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Secretary of Defense nominee and former Sen. Chuck Hagel jumped the first hurdle to his nomination Tues-day afternoon.

The Senate Armed Services com-mittee voted 14-11 in favor of Hagel, splitting on party lines, moving his confirmation to the full Senate body.

Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., announced the committee’s vote late afternoon. It was initially postponed after Re-publicans claimed they did not have enough information on Hagel’s business dealings to proceed.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened to filibuster Hagel’s Sen-ate vote if he made it through the committee. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., reiterated Graham’s threats.

If confirmed, Hagel would be the first Secretary of Defense to have served on the ground. Hagel won two purple hearts for his actions during the Vietnam War.

The hearing did not go smoothly for Ha-gel when Republicans sharply questioned him on his values and record. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questioned whether Hagel had tak-en money from “radical and extreme” groups. The White House re-leased a statement saying Hagel’s testimony was less than perfect, but Press Secretary Jay Carney said “the president be-lieves Sen. Hagel will make an ex-cellent secretary of defense.”

He has faced tough criticism from his own party over his views

on Israel and Iran.Charlyne Berens, associate

dean of the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications, wrote a biography of Hagel in 2006. She said his willingness to voice his opinion made him an easy target for Republi-cans.

For Berens, Hagel’s defining moment was his opposition to the Iraq troop surge in 2006. He was the only Repub-lican to do so.

When asked about the possibility of a Republican fili-buster, senior biochemistry major James Trenhaile said he was con-cerned about the antagonism from his own party.

“Chuck Hagel is a Republican so

I would hope other Republicans sup-port him,” he said.

John Peterson, a political sci-ence doctoral student at UNL, said the chances for a Hagel confirmation have improved.

“If the Democrats and President Obama are able to gather 60 senators who are willing to vote for Chuck Ha-gel, then he should be able to come up for a full vote in Senate,” Peter-son said.

The biggest challenge Hagel will face is finding enough Repub-licans vote for Hagel, he said. He then explained that Republicans have threatened a filibuster, which, if successful, would result in Hagel’s withdrawal.

“I think Hagel will eventually be confirmed, the Democrats have the majority,” said Ryan King, a senior computer science major at UNL. “De-spite his lackluster performance at the hearing, he is very well qualified.”

Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer, a member of the Armed Services Com-mittee, has actively opposed Hagel. Fischer, a Republican, published a col-umn on Jan. 31 in the Omaha World-Herald, where she said Hagel’s views were out of the mainstream.

During the hearing, she said they were “to the left of the administra-tion.”

Fischer’s “no” vote was not a surprise. Hagel had openly endorsed Fischer’s rival, former Sen. Bob Kerry, in the November elections.

Conversely, Sen. Mike Johanns, also a Republican, told the Lincoln Journal Star that he planned to vote for Hagel.

After facing harsh criticism, Ha-gel’s fate now rests with the Senate, which may vote as early as Wednes-day night, according to an article in The New York Times.

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ELIAS YOUNgqUISTdn

For almost half a year, the lot across from the Campus Recreation Center on N. 14th St. has remained a barren plot of dirt. But with any luck, con-struction that has faced so many set-backs could begin within a matter of weeks.

On Jan. 27, contracting company Boyd Jones was issued a notice to proceed with construction of the new Outdoor Adventure Center.

According to Barry Schmidt, project manager for Boyd Jones Construction, the company antici-pates breaking ground in late Feb-ruary, more than a month later than the previously hoped-for Jan. 3.

Last summer the parking lot that previously occupied the space was demolished and graded in preparation for construction to be-gin in the fall of 2012. However, construction was delayed when the bid from Boyd Jones Construction was $1.7 million over budget. The Outdoor Adventure Center is part of the “YES 2 Better Rec Centers” referendum approved by students in October 2010.

A new bid was accepted Nov. 15. The building of the project is set to be finished on Dec. 30 this year, Schmidt said, which is several months past the previous hope to finish the building in fall.

“The project scope and program remains unchanged,” Schmidt said in an email. “Due to the bidding environment in the Lincoln area, we were required to economize certain aspects of the project to the project to meet the budgetary requirements.”

As the Outdoor Adventure Center moves into the next stage of completion, the bulk of responsibility moves onto Boyd Jones Construction and the Department of Facilities Man-agement and Planning at UNL, said Christopher Dulak, assistant director of marketing and development for Campus Recreation.

“The building is out of our hands,” Dulak said.

Once finished, the Outdoor Ad-venture Center will include a number of climbing walls, a bouldering area and bike shop in addition to activities the current Outdoor Adventure Cen-ter offers.


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LIS ARNESONdn

Raoul Adamchak and Pamela Ronald believe the key to sustainability in ag-riculture is not insisting that organic farming and genetic engineering are mutually exclusive.

In a speech titled “Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food,” the Univer-sity of California, Davis professors presented their case as part of the Heuermann Lecture series at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Hardin Hall Tuesday afternoon.

The use of pesticides, soluble fer-tilizers and soil erosion are the three main issues affecting agriculture to-day, and they need to be addressed, Adamchak said. Organic farming is one strategy to meet these challenges, but organic farming is not without its own faults.

“As an organic farmer, I think organic farming practices increase sustainability,” said Adamchak, who manages the UC Davis student farm,

a five-acre market garden. He has farmed organically for eight years.

Adamchak is a market garden coordinator in the Agricultural Sus-tainability Institute at UC Davis and teaches organic agriculture there.

However, organic agriculture doesn’t quite solve the problem, he said. One issue with organic farming is that organic products may be too expensive for low-income consum-ers.

“Organic food is largely pur-chased by affluent people,” Adam-chak said.

Another shortcoming of organic agriculture, according to Adamchak, is that some pests and diseases are difficult to address using organic methods.

“(Organic farming) can’t do it all,” he said.

Ronald — a professor in the De-partment of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at UC Davis, director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEn-ergy Institute and Adamchak’s wife — believes that this is where genetic

engineering comes in.“Plants get diseases just as hu-

mans do,” Ronald said. Genetic engineering creates crops

that are resistant to certain viruses, diseases and conditions, Ronald said.

“I believe it would be foolish to not take advantage of food genetics to increase sustainabil-ity,” Ronald said.

Ronald ad-dressed recent nega-tivity toward ge-netically modified foods. In November, California voters rejected Prop 37, which would have required products containing geneti-cally modified in-gredients to be labeled.

Genetic engineering has been used for 20 years without a single case of adverse health or environmental impacts, she said. According to Ron-ald, the consensus in the scientific

community is there is no need to rule out food genetics in improving crops.

Pitting organic farming and ge-netic engineering against one another is counterproductive, Ronald said.

Adamchak and Ronald conclud-ed that in order to feed the world’s

growing population, organic farming prac-tices and genetic en-gineering need to be used collaboration.

“ A g r i c u l t u r e needs our collective help,” Ronald said. “For a productive and sustainable global ag-riculture, we need ev-eryone at the table.”

The next Heu-ermann lecture will take place at 3:30

p.m. on April 9 in Hardin Hall when Per Pinstrup-Andersen delivers his speech titled “The Global Food Sys-tem and Related Policy Challenges.”


courtesy photoconstruction of the university of Nebraska-lincoln’s outdoor adventure center, shown in a ren-dering above, may begin in a few weeks after plans have been delayed in recent months due to project bid issues.

HEATHER HASkINSdn

A host of high school science hope-fuls will take to the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln’s campus Wednesday with their eyes set on the engineering prize.

From 9:30 am to 2:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ballroom, the UNL College of Engineering will host a Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Math and Science competition for high school students from across Nebraska and Western Iowa.

Hosted by the Junior Engineer-ing Technical Society, TEAMS aims to challenge high school students to use science, math and engineering skills to come together to solve problems. Engineering college faculty and staff hope the TEAMS program will foster creativity, knowledge and coopera-tion.

Maggie Jobes, the assistant direc-tor of recruitment for the College of Engineering, said that the college has a lot to get out of the event.

“I think probably what the Col-lege of Engineering would hope to gain is just keeping students who are in high school and middle school involved and interested in engineer-ing,” Jobes said.

The TEAMS competition has two levels: a nineth- and 10th-grade level and an 11th- and 12th-grade level.

Each high school brings teams to participate, and each team has four to eight people. Teachers, parents, coun-selors and professional engineers will coach the various teams.

The competition consists of two tests, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This year’s test subject is engineering a secure cyberspace. Each test takes 90 minutes to com-plete. The first will be comprised of multiple-choice questions, and the

second has open-ended questions.The students work together on

the tests. Jobes said the problems mimic actual problems faced by en-gineers.

“It’s math and science, but it’s not like the ACT,” Jobes said. “It’s more situational.”

For the ninth- and 10th-grade level, the situations will be similar but less complex than at the 11th- and 12th-grade level.

Teams earn points based on how well they perform. These points de-termine which team moves up a level to compete in the state competition.

The theme of TEAMS changes every year and is based on the Na-tional Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges.

The TEAMS program hopes to show students opportunities in engi-neering, as well as build confidence in their abilities in the field. The pro-gram promotes problem solving in a

team environment, according to the TEAMS website.

Jobes said she is excited to see the students at work.

“I think just being around stu-dents of this caliber is so cool,” Jobes said. “I’m excited to see them com-pete and how they process things and grow throughout the day.”

Anton Hassebrook, a junior me-chanical engineering major and a dean’s leader, helped organize the event and said the competition chal-lenges high school students.

“I think this event is important for high school students because many high school students simply aren’t challenged,” Hassebrook said in an email. “This event gives them some insight into how they will actu-ally have an opportunity to really ap-ply themselves in college.”


For a productive

and sustainable global agriculture, we need everyone at the table.”

PAMELA RONALDuc davis geneticist

CRISTINA WOODWORTHdn

Members of the Committee for Fees Allocation at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln voted to increase funding for the Daily Nebraskan by more than $12,500 Tuesday after newspaper lead-ers appealed the committee’s previous recommendation.

Under the new recommendation, the DN would receive $121,500 for the 2013-14 academic year. The increase would completely cover the paper’s printing and distribution costs.

At present, UNL students pay $2.49 per semester for the DN. That number would increase under the new recommendation, which still needs approval from the Association of Students of the University of Ne-braska.

“To put it simply, it seems pretty simple to me,” said CFA member Evan Marolf. “If we want to continue to have the paper, we have to give them an increase unless we want to see the paper eventually go under.”

Several CFA members said they opposed the amended fee allocation because no new facts about the budget were presented.

“I really don’t understand what the new information is for this ap-peal,” CFA member Lukas Fricke said. “I don’t see what was brought up to-day that we don’t already know.”

The DN had originally requested a $50,000 increase for the 2013-14 aca-demic year, which would bring the pa-per’s funding to $158,974. Some com-mittee members questioned how such an increase would improve the DN’s financial standing and further fiscal responsibility.

Representatives from the DN ad-dressed several of the CFA members’ concerns with the paper’s original budget presentation at Tuesday’s meeting, including a discrepancy in the DN policy book and the possibility of pulling from other funds to avoid a student fee increase.

At last week’s CFA meeting, sev-eral committee members expressed concern with a policy in the DN hand-book that says student fee allotments can only be spent on printing and dis-

tribution costs. Representatives from the DN have said they would use part of the fee increase to help fund a larger online presence and the creation of a mobile app for the paper.

David Bressel, chairman of the DN publications board, said the board purposefully overlooked this policy when it originally approved the pa-per’s budget increase request.

“It is within our digression as a board to make those changes to the policy book in order for the paper to survive,” Bressel said at the meeting. “And in order to pull ourselves out of financial trouble, we have to con-tinue spending money and take some risks.”

Some CFA members at last week’s meeting also questioned whether a student fee increase is warranted when the DN has a separate fund, called the “DN of the Future” Fund, which can be used to pay for a variety of enhancements for the paper.

Dan Shattil, general manager at the DN, said the paper already pulls money from the fund, though, and there isn’t enough in the fund to allow the paper to be self-sustaining. There is currently more than $370,000 in the fund, according to DN documents.

CFA member Ryan King voiced his support for the DN’s fee increase, saying the paper needs more money to improve the digital side of the paper.

“They’re not going to have that sort of money unless students help them get there by funding at least some increase to cover printing,” King said. “I think it could be in the best interests of students to help increase the quality of the workmanship that comes from the Daily Nebraskan and moves it to a (digital) platform that the majority of our students are going to-wards.”

The University Program Coun-cil also made an appeal at Tuesday’s meeting to increase its student fee funding.

CFA members voted to keep their original recommendation for UPC, which keeps the organization’s fund-ing the same for next year at just over $205,700.


DANIEL WHEATONdn

Jane Kleeb is off to Washington to do something about the Keystone XL pipeline. And she’s taking 125 other Nebraskans with her.

Before departing, Kleeb and other members of Bold Nebraska held a press conference in the Capi-tol Building Tuesday, outlining their plans to fight against the Keystone XL pipeline.

Bold Nebraska, an activist group leading the opposition to the pipe-line, plans to lobby the U.S. State Department to reevaluate the safety of the pipeline. The group will also participate in the “Forward on Cli-mate” rally that will be held in the National Mall Sunday.

This move has come after Ne-braska Gov. Dave Heineman ap-proved a route for the pipeline on Jan. 23. Heineman’s move was a major step toward building the pipeline in Nebraska.

Newly approved Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama have the final say on the pipeline because it crosses international borders. The pipeline would pump oil from the Alberta tar sands to oil refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.

Kleeb said she felt confident that Kerry would provide a fair assessment over the pipeline. Cli-mate change has remained largely out of the Obama administration’s discussion during his first term. Environmentalists say the govern-ment should be investing in greener forms of energy, instead of increas-ing supply of oil. Without another election looming, Obama has more room to take action. In addition to environmental concerns, Kleeb said

she plans to ask the State Depart-ment to run new reports considering the impact the pipeline could have on tribal artifacts. The new route crosses the Ponca Trail of Tears in five places.

“We are 125 strong headed to D.C. for the largest gathering on climate change and on the Keystone XL pipeline,” Kleeb said.

Kleeb said Bold Nebraska’s ma-jor concern is the report released by the Nebraska Department of Envi-ronmental Quality (DEQ) doesn’t adequately address potential harms such as how an oil spill would affect Nebraska’s water supply, soil and ecosystem.

The recently approved route moves the pipeline out of the Clarks Wellhead Protection Area of the Sandhills, where the aquifer is rela-tively close to the surface. But, the pipeline would still travel over the Ogallala Aquifer.

“The report is laughable at best and is irresponsible for the DEQ,” Kleeb said.

Ken Winston, a member of the Sierra Club, a grassroots environ-mentalist group, used this opportu-nity to lambast Heineman for some of his recent actions.

“The governor has been wrong a lot lately,” Winston said. “He brought Nebraska together to op-

pose his tax plan, he was wrong about his Lieutenant governor’s character and he’s wrong about the pipeline.”

Winston also explained the law-suit against LB1161, a bill passed during the special legislative session in 2011, which allowed the DEQ to analyze the new route. The Nebras-ka Easement Action Team filed suit against the State and is expected to go to trial in July, Winston said.

“It’s really a big deal to stand up for our fundamental rights,” Win-ston said.

He also expressed his disap-pointment about the DEQ’s report.

“It would be like writing a book review about ‘Moby Dick’ and not mentioning the whale,” Winston said.

Randy Thompson, a landowner from Martell, spoke at the press con-ference. Thompson’s face has ap-peared on many of Bold Nebraska’s t-shirts, stickers and other media.

He said he’s glad so many Ne-braskans have taken part in the de-bate over the pipeline.

“It’s important for all of you to realize who is protesting the pipe-line,” Thompson said. “Sometimes the opposition is characterized to be so radical, but we’re ordinary citi-zens.”

Abbi Kleinschmidt, a fifth-gen-eration Nebraska farmer, said the pipeline travels across her land. She will join the other Nebraskans head-ing to Washington. Kleinschmidt has actively protested against the pipeline, and she said doing so has changed her perspective about the country.

“I thank God we have this kind of government,” Kleinschmidt said.


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Bold Nebraska takes keystone fight to DC RHA questions program safety

morgan spiehs | dnabbi kleinschmidt, a fifth generation farmer, speaks during a press conference in the capitol building rotunda on Tuesday. The conference was held to inform people about a rally called For-ward on climate for those who oppose the keystone Xl Pipeline in washington d.c. on Feb. 17.

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ELIAS YOUNgqUISTdn

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Residence Hall Asso-ciation will wait until next week to see if RHA President Meg Brannen will veto a previously passed bill before next week’s meeting.

RHA approved $650 in funds for the Diversity Strate-gic Development Committee’s Friends Beyond Borders pro-gram under the stipulation that the committee would return to RHA with a safety plan before the event occurred.

The event facilitates for international students to be paired up with uni-versity students and spend a weekend at their home. Howev-er, a number of RHA senators expressed a concern at the lack of safety protocols in the initial bill.

“We’ve worked on a safety plan to make this weekend as safe as we can for the people who end up partici-pating in our program,” said Garrett Allen, representative of the committee and a senior phi-losophy major.

Additions to the safety plan include matching participants of the same gender, checking participants with Judicial Af-fairs, hosting a few social events and giving the participants an

emergency number they can call if needed.

The current plan doesn’t have a plan for transporting the students back to UNL should they need to be back before the weekend is over because of lia-bility reasons. While most RHA senators were OK with the risk factor, a number voiced their discomfort.

“I feel we’re responsible at the very least, and I’m not comfortable, at the very least, with a plan where they can’t get back home,” said RHA Trea-surer Nate Watley, a senior com-puter engineering major. “It’s highly unlikely that something will happen, but our name, the

universi ty’s name, is on it. We’ve said that it is un-likely, but I don’t think this con-tingency is enough.”

RHA also unanimously passed a bill to allocate $450 from

RHA’s initiatives and improve-ments fund to start a student adviser program for residence hall associations.

As a part of a social media initiative, RHA has launched a blog at www.unlrha.blogspot.com.


I’m not comfortable

with a plan where they can’t get back home.”

NATE WATLEYrha treasurer

“Because in two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations and anni-versaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun,” Obama said.

Ari Kohen, an associate pro-fessor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said he was uncertain if Congress would act on gun violence.

“But the rhetoric about the vic-tims of gun violence, I think, reso-nates with most people,” Kohen said. “Given that we know how large is the percentage of Ameri-cans who favor some more strin-gent gun control legislation than we have now.”

Obama also described his hopes for immigration reform. He plans to boost border security, cre-ate a pathway to citizenship and

expedite the naturalization pro-cess.

“As a first-generation Ameri-can, (Obama’s) rallying call for the comprehensive immigration re-form really hit home,” said Dunixi Guereca, secretary of UNL Young Democrats and a senior political science major. “We need to make sure immigrants are brought out of the shadows and are truly here.”

Mike Gruszczynski, a politi-

cal science graduate student, said Obama’s speech mirrored other second-term presidents because of the need to define their legacy be-fore they become a lame duck.

“I think he did a good job lay-ing out his plan,” Gruszczynski said. “But we’ll see how easy or difficult executing it is, given the political climate and realities.”

Obama will need the support of some Republicans in the short

term, unless Democrats reclaim the majority in the House dur-ing the 2014 midterm elections. Gruszczynski said this was un-likely.

In the speech, Obama said he would ensure equal treatment for all service members — gay or straight. He made no other men-tion of LGBT issues.

Kohen said the State of the Union will begin to define Obama’s legacy, which already includes the Affordable Care Act and the changing nature of war-fare.

“Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger,” Obama said.


I think he did a good job laying out his plan. but we’ll see how easy or difficult

executing it is, given the political climate and realities.”

MIkE gRUSzCzYNSkIpolitical science graduate student

It started with “Doctor Who.” A friend recommended the show, and I watched the first episode online. I was instantly hooked. The next thing I knew, I had watched all six seasons in the matter of days.

When I had finished, I felt that strange emotion where you don’t really know what to do with your life. (It’s similar to the feel-ing most people got when they finished read-ing the Harry Potter series.) So I went to find a new show to watch, a new fix. From “Doctor Who,” I moved on to “Merlin” and “Sherlock” and then all seven and a half seasons of “Su-pernatural.” In the course of the past year, I have watched far more complete series of shows than I am proud of.

This may sound neurotic, but I am not the only person engaging in this type of behavior. This up-and-coming trend, called binge-view-ing or binge-watching, is especially common among college students. If you haven’t done this with at least one show, chances are you at least know someone who has.

Television is a popular conversation topic in college. Everyone is always talking about the latest episode of “Breaking Bad” or “Game of Thrones” or “How I Met Your Mother.” Tele-vision is something that binds our generation together. It’s something we can talk to anyone about. Think that girl who sits next to you in history is cool, but you don’t know what to talk to her about? Just ask her about her fa-vorite shows. More than likely, you can flail together about the Jess and Nick kiss on “New Girl.” It’s this word-of-mouth promotion and the fact that almost all shows are readily avail-able online that promotes binge-watching.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote recently in defense of releasing entire seasons at once, “Imagine if books were always released one chapter per week, and were only briefly avail-able to read at 8 p.m. on Thursday. And then someone flipped a switch, suddenly allowing people to enjoy an entire book, all at their own pace. That is the change we are bringing about. That is the future of television.”

Proponents of binge-viewing say it forces producers and writers to put out better quality television. It calls for more overarching story-lines and not just subplots for every episode. Aaron Riccio on CNN says, “(Binge-viewers) don’t collapse into their couches, they commit to them, and this makes them demand a little

more from programmers.”Binge-viewers love watching several sea-

sons of shows in a few days because it allows them to pick up on nuances and references they may have otherwise missed. They get to know the characters more personally. That personal relationship stems from the lack of distractions.

Riccio makes this point later in his article. “Watching, reading or listening to anything creative requires a sus-pension of disbelief, an invest-ment of our reality in theirs. Ev-ery commercial break erodes that thin and personal connection a little; weeklong gaps between ep-isodes stretch us closer and closer to the point at which our atten-tion snaps and moves elsewhere.”

The biggest arguments against binge-watching are legiti-mate health concerns for people who just camp out on their couch-es. There are ties to heart disease, diabetes and other things you definitely don’t want to have. Fortunately, there are several things you can do to make sure you get your fix and still stay healthy.

First, you can use TV as an excuse to do housework. Because I watch all my shows on my laptop, I can be in any room of my apart-ment and still have access to the television. A lot of times, I’ll set my laptop on my kitchen counter and wash the dishes or make some food. Sometimes I place it on my desk and clean out my closet, and it turns a daunting

task into something far less formidable. It can also be helpful if you’re doing

homework, especially boring busywork. This doesn’t work if you have to do intensive read-ing or write a paper, but more than likely, you have at least one class per semester that re-quires lot of pretty brainless homework. For this type of homework, having a television show on in the background isn’t overly dis-tracting.

Finally, there are many different types of exercises that are easy to do while the TV is on. Make a point of doing some crunches or walk-ing in place while you’re on a binge.

Binging-watching isn’t for everyone. There are other arguments against it, including that it ruins the integrity of the episodes and doesn’t give cliffhangers or “time to breathe,” accord-ing to Jim Pagels of Slate. Another of his rea-sons binge-viewing needs to stop is “TV char-acters should be a regular part of our lives, not someone we hang out with 24/7 for a few days and then never see again.” While that is a valid point, I disagree.

Last summer, I took a weeklong road trip with a friend. We survived a blown tire and en-

gine problems — all without air conditioning. But we also made some fantastic memories of driving through mountains and singing Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” at the top of our lungs. We made inappropriate jokes while watching Old Faithful erupt and cried with joy when we got our hands on some de-licious Montana-brewed beer. All the events that took place during that road trip are mem-ories neither of us are likely to forget even if we don’t remain friends forever.

That is how I view binge-watching. You’re in close quarters with a good show for a short amount of time. In that time, you go through the good and the bad, and when the show is over, you’re not likely to forget it. I’d rather have a short relationship that means a lot than a long relationship that I never get really at-tached to.

danae lenz is a senior Journal-ism maJor. follow her on twitter @

danaelenz or reach her at [email protected].

If you’re graduating in May, you’re probably feeling a lot of pressure from parents, peers and society to find a job. When you walk onto the stage to receive your degree, you’re expected to have a job lined

up. For those of you who have a job

lined up, congrats. For those of you who haven’t gotten a job yet, don’t worry! Not having a job after graduation can be dis-couraging, but it can also be an opportu-nity. Students can choose to be optimistic even if they don’t have a job after gradu-ation.

Lots of recent college graduates are searching for jobs. About half of college graduates are unemployed or underem-ployed, according to an AP analysis.

The typical college graduate contin-ues to look for a job three to nine months after receiving his or her degree. About half will move back home to continue the job search.

Trying to find a job is a job in itself. The job search process is nerve-wrecking. I’m surprised I’m not spazzing out 24-7. Right after graduation can be an exciting time. Don’t make it one of nervousness by overstressing.

Finding a job is something you should take seriously, but don’t obsess over it. If you’re vomiting just looking at a job ap-

plication, it’s time to take a step back.There are lots of possibilities after col-

lege. Recent graduates can take the time right after college to create their own op-portunities. There are a lot out there. Stu-dents have to make the most of them. Just don’t sit on the couch.

Recent graduates who don’t find a job should be flexible. Things aren’t set in stone. They can take advantage of oppor-tunities to help them eventually get a job.

Many students continue their educa-tion after graduation. More than a 1,000 graduate students received a degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this year, according to the UNL Graduate Studies website. Going to law school or a technical school can help recent gradu-ates gain new skills that can help them nab a job.

Other students find employment by taking a service job while looking for a job that works with their degree. Some even take an internship after graduation in place of a job. These internships can lead to jobs later on.

Graduates without a job can take the time after graduation to build their own brand. Self-starters always have the op-tion of freelance or individual work.

Other college students take advantage of their free time to gain new experiences. College students without jobs might take

the time to travel. One way to do this is by joining the Peace Corp. Hundreds of people join the Peace Corps after college.

Graduates without jobs can also take the time to concentrate on their personal lives. They can reconnect with friends and family they haven’t seen in a while.

The time after graduation can be a great time to meet new people. A great way to do this is by volunteering. Gradu-ate students can use volunteer opportuni-ties for networking.

Most importantly, don’t give up on searching for a job. Preferably one with benefits. There are a lot of great resources

to help with the job search. The process can be relatively easy if you know where to look.

The job market is competitive. Keep filling out those applications. Don’t spend too much time overthinking things or obsessing over a single application. The hardest part about the job search can be waiting. Call back and inquire about the status of the application.

Even if a job isn’t ad-vertised, call organiza-tions and see if there is something available. The company or organization will probably be offering a job in your field some-time in the future.

As long as students have a job search strat-egy or post-college plans ready, odds are things are going to be all right.

Many economists predict that the em-ployment rate will get better. A USA To-day survey found that top economists felt optimistic that the number of jobs will in-crease during the year. Don’t forget, it’s early in the year. There’s plenty of time to find a job, especially later in the year when top economists predict more jobs will be created.

Even reality TV is trying to help peo-ple find a job. Mark Burnett, the producer of “Survivor” and “The Voice,” created a new reality TV show focusing on contes-tants hoping to land a job at their dream company.

Does America really need a reality TV show to teach individuals how to find a

job? The answer is no. The contestants on the show have to sell themselves.

The show is based on the drama that comes with the pressure of finding a job. The show offers viewers a chance to de-stress and be grateful that they haven’t re-sorted to reality TV for a job. It’s not the way to learn how to effectively write a resume or cover letter.

What continues to work is networking. Who you know matters. Students who have those skills will be fine.

If you’re nervous about not having a job after graduation, don’t panic. It’s not the end of the world.

Kim bucKley is a senior news-editorial maJor. send her Job

search advice on twitter @Kim-ceebee or via email at opinion@

dailynebrasKan.com.

danae lenz

d n e d i t o r i a l b o a r d m e m b e r s

Lincoln Exposed allows students to embrace cultureThe Daily Nebraskan A&E staff hears it every year around

the time of Lincoln’s biggest all-local music festival from the musicians in the scene: “If we could have anything from Lincoln Exposed this year, we want to see more students at the shows.”

There’s a troubling irony to the fact that a local music scene would have to fight and claw for recognition in the backyard of 25,000 college students, thousands of whom are socializing and partying downtown right where the shows are held. But rather than vilify the Internet or student apathy or a lack of communi-cation, let’s talk about what the Lincoln Exposed festival gives you students the opportunity to do for your community.

When the festival kicks off this week, as it does every Febru-ary, you have an opportunity to see dozens of talented musi-cians in every genre across three venues for $7 a night. That’s no more than the door covers a student pays on an average night out. All the artists are Lincolnites. Some of the musicians are ambitious and up-and-coming. Others are Lincoln diehards with no interest in climbing an industry ladder. But what they all have in common is the desire to be heard and appreciated for their merits as artists. Otherwise they wouldn’t be on the dusky stages, playing their hearts out for virtually free. If you’d like recommendation on who you might enjoy from the diverse sample of musical acts, contact our A&E editors at [email protected].

A vast segment of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student body is here for four-odd years of undergraduate work and then it’s off to jobs in other cities or back home. But it’s so vitally important to recognize that for that time, you also live in Lincoln. Part of being a proactive citizen is investing in the communities around you. For our city, that means supporting art and culture. So when 50 or so bands gather to play in the triangle of the Zoo Bar, Duffy’s Tavern and the Bourbon Theatre this Wednesday through Saturday, we would ask you to take advantage of the fact that they’re all in one place. It’ll be easier than ever to discover the Lincoln scene, and in doing so, support its health and the passions of your neighbors.

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andrew dicKinsonEDITOR-IN-CHIEFryan duggan OPINION EDITOR

rhiannon root ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR

hailey KonnathASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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Katie nelsonA&E ASSISTANT EDITOR

andrew wardSPORTS EDITORKevin moser

WEB CHIEF

Kim bucKley

Netflix bonds binge-viewers to shows

Post-college job search allows for growth, networking

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If you’re nervous

about not having a job after graduation, don’t panic. It’s not the end of the world.”

I’d rather have a short

relationship that means a lot than a long relationship that I never get really attached to.”

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In a time when popular culture plays host to the likes of “Tod-dlers & Tiaras,” Snapchat and Trinidad James, few would ar-

gue that this point in history isn’t a bit peculiar.

Skyscrapers, screen-based entertainment and world-wide interconnectivity have become commonplace to our lifestyle in

this day and age. From this vantage point, it’s hard

to predict what people will say about us in 50 years or what we might say about ourselves. It’s questions of how time and place define and redefine what it is be human that challenge and tantalize academics in the hu-manities. That goes for the 21st cen-tury too. In the age of an information revolution, scholars and students at UNL find these questions pertinent.

“I think the current era will be remembered as a moment when a cataclysmic shift took place in what constitutes knowledge,” UNL English professor Rhonda Garelick said. “Not since Gutenberg have

we experienced such a change in what we know and how we know it. I am speak-ing, of course, of the

digitalization of the world’s informa-tion.”

Garelick is not the only one

who acknowledges the nearly uni-versal accessibility of information via the internet among the most impactful modern developments.

“Information has become so apparent that we now suffer from over-saturation and now must search through bounds of information to find what is relevant,” soph-omore broadcasting and English major Ja-cob Elliott said.

Other University of Nebraska-Lincoln students point to the global interconnec-tivity made possible by the internet as another phenomenon that has deeply af-fected us.

“The internet has definitely been a defining factor for our generation,” senior psychology and English major Ben Tomjack said. “The ease (with) which we can obtain information and the ability to connect and in-teract with people across the world in real time have played a big part (in) all our lives.”

With relatively little mental exertion, we are now able to connect with nearly anyone in the world and access oceans of information with a few touches of a button. Certainly, this comes with advantages, but it may also have its drawbacks.

“While we are connected globally as never before, we have also lost most of what used to be called privacy, lost any sense of inner and outer worlds being distinct,” G a r e l i c k said. “Since every action online leaves a ‘trace’ which can be intercepted and surveilled by other entities, we risk ced-

ing whatever control we might exercise over our economic and political life to those corporations that oversee our transactions.”

English professor Timothy Schaffert agreed that in con-ceding to a lack of privacy nowadays, we may willingly be placing power over our lives in the hands of entities with questionable intentions.

“We’ve relinquished our privacy to corporations, and we did so partly for the fun of it — revealing our whereabouts, our tastes, following links, leaving a path of our thoughts and experiences for algorithms to corrupt,” Schaffert said. “I don’t know that (this) affects our humanity, per se, but if we’re looking to technology to frame our relationship with the world, we might be en-trusting it to the robots of ad agencies and marketing departments.”

Some students expressed a sense that our complete immersion in digital worlds is distancing us from meaningful social re-lationships.

“We live in an age in which, not only do we add filters to our photos to make them look older, but we photograph every mo-ment, sometimes living more through the photos than the experience itself,” junior

history major Shailana Dunn-Wall said. “Our lives are becoming evermore connected through Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other social media sites and yet most people feel more disconnected from each other than ever because our ability to connect with people on a more personal, intimate level is declining. It is much easier to connect over superficial things than it is to speak in depth with someone in person.”

Junior English and film stud-ies major Megan Brown echoed Dunn-Wall’s sentiment, adding that our heavy reliance on the Internet may also be having detrimental effects on our cog-nitive faculties.

“People are more connected, although this connection is a dou-ble-edged sword of putting us in contact with more people, but having less true friendships and connections,” Brown said. “Studies have also shown that we’re losing our short-term mem-ories because we can access any and all information via the wonder of the Internet.”

This notion – that the explo-sion of digital domains has simultaneously created some sort of void in our lives– may sound like a familiar talking point. For Garelick, it may be that the vastness of our cyberspaces has convoluted our sense of what is meaning-ful and perhaps muddled our

notions of who we are and where it is we belong.

“The critic Fredric Jame-son has written about how colonialism, in changing the

‘bodily parameters’ of a coun-try (extending it to other nations overseas) affected how its citizens perceived and felt their own physical surround-ings,” Garelick said. “I think something similar is happen-

ing now. I think that the infinite expanse of the internet, in which we all swim daily, has un-moored us somewhat. We are moving in a place we cannot fathom yet and for all its considerable benefits, it is disorienting and potentially very uprooting.”

As far as the breadth of the changes are concerned, students cited the idea that humanity has experienced radical shifts in society’s organi-zation in previous centuries with mixed and subjective results.

“These changes are not altogether a bad thing, but they are forcing us to rethink the ways we think and live our lives, much like the Industrial Revolution did, and every technological revo-lution before has, as well,” Dunn-Wall said. “Technol-ogy has affected all our lives. If we so choose, we can use it to make the world better — by teaching and con-necting with peo-ple across the world and creating opportu-nities that had never

before existed,” she said. “Technolo-gy does not make us better people, nor does it make us worse. It simply maxi-mizes the impact that we can have in the world. Whether that impact is positive or negative is up to us.”

For Garelick, art may be an in-tegral puzzle piece in our quest

to find meaning in ourselves and our personal lives, de-

spite the unsettling sense of the infinitude of our virtual domains.

“And that might be where art comes in,” Garelick said. “I think making and studying art can help counter this feel-ing of ‘flattening out’ — of

expansion without mean-ing. That is why I teach and that is why I want my students to spend time in deep and slow contemplation of works of art — liter-

ary or otherwise,” she said. “To develop a rich inte-rior life is to resist the corporatization of culture.”

For these scholars in the humanities, it holds that an attempt to nail down the de-fining concepts or boundaries of this era is complicated and produces as many ques-tions as answers. But it is only by nego-tiating these difficult questions that we become more conscientious of where we, as a society, have been and where

we should be heading. Still, for scholars, it is through the collective pondering of these issues

that we can continue to remember what we share and what brought us here in the first place — name-

ly, our incomparable humanity. arts@

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the ease (with) which

we can obtain information and the ability to connect and interact with people across the world in real time have played a big part (in) all our lives.

ben tomjacksenior psychology and

english major

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The girls are back in town.Committed to female empow-

erment and advancement in the music industry, Club No Quiet is making a name for itself as Oma-ha’s newest record label. Mem-bers aren’t working toward prof-it, fame or fortune, but toward a deeper goal. According to their mission statement, they “seek to combat sexism in the music com-munity, and in society at large.”

The label is multifaceted: one part is focused on producing female-driven music, booking shows and promoting, and the other part is focused on mentor-ship.

“The record label functions and the mentorship movement will kind of feed into each other,” said founder and director Rachel Tomlinson Dick. “Bands and art-ists will act as mentors for other girls and hopefully these girls will be encouraged to produce their own music and will produce with the label too.”

Tomlinson Dick explained that the local music scene is strat-ified, and nearly everyone at the top is male. For her money, this needs to change.

“The idea behind that isn’t saying that we want to make it so men are no longer involved in the music scene, but we just want more encouragement for women,” assistant director Darcy Covert said. “I don’t think it was done intentionally to make it so men are more prevalent, but it hasn’t been aided either. (I draw inspiration from) people who are finding spaces in the community and trying to fill those holes. I think we found one of those holes and we’re trying to fill it.”

Like every other Club No Quiet board member, assistant director Melissa Amstutz wants people to view female musicians in a different light. She wants to forge a connec-tion between mu-sical self-expres-sion and female e m p o w e r m e n t . Amstutz said she finds inspiration from other fe-male bands and her own history with music.

“It’s hard being a woman in music and it’s hard being a young girl in music,” Amstutz said. “... also just growing up in the music scene and having sometimes neg-ative experiences or experiences

that weren’t really offered to me during that time.”

Club No Quiet hasn’t entered into contracts with any bands or artists yet, but Covert said groups are showing interest, especially after Club No Quiet’s launch show on Feb. 1. They held the show at the Sweatshop Gallery in downtown Benson. It included silent and loud mouth auctions,

karaoke and performances by five local bands — Omaha’s George Glass, Sister Kisser, Howard and The Wayward Little Satan Daughters and Rock Paper Sisters from Lin-coln.

“The com-munity response was almost overwhelming,” Tomlinson Dick said. “A lot of people came out to support it, which we were really excited and humbled by. The community

sees this as something that’s re-ally important and needed, which is cool because independent mu-sic has been very male-dominat-ed, especially in Omaha.”

While alterations to the scene need to be made, Tomlinson Dick

Omaha record label to combat industry sexism

digital revolution shapes, complicates human identity story by Jordan bates | art by natalia kraviec

Zoo bar6:45 p.m. - brian Vranicar band 8 p.m. - orion walsh9:15 p.m. - speedsweat10:30 p.m. - bonehart flannigan11:45 p.m. - stonebelly

bourbon theatre7:30 p.m. - red cities8:45 p.m. - bus Gas10 p.m. - ezra11:15 p.m. - burning down the Villager12:30 a.m. - time Hammer

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duffy’s tavern7:45 p.m. - fire forth9 p.m. - dean the bible10:15 p.m. - strawberry burns 11:30 p.m. - thirst things first12:45 a.m. - powers

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eZra brian vranicar band

stonebelly

orion walshburning down the villager

time hammer

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club no Quiet aims to eradicate gender barriers through female collaboration

bands and artists will

act as mentors for other girls and hopefully these girls will be encouraged to produce their own music and will produce with the label too.”rachel tomlinson

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»editor’s note: Just like you, the dn arts & entertainment staff could use some love this valen-tine’s day week. to prove we’re more than just a pretty byline, see if anything in our staff dat-ing profiles piques your inter-est. send flowers and choco-lates to [email protected].

what are your plans for this valentine’s day?

Around 3 p.m. I’ll remember it’s Valentine’s Day and make a commemorative playlist. For reference, last year’s was a lot of Trapt.

if you could be serenaded by anyone this

thursday, who would it be?

Ben Howard. Close sec-ond, and far more probable this Thursday, is those guys from Good Show Great Show.

what’s a dating deal breaker for you?

Let me wear my chain and my turtleneck sweater!

favorite part of the human body?

Hands. Shoulders. That’s two.

what’s your dirty little secret?

Gouda. That’s what Tyson Ritter was talking about, right?

romantically speaking, which us president would you be 1) in a fancy restaurant, 2) behind closed doors?

Theodore Roosevelt never did anything behind closed doors he wouldn’t do in a fancy restaurant.

what’s love got to do with it, got to

do with it?Keep your political beliefs to

yourself, Tina.

when was the last time you paid homage to the hallmark gods?

Last time I visited America’s holiday haven was to buy a birthday card in Braille.

if you were on a valentine’s day date with harvey perlman, what would you talk about?

Harvey and I don’t speak.

what’s the most romantic spot in lincoln?

Brothers at 1:58 a.m.

are cooties real and, if so, what’s the best way to avoid them?

Cooties go by all sorts of names these days. Try Windex.

have your valentine’s day plans changed since you started filling this out?

I’ve been promised Merlot and coloring. Top that.

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There’s something behind you. Something follows your ev-

ery step. You turn around, but see nothing in the dead space.

Fear not, early heretics, Vis-ceral Games’ third edition in its inspired science-fiction horror se-ries delivers, yet again, action and terror one cold metal corridor at a time.

Despite the additions of coop-erative multiplayer, a larger em-phasis on action and human-on-human combat that fans decried, “Dead Space 3” captures some of the best its predecessors had to of-fer and logically evolves the fran-chise’s direction.

After all, when a religion based on mind-altering alien ar-tifacts calls for the destruction of mankind, bringing about its “Convergence,” shit is going to get real. Unitology preaches a harmony after death, a new begin-ning. As it turns out, this afterlife proves far more grotesque than the organization’s peaceful adver-tisements suggest.

With the world on the brink of undead apocalypse, Isaac Clark, space ship engineer and append-age mutilator supreme, returns, his psyche still reeling from con-tact with the artifacts known as “Markers.”

In his first outing, a job to re-pair the derelict Ishimaru, Clark silently faced the monstrosities, known as “Necromorphs,” with his wits and tools for defense. Now, for his third kind encounter, he’s the badass with experience,

the Ripley of the gang, brought on for his special expertise and knack for survival.

“Dead Space 3” reflects this more aggressive stance with the addition of an in-depth weapon-crafting system. Where the previ-ous titles allowed certain weapon improvements, “DS3” lets players build a plethora of unique assault rifles, plasma cutters and saw-blade-lighting-generator-thingys. Based off blueprints or from their own creativity, players piece sev-eral weapon sections together, making their own monstrosities. The options are entirely over-whelming at first, but as the nar-rative progresses and the player gets access to scavenger bots, the system’s capabilities can be fully appreciated.

Prior to release, hubbub about the option to purchase — with real currencies — items and up-grades for in-game characters overinflated itself. The opportu-nity is there, but unobtrusive to the rest of the experience.

Though more well-equipped to take on its fiends than ever, “Dead Space” still generates fear through its aesthetics and player agency.

The combination of an oppres-sive, dark atmosphere and un-relenting audio cues leave play-ers forever uneasy. The sounds of muffled screams, screeches, clanks and scraping metal dance around the environments like a sci-fi carnival from hell.

The series cleverly hides load-ing screens behind elevators and doors. Even these gnash their surfaces together, grinding out horrible sounds as they open and close, uncannily similar to those of the Necromorphs bursting from air vents.

On top of incorporating these clatters into what may seem like the safest points in the game, the load time required by the doors

leaves players waiting, helpless. This powerless sense pervades much of “Dead Space 3,” and the blizzarding planet, where much of the game takes place, only ac-centuates it. Instead of just corri-dors and air vents, every step into the thick blanket of snow brings players closer to death: hideous beings lying frozen in wait.

Ultimately, strong foreboding messages bring all these elements together. First there’s distorted noises.

We heard things down there, so we didn’t take the chance of going, a character says. Too bad. Isaac needs something from that basement. On the way, an old au-dio diary plays in the elevator, referencing some vague evil left in the pits. Once down, erect, wool-

wrapped body bags litter the fro-zen catacombs. Something will burst from one of these, no doubt. But nothing does happen. In that state of uncertainty, “Dead Space 3,” merely teasing you until this point, shows players true dread.

The evolution toward action also makes sense for the series. Now that followers of Unitology are attempting to kill Clark, not featuring these combat situations would be neglecting the story. And, when these believers are confronted with the unseemly af-termaths of their faith, it just feels natural – divine retribution.

However, while these seg-ments fit the narrative, “Dead Space 3” executes them in the blandest fashion. Cover and roll-ing mechanics bumble haphaz-ardly. The human enemies, un-

like their frighteningly adaptable alien counterparts, loaf around arenas or jog toward the player openly. The dynamic of human-on-human-on-necromorph fight-ing excites players, but when a headless, blade-limbed maniac swings wildly at others and they fail to notice, it’s just awkward.

All this fighting and fear serves as a conduit for moments of actual progression. Unfortu-nately, “Dead Space 3” falls on some very generic meta-game-play. Essentially, players will col-lect parts from specific locations and backtrack, reducing Isaac’s engineering prowess to the press of a single button. Fix this; fix that. It gets old quickly.

Adding another player to the mix in cooperative mode actually benefits the game. For those not scare-inclined, working with an-other person greatly decreases the tension and simultaneously adds new elements to puzzle-solving, crafting and sharing.

The mode’s disadvantages, though, balance out the pros. Characters simply disappear during gameplay sections after cutscenes involving them. All to facilitate the important single player experience, Carver, a meat-head vessel for the second player, is cut and pasted in and out of various moments. In single play-er he corresponds with Isaac via microphone; in cooperative he’s right beside him. Even the coop-erative cutscenes focus solely on Isaac’s perspective much of the time, and when they end, Carver just sort of appears.

If players can get past the feel-ing that multiplayer is a tacked-on gimmick, it actually does provide some replay value. Considering the extensive amount of weapon creations, several difficulty op-tions and a satisfying “new game +,” this is a game meant to be played at least a couple times.

The story in “Dead Space 3” doesn’t rise to the minimalist suc-cess of the original title. Not only is there too much “fix this; fix that,” but it ignores Isaac’s unsta-ble mental state for the sake of an unnecessary and unwelcome love triangle that punctuates its medi-ocrity with a last second, end-of-the-world kiss. Gross.

“Dead Space 3” strives for a middle ground of action and sur-vival horror and mostly succeeds. If not for stretches of blandness here and there, Visceral’s design delivers atmospheric immersion and blood-pumping excitement throughout.

Whether for joy or out of fear, no one will hear your scream in the dead of space.



weapons variety, terror carry ‘dead space 3’

paige cornwell

»editor’s note: Just like you, the dn arts & entertainment staff could use some love this valen-tine’s day week. to prove we’re more than just a pretty byline, see if anything in our staff dat-ing profiles piques your interest. send flowers and chocolates to [email protected].

what are your plans for this valentine’s day?

I have four suitors scheduled to compete for my affection, obviously. The showdown is going to be like “Survivor,” except the challenges in-clude “Name That ‘Arrested Develop-ment’ Quote,” “Ability To Grow An Impressive Beard” and “Bank Account Statements.”

if you could be serenaded by anyone this thursday, who would it be?

The Avett Brothers. The whole band, not just the brothers. I love that cello player.

what’s a dating deal breaker for you?

Calling me Paigey. Oh. Hell. No.

favorite part of the human body?

Paws. Oh, humans?

what’s your dirty little secret?

That phrase makes me think of the All-American Rejects song, which I first heard in Hollister when I was in middle school. I think I was buying a yellow polo shirt and a denim mini skirt. I don’t want to talk about it.

romantically speaking, which us president would you be 1) in a fancy restaurant, 2) behind closed doors?

In a fancy restaurant, I would be George Washington, because I like independence. Behind closed doors, John Adams. Let’s have our own XYZ Affair, baby.

what’s love got to do with it, got to do with it?

According to a sassy 13-year-old cousin, love is when a guy likes four of your Instagram photos in a row. Love’s got to do with photos of duck faces and cupcakes, apparently.

(Side note: if Tina Turner and I had formed a band we could have called ourselves “Paige Turner.”)

when was the last time you paid homage

to the hallmark gods?

I would have bought a card two weeks ago for my friend, but Hall-mark didn’t make “Sorry they can-celed ‘30 Rock’ and you’re really depressed about it, but seriously you need to stop crying and declaring your love for Tina Fey” cards.

if you were on a valentine’s day date with harvey perlman, what would you talk about?

If it’s OK for me to call him “Har-vey” or if we’re not quite at that stage in our friendship, yet.

what’s the most romantic spot in lincoln?

The Sheldon. Or maybe O Street when the bars close. You see a lot of people saying “I love you.”

are cooties real and, if so, what’s the best way to avoid them?

Yes. The best way to avoid them is to know it’s possible to get cooties even if your partner shows no symp-toms. Communication is key.

have your valentine’s day plans changed since you started filling this out?

One of my suitors just sent me a message that he’ll be at Lincoln Exposed that night. Shoot. Down to three.



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An ongoing research project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is taking course evaluations to a whole new level.

The project, which includes faculty from the education, po-litical science and history de-partments, began last year with the hope of finding what exactly students take away from classes oriented toward social justice and human rights.

Through surveys, interviews and focus groups, HIST 339: The Holocaust — one of the depart-ment’s largest classes — has be-come a research opportunity for educators and students alike.

Ari Kohen, an associate pro-fessor of political science and director of the human rights pro-gram at UNL, was inspired to cre-ate the project because of the lack of undergraduate human rights minors.

“It’s surprising to me,” Kohen

said. “It’s an 18-credit minor on human rights and I would think that in today’s world, with ev-erything that goes on all over the world, people would be interest-ed in human rights — especially when you think about the num-ber of political science and global studies undergrads. There are al-most none of them that minor in human rights.”

Kohen has also been the advis-er for the Amnesty International group on campus for five years.

“I was struck by all these stu-dents that were very involved in the group but were not human rights minors,” Kohen said. “And then there were these human rights minors who never came to an Amnesty International meet-ing.”

Kohen said he started think-ing about human rights and social justice, and became curious about what interests people in the top-ics.

“I thought, ‘we’re on a college campus, and we have classes on human rights and social justice,’” he said. “I wanted to find out what excites people and why people take those classes — and whether the people who take these classes think they are good ones. I want-ed to know what they’re getting out of those classes.”

The “History of the Holo-caust” class is one of the main courses for the human rights mi-nor, so Kohen and Gerald Stein-acher, who teaches the class, start-ed talking about an idea for an interdisciplinary research study.

“We thought this would be a great way to see why students choose to take classes like this,” Kohen said. “We could find out what they go in hoping to get out of the class and what they, in fact, get out of it.”

From a research perspective, the Holocaust class was ideal be-cause of its size and because it is taught by the same professor ev-ery spring.

“Another reason we picked the Holocaust class is because students have some experience with the topic — whether they had a unit in high school or saw something on the History Chan-nel,” Kohen said. “It’s not a for-eign topic, so it’s interesting to see what students want out the class when they already know some-thing on the topic.”

Robie Sprouse, a graduate stu-dent in political science, became involved with the project last year.

“Basically, what we’re looking at doing is finding out what teach-ing methods and what material

will really click with students,” Sprouse said. “We’re trying to get students’ feedback to try and help develop courses like this later on.”

Sprouse said the study is im-portant because he and the faculty involved are generally interested in the students’ feedback.

“We’re not looking to be the teachers that are dictating what the students are taught,” he said. “We’re trying to figure out what works for them, what doesn’t work for them and really use that information to try and develop classes for students that are fed off of what they have to say.”

The research uses both pre- and post-surveys to gather gen-eral information, as well as inter-views and focus groups to connect with students on a more personal level.

“We ask all kinds of ques-tions,” Kohen said. “Some are ran-dom, some are more specific. We ask things like, ‘Do you usually sell back your textbook?’ or ‘Why did you enroll in this class?’ Some of it is about the students we’re talking to, some of it is about the material or instruction — the ac-tual substance of the course.”

Sprouse said some trends are already showing from previous research.

“Our theory is that teaching from a narrative perspective, us-ing books and interviews with people who were actually there — survivors, perpetrators — it really helps students connect with the material more so than a typical textbook.” Sprouse said. “Based on our first year, our findings kind of confirmed this hypothesis.”

Kohen said the project really has the potential to impact the way educators think about human rights or social injustice for Holo-caust education.

“We can start out small with a single class on campus, then we can expand it out to Lincoln Pub-lic Schools, who have a unit on the Holocaust or even to schools around the country,” Kohen said.

“If we find that there is a consis-tent finding over time, we can re-ally change the material delivered to students.”

Although the study offers no substantial reward for the time commitment necessary to par-ticipate in a focus group, Kohen said the hope is that students will want to help make the class better.

“A lot of this is really about my interest in delivering the best possible product,” he said. “I care about human rights, so if it’s about our ability to deliver the best possible product so that students also care about the topic, then we’ve really got something.“



Unl human rights class offers insight on curriculumi wanted to find out what excites people and why people take those

classes — and whether the people who take these classes think they are good ones.”

ari kohenassociate professor of political science

director of human rights program

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Moments of ‘blandness’ don’t detract from heart-stopping dread

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“I’ve been searching for my girlfriend’s killer for two years, but nobody wants to do it.”

That’s actually one of the tamest jokes on “Caligula,” Anthony Jesel-nik’s latest stand-up comedy album. The first track is titled “Rape,” and the closer is “Shut The Fuck Up.” About a third of the way through he even tells the audience, “If you didn’t know who you were dealing with, now you know.”

What we’re dealing with is a co-median who has built a clever — but ultimately tiring — persona, as a man who will say literally anything to get a laugh. It’s not a lowbrow, “Blue Col-lar Comedy Tour” barrel scraping; it’s more a gross George Carlin tribute.

He starts off talking about rape, “So I know what kind of audience I’m dealing with.” Rape is a subject from which many comedians try and fail to generate laughs, but Jeselnik’s arrogant milieu makes it work. He’s like a very confident lounge lizard who says the first dirty thing that comes to his mind.

Jeselnik grew to fame by appear-ing on Comedy Central’s annual roasts. At first he was the generic-looking guy that the more “famous” comedians viewed with ambivalence and puzzlement. He quickly proved himself as one of the only consis-tently funny roasters, never pulling punches no matter how honored the guest. After two full-length albums, it feels like his vulgar, punchline-de-pendent comedy works better in the quick-burst format rather than the 45-minute special. That’s made clear when some of the biggest laughs of the night come from his questions and subsequent slams of the lucky folks in the front row.

When he interacts with real peo-ple — audience members or roasters on the dais — his barbs have an ex-tra sting. Unfortunately, most of his jokes on “Caligua” start off in gener-ics. Many of them use the placeholder “my girlfriend,” “my ex-girlfriend” or “my friend.”

Most comedians play on these

subjects, but Jeselnik’s jokes are trans-parently crafted to come up with the nastiest punchline possible, rather than getting at some sort of funny col-lective truth. Louis C.K. is incredibly filthy as well, but his jokes seem to come from a real place. He is raw and offensive while still remaining a real, funny person. Jeselnik, rather, seems to speak as a constructed comedian, which makes it hard to enjoy him on anything more than a surface level.

There is absolutely no taboo Je-selnik won’t poke a giant stick at. He mows through necrophilia, burn vic-tims, bulimia, child abuse, spousal abuse, alcoholism, divorce, pornog-raphy, mental disabilities, abortion, atheism and of course, the Holocaust. A few of these jokes in a rapid-fire format work well, but placed succes-sively, they tend to have a numbing effect. The more outlandish and vul-gar he gets, the more desensitized we become.

He’s a funny guy who’s excellent at setting up a joke, but on “Caligula,” his offensive routine wears out its w come.



fast-twitch, crude jokes falter with

full-length special

emily kuklinski

My fellow Americans, I am here to alert you that our nation is now being run by not one, but two presidents. One of them was elected by the people, is a vision-ary and knows how to groove.

The other is Obama. So who swaggered his way

into office so uncontested? It’s our very own Kid President and he’s on a mission to make the world a “gooder” place. And, most of all, he’s been doing a pretty good job.

Kid President, also known as Robby Novak, started making his videos with his older brother-in-law as a way to make happiness an executive order. This 9-year-old has been busy doing just that, most notably with his “Pep Talk” video where he tells the nation to be less boring and more awesome instead. It’s rapidly ap-proaching ten million views.

But what makes Robby so compelling? How does one four-foot-something boy grab the at-tention of a nation? Is it simply because he’s a child?

Probably.Just look up

“funny kid” on YouTube and nearly every video has more than a million views. From “Char-lie Bit my Finger” to “David After Den-tist,” videos of chil-dren saying funny things has practical-ly become a genre in its own right. But the love we feel toward children hasn’t only been evident in the Internet age.

Since the Victorians first be-gan seeing children as innocent and heavenly beings, that image has stuck and evolved. No mat-ter how booger-infested or un-sanitary they might be, time has trained our minds into thinking they’re all Shirley Temples. Even their limited range of knowl-edge has been deemed cute. Bill Cosby revealed this with “Kids

Say the Darndest Things,” where the children responded with out-landish answers to simple ques-tions. That’s a full season of tele-vision in the late 1990s of kids saying silly stuff.

The fact is that when children attempt to make themselves seem more mature or intellectual, it’s almost always hilarious. They try to fill shoes far too big for them, and the awkward dances they do while trying to fit in with people who are their parents’ ages are

just adorable. All of this

could poten-tially be what makes Kid Presi-dent so magnet-ic. Or, it could just be how well he pulls of a suit.

That’s prob-ably it.

Although the kid could proba-bly lay off of the M&M’s and Pixi Stix, the energy

and enthusiasm he brings to the screen is simply addicting. He’s so sweet, he’ll give you diabetes. Better yet, he’ll teach you how to pronounce your illness properly.

Every Thursday, Robby gives the YouTube nation a brief respite from all of the horribleness of the world. He giggles, he dances and sometimes just spouts out gib-berish. But he’s never sad, he’s never low energy; he’s just a pure bundle of joy, the goal being the inspiration you see on your

Facebook newsfeed. He pursues this mission ev-

eryday. As a child who suffers from Osteogenesis imperfecta, more commonly known as brittle bone disease, Robby has broken his bones more than 70 times since he was born. In a few of his videos, he can be seen wearing a brace on his arms, but he chooses not to dwell on his condition. Rather, he thinks it’s better to break our hearts with his bubbly laughter.

How very selfless, and for an audience, it’s the better alterna-tive.

Either way, Kid President has been doing more emotional good for the world than perhaps any-one in actual elected office as of late, and others have been catch-ing on to this. He’s been inter-viewed on CNN, and the Today Show, and he’s even interviewed some celebrities of his own, like Josh Groban and “Adventure Time” show creator Pen Ward. Rainn Wilson, most popularly known as Dwight from “The Of-fice,” has also invited Robby to join his YouTube channel, “Soul Pancake.”

With his “Pep Talk” video at nearly 10 million views, it’s not difficult to say our Kid President is having a pretty successful term in office. All we can hope is that he’ll keep making videos even after his term has ended.

emily kuklinski is a freshman english maJor.

reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

Kid President’s joy inspires country

courtesy photowith nearly 10 million youtube views to its credit, kid president’s “pep talk” video has launched the dapper 9-year-old to web sen-sation status. the popular character has recently collaborated in videos with celebrities like rainn wilson and Josh Groban.

courtesy photoanthony Jeselnik rose to prominence by taking part in a handful of comedy central’s regular celebrity roasts. now, in his own full-length specials, Jeselnik extrapolates his racy, smack talk.

kid president

has been doing more emotional good for the world than perhaps anyone in actual elected office as of late.”

9-year-old robby novak’s videos hinge on child’s voice, contagious optimism

said they’re not trying to trans-form Omaha’s music industry as a whole. They just want women to have more access and space to create expressive music. Ideally, Tomlinson Dick wants to open a practice room, where Omaha’s female musicians can congregate, rehearse and learn together.

“I think another big issue for women is access to equipment,” she said. “We want a room (that women can rent for free), work-shops and gear presentations.”

Amstutz said they also want to create a library of zines, records and books related to female em-powerment. She said a lot of peo-ple don’t know much about strong female historical figures, but this background is very important for advancements today.

In addition to opening creative spaces, Club No Quiet plans to release a mixtape sampler in late spring. They’re open to submis-

sions, especially from artists who are willing to take risks, to be bold and brave.

“If there are people out there who have things they want peo-ple to hear, we are a safe place and we can at least provide feed-back, if not anything else,” Covert said. “I’m not technically a musi-cian as much as (the other board members), but as someone who has always wanted to and has always been afraid to do it, just say ‘fuck it’ and do it. Be confi-dent. You’re great.”

As for musicians on the No Quiet board, none is more promi-nent than UUVVWWZ frontwom-an Teal Gardner. The band recent-ly released their sophomore album “the trusted language” and is cur-rently on a 14-city West Coast tour.

“She’s amazing and she’s liv-ing the dream,” Tomlinson Dick said. “We’re so proud of that whole band.”

Amstutz also urges female musicians to make themselves heard. Board members aren’t lim-iting the label by slapping a genre on it — they’re accepting all types of music.

“Don’t be afraid to make your-self vulnerable, and if people are saying sexist, stupid things about you, they’re just trying to push your buttons and trying to hold you back,” No Quiet designer Ellen Wilde said. “Ideally the end goal is to get everyone on board realizing that there’s no difference between men and women making music. It doesn’t matter who makes it at all,

as long as it’s amazing music.”Creating this label has been a

process, and board members are still trying to figure out the finer points, Tomlinson Dick said. It’s the be-ginning of a revolution — one that Tomlinson Dick hopes will change Omaha music and perceptions of female musicians as a whole.

“We are doing this because we see a need for it, and we’re very passionate about it,” she said. “But our goal is for the world not to need this anymore.”



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CALIGULAAnthony Jeselnik

B-Stand-up Special

If you only know Rod Stewart from a half-dozen Christmas albums, being a shoe-in “American Idol” guest and looking like your mom right after she wakes up, you’d better go back to the start.

In 1971, an absolute watershed year for singer-songwriters in pop music (Billy Joel’s debut, Elton John’s “Madman Across the Water,” Car-ole King’s “Tapestry” and the chart rein of the song “American Pie), Rod Stewart broke through with the record “Every Picture Tells A Story.” It immediately shot to the helm of both the US and UK pop charts, pro-pelled by the doubt-ridden rock bal-lad “Maggie May.” But the hit single is just the tip of the iceberg for the record that showcases a then-strug-gling singer hitting his critical and commercial stride.

The songwriting, like that of

Stewart’s acoustic rock contempo-raries, is sentimental and confession-al, but tailor-made for a baby boomer audience that would pay to consume it live for the next 40 years.

And in today’s music moment where the mandolin and the banjo have made their way back to the mainstream, it’s imperative to nod at guitarist Ron Wood and his band Faces, for backing Stewart’s throaty vocal promenades with some of the most luxurious acoustic ensembles of the era. From “Mandolin Wind” to the title track to “Reason to Believe,” Stewart’s breakout album remains his level-headed best for the feeling of authenticity that comes with the instantly fulfilled celebrity of a hun-gry icon.

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my jamthis is“every picture tells a story” (1971) we are doing this because we see a

need for it, and we’re very passionate about it.”

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Sophomore Kailyn Hawkins, a native of Charlotte, N.C., had friends who didn’t even know where Nebraska was.

“Honestly, I don’t think that some of my friends could have placed Nebras-ka on a map,” Hawkins said. “I would tell them I was go-ing to Nebras-ka, and they would just ask me ‘Where is that?’”

For those reasons, it is no wonder re-cruiting to Ne-braska is hard.

Nebraska is not flashy. There are no beaches in Lincoln. It is not a very populated state. It is in “the middle of nowhere.”

But for coach Dan Kendig, the success he has had speaks for itself.

For 20 years, Kendig has been at the helm as coach for the Huskers. In that time he has an overall record of 440-170-4. Ne-braska has won 13 of the past 18 conference titles. most re-cently a Big Ten title last year. The Huskers have also earned NCAA Championship berths in 13 of the past 16 years.

The hardest part during the recruiting process, Kendig says, is getting your foot in the door.

“There is the perception that Nebraska is a cornfield,” Ken-dig said. “The hardest thing is getting someone to take an of-ficial visit here. If we can get them here, then the easier part comes.”

The coaches then sell the re-cruits on any number of things Nebraska has to offer.

“Nebraska has quite a bit to offer,” Kendig said. “We sell them on gymnastics, obviously, and what they can accomplish here. But also the great facilities we have here as well. And may-be above all, the great academ-ics and life skills we can offer them is top notch.”

Many team members’ per-ceptions of Nebraska changed after visiting.

“It was not what I thought it would be,” Giblin said. “It was a whole different perspective. It was a lot slower paced here

than in California.”“The facilities really stood

out,” Hawkins said. “They have great tradition and history, and I just couldn’t pass it up.”

The success that the Nebras-ka program has had could not be passed up either.

“I wanted to go to a school that had success,” Nathe said. “With Nebras-ka, you have the name recognition and great competi-tion.”

For freshman Ariel Martin, a Chi-cago, Ill., native, the coaches had a

big impact.“(Assistant) coach (Dan)

Miller handled most of my re-cruiting,” Martin said. “I had known him a long time, and he and my club coach are best friends. But overall, all the coaches were great, and they truly cared about you.”

For Kendig, however, talent is not the only thing he looks

for during recruiting. There are three things that need to be checked off on his list.

“I look for girls that are good students, good athletes and good people,” Kendig said. “It’s pretty easy to find that stuff out too. You look at their transcripts, look at them in the gym, and find out how they act around family, friends, coaches and teammates.”

But what makes Nebraska special is the people. Giblin said Nebraskans are more friendly than Californians.

“Everyone is a lot nicer here,” Giblin said. “You can drive around and people will wave at you. You can’t do that in California. No one will wave.”

Giblin, Nathe, Martin and Hawkins all echoed a common theme —it just seemed right to come here.

“It was the most comfortable and it felt like home,” the girls agreed. “It was everything you were looking for in a college.”

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1. inDiana (21-3 overall, 9-2 big ten):after a close loss on the road against illinois, the hoosiers bounced back immediately by winning in impressive fashion against no. 10 ohio state. iu is still the top team in the country, according to the associated press. it’ll have some more road tests down the stretch that could determine who takes the regular season title, but with home games against nebraska and purdue this week, the second-highest scoring team in college bas-ketball should have no trouble at all.

2. michigan state (20-4, 9-2):The spartans have opportunities to go deep in march, but the team needs to have mo-mentum going into the postseason, and it will need to do that by proving itself against ranked teams on the road. although msu had an impressive win at home against kan-sas early in the season, its recent matchups against ranked teams have been sub-par. after a game against in-state rival michi-gan, the spartans face nebraska at lincoln. To prove itself on the road, michigan state cannot lose against the huskers or in any re-maining road games.

3. michigan (21-3, 8-3):last week was nerve-racking for the wolver-ines as both of its games went to overtime. The wolverines ended up beating ohio state and losing at wisconsin. The common theme for the contending big Ten teams is mistakes on the road. if Trey burke and Tim hardaway Jr. play at the top of their games, look for the wolverines to make a late push for the big Ten title.

4. Wisconsin (17-7, 8-3):wisconsin, the most defensively sound team in the big Ten, has had recent suc-cess in conference play. its coming off three consecutive wins, two of them in overtime (michigan, iowa). if it wants to perform well against minnesota and ohio state, wiscon-sin will have to step up on the offensive side of the ball, and that starts with junior ben brust, who averaged 17.3 points a game in the last three matchups.

5. ohio state (17-6, 7-4):For ohio state to stay in contention it can’t focus on its losses against great teams like no. 1 indiana and no. 4 michigan. ohio state needs to make a statement against north-western this week and get ready for a tough game on the road against wisconsin on sun-day.

6. minnesota (17-7, 5-6):minnesota looked promising going into 2013. with only a loss to duke, it was one of the top teams in the nation. now, the Gophers are unranked and have one of the easier conference schedules this week. but in the big Ten, every game must be taken seriously. The Gophers face a ranked team in wiscon-sin at home and then round out the week with a matchup at iowa.

7. illinois (17-8, 4-7):coming off of its most impressive week of the season with wins against minnesota and no. 1 indiana, the Fighting illini face strug-gling teams in purdue and northwestern, which could potentially translate to illinois changing the big Ten title race dramatically.

8. ioWa (15-9, 4-7):what makes iowa so interesting is all of its losses come against top-tier programs. Folks will maintain a clearer grasp on this hawk-eye squad after matchups versus penn state and minnesota, two teams who have had re-cent struggles.

9. purDue (12-12, 5-6):early this season, the team looked like it could possibly put its foot in the door of the exciting big Ten conference competition. but recently the boilermakers have not looked like that team. although it’s still great on the glass, it must step up in a huge way on the scoring end. This week provides two tough games on the road against illinois and indi-ana.

10. northWestern (13-11, 4-7):For what seems to be the most inconsistent team in the conference, the wildcats can’t seem to catch fire. success doesn’t seem likely when northwestern faces illinois and ohio state this week.

11. nebraska (12-12, 3-8):This week could be a defining point in its early big Ten years. The huskers face no. 1 indiana on the road and then no. 8 michi-gan state at home. This weekend’s matchup against the spartans could be one of those games where Tim miles’ squad raises a few eyebrows in big Ten country.

12. penn state (8-15, 0-11):For the nittany lions to come out with some-thing positive for this season, it must win a game in conference play. it’s a talented team and shouldn’t be overlooked by any squad. This week could be its first victory with a game at home against iowa.

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1. penn state (20-3 overall, 10-1 big ten):penn state has now won 14 of its last 15 games, the sole loss being a 63-61 gaff against 11-13 wisconsin. its 71-56 win over michigan state on Feb. 10 gave penn state a two-game lead in the big Ten over nebraska.

2. nebraska (18-6, 8-3):The huskers could very well be the hottest team in women’s basketball. nebraska’s 76-75 win over iowa tied a program record with four consecutive road victories, all during a span of six consecutive wins. Jordan hooper was crowned big Ten player of the week for the second consecutive week.

3. purDue (18-5, 7-3):Two straight losses to penn state and mich-igan have purdue a half of a game behind nebraska in the big Ten at 7-3. Two games against wisconsin and iowa this week, though, give purdue to at the very least tie nebraska.

4. michigan (18-6, 7-4):a huge win over purdue on Feb. 10 has michigan at 7-4 in conference play and in fourth place. after losing three straight, the wolverines now have a rhythm going into an in-state rival matchup with michigan state after beating illinois and purdue this week.

5. illinois (14-9, 7-4):its loss to michigan put illinois tied with the wolverines at 7-4 and 14-9 on the season. despite the loss, ivory crawford had a ca-reer night against michigan with 25 points and seven rebounds, a much needed third scoring threat illinois has been searching for.

6. michigan state (18-5, 6-4): Four of michigan state’s five losses have come in conference play, its most recent a 71-56 loss to no. 8 penn state. michigan state been flirting with the no. 25 ranking for

weeks now, but may be pushed out for good with a tough schedule coming up.

7. ioWa (16-9, 5-6):a three-pointer at the buzzer made iowa’s 76-75 loss to nebraska look more like a dog fight, but it didn’t take away the fact that the hawkeyes have now lost four straight.

8. minnesota (15-10, 4-7):The 15-10 Golden Gophers are really strug-gling to stop teams from scoring, giving up 82, 80, 72 and 76 points in its last four games. Games against northwestern and ohio state could give the Gophers the potential for a strong finish in conference play.

9. ohio state (14-10, 4-7):The buckeyes are still searching for any sort of scoring besides Taylor hill. at 21.1 points per game, hill leads the team in scoring by over 250 points. 10. northWestern (11-13, 3-8): The 11-13 wildcats are tied for the second worst record in the league, mainly due to its inability to score. in the past three games northwestern has only been able to score 65, 50 and 52 points.

11. Wisconsin (11-13, 3-8): The 63-61 shocker over penn state seems to be a fluke for the badgers. since then, the badgers have gone 1-2, with losses over il-linois and ohio state. its only win was over 10-14 indiana.

12. inDiana (10-14, 1-10): as the men’s team seems to get better, the women’s team seems to get progressively worse. The hoosiers are now on a nine-game losing streak, and has lost 10 of its last 11 games. don’t expect another win in big Ten play out of them.

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file photo by anna reeD | DnJunior steffi neisen sets up for a shot in the fairway last season. neisen led the huskers in the final day of the puerto rico classic with a 74 in the last round.

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The Nebraska bowling team makes a lot of noise on the lanes, but its players and coaches are comparatively quiet. More than halfway through the season, Nebraska coach Bill Straub and sophomore Elise Bolton don’t talk much.

When asked about how he felt the team had been performing so far, Straub only had one sentence.

“I think it’s up-wardly mobile,” Straub said.

From a player’s perspective, Bolton was asked to grade her own perfor-mance to this point. She was honest by saying she thought she did well, well enough to feel like she helped the team succeed.

“I think I did well,” Bolton said. “I didn’t do up to what I wish I had done, but I think I did enough for the team for success.”

When Straub was asked to

think about what he wants to do with his team he has yet to do this season, again Straub kept it short and sweet.

“Reach potential,” he said.Bolton had a quick

answer to what she wants to do with her team; win a national championship. She feels this is a goal ev-eryone strives for.

“Win a nation-al championship,” Bolton said. “I think that’s what everyone

wants to do.”The topic

of most im-proved player really got the two to start talking. Straub named freshman walk-on Emily Nykiel as the main contender. He appreciates her hard work and wants her to know that.

“We’re very proud of how dedicated she is. Hopefully all the hard work for her will pay off sometime on the travel

roster,” he said. “We sure like it when people get rewarded for their hard work and their try-ing.”

When Bolton was asked the same question, she remembered her team’s last meet and she came up with a quick answer, ju-nior Singapore native Yan Ling.

Bolton was impressed with Ling’s clutch performance.

“She traveled a lot last sea-son when I wasn’t here. But she stepped up last Sunday, made

a lot of shots when we re-ally needed her,” Bolton said. “I think that was my first time see-ing Yan had really done that, and I was really proud of her.”

B o l t o n was then

asked about the recent matches at Prairie View A&M Invite and the Mid-Winter Invite. She de-scribed what she and her team-mates have to do in order to im-prove.

“The last two tournaments didn’t really go well on Sunday and it just made us realize that we have to work harder the next day,” she said. “I think it just took a lot of thinking what we did the days prior and thinking of how were going to fix them the next day. We got together as a team and we pulled it out and won the last two tournaments.”

Bill Straub pulled out an even more detailed answer.

“Fundamental develop-ment,” he said.


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The Nebraska women’s golf team shot its best round in the final day of the Lady Puerto Rico Classic on Tuesday. The Huskers scored a total score of 310, but it wasn’t enough to get the Husk-ers out of 15th place.

No. 6 Alabama held off No. 12 Arkansas to win the tourna-ment, by shooting a 288 on the final day. The Crimson Tide’s event score was 871, which was

13 strokes ahead of the second place Razorbacks. No. 20 Texas Tech’s final push for second place came up one stroke short of the Razorbacks.

The Huskers were led by ju-nior Steffi Neisen, who had the Huskers’ best score of the tourna-ment, with a 74. Another strong performance came from junior Katelyn Wright who finished the third day with a score of 75. This gave Wright a 235-event score, which was also the team best.

The Razorback’s Emily Tu-

bert capped the event off with a 73, giving her a total score of 213 and the tournament’s best score. She was followed closely by Texas Tech’s Kimberly Kaufman and Al-abama’s Stephanie Meadow, who both tied for second in the event with total scores of 214. Kaufman shot a 69 on the final day to get her the second-place finish.

The Huskers next event is on Feb. 24-25, in Peoria, Ariz., for the Westbrook Invitional.


Huskers don’t talk about themselves, focus on the team’s overall success

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might close in the fifth, sixth, sev-enth, eighth, whatever that is,” Erstad said. “He is going to get the ball to shut it down.”

Vogt, a senior from Omaha, may not be your traditional, overpowering ninth-inning guy, but he is ready to drop the ham-mer at the end of games.

“At the end of the day, you have to go out there and get it

done,” Vogt said. “You have to throw strikes, pitch to contact and let the defense work. I have guys behind me that I have a lot of confidence in, so I just have to let them do what they do.”

There is still some uncer-tainty surrounding the Nebraska baseball team, but some of the fog is starting to lift as the sea-son nears. From what Erstad has

learned about his team, he thinks it will be able to compete—even against a daunting nonconfer-ence slate.

“I’d like to think we have a little fight in us,” the coach said. “We are going to show up every weekend, and we are going to be an uncomfortable team to play.”


successful free throws. Ubel, who enters the game

as Nebraska’s free-throw leader with 70, said he knows too well the type of player he’ll be guard-ing Wednesday night.

“He’s definitely one of the best,” Ubel said. “He plays re-ally hard for 40 minutes, which is probably one of the best things

he does. He runs the floor prob-ably better than any big man I’ve played against.”

If the Husker defense can’t show patience against Indiana’s up-tempo offense, the game could get ugly really quick, ac-cording to Miles.

Although Nebraska is going up against the country’s best

team, the coach remains optimis-tic on his team’s chances on pull-ing off another upset.

“You never know how the game’s going to go,” Miles said. “It’s going to be about how you stay in the moment and you keep competing.”


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On Wednesday night, the Ne-braska men’s basketball team will have the chance to climb over the .500 mark for the first time in three weeks. However, the task won’t be an easy one.

After defeating a less than mediocre Penn State team 67-53 at home last Saturday, the Husk-ers (12-12 overall, 3-8 Big Ten) will travel east to take on the best team in the nation– Indiana.

“Indiana’s a phenomenal team,” Nebraska coach Tim Miles said. “They have immense talent. When you look at it, we have to be able to control tempo. That’s go-ing to be our only chance, that’s what we’re going to try and do.”

The matchup against the No. 1 Hoosiers (21-3, 9-2) will mark Nebraska’s first trip to Assem-bly Hall since 1974. Although the Huskers are on the losing end of the 2-8 all-time series record against the Hoosiers, they did come away with a victory in the last meeting.

Flashback to Jan. 18, 2012. It was Nebraska’s first year

in its new conference, and the

odds were against the Huskers. They weren’t expected to beat any ranked opponents, nonetheless Indiana who was ranked 11th at the time.

But the Huskers battled through the entire matchup, trail-ing 69-68 with less than 30 sec-onds left in the game. On the next possession, former Husker center Jorge Brian Diaz drew a foul under the rim to head to the free throw line. With 11 seconds left, Diaz sunk both of his foul shots to give Nebraska a 70-69 edge and eventu-ally, the win.

The Bob Devaney Sports Cen-ter was filled with euphoria. The student sections from both ends of the arena stormed the court to cel-ebrate the upset with the Husker players.

Senior forward Brandon Ubel said that although last year’s vic-tory gives him confidence head-ing into their next matchup, Ne-braska must realize that they’ll be going up against a different Hoo-sier team Wednesday night.

“This year’s team is different, for both schools,” Ubel said. “So it’s going to be a whole different ball game, especially on the road. We just got to bring the intensity from the start.”

And playing with diligence is what helped the Huskers win their last time out.

Against Penn State last Sat-urday, Nebraska shooters were forced to the foul line 41 times,

including Ubel who made 8 of his 13 foul shots. Its 32 makes from the free throw line made up 48 percent of Nebraska’s total points in the game, and were the most a Husker team has put up in eight years.

And drawing a foul isn’t the only reason the team should con-tinue to drive to the rim against In-diana Wednesday night, Ubel said.

“There were a lot of times (against Penn State) that we could have taken a three, but instead we pump faked and drove to the rim,” the senior said. “That is a really good thing because not only does it make it five on four which then you can get to the rim, but it also opens up guys for shots.”

However, if the Huskers hope to continue making aggressive play a part of its offensive game, they’ll also have to practice disci-pline on defense as well.

Against its last three oppo-nents, Nebraska has averaged 15 fouls per game, including 23 against its latest opponent.

With four of Indiana’s five starters averaging 10 points or more a game, the task of playing patient on defense may be labori-ous.

Hoosier forward Cody Zeller will enter the matchup against the Huskers averaging a team-high 16.5 points per game, while also leading the team with 130

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With the season opener on Fri-day, the lineup is starting to come into focus.

Nebraska baseball coach Darin Erstad is still feeling out a few guys, and nothing is writ-ten in stone, but there is a little clarity this week after players moved around the diamond in the opening month of practice.

Among players trying out multiple positions was last year’s short-stop, Chad Chris-tensen. The senior decided to return for his final season of eligibility after being chosen by the Florida Marlins in the 35th round of the 2012 MLB draft. He has since moved to the outfield for his senior year.

It’s a move that benefits the Huskers this season, according to Erstad, and one that gives Christensen an edge down the road, according to the senior.

“I think Coach Erstad looks out for us long term, and if I get a chance to play at the next level, it might be in the outfield,” Christensen said. “He threw me out there one day to see how it was, and that’s just kind of where we are now.”

The Husker outfield is pretty well set with the addi-tion of Christensen. Erstad said the senior will take over in left field, joining Rich Sanguinetti in center and Austin Darby in right - both players started a season ago. NCBWA preseason All-American Michael Pritchard could see some time in the out-field as well, but Erstad said he will occupy the designated hitter role on most lineup cards.

On the infield, Nebraska is considerably less experienced. The team lost first baseman Richard Stock - a .351 hitter a

season ago - and catcher Cory Burleson - who started 38 games last year - in the offseason. With Christensen moving to the out-field, there are three major holes for Nebraska to fill this season defensively.

“I’m not concerned,” Erstad said. “It’s just a situation where we are going to have to throw them in the fire and see how they develop. We put them in as many chaotic situations as we can in practice, but until they ac-tually get out there and they do it, we are not going to know.”

There won’t be much time for Erstad to experiment early on. Nebraska plays Cal State Fullerton, USC, Texas and New Mexico to open the year.

But that’s the way Erstad wants it.

“I just can’t wrap my mind around playing 200 RPI teams,” the coach said. “That just doesn’t sound like much fun to me. These guys want a challenge.”

Over the course of the dif-ficult nonconference schedule, Nebraska will look to cement a pitching rotation - something it never managed to do a season ago.

Kyle Kubat, Ryan Hander, Brandon Pierce and Zach Hirsch will get the first cracks at those roles, according to Erstad. Based on what they did in 2012 and what they’ve shown in practice thus far, those are the guys Er-stad said he’s the most confident in.

They will have competi-tion though. When asked who else could be in the mix, Erstad rattled off four more guys who have been “stretched out” in case they are needed as starters.

At the back end of Nebras-ka’s pitching staff, it’s a “slam dunk.” Dylan Vogt will be the man at end of games, according to Erstad, although he may not be used as a traditional closer.

“Well, he is our closer, but he

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file photo by Jon augustine | Dnchad christensen makes a swing during a game last season. christensen started at shortstop last year for the huskers, but he could be in the outfield this season.

file photo by morgan spiehs | DnForward branden ubel scraps for a loose ball during the huskers’ game against ohio state earlier this season. ubel and the huskers travel to bloomington to take on no. 1 indiana wednesday.

nebraska to face no. 1 team in the country

T o the rest of the country, there is a perception that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is just buildings and corn.

Senior Janelle Giblin, a member of the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team and native of San Ramon, Calif., was one of those people.

“I thought there would be a lot of cowboys,” Giblin said. “I thought there would just be corn everywhere and snow every-day. People told me that people drove tractors and rode horses to work.”

That is a common perception for many outside the Midwest. But for senior Kassandra Nathe, a native of Sartell, Minn.,

Nebraska was nothing new.“I thought as a state, Nebraska was pretty similar to Min-

nesota,” Nathe said. “I wasn’t expecting any big surprises. I was looking forward to warmer weather though.”

women’s GymnasTics coach succeeds in recruiTinG

sTory by maTT duren | phoTo by ryan lynn

gymnastics: see page 8

basketball: see page 9

baseball: see page 9

i just can’t wrap my

mind around playing 200 rpi teams.”

darin erstadnebraska baseball coach

nebraska women’s gymnastics coach dan kendig hugs sophomore Jessie deZiel after she performs at the bob devaney sports cen-ter. kendig has succeeded in recruiting players to the midwest his entire career.

persuasionmr.

nebraska begins to sort through its lineup heading into first game

i thought there would be a lot of cowboys. i thought there would

just be corn everywhere and snow everyday.”

janelle giblinsenior women’s gymnast

The Huskers travel to Bloomington, Ind., to take on the Hoosiers

Feb. 13

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