Posted on 10/26/2007 10:18:29 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The state Board of Higher Education settled a lawsuit with the NCAA over the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname, giving the school three years to get tribal approval to keep it.
The board voted unanimously Friday to approve the settlement after a closed-door briefing from Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem. If the school does not get approval from the Spirit Lake Sioux and Standing Rock Sioux tribes by Nov. 30, 2010, it will have to change to a new name and logo.
"The settlement confirms that the Sioux people and no one else should decide whether and how their name should be used,'' Bernard Franklin, an NCAA senior vice president, said in a statement.
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If the nickname is changed, UND would have to remove most of its Indian imagery on its Grand Forks campus. It could keep historical items and items embedded in the architecture, under the agreement.
Officials have estimated UND's Ralph Engelstad Arena has at least 3,000 Fighting Sioux logos, including a 10-foot sketch of an Indian head embedded in the granite floor.
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Well, he was ready then, before he passed. But I’d have to think that “architecture” caveat would be so the hockey team wouldn’t lose its building.
it certainly is.
he knew the future and wasnt going to make it easy on ‘em
How about renaming them to the Fighting Hsu.
I say they just get rid of it now....and take up the “FIGHTING WHITIES” nick-name.
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