10 years ago…
Ahead of the 2008 presidential election, the “Pokes Vote” campaign aimed to get 20,000 Wyomingites to register to vote. ● The Chinese Scholars RSO caused a bit of a kerfuffle in the ASUW senate when it was awarded $2000 in funding after turning in its application late. ● UW logged a record $78 million in external funding in the 2007-08 fiscal year. ● The Pacific Power Corporation approved a plan to power more than 330,000 homes with renewable energy by the end of the year; the plan included greenlighting the construction of 125 wind turbines west of Rock River.
20 years ago…
BI’s question of the day, posed to students around campus, asked if then-president Bill Clinton should be impeached. Opinion columnist Joe Milezewski wrote Clinton had “stained the fabric of American society” and “left a puddle of lies as his legacy.” ● The UW Police Department preemptively trained to respond to riots after several hundred Colorado University students went on an alcohol-fueled rampage near their Denver campus. UW had not experienced a riot since the days of the Vietnam War and the “Black 14” in the 1960s. ● UW’s Women’s Studies department celebrated its 20th anniversary. ● The Board of Trustees considered a $10 million plan to remodel the Wyoming Union, which included removing the Union’s bowling alley to make room for two stories of the bookstore. Bowling would no longer be offered for PE credit.
50 years ago…
A fire in the basement of Orr Hall resulted in the all-male residents evacuating the building at 2:45 a.m. ● UW had a housing shortage for married students. ● The university received $4,500 ($32,725 today) in equipment to study low energy nuclear physics. ● After fall rush, 177 women pledged to UW’s seven sororities.
