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New NCAA agreement allows UND to keep logos
FARGO, N.D. -- Thousands of logos depicting an American Indian warrior will remain inside the University of North Dakota's hockey and basketball arenas under a reworked agreement announced Wednesday by the NCAA and the state's attorney general.
The agreement comes in a decades-old controversy that has included lawsuits, legislation, NCAA threats and a statewide vote about whether the school's Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian-head logo were insensitive to local tribes.
The state Board of Higher Education had ordered the school this summer to drop the nickname and moniker to abide by a 2007 agreement with the NCAA. But that plan called for all Sioux logos to be removed from the two arenas, which have thousands of the logos -- including on brass medallions on chairs and a 10-foot sketch in the hockey arena's granite floor.
The new plan allows that imagery to stay, though six signs that say "Home of the Fighting Sioux" must be removed so the school will be in NCAA compliance and able to host post-season sporting events at its Grand Forks campus, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said. The logo also won't be replaced when it wears out in carpeting.
"I am very pleased that the NCAA was willing to show flexibility in its policy," Stenehjem said, adding that the overwhelming statewide vote against retaining the nickname and the expense of removing the logos were key factors in the negotiations.
University president Robert Kelley also praised the agreement, calling it "a good resolution."
The agreement applies to the hockey arena, the Ralph Engelstad Arena, and the attached Betty Engelstad Sioux Center, where basketball, volleyball and soccer are played. It also allows the school to create a commemorative wall within the athletic complex depicting the history of the Sioux Nation.
The hockey arena is named after alumnus and former goaltender Ralph Engelstad, a property developer and casino owner who donated $100 million to finance the 400,000-square-foot arena. Before his death in 2002, he'd told state higher education board he would withdraw his support if the nickname were changed.
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 27, 2012 C7
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