Little known facts about MU

• If you rub the nose of the statue of Governor David R. Francis you will receive an 'A' on your next exam.
• The 'M' at Faurot Field was built in about an hour as a freshman stunt the night before the 1927 Homecoming game.
• If a journalism student talks while walking through the Journalism Arch they will receive an 'F' on their next test.
• At one time ivy grew on five of the Quad's columns. The sixth remained barren because, as the story goes, during the Civil War a soldier fighting with another other the love of a woman is supposed to have been shot at the column's base.
• If you step on the engineering Shamrock next to Switzler Hall you are destined to love an engineer.
• If you walk across the bridge in Peace Park with someone while on a date, you are destined to fall in love.

Source: MU Alumni Association website