 In 1955, Bryan McNulty, a University of Ottawa student and associate editor for the "Fulcrum", decided to promote the rivalry between his school and Carleton University.He asked a local jeweller, Jack Snow, to donate a stuffed panda that would be named "Pedro" to be used as a Gee-Gee mascot (as they had not adopted the Gee-Gee horse mascot yet).McNulty later convinced Snow to display the panda in his front window and then organized the first "Pandanapping", a ritual in which Pedro would be stolen from each campus in various ways.