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...introduction to The Chinese in America, popular historian Iris Chang identifies her interest in the Chinese-American experience as stemming in part from her own childhood frustration with peers who insisted on seeing her? the daughter of Chinese immigrants in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois?as foreign, an outsider. That phenomenon, of course, persists today. Chang notes that when American Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan lost a competition to a teammate, MSNBC's headline read: AMERICAN BEATS OUT KWAN...
...clear how often the government has asked to search library records since the enactment of the Patriot Act, but in a recent survey conducted by the Library Research Center at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 545 of the 906 respondents said that in the year after the 9/11 attacks they had been visited by federal or local officials. But there is no evidence that the visits were connected to the Patriot Act, and some may have been routine searches related to local crimes. Meanwhile, not all librarians are leaving the stacks and taking to the streets. The survey...
Saenz and Heiberger began to date, and, despite the fact that he is two years older than she, their relationship flourished. Even when Heiberger went off to college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, their relationship remained solid...
Yale’s pro-divestment petition was drafted by Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is said to have begun the divestment movement in November 2000 with a speech at Illinois State University. Boyle served as a lawyer for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, according to Dershowitz...
...comparison to other divestment efforts such as Harvard’s, which simply calls for divestment on moral grounds, Yale’s petition drives a hard bargain, according to Francis Boyle, who is a law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served as a technical adviser for the Yale petition...