1968: Lawrence Hall dedicated by the then-college. The building’s “full name” is David Leo Lawrence Memorial Hall. Gerald Lawrence, David Lawrence’s son, attended.
1969: WPPJ announces move to Lawrence Hall.
1970: Student Senate plans to send apology letter to Air Force recruiters after students tear down their posters.
1971: Coffeehouse moved to Lawrence Hall’s basement from its original location on the third floor.
1973: Dining hall “cracks down” on students giving their food to their friends, since it was not allowed at the time.
1976: The Globe gets a new nameplate designed by an Ivy School of Professional Art student.
1977: Proposed media board to oversee The Globe, WPPJ and WPPC-TV (precursor to U-View) struck down.
1978: Student Organization for Understanding Life (SOUL) plans Black Awareness Week with various shows and plays.
1979: Some international students allege Point Park and recruiters made them pay for I-2o forms.
1980: Bulletin boards for flyers put up for the first time. Before, people would post them in the skybridge, which administrators took as cluttering up the then-college.
1981: Organization of Point Park College Engineers plan to place a parabolic antenna on top of Lawrence Hall.
1982: Students agree not to access internet accounts that are not theirs or share account numbers.
1983: Math baccalaureate program offered in hopes to address national math teacher shortage at the time.
1984: Wood Allies garage nearly complete.
Throughout the years: March 4-8
Photo by Marky Keane
Engineering students hold a competition over who can get the best high score on a Space War computer game. Photo taken March 4, 1982.
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Carson Folio, Editor-in-Chief
Carson Folio began working for The Globe during the fall 2022 semester as a staff writer contributing features and opinion articles. Folio, a Senior, became co-opinion editor during the fall 2023 semester, worked as editor-elect in the fall of 2024, Co-Editor-in-Chief in spring 2025 and is now the current Editor-in-Chief. He can be contacted at [email protected].
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