Arkansas State University to Pick New Mascot

http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=bdb39ce7-3abe-4d9c-9a97-e099a6fbe005 ^ | July 27, 2007 | Adrienne Phillips

[Turret Gunner A20]

I like it!!! I like it!!!

[3RDDAN]

They should do what the Lumbee tribe in NC did, tell the ncaa to mind their own buisness

[Covenantor]

Well yeah, but how about making it sound like an Indian name, say.......... The BOHICANS

[Joe 6-pack]

Anywhere else it would have been called the “Teeth Brush”.

[RetiredArmy]

They sound like the cut and run RINOs to me. How about: the Arkansas State Spineless Republicans?

[Don Corleone]

How ‘bout “Wusses”?

[wolfcreek]

They need to hurry. They have a date with my Texas Longhorns in about a month.

[no dems]

How about the Arkansas State Rebels?

[Slings and Arrows]

The Arkansas State University s.

[Lancey Howard]

How about the “Plucked Chickens” (or, the “PCs” for short)?

[Lady Jag]

How about Losers.

[38special]

Will the Florida State Seminoles be next? How about Utah?

[SC Swamp Fox]

"Niggardly Caucasians"

Ding, ding, ding....I think we have a winner.

[mathurine]

Or virgins?

[SC Swamp Fox]

They should do what the Lumbee tribe in NC did, tell the ncaa to mind their own business

Pembroke State University received a waiver from the NCAA because the school’s original charter was to provide an education to the Lumbee tribe. A majority of the students claim Lumbee ancestry.

They didn't tell the NCAA anything, they asked for a waiver, and since their PC credentials were intact, they received it.

[Eagle Eye]

No.

[ConservativeStatement]

That question has come up in the past. This article helps to explains it:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2005-08-23-fsu-mascot-approved_x.htm

The NCAA granted a waiver in the first challenge to a new policy, removing FSU from a list of colleges whose sports teams, it said, use "hostile or abusive" Native American names and imagery. "The staff review committee noted the unique relationship between the university and the Seminole Tribe of Florida as a significant factor," NCAA senior vice president Bernard Franklin said in a statement released Tuesday. "The decision of a namesake sovereign tribe, regarding when and how its name and imagery can be used, must be respected even when others may not agree."

[3RDDAN]

I stand corrected, thanks