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But many of those concerns take a back seat to an issue of greater significance: money. In order for a Wednesday-Saturday to work, coaches agree, athletic depart ments must provide charter flights on Wednesday nights. Commercial flights often deport at inconvenient times and would force athletes to miss Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon class es. Academic requirements make char tering a must, said Barbara Hibner, Nebraska senior athletic women’s administrator. The Huskers’ volleyball-operating expenses in 1996 totaled $458,053 - die largest budget of any Big 12 team. Missouri spent a league-low $36,187. “I have empathy with those that would have to dig deep into their pock ets to do this,” Hibner said. “Some schools don’t enjoy a $30 million-plus athletic budget” But the Big 12 is a premier confer ence, Hibner said, with volleyball deemed one of its premier sports. “If this were football or basketball,” she said, “we would findthe money. So why don’t we put our money where our mouth is and showcase volleyball?” Other benefits Playing on Wednesday gives athlet ic departments a perfect opportunity to place volleyball at center stage, Byrne said. “When we have football and two volleyball matches and soccer and bas ketball mi the same weekend,” Byrne said, “it runs the support staff ragged. We get complaints from fans that there isn’t enough parking If we take volley ball out of the mix, it will benefit both the sport and the fans.” Baylor Coach Brian Hosfeld said the level of competition will increase with matches played at midweek. Two and three-day breaks, Hosfeld said, grant teams ample time to recover from difficult losses and also to prepare for challenging opponents. If a decision occurred today, Hosfeld said, he thinks the votes to change exist He won’t know for certain until March. “How is a lower level conference team supposed to do an adequate job preparing for Nebraska and Colorado on the same weekend?” Hosfeld said. “Who do you concentrate on? For us, it’s near impossible to think about get ting both of those wins. Itls too taxing of a weekend on the athletes.” The process The Big Ten Conference voted this month to alter its schedules to a Wednesday-Saturday format. Big 12 coaches hope for the Big Ten’s lead this spring. The wheels have already been set in motion Byrne said he does not expect a decision until die second week ofMarch at the earliest. Athletic directors and senior women’s administrators will tyld meetings during the league’s postseason basketball tournament in Kansas City, Mo., next March. Eleven of 12 league schools field volleyball teams. In order to pass, the vote requires a 6-5 majority. Corbelli said the key lies with the coaches, who must convince the admin istrators of the proposed format’s advan tages. “We have to have an effective lobby ing system,” Corbelli said, “because there isn’t any way to prove the benefits of this until we actually do it” Pettit agreed. ‘To make good things happen, you have to operate almost unknowingly,” he said. “You have to say, ‘OK, we’re going to do this, but we’ll allow ourselves room to make compromises later.’ “If we let everything be dictated by the weak link in our conference and not the majority, nothing will ever be accomplished.” • l Swimmers fare well By Sarah Dose Staff Reporter For not being shaved or rested, the Nebraska men’s and women’s swim ming and diving teams performed well at last weekend’s Texas Invitational, NU Associate Head Coach Rick Paine said. Paine said the Comhusker men and women haven’t shaved for a tournament yet, and the teams were unrested. “We were certainly the best unshaved, unrested team there,” Paine said. “Absolutely.” He also said some teams had begun to cut practice time, so their swimmers were rested for foe meet ChristineTroy led four Husker women in foe 200-yard backstroke finals with a runner-up finish at 2 minutes, .75 seconds. Lenka Manhalova finished third in foe 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:15.99. The women’s 400-yard freestyle relay also finished well, as Anna Windsor, Beth Karaica, Helene Muller and Therese Alshammar were runners up to Arizona with a time of3:23*87. First-year diver Amanda Zins also helped the women with a third-place finish in the 1 -meter competition. Divers Danny Bergman and Bert Locklin highlighted Saturday’s action with a one-two finish on the 1-meter board. Bergman scored 536.5 points, and Locklin finished with 498.75. Bergman finished second in the 3 meter diving competition Friday. NUAU-Amerkan Adam Pine was the Huskers’ top finisher in the menfc swim-f ming competitionHe also placed second in the 100-yard freestyle in 44.$1|, jan NCAA provisional qualifying maik. Nothing Lists Forever You've been working on that paper for the past 2 weeks. You sit down to use the computer and insert your floppy disk. And the computer kindly informs you that it canot read your disk. • It seems like disks all decide to die If you are having problems with your during Dead Week. It may seem like disk, bring the disk to one of these a time of mourning, but you don't locations: have to go through the pain of losing a • Selleck Computer Lab (basement floppy disk. of Selleck Quadrangle) • Sandoz Computer Lab Save important information on (Sandoz First Floor) multiple disks so you have a backup. • Help Desk A box of floppy disks costs only a few (501 Building, Room 105) dollars at UNL’s Computer Shop. 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