Student Senate considering action against geldings

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

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?

Calallen, haven't you learned anything yet? Of course he can't hear it. Don't you notice him sticking his nose way so far up Orsini's backside that he can't hear a thing?

[Mestengo]

[quote="Diamond Girl"]The facts are, once again,
1. June Jones did this without the administration's Approval

Do you really believe that June could muster up a police escort and parade animals down the blvd without the administration's approval ?

The title of this thread should have been
Student Senate Eunuch's become more like Geldings Daily.

[VarsityShop]

Fellas Coach likes the horses. Lets keep the Coach happy. Beat U of H.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRYmy62mLPY

[Mestengo]

LOL

[2112]

tha boyz that play this game...dig tha horses man...so does massiah june jones...shut yo face...

[pwnyxpress]

I bet they would get more love if their names were Dickerson and James...

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

tha boyz that play this game...dig tha horses man...so does massiah june jones...shut yo face...

It's too bad that Barbara Billingsley recently passed away. Since she spoke jive, I would asked her to translate that gibberish you posted.

[CalallenStang]

tha boyz that play this game...dig tha horses man...so does massiah june jones...shut yo face...

da boyz dat post on dis board...speaks da English man...so do you so use it to post.

[CalallenStang]

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?

Well said.

[CalallenStang]

Do you really believe that June could muster up a police escort and parade animals down the blvd without the administration's approval ?

Correct. The administration is just as guilty.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

i hope the parade looks like this tomorrow
the more horses the better!
After all...we are the MUSTANGS
And I love Peruna...my mascot!

[ALEX LIFESON]

Fellas Coach likes the horses. Lets keep the Coach happy. Beat U of H.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRYmy62mLPY

Oh boy, here we go! BEAT HOUSTON!!!

[NickSMU17]

Its amazing how many of these guys with no tradition come out of the woodwork to blow JJ...

Peruna is my mascot...send the geldings to represent SMU Taos campus

[ponydawg]

Respect the streak! Geldings stay until we don't go bowling. Then they are sacrificed during the halftime show for the first home game of the following season. With the extra meat, we can bring back the burger dogs!

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

Its amazing how many of these guys with no tradition come out of the woodwork to blow JJ...Peruna is my mascot...send the geldings to represent SMU Taos campus

Yeah real nice, someone must be "blowing JJ" if they
disagree with you & happen to like the full size horses & Peruna
as part of the game day experience.

You and the full size horse haters don't own Peruna, he is my mascot too!
It's not illegal to have a different opinion and like all the horses.
I love Peruna, but also enjoy the full size horses.

Some like the new horses some don't.
Some like the red jerseys and some like the blue jerseys.
Some like day games, some like night games.
Some like the cheerleaders and some like the Pom Squad and some like BOTH!

Peruna's duties have not changed one bit.
Peruna does everything he has always done.
I have seen little kids faces light up when they see all the horses.

We've got so much to be joyful about now, instead of continuing to
complain about two horses added to the gameday experience.