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Boo Jovi and aioee!) AP«- 18-» Bine Inch Rails Apr- 26-26 Pink Floyd: The Wall (90 min.)* “•r 2-3 Pink Floyd: The Wall (90 min.)* May 9-10 Riruana May 16-17 Rush (90 min.)* May 23-24 The Doors May 30-31 Grateful Dead Showtimea: Friday and Saturday Rights; 8:00, 9:30 6 11:00p.m. except * at 8:00 and 10:00p.m. Admission: $5 for adults, $4 for UNL students w/UNL ID except *: $5 for all seats Mueller Planetarium State Museum (Morrfll Hall) 14th fc U st. 472-2641 http://www.4m.oom/mualler Coaches look forward to duals BySamMcKewon Staff Reporter In its fifth and final year at Ne braska, the Cliff Keen National Duals have a chance to go out with a bang. The Na tional Duals, in their eighth year of existence, will be in Lincoln for the final time this weekend, with a I chance to make even more great memories. With a _ — possible matchup between No. 1 ranked Iowa and second-ranked Okla homa State, the coaches of the 16 teams are looking forward to a high quality of wrestling this weekend. “It’s the most exciting tournament I’ve ever been in,” North Carolina Coach Bill Lam said. “If our team wasn’t in it, I’d buy a plane ticket and come up and watch those two teams go at it.” The excitement is well justified. There is a good chance the Hawkeyes and Cowboys will meet in Sunday’s championship dual at 2 pjn. It would be the only time this season the two meet in a dual. Iowa is also the de fending national champion, while the Cowboys finished sixth at the NCAA meet last year. Iowa enters the meet as strong as it has been in the past. The Hawkeyes have seven returning All-Americans on their roster and four returning na tional champions from last year’s team. One of those is senior Jeff McGinness who had to redshirt be cause he was beat out at his weight. Iowa Coach Dan Gable said he is interested in how his team reacts in the 118 and 126-pound classes as well as 142 and 177. “This has always been a big meet for us because it tells us where we need to adjust our lineup for the rest of the season,” Gable said. “We hope to get in a position to stop some of the mo mentum of Oklahoma State.” Oklahoma State is led by four re turning All-Americans, including No. 1-ranked 167-pound senior Mark Branch. The Cowboys are the defend ing Big Eight champions and have won three of the eight dual crowns. Cowboys Coach John Smith said he is looking forward to a possible showdown with Iowa. “We can’t afford to overlook any body, but we’d like to have a chance to face Iowa,” Smith said. Smith said Iowa may have a strength advantage, but OSU still has a shot to upend the Hawkeyes. “We’re going to have to win six matches to beat them,” he said. “We can’t go 5-5 with them and win. There will have to be some upsets.” Beyond the top two ranked teams, any team could be in position to fin ish well or possibly pull an upset. Iowa State, Penn State and Minnesota are all ranked in the top five. Nebraska — ranked 13th — will probably be the eighth seed. Eight other compet ing teams are ranked in the top 20. ISU Coach Bobby Douglas said with so many quality teams it is diffi cult to pick one that will dominate the (( We’d like to have a chance to face Iowa.” John Smith Oklahoma State wrestling coach tournament. “There is a lot of parity in this tour nament,” Douglas said. “If you get past Iowa and Oklahoma State, and it becomes an issue of whoever’s hot. “There’s going to be a lot of up sets.” NU will have a difficult haul to a possible title. The Comhuskers are 6 2 in duals this season, but have struggled against two top-ranked teams. Against No. 6 Illinois and fifth ranked Minnesota, Nebraska lost by a combined score of 61-23. In last year’s duals finals, Nebraska lost to Iowa 20 15. Other teams in the field are No. 7 Michigan, No. 9 Michigan State, No. 17 Clarion, No. 18 Pennsylvania, 19th-ranked Fresno State, No. 21 North Carolina, Wartburg College, Missouri Valley College and Pitts burgh-Johnstown. The tournament has become so popular among wrestling fans and coaches that some people have advo cated this as a possible system for the NCAA meet. “I think it would be a great way to end the season,” Lam said. ♦ Men happy with NCAAs ruling NCAA from page 9 Committee at the convention, said the bill was a landmark decision for all college athletes. “That’s just great news,” said Har ris, who is one of eight Division I rep resentatives on SAAC. “I didn’t know whether it would pass or not, but it’s what is right. It kind of gives me con fidence in the NCAA that ultimately they’ll do what’s right.” Prior to the 1995 school year, the NCAA required 7 percent of the schools participate in a sport to pro vide championship sanctioning. That meant about 40 Division I schools had to compete in a sport for the NCAA to sponsor it. The number of schools with men’s gymnastics programs dropped way below 40 in 1994. In 1995, delegates at the NCAA Convention heard the voice of SAAC, which pleaded for the future of Olym pic sports participation in college to continue. The student delegation succeeded in passing a three-year moratorium to keep certain sports on the NCAA’s endangered list alive. Men’s gymnas tics was one of those sports. v The 1995 convention, Harris said, was crucial in establishing this year’s legislation. “Really, I think what that did was it bought us some time,” he said. “It raised the consciousness level of our situation at the time.” Harris said another force behind the cause of fighting for Olympic sports was Nebraska Athletic Direc tor Bill Byrne. “Bill Byrne really was big on this,” Harris said. “He really wanted to help us out and pass this legislation. He’s a great guy to have on your side at a convention like this.” NU Men’s Gymnastics Coach Francis Allen said the legislation’s largest value comes from the incen tive to make club gymnasts attend a university. “It used to be that the clubs told their people not to go to college be cause (the NCAA) was going to drop it,” Allen said “You should be able to graduate from high school and go to college, and not have to worry about having gymnastics dropped. So in that sense, we also wot the recruiting war.” Allen said Nebraska would have kept providing opportunities for gym nasts even if the NCAA had with drawn its sponsorship of the sport. “I was sure as long as people were there to compete against, Nebraska would have gymnastics,” he said. “But without the NCAA Championship logo, it would have lost a lot of power.” Convention favors the athletes WRAPUP from page 9 to work and then challenging them to think twice about the NBA draft, the delegates followed Dempsey’s plea for sanity and voted in all of the landmark legislation. “I think what this convention said is we’re going to try and trust each other,” Dempsey said. “That we want this to work out.” Among the legislation passed Tuesday was a modification of the NBA draft rule. The new rule says ath letes who enter the draft early and are selected must give up their remaining eligibility. If they aren’t taken, they can return to their college team. “The NBA has rendered the intent of the (original) legislation useless by establishing a rule that does not allow players to re-enter the draft,” Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese said. Also Tuesday, the delegates voted to financially protect all men’s and women’s NCAA championships in Olympic sports. Men’s volleyball and men’s gymnastics were in danger of losing their funding. This is perhaps the most important step for Nebraska. The men’s gymnas tics team, which has won eight na tional titles, is now protected from extinction. The convention, for once, finally served the people it was meant to — the student athletes. The highlight occurred Monday when feisty, second year law student Bridget Niland, from the State University of New York at Buffalo, helped push through the con troversial part-time work proposal. “Consider the welfare of the stu dent athlete,” Niland said. “Look at this legislation on the principle of honesty and trust, not fear of abuse.” With the part-time jobs, the poten tial for abuse is ripe. Just keeping track of things could create an administra tive nightmare. But Miami Athletic Director Paul Dee may have said it best: “There’s no question there are problems, but is our inconvenience a reason to con strain students? I think not.” , t . t.-. ’'.• -....v/’