KRQE Channel 13 aired a report on Monday, Nov. 12, about the mascot voting at NMT.  Here is the text that accompanied the video. Click on the link at the bottom of this page to view the video at KRQE.com.

SOCORRO, N.M. (KRQE) - New Mexico Tech officially has a mascot. 

Students, faculty and alumni overwhelmingly selected the "miners" to be the face of the university, which is formally called the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. 

(At right is an old unofficial logo.)

Miners got 61 percent of the vote, trouncing the other finalists: the roadrunners, the isopods, the bighorns and the burros. 

NMT's marketing department is now working on possible designs for the mascot, which the school community will vote on next month. ...

To watch the video report, click here.

For the full official NMT news release, click here.