Undercover Reporter
In 1981, as the Solidarity labor movement was gaining traction in Poland, Sonya Zalubowski, MS ’78 MEDIA, took a leave of absence from the Associated Press and moved to Warsaw,
In 1981, as the Solidarity labor movement was gaining traction in Poland, Sonya Zalubowski, MS ’78 MEDIA, took a leave of absence from the Associated Press and moved to Warsaw,
A: Based on your graduation year, I bet you remember the 1964 Rose Bowl—a 17-7 victory over the University of Washington—where Illini fans “gathered in the end zones in the
As usual, Monica Eng, ’91 LAS, was really busy. She’d just finished watching The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Jones interview with Who guitarist Pete Townshend and was filing fixes for her
COMPUTER SCIENCE Computers will become even more ubiquitous We’re all terrible at predicting the future. For many years, there was a mathematically exponential increase in computing performance—we were increasing the
So special. So romantic. So U of I, how Javan G. Samp, ’15 ENG, and Melissa Raney Samp, ’15 ACES, together inscribed their names in the membership log of a
When charismatic Illinois football Head Coach Robert Zuppke talked, people listened. Perched on a platform in the Gym Annex, the diminutive Zuppke, his arms gesticulating wildly, pitched the idea of
It was the summer of 1963—pre-Beatlemania, pre-JFK assassination—and I was about to embark on the greatest journey of my life. On June 18, four of my Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity
To visit Robert Lane, ’95 LAS, go up one of the open stairways that rise from the atrium lobby of Southland College Prep Charter High School to the second-floor corridor
When WPGU first hit the airwaves in 1953, it featured an hour of news, an hour of classical and an hour of jazz. Over the next 70 years, its
On June 5, 1873, Illinois’ original graduating class (1872) met in the campus’ Mechanic and Military Hall, with one objective: to create an alumni association, “in order to foster a