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Alan Ham, 7, doesn’t like “Magic Tree House” books any-more. He wants chapter books with detectives and suspense — action, not magic. But while wandering the shelves of the 11th Annual Book Sale at The Center for Children’s Books on Monday , Alan fi nds a picture book and clutches it to his chest before meekly showing it to his mother, Soo.

“It is a wonderful luxury to have a moment shared with a grown-up you adore,” said Deb-orah Stevenson , director of the center. “Books provide that opportunity.”

The book sale, Stevenson said, supplies kids, parents and local libraries with cheap, like-new books the center receives from publishers throughout the year for review.

Soo Ham, who chooses not to have a television in her home, said reading with her two chil-dren will create a reading “hab-it” that she hopes will follow them for the rest of their lives.

Rebecca Swartz , a Ph.D. can-didate in human and community development at the University, said reading can be much more than a habit: it helps build rela-tionships between children and their parents or caregivers.

“Children’s literature pro-vides a lot of rich opportunities ... that can’t really be replaced,” said Swartz, who has a two-year-old daughter of her own who is just starting to experi-ence literature. “I want her to have independence to fi nd out about things that she’s interest-ed in, and I want her to have that kind of opportunity to navigate all different kinds of media, and these children’s books are def-

initely building her language and her awareness.”

But Stevenson, who has con-ducted research on the nature and history of children’s liter-ature, still struggles to fi nd a single defi nition for what chil-dren’s literature is.

“For a lot of adults, children’s literature is teaching kids about what the adults would like the world to be and pretending that’s how it is. And those are my least favorite books,” Ste-venson said. “I like the mate-rial that is giving kids an idea of what is going on and giving

them tools to deal with things the way they are.”

At the book sale, even a cur-sory look through bins of pic-ture books reveals that reality, sometimes dark and nuanced, has as much a place in chil-dren’s literature as fables and fancies.

“And the Soldiers Sang ” is a grimly illustrated account of the fl eeting truce between Brit-ish and German soldiers during the Christmas of 1914. It ends with the narrator dying from a

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Initiatives to centralize admissions incite confl ictBY DARSHAN PATELSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series regarding contentious discussions over proposed changes to the University’s enrollment management, after thousands of emails were obtained by The Daily Illini under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

Concerns about campus authority are still prevalent, as off-campus administrators push for a more centralized University of Illinois.

The highly contested enrollment management recommendations made last year urged the University to create an administrative position that would oversee

Breaking down enrollment management

! Campus chancellors demanded that campus enrollment offi cials report to their respective provosts, in addition to the executive director for enrollment management.

! University President Michael Hogan compromised by proposing a dual-reporting relationship, where the campus enrollment managers would primarily report to the University offi cial.

! During last spring, campus offi cials were worried about a similar change that was implemented with information technology.

Champaign, Urbana launch campaign for electricity referendumBY RAFAEL GUERREROSTAFF WRITER

If Champaign and Urbana offi -cials have their way on March 20, both may soon be buying elec-tricity in bulk.

At an early Monday confer-ence, Champaign and Urbana offi cially launched a campaign promoting a municipal electric aggregation referendum that will be on the March 20 ballot of both cities.

This measure would allow many small businesses and res-idential homes in the two cit-ies to save money on their elec-tric bills. According to Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing , such a

measure would save residential users as much as $125 annual-ly on their electric bills. Urba-na residents specifi cally would save about $1.8 mil-lion in total annually.

She add-ed this only takes into consider-ation the supply por-tion of the bill and not the distri-bution of it. However, she said it is great for residents that there

Latino fraternity helps prepare high schoolers for transition to college BY THOMAS THORENSTAFF WRITER

College is the logical next step after high school for some local students, but some Latino stu-dents in the Arcola, Ill. area, require a little more convincing.

Seven middle and high school students from Arcola visited campus Monday afternoon to learn more about the Universi-ty and the possibilities of pur-suing higher education. The Lambda Upsilon Lambda fra-ternity, more commonly known as La Unidad Latina , worked together with the Arcola-based Mi Raza Community Center to organize a day for students to

experience both academic and social aspects of college life. The day included campus tours, visiting lectures and a panel dis-cussion with current University students.

“The goal is to spark an inter-est in ... some form of higher education,” said Arturo Romo , community service chair for La Unidad Latina.

The fraternity’s “college immersion workshop” was the University chapter’s local ver-sion of the nationwide service, said Romo, sophomore in FAA. La Unidad Latina’s service day, “Doing It for the Kids Since 1982,” recognizes the year it

fi rst began assisting students in preparing and transitioning to college life.

“Traditionally our focus has been on kids in the inner city,” Romo said.

He said the fraternity usu-ally travels to Chicago for this service. After hearing about Mi Raza’s work with Arcola’s “Project YOU,” a youth devel-opment program, the fraterni-ty realized that rural children need just as much help as their urban counterparts.

Mi Raza, including director Tim Flavin , is involved with var-ious forms of Hispanic and Lati-no outreach. Its “College is Pos-

sible” program helps students research scholarships, majors and universities and then assists them with their applications and essays. The program began in June 2010.

Flavin said the students he works with historically do not pursue secondary education, so he aims to raise “an aware-ness that they are able to go to college.” Similarly, La Unidad Latina was originally founded to recruit minorities into college.

During the panel discussion, several panelists addressed the fi nancial issues that often

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Jonathan Brito , left, senior in LAS, and other members of La Unidad Latina answer questions from high school student guests from Arcola, Ill., and surrounding area, center, inside La Casa Cultura Latina on Monday.

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ChicagoProvost

Lon Kaufman

UrbanaInterim Provost

Richard Wheeler

SpringfieldInterim Provost

Lynn Pardie

UrbanaEnrollment Manager

Stacey Kostell

Executive Director for Enrollment Management

SpringfieldEnrollment Manager

Timothy Barnett

The University administration is proposing to create an executive director for enrollment management this spring. With this position, all campus enrollment managers will primarily report to the executive director and secondarily to the campus provost, as part of a dual-reporting relationship.

Source: University of Illinois SHANNON LANCOR Assistant Design Editor

Dual-reporting in the works for campus admissions

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Lesley Purnell, a librarian in the University’s Interlibrary Loan Department , browses at the Center for Children’s Books’ 11th Annual Children’s Book Sale on Monday.

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ENROLLMENT “Her position began to reveal itself in a conversation ... about our enrollment management plans going forward,” Hogan told Kennedy, adding that Wise demanded the dual-reporting structure. “I made it clear to Phyllis that the decision to appoint and fully empower an executive director of enrollment management had been made over a year earlier by the board and we were not going to backpedal on it.”

In an email from Hogan to Kennedy obtained by The Daily Illini, details about why the University rejected this idea on past reforms were redacted. But after her conversation with Hogan, Wise sought the opinion of interim provost Richard Wheeler, vice provost for academic affairs Barbara Wilson and former associate provost for enrollment management Keith Marshall.

The next day, Nov. 23, Marshall told Wise that this was a direct contradiction of what Hogan told the campus enrollment managers in a summer meeting.

Marshall said Hogan went to great pains in that meeting to say he would not implement enrollment management like human resources or information technology but would rather have the enrollment managers maintain their direct line to campus and the administration.

Marshall left that position in mid-November after being “roundly criticized” by University administration, according to an email sent to colleagues by Eric Meyer, a member of the Urbana enrollment management task force.

This is not the first time campus official has left the job while restructuring initiatives were imminent.

Just last April, Sally Jackson, who was then Urbana’s chief information officer, resigned from her position, criticizing the decision to “centralize authority over academic and research computing.” The University had created an executive chief information officer position, similar to the executive director for enrollment management that Hogan intends to create.

This shifted reporting lines of campus chief information officers from the provosts to the new University position. But even now, concerns have not died down about the possibility of centralization.

“Each initiative that gets proposed or rolled out or tries to be implemented, we have seen over the last 18 to 20 months a knee-jerk opposition in some quarter,” Hardy said. “These are natural occurrences. These things happen when you have a big institution and there’s change. Some people find it hard to adjust or accept change, (but) I think there has to be changes, as we all know, given the fiscal situation the University finds itself in.”

enrollment decisions on all three campuses.But in a late-November meeting with University

President Michael Hogan, Chancellor and Vice President Phyllis Wise and the other two chancellors demanded that campus enrollment managers continue reporting to their provosts, in addition to a University-wide director.

Hogan gave in during a later discussion, promising that campus enrollment management will have a dual structure, reporting first to an executive director. This plan was provided in a document sent to the chancellors that outlined “talking points” for them to convey to faculty leaders. Wise passed these plans on to the Senate Executive Committee, which rejected Hogan’s plan to centralize admissions, at its Dec. 12 meeting.

University spokesman Tom Hardy said these back-and-forth discussions were all part of an ongoing collaboration.

“The chancellors all voiced the concern that their respective campuses had ... (and) the president listened as part of a consultative process,” Hardy said Friday. “They compromised and reached an agreement to make sure the campus voice would be heard.”

While the enrol lment management recommendations were reviewed on both a campus and University level, Hogan had multiple conversations with the chancellors to reiterate his and the Board of Trustees’ plans. After one of the meetings in late November, Hogan emailed the chancellors explaining why he was hesitant to have dual-reporting lines.

“A dual-reporting relationship was never envisioned by the board or me. Indeed, it would be impossible to recruit someone who would be held accountable for the job but not have full authority to get it done,” Hogan said. “Nevertheless, I remain open to other suggestions that might ameliorate your concerns.”

However, two weeks after that email, Hogan wrote to board chairman Christopher Kennedy to say that he was surprised how Wise had handled the conversations to that point.