Col. Allen Wood and Major Jack Burnett conduct one of 30 AFROTC workshops held throughout the United States. OU’s workshop, hosted for a seven‑state area, is designed to acquaint ROTC instructors with the new curricula.
Assistant football coach Al Caniglia becomes head football coach and athletic director at Hillsboro College in Illinois.
Comedian Gabriel Kaplan (later with “Welcome back, Kotter”) performs in Milo Bail Student Center ballroom.
UNO graduate student Pallav Deka wins the gold medal in badminton at the State Games of America in Colorado Springs. He also teams with Anh Nguyen of Lincoln to win the men’s doubles championship.
The Serendipity Singers perform in the Strauss Performing Arts Center. The group, sponsored by Student Program Organization and College Business Management Short Course, performed at 1973 Presidential inaugural events in Washington, D.C., and at the 1972 World Series.
Installation of 2,500 new locks on exterior and interior doors on campus begins.
Rose Shires named to replace Karen Uhler as UNO's head volleyball coach. She has gone on to become the winningest coach in UNO history.
OU President Milo Bail suffers heart attack on the evening of summer commencement. He spent one month in the hospital but returned to work in October that year.
UNO Student Senate approves plan to name a new UNO mascot.
Power failure blacks out six campus buildings.
Regents appoint Melvin Wade as coordinator of UNO’s new Black Studies Department. He came from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Twenty international students from Europe visiting Omaha and taking classes at UNO spend a day helping build a Habitat for Humanity home.
First annual Drums Across the Midlands National Champion Drum & Bugle Corps competition held at Al Caniglia Field.
An estimated 1,000 students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends attended a dedication ceremony to "unleash" Maverick Monument, the 8-foot-tall, 1,600-pound bronze mascot statue the UNO Alumni Association presented to campus in commemoration of the association’s 100th anniversary.
UNO engineering student Kent Bryant goes down the Peony Park water slide 1,710 times in 87 hours, 19 minutes, to win a contest hosted by radio station KQKQ Sweet 98. Bryant defeats 260 other contestants (including runner-up 14-year-old Colleen Bruce), winning $1,300 in cash prizes, a 1950 vintage Coke machine, a moped, a waterbed, a stereo, 100 gallons of gas, and other prizes.
UNO Child Care Center opens.
The Office of Latino and Latin American Studies' first Cinemateca biennial film festival in partnership with Film Streams, Omaha's non-profit arthouse cinema, is held. The festival featured 10 films from six countries along with post-show discussions with UNO faculty.
