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Stewart Weighs in on W&M's GriffinBy WYDaily Staff Friday, April 09, 2010
Stewart featured a little commentary in his Comedy Central show last night (click here; the segment begins around 8:48). Some very disturbing news had come out of Virginia this week, he said, the screen flashing to Gov. Bob McDonnell's proclamation of April as Confederate History Month without mention of slavery. But that didn't bother him, Stewart said, a proclamation about the Civil War "selectively ignoring the main reason for it." No, he said, there was something else that had happened in Virginia that was "truly disturbing." "That's the one," Stewart said as the new College mascot appeared on screen. "William and Mary has announced a new mascot - the Griffin, which is apparently ancient Greek for the rare, pantsless, tailed eagle. Sorry, but in my day running through campus with no pants on was the student's job." But Stewart may wish to take a little credit for the Griffin instead of, using his words to describe that other troubling business in the state this week, "selectively ignoring the main reason for it." The choice of Griffin was no accident, and College President Taylor Reveley seems to draw inspiration from two famous W&M alums, Thomas Jefferson and Stewart, in a video depicting his mascot search dilemma. "We need a mascot that is as unique as the College of William and Mary. We're a public ivy and count both Thomas Jefferson and Jon Stewart among our alumni. There must be something," Reveley muses before throwing his arms into the air as Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus swells and he reaches for the telephone. "Get me the Griffin!" he says.
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It didn't take long for College of William and Mary alum Jon Stewart to share what he really thinks about his alma mater's new mascot.
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that's what will be played when the new mascot in the form of a Christmas tree comes unto the field. :-
Glad we can revert to feathers, but saddened by the rinky-dink caricature of this elegant, stately, mythic creature who graces all of the borders of the City of London. Ties to William and Mary's British heritage are good, but the awful cartoon character image is so beneath the college's image!