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Nebraska employee had bright, ‘can-do attitude’ staff report DN At the University of Nebraska Foundation, Bettina Burklund was a positive force of energy.

Burklund’s coworkers remember her as a professional who always had a positive attitude. She worked at the foundation for about seven years as a projects manager and helped remodel the foundation’s website.

Lincoln police found the 41-yearold dead in her south Lincoln home Monday. Her husband was arrested Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder.

Dorothy Endacott, who works in marketing and communications at the NU Foundation, said Burklund’s death is a great loss to the University of Nebraska community.

“It didn’t matter what she had to do, she always had a positive attitude for all of the projects that she worked on,” Endacott said.

Bettina managed multiple projects at a time and was a crucial leader, Endacott said.

“She was a very hard worker,” she said. “She was always the one to come in early and stay late.”

Her leadership skills helped advance the NU Foundation.

“She had a can-do attitude and a mind for details,” she said.

In her free time, Burklund enjoyed working with flowers and was an amateur floral arranger, according to a 2009 post on floral design blog uBloom.

In addition to her work ethic, she had a giving spirit.

“She was always positive and optimistic,” Endacott said. “She was a beloved co-worker.”

Burklund was a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University and Lincoln High School. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Stars of ‘Neighbors’ visit Nebraska Union for Runza-eating contest

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A crowd of people gather in the Nebraska Union for a Runza-eating contest with celebrity guest judges from the upcoming film “Neighbors.” There was a free advanced screening of the movie at The Ross.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln students at a Tuesday forum got to hear about sustainability from people who can directly bring about change.

The forum, called “Policy for the Plains: A Discussion about Sustainability with Nebraska Government Officials,” included Sens. Ken Haar and Rick Kolowski of the Nebraska Legislature; Tim McCoy, Nebraska Game and Parks deputy director; Graham Christensen, campaign manager for U.S. Senate candidate Dave Domina; and Milo Mumgaard, senior policy aide for sustainability at the Lincoln Mayor’s office.

The event, sponsored by the Environmental Leadership Program as the final Earthstock event, attracted more than 70 people to listen to panel members discuss issues such as climate change, waste concerns and the role of government and students in sustainability. The first question asked by moderator Sara Cooper, academic adviser and instructor in the School of Natural Resources at UNL, was: when did you first encounter sustainability?

“Many people don’t understand the concept, and I think it’s human beings who tend to look at what’s happening tomorrow instead of 30 years or 50 years from now,” Haar said.

“I’m in this because of you, because I

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Actors Christopher Mintz-Plasse (left) – best known for his role as McLovin in “Superbad” – and Jerrod CarContestants of Tuesday’s Runza-eating contest take a michael hype up the sizable crowd gathered in the Nebraska Union Crib to watch and judge a Runza-eating selfie with the celebrity judges Franco, Mintz-Plasse contest. Mintz-Plasse, Carmichael and actor Dave Franco, brother of James Franco, came to Lincoln to attend and Carmichael from “Neighbors.” an advanced screening of “Neighbors” at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on campus.

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want people of your age to have the same kind of opportunities, the same kind of planet, the same kind of wildlife that I enjoy.”

McCoy agreed with Haar and said the most difficult aspect of sustainability discussion is that it deals with one issue at a time despite the interconnective nature of environmental issues.

“Climate change is sort of bringing a lot of that together,” McCoy said. “I think it’s going to force us to think more that way and to look at how we manage, how we adapt, how we mitigate, because it’s a bigger issue that any of us can take on their own.”

Christensen said he finds renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power fascinating and that projects such as Burt County Wind – a collaborative wind farm project that he presides over – are part of the answer.

“Our state is a leader in all this potential, and we have the ability to actually make money by implementing this on top of it and have a great economy with loads of jobs,” he said.

Answering a question about the government’s role in sustainability, Haar brought up the difference between Texas and Nebraska water management. In Texas, landowners also own the water under their land, while the Nebraska waters belong to the state. That difference has caused a

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Freshman journalism major Katelyn Rowan (left) and her roommate Maddi Klasi, a freshman political science major, pick out a planter at the Earthstock block party in front of the Nebraska Union Tuesday. Rowan and Klasi are new to gardening and are growing a jalapeno plant in their room. scarcity of water in Texas.

“Looking at our water as a state resource that affects us all makes all the difference between sustainability (in Nebraska), having enough water for the future and in Texas where they’re running out of water,” he said.

Christensen said citizens should have a say in the government’s role.

“Each and every one of us makes up the democracy,” he said. “So we make up the future of what the role will be, and there has never been a more important time than right now to be getting involved and becoming more educated and doing your little part.”

Mumgaard said local govern-

ment has a key role in sustainability, involving everything from road infrastructure to water and waste management.

“That’s the expectation people have about the government, is to set those rules,” he said. “And the way in which we do things, that’s when you look at sustainability from the perspective of, ‘What kind of rules can we achieve?’”

On the note of water scarcity as an issue, McCoy said the state park system has reduced water usage. The agriculture industry is a large water user in Nebraska, McCoy said. “As a people, we use a lot of water making our grass look pretty,” he said, adding that when there’s a problem such as scarcity, people tend to hope someone else will fix it.

In response to the statistic that the recycling rate in Lincoln is 18 percent, which is half the national average, the panelists suggested a variety of solutions: encouraging citizens to use the city’s recycling services at a higher rate, looking for ways to set up zerowaste systems and exploring urban agriculture.

Mumgaard said he’s had a positive experience working with students on sustainability issues and cited the Pinnacle Bank Arena as one example of where the city is looking to have zero waste. He also men-

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Court date set for NU murder case suspect staff report dn The husband of a University of Nebraska Foundation employee will appear in court Wednesday on charges that he murdered her.

Lincoln police believe an Easter Sunday argument may have led to homicide.

Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong said police were called to the home of Bettina and Kent Burklund on the 8100 block of Meredeth Street on Monday after 12 p.m. because of phone calls from co-workers and family members asking them to check on Bettina.

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Mara Klecker DN Duncan Barnell could feel the pound of his heartbeat in his throat. He was worried the men across the green felt table would see the veins in his neck pulse with his nerves.

The University of NebraskaLincoln junior finance major tried to hold the rest of the muscles in his face still. He was holding a good hand – a flopped king-high flush.

After 16 hours of playing, this was the final table at the World Series of Poker circuit tournament in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on April 16. The hand would mean thousands of dollars – if Barnell could hold his poker face and read his opponents.

One of the guys across from him was Scott Stanko, a UNL alumnus from Denver and a poker player who’s won more than $292,000 at tables. A couple years ago, he sat in the same room and raked in $101,000, just months before a $114,000-win in Omaha.

It was Barnell’s first circuit tournament. He’s 23, though he barely looks it. He’s got a baby face covered in a light scruff.

But he knows how to play his looks to his advantage.

During one of the breaks, Barnell chatted with Stanko. Barnell admitted that it was his first tournament.

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“Just to get in his head,” Barnell said. “Make him think he can push me around.”

Sure enough, when they sat back at the table, the attitude was different. Stanko had a cockiness about his bluffing and his raises, Barnell said.

But Barnell was on to him.

He waited until Stanko “shipped all in” and crippled him with the high-king flush. Three hands later, Stanko was out.

By that point, Barnell had a huge chip lead. Enough to leave him walking away from the series with $13,441 and a gold and diamond ring worth about $3,000.

Barnell’s played poker since he was 14, sitting around a table with a couple middle school buddies. And he played online in high school – fudging his age and using a credit card to place bets and transfer his winnings to his friends’ accounts so

see the gold circle as a reminder.

“It still hasn’t really set in yet,” Barnell said. “I look down, and it’s like, ‘What? Is this mine? Are you serious?’”

Barnell is serious about poker.

He wants people to know he’s not just a knit – a newbie who got a lucky hand. He knows what he’s doing.

Maybe he’ll go to Las Vegas in a couple years. Live the celebrity life for a while before landing a job in finance.

“Everybody wants to be a professional something,” he said. “I guess a professional poker player wouldn’t be so bad.”

His winnings – minus a few rounds of drinks and a couple shirts from the Nike outlet store – are going into savings for getting a house in Las Vegas.

Barnell said he might wear the ring in Las Vegas. Until then, he’ll just wear it around campus and at work. His boss thinks it’s tacky, but Barnell thinks he’s probably just jealous.

For the people who ask about the ring and don’t look close enough to see the real diamond, Barnell has a quick-witted response: “I just put a quarter into a little machine, and this is what it gave me.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Junior finance major Duncan Barnell shows off the ring he won last Wednesday at the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The diamond-studded rings are given to those who place first in any World Series of Poker event.

they could play.

He’s played through college, too, once or twice a week with friends.

One of them is Russ Thomas, who convinced him to go to Council Bluffs for the tournament.

Thomas, a UNL alumnus who works at Gate 25 Bar and Restaurant in Lincoln, was confident.

“I thought he was looking good to win it,” Thomas said. “By the end, I knew he was probably the best at the table.”

Barnell didn’t have the same assurance going in. He was supposed to work at the Embassy Suites in Lincoln, where he valets, the second day of the two-day tournament and he didn’t think it’d be a problem – he’d be done by then, anyway.

At midnight of the first day, when he realized he was heading to the final tables, he started calling coworkers to fill in for him.

Thomas went back to Lincoln before the final table and had to wait until Barnell got back for all the details. The guys were sitting around a poker table dealing cards at one of their houses when Barnell walked in.

He showed them the ring – an impressive piece that takes up his whole first knuckle.

He wears the ring most days now.

He’s gotten used to the weight of it, he said. His hand feels naked without it.

But it’s still a shock to look down and

Kristy Childs knows what it’s like to work in the sex industry.

Childs, who sold sexual favors for money for more than two decades, gave the keynote address at the Nebraska Univer-

sity Students Against ModernDay Slavery’s second annual human trafficking summit Tuesday.

She’s now the executive director of Veronica’s Voice, an organization working to educate, encourage and empower victims of commercial sexual exploitation.

The event was held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. This year’s summit took more than three months to plan, said Caitlyn Do, a NUSAMS member and freshman psychology major.

“I think it brings awareness to not only human trafficking itself, but to our club too,” she said.

Several events happened throughout the day, including the keynote address by Childs, a survivor ’s voice panel and a fashion show.

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(Left to right) junior sociology and psychology major Elise Polly, junior advertising and public relations major Joslyn Maenner, senior journalism major Alison McClain and senior advertising and public relations major Rachel Foehlinger present Salvage jewelry at the NUSAMS Human Trafficking Summit.

Childs, who ran away from an abusive home at the age of 12, traded sexual favors with truck drivers in exchange for food and transportation out of Missouri.

She then moved to Denver,

where she became involved with a pimp. She continued to be sex trafficked for more than two decades. Childs decided to stop using drugs and discontinue her work in the commercial sex industry after finding out she was

pregnant. In 2000, she started Veronica’s Voice.

“No one should have to live this way,” Childs said. “I can tell you the majority of it is not a choice – it’s a lack of choices.”

The talk focused on decriminalizing women working in the commercial sex industry and encouraging the United States to adopt what is called the Nordic Model, which makes it legal to sell sexual services but illegal to buy them.

“We’ve got to decriminalize the victim, and we have to go after the men who purchase,” Childs said.

About 35 people listened to the keynote address, including several UNL students.

“It sounds really interesting,” said Ellie Slater a freshman history and political science major. “I took a class last year that had to do with human trafficking, so it’s cool that people know about it.”

The Panel of the Survivor ’s Voice featured Rachel Davis, one of the founding members of the Free the People movement, Sen. Amanda McGill of the Nebraska Legislature, Mingying Zheng, a psychological studies in educa-

tion graduate student at UNL, Paul Yates, co-founder of Tiny Hands International, Nikki Segal, an outreach worker at the Bay in Lincoln and Walter Powell, an author who works with at-risk youth through the TeamMates Mentoring Program.

The following fashion show featured Salvage Sri Lanka jewelry modeled by members of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority at UNL. Underprivileged women make the jewelry in Sri Lanka to earn money to feed their families.

“I chose to help with it because I went over there and saw how much it helps the women,” said Mary Sullivan, a UNL graduate and NUSAMS member.

She said she thinks it’s important because all of the jewelry is eco-friendly and made from recycled material, and it also helps the Sri Lankan women.

Members of NUSAMS hope the summit will increase awareness of human trafficking.

“I think it’s a trickling effect,” Do said. “If you become passionate about it other people will too.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

RHA to host first Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 5K Fun run will feature prizes, speech from former football player CJ Zimmerer who has juvenile diabetes Gabrielle Lazaro DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Residence Hall Association is hosting its first 5K run benefiting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Former Nebraska football player CJ Zimmerer, who

was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was young, will give a speech at the event.

The event will take place May 3 at 11 a.m., in front of the Nebraska Union and travel around campus.

“This is a fun run,” said Kyler Held, RHA programming chair and a junior food science major.

“If you want to run it in 15 minutes, you can. If you want to walk it in 35 minutes, you can. We want to make it inclusive. We also have a mile option you can do – you can walk a mile in the time it’d take people to run the three miles.”

This 5K walk/run is free for the first 200 participants and open to the public.

“We wanted to set a precedence,” Held said. “We had 500 for the homecoming run, so we want to at least get 200 out there.”

Held said he hopes to make the run an annual event and will strongly recommend an advocate for next year, since this is his last year in RHA. The cause was chosen partially because Taylor Bosch, a freshman mechanical engineering major who was recently sworn in as RHA vice president, has juvenile diabetes.

“We were originally thinking of doing things for other charities,” said Ethan Schwarten, events chairman and a sophomore biology major.

“But Taylor Bosch is diabetic, and he went to a function earlier in the year,

and he thought it’d be a good idea since he always wanted to plan a 5K, and he said, ‘Why not do it for JDRF.’” Held also said JDRF was RHA’s benefit of choice for the 2013-2014 academic school year.

The 5K will also include a raffle where attendees can purchase a ticket for $1 and potentially a water balloon toss to cool down after the race.

The prizes given away will be any donations received from local businesses, Held said.

So far, RHA has contacted various businesses in Lincoln such as Papa John’s, Raising Cane’s, Taco John’s, Walmart and Target to ask for donations.

“Any kind of donation,” Held said. “It could be monetary toward JDRF or if say, Hy-Vee wanted to give bananas and apples for a racer before the run itself – anything they want to donate we would accept.”

Although RHA members don’t have a set goal of how much they want to raise, Schwarten said he hopes to raise at least a few hundred dollars.

“Right now, we just kind of want to get the event off the ground and get it up and running so we can turn it into an annual event,” he said. “After that, we’ll set a goal but this year we just want to focus on the event.”

The first 500 participants will also receive a T-shirt upon signing

up they can wear during the race.

“The unique thing about these shirts, is in a sense they’re custom made,” Held said. “We’re going to have kids at Lincoln Public Schools put handprints on them with fabric paint. They’ll put hand prints on them so the shirt you get will not be like anybody else’s shirt.”

Held said he’s excited to see how the event turns out and hopes an event such as this can occur in the future.

“I want to see this become an annual event,” he said. “So I can leave a lasting legacy here – that’s my goal.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Smithsonian director to discuss Nebraska fossil record Kirk Johnson to give lecture “From Fossils to Freeways and from Shovel-Tuskers to Cornhuskers” Jacob Elliot DN A director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History will discuss Nebraska’s fossil record and its contribution to Earth’s history on Wednesday.

Kirk Johnson, a senior director of the museum, is giving a lec-

ture titled “From Fossils to Free- fossil record has such a prominent ways and from Shovel-Tuskers to place in the science of paleontology.”

Cornhuskers,” in the Johnson has been Nebraska Union Authe sant director of the ditorium at 4 p.m on Smithsonian’s National Wednesday.

Museum of Natural “Kirk Johnson is History since October one of the stars of the 2012 where he supermuseum world, one of vises the National Fosthe nation’s best scisil Hall’s renovation. ence communicators,” His research focuses on said Priscilla Grew, fossil plants, dinosaur the University of Neextinction and methods braska State Museum for dating rocks and director and a profesfossils. sor of Earth and atmojohnson Johnson has a bachspheric sciences at the elor’s degree in geolUniversity of Nebrasogy and fine arts, a ka-Lincoln. “I want UNL students to hear directly master’s degree in geology and paleobotany from the University from Kirk about why Nebraska’s

of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. “He’s focused a lot on late Cretaceous – when dinosaurs roamed the Earth,” said Ross Secord, an assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences.

“And he’s focused a lot between the boundary of the late Cretaceous and the Cenozoic, where non-avian dinosaurs go exist. He uses fossilized plants to say things about ancient environments and ancient climates. So he’s looking at the big picture.”

Johnson’s research has involved work at many fossil sites in the American West. While at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, he curated the Prehistoric Journey exhibition and wrote the book, “Cruisin’ the Fos-

sil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-mile Paleo Road Trip.”

Johnson led the Snowmastodon Project in 2010-2011, an excavation of an ice age site near Snowmass Village and was featured in the NOVA documentary, “Ice Age Death Trap.”

The lecture is partially connected to Morrill Hall’s recent affiliation with the Smithsonian Institute back in February. The Smithsonian Affiliations is a national outreach program which develops relationships with museums, educational and culture organizations to enrich communities with Smithsonian resources.

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research roundup Laughter can improve memory, study says

Laughing may improve short-term memory, according to a study by researchers at Loma Linda University in Southern California.

The study included 20 healthy, older adults who were shown a funny video for 20 minutes. Compared to a control group who did not watch the video, the subjects who watched the video had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

Researchers say the less stress a person has, the better his or her memory. Because laughing lowers stress and blood pressure, humor can be tied to better memory, as well as increased mood.

Research points to Internet for loss of Americans’ religious affiliation

Americans’ loss of religious affiliation may be linked, in part, to the Internet, according to a study.

A professor and researcher at Massachusetts’ Olin College of Engineering analyzed religious disaffiliation and found three contributing factors: sparked Internet usage, a drop in religious upbringing and an increase in collegelevel education. Internet use can account for about 20 percent of the decline in religious affiliation, the study said.

The researcher predicts that by 2040, one in four Americans will be without a religious affiliation.

About 32 percent of imported fish obtained illegally, study REveals

Up to 32 percent of imported shrimp, salmon, pollock, tuna and other fish are caught illegally, according to a study performed by researchers at the University of British Columbia.

The study also found that 85 percent of the worlds’ commercial seafood grounds are fished to their biological limits.

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The United States imports 14 percent of the global total of seafood but does not require documentation of origin upon inspection. Approximately $1.3 billion to $2.1 billion worth of illegally caught fish gets by inspectors, according to the study.

Childhood bullying carries into adulthood, research shows

The effects of childhood bullying can last into adulthood, according to a study by the National Child Development Study in England.

Researchers studied 7,771 children born in 1958. The study followed them until they were 50, and parents informed researchers of their child’s exposure to bullying from ages 7 to 11. More than one in four had been bullied occasionally and 15 percent had been bullied frequently.

Those who had been bullied more were more likely to have worse cognitive ability and psychological and physical health at age 15. They were also less likely to be in a relationship and reported lower levels of satisfaction with life.

Those who were frequently bullied had higher risk of anxiety disorders, depression and suicidal thoughts.

German researchers say neanderthals had less DNA than modern humans

Neanderthals had a smaller gene pool than modern humans, according to researchers in Leipzig, Germany.

Neanderthals and modern humans share only about 1.5 to 2.1 percent of DNA. The Neanderthal genome was first sequenced in 2010. Using three genomes form specimens from Spain, Croatia and Siberia, researchers found that the genetic diversity of the Neanderthals were about one quarter of that in Africans today and about a third of that in Europeans and Asians.

tioned a project the city is working on with students to assess every rooftop the city owns in Lincoln for solar capacity.

Haar said one of the reasons it’s sometimes hard to make strides in sustainability is an attitude against change.

“We all know we cannot flip a switch and go from fossil fuels to renewables,” he said. “It’s going to

take some time, but we’ve got to see the transition.”

He ended with a call to action for the students.

“Keep your edge on your activism,” he said. “Don’t take no for an answer. There are enormous resources in this country that don’t want to change.”

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homicide: from 1 After they arrived at the cooperative with deputies and home, which is near South 84th didn’t have any weapons on Street and Pioneers Boulevard, him. He was arrested on suspipolice found Bettina’s body ly- cion of second-degree murder ing in a hallway of and taken to Lanthe home next to a caster County Jail knife, according to just before 8 p.m. police reports. A 1985 Monday.

Ford pickup truck Police said neiwas missing from the ther Kent nor Betgarage, they said. tina had anything Peschong said he on their criminal couldn’t comment records, and LPD on whether the knife never had a reason was used in Bettina’s to visit their home death. before.

Bettina’s husPeschong said ofband, 41-year-old ficers believe the coukent Kent, is a fishing enple had an argument burklund thusiast, so police desometime on Easter cided to search nearSunday. Police were by lakes to find him. unable to confirm when or how Sheriff Terry Wagner said Bettina died. deputies were sent to all of An autopsy is scheduled for the lakes in Lancaster County, later this week to determine the and Kent’s vehicle was found cause of death. around 2:30 p.m. at Conestoga This is the third homicide in Lake, at Southwest 91st Street Lincoln this year.

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Auntie Anne’s delays opening date to April 30 Nam Tran DN Although Auntie Anne’s was scheduled to open in early April, students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will have to wait until three days before classes end for the spring semester to get their pretzel fix.

Auntie Anne’s is scheduled to open on April 30. The pretzel vendor will open beside the recently opened Subway Pizza Express in the Nebraska Union food court and will be the second Auntie Anne’s to open in Lincoln, the first one located in Gateway Mall.

Jennica Fernen, a freshman art

major, said she was disappointed the pretzel joint is opening right before most students leave campus for the summer.

“It kind of sucks that it’s going to literally be open, and then we’re going to be out of school,” Fernen said.

Employees from the company developing the Auntie Anne’s location at UNL, Barton Development Inc., said the delay is due to construction challenges.

“We were having just a challenge with the construction and waiting on some of our cabinets and countertops because some of them had to be custom built,” said Amy Snyder, the company’s vice

president of operations. “So we were waiting on that company to get finished, and you know, any time you’re working with construction, you’re kind of on somebody else’s time schedule. We just were waiting for just a lot of loose ends to kind of be finalized.”

Auntie Anne’s was founded in 1988 by Anne and Jonas Beiler.

Based in Lancaster, Penn., Auntie Anne’s is now featured in more than 1,500 locations worldwide, covering 48 states and 30 countries, according to Auntie Anne’s website.

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Eventually, the menu will expand to include pretzel dogs, pretzel sticks and flavored pretzels.

According to a March 20 Daily Nebraskan article, Auntie Anne’s just became a franchise partner with Subway, and with this partnership Auntie Anne’s will serve its products in locations that are considered nontraditional, such as a Walmart and Target.

Brooke Sorensen, a freshman business administration major, said she likes Auntie Anne’s pretzels and will definitely go when it opens.

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d n e d i to r i a l b oa r d m e m b e r s HAILEY KONNATH

DANIEL WHEATON

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How to be a normal person in large crowds The “Neighbors” cast’s visit to Lincoln and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Tuesday resulted in a lot of mobs in the city and around campus. Chris Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco and Jerrod Carmichael brought masses of screaming, yelling and shoving students and Lincolnites. Crowds such as these can be frustrating to encounter as well as to be a part of. But it’s possible to exist as a pleasant, calm member of a crowd and enjoy your time in one too.

1. If you’re going to scream, warn everyone around you first.

Avoid screaming right when the famous person you’re presumably stalking is trying to talk or perform.

2. If you need to leave your spot, don’t expect to get back to it. There are no such things as saved spots in mobs. But you can always try walking behind someone particularly big and tall.

They’ll have more luck parting the sea.

3. Don’t stand on the new furniture in the Nebraska Union.

We just got that stuff, bro. It’s supposed to last longer than a few months. Let’s take care of it. After all, we’re just borrowing the union from tomorrow’s students, right?

4. Bring water with you if you think you might get dehydrated. Being carried away on a stretcher after passing out is probably not your goal for the experience.

5. If you’re at a Husker football game, and you’re upset with the officials, defense, coaching, etc., please don’t throw your Valentino’s pizza on the people in front of you. Yes, this happens.

No, it’s not fun spending the entire second half covered in pizza sauce and hamburger bits.

6. Be as courteous as you can. Don’t push, shove or elbow people in the face. Keep your hands to yourself and chill the hell out.

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Selfies help overcome insecurities

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e all have our insecurities.

Social media has influenced our insecurities by changing the way we perceive ourselves as well as others and not always for the better. While some people would say social media has had a negative effect on the way we define beauty, I see only potential in what the Internet can do for our self-esteems. What if I told you that all of your insecurities were a lie, and that really these imperfections were what made you authentically you – would you believe me?

If you have ever taken a picture of yourself, please stand up. Self-portraiture has been around as long as the camera but has only recently become a social media phenomenon.

Australia is credited for a term you might have heard: “selfie,” Oxford Dictionary’s international 2013 word of the year. According to Samsung, selfies make up 30 percent of the photos taken by people ages 18-24. We can see how over-popular selfies have become an annoyance to some. This would explain why I often hear people criticizing other ’s selfies when chances are they’ve also taken one.

A survey conducted by Opinium on behalf of HTC One in the United Kingdom asked 2,000 adults questions about selfies and selfietakers. Twenty-five percent described selfietakers as attention seeking, while 32 percent described them as fun loving. Eight percent said selfie-takers were insecure, while 27 percent thought them to be confident. The number one reason why UK adults said they took selfies was to remember a happy moment. Other reasons included capturing a funny moment, a nice outfit, a good hair day and because they

Bad questions curb debate, meaningful conversation

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illennials Don’t Stand a Chance” was the title and winning motion of the April 16 episode of Intelligence Squared, a NPR debate podcast. After an hour of debate, the side arguing against millennials, people born from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, won citing the generations tendencies for optimism and narcissism as being the twin roots of their downfall.

Now, I won’t recap the debate or argue against the outcome. If you want a discussion on what it’s like to be a millennial or the problems we face, you can check out my colleague Devin Grier’s work. While the outcome of the debate was upsetting, what’s more upsetting is that the debate happened in the first place.

I’m not against debate. I write opinion columns for my college newspaper, and I love debate in all its forms, casual or formal. Good debate is the cornerstone of democracy and of good discourse. But good debates can’t thrive without good questions, and “Do millennials stand a chance?” isn’t a good question.

We’re instead bombarded with bad questions, such as “Can anyone stop Hillary Clinton?” or “Are selfies corrupting the youth?”

To have a meaningful conversation about anything, you need to have good questions. We’ve all been stuck in endless, mindless small talk, with boring questions we’ve been asked a thousand times. “What’s your major? Where are you going after graduation? Are you nervous about your future?”

We‘ve heard these questions a thousand times and often have stock answers to them. We can rattle off basic facts about ourselves without thinking. And that’s the problem.

Bad questions don’t make us think. They simply lead us to repeat what’s been said before. People have asked “Are selfies corrupting the youth?” 100 different ways before phone cameras were even invented.

People wondered if flappers would ever give up the party life. People wondered if hippies would cut their hair and get jobs. Right now, people are wondering if millennials will burst free from stereotypes and make something of themselves. But this wondering is flawed.

Asking a question such as “Do millennials stand a chance?” assumes that the answer could be no. It assumes that an entire group of people united by an arbitrary demographic marking can’t cut it in the real

world.

A question such as this that wonders if a group, be it based on age, class, gender, etc. is ready for the real world is just basic discrimination. It’s the assumption that just because you’re outside of the norm or not the group currently in control that you lack value – that some groups with some arbitrary features are better than other groups with even more arbitrary features.

But bad questions aren’t just overdone and discriminatory. Bad questions lack an unbiased and reliable answerer.

“Can anyone stop Hillary Clinton?” has no unbiased person to answer. Clinton and her supports can’t answer because they’re biased in her favor.

People opposing her can’t answer either. People who are in the middle may not care if she can be stopped – or even what she’s supposed to be stopped from doing.

Bad questions are more than just upsetting and ill-advised. They slow down conversation from getting to interesting and important places. Instead of asking whether a generation can make it, we could ask questions like “What would another Clinton win mean?” or “What do selfies say about beauty culture?” or “What does it mean to have a chance?”

We’ll always be asking questions, whether they’re pretentious questions to prove we’re awake in class or important questions that we ask our loved ones. We need to ask good questions to create good conversation – and so we can stop wasting people’s times.

Walker Edwards is a junior philosophy major. Reach them at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

were feeling confident.

According to Tech Infographics, 50 percent of men and 52 percent of women have taken a selfie. With so many people already taking selfies, we ought to be encouraging them.

Imagine a selfie-positive society. No judgment would be passed on the picture you posted of yourself and no questions asked as to why you posted it. It’s impossible not to fall humanly short and pass judgment, but social media has made it much easier to do so, and this needs to be reversed. Influential people have taken notice of the selfie phenomenon, encouraging audiences to rethink selfies and how they affect our self-worth.

Academy award-winning director Cynthia Wade collaborated with Sundance Institute and the Women Filmmaker Initiative project to create a short documentary titled “Selfie.”

Wade and the team were curious if self-portraiture could work as a tool for conquering our insecurities. “Selfie” takes us to a high school in Berkshire County, Mass. where Wade challenges teenage girls and their mothers to take honest photos of themselves. The participants talk about their least favorite feature or their biggest insecurity, many of which are often

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passed down from their mothers’ own insecurities. After the young women and their mothers take selfies, they’re showcased at a selfie exhibit where the alleged imperfections are proven to be what make each person special.

The experience turns out to be groundbreaking for many, as they finally see themselves as beautiful and unique, making the film a success larger than a screening spot at Sundance.

The concept for “Selfie” was being brewed even before the term was awarded word of the year. As Wade did in the film, actor James Franco’s made a close argument about the value of self-portraiture in an editorial in The New York Times. Franco takes a stance on selfies that comes from being a celebrity, but he also encourages non-celebrities to take selfies, too. He describes selfies as avatars: “Mini-Me’s that we send out to give others a sense of who we are.” Franco tries to prove that selfies are the fastest way of showing how you’re feeling, where you are and what you’re doing. And while this is true, the documentary “Selfie” challenges people to think beyond that – using selfies as a way to showcase our individuality and overcome our insecurities.

We all have different reasons for posting them, but selfies have become one more way to express ourselves via social media. So I’ll ask you again: If I told you all your insecurities were a lie, and that these were the things that made you, you – would you believe me?

Try taking a selfie – you might just find out.

Gabriella Parsons is a freshman journalism major and a member of Freshman Campus Leadership Associates. Follow her on Twitter at @ gab___i (that’s 3 underscores). Reach her at opinion@dailynebraskan.com.

he problem with young people today is that they have no respect for seniors … they’ve turned the whole damned notion of respect upside down,” blogger Don Mills said.

This avowal isn’t new, and it would be hard to deny the fact that the concept of respect is waning in our nation. Whether you’re young or old, man or woman, conservative or liberal – we’re all lacking respect for those around us. The whole “damned notion” of respect has been thrown out the window. Even Urban Dictionary exemplified the word use of respect with this sentence: “Respect? What the hell does that mean?”

Though these perspectives encompass an element of humor, I began to notice the sheer reality of the respect deficiency plaguing Lincoln. The longer I’ve been aware of it, the more it’s bothered me.

I became acutely aware of how willing we are to discount the existence of other’s feelings completely. Examples are endless: from classmates chomping obnoxiously on their Doritos during lecture to parents negotiating with their discontented child after that child produces an ongoing squeal to the discomfort of an entire restaurant.

Disrespect is everywhere.

I’m a strong believer in adopting values and actions how you see fit. What shouldn’t be tolerated is the lack of respect that people are more commonly illustrating for those surrounding them. The principal that’s emerging is that people simply don’t care about others – and that’s disheartening.

Everyone is trapped in the routine of their own lives.

It’s understandable, yet it’s no excuse to disregard mutual respect. Respect necessitates an essence of self-awareness, a quality that may seem difficult to embrace.

What’s more is the fact that we’re failing to even expect respect from others, because we’re becoming desensitized to the lack of common courtesies that were so important to us 50 years ago. This is exemplified when reading degrading posts on social media – it’s much easier to abandon social-correctness with the ability to hide behind a Twitter handle.

Further, too often when I meet a guy, I find I anticipate their hope of something more to come rather than just relishing in the beauty of meeting a new acquaintance. I actually have been called a tease for not responding to a text a 2 a.m. Is chivalry, in fact, dead?

This may be a result of an inevitably, perhaps desirable, changing culture. My hope is that though our norms

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are rapidly changing, we can recreate a requirement of respect with high-priority.

This hope isn’t just for begrudged groups blaming another for the absence of respect in our culture. The idea isn’t just for children, students or men. Respect is a quality that’s important in all walks of life. Maria Montessori, an Italian educator, believed in this concept so deeply that she developed a revolutionary style of educating children known as the Montessori method.

Montessori emphasized the importance of respect for the child and his or her environment. “Respect all reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them,” she said. Though her focus was on respecting the child and their growth, these same ideals should be applied in our adult lives. We rarely respect other’s activities and we certainly don’t try to understand them.

Too often we ignore the fact that other people have feelings; we aren’t just pretty robots to look at. Our actions toward each other impact the interconnectivity that should unite us – we should care about each other. If we continue to ignore the simple forms of respect that have been abandoned, we’ll soon have a larger problem.

Montessori believed, “Children are human beings to whom respect is due” with the assumption that all humans deserve our respect, an ideal that seems to be lost. There is a simple solution: Look around and consider how our actions may affect others. As John Lennon wisely said, “You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” I, too, am a dreamer. I just hope I’m not the only one. It’s time that we appreciate that unity through respect isn’t just a distant dream – it’s possible.

Savannah Tyrrell is a sophomore advertising and public relations major.

Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Union redesign, seating baffle writer TYLER KEOWN

Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco and Jerrod Carmichael promote their new movie “Neighbors” at an advance screening in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.

Star screening ‘Neighbors’ stars attend screening at Lincoln’s Ross Story by Amanda Stoffel Photo by Amber Baesler

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s the clock struck 4:30 p.m., students of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the surrounding area made their way to UNL’s best kept secret, The Mary Riepma Ross movie theatre, to trade in their passes for tickets.

For on this fateful Tuesday, the city was being graced with the presence of celebrities that are undoubtedly quoted weekly by college students everywhere.

Dave Franco is known for his good looks as well as his roles in “21 Jump Street” and “Now You See Me.” Jerrod Carmichael is a stand-up comic with his own special.

And Christopher Mintz-Plasse was 2007’s biggest breakout star as McLovin in “Superbad” and also stars in both “Kick-Ass” films.

Franco, Carmichael and Mintz-Plasse spent their Tuesday in The Downtown bar, located on ‘O’ street, meeting fans and signing autographs before judging a Runza eating contest in the Nebraska Union Crib.

All of this was to promote the trio’s new film “Neighbors,” which also stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Lisa Kudrow, and was shown as a sneak-peek at the Ross for UNL students. After the screening, the boys made their way to the front of the theatre where they were greeted with cheers and applause to answer some questions that had been tweeted throughout the day under #NeighborsUNL. Chi from 106.3 KFRX facilitated the discussion, presenting some of the better ques-

tions from Twitter to the actors amidst the plethora of marriage proposals that were presented.

The actors were asked about their time on set. Franco teased Mintz-Plasse about an oversized male appendage that’s a running joke throughout the film. But both Franco and Mintz-Plasse insisted that Carmichael talk about the scene that he has with Lisa Kudrow in which “just eaten a pot brownie.”

“I was actually high for that scene,” Carmichael said. “The last thing you wanna do is get really high before you meet Lisa Kudrow – especially if you’re a big fan of hers.”

Carmichael laughed and said he and Mintz-Plasse’s diet consisted of popcorn and pickles while filming and added that when he met Kudrow he was “balls deep in popcorn.”

Tentative laughs made their way through both the crowd and the actors when an audience member asked if any of the gentlemen were, in fact, “naughty boys.” Franco grinned and giggled while Mintz-Plasse answered the question for him.

“Dave is the sweetest boy,” Mintz-Plasse said. “I pinch him, and he bruises for years.”

One of the audience members who had been called out by Mintz-Plasse at the beginning of the Q&A for his Superman shirt asked the question of the evening when he bravely asked Franco “How much ass do you pull a day?”

Franco, again, with a sheepish chuckle, covered his face while Mintz-Plasse grabbed

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I was born and raised in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Nebraska Union.

In essence, that is. Also literally, maybe, but mostly in essence.

I spend most of my time there; the Daily Nebraskan office is located in its basement. I sort of remember the time before living here, but the memories are filled with lots of human-sized cages, so I don’t think back much.

What I do remember is what the union looked like before it was renovated during the past year, which is more than enough credential-wise to do a review of the new union.

First, let’s look at size. Previously, the union was pretty big.

I’d guesstimate you’d be able to fit maybe 40 full-size elephants in it, which is more space being taken than you think.

During the renovations, architects didn’t re-size the building, so you can still fit the same number of elephants in the building with no worries. Good on the architects for keeping that in mind.

Food-wise, we see a noticeable drop. Prior to the face-lift, we had a Runza, Subway, Imperial Palace Express and a Sbarro. Now, we have no Sbarro, a Subway Pizza Express in its place.

Look, we understand we’ve taken a lot of potshots at SPE. It’s an easy target, and it’s important in comedy to swing up, not down.

But that pizza is really bad, and Subway Pizza Express makes the union worse. There, we’re done.

On a positive note, Runza is still there and still rules. Runza forever.

The scent of the union remains unchanged after the renovations, and that’s because Subway hasn’t closed down. Like the inside of a latex glove, the smell of the sub chain still permeates every corner of the building. It was nice at first, and just normal now. If you don’t like the smell, well, that’s too bad, because even if the Subway closes, the smell won’t.

The lighting seems a bit brighter than before. Gonna take off points for this because I’m a big advocate for dark rooms and

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There are these really cool places in Lincoln called libraries, and they’re everywhere.

Full of books. Silence. Air conditioning. Which, for us fickle weather people, is a really nice asset. And there are eight in Lincoln, and they’re totally involved and up to date with the social media swing dance.

Lincoln City Libraries has a Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest account. Don’t forget the podcasts they offer in which staff from all of the Lincoln library branches review books from Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” to Jon Stewart’s “America (The Book).”

And although libraries do exist year round, in the summer they become a hot spot for readers, children, pool loungers and all of those who want to catch up on a little reading.

Here are a couple of things Lincoln City Libraries offers besides a quiet and air conditioned ambiance:

Book Club in a Bag!

OK, so book clubs are a thing, and who says they aren’t for students on summer vacation, as well as for mothers who need a break from home? The Book Club in a Bag program allows library card members to check out 10 of the same book all at once, and the bag of books comes

with started discussion questions to get those book club sessions poppin’. You can also check out the bag for an extended duration of eight weeks, giving you about half a summer for you to catch up with some friends over a book. It may sound dorky or nerdy or whatever, but book clubs aren’t just about books.

They’re about the company you’re with when you read them. Make it a pot-luck atmosphere where every person brings some sort of food or drink to share. Or even pick a book that has turned into a movie. After finishing the book, watch it all together.

If you would like to join a book club but don’t really want to start one, you can also check out lincolnlibraries.org to find book clubs to join.

Also, Indigo Bridge Books hosts various book clubs for specific genres including graphic novels, LGBTQ literature and mystery novels.

Bennett’s BooksTalk

For the past six years, the Bethany Branch library has hosted speakers on Friday mornings to talk informally about a variety of different topics regarding books.

Sometimes there’s no topic at all but instead a speaker who lists off his favorite books he or she thinks people should read. Since the beginning of the year there have been 12 talks with plenty lined up for the future. On Friday at 10:30 a.m. Scott C. from Bennett Martin Public Library downtown will host a BooksTalk on “Stories Told in Unusual Ways,” and throughout the summer there will be a variety of different presen-

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Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco came to the Lincoln scene Tuesday to promote the new film “Neighbors” and for a grab-bag of activities.

While their day began with a meet-and-greet event in The Downtown Bar and would eventually end with a Ross premiere of “Neighbors,” in between they made their way for a Runza eating contest in the Nebraska Union Crib at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. With five students somewhat trained to eat Runza sandwiches quickly, each of the stars sponsored a contestant to see who could eat three original Runzas the fastest.

The comedy trio of Carmichael, Mintz-Plasse and Franco served as the judges for the event.

After a 30-minute delay, the three men stepped onto the stage to greet the contestants and the audience, then to make their selections on who would win. After the rules were laid down, which dictated that the eaters must completely finish a Runza sandwich before going on to the next, a final countdown was given.

Then, the eaters were off, taking bite after rushed bite of their Runzas.

The day was organized when a Universal Pictures representative contacted the Nebraska Union Board and University Program Council to set up events with Carmichael, Mintz-Plasse and Franco in Lincoln. Union board member Micah Lindblad said the event helps Nebraska’s image.

“I would say some people view Nebraska as a really boring place that not a lot of exciting things happen in,” Lindblad said.

“Pulling these events shows that we can pull innovative events and creative opportunities even in Nebraska.”

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Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon compete in a Runza eating contest on Tuesday in the Nebraska Union Crib. The contest was judged by celebrities Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jerrod Carmichael from the movie “Neighbors.”

The contest, with its large crowd of onlookers attending the PR event, sparked cheers and laughs as the contestants ate and the celebrities judged and shouted their comments.

“I’m like a dictator up here,” said Mintz-Plasse, as he coached one contestant and exclaimed that he didn’t have time to stop eating.

In the end, contestant Pete Meginnis devoured his three Runzas before anyone else, which crowned him the winner.

“I did it for myself, first off, and secondly … no second,” said Meginnis.

While the event corralled a

number of UNL students to the Crib, it ended on an emotional note. At the end of the feast, a number of Runza sandwiches were hurled into the air and crowd – meant, one can guess, to be caught by hungry audience members.

I saw the torpedo of meat and cabbage during its last few microseconds of travel toward my inattentive face when I looked up from my notebook. When it made contact, the sandwich broke and released a delicious spray of Runza goodness onto my shirt and notebook.

On one hand, I’m completely honored to be a part of this – to

have the remains of something that was once within inches of celebrities. Maybe I can sell my shirt for tuition money. Maybe I should just smell it over and over again.

On the other hand, I feel a bit miffed. Come on, man; there’s Runza shit in my notebook.

But, I guess if one fan can tell me that she would participate in an eating contest for Franco, I can take a little heat for the sake of “McLovin.”

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you. It sounds mushy, but that song you had in your head moves to your heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I go to a sissy-aholic group therapy sessions as well. “Shut up, I like that song!”

Anyway.

“Yeah, whatever dude.”

Just ignore the weird creaHello, my name is Joe, and I’m a tures I have scurrying around my rockaholic. brain, and I’ll get back on topic.

Sometimes I hear a beat or a One thing that gives a rock melody that really connects with me. I think most rock stars have star the drive to push forward that, that moment of hypersensi- into the scary, but invigorating, tive connectivity with a song that unknown is the struggle with sets them off into the intraperson- restlessness, which’s part of the whole burn-out thing. At some al wonderland of their soul. This point they have to look into the is the song that cuts the distinctive line between real life and the mirror and accept the fact everylife they want. It’s the moment thing that’s traditional isn’t for when a song acts like a drug, and them: but, at the same time, see all the possibilities of a fresh new you feel so high and trippy that world, which could happen if you’re just happy to be alive.

And then you come down. they push themselves despite the The fructose-sweetened, day-to- impossibilities.

That’s the moment when my day of everyday life starts to have characterized movie-self jumps that awful cold-medicine flavor. out of the one-story window, Or, maybe, it’s like the drudgery of a winter that has gone on too sneakers firmly planted as I head long as you dream of the savory for the coast, and the soundtrack flavor, which only some summer plays Jackson Browne’s “Running on Empty.” Sure, it’s youthlovin’ can satisfy.

I hate spring semester. It seems ful angst, and it leaves behind a treasure chest of regrets, which a like every time spring break ends I start groping the change in my creative mind can actually use for pocket as I consider buying a one- his or her benefit.

If I’ve tried to teach you anyway ticket to someplace fresh and thing this semester, through this exciting. I’m looking for a place column, it’s this: like one of those rock stars are opsongs in my head.

Burning out portunists, optiI never have the mists and oh so right money to get isn’t where rare. They can take there though. store-bought lemIt’s the same the credits of the onade and make feeling when your movie roll, it’s the lemons out of it, newest favorite metaphorically of song, which you beginning...” course. You could started jamming to do that if you wantmore than a week ed to. What’s stopping you? If you ago and have listened to for can answer that question then the countless hours, starts to sound rock star gig isn’t for you. Like Bob stale.

Dylan said, “You shouldn’t let othSo I zip up my coat, trudge to the next class and try to savor the er people get your kicks for you,” sting of the latest surprise April but I’m not here to judge you for being unable to grasp the rock star snow storm. Then, sitting in class I start thinking about all of life’s freedom of having just the right possibilities, and my brain shuts amount of change in your pocket for that magic bus ride. down just like my stomach durBurning out isn’t where the ing Thanksgiving. At that point I’m completely burned out. Done. credits of the movie roll, it’s the But, if you let yourself burn beginning of something new. It’s out, the right way, then you can like finding a new song to conavoid the looped-playback of do- nect with. If you really want to be a rock star, then all you have to ing it all over again. That’s when you start to feel invigorated about do is start leaving your old songs behind and go to the ends of condoing something new, something better than you’ve ever done any- scious earth to find new ones.

Well class, that’s it. The end of thing before because you really the semester is almost in ear-shot, want to try. It’s that something, and I have no qualms about turnwhich just might take you to the place similar to the song in your ing up the volume on the old Alhead. And that’s the kind of thing ice Cooper chorus. Get out of here and make something beautiful of a rock star does. They pawn the engagement ring they were sav- yourselves. I’ll let Neil Young’s song “From Hank to Hendrix” ing for the right moment. That play you out. shackle/ticket to adulthood and Be safe and don’t do anything use the cash to buy a guitar.

In that officially burned-out I wouldn’t do. That’s actually a pretty short list. It includes things moment I see myself in a movie.

I give my best “I quit” line as the such as getting eaten by a bear and listening to Celine Dion. But, soundtrack starts humming with that’s a whole other class for next Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade semester. of Pale.” Then I grab my leather Peace, love and the other seven. jacket as I walk out the door and Joe Wade is a senior the credits roll. advertising and public The point is you have to see relations major, rockstar through the burn-out phase. and writer. Reach him at That’s when the theme from “Forarts@ rest Gump” starts to play, and dailynebraskan.com you see the opportunities around

Future’s warbly auto-tuned singing/ rapping style is an acquired taste – or tolerance – if you can entertain lazy rapping.

Luckily, Future finds a bit more sonic range on this album. Lyrically you’ll find little more than tired narratives of dopeboy pushing and fictional druglord courtroom scenes. With production from Mike WiLL Made It Sonny Digital, and others, Future holds down the trap style and sound but makes some successful changes in the vibe with a handful of melodic tracks.

The titular track is the epitome of what should be known as #hastag rap, a style of writing that conveniently tags every verse line with the same phrase. Example: “Got bitches kissing on bitches #Imjustbeinghonest/I’m a rock star for life #Imjustbeinghonest/ Got a check on me right now #imjustbeinghonest … ” (Hastags added to prove a point).

Like it or not, it’s an effective format for a pop-ready rap song. “Honest” is one of the best tracks on the album.

If you doubt Future’s ability

to rhyme after hearing him rhyme honest with “honest” (to be fair, he rhymes it with “onyx” once), “I Won” is a track with fewer gimmicks. The love song, dedicated to his “trophy” wife Ciara, is far more lyrical. Future croons “I just want to take you out and show you off/You already know that you the perfect one,” before launching into a passion verse about passionate midday apartment romps with his partner. Kanye West takes the second verse to spit another tired ode to his trophy wife of the millenium – the one whose hand he put a “glacier” on.

Metro Boomin cleverly borrows some West cues in the music; the “Good Morning” rimshot and “Monster” screaming ad libs. The production, built around a melodic piano and reverb-dripping percussion, is much smarter than West’s lyrics.

“Never Satisfied”, featuring Drake (courtesy of Rob Ford) should be a massive track on the album. Like expected, the song is nothing but the two lazily singing half-assed, almosthooks over a Mike WiLL “Nothing Was The Same” throwaway beat. It seems as if someone cutting the album knew the song was going nowhere, because the track fades out two minutes in at the start of Drake’s

first verse.

The biggest track on the album is the song that features the best person anyone could have on their album, Andre 3000. He’s also the worst feature spot, since Andre 3000 embarrasses any artist who foolishly pays to be showed up on their own album.

Future makes the smart decision with a brief, but surprisingly solid, verse at the open to let Andre 3000 rip the rest of the song with tremendous ease.

We’ve been due for a visit from Andre 3000, and hearing him open his verse, “I told the girl I’m ‘bout to sell the Porsche, I’m tired of it,” alongside a rapper who broke singing about waking up in a new Bugattis, is refreshing in a way. Rhyming “acid reflex” with “Michael Jackson zippers”, Dre rhymes about how he’s not after women who are more into his own cars than he is.

“Blood, Sweat, Tears” is vaguely about adversity, but is musically distinct. Built around a driving marching bass and snare groove, Boi-1da fashions Future’s voice in a way that it doesn’t matter what he says, because his sung melodic fragments sound great along with his echoing, layered backing vocals. This closing track is a more alternative than the bulk of the album, but it doesn’t sound out of

“HONEST” Future place.

For what it is, “Honest” is an honest popular trap album with all the fixings. It’s a handsome sophomore showing from a top artist looking to solidify his position as an artist to recognize – whether you dig the aesthetic, or not. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Bach’s album induces metal nostalgia Joe Wade Dn Heavy metal, how I’ve missed you.

Your power house of guitars, scorching vocals and full frontal assault of drums can make my speakers burn like the fires of hell more than any other genre of music ever could.

The new album by the former frontman of Skid Row is enough to get me to crank the volume up to 11 once again, but all it does is make me miss heavy metal more.

Sebastian Bach’s new album “Give ‘Em Hell,” which was released Tuesday, is a powder keg waiting to explode. Fans of the late-80s heavy metal era will remember Bach’s iconic falsetto vocal styling. However, instead of the familiar ballad-esque vibration of wailing guitar solos, this new album oozes with chunkier guitar riffs more akin to the metal sound of the late-90s and early 2000s. This is Bach’s third solo release.

If you’re a seriously devout metal head then “Give ‘Em Hell” is definitely worth checking out, but if you’re lusting after a superbly hard-

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core album to blow your mind right out of your skull then this album is a little lacking in the demonically hellacious department.

That doesn’t mean this is a bad album though. Overall, it doesn’t rock hard enough, or deep enough, to melt your face off like the album title suggests, but it still kicks nostalgic ass.

The song “All My Friends Are Dead” is one of the early favorites listeners will want to check out. It opens with a guitar sound similar to the heavy, groovy crunch of “Zero”

by The Smashing Pumpkins. While the vocals still reminiscently resurrect the metal sound of music before Nirvana came along, everything else about the song feels hauntingly familiar to the hard rock that was persistent after Kurt Cobain’s death.

Despite what I said earlier about the depth of this album, this song strikes a nerve as a dirge to all of those ‘90s bands that I can’t remember the name of.

This still isn’t an album I’m going to jam to while driving around town with my windows down, but “All My Friends Are Dead” is one song I could see myself opening a

bottle of wine and putting my headphones on for.

Speaking of wine, the one cover song on “Give ‘Em Hell” is a rendition of “Rock N Roll Is A Vicious Game” by the band April Wine, from its 1978 album “First Glance.”

Staying true to the original version, this song is a stark departure from the hard rock sound of the rest of the album. It opens with the squeal of a harmonica and flavored with a slight country twang. Bach does a terrific job covering the tune, but it’s so dissimilar from the rest of the album that it’s a little jarring, even if you know it’s coming. Honestly, it would’ve been better if it was placed on the album as one of those secret songs at the end of the album – the kind of song you have to sit through several minutes of complete silence before it comes on.

Unless you are specifically looking for this album, I don’t recommend rushing out to get it. There’s probably a few other new albums out there that will better suit your taste for barking at the moon. However, some other songs to check out before you decide to take a pass on the album are “Har-

“GIVE ‘EM HELL” Sebastian Bach mony,” which absolutely deserves to be played loud; “Temptation,” which was the first song released for the album; and the pedal-to-the-metal fun of “Disengaged.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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The Quilt Museum What evokes more intrigue than thousands of quilts from all around the world? I sure as hell can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday than surrounded by art and culture. Yet my editors hate culture, and although I know the student body of UNL wanted in-depth coverage of all things related to quilting, now they’ll never know.

How to not be awkward As someone whose stories have become so mind-numbing that most people just pretend not to hear, I would really appreciate an in-depth report on how to succeed in social settings. Maybe it’s because my editors know how to interact with humans that they never picked this, but I doubt I’m the only one who could benefit from some social guidance.

Why does anyone go to college?

To get a degree, yes, but also to meet an attractive film major who’ll someday connect you with Jennifer Lawrence so that you can finally be best friends. For this reason I’ve tried to do a profile of more uncommon majors such as film studies. While I sold my idea as a feature about majors such as film and theatres that have different qualifications, I think my editors saw through to my secret ploy to date an intellectual.

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Social Media Subterfuge Is it illegal to screenshot people’s tweets and run them in print if you blur out their names? Well, I’m no lawyer but I think this could lead to a large feature on how damaging social media can be. Sure, we always hear horror stories of people’s poor social media losing them jobs, but what if we could run UNL students real life tweets to show how damaging it can be. Seeing that individuals at UNL with public accounts tweet things like, “Blaze all day. #420 #Swag” and “Drank so much I peed the bed #FirstSignOfLiverFailure #TURNT,” could really show that maybe you shouldn’t be a total dummy on the interwebs.

The long term effects of UNL’s High Five Friday I found great joy in the implementation of High Five Friday, it was an encouraging memento on my walk to class. Then one day I went to class, same route, same time and there were no high fives to be found.

I was scared and alone and without that added buzz of happiness in my day I found it too hard to even continue my walk to class. From this horrendous experience I wanted to do a watchdog piece on whether High Five Friday is harmless happiness or if could have long-term psychological effects. I guess now we’ll never know.

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loughlin: from 5 tations varying from topics such as “It’s So Fluffy,” “Mysterious Happenings” and “East of Eatin.”

This is only at the Bethany BooksTalks too. There’s also a Gere BooksTalks that hosts very similar events, but meets at 2:30 on Monday afternoons at the Gere Branch Public Library.

Read to a Dog at the Library

We live on a campus where squirrels are more commonplace than domestic animals, which is a big part of why we’re all such sad and miserable people. The sight of a puppy makes our days significantly more bearable for some reason. Unfortunately, it’s for the kids.

The Read to a Dog program is only for children ages 6 to 12. But it’s still worth a mention.

Parents, nannies and attentive older siblings who are looking for something to do with the youngsters they’re responsible for should

look into this program. Healing Heart Therapy Dogs, a local therapy dog organization, partner up their four-legged friends with children who have reading difficulties or who just want an animal to cuddle with and practice their reading aloud skills with. This non-traditional book buddy program is a six week commitment that meets once a week for a 20 minute shift.

Don’t just show up to one of the eight libraries and expect to see a barrel of puppies. Pre-registration is required.

One Book – One Lincoln

Each year nominations are cast to this community reading project.

The idea came from the Seattle 1998 program “If all Seattle Read the Same Book.” One Book – One Lincoln encourages all adult Lincolnites to read and discuss the same book at the same time. This isn’t just a Lincoln and Seattle

trend. It’s a common program in the U.S. and around the world.

Since 2002 the program has picked “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, “I Am a Man” by UNL’s Joe Starita and this year’s “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”

by Rachel Joyce.

The three finalists will be announced May 26th at The Mill Downtown. Then in August or September the finalist will be announced. Although this isn’t happening for a couple of months, it’s still something to be excited about.

The Lincoln City Libraries are pretty rad, and even though living in this college bubble harbors an idea of leather bound books and money well wasted, the libraries are a cheap break and safe haven during the summer months.

Maranda Loughlin is a senior broadcast and news editorial major. Reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Confronting the Holocaust: American Response:

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personal histories of victims and survivors and photos that depict the American response to what was happening in Europe at the time. There will also be a Wall of Remembrance holding the names of more than 5,000 victims of the holocaust. when: Sunday Open all hours where: Walt Branch Library

WWII Through the eyes of a Holocaust Survivor when: Saturday May 3 what:

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“He’s two pieces of ass for the rest of his life,” MintzPlasse said, gesturing to himself and Carmichael. Mintz-Plasse laughed, saying “I don’t know how I’m supposed to respond to that.”

While there was plenty of laughter, when asked about doing a film with his brother, James, Franco apologized for turning serious. He said while he’s very grateful for his brother ’s help in getting an agent at the beginning of his career, he’s been trying to move out of the label of being “James Franco’s brother” for quite some time.

“I wanna be my own per-

son,” Franco said. “I don’t wanna be ‘James Franco’s little brother ’ for the rest of my life.”

The Q&A ended abruptly as Mintz-Plasse was encouraging more questions. The actors were informed that they were out of time. However, while deciding whose question to answer, Mintz-Plasse expressed his doubt of some of the girls that were sitting in the bar The Bar ’s section after they insisted that the celebs party there afterward instead of The Downtown.

“I don’t trust those the bar The Bar girls,” Mintz-Plasse said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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After decades of maintaining the same look, the Nebraska Union has undergone an aesthetic overhaul complete with two new restaurants, Subway Pizza Express and Auntie Anne’s, which opens next Wednesday, a redesigned crib space and entirely new set of furniture to provide a modern study space for UNL stumood lighting.

The biggest change is the new furniture. “Furniture,” I mean, in quotation marks. The redesign has brought an important lesson: if you sit on something, it’s furniture.

Curvy, wiggly, abstract furniture everywhere, like an Ikea, but not quite as nice as Ikea. Lowercase Ikea is apt.

Some of the chairs let you spin, to help with studying, and some of the chairs make you appreciate tradition. It’s not like when the McDonald’s in your hometown was remodeled and everyone was excited about the wooden aesthetic and increased focus on Arch Card usage, because at least in that situation, your McDonald’s

was clean for a few weeks.

This is a step backwards, choosing style over substance.

Well, again, “style.” It looks like what people thought the future would look like 15 years ago, which is to say, kinda silly. The oddly shaped tables and bright color scheme are almost playschool-ish, like the school wants to inspire you, but it seems a bit off. I don’t know. My architectural knowledge is limited to the time I read half of “The Fountainhead.”

Overall, it’s different. Not better, just different. Oh, hold up, I mean worse. It’s worse.

Tyler Keown is a junior journalism major. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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DN@unl.edu Meetings Alcoholics Anonymous meeting Mondays 7:30 p.m. at University Lutheran Chapel 1510 ‘Q’.

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(This policy replaces the former Dead Week Policy)

Final examinations for full semester classes are to be given ONLY at time published in the Official Schedule of Classes or another time DURING FINALS WEEK mutually agreeable to all concerned.

The only examinations allowed during the last week (15th week) of classes are: laboratory practical examinations, make-up or repeat examinations, and self-paced examinations. However, the following must be applied: Projects, papers, and speeches scheduled for completion during the last week of classes must have been assigned in writing by the end of the eighth week and must be completed no later then Wednesday of the 15th week. This refers to the project and its scope, but not the topic. Furthermore, ALL requirements, except for the final exam, must also be completed no later than Wednesday of the fifteenth week. If the instructor is replacing the final exam with either a project, paper, or speech, the due date can be any time during the 15th week or during finals week (providing that the assignment has been given by the eighth week. The exception to this is a class meeting one day a week on a Thursday or Friday for which all policies/requirements are shifted to either a Thursday or Friday, respectively. The Fifteenth Week policy does not apply to classes offered by the College of Law. If there is a violation a complaint can be filed at the ASUN office, 136 Nebr. Union or call 472-2581

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baseball Big ten homeroom 1. Indiana (25-11 overall, 11-1 Big Ten Conference)

After being ranked in the top 5 to start the season, the Hoosiers got off to a slow 9-8 start. Since then they’ve won 16 of their past 19 games. As a team, Indiana has the best ERA in the conference at 2.52.

The catalyst on the mound for Indiana has been senior Joey DeNato, who’s 8-1 with a 2.12 ERA this season and was recently named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week for the second time this season. Junior Sam Travis is second on the team in batting average and leads the team with 37 RBI and is second on the team hitting .362. The team’s next game is at home Wednesday against Ball State.

2. Nebraska (26-16, 8-4)

Nebraska has won five in a row prior to losing two of three to Northwestern at home. As a team, Nebraska leads the conference in batting average at .302 and runs scored with 260.

The offense has been helmed by senior outfielder Michael Pritchard, who leads the team in hits, runs, doubles and RBI this season. The Huskers’ next game is Friday in Game 1 of a three-game series on the road against Michigan.

3. Illinois (22-14, 9-3)

Illinois now has the second best record in the Big Ten following a weekend sweep of Penn State. The team has been solid at the plate and on the mound this year. Illinois is third in the conference in ERA at 3.11 and are fourth in batting average hitting .278 as a team. Junior pitcher Drasen Johnson is in the top 10 in both ERA (seventh) and strikeouts (third) this season. Illinois takes on Missouri on Wednesday in Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals.

4. Iowa (22-15, 7-8)

The Hawkeyes are second in the conference hitting .300 as a team this season.

They’re also second in runs scored with 248. Iowa has five players hitting better

than .320 this season. Junior Dan Potempa leads the team hitting .350 and is third on the team with 26 RBI. Iowa has struggled on the mound this season, as it sits at ninth in the conference with a 4.72 ERA. The team’s next game is Wednesday night against Creighton at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha.

8. Michigan (18-21-1, 8-7)

The Wolverines rank fourth in the conference with an ERA of 3.48. Junior Donnie Eaton leads the team with a 0.51 ERA in 17.2 innings pitched this season. The Wolverines haven’t been as good at the plate this season. Their .252 batting average as a team is third to last in the conference. Junior outfielder Jackson Glines leads them at the plate, hitting .342 this season, which is 34 points higher than anyone else on the team.

5. Ohio State (22-18, 4-8)

The Buckeyes have struggled in conference play this season, winning just four of 12 in the Big Ten, and things recently got worse when they played five consecutive non-conference games over a span of eight days and lost three of them.

Ohio State has been average offensively and defensively, as the team is fifth in the Big Ten in both batting average and ERA this season. Freshman outfielder Ronnie Dawson has shattered expectations this year, as he leads the conference hitting .376.

The Buckeyes next take the field on Friday as part of a weekend series at Purdue.

9. Penn State (17-20, 5-6)

Penn State was 17-14 just 10 days ago before dropping five straight conference games to Illinois and Ohio State. In those five games, the team allowed exactly 8 runs a game, bringing the team ERA to 4.34, which is eighth in the Big Ten. Penn State’s next game is at Minnesota on Friday in Game 1 of a weekend series.

6. Michigan State (20-17, 5-7)

10. Northwestern (11-25, 4-10)

Michigan State has been getting it done this season on the mound.

Its 2.94 ERA is second in the Big Ten and is 1 of 2 ERAs lower than 3.00. The Spartans have five players with less than a 2.00 ERA, including relievers Josh Buchalski, Zak Wilkerson and Joe Mockbee, who have thrown 16 innings and have allowed just 1 earned run combined this season. Michigan State’s next game will be at home against Northwestern on Friday in the first of a three-game series.

7. Minnesota (19-16, 6-9)

The Gophers have struggled recently, losing six of their past eight games. A big reason for their struggles has been their inability to get on base, as they rank second to last in the conference hitting .246. The Gophers have been led on the mound by junior Neal Kunik. The walk-on has an ERA 1.69 in seven appearances, which leads the team. The Gophers’ next game will be at home Wednesday against Hamline, a Division III school.

The Wildcats have been solid at the plate this season with a .278 team average, which is tied for fourth in the conference. They haven’t been as good pitching, as their team ERA is second to last in the Big Ten at 4.98. The one bright spot is senior Jack Quigley, who was named co-Big Ten Pitcher of the week when he got his second win and third save over the weekend against Nebraska.

11. Purdue (9-27, 4-8)

The Boilermakers have struggled to get things going this year. They have the worst overall record in the Big Ten. Purdue is last in the conference hitting .233 as a team and has scored 38 fewer runs than anyone in the conference. Pitching has been more of the same for the Boilermakers who are last in ERA at 5.86. Purdue’s next game is against Illinois-Chicago at home.

—Compiled by Brett Nierengarten sports@dailynebraskan.com

Huskers to face in-state rival on road Natasha Rausch DN The No. 19 Nebraska softball team hits the road Wednesday, as it will take on in-state rival Creighton for one ofits last games of the regular season.

“It’s always a battle,” coach Rhonda Revelle said. “We’re so familiar with each other.”

The Huskers will compete against the Bluejays at the CU Sports Complex in Omaha.

Revelle said the Huskers’ most obvious challenge will be Bluejay senior pitcher Becca Changstrom “She’s our competition,” Revelle said. “She competes well, she’s smart, she spins it and moves around in the zone. We have a lot of respect for her and what she does when she has the ball in her hand.”

Even with Changstrom on the Creighton squad, the Bluejays couldn’t walk away with a win in the last meeting with the Huskers. The Bluejays ended up losing 5-2 to Nebraska. The following six games were wins for Creighton, but the past five games have been losses.

Going into this game, the Huskers are riding a seven-game win streak. In the past couple of weeks, they have beaten Ohio State, Iowa and Northern Iowa.

“I think we are playing well as a team,” Revelle said. “We’re pitching well, we’re defending well, we’ve been having a good

approach to the plate. As long as we maintain that, we’ll be good.”

Following Nebraska’s string of wins, senior catcher Taylor Edwards was named the Big Ten Player of the week, and she is just 2 home runs away from tying the school record.

“Our biggest competition at this point is ourselves,” Edwards said. “We just need to make some adjustments as a team. Our team offense is really coming alive, and we’re just excited to get out there and keep swinging the bat.”

The Huskers are swinging the bat with a .299 average, while their in-state rivals come up short with a .231 batting average. Against the Bluejays, Edwards said the team will have to work on its batting if it wants to have a chance at winning. Senior pitcher Tatum Edwards and sophomore pitcher Emily Lockman have both put up several shutouts in the past few games to help the Huskers win.

“We’ve come up with a few different plans to face their pitcher,” Taylor Edwards said. “But basically we’re just going to try to cut the spin so we can get more hits.”

After taking on their in-state rivals, the Huskers have a long string of road games ahead of them. Beginning Friday, Nebraska will compete in a three-game series against the Michigan State Spartans. Following that, the team will go to Wisconsin to face the Badgers.

“We still have a tough round

but you just have to go one day at a time, and that’s what I’m trying to tell the freshman.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

20 finish, coming back from a first-round 82 to score 76 and 72 in the final two rounds.

Record is happy with how consistently the team played this week on a historic course such as Oak Hill Country Club.

“Oak Hill is one of the greatest and most immaculate courses I’ve ever played,” Record said. “We are very fortunate to play such a course.”

The Huskers started off the spring slowly, but as in any other sport, teams that get hot late are always dangerous.

Nebraska’s best three finishes of the year have come in its past three tournaments.

Record and Reinertson have also significantly improved their stroke averages late this spring, and Freeman and Dickson are both providing significant support in the middle of the Husker lineup.

The team has a great opportunity to post their best finish in the Big Ten Conference Championships since joining the league in the fall of 2011. Nebraska finished last in the 2012 Big Ten Tournament and ninth in 2013.

The Huskers travel to French Lick, Ind., May 2 and look to carry their momentum into the Big Ten Championships. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

the race with only one of them.

Harris said he can’t forget running through fields of tall grass at the NCAA regionals two months later in Ames, Iowa, trying to cheer on the runners. He was exhausted toward the last leg of the race and couldn’t catch up to Williams to cheer her on one last time. He ended up watching her fly by everybody at the end of the race.

The motivation comes from her desire to be able to score points for the team and beat her personal records.

“I’m happy about getting my PR’s but after I get it, it’s time to move on from that,” Williams said. “Let’s get the next one.”

The softer side of her drive comes from her father, who is a quick phone call away.

“He means everything to me,” Williams said. “He’s always there.

He’s my best friend.”

Williams has a small picture posted to the dashboard of her 2001 yellow Ford Mustang.

Whenever Williams sits down on the Tweety Bird seat covers, a photograph of a young Clinton Williams looks back at her. It’s a symbol of simple encouragement for the day.

Many runners eat the same meal before a race or have a ritual that they believe guides them to their success. Some runners refer to it as a physiological thing. Wil-

liams’ ritual is calling her father before a race.

Williams’ father will say the serenity prayer or remind Williams to not overthink her race.

In order not to psych herself out, Williams refuses to know anything about her competitors, but never underestimates her competition.

Williams repeatedly thinks: Run your race. Don’t run their race.

Just go have fun, Shawnice.

••• A gold Minnie Mouse necklace bounces off her chest, a tribute to her 2-year-old niece. Her yellow spiked Adidas shoes carry her to the front of the pack. The first of the three laps in the 600-meter race has Williams in a narrow lead. She shifts her body around the bend. Arms pump, long legs stride around the track. Williams turns the corner of the track on the inside edge 50 meters from the finish line. Her strides carry her as a home crowd erupts in cheers. About 90 seconds after the gun went off, Williams is the first to cross the white finish line.

She breathes in as much oxygen as her lungs allow. She congratulates junior Ellen Dougherty and Minnick and walks off the track.

No celebrating or boasting. Just a quick exit and another lesson learned. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior catcher Taylor Edwards was 0 for 2 with 2 walks and an RBI in Nebraska’s home victory against Creighton on April 2. Edwards was named co-Big Ten Player of the Week on Monday. after this game,” Revelle said.

Taylor Edwards said she’s not worried about upcoming road challenges. She’s just trying to

lead her younger teammates.

“That’s what we came to do,” Edwards said. “I know we have anxiety about leaving and school,

men’s golf: from 10

silent psyche: from 10 I take my courage and go run the next race.”

Although she’s flourished at track and field, even qualifying for the NCAA Championships last year, Williams said she believes her biggest personal accomplishment is being at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and working toward her degree in psychology.

Learning about what’s going on in the human brain fascinates her.

“The more you learn, the more you grow,” Williams said.

She knows she can’t be an athlete forever, so the chance to help people through stages of their lives and help them see the positive side of things is Williams’s dream.

••• Distance coach David Harris is screaming again: “Keep up with her, stay together, no gaps!”

He, too, tries to get Williams to understand the positive side of his workouts.

“You got to stay positive,” Williams said. “I tell people we’re almost done with the workout even if were not close. It’s great working out with Coach Harris. He says if we practice hard, it’ll be easier in the meet, and it’s so true.”

Williams sprints around the track as sweat slides down to her purple tank top. She finishes and glances down at the time on her red sports watch. The loudest voice in the arena is Harris yell-

ing: “Let’s go, don’t stand around, you guys decide what you can do.”

She was all smiles while warming up but is as serious as a psychologist now.

••• At the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., in 2013, Williams was scheduled to run the 800-meter. It was a big stage with the best athletes from across the country and a new environment.

“I was very emotional and nervous,” Williams said. “I try to block it out of my memory.”

Williams was in Heat 1 against seven runners. The runners were set up facing the Oregon Ducks’ green jumbotron with thousands of fans sitting in the grandstand over their right shoulders. Williams crossed the line last in her heat at 2:18, finishing in last place out of 24 runners overall. She calls this day the worst of her athletic career.

“I think what bothers me the most is I don’t know what went wrong,” Williams said.

Although she attempts to block out the memory, it continues to nag at her and grows into motivation for training.

Williams’ best friend senior Anna Minnick runs the 600- and 800-meter races with Williams and knows the tough and sensitive side of her. Not only do Minnick and Williams push each other

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Shawnice Williams was an All-American in the 800 meters in 2013. She finished 24th at the 2013 NCAA Championships in the event, placing eighth in her heat. on the track, but also in the fields of cross country races.

“She took cross country to a whole new level,” Madlock said.

“She did it better than people who were made for that sport.”

Harris is the coach of the cross country team. After spending his first track season with Williams, he convinced her she would improve her endurance by joining the cross country team in 2013.

“If I can help the team, why

not?” Williams said.

Harris recalled spending so much time recruiting Williams he thought she was sick of him.

Williams ended up 1,497 miles from home to run for a coach who wanted the best out of everybody.

Sophomore Sarah Larson remembers the first race of the season at Augustana College on a hot, humid day. Williams’ shoe had come off at the beginning of the race, and she went on to finish

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Huskers’ season ends with 11th NCAA berth meet, Nebraska defeated Kentucky and Alabama, a consistently Nebraska finishes high-ranking team throughout the season. consistent year Nebraska’s highest scoring ranked No. 6 in nation meet was in an away meet against Penn State, where the team earned behind seniors a 197.225. Wong and Jessie DeZiel Wong, Schleppenbach tied for the all-around title with identical scores of 39.575.

The Huskers scored above a 197.000 only two other times this Vanessa Daves season.

DN In East Lansing, Mich., Nebraska competed against IlliThe Nebraska women’s gymnas- nois (196.875), Michigan State tics team ended its season with (196.200), Ohio State (195.675) a 28-11 record, garnering Big Ten to win with a score of 197.050.

Conference titles along the way Four all-around competitors led and making the school’s 11th ap- the team to their victory: Wong, pearance at the NCAA Champion- DeZiel, sophomore Hollie Blanske ships. and freshman Jennie Laeng.

“Had its ups and downs, but As a result of this meet, NeI don’t think I would trade any- braska won a share of the Big Ten thing for a better Conference title. outcome,” assisWhile they were I’ve never tant coach Heather competing in East Brink said. “I’ve Lansing, Mich., worked with never worked with four other teams a team that was so a team so closewere competing in close-knit.

Every Ann Arbor, Mich. to knit.

Every time time they went out determine the conand competed, they they went out and ference title winner. had one common Nebraska shared goal. It was for the competed, they the title with Minteam, not for an in- had one common nesota. dividual.”

In the NCAA The team start- goal.”

Regionals, Kened out the season dig said he saw with a win at home the girls compete heather brink against Northern overall, especially assistant gymnastics coach Illinois, where AAI in beam, in a way Award winner Emhe never had beily Wong led the team and claimed fore. They advanced to the NCAA the all-around title.

Championship semifinals in BirAfter that meet, Nebraska mingham, Ala. coach Dan Kendig said they “had They finished the night with a guardian angel watching over” a team score of 197.100. Four them that night, referring to the 9.90s contributed to a team score death of Wong’s father. During of 49.450 on beam, and several the first meet, and every meet af- Huskers won event titles during ter that, the team wore “J. Wong the Championships.

Strong” bracelets to commemoThey moved on to the Surate and dedicate the season to per Six Finals the following day, him. when they earned a team score They continued into their sea- of 196.500 to place sixth behind son with Kendig’s “success breeds Oklahoma (198.175), Florida success” attitude. In their second (198.175), LSU (197.600), Alabama

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Senior Emily Wong will leave the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team as a two-time first-team All-American on the floor, a two-time All-American on beam and all-around and a one-time All-American on vault and bars.

(197.550) and Georgia (197.050).

“I don’t feel like we ever had that perfect day where everyone performed to the best of their ability, but I’m proud of everything the girls did to get where they did,” Kendig said.

In the NCAA Event Finals, four Huskers placed in the top 10

of their respective events. Wong earned a 9.90 on floor, placing sixth overall. She earned firstteam All-American honors on floor for the second time in her career. Wong also earned a 9.7625 on beam to place 14th overall.

Senior Jamie Schleppenbach earned a 9.8875 on beam

and placed third overall. DeZiel notched a 9.8625 on beam and came in eighth place. Blanske also competed on beam, posting a score of 9.85 to place 10th. All three of them earned first-team All-American honors on beam.

Nebraska finished up the season ranked sixth in the nation,

and Brink said she feels the team has a strong foundation moving into next season.

“We have some strong building blocks and reaped a lot of positive things from this season that will benefit us in the future,” Brink said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

NU prepares for meet in Iowa with home warm-up Huskers to compete in Pre-Drake Relays event, moved up an hour for weather, on Wednesday staff report DN

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Nebraska freshman Mary Hanna is 15-12 playing No. 1 doubles with sophomore Maggy Lehmicke this season, and Hanna is 10-20 at the No. 3 and No. 4 singles spots.

Freshman learns amid season’s struggles Mary Hanna having valuable season even though Nebraska remains winless in conference play David Stover DN After receiving scholarship offers from every Big Ten Conference school other than Michigan and Wisconsin, freshman Mary Hanna chose Nebraska because of what it had to offer.

“I loved the team here,” she said. “I loved the school, like the athletes. They really support us here, and it’s really nice.”

Hanna grew up in Saline, Mich., and started playing tennis through the influence of her grandma when she was 6 years old.

“She played tennis when she was younger, and my dad just kind of stuck me in it,” Hanna said. “Then I learned my grandma played and I wanted to be like her because she is really cool.”

As Hanna got older and the tournaments became more competitive, she was always driven to win each match one at a time while maintaining the underlying thought of trying to play college tennis.

“I started playing tournaments when I was about 10, and it got pretty serious,” Hanna said. “I mean, I didn’t really know then, but it was never not an option. It was never not in my head. I al-

Just spending time with my team, even though we’re not winning, we’re still having so much fun.” mary hanna

freshman tennis player

ways like, ‘I’m going to play college tennis somewhere.’”

Her competitive and confident day-by-day approach paid dividends, as she was a top recruit in the Midwest. Hanna achieved a No. 5 regional ranking and a No. 6 overall recruiting rating in the Midwest.

Hanna lived up to her precollege rankings, as she was a finalist at the Midwest Closed Invitational in 2011 and won in doubles at the Midwest Open in 2012.

“She’s got pretty good doubles skills,” Nebraska coach Scott Jacobson said.

In addition, Hanna was named multiple times to the first-team All-Michigan tennis team.

With a decorated high school career and her versatility of playing both singles and doubles, Hanna was looking forward to getting off to a solid start in her colligate career.

However, with Hanna being 1 of 6 freshmen on the team, the Huskers struggled this year in conference, as they went 0-11 in their regular season.

“She’s really had to work hard on the mental aspect of the game and making sure she’s approaching every point with good energy,” Jacobson said. “She’s making strides there. We still got further to go. She’s a good listener

that wants to do really well for the team.”

Although this has been a tough year for Hanna and the Huskers, it doesn’t stop Hanna from enjoying the company of her teammates and the college experience with her friends.

“We haven’t won any matches, but it’s been a really rough year because obviously we’re all freshman,” Hanna said. “But we’ve had so much fun together. And just spending time with my team, even though we’re not winning, we’re still having so much fun. So that’s a highlight for me.”

Part of Hanna’s fun includes hanging out with friends and singing and dancing to pop music.

Although it hasn’t been the most decorated year for Hanna athletically, academically she made the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall as an advertising and public relations major, another positive to take away from her freshman year.

The Huskers’ youth requires growth, and with that growth comes the ability to take each loss as a learning experience to improve for the future.

Hanna has been humbled by each loss and is up for the challenge. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Some of the Nebraska track and field team will be traveling to Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday to compete in the Drake Relays.

The Huskers will be participating in Wednesday’s Pre-Drake events at Ed Weir Track; however, the meet has been rescheduled for an hour earlier than the original start time of 3 p.m. because of weather conditions. In addition, only part of the Huskers’ roster will be competing in the PreDrake events, while another part will be traveling to Iowa for the weekend’s competition.

Last weekend’s meet in Lawrence, Kan., left Nebraska with three event titles for the women in javelin throw, 400-meter hurdles and 4x400 meter relay out of seven total events. The men came out victorious and took first in the 4x400 with a seasonbest time of 3:09.79. In Walnut, Calif., Nebraska placed second in 400 hurdles, fifth in long jump and 10th in high jump.

The Pre-Drake events consist of men’s and women’s field events in throws and jumps, as well as running events on the Ed Weir Track. Some of the teams expected to show in Wednesday’s events are Northwest Missouri State, Iowa Western Community College, Midland University, Nebraska-Omaha, Concordia University and Nebraska Wesleyan.

Coach Gary Pepin said the home meet on Wednesday won’t necessarily give Nebraska an advantage against its competitors.

“Unlike football or basketball, where you can have some control on your opponents, you really don’t have very much in track and field,” Pepin explained.

“Maybe you might in a race that’s around the oval, where you’re running for 400-meters or longer, but in most of the field events and the running events, you can’t control the destiny of your opponents. It’s pretty much just how you’re going to handle things.”

In addition, Pepin commented on how NU has prepared for this week’s meets, as well as the

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Senior Miles Ukaoma finished second in the 400-meter hurdles at the Mt. SAC Relays on Saturday. Ukaoma and the Huskers will split up as they participate in three meets this week. team’s chances of making the conference team.

“We’re trying to get better,” Pepin said. “For some of the people that will be in the meet on Wednesday, it could be their very last meet of the year.

They’re battling, trying to get a place on the conference team, of which we can only have 34 men and 34 women. Some of those people right now that haven’t done as well yet, they’re trying to get a performance time, height or distance where they may have a chance to compete in the conference. Otherwise, their season is over.”

While the results from last weekend’s meet were less than what the Huskers were hoping for, Pepin said this week’s events

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won’t have too much high-level competition, which should mean better results for NU. “Sometimes if you happen to get into a competition where there are a lot of other great athletes, then that raises the level of competition,” Pepin said. “In a meet like this, in a lot of cases, our athletes need to take care of their own business because it’s not going to be a meet that has a lot of real high level competition in it.”

Wednesday’s Pre-Drake meet will start at 2 p.m. with the men’s hammer throw, and the Drake Relays will start Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. and continue until Sunday. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU takes 2nd for best finish of year

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Riley Bowden DN The Nebraska men’s golf team notched its first top-5 finish of the year as it took home second place at the Notre Dame Oak Hill Invitational on Tuesday.

The Huskers fired a team score of 870, finishing 30-over par for the tournament. The squad found itself in second place after every round this week, shooting 289,292 and 289 in three rounds over two days.

The tournament-host Notre Dame Fighting Irish were able to hold off the Huskers by 4 shots, shooting a final-round 292, securing the tournament with a threeround total of 866.

Boston College, Georgetown and the University of Rochester rounded out the top 5 at Oak Hill, shooting 898,900 and 927 respectively.

Nebraska coach Bill Spangler was pleased with the secondplace finish but felt the team played well enough to win.

“Although we’re pleased with how we played, we felt like we let this tournament slip away,” Spangler said. “We made some bogies on the last few holes, which cost us the tournament.”

Despite not finishing first this week, the Huskers have continued to see improved finishes, which have been propelled to those marks by a string of solid performances by their whole lineup.

T h i s week the s q u a d didn’t have to count a score higher than 6-over in any of the rounds.

N e braska also ended with four playRecord ers inside the top 10, including a third-place performance from senior Matt Record. Record finished the tournament 3-over par after firing rounds of 70, 69 and 74.

“I hit the ball too well not to win,” Record said. “I hit a lot of great putts but couldn’t seem to get them to fall like the first 36hole day.”

Record was joined in the top 5

by Nebraska junior Josh Reinertson, who again had a solid week for the Huskers. In their previous meet, Reinertson led the Huskers in Iowa City, Iowa, shooting a career best 5-over three-round total.

This week Reinertson finished 7-over par and in fifth-place by himself after being tied for fifth at the end of yesterday’s play.

Junior Ross Dickson ended the day tied for seventh at 11over par, and fellow junior Calvin Freeman finished tied for ninth after his three-round total of 222, 12-over par.

Senior Manuel Lavin was the only Husker to finish outside the top 10, and he still notched a top-

Nebraska senior Shawnice Williams was a Big Ten indoor second teamer earlier this season in the 4x400 relay and finished as the runner-up in the 600 meters. In the outdoor season, Williams won the 800 meters at the Nebraska Quad on April 12.

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n one side of the indoor track of the Bob Devaney Sports Center during the Nebraska Tune-Up meet, senior Shawnice Williams sits in silence in the on-deck area for runners. Loud speakers blare music; fans cheer, and she concentrates. It’s Feb. 21, as she sits with her head between bent legs and her black hair tied up with a white-dotted red bow. She thinks.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.

Her dad’s voice echoes in her head.

Go have fun, Shawnice. You can do this.

At the gun, Williams’ slender body takes off down the track. The runner behind may notice a tattoo of a track shoe hiding under Williams’ left ear and tattoos of small hearts and birds representing family under her right. It’s the 600-meter race, which has little room for error in its three

laps.

Williams counts on her training, but now, the mental element will decide her success.

Williams has clashed with the psychological aspects of running races since high school. Her father ’s push has built his daughter into a collegiate Division I runner through prayer and faith.

From her early racing days, Williams wasn’t one to trash talk or gloat after winning. Not only did she break West Los Angeles College’s record for the 800 meters, but later that year, she broke the record again at 2:08 in winning the 2012 California Community College Track and Field Championships.

“My dad always says, ‘Stay humble,’” Williams said.

Track teammate senior Sidney Madlock said he can’t even cheer for Williams at her races because she’ll turn beat red.

“She’s always been conscious of other peo-

ple,” Williams’ father, Clinton Williams, said.

Williams’ quiet demeanor and unassertiveness almost stopped her from becoming a collegiate athlete. In 10th grade she joined the track team with her cousin. On the track, Williams had the chance to try something different from her basketball-playing family.

Her first 400-meter race of the year at Paramount High School turned out to be a learning experience.

“I didn’t know where the finish line was. I saw a wire thing and thought that was it,” Williams said.

As she crossed what she thought to be the finish line in first place, she didn’t understand why people kept yelling at her to “GO!” She soon figured out she hadn’t crossed the right line yet, sprinted ahead and won the race.

“I come out learning something from a race,” Williams said. “I can’t go back and change a race.

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softball

13-year-old throws ceremonial 1st pitch of game Rylee Robinson, who had leg amputated after car accident, gets moment on mound with Huskers Josh Kelly DN Bowlin Stadium experienced a special moment Saturday, an emotional one the Nebraska softball team will never forget, as 13-yearold Rylee Robinson threw the ceremonial first pitch.

The Huskers had a full plate on Saturday. The players partook in the World’s Largest Tailgate before the game, and they had to compete in a doubleheader

Rylee, a softball lover, is a Kanagainst Ohio State. sas native who was struck by a car Even though there were many while she was riding her bike in positive moments on that day, all the players agreed the best part of May. The accident took one of her legs and injured her brain in the it was watching Rylee throw out process. She then the first pitch in spent the following front of the crowd It’s great months recovering at Bowlin Stadium. that we’ve at Madonna Reha“The crowd rebilitation Hospital action was great; not only been a in Lincoln. everybody starting During the fall, tearing up,” se- part of her life, but while Rylee was nior catcher Taylor for an extended still at Madonna, Edwards said. “I her club softball know there were period of time.” coaches in Kantears coming from sas emailed the our team because rhonda revelle Nebraska softball we are so connectsoftball coach team. Coach Rhoned to her, and she’s da Revelle was told just gone through about her story, and it didn’t take so much in her journey and she’s just so inspiring to us. We’re just long for her and the team to pay her a visit. really happy for her, and we’re just From the first visit, the team thankful that she’s alive to this day knew it needed to be involved in and fighting every single day.”

Rylee’s life. The team was with her through the entire process of when Rylee was given a prosthetic leg.

“We really got involved with her last summer and had an ongoing relationship with her at Madonna, and the fact that she had come down and actually ran the bases when she first got her prosthetic leg was amazing,” Revelle said.

One of the most important things for Revelle was sticking with Rylee and knowing what’s happening in her life, which brought even more weight to the pitch Rylee threw at the game.

“It was very meaningful, and it’s great that we’ve not only been a part of her life, but for an extended period of time,” Revelle said.

On Saturday, Rylee was decked out in Husker apparel and

was ready to throw the pitch to Edwards. As a senior catcher, Edwards has caught her fair share of ceremonial pitches, and she said the one Rylee threw was at the top.

“It’s very special for us; she’s a very cool girl,” Edwards said.

“She’s gone through and overcame so much. Her heart and how inspiring she is to us, it means so much to watch her from day 1 to when she got her prosthetic leg.”

As soon as Edwards caught the ball thrown by Rylee, she ran up and was the first one to give Rylee a hug, giving her the ball and letting her keep it. Edwards said that Rylee’s fun personality has taught her so many things about how life should be treated.

“Every story’s unique, and she has battled through so much,” Edwards said. “She still has a smile on her face every day, and

there’s nothing more you could ask for. She’s 13 years old, and to go through something like that and still have a smile on, cracking jokes with us, enjoying life. That’s what she’s shown me personally.”

Edwards wasn’t the only one to give Rylee a hug, though. She was soon followed by the rest of the team as they were all huddled around her on the mound with nothing but smiles on their faces.

The team said it wants to continue its relationship with Rylee because the players believe, although she is from Kansas, she is a part of the Nebraska program.

“To be able to run around the bases and throw the first pitch is great,” Edwards said. “It was very emotional and all of Nebraska is connected to her, and she’s connected to us. It was very inspirational for us.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com