"CHAMPAIGN – An 18-year-old University of Illinois student was killed Thursday as a result of being run over by a bus.
   Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said Sarah E. Channick, whose hometown is Deerfield, was pronounced dead at 5:07 p.m. Thursday at Carle Foundation Hospital's emergency room.
   She died from multiple traumatic injuries, Northrup said. Toxicology tests will be done and a coroner's inquest conducted later.
   Ms. Channick was a freshman in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
   Champaign police Sgt. Jim Rein said this morning that the accident is still under investigation.
   "It's a tragedy," Rein said. "It makes all of us have a knot in our stomachs."
   Ms. Channick was walking in a crosswalk west across Sixth Street about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Rein. A Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus driven by Demetra Young, 22, of Urbana was going west on Chalmers Street and was turning south onto Sixth Street when the bus struck the pedestrian, he said.
   Young was given a ticket for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, Rein said. She also was taken to a hospital for treatment after becoming sick, he said.
   Ms. Channick is believed to have been talking on a cellphone at the time of the accident, but it is unknown whether it is a factor in the accident, Rein said.
   Rein said both motorists and pedestrians have to pay attention, particularly on campus, where there is a lot of traffic.
   The accident Thursday is the fourth bus-pedestrian accident – and third fatal accident involving a pedestrian – in the campus area in 19 months.
   – On Oc. 27, 2004, UI graduate student Carolyn Jeffers, 21, of Champaign was struck and killed by an MTD bus as she crossed Gregory Drive at Goodwin Avenue. The driver was ticketed for failure to yield to a pedestrian.
   – On Dec. 14, 2004, UI student Adam Barling fell under a bus as he was trying to board it and was run over without the driver's knowledge.
   – On March 1, 2005, Benjamin Lee Robin, 22, of Champaign was struck by a bus at Wright and Chalmers streets. Robin was wearing headphones and was given a ticket for failure to yield as a pedestrian.
   – On Feb. 21, 2004, UI graduate student Nadia Chowdhury, 20, was killed at Fourth and John streets when she was hit by a car."

Tell me why the only thing given to the busdrivers is a ticket.

went to Adams Morgan last night. it was tight. I didn't know that 4 or more city blocks could be filled with so many bars and shit. It reminded me of New Orleans. A couple of us went from bar to bar drinking. There was a nice diversity of bars there. at around 3 when bars close, we grabbed some adams morgan's pizza slices which are HUGE for like 4 bucks. I never saw so many drunk fucks eating pizza on the streets in my life. That part of DC is definetly tight.

There are so many gay dudes and transvestites here its crazy. One time I saw this ugly,huff,big-jawed,ugly looking dude with big tits and long blonde hair. I was confused for a second then I was disgusted. That wasn't the last time that happened to me here. Not only that theres some gays that are around adams Morgan and Dupont Circle. Last night while we were eating pizza one of the Yep's that I was with said some shit to this gay dude when he was walking by. so the gay dude slapped the pizza crust out of his hand with a limp wrist. That was the funniest shit I ever saw.