October 1, 2004

Mascot Watch

By DANIEL ENGBER and JOHN GRAVOIS

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Old mascot: Bevo XIII

New mascot: Bevo XIV

Issue: Bevo XIII, a 20-year-old steer, is ready to start collecting his retirement hay.

What's happening: After a 16-year working relationship with Bevo XIII, the longest-tenured mascot in University of Texas history, the student organization that tends the steer decided it was time to put him out to pasture. "He moves a lot slower than he used to," says Colby Mueck, president of the Silver

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