UND SIOUX NICKNAME: 2 jersey-clad UND grads offer support in Indy
August 12, 2011 at 6:59 am in Grand Forks Herald
Two hours before North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple and a state delegation were to arrive for their meeting today with NCAA leaders over the Fighting Sioux nickname dispute, Dan Kahl and Lucy Klym took up posts outside the NCAA headquarters building here. Continue Reading
Nice effort, losers.
Hope you caught your plane back home, which was the important thing.
As for the lawsuit…I am glad these students have the wherewithal to file lawsuits, wonder what the cost was…and who paid for it?
Let me settle the lawsuit right now, as it appears from the NCAA’s own vaunted study, the students should be filing lawsuits against the NCAA.
The NCAA has stated that they referenced a study by distinguished university professors when they came up with their directive to eliminate Native American imagery.
The title of the study is “Of Warrior Chiefs and Indian Princesses: The Psychological Consequences of American Indian Mascots.” The authors and their universities are as follows: Stephanie A. Fryberg (University of Arizona), Hazel Rose Markus (Stanford University) Daphna Oyserman (The University of Michigan) Joseph M. Stone (Stanford University).
After much study and debate the authors conclude: “The only way to reduce the negative impact of these constraining American Indian mascot representations is to EITHER eliminate them OR (emphasis added) to create, distribute, and institutionalize a broader array of social representations of American Indians.”
The authors go on to say:“The LATTER option would communicate to both natives and non-natives that, beyond the historically constituted roles as Indian princesses and warrior chiefs, there exist other viable and desirable ways to be American Indian in contemporary mainstream society.”
The latter (as opposed to the first option, which was to ELIMINATE the imagery) the latter option is the one the authors of the study advocate. But the NCAA disregards this option; and now it appears the Governor and the University of North Dakota will disregard the advice of these learned scholars also.
It is just EASIER that way. ( and they have a plane to catch)
The representatives at the meeting with the NCAA may or may not have pointed out the fact that the University of North Dakota has already made great strides in implementing the author’s plan to confront this dilemma, either way, they won’t be doing it anymore.
Why bother?.
The NCAA states that this study is the reason for their directive. The State of North Dakota and the University of North Dakota has in the past gone the extra mile to address this issue.
Going well beyond what the NCAA has ever done.
Now? Why bother?
Native Americans would have benefited, the students at UND would have benefited, in fact, society as a whole would have benefited from the creation, distribution, and institutionalization of a broader array of social representations of American Indians.
But, well, the losers had a plane to catch.
Ridding campuses of Native American imagery may be one way to address this problem…it is not, however, what was advocated by the authors.
The Governor, Schneider, and Kelley, and the NCAA are all on the same team now, and they are AGAINST the Native Americans and the University of North Dakota.
I just hope the Englestads have the courage to CHAIN THE DOORS.
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