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Hospital opens new cardiac institute

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Doctors at Heart and Vascular Institute to treat “It was our goal to patients, educate them to prevent future illness achieve a building BY LIZ AMANIEH STAFF WRITER

Cardiologists at Carle Foundation Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Institute treated their first patient Sept. 9. The new institute will allow Carle to better serve Champaignand Urbana-area patients with cardiovascular health issues. The institute, which opened the first week of September, is located in Carle’s newly constructed nine-story patient tower, a 390,000-square-foot facility dedicated to improved medical attention.

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The Carle Foundation Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Institute in Champaign officially opened Sept. 9.

“It was our goal to achieve a building where a patient could come and have the care for their cardiac and vascular illness or injury,” consolidating the cardiac units in one part of the hospital, said Lynn Ullestad, director of the institute. Carle hired five new physicians, including four cardiologists and an invasive radiologist, for this addition to their facility, she said. “This move furthers our ongoing commitment to extend our national-caliber heart program by bringing together experts and

technology to achieve the best outcomes for our patients,” said Dr. Matthew Gibb, medical director of Carle Heart and Vascular Institute, in a press release. “The added resources will allow us to recruit top physicians bringing more advanced care to central Illinois.” The staff consists of physicians with detailed specialty training in interpreting images and reading CAT scan images, a recent addition to the institute. The new CAT scan machine has cardiac soft-

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where a patient could come and have the care for their cardiac and vascular illness or injury under one roof.” LYNN ULLESTAD

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UIUC part of push for e-book availability BY BRITTANY GIBSON STAFF WRITER

For many college students, the price of textbooks proves to be a burden, adding hundreds of dollars per semester to education costs. But some University professors and faculty members are looking into a more affordable option: electronic textbooks, or e-books. The price of college textbooks has risen 102 percent since December 2001, according to an article published Sept. 7 by Bloomberg L.P. The increasing trend has led to the emergence of cheaper methods of sharing information. E-books allow students to access class texts over the Internet. Some have unique capabilities like the inclusion of video or the ability to highlight text in the book. Dr. Angharad Valdivia, department head of Media and Cinema Studies, said they are significantly cheaper than regular textbooks, running at an average cost of $20 to $30. For Valdivia, it was preferable to create an e-book rather than putting together a course packet that was less cohesive. “There are a lot of positives to the e-book,” she said. “It’s available digitally, it’s cheaper than any book that we would be able to choose,

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A tractor and baler used miscanthus in Urbana in March. Although miscanthus is a higher-yielding alternative to corn ethanol, the lack of crop insurance keeps farmers from planting

Miscanthus lacks crop insurance BY CLAIRE EVERETT

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From the tropical regions of Africa and Asia, a high-energy grass has found its home in America’s biofuel research plots. But miscanthus, the higher-yielding alternative to corn ethanol, faces a barrier: crop insurance. Jody Endres, professor in environmental, natural resources and energy law, said while the USDA and other government agencies employ a variety of methods to encourage the growing of miscanthus for biofuel production,

Life in Color party, concert postponed BY MAGGIE O’CONNOR STAFF WRITER

Life In Color, a paint party and electronic dance music concert previously known as Dayglow, has been postponed from its original Champaign tour date of this Friday. The venue, Fluid Events Center in Champaign, posted on its Twitter account Monday that details about rescheduling and refunds would be released Wednesday, but at press time, no futher updates were posted. Its Twitter account quoted the postponement announcement from Life In Color’s Facebook page, which also said information would be finalized by Wednesday. However, tickets are still on sale for the original location and date of Sept.

BY BRYAN BOCCELLI STAFF WRITER

Researchers at the University of Illinois published a study on why it is that some people just seem to enjoy everything, while others can’t stand almost anything. The study was published in the March volume of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Researcher and graduate student Justin Hepler, in collaboration with Dolores Albar-

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has been growing miscanthus on his farm in Villa Grove for five years. “Being a miscanthus farmer is kind of lonely — there aren’t many of us,” Rund said. Rund planted the miscanthus with the idea he would be selling it for cellulosic ethanol production. However, because of the slow development of this industry, he had to create his own market for miscanthus in Champaign County, selling the crop for livestock bedding. “We know how to make corn ethanol because we’ve been mak-

ing whiskey for how many years?” Rund said. “That’s basically it, you just ferment it. We don’t have that history of making fuel from biomass. It’s going to take a little time.” He said during that time, it would be helpful to receive initial government support for biofuel production. “We need a program that can be described as ‘seed money’ to help solve the problem of converting cellulose to other forms of fuel efficiently and subsides those initial efforts until they get on their feet,” Rund said.

He emphasized the importance of exploring options other than corn ethanol because last year about 40 percent of corn was used for fuel. “You go much further than that and you start hurting the food supply,” Rund said. Endres said there were two reasons crop insurance was not offered. The first is due to strong lobbying against a biomass-based fuel system by entities like the American Petroleum Institute and the United States Cattlemen’s

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there is no crop insurance program for miscanthus like there is for commodity crops like corn and soybeans. “Farmers are less likely to plant it if they don’t have the same type of insurance as they would have to plant corn or soybeans,” Endres said. Because miscanthus farmers are limited, Endres is co-leading a nationwide group with the University of Illinois and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to guide and communicate with farmers about the market. One local farmer, Eric Rund,

racin, professor of psychology and communication at the University of Pennsylvania , asked participants to rate a variety of objects from one to seven; one indicates a strong dislike while seven indicates a strong liking toward something. “Some people just kind of dislike everything, other people are going to like pretty much everything,” he said. Hepler said research helped to develop a valid and reliable way

of measuring an aspect of personality that hadn’t been looked at before in formal literature and didn’t yet have a measurement system. But he added that most people are intuitively aware of whether they have a positive or negative general outlook. Hepler said his follow-up research concluded that when people enjoy something more, they are more inclined to do it, which wasn’t surprising to him. “If you enjoy running you’re

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Psychology major Cassandra Barnas, junior in LAS, said she agreed with the results of the study and added that “knowing your attitudes would help you change the way you’re acting or change the way you’re thinking.” Barnas said she has studied similar concepts in psychology classes. “One thing we looked at was upward and downward compari-

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going to be more likely to run than somebody else,” he said. He said people who have a higher average number on the scale aren’t likely to turn down many opportunities. “People with a positive dispositional attitude are more active; they do more stuff with their time, whereas people who dislike things, they kind of find the one or two things that they do like and then they stick to that,” Hepler said.

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