To help Metro State celebrate its 40th anniversary throughout the 2005-06 academic year, each week @Metro will bring readers a fun or significant fact from years past. Our 2nd installment:

Calling it a "toe-in-the-water proposition," on Sept. 7, 1975, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education granted Metro State $11,619 for athletic scholarships. This was the first state money for intercollegiate athletics in the school's ten-year history. Noting that Metro State students were typically older and had jobs, the Denver Post remarked: "…much of the potential athletic talent is (either) too old or too tired to take on UCLA, except perhaps in pinball."

For more information and the latest news about 40th anniversary events go to http://www.mscd.edu/news/fortyyears/index.html