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Fifty years ago, Suffolk radio and television station WSUB began broadcasting, giving journalism majors an opportunity to experience firsthand the internal workings of the media. Early programming included student plays, newscasts, editorials, and PSAs, as well as music. Double Ram Steve Seto, BS ’77, MA ’78 (above), was WSUB’s first music director and Suffolk deejay. He was instrumental in building the early audience for the station, developing new ideas for programming and—with a very limited budget—increasing the station’s record library. Seto went on to a nearly four-decade career as an educator with Boston Public Schools and UMass Boston.
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fall 2024
Photograph: Moakley Archives
By Michael Dello Iacono, University Records Manager
OFF CAMPUS IN 1974:
Richard Nixon resigned as president of the United States in the wake of Watergate.
Efforts to desegregate Boston public schools with court-mandated busing revealed deep racial divisions in the city.
In sports: Boxer Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire, in a match known as “the Rumble in the Jungle.”
Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth’s record.
Barbara Streisand’s “The Way We Were” topped the music charts.
The television series “Happy Days” debuted, and the most popular TV shows included “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” (starring the late Suffolk alum Paul Benedict, BA '60).
Share your Suffolk memories and photos with us at publicaffairs@suffolk.edu, or donate memorabilia at archives@suffolk.edu. You can see more of Suffolk’s past by visiting the Moakley Archive & Institute digitized collections at dc.suffolk.edu.