Gray-haired ladies, middle-aged men in suits and a young girl sporting a shirt labeled "little republican" - nearly 100 people stood or sat in the offices of the Nebraska Republican Party Thursday night. All eyes were on one man as he addressed the nation.
The address began with UNL graduate student and pianist Denis Plutalov performing Rachmaninoff's Prelude in B flat major. It ended with Pancho Villa's last words. In between, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman reviewed the past year and offered a glimpse into UNL's future during his annual State of the University address.
On Tuesday evening, in an edit unbeknownst to me, a word in my column "Act would curb reservation crime" was changed. When discussing the varying levels of responsibility upon the current situation with Indian reservations, my words were changed from "the reservation's inability regarding what should be its responsibility" to "the reservation's incompetence regarding what should be its responsibility.
The Nebraska football team will face an old enemy this weekend - the spread offense. But if Husker players and coaches are nervous about lining up against the offensive attack for the first time this season, they aren't showing it. The Cornhuskers will play San Jose State at 11:30 a.
