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What is the mascot of Caltech?

I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo


Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo


Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

Not to mention Stanford Cardinal, whose mascot is an ugly dancing tree.

Appa23 wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo


Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

Not to mention Stanford Cardinal, whose mascot is an ugly dancing tree.

And, yet, you did mention it.

I was not trying for an exhaustive list, just illustrative examples.

[schoolyard chant]AJ's touchy, AJ's touchy!![/sc]

Ooh, and there's the Purdue Boilermakers, whose mascot is Purdue Pete.

Just for a more obscure example.

Ok....I think it's Bucky Beaver......

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo


Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Tech

It's not always true that the nickname is the same as the mascot, but in this case it is.

...Bob of the many numbers can confirm this if he's not still reminiscing about Richard Feyman.

Just in case you're like me, and suspicious of wikipedia as a source, here's a Caltech document that says its mascot is the beaver:

http://hr.caltech.edu/Education/courses ... update.htm

I see the Wikipedia article says the women's ultimate Frisbee team is known as "Snatch" and not the "Beavers". There's a difference?

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo


Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

I'm pretty sure that it's considered appropriate to refer to the Cal Tech mascot as any Tom, Dick or Harry.

Well, maybe not "Tom."

mrkelley23 wrote:[schoolyard chant]AJ's touchy, AJ's touchy!![/sc]

Ooh, and there's the Purdue Boilermakers, whose mascot is Purdue Pete.

Just for a more obscure example.

BUZZZZZZZZ.

Purdue's mascot is not Purdue Pete. He is a cheerleader.

The Purdue mascot is the Boilermaker Special, a replica train engine.

Just because those websites use the term "mascot" doesn't make it so.

I still think they they are using "mascot" when they mean "nickname".

andrewjackson wrote:

mrkelley23 wrote:[schoolyard chant]AJ's touchy, AJ's touchy!![/sc]

Ooh, and there's the Purdue Boilermakers, whose mascot is Purdue Pete.

Just for a more obscure example.

BUZZZZZZZZ.

Purdue's mascot is not Purdue Pete. He is a cheerleader.

The Purdue mascot is the Boilermaker Special, a replica train engine.

Touchy, I tell ya.

andrewjackson wrote:Just because those websites use the term "mascot" doesn't make it so.

I still think they they are using "mascot" when they mean "nickname".

The mascot is a beaver. The mascot may have a name.

andrewjackson wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo


Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

Not to mention Stanford Cardinal, whose mascot is an ugly dancing tree.

And, yet, you did mention it.

I was not trying for an exhaustive list, just illustrative examples.

Someone's a bit uptight today.

Bob Juch wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:Just because those websites use the term "mascot" doesn't make it so.

I still think they they are using "mascot" when they mean "nickname".

The mascot is a beaver. The mascot may have a name.

Wow. The Great and All Powerful Juch actually was right.

From a Christian Science Monitor article dated March 7, 2007:

A brown-fleece Beaver mascot shimmies along the sideline where seven grad students flex their bare chests to spell out "Caltech" in body paint.

I'll concede that Cal Tech may, in fact, have a Beaver mascot.

This just made me laugh and laugh.

I like it when aj gets this way - especially when it gets this way with Juch and HD.

Not sure how I feel about mikey being in the mix.