NoiseInsideMyHead

It was not Kelley who "forced" anything. http://www.grandforksherald.com/content/und-sorority-trouble-pro-nickname-banner-during-time-out-week-parent-organization-apologizes

To which even remotely analogous situation are you referring? Kelley and Kennedy both did their fair share of investigating and condemning, but I certainly don't recall any students being punished where First Amendment rights were implicated.

WTF planet is Peter Johnson living on? Take away Ray Richards and Grand Forks has one public 9-hole, one public 18-hole with fees bordering on semi-private, and a private 18-hole country club. What an ignorant statement.

Nice. Just don't wear them around baseball players. Or athletes from any other sport that might get the axe. Or Music Therapy majors. Frivolous expenditures don't play well in times of crisis.

Now THAT is a link.

Must be willing to settle for some s#!tty seats. (Welcome to the neighborhood!)

Meh...needs context. Is this another tired, genericized, cliche criticism of higher ed, or does he have a legitimate point to make? If it's residual nickname butthurt, well, that is self-explanatory.

This was never about 'every field, court, or surface.' Nobody expected changes overnight, especially where costs and/or third-party ownership created high hurdles. This was about a particular surface that was necessarily being completely manufactured from scratch in September, >2 months after the logo was released.

UND needs revenue from sales of game programs to keep the lights on.

A grandmother that uses "cuz"? Oh, my. I would love to have some user demographics for these boards. I suspect that grandmothers are few and far between.

You have no suggestions because there is nothing to suggest. This isn't "Minority Report." There are no precogs to look into the future, and there is no Pre-Crime Bureau. People either have a criminal history that is detectable in a background search or they don't. We're talking about a sworn police officer, a licensed physician, and now a licensed pilot. That's a lot of professional/governmental oversight. One could theoretically try to block certain types of websites or file downloads from certain employees, but (1) that won't work with cops or faculty, and (2) web filters are only so good and cyber-criminals are always a step or two ahead. With all of the porn busts on the news all the freaking time, you'd have to be an idiot or blinded by sickness to think that you can get away with this stuff, especially doing it at work, on a state-owned computer. Maybe these people are sick, are crying for help, or want to get caught?

Wonder how long those stencils took to arrive.

Props to WH. As I said earlier, where there's a will, there's a way. Everything else is just an excuse.

Planned location is chicken-sandwiched between TX Roadhouse and Sakura (formerly, Space Aliens) on 32nd. http://www.grandforksgov.com/home/showdocument?id=13707

Nobody has suggested North Korean-like assimilation. Each program obviously can only control what it can control, and aesthetics do matter. Football had opportunities with uniforms, not with turf. Cool, we get that. Hockey was (allegedly) committed to uniforms, which is fine, but clearly had an opportunity with center ice. For a high profile sport to thumb its nose at the logo entirely is a problem, masked only by the fact that many fans of said program are also anti-logo and thus oblivious to what appears to be manipulation of UND by certain parties or at the very least a lack of firm leadership by the administration. For the record, mixed veggies are the better way to go. And cauliflower can easily disappear into a napkin when mom isn't looking.

But this is about looking forward, not back. UND turned a critical page when it phased out Fighting Sioux, turned another when it selected Fighting Hawks, and opened a whole damn new book on the subject when it adopted the current logo. To compare or benchmark behaviors from the past does not seem particularly helpful. In fact, the best (only?) way to avoid this entire team/support/loyalty argument 2.0 in 20 years is to get everyone on track now.

Yet, the new logo was on helmets within weeks of its release. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Good scoop. Not specific to a single location, but from the Secretary of State:

Typical SiouxSports genius at work. Y'all downvote like monkeys on a banana but nobody has the courage (or the intellectual capacity) to respond with so much as a grunt. Let me spell it out for you. To the public, this looks bad. Either the University of North Dakota is incompetent (i.e., logo selected in June but somehow can't get around to ordering stencils for almost 3 months?), is wishy-washy and uncommitted to the new logo it launched with fanfare not so long ago (and paid $50k for), is beholden to a single sport/program (i.e., inmates running the asylum), or is the arena's bitch. What's your pleasure? Which explanation makes you feel #UNDproud?

No matter how you feel about the new logo, this is really embarrassing for the University. Best case scenario? Looks like they don't have their act together. Worst case need not be stated, but it ain't pretty.

From the pages of the REA-to-English Dictionary:

You're in good company. A lot of the posters on here are quite familiar with eating off of sidewalks.

Columbia Road...three city blocks...four months and counting. Meanwhile, in China: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-116-excavators-demolish-a-massive-overpass-in-jus-1786244829

Amen. Every dollar paid to the investigator is a dollar wasted.

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