Students vote to return to the old cougar logo as mascot

Peyton Rees

The fierce cougar on a banner in the gym is the Colonial logo again.

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COLONIAL SCHOOL - Colonial Student Government had a vote for the school and the old logo is back! See what the school has to say.

“I had always thought that if they gave the old logo a chance, it would win,” said Siobhan Joyce-Farley (5V). ”I strongly support the logo change because the school board changed the logo without asking the school.”

The boy and girl cougar were voted out by Colonial students.

Student Government Vice President Maggie Solimine (5G) said, “I prefer the old logo. I think that it’s more realistic and more of a mascot. I didn’t like the new logo and others didn’t either. Some people kind of liked it, but since many people didn’t, I thought it would be changed back, and now it is.”

William Campisano (5GL) said the boy and girl logo was “pathetic. Cougars are suppposed to be fierce.

“I thought Mrs. Wilson changed it when she took over from Dr. Rothstein,” he said. “I did not like the switch. Some things were better before, but the logo got worse.”

When asked about the change, Kindergartner Erik Fontanella said, “I think it’s funny.”