On Monday, Nov. 20, MSU opened a time capsule from 1983, finding a collection of items and photos.

Leslee Ponder, director of MSU alumni relations, said she was excited to see everything that was in the box. She explained how every student organization was invited to place something in the box.

“There were like cassette tapes of old board of regents meetings. There was a reel-to-reel, like a motion picture film,” Ponder said, “ROTC, which we had an active ROTC unit at that time, they had made a video. There was all kinds of neat stuff.”

She also discussed how times have changed since the 1980s. “There was lots of sports memorabilia and schedules. All of the schedules had Coors Light or Bud Light,” Ponder explained, “On the scoreboard, I think it’s so interesting, it was sponsored by Winston Light Cigarettes.”

The large box was buried six feet underground and it only took a small amount of water damage during its time in the ground.

“Most everything was really well preserved,” Ponder said, “It was solid metal and the top was bolted every three inches.”

One item in the capsule was a letter from former President Rodriquez, in which he explains his predictions for the year 2023.

“The letter was so incredible,” Ponder said. “It was of course typed on a typewriter, and it tells a lot about what was going on.”

All items from the time capsule can be looked at in the archives located in the library.

“Everything is sitting on the dock of the library. They are slowly, but surely, taking everything out,” Ponder explained, “They’ll keep all this and it’ll be labeled from the time capsule.”