Schoo​ l Colors: Black and Yellow School Mascot: Hawkeyes ​(Team Name) Herky the Hawk ​(Mascot) Traditions: Kinnick Wave Tradition (Waving at the children in the Go to a night football hospital) (​ game at Kinnick Stadium) Iowa Fight Song SPORTING EVENTS AT CARVER ARENA The word is "Fight! Fight! Fight! for IOWA," Let every loyal Iowan sing; The word is "Fight! Fight! Fight! for IOWA," Until the walls and rafters ring (rah! rah!) Come on and cheer, cheer, cheer for IOWA, Come on and cheer until you hear the final gun. The word is "Fight! Fight! Fight! for IOWA," Until the game is won. The Old Gold Hymn (from the webpage: Old Gold O, Iowa, calm and secure on thy hill https://oniowa.uiowa​ .edu/content/traditions-0 Looking down on the river below, At a senior class meeting in spring of With a dignity born of the dominant will 1887, student Marvin H. Dey suggested the Of the men that have lived long ago, university was behind the times in failing O, heir of the glory of pioneer days, to adopt school colors and a school song. Let thy spirit be proud as of old, A committee subsequently recommended For thou shalt find blessing and honor gold as a school color, and students and praise approved the choice at a mass meeting. A In the daughters and sons of Old Gold. woman present at the meeting took an old We shall sing and be glad with the days as gold ribbon from her hair, tore it into they fly pieces, and passed them around as samples. In the time that we spend in thy halls, By 1891, gold had been accepted as Iowa’s And in sadness we’ll part when the days color, but there was some question as to have gone by the shade—old gold or simply gold? A June And the path turns away from thy walls. 1894 election made it official: old gold it Till the waters no more in thy river shall was and remains still today. run It wasn’t until 1905 that the UI adopted Till the stars in the heavens grow cold an official song. University president We shall sing of the glory and fame thou George E. MacLean sponsored a contest hast won for lyrics, offering a $20 prize. The And the love that we bear for Old Gold. winner from 17 submissions, penned by senior John Carl Parish, became the “Old Gold Hymn,” sung by audiences for many years at the conclusion of commencement. Meet Rusty the Giant Sloth at the UI Museum of Natural History For one night in November, the Hawkeye Marching Band, Symphony Band and Johnson County Landmark jazz big band all gather together at the in Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the biggest band event in Iowa. (http://tourtheten.com/iowa/traditions/school-traditions/) ​ ​ “Brain” Rock is on campus and if you rub it before a test, it gives you good grades on the test. .