Grand Forks Herald -- The recent poll in the Herald said that people would rather stay North Dakota by a 2 to 1 margin.
I can be included in that group and the following is the reasoning for doing so:
UND’s identity was unique with the Fighting Sioux, it was never a mascot but an identity. Now people are in the process of finding a new something for a mascot which UND never had. The closest was for years the fan group “The Farce” had Kermit the Frog, which never appeared on UND letterheads.
Why on earth would UND want to become a re-tread of:
1. Another member of the animal kingdom (husky, bear, cougar, colt, a rodent, etc.)
2. A bird of some type (eagle, cardinal, hawk)
3. A person (cowboy, minutemen, pirate)
The list of things with which UND could identify was once, in the Herald’s April 4 edition, a thousand names long, now it’s not. Why would we want to be a “just another” something like every other university with overlapping identities for their entire existence. UND was unique with its former identity, keep that uniqueness by not becoming a university with a mascot just like everybody else.
UND represents the entire state of North Dakota, which includes all people of your state.
UND has the best aerospace studies in the U.S., a four-year med school, and other great academic programs. Why not be the leader in the entire U.S. in this regard by not having a mascot like we have not had? UND never had a guy riding a horse with spear like Florida State or Illinois with the guy who danced wildly at their athletic contests, so why start now with some cartoon-like representation. Be who you are, which is a very proud population represented by the University of North Dakota.
Steve Molvig
Lovelock, Nev.
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