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staff report dn The Academic Planning Committee doesn’t support Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s plan for dealing with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s $4.7 million budget deficit.

The committee, which is responsible for reviewing the chancellor’s proposals in budget procedures, had the option to approve Perlman’s plan or recommend a different course of action at its Wednesday meeting. Members voted 8-6 against support. While Perlman must consider and make a formal response to the committee vote, he has the option to move forward with his plan regardless of the vote.

University spokesman Steve Smith said he didn’t know the timeframe of Perlman’s response.

“It remains our goal to resolve the budget deficit in as timely and efficient a manner as possible,” Smith wrote in an email.

Committee chairman Stephen Lahey didn’t respond to a phone message Wednesday night requesting comment. The committee held a public meeting last week inviting students, faculty, staff and members of the public to weigh in on Perlman’s proposal, but the 15-minute meeting drew a small crowd.

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article, Lahey called Perlman’s proposal “the better of two evils.”

“Harvey framed these budget cuts in terms of, we’re either going to have across-the-board salary reduction as well as some student services rearrangement, or we’re going to have to cut academic programs,” Lahey said. “And because he framed it in those terms, we’re constrained to say, ‘We either approve this or we invite you to start cutting academic programs.’ I have no interest in that.”

Perlman’s set of reductions included: • Withholding 1 percent of the anticipated 3 percent salary increase pool in order to initially cover the majority of the budget shortfall.

This will be institution-wide and accounts to $3.2 million.

• Reducing discretionary resources for strategic initiatives from the Chancellor’s Office’s budget by $318,226.

• Eliminating $200,000 from the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs’ support for the summer session programs.

• Reducing support of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ Educational Media by $406,000 More budget reduction information can be found at www.unl.edu/ ucomm/chancllr/2015budget/. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Newly named complex to add 515 beds to campus, plans to open after year and half of construction

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Jonathon McCabe, a sophomore electrical engineering major, takes shots at his fellow engineering majors during Nebraska Public Power District’s laser tag tournament.

Committee votes against Perlman’s budget reductions

Eastside Suites ready for August early move-in

Gabrielle Lazaro DN The newest residence hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will open this August after more than a year and a half of construction.

Eastside Suites, located at 433 N. 19th St. east of University Suites, is a five-story building that will hold 128 units with 515 beds. It will join Knoll Residential Center and University Suites as the third suite-style residence hall.

University Housing is planning to build a new dining center located on the north side of the suites. The plan has to move through the University of Nebraska Board of Regents to move forward.

“We do have a new dining structure planned – or that we’re working on currently, which is probably going to be on the north side of the suites – so in that area, and it will be replacing CPN dining,” said Brian Shanks, associate housing director.

Eastside Suites was a generic name finalized by Chancellor Harvey Perlman.

When naming a new residence hall, there are two options: naming the hall after someone, which has to go through an approval process through the regents, or choosing a generic name that requires less approval — it just has to be approved by the chancellor and university president, Shanks said.

Housing administration brainstormed and came up with several possibilities for potential names.

The team finally narrowed it down and sent its choices to Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Juan Franco.

Together, he and Housing Director Sue Gildersleeve narrowed the list down even further and sent it to

Celebration will include film showing, science exhibitions

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ASUN: Sustainability event succeeded Diego de los Reyes DN Earthstock, the student-run, monthlong event celebrating Earth Day and sustainability, came to a close Tuesday.

Composed of 10 events, Earthstock was organized by members of the Environmental Sustainability Committee under the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, the Environmental Leadership Program and Sustain UNL. Reed Brodersen, Environmental Sustainability Committee chairman and a junior environmental studies major, said he feels the event was a success.

“I think it went amazingly well,” he said. “We had a great turnout at every event. We engaged lots of different types of students, and I don’t think it could’ve gone much better.”

Melissa Bakewell, creative director of Earthstock and a junior advertising and public relations major, said the goal was for students to learn that there are committed individuals at UNL who care about environmental issues.

“On a smaller scale, I think students who took our Carbon Footprint Challenge were able to come face-to-face with how much (carbon dioxide) they emit and could start making lifestyle changes instantly,” she said. “Our Pinterest Party taught students how to see the beauty in objects that many would say had already served

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Katelyn Jelden, a senior biology major, pets rescue dog Hooch at Earthstock. The No Kill Advocacy Club was at the event to raise awareness for shelters that are killing healthy dogs because there are not enough homes for every animal. their purpose.”

Bakewell also highlighted events such as the Business Expo, which brought to businesses to

campus that have sustainable practices while still being profitable, and the Policy for the Plains forum, which introduced students to some

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Perlman for approval.

“We pretty much brainstormed and came up with several different options,” he said. “It seemed like the consensus was Eastside Suites due to the geographical site being east of the other suites and on the east side of campus. Coming up with a generic name is almost harder than coming up with someone to name the hall after.”

Eastside Suites along with University Suites are the two replacement halls for Cather Hall and Pound Hall. Cather won’t be used past the summer and Pound won’t be used past the spring semester.

Eastside and University Suites were done as a sister agreement,” Shanks said. “We knew all along the buildings were going up simultaneously, and it really aided us in the costing aspect.”

There was only a nine-month to one-year difference in when the two buildings began construction, he said.

Eastside’s early arrival students, such as band members and athletes along with desk support staff and Residence Assistants, will start moving in just after Aug. 1.

Occupancy is expected to be 95 to 100 percent full this coming school year.

Shanks said the two other suitestyle halls had a great returned response, meaning people who had already lived in Knoll or University Suites came back.

“We anticipate it will be half returners and half new students coming in this fall,” he said.

Eastside will have a game room, multiple lounges, study spaces and TV lounges and a pavilion area at its northeast corner.

Refrigerators, microwaves and other appliances are already in place in the hall. Furniture will be moved in as early as June 14, and soft furniture for the lounges will be moved in during July. Landscaping will begin in June.

Locks have also been installed and the door access security system is currently being programmed.

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Morrill Hall to celebrate Astronomy Day

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what: Lavender Graduation and Chancellor’s Awards Reception and Celebration 2014 when: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union

what: Economics Tutor Lab when: 5 p.m. where: College of Business Administration, Room 222

urday at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the museum’s auditorium.

Throughout the day, the planetarium will also hold showings of its full dome show “Firefall” about comets and how they relate to Earth. The showings will include a special six-minute tribute show for Anderson focusing on his space flights, which was created specifically for the day. The full schedule is available at www.spacelaser.

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DN The Department of Physics and Astronomy has sponsored booths The University of Nebraska State through the years to promote a number of its educational and outMuseum at Morrill Hall will celebrate Astronomy Day this Satur- reach programs, said Daniel Claes, a professor in the department. day.

“Hands-on activities (demonThe festivities, which will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., will strate) physics principals as well as eye-catching and noisy demonstrahave guests learning about plantions,” he said. ets, telescopes, space travel and Displays and demonstrations nanotechnology. The event will throughout the museum will edualso feature guest cate visitors about speaker Clayton physics and astronAstronomy Anderson, a retired omy. These displays NASA astronaut Day include: and Nebraska na-The Prairie Aswas born as tive. tronomy Club ex“Astronomy a celebration plaining and demDay was born as a onstrating various celebration of ama- of amateur types of telescopes teur astronomy,” and their uses: said Jack Dunn, co- astronomy.”

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Nebraska astronaut Clayton Anderson to give presentation at annual event Saturday

what: Evenings of Dance when: 7:30 p.m. where: Johnny Carson Theater

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Celebrating the Good Life in Nebraska “then and now” when: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union Great Plains Room

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The University of Nebraska State Museum at Morrill Hall has been celebrating Astronomy Day for decades.

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Lecturer Adam Jensen instructs his astronomy class in Jorgensen Hall about the orbit of stars and planets outside of the galaxy. stations focusing on the solar system and the weight of the planets.

Astronomy Day has been observed since the ’70s. The holiday was created by the Astronomical League, an association of American amateur astronomy clubs.

However, UNL did not recognize the celebration until the ’80s when Dunn brought the festivities to campus.

“I brought (Astronomy Day) to the museum in the 1980s as a logical place to encourage people to learn about science,” Dunn said.

The Prairie Astronomy Club used to hold annual events for Astronomy Day in local malls. Although malls get lots of foot traffic, observers tend to be only casually interested and won’t focus on the material being presented, Dunn said. The event has blossomed since it moved to the museum, an academic setting where people are more ready to learn and more receptive of the educational material, Dunn said.

UNL students receive free admission into Morrill Hall, which normally charges adults $6 and children $3. However, students will need to pay regular admission to the $3 planetarium shows.

“The whole idea of the event is to share with the public the enjoyment one can get from learning about the universe and space exploration,” Dunn said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Clayton Anderson, a retired NASA astronaut and Nebraska native, will speak at Morrill Hall for Astronomy Day Saturday.

College of Engineering faces recruiting challenges Nam Tran DN Engineering students could benefit from more exposure to engineering-related classes in high school and middle school, according to some members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Engineering.

It’s difficult to recruit students into studying electrical engineering because many of those students aren’t exposed to the field until college, said Jerald Varner, an associate professor of electrical engineering.

“It’s a little bit difficult here because one of the easiest ways to recruit people into any particular discipline is if they’ve had some experience in their middle school or high school,” Varner said. “So if you have young people that have had some exposure to engineering in middle school or high schools then they’re more apt to choose engineering or electrical engineering as a profession.”

Because there’s no exposure, the college usually receives those who have had no experience and they don’t have any idea what the major is about, Varner said.

“They could have parents who are involved in some kind of engineering,” he said. “We get students that come in by of the route that they’ve been involved in robotics or programming or those kinds of things – but that’s one very narrow branch of electrical engineering.”

Lee Bowman, a senior computer engineering and electrical

ing have opportunities to attend engineering major, said he got national and international compeinto electrical engineering after titions. In 2011, a team of electritaking UNL’s computer engineercal engineering students at UNL ing classes.

“I didn’t have anything in high finished among the top three at the Vestas’ 2011 Winnovation Case school for that,” Bowman said. “I Competition in Denmark. The comliked a couple of the digital logic petition allows master engineering classes that I took, and I wanted to learn more about it so that was students from around the world to the reason I went into electrical compete for two days in challenging case work, skills development, engineering because based off presentations for a panel of Vestas’ that, otherwise I probably never executive judges and network with would’ve.” employees.

Bowman said that he was overInternships and clubs include whelmed at first but was able to the Institute of Electrical & Electronget caught up along the way after ics Engineers (IEEE), taking additional and the Eta Kappa classes.

They kind Nu (HKN).

“Just because With an electrithey cover everyof like cal engineering dething, I mean, it throw you in gree, students can seems like to me further pursue more for the first intro there, throw a lot advanced degrees in class they assumed medicine, biomediyou know what all of really broad cine and law. Career this stuff is, you’ve subjects at you.” areas for electrical seen all this stuff,” engineers include he said. “I got a C andy he aerospace, bioengiin the first electrical junior electrical engineering major neering, computers, class. It just took a renewable energy lot of time.” electric power, teleElectrical engineering deals with the education communications, transportation and semiconductors. and usage of electricity, electronics Andy He, a junior electrical engiand electromagnetism. neering major, said at first he had dif“So electrical engineering, ficulty adjusting to the curriculum. we’re educating the people to solve “They kind of like throw you in problems related to information and energy,” Varner said. “And just there, throw a lot of really broad subsimply utilizing and transferring jects at you and you just kind of have information and energy, providing to accept like, ‘OK, that’s how things energy, transferring energy in elec- work,’ without really a fundamental trical forms. That’s basically what understanding of how it works.”

While there aren’t always enelectrical engineers do.” gineering classes available to high Students in electrical engineer-

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The College of Engineering has the fourth-largest enrollment on campus: more than 2,000 students. schools, Alex Hinton, a junior electrical engineering major, said there are some other classes that could apply toward engineering.

“I would agree that there are definitely not engineering classes that you take, but there (is) a range of classes that you can take through high school that apply toward engineering,” Hinton said.

Even though having some type of exposure to engineering can lead to more students being interested in the subject, Varner said many of them will also do better and be more successful if they’re offered more engineering-type courses in middle or high school.

A national program called Project Lead The Way develops engineering-

type curriculums for high schools and middle schools.

“We have very limited representation of Project Lead The Way in the state,” Varner said. “Iowa has many schools, and it’s much easier to recruit in a place like that.”

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Smithsonian head lauds state’s fossils Paleontology gives a very valuable perspective.”

Jacob Elliot DN When it comes to fossils, Nebraska’s got something special.

The state’s fossil record was the focus of a Wednesday lecture

by Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. The talk was titled “From Fossils to Freeways and from Shovel-Tuskers to Cornhuskers.”

“Fossils are important in general because they tell us about the history of the planet,” Johnson said. “Nebraska’s contribution is particularly significant because the time period it presents, 35 million years to the present, is really recent climate history. On a planet where climate change is now affecting us, being able to look into the past and see ancient climate change manifest, particularly warmer climates, is information that we can use for the future.”

Johnson started his lecture with basic information regarding the importance of museums and the history of geology in Nebraska. Museums provide three services to the community, he said: public education of citizens, preservation of rare treasures of the past and preservation of knowledge.

Nebraska is home to many fossils, and Johnson said fossils of ancient mammals are well-preserved in Nebraska. Because of Nebraska’s geography, the state has preserved a wide variety of species dating back from the late

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Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, spoke about Nebraska’s fossil record Wednesday.

Cretaceous and late Cenozoic periods within its geologic column, or underground layers of increasingly aging rock. Nebraska also houses a large number of fossils such as mammoths and other mastodons. Johnson said many museums got their mastodon or mammoth fossils from Nebraska.

In fact, out of the 93 counties in Nebraska, fossils of these giant beasts have been found in 90 of them.

Because of its fossil history, Nebraska is home to many excavation sites, such as the Devil’s

Corkscrew, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument and Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area near Scottsbluff. One in particular, a dig site in Crawford, has so many preserved fossils that Johnson likened its preservation to the ash-covered remains of ancient Roman city Pompeii.

“Paleontology gives a very valuable perspective,” said Sara ElShafie, a graduate student in earth and atmospheric sciences, who was in the audience. “It reminds people that the Earth has been here for a long time and

many things came on Earth before people did.”

Johnson also noted the importance of art throughout the presentation. In researching his book, “Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-mile Paleo Road Trip” Johnson and artist Ray Troll traveled across the United States examining fossils. Troll said he did his best to draw the creatures as they once were. Other artists, such as Gary Staab, create sculptures to bring these creatures to the forefront of its audience’s imagination. Johnson even brought up a mantelpiece within Lincoln’s own capital that houses the image of an ancient creature called a titanothere, an extinct large-hoofed mammal.

“It’s just cool,” said Celeste Labedz, a sophomore physics and geology major. “Everyone looks at fossils and thinks, ‘Wow, that’s cool.’ But most people don’t know as much about them as they should. It’s really neat and it’s so close that everyone should know about it.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

3 programs receive State Farm donation staff report dn

presentation and curriculum materials for its Ethics for Business Leaders of Tomorrow program.

“The funding provided by A $36,000 donation from State State Farm continues to enhance Farm will benefit three University of Nebraska-Lincoln pro- CBA’s efforts in providing our students with the opportunity grams.

The gift is being divided to learn about ethical business among the Nebraska Transporta- practices and the importance of tion Center, the College of Busi- ethical decision making in all facness Administration and the ets of their lives,” said Kathleen Farrell, senior associate dean and Nebraska College Preparatory Academy, according to a Uni- State Farm professor of finance.

The last $10,000 will go to versity of Nebraska Foundation the Nebraska press release.

College PrepaA $13,046 donaState Farm ratory Acadtion to the Nebraska is commitemy, a program Transportation Centhat supports ter will fund a K-12 ted to supporting low-income and program focusing first-generation on driving safety advances in each college students. and will encourage of the focus areas The donation students to consider will benefit careers in science, where these UNL technology, engi- programs are mak- Summer Stars, a free summer neering and math. school in Grand “It’s an impor- ing a difference.”

Island for stutant area – reachdents involved ing out to our K-12 kelly pargett in the academy. state farm spokeswoman students – and State “Without the Farm’s donation will financial comallow us to reach out to more students than we would mitment of companies like State have otherwise been able to in- Farm, the Nebraska College Prefluence,” said Larry Rilett, direc- paratory Academy would not tor of the Nebraska Transporta- have the opportunity to offer tion Center, in the press release. extra academic programs, such as NCPA Summer Stars,” said “We’re very appreciative.”

A $12,755 donation to CBA Amber Williams, director of the will fund a professional ethics Office of Undergraduate Admis-

cops briefs Student cited for speeding, carrying concealed weapon charges

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student was cited for possession of a concealed weapon after allowing police to search his car Tuesday night.

UNL Police Department officers pulled over Ryan Putnam, a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major, for speeding near 35th Street and Center Drive. Officers smelled marijuana from the car, but Putnam said he didn’t have any and allowed police to search the car, according to police reports.

While police were searching, they found a four-inch butterfly knife in the center console of Putnam’s car.

The legal size limit for a concealed blade in Nebraska is three and a half inches. Putnam was cited for carrying a concealed weapon and for speeding 6 to 10 miles over the speed limit.

unlpd cites student for urinating near Delta Delta Delta house

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student learned the hard way that urinating in public isn’t legal.

A UNL community service officer saw a man urinating near the Delta Delta Delta chapter house, 1601 R St., Saturday night. Police said they later approached the man, Christopher Kuhn, a senior business management major.

Kuhn, who was drinking, said he hadn’t urinated on the grass near the chapter house, police said. However, the CSO verified Kuhn’s identity to police.

Kuhn was cited for urinating in public and was released.

Intoxicated cleaning woman passes out inside children’s center

Police went to a children’s center early Wednesday morning after learning that a University of NebraskaLincoln contract worker wasn’t feeling well.

When police arrived at the Children’s Center of the Whittier Building, 2200 Vine St., they discovered the woman’s condition was because she was intoxicated and she had passed out on the floor. The woman is a member of the cleaning staff who cleans the building after hours. When the woman woke up, police found that she was under the influence of alcohol and sent her home in care of her spouse. Police were not able to obtain an exact BAC.

UNLPD finds fire extinguisher tampered with in Sandoz

A UNL community service officer called police after discovering a discharged fire extinguisher on the second floor of Sandoz Hall.

Police noticed that the fire extinguisher was activated while it was still attached to the wall on the east side of the floor.

Police don’t have any suspects yet and are treating this as an ongoing investigation. They estimated damage costs to be about $50 for clean-up and replacement of the extinguisher.

—Compiled by Colleen Fell news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Student members of the Nebraska College Preparatory Academy perform volunteer work. sions and the Nebraska College Preparatory Academy. “The company’s support is critical as UNL and the state work to close the education inequality gap for Nebraska students.”

State Farm spokeswoman Kelly Pargett said the company appreciates the work being done at each of the three programs “State Farm is committed to supporting advances in each of

the focus areas where these UNL programs are making a difference,” she said.

The gift also supports the University of Nebraska’s Campaign for Nebraska: Unlimited Possibilities, a fundraising initiative that has raised more than $1.5 billion for the university. It ends Dec. 30. news@ dailynebraskan.com

earthstock: from 1 Nick Gerken, ESC member and a sophomore biological systems engineering major, said he thought Earthstock reached students.

“I definitely think there’s a solid body of students who, if you asked them, they’d say, ‘Oh sure, I remember Earthstock.’” Gerken said. “‘That was fun. Is that happening again?’ And that’s super important.”

The groups involved are committed to hosting the event again next year.

“I think Earthstock was much more than a flash in the pan,” Gerken said. “I think we’ll see it around next year, and I think it’ll be even more successful.”

Brodersen said he believes part of the success came from spreading the events throughout April.

The attendance varied between the different events. The most attended event of Earthstock was the music festival held at Vega, which attracted more than 400 people, while the Julene Bair live reading had a low turnout.

“I believe it’s sometimes harder to get students to attend events that focus more on education, but this is a challenge for any group on a college campus,” Bakewell said. “We put a lot of energy in planning events that encompassed a wide approach to sustainability.”

Bakewell said there’s still room for improvement and that the biggest challenge will always be promotion.

“Cracking the code of what makes students want to go to events is something ESC will always be working on,” she said.

Alyssa Cody, Environmental Leadership Program director and a sophomore advertising and public relations and journalism major, said she hopes Earthstock inspired others to take steps to improve their impact on the environment.

“Collectively, I think that Earthstock is the most productive thing ASUN has done in a very long time,” she said “I hope that students can recognize that we’re trying to do something that really matters on campus, and continue to support and join us in the future.”

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ASUN celebrates Earthstock, passes no new legislation REECE RISTAU DN The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska held its second-to-last senate meeting Wednesday. No legislation was passed.

Reed Brodersen, Environmental Sustainability Committee member and a junior environmental studies major, said Earthstock ended yesterday with a block party. He said about 80 to 90 students came to Policy for the Plains, a public forum that allowed students and public officials to discuss how sustainability can affect state and local policy.

“The speakers were good,” Brodersen said. “We’re looking to do it next year.”

Christina Guthmann, ASUN external vice president and a junior international business major, said she will meet with Parking and Transit Services next week to discuss next academic year.

Guthmann said the meeting is a regular monthly meeting, but the

university is constantly working to accommodate more students.

Jeff Story, ASUN chief of staff and a junior English and political science major, said senators are now officially in committees and the committee chairs will be decided by next week. He said ASUN is working to make a smooth transition from last senate.

“A big task that we have to do between now and the end of the school year – and then immediately when we come back – is making sure that the committees transition with the old chairs,” Story said. “Hopefully, the old chairs will be engaged with the new chairs to describe the projects that they worked on that they didn’t complete and give them new ideas.”

There were no committee reports, and many executives did not have reports either.

April 30 will be the final meeting.

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Skylar Falter, a senior biological systems engineering major, helps educational psychology graduate student Amy Vanderpool put soil in a biodegradable pot during an Earthstock event. sonal effect the event had on him.

“Earthstock has far and away been the most rewarding experience I’ve had in college,” he said.

“I’m so proud of myself and my teammates, or best friends as I would call them, for the impact we’ve made and the incredible work we’ve done.”

Bakewell also feels the event had a positive impact on campus, on both the students that organized it and the community that attended the events.

“Individuals can become burnt out after committing themselves to a specific cause for so long,” she said. “However, with being a part of Earthstock I feel the complete opposite. I met individuals who care, I met students who were willing to learn and challenge themselves, and I got to work with a campus where my ideas became reality.”

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eastside: from 1 We knew all along the buildings were going up simultaneously and it really aided us in the costing aspect.”

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Students calculate their carbon footprints at an event at Earthstock. The monthlong series of events was sponsored by UNL Unplugged and Sustain UNL.

the process of being poured and should be finished within the next two weeks as long as the weather is good, said Associate Director of Housing Facilities Operations Larry Shippen.

Workers are in the building installing white boards and mirrors on entry doors as well.

The substantial completion date for the building is July 1. This basically means the majority of the construction has been completed, Shippen said.

Before then, the goal is resolve the majority of the punch list issues found after university housing members and university facility inspectors walk through the building.

Punch list issues are anything that needs to be resolved, from chipped paint to plumbing fixtures that aren’t working properly, Shippen said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Throwback Thursday

original columns and original headlines from the dn archives

Only misery loves the Macarena Bad fad needs to go the way of leisure suits ››Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a 1997 column. ›› Now let me now be frank.

STOP DOING THE MACARENA! STOP SINGING THE MACARENA! FROM THIS MOMENT ON THE MACARENA WILL ONLY BE MISTAKENLY THOUGHT OF AS A VARIETY OF NUT THAT GROWS IN THE BRAZILIAN RAINFOREST!!!

Well, now you’ll undoubtedly be searching for ways to rid your mind (and our planet) of the Macarena.

My original idea was an arcade shooting game called “Kill the Macarena,” but since the game would consist of shooting unarmed, dancing civilians Congress shot it down.

So I’ve now come up with “Kasey’s Top 10 Ways to Rid Mankind of the Macarena.”

Here they are: 1. Call radio stations, request the Macarena, and laugh at the d.j. like you’re out of your mind.

2. Take your Macarena tape to Homer’s and demand your money back.

3. If at a dance club when the Macarena plays – breakdance instead.

4. When MTV plays the Macarena video, call them and threaten to watch VH1.

5. Steal the Macarena tape from d.j. “Mac Spin!” at the

Kasey kerber dance club and replace it with a Yanni tape to rip up.

6. Go to all Los Del Rio concerts with a semi-automatic weapon and a doctor’s note saying you’re insane.

7. Imagine that all girls in the Macarena video are really guys in drag.

8. Buy my official antiMacarena T-shirt saying “The Democrats did the Macarena at their convention and they lost Congress!”

9. Teach someone to do the Macarena wrong, then send them to the dance club where d.j. “Mac Spin!” is still ripping up Yanni.

10. Remember that each member of Los Del Rio is your dad’s age.

Anyway, with these tips and a good lawyer, you’ll certainly do your part to eliminate the Macarena.

And if nothing else works remember that the Macarena is a fad and nothing more.

Kasey Kerber is a sophomore news-editorial major and a Daily Nebraskan columnist.

Originally published Jan. 14, 1997.

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My new semester’s resolutions

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omething about school is addictive.

Maybe it’s a feeling of satisfaction from accomplishing a goal. Maybe it’s the intellectual high of enlightenment.

I suspect it’s stomach acid leaching into the brain cavity. Whatever it is, each semester I find myself repeating the same behavior that made me sociopathic during the previous one.

I started this semester the same way I’ve started school since I was 5 years old. I got excited. I looked forward to reading my new, big books. I was ready to use my expanded collection of colored pens. I was flossed, fluffed and tucked, and I exhibited excellent posture. I was polite, quiet and attentive. I was an ideal student. Then I left the house.

Getting to campus was the first obstacle.

Lots of new semester enthusiasm has been left in the parking lots. The Reunion lot looked liked a death scene from “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.” Cars slowly circled like vultures waiting for someone to leave, then pounced on the abandoned space. Because I drive a big, rusty, Ford truck that screams “dent me, I like it,” the parking lot never robs me of my optimism.

I threw my Scotch-guarded backpack over my shoulder and headed for class. I carried my schedule with me so I wouldn’t forget where I was going, wander back to the Ford, and drive to a subtropical zone where people my own age were discussing their gallstones.

Unable to lose my schedule, I went to my first class and had to do as many sit-ups as I could within a minute. Sit-ups after the holidays aren’t pretty. In my next class, the instructor didn’t speak any English, which I thought was fair because I didn’t speak any Spanish. Another class

Deb Mcadams required a list of materials that guaranteed the comfort of the Eastman-Kodaks into the 23rd century.

Still, it was a new semester, and I was enthusiastic. Then again, maybe the Christmas candy hadn’t left my bloodstream.

For some unknown reason, I had decided to carry 14 credit hours and work four jobs. I suspect it’s because of the same impulse that kicks in when my brand of toilet paper goes on sale. I’m compelled to buy enough toilet paper for a chili feed because “it’s such a good deal.” I kept taking on more obligations because they sounded like a good deal.

Four weeks into the semester and obligated up to my nostrils, my posture became impaired from carrying various poundages of books that seemed to induce a coma each time I opened one. I lost track of deadlines because I couldn’t find the color of pen I used to write down assignments. I felt a vague urge to run a cash register at a Texaco in a subtropical zone.

Eight weeks into the semester, I looked like Neanderthal gal. Combing my hair seemed like a waste of time. The gravel that migrated from the sidewalk into my shoes every day was giving

me violent thoughts. I had all the enthusiasm of a dead carp except for when I periodically ranted about giving it all up for a drunk man and several psychotic kids.

Finally, spring break arrived and I spontaneously turned into an invertebrate. My boyfriend and I wandered to a subtropical zone, where I used all of my mental capacity to decide what to eat next. Most of my physical endurance went into holding up a wineglass long enough for my beloved to see that it was empty. One night, I actually sat through most of “Body of Evidence,” a sure sign of brain death.

The only thing I did with surprising swiftness was adjust to a state of complete inactivity. Even rolling over on the beach required too much exertion, so we simply laid there and got fried on one side. It made for a delightful evening of sticking to the sheets.

Suddenly it was over, as if it never really happened, except for the peeling skin. Back to the early mornings, the late nights and the deadlines that make me so enchanting to be around.

I may have fallen behind this semester, but it won’t happen again. Next semester will be different. I’ll buy my textbooks this summer and read them in my spare time. I’ll jog to school every day and avoid the dangers of parking. I’ll arrange a realistic work schedule, and I may even try to do my homework before I fall asleep for a change. I’ll resuscitate my GPA next semester, unless I happen to lose my schedule, become confused and wander off to some distant subtropical zone. One can only hope.

Deb McAdams is a junior newseditorial major and a Daily Nebraskan columnist. Originally published March 30, 1994.

Nebraska isn’t perfect

Greater expectations

But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad place to live

Pursuing potential is frightening, but achieving adequacy is terrifying

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ast weekend, I took what will probably be one of my last trips across Nebraska.

I’m graduating Saturday and moving to Brooklyn, N.Y., next week.

My softball team was en route to play in the Class F state tournament in Ogallala. On this four-hour drive, I couldn’t help but wonder what makes Nebraskans themselves.

While thinking about it, I wasn’t interested in the “humble people and apple pie” angle. Or the “Split identity made to be a chasm by the pull of the two media-aplenty U.S. coasts.”

Those two popular takes put together makes us sound like kindergarten shrinks.

No, I was going to figure something else out for myself on this drive.

Interstate 80 was its typical conveyor-belt of multiplewheeled rigs, minivans of families and Speedy Gonzales college kids in dated, two-door cars.

The modest landscape, of course, was all crew-cut cornfields and pastures that look like chests and bellies covered with mildew-colored hair.

I rode with three other ballplayers in a minivan of our own; a white, industrial-looking one. All but the driver broke the Good Life state’s open container laws.

The ride was pleasurable in a spoiled-sons-and-grandsons-of-dirt-farmers kind of way.

Computer programs, major league baseball and driveby prairie scenes were the core conversation pieces in between slurps of Budweiser.

We chugged westward past all those exits that lead to shrinking boomtowns. Everything went predictably.

On more than a single occasion, one of us playfully read the town’s name while practically singing with that “How ya doing. Haven’t seen ya for awhile” feel.

Our pitcher, John, was the first man up to bat.

“Ba-e-e-eaver-r Cuh-rossing. “ That was it. No one really responded with a comment.

We were just a bunch of Cornhuskers on the I-80 a go-go.

John said the name the way my Dad announces to himself that a person of old-time fame was on TV. “Ha-en-ry Kiss-ssinger.”

“Wi-ll-ll-eee Mick-cuuvee.”

With those thoughts put together, I felt that maybe that I was onto something.

Nebraskans, more so than most cultural breeds, love to play on the grounds of familiarity. Just listen to the way the next person says “Bob Devaney” next time God’s image is on TV. I don’t need to spell the pronunciation out for you.

christopher heine Here, the good life is about old friends with old names.

New ones, we can live without.

Nebraskans aren’t at all rude to newcomers and outsiders. But as S.L. Price wrote in his ode to Tom Osborne in Sports Illustrated’s retirement issue for the old redhead, we are strangely warm-but-detached hosts.

We’re almost comfortable with being uncomfortable with the outside world. Psychological implications intended, Cornhuskers would probably identify with and vote for Nixon again.

I’m not too proud to embrace the Good Life with its warts uncovered. After all, aren’t we Cornhuskers supposed to be a humble lot? Nobody’s perfect.

I love our innocent sense of paranoia and distrust as cultural elements as much as the humility and apple pie stuff.

Bruce Springsteen saw it in us when he recorded “Nebraska,” which is highlighted by the title song about Charles Starkweather.

The Boss, who was once married to a Nebraska woman, chose not to call his haunting album “Starkweather” for a reason. He thought there was a bigger picture involved with the killer’s instincts.

Check out “The Rain People,” a film by Martin Scorcese that has scenes shot here. Those particular clips are cold-hearted and frighteningly Nebraskan.

What makes all of this water under the bridge is the fact that this is a healthy state with nice people.

But, there’s more to being a Cornhusker than 24-hour niceties. And it’s easy for me when I’m here because I’m more-than-likely in the club forever.

I can barely wait until I hear the next time somebody says “Ckk-r-iii-s Hiiii-nee.”

Whether I’m on the New York subway or a bar in my hometown of Hartington, I’ll know I’ll be hearing the tweaked originality of a Nebraska voice.

Christopher Heine is a senior newseditorial major. Originally published Aug. 12, 1999.

s graduation approaches and my career as a professional student draws to a close, I find that I have more questions now than when my higher education began.

Perhaps this is only natural, as that motherly conscience in my head assuages. But I can’t ignore the suspicion that would seem to refute the very formula I’d hoped would hold all the answers when I was a freshman.

After five tedious years and several thousand dollars in student loans, college seems to have been little more than a glorified process of elimination.

Although college may have fallen somewhat short of the “greatest years of my life” – at least, I hope it has – I can’t chalk the experience up as a waste of time, either.

The friends I’ve made and the wisdom I’ve gained outside the classroom have made these years unforgettable.

But my passions remain as elusive as ever, challenges have been few and far between, and inspiration has proved a rarity over the past few years.

I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in coming to this conclusion. Perhaps this is a dilemma peculiar to liberal arts majors – as my grandfather would likely assert – but, knowing a few engineering and math majors, I have a feeling it’s common to more analytical minds, as well.

Who’s to blame for my quan-quandary? Complaining about academic rigor and faculty quality make for convenient catharsis, but I can’t blame my beloved third-tier alma mater.

Indeed, if college has been good for anything, its adequacy has alerted me to my own adequacies.

Many people are convinced that if they are good at something, it must follow that they enjoy it and make a living at it. I have a feeling that path leads to a cubicle full of disappointment for me.

College has made me well aware of several vocations that I could serve acceptably – perhaps even exceptionally.

But I have yet to discover that elusive calling that will serve me.

As I walk across the Bob Devaney Sports Center stage at next month’s commencement and am bequeathed the piece of paper that guarantees my equal footing in the job market, I’ll have to finally address that nagging question that’s been put to me ad nauseam by friends and relatives: What now?

I’m starting to suspect that my process of elimination has only begun. It will not find a satisfactory

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conclusion when I shake my dean’s hand and stumble into full-time employment. Rather, the process will be a lifelong pursuit (or liveslong, if you’re into that sort of thing).

As I’m coming dangerously close to writing about the meaning of life here – far be it from opinion columnists to write about something of which they know nothing about – I’ll back off a bit.

Accepting adequacy at the cost of potential is a sacrifice that countless people have accepted as simply being realistic. Indeed, “paying the rent” may be the single most commonly accepted meaning of life the world over.

On the other hand, ignoring adequacy for the pursuit of potential is a much more frightening prospect because true potential is never attainable. Like that proverbial carrot on a string, it will always be just out of reach.

This sort of idealism does not seem to allow for much satisfaction – and herein lies the reason why the pursuit of potential is the frightening road less traveled.

At this point, however, I find the prospect of taking stock of my life 20 years from now – when I’m balancing a hectic schedule, an unfulfilling job and an often neglected family – downright terrifying. There may be a bit more traffic on this road, but I suspect the destination.

So instead I’ll spend those 20 years, and likely the next 20, devoting my passion to those pursuits that have eluded my adequacy, and my process of elimination will inevitably continue.

And the next time someone confronts me with that question that strikes fear in the hearts of so many college graduates – “What are you going to do after gradation?” – I’ll know what to say: Everything.

Matt Peterson is a senior English and news-editorial major and a Daily Nebraskan columnist. Originally published April 19, 1999.

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Alisa Belflower, coordinator of musical theatre studies in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, said she works to set her students’ voices free. Belflower has worked at the university for 14 years. “My students don’t sound alike; they sound like themselves,” she said. She said she works hard because it is her passion, and she wants to see her students succeed to the best of their abilities.

ToriJo Spence, owner and master baker at Bubbas Baklava, sheds tears of joy as she cuts the ribbon at her business opening. Spence makes organic gourmet baklava for delivery and wholesale.

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Local baker battles social anxiety, improves life with bubbas baklava

Alisa Belflower develops student voices, contributes to Broadway-bound musicals at UNL Mexican Spice baklava from Bubbas Baklava is a nontraditional, healthier dessert. Bubba’s Baklava is organic, gourmet and vegan friendly.

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uey Lewis and the News plays softly from a radio in the background of the otherwise quiet kitchen as ToriJo Spence carefully drizzles honey over a pan of lemon and ginger baklava, fresh from the oven.

“My grandma always called baklava a ‘slow food,’” Spence says as she sets the pan aside and pulls out another, this one espresso flavored. “It takes at least 24 hours for all of the flavors to marry. It’s like a fine wine that betters with age.”

Spence, 37, is the owner of Bubbas Baklava, which sells specialty, low-calorie baklava delivery and wholesale. Spence started making the dish when she was just 7 years old with her grandmother.

Spence moved into her new kitchen space just days before the business’s ribbon cutting Tuesday. In this small room with its

single oven and ’80s rock soundtrack, Spence appears entirely at ease. The road to this place, however, has been full of challenges and setbacks.

In 2003, Spence was diagnosed with a social anxiety disorder that caused her to leave the hustle and bustle of California in favor of Christmas Valley, Ore., a town of just 4,000 people. Then she moved to Lincoln to be with her boyfriend, now the father of her two children. Spence’s disorder made it difficult to go new places. Eventually, even the thought of leaving her house would cause her anxiety to the point of nausea.

During that time, the skill that is now her livelihood was an important source of relief.

“Baking is my therapy,” Spence said. “It helps me calm down, and it makes me just focus into that pan. To think that I can do my therapy and make money at the same time

Dabs’ strength harms weed’s reputation ZACH FULCINITI

Colorado’s Cannabis Cup focuses on using dabs in place of smoking marijuana plant Just as I suspected, getting high at the Cannabis Cup is about as easy as breathing.

What I didn’t see coming, though, was the serious lack of actual cannabis.

Let me explain: Vendors at the Cup are trying to sell their products, and for businesses selling paraphernalia or the drug itself, that sometimes means giving out free samples, especially if the vendor has a table in the outdoor area. This might come in the form of a bong rip or bowl pack.

There’s also an understandable expectation that someone attending the Cup – a marijuana convention – will be able to smoke some marijuana. Based on what I’d seen from previous Cups on the Internet, I was expecting to see at least a few vendors giving away small quantities of loose herb.

But after spending about 10 hours at the Cup during the course of two days, I counted only a handful of vendors smoking people out with actual marijuana.

I took free bong rips at three vendor tables, and one other vendor was packing bowls for people.

LEGITIMIZE IT

Those were the only vendors I saw giving the gift of ganja. Gone are the days, I suppose, of the lady walking around with a big plastic tub that says “have a free nug” on it. I was really looking forward to my free nug.

But as I said, that doesn’t mean people weren’t getting high.

Everyone and their mother was getting high, just not with actual weed. No, the big thing at this year’s Cup was dabs.

Dab is a fun word for a tiny ball of butane hash oil, which is an extract of the cannabis plant. Pouring butane through finely ground pot, sort of like making coffee, results in a liquid potent with THC. But it still has butane in it, so the oil is kept on low heat and then vacuumed to get all of the butane and residual salt out. What’s left is a sticky, viscous substance known as BHO. The process will vary from cook to cook, but that’s the gist of it.

BHO is highly sought after because of its purported purity and potency. Some say a great hash oil will contain 99 percent THC, although a more conservative estimate, 60 percent or so, is probably more accurate. Even the most potent marijuana rarely exceeds 20 percent THC content. Keep in mind that everything in BHO that isn’t THC is either butane or other residual solvents. It is possible to make hash oil using other extrac-

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Vocal teacher considers job her ‘calling’

is wonderful.”

Spence, determined to get off her social security disability insurance, came up with the idea of opening a bakery, and with the help of Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation and Nebraska Self Employment Services (NSES), Bubbas Baklava came to life.

After carefully assessing the viability of the proposed business, Carol Blood of NSES determined that there was a market for small desserts, particularly Spence’s organic, locally sourced, allergy-accommodating variety.

After the development of a meticulous business plan, Bubbas Baklava was green lighted, and NSES was even able to obtain up to $6,000 in self-employment funds from Vocational Rehabilitation to get the business off the ground. It wasn’t a quick process, but the planning paid off. Blood said new busi-

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staff report dn Alisa Belflower was once called a workaholic, a term she said doesn’t suit her.

“A workaholic works to be working,” Belflower said. “I work because of a difference that I’m making. If I was going to just work to keep myself busy, then I would do something easier than what I was doing.”

Belflower, who has taught at University of Nebraska-Lincoln for 14 years, said working with music students is what she was meant to do.

“When I’m teaching, I feel the most alive and inspired,” Belflower said. “I have seen how my teaching can change the trajectory of a student’s life. I feel like I have a responsibility to do that.”

Belflower’s involvement at UNL is vast. As a coordinator of musical theatre studies in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, a voice fac-

ulty member in the Glenn Korff School of Music, an acting faculty member in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and an associate producer in musical theater development with the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Belflower said her work days on campus often stretches into the early hours of the next morning.

Belflower was born and raised in a small town outside of Charleston, S.C. Despite her love of music, she attended an accelerated school that had no music program.

Belflower said she found her musical outlet through performing at church and taking piano and voice lessons on the side.

After graduating, Belflower attended Furman University where she received a Bachelor of Music degree.

Belflower became an opera apprentice in Paris, but left when she found out her father was sick.

“My career would be different if I had stayed in Europe, but I think I would have always felt guilty, because I was my father’s favorite,” Belflower said. “And he knew that, and I knew that.”

Though Belflower and her 24-year-old son live in Lincoln, Belflower said the majority of her family remains on the East Coast.

“My students have become

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Event showcases UNL dancers grace solem-pfeifer dn From dancing at the Harlan County Pelican Festival, performing with the Nebraska Chamber players and even appearing as part of the Sheldon’s 3-D surrealism exhibition, student performers in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln dance program have established themselves as a vibrant addition to Nebraska’s cultural and arts scene. After an eventful year of collaborations, students of the UNL dance program will take the stage Thursday to begin its concert series “Evenings of Dance,” which showcases the talent of dance faculty, guests and students.

“Evenings of Dance” debuts Thursday at 7:30 p.m., and will also be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with a matinee performance Sunday at 2 p.m., in the Lied Center’s Johnny Carson Studio Theater on 11th and Q streets.

The event consists of 10 dances performed by UNL dance majors and minors, with one featured guest performer.

“It is really a great sampling of most of our dance majors,” said Susan Levine Ourada, associate professor of dance at the Glenn Korff School of Music. “Many of the students have been cast in these dances since the very beginning of the school year.”

The artistic work of students isn’t just evident in their performances, however. Four of the featured dances were choreographed by students, two of which were accepted into the American College Festival of Dance earlier this year. All dance majors are required to take two choreography classes.

In addition to performing in five of the dances at the concert, senior dance major Marisol Herling choreographed the solo dance to be performed by fellow senior dance major Vivian Kim. Herling said she was challenged to look at dance from a new perspective by taking on the role of choreographer. “(Choreographing) is a different way of thinking about dance, because when we are given a piece of choreography, we as dancers try to get it in our bodies and try to do what they want,” Herling said.

If you go: “Evenings of Dance”

when: April 24-26 at 7:30 p.m., April 27 at 2 p.m. where: Johnny Carson Studio Theater in the Lied Center how much: $7, $5 for students and seniors

michael johnson | dn “But when you have to figure out what that vision is as a choreographer, it helps you grow as a performer to see something (a dance) that you thought of grow like that.

It’s a whole different way of looking at something we do everyday.”

With the exception of one ballet piece, the performances in Evenings of Dance are all modern dances.

Ourada said this reflects the modern emphasis of the UNL dance program but still leaves room for

variety within the performances.

Several numbers, including a textbased piece Ourada herself choreographed, blur the line the between dance and performance art.

“The show is really diverse in subject matter, and within modern dance, there is a wide span of affinities,” Ourada said. “I believe that modern dance has a very strong place in higher education, because there is a lot critical thinking involved a lot of knowing your

own mind and not just following directions.”

One of the most highly anticipated performances of the event is a piece from guest choreographer Kayvon Pourazar titled “Concenter.” Pourazar, a 2010 recipient of the New York Dance and Performance Award for choreography, visited UNL in November. Dancers in the piece, such as senior dance major Sid Saythongphet, had only two weeks to learn the choreography for the dance.

“The dance is a different kind of style than we’re used to,” Saythongphet said. “We are such a small program that we can get in a comfort zone of who we are working with. So when we have the guest artists like Kayvon come in, it brings diversity, because we are able to get a little taste of how they choreograph.”

For graduating members of the dance program, the event is the final performance of their college dance careers. This year will mark Herling’s fourth and last performance in the “Evenings of Dance,” bringing a sense of finality to her time as a dancer at UNL. “The show is definitely a bittersweet thing,” Herling said. “I have loved performing here with these people for four years. It’s a nice thought that this is a really great show and really great people to finish out this chapter.”

Tickets for Evenings of Dance are $7 for the general public and $5 for students and seniors, available for sale at the door. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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baklava: from 5 nesses started with the help of Vocational Services and NSES have a 71 to 73 percent success rate, compared with the national average of 30 percent. With careful planning and strategy, these small businesses offer an opportunity for independence and stability to people with disabilities.

“ToriJo is a great example of what happens when you give someone a hand up rather than and handout,” Blood said. “She wants to get off social security and create a new legacy for her children. In doing so, not only will she start contributing as a taxpayer, she will likely create job opportunities in the community as the business grows.”

Spence said the support and assistance of people such as Blood was essential in getting Bubbas Baklava off the ground. It took years for Spence to even ask for the help she needed, but after the birth of her son, she knew it was time to face her anxiety and move forward with her dreams. Appropriately, her son’s nickname, Bubba, provided the inspiration business’s name.

“I didn’t want my son to be a welfare child,” Spence said. “I wanted him to do whatever he wanted in life, and to know that no matter what disabilities or functions your brain or body has, you can do whatever you really love.”

For Spence, baking truly is a labor of love, and many local Lincoln business have already taken interest in her product. Open Harvest and Mo Java have already ordered pans of baklava to be sold individually at their stores. The minimum order size from Bubbas is only 10 pieces, roughly half a pan, sold at $1.40 a piece.

Bubbas Baklava is unique in its variety of flavors and its low-calorie product. Spence substitutes honey for the large amounts of sugar used in traditional baklava recipes, cutting the calories in half. Currently flavors range from puppy chow to strawberry lemonade, but Spence is always open to experimenting with new recipes.

“I love to say ‘Challenge me,’”

Because you spend so much time in the building, people get to know each other a lot more.”

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my family, though not in an overbearing way,” Belflower said.

Belflower was recruited to UNL after the theater department chair heard Belflower’s students performing musical theater at a festival at Miami University in Ohio. The first thing Belflower said she did when she received a job offer from UNL was look up where Nebraska was on a map.

“I’ve never traveled West Coast,” she said. “I’ve always gone East Coast to Europe.”

Belflower, who works with students individually in her studio as well as on stage, said her students have gone on to perform on Broadway, in national tours and teach music in schools across the country.

She said it’s “very lovely that they, or nearly all of them, stay in touch with me.”

Working with students intensely and all day creates bonds, Belflower said.

“Because you spend so much time in the building, people get to know each other a lot more,” Belflower said. “You spend a lot of time and rehearsals together. Just that amount of togetherness does make you into a family.”

Belflower also directs and helps choose numerous musical productions on campus. She said working with students to piece together their class work from various classes is a joyful process.

Though Belflower said she enjoys music of different varieties, including jazz, piano and classical, she said there’s something unique and powerful about musical theater.

“Musical theater is idiomatically American,” Belflower said. “It has a lack of formality and immediacy that puts a student in a place where their ability to communicate is very expedient. It’s sincere and powerful and meaningful. The one thing you want to do on stage is have your audience respond and then think about why they responded.”

In addition to directing and enjoying musical theater, Belflower also helps with developing new musical theater works.

“I have some ability to give them feedback about what works and what’s not working for them,” Belflower said. “I was one of the first college professors to do that – it’s becoming more common – but I’ve been doing that 13 years.”

Belflower said all the shows that have been developed through UNL have gone to professional productions in New York and other regional places, such as Chicago.

Belflower, who travels to New York multiple times a year and is a part of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, said it’s a thrill to read in a playbill that a show was developed at UNL. Though Belflower said she knows she could impact others as a performer elsewhere, she feels her work on campus is more important.

“I know as a performer I can do that, but it feels like a higher more important calling to me,” Belflower said. “I feel very, very inspired, like it’s a gift from God. I know that this is I was born to do.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

fulciniti: from 5 tion processes, but the butane one is the most common.

Hash oil is nothing new. I’ve known about it as long as I’ve been a smoker, and it was around long before me. It’s not as common as the plant, though, and requires a different type of paraphernalia to smoke.

The most common method involves a bong with a metal attachment and a torch lighter. You torch the metal piece for about 20 seconds and then rub the little ball of oil, or dab, on it using a metal or glass poker tool.

The bong will almost immediately fill up with thick smoke.

BHO has apparently skyrocketed in popularity in the last few years and instead of free bong rips, free bowl packs or free nugs, most vendors were offering free dabs.

I spoke with several vendors offering free dabs, and they all said they gave away several thousand during the course of two days.

Marcus Moates, the oil connoisseur of N.P. Design, offered several varieties of consistency and multiple strains, such as Skywalker OG and Jack Herer. Mahatma Extreme Concentrates set up a “dab bar,” with five or six rigs and a variety of oils to sample. Paraphernalia vendors such as Purr and 710 KAN, as well as merchandiser StankyyDankyy, were giving away free dabs. I would say a quarter to half of all outdoor vendors were offering dabs.

Here’s the thing, though: If a bong rip is like a beer, a dab is kinda like a couple of shots. Dabs aren’t going to kill you. THC is non-toxic in any form. But that doesn’t mean dabs are good for you either. Hash oil is highly potent, and even vet-

eran marijuana smokers aren’t going to be prepared for that level of THC if they don’t pace themselves.

It’s common for someone to pass out or fall asleep after taking a dab.

One high-end glass vendor I spoke to specifically cautioned me against accepting free dabs. He said at Hempcon 2014, another marijuana convention he attended, people were “dropping like flies” after taking dabs.

“They’re not good for you,” he said.

Moates said he’s seen people pass out after taking a dab, but he suspects any negative health effects stem from residual butane and not the THC itself. The most he saw during Cup weekend was one guy needing a “five-minute breather” after smoking his oil, but he said the guy came back the next day and brought all of his friends.

A bystander at another vendor booth told me about a disturbing incident he witnessed: A man took a free dab and immediately starting throwing up in his hands, then fell forward, smacking his head off of the table and causing a piercing on his forehead to bleed profusely. The man was heavily wasted already, he said, probably from a combination of dabs and alcohol.

I spoke to a paramedic working on the second day of the Cup, and he said he hadn’t seen anyone who required medical attention.

Keith Stroup, who founded marijuana activist organization NORML in 1970, said dabs are bad for marijuana’s image because they commonly cause people to pass out, and because there have been several

incidents of people trying to make BHO in their homes, causing an explosion. That image, Stroup said, makes people think of marijuana like they think of harder drugs. He doesn’t expect them to go away, but he imagines them being seen as the “hard liquor” of marijuana.

I understand the allure of dabs.

Everyone likes kush more than mids or shwag, so it only follows that an even more potent form would be even more popular. You get more bang for your buck, as they say, and you can get high faster. But it’s not weed, and it’s not just a step up in potency, it’s a flight of stairs and an elevator ride up. Smoking a joint or bowl is never going to cause someone to pass out, but it will still get you high. So why take the risk? For me, nothing beats the satisfaction of the flower itself: sticky, stinky and delicious. As a wise man recently told me, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Bottom line: Dab if you insist, but be careful. Hash oil is a luxury.

Weed will do the trick, and there’s no risk of getting sick. Dabbing is also bad for marijuana’s image, especially at a crucial time such as this. This country is at a crossroads, and people are starting to see the War on Drugs for the failure that it is. It has never been more important to use responsibly, because the eyes of the country and the world are upon us. They want to know if we can make legalization work, and we have to show them it will. zach fulciniti is a freshman journalism major. reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

APP OF THE WEEK Drake Shake

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Bubbas Baklava hosts its ribbon cutting Tuesday afternoon. Owner ToriJo Spence, family and friends celebrated the new business.

Spence said. “If there is a favorite childhood flavor that you want to see turned in to baklava, let’s see if I can do it.”

As orders keep coming in, Spencer still has a support system. She said Blood is always just a text message away when she needs a hand.

In the more than two years they’ve known each other, Blood said she has watched Spencer make remarkable strides.

“I saw someone who was scared to even talk to small group of people who is now able to meet with people, to speak on camera and to tell people about her business and her passion,” Blood said.

For Spence, the life she has made with her family, and now

Bubbas Baklava, is one she previously couldn’t have imagined.

“Ten years ago, I was waitress,” she said. “I had been a waitress for 10 years already, and I truthfully thought I was going to die waitressing. I was going to be one of those grey-haired ladies serving coffee Sunday morning. I’m kind of thankful that my disorder took me to the place that it did, because it gave me time for self-exploration. It helped me slow down and realize my priorities.”

Spence finishes preparing her final pan of baklava and begins to clean. The desserts will sit overnight, as the paper-thin layers of dough absorb the honey. By morning, they will puff up and take on a

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“It’s incredibly important to just be able to put a name on the pan,” Spence said. “I truly believe that when we eat, we need a connection to our food. So often people don’t care who makes their food, how it’s made, how it got on your plate. It helps to have a slow connection, and with baklava the longer you wait, the more the flavor deepens and darkens. It only gets better with time.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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“Rapture-Palooza”

amanda stoffel dn As someone who grew up in a house where church was a Sunday necessity and Vacation Bible School happened every summer, I’m well acquainted with the prophecies of the end times the holiest of books preaches.

I’m pretty sure I was scared into remaining a Christian through most of my childhood after seeing the “Left Behind” movie series.

That is why I found it fitting to watch “Rapture-Palooza” the day after Easter. Whilst browsing through the recently added Netflix selections, I found the lovely faces of Anna Kendrick and Craig Robinson staring back at me.

“A quirky film about the end times?” I asked. “How bad could it be?”

The answer is that it could have been worse.

I was hysterically applauding the “blasphemous” antics of the film within the first minute, mostly because of my Christian upbringing. The satire and absurdity of the apocalyptic predictions really resonated with me.

For those who are less inclined to religious mundane mockery, this film is not for you.

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The rapture that marks the beginning of the end times suddenly became, as the film likes to point out, extremely ordinary.

And then things get really weird when Robinson’s character, The Beast, becomes creepily insistent on Lindsey Lewis (Kendrick) becoming the mother of his wicked spawn. Then

Lindsey’s boyfriend, Ben House (played by John Francis Daley of “Freaks and Geeks” fame) gets hit in the head with a shovel multiple times, and they collaborate with a zombie of sorts to kill The Beast.

Overall, the film has some wit and style. It’s probably a good way to procrastinate as you study for finals. But it’s not going to rise to cult status or be quoted for years to come. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Top Five Jimmys

Jimmy Neutron — It’s been a while since we’ve mentioned the boy genius in the paper, but it doesn’t mean we don’t still care deeply about him. He’s the best Jimmy around.

Jimmy Pesto, from “Bob’s Burgers” — Adept in the art of dance and seduction, the Fabio-to-be has complete control over the heartstrings of fellow character Tina Belcher.

Jimmy John’s — One time I went there, and they handed me my food before I even finished paying.

amanda stoffel dn Actor turned rapper-songwriter Drake (Aubrey Graham) is a man of many talents and … faces? And with the help of the new app, “Drake Shake,” you can see a plethora of Drake’s poses and faces in your own photos.

The idea is very simple: Upload a photo or take one in the app and a randomized cutout of Drake will show up. There’s serious Drake, happy Drake, thug

Drake, Drizzy Drake and, my personal favorite, Drake-in-atuxedo-leaning-seductively.

What is he leaning against?

Anything you want him to!

Maybe Drake will appear in a family photo, leaning against grandma. Maybe he’s casually leaning against a tree. The app allows for the cutout to be either enlarged or shrunk, and moved into whatever position is desired, making it applicable for most photos.

Because the cutouts are randomized, it is possible the desired one won’t show up in

your photo on the first try. By simply shaking your phone, a new cutout will appear until you get the one you want.

After the photo has been filled with all the Drizzy swag it can handle, it can then be saved or even opened in another social media app, such as Instagram.

Drake Shake is funny, free and easy to use.

Now you can always have Drake in your heart. And your photos. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

“Jimmies” — Some people call “sprinkles” by this name.

Did you know that? That doesn’t really make them taste much better, but whatever. It’s interesting.

Jimmy Fallon — I really enjoy his show, and I definitely, ha, I definitely, ha, ha, sorry, I broke character, ha, ha.

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The three losses came against the top three teams in the conference.

Before a month-and-a-half-long skid that had Nebraska drop eight duals in its last 12 chances, the Huskers peaked at a national

The thing that has been most impressive is the attitude. The attitude has been great. It’s been really fun.” scott jacobson women’s tennis coach

Mary Hanna doubles pair has been the most productive as they are 13-8 on the season.

After close matches with Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan State, the Nebraska team feels it can compete with anyone especially in the first round.

“We felt like anyone we were going to play in the first round is doable,” Jacobson said.

Illinois goes into Thursday’s contest with a 13-9 record overall and a 6-5 conference record and looks to earn its seventh Big Ten win overall in its home state.

Freshmen Louise Kwong and Alexis Casati are two of the Illini’s most productive singles players with records of 15-6 and 14-7 overall, while three of their other teammates have at least 10 singles victories themselves.

Illini sophomore Jerricka Boone is 10-10 in singles, while her teammates senior Misia

Kedzierski is 12-9 and junior Melissa Kopinski is 11-10.

“They’ve got pretty good depth,” Jacobson said.

Michigan enters the tournament as the No. 1 seed, having earned an 11-0 record in conference and a 19-3 record overall.

Ranked nationally at No. 17, Michigan will have a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament along with No. 16 Northwestern (16-6, 10-1), Ohio State (18-7, 8-3) and Purdue (11-9, 7-4). file photo by stacie hecker | dn Nebraska was the only school to go winless in conference play. Nebraska sophomore Maggy Lehmicke is 13-8 at the No. 1 The winner between the Huskers singles spot this spring. and the Illini will play No. 4 seed Purdue Boilermakers on Friday. and Zeppernick at No. 4 singles – its losses to Penn State and Ohio Nebraska and Illinois played were able to notch victories.

State to end the regular season. in Urbana, Ill., on April 13, when Lehmicke, Hanna and freshThe Huskers are up for the the Illini came out with a 4-2 vicman Lisa Andersson all lost in challenge as they are hoping to tory. Doubles weren’t played at two sets against Illinois. The meet bounce back this Thursday at 10 the meet, and only the Husk- was Nebraska’s final road meet a.m. in Evanston, Ill. ers’ two upperclassmen – junior sports@ and was the 10th loss of a 12-dual Izabella Zgierska at No. 2 singles losing skid that culminated with dailynebraskan.com

ranking of No. 44.

Going into the Big Ten Tournament, Nebraska sits at No. 69 in the national rankings, eight spots behind its first opponent, Michigan State. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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sports briefs Wong named award finalist

Nebraska senior gymnast Emily Wong was named a candidate for the Honda Award, presented to the top athletes in 12 NCAA women’s sports. Wong joins Arkansas’ Katherine Grable, Alabama’s Kim Jacob and Florida’s Bridget Sloan as the 2014 gymnastics candidates. Wong, who won the AAI Award earlier in April, placed sixth in the all-around and eighth on the floor at the NCAA Championships.

The 11-time All-American is looking to join current Nebraska assistant coach Heather Brink to become the second gymnastics Honda Award winner in

Nebraska history. Brink won the award in 2000.

Including Brink’s award, Nebraska has claimed a total of six Honda Awards. NU’s Denise Day Eckert won the award in softball in 1985. Four Nebraska volleyball players – Karen Dahlgren in 1986, Allison Weston in 1995, Greichaly Cepero in 2000 and Sarah Pavan in 2006 – won the Honda Award.

Nebraska takes 11 titles at Pre-Drake meet

In its tune-up meet for the Drake Relays, which begin Thursday, the Nebraska track and field team hosted Iowa Western Community College, Northwest Missouri State,

Midland, Concordia and Nebraska-Omaha on Wednesday, garnering 11 event wins.

Senior Mara Weekes won the women’s 100-meter dash by .02 seconds over teammate Breunna McCarty, running a time of 11.89. Freshman Brena Andrews, who finished third in the 100, won the 200 meters in 24.44.

The women’s team also claimed titles in the high jump (junior Marusa Cernjul), pole vault (sophomore Paula Andrie), long jump (freshman Jazmin McCoy) and triple jump, in which junior Ellie Ewere remained undefeated this season with a jump of 43-02.50.

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nior Tibor Koroknai won the 110-meter hurdles in 13.85. The rest of Nebraska’s men’s titles came in jumping and throwing events. Sophomore Mitchell Westberry won the high jump at 2.01 meters, while junior Craig Driver won the pole vault at a height of 4.86 meters. Freshman Christian Hodson and junior Jacob Griess won the discus and hammer throw, respectively.

NU earns 2nd Big Ten honor of month

Nebraska senior Miles Ukaoma was named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week on Wednesday, giving the Huskers their second winner in April.

Sophomore Levi Gipson claimed the honor on April 2.

Ukaoma finished second in the 400-meter hurdles at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., on Saturday, running the race in 49.76. That is the top time in the Big Ten and the No. 3 time in the nation this season.

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Senior Miles Ukaoma ran the fastest 400-meter hurdles time in Big Ten this season on Saturday.

Softball game canceled

Nebraska’s softball game at Creighton, scheduled for Wednesday night at the CU Sports Complex in Omaha, was canceled because of inclement weather. The game will not be made up.

Nebraska will play next at Michigan State in a three-game set beginning Friday. file photo by stacie hecker | dn

Nebraska senior Emily Wong is a finalist for the women’s gymnastics Honda Award and is looking to become the second winner of the award in program history.

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The Truth about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement Does it stand for Middle East peace or does it seek Israel’s destruction?

Leaders of the effort to boycott, divest from and apply sanctions against Israel—the so-called BDS movement—say they stand for an “end to the occupation of the Palestinian territories,” “justice in Palestine” and “freedom for the Palestinian people.” But what are the real motives of BDS leaders—do they really want peace between Israel and the Palestinian people?

What are the facts?

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Before coming to Nebraska, freshman Bryce Only was rated the No. 342 overall recruit and No. 19 third baseman in the nation coming out of Huntley High School in Algonquin, Ill. career-highs with 23 home runs and Americans filling college rosters is because of accessibility and family 86 RBI. Harvey is one of eight African income. In other words, athletes who play football or basketball can American players to ever play for Nebraska. He’s also one of three jump to the professional level and to play in the majors. Harvey said make more money instantly, making baseball less appealing to those there’s a deeper connection with Bryce than just teaching him to play from lower-class backgrounds. But Bryce wants to make the majors, no the position for which he won the 1999 Defensive Player of the Year matter how long it takes.

“What I told him is to go about Award.

“It’s hard not to take him un- his business like a professional athder my wing,” Harvey said. “He’s lete and show them that he wants a brother, just like me, so I kind to be here,” Harvey said.

And so far he’s done just that, of look out for him. I’m probably harder on him than I am on others according to Nebraska coach Darin Erstad. because I want him to succeed.”

“He works hard, he plays the Harvey said the fact Bryce is playing baseball at the university is game hard, and when you do that, good things happen,” Erstad said. “If peculiar in itself.

During his last stint with Ne- I was a young kid, I would definitely braska, Harvey assisted the team watch him go about his business bein making its first NCAA tourna- cause he does it the right way.”

Although the United States is ment appearance in 14 years along50 years removed from the height side Jamal Strong, the only other of the civil rights movement, UNL African-American on the team. In the majors, there weren’t, and still has had its incidents this year. Such as when master’s student Cameron aren’t, many of their same race who Murphy used the N-word during play in the uniform. an Association of Although the percentage of I’m probably Students of the University of Nebraska African-American harder on meeting, and a racial baseball players epitaph written in playing in MLB him than I am on chalk on a city campeaked in 1995, pus sidewalk sparked the trend has de- others because a campaign event clined nearly each I want him to Nov. 25. year since.

In Before he was a 2007, black play- succeed.”

Husker, Bryce said ers made up just he’d heard and ex8.2 percent of rosken harvey baseball student assistant perienced racial inters. The number cidents when he was increased to 10.2 in high school, such the next year but dropped to 8.5 on Opening Day of as being on the receiving end of a the 2013 season. Bryce and team- racial slur or joke.

But never, to his knowledge, mate Grant Gamble – who is half African-American and half Cauca- has he been a part of such an incident on the baseball diamond. sian – are just two of nine to play in the Big Ten this season. Harvey said Whether it be about race, being one reason for the lack of African- hazed because he’s a freshman or

taunted for his fielding like he was in high school, Bryce isn’t worried about facing any discrimination on this year’s Husker squad.

Bryce isn’t Martin Luther King Jr., who helped changed the way African Americans were treated forever during the Civil Rights Movement. Or Jackie Robinson, who paved the way for minority baseball players in with his debut in 1947.

Or George Flippin, who became the first African-American athlete and baseball player at Nebraska.

But he knows the possible effects he could leave behind at Nebraska before he leaves in four years.

“My dad says you’re being ambassador of the game for whomever,” Bryce said. “Do I think about it?

Yeah, but I let my actions speak for themselves.”

Besides longing to capture the first College World Series title in program history, the Husker third baseman realizes there’s another goal ahead.

While he’s meditating for 30 minutes before each game or walking toward the batter’s box to “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” by DMX, he’s not just thinking of how the opponent on the mound is going to attack him.

Bryce said he’s also determined to be a model for younger AfricanAmericans and ignite an upward trend African-American participation in baseball.

“To give that young ballplayer a glimpse of what hard work can do, especially an African-American player, makes me speechless,” Bryce said. “I want to be that guy where (kids say) I want to be on the same level as he was on. It’s a great opportunity. … I’m just that in awe that I could have that kind of impact in someone’s life.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

forces in the West Bank, they also mean Israelis “occupying” the state of Israel.

While the BDS movement uses highly emotive The third telling fact about the BDS movement is language in their appeals for support—such as “ending that it consistently and vehemently opposes any efforts repression” and “Israeli war crimes”—a closer look at to bring Israelis and Palestinians together to work in the real motives of the movement reveals a more peace and on peace. For example, BDS leaders advocate sinister goal. boycotting cultural exchanges between Israelis and First, note that the BDS movement focuses only on Palestinian artists. They condemn educational alleged war crimes and repression by Israel—and cooperation between Israeli ignores real war crimes and tyrannical repression by other Rather than a movement that seeks and Palestinian universities.

Most revealingly, they oppose Middle Eastern nations and terrorist organizations. When peace and freedom, BDS is motivated peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian by an obsessive hate of Zionism.

Hamas and Hizbollah target leadership, calling them thousands of rockets at Israeli “collaborationist.” civilian populations in violation of international law, BDS is not about “occupation.” In short, BDS is not BDS utters not a word of criticism, let alone a call for about peaceful coexistence or ending the “occupation” boycotts or sanctions. When Iran’s government of the West Bank. Indeed, Omar Barghouti, a graduate violently crushes peaceful protests and Egypt stifles its student at Tel Aviv University and BDS founder, admits, press and political opposition with a dictatorial hand, “If the occupation ends . . . would that end support for BDS is likewise silent. Why? BDS? No it wouldn’t—no.”

By singling out Israel for criticism and economic Not only do BDS leaders admit this, but they pressure, BDS employs a double standard—a implacably support the “return” of nearly five million hypocritical and dishonest tactic frequently used by descendants of Arab refugees who left during Israel’s anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate groups. war of independence in 1947. In fact, most of these The reason, as we’ll see, is that the BDS movement is Palestinians are not truly refugees—fully 95 percent of not really interested in alleged war crimes or repression. them have never set foot in Israel.

Rather its purpose is to delegitimize and then destroy Most importantly, the immigration of millions of Israel.

Arab refugees’ descendants to Israel would make Jews The second critical fact about the BDS movement is a minority in their own state. As President Obama has that while it masquerades behind words like “freedom” correctly noted, “The ‘right of return’ would extinguish and “occupation,” one need only listen closely to its Israel as a Jewish state, and that’s not an option.” Yet rhetoric to realize that these are code words for the destroying Israel by flooding it with millions of elimination of Israel.

Palestinians is precisely what BDS leader Barghouti BDS leaders oppose a two-state solution—why? insists upon: “This (the right of return) is something While the United States, Western European powers, we cannot compromise on.”

Israel and the U.N. Security Council have embraced a BDS’s goal: “Extinguish Israel as a Jewish state.” “two-state solution” as the basis for peace in the Middle BDS unequivocally rejects Israel’s many peace offers— East, BDS leaders, such as Ali Abunimah and Omar including numerous land-for-peace proposals Barghouti, are clear: They openly and outspokenly supported by the United States—and rejects Israel’s oppose a two-state solution. Why? willingness to sit down to direct peace talks without Because when BDS supporters talk about “the preconditions. occupation of Palestine,” they refer not to disputed Thus, the facts make BDS’s intentions clear: Rather West Bank territories, but to all the land between the than being a movement that seeks peace and freedom, Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea—including all it is a movement motivated by an obsessive hate of of Israel. When they talk about “freedom,” they don’t Zionism and Jews and opposition to the Jewish state— mean freedom from security roadblocks, they mean one bent on fomenting strife, conflict and enmity until freedom from Jews in their midst. When they talk Israel is utterly defeated. about “occupation,” they mean not just Israeli security If you support peace between Israel and the Palestinians, if you support two states for two peoples—living side by side in cultural, social and economic harmony—please oppose the ill-intentioned BDS movement in your community. Speak out against hateful, one-sided campaigns to boycott Israeli goods, to divest from companies that do business with Israel and to enact sanctions against the state of Israel. This is not the path to peace!

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As one of a handful of black players ever to play baseball at Nebraska, Bryce Only relies on success and character to become ambassador of the game

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Sophomore Dusty Boyer won in both singles and doubles in Nebraska’s loss at Michigan State on March 28.

Huskers return to Michigan for Big Ten tourney Staff Report DN

Freshman third baseman Bryce Only rounds second base in a game against Northern Colorado in March. Only is 7 for 29 with 5 RBI. In 11 starts and 18 total appearances, Only is batting .241.

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“You’re playing travel baseball, which cost a lot of e trotted onto Hawks Field’s brown grass for money. We’re dipping into your college fund,” Dana said, the third practice outdoors with the rest of recalling the conversation. “We have to make sure this is his teammates. All 35 of them wore identical Rawlings gloves for fielding and pitching something you want to do.”

When he wasn’t traveling to play 100 of the other elite drills. The same Rawlings bats for bunting 13-year-olds in the ACE program, he’d join another traveland batting practice. The same three words written on the chest of their red practice tees: “NEBRASKA BASEBALL ing club for tournaments, called the Atlanta Monarchs, a team named after the longest running franchise in the NeHUSKERS.” But that’s where the similarities end for No. 6 and his gro Leagues, the Kansas City Monarchs.

Although Bryce kicked off his high school career beltteammates.

The 19-year-old is the only player from the sandy ing 13 long balls and 56 RBI the first two years at Huntley beaches of Jacksonville, Fla. He’s the only athlete at Nebras- High School, his fielding suffered.

“I’d make one error, and it’d affect me so much that it ka who played on all-black baseball teams during middle school. He is one of two African-Americans on the Husker would lead to another and another,” Bryce said. “It was bad.” baseball team.

After two weeks of being unable to scoop up routine His name is Bryce Only. groundballs and throwing fundamental tosses to first base Although he’s only a freshman, his constant push to be the best isn’t his only trait that makes him unique from consistently, coach Andy Jakubowski had enough.

“I sat him down and said, ‘Bryce, you’re pressing too his teammates, according to his dad and coaches. Or where much, and you’re not going to start today,’” Jakubowski he’s from. Or his skin color. His father Dana Only and past coaches will tell you the characteristics Bryce embodies are said. “I took it worse than he did. I think I had some tears in my eyes because he was my regular third baseman.” what set him apart from the typical baseball player.

His fielding woes, including a six-error game, didn’t Hardworking. Competitive. Determined. come without taunts from teammates who’d count his misAs a 4-year-old, he’d often dunk his 6-inch, orange cues out loud from the dugout. basketball into his Fisher-Price basketball hoop. His One! Two! Three! Four! slams transformed into long distance shots when his fam“The guy who replaced me made a nice play, and the ily moved from Jacksonville to Algonquin, Ill. His second guys who didn’t like me erupted,” he said. “I thought at the home became the YMCA, where he and his dad would time, ‘Why don’t these guys like me?’” practice layups, free throws and jumpers.

It didn’t help either when a woman in the stands was His performances at Huntley High School’s gym are what stick out most to his father, such as the game when overheard bashing Bryce and questioning how a 17-yearold compiling error after error was signed by a Division I his floater helped defeat rival Dundee Crown as time was expiring. Or when he continued to play a game with blood baseball team.

Despite the distractions and other Red dripping from his lip after receiving an upRaiders and Illinois newspapers that highpercut to the face or even when he refused I knew he lighted his struggles, he bounced back. to exit a game early after dislocating his finThanks to a book by Tom Hanson titled would never ger against the same rival his senior year.

“Play Big,” constant fielding repetition with “I thought it was broken because afterquit because it Dana outside of practice and a pep talk from wards we got an X-ray, and it was on his best friend Colin Lyman, Bryce began fieldright index finger,” Dana said. “I thought is his life. He will ing and hitting like his idol third baseman he wouldn’t be able to play baseball again. play as long as Adrian Beltre.

Sometimes, I can make a situation seem 10 “(They) saved the love of the game for times worse than what it actually is.” he can and won’t me,” Bryce said.

Although he played basketball from give up until Bryce went on to finish his junior and middle school through senior year at Huntsenior season boasting .312 and .362 averley High School, he knew baseball would be he knows he is ages and his career at Huntley with 23 home the sport he’d play the rest of his life when done.” runs, 109 RBI and .319 career average. He he crushed his first home run at age 10. started to remember why he loved playing “It was the coolest thing ever,” Bryce Colin lyman the game again, according to Lyman. said. “No matter how many jump shots I former teammate “I knew he would never quit because it made or reps I took in basketball, it never is his life,” said Lyman, Bryce’s teammate amounted to the feeling I had when I hit my of six years. “He will play as long as he can first home run.” and won’t give up until he knows he is done.”

At 13, Bryce played on the Chicago White Sox Amateur Bryce’s No. 19-ranking among third basemen in the City Elite (ACE) team in a program that gives rising stars in country assisted him in receiving a visit from Nebraska asthe inner city a chance to play competitively against other sistant head coach Will Bolt on March 29 and a scholarship elite athletes aged 13 to 18. ACE was established the same signing two days later. year Bryce joined, and it aims to increase the downward When he touched down in Lincoln in August, he’d soon total of African-American players who play professional meet another man he’d look at as a role model. baseball. Just 7.8 percent of players in Major League Base*** ball are African-American – the lowest number since 1959.

“Atta boy Bryce!” a Husker teammate yelled after It was the first league he played in where he was in the the freshman scooped up a sharp line drive at first base majority. Since the ACE league’s inception seven years ago, at Hawks Championship Indoor Center on Feb. 12. After 11 athletes have been signed in the MLB first-year player draft, while 72 have gone on to play college baseball – Bryce snagging the hot liner, the 19-year-old scurried eight steps into foul territory for a pep talk from first-year student asbeing one of them. He wore No. 42 for Jackie Robinson – a sistant Ken Harvey. baseball legend who is honored each year on April 15 for “He’s taken me under his wing and giving me tips here integrating the game in 1947. and there,” Bryce said. “He’s a perfectionist like me. I want Baseball began to take over his daily routine. When he to be the best at UNL. If you’re not trying to be the best, wasn’t learning pre-algebra, science and social studies at why do anything at all? It took me a while until I got here Heineman Middle School, the patterned mowed grass and to realize that.” crispy infield dirt filled the other portion of his diurnal eduDuring his days in the scarlet-and-cream jerseys, Harcation. When Bryce was 13, Dana sat down with his son to vey plated 153 runs and blasted 35 long balls from 1997-99. make it clear that if the Onlys were going to be shelling out The Husker slugger saved his finest performance for last thousands of dollars for him to play baseball, he’d have to when he led the nation with a .478 batting average and set prove it’d be worth the investment.

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The regular tennis season came to a close this weekend as the Nebraska men’s tennis team lost on the road to No. 22 Penn State (0-7) and No. 1 Ohio State (1-6).

Next up for the Huskers is the Big Ten Tournament in East Lansing, Mich.

The Huskers’ first match is set for Friday, when they will play the Michigan State Spartans (11-13, 5-6). The last time the Huskers faced the Spartans, they lost 3-4. The winner of the dual between Nebraska and Michigan State will play Ohio State on Friday at 10 a.m. In Nebraska’s loss to Ohio State on Sunday, only sophomore Marc Herrmann was able to win a match, as he defeated No. 93 Herkko Pollanen of Ohio State 6-1, 3-6, 1-0 (10-4) at the No. 2 singles spot.

In the dual on March 28, Nebraska sophomore Dusty Boyer was the only Husker to win both of his matches, defeating the Spartans’ Drew Lied 6-4, 6-4 in singles and teaming up with teammate Scott Elsass to beat Will Davis and Doug Zade 8-3.

The Huskers (12-14 overall) are 3-8 in the Big Ten after the 2013-14 season. They are the ninth-highest ranked Big Ten team. During the regular season, the Nebraska team lost to No.

36 Florida State, No. 53 Texas Tech, No. 49 Louisville, No. 45 Drake, No. 50 Minnesota, No. 46 Michigan, No. 33 Purdue, No. 34 Northwestern and No. 11 Illinois but were able to beat No. 52 Denver, Wisconsin twice, while the Badgers were ranked No. 66 and No. 58, and No. 69 Indiana.

The Huskers will play in the Big Ten Tournament, and it will help prepare them for the NCAA Tournament.

Ohio State enters the tournament as the No. 1 seed, finishing the regular season as the only undefeated team in the conference. The Buckeyes (27-3, 11-0) are ranked No. 2 in the country.

The second seed went to No. 12 Illinois (20-7, 9-2), and No. 24 Penn State (21-4, 8-3) and Purdue (15-6, 7-4), which round out the top four seeds in the league, advanced automatically to Friday’s second round.

Northwestern, which tied Purdue’s 7-4 conference record, is the No. 5 seed, followed by Michigan, Minnesota, Michigan State, Nebraska, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa.

The first match against Michigan State will be a big match for Nebraska. The Huskers need to clutch the doubles point early and quick to build momentum and confidence for the rest of the match.

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women’s tennis

NU travels to conference tournament Following winless Big Ten season, Huskers enter league tournament as lowest seed Staff Report DN It doesn’t matter where you start; it’s where you finish. This saying could be the best way to describe the Nebraska women’s tennis team’s mentality as it looks to finish its season on a high note.

The Huskers’ season has had its growing pains, as they have struggled in Big Ten Conference play with an 0-11 record but have taken away something from each loss, and it has humbled them through the process.

With 5 out of 7 underclassmen on the team being freshmen, the Huskers (8-16 overall) have had to take everything in stride.

“The thing that has been most impressive is the attitude,”

Nebraska coach Scott Jacobson said. “The attitude has been great. It’s been really fun.”

After recently losing two tough matches against Penn State and Ohio State on Friday and Sunday, Nebraska will be traveling to Evanston, Ill., for the Big Ten Championships, where the team is scheduled to play No. 37 Illinois (13-9, 6-5) in the first round.

Nebraska has played Illinois four times and split the series evenly.

Husker sophomore Maggy Lehmicke has been one of the most productive underclassman and will be key for the Huskers this weekend, as she has played on Court 1 the whole season and looks to take on Illinois’ best.

“I think Maggie is excited about the second opportunity to play Illinois,” Jacobson said.

Lehmicke has a 21-13 record overall and is 13-8 this spring in singles, while her teammate senior Maike Zeppernick also has a solid overall singles record of 19-11 overall, with 15 of those wins coming this spring.

While on the doubles side the Lehmicke and freshman

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