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Thursday, June 25, 2015
UHV gets real-life jaguar mascot
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| jaX the jaguar makes his debut Monday at the Texas Zoo in Victoria. The University of Houston-Victoria made a donation to the zoo to bring jaX to Victoria and renovate the former lion enclosure for the male jaguar. The jaguar came from the Wild World of Animals in Pennsylvania and will be 5 years old on Aug. 14. jaX, which stands for “jaguars are eXceptional,” gets his name from UHV’s mascot. After former UHV employee and artist Harold Nichols donated a life-sized jaguar sculpture to the university in 2009, UHV held a naming contest. About 250 suggested names came from UHV employees and students, the community and local school children, and the name “jaX” was unveiled at a UHV Jaguar “X”travaganza on Jan. 21, 2010. |
The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region, offers courses leading to more than 65 bachelor’s and master’s degree
programs and concentrations in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Education & Human Development, and Nursing. UHV provides face-to-face
classes at its Victoria campus as well as teaching sites in Fort Bend and Harris counties, and online classes that students can take from anywhere. Since its
founding in 1973, UHV has provided students with a quality university education from excellent faculty at an affordable price.