November 6 , 2006 Nine College Hockey Related Ballot Initiatives • Red Measure (Michigan): Would cap the number of home games the University of Michigan hockey team could play during one season at 32. • Proposal 21 (Wisconsin): Would allow a hockey stick as a substitute form of legal identification when entering a bar. • Initiative Eh?: Would change spellings of the words center, defenseman, and offense to centre, defenceman, and offence in a nod to hockey's Canadian heritage. Would also mandate that the word organization be pronounced "ore-gan-EYE-ZAY-shun." • Proposal CCHA (Ohio): Would make checking from behind a felony. • Amendment BU (Boston): Would recognize the winner of the Beanpot title game as the true national champion. • Proposal X (New York State): Would ban 'hostile and abusive' treatment of fish at Souther Tier hockey rinks. (Fast-tracked legislation enacted in time for Friday.) • Proposal 285 (New Hampshire): Would ban all third-period goaltending meltdowns in March and April. Punishment is watching the "Handling the Puck Behind the Net the Ty Conklin Way" video. • Referendum UAA: Would change name of University of Alaska Anchorage to University of Not Fairbanks, Which is a Cold, Remote Outpost Where People Have No TV and Are Regularly Eaten by Abominable Snowmen. • Measure AHA (North Dakota): Would authorize the state to erect signs the entire length of the NoDak-Minnesota border reading, "Welcome to North Dakota: Where Minnesota lost to Holy Cross in the first round of the 2006 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament."