June 25, 2004

U. of Illinois Punts on Chief, Again

By JEFFREY SELINGO

For the third time since November, the Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois system has punted on whether to retire the Urbana-Champaign campus's controversial mascot, Chief Illiniwek.

Instead of voting on whether to keep or retire the chief at a meeting last week, the board approved a resolution calling for a "consensus conclusion" to the issue that has divided the campus for 15 years. The resolution said the debate over the chief should be resolved in a way that is

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