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DAILY NEBRASKANtuesday, october 11, 2011 volume 111, issue 037

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Since 2008, political fervor against govern-ment spending, mani-

fested by the Tea Party, has gained considerable influ-ence over national politics as the country struggles to reinvigorate its economy. And in that time, student financial aid, especially fed-eral Pell Grants, has repeat-edly become an attractive target for lawmakers trying to trim budgets.

If recently proposed changes in both houses of Congress become law, stu-dents, including several thousand at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will soon take another hit.

After the debt ceiling deal this summer, graduate stu-dents were already set to pay billions of dollars of additional interest on loans that will no longer be sub-sidized next year. That budget deci-sion left the Pell program with a short-fall of about $1 billion, a gap the Senate and House pro-posals both fill in very different ways.

Under a budget proposal released late last month by House Republicans, Pell Grants will keep their value, with a maximum of $5,550 per year. But changes in the program’s requirements would render hundreds of thousands of college

students in-eligible for the grants, though the exact number remains un-clear, and save more than $2 bil-lion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Among the House bud-get’s proposed changes:

- Pell Grant availability would drop from 18 semes-

ters to 12.- Students

a t t e n d i n g college less than half-time (typi-cally six credit hours) would be-come ineli-gible.

- Students who qualify for less than

10 percent of the maximum grant — $550 — would be-come ineligible.

- The maximum family in-come level for zero expect-ed contribution to the cost of college would drop from $30,000 to $15,000.

- Student income that

doesn’t a f f e c t f i n a n c i a l aid would d r o p f r o m a b o u t $9,000 to about $6,600.

The Democrat-majority Senate has released a rival plan that would instead only elimi-nate the grace period on un-dergraduate student loans; under current law, students don’t need to make pay-ments until six months af-ter graduation. Either plan would go into effect next summer.

“I still think I would go

back and say there are other ways,” said Craig Munier, di-rector of Scholarship and Fi-nancial Aid at UNL. He listed off three possible ways to raise money without touch-ing grants, including reform-ing older programs that still

New director of Innovation

Campus namedCody elmoredaily nebraskan

Director of Nebraska Inno-vation Campus Dan Dun-can leans back in his black leather chair, rubbing his hands together, analyzing the press release.

One week ago Duncan accep t -ed the d i r e c -tor po-s i t i o n , t a k i n g on the task of p l a n -ning the f u n c -tions of the now in prog-ress Innovation Campus.

Duncan’s responsibili-ties include acting as a li-aison between faculty and private corporations inter-ested in partnering with the Innovation Campus.

“I’m the middle man in the situation,” Duncan said. “It’s my job to make sure the faculty has an open line of communica-tion with potential private corporations looking to be part of this project.”

Through donations by Woodbury Corporation, an industrial development company, the Nebraska state legislature and the university the project has $80 million to work with.

“This is a big project,” Duncan said. “This isn’t a short-term thing. The first phase won’t be fully done for probably another 20 years. It’ll only keep going and expanding.”

In the midst of an eco-nomic downturn Nebras-ka’s stable economy stands out among others, making Duncan’s pitch to poten-tial corporations easier.

“Companies are attract-ed to this project for a lot

of reasons,” Duncan said. “They like that we have a stable economy. They like the faculty here and they want to work with our stu-dents. They know we have a good work ethic.”

An employee with the university since 1987, Duncan’s work experience qualified him for the ex-ecutive position.

“I’ve been working with the faculty here for a long time now,” Duncan said. “I know the university. I know the city and I know the state. My top priority is making sure the faculty have a say in this.”

Nebraska Nova devel-opment LLC managing partner and UNL graduate Zach Wiegert works with Duncan, contacting and helping prospective com-panies with their decision to invest in the Innovation Campus.

“We started on this about two years ago,” Wiegert said. “It’s exciting to know that we are headed in the right direction.”

With Woodbury as an investor and partner, Dun-can shows confidence in the project’s success.

“We take all of the hard stuff out of the decision making process,” Duncan said. “If a company wants to build we have a devel-oper that can finance them and work to make sure their specifications are met.”

According to Duncan the benefits for students and faculty range from hands-on experience to potential employment.

“There’s going to be a lot of new opportunities open up after the cam-pus is built,” Duncan said.

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proposed changes in congress reduce federal spending would chop student aid

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alcohol awareness week

Advocacy groups spread alcohol awarenessdAniel wheAton

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Ryan Smith, a junior broad-casting major, started his car after a party. Holding his half-finished cocktail, he began to drive home. Thankfully, this was merely a simulation. The University Health Center, along with other advocacy groups, put together a display in the Nebraska Union on Mon-day for National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Day. With beer goggles and a drunk driving simulator, the groups spread alcohol awareness information.

“If I was going to do a drinking and driving simu-lation, I might as well have a drink,” Smith said. Drink-ing a “mocktail” from a booth near the simulation, he spoke about the event. “I didn’t find the simulator that convincing, but it is more important that people know the dangers.”

Fred Zwonechek, admin-istrator of the Nebraska De-partment of Highway Safe-ty, said the simulator was a means to convince people to not drink while driving.

“It makes it seem real, people take the ability to drive for granted and they

don’t realize how difficult it is,” he said.

Contrasting with the light tone of the booth, Mothers Against Drunk Driving had a car involved in a drunk-driving accident, its pas-senger side crushed, parked near Broyhill Fountain.

Sara Magnus, a MADD spokesperson, said the Beller family donated the car to MADD after it lost members in an accident in January of 2002.

“I could talk about how bad drunk driving is all day, but actually seeing what it can do makes it seem more real,” she said.

Although the advocacy groups were present, the event focused on informa-tion rather than a didactic approach. The University Police set up a beer goggle obstacle course that stu-dents stumbled through, in-cluding Molly Mahannah, a junior secondary education major.

“I actually think I’m more coordinated when I’m drunk, but this is just a sim-ulation,” Mahannah said.

After drinking to excess and blacking out in her se-nior year in high school, Mahanna said she now makes it a point to only

have a few drinks. “I personally think that

people have to make a mistake before they realize what their limits are,” Mah-annah said.

Terry Thomas, an Ad-vanced Nurse Practitioner at the Health Center, stood at a booth serving “mock-tails” of soda and grenadine and distributing information about standard drink sizes. She explained that a stan-dard drink is a “dose of al-cohol,” which is equivalent to three ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer or one shot. She had the quantities on display. The beer glass

wasn’t completely full, so a typical beer at a restaurant is actually more than one standard drink.

“Me, I only have two drinks,” Thomas said.

Thomas gives presenta-tions on how alcohol affects the body, and she said she is aware of the culture of drinking on campus.

“It seems that younger students tend to make the larger mistakes,” Thom-as said. She and the oth-er booths cited the lack of knowledge of alcohol

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LOOK WHO’S CALLINGWeek-long lincoln Calling music festival kicks off todayPAGE 5

this is the kind of issue that

seems to get fleeting attention. that’s the real question of civic engagement: Can you stay engaged?

michael wagnerassistant professor of political science

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When Taylor Wiens, a fresh-man elementary education major, joined one of the flag football intramural teams at the University of Nebraskan-Lincoln this year, she was hop-ing to play in a fun, positive environment. However, Wiens’ game experience hasn’t been exactly what she was expect-ing, and it isn’t because of wins or losses. Wiens’ problem is with the game officials.

“He (the referee of her flag football game) acted like he didn’t want to be there,” Wiens said. “He was just rude and made the game vibe very neg-ative.”

Jon Frazier, a sophomore music education major and regular game spectator, also didn’t approve of the way the referees hired by the Campus Recreation Center were mak-ing calls. “It’s like they haven’t even been trained properly,” Frazier said. “It’s disappointing when you go to a game and see that such unfair calls are being made against the play-ers. Yeah, the refs are students too, but that doesn’t mean they should be any less profession-al.”

Zac Brost, the coordinator for intramural sports, said no prior experience is needed to be a referee. Anyone can sign up.

“There are only four days of training for our game officials, because students don’t have a whole lot of available time

outside of their classes,” Brost said. “Those who stick around and show up to the training meetings are typically the ones that we hire.”

Currently there are about 60 game officials for flag football.

After each game, Brost said there are two to three staff su-pervisors that evaluate referees and give them feedback.

But many UNL referees, Brost said, are rated as some of the best in the country, noting that some are ranked as “All-American officials” by the Na-tional Intramural-Recreational Sports Association.

“We’d pit our officials against any in the country,” Brost said.

Some students don’t have a problem with the way game officials are making calls. Cory Brietzke, a freshman athletic training major and flag football player, said the physical con-tact rules for intramural sports, specifically flag football, are too strict.

“It just seems like you can’t make any physical contact with the other team,” Brietzke said. “Any little contact will be called a flag, and it slows down the game. I understand that they want to keep everyone safe, but I think they take it a little too far.”

Dan Wrenholt, a freshman general studies major and ref-eree for flag football and vol-leyball, said the reason flags are being called is because teams simply don’t realize all of the rules that exist in flag football.

“Teams are just unsure of the

rules in football, which means more flags will be thrown,” Wr-enholt said. “This isn’t because the refs are bad, but just that rules are different in intramural sports. The rules are there to protect the players. They might

be restricting, but they’re need-ed to keep things fair.”

In regard to the strict-ness of the game rules, Brost said intramural sports teams have to follow the guide-lines set by the National

Intramural-Recreational Sports Association.

“Bad calls are going to be made and there’s always go-ing to be complaints,” Brost said. “This is where game of-ficials come to learn their craft.

They’re doing the best they can and, in my opinion, are doing a great job. Our goal is for ev-eryone to leave with a positive experience.”

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division reCognizes assistant professor With researCh aWardAn assistant professor at the university of nebraska-lincoln is already making his mark on campus with less than five years of professional experience. the Agricultural research division awarded Gilles Bas-set , an assistant professor of agronomy and horti-culture, the Junior Faculty for excellence in research Award. the award is given to an assistant professor with an Ard appointment who is on a tenure-track and has less than five years of professional experience at unl. Basset received the award based on publication record, evidence of external funding activity and peer recognition. A reception will be held oct. 11 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the east union’s Sunflower room to honor the Basset.

animal sCienCe students sell turkeys for annual fundraiserAlthough halloween is right around the corner, the Animal Science Graduate Association at the university of nebraska-lincoln is already accepting orders for its annual thanksgiving turkey fundraiser. Students can order turkeys through oct. 18. Proceeds will pay for graduate student travel to scientific meet-ings. the turkeys cost $1.70 per pound and range from 12 to 24 pounds. to place an order, contact Julie tart at [email protected] or at 402-472-6737.

sessions help faCulty With blaCkboard migrationit’s not just students at the university of nebraska-lincoln who may need help with the current myunl Blackboard program. the university is offering courses throughout october to help faculty who want to migrate old course content to the current Blackboard system. After nov. 1, faculty will no longer be able to access all courses prior to and including the spring 2011 semester unless they migrate content to the new system. Visit http://is.unl.edu/myunlupdate for a list of help ses-sions and more information.

net to sCreen film ‘deaf Jam’ nebraska educational telecommunications television will screen the film “deaf Jam” this month as part of its second season of “Coffee and Conversation in the Community” series. “deaf Jam” is a film about deaf teen Aneta Brodski and her passion for American Sign language Poetry. the film also follows her unexpected friendship with tahani, a hearing Palestinian slam poet. the film will be screened at net at 1800 n. 33rd St. at 6 p.m. on oct. 13. A discussion will follow the film with representatives from lincoln’s deaf and hip-hop com-munities.

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campus briefs

hAley whiSennAnddaily nebraskan

University of Nebraska-Lin-coln fraternity and sorority members filed in to the Lied Center for Performing Arts Monday evening for a pre-sentation on alcohol aware-ness.

Do It Sober is an annual event put on by UNL for members of the greek sys-tem. The presentation en-courages students to make smart choices about alco-hol. Each year, an alco-hol awareness speaker is brought in to follow up the presentation of the Laura Cockson Memorial Scholar-ship Fund, an award pre-sented to students who promote responsibility and smart choices when deal-ing with alcohol. This year’s winners were Anne Gates, a senior speech-language pathology major, and Zach Watson, a junior business administration major.

Michael Gershe, one of the nation’s top alcohol awareness presenters, be-gan by telling jokes. His ul-timate goal was to lighten up the crowd before talking about the hard-hitting facts and his own personal expe-riences.

Gershe engaged the

audience by bringing four students to the stage for a demonstration.

Gershe said he survived a car crash only a few months after his birth, but his moth-er was killed.

“I don’t call it an acci-dent,” he said. “It’s a crash or an incident.”

He also suffered the loss of one of his close college friends, who crashed his car into a tree while driving drunk.

The indirect impact alco-hol has had on Gershe’s life inspired him to start “The

Magic of Life,” his alcohol awareness tour. He said he presents to high schools, universities and military groups in the hopes of pre-

venting future drunk driv-ing incidents.

“I do this program, so you don’t have to,” Gershe said of his work.

Alicia Walz, a senior

nursing student, said Ger-she’s presentation had a wide range of emotion.

“He’s funny at times and serious at times,” she said.

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event advocates smart decisionsalcohol awareness week

among those new to drink-ing. The goal of the event was to promote awareness, and students were often surprised at the reality.

“I had no idea Jungle Juice was three standard drinks,” Mahannah said.

Student Legal Services and the Psychological Con-sultation Center distributed

information about their ser-vices. Student Legal Servic-es assists students in trouble with the law for any reason.

“Our goal is to not let bad decisions keep people from school,” said Director Shel-ley Stall.

The Psychological Con-sultation Center also pro-vides services for students

who need someone to talk to after a traumatic experi-ence. Dennis McChargue, an associate professor of psychology said, “Hopeful-ly the big mistake isn’t too big.”

Students also were advo-cating responsibility. Smith is a member of Healthy Huskers, a group that is

an extension of the Health Center. He is a peer educa-tor, explaining the realities of drinking to other stu-dents.

“We don’t say that you shouldn’t drink, we say that you should drink responsi-bly,” Smith said.

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did you know? ·one in four college

women are victims of date rape. most go unreported.

·1,400 college stu-dents die due to alcohol each year.

·Alcohol has been in-volved in 90 percent of all campus rapes.

·About 159,000 of the nation’s college freshmen will drop out of school due to alcohol and drug use.

source: michael gershe

referees face scrutiny in intramural games

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Andrew Fitzke, a junior marketing major, signals the line of scrimmage in a flag football intramural game Sunday evening at mabel lee Fields. intramural referees, who go through training over a two-week period, have been taking heat for what some players say are bad calls. At this game, one team’s members were indignant when Fitzke noticed another player’s flags had gotten pushed under her shirt, preventing an easy pull, only after she had scored a touchdown. “People think that we should get every single call,” he said. “everyone’s human.”

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Monday, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in-troduced its Heuermann Lecture Series, a series of monthly talks that address the security of food, natural resources and renewable energy. The first lecture set the bar high by bringing in the first ever recipient of the World Food Prize, M.S. Swaminathan. Swamina-than has been at the fore-front of great achievements in agriculture and was one of TIME Magazine’s 20 most influential Asians of the 20th century, a list that put him alongside Mohan-das Gandhi.

The University of Ne-braska-Lincoln also gave him the Willa S. Cather Award after his lecture. In the 1960s, when his home country of India faced fam-ine and heavily relied on imported foods from other countries, Swaminathan turned down a professor-ship offer from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin and returned to give what help he could. Swaminathan de-veloped a hybrid seed that greatly increased India’s own wheat production. In-dia went from producing 12 million tons of wheat in the ‘60s to 85 million tons today, according to the U.S. Department of Agri-culture.

Swaminathan’s work isn’t done, however. Af-ter sparking India’s Green

Revolution by dramatically increasing India’s agricul-tural production, Swamina-than now wants to start an “evergreen revolution,” he said. This would not only help fight starvation, but produce these crops in an eco-friendly way, he said.

But why should college students in Nebraska care?

“Food security is a global issue,” Swaminathan said. “By addressing these issues

you have a way of ensur-ing a long-term sustainabil-ity for food. If you don’t, that endangers future gen-erations.”

Even though it is an important issue, Swami-nathan displayed studies that showed a diminish-ing worldwide support of agricultural research. University of Nebraska President J.B. Milliken is trying to buck the trend by making University of

Nebraska-Lincoln a hub of agricultural research.

“We want leaders to look to UNL for our research in food security,” Milliken said. He went on to add that, in regard to the idea of an evergreen revolution, UNL has “a critical role in creating an environment for the best science and best research. Places like UNL are key in helping policy makers make the right kind of choices.”

Even students that aren’t majoring in or researching agriculture can have a posi-tive effect on the evergreen revolution. Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases has a direct effect on agriculture. Swamina-than showed scientific esti-mates that said by the year 2050, 50 percent of what are now favorable wheat production areas in India will be redefined as low-er-potential, heat-stressed and short-season growing environments.

The United States is also contributing part of the problem with one of the world’s largest ecological footprints, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

Swaminathan stressed that we could not continue this way.

“Unsustainable lifestyles and unacceptable poverty should become problems of the past, to achieve har-mony with nature and with each other,” he said.

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center celebrates lgbtQa history

hAley whiSennAnddaily nebraskan

The LGBTQA Resource Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, along with the Queer Ally Coalition, has prepared a month full of events meant to raise awareness and support for the LGBTQA community on campus. Already one week into the month, UNL experi-enced several LGBTQA-relat-ed events.

“So far we have participated in You Are Loved Chalking project (LGBTQ Suicide pre-vention and awareness) and we have also had Ron Holt on campus to address LGBT bul-lying and suicide and LGBT health,” said Patricia Tetreault, director of the LGBTQA Re-source Center.

These events mark the tip of the iceberg, as dozens of oth-er events for LGBTQA History Month are scheduled.

This week is Coming Out Week on campus. The LG-BTQA Resource Center will have a booth today, for Na-tional Coming Out Day. Re-source center staff and stu-dents will be handing out information concerning his-tory month and coming out, as well as cow stress balls at the booth.

Though the resource center hopes that all of the month’s events will bring awareness to both members and non-mem-bers of the LGBTQA commu-nity, the event it hopes will be the most successful on cam-pus is Spirit Day on Oct. 20.

“We will be asking people to wear purple,” Tetreault said.

The Gay and Lesbian Al-liance Against Defamation, a national awareness group, aims to attract the attention of not only other people, but also national news.

“GLAAD is ensuring the me-dia is paying attention,” said Kellee Terrell, a media strate-gist for GLAAD.

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lGBtqA hiStory monthwhat: coming out week boothwhen: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.where: nebraska union, across from the bakery by the computerswhy: coming out week is oct. 10 to oct. 15 with national coming out day on oct. 11.

what: outspeaking orien-tation when: oct. 13 at 4 p.m.where: nebraska union, room tbawhy: outspeaking is the lgbtQa resource center’s speakers bureau and the orientation is for individuals to attend if they would like to become part of os.

what: spirit day spon-sored by glaadwhen: oct. 20why: wearing purple on this day symbolizes support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) youth, letting them know they’re loved and appreciated for who they are.

what: lgbt roundtable: real world with ruthie (from “real world ha-waii”), J.d. and katelynn (from “real world brook-lyn”)when: oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m.where: nebraska union centennial roomwhy: university program council aims to create a massive stage for discus-sion about where the lgbt community has been, what it looks like right now and how it is moving forward.

what: “circumstance” and “we were here”when: oct. 21 to oct. 27 where: the ross theater

what: “two spirits,” a documentary about fred martinezwhen: oct. 24 at 6 p.m.where: Jackie gaughan multicultural center, room 212 why: “two spirits” inter-weaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many native american cultures held places of honor for people of inte-grated genders.what: a history of act-upwhen: oct. 26 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.where: nebraskan union, room tbawhy: act-up’s non-violent direct action, often using vocal demonstra-tions and dramatic acts of civil disobedience, focuses attention on the crucial issues of the aids crisis.

what: meet & greet with sarah schulmanwhen: oct. 27 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.where: nebraska union, room 345why: schulman is co-founder of the oral history project, a collection of interviews of surviving members of the aids co-alition to unleash power in new york city.

what: ninth annual lgbtQa history month dinnerwhen: embassy suiteswhere: oct. 27 at 6:30 p.m, note: tickets must be purchased to attend. pre-dinner social sponsored by outlinc, 5:30 p.m.

administer grants through third parties.

“We all understand the need to reduce federal spending,” Munier said, but it’s a question of where those reductions come from. Cutting student aid, even in the form of eliminating the grace period, should be lower on the list, he said.

“That may be inevitable and necessary, but it cer-tainly shouldn’t be first,” Munier said.

In the 2010-2011 academic year, Munier said 4,800 stu-dents were Pell Grant recipi-ents, totalling $17.5 million in aid. The number of stu-dents affected by these pos-sible changes isn’t tracked by his office, Munier said, though he added the num-ber of students who qualify for the grants is on the rise.

Fernando Napier is one such student. The senior

sociology major receives a $4,200 Pell Grant each year, and said that if lawmakers are going to cut financial aid, they should make loans a more viable option.

“Unless they restructured loans to give you more time and more lenience, there’s not a lot you can do out of college,” he said. “Pell Grants help for a lot of people who couldn’t afford it otherwise.”

Like Munier, Napier said cutting student aid was tak-ing the wrong tack, particu-larly when other areas of government, such as the tax code, could be reworked to bring in necessary revenue. The Republican-controlled House has been famously averse to such proposals.

“We don’t see anything changing in the willingness to look at the revenue side,” Munier said.

Cuts to federal financial

aid are consistent with de-cades of Republican plat-forms, stressing less gov-ernment involvement in the economy and local control of education, he said.

“It’s an easy target,” said Michael Wagner, an assistant professor of political sci-ence. “I think Republicans would prefer people who need loans would get them from banks rather than the government.”

And if students want to change that pattern, they’ll need to sustain that drive and make a better showing at the ballot box next year to get the attention of lawmak-ers, he said.

“This is the kind of is-sue that seems to get fleet-ing attention,” Wagner said. “That’s the real question of civic engagement: Can you stay engaged?”

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“Each company knows that offering internships and work experience will help students and eventually help them as well.”

Duncan hopes the amount of research and technologi-cal innovation that the In-novation campus produces will add value to not only the university but the city as well.

“The questions that need answered are very large and very complex,” Dun-can said. “There’s a realiza-tion that, to make the leaps in technology, we want to make universities and in-dustries have to figure out how to work together. Inno-vation campus will facilitate that.”

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I have a confession: I’m addicted to “The Colbert Report.” It’s my only source of news. OK, not really. But I watch it as often as possible. And for the past few months, I’ve been following

Stephen Colbert’s progress on forming a political action committee, a private group formed to raise funds for a po-litical candidate’s campaign or an is-sue.

Colbert formed “Colbert PAC” early last spring. Shortly after he an-nounced his plan, Viacom, Comedy Central’s parent company, told him that because he talks about his PAC on his show, the Federal Election Committee would see that as an “in-kind” donation from Viacom. In not-politically-confounded words, “You can’t do it.”

Colbert found a way around this by turning his PAC into a Super PAC, which is exactly what it sounds like. With a PAC, individuals can only give up to $5,000, and their names have to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission. With a Super PAC, peo-ple can donate as much as they want, although their names still have to be disclosed. Because some people and corporations don’t want to publicly give money to a PAC, Colbert wanted to avoid the disclosure rule as well. He did so by creating a 501(c)(4), which is basically a corporation that can collect unlimited money and doesn’t have to disclose the names of its donors.

The money from this can then be given to Colbert Super PAC. And that’s how Stephen Colbert created a completely secret political action committee. As he said to his lawyer on the show, “What’s the difference between that and money laundering?”

So far, Colbert hasn’t used his PAC for anything too serious. He put out two ads supporting Rick Parry (with an “A”) during the Iowa straw poll, and he recently put out an ad sup-porting the NBA owners in their fight with the players.

This has all been satirical, keeping

with the theme of ”The Colbert Report.” But by setting all this up, Colbert raises an important issue in campaign politics.

The reason Stephen Colbert or any-one else can set up this elaborately simple scheme for secret campaign donations comes from the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commis-sion Supreme Court case of 2010.

Basically, the Supreme Court ruled that corporate financing of campaign ads can’t be limited. They said that doing so would take away compa-nies’ right to free speech. To put it more straightforward: Corporations are people, and money is speech.

Because all American people have the right to free speech in the First Amendment, this ruling says that all corporations have a right to use their money however they want in political campaigns, like airing ads to support a candidate or attack a candidate — basically, to try and get whatever candidate they think will support their interests into office.

It’s just what we all wanted: more corporate interests driving politics, more money from shady sources in-fluencing campaigns, more backroom deals between politicians and big companies.

This policy is exactly the oppo-site of what many Americans want. People on both sides of the political spectrum are sick of our government being run by corporate interests. As the Occupy Wall Street movement has shown, the vast majority of Ameri-cans who aren’t rich want the gov-ernment to represent them, not CEOs

and corporate jet owners. Isn’t that what a democracy is sup-

posed to do, anyway?Both Democrats and Republicans

seem to be heavily influenced by the people who are giving them money. Obviously that makes sense. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Any-body who wants to win an election needs money. To get money you have to make people want to give you money. Because most of the money in any campaign is coming from big corporations, that’s who everyone has to pander to.

So politicians have to keep those corporations happy in order to keep getting money from them. And to keep them happy, they have to fight for corporate interests. In many cases, that means fighting against the interests of 99 percent of Americans.

As Stephen Colbert has shown, the Citizens United case makes it ridiculously easy for corporations to influence campaigns without anyone knowing who’s actually paying for it. When you don’t know who’s promot-ing an idea, you can’t know whether or not you should trust them. But most people watching political ads aren’t thinking about whether or not the source is trustworthy — they’re thinking about the messages in the ads.

Of course, these PACs are sup-posed to be completely separate from whichever candidate they’re support-ing. They have to operate without the candidate’s participation or even permission. But really, what company is going to throw millions of dollars at a presidential candidate’s cam-paign without expecting something in return?

Hopefully, Colbert Super PAC will show everyone how much unlimited corporate funding can change a pres-idential campaign. Maybe he’ll throw his cash behind Sarah Palin and get her to enter the race.

evan marolf is a junior political science and history major. reach him

at evanmarolf@ dailynebraskan.com

Satire shows flaws in system

new goals, new campus need strong leaders

All right, Innovation Campus. Let’s get innovative.As covered in a story on today’s front page, Dan

Duncan, former assistant dean and 16-year director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Agricultural Research Division, recently accepted the position of director of Nebraska Innovation Campus.

Students who have attended UNL for the past two or three years — along with regents, legislators and business-owners — likely have a list of adjectives that come to mind when the unfinished third campus is mentioned: “delayed,” “costly,” “unrealistic.” They may have a few telling nouns as well: “earmarks,” “setbacks,” maybe even “waste.”

Duncan has his work cut out for him. Innovation Campus has long been touted as a significant step toward competing with the clout of other Big Ten schools. Projections for the research and revenue brought in by the campus spurred a $25 million state investment. Yet it’s suffered setbacks from square one, and only this summer was a 2013 completion date set for its first phase of construction.

With that in mind, the Daily Nebraskan has this to say to Duncan: Attract business quickly and deliver concrete results.

Duncan describes his job as acting as an intermedi-ary between companies and the research faculty. It’s obvious from his previous experience that he has the skills and enthusiasm to do this. He’s also correct in calling Innovation Campus no “short-term thing.” The campus will be undergoing renovations for the next several decades.

At this point, though, it’d be nice for students and taxpayers to see a few short-term results. The poten-tial is there, but faith needs to be restored. No In-novation Campus leadership can afford to bank on future promises at this point, nor on companies being attracted by the state’s “stable economy.”

The Daily Nebraskan encourages Duncan and all other Innovation Campus appointees to come in full-steam. Concrete goals have finally been set in place; now it’s time to truly sell the campus to not only companies, but students and residents. Otherwise it runs the risk of being nothing but a long, drawn-out and overly expensive half-measure. Innovation Cam-pus needs some truly innovative leadership if it’s ever going to work.

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CD releases used to be a lot more exciting. I could hardly stand getting through my high school classes so I could drive to the

store to buy a band’s new album. Since iTunes and Amazon have been around, I don’t buy CDs in the store as often. Individualized playlists are my listening choice instead of full-length albums.

This is the effect of the digital age of music.

CD sales are on the decline. A study by Strategy Analytics, pub-lished on techland.com, expects digital music downloads will surpass physical CD sales by next year, making an estimated $2.8 billion. Physical CD sales are ex-pected to drop 40 percent to $2.7 billion. Singles make up about 39 percent of downloads.

An article published by the De-troit Free Press said some blame iTunes for the diminishment of the album. “Cherry-picking” songs from albums has become the norm. While iTunes experi-ences explosive success, the mu-sic industry flounders. According to the article, overall album sales have dropped by at least half.

The shift in music consumption from full CD purchases to single digital downloads (both legally and illegally), shows changes in

our music landscape. Some might lament the decrease in physical CD sales, but the digital age of music brings new opportunities for music fans and musicians.

I enjoy the experience of un-wrapping and listening to a new CD for the first time. But, I admit I’m often too impatient to buy a CD in the store. I won’t usually go out of my way to spend gas and time for music when I can download it to my computer. I miss the days when I had more patience.

I was 9 when I owned my first CD, *N Sync’s self-titled release. One of my preteen friends shared the music with me, and I begged my mom to buy me the CD. Be-ing the wonderful mom that she is, she surprised me with my own copy.

I was ecstatic to unwrap the plastic and pop the CD into the player. I’d flip through the CD jacket as the music played, fol-lowing along with the lyrics. I liked looking at the band mem-bers’ photos and reading their bios.

Now when I buy music, I often don’t know what an album’s cover art looks like. I usually Google lyrics if I want to follow along with new songs.

Buying a new CD used to be like embarking on a musical

adventure: I didn’t know what surprises awaited my ears on each successive track.

Before the days when you could preview songs online, buy-ing music could be a risky en-deavor. Maybe you heard a song on the radio that prompted you to buy a CD, only to be disappoint-ed by the rest of the album.

Or maybe you were pleasantly surprised to find yourself enjoying track after track. It was all part of the adventure.

How we discover and consume music has evolved a lot over the years. In high school, we used to share music by borrowing or burning CDs. Now, websites like Pandora and Spotify

allow us to see what our friends are listening to.

I recently signed up for Spo-tify and understand the limitless listening possibilities of music streaming. I can search for and listen to just about any song

ever recorded. I no longer have to open my iTunes, because all of my playlists are linked to my Spotify account. Because Spotify shows me what friends are listen-ing to, I feel more connected and in-tune with the current music scene.

What I like most is that Spotify fosters a culture, a music commu-nity, making music more than a transactional commodity.

An article on RELEVANT Maga-zine’s website explains why music should be free, emphasizing the investment and participation of audience in media content. The music industry, it said, shouldn’t fear downloading but be con-cerned with sideloading: “the ac-tivity of forwarding, linking, viral buzz-building and passing along from one consumer to another at no cost.” Free music — of good quality — can help sales if record companies create a music-loving community that Tweets, blogs and updates Facebook statuses about their favorite music.

While music is so easily acces-sible via downloading or stream-ing, it has to be of high quality if anyone is going to care about it. The RELEVANT article ex-plains that artists need to build a relationship with the audience, recognizing that music “was never intended to be a commodity that

lived primarily in the transac-tional, economic space between producer and consumer.”

Free music is a means by which bands can create new fans and reach people who will hopefully attend a concert or buy an album.

I miss the excitement of buying a physical CD, but the digital age of music carries new exploration opportunities for audiences and promotion for bands seeking to connect with those audiences. Music streaming and downloading can potentially turn album sales around if the content is worthy enough to purchase.

As the RELEVANT article con-cludes, “The future of music’s economic viability will depend not on the ability to secure a payment for every download, but rather on each musician’s ability to get people passionate about music again.”

I look forward to exploring sites like Spotify to connect me with friends and expand my music interests. Amid the millions of songs out there, it will be a new and exciting adventure when I come across that gem of an album worth purchasing and adding to my personal collection.

bethany trueblood is a senior news-editorial major who

may or may not still be a fan of *n sync. reach her at

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Digital music here to stay, though less exciting

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evan marolf

the editorial above contains the opinion of the fall 2011 daily nebraskan editorial board. it does not necessarily reflect the views of the university of nebraska-lincoln, its student body or the university of nebraska board of regents. a column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. the board of regents acts as publisher of the daily nebraskan; policy is set by the daily nebraskan editorial board. the unl publications board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. according to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of daily nebraskan employees.

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daily nebraskan

An event as large and in-volved as Lincoln Calling doesn’t happen annually on the whim of one individual.

It’s a collaborative ef-fort among venue owners, booking agents, promoters, musicians and community members who band togeth-er to celebrate both the po-tential of Lincoln music and potential of the city to be-come a touring hub.

But it began with a com-plaint: a complaint in a col-umn by Jeremy Buckley in this very publication that lambasted the University Program Council, accusing them of ineffectually using student fees and missing the opportunity to bring top-tier music to Lincoln. It was nearly a decade ago, when the chair of UPC took stock of Buckley’s opinion and offered to mull over some

ideas for improvement with him.

“It was pretty cool,” he said. “It showed they were willing to learn.”

Essentially Buckley, then a University of Nebraska-Lincoln student majoring in English, argued that the merits of holding one large concert a year were heavily outweighed by the opportu-nity to bring a great many smaller acts to town for “a tenth of the cost.”

Thus, the seeds of Lincoln Calling were sown. Buckley took to organizing the musi-cal festival that’s been held every autumn for the last eight years, and UPC funded the inaugural year of the ex-periment.

Though the university group has long since re-moved its name and money from the festival, Buckley has persevered with the knowledge that each year could surely be bigger, louder and more diverse

than the one that preceded it.

“I kept doing it, know-ing it was all at my risk,” he said. “I guess I’m always interested in trying to push the envelope in comparison to what last year was.”

This year Lincoln Calling, which begins Tuesday, will feature approximately 120 acts, which hail from Lin-coln, Omaha, the Midwest

and every corner of the na-tion. Its continued success, eight years on, is a testa-ment to what the festival has become and, in turn, a testa-ment to the man pulling the strings.

“Jeremy’s passion for mu-sic is undeniable, and his

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For the next five days, the Star City will be a paradise for music patrons, as the eighth an-

nual Lincoln Calling music festival launches Tuesday.

The festival will feature 104 local, regional and na-tional acts in the span of five days, along with 16 DJs.

All-access passes are $30, but one-day passes are also offered for $10 on Wednes-day or $12 for any of the other days. There are also single-admis-sion tickets for about $10, d e p e n d i n g on the show.

J e r e m y B u c k l e y , who heads up the orga-nization for the festival and founded the annual tradition, de-scribes Lin-coln Calling as a “chal-lenging hob-by.”

And Lin-coln Calling will need an edge this year; the fes-tival’s usu-ally varied mix of local and regional musicians is a bit Nebraska-heavy, thanks to a drop in sponsorship dollars. There are concerns that the shift toward local musicians could hinder the increase in turnout that Lincoln Calling has experienced from year to year.

But, as Buckley openly notes, national bands don’t always ensure large crowds. California-based Sea Wolf, a national band who partici-pated in Lincoln Calling last year, is a clear example. The indie folk band played a one-man show (with frontman

Alex Brown Church) at the Bourbon last year, but the turnout was far from stagger-ing: About 125 people went to the show.

Because national bands have to cover travel ex-penses, their ticket prices are generally higher than those of local bands. Buckley attri-butes the thinner crowds to the higher costs.

“If you can go to the $15 show or the $8 show or $5 show, but you’ll have fun at any one of them, you might

go to the $5 show and order a few extra beers,” said Buckley. “I still expect the crowd to be similar in size to what it was last year, even if the bands are a little different.”

A more pre-dominantly local flavor isn’t the only change Lin-coln Calling will undertake this year. The festi-val will feature more punk metal bands, electronic bands and DJs, along with the indie bands that have become a

staple of the festival.The Spigot has a lineup

focused on metal and punk, orchestrated by Corey Birk-mann, who became involved with Lincoln Calling after he sent Buckley an email sug-gesting that he cover more metal bands.

Buckley’s response? Go for it.

Another collaborator is Spencer Munson, also know as the DJ $pencelove. Mun-son organized the electronic band and DJ performances for this year.

Although the musi-cians at Lincoln Calling are

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The basement was small and swimming with 20-some-things. Their dank sweat hung in the air, partnered with puffs of smoke and a single light hung from the ceiling on the other side of the basement, illuminating a small corner beyond the mass of bodies. From that corner, UUVVWWZ filled the small basement with their music.

“Thanks for coming to-night,” Teal Gardner said through her microphone be-tween heavy breaths. “We haven’t played for a year.”

Gardner, Jim Schroeder, Dustin Wilbourn and Tom Ambroz started playing un-der the moniker UUVVWWZ (pronounced “double U, double V, double W, Z”) in 2007. Last year, the drummer

Ambroz moved to Austra-lia, putting a halt on their music after playing together for about three years. In the last year, UUVVWWZ has ac-quired a new drummer and dedicated months to writing new music. The house show they played in late September was their first opportunity to show off what they’ve been working on.

“It was really exciting to get back together with all new songs,” Gardner said.

if you goUUVVWWZ Concertwhen: Wednesday, 11:30 p.m.where: Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St.how much: $5

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Growing annual music festival to showcase 8th year of local, national artists in venues across town

cara WilWerdingdaily nebraskan

Five minutes before his solo, Clark Potter froze.

He was performing with the Southwest Wash-ington Symphony in Longview, Wash. The audience kept grow-ing, even-t u a l l y reaching n e a r l y 1 , 0 0 0 m e m -bers. At 20 years old, he h a d never e x -p e r i -enced s t a g e f r i g h t l i k e this be-fore. His s t o m a c h churned, his palms were drenched in sweat. He was definitely not ready for this.

“I thought I was go-ing to die,” Potter said. “I decided that if I lived through it, I was going to give up music.”

Thirty years since, Potter is an associate professor of viola in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music. By holding onto the instrument he loves so dearly,

Potter has made serious changes in his relation-ship with the stage. He’s spent these 30 years trying to conquer his stage fright and enjoy the experience of performing. He’s read books, taken medication, talked to counselors and even tried hypnosis. What it would take though, was an original and innovative idea.

Potter decided to invent a device that helps musi-cians breathe more regu-larly while they play, thus reducing stage fright. This instrument, called a ther-mal convection flow me-ter, looks like a wireless headset, similar to those that singers wear on stage.

A wire filament wraps around the head to sit in front of the nose, detecting breathing frequency and temperature. The device also has a pulse oximeter, which measures heart rate. This component clips onto the musician’s ear lobe.

The breathing and heart rate readings are then shown on a computer screen in real time. In Pot-ter’s eyes, the purpose of this project is twofold. First, he wants to fig-ure out how musicians breathe, specifically string players. The second com-ponent is enabling musi-cians to breathe more nor-mally while they play.

Conventional wisdom dictates that breathing techniques are of the ut-most importance for mu-sicians to pay attention. By developing a regu-lar breathing pattern and

heart rate, musicians have less anxiety, and therefore are less likely to make mis-takes on the stage. In Pot-ter’s thinking, musicians with proper breathing will

live and play longer. How-ever, he wasn’t taught this concept right away.

“I had been playing for 15 years before anyone ever mentioned breathing to me, as a performer,” Potter said. “If I can help my own students and oth-er students play without tension, then it’s a worth-while goal for me.”

While Potter came up with the idea for this proj-ect, he was not involved in the construction. Bio-medical engineering ma-jors worked on this device in their capstone design class. Gregory Bashford, a biomedical engineer and associate professor, helped lead a group of six stu-dents in the process.

Because he hails from a family of musicians, Bash-ford possessed specific in-terest in the project. His children played in orches-tras conducted by Potter.

“This is the first chance I’ve had to combine mu-sic with engineering in the university setting,” Bash-ford said. “Creating tools for clients brings a real satisfaction to a biomedi-cal engineer. I love to see these things work and re-ally make someone’s life better.”

The project officially started in the spring of 2009 and an initial version of the device was complet-ed in the spring of 2011. Materials were relatively inexpensive, totaling less than $100. The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources provid-ed the funding.

Although the prelimi-nary version is finished, students are still working on updates and improve-ments.

Ian Parsley is a junior biological system engi-neering major who plans to work on the apparatus.

Like Bashford, Parsley also has a personal connection to this subject. He played viola in middle school and said this particular inven-tion interested him.

Parsley will make im-provements using a

new Electrocardio-gram (EKG) ma-

chine to mea-sure heart rate.

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should train the individual’s heart

to beat at a more healthy rate.”As the first person to

do research in this area, Potter is breaking new

ground. This is an impor-tant subject for him, and he intends to see it through the end.

“I always vowed that I would never do research on a topic that didn’t inter-est me,” Potter said. “So far I’ve stayed true to that per-sonal vow.”

Potter plans to take the device on the road in the spring of 2013. He will gather data by testing it on a variety of people, in-cluding professional musi-cians, students and chil-dren. Potter will travel to universities near and far, specifically those in Oma-ha and Kansas City. He doesn’t claim this device will change the world, but hopes it will change the performing experience for his students and others outside of the UNL com-munity.

Bashford agrees that the device will help students and also stressed the im-portance of this tool for teachers. In his eyes, by giving the teachers a new tool, they will have a new set of guidelines to teach by, guidelines that will in-spire increased ease and less anxiety.

Potter said he may never completely conquer his stage fright. Sometimes he’s perfectly fine dur-ing large, nerve-wracking performances and then his stage fright hits during the small, simple ones.

He said his issues often catch him off guard. By us-ing his breathing apparatus, however, future generations of students may be able to overcome these fears.

“I can’t always predict it; it’s very strange,” Potter said. “But when I tell my-self to breathe when I’m playing, it always helps me. I’m thinking it might help someone else too.”

CaraWilWerding@ dailynebraskan.Com

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katie fennellydaily nebraskan

After making music and playing nearly 1,000 con-certs over the course of eight years, it’s easy to de-velop a style and stick to it.

That’s not the case for Darren Keen.

The Lincoln native has played in several local bands, including Beep Beep and The Show is the Rain-bow. Touch People, his newest project, will release two records Oct. 25.

The first is “Sound Ex-pression.” The EP hinges on the opening — and only — lyrics in “Every Word,” the album’s opening track.

“I’ve used every word and every note/There are no combinations left/No tones to pair, no tones to share/No seeds to sow upon the creative mind” drones on for more than three min-utes, leaving the listener drained.

That’s probably the point, though the track comes off as annoying, wasted space. It seems Keen is making a statement on what he sees

as the recycled, contrived state of the music indus-try, and Touch People is his way of proving himself wrong.

He almost gets there.The “Sound Expression”

EP seems to be putting the statement out in the open, and its vinyl LP counterpart “Show Me Your Dimen-sions,” is his response. Each side of the record offers its own story instead of indi-vidual track. It seems like a good idea, but it’s difficult to understand what those stories are. The album is

certainly more ethereal and slightly more accessible.

It’s possible that Keen would do well to slow down and focus on one project at a time.

katieFennelly@ dailynebraskan.Com

neil oriansI’ve been thinking a lot about the perceptions of Nebraska lately, not just because this is an interesting subject, but also my editor is making me. Still, intriguing thoughts have come to mind.

What makes a Nebraskan a Nebraskan? I, for one, was born outside the state but have resided here for 12 of the last 13 years. However, Nebraska has a quality that makes it my home.

But what does Nebraska sound like compared to other places? How does our state represent itself when it comes to music? The very first thing that came to mind when I was pondering this concept was Lady Gaga’s lat-est single “You and I.”

Gaga wrote that song with the purest intent to reference Nebraska; the proof is in the lyrical pudding. However, this song is a weird combi-nation of country swing and swagger with pop tenden-cies. It doesn’t sound Nebras-kan to me. Is that what the country thinks of our state? Do our men taste of whiskey and do our fields have pia-nos in them? I would hope not, I don’t like whiskey and those pianos are in the way of the harvest.

Nebraska gets a pretty country-bumpkin rep when

it comes to our culture, but in my own experiences, that is anything but the case. I’ve already written about the punk scene in Nebraska; my heart pounds as strongly for the scene as it does for Katy Perry. Nebraska has hip-hop. Nebraska has hardcore. Nebraska even has terrible country western.

I spent my freshman year of college in Milwaukee, where the vast majority of my classmates were from either Chicago or Wisconsin. When asked where I was from, I simply stated “Omaha, Ne-braska,” to which I often got the reply “Saddle Creek Records?”

Omaha is wel l -known for produc-ing Bright Eyes, Tilly and the Wall, The Faint and countless oth-er big indie rock acts. 311 went to my high school (Omaha West-side High School, for the re-cord). Former American Idol hopeful Tim Halperin was in my brother’s graduating class. Defunct pop act Go Crash Audio is from Ralston. Hardcore act Paria was pretty big for a bit. But none have made it quite as big as Conor Oberst.

We are an extremely indie state, mostly because we try so damn hard to be awesome. We try almost too hard to be unique and avant-garde, so much so that the new breed of Midwest hipster has infil-trated the music scene. While

this is much better than the country stereotype, it doesn’t bode well for the hip-hop or punk kids.

Like any other place, Ne-braska is a gigantic blend of different music styles. Geog-raphy does affect culture and music styles, but honestly we have everything here. The indie kids are lucky; they come in larger droves than

any of the oth-er scenes. As a result, we have become the in-die capital of the Midwest. Hell, Rilo Kiley even thought Omaha was cool for a bit.

In real-ity, Nebraska sounds much

like any other state. If you look hard enough for one thing in particular, you’re bound to find it. It’s all a matter of being passionate enough to go looking for it or promote it. The punk scene has been in and out in recent years, blowing up in 2009 and starting to peter off lately. I’m sure if we give it time, it’ll be back around, as well as every other scene. There’s literally a whole world of music in our back-yard. Go out and find it.

neil orians is a senior Fine arts major Who doesn’t

think he’s better than yoU, he knoWs it and Can proVe

it. reaCh him at [email protected].

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predominantly Nebraska-bred, Munson was able to book Chicago big-name Mid-night Conspiracy.

“Electronic is making its way into everybody’s con-sciousness,” Munson said. “It’s becoming a norm even in popular radio, so I feel it’s important (to include) if you’re throwing a music fes-tival.”

Lincoln Calling also wel-comes a new venue this year: the Parrish Project. Featuring a showcase curated by Hilary Stohs-Krause, the host of the radio show ”X-Rated: Women in Music,” the showcase pairs the work of female musicians with music-themed artwork by students from Lincoln Public School’s Arts and Hu-manities Focus Program.

The goal of the “X-Rated: Women in Music” showcase is to provide opportunities to introduce people to new mu-sic, while giving insight on the experiences of women crafting their music.

“Women are underrepre-sented and underexposed in music, in the mainstream music and the music indus-try in general,” Stohs-Krause said. “The main challenge (women musicians face) is being taken seriously as an artist. Pretty much every art-ist I’ve interviewed has had at least one story of being harassed or ignored because she’s female.”

Stohs-Krause and Buckley, longtime friends, agreed dur-ing the early planning stages this past spring that “X-Rated:

Women in Music” would have a place at Lincoln Call-ing.

In total, the festival will feature more than 100 bands, organized by genre at dif-ferent shows and venues. Although Buckley consid-ered mixing genres to ex-pose people to music they might be unfamiliar with, he doesn’t think Lincoln is quite ready for it.

“It’s really hard to get thou-sands of people to be open to the idea that whatever is in front of them has some sort of quality,” Buckley said.

In his years of experi-ence with the Lincoln scene, Buckley has seen people get up and leave when the genre turns jarring, oftentimes be-fore they finish their drink.

He admits that organiz-ing similar music together is “playing it safe,” but believes it appeases everyone.

“The people who want to be challenged will move around from venue to venue and run around,” he said. “People who want to be comfortable and sit at one table all night and listen to similar types of music can.”

Although Lincoln Calling is primarily concerned with the music and the fans it aims to attract, the festival is also an important event to the city of Lincoln as a whole. The fes-tival provides some venues with the largest crowds they will see all year.

The city, of course, takes notice and commu-nity groups like the Lincoln

Downtown Association are helping sponsor the festival this year.

“I really enjoy seeing (com-munity involvement) because I really appreciate this town,” Munson said. “I really love it. I want to see more music and culture happen down here.”

Buckley agreed.“Every different type of per-

son that supports the event or performs at the event, the majority of people really en-joy it,” he said. “I can’t say enough about the feeling of knowing that I helped peo-ple feel that way.”

With Lincoln Calling span-ning five days and featuring more than 100 musicians, it provides the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student body with a setting to take a

glance at local music, even if they never have previously.

“If you focus on the univer-sity community and not the community at large, you’re really cheating yourself,” Stohs-Krause said. “There’s so much great music that will be on display during Lin-coln Calling. (There) really is something for everyone.”

Munson shares the same sentiment and encourages UNL students to check out Lincoln Calling, as well as other downtown events.

“The festival is just one of the many great things that goes on in Lincoln,” Munson said. “The more the univer-sity and the students support that, the more great things we can do in the future.”

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“It’s just nice to feel like the band survived that loss of Tom ... things feel really natural.”

Affirming their affinity for the performance and writing processes, Gardner feels it was natural for the band to continue writing and play-ing even given Ambroz’s ab-sence. Dave Ozinga joined UUVVWWZ a few months after his predecessor’s depar-ture.

Ozinga had known both Gardner and Schroeder for awhile and considered him-self a UUVVWWZ fan. He had been active in Lincoln’s music scene for some time, and played in a band called Husbands. Still, he and the group had never collaborat-ed.

A couple months after Am-broz left, while the group was still working together, Ozinga brought up the idea of play-ing with them.

“We met up at my old prac-tice space at Spindle Records just to kind of mess around,” Ozinga said. “It clicked after one time and that was pretty much it.”

UUVVWWZ has evolved in multiple ways since the original quartet released its first album. Adding Ozinga to the mix brings in a dif-ferent element and time, al-lowing the music to grow in maturity as well. This positive progression is recognized by both Gardner and Ozinga. While Ozinga admits that it’s strange to become a part of a band he’s been a fan of, it’s still a new experience for ev-erybody involved.

“I’m glad we haven’t really decided to revisit the past as a band,” Ozinga said. “While I

was joining this band that had existed, at the same time it was just like a whole new band starting fresh.”

According to Gardner, the September house show of-fered their audience some-thing different from what might be expected of UUV-VWWZ.

“I think our sound is no-ticeably different,” Gardner said. “I think it comes from being more mature as a song-writer, for me. It had been two years since we wrote the first album, so it had been really experimental, seeing different ways sounds could happen.”

Gardner and Ozinga credit Schroeder as the band’s main songwriter and creative force. UUVVWWZ is also more focused, taking their time achieving an album they can all be proud of.

“We work really hard and we work slowly,” Ozinga said. “There’s a reason it took us a year to play a show, and it’s because we spent months working on five seconds of a song. We really get down to

every measure.”Ozinga hopes that the al-

bum they’ve been working on will be something cohe-sive that works well, holisti-cally speaking. They’re not just writing songs, he says, they’re writing an album. Gardner agrees, when they practice, they immediate-ly throw out anything that doesn’t have a UUVVWWZ sound. They’re hoping to re-cord this winter and release an album next spring.

The songs they’ve been performing are some of the same ones they messed around with in the basement of Spindle Records with Oz-inga last year. Lincoln Call-ing will give UUVVWWZ a chance to play their new music again Wednesday at Duffy’s at 11:30 p.m. The per-formance will display a year’s worth of work, as they con-tinue to craft their upcoming album.

“It’s that X factor we’re looking for as a UU sound,” Gardner said. “That’s some-thing we’re heading towards.”

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UUVVWWZ: FrOM 5bUCkley: FrOM 5interest and support of the local music community — well, it’s just who he is,” said Hilary Stohs-Krause, the host of radio show ”X-Rated: Women in Music.” “I think that all comes through with how he organizes and runs Lincoln Calling, which gives it an edge that other

festivals might not have.”Dig back into the last 10

years of Lincoln music, and you’ll find Jeremy Buckley’s name and i n f l u e n c e everywhere: from orga-nizing Lin-coln Calling, to serving on the Hear-N e b r a s k a .org Edito-rial Team, to host-ing week-ly shows on KRNU to booking for Box Awe-some and subsequently The Bourbon Theatre, to host-ing regular and notoriously entertaining shows at what came to be known as the Pi House on 314 N. 18th St.

The last was Buckley’s place of residence prior to 2008 but more notably a staple house venue in Lin-coln, one that boasted both raucous and memorable performances occasionally at Buckley’s expense.

Once during a set by local folk musician Manny Coon, a patron of the Pi House sat through the host’s living room coffee table. While the irritation associated with the incident has long since faded, the humor lives in

on a live recording, where Coon matter-of-factly states mid-song, “Jeremy ain’t go-ing to like that.”

Characteristically mod-est and private, Buckley recalled his fondest mem-ories of the Pi House as being his freedom to dis-appear from the chaos. “Because I lived there, I could decide where I want-ed to be during the show, which was in my bedroom

l o o k i n g through the d o o r w a y , ” he said. “It was nice and cool in there and everyone else had to stay the hell out.”

For people like Casey Welsch, who worked un-der Buckley in the Daily

Nebraskan features sec-tion, the man’s knowledge proved to be both invalu-able and influential in shap-ing Welsch’s own entrance into the world of Lincoln music as a journalist and a fan.

“Jeremy Buckley taught me everything I know about Lincoln’s music scene,” Wel-sch said. “He’s the guy that taught me how to write and got me all the connections I have in the scene.”

And it’s this scene that seems to draw the music guru’s affection more than any one band — national or local — or genre.

“He’s always taking the whole picture into consid-eration when he’s booking

a show,” Welsch said. “It’s not only local music he truly has an affinity for. If anything, it’s Lincoln that he loves.”

What Buckley reaps from his persistent local efforts is open for speculation.

“Free shows,” joked Saber Blazek, the bassist of The Machete Archive.

Welsch estimates that “when a show that he’s booked goes really well and the band is rocking and a lot of people show up and they sell a lot of booze at the bar and everybody’s happy, that makes him hap-py. That’s when he feels his sense of accomplishment.”

In Buckley’s own eyes, this positive reception of shows he organizes seems to spell the difference be-tween success and whatev-er the alternative happens to be.

“If I know that everybody went and had a good time, that’s a compliment,” he said. “If I hear good things from a lot of friends, that’s success to me.”

What’s never in doubt, however, is Buckley’s com-mitment to Lincoln, to col-laboration and fostering a music scene that’s more cultured and recognizable than the way he found it. It’s something that local acts certainly take note of.

“He honestly wants it (the Lincoln music scene) to grow and be comparable to other places in the world,” Blazek said. “He’s seen the potential and stuck with it. He’s always stuck by us and been along for the ride.”

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endure through the media and the fans … they’re all willing to throw the towel in on him. I’m not. Coach Bo won’t and our team won’t.”

Martinez accounted for 293 yards of offense in the game, bringing his career total to 4,195, the most by any Husk-er quarterback after 19 career games. He also tied Jammal Lord for the second-most 100-yard rushing performances by

a quarterback in school history (eight), trailing only Heisman Trophy-winner Eric Crouch.

After the game, coach Bo Pelini vehemently defended his signal caller, even person-ally chastising one beat writer for a critical column on Marti-nez. He called Taylor a “team leader” and said he was proud of the way he played.

“Everyone wants to doubt him,” Pelini said. “You guys

can choose to write whatever you want and attack him like the fans will, and now they’ll praise him. There was a lot of things he can do better out there tonight, but he kept fight-ing, he led the team, he played a heck of a second half. I’m proud of how he responded, how he played. That’s why he’s the starting quarterback right now.”

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Taylor Martinez was defended by his teammates and coaches despite being criticized heavily by the media and many fans. However, his 293 yards of total offense during the Ohio State game may have boosted his reputation as a determined player on the field.

1. Wisconsin (5-0, 1-0) vs. indianaWisconsin, the Big Ten’s only legitimate BCS title contender, stays in the spotlight once again. The Badgers’ rushing attack is one of the most potent in the country and its de-fense is just as impressive. Wisconsin isn’t out of the woods just yet, still having to face the a tough Illinois and a good Penn State defense.

2. Michigan (6-0, 2-0) at michigan stateMichigan comes in at No. 2 this week, simply for the fact that it has managed to make it through half the season unblemished. Michigan looks to be a contender in the Legends division but isn’t without faults. Denard Robinson has been prone to multiple turnovers and the offense doesn’t get going until the second half. If the Wolver-ines continue that trend against teams with a good defense, look for the num-bers in the loss column to increase. And it just so happens that Michigan State has a good defense.

3. illinois (6-0, 2-0) vs. ohio statePerhaps the surprise of the Big Ten this year is Illinois, which is 6-0 for the first time since start-ing 7-0 in 1951. Led by dual-threat quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, the Illini offense is off and run-ning. The Illinois rushing attack ranks 13th in the nation with 226.2 yards a game. Illinois appears to be a legitimate threat to Wisconsin’s title hopes, providing they can remain unscathed.

4. nebraska (5-1, 1-1) bye weekHistoric. That’s the word that comes to mind when one mentions Nebraska’s comeback victory against Ohio State. Not only was it Nebraska’s first Big Ten win and its first win against the Buckeyes, but it was also the biggest comeback in school history. Neverthe-less, the Huskers still have much to prove, mainly on

defense. The Huskers take a well-deserved rest this weekend, then they return to Big Ten action at Min-nesota.

5. Michigan state (4-1, 1-0) vs. michiganMichigan State can take a big step toward In-dianapolis with a win at home against big neighbor Michigan. The Spartans are playing well on defense and shouldn’t squander a lead should Denard Robinson be in his usual turnover-giving mood. Michigan State looks to be one of three teams in the driver seat for the Legends division title.

6. Penn state (5-1, 2-0) vs. purdueThe McGloin/Bolden quar-terback experiment still isn’t working in Happy Val-ley, but the Nittany Lions can sure play defense. The Lions’ formula for winning games is about the same as Nebraska’s the last two years: rely on defense, do what you can on offense. Penn State will be in every game they play, but need better offensive perfor-mances to win the Leaders division.

7. ioWa (3-2, 0-1) vs. northwesternIowa looked to be a contender in the Legends division. After a hum-bling loss to Penn State, that title has changed to pretender. The Hawkeyes were flat out embarrassed Saturday, putting up only a field goal. We’ll find out just where the Hawkeyes stand when they host a downtrodden Northwest-ern team. They’re not quite out of contention just yet, but one more loss and the Hawkeyes can forget about Indianapolis.

8. ohio state (3-3, 0-2)at illinoisWhere to go from here? Only a week after nearly being shut out at home, the Buckeyes were embar-rassed on national televi-sion by allowing Nebraska

to rally from 21 down to take the win. Ohio State’s season is in shambles and visiting a surging Illinois team won’t help.

9. Purdue (3-2, 1-0) at penn stateWhat to make of the Boil-ermakers? One week they look simply helpless and the next they just explode on offense. Granted, it was against the conference floor mat, Minnesota, but still. Purdue has shown flashes of good play, but has been unable to avoid the injury bug. A bowl game is still in the equa-tion, but Purdue is going to have pull some upsets.

10. northWestern (2-3, 0-2) at iowaSo much for quarterback Dan Persa’s Heisman campaign. Persa missed the first three games and returned in a loss to Illinois. This week, he and the Wildcats tried to knock off undefeated Michigan but couldn’t maintain a half-time lead. Northwestern may be better than 10th best in the conference, but its going to have to prove it.

11. indiana (1-5, 0-2) at WisconsinThe Hoosiers had Penn State on the ropes last weekend, even having a chance to win it late in the game, but couldn’t make enough plays. This week-end, Indiana started off strong but couldn’t finish out the game. The Hoo-siers aren’t the worst, but they are close to it. Here’s to better luck next year.

12. Minnesota (1-5, 0-2)bye weekJerry Kill told Golden Go-phers fans what to expect. He didn’t promise Rose Bowls or national titles. But he did promise improve-ment. Maybe not this year but in the future. Gophers fans need to patient and look forward to next year.

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Happy Valley, labeling them as different games in light of the first half. Pelini and the Huskers, true to form, were focused on the task at hand.

“That’s kind of the motto of our program,” Pelini said. “It’s about the culture, it’s about the process, about staying the course. There was no panic. I’m proud of how they came out and played the second half. I give Ohio State a lot of credit. I thought they played one heck of a football game.”

The Huskers were hurting

late in the game. Rex Burk-head was gassed before tak-ing the offense down the field in the fourth quarter. Tight end Ben Cotton had bulges of ice packs beneath his shirt after the game, nurs-ing what he downplayed as bumps and bruises.

“It was guys reaching deep down inside, who were ex-hausted and who were hurt,” Brown said. “Ben Cotton was out there playing hurt. He’s got a tough injury in his el-bow. That guys was out there

blocking and knocking the tar out of people.”

Added onto the hype that accompanied Nebraska’s first home contest in the Big Ten was the fact that Pelini was squaring off against his alma mater. The win against the Buckeyes didn’t seem to mat-ter to the Youngstown, Ohio, native.

“It’s not about me. It’s about our football team,” Pelini said.

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Nebraska was down on the scoreboard but emerged from halftime and outscored Ohio State 28-7 in the second half.


weekend. Against Purdue, Thramer was a stud, hitting .409 with 12 kills on 22 at-tacks, while Werth struggled, hitting .061 with eight kills and six errors on 33 attacks. Against the Hoosiers, the roles reversed: Thramer hit -.333 on six attacks (three errors) while Werth led the team with 13 kills on 20 at-tacks (a .550 percentage).

If Thramer plays as she did against PU every game, and Werth plays as she did against IU, the Husker attack will be tough to stop. For Werth — who was benched for a spell Friday — find-ing that consistency comes down to a strong mentality to rally back from poor out-ings.

“Everybody struggles, but it’s just combating that and coming back and being re-ally strong,” she said. “(It’s about) staying consistent and believing in myself and my teammates.”

For coach Cook, a strong Werth performance comes from two r’s: relaxation and rhythm.

“She was a lot more

relaxed (against Indiana, the .550 performance) and in a much better rhythm with Lauren attacking wise,” he said. “When those guys are in that good a rhythm, (Han-nah’s) hard to stop.”

So as NU, who was ranked No. 5 in today’s coaches poll, prepares for this week-end’s road trip to Wisconsin and Minnesota, it can be sure of a lot of participation by all its players on offense, even at the potential cost of

individual statistics and ac-colades. After all, Werth said, putting up numbers isn’t what Husker volleyball is all about.

“It’s kind of like giving,” she said when asked about sometimes giving digs up to Mancuso. “Giving to our team, giving to one another. I think it’s a great character-istic that Nebraska volleyball carries.”

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The Nebraska women’s golf team is competing for the first time in Big Ten country.

The Huskers are currently competing in the Lady North-ern Invitational in French Lick, Ind. The tournament is being hosted by Indiana University at the par-71 Donald Ross Course. The first two rounds of the invite took place on Monday, with the third and final round on Tuesday.

Competing for the Husker’s team score are seniors Mad-eleine Sheils, Kayla Knopik and Katie Keiser and sopho-mores Steffi Neisen and Kate-lyn Wright. Freshman Shelby Martinek is competing indi-vidually for the Huskers.

Coming into the tourna-ment, head coach Robin Krapfl was hopeful to see her team start off better than they did at last week’s Edean Ih-lanfeldt Invitational.

“I just want us to get off to better starts,” Krapfl said. “We just need to have some more consistent scores.”

Krapfl is also worried about her team’s putting on a course that has difficult greens.

“Getting to the green is easier than it was at the past course,” Krapfl said. “But once you get on the green you need to have your ball in the right section in order to have a makeable putt.”

Before teeing off on Mon-day, Neisen was excited that she and her teammates would

have a chance to impress the Big Ten teams in the tourna-ment.

“I think it’s just a new be-ginning,” Neisen said. “We’re all coming in with a clean slate and we have a chance to prove how good our team is this week.”

Despite the excitement, Neisen also knew she needed to improve a few aspects of her golf game if she was go-ing to compete the way she wanted.

“ M y p u t t i n g needs to be more c o n s i s -t e n t , ” N e i s e n said. “I feel like tweaking my grip on the putter has c a u s e d some of my inconsistencies so I just want to get more comfortable.”

Although the Huskers have traveled to both Washington and Indiana within the past week, Neisen doesn’t think there will be any signs of fa-tigue.

“We may be a little tired, but we just love playing so much that I don’t think it will affect us,” Neisen said. “I don’t think it will be too much of a concern.”

Despite the confidence and hope that Krapfl had com-ing into the tournament, the

Husker’s performance on Monday didn’t really meet her expectations.

“We still have a lot to work on,” Krapfl said. “We still need to get off to a better start and stay composed and play well throughout the whole round.”

The Huskers concluded their first day at the Lady Northern Invitational on Monday, ending with a final team score of 615 and a sev-enth-place standing after two rounds.

Geibert and Knopik led the way for the Huskers, both putting up scores of 149, which placed them tied for 14th. Neisen finished tied for 45th with a score of 157 and Wright was tied for 51st after shooting 18 strokes over par in the first two rounds. Keiser wrapped up the Husker’s team score with a 166 score that put her in 65th place. Individually, Martinek had a score of 155 which placed her second among the individuals competing at the tournament.

Despite the somewhat tough day for Nebraska, Krapfl was still happy with some of the things the Husk-ers did.

“Our performances on the par 3s were outstanding,” Krapfl said. “We did actually do a lot of good things to-day.”

Nebraska will finish the Lady Northern Invitational Tuesday, with tee times be-ginning at 7:30 a.m.

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Three days removed from NU swimming and diving’s annual alumni meet, “Shock-tober” festivities are in full effect.

For assistant coach Doug Humphrey, that means push-ing his team through an entire month of intensive training and conditioning in hopes of propelling each swimmer to best individual times by mid-season. Satur-day’s recreational meet pre-sented a welcome rest to a team that had just finished two hours of intense condi-tioning.

Led by juniors Ellan Du-four and Ashley Reiter, along with sophomore Shannon Guy, the Huskers prevailed against the alumni swimmers in dominating fashion, 140.5-112.5, at the Devaney Center. Dufour shined in multiple events, winning the mixed 100-yard fly and the mixed 100-yard IM. Guy and Re-iter found individual success, winning the 25-yard freestyle and 50-yard breast, respec-tively. Also fairing well was Freshman Rebekah Land, who won the mixed 50-yard backstroke event.

The alumni didn’t go down without a fight. Alan Kelsey and Mike Irvin combined for five individual victories of their own. Irvin, a 1989

graduate, was the event’s second-oldest competitor and Kelsey, a 1993 graduate, its fifth. The field of 20 saw little contribution from the nine recent graduates (2007-2010), who failed to make a significant impression on the stat sheet.

B u t , a c co r d -ing to H u m -p h r e y , the fo-cus of the meet w a s n ’ t the com-petition.

“For us, it was a little more of a prac-tice with some competition and fun thrown in,” he said. “We really didn’t focus on anything in particular.”

It was all a part of the team’s intensified practice and conditioning schedule ahead of its Oct. 22 season opener against South Da-kota State. Anchored by an intrasquad competition and the alumni meet, NU swim-ming’s pre-season schedule has traditionally focused on introducing and re-ac-customing swimmers to the pool in a competitive format. Sophomore Bailey Pons sees the added benefits of a com-petitive pre-season for an in-creasingly difficult schedule.

“It kind of nice to open the season with a competitive meet,” she said. “We really have to step up our game for Big Ten competition.”

In the long term, the team looks to gain the respect of its counterparts at the Feb-ruary’s Big Ten Champion-ships in Iowa City, Iowa. In the nearer future, with the “Shocktober” festivities underway, the swimmers look to prepare for a season opening that pits them in two meets just six days apart. The team travels to Houston for the Rice Invitational less than a week after opening the season against South Dakota State at the Devaney Center.

With the alumni meet and exhibition competition be-hind it, the team looks to make the most of the its preparation time.

“This part of October is really for getting in some great training and condi-tioning,” Humphrey said. “The next few weeks will not only test them physi-cally but also mentally and really prepare them for the rest of the season.”

Pons embraces the chal-lenge that lies ahead.

“The Big Ten is a huge conference,” she said. “If we want to make a big statement we’ll all have to work hard.”

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The Nebraska baseball team competed in three games this weekend at Haymarket Park in its annual Red-White series.

The White team swept the Reds by scores of 6-3, 4-3 and 12-7.

But that’s not the impor-tant news that came out of the weekend at Hawks field. It’s October. College baseball is an afterthought.

The important news is who’s in charge. Former Husker and MLB-standout Darin Erstad was hired in July to take charge af-ter Mike Anderson was fired. At 37, he brings youth and a fresh approach to Nebraska baseball. After 14 seasons playing profes-sionally, he brings a high level of experience.

“We’re going to be an aggres-sive team,” Erstad said. “On the mound, on the bases, on de-fense. And we’re going to play our tempo of baseball.”

Anderson led the Huskers to Big 12 Conference titles in 2003 and 2005, but Nebraska failed to make the league tournament during his last three seasons.

Erstad was on staff as a volun-teer assistant last season before being hired during the summer.

The weekend gave Husker fans their first look at an Erstad-led Nebraska team.

“We’re in the process of pour-ing the cement,” Erstad said. “It’s still a little wet right now, but we’re working on getting that thing solidified.”

Nebraska’s roster features six seniors, 15 juniors, eight sopho-mores and 13 freshmen. The players were allowed to pick their own teams during the weekend Red-White series. And even though the Whites swept the series, the Huskers received significant production from its wealth of underclassmen.

On Thursday, sophomore Mi-chael Pritchard had two of the White team’s six hits and scored two runs. Junior Ryan Hander picked up the victory on the mound. Freshman shortstop Patrick Kelly had three hits for the Reds on Friday. Junior Chad Christensen blasted the week-end’s lone home run – a deep fly to left field for a grand slam.

And that’s only a small por-tion of NU’s gained experience this weekend.

“It was a grind,” junior Josh Scheffert said. “That was the first time we put three solid games together.”

But for Erstad, class stand-ing isn’t important at this point during the season. He said he’s been using fall scrimmages to evaluate player at different po-sitions and that it’s still an open competition in some areas.

“We’re looking for those guys who are willing to commit all the way,” Erstad said. “We’re in the process of finding that out. To single out people right now, we’re not ready for that yet.”

From a leadership standpoint, Scheffert said the entire team is looking to step up.

“I think we’re all trying to be one of those guys,” Schef-fert said. “I think we all want to step up and be a leader on this team.”

After three tough years in the Big 12, Nebraska will jump to the Big Ten this spring. Erstad said that won’t affect what kind of team the Huskers are.

“I really don’t care who we’re playing or what conference we’re in,” Erstad said. “We’re worried about how we’re playing. You respect every

opponent exactly the same. It doesn’t matter who you’re play-ing or where you’re playing. I just never concerned myself

with what’s on the other side or where you’re at.”

And Erstad has his players believing in his philosophy.

“We’re going to make this

game exciting and push some runs across any way we can,” Scheffert said.

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The Nebraska men’s golf team was in Akron, Ohio, Monday for the first two rounds of the Firestone Invitational at Fires-tone Country Club.

In the first round, the Husk-ers struggled and earned a 16th place standing out of 17 teams in the field. NU senior Scott Willman led the team with a round of 74 on the par-72 layout, which annually hosts the PGA Tour’s Bridges-tone Invitational.

Sophomore Manuel Lavin shot 75, juniors Kevin Gillick and Neil Dufford shot 77 and 78, respectively, and fresh-man Ross Dickson came in with a 6-over-par 78 as well.

The team’s first-round score totaled 304.

The second round, though, w o u l d bring the Hu ske r s more gra-t u i t o u s fortunes. All but D u f f o r d improved on their f i n a l r o u n d s by at least four strokes.

N U ’ s top two golfers came in un-der par. Willman paced Ne-braska with a 3-under-par 69, putting him in a tie for 15th

out of 90 individuals. Lavin fired a round of 70. He will enter Tuesday’s third round tied for 25th.

Dickson and Gillick, the Huskers’ No. 4 and No. 5 play-ers, each turned in 1-over-par rounds of 73, giving Nebraska a second-round team score of 285. Dufford matched his first round with another 78. Ex-cluding that score, NU shot 2-under-par in round two.

After shaving 19 strokes off their first-round tally, the Huskers vaulted eight spots up the leaderboard. They will begin round three tied with Eastern Michigan and Toledo for ninth place, 17 shots off the lead set by Big Ten foe Indiana.— compileD by zach tegler

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Hayley Thramer contributed to a powerful Husker attack against Purdue, hitting .409 with 12 kills on 22 attacks.

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A clearly frustrated Bo Pelini almost looked confused by the question. One that he seemed to think had a very matter-of-fact answer.

So when a reporter asked how members of the team were rallying behind their quarterback, the fourth-year coach responded.

“That’s what teammates do,” Pelini said.

That support for one anoth-er was a huge theme among the Huskers last week. They said so frequently after their

school-record come-from-be-hind win against Ohio State.

“We were just playing to-gether as a family,” Taylor Martinez said. “That’s been our motto all week: Togeth-erness and ‘familiness.’ We just came together. I’m glad we came through with the win.”

The Huskers got together at halftime, literally and figu-ratively, as they walked off the field amid boos from some in the stands at Me-morial Stadium. NU running backs coach Ron Brown praised the team’s ability to respond to the fans’ chorus.

“We knew we had to rise

to a challenge,” Brown said. “We could lay down and be dead or go find a way to get back up. The Bible says when you get hit in the cheek, you get back up and you offer the other cheek. You come back and you say, ‘Huh, here we go.’”

The Huskers offered the cheek that didn’t have 20 Buckeye points slapped across it, instead turning their head before posting 306 second-half yards and 28 un-answered points.

For senior safety Austin Cassidy, the vibe in the NU locker rooms emphasized trust in teammates to do their

own jobs.“In the locker room we

had a couple guys kind of say, ‘Hey, enough is enough. Take care of your assignment and don’t worry about what everyone else is doing out there,’” Cassidy said. “‘If ev-eryone does their own indi-vidual assignment then we’ll be good to go,’ and I think you saw that in the second half.”

NU receiver Kenny Bell saw the Husker comeback as the best event of his young football career.

“Something we talked about all week was coming together as a family,” Bell

said. “Nothing says that bet-ter than a comeback from 21. We came in at halftime, no-body’s head was down. We knew we had to go to work, but we came out; we bonded as a team.”

There were questions about Nebraska’s team iden-tity before they made the trip to Madison and even more were asking those questions during the half Saturday. Some were looking ahead on the Big Ten schedule to games in Ann Arbor or

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Former Nebraska quarter-back Joe Ganz passes by the media outside the inter-view room after every home game. The reporters’ digital recorders are hungry for the opinions of one of the most popular Huskers of the past decade, now a coaching in-tern for the team. But every week, he just keeps walking.

Except this week.This week, he just couldn’t

resist. After the young man he’s spent a good deal of time working with during the past few years had gone through the media meat grinder, he couldn’t help but utter one thought as he con-tinued down the hall, back turned to the horde.

“How about that Taylor Martinez?” Ganz asked.

It was yet another example of a Husker sticking up for

the embattled quarterback, who, despite being only a sophomore, has had enor-mous expectations heaped on his shoulders. Martinez took the brunt of the blame from fans and the media for last week’s 48-17 loss to Wis-consin in which he threw three interceptions.

He had no such struggles in Saturday’s win against Ohio State and was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for his hand in the comeback victory.

Martinez displayed excel-lent accuracy early on, com-pleting his first 10 passes. But the Husker running game was ineffective and Martinez threw an interception late in the first half that led to an Ohio State field goal. Offen-sive coordinator Tim Beck took the blame for that turn-over, saying he should have been more conservative in that situation.

The frustrated Husker faithful let their opinion be heard, as many booed as the team exited the field. Some fans left.

Those who stuck around got to see Martinez’s second-half masterpiece.

“I just knew we had to come back,” Martinez said. “Our offense knew we had to step up. The first two drives we couldn’t put it in the end zone. We were just kicking field goals. We just knew we had to score.”

The sophomore scored NU’s first touchdown with an 18-yard scamper, then dropped a beautiful pass into the waiting arms of Quincy Enunwa for another score on the Huskers’ next drive.

The Huskers punted on their next possession, but found pay dirt again when Martinez checked down to running back Rex Burk-head on the ensuing drive.

Burkhead made a man miss and scored from 30 yards out.

Of the Huskers’ four sec-ond-half touchdowns, Mar-tinez had a direct hand in three of them. And while he didn’t bust of any of his pat-ented long runs, he finished

with 102 yards rushing.“I love the kid. He’s a

special player and a special young man,” Beck said. “To endure what he’s had to

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quarterback Taylor Martinez made enormous improvements to his playing performance in the second half of Nebraska’s come-from-behind victory against Ohio State, rebuking many critics who doubted him after the Wisconsin game.

SECOND-HALF DIFFERENCETaylor Martinez changed the momentum of the game Saturday with a dramatically improved second half. He avoided sacks, ran better and made smarter decisions passing the ball, all of which contributed to 28 second-half points.

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For just the third time since John Cook became coach in 2000, the Nebraska volleyball team may not have a first-team AVCA All-American.

On a per-set basis, the only players the Huskers have in the top eight of the most sig-nificant statistics (kills, assists, blocks, aces, digs, attack per-centage, points) in the Big Ten Conference are Hayley Thramer (second in blocks) and Lauren Cook (sixth in as-sists).

Coach Cook couldn’t be happier with the situation.

“We’ll take balance any day, we’re trying to be bal-anced,” he said. “I’ll tell you right now, Lauren will be pumped up with those num-bers (against Purdue). That’s the first thing she looks for is how balanced our attack was. Gina (39 attacks), Han-nah (34) and Morgan (33) are all within three or four of each other and our middles (Thramer, 22 and Brooke Delano, 20) are within two of each other. Lauren takes pride in running a balanced offense and it makes you harder to defend.”

The antithesis of Nebras-ka’s strategy came in the form of the Purdue Boilermak-ers, the Huskers’ opponent Friday night. PU may have an All-American in junior outside hitter Ariel Turner. Turner leads the Big Ten in points and is a very close (.01 per set) second in kills. She earned Big Ten co-player of the week honors this week partially due to her 24-kill, 11-dig performance against Nebraska.

However, her 24 kills came on 72 attacks, which made up 42 percent of her teams attacks, and she hit only .208. Mancuso led the Huskers that night with 16 kills — and added 19 digs — but did so on only 25 percent of her team’s attacks, hitting .282.

Turner got player of the week honors and All-Ameri-can buzz. Mancuso got a win.

“All (our) hitters (against Purdue) did a great job of swinging high and making shots, killing it,” she said. “These numbers just prove it.”

Much of the credit from coaches and players goes to the setter Cook, who controls the touches in NU’s one-setter rotation. For her part, Cook doesn’t think she’s been do-ing anything out of the ordi-nary to achieve the attacking balance Nebraska showed against the Boilermakers.

“I try to read the block to put the hitters one-on-one and put them in the most ide-al situations,” she said. “We had great passing (against Purdue) and I was able to do that.”

NU continued to show bal-ance Saturday against Indi-ana, as only six hits separated its fourth most-active hitter, Delano, with 17, from Man-cuso with 23 while IU had two hitters combine for 56 percent of its offense. The re-sult: another NU victory.

As strong as the offense is (NU ranks 11th nationally in hitting percentage) it stands to get even stronger given more consistent play from Thramer and Werth, who each submitted an egg and a gem offensively during the

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