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AROUND ACADEME

Lawsuit pending over mascot
Mascot Chief Illiniwek offends Native Americans and violates Illinois’s 2003 Civil Rights Act, according to a lawsuit filed by the Illinois Native American Bar Association against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The suit marks yet another battle in the war over whether the mascot should stay or go. The conflict has gone on for 15 years, since a Native American student was offended by a 1989 performance by the chief. Another U. of Illinois student and a resident of Champaign, Ill., are also plaintiffs in the current lawsuit.

Students protest grant change
Tens of thousands of students in Montreal blocked streets and marched through the city in protest of the provincial government’s decision to convert many student grants into loans that would have to be repaid.

An estimated 200,000 students participated by either marching in the streets or boycotting classes, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The government of Quebec hoped to save about $85 million by converting the funds.
—Susan Myers Smith
 
 


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