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Athletic support
It's easy to criticize something when it's on the top
of the heap. And when it's No. 1 you're criticizing,
it's doubly easy.
So, true to form, the Daily Nebraskan has not
infrequently been a critic of the Athletic Department.
Doing so, however, we tend to ignore the positive side
of the institution which definitely does exist and
thrive.
In the years since Husker football first began to be
truly competitive, a good deal of change has come
about on campus, most of it for the better. The
Athletic Department has been more the cause of this
than one might guess.
Take, for example, the increased funds poured into
the University by alumni and others who have
developed a good relationship with UNL because of
its-footbaJIprograrn..n is impossible to say how much
the prW iTTa" NcX V TeatiasTmpToved,'financial
standing of the University through the University
Foundation.
For students especially, the Athletic Department
has meant tremendous gain. In terms of athletic
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scholarships alone, 275 students each year benefit
from full or partial scholarships for athletics. Of
these, 165 are football scholarships most of which are
full scholarships including tuition, fees, room and
board, books and a $15 per month allowance.
Obviously, a large number of these students would
not have had a chance to enter higher education
without the financial aid given by the Athletic
Department.
In addition, one can't ignore innumerable small
scholarships and grants given to UNL students by
alumni who never much thought of their alma mater
until Big Red hit the top.
This ignores the possibility of nonfinancial benefits
in good will which can't be measured. No one can say
how much this has helped the University in
developing new programs and keeping those helpful
to the University in power.
It seems clear that UNL would be much worse off
in many ways if Big Red were dead.
And the one person most to thank for the rise of
Big Red athletics will coach his last home game on
Thanksgiving Day. The entire University may owe
Bob Devaney a note of thanks, after all.
Fan-dango
In surprising contrast to recent Husker football
games at Colorado and Iowa State, Big Red fans were
amazingly subdued and generally well-behaved during
Saturday's match with Kansas State.
Admittedly, it was fairly apparent from the start
who would shellac who. Even so, one might expect
that in their boredom some drunk-and obnoxious
fans might turn to the all too available piles of snow
for a bit of vicious recreation.
Iowa State and Colorado fans, you will remember,,
were severely chastized for blood-thirsty snowball
fights directed at each other in the stands and the
players and band members on the field.
Not so however. Snowballing was held to a
minimum and even the over-imbibed managed to pay
altat?attentkxtto an overall nongame.
What all this indicates, is hard to tell! Butit just
may prove however, that Husker hysteria may not be
as hysterical as we'd like to think. Big Red reason
may actually exist. jim Gray
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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, november 22, 1972