UWF Events

• Computer Science leaves the College of Business to stand alone in July
• Morris Marx inaugurated president
• WUWF-FM launches RadioLive
• Congress approves 136- acre land swap to create permanent OWCC-UWF joint Fort Walton Beach campus

World Events

• George Bush elected president
• PanAm 747 downed by terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland
• Lt. Col. Oliver North indicted in Iran-Contra Affair
• Tele-evangelist Jimmy Swaggart follows lead of Jim Baker and is caught up in moral scandal
• Severe drought strikes Midwest
• Aspirin touted as heart attacks
• Fax machines take off
• 60 percent of households have a VCR
• Phantom of the Opera leads Broadway theater comeback
• Hyper-markets like Wal-mart and K-mart become the rage