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Article: Students on quest to bring back `Warriors' After four years, some say `Golden Eagles' doesn't fly
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 12, 1998
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A student campaign launched this week to bring back the old
Marquette University nickname, the Warriors, has some alumni rolling
their eyes in exasperation, others panting in hopeful anticipation
and still others reaching for the antacid.
The issue resurrects one of the more painful chapters of Marquette
University history. For Marquette students to be reopening this can
of worms is like the Chicago Tourism Board pining for the
Prohibition era.
The flap over the name change was not much less tumultuous four
years ago when Father Albert DiUlio, then the president, changed the
name from the Warriors to the Golden Eagles, a moniker meant to be
less offensive, especially to American ...