"Fighting Sioux" nickname may [not] [may too] stick at N Dakota

[Jim Hyla]

I was searching the Grand Forks Herald and came up with this.

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. — A Twin Cities man who allegedly drove a Zamboni at a peewee hockey game while drunk is now charged with DWI.

Thirty-four-year-old Joel Bruss of Apple Valley was charged this week with four counts of driving while impaired.

According to the complaint, Bruss had a blood-alcohol content of 0.32 percent — four times the legal limit for driving in Minnesota.

Parents at an Apple Valley ice arena called police on Jan. 30 to report that Bruss was driving the ice-resurfacing machine erratically.

According to the complaint, when police arrived at Hayes Ice Arena, Bruss had gotten the Zamboni stuck half-on and half-off the ice.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports Bruss has been suspended from his part-time job.

He did not immediately return a phone call for comment Thursday.

[billhoward]

I was searching the Grand Forks Herald and came up with this.

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. — A Twin Cities man who allegedly drove a Zamboni at a peewee hockey game while drunk is now charged with DWI.

Thirty-four-year-old Joel Bruss of Apple Valley was charged this week with four counts of driving while impaired.

According to the complaint, Bruss had a blood-alcohol content of 0.32 percent — four times the legal limit for driving in Minnesota.

Parents at an Apple Valley ice arena called police on Jan. 30 to report that Bruss was driving the ice-resurfacing machine erratically.

According to the complaint, when police arrived at Hayes Ice Arena, Bruss had gotten the Zamboni stuck half-on and half-off the ice.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports Bruss has been suspended from his part-time job.

He did not immediately return a phone call for comment Thursday.

Joel Bruss just called. From outside the Palms.

[ugarte]

I was searching the Grand Forks Herald and came up with this.

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. — A Twin Cities man who allegedly drove a Zamboni at a peewee hockey game while drunk is now charged with DWI.

Thirty-four-year-old Joel Bruss of Apple Valley was charged this week with four counts of driving while impaired.

According to the complaint, Bruss had a blood-alcohol content of 0.32 percent — four times the legal limit for driving in Minnesota.

Parents at an Apple Valley ice arena called police on Jan. 30 to report that Bruss was driving the ice-resurfacing machine erratically.

According to the complaint, when police arrived at Hayes Ice Arena, Bruss had gotten the Zamboni stuck half-on and half-off the ice.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports Bruss has been suspended from his part-time job.

He did not immediately return a phone call for comment Thursday.

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[css228]

Here's the NCAA letter to UND spelling out it's punishment.

I love the reference to hostile or abusive racial/ethnic/national original references".  There's no way that the Sioux name and logo can be reasonably construed as "hostile or abusive".  At least in a world where Florida State's logo is acceptable.

Here's what I would dearly lvoe to see: NoDak makes it the hockey tournament and advances to the finals.  They then skate out in their full logo gear. The NC$$ is faced with the choice of letting them play or cancelling a nationally televised event with at least medium profile.

Couldn't agree more. I'd love to see it happen, so long as Cornell's the opponent. I'd have no problem taking a national title by forfeit though haha. I'll wait for the NCAA to go after Union for being the Dutchmen next!

This should happen but not if Cornell is involved. I'd love the NCAA to get shown up like that, but dont want too win an NCAA title like that

[billhoward]

Video tracking of the Zamboni, especially going offscreen as Zamboni breaks away toward the left end of the rink, bears homage to great Redcasts of the past.

[judy]

Urban Outfitter's Irish line of merchandise

Reminded me of this thread but regarding Notre Dame. Fighting Irish - okay. Drunken Irish - not okay

[jtn27]

North Dakota citizens vote to let the school drop the nickname

[Swampy]

North Dakota citizens vote to let the school drop the nickname

Maybe they can change the name to "Fighting (the) Sioux."

[billhoward]

North Dakota citizens vote to let the school drop the nickname

The vote was 2-1; that's conclusive. The AP reported that one of the state's two tribes lobbied to retain the Sioux nickname: "Some American Indians from the state's two namesake tribes lobbied for the name and logo to be kept, arguing that they reflected a positive image for their tribes. Eunice Davidson, an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake tribe and member of the committee to save the nickname, was too devastated to talk about the result, her husband Dave Davidson said."

I could see this revisited in a decade where the Indians charge the NCAA with eliminating their heritage and the NCAA orders the name changed to North Dakota Sacred Sioux from the North Dakota Bakken Oil Energy Independents. (If Princeton can fit Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer and Grant Goeckner-Zoeller on jerseys, this will, too.)

This is no Harvard S*cks thread, but still, it had more legs than I suspected when it launched in 2009.

[Josh '99]

I could see this revisited in a decade where the Indians charge the NCAA with eliminating their heritage and the NCAA orders the name changed to North Dakota Sacred Sioux from the North Dakota Bakken Oil Energy Independents. (If Princeton can fit Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer and Grant Goeckner-Zoeller on jerseys, this will, too.)

Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer wore his first name on his jersey.

[Weder]

I could see this revisited in a decade where the Indians charge the NCAA with eliminating their heritage and the NCAA orders the name changed to North Dakota Sacred Sioux from the North Dakota Bakken Oil Energy Independents. (If Princeton can fit Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer and Grant Goeckner-Zoeller on jerseys, this will, too.)

Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer wore his first name on his jersey.

As did Dov Grumet-Morris' sister Aviva, I think.

Also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303768104577462663474007608.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[billhoward]

I could see this revisited in a decade where the Indians charge the NCAA with eliminating their heritage and the NCAA orders the name changed to North Dakota Sacred Sioux from the North Dakota Bakken Oil Energy Independents. (If Princeton can fit Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer and Grant Goeckner-Zoeller on jerseys, this will, too.)

Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer wore his first name on his jersey.

As did Dov Grumet-Morris' sister Aviva, I think. Also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303768104577462663474007608.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

A snippy feedback comment to the little WSJ blurb (above) about long names for European soccer players: "Expected from self important little people. Hard working Greeks emigrate, leaving the slugs. Great name for one of their players: ep??µ? ?"

(Drifting:) Not a good day for the WSJ in other ways: WSJ reporter resigns for sleeping with her State Department source (the infraction wasn't that, but not telling her bosses about it) and Journal blogger columnist Clint Boulton who claimed the new Macbook Pro was a threat to corporate networks becasue the higher resolution of the Retina display would "increase consumption" on corporate networks. After 800+ "WTF" feedback posts, the Journal retracted the story. http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/06/11/cios-beware-new-macbook-pro-will-be-a-bandwidth-hog/tab/comments/

[Beeeej]

Drifting

Ya think?

[billhoward]

Drifting

Ya think?

It took some effort not to mention that the same statewide vote that said it was okay to lay down the the Fighting Sioux jerseys also rejected an ambitious proposal to do away with state property taxes. One of the nice things about eLynah unlike Facebook the last couple months is that Facebook has become a sewer of anti-Obama, anti-Romney, anti-Wisconisn-governor posts. Less often thoughtful, self-created comments, more often forwarded memes / images that take up a lot of screen real estate. If you want to see people mindlessly doing the political and religous bidding of others and harrassing others, that's what the San Francisco airport has been for.

[Beeeej]

Drifting

Ya think?

It took some effort not to mention that the same statewide vote that said it was okay to lay down the the Fighting Sioux jerseys also rejected an ambitious proposal to do away with state property taxes. One of the nice things about eLynah unlike Facebook the last couple months is that Facebook has become a sewer of anti-Obama, anti-Romney, anti-Wisconisn-governor posts. Less often thoughtful, self-created comments, more often forwarded memes / images that take up a lot of screen real estate. If you want to see people mindlessly doing the political and religous bidding of others and harrassing others, that's what the San Francisco airport has been for.

One of the nice things about eLynah for me has been that the hockey forum is usually about hockey.