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Two face sexual assault charges Student posts bond, must wear electronic monitoring bracelet BY CARINA LEE
KEEPING IT LOCAL
CLAIRE EVERETT THE DAILY ILLINI
Robert Sena, Common Ground Food Co-op employee, converses with a customer as he stocks shelves on Wednesday at the opening of the co-op's renovated section of the store.
Common Ground Co-op expands, continues commitment to give back to Champaign-Urbana farmers, community BY CLAIRE EVERETT STAFF WRITER
Since opening its doors four years ago in the Lincoln Square Mall , Common Ground Food Co-op has tripled in sales, leading to the construction of a new wing that opened Wednesday. For now, all groceries have been moved to the new wing, but the store’s expansion will be complete in October, when the wall separating the old and new wings is torn down. Common Ground is a consumerowned company with 3,000 owners who have a share in the business. The business provides the community with fresh food choices, mainly from local farmers. Marketing manager Joy Rust said in 2008, the co-op was paid local farmers a collective amount of $115,000. Now, with increasing popularity and community support, revenue from the renovation is expected to
reach about $900,000, which will be have cooking classes for free and for a cost, as well as other classes, paid to local farmers, Rust said. Last fall alone, Common Ground like canning classes, classes on raisFood Co-op raised $1 million in ing chickens and eating healthy on loans from their owners, said Kris- a budget.” ti Emilsson , grocery Customer Jan Kalmanager. mar has been involved “We were amazed,” in the co-op for about Emilsson said. 30 years and said the “That’s a million dolrenovation is continuing to bring jobs to lars from people that the community. believe this business is a profi table busi“The renovation ness they want to be has made the co-op a part of.” not only stable but The new wi ng introduced a beauincludes classrooms, tiful model of doing so the community can business for local KRISTI EMILSSON, participate in free organic systems,” grocery manager Kalmar said. cooking classes and provide extra in-store Common Ground seating for the espresso and salad Food Co-op also gives back to the bar. Room for storage was also part community through events and through a round-up service offered of the addition. “I’m really excited for our com- at the register. As part of the sermunity kitchen,” Rust said. “We’ll vice, customers can round up the
“This is a Co-op that four years ago was in a basement of a church, and here we are now.”
New file-storage service will replace NetFiles by December Faculty members praise new service for its convenience BY MADDIE REHAYEM STAFF WRITER
No more NetFiles. A new fi le-sharing system called Box will be made available Friday to all University students. Box will replace NetFiles, which will be retired and permanently shut down Dec. 21, according to the NetFiles website. Faculty and staff members were able to use Box over the summer. Marie-Christine Brunet , assistant dean of Engineering, uses Box for her Engineering at Illinois class, which she said is “speaker-based.” “I sent an email to the speakers so that they can actually drop their PowerPoint presentations (in Box),” Brunet said. She said using the system makes it easier to keep track of presentations and that Box is very accessible. “I can really access it from anywhere because it’s Web-browser based, so I don’t need any special connection, so that’s very convenient,” she said. Konstantinos Yfantis, acting manager of Teaching and Learning Services at CITES, said the program will also be useful for collaboration because it “allows for concurrent editing” and also “inte-
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grates with Google Docs.” “(Box) has features such as ‘versioning’ on documents, so if there is a team that is working on a paper, you can upload multiple versions of the document,” he said. Box additionally offers security for users when uploading and sharing fi les. Mike Corn , chief privacy and security officer for the University, sponsored the project that brought Box to the University. Corn said the system has “industrial-grade security behind it.” “We’re very comfortable telling faculty, for instance, that they can store student information in Box, and it’s very secure,” Corn said. He said security settings can also be adjusted for students’ needs. Box includes other features, such as a desktop sync function similar to that of Dropbox, as well as mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry, Corn said. It can also integrate with Google Apps and Microsoft Office in addition to the “full-featured Web interface.” The application for enrollment in Box will be available Friday at uofi .box.com , and Corn said he encourages students to sign up. “I think that (they) will pick it up instantly if (they’re) at all computer-savvy,” he said. Box will feature five gigabytes of storage for students and 15 gigabytes for faculty and staff when they sign up, according to a press release from CITES.
total of their change at the register and donate the difference to a nonprofit. “You think about how much money Wal-Mart or Shnucks makes, and then the number of people that are benefited by that money being invested locally and having local returns,” Emilsson said. Although older community members make up most of the demographic that shop at the co-op, some University students, such as Patrick Heddins, senior in AHS, also choose to shop at the co-op. “The quality of the ingredients in the food is exceptional, and I like to support local farms,” said Heddins, who has been a patron for two years. With the expansion of knowledge about healthy eating and the benefits of supporting local farmers, business is better than ever, Emilsson said. “This is a co-op that four years ago was in a basement of a church, and here we are now,” Emilsson said.
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A University student was released on bond Wednesday after being charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of another student. Brian O’Donnell, senior in AHS, went out drinking at the bars Thursday night with his personal assistant as well as the victim. After returning to Nugent Hall, O’Donnell, who uses a wheelchair, allegedly sexually assaulted the victim in his room with the help of his assistant. Champaign County State’s Attorney Julia Rietz said O’Donnell was charged Tuesday. He was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault. On Wednesday, bond was initially set at $250,000 but was reduced to $100,000 during a hearing. O’Donnell was released after paying $10,000, or 10 percent of his bond. “He was not taken to jail, and the reason is because of his disabilities,” University police Capt. Roy Acree said. “The jail would not be able to handle the types of disabilities he has.” Along with O’Donnell, his personal assistant Thomas Roman Jr., senior in ACES, was arrested Sunday on two charges of aggravated sexual account. Acree said Roman’s bond was set at $50,000. “The judge ordered (O’Donnell) to wear a GPS monitoring ankle bracelet,” Rietz said. “He is not allowed to contact the victim and the residence hall. Housing has moved him to a different residence hall.” The victim also has a physical disability, according to court records. The case will continue on Oct. 23 for O’Donnell, and Roman is expected to find an attorney for arraignment on Sept. 18. Acree said the police interviewed the victim Tuesday. “We have touched base with the victim,” he said. “As far as we can tell, she is doing fine.” Aggravated criminal sexual assault is a class X felony and could result in a six- to 30-year sentence.
Wheel of international engineering fortune
PRITEN VORA THE DAILY ILLINI
Doug Zhu, freshman in Engineering, spins for a prize at the International Engineering Fair. Students could win prizes ranging from keychains and flash drives to discounts on study-abroad fees. There was even a chance to have the fee entirely waived for a summer term. Zhu won a $200 discount for any study-abroad program offered by International Programs in Engineering.
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