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From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 10, 1999:

...Among those in the crowd milling around on the plaza were the 12 law and journalism students from the UW, whose stated mission is to track the case and explain it to their fellow students back in Madison.

Although they already were familiar with the constitutional and factual issues, Charlotte Daugherty, 26, a third-year law student, said she thought the justices were trying to focus on the gray areas in the case. She said she sympathized with Ullman, who she said had to field difficult questions.

"I'm glad I wasn't up there," said [Daily Cardinal managing editor] Colleen Jungbluth, 21, a journalism and political science senior. "It's incredible the extremes the justices went to and how they bounced around up there."

The students are familiar enough with the case to have formed opinions of their own. Daugherty, for example, said she sided with the UW. But Sarah Maguire, 20, a journalism junior, said she was trying to stay objective and had no idea which way the Supreme Court might rule.

Mike Hsu, 19, a journalism sophomore, said he believed the justices would finesse the situation and come down somewhere in between.

"I think, constitutionally, Southworth has the better case," he said. "But I think the Supreme Court's remedy will be to give the regents leeway to protect the mission to preserve an open forum of discussion." ...

From USA Today, Nov. 10, 1999:

... "A lot of student leaders are feeling this is out of their hands, but they ... tend to prepare for the worst," says Colleen Jungbluth, managing editor of the Daily Cardinal, one of two campus student newspapers...