Changes

===Logo Controversy===

===Logo Controversy===

[[Image:WMTribe.png|left|thumb|The old logo.]]

[[Image:WMTribe.png|left|thumb|The old logo.]]

As part of a review of more than 30 schools' logos that began in 2004,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribeathletics.com/story.php/6472/|title=William and Mary Announces New Logo|date=2007-12-06|language=English}}</ref> William and Mary's logo was ruled "hostile and abusive" to the [[Native American]] community due to the presence of feathers.<ref>{{cite web|work=W&M News|title=‘Tribe’ refers to community Nichol states in a report sent to the NCAA|url=http://www.wm.edu/news/?id=5338|author=Bill Walker|date=2005-11-03}}</ref> William and Mary's appeal of the ruling was denied.<ref name="USATODAY">{{cite web|url=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2006-10-10-william-mary_x.htm|work=Associated Press|title=William & Mary to change athletic logo featuring Indian feathers|date=10/10/2006|language=English}}</ref> College president Gene R. Nichol responded to the ruling with outrage, saying, "I am compelled to say, at the outset, how powerfully ironic it is for the College of William & Mary to face sanction for athletic transgression at the hands of the NCAA," Nichol wrote. "The Association has applied its mascot standards in ways so patently inconsistent and arbitrary as to demean the entire undertaking."<ref name="USATODAY"/>

As part of a review of more than 30 schools' logos that began in 2004,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribeathletics.com/story.php/6472/|title=William and Mary Announces New Logo|date=2007-12-06|language=English}}</ref> William and Mary's logo was ruled "hostile and abusive" to the [[Native American]] community due to the presence of feathers.<ref>{{cite web|work=W&M News|title=‘Tribe’ refers to community Nichol states in a report sent to the NCAA|url=http://www.wm.edu/news/?id=5338|author=Bill Walker|date=2005-11-03}}</ref> William and Mary's appeal of the ruling was denied.<ref name="USATODAY">{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2006-10-10-william-mary_x.htm|work=Associated Press|title=William & Mary to change athletic logo featuring Indian feathers|date=10/10/2006|language=English}}</ref> College president Gene R. Nichol responded to the ruling with outrage, saying, "I am compelled to say, at the outset, how powerfully ironic it is for the College of William & Mary to face sanction for athletic transgression at the hands of the NCAA," Nichol wrote. "The Association has applied its mascot standards in ways so patently inconsistent and arbitrary as to demean the entire undertaking."<ref name="USATODAY"/>

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[[Category:Universities]]

[[Category:Universities]]