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This page is a Monthly Archive of entries from January 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
Workers braved temperatures in the teens this afternoon to keep the construction moving at 507 E. Green Street in Campustown. The new building is set to house Urban Outfitters in its first two floors with five stories of office space up above. According to a representative at the University of Illinois News Bureau, the project remains on schedule and Urban Outfitters — as well as the university’s Office of Public Affairs and other occupants to be determined in the coming months — will be open for business by August 2008.
Is your ability to recall random facts and dates alienating you from your friends? Let the facts fly tonight at Drink n’ Think, a good old-fashioned trivia night (plus a few bottles of brew) featuring questions crafted by the party’s host with the most, Lena Singer (a Smile Politely contributor). Gather up a few of your quick-witted friends (up to six), or just rely on your own overextended cranium. Whether you’re a sports fanatic or a pop culture aficionado, run with the big brains tonight at the battle royale of arbitrary knowledge.
The brain bowl kicks off at 8 p.m. sharp, and sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m. at Mike n’ Molly’s located on 105 N. Market St. in Champaign.
Photo by Pat Schmitz
Three days into spring-semester classes, University of Illinois students dashed across the quad as a wintry mix moved through Champaign-Urbana. When the precipitation disappears, the area will be left with a frigid weekend. Saturday's high? Eleven degrees.
Looking for unbiased information this election year that speaks to you as a voting citizen, rather than as a fraction of a percentage point for some political party?
There’s a non-partisan, citizen-run organization that, for the last 85 years, has been dedicated to educating the voters of Champaign County, engaging them in the political process, and acting as watchdogs over local governmental bodies on their behalf.
The Champaign County League of Women Voters has been active since 1924. As an organization that strives to be neither Democratic nor Republican (or, politically, anything else), promoting informed voting has been its primary focus from the beginning, according to Trisha Crowley, the league’s current president (and Deputy City Attorney for the City of Champaign).
Once they leave their small hometown, many people never think twice about going back, especially to live. After graduating from high school in 1993, I certainly fell into this category of strong-willed, determined individuals who wanted to put my life in Danville, Ill. behind me and fully embrace the idea of unknown territories in the grand metropolis of Champaign-Urbana. Fast-forward thirteen years, and by proxy of embracing some major life changes — a skateboarding boyfriend returning from Iraq, an ill grandmother who needed extra care, and cheap real estate — I was back in my hometown, yet still commuting to reality at my do-good not-for-profit job on campus.
Ask Kyle Watson to choke you out and he might just accommodate your request. In fact, he’s lost count of the exact number of people he’s caused to black out — many of them guys in bars who specifically requested to lose consciousness. “It doesn’t hurt them if they’re only out a few seconds,” Watson says. “I’m pretty sure it takes two to three minutes to cause brain damage.”
But the majority of the blackouts he causes happen in the ring, after he’s gotten his opponent in a submission hold like his signature move, the triangle choke. Of the scores of matches he’s won in submission wrestling and sport Jiu-Jitsu competitions, Watson estimates six out of ten were by choking his opponent. And nine of his 11 M.M.A. (mixed martial arts) wins have been by asphyxiation.
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