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Tuesday September 11, 2012
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Memorializing September 11, 2001 C-U, campus honor victims of Sept. 11 DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
Students and members of the Champaign-Urbana community can participate in several activities Tuesday to memorialize the events of Sept. 11, 2001. ! At 5:45 a.m., the annual 9-11 Memorial Run will be held in affi liation with the Tri-Service ROTC. The formation for the run begins on the west side of the Armory at 5:45 a.m., which is expected to include approximately 250 students from the
Air Force, Army and Navy divisions of the ROTC. ! Starting at 7:45 a.m., students, faculty, staff and elected officials will place American fl ags with the name of a victim on the Quad. The Jupiter String Quartet will perform Tuesday at 7:46 a.m., the time the fi rst plane hit the World Trade Center, in Smith Hall. The performance will
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How do you think 9/11 has shaped the world?
The names of the people killed in the 9/11 attacks at Ground Zero in Manhattan in New York City.
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“I think personally it made me realize how delicate life is. In one instance, by one event, so many lives were destroyed and so many people were affected. In terms of the whole world, I think it made us realize how when things like this happen, people really come together.”
“I feel that more people are feeling more war-mongering, like you can only solve your problems with sending more troops, sending more machines of war and destruction and whatever, to ‘help’ these poor impoverished people. Whether they actually have weapons of mass destruction or whatever, it doesn’t change the fact that 9/11 totally shaped our foreign policy to focus even more on the Middle East than it was before.” ROBERT KAMINSKI, junior in Engineering
SAMEERA SARMA, graduate student
“It’s shaped it in that we have more precaution now. We have to have more security in airports especially. (At) school, if we find a backpack, we can’t just go ahead and grab it and take it to security. It has to be done by security. Everyday life has been completely altered.”
“On the domestic level it obviously changed the way people in North America view safety and security .... I think, unfortunately, it kind of increased the culture of fear a lot in North America. People worry about things that are very, very unlikely to happen. There’s a lot of paranoia about it — more than it probably deserves.” NIR FRIEDMAN, graduate student
ERIKA ESPARZA, senior in LAS
Wendy’s to return to campus by 2013
Since 9/11, Sikhs deal with misplaced racism BY TAYLOR GOLDENSTEIN NEWS EDITOR
When Sikh student Irwinpreet Bagri was in grade school, prejudice to him meant coming home every day in tears. It meant being called a girl for wearing his traditional top-knot turban as he was pushed into the girls’ bathroom by other students. Now Bagri is 21, far removed from schoolyard bullying, but the prejudice has grown along with him. “Since 9/11, Sikhs have been the main target of hate crimes, even though we have no link with al-Qaida,” said Bagri, senior in Business. Following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bagri said much of the American public has mistakenly made the connection between Sikhs and radical Muslim terrorists, mostly because of the turbans and unshorn hair that individuals of both faiths may don. Bagri added that it is ironic that people misidentify Sikhs as Muslims because of the persecution Sikhs have faced in the past when others, such as the Mughal emperors in the 1700s, wanted to convert the monotheistic Sikhs to Islam. It didn’t take long after 9/11 for these
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start within two to three weeks, Allegro said. Right now, Allegro said he is concentrating only on this location. He said he would like to take advantage of any future opportunities to open more Wendy’s franchises in the Champaign community if the opportunity presents itself.
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The slogan “Where’s the beef?” — a phrase made famous by Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers — will soon find an answer on campus. Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers will open a two-story restaurant on the corner of Sixth and Green streets, according to a news release. JSM Development said in the release that the beef will be available by the end of the year, when the restaurant opens for business. Jill Guth, JSM director of development, said that when Mike Allegro, owner of 16 Wendy’s franchises, heard about the vacant space at 608 S. Sixth St., he contacted her saying he wanted to bring Wendy’s back to campus. With Wendy’s Company’s approval, Allegro is on schedule to open his 17th Wendy’s franchise — his first Wendy’s on a college campus. “I’m very comfortable opening on campus in Champaign,”
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Wendy’s is reopening on campus after closing in the mid-1990s. The restaurant was originally located at 528 E. Green St., which is now the location of Chipotle and Noodles & Company. The new location for Wendy’s is 608 S. Sixth St.
Allegro said. “I think Wendy’s is a quality brand, and by bringing it to campus, it will add more value to students’, residents’, and faculty’s experience of campus town.” As a new business on campus, Allegro said he hopes to be active in the community. “We defi nitely want to be involved in the community and college activity,” he said. “We want to be part of the growth in Champaign.” Owners of local restaurants, including Chipotle, Firehaus and Murphy’s Pub, declined to comment on the opening of Wendy’s. The general manager of Noodles & Company was not available for comment, and the request for comment from Mia Za’s was not returned. Wendy’s was previously located at 528 E. Green St. but closed in the mid-1990s. The space is now occupied by Chipotle Mexican Grill and Noodles & Company. Construction is scheduled to
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misconceptions to become rampant and grip the nation — only four days after Sept. 11, a Sikh man, Balbir Singh Sodhi, was murdered in Arizona. The event was marked by many as the fi rst hate crime to follow 9/11. So while many were shocked by the shooting in Wisconsin this August at a Sikh temple, or gurdwara, Bagri said that because he closely follows news about the Sikh community, he knows these crimes are a societal reality. He said that as long as there is a lack of understanding of minority cultures, appearances will always set apart Sikhs and other groups and cause rifts. “The reason (Aug. 5 shooter) Wade Michael Page went into that temple — it’s not because they were Sikh, and it’s probably not even because he thought they were Muslim — it was because they were different,” Bagri said. “At the end of the day, he would have attacked anyone that was different from him.” Despite similarities in physical appearance, Sikhs and Muslims have different reasons for dressing the way they do.
“The reason Wade Michael Page went into that temple — it’s not because they were Sikh, and it’s probably not even because he thought they were Muslim — it was because they were different. At the end of the day, he would have attacked anyone that was different from him.”
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The new franchise will offer employment opportunities to residents in the area. According to the release, “the Campustown store will be employing up to 30 customer service positions and a full-time management team.”
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Sections of the student code dealing with professors’ response to cheating are being modified, with the goal of simplifying some of the code’s ambiguities. These changes could be in place as soon as Fall 2013 if the University’s Conference on Conduct Governance signs off on a handful of proposals to simplify the academic integrity policies for students. “We worked mainly with the procedures because the student code was difficult to read and figure out before,” said Charles Tucker, associate dean for undergraduate programs for Engineering. “In light of experiences handling relevant issues, some aspects needed tuning up in order to make it easier to understand.”
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One of the main adjustments, Tucker said, is the wording that determines when a student is violating the academic integrity policy. The current edition states that the professor “should feel certain” a student is in violation of the code before determining the penalty. “This read very ambiguously, and no one really knew what it meant,” Tucker said. The proposed line now reads that it must be “more probably true than not true” that a student has committed an infraction. Another addition to the policy will be a selection of sanctions that professors may choose from to penalize a student, depending on the degree of severity, Tucker said. “The penalties are restricted to start with a warning letter and increase to a failing grade
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