[Michael.SF.]

LOL. I won't tell!

BTW, Shouldn't the team mascot have been an indication that the school might not be all it is cracked up to be?

just asking.

;)

[ArmyTeach]

OK, here's the skinny on the UCSC mascot. For those who don't know, the school mascot is the banana slug. Yuck. At the outset in the late 60s the student population scorned intercollegiate sports. At the same time, the lovely walk through the woods from the trailer dorms and the field house to the library and the science building was teeming with these 1 1/2 to 2 inch brown and dirty yellow slugs. They came out especially at night and you couldn't help but crunch them as you walked along the path. So I think banana slug became both a nod to our most ubiquitous wildlife as well as a slap at the popularity of school sports on other campi.