{"id":44779,"date":"2015-12-24T22:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44779"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:06:26","slug":"at-unlv-a-north-south-divide-over-rebel-mascot-but-its-not-what-you-think%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44779","title":{"rendered":"At UNLV, a north-south divide over rebel mascot — but it’s not what you think\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"

At UNLV, a north-south divide over rebel mascot — but it’s not what you think<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2015-12-02<\/p>\n

Nigel Duara<\/strong><\/a>, Contact Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe University of Nevada Las Vegas<\/a> mascot, Hey Reb! <\/a>(exclamation mark included), warms up the crowd before a basketball game.
\n(Isaac Brekken<\/a> \/ Associated Press)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

He is all bushy mustache and jutting chin below a pair of beady black eyes. His wide, gray hat perches at a tilt and his skin is the color of early peaches.<\/p>\n

His name is \u201cHey Reb!<\/a>\u201d \u2014 exclamation mark included \u2014 and years ago he was supposed to be the end of a mascot controversy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/a>. These days he is the beginning of a new one.<\/p>\n

UNLV<\/a>, like many public high schools and universities, is examining its mascot. The shooting deaths of nine congregants<\/a> at a black church in Charleston, S.C.<\/a>, at the hands of a man who posed online with Confederate flags<\/a> prompted U.S. Sen. Harry Reid<\/a> of Nevada<\/a> to question the appropriateness of Hey Reb!<\/p>\n

In response, UNLV President Len Jessup<\/a> requested that Rainier Spencer<\/a>, vice provost for Academic Affairs at UNLV and the school\u2019s chief diversity officer, analyze the mascot\u2019s history, a five-month project that led Spencer to some surprising conclusions<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At UNLV, a north-south divide over rebel mascot — but it’s not what you think The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-02 Nigel Duara, Contact Reporter The University of Nevada Las Vegas mascot, Hey Reb! (exclamation mark included), warms up the crowd before a basketball game. (Isaac Brekken \/ Associated Press) He is all bushy mustache and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[22400,22398,22396,3909,5718,22399,45,13272,22397,22395],"class_list":["post-44779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-hey-reb","tag-las-vegas","tag-len-jessup","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nevada","tag-nigel-duara","tag-rainier-spencer","tag-the-los-angeles-times","tag-university-of-nevada-at-las-vegas","tag-unlv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44784,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44779\/revisions\/44784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}