November 16, 2007
Utahans Are Divided Over a Different 'Dixie'
Local outcry over a proposed name change could derail a plan to merge Dixie State College into the University of Utah.
The University of Utah's Board of Trustees has told Dixie State that it must change its name to the University of Utah at St. George for the merger to proceed.
"'Dixie' has connotations of the Old South, the Confederacy, and racism," the board's chairman, Randy L. Dryer, said in a statement e-mailed to The Chronicle. "That is something the University of Utah,
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