Being one of the nation's premier agricultural schools, UC Davis (aka Berkeley-lite) students are known as Aggies--but their mascot is a race horse. Perhaps that will change:
Davis students have always loved our cows — perhaps, dare I say, much more than our confusingly blue mustang, Gunrock, based on a racehorse of the same name that lived on campus in the 1920s. Why do we have a mustang mascot when the real Gunrock was a thoroughbred and our Cal Poly rivals have a much more legitimate claim to the horse...
The irony of our love for cows but rejection of the bovine as mascot has rightly upset UC Davis students for decades. In 1993, Davis students voted for a cow to become the school’s official mascot. The vote was successful — until then-UC Davis chancellor Theodore L. Hullar and his administration rejected it.
Now, a group of about 30 UC Davis students are again attempting a mascot coup. Their efforts have thus far paid off: On Monday, the “Cow 4 Mascot” campaign was victorious in an undergraduate vote. With student support, Team Cow will now meet with the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and school administrators to talk next steps.
The Cow 4 Mascot group has settled on a name for our new mascot hopeful: Aggie the Cow. It’s a nod to the school’s rich agricultural history, merging the mascots of yesterday with those of today. It’s perfect.
They can still screw this up. In true UC Davis fashion they could make Aggie the Cow a differently-abled left-hooved lesbian of color cow, but let's hope they just heed the paraphrased words of Freud: sometimes a cow is just a cow.
BTW, I didn't know the horse mascot had a name. Gunrock is kinda cool.
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