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The goose outside Chick Evans Fieldhouse, named "Boris" chases a student away from his nesting area.

Fieldhouse goose’s response to pedestrians is more fight than flight

By Kyla Gardner | April 18, 2011

DeKALB | “The bus was late, I overslept, my printer broke:” all cliche excuses college students use for tardiness. But Travis Dillavou has a novel reason: goose attack. “I was heading to my C++ class, and I was trying to get by [the goose by the...