1970

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1970 in Clemson History

[edit] The Class of 1970

[edit] Notable Alumni

James F. Barker, current President of Clemson University.

[edit] Events in 1970

The College of Liberal Arts is established, headed by Dean H. Morris Cox.
Tates Locke is hired as new basketball coach. He will be let go in March 1975 after a troubled tenure.
February 1: Eta Alpha chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha colonized at Clemson University.
April: The R.L. Bryan Company in Columbia refuses to print The Chronicle's Spring 1970 issue, Vol. X, No. 11, over objections to an "obscene" passage in the text.
April 11: The Numeral Society, founded in 1956 by architecture professor Joseph L. Young, accepts charter from Sigma Alpha Epsilon national fraternity and changes its name.
July 21: Clemson Head Coach Hootie Ingram unveils the Tiger Paw as the new logo for Tiger sports teams at a press conference.
August: Eight women musicians join the ranks of the players in Tiger Band for the first time. Prior to this, the only females in the marching band were majorettes. (Reel, Jerome V., Jr., "Women & Clemson University: Excellence - Yesterday and Today", Clemson University Digital Press, 2006, ISBN 0-9771263-6-6, page 36.)
September 2: Walter Cox, dean of Student Affairs, reveals that 7,200 copies of the Spring 1970 issue of The Chronicle have been destroyed for having "obscene" content.
September 11: Central Dance Association sponsors the Rat Hop in Harcombe Commons with Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, $2.50 in advance, $3 at the door, dress is coat and tie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7CtxlisCk
September 12: Clemson blanks the Citadel in home opener, 24-0. B.J. Thomas and the Peace Corps perform in Littlejohn Coliseum, admission is $3, dress is casual. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSSF76Ay3dY&feature=related
September 19: The Tigers defeat Virginia, 27-17, in Death Valley.
September 26: Clemson travels to Georgia, loses, 0-38.
October: The Clemson Aero Club fights with Reid Garrison, FBO operator at the Clemson-Oconee Airport, for access to the field.
October 2: A chartered Martin 4-0-4 twin-prop airliner, N464M, crashes just over ten miles from Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 30 of those on board including the coach and 13 members of the Wichita State football team, en route to play Utah State. Cause was controlled flight into terrain due to poor flight planning.
October 3: The Tigers are defeated by fifteenth-ranked Georgia Tech, 7-28, in Atlanta.
October 5: Two students busted for simple possession of marijuana. A 21 year old senior dies in his dormitory (Johnstone Hall) by self inflicted gunshot wound in a suicide case that is reported in The Tiger.
October 9: To launch Homecoming weekend, Central Dance Association offers up the Ike And Tina Turner Review, with opening act Willie Tee and the Hot Rain at a casual dress concert in Littlejohn Coliseum. Admission is $3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOz_k9zvzo
October 10: "Cousin Clem" gets spanked by "Aubie the Tiger" as the Clemson faithful see their Associated Press ninth-ranked Auburn brethren walk off with a 0-44 shutout. That night, CDA presents Rhythm and Blues Meister Jerry Butler, with opening act Quicksand, in Fike Field House, coat and tie dress code, tickets are $2.50 in advance, $3 at the door. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grr4GYgs5c4
October 14: The University Concert Series presents Ciro, one of Spain's foremost dancers, in Littlejohn Coliseum.
Mid-October: L.L. Wilson takes over as the new chief of police for the City of Clemson.
October 15: Some 250 students rally in the Loggia calling for abolishment of the student dress code.
October 17: Clemson plays Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, losing, 20-36.
October 24: The Tigers are defeated by Duke in Memorial Stadium, 10-21. Central Dance Association presents Three Dog Night in Littlejohn Coliseum, tickets are $4 in advance, $5 at the door. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ku2rMVVXtI
October 25: A concert by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition is not held when the band cancels out.
October 26: The Student Senate passes a resolution calling for students to be allowed "freedom of expression in his manner of dress as defined by his constitutional rights under the constitution" although "students should comply with departmental requirements of safety."
October 31: The Tigers defeat the Maryland Terrapins, 24-11, in College Park.
Fall: Masters degree programs added in Forestry, Agriculture, and Engineering, supplementing masters of science degrees in those areas.
November: A new canteen opens in the basement of Lever Hall.
November 7: Florida State defeats Clemson, 13-38, in a night game in Tallahassee.
November 11: Students are outraged to discover University Police breaking into parked cars, ostensibly to move them.
November 12: Jack Weeden, chief of campus security, admits that the police department has been breaking into private vehicles and moving them. "I don't claim that it's legal," he states, quoted on page one of The Tiger dated November 13, 1970, (Vol. LXIV, No. 13). "It is really done as a favor to the students. This saves them $20 in towing charges." He promises that in the future, a towing company will be called to deal with improperly parked cars. Weeden's clearly casual approach to Constitutional rights will eventually get him fired in 1979.
November 13: The Tiger publishes front page photo of a protest button that reads "The Chronicle : F**K Censorship" with the terse cutline "*UC?*".
November 14: The Tigers are defeated by North Carolina in Death Valley, 7-42. In the worst sports-related accident in U.S. history, the chartered Southern Airways DC-9-31 airliner, registered N97S, of the Marshall Thundering Herd football team crashes two miles short of Huntington, West Virginia. The victims included 37 players, 12 coaches and university staff members, 5 flight crew members and 21 townspeople. They were returning from a game with East Carolina. In 2006, Warner Bros. will release a film, "We Are Marshall", based on this accident and its aftermath. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0C0l8vvyN8
November 16: Actress and activist Jane Fonda speaks in the Amphitheatre at noon to a crowd of 4,000. There had been some question as to whether she would be able to keep the Speakers Bureau date as she had been arrested at Cleveland (Ohio) Hopkins Airport on November 2 and charged with drug smuggling when 105 vials of pills including amphetamines and barbituates were discovered in her luggage.
November 20: The Tiger publishes full-size reproduction of a letter dated November 17 from President Robert C. Edwards to Tiger editor Richard Harpootlian on page one reprimanding him for allowing the Chronicle protest button photo to be published in the November 13 issue of the campus paper.
November 21: South Carolina drops the Tigers, 32-38, in Memorial Stadium. Clemson suffers 3-8 season, 2-4 in conference, sixth place in the ACC.