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colors with flying
above: Cheyney Greer, a freshman pre-med, psychology and biology major participates in color guard tryouts in the Mabel Lee Hall gym on Saturday.
First round of color guard tryouts tests candidates on routine memorization, marching skills story by Christina Woodworth | photos by Kyle Bruggeman
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he Mabel Lee Hall north gym echoed with the rustle of scarlet red flags spinning and twirling through the air. Dropped flag poles hit the polished wooden floor with an explosive bang. A chorus of voices counted aloud “Five, six… five, six, seven, eight” as the dancers spun and stepped through their routine in syncopated rhythm. Tryouts for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln color guard had begun. Twenty-one females attended the first round of tryouts on March 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The audition included learning and memorizing a short flag routine and working on marching techniques. In the
Right: Rachel Watermeier, a junior speech pathology major, spins her flag.
afternoon, candidates were divided into groups of four for the official audition, which took place in front of UNL color guard instructor Ashlea Jurgens-Woitzel and four flag line leadership team members. “I’m shaking so bad,” said Holley Hostetter, a freshman secondary education major, after emerging from her audition. “My legs were just shaking the whole time.” Hostetter decided to try out again this year after not making the flag line last year. “It went a lot better than last year,” she said. “I freaked myself out last time and totally forgot the routine.” Hostetter said she enjoys color
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Transfer credit requirements in the College of Business Administration will undergo a myriad of changes starting in the fall 2012 semester. The college will require students to earn higher grades in business credits applicable for transfer from certain institutions, and students will no longer be able to transfer credits for upper-level coursework from certain institutions, among other changes. Kathy Farrell, senior associate dean of the College of Business Administration, said the changes are part of the college’s effort to continuously review and reassess coursework. The college is also changing the maximum for transfer credit hours from 66 to 60, in accordance with a previous reduction in the number of hours required to graduate. “We probably at that point should have reduced our transfer credit hours because you’re typically only supposed to allow 50 percent of your total credit hours to come from another institution,” Farrell said. The transfer credit policy changes generally apply to two-year institutions and schools that are not certified by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business: The college will
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Architecture Malaysian Night focuses on unity dean candidates visit campus Demetria Stephens Daily Nebraskan
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GEORGE THRUSH The two finalists for the dean position of the College of Architecture visited campus last week and this week to hold public presentations and receptions. George Thrush visited campus on March 26. Thrush is a professor and director at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University in Boston. His research, writing and teaching topics all focus on contemporary urban issues in architecture, according to a March 23 press release.
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Working with an excellent faculty to embrace the new challenges of more interdisciplinary preparation and research is very attractive to me.” George Thrush
finalist for the dean position of the college of architecture
Thrush said he was delighted to find out he was a finalist for the dean position
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Alice in Malaysialand made laughter boom through the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union Saturday night. The comedy, “Teh Tarik: A Magical Musical,” centered on the theme of unity for Malaysian Night 2012 put on by the Nebraska University Malaysian Students Association. Every year for about 20 years, 100 or so students have volunteered, worked late and become friends while producing the event, said LeenKiat Soh, the student group’s adviser and an associate professor of computer science and engineering. Some volunteers backstage during the 2012 event were running with props. Others sneaked under projector screens with water for nearly 500 guests.
malaysia: see page 3
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John Tessalee, a sophomore marketing major, and Lorena Carmona, a senior news-editorial major, stand off stage as voice actors for the play written for Malaysian Night, which was hosted in the Nebraska Student Union Saturday night.
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