“I am grateful for President Hogan’s service and wish him the best of luck as he transitions into his new role .... I am hopeful that through Easter’s leadership the University of Illinois can continue to make strides as a world-class higher education institution.”

DAVID PILESKI , student body president and student trustee-elect

BY CARINA LEE AND DARSHAN PATELSTAFF WRITER AND ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Robert Easter, former inter-im chancellor and interim vice chancellor for research, has been called upon to fi ll another duty, this time as the president-designate.

Easter, who was set to retire after a new chancellor and vice president was appointed, has agreed to fi ll the role, saying he pledges “to move forward ener-getically and collaboratively with an agenda that reaffi rms the Uni-versity of Illinois’ special place among the very best of institutions of higher learning in the United States.”

“Now, as Mike (Hogan) has decided to move on, the Board of Trustees has asked me to assume the mantle of leadership of this great institution as its president,” Easter said in a statement. “I do so with pride but also humility — with eagerness but also enormous respect.”

As president-designate, Easter will make $250,000 on a 12-month basis, so he will earn about $62,000

for his three months in that posi-tion. Once he assumes full pres-idency on July 1, when Hogan steps down, Easter will earn $450,000 per year, part of a two-year appointment with the Board of Trustees Executive Committee , which was approved at its emer-gency meeting Friday afternoon.

Board chairman Christopher Kenned y said after the two-year contract expires, Easter’s appoint-ment will be extended or a pres-idential search will be initiated 10 months before his last day in offi ce.

However, Kennedy does not consider Easter to be here for the interim.

“He had an ability to play a care-taker role in Urbana,” Kennedy said. “(But) he led the University’s fl agship campus forward. I think he’ll do that with the entire insti-tution in this instance.”

While the agenda item for the meeting says the Executive Com-mittee “considered various indi-viduals who might provide this leadership for the University,”

Kennedy said Easter was the clear choice Friday.

When Hogan expressed his desire to step down from the posi-tion, the president immediately suggested Easter as a leading can-didate for the seat, Kennedy said.

“Basically, I said, ‘You (Hogan) can’t quit until you fi nd your replacement’ because we didn’t want to leave the University with-out somebody in charge,” he said.

Before the announcement, Ken-nedy fi rst discussed with trustees and faculty members the possi-bility of Easter taking over for Hogan; Kennedy said they seemed to accept the change warmly.

University Senates Conference chair Don Chamber s said the board’s decision to appoint Easter as the new president refl ects the University’s “shared governance”.

“In Bob Easter, we have a new leader but an old friend who knows this University inside and out and is respected by everyone through-out the University community,”

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President Michael Hogan resigns amid concerns about his leadership ability at UI BY DARSHAN PATEL AND LAUREN ROHRASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR AND STAFF WRITER

Just two weeks after the Board of Trust-ees told him to repair his relationship with faculty or risk losing his job, Uni-versity President Michael Hogan resigned Thursday .

Hogan — who replaced former Univer-sity President B. Joseph White after the Category I admissions scandal — unex-pectedly stepped down from his post amid growing concerns about his leadership ability. The board’s Executive Commit-tee accepted Hogan’s resignation in an emergency meeting Friday afternoon at the Chicago campus, where trustees also signed off on the selection of Robert Eas-ter, former interim chancellor, as presi-dent-designate. Easter will take over as

president July 1.“It has been a distinct honor and privi-

lege to serve as president of the Univer-sity of Illinois,” Hogan said in a statement Thursday, adding that he is optimistic about the future of the University.

Board chairman Christopher Kennedy said Hogan felt he did not accomplish what he wanted to do during his short term.

“(Hogan) came to the University to com-plete a certain agenda,” Kennedy said. “At the last board meeting, he concluded that much of the work he came here to do hadn’t been done, so rather than create a whole new agenda, I think he recognized that this was a great time to move on and let somebody else step in.”

See HOGAN, Page 3A

What’s next for Hogan: ! Resignation as president

effective July 1 ! A one-year leave for

research and teaching preparation

! Returning to faculty with tenure as a distinguished professor of history at the campus of his choosing

! Receiving $285,100 per year as a member of the faculty, the average sal-ary of the top-10 faculty salaries at the University, excluding medicine and dentistry

! Receiving deferred com-pensation of $67,500 in 2015, an amount due to him for serving as the president for two years

See EASTER, Page 3A

JOSHUA BECKMAN THE DAILY ILLINI

Robert Easter, then-chancellor and current president-designate of the University, talks with members of the Daily Illini editorial board. Easter will assume his full duties as president July 1.

Easter agrees to take on duty as president of University“Now, as Mike (Hogan) has decided to move on, the Board of Trustees has asked me to assume the mantle of leadership of this great institution as its president. I do so with pride but also humility — with eagerness but also enormous respect.”ROBERT EASTER,president-designate of the University

JOSHUA BECKMAN THE DAILY ILLINI

Faculty push for Hogan’s resignationFeb. 26, 2012Distinguished faculty members began openly calling for University President Michael Hogan’s resignation in a letter to the Board of Trustees with 130 signatures. University spokesman Tom Hardy said Hogan does not intend to resign, and the trustees have been “unequivocal in their support” throughout his presidency.

Board of Trustees calls emergency meeting, tells Hogan to ‘rebuild relationships’ or risk losing jobMarch 5, 2012Board of Trustees chairman Christopher Kennedy asked Hogan to repair his relationship with the faculty in an emergency meeting, saying the relationship is salvageable. “I’d say that issues around rebuilding that support are issues that Mike Hogan needs to play a leadership role in. That is not something that the Board can do for him, but we are confi dent that Mike can do that for himself,” Kennedy said. “Time will tell.”

Hogan writes to University community March 8, 2012In a Massmail to the University community, Hogan said he is taking the Board of Trustees’ “thoughtful and candid advice very seriously,” days after meeting with the group to review growing concerns about his presidency. “I want the entire University community to know that I regret that this failure occurred,” Hogan said in the email.

Chaired faculty members demand Hogan’s resignationMarch 15, 2012Distinguished faculty members delivered another letter to the Board of Trustees calling for Hogan to be fi red. In the letter, 118 professors said a Board of Trustees that does not act when the president is ethically compromised is unable to “effectively govern the institution it stewards.” They said Hogan’s reputation had deteriorated after the March 5 meeting — exactly the opposite of what the Board had hoped.

Hogan submits ‘Path Forward,’ the fi nal revisions of enrollment management planMarch 19, 2012Hogan sent a fi nal, revised version of the enrollment management plan, which he called “The Path Forward,” to Don Chambers, University Senates Conference chair, on March 19. “It’s a demonstration of shared governance at its best. We’re joyous we’ve come to a positive conclusion,” Chambers said.

Kennedy announces Hogan’s resignationMarch 22, 2012The University community was notifi ed in the early afternoon by Board of Trustees chairman Christopher Kennedy that Hogan had tendered his resignation. Hogan is to remain in the position until July 1, when former interim chancellor Bob Easter will take over.

HOGAN’S MARCH MADNESS

“I respect Michael Hogan’s decision to resign his position as president of the University of Illinois ... I have confi dence in (Easter’s) leadership and ability to continue moving the state’s largest university forward.”

PAT QUINN ,Illinois governor

“Dr. Hogan’s pride in the University was always evident, and his goal was one that we shared: to make the University better .... The excellent reputation Dr. Easter has earned ... is one that will serve all three campuses well as we move forward. ”

PHYLLIS WISE , chancellor and vice president

“(Hogan) came to the University to complete a certain agenda. At the last board meeting, he concluded that much of the work he came here to do hadn’t been done, so rather than create a whole new agenda, I think he recognized that this was a great time to move on and let somebody else step in.”

CHRISTOPHER KENNED Y, Board of Trustees chairman

WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY

BY MARILYNN MARCHIONETHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Doctors say it is unlikely that former Vice Pres-ident Dick Cheney got special treatment when he was given a new heart at age 71 that thou-sands of younger people also were in line to receive.

Still, his case reopens debate about whether rules should be changed to favor youth over age in giving out scarce organs. As it stands now, time on the wait-ing list, medical need and where you live determine the odds of scoring a new heart — not how many years you’ll live to make use of it.

“The ethical issues are not that he had a transplant, but who didn’t?” Dr. Eric Topol, a cardi-ologist at Scripps Health in La Jolla, Calif., wrote on Twitter.

Cheney received the trans-plant Saturday at Inova Fair-fax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., the same place where he received an implanted heart pump that has kept him alive since July 2010. It appears he went on the transplant wait list around that time, 20 months ago.

He had severe congestive heart failure and had suffered fi ve heart attacks over the past 25 years. Cheney has had countless procedures to keep him going — bypasses, artery-opening angioplasty , pacemak-ers and surgery on his legs. Yet he must have had a healthy liver and kidneys to qualify for a new heart, doctors said.

“We have done several patients hovering around age 70” although that’s about “the upper limit” for a transplant, said Dr. Mariell Jessup, a Uni-versity of Pennsylvania heart failure specialist and American Heart Association spokeswom-an. “The fact he waited such a long time shows he didn’t get any favors.”

More than 3,100 Americans are waiting now for a new heart, and about 330 die each year

before one becomes available. When one does, doctors check to see who is a good match and in highest medical need. The heart is offered locally, then region-ally and fi nally nationally until a match is made.

“You can’t leapfrog the sys-tem,” said Dr. Allen Taylor, cardiology chief at MedStar Georgetown University Hos-pital. “It’s a very regimented and fair process and heavily policed.”

Jessup and Taylor spoke Sun-day from the American College of Cardiology’s annual confer-ence in Chicago, where Cheney’s treatment was a hot topic.

Patients can get on more than one transplant list if they can afford the medical tests that each center requires to ensure eligibility, and can afford to fl y there on short notice if an organ becomes available. For example, the late Apple chief Steve Jobs was on a transplant list in Tennessee and received a new liver at a hospital there in 2009 even though he lived in California.

That’s not done nearly as often with hearts as it is for liv-ers or kidneys, said Dr. Samer Najjar, heart transplant chief at MedStar Washington Hospi-tal Center.

Each transplant center decides for itself how old a patient it will accept, he said.

“Most centers wouldn’t put somebody on” at Cheney’s age, said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan , who has testifi ed before many panels on organ sharing issues.

“I’ve been arguing for a long time that the system should pay more attention to age because you’ll get a better return on the gift” because younger people are more likely to live longer with a donor organ, Caplan said.

News reports detail other successful heart transplants in septuagenarians.

In Canada, a man described as a home builder and philan-

thropist received a heart trans-plant when he was 79 at the Uni-versity Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He lived for more than a decade with the organ, dying in 2010 at age 90.

In Texas, a 75-year-old retired veterinarian received a heart last year from a 61-year-old donor, but he had been a mara-

thon runner and was presumably healthier than many of his peers.

Cheney will have to take daily medicines to prevent rejection of his new heart and go through rehabilitation to walk and return to normal living. He was former President George W. Bush’s vice president for eight years, from 2001 until 2009.

BY CARINA LEESTAFF WRITER

Cities are gathering to oppose a federal permit that would allow for the disposal of the toxic chem-ical polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB , in a landfi ll in Dewitt County.

The permit would allow for the building of a new disposal cell in an existing landfi ll over the Mahomet Aquifer , and it has been waiting for EPA approval since 2007.

The landfi ll would be the only one to store PCB in Illinois. Bloomington and Champaign

County have expressed concerns about the possible detrimental effects that PCB could have on the drinking water supply.

Alan Kurtz, chair of the Envi-ronment and Land Use Commit-tee for the Champaign County Board , said several other cit-ies are collaborating to form an agreement preventing the per-mit’s approval.

“Hopefully, we can delay this application and approval from the U.S. EPA for at least another year so that the constructions of intergovernmental jurisdictions that are working in opposition

to this are taking legal action,” he said.

The Illinois EPA has previ-ously stated that PCB waste in the landfi ll would not jeopar-dize the drinking water supply. However, an intergovernmen-tal agreement between Cham-paign, Urbana, Savoy and Nor-mal was formed in December to contest this fi nding . Recent-ly, the agreement also gained support from the city of Bloom-ington, Mahomet Valley Water Authority and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill .

Durbin spokeswoman Chris-tina Angarola said the senator recently met with city offi cials to discuss the issue.

“He shares their concerns about whether the proposed landfi ll would compromise the integrity of the Mahomet Aqui-

fer — the source of water for hundreds of thousands of cen-tral Illinoisans,” she said in an email.

Alex McElroy, assistant to the city manager of Blooming-ton , said the Illinois EPA’s Tox-ic Substances Control Act stan-dards are too lenient. He said he was concerned with the landfi ll because Bloomington residents may get their water from the aquifer.

“In the future, the city may use the Mahomet Water Aqui-fer as the water source,” McEl-roy said. “The city has concerns with disposal of PCB materials at the landfi ll.”

According to a press release, the U.S. EPA has completed the initial review and has stated that further evaluation of the site is needed before making a fi nal

decision on the Clinton Landfi ll.A public meeting between the

Illinois EPA and residents from

affected areas to discuss con-cerns about the landfi ll is sched-uled for April 3 .

The Daily Illini | www.DailyIllini.com Monday, March 26, 2012 3A

Champaign, Urbana, Bloomington, Normal and Savoy, are hoping to stop a permit that would let Clinton Landfill Inc. dispose of polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, in a landfill over the Mahomet Aquifer. Some environmental groups say the landfill and PCB could affect some cities’ drinking water.

Ill. cities oppose adding toxic chemical to Mahomet landfill

Mahomet AquiferClinton Landfill

Champaign-Urbana

Source: www.watchclintonlandfill.com SHANNON LANCOR Managing Editor for Visuals

Cities oppose chemical disposal in landfi llEnvironmental groups cite drinking water concerns

Faculty members were the greatest source of pressure on Hogan since he took over two years ago. Last month, a group of 130 distinguished professors from the Urbana campus wrote a letter to the trustees asking him to step down, as they had no con-fi dence in his leadership.

Also, members of the Urba-na-Champaign Senate have expressed disapproval of Hogan on several occasions, but the sen-ate never offi cially called for his resignation. Hogan was scheduled to meet with the senate and other campus offi cials next Friday, but the meeting was called off as a result of this latest development.

Senate Executive Committee vice-chair Joyce Tolliver said this move was in the best interest of the University.

“I know this was a diffi cult deci-sion for the board and for (the) president and Mrs. Hogan, and I commend them for making this hard, but correct, choice,” Tolliv-er said. “I sincerely wish Dr. and Mrs. Hogan all the best as they plan for their new roles at the University.”

Nicholas Burbule s, member of the Senate Executive Committee, echoed his colleague’s response.

“I think it’s a sad situation, and it’s unfortunate that we’ve reached this point,” he said. “I do respect the president for doing the right thing for the University. It couldn’t have been easy for him.”

While the board had previously backed Hogan and his initiatives, the trustees met with the embat-tled president behind closed doors in an emergency meeting March 5. In response to recent concerns from faculty, the board reviewed its expectations of Hogan in that meeting. But Kennedy said Thurs-day that he does not remember Hogan indicating that resignation was a possibility that day.

Soon after, Hogan reached out to the University communi-ty in a mass email, saying that he regretted the failure. Howev-er, the same group of faculty that sent the original letter delivered another memo March 15 during the board’s regularly scheduled meeting in Urbana, this time tell-ing the trustees to fi re him.

Throughout this semester, Hogan had stated that he had no plans to step down. But last week-end in a meeting with Kennedy, Hogan expressed his desire to leave the hot seat as the Univer-sity’s president.

Hogan — who was earning more than $650,000 a year — will retain a faculty position at the campus of his choice but may face a simi-lar internal investigation that his former chief of staff, Lisa Troyer, is currently going through at the Urbana campus.

Controversy over Hogan’s pro-posals to centralize fi nancial aid and admissions was magnifi ed after Troyer resigned in early January amid an investigation of whether she sent anonymous emails to an advisory faculty

group.Those emails urged the Univer-

sity Senates Conference to accept changes to the University’s enroll-ment management, which Hogan had supported. In response, the campus senate passed a resolu-tion that criticized Hogan’s pos-sible involvement in that scandal. He has denied the accusations, and the investigation of Troyer cleared him of wrongdoing.

In addition, thousands of emails obtained by The Daily Illi-ni through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, showed that Hogan criticized Phyllis Wise, Urbana’s chancellor and vice president, and pushed her to sup-port his goals, which had been out-lined for her before she became chancellor.

Due to strong faculty disap-proval of Hogan’s centralization plans, he and Kennedy met with the University Senates Conference on several occasions this semester to give faculty members input in the decision-making process. At the last board meeting, Universi-ty Senates Conference chair Don Chamber s commended Hogan and Kennedy for their roles in com-ing to a positive conclusion about the enrollment management plan. The fi nal version of the plan, called “The Path Forward,” was released just days before Hogan announced his resignation.

Despite the “positive conclu-sion,” this had not been the fi rst time Hogan and faculty clashed on centralization issues. Tensions between the two sides have been mounting as Hogan has pushed for a one-University model during his short-lived presidency, creating University-wide administrative positions in an effort to streamline costs. In response, faculty mem-bers have continued to argue that this could diminish the distinctive-ness of the Urbana campus.

But this problem was not iso-lated to the University’s fl agship campus. Philip Patston, chair of the Chicago senate , said that cam-pus is also concerned about its dis-tinctiveness, leaving faculty frus-trated about Hogan’s plans and his means to implementing those.

“It was inevitable this was going to happen,” Patston said. “Now the challenge is to separate the prob-lems caused by leadership from the two presidents and make it clear that this is not the Univer-sity of Illinois.”

Hogan came from the Universi-ty of Connecticut, where he served as its president for just three years before accepting the job offer at the University of Illinois.

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HOGAN

Chambers said. “He is a leader with a vision and a passion, while also a good listener who will cul-tivate the best ideas across cam-puses to move our great Univer-sity forward.”

Many Urbana faculty members also echoed Chambers’ statement, saying that Easter is the right per-son at the right time for this job.

“The University will now be able to move forward under the very capable helm of Bob Easter who has already engendered the trust of faculty throughout the University of Illinois system,”

said Kim Graber, member of the Urbana-Champaign Senate Execu-tive Committee. “With his appoint-ment — along with the leadership of Chancellor (Phyllis) Wis e — the Urbana campus, in particular, is very well-situated to move for-ward into the future.”

Easter has held many positions at the University over the past 36 years, including dean of the Col-lege of ACES and interim chan-cellor, which he attained after the Category I admissions scan-dal forced the resignation of top administrators in 2009 .

According to the University, a schedule of activities welcoming Easter as its 19th president will be announced in the coming weeks.

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EASTER

A bloomin’ good time

JOSHUA BECKMAN THE DAILY ILLINI

Framed within the branches of a fl owering tree, Xinghua Shi , post-doctoral graduate student, walks between Noyes Hall and the Chemistry Annex. Weather in Champaign has been unseasonably warm the past few weeks, following on the heels of a mild winter.

Two ISU students found dead in their dorm rooms; local police fi nd no foul play DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT

Two students were found deceased in their residence hall rooms at Illinois State Universi-ty on Thursday night and Friday morning.

According to a press release from ISU President Al Bowman , the two incidents were unrelated.

Allison Zak, sophomore in Lan-guages, Literatures and Cultures, from Schaumburg, was found at about 9:30 p.m., and John “Cody”

Stephens, freshman in Comput-er Science, from Wilmette, was found shortly after midnight.

ISU Police and the McLean County Coroner’s office are investigating both cases. Uni-versity counselors were present at the scene throughout the night.

Beth Kimmerling, McClean County coroner, said in an email, “Preliminary autopsy fi ndings indicate that (Zak’s) cause death may be related to an undiagnosed

seizure disorder or infarct relat-ed to her Crouzon Syndrome—a syndrome that manifests itself with multiple cerebral and cranial (brain and skull) abnormalities.”

Kimmerling also said Ste-phens’ autopsy showed that his death was “the result of a non-natural process.” Forensic toxi-cology tests have been ordered, but results will not be available for three to four weeks.

Bowman said neither incident involved “foul play or criminal activity of any kind.” He applaud-ed students for their appropriate response to the events.

“Sometimes, the best we can do is to share our grief and offer comfort to each other,” he said. “My review of our social media pages indicates that students sup-ported each other, shared their thoughts and quickly informed family members of the incidents.”

Cheney’s heart transplant pushes age limit restrictions

AP FILE PHOTO

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering after having a heart transplant. His offi ce released a statement Saturday disclosing the surgery and saying that Cheney has been on the transplant list for more than 20 months.

Tweets from President Hogan’s #resignationFollowing President Michael Hogan’s resignation, the Illinois community had much to say regarding the change in leadership. Read more Twitter reactions at DailyIllini.com.

@singleVlogs TheDailyIllini President Hogan was so involved on campus! It’s going to weird not seeing him at football games, or walking around the quad.

@lnakamur OMG our president Michael hogan just resigned from the u of I. Is this the end of a curse or yet another symptom?

@KSMGsports President Hogan must have heard that Mike Thomas was coming for him. #Illini

@chrispkeating Ex-UConn president Michael Hogan, who was controver-sial when he was in Storrs, is now out of his latest job at University of Illinois

@ECGreaves Relieved Illinois President Hogan resigned, Bob Easter to be new President. Good news! #Illini

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