Painting ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Green (and White)
LAURA CRUZ ACOSTA | March 18, 2008
Photo courtesy of Chad Puerling
Coated in green paint and filled with energy, engineering and geology students celebrated the university’s mining heritage on Monday during the annual commemoration of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Day.
One of the university’s oldest traditions, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Day gave students an opportunity to participate in a number of madcap and fun activities including the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Olympics, repainting the “M” above the Sun Bowl, and kissing the Blarney Stone.
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Day dates back to the days when the school was known as the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy. Beginning in the early 1920s, students staged a day of games and activities to initiate new engineers and geologists into the Order of St. Patrick, the patron saint of engineers.