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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 84139" data-attributes="member: 1485"><p>[h=1]<span style="font-family: inherit">NDSU president wants revision of school song for 'troubling' cultural references</span>[/h]</p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">FARGO – The president of North Dakota State University is calling for an immediate revision of the school song due to "troubling" cultural and ethnic references in the third verse, he wrote in an email to campus on Wednesday.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'"></span></span><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">The third verse of "The Yellow and the Green" includes the sentence, "Hushed upon the boundless prairies is the bison's thund'ring tread, and the red man passes with him on his spoilers' bounty fed."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">President Dean Bresciani said in the email that he had never heard the song beyond its first verse, and when the third came to his attention, he felt the matter called for immediate attention.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">"While some may initially find it an overstated concern, others will find it central to a deep and sober examination of our campus history," he wrote.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">He said the verse is troubling in its references to both minority and majority populations.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">After the line regarding the "red man," the verse continues, "But the Norse, the Celt and Saxon with their herd increase, and find mid these fields of green and yellow plenty e'en for all mankind."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">Bresciani is now ordering that all but the first verse be removed from NDSU websites and publications. He has also asked the provost and vice president for student affairs to form a group of students, faculty and staff to study the song and "offer recommendations on the balance between our history and tradition of the song with contemporary concerns for its appropriateness."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111"><span style="font-family: 'Lora'">Bresciani said this issue was brought to his attention through NDSU's "system for confidential reporting of bias issues."</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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