Band duo marching home
By Brice Sullivan
Staff Reporter
When the Cornhusker march
ing band takes the field at the Big
12 Championship in San Antonio
on Saturday, two members will
feel right at home.
San Antonio is home for
Courtney Hill, the band’s feature
twirler, and baritone player
Amanda Roggasch.
“I’m really excited about
going back home,” said Hill, who
was born in San Antonio.
Hill, a senior broadcasting
major, has won seven world and
six national twirling titles. But
even with all her success, Hill
said she is still nervous about
performing in front of the San
Antonio crowd, which will
include her family and friends.
She even admits she’s been prac
ticing a little harder this week.
“I’m hoping for a no-drop
performance,” Hill said. “In
competition, drops don’t count,
against you very much. It’s what
you do underneath the baton and
your handling of it that matters.
But a crowd can be really hard on
drop it”
in
5
family and friends to see her per
form for the first time this year.
“I didn’t get to see them over
Thanksgiving,” said Roggasch, a
sophomore broadcasting major.
“It’ll be the first time that I’ve
seen them since July.”
Roggasch’s father, Robert,
said he’s eager to see his daugh
ter perform, adding that
Roggasch and Hill will both have
their own cheering section in the
stands.
“There’s going to be a lot of
her friends from school and
church there with binoculars,
trying to get a glimpse of her on
the field,” Robert Roggasch said.
“We’ll be there rooting on the
team, as well as the band.”
The two friends from San
Antonio didn’t know each other
until Amanda Roggasch men
tioned to her doctor she was con
sidering attending the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her doctor,
Gordon Hill, suggested she
should talk with his daughter,
, Coiirtney, . who w.as already
attending UNL.
The two met each other and
discovered they had eacli per
formed in marching bands fofr
rival high schools, and shared
many mutual friends. Hill per
suaded Roggasch to join tj^e uni'
\Sgsity marching band, aad then
talked her into joining her soror
ity, Chi Omega.
The band will arrive in San
Antonio Saturday morning, then
return to Lincoln after the game,
but neither Hill nor Roggasch
will be leaving with it. Both will
be staying in Texas to spend time
with their friends and families.
Roggasch said she and Hill
both have several friends on the
Texas A&M band.
“I’m the only baritone from
my high school that didn’t go to
A&M,” Roggasch said. “We’ve
got a bet with them that if
Nebraska loses, we have to cook
for them.”
“But Nebraska’s not going to
lose,” Hill said.
This won’t be the first time
the two have fraternized with an
opposing school’s band. Both
enjoyed meeting with friends on
the Texas band at last year’s
championship game in St. Louis.
That year, they both found
themselves on the Texas side of
the field when the Longho-rns
scored the winning touchdown.
“It was sort of scary, standing
fon that side of the field, dressed
in Husker red when they won the
game,” Hill said.
But neither expects the same
thing to happen this year.
H 4 uwwknv
H 3 EAST PARK 3
■ 4 EDGEWOOD 3
5 THEUNCOLN
6 PLAZA 4
□ 7 STARSHIP
fl 8 STUART
9 COMING SOON
DOUGLAS THEATRE CO.
A 44 Years of Excellence! A
—■■■— s .._i
Impress your date
with a unique experience
in a warm, romantic atmosphere
f^=====a=!^^===^_
rf h
r y/cwMeb
II VINEYARDS ^ ☆!
Lincoln, NE
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Monday-Friday 10-5 pm • Testing Room Open
Saturday 12-9 pm • Enjoy a Nebraska Food Basket
Sunday 12-6 pm with a bottle of wine.
KSondlRoad 'SSCCS”"”™
loa-DC&D • a great place for a study break.
Sa Call for great gift ideas. aS
/
Architecture student
wins national election
LEADER from page 1
Palu said he attributes his success to
the university and its professors and
organizations, as well as his family
and friends.
“Success is not something that a
successful individual should flaunt;
it is something they should help
teach,” Palu said.
“Becoming the national presi
dent of AIAS is quite an honor, but I
owe this honor to my fellow col
leagues and peers and to a successful
university that taught me how to be
successful.”
Palu said he thought coming to
UNL would give him an outstanding
education. Now, as Palu prepares for
graduation in May, he says there is no
doubt that UNL is one of the finest
post-secondary schools in the nation.
DESIGNING GOALS
For Palu, the road to success was
designed and built with time and
effort. ~
*In
while ” Palu
did the drawings
_» .. Cl ■
OJUCipV. •
Palu, who is from Loop City, did
not know in 1994 what to expect
from his college experience.
He started with argeneral Studies
major. After accepting a work study
1 job in the architectural shop his
freshman year,'he changed his major
to architectural studies.* * y. ^
’ - Palu said the motivation to move
into architecture came from his men
1V/1V 11IUUV1. T
By attending LeaderShape the
second semester of his junior year,
Palu estabfcshed personal and acade
mic goals along with a vision state
ment to be completed before gradua
tion. . '***"*'■■ V*?#
“LeaderShape was a great oppor
tunity to look at my life and^decide
what I want to accomplish in it,” Palu
said. “I was able to set goals for
myself, goals that will not be com
pleted by graduation, but goals that I
will complete through life.”
Palu’s brother said Jay has been
goal-driven since he was a child.
“When Jay would set his goals, it
would take a hell of a lot to stop him,”
he said
Palu said becoming national
president of AIAS was not one of his
goals, but it does put him in a better
position to accomplish the goals he
has'set. / -
CONSTRUCTING A NEW LIFE
Palu said he is ready to accept the
challenge of being a college student
at the same time as national AIAS
president elect.
“By example, it is tough to find
the leadership .qualities that Palu has
shown asaatudentin College,^Clark
said. “Jay works for the common
good of the organization as Well as :
the common good of the School and
the community.”
Palu is required to attend confer
ences and meetings across the nation
the rest of the school year. In the first
week of July, Palu will move to
Washington, D.C., for a year as AIAS i l
national president.
“When you are running for an
office you don’t think of long-term \
results, you just focus on the present
and take things day by day,” Palu
said.
COMPLETING THE PROJECT
A great work ethic and new per- ,
spectives are two things Palu hopes >
to bring to AIAS.
Viet Hoang, a senior finance ;
major and Palu’s close friend, said
Palu will be bringing only good qual
ities to the national organization.
“I’ve {mown Jay for oyer four
years and he is aifm^wKb^c^Jtealt- V
ed student and he knows when to be
serious and when to have fun,” i
Hoang said.
Palu is confident in carrying out
his duties as national president, and
said if any failures arise, he will just
have to learn from them.
“You have to have motivation in j
all you do, and you have to realize ; !
that failure is a natural part of life,”
he said, “All you can do is look back
on the failures in your life and learn
from them. Then you motivate your
self to try what you failed again.”
Eighth annual powwow
offers drums, native dance
POWWOW from page 1
> ' j** Jr*'"
dancipg, with dancers from all oVer
the Midwest, hut jwIH aisotgijve
spectators the opportunlty'toMclanfee.
Saturday’s festivities will start
at 1 p.m. and contmue until 11 p.m.
The event will resume on Sunday
from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. It will be held
in the Great Plains Room in the
Nebraska East Union.
Organizers urge people to arrive
early, as one of the most important
parts of the powwow is its three
Grand Entries at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.
All competitors in the powwow
will dance in the Grand Entries.
This will be combined with an hon
oring of veterans with a color guard
i :
and a prayer by the elders tastart off
the dancing each time.. v.? aril
“Being there tp watch the Grand
Entry at l p-m. wift bethfc most 1
hypnotizing (event) - Very power
ful,” Grayson said. TMit'O
Other- items on the agenda
include information booths, a free
supper from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Saturday night, and drumming from
The Tribe - the host Drum Group
which will play for most of the
dances.
Miller and Few Tails
Castellanos also encouraged stu
dents to purchase a program at die
event. The program will detail the
history and meaning of a powwow
and how to act at the powwow.
" I k
• • • . ;v. ia
i :
■ • .
• • f
http:lliviviv.unl.edu/DailyNeb
. ... -v- V . \ J
i
