This year’s winner of the
Princeton snowman competition
reminds UD that she’s
been meaning to review the
subject of squirrels on campus.
Tame, rampant, clever, and
occasionally threatening squirrels
are a big feature of a lot of
campuses. Students get
particularly excited about them
if they’re black or if they’re white.
Gray does little for them.
Mary Baldwin College
has a squirrel on its seal.
Kent State has a Black Squirrel Festival.
Sarah Lawrence’s many black squirrels
are the college’s unofficial mascot:
When St. Norbert College’s
albino squirrel died, it was
buried with full honors.
University of Texas students
believe that if you see an albino
squirrel on your way to a test,
you’ll get an A.
Universities tired of squirrels
chewing through their electrical
systems sometimes secretly
try to kill them. Or not secretly.
But you have to be careful.
February 18th, 2010 at 8:12PM
Last week I saw one of the resident Cooper’s Hawks (this one is the Airbus A380 of our hawk community, approximately the size of a pterodactyl) reduce the campus squirrel population by one. Between hungry hawks and owls and a cold winter, the squirrel population has been much reduced.
March 6th, 2010 at 3:44AM
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