This Week in Time
10 years ago…
Students held a “die-in” for AIDS awareness on campus. An anonymous student with HIV/AIDS wrote a letter to the editor criticizing the event as insensitive for discounting that millions of people live regular lives with HIV/AIDS, not that they simply die of it. ● “Hannah Montana: The Movie” came out. ● ASUW approved $20,000 for the Outdoor Program’s bike library. ● Students participated in the national “Day of Silence” to make visible the silence facing LGBT people.
30 years ago…
Laramie councilors rushed to close a loophole in city drinking laws that allows people under the age of 21 to drink malt beverages. ● Two letter-writers objected to the CIA recruiting on campus after the CIA’s interventions in Chile resulted in the overthrow of the country’s democratic government and the installation of a repressive dictator. ● The original “Pet Sematary” movie came out. ● An internal University survey found high satisfaction among students and alumni but low morale among faculty. ● A UW student who had been sexually assaulted and then stalked by a coworker found authorities uncooperative at every turn. Her firm required she and her assailant sign an agreement to never talk about the incident; UW’s Dean of Students supporter the assailant’s right to stay in the same classes as her; and Laramie police became annoyed with her calls and wrote she probably had “psychological problems” and was “making the whole thing up.”
50 years ago…
The Black Student alliance was recognized as an official student organization. ● The University changed the dormitory live-in requirement from all underclassmen to only freshmen. ● The Military and Peace balls were held on campus the same night.
