Academics or other people familiar with university organization, Who at the university of Illinois should we be calling

[mahina]

Trigger warning, there is a image here that though illustrated is extremely upsetting

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10498450#post3

A club of Student Republicans have put out a very well-made, graphic image of Alex Pretti being murdered in a call to kill. I think this group should have their charter revoked or whatever their process is. Could someone here please share how one would do that? I think we should help with this.

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Gregory Pratt
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University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/university-news/student-organizations/2026/02/01/illini-republicans-ice-minnesota/

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illin
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
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11:40 PM · Feb 1, 2026

Thank you

[mahina]

1. Maybe a letter writing campaign with ccs to the school paper

And town paper if there is one. This is incitement to murder people excercising their rights protected by the very same constitution these folks were just braying about.

[Beringia]

2. University of Illinois has a media account

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: @UofIllinois

[woodsprite]

3. If it were me, I'd start by

Writing to the Judicial Office (sometimes called Student Conduct), with copies or additional letters to the President, the Board of Directors, Faculty Senate, and the Provost’s Office. If you can get the faculty on board, that is a powerful block within the system.

You could also copy the local news, campus newspaper, the governor’s office - most schools get state funding and come up for budget review yearly, so it’s worth making sure they know. Find out the department that runs the student campus organizations - usually Student Life (or a center under that) and make sure they know.

That’s hate speech and shouldn’t be tolerated or funded by state monies.

If you just start with one dept, they’ll string you along quietly until they think you’re appeased and sweep it under the rug.

Good luck! If you can get neighbors or businesses to sign onto the complaint, all the better!

[MyMission]

4. Contact alumni and administrators

A letter writing and or phone campaign could have an impact. You'd need to gather contact information for a number of people in the administration (then they will discuss it at meetings at least.)

I've worked at several universities, including a large one that had 10+ schools, I think UI has 14. Generally the schools are autonomous, each with their own dean and assistant dean. Depending on the school they may handle their own admissions, for graduate or professional degrees.

Key people to contact:
President of University
Provost of University
Dean of students
Director of admissions
Dean of each school
Assistant Dean of each school
Director of financial aid
College paper
Alumni association

About alumni, I did a search of notable alumni, and while a number of them are deceased there are many on this list who might add their voices and have influence. I googled and copied a few names below, but you can do your own search. Some might be worth writing to....
Good luck with this project!!

Media, Arts & Literature
Roger Ebert: Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.
*Dave Eggers: Author and publisher.
Bernard Shaw: Former CNN chief anchor.
Michael Gross: Actor (Family Ties).

Business & Technology
Jack Welch: Former Chairman/CEO of General Electric.
Marc Andreessen: Co-creator of Mosaic (first web browser) and Netscape.
Jawed Karim: Co-founder of YouTube.
Max Levchin: Co-founder of PayPal.
Fazlur Khan: Structural engineer who designed the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) and John Hancock Center.

Science & Academia
Rosalyn Yalow: Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
John Bardeen: Nobel laureate (invented the transistor).
Nick Holonyak: Inventor of the LED.

[PikaBlue]

5. The Board of Trustees

They would be the governing body for the University. You can Google their names.

[Happy Hoosier]

6. The Dean Of Students.

https://odos.illinois.edu/

[mike_c]

7. Dean of Students, I would think

There will likely be a coordinator of Greek organizations on campus, but they're probably within DoS's purview.