Found 329 events matching "year:[1970 TO 1979]"
The NC State football team record during the 1972 season was 8 wins, 3 losses, 1 tie, and a victory at the Peach Bowl.
The library directors at NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke University appointed a Triangle Universities Library Cooperation Committee (TULCC) to plan a cooperative program for the three universities. The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) grew out of this effort.
Biltmore Hall was built to house Teaching and Research and was named after the Biltmore Forest School, a forestry school near Biltmore Estate that was established by Dr. Carl Alvin Schenck.
A Rare Book and Special Collections Room, administered by the Reference Department, was established adjacent to the university archives.
The Technician was named the best newspaper in the southeast during the 8th annual Southeastern College Newspaper Competition.
NC State student Jim Wilkins set another record in the individual mile run in a meet against Wake Forest and broke his own record from the year before.
The State College Station Post Office was renamed the State University Station Post Office.
The Inter-Residence Council approved the construction of cooking spaces in all dorms, hoping to alleviate problems with students cooking illegally in their dorm rooms.
The NC State Forestry Team took home the championship at the annual Conclave, an event based around forestry skills such as logging, timer estimation, sawing, and log rolling.
Alice Cline became the first woman at NC State to receive a PhD in electrical engineering.
The Health, Education, and Welfare Department (HEW) informed the University of North Carolina schools that its institutions, including NC State, failed to comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In 1974, African American students called for a new cultural center. Student body president Terry Carroll presented a four-point request to Chancellor Caldwell, which included a request for the first floor of the Print Shop to be turned over to the Society of Afro-American Culture for an African American Cultural Center. Banks C. Talley, dean of Student Affairs, complied with this request.
The controversial film "Birth of a Nation" was shown in Stewart Theatre.
The Gardner Arboretum was located on a one-acre tract between Patterson Hall and Burlington Laboratories. It was named for M.E. Gardner, former head of the Department of Horticulture.
The two buildings were dedicated during a ceremony at which the NC State University Symphony Orchestra and Choir presented a concert. The 816-seat theater opened during the fall 1972 semester. It was named for James Jackson Stewart Jr., who was dean of Student Affairs from 1954 to 1969.
Swimmer Steve Gregg was the first Wolfpack athlete to have All-American status for 4 years in a row. He also became the first person to win 4 ACC championships in the same event (200 butterfly), and in 1976 he was an NCAA champion. Gregg was one of the first NC State athletes to win an NCAA title and was a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team. In 2013, he was inducted into the NC State Hall of Fame.
Football player Jim Richter won the Outland Trophy, which was presented each year to the nation's premier college offensive lineman. That same year, he also helped NC State capture the ACC championship. After leaving NC State, he played 16 seasons for the Buffalo Bills and Atlanta Falcons. He was inducted into the NC State Hall of Fame in 2012.
Genia Beasley was NC State’s all-time leading scorer with 2,367 points. A 1978 Kodak All-American, Beasley became the first women’s player to score over 2,000 career points. In 2012, she was inducted into the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame.
