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Shutout loss stuns Husker faithful FANS frontpage 1 would tell them not to pack the season in just yet. “You can’t get down just because you lost a game,” Ludemann said. “We’ve been in this same situation be fore. TWo national championships, then come back the next year and lose a game. It might be somebody else’s turn this year, but you never know.” Back in Lincoln, Husker fans wak ing up Sunday morning realized Sat urday night was not just a bad dream. The hangover of the first Husker loss in two seasons sickened fans with a morning-after feeling they hadn’t felt in years. Some fans were so distraught by the loss as to wander into Nebraska Spirit, 1120 P St., needing to talk about Sat urday night. Michaele Kujath, the operations manager at Nebraska Spirit, said people came in to share their grief. ft If you’ve got a quarterback who can throw the ball and you’re behind, you stay with the quarterback who can throw the ball.” 4> Danny Leggiardo fan from Lincoln To help grieving fans, the store showed Nebraska’s first national cham pionship Orange Bowl win over Mi ami two years ago throughout the store. Tricia Swiercek, a freshman psy chology major and Nebraska Spirit employee, said they played the game to take fans’ minds off Saturday’s loss. “We’re just trying to get everybody happy,” she said. Swiercek watched the game at h© boyfriend’s house, she said, and h© group tried to stay calm. “TTiey made fun of (the Huskers) but they weren’t really down on them,’ Swiercek said. “Some of us are true Nebraska fans.” Ryan Furstenau of Lincoln agreed that die loss was an anomaly. “We shot ourselves in the foot,” he said. Furstenau said he couldn’t believe what he was watching. “I was like 'What’s going on?”’ he said. “It wasn’t real.” But what is real, Kujath said, is that the Huskers will not give up after the loss. “They’re going to come back harder than ever,” she said. “They are going to come back mean.” Sports editor Mitch Sherman and senior reporter Matt Waite con tributed to this report. « Send Scott back to Stanford and bring Matt in. You can see what happened. We don’t have a quarterback this year. That’s the bottom line.” Dana Wecker fan from O’Neill Alliance unites minority alumni By Lindsay Young StaffReporter A new alumni organization hope it can foster a spirit of unity and com mitment among minority graduates an< Students at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. The Alliance of Minority Alumni a branch of the University Alumni As sociation, went through almost a yea of development before Reshell Ray coordinator of the ethnic minority pro gram, put it together. Ray said the alliance was organizec to help retain minority students and tc provide an opportunity for undergradu ate students to interact with minority alumni through educational and socia programs. The alliance will do this througl student recruitment, career networking ■ mentoring and role modeling, devel oping leadership and social support systems and identifying minority . alumni, she said. During its first meeting Wednesday, 5 the alliance members commended their ‘ commencement. Christine Vu, an administrative as ' sistant for the Nebraska Commission for National and Community Service, spoke about her experiences as a mi nority student at the university. She said she was excited about the alliance, which would give support to other Asian students. “It’s about time,” she said. “Let’s 1 pull our resources together and give ) back.” Marty Ramirez, psychologist at the r University Health Center, commended 1 Ray and her committee for forming the alliance. 1 “What you’re seeing today in the • concept of alumni wasn’t here five years ago,” he said. “This concept is in pioneer stages. We are planting the seed.” Marcella Gilbert, an outreach worker for the Lincoln Action Pro gram, encouraged all minority students to finish school. “You can do this. You can finish," she said. Mere than 30 people of various eth nic backgrounds attended the meeting at the Culture Center. Ray said she hoped the majority ol th alliance’s activities would correlate with the Culture Center, which has helped minorities since 1972. 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