Ski-U-Mah

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One of the first issues of Ski-U-Mah, from December 1929.
One of the first issues of Ski-U-Mah, from December 1929.

Ski-U-Mah was the name of the college humor magazine of the University of Minnesota from circa. 1929-1950. Its most prominent writer was Max Shulman, who later wrote the stories that became the television program The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

Ski-U-Mah (pronounced SKY-YOU-MAH) is a cheer used at the University of Minnesota since 1894. Two rugby players, John W. Adams and Win Sargent, created the cheer by combining "Ski", a Sioux battle cry with "U Mah" for the University of Minnesota. The cheer is used in Hail! Minnesota and the Minnesota Rouser.

A meeting room at the McNamara Alumni Center at the University of Minnesota is named "Ski-U-Mah", as is one of the campus parking lots.

[edit] References

Schulman, Max, Max Schulman's Guided Tour of Campus Humor, Hanover House, Garden City, New York, 1955.

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Cateory:College humor magazines

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