Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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So long Coneheads, Todd and Lisa, The Blues Broth- ers, Baba Wawa, and a host of others as we bid adieu to the old Saturday Night Live crew and welcome a new cast. F.B.I. agents, posing as Arab businessmen seeking political fa- vors from Congressmen, expose eight members during the Abs- cam investigation; February, 1980. Woody Hayes, one of the legendary coaches of college football, is fired by Ohio State Uni- versity, December 30, 1978. The dismissal came after Hayes punched a Clemson player in the Gator Bowl. A series of breakdowns in the cooling system of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in PA. leads to a major accident on March, 28 1979. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission warns of a possible core meltdown. Five days later, the President of the United States visits the site and declares it “safe.” From there on in, nuclear power becomes the “cause celebre” of the eighties. Peroxide bombshell Deborah Harry and her musican cohorts, Blondie, sur- prise all with Heart of Glass and Call Me. A return to conservativism in 1980 brings preppy chic out of the closet and into the mainstream; the most notable “de rigeur” wear being Shetland sweaters. Top Sider moccasins and the perennial Lacoste shirts. Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugosla- via, dies May 4, 1980 after being hospital- ized since January. All major heads of state attend the funeral except for Presi- dent Carter, President Valery Giscard d’Estaing and Cuban president Fidel Cas- tro. Each Wednesday night, students near for their weekly gathering Copperfield’s. came from far and at Kenmore’s own ff