No surrender from North Dakota in NCAA mascot controversy", by Liz Mullen. Volume 8, issue 40, page 14

"No surrender from North Dakota in NCAA mascot controversy", critique by Jenn Duhnke; originally by Liz Mullen. Volume 8, issue 40, page 14

This article talks about the heavy topic of some NCAA school's nicknames and logo's. It has been six months since the NCAA put 18 schools on a list that used "hostile or abusive" nicknames. The University of North Dakota is still representing and displaying its nickname: The Fighting Sioux. The NCAA had instituted a policy to eliminate American Indian nicknames and mascots that they felt were inappropriate. Among this list of 18, 3 schools have successfully appealed. Two others have been removed from the list after agreeing to make some modifications that were approved by the NCAA. There are 3 schools that are still resisting to comply and everyone should know that IUP is one of them.

The penalty the NCAA is putting into place for schools that will not comply is that those schools will not be allowed to host any post-season championships in any sport. This threatened the Univ. of North Dakota's plans of hosting a D-I regional hockey tournament, however, the NCAA has agreed to lift the ban until the UND's appeal is decided in April. I have also heard that IUP's appeal will be decided then as well (April 27th). This could pose a pretty big problem for the schools that refuse to comply. There is lots of money potenial that each school could lose from not being able to host post-season games. Is it right that the NCAA to enforce such a policy as this? UND's president, Charles Kupchella, does not agree with any of this. "We have a hard time understanding why it's all right for Florida State to come into town with a white guy dressed up as an Indian, riding a horse, leading fans in a tomahawk chop, and we have to do away with a classic depiction of an Indian by an American Indian artist...we just don't get it", stated Kupchella.

I do feel that the NCAA has good intentions about this policy, however, at the same time, I feel like it is another way for the NCAA to enforce their power(s). It should be a dispute that is between the tribe and the school seperately. I do not feel the NCAA should be involved in this matter at all. All they are doing is creating controversy that may have never been there in the first place.