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...would be a powerful statement for those teams, and the University of Illinois, to stop living in the past. Inexplicably, prejudice against Native Americans still abounds in ways that our society has condemned in the abstract. Long overdue is the realization that Native Americans are not America’s peculiar toy to jerk around—they are a people as distinctive as any. It may not correct the massive injustices dealt to Native Americans in the past, but the death of Chief Illiniwek will at least afford them basic respect...
According to a statement from USADA, the leniency of the penalty—half the normal punishment for similar offenses—was due to “the unusual circumstances in [Scherf’s] case...
...Scherf now acknowledges that her decision to refuse the doping control test was not excused by these circumstances,” the statement continues, “but at the time...she believed she was justified in doing...
...assessed the smallest penalty that USADA’s rules allowed (half the normal two-year suspension) because USADA found that I had ‘no significant fault or negligence’ in this matter,” Scherf wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “There was never any dispute of the facts in this matter. Only the appropriate penalty was in question...
...University has not released any statement about the suspension. Track and field coach Jason Saretsky also declined to comment...