ScottM

Vote early, vote often. -Chicago

With "creative" t-shirts and everything!

Let's see ... a rivalry football game back in their hometown, a "kickin' party" off campus, or they don't want to be seen with a bunch of people older than their parents.

And his conversion of water into wine was a pretty neat feat of genetic modification.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/business/recalls-of-organic-food-on-the-rise-report-says.html Mmm, listeria ...

A new study found that we're all going to die some day. Plan accordingly.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-foods-boast-non-gmo-labelseven-those-without-gmo-varieties-1440063000 Marketing hysteria by any other name ...

Humans have been modifying their food stocks, including various plants and animals, for eons.. The non-GMO hysteria is yet another social media-fed marketing frenzy which will empty your wallet, before you empty your bowels.

And given the NC$$'s well known willingness to change its rules to achieve its desired ends you can bet, no pun intended, that they will do so without much prodding. ("We've received complaints that by not choosing a new nickname you're still abusing, and being hostile toward, some overly-sensitive souls when other schools' fans chant 'Sioux Suck!', so we're going to sanction you as we see fit, and there's nothing you can do about it, lowly member-school.")

It's amazing how even with lower prices the industry becomes more efficient and pumps out even more, which drives prices down, which ... http://www.wsj.com/articles/despite-glut-of-oil-energy-firms-struggle-to-turn-off-the-tap-1438904654

10 years of this fight? Hardly. Prez. Baker tried to dump the name over the summer in 1988 or 89.

Or quite possibly some ofUND's own esteemed faculty, staff and/or students since they love moving the target to suit their own ends.

And the over-under on some "sensitive soul" complaining is about 3 seconds ...

psst. It's actually one word "mistrial". ;

CYA, and giving the impression to the "never say die" set that he values their opinion.

Why not? They could sue UND for breaching the agreement by not complying with the nickname requirements as a legal lever to fully enforce the sanctions that would have been enforced when the original "hostile and abusive" list was issued. That would effectively estop UND from arguing the legality of the NC$$'s sanctions or their authority to devise the policy in the first place. Moreover, breaching an agreement with the NC$$ could also provide a mechanism for the NC$$ to impose other penalties on UND for violating any number of other NC$$ rules. I haven't looked, but I'm sure the basic membership is somehow generally premised on UND complying with "all laws, rules, regulations, policies, etc., violations, thereof may constitute grounds for suspension or termination of the membership...". The NC$$ is a private organization with its own rules, and its own arbitrary sense of "justice".

Agree. The Agreement specifically required UND to pick a new nickname. The Addendum did not change that, and addressed other, ancillary matters. As others have noted ad nausem, failure to choose a new nickname in compliance with the Agreement could be considered a breach of the Agreement, and subject UND to the various sanctions the NC$$ has at its disposal.

Not really, but the NC$$ has a history of governing its charges in arbitrary and capricious manners, depending on the "offense" and the relative strength of the defendant. They may grant big, powerful North Carolina a pass for its "class" scandal, but they're also as likely to hammer North Dakota into dust for not toeing the line on its Indian mascot crusade.

If a new name was "already signed, sealed and delivered", would the new name, and the process that it went through to reach that point, be subject to North Dakota's Open Records Act, as should the entire process which seems to have been reasonably transparent? http://www.ag.nd.gov/Brochures/ORandOMBrochure-citizen-2005.pdf

Or I wear 'su fan gear first. So my money's on Hell freezing over first, and then the NC$$ pulling its head out of its a$$ after the next Ice Age.

Some people are just hyper-sensitive ...

I think the only people who have called me a "Nodak" were other Nodaks. "Nodak, please!".

That's alright. I have no idea who One Direction is/was, so it all balances out.

Like, oh around the time, in 1989(?), when Kendall Baker attempted to drop the moniker on his own volition over the summer, when he thought nobody would notice?