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northwestern VOTE RAISES unionization QUESTIONS IN NEBRASKA s t o r y

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embers of the Northwestern University football team cast secret ballots Friday in the first-ever vote to determine whether a collegiate team should

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The vote comes after a January National Labor Relations Board ruling that the Northwestern football players can be considered employees – and that means they can unionize.

As one member of the Big Ten Conference is making a major move, ripples are being felt at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletic Department. Some say it’s time to talk about unionizing at UNL, although officials haven’t taken a public stance.

“It’s hard to sit there and listen to rules being made about you and you don’t even get a seat at the table in the discussion,” junior wide receiver Kenny Bell said. “I mean, I’m not upset about it.

I think it’s appropriate for people to start having that discussion about it.”

For Bell, his main concern isn’t getting paid, but having a say in the rules that affect him and his teammates.

“I think it’s time for us players and every-

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one involved to mature about this, and have a sit down at the table and just have a discussion about it,” Bell said. “Now where that discussion leads, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.

But just to come to the table and actually talk about it, I think is something that’s not too much to ask.”

He didn’t outline exactly what he wanted to be done because each athlete would have his or her own point of view.

“We’re extremely blessed with the things we do have access to, but at the same time, there’s struggles I think should be addressed,” Bell said.

Administrators at UNL have said little about unionization efforts at Northwestern or Nebraska. They’ve expressed disapproval of the NLRB’s decision and support for the athletes.

“Student athletes are students and not employees,” senior associate athletic director at UNL Pat Logsdon said in a Feb. 7 email to coaches. “We support the rights of all students to voice their thoughts including the discussion of union organization.”

In a March 27 email, UNL Athletic Director Sean Eichorst told his staff not to make any pub-

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lic comments about Northwestern’s unionization attempt. Eichorst declined an interview request via associate athletic director for community relations Chris Anderson, who said Eichorst “does not do interviews regarding hypothetical situations.”

Chancellor Harvey Perlman told the Omaha World-Herald on March 26 that he was “disappointed” with the NLRB’s decision.

“The area is so complex and the details of this even if it moves forward make it impossible to determine precisely what impact it would have on us or on intercollegiate athletics generally,” Perlman wrote in an April 13 email to the Daily Nebraskan. “It would, clearly, change the environment, and I can’t help but think it would not serve either the intercollegiate programs or the student athletes in the long run.”

He declined in-person interview requests.

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Before Northwestern moved to unionize, the national players’ rights discussion had mostly been limited to outside speculation. The issue

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Student athlete status offers benefits SYDNY BOYD DN About 600 student athletes put thousands of hours into 24 sports at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

In return, they get perks from the Athletic Department that include free tutoring, weekly meetings with a counselor and an athletes-only study space.

“The best part of being an athlete at Nebraska is everything that they give you that isn’t athletic,” junior gymnast Desiré Stephens said.

“They give you everything that you could need to excel in both athletics and academics. That is what makes Nebraska different from any other college.”

Stephens said UNL values test scores just as much as final game scores.

To most students, Memorial Stadium is where they go for gameday during the football season. Athletes describe it as a home away from home and the place with free printing before class. Equipped with the Training Table dining hall, tutors, computer labs, printers and quiet study rooms, Memorial Stadium is an escape from busy academic and athletic schedules. These resources are always available for student

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Sophomore I back Graham Nabity eats dinner at the Training Table, a health-oriented dining hall on campus. Student athletes can eat their meals at the Training Table without making reservations. athletes. Besides all of those perks, Memorial Stadium is home to The Dick and Peg Herman Family Student Life Complex.

“Our coaches and counselors and the athletic department staff are always there,” sophomore

swimmer Taryn Collura said. “They care about what we are eating and how we are doing in classes. They want us excel both athletically and academically.”

The Dick and Peg Herman Family Student Life Complex is where

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student athletes can go to receive one-on-one counseling. It’s the main door and the weight room; the glass offices make it easy for counselors to track down the athletes for check-ins. Athletes say it pays off: Nebraska leads the nation in academic honors including academic All-Americans and NCAA Top Eight Award Winners.

“Sometimes it is hard because we’re here all the time for practices and meets,” Collura said. “We can’t just take a trip home real quick. I’m from Arizona, and I don’t get to see my family a lot. They are there to help me through all of that.”

Inside the complex is the Abbott Life Skills Center. The Nebraska Life Skills program promotes leadership development and provides recognition opportunities for extraordinary citizenship. Student athletes work together and have helped approximately 100,000 people statewide through various service projects, the program’s website says. Each student athlete is assigned a Life Skills counselor who can help him or her with every aspect of his or her project. Together, the student and the counselor develop a strong resume helping them for the future.

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2 walk-on players travel similar path Eric Bertrand DN Scarlet and cream surrounded junior guard Trevor Menke’s life as he grew up.

The Beatrice native was nervous the night before and the day that he attended his first Nebraska basketball game growing up. The Huskers were going up against the habitual powerhouse, the Kansas Jayhawks.

Menke didn’t have his No. 10 Nebraska jersey or his spot on the court.

He was just an anxious kid with his family in the stands.

Once the game got started, the atmosphere helped his nerves vanish.

“To see all the people yelling and screaming, I mean, that was really fun for me,” he said.

He was hooked.

When Menke entered his freshman year of high school at Beatrice in 2007, his older brother was a senior.

The freshman earned a spot on the starting roster that year.

It was a dream come true for Menke, who had always looked up to his brother. And it got a little sweeter that year.

The team made it to the Class B State Finals.

Although the squad lost the game, he ranks it as one of his proudest moments in high school. The second-best time was actually winning the state title the next year.

His success continued for the rest of high school, and when it came around the time to decide where to go to college, there wasn’t much of a decision to be made.

“I visited Doane and Wesleyan,” Menke said. “I really wasn’t too interested in doing those kind of things.”

He didn’t have an offer to play for the Huskers, but he knew he wanted to be on the team. Menke met with then-coach Doc Sadler to discuss the possibility of being a walk-on.

Menke is one of many walk-on student athletes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The process of being a walk-on varies sport by sport, and the Athletic Department doesn’t keep records on how many walk-ons there are in each sport.

All Menke had to do was enroll in the college, and he was set to walk on.

That’s when he met Kye Kurkowski.

Kurkowski, a junior forward, has traveled a path similar to Menke’s.

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Junior guard Trevor Menke (left) and junior forward Kye Kurkowski both decided to be walk-ons for the Nebraska basketball team as freshmen. Last season, Menke and Kurkowski were two of the four walk-ons on the team.

He grew up in Grant in the Husker tradition, had a successful athletic career in high school and decided to walk on to the Huskers basketball team.

Kurkowski and Menke both redshirted their freshman year and became roommates in Schramm on floor eight.

“It was good from the start,” Kurkowski said. “We had a pretty awesome floor, with a pretty solid group of guys. We hung out and screwed around together, and I think that brought us all pretty close.”

Under Sadler, the two did whatever was asked of them to assist the team. Kurkowski said the two also had the same work ethic.

“If anything, it’s almost inspiring,” Kurkowski said. “He’s almost always going hard. It’s not only that he’s working hard but focused and locked in on what we got to get done.”

Before the 2012-2013 season, Sadler was fired.

Enter Tim Miles.

Nerves sparked back up for the

two. Questions arose: Would Miles not allow walk-ons? Were they off the team?

“That’s just what your mind jumps to: How is this going to affect your future,” Kurkowski said. “But there was. There was a hint of worry for not very long.”

Miles took away any doubt the walk-ons had after the first team meeting. He left the decision of staying in the program or leaving it to the walkons, Menke said.

Both Menke and Kurkowski didn’t hesitate. They would remain on the Husker basketball squad.

Menke and Kurkowski have been a part of the same story for the past four years, and they’ve relied on each the whole time.

“To have someone who’s in your shoes and was doing it right next to you every day – that was huge for your morale,” Kurkowski said.

Menke and Kurkowski were two of the four walk-ons on the team last season. Senior Mike Peltz and freshman Tim Wagner were the other two.

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most memorable moment in the Husker uniform came this spring semester.

Kurkowski’s was selection Sunday – seeing all his team’s hard work and dedication come to fruition. In his total 12 minutes of action throughout his Husker career so far, he is 1 for 1 shooting with 2 points and 2 defensive rebounds.

Menke has played a total of 72 minutes so far. He has notched 4 points, a steal and 5 assists. But the moment he said he will remember is being a part of the Husker team that made it back to the tournament for the first time in 16 years.

As he grew up a Husker fan, Menke said being able to put on the red and white No. 10 jersey accomplishes a dream.

“It’s what I grew up wanting to do,” Menke said. “Basically what a lot of little kids dream of doing, and every game when you get to put the jersey on and go out on the floor it’s pretty special for me, my family and a lot of my friends.”

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Rolfzen twins unsure on unionization ANDREW WARD DN Take a look at Kadie and Amber Rolfzen. Then take another.

Can’t tell them apart?

You’re not alone.

The Rolfzen twins are as identical as they come. Both stand 6 feet 3 inches tall. Both have freckles on their cheeks and piercing blue eyes. Both play outside hitter for the Nebraska volleyball team.

And neither knows how to approach the idea of student-athlete unionization.

“I wish I knew more about what it was,” Amber said.

Of course, Nebraska isn’t anywhere near unionization. In fact no school in the country is, except for Northwestern, thanks to the efforts of former quarterback Kain Colter.

Members of the Northwestern football team voted Friday on whether the school will officially unionize, but the outcome remains unknown. The vote came after the director for the National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of unionization in February.

The discussion has centered on football, but sports that generate less money, such as volleyball, will be affected if unionization ever becomes reality in college athletics.

The Rolfzen twins understand that, even though the details remain a little fuzzy to them. They know one thing for sure though; this isn’t just about money. It’s way more than that.

“It’s not like I’m against getting paid, but they already pay for our schooling anyways,” Amber said.

Recruiters sell future Huskers on fame, perks

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Sophomore outside hitter Amber Rolfzen spikes the ball at the Sept. 13 game against Dayton. Rolfzen and her identical twin sister, Kadie, remain on the fence regarding unionization.

“I feel like a lot of athletes see it as our job, so that’s why some think we get paid,” Kadie said. “Like some college students have jobs. But for athletes it would make it really tough to have another job and get money.”

It’s about a voice, as Nebraska football player Kenny Bell said after a spring practice earlier this year.

Kadie and Amber know they receive plenty of benefits as student athletes. Kadie knows athletes who choose where they want to go to school based on what perks they can get while attending that school.

However, there are some red flags.

Take the number of meals athletes receive at the Nebraska athletic training table.

According to both twins, student athletes who live on campus are allowed 10 meals per week, not including breakfast. Those who live off campus only receive eight meals, while also getting a stipend to help pay for living expenses. After those meals are used up the athletes are on their own.

So when athletes say they have a lack of food, they legitimately mean it, Amber said. And paying for food can be difficult when you aren’t allowed to have a job, thanks to an NCAA rule.

That’s where a player’s union would be helpful, said both twins, so that athletes can have a say in such rules.

“I think it’s good for having a view point from the players,” Kadie said. “It’s kind of like when you’re in practice. Some players have a different point of view than the coach.”

Amber agreed.

“I don’t know if it would help the decisions that they make but at least they would know how athletes feel.”

Another issue at hand is whether schools would decide to unionize individually or altogether. If it becomes individual, that could impact recruiting.

The twins were both top 10 national recruits coming out of Papillion-La Vista South High School but both committed to Nebraska in eighth grade, so the recruiting process is still a little foreign to them. But they know certain attributes about schools can go a long way.

Like Oregon’s connection to Nike, Duke’s basketball tradition and Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium.

“But it’s not like I’m going to Oregon just so I can get that stuff,” Amber said. “It’s more about name recognition.”

That name recognition could become extreme if a school decides to unionize.

But who knows what will happen?

In the mean time, Amber and Kadie have a sophomore volleyball season to prepare for.

“We could argue about it for hours but in the end, I just want to play volleyball,” Amber said.

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Sophomore Husker wide receiver Jordan Westerkamp didn’t realize he’d find a new home seven and a half hours away from Lombard, Ill., his hometown near Chicago.

But after a trip to the spring game, a warm welcome from senior wide receivers Kenny Bell and Jamal Turner and a home visit from coach Bo Pelini, Westerkamp was ready to choose from his slew of college football offers.

“I wanted to play college football,” he said. “That was always a dream of mine. That was always the plan.”

Westerkamp took visits, official and unofficial, starting his sophomore year of high school to places such as Northwestern, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Michigan and Ohio State.

His first offer came his sophomore year from the University of Illinois, where his dad had played college football.

It was always a place to consider, but Westerkamp wanted to go somewhere new.

“My dad told me, ‘I want you to go to the best place for you,’” Westerkamp said.

And the best place was Nebraska.

Seeing as he’s already reached his dream to make it onto Sport Center with his Hail Mary catch against Northwestern, Westerkamp looks back with no regrets and said he’s positive he made the right decision.

But getting high school athletes such as Westerkamp to get out of their states and their comfort zones to come to Lincoln is often a challenge for UNL football recruiters, said football recruiting coordinator Ross Els. “If you don’t have a large population, like Nebraska, you have to go out of your state,” Els said. “We have to show those kids they’re going to be taken care of. The program we run here is top notch. It’s not the inmates running the asylum.”

With only about 1.8 million people in the state of Nebraska, Els and his recruiting team are forced to look in areas they like to call local. This area includes 12 states and starts north of Minneapolis, goes through Chicago and out to Indianapolis, down to Dallas and up to Denver.

“We’ll go anywhere, but that’s what we consider local,” Els said.

The 2014 recruiting process was pretty typical, Els said. He and his recruiting staff started their search with 9,245 high school football players eligible to play for a Division 1 Big Ten school. Then the possible recruits were narrowed down to approximately 2,000.

From there, each recruiter watched about 200 films. Of those, 337 athletes were officially recruited, and 51 recruits went on official visits.

A total of 24 recruits signed on this year.

“We like our last few recruiting classes,” Els said. “The wins and losses will show if we did a good job.”

Once a possible player shows interest in the school, the recruiting staff pulls out the charm.

“If we’re going to bring kids from a distance, we need an institution that is better than theirs at home,” Els said. “Everything Nebraska has to offer is really special.”

Nebraska was one of the first universities in the country to build a strength-and-conditioning program; it’s one of just three schools who have had more than nine wins each season in the past three years; and it leads in academics for athletes and in nutrition, Els said.

Those points are all used to sell recruits on Nebraska’s program.

Westerkamp said leaving his home state to come to Lincoln wasn’t as far-fetched an idea as

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some might think. When high school athletes don’t go out and explore their options because they want to stay close to home, they often miss out on great opportunities that just have some added distance, he said.

“A lot of people get the notion that Nebraska is just this place out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by corn,” Westerkamp said. “But getting here and actually seeing it is completely different. If you just give it a chance and come visit, it’s a great place.”

Els sells recruits by telling them they will like Lincoln and that they will get attention as football players in Nebraska.

“Football is important in Nebraska,” Els said. “We don’t have competition with pro teams. You will be noticed. People know what you’re doing and will follow you.”

Once a recruit is sold on the state and the program, the next step is building the relationship.

Although NCAA regulations limits contact between recruits and coaches, recruiters and coaches maintain contact through emails, phone calls and the occasional visit.

In Westerkamp’s case, that meant a visit from Pelini.

Els said it’s not only important to create a relationship with the player but also with his family.

“You build the relationship, with him, his parents, his family,” Els said. “You get to know him.”

Signing day is the last step before putting on the Husker scarlet and cream jersey.

It’s one of the most widely watched events in the country and happens each year on the first Wednesday in February.

“Being able to sign that letter of intent just begins another chapter in your life, and it’s a great one to start,” Westerkamp said. “It’s a great feeling to be able to play the game you love and go to the next level with it.”

Els said the process of narrowing down thousands of recruits to just double digits is a stressful task but a rewarding one.

“We like getting out and talking about a product we believe in,” Els said. “We like getting out and seeing people play.”

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cops briefs Students report rape, sexual assault

UNLPD officers were on call early Saturday morning near the Delta Gamma chapter house at 400 University Terrace when a UNL student approached them.

The student told the officers that a man she didn’t know tried to walk her home. She told the man she was uncomfortable and then he attempted to put his hand down the front of her dress to fondle her.

The student described the man as 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall and wearing a striped or plaid hooded sweatshirt and jeans. Police tried to locate the man but

were unsuccessful. The investigation is ongoing.

Another student reported to the Lincoln Police Department that she was raped in a parking lot early Sunday morning. She was off campus and was brought back to the parking lot near Abel Hall, 880 N 17th St., and raped, according to police reports. The case was turned over to UNLPD and the investigation is ongoing.

Senior arrested for assault charges at Phi Delta Theta

at 1545 R St. for a medical emergency early Saturday morning. When they got there, they learned about an assault, police said. The victim had been hit in the face with a blunt object and had a significant cut on his forehead, according to reports. Kyle Flentje, a senior economics and finance major at UNL, was arrested on charges of second-degree assault and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony. He was taken to Lancaster County Corrections. The victim has no affiliation with UNL.

Police went to the Phi Delta Theta chapter house

unlpd conducts ‘tweet-along’

UNLPD is finding a new way to update UNL students about crime in real time. Police used Twitter to have a “Tweet-along” Friday night.

UNLPD officers Jordan Wilmes and Alex Kelly conducted the tweeting spree. They reported instances such as alarms, assaults, alcohol calls and a DUI. According to their Twitter, if UNLPD can gauge enough community interest, they will do another “tweet-along.”

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Candidates, voters both at fault for negative effect of attack ads during campaigns

Candidates who use attack ads pollute minds of American voters, must change their ways, stop using negative advertisements

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uring the 2012 election, 99 percent of Mitt Romney’s advertisements were negative and 95 percent of Newt Gingrich’s ads were negative. In the 1988 presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis, there was an ad attacking Dukakis’ record on crime.

The ad discussed Bush’s support for the death penalty and how Dukakis not only opposed the death penalty but supported weekend passes for prisoners.

Bush went on to win the election with 53 percent of the popular vote. Why is your television being infected with negative advertisements right now? It’s because they work.

Bush won because he portrayed Dukakis “soft on crime,” and while Gingrich and Romney didn’t win, their negative ads made President Barack Obama’s re-election much more difficult. Who was the wealthiest president the United States has ever had? George Washington. An article in the Atlantic said Washington’s net worth in today’s dollars was $525 million. Money in politics isn’t a new concept, and the sooner we understand that, the better. A quote from the fictional 1990s TV series “The West Wing” discusses money in politics as water on pavement. “It finds every crack and crevice.” Washington didn’t spend money on attack advertisements and didn’t throw $1,000 per plate in Hollywood, but he still used his money to better his career.

Nowadays, you still need money to run for office. Santa Clara University came out with research saying a U.S. senator needs to raise about $10,000 a week to win re-election, and much of that money comes from political action committees and other special interests. This money raised is used to grease the wheels of campaigns.. Attack ads work, but they pollute the minds of the American electorate and need to come to a halt. Americans need to be informed, but for people watching TV after work, school or class who see negative ads bashing public officials, they begin to assume there’s some truth in ads.

Negative advertisements provide a disincentive for voters to even turn on their TVs at night. As much as money in politics irritates the U.S. electorate, attack ads piss us off like there’s no tomorrow.

Candidates need to understand that voters make decisions based on what they hear about candidates.

Ads work in the sense that they get candidates’ points across, and candidates know this. But it dilutes the saliency and transparency of our republic and perpetuates the negativity that surrounds politics and campaigning.

Attack ads are one way to campaign and have been known to win elections. But are these ads discussing plans the candidate has or are they just offhanded remarks about the candidate’s opponent?

That’s the despicable truth of attack ads: They aren’t actually discussing a plan the candidate has nor are they talking about how successful the candidate will be while in office. I will defend the First Amendment to the hilt, but negative ads are a ridiculous and fallacious way to advertise for oneself. Candidates who don’t address issues but only complain about opponents only pollute the alreadytoxic

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political environment in the U.S. Let’s say Candidate A didn’t support a tax reduction because it would have decreased funding for public education in the state — an action with good intentions. Candidate B twists this action and creates an attack ad in which Candidate B chastises Candidate A for the lack of support for the tax cut. Candidate B then states that Candidate A doesn’t have the best interest for taxpayers in mind. Therefore, he’s the wrong candidate for you — vote for me instead.

When candidates tell incomplete stories, they give voters ultimately false ideas about other candidates, and therein lies the problem with attack ads.

Politicians running for office have a responsibility to inform voters in a respectable way. This responsibility comes from the nobility that comes from holding public office. After centuries of money and backstabbing in politics, people have become disgusted by Washington, D.C., and the negative ads that surround campaigns in the U.S. are to blame.

People running for office should be wary of attack ads. There are alternatives to private funding of campaigns such as public funding or taking specialinterest money out of campaigns that will hopefully bring trust and responsibility back to campaigns.

For example, the Clean Campaign – an organization dedicated to taking special interests and Super PACs out of political campaigns – has generated a list of candidates around the country that have participated in the program. In seven different states, there are many statewide offices that have been attained by candidates pledging to the Clean Campaign program. Candidates in Nebraska should focus on clean campaigns and informing voters of their own positions rather than doing things such as striking a bobble-head of President Obama — as Sen. Beau McCoy did in a recent ad.

Voters, too, have a responsibility to make informed decisions. Next time you see an ad on a billboard, television or the Internet, please research what that person said. Go to Google, and ask it if what that person just said was true, or if they’re filling your head with lollipops and gumdrops about how “perfect” they are. If negative advertisements are filling the airwaves, voters will sometimes have trouble differentiating fact from fiction.

Politics, campaigning and public policy are dense subjects. Candidates who try to reduce this complex system to backstabbing and complete tomfoolery are making a mockery of a sacred institution that is our government. Politicians have a responsibility to truly inform voters — not spread propaganda.

Mark Batt is a junior political science major. reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Responsibility lies with voters to be well-informed on issues, must not be misled by negative advertisements during campaigns

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hear the phrase, “I’m voting for the lesser of two evils,” too often. This contributes nothing to democracy. Instead of finding ways to not vote for someone, politicians need to earn our votes.

Negative advertisements and pervasive campaign financiers degrade the democratic process, but the burden falls on the citizen to become well-informed voters.

Negative advertising employs personal attacks that criticize the character of candidates or incumbents. Such practices have a strong and lengthy legacy in the U.S. During the 1828 presidential election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, supporters of Adams made pamphlets stating that Jackson’s wife was an adulteress and his mother a prostitute. In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson’s campaign released a TV ad that implied Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, was a warmongering nuclear annihilationist. A young girl was counting flower petals peacefully when a voiceover of a 10-second countdown preceded a video of a nuclear explosion. The ad concluded by stating that the stakes are too high not to vote for Johnson. That catered to the emotional sensibilities of every American very soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

One recent example is Republican gubernatorial candidate Beau McCoy’s recent advertisement criticizing the Affordable Care Act. In this video, there’s a bobble head doll depicting President Barack Obama that McCoy strikes down. This attack ad may not necessarily target his competitors, yet its violence toward Obama and the office of the presidency appears to be beyond the boundaries of good taste.

These negative ads aren’t morally praiseworthy, but more importantly, they often mislead viewers. Some of them show photos of a candidate in an unseemly grimace with borderline slander and libel throughout the ad. Others compare and contrast candidates where it portrays one candidate as an incorruptible shining knight and the other as a crook. Nearly all ads take things out of context.

One TV ad shows current attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Jon Bruning in an awkward stance. The advertisement flips the image and says he flip flops on issues. The source is this very paper, the Daily Nebraskan, for whom Bruning used to write. Citing a law school student from 20 years ago is hardly the incriminating evidence needed to discredit him, however virtuous he may be.

Many negative ads are funded nonattributively through organizations called Super PACs. That means competing candidates don’t necessarily have to associate themselves with these negative ads. They can release the hounds without any blowback. Furthermore Super PACs can spend unlimited amounts of money on issue advertisements and negative ads, as long as they aren’t officially affiliated with any candidate.

The unknown and opaque identity of these organizations is a grave concern, according to Dave Domina, a democratic candidate for Senate. “If you can’t identify who is behind these ads, you can’t know if the attack is genuine or manipulative,” Domina said in a phone interview. He said the majority of opinions offered by the Supreme Court on key decisions are “oblivious to that fact.” The Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee and McCutchen v. FEC are wrong, according to Domina. These decisions gave expansionary powers for unlimited indirect political expenditures by corporations and other organizations and allow for the maximum donation to any and all candidates, respectively.

Domina said these decisions “set the playing field. The most culpable par-

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ties are those who enter with less than honorable intentions instead of participating in the process and giving the electorate the most honest, clear views.”

Other candidates’ campaigns were approached to comment on these issues but opted to not take an official stance or have not yet responded.

Our country is in a perpetual state of political disharmony. According to a recent Gallup poll, Congress’ approval rating is 13 percent.

That’s pretty low, right? Well, it’s actually increased from a low of 9 percent in January 2012. So how is it, then, that 90 percent of members of congress are re-elected? We allow this to happen.

Yet our government still functions and does its duty. Except for when it doesn’t. Remember the government shutdown? We’ve had several throughout the years, including last fall. How can one of the most powerful nations in the world simply shut down? When people ask me what I plan to do after college, I tell them I’m going to save the world, that I’ll move to Washington, D.C., and clean up the mess because someone’s gotta do it, right? My political science capstone course discussed whether democracy is in crisis.

Some thought absolutely not; others think it always is. I’m still uncertain, but I assert we should act as if we are, lest we recognize it after the fact. If we stay the course, we will vote ourselves into an oligarchy against which our country rebelled more than 200 years ago.

We live in a democracy where we have some inherent equality between us. We got rid of an oppressive king and enumerated checks and balances within our constitution to prevent vesting too much power to one person. When people are uninformed or do not vote, our country’s democracy grows weak.

Domina said the “election process exists for the purpose of allowing the participating majority to make a wellinformed decision of what the structure of the government will be, and who the representatives to that government will be. If the election process becomes about cleverness, manipulation and emotional appeals that reduce and diminish thought, democracy is cheapened. The government cannot be as good as it is designed to be.”

We the people are partly responsible for the egregious campaign finance laws and negative advertisements. These problems are symptomatic of democracy. Yet it’s within our constitutional right – and our civic duty – to reconcile these challenges. We elect our lawmakers. Our elected president appoints Supreme Court justices, who are then confirmed or rejected by our elected representatives from our Senate.

Pervasive super PACs and negative and predatory advertising can only usurp as much power as we allow.

Oliver Tonkin is a senior Latin American studies, global studies and political science major. Follow him on twitter @thebrutalwolf. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Campus Nightlife hosts a carnival on the Nebraska Union greenspace Sunday night. The carnival included rides, games, a live band, funnel cakes, snow cones and cotton candy. The event happens every year at the end of the semester.

Kaylee Kaven (left) and Naomi Johnson sit for the caricature artist at the carnival on the Nebraska Union greenspace Sunday night.

Josuf Robinson (left) and Andrea Lemburg (right) add flavoring to their snow cones during the carnival on the Nebraska Union greenspace Sunday night.

Getting back security deposits Madeline Christensen Dn Like many other 20-year-olds fresh out of a year of campus housing, the fall semester marked a momentous occasion for sophomore Tyler Loebig: his first time signing a lease.

Off-campus independence aside, Loebig soon learned that with leases come security deposits, and with security deposits come, well, losing security deposits.

“The first hole in the wall happened within the first month,” Loebig said. “I’m not even sure how it went down. One minute my roommate was running up the stairs, and the next she had her whole arm through the wall, basically. I laughed about it, but, I mean, there’s this huge-ass hole at the top of our stairs.”

Security deposits, or the money that is paid upfront after signing a rental lease, are a safety net for property owners to ensure their tenants will be able to pay for damages before moving out. In an ideal world, tenants are able to claim the fee at the end of their leases if there’s no damage done to the houses.

In the college world, that’s a rare feat to accomplish.

Loebig said the hole looked like something they could mend, and he and his two roommates would get to fixing it eventually.

That is, until it happened again, a few feet away from the first indiscretion.

“This time, I was kind of amazed,” Loebig said. “Like, seriously? You fell into the wall again? That’s got to be some sort of achievement.”

The third time, which he admits was his fault, Loebig said he started to re-evaluate his life.

“It really started to spiral down after that,” he said. “The shower was fallen on and broken, the toilet paper holder was ripped off the wall, our bathroom sink stopped working — I could go on. College is fun, though.”

With a month’s rent on the line for their security deposit, Loebig said he and his roommates are holding onto hope that they’ll be able to fix the damages themselves.

“I really know nothing about home repairs,” he said. “But what a time to be alive.”

Junior advertising major Justice Jones lived in a staple party house in

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the North Bottoms for a year before ultimately losing his security deposit.

“The majority of damages to that house came from having parties,” Jones said. “So typical damages were things like stained carpets, broken blinds, holes in the wall — different things like that.”

Jones said he wasn’t even sure if many of the damages he ended up paying for were accidents.

“For some strange reason, everyone enjoyed punching holes into the basement ceiling, it happened all the time,” he said. “I had a friend come and fix it over the summer when I was getting ready to move out, though, and you could hardly tell.”

Jones said he actually put in a lot of effort to try and cover up any surprises left behind by partygoers.

“I tried my best to fix the majority of the damages — using carpet cleaners, paying someone to patch holes, washing walls,” he said. “But when you rent out a party house, there’s

only so much that can be fixed on a college kid’s budget.”

As for his landlord’s reaction, Jones said he hopes to never find out how that one played out.

“They didn’t say anything to me, but I moved out before they saw the damages,” Jones said. “I knew for a fact that I wasn’t getting my deposit back. It was $900, so it was a huge chunk of money, but I moved out a while ago and haven’t even really thought about it.”

On the other side of the spectrum is senior pre-natural science major Gabrielle Minnick, who just moved into a new house with two other roommates.

“At this point, I’m pretty optimistic about getting our deposit back by the end of the lease,” Minnick said.

“My roommates are both very clean and wouldn’t ever trash the house, I’m sure.”

Minnick said losing the deposit wouldn’t be the end of the world,

but she’s sure the chances are slim to none.

“I guess accidents happen, so we’ll deal with whatever comes up,” she said. “But I can’t really see anyone setting the place on fire or diving head first into a wall or something.”

Knock on wood.

When all is said and done, though, Jones said the past is in the past, and he’s not sure if he would change anything.

“Honestly, I regret the damages, and I wish I had a financial situation where I could have fixed more before moving out,” he said. “It’s sort of a sticky situation, though, because I made great memories in that house and would have to say that the parties were worth it. It’s one of those things where I will be telling stories about living in that house way past college.”

Even when you’re out 900 bucks. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is getting crafty to help students relax before finals.

Monday and Tuesday, all UNL students are invited to the Nebraska Union and East Campus Mall to partake in the Yard Fest and Pinterest Party. The event will take place at the Nebraska Union on Monday starting at noon and at the East Campus Mall on Tuesday at 2 p.m. It will offer yard games and free crafts for students to enjoy while they’re taking a break from studying.

“Our objective for this event is to provide space and activities for students to take a study break,” said Emily Schuckman. Schuckman, a wellness educator at the University Health Center, is helping put on the event.

The two-day event, hosted by the University Health Center, will strive to provide a welcoming, stress-free environment for students looking to take a break from studying for their finals. The event is the University Health Center’s second of the year. It offers a “Stress Free Zone” twice a year, each before finals weeks of the fall and spring semesters.

Schuckman looks to research studies to help better serve the students during the event.

“Research has shown that retaining information is best done in chunks of time,” Schuckman said.

“Studying for 50 minutes and taking a 20-minute study break will allow students to maximize their time spent studying. Students can come and take a study break with us. We will provide the activities, healthy study snacks and drinks.”

The hands-on activities available at the Yard Fest and Pinterest Party are a way for students to relieve the stress of studying for their final exams and put their focus elsewhere, if only for a short amount of time.

if you go Yardfest and Pinterest party

when: Monday from 12-4 p.m., Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Crib and greenspace, East Campus Mall cost: Free

“I like to do crafts to keep my mind off other things,” said Emily Brodahl, a junior psychology major.

“It’s a way to de-stress and also allows you to think about things.”

Beginning at noon with free crafts, the Pinterest Party kicks off in the Crib of the Nebraska Union. In addition to crafts from Pinterest, the indoor activities will include a Wii gaming console and a photo booth.

The yard game festivities, a new addition to the event to mix things up and hopefully utilize good weather, start at 2 p.m. on the greenspace.

The event will conclude at 4 p.m.

Schuckman looks forward to this semester’s event and the new changes in store for it.

“I’m most excited to get out and enjoy the great outdoors for this semester’s stress free activities,” Schuckman said. “The crafts will be different than in semesters past, plus we’ve got brand new Crib space to hang out in since the renovation (of the Nebraska Union).”

Schuckman also hopes to see many students out in the nice weather during the event in the next couple days.

“We encourage all students to come and take a study break with us while enjoying the beautiful outdoors and/or getting their Pinterest on,” Schuckman said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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MONDAY

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28 what: Yard Fest and Pinterest Party when: Noon where: UNL City Union cost: Free

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Mind and Body Stress Management when: 3:30 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union cost: Free what:

Poetry at the Moon with Rebecca Newton when: 7 p.m. where: Crescent Moon Coffee cost: Free what: Max Pain and the Groovies with Snake Island!, Powers when: 9 p.m. where: Vega cost: $5

WEDNESDAY

29 what:

Dollar beer night All night where: Duffy’s Tavern cost: No cover charge when:

30 what: Laurus Launch Party when: All day where: Andrews Hall cost: Free

what:

$2 Sangria what: Walk@Lunch All day when: Noon where: Sebastian’s Table where: City & East cost: $2 Campus cost: Free when:

what: Yard Fest and Pinterest Party when: 2 p.m. where: East Campus Mall cost: Free

what: Dwight Smith and Julia Lucille when: 9 p.m. where: Vega cost: $2

what:

Glimpse Trio! with Pure Brown when: 9 p.m. where: Zoo Bar cost: $5 what: Jazz at the Moon with Jazzocracy when: 7 p.m. where: Crescent Moon Cafe cost: Free

Spring clean to bring in new season A few mini makeovers for every aspect of your life, from cleaning your home to working out madeline christensen dn

What’s that lying there on the floor?

Oh wait, it’s your life — in shambles.

Let’s be honest for a second: Have you really done anything this semester? I know what you’re thinking: “Hey now! It’s only February, darn it!” But the joke’s on you, and you’ve really got to stop using that three-month coma as an excuse for everything.

It’s time to start asking yourself important questions: When was the last time I showered?

What do I want out of life? Why am I here? Which “Game of Thrones” character am I? Am I a true ’90s kid?

It’s almost the end of the school year, and “Lost” has been over for, like, four years, man. It’s time to get out in the world and spring clean … your life! Here are a few easy steps to climb out of a well of depression, according to an article from BodyandSoul. com.

Clear your home

Wow, you live in a shit hole.

They say you should take these first weeks of spring to get rid of clothes you don’t want, organize cupboards and steam the carpets, but I have a better idea. Gather up a few important items in your home – maybe a pet, your laptop or that Free Willy fanfiction you’ve been writing told from Willy’s point of view. Then, set your house on fire.

THURSDAY

Detox your friend list

You know that one friend who is just so negative to have around?

Don’t you wish you could get away with never speaking to him again?

You can, and it’s easy: cyberbullying. The Internet is a battlefield, and cyberbullying works both ways. The little shit that’s giving you a hard time on the Neopets forums? Well, tell him he stinks and his JubJub is stupid looking. You won’t see that kid logging in for a while! This is YOUR turf.

Move your body

You’ve been holed up in your bed all winter, dude. It’s time to get your heart pumping and your bones moving. Stick a leg out of the covers and shake it a bit. Not too fast – you don’t want to pull a muscle! Now, think about the season finale of “Home Improvement.” Heart’s beating like a hummingbird, right? So many unanswered questions. Moving your body is easy; humans have been doing it forever, actually. You just need to have the right motivation.

Shake up your diet

Remember when you got 20 bags of Cheetos from the HyVee? That was cool at first, but now you’re covered in orange powder, grasping for the last Cheeto in the bag that is a metaphor for your life and coming up short of the Cheeto that is your dignity. It’s time to eat something out of the ordinary! Betty Crocker? More like Davy Crockett. There are plenty of wild animals right outside your door that are perfectly fit for an afternoon snack, such as squirrels and the occasional raccoon. It’s probably easier than you think to spear them up like a giant furry kabob. Eating will never be the same again, and you’ll probably learn a lot about your own primal instincts. Good luck! madeline christensen is a sophomore journalism major. reach her at Arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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1 what: Moscow Festival Ballet: Cinderella when: 7:30 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts cost: Starting at $29 for adults, $14.50 for students

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Kevin Gates when: 9 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre cost: $25 advance, $30 day of the show what:

The Rockabillys! when: 6 p.m. where: Zoo Bar what:

Interactions - UNL campus bands when: 7:30 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall cost: $5 general admission, $3 students

2 what:

End of the Year Open House when: 2 p.m. where: Nebraska Union cost: Free what: Book Signing Party when: 5 p.m. where: Sheldon Museum of Art cost: Free

SUNDAY

3 what: UNL Clay Club Spring Sale & Raffle when: 9 a.m. where: Richards Hall cost: Free

what:

Fest

Capital City Beer

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6 p.m.

Pinnacle Bank Arena cost: $20 advance, $30 day of the show where:

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Salsa Magic 6 p.m. where: Nebraska Union cost: Free when:

what: Rocktavo: Spring Concert when: 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union cost: $5

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Jennifer Duerr 7 p.m. where: MoJava Cafe

4 what: Book Launch Reading: Cumberland, Megan Gannon when: 2 p.m. where: Indigo Bridge Books cost: Free

what: Big Red Singers and Vocal Jazz when: 3 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall cost: $5 general admission, $3 student

when:

what: Free Comic Book Day 2014 when: 10:30 p.m. where: Trade A Tape Comic Center cost: Free

what: Karen Becker, Kate Butler, Susan Levine Ourada performance when: 7:30 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall cost: $5 general admission, $3 students

How to name your new living space arts desk dn As the semester comes to a close, many of us will be on the hunt for our future living arrangements.

Whether you’re fresh out of the residence halls and ready to move into “definitely the world’s greatest party house.” Or, whether you’re on your way out of said house (and all of its acquired smells or “character” as you call it) and on your way toward the more adult living scenarios of single apartments and Mom’s basement (for just a while, you know), there are some important factors to consider. Actually there’s only one: the name. Every pad needs a title and a defining sense of self. We all know the act of naming something brings it to life – like with children – so what better way to make your new space your own? Here’s the skinny for crafting your new abode’s perfect pet name.

Location

Consider first your new desination’s surroundings. What can you see? When you look out your windows (if you have them), do you find freshly paved sidewalks and streets, free from litter and populated with smiling folks in khaki shorts and tucked-in polos, or do you need a magnifying glass to locate the single patch of grass not covered in crushed cans of Busch Light and cigarette butts?

Think about the other buildings in the area. Is your neighborhood decorated with historic, red-brick beauties, or are the surrounding houses a collection of manufactured, white boxes with all the appeal of … well … Busch Light?

In my case, my landlord names all of his homes beforehand based on several critera. My pad sits within direct view of Memorial Stadium and is therefore titled – and simply I might add – The Stadium.

Outer Beauty

While its true houses are only as good as the company they keep, sometimes we can name them for what they are and how they look.

Look at your new house or apartment. Does it look like a bitch?

It won’t respond “what,” so take its

sean flattery | dn silence for a stolid “no” and give it the dignity it deserves. Is its exterior a rugged blend of chipped brick and manly, pealing paint, or is it a delicate little flower, with sweet colored embroidered edges and an array of lawn gnomes? For the former, you’ll want something along the lines of Hamsteak. For the latter, find a perfect blend between Herbal Essences and Pop-Tart.

resting place rocks wood-paneled walls and a window air conditioner or whether it features all of the bleak despair the comes with commercial housing’s white carpet, white walls, white lights, white … toilets (!?), each living space exudes its own sense of personality. Get to know your house.

Find out what makes it tick and what its allergic to (figuratively).

Inner Beauty

Expectations, desires and goals

Don’t judge a book by its cover, right? Well don’t judge a Hamsteak by its siding. Houses have feelings, too. Some have soft, wooly carpets of faded mint green and salmon. Some have dusty hardwood slats, complete with the creaks and cracks that come from years of college party abuse. Others come with lead paint waivers.

The point is, whether your new

We all want something from the place we call home. For those moving from their first year on a dry campus to a house in the Bottoms, you might want and fully expect to have the most raging shit-shows this side of the overpass. Some of us have already waded through the shores of shit and merely want a quiet spot to

chill after our full-time classes and side jobs. The name needs to reflect these aspirations. Do you really want your family to visit you at “Shit-show Palace”?

Smell

You’ve got to keep in mind that you have five senses, all of which are equally important, hold for touch. If the name of your living space is the “Subtown,” (weird choice, man), and it smells like a desert, there’s going to be a subconscious disconnect that’s going to haunt you so bad and make any sense of comfort impossible while you’re home. When you’re choosing a name, lay down in your living room and breathe in so, so deep. Let it overcome you. Let your senses dictate the name. Be one with the earth.

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Every book offers some value to its readers maranda loughlin

You gain something from anything, everything you read, whether it be short story or graphic novel In only 12 more days, the last finals of the semester will be zipped through and students will say: “Goodbye, crowded campus renovations!”

“Adios, late-night cramming!”

“Hasta-la-pasta, Subway Pizza Express and Disappointment

Palace!”

And then, 108 days of glorious summer vacation will ensue, bringing with it lazy pool days, afternoon day-dreaming and some afternoons of sheer boredom.

One-hundred and eight days.

That’s 2,592 hours or 155,520 minutes to do whatever the hell you want. Stay up late playing video games, why not? Drink a couple cold ones in the afternoon, who’s stopping you?

Or, you can read a book by the pool, lying in a patch of grass, at home on the couch basking in the cool air conditioner, on a bench at a park, in the hide-y hole of a library surrounded by the smell of old literature, with a cup of steaming coffee in the early morning before anyone is awake … you can read whenever, wherever.

Before I get going and sound like a rehashed Dr. Suess book – showing you how you can read literature here or there or everywhere – it’s important to address one thing: for most of you, I know

reading sounds like a chore right now. Indeed, the mere thought of touching a slender page could send you into fits of violence after reading textbooks for the past four months or the idea of taking in any more literature with a capital ‘L’ will lead you to spontaneously combust.

But before you go bananas and rip up this article out of wild, delirious loathing, hold on a sec.

Reading a book for pleasure isn’t like reading a political science textbook in the cubby hole of Love Library while you cram for your final exam. Reading a book for pleasure can actually be relaxing.

Reading can reduce stress. According to an article in The Telegraph, a newspaper based out of the UK, reading can reduce stress levels by 68 percent, and every six minutes of reading can reduce a person’s stress level by two thirds. The article also includes a picture of a person lounging in a hammock while scanning a deli-

cious mind snack. Sigh.

Reading actually lowered the subjects’ stress levels more than listening to music, having a cup of tea or coffee, taking a walk or playing video games. And according to the article, it doesn’t really matter what book you read either, although I’m sure it excludes my political science textbook.

But reading doesn’t always have to be about relaxation either. Like I wrote about in my last column, reading can also be for socializing. Join a book club.

You don’t have to be old and out of things to do to join. Book clubs are cool. It feels really good to be able to talk to people that have read the same titles as you, analyze the characters and talk about every should’ve-could’vewould’ve the novel ought to have included. And, there are tons of clubs that gather around Lincoln year-round.

Indigo Bridge Books, Lincoln City Libraries, Barnes & Noble, LGBTQA club, MOMS Club and

pages of other Google results, offer book clubs in the Lincoln area.

There are also clubs based on specific types of book genres from classic literature and short stories to mystery and graphic novels.

The possibilities are seemingly endless.

If you don’t want to join a book club, just pick up a copy of “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green. You will be able to converse with every other person you come in contact with about the young adult novel.

There’s also this thing called the “summer reading slide.” Although the majority of the research is based on K-12 students, I believe it applies to college students and everyone, for that matter.

When you haven’t read for a long time, it’s hard to get back into reading. For me at least, I go through stages. Sometimes I read constantly, devouring book by book like it’s a buffet. Other times, I groan at the thought of

reading when I could be doing something else that doesn’t require thinking. It’s hard to get back in the knack of picking up a book and taking it wherever you go, and then reading it, of course.

It’s a process.

I don’t really exclude any genre of reading. I think that no matter what you are reading, you are gaining something from it.

Even if that something is “Wow, this book blows.” I consider every type of book whether it be a children’s book, graphic novel, or a short story to be important.

So, this summer, read. Read anything and everything you like, whether it’s a long, tough novel or a short and sweet one. The importance of reading isn’t dependent on the nature of what you read, it’s just a matter of if you do it or if you don’t.

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

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These reads will keep you busy this summer From classics, to what’s popular, these books will keep you entertained during hot upcoming months Remember all those books you didn’t read in school? Well, some of them are actually pretty good.

Here are some that are worth the read.

The classics

1. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry – Read it before it becomes the horrible Taylor-Swift-color-induced-flick that’s hitting theaters in August. Then, go spend $9 on a movie ticket and heckle the shit out of Phillip Noyce and his “artistic license” he used with the classic, the jackass.

2. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut – Or anything by the witty author.

3. “1984” by George Orwell — Read it, and feel the eyes of Big Brother behind your back.

4. “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne – I’m not exactly sure why, but I really enjoyed reading this one in high school.

Maybe it was the weirdness that is Pearl Prynne or the deep and dark underlying themes of secrecy and sin. Whatever it was, it was good.

5. “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess – It’s wacky, scary and challenging.

John Green and more

Believe it or not, Green has been popping out books since 2006. Yet after “The Fault in Their Stars” erupted, everyone and their dog was pawing at the pages for his quirky and witty literature.

Here are a couple recommendations from John Green and other novelists who are worth looking at if you liked “The Fault in Their Stars.”

1. “Looking for Alaska” by John Green – This was Mr. Green’s first book and one of my favorites. In fact, I believe it to be 1,000

courtesy photo | dn times better than “The Fault in Their Stars.” This book is where Green’s quirky writings of the underdog took off.

2. “Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld – This is a series about youths that one day all undergo plastic surgery for the sake of being pretty.

It sounds nothing like a John Green book, and really, the two are not alike except that they are both young adult reads, and John Green likes this book. And if John likes it, it sells.

3. “An Abundance of Katherines” by John Green – Probably my favorite John Green book. But really, “Looking for Alaska” comes in at a close second. The entirety of this novel is quirky and captivating. It follows the life of Colin whose taste in women is women named Katherine and only Katherine. In fact, he has dated – and been dumped by – 19 Katherines with various different name spellings. I read it in two days.

4. “Eleanor & Park” by Rainbow Rowell – I haven’t actually read this book yet, but according to one of my John Green fan friends, her work is similar to Mr. Green’s. In fact, Green was quoted saying: “‘Eleanor & Park’ reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love with a girl but also what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.” Rowell also graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Pretty frickin’

neat.

5. “Bossypants” by Tina Fey – Yep. Recommended by Green himself, and it’s Tina Fey. Tina Fey. The goddess of comedy. And it’s great. Like, really great.

If you’re feeling like a poolside romance

1. “PS, I Love You” by Cecilia Ahern – I read this a long time ago right after the movie came out, and I was a little too into Gerard Butler and Irish accents. Although the movie was good, the book is better, as most books are.

2. “Size 12 Is Not Fat” by Meg Cabot – From the same author who wrote the tales of Mia Thermopo-“lips” and her cat, Fat Louie, Cabot writes about an older heroine, Heather Wells. This novel is filled with “big” hips, an inevitable romance and a bit of a mysterious edge.

3. “The Time Traveler’s Wife”

by Audrey Niffenegger – It’s about a librarian who time travels and a creative, beautiful artist. Eat it up.

4. “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks – Go ahead, laugh it up, but Sparks is good. He writes simply and cleanly, which might be too simply and cleanly for others, but for a certain crowd, he’s a

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4. “Adonis Garage” by Rynn Williams – I haven’t read this book, but a friend of mine picked it up at the resale book shop earlier this semester, and he recommended it to me. The poetry collection won the Prarie Schooner Book Prize in poetry. Rynn’s work has been described as “brutally frank, brutally beautiful and sexy” by writer Jonathan Holden.

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Big ten homeroom 1. Indiana (27-12 Overall, 12-2 Big Ten)

The Hoosiers continue to hold down the top spot in the Big Ten Conference. This squad is doing this by having the best pitching in the conference. The team ERA stands at 2.49, and the Hoosiers have allowed a Big Ten low of 128 total runs.

The team’s bats also help out, as it sits at fourth in the conference in batting average. With Penn State, Purdue and Minnesota left as the final conference series in the regular season, Indiana has a great chance to stay perched at the top of the Big Ten.

2. Illinois (23-16, 10-4)

Wait, what? Yes, Illinois has crept into the mix of having the chance to dethrone Indiana. Illinois has a solid club that has been in the upper tier of the conference but hasn’t quite come this close to Indiana. The team did manage to take one game against the Hoosiers last weekend. The third-best pitching staff, and the fifth-ranked offense in the conference explains why the team could, and did, shove its way into the top level of Big Ten competitors.

3. Nebraska (28-16, 104)

After a disastrous series against Northwestern, in which Nebraska was lucky to salvage a game, the squad could have easily gotten down and cried in the fetal position. What did the Huskers do? They went into Ann Arbor, Mich., and took a series win against the Wolverines. With a successful rebound, the Huskers keep a high spot in the Big Ten rankings. If the squad gets back on a roll like it did earlier in the year, a bid into the tournament could be in the team’s future.

4. Iowa (25-15, 7-8)

The Hawkeyes took on a nonconference opponent this weekend, and the squad took full advantage. Iowa swept South Dakota State in a three-game series.

Iowa’s pitching may not be something to drool over, but the offense could be. The team is tied with the Huskers for the best hitting in the conference. The Hawkeyes hit .303 percent, and they have knocked 428 hits so far this season. The Hawkeyes toughest conference foe left on the schedule is a home series against the Fighting Illini, but Iowa will also go up against Ohio State and Purdue.

5. Michigan State (23-17, 7-7)

9. Ohio State (24-19, 5-9)

How can the sixth-ranked offense and fourth-best pitching staff in the Big Ten be so bad?

The team ERA is at 3.45 and the hitters are batting .273 on the year. It just doesn’t make sense. The Buckeyes just can’t string together victories. If the team wins, only a couple of losses will follow to drown out the win. The schedule won’t make things much easier until the final series against Northwestern at home, and the team has to go through the Hawkeyes and the Wolverines before that series.

Pitching, pitching and more pitching. This is the method to Michigan State’s madness. With a team ERA of 2.84, the Spartans are ranked second in the Big Ten on the mound. If the bats could liven up the .263 percent batting average a little bit more, this would be the top team in the conference. The squad did take on the lowly Wildcats last weekend, but the schedule only looks daunting after the series with Northwestern. Michigan State will play at Illinois and Penn State, and the team will face Nebraska at home.

6. Michigan (18-24-1, 8-9)

10. Northwestern (12-27, 4-12)

Wake up, bats! The Wolverines need the offense to come to life. The team hits just .251 percent, and that’s decent, but it has been the Achilles heel of the squad. The team ERA sits at 3.57, and it has punched out 311 hitters this year, which leads the Big Ten. If the offense could better complement the pitching staff, this would be a scary-good team. The team’s conference record could see a boost, as it has Ohio State and Northwestern left on the schedule as the last two conference opponents this year.

7. Minnesota (22-16, 9-9)

The Golden Gophers handled the Nittany Lions last weekend by allowing just one run in the series. Minnesota just plays too inconsistent for them to be at the top of the conference.

The hitting isn’t up to par, but the pitching can get the job done for the team. The Gophers get a nonconference series next week, but the series features a Heisman winner, Jameis Winston. Minnesota gets a crack at No. 5 Florida State. The final series of the season also won’t be easy, as the squad will end the year at Indiana.

8. Penn State (17-23, 5-9)

The Wildcats appeared as if they were going to turn their season around and be like the Indians in the movie “Major League.” Then, Michigan State came in and ruined what could have made millions in the box office. Northwestern went back to its ways before the fourgame winning streak, which is a lot of tallies in the loss column. This was a great stretch for the team, as it won six out of seven games. At least the Wildcats’ schedule has six more non-conference games remaining in the season, which could help the squad boost its overall record.

11. Purdue (11-28, 5-9)

I’m sorry, Purdue fans, but this is not your ball club’s year. The team just doesn’t have it this season. Being able to sneak out an occasional conference win won’t equate to success. Being last in the conference in pitching and hitting also won’t turn into a winning baseball team. Michigan is the second-worst hitting team in the conference, but that team hits .251 percent, while the Boilermakers have a .228 percent batting average. The schedule isn’t the team’s friend either, as it will take on Indiana and Minnesota on the road only to finish the season against Iowa at home.

For a team that began the season toward the top of the conference, Penn State has been stopped in its tracks and knocked down some pegs.

The losing streak extended to nine games with a loss to Minnesota. With the way this squad is playing right now, the schedule looks awful from here on out. The squad will go up against Nebraska on the road and then finish with home games against Indiana and Michigan State. The saving grace for the squad is that it is 8-3 at home, and the only three losses came during this losing streak.

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FROM NEWS unionization: from 1 reached the public’s eye thanks in part to the only private school in the Big Ten Conference: Northwestern. Kain Colter, a former quarterback at Northwestern, as well as other anonymous athletes throughout the country are the first NCAA athletes to ever seek employee status and union representation.

The College Athletes Players Association filed a petition to the National Labor Relations Board in January asking for the right for college athletes to form unions and collectively bargain for their rights. In the petition, association founder and president Ramogi Huma, a former UCLA football player, said college athletes should be able to form unions because of the risk of concussions and other football-related health problems.

He said the union movement isn’t an effort to get schools or the NCAA to pay its athletes but rather an attempt to give athletes a chance to collectively bargain for their rights and safety.

After weeks of deliberation, the Chicago sector of the Nationfile photo by jake crandall | dn al Labor Relations Board handed down the ruling. The board’s Senior wide receiver Kenny Bell plays at the spring game April 12. Bell said he supports discusregional director, Peter Sung sion of unionization and athletes’ rights at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ohr, ruled that football players on scholarship at Northwestern on-field performance as reasons you as an individual and as a stipends for its athletes. are qualified as employees and for granting unions. The ruling person.”

Even if athletes such as Bell thus can unionize. Ohr ’s ruling said the scholarship students are could afford to pay dues, unionNorthwestern has appealed said he considered these players not primarily students but rather izing would be a tough undertakthe NLRB’s decision, meaning employees under the Supreme primarily athletes. That’s one of the case will be reviewed by the ing. Many athletes in Nebraska Court’s definition of “commonthe major differences between an board’s national branch in Wash- and across the country don’t unlaw employee,” which includes employee and a nonemployee. derstand the full implications of ington, D.C. anyone who performs services There is some validity to the what unionization would entail, David Murphy, a labor refor an employer who can conclaim that athletes are athletes Bell said. lations lawyer for Dorsey and trol how the services are done. first and students second, said If the team voted in favor of Whitney LLP, said the national Applying this definition to the former Nebraska offensive line- board is unlikely to reverse the unionization, its members would unionization case, Northwestman Brandon decision. He said a breakdown officially be considered employees ern football coach Chapek.

He in filibuster rules has allowed of the university. This means they Pat Fitzgerald and said he somewould be entitled to workman’s President Barack Obama to apWe know Northwestern are times felt he point former union lawyers and compensation, a guaranteed right considered the emcoming in was viewed as officials to the board, who will to a minimum wage, compensaployers and the footmore of an em- likely uphold the lower board’s tion for overtime and health benball players are em- that football is a ployee than a efits. ployees. hellacious sport.” student while decision.

“There’s a lot of ignorance on The ruling paved attending UNL. this team,” Chapek said. Some THE PLIGHT OF the way for a historic brandon chapek “It’s kind Nebraska football players are “just vote held at Northformer nebraska offensive of the behind- ATHLETES chasing dollar signs” or trying to western last Friday. lineman Bell’s comments come soon the-scenes vermake administration address othNorthwestern footafter a UConn basketball player, er concerns , he said. sus the pubball players voted senior Shabazz Napier, made licly viewed,” “But they’re not thinking whether to form a union for the Chapek said. “Publicly viewed, similar remarks following UCo- about all that they already have first time in collegiate sports hisabsolutely, 100 percent look like nn’s win against Kentucky in the in our situation,” Chapek said. “I tory. The result of the vote will an employee. Behind-the-scenes, NCAA’s basketball title game, agree 100 percent that there are not be made public until Northit’s more of a mentorship or where he said he sometimes went definitely programs out there that western’s appeal process is comto bed “starving” because his unionization would be great in the an apprenticeship. You know, plete, which could be as late as you’re learning all these differ- scholarship didn’t pay for all of fact that it guarantees health covthis summer. his food. The NCAA has since ex- erage, etcetera, etcetera. ent skills from individuals that Ohr cited the players’ time panded its food rules to provide are successful in that area.

“In our particular case, where commitments to the team and the “It’s not based on money at unlimited meals and snacks in our program is thriving the way link between scholarships and that point. It’s more based on addition to school meal plans or it is, the level of stuff that they’re

benefits: from 1 able to provide for us is well above what we would be able to at this point get out of unionizing.”

Chapek said the university provides services such as taxfiling aid and on-campus health care for its athletes while they are competing for the school. UNL also provides a life skills program other schools may not have. So while issues such as health care after graduation and later in life are a big concern for college athletes they know what they are getting into when they sign on, Chapek said.

“We know coming in that football is a hellacious sport,” Chapek said. “You’re throwing large bodies at each other at high speeds. I mean, it’s a brutal, vicious sport.

There’s no other way around it. At the same time, do you see people saying, ‘Nah, not for me?’ No, you see people signing up, wanting to do it. We know full well we’re putting ourselves in harm’s way.”

It is hard to know just how a Nebraska unionization movement would play out. However, one thing is more certain; The whole process could take several years to come to a conclusion. Murphy said few of the athletes currently involved in any sort of player’s rights movements will even experience the benefits of their efforts – and that’s assuming they get their wish. If the Northwestern players win Northwestern’s NLRB appeal, that will just be the beginning of the court process, which could take two or three years, Murphy said.

“That’s where it goes on appeal to the federal courts, to the court of appeals right beneath the Supreme Court,” Murphy said, “and it would not be surprising to anyone that it would end up in the Supreme Court.”

Unionization at Northwestern or other schools is no guarantee.

If it doesn’t happen, Murphy said a likely alternative would be for the players to continue to advocate for major issues such as their long-term health care. Murphy said the NCAA’s decision to relax food restrictions for athletes after Napier’s “starving” comments is evidence that change can occur even if collegiate athletics don’t unionize.

The player’s rights movement will be a long but voluntary process. Because after all, in Chapek’s words, “No one here has to be playing.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Counselors want to help student athletes best prepare themselves for future internship and job opportunities.

“I think that the athletes are held to such a high standard with how they represent the state, that they need these opportunities,” freshman athletic trainer Renee Craft said. “There is always someone there that can help them balance out their classes and practice schedules and games.

They need that to be successful now and later on in life.”

Collura said the benefits of being a student athlete come with a price: always being in the spotlight. Athletes have to watch what they say not only to reporters and fans, she said, but also on social media.

“You just have be careful,” Collura said. “You are representing something so much bigger than yourself.”

They have to edit themselves.

They can’t partake in the usual college Friday night partying when there’s a game on Saturday morning.

“For some athletes, that is a big deal,” Stephens said. “I don’t think I had to give anything up. I probably wouldn’t go to class as much if I wasn’t an athlete and had something to be responsible for. I made the choice and I love it.”

Sophomore right-handed pitcher Jeff Chesnut said he didn’t think twice about choosing to enter collegiate athletics.

“Sure, we’ve all had to give up things along the way,” Chesnut said. “But we all made the choice. And I am playing the sport that I love, and I can’t imagine not doing it. It’s all worth it.”

Student athletes are lucky because they get to do what they love every day, he said.

“The whole experience is amazing,” senior tennis player Brandon Videtich said. “Being an athlete here, you’re treated as sort of a celebrity. It’s just really cool to wear that ‘N’ when you compete and represent the state the way that we do.”

Videtich said Nebraska is a special place for collegiate sports because of its strong fanbase and focus on tradition.

“Nebraska isn’t just focused on developing athletes,” Stephens said. “They are developing people to be successful after athletics as well.”

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Zeppernick’s Husker career ends at championship Zach Tegler DN Maike Zeppernick didn’t get the chance to finish her career.

The only senior on the Nebraska women’s tennis team saw her college career come to an end, along with the Huskers’ season, in a 4-0 loss to No. 37 Illinois at the Big Ten Championships on Thursday.

“It was just really sad that everything was over,” Zeppernick said. “Not even that we lost. I was just sad that it was my last dual match of my career.”

Zeppernick’s final two matches for Nebraska, a doubles match with junior Izabella Zgierska and a singles match, weren’t completed as the fifth-seeded Fighting Illini quickly dispatched the 12thseeded Huskers in Evanston, Ill. The dual began in doubles play, where Illinois senior Misia Kedzierski and freshman Louise Kwong defeated Nebraska’s No. 3 doubles team of freshmen Lisa Andersson and Hannah Sulz, 8-2.

Then at the No. 1 doubles spot, junior Melissa Kopinski and senior Allison Falkin of Illinois beat sophomore Maggy Lehmicke and freshman Mary Hanna of Nebraska, 8-4.

The Fighting Illini clinched the doubles point with the two victories, meaning Zeppernick and Zgierska’s match against Alexis Casati and Jerricka Boone didn’t finish. The Illini carried a 1-0 advantage into singles action, which meant that the Huskers needed to win 4 of 6 singles matches to win the dual.

Nebraska coach Scott Jacobson said Zeppernick and Zgierska, who won singles matches in the Huskers’ 4-2 loss at Illinois on April 13, and a couple of others could make that happen.

“I really felt like we could get four singles matches,” Jacobson said.

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Senior Maike Zeppernick competed in her last tennis match for the Nebraska women’s tennis team Thursday. The Huskers competed in the Big Ten Championships where they lost 4-0 against the No. 37 Illinois Fighting Illini.

In singles play the Illini only lost 10 games in the three matches that won the dual for Illinois.

The No. 3 match ended first, with Hanna falling to Kopinski, 6-2, 6-4. Then Illinois’ Boone beat Nebraska’s Andersson, 6-2, 6-1,

and Casati upended Zgierska, the only upperclassman on NU’s roster other than Zeppernick, 6-0, 6-1. That victory gave Illinois the 4 points necessary to clinch the victory and the final three singles matches, including Zeppernick’s,

didn’t finish.

“The effort was there,” Jacobson said. “Maike was up against the same kid she played last time, up a set. The other highlights are probably Maggy Lehmicke and Mary Hanna, who performed at a

Nebraska finishes 10th at end-of-season conference Brett Nierengarten DN The Nebraska women’s golf team traveled to French Lick, Ind., for the Big Ten Championship held at the 6,200 yard par 72 Ross Course at the French Lick Resort. The team finished 10th out of the 12 teams in the tournament.

The Huskers got off to a hot start Friday, shooting 302 as a team, which put them one stroke behind Ohio State for first place.

In the first round, the team was led by sophomores Cassidy Stelzmiller and Morgan Smejkal, who shot 72 and 75 respectively on Friday. The two players were fourth and fifth on the team in scoring average both averaging more than a 79 per round. The Husker lineup was rounded out by Katelyn Wright who fired a 76 and fellow senior Steffi Neisen who shot a 76.

Individually, Stelzmiller’s even par round gave her the lead after one round, and she led two Ohio State golfers Jessica Porvasnik and Zoe-Beth Brake who shot 73 and 74 respectively.

“That’s where we want this program to be.” Nebraska coach Robin Krapfl said. “The opportunity to play with the leaders for the day showed them (the team) there is not a lot of difference in how we hit the ball just our short games have to be better.”

Whether it was the pressure or some other factor, the second round went almost as poorly as possible for the Huskers. The team shot a 322, which was the worst in the field by eight strokes. This dropped Nebraska from second to 10th place in the tournament.

Neither Stelzmiller nor Smejkal’s encore went as planned. The two sophomores shot 83 and 84, respectively on Saturday. The two seniors, Wright and Neisen both shot 79, the only two players in the Husker lineup to shoot below an 80. Wright and Stelzmiller were tied for the team

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Sophomore Morgan Smejkal surprised the Husker squad in the first round of the Big Ten Championship by shooting a 75. In the next round, she shot an 84, while both seniors shot an 80 and 79. lead at 11-over through two rounds.

“It was a little bit out of our comfort zone, and we started to press then things kind of snowballed.” Krapfl said of her team’s let up.

As for the rest of the field, Ohio State and Michigan State asserted themselves as the two teams to beat in the conference. The Buckeyes shot a 297 and the Spartans had a 293 to pull themselves into a tie with Ohio State for first place after two rounds. The two teams were 10 strokes in front of third-place Northwestern.

Individually, Porvasnik and Brake took advantage of Stelzmiller’s slip up to move into a tie for first place at 1-over par.

In the final round on Sunday the Huskers shot 307 to improve greatly from their 322 in the previous round.

Nebraska was led by Wright with a 74, and Stelzmiller wasn’t far behind with

a 75. The other two scores for the final round came from Neisen with a 78 and Cassie Deeg with an 80.

“Katelyn and Steffi have meant a lot to our program; they were great ambassadors for our program and did a great job helping our younger players.” Krapfl said of her two graduating seniors.

Ohio State and Michigan State both shot 297s to remain tied and share the Big Ten title, and Porvasnik fired a 71 to pull away from Brake and win the conference by 3.

Although this wasn’t the result Krapfl was looking for, she said her team’s talent will carry into next year now that it will have more experience.

“We had a lot of young players get some great experience and make huge strides in their games, so the future is very bright,” Krapfl said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Last Thursday, the Nebraska men’s tennis team played its last match of the 2014 season in the Big Ten Tournament. At the ninth seed, the No. 69 Huskers (12-15, 3-8 Big Ten) took on tournament hosts No. 61 Michigan State (1213, 5-6 Big Ten) in East Lansing, Mich. losing 4-0 in its first round of the competition.

“We feel like we had a great opportunity this weekend,” senior Brandon Videtich said. “We had a tough match with them last time and felt like we had a few chances slip. They are a hardworking team, but we are too so it definitely was a great match.”

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In doubles, Michigan State’s Harry Jadun and Gijs Linders

by MSU. The singles point and the beat sophomores Dusty Boyer During singles play, the match was taken by the Spartans and Marc Herrmann 8-2 at the Huskers had a difficult time findat the No. 1 spot when MSU’s No. 2 position. Almost simultaing the momenDrew Lied beat Boyer 6-4, 6-2. neously at the tum they lacked Losing to Michigan State ended No. 3 spot, senior We feel during doubles.

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Pfister beat BlackThe Huskers improved on 1 court match Brandon videtich well 6-3, 6-4 at their 2013 record. Last season, Videtich and jusenior men’s tennis player the No. 3 court in they didn’t make it to the Big Ten nior Bradford his last match as Tournament. Nebraska will start Zitsch against Husker. The two the 2014-2015 season in the fall Michigan State’s Drew Lied and John Patrick Mul- seniors were honored in their with a match in August. sports@ last home match against Illinois lane was left unfinished after the dailynebraskan.com singles point was already taken where they lost 1-6.

volleyball: from 10 who either hit or scored a run,” Revelle said.

The Huskers will head to Madison, Wis., on Wednesday for their first mid-week road series against the Badgers. Edwards said the weekend against the Spartans will help the Huskers in their next competition.

“It was just a really great weekend,” Edwards said. “We’re really excited to get out there this week against the Badgers and play some more Nebraska softball.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

baseball: from 10 After the Wolverines picked up 2 more runs in the bottom half to widen the lead to 7-3, Nebraska’s Ryan Boldt led off the seventh inning with his fourth triple of the year. Teammates Jake Placzek and Pritchard followed with a strikeout and fly out to left field, respectively. However, Kelly made sure not to surrender Boldt on third and blasted his second homerun of the year to cut the deficit to 7-5.

Freshman Jake Hohensee replaced Christensen and on his second pitch, threw purposefully outside to hinder Trey Miller’s suicide squeeze attempt. The play calling worked as Miller bunted through Hohensee’s pitch, allowing Taylor

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softball: from 10 “Emily and I give each other so much information,” Tatum said.

“We have a pitcher connection. We talk about everything when we’re warming up for games.”

Sunday’s last game wrapped up the series with an 8-0 shutout and the Huskers 10th straight win.

In this game, Edwards allowed only two hits for the Spartans. On the offensive side, Edwards also hit a homer alongside her teammate sophomore infielder Hailey Decker to add to the Huskers’ 14 total hits in the game.

“We had a lot of people today

lot higher level than they did the previous time against the same opponent.”

Lehmicke had her season come to a conclusion in a singles match that did not finish, ending her year 22-13 at the No. 1 singles

spot a season after playing at the No. 4 and No. 5 spots as a freshman.

“We’re asking a kid to go four or five singles to one,” Jacobson said. “I definitely believe she’s playing at the highest level she’s ever played at.”

Illinois went on to lose to the No. 4 seed, Purdue, in the second round on Friday. No. 1 seed Michigan beat No. 9 seed Iowa, No. 2 seed Northwestern, playing at home, beat No. 7 seed Indiana and No. 3 seed Ohio State beat No. 6 seed Minnesota as the top four seeds advanced to Saturday’s semifinals.

The top seeds also won both duals on Saturday, setting up a Big Ten final between the No. 17 Wolverines and No. 16 Wildcats.

In Sunday’s final, Northwestern beat Michigan 4-3 to clinch the Big Ten title.

The Huskers’ season came to a close at the end of a 13-dual losing streak. After an appearance in the round of 16 at the 2013 NCAA Championships and a top-25 ranking to begin the 2014 campaign, Nebraska didn’t gain a victory in conference play to finish 8-17 on the year.

“Obviously, it was a learning year for us, but I think the future’s bright,” Jacobson said.

Looking ahead, Nebraska returns its entire roster except Zeppernick, who went 54-34 in singles and 30-32 in doubles in her four years in Lincoln. Her career may not have finished the way she wanted, but she still said her time with the Huskers was time well spent.

“It was just great to play for my teammates, who I always got along with and who always supported me,” Zeppernick said.

“And it was just probably, for my tennis career, the most fun part of my life.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Fish to tag out Zach Zott running down the third baseline.

Sophomore Jacob Cronenworth took the mound for Michigan in the eighth and silenced Nebraska’s final six batters of the game to salvage the rubber match and avoid the sweep.

Besides its lack of offense, Nebraska also recorded an error and allowed five walks – both of which hampered them in last weekend against Northwestern.

After taking two of three from Michigan, the Huskers will travel to Omaha to play against Creighton and UNO on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

hitting clip. Nebraska had more digs than Creighton at 37-33, and both teams had a total of eight blocks.

Fifty percent of the proceeds from the match went toward the reconstruction of the Wayne Summer Sports Complex that was destroyed by the tornado that hit the area last fall.

“It was pretty neat and nice that all the schools came together in Wayne for a good cause, and playing for a sold-out crowd is always awesome,” Fien said.

At Nebraska’s previous spring match, the team defeated Iowa State 4-0 (27-25, 25-21, 2522, 25-22).

In that match, Nebraska was led by Kadie Rolfzen, who contributed a total of 11 kills. Amber Rolfzen, Fien, Pollmiller and Kiel added seven kills as well.

Pollmiller also added 38 assists and 7 digs.

Kadie Rolfzen also had 10 digs, the most of anyone on the team. Kiel helped by adding 8 blocks.

As a team, Nebraska hit .218 for the match and had 6 aces as well as 15 blocks, while Iowa State had a .147 and 2 blocks.

Both Nebraska and Iowa State posted 51 digs each.

As the Huskers move into the summer and the next academic year, Fien said they plan to stay focused and positive after their win.

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Sophomore outside hitter Amber Rolfzen played the right side instead of left in Nebraska’s game against Creighton. Amber and her sister, sophomore Kadie Rolfzen, contributed 9 kills each.

“Ending the season with Creighton was a big deal for us since we lost last year,” Fien said.

“We were able to prove ourselves

this year. We ended on a high note, and honestly when we’re put in situations we’re not used to will make us a bigger and bet-

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winning pitches Senior right-handed pitcher Christian DeLeon helped the Huskers to a series win against the Michigan Wolverines. DeLeon struggled with soreness in his arm before he was taken out.

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He looked me right in the eye and said, ‘Coach, I got nothing.’”

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hristian DeLeon pitched like Christian DeLeon. Chance Sinclair threw like Chance Sinclair.

The senior and junior righthanded hurlers combined for 1 earned run in 12 2/3 innings to assist Nebraska (28-17, 10-5 Big Ten) in winning its series against Michigan (19-24-1, 9-9) during the weekend.

The Huskers won the first two games , 6-4 and 3-1, before dropping the final game of the series Saturday, 7-5.

The Wolverines threatened early in the bottom of the second, loading the bases with nobody out and looking to grab the game’s first lead. However DeLeon struck out 2 and surrendered just 1 run after beaming Trey Miller on a full-count to allow the game’s first run. “(He) only gave up one run, that’s the game right there,” Nebrsaka coach Darin Erstad said.

“That’s why we have him on Friday night.”

In his previous three starts, DeLeon allowed just five runs to go the distance in three consecutive games. He looked to be on his way to his fourth complete game in a row, or at least another long and strong outing.

So why did Erstad take his ace out in the fifth inning after allowing just 1 run on 6 hits?

“He had a little soreness in his tricep this week from lifting, and I just wanted to make sure that wasn’t it,” the coach said. “He looked me right in the eye and said, ‘Coach, I got nothing.’”

Before exiting, DeLeon’s teammates supported him by putting a six spot in the top of the fourth inning. Five Huskers doubled in the 6-4 win, including senior outfielder Michael Pritchard who had a game-high 3 runs batted in to give DeLeon his fifth win of the season.

Sinclair followed his teammate with a 7 1/3 inning performance Saturday, allowing just 6 hits himself and 2 walks to pick up his sixth win of the season.

Although Michigan’s Trent Szkutnik was replaced after 6 2/3 innings and left with no decision, coach Erik Bakich said he was impressed with the junior left-hander’s start.

“He started to pitch to contact and have quick innings and really gave us a chance to get a lead,” Bakich said. “He pitched well enough to win; that’s for sure.”

Nebraska failed to continue its superior pitching in the rubber match and struggled with its command on Sunday.

Aaron Bummer struck out five Wolverines in his 10th start of the season but also walked five, allowing six Michigan batters to cross the plate.

Down 5 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, junior Austin Darby drilled a single up the middle to knock in Pat Kelly and send Steven Reveles to third base.

After a pinch-hit walk by Ben Miller to load the bases, catcher Taylor Fish grounded into a killer inning-ending double play to halt Nebraska from furthering its rally.

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NU gets 10th win, 5th shutout Natasha Rausch DN The Huskers didn’t let a single Spartan cross the home plate this weekend.

In a three-game series between Nebraska and Michigan State at MSU’s home field, the Huskers took all the wins for a total score of 16-0 in the three-day span.

Nebraska coach Rhonda Revelle attributes the Huskers’ success to the defense including pitchers senior Tatum Edwards and sophomore Emily Lockman, who worked together to pitch the three shutouts.

“The story of the weekend was how we set the tone at the mound,” Revelle said. “Anytime you have the pitching staff and the defense put up zeroes, it’s a good game.”

And it was a “good game” for three days.

On Friday, the Huskers took a 2-0 win to start off the weekend. Edwards said she wanted to start the game off strong, so she stopped the Spartans early attempts at points.

Michigan State attempted to make a second single in a row at the bottom of the third inning.

But sophomore center fielder Kiki Stokes grabbed the hit and threw the ball to senior catcher Taylor Edwards for the Spartans’ third out.

“The defense made awesome plays,” Tatum Edwards said. “That great throw from Kiki to Taylor in the first game really started us off well for the rest of the game and

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Senior pitcher Tatum Edwards (above) and sophomore pitcher Emily Lockman allowed no runs in the three-game series against the Michigan State Spartans. The Huskers took all three wins with scores of 2-0 on Friday, 6-0 on Saturday and 8-0 on Sunday. the rest of the weekend.”

The pitching on the Spartan side of the series gave the Huskers their biggest challenge, Revelle said.

Freshman pitcher Valerie Kaff threw for seven innings in the first game and allowed five hits, the same number of hits Tatum allowed.

“Their pitchers came out in the first and second games and gave us some trouble,” Revelle said.

“We had to earn everything we got, but we just kept working and making adjustments throughout the weekend.”

In the second game Saturday, the Huskers took another shutout

with a 6-0 final score.

Lockman pitched in this game to add to her seventh win of the season. Tatum said the two pitchers worked together on and off the field to help each other against Michigan State’s batters.

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The Nebraska volleyball team finished the year by defeating Creighton in front of a sold-out crowd in Wayne, Neb. The Huskers won their second and final match of the spring 3-0 (25-15, 25-19, 25-22). They played Saturday in the Rice Auditorium at 2 p.m.

Going into the meet, Nebraska coach John Cook said he was pleased with where the team was so far.

“I love where we’re at,” Cook said. “I love how we’re training.”

Junior outside hitter Kelsey Fien led the team offensively by contributing 12 kills on 24 attacks, with a .333 hitting percentage.

Sophomore outside hitters Amber and Kadie Rolfzen also contributed 9 kills each, and senior setter Mary Pollmiller added 33 assists.

Amber Rolfzen played rightside in the match, although she usually played left-side. She said it comes more naturally for her to play on the left, although other

volleyball players said it’s much harder to play from that side.

Cook said Rolfzen is a natural, and he hopes she remains confident in herself and sees herself as a main scorer for the team.

Sophomore libero Justine Wong-Orantes helped the Huskers defensively with 15 digs and sophomore Melanie Kiel had 6 blocks.

“I thought the match went really well for the team,” Fien said.

“It was nice ending on a good note because we’ve all worked so hard with sand and moving back indoors.”

Fien also said she thinks playing sand helped improve the Huskers’ indoor performance, which contributed to their success Saturday.

Creighton was led by Jess Bird, who contributed 11 kills and had a .474 hitting percentage. Melanie Jereb also helped the Bluejays by adding 7 kills.

Nebraska hit a .265 for the match, and Creighton had a .109

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