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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
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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.
And it's for the thousands who watched
a modern-day Johnny Rodgers named
Turner Gill take the lead as quarterback
to outscore Kansas State.
This year's Homecoming, by now, is
but a few crumbled displays in front of
the houses and a few wilted mums dying
in the refrigerator. But for those who chose
to participate, the week was the stuff of
tradition, the makings of memories.
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