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With a name almost as frightening as its actual effects, this Friday’s pos-sible across-the-board spending cuts, known as the sequestration, would have the federal government’s bud-get looking incredibly different.

Public schools, research, defense spending and thousands of jobs are all on the federal government’s chopping block. In one way or an-other, the cuts will be felt from Wash-ington D.C. to Lincoln.

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The sequestration is the result of a nearly three-year-old political battle over how to deal with the ris-ing federal deficit. When the govern-ment was nearing the debt ceiling in 2009, Congress came up with a deal. The compromise included a com-bination of tax hikes and spending cuts, which later became known as the fiscal cliff. That deal was meant to force action on both parties: Re-publicans are adverse to tax increas-es and Democrats aren’t willing to cut funding to social programs. In-stead of compromising to solve the fiscal cliff on Jan. 1, Congress made another deal to raise taxes on indi-viduals making more than $250,000 a year and to put off the $85 billion in planned spending cuts – the seques-

tration – until March 1. Friday.“The Congress and the White

House have created the dumbest idea in the history of the Congress known for dumb ideas,” said South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on Fox News.

President Barack Obama has spent the past two weeks emphasiz-ing the harms of the cuts, stressing the job loss. He issued a plan to fix the cuts three weeks ago, but House and Senate Republicans rejected it.

”Are you willing to see a bunch of first responders lose their job be-cause you want to protect some spe-cial interest tax loophole? “ Obama said at a White House event. “Are you willing to have teachers laid off or kids not have access to Head Start or deeper cuts in student loan programs just because you want to protect a special tax interest loophole that the vast majority of Americans don’t benefit from? That’s the choice. That’s the question.”

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According to the White House’s memo, 4,000 civilian defense jobs will be cut in Nebraska, reducing gross pay by $25.1 million.

Roughly 200 work-study jobs in Nebraska could also lose funding.

Emily Wilber, assistant director of Career Services, said the loss of funding could create fewer opportu-nities for work-study recipients.

“It would be unfortunate if we lose some funding,” Wilber said.

The process of awarding stu-dents work study would remain the

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Students may not be able to voice their opinions regarding privatiza-tion of the University Health Center on the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska election ballot March 6.

On Feb. 6, the senate unanimous-ly passed legislation to include the question “Do you support the Bryan/University Health Center proposal to privatize the University Health Cen-ter operations?”

However, because ASUN Presi-dent Eric Kamler, a senior agricul-tural economics major, submitted the legislation as a government bill, the legislation didn’t meet the deadline requirement of 30 days to make it onto the ballot.

“It was two days late getting in,” said ASUN Director of Administra-tion Marlene Beyke. Thus, the legisla-tion wasn’t valid.

And so the senate was to address the legislation again as a senate bill at its Wednesday meeting, which would’ve allowed the question on the ballot.

Four other pieces of emergency legislation regarding the health cen-ter were to be brought to the floor as well, according to Senate Speaker Natalia Santos, a senior nutrition and health sciences major.

But the senate failed to meet quo-

rum, which meant it couldn’t address legislation.

Nineteen senators were missing from the meeting, six of them unex-cused, including: Matan Gill, a senior construction management major, John-Robert Bloom, a junior econom-ics major, Edward Hanline, a senior business administration major, Derek Mettenbrink, a junior fisheries and wildlife and grassland ecology and management major, William Duden, a sophomore business administration major, and William Stock, a junior pre-social science major, according to Santos.

Two more senators were needed at the meeting to meet quorum.

In order to vote on the legislation, senators signed a petition to hold an ASUN meeting Thursday at 9 p.m.

Senators receive the legislation that will be on the meeting’s agenda the Tuesday before the meeting. If a senator has class, is sick or has a fam-ily emergency, he or she is excused from attending senate.

Santos said she didn’t think the unexcused senators had meant to stall the legislative process.

Even if the senate addresses the legislation and approves it, there is still concern regarding the deadline to put the question on the website that hosts the election ballot, Beyke said.

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Architecture Hall will address their five-year decline in enrollment in the Architecture Hall gallery at 3 p.m. Friday. Full-time, undergraduate enrollment for the archi-tecture college was just below 350 in the fall semester of 2012.

moRgan SPiEHS | dnArchitecture students converse with each other during their second-year design studio for architecture and interior design majors in Architecture Hall on Feb. 21.

he University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture on Friday will address a five-year slump in its student population with a new ini-

tiative to increase enrollment and retention. The an-nouncement will be in the Architecture Hall gallery at 3 p.m.

Kim Wilson, interim dean of the college, said the

initiative will consist of increasing learning communi-ty opportunities for freshmen, increasing recruitment through web-based material and printed material, of-fering new courses in collaboration with the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management to establish a more interdisciplinary approach to sci-ence and technology and hiring faculty for a new in-

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Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will have the opportunity the share ideas and talk about their passions March 1 and 2 at Awesome Camp, a par-ticipant-driven “unconference.”

This is the first year that HIVE, a student technology training program at UNL, is one of the sponsors of the event.

HIVE program coordinator Bode Alabi said Awesome Camp is split into 30-minute slots in three different tracks: entrepre-neurship, technology and creativ-ity. It is a first-come, first-serve basis to be a speaker. If students

don’t wish to speak, they can just come to listen and network.

Alabi said he is looking for-ward to hearing the ideas that will be shared at the event.

“How often do you get to meet up with people as passion-ate as you and share your ideas and thoughts?” Alabi wrote in an email. “This will be one of the best sharing experiences in Lin-coln.”

All students are welcome. Awesome Camp is an opportu-nity for students to express their passion to an interested audi-ence, Alabi said.

“This type of exposure with the local professional community may lead students to find great

connections to people in their field that are passionate about their ideas,” Alabi said.

Sourabh Chakraborty, out-reach coordinator with HIVE, said students should attend re-gardless of whether their area of study falls under one of the three Awesome Camp event tracks.

“(It) doesn’t mean someone studying law or (who) has a local business in dry cleaning couldn’t attend,” said Chakraborty, a se-

nior computer engineering major, via email. “It’s all about the spirit of shared learning from each oth-er’s stories and insight and not what major or college you belong to.”

Chakraborty said Awesome Camp is called an “unconfer-ence” because there are very few rules. The event organizers let the crowd determine where the day’s events are heading rather than planning it weeks in advance and

not taking into account the new developments in the industry, the weather or the mood of the room, he said.

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As the innuendo in the name sug-gests, the third of four Associa-tion of Students of the University of Nebraska debates will combine humor with politics.

The DailyER Nebraskan’s Mass Debate will be held in the Nebraska Union Crib Thursday at 8 p.m. and will challenge the three parties to depart from their traditionally prepared responses.

The debate will be moderated by three of the DailyER’s editors: Mitch McCann, the editor-in chief and a senior psychology major, Daniel Stier, the entertainment editor and a junior English major and Alex Wunrow, sports editor and a junior exploratory major.

The Mass Debate will take on the tone of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” by using humor as a rhetorical tool to lighten the ASUN campaign.

McCann, who organized the debate with the other modera-tors, said he hopes the debate will be both entertaining and infor-mative.

“The point is not to ambush them with questions or make them look bad,” McCann said,

“but it’s to get at the issues using humor.”

The goal of the Mass Debate is to attract students who wouldn’t normally attend a more serious debate. McCann estimated last year’s Mass Debate drew a crowd of roughly 125 students.

On McCann’s docket are questions about the privatization of the University Heath Center, Sense for ASUN’s designated-smoking areas plan, diversity and the “Do it in the Dark Cam-paign,” a campus-wide initia-tive to lower energy consump-tion. McCann said the debate will force the parties to actually answer questions posed to them by the moderators. He said after the Daily Nebraskan and Civic

Action Committee debate, he felt some of the party’s plans and platforms were not thoroughly explained.

Even though the debate is meant to create a more human and extemporaneous delivery from the three parties, all the stu-dents running for president have been informed about the struc-ture.

“We want them to look good and not merely silly,” McCann said. “But we’re still going to have fun by making them do skits or say their platforms in a haiku.”

McCann estimates the debate will last 90 minutes but it could change depending on the reac-tions. The DailyER editorial staff will serve as comedy hosts, mak-

ing sure energy in the room re-mains high.

Wunrow said he plans to make sure all three parties can state their platforms.

“We really just want them to avoid canned answers,” Wunrow said.

He mentioned a “lightning round” where the parties will be asked between 40 and 60 one-line questions, some relevant and some off-the-wall.

“We really just want to make sure the candidates don’t take themselves so seriously,” Wun-row said. “It can be really easy to do in the middle of the cam-paign.”


Satirical newspaper to host light-hearted ASUN election discussion

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Study: Alcohol use could be linked to increased cancer riskANDrEW BArry

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Alcohol consumption may have just joined tobacco on the grow-ing list of substances that have been linked to cancer.

A recent study conducted by Dr. David Nelson, the director of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute, suggests a dangerous as-sociation between alcohol use and cancer. According to the study, alcohol has a role in about 3.2 to 3.7 percent of all cancer deaths in the U.S. For men, the majority of alcohol-attributed cancer deaths were from forms of upper airway and esophageal cancers, while breast cancer took precedence in the deaths among females.

Because a study linking alco-hol and cancer has not been con-ducted in 30 years, some hope this study will bring a new awareness to the possible connection.

“Everybody knows somebody who’s been affected by cancer,” said Brendon Henning, a Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln fresh-man marketing major and Stu-dents Together Against Cancer vice president. “People will now correlate alcohol and cancer.”

The study, published by the American Journal of Public Health, did not include much in-formation on why the correlation exists, but Dr. Apar Ganti said the effects differ based on the indi-vidual and the type of cancer.

Ganti, an associate professor of medicine in the oncology divi-

sion at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, said he thinks people should be cautious about their alcohol use for many health reasons.

“If you look at cancer globally, if you are a moderate drinker, you have about a 5 percent in-creased risk, but if you’re a heavy drink-er it’s anywhere from 20 to 30 percent,” Ganti said. “So if you want to drink, it needs to be less than a drink a day.”

The study also suggested drinking in small quantities reg-ularly causes less damage than binge drinking occasionally.

Binge drinking has significant prevalence in the U.S., especially among college students: one in six adults binge drink about once a

week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Binge drinking brings someone’s blood alcohol concentration to 0.08 percent or greater during a two-hour period, according to the National Insti-tute on Alcohol

Abuse and Alcoholism. But Hen-ning said awareness of the study is unlikely to change students’ behavior.

“Some students might drink less, some students of course are going to completely disregard it,” Henning said. “But overall, it’s not going to make students drink more, which is at least a good thing.”

Ganti said there are several other outside factors that may increase cancer risks. Smoking and drinking could be especially detrimental to public health and increase the risk of cancer signifi-cantly, he said. He also said that while he would never recommend alcohol consumption, he does not want to rule out its benefits.

“Alcohol has other benefits with heart disease and things like that,” Ganti said.

A moderate relationship with alcohol has been shown to de-

crease the risk of heart disease, dying of a heart attack, diabetes and several other medical phe-nomena, but the risks of alcohol still shouldn’t be taken lightly, according to both Henning and Ganti.

Henning said he believes can-cer prevention is important, but students should not let the fear of getting cancer become over-whelming.

“We should all be concerned about lowering our risk for can-cer,” Henning said. “If you’re living your life every single day worrying about not getting sick and doing things to not get sick, then you can’t enjoy the life you’re trying to preserve.”


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somebody who’s been affected by cancer.”BrENDON HENNINg

freshman marketing major

uNL unions, gaughan Center install phone-charging stationskELLI rOLLIN

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The new phone-charging stations around the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus saved Katyra Rem-menga’s life – her battery life, that is.

The sophomore criminal justice major’s phone died shortly into her first class Tuesday, and her laptop died a few hours later. Then her car got a flat tire in the morning. She didn’t have any chargers with her.

Fortunately for Remmenga, the Nebraska Union, Nebraska East Union and Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center now all have phone-charging stations for student convenience.

“I was desperate for a ride home,” Remmenga said. “I was really wor-ried because I didn’t have anyone’s phone number memorized, but then I remembered my friend showing me those chargers this weekend, so I was like, ‘Oh, good!’”

She said a station allowed her to charge her phone to call for a ride home.

Charlie Francis, director of Ne-braska Unions, said the stations have been in place for about a month. He said the unions have two stations each and the Gaughan Center has one. The Nebraska Union stations are both lo-cated along the building’s north wall, near the Caffina Cafe.

The phone-charging stations in-clude about 10 different plugs com-patible with both Android and iPhone technology. Francis said the cords for the plugs are only six to eight inches long, but a shelf allows students to rest their phones in the unit.

Francis thought of bringing phone-charging stations to UNL after he saw them at another university.

“I thought, ‘What a neat idea!’”

Francis said. “I’ve talked with a couple of colleagues at other universities, and they had been very popular with their students there.”

He went to a conference in Oc-tober where the vendor Quickboost was demonstrating the units. After he brought back information, Francis said he put it as an agenda item for the Ne-braska Union Board to discuss.

He said the stations, which cost about $1,600 total, are beneficial and convenient for UNL students.

The Nebraska East Union and Gaughan Center stations have gotten a lot of use, Francis said, but not the Nebraska Union. To draw attention, signs have been posted.

Eliza Barr, a junior exploratory major, said she hadn’t noticed the sta-

tions until yesterday.Though she hasn’t used one yet,

she said the stations seem like a good addition.

“I think it’s a good idea, especially for people who may not live on cam-pus,” Burrs said. “Their phone might be running low, and if they have to be here all day, they can come in, charge it and go on their way. They don’t have to worry about carrying around a dead phone.”

Burrs said she doesn’t see leaving her phone unattended as a big prob-lem.

“I don’t really see anybody both-ering it,” she said. “I think if (people) didn’t want anybody to mess with their phone, they wouldn’t mess with anyone else’s.”

As of now, Francis said he and the union board haven’t yet considered getting more charging stations, but they won’t rule it out.

“I guess we would see if there was a heavy enough demand and we would consider that, but at this point we just thought we would add these

as a convenience to our students,” he said.


andREw BaRRy | dnsophomore psychology major Claire ruhlman studies near the new phone chargers in the nebraska union. the phone chargers are a recent addition to the union and are located at various locations around City and east campuses.

andREw BaRRy | dnthis new phone charging station in the nebraska union caters to a variety of different phone types. the phone chargers are free of charge and available to all union users.

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Nicole Pavlish will never forget the support of her friends and family when her father passed away from pancreatic cancer while she was in high school.

“The best way I can repay them is by being there for someone else,” said the junior international business and Spanish major. “One of the biggest benefits from my in-volvement is just the feeling you get by impacting someone’s life.”

Now she’s involved with the LisaMom Foundation, a student-run non-profit organization that supports families affected by can-cer. The organization will hold a fundraiser at Raising Cane’s, 201 N. 14th St., Thursday night from 6 to 9. A portion of all the sales will be donated to LisaMom to benefit local families affected by cancer.

LisaMom is run by Enactus, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln student group dedicated to entre-preneurship and community out-reach. Formerly called Students in Free Enterprise, the group recently changed its name to what they say is a more accurate description of their yearly activities. By combin-ing “entrepreneurial action,” and “us,” Enactus embodies a group of students with a commitment to business and community. The group manages numerous com-munity-outreach projects with a business mindset to assist people in need.

The LisaMom Foundation is designed to assist mothers who have been diagnosed with cancer. It supports the families with nanny services, meal donations, cleaning services and a support network.

Lisa Braddock, the founda-tion’s namesake, died of breast cancer at age 35. She is survived by three children and a husband, Mark, who had difficulties carry-ing on without her. Lisa’s nurse Connie Davison began the foun-dation to assist families who were struggling with the devastation of cancer.

Braddock’s daughter Marisa, a junior biological sciences major, joined Enactus in 2011. The follow-ing year, Enactus began to manage the foundation. It aids families in Lincoln and Omaha and works to increase cancer knowledge and

awareness. Peter Bock, a member of En-

actus and a junior management, entrepreneurship and marketing

major, said the LisaMom founda-tion serves an important purpose, although it may not directly ben-efit UNL students,

“It proves to the Lincoln com-munity that UNL students care about families that suffer from cancer,” he said. “We are aware of the issues that families face here in Lincoln, and we are doing all that we can to help them in their time of crisis.”

Murphy Larson, a junior fi-nance and marketing major and the LisaMom Foundation project manager, agreed.

“LisaMom is important be-cause it challenges students to reach out to the community mem-bers that are going through a very difficult time in their lives, times that many of us have personally experienced,” she said. “LisaMom provides students real business and nonprofit skills while actually making a difference in the commu-nity.”


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One room in the Nebraska Union is about to get an arctic makeover.

On Thursday night, the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Cen-tennial Room will become an ice-skating rink complete with a DJ. Students can skate for free from 8 to 11 p.m.

Loreal Robertson, an educa-tional administration graduate student and graduate assistant for Student Involvement who works with Campus NightLife, said Per-

fect Parties USA, a company out of Massachusetts, will lay down a tarp topped with a blanket of syn-thetic ice on top.

In the Centennial Ballroom next door, students can play air hockey, skiing and ice-skating games on a Wii and Xbox, make snowmen out of socks and drink hot cocoa. The UNL Student Mon-ey Management Center will also provide a “money machine,” an inflatable device participants can jump in while trying to collect prizes.

“We want to play out the

idea of winter without it being so cheesy and generic,” Robertson said.

She said the idea came after students involved in Campus NightLife wanted to put on a wa-ter event last fall. When that plan didn’t work out, the group began to brainstorm winter ideas, she said.

Reshell Ray, assistant direc-tor for Student Involvement, said last year’s event had a Valentine’s Day theme, but this year, Campus NightLife decided to let the theme go.

“They wanted to do something that had never done before,” Ray said.

When the idea of ice skating was first brought up, “it was fun-ny,” Ray said.

But Campus NightLife did some research and found synthet-ic ice-skating rinks that could be provided year-round.

Wayne State College used Per-fect Parties for its own temporary ice-skating rink in November, and the programming board only had positive things to say about it, Ray said.

One challenge Campus Night-Life faced was the constraints of the temporary rink — only 35 to 40 skaters can be on the ice at a time, Robertson said.

Campus NightLife decided to provide the free activities in the ballroom for those who are wait-ing to get on the ice, she said. The activities and rink will be separate from each other to prevent over-crowding.

Along with the Student Money Management Center, sponsorship came from the Association of Stu-dents of the University of Nebras-

ka and Scarlet Guard, Ray said.Ray said Campus NightLife

events usually see around 500 to 700 people, so she hopes for atten-dance to be “somewhere in that range.”

While Campus NightLife spends the day decorating for the winter event and setting up, Ray said she’s thankful for the snow outside to play up the winter theme.

“It looks like we’ll have a lot of fun,” she said.


moRgan SPiEHS | dnsenior pre-architecture major steven severson hangs his project up along with another student during a class in Architecture Hall on Feb. 21. Architecture Hall has the lowest number of students than any other unl college.

dustrial design major. The College of Architecture is the

only college at the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln that has seen a steady decrease in enrollment since 2008, according to the 2012-2013 UNL Fact Book.

Full-time, undergraduate enroll-ment for the architecture college start-ed at 503 in 2008. For fall semester of 2012, the number sat just below 350, making it the smallest college at UNL.

“This is not a new story,” Wilson said. “This is an old story … all archi-tecture schools are down.”

Wilson said architecture enroll-ment is down because the economy is down. When the economy is down, fewer infrastructures are going up. An article in The Atlantic Cities: Place Matters from September 2012 report-ed that gross revenue at architecture firms fell from $44 billion to $26 billion between 2008 and 2011, and more than 28 percent of positions disappeared.

“Parents and students don’t want to enroll in programs where job secu-rity is low,” Wilson said.

But some architecture students blamed the program itself for its shrinking population. They cited a heavy workload, countless all-nighters and the challenges of the new way of thinking that the program required.

“Second year is when most people switch (majors),” said Rex Sandquist, a se-nior interior design major. Sandquist said one of the four sec-tions of the college’s second-year studio course started out with more than 20 students and ended with seven. “Every section had at least four or five people drop.”

Wilson said the drops are an issue that the college is working to address. College administrators are working to establish a mentoring network for incoming freshmen to help with dif-ficult coursework like the first studio course – “to help them transition to this culture,” Wilson said.

Sandquist said the work load is the main deterrent from the architec-ture college.

“It’s just a different work load from high school,” said Sandquist, who will graduate in May. “To go from something where you can just coast through to something that de-mands so much of you from the be-ginning.”

After a short stint studying archi-tecture at UNL, senior Logan Chap-man began to doubt if he had the ability to create buildings outside the virtual world. Now, he’s a marketing major.

“I know some people who flat out in the middle of the semester are like ‘I’m done,’ and they left,” Chapman said. He also noted that the critiques of student work could be hard to hear after a sleepless night’s push to get a project in on time.

“Maybe you did stay up all night doing it, and then they say, ‘Well, this could be better,’” Chapman said.

Chapman first gave UNL’s archi-tecture college a look during a high school visit – a visit during which, he

said, the faculty did not try to disguise the difficulty of architecture school.

“I knew it was going to be dif-ficult; it kind of gets that rap,” Chap-man said.

This difficulty is what first de-terred him from pursuing a degree in architecture; his first year at UNL was spent as a general studies major. After transferring to architecture, the long nights of work began to wear on him.

“There would definitely be times where I was frustrated because I was spending more time at Arch Hall than where I was actually paying rent,” he said.

Late nights and even all-nighters are not uncommon at Architecture Hall. Sandquist said that every week, he spends about three to four nights working at school until anywhere between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. But on a week when a project is due, those three to four late nights usually turn into three to four all-nighters.

Chapman explained that the type of thinking required of architecture students is different from the ways students have been taught to think throughout their lives.

“We’re not doing as many art classes in high school or ab-stract thinking class-es,” Chapman said.

At the end of one semester, he received a “terrible” grade, which prevented him from going on to the next studio class. That’s when he be-gan to consider alter-nate majors.

Chapman and Sandquist suggested that perhaps the diminishing population of architec-ture majors may not be such a prob-lem.

“I think it could look bad because people are leaving,” Chapman said. “But then again, maybe the students are doing better.”

Sanquist said students could ben-efit from a lower faculty-to-student ratio.

“You definitely get more attention and more one-on-one time with the teachers,” he said. “So there are pros and cons.”

Wilson expects that enrollment in the architecture college will increase in future years. A Feb. 22 article on the American Institute of Architects web-site reported January 2013 as having the strongest growth in Architecture Billing Index – a measure of nonresi-dential construction activity nation-wide – in five years.

But during the steady five-year decline in enrollment for UNL’s ar-chitecture program, enrollment for its community and regional planning program has increased.

“When you’re not building, you’re planning,” Wilson said.

After a few rough years, both the architecture program, and Chapman, see hope in the future.

“I think that whole experience was part of what I was supposed to do to learn more about myself,” he said. “I still have a huge appreciation for architecture.”


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putting the health center survey ques-tion on the ballot, according to Santos. She said the people who are against the ballot question think students are uninformed about the privatization process.

“An uninformed voter is a dan-gerous voter,” she said.

But there are also students who are taking the time to understand the health center’s privatization, she said. Those students would be upset for not getting a chance to vote, Santos said.

“There’s definitely both sides to the argument,” she said.

Dr. Nate Haecker, the health center’s chief of staff, spoke to the senators about the UHC employees’ concerns with privatizing the health center to local provider Bryan Health during open forum.

One concern Haecker mentioned was the fact current health center employees were not included in the privatization planning process be-

fore Chancellor Harvey Perlman an-nounced his plan on Sept. 11.

University administrators also portrayed the health center as be-ing inefficient and under-staffed by comparing it to private practices, not national college health data, Haecker said.

“The data used by UNL to com-pare us to private practices is not com-paring apples to apples,” he said.

Haecker also said he wasn’t aware if other sources of funding for a new health center were explored, such as seeking donations.

“There are other options to fund a new building without raising student fees,” he said. “Bryan Health is a fine organization and very well-respected in the community. This is not about Bryan Health. It’s about whether privatization is in the best interest of the students.”

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same, but there could be increased competition for the remaining op-portunities.

Along with nationwide cuts, federal funding for research could be lost. Chancellor Harvey Perl-man expressed his concern in an email.

“While it may be premature to conclude exactly what will hap-pen, the sequester will certainly not be good for the university, let alone the country,” Perlman wrote. “We are hopeful that ultimately Washington will conclude that the country’s future depends on the proper funding of education and research.”

Association of the Students of the University of Nebraska Presi-dent Eric Kamler said he was dis-appointed that political gridlock in Washington would harm the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“It’s sad we can’t come to a compromise on something like this,” said Kamler, a senior agricul-tural economics major. “A number of grant programs will be ‘sequest-ed’ – for the lack of a better word.”

Prem Paul, vice chancellor of Research and Economic Develop-ment, said the competition for re-search grants will become much more intense.

He said roughly 75 percent of UNL’s research comes from some form of federal grants – and those funds are at risk of a 90 percent re-duction.

“We’ve been aggressively ex-ploring new sources of funding,” Paul said.

Because research funds are awarded at different times during the year – much like scholarships – the effects won’t be felt immediate-ly like the rest of the sequestration.

“I really hope the cuts won’t happen,” Paul said. “But it’s very hard to predict.”

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There was little talk in Con-gress between the fiscal cliff deal and the sequestration deadline about how to avert the planned cuts. Saturday, Obama released a detailed report analyzing the state-by-state cuts associated with the sequestration. Beyond the initial shock of the $85 billion cut, the first effect of the sequestration, begins a decade-long series of cuts that would trim $1.2 trillion from government expenditures.

Specifically for Nebraska, public schools, defense contracts, work-study jobs and funding for drug courts are some of the pro-

grams on the chopping block.As Washington enters the end-

game, Obama summoned con-gressional leadership to work out a solution Wednesday.

House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pe-losi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have all been asked to begin deliberations about the impending cuts.

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The Senate is expected to un-veil two plans, one Republican and one Democratic, to avert the sudden cuts and give Obama more room to divert the seques-tration. The measures will be voted on Thursday, but both are expected to fall through.

Senate Republicans, gener-ally in support of reducing fed-eral spending, are mulling over a measure that would grant Obama more power to manage the cuts. But more conservative members of the party are vehemently op-posed to this idea. Obama and Reid are against the plan.

On the left, the Democrats are working on a plan that is a dimin-ished version of the sequester. The plan includes some spend-ing cuts and a 30 percent mini-mum tax hike on millionaires. Republicans are unlikely to sup-port this plan, given they already conceded on tax hikes in January by allowing the payroll tax cuts to expire and increasing taxes on individuals making more than $250,000.

“Mr. President, you’ve al-ready got your tax increase,” Boehner said Wednesday.

Obama, however, has insist-ed that new means of revenue be a part of a sequestration fix.

McConnell released a state-ment Wednesday reinforcing his previous statements about the importance of reducing federal spending.

“With a $16.6 trillion national debt and a promise to the Ameri-can people to address it, one thing is perfectly clear: We will cut Washington spending,” McCon-nell said. “We can either secure those reductions more intelligent-ly or we can do it the president’s way with across-the-board cuts. But one thing Americans simply will not accept is another tax in-crease to replace spending reduc-tions we already agreed to.”


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Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers engaged in a three-hour filibuster of a bill on Tuesday that involved tacking on an anti-discrimination amendment and criticizing Gov. Dave Heineman, the Catholic Church and government corruption. The original bill, LB52, would allow the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services to lease out labor services at the McCook Work Ethic Camp to charitable, fra-ternal or nonprofit organizations. Chambers’ amendment said the organizations that participated in the program could not discrimi-nate against LGBT people. The amendment passed 29-5, with three abstaining and 12 senators excused from the chamber. Chambers plans to continue his filibuster on Monday, according to a Nebraska watchdog article.

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The Lincoln City Council voted Monday to put two issues on the ballot in May for voters to decide — but the gay rights ordinance was not one of them. This action has irked the 10,000 people who signed the referendum to put the issue on the ballot. The ordinance, much like Omaha’s, would grant the same anti-discriminatory pro-tections to LGBT individuals as other minorities. The referendum was removed from the ballot days before Charlie Rogers’ alleged hate crime hoax shocked Lincoln’s gay community. Rogers recently entered a plea of no contest.

omaHa STaTE SEnaToR ciTEd FoR dUiOmaha Sen. Scott Lautenbaugh was ticketed early Tuesday

morning for driving while intoxicated. The Douglas County Sheriff said Lautenbaugh was driving strangely at 2 a.m. near 147th Street and West Maple Road in Omaha. He was pulled over and had a 0.234 blood alcohol content – nearly three times the legal limit. Lauten-baugh has since released a statement expressing his embarrassment and will take “full responsibility” for his actions. Lautenbaugh’s court hearing is scheduled for June 26 at 9 a.m. His hearing has been delayed because lawmakers cannot be prosecuted for crimes 15 days before or after a legislative session.

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Before looking for career-type jobs, today’s college graduates are ex-pected to have as many internships as possible under their belts. If a graduate doesn’t have an intern-ship or two, he or she is less likely

to get a job. That’s the hard truth. However, the even harder truth is that many of the best internships around are unpaid, creating a frus-trating rift between lower-income and higher-income students. Both categories of students are looking to better their chances of employ-ment; one has an unfair advantage.

Companies with unpaid internships say they’re selling experience. They’re selling a different sort of education – one that can only be taught in the professional world, not in the classroom. No one is denying the truth behind those statements, but using those truths to deny payment to students is wrong.

College students and recent graduates have new, valuable ideas. They can bring a fresh perspective to the work environment no matter what their financial background is. Un-fortunately, the students with the most money (or, more likely, the students who have parents with the most money) may or may not be the most qualified for a certain job, but with the current national trend of unpaid internships, they are the only ones who can even consider taking a job that pays a grand total of $0. Especially in big cities such as New York City or Los Angeles where the cost of liv-ing is so high, there is no chance someone with a lower income could make the move.

I am blessed to have three jobs. I am blessed to be able to live on my own and pay all my bills on my own. As a 22-year-old, I take pride in being self-sufficient and working my ass off to pay my way through college. However, there isn’t much mon-ey left over. And there certainly isn’t enough money for me to take an unpaid internship, no matter how much it may better my education. My story is not unique. Many people in my so-cial circle are going through the same thing. We’d all love to take unpaid internships in the cities of our dreams, but the funds aren’t there. We don’t lament the fact that we have to work

our way through college. We do, however, la-ment that the fact we have to work for money excludes us from some of the greatest intern-ships in our industries.

Unpaid internships are technically illegal unless the internship is educational in a way that a vocational school would be. The training

can only be beneficial to the intern; interns can’t replace regular employees; and the employer can’t gain any-thing from the intern. How-ever, many employers tend to disregard that law and instead use unpaid interns for personal and company gain. Basically, it’s slave labor. However, 5.5 million young people are out of work. They are desperate. Students figure at least they can get some experience. That doesn’t make it OK for companies to exploit them.

Derek Thompson of The Atlantic requests that people ask themselves the following three questions before ridiculing the un-paid internships laws as ones that are just asking to

be broken. “(1) Is there no overlap between paid and unpaid work at your company? (2) Can you deny that unpaid internships deny to low-income students an experience that many employers consider mandatory? (3) Would a minimum wage salary paid to a handful of students compromise your company’s finan-cial position? I cannot imagine an honest per-

son with passing knowledge of unpaid intern-ships in America answering any of those three questions ‘yes.’”

Paying a couple people minimum wage probably won’t break any company, and if it does, they’ve got bigger fish to fry.

There has lately been a lot of debate in this country over the divide between the rich and the poor. Those who defend unpaid intern-ships are only increasing that divide. Compa-nies who don’t pay interns are disregarding a huge portion of young people who could be just as talented – or more – than those who can afford to live off their parents’ cash for an entire summer. If those lower-income students never get an internship, they may never get a job in their fields of study, and a whole sec-tion of brilliant thinkers may have just gone to waste. Is that really what we want as a society?

Should unpaid internships be done away with? Absolutely. Will they ever really go away? Probably not. There is hope, though, for those college students who can’t afford an unpaid internship but still need the internship experience. Paying internships exist. You may just have to look a little harder to find them. I don’t know about the other departments at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but the jour-nalism college is terrific at helping its students find paid internships. Ask an adviser or a pro-fessor. They’re there to help.

Getting your very first internship is the hardest because of the typical job catch-22: You need experience to apply for a job, but to get experience you need a job. This standard has long been lamented by college students who are just looking to step a foot into the professional world. There’s nothing more dis-appointing than reading up on an internship you really want and realizing it requires all applicants to have had a previous full-time in-ternship. My word of advice? Start smaller. Go work at a small-town newspaper or business for a summer. It’ll give you the required pre-requisite for that internship you really want and you’ll be even better prepared when you have that internship interview.

Be on the lookout for opportunities and don’t give up – even if you have to take a part-time internship with no pay and have a job on the side.

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Last week I was talking to someone about my novel. “A novel, you say. What’s it about?” I then proceeded to tell them about my work, explain-ing to them that it’s a coming-of-age story. Their response: “No offense or

anything, but no one is going to take a 22-year-old writing about life seriously.” My instant reaction was defensive. How could this person say this? They haven’t even read my work. How can they possibly assume my work is meaning-less? It made me think: is this true? Does some-one’s age determine how much experience they have?

The common explanation is, “When I was your age, I thought I knew everything the world has to offer. You can’t know everything at your age.” I concur; we don’t have all the answers and our gaining of knowledge and ex-perience never stops. It’s an ongoing process of trial and error. Our perspectives change, every-thing isn’t black and white. However, the prob-lem with this argument is that it’s based off of one person’s per-spective. The person isn’t basing it off of every 22-year-old’s expe-riences; they’re basing it off their own. “I didn’t know everything at your age, so neither do you.” Or “I’m older than you, therefore have more experience and am wiser than you.” But knowledge and experience is relative to age.

We learn through experience. For example, a teenager who has lost their parent and has had to work to make ends meet might have more life experience and a more mature outlook on life than someone in their 20s who hasn’t endured much. Everyone has different experiences at different points in their life; this means one who has lived for 15 years could easily have learned what took another 20 years.

William G. Perry’s model states how we gradually go from dualistic (stage 1: simply believing in right and wrong) thinking to com-mitment (stage 9: believing that all knowledge is relative). Perry claims this growth doesn’t

always occur to everyone and that many engineering students remain in positions 3 and 4 after graduation de-spite their intelligence. Age has very little to do with this. The engineering students had high levels of intelligence but weren’t very far along in re-gards to Perry’s model. This just goes to show that knowl-edge, understanding and age are not directly correlated.

So now we can say knowl-edge and experience aren’t age based. The problem is there are still many people who think that because of your age you’re somehow less ex-perienced or less mature than someone in their late 20s, ear-ly 30s. In a column by Jenna

Goudreau in Forbes Magazine entitled, “Why We Need To Take 20-Somethings Seriously,” she

writes of the importance of taking 20-year-olds seriously. According to the column, “80 percent of life’s most significant events take place by age 35, making the 20s a ‘developmental sweet spot.’ Two-thirds of lifetime wage growth hap-pens in the first 10 years of a career. So those who wait until their 30s to get going in a ’real’ job will never catch up.”

Waiting to grow up and gain more experi-ence only delays our development. According to Goudreau, we should demand to be taken seriously. This is our time to get serious about what we want to do with our lives, and others shouldn’t be telling us to wait.

What if Beethoven had been told to wait a few years before starting to compose music? This may have put him behind, and perhaps he would not have been able to compose as much music.

This is the time in our lives where we re-ally have to think about what we want to ac-complish and demand to be heard. Some of us will be applying to grad school and some of us will be starting our careers. If this bogus notion about age and experience is true, then, quite frankly, a bunch of us are screwed. Just because we might be young, that doesn’t mean we’re not just as qualified or knowledgeable as those who are older and have been around longer.

Is there a certain age when someone can start taking you seriously? At age 16, you’re allowed to drive. At age 18, you’re considered an adult and are allowed to vote and fight for your country. At age 21, you can gamble and drink alcohol. At 25 years old you can rent a car. But what’s the age for finally having your opinion valued? 30 years old? 35 years old? Or is it when you finally take off those “Star Wars” bed sheets and start quoting Tolstoy?

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Architecture program makes

necessary change College is tough. No one will argue that, but some Uni-

versity of Nebraska-Lincoln students might actually say it’s too tough to handle. Students enrolled in UNL’s College of Architecture are dropping out of the college at an alarming rate. Since 2008, enrollment has dropped from more than 500 students per year to just under 350. University officials blame the drop in enrollment on the economy and the fact that prospective students and parents make the decision not to enter into a market that might not lead to a job after graduation. But students are saying that’s not the case, and instead blame the heavy work load, which can include several all-nighters within a week, and even the unique thought process required for the program. College shouldn’t be easy, but when statistics are showing growth in nearly every other college on UNL’s campus and dropping enroll-ment rates only in the College of Architecture, something needs to change.

We applaud the College of Architecture’s decision not to take the easiest and most readily available route and dumb down classes. Instead, they are offering freshmen opportu-nities to be part of learning communities or to have men-tors. Additionally, the architecture college plans to collabo-rate with the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management to offer a more diverse platform of courses so students can vary their degrees and, hopefully, be more hirable.

These are the correct steps to take toward changes in the college, but it’s also important that the faculty continues to listen to students. If these changes aren’t working, they should consider further changes.

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On Monday, Feb. 25, the staff of the Daily Nebraskan pub-lished a letter defending their choice to publish a badly written piece of misogyny by Zach Nold, arguing that they didn’t have the moral authority to censor Nold’s freedom of expression, and that they were obligated to present an unbiased view of the issues (on their opinion page).

Setting aside the fact that this argument executes the neat trick of defending a decision while denying any agency in making it, the DN editors are helpless to filter what makes it into their paper because free speech. I will point out that there are certain questions which exit public dis-course because overwhelming evidence in favor of one answer

makes an equivocator look ri-diculous or morally suspect. The earth is round, racial discrimina-tion is wrong, society has not yet sloughed off its legacy of sex-ism – you are welcome to argue the opposite point of view, but you may end up looking stupid, backward or a bit of an ass. Lat-er, someone may see your stu-pid, backward or asinine piece of writing and decide that they wouldn’t want to associate with or hire the person responsible for it.

Speech should absolutely be free. But free speech does not equal consequence-free speech, or responsibility-free speech. It’s really a drag to see that the DN is willing to publish something purely in the interest of “teach-ing the controversy” without even considering how it may affect the way the world views UNL and its graduates.

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are still many people who think that because of your age you’re somehow less experienced or less mature than someone in their late 20s, early 30s.”

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Wandering haphazardly into a show isn’t always acceptable, but Aimless Entertainment’s Third Annual Arts and Music Extrava-ganza encourages it.

This Friday’s event at the Bourbon Theatre will give some of Lincoln’s artists an opportu-nity to showcase their talents to the public.

“Aimless Entertainment was founded in an effort to help give the local arts scene a stronger voice,” said Tyler Reynolds, Aim-less Entertainment founder and president. “The idea behind our extravaganza is to provide people the entertainment they love but also to expose them to art forms they might not otherwise be ac-customed to.”

What makes this event stand out among others is its celebra-tion of various art forms. Audi-ences can filter in throughout the night and are encouraged to in-teract with the performers, rather than simply sit and watch them.

“Generally people go to an

art gallery to see art, a bar to hear music and a recital to see dance. Our show is different because we have it all under one roof for you to experience all at the same time,” Reynolds said.

The evening showcases sev-eral different art genres. Artists Ben Jones and Jed Dunning will be live painting throughout the show, and other pieces will be on display from a variety of art-ists, including Richel Jordan and Nathan Sanks. There will also be performances by the Edge Dance Academy, Guilty is the Bear and the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln’s own a capella group, the Bathtub Dogs.

“Aimless Entertainment is helping us market our brand to a different audience,” said Brady Foreman, a senior music educa-tion major and Bathtub Dogs business manager. “We usually perform for people on campus, and with this opportunity, we get to market our music to new people who may not have heard us before.”

Stumbling upon the show will not only give audiences an excuse to have a good time but provide them with a newfound apprecia-tion for local artists.

“As artists, we want others to appreciate what we do, as well as

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associate professor harris smith instructs a stage combat class as shade ingraham (left) and ryan rabstejnek, both junior theatre performance majors, follow his lead. “teaching is so rewarding,” smith said. “i tell people often i probably have the best job in the world because i get paid to teach people how to find their inner child and how to have fun and discover and observe and embrace life.”

Harris Smith knows how to hit someone with a sword without leaving a mark.

As an associate professor at the Johnny Car-son School of Theatre and Film, Smith has been teaching students the art of stage combat and

movement for 13 years now, after joining the faculty in 1999, but he spoke with the enthusiasm of someone on the first day of a new job.

“Teaching is so rewarding,” Smith said. “I tell people often I probably have the best job in the world because I get paid to teach people how to find their inner child and how to have fun and discover and observe and embrace life.”

Before coming here, Smith was on the stage himself and he looks the part. He’s in his early fifties, but with his Hol-lywood smile and excitable demeanor, it’s easy to think he’s 15 years younger.

Smith has another big role: fatherhood. He has four chil-dren and in a sense, has adopted hundreds more.

“I think I come at teaching with a different approach from someone who hasn’t had kids,” he said. “My students are just like my children; if I say something, they’ll all take it with a grain of salt, you know, ‘it’s just professor Smith talking.’ If a different artist comes in and talks about the same idea, all of the students are like, ‘Wow! Brilliant!’ and I’m sitting over in the corner, scratching my head like,

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courtesy pHotos aimless entertainment’s friday night event at the bourbon theatre will include various visual, musical and dance acts, inculding local artist ben Jones (top left), bathtub dogs (bot-tom left), edge dance academy (top right) and Guilty is the bear (bottom right).

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‘Didn’t I say that last week?’“But I’m used to it – hav-

ing kids,” he added with a grin.

Smith said there are many parallels between teaching and fatherhood, which in-cludes instructing both his kids and his students about human movement. He’s coached his kids’ basketball and football teams before, which makes sense: Smith is an athlete. Growing up in Bothell, Wash., Smith was a self-described “jock” in high school and went on to Mon-tana State University on a football scholarship, where he played strong safety.

After graduating, how-ever, he found himself unsure of what he wanted to do. He wound up in graduate school at the University of Washing-ton, where he started study-ing theater.

“Usually actors have this ah-ha! moment where the clouds part and the sun shines upon you, and you know act-ing is for you,” Smith said.

That moment came for him during “Terra Nova,” a play about one of the first ex-peditions to the North Pole. Smith played a petty officer who eventually died of expo-sure.

“We had been rehearsing for four or five weeks and hadn’t really thought about it,” Smith said. “But during the performance I started hearing members of the audi-ence crying when my charac-ter died. And I thought, man, I had an impact on someone’s

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cara WilWerding | dnsmith leads maggie austin and claire carl, both junior theatre performance majors, through a mock duel. harris teaches all students to fight with sticks, swords and knifes, as well as the impor-tance of body movement.

learn something from other artists and create a community of sup-port,” Foremansaid. “Art and mu-sic are so important to culture and history, and this is a great way to support that and the new varia-tions and styles of art or music.”

With the bands booked, the painters in place, and the danc-ers warmed up, Aimless looks forward to seeing how attendees will react to their shindig.

“The most rewarding part of these shows for me is, after all the planning and stressing is done, when I can sit back and watch people escape reality for a while,”

Reynolds said. “I love watching them forget their problems, get lost in the art and wrapped up in the music.”

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So it begins: another cycle of video game systems and another round of console war battle cries from stead-fast fans.

It’s been more than seven years since Microsoft’s Xbox 360 kicked off the HD generation and last Tuesday in New York City, Sony un-veiled its champion for the looming confrontation. Set to release during the coming holiday season, Playsta-tion 4 comes out swinging.

“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality,” read a massive screen as the conference be-gan. “But to win, we don’t need to fight. We need to play.”

A collage of moments from the most memorable games and expe-riences in Sony’s past prepped a throng of journalists for a refreshing two-hour show of down-to-earth ideas, goals and achievements.

It began with a vision: Play any-time you want, anywhere you want. Executives, publishers and develop-ers took the stage one by one, reit-erating and reinforcing the concep-tions driving the new hardware.

Simplicity. Immediacy. Social. Integrated. Personalized.

Sony shoots for simpler func-tionality: instantaneous game ses-sions and experiences that are con-nected to the people in our lives and integrated into the mediums we use every day. Whether it’s the Playsta-tion 4, computers, tablets or phones, Sony wants to personalize our in-teraction with gaming and media at

large.The best part of these promises,

targets, was how they were present-ed. These ideas weren’t declared as guarantees but, instead, were con-veyed in earnest. Throughout, the tone said, “This is what we want to do with Playstation; this is what we’re working towards.”

And it worked.Instead of lavish cheerleading

and grandiose statements, the event informed, entertained and high-lighted the possibilities gamers can expect in the following years.

Mark Cerny, lead system ar-chitect, stood in front of the crowd detailing the components power-ing the PS4 and showing off its new controller, the Dualshock 4. This time around the gamepad is heftier than its predecessor and comes with a touch screen, light bar and share button.

The light bar will correspond with Sony’s new stereo camera that tracks the controller, presumably used for motion input. The share button serves as an integral part in Sony’s plan for social connectiv-ity, allowing players to record and upload their gameplay clips to the Playstation community.

It is “a platform for game cre-ators, by game creators,” Cerny said.

Sony approached several de-velopers over the past five years, asking them about the things they wanted and needed to make better games. The goal is to open the sys-tem, make it as simple to work with and as power-per-dollar friendly as possible.

The most impactful announce-ments of the night concerned the Gaikai, a cloud-based gaming ser-vice that Sony purchased last year. With the cloud features integrated in the PS4, these creators plan to beat backwards compatibility for-ever.

No more blowing in dusty Nin-tendo cartridges and praying that “Super Mario Bros” successfully boots up. No more wasted space with Playstation 2 DVDs. With Gai-

kai, Sony hopes to stream all of its games, from PS1 to 4, from the Play-station Cloud.

This service could extend out-side of older games too, allowing players to try any game from the network before buying or even downloading it. Certainly the band-width needed for the streaming will be extensive and David Perry, Gai-kai CEO, understands this.

Sony and Gaikai need to create the fastest global network possible, Perry said. “This is an investment into the millions of loyal Playsta-tion gamers around the world who would love to have all the past, present and future games at their fingertips.”

The first game showed off, “Killzone: Shadow Fall,” assuredly impressed with its visuals, but out-side of their beauty, failed to repre-sent anything new in terms of actual play.

Though a live demonstration of the “Share” button after the demo illustrated how recording and up-loading gamplay will work. And, considering their infamous “Kill-zone 2” trailer, which was hawked as in-game footage later discovered to be faked, a more honest approach was appreciated.

Highlights like Jonathan Blow’s “The Witness,” Media Molecule’s incomprehensible 3D sculpting-animating-game-building-thingy and Ubisoft’s open-world “Watch_Dogs,” displayed a range of innova-tion that should grace our gaming industry for the next several years.

Plus, to quell fears, Sony said that it will not prohibit used games on its system, something many gamers worried about after the company patented a technology to prevent just that.

So, Sony strikes first, illustrating its vision of what “next-generation” entertainment can be. A domain recently purchased by Eventcore, “xboxevent.com” suggests a simi-lar announcement will follow from Microsoft.

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life. I was able to get them to for-get about their worries outside of the theater.

“They dropped their cares and I had my ah-ha! moment.”

That moment lead to a Master of Fine Arts from UW’s School of Drama and a career filled with curtains, blocking and stage cues. He was also certified as a stage combat teacher by the Society of Fight Directors in 1998.

Smith’s passion for theater is immediately noticeable. He said he can’t pick a favorite play be-cause “there’s too many of them” and he often references different roles and plays naturally during conversation.

“In theater, it’s people com-ing together to share their art, to share a message, as part of a com-munity,” Smith said.

Virginia Smith, a fellow asso-ciate professor in the Johnny Car-son school, has her office right next door to Harris Smith. Even closer is their bond.

“He’s one of my best friends,” Virginia said. “About 10 years ago, our department went to Poland to put on a production during an experimental theater festival. The airline assumed we were married because we have the same last name, so we ended up sitting by each other for the flight there and back and became fast friends.”

Virginia Smith and Harris Smith have been colleagues for 12 years now, all the while sup-porting each other in both work-related and personal affairs.

“He listens really well,” Vir-ginia Smith said. “He has a gentle patience and understanding to him, and has been so supportive toward me.”

She said the support she’s felt from Harris is also present for his students.

“He listens to what the stu-dents want to do with their lives,” she said. “Then he does everything he can to help them achieve that.”

Looking forward, Harris is dedicated to making the Johnny Carson school stronger.

“A big thing I want to do is make the group of students we have more diverse,” he said. “More ethnic backgrounds is go-ing to lead to better theater.”

Smith said while he has loved teaching, he still has the itch to act.

“Because of my kids, I’ve had to turn down work and put a lot of things on hold,” he said. “But in a way, that’s made my passion stronger. `I can’t wait to be back on that stage.”

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Last match, Nebraska gymnast CJ Schaaf recorded a career-high score competing in the all-around with a total of 83.6. He earned a score of 14 or better on four of the six events in the Iowa match.

In every competition this season, Schaaf has scored at an 80 or above. The junior gymnast feels he is performing what he is capable of doing.

“I just get in a mode like that where I’m just completely focused,” Schaaf said.

Staying fo-cused, and zoning out everything else going on, the gym-nast moves from one event to the next. As soon as the event is over, he clears it from his head and moves on to the next one.

“This process is awesome, and it’s what I compete for,” Schaaf said.

According to Nebraska coach Chuck Chmelka, Schaaf is doing what he was recruited to do; be an all-arounder for the team.

“He grew up,” Chmelka said. “He is doing everything right. To what he does everyday in the gym, and to what he does on Fridays at home.”

Schaaf competed as an all-arounder for the Huskers the beginning of his freshman year, but injuries and adjusting to the college atmosphere interfered.

Schaaf felt there was added pressure on him his freshman year.

“Chuck put a lot of trust in me as a freshman all-arounder,” Schaaf said. “I felt I had to per-form well for the seniors and the older guys.”

After competing in a few meets as an all-arounder, the in-juries started to occur for Schaaf and he was also struggling to consistently make the line-up for events, Chmelka said.

“He was either hurt or not in shape,” the coach said. “He couldn’t do the routines that make the team.”

Schaaf said he didn’t adjust to the college life as well as he

could have done. “I just lost focus in [the

gym] a lot, and I wasn’t keeping healthy,” Schaaf said.

Schaaf attributed the lost fo-cus to being away from his par-ents and being in the same gym for a long time.

“I was in the Cypress Acad-emy of Gymnastics from when I was four to a senior in high school,” Schaaf said.

Chmelka feels Schaaf has matured not only in the gym, but also in life.

“He thinks things through now, where as before he would go off on a whim,” Chmelka said. “He now makes decisions for what will be a positive out-come.”

While Schaaf has rebounded and is performing well this sea-son, he gives the credit to some-one else.

“Johnny has had my back,” Schaaf said. “We have a lot of respect for each other and we work well together.”

Schaaf is referring to Nebraska’s as-sistant coach John Robin-son. He took over coaching

Schaaf at the end of last year. According to Schaaf, this is when it started to turn around for him.

“We worked toward get-ting me back into the all-around spot,” Schaaf said. “He has been helping me push toward my full potential.”

With the new five up and five counting rule coming into effect this weekend, Schaaf has been showing Chmelka the con-sistency he needs to see when putting together the line-ups.

“I now know, day in and day out, exactly what I will get out of him,” Chmelka said.

According to Schaaf, he competes well in all the events and he doesn’t prefer one event over another.

“I like to keep all of them at the same level,” Schaaf said.

The ultimate goal Schaaf has for this season is keep com-peting in all-around and make the second day of the NCAA Championships, even though coaches feel he could earn All-American.

“Johnny has been putting it in my head,” Schaaf said. “It has just been adding fuel to the fire.”

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Wisconsin hasn’t won since Feb. 10 against Indiana, who is 2-12 in the Big Ten. Wisconsin is 1-5 in their last six games, but have made it close in most all of them, their last loss com-ing against Northwestern 54-52. The Badgers have been one of the poten-tial deadliest teams in the conference.

“Nine of (Wisconsin’s) losses were within two possessions, they’ve played everyone in our league close, all three of their wins in the Big Ten are at home,” Yori said. “I’m sure they’ll give us a good challenge.”

Wisconsin is also the only team to beat No. 7 Penn State in confer-ence play this season. The Badgers shocked everyone with a 63-61 win on Jan. 31

“We simply can’t look past them,” Moore said.

But if Nebraska plays defense the way it has, the Huskers should put themselves in a good spot to win. The Huskers have held their last three opponents to season lows in points: 39 for Ohio State, 39 to Michigan and 46 to Iowa.

“We’ve grown to be smarter as defensive players,” Moore said. “Ev-

erything is starting to click together.”Yori agrees, and says it’s the little

things that have the Huskers on a roll.

“The game really is about do-ing more things right than your op-ponent,” Yori said. “We’re doing a better job of paying attention to the details in the game.”

On offense, All-American can-didate Jordan Hooper has been the constant, now averaging 18.5 points per game. Freshman Rachel Theriot has also stepped up her role, even scoring 19 points in Nebraska’s 20-point victory over Iowa on Feb. 24.

“We have shot the ball better, Yori said. “We’re making more open shots that we weren’t at the begin-ning of the year.”

With a win, Nebraska will fin-ish the year on a six-game road-win streak, the second-longest in school history.

“They’re gonna give us a really good game,” Moore said. “We need to take care of business.”

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the rotation. She competed as an all-around performer for the Huskers in every meet, placing ninth in the all-around (38.85) at the 2009 NCAA Southeast Re-gional. Nathe was also a standout in the classroom, and numerous times over the past five years has earned academic honors. The next three years she would be waylaid by misfor-tune, competing only in limited fashion due to injuries to her elbow and achilles.

This year, Nathe has been limited to only competing on bars and beam. Kendig said he didn’t want to see her go through an-other injury again.

“The last five years have gone by so quickly,” Nathe said. “It has been crazy. It’s sad, but it’s time to start the next chapter of life. I have met awe-some people here, and all of us have a special bond.”

Nathe has meant a lot to the Nebraska’s program, Kendig said.

“The work ethic, the demeanor and the focus she has had is fan-tastic,” Kendig said. “It has and always will be team above self for Kassandra.”

Janelle Giblin and Brittany Skinner each competed for the same club team in California, and both committed to Nebraska the same day. They arrived in Lin-

coln in 2010. During the last four years,

Giblin has scored career-highs on vault and bars with a score of 9.95 multiple times. She has also been named first and second-team All-American in bars and vault at least once since her arrival.

Just like Na-the, Giblin has also earned multiple aca-demic honors.

“I have learned a lot about myself as a person and as a gym-nast,” Giblin said. “If you give something a chance, it can really change your perspec-tive. Nebraska did that for me. I have had a great time here.”

Kendig de-scribed Giblin as being a “steady-Ed-die”.

“When we need it the most, she has a knack for sticking the landing,” Kendig said. “She is comfort-able in beam, and has great ability in bars and vault. She has a lot of confidence in everything she does, and is another great team person.”

And last, but not least, Brit-tany Skinner. She has also earned numerous All-American awards. In 2010, as a freshman, she earned first-team All-American on vault. In 2011, she earned second-team All-American on beam.

Skinner has also been reliable

for the Huskers. Not once has she missed an extended period of time due to injuries.

Just like Giblin, Skinner de-scribed her time in Lincoln as a learning experience.

“My time here has been great,” Skinner said. “I can thank all of the coaches for that mainly. Dan (Kendig) has been like a father figure to me. We have a really good relation-ship.”

Kendig had high praise for Skinner as well.

“Brittany is enormously talented,” Kendig said. “She wants to finish her career on a high note. She has earned it too.”

The three seniors said the thing they will miss most is the relationships they have made over the years. They each de-scribed the team as being like a family.

Kendig has seen each one of them take great strides in their development as gymnasts.

“All of them are hungry,” Kendig said. “They are in search of that perfect routine. They are perfectionists and take great pride in it.”

But over all, seeing each of them develop as a person is the best thing Kendig said.

“I’ve seen, in all of them, their faith (religiously) com-ing around,” Kendig said. “It is just awesome to see. To watch them come in as freshman, and see them mature is remarkable. It is what I love about this job the most.”

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The Nebraska men’s tennis team won its fifth-straight game and jumped to No. 40 in the rankings this week. The Huskers success has been based around a core group of young, talented players who have been hot recently.

Dusty Boyer won his seven-straight match Monday. Marc Her-rmann won his fifth-straight while Tom Blackwell is still undefeated on the season, standing at 8-0. Her-rmann and his doubles partner An-dre Stenger have been solid since being paired up almost a month ago.

Perhaps what is most interest-ing here, though, is the fact that only one player, Stenger, listed above is a senior. Blackwell is a junior, and Herrmann and Boyer are both fresh-men. The Huskers rely on a young team to produce and it appears that this team is beginning to come to-gether.

Nebraska coach Kerry McDer-mott said his team has bonded quickly, especially the freshmen.

“I think the thing that really helps us is just the chemistry with all of our young kids,” he said. “They know what their role is. There’s no egos involved. Everybody wants to win for the team.”

The Huskers did struggle at the beginning of the year, starting out 1-3. The Huskers’ youth really showed, as many players failed to close out matches. Boyer dropped

his first two matches of the season, while Herrmann lost his first four.

“The first couple of games I was really nervous at the beginning of the matches,” Herrmann said.

Herrmann, a St. Ingbert, Ger-

many, native, also said the quieter atmosphere during college matches was hard to get used to. He was a highly-touted recruit last year, and his five-straight wins has helped fuel the Huskers’ winning streak.

Even though he struggled ini-tially, Herrmann said he knew he would win matches eventually.

“When I started 0-4, I knew that I could definitely win more match-es, but I didn’t expect winning five matches in a row,” he said.

The Huskers have been expect-ing production out of Herrmann since the season started, and he hasn’t disappointed.

Another top recruit who has paid big dividends for the Huskers this season has been Dusty Boyer, of Ham Lake, Minn. Boyer was pos-sibly the best high school tennis player ever to come out of his home state, as he is the only person ever to win four state titles. Boyer has continued to play at a high level this season. He has not lost a singles’ match in almost a month.

Boyer also plays alongside Brad-ford Zitsch to form a formidable doubles team. They are 4-2 this sea-son, and have not dropped a match since Feb. 3.

McDermott said he has been impressed with their play so far this season.

“Dusty and [Zitsch] make a good combination,” he said. “They have good energy. They play kind of loose and gel off each other.”

Thanks to the dynamic play of two talented freshmen, the Husk-ers are competing at a high level and appeared almost unstoppable in a convincing win against Wichita State Monday.


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For Dawna Tyson’s family, it is all softball. Her older sisters both played Division I softball with her older sister playing for Washing-ton and her other sister also play-ing for the Huskers as a pitcher and outfielder from 2008 to 2011.

Tyson’s father, Marty, first coached the oldest Tyson al-most 17 years ago. He is a former mi-nor league baseball player for the Chi-cago Cubs and is now a renowned hitting coach and has been coaching the Corona Angels ever since he chose to coach his old-est daughter. He has coached all of his daughters, in-cluding Dawna.

Marty can say almost all of his players earn scholarships af-ter high school ball. He does this by looking at players in his re-gion and goes through a similar process that college programs go

through. That’s how some current Huskers joined the program.

While the Edwards sisters, Taylor and Tatum went to high school in Murrieta, Calif., they still played for the powerhouse

softball program dur-ing the summer. Both players drove a half hour from Murrieta to Corona to practice and in the summer of 2009, they went on to play in the national tourna-ment.

After last week-end, Nebraska earned a spot in the NFCA coaches’ poll at No. 25, something that young players like Dawna Tyson appreci-

ate for the first time in their young career.

“It’s exciting,” she said. “(I’ve) never been part of something like this. It’s great to have all the hard work being respected by others.”


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Nickolai hammar | DNmarc herrmann returns an opponent’s shot earlier this season at the nebraska tennis center. herrmann is one of many under-classmen contributing for the huskers this season.

file photo by kat buchaNaN | DNc.J. schaaf performs on the pommel horse earlier this season at the bob devaney sports center. scaaf is finally becoming the player coach chuck chmelka wants him to be.

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As a first year head coach here at Ne-braska, it’s no secret that Stacy Un-derwood has done great things with the rifle team.

The squad is currently in a win-ning season, has qualified for the NCAA Championships and finished third in the conference champion-ships, quite a turnaround from a season ago.

So when Underwood won the Coach of the Year award at a ban-quet during the conference champi-onships, junior ReAnn Wilson said it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone.

“We definitely weren’t sur-prised,” Wilson said. “She has all of the qualifications of the coach of the year.”

While the team may not have been surprised, Underwood said she couldn’t believe it.

“I did not expect it,” said Under-wood. “I was very surprised to hear

my name being called.”Prior to this year, Underwood

was the assistant coach at the Uni-versity of Kentucky. Wilson said even the Wildcats couldn’t hold back their excitement when she won the award.

“The entire banquet hall gave her a standing ovation,” Wilson said. “Even the people of Kentucky were so hap-py for her. We were ex-cited and thrilled for her and that everyone there was supporting her.”

“Well, they pro-nounced my name wrong so everyone was laughing,” Underwood said, “but I’ve been told my face was as red as the shirt I was wearing. I was surprised.”

As any good coach would be, Underwood was humble about win-ning and gave most of the credit to her team rather than herself.

“This was a team award,” Un-derwood said. “I didn’t do it alone. The desire for these girls to have a top team and their worth ethic makes what I do easy. I couldn’t have done this without them. The credit doesn’t just belong to me.”

Wilson said she speaks for the entire team when she says Un-derwood is the biggest reason for their success.

“She came in with a coaching style all her own,” Wilson said. “She had expectations and goals for us and that’s what we needed.”

With a team of 10 women, the personali-ties and work styles of each person are different. Wilson said Underwood does a great job of being

who each person needs her to be.“She caters to everyone’s dif-

ferent needs,” Wilson said. “She holds us accountable. She works out

with us, and that motivates us. She spends so much time at the range. Her coaching strategy is phenome-nal and it’s a big reason why we had a successful season.”

Underwood was a member of the NU rifle team during college, and she said that apart from her team, this school is a big reason for her success as a coach, as well.

“This team and school was wel-coming,” Underwood said. “And I can’t be a good coach without the ex-cellent athletic department that the school has. The passion of NU ath-letics makes my job better and more enjoyable.”

Wilson said when it came to de-scribing coach Underwood, it could be put into a few simple words.

“She is the true definition of a good coach,” Wilson said. “It’s as simple as that.”

“I love my job,” Underwood said. “I’m blessed to do what I do, and to have this wonderful team.”


i just get in a mode like

that where i’m just completely focused.”

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A powerhouse has been built in Southern California; it’s not the Los Angeles Angels though.

A half hour away in Corona, Calif., there is a softball program that produces talent year in and year out and for the Nebraska soft-ball squad, the program has been beneficial for it. The Corona An-gels, an 18 and under travel club that players participate in during the summer, has sent four players

who have made an impact for the Huskers this year.

The list includes juniors Taylor and Tatum Edwards, and freshmen Emily Lockman and Dawna Tyson. All four, including the freshmen, have started for Nebraska in the young season.

Growing up in Corona, Tyson and Lockman were best friends. While Lockman stands on the mound, her friend Tyson is sup-porting her in the infield. Both didn’t plan on going to the same college after high school, but it

happened and it is something that Tyson was ecstatic about.

“Emily and I are best friends,” Tyson said. “It just sort of happened when committing to Nebraska. The coaches are unbelievable and the place itself is just unbelievable. It’s amazing to be playing with your best friend.”

Lockman, who was highly-recruited by other Division I pro-grams, agreed with her friend Ty-son that Nebraska was the right fit for her.

“The coaching and atmosphere

here is great, totally different from the other schools,” Lockman said. “It was more family-oriented, they put academics before softball. It was a perfect fit.”

Most of the time, Tyson is playing at first base for the Husk-ers, contributing to a defense that only allowed one run against No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 8 California last weekend in the Marry Nutter Col-legiate Classic, an hour away from her and Lockman’s hometown.

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At the Big Ten Indoor Champion-ships, the Nebraska men’s 4x400 relay team won its first event title at the conference meet since 1993. The squad also broke the facility and meet records at the SPIRE In-stitute sports complex. Going into the conference meet, the Huskers were ranked fourth in the Big Ten.

“I felt pretty good about that. Not only was it a fast time but it was a very strong, competitive ef-fort against some other real good teams,” Nebraska track and field coach Gary Pepin said.

Ricco Hall, Dexter McKenzie, Christian Sanderfer and Janis Le-itis recorded a time of 3:06:67 in the event last Saturday. Hall led the charge in the race then handed it over to McKenzie. McKenzie fin-ished off his leg and transferred the baton over to Sanderfer, who was passed for a part of his leg, but re-gained the lead at the end. Leitis finished the race in the lead despite two runners falling during his leg.

“We felt like that early in the year, we had the opportunity to have a pretty special 4x400 meter relay team,” Pepin said. “We not only had real quality in the group we had depth in the group and we there were competition for the po-sitions on there.”

The team broke the old Ne-braska school record of 3:07:64,

which was recorded in 1992. This time ranks the Huskers 4x400 me-ter relay team at No. 5 in the na-tion. Sanderfer thought the confer-ence title was a great way to finish Big Ten competition for the indoor season.

“It felt awesome because I have worked hard for it all year,” Sand-erfer said.

Over the year, the relay team has gone through changes in its lineup, but it was able to pull to-gether at the conference meet to produce the fastest 4x400 meter re-lay teams in the Nebraska history.

“It changed week to week based on how people were feeling, depending on what meet it was and what competition was going to

be there,” Sanderfer said.The relay team has been flex-

ible when learning who would be running the event. They all want to compete, but they understand the importance of putting the best re-lay team on the track at each meet.

Sanderfer, who pole vaults for Nebraska as well, recently added the 4x400 meter relay to his roster of events this season.

“It is a new event for me so just going and being able to run with my teammates and set a new school record is just an awesome feeling,” Sanderfer said.

Training has been slightly dif-ferent for Sanderfer this season since adding the 4x400. He has done more workouts on his bike in the preseason and has added more sprint workouts to his pole vault-ing training.

The Husker men’s 4x400 meter relay team will not be running in the NCAA Qualifier meet.

“We are sitting in a qualifying position and we are hoping that we don’t get bumped out,” Pepin said. “We just felt like it is fairly solid and we don’t want to take those people and have to run another hard race if we don’t have to before the national meet. Dexter Mckenzie is a little dinged up so if we had de-cided to run he wouldn’t have ran in it anyway.”

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Nebraska women’s basketball coach Connie Yori won’t let her team over-look its matchup with Wisconsin Thursday.

The 11-16 Badgers have lost three-straight games and are second-to-last in the Big Ten with a 3-11 conference record. But Wisconsin’s poor record isn’t stopping Yori from making her players take their final road game seri-ously.

“They are very capable of beat-ing us right now,” Yori said in a press conference Wednesday. “They have played well enough to beat a lot of teams.”

Nebraska (21-6 overall, 11-3 Big Ten) is on a nine-game win streak that

dates back to Jan. 20. With a win over Wisconsin and a Penn State loss Thurs-day against Minnesota, Nebraska could share a piece of the Big Ten title with a win over Penn State March 3.

That matchup with the Nittany Lions is growing in importance for Nebraska, which will not only close out their season but close out the Bob Devaney Sports Center for the wom-en’s team and All-American candi-date Lindsey Moore’s career. With the streak on the line, senior night loom-ing and the biggest game of the year in sight, distractions surround Nebraska.

“We’re not worried about Sunday right now,” Yori said. “We haven’t even talked about Penn State yet. We’re fo-cused on Wisconsin right now.”

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Travel team produces many NU players

There is a saying that all good things must come to an end.

For the three seniors on the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team, that end will soon draw near. It will start to hit home this coming Monday, when Janelle Giblin, Kassandra Nathe and Brittany Skinner compete in their last home meet at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Giblin, a native of San Ramon, Calif., doesn’t know how she’ll feel.

“All I have to say is that we will wait and see,” Giblin said with a laugh.

Nathe, a native of Sartell, Minn., has tried to come to terms with this be-ing her last year.

“I don’t know how I will respond,” Nathe said. “I’ve tried to prepare my-self for it, but I don’t know what my emotions will be.”

Skinner, a native of Los Altos, Ca-lif., said it hasn’t quite hit her that it will be her last year as a Husker.

Nebraska women’s gymnastics coach Dan Kendig said to bring the tis-sues, because it could be an emotional night.

“You never know what you will be feeling,” Kendig said. “I started get-ting emotional when I talked about it (senior night) at our last meet. But I think it’s good to have feelings and emotions.”

Nathe came to Nebraska in 2009 and automatically earned her spot in

Janelle Giblin raises her hands in the air after landing a routine while volunteer assistant coach owen field celebrates. Giblin and two other senior gymnasts compete in their final meet at the bob devaney sports center monday against iowa.

file photo by kat buchaNaN | DNlindsey moore dribbles around an iowa defender earlier this season. moore and the huskers look to win their 10th straight at wisconsin thursday.

file photo by joN auGustiNe | DNnebraska runner ricco hall makes the turn during an event earlier this season at the bob devaney sports center. hall and the 4x400 relay team recorded a school best time last saturday.

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laNNy holsteiNIn a season where no team is safe, just making the NCAA tournament is the end goal for many squads.

In the Big Ten though, that’s not the case. The league has its postseason field pretty well locked up. The conference will send seven teams to the big dance. Michigan State, Michi-gan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, In-diana, Minnesota and Illinois have all punched their tickets with impressive records and enough quality wins.

Minnesota and Illinois are the conference’s last teams in, but they should still have no problem garnering a spot come tournament time. In the latest edition of Joe Lunardi’s “Brack-etology,” Illinois is a 9-seed, Minnesota is an 11-seed and nei-ther is in any danger of slipping away.

Iowa sits on the outside looking in. The Hawkeyes had an outside chance to pick up the Big Ten’s eighth tournament spot, but when they blew a 16-point halftime lead Saturday against Nebraska, their NCAA hopes were blown along with the it.

The Hawkeyes are 17-11 on the year, but are without a win over a ranked opponent. Games with Indiana and Illinois remain opportunities for the team, but even a win in one of those games probably won’t do the trick.

So barring an improbable run in the Big Ten tournament by one of the bottom five teams, the Big Ten is simply jockeying for positioning at this point.

Indiana, a projected No. 1 seed, needs to batten down the hatches and hold on. The Hoo-siers’ loss to Minnesota Tuesday hurts them greatly, but with

Florida, another No. 1 seed hopeful, losing to Tennessee, there is still a bit of cushion for the team.

Holding on to the top spot in the rankings has been a tough task for just about everyone this season, as it seems like new teams are shuffled in and out each week. Indiana may look like the Big Ten’s best shot at a No. 1 seed, but Michigan State and Michigan are lurking close behind if another shakeup were to happen.

The Spartans and Wolver-ines are projected No. 2 seeds at this point, and each have a pair of opportunities to add to their resumes before season’s end. Michigan State gets chanc-es against No. 4 Michigan and No. 17 Wisconsin, and Michi-gan plays No. 9 Michigan State and No. 1 Indiana, teams the Wolverines lost to earlier this season.

Beyond the top-tier, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois will all be in the tourna-ment as mid-range seeds.

For those teams, the rest of the season is huge. The differ-ence between earning a No. 5 or 6 seed and a No. 8 seed is a big deal. The No. 5 seed gets a much easier route to the sweet 16 and Final Four than the No. 8 seed, who most likely will get a No. 1 seed as its opponent in the third round (after the play-in games and the second round).

The Big Ten schedule has been a gauntlet for the confer-ence’s teams. In my mind, the Big Ten is the best league in the country, and it will show come tournament time. Look for those top-three teams to make deep runs and for one or two of the middle-seed teams to surprise. I’m looking for a team like Wis-consin – which is rolling right now – to knock off a team or two it isn’t expected to.

The Big Ten has beaten itself up all season, but when March Madness hits, those teams will be prepared better than any oth-er group in the nation to handle the stress and intensity of the big dance.

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