Ward Williams/Daily Nebraskan
Husker marching band
Tunes trigger animal ethics
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of miscry/Ending in shock.”
The musicians can lobby for anti
vivisection causes, but they’re nut
going to extinguish the meat and fur
industries, a fact these songs prove
they can’t accept.
As each song ends, you’re left
feeling that you’ve just participated in
a form ot melodic propaganda with a
noble cause. That’s why many will
find this LP mere hippy-dippy liberal
ism, too caught up in its own biases to
convince.
Since the animal rights movement
begins with your next meal choice,
carnivores arc going to find it difficult
to agree if they delve beneath the
“Animal Liberation” polemical
rhythm machine.
I Courtesy of Wsx Trax Records
Student discovers 'Hail Varsity' lyrics
following long search on UNL campus
By Libby York
Staff Reporter
The marching band plays the fa
miliar tune week in and week out. By
the end of football season, you could
hum it in your sleep. For many Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln students,
however, there is just one small prob
lem . .. they don’t know the words!
Is Nebraska
Dull?
The Nebraska fight song, “Hail
Varsity,” was written byUNL grads
Wilbur Chcnoweth and Joyce Ayres
and was presented to the university for
the first time on Nov. 21, 1936. The
song was emphatically embraced by
the student body and soon regarded on
the same level as “There Is No Place
Like Nebraska,” which was written in
1910.
As a UNL student and the offspring
of two UNL alums, I can’t help but
feel a little embarrassed that when the
band strikes up I can’t sing along. I
tried asking other students what the
lyrics are, but the reply was always the
same: “Nobody knows.”
Well, I knew somebody had to
know and finally decided to draw
upon my most obvious source.
After nearly 25 years, my mother
was still able to recall the lyrics and
sing them out with touching nostalgia.
Soon my father joined in and the two
embarked into a duct that would have
shamed even Donny and Marie.
So, here they arc ... the lyrics that
have caused me so much agitation:
"Hail Varsity”
Hail to the team!
The stadium rings,
As everyone sings
To the scarlet and cream.
Fight on to victory;
Echo our loyalty,
So, on, mighty men.
- The eyes of the land
Upon every hand
Are looking at you.
Fight on to victory . . .
Hail the men of Nebraska U!
So, go ahead and learn the words,
and don’t be surprised if when you
sing them out at the next football
game, you sec a tcary-cyed alum sing
ing right along with you.
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