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Lower tuition increase on table
CHICAGO – University of Illinois trustees will consider an alternative proposal for increasing tuition by a lower amount when they meet Friday in Chicago.
The proposal to increase tuition by 5 percent was added to the board's agenda Monday at the request of Chairman Larry Eppley.
Champaign County clerk shuts down Web site
URBANA – Champaign County Clerk Mark Shelden has shut down his office's Web site after a county board panel would not approve a new job classification and pay raise for the employee who maintains the site.
Shelden said he disabled the Web site on June 18. The move came one day after the Champaign County Board's policy committee rejected a proposal to create a new position – computer support specialist – that Shelden said he intended to fill with a current deputy county clerk, Luke Stowe.
Officer on leave pending investigation
URBANA – An Urbana police officer who shot at a man he believed was reaching for a gun has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Urbana Police Chief Eddie Adair issued a release Tuesday saying officer Sean Taylor, 26, who's been on the department for two years, fired one round at Richard Bryan Martinez on Friday night.
UI plans to observe landmark decision
URBANA – The University of Illinois will host a yearlong series of events beginning this fall to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
The events will examine the legacy of the decision, in which the court ruled that a "separate but equal" education for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.
Libraries must make decisions on Web filters
Area librarians say they aren't sure how they will implement a federal law that requires, but does not fund, software filters to block porn on public computers.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with filters that would prevent children from viewing pornography or lose federal funding.
Wolfram Research marks15 years, new Mathematica
In 1988, WordPerfect was the gold standard for word processing and Lotus 1-2-3 was spreadsheet king.
Microsoft Windows was at version 2.0, and widely panned. Microsoft Word was a relative newcomer. There was no such thing as Microsoft Office.
Man shot by police charged with disarming peace officer
URBANA – A man accused of taking the duty weapon of a Champaign County sheriff's deputy Friday was charged Monday with disarming a peace officer.
A warrant was served Monday on Richard B. Martinez, 39, whose last known address was in Phoenix, as he recovered from injuries he sustained after being shot by an unidentified police officer Friday night.
UI officials happy with affirmative action votes
URBANA – The decisions Monday by the Supreme Court in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases won't change the way the University of Illinois makes admissions decisions.
The UI considers race as one factor in deciding whom to admit, but it does not use a point system like the one the court struck down in one of the Michigan cases.
UI board will vote on tuition plan
URBANA – University of Illinois students will pay $212 more per semester in tuition at Urbana this fall – an 8 percent increase – under a proposed tuition plan.
The money from the proposed tuition increase would allow the UI to offer a salary program for faculty and staff and reduce the number of jobs and course sections that will be eliminated because of budget cuts.
Brick is no dummy
Don't talk about being dumb as a rock in front of this brick.
The "smart" brick developed by University of Illinois researchers can tell you its temperature and whether it's leaning or vibrating, among other things. In the future, it also may report on its humidity level, and on the chemicals it senses in its environment.
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