Tag Archives: University of Illinois

• News / Sports

  UI’s Assembly Hall gets new name

  Thanks to a $60 million donation, the home of Illinois basketball will undergo major renovations including being renamed.
• Sports

  Start of baseball season renews talk of banning offensive mascot names

  Following the example of schools like the University of Illinois, a bill in Congress would ban the term “redskin” in a mark because it is disparaging of native people.
• Education / News

  University of Illinois employees on strike

  Almost 800 employees at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois are on a three day strike beginning on Monday.
• Crime

  Illinois colleges make top 25 list for campus crime

  Two universities in Illinois and one in Wisconsin made the Daily Beast list of “America’s 25 Most Crime-Rattled Colleges.”
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Pests Popping Up Sooner

  Some central Illinois farmers are already seeing the emergence of root worms