Indiana University of Pennsylvania Crimson Hawks – Porn Stars?
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Brandon Minich | Monday, December 18, 2006 |
Sigh.
Earlier this year, when Dr. Tony Atwater announced that Indiana University of Pennsylvania was changing the nickname of its athletic teams, he said the new nickname needed to be unique and easily identifiable as a way of putting forth the best possible image of the university.
Hmmm.
Sounds like something requiring a lot of research. At least it should be researched.
So before the university went ahead and adopted the Crimson Hawk as the new nickname – as it did Friday at the board of trustees meeting – you’d think at least one person in John Sutton Hall would have taken the initiative to find out what exactly a Crimson Hawk is.
I did.
You know, with the Internet these days, a lot of information is at our fingertips. Good and bad.
A quick Google search leads one to find something rather, um, unique, when you type “Crimson Hawk” into the search box.
The first link you come to is for a Web site of an adults-only cartoon starring a blonde, busty woman named Crimson Hawk. The site claims to be the home of “the world’s sexiest, most powerful and most frequently defeated, humiliated and ravished superheroine.”
No joke. IUP’s student-athletes now share the same name as an adults-only cartoon. Not only that, it’s a cartoon of a “superhero” who is usually embarrassed by the opposition.Good choice, IUP.
That’s my alma mater – now laughingstock of the blogosphere. It would have been nice if they had taken some time to research this. Of course, now the article pointing this out is the SECOND most popular result on Google, so at least there’s an explanation.
I had personally hoped for the Miners – it has local flavor, and who can’t root for a miner? The powers that be thought differently . . . and now look at what happened. Its the age of the internet – when you can actually check for problems like this beforehand with the investment of five seconds of your time. Could we please just be the Miners?
I’m just glad that chances are good that this will blow over in a few weeks. Still, it’d be nice to check on these things.
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