As Lewis-Clark State College hopes to step up to university status, school officials are facing another question of identity.

Does LC State need a mascot?

The college will put together a committee to look at the idea, President Cynthia Pemberton said in a memo to the campus community Monday.

Pemberton spelled out a few ground rules.

LC State’s Warriors nickname isn’t going away. “A mascot will not change that.”

The college will consider only non-human mascots.

And in the end, LC State might still just go mascot-less. “If the committee and campus community decide a mascot is not desired, that too is a viable option.”

Applications for the mascot committee are due Oct. 17 to Kyle Schwartz , Pemberton’s executive assistant.

The bigger question, of course, is whether LC State should b

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