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USAS demands fair trade
during national action week
Fair trade and fair working
conditions were the themes associated with National Action Week
April 11 to April 18. Events were sponsored by the UIS Chapter of
United Students against Sweatshops (USAS).
One of the main events of National
Action Week was a presentation of the Collateral Damage tour on
Tuesday, April 14, sponsored by Witness for Peace. Blanca Velázquez,
Dave Lippman, and the Reverend Grayland Hagler discussed the
continuing U.S. occupation in Iraq and U.S. foreign policies in
countries such as Mexico and Nicaragua.
Lippman poked fun at U.S. occupation
in Iraq with his song entitled, “When there is oil I’ll be there.”
Hagler said that U.S. officials had
to change the name of Operation Iraqi Liberation after they realized
that the acronym spelled oil. “They had to change it so we didn’t
catch on. This is an example of the orchestrated attempts to dumb
down our society,” he said.
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University Hall on
Schedule
When classes start in the fall, many
will be in the new $31.5 million University Hall. Michelle Green,
UIS director of marketing, said the price tag reflects costs to
completion. “That’s everything”, Green said. Included in the
figure cited by Green are the costs of paint, carpet, furniture,
hardware, and electronics.
Perhaps most important to the campus
community, Cheryl Peck, university relations, told the Journal
that the new building will be ready for its tenants in late June and
the move will take place over the summer of 2004. “We have every
expectation that the building will be finished on time,” Peck said.
Serious
money builds a serious building: the new classroom building will be
four stories tall, 129,000 square feet and will house a mix of
classrooms, labs and administrative offices. The remaining funds
needed to complete the Building were made available from the Capital
Development Fund in the fiscal year 2003 budget, signed into law in
June, 2002.
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University Hall nears
completion; move expected to begin in July
With the
University Hall construction project more than 70 percent complete,
the four-story classroom/office building is expected to be fully
operational by the time the fall semester begins.
Dave Barrows, Director of Physical Planning and Operations, said
that the construction work should be “substantially complete” by
early July, at which time faculty and staff members would begin
moving into their new offices. The move will probably take several
weeks, and it’s likely that faculty and staff will finish moving
into the building by mid to late July, he said.
The project was initially scheduled for completion in early June,
but it’s now expected to be completed in early July mostly because
the masonry contractor has not manned the job properly, Barrows
said.
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