I heard that Ralph Englestad's estate was going to pay for the new Flickertail unis.

--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Hampton, Nathan E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Hampton, Nathan E. <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: University of North Dakota Regents Meeting before NCAA Hockey Tournament
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 4:29 PM
> An emergency meeting of the Regents
> of the University of North Dakota was called today so that
> the Regents could decide whether to (1) attend the NCAA
> Frozen Four Tournament in St. Paul, MN as the Fighting
> Sioux, (2) disband the hockey team and not attend the
> tournament, or (3) attend the NCAA Frozen Four Tournament
> under a different mascot-name. Kowtowing to the Indiana
> based NCAA, the Regents voted to call the team the North
> Dakota Flickertails, the mascot-name before the Fighting
> Sioux, and to pay for new uniforms to be made before the
> Thursday start of the hockey tournament.
> 
> Rumor has it that Flickertails throughout the state of
> North Dakota are organizing to force the Regents to pay them
> for the use of their name, claiming an infringement of their
> copyrighted name. The Regents claimed they will avoid all
> attempts at blackmail this time around.
> 
> 
> Happy First,
> Nathan Hampton
>