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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 110090" data-attributes="member: 1485">#hawklivesmatter- - - Updated - - -A missed opportunity: Designer of iconic Sioux head sounds off on new UND logoBELCOURT, ND (WDAZ-TV) - Many have been calling for input from the designer of the former Fighting Sioux logo.He tells WDAZ that he DID have an input in the process, but the school didn't listen.Tucked off a dirt road, on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, there's a metal shack. There, the artist who created the iconic Sioux head lives.Back in 1999 Bennet Brien was asked by the University to draw up 5 sketches for the Fighting Sioux, but it only took one loaded with symbolism.Bennet Brien: “The determined look which you have to have in life and going to college.”He was paid $2,000, and when he heard of the new nickname he immediately got to work creating a Fighting Hawk using some elements of the old logo.Brien lives and works just north of Belcourt, when he got a call to come to Grand Forks to make the three hour trip to give his input on a new Fighting Hawks logo.Brien: “I went to this meeting and they had this New York guy and a big screen or whatever, from New York. And they showed a bunch of different logos, man you know, and there was one I liked so I told the guy I like that one, kind of.He says the trip was a waste of time.Brien: “I said, you got to use, I like that one. But, if you incorporate more the colors from the Fighting Sioux logo, somehow, and try to give it that kind of look and then I'd probably go with it you know. But, they didn't they totally didn't even go with what I suggested.”The university had a different vision.Ed Schafer, interim UND president: “I felt it was important to have professional logo development people and branding people develop that and not just a local artist.”And at the end of the day, interim president Ed Schafer made the call.Schafer: “I already had my favorite.”Brien is disappointed with the logo and thinks UND missed an opportunity to add to the story of the Fighting Sioux.Brien: “There's Indian legends that people turn into animals and stuff. There's always these things going on to explain different things you know. That would've been a good one. This guy turning into a hawk, that'd have been cool. That'd have been alright man, I think people would've dug it.”With or without one legendary artist’s input, the page is turned to the future of the Fighting Hawks.More than 1,000 people have voted on an online poll conducted by our partners at the Grand Forks Herald. 70% are against the new logo.</blockquote>

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