This Week in Time
10 years ago…
Elton John planned to perform in Laramie for the 13th annual Shepard Symposium. ● The speed limit on streets surrounding campus was lowered to 20 mph due to a high amount of pedestrian traffic. ● Less than one-fourth of University of Wyoming students voted in ASUW’s primary election. ● An honor society hosted the first MS walk on campus to raise awareness for the chronic incurable neurological disease multiple sclerosis. The event raised almost $11,000 to help find a cure. ● BI’s Entertainment writer reviewed the movie “Monsters vs. Aliens.” ● The Laramie Advisory Commission on Disabilities hosted a roll-through event to highlight National Disabilities awareness Month in March.
30 years ago…
Branding Iron students were still prioritizing enjoying spring break over producing newspapers.
50 years ago…
A bomb scare disrupted classes in the Classroom building, the 21s such incident in three years. ● Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to orbit the Moon, planned to speak at UW. ● The Student Wives Club awarded PHT degrees — for “putting hubby through” — to the wives of graduating seniors. Monthly club meeting activities offered women “a change to get away from hubby and the kids” for a time. ● The University held a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in Tennessee one year before. ● A new ASUW bill required a minimum of two male cheerleaders on the UW team. ● One in three Wyoming women had a job outside the home. ● The third lecture in UW’s first-ever series on Afro-American culture covered the literature of the Harlem Renaissance.
