The Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), a union of graduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), has inadvertently drawn military veterans into a battle over controversial legislation in the state House that would unionize research assistants who help teach courses under the GEO’s umbrella.

A surge in property taxes is threatening the very existence of the fraternity/sorority system at the University of Illinois, the largest of its kind in the world.