Santa Clara Snapshot:1987

Holly Hanbury-Brown '12
18 Mar 2012

Career opportunities: Front to back, the gazers into the future are Peter Howard ’87, Bill Quirk ’88, Mimi Allen ’88, Larry Rask ’88. Photo by Spitzi Ursin for The Redwood

1st Reggae Sunsplash held on campus
4-day-a-week classes come to an end, with Wednesday classes slated for the following year
12 nations participate in the first International Wheelchair Swim Competition, held at SCU
15–20 cases of Diet Coke sold each week in Down Under, the market in the basement of the Benson Center
$25 per quarter to use computer labs
38 percent of SCU freshmen come from outside California—up from 17 percent in 1977
191 point game average per player on the new Bronco bowling squad
$3,000 in pennies collected by Ted Gabrielli ’87 (now Theodore Gabrielli, S.J.) to build a house with cement walls for a family in Tijuana

Statistics from 1987.

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