On This Date in UTEP History ... March 5
A mammoth find
1922
The El Paso chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy establishes a scholarship for students. The scholarship would continue to be offered until the desegregation movement in the 1950s. –Prospector
1933
After years of searching, Professor Howard Quinn locates the tusk of a mammoth at a site near Mesilla Park, New Mexico, proving the prehistoric creatures once roamed the Paso del Norte. –El Paso Herald-Post
1949
The Texas Legislature considers changing the name of the school to the Texas State College of Mines and Arts—a decidedly unpopular choice amongst the engineering students and alumni of the College of Mines. However, students in the arts and sciences division, who outnumber students enrolled in engineering by a factor of four, favor the change. –Prospector
2021
A cyberattack takes down the university’s computers. –KTSM
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