William and Mary Drops Feathers from Logo, Bowing to NCAA Pressure--but North Dakota Will Sue

After the NCAA declared the College of William and Mary's logo offensive to American Indians, the college announced it will ditch the two-feather graphic altogether, the campus newspaper Flat Hat reports. Meanwhile, the attorney general of North Dakota took the opposite path, filing a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA in an effort to keep the University of North Dakota "Fighting Sioux" nickname and mascot, the Dakota Student reports. That was just in time for the Columbus Day weekend.

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