A New Suit Over the North Dakota Fighting Sioux
11th August 2011
NCAA bans use of skraeling names. (Can’t be insensitive, you know, not that it’s any of the NCAA’s business.)
North Dakota university sues NCAA. (Butt out. None of your business. We’re proud of our Fighting Sioux.)
University settles with NCAA; name to be discontinued. (Academics cave under charges of raaaaaaaacism, as usual.)
North Dakota passes law ordering that the name be kept. (Nyaa, nyaa.)
A quartet of skraeling students, under the wing of a law firm famous for greenmail class-actions against corporations, sue the university, the governor, the legislature (and probably George W. Bush, for all I know). (Sue! Sue! It’s what Americans do!)
So your guess is as good as mine — except that I can’t help but think that everybody involved has better things to do rather than sue about the Sioux.
August 11th, 2011 at 14:49
The Eastern Michigan Hurons changed their name to the Eagles due to a unilateral decision by the president and trustees, even though the then-chief of the Huron-Wyandotte tribe actually traveled to Ypsilanti to say, “No! We LIKE that the team carries the Huron name!”
PC in its ugliest form–even though the nation’s Capitol’s team still wears the name of “Redskins” and every attempt to have them change it has been stonewalled.
Will the madness never cease?