The first nine members of the YSU Athletic Hall of Fame were announced. The list included long-time coaches Dwight "Dike" Beede and Dominic Rosselli as well as the late former president Howard Jones.
The University Senate passed a resolution permitting the use of the grades "Credit" and "No Entry." An additional motion passed to record only the higher grade for repeated courses.
A new honors degree program was approved by YSU’s Academic Senate, designed to “create a distinct and continuing community of intellectual excellence...."
The lobby of Kilcawley Center was the scene of a near riot as students who supported the war in Vietnam upset a table staffed by Students and Faculty for Peace. Anti-war literture was destroyed and SFP members present were ...
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 ...
The Western Reserve Transit Authority (WRTA) announced a special 19-passenger shuttle bus has been purchased for a new route between the YSU campus and downtown.
Harry Meshel, a member of the YU Business Administration faculty, was appointed secretary to Youngstown's mayor, Anthony B. Flask. In addition to Meshel, five other Youngstown University alumni or former students were ...
Clipping from "The Jambar" depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaking at Powers Auditorium as a Skeggs Lecturer. A second photograph portrays a number of local Irish Nationalists who protested Lady ...
David P. Skeggs was selected to chair the Youngstown College Art Department. Skeggs had exhibited his work at more than twenty-five galleries and won many awards. He was the son of the late Leonard T. Skeggs who, as head ...
The family of Clarence R. Smith, Sr. has donated his personal collection of rocks, gems, and minerals to YSU. A museum to display the collection is located in Moser Hall.
The long career of Mary B. Smith was highlighted. During her years of service at YSU, Smith served as head of the health and physical education departments, recorder, university registrar and director of career planning ...
Severe restrictions were placed on smoking on campus as part of the new agreement concluded between the faculty union and the YSU administration. Some students viewed the smoking ban with mixed feelings, claiming that they ...
YU students walked out of the campus snack bar and staged a boycott of the facility. Complaints included unsanitary conditions, poor ventilation, and insufficient lavatories. John P. Gillespie, Dean of Men, addressed these ...
Philip A. Snyder, former director of public information at Westminster College, was appointed director of public relations at Youngstown University. Raised in Youngstown, Snyder was a 1952 alumnus of YU.
A fire broke out in the chemical engineering lab of the Engineering Sciences Building. The blaze was caused by soybean oil that had been ignited during an experiment. No one was injured and the building was evacuated.