OT: U of North Dakota releases official rejected nicknames list....

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

If you aren't a hockey fan, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux have been without a nickname since they were forced to drop the Fighting Sioux name back in 2012-13.

They're just simply known as "North Dakota".

The University of North Dakota in an OFFICIAL DOCUMENT released a list of every rejected suggested nickname.

Many of them are vulgar and it's unbelievable that the university would release them. To top it off, people put the reason for suggesting the nickname!

My personal favorite suggestions for UND's new nickname-

  • Flaming Sex Panthers
  • Big dick north dakotans
  • Dicklickers
  • Bush did 911
  • asrffdsaasdffdsaasdffdsaa

http://und.edu/nickname/non-consideration-list.pdf

Bando Calrissian

May 4th, 2015 at 10:44 PM ^

Beats a newspaper sending in a FOIA for the full list and blasting the university for not disclosing everything. This has been a LONG, drawn out, controversial, and emotional process out there. You don't really get the Fighting Sioux controversy until you go to Grand Forks and see what that fanbase is really like. Can't blame the university for just laying it all out there, both to save themselves a news cycle, and to really underscore how insane their mouthbreathing fans can be.




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UMxWolverines

May 4th, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^

Big 'ol Pussies

The People and Government of ND showed what spineless cowards they are by laying down to the daft PC crowd.Nice Job! / Go Pussies! (Just Go!)

justingoblue

May 5th, 2015 at 12:16 AM ^

See also: Florida State and their dealings with the Seminole tribe. That certainly seems like a great relationship for both sides, although I don't know if it was always reciprocal.

I don't think there should be any kind of blanket ban on tribal names as mascots, but at the very least I think it's reasonable to say it's in bad taste to use someone else's name and imagry when they don't want you to.

Gulo Gulo Luscus

May 5th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^

true, but they weren't exactly immune to hateful stereotyping either.  not suggesting equivalency, just playing the "not sure if you know this" game:

 

The Irish especially faced this problem in America, often being depicted in anti Irish cartoons as hot-headed, old-fashioned, and drunkards. During the 19th century, political cartoons were widely used to express the widespread negative opinions about Irish immigrants.

 

 

FauxMo

May 5th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^

steal Irish land and commit genocide, and the Fighting Irish name itself plays off the very popular American anti-Irish-immigration notion of the Irish as a barbaric, violent, uneducated people. Discrimination of the Irish from the 1850s forward was intense. Heck, there were even concerns JFK couldn't get elected because of his Irish heritage (and he almost didn't). So is the difference really that great?

Canadian

May 4th, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^

Well shit. I thought they were still the Fighting Sioux. I thought they had permission from the Sioux tribe to continue using the nickname.