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December 18, 2009, 05:21 PM ET
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Seeking to Preserve Fighting Sioux Mascot
A North Dakota judge today dismissed a lawsuit that had sought to prevent the State Board of Higher Education from dropping the University of North Dakota's controversial Fighting Sioux mascot, the Grand Forks Herald reported. The state board had planned to retire the mascot as part of an agreement with the NCAA, which considers the mascot and related imagery to be offensive to American Indians. The NCAA said the university could keep the mascot if two Sioux tribes in North Dakota agreed to support it, but when only one of the two tribes voted to preserve the Fighting Sioux, advocates of the mascot sued to block the board from acting. In today's ruling, Judge Michael G. Sturdevant, who had earlier delayed board action, affirmed that the board had the authority to change the mascot, but lamented that the board had not tried harder to keep it. His ruling can be appealed to the state's Supreme Court.
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1. 11182967 - January 04, 2010 at 03:50 pm
And how about Bobby Bowden's 'Noles! What I've always wondered is how a US President explains the name of the capital city's football team to international diginitaries--roughly the equivalent of naming a team the Moscow Chechyans or the Pretoria Zulus or (had the Nazia won) the Berlin Poles.
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