Wednesday, February 24, 2010

IT'S A TRAP! Ole Miss wants to update its image (still heavily shaped by the 1962 integration and accompanying riots), and to do so, has gotten rid of former mascot Colonel Reb. They're keeping the nickname "Rebels," though, so who's the logical choice pushed by students as a replacement? Why, of course, it's everyone's favorite Mon Calamari leader of the Rebel Alliance!
Posted by Matt at 9:14 AM

14 comments:

  1. Adlai10:41 AM

    What's the reverse of timely?

    But, this does give me an opportunity to link to one of my favorite Onion articles - http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28559

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  2. Adam11:56 AM

    A better question: why still call it "Ole Miss" -- the nickname slaves had for the mistress of the plantation -- and not "The University of Mississippi"?

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  3. The Pathetic Earthling12:01 PM

    Let's not call it anything.  Let's just ignore it.

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  4. Matt12:34 PM

    I have a witness in a case that's being tried in just a few weeks that's a professor at Ole Miss, and they've gotten a lot of generally positive press out of "Blind Side."

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  5. Anonymous12:52 PM

    And what is your source on this?

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  6. Joseph J. Finn12:53 PM

    Obviously not from people who've seen the movie.  I think I'm still waking up from the nap that movie induced.

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  7. Adam12:54 PM

    NYT, 11-1-98, and many other online sources.

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  8. Benner1:03 PM

    Really?  I thought it was pretty shady that Oher wound up at the college of which his adoptive parents were huge boosters.  Certainly not Ol[d] Miss's fault, but I don't see how this warrants "good press."  

    Also, there's no way Lucasfilm lets Admiral Akbar be the mascot, right?  

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  9. The Pathetic Earthling1:28 PM

    Lucas film is actually pretty tolerant of fandom.  Although to the extent Ole Miss will want to sell stuff with Akbar the rebel, they'll need to pony up.

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  10. mec4:32 PM

    I loved "The Blind Side."  It's in my top four of movies last year.  Ole Miss didn't go up in my opinion, but I do now have a vague fondness for the Ravens.  But if Ole Miss is really mascoting Star Wars....I think they might have to go up in my opinion too.

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  11. Watts4:45 PM

    I'm very much enjoying Clay Travis's campaign for William Faulkner as the new Ole Miss mascot.
    http://brizzly.com/#twitter/-/user/ClayTravisBGID

    I had no idea Ole Miss referred to the mistress of a plantation.  I assumed it was "Miss" for Mississippi and Ole as a "remember it fondly" kind of way.  Like "The Ole Punkin Patch" or whatever.  This blog is now officialy educational.

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  12. patricia5:49 PM

    Yep, I didn't know that either.  I thought it was Miss for Mississippi too, and Ole in the southern dialect way.  Huh.

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  13. Adlai10:03 PM

    That NYT article was absolutely fascinating. I just learned a ton about the University of Mississippi - circa 1998, but still.

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  14. Puff12:27 AM

    But Manatees are native to Florida!  and FOX News.

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