I have also heard that SK's are trying to move away from the snake as a mascot. It's one of our symbols, which is talked about in Ritual, but we don't hold it as a mascot. The chapters I know of all use different things: panda bears, penguins, etc. Our local mascot used to be Winnie the Pooh. A number of years ago, as the story goes, it was the end of the school semester and girls were leaving the dorms. Two were roommates and SK's and one girl had moved out and was already downstairs when she realized that she had left her stuffed Winnie the Pooh upstairs in her room. Instead of going back upstairs to get it, she called out to her roommate who was still in the room (the window must have been open), and the roommate tossed the Pooh bear out the window to the sister. People then seemed to associate us with Winnie the Pooh. Well, that got old real quick, so a couple of years ago we changed it to a butterfly. It starts out as a caterpillar and morphs into something beautiful, much like a pledge going through the transformation to become a sister.
