A successful bond election in the following year allowed for the construction of Rundell Hall and the campus gymnasium.
The sponsors misled college officials about the nature of the event, which drew 5,000 people to a campus gymnasium holding only 2,700.
By the late 1950s the need for a new and larger campus gymnasium at NMSU had become evident.
Feminists gathered in protest at a campus gymnasium.
And then, when the faculty defied the administration and voted to reprimand the students, more than 6,000 students rallied in protest at the campus gymnasium.
He led efforts to improve the athletic fields, establish the first campus gymnasium in the basement of Old College, create intramural and varsity baseball teams, and build tennis courts.
The campus gymnasium was built, which is still in use today.
In another fiasco, nine students were trampled to death at a celebrity basketball game at a campus gymnasium in 1991.
The main campus' gymnasium has a seating capacity of 2,500.
His game was first played in the campus gymnasium on a court roughly half the size of a regulation NBA court today, between two teams of nine players.