Texas Western Hall
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That’s awesome but the Texas Western references are getting old. It’s like we have have to go back 60 years to find anything the school can be proud of.
Agreed. UTEP living in the past.
I never hear NMSU refer to themselves as New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts or Las Cruces College.
Remind me what the New Mexico College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts did again.
But, yeah, you're right. We should just forget about it. Worst thing that ever happened to the university.
No clue about that, but all I'm saying is UTEP needs to start living in the present.
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Then ask them to rename it Dimel-Hardison Hall.
Oh geez let’s beat this to death a little
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Oh no. I think I get it now. The only problem with the administration and the athletics department is that they name buildings on campus after past occurrences when they should only honestly reflect the current situation they find themselves in.
So, that building where the basketball team plays ..."Don Haskins" seems pretty past-y to me. He hasn't won a game in 25 years. Let's call it the Yeah We Keep Pouring More Resources Than Our Conference Mates Into The Program But Can't Get Any Results From It But Hey I Still Have A Job So Meh Center. National championships here we come!! But I guess national championships that we can discuss for only 5 minutes afterwards, because then it becomes the past and we'd therefore be living in it and it would be holding the program back.
Yeah and I bet those pick axes they are holding won't even be used during construction. How lame!
I agree. Let's live in the future. I believe the clothing of choice in the future will be a fleece lined onesie. Going to Amazon right now to order mine. Hope they have a 3x.
I was at a restaurant eating today and this thread popped into my mind. At the restaurant, they were showing a replay of the Ohio St vs Penn State football game. During a game break, Ohio State was honoring a championship team from the 60s. Despite their current success, they still embrace something great that they did all those years ago. I will always celebrate that 1966 championship team. It was historic and should always be recognized as such.
You're missing our point. All UTEP can bring up is the 1966 team. They say it at every UTEP game. It's fine recognizing the team every year on the anniversary of the game, but more more than that is too much.
I remember as a young kid going to Texas Western College for cultural events. Great memories at night, a beautiful campus. I look forward to seeing Texas Western Hall I hope the building does the campus proud
I do see your point, I just respectfully don't agree with it. I want success as much as anyone but I still don't see anything wrong with it. UTEP gives us all enough complain about with their failures. I'm not going to complain about celebrating one of the few times we have succeeded in a team sport.
Fair enough! I just think it's too much to bring up something that happened 57 years ago at every basketball game.
Wait so is this an athletic building? It’s not, then how does it relate to 1966? But yeah I agree with STX Miner. Instead of naming buildings after our history we should name them after events and people that are still in the future. We might get some of the names and events wrong but by all means we will finally move on from the past.
TEXAS WESTERN HALL is being built to replace the Liberal Arts Building, it's being demolished so that TEXAS WESTERN HALL is built in it's space. The Liberal Arts Building was built ca. 1960 when UTEP *was* Texas Western College (of the University of Texas System). I took quite a few classes in that dinosaur of a structure, anyone else? The building has used up its shelf life - congratulations future students/student athletes getting a state of the art building to build their future!
I am happy they finally started on this. The last time I heard before they broke ground, they had not pick a name for this building. Texas Western Hall is good to remember TWC.
I had several classes in that old liberal arts building.
There was an incident there, I guess in the early 90s, where one of the janitors locked an amorous same sex couple in one of the bathrooms after he caught them in the act. I guess the campus cops were called in. Not sure what the outcome was.
The Mia Khalifa School of Liberal Arts incoming.
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