Friday, August 16, 1985
The Nebraskan
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Cl&ytoLoi eyes starting job
ByJeffApel
Staff Reporter
McCathorn Clayton doesn't have to
be reminded of 1981.
That was the year that Nebraska
stumbled to a 1-2 start and Cornhusker
football coach Tom Osborne replaced
starting quarterback Mark Mauer with
reserve Turner Gill.
This season, Clayton finds himself in
a similar situation. He's the second
string quarterback behind Travis
Turner.
Although he doesn't expect a repeat
of what happened three yers ago, the
former all-state selection from Jones
High School in Orlando, Fla. said he is
still looking to get plenty of playing
time.
"Coach Osborne hopes to get me in
early in a couple of the games so that I
can get some experience," Clayton
said. "Right now, experience is the
only real thing that is keeping me from
being the number one quarterback."
As a junior at Jones High School,
Clayton passed for over 1,200 yards and
rushed for 500.
However, various injuries dampened
his senior year and forced him to miss
Society pressures forced
Melanie's
Editor's Note: This column
describes the actual experience
of its author, Cheryl Peterson.
However, the names have been
changed.
A few weeks ago I was in a restaurant
testing those styrofoam salad bar plates
to see how much lettuce they could
really hold. I was dressed in my usual
formal attire shorts and ?, cut-off
sweatshirt. I had, however, taken care
to cut around the faded red letters
"Red Cross Water Safety Instructor" on
my shirt. A young employee named
Melanie came up to me and asked me
some questions about lifesaving classes.
I told her a little about them, then
we exchanged phone numbers so I
could let her know when she could take
a class.
I called her last week to give her the
time and place she could begin the
class. Her mother informed me that she
had died two days earlier.
Or course I was shocked, but I really
didn't know this girl. Her mother inte
rupted me before I hung up after my
quick apology and asked me if I had
any idea why young girls like her
half of the season. It also forced him to
share time with Jeff Taylor and Hendley
Hawkins on Nebraska's undefeated
freshman team in 1983.
"When I first came here, the coaches
were working quite a bit with me on my
passing game," Clayton said. "My arm
Photo Courtesy UNL Sports Information
Clayton
was a little bit weak even though I had
been lifting weights (Clayton has a 350
pound bench press, a school record)
from an injury I suffered during my
premature death
daughter starved themselves to death.
What could I say? I couldn't be rude to
this woman suffering over her daugh
ter's death,-yet how could I offer any
thing at all to a situation I know
nothing about except that the girl
wanted to take a lifesaving class and
become a lifeguard. I offered this to.her
mother, who quitelyteplied, "It figures."
I finally asked the woman just what
had happened to Melanie, her daugh
ter. The low voice on the other end of
the phone went into long detail of
Melanie's encounter with social pres
sures and anorexia. I wasn't bored and
no longer felt detached from this situa
tion. I was horrified by what I heard
because it was' real, it happened and
will continue to happen to other girls
just like Melanie.
Melanie was seventeen, very pretty,
very popular and very talented. But in
her mind she wasn't pretty enough,
popular enough or talented enough.
Not enough for who?
Society, that's who. She was always
trying to better herself in everything
she did, her mother said. That's what
killed her.
senior year of high school so I had to
get the proper motion back in my arm."
Clayton sat out last year as a red
shirt. He worked his way up through
the depth chart during spring practice,
passing Taylor, Jerry Milnar and Don
Douglas to become the backup signal
caller. "It was a surprise to me that I
learned the system so quickly and was
able to move up on the depth chart as
fast as I did," he said. "The type of
offense that we run here at Nebraska is
the type of offense that I like to run
because it lets me run more than I have
to pass so I think that has had some
thing to do with how I've been able to
learn it."
Clayton is currently second on the
Nebraska depth chart behind Turner,
who boasts an extra year of experience
when he split time with Craig Sund
berg last season.
A few good breaks for him, or a few
bad brakes for Turner and Clayton said
he could be the starting quarterback.
"Travis and I have a kind of spirited
rivalry going on, but the truth of it is we
compliment each other very well,"
Clayton said. "I learned and still am
learning a lot from Travis just watching
him play."
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Melanie, like a lot of teenagers and
adults think that there is such a thing
as perfection. Perfection is nice to
strive for. It helps us achieve many
things. But it becomes dangerous when
we think that it really exists and that
there's something wrong with us if we
never quite get there. Society makes us
think that being "number one" is all
that counts and the only thing that can
make you happy. The old cliche still
stands: It's lonely at the top. And who
wants to get to the top if there's no one
there to share it with when you get
there?
Forntunately, most people become
aware of the unattainablity of perfec
tion. But some people, like Melanie,
never do.
Society can't change overnight. In
this case, I don't think society will ever
change. It will only get worse with more
people and more competition. If you
know someone that continually strives
for perfection and feels guilty for never
attaining it, talk to them, send them to
talk to someone else, give them a book,
anything. Just don't let them die, phys
ically, mentally, or spiritually.
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Stupid' pitching motion
aids Expo rookie Burke
ByJeffApel
Staff Reporter
Tim Burke said he hasn't been
pitching in front of the big crowds
that he would like to, but the former
Nebraska hurler has received plenty
of applause from the Montreal Expos
for his strong rookie year in the
major leagues.
Burke, who spent three seasons
in the minor leagues as well as his
career as a Cornhusker as a starting
pitcher, has compiled a 7-0 record
with five saves and a 1.56 ERA while
taking on a new role as a "tableset
ter" for Expo reliever Jeff Reardon.
"I had never been a relief pitcher
before this year, but at the begin
ning of this season we had five solid
starters and just needed help in the
bullpen," Burke said. (Manager)
Buck Rogers asked me at the begin
ning of the season if I was willing to
give relief pitching a try and I more
than gladly said 'yes' so here I am."
Burke was originally drafted by
the Pittsburgh Pirates and was traded
to the New York Yankees before
being acquired by Montreal.
Burke said he has used a windup
he calls "stupid" to baffle the Na
tional League hitters.
The unique technique used by
Burke, who said he has no idea how
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