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23. Apr. 2024 · An unconventional mascot for an unconventional campus. Is there anyone who doesn’t love Sammy the Slug? In a counterculture reaction to the fierce athletic competition at most U.S. universities, UC Santa Cruz students chose the Banana Slug as their teams’ unofficial mascot in the early years.
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. When a poll of athletes showed that they, too, wanted to be Slugs, the chancellor relented.
10. Juni 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.
9. Juni 2020 · “As iconic as the Banana Slug mascot has been within the landscape of college athletics, the department had never gone through a formal branding process to develop and ownable, trademarked image,” Skye Dillon, founder of Skye Design Studios, told SportsLogos.net.
- Andrew Lind
The Banana Slug, a bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk found in the campus's redwood forest, has been the mascot for UC Santa Cruz's coed teams since the university opened in 1965. The students' adoption of such a lowly creature for a team mascot was their reaction to the fierce athletic competition fostered at most American universities ...
13. Feb. 2008 · After five years of dealing with the two-mascot problem, an overwhelming pro-Slug straw vote by students in 1986 convinced the chancellor to make the humble but adored Banana Slug UCSC's official mascot.
The special recognition marks 25 years of the official Banana Slug mascot. UCSC students informally adopted the yellowy, peaceable creature as a mascot character back in the 1960s, but the administration did not make it official until 1986, after the slug fended off a challenge from its archrival, the sea lion.
