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In one of the more bizarre acts of spine the NCAA has forced the University of Illinois to stop forever using its mascot, Chief Illinawek. Is the NCAA aware that the state is named for a tribe of Indians, that the three largest rivers in the state, Ohio, Illinois, and Mississippi are named for native Americans? Is the NCAA aware that the largest city in Illinois, Chicago, is the Indian word for “Place of the Skunk” (according to one of my former professors at the University of Chicago). Yet because some native American spokesman says that the mascot of 80 years is harming the Indian image, the Fighting Illini may fight, but not as Illini.

Hey, NCAA, how about those Satan worshipers the Blue Devils of Duke. Canst thou not excommunicate the Dookies for extolling as their mascot the Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, Pluto and and whole lot of other appellations for the king of Sheol. Talk about going to hell in a handbasket. No one does it more often that Duke. Duke was bought and paid for by a merchant of death, Liggett and Meyers Tobacco. Duke produced America’s most corrupt President in slick Dick Nixon. Why doesn’t the NCAA force Duke to have a mascot with a better image, like St. Augustine or St. Mary Madeleine or even John Calvin. But no, the NCAA, in an outrageous burst of ineradicable duplicity says SIN is great, but celebrating native American Culture must be stopped. This action by the NCAA is however, consistent with its plethora of oxymorons such as “scholar athelete” or “academic all-american”.