And it sure isn't going to be us. But, in all fairness, we wanted to give Trinity University and University of the South a shot at keeping their namesake. Looking for the quickest and most painless way of selecting who got to keep the Tigers, we decided to go by founding dates. First school founded wins. DePauw, which prominently displays its 1837 founding date on its webpage, was here 20 years before Sewanee and 32 years before Trinity.
Statistics are on our side.
Trinity and Sewanee needed a healthy dose of the creativity present at Hope College, where they rally behind the Fighting Dutchmen. And we're just the girls to give it to them. Wanting to give them names that would fit the particular schools, we decided to get to know Trinity and Sewanee through their web pages. The first thing we noticed on Trinity's web page was a fountain - a fountain that was turned on without a group of prospective students or alumni standing around it. We were intrigued and toyed with the idea of the Fighting Functioning Fountains.