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Huskers set to play in Indy after win

Nebraska’s 13-7 win against Iowa clinched the Legends Division for NU after a Michigan loss on Saturday. The

Huskers will face off against Wisconsin, a squad they beat in Lincoln earlier this

season at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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More Americans left home for Thanksgiving

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UNITE to host campus Native events

Managing editor hospitalized

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Native American Heritage Month winds down this week, and the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange – UNL’s Native student group – will send it off with a pair of tradition-based, public events.

First, on Wednesday, the group will bring back a reliable fundraiser: Indian tacos. The round frybreads, covered with typical taco toppings, will be for sale for $5 in the Nebraska Union from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Two hours will be plenty of time to sell all the tacos the group can make, said Kendra Haag, UNITE’s president and a senior biological sci-ences and sociology major.

“We always sell out of them,” she said.

Second, UNITE will co-host a traditional handgame at 6 p.m. Fri-day in the Jackie Gaughan Multicul-tural Center, Haag said, with a din-ner to follow.

The game, often lively and spir-ited, is built around two teams, each with one member hiding a stone in one hand. The other team must find that person, Haag said.

The two events wrap up one of UNITE’s busiest Novembers. The group makes a point to mark the month, and this year it also held two movie showings before the week of Thanksgiving break.

Such a schedule might not seem a challenge, but Native students make up a fraction of 1 percent of UNL’s enrollment. UNITE’s weekly meetings regularly draw fewer than

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Daily Nebraskan managing edi-tor Riley Johnson was hospital-ized Nov. 22 after CPR and three defibrillator shocks brought him back from cardiac ar-rest, according to Ron-na Johnson, Riley’s mother.

Riley, a senior jour-nalism major, suffers from Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a disorder caused by an extra pathway in the lower half of the heart. He will have surgery today to remove the extra pathway, and his immediate family is being checked for Wolff-Parkinson-White.

Riley was in Ellsworth, Wisc.,

visiting family for Thanksgiving. Before the incident, Riley spent the afternoon playing football with his family. Ronna said they arrived at a bar Thursday after-

noon, sat down and Riley collapsed short-ly after.

Doctors induced a coma for 24 hours, but he is now awake and responsive. According to Ronna, Riley’s small motor skills have de-creased and will take time to recover, but doctors said his heart is healthy. He also has no memory of the week surrounding the episode, and it is un-clear if he will regain

that memory. No definite recov-ery timeline is currently known.

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T is the season for doorbuster sales. Hours after enjoying Thanks-

giving dinner with family and friends, scores of people lined up

in front of stores, awaiting the Black Friday sales inside.

Traditionally, Black Friday sales begin in the early morning after Thanksgiving. But in recent years, stores have been open-ing earlier and earlier. This year, Wal-Mart started sales at 8 p.m. Thursday. The store was quickly followed by Target’s 9 p.m. sales and midnight doorbusters that in-cluded Old Navy, Kohl’s and Younkers.

“It’s ridiculous. It may be smart for the stores, but it sucks for the customers and the people working,” said Mackenzie Busekist, a student at Lincoln East High School.

According to research firm Shopper-Trak, total retail foot traffic increased by 12.9 percent in the Midwest compared to last year’s Black Friday, but retail sales na-tionwide decreased nearly 2 percent.

Black Friday shoppers wheel out their brand new Tv from Target in Lincoln late Thursday night. shoppers had to get “tickets” in advance to purchase select items like the Tv.

Marlon and Kelly Wright enjoy dinner and drinks at Yia Yia’s in downtown Lincoln saturday evening. saturday was small Busi-ness saturday, a say where people were encouraged to spend money at local small businesses.

Phil Luebbert, a bartender at Yia Yia’s, serves Marlon Wright wine to go with his pizza saturday evening. Yia Yias, and many other small Lincoln businesses, enjoyed small Business sat-urday, which is is strategically placed in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday,

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Thanksgiving travel increases

UnLPd offer reward for vandal leads

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Tuesday evening, Ryann Lynn boarded a plane at Eppley Air-field headed home. Lynn, a Chica-go native, was among an estimat-ed 43.6 million Americans to travel more than 50 miles from home over Thanksgiving.

Lynn, a freshman advertising and pub-lic relations major, flew from Omaha to Chicago, where she spent Thanks-giving break with her fam-ily. She was one of the 17.5 percent of people in the West North Cen-tral region who trav-eled for Thanksgiving, according to the AAA’s an-nual Thanksgiving Travel Forecast. AAA estimates travel data for dif-ferent regions of the country, and Nebraska’s region had a travel rate about 4 percent greater than the national average. The average traveler from Nebraska was es-timated to drive or fly 541 miles during the Thanksgiving break. About a quarter of those travelers made trips between 50 and 120 miles and another quarter trav-eled between 241 and 400 miles, according to the forecast.

Thanksgiving travelers in-creased .7 percent from last year’s national average, according to the forecast, and travel by automobile increased .6 percent.

For Levi Gorsuch, a senior business, marketing and informa-tion technology major, returning home is a 400-mile drive back to Alliance.

“It’s certainly different when you travel out west,” Gorsuch said.

“Sometimes even the cell service won’t work out here,”

Gorsuch said construction along Nebraska Highway 2 some-times slows him down. But he said by the time he encountered

construction this trip, the crews had packed up and left. The drive usually takes between five and six hours, Gorsuch said.

“I kind of feel bad for some students who have to drive long distances,” said Jared Koger, a sophomore mechanical engineer-ing major. Koger, an Omaha na-tive, said he returns home at least

once a month.Like Koger, Katie Nel-

son’s trip home took less than an hour to drive.

“I live in Papillion,” said Nel-son, a senior elementary educa-tion major. “It was nice to see ev-eryone back home. Because I’m so close, I go back often – usually for

the free laundry.”Shelby Riedman, a freshman

anthropology major, only trav-eled to a different part of Lincoln during break.

“Oh, I had a lot of fun,” Ried-man said. “My dad and I went out hunting a few times and Black Friday was great,”

Some students took multiple trips back and forth during break. Shannon Pestel, a freshman ex-ploratory major, commuted from Stanton to Lincoln to work at Buckle on Black Friday.

“The roads were fine and dur-ing both trips back and forth,” Pestel said. “I didn’t see any cops.”

She said this was only the second time she returned home this semester.

During winter break, Lynn plans on tak-

ing a Megabus back home. She said her parents didn’t want to pay for a

plane ticket for winter

break, and the bus was a cheaper option.

Lynn said she wasn’t enthusiastic about riding the bus because it will take 10 hours.

“I’ve heard some horror sto-ries about the Megabus,” Lynn said. “About horrible delays and drivers being found drunk. I’m a little nervous.”


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Ten days after a fire that led to the evacuation of Smith Hall, university police are offering a reward to anyone with informa-tion. In an email sent to students on Sunday, UNLPD said they are offering $1,500 to anyone with information about the Nov. 15

incident, which is being investi-gated as arson.

“Anyone with information relating to this incident can call or visit whomever they feel most comfortable to share a tip,” the press release said. At press time, UNLPD wasn’t available to com-ment on the status of the case.

After 5 a.m. on Nov. 16, a corkboard was lit on fire on the third floor of Smith Hall, accord-ing to the police report. The hall was evacuated and Lincoln Fire & Rescue was called to the scene. Residents of the third floor were later interviewed by the fire de-partment. Because the fire oc-

curred on state property, the case is being investigated by the Nebraska State Fire Marshal and UNLPD.

The fire caused $400.50 in damages, police said. It was the third incident in a string of van-dalism on the third floor of Smith this month. During the week of Nov. 4, a chair in the lobby was defecated on, Director of Univer-sity Housing Sue Gildersleeve said. On Oct. 27, the laundry room was vandalized. The sink in the laundry room was inten-tionally clogged with a cloth, police said. The water had been turned on, causing flooding.

Police said washing machines and dryers had been moved and some of their electrical cords were cut. The lint filters to the dryer were hidden in the lounge. The seat cushions in the lounge were also torn, with stuffing strewn across the room. Police are still investigating this inci-dent, which resulted in $299 in damages. Students with any in-formation should call University Police at 402-472-2222, visit the Lincoln Crimestoppers website or contact University Housing. Information will be kept anony-mous, the press release said.


cocoa on The fly wiTh kappa phiwhen: Monday, nov. 26, 7 p.m. where: nebraska Union, Colonial room Bwhat: join the ladies of Kappa Phi for Christian-sisterhood bonding, cocoa and information about joining the sorority in the spring semester. contact: elizabeth swearn-gin at [email protected]

faculTy arTisT: diane barGer when: Tuesday, nov. 27, 7:30 to 9 p.m. where: Kimball recital hallwhat: diane Barger will perform the clarinet in concert. The performance is open to the public. cost: Free

indian Taco sale when: Wednesday, nov. 28, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. where: nebraska Union, boothwhat: Members of UnITe will be selling tacos for lunch in celebration of native american heritage Month. cost: $5

celebraTion of 600Th anniversary of The birTh of joan of arcwhen: Wednesday, nov. 28, 5 p.m. where: Bailey Library in andrews hallwhat: There will be a scholarly presentation to celebrate the 600th an-niversary of joan of arc’s birth. refreshments will be served.

e.n. Thompson forum on world issues: j. kirk brown and michael radeleT — “deaTh penalTy: jusTice, reTribuTion and dollars”when: Wednesday, nov. 28, 7 p.m. where: Lied Center for Per-forming artswhat: nebraska solicitor general j. Kirk Brown and University of Colorado Boulder professor Mi-chael radelet will answer questions about the death penalty. They’ll also talk about the impact it has on the condemned person, his or her loved ones and the taxpayer. contact: Katie Cervantes at 402-472-0074 or [email protected]

upc presenTs second chance cinemawhen: Wednesday, nov. 28, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. where: Mary riepma ross Media arts Centerwhat: UPC will host a screening of the film “Law-

less.” students will need to show their nCards.cost: Free

“cave/cinema: werner herzoG’s cave of forGoTTen dreams and The poliTics of Time”when: Thursday, nov. 29, 5:30 p.m. where: sheldon Museum of artwhat: Lutz Koepnick from Washington University in st. Louis will lecture. cost: Free

world aids daywhen: Friday, nov. 30, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. where: nebraska Union squarewhat: various UnL organi-zations will host ac-tivities focusing on World aIds day. There will be a showing of documentary film clips and students can help create a re-membrance quilt block. contact: Lee heerten at 402-472-7498 or [email protected]

handGamewhen: Friday, nov. 30, 6 p.m. where: jackie gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity roomwhat: Celebrate native american heritage Month with UnITe. an evening meal will be served.

mesu dinnerwhen: Friday, nov. 30, 6 to 9 p.m. where: nebraska Unionwhat: Middle eastern stu-dents Unite will sponsor a Thanksgiving dinner. contact: Layla Younis at 402-617-7438 or [email protected]

a delTa chrisTmas parTywhen: sunday, dec. 2, 5 p.m. where: nebraska Union Ballroomwhat: Celebrate Christmas with the omicron Chap-ter of delta sigma Theta sorority, Inc. Proceeds will benefit Crisis recovery International. cost: $15 single, $25 couple, $100 tablecontact: Ciera Tolbert at [email protected]

— compiled by kim buckley

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Students heading home contributed to a national holiday travel increase

Police seek tips regarding series of vandalism acts in Smith Hall

With earlier sales, it can be hard to balance shopping and spending time with family, said Kathy Koci, a sales associate in Younkers at Gateway Mall.

“They open too early now,” Koci said. “Thanksgiving is the day for family and relaxing. It seems that gone are the days of holidays with family.”

Busekist and her friend Emily Cuddy know a thing or two about waiting in line for Black Friday deals.

“We stood for four hours out-side of Wal-Mart,” Busekist said. Standing in line outside of Old Navy at 11:30 p.m., Busekist and Cuddy said they had been wait-ing for the doors to open for more than 45 minutes. But it was worth it, they said.

“We just love watching the cra-zy people that come out this early to go shopping,” said Cuddy, a fellow Lincoln East High stu-dent. “People get so angry and start tearing into things and each other.”

Sitting in a folding chair in the front of the line outside Kohl’s at 11 p.m., Tracy Bender agreed with Busekist and Cuddy.

“People beat the crap out of each other for a good price,” Bender said. “We’re all crazy, standing in line waiting for these good deals.”

Koci has been work-ing in retail for 25 years. On Black Friday, she worked from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

“ W h e n a customer has been up and shop-ping since 4 o’clock in the morning, they can get cranky some-times,” Koci said. “When you work here, you know it’s just part of the deal of working in retail during this time

of the year.”Customer care is the

No. 1 thing that a retail worker can tout this time of year, according to Koci.

“I treat each custom-er the way I’d want to be treated if I was on the other side of the coun-ter, and then after I’m through I go home and hit the couch,” Koci said.

But even with the ear-lier sales times, Koci isn’t worried about the stress of the future of Black Fri-days.

“I’ve seen 25 Black Fridays,” she said. “And

I’ll probably be here working to see 25 more.”


sTacie hecker | dnPeople stand at the end of the line for Target’s Black Friday shopping, which wrapped all the way around the building 15 minutes before opening.

They open too early

now. Thanksgiving is the day for family and relaxing. It seems that gone are the days of holidays with family.”

kaTHy kOcIsales associate at younkers

sTacie hecker | dnTarget’s doors opened at 9 p.m. Thursday and let inside the excited shoppers who waited outside in 35-degree weather.

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Study: financial struggles take toll on students

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Financial worries affect the aca-demic performance of about one-third of all college students, according to the National Survey of Student Engagement.

Erin Wirth, program coordi-nator for the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln Student Money Management Center, said stu-dents who work a lot of hours often come into the center for advice.

“Of course working a lot of hours affects academic perfor-mance, but there are things you can do to adjust your financial situation,” Wirth said.

The center often finds that these students are not managing their money well, Wirth said.

“In my personal experience, those students are making mis-takes with their money, and once they fix those mistakes they can reduce the hours they’re work-ing,” she said.

Sophomore psychology ma-

jor Chris Ganshert works two jobs and is enrolled in 12 credit hours at UNL.

“I could cut back hours and survive,” said Ganshert, who works 30 hours a week at The Mill Coffee and Tea and driv-ing buses for UNL Parking & Transit. “But I’m working to pay rent, to pay for food and to save a little to pay off college loans later on.”

Next semester, Ganshert will no longer drive bus-es, which means he will lose 12 hours of pay each week.

“It’s money I know I’m going to miss,” he said.

Of students surveyed who work more than 20 hours a week, three-fifths re-ported that their jobs interfered with academ-ics, according to a Nov. 14 article in The New York Times.

Ganshert said his jobs don’t affect his academic performance, but they have forced him to manage his time better.

“I’d say it has to do with the individual,” Ganshert said. “A well-motivated person could easily manage a job and study. It doesn’t have to be detrimental.”

Ganshert said working in-creases stress.

“If you’re in college and you only have one job or no job you’re going to be happier,” Ganshert said. “If you’re more focused on trying to get your

homework done and trying to get to work on time, you get stressed.”

Wirth said stu-dents need to put their education before earning ex-tra cash.

“ S t u d e n t s need to under-stand that they are in school for a reason,” Wirth said. “They are in college to learn the skills they need to get a full-time job after col-lege. They need to be working just

as much as they need in order to have enough time to actually study.”


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A recent study finds students’ academics suffer when finances take priority

a dozen students.An event every week is a new

high for the group, Haag said, thanks to the help of co-sponsors like UNL’s Omaha language class and other community groups. Preparing the Indian tacos, for example, begins the night before and will continue with an early morning Wednesday.

Stress and time is worth the pay-off, Haag said, for two reasons.

“First of all, it creates aware-ness,” she said.

One UNL student she encoun-tered thought Native Americans were all dead. Another thought they weren’t allowed to leave reserva-tions – plots of land, mostly scattered throughout the western half of the

U.S., that are allotted to particular tribes and stand as relics of centuries of conflict with European and, later, American settlers.

“For most people, the only per-ception or interaction they get is from the media because there are so few of us,” Haag said. “It’s really dif-ficult to overcome.”

These events allow Native stu-dents to show they exist and main-tain some linkage to their culture here at UNL, she said.

“Second of all, it celebrates who we are,” Haag added.

Several months are devoted to the history and heritage of certain groups of people – February is Black History Month, Latinos’ month be-

gins Oct. 15 and ends in November, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community celebrates throughout October.

The joke often goes that these groups get a month in the middle of White History Year. But Haag said the month is still important, at least giving Native students and wider communities a reason to spend time together and have a little fun.

Especially with that handgame, which can last all night.

“The community members, they definitely get excited,” Haag said, though she added, “Ours will only go until 11.”


dan McCarthy performs for his band McCarthy Trenching at Thanks (for) giving at duffy’s Tavern sunday night. McCarthy shared the stage with four other local acts for the benefit, including LIFe is CooL, The envy Corps, aZP, and gordon.

Kendra Wilde, lead singer for LIFe is CooL emerges from the fog during the band’s set for a KrnU benefit at duffy’s Tavern sunday night.

Bar patrons play pool while LIFe is CooL warms up for their performance at duffy’s Tavern sunday night.

“An English major? Would you like fries with that?” “You’re studying Theatre? Have fun at Starbucks!” “Psychology? That’s, like, dream interpretation,

right?” “Women and Gender Studies? You’re going to be a terrible wife.” “Philosophy? Don’t worry, you can crash on my couch in the future.”

Yesterday someone told me the following: “I’m not insulting your major, just your job prospects.” For once, words failed me.

Here at the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln, all the liberal arts students have to take a lot of shit from the rest of the general popu-lace. What’s worse, it’s usually the same com-ments over and over.

Take it from the English majors: If you’re going to use repetition, then at least use it in a constructive way. If people can’t be more creative, then maybe an English student could write up new insults for them.

The anti-arts people might want to try ask-ing the liberal arts majors some questions. Be-lieve it or not, they’re smart and can handle the questions. Also, a hint: “Why’d you choose that major?” is an excellent place to start. It’s not accusatory or stupid, and it gets the con-versation rolling.

After all, the liberal arts students have their own part to play. They’re going to col-lege to study what they enjoy. They just aren’t focusing on math equations or chemistry lab results because – surprise – they don’t enjoy those areas of study. Does that mean they’re terrible at science and math? Not necessar-ily. Just like how science majors can probably write essays but prefer doing other things.

Also, believe it or not, there are actually jobs out there for liberal arts majors. For Eng-lish majors, there are editors, copywriters, col-umnists, critics, reporters and proofreaders, to name a few. Then for theater majors, you have actors, directors, costume designers, lighting designers, set designers and scriptwriters. As a final example, the psychology majors can become counselors, managers, social workers, clinical researchers, speech pathologists and psychiatrists.

Yes, teaching is an option, but it’s not the only option out there. Kathryn Fuller, the World Wildlife Fund director, majored in Eng-lish. Jon Stewart, the host of The Daily Show,

has a psychology degree. Gerald Levin, CEO of Time-Warner, Inc., has a degree in philoso-phy. None of them ended up living in a box, did they?

Part of the reason for this flexibility is that liberal arts majors aren’t only taught facts and figures. For example, the English majors learn far more than just how to read and write. They learn to view things from different perspec-tives. They’re taught how to look for patterns. They learn how to be concise, both in speech and the written word. They gain an un-derstanding of the human condi-tion. Overall, they’re taught how to think and how to speak, which are two things that employers value highly.

Yes, pre-med and engineering students are important, but not many sit down to leisurely read a medical journal. Many people, in-cluding the doctors and the scien-tists, enjoy the entertainment that books, movies and plays provide. Just look at “Skyfall,” which came out this month and has already earned more than $90 million. Who do you think wrote that movie’s script? Who cut and spliced the scenes togeth-er to make a finished product? What about the director and the actors? Who designed the pro-motional signs? Finally, who wrote the origi-nal novel that made the movie possible? You can be sure it wasn’t the doctors.

The doctors and engineers can’t do every-thing. In fact, they usually need liberal arts to

reach the people. Technical writers take spe-cialized subjects, such as computers or medi-cine, and then “dumb it down” for everyone else. Without them, all the user guides, design specifications and system manuals would make zero sense. And I’d like to be able to as-semble my computer by myself, thank you.

On that note, the liberal arts majors aren’t lazy. I think a typical theater major would laugh hysterically if you accused him or her of such. Especially the people who work in the theater shop, who are incorrectly viewed as “too stupid to do anything else.” Do you know how much time and work a theater set can re-quire? The designers have to design the whole thing in a timely fashion. Then they have to communicate with the director, costume de-signers and lighting designer to make sure that nothing will conflict. After that, people have to build the set as quickly and accurately as possible. So, making a theater set requires a high amount of communication, cooperation and hard work.

“Hard work for little pay,” many might argue. Yes, that can be true for a liberal arts major, but guess what? Liberal arts majors aren’t typically in it for the money. Measur-ing your own worth by only your monetary status seems simplistic and destined to fail. The people who make com-ments about living in boxes or sleeping on the couch just don’t get it.

If everyone were in it for the money, then the liberal arts probably wouldn’t exist. Imagine a world where that was the case. No English, so no books or stories. No psy-

chology, so no understanding or studies of the personality and mind. No theater, so no plays or scripts. Would you really want to live in a world like that?

So, in case you missed it, this has been my formal request for people to shut up and leave the liberal arts alone. The world needs all kinds of people to grow and thrive.

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Oh no! Here comes another holiday season full of recy-cled Christmas songs. Most of which will be heard on an endless playlist at any shopping center. OK, Beach

Boys, it’s only Thanksgiving and I’ve heard “Little Saint Nick” three times al-ready. Frank Sinatra, your “White Christ-mas” has been exhausted. And please, somebody, for the love of everything good in this life, spare me another “Feliz Navidad” this holiday season.

Though we all enjoy these Christmas classics, it seems our culture’s apprecia-tion for Christmas music has fallen in a rut. Although we can sing most of these returning Christmas songs from memory, we aren’t hearing anything new. We are all subjected to these songs for a month over and over again. Some students have been listening to Christmas music since the beginning of November! So when does nostalgia become nausea? When does someone reach the point of pure disgust and uncontrollable disliking for America’s favorite Christmas songs?

Despite my concerns for the holiday music, I’m by no means the scrooge of the Christmas season, or a grinch. On the contrary, one might even go as far to say my appreciation for the holiday season is excessive. However, there comes a point where “Silver and Gold” loses a bit of its luster, along with the other repeated

Christmas songs. Why aren’t artists and musicians putting more effort into cre-ating a new cover of these memorable Christmas songs?

In all honesty, they really don’t have to. In the music business, if someone well-known, let’s use Frank Sinatra for an example, came out with a Christmas album, it doesn’t really seem to come down to what he did to change the song to make it his own. Radio stations will play his songs because he’s well-known, even though he sings it just as well as some other artist, such as Nat King Cole. Because classic artists are taking over the airwaves during the holidays, it’s diffi-cult to spot new artists who desire to per-sonalize a song, rather than sing it again. I desperately wish more musicians would change the song and personalize it, but sometimes that doesn’t happen. So where are these musicians who still personalize Christmas songs? Is there an undiscov-ered realm of Christmas music?

Don’t lose hope, holiday seekers! There is! It has been seen subtly in art-ists like Michael Buble and Coldplay, but is there more? How can one find new Christmas music that can fit each per-son’s individual tastes? Where can one eventually satisfy their musical taste with creative and brilliantly new music? Well, there isn’t exactly one method, or place, and it won’t be easy. However, the re-ward is refreshing and the risk will seem

nonexistent. These few tips can help you seek the realm you are looking for, and will allow you to “deck the halls” of your musical palette with new, exciting music.

1. Radio stations: I know it sounds daunting, and it can be, but radio sta-tions produce some great music if you know where to look. If you can find one song or genre of Christmas music that you like, you are good to go. While us-ing a radio when driving can be helpful, I don’t find it as effective as Internet radio. Sites such as Pandora or iTunes radio can be extremely helpful, not only because they’re very easy to use, but the amount of information needed to find great music is minimal. To further explain, with Pan-dora, you only need one of your favorite

Christmas songs to create the ultimate Christmas radio station. Along the way, you’ll also find plenty of new artists to satisfy your holiday needs.

To make the most of using an Internet radio station, I find that listening while studying or doing homework will help you find new artists without making finding new music feel like a chore. Just don’t get too distracted, especially since finals week is coming very quickly.

2. Your friends: Sometimes your pride and ignorance will prevent you from go-ing to your friends for help, but finding new Christmas music doesn’t have to be a solo mission. Perhaps your friends aren’t having a hard time finding great music. It only takes a conversation to strike up the love of everything Christmas and discov-er new music from your friends. If you use Spotify, your friends probably have already created new Christmas playlists, full of quality holiday cheer and glad tid-ings. Most of my friends have been up-dating their Christmas music for about a month. A little premature, yes, but they have perfected one heck of a playlist with that extra month.

For those who aren’t aware of this magical web application, Spotify is ba-sically iTunes with a twist. It’s free to download, and a majority of my friends have been using it for the past year. Spoti-fy makes finding new artists and making playlists hassle-free, and did I mention

you listen to their music for free? Overall, Spotify is a highly recommended source to find great holiday music, along with any other music that you enjoy.

3. Compilations: One method many holiday enthusiasts aren’t too famil-iar with is compilation albums. Though sometimes hard to find, compilation al-bums will usually have a bunch of great artists giving a much needed edge to existing Christmas music, and will defi-nitely spruce up the Christmas mood. Such examples can include any of Tooth and Nail’s “Happy Christmas” albums or Concord Music’s “Holidays Rule.”

If not compilation albums, look for artists releasing new Christmas albums. You’ll be astonished by the amount of bands coming out with new Christmas albums such as Sufjan Stevens or even August Burns Red. Both entirely different sounding, but both are comprised of great new ways to enjoy Christmas music.

Christmas music can, once again, be interesting to listen to, but you may need to search a little bit. Also, it’s ok if you’re starting to get sick of the same old, re-cycled Christmas music. It’s about time! With these few extra hints, savor the next month of non-stop, repeated Christmas songs by adding a few new hits.

marc marean is a sophomore secondary educaTion major.

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W hen University of Nebraska-Linco ln music professor Di-ane Barger began her

relationship with the clarinet as a girl, not only did it stimulate her love of music but her social life as well.

“I was a very shy little girl,” she said. “Getting into music helped me become less of an in-trovert. It was something I was good at and got recognition for throughout the years, and I just enjoyed it.”

Barger began playing the clarinet when she was 7. After playing throughout middle and high school, she went to college for music and has been a profes-sor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for 18 years.

Barger will be showcasing her years of experience at a pub-lic concert Tuesday at 7:30 p.m at Kimball Recital Hall.

Though she originally felt or-chestral performance was more her speed, Barger realized she wanted to be a teacher as she con-tinued through school and held

private lessons.“I never once thought, ‘Oh,

no, this was a mistake going into music’ just because I loved it so much,” Barger said.

Her first semester at UNL was fall of 1994, Barger’s first job after receiving her doctorate.

“I can’t fathom finding a bet-ter fit for me,” Barger said. “I’ve been to enough other campuses and seen other faculties, and we are so fortunate here that we re-ally truly get along so well to-gether.”

Throughout her time at UNL and as part of the musical community in Lincoln, she has played with the Lincoln Sym-phony Orchestra, and she is a part of the Moran Woodwind Quintet.

“I could fulfill both of those passions, teaching and perform-ing in orchestra, solo and cham-ber music,” Barger said.

Barger’s recital will include four pieces composed by Scott McAllister. She has person-ally worked with McAllister throughout her years playing

clarinet and recently recorded an album of his music, which was released last August.

“You can tell that I really have an affinity for Scott’s mu-sic,” Barger said.

During her recital, Barger is going to address the audience regarding each piece instead of having program notes.

“I’m going to try not to go overboard, but I’m going to try and demonstrate a couple of things that (McAllister) does in his music so (the audience is) better informed while they lis-ten,” she said.

For three of the four pieces Barger will be performing, she will have accompaniment. UNL professors Mark Clinton and Kate Butler worked with Barg-er on the album and will be on stage with her Tuesday night.

A couple of the pieces call for a bassoon player and Barger has asked the only bassoon profes-sor at UNL, Jeff McCray, to per-form with her.

“Jeff was the obvious choice. Plus, he’s fabulous,” Barger

said.Barger enlisted a Lincoln

Public Schools band teacher Lori Falcone to handle accordion du-ties on McAllister’s song “Pol-ango.”

“The fact that one of my friends played accordion, and she actually owns two, that’s pretty amazing,” Barger said.

Falcone is excited for the op-portunity to play accordion pub-licly with classical musicians.

“It’s not very often you get to play the accordion in a so-called ‘legit’ environment,” Falcone said.

The piece itself showcases music of the polka and tango musical styles.

“You can’t think of polka music without an accordion,” Falcone said. “It’s the voice and the color that’s there.”

Barger ’s favorite piece she will be performing is “X3.” The music is inspired by Deep Purple’s song “Smoke on the Water.”

“It makes me so happy to play it because we’re all three

just rocking out at the end,” Barger said.

With these semi-regular re-citals, Barger and other UNL music faculty are used to the juggling act that comes with teaching, preparing students for performance and practicing for a personal recital all at the same time.

“That’s the norm; we’re used to it,” Barger said. “I’m playing music that I know and love, and I’m playing it with great friends. I’m just ready to have a good time.”

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uNL alumnus pens ‘country noir’ novel ‘Life of Pi’ displays potent life lessons in beautiful color

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While in graduate school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Frank Wheeler, Jr., devoted nearly every Saturday for an entire semes-ter to writing the first draft of his first novel, “The Wowzer.”

Years later, that hard work is paying off.

Recently published by Thomas and Mercer, “The Wowzer” follows the story of Jerry, the county sher-iff’s deputy who also works as the muscle for local drug traffickers.

Raised in the Arkansas Ozarks, where legends abound of a mys-terious panther-like creature that decapitates anyone who wanders too far into the woods, Jerry is do-ing his best to get out of trafficking when things get complicated.

The Daily Nebraskan sat down with Wheeler to discuss his first novel and what it takes to convince readers to identify with a socio-pathic protagonist who doesn’t al-ways do the right thing.

Daily Nebraskan: Let’s talk about the main character, Jerry. I read that he was initially going to be a minor character in another story. What was it about Jerry that made you realize he should be a

main character?Frank Wheeler, Jr.,: It’s a very

different kind of story, but Jerry

popped up as a minor character in (my first book, “Razorback.”) I ended up writing a short story

with Jerry as the main character, and in the short story I decided, “I need to do a lot more with this,” and I turned it into the first draft of “The Wowzer.” He’s lively. He’s a lot of fun. Writing in the first per-son through his voice, for me, was very much like trying to recapture the storytelling style of my great uncles from the Arkansas Ozarks. It’s very much like listening to them talk. It was a lot of fun for me to do that.

DN: In your interview with Shotgun Honey you talked about creating believable sociopathic characters. What goes into making a character that you said “needed to seem like a guy you’d want to have on your bowling team, but only because of what you don’t know about him”? How do you make a character that most people would consider the bad guy into a sympathetic character?

FW: From (Jerry’s) perspec-tive, he’s not (a bad guy). From his perspective, he is a sympa-thetic character. I guess it’s just a matter of getting the reader to identify with that character. I think first person really does help. It really makes that easier. You can certainly do it in third person, but I think it is easier to do it in first person.

DN: How does writing crime fiction differ from other genres?

FW: (Crime fiction) is a big, big category. As far as what I

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“Life of Pi” is a beautiful film. It’s 3D, but it isn’t some

post-production conversion money grab. Director Ang Lee uses the new technology in mes-merizing fashion, deploying it to show both the beauty and the savagery of nature.

Our young protagonist is Pi, short for Piscine Molitor – a French swimming pool that so enraptured his uncle that his father bestowed the name upon the boy.

Pi was born in a zoo in In-dia and raised by a comforting mother and pessimistic, secu-lar father. Despite his father’s qualms, Pi finds religion. He becomes obsessed with the suf-fering of Jesus Christ and the conundrum of why God would send an innocent man to die

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While the importance of classical literature is obvious, the way these important works are presented to wider audiences has changed thanks to technology.

Familiarity with books such as “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “The Three Musketeers” and the stories of the Grimm Brothers is no longer a given. Instead, it is much more likely for someone to be familiar with only the basic aspects of these stories with the help of popular television shows and movies.

While these adaptations may, indeed, bring classics to a wider au-dience, the nature of their transla-tion dilutes their impact and often fails to communicate the intentions and themes of these classic works of literature.

According to TV by the Num-bers, the top three broadcast dra-mas for November 2012 Sweeps

were “Once Upon a Time,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Revenge,” all three of which are based on or hint at classic books.

“Once Upon a Time” was the No. 1 broadcast drama this month and no network television show has incorporated more elements of classical literature. Somehow, the writers have been able to success-fully tie in dozens of plot lines from various stories with characters including Rumpelstiltskin, Belle, Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White.

The strange thing about this show is how much they have changed the stories. Each story has stood alone for years, but putting them together has somehow made them even more magical. The idea of a secret realm of fairy tales that exists in a parallel universe is not a new concept, but the way it has been executed in this series is phe-nomenal.

Unfortunately, the writers may

have changed too many details about some of our most beloved characters to make the plots mesh well. Mulan is suddenly in a dicey romance with Sleeping Beauty’s man, among other issues, mak-ing the stories seem so distinct at times that it can be hard to remember who each character is supposed to be.

Another show that tried (and often failed) to weave in various narratives throughout its long run was “Lost.” Throughout all six extremely popular seasons, the writers hinted at classic stories and historical events – particu-larly through character names like John Locke and Charlotte Staples Lewis.

Before the release of one epi-sode, a co-writer for the episode revealed to the media that anyone who had read “The Third Police-man” would be better equipped to understand the over-arching plot of “Lost.” This makes it clear that, while their preferred medium is clearly visual, many writers for the screen are still relying on au-diences having at least some lit-erary background to understand their work.

Lloyd Braun, the head of ABC at the time of the series’ concep-tion, wanted “Lost” to be based on,

among other things, “Lord of the Flies” and the movie “Cast Away.”

But maybe the writers, directors and producers should have con-sidered the idea that less is more. “Lost” was so full of hints that most viewers found it hard to keep track of characters, let alone who their real-life or liter-ary counterpart was supposed to be.

The new show “Re-venge,” based on Alexandre Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo,” kept it simple by focusing on one classic novel.

While the main character has switched genders, from the count to a young woman, the basic prem-ise is similar and plainly stated: re-venge.

Set in modern times, “Revenge” does a good job of illustrating what it would be like if Dumas’ novel took place in the upper circles of American society.

This reimagining of a classic novel to enhance its relevance is what makes it such a success, es-pecially since the ideas of jealousy, anger and betrayal are some of the

most human emotions we have.While it is a great program to

watch, there are so many nuances and subtleties more difficult to exhibit in a television show than a novel. Some of Dumas’ original ideas and feelings have been lost in

translation.Based on the high

approval ratings for these shows, it’s clear we still want to experi-ence the basic elements of classical literature, so much so that we are willing to spend hours watching television shows based on these

books.Fortunately, although they do

have their issues, these shows are able to make some of our most im-portant stories relevant in today’s world and successfully eliminate the idea that these plots are no lon-ger important in our society.

How technology will change the classics in the future is unclear, but what is clear is that even if no one reads them, the work of these authors will not be forgotten in years to come.

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Dubstep and guns go well to-gether. There’s something in the sick, jarring distortions of audio that, with each “drop,” embrace the sharp explosion of a weapon’s discharge.

And when they sync, driv-ing two elite soldiers through a moody nightclub, evading ter-rorist fire with military chore-ography, dancing to the “wubs,” “chubs” and, of course, “dubs,” something magical happens.

“Call of Duty: Black Ops II” clearly understands this.

A quasi-sequel to developer Treyarch’s first Vietnam War-era story, “Black Ops II,” brings the narrative into the year 2025. Here, technology, media and dubstep have developed extensively, set-ting the stage for a world catastro-phe when the game’s antagonist, Raul Menendez, compromises the United States’ military network and takes control of its drone fleet.

Players direct several people throughout, including Menen-dez, but the hero is David Mason, son of the main character from the first “Black Ops,” Alex Ma-son. Both play a pivotal role in a plot that disjoints itself between a 1980s secret operations thread and its current state of warfare. The back-and-forth story, ac-cented by shifting player perspec-tives, establishes the intricacies of how the main characters are related: a move that succeeds in

heightening the stakes, but one that muddies the details of the story too.

Branching storylines freshen the “Call of Duty” campaign and fit very well within its scripted confines. Decisions, some blatant, some more subtle, must be made by players and push the story in unexpected ways. This causes a degree of uncertainty in the se-quence of linear shootouts that make up most of “Call of Duty,” a welcome breeze in what has be-come a stifling experience. Mul-tiple endings and the option to customize gear and abilities for each mission add more replay value than previous entries have achieved.

However, these transitions between timelines feel abrupt and, at several moments, forced. Many scenes (Dubstep shootout, this is you.) breach the edge of ridiculousness as if such a line never existed, and while they can be entertaining to watch, a lot of times there’s just too much of exactly that, watching. Control is streamlined to a fault in several instances, coaxing and guiding players wherever, whenever the game dictates.

Generally, the mass appeal of the series lies not in its single-player campaign, but in its online multiplayer.

“Black Ops II” features a full suite of new weapons, maps, futuristic attachments and a re-vamped “Create-A-Class” system for players to individualize their experience in more varied ways.

These are all fine aspects for players with money to spare, but, sometimes, “Black Ops II” can’t escape feeling like a $60 ex-pansion pack. Anyone who has played a “Call of Duty” prior to this will feel much at home. Play-ers shoot their way through short, intense matches, chasing experi-ence points and tiered unlockable guns and abilities. This sort of dangling carrot, combined with extensive stat tracking and social options, create a deep, engrossing system of reward and competi-

tion, but it’s almost the same one we’ve played since 2007.

This can leave some players feeling gypped. Why buy this one when last year’s was just as good?

In a way, Treyarch presents an argument for its releases with the wonderfully quirky coopera-tive universe, “Zombies.” This is the third game to include the mode and easily the most ambi-tious. Not only can players fight for survival in the classic, round-based mode, but now there’s a gametype that connects all the unique locations in one sprawling experiment.

“Tranzit” includes the three “Survival” arenas, as well as mys-terious landmarks hidden in a fog throughout. A bus driven by a limbless robot travels the darkly humorous world allowing players to visit and explore for the many secrets, Easter eggs and craftable items. As it always has, “Zom-bies” creates some of the most memorable characters, lore and moments shared between friends online and on the couch in the en-tire series.

“Black Ops II” presents a dif-ficult decision to buyers. On one hand, players know they’re get-ting a relatively similar experi-ence. On the other, the game is a value pack, essentially providing three complete forms of entertain-ment. Tired of the old maps and curious for a new story? This is your game. If only the zombies danced, too.


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The odds were near zero that any filmmaker could gain access to one of humanity’s most carefully guard-ed accomplishments: Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, home of by far the earliest preserved human art.

More unlikely still is that direc-tor Werner Herzog would be the most capable of turning such a doc-umentary into a spiritual experience or that he could pull it off in magnif-icent 3D. Most unlikely of all is that this art was preserved so pristinely in the first place.

Against the odds, all these fac-tors come together in “Cave of For-gotten Dreams,” a film sometimes weighed down by Herzog’s mys-tical perspective but a stunningly beautiful achievement all the same.

Herzog petitioned the French government for access to the cave, which has only been visited by a small group of scholars since its dis-covery in 1994. The paintings in this cave were preserved only because of a chance landslide, which sealed the cave completely more than 20,000 years ago.

It’s a remarkably fragile eco-system, requiring special light sys-tems and an intricate two-foot-wide walkway. The limited crew is al-lowed only a few hours in the cave each day in order to protect the pre-cious air supply.

Inside are dozens of sprawling cave paintings dating back approxi-mately 32,000 years. The extended shots make the journey through the cave less like a museum visit and more like sitting in on the making of spiritual art, helped along by a haunting cello score.

The Paleolithic painters layered

slightly different images on top of each other to give a sense of move-ment, which Herzog’s narration accurately compares to “proto-cine-ma.” There’s something inspiringly full-circle about utilizing the best of modern 3D technology — still in its infancy — to glorify the still-impressive height of prehistoric technology.

The paintings themselves are fascinating and near otherworldly. Symbols of fertility, depictions of hunts, and even sexual encounters between man and animal (a re-searcher explains the blurred lines between animal, human and plant in ancient times) are represented in vivid, sophisticated detail.

In typical Herzog fashion, the director tracks down a number of

offbeat perspectives to exemplify a sense of humanity within the explo-ration team. A scientist explains his beginnings as a circus performer. A researcher plays “The Star-Spangled Banner” from a vulture-bone flute.

Sometimes the questions are grand and spiritual, sometimes mischievous and quirky, and it’s never clear what direction he’ll go at any time. Herzog interviews his subjects with an almost child-like eagerness and curiosity. At one point, he instructs the crew to be absolutely silent, and the next few minutes are spent simply listening to water drip and the cameraman’s heart beat.

While this curiosity makes the film into the passionate statement it is, Herzog sometimes stretches this awe too thin. Most of his narra-tion is genuine poetry, such as his explanation of a child’s footprint preserved next to a wolf’s, with no way to tell if they were literally side-by-side or separated by thousands of years.

Other ruminations on the nature of the soul and humanity, however, such as a tie to albino crocodiles, are endearing but tedious. Though only 95 minutes, the documentary is about 10 minutes too long.

“Cave of Forgotten Dreams” has been available on Netflix in 2D for the last year, but this is a film abso-lutely worth the 3D experience. The contours, twists and turns of the sta-lagmites and cave walls beg for this technology and Herzog’s long shots and careful attention to detail make the best of it. Even the best photos and videos of cave art are complete-ly static compared to Herzog’s dy-namic and hauntingly alive vision.


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write – people call it country noir or hardboiled country noir – I guess the difference is your good guy doesn’t have to be so much of a good guy.

DN: I read that you were drawn to writing this kind of fic-tion because of Hitchcock and other artists like him. What was it about those characters or mov-ies that really drew you in to that genre?

FW: It was something I kept coming back to. You watch

enough of a certain kind of movie as a kid, and that’s going to end up being the way you want to tell stories. I guess I like the bad guys. There’s something about the vil-lains in the Hitchcock movies. They were sociopaths. That’s the thing that they have in common. The thing that drew me in to this genre was (that) for somebody who has a conscience, the idea of not having a conscience seems like a very free-ing thing – like some kind of bur-den would be lifted. Obviously,

if you think about that for very long, the reality becomes very dif-ferent. But just the notion of not having that constraint, the idea of not being burdened by guilt, that sort of fantasy of not having that burden of guilt is one thing that re-ally drew me toward that.

DN: You wrote a new book that is set in Nebraska that is under sub-mission. What can you tell us about that?

FW: It’s a similar genre I call more western than country. It’s

about a small town in Nebraska, about a sheriff there and sort of the job that he does – legal and otherwise. It’s a fictional town, but it’s very near where I grew up. It draws a lot from some Western … motifs I guess, the cowboy being one.

DN: Is there any word of a “Wowzer” sequel?

FW: I’ve been working on that. We’ll see what happens.


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We tend to keep our minds closed to anything potentially uncom-fortable. It’s almost a defense mechanism that keeps our bodies and minds safe from the count-less wonders of the world that are sometimes easier to ignore than to try to understand. “Pina” is one of those wonders. It will make the viewer uncomfortable, but that might be all the more reason to go see it.

“Pina,” which is now showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center in 3D, chronicles the life and work of German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009 of cancer only days before shooting for this film began. Directed by prominent German documentary producer Wim Wenders, a cast of 33 dancers performs and discusses Bausch’s choreography. They quote Bausch and remember personal stories from decades of dancing with her.

The documentary itself is clean and modern-feeling, and the 3D only added depth to the danc-ers’ performances. Organized into segments of Bausch’s best works and divided by short interviews with the dancers, “Pina” high-lighted a novel career to an uned-ucated viewer. By the end of the

film, the viewer realizes through the words and movement of her dancers what kind of person Bausch was.

Even to s o m e b o d y who is famil-iar with dance, the choreogra-phy through-out the movie was sometimes a v a n t - g a r d e and lengthy to the point of minor distrac-tion. If one is able to focus and appreciate it, the movie is thought-provoking and provides images most likely never dupli-cated due to the sheer creativity of the pieces.

Stages covered in dirt, stacked

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which Bausch’s clas-sical modern styling called Tanztheatre came to life, all in Bausch’s hometown of Germany.

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Throughout the film, some of the dancers comment that Bausch should have danced her own cho-reography more often. It wasn’t un-til the last scene of the movie that the audience gets to see old film of Bausch subtly moving to a record-ing of “Ave Maria.” This is when the movie comes full circle.

The real threat to any viewer of this movie is the out-of-the-box concepts rarely seen in any main-stream dance we are familiar with. Taking the time and brain power to just attempt to understand the questions about life raised by the dance in this movie might not feel right, but will reward with a new view of the art form.


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sold zoo animals when a violent storm sinks the ship and leaves Pi stranded in the middle of the ocean with a hyena, an orang-utan, a zebra and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. In con-tinually heartbreaking fashion for the vegetarian and animal lover Pi, the food chain is displayed in clear terms, and we’re left with Parker and Pi, adrift.

The story is told through flashbacks as adult Pi (Irrfan Khan) tells a writer (Rafe Spall) the incredible story that is his life. The flashback is a well-worn sto-rytelling technique, but it’s used effectively here as Khan and Spall have a heartfelt authenticity that lends credence to Pi’s unbeliev-able story. Their scenes together bookend the film, giving the audi-ence a breather after the long slog on the ocean.

Suraj Sharma (who plays Pi for bulk of his journey) does a tre-mendous job of conveying both Pi’s inner battle with his faith and more overt battle on the boat with Richard Parker. A viewer can’t help but root for Pi to somehow make it out alive. His pluck and resourcefulness are infectious. Lee and the rest of the technical crew even manage to make the tiger relatable, as he gradually wastes away at sea.

While Pi and Parker share an uneasy relationship on the boat, Lee’s hand is always steady.

Because the bulk of the film is set in the middle of nowhere, it could drag or become tedious in spots, yet it almost never does. Nearly every scene has a differ-ent color palette. We see the boat floating serenely on the water as the sun rises and casts a bril-

liant orange glow over the world. At night, jellyfish illuminate the ocean from below and give us an unworldly, ultraviolet blue.

“Life of Pi” has an amazing visual style worth seeing in 3D, even if you’re a skeptic. It’s not just an empty spectacle, however,

as it explores how life lessons as a boy can make a man, how faith shapes us for better and worse and how a belief in something bigger than yourself can be a very powerful thing.


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movie prompts viewers to look at dance beyond the mainstream concept the real

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senior, he watched him warm up. After watching a couple of cuts by the I-back, Brown asked Burkhead if he was ready to go. Burkhead, with a thick brace on his left knee, said he has been ready all season.

“He said, ‘I want to run,’” Brown said. “We felt like he could be a boost for us and he ran like a beast.”

Burkhead trotted on the field to start the second half and converted a key fourth down to give kicker Brett Maher the chance he needed to cut the Hawkeye lead to 7-6 early in the third quarter.

On the Husk-ers’ next posses-sion, Burkhead rolled into the end zone to give Nebraska the go-ahead.

When the Huskers started a drive on their own 1-yard line in the fourth quar-ter with the wind blowing in their face, he carried five Hawkeye defenders on his back and wasn’t tackled until he reach the 11-yard line for a first down.

Later in the fourth quarter, Burkhead caught a Taylor Martinez pass on the outside, faked back to the mid-dle of the field and ran past an Iowa defender stepping passed the first down marker once again.

He finished with 75 second half yards of total offense. Ne-braska’s offense as a whole fin-ished with 171 second half yards.

Burkhead provided just enough offensive to boost his team to Indianapolis and a chance for a Big Ten Champi-onship in his final season as a Husker.

“The other guys were run-

ning well too, but I thought it was something that would give us an emotional boost,” Pelini said. “He’s a huge part of our team and gives an emotional lift. He gives us another weapon. Rex just gives us another ele-ment.”

It hasn’t been the senior year Burkhead wanted. As a junior, Burkhead rushed 284 times for 1,357 yards, earning All-Big Ten

honors. Entering the 2012 season, Burkhead had high expecta-tions.

After injur-ing his left knee on his third carry of the year, it wasn’t meant to be for the senior. That didn’t mean he wasn’t going to battle in his fi-nal regular season game as a Husker.

“I missed be-ing out there,” Burkhead said af-ter Friday’s win. “It was fun to get out with the guys again.”

B u r k h e a d found Brown in the middle of Kin-nick Stadium af-ter the game. The two embraced, knowing the sig-nificance of Ne-braska’s win and Burkhead’s play.

“He’s a great leader,” Brown said. “He’s been steadfast the whole time. A lot of times people think injured players are out of it. Even when he’s not in there he’s studying film or meeting with other players. Any time he came in practice he ran as hard as he could. It wasn’t like he was a slouch.

“There were times when you thought he was going to go down and he was able to move the pile. He has a tremendous energy and a spirit that is unde-niable.”

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head has to offer, otherwise he wouldn’t have put him in.

“I thought it was something that would give us an emotional boost,” Pelini said. “He’s a huge part of our team and gives an emotional lift.”

But Burkhead only gets one glorious return. There can be only one moment when the crusty vet-eran walks back on to the field, one moment when spines tingle.

Pelini exhausted his secret

weapon – the element of surprise.It’s hard to say what would’ve

happened if the Huskers were leading at halftime against Iowa. Some would think that Pelini would’ve hung on to Burkhead and saved his triumphant return

for a motivational tool in the Big Ten title game, and I tend to agree.

Still, Pelini didn’t have much of a choice. He had to play Bur-khead, he had to get his team go-ing.

With Burkhead expected to

play a full game against Wiscon-sin, his return will not come as a surprise, but that doesn’t mean that the team won’t rally around the senior and continue to play with that same “it” factor.

The one thing we know for sure: The Badgers will see it coming.

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“Those were tough conditions out there,” Pelini said. “I don’t know if we played our best, but we did what we had to do, got it done. I’m proud of our team.”

Pelini thought quarterback Taylor Martinez and the rest of the Husker offense managed the conditions well. Martinez played the majority of Saturday’s game with gloves on both his hands because of the cold. He said he couldn’t grip the ball without them.

Pelini applauded the quarter-back’s ability to throw accurately despite wearing gloves and deal-ing with a strong wind.

“You know Taylor actually throws a pretty good wind ball,” the coach said. “He throws such a tight spiral, and he throws into the wind a lot. We practice in it.”

Even with Martinez throwing well into the wind, the Huskers relied heavily on their ground game to make way offensively. Martinez and running back Ameer Abdullah combined to carry the ball 30 times on the afternoon.

In the second half, their ef-forts were joined by those of Rex Burkhead. The senior came off the bench to carry the ball 14 times for 69 yards and the decisive score in the third quarter. Pelini said he put Burkhead in to get his offense go-ing.

“He was chomping at the bit, and I thought it would be a boost to our team, a mental boost for us,” Pelini said. “I went into the game thinking that we would only play him if we needed him, and we did.”

Burkhead helped drain the clock for the Huskers in the fourth quarter with a few physical runs. The senior had defenders hanging on him on a few occasions.

“There were times where he just carried the pile,” said Ron Brown, Husker running backs coach. “There was a bunch of guys, and he just went right in there with them and carried them three, four, five yards. He’s got a willingness to win, a desire, and a spirit.”

The Nebraska win brings on the biggest game of the season for the team next weekend in India-napolis.

“We haven’t accomplished what we came here to accomplish yet,” Martinez said. “That’s a Big Ten title, so that’s what we are go-ing to go get.”


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Huskers drop final game of tourney

Nebraska wins seesaw battle with USC

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In his first season as the Nebraska men’s basketball coach, Tim Miles is bound to experience a number of firsts this season. Miles picked up his first win at Nebraska against Southern, 66-55, which also resulted in his first double digit victory.

But his victorious track is over four games later.

After defeating Tulane 61-57 on Wednesday, the Huskers (4-1) saw their win streak snapped with a 74-60 loss against Kent State in the final game of the Joe Cipriano Nebraska Classic.

The Golden Flashes’ hot shooting led to the first loss, ac-cording to Miles.

“I thought they did a great job with their offensive execution,” he said. “I can question our effort all I want, but at the end of the day they made some great plays. I thought they executed very well.”

Both teams began Saturday’s matchup with back-and-forth lead changes through the first 20 minutes. Nebraska closed out the first half with an 8-2 run to go into the locker room with a 33-32 lead at halftime.

Senior Dylan Talley led the

Nebraska offensive surge in the first half with 17 points. His final two shots lifted Nebraska’s team offensive shooting percentage to 45.8 percent before the break.

It felt like the momentum was on the Huskers side heading into the locker room, Talley said.

“I felt good about the game,” the guard said. “I felt like we didn’t come out with the spark we should have in the first half, and then we came back and got into it.”

Despite finishing the game with a career-high 27 points, the second half was all about Kent State.

Nebraska’s one-point lead would be short-lived after KSU forward Chris Evan keyed a 10-2 run to put his team up 42-35.

“We just didn’t come out with the spark in the second half. They

were on the attack all 40 min-utes,” Talley said.

Although NU out-blocked its opponent 3-1 and out-rebounded KSU 34-27, the offense was held to 33.3 percent shooting, going 9 for 27, in the second half. The Golden Flashes 60 percent shoot-ing was more than enough as they outscored NU 42-27 in the second half to pick up the team’s fourth win of the season.

KSU guard Darren Goodson shot 8 for 10 in just 17 minutes off the bench. Evans team-leading 19 points assisted in handing NU’s first loss of the 2012-2013 cam-paign.

“This was a great team effort for us, coming on the road and getting the win against a Big Ten school,” KSU coach Rob Senderoff said. “Great win for us and our program.”

Miles said the Golden Flashes’ ability to get into the paint made the difference.

“We knew that (Evans) was going to post up a whole bunch,” he said. “He was tough, and the Goodson kid was the guy who was averaging three or four points per game that they had expectations for. We just let some guys hurt us who hadn’t been do-ing those things.

“I thought from the games that I’ve seen, and I’ve seen most of their games, that this was their best game and their most com-plete game.”

After going 3-1 in the Joe Cipriano Classic, the Huskers will hit the road for the first time Tuesday when they travel to Wake Forest for the ACC/Big Ten Chal-lenge.

Talley, who posted more than 20 points for the second time this season, said the Huskers must im-prove on defensive before its first road match Tuesday.

“As a team it wasn’t how it should have been … it is not how we practiced it,” he said. “That’s on the players and me as a se-nior, we got to do better than that. There is no excuse to come out like. We have to do better.”


morgan spiehs | dnHusker guard dylan Talley drives against kent state in his squad’s 74-60 loss to kent state on saturday. nebraska shot 33.3 percent in the second half as ksU outscored nU 42-27 in the final game of the Joe cipriano nebraska classic were 3-1 during the tourney.

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We have to play with some fire in the second half.

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Nebraska women’s basketball was thankful for one thing this week-end in Los Angeles: All-American candidate Lindsey Moore.

Down by five against South-ern California late in the second half, Moore took it upon herself to lead the Husker charge into the final minutes, scoring 17 of her 23 points in the final six minutes to lead the comeback and help the Huskers steal a win against USC 74-65.

No. 23 Nebraska (5-1) and USC (2-2) went back and forth all afternoon, and battled in spurts. It was a game of runs by each team in the second half, first by Nebras-ka, who trailed 33-29 at halftime. The Huskers came out hot, open-ing up an eight point lead after a 17-2 run, which was capped off by a three-point play by Hooper with just under 14 minutes in the half.

But USC didn’t fall back, and instead responded with a 15-0 run for the next four minutes, claim-ing a 57-52 lead over Nebraska after Ariya Crook’s nailed a big 3-point shot, which was followed quickly by a Nebraska timeout.

Crook finished with 25 points, but didn’t get much help from anyone else. Nebraska, on the oth-er hand, had three players with at least 14 points, including Moore’s 23, All-American Jordan Hooper added 19 and sophomore Emily Cady added 14.

After USC’s 15-point run, nei-ther team lead for more than two or three for a few minutes. But after NU sophomore Tear’a Lau-

dermill nailed a 3-pointer from the right wing with one second left on the shot clock, momentum swung back to the Huskers. From there, freshman guard Rachel Theriot stole the ball, and found Cady on the block for a contested layup that fell through. And just like that, the Huskers had a three point lead 66-63 with 1:24 left. Moore scored the teams final four buckets and closed out the vic-tory.

Free throw shooting kept the

Huskers alive throughout the game. Nebraska has drastically improved over the course of the season, as NU coach Connie Yori predicted, as the Huskers shot 28 for 32 from the stripe. Moore shot 13-15 from the line.

The Huskers had a mild day from the floor, shooting 43 per-cent for the day, including 13 of 25 in the second half, and dominat-ed the defensive end, forcing 15 turnovers. Excluding Crook’s five 3-point baskets, Nebraska held

USC to just two 3-pointers. The comeback victory sends

Nebraska home and into their matchup with No. 10 Maryland on Wednesday with a boost of confidence. Maryland (2-1) is first AP top 25 team on their schedule, will be Nebraska’s toughest oppo-nent thus far. Tip-off is at 7 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. It will be broadcast on Big Ten Net-work.


matt masin | dnnU point guard lindsey moore was instrumental in her squad’s 74-65 win against Usc on saturday. moore led the Huskers with 23 points and four assists in 34 minutes of action.

Huskers clinch back-and-forth game against Trojans on the road

Pelini didn’t have much of a choice. He had to play burkhead, he had to get his

team going.”

“He’s a great leader. He’s

been steadfast the whole time. a lot of times people think injured players are out of it. even when he’s not in there he’s studying film or meeting with other players. any time he came in practice he ran as hard as he could. it wasn’t like he was a slouch.”

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matt masin | dnnebraska volleyball player Hannah Werth celebrates her Husker career before nebraska’s 3-0 sweep of northwestern on saturday, which was senior night.

Cook said he’s excited to see his team continue its winning momentum in its first match Thursday.

“Our theme’s been unfin-ished business and it looks like we have another opportunity to finish up some business,” Cook said.

Werth agrees with her coach.“I think we’re at a point in

time where it’s something that we don’t necessarily need to talk about,” she said. “Just ac-tions and follow through with our word and our commitment that we said in the beginning. It’s very exciting that we don’t get this opportunity to prove it.”

The winners of the two opening matches will face off Friday at 7 p.m., and the winner will advance to the Omaha Re-gional the following weekend.

Hubl said she’s thrilled to stay in Nebraska for the tourna-ment and added she’s hoping

her time as a Husker won’t end any time soon.

“The home court advantage at the Coliseum and in Omaha is unlike anywhere else in the country,” she said. “We’re going to have to use that to our advan-tage. First round’s not going to be easy, second round’s not go-ing to be easy, so we’re taking it game by game this year.”

After winning its last five out of six matches, Werth said she and her teammates feel comfortable heading into the postseason.

“I feel like we’re getting into that room and groove as a team,” she said. “Everyone un-derstands their roles and I think that’s really important.”

“There’s six possible match-es left and we’re taking serious-ly but still enjoying volleyball and realizing what we need to do in order to get it done.”


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Lauren Cook, Paige Hubl, Gina Mancuso, Allison McNeal and Hannah Werth ran out on the court for their last regular season match at home.

After sweep-ing Iowa 3-0 on Wednesday (25-12, 25-16, 25-8), the No. 10 Nebraska volleyball team defeated North-western 3-1 (25-15, 25-22, 20-25, 25-21) in its final regular season match at the NU Coliseum.

“(Senior Night) was a very diffi-cult night,” said NU coach John Cook. “There’s a lot of distractions with Senior Night, last home game in the Coliseum and we played a team that has no fear. But we found a way and made some big serves

and blocks when we needed it and sided out well enough to win that match.”

On Sunday afternoon, the volleyball team found out they’d spend the opening week-end of the postseason for the ninth straight season back at the

NU Coliseum. The Huskers’ home court was chosen as one of 16 sites for the NCAA first and second-round tourna-ment beginning next weekend. Play will be-gin Thursday with a 4:30 p.m. matchup be-tween Kansas State (21-8) and Northern Iowa

(24-9). Nebraska, the overall No. 4 seed, will take on Mary-land (28-5) at 7 p.m.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Rex Burk-head found Ron Brown in the mid-dle of Kinnick Stadium’s field after Friday’s win over Iowa.

The two embraced, knowing the significance of Nebraska’s win: It gave the Huskers a berth to the Big Ten Championship.

The Nebraska coaching staff had hesitated on whether to play I-back Rex Burkhead in Friday’s game against Iowa. The senior had missed the last four games with a left knee injury.

NU coach Bo Pelini in particu-lar remained cautious on playing Burkhead, ideally wanting to wait a week to play him even though he was available to play, Brown said.

“He knew the deal,” Brown said. “If we needed him to play it would depend on if he could warm up and be prepared.”

Nebraska struggled in the first half against Iowa, scoring three points and accumulating 92 yards of total offense after record-ing more than 400 yards against Minnesota last week. The Huskers trailed Iowa 7-3 at the half.

With a berth to the Big Ten Championship Game on the line, Pelini decided to play his senior running back.

Pelini went up to Brown before the third quarter started and sug-gested playing Burkhead.

Before Brown approached the

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Alonzo Whaley sat back in coverage, reading the eyes of Iowa quarter-back James Vandenberg.

In the fourth quarter of Nebraska’s 13-6 win against Iowa, the senior linebacker was looking for a chance to deliver the knockout blow. As Vandenberg’s eyes locked on his re-ceiver, Whaley saw his chance and stepped in front.

The linebacker picked off the pass and ef-fectively put a cap on his share of Nebraska’s first divisional title since 2010. With the win, the Huskers secured at least a share of Big Ten

Legends Division championship, and because they hold the tiebreaker as a result of beating Michigan, they will head to Indianapolis next Saturday for a matchup with Wisconsin. The divisional championship is only part of Ne-braska’s eventual goal, according to NU de-fensive line coach Rick Kaczenski.

“That’s great, but all that does is give us an opportunity to play for everything in Indy,” Kaczenski said. “That’s something that we set out to do six weeks ago, and a lot of people thought we were crazy. People thought Bo (Pelini) was a little bit left of center when

he said that after the Ohio State game, but the guys have stayed the course.”

Earlier this season, Pelini declared the Huskers must “win out” after the team’s dis-mal performance in a 63-38 loss to Ohio State, something they accomplished on Friday.

“When I said what we needed to do after Ohio State, you guys kind of looked at me like I was a crazy man,” Pelini said. “I probably thought maybe I was a crazy man at that time too, but I believe in this team.”

The Huskers have had to overcome a great deal of adversity in winning their last six

contests – including three come-from-behind wins – so it was no surprise when the Huskers found themselves down 7-3 to the Hawkeyes midway through Friday’s game.

The howling wind – sometimes gusting up to 40 mph – and temperatures in the 30s were giving Nebraska’s offense fits. The unit managed 263 yards of total offense on the afternoon and had an especially tough time through the air – they only mustered 63 pass-ing yards.

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morgan spiehs | dnHusker i-back rex burkhead embraces nU running backs coach ron brown following nebraska’s 13-7 win against iowa on friday. burkhead provided a spark off the bench in the second half.burkhead: See page 8

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You couldn’t have written it much better.

Nebraska trailed Iowa 7-3 at the half. A win would mean a bid to the Big Ten Champion-ship game. A loss would mean waiting a day to see what would happen with Michigan, facing an unbeaten Ohio State.

With 13:28 remaining in the third quarter, Nebraska needed a boost. It needed some spark to get the team moving – some mo-mentum toward a championship.

Husker coach Bo Pelini opted to deploy his secret weapon.

After missing the previous four games due to a lingering knee injury, Rex Burkhead, ac-companied by his black knee brace, trotted onto the field.

Nebraska’s running back, who ranks fifth in the country in yards per carry among backs with 50 or more attempts, led the Husker charge.

In his first drive back, Burk-head carried the ball five times, setting the Huskers up for a field goal. Two drives later, he found his way into the end zone, his first Big Ten rushing touchdown all season, to give his team a per-manent 13-7 lead.

Maybe it was the “Cardiac Cornhuskers” coming back for another helping of second-half heroics. Perhaps the team got a wake-up call at halftime and saw its Rose Bowl dreams fading away.

But it sure seemed like it was Rex taking over.

It wasn’t his stat line – 69 rushing yards and a touch-down – that stood out. When he stepped on the field, something changed about the team. There was a certain intangible, an “it” factor, that Burkhead brought to the field.

“It” made the line block bet-ter, “it” made the Huskers run stronger and push harder. “It” even made the defense play with more grit. When Burkhead came back to the field, the team changed.

There’s no good way to quan-tify what “it” is, but Burkhead clearly has it. Ameer Abdullah’s 1,000+ yards rushing this season have been immensely helpful – some say that the Huskers hardly felt the loss of Burkhead – but I say the team lost the “it” factor.

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Husker linebacker alonzo Whaley argues a call during nU’s 13-7 win against iowa on saturday. Whaley had a critical interception in the fourth quarter and a game-high 11 tackles in nebraska’s win.

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advantage at the coliseum and in omaha is unlike anywhere else in the country.”

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matt masin | dnnU quarterback Taylor martinez fights iowa tacklers during his squad’s win against iowa on friday. nU clinched the Heroes game Trophy with the win.

matt masin | dnHusker i-back rex burkhead lowers his shoulder for nU’s only touchdown in its 13-7 win against iowa on friday. burk-head rushed for 69 yards after coming in for the second half of nU’s come-from-behind win.

morgan spiehs | dnHusker safety daimion stafford tumbles after making an interception during nU’s 13-7 win against iowa on friday. The Huskers had two takeaways and held iowa to 200 yards of total offense.

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The number of trips nebraska has made to conference title games in the last four years. nU clinched its division for the third time in the last four seasons and its first time in the big Ten legends division with the win over iowa.

The official wind speed in mph for the game. With a game time temperature of 31 degrees, weather proved to be a factor in this slugfest, and hampered both nU and iowa’s effectiveness and balls were hard to handle.

The number of consecutive wins for nebraska. after bo Pelini said nU needed to “win out” to reach its goal, his players answered. The Huskers will be making their first trip to the big Ten championship game in school history because of the last six games.

The halftime point-deficit the Huskers faced. nebraska’s four points in the hole might not have been the biggest uphill battle the squad has faced all season, but it marked the fifth time the Huskers have come back from trailing a big Ten opponent this season.

The number of rushing yards for nebraska in the second half. after putting up an abysmal 68 yards on the ground in the first half, the Huskers doubled their run game production, largely behind the return of i-back rex burkhead.

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alfonzo whaleythe senior linebacker accumu-

lated a career-high 11 tackles and an interception in Nu’s big win. whaley has

struggled at points this season, but this game was far from a struggle. He contained Iowa’s rushing attack and helped tremendously in pass defense.

-robby korth, dn sports editor

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the senior came up big once again when his team needed him. after missing the last four games with a left knee injury, Burkhead recorded 75 yards of total offense and the Huskers’ only touchdown. His performance gave Nebraska the emotional boost needed to hold off Iowa’s upset bid.

-andrew ward, dn football beat writer

eric martinon a day where the wind was making it hard to throw, martin made it even harder. the senior defensive end was in the Iowa backfield most of the game wreaking havoc on Hawkeye quarterback James Vandenberg. martin recorded seven tackles – including three for a loss – on the game.

-lanny holstein, dn football beat writer

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