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Collier accepts coaching position
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Byrne expects coach unit have
close relationship with fans
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Staff writer
Just 24 days after he removed
Danny Nee as Nebraska men’s bas
ketball coach, NU Athletic Director
Bill Byrne found a man “who would
fit into the culture of Nebraska” as a
replacement.
Former Butler University Coach
Barry Collier was introduced as the
25th Comhusker basketball coach by
Byrne on Wednesday afternoon at
Memorial Stadium.
The 45-year-old Collier, who
compiled a 196-132 record in 11 sea
sons at Butler, officially accepted
NU’s offer around 9 p.m. Tuesday,
agreeing to a five-year contract that
will pay $200,000 per year in base
salary. Collier’s total financial pack
age could reach into the $500,000
$600,000 range. Nee’s rollover con
tract called for a $133,000 base
salary each year.
A few hours after accepting the
offer, Collier met with Butler players
and then the coaching staff, some of
whom might join Collier in Lincoln.
Collier spent parts of Monday
and Tuesday touring die UNL cam
pus with his wife and three sons, as
Byrne showed off the Bob Devaney
Sports Center and introduced Collier
to basketball personnel. Collier also
met with two NU players and former
Husker forward Larry Florence.
“He put on the fiillcourt press
recruiting effort,” Collier said of
Byrne’s recruiting methods.
Collier was left to say goodbye to
his players and notify them he would
be taking the NU job. When in
Indianapolis, Collier said, he had a
difficult time.
“It tugs at me still,” said Collier,
who expects none of his former play
ers to follow him to NU. “As close as
I know our program and our team
was at Butler, it is my intention to
have that at Nebraska.”
While Collier expects a closeness
** He represents
the integrity, the
commitment to
values that I think
we want to have at
this university.”
Chancellor James Moeser
among his players, Byrne said he
expects a closer relationship between
Collier and the fans.
This might start with Collier’s
philosophies in recruiting.
Collier said he plans to hold clin
ics and meetings with high school
coaches from around the state soon
to start building relationships that
went sour under Nee. Collier also
said he has seen Nebraska summer
.teams and that they know how to play
^basketball.
But Byrne said Collier will
appeal te^hytonnal citizen as well.
“He’s someone who has a proven
track record,” said Byrne, who pur
sued Tulsa Coach Bill Self as a possi
ble candidate before Self turned
down an offer Friday.
“He’s somebody who has the
same values as the rest of us in the
Midwest.”
Byrne said Collier also has the
same values as Nebraskans, and he
values academics. The 45-year-old’s
players had a graduation rate close to
100 percent during Collier’s tenure at
Butler, with one player still in college
as part of a five-year pharmacy pro
gram.
Chancellor James Moeser said
Collier’s appointment delights him.
“He represents the integrity, the
commitment to values that I think we
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— ASUN —
Offices become ‘safe space’
■ Bill passes 21-4
renewing ASUN’s office
status as GLBT-ffiendly.
BySaraSalkeld
Staff writer
On Wednesday, the fledgling
ASUN senate experienced its first
debate and passed a bill designating the
ASUN office a safe space.
ASUN President Joel Schafer pre
sented the bin dial says the Association
of Students of the University of
Nebraska office is an Ally Organization
and a safe space fen* gay, lesbian, bisex
ual and transgender people.
“We need to make sure GLBT stu
dents know that our office is a safe
space where they will be respected and
protected,” Schafer said.
Schafer said upon passing the biU,
he would be putting up die pink triangle
Ally Organization sticker that would
show ASUN’s support of GLBT stu
dents.
Last year’s senate also passed a bill
making die ASUN office a safe space,
but that bill’s power ended when
Schafer’s term began.
Arts and Sciences Sen. Jason
Mashek said this bill took two days of
discussion before it passed last year.
Deanna Zaffke, a member of the
GLBT Graduate Student Association,
said ASUN being a safe space is impor
tant for GLBT students on this campus.
“When the dorms refused to
become a safe space it said that (GLBT
students) are not safe here on campus,”
Zaffke said “You (ASUN) need to lead
this campus, you need to represent this
campus by showing you are a safe
space.”
Graduate Sen. Eric Hartman said
discrimination against GLBT students
is “what might be a somewhat accept
able discrimination” to some groups of
society.
Arts and Scirtices Sen. Angela
Clements said that an Ally
Organization sticker would be more
than a piece of paper on a window.
“I guarantee that there are hundreds
of GLBT students on campus who
walk around with knots in their stom
achs,” Clements said. “To have a GLBT
student walk into the ASUN office and
see this sticker and have that knot sub
side is making a huge statement.”
Nick Wolff, co-president of Allies
Against Heterosexism and
Homophobia, said having k sticker in
the office is something this campus
needs.
Wolff said that the number of peo
ple who he knows are in the closet
about their sexuality shows a need
exists for safe spaces.
“There are people who are afraid to
express their sexual orientation,” Wolff
said
“This minority group is different
because it is the only group where dis
crimination is legal - other minority
groups have legal protection that gays
and lesbians do not”
The bill passed with a vote of 21-4,
with 4 senators abstaining.
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BARRY COLLIER, Ml’s new men’s basketball coach, said he made up his mind late Ibesday evening to come to Nebraska.
Collier, immediately after saying hello to the media, Introduced his family, Brady (15, left), Clay (12), his wife of nearly 25
years, Annette, and his oldest son Casey (17). Collier said: “They are why I live and coach,” and one of the main reasons
lie came to Nebraska, because he said he believed his family could have a good life In Lincoln.
Coach a mystery to students
■ Despite his success,
Collier doesn’t spark
recognition on campus.
By Matthew Hansen
Staffwriter
When asked about the hiring of
new Nebraska Basketball Coach
Barry Collier on Wednesday, student
after student had one question of their
own.
Barry who?
“Who die hell is that?” asked Matt
Fey, a sophomore business major,
echoing the response of several others.
A student shooting baskets at the
Campus Recreation Center confused
Collier with Tulsa Coach Bill Self,
who turned down the Nebraska job
last week.
While every student interviewed
at the Nebraska Union and the
Campus Recreation Center expressed
excitement about having a new coach,
few knew much about the man select
ed for the job by Athletic Director Bill
Byrne.
Collier has had much coaching
success at Butler during the past
decade, leading the Bulldogs to five
20-win seasons and three NCAA
Tournament appearances in the past
11 years.
This success, though, came far
from the national spotlight and the
consciousness ofUNL students.
“I haven’t heard a whole lot about
.him,” said Adam Holle, a junior com
munications major. “But any guy that
has die enthusiasm to get the program
back on its feet sounds good to me.”
” Quite frankly,
anybody but
Danny Nee is a
pretty big step up
for Nebraska.”
Adam Hoik
junior communications major s
Many students said Collier’s hiring
might prompt them to pay more atten
tion to the basketball team. They cited
possible increased fan support and
pride in the program as reasons they
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Researcher’s techniques
to help control cows’ sex
ByJohnHejkal
Staff writer
Though cattle need not worry
about what color they want to paint
the nurseries of their offspring, a
researcher is investigating ways to
control the gender of calves.
A University of Nebraska
researcher is trying to help the cattle
industry with his efforts to further
sperm-sorting techniques for cows.
Gene Deutscher, a professor of
animal science and a beef reproduc
tive physiologist at the University of
Nebraska’s West Central Research
and Extension Center in Neath Platte,
is doing field testing on sperm-sorting
techniques to control the sex of cattle.
“Sexed semen is die most promis
ing new reproductive technology for
the livestock industry today,”
Deutscher said. “It will revolutionize
cattle breeding in the future.”
The sorting technique involves
binding a dye to DNA in sperm cells.
The cells then pass through a flow
cytometer, a system of fine tubes that
dilutes the sperm cells and lines them
up in single file.
A laser is beamed onto the cells.
The dye causes the female sperm cells
to separate from the male cells.
The sperm cells react differently
because the X chromosome, which
produces a female cow, contains
about 4 percent more DNA than the Y
chromosome.
The technique can sort about
3,000 sperm per second with 90 per
cent accuracy, Deutscher said.
“This sounds fast, but it actually is
slow and expensive,” he said A typi
cal semen sample contains 4 to 5 bil
lion sperm cells. With current meth
ods, sorting enough sperm to insemi
nate one cow takes about one hour,
Deutscher said.
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