in 2000, the university of hawaii at manoa changed its sports teams' name from "rainbow warriors" to "warriors" and redesigned its logo to eliminate a rainbow from it. initially athletic director hugh yoshida said that the change was to distance the school's athletic program from homosexuality. when this drew criticism, yoshida then said the change was merely to avoid brand confusion. the school then allowed each team to select its own name, leading to a mix including "rainbow warriors", "warriors", "rainbows" and "rainbow wahine". this decision was reversed in may 2013, when current athletic director ben jay reversed his earlier decision in february to force all of the men's athletic teams to be just warriors from the patchwork of names from dropping the rainbow warriors name.