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Jun 10, 2011 · This year marks the 25th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz's famous banana slug mascot, a once-subversive symbol on campus. This month, a former chancellor and various alumni looked back on the days when the fate of this character hung on a slender thread of slime.
www .ucsc .edu. The University of California, Santa Cruz ( UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the main campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of ...
- Small city, 6,088 acres (2,464 ha)
- Sammy the Slug
- 19,161 (fall 2020)
- "Let there be light"
Most students disliked the new mascot and offered an alternative mascot, the banana slug. In 1986, students voted via referendum to declare the banana slug the official mascot of UCSC – a vote the chancellor refused to honor, arguing that only athletes should choose the mascot.
- Courtnie Prather (Interim)
- University of California, Santa Cruz
Feb 13, 2008 · As the story goes, the Banana Slug was the unofficial mascot for UC Santa Cruz's co-ed teams since the university's early years. The students' adoption of such a lowly creature for a team mascot was their counterculture reaction to the fierce athletic competition fostered at most American universities.
Jun 9, 2020 · Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5 min read Andrew Lind. After five months of information sessions and more than 18,000 survey responses, the University of California, Santa Cruz unveiled its new brand identity during a virtual athletic banquet on June 5. Our new Banana Slug is here!!!
- Andrew Lind
Jun 8, 2020 · It shows a smiling Banana Slug embedded in a forest setting. Since the late 1990s, UC Santa Cruz Athletics and Recreation has been using its own pumped-up version of the Sammy the Slug mascot, a bulldoggish character with a wrinkled brow, thick arms, and muscles the size of ham hocks.
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For many years, the Banana Slug served as the unofficial mascot for the University of California at Santa Cruz campus because it represented many of the strongest elements of the campus: contemplation, flexibility, non-aggressiveness and, perhaps above all, an iconoclastic challenge toward the status quo.
