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What rivalry? # A dying art? November 3,1997
NU defeated OU 69-7 Saturday ending the 69- While dance students wonder if their major will
year history of the series. The ffro teams won’t endure, fine and performing arts college admin- No GUST, No GlQBY
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VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 50
Osborne
reels in
250th win
NU coach gives
players credit
By Jay Saunders
Assignment Reporter
Although 10 college foot
ball coaches have won 250
games or more, only one man
has done it in 25 years: Tom
Osborne.
Busker tans helped cele
brate Osborne’s milestone in
Memorial Stadium after his
victory over Oklahoma - his
250th win. In the north end
zone, fireworks exploded in
brilliant fashion.
HuskerVision screens showed
highlights of some of
Osborne’s greatest games.
Athletic Director Bill
Byrne and defensive tackle
Jason Peter awarded Osborne
a game ball in honor of all
Husker teams Osborne
coached. Osborne was then
given the microphone. To no
one’s surprise, Osborne gave
credit to everyone but him
self.
“I’ve been a small part of
this, and I really mean that,”
Osborne said.
His players said they knew
better. After the game many
were emotional about being
able to help Osborne reach
another milestone.
Defensive end Grant
Wistrom said winning the
game was about no one but
Osborne.
“Nobody wanted to be the
person to let Coach Osborne
down,” Wistrom said.
No one did let Osborne
down, even if it meant putting
personal habits to the way
side. Wingback Lance Brown
has done either a front flip or
back flip after scoring a
touchdown, even if it meant
receiving an unsportsmanlike
conduct penalty. Brown said
he thought about another
gymnastic performance after
his 9-yard rushing touchdown
in the third quarter, but
thought better of it.
“I thought about it, but it
was TO’s 250th (win),” Brown
«
I’ve been a really small part of this,
and I really mean that.”
Tom Osborne
NU football coach
said. “I didn’t want to ruin it
by getting him mad.”
Wistrom said though this
year’s team was on the field
for Osborne’s 250th victory,
the win was dedicated to
every team and every player
who has played under
Osborne.
“We’re just the tip of the
iceberg,” Wistrom said.
“We’re not the only ones that
have ever played for him.
There were some before u&
and there will probably be a
few after us.”
Michael Warren/DN
AFTER THE GAME, Nebraska Football Coach Tom Osborne was introduced by Athletic Director Bill
Byrne and given praise for his achievement of reaching 250 NU wins in only 25 years of coaching.
Cook Pavilion shelter draws few fans
By Ann Mary Landis
Staff Reporter
UNL didn’t have exactly the kind of slumber
party Mayor Mike Johanns called for.
Johanns had asked the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln to open Cook Pavilion, the
indoor practice field in the Campus Recreation
Center, hoping that Husker fans would give up
their reserved hotel rooms for people without
power.
Saturday at least 2,000 people were still with
out electricity in their homes because of an Oct.
26 snow storm that downed tree limbs and power
lines. Throughout the week, many of those resi
dents took refuge in hotels.
But the people who stayed in Cook Pavilion -
all three of them - came only “to play where the
Comhuskers practice,” not to relieve hotel con
gestion.
Larry Fichtner and his two sons, 10-year-old
Kyle and 7-year-old Dylan, didn’t even need to
spend the night in Lincoln; they live eight miles
away in Waverly.
The three went to the Nebraska-Oklahoma
game and went home. Then the boys persuaded
their dad to drive back to Lincoln to stay at the
pavilion.
They only toy they brought was a football.
They also brought a cooler, sleeping bags and
pillows.
One possible reason for the low attendance
was that not all hotels were full after the football
game.
The Quality Inn Lincoln Airport, 1101 W.
Bond St., reported it had about 20 rooms free. A
desk clerk at the Holiday Inn, 11th Street and
Belmont Avenue, said it had eight vacant rooms.
The Hampton Inn, 1301W. Bond Circle, had five
rooms left.
The campus rec staff, who didn’t know hotels
had vacancies, expected more than three people.
“I expected between 50 and 100 people,”
Daniel Caporaso, a campus rec employee, said
Saturday night. The rec center had held back
sleeping bags and hired a staff member, Scott
Roskilly, to stay overnight.
Roskilly, a senior biological sciences major,
said that as the night grew closer to 10, when the
campus rec doors were locked, he knew not
many people would come. But he said he wasn’t
upset about staying overnight to monitor three
people.
Roskilly and the four regularly scheduled
maintenance men made up the majority of peo
ple at Cook Pavilion, as Caporaso predicted late
Saturday.
“We’ll have more staff than campers,”
Caporaso said.
Gusty winds
cast more
trials on LES
■ Twenty power lines got
f knocked out Sunday by 40 mph
gales, leaving 2,000 customers
temporarily out of power.
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
Just when you thought it was safe to have
your electricity turned back on.
... She’s back.
Mother Nature was at it again Sunday with
gusty 40 mph winds that knocked down 20 lat
eral power lines and caused power outages for
about 2,000 LES customers.
But later in the afternoon, Lincoln Electric
System spokeswoman Carolyn Douglas said
17 of those lines had been fixed, and only about
450 customers remained without power. She
expected power to be restored to those cus
tomers by late Sunday or early today.
“We’re getting close,” she said. “It’s been a
long haul, but our crews have done a tremen
dous job.”
The crews, who had been working 16-hour
shifts during the week, Sunday went back to
their normal, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. shifts,
Douglas said.
we re stm operating witn people around
the clock though,” she said. “It’s not quite back
to business as usual, but we’re getting closer to
that.”
At the height of last Sunday’s snow storm,
about 150,000 people statewide, including
more than 30,000 LES customers in Lincoln
and the surrounding area, were without power.
That number gradually fell throughout the
w^ek as warmer temperatures melted the 13
inches of snow, but LES crews still had diffi
culty getting to many of the outages because of
fallen or broken tree limbs.
There were still about 17,000 Omaha
Public Power District customers without power
on Sunday.
By midweek, LES had enlisted the help of
about 400 outside electric and utility contrac
tors from across the region to help with the
cleanup and power restoration efforts.
But Thursday more than 20,000 customers
were still in the dark. That number fell to about
2,000 Saturday afternoon.
All week, especially Saturday, Nebraska’s
capital city sounded more like a northwestern
logging community as the roar of chain saws
could be heard down nearly every neighbor
hood street in the central, older part of the city.
The National Guard was called in to help
with the cleanup efforts Friday and Saturday,
because President Clinton signed Gov. Ben
Nelson’s request for federal disaster assistance.
The executive order will allow for assis
tance in the form of more trucks, chippers and
hoisters, as well as more National Guard per
sonnel assistance.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
officials are expected to be in the state this
week to survey the damage and possibly get the
ball rolling for emergency funding assistance.
Nelson’s press secretary Karl Bieber said
that storm-related damages statewide could hit
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