Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Sombrilla Magazine, Spring 2000.
(March 8, 2019) — It’s May 1977 and UTSA students are dancing in Sombrilla Plaza, perhaps to the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” which was number one on the charts that month, or to Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” number five.
Spring is in the air, the average age of the student body is 28, and President Peter T. Flawn has approved the party—the first campuswide shindig in the school’s history. That is, unless you count the student-government–sponsored get-together in the Student Lounge a few months earlier. (Take today’s labs in the basement of the Science Building and replace the sophisticated equipment with a few pool tables, some vending machines, and a TV that works some of the time.)
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