Who has the best fight song?

[couch 'em]

Dallas Hall is on a hill

SMU is "The Hilltop". If you have ever been out on the balcony adjacent to the dome of Dallas Hall (the highest accessible perch) you will see a terrific view of downtown Dallas and the area. Photos have been taken from this vantage point since Dallas Hall was built. I have film positives from the mid 1920s and actual photos from the late 40s. If you have not been, ask for access sometime when you want to do something "different".

I tried numerous times to get to that balcony when I was at SMU (2001-2005) but was always told that it was locked after 9/11 and public isn't allowed up there. Have the rules been relaxed?

[CalallenStang]

Dallas Hall is on a hill

SMU is "The Hilltop". If you have ever been out on the balcony adjacent to the dome of Dallas Hall (the highest accessible perch) you will see a terrific view of downtown Dallas and the area. Photos have been taken from this vantage point since Dallas Hall was built. I have film positives from the mid 1920s and actual photos from the late 40s. If you have not been, ask for access sometime when you want to do something "different".

I tried numerous times to get to that balcony when I was at SMU (2001-2005) but was always told that it was locked after 9/11 and public isn't allowed up there. Have the rules been relaxed?

Think you have to ask for access.

[PonyLaw_aTm]

People think of WWII era Germany collectively as "nazis". Might as well be Spartans or anything else.

Side note, I just realized that you could probably get away with be the "Huns" and having everyone run around in WWI German pickelhaubes. How awesome would it be to look out into the crowd and see 30k fans all wearing:

I would tend to disagree with the assertion that most people think that; I would definitely disagree with the "might as well be..." part, but neither is worth arguing.

I could see the Huns, that would be a mascot with some possibilities. The original Huns (screaming Mongols on horseback) or German slang Huns (with no real connection to the real Huns). Might run into some problems from people of German descent resenting the Hun name if you made the mascot the German version. "At least its not the Krauts, right?"

[Caballo]

Hail to the Victors.

[EastStang]

Some intramural team named themselves the Fighting Whities at some school and got into trouble. And no Nazi's will never be appropriate, if for no other reason than the name is politically incorrect. Fighting Sioux, Indians, Tribe (with feather), Illini, have all come under the NCAA wrath for political insensitivity.

[PonyLaw_aTm]

...and yet the Washington Redskins endure.

[couch 'em]

I could see the Huns, that would be a mascot with some possibilities. The original Huns (screaming Mongols on horseback) or German slang Huns (with no real connection to the real Huns). Might run into some problems from people of German descent resenting the Hun name if you made the mascot the German version. "At least its not the Krauts, right?"

Not sure it is accurate to label the Huns as Mongols despite the central asian turkic roots, but nevertheless, anything else you'd name after WWI germany would be pretty lame sounding. Kaisers is a possibility.

[couch 'em]

Some intramural team named themselves the Fighting Whities at some school and got into trouble. And no Nazi's will never be appropriate, if for no other reason than the name is politically incorrect. Fighting Sioux, Indians, Tribe (with feather), Illini, have all come under the NCAA wrath for political insensitivity.

Political incorrectness is a temporary problem related to the communising and wussifying of society. It will go away eventually when people finally sack up.

[No Quarter]

Oh me. I saw the picture of the stuffed UC Santa Cruz slug and was reminded of the late Al Capp's "shmoos" as seen in "Lil Abner," except the color is wrong. A shmoo was white. Anyone else remember that critter? A lot of people slurred the pronuunciation of SMU to shmoo in the late fifties.

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

GOOGLE shmoo for a picture.

[HB Pony Dad]

Oh me. I saw the picture of the stuffed UC Santa Cruz slug and was reminded of the late Al Capp's "shmoos" as seen in "Lil Abner," except the color is wrong. A shmoo was white. Anyone else remember that critter? A lot of people slurred the pronuunciation of SMU to shmoo in the late fifties.

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

GOOGLE shmoo for a picture.