DARTMOUTH — Dartmouth General public Colleges officers have set a tentative date for a public enter session on the significant school’s controversial Indian logo.

Associates of the schools’ subcommittee on variety and equality are preparing a conference on Wednesday, Aug. 18 to listen to general public responses on the situation of whether or not to get rid of the brand, which features a Wampanoag warrior.

The subcommittee talked over the designs at a July 13 meeting.

What is the difficulty with Dartmouth High’s Indian brand?

Dartmouth Higher students are known as the Indians.

The name and symbol have occur beneath fire a short while ago, as proposed bills banning the use of native imagery as college mascots wend their way by way of the condition legislature.

Proponents of the expenses argue that the use of American Indian imagery and mascots can be damaging to mental well being for Indigenous local community members.

The Equality and Diversity Subcommittee was fashioned very last calendar year by the University Committee to analyze the symbol and other problems with equity and range in Dartmouth educational institutions.

Students at Dartmouth Higher University this 12 months are 84% white, with % Indigenous enrollment, in accordance to Office of Education and learning knowledge.

Who has weighed in on the symbol controversy?

Numerous well known local community customers have spoken in favor of retaining the symbol, together with Tribal Chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, herself a former Dartmouth Superior alumna.

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