Word: mascotism
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Baby Mozart, meet alumni mania. A new series of DVDs for tots features footage of college marching bands and mascots. For budding fans of, say, the University of Texas, there's not only a Baby Longhorn video from Team Baby Entertainment but also a new Mascotopia mobile that plays Eyes of Texas. Toddlers with more literary tastes can drool over mini tomes such as Mascot Books' Let's Go Illini! Early applications, anyone...
...NCAA ruled last week that Florida State University can keep using its Seminole mascot, decreeing that Chief Osceola is not "hostile and abusive" after all and thus may continue cheerleading in the postseason. The decision has given a boost to some of 17 other schools whose American Indian nicknames the NCAA has barred from play-off games. Central Michigan University (the Chippewas) and the University of Utah (the Utes) are also appealing the ban and, as Florida State did so successfully, are lining up local tribes to attest to their "long-standing relationships...
...night on the town with Screech, the Nationals mascot...
During his freshman year, he was written up in the MIT student newspaper, The Tech, for his involvement in the theft of a paw from the costume of MIT mascot Tim the Beaver. When an MIT sophomore removed part of the costume to climb on the John Harvard statue, a Harvard student stole the paw, which was mysteriously found in Gilligan’s Holworthy suite. The MIT newspaper chronicled attempts to recover the paw alternately through force and subterfuge...
...DIED. THURL RAVENSCROFT, 91, versatile voice-over specialist whose booming "Gr-r-eat!" made Tony the Tiger, the mascot of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes (known in some parts of the world as Frosties), one of TV's most recognized commercial pitchmen; in Fullerton, California. "I've made a career out of one word," he once said...