Images and clothing featuring Chief Illiniwek, the former athletic mascot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were allowed being displayed at the university’s homecoming parade Oct. 26 after originally being banned by the university’s homecoming committee, The New York Times reported.

Wednesday, Oct. 31 A student having a seizure in Butler Pavilion was transported to Sibley Hospital. An intoxicated student in an Anderson Hall lounge was transported to Sibley Hospital. An intoxicated student vomiting on the shuttle bus refused medical treatment from the South side shuttle stop.

Towson University recently dropped a program designed to attract students with higher SAT scores but lower high school GPAs.

Towson officials did not give the exact reason for the cut, but said only 70 percent of students in the program stayed at Towson after the first year.

Although Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., currently has the lead in national polls, she would support any other Democratic candidate who wins the presidential nomination, said Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign.

“We have never had such a strong lead in the history of presidential campaign history,” McAuliffe said of Clinton’s lead in national polls.

Seven AU graduate students saw their work pay off Wednesday night with the screening of their documentaries made in lieu of a thesis.

Thirteen students enrolled in School of Communication professor Rick Rockwell’s summer class competed to make the best documentary about the Iraq war on the home front.

Professors 101 Pamela S. Nadell, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, College of Arts and Sciences AW: Where did you grow up? PN: I grew up in New Jersey. AW: What is your favorite way to relax after class? PN: I love to cook. AW: What do you like to cook? PN: Dinner for my family.

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced Thursday a new cab fare system that will lower the minimum rate from $6.50 to $4, a breakthrough in his plan to switch the District’s cabs from zones to meters by April 1.

The regulations will affect AU students who use taxis for late-night or quick transportation.

Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., introduced last Thursday new legislation that aims to significantly lower the cost of birth control on college campuses nationwide, including at AU.

“If we get those discounted birth control pills, that discounted pricing again, we will pass that [savings] on to students,” said Dan Bruey, director of the Student Health Center.

Students affected by the flooding on the north side of Letts Terrace should be able to move back into their rooms by Friday, according to Housing and Dining Executive Director Chris Moody.

A second backup occurred Monday, but no students were affected, according to Willy Souter, the director of Facilities Management.

Colombian artist Fernando Botero’s controversial art exhibition on the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison made its first full U.S. debut Tuesday at the AU Museum in the Katzen Arts Center.

Botero’s “Abu Ghraib” collection consists of 79 paintings and drawings, which depict Iraqi insurgents being tortured by U.

The launch of Hillary Clinton’s new youth-oriented campaign group, the Hillblazers, adds her to a rapidly growing list of presidential hopefuls who are putting new focus on winning the youth vote.

AU’s chapter of Students for Hillary Clinton, which is affiliated with Hillblazers, was launched in September and has seen a strong rise in membership and interest.

Student Health Center officials set up an information booth outside the Terrace Dining Room Tuesday in an effort to educate the AU community about staph infections and other communicable diseases days after its director revealed that a small increase of diagnosed cases of skin infections has occurred at AU.

Students at AU have changed their study habits since Housing and Dining renovated some study lounges in some of the residence halls into storage spaces.

There is an excess of furniture in the residence halls and a small number of places in which to store it, according to Prakash Karnani, assistant director of Operations: One Card and Facilities for Housing and Dining.

An English woman was shocked to learn last week that her only son was alive and in police custody a day after she sat through what she thought was his funeral and cremation, according to United Press International.

Gina Partington, 58, of Urmston, told BBC News that her son, Tommy Dennison, a mental health patient, and the dead man incorrectly identified as her son “could have been twins.

An Indonesian woman testified Monday she was forced to eat her vomit and was punished with hot water by a millionaire Long Island couple who hired her as a housekeeper, according to The Associated Press. 

Prosecutors argue the 51-year-old woman, identified as Samirah, and another Indonesian woman, Enung, were brought to the United States as housekeepers by Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, and his wife, Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 45, but were instead enslaved inside the couple’s mansion, the AP reported.