Students endorsed Aztec Warrior by 78% to 22% in two days of voting last week. Nearly 30% of the university’s 33,676 students voted, the highest turnout for a student election in campus history.

SDSU will keep the name "Aztecs" -- and the "Aztec Warrior" will still appear at university events -- after questions about whether the moniker and mascot were appropriate.

"The individual you reference, the Aztec Warrior, is the university's spirit leader," Fraser told NBC 7. A timeline for the transition to the new mascot is not yet set.

“The Aztec Warrior, similarly a source of pride for the collective majority, will be retained, but as Spirit Leader, not mascot,” said SDSU President Sally Roush.

I wish to voice my opinion regarding the possible elimination of the Aztec warrior mascot at my alma mater SDSU. We have been known as Aztecs since 1925 when a small group of students and ...

Think exuberance, and then dial it up to 11, "Spinal Tap" range. That gives you a pretty good picture of Dexter Gareau's audition. "I'm Dexter the Aztec warrior!" Gareau shouted at the top of his ...