1980

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1980 in Clemson History

[edit] Events in 1980

  • Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program in the College of Nursing is terminated.
  • Lehotsky Hall is completed. It is named for Dr. Koloman Lehotsky, the first department head for forestry.
  • January: R.L. Bryan Company in Columbia refuses to print The Chronicle unless a nude photo is removed from the layout.
  • January 10: Classes begin.
  • January 15: Dean Walter Cox meets with the Union director Butch Trent and programming director Bill Mandicott over his decision to cancel rock concerts in December.
  • January 19: Clemson electrical engineering student Edward Alford Strong, age 21, goes missing after a party at the LeMans Apartments, last seen between 4 and 6 a.m. - two weeks later his body is found in Lake Hartwell and the drowning ruled accidental.
  • January 22: The Performing Artists Series presents Muriel Bach in "Freud Never Said It Was Easy" in Daniel Auditorium.
  • January 23: Circuit Court Judge C. Victor Pyle warns the Clemson student body in Pickens County General Sessions Court that any drug violation other than simple possession of marijuana will be met with jail time rather than probationary methods. This follows the sentencing of Dave Lorick, the former head of the Central Dance Association, to three years in prison on cocaine and other assorted charges. Most students in this investigation were arrested in early December.
  • Winter: Thea McCrary, a Greenville native and six year veteran of law enforcement, becomes the first female detective hired by the Clemson University police department.
  • February 1: President Bill Atchley announces a reorganization of the university administration, eliminating two vice presidential offices and realigning others.
  • February 5-February 6: Overnight snowfall leaves two and a half inches of accumulation, classes cancelled on Wednesday until noon.
  • February 7: Presidential hopeful John Connally begins a ten-city campaign tour of South Carolina with an appearance at the Clemson House. Unfortunately for Connally, who would have been Richard Nixon's party heir apparent in 1976, except for that nasty little Watergate break-in problem which led to Tricky Dick abdicating the throne, the former Texas governor suddenly found himself an outsider when former Vice President Gerald Ford decided to validate his accension to the presidency by running for re-election. Connally's hopes to regain the path to the White House will go unfulfilled.
  • February 8: Dean Walter T. Cox meets with the University Union in talks on how to cut down on vandalism and arrests at Clemson rock concerts. Cox had summarily cancelled concerts in December after minor incidents at the Kansas performance on November 3.
  • February 10: Clemson football player William Gary Adkins collapses of a heart attack during an intramural basketball game, suffers cardiac arrest en route to hospital. Autopsy reveals a previously undetected congenital heart condition. Adkins, 22, had lettered in 1977, 1978 and 1979 at the wide receiver position.
  • February 11: Student Senate proposes that a fall break be established.
  • February 14: Melissa Pryor, representing Mu Beta Psi, the campus music honor fraternity, is crowned the new Miss Clemson University.
  • February 15: Campus student media sponsor a "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" event on Bowman Field in front of Tillman Hall with a ribbon tied to one of the oak trees in honor of the 50 American hostages held in Tehran, Iran since November 5. WSBF-FM Office Manager Patricia "Trish" Coleman (Bridges) (1982) was the driving force organizing this event.
  • Mid-February: Renovation of Tillman Hall begins.
  • February 19: New Orleans Philharmonic concert in Littlejohn Coliseum.
  • February 22: "Do you believe in miracles?" asked ABC sportscaster Al Michaels, at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, as the unlikely seventh-seeded American hockey team who had defeated five squads to move into the medal round, faced the Soviet Union team, who had a tournament record of 5-0, outscoring the opposition, 51-11. The U.S. team stunned the Russians with a 4-3 win, whereupon Michaels answered his own question: "YES!", as the buzzer sounded. One of the greatest upsets in Olympic history, and this writer watched it in The Tiger lounge on the ninth level above the Loggia.
  • February 24: Molly Hatchet concert at Greenville Memorial Auditorium.
  • February 25: A cooperative effort of the student government and the Inter-fraternity Council, new cross-campus shuttle service begins, using white university vans. Clemson University Concert Series presents Opera Highlights with Boris Goldovsky in Littlejohn Coliseum.
  • February 29: Jazz trumpeter Tom Browne performs in the Clemson House Ballroom.
  • March: Automatic teller machines are installed on campus for the first time.
  • March: Rare documents from John C. Calhoun's career are discovered in a vault in Tillman Hall prior to its renovation. From The Tiger, March 28, 1980, (Vol. 73, No. 22), page two, by Tiger Staff Writer Beth Reese:
"Bill Thompson and Steve Lee, of the university's accounting office, discovered the papers while sifting through old student and financial records that had been stored in a forgotten vault in Tillman. The building was about to be turned over to contractors for the beginning of the $4.2 million renovation, and the storage areas needed to be cleared. 'We put on our coveralls and crawled back into the vault, which had been originally used by the university's treasurer. The vault is about 10 feet by 14 feet with a seven foot ceiling and is at the front of the building where the sociology department was located,' said Thompson.
"Expecting only to find student and financial records, the two men looked through a trap door in the steel ciling (sic) and found framed items and handwritten Calhoun letters. Among the papers were two documents appointing Calhoun as Secretary of War during the administrations of James Monroe and John Tyler. Affixed to the documents were the signatures of Monroe and Tyler, as well as John Quincy Adams (in the position of Secretary of State under Monroe)."



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