April 2004: Protest & Sit-in at U.I. Administration Building

The anti-"Chief" coalition occupied the U.I. Swanlund Administration Building on campus on April 15-16, 2004. The sit-in was in protest of the Board of Trustees' decision to cancel a meeting scheduled for 4/15, at which a Chief vote was to be held, and to draw attention to proposed new rules making it difficult for a single trustee to put an issue on the Board agenda.

The protesters left the building on the second day after an agreement was reached to allow anti-Chief representatives to meet with Illinois legislators, and after hearing that trustee Francis Carroll would put a vote on the Chief on the June, 2004 meeting agenda.

Movies from the protest appear below. "sml", "med", "big" refer to progressively larger and higher-quality quicktime (QT) movies; large AVI movies are also available. (The quicktime movie player is free for Windows and Macintosh).

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Not all movies are yet available in all sizes - they are still being moved online.

The first day QT: sml, med, big / AVI	Divided campus QT: sml, med, big / AVI	"It's time to end" QT: sml, med, big / AVI
"I want him off campus" QT: sml, med, big / AVI	"Minorities join together" QT: sml, med, big / AVI	"Have to do it this way?" QT: sml, med, big / AVI
"We will fight until we win" QT: sml, med, big / AVI	"Appropriation of a culture" QT: sml, med, big / AVI	"Ashamed and embarrassed" QT: sml, med, big / AVI
"Stop and confront racism" QT: sml, med, big / AVI	"It's just not good manners" QT: sml, med, big / AVI	Indianface QT: sml, med, big / AVI