Lewis & Clark is picking a new mascot and unlike most people, I actually get to vote.

I graduated from Lewis & Clark in 2005. Back then, our mascot was ostensibly “the Pioneers,” though I think you would have been hard-pressed to find even 10 students out of 20 who knew that we had a mascot at all.

I had a late-night radio show, which I called “The Covered Wagon Radio Show,” and most of my classmates, upon hearing that name, responded, “Huh?”

Back in my old days, we used the shortened “Pio” in names of things like the school paper or the shuttle to the Baghdad Theater, but again, I am pretty doubtful that many of my fellow Pios cared to investigate what that stood for.

Not that we were a lazy or uninterested generation, it’s just that people didn’t really go to Lewis & Clark for the ki

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