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Harry Reid calls on leaders to reconsider UNLV mascot, nickname
Fox 5 Vegas ^ | 06/24/2015 | Kerry Kinsey

Posted on 06/24/2015 10:02:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) - Speaking to reporters in Washington Tuesday, Sen. Harry Reid called on Nevada higher education officials to consider changing the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' mascot and sports nickname.

The statements came after a shooting in South Carolina that claimed nine lives sparked debate about displays of the Confederacy.

On the campus of UNLV Tuesday, it was difficult to find anyone who believes the mascot, Hey Reb!, should be changed.

“What happened over there is a tragedy of course, but what's happening here on campus is what's happening on campus. Go Rebels,” student Billy Watts said.

“I don't think their mascot has anything to do with the tragedy that's going on in South Carolina or anything like that. People are taking this stuff to a new level it doesn't need to go to,” student Amanda Spang said.

Tony Allen, with UNLV's Office of Media Relations, on Tuesday issued the following statement:

“UNLV's current mascot, Hey Reb!, was created in 1982 by late local artist Mike Miller and was inspired by western trailblazers of the 1800s. It was intended to be reflective of western independence and spirit and has become one of the most beloved mascots in college athletics."

(Excerpt) Read more at fox5vegas.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: harryreid; mascot; newsyesterday; unlv
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1 posted on 06/24/2015 10:02:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They want it changed to Cooperators With Tyrants. That’s the ticket.


2 posted on 06/24/2015 10:03:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The students there have bigger stones than many on FR.


3 posted on 06/24/2015 10:04:04 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: SeekAndFind

Change it to the Fighting Mohammeds. Attendance at school events would skyrocket, just to see the mascot.


4 posted on 06/24/2015 10:05:02 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SeekAndFind; Old Sarge

There is no Logic.

There is only The Revolution.


5 posted on 06/24/2015 10:07:00 AM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think we should ban Dixie Cups, Dixieland, and Dixie Jazz. Maybe even Southern Fried Chicken.

Why the hell are we allowing these fruitcakes to do this?? Phones should be ringing off the hook in Washington and State capitals and e-mails should be suffocating their in-boxes.


6 posted on 06/24/2015 10:08:41 AM PDT by ZULU (Boehner and McConnell are Obama's Strumpets.)
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To: ZULU

This liberal singing group should change its name


7 posted on 06/24/2015 10:10:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I think we should ban Dixie Cups, Dixieland, and Dixie Jazz. Maybe even Southern Fried Chicken.

Why the hell are we allowing these fruitcakes to do this?? Phones should be ringing off the hook in Washington and State capitals and e-mails should be suffocating their in-boxes.

I am dismayed to see so many "conservatives" jumping on this bandwagon. What a bunch of poltroons.

8 posted on 06/24/2015 10:12:59 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

How about this one, Harry?

9 posted on 06/24/2015 10:14:45 AM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: SeekAndFind

ha ha.

what a bunch of pansies.

all of them.

I think Nevada ought to re-consider Harry Reid as a Senator.

Remove his name from your list of Senators, since he really wasn’t one—just a fascist hack who pretended to be one.


10 posted on 06/24/2015 10:18:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SeekAndFind

Reid also wants to rename McCarran Field, the Las Vegas airport. Its namesake, Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) chaired the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee which unmasked a number of Soviet agents during the Truman years, and that accomplishment has landed him in the doghouse in these politically correct times.


11 posted on 06/24/2015 10:19:25 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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“Attendance at school events would skyrocket, just to see the mascot.”

The new cheerleaders could be “The Bitches in Burquas!” Can’t you just picture their “moves.”


12 posted on 06/24/2015 10:19:37 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind

Wasn’t Harry Reid punched out by someone resembling the UNLV rebel mascot?


13 posted on 06/24/2015 10:20:15 AM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: SeekAndFind
Considering the Republican Party's newfound contempt for the culture of the South and their eager courting of the latino demographic, I think that UNLV can follow the GOP lead and combine the two to come up with a suitable replacement.

I suggest this:

It's the Coat of Arms of Mexico. UNLV can call themselves "the fighting eagles" or maybe the "snake eaters". They would be on the cutting edge of the new culture that is replacing the evil old American one. ¡Órale!

14 posted on 06/24/2015 10:20:36 AM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“I think Nevada ought to re-consider Harry Reid as a Senator.”

And maybe we could have his brother put out his other eye!


15 posted on 06/24/2015 10:21:02 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind
Speaking to reporters in Washington Tuesday, Sen. Harry Reid called on Nevada higher education officials to consider changing the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' mascot and sports nickname.


Harry Reid once again presents himself as the unrivaled master of the inconsequential and unimportant.
16 posted on 06/24/2015 10:21:15 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: SeekAndFind

The left never misses an opportunity.


17 posted on 06/24/2015 10:24:17 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Suddenly it is obvious to me what is going on.

They are using the racial issue as a means to conceal the history of dissent and standing up for principle against the Federal government. The opposition to “rebel” imagery has nothing at all to do with race, except among the useful idiots who don’t understand the agenda.


18 posted on 06/24/2015 10:27:54 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, and maybe they, UNR, and others will also remove Reid’s name from their buildings. I was on the UNR campus the other day and saw he has had them paste his name up on some buildings.


19 posted on 06/24/2015 10:28:02 AM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: SeekAndFind

The news media used a single act by a single individual to take away our freedom of speech. If people don’t see now that the media is the enemy and the problem I don’t know when they will


20 posted on 06/24/2015 10:30:52 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obamatrade is really Obama changing immigration laws to import billions of people from 3rd world)
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