Wednesday, October 20, 198 Daily Nebraskan Page 7 i m jsmiim if 1 CPllSi JJ ' S .? ' V 1 V I fi 1 - 8 , y? Staff photo by Craig Andresen 'Husker" Bob Rowe served as grand marshal of the Homecoming parade last Friday. tromped the Missouri figers 48-0. Back to 1982. The all-university dance is gone. The houses don't collect scrap metal, the newspaper doesn't call for a student holiday and the bonfires are banned, war on or off. But the parade path stills winds from the Coliseum to the Nebraska Union, as in decades past. Pep rallies still precede the game day and the coaches still say things like "it'll be a tough game," the cheerleaders still show a little leg, the "Hail Varsity" and ,the a jittery high" from the band still plays 'crowd still gets tradition of it all. The Homecoming of '22 started what was carried on in '32, '42 and '52. The Homecomings of '62 and '72 thumbed their noses at tradition. But in 1982, what Homecoming was in those early decades returned. The big splash this year - as last year - was even better than what our misty memories held it to be. One of a kind The Homecoming Week that ended with Saturday's 42-13 victory over Kansas State was one of a kind. When else would a cheerleading squad do a punk routine? When else would a jiving Jamie Williams tell a rally crowd that the football team is "gonna kick ass"? When else would a real-life mascot named Husker Bob serve as the Grand Marshal for a Homecoming parade? When else but in 1982 would guber natorial candidate Bob Kerrey rack up votes with handshakes along the parade route? And when else would a Blues Brothers parade entry - complete with an imitation Jake and Elwood calling out "Blues BrothersoiRegeni" - draw the most chders rfrom the spectators? Only in 1982. This year's Homecoming was organized by the '82 All-University Homecoming Committee - a relatively new grqjip on the Homecoming scene. According to UKL Dean of Students Dave Decoster, the "all university" format was adopted in 1978 to increase .homecoming involvement on both UNL campuses. "There was a feeling of student groups and administrators that the Homecoming weekend was really no different than any other football Saturday," DeCoster said. Thus, leaders from campus groups were appointed to the committee and given the Careers for Engineers with a growing State-wide Electric Utility- On campus interviews will be conducted on Tuesday, October 26, 1982 Electrical, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineers Distribution Planning Power Plant Design Protection, Control & Relaying Substation Design Technical Support Studies Transmission Line Design Power Plant Operations (Coal Fired and Nuclear) Excellent working conditions - Liberal benefits -with an employee-oriented organization. Ruth Lind, Recruiting & Records Supervisor Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 499, Columbus, Nebraska 68601-0499 f-! Nebraska NLJ District An Equal Opportunity Employer mission to make Homecoming big again. By all accounts, they succeeded this year. Homecoming became an entire week instead of a day. The committee spent about $5',500, according to chairman Dour Netz: $1,500 came from commercial sponsor Dr Pepper (thus, this year's theme mimics the Pepper jingle: "Wouldn't you like to be a Husker, too?"), the Nebraska Alumni Association kicked in $500, the University Program Council (a student-fee supported body) added $1,300 and $550 came from the profits of the 1981Home coming events. If one thing has changed since '22 and '32, since '42 and '52, it's the return of alumni to their alma mater. That's one tradition long gone from UNL. Ticket shortage "Historically, Homecoming around the country was started to bring back the alums to fill the stadium," said Jack Miller, executive vice president of the Alumni Association. He says Homecoming plans for alums are hampered by the ticket shortage. "If there were tickets available," he said, "we would probably look at Homecoming a whole lot differently." So at the University of Nebraska, Home coming is tor the present students, not those past. It's for the nearly 300 students who like to swing dance; for the 1 ,600 students who cared enough about who was elected Homecoming king or queen to vote for one of each. It's for the Alpha Phis and the Lambda" Chi Alphas, who joined forces to produce the first-place display, a buggy-eyed E.T., star of the popular motion picture. It's for the 8,500 people who spent an evening listening to the musical magic of Diana Ross. It's for Queen Brenda Heyden, a junior agricultural economics, major and for King Chip Winter, a junior integrated studies major, and for the Block and Bridle Club that nominated Heyden and the Farm house fraternity brothers who submitted Winter's nomination. 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