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Task force recommends
changes to athletic department
In a 14-page report, the task force
charged last spring with reviewing the UIS athletic department made
11 recommendations consisting of new policies, plans and practices
designed to benefit a department “beset with problems.”
The task force submitted the report
to Dr. Christopher Miller, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, in
July. Since then, the Division of Student Affairs has acted on some
of the recommendations, the vice chancellor said.
According to the report, Miller
convened the task force on March 31 and asked it to “review certain
aspects of the current athletics program at [UIS] … to ensure that
appropriate policies, procedures and structures are being
implemented to maintain the integrity of the program while
protecting and promoting the best interests of both the University
and the student-athletes individually.”
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Accused Capitol gunman
spent month at UIS
On Monday, Sept. 20, a young man
walked up to the door on the north side of the Illinois Capitol and
fired a single shotgun round into the chest of William Wozniak. An
unarmed security guard working for the secretary of state, the
51-year-old Wozniak died in surgery a little over an hour later.
Before the end of the day, police
identified Derek W. Potts as their suspect. Early the next morning,
he was arrested in a neighborhood southwest of downtown.
Derek Potts attended the University
of Illinois at Springfield for 25 days. He was a full-time student
in Criminal Justice, having transferred from Olney Central
(community) College. On Sept. 13, he withdrew from classes at UIS.
In that time, Potts crossed paths
with many people on campus. Some encounters were memorable only for
how innocuous they seemed in retrospect. Others were strange right
away.
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