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...Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly two-thirds of the 54 fraternity chapters still haze. The more extreme initiation rites range from paddling and "chugalug" contests to sticking fingers up rectums or inserting penises in light sockets...
...other places Slichter is concerned about is the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he has taught physics since 1949, after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard...
...Corporation are the product of a self-perpetuating mechanism in which the current members fill the vacancies in their own ranks. The most recent appointments were in 1970 when two professors, John Morton Blum '43 of Yale, and Charles P. Slichter '45 of the University of Illinois at Urbana, replaced two lawyers...
Dwight Dobbs, 41, owner of an office supply company in Urbana, Ill., got so tired of Watergate and what he considered disrespect toward the President by the news media that he rented three billboards that read: "I have more faith in this man . . . than I have in any of his accusers . . . especially the press." Dobbs was rewarded with the thrill of his life...
...euphoric Dobbs was the lion of Urbana for two days. Then the bottom dropped out. The Associated Press telephoned him to say that it had checked with the White House and found that Nixon had made no such call. Dobbs, who maintains that every inflection of the famous voice was perfectly clear, called Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren to confirm the report. No, Warren said, the President had not called, but added that Nixon did indeed thank him for his support. Further consolation came last week in the form of personal letters from both Richard and Pat. But the phantom...