Purdue University newsreel, 1978

Presents events at the Purdue University West Lafayette Campus during the 1978 calendar year. Includes the phone-a-thon to contact Purdue alumni for donations to the University; Purdue’s worst snow and the snowbound campus; the coal miner’s strike and how Purdue handled the shortages; indoor and outdoor sports; the elimination of the Pierce Conservatory to make room for a new classroom and lab building for the Psychology Science Department; record enrollment; discussion of the School of Technology; Purdue’s cancer research and other events