Many mascots are demeaning
Congratulations to the University law students for bringing up the important issue of demeaning school mascots.
I am a seventh generation Irish/American and am neither a drunk nor a violent man. Yet, I have to put up with the Saint Patrick’s Day drunk-fest and the Notre Dame’s culturally insensitive “Fighting Irish.”
This is truly harmful and disrespectful to me and my people. I ask the athletic department to take a stance for our Irish
students by not playing Notre Dame.
While we are at it, let us scrub our mascot, the Ducks. After all, in the 20th century, land developers and hunters systematically destroyed wetlands and duck populations in such a way that would have comparatively made generals Custer and Sheradin cringe.
John Muir O’Brien
junior
pre-journalism
