Chief Illiniwek forced into retirement

The University of Illinois has been stripped of its mascot by overzealous politically correct activits and university academics, because he's an Indian. This is a perfect example of why I take just about anything said by someone with PhD after their name with a grain of salt. You spend that much time in a sterile academic environment and something has to atrophe...like your brain. Florida State University faces the same issue, despite the fact that the Seminole Nation is proud of their representation by the university, and has officially stated as much many times. There's nothing racist about it. Some people just need to look for a reason to be insulted, or a reason why some group they know of should feel insulted. It's a bunch of bull hockey. It's getting to the point where it would not shock me to hear that the President of PETA went to Chicago and said, "You know, bears are having a real problem with the name of your football team, and their depiction as fierce flesh eating animals that kill without discrimination."

Personally, if some school wants to use the lumberyard as a mascot, and had a slightly overweight but thinning, and not bald but thinning, incredibly handsome grad student go out to center court or midfield, depending on the sport, and hit a golf ball badly at the beginning of each game, I'd be honored.