Summary: The North Dakota Board of Higher Education voted to change the name of Fighting Sioux on May 14Th. This is a very controversial issue and the university as well as many others are fighting to keep the name. The NCAA won't allow this campus host any tournaments due to the controversial name. If this change goes through the stadium and pride will be gone. The Ralph Englstead Arena has hundreds of logos built into it, as well as the pride of the marble head on the floor that Ralph Englstead wanted to make sure remained forever.
Opinion: I agree with Lauren in that the logo should remain Fighting Sioux, it is a name that has been associated with the campus for several years and has not been a huge issue up until now. The school colors became green and black from the name and their huge expensive hockey arena would be completely destroyed. Englstead understood the issue of the name and placing the marble head on the arena floor guaranteed the name or the arena can't have the arena without the name. This issue i think is just a big deal over a small thing, no harm is done by a team name and it after all tradition and has been associated with that campus for several years.
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