{"id":148527,"date":"2024-03-21T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=148527"},"modified":"2024-03-21T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:53:54","slug":"lets-get-lowdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/03\/21\/lets-get-lowdy\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s get Lowdy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lake Campus administrators had a lot of fun as Lowdy Laker was introduced to students, faculty and staff during a Happy Mascot Naming Day event in the Boathouse at <a href=\"https:\/\/lake.wright.edu\">Wright State University\u2019s Lake Campus<\/a> on March 14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrea Faber, Ph.D., vice provost and chief administrative officer at the Lake Campus, said students, faculty, staff and community members were asked to suggest names for the mascot and vote on their favorite suggestions. Lowdy was chosen because it means bringing people together, Faber said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cStudents have been excited for this day to come,\u201d she said. \u201cRowdy finally has a cousin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hannah Ranly, a junior majoring in psychology, said Lowdy will be an important marketing tool at Lake Campus events like open houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s pretty cool that we get the opportunity to get our own mascot,\u201d said Ranly. \u201cHaving this mascot is another way of promoting our name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaitlin Rickert, a junior majoring in organizational leadership, was really happy with the name choice. \u201cWe can do a lot of play on words with it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148533\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?attachment_id=148533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148533\" class=\"wp-image-148533 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/03\/pic223450-508x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowdy stares out from the banks of Grand Lake St. Marys.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeveningleader.com\/entertainment\/the-hoedag-of-grand-lake\/image_adf2776a-6212-11ee-9147-534e019c2c7b.html\">The Evening Leader<\/a>, the legend of Lowdy Laker has been growing for over 100 years. Auglaize and Mercer County residents have reported seeing a serpentine beast with a green eye on its forehead and a red eye on its whip-like tail in the waters of Grand Lake St. Marys. The creature apparently dines on stray dogs and enjoys pumpkin pie for dessert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the validity of those sightings is still in question, the Hoedag\u2019s legacy will live on through the Lakers\u2019 mascot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lowdy will be working really hard over the next few months, Faber said, attending open houses, various recruiting events and baseball games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It might also be a good idea to leave your canine pets at home when visiting the Lake Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Campus administrators had a lot of fun as Lowdy Laker was introduced to students, faculty and staff during a Happy Mascot Naming Day event. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/03\/21\/lets-get-lowdy\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":148531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,731,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-lake-campus","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148640,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148527\/revisions\/148640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}