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State officials filed a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA to
challenge its restrictions on the
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says the lawsuit, filed in
Northeast Central District Court in
Stenehjem says the lawsuit seeks to allow UND to use the nickname
throughout the school year without being sanctioned in possible postseason
play, along with unspecified monetary damages.
The NCAA has banned the use of some American Indian nicknames and
logos in postseason tournaments, saying they are hostile and abusive. But
Stenehjem says the organization has overstepped its bounds.
“This is about a process to be followed by the NCAA,”
he says. “Frankly, I don’t think that anybody, regardless of how
they feel about the result, should be satisfied or pleased with the
process.”
The NCAA has 20 days to respond after it is served with the
lawsuit, according to Stenehjem. NCAA President Myles Brand has said the NCAA
will defend its policy “to the utmost.”
The North Dakota Board of Higher Education voted in June to file
the lawsuit after two
“This action by the NCAA keeps me from doing what the board
says we should do here,” says UND President Charles E. Kupchella, adding
that the NCAA process was unfair and wrong.
Other schools initially
deemed to have unsuitable nicknames by the NCAA have won the right to use their
monikers on appeal. They include the Florida State University Seminoles, the
Central Michigan University Chippewas and the
A number of American
Indian students want UND to drop the nickname and logo. One official with the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe wrote a letter supporting the university, but another
opposed the nickname.
A branch of the UND
Alumni Association set up a fund to help pay for the lawsuit after the state
board of education ruled it must be financed with private money.
— Associated Press
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