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Friday, Sep 13, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller

* Happy Friday! What’s going on?

       

18 Comments
  1. - One Term Mayor - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 8:02 am:

    Enough Said.


  2. - Walker - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 8:33 am:

    Nice weather for walking


  3. - Proud Papa Bear - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 8:36 am:

    It’s a beautiful day to turn 50.
    Thinking of my friends who didn’t make it this far.


  4. - JS Mill - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 8:46 am:

    Happy birthday @Proud Papa Bear. Welcome to the half century club.


  5. - Friendly Bob Adams - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 9:09 am:

    When I was with the state we were on the 14th and 29th pay schedule, so Friday the 13th was always a good day because it was payday.


  6. - Steve Polite - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 9:29 am:

    I have family members who were born on the 13th as are many people around the world. Sometimes their birthdays fall on Friday. Those are days of celebration.


  7. - Suburban Mom - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 9:44 am:

    I ran the data center conversation from yesterday past a couple of friends who work in data centers or data center development or infosec, and the responses I received ranged from “that’s a staggeringly stupid idea” and “wait, how isn’t that incentivizing the theft of Chicago citizens’ data?” and one “I understand why they want it, but we would build in the exurbs or Indiana. We go where land and electricity is cheap.”

    The infosec guy really couldn’t get over how the point of cloud storage is that you don’t store the data locally and storing data locally creates a very weak link in the security chain.

    Another said, “It definitely would make sense for CBOT, since very low latency is important in fintech, but it’s hard to see another use case.” (And I’m pretty sure CBOE has a data center in Chicago for precisely this reason?)


  8. - H-W - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 10:12 am:

    Western Illinois residential students have been without hot water and air conditioning for three days, due to antique infrastructure built in 1960 or earlier. Dining halls without hot water is inhumane. Residential buildings sweltering in 90 degree temperatures is inhumane. Classrooms and offices without air circulating are problematic.

    When will the State of Illinois invest in its public regionals? Currently, it seems as if Springfield simply intends to allow its regional system of higher education to continue deteriorating while it invest heavily in the U of I system. Sad days, these last several years.


  9. - Demoralized - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 10:47 am:

    Sounds like a poorly managed university to me.


  10. - DuPage Saint - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 11:00 am:

    I don’t understand why Illinois doesn’t have a one university system. Make SiIU, Western,Eastern and Northern part of the Y of I system


  11. - Anyone Remember - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 11:11 am:

    Illinois used to have a “system of systems” … it was eventually ended, my memory is during the Edgar years (perhaps during Lee Daniel’s tenure). The link describes the “system of systems” …

    https://www.lib.niu.edu/1987/ii871020.html


  12. - H-W - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 12:07 pm:

    === Sounds like a poorly managed university to me. ===

    Well, I suppose we could debate local management at the shop level, but public infrastructure is the state’s responsibility. Our buildings were created in the 1960s, via state funding. Their maintenance has been deferred, through state decision-making. Asking the students to pay for a new university is nonsensical. If the state is sending 1/2 of one billion to UIUC and UI-C each year, and 1/20 of one billion or less to Western, and Eastern, and Northeastern and Chicago State each year, and a little more to SIU-C and SIU-E, then it is obvious why one set of schools is crumbling, and the other not crumbling.


  13. - H-W - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 12:13 pm:

    PS - Our students, some of whom are place bound, pay roughly the same tuition as at the other schools. Yet the State government provides them with inferior accommodations. And in the interim, which we debate management, some of our students are dirty, and eating food prepared in kitchens without hot water. Blaming them for the failure of the system to maintain itself, or worse, ignoring the harms we are imposing on some students but not others who all pay the same amount of money, is immoral in a civil society. And Illinois is still a civil society.


  14. - Demoralized - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 12:56 pm:

    ==Blaming them==

    Oh please. Nobody is blaming them. We all have to deal with the cards we are dealt and it doesn’t appear to me that the university is handling those cards in the proper manner if the building is in that situation. It’s called prioritization. Your continuous comments on this subject has done nothing but show me that you are in it for personal reasons to maintain your job, which is totally fair. But your consistent whining about trying to direct kids to different universities is laughable. Kids will come to your university if you have something to offer them. Obviously they are making other choices. Deal with it.


  15. - Demoralized - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 12:57 pm:

    Also maybe you should have a conversation with your local legislators. They should be advocating for capital funding for WIU obviously.


  16. - Paul7576 - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 1:57 pm:

    Sox still losing


  17. - Friendly Bob Adams - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 2:46 pm:

    DuPage- Illinois once had a Board of Regents system that oversaw most of the state universities (excluding U of I). The schools wanted more control over things and the Board was abolished years ago. I seem to recall they had offices in the old Hilton in downtown Springfield.


  18. - chitruth - Friday, Sep 13, 24 @ 3:54 pm:

    I hope the City will manage the Mexican Independence Day caravans better this year, rather than shutting off dozens of exits along Lake Shore Drive. To cause such traffic chaos throughout large swaths of the City for a celebration of another country’s independence is a bit too much. This is not to blame the celebrants, but to ask for a better plan from the City.


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