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From: "Janice Siegel" <jfsiege@ilstu.edu>
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Subject: RE: not in the latest explorator
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:53:33 -0600
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This reminds me of when I was in college (Washington University in St.
Louis) and heard this story: the school colors over the years had become
known as "myrtle and maroon" (and somewhere I have an old freshmen
beanie in those colors, no it is not mine)...it turns out that they were
basing them on an old painting or something which had faded terribly
over time. The original colors, they discovered after research, had been
Christmas Red and Christmas Green (again, this is how we heard the story
- I assume they mean BRIGHT red and green, not the muted colors they had
faded into). But this happened by accident - changing the school colors
on purpose might not go over so well anywhere.

Janice Siegel
Illinois State University
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics

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Subject: not in the latest explorator




Salve,

  So ... who's the UWyoming Professor who ultimately caused this
  color controversy?:

  http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=61650

dm

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