Looking Back – January 1

2008

Beginning on this day, smoking and other tobacco use was prohibited indoors and outdoors at all IUPUC-Columbus properties and in university-owned, operated and leased vehicles on or off campus.

1993

A survey determined the top story of 1992 was the Farm Progress Show, which hosted around 300,000 people at a 60-acre tent city, 900 acres of demonstration fields and 55 acres of conservation acreage. Landfill relocation and hospital expansion stories were Nos. 2 and 3.

1968

After the New Year’s Day worship service, the doors of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church closed for a major renovation and redecoration of the entire interior.