UI student trustee rouses rabble when necessary

As the college career of University of Illinois senior Paul Schmitt nears an end, so does his term on the university's board of trustees. The News-Gazette sat down recently to talk with the self-declared "rabble-rouser," former president of Students for Chief Illiniwek and ROTC member about his term on the board. In May, he expects to graduate and then head west to train as a space and missile officer with the Air Force.

News-Gazette: Do students on campus even know what a student trustee does or that the board of trustees exists?

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