spring time

January 29, 2009

New Mascot




So our college, a few years ago, got a new board of directors who decided that the name "Rebel" was offensive and might insult others. So they assigned a new mascot (since we didn't have on to start with) "Red Hawk", which they said sounded enough like "Rebel" to please students. After 3-4 years they decided that Red Hawk was lame, and didn't really sound that much like Rebel. So after much debate the finally decided on "Red Storm", which sounds a lot more like "Rebel". Then they proceeded to color it black, except when he goes into "Tasmanian Dirt Devil" mode and turns red. He also takes on a nose ring and his eyes turn blue. Of course the school colors are red and blue, but lets not consider that when sketching the mascot.

Comments from Dixie Students:

This Mascot is for the bulls.
Now our mascot really sucks.
I thought the bull would be red.

I really don't see why we can't remain the "Rebels" and not worry about creating costumes and characters. But I'm not the one wielding the mighty checkbook.

2 comments:

A Daily Double said...

There's the PC police again. What's wrong with rebel? UNLV has the Runnin Rebels and no one has complained about them.

Nikki said...

The bull is silly, but Red Storm is awesome. :D