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[[Image:Keggy the Keg.JPG|thumb|right|Keggy posing on the Dartmouth College [[The Green (Dartmouth College)|Green]] with [[Baker Memorial Library]] in the background.]]
'''Keggy the Keg''' is an unofficial mascot of [[Dartmouth College]], an [[Ivy League]] institution located in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]], United States. Keggy is an [[anthropomorphic]] [[Keg|beer keg]], invented in 2003 by members of the college humor magazine the ''[[Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern]]'', to fill the mascot void that followed the abolition of the Indian mascot in 1971. Due to its nature, the new mascot was controversial on Dartmouth's campus, and it was reported on in a variety of national media. With time, however, it has become an "ingrained part of Dartmouth culture".<ref name="TheD-Stuart">{{cite news | last = Reid | first = Stuart | title = Greek issues and politics dominate seniors' first two years | work = [[The Dartmouth]] | date = 2006-06-10 | url = http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006061001100 | accessdate = 2006-12-28 }}</ref>

== Context and creation ==
After dropping the mascot of the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indian]] in 1971, Dartmouth had no official mascot.<ref>{{cite news | last = Wallace-Wells | first = Benjamin | title = The Indian and the Rock | work = [[The Dartmouth Review]] | date = 1998-11-17 | url = http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1998/11/17/the_indian_and_the_rock.php | accessdate = 2006-12-28}}</ref> Dartmouth continued to be known by its nickname of "The Big Green," but, citing the ambiguity, lack of dynamism, and intangibility of having no mascot, the Dartmouth Student Assembly proposed a(contracted; show full)
== External links ==
* [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jacko/keggy/index.htm Keggy the Keg], at the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern Humor Society

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