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Sweetcorn Festival celebrates Illinois’ no. 1 export : Corn
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The Urbana Sweetcorn Festival returned last Friday and Saturday for the 41st annual year. This downtown Urbana festival, brought by the Urbana Business Association, featured events and entertainment for all ages.True to its name, the festival highlights the celebration of eating the sweet Urbana corn. It also features much more than corn. According to the festival website, the festival consumes about 30,000 ears of corn and composts the cobs to emphasize green efforts. The Sweetcorn Festival featured a variety of headliners to kick off the festival and entertain corn eaters. This year, Grammy-nominated and well-loved ‘90s country band Diamond Rio headlined on Friday night. It is most popular for its singles “How Your Love Makes Me Feel” and “Norma Jean Riley.” Summertime retro party band Smashmouth headlined Saturday night. They are most popular for featuring in the movie “Shrek” with famous singles including “I’m a Believer” and “Walkin’ on the Sun.” The event offered different local foods and merchandise vendors.
Women pay $55 fee to go Greek, men rush for free
Fall 2016 Enrollment by Academic College Education Social Work .84% 1.9%
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In preparation for sorority formal rush, freshmen women are required to spend $55 out- of-pocket, while men partaking in informal recruitment are not required to pay a fee. Sororities in the Panhellenic Council require Potential New Members, PNMs, to pay a fee in order to fund different aspects of the formal, six-day recruitment program. Meanwhile, fraternities in the Interfraternity Council, or the IFC, fund informal recruitment through individual chapter’s budgets. Mike O’Neill, senior in broadcast journalism and former Illini Media employee, is well aware of Greek life’s popularity. He is both a member of Phi Kappa Psi and serves as the Vice President of Recruitment in IFC. On campus, 25 percent of students are in either a sorority or fraternity, O’Neill said. Ten percent consist of 1,500 men in fraternities. There are more fraternities than sororities on campus, 47 compared to 23. Additionally, 3,500 male freshmen enter the University every year, and around 50 percent of them end up rushing. Despite the high number of potential new members every year, the IFC does not have a formal recruitment. This is the main difference between sorority and fraternity recruitment. “We’re giving each chapter the freedom to set themselves apart, but we’re making sure recruitment events are being held in a respectable manner,” said O’Neill. Fraternity recruitment events often face criticism following instances of parties with alcohol and under-
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... A good chunk of each woman’s fee is spent on items that they directly receive such as their recruitment tshirt, bag, umbrella, water bottle, & more
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Electricity is something that people don’t typically pause to think about. But it influences what we do and how we carry out our everyday lives. It runs hospitals and schools. It refrigerates food and charges cell phones. Because of its importance, one University researcher is investigating what would happen if the United States’ electric power grid was attacked. Tim Yardley, associate director of technology at the Information Trust Institute, graduated from the University in 2001 with a bach-
elor’s degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering. After working in the field of computersecurity for some years, he came back to the University to work with the Information Trust Institute. The Information Trust Institute won a $7.5 million National Science Foundation, or the NSF, grant called TCIP, which stands for the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for Power. This grant is focused on cyber security and its infrastructure, and Yardley brought a different vision to help them advance the program. “I brought in the notions
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of professional development and code tracking, and grew the lab from a couple of devices on a desk to what it is today, which is a multimillion-dollar facility,” Yardley said. As the Information Trust Institute progressed through their work, they were refunded by the Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security. They were given an additional $18.1 million grant called TCIPG, the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure Power Grid. This grant enabled them to put into practice what they had been developing and
policy.” These bylaws are something that O’Neill said the Interfraternity Council takes seriously. “Our biggest job is to minimize risk ... It’s not that it’s
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building. For the next step in the process, they needed to develop a test bed, a piece of equipment used for testing new machinery. “In order for us to do research, we have to have devices that we can do the research on. We have to be able to mimic the electric power grid to some extent,” Yardley said. “And nothing like that really existed, so we had to build it from the ground up.” An additional $28.1 million grant from CREDC, or the Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium, and
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For Joe Puccio, the University of Illinois does not exist without Memphis, Tennessee. In 2012, Puccio and his partner Tara Aida participated in the Memphis-based Start Co. tech accelerator, which provided opportunities to improve their start-up company. While representing their courseregistration tool, Coursicle, office small-talk led to major business connections. Sitting next to Puccio and Aida were University students, Ashley Moy and Justin Brooks. “When I fi rst heard of their application, I thought ‘Well, the University of Illinois already uses Scheedule.” Moy said. “Then, they showed me all of the capability of their software. It was incredible, and I thought ‘Oh my goodness, our school needs to have it.’” Moy and Brooks went on to help Coursicle expand to the University. Coursicle is one of many course registration tools targeting the ChampaignUrbana market. Scheedule and Is My Class Open, also known as IMCO, were both founded by former University students.
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Coursicle assists in course scheduling and notifies students when a class is available. Aida, a recent Harvard graduate, and Puccio initially launched the application at his alma mater the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Scheedule’s unknown Golden Age
Scheedule, an online course and social calendar planner, originated as a group project for the Special Interest Group for Software Engineering, SIGSoft. SIGSoft is part of the Association for Computing Machinery society. 2008 University graduate Suraj Samaranayake and a group of students launched Scheedule in 2006. After the website continued to grow, Samaranayake left his job at Microsoft. In 2011, he and two other alumni devoted their efforts full time while based out of Seattle. However, in 2012, the three founders donated the tool back to SIGSoft. “20,000 kids were still using it or something, but we were done working on it,” Samaranayake said. Samaranayake was surprised to learn that Scheed-
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Hurdler Pedrya Seymour made the jump to Rio.
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dards, state, “All recruitment or rush activities associated with any chapter will be nonalcoholic. No recruitment or rush activities associated with any chapter may be held at or in conjunction with a tavern or alcohol distributor as defi ned in this
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