Campus bars are anything but happy about the notices they received for violating Cham-paign’s “happy hour” ordinance for Irish Illini’s fall Barscram-ble. Champaign Mayor Gerald Schweighart said that out of the 11 bars, eight will attend hear-ings that will be scheduled with-in the next two months.

“The charges have already been given to (the bar owners), and what we do now is we have a hearing to see whether or not the charges are enough to stand up in court,” Schweighart said. “And if the hearing offi cer deems that they are, then it’s up to my offi ce to (give) out the penalties.”

Schweighart added that bar owners have the option to appeal their cases before the Illinois State Liquor Commission.

The scheduled hearing for Joe’s Brewery, 706 S. 5th St., was supposed to be held on Jan. 26, but it was postponed for an

unnamed date, said owner Doug Larson. Schweighart said the hearing was postponed because the city’s attorneys are inter-viewing people involved in the Barscramble, including some of the judges of the contest.

Of the eight bars to attend the hearing, White Horse Inn, 112 E. Green St., is still on the fence about hiring an attorney to appeal the case or accepting the punishment for the charges. White Horse Inn’s CEO Aidas Mattis said the city is charg-ing the bar with promoting Barscramble via advertising its logo on the event’s T-Shirts and with a happy hour viola-tion related to playing games in the bar. Mattis said Irish Illi-ni did not receive permission to include the bar’s logo and gave late notice that Barscramble participants would be playing games.

“There wasn’t permission for-mally given to have anything

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Gov. Pat Quinn came to the Illi-ni Union Thursday to announce that the University will be the fi rst recipient of a large Custom-er Energy Effi ciency Grant to help lower energy costs across campus.

“As governor of Illinois, I want-ed to come here to talk about this and preach the gospel, the green gospel,” Quinn said.

The University will receive more than $848,000 to fund a cam-pus-wide energy initiative that is expected to save $1 million per year in energy costs, said Steve Sonka , interim vice chancellor for

public engagement.These savings are equivalent

to the amount of electricity, coal and gas energy used by more than 1,000 homes annu-ally, Quinn said.

Sonka said in addition to energy savings, the projects funded by the grant will help cut back on the University’s carbon emissions.

The $848,000 is a por-tion of the $100 million federal stimulus dollars allocat-ed to the state of Illinois by the Department of Energy, said Tom Abram , sustainability coordinator at Facilities and Services.

Facilities and Services will be responsible for distributing the money to a number of different projects that will work toward

saving energy by retain-ing heat inside buildings across campus.

Campus-wide projects include installing energy wheels to stop warm air from leaving many new and renovated buildings and adding insulation to steam pipes.

Specifi c projects include install-ing heating, ventilation and air conditioning controls in the Kran-

The University’s Board of Trustees discussed a variety of budget issues facing the Univer-sity in the upcoming fi scal year at its meeting Thursday.

“When everybody’s in charge, nobody’s in charge,” said Craig Bazzani, senior adviser for foun-dation advancement of the Uni-versity of Illinois Foundation. “We want to look horizontally within the campuses and see if there are functions that may be realigned.”

Bazzani is part of the Admin-istrative Review and Restructur-ing Committee, approved by for-mer President B. Joseph White

last December, which reviews administrative functions and makes recommendations on fi nan-cial restructuring. The committee is comprised of 100 provosts and deans from all three campuses.

He said that the committee will reconvene in March to decide if an outside consulting fi rm is nec-essary. However, he emphasized that outside consulting was unnec-essary at this point during Thurs-day’s meeting.

The president and each of the University’s chancellors will receive committee updates April 15 and a fi nal report in May. The board will tentatively receive the report in June.

“We want to take a look at

whether or not there are any syn-ergies that cut across units that perform like functions,” Bazzani said.

While the restructuring is aimed at improving the Univer-sity’s fi nancial conditions, Bazzani said that the prospect of layoffs is not out of the question.

“There’s also the people equa-tion part of it; I’d like to be able to say that’s not the case,” he said. “But yes, I do think ultimately as the University skinnies down, people are going to be part of that equation.”

Mrinalini Rao, vice president of academic affairs for the Uni-

The University’s Board of Trustees discussed budget issues and personnel matters at its meeting on Thursday held at the Chicago campus.

The board renewed its appointment of Chris Ken-nedy as board chairman and approved former President B. Joseph White as President Emeritus.

It also passed changes to stu-dent fees and housing rates for all three campuses in its roll call agenda.

Student fees on the Urbana campus will rise by 2.8 per-cent, or $39 per semester, and University housing fees will increase by 4.6 percent, or $402 per semester, in FY 2011.

Trustee Ed McMillan intro-duced presentations with

details about the student and housing fees, as well as recom-mendations for capital projects for repair and remodeling.

Craig Bazzani, senior adviser for foundation advancement of the University of Illinois Foun-dation, presented proposals from the Administrative Review and Restructuring Committee, which is composed of adminis-trators from each of the three campuses. Bazzani said that the committee did not want to take outside consulting with regards to the fi nancial reorganization of the University.

“We have a signifi cant and unprecedented challenge, and furloughs and hiring freezes

are at best temporary mea-sures,” Bazzani said. “We have to look at long-term solutions, we’re simply going to have to do more and expect more from each of us at different levels.”

McMillan said long-term bud-get changes are the answer to the University’s current cash crisis.

“I think what we all realize that it isn’t going to go away quickly, we’re facing challenges

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versity of Illinois, presented the state payment cycle during 2009. She said an “early warning” for the budget crisis occurred last July when the state did not pay the Uni-versity $19.8 million. The cash cri-sis emerged on Oct. 31 when the University was not reimbursed by the state for $258 million.

Rao added that faculty, staff and administration were given the option of a voluntary pay reduc-tion, versus the original scheduled furlough days.

Interim President Stanley Iken-berry said that the University may still be far from solving its cash crisis.

“It’s not just the university, it’s all central public services under threat as result of mounting fi scal and cash crises,” he said.

that go well into FY 2010, 2011 and beyond,” he said. “We’re talking about making long-term changes to allow us to be the best that we can be in the years to come.”

Interim President Stanley Ikenberry agreed, adding that: “It will be a challenging time. It’s diffi cult to fashion the best scenario where we don’t have high single-digit increases, understanding that this is a four-year fi xed commitment.”

On Jan. 15, Ikenberry stat-ed that tuition rates could be increased by 9.5 or 10 percent for incoming freshmen if things go well fi nancially.

However, he said the fi gure would more likely be close to dou-ble that amount. With regards to tuition raises, Ikenberry voiced his concern for families’ mon-etary preparation.

“For all three campuses, the families and students need some kind of reliable basis on which to plan,” he said. “Stresses on students and family are not going to get any easier.”

Outside of the board meeting, members of the Chicago cam-pus’ Graduate Employees Orga-nization, the Service Employees International Union Local 73, the Illinois Federation of Teach-ers and various other student organizations rallied against the University’s decision to use furlough days in an effort to cut costs.

“All we’ve asked for is fair treatment,” said Philip Marti-ni, vice president and execu-tive assistant to the president of the Service Employees Inter-national Union Local 73. “But at the same point, we can’t beat up the University because they’re not getting any money. So, we’re more than happy to work with the University.”

The group is collectively called the United in Campaign Against Budget Cuts, accord-ing to a press release sent out Wednesday. “We’re look-ing for ways to increase funding and we’re looking for innovative ways to cut health care costs,” Martini said. “We’re just try-ing to do it without balancing the budget on the lowest-paid workers on campus and on the students’ backs.”

done actually, especially actu-ally not even using our logos,” Mattis said. “But somehow the city feels that we did give permission.”

Mattis said White Horse Inn is trying to negotiate with the city attorney. He added the bar might close due to fi nancial issues, in which case he said it would accept the punishments without hiring an attorney.

Schweighart said Legends Bar and Grill, 522 E. Green St., and Murphy’s Pub, 604 E. Green St., will accept the punishments to be determined without attending a hearing. Representatives of Legends and Murphy’s declined to comment.

Larson of Joe’s Brewery is among the bar owners who

said he would defend his bar’s case in court. He said the may-or is being dishonest and abus-ing his powers as the liquor commissioner.

“(Schweighart) is charging us with advertising and promoting certain aspects of the state hap-py hour code, which are illegal,” Larson said. “But we didn’t do any advertising. We didn’t do any promoting. And we certain-ly didn’t have any violations of the state happy hour code.”

Schweighart said the bars still retain a responsibility to not allow people under 21 to drink. District 2 Champaign City Coun-cilman Michael La Due said Sch-weighart made it clear that bars would incur penalties for under-age drinking, so his reaction to the Barscramble violations is no different than those that his predecessors had.

“The mayor acting as liquor

commissioner has been very, very clear about his feelings about this kind of promotion and the consequences that his offi ce empowers him to impose,” La Due said.

Larson said his bar had mini-mal involvement in violating the “happy hour” ordinance during the Barscramble.

“Our involvement was pretty minimal,” Larson said. “It’s kind of one of those things where someone says they want to bring in 1,000 customers to your bar on a Saturday afternoon.”

Joe’s ensured students enter-ing the bar were at least 19, Larson said. He added that the police ticketed seven minors at the bar that day. Schweighart plans to implement a punish-ment that charges bar own-ers if an excessive number of minors are ticketed inside their establishment.

“There’s going to be some fur-ther changes down the road that puts more responsibility on the bar owners to control those that are under 21 in their establish-ments,” Schweighart said.

Although Schweighart plans to enforce stricter regulations if future violations occur, these proposals are not necessarily punishments for bars that par-ticipated in Barscramble.

But not all city council mem-bers said raising the bar entry age is an appropriate ruling.

Tom Bruno, Champaign City council member-at large, said he would rather see the bars suspended instead of raise the entry age to 21.

“I think that has danger-ous consequences. It sends the underage drinking into unsu-pervised places such as vehicles and unsupervised apartments,” he said.

nert Center for Performing Arts. They would also call for exhaust controls in the Levis Faculty Cen-ter, geothermal systems for build-ings at Allerton Park and Retreat Center and variable air volume hoods and controls for the Chem-istry Annex, Abram said.

The new federal money will cre-ate 18 construction and installation jobs that should allow for retention of 36 jobs, according to a press release from Quinn’s offi ce.

Quinn stressed the importance of investing in the green economy to create jobs and instill skills in workers that they can implement elsewhere.

“It’s the duty of all of us to be as green as we can be,” Quinn said.

Quinn also said going green is one of the best ways to thank those who defend our democracy.

“We don’t want to help petrol dictators that help fi nance terror-ists,” he said.

Quinn said Illinois residents should focus on keeping expen-ditures modest and savings growing.

“Doing simple things like ener-gy effi ciency, doing simple things like renewable energy, and also water conservation ... can really add up to a mighty river that really gets our state and country going when it comes to saving money on energy,” he added.

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