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Page 10 Daily Nebraskan Monday, April 22, 1985 n ri Airii ri CornstockXV 'WW1 will 4 feature vj movie, bands By BM Allen MacLean and the other 15 final- Rock bands, musical comediannes, a ists for Staff Reporter competed the champion- hypnotist and movies are all on the in two ships other events besides agenda for the East Campus Cornstock UN'L junior Mike MacLean spent consecutive kicks: week celebration, which begins today. last weekend "footbagging" in Footbag Freestyle, where scor- Dona Lovegrove, Cornstock chair- based on and Chicago. ing is originality style. woman, said this is the 15th year of for No, he didn't get arrested Footbag Net, where players J s'' Cornstock, a last fling before the school it. As a of the Sack back and doing matter fact, the only pass Hacky forth year ends. five-foo- t reason he was there is because he over a like a "no y net, Previously, Cornstock was a one-da- can better than hands" is footbag anyone volleyball. Competition Y event and the week leading up to it was or.e-on-on- e is like around here. and scored tennis. called Western Week, Lovegrove, a jun- Sack en- MacLean Footbagging, as Hacky said he concentrated ior business administration major, said. thusiasts is the his v.wkouts for finals on i, i know, keeping small, the just A1 But this year the entire week will be pellet-fslle- d leather sack airborne the consecutive kicks event, because called Cornstock Week. knees and where he stood the best East-sponsore- using only your feet, that's The schedule for the UPC d MacLean, a finance major, was chiir.ee of winning. Cornstock Week includes: one of 16 finalists competing in the MacLean said he learned Hacky First Annual National Intercollegiate Sick two years ago cn the beaches Today Hacky Sack Championships. cf Galveston, Texas, when he vi3 Jim Wand, hypnotist, at the Ter- at a races at 4:30 Lai ?. JU iMWjfyPy. i f working summcrjob, jnahrolherl p.m., sponsored by the ,t.lu.l some cf his' friends Committee. resident didn't waik awsy vith a facAt lira .: Kaleidoscope ::x::v :v::X',;:::;:;v;::;.;::::::o;:;,;:v'':'::-;:;:;:::.- Photo contest floor championship, MacLean almost gjjyWUiVr display, third v: .M&cLc .13 tliiisk. doubled his personal best at con- ni .dossil t East Union, sponsored by Visual Arts secutive foctbars. Ka ker t ths flacky Sack is i:zt a passir. hi, Committee. The display will continue footbag airborne 734 consecutive thci'h he szii it is s: agonal, e:?c all week. times. His previous best' cf 373 times was enough to gtt him through ''It's a pukr teach game," ha Wednesday the UNL and regional levels and said. "Around here, it's more cf a Western Week Games, 2 p.m., qualify for the se paid trip summer game," sponsored by Main Events Committee. to the national finals. MacLean said the foctbag work to foot coordination MacLean said the national colle- helps develop Thursday and ifpracticed enough is similar to Hot Shandy, musical comediannes, giate champion in this event had a IrunniBg at the Terraces at 4:30 score of about 4,880. .as:exerdsai:;:ll p.m., sponsored He said the g3me is hard to learn, by Kaleidoscope Committee. The national best is professional but once it is learned it is addictive. "Country," the movie held Under with starring by Andy 21,135 He said that at first members cf Sam Sheppard and Jessica Lange, in consecutive kicks. MacLean said . his fraternity, Delta Upsilon, wer- the Great Plains Room at 7:30 and 9:30 that's about four hours of L footbag- en't very involved with it. Cut now v.. p.m., sponsored by the Sights and MacLean said Linder was at ging. about 20 men footbag regularly. Sounds Committee. Admission is $1.50. the national finals and did the MacLean said he worked with for final rounds of con- counting the Hacky Sacks (different sizes for dif- secutive kicks. Friday ferent events) about four hours a Cornstock XV, from 12:30 to 5:30 travels exhibi- Under and does day preparing for the national p.m. in the Cornstock Meadows. tions for Wham-- 0 Mfg. Co., makers championships. He competed with Bands performing this year are Caribe, of Sack and Frisbee disc. Hacky the the best college footbaggers from Sierra and Boys With Toys, sponsored Wham-O- , with associa- together the Illinois, Florida, Oregon, California, David DourkeDiiiy Httr2.3i.9n by Dances and Cornstock committees. tion of Unions College International Washington, Iowa, Michigan, Ten- Hike HacLean demonstrates some free-styl- e foctl; & Admission to Cornstock XV is a can the Sack cham- sponsored Hacky nessee, Massachusetts and Pennsyl- the Delta Upsilcn courtyard. RIjicLesn was cna cTIC jUncJLls of food. The canned food gained from pionships. vania. ..in the first IZacky Sack CAsripiasships l;.zi wrnlMMir: the event will be donated to Nebraska communities, Lovegrove said. Krokos, Accept assault Omaha Foreign metal impales head-bange- rs By Troy Park Dirkschneider is not the stereo-typ- e of Staff Reporter the metal lead singer. .He clothes his overweight body in Army camoufloge Omaha was blessed with the sounds and combat boots. of not one, but two European heavy metal bands Saturday night at the But looks are forgotten when Dirk-schneide- Music Hall. high-pitche-d scream slices the air. He has a voice similiar to Both Krokus, the headliner, and ACDC's Brian Johnson only with far Accept, the opener, assaulted the crowd more punch. of screaming fans with a non-sto-p bar- rage of heavy rock. Punch is a good description of Accept's performance Saturday. The forceful thunderous rock beat listen- ers. It had the whole crowd, as well as V the band, banging their heads to the beat and waving their fists in the air. Accept was a tough act to follow, but Although much smaller than the Krokus, the metal maniacs from Swit- Civic Auditorium, the Music Hall made zerland, didn't seem to care, coming up for its lack of size with a murky out and giving the audience a show atmosphere perfect for the event. Black packed with great rock. walls, balconies and air thick with smoke, the Music Hall had the feel of a Krokus lead guitarist Fernando von 1930s horror movie set in Transylvania Arb's cocky smile, outlined by bleached-- . with werewolves and vampires running blonde hair and big nose, was the best about. indication that Krokus was enjoying its headlining tour in the United States. Accept brought this feeling to higher A levels when it te set. After a few measures of metal began its pure David bourkeUaily Nebreskan loud. The Accept played tight and jamming enhanced by fog machines, Krokus members MarkKoMer and Fernando von Arb assaulted the audience second-mi-x was and the music Krokus toie into Saturday night perfect "Tonight Long Stick in Omaha's Music Hall with an onslaught of heavy metal. was driving. Goes Boom" to kick things off. The fans had time to breath Mark hit-sing- barely catch their rhythm guitarist Kohler, bassist All and le Night" latest "Mid- mask looked incredibly real, finalizing when lead vocalist Marc "The Voice" Andy Tanas and drummer Jeff Klaven. Maniac." Led by foreman Udo Dirkschneider, night the horror-movi- e cf Music Storace introduced the band's version The wrhole bsnd rocked with setting the Accept has a look not found in any together Krokus gave two burning encores Hall. of Sweet's classic "Ballroom Blitz." The no member above the other metal or domestic. standing others. before calling it a night. "Eat The As band, foreign crowd went wild. "The Blitz" the house lights flick on, many Krokus' Things mellowed a bit as the band Klav-en'- Rich" was the first, followed by s ears were from of Tour hit Omaha. In The and ringing the onslaught played "Screaming Night" lengthy drum solo. Then, the metal. Both Krokus showed The center of this look is Dirksch- "Our Love" before into and Accept crashing songs topper, "Headhunter" complete with the American crowd 5Vi-fe- et that neider. --tall, Along with Storace and von Arb were like To Rock," "Staved Awake Europeans Standing barely "Ready Storace sporting a werewolf mask. The can rock too..