Plans were announced by Stephen Grcevich, station manager of WYSU-FM, to extend the station's broadcasting day from noon-to-midnight to 9:00 a.m. to midnight.
Dr. Bhagwati P.K. Poddar (erroneously listed as "B.K. Bhagwati Poddar), assistant professor of sociology, taught the first free university class ever to be offered at YSU. The class was called "The New Sociology" and was ...
More than 1300 people participated in a memorial rally in the Kilcawley amphitheatre at YSU and over 750 in an antiwar rally held on Central Square in downtown Youngstown. Al Shipka, head of the local AFL-CIO Council, was ...
Youngstown College president Howard Jones was appointed chairman of the Ohio Employment Committee to study unemployment problems. The committee consisted of Jones and eight other individuals.
The YSU chapter of the Ohio Education Association set up a local defense contingency fund at its second official meeting. The fund was established to protect the legal rights of the membership.
Dr. Saul Friedman of YSU's History Department and Dr. Herbert Hochhauser of Kent State University won an Emmy award for their documentary, " Voice of Giants: A Century of Zionism." Both professors previously won Emmy awards ...
YSU announces the death of head basketball coach Bill Dailey who succumbed to a heart attack after a long battle with cancer. Dailey's death came just five months after he succeeded Mike Rice as head basketball coach. He was 33.
At a meeting of the YSU Board of Trustees, a new contract with the faculty union was ratified, ending a period of labor strife that resulted in the first strike by any campus union. Also, the resignation of Dr. Taylor ...
Construction began on an expanded auditorium for the Main Building at a cost of $60,000. $33,000 of that cost had been donated by individuals and local firms.
As the Ohio General Assembly sought to pass legislation to aid colleges and universities within the Buckeye State, State Representatives Thomas J. Barrett and George G. Tablack proposed an outright grant of $800,000 to ...
Father William J. Kennedy, YU's Roman Catholic chaplain and advisor to the Newman Club, was transferred to a parish in Aurora, Ohio. The Diocese named Father Anthony M. Esposito as Father Kennedy's replacement. Father ...
Dr. Ward T. Miner was named to succeed Professor Karl W. Dykema as head of the YU English Department. Dykema had been previously promoted to Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Robert D. Bowden, head of Youngstown College's Social Science Department, took out petitions to run as a candidate for Congress as representative of the 19th District. Bowden hoped to unseat the incumbent, Representative ...
Walter Keller, an instructor of communications at Youngstown University, joined approximately fourteen other marchers who picketed the Main Post Office in Youngstown in protest of the escalating war in Vietnam. The local ...
The YU Inter-Fraternity Council decided to retain fraternity floats in the annual Homecoming Parade. This was in response to a motion to dispense with floats altogether in favor of a fraternity house decorating contest.
Professor Elbert B. Smith, Jr., associate professor of history at Youngstown College, was granted his doctor of philosophy degree by the University of Chicago.
Dr. William R. McGraw, chairperson of the Division of Drama at West Virginia University, was named the first dean of the new College of Fine and Performing Arts. McGraw's appointment will take effect April 1, 1975.