Despite vote, UND plans unchanged

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"BISMARCK, N.D. -- State senators voted Friday to force the University of North Dakota to keep its Fighting Sioux nickname, but the school's president said he would take his orders from the Board of Higher Education instead.

The Senate's 28-15 vote, following last month's overwhelming approval in the House, sets up a confrontation with the NCAA and the state education board, which asserts that it has the final say on whether the nickname stays or goes.

A spokesman said Gov. Jack Dalrymple would sign the bill requiring the nickname to stay in place.

The legislation says UND and the board may not "take any action to discontinue the use of the Fighting Sioux nickname or the Fighting Sioux logo" and says the law overrides previous decisions to do so. The logo depicts the profile of an American Indian warrior. The NCAA considers both the name and logo offensive.

If UND keeps them, the association says the school will be ineligible to host postseason tournaments, and its athletes may not wear the nickname and logo on their uniforms in postseason games. School officials worry the dispute will complicate the school's plans to join the NCAA's Division I Big Sky Conference next year."


http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=6207439
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In my opinion this very good news! Applause to the University for upholding the agreement and dropping the name. The National Congress of American Indians has a standing resolution which asks for all Universities to drop a Tribal name/logo or get the OK of the direct tribe you are attempting to represent. If no Tribe exists (b/c they were exterminated) you are SOL.

For those who don't like this, I ask how would you like it if UNC was the became the Honkey? Or better yet what if a Tribal College (like Dineh College) were the Stupid White Men or Fighting Crackers. Dominate culture may think this is trivial but to the 563 federally recognized Tribes this is about cultural identity.

[joeybee12]

1. Talk about an overreach by the state government...

and teabaggers want limited government, my ass.

[dakota_democrat]

2. $600M budget surplus? Let's burn it on litigation because we want to be racist!

I fucking hate ND. Once I complete my Master's, I'm looking for a new job that gets me out of this shithole.

Burn cash on this, slash an already limited higher ed budget to pieces. FUCK!