star2city Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 The home of the hanging chad gets a few more things wrong in this article. If the writer only knew how his own errors and ignorance create even more "testiness": The name game can get testy By Ted Hutton Staff Writer Posted July 5 2005 Just how deep emotional attachments to nicknames run is often not evident until a change is proposed. That is when things can get crazy. When multimillionaire Ralph Engelstad got news in late 2000 that his alma mater, North Dakota State, was thinking of dropping Fighting Sioux as its nickname, he put an end to any consideration of that in a quick and decisive way. ... Not wanting to leave the decision in the hands of the president, the state's Board of Higher Education held an emergency vote the next day, unanimously stating that North Dakota State would remain the Fighting Sioux. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagies Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Now that's something to protest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottM Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Damn sudo-journalists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_hoime Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Wrote to them in the correction Mailbox hopefully they fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Honestly...how hard is it to do some research? It's not rocket science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoteauRinkRat Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Honestly...how hard is it to do some research? It's not rocket science. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No kidding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmrg74 Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Cripes, what a retard!! How about a little Goggle?? Lazy bastard. I hope this is something that both sides can agree on, and work on setting up Mr. Ted Hutton up for beastiality porn and other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagies Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Go to yahoo and type in "Fighting Sioux." One of the top links that pops up is "fightingsioux.com" along with the headline "UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA ATHLETICS." What a moron. Speaking of morons, there's also this place called Siouxsports.com....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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petey23 Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Why doesn't this idiot worry about what is going on in his home state? Everyone knows that the University of Florida is also under immense pressure to change their name from the seminoles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Don't be such a schmuck, petey23. Haven't you heard the nickname controversy going on at Marquette? They are actually going to have a vote to determine whether the nickname should stay the Buckeyes or if it should be changed to the Badgers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmrg74 Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Why doesn't this idiot worry about what is going on in his home state? Everyone knows that the University of Florida is also under immense pressure to change their name from the seminoles. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, no, no. You got it wrong again. It's the University of Miami Seminoles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petey23 Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Huh? I thought Marquette was picking colors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
star2city Posted July 14, 2005 Author Share Posted July 14, 2005 Kinda disappointing when other papers run the same story: www.charlotte.com San Jose Mercury-News But at least the New Orleans paper gets the name right and some information correct in a totally seperate story: Times-Picayune: Nickname controversy follows teams Schools that have received permission from tribes to use their names reason that it's all right because they have the blessing of the group. That was the case for the University of North Dakota. By 1970, the school's teams had been known as the Fighting Sioux for 40 years. In a ceremony that year, a Sioux tribal chief declared that the school would be known as the Fighting Sioux "as long as the sun shall rise and the rivers shall flow." Then university president George Starcher, whose school is located on the ancestral home of the Sioux, was made a chief and received one of the tribe's highest honors, having an eagle-feather headdress placed on his head. Dismissing the ceremony of 1970, Leigh Jeanotte, a member of the Chippewa tribe, activist and director of American Indian student services at the University of North Dakota, said he was angered even at the compliment that Fighting Sioux is original and obviously meant to bring reflected glory to North Dakota teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCM Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Kinda disappointing when other papers run the same story:<{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's even more disappointing after I e-mailed the Sun-Sentinal and pointed out their error. I received a reply from an editor saying that they would correct the story. It's never been corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwing77 Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 It's even more disappointing after I e-mailed the Sun-Sentinal and pointed out their error. I received a reply from an editor saying that they would correct the story. It's never been corrected. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well... It is Florida. My grandparents (well my lone living grandparent now) lives (lived) in Florida. That state seriously has their heads so far up their butt they probably think North Dakota is off somewhere neighboring Alaska or perhaps just off the coast of Russia. Well... Excluding Tommiejo and co. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecbrevik Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 It's even more disappointing after I e-mailed the Sun-Sentinal and pointed out their error. I received a reply from an editor saying that they would correct the story. It's never been corrected. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I e-mailed them as well, but never got a reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecbrevik Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Well... It is Florida. My grandparents (well my lone living grandparent now) lives (lived) in Florida. That state seriously has their heads so far up their butt they probably think North Dakota is off somewhere neighboring Alaska or perhaps just off the coast of Russia. Well... Excluding Tommiejo and co. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have, seriously, had people ask me if North Dakota was part of the United States!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 I e-mailed them as well, but never got a reply. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeauxSioux Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 That state seriously has their heads so far up their butt they probably think North Dakota is off somewhere neighboring Alaska or perhaps just off the coast of Russia. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have to agree that there are alot of people down here that have no idea where ND is. They also don't know the accent. When I first moved here, people would try to guess where I was from. Guesses like Australia, France, Belgium lead me to believe that they have no idea where ND is. After living here for so long, I guess I have lost the ND accent, as I don't get asked anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
star2city Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 I have to agree that there are alot of people down here that have no idea where ND is. They also don't know the accent. When I first moved here, people would try to guess where I was from. Guesses like Australia, France, Belgium lead me to believe that they have no idea where ND is. After living here for so long, I guess I have lost the ND accent, as I don't get asked anymore. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> When I go back to ND, the ND accents nearly send me into shock (from laughing and despairing that I used to sound like that! ) But then, in a few days or so, I talk like that, again. BTW, GeauxSioux, since you are on the internet, I assume you have electricity in Pensacola (unless you hooked into your generator. ) Another twenty or thirty miles west, and Dennis could have given another horrible blow to Pensacola. Last time I drove through, I couldn't believe the number of homes that still have blue tarps for roofs following Ivan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeauxSioux Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 When I go back to ND, the ND accents nearly send me into shock (from laughing and despairing that I used to sound like that! ) But then, in a few days or so, I talk like that, again. BTW, GeauxSioux, since you are on the internet, I assume you have electricity in Pensacola (unless you hooked into your generator. ) Another twenty or thirty miles west, and Dennis could have given another horrible blow to Pensacola. Last time I drove through, I couldn't believe the number of homes that still have blue tarps for roofs following Ivan. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We got electricity back on Thursday night. I left my wife in Louisiana after the evacuation and spent a few night here on just generator. Good to have the electricity back and great to have the family back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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