Marquette to change/update University Seal

[muwarrior69]

https://today.marquette.edu/2021/03/committee-working-on-updating-university-seal/

What is wrong with the seal as it is?

[Pakuni]

What's wrong with changing it?
MU changes its basketball uniforms seemingly every year and no one sees it as an affront.

[NolongerWarriors]

https://today.marquette.edu/2021/03/committee-working-on-updating-university-seal/

What is wrong with the seal as it is?

There was absolutely nothing wrong with it.

[lostpassword]

Relevant links:
https://marquettewire.org/4034059/news/marquette-student-starts-petition-to-change-university-seal/

1869 painting by German-American artist Wilhelm Alfred Lamprecht named "Father Marquette and the Indians.":
https://digitalmarquette.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p128701coll4/id/30/

Keep the kettle wolves, please.

[NorthernDancerColt]

https://today.marquette.edu/2021/03/committee-working-on-updating-university-seal/

What is wrong with the seal as it is?

I'm as Conservative as they come, but I have to agree with Pakuni on this one. If you look at that seal and see anything other than Jordan Spieth telling his lowly caddy "GO GET THAT!" then you aren't seeing the big picture.

I'm 100% sick of cancel culture and revisionist history, but I haven't liked that seal since the first day I saw it back in the late 1980s. To me, it's its own revisionist history, as the Natives knew the rivers and tributaries far better than our beloved Peres Marquette and Joliet. I think a more accurate description would have a tribal leader pointing the way for a subordinate Native rower while the Europeans sit and take notes of topography and surroundings.

[The Sultan]

I think it would be cool to have an actual, live seal.

[PhillyWarrior]

Have any of you SEEN the new seal?  How can you comment on whether its good or bad by a 1 sentence description?

[MU82]

I didn't even know we had a seal. Does he juggle with his nose while he plays a horn?

[4everwarriors]

Wee gotta bee more woke, aina?

[4everwarriors]

The school has money for this chit? Seriously, pay a top flight basketball coach and let's make MU great again, aina?

[Warriors4ever]

As long as none of the committee members were involved with the Marquette Gold fiasco I'm good.....

[tower912]

A new Seal?

We're never gonna survive
Unless
We get a little

Cra-zy


Ok.   Not so new.

[StillAWarrior]

What's wrong with changing it?
MU changes its basketball uniforms seemingly every year and no one sees it as an affront.

I've got no problem with them changing the seal. But that's a silly comparison.

[The Sultan]

I've got no problem with them changing the seal. But that's a silly comparison.

OK fine.  They change the logo every decade.

[StillAWarrior]

OK fine.  They change the logo every decade.

Better. But still a bit silly.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

As long as none of the committee members were involved with the Marquette Gold fiasco I'm good.....

Replace the Native American on the seal with Bricky, and you are golden (pun intended).

[mu_hilltopper]

Don't over-think it.

[Hards Alumni]

South Park changed their flag, so this isn't without precedent.

[The Sultan]

Don't over-think it.

Can we have the wolves fighting over a beef 'n cheddar?

[MuggsyB]

I think it would be cool to have an actual, live seal.

Yes.

[Heisenberg]

We know why they are going to change the seal.  See the thread about the Chicago statues.

Should we start a thread about what the University's new name will be?

[Galway Eagle]

We know why they are going to change the seal.  See the thread about the Chicago statues.

Should we start a thread about what the University's new name will be?

If the seal is just changed to a less stereotypical Indian and Marquette isn't standing & pointing then will you be upset?

[🏀]

lowly caddy

Greller is the alpha of that duo.

[Heisenberg]

If the seal is just changed to a less stereotypical Indian and Marquette isn't standing & pointing then will you be upset?

Let's not pretend we don't know where this is going. You're naive if you think this ends with the seal. This is just the first pitch of a nine-inning game.

[The Sultan]

Let's not pretend we don't know where this is going. You're naive if you think this ends with the seal. This is just the first pitch of a nine-inning game.

They will remove the native imagery.  No doubt.

The University will not be renamed.