Originally called the Clansmen, but shortened to Clan, Simon Fraser University’s name was meant to honour the Scottish heritage of Sits namesake, the fur trader and explorer. Now, a majority of student athletes support changing the name as it could provoke images of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
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