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UPDATE: UI professor challenges initial accounts about filming in restroom

UPDATE, 8:15 p.m.:

URBANA — University of Illinois Professor Jay Rosenstein is challenging the initial accounts of his arrest at State Farm Center earlier this week.

Rosenstein, a professor of media and cinema studies, said he wanted to respond to "certain rumors and innuendo" about Monday night's incident, in which he was accused of following members of a pro-Chief Illiniwek group into a bathroom and videotaping them. He was arrested by UI police for unauthorized videotaping but was released from the county jail the next morning after the state's attorney's office declined to charge him with a crime.