Sampling of summer academic camps offered on campus in 2012
Spanish Summer Camps: ages 4-11
Young Writers Summer Camp: elementary school students
Summer Art Experience: preschool-high school students
Tap in Leadership Academy’s Summer Enrichment Program: middle school students
Illinois Summer Youth Music: middle school and high school students
Exploring Your Options: junior and senior high school students interested in engineering
Discover Architecture Pre-College Program: high school students
Discover Engineering: high school students
Explorer-Cadet Fire School: high school students
Illinois Aerospace Institute Summer Camp: high school students
Discover Landscape Architecture Pre-College Program: high school students
Leadership, Education and Development Program-Summer Business Institute: high school students
Name that tune!
Ever wonder what song is played the most often on the Altgeld bells? “Hail to the Orange” is the most frequently played song. According to Susanne Wood, university chimesmaster, it is almost always used to open recitals.
Other popular songs played on the bells:
• “Illinois” (the state song, also known as “By the Rivers Gently Flowing”)
• “Illinois Loyalty”
• “Oskee-Wow-Wow”
• “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
• Theme from “Masterpiece Theatre”
• “This Land Is Your Land”
• “You Are My Sunshine”
• “Yesterday”
• “Shenandoah”
• “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
• “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
• “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
Quick facts about the restored Lincoln Hall
• A majority of Lincoln Hall’s original woodwork was restored, totaling more than 6 miles of oak trim.
• A border was discovered under the paint layers above the marble walls in Memorial Hall. It was re-created with a stencil and gold leaf.
• Many of the original slate blackboards have been reinstalled.
• Ten gold owls, located in the interior of the building, and 56 maroon owls, located on the building’s exterior, have been refurbished. The owls are symbols of wisdom.
• The hallways have shrunk by a foot to increase classroom size.
• Wider seats were installed in Lincoln Hall theater.
Top 15 destinations of Study Abroad students
1. Spain
2. Italy
3. China
4. France
5. United Kingdom
6. Austria
7. South Africa
8. Germany
9. Australia
10. Brazil
11. Turkey
12. Japan
13. Mexico
14. Costa Rica
15. India
Top five countries of students
China 3,842
South Korea 1,386
India 919
Taiwan 394
Iran 123
Top five Illinois counties
Cook 10,422
DuPage 3,584
Lake 2,728
Champaign 2,450
Will 1,741
Top 10 states after IllinoisCalifornia 566
New Jersey 260
New York 246
Missouri 229
Texas 215
Ohio 207
Michigan 186
Florida 155
Wisconsin 153
Indiana 146
Student totals
All students 42,883
Total undergraduates 31,901
Total freshmen 7,227
Total sophomores 7,435
Total juniors 7,460
Total seniors 9,113
Enrollment of students by college
Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences 2,565
Aviation 49
Business 2,021
Education 630
Engineering 6,739
Fine and Applied Arts 1,627
General Studies 3,218
Graduate College 9,126
Law 616
Liberal Arts and Sciences 10,830
Media 1,071
Social Work 112
Veterinary Medicine 485
Illini Paralympians score in London
Thirty-one athletes and coaches represented the UI at the Paralympic Games in London this summer, competing for the U.S., as well as Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and Japan. Current and former Illini athletes won medals in 13 events.
Current student athletes:
• Freshman Ray Martin, of Jersey City, N.J., won four gold medals in the T52 classification. He won the 100 meters in 17.02 seconds; the 200 meters in 30.25 seconds; the 400 meters in 50.58 seconds; and the 800 meters in 2:00.34.
• Junior Tatyana McFadden, of Clarksville, Md., won gold in the T54 800 meters in 1:47.01. She also won gold in the 400 meters in 52.97 seconds and in the 1500 meters in 3:36.42. McFadden won a bronze in the women’s 100 meters in 16.15 seconds.
• Senior Aaron Pike, of Park Rapids, Minn., competed in the T54 4×400 meter relay, 1500 meters, 5000 meters and the marathon, placing 16th.
• Junior Susannah Scaroni, of Tekoa, Wash., placed eighth in the marathon.
A sampling of the more than 1,000 registered student organizations at Illinois
• Archery Club welcomes all skill levels to practice archery.
• Bellydance UIUC teaches and practices the art of bellydancing.
• Brawling Illini Battlebots Team is an engineering team that creates a robot to compete in the BOTS IQ Robotics Competition.
• Chalk Art members chalk pictures around campus.
• Goshin Jitsu practices practical self-defense techniques that are based off of moves in judo.
• Harassing Illini supports the Illini Hockey team at its home and away games.
• Holly Jollies celebrate the holiday season with nondenominational winter activities, such as snowman building and charity drives.
• Hoop Group meets to practice Hula Hooping.
• Illini 4000 raises money for cancer patients by participating in a cross-country bike ride over the summer.
• Illini Bags Club meet to play bags, a lawn game involving beanbags thrown at holes in a raised platform.
• October Lovers meets only in October and sponsors events such as apple picking, pumpkin carving, bonfires and corn maze trips.
• Yakity Yak Kayak participates in many canoeing and kayaking trips throughout the year.
UI students set two Guinness World Records two days apart in August
Following the annual New Student Convocation on Aug. 24, 3,463 freshman and transfer students broke the world record for the greatest number of people simultaneously husking corn. UI students smashed the old record of 351 people set in 2011. Afterward, the corn was served during dinner at University Housing dining halls.
“This world record attempt drew on the university’s agricultural heritage – supersweet corn was invented here,” said Kirsten Ruby, an assistant director of University Housing. “Setting a world record is a great way to kick off a student’s career at the university. The Class of 2016 can remember this always.”
Two days later, the UI, partnering with the nonprofit Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network, broke the world record for registering the most people as organ donors during eight hours in a single day. During the Illini Union’s annual Quad Day event, during which students can explore how to get involved at the UI, 2,262 members of the campus community registered to become organ donors, easily outnumbering the old record of 765 people.
“This event made a difference nationwide, said Robyn Deterding, the director of UI’s Campus Recreation and a promoter of organ donation. “We showed others that those at the University of Illinois believe and are committed to transforming lives.”
New cloud storage for data
Beginning this fall a new and improved file-sharing and file-backup service called U of I Box was made available to students. The old system, Netfiles, will be retired Dec. 21. Faculty and staff members began using the new system over the summer.
Beyond mere data storage, U of I Box – an industry leader that serves many Fortune 500 companies – will enable users the mobility and space, as well as the functionality, to collaborate with their colleagues in ways that were not possible before. U of I Box provides:
• 5 gigabytes for students (15 gigabytes for faculty and staff members) – far more than eDocs, Webdisks or Netfiles
• Secure, legal storage and access of confidential data
• Mobile security that is on par with desktop security
• The ability to share files with other campus users or with people from other institutions, companies or the general public
• The ability to share files through online course-management systems such as Blackboard and IllinoisCompass 2g
• The ability to create dropboxes into which students can turn in their assignments without violating each other’s confidentiality
• The ability to upload, download and stream audio or video using Box’s integrated media players
