EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) will be celebrating TCM Day, which is described as the “longest-running student tradition,” Friday, March 8.
TCM Day is celebrated on campus every March in observance of St. Patrick’s Day. It is an annual rite of passage to initiate new student engineers and geologists into the Order of St. Patrick, the patron saint of engineers, according to UTEP.
UTEP says the tradition began in 1920 when UTEP was known as the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy, or TCM.
Additionally, the daylong series of events includes the whitewashing of the “M” from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. on the mountain north of Sun Bowl Stadium and the Team Mining Challenge from 12:30 to 1:35 p.m. at Magoffin Auditorium.
You can visit the TCM Day homepage for more information.
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