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The Daily Illini
Tuesday April 9, 2013
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Next Urbana mayor to be elected Tuesday DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
Urbana citizens will vote for the city mayor on Tuesday, choosing between Republican candidate Rex Bradfield and incumbent Democrat Mayor Laurel Prussing. This election mirrors the 2009 election, in which Prussing won against Bradfield with 53 percent of the vote while Bradfield received 32 percent. After winning the Democratic candidacy on Feb. 26, Prussing said she would continue addressing city improvements, such as the Boneyard Project. “The cities that have done this have found it to be not only something beautiful but a powerful incentive for development,” Prussing said. “People like to be in a beautiful setting. This is something we
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think is going to be very good for Urbana.” Bradfield said his top priority, if elected, will be job creation. “The most important issue now is high-paying jobs,” he said in March. “It was important then and now. She’s four years behind the eight ball.” He also said bringing in major restaurant chains to southeast Urbana would increase business along Philo Road and benefit the local economy by providing jobs and bringing in more tax revenue. Polls will open on Tuesday at various locations and the results will be announced later that night.
Corinne Ruff contributed to this report.
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UI students launch StudyCloud Free application consolidates course-specific information
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Krannert Art Museum Four exhibitions will be shown at Krannert: School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Counterpoints / Moshekwa Langa: Mogalakwena, Jacob Lawrence: Toussaint L'Ouverture Series, and Processing the Everyday.
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Asian American Art Gallery
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"Many Cultures, One Community" is a group exhibit that features the diverse cultures of Asian-Americans in the Champaign-Urbana community.
Courtyard Café Sharon Cho and her band will be performing jazz music at the Illini Union.
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music will be open for tours of its historical instrument and recording collections. Artist David Cubberly will display an exhibition of color and black and white photographs entitled "Champaign-Urbana's Popular Music Scene." J MICHAEL MIOUX Senior designer
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cased both inside and outside by a variety of venues, such as Courtyard Cafe and Krannert Art Museum. White said the Boneyard benefits not only the participating artists but also the venues that host the artists. “It’s a way for venues to be able to get people into their space that might not normally go in,” she said. Jessica Rojas, a junior in FAA, will be one of three artists fea-
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The 11th annual Boneyard Arts Festival, which begins Thursday, will feature juggling, glass blowing, pottery, other artworks and performances by multiple artists hosted by a variety of venues. Boneyard is an annual spring four-day exhibition of different art media that takes place throughout Champaign County, including campus. The festival is the signature event of 40 North, the Champaign County Arts Council . Several organizations are sponsoring the event, such as The News-Gazette and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, this year’s title sponsors. “The Boneyard is an opportunity for artists to be able to hang their work and display it for the community to see,” said Kelly White, executive director of 40 North. “Its goal is to bring all the artwork to the surface in this community so that everyone can come out and experience it.” Sculptors, photographers, painters, musicians, dancers and performers will be show-
Ben Barber, multimedia artist and junior in FAA, will be exhibiting art from the past year at the Basement Gallery. Barber has largely focused on 2-D artwork as well as sculpture and wood working.
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Mourners leave Holy Name Cathedral after film critic Roger Ebert's funeral in Chicago on Monday. The Pulitzer Prize winning movie critic died Thursday, at age 70 after a long battle with cancer.
Hundreds gather for Ebert’s funeral Mourners bid farewell to a film critic praised for his big heart, dedication THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Boneyard arts festival begins on Thursday
“It really depends on what we get from our customer feedback from this summer,” Lee said. “Right now, it’s just more of adding features, it’s not going to be versioned specifically — features will be added in the coming weeks.” Instead of releasing a user survey, the company’s creators asked those close to the founders to join a special course on the website and act as “super users.” “Their goal is to tell us what they like because otherwise you don’t get any gradient in the opinion of your product,” said Agarwal. “People will either
The Boneyard Arts Festival will be taking place from April 11 to 14. On April 11, all events will take place at campus venues.
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University undergraduate students have joined forces to launch their own online startup company, StudyCloud . The website is a free educational productivity application that is geared towards college students. By providing users with course-specific open forums, the StudyCloud founders hope to enhance and simplify the classroom experience.
“We make it easy for students to ask and answer each other’s questions and give feedback as to which answers are the best,” said Akash Agarwal , vice president of marketing and sophomore in Engineering. “We also make it easy for students and professors to share course material, like outside reading and notes, among all the users in a course.” In addition to students, the startup is also trying to
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appeal to University teaching assistants. “TAs have a lot of face time with their students, and students email their TAs all the time,” said Ravi Pilla , CEO and junior in Engineering. “We think that is where TAs can get a lot of benefit because they will not have to answer a ton of emails, and the student will benefit because everything that the TA has will be in one place.” StudyCloud has been online for less than a month and is currently in heavy developmental stages. Andrew Lee, CTO and junior in Engineering, said now is the time when users are highly influential in product design.
Venue locations Thursday, April 11 University of Illinois Campus
Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13 Champaign-Urbana
Sunday, April 14 Out and About (Fisher, Homer, Mahomet, Rantoul, Urbana, Champaign)
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A presentation of a model of Axis Park Tower, a mid-rise hotel in Chicago, will be presented at the Gable Home, located behind the iHotel.
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CHICAGO — Roger Ebert, one of the nation’s most influential fi lm critics who used newspapers, television and social media to take readers into theaters and even into his own life, was laid to rest Monday. Praise was given from political leaders, family and people he’d never met but who chose movies based on the direction of his thumb. “He didn’t just dominate his profession, he defi ned it,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a brief eulogy to hundreds of mourners who gathered at Holy Name Cathedral just blocks from where Ebert spent more than 40 years as the fi lm critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert died last Thursday at the age of 70 after a yearslong battle with cancer. It was Ebert who told readers which fi lms to see and needed to see and which ones they should stay away from, Emanuel said, remembering the influence Ebert had on movie goers through his newspaper reviews and the immensely popular television show he hosted, with fellow critic Gene Siskel, during which they would issue thumbs-up or thumbs-down assessments. “Roger spent a lot of time sitting through bad movies so we didn’t have to,” joked the mayor. In a 90 -minute funeral Mass, speakers took turns talking about how Ebert spent his career communicating his ideas about movies, social issues, the newspaper business and fi nally the health problems that left him unable to speak. “He realized that connect-
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ing to people was the main reason we’re all here and that’s what his life was all about,” said Sonia Evans, his stepdaughter, her voice choking with emotion. That realization, she and other speakers said, helped explain Ebert’s fascination with outlets such as Twitter and his blog that he took to just two days before he died to tell readers he was taking a “leave of presence.” “Roger was 24/7 before anybody thought of that term,” said John Barron, Ebert’s former boss at the Sun-Times, who said Ebert was among the fi rst to recognize the changing media landscape as well as the fi rst in the office to use a computer or send emails. Ebert was also a champion for the little guy, as over the years he weighed more and more on social issues and other topics that had nothing to do with fi lm. Gov. Pat Quinn spoke as much, if not more, about Ebert’s “passion for social justice” and the fact that he was a “union man,” as he did about Ebert as a fi lm critic. Ebert’s widow, Chaz, who received a standing ovation as she made her way to the lectern to speak, expanded on that devotion. “It didn’t matter to him your race, creed, color,” she said. “He had a big enough heart to accept and love all.” That was the message of Jonathan Jackson, who, after relating comments from his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, told the crowded church why Ebert’s early support
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