He was looking forward to returning home and attending Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville this fall, his father said.

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Scott, by contrast, entered the NFL in 2002 as an undrafted free agent linebacker out of unheralded Southern Illinois University.

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Bittermann earned a bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University, which in 1989 named him the Southern Illinois University's Journalism Alumnus of the Year.

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He went to Southern Illinois University on a football scholarship.

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Perlman hired Edwin Hippo of Southern Illinois University, who'd studied catalytic coal-to-gas methods, while Mandell mounted a nationwide search for Nicholas Nahas, who'd developed crucial technologies while at Exxon in the 1970s.

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Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

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That's the conclusion of an ever-gushing hydrant of research from academics, psychologists, economists and social scientists from places like the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Virginia.

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