The YSU Marching Band was eliminated due to a shortage of funding, the lack of a proper practice field, and the demonstration of little or no enthusiasm on the part of YSU students and music majors.
President Humphrey announced the Pollock House will be renovated and refurbished by private investors. The target date for the opening of the new Wick-Pollock Inn is set for September 1987.
Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA and former Youngstown resident and activist, delivered a speech in DeBartolo Hall that was critical of the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
A large crowd attended a public hearing at the Mahoning County Courthouse to hear public discussion regarding a proposed county community college and technical school. The primary point of discussion was whether such an ...
Youngstown University's Computer Center was highlighted. Under the direction of Dr. Thomas D. Fok, Civil Engineering, the Center was designed with instructional purposes in mind for both faculty and students.
YSU library director Richard Owen announced the installation of a public access computer connected to OCLC (Ohio College Library Center). Through the computer, patrons could search Maag Library's holdings or those of ...
The new Academic Senate passed its proposed constitution and by-laws at a special meeting. The change was necessary because many of the duties and responsibilities involving faculy-university relations now came under the ...
Work began on the university's $1,608,900 science building extension. The newest building in the planned $20 million university-wide expansion, the facility was named in honor of Ward Beecher, retired president of Commercial ...
Ground was broken and construction begun on the new Wick Avenue parking deck. YSU President John J. Coffelt announced that the deck should be open for busineess by fall quarter 1978. It was designed to provide 2,150 parking ...
Youngstown First Ward Councilman David E. O'Neil criticized the behavior of YU students. He was especially critical about the conduct of students along the Wick Oval, where couples were known to meet for romantic encounters. ...
YSU security chief Paul Cress announced that a cease and desist order went into effect as of 5 p.m., March 11, 1974 against "streaking," or nude exhibitionism, on campus.
The Cuban Missile Crisis generated worry and fear on the YU campus and throughout the nation as a whole as a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics loomed. The crisis ...
Former New York governor, Mario Cuomo, attended a fund-raising dinner in support of an endowed faculty position in Italian culture and language. He also spoke as a Skeggs lecturer later in the evening.
Skeggs lecturer, Mario Cuomo, spoke before a large crowd in Kilcawley Center. The former governor of New York focused on U.S. foreign relations and domestic policy.
Charles B. Cushwa is named director of YSU's Cushwa Center for Industrial Development. The Center was named for Cushwa's father, the late president and chairman of Commercial Shearing.