1970: Closed Circuit Television introduced to residence halls.
1971: Library in Academic Hall expanded with new building.
1972: Then-Dean Marvin Buncher investigates student apathy.
1974: Secondary education communication program offered.
1974: The first attempt to bring women’s sports to Point Park.
1976: 1976-1977 basketball team starts with only three first-year students.
1977: Saxophonist Eric Kloss performs in Lawrence Hall lounge.
1978: Black dance students file complaint against Point Park with the NAACP for a lack of diversity and refusal to cast Black dancers.
1979: Pittsburgh Playhouse hit with hoax bomb threat.
1980: Baseball team ends season with an 8-1 record.
1983: The Globe publishes Point Park 50th anniversary edition.
1984: Soccer begins as a varsity sport and campus club.
1985: United Student Government (USG) remarks on unfilled senate seats and general lack of student interest.
1986: Sig Tau Whalers earn second shutout in intramural football.
1987: Asbestos levels in Lawrence Hall found safe.
1988: Tom Welch, a 1975 graduate, returns to coach women’s basketball team for the 1988-1989 season.
1989: Old picric acid, a class A explosive, found in a biology class.
1990: USG explores possibility of expanding Lawrence Hall’s laundry room on the eighth floor.
1992: NSET introduces new environmental sciences major.

