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Inside Coverage

Scrapbooks, crafts store builds trust Ben Franklin thrives after nearly 5 decades

Pelini mixing it up at spring game

Baseball, softball to play series after 1-1 weeks

10 Relay for Life fundraiser set for Friday 12-hour event accepts sign-ups until last minute

2 Future of the White House Columnist explains ideal 2016 race

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5 Huskers go back to the diamond

Saturday’s spring game at Memorial Stadium will give Nebraska fans their football fix for spring, but instead of splitting the roster into two full teams, this year’s game will have the Husker defense match up against the offense for the entire game.

Professors’ innovative work in surgical robotics wins prestigious award story by Mara Klecker photos by Adam Warner

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hane Farritor’s office is a collection site for odd-looking tools.

Atop the mechanical and materials engineering professor’s metal cabinet against the wall is what looks like the handles to a pair of scissors. The instrument is what surgeons stick into the abdomen of a patient undergoing colon resection surgery.

But Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov, a professor of surgery and director of the Center for Advanced Surgical Technology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, hope that in five or 10 years, using that instrument will be an outdated method for resection surgeries.

The two hope that with the use of small robots developed by their team of researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and UNMC, patients’ hospital stays will be cut down from 12 days to two.

It’s that ambitious goal and the work done toward it that earned both Farritor and Oleynikov the Innovation, Development and Engagement award from the University of Nebraska. The award honors faculty members who “have extended their academic expertise beyond the boundaries of the University in ways that have enriched the broader community.”

The award comes with a $10,000 stipend to be applied to research.

The two have worked together for 12 years, creating a research partnership between the UNL and UNMC campuses.

“It’s fitting that he and I received the award at the same time,” Farritor said.

Both Farritor and Oleynikov said the work is bigger than just the two of them.

The research group includes about 10 others at the medical center and 10 or 15 graduate and undergraduate students at UNL. “I’m just the kingpin of a pyramid scheme here,” Farritor said. “Everyone else is so talented. They do the excellent work and I get all of the credit for it.”

Though Farritor remains humble, his work’s success speaks for itself. He has 15 patents and 50 or 60 applications pending for his surgical robotics work.

The prototypes he and his team have created have been tested in the lab at the medical center. The researchers hope to test the robots in a human colon surgery next year.

ABOVE: UNL engineering professor Shane Farritor works on one of the surgical robots in his office. The small robot, co-developed

by Farritor, is designed to perform minor surgeries in hard-to-reach places.

LEFT: Farritor stands with some of his students in front of the “Robot Wall of Honor,” which showcases many of the robots that have been designed and built by UNL faculty and students.

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Bumble Boosters uses volunteers to find queen bees Melissa Allen dn

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from winter hibernation in April.

After she establishes a nest, her worker offspring forage for nectar and pollen to support the This April, the queens are coming nest. The worker bees pollinate out.

The Bumble Boosters initiated plants, including food crops such its latest project, Queen Quest, as tomatoes and plants in the gourd family. Bees are an imporlast Friday. The team consists of two members of the entomology tant part of pollination, as many plants would’t produce food or department at the University of seed without them.

Nebraska-Lincoln, Queen bee and members sightings are an of University of Together, important part Minnesota’s Bee we will work of research into Squad. As queen the lifestyle of bumblebees start on improving bumblebees, said coming out to Douglas Golick, scour the state the program this director of the for possible nest- year.”

Bumble Boosters. ing areas, Queen “Several U.S. Louise Lynch Quest is tracking spesightings by ask- entomology graduate student bumblebee cies are thought ing citizen volunto be in decline,” teers to keep an said Golick, an entomology assiseye out. Volunteers can submit tant professor at UNL. “No one photos of their queen bee sightknows the exact reason for this. ings by registering for free on the Long-term diversity and abunBumble Boosters’ website, bumdance data is scarce in most areas, bleboosters.unl.edu. so drawing conclusions about Bumblebee colonies begin when one queen bee is born the whether this decline a short term or more serious long-term trend previous summer and emerges

is hard to determine.”

The team is looking for information on queen sightings and correlating their emergence with local weather patterns.

During this first year they’re conducting a soft roll out, meaning they’re testing out their methods and systems for data collection and reporting.

“Together, we will work on improving the program this year since it’s the first year, a pilot run,” said Louise Lynch, an entomology graduate student who launched the project with Golick.

“We’re working on how to react to problems we come across.”

They’ve already began receiving records, including one from Washington state.

“We are surprised that submissions started coming in last week,” Golick said.

The goal is to develop it into a long-term monitoring project, Lynch said.

“There are a lot of projects for other plants and behaviors of certain species that have been

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ON CAMPUS what:

Fit@Work – Support the People’s City Mission when: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union

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“STREB” daredevil dance event when: 7:30 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts

what:

Kings and Queens: A Cross-Dressing Extravaganza! when: 8 p.m. where: Karma Night Club more information: Benefit for Spectrum UNL. $10 for 21 and under, $5 for over 21.

IN LINCOLN what:

Monster Jam “As Big as It Gets” when: 7:30 p.m. where: Pinnacle Bank Arena more information: Advance tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for children for all three events. what:

Kevin Nealon when: 8 p.m. where: Rococo Theatre, 140 N. 13th St. more information: Tickets are $39.50.

bees: from 1 in place for years,” Lynch said.

“My hope is to contribute in that way with bumblebees. Right now we’re just ironing out the process and synthesizing the information we’re getting.”

Citizen participation is important for data collection, Lynch said.

“We want people to get involved in this,” she said. “We hope our participants will get a lot out of this project. It’s not just about researching bumblebee queens, there’s a dual purpose here.”

This spring, the team encourages anyone of any age to participate in their study, Lynch said. Flowers are the best places to look for the big, furry queens this month.

“Locating bumblebee queens is fairly easy if you spend a little time outside,” Golick said.

“We suggest that you find early blooming flowers and scan them for large black and yellow bees.

They are about quarter size in length head to tail and bound from flower to flower in a ‘bumbling’ manner.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Some aid packages can be renegotiated Madison Wurtele dn The financial aid package a student receives from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is not always set in stone.

While the university maintains there’s no room for negotiation when it comes to the financial aid package, there’s a possibility staff will revisit their initial offer if a student or a student’s family has experienced a special circumstance situation after submitting their free application for federal financial aid.

These circumstances include the loss of employment, the death of a parent, divorce or catastrophic medical expenses not covered by insurances, said Craig Munier, director of scholarship and financial aid at UNL. “My sense is that students and families who suffer from these kinds of traumatic events know to ask for help,” Munier said. “I hope that (students) trust our office and staff well enough to ask for help when they need it.”

Financial need is determined

by subtracting the expected family income from the cost of the school and is decided by the government.

The expected family income is determined using parents’ income, parents’ assets, the family unit, the number of children a family has in college, a student’s income and a student’s assets. This financial need is used to determine the amount of financial aid a student will receive.

When it comes to performancebased scholarships, UNL will only revisit them if a student believes the university overlooked something.

In most cases, the university won’t have made a mistake on their initial offer, Munier said.

When determining both performance-based and need-based financial aid, the university won’t take other schools’ offers into consideration.

“There may be other universities that may be, for a variety of reasons, willing to discount their price,” Munier said.

The university tends to see an increase in requests to revisit financial aid packages during economic downturns.

“A couple of years ago when we were in the throws of the recession, we saw a dramatic increase,” Munier said. “I think the economy today is on the mend, and we are seeing less of those than we were three to four years ago.”

Students or parents who have experienced a special circumstance situation should keep a solid conversation between themselves and the financial aid office, but they first need to provide documentation of their special circumstance, said Les Monroe, director of college planning at the EducationQuest Foundation.

“The student will be required to have documentation to support their request for a reconsideration, then the financial aid office is the only one who can make these adjustments,” he said.

This consideration will only be taken seriously if there’s a legitimate change in a student’s needs.

If students attempt to negotiate their financial aid with the university, it’s insulting to an office that’s already doing their best to provide a student with the appropriate financial aid, Monroe said.

I hope that (students) trust our office and staff well enough to ask for help when they need it.”

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“I wouldn’t want students to go back to the financial aid office to negotiate because that’s not an option,” he said. “The financial aid office is honestly there to support students.”

Some students disagree with the university’s unwillingness to reconsider financial aid, except in extreme circumstances.

“I think they should maybe reconsider, because they may think it’s the best option, but just because it says something on FASFA doesn’t mean that is how it is in real life,” said Jessica Glass, a freshman psychology major.

Others maintain that the origi-

nal financial aid offer is the best one that can be given.

Students completing higher education in Nebraska are fortunate in the sense that most Nebraska schools are doing the best job they can in providing students with the accurate amount of financial aid that, unless there are special circumstances, wouldn’t need to be negotiated, Monroe said.

“There are colleges out there who will negotiate financial aid with students,” he said. “Most schools in Nebraska, including UNL, do not practice these tactics.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Student Involvement plans to increase RSO communication Diego de los Reyes DN The University of NebraskaLincoln boasts 1,130 registered student organizations. But fewer than half of them are considered active by Student Involvement.

A communication push at the beginning of next semester could increase the number of active organizations. For student groups to remain active, members must turn in an annual review form with Student Involvement and attend an orientation session, along with confirming their account balance with student organization financial services. Mandi Hulme, assistant director of Student Involvement, said it’s still an RSO’s responsibility to stay compliant, but her office will begin communicating proactively with student groups in August.

“There’s certainly room for improvement in my area and the services that we offer,” she said. “We want to do better. But the student groups themselves, they’re doing great.”

Hulme said the number of active student groups has been around the 600 mark for a few years.

“We have groups that go out of compliance or aren’t formally recognized by us anymore because they don’t update their contact information with us,” she said. “So those groups are inactive, meaning that we haven’t heard from them in two years or defunct groups that we haven’t heard from them in four years.”

There are 132 inactive groups and 349 defunct groups at UNL. “So altogether there’s almost 500 groups that have registered at our office at some point and probably just gradu-

ated and moved on, and the of UNL, said they’re planning interest level never stayed,” to push for new members in the fall semester. In the meanHulme said. time, they’re making use of the Inactive and defunct groups services provided by the office can be hobby-based organizaof student organizations.“We tions or groups supporting a specific political candidate. made use of the program they had where you make fliers and They also include past parties that ran for student govern- drop them off, then they get put ment. This means a portion up around campus,” King said.

“We’re hoping that helps, but of those inactive and defunct groups have simply served we’ve been looking and so far I their purpose and aren’t neces- only know of one being up in a bathroom in Pound.” sary anymore.

Hulme said the number of

By Student Involvement active groups has stayed relastandards, which track how many event-planning and reg- tively stable because of new groups forming as older groups istration forms the student orgo inactive. ganizations submit, the three Amongst the new groups, most active groups for the past year have been ASUN, Hulme said the UNL Makers the Chinese Student Schol- Club, SMILE and South Sudanese Orphans and Widows ars Association and Lambda stand out to her, Theta Nu. Howand she thinks ever, Hulme said The student the state of stusome groups dent groups on might register a groups campus is posiweeklong event themselves, tive. in a single form “I think it’s even if they have they’re doing excellent,” she a greater numgreat.” said.

“Student ber of events groups are planthat week, which Mandi Hulme ning a lot of could skew inassistant director events; they’re volvement staof student involvement doing a lot of tistics. things. They creThe Secular ate the livelihood on campus.”

Humanists of UNL group, an Hulme said her office proRSO currently registered with vides a variety of services – evStudent Involvement, almost lost its affiliation to the larger erything from the aforemenSecular Student Alliance. This tioned poster route, where staff semester, just two or three posts student organizations flimembers have attended the ers for them in academic buildings, to advertisement in their group meetings. social media accounts to afNick Stancato, affiliate profordable graphic design for the gram manager for the Secular Student Alliance, said the UNL group’s posters.

“We also offer this worksecular group managed to renew its affiliation just in time. shop series called ‘Upgrade your RSO,’” she said. “The While he wouldn’t disclose topics range from empowering specifics, he said the group has others, building trust, recruitworked with them in the past.

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robots: from 1 The research lives up to the award title. It’s innovative – the team is the only one working on surgical robots to go inside the body, Farritor said. The work is engaging, too.

“You make this little robot, and it’s something that everyone can relate to and understand,” Farritor said. “It’s kind of got some public appeal.”

They’ve shown off the work to 4-H groups and presented at high schools. People are intrigued.

Oleynikov wants people to look at the research – and the award – and be inspired. He said he wants them to say, “If they can do it, so can I.” “Shane and I just started off with an idea on a napkin,” Oleynikov said. “A good idea and individuals who are committed to carrying idea through – that’s a recipe for success.”

A total success for the researchers would be seeing their robots used in surgical rooms across the country, creating a new, safer and more effective procedure for patients. It’s the reason

adam warner | dn Farritor stands with one of the practice dummies used to test the surgical robot. All robots – especially those that are intended to be used on people – are tested rigorously.

Farritor gets up and goes to work every morning, he said.

The award is a recognition of that dedication, Oleynikov said.

“It says to us, ‘You’ve gone this far, now go all the way.’” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Students walk to fight cancer in Relay for Life Nicole Rauner dn The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Relay for Life is Friday at the Cook Pavilion. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m.

The event lasts 12 hours, and that length was chosen for a reason.

“It’s the idea of participants to be able to come out for 12 hours and be exhausted and know that the money they raised is going to the mission,” said Heather Gorham, specialist for Relay for Life, regarding how cancer patients feel exhausted during treatment.

Gorham is the head of volunteers for the event and staffs four of the 70 events in the state: UNL, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Southeast Nebraska and Otoe County.

Those interested can sign up at relayforlife.org and search for UNL’s event. Last-minute sign ups will also be at the Cook Pavilion.

The event kicks off at 6 p.m. with a speaker. At 6:30 p.m., the survivors lap begins where survivors walk a lap to start the walk.. Then, at 6:40 p.m. the teams or individuals join the survivors on the track.

One person from each team has to be on the track at all times. Later in the evening, there’s a luminaries ceremony representing those who are currently battling cancer or died.

Then participants take a silent lap.

Brendon Henning, a sophomore marketing major, is the vice president of Students Together Against Cancer, which has a team of about 10 to 15 students in this year’s Relay for Life.

“The purpose of us doing Relay for Life is to fulfill our mission and be of support to other cancer-related organizations,” Henning said, “and team bonding for ourselves.”

STAC is the major cancer awareness RSO on campus. The

if you go what:

UNL Relay for Life Cook Pavilion when: Friday, 6 p.m. more information: sign up at relayforlife.org or at Cook Pavilion on Friday where:

group members also like to interact personally with patients unlike other large corporations.

“We’re not donating to any large corporations … that’s one of the things we made sure of when we first started,” Henning said.

“It’s not just a tear drop in the ocean … every patient we’ve donated to we’ve met personally.”

Like STAC, Relay for Life aims to put a face to the issue.

“With all the ceremonies you’ll see just how many people are affected,” Gorham said. “You’ll see your faculty and your staff and you didn’t know that maybe your friend’s aunt died from cancer.”

Tickets are $10 as a commitment fee. Forty-one percent of the money will go toward research, 18 percent will go toward prevention through education and advocacy, 18 percent will go toward patient services, 19 percent will go toward fundraising and the remaining 4 percent will go toward management.

So far, 35 teams and 415 participants have raised a total of $13,772.93. Gorham hopes to help people open up their eyes and come together at the event.

“Just to be able to know that they’re having a helping hand in ending cancer.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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‘3.11’ author speaks at UNL Jacob Elliott DN March 11, 2010, was a “turning point” in Japanese history, said Richard Samuels, author of “3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan.”

Samuels, a Ford International Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke about the 3.11 disaster and its effects on the social structure of Japan at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Thursday afternoon.

The 3.11 disasters refer to the 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown that affected Japan on March 11, 2010. As a result of the events, more than 20,000 people died and more than 200,000 people lost their homes, causing 20 to 50 trillion yen in damages.

Samuels’ book goes deeper into the subject. He looks at the past and future of the Japanese military as a consequence of the disaster, as well as looking at earthquakes and other natural disasters in Japan and abroad.

At UNL, he spoke about the circle of blame, where each individual tried to push responsibility for the incident to another.

Tokyo Electric Power was partially blamed for the incident.

While the company attempted to

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Richard J. Samuels, an MIT professor, gave a talk on Thursday afternoon about Japan’s reactions to the earthquake in March 2011 and how the government and society has been changed. negate blame by saying the incident was “sote-gai,” or beyond the expectation or imagination of the mind, the claim was made rather transparent by notes of corruption and failed examinations, Samuels said. The prime minister at the time, Naoto Kan, was viewed as villainous for allowing the incident to occur.

Samuels also noted the heroism and societal reaction to the

incident. Individuals, on the local and national level, reacted quickly and efficiently to the incident. The word sote-gai was used to describe these individuals in a positive light and to say they worked “beyond expectation.”

The incident brought a more popular light to the Japanese military and hammered the idea of social solidarity – the idea

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that neighbors should help other neighbors – into the minds of Japanese citizens.

“I think the way that any nation responds to a catastrophe provides clues to the capability of that country to adjust going forward,” Samuels said. “And how it chooses to adjust: whether it chooses to choose to change in a positive way, a negative way, whether to go forward or go back or to not make changes because it’s too difficult. It’s something we ought to be paying attention to.”

He discussed the three major models of thought on change that stemmed from the incident: accelerating change, sustaining the current model or undoing the change. Samuels said that while the Japanese viewed 3.11 as a turning point in Japanese history, most preferred to sustain the current ideals that they held rather than pushing forward new ideas or reverting to old ones.

“It’s interesting to get the perspective more directly,” said Luke Kahnk, a senior international business major who attended the lecture. “It was covered quite a bit in the news here, but it’s filtered through and seen through our perspective. It was interesting to hear what they thought about over there.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Harris Center receives alumni donation staff report dn Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumni donated $100,000 to the university’s Harris Center for Judaic Studies.

The fund will provide resources annually to the center, which is focused on evaluating and improving how students learn about the Holocaust in higher education in order to empower students to challenge intolerance.

The donation, from siblings Peter Sommerhauser and Eileen Sommerhauser Putter, will also help to support the University of Nebraska Campaign for Unlimited Possibilities, a fundraising initiative that concludes Dec. 31.

The fund will be named the Lou Sommerhauser Fund for Holocaust Education in memory of the donors’ father, Lou Sommerhauser, and their grandparents Albert and Babette, who where killed in Nazi concentration camps.

Lou was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1909 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. He lived in New York for more than a decade before finally coming to Lincoln in 1949 with his wife, Leelo Eichbaum, and their two children.

“Lou was an amazingly resilient, intelligent, hard-working, generous and loving man,” Eileen Sommerhauser Putter said in a University of Nebraska Foundation press release. “He has continued to remain a major influence in our lives.”

The donation will help fund the Holocaust education project, an interdisciplinary effort led by

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Student members of UNL’s Hillel Jewish student organization socialize at Passover Seder, a Jewish ritual feast that celebrates the beginning of Passover. The group works with the Harris Center for Judaic Studies. the Harris center.

“This new support from the Sommerhauser family will allow us to design an annual workshop that brings experienced Holocaust educators and researchers together for high-level discussions of time-tested and brand new ways to educate students about such an important topic,” said Ari Kohen, an associate professor of political science who’s involved in the project, in the press release.

UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman said he’s grateful for the

donation.

“I have known the Sommerhauser family for many years,” he said in the press release.

“Their story is uniquely American, and we are honored to associate their name with the Harris Center for Judaic Studies and its important programs and mission.”

Peter Sommerhauser graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences and received an MBA from UNL’s College of Business Administration before gaining a law degree from Northwest-

ern University. Both Peter and his wife Elizabeth Higgins Sommerhauser, a UNL alumna from the College of Education and Human Sciences, are trustees of the NU Foundation. They live in Milwaukee, Wis. Eileen Sommerhauser Putter received her master ’s degree in urban education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is now married to alumnus Howard Putter, a graduate of UNL’s College of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Seattle. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Lincoln Northeast High School students perform a German dance in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center as part of UNL’s 38th annual Modern Language Fair.

LEFT: Millard South High School students perform a skit in German. In addition to drama, students also competed in poetry, music, poster and dance competitions.

RIGHT: Millard South students perform a skit in German during the modern language fair. Students could also attend mini sessions to learn about other languages and cultures, including Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Italian, Russian and Swahili.

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DN quotes of the week “I think students have a really unique and powerful perspective. A lot of us are from Nebraska. A lot of us will stay here or go back home to our state to be the next leaders. It’s important that we voice our opinion in what we believe needs to happen in our society, and in this case I think renewable energy is a win-win.”

Reed Brodersen

chairman of Environmental Sustainability Committee

“Life is full of Comic Sans. Dealing with the death of a loved one is a Comic San. Unrequited love is a Comic San. The rapid approach of death is a Comic San … This stupid font is a microcosm of what is wrong with the world and the helpless feeling that weighs you down in your bed, halfway asleep.”

Tyler Keown

Arts & Life Columnist

“Today was just good softball. Hopefully we can get on a roll here and repeat, repeat, repeat.”

Rhonda Revelle

Nebraska softball coach, on April 9’s game against the University of Northern Iowa

“When the gas station attendant in Texas knows the baby’s head is coming out of my wooha at the same time as my grandmother, something just feels wrong.”

Emily Kuklinski

Opinion columnist, on live-tweeting births

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UNL needs to require fitness classes

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’m not concerned about obesity. I really couldn’t care less about MyPlate. But even I can appreciate the benefits of getting your butt to the gym.

The only problem: Who really goes?

As far as I can tell, it’s primarily people who enjoy ripping up perfectly good T-shirts and wearing bike shorts when they’re not biking.

That’s intimidating if you never went to the gym in high school. As a former competitive high school athlete I’m continually coming up with excuses not to exercise. And as my about once a week. Club teams are a possibildoctor so kindly put it, “You won’t be able to ity, but they require a firm commitment I’m eat Taco Bell forever.” I quickly pointed out just not ready to give.

The truth is, once you have a set view of that maybe I’d take up rock climbing. Neither what constitutes exercise, it’s of us was convinced. very hard to break the cycle.

Building a mandatory fitAll I Weightlifting reminds me of ness credit into a college degree gym classes past where all the may initially appear limiting, discovered girls would just stand around but it opens doors for people and ogle the guys actually parwho currently remain bogged as a freshman The Campus Recredown in academic class work. was the constant ticipating. ation Center ’s successful “PureBefore you go onto a constitutionally fueled rant about availability of cake ly Pink” event on April 4 proved that that doesn’t have to be the freedoms and how you have so and ice cream. … case. much crap to do, stop. I get it.

On the Internet, there’s this Everyone has that much As a result I felt saying that given the options of crap to do. That’s the point. and looked like a sleep, socializing or grades, you They tell you freshman year is only get to pick two. Freshmen a time of self-discovery. All I sad blob.” might appreciate the ability to discovered as a freshman was combine the latter two options the constant availability of cake while opening up even more and ice cream. All the while, I time for the first. avoided the gym, along with People bond doing stupid things together all green foods. As a result I felt and looked – and attempting to learn badminton or horselike a sad blob.

Yes, intramurals are there, but they’re back riding for the first time would fit neatly into that category. A mandatory fitness class

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Immigrants come to US for better life for family

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’ve long been searching for words to easily explain to people why I am quite sympathetic to the struggles that people (predominantly from Spanish-speaking countries) face when immigrating to the U.S. Earlier this week Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and former President George H. W. Bush’s son, gave me the words that I’ve been unable to find: “(Immigration) is an act of love.”

People immigrate to U.S. for many reasons – among them are economic and educational opportunity. To many people the U.S. has been, and it still is, the “land of opportunity.” Previously I wrote about my ancestors who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s. Facing increasingly unfavorable working and living conditions in Europe prompted them to cross the Atlantic Ocean to take advantage of opportunities not available back home. Simply put, life sucked for my ancestors in Germany.

For my ancestors, immigrating to the U.S. meant leaving everything they had ever known behind – family, community, traditions and culture. They didn’t want their children to grow up in a place where upward mobility was impossible. They didn’t want their children to grow up in a situation where it was incredibly difficult to provide for their family.

Many immigrants today come to the U.S. for reasons similar to my ancestors. They want to be able to provide for their families and do everything they can to ensure that their children have opportunities to live a better life than they did.

Imagine living in a country where clean water or quality medical care weren’t always accessible.

Imagine living in a place where you feared for your children’s lives each night. Imagine living in a place where a basic education was only for those who could afford it. Would you want your child facing these situations, much less yourself?

Through my Spanish class, I have had the opportunity to talk to someone who has recently immigrated to the U.S. I have learned about his real-life struggles and sacrifices moving to the U.S. The only other person in his family who lives here is his brother. The rest of his family – his siblings, mother and father – still live in Mexico. Though he speaks with them regularly, he told me it would be nearly impos-

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sible for anyone else in his family to move to the U.S. It’s too expensive when his family is struggling to meet other basic needs. Because of this, he also sends money to his family whenever he can, which is about once a month. He told me that it’s not a lot, but it really helps his family back in Mexico.

Immigrant populations don’t just include working adults, either. The 2010 documentary “When We Stop Counting,” which follows a group of Crete, Neb., high school students, shows the struggles that students of immigrant parents, or students who are immigrants themselves, face. On top of going to school for eight hours a day, these students worked jobs to help support their families and some to support their own children. The difficult process of applying to colleges is even tougher for immigrant students who face additional challenges when it comes to paying for college. Fortunately for students like these, Nebraska is one of 15 states in the U.S. to have some version of the DREAM Act, which grants instate tuition to students who may be undocumented immigrants.

In essence, Jeb Bush was right. Whether escaping poor living conditions or working to better support one’s family, people turn to the U.S. as a place where opportunity is abundant for all. Leaving a place you’ve lived your whole life, leaving your family, language and culture behind isn’t something people do because they think it’ll be fun. When the U.S. is touted as the “land of opportunity” we shouldn’t be surprised when others come here to find just that.

Travis is a freshman advertising-public relations major. reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

forces students out of their comfort zone while emphasizing that the University of NebraskaLincoln realizes the importance of fitness for overall wellbeing.

Engineers, math majors or basically anyone going anywhere in life might choose to study for that extra hour instead of devoting time to the gym. But if there’s anything they won’t skip, it’s the opportunity to boost their GPA. Brad Cardinal, a professor of exercise and sport science at Oregon State University, can attest to the benefits of exercise. He cites two important examples: Physical activity improves cognitive performance, and employers look for evidence of employee health, as they tend to attend work more frequently.

The expansion of the weight room, the addition of the Outdoor Adventures Center and the construction of a revamped East Campus gym will allow UNL to recoup some of its investment in the form of credit tuition. It will also force students to explore methods of exercising that will be useful in the future when everyone’s a busy adult with many things to do.

If those options don’t satisfy the anti-exercise, pro-calorie factions on campus, classes such as walking, yoga or dance would hopefully placate the majority of them.

I may be the only one who reminisces about P.E. class, but I know that if there’s a time to explore alternative exercise sources, it’s now.

It’s a smart investment that will benefit both the individual and the university.

Kayla Simon is a communication studies and political science major.

Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

2016 election should see Clinton versus Huntsman

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y eighth grade history teacher once mused that Bill Clinton would be the first man to be both president of the United States and the spouse of one. That was 2005. At the time, I didn’t have an opinion on Hillary Clinton as a potential president. Today, she’s one of the best candidates we could have.

Clinton has been on the Democrats’ radar for a while as a candidate in 2016. On Tuesday, while at a marketing conference, she merely said the words “thinking about it” when asked about a White House run. That was enough for Democratic supporters to rejoice.

They have good reason. Clinton made a run in 2008 for the Democratic nomination but lost to Barack Obama. She then served as secretary of state in President Obama’s first term. When she decided not to continue serving in that position in his second term, many speculated it was an indication she was saving her energy for another presidential run in 2016.

She’s one of the most qualified candidates to run for the White House. She graduated from Yale Law School and has a long and varied career in politics distinct from her husband’s. She‘s a former senator and first lady, showing connections to domestic politics.

Whether Clinton will be a good president is yet to be seen. I can’t say yet that I would vote for her if she were to run. What’s important and appealing about Clinton running for president is that she’s the kind of candidate we want in the race. She is politically qualified and experienced. In her interview on Tuesday she said, “The hard questions are not: ‘Do you want to be president? Can you win?’ The hard questions are ‘Why?’ ‘Why would you want to do this, and what can you offer that could make a difference?’”

Clinton demonstrates what it means to be a public servant, even in the most powerful position in the country. Her intense career in politics gives her perspective that is necessarily dependent on having a satisfying “why” answer. She would only run if she believed she could make that difference as president, despite any pressure from the Democratic Party.

Her decisions and track record as a senator, first lady and secretary of state are up for debate. Reflecting on these tenures and her past politics would inform

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people on whether they actually want her as president.

But that’s what’s refreshing. Perhaps we could have a race that’s about the depth of political experiences a candidate has in both domestic and foreign policies and what they’ve learned from it. We won’t just have a polarized partisan battle.

Speaking of parties, Jon Huntsman, who ran for the Republican nomination in 2012, would be another appropriate candidate who represents the right kind of person we should have in consideration of the presidency. He was overlooked in 2008 despite having a strong background in business and politics, previously serving as CEO of the Huntsman Corporation and as the U.S. ambassador to China.

His run was unsuccessful because his moderate position didn’t resonate with the Republican Party at the time.

I generally consider myself left of center, but I’m not particularly attached to the Democratic Party. I could see myself supporting a candidate such as Jon Huntsman. In fact, my dream would be for a Clinton vs. Hunstman race in 2016. I think these are fine candidates for the presidency, but, more importantly, such a race would change the culture and conversation about presidential races. Clinton and Huntsman have the political experience and temperament to talk even-handedly about the future of the U.S. Perhaps these kinds of candidates will pull the rhetoric away from brutal partisanship and make the race about the policies at stake.

Jane Seu is a senior political science major. Follow her on Twitter @jane_seu.

Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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DN reporter stops showering for full week Alice Kumpost measures and cuts fabric for a customer. Cutting fabric is just one of Kumpost’s duties as a 23-yearlong employee at “Ben Franklin.” Kumpost loves her job because she’s able to form lasting relationships at the niche store with returning customers.

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“Ben Franklin” and “Ben Franklin Too” cater to a wide variety of scrapbooking and other crafting hobbies. Everything from fake flowers, to miniature replicas of animals and toasters, to themed wooden decorations can be found under one roof.

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ometimes it isn’t easy to find a mom-and-pop dime store in today’s world of Targets and Walmarts. Want one of those small, locally owned stores where the prices are fair, the service is honest and you’re friends with the clerk? Only on “Leave it to Beaver.”

Unless, of course, you’re at the Ben Franklin store on 70th Street.

For almost 47 years, Ben Franklin has been meeting the needs of the Lincoln community and then some. With toys, craft supplies, home decor, a massive candy aisle and potentially anything else you might think of, “Ben Franklin” has been helping people find exactly what they need for decades.

Owner Carol Schoenleber, whose parents opened the store in the fall of 1967, said part of what makes the store so special is the fact that it’s been around as long as it has. One of Schoenleber ’s favorite parts of being in the store is seeing Lincoln parents bring in their children, showing them the candy aisle that they used to walk down as kids with their own parents.

She said it’s things like this that make the store’s atmosphere unique.

“I don’t know what a small town feeling is because I’ve never been from one. I’ve been here my whole life, but it just seems like a small town feeling might feel, if you’ve experienced that,” Schoenleber said. “Because we have good customers, and they’re friendly. Our customers don’t make a mess in

Our customers don’t make a mess in the store like they do in the big places ... we just have nice people here.”

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the store, like they do in the big places … we just have nice people here.”

It’s that history and atmosphere that allows customers to trust the store, which is what Ben Franklin has always prided itself on. Schoenleber said she believes a good relationship with customers is what has kept the store around after many dime stores have had to close their doors.

“I hope they trust us and know that we will do what we can for them,” Schoenleber said. “They just know that we wouldn’t sell them stuff just to make a sale, we want to sell them something they’re actually looking for and that would truly help them, not tell them something would work when we really know it wouldn’t. That’s happened to me at a store, you know, they just want to make a sale. You just want (your customers) to trust you and know that you put them first.”

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the “Scourge of the Suds.”

Because cleanliness is a disease everyone suffers from at every second and because it attracts miles human beings like their lives derothlisberger pend on it, my editors could only ask one of us to relinquish normalcy and try to become filthier, what with filth from sweat or dirt or other substances being the only I received the perfect opportunity cure. They wanted to see how last week. ready humans were for the filth I remember the day that my editors asked me to stop show- cure.

At first, I, like my comrades, ering for an entire week. They claimed my endeavors would be felt tempted to let another poor soul become the guinea pig. “Let recorded in history as a column for the Daily Nebraskan. But re- someone else try this,” I thought ally, I know why they chose me. to myself. Then we’ll see if people Research was needed to see how are truly ready for the cure of this dreadful ailment. But in the end, I humanity could handle the conseknew in my gut that I wanted to quences. test this solution for myself.

I possess an abhorrent condiSo, I volunteered, bringing tion that borders on disease. It causes my hair to become unnat- solemn looks from my superiors.

It was like they were staring at a urally good-looking, my skin to turn to a smooth, stony slate and dead man.

For the first two days of the exmy body to cling to inhumanly periment, I felt generally the same. sweet aromas.

In fact, I felt as if I had more time That sickness, that horrible sickness that turns us humans to spare with other things besides pampering myself. Because of into mere playthings, is known as “cleanliness,” or “munditiae” in this, the little effects not showering had on my body surprised me.

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Though I’ll admit the unexResearchers know this illness spread across the planet centu- plained love between human and disinfection still held me, and I did ries ago with the invention of use deodorant and soaps and showbody-spray. I surers, yet to this day, That horrible mised that the lack no researcher has of horrifyingly sickness discovered the orpleasant hot water ganism responsible that turns us and soap would for cleanliness. create a stench so Some claim the humans into magnificent that specific types of mere playthings my disgusting the disgusting little body products m i c ro o rg a n i s m s is known as would be useless. known as cells on Why had nothing your body help cleanliness.” happened? clean you up. OthHowever, as ers take it further and say there are even ghostly the sixth day passed, I almost pale, horrifying cells in human sensed holy sunlight gleaming onto me as sweet earthiness finally blood that help thwart viruses touched me. It actually took more and bacteria that might try to fight body products to mask the stench, cleanliness. and I did so in order to maintain Most, however, agree with both of these hypotheses and even decorum within society, yet those products never fully brought back claim certain man-made products, such as the gross gels or pastes my cleanliness. My hair finally beknown as “shampoo” and “body gan to embrace the greasy chaos that it desperately needed, and my wash,” help contribute to the “Squeaky Clean” epidemic and

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Scrapbooks are STREB comes to Lied Center for more than just old ladies mac wall Dn

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I started scrapbooking as a kid. It all started with a pair of tiny scissors and a wild craze for cutting the hell out of some paper.

Then I found my mother’s collection of scrapbook scissors, the ones with the super cool serrated zig-zag edges and curvy blades. I started sneaking them, cutting every scrap of paper I could find into random shapes.

Then I discovered the holiest of all cutting materials: the scrapbook Fiskars rotary trimmer, which fueled all of my paper-cutting antics.

I began feeding all of my mother’s pretty papers – softball paper, glitter paper and paper with little hearts –

into the cutter, making a hodgepodge of confetti to throw around the house.

I didn’t quite get why it felt so good to cut the 12-by-12 sheets, and, even at a young age, I felt a little demented killing these already dead trees.

And then I was called out on my shit by Mom. All her precious paper turned into choppy snowflakes, homemade cards or even just baring holes for no reason at all. But that rage quickly turned into appreciation. She would channel that rage for the better, for memory keeping. She turned me into her accomplice, her little mini-me, scrapbooking the little moments from my elementary school days. I mean, I just wanted to cut things up.

Now, to this day, I still scrapbook.

And every time, I feel like a little old lady trying to recall information from my still not-yet fully developed brain.

But, scrapbooking is way cool, and it’s not always about pasting pictures under big bubbly letters that say “Ma-

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“Anything that’s too safe is not action,” Elizabeth Streb said, a quote evident in her body of work, which includes leaping off of giant pendulums and orchestrating stunts on the London Eye during the 2012 Olympics.

She’s a student of both dance and motion, and founded the eponymous STREB in 1985 to further examine the relationship between choreographed movement and gravity. On Friday she is coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. to display her group’s one-of-a-kind acrobatics.

Streb’s dance group is a hybrid of circus acts, dance and machineassisted stunts similar to Hollywood action sequences. From their Brooklyn-based SLAM studio, the STREB outfit creates new incredible stunts to incorporate with future acts. They strive for innovation and prove that dance is a contact sport. The STREB crew frequently flies off of spinning disks, swings from bridges and even perform carefully choreographed numbers while latched to the spokes of London’s landmark Ferris wheel while it rotates.

STREB publicist Manuel Igrejas described the dancers as “action

heroes who are very much from this earth.” He said they are comfortable performing in both “traditional and non-traditional venues.”

Although they’ll be performing in a more traditional venue in Lincoln instead of the side of a building as they have before, expect to see a performance that illuminates movement and gravity in new ways.

What makes STREB stand apart from other acrobatic acts, however, is the group’s insistence on complete, uninterrupted motion. In other words, they hit the ground pretty hard.

“We take impact,” Streb said.

“We fall – land.”

This new form of dance has come to be known as “Pop-Action.”

But, as Streb said, “Why camouflage gravity?”

Because her dancers take fullon impact, it’s important that they be in peak condition. Even with a cushioned mat, getting nine people to fall from three stories up and rise again requires organization and athleticism. Their SLAM lab, or Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, does just that. It’s a giant, mechanized playground built to study both dance and physics. It’s decked out in trapezes and strange rigging custom-made to launch human beings in the most creative way pos-

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Performers in STREB strive for a seamless blend of stunt-work and choreographed dancing in an attempt to affect audiences in ways just as powerful as other artistic mediums. sible. And if you’re in the neighborhood, it’s open to the public.

STREB officially has nine highly trained dancers/stunt people who practice jumping, falling and landing in all ways imaginable.

“You can’t really work with more than nine or ten (dancers) with one mind,” Streb said.

Her company rehearsed for two years before performing in London during the Olympics in 2012.

The goal of the performance is

to make the audience feel something; to be both entertained and emotionally affected the way one is after finishing a great book. STREB is known for landing the audience on the edge of their seat by showing complete action and movement and then enhancing it. They sometimes include microphones for the landing pads to let the audience hear the impact the performers

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Forensics provides outlet ‘The Unknown Known’ for social, life development frustrates yet compels amanda stoffel

Anyone who has chosen to dedicate their time to any activity is worthy of praise: going to classes full time, working a job and then spending time with those who share your same passions.

And while I applaud those who have thrived within their organizations of future business leaders or even ultimate frisbee players, as I am at the one-month mark of graduating from college, I would like to dedicate this column to an activity that has been changing my life for more than half of a decade and will undoubtedly continue to change me for years to come.

For readers who don’t care to read words of sentimentality about an activity that, despite producing future politicians, artists and professors, falls to the wayside of everyday conversation, turn back now. Flip to the next page of the newspaper or exit out of this tab on your computer because I am, in true speech-kid fashion, going to say a lot.

We’re armed with small black binders and index cards, donning suits that would make the cast of “Mad Men” envious and holding high our heads filled to the brim with memorized scripts and the desire to win.

Like many other students who do extracurricular activities during their glory days of college, those outside of the vacuum within which we, the collegiate speech and debate competitors, function are utterly confused, if not completely terrified, by what we do with our spare time and weekends.

While our classmates are working shifts and raging at house parties, we are awake at 5 a.m. on most Saturdays and Sundays, putting on panty hose and ties, hoping that we don’t have to get yet another suit dry cleaned for the third week in a row because we sweat too much.

All of these things are tedious, demanding and annoying at times, but after eight years of being a competitor, they start to feel like home.

Like many of my fellow competitors, I began my journey in forensics as an awkward high school freshman, and I’m ending my time as a competitor as an awkward college senior. And while time hasn’t changed my often-times uncoordinated attempts at interactions with others, it has provided me with skills and gifts, most of which can’t be measured and many of which can’t even be written or spoken because there simply aren’t the right words.

That’s the real irony of forensics: we speak with graceful fluency and tremendous passion in competition, but remove us from a round and take us out of our

struggles of the universe won’t suits, and suddenly, the ability to properly articulate our thoughts bring about the change that we wish for. Understanding comes about this activity is non-existent. before progress.

Even so, allow me to at least I’ve learned to love a chalmake an attempt at properly expressing even some of what lenge. While competitors are conspeech has taught me and given tinuously told that we shouldn’t compete for trophies, it’s only afme throughout the years.

For starters, I actually have ter I no longer have the eligibility confidence, even if it does waver to compete that I truly understand at times. Anyone who knew me what that means. Yes, the recognimy freshman year of high school tion for work and talent is nice. can attest to the fact that I was in- But the awards are only the physical representations of what we troverted and not one for talking to people I didn’t know, or any- continuously work toward. There are plenty of competitors who one really. But once I was thrown in front of a room and competing never have the privilege of makfor good ranks, shyness was re- ing a national out round, even though they deserve it and have placed by confidence and my love for meeting new people grew to worked hard for it. The tournaastronomical levels. (Please note ments where the results weren’t in that not everyone in forensics is my favor may have been discouraging, but they instilled me with an extrovert, but confidence is undoubtedly grown and instilled the drive to work harder and to as time goes on. Introverts can be better myself as a competitor. The smaller the challenge, the fewer confident too.)

I have found things to truly the lessons there are to be learned.

I’ve learned to love the powcare about and the drive to try and change in the world. Apathy can er of community. In an activsometimes find its way into our ity where friends and teammates compete against one another, it’s daily lives, but speech has taught easy to become fome about things I cused on the sucdidn’t even know Forensics cess of one’s self existed and made or of their team. me want to change has taught But speech kids them in any way know the power of I can, even if that me and given to words and know means just opening me above all else, there’s strength in up someone’s mind numbers. Even in to a new idea. in a word, love.” this past year, there I know to never have been multiple underestimate the power of a great suit and a killer times where everyone within this group of people has come togethpair of dress shoes.

I’ve learned to allow criticism er to support each other through to help me grow. Judges are liter- the most difficult of times and to ally looking at the work of com- praise each other for incredible petitors and determining what feats of success. No matter what makes one better than the other. stage of this activity you are in, That’s a horrifying concept. How- whether it’s your first year or ever, from those ballots come new your 13th, you never go through ideas on how to improve and les- anything alone.

Finally, I have learned to love sons that help you develop thicker skin. Now when a professor myself. My talents, my abilicritiques my work, I’m looking ties, my voice, my passion, my strengths and my weaknesses. for what I can do better, not what The human condition is one filled they didn’t see that I did right. with flaws, struggles and differAnd while these are just a few of the things that have shaped me ences. We’re blessed enough to share our stories and our passions into the person I am today, I honestly believe what forensics has in front of an audience that wants to listen. Sometimes, that’s all we taught me and given to me above need to be reminded that we matall else is, in a word, love.

I have learned to love those ter and that we are important.

So, for you readers of the noraround me. My teammates, who are my family. My coaches, past mal world who have followed me and present, who tolerate more through this journey of gratitude, than their fair share of shenani- I can only hope that you find gans and mishaps. My fellow something that can do for you competitors, who are the best what speech has done for me.

And for my fellow forensicapeople I know and who I proudly call friends. Without competitors, tors who’ve taken the time to read there’s no competition. We force my rhetorical reflections amidst each other to continuously work still recovering from AFA nationto do better and push ourselves to als and preparing for NFA nationals, know that “thank you” will new limits.

I have learned to love the never be an adequate sentiment world around me. Even in the for what all of you have done for darkest of times, there’s some- me. Both competitors and coaches thing that ordinary people, such alike are what make this activity as college students, can do to great.

Live with passion. help. I love knowing that there Never fear failure. is something to be learned from Speak. Always. every story that is performed, evAmanda Stoffel is a ery quotation that is interpreted, senior film and communicaand every speech that is written. tion studies double major.

Is optimism about the world hard Reach her at arts@ to come by at times? Well yeah. dailynebraskan.com But remaining disillusioned to the

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Okay, so there are known knowns and there are known unknowns.

Known knowns are things we know we know, and known unknowns are things we know we don’t know. There are also unknown unknowns, things we don’t know that we don’t know. But what’s also interesting is the unknown known, which is something you thought you knew that wasn’t what you thought it was.

Got all that? That’s the circular logic of ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who presided over the office during Nixon’s administration and during 9/11. “The Unknown Known” is the latest from veteran documentarian Errol Morris who directed “The Thin Blue Line,” “A Brief History of Time” and the Oscarwinning “The Fog of War.” With his latest film, Morris offers Rumsfeld a platform to explain himself and his decisions. The result’s an enlightening portrait of a man who perhaps doesn’t understand his own place in history.

When Morris asked him why he thought so many Americans had thought Hussein was involved in 9/11, he flatly said he wasn’t aware of any such confusion. Indeed, it seems difficult to get any kind of straight answer out of Rumsfeld; the first paragraph of this review is essentially his response to a reporter who asked him what evidence the government had of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld’s voice is easy to listen to, even if the things he’s talking about aren’t. He’s almost like a doddering grandfather in his demeanor. He gets very caught up in his wordplay and philosophical notions.

His face lights up when Morris asks him to read a memo that says, “All generalizations are false, including

this one.” “See? There it is,” he said.

The final memo he issued as secretary of defense was titled “The Blizzard is Over,” as his flurry of memos had been referred to as snowflakes at the time. We get the sense that he’s caught up in an image of himself that only he perceives.

Errol Morris has created a documentary as close to objectivity as one can get. This is an objective look at a subjective mind. The entire film is essentially one long conversation with Rumsfeld, accompanied by hundreds of images and graphics that illustrate the points he makes. Morris occasionally confronts Rumsfeld with some questions from off camera, but the viewer doesn’t get the sense that he’s trying to manipulate the raw facts, much less the testimony of Rumsfeld himself.

The most disturbing thing about “The Unknown Known,” aside from how slippery the rhetoric of Donald Rumsfeld is, is how much he asserts that “stuff happens.” When asked to explain why “enhanced interrogation techniques” (read: torture) were abused in Iraqi and Afghani prisons, Rumsfeld’s response can be summed up as “stuff happens” (he says it himself several times). We get the feeling that he feels no responsibility for his actions and doesn’t understand why he should. He wears a smile throughout most of the film.

Did our government start a war on false pretenses? It’s more than likely. Did Saddam Hussein intend to foster terrorists in Iraq, while developing nuclear weapons and possibly handing them over to said terrorists?

Also more than likely. Hussein, after all, was an enemy of the U.S. Does this justify the invasion of Iraq as we know it? I don’t think so. Was it inevitable? I don’t know. I’m just one man, and I’m a film critic, not a military strategist.

What we do know is that because

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Donald Sandra Rumsfeld, Bullock, George ErrolClooney Morris, Kenn Medeiros

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of these wars, hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives, an entire region of the world has been destabilized, and the reputation of the U.S. has been tarnished. Rumsfeld seems oblivious to that reality. He’s a little too busy talking about snowflakes and unknown unknowns to be concerned with the global impact of his decisions.

Here’s a film that makes that case, and makes it compellingly. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

scrapbook: from 5 randa’s First Day of School,” with a cheesy flower sticker next to it.

Scrapbooks are journals with pictures – ones ranging from your days in the dorms, to your 21st birthday or maybe even remembering Christmas Eve memories with your family.

Even lately, there has been quite a few scrapbooking trends. This could be because of the hobby’s glamorization on Pinterest or because of our need to capture every moment on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter or maybe we all just have a little more free time. Yet these trends are popping up not only in your grandma’s world but also right here at UNL and in the 20-something-year-old demographic.

One trend that’s a little bit older, nonetheless prominent, is the “21st birthday shot book” which is exactly what it sounds like. Twenty-one pages of shots, shots and more shots. But this is why they’re perfect. To make the 21st birthday shot book, first get a group of friends together that are all friends with the birthday girl.

Next, assign out pages. On each page should be a list of things to fill out: The name of the shot, who the shot was bought by, what bar the shot was

bought from and a signature (to track the progressive drunkness of the beloved birthday mess).

Lastly, there should always be a spot for a 6x4 photo of the birthday girl and the person who bought the shot for her. For an extra-embarrassing 21st birthday shot book, add a before and after photo.

Birthday shot books take a little time and a little money to make. The more friends, the easier.

The next “scrapbooking trend” that has been seen on many a Pinterest sites and Mom blogs is the “Project Life” adventure. This deal costs quite a bit more than the 21st scrapbook.

The idea of Project life is to make a mini scrapbook of your month as a whole. It’s kind of like a very crafty and spectacular-looking journal. The pages are 12 foot by 12 footsleeves that can fit either 4x6 photos or 3x4 little slips of paper with cute sayings and decorations on them. This idea of Project Life makes it easy to put scrapbook pages together, saves time and also saves your pictures. While you can pile your photos in a shoebox and keep them nice and neat for people to see, Project Life lets you put

your photos to use, easily and safely behind protected pages.

Yes, I know, now scrapbooking sounds totally cool.

But really it is. It’s not just about cataloging memories of you in peewee baseball or when you did ballet dancing in the first days, and it’s not just about reminiscing the glory days of high school either. Scrapbooking is also about the now, or the present day us in college. Think about how many events, spontaneous or official, that happen to us all the time. The random Ivanacone dates with friends, the first nice day of spring, even all the weird delirious pictures we take after we’ve been studying for hours at a time, and, of course, all the intoxicated pictures we wish we never took but will laugh about and cherish later once we’re off this campus. The glorious, good-ole college days.

Scrapbooking isn’t just for little old ladies. It’s for those with lots of memories and those who find a weird sort of pleasure in cutting up paper.

Maranda Loughlin is a senior paper-cutting major who likes the phrase “little old ladies.” Send her some scraps to chop up at arts@dailynebraskan.com

tears the way a violin concerto does?”

The performance will be kicked off by a collaboration between the dance, Computer Science and Engineering, and Architecture Colleges, which will be doing a showcase with dance, props and robots.

STREB will be bringing their hybrid dance performance and an arsenal of gadgets to aid their acrobatics and give the audience a taste of organized movement without “camouflaging gravity.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

streb: from 5 feel. They want the audience to be nervous or surprised or pumpedup – just like they are. They want to foster an emotional experience like any other form of art.

“I’m looking for the Iambic Pentameter of action,” Streb said.

“What’s the rhythm that can elicit

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We have now been back from spring break for almost two weeks, and I am still too intimidated to step on the scale.

Being home for break meant countless coffee breaks to catch up with friends, 2 a.m. McDonald’s runs and trying the much-anticipated Taco Bell breakfast (the waffle taco was subpar at best). Not to mention the binge eating that occurred while staying up almost all night before going back to class Monday in an attempt to do everything I had procrastinated.

Needless to say I definitely put on a few pounds during the break and haven’t been eating as clean as I should since I’ve been back.

However, this fear of the scale got me thinking. Before my quest to live a healthier lifestyle, I would never weigh myself. As someone who weighs a lot heavier than I feel like I look, stepping on the scale is nothing short of traumatizing.

Growing up I remember reading a Seventeen magazine article that said women who weigh themselves once a week, rather than daily, on average weigh less. This made total sense to me. I mean, the thought of weighing myself used to make me stressed, then I would stress eat and put on even more weight, truly a vicious cycle.

However, when I began this quest I decided to put this fear behind me and weigh myself once every week in the morning.

At first this still sucked. But after a couple weeks, I began to become more and more OK with the number I was seeing on the scale. While I still wasn’t at my goal weight, the small, steady losses each week made me feel like I was making progress. I began to feel like the scale and I could have a harmonious relationship. That is, until two weeks before spring break when my weight loss began to plateau, so in combination with that and the spring

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I keep thinking that I’ll step on the scale and see that I’ve gained back all I’d lost since Christmas break. This absurd thought did remind me of something important. Society sells a healthier lifestyle as being a numbers game of who can lose the most weight.

Even though I’ve been consuming more junk food again lately, I have been working out at least five days a week and making sure to fit fruits and vegetables into my meals. So while I’m doing some things right, if the scale says I’ve gained weight then I feel like I’ve done everything wrong.

Scales can make us forget what we’re succeeding at. I’m so scared that I’ve gained a ridiculous amount of weight back that I’ve seemingly forgotten all my new, smaller clothing still fits just fine. Measuring improvement by a single number also makes us forget to take into account any muscle mass we’ve gained. I’m not going to pretend that I haven’t spent more time than normal flexing in the mirror

to observe my newly acquired biceps.

They may be small, but I really am proud.

Nearly every column I’ve written has been about moderation and, sorry to beat a dead horse, but the message of this one is moderation as well.

And it’s scale usage that I think we all should be moderating. While I am going to start weighing myself again, I’m going to wait until next week. The scale can be an awesome tool to track success, but, ultimately, what does a number alone tell us?

I’d rather gauge my health and fitness success by the fact that I have upped the weight I use on nearly every lift and can actually do a real (not a girl) push-up now. These are the things we should celebrate and look to monitor our success.

So while the scale and I still have a love/hate relationship, I don’t think it’ll be long before I tell that little electronic dream-killer to beat it.

Cassie Kernick is a freshman journalism major. Reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com, and then go for a jog!

For most musical artists, compiling a folk-opera album that doubles as a Great Depression period piece would be a daunting feat in and of itself.

But singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell delves into epic themes, far beyond the American tradition.

To be clear, I mean epic in the sense of Homer’s “Iliad,” not in the sense of your friend’s parkour Youtube channel.

Mitchell’s 2010 concept album “Hadestown” is the retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the era of the U.S. Great Depression.

Individually, the 20 songs on the album are eclectic in style and serve as impressive works of stand-alone song writing. But strung together, they weave a compelling story of a young man struggling to make a career out of his music for him and his dubious new bride, in a town that has been laid to waste by a financial crisis.

Mitchell’s lively and irresistible voice is the common thread throughout an album that’s so diverse in style that it almost shouldn’t work. Almost.

Other familiar folk songwriters make notable appearances on the album, such as Greg Brown, who sings “Why We Build the Wall” from the perspective of Hades. Ani DeFranco sings on the album as Persephone, and Justin Vernon (better known as the lead singer of Bon Iver) lends his voice to the character of Orpheus in the song “Wait For Me,” which pleads for his wife to hold out hope for their salvation.

The rich imagery and symbolism of the stories seamlessly harmonizes archetypal themes of national depression with the two main characters’ poignant story. No song showcases Mitchell’s fluid song writing abilities better than “Our Lady of the Un-

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derground.” Written from the perspective of Persephone, Hades’ wife in a 1930s speakeasy, the song speaks not to the underworld of the dead, but to the underworld of misfits and criminals, driven out of polite society.

While Mitchell’s mission in “Hadestown” may appear complex and erudite, the final product isn’t an intimidating listen. In turns both haunting and upbeat, “Hadestown” holds up across the years because the individual songs make for beautiful, melodic background music.

However, when you have the time for it, the album in its entirety comes alive as poignant story of human doubt, devotion and loss that no one but Mitchell could tell. arts@dailynebraskan.com

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You heard it here first folks – hot off the press – five images of Rod Stewart’s hair in all of its glorious infidelity.

But it’s not just the customers that have built a community at Ben Franklin. The store’s employees, many of whom have worked together for years, are like family, Schoenleber said, attending each other ’s birthday parties, helping with last-minute shift changes and caring about one another. Alice Kumpost, who’s worked in the store for 23 years, said she loves the friendly feeling that the store offers to its customers and its own employees.

“I just love my job here,” Kumpost said. “I like what I do; I meet some very, very nice people.

Our customers, most everybody is so nice. Since I’ve been here as long as I have, a lot of the customers, you know, come back, they’re repeat customers, and I’ve kind of gotten to know them by name, and they know me by name. It’s just really nice.”

Because the store added two rooms devoted to scrapbooking supplies and a space for classes,

Standard Stewart. This pure-gold mop swings low, sticks wide, slinks behind and flip-flap-pattywhacks right on out the sun roof of his wonderful head. Doesn’t get better than this.

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The man’s older, smoother, more serious and more mature than ever. To match, he’s got the ‘do working shorter, cleaner, less extravagant and what appears to be highlights. All this and not to mention the shirtless scarf combo? No way. No pattern says adult male like red and black plaid, and no man says, “I’m the man,” like Stewart and his nipples here.

they’ve only grown their relationships with customers and one another. Cyndee Gesch, a clerk at the store, started working in the scrapbooking section after shopping there for about a year. Now she’s been teaching scrapbooking classes and selling supplies at Ben Franklin for eight years.

“It’s a great, fun place,” Gesch said. “Everyone that comes in is looking to do something fun. You get to help people with ideas, I mean, anything from wedding invitations to graduation announcements. It’s fun. You get to help others find their creative juices.”

Though Gesch loves that her job provides her with the chance to make something every day, she said the relationships she’s made are even better. On Friday nights, the craft room is full of scrapbookers sharing funny stories and ideas for each other ’s projects, often until after midnight. It’s this time that’s allowed Gesch to see those customers as more than

shoppers, but as friends.

“You get to become personal with the customers,” Gesch said.

“They start coming in for one thing, and it builds with scrapbooking. You get to know them personally, on the basis of ‘I have a daughter graduating next year,’ so you kind of feel like you’re a part of their life.”

“I get invited to parties and fun things, too,” she added. “So that’s kind of a fun quirk.”

Ultimately, it’s these relationships that have kept Ben Franklin around for nearly five decades, and they hope to make even more in the future.

“I think once you’re a customer at Ben Franklin, you’re stuck,” Gesch said. “I think people come here because they like it so well and appreciate everything (we do). Then I think you’re just hooked.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

of the suds.

Someday, we all might be finally ready to accept humanity and give up on smelling good and looking prim and sexually arousing.

We might, but from my observations, that eventful day has yet

to arrive.

Miles Rothlisberger is a freshman journalism and English major, as well as your everyday Latin expert.

Send him a loofah at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Now we have a young, natural Stewart with a look that begs the question, “Do ya think I’m sexy?”

Well, since you ask, yes. And I especially dig the way the locks are caressing those sun-tanned clavicles. This is a sheep-dog mullet worthy of fame rather than shame.

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You know, the great thing about this Gimme Five is that I don’t even need to Google something like, “Rod Stewart wacky hair,” to find what I want. A simple first and last name suffice because, like in this glorious pose of poise and dignity, Stewart and his hair are inseparable. No matter what he does with his face, body, clothing, whatever, his hair will remain the same – this exaggerated spasm of follicles shooting wildly into space as if electrified.

Some things escape explanation. The bashful puppydog look, the thinning, golden badger on top. Who knows. Why? When? How? Do the questions really matter? I don’t know.

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The cure was upon me.

On the last day of the experiment, my entire figure had developed enough immune system to obliterate any aroma too sweet to have come from my body. My hair, bound in a ponytail, was anointed in oil as religious figures might have had theirs.

In spite of all these glorious transformations, I actually felt more awful than before.

I cannot explain this phenomenon, but apparently, being dirty and filthy made me feel like complete garbage.

Maybe I just couldn’t handle the pressure if someone found out about my experiment and looked at me like I was disgusting. Or, maybe I was just so addicted to feeling clean and fresh that I couldn’t deal with the withdrawals during recovery.

Regardless, I eventually had to terminate my experiment and write this very column. Initially, one may feel as if not showering may be an excellent idea and help give back time as well as satisfy that mumbo jumbo saying, “down to earth,” by, well, smelling like the earth down at your feet.

However, the draws of cleanliness and tingly freshness seem to hold insurmountable authority over the human body and psyche, causing it to yearn for the douse of liquid and shampoo. Until we find a cure for our addiction, we won’t be able to use appalling dirtiness to eliminate our plague

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Nebraska senior Tom Blackwell, who will be playing his final collegiate dual in Lincoln on Sunday against Illinois, is 12-7 in singles play and 3-1 in doubles play this spring. He won both of his matches Wednesday in the Huskers’ win at Iowa.

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Seniors set to play final home dual Sydny Boyd DN This weekend, the No. 62 Nebraska men’s tennis team will play three matches in Lincoln.

On Friday, the Huskers take on No. 34 Northwestern at 3 p.m. before playing unranked Nebraska-Omaha at 7 p.m. On Sunday, seniors Tom Blackwell and Brandon Videtich will play their last home match against No. 11 Illinois at noon.

“As a coach it is always hard when Senior Day arrives,” Nebraska coach Kerry McDermott said. “They have all represented the University of Nebraska at the highest level and academically done very well.”

Videtich, who’s played for the Huskers since redshirting in 2008-09 and took a medical redshirt two seasons ago, has compiled a total record of 39-50 while mostly playing doubles.

Blackwell has played at least 20 matches in all four of his seasons as a Husker, putting together a combined singles and doubles record of 66-68.

“It’s really fitting, Tom and I,

that this is our last time to play at home,” Videtich said. “We won’t let that get in the way of trying to appreciate these last moments and really just live it up.”

The Huskers are 11-10 overall and 3-4 in the Big Ten Conference after their win against Iowa on Wednesday.

“Iowa prepared us well for this weekend,” Videtich said. “It was a tough match, and we have tough matches from here on out.

We have more Big Ten wins this year than we did last year and we just really want to build on that.”

The Northwestern Wildcats are 15-9 overall and 6-5 in the Big Ten. They’re coming off a threematch winning streak. The Wildcats have two ranked singles players in the ITA Top 75: No. 54 Raleigh Smith and No. 125 Sam Shropshire. They also boast one ranked doubles pair in No. 23 Mihir Kumar and Smith.

Right after Northwestern, the Huskers will play another dual.

“It’s that point in the season where a lot of the guys are getting tired,” Videtich said. “But we only have a few practices and

It’s really fitting, Tom and I, that this is our last time to play at home. We won’t let that get in the way.” brandon videtich senior tennis player

matches left and we are going to give it everything that we have.”

Friday evening, the Huskers will take on the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks, who are coming off of a 7-0 loss to the IUPUI Jaguars.

“UNO is a solid team,” Videtich said. “But, we have been training and conditioning so the double-header won’t affect us. We’ve done it before, so we won’t let it get into our heads.”

McDermott and assistant coach Fungai Tongoona stress the importance of conditioning and the physical aspect of the sport, Videtich said.

The Illinois Fighting Illini are 11-3 and 5-2 in conference play.

They’re coming off of a threematch winning streak as well

heading into the match against the Huskers. The Fighting Illini have a few players in the ITA Top 75, including three ranked singles players, No. 8 Jared Hiltzik, No. 11 Farris Gosea and No. 45 Tim Kopinski. The two ranked doubles pairs in the ITA rankings are No. 5 Kopinski and Ross Guignon and No. 72 Hiltzik and Alex Jesse.

This weekend is just a small taste of what’s coming up for the Huskers. Nebraska will take a two-match road trip, facing Penn State on April 18 at 3 p.m. in University Park, Pa., and Ohio State on April 20 at noon in Columbus, Ohio, to round out its regular season. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU goes to Iowa trying to end struggles 22. Nebraska is in the middle of a spring season in which they’ve Nebraska to play for seen their fair share of struggles.

The spring started out at the 1st time in 2 weeks Big Ten Match Play Championin attempt to pick up ships, where they won just two of the 10 matches they played where it left off in in and were bounced out early most recent round

by Penn State. Since the match play Nebraska has placed in the bottom half of the field in two of their past three tournaments.

Riley Bowden Despite their struggles as of DN late, Husker senior Mike Siwa is optimistic about the rest of the The Nebraska men’s golf team spring, he said. travels to Iowa City, Iowa, on “Each tournament we’ve Saturday to compete in the played in we have really asHawkeye Invitational at Fink- sessed what our faults were,” bine Golf Course.

Siwa said. “We come back the The Huskers will be part of next week and really grind it a 12-team field that hard on those.” includes fellow Big Siwa mentioned Ten Conference memthe team’s perforbers Iowa, Michigan mance at the Desert State, Minnesota and Shootout in Arizona Wisconsin. Also playtwo weeks ago. The ing are last year ’s squad shot a seasonchampion, Kansas and low 846, which gave Iowa State, Northern them just their third Illinois, Denver, Detop-10 finish this Paul, Marquette and year as it placed sixth Washington State. of 15 teams.

The tournament in “It really showed siwa Iowa City will be the in the last tournaHuskers’ first rounds ment,” Siwa said. in competition since “We had a good finthe Desert Shootout on March

ish. We shot some 18-under par gler said. “There is a couple as a team, so it was good to see tricky shots, a little less than normal, but it’s always nice to know improvement there.” what the holes do if you have This week isn’t the first time played it. But it’s not a huge facthe Huskers have competed tor.” at Finkbine Golf The HawkCourse. Nebraska is a We’ve had eye Invitational regular at the Hawka couple is the first of eye Invitational, but two final reguonly two players on rough lar season tourthis year ’s roster naments for the competed in the in- tournaments Huskers. Siwa vite last year. so far, but if we is aware of the Last year was the importance of Husker ’s most recent can continue to gaining good bout with Finkbine improve, I know momentum as GC, where they recorded one of their we believe we can they get even closer to the three top-5 finishes win the Big Ten.” postseason, he of the 2012-13 seasaid. son. Nebraska fired mike siwa “(Gaining a team score of 887, senior golfer momentum) is 23-over par. The team extremely imfinished fifth and was propelled to that position thanks portant,” Siwa said. “We’ve had a couple rough tournaments so to a top-10 finish from current far, but if we can continue to imsenior Matt Record. Record shot prove, I know we believe we can a 2-over three-round total of 218 and will be returning to Finkbine win the Big Ten Tournament.”

The Big Ten Tournament will with the team on Saturday. be held on May 2. After the tourCoach Bill Spangler said he realizes the advantage of having nament in Iowa City this week, the Huskers will be in Rochester, experience on a golf course but doesn’t believe it to be a huge N.Y., to compete in the Oak Hill Intercollegiate. factor this week. sports@ “It has a lot of pretty basic, dailynebraskan.com straight-forward holes,” Span-

Nebraska junior tennis player Izabella Zgierska is 8-11 in singles play and 7-8 in doubles after the Huskers won only two matches in a pair of duals last weekend.

Nebraska to face pair of ranked teams on road Vanessa Daves DN The Nebraska women’s tennis team will travel to Evanston and Urbana, Ill., to compete in two matches this weekend against No. 12 Northwestern and No. 42 Illinois.

Nebraska coach Scott Jacobson said he feels confident going into this weekend’s meets and plans to keep moving forward despite obstacles the Huskers have faced this season.

“The main thing is we have to approach every match with really good energy and just stay positive,” Jacobson said. “One of the things we really want to focus on is giving our best effort and letting the result be what it is.”

Assistant coach German Dalmagro said they had good practices this week, and he feels ready going into the weekend.

“They’re both going to be tough matches because both teams are ranked,” Dalmagro said. “It’ll be tough, but the girls are ready for the challenge. We’re ready to go out there and compete.”

On Saturday, Nebraska will compete against No. 12 Northwestern at 11 a.m. Northwestern is 12-6 overall and 6-1 in the conference. The Wildcats’ Veronica Corning, now ranked 34th, upset the ninth-ranked Emina Betkas of Michigan in their match last weekend.

This will be the first time Northwestern will be playing outside this season, though the Huskers have already played outside when their indoor facility collapsed in mid-March.

“Practice has been good this week, and everyone has been responding well,” Dalmagro said.

“We’ve been preparing to compete outside, and the girls are in good spirits.”

On Sunday, Nebraska will compete against No. 42 Illinois. Illinois is 8-10 this season with a 1-6 record in the Big Ten Conference.

Last weekend, Michigan State and Michigan defeated Illinois in both of their matches.

Illinois has three athletes listed in the individual regional

rankings: No. 10 Melissa Kopinski, No. 14 Allison Falkin and No. 15 Alexis Casati.

The Nebraska women’s tennis team lost its first weekend duo of conference away matches of the season last weekend. On Saturday, No. 43 Indiana defeated Nebraska 6-1, and on Sunday, No. 37 Purdue defeated Nebraska 6-1.

So far this season, Nebraska is 8-12 after losing eight matches straight after last weekend.

In doubles, Indiana’s Kayla Fujimoto and Alecia Kauss won against Nebraska’s Lisa Andersson and Hannah Sulz 8-1 at the No. 3, and Shannon Murdy and Sophie Garr also earned a point for Indiana against Maike Zeppernick and Izabella Zgierska at the No. 2 position.

In singles, Nebraska only earned 1 point, coming from Zeppernick at the No. 5 position when Indiana’s Murdy had to stop playing because of an injury.

“We played really well against Indiana last weekend,” Dalmagro said. “We were pretty close in one match. We didn’t play too well in doubles, but we bounced back in singles.”

Purdue’s Krisztina Kapitany and Natalia Davila defeated Zeppernick and Zgierska 8-3 at the No. 2 doubles position. Nicole Robinson and Claudia Escribens also won against Nebraska’s Hannah Sulz and Lauren Wagner 8-1.

Nebraska’s Maggy Lehmicke defeated Purdue’s Mara Schmidt at the No. 1 position, earning the only point for Nebraska that day.

“It was a tough weekend last weekend,” Dalmagro said. “We’ve been battling with adversity all year long, but our players have been responding well.”

The team has a few players who are out for the season and some who have been battling minor injuries, which Dalmagro said has been difficult for them. But with only a few weeks left in their season, Dalmagro said he feels confident in the team’s abilities.

“The group is very united,” Dalmagro said. “They love to get out there and compete for each other.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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baseball: from 10 All the games at this point are huge, whether it’s mid-week games, weekend games.

We’re playing to win every single game.” will bolt

assistant baseball coach

On Wednesday, the Gophers also suffered a difficult loss. The squad was bettered by South Dakota State, 13-4. In the game, junior third baseman Tony Skjefte recorded 3 hits and a run for the Golden Gophers, but it didn’t prove to hold importance, as the score was 9-1 after the second inning.

The pitching for Minnesota suffered early. Freshman righthander Cody Campbell started

the game, but allowed 5 earned runs on 3 walks, 2 hit batters and no hits. He lasted a third of an inning.

The Golden Gophers won’t be an easy task for the Huskers. This squad can win the close games, as it has amassed 10 saves on the year, leading the conference. Minnesota has lost four games decided by 3 runs or fewer.

The Gophers will likely

send senior Alec Crawford (31), sophomore Jordan Jess (0-5) and junior Ben Meyer (2-2) to the mound in the series. Their Nebraska counterparts will be junior Chance Sinclair (5-1), senior Christian DeLeon (3-2) and junior Aaron Bummer (4-2), the trio that pitched three straight complete games in a series sweep of Ohio State last weekend.

“We got a big series coming up,” Bolt said.

Both squads will use this series as a chance to renew momentum.

For the Huskers, it doesn’t matter who’s in the opposite dugout. Every game is vital to the Huskers, Bolt said.

“All the games at this point are huge, whether it’s mid-week games, weekend games,” Bolt said. “We’re playing to win every single game.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Between 50,000 and 60, 000 fans are expected to attend the Nebraska spring game on Saturday. in front of a crowd projected to be around 50,000 to 60,000.

Pelini said a lot of those players have a lot to prove on Saturday. That is, if they get the chance to play.

The forecast, as of Thursday afternoon, projects heavy rain

Saturday right around kickoff.

However, Pelini has a solution to assure the game is played.

“I’ll just get Coach Osborne down here, and he can part the skies,” he said, chuckling. “Then we should be good to go.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Huskers host 1st outdoor home meet of season After success at Arkansas last week, track and field team to hold 2nd annual Nebraska Quad Mike Shoro DN The Nebraska track and field will host its first home outdoor meet of the season on Saturday. South Dakota State, Oral Roberts and Northern Colorado will all visit Ed Weir Stadium for the Nebraska Quad.

As well as being the first of three home outdoor meets, the Nebraska Quad will be the Huskers’ first scored meet of the outdoor season. This is the second annual Nebraska Quad meet and the first time it’ll be scored. The first one was April 13 of last year, when NU welcomed Wyoming, South Dakota State and Tulsa to Lincoln.

Although the scoring is a new addition to the meet, coach Gary Pepin said he doesn’t think it’ll affect how the No. 14 men’s team and the unranked women’s team go about their business on Saturday. Instead, Pepin said the team is still trying to get into the swing of the outdoor season.

“For the team, all these meets

are just preparatory meets for the omore Maggie Malone, the men’s triple jump, won by junior Devanvery end, for the championship,” drew Johnson, and the men’s shot Pepin said. put, in which sophomore Will While the meet may not necesLohman finished runner-up to sarily mean a whole lot to the team Wright. Lohman won the men’s in the grand scheme of the season, it’s still an opportunity for the ath- hammer throw.

Whether those athletes will letes to get in some extra competiget an opportunity to compete tion. is a different story. The forecast “Each meet and each day in the for Saturday calls for thunderseason takes on different imporstorms scattered throughout most tances,” he said. of the afternoon. If As is often the the weather does case throughout For the team, turn bad, the meet the course of a seamay start earlier son, several Huskall these than the scheders will be training through the meet meets are just pre- uled 11 a.m. time.

Nebraska track or won’t compete Director of Opbecause of injuries paratory meets for erations Da’Nelle or a tough week of the very end, for Earl said the meet training, Pepin said. the championship.” would most likely But there will be be moved to a 10 those who are gogary pepin a.m. start if the ing out and compettrack and field coach team anticipates the ing for a regional or weather will pose a conference-qualifyproblem. Pepin said the team will ing time, distance or height. try to get as many events in as it Many of the athletes who’ll could before the bad weather posbe competing will try to replicate sibly sets in. If the storms begin their efforts from a week ago, when Nebraska collected 11 event and don’t subside, the meet may titles at the Arkansas Spring Invite. have to be called off.

Field events are tentatively Four of those titles came in throwing events, as senior thrower Chad scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. with Wright won both the shot put and the hammer throw. Jumping events will start at 1 p.m. with the womthe discus. The Huskers had first en’s long jump and the men’s pole and second-place finishers in four events: the women’s shot put, won vault. The track events will begin

by Nebraska senior Annie Jackson, with the steeplechase at 3 p.m. sports@ the women’s javelin, won by sophdailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska senior Chad Wright, the 2012 national champion in the discus, won both the shot put and the discus at the Arkansas Spring Invite in Fayetteville, Ark., on Saturday.

five things to watch in the 2014 spring game

1. The New Format

Coach Bo Pelini announced on Wednesday that the Red vs. White spring game is going to do something different this year. Instead of having two teams face off against each other, Pelini chose to have the offense go up against the defense. The No. 1 offense will go up against the No. 1 defense, and the backups will face the backups. Many other teams use this format, but then again, not many other teams are able to sell more than 45,000 tickets for a game that doesn’t matter. As far as entertainment goes, it won’t be as exciting as previous spring games. The teams will try their best, but it’ll be different for the fans who are watching the game. We’ll have to see how excited the defense gets if it gets an interception.

2. The Running Backs

One of the best groups to return from the 2013 season is the running backs.

Ameer Abdullah returns for his senior season along with junior Imani Cross and sophomore Terrell Newby, who both saw playing time last season. This season file photo by matt masin | dn Adam Taylor will be thrown into the mix.

It’ll be interesting to see which backup running back emerges and is the flashiest in the spring game. Production on the ground needs to continue, and it’ll be tough for Armstrong to get the same numbers Martinez did when he was healthy. So one of the backups needs to come in and rack up some yardage. If the offense can figure out how to split between the four talent backs, then it’s going to be an exciting 2014 season.

3. Secondary

This group faced the most changes after the fall season. First, you lose veteran players such as Ciante Evans, Stanley Jean-Baptiste and Andrew Green. Then, you have a new coach for the contingent, Charlton Warren. Although Terry Joseph was a huge loss for the Husker staff, Warren was a great hire for the program. For him to step down from being defensive coordinator at his alma mater, Air Force, to being a secondary’s coach at Nebraska, his first non-Air Force job, says a lot about him and how much he’s invested in the program. As for the players, they’ve been extremely vocal during the practices leading up to the spring game. Senior cornerback Josh Mitchell emerged as a defensive leader on Day 1, and the others have caught the infectious energy that he brings every day. Other players who have been working around the clock at practice are Nathan Gerry, Byerson Cockrell and Charles Jackson, who looks to be the file photo | dn replacement for Evans in the nickel position.

4. Sam Burtch

Quincy Enunwa helped the team out on offense tremendously last season, leading the team in touchdowns with 12. Next on the receiving touchdown list was Kenny Bell, who’ll continue to be a down-field threat. The most interesting receiver on the team is junior Sam Burtch.

Burtch, who had 3 touchdowns last season, is poised to take on the role of getting redzone touchdowns, just as Enunwa did last fall. Other receivers have seen a lot of reps during spring practice, but Burtch and Bell are the ones who’ve consistently played with the first-team offense.

5. Backup Quarterbacks

This season, the Huskers hope they won’t have to use three different quarterbacks as they did last year. If that happens, though, the young trio that’s eligible to play needs to be ready. Behind sophomore Tommy Armstrong Jr., who’s file photo | dn the undisputed starter at the moment, are sophomore Ryker Fyfe and redshirt freshman Johnny Stanton. Both backups have been battling hard at practice but aren’t able to match the experience that Armstrong has had. Stanton was one of the main recruits who were brought in last season, and Fyfe is a Grand Island, Neb., native vying for the No. 2 spot. This will be the last time coaches will be able to look at them before fall camp, so look for them to make it count.

—Compiled by Josh Kelly sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sophomore Vincent Valentine tackles Iowa’s Jake Rudock.

Nebraska defense goes deeper than star Gregory Nedu Izu DN If there’s one athlete most Nebraska football fans are looking forward to seeing play this season, it’s Randy Gregory.

During his sophomore year, the junior defensive end racked up 40 solo tackles and a Big Ten Conference-high 10 sacks in his first season as a Husker. The National Sophomore Defensive Player of the Year ’s totals were astonishing enough to make most believe he’d elect to move on to the next level and be a part of the 2014 NFL Draft.

However, fans shouldn’t expect to see the 6-foot-6 245 pounder play a lot of minutes Saturday in the Red-White spring game, Husker coach Bo Pelini said.

“There are certain guys we want to protect that we don’t want to give a lot of reps to,” Pelini said earlier this week. “We have some guys out at certain positions.

We’re thin at a couple positions.

We don’t want kids in position to get hurt.”

Although fans won’t see much of Gregory on Saturday afternoon, his other teammates on defense have given plenty of reasons as of late to be excited to watch play, John Papuchis said.

One area in particular is the defensive line.

“For the most part, guys like Maliek Collins, Vincent Valentine, Greg McMullen and Randy Gregory had no experience going into last fall,” the defensive coordinator said.

During his freshman year, Collins played 12 games and tallied 12 tackles, with one of them going for a 10-yard sack against Southern Miss in a 56-13 Nebraska win, Sept. 7.

But Papuchis expects Collins and the rest of the line to be more explosive in the fall because of their experience together and off season training, he said.

“Now, with Maliek and Randy having an offseason in the weight room,” Papuchis said, “we’re seeing them not only get better at understanding the scheme, but physically more explosive as well.”

In his redshirt freshman year, Valentine recorded 5 tackles for loss and his first sack for 8 yards lost against Iowa on Nov. 29. Although he started just six games his first year with Nebraska, he’s expected to see that number spike this season.

Behind the defensive line stands another freshman, Nathan Gerry, who’s done nothing but impress his defensive coach recently in practice as well.

“Gerry is a guy we knew was probably going to be a long-term safety for us,” Papuchis said.

Although the Sioux Falls, S.D., native came out of Washington High School as a safety, Gerry played each game last season as a member of the special teams or a linebacker. He recorded 32 total tackles, but Papuchis said he’s expected to move back to his first position and compete for a starting role his sophomore year.

“With the inexperience at linebacker, we thought it was worth a year to try him there,” Papuchis said. “But he’s done a nice job this spring to put himself in a position to play a lot this fall.”

Although Gerry and the linemen have specifically received praise from Papuchis recently, the one thing he’s noticed between all of them, which they lacked at times last season, is their confidence.

The defensive coordinator said if they can maintain that going into the fall and stick playing loose, Gregory won’t be the only Nebraska defender recognized around the country.

“It was hard to have that swagger a year ago because guys were just learning,” Papuchis said. “Now that they feel confident and comfortable with what they do, and with all of the hard work they’ve put in this offseason, they’ve earned the right to go out there, have some fun and just play.

“That’s the way I want us to play, and that’s the way they want to play, but you have to earn the right to get there.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Memorial Stadium will host the spring game, Nebraska’s first football game in Lincoln since November, on Saturday, but there is rain in the forecast for Saturday afternoon.

mixing it up Bo pelini announces new format for saturday’s spring game, which will pit offense against defense

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he Nebraska football team is changing up the format for Saturday’s annual RedWhite spring game.

There won’t be a Red and a White team this year.

Because of a number of injuries to certain positions, particularly the offensive and defensive line, coach Bo Pelini has decided to play an offense-defense game for Saturday’s game, which kicks off at 2 p.m. and will air on the Big Ten Network at 7 p.m. that night.

“It’s the only way we’re going to be able to function and protect guys we want to protect,” Pelini said. “Trying to field two teams wouldn’t happen right now.

“It’s really a student welfare thing. We want to make sure these guys are able to go out there and compete and put on a good show for the fans, but at the same time we don’t want anyone playing an inordinate amount of reps and wind up getting hurt.”

There will be a point system for both the offense and defense, which Pelini will introduce to fans and media before kickoff on Saturday. Both teams will play players at the top of the depth chart to start the game, Pelini said, but fans should expect a lot of different players to rotate in and out of the lineup.

And don’t expect a lot from All-Big Ten Conference running back Ameer Abdullah and Big Ten sack leader Randy Gregory either, Pelini said. Both have taken limited reps throughout the spring.

But Abdullah seems like he hasn’t missed a beat this spring, even when he’s not getting as many reps.

“I don’t want to have any flaws in my game,” Abdullah said in the Big Ten Teleconference on Wednesday. “I don’t want people to say, ‘Well, he doesn’t do this well.’ I want everyone to say, ‘He’s pretty good at every aspect of his game.’”

The Husker offense will run about 100 plays, Pelini said, mixed in and out of fun fan activities.

But don’t expect anything too exciting as far as football goes Saturday.

“We’re not going to show some of the new wrinkles we have,” Pelini said. “It’ll be a little bit more basic than what they’ve done.”

Still, Pelini might have something a little more exciting Pelini up his sleeve. Pelini said he’s been thinking of something like last year ’s Jack Hoffman 66-yard touchdown run.

It won’t be on that scale, but it’ll still catch fans by surprise, he said.

“We have a couple things we’re going to throw out there and have some fun with,” Pelini said. “We don’t want to lose sight of what we’re trying to accomplish as a football team, but at the same time we’re trying to make it fun for the fans.”

Even with the new format, Pelini said he expects his team to perform.

He knows the advantages of the spring game, particularly for the younger players trying to make the roster or an impact on the field. Few programs get the opportunity to have a spring dress rehearsal

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Junior second baseman Pat Kelly went 0 for 4 with 2 RBI against Kansas State on Wednesday and leads the Huskers in starts, at-bats, hits and RBI this season.

Huskers try to bounce back at Minnesota after the game Wednesday.

In the loss, the Huskers After emotional earned something they haven’t had much of recently: extra base loss to Kansas State hits. Senior outfielder Michael on Wednesday, Pritchard notched a double and a triple in the game and put up Nebraska to send 3 3 RBI. top pitchers to hill “There’s some encouraging signs,” Bolt said. “We swung it much better tonight.”

During the winning streak, Staff Report and the early part of the season, DN the Husker ’s offense was reigning in the extra base hits. It beThe Nebraska baseball team gan to slow down, but the team heads to Minneapolis for a Big continued to get on base.

Ten Conference showdown with Bolt said he didn’t expect the Minnesota Gophers (17-11 the offensive production to keep Overall, 5-4 Big Ten). The threeits pace for the rest of the year. game series kicks off Friday at “Over the course of a long 3:05 p.m. season, it’s difficult to continue The Huskers (20-14, 4-2) will to get hits after hits after hits,” look to regain momentum this Bolt said. weekend after their five-game In the five-game winning winning streak was snapped on streak, Nebraska earned three Wednesday.

1-run victories In Nebrasand a pair of ka’s 10-6 loss to 2-run wins. The Over the the Kansas State key to the offense course Wildcats, Nein that stretch of braska coach Da- of a long year, games was the rin Erstad was timeliness of the ejected from the it’s difficult to hits and runs. game because continue to get “That’s what he argued a call. we were able to This put associate hits after hits after do during the head coach Will winning streak – hits.”

Bolt at the helm. is we were makBolt said his will bolt ing the most of assistant baseball coach team had some the hits we were success in the getting,” Bolt game, but the said. squad just needs to move on to The Huskers aren’t the only the next one. squad entering the weekend se“We just take this game for ries on a negative note. what it is, and again I think our guys competed well,” Bolt said

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Nebraska looks to continue series success against Iowa Huskers, Hawkeyes to kick off weekend with Friday double-header after series schedule changed for weather Staff Report DN After going 1-1 this week, the No. 19 Huskers look to establish a winning streak as they welcome the Iowa Hawkeyes this weekend for a three-game series at Bowlin Stadium. They’ll play a doubleheader on Friday, followed by a game on Saturday afternoon, when they’ll be recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Day. The series, originally scheduled to be played on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, was altered to avoid forecasted severe weather.

Nearly a half-hour after the Huskers’ loss to Nebraska-Omaha on Tuesday, Nebraska coach Rhonda Revelle spoke to her team about picking up the offensive intensity, and Revelle’s message was heard loud and clear, as the Huskers shutout Northern Iowa 4-0 the following day.

If we’re going to make a run to the postseason we’re going to have to put it together on both sides of the ball.” rhonda revelle softball coach

Freshman left fielder Kat Woolman had three hits with an RBI, while junior right fielder Kylee Muir went 2 for 3, scoring twice and knocking in two.

This performance came after both Woolman and Muir went 0 for 3 against UNO. “We’re getting deep into the season now, and if we’re going to make a run to the postseason, we’re going to have to put it together on both sides of the ball,” Revelle said.

After two solid pitching performances for senior right-handed pitcher Tatum Edwards and sophomore right-handed pitcher Emily Lockman, the Huskers pitching has been superb of late and will need the bats to heat up.

The Huskers offensive production is crucial, as they’re trying to build momentum going into the postseason.

And it starts this weekend.

The Hawkeyes come in with a

10-20 overall record and a 5-6 Big Ten Conference record, but Revelle isn’t letting the Hawkeyes’ record dictate the mindset of her team, as she isn’t letting the players take anything for granted.

“I think every weekend in the Big Ten is critical and every weekend is tough,” Revelle said. “If you look at our history with Iowa, it’s always been back and forth.”

In the lone win against the Huskers in the 2013 season, the Hawkeyes got major offensive production from junior infielder Megan Blank, who had 4 hits and 6 RBI in three games when the Huskers played Iowa last season.

Blank looks to be one of Iowa’s biggest offensive threats, as she hit Nebraska’s Edwards hard with 2 hits.

However, Iowa has struggled with run production throughout this season, getting blanked nine times by its opponents.

The Huskers, on the other

hand, did fairly well against Iowa last season, winning two out of three games and outscoring the Hawkeyes 16-9 with 26 hits in the series to Iowa’s 17.

If anything, the Huskers’ past success with the Hawkeyes should give them confidence, as 11 players on the Huskers current roster played in or witnessed the Iowa games last season.

This Husker team is still young, and Revelle doesn’t want it overlooking any of its opponents as every game toward the end of the season becomes increasingly more important to reach postseason play.

“You play a lot of games, and it is a young bunch and it’s hard to get that level of intensity ever single game,” Revelle said. “It’s difficult for coaches, too, when you’re playing that many games and going to school and doing the things that you do.”

The weekend should provide the Huskers time to regroup in order to build momentum as they look to improve their Big Ten record of 5-4 and climb up from their fourth-place ranking in the Big Ten. First pitch is Friday at 4 p.m. followed by a second game at 6 p.m. and a 4 p.m. game on Saturday. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sophomore second baseman Hailey Decker leads the Huskers with 45 hits and 13 doubles this season.