What? Me graduate? Perpetual UW-Whitewater student says no | Chicago Tribune 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, The Royal Purple. By this spring he had completed 234 college credits, or about 100 more than needed to graduate, and was taking seven more. That qualified him for the so-called “slacker tax,” instituted this school year by the UW Board of Regents to help cover the state subsidy for students who stay long past the usual four of five…