"Let the howling begin," Dean Lee, ASU Athletic Director, said at the unveiling of the new mascot late this morning.
Chancellor Robert Potts welcomed students, faculty, staff and all other audience members to the rollout event.
The new mascot's unveiling ceremony today is only the beginning of a much longer process of its total integration onto the campus. It will take some time before the new Red Wolves imagery becomes as prominent a representative of ASU as the Indian was.
Arkansas State University students are now the ASU Red Wolves,and in the week after six students share their feelings on it.
"It's not so bad of a mascot because a wolf is fierce, cunning," said Aaron White, a sophomore physical therapy major of Jonesboro.
After 20 minutes of discussion, the Student Government Association voted yes to the proposal to apply a $25 fee for the Student Health Center at Tuesday's meeting.
Minutes before Student Activities Board's Spring Lecture, "Same Sex Marriage- Civil Debate," Tuesday evening, John Corvino and Glen Stanton, the two presenters for the event, sat in the audience seats set up in the Centennial Ballroom smiling and talking.
Around 6 o'clock, Jerrod Lockhart, assistant dean of students, welcomed students and faculty to the debate, with a topic he said had generated "much heat and little light.