USATODAY.com - NCAA denies UND's appeal over Fighting Sioux nickname, logo: "North Dakota President Charles Kupchella had raised the threat of legal action in an August open letter to the NCAA. The school argued in its appeal that the nickname and logo 'are used with the utmost respect and class and are in no way inherently hostile or abusive,'"
Translation: UND tells Indian peoples that they are not actually offended and should not be offended. Jedi mind trick doesn't actually work.
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(this comment has nothing to do with your post...sorry! I just have to ask, is that an Australian Cattle Dog???? It's adorable. I have an AC/Border Collie)
He is part Australian Cattle Dog and part Fox Terrier (we think). A little too smart for his own good (has his own blog, after all) but truly a great dog. My other dog, btw, is part Border and part Whippet.
Yes, Steak is an amazing critter. Now moving on to the issue at hand . . .
Note that the Sioux tribes in North Dakota oppose the use of UND's nickname. The fact that Kupchella continues to say such nonsense despite the fact that those so 'honored' by his fine university's wonderful moniker find it disrespectful and offensive is itself highly offensive.
I hope that his inability to understand this point, as well as his inability to understand why it is different than the Utah Utes and FSU Seminoles, is simply a political ploy to appear disingenuous. In the cases where the NCAA has granted waivers, at least one group of the people depicted, as articulated by their tribal government, have expressed support for the university's use of the name and all that goes with it.
Which implication is more alarming:
that the chosen leader of an institution of higher education might really and truly be so unable to think critically; or
that he is really and truly so paternalistic, racist, or otherwise unwilling to consider the views of those ostensibly honored by this institutional practice?
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