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Friday, May 23, 2003

Re: Mascot Wars

My personal feeling on the moose is that if we adopt it officially, we go all out, which means going the U. of Colorado route and getting a real honest to god moose ala Ralphie the Buffalo. That would actually be sweet, though it would royally piss off the animal rights crowd on campus I'm sure. The absolute worst idea would be to go back to that stupid Bullwinkle ripoff.

Bears and Eagles are much too generic and besides, why would we want to copy Brown or Boston College?. Likewise the Timberwolves is already taken and not generic enough to be ripped off.
Pine Trees is worse than the Big Green.
Mountaineers wouldn't be too bad, nor would the Dragons - though Dragons pales in comparison to the UVM Catamounts in terms of cool mythical figures.
But among the listed choices, Indians would still be the logical choice were it not for the politicalization of this process.

In my opinion, if these are the only choices they should just keep the nickname the Big Green and stay without an official mascot, especially in light of the fact none of the choices got even 30%, let alone 50% or more. The Student Assembly has no idea what they're doing, shocking though that may be, as they don't even know the difference between a team's/school's nickname (Phillies, Yankees, Red Sox, Wildcats, Crimson, etc.) and a mascot (Phillie Fanatic, San Diego Chicken, Herbie Husker, Ralphie, Uga, etc.). Mascots are not necessary, and we already have prefectly acceptable logos in the Block D, the script D (think the hat the baseball team wears), or the college seal/shield (center ice at Thompson Arena).

Posted by Ben at 12:54 PM

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