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Dan, I saw that article, but it didn't say that a decision has been reached. So I got the most recent one I could find. Interesting background, tho. Thanks for posting the link.
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Here's another article that does say Illinois and Florida State are on the list of "hostile and abusive" mascots.
http://cbs.sportsline.com/general/story/8706749
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BTW - when is the NFL going to wisen up and change the name of the Washington team? That's the most offensive name in pro sports.
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That doesn't sound too bad at all imo. I think maybe I'd like to be one of them when I grow up- "a hostile and abusive mascot". |
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It's About Time!
Bravo to the NCAA! Why did it take so long?
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The problem I have with this ruling is every school is not equal. Florida State got their nickname after an actual tribe that not only gave their blessing, but they encouraged a lot of the chants and other things that are used in football games as an example. Illinois uses a mascot with no connection to a tribe or any real Native American culture. There is a big difference between the Seminoles and a team called the Indians or Redskins.
Just an opinion. Peace
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Let me just state for the record that I do not like the University of Utah. However, I think it is patently absurd and effusively self-righteous for the NCAA to attempt to ban the Utes' mascot. The school has the blessing of the Ute tribe to use their name, and by all accounts they, the tribe, consider it something of an honor to be represented by such a successful university.
This is just one more shining example of the supposedly enlightened thinking of the self-appointed elite intellectual class seeping from academia and the fringes of society into the mainstream via some respectable but misguided benefactor. It is unsurprising that it's the governing body of college sports. This is just the latest example of the intellectual fallout from allowing our institutions of higher learning to be overrun by successive generations of liberal intellectuals far more concerned with instructing America's youth about what to think rather than how to think. After all, we can't be trusted to think for ourselves, we might come to the wrong conclusions.
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