<p>I first noticed this on the sweatshirt of a friend at school. Anyone else see it? I don't seriously think that was the INTENT, but consider the < 2% Jewish student population and it kinda gets you thinking!</p>
<p>How about "no"?</p>
<p>It's a criscrossed W and L that kinda reminds me of the NJ Devils logo on my sweatshirt. And W&L has a very active Jewish population.</p>
<p>Saying things like that is just wrong, I come from a place where swastikas appear on people's doors and cars fairly often, and it's not funny.</p>
<p>GO GENERALS!</p>
<p>The official symbol to represent W&L is called the TRIDENT!!! </p>
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<li> the original poster needs to take a very close look at the two symbols and will notice it has NO resemblence at all to a swastika!!! Look again and you will see the L overlayed on a W!!!!!</li>
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<p>In all honesty, a lot of the freshmen here have asked that same question. I personally think it looks more like the New York Yankees symbol, but there you go.</p>
<p>It's a Trident! We are the generals! hellooo! </p>
<p>There are two types of swastikas. One is an Indian symbol for peace. The other is obviously a Nazi symbol. The basis is two crossed lines, interesting at a 90-degree angle (very different from the trident), with "arms" radiating from the lines. In one symbol, the arms go clockwise; in the other, counter-clockwise. </p>
<p>In the W&L trident, there are three points and one arm.</p>
<p>Hmm, it does kinda look like the Yankees logo too, maybe I'm drawn to teams with overlayed letters.....</p>
<p>oh and it's good to finally know the name, I thought it was a pretty cool symbol before I knew what it was (saw it on a students shirt at a gas station in Lexington when I stopped to ask him for directions to a hotel I was looking for). I only found out when I saw it in the bookstore the next day. </p>
<p>Oh and so many new people have been posting on this forum lately, it's good to have you all here :)</p>
<p>what do generals have to do with tridents? Shouldn't it be the Poseidens or the Sea Gods or something?</p>
<p>btw - this looks <em>exactly</em> like the little flat plastic thing we used to put in 45rpm records a million years ago to make them fit on a regular turn-table. (this goes back almost to ancient Greece). Check it out if you are ever in a museum with ancient recorded music artifacts.</p>
<p>I don't think there's any relation between a trident and the name Generals (though I could be wrong), the Trident just comes from the overlay of W and L.</p>
<p>Generals of course comes from the school being named after the two most famous generals in United States History, George Washington and Robert E. Lee.</p>