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LETTERS FROM THE EDITORS

Darling readers,

I’m a lame duck editor.

Several times this week I’ve threatened to just quit working. I have my own final projects to worry about. All of my writers are worn out from stress. Topic ideas are lacking. Haven’t we already covered everything that needs covered?

Of course we haven’t. We’re the “Daily,” so we carry on.

But it’s easy to feel the pace winding down, especially as I and several of my fellow senior staffers will not be returning to the Daily Nebraskan next year. In my cubicle are the News Boys: Conor Dunn, Faiz Siddiqui and Daniel Wheaton. Just across from my desk sits the editor-in-chief, Jacy Marmaduke. In their respective corners are Copy Chief Stacie Sikora and Design Chief Genevra Obregon. These, among others, are the people with whom I ingest copious amounts of coffee, walk to get dinner, stress about content and bicker over innocuous details. And in a few weeks we’re saying goodbye.

Some of us are graduating and moving on to bigger and better things.

Some of us are staying in Lincoln but being occupied by other jobs.

Still, it will be odd not to regularly see these people or think about the place where we work together.

I felt the beginning of the end in mid-March when applications for next year’s editors were due. For the Opinion section, I knew we had writers with solid experience who would make excellent editors. I am truly proud of how all of them have grown this year. Assistant Opinion Editor Ben Curttright and I told them so in our section budget meeting. It was encouraging to see several of them step up and apply. It was even more encouraging to hear next year’s editor-in-chief, Chris Heady, interview them and also realize how awesome they are. About two weeks ago, interviews were finished and Chris announced the official lineup of editors.

I know who’s replacing me and Ben. You’ll get to know them next year, and I know they’ll be great. I’ve done this job for two years, and

it feels like the right time to move on. Still, training my replacement is odd. Knowing my daily routine will be totally different next year is weird. Investing a year of work into building something solid then passing it on to someone else is a little scary.

This place has stressed me out. I never thought a newsroom would be where I felt at home, but it’s been fun.

Please address all future complaints to next year’s staff. It’s in their hands now. Or at least it will be soon enough.

Cheers, Amy Kenyon Opinion editor

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Mary Lawson takes a break from writing at The Mill Coffee House located on P street in Lincoln. Mary is the vocals and plays the piano for the band Mesonjixx.

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Chase Thompson, a local “emo acoustic” artist, performs at a house show Tuesday. House show goers say there’s an intimacy there that just doesn’t exist at bar venues.

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alfway through Chase Thompson’s second song, “Caught up,” a black German Shepherd weaved its way through the seated crowd toward the singer-songwriter. People pet him as he walked by, but Thompson didn’t look up from his guitar as the dog, whose name is Ridick, walked behind his stool.

Lit by a single lamp and a string of lights hung from the ceiling, the living room of the R Street house was completely still, aside from Ridick and the occasional head bob from someone in the crowd of people watching Thompson intently.

This is a house show: a do-it-yourself event where performers and spectators come out to enjoy music inside someone’s home.

And although Trace Jurey, one of the people behind Tuesday night’s event, said an allacoustic style deviates from the usual punk or party atmosphere of most house shows, the basic tenet is still there.

“It’s definitely about finding a place to fit in,” Jurey said.

A Kearney native, Jurey said he didn’t really fit in anywhere in high school. When he started going to house shows at a residential venue called Igloo House, which did acoustic events, he found a group of people who made him feel like he belonged.

As an artist, Skyler Schenk, who performed on Tuesday under the moniker Curtains, said that it’s the same on the other side of the room.

To him, there’s a definite intimacy that isn’t replicated in the bar shows where people tend to be disinterested. Schenk also said he doesn’t find that in the traditional venues either. He said they’re like a movie, but that house shows are theaters where everyone is there to connect with the art and artists.

But more importantly, house shows are fun. And the opportunity to make new People gather to enjoy live acoustic music in a crowded house on Tuesday. The intimate friends who are interested in the same things doan Indie artist, and four native Nebraskan artists. adds to the experience.

“We all sit around, play some songs, make a few jokes, and enjoy ourselves,” Sch- es such as The Washington Estate, the 220 care for a while,” Woodson said. neck said. “House shows are essentially the House and The Tree House, although he’s Along with that, another factor of living campfire of the old days, except with central also worked as a third-party over the past in a college town like Lincoln is that people air.” few years. All in all he said he’s coordinated, only have a short window of time where It’s that simplicity that seems to attract or helped coordinate, about 100 events. they’re living here and have time to either everyone in some way to house shows. That’s host or attend shows like these. That means If there’s one thing that Woodson said how it was for Colby Woodson, although he’s learned after work- that venues and fans are constantly coming it wasn’t the mellow ing in and being a part of and going. acoustic setting present It was wild. There Generally, college towns also lean tothis scene for years now, on Tuesday night. His it’s that house shows ward party-oriented house shows which was, like, 80 people first impression of the and the culture that sur- isn’t how it is in bigger cities Woodson said. scene was fast, loud and in a very small basement, Often times the house venues are run like a round them are fickle. came during a Ska perreal venue and gear themselves toward older He said he’s seen all going quite wild and formance 12 years ago. music trends move audiences that are more interested in artis“It was wild,” Wood- behaving terribly, it was quickly in Lincoln. tic patronage of the underground scene. But son said. “There was, While right now band- even Woodson said that the vibes of the difwonderful.” like, 80 people in a very ferent realms are hard to define. oriented music, what’s small basement, all goBut at the core of it all, what gives house most often associated ing quite wild and beCOLBY WOODSON with house show mu- shows their character and unique appeal is fan of house shows having terribly, it was sic, is popular, it wasn’t the environment. For Schenk it’s about inwonderful.” always that way. And it timately connecting artists and audience, He found the “subprobably won’t stay that meeting new people and enjoying the expeterranean live music culture” pretty appeal- way, either. rience. ing, and so when he finally moved into his It’s more or less the same for Woodson, “Right now people are into it again; for own house, he got to work booking shows a while they weren’t, soon again they won’t who said he sees it as a close group of people there. Since then he’s booked shows at hous-

house show featured Leftmore, a Colora-

who can let go for a few songs.

“It’s more personal,” Woodson said.

“Even if it’s crazy and packed you’re still in someone’s home where you’re free from the expectation of alcohol purchase (from a venue), and where your behavior is typically less informed by public expectations.”

Woodson said that there’s a bunch of different ways to dress up what role house shows play in the Lincoln music scene, or what purpose they serve. You can say they’re a way for bands to get exposure to fans, for young people to familiarize themselves with the scene or that it’s a unique stage that notable acts seek out to play over traditional venues. But to Woodson, that’s not the heart of what a house show in Lincoln is.

“Ultimately, in this town, it’s a party, and parties are fun, and parties where there’s live music being played are memorable,” Woodson said. “Don’t get me wrong, though, I think they’re totally valid on that level alone, shouldn’t life be fun and exciting?”

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Wish to ‘make things right’ drives student’s refugee work CHRIS BOWLING DN Two weeks into his volunteer work, Drew Miller asked a 28-year-old Iraqi refugee what his life was like when he was Miller’s age.

“He said, ‘In one hand I was carrying a book and the other I was carrying a gun,’” Miller said.

That image was all it took: of someone his age, carrying a gun to protect himself from the violence of an everyday life Miller couldn’t even understand.

He rearranged his classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln so he could go from working 10 hours a week as a volunteer at Catholic Social Services to 30 hours a week as a case manager for resettling refugees. Before that, he was a pre-health major whose only experience in social work was occasionally volunteering at the soup kitchen. Now he’s a political science and global studies double major at UNL who knows working with refugees is what he’s meant to do.

“I need to somehow, I don’t want to say, ‘Make things right,’ because that’s impossible,” Miller said. “But I need to somehow minimize the effects of these people’s situation.”

In the United States, the only organizations that resettle refugees are non-profits such as Catholic services. However, the organizations follow the standards set by the state, which include a 90-day plan of setting up a place for refugees to live, enrolling the kids in school, connecting them with doctors as well as everything else they’d need to start a life in the U.S. But Miller said his work goes far beyond any 90-day plan.

He’s so involved in these families’ lives that he rarely eats dinner at his own home. He’ll work with them at their house, but after that’s over he stops being their case manager for a while as they put newspaper on the floor and eat meals of dolma, kebab and naan. It’s an experience that adds perspective to his life.

“Sitting down and eating a meal with someone from another country is one of the most eyeopening experiences you can have as a human being,” Miller said. “It’s your lens into another culture.”

But his work experiences aren’t always as simple as sharing a meal.

Every day he deals with people who know violence and war in a way he can’t imagine. They tell him about the family and friends they lost in places such as Afghanistan, Burma and the Ukraine. And even though he can’t know for sure, he said he also sees the guilt in their eyes for the family and friends they left behind.

This was more apparent than ever last summer.

Aside from case management, Miller is also the only one who handles immigration paperwork. Everyone in Lincoln knows that, so he gets calls all the time from people trying to apply for their family to resettle. But last summer, the state shut down that program because, as he said, if everyone is allowed to bring their family over because of violence, there would be too many people.

This had a special impact in Lincoln because last summer, ISIS trapped 40,000 Yazidis in the Sinjar Mountains. The militants have killed more than 5,000 Yazidis and forced between 5,000 and 7,000 women and children into slavery. Lincoln has the largest Yazidi population in the United States.

“So every day I had to tell them there was nothing I could do for them, and that was tough,” Miller said. “I saw how hard it was on the parents,

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Drew Miller, a junior global studies major, spends up to 30 hours a week working at Catholic Social Services located on 22nd and O streets. On an average day, Miller drops off food to refugee families in need and spends time helping them find jobs and homes.

and I saw how hard it was on the kids too.”

Miller’s a religious person, but times like last summer and the general nature of the people he works with have tested his faith during the past two years.

“With my job, I have every reason to believe that there’s no God,” Miller said. “It’s easy to ask, ‘Why do people that do nothing but live their lives get murdered? And not just that but have their family members murdered in front of them?’ How can I ever reconcile with that, you know?”

The way he copes with it is through his original mission statement: He can never make things right, but at least he can make things better. He said with every client he tries to restore hope in humanity by giving them access to education, medicine and opportunities never afforded to them before.

His ability to keep going despite the inherent challenges of his job, coupled with balancing a full course load, have made him stand out to his coworker Dakheel Zandinan.

“If it was someone else doing the things he’s doing, they would have quit,” Zandinan said. “I mean, I’m taking one or two classes and sometimes I find it hard to focus. I wish we could have more people like him.”

A refugee from Iraq, Zandinan’s experienced the same level of violence as many Catholic Services clients, so he knows the level of commitment and the type of person this job requires. He said

he doesn’t have any words that truly describe Miller’s character. He also said that despite what Miller said about the hardships he went through last summer, as well as every day, he’s never noticed a change in Miller’s work ethic.

“These people have so many health and economic issues,” Zandinan said. “He handles all of them without any problems. I’ve never seen him stressed or mad or anything. I can’t do what he’s doing to be honest.”

Zandinan understands Miller’s frustration with his inability to help people bring their families to the United States, but he said it’s not Miller’s fault. The immigration system, he said, is broken.

But Miller still feels personally responsible for providing hope for these people as much as he can.

He started a Friends of Refugees group that enables community members and UNL students to work with refugees, teach them English, drive them around and generally make them feel welcome.

With this he’s been able to connect his world with that of the refugees he serves. Because it’s easy for people who talk to him to romanticize and feel passionate about what he’s done, but Miller doesn’t want them to leave it at that.

“What I’ve learned to do is to take that, flip it back on them and ask, ‘Would you like to share in this experience with me?’ then I can have them come on board as a volunteer,” Miller said. “That’s just beautiful.”

All of these things affirm Miller, whether it be his work, his faith or his hope in the future. But still, he does think about what could have been.

When he’s studying on the second floor of the Gaughan Multicultural Center, Miller sees kids in suits getting ready for interviews a lot. They always talk about the same things: How they might hate their majors and the classes they’re in, but that they’ll love the paycheck that’s waiting for them at the finish line.

It makes Miller think about what his life could have been like had he stuck with pre-health.

“I’m not going to lie, sometimes I’m like, ‘Damn, maybe I should have done pre-health,’” Miller said. “I could have a bigger income, and that safety net is sweet. But I need to catch myself and realize that this is something I’m good at, it’s something I enjoy and money will come.”

He also knows it’s about more than money.

What he doesn’t know is how to say that without being cliché: How to say that over these past two years, his job has taught him to appreciate his family, education and the life he has.

He does know this: “At the end of my life, I’ll have that beginning year on my tombstone, the end and a dash,” Miller said. “Hopefully, something happened between there that was worthwhile.”

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Mesonjixx singer’s heartbreak fuels music, film MAC WALL DN Any band can put heartbreak to song, but Mesonjixx puts it to film as well.

Born in 2013, the band has four members: Myles Jasnowski on guitar and vocals, Kekeli Dawes, a former Daily Nebraskan writer, on drums, Josh Bargar on bass and Mary Lawson on piano and vocals.

Lawson is their soft-spoken singer and lyricist, and the group’s sole founder.

They play an unconventional live show by incorporating both original music and film into their performances.

Lawson said her preferred instrument is her voice, but she dabbles in piano too. The instrument is included in much of the band’s catalogue, but she describes herself as a novice pianist despite the pleasant-sounding result.

“I’m a vocalist before a piano player because I definitely don’t play the piano,” Lawson said. “I just plunk around.”

Mesonjixx was originally a solo act, but Lawson is quick to credit the other three members.

“I know for sure it wouldn’t be what it is today without their influence and artistry,” she said.

“What they bring to Mesonjixx makes it more meaty. What I started out with was just a skeleton.”

Bargar also enjoys the band’s chemistry.

“I got the call that (Dawes and Jasnowski) were playing with a singer-songwriter project and needed a bass player,” he said. “After that first jam we had as a four piece, we all felt it was a good fit.”

The creative process is loosely structured.

Sometimes, Lawson said, a melody will pop into her brain and inspire her to write lyrics to accompany her piano plunking, while the other members inject their part. Other times, the rest of the band members create a tune, and she fills in the space.

Typically, it’s Lawson or Jasnowski who kickstart

songwriting.

“Mary or I will bring in a chord progression or melodic idea as a foundation, and the group will build off of that idea, slowly creating a structure,” Jasnowski said.

Although many of the members are in two or more different bands and come from a variety of musical backgrounds, the group prides itself on obvious chemistry.

Lawson’s interest in music began at an early age, when she was about 8 years old, although she said it was more casual back then.

“I always carried around a cassette player and I would listen to Mariah Carey or Gloria Estefan or Whitney Houston,” Lawson said.

Her interest grew more serious as she entered high school. Lawson performed theater whenever she could and sang in choir consistently.

By senior year of high school she was taking vocal lessons, and her work paid off in the form of a theater scholarship to Doane College. She spent two years there and moved to Chicago to pursue her musical education further.

Here she found several new passions, one of them being collaborative music. She began writing songs for the Chicago art collective Everypeople Workshop. The workshop is split into various sections, one of them being vocals – which she mainly worked with. She was introduced to filmmakers and jazz musicians, and she found another passion for activism.

But perhaps her most impactful passion was a romantic one: She fell in love with a man – and fell out of love with him three years later.

“The man I loved, he helped me love film too,” Lawson said.

She gained a lasting affinity for film that stuck with her even after the breakup. Her heartbreak manifested in a short film and songs that document her lost love. The gentle, jazzy music would fit perfectly into the smoky atmosphere of a cocktail bar

where everyone is drinking alone.

“I fell out of love for the first time,” she said.

“And it was a huge turning point for me in my young adult life. I wanted to document it because it meant a lot to me, and that person did too.”

The black-and-white film that would later be used in Mesonjixx’s sets was shot in 2014, about a year after she left Chicago.

“I wasn’t really sure what I was doing in Chicago,” she said. “I got more lost than I wanted to be.”

She felt out of place and decided to move to Lincoln, where she put the idea for a short movie into action.

She started Mesonjixx in 2013 in Lincoln and incorporated much of her Chicago experience into her art. She went back to Chicago a year later to shoot her portion of the film, which helped her deal with her breakup.

“I wanted to join the two – music and film – because that was the truest way of documenting our story together,” Lawson said.

The heartbreak she endured in Chicago accounted for a third of the film, with two of her friends participating in the rest. They too shared their stories of love, reading from journals or discussing their past.

“None of it is scripted,” Lawson said. “It’s all just what my friends wanted to share of their love and loss.”

To create songs for the film, she connected with Dawes who rounded up the other two band members, and they began fleshing out a sound that fit the movie. As of now, the film is incorporated with the typical set they play, which is roughly 20 minutes long. The first half of the set includes film and music. A scene plays, then a song, and so on. From there the group transitions with a spoken word piece to the second part of the set, which is exclusively music.

“You kind of go on a ride with us,” Lawson said.

She said the second half of the set is more upbeat. It deals less with heartbreak, and more with themes like resiliency. As a songwriter, she too is trying to evolve the subject matter of her work.

“I want to get away from heartbreak, because I’m past that in my life,” she said. “I want to document what I feel now.”

Although new content is the goal for Mesonjixx, they’re currently perfecting their existing catalogue.

“We’re just working on the set that we have, just trying to fine tune it and make it better because we’re going to record it in May,” Lawson said.

However, she expects film to stay in the picture. Lawson enjoys the combination of different media. She envisions one fluid, recorded piece of film and music that captures the dynamic of Mesonjixx’s live set. Lawson said she would like the Mesonjixx experience to appear on screen—music and film together—without people needing to see it live in Lincoln.

Mesonjixx mostly stays on the local circuit.

They have played for Hear Nebraska and frequent venues such as Vega and The Zoo Bar, where they’re warmly received.

“That place has some kind of magic oozing from the walls,” Jasnowski said of the Zoo Bar. And the band is increasing its exposure by playing the Folk and Roots Festival this summer.

The two-day country folk festival will take place at Branched Oak Farm outside of Lincoln from July 31 to August 1.

Bargar said the band members aren’t nervous about their growing popularity.

“As long as we’re having fun playing, the audience will feed off of that and have a good time too,” he said.

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Big Hog Challenge is no easy feat, even for big eaters ZACH FULCINITI DN “It wasn’t even a valiant effort.”

My partner’s words cut deep. I knew he was right.

We were so sure of ourselves. We had already figured out how we would spend our winnings.

And yet, before us sat more than half of the largest pizza we’d ever seen, one we thought we’d have no problem extinguishing.

Boss’ Pizza and Chicken, one of Lincoln’s newest pizza places, offers a challenge that, so far, has bested more than 90 percent of the teams that have attempted it.

The Boss Hog challenge involves a 28-inch pizza with three toppings, one meat and two veggies. Two brave souls have exactly an hour to finish the monumental pie and once it’s all gone, must wait 15 minutes in gastrointestinal agony to ensure they don’t regurgitate anything. They are allowed no bathroom breaks. If you complete the challenge, each person gets a $100 gift certificate. If you don’t, you pay full price for a pizza that costs, on average, around $40.

Now that it’s over, and we failed so miser-

ably, DN photographer Tyler Meyer and I have no choice but to ask ourselves how we let glory slip through our fingers.

Our first mistake was thinking we could do it. Reading about competitive eating and the best ways to consume massive amounts of food in a short amount of time, we both recognized that our largest obstacles were mental. We’ve each eaten whole pizzas on our own before, not to mention significant quantities of other food stuffs, and so we thought that physically, we were more than capable of completing the challenge. So, we focused on mental obstacles. We reminded ourselves over and over again that we could do it if we wanted to.

We weren’t totally wrong. The staff at Boss’ was not above waging psychological warfare against us. No more than 20 minutes into our pizza hour, a server came over and placed a garbage can next to our table.

“Just in case,” she said meekly.

It was around that time Tyler and I made eye contact and a truth we were not yet willing to accept passed between us. We were in over our heads.

Yes, we had eaten grotesque amounts of food before, but this was not the same. We were not casually engorging in between bong rips and games

of Super Smash Bros. Now we were competitors.

We were athletes. And we had the yips.

Tyler put in his headphones and tried to drown out the sound of me belching, each of us only three or four painful slices into an excursion that was quickly beginning to look like a nightmare that would end in the bathroom, either minutes or hours later, with an evacuation from one of two sphincters. Which sphincter it would be depended on how much more pizza we ate before giving up.

“I’m in over my head,” I said to an older lady at the table behind us who had turned around to check on our progress. She laughed a sympathetic laugh.

Each time we looked down at what remained of the Boss Hog, we felt like Pac-Men, surrounded by pizza pellets, haunted at every turn by the ghosts of our most recent throw-ups.

We were not mentally prepared. And when it came down to it, it was clear that our bodies were not ready either. By focusing on the psychological aspect, we didn’t take proper precautions to ensure that our hunger would last the entire pizza.

And we ignored our own good advice. We knew that we needed to get there while the pizza was still hot. Eating that much dough, sauce and

cheese is hard enough, but it becomes next to impossible when it all reaches room temperature, the dough soggy, the cheese tough and chewy, the green pepper, tomato and bacon piled unappetizingly high.

The kind folks at Boss’ told us to call an hour in advance of showing up, so they could get started on the pizza. When they called just half an hour later to tell us the pizza was ready, we were in the middle of a game of Super Smash Bros. We played for another eight to 10 minutes (in retrospect, our own nerves may have played a role in that decision) before leaving, and by time we got there, the pizza had been sitting at our table for close to half an hour. We thought that, at the very least, they would keep it under a heat lamp for us. We were naive; and we were not primed, mentally, physically or emotionally, for a pizza as wide as a lorry tire.

So heed our warning: food challenges are called challenges for a reason. If you want to win, you have to pay the pizza (or giant burrito or whatever) some respect. Be on the lookout for delusions of grandeur. Expect the unexpected.

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f you haven’t heard about Earthstock yet, you’re missing out.

The annual monthlong celebration of environmental sustainability, only in its second year, represents a lot of things we as students can all get behind. It’s student-driven, organized by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska’s Environmental Sustainability Committee. Its message – weaving a better world for present and future generations on social, economic and environmental levels – is an important one. And maybe most importantly, it’s a whole lot of fun.

Earthstock 2014, the program’s first iteration, recently won the Student Impact Awards’ “Program of the Year” title. We can see why. Earthstock’s organizers have managed to pitch the attimes-cerebral concept of sustainability to students in a way that doesn’t feel over thought or over wrought. Yeah, Earthstock has the obligatory panels and talks and presentations, but it also has a carnival, a talent show and a big, free concert downtown.

Hordes of student organizations through the ages have grappled with the struggle of engaging UNL students with social, political and environmental issues. It’s a struggle not just because students are busy with class and work and social lives, but also because there’s such expansive competition for STAFF EDITORIAL: SEE PAGE 14

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Don’t vote for Clinton just because she’s a woman Vicki Klafter

If my brother played against Hillary Clinton in a game of Risk, he’d be crying by the end. Risk is a game based on intense maneuvering strategy and luck. Predicting my brother ’s loss says a lot because my brother ’s brilliant at strategy and many other wonderful, equally practical things, such as sometimes doing laundry. Shout out to him for being an adult.

Hillary Clinton is also brilliant at strategy and many other practical things. She’s showcasing that intelligence now in her decision to announce, the way she announced and the theme she has set for her campaign. At this point, I predict that she will be the next president.

However, I’m afraid that it won’t be just her strategy and brilliant publicizing moves that will give her the approval she needs.

Frankly, I think her sex will be the winning chess piece and her policies merely pawns; they’re important at first but expendable when it’s crunch time.

So gender equality has been gaining serious momentum. Discussing wage equality and addressing sexual harassment and rape swim in the mainstream. The word feminist is losing much of its negative connotation among those who actually know what it means. This is all good news for the nation and for Clinton. Now is the best time to capitalize on her position as one of the most prominent female politicians. In regard to power she has enjoyed she’s probably surpassed only by Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

The video to announce her candidacy was a thoughtful yet overt declaration of “I am here for everybody! Except the elite!” The footage was a string of people representing diverse demographics within the working and/ or middle class or what her campaign is calling “everyday Americans.” With the appearance of each person, Clinton was placing a checkmark on the list of voters to whom she’s prepared to cater. This was a brilliant advertising move because not only does it stress Hillary’s focus on regular people but it emphasizes the difference between these average Joe’s and Clinton herself.

She also established a foundation of commonality on the idea that many people are getting ready to move on, to change and to evolve. “Ready for Hillary” explicitly indicates the assumption that the U.S. has been preparing specifically for her, Hillary Clinton, the political demi-god that she is.

Hillary wasn’t the first to use celebrity and/or minority status for strategic advantage. Ronald Reagan definitely exploited his celebrity position as an actor to gain name recognition. President Barack Obama obviously benefitted from being black, and rightly so. He was a perfectly acceptable candi-

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This doesn’t mean I’m anti-feminist. Conversely, I’m exhibiting true feminist behavior because I’m exercising my right to choose a candidate who fits my ideals and not just because I identify as the same gender as her.” date. He had qualities and abilities that made him a contender, but his race was the winning piece.

He had a step up over Clinton because he’s a man and the amount of positive race sentiment outweighed positive feminism sentiment in 2008. He won the whole thing, and before he started campaigning he was a relative no-name. Clinton is a household name. If you use just her first name in a political context, people know exactly who you’re talking about. She’s got all the pieces to checkmate the Republican nominee.

Unfortunately, I don’t think they’re the pieces that will necessarily make her the best president. I have particular issues with some of her foreign policy and the way she handled certain situations as Secretary of State. I disagree with the tactics of some of her domes-

tic policy. I understand, though, that many times political contests aren’t about who has all the perfect qualities and abilities but who’s the lesser of two evils. That being said, at this point I’m hoping for a better candidate to surface than Clinton who I can feel good about giving my support. This doesn’t mean I’m anti-feminist. Conversely, I’m exhibiting true feminist behavior because I’m exercising my right to choose a candidate who fits my ideals and not just because I identify as the same gender as her. Women should get equal treatment no matter the gender of the president.

I’m afraid that the so-called “everyday Americans” who she’s trying to entice won’t be so studious in their examination of her and will vote for her for because she’s a woman or because she’s Hillary Clinton or both.

I realize that the election is eons away in

college student time-tables. All my attention is fixated on surviving the last three weeks of school and I’m sure I’m not alone in this mentality. Clinton will likely be the democratic candidate and no republican candidate is surfacing who promotes many of the values that are important to most college students, even in this raging red state of ours.

I urge you to look into Clinton’s politics, her policies and her voting record. Pay attention to what she says on her campaign. Don’t passively vote for her just because she’s a woman. Promote feminism ideals by seeking equality for all genders and privilege based on sex for none.

VICKI KLAFTER IS A FRESHMAN ENGLISH MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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Find someone to talk to about your depression Jaz Shoeneck

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s I was sitting at my computer, mind consumed with different topics for this article, I decided to hop on Facebook. Perhaps to find the upcoming election season or a civil rights violation I could investigate further. I sifted through numerous “Going to Lunch with my Bestie” and “Just watched Daredevil on Netflix #excited” posts before coming across a status from a friend. It was an old friend, one I’d known in elementary school but hadn’t seen since.

The status read “Some days I just can’t get out of my bed.” My first thought was that I would love to spend the day in bed. I was going to move on, but a thought crept up on me. It was a memory of last March, when I had said something similar to a co-worker. They laughed and said “I wish I had that much free time.” I wasn’t trying to brag about my free time when I told them, I was actually trying to express a problem I was having; a problem that I didn’t understand till several months later.

Depression is a terrifying mindset because you don’t realize you’ve dropped so low unless you take the time to actually consider whether you have a problem. There’s a Greek myth about King Sisyphus, who believed he could trick Zeus and was cursed by Hades to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. Just when the boulder reaches the top it was enchanted to roll all the way back down to the bottom. The myth is often used to describe fruitless, monotonous actions.

A friend of mine who struggles with anxiety and depression, who I’ll call Dez because I like that name, told me he used the story to understand how depression develops. For him, pushing the boulder up the hill was how he viewed every day. His days became monotonous; the same events seemed to

take place every single day without end. At the end of each day he’d go to sleep and the boulder would roll all the way back down. He thought that every day was the same, but what he didn’t realize was that every time the boulder rolled back down the hill it went a little bit farther away from the top. It wasn’t noticeable at first, so he didn’t think anything was wrong, but at a certain point he looked up at the mountain and realized it had started to look insurmountable. Even though he’d climbed it every day it now looked far away. He started believing that he couldn’t ever push it up again. This is how he, and now I, found a way to look somewhat objectively at depression.

Sadness affects everyone differently and everyone has a different way of coping with it. Some people play videogames, some people exercise, and some people self-medicate. There’s no guaranteed way to deal with the feelings and sometimes, especially at our age, we become overwhelmed. I’ve come to realize through my own pain that sometimes ignoring the problem and numbing the pain isn’t enough to deal with it. There are times when you just have to face that pain head on, to plow through it and try to reassemble your head and heart on the other side. The kicker is that you don’t have to do it alone.

I’ve heard from numerous sources, including the media and my own friends, that it can be difficult to realize that someone is depressed. From my experience this is because of a desire on the person’s part to avoid thinking about it or to avoid bringing someone else’s day down, or even a fear that other’s wouldn’t understand. I got lucky because I have a strong and supportive friend group who, once I realized I could talk about my depression, supported me and listened. Not everyone has that luxury. That being said, there’s always someone out there willing to listen. Don’t be afraid to find someone. Humans communicate to express what’s going on in that maelstrom we call a mind. If you just keep everything inside, believing that others wouldn’t understand, you will only alienate yourself from those around you who really do want to help. For those of you who might have friends struggling to get out of bed just keep a watchful eye out. Don’t let yourself be surprised by it.

There’s one problem with using Sisyphus as an

ART BY ALLY FRAME | DN allegory for depression. If you believe that every day is pushing a rock up a hill, life starts to become devoid of any spontaneity or beauty. So for those of you out there who see this article and know that you struggle with depression or are realizing it for the first time, I ask you to think of life as a wave.

Consider it a series of peaks and valleys. There will always be days when you’re at the trough of the wave and there will be days when you ride on the peak. You aren’t climbing a mountain, the rocks that you push aren’t forever. Remember that it’s OK to be sad, everyone’s sad. The world is full of some

really sad shit. Just find someone to talk to about it, no matter how mundane you consider your problems. Your problems are as real as you make them.

If you simply can’t find anyone to talk to then come talk to me about it, I’m not a professional but I love to listen.

JAZ SCHOENECK IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND FILM STUDIES MAJOR. REACH HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR ON TWITTER AT @JAZ_SCHOENECK

Achievements shouldn’t impact students’ self-worth Tegan Colton

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e all remember the daily mantra of our teachers in grade school: “Don’t do drugs,” they said. “Stay in school,” they said. By the time we were 8 years old, these words became as much the truth

to us as knowing how pizza is better than cauliflower and how the red Skittles are better than the orange ones – it’s just common sense. Ironically, not doing drugs while staying in school is, for some people, a contradictory and nonsensical statement. No one ever said anything about how staying in school could drive us to actually need drugs.

College students today are more depressed, anxious and suicidal than any time in our nation’s history. Despite relatively stable social conditions, the rate of adolescent suicides is now triple what it was 60 years ago. And what’s worse? The rate is only growing. Suicide is now the second-leading cause of death among college-age youth.

It’s no wonder then why drug use among college kids has tripled in the past decade.

Today, up to 60 percent of college students report feeling “very sad,” “very lonely,” overwhelmingly anxious and hopeless. Many of these students are forced to take anti-depressants, SSRIs and may even self-medicate with illegal drugs to cope with their symptoms.

Symptoms that seem to only be made worse by school. ”Staying in school is good” has been drilled into us. It’s usually dropped in the same list of advice as eating your vegetables and saying no to meth. And yeah – it’s true that school helps us financially in the long run. I’ve previously written about how, statistically, college is worth the cost. That said, school probably isn’t as good for your mental health as it is for your mid-life financial success. Study after study has shown how

children are least happy when they’re at school, and the number of children needing emergency psychiatric care significantly decreases over summer months when school isn’t in session.

But we have to remember something when looking at this data; if going to school was mainly about learning, this trend might not exist. Some psychologists hypothesize that school isn’t actually what’s psychologically damaging to students; it’s the ever-increasing pressure on children to achieve the most, do the most and get the best grades.

As these children grow up and go to college, the pressure of actually achieving something and turning it into something solid – money,

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We think Earthstock’s sparkleand-substance approach represents the answer to the hurdle of engagement. And that’s worth celebrating.

So attend some Earthstock events while you still can. The schedule continues through the rest of April, one highlight being the aforementioned music festival at the Bourbon Theater Friday night. But also, take a moment to consider how cool it is that we get to be a part of a campus where something like this exists — where students can come together to promote a progressive message, where devoted organizers care enough to put hours and hours of effort into coordinating not just one sustainability event but a whole month’s worth of them, and where a feeling of hope for the future flourishes. Earthstock is in the air this month. Breathe it in.

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fame, success – compounds. If we don’t suc- how school is set up has caused me to judge myself. My performance in school has always ceed, we’re failures. been the rise and fall of my self-esteem, as College is no longer about learning. We’re no longer here to keep ourselves informed; in- if getting an A was a sign from the universe that I’ve been judged a worthwhile person. stead it seems we’re here just so we can keep up with everyone else. College is a compe- Getting anything less was proof of the oppotition: Who can slam their foreheads against site. Yet if I ever get an A- or (God forbid) a B, I will tell myself I must be lazy or stupid a keyboard the fastest and most eloquently and still get an A? Who can stay awake the because surely anyone else should have gotlongest while still being conscious to walk to ten a good grade if they were in my position.

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in time, I feel as though I’m not good enough.

Maybe I’m not trying hard enough? Maybe I’m not smart enough? Maybe I’m just not enough? I’m always looking at the outcome, not at what I’m accomplishing despite of myself.

School, it seems, will always encourage you to look at yourself this way. We’re encouraged to judge ourselves based on a grade, but it’s a grade someone else gives us. We’re encouraged to compare ourselves to others, but nobody knows how hard you worked just to get a C. We’re told everyone should be able to get great jobs after college, though there are many who don’t. Is this why so many of my fellow students are suffering from depression, anxiety or thoughts of suicide? Do they feel their worth is based on success, a grade or how well they measure up to others?

School is rough. Life is rough. But you’re not your grades. You’re not your achievements, your medals, your internships or your lack of them. You’re not worth as much as your professor or parents or friends approve of you. You’re worthwhile in yourself.

Finals are coming up. Study hard. But please remember: Your grades don’t determine your worth as a human being.

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Johnny Carson Theatre will host Evenings of Dance at 7:30 p.m.

General admission is $12 and $7 for UNL students.

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Plan your weekend Friday, April 17th Hear Nebraska presents Jack Bellow, The Bottle Tops and Universe Contest at the Zoo Bar at 9 p.m.

Tickets are $7 or $20 with a HN: Vol. 3 vinyl.

The Coffee House will host a benefit show featuring La Musa Confusa, The Silver Rabbit and more. Tickets are $5 and there will be a silent auction featuring art by local artists.

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“Pitch Perfect” will be shown at the Union Green Space at 9 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Purple Hays and the NU Wave Vocal Jazz Ensemble will perform at Vega at 6 p.m. Admission is $5.

Astronomy Day Star Party at Branched Oak Observatory site from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The event is free.

Lincoln’s weekly comedy show, Zoolarious will take place at 8 p.m. at the Zoo Bar.

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Knowledge/Skills/Education/Licenses: High school diploma or GED Post high school education in life sciences or medical training preferred CPR certification preferred ?Experience in accurate documentation of data preferred This is a part-time, role that will work 20-25 hours per week. The work hours for this role are Fridays from 5:30p-11p; availability on Saturday and Sunday from 5a-11p.

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913 New Hampshire. 4 bedroom 1 bath, amazing location, no pets/smoking, W/D, $1080/month (402)730-8743 1045 Charleston. Studio apartment. A/C. W/D. Off-street parking. $360/month plus utilities.

No pets/no smoking. (402)730-8743

Apts. For Rent

Holroyd Investment Properties, Inc.

1-2 & 3 Bedrooms Apartments, Townhomes and Duplexes

402-465-8911 www.HIPRealty.com

Jobs Help Wanted **VA Work-Study** Nebraska Department of Veterans’ Affairs is currently looking for work-studies to assist with administrative duties. To complete an application, stop by our office at 301 Centennial Mall South, 6th floor.

Deliver Papers

Next fall semester

Do you like to exercise and get paid for it? Deliver Daily Nebraskans on Monday and Thursday mornings. You can deliver a route in about an hour. Must have own vehicle, ability to lift and carry 30 lbs, be a UNL student and not have classes before 9:00 a.m. For more information or to apply, contact Dan at 402-472-1769, 20 Nebraska Union. dshattil@unl.edu.

Full- time office assistant. Judson Irrigation Inc. is currently seeking an office assistant to help with daily work in their office. The job duties include; answering phones, scheduling daily work/appt’s, billing and general office duties as needed. Flexible hours. (30 to 40) If interested please contact Cary at 402-430-6277 or email: cheimes@judsonirrigation.com If you could use some fast cash, especially for the summer, we’ve got the perfect job for you!

NBC | Neebo is hiring seasonal team members with day shifts available. It’s the perfect way to put some extra dough in your pocket AND get access to FREE textbook rentals for you or a family member! Apply today on nebook.com by clicking the Careers tab and searching for the Temporary Textbook Fulfillment position in Lincoln, NE. Join the CenterPointe Team! Part-time positions available in residential program working with substance abuse/mental health clients in a unique environment. Must be at least 21 years of age and be willing to work a varied schedule including overnights and weekends.

Pay differential for overnight hours. For more information visit: www.centerpointe.org.

Help Wanted Carlos O’Kelly’s

is now hiring at 4455 N. 27th St., Part-time servers and line cooks for nights/weekends.

Apply at CarlosOKellys.com Landscape and Tree Care Company has se sonal openings! Part-time school year and full time summer. Pay $9-$12 per hour depending on experience. Work includes landscape planting, landscape construction, nursery work, pruning and occasional irrigation work. Visit our website for information about our company.

WWW.BEAUTYBYWESTFORK.com Contact Maggie at 402-430-5808 or email at Maggie@beautybywestfork.com LAZLO’S HAYMARKET Where quality is not just a word it’s a Culture. Now hiring the Best and Brightest Servers and Line Cooks.

FT/PT positions available.

Please visit our Careers page at: www.lazlosbreweryandgrill.com Come join our team!

EOE Looking for a fun-loving, responsible nanny for two boys, ages 6 & 7... very well-behaved kiddos, super smart, easy to entertain! Previous experience preferred but not required.

Hours: 2- 3 days/ wk, approx. 8:30am - 5:45pm but flexible if needed. Responsibilities: preparing meals/ snacks, driving to activities, and lots of play. Please submit resume with references to Miranda.Watson@yahoo.com.

Office Innovations has PT and FT/summer positions installing office furniture. Apply now at www.oinnovations.com.

OMNI Behavioral Health is seeking a Therapist to provide mental health therapy to Families, Individuals, and Youth as well as functional and pre-treatment assessments, Comprehensive Family Assessments and interventions to individuals and families. Completion of treatment plans and the provision of evidence based treatment in delivering treatment to adults, children, and families in the home based setting. Qualifications: LMHP and family intervention experience is preferred. Professional Clinical supervision is provided. Travel required. Must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and must complete pre-employment background checks.

Full Benefits Package! Please apply for this position on our website by using the following link: https://careers.omnibehavioralhealth.com /.

OMNI Behavioral Health is seeking persons to work at a therapeutic group home for adolescents 14 to 18 years old with emotional/behavior disorders in Seward, NE. Part-time positions with benefits currently available. Applicants must be 21 years of age.

Bachelor’s degree, undergraduates in psychology or related fields, or experience working with adolescents preferred. Please apply for this position on our website using the following link: https://careers.omnibehavioralhealth.com/ Paid summer jobs (May 20th - July 26th) at Carol Joy Holling Camp in Ashland, NE. Hiring high ropes instructors and counselors. Contact Kelsey at kellis@nlom.org or 402-944-2544.

PAYCHECK ADVANCE is now hiring customer service representatives. We’re looking for energetic, enthusiastic individuals to fill several part time positions. We offer competitive pay, PTO, flexible scheduling; and opportunities to advance. Must have a high school diploma or equivalent. Prior customer service and/or cash handling experience is preferred. Apply online at https://paycheckadv.com/Career.aspx or apply in person at one of our 8 locations.

Compensation: Based On Experience.

Help Wanted The Nebraska Department of Roads is currently accepting applications for two Student Work Study positions in the Environmental Section. Temporary part-time emloyment while attending classes and full-time employment in the summer and during breaks. For a full job description and to apply, visit www.statejobs.nebraska.gov. State applications are required and must be received by April 30.

The Nebraska Department of Roads is an Equal Opportunity/Veterans Preference Employer.

The Still

Part-time clerk, evenings and weekends. Enjoy working with customers and wine knowledge a plus. Must be 21. Apply in person at 6820 S. 70th Street, in Home Depot Shopping Center.

Warehouse aned driving positions available.

Full or part time. Lincoln Lumber Company 932 North 23rd.

WORK AT CAMP THIS SUMMER! Get experience more valuable than an internship, change a child’s life forever, work outside, and have fun at YMCA Camp Kitaki. Visit our web site for descriptions of available positions and an application. It’s the best thing you’ll ever get paid to do! Visit our website to apply www.ymcacampkitaki.org/jobs.

Summer Jobs Fun summer job working on the Niabrara River.

Spend the summer on the river with housing paid for from May through August. Starting and ending dates negotiable.

Email emmons.kelley@gmail.com or call 402-890-7819 if interested.

Lincoln Tent is looking for part time summer help and full time help. No experience is necessary. Work outside installing tents in various locations. Earn extra with overtime. Benefits available for full time workers. A valid drivers license is preferred. Stop in to get an application at 3900 Cornhusker Hwy, Lincoln, NE between 8 am to 4:30 pm Mon through Friday or contact Julie at jmiller@lincoltent.com or 402-467-4559.

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