Dixie State University Wants New Nickname, Mascot (UT)

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By WHITTNEY EVANS • 19 HOURS AGO

Dixie State University has hired Salt Lake City firm Love Communications to find a new nickname and mascot for the school. But the university’s controversial name will remain the same ...

The school adopted the moniker Red Storm and Big “D” the Bull as it’s mascot in 2009. It was an effort to steer away from the connection the former nickname “Rebels” had to the Confederacy. And in 2013 the school considered doing away with the name “Dixie”. Defenders say “Dixie” harkens back to Mormon pioneer days when Brigham Young sent missionaries to the region to attempt to grow cotton. Up until the 1990’s the school adopted a full-fledged confederate identity. The yearbook was called “The Confederate”. And only recently was a bronze statue of two civil war solders, one carrying a confederate flag removed from campus ...

http://kuer.org/post/dixie-state-university-wants-new-nickname-mascot

[underpants]

1. How about "Chicks"?

Hired a firm to find them a new nickname huh? Gee if only they had a large population in the midst of vigorously exercising their brains to help with that, for free.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. This is the Second change for these Kluckers in three years.

If you know the area,you can only laugh,this is the Mormon transplant area of Georgia and Alabama circa 1850. Beautiful area,very Redneck people. When you had a Mayor who would sing Dixie at City Counsel Meetings and Public events at Dixie State College,what do expect.