The Herald Online

Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Paige Hannahs Two students show their Red Wolves pride early Sunday morning at the ASU field house, waiting for the football team to arrive home from their win over Texas A&M.

Heading into the first home football game, students, all over campus, expressed their enthusiasm for the Red Wolves.

Students showed off the new school logo on their way to class, to the Student Union and residence halls.

Sophomores Mark Sanchez , a pre-med biology major of Searcy, and Andrea Montgomery, an early childhood education major of Brookland, are both proud to show off their school spirit.

"I just like them (Arkansas State University T-shirts). Everyone has university shirts. It's kind of like saying who you are and where you go to school," Sanchez said. "If they make it, I'm going to buy it."

A Red Wolves shirt marked the beginning of Jessica Kee's experience at ASU.

"My parents got it for me for graduation," Kee, a freshman radiology major of Jonesboro, said.

Kee said she was excited to wear the shirt to show that she attends ASU.

This is the first semester for the new Red Wolves mascot. The 77-year-old Indian mascot began in 1931 and was retired Feb. 28.

Red Wolves was officially named the mascot by the university at a board of trustees meeting March 7.

"I wish that we didn't have to change the mascot, but I think they did a very good job in doing so," Brandon DeGroat, a senior business finance major of Searcy, said. "I also feel like it re-ignited some school spirit for some, as we are the ones who get to bring in the new era of the Red Wolves."

Allie Lewis said she felt the same way.

"I think the changes are slow-going, but it's a fresh new start. I'm sure it will be fun," Lewis, a senior art major of Little Rock, said.

Lewis said in a couple of years ASU should have new traditions to uphold.

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