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University fails to unify a campus divided on Chief
1:07 PM 2/23/2007 — Chief Illiniwek has been retired, and we are reeling. Our controversial symbol was quietly removed from us in the early hours of last Friday morning. There was no ceremony. There was no funeral. There was only a short, two-page press release to put the Chief to rest.
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If you Taser me once, shame on me; Taser me five times, I'm a terrorist
1:08 PM 2/23/2007 — Remember, remember, the 14th of November, 2006? Chances are, you probably don't.
On this day, UCLA campus police used a taser to forcefully remove a student from the campus library after he refused to show his ID card. Shockingly, the student was tasered five times while handcuffed and surrounded by at least three officers at all times.
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