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UNL’sHousing director should resign

At what point is some-thing so damaged, it’s be-yond the point of fixing?

Is it when student em-ployees are prompted to lie to their peers and fel-low residents? Is it when, at worst, a university department actively with-holds information from students about infestations that could affect them, and at best, fails to distrib-ute information accurately?

If it’s any of the above, the Daily Nebraskan edito-rial board declares Univer-sity Housing at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, directed by Sue Gilder-sleeve since fall 2011, be-yond fixing. Gildersleeve, as the head of University Housing amidst a series of lies and misinformation regarding a recent bedbug outbreak, should resign.

In a Jan. 23 editorial, the DN criticized Hous-ing’s late response to the appearance of bedbugs in Abel Hall and The Village. Housing failed to release any public information to students until after the DN and several local news outlets had already cov-ered the situation.

The same day, Action 3 News Omaha arrived on campus to ask students directly, “Is the univer-sity trying to hide ... this problem?”

At first, it may not have seemed so — at least not so clearly. Housing stood behind a mantra of wanting to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. Though hiding a spreadable infestation for any reason should raise an eyebrow, the Housing statement seemed at least plausible.

We now know that is not the case. Housing actively withheld informa-tion on bedbugs at UNL, even after beginning daily updates. It disseminated reports understating the level of infestation in the Selleck 8000 building and instructed a resident assis-tant to lie to her residents.

According to testimony and emails provided by Selleck 8200 resident as-sistant Amanda Wekesser in today’s story, Housing officials instructed her to not inform the rest of her floor that her room

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Arrived on campus for spring RA training and received nas-ty bites on her neck, arms, legs, back and shoulders. “At first, i thought it was some sort of allergic reaction to the swimming pool,” said Amanda Wekesser, a Selleck 8200 resident assistant.

found what she believed to be a mite crawling on her futon and killed it. Another live “mite” was on a notebook, which Wekesser caught and put in a Styrofoam cup. “i had some clear Saran wrap and i taped it over so it wouldn’t get away,” she said.

1:38 a.m.: Emailed corrine Gernhart, Selleck residence director, about finding mites and getting bitten up. “Would it be possible to have someone check it out? if i need to, i can show you the bug if it doesn’t escape overnight,” Amanda wrote.

late morning: Amanda brought live bug to facilities and received laundry card to thoroughly do all laundry.

Afternoon: moved to another room on the same floor and said she was advised by Gernhart to put a note on her door saying repairs were occurring in her room.

morning: Brooks Exterminating Service checked the room, found more live bugs. Sprayed a few things, but did not treat the room, Amanda said. heat treatment was ad-vised.

12:26 p.m.: Emails Gernhart asked if she could write a letter to her residents. “i don’t want to make my residents panic or anything, but they said that they’re going to be do-ing the heating method on my room, and it’ll be hard to hide the problem when the entire hallway and surrounding rooms feel as if they’re in a sauna,” Wekesser wrote to her supervi-sor.

Sue Gildersleeve, director of university housing, emailed first notification of bedbugs and updated students about where bedbugs had been confirmed. “We in university housing want to actively communicate with you about this: What we’re doing, and what you can do, to manage this sit-uation. Your comfort is our top concern, and we promise to involve you in this process.”

Bedbugs reported in an Abel hall room

morning: heat treatment scheduled for Saturday. 2:22 p.m.: Amanda’s father, tom Wekesser sent email to

housing asking for specific details of bedbugs found in Sell-eck.

9:09 p.m.: tom responded to Gildersleeve, writing that his questions could be addressed by email.

Evening: Amanda informed the rest of her RA staff of the situation via text message. “i wrote a note on both of my doors saying that it had been confirmed: my room had live bedbugs,” Amanda said. A note was also added to her floor’s private facebook group page. She took photos of bites, which were beginning to heal.

facilities helped her prepare for Saturday’s heat treat-ment.

3:52 p.m.: tom sent a more detailed email with more questions to Gildersleeve.

Afternoon: Gernhart gave permission for Amanda to re-move repairs notes from whiteboards, saying it would be difficult to hide the problem when the exterminators arrive.

Evening: Amanda attempted to inform residents by go-ing door to door about potential noise and heat from room treatment.

11:49 a.m.: Amanda received email draft from Gernhart of official notification to be sent out to her floor to let them know about Saturday’s heat treatment. keith Zaborowski, associate director of Residence life in housing, was also carbon copied to the email.

Plunkett Pest control specialists helped prepare her room for the heat treatment. Amanda said Gernhart told her to erase the note about repairs, because, quoting Gernhart: “‘it’s going to hide the fact when exterminators come.’”

7 a.m.: heat treatment of room.

10:03 a.m.: Gernhart replied to the email, telling Amanda Wekesser to contact facilities about the bugs found. “With so many concerns with bugs lately, i’m guessing they will want to come look around your room and maybe spray the perimeter again since doing so in december.”

Gildersleeve updated unl housing website, informing students bedbugs were confirmed in Abel and a room in the village had been cleared of the problem.

1:54 p.m.: Gernhart responded to Amanda’s email, saying she “wouldn’t recommend sending out a letter but if your residents are asking … you can let them know that facilities is treating the room just to be cautious.”

Gildersleeve updated housing website, saying dogs were taken into Abel to check rooms for bedbugs and that one room in the Selleck 8000 building had a single, dead bed-bug. the room was scheduled to have treatment.

3:04 p.m.: deb Burkey, housing Administration employ-ee, responded to tom Wekesser’s first email. “could you please provide us with your phone number and the director of housing, Sue Gildersleeve will give you a call to discuss your concerns.”

Gildersleeve updated housing website, saying there are no new reports of bedbugs and all confirmed rooms have been treated.

11:33 a.m.: Gildersleeve responded to Wekesser’s first email, writing that one room in the Selleck 8000 building had bedbugs and it had been inspected by a professional exterminator. “i am not able to provide additional informa-tion to you other than the above due to privacy rights of the student.”

(no time stamp, email forwarded from tom Wekesser to his daughter Amanda): Gildersleeve responded to Wekess-er’s email that asked for more details, providing the names of the exterminating companies, Brooks Exterminating Ser-vices and Plunkett Pest control. “the information i have was that a single dead bug was found … We do not offer free treatment for bites, if there were any,” Gildersleeve wrote.

Gildersleeve updated housing website with a summary of where confirmed bedbugs are: Abel 8 and 9, a room in Selleck 8000 “that has bedbugs” and the room in the village that was resolved the week before.

11:49 a.m.: Gernhart sent draft of a notification to send out to Selleck 8200 residents to keith Zaborowski and Amanda, saying it was worth the extra step to email it to the entire floor: “i don’t want them to think we are hiding anything from them when they notice the team on Satur-day morning.” the email included Amanda’s room number and when the heat treatment was occurring. one line about looking into having a dog inspection was asked to be omit-ted by Zaborowski.

12:29 p.m.: Gernhart emailed official notification from Selleck housing to Selleck 8200 residents.

Gildersleeve updated housing website, writing there were no new confirmed bedbug reports and that Abel will be inspected by a dog.

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Since the afternoon of Jan. 23, Amanda Wekesser has not been able to sleep in her own bed, have access to all of her clothes or com-plete her homework.

Wekesser is a Selleck Quadrangle resident assis-tant whose room was in-fested with live bedbugs. And she said she wasn’t al-lowed to tell her residents.

“It’s not fair that I’d be asked to hide this from them,” Wekesser said. “(My residents) could be at risk and not even know it, be-cause Housing is trying to hide it.”

“It’s like the Iron Cur-tain,” she said.

On Jan. 24, University Housing reported on its website that “a single dead bedbug was found” in the Selleck Quadrangle 8000 building.

But Wekesser said what transpired in her room was far from “dead.”

When she came back from winter break for spring RA training on Jan. 6, she said she began noticing bites on her neck, shoulders, back, arms and legs.

“At first, I thought it was some sort of allergic reac-tion to the swimming pool,” Wekesser said. “They start-ed getting better after a couple of days and putting on calamine lotion. I didn’t consider going over to the health center.”

But some of the bites got to be so bad, she used green masking tape on her bites to prevent from scratching as she slept.

Two weeks later, Wekess-er caught two tiny bugs crawling around her room. She killed the first on her futon and caught the sec-ond in a Styrofoam cup. Wekesser taped clear plas-tic wrap over the cup so the bug wouldn’t escape.

She contacted Selleck residence director Corrine Gernhart via email on Jan. 23 about finding what she called “mites” in her room.

“Please contact facilities today and let them know about the bugs in your room,” Gernhart wrote back. “With so many con-cerns with bugs lately, I’m guessing they will want to come look around your room and maybe spray the perimeter again.”

Facilities confirmed the “mite” had all the traits of a baby bedbug and gave Wekesser a laundry card to thoroughly do her laundry, she said. She was moved to a temporary room on a dif-ferent floor.

Brooks Exterminating Ser-vice did not come until Jan. 24, and Wekesser said only a few things were sprayed, not the entire room.

“They figured a heat treatment would be a better option,” she said.

In the days leading up to the heat treatment sched-uled for Jan. 28, Wekesser said she asked about hold-ing a floor meeting or send-ing a letter to her residents. The answer was no.

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ASUN eLectioNS 2012party party focused on improving communication with student government, university organizations

impact party aims to increase graduation rates, bring student community together

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If elected, the members of the Party Party will likely have red Solo Cups tattooed somewhere on their bodies, possibly roller skate around campus for 24 hours and maybe Solo Cup (like fork-ing but with red Solo Cups) University of Nebraska-Lin-coln Chancellor Harvey Perl-man’s front lawn. If elected, the Party party may not be a typical administration.

Party was originally start-ed as a joke by Kate Miller, a sophomore philosophy major and the party’s presi-dential candidate. However, frustration with actual is-sues shifted the party into a more serious tone with its announcement of two main issues on their politi-cal platform: Association of Students of the University of Nebraska accessibility and student support.

“I’m involved in a couple other RSOs (Registered Stu-dent Organizations) and we have to get our constitu-tion approved by ASUN, but that’s about it,” Miller said. “We went to SORC (Student Organization Representative Council) and felt excluded by that. It just felt exclusive and like we weren’t getting what we needed from this organization that was sitting on most of our money.”

Blake Rostine, internal vice president candidate and sophomore political science and German major, had a shared frustration with ASUN involvement after working with an ASUN-sponsored town hall.

“It’s this large portion of the student body that goes unheard, and for ASUN to actively not listen to them, they just didn’t feel like they listened to them,” Rostine said. “It would be so easy to send a senator to get bet-ter acquainted with students, but they just didn’t.”

Rostine described ASUN as having a “stuffy aura” around them, making them less ac-cessible, which is something the party hopes to com-bat with programs to make themselves more accessible.

“It comes a lot from when we talk to people or about ASUN elections in general and we’re met with this blank expression,” Rostine said. “We want to spon-sor more ASUN events that bring senators and students together so that people can express their concerns.”

According to Miller, ideas like dress-up days and a “pie an ASUN senator in the face” event are being tossed around as ways to improve the link of information be-tween ASUN and the student body.

“When less than 20 percent of the student body votes in ASUN elections, but ASUN gets a majority of our fees, that’s a problem,” said Dil-lon Jones, a sophomore Eng-lish major and external vice president candidate. “ASUN is obviously not doing every-thing in their means to make sure students have the infor-mation they should have.”

The three also ex-pressed their feelings that ASUN wasn’t doing enough to listen to specific groups and assist RSOs, an issue the group hopes to tackle with its second party plat-form. According to Miller, groups like international stu-dents and graduate students often go overlooked.

“Especially the interna-tional students, because their needs are important but su-per different,” Rostine said.

The party also hopes to co-sponsor events with RSOs to better represent what the student body wants. “We just don’t think ASUN should tell people what’s best, we think campus should tell us,” Miller said.

One example of working with RSOs has already been exhibited in the co-sponsor-ing of the Party Party party with the Lumberjack Club planned for Feb. 23.

“We booked the Pershing Center for Feb. 23,” Jones said. “We’re throwing this rager. It’s like a big dance party. The profits will go to the World Energy Group that was formed by UNL stu-dents. We just want to show that we can work together with these student groups for events.”

Though the three are sophomores and ASUN pres-idential candidate Kate Mill-er has never been involved with ASUN, they said they think leadership experiences found elsewhere are enough to qualify themselves for candidacy.

“I’ve never touched ASUN

in my life,” Miller said. “Until now I’ve kept a nice distance from it. But I’ve organized the Secular Humanists Club and once you’ve organized atheists, you can organize anything. It’s like herding cats. I think I’m suited be-cause I’m the most passion-ate — I’ve got the biggest fire under me. I want things to change.”

The other two members, Rostine and Jones, have been involved with ASUN since freshman year as well as with various RSOs like Lincöln and the Queer Ally Coalition.

“What I think is really important is that the ex-ecutives be good with working with people and gathering in-fo rma t ion , ” Jones said. “We under-stand that we don’t know eve ry th ing , but we can find some-

body who can give us a bet-ter perspective. I definitely feel we’re qualified for this.”

While they’re excited to run, they said they recognize the process can be frustrat-ing, especially explaining why they are running as sophomores.

“The whole idea that you have to wait your turn is just wrong,” Miller said.

The election process in general has already been a pain to the party, which was described as “a very hard thing to love,” by Rostine and “like an ugly dog,” by Miller. The three feel that the current system of elections keep only past members of ASUN in senate, something they see in the Impact Party.

“They’re like the same party, the reason is, nobody knows how to run except the people in ASUN,” Rostine said. “It effectively keeps all the power and authority of student government in this concentrated pool of people. No one else knows how to run.”

Miller added that they re-spect the experience their opponents have as well as their opinions, but the Party Party is very different.

“If you put the same peo-ple in office, you’ll get the same results,” Rostine said.

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Though they admit it to be a bit cliched, Impact hopes to have just that on campus — an impact. All three juniors of the Impact Party can point to a passion for the organization as a reason they’re running in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections on March 7.

“I felt that my best way to give back to this university was to serve as president,” said Eric Kamler, Impact’s presidential candidate and a junior agricultural economics major. “I started looking for peo-ple that would complete me and we work together well. I started with ASUN as a way to serve the stu-dent body and we feel like we’ve made a big impact with what we’ve done.”

The Impact Party is running with three major platforms: aca-demics, outreach and student life. Under each of those plat-forms, they have a larger proj-ect they hope to implement to improve the condition of that issue.

“We want to reach out and better improve the line of communication between the university and students,” said Kyle Wroblewski, Impact’s external vice president can-didate and a junior civil en-gineering major. “One way we’re looking at is a Husker iPhone app. There’s one now, but it’s not very well done and it’s hard to use.”

According to Wroblewski, the app would feature bus route information, maps of campus and an events calen-dar that students could have “at their fingertips.”

In addition, the group has set an academic goal that would help the university’s goal of getting the four-year-graduation rate up from 64 percent to 70 percent by 2017. Impact hopes to do this by creating a general studies advisory board comprised of current and past general stud-ies students that would focus on general studies students’ specific needs.

“This would help students deciding where to go in their academic career,” said Kait-lin Mazour, Impact’s internal

vice president candidate and a junior English and history major. “We feel if we focus on general studies students and where they feel engaged and purposeful, then they’ll feel more inclined to gradu-ate. With focusing on gen-eral studies students, we feel we’re going to be making a bigger impact on (Perlman’s goal of 70 percent).”

The last point the Impact Party feels is important is student life involvement, es-pecially within athletics and student spirit.

“I had the chance, along with Kyle, to serve as New

Student En-r o l l m e n t l e a d e r s , ” Kamler said. “We were able to ask the students how many f r e s h m e n had gotten tickets, usu-ally only one out of ten had got-ten tickets and that was a huge part of my f r e s h m a n

experience.”Kamler explained that they

hope to continue the work of “Take Back Gameday,” and continue improved commu-nication with the athletic de-partment. The party hopes to form a committee of ASUN senators for communications.

“We see this with the new arena going up and the bas-ketball team going there,” Mazuor said. “We just want to be part of the seating discus-sion.”

While these three events are the ones Impact empha-sizes, Kamler added there are “many smaller platforms” un-der the core issues. It’s these core issues that Mazour said sets their party apart from the Party Party.

“I think they have good ideas, but as part of being part of ASUN, it’s hard to see them as being things that would yield results,” Mazour said.

The Impact group also points to its members’ past experiences in the organiza-tion as being an important factor for why they should be ASUN executives.

“They do spark a good tone by being the outside group because that’s really what they are marketing them-selves as, but I think it takes a knowledge of what ASUN

does,” Kamler said. “Their party platforms, a few have been done before, but as Kai-tlin said, I think it’ll be hard for them to do. None of them have served on senate, Kate never being in ASUN at all. It’ll be tough for them if they do get elected.”

Of the group, Wroblews-ki is the only member who hasn’t served as an ASUN senator, but he has served on the Government Liaison Committee and on the Big Event operation staff.

“One of the biggest reasons I wanted to run was initially Eric here,” Wroblewski said. “I really just found a love for working with college stu-dents. I offer an outside point of view of ASUN.”

Kamler and Mazour, on the other hand, have served with ASUN since being Fresh-man Campus Leadership As-sociates. Kamler now is on the ASUN senate as the GLC chair.

“On Sept. 11, the 9/11 tenth anniversary event, it was just kind of the huge feeling of ‘Wow, I’ve made a difference through ASUN,’” Kamler said. “That’s why we’re running: passion.”

Mazour also serves on ASUN as the arts and sciences chair. Though she can point to experience as a reason she would make a good candi-date, she also names a love of the organization as a driving factor.

“I think, what I love about ASUN is it’s such a broad or-ganization that literally every organization is represented,” Mazour said. “Every one of the people involved has a unique passion and ASUN provides an opportunity to use their talents, their skills to better UNL. I just fell in love with the opportunity to pro-vide those opportunities and that’s what made me want to help lead it.”

In the months to come, the group hopes to have a gen-eral studies round table and pizza social on Wednesday at 5 p.m. in Abel Hall, two downtown keg events for 21-and-older voters and a dance party on Feb. 16 with music, soda, a fog machine and laser lights.

While the majority of press goes to the executive candi-dates, Mazour stressed the im-portance that the three were three of a 50-some group.

“Each of them is just as important to the success of ASUN,” Mazour said.

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BEthAnY Schmidt | dAilY nEBRASkAnFrom left: party party candidates blake rostine, Kate Miller and Dillion Jones.

BEthAnY Schmidt | dAilY nEBRASkAnFrom left: impact party candidates eric Kamler, Kyle wroblewski and Kaitlin Mazour.

DILLON JONESsophomore english major and

external vice president candidate

We understand that we don’t know everything, but we can find somebody who can give us a better perspective.

KAITLIN MAzOURimpact internal vice president

candidate and junior english and history major

We feel if we focus on general studies students and where they feel engaged and purposeful, then they’ll feel more inclined to graduate.

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committee to hear taxi-fare billJAcy MArMADUKe

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If you need to take a quick trip on a taxicab, be pre-pared to shell out some cash.

Because the first mile will ring up at $9.25 — before tip.

That’s more than double the rate for major American cities like New York, Wash-ington, D.C., and Chicago.

“I can’t even afford that,” said legislative assistant Ni-cole Kanne. “And students certainly don’t have that kind of money.”

Sen. Bill Avery of Lincoln wants to lower those “out-rageous” rates and open up the field for more competi-tion in the taxicab industry with LB 889. The bill’s hear-ing with the Transportation Committee will take place today at 1:30 p.m. in Room 1113 at the State Capitol Building. Students are en-couraged to attend.

“It’s important for them to participate in pub-lic transportation issues,” Kanne said. “This is their

government, too, so they should come on down and tell their stories.”

Although a search for Lin-coln taxicab companies will yield three different busi-nesses, Avery said the same man owns all of them — and he’s been “riding the gravy train for far too long.”

“The Public Service Com-mission, either wittingly or unwittingly, has been par-ticipating in the creation of and the maintenance of a monopoly in Lincoln,” Avery said. “We have to change that.”

Current laws favor exist-ing taxicab companies be-cause they make it difficult to obtain a permit for a new taxicab business and compete in the industry. Avery’s bill would change the permitting process. As of Jan. 19, six new taxicab companies have applied for permits since Avery in-troduced LB 889 on Jan. 9. He said that kind of variety in the market would ben-efit downtown traffic, the disabled and students who need a ride home after a

late night of studying or a night at the bars.

“If Lincoln wants to be a grown-up city, we’ve got

to have grown-up servic-es,” Avery said.

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Abel-Sandoz Resi-dence centerA room on floor 10 was treated as a precau-tion on Jan. 27 and a bedbug-sniffing dog went through floors eight and nine on Jan. 28. Four rooms were identified on floor nine, three rooms on floor eight and one room on floor seven. All floors were sprayed by exterminators and only one room had more than one area with bedbugs. Four areas in the Abel and Sandoz welcome center and lobbies were identi-fied. the furniture was pulled out and the vicinity of each area was sprayed.No rooms have been reported in Sandoz, but rooms will be checked.

Pound hallAn exterminator was called when a stu-dent on a lower floor of pound caught a bug. initially, it was not possible to deter-mine whether or not it was a bedbug and the room was treated just in case. the next day, an entomologist examined the bug and discovered it was not a bedbug.

Selleck quadranglethe heat treatment was performed on the room in the 8200 block of Selleck on Jan. 28. on Monday night, a bedbug-sniffing dog was brought in to check the entire 8200 block and common areas. the dog was also sent to Selleck 6100 to check only the rA’s room, suspected to have bedbugs.

Phi delta thetathe house was con-firmed to have bed-bugs in two of the rooms. A dog in-spected the rooms and a heat treatment was ordered on Jan. 26 and Jan. 27. No other bugs have been found since the treatments.

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The Intercultural Dialog Group will make its debut at University of Nebraska-Lincoln today. The group hopes to promote conver-sation among the various cultures and backgrounds at UNL and the surrounding community.

This is a chance for

students to become famil-iar with other students from different cultures, Ebrahim said.

Dr. Ferhat Ozturk, a post-doctoral research associate at University of Nebraska Medical Center, helped es-tablish the group. He said understanding the cultures that exist off campus is just as important as the cultures that exist on campus.

And this could help in-ternational students too, he said.

“This will help strengthen understanding of students from different cultures,” he said. Ozturk said the group can invest its energy to pro-mote a “dialogue of civiliza-tions.” He added that under-standing can be obtained through tolerance and mu-tual respect.

“We wanted to focus on common values,” he said.

The idea for an open-ing ceremony came when the group found that there would be no spring Regis-tered Student Organization Fair. Planning for the event was done at weekly meet-ings and through email and phone correspondence. The event was also promoted by the group during lunch

time in the Nebraska Union through the use of Ashure/Noah’s Pudding, a dessert served during the first month of the Islamic calendar.

The group will also part-ner with various intercul-tural groups, including the Niagara Foundation, a non-profit, interfaith organiza-tion headquartered in Chi-cago.

Ozturk said the opening

ceremony is titled “Diversity within the University” and future events will project this.

“A peaceful future can only be obtained by know-ing each other,” he said.

The Intercultural Dialog Group will be meeting all day in the Colonial Room in the Nebraska Union.

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contained bedbugs. Housing then went on to publish a falsified version of events that downplayed the severity of the infestation.

The number of lies is appalling. First, Wekesser was told to not inform her residents of a bedbug outbreak occurring on their floor, despite expressing a desire to do so to Gernhart. Housing’s excuse of wanting to pro-tect the individuals involved no longer holds.

Second, Gildersleeve reported a single dead bedbug when there were in fact multiple live ones. Whether the information wasn’t passed on to her by Gernhart or she chose not to reveal it, the situation is inexcusable. As the Housing director, it is her responsibility to be informed as well as honest.

As the Housing director and the Selleck 8000 resi-dence director continuously spread misinformation, the students living on Wekesser’s floor had no idea to be cautious of bedbugs. Indeed, just Monday afternoon, Kristin Pokorny, a freshman meteorology major and resident on 6100, said she got a message on Facebook from her RA. The RA informed her residents that she had found an unconfirmed bedbug in her room. Hous-ing sent a dog Monday evening to check only the RA’s room.

In this case, the pests are relatively harmless, al-though so difficult to get rid of, they can necessitate disposing of clothes and property. But at this point, students can no longer trust Housing to accurately report any infestation that could potentially damage its reputation.

Two years ago, University Housing promptly in-formed students of an increased brown recluse spider population around campus. Were a similarly dangerous situation to occur again, the current Housing adminis-tration could not be trusted to disseminate the informa-tion accurately.

Also appalling is the fact that Facilities merely gave Wekesser a laundry card to wash her own clothes after confirming her bites had “all the traits of a baby bed-bug.” Bedbugs are notoriously difficult to kill; without proper oversight, Wekesser’s bedbug situation essen-tially went unchecked.

Worse still, Wekesser’s problem appears to only be the last in a long line of resident assistants left feel-ing impotent to help their residents and intimidated by Housing. Wekesser echoed other RAs who’ve approach the DN with unpublished bedbug information through-out the past week when she expressed concern about speaking on record for fear of losing her job.

Wekesser said she is currently “debating quitting be-cause I know the fallout is going to be bad.”

She went on to characterize employment within Housing as “like the Iron Curtain.”

The cause for Wekesser’s worry: Housing’s apparent desire to reveal as little information about bedbugs as possible.

For all these reasons, the DN suggests Gildersleeve’s resignation. If she truly believed there to only be one dead bedbug in Selleck 8000 — if she truly believed the room had been fully treated before it was — the current Housing administration is guilty of gross mis-communication. And students face increased risk of infestation because of it. If she was responsible for handing down orders to lie to residents, as Gernhart was, resignation is not a subject of debate. Either way, she has headed a University Housing that, in the last five months alone, has bred a culture of intimidation and an inability to communicate effectively to students. There is no coming back from that.

To facilitate complete transparency from this point out, the DN has made a public records request for all emails sent to or from Housing staff pertaining to bed-bugs since before the semester began.

From Gildersleeve at the top, to assistant residence life director Keith zaborowski, who was carbon cop-ied on many of Wekesser’s emails, to Gernhart, who Wekesser says told her to lie directly, it seems apparent that it is time for Housing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to clean house.

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She said her instructions were to tell her residents her room was under ex-tensive repairs, and only if her residents asked her.

“So I wrote it down brief-ly (on both of my doors) so I was doing what they said and so I could think about it,” Wekesser said.

In an email, Gernhart wrote that she wouldn’t recommend Wekesser sending a letter to her res-idents.

“If your residents are asking and you feel OK sharing, you can let them know that facilities is treating the room just to be cautious,” G e r n h a r t wrote.

But the deal was W e k e s s e r could only inform her r e s i d e n t s if she was asked direct-ly.

We k e s s e r said on Jan. 25 she wrote on both her temporary and original rooms’ doors that her room had been confirmed: It had bedbugs.

She also posted a note on her group’s pri-vate Facebook page and slipped notes under a few of her residents’ doors.

“I am not dirty or nasty,” she wrote on her doors. “I feel that y’all should know about the situation though. I would want to know what was going on if I were in your position.”

Wekesser only left the notes on the board long enough for her residents to see them and before a Housing employee could notice the notes.

“I’m willing to lose my job if need be, because this isn’t right for them to not let the truth be known,” Wekesser said. “I don’t think it’s right.”

On Jan. 27, Gernhart sent a draft email to Wekesser, Residence Life associate director Keith zaborowski and two others. The email told Wekesser’s residents that “one dead bed bug was found” in Wekesser’s room and a heat treatment would occur the next morning.

Gernhart wrote that the

email needed to be sent because “I don’t want them to think we are hid-ing anything from them when they notice the team on Saturday morning.”

Gernhart said she did not have time to talk to the Daily Nebraskan Mon-day and was also not al-lowed to comment. za-borowski also declined to be interviewed.

Unlike in Abel, Wekess-er said no dogs were led through Selleck 8200 be-fore or after her heat treatment. A dog did go through the rooms on Sell-eck 8200 on Monday —

Jan. 30 — a week after We k e s s e r r e p o r t e d bedbugs.

No floor m e e t i n g s were held for her res-idents ei-ther.

Sue Gild-e r s l e e v e , director of Univers i ty H o u s i n g ,

was not available for an in-person interview on Monday, because she was out of town at an unspeci-fied conference until Feb. 6.

In a telephone inter-view, Gildersleeve said she was reluctant to say much about the situation in Selleck.

“I was told very specifi-cally that they found a sin-gle, dead bedbug on the futon,” she said.

“It might look like a cover-up,” Gildersleeve said. “We’re just trying to protect the student.”

Gildersleeve referenced Wekesser, but did not use Wekesser’s name at any point in the interview. Gildersleeve said she could not comment on what happened between Gernhart and Wekesser.

“If anything like that was done, it was done to help keep that student from feeling embarrassed,” she said.

Gildersleeve said she asked other chief housing officers at the conference how they would handle a bedbug situation on their campus. She said she was told that they would work with the students

directly, and only if there was a cluster of rooms would they hold a floor meeting.

“Quite honestly, I be-lieve Housing has done everything possible to work with students when bedbugs are present,” Gildersleeve said.

Last weekend, Wekesser went against Gernhart’s orders to not openly dis-cuss the bedbug situation with residents, because she felt it was the right thing to do. She told her residents about the bed-bug situation in person. Wekesser held a non-man-datory floor meeting Sun-day afternoon to inform her residents about what happened.

Her father and a UNL alumnus, Tom Wekesser, was present for the meet-ing.

Tom said Amanda has been keeping him in-formed of her bedbug sit-uation on campus, even if Housing had not.

“I know what’s going on, so to hear what’s coming down and what you read in the paper, it’s just like whoa,” Tom said. “What’s being reported is not what I know to be true.”

Tom said he believes somewhere in the system, someone knows what is going on.

He said he was con-cerned that Housing re-ported it as a “single, dead bedbug.”

“I don’t know anything dead that bites,” Tom said.

One resident, who pre-ferred to remain anony-mous, said she had her room inspected for bed-bugs just in case and the room across the hall was also worried about bed-bugs.

“I feel like … we’re pay-ing tuition for Housing,” she said. “They should be able to disclose everything to us, because we need to know what’s going on.”

Wekesser said the bed-bug incident has taken a toll on how she views her job as an RA.

“I’m honestly debating quitting because I know the fallout is going to be bad,” she said Monday night. “It’s going to be a living hell for me.”

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Liberal arts majors are delud-ing themselves. Or at least, that’s what society would have you believe. Having a major in English or philoso-phy often results in either

scoffing or “So what are you going to do with that?” I usually hesitate to state my major unless asked. Majoring in film studies, for most people, is like majoring in cat petting. Cute and en-tertaining, but immature past age six. For some reason, people believe that only bankable majors will get a good job. The joke’s on the naysayers: Lib-eral arts majors don’t actually want a job at all.

But why would anyone want to be unemployed? Actually, there are many benefits to unemployment for the liberal arts major.

1. Woe equals artistic gold. As I’ve written previously, a sob story is the best way to people’s hearts. Job op-portunities for majors in studio art or film production are far from secure. A number of interesting events could result, including unemployment, homelessness or just simple woe. But the acquirement of such harrow-ing experiences can be turned into a tragic movie or painting. There’s still no guarantee people will pay atten-tion, but at least you’ll have good art, right?

2. Even if there is no money to be made from art now, people might think it’s brilliant when you die. It could even make millions, like Vin-cent Van Gogh, or become a standard in academia, like Sylvia Plath. Obvi-ously, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy it, but you could leave a legacy and money behind for your family. Or for a money-grubbing businessman.

Either way, the legacy is what counts. 3. Being unemployed would leave

all the free time in the world, which would allow time to perfect your craft. Eventually you’d become a true expert at your field. Such dedication might not pay the rent, but at least your extensive knowledge of com-parative literature or Thelonius Monk would dazzle people.

4. You’ll never be accused of be-ing a sell-out. The whole point of selling out is to make a fair penny off of your work. This problem is guaranteed to be solved by unem-ployment. People always accuse their favorite actor or band of selling-out when they do more commercial work or become popular. Somehow, that shows they aren’t serious about their craft. Being unemployed is synony-mous with dedication to art. Further-more, instead of having a horde of fair-weather fans, you’d have a few devoted ones. It’s all about quality over quantity.

5. If people know that you’re will-ingly unemployed, they’ll definitely think you’re crazy. For an artist, insanity is almost a requirement, and usually insanity helps with the actual creative process. Why would it be important to be crazy? Like almost everything else in life, appearances

are important. If you aren’t mon-etarily successful as an artist, then at least you can have the appearance of success. Everyone knows that artists are supposed to be crazy, and unem-ployment would be a logical result. You could probably get away with so much because you’re that crazy artist. Think of the possibilities!

6. Unemployment could lead you to live at your parents’ house. I know that sounds like a terrible idea, but hear me out. Nice, loving parents probably want to support you. You could avoid real responsibility for that much longer, until they even-tually get tired of it. Even if your parents aren’t nice, or you don’t like them, they would probably at least feel obligated to help out. Sapping them of their funds would be a fitting revenge. Artists are all about sticking it to the man.

7. Pure laziness. Clearly, artists don’t have the energy to get a real job. Unemployment is preferable to making a real effort. Plus, how else is an artist supposed to get 12 hours of sleep a night?

Basically, people shouldn’t judge those who are in the arts because there’s nothing to judge. Unemploy-ment is the best way to go to achieve good art. In fact, employment in general is overrated. The employed don’t know real pain. If you can’t enjoy suffering, then what’s the point of living? Anyone who doesn’t agree just doesn’t get it.

For those of you who do, take pride. You have better things to do than make money.

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I’m concerned about seeing so many illiterate people on Facebook. At first, I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking it was OK to shorten words in a hurry.

However, it’s gotten out of control.

The misuse of “your” and “you’re” is frustrating. It’s even worse when words like “thru” and “rite” are in these updates.

Abbreviating words comes as naturally to people as shortening names, but shortening a name doesn’t put the English language to shame the way texting and Facebook do.

When I was in school, my Eng-lish teacher pounded the differ-ences among “there,” “their” and “they’re” into my brain. I don’t think teachers are getting lazier. I would imagine they have been stepping up their game with the economy being tough. So why can’t people write correctly?

I’m not asking for people to start getting in shape. Shaking off that kind of laziness actually takes effort.

Taking the time to spell out the word “through,” on the other

hand, doesn’t. Convenience plays a huge

part. Facebook and texting al-low people to talk to each other without having to make a phone call or drive across town to see someone face to face.

I’m all about convenience. I don’t know what I would do without a microwave or a cell phone. But are modern tech-nologies and advances helping if things such as proper grammar are beginning to suffer?

I’m honestly curious how the abuse of language is happen-ing. Do people feel because they don’t have to work as hard at things like communicating or cooking, they don’t have to work as hard when typing out a single sentence?

I understand the occasional mishap. Maybe posts are mis-spelled because a Friday night went better than expected. How-ever, the repeated offenders need to step up their game.

I don’t expect everyone to write like an author or a colum-nist. They don’t have to complete some great work of literary art to get my respect. I just want

them to take two seconds to spell “right” and “write” correctly.

Even as I write this, the first five posts in my Facebook feed have the letter “n” being used in place of “and,” and another post using “yu” instead of “you.”

I’m guilty of adding a couple extra letters onto the end of a word to express excitement, or putting a word in all caps for em-phasis. I have no problem with people who manipulate words a bit to express emotion. Some-times you almost have to.

There’s a huge different be-tween “I can’t wait” and “I can’t wait!”

However, I don’t believe inten-tionally spelling “with” without an “h” on the end helps get an emotion across. I’ve been trying

to think of ways to stop it. I’m worried younger generations will see words being misused or misspelled and think it’s OK, or worse, think it’s normal. Sadly, I haven’t been able to come up with anything. I just want people to realize a lot can be said for a person who takes the time to understand and think about what goes on their Facebook. It’s true posting a status doesn’t need to take the same time and thought as writing a paper, but people are more respected and look more intelligent when their pages follow simple grammar rules.

Something needs to be done. If people continue to abuse some-thing as simple as using the right form of “where,” it’s not going to stop there.

English teachers all across the U.S. are going to start ripping their hair out and forbidding their own children from having Facebook pages. A simple essay will take the form of a horrific jumble of letters trying to get a point across.

If people can’t write, if they can’t take the time to spell out a three-letter word, everything else

is going to suffer. No one will want to put in the effort to be a doctor, a politician, a psychiatrist or any other profession.

I’m not only concerned about future generations, although I think what they observe from us will play a huge part in their lives, I’m also really worried about my generation.

What happened to people my age that made them decide it wasn’t worth their time to create a sentence out of actual words?

Facebook isn’t just for social purposes between friends any-more. The content of a Facebook page can be seen by everyone from employers to future in-laws. Even if you don’t want to write as a profession, an employer isn’t going to hire you if you can’t spell, no matter what position you apply for.

Facebook post: “wow ppl need 2 learn sum respect like seri-ously.”

Wow, people need to stop Facebook illiteracy. Like, seri-ously.

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HHS Mandate violates religious principles, constitution › EditoR’s notE: the follow-ing letter refers to a Health and Human services mandate requiring all health insurance providers cover contraceptives free of co-pay. some catholic-tied health-care institutions and providers affected by the mandate have debated it for forcing them to provide contraceptives they say violate religious beliefs, cit-ing first-week abortifacients in particular.I am a Catholic college stu-dent, and I am writing in re-sponse to Zach Smith’s article about the recent Health and Human Services mandate giv-en by HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius that will force Catho-lics across the U.S. to provide abortifacients, violating their consciences and Constitu-tional rights. Even if you don’t agree with our stance on abor-tion, please hear me out and admit that Sibelius’s mandate violates an individual’s Con-stitutional rights.

Let’s start with religion and move our way to science. Chemical contraceptives do terrible things to a woman’s body. The day-to-day side ef-fects alone cause 50 percent of women to stop taking the pill within the first year and those who continue taking it suf-fer from increased irritability, increased depression, weight gain and a reduced libido. I don’t need to be having sex to know that those things would not make me want to have more sex. More serious side ef-fects include fatal blood clots, breast cancer, cervical cancer and infertility. Official Church doctrine preaches against all kinds of birth control because, first and foremost, they are dangerous to women.

Zach Smith was correct in saying that the Catholic Church is all about procre-ation, because, let’s just be honest, sex makes babies and Catholics love babies. The Catholic Church is in favor of married people having sex because it hormonally unites them and because God said it was good. The Catholic Church is not against sex. In fact, one of the most celebrated feast days in the Church calen-dar is the Immaculate Concep-tion, which celebrates the fact that St. Ann and St. Joachim had sex and conceived Mary, the Mother of God. You know what else the Catholic Church loves? Life. All forms, not just babies, but every single stage in between. Try and find another organization that has founded more charities or gives more to those in need. In 2002 there were over 1,400 U.S. Catholic Charities in the form of soup kitchens, shelters, child care

and adoptive services, and refu-gee resettlement. The Catholic Church is strongly opposed to euthanasia, domestic violence, the death penalty, rape, homi-cide and every act that denies a person the right to life.

But more importantly, the HHS mandate goes way be-yond the Catholic Church’s stance on birth control and abortions. The Obama ad-ministration is attempting to violate rights that are promised in the First Amendment. The First Amendment explicitly states that no laws will be made that prohibit the free exercise of religion. By imposing and enforcing this mandate, the Obama administration is forc-ing Catholics to act against their consciences and, in doing so, is violating the Constitution. Sebelius allows the Catholic Church the smallest of loop-holes. If an organization’s sole purpose is teaching the faith, and only employs people of that faith, and only ministers to those of that faith, the HHS mandate does not apply. There is no Catholic organization that falls under this category. Jesus himself would not be eligible for this exception be-cause he ministered to those outside of his own religion. Also, refusing to hire or serve anyone outside of your faith sounds a lot like discrimina-tion; probably because that is the definition of discrimina-tion. “The Amish do not carry health insurance. The govern-ment respects their principles. Christian Scientists want to heal by prayer alone, and the new health-care reform law respects that,” stated Arch-bishop Timothy Dolan in re-sponse to the mandate.

In a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is quoted as saying that the Constitution does not allow “government interference with an internal church decision that affects the faith and mission of the church itself.”

Regardless of your be-liefs, how you feel about the Catholic Church or how you feel about Obama, no true Catholic and no true Ameri-can can support this mandate. It is fundamentally against ev-erything the United States was founded on and infringes on the rights of individuals across our nation. If you are opposed to this mandate, please feel free to visit this website http://www.nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=292 and tell your representatives. Who knows, if this pattern of disregarding the Constitution continues, your favorite cause might be on the chopping block next.

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Each Monday evening, a group of talented musicians from different bands join forces to create a funky style of blues music at Zoo Bar.

This music collective, known as the Zoo Bar House Band, plays each Monday at 7 p.m. for an ongoing series called Blues Mondays. Pete Waters, who is in charge of booking at the Zoo Bar, helps make this event happen each week.

“it’s been great,” said Waters. “We’ve really been having fun with it.”

The House Band members include Levi William, Josh Hoyer from son of ’76 and the Watchmen, Jeff Boehmer from the Lil’ slim Blues Band and Kris Lager from the Kris Lager Band.

“(The band) has some of the best players in Lincoln,” Waters said.

Though all of these musi-cians play their own music, most of them in blues/soul bands, they have been play-ing together for a while. They enjoy collaborating to play some tunes and, occa-sionally, do some recording.

Blues Mondays began in January, which turned out to be a fairly difficult time for the Zoo Bar to begin a new series.

“January is always a little tough, especially on Mon-days,” Waters said. “But it’s improving and more people are starting to come.”

At the first few Blues Mondays, 30 to 40 people attend-ed. Waters hopes to see these numbers rise on Mondays moving forward.

“You never see a band with such great guitar players,” Waters said. “They play really well together.”

Kris Lager, who plays guitar and sings in the House

Band, loves joining the other members at the Zoo Bar to perform blues music.

“it’s always nice to meet up with the guys and be able

to play some good tunes,” said Lager. “it’s completely re-laxed and chill, not to mention the Zoo Bar is great.”

Lager takes time out of his schedule of performing,

The Zoo Bar House Band performs blues music on Jan. 16.

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Zoo Bar House Band unites musicians, creates musical collaBoration, fun for tHe community.

Ladysmith black Mambazowhen: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

where: Lied Center for performing artshow much: $25-$35 public, $12.50-$17.50

students

upcoming eventsPrairie Schooner book Prize

Celebrationwhen: Tuesday, 8 p.m.

where: andersen Hall, Room 15how much: Free

Kyrgyzstan: after the revoltwhen: Wednesday, 6 p.m.

where: Mary Riepma Ross Media arts Centerhow much: Free

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Since the late 1960s, Lady-smith Black Mambazo has traveled the world to perform music that tells the stories of their African heritage.

LBM will perform Tues-day at the Lied Center for Performing Arts as part of a worldwide tour promoting their newest release, “Songs from a Zulu Farm,” recently nominated for a Grammy for Best World Music CD.

Based out of South Africa, LBM has been touring inter-nationally for over 40 years. This is their second perfor-mance in Lincoln; the first was in 2005.

The group’s musical style covers everything from folk

to country to traditional Afri-can a capella. LBM combines dance and lyrics to tell stories with their songs, sung in both English and Zulu.

Matthew Boring, the mar-keting and sales coordinator

LBM to relate stories through song, dance performance

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Satchel Grande, a nine-piece Omaha Funk-Rock outfit, is an explosion of musical en-thusiasm, funk and eccentric on-stage attire. And on Feb. 4 they’re bringing their live show to Omaha’s Waiting Room at 9 p.m.

The diabolical pair behind the dance-funk ensemble are long-time friends Chris Klemmensen and Andy Kammerer. The two have been conjuring funk beats on the keyboard, in their vocals and through various percussion instruments since the formation of the group.

Think MGMT meets George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic.

The band’s on-stage attire,

Ron Burgundy-style business suits, portrays a band on a mis-sion to goof off. When the show starts, however, the band’s per-ceived immaturity fades away. While the stage show may ap-pear to be a smorgasbord of improvisation the sets are often meticulously planned.

“Every little thing is planned out,” Kammerer said, adding with a laugh, “Chris doesn’t sleep for a couple days before

every show.”The jam band has quick-

ly become one of Omaha’s favorite live shows, but in

the coming months Satchel

Group embodies ‘mature’ funkif you go:

Satchel Grandewhen: Feb. 4, 9 p.m.where:The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple st, Omahahow much: $7

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“Once upon a time, with tale as old as I am, a young girl told a lie, but she is the one who’s cryin’. How many times, have you taken me for granted? You doubt-ed every word I said, ‘cause they were covered up, by every lie you planted. Stay away from me, I don’t want to be your whipping boy. I gave you everything, you played me off as back-ground noise.”

It’s overwrought, sure, but those lyrics are just a taste of what people like about Lincoln’s own Silent Havok.

This up-and-coming local band has a style somewhere in between hard rock and hardcore. Members include Ben Fischbein (Havok) on guitar and background vo-cals, Harry Norman (H.) on lead vocals, Evan Potter (Hollywood) on guitar, Nick Miesbach (Stitch) on bass and Sean Hansen (Seany Grimm) on drums.

Over the course of the

band’s five years in exis-tence, Silent Havok has fil-tered through a multitude of members, In fact, the band has been working with its current line-up for about two months.

Pulling through with this crew will be possible only by drawing motivation from the fans, said Fischbein, a freshman general studies major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“I feel like without mu-sic, the entire world would just be plain,” he said. “It wouldn’t matter if there were colors or sounds. Without music itself, it would just be so boring.”

Silent Havok’s first album, “Choke the Silent,” came out four years ago. It’s a rock album, interspersed with bits of heavy metal. They next produced the EP “On My Own,” which contains four songs, one of them be-ing an instrumental piano piece. They plan to record again in May and Fischbein said Silent Havok’s sound will be fine-tuned by then.

Aaron Johnston, a

sophomore graphic design major at the Art Institute of Colorado, said Fischbein writes music from the heart. He is influenced by every-thing he sees, telling a little story with each song.

“Ben will be sitting in class and when he gets bored, he starts thinking of different notes to play on the guitar,” Johnston said. “His hand is constantly moving like it’s on his fret board. He draws everything from the outside world to influence this art that he calls music.”

Musical inspirations come from bands such as Avenged Sevenfold, Asking Alexan-dria, Atreyu, Burn Halo and Like Moths to Flames.

A lot of Silent Havok’s lyr-ics are angry, but in a posi-tive way, Fischbein said. He writes about never giving

up hope and just being you. “The way we sort of

cope and get over stuff is to write songs about it,” Fischbein said. “The same stuff happens to other peo-ple. We’re not different just ‘cause we’re in a band. We just take our experiences and write about them so we can help someone else get over what they’re going through.”

Tim Kechely, the owner of Fuse Studios, who has helped the band record in the past, understands why Fischbein writes music. He thinks Silent Havok does a great job of expressing their identity.

“I think, as an artist my-self, I write because I feel,” Kechely said. “I feel, there-fore I write. You see certain things in life, certain things happening, things going on and it spurs you into a lyrical or rhythmic idea. You want to paint that picture in music and once you get attached to song writing, you get locked in.”

Working as a team to bring a new genre of music to Lin-coln, all members of Silent Havok have learned how to interact. Kechely said they all get along well and have worthwhile rehearsals.

“They’re very focused on what they’re doing,” Keche-ly said. “The creativity flows amongst them all. Their in-teraction is better than I’ve seen in a lot of bands.”

Fischbein, Norman and Potter recently got wireless

guitars and microphones, allowing them to be more active on stage. They move around, switch sides and get in audience members’ faces.

When Fischbein is doing solos, he wants audience members to know he was meant to write music for other people. In his mind, there’s no point in playing music to an empty room.

“We like to let them know we’re singing to them, not at them,” Fischbein said. “We just try to bring the en-ergy and professionalism of a famous band into a little show. When and if we do get big, we’ll already be ready.”

Kechely has seen Silent Havok advance greatly in their interaction with audi-ence members. He said they watch what other bands do and adapt.

“They’ve really moved their live performance up a lot in the last six months,” Kechely said. “They’re unique in what they do on stage; how they use their guitars. It’s very signature to that band right now.

As Silent Havok’s mer-chandise designer, John-ston has been to numerous concerts. He said the entire band knows how to draw a crowd and get a reaction.

Because fan advice is so important, band members are always asking ques-tions, Johnston said. They post fan polls on their Face-book page, http://www.

facebook.com/silenthavok, to ask fans what songs they should cover and what singers and guitarists they should collaborate with.

“They write music from their heart for the fans,” Johnston said. “They don’t write music to make mon-ey. They are doing it for ev-erybody around them.”

Fans are looking forward to Silent Havok’s upcom-ing show Feb. 24. They will play with Dirtfed and A Different Breed at Knicker-bockers. The all-ages show begins at 6 p.m. and costs $5. T-shirts will sell for $10 and bracelets for $2. More information can be found at http://www.myspace.com/silenthavok or http://www.reverbnat ion .com/s i len-thavok.

While the band has not yet toured, they hope to travel the Midwest with Burn Halo this summer. Possible desti-nations include Kansas, Wy-oming, Iowa, Colorado and Missouri. Fischbein eventual-ly hopes to tour in his home state, California, .

With ideas for a new album this spring, Silent Havok is not slowing down. Fischbein has no shortage of inspira-tion and passion for what he does.

“I’d say I make music be-cause it’s the one thing that I found that I truly love,” Fischbein said. “It feels like it’s what I’ve always been meant to do.”

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neiL orianSThe other day I was brought into a discussion regard-ing a band’s use of an art-ist’s image for the purpose of its music. I’m not going to get into details, but basi-cally, a band used an image I recognized as a certain art-ist’s painting. I called it out as theft and a discussion regarding the differences between appropriation, pla-giarism and parody began.

Effectively, there’s a lot of misconception out there regarding what is and is not OK to do regarding art and music. The punk com-munity is especially known for not caring about any-thing, because of anarchy and all that jazz. Legendary hardcore band Black Flag has had their iconic logo parodied so many times it’s hard to remember the

source. Hell, I had a friend in high school who owned a Black Flag shirt because he thought it was a cool logo. Honestly, I couldn’t blame him.

That is a prime example of parody. It’s meant to bring the viewer into the light that is Black Flag. Their logo is so iconic, it’s practically public domain. When bands work off that logo form, it is not an attempt to redefine the meaning of those four black boxes. It’s a means of homage. If anything, paro-dying the Black Flag logo is an attempt to sling shot your band into more noto-riety by aligning yourself with the Black Flag identity.

Appropriation is a won-derful word for “creative gray area.” Basically, appro-priation is using ideas frin other works to create some-thing new. Andy Warhol is best known for his appro-priated works, in that he used the images of celebri-ties to create new works of art. Most sampling in the hip hop industry comes under this label of appropriation, because they take an exist-ing creative work and make

something new out of it.I’m sure I could come up

with a sample of Adele so hot I’d get hood producers blowing up my cell. Take something popular com-pletely out of context and make something new. Ef-fectively, appropriation is a really fancy word for col-lage. It contains elements of the original property while remaining a brand new product. Like a parody, it is recognizable but different.

Then there is plagiarism. Sometimes, it’s hard to define. Other times, it’s extreme-ly obvious. Plagiarism is stealing, and there are no exceptions to that. It is defining and iden-tifying someone else’s work as your own. And when I use the term “identity,” I don’t mean logo. While lo-gos are part of identities, artwork and visual imag-ery lend themselves just as much to the identity of a

band.Musical artists are more

than just bands. They are, in fact, brands. If a musi-cian makes a decent amount of money, they are required to register as an LLC. For a band to be able to make purchases they need a bank account and a recognized, legal standing as a corpora-tion. It sounds dehumanized,

but it’s how things are. As a result, a band can-not just use something.

It doesn’t matter if the band does not claim the work as its own: The act of using i m a g e r y ,

music or other creative ma-terial within their identity is an inherent claim of identity in and of itself. And to the attempts of justifying that action by claiming you’re not selling it or using it to gain money, I call bullshit.

There is no such thing as a purist artist. Everything in

the industry is done to gain capital. Argue all you want that it’s about the music, but a musician needs to make money to continue to make music. Can a musician tour on pure art alone? Hell no. Can an artist paint with-out funding for canvas and paints? Hell no, that’s ex-pensive.

In the discussion I men-tioned earlier, a point to the effect of, “if I were an artist, I would be flattered that my work was used by a band” was brought up. That’s fine, but what if a white power punk band uses your paint-ing as their album art work and suddenly your style and subject matter is forever as-sociated with the neo-Nazi movement? What if, as a direct result of this plagia-rism, you are associated with those ideals? Georgia O’Keefe’s work was read as nothing but a bunch of flowery-looking vaginas, an idea she fought until her death. As a result, art his-tory will forever see a vagi-nal, feminine message in her paintings. She was unable to escape that reading in the same way you would be

unable to escape an associa-tion with bigotry.

At the end of the day, stealing is stealing. At-tempts to justify these ac-tions by saying you aren’t making money or aren’t ar-tistic enough to make your own artwork are just insults to artists everywhere, es-pecially those whose work is stolen. Create something new. It’s not that hard, but I understand that not every-one can major in art.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the indie mu-sic scene, it’s that anyone can be a musician. In the same way, if I’ve learned one thing in four years of fine arts education, it’s that anyone can be an artist.

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While Ingrid Michaelson might not be a household name, chances are you have probably heard her music.

Her lighthearted, upbeat work has been featured in commercials for Target, Ritz Crackers and Google Chrome, as well as TV shows, including “Parent-hood” and “Grey’s Anato-my.”

“Human Again” is the Brooklyn-based pop singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album.

“I’m not a little kid any-more,” Michaelson said in an interview with AOL Music. “I love singing my little ukulele songs. But I feel like it’s time to stand up and really sing. (This record) is fiercer and not as childlike. Not to dis my old work, but I feel like I’ve done the whole barefoot singer-songwriter thing.”

And while “Human Again” is certainly a bolder attempt than Michaelson’s previous effort, “Everybody,” the mu-sic continues to be nonin-vasive and, frankly, bland.

This album reads as a col-lection of hits and misses, all uncomfortably strung to-gether.

Here’s the good: Michael-son is a talented musician

with a versatile voice. Songs like “Fire” and “Blood Brothers” are instantly like-able and will undoubtedly find their way to a pop-lov-ing audience.

But with the good comes the bad. As Michaelson has said in interviews, this al-bum is a chance for her to embrace a stronger pres-ence on the pop singer-songwriter circuit. That’s going to be difficult, as it is hard to break out of the cy-cle of TV commercials and “One Tree Hill” soundtracks and make your music stand out on its own. “Human

Again” just isn’t a strong enough effort.

And the ugly? There’s none to be found on “Hu-man Again.” Like the rest of Michaelson’s discography, it is an easy listen and light enough to be universally in-offensive.

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Lincoln residences offer alternative music venues

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“Little boxes on the hill-side...and they all look just the same,” wrote Malvina Reynolds in her 1962 folk song “Little Boxes.” Some would have us believe that all the houses in our tidy Midwestern neighborhoods are just the same, but some of those houses are not like the others.

Whatever the reason, whether it’s too difficult to make it downtown to see a concert or a touring band is looking for a place to stop and rest while tra-versing the Midwest, more than a few Lincoln residents have offered up their living rooms as an alternative to the downtown music scene.

“In hindsight I didn’t re-ally expect it to turn out this way, but near the end I feel like we really made a change,” said Bryan Klop-ping, a Daily Nebraskan art-ist, of his involvement with the now defunct Clawfoot House, one of Lincoln’s primary house venues over the last five years. “We p r o g r e s s e d the commu-nity, which is something I’ve always been inter-ested in, but didn’t really know how.”

C l a w f o o t House, one of the only house venues in Lincoln to promote itself through fly-ers, Facebook and a web-site, was operated most recently by Klopping and Amy Gordon, who took over the booking and man-agement responsibilities af-ter founder, Ember Schrag, moved away from Lincoln.

“Ember was aware of a lot of touring musicians who needed places to play and there was no place to play because other venues were booked so far in advance,” Gordon said of Clawfoot’s founding. “She really want-ed to help out touring mu-sicians and put Lincoln on the map.”

Klopping said he feels that bar venues in Lincoln, like Duffy’s Tavern and the Bourbon Theatre, rely so heavily on profit that it sometimes limits their abil-ity to book the most diverse range of artists.

“The experimental things

or more quiet shows, like acoustic stuff, is some-times just a pain in the ass at bars,” he said. “I think people are expect-ing more rocking music at bars. That’s where house shows come in because house shows aren’t relying on people to pay money to them to keep them continu-ing as a venue.”

Gordon agreed, adding that the atmo-sphere of a house venue is conducive to engaged listening.

“It’s a more intimate en-v i r onmen t , ” she said. “I think that people that go to house

shows are there more for the music than socializa-tion or alcohol. As an artist and a musician, of course I appreciate that it’s neat to really feel listened to and that your audience is there having an experience with you.”

In August 2011, Clawfoot House formally closed its doors, and it is currently seeking new occupants to run the venue.

Just a few blocks away is the Powerhouse, another house venue catering to the desire for intimate and often experimental concert expe-riences. The Powerhouse is the home to the members of local hip hop/rock fu-sion band, Time Hammer. The Powerhouse promoted itself, like most other house venues in Lincoln, by word of mouth.

“The house was chosen based on the room where

we have shows because it’s a giant box and it’s just built on to the house, like some sort of secret head-quarters for building giant inventions,” said Joe Youn-glove, a drummer and vo-calist for Time Hammer. “It’s just this magical room. We can always play music as loud as we want with no complaints, so it’s pretty awesome.”

Younglove also books shows for Cultiva Coffee Co. and started booking shows at the Powerhouse because of limited availabil-ity at the coffee shop.

“The original intention was just to have a prac-tice space (at the Power-house), but all the bands wanted to play at Cultiva on weekdays, which we weren’t allowed to do be-cause that’s study night for people,” he said. “So, let’s just have these bands play at my house and it will be way more fun than coffee house.”

The Powerhouse is also currently in a time of transi-tion, as Younglove is mov-ing out and possibly leav-ing the responsibilities of booking shows to someone else.

“I have no idea about shows,” said Younglove, on the future prospects of the Powerhouse.

While the house venue “business” is an unsteady one, with establishments coming and going with the tenants responsible for booking the shows, the culture and the ideology of the house show remains an important component of maintaining a diverse music scene.

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KyLe bruGGeMan | daiLy nebraSKanLocal group dads performs inside The Power House near 12th and d streets on sunday.

recording and touring with his band to come down to the bar on Mondays. He’s on the road about once every couple of months.

“I’m a blues fan,” Lager said. “Blues is the base of pretty much everything I do.”

The House Band did Tues-day open mic nights for over a year and then realized how much they loved play-ing together.

“We were all hanging at the Zoo Bar and it came to-gether naturally,” Lager said.

When playing with the

House Band, Lager especial-ly enjoys the improvisation and spontaneity that comes out of their collaboration.

“When it comes to Blues Mondays in particular, there are no rules,” he said.

According to Lager, Mon-day nights are for the mem-bers to bring their individual talents and blues styles to the table and mesh them together to create a unique sound.

“It’s pretty soulful and that’s the biggest factor when it comes to playing blues,” Lager said. “Everyone can do

it to an extent, but the ones that stick out are those who play it and sing it like they mean it.”

According to Lager, the au-dience seems to have a great time each Monday. Some people are even on their feet dancing. Lager loves be-ing able to count on seeing at least 12 to 15 people who come to every Blues Monday.

“We lay down some dirty, serious-sounding blues,” La-ger said. “Hopefully people feel better walking out than when they walked in.”

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at the Lied Center, said the group’s “diverse repertoire” promises to bring an excit-ing and unique night of mu-sic to the people of Lincoln.

“LBM is one of the premier world music a capella music groups touring currently,” said Boring. “They’re an im-pressive group and we’re

excited to have them.”LBM became popular after

recording with Paul Simon and Josh Groban and being featured on the Lion King soundtrack. Since the group started producing music in the late 1960s, they have received 15 Grammy nominations and have won three Grammys.

Boring thinks UNL students should make the effort to see LMD.

“Students will get a great musical experience,” he said. “It’s really a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see this group.”

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LadySMith: FROM 5JOE YOUNGLOVETime Hammer

We can always play music as loud as we want with no complaints, so it’s pretty awesome.

Grande is looking to branch out and bring their psych-funkadelia to cities around the Midwest.

“We definitely draw heavi-er in Omaha.” Klemmensen said, “But we’re getting the ball rolling. We’ve recently played at South by Southwest in Texas.”

Satchel Grande’s perfor-mance at South by Southwest was a major stepping stone in their emerging national ex-posure, as the festival is con-sidered a pilgrimage for any

up-and-coming indie outfit.“We love Omaha but we

can’t wait to get on the road,” said Klemmensen. “We’ll soon be traveling to Chicago and St. Louis.”

With a music festival under their belts and an upcom-ing national tour, he couldn’t help but give props to the venue that’s made them local legends.

“The Waiting Room’s been so good to us, so we love playing there every time,” Kl-emmensen said.

Whether this hodgepodge of musicians gains popularity like Mumford and Sons in the next couple of months, they plan to keep playing in that tiny club in Benson-wearing 70s-style newsman attire. The band, talking non-stop about George Clinton, said they hope to make their icon, Par-liament-Funkadelic, proud.

If the buzz around the city is any indication, funk fans of Omaha “Gotta have that funk.”

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struggling to find his stroke to pass up a few open looks, but Richardson hasn’t shot the ball poorly. His shooting per-centage is a respectable 43.3 percent, and he shoots better than 38 percent from 3-point territory.

“Maybe you guys can do it,” sadler said to the media

Monday. “i’m not being a smart aleck. i tried for four, five years to get him to be aggressive. There’s not anything i did dif-ferent (last Thursday), i prom-ise you. He’s been encouraged to shoot every shot that he’s been open for five years.”

Two years ago, Richardson appeared to be a rising star

in the program. as a sopho-more, he averaged 8.9 points per game and shot better than 45 percent from the field, lead-ing the Huskers to believe he’d only improve.

But his numbers dropped to 6.4 points and his shooting dipped five percent during his junior season. He’s rebounded

a bit this year, bringing the scor-ing average back to 7.4. He just insists that he’s more comfort-able getting a good look for someone else.

Of course, there are nights when he senses he’s needed on offense and lets loose. Thurs-day night is an example, as is the Huskers’ 72-69 win over central Michigan on dec. 20, when Richardson shot 11 times and scored 15 points.

“He’s one of the few play-ers that, as a coach, you have to encourage to shoot the ball,” sadler said. “He picked a good game to get aggressive and thankfully he was making those shots. even if he’s not making them, we need him to shoot the basketball.”

can NU expect Richardson to keep being aggressive, or will he quickly morph back into the player he’s been for

much of the season? sadler in-sists he’ll continue to implore the senior to let it fly, and Richardson says he’s feeling a confidence now he didn’t have earlier this year.

“When it leaves my hand, i feel like it’s going to go in,” he said. “The more reps you get, the more confidence you feel.”

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Big Ten basketball coaches credited much of their con-ference’s success this year to strong defenses in Monday’s weekly teleconference.

The conference is home to four of the nation’s top 40 defenses in points allowed per game and includes two of the nation’s top seven in Wisconsin and Ohio state. The two teams give up an average of 49.6 and 55.6 points per game, respec-tively.

after each posting impres-sive showings this past week, the Badgers and Buckeyes will face off in Madison sat-urday. The clash will include two hot teams both with aspi-rations of winning the Big Ten regular season championship.

Ohio state (19-3 overall, 7-2 Big Ten) is fresh off a 64-49 win over rival Michigan on saturday and gets a bye in the middle of the week before the matchup this weekend.

“i told the players, we have to get healed up the best we can, and from there it’s on. We are playing, i think, seven home games in february, and

we have a great challenge on saturday going to Madison,” Ohio state coach Thad Matta said.

Wisconsin (17-5, 6-3), win-ners of its last five games, comes into the week riding high as well. The Badgers de-feated two ranked teams in their last two games, then No. 25 illinois on sunday and No. 20 indiana on Thursday. The two wins have the team back in the top 20 after falling from the rankings in earlier weeks.

according to Michigan coach John Beilein, defenses, albeit differently run defenses, are the key to the recent suc-cess of these two teams.

“What i think we all love about the game,” he said. “is that there are many ways to do things, and both coaches and teams do it (defend) very well even though they are strikingly different to a coach.”

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said that his team gets its de-fensive mindset from some things he learned over the years as a coach and player.

“it was always in my mind from my high school and col-lege coach and from my dad. Realizing it over the years, if

you play good defense, you have a chance,” he said.

Ohio state is also a defen-sive-minded team to some degree, but the head coach in columbus doesn’t see that as the only way his players should look at the game.

“i’ve always wanted to play as fast as we can possi-bly play. Obviously, being as sound as we can within that,” said Matta. “We are a little more athletic defensively and are able to get a few easier baskets that way.”

The Buckeyes, who took sole possession of the confer-ence lead this weekend, are at the head of a logjam of teams jockeying for positioning in the Big Ten race.

Halfway through the con-ference season, seven teams are within three games of the top, and even a one game slip-up by the Buckeyes could open the door for as many as three different teams to take a share of the lead.

defending its lead in the standings as well as the bas-ket will be key for any team that plans to win the Big Ten this season.

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Michigan, NU would find itself playing for the conference title on senior day when they host Ohio state. The Huskers control their own destiny: if they win out, they will be the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament.

Winning out, of course, seems unlikely considering the stats and the experience gap between NU and its opponents. The only “easy” games left on the schedule are home games against Northwestern and Wis-consin. The Huskers could lose as many as five of their last seven.

The lessons so far this season

make that kind of skid feel un-likely. The Huskers play hard and they do so with great team-work. While the team may of-ten win ugly in conference play, they do so convincingly, by an average of 11 points. There are more warning signs. NU is 3-3 against esPN Brack-etology’s Ncaa Tournament teams, with one win coming at No. 15 seed florida a&M and another at home against No. 14 seed south dakota state. Nei-ther is a tournament lock. six of NU’s seven conference wins were against the back half of the Big Ten.

as the meat of Nebraska’s schedule looms, there is cause for concern. The Huskers need to shoot better, keep their level of play up in the second half and keep getting to the foul line more than their opponents. They won’t be sneaking up on anybody from here on out.

None of this is to say Nebras-ka won’t be strong down the stretch. There’s a reason Yori is 108-43 since 2006-2007, if you take out the injury ravaged di-saster of last season, and is on pace for her fourth tournament bid in six years. There’s a rea-son lindsey Moore has already

won 63 games as NU’s starting point guard, and a reason nine teams are looking up at the Huskers in the standings.

in 18 out of the 21 games NU has played it has finished with more points on the board than its opponent. The Husk-ers may not have looked like a diana Taurasi led connecticut team while doing so, but 18-3 is 18-3. and, as anyone around the team would say, 18-3 is a pretty record regardless of how ugly some of the wins have come.

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Polacek said. “i was kind of a Nebraska track junkie.”

about the same time Polacek began attending Ne-braska’s meets, he began to learn how to pole vault.

When he reached high school in Kearney, he was jumping 14 feet. By the time he graduated in 2008 he would add a foot-and-a-half and leave Kearney as the state record holder.

Then came the college deci-sion, which wasn’t a struggle.

“He dreamed of being a pole vaulter at Nebraska and he dedicated his life to it,” Grimes said. “it’s one of those deals where you’ve got to dream big and go after it and he’s certainly done that.”

By the time Polacek’s junior year rolled around, he found himself competing for an Ncaa championship.

and that’s when he heard the “boom.” He jumped 5.45 meters, or 17.9 feet.

The homegrown Husker fan who dressed as a Nebras-ka athlete for Halloween at ages 5, 6 and 7 was dressed in scarlet and cream again on saturday, this time standing on the track and staring up at the stands.

Now Polacek was staring down what could become a personal record. One jump, 5.51 meters, separated him from another boom.

His first two attempts had missed. for his third and fi-nal attempt, he looked up at the stands with a wide smile and began clapping before he turned back to the track and took off.

He hit the bar.There would be no boom

today.“The expectations are pretty

high,” Grimes said. “i think it’s that emotion that goes along with competition and i think definitely conference cham-pionships are a good boom

time. We’ve got to save those up for the special moments.”

While Polacek didn’t set a personal record, saturday was a special moment at the Bob devaney center indoor Track. it showed that Polacek was ready to do it again. His first-place jump of 5.38 meters marked the second best jump of his career.

Grimes said a place on the all-american team still isn’t guaranteed. although Polacek has shown that he can per-form at a high level, he still needs to work on his consis-tency.

“There are times when he looks like a million bucks then there are times where he maybe looks like $900,000,” Grimes said. “But if you’re going to compete at this lev-el, you’ve got to be a million buck guy on a regular basis if you want to beat some of the best guys in the country.”

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The Husker men’s tennis squad hit the ground running this weekend splitting matches against 34th-ranked Virginia Tech and 51st-ranked Texas christain University.

Nebraska dropped the sea-son opener 4-3 to Virginia Tech and bounced back shutting out the TcU Horned frogs in the intercollegiate Tennis as-sociation Kick-Off Weekend. NU coach Kerry Mcdermott said TcU and Virginia Tech were good gauges for the 39th-ranked cornhuskers.

“We lost, but it was still a good atmosphere,” sophomore Tom Blackwell said. “We all felt pretty good still.”

Playing number six singles, Blackwell was one of only two Huskers to win a singles point against the Hokies.

“i beat him pretty handily,” Blackwell said. “That’s kind of what i expect to do at number six.”

Nebraska’s Monday morn-ing win over the Horned frogs marked the first shut-out victory by the Huskers since defeating

fresno state 7-0 in March of 2011. The Bulldogs were also ranked 51st by the iTa when the Huskers took them down.

“We played a complete match today against a good TcU team,” Mcdermott told Huskers.com. “i thought our guys did a good job playing start to finish and they han-dled the pressure well.”

Going into the matches, Mc-dermott stressed the impor-tance of the doubles points as the Huskers entered the season changing two of their three doubles combinations after losing players to gradu-ation and injury. Nebraska went on to win the doubles point against Virginia Tech and TcU in flawless fashion, winning five matches and leaving a sixth unfinished.

Blackwell said while TcU didn’t quite stack up with Vir-ginia Tech talent-wise, they still fielded a solid squad deserving of their 51st-place ranking.

“They definitely weren’t as good but some guys, like who couldn’t finish yesterday, went out and finished it today,” he said.

Junior andre stenger, sopho-more Robby schulze and se-nior Benedikt lindheim won singles points clinching the 4-0 win for the Huskers. lindheim sits 2-0 on the season in single matches including a win over 71st-ranked individual lucas Oliveira of Virginia Tech.

Blackwell said this year’s squad has an advantage over last year’s in maturity, some-thing he noticed facing a freshman opponent this week-end.

“i go up there with so much more confidence now,” Black-well said. “i know how ev-erything works now. The guy i played from Virginia Tech, it was his first dual match in col-lege tennis and you could just see how nervous he was and how nervous i wasn’t.

“every big point i’d go out there and i’d win. i don’t have any doubts; i know exactly what needs to be done. i’m not nervous at all; i’m not feeling any pressure. i’m just going out there and playing tennis, which i think has made me better in turn.”

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at the start of a new season, it isn’t unusual to hear coaches showering their team with un-warranted praise, and it cer-tainly isn’t uncommon to hear them touting unrealistic goals.

That wasn’t the case for the Nebraska women’s tennis team.

When Nebraska coach scott Jacobson spoke about his team’s capabilities last Wednes-day, optimism radiated from the coach, especially when he boldly claimed that this could be the “most talented” team he’s coached in his 21 years at Nebraska.

so when the tennis team concluded a stellar weekend at the iTa Kick-Off classic, it be-came evident that his positive outlook wasn’t just a ploy to pump up his team.

Just ask No. 24 arkansas, whom the Huskers soundly de-feated in their first round match. and what about No. 12 North-western? a team that should feel lucky to have escaped the grips of an experienced, confi-dent Husker squad.

“it’s hard not to be optimis-tic right now,” Jacobson said. “This weekend allowed for our kids to know that they belong at that level. We are all just re-ally excited.”

The Huskers first proved they belonged by storming past No. 24 arkansas by a score of 5-2 on saturday afternoon. NU swept the Razorbacks in doubles play before winning four out of six singles matches to secure its victory, advanc-ing to the championship game against Big Ten foe Northwest-ern

With a berth in the febru-ary iTa National Team indoor

championships on the line, NU entered sunday’s champi-onship match against the No. 12 Wildcats as the clear-cut un-derdog.

The Huskers began the after-noon with another dominating doubles win by Mary Weath-erholt and Patricia Veresova. Northwestern soon pushed back, capturing a victory on the No. 3 doubles court, and then the doubles point came down to the No. 1 position, where No. 53 Nebraska’s Madeleine Geibert and stefanie Weinstein took the big upset win over Northwestern’s No. 6 pair lin-da abu Mushrefova and Nida Hamilton 9-7.

The outcome of this match eventually came down to the No. 6 position, where Husker Maike Zeppernick had battled back against Northwestern’s Hamilton to take the match to a third set. Zeppernick was un-able to hold on, falling by a fi-nal score of 6-4, 6-7, 6-1.

“it was probably the best dual i’ve ever been a part of. it’s hard to be disappointed,” Jacobson explained. “We’ve made great

strides this year. Getting off to a good start always warrants ex-citement, and as far as having played two very strong ranked opponents, it certainly gives us confidence.”

NU junior captain Weather-holt described the performance as “encouraging” and showed a plethora of enthusiasm to get the rest of the season rolling. “Obviously we’re disappointed. We’ll always be disappointed with a loss. But our goal was to show them our fight and to play our hearts out.”

sunday marked the first time the two Big Ten teams will meet this season. March 25 will be the second, a match that could help determine who this year’s Big Ten champion will be.

“We know we were right there,” Weatherholt explained. “We didn’t get off to a good start. i think i can speak for everyone, especially myself, when i say that we’re looking forward to playing them again.”

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Huskers sweep matches over weekend

NU upsets Arkansas, but loses to No. 16 Wildcats

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Doc sadler has an uncommon problem, one that he has been working on solving for more than four years.

While most coaches around the country battle to get their players to share the ball, Brandon Richardson, one of Nebraska’s most talented players, prefers to pass it. despite being a player sadler calls one of the team’s better shooters, his pleas to Richardson have fallen on deaf ears.

last Thursday night against iowa, Richardson finally gave in. after shooting just 14 times in the Huskers’ previous four games, the senior took 10 shots and made nine, including six

3-pointers. He finished with 25 points and was rewarded for his efforts by being named Big Ten co-Player of the Week along with Michigan state’s draymond Green.

“i never thought i would be in this position,” Richardson said before practice Monday. “i’m humbled by it. down the road, i can tell my kids that i was Big Ten player of the week.”

The performance was a relief for sadler, who needed all the points he could get in a 79-73 win, but also a head-scratcher. On a team starv-ing for offense, why doesn’t a senior shoot the ball more?

Only Bo spencer has played more than Rich-ardson’s 593 minutes, yet Richardson is tied for fifth on the team in field goal attempts, trail-ing Jorge Brian diaz and dylan Talley, both of whom missed five games.

The Huskers have played 20 games, and Rich-ardson has attempted more than five shots just five times this season. Three weeks ago against Penn state he played 25 minutes and didn’t at-tempt a shot.

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Nate Polacek has only heard it once.

it was at the 2011 Ncaa in-door championships.

Polacek jumped 5.45 meters to take fourth place nationally in the pole vault, earning him an all-american distinction.

after he landed, he turned to his coach, Kris Grimes, who pumped both his fists at his waist and yelled “boom!”

Hearing Grimes yell “boom” after a big jump is the ulti-mate goal. it’s how you know you’ve done well.

Grimes has handed out a few “boom”s over the past few years, admitting he gave out more on the women’s side than the men’s. Grimes’ expec-tations are high for Polacek, so the “boom”s are nearly impos-sible to come by.

first-place finishes, however, aren’t as rare for Polacek.

in 2012, Polacek is undefeat-ed through three meets.

at saturday’s Mark colligan Memorial track meet, Polacek was lining up to jump the highest bar of his career. it sat 0.6 meters higher than his per-sonal best, the jump he made at the Ncaa championships.

as he stared down the bar, ready to begin his run, Polacek turned to the crowd and began to clap above his head. soon, nearly everyone in the bleach-ers was doing the same.

The fans in the stands sat in the same seats Polacek once sat in.

“ever since i was about 10 years old up in section four, i’d go and i’d never miss a meet,”

husker brandon richardson went 9 for 10 from the field and a career high 25-points to earn him an award he’ll brag about for a lifetime.

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sean whalenThe women’s basketball team is the prettiest ugly team you’ll ever watch.

if you didn’t understand that, you probably haven’t been to too many of Nebraska’s games. some teams make an art of winning ugly. for coach con-nie Yori’s team, it’s a science so routine you don’t even realize it’s happening.

at illinois on sunday, Jordan Hooper, considered the team’s best shooter, went 4 for 24 from the field. This woeful per-formance dropped her shoot-ing percentage in conference games down to 37 percent (30 percent on 3-pointers), which is mildly concerning consider-ing she takes 27.5 percent of the team’s shots. don’t think less of Hoop, the rest of her team has shot 38 percent them-selves. Nebraska as a team has over a three percent deficiency in field goal percentage for conference play.

field goal percentage isn’t the only problem the Huskers have. They also shoot 4.4 per-cent worse on 3 point attempts, have only a +2 rebound margin over nine games (a wash), are -33 in blocks, -18 in steals and have actually been outscored in the second half of confer-ence games.

despite all of that, Nebraska finds itself 7-2 in Big Ten play (18-3 overall) and tied for sec-ond place, a Thursday win at Purdue away from first. Hoop-er, despite sunday’s shooting woes, is a strong contender for conference Player of the Year honors, as her 18.7 points and 10.2 rebounds per game in conference play rank fifth and first, respectively, in the confer-ence.

so how do the Huskers, now ranked No. 16 in the aP poll, keep winning?

They make more free throws and force lots of turnovers. On average, the Huskers attempt nearly five more free throws per game and make 3.5 more than their opponents (NU has 12 less fouls than their opposi-tion). lindsey Moore gets to the line more than any other player in the conference, and Hooper (who makes four free throws on average) is close.

On defense, the Huskers hound the opposition, forc-ing 17.4 turnovers per game (fourth in the conference) while giving up the third few-est (15.2). as the Huskers have a +4.6 scoring margin in con-ference games and 3.5 points of the surplus come from the free throw line, free throws and turnovers are absolutely key to NU’s strong season.

so when Yori says things like “there are lots of areas for growth” this is what she’s talk-ing about. imagine how strong NU would be if they didn’t have to win eight times while shooting under 40 percent.

NU may still be able to win conference the way things are. looking at the schedule, NU should be considered favorites in at least four of their final sev-en games, with a road trip to Michigan state, a swing game. With an upset win at Purdue and wins over the teams below them in the standings, includ-ing a tough home game against

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