They view a return to the old name as a step back to an era of American Indian stereotypes such as one-time Marquette mascot “Willie Wampum.” Rev. Robert Wild, president of the Jesuit Catholic ...

Marquette adopted a "Willie Wampum" mascot before eliminating that in 1971, considering the mascot offensive. In its place, MU added a "First Warrior" in the early 1980s, portrayed by an ...

Scott, vice president for student affairs, says Willie Wampum should be retired and the designation of “Warriors” be retained. Nov. 7, 1978 Marquette Tribune says Committee on Student Life OKs ...

Marquette/Collegiate Images/Getty Images The ... represented by a Gilbert-and-Sullivan Indian named, grotesquely, Willie Wampum. This became increasingly embarrassing and controversial as the ...

Denning said he felt Raymonds' first couple of suggestions were too close to Willie Wampum, a cartoonish mascot deemed offensive by Marquette and retired in 1971, including an image with a feather ...

Marquette had been known as the Warriors since 1954. The school's former mascot, an American Indian named Willie Wampum, was nixed in 1971 over concerns that it was offensive. But the new name ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Capping a nearly yearlong debate, Marquette University declined ... In 1971, the school dropped a cartoon figure called Willie Wampum as a mascot, who according to Forest County ...

Wade, who led Marquette to the 2003 Final Four ... in part because of the name's connection to the cartoonish Willie Wampum mascot of the 1960s, the board decided to put the issue into the ...