{"id":1607,"date":"2009-03-06T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2009-03-05T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:25:18","slug":"bsu-turns-40-campus-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1607","title":{"rendered":"BSU turns 40; campus history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UWW&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/orgs.uww.edu\/bsu\/homepage.html\">Black Student Union<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/marketingandmedia\/news_releases\/2009_02_bsu_anniversary.html\">celebrating 40 years<\/a> at UWW on <strong>Sat., March 7th, in the Hamilton Center (University Center)<\/strong>. The ticketed event includes cocktails at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m., and a program featuring guest speaker Arline Hardy-Smith, the first African-American student to graduate from UWW.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #694176\"><strong>Interested in campus history?<\/strong> <\/span>The Library collects resources that document our history, such as the campus yearbook, <em>The Minneiska<\/em> (3rd-floor Main OVERSIZE Collection, LD6160 .W45), which was published from 1909-1991, and <em>A history of Wisconsin State University, Whitewater, 1868-1968<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, LD6160 .W452). The student newspaper, <em>The Royal Purple<\/em>, is available on microfilm for the period March 1908-May 1998 (1st-floor microforms room), and in print since 1901 in the Library&#8217;s Special Collections\/University Archives. The most recent year in print also is kept in the 1st-floor newspapers area. In addition to maintaining an archive of the paper, some of the Library&#8217;s dedicated student workers have been creating an online <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/php\/showrp.php\">index<\/a> to search for topics and names. You also can <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/archives\/contact.html#contact\">contact the University Archives<\/a> to inquire about lesser-known resources documenting the University&#8217;s history, including photographs, slides, and scrapbooks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWW&#8217;s Black Student Union is celebrating 40 years at UWW on Sat., March 7th, in the Hamilton Center (University Center). The ticketed event includes cocktails at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m., and a program featuring guest speaker Arline Hardy-Smith, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1607\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[1472,178,1752,1753,1754,1751,1750],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-campus-connection","tag-black-student-union","tag-books","tag-bsu","tag-campus-history","tag-minneiska","tag-royal-purple","tag-university-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}