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Chief Illiniwek: Our Very Own Golem

Posted to Your Humble Heretic by Ryan Neaveill on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 12:19 am

I wonder if Jack Davis, the University of Illinois graduate who created the Chief Illiniwek logo in 1980, feels like he created a golem? If you already know what a golem is, you can probably skip the next couple of paragraphs. But for those readers unfamiliar with the term, allow me to explain. First, a golem is not to be confused with Gollum, the character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (though there are certainly some parallels between the …

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