What do you think of Teddy Bears?

jenzimm · #1 07-07-2006, 02:43 PM

Sorry to hijack your thread but had a strange question about teddy bears. I'm a Delta Zeta and we love our turtle who has been our unofficial mascot until just this year when it was approved as our "official" mascot...aren't teddy bears your mascot? I was told that most KDs didn't like to wear clothing with a bear on it...is that true? Tell me your opinion...please...and thanks for humoring my off the wall question!

Jennifer
DZ
'87 Alpha Epsilon - OSU

KDAngel · #2 07-10-2006, 03:04 AM

Haha, it's a cute question. I definitely don't wear bears on my clothing, but it's an easy gift when it comes to making a basket for a lil to find all over the places (stuffed animals, magnets, calendars, like if you can think it, you can find it).

And I like the teddy bear. I've always loved the ADPi lion and the DZ turtle more though because I thought they were more unique, considering a few NPC's have the teddy bear. And I think Sigma's sailboat is cool as well, but that's not an animal, so I dunno... but yeah, it's cute at least, right?

And I had NO idea the turtle wasn't official all this time. I guess you learn something new everyday.

ps- thanks for dropping by, this board has been very slow this summer.

trojangal · #3 07-10-2006, 03:36 AM

Aren't Teddy Bears just "recent" ( as in the last 10 years) as our mascot? I seem to remember the KD chapter at my alma mater having a different mascot while I was in school, and I think it was frogs! It was really unusual to remember amidst a bevy of lions, ladybugs, owls, and squirrels!

ShaedyKD · #4 07-10-2006, 11:51 PM

I'll take a teddy bear

over a katydid

any day! Teddy bears are so cuddly and cute, I love my KD bear!

kdonline · #5 07-11-2006, 02:57 AM

Right, trojangal...the teddybear is a new mascot for KD. Back when I pledged (1985), we were told that the mascot was a katydid....but our chapter had adopted the frog as theirs.

I still have a lot of froggies sitting in boxes someplace around here!

DaffyKD · #6 07-11-2006, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by trojangal

Aren't Teddy Bears just "recent" ( as in the last 10 years) as our mascot? I seem to remember the KD chapter at my alma mater having a different mascot while I was in school, and I think it was frogs! It was really unusual to remember amidst a bevy of lions, ladybugs, owls, and squirrels!

As I recall, there were no KD mascots when I was a collegian back in the olden days. The Katydid became a mascot following a convention when Suzy Spafford (Suzy's Zoo) created it which was long after I graduated.

DaffyKD

Stef the Pef · #7 08-11-2006, 10:38 PM

A lot of chapters also seem to unofficially adopt ladybugs as mascots, too.

Personally, I have no beef about wearing bears...then again, it's my school's mascot, too! Sic 'em, Bears!

I'll miss DZ's turtles, though. Hopefully the turtles will still stick! They're so cute!

kathykd2005 · #8 08-17-2006, 08:36 PM

I absolutely love teddy bears! I gave my little a red teddy bear, which was one of our "family colors," and then I gave my grand lil a "butterfly bear" because all of the ladies in our family loved butterflies. I guess it goes back to me being a kid tho, and having tons of them. Anyway, I have no objection to wearing or showing off my sorority's mascot!!!

ShaedyKD · #9 08-21-2006, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Stef the Pef

Personally, I have no beef about wearing bears...then again, it's my school's mascot, too! Sic 'em, Bears!

The other day in torts, our prof gave us a hypothetical that the Baylor Bear escaped from his cage, wandered over to a golf course and fell asleep on the path, and then a poor golfer tripped over the bear and broke his leg. All the Baylor kids were laughing. I know some schools have real animal mascots, do you guys have a real bear? Or was he just trying to be funny?

Stef the Pef · #10 08-26-2006, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ShaedyKD

The other day in torts, our prof gave us a hypothetical that the Baylor Bear escaped from his cage, wandered over to a golf course and fell asleep on the path, and then a poor golfer tripped over the bear and broke his leg. All the Baylor kids were laughing. I know some schools have real animal mascots, do you guys have a real bear? Or was he just trying to be funny?

OMG! You don't happen to go to Baylor law, do you?

Yes, we have a pair of live bears in the middle of campus. And they certainly aren't teddy bears.

trojangal · #11 08-27-2006, 08:39 AM

I do think the bears are cute--it's just different seeing them now. I definitely think that they look great on a lot of the KD merchandise out there. Some friends had given me some KD stuff with the bears on them!

Interestingly, in a fund-raising magazine my daughter brought home from school, they had a candy in their called Katydids--some type of chewy chocolate caramel thing.

KDShannon · #12 09-14-2006, 03:37 PM

I like the Teddy Bears. I like the Katydid as well. Zeta Beta chapter adopted Ladybugs as their mascot.