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Gun violence a reoccurring issue in C-U community
Admission offers continue to increase, enrollment numbers remain stagnant
BY MICHAEL SEMACA STAFF WRITER
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Students sit, bike, or play games, filling the quad on a warm afternoon. model. Financial aid is given on an equity-based level and most goes to programs like the Illinois Promise or the President’s Award Program. Colleges have around $13 million a year for financial aid, which is devoted to gaining high profi le students and to building diversity in classes. Campuswide, there has been a large increase of aid in the last eight years, spend-
BY MEGAN JONES AND ANGELICA LAVITO STAFF WRITERS
More students are applying to the University than ever, but not as many of them are actually enrolling. In 2015, a record number of 38,093 people applied to the University. This year’s freshman class is the largest ever at 7,593 students. But that represents only around 33 percent of those admitted. Keith Marshall, associate provost for enrollment management, told the Senate Executive Committee Monday that the University does not have an applications issue or an admissions issue. Many students apply and many are qualified, but how many enroll is the concern. “If we have any issue on this campus, it is a yield issue,” Marshall said. “It’s trying to get those students to choose to come here.” This year, 43 percent of Illinois residents, 25 percent of domestic and 16 percent of international students who were admitted later enrolled. Marshall said the low yields occur because prospective students now apply to many universities. It could also be attributed to the University’s high tuition, low fi nancial aid
UI offers progressive birth control
ing around $70 million a year in aid. Chancellor Robert Jones sees raising scholarship money as one strategy to making the University more affordable. He said he was surprised to learn that the University has not “been as successful as we would have liked to be” with generating scholarship donations. He plans to make it one of his priorities. “You’ve got to raise atten-
tion to it. You’ve got to tell the compelling story that gets family members, donors and supporters of this institution to realize that that is one of our top priorities,” Jones said. “And we have to articulate it as a top priority and help people understand what the return on the investment will be.” Six-year graduation rates
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Total University enrollment 2005-2016
40,000 35,000
Applied
30,000
Admitted Enrolled
25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PROVOST
CINDY OM THE DAILY ILLINI
4 TYPES OF IUDs Copper
BY ANGELICA LAVITO
ParaGard- lasts 12 years
STAFF WRITER
Hormonal
Poshek Fu presented material to his social-economic history of modern China class like any other lecture. But unlike some other classes, students raised their hands and told their own stories related to the professor’s presentation. This has become the new norm for Fu. He used to primarily teach students from the Chicago suburbs who hardly knew anything about China. But as the number of international students from China at the University has increased, the number of Chinese students who registered for his classes increased as well. American students used to dominate Fu’s classes, with a handful of them being Asian-American, he said. Now, almost two-thirds of the students in his classes are from China and Korea. In response, he and other professors have restructured their classes to accommodate international students. “If we accept so many students from Asia,” Fu said, “we also should give them something new instead of just having them come into
Mirena- lasts 6 years Skyla- lasts 3 years Liletta- lasts 3 years
STAFF WRITER
LONG-ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTIVES (LARCs) IUD and subdermal hormone implant
Women aged 15-24 (5.0%) 25-34 (11.1%) 35-44 (5.3%) used LARCs in 2011-2013 MICHELLE TAM THE DAILY ILLINI
SOURCE: CDC, Planned Parenthood
pregnancy for 12 years. Mirena and Skyla have low amounts of the hormone progestin in them and can last for five and three years respectively. “We do counseling about how IUDs work and we do a consult visit,” Nurse midwife at the McKinley Women’s Health Clinic, Kathleen Easter, said. “Girls can come in and learn about IUDs, and if they decide that they want them,
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Professors balance American student, Chinese student classroom needs
IU DO OR DON’T?
BY GILLLIAN DUNLOP
McKinley Health Center’s women’s health clinic goes beyond expectations when it comes to contraceptives, said Sarah Blackstone, doctoral candidate for the department of community health and kinesiology. “What’s really unique about McKinley is that they have a women’s health clinic,” she said. Along with fi lling birth control prescriptions and making the Plan B pill available, the women’s health staff is also trained to perform Intrauterine Device (IUD) insertions and removals. “The women’s health staff is very knowledgeable about the IUDs and they actually have the three IUDs (in the exam room) so if people have questions about them, they can see them,” Blackstone said. McKinley offers three types of IUDs: ParaGard, Mirena and Skyla. The ParaGard is a non-hormone option that will prevent
To students, the University campus can often feel like a bubble closed off from the more dangerous real world. But in the early morning of Sept. 25, that bubble burst when gunshots rang out in the heart of campustown, leaving one dead and five injured. The shooting caught many students by surprise, including Gautam Putcha, freshman in Engineering. Putcha felt very safe in Champaign before the shooting, but that feeling has since changed. “People are feeling more and more unsafe every single day, considering that there were two shootings on the same day,” he said. “It was quite shocking to hear that.” However, violent crime is not something new to Champaign-Urbana. According to the FBI’s newly released 2015 report, “Crime in the United States,” the city of Champaign had a violent crime rate of 684.1 crimes per 100,000 residents. This is 1.8 times the national average of 372.6 crimes per 100,000 residents. According to the FBI, “violent crime” encompasses offenses such as murder, rape, robberies and aggravated assault. Specifically, what’s been causing Champaign the most trouble is gun-related violence, says Champaign Police Deputy Chief Joe Gallo. “When you talk about gun violence specifically, that’s something that we’ve seen an increase in since 2012,” Gallo said. As of Sept. 27, the Champaign Police have filed 26 “actual reports” of gun violence — designated as hard evidence of a shot being fired. In 2015, 36 such incidents occurred in the same timeframe; in 2014, 18. “Retaliation gunfire” serves as the leading increase in firearm related incidents for the Champaign Police. Initial shootings often result in the victim grabbing a group of friends and responding with a their own shots, causing the number of actual reports to balloon. “We’ve seen retaliation gunfire erupt where one shooting results in three additional shootings,” he said. Gallo specified that these groups were
then they can come in.” Easter approximates that her and Dr. Anne McKusick insert at least one IUD per week on average at McKinley. “It’s amazing what women’s health offers,” she said. Linnea Sandstrom, sophomore in AHS, said that access to birth control is “very important” to col-
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class then say, 'Bye, bye.'" Fu teaches East Asian civilization, modern China and social-economic history of modern China. He struggled at first because he did not want to make his classes too hard for American students, but he also did not want to make the class too easy for Chinese students. Instead of teaching basic information about the region, he tries to focus on larger themes. And instead of simply lecturing, Fu has added more movies. He facilitates discussions among students and purposely groups them with people of different backgrounds so they can learn from each other. “When we discuss the movies, then the Chinese students have a lot of things to share that is sometimes a different perspective than the local students,” Fu said. “I find that movies are a very good way to get them to talk.
They all have opinions.” Roderick Wilson, a history, global studies and East Asian languages and cultures professor, has added more of the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages to lecture slides in his East Asian history classes to help native speakers quickly identify the issues he addresses. He asks Chinese and Korean students what they learned about historical events or people in their home countries to highlight differing views of history and how they emerge. Zeyu Hu, a senior in LAS and a student in Fu’s modern China and social-economic history of modern China, learned about Chinese history throughout his schooling in Beijing. He said the textbooks are biased and praise communism for denouncing Western powers that bully
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