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[[Image:Keggy the Keg.JPG|thumb|right|Keggy at Dartmouth College.]]
'''Keggy the Keg''' is the [[wikt:unofficial|unofficial]] [[mascot]] of [[Dartmouth College]], an [[Ivy League]] university in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]], United States. Keggy is an [[anthropomorphic]] (human-like) [[Keg|beer keg]].  It was created in 2003 by members of the college [[humor]] magazine the ''[[Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern]]''.  They made it up because the school had not had a mascot since it stopped using an Indian mascot in 1971. The mascot was [[wikt:controversy|controversial]] on Dartmouth's campus. It was reported on in a variety of national media. Keggy has become a "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]], 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 noStudents thought that name was too [[Wikt:vague|vague]] and wanted a [[physical]] mascot, t.  The Dartmouth Student Assembly proposedmade a student poll in spring 2003 to decide upon a new mascot. While the M[[moose]] came in first in this poll,<ref>{{cite news | last = Spradling | first = Jessica | title = Moose tops mascot survey | work = [[The Dartmouth]] | date = 2003-05-23 | url = http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2003052301010&sauthor=&stext= | accessdate = 2006-12-28 }}</ref> many students remained dissatisfied withdid not like the choice, and t. The moose lost a final poll to "no mascot." Chris Plehal and Nic Duquette, students at the ''[[Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern|Jack-O-Lantern]]'' humor magazine, expressed interest in creating a mascot that "wasn't racist, biased or sexist, yet [was] entirely unacceptable."<ref name="d-orbuch">{{cite news | last = Orbuch | first = Steve | title = Jacko mascot 'Keggy' wins many Dartmouth fans | work = [[The Dartmouth]] | date = 2003-11-04 | url =(contracted; show full)'Some Beer Thing...' | work = [[The Dartmouth]] | date = 2003-11-25 | url = http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2003112502020 | accessdate = 2006-12-28 }}</ref> The paper also reported on "flak" over the mascot from College administrators,<ref name="d-garland"/> though the Dean of the College lauded the students' capacity to "come up with imaginative and creative ideas."<ref name="d-orbuch"/>
[[Image:keggywinter2009.jpg|frame|
right|The new incarnation of Keggy, as revealedThe first version of Keggy at Winter Carnival 2009.]]
Keggy subsequently received media attention beyond the College at other Ivy League newspapers and on several national media outlets.<ref>{{cite news | title = Around the Ivies | work = [[Yale Herald]] | date = 2003-11-07 | url = http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2612 | accessdate = 2006-12-28 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20050221131307/http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2612 |archivedate = February 21, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Brauntuch | (contracted; show full){{Dartmouth College}}
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