Bison fills onetime Confederate statue spot at Dixie State

By ELLE CABRERA
The Spectrum

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Another symbolic change took place this week at what will in a few months officially become Utah Tech University. The Spectrum reports crews at Dixie State University installed a new bigger-than-life statue of a bison on campus, right in the spot where a controversial statue depicting Confederate soldiers once stood. The newest addition to DSU’s bison statue family was donated by the Safari Club International Foundation. The artist, Douglas Van Howard, calls this piece “Prairie Spring.”  The school stopped calling its sports teams the Rebels in 2009 in part of a years-long effort to move away from the Confederate imagery used earlier in its history.