University of Waterloo - Mascots

Mascots

• The University's athletics mascot is a lion named King Warrior. The Warriors are the University's sports team and King Warrior's initials, K-W, reflect a common nickname for the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo.
• The mascot for the undergraduate students' Mathematics Society (MathSoc) is the Natural Log (see natural log), which is a wooden log about 60 cm (23.6 in) long.
• The mascot for the Faculty of Mathematics is a 12.2 m (40 ft) long and 3.4 m (11 ft) wide pink tie.
• The mascot for the Engineering Society (EngSoc) is a 60 in (152 cm) pipe wrench called The TOOL. It was formerly the RIDGID Tool, because it was donated by the Ridge Tool Company in 1968.
• The mascot for the Faculty of Arts is a statue of a boar which was donated to the University of Waterloo Math Faculty in 1978, and in turn donated to the Arts Faculty. It is one of several copies of Italian sculptor Pietro Tacca's (1577–1640) "Il Porcellino" statue. Some students claim that rubbing the Boar's nose brings luck.
• The mascot for the Faculty of Environment Orientation Week is The Big Banana.
• The mascot for the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences is a Kangaroo.
• The mascot for the Science Society (SciSoc) is Arriba the Amoeba, a giant human-sized amoeba dressed in a lab coat.
• There is also a pair of 14 ft goggles which the Faculty of Science will be introducing for orientation week 2009, and potentially there will be an ongoing theme of goggles as science's mascot. Long term storage for the massive goggles has not yet been decided.
• Arts Students also find solidarity through a recognizable pair of sunglasses that all first-year students to the Faculty receive.