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Everybody 's going out and having fun. I'm a poor boy staying home and having none. The song lyrics may be the case this year, but if you are a sport's enthusiast, the situation will be different next year. The intramurals and recreation department now has some $10,000 worth of sports equipment on bid which will be here and available to University students next fall. The equipment, which will be distributed on a check-out basis should solve some of the major problems of the new department, according to intramural director Ke"nit McMurray. For most of the year, the department has had nothing, excepting a few basketballs, that could be checked out. SOME OF THE NEW equipment -(toboggans) has arrived, but it is too late in the season to use them. Some of the new equipment will arive by April. But the full order is not expected to arrive by April. But the full order is not expected to arrive until this summer. Everything ordered will be available next fall, however. Ranging from archery to volleyball, there are few sports that have been by-passed. And that leaves room for some interesting provisions. For wildlife lovers, 22 sleeping bags have been ordered.. IF STUDENTS do decide to camp, they'll also have tents and stoves to go with the sleeping bags. Canoes, too, will be available and handy for camping by a lake. And to get to the campsite, five one-man and five two-passenger bicycles will be ready. For more conventional spirits, the department will have 18 sets of golf clubs, eight of them left-handed sets, and 10 sets of women's clubs. Tennis buffs will have 20 rackets to choose from. And there will be 12 footballs and 12 basketballs. MOVING INDOORS, paddleball and handball equipment will be available. If swimming is your thing, there will be water basketballs and baskets, and polo goals. Badmitton and squash supplies will be available also. For the spring and fall, a complete assortment of softball equipment including softballs, bats, catcher's masks pla es and bases have been ordered. And for winter, the department will haVAmobngTheS' miscellaneous equipment on order are tape measures, stop watches, ball pumps, horse shoe sets, whistles and I jerseys Finding a place to store all the equipment wil be th! problem for the recreation staff, but that problem should be solved over the summer. NIT bid goes to Oklahoma Oklahoma, tied for second in the Big Eight at 9-5, Wednesday was extended a bid to the NIT in New York. No mention of Missouri or Nebraska was heard from the NIT committee. Also added was Michigan from the Big Ten. Four openings are left to be filled for thel6-team tournament. The champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, to be decided this weekend, will receive one of the four remaining tickets as will a representative from the Missouri Valley Conference. It was speculated that teams from the Big Ten, Big Eight or an independent power would receive the remaining invitations. Nebraskans converge for tourney If you 're a resident of Nebraska, this article is not for you. It's aimed to serve those confused out-of-state students who are suddenly being confronted with names like Papillion, Pawnee City, Elkhorn, Friend, Broken Bow, Wheatland and Loup City. Those Nebraska cities, possibly unfamilar to date, will become common knowledge this weekend even for the out-of-stater. They're the cream of the crop from the Cornhusker state's high school basketball teams. And 32 of them, representing four classes, begin action today in the Nebraska high school basketball tournament on four fronts in Lincoln. Papillion joins Lincoln East and Columbus in the favorite's mle fnr the class A title. The class B battle has four strong contenders in Fairbury, Aurora, Laurel and Cozad. Class C will be a battle between Norfolk Catholic, Elkhorn and defending champion Pawnee City. Mead was top-seeded in the unpredictible class D, but that means little when the Class D teams take the floor. But stick in there, out-of-staters. You'll probably even find yourself taking an interest in the tournament before it's over. It kind of grows on anyone in Lincoln at the time. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN sports staff, an all out-of-state staff incidentally is even going to give all the out-of-staters a little insight. Th Nebraskan is picking its favorites: Class A-Papillion Class B-Laurel Class CPawnee City Class D-Mead oooooocoooooooooooooooo Q o Q o Q Q o o o If you have some time to give to a STUDENT RUNNING 0 FOR CITY GOVERNMENT please call 435-2260 o Go Big Red-Beat KU Student Workers are Needed for Help in the CITY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN of JOHNBRESLOW o o o o o o o o o o 0 435-9955, 475-4389 or write P.O. 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