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The UNL biennial runway fashion show, its seventh, displayed designs from students in the textiles, clothing and design program inside the Nebraska Union’s Centennial Ballroom on Friday.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is investigating an incident involving the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and its members who were seen walking with a Confederate flag, a rebel battle flag.

The procession, which occurred April 16, was witnessed

by UNL senior analyst Rebecca Carr, who sent a letter to the national chapter of Delta Tau Delta.

Carr witnessed the procession when she returned to her office that night to retrieve her bike to ride home. She said she heard loud shouting and noises outside her window at 4:45 p.m.

A group of about 25 to 30 young men, dressed in camouflage fatigues, were walking past Seaton Hall singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the top of their lungs, Carr said.

The three men in the front of the group were carrying three flags: the American flag, the rebel battle flag and a POW/ MIA flag. Upon seeing the rebel battle flag, Carr took out her phone to record the procession.

She was unsure of why the group was walking around and didn’t immediately associate the group with Delta Tau Delta until she saw the group members on the house porch.

“Because of what I saw, I assumed it was members of the fraternity and wanted to bring

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it to (the national organization’s) attention,” Carr said. “I described (in the email) what I saw and said there might be ... an appropriate and reasonable explanation ... but it seemed like extremely poor judgment to have that (Confederate) flag.”

The reason the fraternity members were wearing fatigues and singing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” was their philanthropy, M*A*S*H, an outdoor barbecue event that raises proceeds to support the men, women and families who serve in the armed forces. This philanthropy has occurred for about 15 years, said Jeff Beavers, assistant director of the Office of Admissions.

The demonstration was a part of the fraternity’s Monday announcements, which occur when a fraternity or sorority has a philanthropy coming up and they make house announcements during Monday-night dinners, Beavers said.

That was what Carr had witnessed.

“She had every right to be concerned,” Beavers said.

Many people, when they see the rebel battle or Confederate flag, associate it with slavery.

But that is not the case, according to Ben Sewell, executive director of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and retired U.S.

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Plans for a new 200-level Harry Potter English class for the fall semester of 2013 are under way.

This new class is a Harry Potter-based literature lecture, according to Laura White, vice chair of the English department. She also said she hopes it will be an ACE 5.

“This class is still in its developmental stages and has not yet been approved by the curriculum committee,” White said.

The theoretical curriculum plan for this class is to be a large, mostly lecture-based class, she said. There would be a range of 10 to 15 faculty members who will take turns throughout the semester presenting on a wide range of topics and issues relating to the Harry Potter series.

“For example, one faculty member might do a lecture of the history of the mythological creatures, while another might talk about the examples of race and prejudice within the books,” White said. “Although we will not be able to cover every detail in each of the seven books we will touch on all major elements that represent the books, along with their roles in children’s literature, mythology, popular culture and social importance.”

Another potential lecture

topic would be how much J.K. Rowling gets from other books and myths, as well as from real people and history itself.

“There are many Christians who believe the Harry Potter series should not be read at all, based on the idea of witchcraft and magic,” White said, “which brings up a very good question to cover within the course: What are the books?

Good or bad?”

Besides the lectures themselves, each student would be required to read all of the seven books as well as additional material.

“This class is mainly meant for students who are a l -

ready fans of Harry Potter,” White said. “Yes, reading all seven books is a lot of reading, but it is presumed to be mostly re-reading for students within the course.”

There will be short viewings of the films, discussions on how the makers of the Harry Potter films

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made decisions and how those decisions shape the characters and their actions throughout the movie series, White said.

Carmen McCue, an English graduate teaching assistant, said she was looking forward to the potential class.

“I am very excited for the upcoming class,” she said. “I have already gotten permission to sit in on a few lectures.”

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Club helps fund tractor for Sudan village Morrill Hall displays new meteorite and mineral exhibit Weston Poor Daily Nebraskan

After purchasing a $40,000 tractor for his people of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, a Nebraska man looks to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for help to continue his “Nuba Mountain Tractor Project,” that feeds 2,500 to 3,500 people.

Younis Andindi, originally from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, purchased a Massey Ferguson tractor in 2008 to alleviate the agricultural strain on the Nuban people, but he is now in danger of defaulting on the loan used to pay for the tractor.

Andindi used connections within the Sudanese community to find the African Student Association at UNL and ask them to help him finish what he started.

Members of ASA hosted a fundraiser for Andindi’s cause on April 21. The event featured a silent auction, African food and musical acts.

ASA set out to raise $8,000, a goal that was not met. Through general admission tickets and auction items sold, only $1,000 was raised. Despite falling short, Andindi was optimistic.

“I wasn’t expecting this many people to come,” Andindi said.

“We need as much support from the community as we can get, and I saw that tonight.”

With his limited resources, Andindi employed ASA to help raise the remainder of the funds needed to pay off the loan.

“The people of Nuba Mountain are farmers, and they are very hard working,” Andindi said. “The land is fertile and if we give them the right tools they can provide food for everyone.”

The tractor has helped significantly, Andindi said.

“The tractor did a great job the first two years,” Andindi said. “It changed people’s lives really fast.”

Andindi told the crowd at the fundraiser about the ethnic

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Younis Andindi plays a custom made rababa during the African Students Association hosted fundraiser on Saturday. conflict currently affecting the South Kordofan region, which is preventing the people in the area from getting much needed food and supplies.

Mengistu Kuwa, a junior child, youth and family studies major, and the rest of the Nuban community rallied last July in Lincoln with a march to the Capitol Building, said Bounis Charles, also a member of the Nuban community in Lincoln.

“It was to show what’s going on,” Charles said. “We made shirts saying ‘Stop genocide,’ and we sold them for money to help pay for relief over there.

What’s going on over there is inhuman.”

After buying the tractor and getting it there, Andindi stayed in the Nuba Mountains four months to teach the people how to use the tractor properly and also help cultivate the land.

When Andindi returned back to Nebraska, he was let go from

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The original Confederate flag, known as the Stars and Bars, was initially used on the battle field during the Civil War, but both the Union and Confederate armies confused the Stars and Bars with the Stars and Stripes. So the rebel battle flag was created in 1862 and used in battle until 1865, Sewell said in a telephone interview.

“It has no association with slavery,” Sewell said. “There’s a lot of panicky reactions. I don’t know why the young man chose to carry it, but Confederate veterans are U.S. veterans.”

Sewell explained that

Confederate veterans were recognized as U.S. veterans when President Dwight Eisenhower made it a law in 1958.

“It’s a military, historic symbol,” Sewell said. “Our organization has existed since 1896 … (the flag) is incorporated into our logo. It’s a historic symbol of American military.”

UNL didn’t catch wind of the incident until last Friday because Carr was unable to find the contact information for Greek Affairs, Beavers said.

Friday was the same day the Delta Tau Delta president and a house parent met with Carr to explain the situation.

his job, causing him to lose his ability to pay off the loan for the tractor, Andindi said. They couldn’t pay off the remainder of the loan. According to Andindi, they missed their last payment on the loan.

Because of policies the loaning bank had with loaning money to individuals living outside of Sudan, Andindi incorporated the help of a member of the Catholic Church in Sudan through a man by the name of Philemon Kuku. The reason Rev. Kuku was chosen to sign for the loan, Andini said, was because he was a prominent figure in the Nuba Mountain region, known for his humanitarian work.

Kuku is now in danger of being taken to court over the matter of the loan.

He believes if he goes to court and doesn’t have the ability to pay the remainder of the debt the bank will take his house, and if that isn’t enough

he will go to jail until he can pay the amount. “(Kuku’s) being affected because of us, and we want to help him,” Andindi said.

A payment of $8,000 is due in July, Kuku said.

Andindi hopes further fundraising will help pay off the loan and help provide the means to keep the tractor operating.

After the event, Alisha Tesfalem, a senior broadcasting major and treasurer for ASA, said she hopes people will continue to send donations to ASA because they still have a long way to go.

“The way I’m looking at things right now, I was happy to go to the university and talk to the students there about what is going on with this project,” Andindi said. “But this year’s going to be very bad for (Nubans) if they can’t get the food they need.”

Carr said she wasn’t sure of the group’s intention and was cautious of the situation because it was an all-white, male group carrying a Confederate flag. Her uneasiness with the situation was what prompted her to email the national chapter. After sending the email on April 16, Carr received a reply the next day from Jim Russell, the executive vice president for the Delta Tau Delta national chapter, saying the matter would be investigated.

After her talk with the fraternity, Carr said she believed its intent was not meant to be harmful to anyone and the

members felt bad for what happened.

“I didn’t want to get so much publicity,” Carr said. “I just wanted to make sure the fraternity knew what was happening ... They were very sincere in their explanation of what happened and making sure that I didn’t think badly of them as a group.”

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Juan Franco said he did not have much to say about the incident; only that it was being investigated.

“We’re going to try to determine exactly what happened,” Franco said in a telephone

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Morrill Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus unveiled a new exhibit Saturday showcasing various minerals and meteorites. The exhibit, “Meteorites and Minerals,” looks at how they affect today’s society.

Robert Joeckel, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences in the School of Natural Resources, is the curator of the event.

He said the origins for the exhibit go back to an idea dreamt up by Roger Pabian, geologist emeritus of the Conservation and Survey Division in the School of Natural Resources.

He passed away in December 2010 at the age of 75, and Joeckel said the exhibit is “in part” a tribute to Pabian. Joeckel said Pabian himself was an avid rock, gem and fossil collector.

“When Roger passed away, I felt somewhat obligated to take over,” Joeckel said.

Some of the minerals on display have a function in everyday life.

“The one that is most prevalent are the mineral fillers that make products what they are,” he said.

Joeckel said some of the minerals are very expensive and hard to produce.

“Synthetic rubbers and plastics have a lot of mineral material in them,” he said.

Mark Harris, University Museum Associate Director, said he doesn’t remember if

interview Monday afternoon.

“At this point ... Judicial Affairs will be meeting with the leadership of the fraternity and specifically with the students involved.”

Beavers said the fraternity member made a poor decision to bring the flag out and the flag had not been out long before it was taken away.

“The president saw the flag and took it away within five minutes and said it was unacceptable,” Beavers said.

The president of Delta Tau Delta could not comment

Morrill Hall has ever had an exhibit like this. He said the exhibit took 14 months to assemble.

“This is one of the most complex and beautiful exhibits we’ve put together,” he said.

While some of the exhibit is on loan to the museum from private collectors, Harris said a grant from the Lancaster County Visitors Improvement Fund made it possible for the museum to purchase some minerals in addition to the ones already owned by the museum. One of the pieces purchased for the exhibit is the “Amethyst Cathedral Pair,” a meteorite with a large display of the amethyst quartz crystal on the inside.

“We were able to purchase that from a gem and mineral show in Denver,” he said.

With all of the crystals and minerals on display, Harris was enthusiastic about the exhibit.

“The sheer beauty will blow people’s minds,” he said.

Joeckel hopes the exhibit gets people to think about how minerals affect our everyday lives.

He said that anything in everyday life has to be mined.

“Our national security and our everyday lives depend on a flow of raw materials from the solid earth,” he said.

“Meteorites and Minerals” will run until Nov. 30. larrybrown@ dailynebraskan.com

on the situation because it had reached the national level. Delta Tau Delta’s adviser, Ryan Caldwell, could not be reached despite multiple calls.

Linda Schwartzkopf, director of Greek Affairs, said Delta Tau Delta handled the situation appropriately.

“Students in the greek system, on occasion, make bad decisions,” Schwartzkopf said. “Our hope is that when students make bad decisions a person in a leadership position realizes that it’s wrong.” franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

Community desk Cookies for a Cure when : Monday, April 23, and Tuesday, April 24, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. where : Nebraska Union Plaza what : Lambda Chi Alpha will host a bake sale to benefit the American Cancer Society. Lambda Chi Alpha will sell cookies, cakes, brownies, pies and bread. cost : Prices range from $1 to $10 contact : Taylor Vaiskunas at 402-216-7634 or tvaiskunas1221@huskers. unl.edu Soap Carving when: Monday, April 23, 9:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union what: Soap Carving Club will have its last meeting. Students are welcome to carve art from soap. cost: $1 for non-members

Hiring Our Heroes Fair Tuesday, April 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: Lancaster Event Center what: The Nebraska Department of Labor and U.S. Chamber of Commerce will host a career fair for those in the military and their spouses. when:

Stress Free Zone when: Tuesday, April 24 (East Campus), and Wednesday and Thursday, April 25-26 (City Campus), 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: Nebraska Union and East Campus Union what: Students can relax with free snacks, massages and other activities. contact: Deb Henderson at 402-472-7442 or dhenderson1@unl.edu Operation Graduation Workshops when: Tuesday, April 24 and Thursday, April 26, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

where: Nebraska Union what: The Student Money

Management Center will host a workshop to help graduating seniors learn about employer benefits, repaying student loans and financial mistakes college graduates can make.

Lecture: “Word from the Top: NU Policymakers Give Their Two Cents on Student Debt” when: Tuesday, April 24, 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Auditorium what: NU regents, NU Budget Director Chris Kabourek and UNL Scholarships & Financial Aid Director Craig Munier will answer student questions on what the university is doing for students financially. contact: Daily Nebraskan at editor@dailynebraskan.com Screening: “Inside

Job” when: Wednesday, April 25, 6 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre what: Nebraskans For Ending Corporate Personhood and Occupy Lincoln will host a screening of the Academy Award-winning film, “Inside Job.” The documentary is narrated by Matt Damon and focuses on the late 2000s’ financial crisis and how corruption in the U.S. financial service industry played a role in creating it.

Symphonic Band when: Wednesday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall what: The Symphonic Band will perform in concert. Tickets to the performance will be available an hour beforehand. cost: $5 general admission, $3 student/senior contact: Mike Edholm at 402472-6865

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Pianist Andreas Xenopoulos when : Friday, April 27, 7 p.m. where : Kimball Recital Hall what : Greek pianist Andreas Xenopoulos will perform in concert. He will play pieces like “Suite de Danzas Criollas (Suite of Native Dances) and “Wanderer Fantasy.”

Astronomy Day when : Saturday, April 28, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. where : Morrill Hall what : Prizes and a variety of family activities about space, science and astronomy will be featured at this fun-filled event for all ages.

Greek Affairs Fun Run for cedars when : Sunday, April 29, 8:30 a.m. where : Pioneers Park what : Greek Affairs will host

a 1 mile walk/10K run to benefit CEDARS. To register, visit http://marketplace. unl.edu/sofs/greek-affairs Poetry on the Prairie Sunday, April 29, 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. where : Pioneers Park what : No registration is necessary to share poetry and interact with other poetry lovers. Participants can share their own poetry or those of other poets. when :

End of the Year Bash when : Sunday, April 29, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. where : Nebraska Union and Plaza what : Students can celebrate the end of the school year with carnival fun, including a Ferris wheel, a caricature artist, air brush tattoos, funnel cakes and cotton candy. cost : Free

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Student receives Fulbright award UNL language, education student to teach in Germany heather haskins daily nebraskan

Senior secondary education major Brian Rentfro likes to joke that Germany knows its priorities.

In 1516, Germany passed a purity law about what was and wasn’t allowed in its famous beer — a law still followed today. It wasn’t until the next year, 1517, that Martin Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses, a document known for helping to start the Protestant Reformation. However, Rentfro and many others who have been to Germany will tell you that its culture is much more than beer. It consists of unique foods, a vast number of holidays and Rentfro’s primary interest: language.

Rentfro recently received a Fulbright Scholarship, which will allow him to teach English in Germany for 10 months. He has been to Germany once before, when he participated in the University of NebraskaLincoln’s Deutsch in Deutschland program.

While in Germany, Rentfro stayed at youth hostels and ate new foods like a cold fish dish in Northern Germany with its “eye balls staring at you.”

He is also a student-teacher in German at Lincoln Southwest High School.

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Brian Rentfro, a senior secondary education major, poses for a portrait on Monday on UNL’s campus. Rentfro recently won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Germany for 10 months. lecturer and someone Rentfro credits for his interest in the German language, spoke about what makes Rentfro a good candidate for the award.

“He’s like the greatest guy there is,” Hurlbut said. “He is a very talented language

student, one of the best I’ve ever seen, and he has teaching experience.”

Even though he had not taken any German in high school (he took four years of Spanish instead) he needed a stable major, and another language

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seemed to be a good choice.

Rentfro credits the UNL German staff with helping him get the scholarship.

“All the German staff at UNL is fabulous,” Rentfro said.

“The staff at UNL was always very nurturing. I always felt like one of their own. They got me interested and kept me interested.”

It was one of those staff members who encouraged him to apply for the Fulbright.

Waiting was stressful, he said.

“I tried not to think about it,” he said. “I spent a few nights thinking, ‘What if? What if?’”

Rentfro got the news of his award in an email.

“I was beside myself for a bit,” Rentfro said. “It still hasn’t sunk in.”

Rentfro wants to be an educator and is excited for the experience.

“I see it as a great opportunity for professional development,” Rentfro said.

Rentfro said he doesn’t want others to think he will change significantly because of the German culture.

“I would hope that my friends and family don’t think I’m going to come back (a completely different person),” Rentfro said.

Hurlbut said if a student wants to get a Fulbright, he or she should get as much experience as possible.

“I would get a broad experience, (as well as) experience in teaching and tutoring,” Hurlbut said. “That gives you a big advantage.”

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Outside Indigo Bridge Books, Alanna Hoffman, a senior international studies major, rides her longboard after a day of work Monday. Hoffman was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in South Korea for a year.

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As Alanna Hoffman sat in her first high school Spanish class, she was inspired to travel abroad.

And so she did.

Hoffman, a senior international studies major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has completed three separate study abroad semesters in Costa Rica, Taiwan and Japan.

She also traveled to El Salvador in 2009 to volunteer with an international development program.

Now it’s time for her next adventure.

Hoffman was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, and will use the award to travel to South Korea where she will teach English for a year.

“I was very excited,” Hoffman said about finding out she was awarded a Fulbright.

“I applied, and I had no idea if I would get it or not.”

Hoffman said one of her main interests in studying abroad is learning about how military occupations affect certain countries.

“It’s interesting to see how a military occupation can change an area’s language and culture dramatically,” Hoffman said. “I especially want to look at how the Japanese occupation has affected the cultures of Korea and Taiwan.”

Others who know Hoffman

said she is a well-deserving winner of a Fulbright Scholarship.

“Alanna is very smart, but also quite modest,” said Ross Miller, a political science professor at UNL who has known Hoffman for about four years.

“It actually took a few meetings before I realized how smart she really is. I cannot think of a more deserving recipient than Alanna.”

Hoffman worked with Miller on her UCARE undergraduate research project last year.

For the project, she examined higher- and lower-level processing strategies for students learning a second language.

On campus, Hoffman is involved in several activities including the Tau Sigma National Honor Society for transfer students and the Dean’s Scholars Society. She also works as a student ambassador for the College of Arts and Sciences and is a part of Hillel, a Jewish student group at UNL. She believes studying abroad, though, is one of the best activities a student can get involved in.

“I think it opens your eyes up to a lot of things,” said Hoffman, who also has minors in Japanese and Spanish.

“You see how many privileges you have living in a developed country. You can experience this fantastic idea that no culture is the ‘right’ culture. It’s a very humbling experience.”

Miller said he admires

“It’s interesting to see how a military occupation can change an area’s language and culture dramatically.

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“Many students talk to me about wanting to visit other countries,” he said. “Alanna makes it happen.”

Miller added Hoffman’s genuine interest in other cultures makes her unique.

“What makes Alanna stand out from other students is her incredible curiosity about other cultures combined with the determination to experience as many of them as she can,” Miller said.

Hoffman plans to attend graduate school at the University of California, San Diego, to study East Asian studies and continue developing her secondary language skills. cristinawoodworth@ dailynebraskan.com

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Discuss debt concerns with NU officials

There’s a new four-letter word on campus: “debt.”

Monday, the Daily Nebraskan released a 56-page special issue on the topic of student debt, which will remain on newsstands throughout the week. But the discussion doesn’t end there. Whether you’ve already read the issue, there are still a series of questions constantly bubbling beneath the surface of student life at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Will tuition keep rising? How will it affect my program?

Will we be able to compete in the Big Ten without financial burden? What aid is available to me? Will there be more budget cuts? What is my degree worth? How will I pay for it?

For the first time ever, students will have a chance to direct those questions directly to the policy-makers who help determine answers. Tonight at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, the DN will host “Word from the Top: NU Policy-makers Give Their Two Cents on Student Debt.”

The panel Q&A will consist of top NU officials in financial areas, all open to questions from the audience on topics of student debt, tuition, financial aid, budget cuts and other university issues.

The four-member panel will include: NU Regents Tim Clare and Chuck Hassebrook, NU Budget Director Chris Kabourek and UNL Scholarships and Financial Aid Director Craig Munier, who was recently elected chair of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

Voicing your questions and opinions on university financial issues has never been more important. Student debt has recently eclipsed credit card debt in the United States, and as aid sources drop while tuition increases, your questions mark a stake in the future of your university.

The DN encourages all students to take one hour out of their Tuesday night to stand up for their education, their future and their wallets, and to engage in friendly discussion with their representatives on issues that affect them daily.

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Kickstarter projects would waste less of student’s funds I recently took a survey by the UPC on how I would like my student fees spent. The survey focused largely on the topic of the Mike Posner concert and whether I would like to see student fees raised for more expensive artists. According to UPC’s numbers, 45,843 students paid to bring Mike Posner to UNL. Only 5,000 students came out. That leaves us with 40,000+ students (89 percent) who paid for a small minority to have a concert. I’ve heard this narrative before somewhere ... We are the 89 percent!

I won’t shy away from the fact that it totals up to about $1.20 per student. I don’t care if you bring my beloved Foo Fighters to campus, I don’t want to force 40,000 students to pay a penny toward my specific interests. Instead, I recommend setting up a Kickstarter (Google it) fund for a concert. If 5,000 students really want to see someone like Mike Posner, they can pay the $11 it would cost to bring him here.

When everyone needs “just a couple dollars more per student,” college gets expensive.

Andy Liesveld

Senior Mechanical Engineering Major

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Classic philosophy opens eyes

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his column is all about me.

Forgive the self-centered premise.

It was less than a year ago that philosopher Allan Bloom entered my life, yet I can’t imagine existence without his words. No individual has so challenged my world view, assaulted my value preferences, mocked my conception of self-worth or opened my eyes to the reality of our pitiful existence.

Bloom has shown me the pointlessness of cynicism. He’s created the potential for redemption from our comedic fallen world. He’s every bit the intellectual savior this culture needs. His ideal student, however, is one I’ve spent the majority of my college career openly mocking. The eagerness. The drive.

The naiveté. The love. The blank slate Bloom longed for was a student willing to take defensible ideological positions.

The moral relativism that pervades American collegiate campuses was to Bloom the decay of Western thought.

You see, there’s something beautiful about the college experience. We’re born into the world, grow to maturity and then spend the rest of our life in decay. Even now, you’re dying. It might not yet be apparent, but there’s a date in your future that will be your last.

From this point, most of your time will be spent in a cubicle taking crap from a terrible boss, dealing with the headaches of raising children and coping with the ever mounting losses of friends and loved ones. Life is tragic and painful. That’s the human condition.

It’s just for these 120 or so credit hours that you’re free. Perhaps you, like me, choose to fill much of that time with socializing, playing “Call of Duty” and putting on those college pounds.

Cool. Awesome.

But the moment will approach when you’ll wonder, “Why am I here?” If you’re like me, the answer will be, “I don’t know.” It’s an awful realization for anyone, let alone narcissists like myself.

The powerlessness of being unable to answer our existence’s most important question is crippling and humbling.

justin green That’s why you need thinkers like Bloom and books like “The Closing of the American Mind.”

Here’s his message to those of you who share my fear: “Men may live more truly and fully in reading Plato and Shakespeare than at any other time, because they are participating in essential being and are forgetting their accidental lives. The fact that this kind of humanity exists or existed … makes our imperfect humanity, which we can no longer bear, tolerable… Human nature, it seems, remains the same in our very altered circumstances because we still face the same problems, if in different guises, and have the distinctly human need to solve them, even though our awareness and forces have become enfeebled.”

Nothing makes you feel smaller than reading the canon of Western thought.

It’s the books of that canon, however, that can create the possibility of living a redemptive life. Taking the time to properly read something like Plato’s “Republic” is neither fun nor easy.

If you’re like me, you’ll experience feelings of inadequacy and ignorance.

You’ll struggle to decipher what are often cryptic messages and seemingly antiquated social norms. Don’t let anyone tell you the classics are easy. They aren’t meant to be easy.

Aspiring to live a life worthy of redemption doesn’t require a taste for the opera and caviar. It does necessitate a willingness to transcend, or at least attempt, the petty crassness of modernity.

There’s something uniquely beautiful about arguing issues of note. Taking the time to openly ponder the unanswered questions and paradoxes of the human experience creates a vulnerability in one’s heart. Without that weakness, however, what’s your life to mean?

So ignore the highbrow, hipster definition of life. But never forget the life and sacrifices of those who dared ponder ideas outside their own particular moment. Reading the canon isn’t just about checking boxes off a list; it’s about understanding your particular place in human cosmology.

You see, I believe we exist for a purpose. What precisely that entails remains to be answered, and that question may never be satisfied. Reading these works has allowed me to sense that perhaps that’s all right.

Maybe we aren’t meant to understand everything. Might it be that despite our unprecedented technological advances and gains in scientific understanding, we aren’t any more in touch with our natures than the classical Greeks?

One of the more famous parts of Plato’s “Republic” involves the “Noble Lie,” the belief that myths are necessary to preserve a cohesive society. That’s why we push back so desperately against those who attack Manifest Destiny or the origins of natural rights. Without them, people fear, what are we to do?

How are we to remain a people?

That’s the great question the classics seek to answer. That’s why a deep understanding of the philosophy and literature that comprise our civilization’s social fabric is so essential to your collegiate experience.

Leaving this campus without such a background harms both your understanding of yourself and your relation to 3,000 plus years of human experience.

What I learned from reading Shakespeare is that it’s possible to develop empathy without personal experience.

Being able to have such an understanding without undergoing such personal pain is a gift that mustn’t be taken lightly.

Others have suffered so that you might not. That’s the centerpiece of Christianity. It’s also the hallmark of Western thought. Never forget that basic truth.

Justin Green is a senior political science and history major.

Reach him at justingreen@ dailynebraskan.com. Follow him on Twitter at @beargreenz. And read his blog at huskerred.tumblr.com

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harming. Intelligent. Versatile. Confident. Sophisticated.

Sounds like qualities everyone would want, right? But what if you were also constantly angry or unable to be close to other people? Some might be willing to take that sacrifice in order to get ahead in life. The only problem with that is those qualities describe a sociopath.

Sociopaths are the new heroes in our society. Of course, they’re often still our villains (e.g. the Joker, Scar of “The Lion King,” Darth Vader) but we’ve become much more sympathetic toward them. Or at least more entertained. Perhaps this is because sociopaths on TV and the movies aren’t quite what they are in real life.

As Adam Kotsko lays out in his book “Why We Love Sociopaths,” the media sociopath is more like an embodiment for our fantasies. According to Kotsko, real-life sociopaths are “pitiable creatures indeed.” The media simply like to “pick and choose” the most interesting characteristics, like aggression and lack of moral intuition.

Real sociopaths actually have trouble accomplishing anything, unlike those in movies. Fantasy sociopaths find power in their oddity, rather than being hindered by it. We like to watch

them because they live outside social norms and benefit from it. Sociopaths don’t experience the same sort of pain we do because they just don’t care about anything.

For instance, sociopaths (at least in the movies) don’t really have emotions. Sociopaths lack empathy toward other people and most normal human emotions. This makes it difficult for the sociopath to forge meaningful relationships. Although we love cultivating good relationships, those relationships are also a great source of pain. Anyone who is unaffected by relationships (like sociopaths) are fascinating.

We’re amused by sociopaths like Patrick Bateman of “American Psycho,” who tosses friends and girlfriends aside like dirty shirts. We wish we could spout a quip and cut ties with other people without feeling the pain, as Bateman does so well. And even if you truly don’t, the contrast of someone who doesn’t give a shit (ever) is fascinating enough.

Confidence is another major attraction in sociopaths. With a healthy amount of indifference to the world comes a boatload of self-assurance.

Pop culture figures like Dr. House are so fun to watch because they have no doubt about their ability. The whole point of House is he almost never

erica bartz backs down from opposition, even when every other doctor tells him he’s wrong. (Although they should really realize by now that he never is.)

Sherlock Holmes, as a character, has endured for so long because he’s the pinnacle of confidence. He lives out the fantasy of a person who never makes a mistake. Of course, he is always countered by naysayers, but we still root for him in the end. We’re in love with confidence and want it to succeed.

We’re also captivated by a sociopath’s ability to enact behaviors or events we’d never do ourselves. So many movie sociopaths become cold-blooded killers, such as Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs,” or Anton Chigurh of “No Country For Old Men.” Almost no one knows what it’s actually like to kill a string of people. Like with violence in any movie, we can’t

stop ourselves from watching.

Movie or TV sociopaths often become obsessed with mastering a certain skill or subject. Sherlock is determined to solve puzzles and crimes to the point of insanity. Don Draper in “Mad Men” drives himself and his copywriters to advertisement perfection. Movie villains, like the Joker, carry out evil-genius plans.

Most normal people wouldn’t be able to achieve the same perfection. The sociopaths become the instruments to live out various fantasies.

Sociopaths also show up in popular culture again and again because of their intelligence. They’re capable and willing to manipulate people to get whatever they want. Even if they use their adopted son to get more oil like Daniel Plainview of “There Will Be Blood.” They’re still more entertaining on the screen than Jennifer Aniston.

We want to laugh at the idiots, but the manipulators and geniuses get our attention.

Most of all, however, we’re preoccupied with sociopaths because they’re so good at hiding what they are. Other mental conditions, like schizophrenia or depression, are easier to understand because we can see the effects.

Sociopaths, on the other hand, can blend in with anyone. While they

don’t care about social norms or emotions, they understand how to use them for their own gain. Seeing a movie about a sociopath is like hearing a ghost story or watching a horror movie. We know we probably won’t encounter one, but it still puts a compelling sense of paranoia in us.

Why sociopaths are coming up now is difficult to say. Kotsko believes it’s because sociopaths are the opposite of awkward. They don’t care about social norms unlike awkward people, so they are more “powerful and free.”

Essentially, we like to watch them because they seem to live painless lives. Should we worry that sociopaths will start showing up everywhere?

Will people start aspiring to cut off all emotion?

While our fascination is somewhat disturbing, we actually don’t have much to worry about. We are only interested in them because they’re opposite of what most of us are. Our attraction only shows that we do have genuine emotion and a sense of morality left. If we had the capability to be sociopaths, how would we care enough to see ourselves on screen?

Erica Bartz is a senior film studies major. Reach her at ericabartz@ dailynebraskan.com

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More Machine Now Than Man’s only mission is to get fans up and dancing More Machine Now Than Man musicians Mike Masin (left) and Tyler Wilson play on stage at Knickerbockers on April 19.

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More Machine Now Than Man. Several venues have gotten it wrong on signs and marquees, but the band name is here to stay. “More machine now than man” is a line from Star Wars that inspired Will Harman, Tyler Wilson, Cal Harman and Mike Masin, who see its musicality when spoken.

To friends and fans, they’re More Machine.

Their goal: to make you dance.

“If people are dancing, we’re going to have fun,” guitarist and lead vocalist Will Harman said. “It’s almost impossible not to dance because everything we do is geared toward getting you out of your seat and moving.”

More Machine Now Than Man is influenced by many genres, yet doesn’t sound like anything in particular. Its members said they connect with Radiohead’s musical ambiguity, but hip-hop, funk, rock, soul and R&B drive the beats and melodies of every song.

“We (Cal and Will) listened to a lot of Rage Against The Machine growing up,” drummer and rapper Cal said. “I listen to a lot of hiphop. All the big ones — Lupe, Kanye, Jay-Z,

Jurassic 5 are influential.”

“Personally, I’m more influenced by funkier songs and soul music,” said Wilson, bass player and vocalist. “A lot of Jamiroquai — I love them. There’s a lot of different stuff that comes through.”

Will writes almost all lyrics for the band, mostly at night when he can’t sleep.

“I write stuff that means something to me,” he said. “It doesn’t matter to me that much that people can understand what I’m saying or know what I’m talking about, but it’s more about the melody and how it sounds.”

After songs are written, the band practices in Will’s garage for hours at a time. Surrounded by black, neon paint-splattered walls, time passes faster than anyone realizes.

“There has been times where we’re in here and somehow hours just go by,” keyboardist Masin said. “We just get lost in doing this.”

But the process isn’t always smooth sailing.

Brothers Will and Cal, both from Blair, Neb., shared a room for 15 years — and it shows.

“Most of my focus is on the drums, so I’m really picky about what goes where and how Singer/songwriter Will Harman sings at Knickerbockers on April 19. it sounds, so we get into some knock-down,

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They describe themselves as “kaleidoscopic pop.” They use this term to describe the “textual color” that “hazes and swirls” about in their sound.

Flashbulb Fires will bring its textual color to Lincoln this Sunday as band members Michael James, Patrick McGuire and Chris Sturniolo make a stop on their promotional tour of their new album, “Gasconader.”

The Denver natives, who met randomly via the Internet and local music venues in Denver, began touring in 2009. Their first album, “Glory,” received a host of praise from various news sources, including Dallas Morning

if you go Flashbulb Fires when: Sunday, 9 p.m. where: Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St. how much: $5, 21+ News, Urban Tulsa Weekly, The Huffington Post and The Reader, among others.

Now, after positive feedback from the media and some time spent in the mountains of Colorado, Flashbulb Fires is ready to debut its new album. James, who contributes vocals and electric guitar, described the new album as classic Motown or

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For those making their way to the Bourbon Theatre tonight, expect to witness a lot of loud, theatrical energy.

The small and unconventional theatrical group known as Red Theater is gearing up for its final performance of the year, and now more than ever, the group wants to ensure the audience is the main focus this time around.

In 2010, Aaron Sawyer and Gage Wallace became the two founding fathers of the small theatrical club. Since then, the theatrical group has continued to thrive and stay popular in the underground theater community. Hannah Kurth, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior vocal performance major, is the artistic director as well as a performer for the theatrical group, and has been a part of Red Theater since its formation.

“Red Theater is community theater in a different sense from any other community theater,” Kurth said. “We want to be a community theater about the community; it’s for them, and it’s by them.”

Red Theater’s final show for the year, “Free Radicals,” premieres Tuesday, April 24, at the Bourbon Theater. The show is comprised of thirty pieces that will be performed in one hour, and the audience will choose the order of the pieces. Zac Franzen, a UNL junior international studies major, is the managing director and performer of the group, and wants as much audience participation as possible Tuesday night.

“We have a lot of audience participation pieces,” Franzen said. “The bigger the audience, the more fun it is. We need lots of energy.”

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writes the individual pieces throughout the year and showcases them every semester. The group tries to give the audience members a theatrical experience they’ll never forget.

“There is no fourth wall,” Franzen said. “It’s what we believe theater will be, what it should be. We’re giving them an experience of what they can’t get in a movie.”

Franzen puts much emphasis on the audience’s perceptions of the show.

“Everything we do, yes, it has meaning to us, but it’s always for the audience,” Franzen

said. “By giving it to them, it’s self-rewarding. Everything we are passionate about we give to them.”

With this closing performance, Red Theater hopes the audience will experience the pieces beyond their face value.

“We have fun but I always hope that some pieces make them think,” Kurth said.

“Whether you love it or hate it, I hope you learn something from it.”

The audience can expect to see a variety of pieces performed on Tuesday night.

“We have monologues,

if you go Free Radicals when: Tuesday April 24th 9:30 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre how much: $5 movement pieces, slam poetry, comedic pieces, dramas,” Kurth said. “There’s a big variety. A bit of everything.”

The show will be performed

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Personal opinions shouldn’t be judged Neil orians For a little less than a year I’ve had the privilege of writing these columns for The Daily Nebraskan. I was allowed to write whatever I felt like about music and pretend I’m somebody because of it — and it felt damn good. The fact that I used to be in a modestly successful local band you’ve never heard of helped add legitimacy to my claims that music is art.

But at the end of the day, I’m just a kid with a BFA from a state university in the Midwest. I like to think I’m at least a cool kid with a BFA from a state university in the Midwest, but Facebook statuses and Tumblr posts seem to point toward the contrary.

I digress; I’ve loved this position. But I can’t stress enough how subjective art is. Jackson Pollock didn’t become famous because his drip paintings are the most beautiful things created during the modernist era. He was merely the first.

In the same sense, dubstep is terrible, but Skrillex is famous and successful for being among the first in the medium, and that is respectable.

I can’t hate someone or completely disregard his or her art because he or she is successful and I personally don’t care for it. That’s just silly. It’s an extremely immature viewpoint to have as it’s nothing but blind jealousy. I think it’s kind

of dumb that people love MUSINGS FROM dubstep so much, but that’s THE MOSH PIT what floats their boat. Mine retains buoyance with terrible pop-punk mixed with good pop-punk, two-tone ska, Katy Perry and a whole my column criticizing the lot of Childish Gambino.

Even my declaration, UPC choice of Mike Posner.

“Dubstep is terrible,” is My words have not fallen meaningless. My opinion on deaf ears. But again, doesn’t matter any more they’re only my words. I than someone else’s. It’s own them, I’m proud of my opinion and I happen them and they’re mine.

This may very well be the to be lucky enough to get it published (almost) weekly. last thing I write for the DN. It doesn’t make my view- I have been honored to be point any more valid than a part of a staff that producsomeone else. At the end es one of the finest college of the day it’s just my opin- newspapers in the country, ion, and it doesn’t mean regardless of how much much to people who aren’t bedbug sensationalism we get caught up in. That was me (which, for a joke, Ian, those of you lighten up. who’ve lost My only My opinion count, is everyadvice to one). No one is doesn’t matter those who the end-all-beany more than aren’t gradall of music. uating this someone else’s.

Occasionally semester people read my It’s my opinion is to never words printed and I happen give up. on these pagAnd that to be lucky es. That alone doesn’t is awesome to enough to get only mean me. I don’t exit published college; pect Rihanna college may (almost) weekly. to start writing very well her own music be a terand lyrics berible idea cause I mentioned her backing staff of for you. As cliche as it is, producers. I don’t expect never give up your dreams.

Darren Keen to stop hating The moment you give up me because I wrote about on your dreams is the mohow musicians need to be ment life loses all meanable to take criticism. But I ing. Maybe your dreams do know people have read need some adjusting to the those words, and it’s safe to point where they’re attainsay at the absolute least I able. Just never give them got some gears turning in up completely, especially without a fight. some people’s heads.

Neil Orians is a senior While we are all miniscule fine arts major. Well in the scheme of the entire he was. Now he’s just world, the individual still a well-educated bum.

Reach him at neilorians@ has plenty of power and dailynebraskan.com, an impact. I learned that after e-mail address that never receiving a lot of heat from really existed.

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Rock ‘n’ roll’s hardest buttonto-button is popping out with the widely anticipated new release, titled “Blunderbuss,” and it is in stores today.

This time, The White Stripes’ front man Jack White, who is also known for his work in the Raconteurs, The Dead Weathers and collaborations with many of music’s influential figures, is flying alone.

The solo debut is comprised of 13 songs, and all but one have been written and composed by Mr. White himself.

The bluesy “I’m Shakin’,” written by Rudolph Toombs and made popular in the 1960s by Little Willie John, is the best way to summarize this album.

From song to song, White seems to be channeling different aspects of his musical life, whether it’s the raunchy guitar-saturated “Sixteen Saltines” or the twangy steel guitar infused title track.

The only downside to the wide range is the disconnected feeling as the album progresses, a trait that prevents it from being a superbly crafted album. Despite this, each song is and of itself well-written and the listener is guaranteed the gritty whiskey-soaked vibrations for which White is known for.

Perhaps one of the more haunting treats is the record’s first single, “Love Interruption,” and its chorus “I won’t let love corrupt, disrupt or interrupt me.”

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Lyrics aside, the voice behind themGrade seem louder and more confident than ever. The key thing to remember is no matter how you were introduced to Jack White, or if this is your first introduction, you will not be disappointed with this one.

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“It’s a very tight space.”

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in your face, so close to the audience. You could reach out and touch us and alter a piece.”

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Panel discusses link between religion, music tyler keown daily nebraskan

Scholars gathered Monday afternoon to speak about the ties between religion and music.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln played host to the “Symposium on Transcendence in Mysticism & Music,” a roundtable discussion featuring professors of religion from multiple universities. The symposium is part of a series called “Music and Mysticism,” which has worked in collaboration with UNL’s department of Classics and Religion.

Bernard McGinn, a professor emeritus from the University of Chicago, was the keynote speaker for the event.

“Just as the great musicians and artists contribute a richness to our lives, even if we are not artistic or musically gifted, so do the mystics contribute,” said McGinn, who has published four books on the subject of mysticism. “Even if we don’t think of ourselves as mystical, there’s something in the

great mystical traditions that apply to our lives.”

Bridget Blomfield, a religious studies professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, was also present to speak about her experiences with Islamic practice of Sufism and its relation to mysticism.

According to 15th century Sheikh Ahmad Zarruq, Sufism is “a science whose objective is the reparation of the heart and turning it away from all else but God.” “God is as close to us as the jugular vein is to the body,” Blomfield said. “Music is often accompanied with Sufism because it is believed that it allows us to be silent within and be closer with God.” Paul Barnes, a professor of music at UNL, performed a Byzantine chant in an effort to show the audience how repetition can be used to create a transcendent sound.

He asked for the audience to participate by humming a continuous drone underneath his chanting.

He also performed two unnamed piano pieces to

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Stephen Lahey gives his speech on mysticism yesterday afternoon during the roundtable discussion “Symposium on Transcendence in Mysticism & Music” while the rest of the roundtable members, John Turner, Bridget Blomfield, Slava Komarovski, Paul Barnes, Bernard McGinn, listen in. show the same effect.

Stephen Lahey, a professor of religious studies at UNL, spoke about peoples’ attempts to reach the divine and how they have changed.

“We tend to imagine the Medieval West as a period defined by faith (in) which any and every attempt to reach the divine was strictly

regulated by the Church,” Lahey said, “but this is a mistake.”

Lahey said we are restricted to what we see in the material world with our senses.

He talked about philosopher John the Scot, who said reason and faith were more than complimentary, arguing they are “the basis for

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our apprehension of God.” Each of the speakers handled a different section of mysticism but they all agreed that the ties between music and mysticism are strong.

“To ignore the mystic is to disown the self,” McGinn said. tylerkeown@ dailynebraskan.com

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kekeli dawes Live from D.C., it’s Aziz Ansari’s second stand-up special.

No, it’s not Randy yelling “I’m tweakin’! I’m tweakin’!” while running up and down the stage. And no, it’s not Tom Haverford, raving about Ginuwine and four-ply toilet paper.

It’s Aziz Ansari, the comedian.

Remember him?

Ansari has become a popular comedian after several acting gigs, including his role in NBC’s prime-time comedy “Parks and Recreation” and his role in “Funny People.” With such memorable personas, it’s difficult to come into one’s own. But Ansari has a successful stand-up career and a distinct style people love. His latest stand-up special, “Dangerously Delicious” (available for streaming and download for $5 from his website), isn’t a riot, but many of Ansari’s strange stories are hilarious.

But at the start of the hour, Ansari spends most of his time stating the obvious. And the only way to squeeze a laugh out is to exaggerate it to the extreme. For example, he starts with a pretty funny situation when a girl agrees to go eat out with him, but two

hours before the date lets Ansari know she has a boyfriend and says, “Is that a problem?”

Ansari says, “Yeah...that’s kind of the biggest problem we could have! What’s next?”

He goes on to compare this to getting tickets to a carnival, but being denied rides. Pushing the gag even further, he compares the situation to a date agreeing to perform oral sex, but only if she performs the act with her boyfriend. To that, Ansari bluntly says, “Yeah, that’s a problem. Sounds like you’re going to suck your boyfriend’s dick at my house.”

When Ansari has to push the obvious to great extremes, the jokes don’t really hit hard. But when he’s honest, the humor comes naturally. One of his best jokes is about men who pick up women with ease at the bar. Sloppy drunk and uninhibited, Ansari imagines them saying to beautiful women, “Excuse me. You look really beautiful tonight, and one day I hope I might be able to put my hands on your titties.

My name’s Kevin.”

By the time several drunks walk off with dates, Ansari finally gathers up the courage to compliment a woman on her nice jacket, only to have her

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Ansari walks off, wounded, until “...an Indian dude who recognizes me off the TV will invite me back to his dorm to play video games.”

Pulling from honesty works well for Ansari. Jokes about his low drug tolerance and monotonous daily life are genuinely funny. Even his riffs on racism are great — and strangely enough, they’re different. Not many comedians can ask where racial slurs come from without sounding genuinely curious, excited and amused. Ansari’s straightforward, almost-corny delivery makes topics like this almost innocent.

Ansari doesn’t forget his strong points. Trademark are his fantastic tall tales of celebrities. Pauly Shore, Madonna, 50 Cent, R Kelly, and Jay-Z have their own absurd stories. And let’s not forget Ansari’s young cousin Harris, who always has something funny to say.

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Most of the time he’s just messing with me to frustrate me.”

After meeting the brothers in Blair during high school, Wilson played in a band with Will while learning guitar from his uncle. Wilson started playing bass just two years ago and graduated from the Institute of Production & Recording in Minneapolis. His production experience helps the band record clean tracks to put online.

“When I came back from school, Will and I were in the studio all the time exploring sound and all the things we can do with the recording systems on our computers,”

Wilson said. “We never want to record something that we can’t reproduce.”

Masin and Will worked at F Street Community Center together and always talked about playing music together. Last November, the band started putting music together. Their first show was at Knickerbockers in January, and they have played about 10 shows since then — some bigger than others.

Agreeing that their show at The Barley Street Tavern in Benson, Neb. has been the best yet, More Machine said their shows feed off the crowd.

“I think it’s fueled off energy,” Masin said. “I’d say that was our best show, and at the same time nothing was mic’d up besides vocals, so none of

the levels were even correct.”

For now, More Machine hopes to record and play as many live shows as possible.

“We can do things in here, in the garage, and record and it will sound okay,” Will said.

“We want something clean that we can send out to promoters in the Midwest so we can be playing more shows outside Lincoln and Omaha.”

The ultimate goal of More Machine is to make a living with the band. Will works full time at the F Street Community Center, Cal is a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Masin teaches at Clinton Elementary School and Wilson works for commercial weed spraying company Weedcope.

Will said he is trying to convince the other band members

to make the band their full time job.

“If we’re doing it ourselves and people are responding to it in a way that we want, there’s no reason not to try,” Will said. “There’s an untapped source of fans that really love music. If we don’t take advantage of it now, we’re going to regret it later.”

“It’s hard to look at groups like Odd Future, for instance, who did everything themselves,” Cal said. “They made themselves famous and some of those guys are younger than I am. It’s hard to look at groups like that and not think if we really got down to it, grinded it out and worked hard, we could do something big.”

“We’ve definitely gotten a lot more into the groove of things and we feel like this album represents more of our unique voice, and it doesn’t sound like a lot of bands you’ve heard,” James said.

Despite losing a member along the way, reworking songs and searching for a unique sound, “Gasconader” was born. Flashbulb Fires will tour parts of Nebraska, Colorado and Texas through June to promote this new album.

From these performances, Flashbulb Fires tries to bring a performance, excitement

and a wall of sound. According to James, many people wonder how three men can make that much sound, but that is the goal.

However, James has an even greater goal when creating music.

“You’re making music for yourself, but also because you want people to hear it,” he said. “It’s art. You don’t create art to have it sit in your basement. When the music is meaning something to (the audience), that’s the ultimate goal.”

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80s pop, compared to the horns, strings and classic vibe of the album, “Glory.” “[Gasconader] has a distinctly more modern sound to the songs,” James said.

“They’re a little more aggressive, not as in metal, but the songs are just braver. The first album had this sort of melancholy to it. This one has elements of that, but it has a lot of bravado and charisma.”

To write its second album, the band took refuge in Crested Butte, a ski resort town in Colorado. The band sought inspiration from the scenery

and the setting sun behind the mountains, a scene James describes as “beautiful” and “awe-inspiring.” Although its songs are not about nature, the atmosphere did affect the band’s sound by inspiring their work. James said he still sees the “beautiful mountain view” and setting sun when he’s playing the songs on stage.

The goal of Flashbulb Fires has always been to define a unique sound for itself. With its second album, James feels they have come closer to achieving that goal.

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lETTER TO THE EDITOR Title IX article needs more research on costs of men’s and women’s sports I applaud Sean Whalen’s research into the Title IX situation. It is unfortunate that he used the women’s tennis team budget as his only example for the supposed overspending for women — and women students from other countries as that!

(Since when are international students a disadvantage for a university, especially when their team obtained a 3.67 GPA and attends vigorously to their studies.) Whalen might want to research a bit further. Starting with the average cost per men and women student — athletes at

NU. In addition, with respect to less attendance figures, the marketing budgets for the men’s and women’s teams, and the inches of news space given for the men and women athletes by the local media. As a faculty member who has sat for 13 years on the KU Athletics Board, none of these will be comparable or in favor of women’s sports — unless a lot has changed and is different at NU. I hope at least the coaches’ salaries are similar for sports that

have men and women teams and comparable records!

Good intent, Whalen, but much more research is needed.

And let’s not assume that our international students, men, women, athletes and non-athletes, are a burden rather than an educational addition to our campuses.

Regards,

Renate Mai-Dalton

Professor emerita NU Women’s Tennis fan and German born U.S. citizen.

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Nebraska Men’s Tennis coach Kerry McDermott choked back tears as he spoke in fractured German.

“Danke fur die gute Zeit,” he said. “Thanks for the memories.”

It was his final send off to his three departing seniors — two of them from Germany, one from Oklahoma. Unfortunately for the Huskers, they weren’t able to leave McDermott with a win against Wisconsin in their final regular season match on senior day. Nebraska lost another heartbreaker 4-3 with the match again coming down to the third set amidst a 3-3 tie.

“It’s just an old story,” senior co-captain Christopher Aumueller said. “It’s repeating itself every single time. On senior day, of course it’s really hard on me.”

Aumueller and McDermott both recounted hearing rumblings about Wisconsin stacking their lineup (playing superior players lower in the lineup against inferior opponents for easier matches). He said because of this, he correctly predicted the Huskers would be at a disadvantage on courts four, five and six — where NU lost all three singles points.

McDermott said it was no excuse for his squad, however, because even a lineup stack

leaves weaknesses in the opponent’s lineup. Like Aumueller, the 4-3 loss was all too familiar.

“It’s kind of been like this all year. I guess this matches our season,” McDermott said. “It’s kind of a disappointment. I feel like we’re a much better team than we finished this year.”

The match started the way McDermott wanted with the Huskers taking the doubles point, but they got off to a slow start in singles, dropping five of the first six sets before picking up in the second set.

“The guys that were down came back and played with a lot of passion,” McDermott said.

“That’s all you can ask for, but it’s just disappointing to lose 4-3.”

All three seniors played in those singles, but Aumueller was the only to come away with a point. Fellow senior cocaptains Benedikt Lindheim and Drew Freeman lost their doubles matches in the 4-3 loss.

The Wisconsin match marked the Huskers’ sixth 4-3 loss of the season — and the third in the last three weeks.

“Maybe it’s a matter of confidence,” Aumueller said. “If you keep succeeding in what you’re doing, it’s easier to succeed again ... that’s obviously hard to practice unless you win one of those matches.”

Sunday’s match isn’t one Aumueller will forget in this lifetime. For a player who can

recount nearly any score from any match he’s played this year, Sunday’s 4-3 will stay on his mind for a while considering the circumstance.

“You may forget a home match during your sophomore year, but you don’t forget about your very last one,” Aumueller said. “When I look back in a couple years, I’ll think about

senior day and think about a loss, unfortunately.”

However, he’s got more to look back on during his time at Nebraska than senior day.

He said nothing can take away those home matches sophomore year, the people he’s met, the places he’s traveled and the things he’s learned.

“It’s been very hard for me

the last couple of days, as stupid as it sounds, to get out of bed and start every day because it’s coming closer and closer and I don’t want my time here to end,” Aumueller said. “Driving out (to the Nebraska Tennis Center) and warming up, I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t want to finish my career, but I have to.

“It has been without any question the best four years of my life. I’m not even referring only to tennis ... whatever made me become the person that I am today. As excited and motivated as a I am to start a new part of my life, it has been the best part of my life yet I didn’t want this to stop.” grantmuessel@ dailynebraskan.com

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baseball: from 10 games this season.

Hander should have a comfortable time against Creighton in his first career start. The Jays are hitting just .238 as a team, by far the worst in the MVC, and average just 4.4 runs per game this season. The Huskers, meanwhile, are hitting .314 largely because of performances by players such as Richard Stock.

Stock will be looking to build on a strong weekend against Purdue. While dropping the pivotal series was tough for him and the rest of the team, Stock went seven for eight with three extra base hits, two RBIs and three runs on Saturday and Sunday.

His efforts raised his average to .383 and solidified his place as NU’s cleanup hitter.

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Christopher Aumueller’s career might have ended with a loss, but the graduating senior from Bayreuth, Germany will still take away some positives from his time at Nebraska.

Stock credits his work under NU hitting coach Will Bolt and, in particular, his newfound ability to hit toward left field.

Ameritrade’s left field, coincidentally, is 335 feet in left and 375 in left-center – plenty of room for Stock to hit some more doubles.

Even if Stock’s doing so isn’t any more important to his coach than it would be for any other game, the Huskers are hoping to have a good time in Omaha.

“It’s fantastic (playing at Ameritrade every year),” Kubat said. “Being an Omaha boy, sitting in the stands in the CWS, watching Nebraska-Creighton games, I loved it from the stands and I bet you it’s even better from the field.

“I can’t wait.” seanwhalen@ dailynebraskan.com

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While the 2012 regular season has been one of the best for the Nebraska women’s tennis team, the Huskers ended on a high note.

The Huskers concluded with two victories against Minnesota and Wisconsin this weekend.

Nebraska shut out No. 31 Minnesota 7-0 in its final home match of the season on Friday before traveling to Wisconsin to beat the Badgers 6-1 on Sunday. With the two victories, Nebraska ended the year at 23 wins, breaking the previous school record for victories in a season. The previous record was 22, set in 2010.

Nebraska knew the importance of this weekend coming into it, but it still continued to maintain the same composure as throughout the season. For

the Huskers, it was just another match.

“The main thing was just to go in with a lot of energy. It was all about our energy and enthusiasm,” NU coach Scott Jacobson said.

That energy seemed to work for the Huskers this weekend, as their only loss between both of their matches was with senior Madeleine Geibert at No. 2 singles against Wisconsin. By ending the regular season, Nebraska finished ranked No. 18 nationally with a 23-3 record (9-2 Big Ten).

This success has been a consistent theme for Nebraska throughout the season. After starting off the season ranked No. 39, Nebraska has climbed up the polls to get as high as No. 17, which was the highest ranking in school history. In addition to the team records, an

individual record was broken

by Geibert earlier in the season.

On April 1 against Penn State, Geibert broke the school record of 172 combined wins for singles and doubles.

But for Jacobson, the cause of this success hasn’t necessarily been the talents of all the individual players. In tennis one can have individual success, but the team victories don’t come unless players contribute from across the board.

“The biggest part of success is team chemistry. They really enjoy being around each other, make sure to laugh and have a good time. This is the best team chemistry that Nebraska has ever had,” Jacobson said.

Jacobson also stressed that whether the Huskers were on the court or in the classroom, they continued to take on challenges with the same mental

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The sophomore said she was disappointed with the outcome but said she enjoyed her second appearance at the NCAA Championships.

“We did our best, we had fun and it was a great experience,” she said.

Trying their best was all Kendig said he asked for.

The coach wanted to make sure his team knew how proud he was of them at the end of the meet.

“I told them to keep their head up,” he said. “We had a great year and they should be proud of all the things we’ve accomplished this year. We had a great season and one meet shouldn’t define how good this team really is.”

Friday’s semifinals wouldn’t be the last time NU gymnasts would perform on the weekend.

Despite having to sit out Saturday and watch Alabama win the 2012 National Championship for the second straight year, Wong, DeZiel and Giblin,were able to perform Sunday in the Individual Event Finals.

The three NU gymnasts represented Nebraska in the beam, floor and vault events and all three finished in the top-10 of each event.

Although, he was unable to see his team perform on Saturday, Kendig said he enjoyed watching three of his athletes represent his team the way they have all season.

“Janelle started us out on vault and had two great rourtines,” Kendig said. “Wong went up against the toughest beam performers in the country and DeZiel performed as well as she did all season. I couldn’t be more proud of them.”

Giblin averaged a 9.7265 on

currently held by Peaches James who pitched for the Huskers from 2001 to 2004.

“It’s cool to be up there with the great names in Nebraska softball history,” Hagemann said. “But we need to win games right now, and that’s what is most important for me.”

The two wins on Saturday gave Nebraska a taste of the success it has been struggling to achieve on the road. Revelle said the formula for success away from home is as simple as an old adage.

“We got pitching and defense (Saturday), and that is why we were successful,” she said. “The old saying about baseball and softball is true. Pitching and defense wins games.”

A few changes in the batting order may have been at least partially responsible for the success the Huskers had in Columbus.

Revelle moved sophomore catcher Taylor Edwards into the leadoff spot for the series and put junior third baseman Gabby Banda in the three-hole. The changes yielded immediate rewards as both players hammered home runs over the weekend.

“We were just really locked in,” Banda said.

“She couldn’t get any pitches by us because we were all — everyone in the lineup — just locked in at the plate.”

Whether it was changes in the batting order or something else that got the Huskers going on the road, something sparked the success they had not

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Jessie Deziel might have earned two All-American Awards for floor and all-around. But the Huskers were still disappointed with their fifth place finish in the NCAA semifinals. vault and finished sixth in the event. DeZiel tallied a 9.9000 on floor to place sixth and Wong nailed a 9.8250 to finish 10th on beam. The three gymnasts also earned First-Team All-American honors.

“It felt great that we were able to represent our team and go out there and just have fun,” she said. “It was a huge honor.”

Although they were able to represent their team, it still didn’t feel comforting sitting out of Saturday’s competition, Wong said.

The morale the team had during the plane ride was at its lowest point of the season.

But if there was anything the Huskers took away from the

winless trip, it’s that they’re already eager for next season.

Wong, who will be a junior next year, has her eye on making another trip back to the 2013 NCAA Championships and said she hopes the third time will be the charm.

“We have good recruits coming in,” she said. “We are losing Lora and Katelyn (Busacker) who were big for us this season, but I know the freshmen we have coming in will step up and do their job.

“Each year, winning the championship is what we shoot for and I believe next year we’ll have another shot at winning it all.” neduizu@ dailynebraskan.com

toughness and focus.

Nebraska hopes to maintain this focus as it travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the Big Ten Championships this week. Nebraska will have a chance to rest up in preparation for its first match as it earned the No. 4 seed in the tournament, thus grabbing a first round bye. The tournament starts on Thursday, and Nebraska will take on the winner of No. 5 Purdue and No. 12 Michigan State Friday.

No matter which opponent of this match the Huskers face, they know they will be prepared.

“I think this is a pretty confident group. But this team still recognizes that every time it will be challenging match.

There are no easy matches in the Big Ten,” Jacobson said.

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NU coach Rhonda Revelle captured her 750th career victory at Nebraska Saturday in a 3-2 extra-innings thriller against Ohio State. Revelle is the all-time winningest coach in Nebraska softball history. previously enjoyed away from Bowlin stadium.

“I thought the changes worked really well,” Banda

said. “I think coach is trying to make a change to get us sparked at the plate.”

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Huskers finish season short of goals nedu izu daily nebraskan

Heading into the 2012 NCAA Semifinals, the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team knew it would have to place at least one spot higher than its fourthplace finish last season to qualify for the national title.

The team would have liked to finish in first place, even a third-place finish would have advanced them into Saturday’s Super Six Finals.

And the Huskers did finish in a different spot than last season, but in the wrong direction.

In their 22nd appearance in the NCAA Championship, the NU gymnasts finished fifth in Friday’s competition, disqualifying them for a chance to perform in Saturday’s Super Six Finals.

Nebraska coach Dan Kendig said mistakes weren’t the reason why the NU gymnasts didn’t qualify for the national trophy.

“We didn’t have any major mistakes at all,” the coach said.

“We just weren’t sharp on everything. We didn’t have a bad day, but we didn’t have a great day.”

Maybe the tough competition Nebraska had to face in its session had some effect on this year’s negative outcome.

In the first session of the semifinals, the Huskers went up against five teams in the top 12, including two top-5 squads, something NU didn’t have to deal with last year.

“In our session, none of the other teams made a single mistake and they all did a great job,” Kendig said. “It was a tenth here and tenth there that made a big difference.”

Nebraska began the meet on bars where sophomore Emily Wong managed a 9.85, a score senior Lora Evenstad matched to end the event. A team-high 9.875 by junior Janelle Giblin assisted to a 49.15 posting by Nebraska in its first event.

In its next event, beam, freshman Jennifer Lauer tallied a 9.825 to kick-off the Huskers second event. Nebraska’s 98.450 score after two events put them in sixth place, trailing its other five opponents after two events.

But NU finished strong in its last two events.

Having to quickly turn things around, sophomore Jamie Schleppenbach nailed a 9.825 on floor in her first meet back since the Big Ten Championships on March 24.

The Lincoln native’s start turned into momentum for the last three NU performers as Wong, freshman Jessie DeZiel and Evenstad all finished with 9.85s or higher. The solid displays tallied into a 49.250 teamscore, the highest team score on the night for the Huskers.

Nebraska finished the day on vault where Giblin continued the consistent work she’s shown all season. The No. 3 vaulter in the nation scored a 9.925 to lead her team to a 49.225 event score.

But after the team’s last performance of the night by Evenstad, the realization of not advancing began to sink in, Wong said.

The Huskers finished with a 196.625, four spots behind UCLA’s 197.500 first-place finish.

The goal Wong and her teammates had throughout the season was shattered before their eyes.

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Nebraska heads to the home of the CWS for a game against in-state foe Creighton

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he two highest-profile college baseball teams in the state of Nebraska will be going at it Tuesday night under the lights at TD Ameritrade Park, the home of the College World Series. To most Nebraska and Creighton fans, this is a big deal.

To their teams’ coaches? Not as much.

“You’re asking the wrong guy,” NU coach Darin Erstad said following his Huskers’ 5-3 win against Creighton on April 10. “I treat every game exactly the same. I respect Creighton very much ... (but) I don’t put any weight in that (rivalry) stuff.”

Creighton coach Ed Servais was even blunter.

“We’re just worried about Creighton, we don’t worry much what’s going on down here ( in Lincoln),” Servais said when asked if a strong NU was good for CU. “They’re not in our (conference). When we try to put our team together, we’re looking at how we’re going to be able to beat Missouri State, Wichita State, Indiana State.

“These are important games.

They’re important to the fans,

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Omaha-native Kyle Kubat delivers a pitch during Nebraska’s 8-3 loss to Big Ten-leading Purdue on Sunday. The Creighton Prep graduate attended CWS games as a kid and looks forward to playing at its new home Tuesday against CU. they’re certainly important to us, but when we put our team together and think about recruiting, it’s all about trying to win our conference. Until Nebraska gets into the Missouri Valley (Conference), we’re not going to pay as much attention to them as we are the other teams.”

So, as Nebraska gets set to take on CU Tuesday night, both coaches consider the game important — but it is still a mid-week nonconference game to them. Neither the Huskers nor the Bluejays seem to have a realistic chance to win their conference’s regular-season

record, though NU is very much in the race for the No. 2 spot in the Big Ten. With the Bluejays heading into the game at 15-20 overall (2-10 MVC) and losers of seven of their last nine, a win won’t help NU’s NCAA at-large positioning as much as a loss would hurt it. The 26-14 Huskers have a full week off of Big Ten play, hosting Cal State Bakersfield in three weekend games before heading off to Indiana May 5.

The focus now for the Huskers is on grabbing a few wins and some momentum for their final three Big Ten series, two of which take

place on the road.

Not to say that the players aren’t excited for the prospect of playing at the home of the CWS. “Hometown crowd playing at TD Ameritrade for the first time, can’t wait to get out there,” Kyle Kubat, a Creighton Prep graduate, said Sunday. “Can’t wait to play (Creighton) and hopefully get a win.”

Nebraska will be sending junior right-hander Ryan Hander to the mound Tuesday to face the Jays.

Hander hopes to keep Nebraska perfect on Tuesdays, as the Huskers have won their first six Tuesday

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Perdue captures All-American honors Michelle o’donnell daily nebraskan

Nobody in the history of Nebraska men’s gymnastics has scored higher on the floor than Grant Perdue.

Perdue posted a 15.40 on floor exercises to finish fourth overall at the NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championship, earning a school record in the floor event.

And the freshman became Nebraska’s 47th All-American in men’s gymnastics since 1975 Saturday night.

The championships began Thursday with team competitions, which NU as a team did not score high enough to move onto the second day of competition.

“It’s very, very prestigious,” NU coach Chuck Chmelka said. “It’s a huge disadvantage if your team doesn’t get (into the team finals), and that makes it even more fantastic what he did. He just kept moving up the ranks from

quarterfinals and I’m just real happy. Fourth place ... we’ll take it.”

Four Husker athletes posted high enough scores to qualify into the second day of competition.

Sophomore Donovan Arndt qualified on still rings with a score of 14.10.

Sophomore Eric Schryver posted a score of 14.30 to qualify him on parallel bars. Senior Andreas Hofer qualified on high bar with a 14.40, while Perdue qualified on both floor (15.40) and vault (14.70).

Arndt finished 27th overall on the evening with a mark of 14.20. Schryver had a slight stumble in his dismount on parallel bars, but recovered to pick up a score of 14.20 to land him in 26th place overall. Hofer finished just out of contention for the event finals, with a 14.30 on high bar to land him in 17th place.

Perdue finished in 30th

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Grant Perdue earned NU’s 47th All-American award for his efforts on the floor excersises at the NCAA Championships last weekend in Norman, Okla. place on vault with a score of 14.65, but nailed a 14.20 on floor to land him in fourth place overall, and to qualify him for Saturday night’s event finals.

The event finals were

split into two flights, with floor, still rings and pommel horse running in the first flight. Perdue was slated to compete last of the 10 competitors on floor exercise. With the two lowest

marks of the evening being 14.90 and 14.50, Perdue took to the floor knowing he would have to top these

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SOFTBALL

Huskers earn coach Revelle 750th win NU takes two of three from Ohio State during the weekend in Columbus Lanny holstein daily nebraskan

The Nebraska softball team won its first ever Big Ten road series last weekend.

The Huskers took the first two games of their

series with Ohio State on Saturday before losing the series finale on Sunday 4-0.

The series clinching victory on Saturday afternoon was Husker coach Rhonda Revelle’s 750th win at Nebraska.

In her 19 seasons as head coach, Revelle is a combined 750-402. Her win total leads all Husker coaches by a wide margin, but the coach is not too concerned with her own accomplishments.

“I don’t know that I think

about that kind of thing,” she said. “It’s not that big a deal to me. The players get the wins, and those athletes are the ones that

It’s cool to be up there with the great names in Nebraska softball history.

Ashley Hagemann NU Senior Pitcher

deserve the credit for the wins.”

Senior pitcher Ashley Hagemann was very good for the Huskers on Saturday throwing two complete games, including all eight innings of the extended second game. She only allowed three earned runs across her 15 innings of work. After the series, the four-year starter said she was happy to perform well for such a successful coach.

“Any time a coach that

we play for gets that many wins is awesome,” she said.

“All the tradition and players that have played for her — it is cool to see that.”

Hagemann herself is closing in on a little history.

The senior pitcher notched career strikeout No. 943 in relief duty on Sunday. That puts her just two whiffs from tying the all-time mark at Nebraska. The record is

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