Some schools, like Ms. DaProcida's, held pep rallies last week to raise students' spirits.
From X's descriptions of his teaching — rallying his students' spirits, charming them into discarding low expectations of themselves, editing drafts for hours with the group — I began to suspect that his work was more valuable than his repeated self-deprecations suggested, even if none of his students ever hand in an A paper, a standard he likens to "an essay by David Foster Wallace".
HP also announced a few new printers, just in case students' spirits hadn't been fully crushed with back-to-school talk yet.
Andrew Rennie, a Georgetown senior and the president of the university's official student spirit organization, remembers that, when the Hoyas went winless when he was a freshman, he saw a banner hanging from a dormitory window urging that Kelly be fired.
FIU has many traditions from student spirit groups, alumni association events and student spirit events.
The student spirit section at Breslin is called the Izzone.
He helped to establish a spirit organization known as the Yellow Jacket Club in 1930 to bolster student spirit.
Panther Rage, one of FIU's largest student spirit groups are seen at all the athletics events.
The Student Government contains five separate governing councils- the Student Programming Council, the Council for Student Organizations, which represents the over 200 or more student clubs and organizations, the Homecoming Council, Black Student Union, and Panther Power, the student spirit group.
Jim Gaspard, a member of the Saddle Tramps student spirit organization, created the original design for the Raider Red costume, basing it on a character created by cartoonist Dirk West, a Texas Tech alumnus and former Lubbock mayor.
