Dog Lane, Yesterday

Highlights from the UConn Daily Campus of decades past

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I thought this was a free country

September 10, 1985 

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

November 21, 1980

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That’s quite a T-shirt slogan

December 2, 1980

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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.

February 15, 1949

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

January 4, 1949

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Riverside > Six Flags New England

Throughout September, 1980

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

December 2, 1980

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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” 

November 21, 1980

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There’s an awful lot going on here

November 17, 1980

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“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.

September 9, 1980

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

September 9, 1980

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Great news, everyone!

October 9, 1980

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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.

Friday, November 4, 1932

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

Friday, November 18, 1932

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

March 22, 1918

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

October 29 and October 30, 1980

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

April 22, 1965