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  • What? Me Graduate? Perpetual UW-Whitewater Student Says No

    05/10/2006 11:56:47 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 66 replies · 1,513+ views
    JSOnline via AP ^ | May 10, 2006 | Staff Writer from AP
    WHITEWATER, WI (AP) -- His 12 years as an undergraduate have made Johnny Lechner a celebrity of sorts, so why not go for 13? Lechner was expected to graduate at last from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater this spring, but instead he withdrew his application for graduation five days before commencement. "I realized that if I went one more year, I could study abroad," Lechner said. "That's one thing I haven't done." Lechner has had his story told in newspapers and network television shows, not to mention campus publications across the nation that have picked up stories from UW-Whitewater's student newspaper,...