This morning’s News-Gazette carries a page one article headlined, “UI’s financial status better, official claims.” The article, by reporter Paul Wood, quotes Michael Andrechak, Associate Provost for budgets and resource planning as claiming a 23% reduction in deficits on the Urbana campus in his presentation to the Urbana Senate executive committee. Among the savings he cited were those resulting from closing the Police Training Institute and the proposed abandonment of the Institute of Aviation. The savings from the two closures he projected at between $1.4 and $1.6 Million, or about enough to pay the salaries of the new President and Chancellor and not quite enough to cover the severance packages of their predecessors. In both cases the justification for closing the Institutes has been that they do not support the University’s “core mission”. To put it in perspective the projected savings from closing institutes approximate what Coach Zook will take home next year. On the revenue side of the equation Andrechak cited a projected increase in the admission of foreign and out of state students to enhance tuition revenues.
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It's that time of year again! My name is Shaina Kolzow, and I am excited to invite you to my senior Spice Box meal.
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On a naked bootleg play Nathan Scheelhaase scampered 55 yards down the sideline to an unmolested score. Nobody threw a block. Nobody needed to. The Baylor defense did not know he had the ball. It was the final nail securing the lid on the coffin of Baylor’s bowl hopes. That one play typified the way the ball game went. From Baylor’s bungled lateral pass on its first possession to the Gatorade shower loosed on Ron Zook the breaks all went to the Illini. Zook’s second winning season at Illinois is now in the record books and he is looking forward to next year.
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Student enrollment statistics at the UofI.
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This game was electric and will become the hottest ticket of the year if the powers that be can just figure out the setup. It will do wonders for both programs. Let's hope they can see the value and get it done.
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Comparisons to the 2005 Team?
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Congrats to Bruce Webber and staff on a long awaited win in a drawn out recruiting battle. This commit should also propel the Illini into the stratosphere of recruiting rankings, which were already at a very respectable 13th before the Shaw commitment.
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Posted on 10/28/2010 1:15 PM By Middle of the Road |
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Music faculty send threatening email to students who attended events supporting Chief Illiniwek.
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Are the Bears or Illini any good? Who knows?
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The latest hypocrisy from Pearl is that he cheated and then deliberately covered it up and lied about it.
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