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In today's Wall Street Journal, Mark Yost weighs in on the Fighting Sioux name issue. Scott Hennen will be interviewing Yost on his WDAY Hot Talk show at 970 AM at 10:05 a.m. Friday. I believe the WSJ Web site requires registration. If the link above does not work, let me know and I'll check with the administrator about posting the text of the column.

This is great news for UND, Engelstad Arena, Grand Forks and the surrounding region. Congratulations to all involved in making this a reality.

Someone's been putting a little too much rum in his egg nog.

Jealousy and envy are the ugliest things I've seen around here.

The typical media spin is to selectively quote facts and quote only one source with an obvious bias on the issue. Apparently that meets some people's "fair and balanced" test.

Same old story. Ralph Engelstad is portrayed as the only person in the world who favored keeping the Sioux name while Native Americans are portrayed as being unanimously against it. The media never lets the facts get in the way of a good story.

Kinda makes you appreciate it when the hockey team beats the "cupcakes" it plays.

I understand why JBB's post was deleted, but why was mine deleted when I quoted none of the slanderous words his post contained?

Yep.

I am not saying or even implying that the Sioux threw the game. I was at that 2001 WCHA Final Five championship game. I know that UND played to win and everyone on the team was disappointed when they lost in overtime. But Blais knew that it was not a "must win" situation for the Sioux. Otherwise, he would have either started Goehring or pulled Kollar after third or fourth SCSU goal.

I think that's correct. If Blais thought the Sioux needed to win that game, Goehring would have been in the net. I was at the WCHA Final Five that year and also heard Blais quoted in an interview saying that he felt the Sioux only needed to win one game at the tournament to be assured of a spot in the NCAA tournament. He was right.

I don't think anything was said about Ryan Hale's injury or status. It's a good question, though.

What would I do without SDSUFAN to remind me of the tropical paradise known as Brookings, South Dakota?

As long as we're investigating rumors in this thread, I'd like to know if Jon Durno really is the illegitimate child of Derek Smalls. Jon Durno, Canisius College forward Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap bass player

JBB, while I'm sure we all appreciate your thoughts on this matter, I'm going to wait for the NCAA's ruling before passing judgement.

Glas said that Allen didn't finish high school because he'd gotten in with the wrong crowd. He later realized that he'd messed up his life and tried to turn it around by going to a junior college to play basketball. I don't recall if Glas said how Allen got into junior college. Couldn't he attend a junior college after earning his GED?

Great job as usual, forecheck. The one thing I'd add is that Blais said Zach Parise is considered a Peter Forsberg-type player by the NHL.

As if that's anything new.

Here's what Rich Glas said about the Myron Allen situation on the 11/18/2002 Sioux Coaches Show. We

Well, I hope everyone's happy. This thread was mentioned on the UND coaches show.

But there'd be some great video!

The old REA is going to be remodeled for basketball and volleyball. Problem solved.

I agree with dagies that it was Matt Greene, not Matt Jones, who was the last-minute surprise pick for the WJC team. Parise and Jones were known for quite some time. On one of the coaches shows several weeks ago, Blais said that he thought Greene might be selected as an alternate. After it was announced that Greene was selected for the team, Blais said it was because Jeff Sauer, one of the US assistant coaches, wanted a defensive pair that had played together. Also, I think Jones can say pretty much anything he wants to Higgins with Greene around.

One of the greatest problems surrounding the Sioux name is separating the activist-driven media version of the issue from the truth. (I

Go to SDSU's Web site, do a search for either the word "native" or "Indian." You'll learn that the university has an American Indian Studies course, a Native American Student Advisement Office and a Native American Club. There's also a Native American Collection at the South Dakota Museum of Art. It could be that SDSU actually has more American Indian-related programs and services than show up on its Web site. If so, the university does an excellent job of camouflaging its efforts in this area. But more likely, I suspect that it explains why an American Indian SDSU graduate recently told me that USD is the preferred university for Native Americans in South Dakota. For the sake of comparison, go to UND's Web site and check out Native American Programs under "A to Z Search." You'll find these Native American-related program and organizations listed: - AH'JO'GUN - American Indian Teacher Recruitment Initiative - Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network - Cankdeska Cikana Community College/UND Internships in Family and Domestic Violence - Elders Leading Breast Cancer Awareness - Excellent Beginnings - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biological Sciences Improvement Project - Indians Into Medicine (INMED) - Indians Into Psychology Doctoral Education (INPSYDE) - Indian Studies - Multicultural Scholars into Dietetics Programs (MSDP) - Native Elder Research Center - Native Media Center - Northern Plains Indian Law Center (NPILC) - Project CRISTAL - Recruitment and Retention of American Indians Into Nursing (RAIN) - The Prairielands Addiction Technology Transfer Center - TRIO Program - UND National Resource Center on Native American Aging - Native American Law Program - American Indian Law Student Association Also on UND's Web site, you learn that the university has: * More than 150 undergraduates and graduate fields of study, including an outstanding Department of Indian Studies * More than 400 currently enrolled American Indian students and nearly 2,500 American Indian alumni * A Native American Programs Office to assist students and provide a central gathering place for study and recreation * More than 30 special programs focus on the needs of American Indian students and citizens You'll also learn that 20 percent of the American Indian doctors in the country are graduates of UND. There's an annual Wacipi at UND which features Native American dancers and drummers from across the country. And let's not forget about the traditional dance and drum ceremony performed by American Indians at Engelstad Arena to honor fallen warrior Ralph Engelstad. As an SDSU graduate, I'd be truly embarrassed to come here and pretend to be morally superior simply because my university features a bunny rabbit on its logo instead of a work of art created by an American Indian graduate of UND. I'd be worried that people would think that I'm a two-face, know-it-all hypocrite when they compare what UND and SDSU are doing for Native Americans that actually makes a difference. I'd be concerned that people would think me foolish for slighting UND goalie Marc Ranfranz, who is not only part Sioux, but whose father is president of the Santee Flandreau Sioux tribe in South Dakota. Unfortunately, there are SDSU alums in the world who don't understand how fundamentally ignorant they are. They refuse learn from those who know far more than they do about issues that people in Grand Forks and at UND deal with every day. They insist on making fools of themselves over and over again. There's simply no stopping them, no matter how hard you try.