0:02 If you could come back to Indiana 13,000 years  ago or so, you would have seen a fauna of large  
0:09 animals that would have rivaled anything in  the serengeti plains of Africa today, and that  
0:14 includes mastodons. When I saw the mascot, I said  "Okay, I'll take this job." It's the best mascot,  
0:22 I think, in the whole country, and so it's very  cool to have a fossil mascot that's not just  
0:28 like every other mascot. And for that reason, I  feel very strongly about putting this on display,  
0:35 having it where people can see it to know what the  foundation and the basis of our mascot is because  
0:41 it's just really neat. I think it'll bring a  lot of people to campus to see the specimen,  
0:47 I mean, to know that we call ourselves the  mastodons for a very good reason. Maybe it'll  
0:52 get people to understand that Indiana has  a fossil record that is as fascinating as  
0:58 anywhere in the world. Student government  donated the money to have this displayed,  
1:03 and it should be around for a very long time  to come thanks to the students. The students  
1:10 really came through on this. We wanted  those future students to come in and see,   you know, the spirit of the mastodon  and what we invest into our students.