University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI

This is where it gets tricky with the mascots:
Football, Men's Basketball & Volleyball-Hawaii Warriors
All women's sports-Rainbow Wahine
Baseball & other men's sports-Rainbow Warriors

Since the early 1920s UH was known as the Rainbows, and then here comes June Jones and he decides to change the mascot for the football team and naturally the Hawaiian population protests, calling the mascot "racist and derogatory". Other mens teams followed suit, but many others kept the names they had for years.

The rainbow logo is gone...so now we have an "H" with the traditional Polynesian kapa print on all UH paraphenalia.


[This message has been edited by OohTeenyWahine (edited May 20, 2001).]