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As an English major, it took about two days into my freshman year before I was acquainted with the legend of the English Building at U of I. It was haunted.
Built in 1905, the English Building was a women’s dormitory, and on the top level, there was a pool. A girl drowned in that pool one night, either on accident or by taking her own life...
For 83 years, University of Illinois and Ohio State have had a little tradition going on, known as the Illibuck. The Illibuck, named for a combination of the words Illini and Buckeyes, the mascots of the schools, is a competition held each fall.
The bet: which school will win the football game.
The prize: a turtle, the Illibuck.
Why a tu...
You go into the healthcare center for strep throat and come back with Vicodan. You have to get an X-ray after falling down the stairs and get told you didn’t break anything, only to get a call the next day that the X-rays were mixed up and you’ve been walking around on a broken leg. You go in with a headache and come back with antibiotics. Yo...
It's Halloween time, Northwestern! Midterms are over and no signs of snow yet. Is there a better reason to celebrate... especially when you can dress up like a stuffy presidential candidate and still get laid?! So get your Palin glasses and take some notes, cause we've come up with the ultimate guide to your weekend festivities.
Now you might ...
Walter Meego isn’t simply a dorky man's name. Walter Meego is a musical duo comprised of Justin Sconza and Colin Yarck with more electro-pathic, space-age, 80’s-cum-future, Lite Brite-like, dance-rocking synth-pop up their sleeves than can easily be contained in a given music venue. A few years ago, the two were a couple of University of Illinoi...
Is this really becoming a trend? Yet another Illinois bartender was arrested after serving up drinks in the nude. Just last month, a woman working at The Cabin Inc. in Delhi was charged with public indecency after some in-the-buff bartending. Now Jamie Day is following in her footsteps.
The 24-year-old Day works as a bartender at the Pub Room ...
One of the biggest obstacles facing Obama’s political campaign has little to do with his tax plan or foreign policy. What plagues Obama is a persistent rumor that he is a Muslim and lying about it. Ever heard it?
This falsehood has followed Obama since 2004 when it was found in a press release and spawned a cyber phenomenon. While everyone has...
This weekend's college football headlines from Bleacher Report.
There are a lot of teams looking good and acting tough so far this season, but it’s often hard to tell who’s the real deal. The contender vs. pretender breakdown should quiet a lot of overeager fans.
Notre Dame beat Stanford this weekend which made Chris Marinelli eat his words,...
Treasury Assistant Neel Kashkari is the chosen one— chosen for the loaded job of overseeing the bailout plan. There’s been quite a bit of finger pointing over the past couple of weeks: at President George W. Bush, at greedy corporations, at slick Wall Streeters, at U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, at legislators who allowed for deregula...
On September 12, 2008, we lost a great American writer, David Foster Wallace. A professor at Pomona College who once taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and attended Cornell University, Wallace wrote short stories and novels, the most famous of which being Infinite Jest.
Whereas ordinary authors resorted to ...
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