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Title
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Crowd at a Boxer Toss
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Description
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A crowd of Pacific University students, mostly men, participating in a "Boxer Toss" on campus in April 1968. The Boxer Toss was a tradition where students who possessed the original bronze Boxer statue would bring it to campus so that a new group of students could battle to possess it. At this particular Toss, the student newspaper reported: "The Phi Betes [Phi Beta Tau, a fraternity], after five hours of a grueling, sweat and short-temper producing Boxer fight last Wednesday, won possession of Boxer, only to lose it shortly thereafter to the AZs [Alpha Zetas]. ... The AZ's became the mascot's new owners when the Boxer's get-away car broke down and several AZ's, who had been following, were able to take Boxer away from the driver." (The Index, Apr. 22, 1968)
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Boxer is a bronze statue of a qilin which was the inspiration for Pacific University's mascot. There was a tradition of students stealing, hiding and fighting over the original Boxer statue since the early 1900s.
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Identifier
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PUA_PeoSlides_031
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Date
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1968
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Date Created
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Apr 1968
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Format
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Slide
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Source
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Pacific University Archives