The Feds Get 1 Right

From the Detroit Free Press: American Indian mascots, names and imagery will stay in Michigan schools for now.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has dismissed a complaint filed against 35 Michigan school districts that alleged that the use of such imagery is discriminatory.
The complaint, filed earlier this year by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, could have had national implications and would have forced schools to choose new mascots, names or imagery. The department can appeal the ruling.
The 35 districts cited in the complaint include seven school districts in metro Detroit.....
But the federal department, in its letter dismissing the complaint, said the information the state department provided “is not sufficient for OCR to infer that racial discrimination has occurred or is occurring,” said Catherine Criswell, director of the OCR office.
Criswell said the department had not provided to OCR any specific examples of race-based incidents or identified “any students or individuals who have suffered specific harm because of the alleged discrimination at any of the named school districts.”
The OCR notified the Michigan civil rights department Friday that the complaint was being dismissed. Officials with the state department said Monday they are disappointed.    http://www.freep.com/article/20130603/NEWS06/306030121/indian-mascot-ban-tossed-Michigan
Good for the Fed's and hopefully this will end the very stupid issue about the nick names of high school and college sports teams.