Students and protesters sat circled around a professor on Memorial Mall, sitting on tarps and blankets and surrounded by tents blowing violently in the wind. Behind them was a structure
The Sunday before the quiet period began didn’t quite get the memo; seniors took their graduation photos, students tossed frisbees on Memorial Mall and the Boilermaker Special rolled past the
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Earlier Tuesday evening, fans crowded the Purdue Airport to show their support to the Purdue men s basketball team as they traveled back from Phoenix.
DETROIT – Zach Edey unfolded a brown blanket across his legs in the first aisle seat on the right, and Lance Jones carefully tucked the Midwest Regional trophy into the seat beside him. The flight attendant congratulated Purdue on its 72-66 victory over Tennessee in the Elite Eight. The plane taxied, took off and, 52 minutes later, landed in the middle of catharsis.Purdue on Saturday will play NC State in its first Final Four since 1980, and a program so long tethered to its failings finally has a reason to celebrate. And so they came, students leaving Harry’s Chocolate Shop, where the chocolate is merely a descriptor and the bar is the heart of the matter, and grown-ups packing up their kids as if going to a parade. They jammed the tiny airport parking lot in West Lafayette, Ind., to capacity, forcing late arrivals to ditch their cars on the grass and police to come to create some order.By the time the Boilermakers touched down, fans stood 10 deep on either side of the road, from