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Volleyball storms Nebraska
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1,720 respectively. Attendance was
down, he said, because of conflicting
sporting events at the same time: the
Nebraska-Kansas men’s basketball
game and the boy’s state high school
basketball tournament.
Ron Hoffman, the team’s general
manager, said the franchise moved
from San Diego because it hadn’t re
ceived much media coverage or fan
attention. Nebraska is a market that
has proven its support for volleyball
and has local teams of talent pools, he
said.
Hoffman said most of the 13 play
ers, who were.chos^n at flyouts, in
December, are from Nebraska.
The team consists of seven mem
bers from the last three Comhusker
volleyball teams, including All
Americans Allison Weston, Christy
Johnson and Kelly Aspegren.
Two of them are from the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha and (me
each played for Kansas* Concordia
College, Bellevue University, Central
Missouri State and Kentucky’s Union
College.
All the players have finished their
farms of collegiate eligibility.
The Tornados will play 10 matches
this season, two against each of their
opponents.
The league is beginning its fourth
year. It now consists of five other teams
in Colorado, Arizona, Utah,
Iowa and Missouri.
McCartney, a former professional
volleyball player in Sweden and curT
rent volleyball coach at Bellevue Uni
versity, said the Tornados practice as
a team only once or twice a week.
“What we do is just get together
and work out some systems so they
compete pretty fluently,” he said.
Weston, a senior fisheries and
wildlife major, said it is ‘land of hard
to get any type of continuity” cm the
team because the Tornados play only
twice a month. But the competition
was still better than college, she said.
“It is a step higher, a little bit more
intense,” Weston said. “The rallying
is better.”
The Tornados’ next match will be
a rematch in Missouri against St.
Louis. On March 29, Nebraska will
play host to the Iowa Blizzards at 7:30
p.m. at Lincoln Northeast High
School. Admission is $5 for adults and
$3 for children.
McCartney said the team was ex
cited because, turnout had been better
than expected. - ~ ^
Weston agreed.
“The market is there for women's
professional sports,” Weston said.
“Volleyball in Nebraska is pretty good.
Everybody is pretty intense.”
Applications for RHA election available
By Sabah Baker
Staff Reporter
Students interested in applying
for 1997-98 Residence Hall Asso
ciation election must meet require
ments and turn applications in by
March 31. The election is April 9.
RHA Election Commissioner
Becky Carlson said students inter
ested in running for RHA office
must:
■ Be living in the halls next
year during the time they fulfill
their term.
■ Have at least a 2.0 GPA.
■ Be in good standing with the
Department of Housing.
For a student’s name to appear
on the final RHA ballot, he or she
must get a certain amount of sig
natures from the residents they are
going to represent. The number of
signatures required varies depend
ing on the office.
The RHA officers also are re
quired to attend all RHA meetings,
as well as the RHA executive board
meetings. Other responsibilities
vary from office to office.
Anyone interested in running
for RHA office can pick up an ap
plication at any of the residence
hall front desks, or at the RHA of
fice, Room 237 in the Nebraska
Union. All forms are due in the
RHA office by 8 p jn. March 31.
Law enforcement opposes bill
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they are granted a license, said Rich
aid Boucher, legal counsel for the Ne
braska Sheriff’s Association.
Broken Bow Police Chief Dennis
Patrick, who spoke for the Nebraska
Police Officers’ Association, gave an
example. One portion of the bill,
Patrick said, states that licenses can
not be issued to habitual drinkers. If a
law enforcement official was unaware
of someone’s drinking problem, issued
. him a license, and he lata* was drunk
and shot someone, the officer could
be held liable, Patrick said.
Under the new bill, people would
submit an application to their county
sheriff, who would review the appli
cation and pass it along to the high
way patrol, which would issue li
censes. Applicants eligible for a li
cense must be 21 and have no felony
convictions, recent violent misde
meanor convictions, stalking convic
tions or protection orders.
Local law enforcement officials
can recommend that licenses be de
nied if a person does not fall into one
of these categories, but has had re
peated run-ins with the police. Appli
cants with a history of mental prob
lems or drinking problems could also
be denied a license.
TTie bill has been advanced out of
Judiciary Committee and is scheduled
for flow debate on Tuesday.
Gutschenritter said Nebraskans
should not let their state turn into a
ptace where everyone is secretly car
rying handguns.
Proliferation of handguns is a big
mistake, he said.
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