|
Comment on this article |
View comments |
Email this Article
|
|
News :: Civil & Human Rights : Education |
|
Zombie "Chief"? |
Current rating: 0 |
by in the news
(No verified email address) |
28 Apr 2006
|
|
It looks like the never really alive "Chief" has joined the jerkily active ranks of the undead. |
It looks like the never really alive "Chief" has joined the jerkily active ranks of the undead.
The NCAA has issued a final ruling, rejecting the University of Illinois' use of the "Chief". Without dropping the mascot, the UI will be banned from hosting NCAA championships. The athletic director, Ron Guenther, indicates that part of his department's mission statement is "to competeat the highest levels." Losing the opportunity to host these NCAA events is apparently something which is seen by him as impeding the University's ability "to competeat the highest levels."
Thus, many are speculating or outright declaring that the "Chief" is dead. Until someone drives the wooden stake through his undead heart -- or whatever it takes to keep a zombie down -- I'll still be afraid of encountering him creaking along in the streets.
But it will certainly be good to get this past us. It is open to question whether the Board of Trustees intends to take responsibility for the mascotizing of those driven off this fair land. |
This work is in the public domain |
|
Re: Zombie "Chief"? |
by arghh
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
28 Apr 2006
|
|
when you take all of your information from the evil news gazette, you should credit the evil news gazette |
|
??? |
by in the news
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
28 Apr 2006
|
I just read the UI press release and some email about this. If I'd waited for the N-G, I wouldn't have gotten much more, because that's what they basically did, adding nothing substantive to what Tate wrote the other day, which basically foretold today's press release. I'm more curious what others think about the finaility of this, as some think it is, than anything.
Can we safely say the "chief" is behind us and we can start fixing the damage he's caused to this university or do we still have to keep explaining to our colleagues in other institutions why certain parts of the UI's academic bureacracy are still firmly stuck in the 19th century?
I can just see the trustees come up with some slippery manuever to keep the mascot, instead of confronting this as they should have years ago. There is no compromise really possible here. They either do the right thing and send him packing or they keep on doing the wrong thing. |
