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UI Police recruits students to attain greater diversity Force trying to resemble University’s population BY STEVEN VAZQUEZ STAFF WRITER

diverse university, I wish different groups of students could go to the public and out of their comfort zone and feel free and welcome here and present a culture,” she said. Li also said she hopes students were interested in the cultures presented at the event and that it sparks interaction. Sahid Rosado, graduate student,

The University Police D e p a r t me nt h eld a recruitment meeting at La Casa Cultural on Wednesday night. The University is currently accepting applications for an entrylevel police officer. Jeff Christensen, interim chief of the University Police Department, said the department is trying to recruit more current students. “We try to do a lot of recr uiti ng effor ts on campus because we’re really trying to recruit our students,” Christensen said. “We’ve hired a number of ex-students and people who eventually graduate from the school. We have about 10 now, but we would like to build that number up. I just don’t think a lot of students really consider it.” Christensen, who is a University graduate himself, added that the job is a great opportunity because it offers room for advancement as well as specialization . He also said the job offers great benefits, such as paying for

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SARI LESK THE DAILY ILLINI

The Illinois Student Senate and International Student and Scholar Services hosted “Around the World” on the Quad on Wednesday. International and diversity-related clubs featured booths representing various regions of the world, such as Romania, which displayed decorated eggs.

Around the world in one day UI hosts event celebrating global cultures during International Week BY SARI LESK ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Students had the opportunity to travel around the world on Wednesday — all without even leaving the Quad. As a part of International Week, International Student and Scholar Services and the Illinois Student Senate hosted the University’s fi rst Around the World event. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., various international and diversity-related registered

student organizations had booths representing different countries and regions of the world. Those who attended obtained a mock passport and “traveled” to different booths to learn about their regions. Sondra Schreiber, one of the event’s organizers and assistant director in International Student and Scholar Services, said the event was a good opportunity for people to both teach and learn about global cultures.

Poet Akili discusses stereotypes, issues of black masculinity Racism, sexism, transphobia focus of speaker at open event BY ZACH BASS STAFF WRITER

To give his take on why black men face issues such as racism, sexism and transphobia, poet and speaker Yolo Akili spoke at the Illini Union about the dominant narratives of “patriarchal men of color” on Wednesday. The event, hosted by the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, discussed issues ranging from sexism, to racism. The talk also discussed double standards and pressure males experience from society. Though the event was only scheduled to be an hour long lasted an extra hour because of audience involvement. The majority of the keynote was made up of Akili’s conversation with the audience. The talk’s topics expanded to religion and recent events facing the black community. “The most important thing I want people to leave with after the event

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is a sense that they don’t have to fall victim to the narratives that the culture teaches us,” Akili said. “An idea that, whoever I am, I don’t have to be held up in this narrow box of what it means to be any race or gender.” “I think talks like this should be more consistent on campus because it’s an important issue,” said Tyrone Rivers, graduate student. “The event either had not enough publicity or black men didn’t want to talk about this. The whole concept of what it means to be black is distorted, and it should be talked about within the black community.” The Illinois Conference on Interfaith Collaboration, also being co-hosted by the same office, will be held April 20 through 22. These two events aim to help conversation about social issues occur more on campus. “I don’t think that we can have enough of these conversations,” said Ross Wantland , assistant director of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations. “We try to provide space for these conversations to happen. We went an hour over schedule because I think there is a lot of energy from folks to talk about these things. Especially regarding the issue of masculinity.”

“We wanted to have it on the Quad in the hopes that some people who may not normally come to something like this may come in just walking by,” Schreiber said. “I think this is one of the most diverse campuses.” Nan Li, sophomore in LAS, helped organize the event. She agreed that Around the World was a good chance for student learning. “Because our university is a very

High art from a native son

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Standing between a miniaturized model, front, and his life-size 33-foot-tall steel sculpture, artist John David Mooney directs the installment of his latest work next to the Urbana City Hall. Raised in Champaign-Urbana, Mooney now lives and works in Chicago, and the towering sculpture, which was added Wednesday, is his second in the park adjacent to City Hall.