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Readers,

It was a beautiful bit of play: Kayla Simon, next year’s opinion editor, wove through a crowd of defenders and coolly slotted the ball past current opinion editor Amy Kenyon, opening the scoring in the first annual Daily Nebraskan Soccer Game before five minutes had gone by.

I always feel weird seeing the phrase “first annual.” Especially in an environment with such high turnover. Of the 22 DN and DailyER staffers who played today, close to half will be gone next year. And maybe five of us have played organized soccer since grade school. Basically, I have no reason to expect that there will ever be a second annual DN Soccer Game.

Then again, when I pinned up the sign-up sheet, featuring a black-and-white photo of Richard Nixon kicking a soccer ball in a full suit, to the bulletin board by the sports desk, no one really expected the first one to happen, either.

Having a DN Soccer Game was always 50 percent feelgood get-together, 50 percent workplace joke, which is fair. It was my idea, and I kind of thought we were joking for a while. I felt a bit like a 5-year-old in a grocery store who was insisting on trying all the free samples while his mom pushed the cart around behind him, thinking about her job and her mortgage and how much the biggest box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch is going to cost exactly. I was worried that people would get bored of the “haha, sport” joke as the stress of dead week and the work of making a newspaper collided on a Sunday afternoon.

And yet, things really couldn’t have gone better. Every section, including Photo, Art and Copy, was represented. The teams were kind of predictably divided: At the pre-budget meeting draft last week, I picked mostly friends from the news desk, A&E, and the DailyER, and Online Sports editor Josh Kelly, the other captain, had a pretty sports-heavy 11.

Somehow, the game was really even. My team took a quick lead through Kayla’s individual skill and a wonder strike from hat-and-jeans-wearing reporter Jacob Elliott, and wow, seeing Jacob unironically doff his cap after his half-volley found the back of the net is definitely one of my top-five Jacob Elliott moments. Whether because of incoming editor-in-chief Chris Heady’s pep talk before kickoff or because videographer Phil Malzer switched into goal for Amy Kenyon, the advantage

didn’t last. We traded goals right before halftime and sat down together behind the goal gasping for breath, my team up 3-1.

The second half was rough. Faiz Siddiqui, news editor and one of the best friends I’ve made at the DN this year, had to sit down for a while because he, in his words, “drank a bunch of expired soy milk” and needed to “digest.” We gave up one goal, then another, and the game got increasingly chippy as our relatively in-shape but unathletic staff ran out of energy. At full time, the game was tied 3-3. We decided to play on with golden goal rules: next goal wins.

Really, at that point, it felt like a win already. The people I normally see in the Nebraska Union’s cramped basement were on Mabel Lee’s turf running around on one of the nicest days of the year. No one got hurt. Most people seemed to be having a genuinely good time.

Whether this takes the place of the flag football game DN writers used to play in the 2000s or never happens again, I got to go play soccer with my friends at the DN before graduating and leaving the paper after two and a half years, and that means a lot.

We won, though. Justin Perkins scored a great goal from outside the box. That was cool.

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ihang Jiang’s initial days at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln unfolded in the confines of an empty Selleck Hall dorm room, where he slept away summer afternoons on a stiff blue mattress.

For three days after arriving in Lincoln, he subsisted on the same meal: plain ramen heated with lukewarm water from the bathroom sink. He used a pair of No. 2 pencils for chopsticks, scraping stray noodles from the rim of a plastic bucket.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t cook; Jiang actually worked at a couple of restaurants back home in China. No, arriving at a deserted Selleck Hall in mid-August 2013 and finding the dining centers closed for the summer, the 18-year-old simply didn’t know where to eat. Or who to ask. Or even how.

“I tried my best to lay on the bed to sleep as long as I could to save energy,” Jiang, now 20, said on a recent afternoon. “Otherwise I would get hungry.”

Two weeks later, waiting for a bus with friends, Jiang would be approached by a man holding a large dog and demanding money. A man who flashed a handgun.

From there, his problems as a UNL student would only begin.

“In the two years I’ve been here, I’ve been through all the bad things you can imagine for a foreign student.” *** Peering out the plane window nearly five years ago, Junfeng Chen became anxious. He wondered where the patchwork of prairie grass and cornfields would end. And suddenly, he saw a cluster of buildings in the distance.

He spotted the city, much smaller than he imagined: no towering skyscrapers, no shiny glass buildings, no identifiable business district. Chen had previously attended school in Hangzhou, a city of 7 million. He wasn’t expecting Chicago, but he wasn’t expecting little old Lincoln, either.

“When the flight was about to land, I looked down from the plane and I saw nothing, basically,” said Chen, 24, now a graduate student of industrial engineering at the University of Southern California.

It’s a familiar feeling for international students studying in Nebraska: high expectations that accompany pursuing an education in America, the

gold-paved land of opportunity, and the disappointment that marks their arrival in the capital city.

Still, UNL in recent years has touted itself as a haven for international students, who made up just over 7 percent of the student body in 2013-2014.

Pushing safety, value and prestige, the university has sought to attract more international students than ever before, relying on long-held relationships with countries across the globe, and forging new ones with universities and students in China and Brazil.

The push comes as the university adapts to its new home in the Big Ten Conference, where with an estimated $40,599 price tag it bills itself as the best value in a conference of land grant institutions. But UNL lags academically behind its larger and more esteemed peers in the Midwest. And it faces the unique challenge of attracting and keeping increasingly urbanized students to an institution nestled in the heart of the Great Plains. To that end, students and faculty say, there’s great work to be done.

According to the most recent figures, UNL had the lowest freshman retention rate for nonresident international students among Big Ten universities

that reported it: 86 percent, according to the UNL Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

UNL’s overall retention rate was 84 percent in 2013, the lowest in the Big Ten. International students across the spectrum say UNL has done little to foster a welcoming environment as they transition to life in Lincoln. Many came to America in hopes of finding a better life, but the university they found differed significantly from expectations academically, socially and in terms of safety and basic accommodations.

They told tales of isolation, violence, robbery and neglect. They told of the immense pressure they faced from day one on Nebraska soil. They told of their embarrassment at their limited understanding of English and cultural norms.

And yet, the number of international undergraduates here stood at 1,515 in the fall.

And it’s growing. *** It ended abruptly on a frigid day this winter, with the opening of an email. And within hours, he was petitioning the admissions office on Q Street, begging a staffer to give him a second chance.

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DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM land of opportunity, and squander the one shot you have? The university? Your professors? You, yourself? Jiang blames no one.

But, he says, “It’s not a story I made. It happened to me.”

Some might find the notion that the university failed him hard to ignore. In a little more than a year at UNL, he would go hungry, become sick, get robbed, struggle with money and academics and English, see his life implode in a single act of violence and then lose admission to the school he traveled nearly 6,900 miles to attend.

His academic woes began in the fall, when he enrolled in Art History 101 along with his usual assortment of English classes.

He blended in well, Jiang, wearing his long ponytail, wayfarer lenses and black hoodie. But early on in the semester, he realized something: The material didn’t register. He had trouble picking up on the complex language, and it didn’t help, he said, that many of the PowerPoint slides highlighted a single piece of art without explanation. A section on ancient Egypt went completely over his head.

“Especially with such a vocabulary and such a big class,” he said, “my listening skills were not good enough to catch all the notes that the professor said.”

It never crossed Jihang’s mind that he could ask for help. He never learned that he could drop the class if necessary, saving his grade-point average and thus his admission.

This isn’t an uncommon phenomenon among Chinese students, said Jane Hanson, an English and Linguistics lecturer at UNL who works with international students, and who has a doctorate in foreign language and ESL education.

“With Chinese people, it’s against their culture to project yourself outward to become beyond the collective, to become noticeable,” Hanson said. “A good Chinese person works in harmony.

In fact, ‘harmonious’ is a beautiful word in Chinese because everybody works together for the good of the collective. So, to become someone who raises their head and says there’s a problem -- very unlikely to come from a Chinese person.”

Getting a single bad grade can be dangerous for international students, who sometimes enter credit courses with little understanding of the English language. Students who have attempted 1 to 18 credit hours, and have attended the university for more than a semester, will be dismissed if their GPA falls below a 1.00.

Jiang struggled throughout the semester, despite spending an estimated 20 hours a week studying for the class. The semester before, he said, he passed an Intro to Physics course toward his mechanical engineering major. But all of a sudden, he was earning 40 percents on Art History exams, he said. The class consumed his life.

Because he’s no longer a student, his academic records couldn’t be obtained.

That semester, Jiang had more than class on his mind. In September, one of his closest friends fell victim to a violent domestic incident at Selleck Hall involving an X-ACTO knife. The woman’s girlfriend placed the knife near her throat after a fight escalated in the Selleck basement. The victim didn’t want to comment for this story.

Dave Wilson, UNL’s senior international officer, said the incident was isolated.

“That was Chinese on Chinese,” he said. “And that actually played out in typical Chinese fashion, I’m told. Of course I’m not an expert, I’m not Chinese.”

Jiang, who is, and who was close to the incident, worries the pressure on foreign students is too much. The incident, then, was an example of what happens when it compounds.

“This kind of thing will happen again,” he said. “And every time, if no one’s going to help the victim, or the people who got hurt, we will have a very big problem. We’re all alone, the international

students here. If the school doesn’t help us, I’m not sure what will happen.”

For Jiang, the stress mounted and mounted, culminating in an unsurprising revelation in the winter. He had failed art history. With too few credits to save his faltering GPA, he was dismissed from the university.

Immediately, he was asking how he could remedy the situation. He was exploring local community colleges. His parents still don’t know.

“I had no time,” he said, “...to cry.” *** The student lay on the floor, arms around David Wilson’s knees, begging him not to dismiss him from the university. Wilson choked up as he recalled the story from a few years ago.

“This kid is saying, ‘My parents have sacrificed all their lives so that I and my brother can study in the United States,’” said Wilson, an associate vice chancellor. “And, ‘I’ve been a failure’ and they’re going to have to return to India in shame. And ‘we’ll never be able to look at our family members in the eye again.’

“I…I’m not sure a domestic student would’ve – the same situation probably would mean something very different for most domestic students than it means for some international students.”

Dismissals are a reality for a state university with 25,000 students, but their impact on international students can be especially devastating. The six-year graduation rate for international students at UNL sat at 70.49 percent for 2014, higher than the overall rate, but still close to 20 percent lower than leading Big Ten institutions such as the University of Michigan.

Administrators and faculty admit the university is far from perfect, something statistics prove.

In nearly all categories, UNL sits at or near the bottom of rankings for international students in the Big Ten. The university had the second-lowest percentage of international students in 2013, as well as the second-lowest graduation rate for international students, according to data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics.

For Wilson, UNL’s big draw is simple: It’s cheap.

“Cost,” he said. “It’s the least expensive Big Ten education you can get. Quality of faculty, quality of facilities. Those are probably the top things that we push, and that parents, grandparents and prospective students respond to.”

But students and faculty say the university lacks the basic accommodations to sustain a large international student community. Mohammed Hussain, a freshman chemical engineering major and student activist, has petitioned for the establishment of an international student center, similar to the UNL Women’s Center and the LGBTQA Resource Center, that would serve international students in need and answer basic questions upon their arrival in the United States. The main resource available currently is the International Student and Scholar Office, which provides immigration assistance and helps students comply with U.S. employment regulations.

“One of the biggest problems for international students is, they pay three times more than domestic students, but they don’t have one single office they can go to with their problems,” Hussain said.

Problems like figuring out where to eat, where to live, how to obtain a driver’s license and navigate the legal system – everyday dilemmas that come up for students who might speak one of dozens of languages.

Ibrahim Acar, a student who came to UNL on a Fulbright Scholarship from Turkey, recalled his difficulty filling out housing paperwork upon arriving in Lincoln in Spring 2011. He didn’t have a phone, didn’t know how to call for a cab, and had nowhere to live on campus. He arrived to a deserted campus; the students had gone home for spring break.

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Mohammed Hussain, a freshman chemical engineering major and student activist, says the university needs a central office for international student assistance. don’t know what it says,” said Acar, who is now pursuing his doctorate in child development. “I would expect an approach from the university rather than the student. And you know, you guide them for a while...there’s programs there, but sometimes international students don’t know.”

Hanson is familiar with issues like these. For three years, she served as an academic program adviser for the university’s Intensive English Program. But the questions she encountered ran the gamut from home life to paperwork to behavioral and criminal issues.

She remembered when one student came to her after a brush with the law that sent him to diversion. He was afraid to lose his visa and worried his parents would find out.

“He was so intimidated,” she said. The student, she said, didn’t have enough understanding of language to know where the diversion office was. He had no one else to turn to. So, she helped him.

“I didn’t want to look at myself in the mirror 10 years down the road and realize that somebody may be sitting back in China and not have a job, not have a career, not have a future, that I would stir the water in the wrong way.

“I had the potential to make a difference,” she said. “That’s why people teach… to make a difference.”

Wilson, for his part, openly opposed the idea of a resource center, like Hussain is pushing for.

He says he wants to avoid a scenario where international students all flock to one building to have their problems addressed. Rather, he said, university offices should adapt so they can accommodate students who speak all languages.

“We very deliberately are not doing that,” Wilson said, of an international student center. “We believe that ghetto-izes international students.” *** Around lunchtime one day, Jiang and a group of friends decided to go to a gas station for snacks and soda. Lacking a car, they opted to take the bus.

The four of them had barely settled on a bench when Jiang noticed a man approaching in the corner of his eye. He had a large dog and “looked crazy,” he recalled.

“Are you Chinese?” the man asked, in Jiang’s recollection. “I was in prison back in China,” he said.

“We were shocked. And suddenly, we realized.”

The man asked for a cigarette. He flashed an identification card from a local psychological facility. And then, the friends remember, he pulled the handgun from his pocket.

The friends recoiled. They handed over their watches and wads of spare cash, amounting to $200.

“We just tried to save our lives,” Jiang said.

Safety is a major selling point for international students at UNL, Wilson said. Lincoln’s reputation for low crime rates coupled with UNL Police Department’s presence on campus make the city an attractive destination to parents looking to send their children to America, a country sometimes depicted as gun-toting and crime-ridden in international news dispatches.

“And so safety is a big consideration for many parents and grandparents who are often involved in the decision,” Wilson said. “They read news reports, and honestly, I will get questions like, ‘if I come to the U.S. should I buy a gun?’ Or, ‘should I hire a lawyer right away?’ I mean, you know, the media often makes us look like it’s kind of a violent, litigious place, and so we push the notion of safety.”

Few would dispute the notion that Lincoln, in general, is safe. Per 1,000 residents, 36.6 fell victim to violent or property crimes last year, according to Public Safety Director Tom Casady’s police blog.

But for international students, who often lack basic English skills and an understanding of cultural norms upon arriving, it can be easier to fall prey to criminals.

Chen, known as Jeffrey while studying electrical engineering at UNL, had his own brush with thievery early on. A few days after arriving at UNL, he left his Acer laptop in Selleck’s study lounge while he went upstairs to eat dinner.

“My first impression, for me, I think, ‘Americans are very good,’” he said. “They won’t take somebody else’s items.

“After I came back from eating, my laptop was gone.”

He reported the incident to police, but the laptop was never found. And just like that, he was out $1,000. *** When he first came to America, Haojun Zhang realized early on that roommates aren’t always friends. The junior, a second-year student at UNL,

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The seventh annual Lavender Graduation and Chancellor’s Award Reception celebrates the accomplishments of the LGBTQA+ community.

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Graduation ceremony honors LGBTQA+ students LINDSAY ESPARRAGO DN While University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduating students will soon cap off their days of wearing Husker red at Pinnacle Bank Arena, graduating LGBTQA+ students were sent off with a little less red, black and white and a little more lavender.

Starting with only three students in 2009, Lavender Graduation turned into a traditional ceremony hosted by the LGBTQA+ Resource Center, which took place once again Thursday night from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the

Nebraska Union Colonial Room – this time with 10 students.

“This is a nice event to recognize students’ accomplishments in a supportive and comfortable setting,” said Pat Tetreault, director of the LGBTQA+ Resource Center.

“Their being part of the LGBTQA+ community is safe and recognized.”

The ceremony includes the presentation of rainbow tassels and Lavender Graduation certificates signed by the chancellor for the participants.

The Louis Crompton Scholarship, worth $1,000 and given to honor a hero in gay rights

and an inspiration in change, was presented to Tanner Reckling, a freshman fine arts major.

Faculty member Jonathan Frederick Walz,students Robert Lipscomb III and Grant Thomas were awarded the Chancellor ’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the LGBTQ community.

Students of diverse majors and backgrounds walked the lavender stage out of honor and recognition of their many accomplishments throughout the past few years, much like UNL’s commencements.

Participating students included Grace

Brown, Samantha Burtwistle, Chadric Devin, Bobby Fuson II, Keith Garcia, Lynn Huynh, Joel Orozco-Almeida, Grant Thomas, Brittanie Witter and Katie Ziegler. Three unnamed students wished to participate, but couldn’t make the event.

Students aren’t asked to identify their orientation and all are welcome to attend, whether they are friends, family members or just supporting the recognition of the students.

“I think many students are uncomfortable with open attendance at these events because they think they are only for LGBTQA+

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DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM people,” Tetreault said. “We believe in a callin culture and embrace our supporters.”

Positive messages from UNL faculty, staff, administrators, students and alumni were given through speeches.

Among these positive messages was a personal speech from the keynote speaker.

Eric Lueshen was one of the first openly gay Division 1 college football kickers. Lueshen played for the Huskers from 2003-2006 and is now a strong advocate for equality and the LGBTQA community.

Lueshen has spoken at numerous college universities and LGBTAQ athlete engagements and is also a member of Nike’s LGBT Sports Coalition.

“Lavender Graduation is a great honor, not only because these students are graduat-

ing, but because they probably at one point were or still are discriminated and here they are,” Lueshen said. “You’re more than what someone else may think of you.”

He called on students to be who they truly are, and tread through fear.

“I’ve seen it with fellow teammates, coaches, everywhere… and now I see it here,” he said. “If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do good.”

But the motivational athlete wasn’t the only advocate recognized. UNL faculty and staff members voted by students were invited to the event out of appreciation for their constant support.

Lavender Graduation is just one of the events that factors into the LGBTQA+ Resource Center ’s inclusion campaign, “Right

This is a nice event to recognize students’ accomplishments in a supportive and comfortable setting.”

PAT TETREAULT

director of the lgbtqa+ resource centers

Here, Right Now.” “As always, eliminating stigma and bias through education and outreach is the best way for others to get to know the community

and hopefully increase attendance in the future,” Tetreault said.

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UNL junior receives Truman Scholarship JUSTIN PERKINS DN When it comes to social issues she’s passionate about, Annie Himes has learned to make no reservations about stating what she believes.

In her sophomore year at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Himes – a Democrat – was asked to leave a UNL College Republicans meeting the day gubernatorial candidate Beau McCoy spoke to the group on account of her political affiliation. She left, but not before first defending her right to attend.

At an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska meeting less than a month later, Himes — then an ASUN senator – interrupted another senator after his use of a racial slur in a debate over a resolution pledging ASUN’s support to remove derogatory language from ASUN members’ vocabulary. Himes was called out for restricting the senator’s right to free speech. She later led an ethics investigation against the senator.

“I stand up when I think something deserves to be brought attention to,” Himes said.

Now, with that boldness and a desire to spur social change through government and law, Himes has been named a recipient of this year’s Truman Scholarship. She’s 1 of 58 college juniors nationwide to receive the $30,000 scholarship for demonstrating leadership and an outstanding record of public service.

“I don’t take ‘no’ easily,” Himes said. “I’ve learned you have to take criticism that’s merited and know for yourself that whatever else is said, it’s not who you really are.”

But as the time came to begin the application process, Himes was uncertain about applying for any national scholarship. A year ago, she applied for both the Boren and Critical Language Scholarships through the Fellowships Office at UNL and wasn’t awarded either.

“You put a lot of yourself in these applications,” Himes said. “It can be disheartening when you don’t get them, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go through the whole process again.”

Through her previous applications, Himes met Laura Damuth, director of national and international fellowships with the office. At the end of the fall semester last year, Damuth

approached Himes about the scholarship and convinced her to apply.

Until February, along with her work as a triple major in Russian, global studies and history, Himes underwent rigorous preparations, meeting twice a week with Damuth, writing and refining eight short essays as well as a policy proposal just to submit the application.

Three weeks later, Himes received notice she had been chosen as a finalist, which brought another two weeks of intensive preparation for the final interview in Denver, Colorado. In that time, she conducted three mock interviews with high-level UNL faculty.

Damuth even filmed the interviews and had Himes examine them.

In Denver, Himes faced staunch competition. More than 600 submissions from around the nation are filed for the Truman Scholarship each year, and Himes was competing against all the applicants from Nebraska.

For Himes, the intersection of policy and social change has seemed inherent since she was young.

“I was raised in a very politically aware household,” said Himes, whose father is a lawyer and mother is a public school teacher.

In high school and college, she had dreams of running for political office but always found herself returning to law and government and how they could be used to benefit non-profit entities and pioneer social policy.

Today, she attributes much of the experience and resilience she’s gained in college to her success with the scholarship. The interview itself was a process Himes described as “combative,” as she was pitted against a panel of five judges.

“They really wanted to see how you handle the stress and opposition,” Himes said. “For each applicant, they looked at all every way to poke holes in your application and policy. It took a lot of defending yourself.”

Ultimately, it was her work to craft legislation to address issues of violence against women that helped seal her favor with the judges.

Her proposal sought to add amendments to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 that would create new standards for police departments to test rape kits in a prompt manner. Currently, with no federal regulation over the logging and testing of rape kits, police de-

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Junior Annie Himes is one of 58 students in the nation to receive the Truman Scholarship for leadership and public service. She plans to attend law school in the future. partments across the country have numerous kits backlogged in their systems that have yet to be tested, Himes said. Her proposal also included new procedures to test backlogged kits as a way to track repeat perpetrators and granting victims access to the information.

“When I put my mind to something,” Himes said, “I’m going to get it done.”

Because the scholarship’s main emphasis is on public service, it comes with a contingency clause that the recipient serves at least three years in the public service domain. Luckily for Himes, it’s exactly where she hopes to make her mark in the future.

“I want to learn how to be a public servant and have a purpose for the policies I want to

change,” Himes said.

While she said she would also like to study abroad in Russia or Central Europe, Himes eventually wants to attend law school.

“I think to have the kind of analytical skills and policy-making skills, you need to have that background in law,” she said.

And even if the scholarship hadn’t worked out, Himes said the challenge of the process itself was worthwhile.

“At least now I know an issue, a theme that I want to base my work around,” Himes said. “And with that purpose I know that I can grasp for anything I want to accomplish.”

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Theta Chi treasurer arrested on embezzlement charges BAILEY SCHULZ DN A sophomore University of Nebraska-Lincoln student was arrested Thursday night on charges of embezzling from his fraternity, Theta Chi. Dakota Grimm, a sophomore exploratory major and treasurer of Theta Chi since March 2014, wrote approximately 29 checks totaling $8,941 over his term, according to a probable cause affidavit.

GRIMM The UNL Police Department’s affidavit stated that he was the fraternity’s signature authority for its checking account and would note the checks as casual reimbursements before taking the money for “personal and family matters.”

Grimm gave “a full verbal confession” and “provided his fraternity with a handwritten confession admitting theft in the approximate amount of $5,000-$6,500,” the affidavit said.

The theft was reported Thursday night to the UNLPD. Grimm was charged with felony and his bond was set for $2,500. He was released on Friday.

William Garbina, a senior financing major and the president of the fraternity, said the fraternity is unable to release much information because many details are unknown.

“It’s developed recently,” he said. “We’re working through it, and we just don’t have much right now.”

Garbina said so far, the chapter has been following instructions laid out by the fraternity’s national headquarters, which were to cooperate with university police.

“Once we actually have information, we will release a full statement. But we’re not about to say anything without knowing all of the details and all of the intricacies.”

This is a developing story.

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UNL lags behind in faculty diversity CHRIS BOWLING DN Sriyani Tidball was alone after she moved to the United States.

Alone in the sense that in the late ‘60s, out of six grades at Lincoln East High School, the Sri Lanka native was the only person of color in the school. No black students. No Hispanic students. No student of any race aside from white was represented because at that time those students generally only went to Lincoln High School.

But she said it wasn’t bad. People didn’t feel uncomfortable around her like she assumed they might around an Americanborn person of color. Eventually, living in that world became normal.

“I was kind of used to being the nonwhite person,” Tidball said.

She then attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and went on to work in advertising professionally. In 2008, she came back to Lincoln to work at UNL as an assistant professor of practice in the advertising department.

As 1 of 5 people of color, and 1 of 3 women of color, on faculty in UNL’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Tidball said she doesn’t work in a diverse environment.

“Whether it’s the students or the faculty, it’s extremely lacking,” Tidball said. “I think we’re all aware of it, but that’s just the way it is.”

With a minority faculty population of 19 percent, UNL is second-to-last in the Big Ten Conference and two percentage points below the national average found in a 2011 study conducted by the Institute of Education Sciences. And although this minority population has increased over the years, from about 9 percent in 1996 to 19 percent today, Tidball said she isn’t seeing much growth.

“You can say when it goes from two to three, you’ve seen a 50 percent increase,” Tidball said. “So yeah, I’ve seen that, but the numbers are so small anyway.”

For Tidball, the day-to-day sense of isolation, dealing with inadvertently ignorant comments and forming close relationships with other staff members of color haven’t changed. But even though she’s aware of the undertones, they aren’t at the forefront of her mind when she comes to work.

Tidball said it’s obvious there’s no one like her. She’s come to grips with who she is and feels that in a lot of situations, being a woman of color is an advantage. One such advantage is working closely with minority students.

Tidball said she’s lucky if she has one student of color in one of her classes. When she does, she goes out of her way to connect with that person. Although she helps students build a resume or portfolio, more importantly, she makes them feel welcome and comfortable.

It’s a sentiment that students of color such as junior broadcasting major Mecca Slaughter appreciate.

“I am surrounded by white people,”

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Members of the Nepalese Student Association stand outside of the Nebraska Union on Friday. UNL has a minority population of 11 percent.

said Slaughter, who’s also a member of the Establishment of the Chancellor ’s Commission on the Status of People of Color, a new student group charged with promoting inclusion. “Three out of five of my classes, I am the only black person. All my teachers are white this semester.”

While minorities represent 19 percent of faculty, they only account for 11 percent of the student body. And even that number seems surprising to Slaughter who said she didn’t even realize there were other students that looked like her until she got more connected on campus. And being singled out because of her race can have an adverse effect on her learning, she said.

“It affects my learning when I get looked at for the answers to things,” Slaughter said.

“It affects my learning when I am afraid to speak up or ask a question because I will be looked at weird.”

In addition, she said there’s an expectation as a student of color who’s passionate about change to be a spokesperson for an entire group of people. And saying the same things over and over about how lack of diversity hurts her learning or what students can do to promote inclusivity can wear her down.

That’s why she values when she can make a connection with a faculty member of color. She said there’s an established understanding between the two because both groups are dealing with the same issues, just on opposite sides of the classroom.

“When I had a professor that looked like me, I was more engaged,” Slaughter said. “I wanted to do the best I could because they reminded me of my mom, an aunt, an uncle or someone from church. I was connected and we understood the struggle.”

But understanding the problem is only

half the issue. While both Tidball and Slaughter agree that it’s realistic for UNL to one day be as diverse as universities such as Rutgers or the University of Michigan, which lead the Big Ten in minority faculty at 38 percent of overall faculty, solutions aren’t concrete.

Slaughter said the best way to promote change is to create a comfortable campus, while Tidball suggested adding more degrees that would attract people of color.

After an Oct. 2 address from Chancellor Harvey Perlman promoting ideas of inclusivity, Juan Franco, vice chancellor of student affairs, said one way to create a diverse staff is to let them know of the opportunity to make a difference. He also said UNL needs to look toward recruiting graduates of more diverse schools.

When asked if UNL is doing a good job of promoting diversity, Georgia Jones, a member of the chancellor ’s commission on the status of people of color, said all organizations have room for improvement. She also said it’s too early to talk about the role of her group in negotiating ways to seek out that improvement as new members were announced March 23. But she did say that diversity is extremely important and the university needs to nurture it.

“We don’t live alone,” Jones said. “We have connections with other people and we have an obligation to address that every day.”

But no matter what method is implemented, it’s people like Andrew Saunders, who works in the recruitment center, that will see first-hand whether it works.

Saunders, a senior broadcasting major, said he doesn’t think the recruitment center does a good enough job of educating its employees about the issues of diversity. He

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“You could look at it in a negative or a positive way,” Saunders said. “You could say, ‘Well, times are changing and people aren’t thinking of it like that,’ but at the same time, with things that are going on today, we should address these issues.”

He said the only nod the center gives to addressing diversity is by having him or the other black person in the office call the major cities.

Saunders, who’s from a south suburb of Chicago, is well versed in diversity. Having come from a high school that was split down the middle between whites and blacks, he

said crossing ethnic boundaries was never a foreign idea to him. But when he decided to come to Nebraska after primarily touring all-black schools, he immediately knew he was in a different atmosphere.

When he and his mom visited UNL, one of the first things she did was pull up next to a black girl walking down the street to ask her what it was like to be a black student at UNL. The girl was upfront that it can get weird at times: One girl had recently refused to partner up with her because she had never worked with a black person before.

That, coupled with the occasional offensive things he’ll hear walking down the street, such as the N-word, “coon” and “go back where you came from,” have made an

in their lives.

But today, she’s a sophomore because she met other students who empathized with her and had professors, like Tidball, who reached out.

To Tidball, that’s how you can start to tackle the huge, ongoing issue of race that carries with it years of empirical and emotional testaments to its effects. For her, it’s about providing personal connections and making people from any background feel welcome. One student at a time.

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He says he’s never had a disagreement with his suitemates, who are domestic students, but they rarely interact at all.

So he spends most of his time inside his dorm room, playing “League of Legends” and watching his favorite TV shows, such as “Modern Family.”

Zhang, a teaching assistant at UNL, was disappointed when he realized his roommates rarely wanted to engage him in conversation.

“Back in China, roommates are best friends,” he said. “Because we’re living together, we have to talk, and we’ll go to lunch every day.

“I think it’s a cultural difference. Americans value their personal privacy and their personal life.”

But he says it’s easy for Chinese students at UNL, confronted by steep language and cultural barriers, to become isolated. Zhang says Chinese students have a harder time than any picking up on the language, partially because of their limited exposure to it in China, and partially because Chinese students make up nearly 50 percent of the international undergraduate population, so it’s easy to get by speaking Chinese.

Jiang, who’s no longer enrolled, agrees. He says the pressure of learning English, juggling classes and living in a new country can manifest itself in negative ways: partying, excessive drinking, and for some international students, gambling.

“They spend a day panicked,” he says. “The only way they can relax themselves is alcohol.

Smoking. And just crazy parties, their friends, people, they don’t know. As I see, it’s very dangerous.”

Summer Allen-Portsche, a licensed psychologist with UNL Counseling and Psychological Services, pointed to a variety of avenues international students can take when they need help, including a weekly international student discussion group, where students meet and discuss life in the U.S., meet new people and learn how to enjoy life here.

CAPS also provides presentations centered on cultural adjustment to classes that are typically populated with international students, or those taking Intensive English Programs.

CAPS offers individual counseling, where the professional staff deals with the common stresses students might face, as well as those arising from the adjustment to a new culture and environment.

Three counseling visits are offered at no charge, and the services are fully covered for students with health insurance, she said.

Acar, the Turkish doctoral student whose focus is child development, said the university needs to engage international students more often, in a sort of open forum.

“At least, get these students together, ask them, ‘How are you doing?’” he said. “Do you feel

impression on Saunders.

And even though he said it doesn’t faze him, he can see how this would be a big turn-off to prospective students. Saunders said fostering diversity needs to be a group effort, and leaders’ willingness to try new things will allow for real change.

For addressing the issues of race and inclusivity here and now, Tidball does have concrete plans to affect individual students’ outcomes and personal connections.

She said those connections are her favorite part of the job. She recalled a recent conversation with a black student who almost dropped out of UNL because, among other things, she felt the same feeling of isolation that Tidball and Slaughter said is prevalent

grumpy, do you feel isolated? Ask them.”

Allen-Portsche said the adjustment to life in a new country can be overwhelming.

“It is understood that individuals who are coming to a new environment and culture will engage in a normal process of adjusting,” she said in an email. “Although the process of adjusting to a new culture is a normal process, the amount of stress an individual can experience may increase symptoms that already existed that could have been present for an individual before coming to the new culture.”

Wilson, the senior international officer at UNL, said he understands there’s work to be done. The only one-stop shop he envisions for international students would come in the form of a beefed up international.unl.edu website. Maegan Stevens-Liska, UNL’s international projects manager, is working on making the website into a comprehensive international student guide, flush with information on immigration support, the health center, student legal services, student accounts and housing.

“It seems to me that, as a campus, we’re respondent to the presence of the international students,” Wilson said. “We’re acknowledging them, we’re trying to find ways to assure they feel welcome, and that they’re successful. We’re not fully there yet, but I feel great that there are people who are stepping forward.” *** Sitting outside in front of the greenspace on a recent afternoon, Jihang Jiang takes a drag of an ecigarette and begins reminiscing. On his time at the university. On fond memories of cooking dinner for friends. On home.

He remembers the last meal he had in China: a feast of grilled lamb, steamed pork with vegetables, barbecued beef and a mountain of rice, all cooked by his grandma, in his grandparents’ home in the Nantong countryside.

He whipped up something similar at Selleck Hall one night, at midnight, when 20 people gathered in a kitchen to eat the noodles and grilled and fried chicken. They were a worldly mix of students: Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, American.

He’d come a long way from the murky ramen noodles.

He takes another drag and fixates on Selleck Hall, as he reflects on the place where he knew no one, where he snoozed summer afternoons away.

Where he used pencils as chopsticks. Where friendships fell apart. And where, once at midnight, the guy who spent three days eating lukewarm ramen gave his friends a feast.

“That’s a pretty good memory.”

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Mike Riley isn’t following his father’s footsteps anymore CHRIS HEADY DN

On a warm afternoon in late July 2012 in Penticton, British Columbia, Bud Riley was craving pizza.

So Mike Riley picked up his dad from the hospital, checked out a wheelchair and rolled the 86-year-old exactly one mile down Main Street.

They rolled past a gas station, a Super 8 and a Burger King, surrounded by mountains and cars whipping by on the busy intersection.

When they got to Boston Pizza, Bud ordered pepperoni. Naturally, Mike did too.

It was always that way – Mike following Bud. A few family members joined to eat and catch up. Riley was getting ready for the 2012 season after Oregon State went 3-9 in 2011. But he had a quarterback returning whom he liked, and the season didn’t begin for another two months anyway.

On this July day, things were perfectly fine. He was with his dad, eating pizza on a beautiful summer afternoon.

In the distance, just beyond the mountains, storm clouds loomed. * * * Mike Riley, not long awake, his short black hair fading to grey and wet from the morning shower, sits at a table inside the Embassy Suites in downtown Lincoln with his wife, Dee. This morning, he’s trying to figure out where exactly he is.

He’s not sure how far away Kansas City is. And where’s Kearney, Nebraska? His friend, Bill Snyder, coaches in Manhattan, Kansas – how far away is that?

Dee answers with shrugs between bites of her banana.

“We’re still getting used to this whole Midwest thing,” Riley admits.

What Riley does know is that the walk between Memorial Stadium and the hotel he and Dee have called home for four months takes about 15 minutes. So at 7:15 a.m., after two strawberry yogurts and two cups of hotel coffee, he throws on a black Nebraska hat and begins his morning walk down 10th Street.

Besides the overcast sky and the smell of morning rain, the walk is much different than the bike rides Riley used to take from his home in Corvallis, Oregon, to work at Oregon State. But the truth is, Riley didn’t ride his black Sun City bike to work much anyway.

It turns out there’s a lot about Mike Riley people may not know. Like how he likes to read a chapter of a good Michael Connelly mystery novel before bed. Or that he claims his favorite athletic moment was in high school, when he hit a two-out, two-strike single to bring home his best friend to go to the Oregon State baseball championship. Or that despite signing a contract for $2.7 million, he’s still walking to work every morning in worn-down tennis shoes and a black leather jacket he’s had forever from a hotel down the street from Memorial Stadium.

Mostly, though, people don’t know why Riley left his dream job in north Oregon’s Garden of Eden for Lincoln, Nebraska.

Riley learned how to throw a football on Or-

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Nebraska football coach Mike Riley walks on the field before the Spring Game on April 11. Riley grew up on the campus of Oregon State and was a coach for the Beavers from 2003 to 2014, winning 93 games. egon State practice fields and had dreamed of retiring a Beaver since he moved to Corvallis when he was 12 years old.

So why – at 61, with five years left on his contract in his haven – did he leave?

The answer, like Riley’s hotel breakfast, is simple. And it’s all about footsteps: How long you can follow in your hero’s, and what happens when they run out? * * * Mike Riley’s life really began at 12 years, when he met Corvallis.

Bud Riley had scored a secondary coaching job at Oregon State after coaching for three years at the University of Idaho, so the family moved to the 50,000-person college town that never really gets over 75 degrees or under 45.

Mike found a few neighborhood buddies who were as addicted to sports as he was and began a routine of shooting hoops at St. Mary’s Church until the janitor kicked them out. They’d ride their bikes and play one-on-one basketball behind Oregon State fraternities and then play whiffle ball after.

“We were just gym rats; total jocks,” said Gary Beck, childhood friend and Oregon State Coordi-

nator of Support Services. “Corvallis made it ideal for us. We’d just ride our bikes to play whatever.

We could get to wherever we wanted in about 15 minutes.”

Mike was lanky and studious, a magnet when he walked down the hallways at Corvallis High School after winning the starting quarterback position as a sophomore.

On Fridays, he’d lead the Corvallis High Spartans on the field, and on Saturdays, while Bud ran the secondary for the Beavers, Mike and his friends would re-enact plays on their knees on the carpet while they listened to the game on the radio.

Mike walked with Bud on the sidelines at practice and watched films with him in the car before church on Sundays. Bud wore a ball cap, so Mike started wearing ball caps too. Bud stood with his hands behind his back while he coached, so when Mike coached little league football on Saturday mornings, he followed suit.

You can still catch him one hand wrapped around the other behind his back today.

Bud was stern, but he was fair. Beck played for his friend’s father in the ‘70s and said Bud yelled and disciplined, and you sure as heck didn’t want to be on the wrong side of his scowl.

But one step off the field and all Bud Riley really needed was a glove to play catch with, a bleacher to sit on to watch his sons play baseball or football or a dinner table to tell stories at.

In Mike’s mind, especially after Bud died in 2012, that was the life. That was the goal: becoming his dad.

He wanted to coach the Beavers and catch the sunset on the porch with his family after practice.

After playing at Alabama under legendary coach Bear Bryant from 1971 to 1974, Mike scored the defensive coordinator job at Linville College in 1977 – and so began the journey of following in Bud’s footsteps.

In 1987, he’d take over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, a team his father coached until 1977. A decade later, Riley ended up back in Corvallis as the head coach of Oregon State. He left for a short stint in the NFL, and in 2003, signed in Oregon State again.

He was home.

When Riley took the podium after being hired, he announced it would be his last stop. * * * Mike Riley sits in a black leather chair in his

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Huskers remain winless on road after losses to Hawkeyes the rally ended after Austin Darby grounded into a game-ending fielder’s choice with the bases loaded.

Nebraska starter Chance Sinclair gave up one unearned run over 6.2 innings, throwing 100 pitches. Sophomore Ryan Boldt had three of NU’s seven hits, while the rest of the lineup combined to go 4-for-29.

Game 2: Iowa 3, Nebraska 2 (10) Having lost two 10-inning games last MICHAEL DIXON weekend against Ohio State, the Huskers lost their third consecutive extra-inning game, DN along with the series, in the first of two games For only the second time under coach Da- on Sunday afternoon.

NU took an early 2-0 lead, but Iowa scored rin Erstad, Nebraska baseball will enter the month of May with a sub-.500 conference re- once in the sixth and the eighth innings to force extras. cord.

“We weren’t able to get anything going, The Huskers assured themselves of such and I think anyone who follows Husker baseafter a road sweep by 19th-ranked Iowa this ball knows that’s a recurpast weekend, dropping ring theme,” Erstad said.

NU to 30-16 and 6-9 in We weren’t able to “We’re just going to have the Big Ten conference. get anything going, to find a way to manufac“Take any percepture some runs.” tions away from the con- and I think anyone who The Huskers, out-hit ference and (Iowa),” Er13-5 for the game, had stad said. “That is a very, follows Husker baseball just three hits over the fivery good baseball team knows that’s a recurring nal seven innings. In the we just played.” sixth inning, still leadNebraska’s inabil- theme.” ing 2-0, Nebraska left the ity to hit with runners DARIN ERSTAD bases loaded after Wes in scoring position now baseball coach Edrington flew out to end makes NU winless in the inning.

Big Ten road games this NU starter Kyle Kubat gave up a pair of year. runs on six hits over 7.1 innings, but freshman “We’ve had some tough games recently, and we’re losing all of those, which isn’t Garett King, pitching the 10th inning, quickly good,” Erstad said. “It’s definitely not some- loaded the bases and gave up the game-winning single to Jimmy Frankos. thing you want to have at this time of the seaGame 3: Iowa 5, Nebraska 1 son.”

Iowa completed the sweep in the second With three conference series remaining, game of Sunday’s double-header, taking a the Huskers sit tied with Indiana for seventh, five-run lead by the fifth inning and cruising but still in position to qualify for the eightto a 5-1 win. team Big Ten tournament.

“Iowa smelled blood, and they went for NU will play its final mid-week game of the year Tuesday night when Nebraska heads it,” Erstad said.

NU sophomore starter Derek Burkamper back to Omaha with a chance to complete a gave up five runs on 10 hits in 4.1 innings, and season sweep of Creighton.

Iowa starter Tyler Peyton struck out nine over Game 1: Iowa 4, Nebraska 3 After weather pushed back the series 8.1 innings.

“Derek was just up in the (strike zone),” opener to Saturday afternoon, Nebraska left 12 men on base and Iowa scored three unearned Erstad said. “They laid off his off-speed (pitches), and attacked his fastball. They had a runs en route to a 4-3 loss for Nebraska. very good approach at the plate.”

Twice in the final three innings, NU Boldt had his third multi-hit effort in as stranded the bases loaded. many games, and Nebraska did have fresh“We had (our opportunities),” Erstad said. man Elijah Dilday representing the tying run “We just couldn’t get anything going at the at the plate in the ninth inning, but the Huskplate.”

Nebraska dug itself an early hole after a ers left the bases loaded for the fourth time in two-out, first-inning error by junior shortstop two days.

After Iowa scored all five runs across four Jake Placzek gave Iowa an opportunity to take a 3-0 lead. Hitless until the sixth inning, NU innings, Nebraska answered with its only run in the sixth - an RBI double from senior Blake scored twice in the frame, cutting it to 3-2, only to see the Hawkeyes extend the lead to Headley.

4-2 with a run in the seventh.

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Step away from sports coverage this summer NICK WILKINSON DN Brace yourselves, summer is coming, which means the sports world is about to get boring.

June is when summer begins, and the sports world enters the summer doldrums.

The NBA Finals are the big event of the month, while the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals carry over from the end of May. Once the NBA and NHL shut down for the summer, however, the major events of the month are left to golf and tennis.

What, on the other hand, does July bring?

Football training camps open in late July, but that’s certainly no more exciting than pitchers and catchers reporting. Baseball is entering the dog days, the weather is turning brutally hot in most places around the country and for about half the teams in Major League Baseball. The only real excitement left in the season is the July 31st trading deadline.

There are three signature sporting events in July, and two of them are held in Great Britain.

The only big event here in the U.S. is the MLB All-Star Game, which was once a big deal but is now nothing more than an excuse to give the players a three-day break.

I know what you’re thinking, and yes, that is why we spend so much time outside. Heat stroke is much more worthwhile than watching Wimbledon.

You have 18 weeks until the return of Nebraska athletics. You can tolerate the wait – you have to. Overall, August is a relatively quiet month in the sports world, but the attitude is

generally positive because some of the biggest excitement is just around the corner.

In the meantime, go outside and enjoy nature. Take some time to yourself without worrying about how the team is doing, what the new logo looks like or who’s getting traded. You have all the time in the world to mentally prepare yourself for another Superbowl run later in the year.

I mean this in the nicest way possible: Take a hike. Stay active to keep your heart from breaking at the thought of college football being so far away. If you think about it, sitting on the couch all year ‘round with game day snacks and drinks can’t be good for us, right?

Summer is the time for you to be Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt. Grab a friend and show him that you’re the new Tiger Woods. Before you even realize, summer will be over and depth charts will start molding together. The start of the NFL season is like New Year’s Day, a fresh start for your squad to fight for the title or defend it.

When a swift breeze of cool air and the marching of fallen leaves returns later this year, you will know sports season is back. The season of NCAA football, NCAA volleyball, NFL and MLB wrapping things up just leaves a soothing feeling in the hearts of fans across the country.

Summer is practically here, and ESPN will soon become daily updates on Tim Tebow and wherever he may be on that particular afternoon. Grit your teeth and hunker down for the long haul.

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Sophomore infielder MJ Knighten went 3-3 with 4 RBI in game one to help lead the Big Ten’s most productive offensive team in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Huskers sweep Badgers to win 9 of their last 10 games RILEY BOWDEN DN The Nebraska softball team swept Wisconsin over the weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, improving to 29-19 overall and 15-5 in Big Ten Conference play.

Game 1: Nebraska 13, Wisconsin 5 It only took the Huskers five innings to win Game 1 on Saturday, as the best offense in the Big Ten had no problem producing runs.

Every Nebraska hitter that registered an atbat in the game had at least one RBI. Sophomore MJ Knighten led the Huskers, going a perfect 3-3 and driving in four runs.

Knighten’s first RBI came in her first at-bat of the game. Junior Kiki Stokes hit a leadoff triple before Knighten’s single scored her from first.

Nebraska fell behind in the bottom of the second inning because of a defensive lapse.

With the bases loaded, Wisconsin senior Ma-

rissa Mersch lined a single to centerfield and an error allowed two runners to score. Another error on the next batter allowed the third runner to score.

The Huskers would get the runs back and then some in the third, as they put up eight runs in the top of the inning. Nebraska recorded five runs in the inning before Wisconsin recorded the first out. Three more runs crossed in the frame, giving the Huskers a 9-3 lead.

Cassie McClure pitched three innings. She ended the day allowing three hits and one earned run.

The Huskers put up four more runs in the fourth giving them a 13-3 lead. Emily Lockman replaced McClure and gave up two runs – one in the fourth and one in the fifth – to help the Huskers earn the victory.

Game 2: Nebraska 3 Wisconsin 2 Game 2 was a pitchers’ duel between Nebraska freshman Kaylan Jablonski and Wisconsin’s Mariah Watts. Jablonski pitched six innings while Watts threw a complete game.

After a scoreless first two innings, Wisconsin struck first in the third, scoring two runs.

The Badgers loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning with no outs. Jablonski retired two batters with the bases loaded before a Mersch line drive scored two runs with two outs.

Nebraska came back with one run in each of the next three innings. None of the Husker runs came on hits. A bases-loaded Dawna Tyson walk scored a run in the fourth, a McClure flyout scored a runner from third in the fifth and a Knighten groundout drove in a run in the sixth.

Lockman replaced Jablonski in the seventh inning and earned the save. She forced two groundouts and had a strikeout to end the game.

Jablonski got the win, improving to 5-5 on the year and 4-1 in Big Ten play.

Game 3: Nebraska 9 Wisconsin 0 Jablonski and Lockman combined to throw a complete game shutout on Sunday, giving Nebraska the road sweep.

Jablonski earned her fifth Big Ten win on

Sunday as she pitched four scoreless innings and allowed just two hits. Lockman replaced her in the final inning and retired the Badger side.

The Nebraska offense hopped on Wisconsin early, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning. Stokes and Knighten both reached base before an Alicia Armstrong single scored Stokes. Steph Pasquale hit her ninth home run of the season on the ensuing at-bat, which gave the Huskers an early 4-0 lead.

Nebraska scored five total runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings, to seal the run-rule victory.

Jablonski finished the day with a career-high two RBI. Armstrong drove in one more run, and Senior Kylee Muir tallied her second RBI of the series on Sunday.

Nebraska improved to 9-1 and has four games left before the Big Ten tournament.

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RILEY: FROM 10 Memorial Stadium office wearing his usual blue jeans, hiking boots and a navy sweater – but he’s not exactly comfortable.

Can you blame him? Five months ago, at the drop of the hat, he could pick up his 3-year-old grandson, Eli, to go to Flat Tail Brewing in downtown Corvallis to grab a burger with ketchup, mustard and pickles. And after that, he and Eli could take a stroll on the Willamette River, and maybe after that, get some gelato and be home by Eli’s bedtime.

Now, Grandpa is 1,620 miles away, and Riley is picking Eli up from the airport and checking out new playgrounds near Haymarket Park.

He’s also sitting in the chair of a man whose exit at Nebraska was messy.

The differences between Bo Pelini and Mike Riley are stark. Pelini, the defensive guru, and Riley, the quarterback whisperer. Pelini was the bombshell waiting to explode on the sideline, while Riley is considered to be one of the most genuine people in college sports.

The biggest difference, though, may be that Husker fans knew what they were getting with Bo Pelini. Nine wins, two of which were won or lost in the fourth quarter, tirades on the sidelines and that trademark Pelini scowl.

But what about Mike Riley? Who is he?

“I’m a fairly simple guy,” Riley said. “People ask me what kind of car that was, or whatever, I usually say it’s a silver car. So I don’t know much about cars, and I’m not a very fancy dresser. I have pretty simple tastes.”

If Bo Pelini was an episode of Jerry Springer, Mike Riley is Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.

Riley’s perfect Sunday begins, as all of his Sundays do, with church. Then maybe the zoo with his

grandson or maybe a children’s museum. Eli loves the animals.

He couldn’t say the word “marry” when he proposed to Dee because he was so nervous, and sometimes he’s still shocked she decided to marry him. With 93 wins, he was the winningest coach in Oregon State history, but he acts like he’s won three. And five months ago, he was coaching on the same field that he grew up on.

But last year, his Oregon State Beavers went 5-7.

He heard “Fire Mike Riley” chants at home games last year. When a columnist told him on a radio show that he’d lost it, he would never win again and he needed to be fired, Riley responded with, “Thank you.”

After in-state rival Oregon walloped Riley’s team by four touchdowns on Nov. 28, murmurs of Riley leaving the program grew louder.

Portland Tribune reporter Kerry Eggers spoke with Riley every Sunday. Two days after that November loss, he asked Riley a question that everybody had in mind.

“Mike, your contract goes through 2019,” Eggers said. “Do you intend on staying through that?”

“I do,” Riley said immediately. “I have no intention of not coaching. I’m more excited than ever.

I feel better than ever. I have a strong belief I’m the right guy for Oregon State.”

And he meant it. That’s why when USC came calling in 2000, while Riley was the head coach of the San Diego Chargers, he turned them down.

And when Alabama, Riley’s alma-mater, did the same in 2002, he said no. In 2003, Riley got the offer he’d been waiting for and returned to Oregon State and signed a seven-year contract. He then signed

two extensions. In 2009, 56-year-old Riley signed an extension through 2019.

“Mike’s said he wants to be the Joe Paterno of Oregon State,’’ Oregon State Athletic director Bob De Carolis told The Oregonian after the 2009 extension. “So we’ll put something together to make (his contract) a lifetime deal.”

Riley refused to leave the program his father loved so much.

But the day after the Eggers phone call, Riley had a meeting with De Carolis. Nobody knows for sure what was said in that meeting other than Riley and De Carolis, but the meeting was a definitive turning point.

That same afternoon, Riley got a phone call from Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst.

Eichorst saw Riley as Nebraska’s next coach.

“There was one coach who fit all the characteristics that I was seeking to lead our tradition-rich football program,” Eichorst said in the press release announcing Riley’s hiring. “Mike Riley has a proven record of success, a sound approach to football and teaching, an understanding of the educational mission of our university and the integrity and values that we cherish at Nebraska.”

Riley has never won a conference championship. In his 12 years at Oregon State, his team won nine or more games just four times. And since 2009, Oregon State hasn’t finished higher than third in the PAC-12 Conference.

Yet, Eichorst gave Riley a chance. Eichorst saw the 93 wins, the most in Oregon State history. The thought of choosing a coach who’s done that in a small market for such a storied program as Nebraska − it all seemed to fit.

In a hotel room in San Francisco, Eichorst gave Riley a chance. An opportunity to take a step out-

side of his father’s footsteps.

Over the next two days, he’d have to decide: Do I leave my life and my father behind?

Riley chose to chase a championship. * * * When the Rileys were done with their slices of pepperoni on that July 2012 afternoon at Boston Pizza, they walked outside. In the distance, storm clouds grew close. The hospital was about a mile away.

“Oh no,” Mike said with a laugh. “We gotta go, Bud.” Bud looked up.

“Yeah, we gotta go,” he said.

And so they went. The son pushing the father back down Main Street, jogging while the storm clouds got closer and closer.

“Faster!” Bud half-yelled and half-laughed at his 59-year-old son – as if Mike were the boy he watched from the bleachers for years in baseball, basketball and football.

“Faster!”

Mike’s feet churned beneath him. The hill up Main Street grew steeper and steeper, and the laughs of his father in front of him grew louder and louder, until they finally turned right on Carmi Avenue and into the hospital.

The rain began to pour as the two got under the shelter in front of the hospital – the son gasping for air, the father laughing – the rain coming down in sheets in front of them. They’d made it.

They’d won.

It was the last victory the two would share together.

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NU golf teams place 13th in Big Ten championships BECCA MANN DN The Nebraska men’s and women’s golf teams each finished in 13th place this past weekend in the Big Ten Championships.

The tournament began for the women’s team at the Fort Golf Resort in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Huskers ended the first round in 12th place, before moving into 10th place on Saturday and finishing the competition in 13th.

Junior Cassie Deeg led NU after producing identical 74s on the first two days and an 80 in Round 3. Deeg finished the weekend in 41st place with a 228.

Also contributing to the team’s success were freshmen Audrey Judd and Emily Gillman. Before producing matching 76s on Day 2, Judd landed an 81 in Round 1 while Gillman finished the day with an 83. During Round 3, Judd put up another 81 to contribute to her overall score of 238. Gillman earned a 78 during Round 3, contributing to her 237 overall individual score.

Ohio State dominated the individual leaderboard, taking positions in four of the five top scores. First place was awarded to Northwestern’s Sarah Cho, who finished competition with a 213.

Just one point behind at 214 was Maryland’s Juliet Vongphoumy and Ohio State’s Katja Pogacar in second place. Ohio State’s Jan Chanpalangsri took fourth with her 215 score. Four athletes tied for fifth place with a score of 217. Ohio State’s Rio Watanabe and Jessica Porvasnik, Purdue’s Marta Martin and Michigan State’s Lindsey McPherson rounded out

the top five.

Leading the women’s team competition was Northwestern and Ohio State, tying for first with a three-day total 863. Ohio State led the team competition after the first two rounds, but Northwestern closed in after shooting a 284 in round three. Purdue sat at third, shooting a 872 team score.

The NU women’s team dropped three places from its standing on Day 2 to finish in 13th with a 917 team score.

The men’s team also sat at 13th heading into the final round, after a 302-310-308 earned during the first three rounds of play.

Illinois finished in the top spot, shooting a total 1138. Iowa earned the second place spot with an 1170 total. Third place was a tie between Minnesota and Penn State; each shot a 1181. Rounding out the top five was Wisconsin and Ohio State, tying for fifth shooting 1183. Nebraska finished competition at No. 13 with a total 1238, blowing past Rutgers’ 1274.

Leading the team was senior Calvin Freeman who finished in 46th with a 306 total. Senior Ross Dickson put up 73-79-72-86 over four rounds to finish in a four way tie for 54th.

The overall top individual scores were Carson Schaake from Iowa and Nick Hardy from Illinois.

The two finished competition with 284s. Tied for third was Thomas Detry from Illinois and David Kocher from Maryland, who trailed closely behind with a pair of 286s. Rounding out the top five with another tie were Jose Mendez and Brian Campbell.

The two rallied over four rounds to finish with a 288.

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Junior Cassie Deeg led the Huskers; earning a pair of 74s and an 80 to place 41st overall.

Both Nebraska teams will head to NCAA Regional Competition next month to compete for a National competition berth. The Nebraska women’s team last saw action at national competition in 2006. The men’s team has had four appearances at

the national level, with the last one taking place in 1999.

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Junior Dusty Boyer’s double performance with Ford Zitsch was a bright spot for the Huskers after a doubles match victory of 8-3.

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Huskers lose quaterfinals to Buckeyes, 4-0 SARAH BERGER DN The Nebraska men’s tennis team ended their run in the Big Ten tournament on Friday with a 4-0 loss to Ohio State during the quarterfinals.

“They’re playing for the Big Ten championship so we knew they were a good team,” junior Ford Zitsch said. “They just proved to be a little bit stronger at the bottom of the lineup.”

Zitsch and Dusty Boyer started the match in the No. 1 doubles spot with an 8-4 loss and were followed by the No. 3 duo, Marc Herrmann and Chris Hobgarski, with a 8-2 loss. With the doubles point secured by Ohio State, the No. 2

duo, Scott Elsass and Linus Erhart, didn’t finish their match.

In singles matches, Chris Hobgarski finished his match on the No. 5 court first with a 6-0 and a 6-1 loss. Finishing his match second, Zitsch had a similar result on the No. 6 court with a 6-2 and a 6-3 loss. The last match of the day was Andrew Dzulynsky on the No. 4 court. He lost his sets 6-2 and 6-3. With the match already secured by Ohio State, Dusty Boyer, Linus Erhart and Marc Herrmann didn’t finish their matches.

Earlier in the tournament, the Huskers won their match in the first round against Michigan State 4-3.

“I feel like they’re our rivals a little bit, and as far as the Big Ten goes they’re more on our

level,” Zitsch said. “Our team and their team both get intense with it, so to win that one was super big.”

The doubles matches were started off in the No. 2 court by Linus Erhart and Scott Elsass winning their match 8-1. The No. 1 duo, Ford Zitsch and Dusty Boyer, finished their match next with an 8-3 win. With the doubles point going to Nebraska, Chris Hobgarski and Marc Herrmann did not finish their match on the No.3 court.

Chris Hobgarski started off the singles matches on the No. 5 court with a 6-3 and 6-2 loss followed by Linus Erhart on the No. 2 court, who also lost the two sets 6-3 and 6-2. On the No. 6 court, Zitsch’s match was the third singles match to finish with a 6-4 and 6-2 loss. Andrew

Dzulynsky won the team’s first match in singles on the No. 4 court with a 7-6 and 7-2 win. On the No. 2 court, Marc Herrman won his matches with a final 6-3 tie breaker. During the last match of the day, Dusty Boyer in the No. 1 court won the match for Nebraska with a 6-3 win during a tie breaker. “(Qualifying for the NCAA Championships) has been one of our goals and will be one of our goals next year,” Zitsch said. “Most likely this will be the end of our season. Looking forward, there’s a lot of things to work on this summer and fall to get prepared.”

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