University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1974 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 10-10-1974 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 078, No 34, 10/ 10/1974 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1974 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 078, No 34, 10/10/1974." 78, 34 (1974). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1974/114 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1974 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 7 74 .I . ~ t: ' " Ne\IV Mexico U.NM Founded; Uv\!,~W . .. 'L D B D ' ' .~J;,1 DAIL.V · .· . Survives Its · ~ C'2... Sf!. '!., Thursday,October 10,1974 First 25 Ye.afs \ By GAIL GOTTLIEB In 1889, Bernard ShandoJl Rode.y spent 36 sleepless hours jn an effort to draft a biD calling for the formation of a 'university in the territoty of New Mexico. A caucus . had only narrowly defeated opposition to the introduction of such a bill, an.d Rodey knew that he must draft and introduce his bill before the opposition had time to regroup, Two days later on February 28, Rodey shambled sleepily out ot the old Palace Hotel in Santa Fe, walked down to the Inn of the Governors and watched with elation as his bill, ••to establish ,( and. provide for the maintenance of the·· University 'of New Mexico., the Agricultural Experiment, the School of Mines, and the Insane Asylum," passed, Many skeptics in the territory were justified in thinking that .