THE PROCESS TO COME UP with a new nickname to replace Redmen took a big step at tonight’s meeting of the MAPS School Board. After looking at 2000 submissions, the board, through a process that included the current student body, has whittled it down to a final eight. In no particular order, here they ... Continue Reading
What’s In a (Nick)name? • Other Words
Moving on… The MAPS school board held a “Committee of the Whole Meeting" Monday night where they took an initial step in the rebranding process of the high school’s nickname. They're moving on from dropping it to replacing it. The first part has been a little messy, and maybe not yet fully played out. Coming up with a ... Continue Reading
School Board Meeting Minutes (Unofficial)
Redmen Back on the Agenda For those of you who didn’t attend Monday night’s MAPS School Board meeting, with the Redmen nickname issue being the headliner, I offer my recollection of what I saw and heard over the full 244 minutes. Yes… 244 minutes. That’s four hours and change. First, the crowd was smaller than I ... Continue Reading
Still the Redmen… but for how much longer?
MANY OF YOU MAY HAVE THOUGHT the MSHS nickname debate a settled issue, having been decided based on the results of a survey put out by the MAPS Board of Education. Well, it isn’t. At last Monday night’s meeting, board Vice-President Glenn Sarka made a motion to include renewed discussion of what to do about our ... Continue Reading
Redmen Re-Revisited • A Level Playing Field • No News?
In the continuing chronicle of the Marquette Senior High School nickname issue, a member of the Native American community weighed in with a letter to the MAPS school board at their regular meeting earlier this week. The letter, written by Austin Lowes, Acting Chairman of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, and ... Continue Reading