10 years ago…
Construction on the new Information Technology building was slated to be completed by the end of December. ● Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal predicted a revenue decline and planned to tighten the state’s belt. ● A national survey found one in nine children uses alternative medicine such as acupuncture, meditation and chiropractic care. ● President-elect Barack Obama warned the U.S.’s recovery from the 2008 financial crisis would likely be slow, and the economy could get worse before it got better.
20 years ago…
Former UW student Chasity Pasley, who was dating one of Matthew Shepard’s killers, pleaded innocent to the charge of accessory, after the fact, to first-degree murder. ● A pipe bomb was detonated near McClure Street in Laramie. No one was injured. ● The Board of Trustees considered several proposed solutions to annual parking woes: changing Ivinson and Lewis to one-way streets to add 400 parking spaces, adding parking meters to spaces near Knight Hall and Coe Library and/or banning freshmen from having cars. The University had sold 7,234 parking permits while campus had 4,166 spaces. ● $210 of counterfeit money was used at Laramie fast food restaurants and a convenience store. ● Republicans in the House of Representatives introduced impeachment articles against President Bill Clinton, moving toward an all-House vote.
50 years ago…
The Christmas tree made of lights at the top of the Union was the highest in the nation, reaching 7,306 feet above sea level, higher than the former title-holder of the Rockefeller Plaza tree. ● The UW Varsity Rifle Team out-shot Colorado University at Boulder at the first match of the Colorado-Wyoming Rifle League competition. ● Trustees met with students at an informal coffee hour to hear their questions and comments. “We value the opinions and questions of the students,” a Trustee from Laramie said. “We need their help in deciding what course to take with this University.” ● A Laramie resident and mother wrote a letter to the editor opposing UW official’s proposed limit on the amount of alcohol in drinks after two students were killed in a car accident.
