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daily nebraskan page 1 1 Barrel racing successes breed rodeo fervor tuesday, march 25,1980 Dy Barb Bierman It's hard to believe that just a year ago, going to rodeos was an effort of will and enthusiasm for one UNL Rodeo Association member, who now is ranked second in the na tion in intercollegiate barrel racing competition. Although Gigi Landes began riding at the age of three and spent nine years riding horses in 4-1 1 competition, the 19-year-old from Arthur said her parents had to make her go to rodeos in the beginning. "Now I can't wait to go to rodeos," she said. What is even more surprising, according to Jim Stub bcndieck, UNRA advisor, is that Landes has hit these lofty standings as a freshman. "It usuallytakes a couple of years experience to move up the ranks," he said. "As far as I know this is the high est any UNRA member has ever been in the national standings." The turning point in Landes career came four years ago with the purchase of an Appaloosa horse, a breed rarely used for barrel racing. Second in state By 1978 Landes was second in the state high school rodeo barrel standings and at the National High School Rodeo in Huron, S.D., she placed 16th. However, only the top 15 racers went on to the final competition. Landes said she missed 15th place by .01 of a second and made up her mind to come back the next year. Come back she did. In 1979 she was named all-around cowgirl in Nebraska after placing first in goat tying, second in cutting and fourth in pole bending at the state high school rodeo At the high school nationals Landes was third in the nation in poles, and ninth in the all-around standing. All this activity did not escape Stubbendieck's watch ful eye. Thanks to an anonymous private donation the UNRA was able to offer six scholarships to high school seniors coming to UNL and recruit new talent. The UNRA receives no financial support from uni versity athletic funds and must depend on private dona tions" and members work to pay for out-of-town rodeo trips. Recipients of the scholarships were Landes, Paul Cleveland, Hyannis; Billy O'Conncr, Keystone; Bart Daly, Try on; Billy Gallino, Valentine and the late Randy Adams, Crete. (Adams was killed in a car accident near Waverly in October.) Combine rodeo and school However, Landes had a hard time deciding whether or not to combine rodeo and school. "I didn't really have the money to go to college," she said. "I decided if I didn't get a scholarship I wasn't going. Then I was offered a basketball scholarship at another school. "My sister had an influence on me," she said. "Last summer she said, 'Either you practice and go to the rodeos with me or 111 drag you without the practice."' That extra shove was all she needed and Landes now is really involved with rodeo. She said college rodeo is different from high school because it requires team effort more than an individual one. Landes and other UNRA members compete in the Great Plains Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA). States-included are Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska. Besides holding down the number two spot nationally in barrels, Landes is ranked fourth in regional all-around cowgirl competition. All-around cowgirl is determined by points accumulated through placing in more than one event at a rodeo. Pattern event Barrels is a timed event involving running a pattern around three barrels and times vary according to the size of the arena, Landes said. Her first place performance at a rodeo at Iowa State stands out because she was .6 of a second faster than the second place racer, a huge gap in an event where hundredths of seconds often separate first and second place. Six more rodeos are scheduled for this spring, the first of which ill be the UNRA rodeo to be held the second weekend in April at the State Fairgrounds. During the break Landes is recuperating from knee Gasohol's father bullish on fuel By Laure Perlinger As long as the sun shines and the plants grow the resources needed to produce gasohol will be available, according to William A. Scheller, professor of chemical engineering at UNL. Scheller is nationally known for his gasohol research, and coined the name of the fuel about nine years ago. Gasohol provides food and fuel, he said. Scheller spoke Saturday morning at a conference of the Student Chapters of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which convened in the East Union. The gasohol program originally started in Nebraska in 1971 when legislation was passed providing for alcohol production from grain, Scheller said. A national symposium was held in Nebraska in 1977, and by the spring of 1978 the National Gasohol Commission was organized to promote gasohol. Gasohol is a mixture of 10 percent anhydrous grain alcohol and 90 percent unleaded gasoline, Scheller said. Corn, wheat, milo Corn, wheat and milo often are used as the starch base for the alcohol, and sugar is derived from Nebraska's sugar beets. Brazil started a gasohol program in 1974, as an im mediate result of Nebraska's efforts, Scheller said. They produce one-billion gallons of the fuel a year. Scheller explained that to produce gasohol the grain is ground, enzymes are add. , and the mixture is cooked at 350F at 150 pounds of pressure per square inch. When this 'nash" is cool a second enzyme is added to convert the starch to sugar, and yeast is added to ferment the mash. The reaction of sugar and yeast without oxygen yields alcohol and carbon dioxide, he said. Sertoma sponsoring pancake feed Thursday The Lincoln Sertoma Club will sponsor a pancake feed Thursday from 7 ajn.-7 p.m. at Pershing Auditorium. James Terry, the Sertoma Club's publicity director, said the money raised from the feed will be used for the Youth Employment Service. Terry said the project usually raises $8,000 to $10,000 a year. The YES service is run by two or three youths a year and helps provide other youths with jobs, Terry said. The job experience youths receive from YES employment is helpful to them when they apply for other jobs, he said. About 200 to 300 young people benefit from the YES Program, he said. The Sertoma Club has five branches in the Lincoln area. The pancake feed is a joint project by all five, Terry said. The Sertoma Club is involved with a variety of community programs, including the sponsorship of Ce dars Home for Children in Lincoln. The fermented mash is sent to the beverage distillery. Some parts of the half alcohol-half water solution are extracted. The soluable material eventually yields a high quality cattle feed. Protein high Regular corn is about 10 percent protein. This .cattle feed additive is 30 percent protein, because it contains not only the protein from the grain, but the yeast used in the fermentation, Scheller said. One gallon of gasohol provides enough cattle feed mixture to account for 10.3 pounds weight gain in beef cattle, whereas it takes 2.17 bushels of corn and hay to provide the same gain. This is why gasohol provides both'food and fuel, Scheller said. The gallon of gas alcohol replaces in gasohol' and the energy needed to refine that gallon is saved. By using gasohol fossil fuel energy can be saved, Scheller said. A 34-month gasohol performance test was conducted from 1974 to 1977. The test findings indicate the blend of grain alcohol and unleaded gas yields an octane number of 90, which is slightly higher than unleaded gasoline alone. Gasohol gives 5 percent more mileage per gallon than unleaded gasoline the test showed, and exhaust fumes of gasohol burning cars contain one-third less car bon monoxide than unleaded gas produces. Scheller also explained the evolution of grain alcohol plant energy requirements. The controversy over the amount of energy needed for gasohol production has led to further research, he said. "We've come from a beverage plant requiring 109,000 BTUs (British Thermal Units) per gallon, to a fuel plant requiring 68,000 BTUs per gallon in 1978, to a further reduction of 52,000 BTUs per gallon in 1979," Scheller said. Every Monday in the Daily Nebraskan. surgery, which was required to repair damage suffered while skiing over semester break. She doesn't anticipate her knee will slow her down, however. "The only event it may have an effect on is goat tying where I'm required to get off the horse," she said. 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