shealys satirical newsletter gamecock fever drew criticism in  and  for its depiction of "cockwheat" a cartoon character that combined the features of cocky the mascot of the university of south carolina and buckwheat the character from our gang the cockwheat character was referred to as "uscs token black mascot" in an issue of gamecock fever that was distributed before a usc football game student leaders at the university deemed the character derogatory and called for shealy to stop publishing the newsletter which contains slurs against asian black and hispanic students