Traditions
Walking through the beautiful campus past the quad with the columns, it reaffirms my decision to attend Mizzou. However there is a rich history among the beautiful architecture. Fun traditions to note about the campus:
Want to marry an engineer? If you cross the stone Shamrock outside of the Engineering building East ensures that you will marry an engineer.
If you walk across the stone bridge in Peace Park with a sweetheart, it is destined that you will marry that person. Woo hoo!!
Memorial Union was constructed as a tribute to the students who died in WWI. The second portion was dedicated after WWII. Thus, students take their hat off and speak quietly when walking underneath the tower.
Also, while students walk under the archway of the journalism department, students either whisper or are silent. The story is that while a couple of students were walking under the archway, they discussed how they cheated on their exams, AND a teacher above them heard and flunked them.