Important Election Today for University of North Dakota

At stake today in the Standing Rock Sioux tribal election is the future of the nickname of the University of North Dakota. Members of the local Native American tribe are voting on their next tribal chairman. One candidate, Ron His Horse is Thunder, is opposed to the usage while his opponent, Charles Murphy, is for it. For those of you new to the college nickname p.c. debate, all schools with potentially offensive nicknames were informed in 2005 that they needed to either change their name or get approval of the local tribes or else risk NCAA sanctions such as the inability to participate in the postseason. The Fighting Sioux (not to be confused with the Fighting Sue, which is what you encounter if you challenge whether or not my mother-in-law's pies and cakes are homemade), has been the nickname of the university since 1930. The other Sioux tribe in the state, the Spirit Lake Sioux, has already approved the University's continued use of the name.