Pizza Hut, Pizza Villa, Pizza Ranch, Pizza Doctors. La Crosse has fallen in love—that’s “amore”—with the Italian delicacy of crust and sauce, cheese and toppings. In...
Imagine, your college marching band playing the song “The Stripper.” Not hard to imagine in 1967, yesterday in La Crosse. The Stripper was included in the halftime...
In the summer of 1967, the president of La Crosse State, Sam Gates, announced plans for punishing students who demonstrated, or protested speakers on campus. Gates...
In fact, in the spring of 1969, the Selective Service said burning or throwing away a draft card practically guaranteed that you would be drafted, because...
In April of 1963, the La Crosse State campus newspaper, the Racquet, reported on a rumor that the speech department was only planning to stage two...
The Apollo program to send astronauts to the moon endured a deadly setback in January of 1967, when the crew of Apollo 1 died in a...
