…unique as they come, and he will bring his story to the Urbana Free Library this Sunday, April 6, at 2 p.m. The author will read an excerpt from his…
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Performance Poet Patrick Rosal Visits C-U Today
Play every note loud — especially the wrong ones. – Dizzy Gillespie Poet Patrick Rosal visits Author’s Corner at the Illini Union Bookstore today as a guest artist in the…
The Death of Ivan Ilyich City-Wide Read Begins Sunday with a Party
…author, along with University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman, and mayors from Champaign and Urbana, Gerald Schweighart and Laurel Prussing, respectively. The “Big Read” launch, at Alice Campbell Alumni Center,…
Taxi to the Dark Side Explores the Hard Truth of Torture
…human rights violations, the fostering of terrorist activity and the abuse of authority by the world’s most arrogant super power, but it very clearly points to how the United States’…
Bird Brains: Avian Biologist Visits Campus
…actually got a leg up on you in the brain department?) During the past two-and-a-half decades, Lefebvre has authored or co-authored more than 55 scientific articles. He’s also the inventor…
Diversity Prevents Mass Murder
…situations that Kazmierczak caused. The most interesting theory I have heard is from Katherine Newman, professor of sociology at Princeton and author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings….
Local Veterans Discuss War Tonight
Author Ray Elliott and five local war veterans discuss the perils of war tonight in a conversation ranging in topics from World War II and Korea to Vietnam and the…
Get Your Freakonomics On Tonight
Riddle me this – which is more deadly, a gun or a swimming pool? Ask economic scholar Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dunbar, co-authors of Freakonomics: A Rogue…
Book Review: God Save The Fan
…gladiators who will take their place. It’s our national bloodsport.” While that may be a little overdone for effect, there’s definitely an authoritarian streak to the NFL that you don’t…
Local Group’s “Good Girl” Image Plagued by Abuse, Ritual Hazing
A local all-girl a capella group is under investigation by authorities today as a video has been leaked to the media containing horrific scenes of abuse and violence. The group…