University of Ill. virtual campus flounders

An $8.9 million online campus launched by the University of Illinois nine months ago has had disappointing enrollment and fewer course offerings than expected, but the man who created it isn't giving up.

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In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.

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An international group of scientists has decoded the DNA of the domestic pig, research that may one day prove useful in finding new treatments for both pigs and people.

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Researchers have a new clue to the collapse of honey bee colonies across the country - damage to the bees' internal "factories" that produce proteins.

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Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government, South Korea's main government spy agency said on Wednesday.

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The last captured member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical group notorious for bank robberies, killings and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, was released from prison Sunday.

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Prostitution persists on Craigslist even as attorneys general pressure the online classified service to stamp it out, experts say. Those efforts are intensifying after the killing of a Boston masseuse.

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Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. More Articles

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Security researchers said they have discovered software capable of stealing information installed on computers in 103 countries, an apparently coordinated cyber-attack that targeted the office of the Dalai Lama and government agencies around the world. More Articles

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It's been quite a turnaround for Bill Ayers.

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Good news has been in short supply since Hurricane Ike laid waste to much of this island beach town six months ago Friday.

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When it comes to the hippocampus, a brain structure vital to certain types of memory, size matters. Numerous studies have shown that bigger is usually better.

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Opinions and thoughts of the future of Affirmative Action from Senator Obama's flagship state institution: The University of Illinois.

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While the article is quite hazy, faculty members were told that they could not do or display anything political on campus. In other words, they can't wear buttons, have cars with bumper stickers with a political message on campus, or take part in political rally.

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The University of Illinois said Friday it is releasing records of Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization linked to former 1960s radical William Ayers.

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The University of Illinois says it can't release records relating to Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit group linked to former 1960s radical activist William Ayers.

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The University of Illinois issued a statement in the wake of Thursday's heated game against Indiana.

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Months after the University of Illinois decided to retire its mascot, the image of a buckskin-clad American Indian was allowed to return to an event this weekend.

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Months after the University of Illinois decided to retire the mascot officially, banning him from university activities, the image of Chief Illiniwek, a buckskin-clad American Indian, was allowed to return to an event during homecoming celebrations this weekend on the Urbana-Cham …

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The University of Illinois will allow homecoming parade floats to display Chief Illiniwek images, reversing an earlier decision to bar any likeness of the banned mascot from the event.

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When did I become old?

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News Article in the Daily Illini about the University of Illinois fencing club team, which just started competing in the Midwest Fencing Conference (conference of big time varsity teams Ohio State and Notre Dame) this year.

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WASHINGTON -- Oct. 10, 1942, was up to then the best day of my life. I had talked my father, University of Illinois class of '22, into taking me at age 11 along with him to homecoming weekend.

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ILL-INI, will it ever feel the same?

I've been a student at the University of Illinois since 2004 and have yet to attend a football or basketball game. I know, you must be thinking I'm crazy. I can honestly admit - and somewhat shamefully - that I'm not passionate about school pride.

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Jamar Smith wrecked his car earlier this week, sending both him and fellow Illini player Brian Carlwell to the hospital with concussions. Now, it is announced Smith will miss the remainder of the season.

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