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Frank Abderholden's avatar

I loved Jimmy Carter. I also went Circle Campus, also known as the literal concrete Jungle. I got paid to edit pages before they entered into the press by independent student newspaper whose name escapes me right now. Loved this piece.

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Irv Leavitt's avatar

The Chicago Illini. I wrote there.

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Frank Abderholden's avatar

Wasn't that one down south? This was an independent student newspaper, no faculty involved that I knew of and it was profitable.

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Irv Leavitt's avatar

The one in Urbana is the Daily Illini. The independent Circle one was the Chicago Illini, I think then on Van Buren near Halsted.

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Frank Abderholden's avatar

I wrote an opinion piece blasting the Iranian clerics for urging students to overrun the embassy and take hostages. At the time I did not realize that one of the biggest populations of Iranians was at Circle. I was not nice in my piece, but remember the times. I love reading your columns and I'm so glad you made it through some tough medical issues. Have a great New Year!

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Linda Lipp's avatar

What a beautiful story.

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Cynthia Wolf's avatar

This makes me smile at a time when smiles, in relation to politics at least, are all too scarce. Thanks for sharing, Irv.

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