Worcester State University - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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r pc A T 5HAlu ■ ' gSr In the six years since Americans first heard of a mysterious immunity- robbing disease from which no one re- covers, AIDS has killed nearly 25,000 Americans. Millions of dollars have poured into medical re- search and President Reagan has pro- claimed the plague “Public Health Enemy No. I Television evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker said farewell to the PTL ministry in March Jim Bakker resigned after confessing to a sexual encounter with a young woman. Tammy Bakker bowed out of the broadcasts to undergo treatment for drug dependency The Bakkers have since returned to PTL and are planning to re-take the Ministry 23 i

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■ The Senate rejected President Reagan ' s nomination of Robert H Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote, which ended a long contentious debate over a judge alternately portrayed as a brilliant jurist and a dangerous extremist. The Dow Jones industrial stock average dropped 508 points, the largest in history on Monday October 19. Some called it a ■ ' crash ’, while others called it a meltdown and others called it Black Monday”. Whatever it was, it stripped 500 Billion form the market value of U S sec- urities. 22

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- Strike Honor ° ' ” ' ilme n Play tls A 24-day stnke by the NFL players ended in mid-October when the union capitulated and went to court instead of trying to tight the club owners at the bargaining table. When Play did resume, The Washington Redskins and Quarterback Doug Williams defeated the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII 42-10 The Redskins scored a record 35 points in the second quarter. Larry Bird (above) fires for two of his 34 Game Seven points over Atlanta’s Dominique Wilkins, who soared for 47. Bird and the Celtics were knocked out of the playoff hunt, however, by the Detroit Pistons, who defeated them 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals, The Boston Bruins, with the help of Olympic Rookie sen- sations Bob Joyce (right, scoring against the New Jersey De- vils Sean Burke) and Bob Janney, along with all-star years from Ray Bourque, Cam Neeley and Reggie Lemelin, de- feated the Buffalo Sabres, Montreal Canadiens, and New Jersey Devils, before falling to the Edmonton Oilers in a bizarre playoff season. 24