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Remember the Days of Playing Cowboys and First Peoples?

The College of William and Mary has joined the growing number of higher education institutions in this country forced to buckle under NCAA rulings about inappropriate athletics mascots or logos - inappropriate in this case because the logo might have offended some Native Americans (to use PC terms).  William and Mary has decided to drop the two feathers protruding from the letters WM  in their athletics logo (seen at the top of this page) because of the NCAA's policy against using "American Indian mascots, names and imagery."

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Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 10:14AM by Registered CommenterCody Beckman | CommentsPost a Comment | References2 References