Deseret News Dixie State’s name change isn’t about the past. It’s about students’ future Students, faculty and alumni of the university in southern Utah say the name Dixie is hurting their prospects for a bright future Share this story Ravell Call, Deseret News William Shakespeare taught an important truth through his iconic protagonist, the young Juliet of “Romeo and Juliet.” “What’s in a name?” she asks. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” And so it is with Dixie State University in St. George. Another, more appropriate, name would not change the character of that community, the beauty of its natural setting or the legacy of hardy pioneers who forged a settlement out of a forbidding landscape.