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By Associated Press
Mar 14, 2007, 07:48
The
The
school will continue to call its sports teams the Fighting Illini under the
resolution. Chancellor Richard Herman is to decide how and when Chief
Illiniwek’s name and image will stop being used and licensed to apparel
makers and others.
Activists
and some American Indians have long complained the chief is demeaning. Backers
defend him as an honorable tradition.
The
school decided in February to end performances of the chief, leading the NCAA
to lift sanctions that had barred
Trustee
David Dorris offered the only dissent Tuesday among the 10 voting members.
“When
you look at Chief Illiniwek and you see hate, shamefulness and embarrassment,
perhaps you should sit down and consider where those feelings come from,”
he said before the vote.
Board
chairman Lawrence Eppley voted for the resolution, but said he agreed with
Dorris’ assessment that the chief had been a proud tradition for many
years.
“Certainly
my vote is not intended to dishonor anybody’s memories, or to deny the fact
that it’s been a great tradition,” Eppley said.
The
board Tuesday also took the unusual step of ratifying the February decision.
The earlier decision came without a vote from the board, which Eppley has said
wasn’t needed. Nonetheless, board spokesman Thomas Hardy said voting now
could blunt any legal action claiming there should have been a vote.
A state
lawmaker asked the Attorney General’s office whether making the decision
without a vote was legal.
Board
members also voted down Dorris’ resolution that would have directed the
university to join a lawsuit filed by the last two students to portray the
chief. The suit asks a judge to determine whether the NCAA could sanction
Board
member Robert Sperling told Dorris his resolution would only postpone the
inevitable.
“The
time has come,” he said. “(The chief) bothered a whole lot of
people for a long time.”
Graduate
student Genevieve Tenoso, a Lakota Sioux, told the board before the vote that
by not doing away with the chief sooner, they helped create an atmosphere in
which she sometimes didn’t feel safe.
“I
haven’t had one single day on this campus when something didn’t
remind me of the Indian you prefer me to be rather than the living, breathing
native person that I am,” she said.
--Associated
Press
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