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Contest to be mascot attracts seven potential phoenixes

A competition will be held this weekend to choose the first students to become Swarthmore’s new official mascot. The public event will be held this Saturday at 7 p.m. on the main stage of LPAC.

Mascot Selection Committee member and Coordinator of Residential Life Liz Derickson ’01 explained that it was necessary for the competition to be open to the public. “We felt like with the spirit of Swarthmore we should let it be an open event and let anyone audition. Some places do closed and private a…

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