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Volleyball team prepared
for Region 6 tournament
Cagers begin title quest
UNL's basketball team begins final
preparation for the 1975-76 season with
the annual Red-White intrasquad game on
Monday Nov. 24, tipping off in Grand
Island at 7:30 p.m.
"Holding the game in Grand Island will
give out-state Nebraskans a chance to see
the team," Coach Joe Cipriano said.
"Hopefully, this will create more interest
in the team."
The Huskers will open their home
season the following Friday and Saturday,
facing Big 10 foes Illinois on Nov. 28 and
Northwestern on Nov. 29.
The Red-White game determines how
new players react under pressure with a
new system, the intensity of the return
ing players and the players' execution, he
said.
The game also marks the last time
players are put in a game-type situation
before the season opens, he said.
"When you think in terms of the top
eight players, it has a lot to do with this
game," Cipriano said. "We look for our
starting five, and our backups at guard,
forward and center position.
"Certainly we can't use this as the only
measure," he added. "The first six weeks
of practice is the main factor, but if. two
players are very close, it means a lot."
By Susie Reitz
"We're resdy to get down there and get
started," was how volleyball player Janice
Kruger described herself and the UNL
women's volleyball team, who will com
pete in the Region 6 tournament today
through Saturday in Columbia, Mo.
'The girls know they can be one of the
top two teams," coach Pat Sullivan said.
"If we play well, we can beat any one of
those teams. Last year our teim didn't
know that for sure." ;
The first and second place regional
teams compete in nationals Dec. 10
through 13 in Princeton, N.J.
UNL's toughest competitor is South
west Missouri State University (SMSU),
the No. 1 team in regionals last year,
Sullivan said.
The UNL team is "out to get SMSU,"
senior Jan Zink said. The nine upperclass-
pit stop
Personality flaws add to car's character
By Jim Williams
Outside my window, the rain is falling
on a green Volkswagen. It has been
severely bashed in at the front-its nose is
pushed up, pug-like, and its bumper is
twisted askew. But perched proudly on the
first square inch of untouched sheet metal
behind this huge divot, stands a massive
chrome-plated lady with wide wings. She
obviously came to perch there after the
accident.
A few blocks away the same rain falls
on another Volkswagen. It's parked on an
exotic-used-car lot between a Jaguar
roadster and a Pantera.
How does a Volkwagen merit such
lofty company? By plastic surgery. Its
body has been removed and replaced with
a fiber-glass "replica" of a Porsche 917
racing car. The result is hard to get into
and see out of and its performance bears
no resemblance to that of any Porsche
since the 1600 Speedster. But somebody
went to a lot of work and expense to do it.
Out there is the rain somewhere is a rich
kid I know who has a weakness for things
like 1959 Buick Invicta ambulances.
Packard hearses and sea-green '61 Cadillac
convertibles make his heart palpitate.
I once saw the Rich Kid laboriously
sawing the roof off a '64 Lincoln so he
could make it into a convertible. He never
finished it, just drove it around with no
roof until the engine went bad or some
thing. In another part of my building is a
highly-placed residence hail official. This
fully-bearded fellow has been seen wear
ing an H.P. Smith Drag Club windbreaker
I sometimes borrow tools from him -and he
seems to know a lot about cars. To what
exotic vehicle did this enthusiast give his
allegiance?
To a pickup truck. To an ancient
Studebaker pickup truck. To an ancient,
Wermacht-tan Studebaker pickup truck
with black clenched fists painted on the
doors.
Even among those who don't flaunt
them openly, such eccentric tastes appear
in the things people believe. The above
Rich Kid is convinced the new Porsche
Turbo-Carrera will accelerate hard enough
to make your gums bleed. It won't -zero
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to 60 in 4.9 seconds and a 13.5 second
quarter-mile are very respectable, but not
in the hemmorhage-inducing bracket.
What ties all these myths and fantasies
together? It's a thread of individualism
the desire to believe that there are vehicles
not like every Maverick and Nova, that your
Volkswagen isn't quite like everybody
else's. Because, of course, you're not like
everybody else.
As an arbiter of taste, I can tell you that
all this is illogical and unreasonable. I can
tell you that the plain-Jane transporter of
today can outperform yesteryear's exoticar
while being more practical.
But then you might eatch me salivating
over the grungy old Mercedes 300 SL that
belongs to the director of the Nebraska
Union. It doesn't have much luggage space,
it probably needs continuous maintenance,
and there's no way a lady in a skirt could
fall through those gull-wing doors while
remaining a lady-but I want one of the
old buggers.
like most people, its personality flaws
are what give it character.
men on the 12-member tournament squad
were on the UNL team which lost to
SMSU -last year in regionals, she said.
SMSU also defeated UNL in three games at
the Jayhawk Invitational tournament earli
er this year. ....
Competition starts at 1 pjn. with the 1 1
teams in the tourney divided into two
pools. The top four teams from each pool
will compete in playoffs Friy, Sullivan
said. '
Playing in UNL's pool will be host Uni
versity of Missouri, the University of
Minnesota, Kansas University, South Dako
ta State University and the second place
Iowa team, she said.
The second place Iowa team will be de
cided when Iowa's tournament play is
completed.
After a weekend without competition,
the UNL team was "more relaxed in prac
tice Monday and not as tired as after road
trips," junior Laury Harmon said, "but
we're really excited for regionals."
Betas on top
of intramurals
Beta Theta Pi remains on top of
fraternity intramural all-spbrts ratings,
while there has been some juggling of
places in the residence hall division.
Intramural Coordinator Gale Wiedow
said Abel 10, with 209 points, ousts
former leader Abel 5 by 30 points. Point
totals include results from 11 sports.
In the independent division, Dental
School leads with 265-5 points, 100
points more than Phi Delta Phi. The
Thunderchickens are third with 72 points.
Teams receive points for participating
and placing in competition, with highest
point total going to the highest-placed
team.
Other fraternity teams in the top five
and their point totals are Alpha Tau
Omega, 296; Theta XI, 161; Sigma Nu,
154; and Sigma Alpha Epsilon,- 145.
Other residence hall leaders and their
point totals include Abel 4, 156; Abel 6,
141;andCather 10,137.
Football season frustrating
for injury-sidelined Pruitt
By Pete Wegman
It's been a long season for Ron Pruitt.
Pruitt had started at defensive tackle for
two years on UNL's Cornhusker football
team, and appeared to have another start
ing job wrapped up entering the August
practice sessions. Then disaster struck.
The Huskers held a scrimmage on the
last day of twice daily practices, Aug. 31.
On the fourth play of the scrimmage, a
teammate fell on Pruitt's right ankle, tear
ing ligaments and breaking a small bone.
Pruitt had surgery to repair the ankle
and since has been in a cast, while his
teammates have compiled a 10-0 record
and a high national ranking.
Hard to stand around
"It wasn't too bad at the beginning
(sitting out)," he said, "but when they
kept winning, it got harder and harder to
stand around and not do anything."
Pruitt said the Injury was especially
frustrating because it occurred on the last
day of the rigorous practice.
"It was like I had practiced for
nothlng,,, Pruitt said. His only other injury
was a broken wrist he received while
? laying at Compton Centennial High in
alifornla.
Pruitt had a full leg cast for two months
before being outfitted with a smaller,
walking cast.
Stabilizers Fail
During his surgery, doctors put two
small screws In his ankle to help stabilize
the weakened bone. Pruitt was to have had
the walking cast off three weeks ago, but
one of the screws broke while doctors were
removing them.
"They must have drilled for an hour and
a half to get the broken screw out," he
said. The walking -cast had to remain
because the bone was weakened again.
Pruitt, criminal justice major who
could graduate in December, said ha will
wtum to play for Nebraska next fall,
s H ' had played In one game this fall
before the injury occurred, he would have
used up his last year of eligibility.
"I lucked out because I was hurt early,"
he said.
Hesitancy next spring
The injury might cause some mental
problems for him in spring practice, he
added.
"I might be watching out for it a little
in spring practice," he said, "but after a
while 1 should get over it."
Even with the graduation of defensive
tackles Dean Gissler, George Mills and
Jerry Weid; Pruitt said his former starting
position won't be handed to him.
4iit wiii be Uke old times, trying to get
my job back," he said.
spoils sliefis
The Nebraska Cornhuskera now hold
the longest winning streak in the Big 8 with
1 1 wins. This dates back to the Sugar bowl
game and includes their 10-0 season record.
Husker football player Ron Pruitt has
seen no action because of a p re-season in
jury, but had the quote of the week about
bowl bids:
"If I could have voted (on the Fiesta
Bowl bid), I probably would've voted
Orange Bowl or nothing," he said. "If the
choice was between the Orange Bowl and
the Fiesta Bowl, that's like a choice
between steak and htmburger."
Two UNL student organizations will
follow the Huskers to the Nebraska
Oklahoma game Saturday in Norman. The
marching band will take 242 members on
five buss and 44 Tassels will take one
bus. Both groups will kave Friday.
