The results of Campus Spirit Revival’s new symbol contest will not be released until a challenge the group Stop Campus Spirit Revival filed in University moot court is addressed, student senators said Sunday. The complaint was originally filed Jan. 17, said Josh Good, group administrator and graduate student.

In 2011, the Illinois Student Senate passed a binding resolution supporting the efforts of Campus Spirit Revival, then known as Students for a New Mascot.

Good claimed that resolution was inconsistent with a 2008 referendum the senate posed to the student body.

That referendum asked if students thought the Chief should be reinstated, and students voted 7,718 to 2,052 in favor of the discontinued mascot.

Good said he feels the senate did not have a basis for them to release the survey when they had not first asked students whether they wanted a new mascot in the first place.

“All resolutions are binding on the student senate until they are repealed,” Maskeri said.

Good is also denying the validity of the survey, which required voters to choose two options among the many choices of mascots. Good says having to choose two options was illogical.

“‘No change’ had no chance of winning,” he said. “I think that it’s going to be a complete misrepresentation of what the students feel about this.”

He said the group had originally told members not to vote, but with a change to the survey midway through the voting process that added a “no change” option, he had to rush to encourage a “no change” and “Other” vote.

Stop Campus Spirit Revival started a petition Friday, and as of Sunday night, Good said they had collected 2,300 of the 2,800 signatures needed.

“Campus Spirit Revival has constantly said they are the silent majority of students and have had no proof of that claim that they’re making, and I would like to show that they indeed don’t have the popular support of the students,” he said.

Good is confident that students will again vote in support of Chief Illiniwek. He said he hopes the student senate will drop its official backing of the Campus Spirit Revival group and defer to the results of the 2008 referendum.

Maskeri said he thinks the court will make a decision this week.

“The current decision of the student senate is to hold off on releasing that (contest result) information until moot court either throws out the case, or issues a hold on the information, or overturns the resolution,” Maskeri said.

Thomas Ferrarell, who operates Campus Spirit Revival, declined to comment on the subject.