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TOP: Ivan Dozier, the unofficial portrayer of Chief Illiniwek, dresses in the likeness of a Native American chieftain for the Homecoming Parade on Friday. BOTTOM LEFT: Amelia Mugavero, feature twirler of the Marching Illini and a former Illini Media employee, twirls multiple batons lit on fire during the Homecoming rally at the Main Quad on Friday. BOTTOM RIGHT: A float in support of the Illini football team travels down Green Street during the Homecoming
The University of Illinois is looking for a new kind of president. “We think the job of the president is evolving,” said Douglas Beck, co-chair of the Presidential Search Committee and professor in Physics. Beck is one of 19 individuals currently reviewing candidates for the next University of Illinois president, who will take over the position on July 1, 2015, when Robert Easter retires at the end of his contract. Members of the committee, including faculty, students and members of the Board of Trustees, met in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday for back-to-back meetings to continue narrowing the list of potential candidates. Beck declined to state how many candidates were currently under consideration. “A number of candidates are interested in the position, and they have been selected so far as we have been narrowing things down based on this idea of the fit both from their point of view,” Beck said. “Some people would find this kind of role not so suited to what they are good at, but others do, and so it’s really a fit for us and a fit for them.” As the committee sifts through the long list, Beck said the most important thing to consider is the shift in the president’s role to serve as more of the face of the University. “We expect the president to be able to be effective in talking with the state legislature and others in state government, but also we would like the president to really represent the University in all of the constituencies in the state of Illinois — the business community, civic institutions and cultural institutions all over the state,” Beck said. The committee started its
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In remembrance of Alpha Phi Omega member Krzysztof Jablonski who passed away last year, the non-profit service fraternity held a food drive in the Illini Union Sunday. Jablonski was a dedicated member of the fraternity who spent his time helping others in the community, said Kari Wozniak, alumnus and chapter advisor. To remember him for the work he did, the fraternity has organized three programs centered around the pillars of leadership, friendship and service. Those programs include a scholarship, a brotherhood award and a food drive. Approximately 25 students volunteered to package food for two hours to complete the service pillar. They worked in partnership with Illini Fighting Hunger, a Registered Student Organization, and the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. During the event, IFH supplied the food and packaging for the meals, and it will help
the fraternity distribute the meals to community members that suffer from hunger. Wozniak said she was one of Jablonski’s best friends, and helped coordinate the service event in his honor. She said she hopes the fraternity will make the food packaging event an annual service event for the fraternity. “He held countless leadership roles, he brought a lot of change to the chapter; one of the big things he did was he was a pledge trainer and he implemented a whole new education program,” she said. “He was a very well-known and well-loved brother in the chapter, and he did a lot and he cared a lot about people and about developing.” Along with honoring Jablonski through this service event, the fraternity also began a scholarship program in September. The scholarship will send brothers to APO conferences each semester to help them develop leadership skills and network with fellow fraternity members. To cement the friendship pillar, the frater-
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search this summer with a list of over 200 names nominated by individuals, although Beck said not all nominees are being considered. The committee’s criteria come from a “white paper” listed on its website, Beck said, which lays out an updated job description of the president’s position. Beck said changes have been made to the description to place more of an emphasis on a president that has “a leadership style built on collaboration, openness and the ability to inspire others by articulating a vision for the future.” Due to past experiences with corruption in the position, notably with Joseph White and Michael Hogan, the committee is taking extra precaution to vet the names of the candidates, said Thomas Hardy, University spokesperson. “I think the co-chairs have said there is going to be exceptional care and probing
“I think the cochairs have said there is going to be exceptional care ... taken in reviewing the candidates for this position.” THOMAS HARDY UNIVERSITY SPOKESPERSON
taken in reviewing the candidates for this position,” Hardy said. “They are looking for the best person in the country for this position.” Members of the committee, such as Nicholas Burbules, professor in Education, are taking past presidential
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Alpha Phi Omega staff package food in remembrance of Krzysztof Jablonski on Sunday. nity will give a brotherhood award to one member during the spring break banquet for the first time this year. Louis Blanc, a senior in the College of Engineering, is responsible for setting up the scholarship fund. He said that Jablonski was a leader who helped other members grow, and this scholarship honors Jablonski’s name and the work he did by facilitating an opportunity for future fraternity members to continue to develop as leaders. Wozniak said the fraternity hopes to continue the work Jablonski did through
leadership, friendship and service events. In the future, Wozniak said APO brothers would like to coordinate more fundraising events for the scholarship. However, it does not currently have any concrete plants. “We wanted to do those things in his honor. Those three principles are ones that the fraternity lives by, but that was what he lived by,” Wozniak said. “We’re just trying to do our best to keep that legacy going.”
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One man died and another was injured in two separate incidents in Champaign Saturday morning. According to a press release from Champaign Police Department, the first shooting occurred at 2:15 a.m. in the 900 block of West Bradley Avenue. The victim, a 35-year-old male, was found unresponsive by police on the ground with gunshot wounds. He was transported with lifethreatening injuries to Carle Foundation Hospital. He is alive at this time, according to the Champaign County Coroner. The second victim, a 24-year-old male, was pronounced dead at 4:30 a.m. Saturday from multiple gunshot wounds. The man, Jermel Hendrick, was shot at around 4 a.m. in the area of Summit Ridge and Hedge Road, according to the release. When police arrived at the scene they found that Hendrick left the scene and was transported by car to Carle Hospital for life-threatening injuries.
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