A CU Boulder senior becomes the first woman to lead Ralphie
Senior Emma Morgan of New Castle is the first woman in nearly 60 years to run in the front position, guiding the University of Colorado's live buffalo mascot Ralphie.
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Emma Morgan is the first woman to run in the front position with Ralphie, the Boulder Daily Camera reported. She is a University of Colorado senior from New Castle. The live buffalo mascot has been guided onto the field for nearly 60 years, and the lead runner in that tradition had always been a man.
The change is one position on one mascot team. Morgan is in the front spot. The paper's account is that first, not a rewrite of every role around Ralphie.
For the classroom
Ralphie is a real buffalo who runs along the sideline at University of Colorado football games in Boulder. Students run with Ralphie and guide the animal. For nearly 60 years, the person in the front position was a man. This season a senior, Emma Morgan, from New Castle, Colorado, became the first woman to run in that front spot. The front position is the runner who leads. She is one student in a long tradition, and she is the first woman in that particular job. The buffalo is still Ralphie. The change is who holds the lead.
- What does it take to run safely beside a large animal?
- Why might a job stay closed to some people for a long time, and what changes that?
- What tradition at your school could include someone new?
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