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Run the Jewels, Purity Ring light up Pygmalion stage BY LILLIAN BARKLEY STAFF WRITER
When two festival headliners performed in succession, The Highdive was lit up in two very different ways. Guests at the 11th annual Pygmalion Festival were treated with a talent-stacked lineup Saturday at the venue. Run the Jewels and Purity Ring, the top-billed performers, played from 8:20 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and delivered an odd mix of artistry. The sky was overcast, but Purity Ring created a space-age, magical sky on stage. One-hundred twenty-eight strands of color-changing lights hung down, framing an elevated DJ stand decorated with seven crystals and what appeared to be a moon suspended from the ceiling. But the “moon” was a giant drum that lit up when hit, and the crystals also lit up in different colors when played like a xylophone. The atmosphere was calm during the first few songs of the set, with slow light effects that shifted from rose gold to a mixture of purple and orange reminiscent of a sunset. The crowd swayed and bobbed with lead vocalist Megan James’ lilting voice and was seemingly hypnotized by her relaxed movements. James meandered around the stage, weaving between the strands of lights. When she stood on wooden platforms near the front of the stage, her hair blew in the wind, creating an ethereal image backed by hazy lights. The otherworldly effect remained even when she took a break to address the crowd 20 minutes into the set. She told a story about her memories of their last tour stop in Champaign — sneaking into an orchard and eat-
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Rappers Killer Mike (left) and El-P of the group Run the Jewels perform on Saturday night as headliners of the Pygmalion Festival. ing peaches. Later, she gasped and pointed out the moon, which was shining through a break in the clouds, and told the audience to look at how beautiful it was. Not every song in the set was as relaxed, however. During higher-tempo songs, the audience jumped around and threw their arms up, matching a thrumming bass and erratic light effects. By the time Purity Ring left the stage, the crowd had reached the metal barriers at the back of the
outdoor venue. While Purity Ring’s electronic style was highlighted with the addition of technical effects, Run the Jewels’ set had two microphone stands, raised turntables and alternating colored spotlights. Their sound only needed one major set piece: the audience. From the second the acclaimed rap duo of El-P and Killer Mike strutted onstage to Queen’s “We Are the Champions,” the crowd
rushed the stage and crushed themselves against the metal guardrails. They screamed along to the pair’s energy-filled lyrics, throwing up the band’s sign — a right hand forming a gun and pointing to a left fist. In response, Killer Mike looked across the crowd and said, “Let’s burn this motherf-----down.” If Run the Jewels’ incendiary lyrics didn’t work, the crowd’s excitement would. Security flanked the front of the audience
Daily Bread is working to raise $300,000 to renovate its new soup kitchen, which will be located at 118 N. First St. The soup kitchen will use the donations to remove the bar, reconfigure the bathrooms and buy all new equipment.
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Soup Kitchen fundraises for new location Daily Bread Soup Kitchen hopes to raise $300,000 BY DANIEL CORRY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Daily Bread Soup Kitchen is raising money for a new location to help those that need their services. After the St. Jude’s Catholic Worker House soup kitchen closed in 2009, many volunteers of the house stayed
committed to feeding the hungry in ChampaignUrbana and came together to create the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen, according to the kitchen’s website. The soup kitchen owners recently purchased what was formerly the Emerald City Lounge, 118 N. First
St., and hope to fundraise $300,000 to remove the bar, reconfigure the bathrooms and buy all new equipment. Right now they are renting equipment from the New Covenant Fellowship, where the kitchen is currently located at 124 W. White St. There they have evolved from handing out 30 sack lunches from New Covenant to serving an average of 200 guests a day with a soup, salad, hot entrée and des-
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Three professors found in violation of UI Ethics Act
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as it surged forward and attempted to knock over the guardrails, while others crowdsurfed in the back. It was difficult to believe that this was in any way the same crowd who had calmly swayed along to Purity Ring just an hour before. The rappers were appreciative, encouraging the audience and laughing happily at the crowd’s
sert, according to the website. Last year, the kitchen served over 153,000 meals to their guests. Karen Pickard, a Tuesday volunteer at the kitchen, said Daily Bread is asking people for donations, and are talking about their fundraising efforts on their Facebook page and website. “We’re getting the word out, and hoping that the
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Nearly two years after physics professor George Gollin’s unsuccessful campaign for democratic congressional candidate, three University professors became the subject of an ethics investigation by the Illinois Executive Commission. Leon Dash, journalism professor, Nancy Blake, literature professor and Laura Greene, physics professor, were found in violation of the Ethics Act which led to the investigation. “Any violation of the Ethics Act’s prohibition on use of State property or time for political purposes is serious enough to warrant inquiry,” said Daniel Hurtado, chief of staff and general counsel of the office of executive inspector general. Dash said he was considered to be in violation of the act because of a onesentence email reply to Gollin, sent to his University account, in which Gollin asked Dash to introduce him as a candidate at a local Democratic Party meeting. “I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican,” he said. “But I became wrapped up in an ethics violation after responding to a request from a colleague with whom I am friendly.”
Dash said he realized in hindsight he was in violation of the Illinois ethics regulations because it was connected to partisan political activity and not a part of state or University activities. In a public statement to the Office of the Executive Inspector General, Laura Greene said she did not intentionally violate the act, and therefore, the law does not apply to her situation. “It is abundantly clear that an unintentional and inadvertent use of a State email account for a political purpose is not a misappropriation of State property.” Greene stated. Additionally, she said she felt the findings ignored both the facts and the law. “I have been a long-time zealous advocate for the University of Illinois, as well as a tireless and ethical professor of physics,” Greene said. “A couple of email exchanges that inadvertently took place on my University email account and that were not even initiated by me simply do not justify the conclusions in the report.” Dash said he met with two investigators from the Springfield Ethic Commission office in May 2014. “One of the investigators had called me to set a
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