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' i ' * 1 the University Program Council presents... Grassy Groves featuring music by MULBERRY LANE July 16th, 12 noon- lp.m. Located between the Nebraska Union and the Administration bldg. Hot Dog and a pop only $1 Don’t forget about UPC’s Movies on the Green ^aB Take a break and join us on July 22nd for the^m^'' ^ showing of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The movie starts at Dusk(around 9 pm). Enjoy Jpf ajjsa free pop and popcorn, too. 0 Vjjf Nebraskan SuMtnier EdUzoto httpi/www.uni.edu/DaHyNeb/Fax Number 472-1761 Edina JonnWor WoBtor Darren Iw, 472-1766 Ait Director Matthew D. Haney Photo Director Mke Warren Web Page Editor Gregg Stems General Manager Dan Shattil Mvorosing manager iMieKranscn lut fcrtwrHilnn “"11001 Andrea Haitian ^--«-*- «■— ■»-1 AL^l. I_t_I 1 -# rUDHCflUOVl KJOVD vnVi J8SSICa nOimann, 466-8404 Profeeeionai Adviaor Don Walton, 473-7301 The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNLpubicatoi Board, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R SL, Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during the academic yearn weeny during summer seeiions. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daly Nebraskan by phoning 472-2588 between 9 ajn. and 5 pm Monday through Friday. The pubic also has access to the PubHcation Board For information, Contact Travis Brandt, 472-2588. Subscription price is $56 for one year. Poetmaator. Send address changes to the Daiy Nebraskan, P.O. Box 880448, Lincoln, NE 68688-0448. Period** postage paid at Lincoln, NE ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1996 DAILY NEBRASKAN ———— -—... —■■■■■■■■ ■ —•■■ ■ 7.7 7... mm m***** ' 7 • W* f '; ■; =/..■ • <■ '. '';•••. V • • •- , i • _:■•■• ■ ' • ' of Archie the Mammoth r I ; • A:" Tom Foster Staff Reporter There was a time when a great hairy beast walked this land. Larger than a cow, a buffalo or even an offen sive lineman, the mammoth ambled about die prairie, its powerful trunk and tusks leading the way. This fall, the mammoth standing on a 5-foot-8-inch concrete base. Estes said Archie’s ancestors lived approximately 1 30,000 to 70,000 years ago. Like most grassland mam mals, they often ran in herds with one bull and a number of females and youngsters. “It’s hard to know the numbers of them,” Estes said, “but they were incredibly abundant across Nebraska.** Evidence of those mammals can be found almost anywhere, he said. will return, making his cc-:- It you dig a hole in home in front of Morrill Nebraska, there’s a fairly Hall on the University of / think (Avchie) Will DC good chance you’ll find Nebraska-Lincoln campus. ? fossil mammoth remains,” On Tuesday, a crowd of Standing in front OJ the museum he said at least 100 people , j r , Suggesting there are watched as ground was On trie JlVSt day OJ ClaSS remains literally under the broken for a newly-land- „ university, Estes said dig scaped plaza that will trllS Jail, gers found two skeletons become die foundation for when they built the UNL a life-size bronze mam- JAMES ESTES Health Science Center, moth sculpture named NU State Museum director That makes Archie an espe Archie. __ ciallv aDorooriate addition James Estes, director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, said if weather permitted, he expected the project to finish quickly. “I think (Archie) will be standing in front of the museum on die first day of class this fall,” he said. The statue, which is already complete and waiting in Cody, Wyo., to be shipped when the plaza is complete, was created by Fred Hoppe of Malcolm. Hoppe, a bronze-worker and taxidermist, created Archie based on observations of modern elephants and mammoth remains Archie’s head is back and his trunk thrust high, trumpeting, Estes said. He stands 20 feet tall at die shoulder and 25 feet at the peak of his tusks. He’ll be to the museum, he said. In addition to general landscape improvements, two stone benches and several granite markers with donors’ inscriptions will complete the plaza. UNL Chancellor James Moeser said the plaza would provide “an inviting front porch to Nebraska’s past.” Estes said the $250,000 project was funded entirely by donations, some from the sale of 100 miniature Archie sculptures. Also, Tuesday’s ceremony honored the Tanner family, who made a large donation. Lloyd Tanner was a long-time employee and curator of the museum, and the plaza will bear his name. Also bearing his name will be the Lloyd Tanner Lecture Series, which is still in the planning phase, Estes said. “It’s all part of what we’re calling the year of the I 1 ^' 1 jj. ifll ^ ’