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Say Knight, Gracie: More sports mascot dingbattery by Daniel Clark Ten years ago, the NCAA intensified its campaign to stamp out all non-white college mascots in the name of diversity. It was only a matter of time before the other end of this politically correct pincer movement was put into action, by students protesting that those human mascots that remain are too offensively white. Emmet Brennan, identified by the Rutgers student newspaper as a “student assembly parliamentarian” (the word “assemblyman” being verboten, of course), observed one day that the Scarlet Knight mascot has blue eyes and pale skin. Naturally, he...