chipmunk = high-pitched stripe-tailed ground squirrel, for the North-American-fauna-challenged

speaking of which (and of Macalester) do schools outside the contiguous 48 have songs called "alma maters" (as distinct from "fight songs")? Also, how do you pronounce "alma mater" (in either the sense of the school or the sense of the school song, what we call kouka in Japanese)? (In my neck of the primeval American woods, it rhymes fairly well with "calmer water", give or take a postvocalic R, but I can readily imagine HM the Queen may have subject or dominionees or what have you for whom "alma" sounds like the feminine of "Alamo" and "mater" rhymes with "gator" (if they've heard of gators in the Commonwealth).

Liland