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STUDENT FEES FOR TRANSIT SERVICES EXPECTED TO INCREASE NEXT YEAR Current student fee for Transit Service = nearly $16 (a fee all students must pay per semester)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln student fees for bus transportation are expected to increase next year to pay for an extended busing contract between StarTran and the university, officials say. Dan Carpenter, director of Parking and Transit Services, said the expected increase results from the university’s decision to extend its three-year contract with StarTran Bus Service to a five-year contract. Carpenter said UNL made the change to save money on its

transit services past the initial five-year contract. The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senators will recommend fee changes to the Committee for Fees Allocation next spring. The new contract doesn’t come without costs. Parking services must now replace half its bus fleet and then replace the remaining buses during the next four years, Carpenter said. They also lost four bus drivers because of the contract change. Carpenter said contract-

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Big Red Welcome attracts students, showcases clubs photos by bethany schmidt emily nitcher dn

Sydne Eriksen zig-zagged through the mass of humanity during Big Red Welcome in the pursuit of one thing: free swag. Armed with a giant bag, the freshman pre-health major was ready for any and everything. Turning to her fellow freshmen Lucero Garcia, a Spanish and biology major, and Shannon Olson, a pre-nursing major she said, “I hope you’re ready. We’re getting a little crazy.” They approached the first stop hesitantly, collecting a lanyard from Sustain UNL. They canvassed the street, moving quickly from one booth to the next, whenever free stuff caught

their eyes. They spun the wheel at Planned Parenthood, answered questions with the Spanish Club, threw water balloons with the National Guard and played Four Square with the Newman Warren Parish United Methodist Church. Mostly, Eriksen just shoved things in her bag. “I don’t even know what I’m grabbing, but I’m putting it in my bag,” Eriksen said. According to Eriksen, the jackpot is finding things normally requiring payment. Initially, Eriksen was guarded with her information, not wanting to give out her email address. “I don’t want people emailing me about stuff I don’t care about,”

Housing makes move-in smooth Thanks to extra help, UNL newcomers say check-in process is ‘smooth sailing’ Daniel Wheaton Dn Four flights of stairs and a sudden storm made the move-in process more difficult than expected for freshman actuarial science major Jacob Poots and his family Thursday morning. But his father, Jeff Poots, was unfazed by the challenge. “It’s been smooth sailing for us,” Jeff Poots said. “The university has done a good job making everything more user friendly.” Jacob Poots was one of thousands of students from across the state and the globe who made the move to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus this weekend. Jeff Poots can still remember his own move into Cather Hall in the ’70s, but he said he had a lot less help from University Housing at the time. “We’d just park in a lot and truck our stuff up (into Cather),” Jeff Poots said. “Now you have all of these people to help the whole thing go by.” The family arrived early Thursday morning to beat the crowd. Poots was moving into Neihardt Hall, the only residence hall on campus without elevator access throughout the building. Instead, the Poots family had to lift all of the freshman’s possessions up four flights of stairs in the Piper wing. The freshman’s older sister lived in Piper as well when she was a freshman. The Poots family lifted a new futon into Neihardt before a storm

Garcia laughs as Eriksen misses a catch during a water balloon toss sponsored by the Nebraska National Guard at Big Red Welcome on Sunday. she said. Big Red Welcome gave the freshmen the opportunity to see just what UNL has to offer. A stop at the soap-carving booth was surprising for them. “Soap carving? I didn’t know that was a real thing. Keep on keeping on,” Eriksen said. The enormity of Big Red Welcome made Eriksen, who graduated from a small high school in Kansas, realize just how big UNL is. “It makes me nervous. Really nervous,” said Eriksen, who left with her bag filled to the brim. Er-

drenched people trying to move in on Thursday. Once inside, Oscar Orellana, a junior accounting major and Poots’ resident assistant, handed Jacob the appropriate paperwork to complete the check-in process. “I’m just excited to be a Husker,” Jacob said. Resident assistants, Housing staff, UNL police and student volunteers all assisted with the process. Thursday and Friday, streets surrounding the residence halls were packed with students and their fami-

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lies knee deep in moving. Michael Kirklin, a senior criminal justice major, signed up to be part of the welcome team at the end of the spring semester and moved into Cather early to help student move in. Friday morning, Kirklin assigned temporary parking passes for families moving into Cather Hall. “People seem to come in spurts,” Kirklin said. “They seem to be in a good mood. So far it’s been a great morning.”

Adam Lambert, a sophomore history major, helped students begin the check-in portion of the process. Because Cather and Pound Hall rooms are assigned mainly as single rooms, Lambert said he talked with students from all over the world. “So far I’ve met students from Uzbekistan, Germany and Brazil,” Lambert said. “It’s been busy, but it’s also been fun.” news@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s annual Welcome Festival took place Sunday night and concluded a weekend of Big Red Welcome events. The festival has drawn more

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Congress lays aside differences, extends loan-rate discounts

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Friends Derrick Stevens (left), a sophomore political science and philosophy major, and Jakob Meysemburg, a sophomore undecided major at Morningside, carry parts of a futon into Stevens’ room in Neihardt on Saturday. Move-in for traditional residence halls was from Thursday to Sunday.

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Stafford loans to stay at 3.4 percent until July of next year, but the coming elections make the future of the programs unclear

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iksen then took her bag back to the dorm to prepare for the first day of class.

In a rare example of compromise in an infamously polarized Congress, both sides of the aisle in June agreed to keep interest rates on subsidized undergraduate Stafford loans at a discount — 3.4 percent — instead of allowing the rate to double on July 1. But Congress must again decide whether to let the discount expire in July 2013. The extension is expected to save an average of $1,000 for each of the 7.4 million students who were expected to take out loans this year, according to the Associated Press. Congress has steadily lowered interest rates on federal loans since 2007, when the first rumbles of the 2008 recession began. After hitting a low of 3.4 percent last

year, those rates were scheduled to return to the normal 6.8 percent come July. Amid ever-increasing concern over the country’s student debt burden, which amounts to roughly $1 trillion nationwide, student advocates and education officials rallied to prevent the interest rate from doubling. With an eye on college-age voters in November’s election, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney also voiced their support. The biggest question before the June vote was how to pay for the bill’s projected cost of $6 billion. Republicans and Democrats initially refused to vote for each other’s extension bills because of differing ideas, and hope for a compromise faded. Just days before a decision was due, both sides agreed to scrounge up the funds by changing the way companies ensure pensions for employees, making those companies chip in more of their pension costs. Undergraduates will also cover part of the cost. For years, undergraduates who borrowed a subsidized Stafford loan have enjoyed a six-month grace period after graduation, during which they wouldn’t accumulate interest or

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Shannon Olson, a freshman pre-nursing major, Sydne Eriksen, a freshman dental hygiene major, and Lucero Garcia, a freshman Spanish and biology major, walk through the crowd at Big Red Welcome on Sunday. The annual event is a way for new and returning students to find information about clubs and activities offered at UNL.

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This is because UNL changed its 3-year contract to a 5-year contract with StarTran Bus Services to save money However, the contract also requires that Parking and Transit Services replace half of its bus fleet now,and then the remaining half over the next four years. Four UNL bus drivers will lose their jobs because of the contract change

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Study: Brains see women as body parts, not humans Advertising professor says it’s not a new idea; media has used emphasis for years Maren Westra Dn There’s a reason women are so prominent in advertising, according to senior lecturer in advertising Michael Goff, and thanks to a study by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher Sarah Gervais, that reason just gained credibility.

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Gervais worked on a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology that claims humans see men as people but women are seen as a collection of body parts. The emphasis on women’s body parts in advertising is a trick the industry has used for years, Goff said. “I don’t think (this finding) has been any secret,” he said. “That (bias) has been around forever.” Gervais, an assistant professor of psychology, co-authored the study with researchers representing the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Padova in Italy. The researchers tested the effects of global and local processing. When participants were shown images of men, they were more likely to use global cognitive processing, which is when an object is viewed in its entirety as a single unit. When shown images of women, however, participants were more likely to use local cognitive processing, where an object is viewed as a collection of its parts. “Local processing underlies the way we think about objects: houses, cars and so on,” Gervais said in a UNL press release. “Women were perceived in the same ways that objects are viewed.” Jan Deeds, director of the Women’s Center, said the study is important. The idea that even women see other women that way surprises her. “It’s a fascinating finding,” she said. Additionally, she said she wondered if the tendency is a result of nature or nurture. She said she suspects it could be a product of cultural socialization, but the study didn’t draw conclusions on the reasons for cognitive objectification. “I think there’s a lot more exploration to be done,” she said. Deeds cited another study completed by Gervais last year that found that women

COMMUNITY DESK UNL Christian Grads Pizza Kickoff when:

Thursday, Aug. 23, 5:30 p.m. Nebraska Union what: UNL Christian Grads will host a pizza party to start the new school year. For more information, email czuhlke11@gmail.com. where:

Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Open House

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Friday, Aug. 24, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center what: Explore the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center at an open house featuring a Scavenger Hunt, Dunk the Director, Sugar Shack and more. contact: Andre Fortune at 402-472-5500 or at afortune3@unl.edu

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who were stared at by men before completing a task did poorer on that task than when they didn’t feel objectified. Deeds also said it’s important to determine if this kind of cognitive processing gives either men or women an advantage over the other sex in situations such as job interviews or simply in the ways people are treated by others. Both Goff and Deeds said media is not the root of subconscious objectification of women, but a reflection of it. “Advertising doesn’t do anything magical with that (process). It just exploits it,” Goff said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

when : Monday, Aug. 20 through Saturday, Aug. 26 where : The Campus Recreation Center and East Campus Activities Building what : The Campus Rec Center and the East Campus Activities Building is offering 87 classes during the first week of the semester. Classes include Zumba and Pilates as well as several new classes. To view the entire schedule of classes, visit http:// crec.unl.edu/fitness/classes.shtml.

Husker Read Sidewalk Sale

when : Monday, Aug. 20, through Sunday, Aug. 26, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday where : A Novel Idea Bookstore, 118 N. 14th St. what : A Novel Idea Bookstore is holding a fall clearance sale. All sale books left will be sold for $1 on Sunday, Aug. 26.

Multicultural Greek StrollOff when:

Friday, Aug. 24, 5:30 p.m. Nebraska Union Plaza what: Students can watch multicultural Greek houses compete against one another in a stroll-off. where:

Red Fever Dance when:

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when: Friday, Aug. 24, 6 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 25, 6 p.m. where: The Pershing Center, 226 Centennial Mall what: Friday night will feature zombiethemed panels and activities, and the sixth-annual Lincoln Zombie Walk will take place Saturday.

“A Legacy of Giving” Gallery Talk when :

Tuesday, Aug. 21, 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art what : Brandon Ruud, the Sheldon’s curator of transnational American art, and Lindsay Andrews, Ph.D. candidate in UNL’s department of English, will talk about Anna and Frank Hall’s contribution to the Sheldon. Ruud and Andrews will lecture on works collected by Anna and Frank Hall and art purchased through their charitable trust. contact : Sheldon Museum of Art at 402-472-2461 where :

UNL libraries flip new page Busch takes over as dean of libraries after Giesecke commits to reaccreditation job Ryan Kopelke DN New management will oversee the 3 million-plus volumes of text in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln library system and the staff who run the resource system this year. After 16 years of service, Joan Giesecke has resigned her position as Dean of Libraries, citing unspecified health concerns and a new role coordinating the university’s reaccreditation, according to the university press release. Associate Dean Nancy Busch assumed the interim dean role August 12. The Dean of Libraries oversees 45 faculty, 100 staff and the library’s six branches. In her new role, Giesecke will help prepare the university’s Higher Learning Commission accreditation due in 2016. “The accrediting process has changed, and I will be helping the campus get prepared for the new process,” Giesecke said. “I’m still investigating the implications of this change and how we can best respond to the changes in accreditation.” This is yet another change for Giesecke, who began her career at UNL in 1987 as an assistant dean for Automation and Technical Services. A year later, she was promoted to the associate dean for Collection and Services. Busch and some of Giesecke’s

Giesecke for excellence within her colleagues lauded the outgoing dean’s efforts to digitize the collec- field. In 2011, she received the ALA Equality Award because of her comtion, diversify staff and lead her system. Now Busch hopes to continue mitment to increasing diversity within her staff. Diversity rose from Giesecke’s momentum within the 2 percent to 12 percent in the library department. system in 2010. “I thought she was an outstandIn a press release for Giesecke’s ing leader.” Busch said of Giesecke. award, Beth McNeil, associate dean “She was responsible for some very of Academic Affairs at Purdue Univisionary and cutting-edge servicversity, called Giesecke’s success rees.” cruiting and retaining minority staff During her years as dean, Giesecke led numerous efforts to not “especially laudable.” Following Giesecke, Busch said only increase the size and scope of she’s optimistic about her ability the UNL library but also to bring more diversity and modernity into to lead the library and as excited to take on the new chalthe system, Busch said. lenges of interim dean In 2001, Giesecke as she was taking on the oversaw the $12.6 milposition of associate dean lion renovations of in 2003. Love Library. The ren“It was not a surprise ovations were quickly when they asked me to be followed by the conthe interim dean,” said struction of a storage Busch “It made sense in facility on East Camterms of the experience pus housing 600,000 that I had, and I was willlow-use volumes in ing to work on the current 2002. But Giesecke’s services to make them priorities didn’t end stronger. I think it will be there. giesecke a wonderful opportunity, “In my time as and I was ready for a new dean, we were able to challenge.” digitize most of the liWhile no major plans for the brary’s journals and give 24-7 electronic access to a vast reserve of ref- library are set because of the short time Busch has been acting as the erences,” she said. “These and the interim dean, she plans to focus on renovations to Love Library have keeping up the digitization of rebeen my proudest moments as dean cords and student recruitment and of libraries.” retention through the library’s reThe university’s institutional research reputation. pository, the Digital Commons, was “At this point, I don’t know how developed and grew to more then to answer that,” Busch said when 57,000 volumes — making it the secasked if she would take the position ond largest in the country after the permanently. “I’ll cross that bridge University of Michigan’s, according when I come to it.” to a press release. news@ Outside UNL, the American dailynebraskan.com Library Association has recognized

“Building Research Collaborations: UNL Athletics and Research” when :

Thursday, Aug. 23 where : Memorial Stadium’s West Stadium Club what : UNL invites faculty to attend a retreat to learn more about the collaboration between Nebraska Athletics and UNL Research. There will be speakers, including UNL Athletics Department director Tom Osborne. If interested, faculty should register by Aug. 21.

East Campus Club Fair and Welcome Back Picnic when :

Thursday, Aug. 23, 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. where : North side of the Nebraska East Union what : New and returning students can discover new clubs and meet students with similar interests. A picnic-style dinner will be provided to those who attend the club fair. Organizations can register at sieast@ unl.edu.

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Four-on-four sand volleyball where:

Campus Recreation Center Register a team by Wednesday, Aug. 22. For more information, visit http://crec.unl.edu/im/. cost: $35 per team what:

“Understanding: K&Q – Standing with each other” workshop when:

Saturday, Aug. 25, noon to 4 p.m. Student Involvement green room what: OmniArts Nebraska is producing a collaborative, original performance piece created to illuminate issues faced by kids and queers. Students interested in developing pieces for the performance should attend a workshop. For more information, visit http://involved.unl.edu/understanding-kq-standing-each-other. where:

Registration Deadline: Husker Golf Scramble when:

Deadline is Sunday, Aug. 27, event is Friday, Aug. 31. Tee time will be 1:30 p.m. where: Highlands Golf Course what: Teams of four students can enjoy some golf and a meal from Raising Cane’s. There will be competitions featured at some of the holes. Register at http://involved.unl.edu/husker-golfscramble-0. cost: $100 per team

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sorority bid day 2012 video by kevin moser Cheers and tears flooded the area in front of the Broyhill Fountain on Saturday as hundreds of women discovered which sorority house they could join. Bid Day concluded a weeklong recruitment process.

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Students roam outside the NU Coliseum during Big Red Welcome on Sunday. The event, held the weekend before the start of the fall semester, acts as a kick-off for the year. than 10,000 people in past years, according to UNL’s New Student Enrollment website. There were 350 booths at the event, which included Registered Student Organizations and local businesses, said Candace Towns, the Big Red Welcome coordinator and a senior psychology major. Businesses paid $160 for a table at the festival and student organizations paid $20, Towns said. “We basically make all of the money that we spend on the event back with our booth fees,” Towns said. Pat McBride, UNL’s NSE director, estimated that the entire Big Red Welcome weekend cost around $8,000 to put on. “It’s not a big money-maker, but we don’t lose very much,” McBride said. All the Big Red Welcome-related costs are paid for through a BRW account and sponsors such as Pepsi. Many of the students manning booths at the festival said Big Red Welcome is an effective recruiting tool. “It’s really crucial that we have Big Red Welcome because it’s the only way we get new members for the entire year,” said Andrew Montz, secretary of the Otaku Jinrui Anime Club and a senior broadcasting major. “I can’t think of any other way that is as reliable for recruitment.” Montz said their club usually gets close to 30 new members from the festival. Henry Cabrera said Big Red Welcome is Spectrum UNL’s biggest event to attract new members. Cabrera is outreach coordinator for the club to raise awareness for LGBTQA students. “Big Red Welcome is at the beginning of the year, and it’s where we first

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Olson (second from right) laughs as Eriksen (far right) misses a question during a quiz at the Spanish Club booth at Big Red Welcome on August 19. start recruiting people,” said Cabrera, a senior political science and women’s and gender studies major. Cabrera said last year Spectrum gained about 40 new members from the festival. Attracting student members, though, comes at a cost. Ben Paige, president of the UNL Zombie Preparation and Research Society, said club officers spent close to $100 on their booth. “Since this is our first year as a club, we really want to get a base membership,” said Paige, a senior communications studies major. “We want to sign up as many new members as we can.”

carl mejstrik dn A handful of restaurant vendors at the Big Red Welcome weighed the cost of attracting new business, which meant

free food for some and non-edible giveaways for others. Some Big Red Welcome vendors such as Noodles & Company and Jimmy John’s have been participating since their businesses were first opened in Lincoln. Others are buying a booth for the first time. Jimmy John’s has had a booth at the event for 12 years, said Brian Giles, the owner of the 14th and O street location. On top of the $160 fee to rent a booth, the restaurant has put more than $4,000 into this year’s event. While the booth has steered away from offering free food as it once did, it still hands out free stuff. “We used to give away beer pong sets,” Giles said. “How can a college kid say no to that? ” Giles said the restaurant sees a spike in business at the beginning of the semester. “We really target the freshmen because if they like us early on, we

have a customer for the next four years,” Giles said. “As a business, you’re stupid if you’re not here.” This year, Raising Cane’s purchased a food trailer, complete with six fryers, to cook and hand out food. General Manager Mike Dansky said the food trailer gave out more than 3,000 chicken fingers during the Big Red Welcome. With a new location opening on 14 and P streets in November, Danksy said he hopes the added exposure early in the year will result in much more business from the surrounding area. Noodles & Company has had a booth for the past six years and has increased the amount of money dedicated to the Big Red Welcome every year, said John Dunker, Marketing Manager for Noodles & Company. He said this year more than $1,000 was spent on giveaways. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Crews close some projects, begin others Work on Outdoor Adventure, Brain Research centers and new residence hall underway map by Bea Huff | story by Dan Holtmeyer UNDERWAY Memorial Stadium East Expansion Construction continues on the expansion of the East Stadium, which is projected to cost more than $60 million. The structure’s steel skeleton and parts of its concrete shell are complete, but cranes remain on site and several entrances on the east side will again be closed for the 2012 football season. University officials expect all original sections of the stadium to stay open during construction and the project to be completed by the first football game next fall.

BEGAN THIS SUMMER Outdoor Adventures Center, 841 N. 14th St. UNL students approved an expansion of the City Campus Recreation Center two years ago and construction has begun. The new space will be home to Outdoor Adventures, a program that takes students on outdoor-themed trips each year across Nebraska and surrounding states. The renovation of the East Campus Activities Building has also begun. 14th St.

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BEGAN THIS SUMMER East Stadium Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior Within the stadium expansion, 22,000 square feet will be devoted to a research center on the brain’s inner workings. It will house a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine or fMRI, which measures activity in certain parts of the brain by mapping out blood-flow patterns down to the millimeter. As part of its research mission, the center will explore the effects of concussions on college athletes.

UNDERWAY Robert E. Knoll Residential Center Phase II, 17th and R streets After the Robert E. Knoll Residential Center debuted in 2010, UNL began construction on S St. a second, similar suite-style dorm next door. A parking lot was removed for the project, which is scheduled to wrap up in the next two years. R St.

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OPEN Lied Commons, 301 N. 12th St. An 8,000-square-foot expansion has been added to the north side of the Lied Center for Performing Arts, intended to provide space for receptions and smaller events and performances than those in the main concert hall.

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Flapjacks for friends PHOTOS BY KAYLEE EVERLY Students gathered in front of the Nebraska Union for pancakes, balloon hats and dancing. The Party at the Union, held Saturday, was part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s annual Big Red Welcome. Other events included New Student Convocation, a pep rally, a tunnel walk through Memorial Stadium and Sunday night’s Welcome Festival. “It’s a good way to bring in the new school year,” said Claire Phillips, a freshman general studies major, of the weekend. The party had many activities for students, including performances by the Bathtub Dogs and Boots & Cats, as well as drawings by a caricature artist. Teresa Forst brought her balloon artistry to the event and created balloon hats for students, including Lei Bi, a first year piano performance graduate student (top left). At midnight UNL staff members, including Bill Goa, senior associate director of Campus Recreation, served up pancakes on the Union plaza for students (Middle left). Throughout the night, students danced to a DJ, sponsored by the University Program Council, on the Union Plaza (bottom). The event was also an opportunity for a few clubs to show students what they are all about. Mary Foshee, a freshman general studies major (below, on right), was one of the many students that carved soap at the Soap Carving Club’s station at the party. “It provides an opportunity for students to meet their fellow students,” said Matt Hecker, dean of students. compiled by katie fennely

student loans: from 1 have to make their monthly payments. After the June deal, those students can still wait to pay, but the interest clock will start ticking right at graduation. This detail prompted many observers to point out that the picture of student debt, though better than it could have been after the deal, is still decidedly mixed. The deal applied to subsidized loans only, which go to students with higher need. Undergraduates with unsubsidized loans and all graduate students must still pay more. Since Congressional Republicans roared into control of the House of Representatives in 2010, federal student aid has

been repeatedly chipped away in other ways. Graduate students, for example, lost their subsidized loans last year, meaning their interest begins building up immediately instead of starting after graduation. Pell grants, which go to lowincome students and don’t need to be repaid, have also wound up under the Congressional knife. They can only be issued now for 12 full-time semesters and can no longer be used year round. Whether Congress will decide to extend the discount in July is uncertain because that decision comes after November’s Congressional and presidential elections. Congressional Republicans

busing: from 1 have shown interest in cutting federal budgets for education and several other non-defense programs, for example. If they maintain control of the House or gain seats in the Senate, they could prevent the discounted rate from continuing. As for the presidential candidates, Obama has often said college education should be more affordable. Romney has said students should get whatever education is within their means, and he supported the June extension although his party in Congress has made efforts to minimize federal student aid. news@ dailynebraskan.com

ing transportation services with StarTran better enables parking services to provide reliable transportation for a growing campus. Some students disagree about how the student body should pay for intercampus transportation. “Parking and Transit Services will work with ASUN to keep fees as low as possible,” Carpenter said. “However, I would expect some increase in next year ’s transit fee.” UNL has contracted transit services with StarTran since 1994 to provide transportation between its City and East campuses. The contract also allows students, staff and faculty bus

pass holders to use all StarTran routes within Lincoln. Despite the contract change, parking services will maintain the same bus schedule with some enhancements. Because StarTran uses global positioning systems on its buses, Transit Services plans to develop smartphone applications that allow passengers to track the buses from the web and on the go, Carpenter said. StarTran also has bike racks installed on their buses to accommodate cyclists, which will now be provided on the campus bus routes as well. For busing, students pay nearly $16 per semester, accord-

ing to ASUN’s website. “I think they should just make the bus pass like a parking pass,” said Samantha Hart, a sophomore psychology major, “where if you want or plan to use the bus, then you can buy the pass.” But Brandy Focken, a sophomore textiles, merchandising and fashion design major, who rode the bus two days a week last spring said she agrees that students should pay for the bus service even if they might not use it. “You never know when you might need it,” she said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

opinion

monday august 20, 2012 dailynebraskan.com @Dailynebopinion

dn editorial board members ANDREW DICKINSON editor-in-chief

RYAN DUGGAN opinion editor RHIANNON ROOT assistant opinion editor HAILEY KONNATH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR JACY MARMADUKE ASSIGNMENT NEWS EDITOR

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our view

Lincoln construction presents roadblock during UNL move-in Numerous construction projects studded downtown Lincoln during the worst possible time of the year — move-in weekend. As thousands of students returned to the city after a summer away, lane closures due to construction projects slowed traffic to glacial paces. Poor planning is to blame for the universal headache, but the results could have more of an impact than merely irritation. Many streets were reduced to a single lane, presenting an ugly face for the city during the time of year when appearance matters most, as many people unfamiliar with the campus and the area get their first good look. Construction projects will ultimately benefit the city, but they should be planned for a time of year that isn’t move-in, a time synonymous with a huge influx of traffic. It’s unclear when these projects were slated for completion, but, either way, the city is at fault. If the projects were planned to take place during move-in weekend, the decision shows a lack of foresight. If the projects were delayed, appropriate adjustments should have been enacted to prepare for this weekend. The reasoning behind clustering all the construction projects to take place simultaneously is unclear. Drivers could surely handle a few closed lanes here and there, but the current situation makes it nearly impossible to make a car trip without running into orange cones and flashing arrows. Nobody likes traffic construction, but that’s not why this weekend’s lane closures were a problem. The construction represents an apparent lack of regard for Lincoln residents. Projects intended to aid drivers are in fact hindering them because of poor timing, and with no news releases or readily available information regarding the timeof-completion for the projects, the city doesn’t seem to care. With hope, some of the construction projects will near completion in the coming days and weeks. But their completion won’t change drivers’ memories of 30-minute commutes and halted traffic. Those impressions are permanent.

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editorial policy The editorial above contains the opinion of the fall 2012 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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UNL provides many services

s the summer ends Leadership Development Office also and the energy re- provide many leadership opportuniturns to campus ties. Students can avail themselves with the arrival of the students, I want of many other services on campus. to welcome new For example, the University Health Center offers many health services, and returning students to UNL. It’s including counseling and psychothis energy and excitement that make logical services. Campus Recreation UNL such a great place to work at. offers many opportunities for those You may have noticed the conwho want to continue participating struction that is going on around in athletic activities through intracampus. Under construction are two new residence halls (one will open in murals, club sports or simply using the exercise machines or 2013 and one in 2014), the climbing wall. Career Campus Recreation faServices offers students cilities on both the East assistance with career Campus and City Camexploration, resume writpus, parking lots are ing and finding internbeing refurbished and ship and employment several building renoopportunities. The office vation projects are unof Services for Students derway. This is a sign of with Disabilities is locata growing and vibrant ed in the Canfield Buildcampus. ing and provides many One of our priservices for our students. mary goals is to have We have three stuour students be sucFranco dent unions (City Camcessful. To that end, pus, East Campus and we encourage you to the Gaughan Multicultake advantage of the tural Center) which provide students many services UNL has to offer. This includes great libraries, com- with gathering places, bookstores, puter labs, tutoring and advisement restaurants, places to check out centers. While you need to take care laptop computers, and on the East of your academic responsibilities Campus, a place to bowl. For stufirst, we encourage you to become dents needing help managing their involved in activities outside the finances, we have the Student Money classroom. For example, students Management Center. Please visit the interested in service and service- Center in the City Union to learn learning should visit the Center about proper credit card usage, interest rates, etc. for Civic Engagement in the City Please make use of the many serUnion. You may also want to visit vices provided to students. We hope with student government (ASUN) you have a great experience at UNL representatives about participating and leave with a degree in hand. If in the Big Event, a service project which last year attracted about 2400 you have any questions, or if there is anything I can do to make your students. experience with us more enjoyable, Students interested in leadership opportunities should consider please do not hesitate to contact me at jfranco2@unl.edu. joining one of the 400 student orgaJuan N. Franco, Vice nizations on campus or running for Chancellor for Student office in student government. Greek Affairs Affairs, Student Involvement and the

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Elusive hipsterism remains a myth

espite their desire to remain relatively obscure, you’ve probably heard of hipsters. They’re known to frequent English classes and coffeehouses and can be found on every college campus. If asked to describe a hipster, some popular characteristics surveyed would include fashion choices of skinny jeans, large blackrimmed glasses (preferably non-prescriptive) and TOMS shoes. A hipster might be vegan and interested in environmental sustainability. Hipsters are particularly infamous for flaunting their preference for music “before it was cool” or, better yet, a musical artist no one has heard of at all. If someone detects any hints of these attitudes or lifestyle choices, he or she is entitled to call you a hipster. Such a comment can range from the mildly flattering to a passive-aggressive dismissal to an accusation. Fortunately for the culprit, this collection of indicators is as arbitrary and insignificant as the title itself. While young people in skinny jeans are thriving and maybe even increasing in numbers, the hipster is only an illusion. The entire notion of the hipster is kept alive only because people insist he or she exists. Although the hipster is a pervasive cultural topic, there’s no definitive standard or description. There are only popular conceptions. Identifying hipsters is solely based on the entirely subjective protocol of “knowing one when you see one.” The rise of hipsterism isn’t any trend in fashion or rebellious attitudes but a more troubling phenomenon of habitual labeling and categorization of young people. Nobody ever seriously claims to be a hipster. Anybody accused of being a hipster is expected to deny it. Generally, hipsters do not carry favorable reputations. Young people may throw the label at their peers. Mocking hipsters has become a popular Internet guilty pleasure; memes such as “Hipster Barista” and “Hipster Kitty” make frequent appearances. They feature hypocritical ideologies and their

JANE SEU catchphrase is “before it was cool.” Most often they intend to attack the hipster ’s arrogant attitude. These memes, like many others, capitalize on a caricature and are created and recycled by supposed non-hipsters. They’re only fictional characters and real-life hipsters are just as imaginary. Probability statistics favor the existence of an arrogant Starbucks barista who likes to wear skinny jeans. However, the odds also favor baristas to be people and the odds only improve that people are the wearers of skinny jeans and that people tend to be arrogant. None of these particular characteristics, or any perceived hipster traits, have any proven substantial causal relationship. They are only a collection of subjective stereotypes. Perhaps the hipster is simply what we call someone who demonstrates arrogance or conceit. Using some meaningless label is a poor way to neutralize it. Everyone would like to be recognized as a unique individual and should be forgiven for a moment or two of vanity. A rising number of young people riding bikes in skinny jeans is not a threat to our culture or society. Flaunting labels and falling for a false idea is. The arrogant attitude is usually attached to a hipster agenda that describes their arms race to obscurity. One contested battleground is music consumption. Many are frustrated by the preference of hipsters to only like mu-

sic that isn’t “mainstream.” If a song or artists gets air play on the radio, it is abandoned by the hipster. If it isn’t, his or her peers will have to endure endless reminders of their good taste before it was popular. The process is frustrating and confusing. However, a hipster agenda isn’t to blame. Such banter among peers is only banter. This behavior may be symptomatic of some other tendency or psychological motive of young people, but using hipsterism is an improper means of describing it. If you are labeled a hipster, there is no way to prove you are not. Denial is only further self-incrimination. There is no way to prove you aren’t a hipster because there is no way to prove you are. The hipster phenomenon has given not only false title but false power to anyone to deem anything or anyone as hipster. Despite the lack of a universal definition and just by the promotion of the idea, the hipster has become a distinct figure and burden on our cultural conscience. The hipster is a myth. You can’t learn anything more about someone by calling them a hipster. Nor do we progress as a culture by separating hipsters and non-hipsters. While we are just as free to criticize or praise someone’s choices as he or she is to make it, neither being a hipster nor calling someone a hipster makes you a hero. As college students, we are in the exciting process of maturing out of the impressions others have long forced upon us. We have the growing freedom to explore our own tastes and preferences. We may eat or drink whatever we choose, dress however we like and listen to whatever music pleases us. We seek to define ourselves as individuals and make sense of the choices before us. Instead of categorizing each other under an illusory title, let us appreciate and celebrate the diversity within ourselves and our culture. Jane Seu isn’t a hipster, but she is a junior Political Science major. Reach her at opinion@dailynebraskan.com. Follow her on Twitter @jane_seu.

Modern authors avoid verbose prose

orace once said, “You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.” Writers today cater to a general audience too much and don’t pay attention to their own voice. They dumb things down so people will understand them, and by doing that they lose their audience. Contemporary writers have lost their originality, as well as their sense of voice and language, and as a result they’ve lost meaning behind their work. An example of how today’s writing has gotten weaker is Christopher Paolini’s “Eragon” series. Common Sense Media called Eragon’s descriptions “long-winded” and “cliched,” the dialogue “hackneyed” and the plot was “straight out of ‘Star Wars’ by way of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ with bits of other great fantasies thrown in here and there.” And, as a series, “Eragon” is very reminiscent of “Lord of the Rings.” For example, the elves in both series are tall, beautiful, immortal, have keen senses and are well trained in archery. They also have deep connections to the earth. The only real difference between them is their origin. “Eragon” is also a bit derivative from George Lucas’ film saga, “Star Wars.” Eragon resembles Luke Skywalker, a poor farm boy raised by his uncle. Other similarities include, Brom and ObiWan, Morzan and Anakin, Murtagh and Han Solo. These books are so popular and Paolini has become well-known for them, but they all have the same plot you’ve heard a million times before, just reiterated in a new fashion. Another example of a poorly written novel is “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James. In case you were unaware, this book started out as a postTwilight fan fiction. The novels are about a female college graduate who signs away control of her life to a sadistic sex-crazed billionaire. The series lacks any true content or deeper meaning. It’s merely a pornographic book, but not even a well-written form of erotica. Trying to pass it off as anything more is ridiculous. The dialogue in the novel is clunked together, the heroine isn’t amiable and the story line is lacking. Not only are these novels poorly written, but they send a very terrifying mes-

CHRISTIANNA FRIEDMAN sage: This kind of relationship is healthy. Dr. Drew Pinsky, better known as TV personality Dr. Drew, said of the series, “I can’t emphasize enough the disturbing quality of this. This is a woman who is naive to these issues, and then is manipulated and exploited by a man who has a severe personality disorder and a sex addiction who is violent with her. It is just too much to be understood.” The message it sounds can drive any young, naive mind into thinking this kind of relationship is OK. That alone is a treacherous thought. When you look at pieces of work like “Fifty Shades of Grey” and then compare it to older pieces of work, you can just see the difference. An example is Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Though not exactly erotica, it is in the romance genre. Jane Austen challenged many readers at that time. Back then, a woman’s duty was to marry a rich man and settle down; and here you have Elizabeth Bennet. Despite her mother ’s wishes, she refused someone she didn’t love and was content to be single the rest of her life. That was a radical idea at that time and Austen was not afraid to voice her opinion. Albeit, her style may have been a bit neurotic at times but she had sense of voice and there’s just certain quality to her work that made it withstand time. The way she wrote was elegant. Another problem with a lot of today’s writers is how they write. The English language has been dumbed-down. It’s just a different culture, a new way of speaking and something has been lost in translation. If we look at William Shakespeare’s work we can see the difference. Shakespeare, al-

though his work was a bit derivative of several Greek tragedies, became a cultural phenomenon by the way he wrote. He wrote with a lot of metaphors and comparisons. He would describe things in a way that was just beautiful — it was one of the things that made him a brilliant writer. Today’s writers don’t take enough of an advantage of this. Language was thought out much better back then, and now we just cut right to the chase. We don’t spend enough time developing a thought. Perhaps it’s our culture to blame. It’s high on technology right now and with these innovations we lose pieces of our writing skills. Go online to Tumblr and look at the memes — they promote bad grammar. On Twitter there’s a 140-character limit, so we have to cram what we’re saying into a few words. Texting and autocorrect on smartphones cause problems with shorthand. We use shorthand for everything. We keep it light and simple, but what good is that really doing? Are we lazy or have we just forgotten the meaning of what we’re saying? No wonder there are so many misunderstandings when we speak. By limiting what we write and not caring, we are forgetting the actual meaning of words. They are fine once in while but when you get into these bad writing habits they have a tendency to spill over into your everyday writing skills. As a culture, this promotes an idea that we have to dumb things down so people will understand what we are saying. That’s when the bad writing occurs because we think that if we say what we really mean, readers will not understand. It is insulting really, and the way our culture is now it’s only going to get worse. Writing makes you think, it leaves something to the imagination and lets you enter a whole new world, if only for a little while. Readers need to feel like they are somewhere else. You want to leave readers guessing and wondering what your next move will be. Today’s writers need to stop writing what they think their audience wants to hear, fight these bad writing habits and just write from the heart. So, a word of advice to budding writers: Challenge your readers, and they will hear what you have to say. Christianna Friedman is a junior secondary education major. Reach her at opinion@dailynebraskan.com.

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Neo-folk foursome, Mumford & Sons will close the summer series at the Pinewood Bowl Theater tomorrow night. Set for the Sept. 25 release of their sophomore album “Babel,” the English band will be supported at the Lincoln concert by Los Angeles rockers Dawes and Nathaniel Rateliff.

Mumford & Sons skyrocketed to stardom in 2009. Now Dawes is hoping to follow in their footsteps as the two bands stop in Lincoln on their US tour.

onight, the Pinewood Bowl Theater concert series is going out with a bang and a lot of banjos. Mumford & Sons will close out the outdoor amphitheater ’s final show of the summer with a sold-out show. Dawes and Nathaniel Rateliff will open. Following an announcement of their new album “Babel,” which is set for a Sept. 25 release, Mumford & Sons launched a month-long Ameri-

can tour, including the sold-out Pinewood show. “Babel” is the follow-up to 2009’s “Sigh No More.” The band gained traction and bolstered both their commercial and critical appeal following the release, especially after their performance and nomination for “Best New Artist” at the 2011 Grammy Awards. As for the second-billed Dawes, the band is comprised of brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, Tay Strathairn and Wylie Gelber. Rolling

Stone magazine has referred to the Los Angelesbased rock band’s sound as “authentically vintage.” Dawes keyboardist, Tay Strathairn, took some time to talk with the Daily Nebraskan about playing music and ping-pong on the road with Mumford & Sons. Daily Nebraskan: There’s a definite contrast in emotion between your live performances and your records, especially the mellow “North Hills.”

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Classics impact today’s culture

hello: see page 10

Summer exploded with drama

CLASSICS IN SESSION

rachel staats Are you so afraid of literature that you put off taking freshman English until your junior year? Or maybe you got through high school English by reading the SparkNotes version of every book that was assigned. For many people, classics like “The Poisonwood Bible” are more intimidating than the Green Mamba that killed Ruth May. If any of this sounds familiar, welcome to the club. Don’t get me wrong, I love to read. But it took years for me to overcome my fear of Shakespeare and Tolkien. When I asked my roommate what came to mind when I said “classic literature,” she replied instantly and with a less-than-pleased look, “Jane Eyre.” Personally, I thought Charlotte Bronte’s book was literary magic, but feelings of fear, disdain and boredom are often associated with classic stories. Every year, English professors ask students to read classics like “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” “The Grapes of Wrath,” “A Tale of Two Cities” and everything by Shakespeare. If you happen to take an English class that focuses on British authors, look out. You’ll probably be asked to read “Paradise Lost.” And “Beowulf.” Yikes.

I emphasize the ‘asking,’ because you and I both know the chances that most students will read every single title is slim to none. I’ll be the first to admit that when I was in high school I read “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” by the light of my flashlight while my assignments of “The Scarlet Letter” and Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” lay untouched on my desk. My A’s in high school English were secured with the power of SparkNotes and a dash of good luck. But everyone who has studied classic literature knows how much of a role those stories have in influencing future writing. Which is precisely why they’re classic. These are the stories that stayed with us: the love of Romeo and Juliet and the coming of age stories like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” It isn’t about whether we like them or not. It’s about the impact they have on us and the world as we know it. While the Biblical saying “there is nothing new under the sun” may not have been referring specifically to entertainment, the same concept holds true here. The classics, the writings that came first, already contain nearly every possible story line. Just think of how many stories from ancient Greece and Rome have literally been retold using modern

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We’re not so very different, you and I. You’ve seen enough movies to know that’s the way any archvillain worth his weight in nerve gas tries to trick the hero into empathy. So is this a trick? Yeah, maybe. At the very least, I want something from you. First, a little time. Some attention over your morning coffee. Five minutes between classes. A few clicks of your mouse when you get a minute. I only ask because I think we want the same things, even if you don’t know it yet. Like I said, we’re not so very different, you and I. We both likely live in Lincoln, Neb., which I think we can agree is an OK time. It’s not Florence, Italy, or Greenwich Village or anything, but there are artists here, affiliated with the university and not, who care very deeply for their own work and for the creative efforts of the artists around them. We’re talking theater, film, music, visual art, creative writing and blends of any and all of these disciplines. You see them on First Fridays and the stages in the Haymarket and the Temple Building. You see them in Lincoln’s bars, dingy and dingier. You can find them in the art galleries you didn’t know existed. Yet. And we’re here to tell stories of students. Every time you walk to class, you glance at a person with a tale or a big idea worth reading about. See, I think the Arts & Entertainment section is a very unique position at the DN. For the most part (I will explain how reviews work, if I need to), we have the opportunity to work with artists and students and academics on promoting their work, their ideas and their passions. Much of our value, as I see it, can be measured in how well we

tyler keown Summer’s an interesting time. With school out, some of us get to go on adventures across the United States, or even other countries. Others get to spend time on Facebook, living vicariously through the previous group. My summer unfortunately trended toward the latter of those two options, but lucky for you, reader, it means I was able to keep up with pop culture while you created life-long memories. Sometimes in life, you have to sacrifice yourself for the better of others. Just ask Batman. Speaking of the Caped Crusader, Christopher Nolan’s latest film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” unsurprisingly stole the summer spotlight in film, making roughly infinity dollars in the opening weekend and about seven times that since. The general consensus is that the film is pretty great, a bit long perhaps. But really, what is three and a half hours in the spectrum of time? It is a blink. A batarang-throwing, Anne Hathaway-in-leather, football field-exploding blink. Despite what you may think, other films came out this summer as well. “Prometheus” was an exercise in sci-fi mediocrity. “Moonrise Kingdom” was a great film that you really

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‘Expendables 2’ relies on cheesy humor, violence Cameron Mount dn If you saw the testosteronepacked parade of B-list action stars known as “The Expendables,” you already know whether or not you want to see “The Expendables 2.” If you left the first movie wanting to see more people on fire getting punched in the face, more not-so-subtle Terminator references and more car chases per minute than previously thought possible, this sequel provides veritable catharsis. Like its predecessor, the mercenaries’ story doesn’t much matter, beyond the change of backdrop from Rio de Janeiro to Bulgaria. The bulk of the cast is back, including, but not limited to, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Newcomers Liam Hemsworth, Nan Yu and a sadistic Jean-Claude Van Damme add some welcome freshness, while a groan-inducingly self-aware Chuck Norris tests audiences’ tolerance for lazy writing and cheese. The movie is about as ambitious as a bowl of soup but still manages to improve on the original in a number of ways. It’s funnier, with Stallone and Statham perfecting their deprecating rapport and Lundgren acting as a creepily endearing macho-man caricature. The sequel also benefits from taking itself even less seriously than the first. The cast is more comfortable without the weight of unnecessary dramatic monologues. Unfortunately, it spends too much time trying to prove how non-serious it is. In the 15

THE EXPENDABLES 2 Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham

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minute introduction, a couple hundred people are slaughtered in various ways and that pace stays relatively constant. It’s an extravagant bloodbath that’s more tedious than offensive. A typical “joke” during these scenes involves someone saying “yippee-ki-yay,” while in the vicinity of Willis. It’s this checklist style of movie making that makes “The Expendables 2” work on the uncompromisingly shallow level it does. The cast is having a blast and if corny violence makes you nostalgic, so will you. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

GIMME 5: First Day of Class

Novel examines social ladders, mental disorders Rachel STaats dn Maria Semple, whose credits include “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Arrested Development,” doesn’t disappoint in her latest novel, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” In this novel, told primarily through letters and emails, young Bee Fox encounters more than she bargains for when she’s asked to take a family trip to Antarctica with her agoraphobic ex-architect mother and software developer father. While living in a crumbling boarding school with her parents in a wealthy neighborhood in Seattle and eating take-out food straight from the carton every night seems like the norm for Bee, the mothers of Bee’s middle-school classmates have always disliked her mother, Bernadette, for refusing to conform to the social life of Seattle high society. Bee knows her mom is her best friend, but when everything in their lives begins to go sideways and her father accuses Bernadette of needing psychiatric help, Bee’s world is turned upside-down. Suddenly, the one person

she thought would always be there for her is missing and no one believes she’s coming back. The novel, presented as a book compiled by fifteen-yearold Bee, is a study of social class and mental disorders. When she isn’t presenting direct evidence of the story’s events through letters or newspaper clippings, Bee writes as a first-person observer, which gives the story life and humor. Every character, from Bernadette Fox to the Fox’s social-climbing neighbor, acts “insane” at some point in the novel, which ultimately shows that everyone acts a little crazy before they discover where they belong in the world. Although many novels have a bad habit of either ignoring technology that we use on a daily basis or not incorporating it well into the storyline, Semple has managed to put Skype, texting, emails and computers in their proper place. Mentions of TED talks and the architecture green movement are weaved into the plot in a refreshingly natural and organic way. While most characters are stereotypical and the only character readers can feel sympathy for is Bee, the novel was a refreshing and new take on the

“Twice Told: Josephine and Nellie”

director: Janet Eskridge where: LUX Center for the Arts 2601 N. 48th St. when: Aug. 3-Sept. 29

“As It Comes: Wood, Ink, Paper, Paint”

director: Karl Marxhausen where: The Burkholder Project 719 P St. when: Aug. 1-Aug. 30

standard epistolary novel with twists, turns and a heartwarming ending. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

hello: from 9 work with the Lincoln and UNL community to achieve a more holistic version of those communities. Because let’s face it: With the exception of some very idiosyncratic minds (people we should probably be profiling), artists and creators want audiences. And you want art — right, students? You want that feeling of connectedness to the place you’re spending four or more years. Don’t you? You should. We’d all be better for it. So there’s a gap to bridge. Most people don’t arrive as freshmen and sprint, gung-ho, out of their dorms to see the sites. I think we don’t realize until we’ve already done it, the reward that comes with recognizing and appreciating what’s going on all around them. Don’t think I don’t know

this is preachy. And don’t think I don’t know my choir is small. At it’s most boiled down, I’m saying I want you to go outside and absorb Lincoln and I’m saying it’s my section’s business to make you want to do that or compel you to strike off in a certain direction. If information is the first step to action, then the A&E section should provide you with the information. If I have to walk up to all of you, hand you a paper and say “What’s the 411?” until you punch me in the face and take a copy of the DN, I’ll do it — until my face starts to hurt too much. But relying exclusively on that strategy will only annoy the both of us in the long-term, so let’s try this one. This is uncomfortable for me to say because of how unapproachable I’m supposed to be,

but we do this for you. If there’s something you’d like us to do differently or better or try just one time, just for a minute, just to see how it feels, then tell me! I can always say no. Even if your idea is too small or too generic, we should chat about it. There could be broader implications better-suited to the reality of putting out a daily paper for the next 16 weeks. The best way to serve a community of readers is to have the readers talk back to you. You can always reach me at the email address below. So that’s it. I’m all through asking things of you. Now ask something of me. Chance solem-Pfeifer is the editor of the arts and entertainment section, and he is your guy. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

Five things never to do on the first day of class.

Skip the class. Rookie move, dude. Professors typically hand out syllabuses and outline other invaluable information that day. Every class after is skippable, though.

Correct the professor if they pronounce your name wrong. They’ll maybe figure it out later on (maybe not), but at least you weren’t the guy that freaked out over their own name.

Sit by that sketchy dude in the jacket from an Army surplus store, especially if you’re in a smaller class. Seating arrangements seem to stick after the first day and that guy is not great.

Get all your textbooks and notebooks out and place them on your desk. What are you even doing? You look like a second grader.

Introduce yourself to everyone around you. This isn’t the start of a grand and winding journey. Just blankly stare at your phone like everyone else until class starts.

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Los Angeles-based rock band Dawes will open for Mumford & Sons Monday night at the Pinewood Bowl Theater. Dawes has been a mainstay of Mumford’s American tours in recent years.

When you are playing a show, included when they play. DN: What have you guys are you making a conscious debeen listening to on the road? cision to inject vibrance into the What’s the best album of 2012 so music or is that increase in enfar? ergy more organic? TS: We listen to lots of difTay Strathairn: Playing a ferent stuff. Right now I’m goshow has many more variables. I feel when an audience is there, ing back and checking out Allen Toussaint. Best alit naturally adds bum of 2012 so far? more excitement. I feel I love Father John But it depends. Misty’s record. The audience is when an Also Aaron Embry a huge factor. audience is there, has a new record Sometimes they coming out soon are looking for it naturally adds that is amazing. (I) a big show and haven’t heard the that’s what it be- more excitement new Mumford but comes, but we’ve Tay Strathaim some of the new been able to have dawes keyboardist songs are serious some of our best bangers. shows be intiDN: Judging by mate ones too, your tour photos, you guys play so it really depends. I think live playing is a different animal than a lot of ping-pong. What’s the story behind that? Do you guys recording no matter what. DN: This isn’t the first time tour with a ping-pong table or you have toured with Mumford is it just something you gravi& Sons. How do you think the tate toward backstage? Is Griftime your bands have spent to- fin good enough to beat Forrest gether has influenced your mu- Gump? TS: The Mumford guys sic? TS: Playing with Mumford brought a ping-pong table. So has been awesome. They are there’s a lot of ping-pong being played. Griff (Goldsmith) is defisuch a captivating live band that it can’t help but rub off. But also nitely a ping-pong master. But Marcus (Mumford) is up there, the joy and gratitude that they have on stage is really a good les- too. Forrest Gump? I don’t know. DN: You are from L.A. and a son. They are genuinely so grateful to be playing and that’s somelot of people have dubbed Dawes as part of the “Laurel Canyon thing that is a good reminder to us — that an audience wants Sound.” Is that something you guys identify yourselves as? Do to feel part of and feel as if the you find that label accurate? band is having as good of a time TS: I had never heard of the as them. And those guys really make everyone feel like they are “Laurel Canyon Sound” before

people started calling us that. There were a lot of great artists that were hanging up there that have had an influence on us. But they are just a part of what we draw inspiration from. It’s flattering to be compared to those legends though, for sure. DN: What’s next for you as a band? Can we expect a new record or EP any time soon? Maybe a headlining tour? TS: After this tour we are going into the studio to do LP three. DN: That leads me to my next question ... Do you think there’s a point in a band’s career where they have to become a full-time headlining band? And if so, do you think that Dawes is approaching that point? TS: I think definitely bands become strictly headlining bands, but I think we are a long way off from that. But hopefully we’ll get there. DN: Last question. You’ve worked with some pretty big names, including Robbie Robertson, Jackson Browne, Chris Robinson, Benmont Tench, Pat Sansone ... the list really goes on and on. Who has had the greatest impact on the band? TS: It’s hard to say. Clearly we have had the closest relationship with Jackson, and what he has done for us is something we couldn’t possibly repay. But playing with all these guys have been such great teachers that to say one more than the other isn’t easy to do. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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technologies. One way to better understand and appreciate your favorite book or movie is to look for influences from the past. Looking for the ways authors and artists tell new stories with old material can be fascinating. And there is no cut-and-dry way to define what is classic. It isn’t an overnight decision. “The Lord of the Rings” didn’t immediately insert itself into canonical literature after the first reader said “Wow, cool story,

bro.” (In fact, it took years for Tolkien to publish the trilogy, but that’s another story). By definition, the “classics” are works of literature that have survived throughout the ages. Think “Wuthering Heights,” “Dracula” and “Pride and Prejudice.” Like Dr. Seuss, these authors may have affected an entire generation. Or perhaps they revolutionized the way language is written and spoken, like Shakespeare. Whatever the case may

be, their books stuck around. In case you’re starting to think this is about to become extremely boring, please bear with me. My intention is not to gradually shove these books into your unsuspecting and unwilling minds. No, instead my intention is to show you, over the course of the semester, how much of these classics you have already been exposed to in your day-to-day existence. Seriously, the effects of these books in the twentieth century are astoundingly pervasive.

And it isn’t even just books that are influenced by classic literature. Songs, movies and television shows hint at classic stories all the time. We even use references from these classics in our daily conversations. You may think you know nothing about classic literature, but, then again, you may surprise yourself. Rachel Staats is a senior journalism major, Reach her at Arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema took what his predecessor Barry Alvarez had going and ran with it. The headman in Madison came out of the gate strong, winning 12 games in his debut season as coach. He was fired up. He had the program headed in the right direction and was going to build something out of it, Bielema said. Then he talked to Lloyd Carr. The former Michigan coach had some bad news for him. “Lloyd Carr, a guy that I greatly respect, when he was in our league, he said to me after my 12-1 year, ‘Boy did you screw up,” Bielema said. “I’m thinking ‘What did I do?’ He says to me, ‘You won 12 games in your first year. They’re going to expect you to do that every year.’” Carr was partially joking, but Bielema says he learned a lesson about expectations from that conversation. When a coach has some success, people expect it to keep coming. “I think about that a lot,”

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Bret Bielema has created a winning culture at Wisconsin. During his tenure, UW is 60-19 and the Badgers have made two trips to the Rose Bowl. ni and Nebraska’s Bielema said. “People just expect we We probably one game at a time mentality, are going to be would have talks to his playgood, and it’s not ers about getting that easy.” had a chance to the title game. Bielema’s reHe uses it as mocord at Wisconsin to be in that tivation. makes it look easy. pool two years “When we reThe coach is 60-19 port for camp, the in six seasons as out of the last national champihead coach. He’s six years. That’s onship is not gotaken the Badgers ing to be a goal, to back to back Rose pretty cool. We’re but I think it is Bowls, and has a talking about important for the team that will complayers to realize pete for that honor Wisconsin might how close they again this season. have a shot to have been,” he He is hesitant to talk said. “We kind of about it and build win two national address that in more expectations, championships January, February, but the coach knows March to let them his team is close to in the last six know big pictaking the next step ture where they and getting into the years. That’s stand.” national title pic- unprecedented. Bielema has ture. bret bielema Wisconsin in the “I think it’s just wisconsin football coach thick of the nahuman nature when tional conversayou are as close tion. With the as we’ve been (to new playoff system set for implethink about it),” he said. “I told the guys, ‘You know we’ve been mentation in 2014, he doesn’t see them going anywhere. knocking on the door of the na“I printed off an article, a tional championship game a few years in a row now, so lets get story on this new format, with ourselves in a position to possibly a four team playoff,” the coach said. “We probably would have walk through that thing.’” Bielema, in contrast to Bo Peli- had a chance to be in that pool

two years out of the last six years. That’s pretty cool. We’re talking about Wisconsin might have a shot to win two national championships in the last six years. That’s unprecedented.” Wisconsin’s ground-pound offensive style has been a catalyst to the team’s upward movement in recent seasons. Bielema had to replace offensive coordinator Paul Chryst in the offseason, but don’t expect them to move away from what has worked. “The philosophy is the same,” running back Montee Ball said. “We are Wisconsin. We are going to grind it out, but we are really looking forward to (new offensive coordinator Matt Canada) bringing in some things from his past. He’s a great coach, a really intelligent offensive coordinator.” Bielema said he really enjoys the lifestyle in Wisconsin, even more than he thought when he made the decision to coach there. “The reason I came to Wisconsin as a defensive coordinator, was because I loved what Wisconsin was,” he said. “I wanted to get back to the Big Ten, but I didn’t really know as much as when I finally got here. That’s the part that I’ve really embraced, fitting into the crowd.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Preaseason hype tells little about action HUSKERS ON AWARDS WATCH LIST PLAYER

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Paul Hornung Award Watch List (Most Versatile Player) Hendricks Award Watch List Preseason All-America Honor 2012 Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List Doak Walker Award Watch List Maxwell Award Watch List Manning Award Watch List O’Brien Watch List Lombardi Watch List Outland Trophy Watch List Lombardi Watch List Outland Trophy Watch List Lott IMPACT Trophy Watch List Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award Watch List Ray Guy Award Watch List Mackey Award Watch List

Chris Peters The popularity contest has already begun. Dozens of postseason awards have named their list of players to watch entering the college football season, essentially limiting the number of possible award winners before a single down is played. Preseason accolades and awards watch lists detail a “who’s who” of college football, weeks before players take the field. Committees made up of former players, media members and coaches create cliques in a sport where the “haves” already dwarf the “have nots.” Players with breakthrough years are often left by the wayside if they don’t make one of these preseason lists. There are always exceptions, such as Auburn’s Cam Newton in 2010 — an under-theradar junior college transfer who broke out and won the Heisman Trophy — but, as a general rule,

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any player that isn’t a “watch lister” has an outside chance at an award. For Nebraska, there has never been much concern about not making watch lists. The Huskers have the fourth-winningest pro-

gram of all time and have the exposure to secure watch-list nods for most of their strong players. It’s the other teams — the Arkansas States, New Mexicos and Idahos — that have the most to lose in the popularity contest. Their

programs are an afterthought compared to the BCS conference powerhouses. It’s the same reason pre-season top-25 polls are a joke. Watch lists shouldn’t exist because they judge players and programs be-

are sure to make things interesting for Thramer, a player who split starting time with Wilberger last season. “They’ve come to compete and they’ve come to play,” Thramer said. “Nothing is certain.” As for Cook’s thoughts on who will get the playing time this season, he’s just not sure yet. He’s happy the Huskers have options and that they played so well in front of a crowd with little experience together. “We’ve got a lot to work on,” Cook said. “But we’ve only practiced nine days and we haven’t done a lot of team stuff. I’m really pleased with the level of play and how we executed tonight for stretches of the game.” It takes longer for players to get ready for a season than that. And come next weekend when the Huskers play St. Louis, UCLA and Notre Dame, Cook thinks his squad will be ready. “We’re going to see everybody progress really nicely,” Cook said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

fore they have had the opportunity to prove themselves on the field. Sure, there is always last season to look back on to try and predict who will succeed, but these are awards for 2012, are they not? Let’s leave 2011 out of it. As much as Nebraska fans praise him, Rex Burkhead should not be judged on his merit in 2011 for an award given for the 2012 season. However, because watch list committees have nothing to judge but 2011 for the 2012 preseason watch lists, Burkhead finds himself with an inside track to win three awards, as well as a postseason All-American nomination. Burkhead is one of just eight Nebraska players appearing on a total of 14 watch lists. As long as Burkhead and his fellow watchlisters can match or come close to matching their non-watch listed competition they are likely to steal the award from a more worthy non-watch lister. Overexposure and overcoverage of college football continues to damage this sport’s credibility, which often rushes to single out the best players and teams far before the time is necessary. Awards should be for merit, not potential. Just let ‘em play first, okay? Chris Peters is a senior journalism major. Reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

football: from 14 this line needs to remain strong throughout a rugged Big Ten schedule. The freshman class may not see time on the field this season, but its development has already begun, Kaczenski said. Martin is impressed with the young guys on this team, he said. “We have a lot of big defensive linemen and that’s going to be the future of our team and they are going to be really big,” Martin said. “They’re going to be good, too.” A lot will be expected out of those freshmen, not just this year but in the future, Kazcenski said. As for this year though, a lot will be expected out of the entire line. “Anytime you go into a season you have high expectations, and we aren’t going to drop them,” Kazcenski said. “This is Nebraska and those expectations should be high.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Huskers welcome a new coach for 2012 season Sara Hinds DN For a short time, Stacy Underwood was the most hated person on campus at Fullerton College. So, she became a fast writer. “Because the worst part ever is writing a ticket and someone comes back to their car,” Underwood said. That’s just the nature of writing parking tickets. As the new rifle coach for the women’s team at the University of NebraskaLincoln, Underwood won’t be dealing with parking offenders arguing for mercy. Instead, she’ll be coming back to the University she competed for from 2003 to 2007. Underwood was an only child growing up in Fullerton, Calif. She surfed, she played hockey, she threw shot put and she ran cross country. But she didn’t start shooting until her senior year of high school. After high school graduation, she took a year to go to junior college and work. During that time Underwood shot at national matches and got to know the Huskers’ rifle coach at the time. After a recruiting trip, Underwood didn’t just decide to go to Nebraska, she wanted to go to Nebraska. “There’s a lot of support from the state,” Underwood said. “You go everywhere and everyone has Husker gear on

My approach, especially with my background, is really train this sport like an athletic event with athletes. It’s all the components. Stacy Underwood nu rifle coach

... That’s something you can’t replicate and you can’t fake, and when you’re here everyone knows each other ’s names.” Underwood came to Nebraska, shot and left her name in the books. She was a four-year letter winner and was named Great America Rifle Conference senior of the year in 2007. During her time at UNL she helped the Huskers finish third, fifth and sixth in the NCAA. After earning her bachelor ’s degree in education, Underwood accepted a graduate assistant coaching position at Kentucky. So when Underwood heard NU was in need of a rifle head coach after Morgan Hicks resigned after the 2011-2012 season, she battled many emotions. She’d been at Kentucky for five years, but she yearned for a head coaching position. The fact that she could become a head coach at her alma mater made the deci-

sion just a bit easier. “It was a little bit of mixed emotion, I think, especially since I had been there for five years at Kentucky,” Underwood said. “It was definitely my family and it was where I got my start and I’m very thankful for everything that they did for me at Kentucky. But at the same time, you have goals and careers and that’s just kind of the next step for me. “It was sad because I was so invested in that program and really felt like I had a family there, but at the same time it was a joyous occasion because I knew I was coming back to where I started and be able to give back that experience to student athletes here.” Seniors Katelyn Woltersdorf and Janine Dutton have spoken on the phone with and met Underwood, respectively. Woltersdorf said it’s not just the similar short haircut both she

and Underwood sport that seals the deal for her. After a phone conversation with Underwood, Woltersdorf said her ideas for how she wants the team to interact made Woltersdorf excited for a new season with Underwood as their new coach. “All the stuff that she said was just right on cue,” Woltersdorf said. Dutton agreed and said that Underwood will help get them to where they want to be as a team. “I think she’s gonna be a great influence on this team,” Dutton said. Being a former student athlete at NU, Underwood has a unique coaching style. “My approach, especially with my background, is really train this sport like an athletic

event with athletes,” Underwood said. “It’s all the components. It’s the skills training, it’s the physical conditioning and also the mental preparation that goes into being the best competitor you can be ... My style is really figuring out more of the scientific and systematic approach to training and integrating those three things.” Underwood is already eager to get her first season as NU’s head coach started. Practices for the team start next week, and their first match is Oct. 5 when they compete against Alaska. “I’m just ready to get going,” Underwood said. “There’s only so much you can do in the summer.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska defender Caroline Flynn advances a ball against Drake during a 1-0 NU loss on Sunday. Flynn led the Huskers with four shots, two of which were on target. competing with the Mexican U-20 National team. With these important players missing from the roster, the Nebraska women’s soccer team looked to its younger players to step up even more. The freshman Flynn led the way with four shots on goal, but it wasn’t enough to give the Huskers a victory. Even though NU was disappointed with the weekend, Flynn

says the Huskers aren’t ready to give up quite yet. “Our team is really good at staying in it and fighting until the end. We just need to start winning the ball back and then learning to settle down.” Even though the Huskers wanted to start of the season well with a couple of good wins, they will be looking to fight back next weekend with the Nebraska Clas-

sic. Nebraska will take on tough programs in New Mexico and Virginia Tech, but with some wins, could look to fight back for the rest of the season. “We’re looking to shaking off this week and starting fresh,” Flynn said. “We’ll keep working hard, and I think you’ll see a new team next weekend.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU freshman Alexa Strange dished out 36 assists and managed 16 digs in four sets of action during the Nebraska volleyball red vs. white game on Saturday night.

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The San Clemente, Calif., native recorded 36 assists in the scrimmage, second to senior Lauren Cook’s game-high 50, and finished Nebraska volleyball’s freshmen the second set with a team high 10 made an impression on NU coach assists. John Cook Saturday at his team’s Cook said he was impressed red vs. white scrimmage. with how she played with former The fourth ranked Huskers’ Olympians Nancy Metcalf and fresh faces produced 31 kills over Kayla Banwarth and added that the four sets and the white squad, setter’s play made a great impact mostly made up of youngsters, on how he’ll use Strange during the challenged the red team, taking the regular season. second set and outhitting the red “That’s what I love about Alteam .211 to .095 in the second set. With the team having a limited exa,” he said. “She has an Olympian player next to her, better freshnumber of practices before Saturmen and she sets a great ball to her day, Cook said he was proud of teammates. .. I thought she did a heck how the freshmen handled themof a job.” selves in front of fans at the NU Strange said at first it was aweColiseum. inspiring setting a two-time Olym“Normally we’d have another pian, but said it got week of practice uneasier as the match der our belt before “It was went on. we’d play this game,” “At first it was the NU coach said. a little overwhelming “We haven’t done a playing with somelot of team stuff, so overwhelming one at that level,” I’m really pleased at the beginning she said. “You’re with the level of play kind of star struck. and how we executed but I think the But as you get used tonight for only nine adrenaline helped to it you want to days of practice. play that much bet“To do it in front me play to a ter because they’re of 3,500, I think they whole other level. an Olympian.” did a really good job. Strange said They make our gym Alexa Strange she’d never before better.” freshman rightside competed in front Junior Hayley of 3,557 spectators Thramer also praised but said it’s somethe freshmen and the thing she could get used to doing the intensity the new middle blockers Cecilia Hall and Meghan Haggerty rest of the season alongside her NU teammates. bring to practice. They keep her “It was a little overwhelming at from feeling too secure in her job, the beginning but I think the adrenashe said. line helped me play to a whole other “Nothing is certain,” Thramer said. “In our gym, it’s really com- level,” she said. “I think our team played better because of the crowd petitive.” and it was an amazing experience.” One person Cook gave signifisports@ cant praise to was freshman Alexa dailynebraskan.com Strange.

Husker middle blocker Hayley Thramer goes up for a block during the Nebraska red vs. white game. The middle blockers swapped sides after the second set as the reds beat the whites 3-1 at the NU Coliseum.

tuning up Nebraska middle blockers fill holes during the red vs. white game as they look forward to NU’s season

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NU d-line hopes to anchor 2012 defense Huskers look for a solid Blackshirts defense, starting in the trenches Andrew Ward DN Taylor Martinez was in the middle of an interview after Wednesday’s practice when Eric Martin stepped behind him. The senior defensive end started making faces while Martinez talked to the press, causing the usually serious starting quarterback to crack a smile. That’s just who Martin is. The senior is often seen cracking jokes and almost always has a smile on his face. He is the vocal one on a quiet defensive line that returns three starters, including seniors Baker Steinkuhler and Cameron Meredith along with junior Jason Ankrah. Martin said he has to be vocal because none of the other guys say much. “Cam (Meredith) doesn’t really say anything,” Martin said. “He’ll come up and say something to me because he doesn’t want to say it out loud. “Jason (Ankrah), he’s just a centaur, he’s kind of quiet. You know centaurs are always quiet. You give them a sugar cube and they walk away.” Martin’s vocal leadership, along with the lead-by-example mentality of Steinkuhler and Meredith might be the key to bringing back a dominant defensive line. Steinkuhler and Meredith are on a handful of preseason watch lists. Meredith is on the Hendricks Award watch list for his play on the field and leadership off it.

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Nebraska defensive tackle Baker Steinkuhler anchors a defensive unit that only managed 21 sacks last season. Steinkuhler has been named to several watch lists for the 2012 season. Steinkuhler is on the Lombardi Watch List (given to the best collegiate lineman or linebacker),

ebraska volleyball came into the 2012 season with one big question mark: How would the No. 4 Huskers’ middle blockers perform after losing seniors Brooke Delano and Jordan Wilberger? It appears that much of the burden would fall to junior Hayley Thramer, who started 21 matches last season and was second on the squad in blocks. Allison McNeal hasn’t played for two seasons. Cecilia Hall sat out last year with a redshirt. And Meghan Haggerty is a true freshman. But it’s not clear-cut. They all bring a lot of talent to the table, showing NU coach John Cook’s ability to restock talent. The inexperienced players give Thramer more drive and motivation to play at her highest level. “We all strive to compete every single day,” she said. “And you just never know who is going to play the next game.” On Saturday, Thramer and the other middle blockers were put to their first test in front of a crowd at the NU Coliseum during the Red vs. White game. The Reds, comprised of much of the Huskers’ firepower, beat the Whites 3-1, dropping only the second set. The white squad kept things close and stole the second set while holding the red team to a .095 hitting percentage. But after the break between the second and third sets NU’s stars came out ready to play, hitting .394 in set three and .484 in set four. “I thought for a red-white game it was really high-level,” coach John Cook said. “There was a lot of good volleyball going on out there. The white team really stressed our red team. I thought they had to raise their level of play.” Cook was proud of the way his middles played, praising each one during his postgame press conference. “Those four kids did a nice job tonight,” Cook said. “They did some really good things ... I think that’s the strength of our team. We’ve got to use our middles.” The middle blockers were effective on defense, notching six blocks in four sets, but they also created points on the offensive end with 24 kills. They were led in kills by McNeal, who took advantage of freshman setter Alexa Strange’s higher balls as she notched eight of her nine kills on the white squad. “She’s so high up there she really changes the game,” Cook said. “The best thing (McNeal) did is she was very comfortable on her control. Sometimes she gets too worked up and that was good to see after not playing for two years.” McNeal and the two freshmen

the Outland Trophy Watch List (given to the best interior lineman) and the Lott IMPACT Tro-

phy Watch List (given to a defensive player with exceptional character). Even with his teammates’ preseason accolades, Martin still needs to speak up. “Only when stuff is going bad (I’m the loud one),” Martin said. “When we are doing team stuff, I get mad, I’m emotional about it and yeah I have a few words to say.” Stiffening up the run defense and developing a pass rush are a couple things the defensive line needs to work on, Martin said. Last season the Husker defense was eighth in the Big Ten in rushing defense, giving up 158.5 yards a game. When teams passed, the line wasn’t much better as it recorded just 21 sacks, which put Nebraska at No. 9 in the Big Ten. Those numbers are hardly what the Blackshirts are used to. Martin said he is more vocal than in years past because of last year ’s struggles. However, Martin is looking to the future now, he said. “Whether you think I had a good season or not last year, I can always get better,” Martin said. “I really don’t worry about what happened last year, I just focus on what’s happening now.” This season, the Husker defense has a solid combination of veterans and young talent to have its best season since All-Pro defensive tack Ndamukong Suh graduated, according to defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski. “As far as where these guys compare to any other front I’ve coached I think they’re as good as anybody,” Kaczenski said. Martin, Meredith, Steinkuhler and junior Ankrah will anchor the line, but sophomore Chase Rome along with a strong class of freshman should add the depth

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with covering our territory and our shots on goal,” NU coach John Walker said. “But full credit After Nebraska women’s soccer to Drake, they fought hard.” With the loss, the Huskmatch on Sunday, the moods beers have dropped their first two tween the Huskers and their opgames of the season after losing ponent Drake were different. their season opener to Oklahoma Screams were heard all around from the Bulldogs’ bench 2-1 on Friday. For Nebraska, the start of the as they defeated the Huskers season has brought some new 1-0, while not much challenges. noise was coming from With a very It was the Huskers’ sideline. young roster, Most Nebraska players disappointing Nebraska is left the field showing a looking to frustration that was felt today with start fresh throughout the game. from last year While the victory for covering our after a disDrake represented an territory and our appointing upset, for Nebraska it season under represented another dis- shots on goal. .500 in the appointing game at the But full credit to Big Ten. start of its season. And with The match was a Drake, they fought Sunday’s hard-fought battle for hard match there both teams as the score were even John Walker remained tied at 0-0 nu soccer coach a few more into the second half, but differences. Drake prevailed with a While the goal by forward Ashley game was at home for the HuskStokes 20 minutes into the second ers, with the new surface at Nehalf, giving them the 1-0 victory. braska Soccer Field not ready With only four shots on goal by Nebraska and two from Drake for play, they opened their first match at Abbott Sports Complex in the first half, both teams headinstead. Although the Huskers ed into the second half looking for didn’t play a true home game, improvement across the board. Walker said it wasn’t a big deal “We came out kind of disconnected,” NU freshman defender for the Nebraska squad. “We’ve trained out here and Caroline Flynn said. had every practice, so it really In the second half, the Huskwasn’t a factor,” he said. ers saw that improvement offenIn addition, two key veterans sively with nine shots on goal and lots of close looks. But the were missing from the matches for the Huskers this weekend. Sepace of the game was changed when Stokes’ shot off the crossbar nior forward Jordan Jackson was bounced back into the goal and absent along with junior defender Ari Romero, who is currently slipped right out of NU goalkeeper Emma Stevens’ reach. “It was disappointing today soccer: see page 13