UWF Events

• Alpha College named for former regent Pat Dodson
• Three faculty members receive EPA grants of $500,000
• Natatorium completed

World Events

• President Carter pardons Vietnam draft resisters
• Production of B-1 bomber halted
• Neutron bomb developed
• Panama Canal treaties signed
• Social Security taxes raised
• U.S. Department of Energy created
• Saccharin banned
• Space shuttle Enterprise makes first free flight
• Atomic scientist Werner von Braun, Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx and Elvis Presley die
• Al Capp retires “Li’l Abner” comic strip
• Star Wars released to theaters
• ABC airs 26-hour Roots miniseries