Student Senate considering action against geldings

[PK]

Simple fact...JJ wants the geldings and until he leaves or changes his mind, the geldings aren't going away.

[Diamond Girl]

The facts are, once again,
1. June Jones did this without the administration's approval.
2. The administration is letting the athletic department do whatever they want and they have lost their control. Knight Report be damned.
3. The adminstration isn't listening to anything the students or the alumni say about this.
4. Orsini lied about everything gelding related.

[ponydawg]

5. We went to a bowl game for the first time in over 2 decades.
6. We are no longer a laughing stock.
7. First place in CUSA West.

[CalallenStang]

5. We went to a bowl game for the first time in over 2 decades.
6. We are no longer a laughing stock.
7. First place in CUSA West.

None of which have anything to do with the geldings. We were 3-2 last year in games before they introduced the geldings.

[ponydawg]

5. We went to a bowl game for the first time in over 2 decades.
6. We are no longer a laughing stock.
7. First place in CUSA West.

None of which have anything to do with the geldings. We were 3-2 last year in games before they introduced the geldings.

We were also 70-171-3 since the DP without the geldings. I will say it again, I prefer only Peruna, but
as long as we are bowling, I'm fine with all three.

Crash Davis: I told him that a player on a streak has to respect the streak.
Annie Savoy: Oh fine.
Crash Davis: You know why? Because they don't - -they don't happen very often.
Annie Savoy: Right.
Crash Davis: If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE! And you should know that!

[kull]

what else can they do to the geldings? i mean, they have already been gelded.

[Statler]

Only SMU could make it where students embrace a tradition to be anti-establishment.

[Eddie P]

SMU students arent anti-establishment, they are extremely apathetic. Anti-establishment would indicate an enthusiasm and/or fervor to go against the Man. That's not the profile of the SMU student body. Most just dont really care.

If the most of the 30 something student senators are anti-establishment, then that's okay I guess. Probably what motivated them...to right the wrongs against society, i.e. the student budy. But the very, very vocal minority of students who choose to get involved at SMU do not constitute the will or the makeup of the student body. Hell, you dont have most of the people in this country voting in elections. You expect the student body of SMU to be any different?

This moral outrage from the student senate is amusing at best and ridiculous at worst. I can't believe I was once like that when I was that age. (Full disclosure)

[VarsityShop]

From the Daily Campus article:

Chief of Staff Alex Mace: "suggested Senate conduct a poll to find out how students feel because he knows many students don't really care one way or another about the mustangs".

[CalallenStang]

From the Daily Campus article:

Chief of Staff Alex Mace: "suggested Senate conduct a poll to find out how students feel because he knows many students don't really care one way or another about the mustangs".

Mace knows nothing. Have you not heard the student section boo when the geldings have attempted to run across the field during Peruna's run?

[Statler]

From the Daily Campus article:

Chief of Staff Alex Mace: "suggested Senate conduct a poll to find out how students feel because he knows many students don't really care one way or another about the mustangs".

Was wondering when the Bagdad Bob would post....

[CalallenStang]

Chief of Staff Alex Mace suggested Senate write legislation "condemning" the university for the broken agreements.

So, you only quote what fits your argument, right Varsity Shop? You are a disgrace to this university.

[b_caesar]

Is Peruna a mustang?

From Wikipedia about Peruna...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruna

"To date, eight mascots have represented SMU…6 stallions and 2 mares, although hard-core types prefer all-black stallions because of their alleged vitality and spirit."

[Pony ^]

Student senate is a bunch of [deleted] fyi and they don't represent the entire student body. Only themselves. I'm Behind June and peruna is still there. I'm sick of this crap, it's not changing. Get over it

[b_caesar]

Make no mistake - I like the culture of honesty, work-ethic and winning attitude that JJ has brought to the team.

However.

To do it while attempting to surreptitiously downgrade and destroy a decades-old tradition is an abhorrent and utterly distasteful practice and quite frankly, smacks of duplicity and is perceived to be the exact opposite of the culture JJ has fostered on the team. I'm glad for the winning, but it's not because of a couple of castrated and broken horses prancing about while intentionally drawing attention away from Peruna.

The geldings have yet to show me any true "vitality" or "spirit" that I mentioned earlier except for that which has been left on the field and had to be unceremoniously scooped up during the National Anthem, which, in my opinion, is also a deliberate slap in the face of the SMU Band, too. They are being ridden (!) and allowed to haphazardly clop across the field and then they can't even be controlled with any sense of vitality or spirit on the sidelines. The whole attitude towards what they have been allowed to do both before and during games, now apparently beyond the scope of what was originally agreed to, is, in my view, a continuing and insidiously blatant move to eventually replace Peruna altogether. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but so far, my hope is dwindling. And my suspicion is growing to the contrary.

Anytime the geldings are allowed to be in the same place as Peruna, or do something even remotely similar to what had previously been an activity exclusive to Peruna, is being increasingly perceived as a pure attempt to draw attention away from Peruna in favor of the geldings. Explanations of the necessity to "create new opportunities" for the geldings to participate in game day activities while promising to avoid infringing on Peruna's existing traditions or saying that "Peruna had other duties" as the reason for exclusion from something that should have been Peruna's in the first place is becoming an increasingly more effective mechanism for mere smokescreen and good PR spin for what may really be going on - the desire to increase the geldings' role while diminishing and obscuring Peruna's. (Case in point - the promo video for this week's "Blue Out" on the website - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf04DkIZgr4 - prominently shows one of the geldings full-screen. Where is Peruna? Hmmmm...)

The geldings were initially given an inch, and it's clear they've been allowed to start taking blocks.

Why isn't Peruna good enough to be SMU's exclusive animal mascot?