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Miami bowl red
by JBf JOHNSTON
Associate Sports Editor
Nebraskans will have a chance to paint the
Orange Bowl red. In a team meeting early Sunday
night, Nebraska's football squad voted "pretty
much unanimous" to accept the offer from the
Miami Classic v
"We had one offer and the kids decided to
accept it," Nebraska coach Bob Devaney told re
porters at 6:15 p.m. Sunday. "We did not turn
down a bid frem any other bowl."
There was strong speculation that the Corn
huskers would receive a bid from the Cotton Bowl
for a possible clash with Texas. But the offer never
.. came. .
It's no secret that the Cotton Bowl is now
eyeing Notre Dame for a rematch with Texas. But
the Fighting Irish play LSU this week and Southern
California the following Saturday.
Nebraska could have waited a week and an
offer from the Cotton Bowl would have come if
Notre Dame would lose.
"We would have waited if the players had
not been enthusiastic about the bid we had," ex
plained Devaney, "but the kids decided to get it
settled now."
And Devaney agreed with the decision. "The
longer we waited the longer the kids would have
had it on their minds. We've got a big game com
ing up this week (Oklahoma) and it would be bad
for the kids to have bowls on their minds."
Devaney denied that the Cotton Bowl had
asked Nebraska to wait a week before making a
decision.
"Besides," continued Devaney, "the way the
situation is it wouldn't have helped that much to
wait another week." Devaney was referring to the
fact that Notre Dame plays Southern Cal Nov. 28
and Texas meets Arkansas Dec. 5 to decide the
Southwest Conference representative in the Dallas
bowl.
Devaney mentioned several possible oppon
ents in the Orange Bowl, but denied any factual
knowledge of a rumor that Notre Dame had al
ready agreed to visit the Orange Bowl.
"If that rumor was tru, I'm sure the Orange
Bowl people would have told me that," said
Devaney. "But if Notre Dame wins next week they
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL 94, NO. 35
Hunger general: all's well on front
by JOHN DVORAK
Nebraskan Staff Writer
President Nixon's general in
the war against hunger and
malnutrition in the United
States reported this weekend
that his battle is progressing
"very well"
On campus for several
festivities ia his honor.
Secretary of Agriculture Clif
ford M. Hardin said that about
11 million Americans are now
on various food-aid programs,
compared to seven million lets
than a year ago.
"You can never say that
hunger and malnutrition will be
completely eliminated," the
forma NU chancellor said.
"But substantial progress has
been made and more will be
accomplished in the future."
Soon after going to
Washington, D.C. In early 1969,
Hardin was directed by Nixon
to "wipe malnutrition com
pletely from this country" The
author of a recent book on
hunger, Hardin views hungry
Americans as a "problem of
immense urgency."
"It is unthinkable that
hanger and protein deficiency
should exist in this land of
abundance," Hardin said.
At a Saturday noon luncheon
at the Nebraska Union, the 55-year-old
former professor
received a set of silver goblets
for "many and enduring con
tributions" to Nebraska. And
he and his wife were honored at
the Kansas State-Nebraska
football game and at a
chancellcr's reception Friday
night.
The secretary stressed that
the opportunity for the poor to
receive food benfits must be
available in every locale.
"Yon cannot insure that
everyone eligible for benefits
will seek them," he said.
Nevertheless, he said that food
aid programs are avilable in all
bat about 450 communities In
the United States and his
department Is currently hard at
work on those 450.
And by Thanksgiving, he
predicted, every poor child at
tending school in the country
will be able to get a free or low
cost noon lunch.
Most of the nation's poor can
now receive food stamps at
almost no cost through special
grants from the Office of
Economic Opportunity, he said.
"The price of stamps has
been made more favorable in
the past two years," Hardin
safd. "But law still prevents
the Agriculture Department
from distributing them free."
He said an experiment in two
South Carolina counties where
food stamps were given by the
Department free to needy
families was a success. Bat
that experiment was never in
tended to be expanded to the
rest of the nation, be said.
prokop: New regent plans campus activism
(Editor's Note: This is the
first of four interviews with
newly elected members to the
Board of Regents.)
by Steve Strasser
Nebraska Staff Writer
The Board of Regents "can't
hide behind closed doors" and
keep the people of Nebraska
out of debate and discussion,
according t o Regent-elect
Robert Prokop.
Students should "continually
press" the board to keep
discussions open, said Prokop.
He added that at least four
Regents besides himself made
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promises similar to his.
"I plan to be a very active
Regent on campus," continued
Prokop. "I don't like the idea of
the stuffy old man who sits in
his business and lives off the
fat of the University without
ever talking to students."
"I am more than willing to
present student views to the
Regents even if I don't agree
with them myself."
A resident patho'Dgist at the
University Medical Center in
Omaha, Prokop ran for the
Board because "the University
has been a long-time life blood
of mine. I wasn't happy with
the direction the institution was
taking, and believed in chang
ing it within established pro
cedures." He said it was "obvious by
the last election" that
Nebraskans have lost much of
their respect for the Universi
ty. Part of this lost respect is
due to students "trying to do
the job of recreating society
outside of the means provided
by society," he said.
Voters "definitely feel the
responsibilities of educators
and others in the University
system have been shambled."
Prokop continued. The
University has "gotten away
from education and gotten into
fields more philosophical in
nature."
The Regents must "set
priorities according to what is
important to the state," said
Prokop.
Refeering to the University's
proposed budget, he commented
we can't decide to throw the in
stitution into higher gear un
less the state is ready to pay
for it"
Prokop, who testified at State
Sen. Terry Carpenter's hear
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