Colleges facing heat for mascots.
Last August, the NCAA NCAA
abbr.
National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of Native American mascots by college teams during post-season tournaments. The University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to: - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (flagship campus)
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- University of Illinois system
It can also refer to: and Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. are just two of many universities that have shamefully continued using offensive caricatures of Native Americans as team mascots. Native American activists say that by not banning the mascots outright, the NCAA did not go far enough. But it is a step in the right direction.
Anmol Chaddha is a social justice activist in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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