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The ASUO’s current logo is ugly, or so its leaders say. But it will be sticking around a little bit longer after the EMU Board questioned a new proposed symbol for the student government.
The board cited the process used to create the new logo, depicting a white tree growing out of a green field over a black background, in its decision.
The logo may sound like a trivial concern, but the ASUO’s aim is to require that the logo be placed on items for which the ASUO pays for, including the EMU. That has drawn opposition from some student groups, and it may be forestalled by the EMU Board’s decision.
The reason for the board’s decision: not enough groups were consulted.
“I know it’s impossible to get 20,000 respondents, but people on the EMU Board feel it was not an inclusive process,” ASUO Sen. Paige Libadisos said at the ASUO Senate’s Wednesday night meeting. Libadisos also sits on the EMU Board.
Sen. Demic Tipitino, who helped to design the symbol, said he was both shocked and frustrated by the development.
“I love that they have more power than us in this situation,” he said sarcastically.
The logo has already become something of an object of derision in the student government. When it was first unveiled at an earlier Senate meeting, Sen. Ben Fisher offered an out-of-turn, knee-jerk assessment that has since become synonymous with the new logo.
“It looks like a mushroom cloud,” he said.
At Wednesday night’s meeting, that name had taken hold, and senators made hand gestures to indicate an explosion whenever it was mentioned.
Several senators, though, said they are still confident the EMU Board can be persuaded to approve the logo.
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