BY CORINNE RUFFSTAFF WRITER

A viral Facebook post has sparked discussion regarding fines and lawsuits from bus company Suburban Express.

The original post, which has been shared 789 times and “liked” 646 times in the last two weeks, as of 10:52 p.m. Thursday, trac-es back to the personal Facebook wall of Jeremy Leval, a graduate student at the University.

In his post, Leval describes an incident that occurred during a trip back to Champaign on March 31, on a bus driven by an individu-al who, according to the company, was not an employee of Suburban Express. Four days later, Leval said he received an email stating that he was permanently banned from Suburban Express and was issued a fine of $500 for liquidated damages and the cost of the ticket.

As passengers boarded the bus at the O’Hare International Airport stop, Leval said he over-heard the bus driver shouting at an unidentified international stu-dent who he said did not under-stand that the driver was asking her to fold her ticket in half before she could board the bus.

“If you don’t understand Eng-lish, you don’t belong at the Univer-sity of Illinois or any ‘American’ University.” Leval said in his Face-book post, quoting the bus driver.

Leval said he confronted the driver and told him his language was offensive and unnecessary.

In a statement provided to The Daily Illini, Suburban Express said after contacting the passen-gers on the March 31 trip, the company had not yet received “any first-hand knowledge of the incident.”

The statement also reads: “An offhand verbal exchange between a driver who is not an employee of Suburban Express and a pas-senger has been blown totally out of proportion by a meddling, self-aggrandizing student who has cho-sen to use this incident to promote his own agenda, which seems to be to call as much attention to himself as possible and to promote his own competing business.”

Suburban Express owner Den-nis Toeppen said in an email later, “We take our obligation to serve all passengers with respect and professionalism very seriously.”

Meanwhile, several posts on the Facebook thread had addressed that Leval had attempted to launch a carpooling website called Col-lege Rides in May 2012.

“College Rides has not been launched, and it will never be launched,” Leval said in reply to a question about his former busi-ness plans.

On April 4, the same day Leval wrote his post, Suburban Express

sent an email to passengers who were on Trip 705, asking if they had noticed an incident on the bus, said Hanyu Gu, senior in Busi-ness and one of the recipients of the message.

Gu said he was sitting two seats behind Leval when he witnessed the scene. He replied to the email: “The attitude of the driver was very rude and arrogant, which made me feel unpleasant. I didn’t

ask the details about the quarrel but I don’t think in any situation the driver should talk to a passen-ger like that.”

But in the statement provid-ed to The Daily Illini, Suburban Express maintained it was not directly informed of the incident.

While a lawsuit hasn’t been filed against Leval, other students, who

BY JANELLE O’DEASTAFF WRITER

The Illinois Senate voted 52-1 in favor of Senate Bill 1587, titled “Drone Surveillance,” on Thursday, passing the legisla-tion regarding unmanned aer-ial vehicles (UAV), or drones, to the House. Champaign Coun-ty Sheriff Dan Walsh said he will not make any decisions regarding the UAV, which was purchased by his depart-ment in 2007, until the law is established.

“Right now we’re just going to sit and wait to see what the law and the (Federal Aviation Administration) end up doing,” Walsh said.

Senate Bill 1586, proposed by Daniel Biss, D-Evanston, pro-hibits police or other govern-ment agencies from using UAVs unless a judge issues a search warrant authorizing the use of the UAV.

Gene Robinson, owner of RP Flight Systems, a Texas-based UAV manufacturing company, said the FAA has been discuss-ing regulations for UAVs over

the past few years, as well. Because UAVs are a new tech-nology used by police offices and other government agencies, regulations have not been fully developed yet.

Robinson’s company manu-factured the SkyCamo Spectra purchased by the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office, and Robinson said the FAA’s slow progress in developing legisla-tion has caused him difficulties in his business.

“The FAA has a long histo-ry of not making their dead-lines,” Robinson said. “It’s been a very frustrating situa-tion for manufacturers and also law enforcement officers who want to use the technology, and they cannot.”

Walsh said in an email that he and his office purchased the Spectra to assist in search-and-rescue missions, mostly, but the UAV could be used for more. He said the UAV could assist in many different situations, such as photographing outdoor crime

BY ELEANOR BLACKSTAFF WRITER

Wearing nothing but a plaid shirt and jeans, Charley Nye, lab manager of the University’s Bee Research Facility, toured the backyard of the property. Before him was a Styrofoam box; the buzzing of bees became louder and louder as he approached.

With the onset of spring, the ground he stepped on was lush and budding with dandelions, the early-season pollen source for the facility’s residents: honeybees.

“The year’s kind of ramping up

right now,” Nye said. “(The bees) spend the winter clustered togeth-er in a tight little ball, warming each other up and slowly eating honey until spring comes and the flowers start blooming.”

The box is one of the facility’s man-made hives, and by July, it will be joined by many more boxes as the bee population in the facil-ity increases.

But this increase doesn’t reflect the nationwide honeybee pop-ulation, which saw a dramatic decrease this year, according to University researchers. They are using the facility to look into this decline through genetic research.

“This last year was a real shock,” said Gene Robinson, direc-tor of the Bee Research Facility and the Institute for Genomic Biology. “(The honeybee popula-

tion) looked like it was getting bet-ter, the problem was getting less severe ... it’s not yet clear what the problem was this year.”

Researchers have not yet found a specific cause of the decline, but May Berenbaum, head of the depart-ment of Entomology, said four dif-ferent factors have been proposed as contributors to the decline.

“There’s pesticides, parasites and diseases, management prac-tices, and nutritional factors,” Berenbaum said. “So we’ve got people working on most of the main hypotheses that are out there to account for bee decline.”

The Bee Research Facility is one place where University researchers can experiment and test these theories.

“The Bee Research Facility exists to support our research

and make possible our research on honeybees,” Robinson said. “Our research on honeybees deals with a variety of topics that generally have to do with understanding the role of genes.”

Berenbaum said the main focus of the research is to determine the cause of the population decline.

“Identifying the causes opens up possibilities for treatment and prevention,” she said.

Researchers are also figur-ing out ways to preserve the bee population.

“There are new efforts to breed resistance, so people are taking a very different approach to the use of pesticides in the hive,” said Berenbaum, referring to a pesti-cide that protects bees from fatal

BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

Many students will pay more for their education next year if Congress doesn’t act by July 1.

Federal student loan inter-est rates are set to double at the beginning of the next fis-cal year, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on subsidized Staf-ford loans, effectively raising the cost of a college education by $1,000 for students who need loans, according to the United States Public Interest Research Group.

The rates were set to double last July 1, but Congress, in the midst of an election year, vot-ed June 29 to extend the rates one year.

Now, government leaders are looking for a more permanent solution to the interest rates.

In his recent budget proposal, President Barack Obama sug-gested tying student loan rates to market interest rates. Rates for subsidized loans will be 1 percent higher than the 10-year Treasury yield rates for subsi-dized loans, while the increase will be 3 percent for unsubsi-dized loans and 4 percent for graduate loans. With Thurs-day’s rates, this would mean a decrease in the rates of subsi-dized loans (from 3.4 percent to 2.7 percent), unsubsidized loans (from 6.8 percent to 4.7 percent), and direct graduate loans (from 6.8 percent to 5.7 percent). Many Republicans have supported this idea, but some have suggested capping the interest rates if the Treasury yield rate gets too high.

“Right now, we are kind of at historic lows in terms of our interest rates being very low,

so right now it would be a ben-efit to the students, but in three or four years, when the inter-est rate changes nationally, (it may not be),” said Dan Mann, director of financial aid. “If we go strictly to a variable interest rate, is there a possibility that it would always just be a variable interest rate, or should there be a cap put on at some point? Those are the questions that are being asked and debated at this

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The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 www.DailyIllini.com Vol. 142 Issue 142 | FREE

THE UNIVERSITY BORROWS$50,859,086$36,670,945$75,950,275

$80,736,089

SUBSIDIZEDUNSUBSIDIZEDGRADUATEPARENT PLUS

$244,216,395TOTAL

$99,750,244.75TOTAL

$0.125$0.333$0.548$0.490

SUBSIDIZEDUNSUBSIDIZEDGRADUATEPARENT PLUS

$6,357,385.75$12,211,424.69

$41,620,750.70$39,560,683.61

SUBSIDIZEDUNSUBSIDIZEDGRADUATEPARENT PLUS

THE GOVERNMENT EARNS

PER DOLLAR LENT

THE GOVERNMENT PROFITS

IF THESE RATES EXPIRE, THE GOVERNMENT WILL EARN AN

ADDITIONAL $10,578,6898.89 FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF

$110,328,934.63.

Attorneys’ fees exceed Suburban Express lawsuit feesSince January, Suburban Express has filed 44 lawsuits toward passengers who have violated its terms and conditions. In the case of Yu Zhang, international student and senior in Business, the cost of an attorney to defend her small claims case was more than the amount for which she was sued.

Source: Thomas Betz, University student legal attorney

estimated attorney fee for small

claims lawsuit

$500

$320.03$100 convenience charge$27.75 ticket price$64.69 screening fee$5.59 collection cost

Source: Yu Zhang, international student and senior in Business

$47 screening fee$75 collection cost

Source: Kim Evans, Ford County circuit clerk

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Student loan interest rates set to double

What this means to students

If Congress doesn’t act by July 1, the interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Over the course of a college career, the extra interest would likely mean that students on average will pay $1,000 more for their college education, according to the United States Public Interest Research Group.

Without action from Washington, rates to go up July 1

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See DRONE, Page 3ASee SUBURBAN, Page 3A

Bee facility swarms to solve problem EMILY OGDEN THE DAILY ILLINI

The Bee Research Facility, located on South Lincoln avenue, contains indoor and outdoor hives home to thousands of honey bees. This hive encloses around five thousand bees, one of the smaller hives on site.

Researchers focused on cause of bee population decline

Ill. Senate sends drone surveillance bill to House

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We are making some changes.

On Fridays, you won’t see a printed Daily Illini newspaper on the stands, but you can still fi nd our stories and photos on a redesigned website and our mobile site. And we’ve re-imagined how we

approach design. Turn the page for a much more minimalistic style, which places emphasis on the stories, the photos and everything inbetween.

We’re not cutting our coverage, though. Touchdown Times will be in Thursday’s publication, and our sister magazine, buzz, will be out Fridays. Technograph will hit the stands four times a year.

You won’t see any less content on our site than you have in the past, and there will be no reduction in the number of people, events or sports games that we cover. With these changes, we are bringing the content to where you want to see it — where you are — which is online and on social media. That starts with how we can tell stories.

Sixteen social media accounts across every department deliver our best, our most informative, our smartest, our most entertaining stories, photos, videos and broadcasts. Online, we’ve reorganized the site so that you can fi nd our special sections in a single home and see more stories at a time, without all of the scrolling.

Last year, we adopted the science and engineering magazine Technograph, and this year we’ve brought the217.com community calendar under our wing. Soon, the calendar will be completely migrated to DailyIllini.com. With these partnerships, we want to bring you more about what’s happening around you.

We continue our efforts to grow, but doing that is expensive. Last year, the news broke that we owed $250,000 to our printer and other debtors. Since then we’ve paid it off, but we are still a media company fi ghting to stay alive.

In spring 2013 in an effort to cut our expenditures, we sold our Green Street building, consolidating a three-fl oor operation down to a single fl oor, which we now rent. About a year before that, we turned to the students for support, and this semester we will receive it to help cover all of the media outlets at Illini Media Company. The $1.85-per-semester student fee is a reaffi rmation of our mission: serving the University community as an editorially independent media organization.

This support means our readers have a greater stake in what we produce here. We want you to take a greater ownership of your Daily Illini, letting us know your questions, concerns and ideas as we progress through this media transition.

Over our 142-year history, we’ve made hundreds, if not thousands, of changes from small font tweaks to full-blown redesigns. Turn the page to see the next generation of The Daily Illini.

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Big stories similar to this one showed that visuals were becoming just as important as printed content. This front page played up the story of a football victory with a postgame photo across the entire top fold.

Stories and visuals shared equal space on this front page’s top fold. This page also included tidbits with weather and information about content inside the issue.

This front page’s masthead featured a University symbol — the Alma Mater. A photo illustration used as the lead art took up the majority of the front page.

REIMAGINING THE DAILY ILLINI

In our previous design, we placed a stronger emphasis on a diverse range of visual elements paired with stories, such as graphics. We also switched to a lowercase masthead and creatively previewed content through the skybox.

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BY JOLIE HUANGSTAFF WRITER

The University’s 42nd annual Quad Day was met with 90 degree heat, yet students still arrived well before noon, the event’s designated start time, ready to see the host of organizations the University could offer them. The event kick-start-ed with performances in front of Foellinger Auditorium, including those by the University’s March-ing Band, the Illinettes and the Illini cheerleaders.

According to Scott Carrico, the 2012 event coordinator and current Student Organization Resource Fee program adviser, approxi-mately 12,000 students attended Quad Day in 2012. Although no offi-cial numbers for 2013 have been confirmed, he previously said he projected student attendance this year to be similar to last year’s. More than 600 registered student organizations made an appear-

ance Sunday, lining the Quad with booths in the hopes of attracting new members. Many RSO’s also had give-away items, such as plas-tic cups, Frisbees, pens and the occasional T-shirt.

Beginning in the spring semes-ter, RSOs could reserve space on the Quad after paying a $28 reg-istration fee through the Illini Union Board, the event’s official host organization.

For many freshmen, attending Quad Day is the first step to becom-ing more involved on campus.

“Everyone told me Quad Day was something I definitely had to go to,” said Susan Jean, fresh-man in Engineering. “I did a lot

of extracurriculars in high school and I’m obviously really looking forward to doing just as much now that I’m in college. I think Quad Day is a great first step to reach this goal.”

To make the event more man-agable for students, the Illini Union Board advertised a QR

code that provided access to a mobile map of booth placements. Students perused booths, which were grouped by common themes, from political and cultural or eth-nic booths at the North end of the Quad, to social fraternities

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Quad Day brings the heat

Annual YMCA Dump and Run raises $12,000

BY TAYLOR ODISHOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

A fter spending the first half of their day signing up for different organi-zations on campus, students filled

their empty stomachs with free food a block over from the quad. The Taste of Nevada showcases the cultural cen-ters the University has available for students.

Corey Thoss, assistant director for the Office of the Dean of Students, wel-comes students to expose themselves to the different centers on campus.

“We really hope that students come and understand first, where the loca-tion of a lot of the cultural centers are

on Nevada Street, as well as gaining some information about the different centers,” he said.

Students enjoyed foods from around the world provided by the cultural cen-ters. The Taste of Nevada was spon-sored by the New Student Programs, the Office for Inclusion and Intercul-tural Relations, University Housing and the Illini Union.

African American Cultural CenterThe African American Cultural Cen-

ter served macaroni and cheese, cat-fish and sweet potato pie to a long line of students.

Jaylin McClinton, sophomore in LAS, said he wants students to realize the center is a great resource for students. It offers free printing and a place for different registered student organiza-tions, like Women of Color and the Afri-can American Cultural Association, to come together. He encourages students to get involved with the center.

LGBT Resource CenterThe Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-

gender Resource Center served rain-bow cookies. According to the LGBT

BY STEPHANIE AGUILARCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University YMCA held its 12th annu-al Dump and Run fundraiser in efforts to reduce litter and consumer waste in Cham-paign-Urbana at the Stock Pavilion on Sat-urday and Sunday.

The fundraiser provides collection box-es every year while students are moving out at the end of spring semester, in which students and the community can donate their unwanted goods to the YMCA. The two-day garage sale is to raise money and reduce landfill waste.

Kasey Umland, University YMCA pro-gram director, said the fundraiser had raised more than $12,000 this year. Umland said the fundraiser began when a secretary noticed the attic of the YMCA was crowded with unused goods and had heard about a similar fundraiser and believed it would be a great idea to start one on campus.

She said the fundraiser is not only a good way to raise money, but also a good way to provide international students at the Uni-versity with cheap goods. She said she has heard of many international students who come to the University with only one suit-case, and this fundraiser helps to reduce their spending costs when they arrive on campus.

Julie Carlson, a recent graduate from the University and volunteer at the Dump and Run, said she was a Bailey Scholar at the YMCA when she considered helping out.

“I transferred to the University my soph-omore year and lived in the dorms for my first semester and was overwhelmed with the amount of things that people don’t need or throw away that are perfectly good,” she said. “I heard about this last year and thought it was a great way to recycle.”

Carlson said on Saturday, people were lined up past the street before the sale had opened to the public. She said most of the goods were furniture, clothing and homeware.

After 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Dump and Run had its free sale where goods with-out price tags were available for anyone until 4 p.m. Between those hours, there had been approximately 65 to 70 people still shopping.

You Xai, a sophomore in Engineering, was shopping for free apartment goods and said this was his second year attend-ing the Dump and Run. Xai said he donat-ed last year and highly recommends peo-ple to attend.

Stephanie can be reached at saguila2@dailyillini.com.

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Colorblocking and bolder, solid lines are a major component of the redesign. Complex elements can overcomplicate a page, so we kept things simple with key elements that catch your attention.

Anything goes with the skybox; it is the fi rst thing people see when approaching a newsrack. Stay tuned for interesting, dramatic skyboxes that preview great content within our paper.

Newspapers with big blocks of text can be intimidating to

pick up. Our redesign stresses hierarchy within a given page. Your eyes will be immediately drawn to relevant and timely

content worth reading.

In today’s day and age, media is consumed from a multitude of outlets. Readers can easily connect with us after picking up a print issue by simply taking a look

at the bottom of our news front at our new social media bar.

Breakdown of the new design

The redesign of The Daily Illini is a timeless blend of the classic essence of our paper, modern sleekness and simplicity. Our publication was born in 1871 and has undergone a variety of redesign. The newest one, which we present to you today, is bold, fun - but not cheesy - and minimalistic. With clean fonts, bold

elements and colors that make the page pop, this redesign is a fresh interpretation of our general consumer news.We’d love to hear what you have to say about our new look. Give us your feedback at feedback@dailyillini.com

We’re online everywhere you are. Now, that means on your phone. We’ve revamped our mobile website to show the top stories of the days. News? Yes. Sports? You betcha. We’ll have top stories as they break throughout the day

and of course, all the content from the day’s paper – all in your hand.

Mobile website

Our bold, all-caps masthead features a modern, classic font, Bodoni. This font is

continued in other elements of our redesign, such as the headings of each section.

We love when you pick up our paper, but we know how important our website is, too. We’ve redesigned DailyIllini.com to place a greater emphasis on timeliness:

On the website’s front page, we will give you a more visual experience featuring a photo gallery of today’s top stories.

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For 102 years, the Illini Media Company has operated entirely from advertising revenue, Illio sales and donations. That business model changed when the University student body voted and approved a student fee for the Illini Media Company.

After more than 4,000 students signed a petition to put the fee on the spring semester ballot in 2012, 58 percent of student body voters approved it.

Originally, the Illini Media Company proposed a $3 student fee, but in October 2012, the Student Fee Advisory Committee recommended that it be $1.85. Beginning this fiscal year — this semester — the company will receive the fee.

The fee is expected to generate about 9 percent of the company’s revenue for fiscal year 2014. It is intended for general purposes to help further the educational and professional mission of the company. Despite the fee, we will continue as an editorially independent organization.

With this fee, you are helping to fund an important cornerstone of campus life. You are allowing an educational media company to transition into a greater one and funding one of campus’ greatest educational laboratories, which provides the training grounds for countless careers. The student fee will fund four media outlets: The Daily Illini, which owns the Technograph magazine and the217.com calendar; buzz magazine, the Illio yearbook; and the radio station, WPGU 107.1.

The students that work here, your peers, are afforded innumerable opportunities because of the work they are able to do here and because of the information they are able to provide you, the readers, listeners and viewers. Alumni of Illini Media Company have gone on to change and define their fields in journalism, design, business, art, management, photography, education and more.

This fee will provide the scaffolding for a media company in transition. It will keep alive a campus tradition that has been a watchdog at this university.

And now, it will continue with your help.

In years past Illini Media’s board of directors comprised eight members – four students and four nonstudents.With this new contract, the board of directors will consist of 12 members – adding two new student members and two new nonstudent members. The two new student members will be chosen by the Illini Media Company from a pool of at least four student candidates. This pool will be created by the Student Fee Advisory Committee. One of the new nonstudent members will be chosen by Illini Media from a pool of at least two faculty or staff members from the University. This pool will be created by the vice chancellor of Student Affairs. For the other new nonstudent member, Illini Media will select a member of the general public, or a faculty or staff member of the University.

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Before The Daily Illini, the newspaper was simply known as The Illini. The front page remained very text-heavy and was filled with short tidbits about what was happening on campus.

The 1916 presidential election was the focus of this front page, and the articles were primarily written by The Associated Press. Also the page was designed containing a sketch of the projected winner (who didn’t end up winning).

The staff of the paper shifted from filling the front page completely with text to including portraits of the article’s subjects.

This issue’s top story was about the end of World War II with its headline stripped across the page and with the story running down the right side of the paper. “Extra” was also added to both sides of the masthead.

This special April fool’s edition aimed to persuade students that the then-Assembly Hall had disappeared. That year’s staff included a small disclaimer on the bottom of the page explaining that the page was “all in fun.”

As the years went by, the newspaper began displaying skyboxes to preview inside content. More graphics and fewer stories started to appear on the page.

With a new wave of technology, The Daily Illini began printing out-of-house and used this issue to mark the transition. This issue featured a copy of an old issue’s front page and also jumped a story from the front to the inside of the issue. The masthead also indicated that the newspaper was in its 100th year of publication.

In this early issue of what was then known as The Illini, the front page did not look like a traditional newspaper. The page was more magazine style and consisted of longform writing.

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The newspaper made its transition from The Illini to The Daily Illini. Though similar in design, the front page featured longer articles.