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Feb. 15th, 2006 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liamstliam1. You know you're reading a NASCAR blog when the writer begins, "Acting on a suggestion on got from a guy I met at Hooters. . . ." In the Washington Post no less.
2. OK, on the list of "Things That Piss Me Off," this is from a newspaper in Idaho:
Pushed not by the NCAA, but by its own conscience and a thoughtful appraisal of its current appropriateness, Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa is considering changing its mascot.
The Crusaders, as the NNU athletic teams have been known since at least the 1940s, could meet their end as soon as March, when the school's Board of Trustees meet. Mascot change, tabled by the board in the fall, is again on the agenda.
Given the university's global missionary and outreach programs, the board should do away with the Crusaders.
The Crusades, European Christian military expeditions in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from Muslims, carry -- fairly or unfairly -- a negative connotation throughout much of the world. Though many argue that the aim and ambitions of the crusaders were noble, no one denies that atrocities took place during the effort.
3. Just as I am starting to get excited about the Bruins, the Olympics show up.
4. For the record,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evilnicola may be "away" at college, but she's just 10 miles away.
5. Oh, for the Boston folks. I was thinking that the directions to the Barnes & Noble at BU should be: "Look up. Find the Citgo sign. Go to that building.
2. OK, on the list of "Things That Piss Me Off," this is from a newspaper in Idaho:
Pushed not by the NCAA, but by its own conscience and a thoughtful appraisal of its current appropriateness, Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa is considering changing its mascot.
The Crusaders, as the NNU athletic teams have been known since at least the 1940s, could meet their end as soon as March, when the school's Board of Trustees meet. Mascot change, tabled by the board in the fall, is again on the agenda.
Given the university's global missionary and outreach programs, the board should do away with the Crusaders.
The Crusades, European Christian military expeditions in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from Muslims, carry -- fairly or unfairly -- a negative connotation throughout much of the world. Though many argue that the aim and ambitions of the crusaders were noble, no one denies that atrocities took place during the effort.
3. Just as I am starting to get excited about the Bruins, the Olympics show up.
4. For the record,
evilnicola may be "away" at college, but she's just 10 miles away.5. Oh, for the Boston folks. I was thinking that the directions to the Barnes & Noble at BU should be: "Look up. Find the Citgo sign. Go to that building.
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Date: 2006-02-16 05:01 am (UTC)NNU changing mascot name
Date: 2006-02-19 01:37 pm (UTC)NNU students offended by Crusader mascot... check out this article, where u are invited to write the president of NNU... get the word out, and drop them a line on this ridiculous proposal
ask others to post on it, send it to ur local newspapers, etc
time to stop foolish move!