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Nothing - UND will deal with it internally by reiterating that employees should not wear the logo while on the job. ND is not a police state - are they going to stop every vehicle entering campus to check for logos, are they going to search every student on campus. As I shared earlier I believe there already is an unspoken rule that UND employees can't wear the logo to work. This is just another stupid incident that a group of liberals needs to jump on for publicity.

You are just bad news - get a job, get a life. Let me repeat what has been shared but you must have missed it inbetween pizza deliveries - not a UND Function, Not UND students, pictures not taken on UND property - what would you like UND Administration to do - call a press conference and say "These kids have been through enough, we're going to let them have their day in court? Oh wait - they didn't break any laws to begin with.

I know I know...because Ralph said so that's why.

I'm already on double secret probation for spending too much time in chat rooms on company time.

That would be fine because clothes that say Fighitng Sioux are not considered hostile and abusive by the NCAA or mainstream. There are many Spirit Lake and Standing Rock SIoux that wear Fighting Sioux clothing. It's easy to throw out comments and cast stones when you don't know what you are talking about.

Are they going to have t-shirts made? (bad joke).

Once again you can see who will be benefiting from these sitatuions - it all points back at......"The Lawyers".

WIth your professional experience do you think it could ever realistically come to that?

Impossible. not gonna happen, totally uninforceable - the only thing UND can do is to use peer pressure by sending messages such as "We encourage everyone to support UND by wearing clothing that depicts the UND of the future" or something like that - I have already read similar language in UND communications to alumni.(although not much has been said about it, in fact just the opposite has been said in that they support everyone's right to wear what they want.)

Freedom of speech does come into play but it comes with repercussions - if these students aren't affiliated with any organization there really isn't anything that can be done to them. If the pictures were taken on private property is there anything that can be done? If you google Siouxper Dunk you will find a Twitter Account that bashes UND Administration for "allowing" people to wear these shirts - not sure that UND can do anything about it other than instructing their staff to not allow anyone wearing an offensive shirt to their event - which would be incredibly hard to monitor. It does pile on to the negative PR for UND but that can just as easily come from students fighting in alleys, falsifying signatures on petitions, shoplifting from stores. You really can't control how stupid people can be.

Have there been much local media coverage of this? I guess it's not illegal to be drunk and stupid - actually this was one of the reasons the liberals used for getting rid of the nickname - the inability of UND to control what fans from other schools do with the name - but the reality is making the name go away doesn't actually fix that.

Come on you have it all wrong - the "Fencing" they want to practice is this one: Fencing: (Informal). a person who receives and disposes of stolen goods. I believe they have had several members of the football team graduate with honors in the "Fencing" program.

Ya but you know in their world head-to-head doesn't count anymore.

GRAND FORKS – The University of North Dakota baseball team entered Wednesday’s rivalry matchup with North Dakota State at a bit of a disadvantage. The Bison don’t play any conference games this weekend, allowing NDSU to throw any of its top pitchers. UND, meanwhile, plays a three-game Western Athletic Conference series against Grand Canyon Friday through Sunday. There's one excuse from the first time they lost they won't be able to use...I guess the new mantra at FU is "Oh there's always football" and history shows that wil end too... then what will there be. (The funniest aspect of this is all the FU trolls who feel the need to come here and debate every comment.)

I agree - of course it will sadly die a natural death through the years. Maybe it's just the games I attend but the chant seems to be less obvious at some games. While there continues to be liberals that think they can control where the Sioux logo shows up - there is no way UND will ever make any noise whatsoever about fans wearing Sioux clothing or cheering the SIoux name at their events. They will however control what they can which includes the pep band and anyone "representing the school".

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/258238391.html Not specifically nickname related but shows the direction we are going - will the shouting of "Sioux" at the end of the national anthem soon be a tradition of the past?

I also think if you dig into the issues the Lakota Sioux in southcentral North Dakota/South Dakota and the Utah Utes are facing you would find the Lakota Sioux have much bigger social issues than a nickname by a school located 500 miles away - higher levels of poverty, alcoholism, tribal council dysfunction, unemployement - the highest level of poverty in the US. I think the Utes are in better shape when it comes to social issues. Plus the NCAA had UND in their radar they needed to have a scapgoat and show that they were taking action on the nickname issue. Even if UND would have only needed to get the Spirit Lake Sioux on board someone from the NCAA had already challenged in the press that the vote of the Spirit Lake people that had occurred would not have been acceptable because what the NCAA agreement said was UND needed approval from the "Tribal Councils" - it never got that far for the NCAA to throw that stipulation out there because of the non -vote by the other tribe but it was something the NCAA had in their back pocket. Bottom line - the NCAA found a small school (UND) they could make an example of - they backed off from Florida State because they were too big and powerful within the NCAA.

I could buy that except there are teams being broadcasted that actually lost more than we did.

Just pointing out that there are plenty of schools that do provide a free education to Native Americans so it's not a myth.

At the University of Minnesota Morris (a public instituion within the University of Minnesota system) there is a program that provides a free education to Native Americans - don't know the details but it is in place and was shared during freshman orientation last year. http://www.ehow.com/info_7826113_tuitionfree-college-american-indians.html

Wow - what happened did you just make bail or did you run out of allowance money for internet access? Gone for three days now you're all over this site with your drivel - continues to be sad that you are so infactuated with UND sports.

I like it but FU uses some form of "Thunder" I believe.

Buttfootball

You probably won't find those "Non Scholarship" student athletes taking a job to collect petition signatures or the late night shift at Best Buy.

And have a thunder clap shake the building after a goal is scored. It's hammer time!