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Asarta Moves On
After almost 2 decades at UNL, economics educator accepts job in Delaware Story by Kayla Schultz Photo by Stuart McKay
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fter 17 years here as both a student and a teacher, Carlos Asarta is leaving the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The economics associate professor of practice, who received his bachelor ’s and master ’s degrees and his Ph.D. from UNL, will join the University of Delaware in the fall, where he’ll serve as an economics professor and chairman of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship. “The University of Delaware is a perfect fit for me,” he said. “It was an opportunity I could not let pass me by.” Now it’s time for Asarta to reflect. “I have been able to impact around 6,000 students, and that to me is a great accomplishment,” he said. After he moved to the United States from Spain in 1996, he dedicated most of his time to swimming as an undergraduate, and he spent his first year out of college working for a tile business. A professor inspired him to think about a career in economics. “I always knew I enjoyed teaching, and one day I thought, Economics associate professor of practice Carlos Asarta accepts the Excellence in Teaching ‘Perhaps I could be a professor ’ Award- Non Tenure Track from College of Business Administration Dean Donde Plowman Thurs… and here I am today,” Asarta day. said. Asarta is well-known among received the Dean’s Coin Award, learned through technology. For students in the College of Busi- philosophy: Treat students as he example, a student could watch the Excellence in Teaching Award would like to be treated. ness Administration. a video at home explain why from CBA and the Certificate of “I have always tried to do my “Dr. Asarta has a reputation the demand curve is downward that precedes him,” said sopho- best and lead by example,” he Recognition for Contributions to Students, and he’s the Associa- sloping, and then the instructor said. “This was true when I was more accounting and finance could spend time in class relating tion of Students of the University major Angela Burns. “I was told an athlete and a student at UNL, that topic to real examples, workand it is still true in my current of Nebraska’s Educator of the he is strict, and he definitely is, ing on problems or even having Year. role. Students have been very but he knows what he is talking discussions.” He has published 10 papers about. I really enjoyed his class. gracious and I have had a numAsarta said his most rewardber of them stop by my office and and several book chapters since Sure, it’s hard, but thank me for he has been working at UNL. ing moments have come “when it challenges you students get economics, when Some of his more recent research my work. What I have to think and learn I am asked good questions in they tell me is has been published in the Journal something new. Isn’t always tried class, or when a student who is of Economic Education, Decision that they could that why we come to struggling turns the semester Journal of Innovative college? To learn?” to do my best and tell that I cared Sciences around and completes my final about them and Education and the Journal of AgSenior manageexam with an A.” their education. ricultural and Applied Economment and economics lead by example.” As for his summer plans, ics. They also tell major Anh Ha said Carlos Asarta On top of his large lecture Asarta will be involved in ecoAsarta is a fair in- economics associate professor me that they nomics education programs in enjoy the rigor classes and research, Asarta has structor. of practice and structure also been developing the first- Chicago and Berkeley, Calif. “I liked his class that I have in ever fully digital curriculum for Then, he’ll ride his scooter from because he is a really Lincoln to his new home in Delaall my courses, economics. good professor,” Ha said. “After ware. “I like hybrid courses, where and the fact that I treat everyone the first assignment, the ones “It has a 650cc engine, so it students are able to access the who really want to work hard for equally.” materials at home and come to should not be a problem,” he Asarta is a five-time recipiit will stay with it and get a good class to work on problems and said. “I am looking forward to grade. The people who don’t ent of the Outstanding Educathe two-day ride.” get ‘value-added,’” he said. want to work hard for it will be tor Award and the Certificate of news@ “Many of the mechanics we Recognition for Contributions to gone or will drop the class.” dailynebraskan.com Students. This year alone he has do in the classroom could be Asarta said he has a simple
UHC privatization report will be ready next month conor dunn DN Deloitte Consulting is expected to present its report on privatization of the University Health Center to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents next month. University of Nebraska-Lincoln administration originally intended to present Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s proposal to privatize student health care at the board’s January meeting. But the administration postponed its presentation to the March 15 board meeting because it didn’t feel prepared, said Christine Jackson, vice chancellor for Business and Finance, in January. Then, the regents’ executive committee removed the vote the week of its March 15 meeting because its members wanted to see more research conducted on the proposal. University administrators said they didn’t research the effects of privatization before Perlman’s Sept. 11 announcement of his plans to privatize the health center. Perlman said he hasn’t spoken with Deloitte. He said he hopes the regents will make a decision on the proposal at their June 7 meeting. “If they allow us to go forward, we will, after consulting
with our partner about an appropriate time frame,” Perlman said in an email. If the regents reject the privatization proposal, Perlman said administration will begin the process of requesting an increase in student fees so it can construct a new health center facility internally. Local health care provider Bryan Health has proposed to build a new health center for UNL. In return, Bryan Health would take over the health center’s operations. University administration said Bryan Health’s proposal allows administration to refrain from significantly increasing student fees to build a new facility. Bryan Health has also proposed to maintain all current health services offered to students with the possibility of offering more. Deloitte consultants toured the health center on April 2 and met with health center staff to ask questions about the health center’s daily operations, college health and opinions on the privatization. The consulting group also asked about the health center’s operations and financial background. Since March 26, UHC Director James Guest said it was his understanding that Deloitte, a consulting group based in New York City,
would be conducting on-site interviews and seeking information from health center staff and administration for the following four to six weeks. Although Deloitte has contacted Guest to request further statistical information, he said the consulting group hasn’t visited the health center since its tour on April 2. Since Perlman presented his privatization plan to the community, health center employees have left, seeking employment at other areas around campus to maintain benefits or simply seeking work elsewhere. As of April 24, Guest said 18 of the health center’s 88 employees have resigned or retired, including a couple physicians, the lead pharmacist, marketing coordinator and insurance coordinator, as well as several business workers. Because of the employee losses, fewer appointment slots for students are available in the clinic, Guest said. “Many female students schedule their annual exams toward the end of the school year,” he said. “With fewer providers, we may have trouble accommodating them if they wait too long to make appointments.” As for the receptionist and other business positions, Guest said he plans to hire graduate stu-
dents to temporarily fill those vacant spots. “Through cross coverage we’re able to maintain services, however business office functions is going to start getting slowed just because of the number of personnel that aren’t there,” Guest said. The privatization process has opened eyes for health center staff, Guest said. “Even though we’ve worked throughout the campus, part of this process made it very clear that we have not been as visible in what we do as what we should have been,” he said. “Our products have not been well branded and linked back to the health center, otherwise the chancellor wouldn’t be saying we’re not a part of the core mission.” While the consulting group finishes its research, health center staff are making plans for the regents’ vote on privatization. “If we are privatized, I have a vision of what a College Health system could be and am looking forward to presenting this to Bryan Health,” Guest said. “On the other hand, if we are not privatized, we have new alliances to build and relations to repair. Either way, we will be a better health center.” news@ dailyNebraskan.com
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Jennifer Verhein, the assistant director of the Office of the University Registrar, organizes diplomas that will be handed out at this year’s commencement.
Stadium graduation will be one-of-a-kind REECE RISTAU DN Nearly 2,800 University of NebraskaLincoln graduates-to-be will receive their diplomas in Memorial Stadium on May 3 and 4 for the first – and likely last – time in university history. Graduation ceremonies at UNL for the various classes of 2013 will take place on Tom Osborne Field in Memorial Stadium next week. With the Bob Devaney Sports Center under construction and the Pinnacle Bank Arena not yet finished, there are no venues big enough to house the currently estimated 2,761 degrees to be handed out next week. This year’s undergraduate ceremony will have about 80 percent participation, which is ten percent higher than 2012, said Jennifer Verhein, assistant director of the Office of the University Registrar. The stage for the ceremonies will be set up on the 50-yard line, with graduates, families and friends sitting in the east stadium seats. Graduates will be seated in the center, with spectators off to both sides, Verhein said. “It is exceptionally rare for a university of this size to award diplomas on stage,” Verhein said. “We’re proud of that, I think it makes it really special for our students.” Verhein does not believe that future commencement ceremonies will be held in Memorial Stadium. She said that with the upcoming completion of the Pinnacle Bank Arena, this will likely be an isolated occurrence. “This is a once-in-the-university event,” Verhein said. UNL’s ceremonies that will occur next August and September will likely be in the Bob Devaney Sports Center, assuming that construction is com-
plete, Verhein said. Accommodations are being made for those who are in need of handicapped-accessible areas. All the handicapped seating available during football games will be open, as well as a section on the track between the bleachers and the field, on the south side of the stage. Those with disabilities can take advantage of this along with one guest. In the case of inclement weather, there will be rain delays in an attempt to wait until storms pass. Chancellor Harvey Perlman has the final decision in moving the ceremonies, which will then take place in the Hawks Championship Center if necessary. Max Rowe, a graduating senior computer science major, said he thinks it will be a special experience to have commencement in Memorial Stadium. “A lot of us spent a fair amount of time in that stadium in the fall,” Rowe said. “Hell, some people came (to UNL) because of the football games. In that regard, it’s kind of cool how it all comes full circle.” Students who are not participating in the ceremony can expect to receive their diplomas through UPS. They’ll be sent out Monday and Tuesday after commencement. As for whether he will throw his cap, Rowe is undecided. “Throwing a cap seems like the simplest way to exert all the frustration and happiness that comes with that little sheet of paper,” Rowe said. “I suppose I’ll just have to see how the mood of the stadium is when it finally comes time.” A map of the stadium and other information for commencement can be found at commencement.unl.edu. NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
dn flashback 2002 Audience speaks out at forum
Panel members butted heads Thursday evening on the possibility of peace in the Middle East at a forum sponsored by the Daily Nebraskan. The forum, held in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, featured five panels with varying opinions - some moderate, some extreme - on the 50-year conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. They were asked to discuss if and when peace could be a reality in the Middle East and what role the United States would play in getting there.
1989 Engine invented in 1700s may help today
Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering professors are among those hoping Congress will (sic) grant their request for $5 million to create a consortium to perfect an 18th century engine with 20th century technology. Peter Jenkins, chairman of mechanical engineering at UNL and Director of the Center for Engine Technology, and William Splinter, UNKL associate vice chancellor for research, recently appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate subcommittees to request funds for research of a Stirling engine. Researchers from Mississippi State University and North Dakota State University, along with representatives from a Nebraska interest, Valmont Industries, also joined the group.
1916 REFUSE MONOPOLY ON PAGEANT MOVIES
No one moving picture company will have exclusive rights to motion pictures of the pageant of 1916, “The Gate City,” to be given June 5 and 6, according to the Lincoln Commercial club yesterday afternoon. The proposal had been made to the club to hold a dress rehearsal of the pageant for the benefit (sic) of one company, which would thus (sic) have the production complete from beginning to end. But the directors decided that better advertising would accrue in letting as many motion picture men as wished take pictures, and thus the show would be spread out over a wider extent of territory. –Compiled by Reece Ristau NEWS@DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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editor’s note
Thank you from editor-in-chief Andrew Dickinson I’d almost forgotten, until yesterday morning, that this would be the last issue of the Daily Nebraskan that I presided over. This year was quite different for me. As editor-in-chief of the DN, I don’t necessarily think of this school year in terms of what parties I went to, what vacations I took or what classes I struggled with. I think first of big stories and how we covered them. What front page am I most proud of? Which issue impacted students the most? Did I learn anything, and, maybe more importantly, did I teach anyone anything? The first large task this year was Tom Osborne’s retirement announcement. It was the first time that we stayed in the office working until 4 a.m. to make sure everything was exactly right. It was the first time I truly saw the full potential of the members of this year ’s DN. Managing presidential and congressional election coverage was a totally new task, as well. With it all said and done, it was another instance where my staff impressed me, and I learned some new things: Jimmy Johns can be a big motivator. I also thank President Obama for winning early and decisively that evening, which made our jobs a little easier. Each section looked wonderful — from Chance SolemPfeifer ’s boxing feature story to Wyn Wiley’s unique and impressive basketball preview photos. I’ve had pleasant daydreams about that issue. And there was the story that never went away: University Health Center privatization. We proved to students throughout our coverage that we are the only reliable source for campus news. When Bryan Health’s lone bid was being kept from the public by the university without legal backing, we were the only one to call out our beloved university. The document was made public and then, and only then, did the Lincoln Journal Star report on it. I personally still don’t think students know nearly enough about the potential changes with privatization. To clarify: I don’t say this to discount the Journal Star in any way. We in no way intend to draw a qualitative comparison. But one thing I wish students understood better is that, when it comes to covering your university, the DN is all you’ve got. Our newsroom, tucked neatly with technicolor carpet squares in the basement on the south side of the Nebraska Union, is a place many students never see. I guess we make up for that by locking ourselves in here, week after week, night after night, and we’re more than happy to do so. The newsroom isn’t too busy during the day. Staffers trickle in and out working on stories, finishing up homework or sleeping under a desk instead of taking a lunch break. Maybe this is a sentiment some of you will understand: The more time I’ve spent in college, the more I’ve realized I don’t know all that much. At the same time, though, what I know is becoming more firmly realized. I know that the DN – which includes our office, all those who came before me and all who will come after – taught me to care about something passionately. It taught me to work effectively with a team. It taught me to know when you’ve made a mistake and to accept criticism. It taught me to not be afraid to criticize. It taught me how to shoot a damn good game of H-O-R-S-E on a plastic children’s hoop. It taught me to devote myself wholly to something. That’s a freeing feeling. It started with Noah Ballard scaring freshman-me to death. I was brand new to Lincoln and to campus, and this former A&E editor instilled instantly in me that the DN is a place you’re expected to do serious work to the best of your ability. I owe a whole lot to those DNers of old, the juniors and seniors of my freshman year who showed me the way. The Bob Al-Greens, Bea Huffs, Casey Welschs and Matt Buxtons. I think we forget a little as we get older that you do have an influence on the path of those younger and newer than you. You’ll see other farewell columns in this issue. After writing and letting this sit, I’m left with this feeling of loss in my gut. A nervousness that maybe I won’t find a group of people so supportive and talented after this whole college thing is done. But I think about that for a second and move past it. The DN is a special place. It’s just my – our – time to find another DN elsewhere. I can’t thank my staff enough for all of their hard work this year, nor is there the room to name them. I had a great time with all of you, and I hope you had fun, too. I’m even more grateful, though, to you, reader. Thankful that you were willing to give your time and attention to the DN throughout the year. It’s your support that keeps us going. Thank you.
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UNL needs more community feel
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f there is one thing I would change about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, it would be a strengthened sense of community. Everyone has their own cliques and niches, but there isn’t as much across-the-board support and involvement as I would hope. As for me, I can only speak for the opinion section at the Daily Nebraskan as the main group in which I fall into. Even then, these comments are nothing more than my own meandering thoughts. But I think that students are too critical of one another and self-involved in their immediate friend groups – including me. For example, when I ask people why they don’t read the paper, they tell me “because it sucks,” or “it doesn’t pertain to me.” I always feel that it is worth noting: We aren’t the New York Times. We are a student newspaper full of young writers learning their trade in a hands-on environment. Mistakes are part of the learning process, and even then, the best newspapers still make mistakes. Yeah, we probably pump out some poorly constructed, inaccurate pieces. Maybe we didn’t publish the most appealing photo we took of you, or we got a name wrong. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t quality work to be found in our paper. Our writers have full class loads – some with other jobs – but they still work their damnedest to produce a quality paper for students to read. This is no different than ASUN students who put countless hours into campaigning, passing legislation and debating certain bills. They do all of this while going to class and being involved in other jobs and activities. Or there are theater students who pull allnighters building sets and preparing for a show, spending a large amount of time outside of class and other jobs they’re involved in to pursue their dreams. I could say the same for art students, music students, science students and every other student actively involved in something they are passionate about. We all put countless hours into what we do, but most of us don’t get the recognition and stu-
RYAN DUGGAN dent involvement we would hope for. No, the theater majors don’t have lines backed out of the Lied center to see their hard work in play. No, public ASUN meetings and discussions don’t take place in rooms crowded with students. No, students don’t flock to another student’s art exhibit or music recital, nor do they eagerly wait for you to publish your thesis paper three years in the making. And no, students don’t flood to the newspaper stands, grabbing an issue hot off the press. All of this, quite frankly, is a little sad. Our university is full of so much talent that goes unnoticed, and students fight for issues they feel are important but are met with more apathy than support or opposition. Perhaps we’re too hard on ourselves and juxtapose our work and importance to professionals, which many of us can only fail in comparison to right now as students. Or, perhaps everyone is so involved in their own activities that they have little attention to spare for others. This is understandable, but I still wish it were different. However, as biased as it may sound, I see the Daily Nebraskan as a bridge between various organizations. Reporters try to cover outstanding accomplishments, unique events and the daily happenings, all in attempt to give students and campus groups the recognition they deserve on a campus-
wide level. We try to discuss important issues and keep you updated on important campus events. In a sense, we try to give you the scoop on what’s happening in your campus community. This doesn’t mean you can’t be critical of us. Like I said, we’re students learning our trade. Criticism can be a good thing. Nor does it mean that you have to like everything we publish. It just means that reading a student newspaper is one of the easiest ways to stay connected as a community. As a stronger community, more students will get the recognition they deserve, and hard work will be noticed. More students will know what is happening in their student government and more students will want to have a say. Students will be aware of their favorite play being performed at Temple, and more students will recognize achievements in the arts and science fields. With this greater sense of community and involvement, as well as awareness and recognition of each other, campus groups won’t seem so isolated, and everyone will know a bit about each other. We will take more pride in our university for talents other than football, and appreciate each other more. With that, I want to say thank you for reading the opinion section. We’ve probably pissed you off a few times, hopefully made you think other times and made you laugh once or twice. I’m sure we have bored you with a few columns, and made you say “Who F-ing cares?” to others. I have also appreciated all the feedback to the opinion section, everything from “great column today!” to “I hope you choke on shit.” In fact, I wish there was more feedback and more students actively involved in the newspaper. However, I have no doubt that you at least found some columns worth your time, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this section right now. For sticking with us through the good and the bad, I want to say thank you. Ryan Duggan is a senior English and classical languages major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com
Do’s and don’ts of a UNL student
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ll resources are limited. Time is the most limited and therefore the most precious of all resources. Relax, that’s as philosophical as we’re going to get today. But here’s the deal: How you spend your time as a college student is a big deal. As I reflect back on my five years as a college kid, I can tell you there are ways I wish I’d spent my time differently. But instead of delivering an angsty, existential column about all that, I’ve decided to make a fun list of Do’s and Don’ts about time management while at UNL. DO join a protest If you’re graduating this year and haven’t found time to join at least one protest, you’re doing it wrong. Protesting is one of the most American things you can do. Protesting and making your voice heard on an issue you care about is healthy. Really. Do it at least once. DON’T be stupid enough to get arrested Seems obvious, but I felt like I should include it. Basically, protest peacefully and respectfully. DO get blitzed at the O Street bars and earn a wicked hangover Bar hopping on O Street is a special treat. It’s good, dirty fun. And everyone should get really, really blitzed at least once in his or her life (except if you have medical issues or other concerns). You should get hammered enough to get a monster hangover at least once. Why? First, so you’ll be more empathetic to people who have them. Second, so you know how you react to stress. It goes without saying that you should obviously be as safe as possible when you’re drinking. Have a designated driver or call 475-RIDE and drink among trusted people. DON’T take a test with aforementioned hangover I speak from personal experience here. Just don’t do it. Especially if you have allergies. It will be a miserable experience. Chances are you won’t do well (I mean, I got a B, but that’s an anomaly). DO find the black squirrel of CBA Wildlife on campus is pretty sparse, but you can watch the squirrels scamper around the trees and the husker cats run around the bushes. Bonus if you can find the black squirrel who hangs around CBA. That one’s tricky to find. Watching these little cuties run around for a few minutes can easily make any school problem seem petty. DON’T attempt to join the squirrels
RHIANNON ROOT The squirrels don’t like you that much, dude. DO strive for excellence Some days it can be difficult to do anything at all. Maybe you’re blowing off studying for that exam. Maybe you’re deliberately procrastinating on writing an English paper. Whatever the case, I’d highly recommend doing things ahead of time the best you can. Really. Do your best. It’ll pay off in the long run. DON’T hold yourself to an unattainable standard A few years ago I had a friend who somehow managed to have 17 credit hours of classes, several jobs with totaled 40+ hours of work a week and maintain a 4.0 GPA. Yeah, I hated her, too. Meanwhile I struggled with 13 credit hours and two jobs. Because I needlessly compared myself to her, I made myself miserable. So, my word of advice here is: don’t waste your time doing that. Do well with what you have and where you are. Find where your limit is rather than wishing yours was like someone else’s. DO go to class Seriously. Just go. Be on time. Wear pants. Simple stuff. Going to class is rarely a waste of time. DON’T pull multiple all-nighters in one week Just don’t. Sleep is your friend. DO be silly College is all about trying new things and being slightly ridiculous. Have fun and explore new ideas. Go sing karaoke in the Sheldon Sculpture Garden. DON’T be an ass There is a tricky line between silliness and assholery. Getting carried away happens, but try to
stay grounded in reality. If nothing else, remember to treat others, and yourself, with kindness and respect. DO go for the guy/girl/person Life is short. If you’re attracted to someone, why not take a chance? In the words of Patrick from “10 Things I Hate About You,” “don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Go for it.” DON’T fight with a friend over said guy/girl/ person No potential orgasm is worth the loss of a friendship. DO take time for yourself Few things are worse than not having any time to breathe. Solitude is healthy. It’s important to figure out who you are and to be comfortable in your own skin. The best way to do all that is to have some alone time. DON’T become a hermit Becoming a person who never goes out or has any fun is beyond pathetic. Yes, there are considerations like a labor-intensive class or family issues to take into account. But, really, having a social life is vital. It’s how you let off steam or find out that you aren’t alone in your love of “The Muppets” or whatever else you dig. The key in college is to find your balance with time. Not everyone’s individual balance will be identical, but most people have the same needs. There’s no shame in that. Remember that time is precious and no one truly knows how much they’ve got left. Speaking of that, I’ve got something to say. Readers, it’s with a heavy heart that I’m filing my last opinion column with the Daily Nebraskan today. It’s been a hell of a ride for four-plus years. I can’t say it’s been all sunshine and unicorns, but it’s not anything I regret doing. My job here helped me figure out my career path. It helped me make friends and business contacts. And most importantly, readers, it connected me to you all. Yes, you. This job has always been a time suck. Researching, writing, meetings, editing and fact checking are all labor-intensive things. But even though this has been an incredible time commitment, connecting with you, dear reader, has always been time well spent. I’ll miss you. Rhiannon Root is a senior newseditorial and history major. Follow her on Twitter @rhiannonroot and reach her at opinion@
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Be there not any fear, for although Shakespeare shall be gracing thine screens, it doth not look too terrible. Although the modern adaptation of The Bard’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” will still keep true to the play’s original dialogue, we can hope Joss Whedon will make sure audiences don’t leave the theaters thinking they’ve spend their money all for nothing. The film calls to the plate some of Whedon’s familiar list of actors, such as Nathan Fillion and Clark Gregg, and is also shot in black and white. So far, “Nothing” has received rave reviews from critics, and perhaps if it is lucky, that will translate to approval with audience as well.
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have another book coming out in September. I was wondering, how quickly did you get done with “ElThe success of her debut novel eanor” and then just start up with “Attachments” last year wasn’t “Fangirl”? RR: OK, well “Eleanor” came enough for author and native Neout on Feb. 28 and I had written braskan Rainbow Rowell. Her secthat … I wrote that book two years ond book, “Eleanor & Park,” has ago maybe, it all kind of blends been gaining much esteem in the together. I think I wrote it two realm of young adult novels, even years ago because my first book garnering attention from best-selling authors such as John Green, “Attachments” when it was sold in the UK, the publishing house who wrote a generous review of bought two books at once. So they it in the New York Times. Admitting to the book’s originality, Green bought “Attachments” and whatwrote, “… I have never seen any- ever book I wrote next. So, I had to write a second book pretty quickly. thing quite like ‘Eleanor I wrote “Eleanor & & Park.’” Park” then and it was With the new book actually published gaining a fanbase on soin the UK, initially, cial media sites such as last year. So, it sort of Tumblr and Facebook, seems like “Eleanor & it appears as though the Park” and “Fangirl” former newspaper writare stacked up … I er is fast becoming a redid write them pretty spected author as well. quickly. But, there The Daily Nebraswas a year, because I kan recently caught wrote most of “Eleaback up with Rowell, nor & Park” in 2010 and discussed how Rowell and then I think I newspaper work has afwrote “Fangirl” … befected her writing, about cause I did the novel “Eleanor & Park” and how she has been reacting to this writing month, what is it? DN: Oh, NaNoWriMo (Nationsuccess. al Novel Writing Month)? DN: How’s your writing mood RR: Yes, NaNoWriMo. So I been treating you? did that in 2011 in November, and Rainbow Rowell: It’s really then I revised it in 2012. And then different writing books, you know here we are in 2013. Yeah, it kind of I’ve always written. Writing a novel is a lot more like wandering out seems like I’d be writing like crazy, to the middle of the ocean: it’s so but really that’s like a two-and-ahalf to three year spread. It’s still many words and I find that when fast though. I’m working on a book, it’s like I DN: Do you think that being in get lost in this other place. I have the newsroom and having to put a really hard time going back and out stories that quickly helped you forth. But I’m in book mode. It’s good, but it’s a lot like you’re be- or do you think that newspaper writing has hindered with your ing away. writing at all because they’re two DN: “Eleanor & Park” came different styles? out in March of this year and you RR: Yeah, I could say that both
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things are probably true. I think ultimately, being a journalist helps more than it hurts. I was a newspaper columnist for many years, I actually didn’t get back until last October, and I was definitely used to writing on deadline. Also, I was used to being edited. Mostly ... it helped me not to be precious or melodramatic about writing. Because writing, especially writing fiction, is very melodramatic. I mean, you’re evoking emotion and you’re making it all up. But I never felt like “oh, I have writer’s block” or “it’s so anguishing, I can’t write,” because as a journalist you just do write: you have deadlines and you meet them. And so you learn to be practical about your writing. So definitely when I started writing novels, I was practical about it. I had anxiety and I took a really long time to write my first book. But I think I still was used to sort of pushing forward. If there’s anything that came back to hurt me, it’s sometimes I get hung up on reality. So, my agent will suggest a change, and he’ll say: “this scene is very real, but it’s not dramatic enough.” Novels are not real, and there’s an artificial structure to a novel: they build and they have a climax and then they’re resolved. So if it hurt me in any way, it’s that I’ll want something to feel really realistic. It doesn’t happen that often, it happens every once and a while. You’ve read my book, it’s realistic. DN: Something else I was curious about was how Eleanor grows up within an abusive family situation. How did you approach writing that? RR: Well, I was inspired in part by my life to write this book. It takes place in the time when I was a teenager, except that they’re
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Monsters University
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it’s that they’re able to rekindle the childhood spirits of the children who initially grew up with them (excluding “Cars 2”). This movie is not only giving grownups a second chance to feel young again, but perhaps it will give the animation company that warm money-blanket feeling as well. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @ dnartsdesk
Man of Steel
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As of late, “Superman” movies haven’t been so super. However, it seems as though Christopher Nolan is here to save yet another DC franchise in a time where Marvel has been reigning supreme. The pitch with this epic is that Nolan and writer David S. Goyer have been rebranding the “man of steel,” and have found a way to make the tights-wearing hero’s story one that is deep, compelling and most importantly human. The trailers show a movie following in the footsteps of the “Dark Knight” trilogy, in that it will be losing the comic book gimmicks, and relying solely on the story … but not without a few cool special effects and fighting scenes thrown in as well. Regardless, it seems as if this redux of Superman will be a promising one. As long as Russell Crowe isn’t asked to sing, it should be good.
‘Thank you’: The only famous last words worth writing
chance solem-pfeifer It’s one of the most hopeful phrases you hear in college: “feel at home.” You succeed socially in Lincoln when you “start to feel at home.” It’s a big moment when you accidentally refer to your sorority, apartment or dorm as “home.” Still, I think the phrase is, at best, referential. “Feels like home,” alludes to something else long past or maybe far away: a place where you once ate chewable vitamins or where your walls are still painted an embarrassing color. If something “feels like home,” it comes close to being something it’s not. It’s a good copy. But any good copy of home loves you. Any good copy for home slaps you and then hugs you to make you forget the sting. Any good copy of home eventually lets you break all of its precious rules. We’re lucky if we get that copy. We’re lucky if we get to “feel at home.” I got close enough to forget the difference at the Daily
lauren cloyed | dn Nebraskan. And as with the family back at your actual home, it probably takes too long (almost to the end of the road) to thank them properly. This is a farewell column for four years at this paper and university and the only thing real thing I have left to say. *Thank you to my staff of two years for trusting me with your work. At its most idealized, an editor is the recipient of a little gift every time he or she has the privilege to help lift a piece of
writing off the ground. Thank you for letting me use the word “primer” and not quitting. Thank you for mostly getting your shit in on time. *Thank you, English Department grad students, who never really had to give me the time of day, but did because you understand how admirable you look to a young writer. *Thank you, DN News Desk, for always making me a little afraid to call myself a journalist.
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cameron mount As I tried to remember where the hell I was four years ago, so that I could properly reflect on my time at UNL, my instinct was to open up IMDb. “Avatar,” “Watchmen,” “Up,” “The Hangover,” “Inglorious Basterds,” and “Zombieland” had each played with my emotions in different ways. Within those memories are moments of surprise and of disappointment, bonding and bitterness. I have a notoriously terrible memory, but I can vividly place myself in the theater seat for each experience: the final hoorah with high school friends here, the precipice of a breakup there. Four years ago, I would never have thought that the movies I torrented and watched alone every night would let me talk with inspiring artists and incredible experts for the Daily Nebraskan. Three years ago, as I word-forword wrote out what I would say for participation credit each day for my English classes because it scared the living shit out of me to speak up, I couldn’t have imagined myself conducting interviews (sometimes even coming off as friendly or well-adjusted!) or, as an education major, running multiple high school English classes a day. Three years ago, “Inception,” “Toy Story 3,” “The Social Network,” “Exit Through the Gift Shop” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” were in theaters, reflecting back so much optimism. Or at least the glints of optimism I needed reflected back at me. In those months, after heated arguments with various people over my utter lack of passion or goals, I couldn’t have placed myself now living and breathing education, arguing deeply felt philosophies with conviction and landing a job at Teach For America. Two years ago, these were hazy possibilities. I took one risk, then another and cobbled together a sense of self. Today, it feels integral because it is, but I have to remind myself that for a time it felt like posturing. Meanwhile, “Drive,” “The Tree of Life,” “Take Shelter,” “The Cabin in the Woods,” “Midnight in Paris” and “Declaration of War” assured me that the world was broken and complicated, but that there was beauty in trying
lauren cloyed | dn to put the pieces together anyway. I’ve talked with passionate, brilliant people who put the art of ’60s on a pedestal, the art of the ’80s, the art of everything until the very minute my graduating class stopped watching Nickelodeon. In 10 years, maybe that will be me. “2013: Those were the days. Everything since is a mess.” But I doubt it. Not because I’ve reasoned out an ignorance-is-bliss coping mechanism or shut off all critical judgment. It’s because when I’ve most needed it, I’ve felt as sharply as nails that art reflects cynicism when perspective is cynical, and energy and optimism when it looks for beauty. Film taught me that we know ourselves, our world and our place in it more fully when we expand the perspectives we’re willing to consider and care for. When we empathize with the protagonists of stories, we understand that we’re all a step or few from apathy, evil or greatness. We can place ourselves on those continuums. We know how we might move up or down it in similar ways as we figure our lives out. But empathy doesn’t mean no judgment, no critical eye. Critical empathy insists that empathy is most effective not when we submit blindly to another’s perspective, but when we interrogate that perspective, explore its nuances and emerge with a more complete idea of what it means to be human. There’s too many joyful, angry, bitter, unaware people making too much art not to question what we’re learning, where we’re headed and what we still need to fight for. Various campus buildings, hallways and walkways have become my homes during the last few years, and none more so than the Daily Nebras-
kan. After becoming so accustomed and knowing that time is limited, I can’t help contemplating the unlikelihood that any of it existed at all. Is there any reason that we should have evolved any further than grunting chimpanzees? That any of this should be here? Wouldn’t life make even less sense if we weren’t selfish, self-conscious and impulsive at the core? It’s a miracle anyone gets up from their couch (Jesus, it’s a miracle we have cities, houses and couches at all). That makes it all the more tragic when the action someone does take is so non-empathetic and we find ourselves questioning everything, shutting down entire cities or wondering how everything could ever fit together. It won’t. Not totally, not ever. But in my student teaching classrooms, I see the same range of dispositions that sparked any of the “golden ages.” Last year, “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Life of Pi,” “Beast of the Southern Wild” reflected the best of times for some and the worst of times for others. In 10, 20 years, my current students will cast their own take on traits so essentially human that we might as well be chimpanzees, and those takes will inspire and jade, depending on perspective. The slope ahead of me now is steeper and riskier than the four years behind me. I hope it stays that way. I hope I’m forced to act when I’m not ready, grow when I’m most prone to hide and see it all beautifully reflected back in art not yet created, not yet explored. cameron mount is a senior english education major. THE a&E desk will miss him dearly. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com
“The Company You Keep” is the type of film that doesn’t get released much anymore, for better or worse. The movie pines for days that are long gone. It places oldfashioned newspaper journalism on a pedestal, lamenting the state of our current 24-hour check-the-facts-later news cycle. It wishes we could go back to a time when our young people actually made a difference, when we marched on Washington rather than clicked ‘like’ on Facebook and called it good. For those who grew up on Robert Redford fighting the man in “All The President’s Men,” “Three Days of the Condor” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” it’s the kind of film that reminds us of why we might’ve fallen in love with those anti-establishment movies in the first place. Written by Lem Dobbs (based on the novel by Neil Gordon) and directed by the antihero Redford, “The Company You Keep” deals with that eternal Hollywood trope: a man on the run. Nick Sloan (Redford) is first introduced to us as Jim Grant, an All-American attorney in Albany, N.Y. But soon into the film his closely-guarded secret begins to unravel. It turns out the do-gooder is actually a former member of The Weather Underground – a radical leftist organization of the Vietnam Era – and has been on the run from the feds for the last 30-odd years. In case you didn’t pay attention in history class, the film shows news reel clips and uses voice-over narration to fill in the gaps of who the Weathermen
were and what their mission was. Grant/Sloan’s story comes apart after Sharon Solarz, (Susan Sarandon) another former member, is on the way to turn herself in before being arrested in Albany. This gets the attention of small-time local reporter (but with far bigger ambitions) Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf). LaBeouf straddles the line between plucky, stubborn journalist and annoying asshole well. His stylish glasses and scruffy shadow contrast with the cracked, weathered look of Redford and gives the two a nice meta “I-was-once-in-yourshoes” vibe in their scenes together. The rest of the cast is star-studded, all signing up for bit parts for the chance to work with Redford. Nick Nolte, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Stephen Root, Brendan Gleeson and some more of the finest actors working today dot the landscape and give the film tremendous veracity. Still, some of the pastobsessed dialogue in the film comes across as stilted and just plain obsolete at times. In one of the climactic scenes, Sloan and Mimi Lurie, (Julie Christie) his former lover and co-revolutionary have a reunion in a remote cabin in the woods. It’s supposed to be a touching moment that connects the problematic past with the unknown of the future, but it plays like a bunch of old hippies re-living their glory days. The film can never quite decide if it wants to focus on Redford or LeBeouf, and it can never quite connect their two threads into one cohesive story. Despite its problems, “The Company You Keep” will be a great callback for baby boomers
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Huskers heating up at right time for Spangler Nebraska’s top five golfers head to French Lick for Big Ten Championship
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Husker men’s tennis player Tom Blackwell returns a volley at the Nebraska Tennis Center. Blackwell and the Huskers’ season ended Thursday.
Nebraska downed by Michigan State in first round After pulling ahead 3-1, Nebraska falls in straight sets to MSU
The Spartans tied the match winning the first singles point on the No. 5 court where Nebraska’s Sebastian Florczyk lost in straight sets. Herrmann won the next point, putting the lead back in the Huskers’ favor at 2-1. Boyer won the match’s next point on the No. 1 singles court, giving the Huskers a 3-1 lead - one point from pulling the upset with three singles matches to play. Andre Stenger took a set lead on the No. 2 court, but lost the next two sets, losing the point and shrinking Nebraska’s lead to 3-2.
nament’s No. 7 seed. Nebraska freshman Dusty Boyer upset Michigan State’s Aaron Pfister on the No. 1 court in straight sets, winning 7-6, 6-2. Pfister entered the tournament carrying the No. 115 national individual singles ranking. Fellow freshman Marc Herrmann also took a singles point on the No. 3 court, beating Michigan State’s Denis Bogatov in straight 6-3 sets. The Huskers took an early lead, winning the singles point by sweeping all three doubles courts.
staff report dn The Nebraska men’s tennis team fell 4-3 to Michigan State in the first round of the 2013 Big Ten tournament in Columbus, Ohio. The 10-seeded Huskers fell to the Spartans, who held the tour-
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bowling: from 10 separated Nebraska from the national championship her freshman year. The Huskers came in third place during both her sophomore and junior years. This season, Straub “upped the ante” on making sure the bowlers were having an enjoyable experience. Win or lose, they were there to throw shots and keep their heads held high. “I think it showed at this last championship,” Straub said. “We got a lot of comments about how calm, cool and collected the girls were. That didn’t just come by accident. They wanted to enjoy themselves.” Straub’s championship uniform, a short-sleeved flower shirt (“the TV lights made it hot”) with a white tie (“I wanted to be the coach and the mascot”) helped keep the mood light, too. He kept the team professional, though. After Mickelson threw a strike in the ninth frame, the team knew the game was over. They had won. Their coach stopped the premature celebration. Sophomore Lizabeth Kuhlkin still had to bowl, he said. Double strikes happen. “He wanted to make sure it was all locked up,” Mickelson said. “But when we won he was just as excited as everyone else.”
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Nebraska bowling coach Bill Straub gives a word of advice to his team on the lanes. Straub’s team won its fourth national title this season by defeating Vanderbilt in the final.
him up on that, just to see what happens. After making sure she’s OK, maybe he’ll even tell her what time it is. Then he’ll laugh and tell her good night. “He’s had a big impact on every bowler that walks through Nebraska,” Mickelson said. “I was lucky to call him coach.” sports@ The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporationdailynebraskan.com With the season finished, Mickelson plans on moving to central Nebraska and competing in professional bowling tournaments throughout the year. She’ll keep in close contact with Straub, who told her she could call him at any time if she ever needs to, even if it’s 2 a.m. One day, she says, she’ll take
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Nebraska wrestler Robert Kokesh puts his opponent in a headlock. Kokesh went on a 22-game winning streak during the 2013 season. around 183, 184, so I was about 10 pounds overweight, which is nothing for a wrestler to cut that amount of weight. I fit well into the weight class.” After beginning the year 5-0, Kokesh’s first loss came in the form of a 3-1 sudden victory defeat against Storley in November. Kokesh didn’t lose again until February. He won 22 matches – half of them against ranked opponents – in a row, including a title at the Midlands Invitational in December. “That was a big confidence booster,” Kokesh said, “and at that point of the season, that’s where I started believing that I could be a national champion.” Among the victories on the streak were two against eventual All-Americans. In all, Kokesh defeated five All-Americans on his way to a record of 18-4 against ranked opponents and a 38-4 record overall. Of his 38 wins, 24 were extra-point victories: nine
pins, five technical falls and 10 major decisions. He earned 164 team points for the Huskers, while giving up only 12. “Saying it is one thing. Doing it is another,” Manning said. “He’s gotten over some mental hurdles and things that we always knew, but he has to go out there and do them.” Iowa’s Mike Evans ended the winning streak, then Kokesh lost his first match of the Big Ten Championships to Illinois’ Jordan Blanton. But Kokesh made his way through the consolation bracket and avenged his loss to Blanton to finish third in the conference. “Every time I get put in the wrestlebacks,” Kokesh said, “I’ve mostly prevailed to get third.” The situation came up again at the NCAA Championships. Kokesh, the No. 4 seed, got to the semifinals against Oklahoma State’s Chris Perry, the No. 1 seed. The match went to overtime, where Perry took advantage of a
Kokesh mistake to win 4-2. “He got in on my leg. I was right on the edge of the mat. I should have tried to pull him out a little bit more because I was so close. I should have tried to get him out of bounds,” Kokesh said. “When he did get my leg up, I tried reaching across and trying to catch his far ankle. And that’s what lost it for me.” Perry went on to win the national championship, while Kokesh went to the wrestlebacks to face Iowa’s Evans – the No. 3 seed, and another opponent he had never beaten. “I just knew I was better than him,” Kokesh said. “My coaches kept telling me it, and I just had to make myself believe it.” Kokesh pulled out a 3-2 decision and went on to defeat Storley for third place. “Robert had a tremendous season,” Manning said. “He really improved from last year to this year, and obviously he had a great off season.” This offseason is already off to a fast start. Two weeks after two of the biggest wins of his life, Kokesh wasn’t basking in the glow of his top three finish at the NCAA Championships. Instead, he worked with Snyder on the mistake that cost him spot in the national title match. “Two weeks after nationals, he comes up to me. He’s like, ‘You could have done this, you could have done this,’” Kokesh said. “Now next time I get in the position, I have a better chance of getting out of it.” Even after an All-American season, Kokesh continued working, trying to make some more history. “I’ve got two seasons to progress on to this,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of upside. I’m just going to continue to work hard and get better.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com
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than any other or else you are in trouble.” Husker first baseman Kash Kalkowski – a native Nebraskan – was a bit more enthusiastic for the game with the Blue Jays. “It’s a big rivalry for us and Creighton,” he said. “Creighton Lanny Holstein wants to get a piece of us, and dn we do too. I mean, we’re going to win. It’s in there. Or they’re going The TD Ameritrade Classic is to win. It’s a battle. That’s what I Nebraska’s best chance to build like.” its NCAA regional resume. The The Huskers ride into the tournament gives the Huskers a game with Creighton and the chance to play Big 12 foe Oklahoweekend series on a hot streak ma State twice along with Creigh- offensively. After scoring 32 runs ton and Rutgers – all games that against Purdue a weekend ago, will boost Nebraska’s strength of the team pushed 10 more across schedule. in a midweek loss to Kansas State. Held just a hour down the “We are clicking right now road at the home of the College on offense,” second baseman Pat World Series – TD Ameritrade Kelly said. “It’s awesome when Park – the weekend tournament is the guys in front and behind you an effort by the Huskers to spice are hitting well, and it makes you up the nonconference schedule. want to get the job done too. Right Nebraska coach Darin Erstad now, we are just kind of sticking said he would like to have held to our approach, and it’s been the event earlier in working.” the year, but with The same can’t I have the way the schedbe said of the Huskule worked out, enough guys er pitching staff. this weekend was It most definitely that are going to where it best fit. didn’t work against The Huskers fight for us.” Kansas State, when open the tournine pitchers comnament Friday bined to allow 13 night with a game runs to the WildDarin Erstad against in-state ribaseball coach cats. Erstad wasn’t val Creighton. The happy about that. two teams were “It’s pretty simscheduled to play ple,” he said. “You throw it over earlier in the year, but the game the plate. The rules of the game was canceled due to weather, and have been made a long time ago. this will be the teams’ only meetWhether you think the strike zone ing this season. Erstad said this is inconsistent or not, it is the game doesn’t carry any added imsame for both teams. We have to portance, however. figure out how to throw it over “If it gets people excited and that little white part.” gets more people in the seats, I’m The coach is hoping his team all for it,” he said. “That’s a great uses its mistakes against Kansas college baseball experience, but State as a learning experience. at the end of the day, you don’t “I mean, that team has the best get up for any one game more batting average in the nation,”
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Nebraska second baseman Pat Kelly rounds third base at Haymarket Park. Kelly said NU’s key is sticking to its approach at the plate.
Erstad said. “When you don’t execute your pitches against a team like that, you are going to get hammered. When you shy away from contact and walk eight guys,
that’s a problem.” Erstad has been running pitchers in and out of the rotation all year looking for someone to do those things. The coach said this
could be the weekend he finds his guys. “I know we are going to play, and we are going to fight,” he said. “I have enough guys that are
going to fight for us. I’m going to throw them out there, and we’ll see what happens.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com
Clash of Big Ten titans set for this weekend No. 16 Nebraska take on No. 9 Michigan over the weekend for bragging rights josh kelly dn This weekend the No. 16 Nebraska softball team closes out its final home stand in a three game series against No. 9 Michigan. The Wolverines are sitting atop the Big Ten standings with an undefeated record while the Huskers are second with a 12-4 conference record. Nebraska coach Rhonda Revelle, along with the rest of her team, couldn’t be more excited about the weekend ahead. “We’re excited for the opportunity we have this weekend,” Revelle said. “We’re going to come out and play hard, and Michigan’s a great program, and it so happens that Carol Hutchins is one of my best friends, and it’s weird competing against one of your best friends.” Coach Hutchins’ Wolverines have an overall record of 40-7 on the season and are considered the favorites to win the Big Ten heading into the road series with the Huskers. Michigan also holds a 22-game winning streak, which leads the nation. With two wins this weekend, the Wolverines will clinch a Big Ten regular season title. Friday’s matchup will mark Michigan’s 10th game of the season against a ranked team where the Wolverines are 5-4 against Top 25 programs. This weekend is also this first time both squads have competed in a three-game series with a ranked team. On the mound this weekend for the Huskers will be junior Tatum Edwards and freshman Emily Lockman, who have both had great outings against offenses all season long and will look to continue that against a Wolverine offense that averages 7.6 runs per game. Edwards holds a 21-7 record with a 1.95 ERA, while Lockman
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Nebraska pitcher Emily Lockman unloads a pitch at Bowlin Stadium earlier this year. Lockman is one of two NU pitchers.
I’m just excited to get into the postseason. I’m excited for the tailgate, and I think we’re going to do big things.” Emily Lockman nebraska pitcher
is 14-3 after shutting out Creighton on Wednesday. For Lockman, she is ready for her first postseason of her college career. “I’m just excited to get into the postseason, I’m excited for the tailgate, and I think we’re going to do big things,” Lockman said. Before Saturday’s game, at 10 a.m., is the second annual “World’s Largest Tailgate” that the Nebraska softball team puts on which includes free food, games, inflatables and autographs from the sofatball team along with other student-athletes from other Husker teams. After the tailgate, the game versus Michigan will also have free admission. Last year ’s tailgate attendance surpassed the previous record of 1,445 held by Illinois with a total of 1,752 fans in the event’s first
year, and with the implications that Nebraska faces this weekend, Revelle believes the number will be eclipsed this year. Following the series with Michigan, the Huskers will have a road series with Penn State to round out the regular season and although this weekend is the final home series for the Huskers, the Big Ten Tournament this year will be held in Lincoln at Bowlin Stadium where the team will look to claim a conference title. “I told our team that even with all the distractions, that’s what the whole season is all about, having to dial it back in and we have nothing to lose so let’s just go out there and play hard,” Revelle said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com
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Nebraska women’s tennis player Mary Weatherholt swings her racket at the Nebraska Tennis Center. Weatherholt and the Huskers head to the Big Ten Tournament this weekend.
Favored Huskers close out Big Ten season with high hopes Nebraska takes on pair of teams it already beat this season Staff report dn The 2012-2013 tennis season comes to a Big Ten close this weekend as the Husker women’s tennis team competes at the Big Ten Tournament. Their travels to Bloomington, Ind., began Thursday. The Huskers’ first match is set to begin at 1 p.m. on Friday. They will either face the Penn State Nittany Lions or the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Both teams have faced the Huskers this season and have failed to gain a victory over NU. The Huskers were the cham-
pions of the Penn State match, winning it with a 5-1 win on the Nittany Lion’s home courts. This past weekend, NU gained another Big Ten win over Minnesota as they walloped the Golden Gophers on their home courts with a 6-1 victory. As far as this weekend is concerned, it looks as though the Huskers have the upper hand in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Currently, Minnesota has a 3-8 Big Ten record and are on a five match losing streak. The only exception to this seemingly rough time for the Golden Gophers is that they did end up beating Penn State by one point with a 4-3 win at the beginning of April. Penn State is No. 44 in the nation and has two ranked players on its team. Its Big Ten record is 4-7. Besides ranked players, the teams are fairly evenly matched.
Having said this, Minnesota has the track record for most wins over Penn State. In their history, they have claimed 18 matches of the 24 against the Lady Lions. The Golden Gophers might stand the test of time and pull through for the win. So why are these two games so important to Nebraska? After all, NU is sitting at the No. 16 position in national rankings and was crowned the Big Ten champ last weekend. It’s important because the goal of this year ’s Nebraska women’s tennis team has been to come out the clear winner of the Big Ten, including in this weekend’s tournament. Although Penn State and Minnesota don’t have a high ranking like Nebraska, they are just as thirsty for that win as the Huskers. sports@ dailynebraskan.com
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2013 DN SPRING SEMESTER AWARDS
Nebraska coach looks for more than just results DN names Straub Coach of Semester after his team wins national title
ka coach since 1996. His team has never been ranked lower than seventh in the top 25 bowling poll. Bowlers have come from Indonesia, Singapore and Colombia to be on his squad. He likes to think he has a tried-and-true coaching style, Paige CORNWELL he said. DN “I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I like think if Nebraska bowling coach Bill people came back, they would Straub will not give you the nod and say ‘there he goes time of day. again,’” Straub said. “Practices No, he won’t tell you it’s 2 are supplemented by having p.m. Instead, he’ll ask you why a good time. If we accomplish you want to know and maybe those two goals, we have had a find out the good day.” reasons behind Straub goes He’s always your sudden more in-depth interest in the interested with bowling funclock. damentals, somein looking deeper “He’s always thing unique to interested in into a question.” the Husker squad, looking deeper Mickelson said. into a question,” Kristi mickelson Where one coach senior bowler nebraska bowler might stop at “you Kristina Mickelmissed,” Straub son said. “He’s asks why the not interested in bowler missed a shot. getting a strike; he’s interested “The next shot isn’t ‘cross in showing how to get a strike.” your fingers,’ it’s ‘you know Straub’s coaching style is it’s going to be better,’ because one reason the Nebraska bowlthere is no such thing as ‘I ing team was so successful this missed, and there was nothing year, Mickelson said. Nebraska wrong with it,’” Mickelson said. won the NCAA championship “I think that’s our biggest boagainst Vanderbilt on April 13 in nus. Not only does he want us Canton, Mich. The win marked to do well, but he always wants the fourth time Nebraska has us to make it better.” won the national title since Mickelson, the only senior 2003, when bowling became a on the team, has seen Straub’s NCAA-sanctioned sport. coaching techniques and the Straub has been the Nebras- team evolve. Only a few pins
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Nebraska bowling coach Bill Straub meets the media following Nebraska’s fourth national bowling championship. Straub has been Nebraska’s coach for each of its championships.
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Nebraska guard Lindsey Moore drives up court at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Moore is the DN’s Female Athlete of the Semester.
Moore leaves behind legacy as four-year starting PG DN names Moore as its Female Athlete of the Semester for leading NU women Chris heady dn
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Nebraska wrestler Robert Kokesh raises his hand after a win on the mat. The wrestler is the DN’s Male Athlete of the Semester.
Kokesh impresses coaches, teammates with win streak DN names Kokesh Male Athlete of the Semester after 22-match run Zach Tegler DN Even before they went to overtime at the NCAA Wrestling Championships, Robert Kokesh and Logan Storley had a history on the mat. The two met as youngsters in South Dakota, wrestling each other a couple of times as elementary schoolers. In high school, Kokesh bumped up a weight class to face Storley once. After losing the match 3-2, Kokesh
raised Storley’s hand in the air. Kokesh, now a 174-pounder at Nebraska, squared off with Storley, a sophomore at Minnesota, in a duel earlier in the 2012-2013 season. “Storley’s actually a pretty good friend of mine,” Kokesh said. “I go up to his cabin every summer pretty much and hang out with him.” But Kokesh and Storley’s history lacked one thing: a Kokesh victory. That changed in their most recent match. With a third place finish at the NCAA Tournament hanging in the balance, Kokesh took Storley down with 16 seconds remaining in the sudden victory overtime period for a 3-1 win.
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Kokesh finally had his hand raised after a bout with Storley. After his opponent stormed off the mat, Kokesh went to his corner, high fiving Nebraska assistant coach Bryan Snyder, letting out a scream and getting a hug from coach Mark Manning. In defeating his friend, Kokesh got over a mental stumbling block and ended his sophomore season as an All-American with a third-place finish at the national tournament. Kokesh’s season began in a new weight class. After competing at 165 pounds as a freshman, he moved up to the 174-pound class as a sophomore. “I was cutting quite a bit of weight to make 165,” Kokesh said. “I naturally weighed
It’s only a matter of time before 00 hangs in the rafters at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Nebraska women’s basketball senior Lindsey Moore has a list, some 36 accolades long, of reasons why she should have her own banner hanging from the rafters, but her accolades can only speak for so much. Coach Connie Yori may have said it best. “She’s one of the best players ever to put on a Nebraska uniform,” Yori said after Nebraska’s 53-45 loss to Duke in the Sweet Sixteen. “I wouldn’t trade her for anyone.” Moore, who finished her career first in assists, minutes played, consecutive games played, and wins at Nebraska has been the face of Nebraska women’s basketball since she walked on campus four years ago. As a freshman, Moore started on a team dominated by seniors and led the Huskers to their first Sweet Sixteen appearance in school history, winning 30 games in a row along the way. Three
years later, she almost du- Big Ten second team. Moore plicated those same achieve- was recently picked in the ments, leading her team on first round of the WNBA a 13-game win streak (sec- by the Minnesota Lynx, and ond longest ever) and again is ready to start her profesmaking an appearance in the sional basketball career. “I’ve always thought that Sweet Sixteen, the only player to ever be there twice in it would be really cool to do something that you love and Nebraska history. As a senior, Moore av- to get paid to do it,” Moore eraged 15.1 points, 3.6 re- said after the draft. Her competitive spirit, bounds and 5.7 assists per game, also leading her team according to Yori, is why she in field goal percentage at has been so successful, and a 46 percent. She was at her fan favorite to many over the best in the biggest of games, past four years. including this “It doesn’t year ’s historic matter if we’re I’ve always upset over No. doing drills or though 3 seed Texas playing in a A&M in the it would be game or playsecond round. realy cool to do ing monopoly, Moore notched something you she wants to her fifth career win,” Yori double-double love and get paid said. “That’s with 20 points to do it.” going to help and 10 assists. her in life, in Lindsey Moore She came basketball and women’s basketball player up big this beyond.” year down the For Yori, not stretch, hitting having sometwo free throws to beat Iowa one like Moore on the court at Iowa 76-75, and also hit next year will be a challenge, game-winning free throws considering all she brings to against then undefeated the table. Florida State on Dec. 8. “Her knowledge and her Moore also scored 17 of her vision of the game is far su23 points against USC in the perior to most kids that you final six minutes to lead a coach,” Yori said. “We’d like Husker comeback and a 74- to have her back for four 65 win. more years.” sports@ She finished the year an dailynebraskan.com All-American and on the All-