Admiral Ackbar as Ole Miss Mascot? If Enough Students Vote for It

Admiral Ackbar Ole Miss's new school mascot? The students at Ole Miss are close to voting for Admiral Ackbar to be the school mascot going forward. There is a huge student movement taking place to push Ackbar into the starring role at the school, and it may soon become a reality. With the school trying to update their image for the 21st century, the University of Mississippi gave the student mascot committee at the school the chance to come up with a new mascot for Ole Miss. They decided to take it to a campus vote, and suddenly the most supported new mascot has become Admiral Ackbar from the Star Wars books and films.

The choice may only seem odd to people who aren't students at Ole Miss because apparently there is a huge groundswell to make the Supreme Commander of the Rebel Alliance fleet their chosen mascot. There are a couple of questions that come to mind with the support that Ackbar is receiving from students, beginning with the obvious one of whether George Lucas would actually allow this to take place. Even if the students all vote to put in Ackbar as the new mascot, they are still going to need to get the approval of George Lucas if they want to really make him a focal point of the sporting teams. The second question if of course whether the alums will boycott this student decision.

When the school put the idea of the mascot change in the hands of the students, they must not have assumed that it would be something as far out there as this choice. The biggest catalyst to changing mascots was that they wanted to move away from the current mascot of Colonel Reb, and the school had very good intentions. Now it's hard not to wonder if they will keep supporting the students' decision here if the final vote and then the mascot choice that the committee puts forward is still Admiral Ackbar. If nothing else, it's an extremely interesting choice by Ole Miss, and when we are talking about what will represent the students, why not just let them make the final choice?

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