[NU Sports] No more Sweet Sioux Tomahawk

[Roy Lamberton]

Knowing many of today's Methodists, I can't imagine them fighting each
other....or performing anything mocking of themselves or anyone else.

However, Wake still calls themselves the "Demon Deacons" which is a
contradiction in religious terms, and Duke shares the Methodist church as
founding organization, and they are the Blue Devils, another image somewhat
anti religious in nature.

Peta won't go after the animal names, they just won't allow the Longhorn
steer, or the buffalo or any other wild mascot to be paraded before the
fans. I'm sure even Uga will be on the s**t list.

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate & Unix Guru.
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4) Suppose Northwestern was still the Fighting Methodists.  Maybe the  
name would be OK, but would it be OK if a bunch of people dressed in  
stereotypically Methodist clothing (whatever that might be) came out  
at halftime and performed a mocking ritual?  With respect to the  
Illini (and the Ragin Cajuns), the names haven't been changed, just  
the symbols and and some of the customs.