After 20 years, one American Indian-based logo makes a limited return for Eastern Michigan University
September 10, 2012 at 11:55 am in Grand Forks Herald
Eastern Michigan University’s marching band stepped onto the field Saturday during the school’s game against Illinois State, they wore their “Eagles” nickname on the back of their uniforms. Inside their uniform jackets, though, they wore another logo: an American Indian head with feathers, with the name “Hurons” stitched alongside. Continue Reading
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Nope.
This disgusting episode will never be forgotten by the alumni of UND.
That pathetic over paid Berkeley Bob and his buddies will feel the pain…through lack of alumni support.
And on another point:
“Through a spokesman, UND President Robert Kelley declined to comment on the Eastern Michigan situation and what it might say about the future at UND.
This overpaid ninny…he doesn’t have the courage to even make a statement….and he performs the act of cowadice..throug a “spokesman”….what a loser!
My guess is he needs to call his buddies at Berkeley, they will tell him what to say.
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Which might be the hope. But its not: The majority of us UND alumni agreed (most of us, reluctantly), with the ban. Donations have not been affected and doubt that they will be in the future. It would be selfish, petty and self-absorbing to “withhold donations”. The Alumni Association helps to make the University better. You know who THAT affects? Current and future students, that’s who.
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“How long will the bitterness last for those who defended it, and how long will efforts to revive it go on?”
FOREVER.
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no, just until all on both sides are dead.
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Glen is correct Always. You have an expiration date. This too will pass.
How many of the incoming freshman are picketing & signing petitions to get the name back? Let me help: none.
They a re standing in line hoping their number comes up in the lotto for tickets in the student section.
Circle of life. It goes on
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The Spirit Lake Sioux want the Fighting Sioux nickname.
The Sioux have lived in North Dakota for many generations and will live many,many more generations here.
The Spirit Lake Sioux and many more people among us will continue the effort to keep the nickname
for the coming years or generations.
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Are their any Hurons in Michigan to ask if they’re offended?
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Don’t know…are there any Irish to ask if they are offended?
Oh…that’s right, no one cares.
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“though the university still must determine how to use the name and logo periodically to preserve trademark rights.”
Just like the NCAA selling the “hostile and abusive” gear until the very end….such unblievable money grubbing dishonorable pathetic losers.
It makes you proud, doesn’t it?
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Can’t recall anyone ever saying that the NCAA was about anything but money.
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And the University of Screw the Sioux are right there with ‘em.
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Once I waded through all your insults I realized you do make a mediocre amount of sense. If you dropped your bs routine you would reach more people. Free advice. Take or leave it.
Why the inside of the uniform? To me that is an insult to the Huron people. What next? The bottom of sneakers?
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Not much of a revelation here. Seems to be very analagous to the UND situation:
Our stance has always been we didn’t see it as anything but an honor,” Billy Friend, chief of the Oklahoma-based Wyandotte Nation, told the Detroit News. The Wyandotte Nation is the only federally recognized band that once lived in Michigan and was known as Hurons.
“We never saw it as demeaning,” Friend said.
I’ve said all along the way a decision is reached determines the acceptance of that decision.
And UND’s did not involve the people most affected by the decision in the plan for resolving it. Then when some of them objected, ignored them. Then fought them in court!
After several years of insulting our intelligence by claiming the name needed to be dropped over racism issues (insulting because there was no legitimate attempt made to decide whether UND’s improved use of the name was in fact racist), they just came out with the obvious–it wasn’t really about racism. It was about athletics and UND’s supreme desire to play D1 sports across the board.
And that’s what most voters who voted to drop the name used to vote it down, according to polling. NOT a belief that UND’s use of the name was racist.
So both the Huron and Fighting Sioux controversy live on…..
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