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Student Government President Bill Anderson races SIUE Chancellor David Werner during a relay race to promote Welcome Week at SIUE. The event featured Werner and Anderson competing against each other in the race carrying an egg on a spoon, riding a kid's bicycle with training wheels and shooting a basket. Anderson won the relay.

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