From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more ...
Date: 22 Jul 1992 04:07:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
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In article <17076@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:

[...]

>UC Santa Cruz's students decided they wanted the banana slug as their
>mascot. Its a beautiful invertebrate. It really looks like a small
>banana. A yellow color on an animal is not frequently found out of the
>tropics. The staff and alums were up in arms. The only varsity sport
>they have is Ultimate Frisbee, not Penis....er...football, so what was
>the problem? They put it up to a vote and the slug won by a landslide.

You bet!  Actually, we have varsity swimming and rugby, too.  All
the sports schedules posted around campus say "Fighting Banana Slugs
1991-92 Athletic Schedule".  Go Slugs!

Actually, I think Irvine's mascot is humorous, too.  I forget what
it is, though, anteater or armadillo or something like that.

>Peeve: Humorless college administrators.

Really.  The one before the last chancellor was a real deadbeat.

>Peeve: Opnionated alums who don't make donations anyway, but threaten
>to stop donating (which they don't) if the students do something 
>humorful.

Um, I don't think this applies to UCSC.  If anybody actually belongs
to the alumni association, it is so they can use the swimming pool.
You think those people would stop donating?  Anyway, the alumni around
here don't have those fond memories of frat houses and football teams
that seem to be a disease of the yuppies.  Our alumni come in and
threaten to chain themselves to trees if the administration doesn't
stop chopping them down.

Peeve:  I wish they *had* chained themselves to the trees.  Then
they wouldn't be building the new building, which involves all sorts
of complicated maneuvers with construction equipment (top speed: 5mph,
turning radius: 1/2 mile).  I can see them every evening, getting
together in the little construction trailer, planning their next
day's strategy:

"...Yup, I think if we block this road here from 8:30 until 9:30, we
can pretty much make it impossible for anybody that works in any
of the science buildings to get up there."

"Oh, no, boss, look, they could walk up this footpath here from the
library."

"Oh, my god, you're right!  Let's see, maybe if we tore up this road
here at around 8, we'd keep anybody from getting there until 10 or
so..."

"Heh heh.  You sure know how to make life tough for those eggheads,
boss..."

Peeve 2:  This is Amateur Hour compared to what they are doing 
downtown.  It is sort of like a micro-mouse competition for humans,
where the prize is you get a cup of coffee, and the maze is made of
chain-link fences and plank walkways.  They change it every day,
too.  This seems like weird activity for summertime in a tourist
town, especially when the street that is torn up is one of the
former tourist attractions.

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