as recently as 2008, True Rebel Night is ongoing; The Dixie Confederate Yearbook into the 1990s)." The Salt Lake Tribune recounted photos in Dixie College yearbooks, called The Confederate. "[A]s late as the early 1990s [w]hite students sing in black face, dress as Confederate soldiers, stage slave auctions and affectionately display the Confederate battle standard." The local newspaper The Spectrum reviewed and published excerpts from local newspapers and Dixie College publications that contain Confederate related activities, photographs, and references. In March 1987 and 1988 the community held a festival called a Secession, presided over in 1987 by Governor Norman Bangerter and in 1988 by Wilford Brimley. Events included a ball in grand Southern style, presided over by costumed Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, who also participated in many publicity photos. A 40-foot Confederate flag hung over St. George Boulevard. Confederate flags were abundantly displayed by city, county and school officials in promotional photographs, and the Washington County News masthead had the Confederate flag and cited its location as "St. George, Confederate State of Dixie". "Dixie" controversy Controversy over the use of the name "Dixie" has repeatedly arisen in the Southern Utah community at large. Dixie State University The Confederate flag was removed as a Dixie College symbol in 1993. In 2005 the Confederate soldier 'Rodney the Rebel' was eliminated as the mascot, and use of the nickname 'Rebels' was discontinued in 2007. In 2007, as then named Dixie State College was considering affiliation with the University of Utah "U. officials said dropping the 'baggage' of Dixie would be mandatory." "'Dixie' has connotations of the Old South, the Confederacy, and racism,’ Randy Dryer, then the U. trustees' chairman, wrote to The Chronicle of Higher Education." The affiliation with the University of Utah did not happen. In 2012, many articles appeared as the school was about to make "the leap to university status next year". The Salt Lake Tribune editorialized that the school needed a new name based on the pioneer origin of the name, and Confederacy-honoring practices of the students. An African American student told the Tribune he was shocked to find old yearbooks with photos "of students in blackface, holding mock slave auctions, dressed in Confederate uniforms and staging parade floats and skits that seem to ridicule blacks, such as a crowd in black face behind a white student dressed as a Col. Sanders-type figure. 'In 1968 they were still