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W hen Yan Jin first arrived in the United States last August from Xi’an (pro- nounced shee-ahn), a city in central China, she had to confirm her student visa with a U.S. State Department of- fice. Every international stu- dent has to do this, but what struck Yan was just how many others had the same plan. “The line is very, very long in the morning at 6,” Yan, a junior accounting major, said. “And the U.S. consulate back in China was just as busy.” “They think American edu- cation is better,” Yan said. “If a Chinese student wants to study abroad, America’s the first choice.” Universities across the United States, including the University of Nebraska-Lin- coln, are all seeing the same thing: Chinese undergraduate students are surging into the country, and the flood shows no sign of stopping. In the decade between 2000 and 2010, those stu- dents’ numbers in the U.S. more than tripled, according to a 2010 article in The New York Times. And according to an MSNBC report earlier this year, that number may have doubled again in 2011, to more than 50,000. And UNL is no different. The number of Chinese stu- dents on campus, now more than 800, has doubled since 2008. In 1998, about one in 10 international students here was Chinese. Now, Chinese students are almost half of the international crowd. “It’s a bomb, an explo- sion,” Liang Chen said with a laugh. The senior finance major from central China, at UNL for three years, has been here to see it. The reason isn’t just popu- lation: China has more than 1 billion people, but so does India, home country of 147 UNL students this year. According to 10 interviews with Chinese students and experts, much of the answer to the riddle lies in the per- fect storm of more wealth, more people and more con- nection than ever before. MORE WEALTH Since capitalism’s gradual entry into the Communist country in the 1970s, the Chi- nese economy has ballooned to the second largest in the world, said Benjamin Kim, an associate professor of eco- nomics who specializes in Asian economics. “So the Chinese economy had a big takeoff,” Kim said. As China’s economy grew, so did the average wealth of the people. Since the 1970s, Kim said, per capita income has quadrupled. As globaliza- tion hit, it was like one billion light bulbs being connected to the world grid. From there, it was a simple path to college. “As people get richer, they go for more and more educa- tion,” he said. And once students come over to U.S. universities, they pay about twice the in-state rate. Most of it comes out of their family’s pocket, because Chinese students aren’t eligi- ble for federal loans or most scholarships. Chinese students often have parents financially comfortable in business or government, said Andrew Wedeman, chairman of the Asian Studies Program. Each Chinese student interviewed by the Daily Nebraskan had a parent in one of the two fields. At a time when Nebraska’s high school numbers are sta- ble and state appropriations for UNL are frozen, money from Chinese students’ tu- itions is increasingly valuable to the state’s higher educa- tion institutions. “Any time we can gener- ate revenue … that would keep costs down for other students, sure,” said Craig Munier, director of the Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid. “Public universities only have a few other places they can go for revenue.” A majority of China’s stu- dents come from China’s ma- jor cities along the east coast, such as Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, Kim said. The western half of the coun- try remains largely rural and largely out of the picture. “There is a clear dispar- ity or discrepancy between coastal areas and rural areas,” Kim said. “Parents in the rural areas simply cannot afford to send their kids over here.” Higher costs, however, clearly haven’t stemmed the flow of Chinese students. It’s an investment that Chi- nese families believe is worth making, Kim said. “Certainly it costs a lot more here than in their own country,” he said. “But in re- turn, their children will get the chance to speak English, to learn Western culture and to make a social network.” Yao Wei, who arrived from the Anhui province in east- ern China last August, is a sophomore studying finance and accounting. Yao plans to work for his father’s business. His father has devoted a large portion of his resources for his son’s study, he said, but they both believe the plan will pay off. “I think he made a great decision,” Yao said in pre- cise and rapid English, echo- ing his peers. He borrowed a businessman’s language, call- ing his family’s investment “an opportunity cost.” Chinese parents often are far-sighted in their one child’s education, said Patrice Mc- Mahon, a political science as- sociate professor. “They save everything,” she said. “They’re saving from the day their children are born.” MORE PEOPLE While China’s economy grows like bamboo, the num- ber of people depending on it is staggering. China is now home to more than 1.3 billion DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012 VOLUME 111, ISSUE 109 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM Romney vs. Santorum COLUMNISTS DEBATE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION BATTLE DJS TODD AND TYLER BEGIN BROADCASTING IN LINCOLN SPARTANS’ HOT SHOOTING TOO MUCH FOR NEBRASKA New in town Lights out WOMEN’S BBALL PAGE 10 WEATHER | CLOUDY RADIO PAGE 5 NOLD/GREEN PAGE 4 @dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan 39° 20° Staff picks for this year’s Oscars PAGE 5 JACY MARMADUKE DAILY NEBRASKAN A bill that would outlaw entry into a motor vehicle without the owner’s permis- sion or for the purpose of committing a crime is more than it appears. LB 1096 is Sen. Brad Ashford’s attempt to combat a growing prob- lem in Omaha and beyond: identity theft. The judiciary committee will hold a pub- lic hearing for the bill Fri- day at 1:30 p.m. at the Capi- tol Building. Daily Nebraskan: Can you give a brief description of the bill and its signifi- cance? Ashford: This (bill) was brought to me by the Oma- ha police division. What happens is, somebody will break into a car and steal identity documents, like a credit card or a social se- curity card or something like that, and then they use those items for iden- tity theft. But the actual value of what’s being sto- len is not very much, so the charges we have available to us are not strict enough for the crime. They’re tak- ing items of little value in themselves, but they can be turned around into signifi- cant damage to a person, like loss of a credit card, stealing a purse or wallet — it happens a lot. In this case, professional thieves who are going around and stealing identification from cars, each charge is just a misdemeanor. We want to be able to aggregate those (charges) so we can get at these professional thieves that are causing mayhem with the public and break- ing into a series of automo- biles. DN: How will that work, exactly? Ashford: We’ll aggregate after the third offense to a felony, so just the breaking and entering of the vehicle Bill to curb ID theft through harsher laws LEGISLATURE Grad students travel fund approved LEGISLATURE: SEE PAGE 3 TOP: Liang Chen , a student who came from central China to UNL to study finance three years ago, poses for a photo, taking a break from studying. Since he arrived, the number of Chinese students at UNL has doubled, reflect- ing a growing trend around the country. ABOVE: He Zichun, a freshman from Beijing, poses for a photo in the Nebraska Union. Both of her parents work in the Chinese government but aren’t wealthy, she said. Nonetheless, He said paying for a U.S. degree isn’t too large of a strain for her family. Story and photos by Dan Holtmeyer Graphics by Bea Huff CHINESE STUDENTS’ NUMBERS TAKE OFF Across the country, undergraduate Chinese students have poured into American universities. At UNL, their numbers took off starting in 2007. Here are the top 5 countries by numer of UNL graduates and undergraduate students in the fall of each year. SOURCE: UNL INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & PLANNING 0 200 400 600 800 ‘98 China ‘99 ‘00 ‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11 1,000 India Malaysia South Korea Vietnam A BIGGER SHARE THAN EVER While Chinese students increase their numbers, no other country has kept up the pace. The result is Chinese students make up a greater share of international students than ever. SOURCE: UNL INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & PLANNING China 40% All Others 39% India 7% Malaysia 7% South Korea 4% Vietnam 3% Population of Chinese students at UNL has doubled since 2008 and they make up half of the international student population GRAD STUDENT FUND VOTE 4,310 elligible 16% voted YES 73% (494 votes) NO 27% (184 votes) CHINA: SEE PAGE 2 EDUCATION: SEE PAGE 3 Chinese surge into American universities ELIAS YOUNGQUIST DAILY NEBRASKAN Graduate students have spo- ken in favor of creating an additional $1-per-credit-hour student fee in order to cre- ate a graduate student travel fund. At 8:02 p.m. Thursday, re- sults of the special graduate student vote came in with 73 percent of voters in favor of creating a graduate student travel fund, leaving 27 per- cent in opposition. “We came in, knowing that travel grants were something that students wanted, but the question was whether the students wanted it and the numbers show it,” said Sylvia Jons, higher education ad- ministration graduate student and president of the Graduate Student Association. Jons is also an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senator and the chair of the Graduate Student Task Force, a joint group made up of both ASUN and GSA members. “The larger thing here is what came about of us work- ing on this travel grant,” Jons said. “This shows a strong committed relationship be- tween ASUN and GSA that is built on respect and making sure that we both serve grad- uate students at UNL.” The plan that was ap- proved is a referendum and non-binding, but according to Jons, the fund should be tak- ing applications by next se- mester and distributing grants by Spring of 2013. “We have worked quite a bit with Dean [Patrick] Dussault, now what we should be able to do is refine a lot of our plans,” said ASUN President Lane Carr, a senior history and political science major. “That’s going to involve hav- ing a lot of open forums with students, getting a lot of input from students.” According to Jons, the plan is to have two open forums in the near future for graduate students followed by meet- ings with Dussault, the dean of Graduate Studies, Senior Vice Chancellor Ellen Weiss- inger and ultimately Univer- sity of Nebraska President James Milliken. “I’m just so excited because every other Big Ten univer- sity has a student travel fund and it’s such an important thing for graduate students, both professionally and aca- demically,” Jons said. 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When Yan Jin first arrived in the United States last August from Xi’an (pro-
nounced shee-ahn), a city in central China, she had to confirm her student visa with a U.S. State Department of-fice. Every international stu-dent has to do this, but what struck Yan was just how many others had the same plan.
“The line is very, very long in the morning at 6,” Yan, a junior accounting major, said. “And the U.S. consulate back in China was just as busy.”
“They think American edu-cation is better,” Yan said. “If a Chinese student wants to study abroad, America’s the first choice.”
Universities across the United States, including the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln, are all seeing the same thing: Chinese undergraduate students are surging into the country, and the flood shows no sign of stopping.
In the decade between 2000 and 2010, those stu-dents’ numbers in the U.S. more than tripled, according to a 2010 article in The New York Times. And according to an MSNBC report earlier this year, that number may have doubled again in 2011, to more than 50,000.
And UNL is no different. The number of Chinese stu-dents on campus, now more than 800, has doubled since 2008. In 1998, about one in 10 international students here was Chinese. Now, Chinese students are almost half of the international crowd.
“It’s a bomb, an explo-sion,” Liang Chen said with a laugh. The senior finance major from central China, at UNL for three years, has been here to see it.
The reason isn’t just popu-lation: China has more than 1 billion people, but so does India, home country of 147 UNL students this year.
According to 10 interviews with Chinese students and experts, much of the answer to the riddle lies in the per-fect storm of more wealth, more people and more con-nection than ever before.
More WealthSince capitalism’s gradual
entry into the Communist country in the 1970s, the Chi-nese economy has ballooned to the second largest in the world, said Benjamin Kim, an associate professor of eco-nomics who specializes in Asian economics.
“So the Chinese economy had a big takeoff,” Kim said.
As China’s economy grew, so did the average wealth of the people. Since the 1970s, Kim said, per capita income has quadrupled. As globaliza-tion hit, it was like one billion
light bulbs being connected to the world grid.
From there, it was a simple path to college.
“As people get richer, they go for more and more educa-tion,” he said.
And once students come over to U.S. universities, they pay about twice the in-state rate. Most of it comes out of their family’s pocket, because Chinese students aren’t eligi-ble for federal loans or most scholarships.
Chinese students often have parents financially comfortable in business or government, said Andrew Wedeman, chairman of the Asian Studies Program. Each Chinese student interviewed by the Daily Nebraskan had a parent in one of the two fields.
At a time when Nebraska’s high school numbers are sta-ble and state appropriations for UNL are frozen, money from Chinese students’ tu-itions is increasingly valuable to the state’s higher educa-tion institutions.
“Any time we can gener-ate revenue … that would keep costs down for other students, sure,” said Craig Munier, director of the Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid. “Public universities only have a few other places they can go for revenue.”
A majority of China’s stu-dents come from China’s ma-jor cities along the east coast, such as Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, Kim said. The western half of the coun-try remains largely rural and largely out of the picture.
“There is a clear dispar-ity or discrepancy between coastal areas and rural areas,” Kim said. “Parents in the rural areas simply cannot afford to send their kids over here.”
Higher costs, however, clearly haven’t stemmed the flow of Chinese students. It’s an investment that Chi-nese families believe is worth
making, Kim said.“Certainly it costs a lot
more here than in their own country,” he said. “But in re-turn, their children will get the chance to speak English, to learn Western culture and to make a social network.”
Yao Wei, who arrived from the Anhui province in east-ern China last August, is a sophomore studying finance and accounting. Yao plans to work for his father’s business. His father has devoted a large portion of his resources for his son’s study, he said, but they both believe the plan will pay off.
“I think he made a great decision,” Yao said in pre-cise and rapid English, echo-ing his peers. He borrowed a businessman’s language, call-ing his family’s investment “an opportunity cost.”
Chinese parents often are far-sighted in their one child’s education, said Patrice Mc-Mahon, a political science as-sociate professor.
“They save everything,” she said. “They’re saving from the day their children are born.”
More PeoPleWhile China’s economy
grows like bamboo, the num-ber of people depending on it is staggering. China is now home to more than 1.3 billion
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A bill that would outlaw entry into a motor vehicle without the owner’s permis-sion or for the purpose of committing a crime is more than it appears. LB 1096 is Sen. Brad Ashford’s attempt to combat a growing prob-lem in Omaha and beyond: identity theft. The judiciary committee will hold a pub-lic hearing for the bill Fri-day at 1:30 p.m. at the Capi-tol Building.
Daily Nebraskan: Can you give a brief description of the bill and its signifi-cance?
Ashford: This (bill) was brought to me by the Oma-ha police division. What happens is, somebody will break into a car and steal identity documents, like a credit card or a social se-curity card or something like that, and then they use those items for iden-tity theft. But the actual value of what’s being sto-len is not very much, so the charges we have available to us are not strict enough
for the crime. They’re tak-ing items of little value in themselves, but they can be turned around into signifi-cant damage to a person, like loss of a credit card, stealing a purse or wallet — it happens a lot. In this case, professional thieves who are going around and stealing identification from cars, each charge is just a misdemeanor. We want to be able to aggregate those (charges) so we can get at these professional thieves that are causing mayhem with the public and break-ing into a series of automo-biles.
DN: How will that work, exactly?
Ashford: We’ll aggregate after the third offense to a felony, so just the breaking and entering of the vehicle
Bill to curb ID theft through harsher laws
LEGISLATURE
Grad students travel fund approved
lEGislAturE: see page 3
TOP: Liang chen , a student who came from central china to uNL to study finance three years ago, poses for a photo, taking a break from studying. Since he arrived, the number of chinese students at uNL has doubled, reflect-ing a growing trend around the country.
aBOVe: He Zichun, a freshman from Beijing, poses for a photo in the Nebraska union. Both of her parents work in the chinese government but aren’t wealthy, she said. Nonetheless, He said paying for a u.S. degree isn’t too large of a strain for her family.
Story and photos by dan HoltmeyerGraphics by Bea Huff
CHINESE STUDENTS’ NUMBERS TAKE OFFAcross the country, undergraduate Chinese students have poured into Americanuniversities. At UNL, their numbers took off starting in 2007. Here are the top 5 countries by numer of UNL graduates and undergraduate students in the fall of each year.
SOURCE: UNL INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & PLANNING
0
200
400
600
800
‘98
China
‘99 ‘00 ‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11
1,000
India Malaysia South Korea Vietnam
A BIGGER SHARE THAN EVER
While Chinese students increase their numbers, no other country has kept up the pace. The result is Chinese students make up a greater share of international students than ever.
SOURCE: UNL INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & PLANNING
China40%
AllOthers39%
India 7%Malaysia 7%South Korea 4%
Vietnam3%
Population of chinese students at uNL has doubled since 2008 and they make up half
of the international student population
GRAD STUDENTFUND VOTE
4,310 elligible 16% voted
YES73%
(494 votes)
NO27%
(184 votes)
chinA: see page 2
EducAtion: see page 3
chinese surge into american
universitieseLiaS yOuNGquiSTdaily nebraskan
Graduate students have spo-ken in favor of creating an additional $1-per-credit-hour student fee in order to cre-ate a graduate student travel fund.
At 8:02 p.m. Thursday, re-sults of the special graduate student vote came in with 73 percent of voters in favor of creating a graduate student travel fund, leaving 27 per-cent in opposition.
“We came in, knowing that travel grants were something that students wanted, but the question was whether the students wanted it and the numbers show it,” said Sylvia Jons, higher education ad-ministration graduate student and president of the Graduate Student Association.
Jons is also an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senator and the chair of the Graduate Student Task Force, a joint group made up of both ASUN and GSA members.
“The larger thing here is what came about of us work-ing on this travel grant,” Jons said. “This shows a strong committed relationship be-tween ASUN and GSA that is built on respect and making sure that we both serve grad-uate students at UNL.”
The plan that was ap-proved is a referendum and non-binding, but according to Jons, the fund should be tak-ing applications by next se-mester and distributing grants by Spring of 2013.
“We have worked quite a bit with Dean [Patrick] Dussault,
now what we should be able to do is refine a lot of our plans,” said ASUN President Lane Carr, a senior history and political science major. “That’s going to involve hav-ing a lot of open forums with students, getting a lot of input from students.”
According to Jons, the plan is to have two open forums in the near future for graduate students followed by meet-ings with Dussault, the dean of Graduate Studies, Senior Vice Chancellor Ellen Weiss-inger and ultimately Univer-sity of Nebraska President James Milliken.
“I’m just so excited because every other Big Ten univer-sity has a student travel fund and it’s such an important thing for graduate students, both professionally and aca-demically,” Jons said.
Out of the 4,310 students taking one or more gradu-ate student class, 16 percent
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narcissistic men at increased riskMay change the Plans Feb. 24, 1904although not officially confirmed, there is every reason to believe that the regents have decided not to sacrifice the athletic field in the interests of the new physics building.
Late yesterday afternoon a rumor was afloat that the Board of regents had taken action with an object in view of taking measures toward chang-ing the plans or modifying the location of the new physics building, which it had decided to locate on the athletic field. inquiries by a force of Nebraska reporters resulted in obtaining some information from prominent persons who are in a position to know the facts of the case, and this while a little indefinite, tends to confirm the original rumor.
last gaMe tonight Feb. 23, 1907The Nebraska basket-ball (sic) five will play the last game of the present trip at Grinnell, iowa, tonight and will return to Lincoln early tomorrow morning.
The cornhuskers met the iowa university team at iowa city last night.
Several members of the team were injured in the marshfield and Portage games and are in poor condition for the contest with Grinnell. The iowa college five claims the state championship, having recently defeated the university of iowa basket-ball team.
brazil co-eds strike Feb. 24, 1910The co-eds of the Brazil high school are on strike aiming at the faculty of the school, which recently promulgated an order that the male students would not be permitted to attend the basketball games of the girls’ teams.
The girls, it seems, are not satisfied with the new rule and have decided that they are going to com-pel the faculty to rescind the order so that the boys can see how skillful they are in basketball.
studious nostrils desecrated Feb. 24, 1911Practical demonstrations in the art of avoiding smells were the feature of yesterday’s entertain-ment at the library. every student who attempted to work in the library, or in fact anywhere in the library building, knows just how warm ammonium valer-ate seems to the nostrils. Some vandal emptied an unknown quantity of the compound in the library building early yesterday morning, and before 10 o’clock the entire building was filled with the dis-agreeable fumes.
best schedule ever Feb. 25, 1913at last the football schedule has been announced. after weeks of speculation it has finally material-ized into something definite. Now the enthusiastic follower of the pigskin has something on which to build his aircastles. as he sits whiling away the snowy hours of disdainfully watching the baseball “fan” cavort upon the diamond under the broiling sun he will have the setting for a picture of Nebras-ka tearing large holes in the Gophers or Hawkeyes line. The schedule as announced is one of the hardest that has ever been put up before a team. a man who wins an “N” next fall will surely earn it.
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people – four times the popu-lation of the U.S.
Hundreds of millions of those people want a college education, and then they want jobs. And because of the speed of growth, the educa-tion system that has sprung up to handle them is too young to handle the load.
A few top universities in Beijing and other cities are high-quality; McMahon said the best Chinese universities could be more competitive than Harvard or Yale. But ev-eryone interviewed agreed that after that handful, quality has a steep drop-off.
If students don’t get into the top schools, going to the U.S. starts looking more attractive, not only for the universities’ breadth and scope, several Chinese students said, but for their creative freedom.
For a picture of how com-petitive it is, Yao, the stu-dent from Anhui, said about 500,000 students in his prov-ince take China’s ultimate col-lege entrance exam, the gao-kao, each year. Maybe 50 of those will be admitted to Bei-jing, he said. And the pressure
can take a toll. “Too much pressure,” said
He Zichun, a freshman busi-ness administration major from Beijing. “You can’t imag-ine.”
Beyond college, American degrees can also give an edge in the equally fierce job mar-ket.
“That’s a major asset on your resume no matter what the field,” said Parks Coble, a professor of Chinese and Jap-anese history. An American degree shows a student can adapt to a new environment, make new connections and — perhaps most prized — speak English well, he said.
Liang, the senior finance major, said people from his part of the country can often be dismissed by Chinese busi-nesses.
“For us, you are just…” he said, dismissively waving his hand. “(But) if we can prove our value in a company… they will say, ‘See, this guy studied abroad, that’s why he’s so good.’”
More connectionsAt UNL, partnership
programs with Chinese
universities account for many of these students. Both Xi’an Jiaotong and Zhejiang Univer-sity City Colleges have an ar-rangement in which students can study in China for two years before transferring to UNL to complete their degrees with a scholarship.
The partnerships began about five years ago and brought about 150 of this year’s 809 Chinese students, Dave Wilson, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, said in an email. Yan and Li-ang both said they came with the Xi’an program.
“These programs are unique in that we have UNL staff on the ground,” said Cindy Cam-mack, associate director for transfer programs in UNL Ad-missions.
China is among the uni-versity’s top international pri-orities, Cammack said, along with Malaysia, South Korea, Brazil and others. With addi-tional staff in the works, she added, recruitment could be-come even more aggressive.
“Really, our growth is going to need to come from our in-ternational people,” Cammack
said, citing Nebraska’s stable population. “I think it’s the reality of the declining demo-graphics.”
The surge of undergraduates from China also ultimately re-flects the growing connection between the United States and China, now competing for in-ternational and economic in-fluence.
The daughter of the next likely head of China’s Com-munist Party, for example, at-tends Harvard, Wedeman, the Asian Studies Program chair-man, said.
“The relationship is ex-tremely complicated when you get down to the realities,” he said. “In some ways, this is exactly the conundrum. We’re rivals and partners simultane-ously.”
And that relationship isn’t likely to fade.
“The relationship’s too big to fail,” Wedeman said.
But he and others pointed out the exchange between the two also is lopsided. The U.S. essentially exports the imma-terial — its knowledge, cul-ture and technology — while China exports more material
goods in return.And some say it’s only a
matter of time before China’s education system matures and the student surpasses the teacher.
“They’re becoming global
citizens,” McMahon, the politi-cal science professor, said of the Chinese. “Not only have they caught up, boy, we have some catching up to do.”
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You’re so vain.You probably think this
article is about you. And it might be.
A new study conducted by researchers at the Universi-ties of Michigan and Virginia suggests narcissism might be especially detrimental to men’s mental and physiologi-cal health, more so than for women.
“Prior work shows that narcissism is associated with relationship problems, but seemed to have no negative consequences for narcissists,” said study co-author Sara Konrath, an assistant research professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.
Studies showed people with narcissism might have trouble maintaining trusting relationships, but they appear mentally healthy on a number of other self-report measures, according to Konrath.
“They score lower in de-pression and anxiety,” she said, “and higher in happi-ness and self-esteem, com-pared to people who are less narcissistic.”
However, Konrath’s study examined what is going on “under a man’s skin.”
“Narcissists actually have more stress hormones float-ing around in their veins,” she said, “which has implications for their long-term health if this physiological state of ‘high alert’ goes unacknowl-edged.”
So, men’s health is more at risk.
These implications pertain to cardiovascular wellness be-cause the stress hormone cor-tisol can lead to high blood pressure and heart prob-lems, especially in narcissistic males, Konrath said.
The researchers tested 106 undergraduate students, 79 females and 27 males, to de-termine whether a person had an “unhealthy” or “healthy” narcissism score.
Participants first provided a saliva sample to measure the level of basal cortisol in their bodies. Basal cortisol con-centrations measure peoples’ stress while they are in a rest-ing, or non-stressed state, ac-cording to Konrath.
After two assessments, the basal cortisol revealed how
overactivated people’s physi-ological stress systems were, even when in a non-stressful environment.
Some studies examine how cortisol levels are affected by stressors, but the researchers were only testing cortisol at its baseline, Konrath said.
She said there isn’t a deter-mining factor for “abnormal” cortisol, but higher baseline scores seem more detrimen-tal if they are maintained for a long period of time. High levels of cortisol are linked to negative health outcomes, such as poor cardiovascular health.
The participants took a 40-question narcissism per-sonality test with responses such as, “If I ruled the world it would be a better place,” and “The thought of ruling the world frightens the hell out of me.”
The total number of narcis-sistic responses were summed together, with higher scores indicating higher levels of narcissism. The study also examined whether specific narcissism traits were related to cortisol.
An unhealthy narcissism score was created by add-ing up the entitlement and exploitative subscales of the test. A healthy narcissism score was created by sum-ming the leadership/author-ity, self-sufficiency, superi-ority and vanity traits.
Konrath said that in her understanding of the terms “healthy” and “unhealthy” narcissism, the main dis-tinction is how people see themselves versus how they treat others. The “unhealthy” narcissism can more easily cause harm to others than the “healthy” type, she said.
Narcissistic personality traits are also capable of be-ing diagnosed as a person-ality disorder, according to MayoClinic.com.
“Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an in-flated sense of their own im-portance and a deep need for admiration,” the website says.
Kay Konz, a mental health therapist at Lincoln Behav-ioral Health Clinic, said per-sonality disorders are diffi-cult to diagnose without a comprehensive clinical inter-view and history based on a pattern of behavior over time.
She s a i d the research-ers did not iden-tify participants as having a narcis-sistic personality disorder during the study.
“A 40-item tool measuring narcissis-tic traits does not diagnose narcissistic personality disor-der,” Konz said.
Konz said a 40-item scale measuring six different traits has obvious limitations, in-cluding using only a few questions to identify a trait. She said there was no infor-mation provided about the validity of the measure and also no control group.
“Maybe all men who have ‘unhealthy’ personality traits like aggressiveness, suspi-ciousness, etc., have higher cortisol levels,” she said.
While the small sample size of men compared to women did not show any sex differ-ences, it may have been bi-ased by coincidence, accord-ing to Konz. She said that this could have happened because it was a small sam-ple, or may have been due to selection bias – the nature of women who agreed to par-ticipate in the study as com-pared to men.
Konz said people with nar-cissistic personality disorder are not as likely to seek ther-apy or stay with it, as they don’t see themselves as the problem.
“Narcissistic personality disorder is very hard to treat,” she said. “Narcissistic traits may not be.”
Konrath said there are a number of ways narcissistic males can help alleviate po-tential risks to their health.
“First, they can try to work on having a more realistic sense of their self-worth, but this would likely be difficult for them,” she said.
They should also work on their connections with others, she said. Social relationships are associated with a number of health benefits, and narcis-sists generally have low-qual-ity relationships because they don’t value others and they aren’t afraid to make that ob-vious.
Konrath lastly recommend-ed narcissistic males deal with the physiological over-reactivity by finding ways to reduce stress levels.
“They may want to go to the gym more,” she said, “try out a low-key activity such as yoga or tai chi, or try a variety of mental strategies to cope with stress.”
One factor the researchers didn’t collect was sexual ori-entation, Konrath said. The difference in narcissism levels between heterosexuals and homosexuals would be an interesting question for future research, she added.
Konrath said future re-search will look into why women don’t respond physi-ologically to narcissism as men do.
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Had I not been exposed to different fields of knowl-edge, I would have had no
chance to be in the position I’m in right now. By the same token, if you, as a reader, hadn’t had the privilege to read, watch and interact with people on various issues, you would probably have failed to grasp or challenge any con-ventional narrative.
Crudely put, the accumu-lation of “knowledge” we receive from various sources, whether parents, friends, media or college, creates who we are, what we become, what we accept and what we reject.
Things start to make sense when one is “knowledge-able” about certain issues and don’t when one has no preconceived “knowledge” on others.
Yet, these sources or in-stitutions exercise a specific “power,” shaping our identity. For example, at an early age, parents often instill and intro-duce certain philosophies to kids’ minds, the ideas of right and wrong.
Another example: College students are taught, particu-larly in the humanities, certain curricula and tested on it throughout their academic career. Students without any background on the topic take the teacher’s claims at face value and work on develop-ing the same argument, but in a different way, hunting an ultimate goal of good grades.
So, the continual acquisition of knowledge is channeled to our minds through various ways of power. Hence, power and knowledge are embed-ded in each other and cannot be dismantled.
One might compare the aforementioned examples with the definitions of both “knowledge” and “power” ac-cording to Merriam-Webster. Knowledge is defined as “the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association,” while power is defined as “possession of control, authority, or influ-ence over others.”
In other words, whoever
possesses knowledge owns authority. As Francis Bacon’s expression goes, “knowledge is power,” but one would also add “power is knowledge.” Since the dynamics of these two terms go both ways, whoever holds the former is in possession of the latter, and vice versa.
Knowledge and power go hand in hand, and media probably remain the most illustrative example of this relationship.
Media play a powerful role in disseminating knowledge. Whether it’s distorted or authentic, it remains knowl-edgeable.
Notwithstanding, media reports, debates and enter-tainment shows translate the genre of knowledge or discourse they’re assigned to deliver.
Oftentimes, we fail to question the sources of me-dia corporations’ funds and their political affiliations.
As an illustration, let’s take Al Jazeera, the Arabic satellite TV news channel, which is funded by the Qatari govern-ment. Back in 1995, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the current Emir of Qatar, overthrew the government in a bloodless takeover while his father was on a visit to Geneva. A subversive action
did not please the petromon-archies in the region. Yet, to restore his image, he cre-ated the powerful channel Al Jazeera in 1996.
The main goal obviously was not to discuss the de-merits of the government of Qatar, but to set the tone of a new, prosperous and demo-cratic country while belittling the role of Arabic TV chan-nels altogether.
Take the example of the Bahrain uprising, which Al Jazeera Arabic basically doesn’t cover, and compare it to other revolts in the region. Here, the power of money distorts reality even though the channel succeeded in uncovering what other chan-nels failed to in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and other countries.
Another example of power and knowledge: The U.S. mainstream media shows a great consensus when it comes to discussing issues related to Islam and Mus-lims. You may hear in media reports phrases like “Muslim students,” “Muslim soldier,” “Muslim professor,” “Muslim senator,” or “Muslim parents.” What about other religions?
Whenever something bad happens nationwide, the first people to be pointed at are Muslims, no matter who did it. In a blink of an eye,
media corporations forget these people are American citizens, just like all other Americans; yet frequently, they’re reduced to their religion.
However, you will never hear the names or the reli-gion of U.S. soldiers when they’re caught urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan or burning copies of the Quran. All that you hear is “the case is under investiga-tion” and it will be quickly wrapped up.
From another perspective, since the Chinese-Russian veto on the UN resolution against the Syrian regime, meetings and intensive ef-forts are currently being held in various parts of Europe and the Arab world, under the banner of “friends of Syria.”
The main task is to work on a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis, but when it comes to the famine in Af-rica, we never hear phrases like “friends of the horn of Africa,” where more than 12 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti are starving to death.
Why don’t we see debates and intensive meetings held to feed Africa? Don’t the people of Africa deserve to be befriended or merit media
coverage on their sufferings? It’s a human tragedy, even more deadly than the Arab revolts. Obviously, media corporations have neither in-terest in showing dead bod-ies spread across the drought nor significance to discuss the vile cancer of famine eat-ing Africa.
No one is content with the death of any person, but sometimes, media coverage makes you feel the death of one person is of greater dam-age than millions elsewhere. Take the example of the death of a celebrity, where the media militarizes itself to cover the birth, the life, the reasons of death and even spend weeks discussing the great loss to humanity.
In this line of thought, power is channeled through the control of knowledge. Yet, if we understand the media’s role in establish-ing a culture of power and dominance, we can set up, as Michel Foucault put it, “a hindrance, a stumbling-block, a point of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy.”
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Surrounded by Husker memo-rabilia and images of family and past students, Steven Waller, the dean of the College of Agricul-tural Sciences and Natural Re-sources, trails off mid-sentence.
“How on earth ...” is as far as Waller gets before he stops for a moment, “A college degree should never be considered useless.”
Waller is referring to a Ya-hoo! article that went viral in January, titled “College Majors That are Useless.”
It started in April 2011 when dailybeast.com, for-merly Newsweek.com, ran a Web layout of pictures and statistics that listed 20 college degrees the author felt were “useless.” The degrees listed were: journalism, horticul-ture, agriculture, advertising, fashion design, child and fam-ily studies, music, mechani-cal engineering technology, chemistry, nutrition, human resources, theater, art history, photography, literature, art, fine art, psychology, English and animal science.
Sometime after this, Terence Loose, an author, writer and oc-casional contributor to Yahoo! content, wrote a short article for Yahoo!’s education page, which outlined the useless-ness of five of the degrees listed on the Daily Beast’s website: agriculture, fashion design, theater, horticulture and animal science.
“It was so far from reality that we didn’t think it would get attention,” Waller said.
But it did get attention. Agriculture bloggers, maga-
zines, teachers, college stu-dents, college deans, farmers, ranchers and other industry professionals all took up the cause to refute Loose’s claims.
“Just because there’s fewer farmers and ranchers, doesn’t mean there are fewer jobs,” said Paige Bek, Nebraska Cat-tlemen’s director of communi-cation and 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate.
Bek said that it is very hard to take these articles at face value.
“You can pretty much use (an agriculture degree) in any area,” Bek said.
Both Bek and Waller
emphatically believe that there is still a place for graduates with agriculture degrees.
“If we look at ag opportuni-ties, they are robust,” Waller said, “There will be demand we can’t meet.”
The United States Depart-ment of Agriculture and the Bu-reau of Labor and Statistics are at odds on this fact.
The USDA speculates that there will be more than 54,000 agriculture-related job open-ings annually between 2010 and 2015, whereas the BLS indicates 13,800 jobs between 2008 and 2018.
Waller said that both the Daily Beast and Yahoo! arti-cles showed a disconnect be-tween people and agriculture.
“It suggested, both, that we need to feed the world, but there’s no jobs in agriculture and that, thereby, the solution to feed the world isn’t agri-culture,” Waller said. “I’m not sure what people think it is, but they don’t seem to think its agriculture.”
“It’s hard to wrap your head around how broad agriculture is,” Bek said.
According to Bek, helping people become informed about agriculture is paramount to keeping agriculture relevant.
The New Oxford American Dictionary defines agriculture as being, “the science or prac-tice of farming including culti-vation of the soil for the grow-ing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool and other products.”
Some feel that the diction-ary definition doesn’t go far enough.
“Field to fork, or farm gate to plate, everything in between is agriculture,” Waller said.
Waller said there was a silver lining to the debacle that the Daily Beast and Loose articles started.
“The responses became more a part of the national dialogue than the initial articles were,” Waller said. “It allowed us to say, ‘This is not our reality.’”
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s African Student Association is having its Festival of African Culture (FESTAC) Saturday night to celebrate the many cultures of Africa. The 15th-annual FESTAC will be held in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union at 6 p.m. and will feature dancing, music, educational speech-es, a fashion show and Af-rican cuisine.
This year’s theme for FESTAC is Wa Mama of Af-rica to honor the role Af-rican women play in their culture. The event costs $15, which includes the shows and buffet style din-ner, with tickets sold at a booth in the Nebraska Union the day before the event and also at the door. The event is not open seat-ing, so those who buy tickets at the door will be shown to the table with the corresponding number on the ticket.
Being the ASA’s biggest event of the year there is a sense of excitement that comes with the preparing for the event, said Alisha Tesfalem, a senior sociolo-gy and broadcasting major and treasurer of ASA.
“We take a lot of pride in putting on this produc-tion,” Tesfalem said. “We
want to educate people about Africa.”
One of the many differ-ent shows included in Sat-urday night’s festivities is a fashion show exhibiting the clothing of Nigeria, Su-dan, Tunisia, Egypt, Eritria, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, among others. The mem-bers are trying to include the culture of as many na-tions as possible, and one way to do that is through fashion, Tesfalem said.
There will be a panel at the event to talk about dif-ferent issues pertaining to Africa: what it has to of-fer the world and what the world has to offer Africa in return, Tesfalem said.
The buffet will feature foods like fried plantains, injera, an Eritrean and Ethi-opian bread served with beef stew or potato stew, fetteras, a sweet fried bread that is sprinkled with pow-dered sugar, cous cous, and also spiced chicken and fried rice among other dishes.
Patrick Kazadi, the event’s emcee and a UNL alumnus, will open the event by talking about the event’s theme: the role of women in Africa.
“We’re going back to the love of women and moth-ers in Africa,” Kazadi said. “They are the guardians of our traditions.”
It is Kazabi’s first year
hosting the FESTAC event where he hopes to “fly ev-eryone to Africa for a night and have them home for bed time,” Kazadi said. Among the women that Kazabi wants to celebrate at the event is Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan wom-an who founded of the Green Belt Movement and won the Nobel Peace prize in 2004, the first African woman to do so.
For some involved in the coordination of the event, the night is meant to dispel some of the preconceived notions the public has about Africa.
“It’s a night to remem-ber,” said Namarig Soumit, a UNL graduate student. “It’s a show for people to see the real Africa other than what people see from the media.”
Mirfat Al-Haj, a senior civil engineering major and president of ASA, would agree with Soumit that Africa is not portrayed in the media in a good light. “There’s a lot of news cov-erage involving Africa but none of it emphasizes the good that well, we want to break those stereotypes,” Al-Haj said.
Being ASA’s main event for the year, it has taken a lot of effort to set up.
“It’s been a challenge, but it’s the passion that I have behind all this,” Al-Haj
said. “Right now we’re very excited and we’re ready to go.”
She went on to say that all there is left to do is set the table and cook the food, and worry about what to wear, of course. It’s something people in Lincoln don’t see every day and it only happens once a year, Al-Haj said.
The fashion show, the speakers and the food have been big hit’s in past FESTACS because people there aren’t a lot of African food places in Lincoln, said Al-Haj. This year Al-Haj wants every-thing to be something the audience remembers.
“I want the audience to take away everything we put on stage,” Al-Haj said. “Everything we do is my favorite, it all has its own unique twist to it. I want them to go out there see Africa for what it really is.”
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itself is a crime. It may be that we have to change the bill to reflect some concerns about the defini-tion of the crime. We don’t want it to be such a wide net that we get at people that really aren’t the prob-lem. There are issues that we’ll have to deal with after the hearing, but right now the main thrust is to deal with those seasoned, pro-fessional thefts.
DN: Why is this problem so significant?
Ashford: It all kind of goes to the drug trade where they come in and steal the credit card, get cash and then buy and sell drugs. It’s a piece of the identity theft problem. It’ll be interesting to hear stories from the Omaha
police at the hearing. A lot of these people are part of a national network of thieves stealing identities.
DN: Will the committee modify the bill to avoid unintended violations?
Ashford: That’s what we do as a committee with ev-ery bill. We try to be very careful about enhancing penalties just to say we’ve done that, because there’s not necessarily a nexus in all cases between increas-ing a penalty and maintain-ing public safety. We have to look at each bill and see whether it gets at the prob-lem that we’ve identified. The bill that comes out of the hearing, it’s very un-likely that it will be the same bill. You don’t want to punish people that
aren’t part of the problem.DN: Does the bill have a
strong chance of passage?Ashford: Not this year,
because it’s so late in the session. This year we’ve prioritized sex trafficking, which is a huge problem in Nebraska. This issue is also very important, but we didn’t feel it was to the level of the sex trafficking issue. We tend not to put a bill out that increases a penalty just to do it, to make people think we’re tough on crime. The only thing that happens when you do that is you write bills that are unconstitu-tional and are ineffective. So we try to choose our battles.
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voted. According to Carr this number is high for students and very high for graduate students.
The future hope, according to Jons, is that other gradu-ate student organizations will be willing to add money to the fund when they see the support the graduate student community has given the bill.
“This has been just really encouraging for me, it’s a true collaboration between ASUN and GSA and this isn’t something that we’ve seen before.” Carr said. “We still have more things to do but this is a huge step forward. It’s been a huge honor to work with Sylvia and the GSA.”
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Rick Santorum is sweeping the Midwest prima-ries and turning what looked like a two-man show
between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney into a race for the ages. Stealing the spotlight from Romney in a three-state sweep of Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, Rick Santorum is proving himself to be the one true conservative candidate who will not only unite the Re-publican party, but both sides of the aisle. He should be the 45th president of the United States of America.
I support Santorum. His family ethics, Christian founda-tion and refreshingly honest politics are exactly what this government needs. Santorum’s position on major issues is guided by an intuitive and reformative mindset, as well as his Christian values.
Santorum, unlike Romney, doesn’t have a tendency to flip-flop. Romney seems to have a case of whiplash with conservatives, not to mention the citizens of Michigan, the state where he claims to have deep ties. With the Detroit bailouts, at first Romney seemed to support the deci-sion to financially support the auto industry, which arguably has worked. Now, he claims to defend his stance, which he says was always one of man-aged bankruptcy.
Flip-flopping on issues isn’t new for American politicians, as we have seen recently with our current president on contraceptive issues. Yet, this is where Rick Santorum is dif-ferent. In his voting record and individual demeanor, he has been consistent through and through. He doesn’t sway to the demands of those he dis-agrees with and stands behind his decisions.
Rick Santorum’s voting record is very conservative, and although he votes more on the right side of the aisle, he doesn’t forget the people he represents. A conserva-tive who can see when one should vote on the left side of the fence is precisely what we need. It will be refreshing to have someone who can see both sides of the issue and take action on it.
Sometimes what the people want and what is best for the citizens are on opposites sides of the fence. A good leader will be able to see an issue from both sides and will pick the right one. Santorum occasionally finds the time to see lawmaking through the eyes of a liberal. Yet, no mat-ter what side he votes on, he doesn’t flip-flop after the vote is over.
This leads me to articulate that if Santorum does get the GOP nomination, he will be the best man to unite both sides of the aisle. This was
something Obama had prom-ised to do, but has failed mis-erably at, based on his drastic liberal and arguably socialist attempts at reform, including Obamacare, overspending and pressure on religious freedom. This far left agenda has hurt the country, and is starting to make us resemble certain European countries that are insolvent.
Santorum will fix these problems with needed reforms, spending cuts and elimination of earmarks. He will hopefully repeal Obam-acare, which is similar to Rom-neycare (Governor Romney’s health insurance law in Mas-sachusetts) and re-establish our country as one of the last true remaining democracies. This is where Santorum may appear too conservative, but a closer look reveals he doesn’t forget the other side of the aisle. Conservatism sprinkled with tidbits of liberalism is the best form of government. Too much left-aisle voting leads to a socialist government; a for-midable right-wing voter who understands the left’s agenda is exactly the man we need.
Santorum’s votes were also driven by Christian-based values. Some may argue that Santorum’s values shouldn’t be imposed on government. Obviously, he won’t demand that America converts to Chris-tianity. Just read his op-ed “No More Leading From Behind For America.” In it, he pro-motes respect for the Islamic people and their way of life, but understands the radical Islamist threat. He notes Chris-tianity, too, has had its time of bloodshed, turmoil and perse-cution of other religions.
Fortunately, Christians overcame the obstacles laid before them, and Santorum understands Islamists are go-ing through the same trials and will eventually achieve a peaceful conclusion.
His respect for his faith must not be mistaken with the idea of forced worship. He simply believes, like our founding fathers, the values Christianity projects are ones to which all humanity can relate. Whether you believe in Allah, god(s) or nobody, the values Santorum finds so appealing in Christian-ity are universal.
Finally, are Santorum’s solu-tions on issues such as Iran, the judiciary and unemploy-ment the answers America needs? Yes.
In the latter, Santorum has had great foresight. In 1996,
he spearheaded the Personal Responsibility and Work Op-portunity Act, a welfare reform law, helping move people from welfare and back into the workforce. His expertise in job creation is in dire need in Washington right now.
Additionally, his stance on foreign relations is one of peace and cooperation. But unlike our president, he understands the need for aggressive action and quick, sensible strikes at those who threaten American interests and security. Santorum’s eight years of experience on the Senate Armed Services Com-mittee versus Obama’s weak experience in foreign rela-tions before becoming presi-dent gives him a legitimate edge on international issues. In his op-eds “Response to Iran” and “10 Ways to Pro-mote Our Interests Around the World,” Santorum outlines an international relations policy reminiscent of the Rea-gan Era. He is understanding, humane and will be able to cooperate with foreign digni-taries and countries, but will not let America be pushed around by radical Islamists or autocratic countries.
Finally, he will begin to reform our judicial system. He has been one of the few leg-islators who has stood against a corrupt and often slow bu-reaucratic judiciary. Tired of seeing judges legislate from the bench, he has drastic, but much needed reform for the judicial system.
Santorum wants to install judges who will rule on court cases according to the Constitution and not their party lines. A judge’s job is to decide on a case-by-case ba-sis whether the Constitution upholds a piece of legislation or not. His or her job isn’t to make them. This is what San-torum is willing to fight.
Rick Santorum is a whole-some man with a strong family background and 16 years of political experience. He isn’t exceptionally wealthy like Romney, and not under-qualified like Obama was before becoming president. Instead, he relates closely to the typical American. He pays almost 30 percent in taxes, is a father to seven children, a devoted husband and a car-ing American citizen.
If the race for the GOP nomination comes down to one aspect it is relatability. I know I relate to Rick San-torum the most. And, if a poor college student awash with university-related liberal influence can connect with Santorum, then he must be the candidate for the job.
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has been perfect for more than 200 years, but one man threatens to derail all that’s good about our country.
He’s waging a war on religion.
He’s a kingpin of big gov-ernment.
He can engage in class warfare with the best of them.
More importantly, are we even sure he’s a “real” American?
I’m speaking, of course, about Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
After several very good weeks on the campaign trail, much of the media have rushed to declare Santorum the inevitable Republican nominee. This isn’t the case. Even still, you should be concerned about Santorum’s frothy mixture of populism and social con-servatism.
Back in January, I en-dorsed Ron Paul for presi-dent. That endorsement stands. For those of you who won’t listen to reason, here’s the case for why Mitt Romney is preferable to Rick Santorum.
The short sell for Romney over Santorum boils down to executive experience, managerial skills and mod-eration of temperament.
Want a convenient refer-ence point for the differ-ence between the two candidates? Romney is President George H.W. Bush. Santorum is Presi-dent George W. Bush. The former was a fairly moder-ate president who governed out of a sense of duty and patriotism. The latter radi-cally attacked civil liberties and individual freedom, sent thousands to their deaths in southwest Asia and expanded government in a style not seen since the New Deal.
One of the Bush presi-dents was a limited gov-ernment conservative who believed in fiscal discipline. One was not.
After more than a de-cade of wildly irrespon-sible spending, you’d think Americans would learn a few lessons:
Government can’t magi-cally create jobs in the private sector. Government shouldn’t be a bottom-less pit of spending when convenient. Government shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and los-ers in the business world.
We’re a nation that be-lieves in free enterprise. The GOP is the party of
laissez-faire. Santorum is for free markets like President Barack Obama believes in limited government. The two are oil and water.
Romney understands business and the things that make our economy thrive. Rick Santorum doesn’t. Romney will work to create a jobs climate appropri-ate for the 21st century. Santorum fantasizes about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States. One of these makes sense. The other sounds like a plank from the Democratic Party’s platform. When con-venient, Santorum is a so-cial conservative who loves to spend other people’s money.
Limited government means more than just cut-ting spending. It requires a respect for limits on the executive branch and a belief in the right of private citizens to make choices in their own lives. On this set of issues, the records don’t lie. Both men have very conservative stances on so-cial issues, espousing views against same-sex marriage and abortion. What’s the difference between the two? Why don’t we ask Alan Simpson, a former Republi-can senator from Wyoming, how he feels about Santo-rum?
“He is rigid and a homo-phobic. He said, ‘I want a constitutional amend-ment to ban gay marriage,’ and they said, ‘Well, what about the people who are already married?’ And he said, ‘Well, they would be nullified.’ I mean what is, what’s human, what’s kind about that? We’re all human beings, we all know or love somebody who’s gay or les-bian so what the hell is that about? To me it’s startling and borders on disgust.”
Who do you believe will show a greater respect for human diversity and indi-vidual freedom? Will it be the man who makes a liv-ing by hating others, or the one who was a successful and admired conservative governor of a liberal state?
This choice comes down to three things:
First, Mitt Romney will work tirelessly to create a better environment for business in this country. Despite crowing from the left, our nation is overregu-lated. Our taxes, especially
for corporate entities, are too high; our unions, espe-cially the public ones, are too strong. Romney knows these things. He’ll fight for our children’s futures.
Second, Romney is a proven leader who gets things done. He successfully managed Massachusetts and the Olympic Games. He is a proven success in private enterprise.
Finally, Romney is a man of vision. He won’t waste our time fighting battles from the last century. For the GOP to move forward, it must break the death grip held on it by religious fun-damentalists. Like it or not, the battles on abortion and gay marriage are largely over. Freedom has won the day, and fundamentalists have lost their bid to run the lives of others.
What could the GOP offer America in visionary thought? Think of a nation with a low tax burden, an effectively managed federal government, considerable individual freedom and po-litical leaders who practice restraint instead of radical-ism.
That’s what you’ll get with Romney. Only God knows what will result from a Santorum presidency. Were he to care about the inner workings of American politics, it’s doubtful God would be thrilled to see Santorum win (But who am I to know? God hasn’t spo-ken to anyone since Joseph Smith).
The choice is yours. Ide-ally, you’ll vote for the man who exemplifies the virtues listed above. That’s Ron Paul. If you must vote for someone else, please, for the love of all that’s good on this earth, make it Romney instead of Santorum.
Romney will spend less of the money we don’t have, strip fewer rights from citizens and govern as a con-servative who respects limita-tions on central governance. Santorum will be George W. Bush, round two. That means more debt, more wars, more attacks on civil liberties and a governing style of radicalism instead of conservatism.
The choice is yours. Please think about this. You came to college to learn how to think indepen-dently. Now is one of those times you need such skills the most. For most of you, it will be your first presi-dential election.
Moderation over radical-ism. Thought over un-thought. No to Rick Santo-rum.
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Mitt Romney’s managerial and executive experience,paired with moderate views, make him ideal candidate.
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After teasing Lincoln for more than 18 years with a weak broadcast signal, the Todd N Tyler Radio Empire has of-ficially expanded into city airwaves on 104.1 The Blaze (KIBZ-FM).
Todd N Tyler (TNT) is a morning talk show hosted by Todd Brandt and Mike Tyler, who are known for their off-the-cuff, sometimes politically incorrect analysis of world events.
“It’s five guys sitting around talking sex, drugs, sports, rock ‘n’ roll and world issues,” Ty-ler said.
Brandt and Tyler have been working together for 19 years, starting the relation-ship as radio personalities
in Pennsylvania. The two worked in different roles at the same station and eventu-ally paired up to do the morn-ing show. After half a year of working together, the duo moved to Omaha.
The show now officially broadcasts in seven different cities across Nebraska and Kansas and has been consis-tently rated by Arbitron as the top morning radio show in the Omaha market among adults ages 25 to 54. At any given five-minute interval, the show reaches 70,000 listeners in the Omaha area alone.
The show’s producer, Luke Anderson, said TNT owes its success to the realism of the program.
“We make a pretty concert-ed effort to break down the fourth wall and not try to play
games on the audience,” An-derson said. “We tell it as it is.”
Dillon Hronek agrees. The freshman criminal justice ma-jor said he has been listening to the show for the last four years.
“They are just really funny guys and they aren’t afraid to say what they think about an issue,” he said. “They don’t resort to cheesy jokes like the other shows.”
The radio show officially moved to Lincoln on Feb. 13, replacing the “Tim and the Ani-mal Morning Show,” a Lincoln-based program that had been on the air for nearly 20 years.
With the extension to Lin-coln, Brandt and Tyler said they have mostly received positive feedback.
But not everyone is enthused about TNT’s debut on the Blaze.
Shortly after the decision to ax “Tim and the Animal,” a grassroots effort popped up to protest the change.
Brett Boller, a Dorchester, Neb., native, started a petition on change.org asking the Blaze to bring back “Tim and the Animal.” Since the petition was posted, it has collected more than 1,700 signatures.
Boller said he had listened to “Tim and the Animal” since 2005 and enjoyed the commu-nity connection.
“I just like all their Lincoln in-volvement,” Boller said. “Todd and Tyler are out of Omaha and won’t cover any of the lo-cal stuff in Lincoln.”
Angie Guenther is a Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln alum and another protestor that has been working with a group of about 15 people to organize
a “Bring Back Our Morning Show” party in Lincoln.
“We are going to continue to work to get (Tim and the Animal) back or to get Todd and Tyler off our airwaves,” Guenther said. “We aren’t op-posed to them but if people wanted to listen to them, they could already tune in to Z92.”
According to Guenther, the group is worried about the show because it’s not a “wholesome choice” for Lin-coln.
“We don’t agree with the new morning show’s philoso-phies, principles or points of view,” she said.
Tyler acknowledged that some of the show’s program-ming is age-specific, mention-ing that his two kids, under age 10, aren’t allowed to listen to the show.
“They just know their dad works radio,” he said.
Still, Brandt and Tyler dis-missed the concerns about the show’s content.
“It’s like the oldest thing in the book about radio – you don’t have to listen to what you don’t like,” Brandt said. “If it bothers you, change the station.”
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best Picture:
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Tom Helberg – “The artist” This film won a Producers Guild Award in Janu-ary and the various Hollywood guild awards are good indicators of who will win oscar gold. This one, though, is a near shoe-in. nothing would please Hollywood more than to award “The Artist” best picture, a film that celebrates the dream factory’s silent era. Tyler Keown – “The artist” This movie doesn’t have any talking, which means i can talk as much as i want and no one can get mad at me! Plus, if you take a girl to it, you come off as romantic just for being there.Chance Solem-Pfeifer – “The artist”it’s a matter of nostalgia for the Academy here and a great opportunity for the film industry to nod at itself and its rich history. Also, once it wins, people will stop thinking it’s so clever to use the phrase “talkies.”
best director:
Tom Helberg – Michel Hazanavicius (“The artist”)This category was uncertain until Hazanavicius picked up the Directors Guild of America Award. Until then, it seemed possible that scorsese or even malick could have crept in. even though he’s still a relative unknown in the states, the French Hazanavicius has this in the bag.Tyler Keown – Martin Scorsese (“Hugo”)i didn’t see “Hugo.” i did, however, see “shutter island” a couple years ago and that movie com-pletely destroyed my brain with its crazy twists. Was he crazy? Was he?! i can only assume “Hugo” is just as good.Chance Solem-Pfeifer – Michel Hazanavicius (“The artist”)Given my Best Picture choice, i have to play the odds on this one and say Hazanavicius gets the nod. Those two categories have gone hand-in-hand seven of the last eight years. sorry, Ang Lee.
best actor:
Tom Helberg – Jean dujardin (“The artist”)Though Clooney and Dujardin both won at the Golden Globes thanks to separate Drama and Comedy/musical categories, this is Dujardin’s prize. Dujardin pulled off an incredibly difficult role. He gave a broad silent film performance filtered through the 80 years worth of evolution in screen acting.Tyler Keown – Gary oldman (“Tinker Tailor Solider Spy”)i didn’t see “Tinker Taylor soldier spy,” but i love Gary’s work in “Diff’rent strokes.” That dude just gets me.Chance Solem-Pfeifer – George Clooney (“The descendants”)We all know that George Clooney is better than we are, so there’s a danger for him in playing a normal guy struggling with life’s challenges. We may not respond to him with the same blinding praise we would give a fantastic fox or a CiA operative. But no! Clooney nails it in “The Descendants” and we love him all the more.
best actress:
Tom Helberg – Viola davis (“The Help”) Davis gave a more complicated performance in her five-minute role in “Doubt,” for which she was also nominated. she’s decent enough in “The Help,” though she does little besides lead the viewer through the story. Tyler Keown – rooney Mara (“The Girl with the dragon Tattoo”)if you need to know one thing about me, it’s that i am absolutely terrified by anyone that has multiple facial piercings, tattoos of dragons and seemingly no eye-brows. i’m picking mara because i am certain picking otherwise would spell my death. Chance Solem-Pfeifer – Meryl Streep (“The iron Lady”)Look, i can’t in good conscience pick “The Help.” Also, my strange, unshakable gambler’s instinct is telling me that meryl streep (who received rave reviews for her portrayal of margaret Thatcher in “The iron Lady”), notorious for her lack of fortune at the oscars, might come out of the woodwork to snag this award. But my gambler’s instinct is wrong all the time.
best suPPorting actor:
Tom Helberg – Christopher Plummer (“Beginners”) After a 50+ year career with only two oscar nominations and no wins, many feel Plummer is due. He has a sAG win and the most buzz out of any actor in this category.Tyler Keown – Jonah Hill (“Moneyball”)Yeah, he’s in this category because he was in some baseball flick, but i think we all know that this is just a another retrospective award for his masterful work in “superbad.” Jonah Hill is the Charlie Chaplin of our generation.Chance Solem-Pfeifer – Nick Nolte (“Warrior”)i feel very strongly that nolte deserves the nod here. He gives a truly harrowing performance in a film that defies the pointless jingoism it exud-ed in the trailers. The scene of nolte relapsing (he plays a recovering alcoholic and the father of an mmA fighter) in an Atlantic City hotel is one of the most powerful individual scenes i’ve witnessed in a long time.
best suPPorting actress:
Tom Helberg – octavia Spencer (“The Help”)Bejo, Chastain and mcCarthy were all fine, though their performances were not complex. only mcTeer displayed any major nuance in her work. still, Hollywood loves the acting in “The Help.” Tyler Keown – Melissa McCarthy (“Bridesmaids”)i actually saw this film! i liked when she had all the puppies in her van, but the main reason i chose her is because she’s married to Paul mc-Carthy from The Beatles. Chance Solem-Pfeifer – Janet McTeer (“albert Nobbs”)melissa mcCarthy makes me think of gross things and i’ve already expressed my dissatis-faction with “The Help,” or as i like to call it “The Blind side 2: return to skewed race relations.” mcTeer delivers a jaded, pain-stricken perfor-mance in “Albert nobbs,” a nice complement to the uncertainty of Close’s character.
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In the summer of 2009, Ameri-can Idol’s panel of judges unanimously praised Kat Nes-tel for her performance during the first round of auditions.This Sunday at Duffy’s Tav-ern, Lincoln will have the op-portunity to see the artist that Simon Cowell dubbed “great,” “unique” and “intriguing.”
Nestel’s short stint with American Idol proved Cow-ell’s assertion that the singer/songwriter from Long Beach was nothing less than intrigu-ing. While preparing for the second round of auditions in Hollywood, she reconsidered her decision to join the Ameri-can Idol phenomenon. Feeling out of place and uneasy about the commercialized dynamic of the show, Kat made the shocking decision to leave on her own terms.
“It was a good experience, but it just wasn’t for me,” Nest-el said. “I write my own songs. I have my own band and I record with producers, so I didn’t want to make it off of a reality show. I felt like it was really fake. I wanted to make it by working my ass off and touring until I gain my own fan base. I just feel like that way is more real.”
Nestel’s decision to leave American Idol hasn’t halted her pursuit of musical notori-ety. If anything, it has spring-boarded her career to new heights. She recently signed with Weeping Buddha Re-cords and is currently working with producer Richie Stites on “Super Girl,” her first album.
In the world of popular music, drawing the attention of Richie Stites is no minor accomplishment. He has pro-duced for the likes of Cee Lo Green, Tupac and Michael Jackson, among other heavy-weights in the music indus-try. He has gained acclaim through producing numerous
hit singles including Outkast’s “So Fresh, So Clean.”
Nestel and Stites are current-ly working together to perfect her style of acoustic pop/rock with overtones of reggae, ska and the blues.
“She’s very similar to the late Amy Winehouse, in the sense that she has a very definitive soul to her vocals and style,” Stites said. “She’s an incred-ible person. She exudes an amazing personality and it comes across in her music.”
Nestel describes her mu-sic as something that women can enjoy and relate to. She writes and performs songs with an element of female empowerment, digging into relationships gone bad and life experiences. Her sound is influenced by an eclectic group of talented divas, in-cluding Janis Joplin, Pink, Amy Winehouse, Adele and Beyonce.
Nestel’s appearance in Lin-coln will kick off her first full-length tour. She has per-formed along the coast of Cali-fornia, but this tour will mark her first trip to the Midwest.
“I feel like what I’m doing now is more of my kind of thing,” Nestel said. “Just grab-bing my guitar and hitting the road.”
Along with Nestel’s perfor-mance, Duffy’s will feature Lincoln’s own group of reggae rockers, Vibenhai. The enter-tainment begins at 9 p.m., giv-ing Lincoln a chance to hear the voice Cowell found so intriguing.
In 1990, an undiscovered artist named Kurt Cobain was in a similar situation when he took the stage at Duffy’s. If Nestel eventually reaches star status, Sunday’s audience will be able to say that they witnessed the first Midwestern performance from Nestel.
“The lifeblood of the music industry is new artists,” Stites said. “Kat still has the eye of the tiger, so to speak. She wants the whole world to hear what she’s saying and they will. You’ve got to experience her live and then you’ll get it.”
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When war is declared, it is impossible to escape a fight of some kind. “Declara-tion of War” is a captivating French film that does not in-volve gore and firearms, but rather ordinary citizens bat-tling disease.
Valerie Donzelli, direc-tor, cowriter and costar of the film, along with Jeremie Elkaim, portrays the views of young parents and how their relationship changes as they fight for their son’s life. The topic is not a stretch for Don-zelli and Elkaim, they have had their own experience raising a sick child together.
In the beginning of the film, the playful couple ap-pears youthful, love-struck and carefree. They meet at a party and are instantly en-amored, introducing them-selves as Romeo and Juliette — name selection that hints at the couple’s impending demise.
They have a child and, true-to-life, embody less youthful vigor than before. They are no longer the ac-tive, beaming couple they once were. Romeo and Ju-liette sport dark circles un-der their eyes and maintain a bickering relationship as the stress of caring for a
screaming, cancer-stricken infant sets in.
The film showcases the relationship of Romeo and Juliette and how they, as a couple, cope with their son Adam’s disease. In a sur-real scene, Juliette calls the members of her family, who demonstrates different reac-tions to the infant’s cancer. The scene is heart-breaking. However, the major key of the classical background music lightens the mood in a slightly ironic way. As the music builds, so do tensions.
The film’s whimsical take on a depressing topic leaves viewers chilled, yet hope-ful. The film creatively in-tertwines reality and surreal scenes. The result is both emotional and captivating.
The lifelike scene of Ju-liette watching her son be-ing wheeled away into an operating room, screaming and bawling for his moth-er, paired with the follow-ing scene of her interiority,
running down the long hall-ways of the hospital, created for a successful juxtaposition of real and surreal.
The couple spends years trying to build each other up. Because the film mainly por-trays the relationship of the couple, Adam is often left out of the action. Romeo and
Juliette encourage each other to be strong and fearless. The eclectic music that Donzelli uses symbolizes the different feelings the parents of young cancer patients endure. The score dramatically switches among calming classical, obscure electronic, ominous harpsichord, rock music and
straight guitar tabs.In one of the many surreal
scenes, the couple is pic-tured singing a lullaby, re-admitting their love for each other. After each stanza are the words “I will catch you,” signifying that the two will protect each other through the perils of their war.
While the film is occasion-ally plagued with awkward acting, the fictionalized ver-sion of Donzelli and Elkaim’s real-life war with disease is a creative, emotional and effervescent performance worth seeing.
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When the Split Lip Ray-field comes together with a banjo, gastank bass and mandolin, they create an aggressive and fast-paced, acoustic sound with strong vocals.
“It just sounds like us,” said Wayne Gottstine, the band’s mandolin player and singer. “It doesn’t sound like anyone else.”
Split Lip Rayfield will per-form with the Kris Lager Band at the Bourbon The-atre Friday at 8 p.m.
“The audience will defi-nitely see and hear some-thing they’ve never seen or heard before if they haven’t seen us,” Gottstine said.
The Kansas band, which is usually described as trad-ing in bluegrass, country and adding just a dash of metal, has been playing together for more than 14 years.
“We’ve been playing to-gether so long that we’ve developed a lot of musical humor while playing the set,” Gottstine said. “We play off of each other.”
Since the trio has been together for so long, each time they play comes eas-ily, like a car on autopilot, Gottstine said.
Although the band mem-bers play bluegrass instru-ments, they generally don’t classify their genre of music as bluegrass. Instead, they call it aggressive acoustic with an accent of metal, which, forewarning, may induce mosh pits.
“We just came up with our
own styles of playing the instruments and we write our own kinds of songs,” Gottstine said.
Jeff Eaton, the gastank bassist, contributes a unique sound to SLR’s music. His bandmates don’t hesitate to note his skill and value to the group.
“He plays the gastank bass better than anyone in the world,” Gottstine said.
Split Lip Rayfield’s latest album, “I’ll Be Around,” was recorded a few years ago. The record was some-thing of a departure from their trademark sound.
“It’s one of our most dif-ferent sounding records,” Gottstine said.
Eric Mardis, SLR’s banjo player and singer, said the album is original, just like their band.
“I think what makes the album unique is the same as what makes the band unique — it’s a crazy mix of aggression and instru-mentation,” Mardis said.
Though Gottstine and Mardis write most of the music, they all help with songwriting, just as they all sing. Whoever writes a song usually sings lead on it, while the other two pro-vide backup.
“It’s always been good chemistry,” Mardis said. “I’ve played in lots of dif-ferent bands and still play in others, but out of all of them, Split Lip is my favor-ite because it’s the most natural.”
When the three perform together, they manage to get lost in the music. Mardis enjoys that they don’t have
to put a lot of thought into playing.
“I think that translates into why the band has been around for so long and gone so many places,” Mar-dis said. “It works for us and for the audience.”
Once the listeners are en-gaged in the band’s sound, it’s easier for the musicians to forget about everything else and just do what they love.
“There’s a lot of energy that gets flashed back at us,” Mardis said. “The more energy we put out there, the more it rebounds off of us.”
Since most of Split Lip Rayfield’s songs are very upbeat, they try to include some gentler ballads.
“I’ve always been amazed at how diverse the reac-tions are,” Mardis said. “The slower songs make it less crazy and people like that.”
Split Lip Rayfield has played at Duffy’s, Knicker-bockers and the Bourbon Theatre many times during the last 10 years.
“We’ve always had a great time in Lincoln,” Mardis said. “You don’t want to miss the party.”
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From ‘Idol’ stage to Lincoln: rising star begins first tour
iF YoU GoSplit Lip rayfield w/ The Kris Lager Bandwhen: Friday, 8 p.m.where: Bourbon The-atre, 1415 O st.how much: $13 (in advance), $15 (at the door)
iF YoU GoVibenhai w/Kat Nestelwhen: sunday, 9 p.m.where: Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 east O st.how much: Cover at the door
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“The angry Loser”every time someone looks upset when they realize they haven’t won the award, take a big swig of whatever is nearest to you and do a spit take.
“Someone explain This To Me”every time you feel over-come and ask why in the hell Billy Crystal is hosting the oscars, take a shot and hope it makes him more bearable.
“Paying Homage” every time “The Artist” wins an award, grab a beer and do your best to not make a sound until you finish it.
“Seriously, Shut up”every time someone goes on and on about a category no one cares about, like “Best sound mixing” or “Best makeup,” just throw empty bottles at them.
“What am i doing With My Life?”every time you watch any part of the red Carpet coverage, drink until you feel like you’re going to throw up.
“Cinema History”every time someone men-tions a hoity-toity film concept because of the attention paid to “Hugo” and “The Artist,” drink. This can only help your mood. if someone men-tions dialectical montage, then you might as well just get hammered because the Commies have won.
“My rock”every time someone refers to their partner as his/her “rock” or “greatest motiva-tion in life,” drink because obvious things are every-where.
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And some Lincoln citizens certainly will. After the an-nouncement, a Facebook group was formed calling for a boycott of Three Eagles Com-munications, owner of the Blaze. The group now boasts more than 765 members.
Brandt and Tyler commented that they have also been ac-cused of forcing their way into the Blaze, a notion they de-scribed as “silly.”
“We can’t just barge into any one radio station and say, ‘Hey, I’m taking over your morning show,’” Brandt joked. “If we did we would be on over 2,000 radio stations.”
The two explained that Three Eagles Communications asked them to replace “Tim and the Animal.”
“Three Eagles hired us to get ratings,” Tyler said. “(Tim and the Animal) wasn’t getting the ratings they wanted and they wanted to change that. That’s a fact.”
Tim Sheridan was program director and one of the hosts
of “Tim and the Animal.” While his counterpart was kept on to do an afternoon show, Sheri-dan was simply fired. Although Sheridan was surprised by the decision, he said it was just part of the business.
“Anyone in broadcasting is always wondering about the future,” Sheridan said. “The in-dustry is constantly changing, but maintaining a show for 20 years is an achievement.”
Sheridan commented that it was impossible to miss the ef-forts to revive the show. He admitted the experience was flattering, humbling and a little surreal.
“It’s like being dead, but you can still look at Facebook and answer your phone,” Sheri-dan said. “It’s been quite over-whelming.”
Three Eagles Communica-tions and the Blaze have de-clined to comment on the backlash surrounding the termi-nation of Sheridan’s show.
Despite some negative feed-back, Brandt and Tyler said
they are used to the critics and it doesn’t faze them.
“We replaced a morning show in Omaha and people got over it,” Brandt said. “We replaced one in Wichita and they got over it. (Lincoln) will get over it too.”
Brandt and Tyler reported that although they have re-ceived negative feedback fol-lowing each expansion, online petitions have never popped up.
In spite of this feedback, the duo said they are excited to spread their “anything goes” style of humor to other markets.
Anderson reported the em-pire is looking for more ways to expand its reach, joking that they are looking for “total world domination.”
In the meantime, Brandt and Tyler said they are excited about what they have.
“We are very happy to be in Lincoln,” Tyler said. “We aren’t the villains in this.”
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Another team, another road meet.
After defeating Minnesota last weekend to improve to 5-1 on the season, Nebraska will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., to take on No. 7 Arkansas on Friday eve-ning.
In the past four contests, the Huskers hold a 4-0 record against the Razorbacks.
NU coach Dan Kendig said the persistence his team showed in practice this week gave him many reasons to feel confident that his team will keep its unde-feated record.
“What I saw this week was perseverance,” he said. “They’ve been tired and showed it but they came in and had good workouts three days in a row.”
The coach also said he’s ex-cited to see his team perform again is because of its vault lineup.
This past Saturday against the Gophers, the Huskers posted a 49.575 on vault, which tied their sixth highest score in school history.
Nebraska is currently ranked third in the country on vault, averaging 49.371 a meet, and Kendig said he’s been thrilled with the squad’s consistency each week.
“From top to bottom we display great scores,” he said. “We’ve competed over eight girls already and we still have had the ability to go out the way we have been. Dan Mill-er’s a great coach and our other coach, Heather (Brink) is a for-mer vault champion.”
“Historically we’ve had great
teams and I think a lot of our success comes from having a great group of talented ladies.”
Kendig said Jamie Schlep-penbach has been consistent throughout the season.
T h e s o p h o -more has set career-highs in each event this season and has helped the vault line-up score over a 49.25 in all its meets.
Through six meets, Schlep-penbach has hit a 9.90 or higher three times, including a career-high 9.95 score on Feb. 3. Her lowest score this season has been a 9.825, which she hit in the Masters Classic Feb. 11.
The Lincoln native said stay-ing on campus in the offseason has helped her improve her numbers in her second season at Nebraska.
“I was here the whole sum-mer and we all worked really hard in the preseason,” Schlep-penbach said. “I think that paid off and my experience from freshman year has helped me a lot this year.”
Schleppenbach ended her freshman year at the NCAA Super Six Team Finals nailing a 9.95 score on vault, which earned her first-team All-Ameri-can honors.
The gymnast said there’s not much she does to prepare for performances.
“I don’t have any pre-meet rituals or superstitions,”
Schleppenbach said with a laugh. “I just like to relax before the meet. I just like to stay calm and focus on what I’ve been doing in the gym.”
Whatever it is she is or isn’t doing though, it’s working, Kendig said.
“She’s very disciplined and focused in the gym,” he said. “She works hard until she’s comfortable and gives power to her performances. She has those tangibles to go after it and do a good job.”
The Huskers kick-off their meet against Arkansas at 7 p.m. on uneven bars.
Kendig, who hopes to see the landings on vault in their last meet carry over into Friday, said one improvement he’s looking forward to seeing is performances in the team’s last event: beam.
“I’m looking forward to watching their perseverance on beam,” he said. “They all need to go up there and do what they need to do to finish strong. I want them to compete tough and have the confidence to go up there and go from good to great.”
Schleppenbach, who has struggled on beam in the Huskers’ last meets, said she’s worked hard in practice to improve her performance this weekend.
“Heather has shown us some different assignments that make us feel that pressure we would in a meet,” she said. “That’s helped a lot. I’ve been working hard on beam so I’m hoping I’ll put it all together and put on a solid performance.”
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Despite a disappointing weekend in Alaska, the NU women’s rifle team will travel south this weekend for the Great America Rifle Con-ference Championships for NU’s final match in Oxford, Miss.
On Wednesday, the NCAA released on its website the eight teams that qualified for NCAA Championships in March. Those eight teams are: Alaska-Fairbanks, Army, Jacksonville State, Kentucky, Nevada, TCU, UTEP and West Virginia. Before the of-ficial results were released, NU’s head coach Morgan Hicks said she believed three of the teams in their confer-ence qualified; Army, Ken-tucky and West Virginia. The other teams that will join NU and the three qualifiers in Mississippi on Saturday are Ole Miss, Memphis and N.C. State.
Since returning to Ne-braska late Sunday, NU has been preparing for their final match. But not before taking Monday off first.
“There was no point in coming in at 6 a.m. when we didn’t even get back ’til like midnight, or after midnight,” Hicks said.
When they returned to practice on Tuesday, NU took what they learned from Alaska and worked on im-proving their focus for the GARC Championships.
“I mean, we learned a lot from qualifiers, we’ve real-ized that we’re letting little
things get to us you know like if the lighting’s different, or somebody’s too loud or you know our nerves are too much,” Hicks said. “We’re let-ting it control us rather than use it as an advantage, or ig-nore it completely. So I think this week we really learned on really pushing to make practices more like matches and to use those little quirks that are aggravating to us in a good way rather than having them be the sole focus of the match.”
Hicks realizes NU has had a limited number of practices between the NCAA qualifi-ers and the GARC Champi-onships. With three days of practices, no major changes are going to occur. Hicks said the attention has been on the little things at practice.
“In three days you’re not going to fix everything that’s wrong,” she said. “So we’ve been working on just the little things to help fine tune things and then coming into this weekend with a positive attitude and you know kind of a redemption weekend too.”
For the three seniors on the team, it will be their final rifle weekend. Katie Kostal, Sheena Mahloch and Katelyn Woltersdorf will be shooting their last match as Huskers on Saturday. Hicks said some of them are ready to be done while some are “putting a little bit more pressure on themselves.” Woltersdorf’s situation is unique though.
“I am a senior but it’s only my second year shooting,” Woltersdorf said. “And so it’s
kind of bizarre that it’s my last one, when last year was my first one.”
Woltersdorf transferred to NU in 2010 from Clark Co l l ege in Van-couve r, W a s h . For her, k n o w -ing it’s her final s e a s o n and final match of her career at NU is “bizarre” and “bittersweet.”
Hicks said she can’t talk for the seniors, but she knows no matter their attitude to-ward their final match, they will be ready to compete Saturday.
“I know that they’re really wanting to do one of the best that they’ve ever done this weekend, especially af-ter not making it to NCAAs their senior year,” Hicks said.
For the rest of the team, it’s just their final match of the season. The last couple of weeks, though, Hicks has noticed a difference in the team, especially realizing the GARC Championships marks the end of the season.
“I think that the atmo-sphere has changed a little bit knowing that it is the very end of the season and this is it,” Hicks said. “We don’t have any more options we have to lay it all out on the line this weekend.”
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The Pelini brothers have spent the last four college football seasons on the same sideline at Memorial Sta-dium. In a few short years, Husker fans could poten-tially see them on opposite sidelines in Lincoln.
On Thursday the Nebras-ka football team rounded out its 2012 schedule with a contest in Lincoln against Idaho State on Sept. 22. The Huskers’ non-confer-ence schedule now includes games against Southern Miss, UCLA, Arkansas State and Idaho State.
Future non-conference games were also an-nounced, including a 2014 matchup against Florida Atlantic.
Former NU defensive co-ordinator Carl Pelini, broth-er of Husker head coach Bo Pelini, took over as the Owls head coach in Decem-ber. The game between NU and FAU will be played in Lincoln on Aug. 30, 2014, in Lincoln. The matchup be-tween the two schools will be the second of all time, as
NU opened its 2009 season with a 49-3 win against FAU.
The Huskers also an-nounced a home game against BYU in 2015, and home games against South Alabama in 2015 and 2019.
Nebraska will open the
2012 season at home on Sept. 1 against Southern Miss and begin its second Big Ten Conference slate against Wisconsin in Lin-coln on Sept. 29.
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come from the field.Nebraska senior Luke
Pinkelman, who is unde-feated this season, is Ne-braska’s only NCAA quali-fier at this point. Minnesota has the most NCAA quali-fiers — two from the men’s 800-meter run and one from the 5,000-meter run.
Andrew Riley of Illinois, who ran against Nebraska in the Mark Colligan Memorial, is the defending NCAA Cham-pion in the 60-meter hurdles.
The action begins Friday at 10 a.m., and resumes Satur-day at 10 a.m. The awards presentation is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Senior Taylor Alton, in her last home game as a Spartan, led the way in the first half for MSU, scoring 16 of her 18 points before the break and knocking down all four of her triples in the first half.
“Alton is a great shooter and we gave her open looks the whole night,” Yori said.
The Spartans refused to miss the entire night. They went into Thursday’s game shooting just 30 percent from behind the arc, but shot 50 percent from 3-point territory in the game. They made a season high nine triples, including seven be-fore halftime.
“We gave them too many good looks and they made them,” Yori said.
Nebraska struggled offen-sively once again on Thurs-day, shooting just 31 percent from the field and making only five of its 18 3-point
shot attempts.The Huskers made a 15-2
run midway through the second half to make the Spartans sweat a bit. NU cut the Spartan’s 23-point lead to 10 and seemed to have all the momentum with 11:46 to go in regulation.
Nebraska looked like it was going to cut the lead to single digits after Kaitlyn Burke knocked down a pair of technical foul shots, but Hooper missed a layup in the same possession leading to a five-minute Husker field goal drought.
During that drought, the Spartans extended the lead back to 17 points at 62-45 and never looked back.
Hooper led the way for Nebraska, though she was hounded the entire game by a solid defensive effort from Michigan State. The sophomore finished with 15 points and four rebounds for NU.
Burke played well on a night when Nebraska’s sec-ond leading scorer Lindsey Moore struggled. Burke
scored 13 points and added three rebounds in a tune up, leading to her final home game wearing a Husker uni-form.
Moore, who was just named a Lieberman trophy finalist given to the nation’s top point guard, did not play up to her standards. The ju-nior made just one field goal to finish with five points for the game to go along with four turnovers.
“Lindsey has to play better for us to have a chance to win,” Yori said.
The junior captain said she will need to step up for Sunday’s home game against Ohio State, when another Lieberman finalist, Samantha Prahalis, will take the floor 3 p.m. Sunday at the Bob Dev-aney Center.
“She’s a really good player, and every time you can play against a really good player it’s just going to make you that much better,” Moore said. “I’m looking forward to a great point guard matchup.”
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Friday. Adams lost his first start of the year to UC Davis, but gave up just one run in five innings. The Huskers’ Zach Hirsch will oppose him.
Although the Husker lineup produced against good pitch-ing in the Gonzaga series, Texas A&M-Corpus-Christi’s strong rotation could test them again. Though it’s not certain who will be on the
mound for the Islanders Sat-urday night, their top three starters all got off to dominant starts. The Islanders’ Adam Hoelscher, Daniel Minor and Tim Keller all pitched at least five innings without giving up a run in their season-opening starts against the University of Nebraska at Omaha last weekend.
Sunday will present the
Corpus Christi crowd with a rare gem – a pair of fresh-man pitchers who have yet to give up a run. NU’s Kyle Ku-bat, who threw five scoreless frames last Sunday, will face off with UNLV’s Erick Fedde, who blanked UC Irvine for six innings in the Rebels’ 3-2 win Tuesday.
But Erstad is confident that Kubat will be able to duel
well with UNLV. Though he wasn’t perfect against Gon-zaga (seven hits and three walks allowed), the freshman showed poise that impressed Erstad.
“He’s left-handed. Those guys usually don’t have nerves,” Erstad joked. “He did a good job competing and fought off some tough situa-tions. He’s not scared.”
The first-year coach admit-ted the Gonzaga series didn’t go as smoothly as he wanted it to. Bullpen issues aside, there were plenty of issues he be-lieved the Huskers needed to correct, and he thinks they’ll have those patched up by the time NU takes the field Friday.
“There are some general mistakes ... missed signs, be-ing out of position on relay
plays, base running mistakes,” Erstad said. “But that’s on us as coaches. We need to continue to prepare them and help them learn from those mistakes. You can simulate as much as you want in practice, but there’s no replacement of a game. We’ll make those adjustments and we’ll be fine this weekend.”
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To the untrained eye, it may appear that the No. 22 Ne-braska softball team is all offense.
True, the Huskers did plate 56 runs last weekend en route to five victories at the Troy Cox Classic, but NU coach Rhonda Revelle said there is much more to her squad than meets the eye.
“The biggest thing that happened for us last week is probably not what most people think. They talk about how many runs we scored,” she said. “It’s really trying to find a rhythm with our whole defensive unit.”
NU senior infielder Ash-ley Guile agreed, pointing out that learning from the previous week’s games and a solid week of practice were integral in Nebraska’s five-game winning streak.
“Everybody really chipped in and did their role,” Guile said. “I think it was just a lot of team offense and de-fense. We want to have a three dimensional team — defensive, offensive and our battery. And I think we put that all together.”
This weekend, Guile and the Huskers will travel to the Cathedral City Classic in Cathedral City, Calif., look-ing to strike a balance be-tween maintaining momen-tum and improving play.
“Really just continue to improve what we’ve been working on. It’s not one thing,” Revelle said. “It’s just continue to get bet-ter, and I think we’ve done that.”
The Huskers will have plenty of opportunities to display that progress, as they will play five games during the three-day tour-nament starting Friday. Revelle said the compact-ed schedule will not have a negative impact on her squad’s performance.
“There’s just no breaks,” she said. “We’re playing an incredibly good sched-ule, but we’re used to that. Probably the biggest differ-ence is you don’t have a lot of time to regroup like you might when you’re playing in a league game.”
Among Nebraska’s five opponents are four teams ranked in the top 20 in the country. No. 19 Oregon will provide the Huskers’ first test Friday afternoon. On Saturday, NU will battle Cal Poly and No. 11 Missouri. The invite will be capped off with contests against No. 8 Texas and No. 5 Washington.
“We don’t look at rank-ings,” Guile said. “We’ve played Missouri and Texas before, just played Wash-ington a couple weekends ago, seen Oregon and Cal Poly. They’re all great teams, and for us to be the best, we want to play the best. That’s what we’re do-ing this weekend.”
In Nebraska’s first game with the Huskies this sea-son, Washington defeated NU 4-0.
“I think it’s going to be a great challenge for us,” Guile said of Nebraska’s up-coming competition. “The teams are great clubs. They have good pitching, good hitting, all-around teams. I think they’re going to make us better.”
Revelle added that when two teams of ranked caliber face off against each other, the game is decided by the basics.
“I think any time you go against an opponent that has a winning mentality, and you have a winning mentality, I think it’s anybody’s ballgame and usually it comes down to the most crisp execution,” Revelle said. “What we know is that the team that executes the best is going to come out on top and that’s how you want to be challenged.”
The Huskers plan to learn a lot from this weekend’s challenge. Guile said she and her teammates are eagerly awaiting the opportunity.
“It’s going to be nice to see good pitching and go from there with our hitters,” she said. “We’re looking at new opportunities, new things
on the field to learn from and playing some of the best teams in the country.”
She added that it will be crucial for NU not to get ahead of itself.
“I’m not looking at Satur-day or Sunday’s games. I’m looking at our first game,” Guile said. “I think every-one hopes for, ‘win all five games.’ We want to win ev-ery pitch. I think if we can do that mentally and physi-cally, we’re going to come out with what we want.”
Revelle said she will not expect the Huskers to put 56 runs on the board against the level of pitching they will face this weekend, and that she cannot formulate any hypotheses about their play. She does, however, have one basic expectation.
“That we compete really well,” Revelle said. “I can’t predict a record or how many runs we’re going to score or anything like that, but that we go in and we compete well, and we com-pete well mentally and we compete well physically.”
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A pair of familiar, un-ranked opponents will travel to Lincoln, Neb., to compete against the No. 27 Nebraska women’s ten-nis team this weekend.
On Friday, the Huskers will take on Wichita State at 5 p.m. and will then re-turn to the Nebraska Ten-nis Center early on Sunday for a 10 a.m. match against Colorado State.
But if these two recog-nizable adversaries hope to upset the 7-1 Husk-ers, they might need a bit of luck on their side. So far this spring, the Huskers are 5-0 against unranked opponents and have outscored those teams by a 30-5 total mar-gin. In addition, NU holds a 2-1 record against ATI women’s top 75 oppo-nents, losing only to No. 9 Northwestern.
Nebraska will also bring a six-match winning streak into the weekend, and all six of those victories took place on NU’s home court.
Wichita State (4-3) began the season by sweeping its first three opponents, but has dropped three out of their last four matches.
When the Shockers visit Lincoln on Friday, it will mark their third straight match against a ranked op-ponent. Last Friday, they lost to No. 41 Purdue 2-5, and then dropped a close match to No. 65 Marshall on Saturday.
“I don’t think anyone’s taking Wichita State light-ly,” NU coach Scott Ja-cobson said. “We are well aware of the skill level. It won’t be hard to get our team pumped up for Wichita State.”
As for Colorado State (2-4), inconsistency has plagued the Rams all spring. After starting the year 2-2, the Rams have since gone on a two-match losing streak. They have yet to beat a ranked opponent this year.
And on the subject of familiarity, Nebraska has had some success against the two incoming squads
in the past.Since 1998, NU has had a
perfect 13-0 record against CSU and has won t h o s e matches in con-v i n c i n g f a s h -ion. In those 13 matches, NU has defeated the Rams by a total of 62-15.
In the teams’ last four meetings, CSU has only managed to manufacture two points, while NU holds a 26-2 total advan-tage since 2008.
Wichita State, on the other hand, has had a lit-tle more success than CSU, but not by much. NU and WSU have met 12 out of the last 14 years, and the Huskers hold an 11-1 ad-vantage.
From 2000 to 2005, Ne-braska beat WSU by a to-tal of 43-1. However, in the past three years, WSU has significantly narrowed the gap. Since 2009, the Shockers have come in-credibly close to beating the Huskers in all three matches, recording 3-4 losses in each match.
“Their head coach has done a great job recruit-ing,” Jacobson said. “They have made a big jump re-cently, and that’s a reflec-tion of the quality talent they’ve brought in.”
NU’s Madeleine Geib-ert will have a chance to climb to No. 2 on NU’s career combined wins list this weekend. Geibert’s doubles partner, Stefanie Weinstein, said she doesn’t feel any pressure to play any better now that the re-cord is closing in.
“Actually, not at all,” she said. “We have so many opportunities throughout the spring to get her the record, so it only moti-vates us. We play for the team. We are more con-centrated on winning as a team.”
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It’s the final weekend of ten-nis before Nebraska begins its play in the Big Ten con-ference for the first time as a member.
The Huskers are treat-ing this weekend’s matches against Virginia Common-wealth University and Wil-liam & Mary as a primer for their maiden voyage into the new conference. Since NU hasn’t played either team home or away, coach Kerry McDermott said. Facing new opponents at new facilities sets the Huskers up well for conference play in less than two weeks.
“A match like this is prepar-ing us for a Big Ten match,” McDermott said. “It’s got the competition that we need — a quality match. Every match is going to be down to the wire, so our guys have to be ready mentally and physi-cally all the time.”
NU’s first opponent, VCU, welcomes the Huskers in as the No. 38 ranked team nationally with a record of 10-2. McDermott said the Rams in particular will give the Huskers a good gauge of where they need to improve before taking on Big Ten op-ponents.
“(VCU) is very comparable to Michigan or Indiana,” Mc-Dermott said. “I think they’ve made the NCAA Tournament the last 17 of 18 years or so, they’re pretty solid.”
For junior Eric Sock, VCU and William and Mary pro-vide a good break in the home schedule that may have made the players too comfortable.
“When you play at home for such a stretch you get used to that,” Sock said. “Go-ing somewhere else can help get a little more focus.”
Sock said a road environ-ment might be exactly what they need to regain any com-petitive spirit that may have
faded in the Huskers’ 4-1 stretch at home.
McDermott said the road m a t c h e s give NU a chance to prove that t h e y ’ r e on top of their g a m e b o t h physically and men-tally.
“ I f there’s an overall weakness, I feel like right now it’s not so much tennis as it is in their heads,” McDermott said. “A couple of our guys just need to get mentally tougher and a little bit more competitive, not whining more than your op-ponents. If those guys can do that we’ll be fine.”
For Sock, the back-to-back matches on the road force the Huskers to stay mentally tough.
“It’s kind of just a day to not waste, but just relax in-stead of getting geared up,” Sock said.
He said the recovery time is nice after a tough match, but the anticipation of a road opponent can be even more distracting with a whole day to think about it. For McDer-mott, it’s never too soon for his players to stop getting complacent and comfort-able. He said with the new conference the Huskers can’t afford to keep playing tennis without a full effort.
“The Big Ten’s coming up in two weeks, so by now guys should be mentally tough, focused and competing 100 percent of the time,” McDer-mott said. “Hopefully those guys that are struggling can realize what the coaches are talking about — it’s all about working your tail off and competing hard. Whatever happens, happens.”
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solely about Green, MSU’s inside presence or even what Izzo, a coach with six final four appearances, will throw at them.
All the Huskers need to do is worry about them-selves, he said.
“You go to Michigan State and win a game, wow, that’s huge,” Sadler said. “But that doesn’t re-ally need to be the con-cern. The concern needs to be us. We just need to do the best we can and prepare as hard and as well as we can.”
NU has three conference games remaining, and at practice Thursday Sadler
said he believes the only way his squad can dance in March is if they win the Big Ten Tournament.
But if his team is unable to pull off the unlikely up-set-laden run to the NCAA Tournament, it will still need some resume pad-ding wins to make it to the NIT, he said.
“If you finish 6-10 in this league you’re gonna make it to the NIT, if you do any-thing in the tournament.” Sadler said. “There’s gon-na be somebody in this league to do that.
“So I think we’ve got a lot to get out of it.”
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It might seem like it was a year ago when Nebraska and Michigan State last met for NU’s second game in the Big Ten conference.
But that’s just because the game was Dec. 31, 2011.
In that contest, Nebraska took a one-point lead into the locker room at the half over the No. 16 team in the nation. But despite being behind 19 points and eight rebounds, MSU pulled away and won the game 68-55.
Since then, Michigan State has gone 10-3 and catapulted itself to the top of the Big Ten standings and to the No. 6 spot in the AP top-25 poll, while Nebraska has gone 4-9 and dropped to a tie for No. 11 in the Big Ten.
“They’ve gotten better as the season’s gone on,” NU forward Brandon Ubel said. “You watch them ear-lier on in this year and not many people would have
picked them to be a No. 1 seed or a final-four con-tender, but we got into Big Ten play and now they’re one of the best teams in the nation.”
And much of that success can be attributed to Big Ten Player of the Year can-didate Draymond Green.
The 6-foot-7-inch senior is averaging a double-double per game with 15.5 points per game and 10.3 rebounds.
“I definitely respect the way he plays, the way he approaches the game and the way he leads his team,” Ubel said. “You’ve gotta re-spect a guy who gives 100 percent and gets every-thing out of his ability.”
“He’s a special player. He’s talented and he also has the right approach.”
Green is also a leader on the court, NU coach Doc Sadler said. Last time the two squads met, Spartan coach Tom Izzo told him that Green was one of the best leaders he’s coached during his tenure at MSU.
But Michigan State is not a one-man team by any means, according to Sadler, and he attributes much of MSU’s success since the last time the two teams met to other players suited in green and white.
“Well there’s no question he’s getting better and bet-ter, but it’s not just him,” Sadler said. “I think those other guys have gotten bet-ter. Their inside guys have gotten so much better, all of them, so that’s what
adds to the issues that you have with their team.”
But Sadler said the Husk-ers don’t need to worry
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At this time last week, opti-mism for Nebraska baseball was as high as it had been at the start of a season in years.
With new coach and former NU player Darin Erstad at the helm and a move to the Big Ten underway, many felt the Huskers had an opportunity to distance themselves from the struggles that plagued them at the end of the Mike Anderson era.
The weekend didn’t go as planned.
The Huskers lost all three games to Gonzaga, blowing leads in all three games in the seventh inning or later.
“We did a lot of good things overall,” said junior outfielder Chad Christensen. “We just have to do it more consis-tently throughout the whole game. It can’t be six innings, it can’t be seven innings. It’s got to be nine innings if we’re going to be successful.”
Now the focus turns to righting the ship. The Husk-ers don’t have time to repeat any mistakes, as this weekend
and the Kleberg Bank Col-lege Classic in Corpus Christi, T e x a s , brings an-other set of chal-lenges.
L a s t week the H u s k e r s had to focus on and scout just one opponent. But this weekend, the Huskers will play Utah on Friday and Sat-urday morning, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Saturday night and UNLV on Sunday.
“As far as scouting reports, you really have to do your homework and be a little more on top of it,” Erstad said. “We’re just focused on our execution and our level of play. It really doesn’t mat-ter who you’re playing.
The Huskers will face Utah’s ace, Zach Adams, on
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The finish line is in sight for the 2011 indoor track sea-son.
Friday and Saturday’s Big Ten Championships mark the first time the Huskers will compete in a team-scored meet since Jan. 28 and the last time they will be able to do so this season aside from the NCAA Championships.
“We’re coming to win,” said Matt Martin, the coach for sprints, hurdles and re-lays. “That’s always our goal. That’s our intention and any-thing less than that is a dis-appointment to us.”
If they want to win the meet, the Huskers will have to knock off four-time de-fending champion Minne-sota on the men’s end and Ohio State on the women’s end.
The Husker men enter the meet ranked fourth in the conference and No. 15 na-tionally, trailing Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio State. Ne-braska’s women are just out-side the top 25, with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michi-gan State as the Big Ten’s ranked teams.
Nebraska is hosting the meet in its first year in the conference. The Huskers hosted last season’s Big 12 Championships, taking first place on the women’s side and third on the men’s side.
Distance coach David Har-ris said the meet should be extremely competitive, espe-cially between the teams that have the most depth.
“I think that this is going to be one where you’re going to want to be here,” Harris said. “You’re going to want to keep track of the scores on the scoreboard because it’s going to change, but Ne-braska – we’re going to be battling up there in the Big Ten the whole way.”
Six Big Ten athletes
currently hold top times na-tionally in eight events. The Huskers are seeking to capi-talize on every advantage they have to gain an edge on some of the competition.
Nebraska’s best strength, arguably, is its depth. The Huskers have the ability to place athletes in scoring po-sitions in a number events. A Nebraska athlete is ranked in the top eight of the Big Ten standings in 40 events, the second most in the confer-ence to Ohio State.
The Huskers’ success in the Big Ten is due in large part to their performance in field events. Nebraska has athletes in the Big Ten’s top eight in 22 events, the most in the conference.
“Team track and field is just like a depth chart in the other sports,” Harris said. “You have the depth there to go after a championship and every event you’re knocking on the door.”
Another advantage the Huskers enjoy is a home field advantage. The Bob Devaney Sports Center’s banked track is fairly un-common, and practicing on it every week allows Ne-braska’s athletes to feel more comfortable with their sur-roundings.
“The banks are something not everyone gets to prac-tice on every day – we think that’s an advantage,” Martin said. “The atmosphere is great, there won’t be many atmospheres in terms of crowd and the way the meet is administered around. We think all those things are positive for us.”
Of the pool of athletes competing, 15 have already earned a place at the NCAA Championships by earn-ing an automatic qualifying time. Eight athletes come from track events and seven
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file photo by morgan spiehs | daily nebraskannebraska coach doc Sadler and the Huskers fell to michi-gan State 68-55 on dec. 31 in Lincoln.
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No. 6 Spartans have won six straight, sit at 12-3 in conference
Forward Jordan Hooper scored the first points of the game Thursday night,
but that was about the only thing that went right for Nebraska.
Michigan State went on a 32-9 run in the first 12 minutes af-ter Hooper’s initial basket and routed the Huskers 73-53 at the
Breslin Center. The loss dropped NU to 9-6 in Big Ten Conference play.
MSU made 11 of its first 14 shots, including six 3-pointers during that run. The Spartans shot a blistering 62 percent be-fore halftime and finished shoot-ing 52 percent from the field for
the game.“We just did not guard or de-
fend the way we needed to guard,” said coach Connie Yori. “We did not defend them with the proper defense in the first
SpartanS Shoot 62 percent in the firSt half, blowout huSkerS, Dropping nu to 9-6 in big ten conference play
LiGHtS outnebraska forward Jordan Hooper scored 15 points thursday night against michigan State, but nu shot just 31.5 percent from the field.
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