Who’s honoring Stephen Colbert now? The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse!
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Because, let’s face it, there’s never enough things named after Stephen Colbert. Here’s the scoop behind the naming of the new mascot at UW-La Crosse, courtesy of their campus newspaper, the Racquet:
Students pick “Colbert” as mascot monicker
Chris Rochester
In a campus-wide revote, UW-L students said they want to see the school’s mascot named “Colbert” after Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert.
The referendum, which attracted 3,161 votes, was the second vote by UW-L students on the mascot name. The first resulted in a win for “Eddie.”
But the National Rifle Association, which has an educational mascot by the same name, informed UW-L in a legal notice that the trademark will not be released and a new name was required.
UW-L senior Jack Temple began a petition after Eddie’s rejection to name the mascot “Colbert.” … “Colbert” drew 44 percent of the vote, with 1408 total votes. In a distant second was “Ernie,” drawing only 14 percent. “Colbert” joined the top five names from the first referendum after Temple’s petition, whose Facebook group has 757 members.
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2 Comments
May 11th, 2009 at 12:17 am
LOL! It’s great to know that Stephen inspires a lot of us to name stuff after him. :D
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May 11th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Once Stephen gets in a naming race, the best anything else can do is a “distant second.” Oh, yeah.
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