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Newsman Kevorkian dies at 82
Harry Kevorkian, a longtime prominent newsman at WNDU and WSBT and a former educator at the University of Notre Dame, died Sunday.
Kevorkian, a Granger resident, was 82.
Kevorkian worked at WNDU for 25 years as a newscaster, assignment editor, news...Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, CBS Corp., University of Notre Dame, Colleges and Universities
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Ted Land
Ted Land joined the WSBT news team in August, 2012. He came to Michiana from Alaska where he worked as a reporter at KTUU, an NBC station owned by Schurz Communications Inc., the parent company of WSBT. During his four years in America’s “...
Tags: CLTV, NBC (tv network), Twitter, Inc., Sarah Palin
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Donovan McNabb was a vision of greatness, former Irish assistant realized
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND — What did Kevin Rogers see in Donovan McNabb 18 years ago that the rest of college football missed? Rogers, a former Notre Dame assistant (1999-2001), was the offensive coordinator at Syracuse in 1993 when McNabb was a senior at Mount...Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Athletes, Orange Bowl, Nebraska Cornhuskers, John Elway
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Gerard Pawlicki, 1921-2013
Gerard Pawlicki was just out of DePaul University when he joined Enrico Fermi, Walter Zinn, George Weil and other seasoned scientists as they lifted their paper cups filled with Chianti wine, celebrating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Argonne National Laboratory, Colleges and Universities, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Science and Industry
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Chance the Rapper leaves little to chance
Chance the Rapper is going to make sure he gets this right: rap music, a pop-star ascent from Chicago, a record deal, that whole fame thing — and on his own terms. Chance, whose full name is Chancelor Bennett, has been drawing increasingly large...
Tags: Kanye West, Harold Washington Library Center, Humboldt Park, Music Industry, Community (tv program)
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Mom whose son died in hazing: 'Don't dismiss it'
Tribune reporterThe mother of a Florida college student killed in a hazing ritual urged the audience at a Maine Township anti-hazing forum never to forget incidents of hazing and bullying in their community. “The moment you forget is the moment it reoccurs,&...Tags: Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Hazing, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School
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People are corporations, my friend
So Illinois is in such dire financial shape that it must violate the contractual retirement agreements with teachers and other state workers. I've taught at the University of Illinois since 1979 and am one of those who would be cheated by the bills... -
Program helps students raise ACT scores, stay in college
Thirty graduating seniors from low income families in the north suburbs will enter college this fall, thanks to College Bound Opportunities, which guides the students toward higher ACT scores. It also works with them during college to keep them from...
Tags: Elmhurst College, Students, Colleges and Universities, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Lake Forest College
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Cerna 'Chickie' Alter, 1939-2013
Cerna "Chickie" Alter was not a brilliant artist, but she knew great art when she saw it, friends said. Mrs. Alter studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then in the 1960s started a corporate art consulting business with a fellow art-...
Tags: Mexico, Art Institute of Chicago, Ovarian Cancer
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Leslie Zemeckis sashays into the history of burlesque
During the shabby final days of the last of the burlesque houses that once dotted State Street near Congress Parkway, three of us — in possession of a few bucks and self-confidence fueled by fake IDs — entered the Follies Theater and saw a...
Tags: Festive Events, Roseland, Reviews, Book, Entertainment
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Nganje joins NDSU as chair of Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department
William Nganje has joined the North Dakota State University Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics as department chair and professor. Before joining NDSU, Nganje was an associate professor of agribusiness finance at Arizona State University'...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Agriculture, Newspaper and Magazine, Arizona State University, Science and Technology
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Madigan says universities, community colleges willing to share pension costs
— House Speaker Michael Madigan on Thursday announced that he has struck a preliminary deal with the state's universities and community colleges that will require them to slowly pick up the cost of teacher pensions over several years even as tuition...
Tags: Pat Quinn, John J Cullerton, Economy, Business and Finance, Northbrook, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois)
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