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A Solution for the "Fighting" Sioux, Denver's Boone, and Other "Lost" Mascots...
Since it seems the world has been over run by the forces of PC, I offer a new proposal for all those Universities and other schools who ignore the majority wishes of their fan base, current students, alumni, etc and instead listed to the voice of the vocal minority who lay their woes at the feet of America’s institutions of higher learning.
When a school declares that a slogan, mascot, nickname, etc will no longer be used because it isn't PC and must be eliminated for the common good, that entity immediately becomes public domain*. From that day forward the school forfeits all copyrights, trademarks, etc related to it and is not entitled to any royalties from its use and must make public all graphics, fonts, and other materials related to such items. Thus the entity becomes public property and anyone who chooses can use it in any manner that they see fit. Maybe they could use it for their own sports team, personal business slogan, or simply for personal financial gain (printing T-shirts, stickers, banners, etc.) in the realm of sports marketing.
* The one exception being, those that caused the entity to become public domain shall be banned from any use of such items.
Of course the schools could not possibly object to this proposal because who would buy such items anyway? Clearly the institution is only doing what the majority of their fans want, so demand for such items would be so minimal that the royalties would not be worth anything, right?
…And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!
Ryan J
Graduate of a school district who is about to loose their “Indians” mascot because one person, who never attend the school district (and as far as anyone can tell has never even visited the school district) filed a law suit (which can not be contested due to state law) that they were “offended” by the mascot.
Since it seems the world has been over run by the forces of PC, I offer a new proposal for all those Universities and other schools who ignore the majority wishes of their fan base, current students, alumni, etc and instead listed to the voice of the vocal minority who lay their woes at the feet of America’s institutions of higher learning.
When a school declares that a slogan, mascot, nickname, etc will no longer be used because it isn't PC and must be eliminated for the common good, that entity immediately becomes public domain*. From that day forward the school forfeits all copyrights, trademarks, etc related to it and is not entitled to any royalties from its use and must make public all graphics, fonts, and other materials related to such items. Thus the entity becomes public property and anyone who chooses can use it in any manner that they see fit. Maybe they could use it for their own sports team, personal business slogan, or simply for personal financial gain (printing T-shirts, stickers, banners, etc.) in the realm of sports marketing.
* The one exception being, those that caused the entity to become public domain shall be banned from any use of such items.
Of course the schools could not possibly object to this proposal because who would buy such items anyway? Clearly the institution is only doing what the majority of their fans want, so demand for such items would be so minimal that the royalties would not be worth anything, right?
…And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!
Ryan J
Graduate of a school district who is about to loose their “Indians” mascot because one person, who never attend the school district (and as far as anyone can tell has never even visited the school district) filed a law suit (which can not be contested due to state law) that they were “offended” by the mascot.
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