Read the graduation copy of the Cornell Sun.
1967
- September 7, 1967: move in day!
1968:
- January 1968: During finals week in January, the temperature never got above zero. The snow squeaked when we walked on it. When the temperature finally got up to 20, people were walking around with their coats off.
- January 20, 1968: a $150 hike in tuition for Cornell’s endowed colleges on the Ithaca campus was approved Saturday by the University Board of Trustees.
- The tuition increase will raise to $2,200 the yearly bill for tuition and fees paid by students in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering, School of Hotel Administration, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, the division of Unclassified Students and all endowed Graduate divisions, except law.
- Tuition for the Law School will remain at $1,900 and the College of Medicine will maintain its $1,800 tuition rate.
- Room rents climb to $570 per year for undergraduate women and $474 per year for undergraduate men: and 8% increase.
- “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” comes to TV
- First cash dispensing machine is installed.
- The Tet Offensive, a North Vietnamese attack of South Vietnamese cities is considered by some as the turning point of the war.
- April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray.April 6: 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres
- June 5, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. He dies the next day.
- August 5-8, 1968: Richard Nixon receives nomination for President for the Republican Party.
- August 26-29, 1968: Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Hubert Humphrey is nominated. Violent clashes between protesters and the Chicago police with the National Guard.
- November 5, 1968: Nixon elected President.
- December 21-27, 1968: Apollo 8 mission is the first to circle the moon.
1969:
- April 19, 1969: On April 19, 1969, black students occupied Willard Straight during Parents’ Weekend as a continuing form of protest about racial issues on campus. Citing the university’s racist attitudes and irrelevant curriculum, the students occupied the building for thirty-six hours.
- Read the article in the Cornell Chronicle
- Get more information from the “Willard Straight Takeover Study Guide“.
- April 21, 1968: University-wide convocation attended by about 12,000 students, faculty, employees and parents.
- April 22, 1968: Dale Corson becomes university president as James Perkins resigns
- December 1, 1969: Draft lottery held by the U.S. Selective Service.
- “Sesame Street”comes to TV
- January, 1969:Richard Nixon is inaugurated President
- July 14, 1969: Easy Rider premiers.
- July 20, 1969: U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. land on the moon.
- August, 1969: Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, NY
1970:
- Four Kent university students were killed by the gunfire of Ohio National Guardsman during a protest of the Vietnam War.
- First New York marathon conducted with 128 runners
- April 21, 1970: First Earth Day.
- May 4, 1970: Four people killed when National Guardsmen fire on Vietnam War protester at Kent State University.
- No final exams
1971:
- Pentagon Papers submitted to the New York Times and the Washington Post by Daniel Elsberg.
- March: Classes were canceled for the first time in the University’s history due to a snow storm.
- May 26, 1971: Graduation in Barton Hall for 3,00 students.
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