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Some students upset words were added to Chief proposal

By Julie Wurth
Thursday February 28, 2008

Robert K. O'Daniell

Paul Schmitt puts up posters about the Chief Illiniwek resolution Wednesday afternoon in Lincoln Hall on the University of Illinois campus. Some students are upset because the University changed the resolution's wording.

URBANA – A year after his demise, Chief Illiniwek is stirring controversy – this time in a University of Illinois student election.

Some UI students cried foul this week over last-minute changes in the wording of a ballot question asking if voters want the Chief reinstated as the UI symbol.

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