Swastika Abandoned

While activists here are fighting to prevent World War III, the memories of World War II are still raising deep concern elsewhere.

In a decision counter to student opinion the Board of Regents for New Mexico State University has voted to drop the name Swastika from the university's student yearbook and to find a new symbol for the institution which has used the swastika since 1907.

Zuni Symbol

According to a spokesman for the university students had voted to keep the name, but the Publications Board, which assists in publishing the yearbook voted for a name change.

The use of the swastika a Zuni Indian symbol depicting the gods of rivers and mountains, had raised controversy at the university because of its use as a Nazi emblem in Germany. The Chronicle of Higher Education