To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "William D. Engelbrecht" <Dialogue@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: Dialogue@uillinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Invitation to Dialogue

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff,

	As you may know, the Board of Trustees reaffirmed its commitment to 
dialogue on the Chief Illiniwek issue at its January meeting.  We have 
devised a process that will allow us to hear from a wide range of opinion 
and then to respond in an organized way.

	We are inviting all who are interested in this issue to write to 
Dialogue on Chief Illiniwek at P.O. Box 5052, Champaign, Illinois 61825 or 
to Dialogue@uillinois.edu.  Please do so by May 31.  We will also hold a 
Special Intake Session on campus April 14.  Further details on that session 
will be announced soon.  Information about the dialogue on Chief Illiniwek 
may be found on the Web at www.uiuc.edu/dialogue.

	The University will retain a senior legal professional to compile all 
the communications received, including a transcript of the Special Intake 
Session as well as the letters and e-mails.  The senior legal professional 
will prepare a three-part report consisting of an executive summary, a 
distillation of these arguments into particular points to which the Board 
will reply, and an appendix consisting of the transcript of the Special 
Intake Session and the e-mail and letters received by May 31.  All members 
of the Board of Trustees will receive this report on August 1, and it will 
be available to the press and general public.

	The Board will reply to the issues raised by this process at a Special 
Response Session in the fall.

	I know that Chief Illiniwek is an issue that touches many of you very 
deeply, as it touches me.  I invite you to participate in this dialogue.

	With warm regards.

	Yours truly,

	William D. Engelbrecht
	Chairman of the Board of Trustees

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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