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THE DAILY ILLINI
WEDNESDAY February 19, 2014
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Vol. 143 Issue 80
BY MEGAN JONES STAFF WRITER
As he walks around the Campus Bicycle Shop directing students who are diligently fixing their bikes, manager James Roedl continues to hear common themes among students’ conversations: There are problems with the bike infrastructure on campus, ranging from crashing into pedestrians to not being able to find an available bike rack. For these reasons, Grace Kyung, graduate student, has submitted a referendum question to establish a $1 student fee each semester dedicated to bicyclerelated projects, including paving and painting bike lanes and paths, creating a bicycle rental program, funding the Campus Bicycle Shop, expanding bicycle parking, hiring a bicycle coordinator and creating educational materials. “This is me working toward showing the University that students really do care about this initiative and these projects,� Kyung said. “It’s something we want the University to start paying attention to because we, as students, want to see something change.� If students vote on the spring 2014 referendum to pass the bike fee, student initiated fees will rise from $66 to $67 per semester. The fee would bring
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Ryan Kuramitsu, a junior in Social Work, paints a picture frame at Crafts Unleashed at the Illini Union Food Court on Tuesday.
More grads choose Peace Corps Breakdown of areas with Peace Corps volunteers
BY MIRANDA HOLLOWAY
After graduating from the University in 2010, Manuel Colon took his degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences to Paraguay to serve in the Peace Corps until 2012. Colon is among 1,988 University graduates who have served in the Peace Corps since the organization’s creation in 1961. This year the University was ranked No. 19 out of “large� universities, moving up four spots from last year, according to a press release. Peace Corps volunteers come from all fields of study, but many volunteers serve in positions related to health care, education, agriculture and youth and community development, said Jessica Mayle, Peace Corps Midwest region public affairs coordinator. “At a school like UIUC, we look at applicants in all colleg-
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Limited bicycle-related project funding for Facilities and Services If approved, students would pay $1 per semester and the funds will be managed by the Transportation Demand Management Coordinator at Facilities & Services. The Campus Bicycle Shop will lose its funding in June, and Facilities & Services currently has no funds allocated specifically for bicycle-related planning. The fee would increase student initiated fees from $66 to $67 per semester. It needs 2,330 signatures in order to be added to the referendum. So far, 1,200 have been collected. All signatures are due to the Campus Student Election Commission by Feb. 25. Students can sign the petition at the Campus Bike Shop, 608 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign. SOURCE: MORGAN JOHNSTON, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABILITY, AND GRACE KYUNG, GRADUATE STUDENT
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New security technology class to help students’ careers BY CLAIRE HETTINGER STAFF WRITER
Throughout their careers, many students will deal with sensitive information and will be at risk for compromising this information if they are not able to use proper security measures. Two College of Media IT professionals want to ensure that University students are able to understand and use these technologies during their careers. Taylor Judd, internet technology specialist, and Mike Bohlmann, director of information technology, are teaching Media 199: Security and Privacy for
Communication, a second eightweek course designed to help students learn how to communicate securely with sources and search the web without the risk of their activity being tracked. Judd explained that sometimes professionals working in foreign countries are stopped at the border and customs officers will confiscate their equipment and examine its information. There is a certain need to encrypt sensitive information in these situations to prevent unauthorized access to the information by people who may want to contain it, he said. Judd said they wanted to cre-
ate “a course that will expose the students and teach them how they can use these tools without worrying about the barriers of technology.� The class will include handson demonstrations of how easy it is to access someone’s personal data. Another objective is to build awareness of the ways that information can be accessed externally. Bohlmann and Judd said they want to offer the class now in the wake of recent world events. They said the coverage of reporters who worked with Edward Snowden really caught their
attention because Snowden wanted to communicate at a high-security level and the reporters had not heard of the technologies he wanted to use. They said it made them realize that University students may be lacking this knowledge as well. Bohlmann said the main three tools they will be focusing on are the Tor Project, TrueCrypt and GNU Privacy Guard. Wayland Morgan, a University IT security analyst, helped teach a workshop on this topic during the fall semester. He said the tools they are teaching are easy to use as well as freely available online.
GNU Privacy Guard, or GPG, is an email encryption software that makes use of what is known as “public key cryptography,� Morgan said in an email. GPG uses a public key and a corresponding private key, both of which can only be unlocked by the other. Morgan said the messages are encrypted on the sender’s computer, so by the time that it is transmitted to its intended recipient it “looks like garbage.� The receiver of the message must download the email to their computer in order to decipher the message, he said. TrueCrypt is another encryption service used for files. An
example of this, Bohlmann said, is if he were to lose his flash drive with private information, it would not matter because the files it contains are encrypted with TrueCrypt and cannot be read by anyone but him. Tor is free software that is used to provide anonymity to its users by directing Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network to conceal a user’s location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis, Morgan said.
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Champaign issues liquor sale orders for Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
Champaign Mayor Don Gerard issued emergency orders Tuesday pertaining to liquor sales in Champaign during Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day. Unofficial is scheduled to take place from March 7-9. Businesses with bar or restaurant liquor licenses (Class A or Class R) — between the boundaries of Springfield Ave-
nue, Wright Street, Kirby Avenue and Neil Street — are: — Prohibited from serving or permitting the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. from March 7-8. — Prohibited from hosting any private functions that result in special drink pricing between 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. from March 7 to 9.
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— Prohibited from serving beer in pitchers between 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. from March 7-9. — Required to serve drinks in aluminum containers and paper or plastic cups between 10:00 a.m and 2:30 a.m. from March 7-9. — Class A license holders will also be required to have at least one employee at all pub-
lic entrances to check IDs of all patrons entering the premises during their business hours beginning on Friday until 2:30 a.m. on March 9. Employees performing checks must be at least 21 years old at that time. The patron entry age for Class A license holders is 21 years or older between 10 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. from March 7-8 and from 10 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. from March 8-9.
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2:30 a.m. from March 7-9. It is also illegal to have more than one keg per residence. — If police determine that pedestrian traffic impedes vehicular traffic in the area of the orders, the police will have the authority to order any and all liquor licensed establishments to shut down until further notice or until the end of the order.
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— All businesses holding Class P liquor packaging licenses — between the boundaries of University Avenue, Wright Street, State Street and Kirby Avenue — will be prohibited from selling packaged liquor between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. from March 7-8. — No keg permits will be issued by the liquor commissioner between 12:01 a.m. and
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