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Valparaiso drops mascot linked to KKK & violence after already having ditched Nazi-linked name in ’40s; might we suggest one?

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You probably haven’t thought much lately about Valparaiso University, the Lutheran school about an hour southeast of Chicago, in the Indiana town that lends its name to the institution.

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