Newspaper clipping from 1958
Vandals from Tempe vandalized UA sidewalks, windows and buildings after the UA opposed allowing the college up north to change its name from Arizona State College at Tempe to Arizona State University.
From the story at that time: Lettering measuring from one to three feet and saying ASU-200. Yes. was printed on sidewalks, windows and buildings. Principal target was the Student Union building where workers were kept busy Thursday trying to take off the paint.
1962: Slipup In Elaborate Plan Recovers Tempe s Bell
Newspaper clipping from 1962
Three University of Arizona students were apprehended by an off-duty sheriff s deputy who happened to see a missing 1,500-pound bell that had been reported stolen five weeks earlier from the ASU campus in the back of a horse trailer.