"NCAA upholds Fighting Sioux as abusive nickname" (North Dakota)
- As seen in todays USA Today
Apparently appeals we're granted to Florida State, Utah & Central Michigan.
PETA has now asked that the Unirsity of South Carolina "Game Cocks" change their name as it promotes animal cruelty.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish however got a pass.......
What's next.........PC taken to far here?
Dorothy,
I have talked to two guys who are "really close" to two girls on the team. If I understand it right, it has lots of meanings. It is very inappropriate regardless of the true meaning. also, they aer assigned things to bring to Friday night smoothie parties. I'm not sure but I think some could determine that since the girls are assigned to bring things and have to attend, it is a violation of IHSA rules.
Sorry, but I'm stuck back on the Slugs. Now I wish that I had made my university choice based solely on its mascot.
They have slug apparel - hats, shirts, even slippers.
Go to http://slugstore.ucsc.edu/, click on "Apparel".
I have a friend whose high school teams were the "Kewpies". As in Kewpie Dolls. I cracked up when he told me that and he gave me an odd look, like it had never occurred to him that it was a strange mascot.
We know that they were not name for a condom. I think that USC started in the early part of the 20th century and so the Trojans were those of anicent Troy. That's why they have a guy dressed in armor and a helmet with a horse.
Well, it looks like Rhode Island School of Design still has a hockey team called the "Nads" -- but now they apparently have a basketball team called the "Balls". It makes me wonder what name they would use if they started a women's volleyball team...
See attached pic.
Originally posted by dorothyrde
Except all the swim teams have "mandantory parties", this is not just UHS. Same thing goes on at the other schools too. It is called team bonding. I think IHSA has a lot more on their hands besides girls being required to go to parties. Considering they were just sued by the private schools for weighting the enrollment for private schools in the playoff system.
The Catholic school in the Quad Cities has a very unfair advantage against the other schools because it can draw from the entire Rock Island county. It detroys all of the other teams in its conference and then bloats about it. Galesburg is the smallest school in the Western Big 6. We used to be the biggest. WE play them in basketball & football. Their enrollment is smaller than ours yet they have larger teams. Their recruitment policy is outrageously discriminitory. They don't compete fairly so why should they be treated fairly.
Originally posted by Swimmer Bill
Well, it looks like Rhode Island School of Design still has a hockey team called the "Nads" -- but now they apparently have a basketball team called the "Balls". It makes me wonder what name they would use if they started a women's volleyball team...
I don't know what RISD's nickname should be, but I think David Byrne wearing "the big suit" would make a great mascot!
