Ralph,

If the standard to be considered is preventing potentially hostile and abusive environments, then scores of traditional rivalries need to be cancelled.  I have personally witnessed the intensity of the Wabash-DePauw Monon Bell rivalry, and the "exchange of pleasantries" between fans of both schools has been abusive and hostile, to say the least.

Since my initial post, I have learned the NCAA's willingness to concede a school's use of a Native American nickname has been predicated upon that particular tribe's agreement.  So I suggest McMurry should approach the Kaw tribe for approval of the nickname.   

The option I think McMurry ought to select in the face of an irreversible tide of political correctness is to change its nickname but retain its traditions consistent with its founding president's intentions.  Given that the NCAA has ostensibly allowed schools whose nicknames and mascots are patterned after regionally-indigenous tribes (Florida State Seminoles, Utah Utes, Mississippi College Choctaws, etc.), McMurry should replace the "Indian" moniker with "Kaws." McMurry's first president had a history with the Kaw tribe.  Interestingly enough, the only person of Indian descent to become a Vice President of the United States was one-eighth Kaw (Charles Curtis, VP in the Hoover administration from 1929-1933).