Northup, Ph.D., is the director of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego ... State University. However, as an Aztec fan, there is one ingredient missing from it all: a mascot.

The school’s mascot, now the Chieftains, is banned under a new state law and has to be changed to comply. “It’s literally one of the names listed as prohibited,” said San Diego Unified ...

Clairemont High School will now be the first school in the San Diego Unified School District to change its mascot from its current chieftain mascot under the new state and district policy.

UC San Diego's mascot is the Triton ... UC San Diego relied on its location on the state's coast, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The school also is near the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The San Diego Unified School District has more than 200 schools, but the first one to be renamed is Clairemont High School. The school mascot is the Chieftains, a name that the state recently ...