said in the email, “I write to let you know that, effective immediately, the University will not be accepting any new grants, contracts or gifts from Huawei or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.” Bill Bell, executive director of marketing and communications of Engineering, said the U.S. SEE HUAWEI | 3A
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ISG supports resolution against conservative group
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Executive board members of the Illinois Student Government sent a letter to Texas State University’s student government applauding them for their attempt to ban Turning Point USA, a national conservative organization, from their campus. Student body president Walter Lindwall, senior in LAS, student body vice president Vikram Sardana, senior in Engineering, and chief of staff Susan Zhou, sophomore in LAS, sent the letter to support Texas State student government’s resolution on April 10. TSU’s Faculty and Student Safety Resolution of 2019 called for the “immediate removal” of TPU-
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The Huawei office is located at Research Park. The U.S. government has filed a criminal charge against Huawei and its leadership, and as a result, the University has cut ties with the company.
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SA from their campus, referring to the organization as “a negative campus influence.” “TPUSA as a whole, as a national organization, has had some type of influence within our elections on campus and things of that nature, and so those are some things that are causes for concern,” said Corey Benbow, student body president of the Texas State Student Government and senior in Applied Arts. Benbow said other causes for concern included the “professor watchlist,” a TPUSA project which, according to its website, is meant to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda
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in the classroom.” These, as well as other allegations, were named within the resolution. Sardana said he initially learned of the resolution through a news article from the TSU student newspaper. Sardana said these are issues student leaders deal with a lot, so ISG wanted to write a letter in a show of support to Texas State’s student government to thank them for bringing those concerns to light. “We wanted to just write a letter to show our support to their government to thank them for bringing up those concerns and shining a light on issues that have impacted us as well,” Sardana said. ISG said in the letter that
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TPUSA has “a long history of harassment on campuses around the country,” referring to the events that took place on the University campus regarded as forms of harassment, including sharing private information of undocumented students and professors with the public, holding a “Hate speech is Free speech” event within close proximity of the massacre at Christchurch Mosque in New Zealand as well as constructing a symbolic wall on the Main Quad. “I’m disappointed but not surprised that the student government would decide to do something like this,” said Andrew Minik, former member of TPUSA at the University and former diversity chair for ISG. “It
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proves that they have no respect for the fundamental first amendment right of students on campus and that they don’t trust students to be smart enough to engage in a political debate without getting their feelings hurt.” Madeleine Hubbard, junior in Media and president of TPUSA at the University, disagreed with the harassment claims made against the conservative organization and said ISG is “so used to living in their own little bubble.” As a former member of ISG, Hubbard thinks there should be more dialogue between ISG and TPUSA. “(TPUSA) provides a unique outlet for students,” SEE ISG | 3A
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