Siwash

Before the Prairie Fire, the mascot of Knox College was "Old Siwash". But "siwash" means "drunk Indian", so it wasn't politically correct.

The term became popular on the Knox College campus when alumnus George Fitch used the term to describe a college similar to Knox in a fictional story he published. Students informally used the term to describe Knox and later the school formally adopted Siwash as the nickname for the college.