UNL News Releases 09/07/00




WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 20, 3:30-5 p.m.
WHERE: Nebraska Union Auditorium, 1400 R St.
CONTACT: Linda Ratcliffe, Center for Great Plains Studies - (402) 472-3965

SIX-MAN FOOTBALL IS SUBJECT OF SEPT. 20 OLSON SEMINAR

Lincoln (Neb.) - Sept. 7, 2000 - "Six-man Football: A Great Plains Legacy" will be the subject of the first Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains History in 2000-01 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The seminar will be conducted from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, 1400 R St., by UNL history professors Peter Maslowski and John Wunder, Joe Starita, associate professor of journalism at UNL, and international photographer Tom Tidball.

The seminar is free and open to the public. It will be moderated by UNL faculty members Garald Horst, professor of agronomy and horticulture, and Martha McCollough, assistant professor of anthropology and Native American studies.

Other fall seminars in the Olson series are Oct. 18, "Revising the Nebraska Constitution: A Scorecard," with Dick Herman, retired Lincoln journalist and 1995-97 chair of the Constitutional Revision Committee, and two former members of the committee, Peter Longo, professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and attorney Mike Nelson of Omaha; and Nov. 15, "Pioneers in the City: Women, Migration and Upward Mobility, 1864-1895," presented by Sharon Wood, assistant professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

For more information on the Olson seminars, contact the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL, (402) 472-3082.


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