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McGilvrey Kidnap

From 1941: Former ¹ú²úÂ×Àí President – KIDNAPPED!

In 1941, a writing exercise for high school journalists visiting ¹ú²úÂ×Àí was centered around a fictional kidnapping of the university's first president, John E. McGilvrey. In a pre-internet version of a "home page takeover," the stories ran on the front page of the ¹ú²úÂ×Àír - without including information revealing that they were not real!

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