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Tuesday April 17, 2012
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Enrollment initiative to proceed under new leadership All 3 campuses to review revised admissions plan BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER
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Ashley Megurdichian, freshman in Business and member of Students for Justice in Palestine does homework in front of the wall on the Main Quad. Concerned with possible vandalism, members of SJP left Megurdichian to guard the wall while others participated in a panel discussion Monday.
Wall built for Palestine Week Students for Justice in Palestine aims to raise critical awareness of West Bank BY SAFIA KAZI ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
As a response to growing tensions in the Middle East, a registered student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, is hosting Israeli Apartheid Week to bring attention to conflict in the West Bank. A major point of contention in the West Bank is the separation barrier that is being built by Israel. Construction on the barrier began in 2002, said Farhad Malekafzali, political science lecturer. The barrier is about 60 percent complete, with 80 percent of it running inside the West Bank. He said this barrier has been built without regard to existing communities. “People on one side don’t have access to hospitals, school or work,” he said. “People often need permits to farm their own land.” Josh Gibbs, president of Hillel, a center for Jewish life on campus, said Israel Week is next week. This will feature a day on the Quad, a party for the holiday Yom Ha’atzmaut, a dance performance and a barbecue. Prior to an expert panel, SJP set up a large wall outside the English Building. Dana Al-Qadi, member of SJP and graduate student, said this wall was inspired by the wall in the West Bank. “Palestinians live in an open-air prison. It’s very hard for us (living in Champaign) to under-
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Josh Schwenk, senior in LAS, left, and Jesse Phillippe, of Urbana, both support Students for Justice in See WALL, Page 3A Palestine. They helped raise a section of the wall Monday.
Although University President Michael Hogan will officially end his term at the end of June, advancement of the revised enrollment management plan will proceed as Robert Easter, interim vice-chancellor for research, takes over. The Springfield campus’ senate reviewed the document at its meeting April 6, while the Chicago campus will review it Thursday and the Urbana campus will review it April 23. Once the plan is reviewed by the three campus senates, it will come back to the University Senates Conference and will be sent to the office of the president for approval. University Senates Conference chair Don Chambers said the final document will go back to the Board of Trustees for fi nalization only after it has been reviewed by the campus senates and approved by HOGAN each president as well as the University Senates Conference. The original plan was revised after Hogan and Board of Trustees chairman Christopher Kennedy as well as the University Senates Conferences met twice in January and again in February in response to initial negative feedback. The plan intends to manage future student EASTER enrollment more effectively on all three Illinois campuses. However, after Hogan resigned in March, questions arose regarding the status of the plan as Hogan was part of the revising process for the document. Despite this latest change in leadership, Chambers said the document will move forward to the next steps in the revision process without Hogan. “I don’t expect to see many changes,” Chambers said at the end of March. “At first, there were three or four minor concerns, but they were all addressed. We (the University Senates Conference) are 100 percent satisfied with the document.” Nicholas Burbules, vice chair of the University Senates Conference and a member of the UrbanaChampaign Senate, said he is also pleased with the final revisions of the document. “I feel a lot more comfortable than I did with the original proposal,” he said. Burbules said it has not been clear what changes will be made to the enrollment management plan once Easter steps in.
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Cycling course teaches students safety, rules Class emphasizes road equality for bikes, cars BY PULU WANG STAFF WRITER
As part of Earth Week, a free CyclingSavvy course was offered to students Monday night at the Activities and Recreation Center and was sponsored by Champaign County Bikes and Students for Environmental Concerns. The course is part of a three-session series. Gary Cziko, a retired University professor and organizMore on-air: er of the event, said he hosted the course Tune in to WPGU 107.1- because of his interest in cycling. FM at 5 p.m. for “Bicycing for me more information has so many good on upcoming qualities to it, but CyclingSavvy people are often courses. fearful to ride because they are afraid of the traffic, so we are trying to show them that traffic is nothing to worry about if they know
what they are doing,” he said. The three-hour course, “Truth and Techniques of Traffic Cycling,” provided students with rules of the road, bicycle safety and traffic cycling problem solving. “We (also) have on-bike parts (of the educational series) that deal with being able to control your bicycle and actually getting out into the traffic and going through various situations,” Cziko said. “It’s to be able to use a bicycle safely for transportation wherever you want to go.” The event was intended to teach students that cyclists have control and are equals on the road. Daniel Guico, junior in ACES, said after he got a new bike, he was unsure of the rules and how to interact with cars on the road until he attended the course where he said he learned some “typical safety precautions.” “A lot of things I wouldn’t have thought of, especially going in the center of the (road) for intersections,” he said. “This is kind of eye-opening.” Cziko focused on two basic ideas dur-
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announce that you’re passing them ! Never block the path, and if you have to, ride off to the side ! Wear a helmet
University Police evaluates overall effectiveness of recently enhanced on-campus security camera system
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ing the course that are important for bicycle safety: to be visible and predictable to other drivers on the road. Kelly Payne, junior in AHS, said she is excited about the event because she recently fi xed her bike, but she also wants to be safe on the road. “I don’t want to put myself in danger or other people in danger on the road,” Payne said. Cziko said he loves cycling and wants other people to do it because it has a lot of added benefits. “This is Earth Week. It’s a very sustainable form of transportation. It’s exercise. It enhances the community. It’s not noisy; (it requires) less gasoline.” he said. “There is an ecological reason, an economic reason. It’s less expensive. You are not paying all your money for the oil. There are also house reasons and community reasons.” The follow-up session for the course will be held May 5 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at a location to be announced in Champaign-Urbana.
With 700 security cameras installed over the past three years, the University police department, is continuing to strengthen its camera system. Detective and security camera technician Tim Hetrick of University Police said that in August 2010, he had 13 cameras in the system. He now has roughly 700 cameras that he is responsible for. He said it was a lot of work to have that amount of cameras installed in such a short period of time. The police department owns only about 20 of those cameras, which are on the exteriors of buildings in major foot traffic areas while other cameras are located on and inside University and apartment buildings. Hetrick said that each department within the University is responsible for paying for its own cameras and installation. He said that they install cameras on a need basis to combat certain situations, such as when there were problems with signs and artwork being stolen on Nevada Street.
Recently, UniMore versity Police inside: The started to gathDaily Illini er data about Editorial how effective the cameras Board shares their have been in opinion on the costsolving crimes effectiveness of around campus, campus security although it will cameras . Page 4A take about a year for those numbers to start showing results, Hetrick said. “As far as (solid) numbers, I don’t have that information yet; I wish I did,” he said. “But I know that our detectives use the camera system on a daily basis, and I know that there are some cases that they’ve put together and solved strictly with video footage.” Capt. Skip Frost of University Police said “they would love to cover every square inch of campus,” but that is just not possible. He added that they try to put cameras in the most effective locations around campus, and so far, it
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