Health and Fitness Sports How to be healthy on Halloween Sailing team still looking for support from student body Page 2 Page 3 VOLUME 95, ISSUE 34 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2009 SMUDAILYCAMPUS.COM FIRST COPY FREE, ADDITIONAL COPIES 50 CENTS DALLAS, TEXAS SENATE Peruna named official SMU mascot BY BROOKS POWELL a Peruna handler, said they were class of 1944 alumna Francis Ware. taken for granted. Staff Writer
[email protected] concerned a potential change in Ware’s family has had a “Peruna is really more than a the mascot was not brought before tremendous impact on SMU, mascot — he’s an icon,” Ware said. The SMU student senate passed a the students and the greater SMU including facilitating its founding. “An icon is not a real thing, you resolution Tuesday naming Peruna, community. Her grandfather Stephen J. Hay II, know, but it represents the real thing the black Shetland pony, SMU’s To encourage passage of the mayor of Dallas from 1907-1911, perfectly. And that’s our spirit.” official mascot, ostensibly ending resolution, the Department of lobbied Dallas citizens to buy the Judith Banes, executive director the controversy over the two new Recreational Sports brought the live bonds necessary to build the first of Recreational Sports, also shared horses given to the university by mascot, Peruna VIII, and his stuffed building on campus, Dallas Hall, as a variety of anecdotes about Peruna BROOKS POWELL/ The Daily Campus philanthropist Madeleine Pickens. analog to the floor of the Senate. a tribute to their generosity. from her years as an SMU student.