Monthly Archives: November 2013

My Walter

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Cope Cumpston

Cope Cumpston When I met Walter in Boston we were calligraphers in love with words and letterforms, pioneer members of the Lettering Arts Guild of Boston. I was editing its newsletter, and he was the treasurer. I went over budget … Continue reading →

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Raising Concerns about Chinese Students’ Mental Health

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Hong Cheng

Yongfei Ci is a 6th-year-PhD student in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. While he is majoring in math here, this semester he went to Brown University to do research. But on September 28th, Ci returned to Urbana and murdered his ex-girlfriend … Continue reading →

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Six Community Organizations Ask Urbana Council for a Study Session on Racial Disparities in Police Stops

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Belden Fields

October 7, 2013 The Urbana Police Department (UPD) has been reporting traffic stop data to the State of Illinois for nine years, 2004 through 2012.  City data trends and patterns of traffic law enforcement can now be discerned and documented … Continue reading →

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21st Century Slavery, Electronic Style

Posted on 11/14/2013 by James Kilgore

Somewhere in the middle of a November night in 2009 I got a phone call from my then 95 year old mother. She said she had chest pains, had already phoned 911 and thought she was having a heart attack.  … Continue reading →

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Transgender Justice and Prisons

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Onni Gust

Onni Gust (Onni Gust is originally from London, UK, where she took part in social justice activism and education, particularly on LGBT rights and racism. Onni arrived in Champaign-Urbana in August 2013 and is a post-doctoral fellow at the Illinois … Continue reading →

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Audrey Wells piece

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Audrey Wells

Champaign-Urbana, a cultural outpost on the prairie, the Timbuktu of its day, treasures and protects its gems. The Art Theater is one of those gems. Without driving to Chicago or making one’s way to the cinema meccas of New York … Continue reading →

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Peter Norman and the 45th Anniversary of the ’68 Olympics

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Neil Parthun

This October is the 45th anniversary of the 1968 Summer Olympics and one of the most iconic events in American history, the raised fists of U.S. track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the medal stand. Much has rightfully … Continue reading →

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Angela Davis with CUCPJ at the IMC

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Brian Dolinar

Angela Davis gave a talk at the University YMCA’s Friday Forum on September 27, 2013 in its series “Beyond Mass Incarceration.” That morning, she spoke at the IMC and talked with members of CU Citizens for Peace and Justice, who … Continue reading →

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“Inside Voices”: Poetry from the Champaign County Jail

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Rachel Storm

INSIDE VOICES In a class facilitated by educators, Rachel Lauren Storm, Becca Sorgert, and Meadow Jones, incarcerated men have participated in a weekly poetry lab offered at the Champaign County Jail since January of 2012. Inside Voices is a ongoing column … Continue reading →

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The Profound Strength of an Unclenched Fist

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Renner Larson

Each generation sees masculinity in a new light. At twenty-four, my thoughts reflect those of my grandfather in his twenties, seventy years ago. As the United States anticipated involvement in World War II, a generation of men was drafter into … Continue reading →

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Illinois and the Right to Know What’s in our Food: Labeling Genetically Engineered Food, Part II

Posted on 11/14/2013 by Lois Kain

Could this really have been the summer that the anti-GMO tipping point was reached? Has the time finally come when so many of us have gotten so fed up with our broken and unjust food system and become so vocal … Continue reading →

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