i am a St John’s alum....went through college on a track scholarship....when i was there we were the St John’s Redman and our mascot was an indian in full headress; great track team, good Div II football team and an even better basketball team (final four in 1985, Big East battles w/Patrick Ewing and Georgetown)...
they became politically correct after i left and changed their name to the Red Storm around 1990; since then the once vaunted basketball team has been garbage and the mens track program and football team were dropped due to the discriminatory practice of title 9...
Samething happened at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wi. They were the Warriors. Mascot was a characterized indian known as Willie Wampum.
Then some squaw got her undies in a knot and willie was replaced with the “first warrior” a kid in a indian costume like you’d see at any cheap tourist roadside indian store.
But that wasn’t enough for the undie knotted squaws. So soon the team became the “gold” and then shortly thereafter (because teh powers that be FINALLY figured out that calling a team a color was pretty lame) they became the flapping turkeys (or golden eagles or some other such thing that has no connection to university history at all).
I’ve not followed them nor supported them since. Whenever I get fundraising calls I always ask when they are changing the name back to “Warriors”. They give me some mealy mouthed excuse and I tell them to call back when the university returns to being the proud place it once was.