UI students begin 'fantastic journey'

URBANA – "I'm ready to cry," said Pat Charnas, as her daughter Kate rose from her chair in the Illini Union and left to attend a meeting with advisers from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

"It's a little overwhelming," Charnas said, looking around the crowded ballroom. Kate is her oldest child, her first to attend college.

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