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RetireTheChief
The following is the transcript of a Foellinger balcony narrative from April 14, 2000. It is an unedited excerpt from the original Chief dialogue document.
MS. APRIL PIERCE: I am not necessarily pro-Chief or anti-Chief although I have been to events for both of them and I am friends with the Chief and the assistant Chief and all that. But I kind of have a compromise, like an answer to the debate. The pro-Chief side says that the symbol is dignified and it's an honor and all that, but then the anti-Chief side is saying that having a white college student dress as an Indian is degrading.So, keep the symbol but lose the Chief. So the University would still be called the Fighting Illini and have the symbol, but by getting rid of the half-time performance and the costume, then the anti-Chief people, that would go ahead and get rid of everything they are saying about the degrading and the stereotype. And then everyone would be happy. And that's all I have to say.
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