SOMETHING OF A CLOWN SHOW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: “Faculty members held a rally at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to back the Obama presidential campaign Thursday to show that they will not follow guidelines issued by the university that bar them from rallies or wearing political buttons on campus, the Chicago Tribune reported. The university says it isn’t enforcing the guidelines, which it says are required by state law. And one state official told the Tribune that the law limits political activity by students, too — a view not even the university endorses. Professors say that the guidelines unreasonably limit their freedom of expression.”