I agree with 1) that is most important

2) I would put discretionary funding support, and actually getting involved in community/business funding involvement for
a) endowment
b) arts
c) athletics


the other two listed would be nice to haves, they have clearly been irritants, but in the larger scheme of things they are 'issues' that a President would probably have to expend political capital on and create noise when the #1 issue if funding funding funding, and yes some people are not irritated to support due to the mascot fiasco

now to digress:

to me it's just not worth the political expense when a President will have the political battle / perception of funding/supporting athletics




Dirtbags is not going anywhere

Elbee name should just be shelved. unfortunately the school has so screwed up the identity with the newspaper change to "Current", Nugget will probably be replaced by some other stuipd name, although why not at least keep that one tie in. think there is still the Outpost.


or a President could simply place Prospector Pet statue in the Alumni Center as a nod to history there

me personally I don't mind the school trying to capitalzie on the confusing and marketing the multi-name chaos - it's horrible, it's confusing, make fun of yourselves in a productive marketing way. Just get rid of the ELbee idiotic name even if there is a Shark, - it doesn't need some contrived stupid name.

other than sports should have "The Beach" make that official "Go Beach" is so entrenched. don't try to make it a nick name. Go Beach has always been good marketing. regardless of Dirtbags, Beach, Shark, Pete - fans are pretty much in concert with Go Beach as a slogan, even before dirtbags and the shark ever got in the mix.

I wish at the new student center they would make like a mascot plaque circle or section with putting Prospector Pete there, a Shark, a Dirtbag, and Beach - it's history embrace it for what it is. My god if anybody is truly offended or 'scared' about that Pete statue they are inventing hysteria.

two cents