Dog Lane, Yesterday

I thought this was a free country

Hard to imagine a regular “Budweiser Athlete of the Week” in the Daily Campus nowadays. This was back when the drinking age was 18.

That’s quite a T-shirt slogan

I wonder if this became Kathy John’s (which is now the site of a giant Cumberland Farms). “New Ventilating System” is quite the enticement.

Ads in the Daily Campus of a bygone era were, first and foremost, based on impeccable science

Riverside > Six Flags New England

“You goin’ down to the ROTC building for New Wave Night?” someone plausibly asked in 1980. “The Poodle Boys are playing!”

Elizabeth Donovan, class of 1905, tells the Daily Campus why she mostly sat on the bench as a member of the first-ever UConn women’s basketball team: all the other players were “husky farm girls” 

There’s an awful lot going on here

“Bedlam Hall” was a daily comic strip by Paul Catanese that ran in the DC in the early 1980s. I believe the strips were eventually collected into a book.

Narrator voice: They would not survive the ‘80s.

Great news, everyone!

Not exactly a huge turnout, but UConn picked Hoover over FDR by a 2-to-1 margin in this straw poll. Strong showing for Socialist Norman Thomas as well.

A blues singer at the football hop?? What’s next, jitterbugs at the box social??

This was, I’m not kidding, part of an entire series of articles about the decline of “pep” on campus.

Male strippers at the Student Union, paid with UConn funds? People in the past had way more fun. We’re so lame now.

This was 53 years ago, and the fucking state STILL can’t bring itself to go ahead with it