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Pqp 10 Monday, November 7, 1C33 Daily Ncbrasksn 1 Mike 'Heismsn' .routine needless syntactic Well, It worked. A season-lonf campaign cfscmsn tic hammering has turned Llika Ec-xler Into Hike Kebman Rosier, then into simply, llike Ikisman, and f utr, I--" TrVV Rorier. Even Brent Musberger conceded that Rosier Is the obvious pick while chatting with Ara Persegh ian at CBS Sports Central Saturday, during the Georgia-Florida game. Pat Clark Hsismai. candidate from the onset of the season, oid has made himself the obvious choice by virtus of his on-fidd performance during the course of the A. i Vitlwi l lAtlwVb lt v ivttJ 4--J v. J Mvfc been content to let llciizr win the Iteibmsn on his own merits. So, we get the UZiz Ilclsmsn routine. - With the -success of the Hike Heisman ncn campaign, we are MV.dy to see mere of this kind of syntactic brinks in the future. This very season, there ciy yet be time to get the Dean "Outlaid Steinhihkr and Tom "Coach of the Year" Osborne 13 underway. Sure, it would be easy to contend that the Mike Heisman routine was not psrt of a concerted cam paign, but rather a phenomenon that occurred of its own accord. That might even be true. Nevertheless, it smacks of the same mentality that splices pictures of popcorn and soft drinks onto movie reels to sug gest trips to the snack bar to unsuspecting movie patrons. There's no denying that Hazier has been a leading rt. 0 3 W&L W5 Promotion being the highly imitative business it to, there's no reason to bdieve Mike Ik-manlike hypes wO be limited to Husker football. The pcss.bt!s3 ' are Umltltss: Matt "AEON" Wcibee, Meryl rO.:ccr" Etretp, John "President of the United Cities Glenn, The larger issue here is not whether-some die-' hard Husker fans should be allowed to do their bit to help attract attention to Mike Roller; but rather the tendency, not limited to sports events, net to let something of value or execption'stand on its own merit The Mike Heismsn non-campaign is a very modest example.- - ' , .. The aforementioned Brent Musbcrger has made a whole career out cf ooomg and ashing about the tth . ktcs who appear on events televised by CC3. If you h ave watched CC3' coverage of pro basketball, you know the problem. It is never enough, for example, for Julius Ervir.3 ' to drive down the lane, Eying past another bewil dered dupe in the opponent's urdfom,jcpia In midair and slam home another dunk. X3 must quickly Cash to Brent Musberger at the studio, who will inform us that Ervfcg Just made a great play. They do it Just in case everybody in the United States ' was out getting a sandwich, I guess. What eventually happens is that we come to look ' for the hype instead of the substance, and the peo ple who promote sports events are all too willing to deliver. Every play becomes great, every athlete is one of the best at his position in the conference, every game is a showdown that could decide (circle one: the conference championship, the national championship, who goes to a bowl game). Just for once, it might be nice to let athletic excellence stand ; as self-evidence.'" - Bring Your OwnBuddy! The next time you donste plasma, bring along a friend who's never donated. We'll pay you S3 and give your friend an extra $2 for his first donation. . Your friend will thank you for introducing him to an easy way to earn extra cash. $19 is paid for each . donation and you can donate every 72 hours. You may earn up to $100 a month in your spare time! 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Tdpktt III Sportsmanship ratings for UNL intramursls hsve been used for tivo yesrs, but their purpose End intent h&s helped the sports involved, the director of campus recreation seid. - Stan C&stpbdl sdd he hopes some purpose to the rules will emerge during the current protests about S.!ra Chi's ejection from the flag football tournament plzyofS because of a low sportsmanship rating. . "The gosis are to keep people conducting themselves in a mature manner and to make the game more enjoyable for officials, the team's players and the opposing players " Campbell said. , . In the ratings, which are com piled at the conclusion of each gme, a 5 rating fa given, for ercc"ent sportsmanship, a 4 rating for above average, a 3 rating for average, a 2 rating for below average, which would include arguing with a rcfe ; ree, and a 1 rating for extremely poorspoitsmanshlp, which indid?3 actions that cause a player to be thrown out of a gams. The odciab, the opposing team captain and a department oScid rate the team. , A team must maintain a 2.5 ratLig throughout the season to be eligible for the playoffs. Once into the play offs, a team must meet the 2.5 each game in order to continue. - Questions about the ratings cries because of this rule. Tom Ch Sigma Chis got," Cummings said. "I was told that someone gave them a one or a zero, but nothing happened in that game that would get them a rating that low. It was totally incon sistent to what (intramural direc tor) Kcnda (Scheele) told us about giving those ratings at the start of the year" ; m An increase in poor sportsman ship has made the ratings neces sary, 'Campbell said. . "I dont know why he said, "but in the p&st few years we've seen in creasingly poor sportsmanship. I'm not sure what the rational fa, but I have to believe it's tied to role modeb. m CrVoV a C IvVAte 4mtt hfA WiLrABjl think, 'Hey, they're doing it, why Ehoinx IT rm net tctsr convinced its r: pro; jfwfce.-44.--A fF-flfc-W frHjffc irtv' m m 3 3wB.a. 4naa.-v4v XAJ -ir. J, t, player for Tau Kappa Epcllcn, ssii a team has no way. of kno.vir.g v;h.;t its rating is throughout the sescn, and could find themselves thrown out of a pIsycST Can: 3 r.hUe C-zir.l the same things they had done l'A season. That, he thought, was part of the Sigma Cl"ii esse. - Campbell said the sportsmanship ratings are posted in the recreation-'. office after each g:;::;e. j ' Te try to get these out the day . after the game is plsyed," Campbell " said. "In a few esea,- weVe been a " weekbehind,butvrercre ail caught ' pp (before the plrycCs)."- ."- . : The purpose cf the current ej's--tern is to balance an ct:fril score,' but is has wcrhed the other wzy, some participants sy. ; . . . It's become a weapon to get back at the other team, said Bob Cum-' mings,team manager of Girth Vaders, the independent champions and one of three rated teams re- It almost happened to a basket- ball team I played on In: year. We came real close to not getting a" 2.5 average because the opposing team ' csptain was mad at us for beating ' them and gnve us a zero." ' ' a Cummings, whose team beit the Eigma Chi team in a tournament before the official Hag footbsil sea son began, said the decision was not "I saw that game, and I didn't agree at all with the rating the absolutely convinced it's not appro priate for intramural athletes to do if - ... The ' problem is ; magnltlsd now since the cOcia!.3 crent strangers' the players went see again, as in ties. In intramural sports, with the referees being peers with the players, Csmpbea said it is ' creeid for that referee to have the respect cf the athletes. - ; -. , . Campbell sdd he has heard about . ."We've had a lot of players com- . ment that, it's nice to play a game without having to worry about' the ether team griping with the c-3-cisis " he said. " H ';: CuminingSi a fifth-year senior who played four years with Sigma Alpha . Epsilen, said he also had noticed an improvement. . . ou dont see outbursts anymore," he said. "When I started, you even .had a couple of fisticuff and real dlwt'6 ll&3a&0$S "D't there should have to be a big fight to throw a team out cf a tour nament The purpose of iutramu-' rsls is to see who the best rthlctes are, and you cant do that when you Have to worry tbsut pleasing the referee and pleading the other team while crying, to beat them at the same time, . StO, '. Campbell said the sports manship rule has worked, rid O cials are not playing fcvoriics with their ratings. ' " 1 acnx mink any cf our cZzlzh ' csre who vins or loses," Ccntpbcl - saidL..lf they did, I would be dl2 pointed since we would have failed in getting across to them that we're " ' not here for pecpie to win or lose, but for people to participle." . CampbcUsiidtheSigmaChiprcb- 1cm will encourage another lock at me system, wRieh is meddled frcr.i sportsmanship systems from ether But we're not ever gsing to back cSr it," he said. "This doss g-j sit' that some moderations raight be