The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is $250,000 in debt to its printer, the Champaign News-Gazette, and taking new measures to stay afloat.
On Monday, the Daily Illini submitted a petition with 4,000 student signatures asking for student fees — $3 per student per semester — to help fund the paper, publisher Lil Levant said.
