CHICAGO – University of Illinois Trustee Lawrence Eppley said he never had a conversation with Chancellor Richard Herman about finding jobs for law school graduates in exchange for admitting a law applicant pushed "straight from the G," referring to ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Herman had testified before the Illinois Admissions Review Commission that the two did discuss that option, which was outlined in a series of well-publicized 2006 emails.
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