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BY EMILY SPAIN

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Students in Draper, Utah voted for the town’s new high school mascot to be the Cougar.
But the school board overruled the vote saying that team symbol is offensive.
Not to the animal, but to older women.
A Seattle Post Intelligencer blogger explains...

“Yes, the other “cougar” – the term for an older woman who goes after younger men – is catching on, thanks in no small part to the hit TV show “Cougar Town.”

Parents brought their claws out after the students’ vote for cougar came in.
Some called the school board saying they don’t want their cheerleader kids to be called a cougar. CNN’s Anderson Cooper jokes about cougar’s multiple meanings.

COOPER:  “Parents are thinking not so much about this kind of cougar, but this type of cougar.
SNL: “Hi I’m Tony and welcome to the Cougar Den. I treated myself to a Jonas Brothers concert as a pre-valentine’s gift. Well, I was thrown out.”

So instead of “Go Cougars” students will cheer on the “Chargers” -- a war horse.
The school board chose it for the alliteration -- Corner Canyon Chargers -- and because no other school in Utah has the mascot.
But a blogger for CNN points out it seems no mascot is safe from scrutiny.

“...it seems like the list of things you can't call your team continues to grow. And you never know, this story may not be over yet. ‘Chargers’ may be deemed offensive to people who are up to their necks in credit-card debt.”

Some schools in Utah sport the cougar as a mascot like conservative Brigham Young University. And as Fox News’ show The Five notes  --- the animal version of cougar has been around much longer than the other definition.

“But this is crazy because you know what a cougar has been known as a cougar for like thousands of years. How angry must they be now that like ‘oh, we’re not cougars anymore, a middle-aged lonely woman is a cougar?’”

Along with Cougar and Chargers, other mascots on the ballot included Diamondbacks, Falcons and Raptors.
Even though all three of the other options had more votes than the Chargers, the school board said it knew all along it would make the final decision.

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