TIMELINE: 90 YEARS OF HISTORY 1970s

1970 - Bob Hope performs at Sun Bowl   1971 - MEChA and La Mesa Directiva protest administration policies   1975 - Men's track and field team wins NCAA Outdoor and Indoor National Championships   1978 - Public television station KCOS-TV airs

Significant events in UTEP history * Significant events in El Paso history ** Significant events in national or world history   1970 Bob Hope performs at Sun Bowl * El Paso County population: 359,000 ** Four students killed at Kent State University in Ohio during Vietnam-war protest   1971 National Teacher Corps program established Arleigh B. Templeton named UTEP president MEChA and La Mesa Directiva protest administration policies ** El Paso Community College opens   1972 Last Flowsheet yearbook published First endowed professorship (geological sciences) named for Lloyd A. Nelson, early student at School of Mines and long-time professor ** Nixon visits China ** The Godfather premieres   1973 * Labor dispute stops trolley service between El Paso and Juárez   1974 UTEP men's track and field team wins NCAA National Indoor Championship Streaking fad opens eyes on campus Paydirt Pete becomes Miners' mascot UTEP's first doctoral degree—Geological Sciences—approved ** President Nixon resigns   1975 Men's track and field team wins NCAA Outdoor and Indoor National Championships Men's cross-country team wins NCAA National Championship ** U.S. pulls out of Vietnam ** Microsoft founded; 1964 TWC graduate Robert O'Rear becomes Microsoft's seventh employee in 1977   1976 Men's track and field team wins NCAA Indoor National Championship Men's cross-country team wins NCAA National Championship Engineering-Science Complex completed College of Nursing created **Bicentennial of the United States   1977 Enrollment over 15,000 Special Events Center completed College of Engineering begins solar research program ** First flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise ** Star Wars premieres   1978 Men's track and field team shares the NCAA Outdoor National Championship with UCLA and wins Indoor National Championship Men's cross-country team wins NCAA National Championship Public television station KCOS-TV goes on air First doctoral degree awarded (Geological Sciences) ** Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II   1979 Men's track and field team wins NCAA Outdoor National Championship Men's cross-country team wins NCAA National Championship Heritage Commission established ** Iran takes American hostages