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— ! J Before or after the Red-White game, enjoy... ■[ ■: $1 Draws of Bud Lite j: jj and Killian's Red ■ [ Open ALL DAY from 10 A.M. Ij I; 808 'P' Street • 435-3889 f »! vvwumvnvwvwwm Buy Back Hours City Campus Monday - Thursday April 28 • May 1 & May 5-8 8:30 to 5:30 Friday May 2 & 9 8:30 to 5 East Campus Monday - Friday May 1-2 & 5-9 8:30 to 4:30 Thank you for using UNIVERSITYBOOKSTORE Jj UNIVERSITY BCXDKSTORE^ mmjM £ BPS wjF PRESENTS Little River Band Sunday, April 27th TICKETS: $13 ADVANCE • $15 DOOR 19 and Over Welcomed! IUNL fencer sharpens skill FENCING from page 1 there is nobody better with his weapon — the 6p6e — than Cass. His 22nd place finish is indicative of that. “We’re hoping next year Cass is in the top 10.” “The top eight,” Kovanda, stand ing nearby, said smiling. Finer Points Rooted in ancient Egyptian and Grecian cultures, fencing is one of only four surviving sports performed in the first modem Olympic Games, held in 1896. I Kovanda’s weapon of choice, the j epee, is the heaviest and stiffest of the | sport’s three weapons. The sword fea j tures a triangular cross section and I large bell guard. j Bouts are staged in a 2-by- 14-meter I area, called a strip. Points are scored j with touches made with the weapon’s I point anywhere on the opponent’s I body. Unlike the foil and saber, | fencing’s other two weapons, the epee j does not have rules of right of way to I decide which opponent’s attack has I precedence. Also, double hits are pos I sible. I E’p6e fencers try to make swift, uncomplicated attacks and counterat tacks, emphasizing timing and good point control. Next Round Kovanda said he was slightly ap prehensive going into the Colorado Springs bouts because they were the first Division I challenges of his ca reer. Last year, Kovanda placed second in the Division II championships, but didn’t square off against any Olympic caliber athletes because they were training for the Atlanta Games at the time. This year’s competition was differ ent, however. Kovanda finally got the opportunity to battle Olympic-sea soned fencers, in addition to others. “I had some confidence issues to deal with at first, but once I got on the strip with the others, I realized I could hang with them,” Kovanda said. Currently, Kovanda enjoys a B rat ing in epee competition. By placing in the top eight at next year’s national championships, he would move to an A rating, the highest of fencing’s four classes. It may be a bit premature for Kovanda to think about, Hoff said, but the top four finishers usually make the cut for the U.S. Olympic team. “He’s on his way to getting into the upper echelons,” Hoff said. “I don’t know if he’s Olympic material, but he’s getting along.” The athlete said fencers often re main competitive into their mid-30s. In fact, last year’s Olympic Games saw a number of 30-somethings in the sport, he said. Barring injury and considering Kovanda’s dedication to fencing, his career conceivably could span another 13 years, enabling him to have three shots at making the U.S. team. For now, though, Kovanda’s focus lies elsewhere. He said he was not driven by rat ings or Olympic aspirations. For Kovanda, the strategy and grace re quired for competitive fencing are the lasting and most enjoyable aspects of the game, he said. “It’s one of those feelings when you fence and everything seems to slow down and you can see everything that goes on,” Kovanda said. “It’s when everything lands. That’s the feel ing you get when you fence.” Couple’s gift will help UNL begin International Quilt Resource Center tjUlLl from page 1 work like a magnet to attract quilters, art historians and textiles scholars to UNL. “This collection ... will offer great opportunities,” Crews said. “No other academic likeness exists anywhere in the world.” ? Quilts from the collection will first bet shdvim^^mff-June at th^great Other tfhiltsr wifi be displayed pe riodically in the Textiles, Clothing and Design Gallery on East Campus, in Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and in the University of Nebraska State Mu seum in Morrill Hall. The Morrill Hall exhibit, entitled “Fantastic Flowers: Botany in the American Quilt,” will tun for two years starting February 1999, Crews said. Chancellor James Moeser said a recent exhibit of quilts from the James collection drew record attendance at the Sheldon .Memorial Art Gallery. Crews said the university will not be able to display all of the James col lection because of its size, but the pub lic will be able to make appointments Nebraska City men honor holiday by growing beards, planting trees NEBRASKA CITY (AP) — Plant a tree and grow a beard. In the spirit of Arbor Day celebra tions today, some Nebraska City resi dents will put on a new face — er, facial hair. Taking a cue from the white fringe tree, nicknamed “Old Man’s Beard,” about 70 men decided to join the “Brothers of the Bush” and grow beards in honor of the holiday. The white fringe tree is one of two new trees, along with the chinquapin oak, to be planted this weekend at Ar bor Lodge, one-time home of Arbor Day founder J. Sterling Morton. “The white fringe tree is one that we have not had here before,” said Randy Fox, superintendent of Arbor Lodge. “It does look like a scraggly beard.” “Everyone who has a beard and stops in the Nebraska City chamber office the week of Arbor Day week end will receive a certificate of par ticipation,” said Dennis Marshall of the chamber’s Arbor Day Committee. Marshall started the facial hair out break by challenging the chamber’s members to grow the beards in Janu ary. Many participants have found ad vantages and disadvantages to having the beards. “Kissing my wife is a problem,” said Bob Robak of Otoe County Bank. “She says 'Ouch.’ She doesn’t mind the look, but she doesn’t like the way it feels.” Many across the country will be following the tree-planting spirit today, but the celebration touches home for residents in this eastern Nebraska town where Morton proposed the tree-plant ing holiday in 1872. The idea caught on and was being celebrated nationwide by 1894. The National Arbor Day Foundation, with a budget of $18 million a year, has its headquarters here. The foundation hopes to plant 1 million trees this year nationwide. Gov. Nelson kicked off the state celebration of the holiday Wednesday by announcing a full year’s worth of Arbor Day events and activities. The projects, planned by the Ar bor Day-125 State Steering Commit tee, range from putting special com memorative bumper stickers on all state vehicles to planting native burr oak trees at all Nebraska schools and colleges. “Arbor Day is a unique national institution and we Nebraskans are proud to be its hosts today and its cus todians for the future,” Nelson said. In past years, activities in Nebraska City were spread across the Aibor Day Farm, but attendance was hurt by cool, damp weather. Attendance last year was estimated at 7,000, but can double on a warm, sunny Arbor Day week end, said Paula Darling, Nebraska City tourism director. So this year’s National Arbor Day Foundation events will be moved in side the Apple House on the Arbor Day Farm. The weekend plans include living history demonstrations, plant sales, a craft show, hands-on activities for chil dren and entertainment, featuring an Arbor Day play, the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra and a parade. Jim Fowler, host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild King dom, will lead'the parade. ' I tt (George) Neubert said, ‘This is not a col lection, this is quilt history Ardis James quilt donator to see the stored part of the collection. Ardis James said she was “over whelmed” by the amount of interest shown by the Nebraska community in her quilt collection. But that’s precisely why the couple chose to donate the collection to Ne braskans, she said. They first decided to donate their collection a few years ago and wanted to keep the quilts together. For a while, the Jameses seemed to find only dead ends when looking for a poten tial place to donate the entire collection. Museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, could not ac cept the entire collection or vied for only the oldest and most unusual quilts. One such quilt was a paper quilt sewn from enlarged pages of Willa Cather’s book “My Antonia.” After James contacted UNL, then Chancellor Graham Spanier and George Neubert, director of the Sheldon gallery, traveled to the James’ house to view the collection. “Neubert said, ‘This is not a col lection, this is quilt history,”’ James said. UNL was always enthusiastic to ac cept the entire historic collection, she said. Nebraska quilt enthusiasts from outside UNL also were interested in seeing the whole collection come to the university. James said she knew then UNL was the right place. She believes in Orien tal destiny, she said, and the quilt col lection was meant to come to Ne braska.