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McDonald’s set to open on Green St. The paperwork is starting to stack as the city of Champaign prepares to review the addition of a new business in Campustown: McDonald’s. The popular fast-food restaurant is expected to be located at 616 E. Green St., with construction beginning in May, according to a press release from property management and development company JSM. The opening is scheduled for summer of 2014. The corporation recently sub-
The Illinois Student Senate will host a hearing Wednesday at 7 p.m. to vote on removing members of the Campus Student Election Commission after three members of the senate submitted complaints regarding this year’s student election process. “There have been many doubts raised about the legitimacy of the trustee election and questions about the bike referendum that need to be answered in a formal setting, and someone needs to be held accountable for how the elections were handled,� Senator Kevin Seymour said, graduate student, in an email. Matt Misichko, chairman of the commission, said in a statement that this has been a year of extraordinary circumstances, from schedule delays because of weather to technical difficulties. “The members of the CSEC have acted to be flexible and
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YMCA fundraises to fill unrenewed grant deficit BY CLAIRE HETTINGER STAFF WRITER
The University YMCA has raised almost $37,000 in its efforts to replace the Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant that was not renewed last fall. The YMCA hosted “Storylines: A Gathering of Words and Songs� on Sunday as part of its continual effort to raise funds for their immigrant work, which added about $3,600 to its fund. In November 2013, the YMCA lost a $60,000-per-year grant due to affiliation with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which openly supports same-sex marriage. Mike Doyle, executive director of the University YMCA, said the YMCA does not have an official stance on same-sex marriage, but the organization wants to be inclusive of all people and treat every person with human dignity. One speaker at the event, Father Tom Royer, a Catholic priest who is involved with immigrant concerns in the Champaign-Urbana area, talked about the importance of circles of mutual concern where groups of people can come together to achieve the same goals. “One would think the churches would be (circles of mutual concern),� he said. “They have their own agenda, and sometimes they avoid the issues.� The event included performances by Amasong, Cham-
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Jill Crandall, director of the Amasong choir, addresses the crowd gathered at the Storlines event, which was held at the University YMCA on Sunday. The YMCA has raised almost $37,000 since it lost a grant last fall. paign-Urbana’s premier lesbian and feminist award-winning chorus, and Dan Keding, storyteller. Both groups performed works relevant to the cause of human dignity, uniting as one group of people and accepting differences. Alicia Beck, development director of the University YMCA, said the new fund is named the Committee Concerned for Human Dignity. CCHD is the same acronym as for the pre-
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vious grant, and she said they wanted to claim it as their own to assert that it is concerned with the rights of all people. Doyle said the YMCA thinks of gay and immigrant rights as the same thing. Gay people coming out is not unlike immigrants coming out and calling themselves undocumented, he said. He said it is unfortunate that the Catholic Church found the conflicts of interest too great to overcome to continue working with
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the YMCA. He thinks it is the church that will come around, not the rest of the world, and perhaps they could work together in the future. The church’s CCHD grant was renewable for four years at $60,000 a year. Doyle said the YMCA wishes to raise $120,000, half of their total goal, by the end of 2014. Beck said the YMCA’s goal is to raise $60,000 by the
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responsive throughout, and have thoughtfully considered every complaint they have received,� Misichko said. Shao Guo, Illinois Student Senate historian, said there have been previous instances where election commissions have been purged. “With an office that actually has a say in how University business is handled ... this needs to be treated seriously,� Christopher Boidy said, ISS parliamentarian. “We have a group of folks that are essentially trying to brush us under the rug, and they should not be able to do so.�
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mitted a plan review, which will be processed by the city, along with an examination of their menu, layout and equipment specifications, said Champaign Economic Development Manager Teri Legner. The city must then approve a design and visit the site before McDonald’s can officially open, Legner said. The closest McDonald’s locations are more than mile away from Campustown, at 1605 S. Neil St., in Champaign, and 601 N. Cunningham Ave., in Urbana.
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