With 23 percent of the votes, future students had selected the Cougar as the school's mascot, but Canyons School District said that board members expressed concern over the use of Cougar because it's used as a derogatory term for some women.
How much of something like this is tied to Mormon-think versus PC-retarded behavior? I can't imagine teens were thinking, "Hey, let's choose a mascot who wants to date younger men." especially when they live in an area where BYU is a national brand.
- VRDRC
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
But "Cougars" was on the ballot as one of the nicknames to be voted on?? Someone screwed up. Must not have prayed and fasted about the potential names first before mailing them out.
My guess is the nickname "Beavers" has no chance.
Red flags look normal when you're wearing rose colored glasses.
Jonah wrote:But "Cougars" was on the ballot as one of the nicknames to be voted on?? Someone screwed up. Must not have prayed and fasted about the potential names first before mailing them out.
My guess is the nickname "Beavers" has no chance.
This might already be taken by Beaver High School (for real).
Springville's mascot is the Red Devil. The origin of the mascot name dates back to the original construction of the school, when the Red Devil Cement Company assisted significantly in the building. This became a focal point for controversy in 2002. Some local citizens organized a committee called "Parents for Mascot Review". They argued that the Devil was an unsavory mascot for teens and interpreted school literature bearing the character "pro devil" paraphernalia. Some claimed that good Latter-day Saints should not support the mascot for its Satanic allusion. Other Latter-day Saints disagreed, saying that the church had no official stance on the matter, that the mascot was not Satanic, but rather a mythical creature, and that the groups were promoting their own agenda.
Alumni of the school countered that the mascot was not Satanic, and had been the official mascot since 1967 when students voted it in. Further they claimed it was historically significant.
With the advent of reality TV and heavy metal seepage into ground water, is it any wonder that School Boards and Administrators would make quirky decisions? As to the actions in Utah county and worry over the devil, that is just status quo for that area.
