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Boxer Posing On Wall In Front Of Forest Grove Campus

College Spirit's Homecoming: Pacific's Original Mascot "Boxer" Returns

The bronze qilin statue, the namesake of Pacific University and beloved by students and alumni alike, is reunited with the university after a 55-year absence.

Badger saying goodbye to the other badgers

Bye Bye Badger

Before Boxer was Badger. In the 1960s, when students voted to change the mascot, they said goodbye to their longtime representative.

Boxer Tail Returns

Don Metzger '66, O.D. '67 returned the tail of the original Boxer statue to Pacific University this summer. Watch him recount how he got the tail and why he returned it 40 years later.