When the Indiana Hoosiers won the 1981 NCAA Basketball Tournament on March 30, 1981, WIUS News Director Mike Conway took an audio cassette recorder and microphone and captured reactions from the student celebrations. Much of the recording was from the people celebrating in and around Showalter Fountain
This is the raw tape of that evening as Conway attempted to capture the excitement of the celebration to be used the next day on WIUS. The station did not have live remote capabilities at that time.
Midnight
00:05 crowds cheering
00:10 Conway report, take one Midnight (3/31/810 2.5 hours after end of game. Hundreds of students at Showalter Fountain. Thousands were there right after the game at 10:30am
00:39 Conway report, take two. He has an 8:30am class, claims he’s going to go
00:51 Conway, report, take three. –
01:14 Conway report, take four, can hear fireworks, part of fountain taken apart, but no violence
01:53 Conway report, take five, -got through it this time
02:30 students chanting & singing “Celebration”
03:15 Conway report, take six
03:43 Conway report, Take seven, -says 8,000 students here after game
-part of fountain taken apart, small trees taken down, no violence, police have red
lights on
04:32 Conway report, Take eight
05:15 Conway report, take nine
05:47 Conway report, take ten
06:07 Conway report, take eleven
06:42 Conway report, take twelve
07:17 Conway report, take thirteen
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This section is earlier than above
10:45pm, 15 minutes after end of game
Conway is with friends Mike Leistner & John Seprodi
08:28 Conway attempts report
Showalter Fountain
**09:01 lots of cheering, can hear fireworks
10:39 Conway report from Showalter Fountain.
11:20 Conway report, take two
11:41 “now let’s get in there”
Conway takes recorder into fountain
***12:15 lots of cheering
13:14 lots of cheering and screaming as Conway walks thru crowd
-IU fans talking about the win
14:20 “Here we go Hoosiers, here we go” chant
**14:50 Conway report, another try
15:31 “We’re Number One”
16:31 “
16:45 stuck in crowd, can’t move
17:50 more cheering
18:05 Conway report, another try
19:34 Conway report, another try, still in/around Showalter Fountain
20:10 interviewing a fan, very loud
21:00 Conway report, another try
**21:45 Conway report, another try
23:00 another report “I still have my wallet”
23:21 again
25:05 interviewing a fan, short interview
25:45 lots of cheering
26:30 interviewing students about game
27:00 another report try
28:40 singing part of fight song
**29:35 IU chant
30:20 interview student
31:00 trying to fight through crowd at Showalter Fountain
31:20 another report try
32:42 student interview
33:15 11:00pm
Another report try
35:45 interview w/ a student
37:38 interview with Mike Gastenau (sp), who I think was the WIUS Sports Director
-talks about IU taking charge in second half, drowned out by fans
41:07 “finals next week!!”
43:30 interview with student
45:10 interview with student “I’ll be here until the team comes back”
47:22 students cheering
***47:40 interview with student “proud to be a Hoosier”
48:35 fireworks??
49:30 Conway report -IUPD trying to disperse crowd
End of side one of cassette
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50:00 Conway report, again
52:45 Conway report, again
“any place to go to the bathroom?” No!!
53:30 Conway report, again -police trying to disperse the crowd
***53:55 Conway report, again
56:55 11:30PM
** Conway report, again
58:50 IU chant
59:00 student interview
1:00:00
1:03:30 Conway report try
1:04 students chanting “here we go Hoosiers”
1:05 trying to get out of the fountain.
1:06 *TV station has turned on a light, causing crowd to go wild. -report
1:07 interview with a student “best game I’ve ever seen”
1:08 “here we go Hoosiers” chant
1:09 lots of cheering
1:11 report try again
-IUPD tried to disperse crowd, didn’t work
1:12 -students say they’ll stick around until they have to leave
1:17 student interview -call off school for tomorrow
1:18 honking horns and crowds yelling
1:21 **midnight -report
1:27 **student interview at Showalter Fountain
1:28 **more student interviews
1:30 **somebody knocked the fish down in the fountain
-student has named the fish “Fred”
1:32 report on celebration
1:36 student climbing on top of fountain
1:38 interview students from Terre Haute