Word: mascotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often, literature and demographics are antithetical. In literature, personal experience supercedes objective classification, and metaphor can create its own categories; the poet Sylvia Plath can write that she "may well be a Jew." But after 20 years of the Derek Bok Plan, demographics have become our university mascot. Kevin calls the new housing system "a nightmare." If the end goal of nonordered choice is a neat breakdown of quotas, Kevin questions the methods for calculating the figures. "Who do they look for in counting diversity? They can't see diversity in an artistic community or in a Black community...
...dean said the University even had a mascot at one time, a "Puritan" who ran around the stands during football games in the Soldiers' Field stadium...
...Brand awareness in childhood is brand preference in adulthood," she said, citing the popularity among children of Old Joe, the cartoon mascot of Camel Cigarettes...
...unrelated post-April Fool's incident, the A.D. Club's mascot, a bull's head, was stolen from the final club Monday night and left in the lobby of the Malkin Athletic Center...
...this in a state with only one interstate, no national sports teams and a hog for its university's mascot. And all this during the Reagan years, when federal aid to states and cities was subject to draconian cuts--cuts that made it impossible for most governors to win two terms, let alone five...