<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Karen,<div>I'd say we're given three gifts. The ability to love, the ability to ask questions, and the ability to say "Nyah nyah!"</div><div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 10/14/10, Karen Medina <i><kmedina67@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail">It was about trademark, but I was wrong: the U does retain the trademark.<br>Basically the U of I will sue the Honor the Chief Society group if<br>they continue to use Chief Illiniwek.<br>Interesting. Very interesting.<br><br>From the News-Gazette:<br><br>Legal costs halt plans for Chief's 'Next Dance'<br><br>By Paul Wood<br>Created 10/14/2010 - 3:52pm<br>Thu, 10/14/2010 - 3:52pm |<br><br>CHAMPAIGN – A Chief Illiniwek performance planned for homecoming<br>weekend has been postponed indefinitely
after the University of<br>Illinois threatened legal sanction.<br><br>Roger Huddleston of Mahomet, the co-founder of the Honor the Chief<br>Society, said his group doesn't have the money to wage a legal battle<br>with the UI over the Chief Illiniwek trademark.<br><br>Just last week, Huddleston said "The Next Dance" would go on despite<br>the cease-and-desist letter.<br><br>"It's a darn shame," Huddleston said Thursday. "I feel particularly<br>bad for the young people. I can't jeopardize them. And we just don't<br>have the money to fight this. We're not conceding that the<br>cease-and-desist order is valid, but we have to look at it."<br><br>He said the Students for Child Illiniwek, which was to be the sponsor<br>of the Chief's dance performance at the Assembly Hall, could be<br>affected because the Honor the Chief Society is a financial backer.<br><br>Urbana campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler had little reaction to the news.<br><br>"It's really the student
group's decision. As long as they meet the<br>criteria to use a university facility, and I believe they have, they<br>can go on," she said.<br><br>Samantha Uher, a UI junior and president of Students for Chief<br>Illiniwek, told The News-Gazette on Thursday afternoon: "I'm still in<br>shock."<br><br>"We've been looking forward to it; they're just taking another step.<br>Last year they tried to take us down administratively, this year with<br>legal power, and we just don't have the means to fight it," Uher<br>added.<br><br>Uher said there was a chance the dance could be held at a later date.<br><br>The Oct. 1 letter from Chicago lawyer Andrew L. Goldstein, demands<br>that the Honor the Chief Society:<br><br>"Withdraw trademark application Serial No. 77/136902; remove the<br>reference to the Chief Illiniwek name in connection with the posters<br>and pin offered on the society's web site; cease and desist from sale<br>of the pin bearing the Illini
trademark; and remove the references on<br>the society's web site to performances or appearances by Chief<br>Illiniwek and cease and desist from any similar statements."<br><br>The letter also asks the society to "provide us with written<br>assurances that the society will not use, and will cease any use of,<br>the Chief Illiniwek name or other trademarks of the University of<br>Illinois on its web site."<br><br>"Even though we've got a permit from them for the dance, we can't<br>afford the risk," Huddleston said.<br><br>The third annual "Next Dance" was scheduled for UI homecoming weekend,<br>Oct. 23, starting at 6 p.m. at the Assembly Hall, following the Illini<br>football game against Indiana.<br><br>Ivan Dozier of Ivesdale, a UI sophomore, was to perform the Chief's<br>dance, after winning an auditions held last spring by Students for<br>Chief Illiniwek.<br><br>--<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>karen medina<br><~~~~~~~~~~~~~><br>"In this
universe, we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and<br>the ability to ask questions." (Mary Oliver, American poet)<br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table><br>