Spring Break
Goodbye, Rev ma'am
By: Kenny Ryan
Issue date: 2/14/08 Section: News
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"I'm going to create a new committee that will be involved [in choosing Reveille VIII,]" Bresciani said. "[It will include] cadets from E-2 and student leaders, including the student body president, as well as faculty from the vet school. We have some of the best vets in the nation, and want to take advantage of that. Our intent would be to use the end of the academic year as their timeline. I would like them to come to a recommendation to me while the students are still here, so [the students] can be involved in the process. That's important because the summer would be used to get the mascot and train it to be ready for the football season.
"It's a process we started back in fall semester. We are very attentive and want to do what's right for Reveille. We don't want to come to a fast decision."
Though the process of retiring Reveille VII began in the fall, Bresciani said that the biting incidents had nothing to do with the decision to retire Reveille.
"Rev is hitting the period where we would typically retire a mascot," Bresciani said. "The biting is certainly something we have to take into consideration, but it's more of a reminder that she's getting older, and we have her involved in an inordinate amount of activities. She is involved in more activities than any mascot before."
"Usually we retire Reveilles between 8 and 9 years," said Grant Rollo, a senior English major and platoon officer of E-2. "The average lifespan of a collie is 10 to 12 years, [we retire Reveilles when we do] to relieve the stress on their lives to let them enjoy just being a dog."
E-2 is the Corps outfit responsible for training and caring for Reveille. Rollo has spent his entire career at A&M with Reveille living just down the hall, if not in his closet.
"Reveille VII prefers to sleep in closets more than anything," Rollo said. "Sophomore year, my roommate was the mascot corporal, so Reveille loved to sleep in our closets. [The problem is] we have our shoes in the closet, nice polished shoes, and she would always lie on my shoes and mess them up. So I got some dog treats and put them in my roommate's shoes. So Rev would smell them and go start sleeping on his shoes."
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