lincoln, nebraska vol. 105, no. 65
friday, november 21, 1980
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All systems go for football matchup of the year
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By Shelley Smith
Sound the coronets, fire the cannons, shoot the flares
get set for the biggest brass cymbal explosion this side of
the Mississippi.
It's showdown time in Lincoln, and Saturday's game
between the Nebraska Cornhuskers (9-1) and the Sooners
of Oklahoma (7-2) promises to be nothing short of an
ear-shattering regal symphony.
The stage is set, the tensions high all systems are go
for the football matchup of the year. A matchup that,
when die final gun is sounded, will produce the Big
night Conference champion -a champion that will have
a crack at Florida State and possibly a national title in
Miami's Orange Bowl Jan. 1 .
It's Dr. Tom Osborne at Nebraska's helm a coach
who's managed only one win in eight attempts against
Oklahoma Sooner Coach Barry Swit.er. That, bookies
reason, automatically gives the Huskers the edge-it's
the law of odds.
But for the first time in the Osborne era, Las Vegas
has given the Huskers a solid eight-point edge, this time,
however, not just because of the Huskers meek won-lost
record against OU. This year, it's something different.
Superior talent
"It's the talent," said Nebraska quarterback Jeff Quinn.
"I really do think we have the superior talent this year,
and I think Oklahoma just might realize it too."
If the Sooners know it, they sure aren't telling. Reports
from Norman, Okla. indicate that the Sooners' attitude
has been that of utmost confidence.
"We know that Nebraska is a tough, physical team. We
will have to contain their running game, but we are good
against the run-they won't run over us," said OU nose
guard John Blake.
Despite the fervor of pep rallies, bonfires and ABC's
presence in Lincoln, Husker players and coaches insist
that Saturday is just another day for just another foot
ball game.
"We'll just have to go out and play the best we can,"
Quinn said. "We can't let this thing get out of wack."
Osborne and Switzer seem to agree, although both
have taken a couple of "pot shots" at each other this
week about "Sun Bowl Tamales" and oranges.
Increased confidence
Most Husker players agreed that heading into the game
as an eight-point favorite has increased their confidence
in themselves. After a good week of practice, Quinn said,
Nebraska is ready.
Unlike the injury hobbled Sooners, Nebraska is 100
percent healthy that does include the Husker's most
powerful threat -All Big Eight I-back Jarvis Redwine.
Redwine, who has been plagued with injuries this
season, said that for the first time since the Florida State
game, in which he suffered cracked ribs, he feels strong,
and is ready to run-minus some of his earlier cautiousness.
A healthy Redwine makes for a happy Quinn, although
Quinn said he knows he can count on both of Nebraska's
other I-backs-Craig Johnson and Roger Craig-to lead
the Husker offensive attack.
And why not -the Huskers have led the nation in rush
ing offense all season with an average of 384.7 yards per
game, and in scoring offense with an average of 42.2
points per game.
Equally confident
But equally confident of its capabilities is Oklahoma's
defense.
Heading up the Sooner defense is All Big Eight tackle
Richard Turner, second teamers Keith Garv and Jav
Jimerson at tackle and defensive back, respectively.
Although statistically, Oklahoma's defense isn't national
caliber, statistics don't always tell the story.
Last year, in OU's 17-14 win in Norman, Nebraska's
defense led the nation in rushing yardage as it does this
year. OU runningback Billy Sims shredded that statistic
with 247 yards rushing, and OU finished with a whoDDine
482 total offensive yards.
Oklahoma is without Sims this year, and offensive
leaders David Overstreet, Forrest Valora and Weldon
Ledbetter are questionable with hamstring injuries.
OU quarterback J.C. Watts is healthy, however, and
lias become the most integral member of Oklahoma's
successful offense.
Looking to stop OU's offensive show is Nebraska's
All-Big Eight trio defensive end Derrie Nelson, tackle
David Clark and safety Russell Gary. They said they
expect the run from OU's wishbone offense, but are ready
too, for just about anything.
Kickoff has been moved to 11:35 ajn. Saturday in
order to facilitate ABC's double-header football coverage.
Possible nursing division cut
prompts student petition drive
By Patti Gallagher
Students in the Lincoln division of the NU Col
lege of Nursing have begun a petition drive to stop
considerations of eliminating the college from this
campus.
In a booth in the Nebraska Union Wednesday,
350 people signed the nursing school's petition.
According to junior Teresa Zeilinger, the petition
will be sent to Lincoln and Omaha newspapers to
express their opposition to phasing out Lincoln's
nursing program.
The petition drive will continue in the union booth
today. No petitions were signed on Thursday because
the nursing students are not a student organization.
Zeilinger said they filed and attained an ad-hoc com
mittee status Thursday to continue in the booth today.
Zeilinger said the Lincoln program began in 1972,
by suggestion of NU Board of Regent members Robert
Prokop and Robert Koefoot. At that time, the state
of Nebraska had a need to supply more nurses to rural
areas.
Since 1972, however, the Lincoln program has been
targeted as a good budget cut, Zeilinger said. She said
that whenever the regents begin considering budget
cuts, the Lincoln program has been named.
In the May version of the Five-Year Plan, the
regents listed Lincoln's nursing program as a possible
reduction or elimination. They instructed NU Medical
Center Chancellor Neal Vanselow that the medical
school budget will have to be cut by $500,00 if the
university does not get its budget request of an ad
ditional 18 percent from the Nebraska Legislature.
Vanselow was also instructed at that time to prepare
a report for the Dec. 13 regents' meeting, proposing
where the half million cut should come from. Zeilinger
said Vanselow has made public that the cut will be
from Lincoln's nursing program.
According to Zeilinger, it would be premature
to close the college before the NU budget is approved
by the Legislature.
"Don't eliminate use before we have a chance to
fight for the money in the Legislature," she said.
According to the letter to be sent to the
newspapers, five times the number of 1979-80 Lincoln
nursing school graduates work in Nebraska rural areas
as do Omaha nursing graduates.
Statistics compiled by the nursing college indicate
that about 35 percent of the 1979-80 Lincoln graduate
work in out-state Nebraska, while 7 percent of Omaha
graduates have jobs in rural areas.
"Rural Nebraska is being hardest hit by the nursing
shortage," Zeilinger said, and the statistics show that
Lincoln is obviously serving the needs of outstate
Nebraska."
Additionally, the letter says that Lincoln students
from rural areas prefer the Lincoln campus because of
on-campus living arrangements, smaller-town
atmosphere and greater access to campus activities.
Zeilinger urged students to contact their legislator
or regent to oppose cutting Lincoln's nursing program.
She also said that as an ASUN senator she will
introduce a resolution against its removal prior to the
December regents' meeting.
Campus voters say vengeful Kristin shot J.R.
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Analysis By Patti Gallagher
And now we tune in to "As the Oil Well
Drills," where last we found wicked J.R.
Ewing, of the Dallas oil dynasty, double
bulleted. and slumped unconscious on his
office floor, bloodying up the carpet.
We wait with baited breath -with an
excess of 300 million other viewers -for
the revelation of who. oh who, did shoot
JR.
Could it have been J.R.'s recovering
alcoholic wife. Sue Ellen? A likely possi
bility. Too likely. After all, J.R. has threat
ened to reinstitutionalize her and take
away their only son. Little John. And. of
course, a pearl-handled pistol turned up in
the lush's purse last week. But Sue Ellen
gets her revenge between the sheets, while
J.R. gets nothing much. She's got the
motive, but hardly the spunk nor steady
hand.
Could it have been play-by-the rules
brother Bobby? He's long been denied a
chunk of Daddy Jock's Southfork Ranch,
and J.R. has been less than a benevolent
big brother. Perhaps he finally scratched
his itchy trigger finger.
Could it have been Sue Ellen's sister,
Kristin Shepard? After her short fling with
J.R., he chased her out of town and has
smutted up her name since then.
Could it have been Pretty Pam? Daught
er of long-time Ewing enemy Barnes, and
ever faithful to husband Bobby, perhaps
there lurks a fiery venganee behind her
batting lashes.
Could it have been Miss Ellie? Maybe
she has finally sickened of J.R. 's infernal
Oedipus complex.
Could it have been Big Daddy? Maybe
he finally realized one slimy connivcr in
the family was enough.
Or heaven help an oil tycoon, could it
have been the leering, sneering John Ross
Ewing Jr. himself. Only the victim knows
for sure. But UNL students have their own
theories.
One-upping CBS's Friday night airing of
the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode, the Daily
Nebraskan did an infomial poll Wednesday
in the Nebraska Union and around campus.
If the 72 students surveyed have a hotline
to Hollywood, the would-be assassin is
Kristin Shepard, with 18 votes.
Jim Foley, a junior engineering major,
gave the most common Kristin motive.
"She is definitely jealous of her sister
Sue Ellen, because Sue Ellen has J.R. and
she doesn't," Foley said, adding that
"there are some deep-rooted Freudian
tendencies' in his theory.
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