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BOOK from Page 11 her store ordered have been sold. “We sold some this weekend and we also had a booth out at the fair and we sold some out there,” she said, ‘ ‘(but) we sold far fewer on Saturday than I expected.” Some vendors still are waiting to receive their shipments. Nebraska Bookstore employee Joyce Foster said she expects the book to arrive any day. “We expected it last week, but it didn’t show up,” she said. “It’s sup posed to arrive sometime this week, but I don’t know what day.” Vendors in Norman, Okla., the home of the Oklahoma Sooners, also are awaiting shipment of the book. Among those included in the wait are the university’s campus book store and Waldenbooks. Mark Adkinson, manager of the Waldenbooks store in Norman, said he has “been getting a lot of feed back.” “Everybody’s been kind of gloat ing,” he said. He said the demand for the book is not as high as when former Sooner linebacker Brian Bosworth published his book, but there is a waiting list Adkinson said when the book ar rives he plans on displaying it in a window. “It’ll be interesting to see how it sells,” he said. Waldenbooks in Lincoln also is awaiting shipment, said Jen Wattles, manager. “We’ve had a lot of requests,” she said. “It just seems like the ship ments were varied.” FISCHER from Page 11 letic department, Fischer said, which is suffering financial losses because of NCAA sanctions against the foot bull programs at Oklahoma and Okla homa State. The probations of those two teams means the television and post season bowl game revenues from those games are cancelled. In addition, Fischer said, Ne braska’s athletic department has a $3 million deficit due to the cancellation of state legislation that ensured funds for maintenance of the Bob Devaney Sports Center and for women’s ath letics at Nebraska. Also, the athletic department has assumed responsibility for paying about $1 million a year for the com pletion of Phase III of the new student recreation center. “Obviously, we’re hoping to keep raising money the way we have been for so many years,” Fischer said. TH= PLYiriC KARAMAZOV 1 5ROTH=R$ When these juggling comedians were at ^ Kimball last year, clubs and a bag of jello E weren't the only things thrown-they tossed V the audience with laughter! | TWO SHOWS! SAME DAY! L I SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 3 pm & 8 pm _l ^UNLStudentt,^ C Tlckels: *15. $11 Youlhl8 and under ^ 1/2 price! j Willi rapport from tfo National Endowment for the Alia. Fo^1ck»lsC»l^72^74^Monday-Frtday^^5P[Tj) Day* Hanaan/Dally Nebraskan Nebraska wingback Mart Dowse scores in the fourth quarter against Northern Illinois. Big Eight has problems, but improving The Big Eight is back — sort of. Last weekend, the Big Eight flexed its football muscles as five conference schools posted victo ries. That’s an impressive feat, considering the shape of the Big Eight in the past _1-KT-1 t. It used to be that the conference was made up of two good teams in Nebraska and Oklahoma, four mediocre teams in Colorado, Mis souri, Oklahoma State and Iowa State and two terrible teams in Kansas and Kansas State. But no more. This year, the conference is comprised of three good teams with the addition of Colorado to the Big Eight’s best, and has a fourth team in Oklahoma State that should be better than it showed in its season-opening loss to Tulsa. Missouri — with new coach Bob Stull - showed promise in its vic tory against Texas Christian, and Iowa State coach Jim Walden said earlier this year that it was just a matter of time before his Cyclones seriously could challenge Ne braska and Oklahoma. Thai leaves Kansas and Kansas State, the two teams that are keep ing the conference from gaining the national respect it’s seeking. Kansas’ problems are a mys tery. The Jayhawks have an excel lent school, a strong basketball program and a commitment to excellence. They also have a coach — Glen Mason — who is known for turning programs around by em ploying a work-until-you-drop at titude. Mason’s get-tough strategy did not pay any dividends during his first year, but this season, the Jay hawks look like they are better. Kansas opened its season by bombing Montana State, a Divi sion I-AA opponent with even less tradition than the Jayhawks. They then narrowly lost to Louisville - a team which opened its season by beating a highly regarded Wyo ming team. With a schedule that still in cludes Kent State and Baylor, Kansas should get out of its non conference season with a 2-2 rec ord. Throw in a game against Kansas State and one upsetin the conference, and Kansas should escape with a 4-7 mark this season. While that may not sound like much.that’squitean improvement for a Kansas team which went 1-10 last season with its only victory against, you guessed it, Kansas State. Kansas State’s problems lie much deeper than Kansas’. The Wildcats also found themselves looking for a coach this year, and they found Bill Snyder. At first, it appeared Kansas State had made a good move, as Snyder brought a long list of cre dentials with him from Iowa. But upon his arrival in Manhat tan, Kan., Snyder announced that he only would meet with the press once a week - a bad move consid ering how few press members want to discuss Wildcat football any way. Snyder also announced that Kansas State would employ the annoying turkey trot that was made famous by the Iowa Hawkeyes, and closed all practices to the public. While these moves may seem hard to understand, Snyder obvi ously thinks they are necessary to turn around the losingest program in NCAA history. It’s good to see Snyder has brought a wealth of enthusiasm and interesting ideas to Kansas State, but it remains to be seen whether they will pay off. The Big Eight has other prob lems - Kansas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State all have programs on probation, and rumors of an NCAA investigation into the Mis souri men’s basketball program began last year - but it is getting better. It never will match the strength possessed by independent programs, but with a little luck it could rival the balance and power of the Pac-10. Apd it a senior newt-editorial major and b the bally Neb radian aports editor.
