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AP SALEM, Ore. - Eight Oregon high schools will have to retire their Native American mascots after the Board of Education voted Thursday to prohibit them, giving the state some of the nation s toughest restrictions on Native American mascots, nicknames and logos.The 5-1 vote followed months of passionate and emotional debate about tolerance and t stanley mug radition.The schools have five years to comply with the order or risk losing their state funding. Another seven high schools identified as th stanley cup e Warriors will be allowed to keep their nickname but will have to change mascots or graphics that depict Native Americans. An unknown number of elementary and middle schools also will be affected.The ban doesn t apply to colleges, but none in Oregon have Native American mascots after Southern Oregon University and Chemeketa Community College dropped them.Since the 1970s, more than 600 high school and college teams across the country have done away with their Native American nicknames, including 20 in Oregon. Critics say Indian mascots are racist, contending they reinforce stereotypes and promote bullying of Native students. Supporters say the mascots are a way to honor Native American history, evoking values of strength and bravery. It is racist. It is harmful. It is shaming. It is dehumanizing, Se-ah-dom Edmo, vice president of the Oregon Indian Education Association, told t stanley mug he board.In 2006, the Oregon Board of Education adopted a nonbinding recommendation that schools stop using Nati Punp Remember: Fall Back Sunday
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AP SALEM, Ore. - Eight Oregon high schools will have to retire their Native American mascots after the Board of Education voted Thursday to prohibit them, giving the state some of the nation s toughest restrictions on Native American mascots, nicknames and logos.The 5-1 vote followed months of passionate and emotional debate about tolerance and t stanley mug radition.The schools have five years to comply with the order or risk losing their state funding. Another seven high schools identified as th stanley cup e Warriors will be allowed to keep their nickname but will have to change mascots or graphics that depict Native Americans. An unknown number of elementary and middle schools also will be affected.The ban doesn t apply to colleges, but none in Oregon have Native American mascots after Southern Oregon University and Chemeketa Community College dropped them.Since the 1970s, more than 600 high school and college teams across the country have done away with their Native American nicknames, including 20 in Oregon. Critics say Indian mascots are racist, contending they reinforce stereotypes and promote bullying of Native students. Supporters say the mascots are a way to honor Native American history, evoking values of strength and bravery. It is racist. It is harmful. It is shaming. It is dehumanizing, Se-ah-dom Edmo, vice president of the Oregon Indian Education Association, told t stanley mug he board.In 2006, the Oregon Board of Education adopted a nonbinding recommendation that schools stop using Nati Punp Remember: Fall Back Sunday
In about a billion years the Sun will be too hot and bri stanley cup ght for water to exist on Earth. We will probably mosey on at that point or perish. But if we ;re still alive and somewhere in the neighborhood when the Sun runs out of hydrogen and becomes a red giant we can observe it looking something like this. The hazy cloud above is planetary nebula IC 289, located in the Cassiopeia constellation. It called a planetary nebula because when telescopes were less powerful astronomers thought they were stanley cup observing gaseous planets orbiting a star. Actually the region is simply occupied by the cloud of ionized gas and dust that was released from the star in the middle when it collapsed. That the way to go out kicking and screaming. [Hubble Picture of the Week] stanley flask AstronomyNASASpacestars