Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Football Preview

• Illini set for season opener in St. Louis
• Impact players look to shine in 2007
• With core starters returning, Illini could be bowl bound
• Zook, Illini: Don't drop the ball when expectations are high

News

• Text system in works for emergency notifications
• Student 'course shopping' makes scheduling harder
• Campus lands world's fastest supercomputer
• Russia arrests 10 men linked to journalist
• Gonzales resigns amid turmoil
• Durbin moves for safe toys during holidays
• Police Blotter
• Odds and Ends: Missing German kangaroo found after mountain chase
• Briefs: Robert Novak to sign autobiography at IUB
• Helicopters sent for villagers still in danger
• North Dakota tornado kills 1, injures 18
• Engineering attachment results in new policy

Sports

• White Sox slug to snap losing streak
• A remorseful Vick enters guilty plea
• Car registered to Bears' Briggs found abandoned after accident
• Emotional comeback fuels UI graduate Stricker's win
• 'Slamming Sammy' determined to play baseball next year
• Illini lose freshman basketball player due to academics

Diversions

• Corny, but kind of sweet
• Metal proves to be mainstay niche for guitar makers
• Can SpongeBob broccoli convert children?

Editorials

• An inexcusable breach of student trust

Opinion Columns

• Dollars over scholars: Memorial Stadium
• Another student safety lesson from VT campus

Letters

• Governor's budget choices don't hold water
• Convicting Michael Vick

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