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900 seeking sisters in ’11 sorority rush Number of recruits reaches record high; week-long process revamped Riley Johnson Daily Nebraskan

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Girls enjoy lunch together as part of Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment Week 2011 on campus on Aug. 16, 2011.

ASUN prepares semester plans, event calendar Frannie Sprouls Daily NEbraskan

While other students rested or occupied themselves with jobs and internships far away from campus, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student government, was hard at work planning events and activities for the upcoming year.

This year, those events include the creation of the Huskers Fighting Hunger benefit and the Nebraska State Student Association, a coalition of student governments across Nebraska.

These events evolved into something better, according to Lane Carr, a senior history

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and political science major and president of ASUN, and Jeff Lopez, a senior chemical engineering major and internal vice president of ASUN. Huskers Fighting Hunger was originally envisioned as a Big Red Welcome-style benefit night, bringing together vendors and organizations designed to raise money for 1 million meals for the hungry.

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It’s down to Field McDonald and 892 other girls. All 15 sorority houses met with the nearly 900 incoming University of Nebraska-Lincoln students vying for membership this week.

By Saturday, they will choose their newest members and end Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment Week 2011.

McDonald, an undeclared freshman, said she chose to participate in sorority recruitment week because she could meet girls her age looking to make friends and build a support system. But McDonald said she knows little about the greek system, which makes the week a little daunting.

“There’s hundreds of girls going into this process, and I’m nervous about being able to stand out and being able to hold conversations with complete strangers and convince them I would be a good asset to their house,” McDonald said.

Last year, 796 girls participated in “Rush Week,” according to Linda Schwartzkopf, UNL Greek Affairs director. Twelve years ago, 657 potential new members rushed.

But it’s not just the numbers that have changed. Sorority recruitment week has transformed from a week based on entertainment to real-life compatibility and seen structural changes on top of higher participation numbers.

The formal process of sorority rush stands in contrast to its fraternity counterpart, which is not restricted to one week and does not require each chapter to meet with all applicants. Students interested in joining fraternities submit general applications to Greek Affairs and may or may not be invited to events by individual chapters’ recruitment chairs. At any time, they may be offered a bid card by a chapter,

which, when signed, pledges them to that fraternity.

Julie Johnson, chairman of the College Panhellenics Committee, said recruitment has evolved over the years since sororities were first established in the late 19th century.

Schwartzkopf estimated the formal, structured week began at least 80 years ago.

In the 1940s, houses offered potential new members silver trays of cigarettes. There were even houses where the members would dress in costume to impress the recruits, Schwartzkopf said.

Now, the focus has moved away from the theatrical, said Erika Franta, director of Sorority Recruitment at UNL. Franta, a senior psychology major and member of Delta Gamma, said recruitment today provides a more realistic look into sorority life. Instead of preparing skits, dressing in costumes and elaborately decorating the chapter houses, sororities focus on keeping it casual and getting to know the recruits more, which she said is a top concern because of the importance of carrying on chapter pride.

“These are the people you get to pass your traditions on to,” Franta said.

It’s a trend that extends far beyond Nebraska. Johnson said chapters across the country have strayed away from entertaining the recruits, dropping songs for sit-down interviews and conversations where the focus is on building a connection between the recruit and chapter.

“There’s definitely been a much greater emphasis on recruitment back to the basics,” Johnson said.

This year, UNL’s sororities saw record new recruit numbers in the first year of a new system. Every potential new member will have visited every chapter on campus over the course of Monday and Tuesday in the open-house round. In addition to the open-house round, the

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Regent: 5% tuition increase ‘fair, predictable, moderate’ Riley Johnson Daily NEbraskan

The pink “While You Were Out” slip for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student body now reads “Raised tuition 5 percent in June.”

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved NU President J.B. Milliken’s proposed 2011-2012 budget June 17, raising tuition for UNL students between $120 and $150 more per semester, according to the new budget.

The university faced a $6 million budget shortfall.

The new tuition rate per credit hour for all courses outside of the College of Engineering and College of Business Administration will be $208.25

for residents and $617.75 for non-residents, according to the Office of Student Accounts.

“The 5 percent increase continues to provide affordable access to higher-ed for all those folks in the state,” said Bob Whitehouse, chairman of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

Whitehouse and several other regents tout the increase as a responsible and sensitive move that keeps University of Nebraska schools under their peer averages and in-line with prior increases.

UNL’s peer schools increased their rates an average of 7 percent, according to Milliken. The highest rate hike came from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where

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TUITION RATES SINCE 2006 Since 2006, the yearly tuition hike at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has averaged about 5.5 percent, according to data from the UNL Office of Institutional Research and Planning. “We would rather have moderate increases and have them very predictable than have these huge spikes in tuition of 8, 10, 12 or 14 percent,” said NU Regent Bob Whitehouse.

YEAR 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012

RESIDENT $160.00 $169.50 $179.75 $187.00 $198.25 $208.25

NON-RESIDENT $475.00 $503.50 $533.75 $555.00 $588.25 $617.75

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tuition increased 20 percent.

The lowest: Purdue University’s 3.5 percent increase.

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Regents: from 1 Since 2006, tuition hikes have averaged about 5.5 percent at UNL, according to data from the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

“We would rather have moderate increases and have them very predictable than have these huge spikes in tuition of 8, 10, 12 or 14 percent,” Whitehouse said.

Whitehouse said moderate increases remain sensitive to families across the state that face financial uncertainty. If the board approved sharp, irregular tuition hikes, Whitehouse said families might struggle to send their kids to University of Nebraska schools.

Regent Tim Clare said the university’s tuition increases for the past few years have averaged between 5 and 7 percent.

That average plus a peer comparison justifies the board’s decision, Clare said.

“After a 5 percent increase, we’re in the lower third of our peers, we’re in the lower third of the Big 12 and we’re at the absolute bottom lowest tuition in the Big Ten,” Clare said. “So we felt like it’s a fair, predictable, moderate increase, and

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it didn’t price a University of Nebraska education out of the market.”

The new budget also includes differential tuition for the College of Business Administration and College of Engineering. That means students taking classes in either of the colleges will pay more.

In-state students taking business or engineering classes will pay $50 more per credit hour.

Non-resident students can expect to pay $147 more per credit hour for classes in those respective colleges. In total, resident students taking classes in College of Engineering will pay $298.25 per credit hour and in the College of Business Administration $258.25, according to the Office of Student Accounts. Non-residents will pay $804.75 and $764.75 per credit hour respectively.

Differential tuition money, Clare said, will go back into the respective colleges, so both can go toward faculty salaries and education enhancement. Education enhancement means going to other universities across the country and attracting business

and engineering faculty and programs.

“The dollars that are generated are really going to do nothing more than enhance and advance the educational opportunities in each college,” Clare said.

Lane Carr, UNL’s student regent and president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, said differential tuition will be a great benefit to engineering and business college students at UNL, because the money helps keep the talented professors from jumping ship to the private sector. In turn, Carr, a senior history and political science double major, said that means better programs at UNL. “Their professors require more competition, because they could probably be in the private sector making more money,” Carr said. “Without (differential tuition) I don’t think we could maintain competitive, quality staff and faculty.”

And the students he’s talked to aren’t complaining, he said.

A number of CBA students

told Carr they understand their professors are highly sought after, he said. But College of Engineering students he has talked to don’t seem as understanding since many of them have paid lab fees per credit hour for the past few years.

Carr said engineering students have already paid a sort of “differential tuition” in the $40 tech fee per credit hour tacked onto their tuition to pay for labs.

However, Carr said it makes sense that the students who receive the most benefit from their professors are paying to keep them at UNL, instead of using tuition hikes across the board to keep selected professors in-house.

The university faced a $6 million budget shortfall for 2011-2012, and the outlook for the following years is just as bleak, with the university seeing similar shortages forecast.

In addition, Whitehouse said he doesn’t think the university will see a rise in state funding, but says the university is fortunate not to have its state appropriations cut. So, Whitehouse said, the four University of Nebraska

schools will be asked to do more with less like they have in the past. Since 2000, the university has reallocated, or diverted, $70 million, according to University figures.

“All of our campuses have continually had to cut and I’m sure they will be asked to continue cut again as this is a very difficult time in the history of our state and our country,” Whitehouse said.

And with the university seeing budget shortfalls in the forecast, Whitehouse said the regents might use moderate tuition hikes to close the gap.

Carr said the 5 percent tuition will make paying the tuition bill hard for some students, but that it’s necessary to maintain programs and upkeep buildings. UNL students will likely see tuition rise again next year, he said.

“We’re doing everything possible to cut out the fat,” Carr said. “Unfortunately, now we’ve reached the max on the fat we can cut, and now the cuts that we make are going to hurt.”

invitation rounds allow recruits to visit 10 chapters Wednesday, six chapters Thursday and three on Friday. In all previous years, the invitation rounds allowed recruits to select eight houses on first invitation and five on second invitation.

Schwartzkopf says the new structure provides more opportunities for girls to see as many

chapters as possible.

One of the biggest challenges to some houses might be accommodating all the potential new members during the open-house period.

Clare Maney, a junior marketing and Spanish major, said the girls were keeping it light at the Chi Omega house, with a room-decorating contest during weekend leading up to the week of “rush.” Maney said with the new open houseround early in the week, each house will see all the new members. But she said her sorority has come to see it less as an obstacle and more as an opportunity to meet women who might find a home at Chi Omega.

To Maney, recruitment week is a chance to change a chapter’s direction.

“It doesn’t take long to make a bad house a good house,” Maney said.

Schwartzkopf echoed Maney, saying recruitment week gives sororities a chance to reinvent themselves with

their new members who might go on to fill leadership positions within the greek system or the university.

“Even though many of our chapters are 100 years old, the chapters are still relevant,” Schwartzkopf said.

But when bid day comes Saturday, not all 893 girls will get a bid card tying them to a chapter. In fact, Schwartzkopf said, many times the number of girls participating throughout the week drops. Some decide greek life is not for them, while others simply wanted to move

into the dorms early, she said.

Last year 525 of the 796 potential new members received a bid card, or about 66 percent, according to Schwartzkopf.

So for McDonald, the prospects of not receiving a bid card exist. But whether or not she gets a bid card, McDonald said her goal is to make friends and to meet people.

Confidently, she said, she will mark that goal accomplished by week’s end and then some.

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rush: from 1 amount of houses potential new members can visit in the invitation round increased. In the invitation round, the recruit selects her top chapters and the chapter selects their top recruits. The selections are then combined giving the recruit a list of houses to visit based on their selections and invitations.

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BREAKDOWN OF FIRST-YEAR SORORITY MEMBERSHIP COSTS When potential new members receive their bid card and join their new sorority, they have to pay membership fees. The average first-year cost is $1,797. In 1985-86, the average first-year cost was half to two-thirds lower between $623 and $985. The highest first year fee is $2,640 and the lowest is $718.*

Pin/Badge Security deposit 3.7% 3.08% National dues 4.08% Initiation 6.56% Pledge 10.82% Building fund 19%

Other 31.85%

Local dues 20.91%

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In May, a large-scale annual emergency drill that uses emergency response scenarios – Terrex11 – took place on campus, organized by the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

Although the planning for the emergency exercise had been in the works for two years by NEMA, a series of scares last semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln made the exercise well timed.

In February, the UNL Police Department responded to a gunman threat on East Campus at the College of Dentistry. A faculty member called police after purportedly observing a man enter the college with a silver handgun. After university police searched East Campus and the nearby areas, the campus lockdown was lifted.

Also in February, police received a phone call reporting weapons in Oldfather Hall on City Campus, which was later determined to be a hoax, according to UNL officials.

A third incident was the evacuation of the College of Business Administration building after a student found a note in a bathroom citing a bomb threat.

The UNL Alert system was used to notify users of the incidents, except in the case of the report of weapons in Oldfather Hall.

Fred Gardy, director of planning and assistant UNL police chief, said they are constantly evolving and moving forward.

But it was just a coincidence that Terrex11 mirrored the events on campus in some aspects, because two years of planning for the event was done prior,

by NEMA. Multiple emergency responders came together with faculty and students to take part in the exercise over the summer to conduct emergency response scenarios. In the past, the university has taken part in small-scale drills, table-top activities and functional discussions.

But Terrex11 differs in size, with 900 people participating in a hands-on exercise, Gardy said.

Students and faculty took part in the exercise by role playing the parts as victims that had been immobilized by being wounded. The goals of Terrex11 were to evaluate where strengths and weaknesses are and to focus on emergency management systems.

“I hope that the police will be able to respond to these situations even quicker and be able to figure out where the gunman is, or be able to dispel the rumor faster if that is all it is,” said Emily Bonneau, a sophomore hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major, on her expectations of the exercise.

When there’s a threat on campus, UNL Alert is supposed to inform all students who are signed up for the service. Then the service continues to inform and update students about the nature of the threat.

“They do a good job of getting the alert out, just not a very good job on keeping us updated. In situations like that, people want to know what is going on,” Bonneau said.

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ready to go, we realized that it’s not a sustainable kind of thing,” Carr said.

After being contacted by the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, Huskers Fighting Hunger transformed into an awareness night. A speaker will present and students will attend breakout sessions. ASUN will partner with the Residence Hall Association and the dining halls to put on a meal to show students not everyone gets the same amount of food.

The event is still in the planning stages and Carr hopes to

have it take place the week before Thanksgiving, which is National Hunger Awareness Week.

“We’re really excited that we had a good idea and it morphed into a better idea,” Carr said.

Another project ASUN is working on is the Nebraska State Student Association. NSSA would connect all the public colleges in Nebraska so the students have a strong voice in the state legislature.

Lopez found out about Nebraska Campus Compact, which

is a similar project through civic engagement and extends beyond public institutions. Lopez hopes to create NSSA around the Nebraska Campus Compact model.

“We’re going to use that avenue to reach out and facilitate a continuing program,” Lopez said. “Each staff member will be people who are still here and create continuity so it doesn’t die with our graduation.”

Other projects are underway for the upcoming school year as well, which Carr and Lopez are excited to work on with the Senate.

One such project is to increase the size of the Senate, which is still in its beginning phase. Support would be needed not only from the Senators but from the student body as well. An amendment to the ASUN constitution and a student vote are needed for this to happen.

For Lopez, more students on campus should mean more representation in ASUN. Throughout the year, ASUN will also be working closely with Faculty Senate to create a student bereavement policy.

This would allow a student to be excused from a certain amount of days in case of a family crisis.

“Our faculty is usually great about understanding, but there needs to be more of a uniformity,” Carr said.

ASUN has many ongoing projects and events throughout the year and, with a new website management system, Carr said there will be a few interactive charts for students to check on.

“We have an accountability meter that will keep us accountable for what we’ve told people and what we have done so far,” Carr said.

There will also be a fee page on the website. Students can see where their student fees are going and be able to track the organizations. By clicking on the different organizations, students will be led to the individual websites so students can see what the fees are used toward.

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While most students don’t pine away with homesickness for campus housing over the summer, it has never left the minds of members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Residence Hall Association. Planning and coordinating all summer long, those involved in UNL’s student-run residence hall government have worked on policies, future events and general goals for the upcoming year.

Though RHA’s Events Committee has yet to meet, plenty of events are in the planning phase or are already scheduled for the upcoming month.

“We did a lot of pre-planning this summer,” said Mike Dunn, RHA Vice President.

Throughout the summer, RHA reached out to the resident assistants and to other campuses to get ideas for the coming year, in addition to attending the National Association of College and University Residence Halls national conference at Western Illinois University.

Tiago Guevara, a senior political science major and summer intern for RHA, said his favorite summer project was a new partnership with the Lied Center for the Performing Arts.

“We now get cut a deal on tickets to give away during

events and are doing some cross-advertising in return for the Lied Center,” Guevara said.

Large-scale events being considered for this year include the second-annual campus scavenger hunt, also known as Husker Hunt, as well a potential campus-wide game of Risk.

“We’ve discussed many different things but it hasn’t taken shape as of yet,” Guevara said about the Risk game.

Beyond planning physical events, RHA is looking into creating a mobile application for students to become more informed about events taking place at UNL. RHA is also hoping to work with housing to change policies regarding meal plans, Village and Courtyards policies and the campus’ environmental policy.

As early as Aug. 18, RHA will be putting on an event with a showing of the movie “Yes Man” with popcorn, snow cones and free Monster energy drinks for the first 100 people to arrive. RHA members will also be available in the residence halls with tables of information on how to get involved at UNL and will host a cake walk at Big Red Welcome on Sunday.

“We’re looking to get the ball rolling really quickly, getting the infrastructure going

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“We’re just trying to increase our transparency of what ASUN is doing and what other organizations are doing with the money,” Carr said.

Planning over the summer and meeting with respective groups has increased the executive board’s excitement for the upcoming year. The ASUN office has been empty during the summer, and Lopez can’t wait for the office to be filled with people.

The first ASUN meeting of the year is Aug. 24.

“We’re just pumped and it’s going to be so great,” Carr said.

“We have a lot of work to do but we’re excited.”

Party at the Union A collection of games, food and fun allows students to meet others on campus.

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New kids on the block: Lambda Chi moves in Alicia Mikoloyck Daily nebraskan

LAMBDA CHI ALPHA The new Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house is located at the southwest corner of 17th and R streets.

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Lambda Chi Alpha not only welcomed 35 new fraternity members this school year, but they also welcomed a new home.

The fraternity’s new house at 1645 R St., completed for move-in this month, replaces its old house down the street at 1345 R St. The state-of-theart fraternity house is outfitted with a deck at its rear and even a weight room in its basement. The house stands three stories tall with enough rooms to cater to at least 60 live-in chapter members and includes a computer lab, a kitchen and designated study areas.

The fraternity’s old house was overdue for renovations when the group struck a deal with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to swap their old house for the plot of land at 17th and R streets. The exterior of the house was made of old, tan stone bricks, and the interior faced both structural and aesthetic problems as well. The university plans to demolish the old house to make way for more oncampus parking. However, the house will not be forever lost.

Eric Leigl, a sophomore

in the house, said the stone pillars in the main floor living room of the new house are his favorite part, because they are made with the bricks from the original house.

After raising money and obtaining help from alumni, construction on the new house began almost a year ago in September 2010.

While the year-long wait was hard for some fraternity members, on Aug. 15, the Lambda Chi men began the daunting process of moving into their new home. With the 30 returning members and the 35 freshmen moving into the house, help from parents and siblings was graciously welcomed.

Moms helped their sons carry in clothing on hangers and dads helped with heavy lifting, especially with the new furniture. Family members also pitched in to help arrange it in the living room.

“Having a new house is an awesome thing,” said Drew Halvorson, a senior entrepreneur management major and member of the Lambda Chi fraternity. “It’s great to have some change and also a chance to start fresh.”

Halvorson also said it’s an excellent chance to expand the number of members.

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For now, the cost of living for the fraternity members has gone up from last year. But Halvorson said he didn’t find the costs unbearable and that they are comparable to living in other fraternity houses.

The Lambda Chi house is not the only one on Greek row that has made improvements over the last year.

Many houses, including Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Kappa Psi, also completed renovations on their houses.

Of that group, Phi Gamma Delta has done a full-house renovation, complete with suite-style housing. Kappa

Kappa Gamma also remodeled its entire first floor, and Phi Kappa Psi renovated its entire house.

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Over the summer, developers announced $80 million in building and renovation plans for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Innovation Campus, a scientific research-based campus dedicated to promoting cooperation between private companies and university faculty and students.

The first phase of construction will include four buildings located on the former site of the State Fair Park. The park has 232 acres of land and is north of City Campus. The four buildings in phase one include: the renovated 4-H building, a 100,000 square-foot companion building next to the 4-H building, a food, fuel and water research facility and a life science building.

The state will contribute $25 million of funding for Innovation Campus and other funds will come from private sector investments. The United States Department of Agriculture has also offered to put money toward an agriculture facility but it has yet to be approved, according to Tim Clare, an NU regent.

First proposed more than three years ago, Innovation Campus is projected to bring in $267 million in new payroll to the local and state economy, according to consultants hired by the university.

“The purpose of Innovation Campus is to increase engagement with private companies by building facilities on campus where they can collaborate with students, interns and faculty on research,” said Jim McClurg, vice chairman for University of Nebraska Board of Regents. “After collaboration of research the next step would be to turn findings into commercial opportunities.”

McClurg said the opportunity for creating new jobs and the support and value for research at University of Nebraska campuses, which are land-grant institutions, made the decision to build not only beneficial but necessary.

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The first phase of construction is expected to be completed by April 2013.

Nebraska Nova Development LCC has already started pre-construction work to prepare for the new buildings. The entire Innovation Campus project is on a 25year phased plan for completion.

“Right now we are working on the utilities aspect of construction such as roads and sewers, but we expect to begin the actual construction by next April,” Zach Weigart of Nebraska Nova said.

Nebraska Nova Development LCC’s managing partner is Woodbury Corporation, which is based out of Utah.

The theme of Innovation Campus is food, fuel and water. Supporters of the campus hope once construction is completed that investments in the campus will help lead to important developments in agricultural research.

“This project is something that can’t get finished soon enough. The research done here will contribute to the Nebraska and world economy and enhance food production.” Clare said. “The research done here could help feed the world.”

McClurg said there are many examples of private sectors merging with university campuses around the nation, and that they have been very successful. He said UNL has made a wise decision in investing in the research facility.

“What Innovation Campus will show is that we as a university are willing to continuously change and engage our community,” McClurg said.

“The interaction between companies and students will reach far beyond Nebraska citizens. Investing in Innovation Campus is the right thing to be doing.”

Mariciaguzman@ dailynebraskan.com

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DAILY NEBRASKAN editorial board members ZACH SMITH

IAN SACKS editor-in-chief ANDREW MCCLURE

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How to make the most of reading the DN

Here it is; another year of school. For many, their first. No doubt there are a fair amount of students holding this paper (this very one!) in their hands right now, wondering what to do with it, pondering if it should be thrown in the waste bin of their half-furnished dorm room.

So what exactly, they may ask, does one do with a copy of the Daily Nebraskan?

The answer is anything you want. Make a paper hat. Fold a life-size origami swan or turn each page into a giant paper airplane. You’re in college now; the world is your oyster of large foldable objects.

You can do all that, but there are a few things we at the DN hope you do instead (or at least before).

1. Read it. Chances are you’ll find something interesting inside. Maybe you want to see what events are happening on campus or downtown. Maybe you’d like to get a firmer handle on university policy and tuition increases. Maybe you simply want to read about the strangeness of unusual clubs and the misadventures that end up in cops briefs, or just see what fellow students have to say. They all have one thing in common: No other paper is following them. Stay up on the ins-and-outs of your university — it’s going to be your community for the next four or five or six years.

2. Follow us beyond the paper. Look to our Facebook, Twitter, @dailyneb, and website, www.dailynebraskan.com, for daily videos, extra information and breaking stories.

3. While you’re there, let us know how we’re doing. Send a letter to the editor or leave comments on Facebook or our website. A college newspaper is only as worthwhile as it is useful to the students who are reading it. If we miss alerting you about events you wanted to go to, if you find coverage of campus issues to be inaccurate or light, tell us. We’ll do our very best to accommodate.

4. Contribute. If you’re involved in an organization or are causing news in any way, send information about your event to the DN Community Desk at community@dailynebraskan. com. An editor will post summaries to our website, and it may appear in print as well.

5. Use us to get involved. Stay informed and find new clubs. Go to events that seem interesting. Attending Sunday’s Big Red Welcome, for example, is a great way to do all three, and you can find highlighted events on page three of this very issue. Become so active on campus that your name dots our pages for years to come.

Use your college paper how you see fit. Use it for information or for entertainment. Pick it up between classes just to do the crossword puzzle and find a feature on a club you never knew about. Find a fact about tuition hikes and university policy to get yourself riled up. Help make the DN the best it can be for you in 2011, so you can practice origami with a better brand of paper. opinion@dailynebraskan.com

editorial policy The editorial above contains the opinion of the spring 2011 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. A column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of Daily Nebraskan employees.

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Lessons from freshman year reflection

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ophomores, juniors, seniors, grad students, faculty: Welcome back. It’s good to see you all again. This column, however, is not addressed to you. I hope you have a splen-

did year.

Freshmen! There are so many of you.

I’m trying to remember my time as a freshman, and I’ve come up with a few lessons, or at least memories, from experience.

First, when I was a freshman, I played in the Cornhusker Marching Band. I recommend this experience to all you music-minded people. Marching band, despite being a time commitment unlike any single extracurricular, save athletics, is a ton of fun. Rehearsals 7:30 a.m. and game days longer than the football players’ are all worth it when you step on the field for the pregame show.

It almost makes me wish I stuck with it, but I guess trumpet wasn’t for me.

Anyway, the lessons of participating in an activity like marching band — whether it be intramurals, a club, Husker athletics — are many in number. It’s cliche, but I’ll say it anyway: Go out and get involved in something.

For out-of-state students like myself, getting involved is even more important. Nebraska-based freshmen, I’m glad you came to your home-state university, but you already have an established group of friends. For those from South Dakota or Kansas, the pool of people we know is smaller. And those from farther afield, like Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California or farther, may not know anyone who goes to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It’s important, so

zach Smith we don’t become social outsiders, to get out and make new friends. Getting involved in an extracurricular is a great way to shrink campus.

I don’t know if you’ve heard — maybe not, you just got on campus — but there’s this gigantic club fair on Sunday afternoon, Big Red Welcome. There will be hundreds of clubs there, along with a bunch of free food and more people than you’ll know what to do with. Sign up for some club mailing lists, and go to some meetings in the first week. If you stick with it, you’ll end up with some really good friends. I have.

Also, make friends with people in your major. Large majors, this may not apply best to you, as your classes seem to contain most of the campus. But music majors, journalism majors, even engineers: you have a smaller community that you can really bond with on academic and social grounds.

Speaking of academics, not to repeat things you’ve heard a thousand times, but seriously, do your research early. It helps. Go find articles or books, highlight them, make an outline, do what you have to — but get it done before the deadline. I know too many people who have started 15-page papers worth

40 percent of their grades at 2 a.m. the morning it was due. They didn’t finish.

Don’t be them.

Let’s be realistic, though. You’ll procrastinate. It’s a sport for college students.

Also, Nebraska is pretty good about not having too many massive classes beyond the introductory ones for each level. But in all your classes, take the time to go to office hours and meet your professor. Ask questions you know (or think you know) the answers to on subjects that interest you.

Do you know how many students go to office hours? I have no concrete, statistical proof of this, but I suspect the answer is very few. Be one of those few! You’ll get letters of recommendation and cool opportunities down the line if you keep it up.

I could go on and on with lessons I learned from freshman year. My first semester, I joined marching band and one club because I was worried about time commitments. I had more time than I knew what to do with. I did talk to professors and got a two-year research assistantship out of it. I think I procrastinated a ton on my research, but somehow, I’ve gotten better.

At the risk of sounding paternal or preachy, listen to people trying to give you advice. I’m not saying you should take it all the time — just have an open mind to people who’ve gone through the same, or similar set of experiences.

Welcome to UNL. Go Big Red.

zach smith is a senior music and political Science major. follow him @smithzach on twitter and reach him at zachsmith@dailynebraskan.com

Ten helpful tips for incoming students

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ello and welcome, freshmen! I hope you’re finding the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus friendly and making a new home here.

I have no interest in lying to you.

Some of you won’t finish out the month, semester or year. Some of you won’t make it to graduation.

Others of you will. Whatever path you find yourself on, know that you’re not alone.

That being said, I have 10 tips for you. Ready?

1. Change isn’t instant This sounds like a pretty obvious one, but I feel it’s important to say right off the bat. Chances are, in your first week at college you aren’t going to have best friends or a significant other. Relationships take time to build. That being said, almost nobody in the dorms knows each other yet, so spread you social butterfly wings! Chat up a storm and see if you click with anybody. You probably will find someone you can talk to. More importantly, you’ll meet people who you may never have encountered if it weren’t for college. That’s what people mean when they talk about the “college experience.”

2. Jägermeister is a sometimes drink You know how the new version of Cookie Monster says, “Cookies are a sometimes food”? Well, the same applies to certain liquors.

Now, freshmen, I’m guessing you aren’t of legal age yet, so I’ll spare you a lecture. I’ll just say this: Students have lost scholarships and other important things because they were caught with booze. Your residence assistant is trained to find out who has been drinking on his or her floor. So, freshie, be smart.

Don’t drink on campus. When you do get to the wonderful world of booze, know that Jäger is a diabolical and delightful drink. Seriously, the first time I had a shot of it, I was skeptical of gravity. Gravity!

Not even the physics majors I’d been partying with could convince me that gravity was working.

3. Dating shouldn’t be your priority Getting your degree, whatever it may be, however long it takes, is your top priority. Relationships can and do fail all the time. Know what doesn’t? A degree! Certainly this has changed since the 1950s, where finding a husband was the only reason for a young woman attended college. (They called it an MRS

cultivate business contacts. It may take some time for you to find the clubs you really click with, but it’s worth it.

rhiannon root Degree.) Thankfully, this is 2011. If it weren’t, well, I’d be an old maid at 21. Yay for progress! Yay for education! So get that degree and celebrate the fact that your selfworth and future doesn’t depend on having a significant other.

4. There is life outside your dorm room It’s easy for anybody to get caught up in his or her studies and the drama of everyday college life.

Breathe in a little fresh air from time to time. Go out and be silly, I promise it will make life a little easier. There are so many things to do on campus and in Lincoln. If you’re bored, it’s your own fault.

5. Join a club or two Clubs are a great way to meet people in a friendly context or a professional one. I’m a member of two clubs. One helped me keep my sanity. The other helped me

6. Have a private space A little privacy is a great thing.

It’s difficult to find these spaces, but sometimes a little alone time is worth it. Explore campus and you’ll find a place or two where you can study in peace. There are a ton of spots where you can disappear to, but you’ll have to find them for yourself.

7. Get sweaty exercise!

Exercise is a great stress reliever.

A little attention to your body as your brain expands with tons of knowledge is important. Going out and getting a little sweaty also can help you improve your memory, which helps you learn. Neat, huh?

8. Instructors aren’t scary (usually) Most professors and instructors want to help you out and will go to great lengths to do so. Hell, one even hooked me up with a job, once. (Thanks, Tara!) But your profs can’t help you if you don’t ask for help. So if you’re struggling, generally speaking, they can help you out. There are one or two instructors I’ve had who actively

terrified me, but that’s the exception. Again, profs don’t bite, so strike up a conversation.

9. Learn to nap A regular sleep cycle is important. However, expect that from time to time you won’t get a full eight hours. This is why it’s vital that you catch a few hours whenever you can. A great nap can help refresh you for round two of homework. Or more importantly, can improve your mood.

10. Read the Daily Nebraskan OK, this is a plug, but we here at the DN believe in serving students with campus news, opinions, entertainment and sports. You’re not going to find a newspaper that actively caters to your needs here like we do. We listen and love feedback. So if we screw up royally or we do something awesome, send us an email. We’d love to hear from you.

Go Huskers!

Rhiannon root is a senior journalism and history major. follow her @rhiannonroot on twitter and reach her at rhiannonroot@ dailynebraskan.com.

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ith any luck, a Daily Nebraskan reporter will try and interview former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student, Nick Jester, in 30 years, but won’t be able to because he’s in the middle of accepting a Tony Award.

You might know Jester — who just finished his second year at UNL as a voice performance major — from the Bathtub Dogs or perhaps from his work in the local rock band, Second Wind, or perhaps from when he performs in Lincoln as a solo act.

But most notably Jester wrote and co-directed the musical “Chiropractical,” which ran for three nights at Lincoln’s Haymarket Theatre last week to very positive reviews.

Prior to the show, the mind behind the music was optimistic that laughs would be plentiful, but Jester was already pleased that his cast and crew — mostly comprised of UNL students — had the musical off the ground.

“I feel like the project has already been kind of a success,” Jester said last week. “I’m really proud

that we were able to bring it to fruition.”

The undertaking, which to any observer might seem enormous, began for Jester as a single class assignment in the UNL School of Music. For a required composition assignment, most of Jester’s classmates wrote and performed classical pieces, but the amateur playwright had something a bit different in mind.

“I wrote a musical theater piece, and that’s where story comes from,” Jester recalled. “I just wanted to do something that would show everyone who I was and it went really well.”

Who he is is defined largely by Jester’s passion for tinkering with intersections of music and comedy. This passion, as well as the support of his classmates and friends, also gave definition to “Chiropractical,” as it grew from the single tune.

“I’ve always loved trying to combine the two (music and comedy) and what the show really needed was an arc,” Jester said.

“Mixing them wasn’t that big of a problem.”

This plot arc, which was largely synthesized last summer, centers around

the character of Stephen (a chiropractor played by Jester) moving to a small Wisconsin town that’s home to a greedy massage chair salesman (played

by Tyler Buglewicz). For Jester, writing his own character, which “wasn’t a stretch” for the actordirector, wasn’t nearly as eye-opening as composing parts for friends and fellow students.

“The cool thing was that the show was all cast when I wrote the music, so I could tailor it to the vocal ranges of people I knew,” Jester said. “I wanted to write something good for everybody – that people would be proud of singing.”

According to junior vocal performance major Natalie Manner, who played Mrs. Chapman (the wife of the town’s resident wealthy old man), Jester more than achieved this goal. “‘Chiropractical’ was really fun to be a part of as long as you were willing to put yourself out there and go outside your comfort zone,” she said.

And though the final products are far different, Jester ascribes much of his success in composing “Chiropractical” to the

songwriting already under his belt w i t h the local band, Second Wind. The band released their debut album at a Knickerbockers show early in the summer.

“I got my songwriting and musical chops from writing and playing my own music with Second Wind,” Jester said. “Now, I was able to explore a lot of different styles writing this musical, which was good for me.”

The diversity in genre was something that, as a performer, Manner found both challenging and worthwhile.

“I had a rap song that I was a part of, which was outside of my box,” Manner said. “But it was really fun and great to get to do that for a friend.”

While “Chiropractical” is just the tip of the iceberg for this burgeoning talent, the musical’s three-night run was something of a send-off for Jester, who’s transferring to Columbia College in Chicago at the

start of this semester. The private arts college offers specific programs in improvisation and comedy that UNL does not.

“I’ve had a really awesome experience at UNL,” Jester said. “But I wanted to pursue some specific areas.”

So while Nick Jester will continue his studies and extracurricular writing away from his native Lincoln, UNL students might do well to remember the name. We might read it in the lights one day. chancesolem-pfeifer@ dailynebraskan.com

A nearly sold-out crowd shared laughs and plenty of “hap-penis” last week at the Haymarket Theatre’s world premier of “Chiropractical.”

The musical, written by Nick Jester, who just finished his second year as a University of Nebraska-Lincoln vocal performance major, is pure camp. The narrative thrust is slight, but the laughs are plenty, which thereby justifies its existence.

At its core, “Chiropractical” is a boy-meets-girl story, though it has plenty of added layers of wackiness. In addition to writing and directing, Jester stars as Stephen, a young chiropractor fresh out of college. Middleton, Wis., becomes his new home, where he can start a new freelance chiropractic business. Stephen moves into his uncle Jeff’s (Kyle T. Lorenz) garage and sets up his office.

Much of the humor of “Chiropractical” can be described as either awkward or off the wall. Sometimes, it’s both.

From the opening scene of Stephen giving his shirtless uncle a massage, the goodnatured and humorous homoeroticism begins.

Stephen falls for an artist, Ellie (Calandra Daby), and the two quickly plan a date in spite of our hero’s twisted tongue. Matters are complicated by Ellie’s father, Rod (Tyler Buglewicz), a conniving massage chair salesman.

Rod sees Stephen’s fledgling practice as a threat and tries to keep him from the well-to-do Ernest Chapman (Adam Fieldson), an elderly man with back problems.

Rod also promises to withhold funding for Ellie’s art school if she continues to see the chiropractor.

If there is any downside to “Chiropractical,” it might be that its success would be hard to recreate elsewhere. Jester directs his cast with a great affection for musical theatre, knowing what can make it so inadvertently funny. His warped vision is well translated into every aspect of the show.

Highlights include the showstopping tunes “She Would Want Me to be an AHole,” which plays with the tropes of staging a dance

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Summer music Don’t lose yourself in college suggestions excavation worth it Noah Ballard daily nebraskan

As I sit on the aging wood patio of the quintessential New Jersey beach house where my family has spent our final days of summer these past few years — this being the final summer punctuation of my undergraduate career — I find myself reflecting on the notion of time and wisdom and knowledge and how they are completely unrelated.

Writers have always been trying to quantify college, supposedly with the best intentions of informing a younger generation about the complexity of throwing a bunch of young people together and telling them to think hard and try not to get too many people

pregnant. Yet no one has adequately done so. Never fear, though: I haven’t either. Not in this column or in anything I’ve previously written. That’s getting into the whole “time and wisdom” part of this equation.

Beyond the musings of the late David Foster Wallace (most notably his “This Is Water” commencement speech to Kenyon College some years ago) or even, and more literarily trendy, Bret Easton Ellis (found in the multi-narrator, stream-o’-consciousness morality tale “The Rules of Attraction”) the beginning of a new semester is a clean slate not only for last year’s recipe for academic inertia — two parts coffee, one part the vices you hide from your parents, shake with horniness for relative strangers, serve over the emotions I didn’t know I’d frozen — but also for everything accomplished.

But we’re back, dammit.

Back to yet another fall semester that finds so many unique (read: exactly the same) individuals in a very similar (read:

completely different) state of transition. For some reason, we feel that this university is necessary in our lives, and we’ve amplified these expectations with dreams of getting laid and getting a whole lot of money for our degrees.

Can I say that I miss the dorms? Certainly not the beefed-up dorms of Abel or Sandoz. I don’t need to come home to a hotel that I wouldn’t be able to afford if it looked as remodeled and refurbished and redone as those towers of ignorant ambitions. The babble I miss is that of connecting over the fact that our parents could never live like this, they can’t go back, and there’s freedom in that.

There’s freedom in no longer having to ask to go to the bathroom, to smoke a cigarette, to show up at all. These classrooms will become interchangeable and meaningless memories of classes that meant everything or were merely a

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My favorite part of summer vacation is the extra time we, as students, have on our hands.

Even with taking summer courses and having a few jobs, I was lucky enough to find the time to go through my music library and really give an honest listen to what populated its depths. I realized I own a ton of music I don’t actually listen to. Most of us have those albums we buy for one or two songs, and I encourage you to take a listen to the rest of that album. What you find might impress you more than what you expect. Here’s what I spun this summer.

Iron Chic: “Not Like This” I was turned on to Long Island natives Iron Chic by a tweet from Connecticutbased illustrator, Rob Dobi. He tweeted the link to their BandCamp page, stating very simply “these guys are the best.”

I would trust the opinion of

the creator of yourscenesucks.com with my life (I am a very trusting person) and I agree with his judgement. Iron Chic’s album opens up with a belligerent anthem “Cutesy Monster Man” and the opening lyrics “I wanna smash my face / Into that goddamn radio / I know that it seems strange / But these urges come and go” speak to something edgy indeed. The mixture of gang and harmony vocals is wonderful, reminiscent of Oklahoma’s “Over Stars and Gutters,” as well as Hot Water Music.

The mixture of rough vocals with an easy-going pop punk sound is absolutely wonderful. I love every single second of this album, even the goofy synth and samples. “Not Like This” is available for free on the group’s BandCamp page, however, I would throw them a couple bucks because it’s more than worth it. It’s inyour-face, honest punk rock at it’s absolute finest (even with goofy titles). If you don’t do anything, listen to “Cutesy Monster Man” and “Timecop”

— easily the best tracks on that album.

Katy Perry: “Teenage Dream” Let’s get one thing straight: Every self-respecting gay man has a diva. Unfortunately, for most nowadays, this means Lady Gaga (if she even is a lady). However, this boy loves him some Katy Perry. And yes, I have “Teenage Dream” on my iPod and, yes, I listen to it often. The vast majority of this album is extremely crude and thinly veiled sexual innuendos (“I wanna see our peacock.”

I wonder what she means by that?) However, there are some wonderful gems on this record that haven’t been released as singles. Mostly, I am in love with the song “Pearl.”

This track tells the story of a girl who had all the potential to be an amazing woman, but thanks to a domineering relationship she remains in a shell.

Unlike most, this song doesn’t

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Film’s musings on universe impress cameron mount DAILY NEBRASKAN

Chilean documentary film director Patricio Guzmán has no problem tackling lofty scopes and unanswerable questions.

His new film, “Nosalgia for the Light,” not only tackles the origin of the cosmos, the intricacies of human perception and the hidden tragedies of his nation’s past, but also looks to show how these concepts are intimately interconnected.

That kind of ambition is likely to result in either vague generalities or impossible complexity, but Guzmán somehow pulls it off. “Nostalgia for the Light” is a deeply poetic film that knows its limits, conveying powerful ideas without overwhelming or insulting its audience.

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home to the Atacama Desert, the driest on Earth. With its utter lack of humidity and great distance from any major city, it offers one of the best views of the sky possible. His interviews with local residents suggest that celestial awe and inspiration are integral parts of their community. The massive, stateof-the-art observation and telescope sites demonstrate this as well — a bond with the sky that is as cultural as it is scientific.

A good chunk of the film involves conversations with experts and scientists, but there’s surprisingly less technical information than I expected. The scientists are first class, but Guzmán is more interested in capturing moments where the scientists become caught up in child-like excitement and fervency.

One of the most memorable scenes involves a scientist explaining that everything we see is in the past, whether due to telescopic distance, the time it takes the light from an object to reflect back to us, or the time it takes our brains to process and react to our perceptions.

There is so much genuine wonder in the scientist’s explanation that he can barely contain himself. You’ll likely find just as many impressive facts from a Discovery Channel special, but this is expert filmmaking capturing something more.

The Atacama Desert is also important, because it was the dumping ground for murdered political prisoners during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1970s. A good third of the film specifically looks at this tragedy, with heart-wrenching accounts of concentration camps and survivors still searching the desert for their loved one’s remains. In one particularly searing scene, a woman recounts finding her husband’s detached foot, shoe still on many years later, and the closure it finally brought her.

When it became clear that this political crisis was becoming the backbone of the film, I was skeptical. So much of the movie is about the vastness of the universe and our place in it as an imperceptible blip. Grand photos of nebulas and open sky abound, against discussions of concepts like infinity and

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the speed of light. Driving home the significance of human tragedy and our insignificance in the scheme of things without belittling either is an audacious goal.

Because of this, the film was on some shaky ground for a while until it made its full case. There is a chunk of time when the idea behind Guzmán’s vision that everything is interconnected is there, but you don’t believe he can realize that vision in a truly sincere or fulfilling way.

CHIROPRACTICAL A main theme of the film is Written by Nick Jester that despite our far-reaching Haymarket Theater and extensive efforts to understand the origin of the universe, we (Chile, specifiGrade to open cally) are reluctant up our immediate past and come to terms with humanity’s wrongs.

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connection, is that it remains neutral. Never does he imply that Chile has a more significant bond with the cosmos than anyone else, or that we should be ashamed for so easily forgetting the injustices done in Chile. Guzmán takes a decidedly poetic approach, using metaphor and musings on memory and relations to craft much more universal, and obviously very personal to the filmmaker.

Adding more solid facts

to take away and learn from may have helped the film have a longer-lasting impression, but what Guzmán evokes is more admirable and exceedingly more rare.

Complete with stunning cinematography and beautiful shots of both space and land, “Nostalgia for the Light” shows that humane sincerity can fulfill the most sprawling and cosmic of visions.

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Yes, it’s all a rite of some sort, obscured by the transience, the wandering around inadvertently that I never expected.

But that’s perspective, if even in the most forced way possible. And when a writer like myself is assigned the arduous and ultimately masturbatory exercise of putting together a piece of work to help freshmen (or sophomores who got locked in their rooms for eight months) and the like acclimate themselves to a completely alien society of loosened morals and disturbing values, it’s difficult not to laugh, if only to myself, as an outsider still.

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or the airport. As Dan Savage has been repeating, ad nauseum since the tragic events at Rutgers last September (in my home state, of course), it gets better. Let me think about that bold statement for a moment here, and then I’ll have another cigarette and keep writing.

No. Maybe not immediately.

I can recall my first weeks here with mild regret, but mostly embarrassment — it’s a feeling of utter nakedness, wandering around dorm halls, dining halls, illegitimate frat parties, praying to see someone familiar from high school.

That’s the worst part: the longing for a comfortable misery.

That’s what high school is, and those still pretending they had a good time are exceptionally deluded once they’ve gotten a taste of collegiate freedom.

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It’s OK if you realize it going in, even though you won’t.

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After last year’s Local Filmmakers Showcase at Omaha’s Film Streams let the cat out of the bag on Nebraska directorial talent, a follow-up performance seemed like a no-brainer.

The second showcase of local short films will begin this Friday with an opening-night premiere and post-party, which all seven directors of this year’s selected entries are set to attend. The seven films, which play daily in a 105-minute marathon, will continue to run at the Ruth Sokolof Theater in Omaha through Aug. 25.

This year’s collection is strongly varied, comprised of a portrait of a female wrestling champion, a music video from Omaha’s Thunder Power, a profile of mental illness and a stop-motion capture of a rattlesnake race. The 2011 selection

jury has gifted this year’s audience with an eclectic ensemble that Film Streams director/ founder, Rachel Jacobson, said she can’t wait to see on the big screen.

“It is really exciting to see the diversity of the filmmakers, the diversity of the films,” she said.

“Appreciating film is so subjective and though I’d like to think there’s a fundamental idea of what makes a good film, it’s certainly different for everyone.”

Jacobson has no doubt after last year’s showing that the variation in 2011’s field will yield tangible audience interest before, during and after the premiere.

“Last year the opening had just phenomenal energy, and it’s funny because you have conversations with people afterward and everybody has a different favorite,” she said.

“We’ll have succeeded if all of the films get mentioned by

someone.”

One of the most talked-about films set to run this Friday is “Irma” by Charles Fairbanks, a biography of legendary Mexican wrestling champion Irma Gonzalez. In profiling this Mexican icon, one of Fairbanks’ most deeply held convictions was objectivity, despite his familiarity with Irma, whom he now calls a friend.

“I wanted to tell the story in a way that allows it to be complex,” Fairbanks said. “All of us are more complex than can really be represented in a film or book, so things are hinted at that are beyond the borders of the movie.”

Fairbanks, a former collegiate wrestler at Stanford, met Gonzalez while training in a Mexico City gym. Yet it was a different commonality that brought the director and his subject together and allowed Fairbanks to see Gonzalez as more than just an athlete.

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“In this piece it was important that I was a wrestler but also an artist,” Fairbanks said. “When I met Irma, I introduced myself as a wrestler and filmmaker and she introduced herself as a wrestler and singer. That was our special connection from the beginning.”

In Jacobson’s estimation, one of the greatest, but unintended, consequences of this showcase has been the formation of “a meeting place for the film community.”

As a notable member of this community, Fairbanks — whose work will be appearing

albums: from 9 seem over-produced. Perry’s performance comes off as genuine. At the end of the song, she relays that this girl was indeed herself. She states in the final track that if love isn’t like it is in the movies then you’re doing something right. Yes. I love this album. It’s wonderful. And “Firework” may be the greatest gay anthem since “Express Yourself” by Madonna.

Sum 41: “Half Hour of Power” This summer I went back to my roots. This was the very first album I bought, way back when I was in sixth grade, right before “Fat Lip,” the song that made the four-piece famous and became a staple to middle school dances everywhere.

“Half Hour of Power” is exactly that: a half hour of power. One of the greatest moments in Sum 41 history occurs on this album.

About two and a half minutes into their ninth song they go into the original version of “It’s What We’re All About,” a song remade for the first Spiderman movie. Much like “Fat Lip,” it’s an experiment in rap and rock.

However, the second verse is performed by the original white rapper, Vanilla Ice. I shit you not. The songs “Makes No Difference” and “What I Believe” cemented the Canadian band in the history of pop-punk innovation. Nowadays they stray toward metal and punk, which works for them. However to see them at their beginning is a must for anyone who remotely ever cared about Sum 41. They will always remain on my top five favorite bands list.

enigma. When I first started listening to this album, I loved it. Despite my moshing tendencies, I am at the end of the day a music lover in general. There is a lot of bad rap and hip-hop out there. Atmosphere isn’t an emcee; he’s an artist and, musically speaking, this album was amazingly produced. The beats are more original and interesting than Kanye and Ratatat combined. Atmosphere is not afraid to sing, but unlike Eminem, he doesn’t suck at it. Atmosphere, at his core, is a storyteller. His lyrics tell both his own stories, as well as the stories of others.

Track 14, “The Waitress,” will remain one of my absolute favorite songs ever. An amazing funky flute riff mixed with the drums/beat-boxing tells the story of a homeless man and his interactions with a local waitress. The first time I heard the song, I was walking to school.

In the middle of an intersection, the ending made me stop dead in my tracks. This Minneapolis hip-hop is legit.

Less Than Jake: “B is for B-Sides” It’s an entire album comprised of B-Sides (the songs that don’t quite make the album cuts). For a band that’s been around for almost 20 years, it

makes sense. And these songs are almost better than anything that made it onto their other albums (a stretch, seeing as these guys are an amazing group of Floridians). “National Anthem” and “Goodbye to Gasoline” are among my favorite anthems of youthful change. It’s amazing that these guys have been around as long as they have and I’m still able to identify with their messages. “My American dream is to have it / A little better than my parents ever had it.” I feel like that’s a sentiment shared by many people my age; I know for a fact it’s mine. If you’re a fan of Less Than Jake, or if you are a fan of the Tony Hawk game franchise, do yourself a favor and pick up this album. It’s a modest representation of an almost 20-year ska career in one album.

The Swellers: “My Everest” My first encounter with The Swellers was when I played a show with them at the now-defunct music venue in Papillion, Neb., The Rock. Back then they were just releasing this album, “My Everest.” Since that time, they’ve signed with Fueled By Ramen (a record label created

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Boy in their catalogue), and they’ve released two albums with them. However, it’s “My Everest” that will always bring me back. My entire college experience has involved me walking to school and listening to “Bottles” at at least one point in my commute. These kids are from Flint, Mich., and they experienced the economic strife harder than most everyone in the United States. With a roller coaster of analogies, these guys have some of the most meaningful lyrics in punk rock. Their latest album, “Good For Me,” was just released by Fueled

by Ramen. For a lot of bands, you can’t say that they truly deserve success. The Swellers is a notable exception in my eyes.

They are easily some of the nicest guys I’ve ever met (they even still recognize me as “that guy from The Lucky Losers”) and they deserve every ounce of support, respect and success they get. Plus, their music kicks your music’s ass.

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The University of NebraskaLincoln’s Residence Hall Association says “yes” to free food and a movie as the weekend of Big Red Welcome begins.

RHA, UNL’s student-run residence hall government, will host a free outdoor screening of “Yes Man” tonight as its kickoff event for the 2011-2012 school year. The event will

begin at 9 p.m. at Mabel Lee Fields by 16th and W streets, with the actual screening beginning at 9:30 p.m. Tonight’s food-and-film gathering will mark the first time RHA has hosted a large-scale event before the start of classes.

It’s an event RHA hopes will provide not only free entertainment, but a chance for incoming freshmen to bond with floormates.

“It’s an opportunity to meet

new students and establish a community within the halls,” said Kevin Rush, a senior special education major and RHA president.

“Yes Man,” a 2008 comedy starring Jim Carrey as Carl, is about a man whose friends have noticed his new negative attitude since his divorce.

Carl attends a seminar and decides to say “yes” to every opportunity, an idea complicated by his love interest, Allison, portrayed by Zooey Deschanel. “Yes Man” is notable for Nebraskans, especially Lincolnites, because the crew shot some scenes in Lincoln.

The film also features both staged and real footage of a

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open,” Rush said. “It’s a great place for the event because if people don’t hear about the event, they will walk by and maybe attend.”

In addition to the movie, attendees will also receive free food and drink. The first 100 to arrive also get a free RHA mug, which is the only container approved for taking drinks out of dining halls.

In previous years, RHA has held off from hosting largescale events like this before the first week of classes.

However, circumstances this year allowed the organization to plan a big event that would introduce students to RHA immediately. The executive board for this year was elected and began work last spring, and summer interns were able to assist with planning while other members were absent. Because of this, the association was able to finish parts of planning even before students left for summer.

With the extra planning time, RHA could participate in a large-scale welcome event for the first time. Rush said he thinks the event will tie in well with Big Red Welcome.

“The purpose of Big Red Welcome is to welcome new students,” he said. “This goes after the same goal.”

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Rush said both RHA and Big Red Welcome expose students to organizations, get them acclimated with campus and give them a chance to meet new people.

RHA is working toward more collaboration with other organizations as well. In setting goals for this school year, the group decided to increase collaboration with the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, UNL’s student government body. Rush said the two groups have not worked together much in the past, but bringing them closer gives students in residence halls more input on university policy.

RHA plans to work more closely with the National Residence Hall Honorary, an organization that recognizes residence halls’ student leaders, staff, residence directors and others.

The group has other goals as well. They want to expand their mug program, so students have more options in the dining halls, as well as the Third Thursday program, which puts on a large-scale event every month. Rush said the “Yes Man” screening, as the first resident hall event this year, will help introduce both.

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KFRX hosts ‘Survivor’ contest inside bus

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(Left to right) Chris German, a senior forensic science major, Chelsea Lopez, a senior natural science major, and Hillary Davis Jr., a junior family science major, explore a contest prize on Aug. 17, 2011. a picture. Fortunately with Maricia Guzman see and hear new technology we will have daily nebraskan live webcams and videos on if you want to tune in: In the early morning hours our website of the competi106.3 KFRX yesterday, a handful of brave tion that listeners can check if you want to watch: students returned to the Uni- out.

Bus parked north of versity of Nebraska-Lincoln DN: What kinds of condithe Nebraska Union campus, not to move into the tions are the students living in dorms, but into a bus. for five days?

Students entered in the Lindsey: The bus is just a five days doesn’t seem that Tuition Mission School Bus bus that the kids have to sleep challenging, but when you’re Survivor competition will and live in. The kids can earn actually out there doing it, it enter the vehicle, parked to pillows, blankets and shower can get really tough. We see the north of the Nebraska privileges through the daily friends backstab friends and Union, with little more than challenges, but they can only all the sides of the particia change of clothes and their use those if they earn them. pants, good and bad. People toothbrushes. Their objective They also are not allowed to think this is a cute little radio will be to live on the bus for use their cellphones unless if contest, but it gets tough and five days, in addition to com- it’s during one of their breaks. it’s real. But we also see a lot peting in physical challenges It can also get very hot during of really good friendships and and other activities. Their the competition and the bus bonds that come out of the prize should they succeed: is not air conditioned. In the competition.

DN: Why should people free tuition and books for an past it has gotten up to 115 entire year. degrees, but this year it’s ex- stop in to watch on such a busy weekend?

This year’s sixth annual pected to be in the mid-80s.

MM: This competition is all competition, which includes DN: What kinds of chalcontenders ranging from in- lenges do they have to par- about the love, the anger, the frustration and the challenge. coming freshmen to seniors, ticipate in? coincides with Big Red WelL: We can’t disclose chal- It’s really entertaining and a come weekend activities. The lenge information, but this lot of fun to be involved with. winner will be announced in year we are using a reality TV Out-sit, out-smart and outlast. a final ceremony at the Big show theme. So the challeng- That’s what Tuition Mission Red Welcome Sunday night. es could be based on things School Bus Survivor is all Students can follow the like “Top Chef,” “American about. mariciaguzman@ competition daily by tuning Idol” or “Project Runway.” dailynebraskan.com into radio station 106.3 KFRX. There are also surprise physiThey can also watch the com- cal challenges and workouts petition as it occurs live in the that the kids have to particibus outside the union. pate in.

The Daily Nebraskan DN: How do people get caught up with Matt McKay eliminated? and Lindsey, hosts of KFRX’s L: They can be eliminated in Matt McKay Morning Show, various ways, mostly through for the lowdown on the com- not winning challenges or petition that will provide its breaking rules.” winning student with free DN: Do you think there are academics. any strategies to winning?

Daily Nebraskan: What was MM: Lately we’ve seen a lot the original idea behind the of students trying to get the School Bus Survivor chal- strong, athletic people elimiNOSTALGIA lenge? nated first, so if youFOR fit that Matt McKay: I created description, THE LIGHT you better watch the competition because I out.

Directed by Patricio Guzmán thought it would be cool to DN: Are there any heartMary Riepma Ross have a reality radio show breaking moments during the contest that involved the stu- competition? dents.

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Some of the jokes are puns.

Some are tired, like “Someday Your Prints Will Come,” though others are funny, such as the show opening with an “overchair.”

Perhaps the most crowdpleasing number is found in Act 2, a rousing, or perhaps — arousing — song, “Happiness.” Uncle Jeff’s friends encourage him to find his inner hap-penis, a lighthearted number that had the whole crowd clapping along.

Jester carefully crafted the atmosphere for the whole evening. Before the show, the chiropractic bed awaited in the lobby, offering massages for a free-will donation.

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football: from 18 better, they’re more experienced with it and they picked it up fast and they’re handling it pretty well,” Pelini said early on in the team’s fall camp.

Pelini has seen four Husker defenses come through fall camp in as many years, giving the 46-year-old coach units to compare with this year’s.

“We’re probably a week ahead of where we’ve ever been at this point,” Pelini said.

He confirmed that the entire defensive package has been installed, allowing the defense to tweak smaller issues that it hasn’t been able to address in the past until

game week.

The quick progression may come as a surprise to some, knowing the Huskers are dealing with scheme changes in anticipation of Nebraska’s debut against tough, running Big Ten offenses.

Experience, or lack thereof, hasn’t played a role, Pelini noted.

“It was amazing, just day one how advanced we were,” he said. “Just from the summer drills and the veterans coaching the young guys through those drills and the knowledge of our coverages and our blitz packages.”

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soccer: from 18 “We want to make the NCAA Tournament,” Goetzmann said.

“We also want to make a deep run in that tournament in order to exceed expectations.”

The Huskers are projected to finish seventh in the Big Ten this season according to the coaches’ preseason poll.

Goetzmann said that the team doesn’t care about the polls.

“Those people can think what they want to think,” Goetzmann said. “We are just going to keep on doing what we’re doing and not worry about that.”

One thing that Nebraska needs to adjust to, according to Stevens, is the physicality of the play in the Big Ten. “The Big Ten is a lot more physical than the Big 12,” Stevens said. “It is new for us, but we are accepting the challenge and loving the fact that we will be having new competition.”

NU enters the 2011 season with a roster that includes 17 underclassmen, eight of them being freshmen. This has led to some growing pains, Goetzmann said, but she has seen progress so far.

“We have to be harder on the younger players because we expect a lot of them,” Goetzmann

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said. “We need them to do a lot because they are more than half the team.

“A bright side to having so many underclassmen, though, is they bring a lot of energy.”

Nebraska also returns its top goal scorer from a year ago in junior Morgan Marlborough.

She led the Huskers with 18 goals and 48 points, which were fourth and second in the nation, respectively, in 2010.

Marlborough is also on the 42-player watch list for the Hermann Trophy, given to the nation’s top player, for the second straight year.

The junior and her teammates will host No. 5 North Carolina and Baylor this weekend to open up the season.

Both of the teams will prove to be a tough test for NU after losing to Baylor a year ago and the Tar Heels being fresh off a deep run at the NCAA Tournament.

“We expect everyone on our team to come out and compete,” Goetzmann said. “Both teams are really physical and we need to come out there and out-physical them to set a tone for the rest of the season.”

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volleyball: from 18 have to get used to playing home games for Nebraska.

We want the girls to get out there and compete, mesh well and lock down our prematch routine. And not get injured.”

One of those newbies is California native Lara Dykstra, the favorite to replace three-plus year starter Kayla Banwarth at libero heading into the scrimmage. While still a freshman, Dykstra arrived at NU in January, leading the team to refer to this year’s freshman class as “Lara and the Newbies.”

“Coming early has been very beneficial to me,” Dykstra said. “I feel like I’ve been here a long time. Some (of the girls on the team) say they don’t even consider me a freshman anymore.”

Still, outside of a couple of games this spring, Dykstra

hasn’t had much experience playing in front of the NU faithful.

“It’ll be such a relief for the season to start,” she said. “I mean, I have a decent amount of confidence in myself, but I’ve never played in a real season for Nebraska. I can’t wait to start.”

Neither can Root, who has assumed a mantle of leadership since being elected cocaptain. “(The captaincy) wasn’t something that I lobbied for, but it was a goal of mine,” Root said. “I mean, these past few years I haven’t been one of the major players on the court, but to have the opportunity to be a sort of role model, a girl the younger girls can go to, is huge for me. This obviously

is a huge year in the history of Nebraska volleyball and I can’t wait for it to start so I can help however I can.”

But Meske cautions fans expecting to see as finely polished a team as appeared at the Red-White game last season.

“With all of the returning starters we had last season, plus our trip to China, we definitely hit practice running a little more than we did this year,” he said. “This year was more of a fresh start.”

During this “fresh start,” the coaching staff has gone over more of the basic principles of NU volleyball, going more in depth on its rotations — which has changed from a 6-2 to a 5-1 this season — and its tactics. Root liked the “square one” she

said the team started from this season, saying it has led to more camaraderie among the girls and believes it will have the team peaking at the right time: this winter, in the NCAA Tournament.

With NU having reached the top 16 of the tournament for the last 17 years in a row, a deep run is not really even a hope anymore — it’s become an expectation. The American Volleyball Coaches Association seems to find an 18th year in a row a safe bet, as it ranked NU 5th in the nation and second in the Big Ten, behind only

top-ranked Penn State.

And the team has every intention of meeting those expectations and possibly surpassing them.

“There’s a lot of Big Ten talk and Penn State talk, and there certainly will be a lot of challenges this season,” Root said. “But, if this team plays as well as it can, we can compete against anybody — even Penn State — and show ‘em what Nebraska’s made of.”

But first, it’s time to show those die-hard fans that have filled the Coliseum to capacity 148 times in a row

This obviously is a huge year in the history of Nebraska volleyball and I can’t wait for it to start so I can help however I can.

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“I can’t wait,” Dykstra said. “It’s going to be a great game for us and a great time for the fans.” seanwhalen@ dailynebraskan.com

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New players. New Coaches. A new system. Nebraska fans will get a first look at the 2011 Huskers at the Red-White game this weekend at the NU Coliseum story by sean whalen

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h e n Bridgette Root and the rest of the Nebraska volleyball team learned that tickets for all of NU’s 16 home games at the NU Coliseum had sold out in under half an hour, the level of fan support had them shocked.

“It blew our minds,” Root said. The senior co-captain added, “I mean, we’ve always had incredible fan support, 4,000 fans at every game. But for them all to sell that fast? Crazy.”

Root shouldn’t have been that surprised. After all, she had seen the crowds outside the Nebraska ticket office herself, having arrived at 7 a.m. with fellow cocaptain Jordan Wilberger to hand out donuts to waiting fans. Why were so many out there at the crack of dawn on a Tuesday?

It’s simple: with the move to the Big Ten, NU volleyball has never been hotter. Heading into the Red-White scrimmage that will unofficially kick off the 2011 season Saturday night, keeping the fans happy is first and foremost in Root’s mind.

“As much as they support us, we just want to go out there and give them their money’s worth,” she said.

“And with this group, that’s a very, very real possibility.”

While keeping the fans happy is always nice, new assistant coach Dan Meske’s greatest hope is a bit less altruistic: he wants to make sure his team — several key contributors who have little playing experience — is ready for the pressure of playing at the Coliseum.

“First, and foremost, this is a dress rehearsal,” Meske said. “A lot of the newbies, as we call them, file photo

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NU opens season against UNC Andrew ward daily nebraskan

On Friday afternoon, there will be a wave of baby blue rolling into Lincoln, as No. 5 North Carolina will visit the Nebraska Soccer Field.

Welcome to the 2011 season of Nebraska women’s soccer. It probably won’t get much easier this fall.

NU will enter the Big Ten Conference this season — a conference that had six of its 10 teams make the NCAA Tournament in 2010, including a national semifinalist in Ohio State.

This season’s Big Ten looks just as strong with four teams in the nation’s top 30, headed by Ohio State at No. 10.

However, the Huskers have already been tested by a competitive preseason, which included a match against No. 2 and defending national champion Notre Dame.

“The difficulty of the games are good for us, especially early and before the season,” sophomore goalkeeper Emma Stevens said. “We now know where we need to be in order to succeed later in the year.”

The 2011 squad is more motivated than ever, according to Stevens, to show its worth not only in its new conference but also across the nation.

“We are motivated this year because we didn’t achieve our goals last season,” Stevens said. “We are working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”

It is not only a goal to make the NCAA Tournament this season, an accomplishment that Nebraska failed to reach in 2010, but senior midfielder Katie Goetzmann said that the Huskers want to make a deep run into the tournament.

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Starling signs with Royals, Dennard hurt

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Starling picks baseball Keeping up with Starling.

Bubba Watch. Whatever it may have been called, it ended Monday night.

Taking on a more concentrated anticipation than

that of Lebron James’ “The Decision,” Starling’s choice to sign with the Kansas City Royals reached Husker fans Monday.

The Gardner Edgerton standout essentially waited until the last minute Monday

before locking down a three-year contract to the tune of $7.5 million.

One of the headlining members of Nebraska’s 2010 football recruiting class, the 19-year-old Starling would have suited up at quarterback had he attended the University of NebraskaLincoln, playing baseball as well.

It became apparent last winter that Starling would have a looming decision ahead of him. In June, the multi-sport athlete was drafted fifth overall by the Royals, a team that plays less than 30 minutes from Starling’s home.

Husker coaches remained supportive of Starling’s situation throughout fall camp.

NU offensive coordinator Tim Beck offered words of support hours before news of Starling’s decision broke.

“We’re supporting whatever he does,” Beck said.

“He is such a great young man and comes from a great family. Whatever he does, we’re behind him all the way.”

Starling enrolled in two summer classes at UNL in July, living on campus while taking part in player organized workouts.

He also took part in Nebraska’s annual Fan Day on Aug. 6, signing autographs and taking pictures with Husker faithful.

The 6-foot-5, 193-pound athlete never attended a Husker practice, agreeing with the coaching staff that he would work out on his own while attending classes.

Despite never taking a fall snap, the recruit had a spot reserved on the team’s 105man fall roster.

While many Husker fans were disappointed with the news, NU coach Bo Pelini released a statement on Monday evening supporting the Kansas native.

“In the end, Bubba was in a win-win situation regardless of his choice, and we respect the decision he has made,” Pelini said.

An Ohio native, Pelini later shared words about conditionally supporting Starling from here forward.

“I personally will root for Bubba in every game, except when he plays against the Indians,” Pelini said.

Dennard sits out practice with leg injury Last year, Prince Amukamara and Alfonzo Dennard

composed what many thought to be college football’s top cornerback tandem.

Today, Amukamara, the New York Giant who was the 19th overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, is out indefinitely after fracturing a bone in his left foot while his former cohort (Dennard) now too has Husker fans hoping for the best after sitting out of Wednesday’s practice due to an apparent leg injury.

“It’s a pulled muscle,” NU coach Bo Pelini said. “He’s doing a lot better than we thought he would right now. He’s doing better.”

When pressed about a specific timetable for the injury or whether it could affect Dennard’s availability in the team’s season opener with UT-Chattanooga on Sep. 3, Pelini remained uncertain.

“It could be two days, it could be 10 days ... I don’t know. I don’t think the trainers know. I don’t think anybody knows. It’s just how quickly his leg responds, simple as that.”

Dennard enters this fall as one of the nation’s premier defensive backs and one of the most vital impact players on the Husker defense.

I personally will root for Bubba in every game, except when he plays against the Indians” Bo pelini

nebraska football coach

The 5-foot-10 senior has had a big offseason in terms of profile and publicity being named to the watch lists for the Bednarik Award, the Thorpe Award, and the Nagurski Trophy in addition to currently being considered a consensus projected firstround draft pick.

Husker defense off and rolling It’s not entirely uncommon to see a defensive unit outperforming the offense this early in fall camp.

That theory didn’t keep Nebraska defensive coordinator Carl Pelini from singing the praise of NU defenders at the beginning of fall camp.

“They know the system

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