We thought it would be fun to dig up some of the Star-Telegram’s photos of campus life at UT Arlington from the 1970s.
Here are some of the images we found in the archive, to include everything from a solemn memorial the day after the Kent State massacre to some crazy student contests and campus festivals.
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Oct. 18, 1978: With the growth of the University of Texas at Arlington and the bisection of the campus with Cooper Street, crossing four-lane traffic with a turn lane is getting more difficult even with pedestrian crosswalks.
Oct. 14, 1972: Janie Jarboe, a sophomore at the University of Texas at Arlington, feeds UTA freshman Shauna Payne licorice ice cream in an eating contest at UTA. The girls were competing for Zeta Tau Alpha sorority in the school’s annual Winter Olympics. They won first place.
Nov. 7, 1974: Lanny Bassham, kneeling, shows a University of Texas at Arlington student some points in target shooting at UTA’s range. Bassham is recognized as one of the world’s two or three best shooters in 300-meter competition.
May 5, 1970: Crosses flanked about 125 University of Texas at Arlington students as they gathered in front of the UTA Student center for a memorial service for four Kent University students shot to death during an anti-war demonstration on May 4.
Feb. 10, 1973: Althea Wilcox, 17, a freshman student from Fort Worth, after being named Miss Black UTA (University of Texas at Arlington), an event hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha. She is a medical technology major and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Wilcox.
Sept. 10, 1975: Guests at the Sunday Supper of the University of Texas at Arlington Faculty Women’s Club line up to fill their plates at the buffet table. The supper traditionally is UTA’s largest social function of the year.
Feb. 25, 1975: Mary Guerra, a University of Texas at Arlington student, found it difficult to stand still as UTA students Steve Loving, left, and Darrell Herrington, apply paint to her. Several UTA students volunteered as living canvases for the body-painting session with donations made for the privileges of painting going to the Fort Worth Cerebral Palsy Center’s Project Independence.
May 4, 1971: For 10 hours, people set out around on the grass of the University of Texas at Arlington’s football stadium and listened to music groups Lead Stamps, Dog, Israfel, Contraband, Argus, Holden Caulfield, Tidus Oats, Sugar Shack and Sam Bass. More than 1,000 came to enjoy the music and honor the cause, the Amil Frichk Leukemia Fund. Over $2,000 was raised.
Oct. 13, 1975: Howard Joyner, left, chairman of the UTA art department from 1937 to 1969, stands with artist Jim Woodson beside the painting which friends of Joyner and the Arlington Art Association purchased for UTA in his honor. The painting is one of seven acquired by UTA.
Aug. 22, 1976: A square dancing marathon at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Oct. 14, 1975: University of Texas at Arlington architecture professor Anthony Antoniades and his freshmen students made cardboard doubles of themselves to illustrate the space needed in a structure to allow each person a “bubble of comfort.” Such needs must be considered in architecture, Antoniades says.
Feb. 11, 1976: Nancy Taylor, UTA senior interior design student, was assigned to add furniture and accessories to the Discovery ’76 solar energy house at the University of Texas at Arlington. The residence was recently completed as a joint project of the construction research center. The experiment is in using the sun as a principle source of energy for space, heating, air conditioning and hot water.
Oct. 9, 1971: Kathy Marcum and Kirk Walden (as Sam Maverick) with the UT Arlington mascot, the horse named Maverick.
April 7, 1976: Mike Zampikos, 22, left, and David Meyer, 21, in a battle with tangled string before launching their entry into the Kite Flying Contest at the University of Texas at Arlington, which was a part of the UTA Greek Week activities.
March 16, 1978: Students at University of Texas at Arlington compete in a bladderball push on the library mall during Monty Python Day events.
Sept. 8, 1975: University of Texas at Arlington police officer, Martha Graves, with UTA student John Wingler who agreed to pose for a photograph.
Sept. 10, 1975: Mrs. Andrew Armstrong, standing right, president of UTA Faculty Women’s Club, and Mrs. Kenneth Roemer, president-elect of the club, supervise the sign-in for name tags. More than 250 guests attended the supper at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Oct. 19, 1974: Cindy Smith, on the shoulders of John Powell, left, scraps with Kathleen Moore, who is on Mike Nelson, in an attempt to break an egg taped to foreheads of the two men. Competition was in the UTA Winter Olympics at University of Texas at Arlington.
Nov. 2, 1975: The University of Texas at Arlington will present George Gershwin’s “Of Thee I Sing” in a nine-performance run. Featured, from left, will be Jan Parson, Tommy Clarke, Joan Bayer, Janet Holcomb, Charley Miller and Becky Perkins.
Oct. 3, 1974: Melodie Dodson and Fank Ibarra, students at University of Texas at Arlington who have the same address on campus. They are the residents of the Brazos Dorm, which opened as co-ed due to the overflow of applicants to the school.
Dec. 6, 1973: Bauder Fashion College students, left to right, Kathy Riche, Bonnie Cervantes and Carol Smith were among the students participating in a donkey basketball game at the University of Texas at Arlington to benefit Arlington’s Christmas Samaritans.
April 19, 1975: Kathy Roche, foreground, and Kathy Sypert, struggling with a goat, were among the University of Texas at Arlington students who turned out for the fifth annual Delta Epsilon Spring Festival.
Oct. 3, 1977: A group of about 200 gathered for 15 minutes in front of the University of Texas at Arlington library to listen to speakers protesting the presence of a CIA recruiter on campus.
April 10, 1978: Midori Yamamoto of Tokyo, a University of Texas at Arlington junior majoring in economics, writes names of people by request in Japanese as part of UTA’s International Day.
April 22, 1970: Students at the University of Texas at Arlington are seen carrying an internal combustion engine across campus to be buried in a shallow grave on campus for Earth Day. Alpha Rho Chi, the UTA architecture fraternity, led the “funeral services” and its pledges wore surgical and gas masks as the engine was lowered into its grave and a live oak tree was planted on top.
March 30, 1976: Janet Stalder, 21 of Borger was one of several members of Gamma Sigma Sigma service sorority at the University of Texas at Arlington, taking donations of 51 cents. Co-eds were collecting funds to purchase mice for cancer research, each of which cost 51 cents, during Cancer Week on campus.
Nov. 9, 1974: The University of Texas at Arlington’s Handicapped Student Association homecoming parade float. The parade was traveling northbound along Cooper Street in Arlington.
May 24, 1977: It’s a workout, but it’s still serious business for the UTA’s softball team, which is bound for the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championship. Encouragement during the practice play comes from the bench full of teammates at University of Texas at Arlington.
April 30, 1978: University of Texas at Arlington students had a chance to learn rappelling at the Arlington fire training center. About 35 students, with the aid of 15 ROTC members, learned the technique for descending from a height through the use of a rope system. The 15 ROTC members are part of the Army ROTC Insurgent Team at UTA.
Sept. 11, 1972: Adam Geisel, 4, listens to music of Las Estrellas de Valisco band at the opening of the University of Texas at Arlington Library’s new cultural minorities center. Musicians, left to right, are Chapo Parra, Manuel Garcia, Joe Moron and Juan Moreno.
Oct. 19, 1978: Harry Hanks teaches an auto repair course at UTA, offered by the Women’s Center on campus. Students learn minor and major tune-up, complete with details on operating the tuning light.
Sept. 10, 1975: Mrs. Andrew Armstrong, standing right, president of UTA Faculty Women’s Club, and Mrs. Kenneth Roemer, president-elect of the club, supervise the sign-in for name tags. More than 250 guests attended the supper at the University of Texas at Arlington.
April 22, 1970: U.S. Rep. Jim Wright, second from left, and University of Texas at Arlington President Frank Harrison talk next to an “Aluminum Man” sculpture, hanging from a tree and made out of aluminum cans, with a sign that reads “Our ‘Aluminum Man’ has a life-span of approximately 500 years.” Wright visited the UTA campus for Earth Day activities, speaking to students and helping bury an internal combustion engine symbolic of automobile pollution.
Sept. 16, 1979: UTA makes a play in a game against North Texas.
May 18, 1978: A Dance-In held at UTA was led by Jacki Sorenson, who originated aerobic dancing less than 10 years ago, with six students from the University of Texas at Arlington. More than 400 women and one man participated in the Dance-In. Participants wore bright yellow T-shirts with “I danced with Jacki!” on the back.
Oct. 27, 1974: Carol Johnson, 16, a junior at Dallas W.T. White High School, celebrated November Fest at the University of Texas at Arlington with a nibble of bratwurst to the rhythm of an oompah tuba.
Nov. 7, 1976: Tracey White, 16, of Haltom High School, was one of about 3,000 students studying German who came to the University of Texas at Arlington for the university’s annual November Fest.
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