The iconic M was first painted on the Franklin Mountains by students in 1923. Instead the students selected “M” for Mines. In 1919, the students rejected a faculty proposal to officially designate T as the school’s monogram for athletic uniforms, despite the added prestige of it being the monogram of UT Austin. Monogramīecause students attending the State School of Mines and Metallurgy referred to the school as TSM, short for Texas School of Mines, the monogram “T” became associated with TSM’s early athletic program. El Paso replaced The Eyes of Texas, which UTEP had shared with UT Austin since 1920. The Department of Music, which had assisted in securing permission and publication rights prior to Robbins’s passing in 1982, composed new lyrics and modified the music’s tempo for marching and pep. In 1985, the student government adopted Marty Robbins’s hit ballad, El Paso, to be UTEP’s new fight song. Almost twenty years later, the new athletic logo changed the colors once more to the current navy blue and blaze orange with a silver accent. In the early 1980s, the students voted to add blue to the original colors of orange and white.
In 1920, the students voted to keep orange and white as the school’s colors, again to reinforce their standing as a branch of the University of Texas System.
In 1916, while preparing for the School of Mines first commencement, a decorating committee selected the orange and white of the University of Texas for the school’s colors.
Over time, the former mining school forged its own identity, unique and separate from that of the Austin branch. This included its colors (orange and white), fight song (“Eyes of Texas”), monogram (“T”), yearbook (“Cactus”), and motto (disciplina praesidium civitatis). As the second oldest academic branch of the University of Texas System, UTEP shared much of its early heritage with the Main Branch in Austin.
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