Posted on 05/05/2005 9:36:11 AM PDT by GSWarrior
Guess I'll have to change my screenname now that 'Warrior' has been deemed offensive.
Not many people can claim witness to one of the breathlessly stupid decisions in history.
I like the "Marquette Whiners"
Maybe he should try Orange.
IMO, the name "warriors" is good as Gold.
Good Grief!
What was wrong with Golden Eagles? Too patriotic? I don't understand.
Like the Syracuse Orangemen becoming the Orange...I guess to be like the Stanford Cardinal.
I'm waiting for the Harvard Puce or Nebraska Teal...I guess with a duck as a mascot, eh?
It was the PC choice to replace Warriors
I went to high school in Pekin, Illinois. We were the Pekin Chinks until the year after I graduated in 1979.
That's the comment of the day.
Seriesly, like their abandonment of "Warriors" in 1993 (when the administration started taking control of the nickname away from the students) before that movement started taking off, they want to be on the vanguard of political correctness. After all, PETA isn't all that happy with animals as nicknames or mascots.
They surely could have come up with a name more fitting to Marquette. My husband is a graduate and I went with him to his class reunion last year. Wasn't too bad but I couldn't talk politics with his classmates since they were still liberal.
my names are
Marquette Trotskies
Marquette Multiple Voters
Marquette Red Diapers
Marquette CINOs
And how much money have they spent on this decision? Maybe their nickname should be Fool's Gold.
;^)
The Marquette Warrior (a faculty member at Marquette)
The Triumvirate (a trio of Marquette students
The Office of Homeland Security (another MU student)
Badger Blog Alliance (a bunch of Cheddar Brains with blogs in a central "clearinghouse").
WTMJ-AM's Charlie Sykes (nothing in his blog yet, but a great tribute to the "Gold").
Maybe the Rainbow Social Workers would work for them.
Don't forget the UC Irvine Anteaters. Incidentally, ZOT is the sound an anteater makes when it sucks up an ant.
"Marquette French Friars"
Because:
--it honors the French missionary who "discovered" the area.
--it is politically correct.
--it lets everyone know that the former "Warrior" cage team have been about as exciting as french fries ever since Al McGuire departed.
Well, at least in Johnny Hart's cartoon strip...(g!)
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