From: John Haeussler
 
>  Speaking of Wisconsin, the Badgers' athletic board is poised to take
>political correctness to new extremes.
 
        Hardly.  The U of Minnesota already has a similar policy.
 
>  Friday, it is expected to approve a rule which prohibits its teams from
>playing schools with Native American nicknames, mascots or logos.
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        John, are you PC?  Hallelujah, another convert.  :-)
 
>  One interesting impact of the new rule: It will spell an end to the
>Badgers' longtime rivalry with Milwaukee-based Marquette University,
>which uses the nickname Warriors and has a Native American chief as its
>logo.
>  Also interesting: The rule won't apply to Big Ten teams, so the Badgers
>will be able to continue competing against the politically incorrect
>Fighting Illini of Illinois.
 
        The new policy will be that the UW cannot schedule non-conference
        games against teams with Indian nicknames, mascots, or logos.
        Thus, conference games against Illinois and N Dakota(hockey only)
        will not be affected.  Also, postseason play against teams
        with Indian mascots, etc. will not be affected.
 
        This new policy has not been finalized yet so there may still be a
        few changes.  This policy is obviously a compromise between those
        who want all games against schools with Indian mascots stopped
        and those who see no need for any policy at all.  Personally, I am
        satisfied with the compromise.  To forfeit conference games because
        an opponent has an Indian mascot just punishes the UW athletes
        and sports teams.  It is unfortunate that the long basketball
        rivalry between the Marquette Warriors and UW may come to a close.
        However, I think some lobbying of Marquette (i.e. some bad PR, PC-style)
        would have more effect than any UW actions.
 
 
        Interesting topic, though it only tangentially concerns college
        hockey.  I'm willing to move the subject to email if things get
        too far from hockey (or too hot!).
 
---mg
"Ya, I'm PC.  Wanna make something of it." :-)