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University Of Illinois Students Respond To No Snow Day With Racism, Sexism On Twitter

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jan 27, 2014 4:10PM

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Phyllis Wise

While elementary, high school and college students across Chicago are enjoying a day off because of the severe weather, not everyone is following suit. Downstate at the University of Illinois, Chancellor Phyllis Wise announced that classes would be in session Monday.

This, naturally, didn't go over well with much of the student body.

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So we turned to Storify to gather some of the whirlwind reaped by Wise's announcement. Let's just say class is in session at UIUC; decorum is a completely different matter.