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Mike Muck
NU should not
be singled out
for its problem
Nebraska — the school that first
brought you video screens at a col
lege stadium, a university-spon
sored stock car and a blow-up doll
for a mascot — now may be break
ing ground in areas of more impor
tance.
With the arrival this week of
Beverly Ledbetter, who is in Lin
coln to examine the climate for
women athletes at Nebraska, the
university is on the brink of gain
ing national attention again.
Sexual harassment has been a
problem for women, not just at the
university level, but at a societal
level for many years.
The findings by Ledbetter —
who is the vice president and gen
eral counsel at Brown University in
Providence, R.I. — and her recom
mendations could prove to have far
reaching ettects.
Ledbetter will talk to male and
female athletes during a pair of two
day visits to UNL. She will then
examine her material to determine
if there are problems on campus for
the female athletes — and if so, the
best ways to address the problems.
The first question can be an
swered already. Yes, sexual harass
ment does occur among the athletes
at Nebraska.
Kate Galligan, administrative
assistant for the Cornhusker
women’s basketball team and a
former NU player of four years,
said although it’s tough to use the
term harassment, she has felt un
comfortable.
“It’s more of looks and things
like that,” Galligan said. “It’s
mainly a perception that I felt and
other female student athletes have
felt, especially around die Hewit
Center. It’s being looked up and
down and whispered about around
male athletes.”
But is Nebraska the only Divi
sion I school in die country at which
the climate is not ideal for its fe
male athletes?
it mat is true...
Then Boston College is the only
university with gambling athletes.
Thai Nath Texas is die only
school to have problems with theft
among its athletes. Last Saturday,
j officials from North Texas found an
assortment of stolen items from a
hotel on the team bus.
Then UCLA is the oily school
at which a coach deceived the
NCAA On Wednesday, Bruin Bas
ketball Coach Jim Harrick was fired
because for a minor recruiting vio
lation.
All of these are current prob
lems facing universities. And just
because Nebraska has chosen to
address its problem, it should be
emphasized that UNL isn’t th£ only
school facing an uphill battles
- Black is a graduate
journalism and a Daily N<
kan senior reporter.
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Huskers bohnos flttsck
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BRENDAN HOLBEIN advances a fumbled punt in Nebraska’s 24-10 win over Tfexas Tfech last month. Holbein
and the rest of the Husker receivers have played a large part in Nil’s passing success in the past two weeks.
NU carries a six-game
streak into battle with
3-5 Missouri.
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
It’s hard to believe, but Nebraska’s
passing game is looking just as intimi
dating recently as the Comhusker rush
ing attack.
inu nas usea
an improved pass
ing game the last
two weeks to bal
ance an offense
that’s known for
moving the ball
methodically on
the ground.
Last Saturday
at Oklahoma, 179 Frost
of NU’s 387 total
yards (46 percent) came through the
air. At the end of the third quarter, the
Huskers had 102 passing yards and 104
rushing yards.
In a 63-7 win over Kansas on Oct.
26, almost half of Nebraska’s 595 to
tal yards came throwing the football.
The Huskers threw for a season-high
273 yards in that contest.
These games came after a 55-yard
passing performance against Texas
Tech. Following the 24-10 win over
the Red Raiders, the Nebraska pass
ing game was rated 104th in the NCAA
out of 110 teams. The Huskers now
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Freshman leads N U
with 17 in exhibition
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By Mike Kluck
Senior Reporter
Cookie Belcher had never worn a
Nebraska basketball uniform before
NU’s season-opening exhibition game
Thursday night at
the Bob Devaney
Sports Center.
“The first time I
stepped on the
court I got real
nervous,” Belcher
said. “I was ner
j- vous ail aay, put
when I started
-n-r- warming up, I felt
Belcher a little faster about
myself. Once the
game started, all those butterflies went
away and I knew I had to play.” *
Belcher ted the Huskers with 17
points, including 13 in the second half,
as Nebraska overcame a 31-30 half
time deficit to defeat Pella Windows
82-71 At the Devaney Center before a
crowdof 6,121.
His performance earned the praise
of former Husker and Pella Windows
forward Beau Reid, who played at
Nebraska from 1988 through 1991.
jf “I liked he game,” Reid said of die
Mexico, Mo. ‘‘He’s going to be a good
player. Ife plays strong fora^fshmaii.
Most freshmen don’t figure thatote for
a couple of years.”
In the second half, Berberscored
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Most freshmen don't
figure that out for a
couple of years."
Beau Reid
former NU forward
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the opening basket, which gave Ne
braska the lead for good. He then wait
on to score nine of die Huskers first
17 points, and,his 3-pointer with 14
minutes, 52 seconds remaining gave
Nebraska its first double-digit lead.
Belcher wasn’t die oily new player
to make an impression on Reid.
Three Nebraska scholarship players
played for die first time—Belcher and
sophomores Troy Piatkowski and
Alvin Mitchell.
Reid, who played With Eric
Piatkowski for one season at Nebraska,
said Troy Piatkowski plays like his
older brotba, now a member of the
Los Angeles Clippers. The younger
Piatkowski scored one point and
grabbed three rebounds in 27 minutes.
1 “I remember when Erie was hoe
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Huskers cruise
into St. Louis
By Vince D’Adamo
Staff Reporter
The fifth-ranked Nebraska soc
cer team will attempt to carry its
regular-season perfection into the
postseason this weekend in St.
Louis.
Saturday at 11 a.m., the
Comhuskers take on die winner of
today’s Texas Tech-Missouri game
in the Big 12 Conference Tourna
ment semifinals at the Anheuser^
Busch Conference and Sports Cen-l
frp • aaV'-': _;
lectt and Missouri were scnecK,
uled to play Thursday, but bebaus|>
of standing water on the field in St
Louis, the tournament’s first-round
games have been moved to the Soc
cer Complex at the University of
Missouri in Columbia.
JU^ebraska clears its first
hurdle, it will play Texas A&M,
Baylor or Texas in the champion
ship game, Sunday at 1 p.m.
Nebraska (19-0 overall and 9-0 in
the Big 12) has beaten every team
in the tournament
*Tt helps because everyone has
seen everyone,” Husker Coach
John Walker said “There have been
a lot of tough games.”
Despite a scoring average of 4.3
goals per game, Nebraska’s offense
has occasionally struggled. But die
defense has been consistent The
Soccw
semifinal, Saturday 11 ajn.
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Huskers have alio wed just 11 goals
this season and recorded 12 shut
li s most crucial oecause it
-keeps you inj^p^LWalker said.
Butsbme days, you’ll Have trouble
getting jump started/*
The Huskers have received stel
lar play off the bench all season.
Heading into die conference tour
nament, Walker said, the starters
feel well rested.
“If we had to rely on the start
ers playing 90 minutes,” Walker
said. “We’d have a lot of tired play
ers and injuries. They’re ready to
go and enthusiastic.”
Junior midfielder Kari
Uppinghouse, the league’s co
player of the year, said NU’s sup
porting cast has done wonders.
“It’s been a huge benefit,”
Uppinghouse said. “It’s goodknow
ing there won’t be a letdown.”
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