Gateway candy sale raises $18.70 toward reducing the student newspaper debt.
Colorado State Teachers College Professor Dr. A.J. Zimmerman addresses the assembly on “Liberalism in Spain.”
OU hosts the three-day, 13th annual Convention of the Central States Regional Association of Physical Plant Administrators.
Arnie Kriegler wins the first “Ugliest Man” contest, raising $707.20 for the Campus Chest.
International table tennis champion Tibor Hazi and his wife, Magda Gal Hazi, both of Hungary and winners of more than 1,000 titles worldwide, hold a table tennis exhibition.
Vermont Senator Ralph Edward Flanders speaks on “War, Welfare, Freedom” during the two-day William F. Baxter Lecture Series.
MGM movie star George Murphy speaks to university students.
"Gonzo journalist" Hunter S. Thompson and Frank Mankiewicz, an author and former Robert Kennedy press secretary, speak on "Plots and Politics" in the Student Center Ballroom.
Seven-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Dale Van Atta, best known for uncovering the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s, speaks on various topics, including terrorism and cults.
Administration Building (now Arts & Sciences Hall) is dedicated.
UNO graduates Leland J. Holland and Paul Needham are taken hostage in Iran.
Pianist Adele Marcus of the Juilliard School of Music performs in the Conference Center Auditorium and conducts a two-day seminar on Nov. 6–7.
UNO graduate Chuck Hagel is elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Don Stenberg with 62% of the vote in the Nebraska general election. He is the first Nebraska Republican to win a Senate seat in 24 years.
OU students participate in the Nebraska Diamond Jubilee celebrating the 75th anniversary of Nebraska territory joining the United States. OU students at Ak-Sar-Ben Field stage Scene 2 of the pageant, “The Making of Nebraska,” featuring Indian life and customs in the Midwest.
The New York Times runs a four-column print of the Administration Building following its dedication two days prior.
OU student and draftee Charles Worley, Omaha’s first conscientious objector, leaves for Civilian Public Service Camp Number Seven, a camp for conscientious objectors under the direction of the Church of the Brethren in Magnolia, Arkansas, after dropping out of school.
Dr. Chester Irving Barnard, one of five who prepared the Lilienthal report on atomic energy, president of the USO from 1942 to 1945, and president of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., speaks on “The Social Consequences of Atomic Fission” as part of the William F. Baxter Lecture Series.
Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison speaks to a political science class.
Omaha University A Cappella Choir broadcasts on KOIL, singing “O Praise Ye” by Tchaikovsky; “Music in the Mine” by Dett; “Evening on the Sava,” a Hungarian folk song; and “Hear My Prayer” by Gretchaninov.
Alumni Gateway debuts.
OU begins a new radio program on KOWH.
American political journalist, author, professor and world peace advocate Norman Cousins speaks at the Institute on World Affairs.
Ferdinand Wagner, director of Mexico's state school of dramatics, Palacio de Bellas Artes, speaks at the Hotel Fontenelle under the sponsorship of Polyglot, an OU language fraternity.
Members of the Royal Air Force demonstrate cricket rules, points, and scoring during College Sports Day in the Fieldhouse, hosted by the OU Physical Education Majors and Minors Club.
Ted Howard, co-author of "Who Should Play God?" speaks in the Student Center Ballroom, discussing human genetic engineering via DNA research and cloning.
The College of Business Administration became the first university in the state to be endorsed by the Institute of Management Accountants. The Institute of Management Accountants, or IMA, is an international association that provides resources and opportunities for business schools through their more than 300 professional and student chapters.
The Yellow Sheet is printed for the first time.
Omaha City Council votes 5 to 2 to annex a new site for the university on West Dodge Road.
Armand and Leila Denis, appointed by the Belgian King to explore the Belgian Congo, address convocation, discussing his four-year stay in the African jungle.
UNO students begin "Concern for Prisoners of War Week," which includes a petition drive protesting the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.
Black Twist, designed by sculptor Sidney Buchanan, is dedicated in a ceremony.
Robin Moore, author of "The Green Berets," speaks at the year's final Institute of World Affairs, addressing “Vietnam: What Kind of Victory?” Moore was the only civilian to earn his jump wings after training with U.S. Special Forces and lived and fought alongside Special Forces in Vietnam.
The first Y.M. Stag Party is held in Jacob’s Hall.
UNO students hold a sit-in in the chancellor's office to protest racism on campus.
Conductor Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Symphony play “Mystic Pool,” composed by OU sophomore John Hefti.
Newly formed Girl Scout Troop 30 holds its first formal meeting on campus.
Noted folk singer John Jacob Niles begins a two-date engagement singing at the university.
OU football team declines an offer to play in the Mineral Bowl at Excelsior Springs, Missouri.
OU student Pat Vogel, Miss Omaha Aviation, opens the $1.5 million Abbott Drive to the Municipal Airport in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Comedian Martin Mull performs for 1,000 students in the Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom, sponsored by SPO.
“The Color Line,” a religious play depicting racial prejudice in America, is presented by OU students.
OU students take tubercular tests, per the Nebraska Tuberculosis Association.
UNO's soccer team made university history by qualifying for the NCAA Soccer Tournament! This game was no easy feat either. After 90 minutes of play, both the Denver Pioneers and the UNO Mavericks entered into overtime and eventually began the longest shootout in Summit League History.
Wallace McClure, assistant chief of the Treaty Division, U.S. Department of State, speaks at OU’s Institute of Government on “Trends in American Foreign Policy.”
Author Corliss Archer speaks to OU dramatics students.
Allwine Hall is dedicated.
Former Michigan Gov. George Romney (father of Mitt Romney) speaks at the Omaha Hilton Hotel as part of UNO College of Business Administration’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
Former sports greats Bill Engelhardt, Marlin Briscoe, Leo Pearey, and Roger Sayers become the first inductees of the UNO Athletics Hall of Fame.
Baseball great and Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer speaks at the Hall of Fame Banquet.
OU suffers its worst football defeat ever, losing 128–0 to Creighton.
Induk Pahk, Korean feminist leader, speaks at the Institute on World Affairs on the topic “Whither Korea?”
OU’s first televised athletic contest: OU defeats Doane 27–0 on WOWT.
Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison is among dignitaries and 133 business leaders attending a banquet in honor of President Milo Bail at the Blackstone Hotel. The group presents a $10,000 check to Bail and his wife for a world trip.
The Mitchell Trio, a folk group, performs in the Student Center.
Nebraska Gov. Frank Morrison speaks on the press and politics as a guest of the journalism department and its Reporting of Public Affairs class.
Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czechoslovakian delegate to the United Nations, speaks on “Tito and the Russian Bear” at the World Affairs Institute.
OU Regents grant Professor Ralph Wardle, chairman of the English department, the first paid sabbatical in university history to finish a biography of William Hazlitt, early 19th-century essayist and critic.
Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale addresses more than 800 students.
Athletic Director Virg Yelkin announces that former Olympic champion Allie Morrison will head OU’s first wrestling team.
OU Regents announce that Antoinette K. and Arthur A. Allwine have deeded their 160-acre farm (now Allwine Prairie), located two miles northwest of Irvington, Neb., to the university.
First football game played on Caniglia Field's AstroTurf surface results in a 28–13 win against the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Herbie Hancock performs at Civic Auditorium Music Hall under sponsorship of the Student Programming Organization.
UNO defeats the Mexican National basketball team 74–63.
First student newspaper, “The Boomerang,” is printed.
Northwestern Bell Telephone and Western Electric Companies complete an overhaul of the university’s telephone system, eliminating the need for a PBX operator to handle calls between two OU departments. A Northwestern representative shows a special movie on telephone usage and etiquette.
Albert Parry, director of Russian studies at Colgate University, speaks on “Soviet Strategy and Nuclear Power” during OU’s Institute of World Affairs.
UNO graduate and U.S. Air Force Capt. Gene W. Jones pilots Pelican Two, a C-119, during a mid-air snatch over the Pacific Ocean of a capsule ejected from the Discoverer XVII satellite. Launched Nov. 12, it traveled approximately 1 million miles over 31 orbits. The capsule carried stamped letters, including one from Jones to Bill Ronson of New York City, the first “outer space mail” ever delivered. Jones and his crew repeat the procedure Dec. 7 with Discoverer XVIII.
Shanghai University President Dr. Herman Chen-en Liu addresses OU student assembly on conditions in China.
OU chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity is installed as the 147th national chapter.
Soap opera star Ruth Warrick, Phoebe Tyler on “All My Children,” speaks at UNO.
Larry Means and his team of ROTC runners receive a turkey for their individual and team wins, respectively, in an intramural cross-country meet.
Gateway editor Bob Erxleben joins the editor of the Creighton student newspaper on a new KBON Radio program, “Cool School,” an open-line show to discuss campus life and help students with homework problems.
Mayor Mike Boyle addresses the UNO Student Senate.
Once-exiled South African journalist Dumisani Kumalo, who married Nelson Mandela’s sister-in-law, speaks to a UNO audience on multiculturalism.
Women's Volleyball won its first Summit League Championship earning its first trip to the NCAA Division I Tournament after 19 NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and one national title in 1996.
Mountaineer, adventurer, scientific explorer, and lecturer Maynard Malcolm Miller speaks at convocation.
Pulitzer Prize recipient Mark Van Doren, poet, critic, playwright, short story writer and Columbia professor from 1920 to 1959, speaks in OU's Conference Center Auditorium.
Comedian and activist Dick Gregory speaks at University Auditorium.
OU debuts its 15-minute program on WOW-TV, “Potter’s Wheel,” featuring Professor M. Robert Koch fashioning a vase from raw Nebraska clay.
Iranian Mehdi Hamidi speaks to 35 members of the Independent Student Association on differences between Thanksgiving in America and Iran. “After a question-and-answer period, there was dancing,” reports the Gateway.
OU holds a memorial for President John F. Kennedy a day after his assassination.
Founding President Daniel E. Jenkins dies at a sanitarium in Trenton, N.J.
First Homecoming is held, featuring a five-block-long parade, pep rallies, and a dinner.
OU football player Gilbert Edwards dies in an auto accident that injures three other OU players when their car is struck by a truck from the Bee-Hive grocery store.
A new course begins to train production engineers for the Glen L. Martin bomber plant.
Omaha University's U.S. Air Force ROTC establishes the Angels unit for outstanding women leaders on campus.
YWCA “rest room” opens for OU coeds.
UNO’s first NCAA football playoff appearance results in a 21–14 loss to Youngstown State.
Denver attorney Byron “Whizzer” White, football star and future Supreme Court Justice, speaks at the OU football banquet.
Flooding begins for a new outdoor ice-skating rink dug by students.
FBI Inspector W.H. Drane Lester, administration assistant, addresses a student convocation, speaking on crime prevention and the workings of the FBI. His talk is sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce “through the courtesy of J. Edgar Hoover,” reports the Gateway.
Edward Winter, a leading artist in vitreous enamel design, lectures on his branch of ceramic art. His work had been on display on campus.
Dr. Josef Korbel addresses the Institute on World Affairs on “Titoism and U.S. Foreign Policy.” Korbel was active in the governments of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and helped organize the Czech government in exile.
Renowned composer and pianist Henry Cowell, guest pianist with the Omaha Symphony, presents an informational program in the Music Room for OU students and faculty.
UNO student James Powell is shot to death by a state patrolman after a high-speed chase.
An installment of “The President’s Mystery Story,” a fictional series conceived by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, written by six authors, and appearing in Liberty magazine, mentions Omaha University. In the story, a character comes to Omaha for facial surgery and, skeptical of the doctor, is referred to OU, where the doctor teaches.
John Belushi and other members of National Lampoon's "Lemmings" perform at the Omaha Civic Auditorium in an appearance sponsored by the Student Programming Organization.