UWF Events

• Dot Stewart opens first alumni office
• New Coppertop Theater debuts
• Speed limit lowered from 45 to 35 on University Drive
• Beer first served in Rat
• Students hold peaceful Kent State memorial observance

World Events

• Nixon launches “incursion” into Cambodia
• Demonstrating anti-war students killed at Kent State and Jackson Universities
• EPA and National Air Quality Control Act pass
• Voting age lowered to 18
• Computer “floppy” disk is instant success
• Product bar codes debut
• Football coach Vince Lombardi, rockers Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin die
• First class stamp costs $.06
• The Graduate and Catch-22 are movie hits
• The Beatles break up
• Coca-Cola’s “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” commercial saturates the radio and broadcast airwaves