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A district judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop the NCAA from banning the University of North Dakota from hosting a postseason game because of its "Fighting Sioux" nickname, state Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said. Stenehjem said judge Lawrence Jahnke alerted him to the decision Saturday night. Stenehjem did not know the details. UND is among a handful of schools with American Indian nicknames and logos that the NCAA considers hostile and abusive. Those schools are barred from holding postseason tournaments, or from using their nicknames during road playoff games. Stenehjem, in asking for the injunction, said the ban...

ABILENE, Texas -- "Go team go!" is how McMurry University fans will be cheering from now on. After the NCAA rejected McMurry's appeals to keep its Indian mascot, the board of trustees at the private, 1,400-student university dropped the name -- and then decided to forgo a nickname altogether. "Going to a mascot that has four legs and fur just didn't fit who we are," McMurry President John Russell told The Associated Press on Monday. "To take another mascot would be to turn our back on our 83-year history. We know who we are."

FARGO, N.D. -- State officials filed a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA to challenge its restrictions on the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said the lawsuit, filed in Northeast Central District Court in Grand Forks, alleges a breach of contract by the NCAA, a breach of good faith and illegal restraint of trade. Stenehjem said the lawsuit seeks to allow the University of North Dakota to use the nickname throughout the school year without being sanctioned in possible postseason play, along with unspecified money damages. The NCAA has banned the use of some American...

Newberry College president Dr. Mitchell Zais on Wednesday said the NCAA’s decision to bar the school from hosting postseason events and bear its Native American nickname on uniforms was “unjust, coercive and perhaps illegal.” The school can participate in postseason events as long as its nickname, the Indian face or the arrowhead spear are not displayed in any form. “We are disappointed in this unjust, coercive and perhaps illegal ruling from the NCAA,” Zais said as a part of the school’s formal response to the NCAA’s ruling. “We are sorry that the NCAA feels that Newberry is unfit to host...

This site lists all the nick names Dubya has for people. Some are very funny. He calls Barney Fank "Sabertooth" & and Maureen Dows is "The Cobra". http://www.nndb.com/group/750/000091477/

An Open Letter to the NCAA: The quiet serenity of our beautiful campus was disturbed early August 5 by news reports that the NCAA had decided to address the Indian nickname issue. The early reports were unclear; the words mascot, nickname, and logo were used interchangeably, and the loaded words “abusive” and “hostile” were invoked without definition and without any real clear idea as to how they were being applied. We don’t have a mascot, and our logo was designed by a very well-respected American Indian artist. We couldn’t imagine that these reports would apply to us. Later, we saw...

Today’s Ithaca Journal editorial page is a good primer on what passes for “free speech” in what claims to be “the most enlightened city in America.”First, there are letters to the editor about recent liberal calls to censor both Rush Limbaugh and "the Wizard of Id" from the city’s airwaves and newspapers.Then there is the paper’s own editorial, which calls for the end to “inane, insulting and infuriating” Native American nicknames for sports teams.In support of their call for censoring these team names, the paper trotted out the usual litany of alleged sins committed by the United States against Indians....

Star Trek geekdom is spiraling out of control in Scotland where four towns are warring over the birthplace of the fictional Enterprise engineer, Scotty. The row erupted after the recent death of actor James Doohan (don't tell the Scots, but he was Canadian) who portrayed Montgomery Scott in the U.S. TV cult classic. Aberdeen, Linlithgow, Elgin and Edinburgh all claim to be Scotty's birthplace -- regardless of the fact Scotty's true birthplace was the head of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, the Edinburgh Scotsman reported. Nonetheless, city officials and Trekkies in all four towns have proof backing up their claims...

"A good name," wrote Cervantes, "is better than riches." Mamdouh El-Hakem would agree. After spending years fighting a former employer who thought his name wasn't good enough, El-Hakem was vindicated by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week with a modest amount of money -- and an opinion that reaffirms the value of his name. In a ruling that bolsters plaintiff arguments that discrimination can take many forms, the 9th Circuit said that Gregg Young, the CEO of BJY Inc. should not have insisted on calling El-Hakem "Manny." Or, for that matter, "Hank." "Young intended to discriminate against...

MIAMI -- The Seminole Tribe of Florida said it still backs Florida State University's use of the Seminoles nickname, just a week before the NCAA meets on the appropriateness of American Indian nicknames. At its regular Friday meeting, the Tribal Council voted unanimously on a resolution in support of Florida State's nickname, the first time the Tribe has taken an official public step to show support for the Tallahassee school's mascot. "The resolution is a formal document that puts into black and white the sentiment of the Tribe, because we feel that it is an honor and a reflection of...

Does anyone have a list of Presidemt Bush's Pet/Nick-Names for the press and foreign leaders???

SACRAMENTO -- In addressing an issue that professional sports teams such as the Washington Redskins have faced and resisted in recent years, the California State Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would require the state's middle and high schools to drop "Redskins" as their mascots if the bill becomes law. The Assembly passed the bill 43-20 after a lengthy, passionate debate about Native American-related mascot names that are common throughout California and the nation. If passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the ban would begin in January 2006 and make California the first state to issue...

Having survived a Sunday of insufferable Sunday Morning Kiss-up Talk Shows and The Demented Hillary everywhere, I am weary. It was mentioned yesterday by many on many threads, that it is fair to say that our feelings for her cause many of us great discomfort and exhaustion. We have come to know that it can be quite unpleasant to harbor such negative feelings for anyone, and even can be withering, and outrightly consumptive of our health. So today, I was pondering a possible way to remove a little of that uncomfortable disdain for Hillary from our chests and from our...

There will be no Indians, no Braves and no Chiefs at Seattle's public schools after a King County Superior Court judge yesterday upheld a school district policy banning the use of tribal names for school monikers and mascots.Judge James Doerty dismissed an appeal of the policy adopted last July, which prohibits the use of American Indians or Alaskan Natives as school symbols and nicknames. Seattle Public Schools established the policy after the student-run Native American Club at West Seattle High objected to the Indian mascot and nickname used at the school for more than 80 years. The Indian mascot was...

....starting with ...THE STUPIDS ,...or STUPID IS , AND STUPID DOES , or PROTO - IRAQI- DUO ....

A display at UND's International Centre meant to decry the use of American Indian symbols as sports nicknames has produced a stir on campus. A university-sponsored student group, BRIDGES (Building Roads Into Diverse Groups Empowering Students), has hung up dozens of hockey and other sports jerseys with outrageous depictions and thought-provoking sayings, including such emblems as the “Vatican City Pope 'n Pedophiles,” “Cleveland Honkies,” and the “North American Stealers.”Other jerseys displayed have images of Col. George Armstrong Custer with the words “Wounded Knee Crusaders,” and an obvious hooded Ku Klux Klan member under the heading “Atlanta White Devils.”The mock team...

ON WEDNESDAY the State Board of Education voted unanimously to call on New Hampshire school districts to stop using American Indians as models for their sports team mascots. The board cannot order the districts to make this change, so its resolution stands as nothing more than a strong suggestion. It is a suggestion local school districts should ignore. Some American Indian mascots are patently offensive. “Redskins” is hardly a defensible moniker. The great majority of American Indian mascots, however, are emblems of which Americans of all ethnicities, especially American Indians, should be proud. The question most often forgotten in this...

After composing the latest song parody in which I identified Tommy Daschle as sitting in his high chair atop phone books, an idea came to me. It might be fund to adopt Indian.......er, Native American.........names for RAT politicians. Let's see your creativity. Here's the first entry for Tommy Daschle: Sits on Phone Books. One for Clinton: Dances with Porcelain.

<p>AUSTIN, MINN. -- An animal rights organization wants Austin High School to stop using the nickname ``Packers.''</p> <p>Austin is the home of Hormel Foods Corporation, maker of SPAM luncheon meat, Cure 81 ham and other products. Packers is short for meatpackers.</p>

As I have perused articles and posts here on FR over the last year or so I have been amazed at the numerous nicknames invented for our ex-(thank God)president Bill Clinton. I decided to collect these nicknames. Presented here your your viewing pleasure, The many nicknames of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton: Clintbilly Slickster Bubba der Sleickmeister ArkanBilly Slickbilly Teflon Billybubba Draft-dodger Sinkmeister Internbanger Rapist Grifter Slick Willie Klinkton Toon Slimebag Clintonazi Felon-in-Chief Billyboy Slick Billzo Stainmaker Willie Klinton Clintoon Goon-in-Chief Bildo Sink Emperor Caligula Xlinton bILL Chief Slimer Beelzebubba Himbo-Tramp Liar Hillbilly Liar-in-Chief Sick Willie Clintigula His Heinous SleazeBag Willard...