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Daniels talks unions to local Republicans as thousands protest outside
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In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness month, University students and Champaign-Urbana community members rallied together Thursday night to protest against sexual violence in the 33rd annual Take Back the Night. The event was organized by the Women’s Resource Center and Rape Advocacy Counseling Educational Services, or RACES, based in Urbana. About 60 participants gathered at Lincoln Square in Urbana before marching west down Green St. chanting and carrying signs protesting rape and violence. The march ended in a rally on the Quad. Stephanie Ames, outreach associate for RACES, said that holding the event at night highlighted the cause. “The nighttime is often associated with violence, so we’re taking back the night, making it our own and making it safe again,” she said. At the rally, participants were given the chance to listen to Shirley Paceley, founder and director of End Violence Against Women International, as she talked about the significance of raising awareness to the issue of rape and violence. Although she thanked friends and families of victims for participating in the rally, she dedicated her speech and the night to survivors of sexual assault. “Tonight, we honor victims,” Paceley said. “We see your goodness, and we honor you.” Jennifer Scott, coordina-
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As a show of support for the Indiana governor, Habeeb Habeeb, newly elected chairman of the Champaign County Republicans, invited Daniels to give remarks at his party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in front of about 800 guests. Prior to the dinner, an estimated 5,000 Illinois laborers and students gathered at the southwest parking lot of Assembly Hall in a protest organized by the College Democrats. “Right to work laws do not help the economy, they do not grow jobs, (and) they don’t draw business to states,” said Dan Montgomery, president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers. “What they do is lower the average wage and hurt working families like yours and mine.” To prevent those laws from coming to Illinois, the protesters hoped to send a clear message. “The message from the 1 million working men and women of organized labor in Illinois to Mitch Daniels is we don’t want, and we don’t need, your extreme anti-middle class agenda here in Illinois,” said Michael Carrigan , president of the Illinois AFL-CIO.
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Top: Bob Farrell, plumber and member of Local 130 in Chicago, stands on a light pole during the labor protest in front of the Assembly Hall on Thursday. Bottom: Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor, gives the keynote talk at the Champaign County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign on Thursday. A rally against some of Gov. Daniels’ policies took place in Champaign earlier in the day.
Students ‘Cover the Night’ to raise awareness of Kony After the Invisible Children video went viral this February, people across the nation have decided to take action against Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, which, the video alleges, abducts children in Uganda for use as soldiers and sex slaves. Filmmakers Jason Russell , Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole, creators of the nonprofit organization, created the video to bring awareness about Kony. Their mission is to end the violence, improve education establishments in Africa and build an alert system for counter-resistance. Inspired by the video, students at the University, along with other groups across the country, are planning to “Cover the Night,” as the event is called, and put up 1 million posters, signs and stickers to raise awareness. University students can expect to see the results of this movement at the Undergraduate Library, Illini Union, Allen Hall, Ikenberry Commons, Illinois Street Residence Hall and the Alma Mater on Sat-
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Budget request focuses on faculty’s salaries, academic performances BY CARINA LEE STAFF WRITER
As the school year comes to a close, University administrators look to hear from the state of Illinois in regards to its operating budget request for fiscal year 2013. The request, which was submitted in September, addressed an increase in faculty salaries in the hopes of improving academic performance on all three campuses. “Loss of state support for salary increases since FY2002 (fi scal year 2002) poses perhaps the greatest challenge to the University’s overall quality since the late 1980s,” stated the fiscal year 2013 budgetbook. It went on to say that the University is now fully funding its own salary program because the state provided little or no salary increase funding between 2003 and 2012. Randy Kangas , associate vice president for planning and budgeting, said the issue had been discussed on multiple occasions by many people, including members of the Board of Trustees and the Office of the President.
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In this March 8 file photo, a box full to the brim with KONY posters is seen at the Invisible Children Movement offices in San Diego. “I think the Kony 2012 campaign is very important ... although it took some time, I am proud to see the Invisible Children group stands up for what they believe in and gather strong support quickly,” he said. Bolos said she’s been working with the international Invisible Children’s group for three years. After attending the Fourth Estate Conference, a leadership conference, in August 2011, she was inspired to begin a chapter for campus. Bolos said its main goals are to spread awareness of the war in central Africa and to fundraise for Invisible Children. She said she has no doubt that Kony will be arrested by the end of the year, but until then the international community needs to contribute to the movement. After Cover the Night,
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Bolos said she hopes to see more involvement within her organization. “I want people to show up to the meetings and stay proactive about the campaign, instead of just showing interest without taking action,” she said. In a speech regarding the movement from his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama encouraged Americans to get involved. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time,” Obama said. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
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urday morning. “I’m hoping that the event will open the campus and have big enough coverage of the campaign where more people will be willing to join the revamping of Kony 2012,” said Katerina Bolos, president and founder of the University’s Invisible Children chapter and sophomore in LAS. “The event is to show that this is something very important and won’t fade away any time soon.” TemiTayo O Ade-Oshifogun, junior in Engineering, said he also has high hopes about the campaign and believes that this is the right way to go about bringing Kony to justice. “It starts with a cause and many people to support it, and somebody will notice the effort,” he said. “It will take a mass effort of people to make a difference, and a bigger effort from America and the Invisible Children to target a higher power in the government for signifi cant support.” O Ade-Oshifogun hopes the University chapter will continue to contribute to the worldwide efforts to arrest Kony by 2013.
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Ind. governor visits Champaign
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was the keynote speaker at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner in Champaign on Thursday. The Republican governor made Indiana one of the most recent states to adopt “Right to Work”legislation, earning Daniels admiration from the Champaign County Republicans and galvanizing about 5,000 union supporters to protest his arrival in Champaign. Illinois is now sandwiched between two Right to Work states, Indiana and Iowa . Right to Work laws prohibit union security agreements, which prevent established unions from requiring membership and payment of dues. “This type of law creates a huge freerider problem because workers can still receive union protection without paying their dues,” said Matthew Finkin , law professor. “A union must represent all workers of a particular bargaining unit, not just those who support the union.” Finkin said laws like Right to Work are intended to weaken unions. Right to Work legislation is now in place in 23 states, and the protests were intended to show Illinois Republicans that they will face intense resistance should they try to enact similar legislation in Illinois. “Right to Work is a misleading name for the legislation,” said Shana Harrison, president of the registered student organization College Democrats. “It weakens labor unions in many ways, and we want to send the message that Right to Work won’t work in Illinois.”
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