Four students at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, were shot to death by Ohio National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest. In response to tear gas, the student protesters used rocks and bricks to fight back the Guard ...
Youngstown College acquired four surplus barracks from Camp Perry. The federal government was to move the structures from the camp and reassemble them at YoCo. The buildings were utilized for classrooms, office space and ...
Professor Edward C. Franklin was appointed dean of the William Rayen School of Engineering at Youngstown College. He replaced Professor Frank Ellis, who had been acting dean since the death of Louis Deesz in 1950. (NOTE: ...
A fire forces the members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity to vacate their house on 43 Indiana Avenue. The blaze started in a faulty fireplace and caused $15,000 worth of damages.
The Theta Chi fraternity house suffered damage from vandalism. Youngstown City Police reported that sixteen windows were broken with baseball bats and bricks.
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.
The Free Health Clinic was relocated from the Disciple House to the basement of the First Christian Church. The Clinic was started by the Cooperative Campus Ministry due to the lack of health care facilities on campus.
Dr. Robert Herbert has offered free tuition and housing to college students negatively impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The YSU provost noted that the Ohio Board of Regents approved such action for all public universities in Ohio.
YSU history professor Dr. Saul Friedman was awarded an Emmy for his part as co-producer of the Holocaust documentary, "Robert Clary, A5714: A Memoir of Liberation." He made the film with Dr. Herbert Hochhauser of Kent State ...
The Friends of YU Library announced that they had raised $7,000 in their fundraising drive. The FYUL began in 1939 and contributed to the purchase of many books for the library.
The late Kenmore Drake is eulogized by people who knew him. Drake was found murdered in the home of Dr. Timothy Lyons, dean of the Collge of Fine & Performing Arts, where he had been looking after the the dean's dog while ...
The Friends of Maag Library group has been reactivated. According to FOML vice president, English professor James Houck, the purpose of the orgainzation is to encourage public interest in the library and to raise money ...
YSU students are working with million dollar software thanks to a grant from UGS PLM Solutions. The technology is also being used at Stanford, Texas A&M, and the University of Michigan.
Dr. Thomas Gay announces his retirement after teaching English at YSU for 38 years. Holding degrees in both English and psychology, Gay always used a psychological approach in analyzing literature. One of his greatest ...
The death of Dr. Carol Gay, professor of English at YSU, was announced. She died on December 18, 1985, after a prolonged battle with cancer. She taught at YSU since 1957 and is noted for being the co-founder, with her ...
Governor Bob Taft has appointed Don Cagigas and Scott Schulick to the YSU Board of Trustees. Cagigas will finish the term of F.W. Knecht who died in January of 2004. Schulick replaces Joseph S. Nohra whose term expires in ...
Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste presented YSU with a check for $283,000 establishing the Ohio Department of Education's Edison Office of Entrepreneurship (EOE).
Emily Mackall, chair of the Economics Department, was appointed to the YSU Board of Trustees by Ohio Governor James Rhodes. She was the third woman to serve on the board and the first resident of Columbiana County to be so named.