NCAA: Chief Illiniwek is "hostile and abusive to Native Americans"

George Will is sometimes good for a chuckle

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/04/AR2006010401590.html

"In 1972 the University of Massachusetts at Amherst replaced the nickname Redmen with Minutemen. White men carrying guns? If some advanced thinkers are made miserable by this, will the NCAA's censors offer relief?

Scottsdale Community College in Arizona was wise to adopt the nickname "Fighting Artichokes." There is no grievance group representing the lacerated feelings of artichokes. Yet."

 

"In 1967 and 1982, representatives of the Sioux, who had not yet discovered that they were supposed to feel abused, came to the Urbana-Champaign campus to augment the outfits Chief Illiniwek wears at football and basketball games."

Awesome!!!

The NCAA sux, they are just looking for ways to make themselves feel important.