Article: BUCKY BADGER TO GET A LITTLE LEANER AND MEANER BUT THE CHANGES IN THE MASCOT WON'T BE RADICAL.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)

Byline: Karen Rivedal Higher education reporter

A sleeker, bolder-looking Bucky Badger will greet returning UW-Madison students this fall after a year-long revamp of the university mascot's design.

The changes aren't major -- mostly it's just a thicker black line outlining the scrappy little badger's strutting, barrel-chested pose -- but university officials think it was worth the work. Bucky has had basically the same design for more than 50 years.

"The designer thought that Bucky could be cleaned up and made to look a little sharper," said Cindy Van Matre, UW-Madison's director of trademark licensing. "We didn't want a radical change. Our ...

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