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Former Gov. Ryan calls for new view of ex-felons
Homecoming 5K fundraiser
Research suggests label hurts more than it helps
“The idea itself is wonderful. I don’t think that changing the language is going to solve the problem,” Ginsburg said. “But it’s defi nitely a start.” Labeling ex-criminals as felons stigmatizes them and prevents them from BY CHRISTIN WATKINS being able to get housing STAFF WRITER or employment, she said. Former governor George Labels distance those Ryan recently called for who have been incarceratlegislation to end labeling ed from the rest of society, people as “felons” once making them appear to be they serve their prison lesser human beings, said sentence. James Kilgore, UniversiReb e c ty adjunct ca Ginslecturer. “ T h e b u r g , language d i r e c tor of the that we Education use to Justice describe P r oje c t , people supp or ts is pretty important i nformANATTA OKONKWO in shaping ing peo PRESIDENT OF THE PRISON ple of the our ideas JUSTICE PROJECT n e g a t ive a b o u t effects of them,” he stigmatizsaid. ing ex-criminals, although T hese labels on ly she is unsure of the effect increase public stigmatithis legislation could have. zation of criminals, said The project — conducted Anatta Okonkwo, presiby a variety of people at dent of the Prison Justice the University, including Project registered student students, faculty and staff organization. — provides higher educa“Labeling someone as a tion inside a medium-high ‘felon’ defi nes the person security Illinois state pris- by what they have done in on, according to the program’s website. SEE FELONS | 3A
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Homecoming 5K race participants raised money for the Emergency Dean Fund on Sunday at the Arboretum.
“Labeling somone as ‘felon’... leaves no room for societal redemption.”
Nugent Hall to house honor students in learning community BY DANIEL CORRY STAFF WRITER
Only James Scholars and Campus Honors Program students will be living on the third and fourth floors of Nugent Hall come fall 2016. The change creates the 10th Living-Learning Community, or LLC, at the University. The communities are distinctive programs in the residence halls for students sharing common interests, according to the University’s Housing website. Each community offers its own special traditions with ties to education. On Oct. 15, spaces for returning students for the new honors LLC fi lled up in a little over an hour when students registered for housing, said Kristen Ruby, associate director of housing for communications and marketing. University Housing has also reserved spaces for incoming freshman who will apply for housing this spring. “The response has been just amazing,” Ruby said. “Students are telling us that they want it, and they want to live there, and they want to become a part of this new community.” Ruby said students who apply to live in the honors LLC are engaged and love the experience. She said faculty and staff are very focused on ensuring the creation of the LLC goes smoothly. First year residents of the honors LLC will be required to take a one-credit-hour course, which will introduce students to the community, their fellow honors LLC students and honors programs at the University. The community will be composed of 50 percent returning students and 50 percent fi rst-year students.
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Nathan Sanden, assistant director for Residential Life for Academic Programs, said creating an honors community has been talked about over the past several years. Sanden oversees all of the LLCs and worked on creating the honors community for the last few years. “We really wanted to create an LLC that would involve all of those different colleges on campus, and honors seemed like a real way to go for that — given that each college has their own James Scholars program, plus the campus honors program,” Sanden said. “We wanted to
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dents with some unique and interesting projects to develop with the ‘best of the best’ students.” Charles Tucker, vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Innovation, received the formal proposal for the honor’s LLC after Sanden worked on the development. Tucker said honors communities have been very successful at other universities and with the University’s’ highly structured LLC program, “it felt like good time to do it.” Tucker said a lot of time and thought goes into the creation of LLCs, but students opinions are always encouraged when new communities are being created. “I don’t know where we’re headed in terms of numbers of LLC’s, but if what we’ve heard about honors living-type communities in other universities holds true here, we have the potential for this honors LLC to grow in size quite a lot going forward,” he said. Before creating a new LLC, Tucker said the University ensures the community will be a good value to students — greater than the investment made in them — and that there’s evidence to of a strong demand among students. “I’m just delighted that our campus is doing this and is offering it to students,” Tucker said. “We think it’s going to be very popular and that’s going to be great for the students at U. of I.”
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“We wanted to create an LLC that would be interdisciplinary and would encompass all of the colleges.” NATHAN SANDEN
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR RESIDENTIAL LIFE FOR ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
create an LLC that would be interdisciplinary and would encompass all of the colleges.” He said the University hopes having honors students from different backgrounds living together will create positive outcomes and new developments. “It’s a great opportunity for honors students to be able to learn from each other and be creative to work with some of the most high achieving students from across colleges,” Sanden said. “I think it applies stu-
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Young professor receives kickstart grant for women Fout Group to continue work on nitrite reduction reduction in humans and its effects on blood Just in time for Nation- pressure. al Chemistry Week, Alison She will be conducting Fout, assistant professor the research with her own in chemistry, was recently program, The Fout Group awarded a $50,000 grant to — founded in 2013, one begin new research. year after Fout joined the Fout received a Marion University faculty. The Milligan Mason Award for group focuses on molecule Women in rese a rch Chemia nd is comprised cal Sciof three ences, a underresearch g radu ate g r a n t st udents given to and nine female scientists g radu ate who are students. just startT h e ing their ALISON FOUT w o r k ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN careers. the Fout CHEMISTRY On ThursG r o u p day, Fout does — and the and will three other winners were do with the new project recognized at an awards — is “similar to that of an ceremony in Washington architect,” Fout said. D.C. hosted by the Amer“Before an architect ican Association for the breaks ground on a new Advancement in Science. building he/she builds a Fout will use the grant model of that building. This for her project, “Nitrite model will contain all the Reduction in a Non-Heme fi ne details of the building, System: Evidence for an from the placement of Alternative Mechanism,” which will research nitrite SEE GRANT | 3B BY AARON NAVARRO STAFF WRITER
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“As an early-career scientist, this is very difficult at times, to get the funding for high-risk research.”
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From the left, Graham Hubbert, freshman in Business, Dennis Damico, freshman in LAS, Conor Lipinski, freshman in Engineering and Peter Sokalski, freshman in Engineering, enter Nugent Hall on Saturday.
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