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Chicago Flame
Stories from the current online edition of Chicago Flame.

• New UIC chancellor set to take office in 2009
  Beginning in January 2009, the University of Illinois at Chicago campus will officially have Dr. Paula Allen-Meares as its new chancellor. Allen-Meares, who was selected from a field of more than 100 candidates, is set to be formally confirmed as the new chancellor at the next Board of Trustees meet...
  
• Despite obstacles, Chicago Pride Parade proceeds smoothly
  The 39th Annual Chicago Pride Parade got off to a rousing start when a convertible with a large "Thank You, California" sign drove down Halsted Street. Robert Castillo and John Pennycuff, a Logan Park couple who have been together for seventeen years, held up their marriage license as the crowd chee...
  
• Increase pushes Chicago's sales tax to highest in the US
  On July 1st, 2008, sales tax in Chicago officially became the highest in the nation, at a rate of 10.25%. Todd Stroger, President of the Cook County Board, pushed for the one percent increase to help cover funding in his budget. Now, consumers buying any goods in the city limits will pay slightly mo...
  
• Mayor downplays violence near festival
  CHICAGO (AP) _ Mayor Richard Daley is calling the violence that occurred blocks away from the Taste of Chicago isolated incidents, contending it's impossible for police to prevent gang members from attending such events.
  
  A man was killed and several others injured Thursday in shootings blocks from ...
  
• Daley names new fire chief
  CHICAGO (AP) _ Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is shuffling his cabinet, including the appointment of a new fire commissioner.
  
  Daley said Thursday he is naming First Deputy Fire Commissioner John W. Brooks as the city's new fire chief.
  
  If approved by the City Council, Brooks would be the city's sec...
  
• Birds test positive for West Nile
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The Illinois Department of Public Health says the state has its first cases of West Nile virus in birds for 2008.
  
  Doctor Damon Arnold, director of the state public health department, said Thursday that the crows were collected on June 24th in Rockford.
  
• Chicago to use cameras to aid street cleaning
  CHICAGO (AP) _ The city of Chicago is expanding its surveillance cameras from high crime spots and red-light runners to motorists who block the city's street sweepers.
  
  Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday introduced an ordinance to the City Council that calls for the installation of cameras on street s...
  
• Girl missing for six months
  CHICAGO (AP) _ The family of a teenage girl missing since January is urging the Chicago Police Department to increase their investigation into her disappearance.
  
  The family says police believe Yasmin Acree ran away from home. But the girl's mother, Rose Starnes, says there are many reasons her daug...
  
• Community Insight
  UIC student robbed
  
  On Wednesday, July 9 a female UIC student was the victim of a purse snatch robbery. At 10:45 p.m. the student was robbed by two male teenagers in the 1200 block of West Lexington. The robbers approached the student from behind, struggling shortly with her before obtaining the pur...
  
• Road trip! A solution for all our problems
  One of the more frustrating things about being a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the lack of community at our school. We all have friends on campus and at home that we can enjoy life with, but if we are honest with ourselves we will acknowledge that it is difficult to meet people...
  

The Daily Orange
Stories from the current online edition of The Daily Orange.

• Euclid house fire sends three to hospital
  A fire started on the front porch of the second floor of 742 Euclid Ave. at approximately 3 a.m. Wednesday, as seven students slept in the house.
  
  Four people on the first floor and three people on the second floor had been sleeping when the fire started and spread through the second floor and atti...
  
• New dean hired from Texas school
  For the first time in more than 100 years, an external candidate was given the position of dean of Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.
  
  Laura Steinberg will start in the position Aug. 1, after a 10-month dean search, said Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spi...
  
• SU changes calendar for 2009-10 year
  For the 2009-2010 academic year, fall semester classes will end a day later, pushing reading days and final examinations to the Monday of that week, rather than Friday of the previous week.
  
  This is the only change for that year's academic calendar, which was released Tuesday by the Academic Calenda...
  
• Alum donates $5 million to honor past professors
  Syracuse University alumnus Abdallah H. Yabroudi recently pledged $5 million to create the Abdallah H. Yabroudi Endowed Professorship, which will finance the recruitment of a specialized faculty position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, according to the SU Web site.
  
• Speaker announced for Life Sciences dedication
  The scientist who was the first to have his own genome mapped will speak at Syracuse University's Life Sciences Complex dedication ceremony in November.
  
  J. Craig Venter was chosen by a group of faculty in the life sciences department with the goal of inviting a speaker who has something engaging a...
  
• 'The little theater that could': Downtown's Redhouse moves forward despite fi...
  The red, brick building stands at the corner of a bustling intersection on the edge of Armory Square. Once known as the Hotel Victor, it was a nightly home for prostitutes and their suitors. For a time, it sat crumbling at its foundation like so many surrounding buildings.
  
• Copy Center employee nominated for Leukemia Society award
  When Barbara Stivenson tried to bring flowers to the hospitalized wife of a co-worker, she found out the hospital doesn't allow flowers in the rooms of leukemia patients.
  
  "I brought flowers, but when someone has leukemia, the pesticides in flowers would hurt them because you strip the immune system...
  
• Program offers summer business experience
  Sixteen undergraduates from across Central and upstate New York will join the Martin J. Whitman School of Management for the second annual Summer Experience in Business for Undergraduates (SEBU) program - and not one of them is a business student.
  
  Whitman offers a two-week "mini-MBA," providing fre...
  
• His born identity
  Chris Ventura swings underneath the big, blue Texas sky, in the middle of a playground. He pushes his feet against the woodchips, looking down and tightly grasping the chains of the swing.
  
  In a turquoise polo shirt, the 21-year-old Ventura looks like a child again, amongst the monkey bars and jungl...
  
• Spinelli: Do I have post-graduation plans? No. Do you care? I didn't think so...
  So seniors: we're graduating. This is it, the day, the weekend, the week we've all been waiting for. Family flies and drives in, you start talking to "friends" you've curiously found a way to avoid for three and a half years. It's a grand time.
  
  To be honest, I'm not that sentimental about graduatin...
  

The Daily Campus
Stories from the current online edition of The Daily Campus.

• New Hives Generate A 'Buzz'
  In an effort to expand sustainable food on campus, UConn has purchased 100,000 bees from a farm in Georgia to produce its honey supply.
  
• American Health Illiteracy Costs U.S. Billions
  Only 12 percent of Americans are health literate enough to handle their own care, according to the 2007 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report.
  Health illiteracy harms not only patients and the quality of care that they receive but the economy as well. It is estimated that poor health li...
  
• Coach Calhoun Cancer-Free After Surgery, Says Doctor
  Jim Calhoun has faced his share of challenges in his 22 years as head coach of the UConn men's basketball team. But one of the most difficult obstacles he's had to overcome was on a ride home from Storrs over a month ago, when he had to inform his wife, Pat, and the rest of his family that he had ca...
  
• Sherman, Gampel Renovations To Be Done By August
  The Sherman Family Sports Complex, which is home to the field hockey, lacrosse, and track and field teams, will have new turf and a new track installed.
  Due to a new rule that will move the men's three-point line back by two feet, a new three-point line will be drawn on the court at Gampel.
  
• Softball: Young Huskies Finish Strong
  The team went 13-7 in Big East play, finished third in the conference and was one run away from going to the Big East finals. It was a team effort all season for the Huskies, with seniors and freshmen alike coming together for wins.
  
• UConn Track On A Roll
  Throughout March and April the men's and women's track teams competed all over the country in preparation for the slew of championship meets that began in early May.
  For the women's team, the hard work paid off as a record four athletes will compete in the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, fro...
  
• 2008 Filled With Ups, Downs For Baseball
  Just a year removed from nearly winning the Big East Championship, the baseball team took a noticeable step back in the win column in 2008 campaign, its fifth season under head coach Jim Penders, as injuries and inconsistent play dogged the Huskies from start to finish.
  
• NBA Draft 2008: Now Mock It Out
  The 2008 NBA Draft may not have the star power of 2003 (LeBron, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony), but it sure doesn't have the bust factor of 2000 (Kwame Brown, DeSagana "Diop It Like It's Hot"). This is one of the deepest drafts in years, with players who would have been surefire top-10 picks in pre...
  
• UConn Alum Taylor Signs CFL Contract
  After going undrafted and missing out on an invite to NFL training camp, former UConn wide receiver/return specialist Larry Taylor has signed a contract with the Montreal Alouetes of the Canadian Football League.
  
• Big East Commissioner Tranghese Steps Down
  Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese will resign from his position effective June 30, 2009.
  In addition to being commissioner of the league, Tranghese was the Big East's first full-time employee when he was hired in 1979.
  "I have been privileged to work with outstanding Presidents and athletic d...