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I n honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream, the Krannert Center for the Per-forming Arts hosted a com-

memoration service Sunday.“(This is one of those times)

when the University and the com-munity come together for a noble cause,” said Phyllis Wise, vice president and chancellor .

Following a performance by the community choir, Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Trask, associate pas-tor of the New Covenant Fellow-ship and treasurer of the Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Advocacy for Justice Committee , led the audi-ence in prayer as they celebrated the accomplishments and goals of King and welcomed some of the night’s key speakers.

High school students who were recipients of the 2012 Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Scholarship

were also honored at the event, and attendees were invited to donate to the fund.

Dr. Menah Pratt-Clark, asso-ciate chancellor of the Offi ce of Equal Opportunity and Access of the University , emphasized the importance of this scholarship.

“The young people today are fi ghting not only for themselves in the present but also for the past and the future,” Clark said.

Christopher Benson, associate dean of the College of Media and associate professor of journal-ism and African-American stud-ies , was the keynote speaker at the commemoration. He spoke about continuing to carry out King’s goals.

“In refl ecting on the birth of Dr. King, the birth of his chal-

Hundreds of Champaign County residents and gov-ernment offi cials gathered

Friday afternoon at the Cham-paign Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S. Neil St ., to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speakers throughout the night focused on the 11th annual event’s theme of “Striving for Genuine Brother-hood” while community members were honored for doing so in their social justice and humanitarian efforts throughout the past year.

State Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-13 , gave the keynote address and cen-tered his speech on the together-ness and attention needed to elim-inate poverty and connect with today’s youth. He cited the ongo-

ing needs of Haiti two years after a major earthquake occurred as an example of a problem that is easy to dismiss.

“In the weeks that followed the earthquake I said, ‘I hope that people are still seeking to help Haiti after Anderson Coo-per and Sanjay Gupta and the cameras have left Haiti because the problem will still be there,’” he said. “We can’t just fl ing the coins and expect the problems to disappear.”

Raoul spoke of his efforts to alleviate poverty by befriend-ing all members of the state leg-islature and acknowledging the

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Hogan’s former chief of staff sent anonymous emails to infl uence faculty discussionBY DARSHAN PATELSTAFF WRITER

University President Michael Hogan’s former chief of staff

was behind the two anonymous emails that aimed to infl uence fac-ulty discussion, with no one else having knowledge of the actions, according to a report detailing

the results of the month-long investigation.

But Lisa Troyer, who worked under Hogan for a span of nine

years at three universities, has maintained throughout the inves-tigation that her computer was improperly accessed, and that she “had nothing to do with these emails.”

“I believe that in the fullness of time, the truth behind this mat-ter will be revealed,” Troyer said Friday in a statement to the press. She tendered her resignation on Jan. 4 because she could not effec-tively perform her duties during the time of the allegations, she said.

Duff & Phelps and Jones Day, the same fi rms who assisted the University’s recent inves-

tigation into the College of Law, reviewed more than 3,500 emails from Troyer’s Universi-ty email account and additional emails from her personal Gmail account. In addition, records of calls to and from her cell phone were examined.

Examination of browser activ-ity, fi rewall logs, email headers and email fragments all linked

Moving forward ! Lisa Troyer intends to retain

her role as a tenured faculty position within Urbana’s psy-chology department. But Troy-er’s future as an employee at the University will be deter-mined by campus offi cials, said Tom Hardy, University spokesman.

! Hardy said he does not expect this incident to have any effect on Michael Hogan’s presiden-cy. “This appears to be an inci-dent where somebody acted alone,” he said. “He was quick

to tell Troyer that she should notify the appropriate parties to look into what she suspect-ed was a hacking (and) quick to support the engagement of external independent coun-sel to conduct a very thorough inquiry.”

! The University does not plan to alter its annual ethics train-ing as a result. “The University has very strong policies and procedures and a code of con-duct regarding how we expect employees to behave and act on the part of the university,”

said Donna McNeely, the Uni-versity’s ethics offi cer.

! The trustees are not expect-ed to take any action regard-ing the anonymous emails at their meeting later this week. Christopher Kennedy, Board of Trustees chairman, called it a “misguided attempt by one individual to sway opinion.”

! Hardy said he does not have an estimate on how much the investigation will cost the University. Outside help was authorized by Hogan after Troyer denied the allegations.

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MLKCommemoration highlights King’s

dedication to dream

County celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. by promoting brotherhood

JOSHUA BECKMAN THE DAILY ILLINI

Members of the Community Choir sing together at Promoting Justice Through The Dream: The 27th National Holiday Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event was held in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday.

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Rescue effort continues for victims of Italian cruiseBY GREGORIO BORGIA AND NICOLE WINFIELDTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GIGLIO, Italy — Firefi ghters worked Sunday to rescue a crew member with a suspected bro-ken leg from the overturned hulk of the luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia, 36 hours after it ran aground. More than 40 people are still unaccounted-for.

Spokesman Luca Cari told The Associated Press that rescuers had spoken to the person inside the ship, an Italian working in cabin service, who is the third survivor to be found. Late Sat-urday a South Korean couple on their honeymoon were rescued when fi refi ghters in the unsub-merged part of the ship heard their screams.

Three people are confi rmed dead after the huge cruise ship carrying more than 4,200 peo-ple ran aground on Friday night.

Police divers and rescue crews on Sunday circled around the wreckage of ship off the coast of the island of Giglio. Crews in dinghies were touching the hull with their hands, near the site of the 160-foot (50-meter) -long gash where water fl ooded in and caused the ship to fall on its side.

Coast guard offi cials have said divers will try to enter the belly of the ship in case anyone is still inside.

Coast guard spokesman Capt. Filippo Marini told Sky Italia TV that Coast Guard divers have recovered the so-called “black box” with the recording of the navigational details from a com-partment now under water.

Late Saturday, fi refi ghters who had been searching the Costa Concordia for those who remain missing heard distinct shouts,

“one in a male voice, the other in a female voice” coming from the cruiser liner, Coast guard offi cer Marcello Fertitta said.

They turned out to be a honey-mooning South Korean couple, who were brought out in good condition, Prato fi re Cmdr. Vin-cenzo Bennardo told The Associ-ated Press from the scene.

The terrifying, chaotic escape from the luxury liner was straight out of a scene from “Titanic” for many of the 4,000-plus passen-gers and crew on the ship, which ran aground off the Italian coast late Friday and fl ipped on its side.

Many passengers complained the crew didn’t give them good directions on how to evacuate and once the emergency became clear, delayed lowering the life-boats until the ship was listing too

heavily for many to be released.Several other passengers said

crew members told passengers for 45 minutes that there was a simple “technical problem” that had caused the lights to go off.

Passengers said they had nev-er participated in an evacua-tion drill, although one had been scheduled for Saturday. The cruise began on Jan. 7.

Costa Crociera SpA, which is owned by the U.S.-based cruise giant Carnival Corp., defended the actions of its crew and said it was cooperating with the inves-tigation. Carnival Corp. issued a statement expressing sympathy that didn’t address the allegations of delayed evacuation.

The captain, Francesco Schet-tino, was detained for question-ing by prosecutors, investigating

him for suspected manslaughter, abandoning ship before all oth-ers, and causing a shipwreck, state TV and Sky TV said. Pros-ecutor Francesco Verusio was quoted by the ANSA news agen-cy as saying Schettino deliber-ately chose a route that was too close to shore.

France said two of the con-fi rmed victims were French-men; a Peruvian diplomat iden-tifi ed the third victim as Tomas Alberto Costilla Mendoza, 49, a crewman from Peru. Some 30 people were injured, at least two seriously.

The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said some 300 of the crew members were Filipi-nos and that three of them were injured.

Anello Fiorentino, captain of

a ferry that runs between Giglio and the mainland, said he makes the crossing every day without encountering problems.

“Yes, if you get near the coast there are reefs, but this is a stretch of sea where all the ships can safely pass,” he said.

Islanders on Giglio opened up their homes and businesses to accommodate the sudden rush of survivors.

Rossana Bafi gi, who runs a newsstand, said she was real-ly moved by the reaction of the passengers.

She showed a note left by one Italian family that said, “We want to repay you for the distur-bance. Please call us, we took milk and biscuits for the chil-dren. Claudia.”

At Mass on Sunday morning

in Giglio’s main church, which opened its doors to the evacuees Friday night, altar boys and girls brought up to the altar a life vest, a rope, a rescue helmet, a plastic tarp and some bread.

Don Lorenzo, the parish priest, told the faithful that he wanted to make this admittedly “different” offering to God as a memory of what had transpired.

He said each one carried pow-erful symbolic meaning for what happened on Friday night: the bread that multiplied to feed the survivors, the rope that pulled people to safety, the life vest and helmet that protected them, and the plastic tarp that kept cold bodies warm. “Our communi-ty, our island will never be the same,” he told the few dozen islanders gathered for Mass.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo released by the Guardia di Finanza (border Police), the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Saturday. The luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people .

needs of all Illinois residents when writing bills. He talked about his work with a rural-urban exchange that allows a variety of residents in Chicago and Jef-ferson County to visit and learn about each other’s communities.

“We discovered that we had a whole lot more in common than we were different,” he said. “And the ways that we discovered we were different did not provide any reason for us to be divided.”

Raoul said students took to the program especially well.

“They got to know each oth-er by letting their guards down and being brave enough to just embrace each other and not let their differences divide them,” he said. “I suggest that what those kids demonstrated was how we strive for genuine brotherhood.”

Raoul added that in order to achieve this, there is also a neces-sary “willingness to endure dis-comfort for a sustained period of time,” particularly with the

youth of today. “If we do not strive for that

intergenerational brotherhood ... then we will lose a generation,” he said. “We must be able to compete for our youth. That is the only way we are going to restructure our society and that is the only way we are going to live Martin Luther King’s dream.”

Friday’s celebration also awarded three recipients for their work in the community. Alfred Anders on, executive director at the Champaign Consortium , was awarded the Doris Hoskins Prestigious Community Service Award for his volunteerism.

Donna Camp , director of com-munity services at the Wesley United Methodist Church and a founder of the Wesley Eve-ning Food Pantry , was given the James R. Burgess-Susan Freiburg Humanitarian Award for her efforts to reduce hunger in the community. The pantry has assisted more than 40,000 resi-dents since opening in Novem-ber 2006.

“It is my hope that the efforts of the Wesley Evening Food Pan-

try — to provide emergency food to those who might otherwise not have access to traditional food pantries and to treat with dignity each person who comes through its doors — do indeed improve the human condition,” she said in a prerecorded video statement.

Carlos Donaldson , former cam-pus mail supervisor for the Uni-versity, was awarded the Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Outstanding Achievement Award to standing applause from all in attendance. Donaldson has served on vari-ous church and school boards, as well as the Urbana Neighbor-hood Committee, which helped to desegregate Urbana schools. Donaldson took the opportunity to address today’s youth.

“Young people, I say to you: Obey God, respect your parents, adult family members, elders and leaders and authority fi gures who want what is best for you,” he said in his video statement. “Getting an education is much better than getting a criminal record and going to jail and prison. You get an education, and no one can take that away from you.”

BRENT HOFACKER THE DAILY ILLINI

Pastor Willie Comer leads a prayer at the 11th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at the Hilton Garden Inn on Friday .

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the emails back to Troyer’s Uni-versity-issued laptop, which she was in possession of when the rel-evant emails were sent, accord-ing to the report.

Investigators found no instance of a breach into the University’s security system, as Troyer claims. For the Uni-versity’s IT system to be com-promised, a third party would have had to know Troyer’s work habits, whereabouts and had to have extensive knowledge into the discussions surrounding the controversial admissions recommendations.

In addition, the hacker would have had to gone through at least three levels of security and manipulate her email account, all without leaving a single trace, said Peggy D aley of the foren-sic analysis fi rm Duff & Phelps, calling it an “outside possibility.”

The investigation also con-cluded that no one else, includ-ing Hogan, had knowledge of Troyer’s intentions or that she was the writer of the emails. Hogan was speaking with Troy-er over the phone when she creat-ed a “test” email account. But the University’s ethics offi cer Donna McNee ly said phone calls are a typical way for the president and the chief of staff to be briefed on the day’s events, especially when both are at different campuses.

Troyer was deeply loyal to Hogan and had keen interest in advancing his agenda with respect to the enrollment man-agement proposal, according to the report. Troyer had served as Hogan’s chief advisor for years, considering herself a “facilitator of his vision.”

While University offi cials are

calling this an isolated incident, this might illustrate a bigger problem between the faculty and the University administration in regards to shared governance.

“What this report shows is that faculty governance at the Univer-sity level has been under assault, internally through divisions and leaks and externally through attempts to interfere with and manipulate faculty decision-making processes,” said Nicho-las Bur bules, University Senates Conference vice-chair and pro-fessor of education policy at the Urbana campus. “I have never seen a University administration conduct itself in this way. It is appalling and inexcusable.”

The public report also sheds light upon Troyer’s contacts and actions in the days leading up to when the anonymous emails were sent.

Just a week before the anon-ymous emails were sent, Troy-er created a separate email address on Dec. 5 to compose a “test” email, individually criti-cizing professors who spoke out against Hogan’s plans during that day’s Urbana-Champaign Senate meeting. Senators were then dis-cussing the proposed admissions recommendations, many showing disapproval to the concept of cen-tralization. This email was sent to her University mailbox, but to no one else.

During that time, Tih- Fen Ting, chair of Springfi eld’s senate and a member of the conference, anonymously forwarded the University Senates Conference report reviewing the recommen-dations to Troyer. In addition, she also had forwarded internal email threads to Troyer, dat-ing back to September when the group fi rst began discussing the admissions recommendations.

One of those threads was a

testy exchange between her and Burbules that showed signs of division within the University Senates Conference, which was a point of discussion in the fi rst of the anonymous emails. Ting told investigators that she did not consider the emails confi dential at that time.

Three calls were made between Troyer and Ting on the evening of Dec. 11, the day before the anonymous emails were sent. The fi rst anonymous email criticized members for trying to force a consensus when there is not one. Later in the day from her home, Troyer sent a second message to faculty leaders defending her decision to write anonymously.

Eight minutes later, Roy Camp-bell, a professor of computer sci-ence at the Urbana campus, dis-covered that the embedded data in the email was created on a computer with the user account “troyer.” He subsequently emailed his colleagues this infor-mation, but said that “email can so easily be faked or copied from another document.”

Consequently, Ting spoke to Troyer on the phone within the half hour of Campbell’s message and forwarded the memo to her, according to the report. After receiving Campbell’s memo, there was an effort to delete informa-tion from Troyer’s computer, of which she was in possession of at that time. But according to the report, the deletion would have taken hours, if not days, and Troy-er terminated the process.

Later in the night, Troyer spoke with Hogan expressing concern that her computer might have been hacked and proceeded to alert the executive chief infor-mation offi cer, Michael Hites. Hours later, the University began its investigation into the source of the anonymous emails.

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lenge to us in the ‘Dream’ speech, we must recognize the everlast-ing life of the goal, a truly inclu-sive society,” Benson said. “A society in which all people — black people, white people and red and yellow and brown people and Jews and Gentiles and Mus-lims and Buddhists — all people will coexist.”

Benson said although the coun-

try has gone far in decreasing racism and prejudice, King’s goals are “still just a dream.”

“Despite the election of the fi rst different president — one who looks different, and sounds different — we have not reached that post-racial America the media headlined for us just after the election of Barack Hussein Obama,” Benson said. “Reported hate crimes have increased, race is still the leading target followed by religion, ethnicity, and sexu-ality and ... of all the presidents

that preceded him, this president has received more death threats than any other U.S. president in history.”

Benson challenged audience members to change their out-looks on differences.

“It starts with how we see dif-ference,” he said. “We do not have to continue to play this ‘zero-sum’ game where one group wins only if another group loses. We can play by a different set of rules — rules that enable everyone to win.”

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BILAL HUSSEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, attends the opening session of a conference on democracy in the Arab world, in Beirut. Ban said Sunday the “old order” of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East.

Violence in Syria increasingUN Secretary General calls for Syrian president to stop tyrannyBY ZEINA KARAMTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — The U.N. Secre-tary General demanded Sunday that Syria’s president stop kill-ing his own people, and said the “old order” of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East.

In a keynote address at a con-ference on democracy in the Arab world, Ban Ki-moon said the rev-olutions of the Arab Spring show that people will no longer accept tyranny.

“Today, I say again to Presi-dent (Bashar) Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people,” Ban said.

Thousands of people have been killed in the Syrian govern-ment’s crackdown on a 10-month-old uprising. The Syrian regime blames the revolt on terrorists and armed gangs, rather than

protesters seeking an end to nearly four decades of Assad family rule.

Syria’s state news agency meanwhile said Assad granted a general amnesty for crimes com-mitted during the unrest.

Arab League observers began work in Syria on Dec. 27 to ver-ify whether the government is ending the military crackdown

on dissent and releasing prison-ers, but the bloodshed has only increased. The U.N. says about 400 people have been killed in the last three weeks, on top of an earlier estimate of more than 5,000 killed since March.

Opposition and army defec-tors meanwhile have increasing-ly been taking up arms to fi ght back against government forces.