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Trustees to vote on two resolutions concerning Chief Illiniwek
4:19 PM 3/12/2007 — University Board of Trustees will discuss and vote on two resolutions concerning Chief Illiniwek at the board meeting Tuesday at the Pine Lounge of Illini Union: one that would ratify the decisions announced Feb. 16 and another calling for the board to join Chief portrayers Dan Maloney and Logan Ponce in the suit asking the courts whether the sanctions levied against the University for the Chief Illiniwek symbol "are legal, valid or enforceable.
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Robots race in engineering contest
9:34 PM 3/11/2007 — Twenty-two teams. Six universities. Six attempts. Two days. All to achieve one thing: champion of the robotics design team.
At the 20th annual AMD Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition, held during the University's Engineering Open House on Friday and Saturday, students displayed their projects that some had been working on for nearly a year.
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Rate of younger college students increasing
1:07 AM 5/6/2008 — A new trend has begun to emerge with high school students: going to college early. Click on the icon to hear The Daily Illini's Sydney Langford bring you more on the story.
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American Indian denounces University's Chief decision
9:44 PM 3/11/2007 — Dr. David A. Yeagley is pro-Chief and an American Indian. His great-great grandfather was a Comanche warrior.
When he heard the news that Dan Maloney performed his final dance as the Chief, Yeagley said he was disappointed.
"I felt it was a mistake - that the University had caved in," he said.
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Senate pending marijuana drug bill
9:41 PM 3/11/2007 — What do Amsterdam and Illinois have in common? There may not be much similarity now, but on Tuesday a bill was sent to the Senate Public Health Committee regarding the legalization of medical marijuana in Illinois.
This bill would legalize the use of medical marijuana in some hospitals as a medicinal treatment.
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Plane crashes in Indiana, killing two men aboard
9:39 PM 3/11/2007 — MUNSTER, Ind. - A plane that crashed into a Munster street, killing both men aboard, had taken off moments earlier from an Illinois airport and was headed back there, the craft's owner said.
The crash occurred about 7:30 p.m. Friday on the four-lane Calumet Avenue, about one mile east of Lansing Municipal Airport, an air strip along the Illinois-Indiana state border.
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Illinois lacks sharing of public information
10:57 PM 3/11/2007 — SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Rod Blagojevich took office promising a new era of open government. He talked about weekly press briefings and a budget-making process that would be open to the public.
Instead, his administration has clamped down on sharing public information.
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Illini unable to hold leads, get swept by Mavericks
9:46 PM 3/11/2007 — It was three straight days of deja vu for the Illinois baseball team in Texas.
In Illinois' three-game weekend set with the Mavericks of Texas-Arlington, the Illini jumped out to early leads in all three games of 7-3, 3-2 and 5-2 in its three games, only to squander them away and lose 8-7, 13-6 and 12-5, respectively, to be swept for the second time this season.
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