February 8
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February 8 in Clemson History
[edit] Events on February 8 in Clemson's History
- 1913: The Clemson College Rifle Club has a meet with Lehigh.
- 1975: The Clemson Little Theatre presents the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in the Food Industries Auditorium. Admission is $2.50 for adults, $1 for students. Central Dance Association presents one heckuva show in Littlejohn Coliseum. Bonnie Bramlett (of Delaney and Bonnie & Friends fame) opens, followed by R.E.O. Speedwagon with headliners Lynyrd Skynyrd, all for $5.25 (advance), $6.25 for floor.
- 1968: The Orangeburg Massacre takes place at the almost all-black South Carolina State University when state law enforcement officers fire on a crowd of African-American students as firemen extinguish a bonfire, lit in protest of the refusal two days earlier of the white owner of the All Star Bowling Lane, the only alleys in Orangeburg, to let black students bowl there. When the shooting stops, 28 are injured and three students are killed. At trial, billed as the first federal trial of police officers for using excessive force at a campus protest, all nine defendants were acquitted. Cleveland Sellers was the only person imprisoned as a result of the incident. He represented the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was convicted of inciting the riot that preceded the shootings. He wrote The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC in 1973. Sellers was later pardoned for the offense and is now the director of the African-American Studies program at the University of South Carolina.
- 1980: Dean Walter T. Cox meets with the University Union in talks on how to cut down on vandalism and arrests at Clemson rock concerts. Cox had summarily cancelled concerts in December after minor incidents at the Kansas performance on November 3.
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