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Discontinuation of cigarette ads
| Date: | 9/16/1963 |
| Description: | A Technician article cites the recent discontinuation of cigarette ads placed in university publications, a result of efforts to reduce exposure of young persons to cigarettes. |
| Timelines: | Student Life | This Day | This Month in NC State History (September) |
Speaker Ban Bill passes
| Date: | 6/25/1963 |
| Description: | The Speaker Ban Bill passes through the NC House, prohibiting anyone with "known Communist ties" from speaking on any state-supported campus, including NC State. |
| Timelines: | Campus Visitors | This Day | This Month in NC State History (June) |
Protest over racial segregation
| Date: | 4/30/1963 |
| Description: | A group of NC State students join with students from Shaw University to protest racial segregation policies in effect at the State Theater on Salisbury Street. |
| Timelines: | African Americans | Student Life | This Day | This Month in NC State History (April) |
Escaped pig captured
| Date: | 4/17/1963 |
| Description: | A pig which escaped from the Animal Disease Lab is captured in the ladies' restroom in Winston Hall. |
| Timelines: | Academics | Campus Buildings & Grounds | This Day | This Month in NC State History (April) |
Lady Bird Johnson visits
| Date: | 3/30/1963 |
| Description: | Lady Bird Johnson, wife of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, visits the School of Agriculture. |
| Timelines: | Campus Visitors | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | This Day | This Month in NC State History (March) |
Challenge issued to UNC students
| Date: | 2/14/1963 |
| Description: | Two NC State students challenge UNC students to a 55-mile walk-a-thon. If accepted, the students plan to leave at 2 pm on March 2nd, and hike throughout the night to the agreed location, where the winning team will be determined by the most walkers present throughout the race and completing it in under 20 hours. State students believe they will win. |
| Timelines: | Student Life | This Day | This Month in NC State History (February) |
Cora Kemp beomes the first female Technician editor
| Date: | 1963 |
| Timelines: | Highlights in NC State History | Student Life | Women |
Eloise Cofer becomes the second female full professor
| Date: | 1963 |
| Description: | Twenty-three years after Gertrude Cox's appointment, Eloise Cofer, Extension Professor of Food Science and Assistant Director of the Agricultural Extension Service becomes the second woman to be appointed as a full professor. In 1980, Cofer was named Home Economist of the Year by the N.C. Home Economics Association. |
| Timelines: | Academics | Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences | Highlights in NC State History | Women |
Name change
| Date: | 1963 |
| Description: | North Carolina State College is renamed the University of North Carolina at Raleigh. |
| Timelines: | Highlights in NC State History |
School of Liberal Arts
| Date: | 1963 |
| Description: | The formerly non-degree granting School of General Studies is renamed the School of Liberal Arts, and receives authorization to award degrees. |
| Timelines: | Academics | College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Highlights in NC State History |
Friends of the Library reformed
| Date: | 1963 |
| Description: | The Friends of the Library program is reformed, after being largely inactive since the late 1940s. |
| Timelines: | Libraries |
Integration on Hillsborough Street
| Date: | 1963 |
| Description: | Baxley's on Hillsborough Street becomes the first restaurant near NC State to serve African-Americans. |
| Timelines: | African Americans |
John Bynum
| Date: | 1963 - 1964 |
| Description: | Student Body President |
| Timelines: | Student Body Presidents | Student Life |
Unpopularity of potential name change
| Date: | 12/10/1962 |
| Description: | Governor Sanford gets booed after an NC State-Wake Forest basketball game in Reynolds Coliseum by students protesting the possible name change of the University from North Carolina State College to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh. |
| Timelines: | Campus Buildings & Grounds | Campus Visitors | Highlights in NC State History | Student Life | This Day | This Month in NC State History (December) |
First analog computer installed
| Date: | 10/17/1962 |
| Description: | The School of Engineering installs the first half of an analog computer system on campus - a PACE computer, manufactured by Electronics Associates. |
| Timelines: | College of Education | Highlights in NC State History | This Day | This Month in NC State History (October) |
Syme Dormitory pronunciation survey
| Date: | 5/16/1962 |
| Description: | Students discover that the correct pronunciation of "Syme" Dormitory, is "sim," and that is named after George Frederick Syme, a civil engineer who served as the first president of the Raleigh Engineers Club. Over half of the students surveyed thought the pronunciation was "sime." |
| Timelines: | Campus Buildings & Grounds | Student Life | This Day | This Month in NC State History (May) |
Popularity of Bragaw Hall
| Date: | 4/16/1962 |
| Description: | 171 students wait in line in front of the Student Housing Office to get rooms in Bragaw Hall for the following year. |
| Timelines: | Campus Buildings & Grounds | Student Life | This Day | This Month in NC State History (April) |
Mercury space capsule displayed
| Date: | 4/7/1962 |
| Description: | A Mercury space capsule, on loan from NASA, is one of the exhibits displayed at the annual Engineers' Fair. |
| Timelines: | College of Engineering | Student Life | This Day | This Month in NC State History (April) |
Department of Horticultural Science
| Date: | 1962 |
| Description: | The Department of Horticulture, Arboriculture, and Botany is renamed the Department of Horticultural Science. |
| Timelines: | Academics | Department of Horticultural Science |
