Hispanic UI students' families get a taste of life on campus

CHAMPAIGN – It's early Sunday morning, but Bertha Gonzalez has been up since the wee hours, getting ready to visit her sister, Yesenia, a University of Illinois freshman. Gonzalez began her trek from Chicago to Champaign around 6 a.m. and, not surprisingly, didn't find much traffic coming south.

What she found in Champaign, though, was a different kind of traffic jam.

About 350 Latino students from the University of Illinois and their extended families clustered into a gym at the UI Activities and Recreation Center on Sunday to take part in the sixth annual Latina/Latino Family Visit Day, a day of tours, talks and familial bonding for Hispanic students new to the UI.

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