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Our demonstration will begin 10:30 am, as close to Foellinger as we can get. Meeting at the South door of the Student Union, facing the Quad, at about 9:40am.
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal;font-weight:bold" class="">944 students win lottery to see Obama</span></div>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_7" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">22,000 signed up for chance at Huff Hall seat for speech</span></div>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_5" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">By JULIE WURTH <a target="_blank" href="mailto:jwurth@news-gazette.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">jwurth@news-gazette.com</a></span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">URBANA — Almost 950 students at the University of Illinois won the Obama lottery Tuesday night.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">UI officials notified 944 students, including 756 at the Urbana campus, that they had been selected to attend Friday’s speech by former President Barack Obama, who will visit the UI
to receive an ethicsin- government award. Another 141 are from the UI Chicago, and 47 are from the UI Springfield.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">A viewing party has also been scheduled at Huff Hall for Friday morning’s speech, with room for about 4,000 students.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">More than 22,000 students at the Urbana campus alone had thrown in their names for a coveted seat at Foellinger Auditorium, which normally has a capacity of about 1,300.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">UI spokeswoman Robin Kaler said some seats have to be removed to accommodate television cameras, and the bulk of the remaining seats will go to members of the media. Others are reserved
for administrators from each campus and dignitaries, she said.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Students were notified about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Kaler said tickets were given out to a randomized list of students who had entered the lottery, the same way that lotteries for concerts and other popular events are handled.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Obama is being honored</span><span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award from</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1 gmail-split" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">the UI’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs, a university- system-level unit. He will be honored at a private ceremony following his 11 a.m. speech at Foellinger.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">The former president opted to come to the Urbana campus to receive the award, rather than Chicago or Washington, D.C., where he now lives. A spokeswoman said last week he liked the
idea of going downstate to meet with students and to illustrate the need for Democrats to reach out to all kinds of voters, not just those in major urban areas.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Some students who were not selected in the lottery expressed their disappointment on Reddit and Twitter.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">“Finding out President Obama is coming to campus only to not win a ticket is the ultimate emotional roller coaster,” wrote Connor Durm.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">The UI ticket notice, posted by one user on Reddit, urged those who did not receive tickets to tune in to the livestream of the broadcast at <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">go.illinois.edu/live</a> or
attend the viewing party at Huff Hall Gymnasium, 1206 S. Fourth St., C.</span></p>
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<span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal">Doors to Huff will open at 9 a.m. Space is limited, and there will be no admittance after 10:30 a.m., according to the notice. Students also must show a university ID to get in and
won’t be able to bring backpacks, bags, signs, megaphones, food, drinks or umbrellas inside, or “any other items that university police determine pose a risk to safety or a</span><span class="gmail-Fid_1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:normal"> disruption
of the event.”</span></p>
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