The usual half-eagle, half-lion mythic critter, like you find out in front of libraries, or at the top of this website. The one at DSM is more dynamically posed than the usual library kind, in a sort of Furious Sports Mascot swooping style.

This is as opposed to the one at the Wedge Defense Force Academy, the Golden Gryphon (Go Gryphons! Beat Navy!), which is wearing a WWI flying ace hat, smoking a cigar, and and clutches a Spandau machine gun in its foreclaws. (Don't ask me, UF-me didn't name it or design it. :)

It's fitting, I think, that we use Sir John's fictional version instead of the actual one, since the UF universe is all about cooler versions of stuff than we get in disappointing old reality. :)

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