Meet the Midweek Mascot

The banana slug of UC Santa Cruz. How menacing can it get?

Well, the chancellor at one point int he 80's decided on the more fierce sea lion. The students would have none of it and it was decided that they would readopt the banana slug.

The Banana Slug even figured in a court case involving campus mascots. Judge Terence Evans, writing the opinion for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, stated the following: "We give the best college nickname nod to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Imagine the fear in the hearts of opponents who travel there to face the imaginatively named 'Banana Slugs'?" (Crue et al. v. Aiken, June 1, 2004)

In May 2004, Reader's Digest named the Banana Slug the best college mascot. And that, folks, is when you know you've hit the big time.