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Wisconsin doctor to join health center in September staff report The University Health Center has hired two new caregivers.

The health center has hired Wisconsin physician Dr. Dwight Wigg to take a vacant spot after three doctors left the center because they felt uncertain of its future, UHC Director Dr. James Guest said.

Wigg is an Omaha native and will start work in his home state on Sept. 30, after giving up a family practice.

On Monday, the health center also hired a temporary physician’s assistant who will see patients this

academic year, Guest said. He wouldn’t release the assistant’s name, as a background check is in progress.

The center is still advertising another physician position but has eliminated the third vacant post to cut costs, meaning the center will operate with three physicians this year rather than its original four. Guest will continue to visit with patients when necessary. Read Wednesday’s Daily Nebraskan for more health center updates. news @dailynebraskan.com

School year boosts downtown business to Red Mango. He said his preparation included printing Restaurants prepare coupons to give out to sorority and fraternity houses as for uptick in business well as at Big Red Welcome. as classes begin, Other downtown businesses said they, too, are shiftfootball season ing their business focuses now that school is back in session. approaches Amanda Tangeman, store manager at the Nebraska Bookstore at 13th and Q Cristina Woodworth streets, said last week that DN employees were busy getting new products on the shelves As thousands of University of Nein time for the start of classes. braska-Lincoln students are set“We are in the middle of tling back into campus this week, receiving a lot of goods right area businesses are dealing with now,” Tangeman said. “We’re an annual surge in business. just trying to get everything Several downtown business out on the shelves.” managers, said their close proximTangeman said she plans ity to campus means a drastic into hire about 10 new employcrease in business when students ees this fall to help with the come back to school. expected increase in business.

“We have our steady business The bookstore has about 30 over the summer of course, but employees total. there’s going to be an influx of Employees at Dempsey’s 15,000 people a block away from Burger Pub, at 228 N. 12 St., us, so business does pick up quite said they were looking fora bit,” downtown Lincoln Red ward to experiencing their Mango General Manager Ryan first surge in university stuBrown said last week. dent business after opening He said Red about a month Mango, located at ago.

14th and P streets, “We are This is the is a popular locaabsolutely closest bar tion with UNL stuexpecting to dents. The frozen or restaurant to see an uptick yogurt store often in business,” sponsors Greek the stadium so Dempsey’s philanthropy and it’s going to be so manager Jake university organiBrandt said. zation fundraisers hectic in here on Dempsey’s, each semester. which opened gamedays.”

The store preon July 8, will pares for the inalso be offering crease in business university stujake brandt each fall by focusdents a special dempsey’s manager ing on staff traindeal on Tuesing and beefing up days, when their marketing they can get half-price burgers, strategies, Brown said.

Brandt said.

“We make sure our new staff is The new burger joint was at acquainted with the procedures in UNL’s Big Red Welcome event our store, because each Red Manand also donated free samples go is a little bit different,” he said. to several on-campus events Brown said he has also been fothis summer, Brandt said. cusing on on-campus advertising strategies to draw more students dOWNTOWN: see page 2

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Naldo Yang (left), junior business administration major, exchange student Felix Herr and freshman computer science major Suehan Kim play soccer during the international student picnic on the Selleck Greenspace Monday.

Picnic on the Green Photos by MORGAN SPieHS

Administrative operations assistant Brittany Bardis (left) and sophomore finance major Nicole Low converse on the grass during the gathering.

Activist group sprouts UNL roots Senior student leads advocacy group that aims to fight extreme poverty, influence public policy Mara Klecker dn A new grassroots organization on campus is looking for members and officers to help spread awareness and advocacy about extreme poverty.

ONE is an international, nonpartisan nonprofit group that formed in 2002. The organization focuses on the idea that actions speak louder than words and collective voices can come together to make a difference. Taylor Thompson, a senior sustainability in the built environment major, was hand-picked by ONE’s Campus Challenge team to start a ONE group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Though Thompson’s passion is sustainability, she has always been interested in the social justice movement and advocacy. She said it was ONE’s mission that led to her involvement.

“One of the ways that I was really attracted to the ONE campaign is that they don’t ask for money and that they are nonpartisan,” Thompson said. “So everybody, no matter your political views, you can be a part of ONE because the focus is collective local voices.”

Thompson hopes to create a group of students at UNL who will work to make their voices heard by writing to elected officials to influence public policy. UNL’s ONE group is not a Registered Student Organization yet because the group does not have an executive team and other members. However, Thompson is determined to build a team of dedicated students who will carry on the mission even after she graduates in December. Thompson said involvement in the group will benefit the students because members of the executive team can earn an internship credit.

Thompson said her goal this semester is to gain publicity and help the group grow. She also hopes to make UNL a strong contender in the ONE Campus Challenge, a competition in which 100 schools participate in various advocacy activities to earn points. A few dedicated students from the campuses with the

most points have the opportunity to travel with ONE to Washington, D.C., and Africa to see more about the organization’s programs. Currently, UNL’s ONE group ranks 69, with only 10 points. Thompson has been in contact with ONE groups on other Big Ten campuses and plans to organize some friendly competitions, such as having fans sign petitions on game day.

Thompson first heard about ONE at a U2 concert in May 2011.

Bono, the lead singer of the musical group, is an active supporter and promoter of the organization and made a call to action to the audience.

Meredith Horowski, ONE Campus Challege Coordinator, has faith that Thompson can accomplish her goals in a single semester. Horowski selected Thompson out of eight candidates interviewing to establish a UNL ONE group. UNL was a target campus because of its location in a congressional district. Horowski said Thompson stood out because of her passion, awareness, past leadership and mobilization experience.

“It was fantastic to meet with a student who was so familiar with us and has seen our organization evolve,” Horowski said. “She has an incredible amount of passion for our issues and has been passionate about it for a long time, so that really shown through to me.”

Thompson is an active member of Sustain UNL, Sustainable Living and Scarlet Guard and is the president of the Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization.

“I would be a little worried about the timeframe if it were someone else, but I’m not worried at all about Taylor,” Horowski said. “I think she can drum up a lot of student and faculty support for the work ONE is doing within the next semester and there will be a strong presence for ONE to carry one after she leaves.”

After graduating, Thompson wants to continue involvement with ONE as a community leader.

She plans to stay involved with the group here in Lincoln until she moves to Kansas City to pursue her dream of maintaining two businesses.

She hopes to open an online boutique selling “socially aware” clothing and accessories manufactured under fair business practices.

She also hopes to start a sustainability and wellness consulting business, where she will advise homeowners on ways to make their spaces more eco-friendly and better for their personal health.

Thompson wants to make a difference at UNL and beyond by pro-

Everybody, no matter your political views, you can be a part of ONE because the focus is collective local voices.” taylor thompson senior sustainability in the built environment major

moting awareness of issues ranging from sustainability in U.S. homes to the spread of HIV in Africa.

“I like helping people think differently about things and opening people’s minds,” she said. “I’d like many people on campus to think about these issues.”

To learn more about UNL’s ONE group, students and faculty are invited to attend one of the informational meetings:

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Taylor Thompson, a senior sustainability in the built environment major, just started a campus group that fights extreme poverty.

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For now, Lincoln dodges negative drought effects

Football Fridays move to Railyard district PAIGE OSBORNE DN The Nebraska Alumni Association’s Football Fridays event will return for its fifth year in Lincoln this week at a new location in the Haymarket’s Railyard district.

The event, which features live entertainment, music and special guests, will kick off at 5 p.m. Friday at 350 Canopy St. “The association is excited to move our Football Friday event to the new entertainment district,” Derek Engelbart, director of Alumni Relations, wrote in an email.

“This gives us a chance to show alumni and friends Lincoln’s newest development and hold Football

ily farms, this could change how and when they help.

Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at UNL’s National Drought Mitigation Center, said Lincoln has been on the very eastern edge of the drought.

“We have been teeter tottering back and forth, as precipitation levels go,” Svoboda said.

However, Svoboda said NeREECE RISTAU braska’s average moisture levels DN this summer could be misleading. Lincoln and the surroundThis summer’s drought in Ne- ing area received adequate rain braska impacted the state in in the beginning of summer, but small ways and left many won- then late June to early August dering what effect it will have. was dry, he said.

But according to state climaAs far as UNL is concerned, tologist and University of Ne- Dutcher said the drought likely braska-Lincoln geoscientist Al will not impact Landscaping Dutcher, the drought has not af- Services. fected the University of Nebras“UNL has its own well syska-Lincoln and the surrounding tem,” Dutcher said. “The water area as badly as was possible. used to keep the lawns healthy “As far as the official forecast is not city water.” goes for the next few months, a He said this fact is imporvast majority of tant to highlight Nebraska does because he believes “UNL has not have above there are many in or below norits own well Lincoln’s populamal temperation who are crititures,” Dutcher system. The water cal of water used said. by the university. used to keep the H o w e v e r, When the City of Dutcher said lawns healthy is Lincoln places wathat because of not city water.” ter restrictions on the recent coolits citizens, those ing, eastern restrictions do not Al dutcher Nebraska has apply to UNL beunl geoscientist experienced in cause the univerthe last 30 to 45 sity takes its water days, crop damfrom university-owned wells in age may have been masked for Ashland. The only possible efthe time being. fect Dutcher foresees is if those “With the heat likely to rewells have decreased in volume. turn in a few weeks, there isn’t As far as how Nebraska’s a promising future for precipitawinter could look, Dutcher said tion,” he said. it’s too early to tell. Until fall The most notable effect the patterns develop, he said it is weather will have may be when unclear how brutal winter will the fall harvest begins. Because be. If Nebraska sees an early of the recent cool weather mixed freeze as a result of cooler sumwith the plant delays that were mer temperatures, he said this necessary last spring, Dutcher could cause grain problems for said corn may not reach full farmers. maturity until late September NEWS@ or early October. For UNL stuDAILYNEBRASKAN.COM dents who help with their fam-

Summer drought has not influenced eastern Nebraska as much as originally expected

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The two Republicans who were likely to battle for the GOP nomination, Rick Sheehy and Mike Flood, both dropped out of the race recently, leaving the field open.

Republican Charles Herbster also dropped out of the race last week after learning of his wife’s health issues.

Read on to stay updated on the candidates who could fill Gov. Dave Heineman’s seat next year.

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ANNETTE DUBAS Party affiliation: Democrat Current position: Nebraska state senator Age: 57 Hometown: Fullerton About: New to the campaign, Dubas hasn’t released her platforms yet - but she’s been a proponent of modernizing the tax code in Nebraska, supports the rights of undocumented immigrants and supported the Keystone XL pipeline. She has served on the state legislature for seven years and is also a farmer and rancher.

CHUCK HASSEBROOK Party affiliation: Democrat Current position: Executive director of the Center for Rural Affairs Age: 58 Hometown: Lyons About: Hassebrook, a former University of Nebraska Regent, has a campaign focused on education opportunity and quality at all levels, developing wind enHasseBrook ergy in the state and increasing support for small business owners.

watching the scale

Duke University researchers found in a study of 194 overweight African-American women that if they focus on not gaining pounds, people are more likely to commit to a diet plan than if they focus on losing weight.

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Jenny Green, associate director for student programs, said she hopes that Football Fridays will be a part of a game day tradition.

“Everyone has their own tradition for game day, and I think Football Fridays are a good way to be a part of that,” Green said.

Garage parking on Arena Drive and R Street will be available for attendees as well as food and drink for purchase at surrounding restaurants. Hiro 88, Mellow Mushroom, Buffalo Wings & Rings and Jimmy Johns are a few of the new places opening up for dining. Future Football Fridays will be held Sept. 6, Sept. 13, Sept. 20, Oct. 4 and Nov. 15.

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The summer brought a few changes in the growing list of Nebraska governor hopefuls. Five frontrunners have emerged, although primaries won’t take place until May for the November 2014 election.

a manly habit Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara published a study late last month in “Evolution & Human Behavior” that indicated the action of chopping wood may boost testosterone levels even more than playing competitive sports.

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pects the number to grow because of the new location and alumni reaction to the events. Attendees can win prizes like Husker football tickets, Nebraska Champions Club Passes, Adidas gear and Husker memorabilia. The Husker Spirit Squad and pep band will also perform for the crowd.

Football Fridays began in 2008 and have continued to bring familyfriendly activities ever since.

“Mainly the alumni association wanted a way to celebrate football games here on campus by inviting alumni, family and friends to come down, and not only be a part of events on campus, but get ready for the weekend and be a part of the football game,” Engelbart said.

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Fridays at a location that is family friendly and inviting to alumni and current students alike.”

Attendees will be able to rub elbows with Husker legends and well-known media members. This Friday’s event will include guests such as Nebraska Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst, former Huskers quarterback Tommie Frazier and Husker Sports Network commentator Matt Davison, among others.

Media will answer questions and give insight and analysis to Saturday’s game against Wyoming. Admission is free.

Football Fridays draw on average, 350 to 400 people to each event with Homecoming games reaching close to 800. Engelbart said he ex-

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BEAU MCCOY Party affiliation: Republican Current position: Nebraska state senator Age: 32 Hometown: Omaha About: McCoy joined the race late, announcing his candidacy last week just after Herbster departed. McCoy identifies as anti-abortion, supports Second Amendment rights and is against in-state tuition benefits for undocumented immigrants.

CHARLIE JANSSEN Party affiliation: Republican Current position: Nebraska state senator Age: 42 Hometown: Fremont About: Janssen, the first to enter the race for governor, has a focus on making the tax system less arbitrary and lobbyist-based. In his time on the state legislature, he twice introduced a bill that would have required voters to show photo IDs when they vote. He is a vocal supporter of the Second Amendment.

PETE RICKETTS Party affiliation: Republican Current position: Director of Platte Institute for Economic Research Age: 49 Hometown: Omaha About: Ricketts is the former chief operating officer of Ameritrade. He ran in the 2006 Senate race in Nebraska, losing to incumbent Ben Nelson. Ricketts would like to reduce government spending, opposes abortion and supports the death penalty.

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Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley found that drivers of roomier vehicles are more likely to cheat, behave unethically and not mention overpayment.

dirty little secret

A study conducted by British mattress company Ergoflex found that single men ranging in age from 18 to 25 only wash their bed sheets four times a year, on average. Half of responders said that was an acceptable frequency, and another 19 percent said they simply didn’t care.

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best foot forward

A new study by professors at Brigham Young University published in American Marketing Association’s August edition found that shoppers who wore high heels were more likely to not overspend while shopping because wearing the shoes gave them a better sense of balance.

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Construction in the Haymarket is bringing new businesses to downtown Lincoln. The Pinnacle Bank Arena will be open to the public for self-guided tours from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. during Open House weekend starting on Thursday and continuing Friday.

“This is the closest bar or restaurant to the stadium so it’s going to be so hectic in here on game days,” he said.

M.J. Taylor, manager at Lincoln’s downtown Panera Bread, said he expects the third home game

of the football season, when the Huskers play UCLA on Sept. 14, to have the biggest effect on Panera’s business.

“It’s at 11 a.m.,” Taylor said.

“We’re just going to get slammed.”

Taylor said the downtown

Panera location generally doesn’t hire many new employees each fall because so many students request to transfer there from Panera Bread locations they work at back home.

For now, Taylor said he is just focusing on making sure all of his

employees are prepared for the busy school months ahead.

“We’re ready,” he said. “We’re excited for the game days and all the students being back around.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Women’s athletics deserves equal attention as men’s In recent years, Nebraska women’s athletics has had several successful organizations. Yet many of these teams are often overshadowed by their male counterparts in football or basketball. Just last season, women’s athletics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln came home with a number of accolades.

The bowling team won a national championship. Basketball made an appearance in the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament.

Nebraska’s softball team made the College World Series. The volleyball team recorded three wins in the NCAA tournament.

Tennis reached the Sweet 16 as a team and had a runner-up in the individual tournament.

The Daily Nebraskan editorial board feels these teams do not receive as much attention and respect as they have worked to earn and thinks more can be done to support these female athletes.

The approved soccer and tennis facility to be built just north of campus is a solid step in the right direction. With a more attractive housing environment, we feel both women’s soccer and tennis will greatly benefit from the addition. Better resources and a more convenient arena will help those teams attract fans.

The Daily Nebraskan strongly urges students, fans and administrators to make a conscious effort to support the university’s women’s athletics. Athletes should be given equal recognition, regardless of the sport. From planning and organizing promotional events during women’s athletic games to becoming reliable fans, more can be done to bring women’s athletics to the same level of respect as is given to men.

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College reform plan good first step

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hortly after we return to campus, before we’ve memorized our schedules or dropped that “8 a.m. class,” the first stress-inducing student bill appears on MyRed. Then we send off our hard-earned funds to pay for tuition, room, board and all those lovely fees.

Studies commissioned by the National Center for Education Statistics and families have observed the rising cost of paying for college.

Politicians have debated how best to assess and counter this problem. These debates lead to President Barack Obama’s Aug. 29 speech at the University at Buffalo where he outlined his plan to make college more affordable.

As I will explain, the president is discussing dates as early as 2015 and 2018 to implement his plan. If his ideas proceed into law they will directly affect students entering college this year and the bills they see. Considering these early deadlines, a discussion of the president’s basic points and the commentary surrounding them is relevant. Obama’s remarks on Thursday built on promises made earlier in his presidency.

In the 2012 State of the Union address, the president focused on partnering businesses and community colleges. These partnerships would allow hard-working citizens with limited funds to gain skills needed for higher-paying, modern jobs. The president promised to make college more affordable by reducing interest on college loans, extend tuition tax credit and expand work-study jobs. He assured universities that if they couldn’t decrease the cost of education, their tax funds would stop.

“Higher education can’t be a luxury – it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” Obama said in the 2013 State of the Union. Obama applauded colleges that were competing to implement new programs. These programs included partnerships with community colleges that allow high school students to graduate with a diploma and an associate’s degree. He also promised and completed the implementation of a “College Scorecard” to determine where students could “get the most bang for your educational buck.” This scorecard was the beginning of his plan to hold colleges accountable for lowering education costs.

On Thursday, the president listed more of his specific goals and outlined the steps to achieve them.

By 2015, the education committee will expand the new college rating system. College scores are based on how many students graduate on time, how much debt graduates incur and how easily they pay off their debt. The committee will post score results to help stu-

ment of Education will enforce new mandates without considering what individual colleges and students actually need. The article does support the more solid systems of measuring amy student improvement and helping them pay off kenyon debt.

For my part, I see flaws in the details of the plan. In the past, federal aid has been linked to college enrollment. Thus, colleges could forget about their students once they arrived on campus. Under the new system, aid would be dents decide which college to attend. By 2018, determined by difficult-to-measure outcome the president also hopes to use these ratings factors. How will the study make widely varied institutions comparable? How will they considto determine the allocation of federal aid. Part one of this allocation would require students er other factors involved in graduate earnings? to complete the coursework for one semester The president hopes the new system will force before receiving aid for the following semester. schools to search for more creative, less costly means of improving themselves. However, stuThus, if students drop out, they won’t have incurred more debt than education. This system dents already attending schools with low rates under the new system may have trouble getting would create a concrete way to hold students the aid they need, through no fault of their own. accountable for their education.

Also plausible, taxpayer money would Part two of the plan is to encourage comskew toward the already high-achieving colpetition among universities. The president provided several examples of alternate systems be- leges. Yes, more colleges may improve by earning implemented. These systems are designed ing these funds. How will schools who already to continue the quality of education at a frac- have low funds fix themselves? This problem has been observed with high schools and tax tion of the cost. These opportunities include online courses, partnering with high schools distribution. The good get better, but the struggling get worse. Would this difto allow students to earn college ference force some colleges to credit early and allocating class Overall, close? What effect would these credit based on the student’s unclosings have on the job marderstanding of the course mateObama’s ket? Under the new system, sturial. dents are free to choose which The final step is to help stu- plan is a step in dents with debt to manage and the right direction. college to attend. However, if a school is otherwise appealing afford those fees. Debt for educabut doesn’t have enough funds, tion has been seen as a wise in- The plan would the student would have trouble vestment since it solidly improves hold colleges getting aid. one’s future job prospects. The Overall, Obama’s plan is a president said he understands the accountable for step in the right direction. The purpose of the system but insists their students plan would hold colleges acdebt should be kept manageable. countable for their students Therefore, he wants to educate beyond initial beyond initial enrollment. Stustudents on their repayment openrollment. dents would be able to balance tions. One option to expand is the debt with education and be acPay As You Earn plan. Qualifying countable for their success. The graduates pay only 10 percent of concrete steps of the plan are far preferable to their new income toward removing their debt.

A flurry of discussion is already gathering the indecisive commentary previously seen. An issue can’t truly be dealt with when the only around the president’s plan. The New York discussion says it needs to be fixed without deTimes offered their voice first thing Thursday morning. While their article included state- ciding how to fix it. There are questions to be ments from advisers inside the White House, answered and details to be mended. However, it was generally critical of the practicality and the president is working for a solution by focusing on the students, rather than profits. effectiveness of the plan.

Amy kenyon is a junior english and The article expressed doubts on the likelitheater Secondary education major. hood of the new programs passing into law or Reach her at opinion@ gaining bipartisan support. Data points such as dailynebraskan.com graduate income are “tricky to make meaningful.” Institutions may worry that the Depart-

UNL needs to bolster engagement in campus groups

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ig Red Welcome is one of the of time commitments and varying levels best opportunities for Recog- of seriousness towards reaching a comnized Student Organizations mon goal. There are organizations that to recruit students for their range from students trying to further their groups. Sure, it’s fun and all chances of getting into medical school that, but it’s also hot, crowded to students uniting under the common goal of the fair treatment and seems like everyone of squirrels (I believe the is making a beeline toYou can’t group is called NUTS). ward the Raising Cane’s just learn Despite all these booth. The University of groups, most of them seem Nebraska-Lincoln needs to leadership by heavily under-populated. do more to support and enWhile UNL doesn’t have courage students to become taking a class and any specific numbers listed involved in RSOs. At the reading a textbook on their website for the same time, students need amount of students into embrace the time-worn on the theory of volved, I’d guess the avadage that says at least half erage RSO has five to 10 of what you learn in col- leadership – you lege you learn outside the need to practice it members. Even for organizations with broad appeal classroom. Below, I propose like a political party or a what I think are some prac- again and again. popular major, the amount tical steps Student Involveof members in the club are ment could take to get more below 200. At a school with more than students involved and make a case for the importance of student involvement on 19,000 undergraduate students, it’s hard to believe maybe 1 percent are involved in campus in general.

So obviously the central problem here some of the largest organizations UNL has is that there are hundreds of RSOs but it to offer.

That is not to say the university is seems like only a small percentage of the overall student body is involved. At UNL, completely responsible for this statistic. In there are 400 RSOs with varying levels fact, much of it seems to fall upon the apa-

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thy of students. This is an issue that needs to be solved. Fortunately, there are things the university and students can do to steer involvement in a better direction.

After reviewing the information on UNL’s RSO page, their goals for student involvement are spot-on for why it is needed. Involvement brings people together and teaches the principles of selfgovernment, leadership, communication and the pursuit of something greater than the individual can achieve. A good RSO will help you gain invaluable experience that no classroom will ever be able to provide you with. However, there are some problems with the accessibility to organizations for students. This can be seen largely among our non-greek and international students.

Many Greek houses at UNL provide

their members with easier access to organizations through networking and also requiring their members to be involved in a minimum amount of organizations. UNL should provide more of this access to the rest of the student population. They do a great job of this by holding Big Red Welcome, but it is the only large scale recruitment effort affiliated with the university.

There should be about four of these each year or at least another event at the beginning of the Spring semester.

In addition, it might be a good option for UNL to start looking into requiring involvement out of students. Trust me, I am one of the last people who thinks it’s a good idea for an institution to require somebody to do something, but if you’re a serious college student seeking to gain four years of employable experience, this thought shouldn’t scare you. Involvement will do nothing but help you reach your goals.

Furthermore, as important as it is to earn good grades, there are many life lessons that a classroom just cannot teach you.

You can’t just learn leadership by taking a class and reading a textbook on the theory of leadership – you need to practice it again and again. Involving yourself in

an RSO is one of the best and most accessible options UNL has to achieve some of these skills. After I graduate from UNL, there will only be a select few professors that I will look back on and think of how their class changed my world view.

When I reflect on every RSO I have joined, I will reflect on the multitude of lessons I learned and how they prepared me for what post-college life has in store for me. Student Involvement has helped me learn first-hand leadership through taking on important roles, teamwork through communicating through challenges to the groups and that there is success in failure through the process of trial and error. I’ve learned how a team can build something bigger than myself but also that I am capable as an individual of much more than I had previously thought.

I came to college as an introvert and will leave a much different person because of the value I’ve taken from involvement.

If nothing else can be taken from this article, I would encourage every UNL student to find at least one thing that they are incredibly passionate about and join an RSO that will facilitate and grow that passion.

Wade Burkholder is a senior business administration major.

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John Pfhal’s “Points of View” brings political messages to landscape photography story by Madeline Christensen

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John Pfhal melds perspective and simple applications such as tape on a series of Austrailian Pines to create 2-Demensional illusions.

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hen it comes to seeing a solution to a problem, it’s all about perspective.

That’s the essence of photographer John Pfahl’s body of work in “Points of View,” a new exhibit at the Sheldon Museum of Art that features how society interacts with the landscape socially and photographically.

The collection, which will be on display until January 2014, includes pieces from both “Power Places” and Pfahl’s most wellknown work, “Altered Landscapes.”

The exhibit, organized by photographers and educators Dana Fritz and Larry Gawel, is a piece in a series of exhibitions and programs held in conjunction with the Midwest Society for Photographic Education conference, which takes place in Lincoln on Oct. 24 to 27.

“With ‘Power Places,’ Pfahl has captured some the most beautiful landscapes in the country that have been completely changed with the addition of a major power plant,” Gawel, a photography instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, said.

With “Altered Landscapes,” Pfahl takes the same attention Whether it’s because of the need for running water or secluded areas for public safety, it’s particularly strange to realize to perspective and applies it to creating whimsical alterations to how idyllic the natural landscapes are that are chosen to build natural landscapes.

Pfahl redefines focal points in his photography by using speon, Gawel said. cific camera viewpoints to create lines and shapes “It’s interesting how it works, because aldirectly on the landscape – sometimes with tape, though his intent was that it was non-political, Now, people sometimes with string – that appear two-dimenI think what it shows is very political,” he said. are very sional to the viewer.

“But that’s what the viewer brings to the work, In the now digital-dominated world of phonot the photographer.” concerned with tography, “Altered Landscapes” is one-of-a-kind Gawel said he believes the body of work, and influential to a number of photographers. which was photographed in the ‘80s, was very perspective and “I think Pfahl was one of the first to really start ahead of its time. point of view.” playing with the landscape a little bit more than “Now, people are paying a lot more attenjust taking pictures of it,” Gawel said. “Up until tion to the landscape and how we are changing Larry Gawel this point, photographers were very concerned it — either as direct manipulators or consumers of photography instructor with pristine, natural landscapes. Now, people what comes off of it,” he said. “Here in Nebraska, are very concerned with perspective and point of with all of the agriculture, there isn’t a whole lot of landscape that hasn’t been manipulated — and the Keystone view.”

Gawel said it’s a good body of work for students to see be(XL) Pipeline is controversial for this reason. It gives you somecause it shows the importance of a focal point, even when it’s in a thing to think about. We have a responsibility to the landscape.”

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lowerede x p e c t atio n s The DN’s Arts Desk provides predictions for the fall semester shelby fleig

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I go to maybe one class outside my major.

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The wind will blow too hard and Oldfather Hall (est. 2300 B.C.) will crumble, taking all those snooty foreign language speakers down with it.

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The Nebraska Union will get a Cheesecake Factory.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will become a wet campus and Natty Light will flow through the Broyhill Fountain.

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Freshmen will realize you can use your N-Card to buy prepaid credit cards and local liquor sales will reach an alltime high.

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Heelys will make a comeback and I’ll transfer.

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A fatal skin infection will spawn from feral campus cats but anyone who goes to the UNL Health Center will only be given a glass of water and stern talking to.

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I get a glass of water and a stern talking to (free with student fees!).

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UNL Crushes goes the way of Myspace, gasping a dying breath as students switch to Craigslist.

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Drunk hooligans breach Tom Osborne’s secret campus tunnels and release the Ghost of National Championship Past.

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Husker football, invigorated with the Ghost’s spiritual barbarity, ushers a new era of all helmet-to-helmet contact.

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Those suffering from the “freshman 15” will open a support group, get laughed at.

5. Walking commuters remain oblivious as cyclists reenact “Frogger” every day.

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Love Library continues media archival, collecting classic cereal box toys.

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The skateboarding professor hits level 16 and evolves to Ripstik.

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Someone somewhere declares UNL epicenter of all binge-drinking in the universe.

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The North Bottoms overpass will be littered with both puke and people making out.

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Centennial Mall remains under construction and hideous.

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Harvey continues to be the coolest, most meme-tastic dude on campus.

2. Selleck Dining Hall expands their selection to include every food in the world, except human flesh.

3. Someone will probably have their first kiss under the mammoth statue. It’ll be a cute story.

4. The Broyhill Fountain will be upgraded, allowing it to transform into a hot tub at night. No one will ever go in it.

5. The Kauffman Secret will remain sealed.

6. The Husker football team’ll look real good up until later in the season, when we have a goofy loss.

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Kevin from your English class is going to keep staring at you. Staring back won’t help.

8. Bo Pelini’ll finally get his rosacea taken care of, which’ll calm him down.

9. Cather residents will grow increasingly angry with UNL’s administration as they, you know, have to live there.

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Someone’s gonna incoherently yell at students in front of the Union. It could be you.

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Sophomore year comes with its own ‘firsts’ grace solem-pfeifer

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Paul Knopp assembles a public-brand bicycle at Polkadot Bicycles on Monday afternoon. Polkadot Bicycles is located on South Street and carries numerous brands of bicycles, including Public Soma and KHS.

Polkadot Bicycles prop up cyclists

Step 1: Preparing to move.

Bike shop encourages biking lifestyle by providing one-on-one services

Try making a list! Then stop half way through, because lists are a drag, and you can probably remember everything off the top of your head.

Step 2: Packing.

The more pressure you’re under, the better you’ll pack. Don’t forget to bring all of your extracurricular tshirts from high school, because that inside joke from your intramural soccer team is a huge hit at college.

cara wilwerding DN Paul Knopp is doing his part in servicing the city of more than 131 miles of bike trails.

Tucked between a phone repair shop and a vintage jewelry store at 3863 South St. sits Polkadot Bicycles, a one-man shop that owner Knopp said is dedicated to getting Lincolnites involved in biking culture.

“Not just necessarily buying the equipment and bikes, but to get them hooked on the biking lifestyle,” Knopp said. “The ecology, and getting off gasoline, but also the fitness and social aspects.”

Since starting the shop in February of last year, Knopp has sold a number of different lightweight, steel bicycles including European Somas, English-made Bob Jacksons, and KHS bicycles from Taiwan, among others. Customer Dave Peters chose a single-speed Origin-8 Townie Cruiser, a cheaper but still reliable option.

“I can leave it out in the rain all day, I’m not afraid of getting it scratched at the bike rack,” Peters said.

For customers who can’t afford a new ride, Peters boasts Knopp’s

Step 3: Unpacking.

I skipped some steps, but try to keep up. At this point you realize you forgot to pack socks, and you really should have made a list. Too late now!

College!

Step 4: Shoo away parents.

This can go on indefinitely, because your dad has to make sure you remembered to bring the charger for every electronic thing you own.

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Polkadot Bicycles is a bicycle shop located on South Street, in South Lincoln that specializes in lightweight steel bicycles. Each bicycle that owner Paul Knopp assembles takes at least an hour and can be custom ordered.

Club Valleé Du Sel (Salt Valley in said. “Technology is not something French). Rides typically vary from we try to promote around here.”

100 to 1200 kilometers. Knopp enBut more than the bikes he sells, courages customers who are interKnopp focuses on repairing old bikes and maintaining the relationships ested in the club, or new and used he’s already established. Peters said bikes, to visit Polka Dot for their fall sale. All in stock he likes the fact that bikes will be 20 Polkadot is so small More percent off, exbecause quick fixes are cluding Public usually done within 15 bicycles brand. minutes and never take mean fewer While Knopp longer than a day. has managed to “I like that I can cars and less make a business ride in and usually get of his passion, he service or maintenance pollution.” hopes other local while I wait,” Peters Paul Knopp bikers embrace said. “A lot of the bike Polkadot Bicycles owner the sport for a shops don’t have the variety of other ability to provide that, reasons.

Most but Paul likes to focus importantly, he said, cycling has the on quality over quantity of service.” ability to improve the earth we live Peters compared his relationship with Knopp to the relationship many in.

“I think it’s important because men have with their barber. He said the conversation and personal atten- I’m on a corner where 40,000 cars a tion he gets at Polkadot Bicycles is day go by,” Knopp said. “The noise pollution and air pollution is just unlike that at any other shop. outstanding. More bicycles mean Knopp tries to foster such relaThe New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation tionships through his long distance fewer cars and less pollution.”

620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 ARTS@ For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 cycling club, called Randonneur DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM For Wednesday, September 5, 2012 large array of used bicycles. And for newbies, Knopp knows how to make cycling seem less scary and intimidating.

“They don’t want to be overwhelmed by society so I sell them simple European bikes,” Knopp

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No resident assistant knocking on your door twice a day to invite you to “Speed Friending” or Paint Yourself Silly. No parents calling to make sure you’re wearing your retainer every night.

And in my case, no roommate.

Through a combination of procrastination, dumb luck, and pestering emails, I found myself last Thursday all alone with a private room in Knoll. My own room, my own bathroom, my own full-sized fridge that makes weird noises in the night. After neglecting to find roommates last spring, and happening to stumble upon the right waiting list, I couldn’t help but think “I don’t deserve this.”

Flashback to last year at this time, I was a surly freshman who vowed for years to go out of state, but found myself moving into a glorified closet of a Neihardt room and thinking, “What did do I do to deserve this?”

(Note: I’m still unclear why one of the proposed perks of being in the Honors Program is living in a hamster cage.)

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Pfahl’s original dye transfer prints in “Altered Landscapes” have also stood the test of time and are as a vibrant as ever.

“Not only is it about point of view, but his photographs really speak to my visual senses,” Fritz, a photography professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said.

She said her students always request to see Pfahl’s work from the Sheldon’s archive.

“Pfahl approaches his work with a lot of intelligence,” she said. “It’s not just visual, it also has a strong conceptual foundation. It really makes you think about our relationship with land and how it reflects us as a society.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

fleig: from 5 9. Each college has a to-the-death battle in the Union green space. The three “grazing livestock systems” majors win.

10. Less than half the students will utilize the free newspaper readership program. That’s already a fact. Be ashamed of yourselves.

Step 5: Pensively contemplate your purpose within the higher education system, until the buzz of your refrigerator in an empty room is so unnerving that you have to leave.

This one might just be me.

Particularly for the second time around, starting the school year feels a lot less formulaic for me. Friends have moved off campus and general survey courses have been replaced with classes counting towards a major I’m still nervously hoping was the right choice.

Nevertheless, I was quick to capitalize on my new living quarters. There’s a value to the shared freshman experience of crammed quarters and coordinating bedtimes, but if freshman year is all about finding community in college, there’s an undervalued solace in finding your own space. Not just somewhere you belong, but somewhere you can isolate yourself, control your space, and in the case of my dorm room, indulge in hour-long TNT dramas on rough days.

I moved furniture for an hour and half, only to land the same original arrangement, but I was still pleased with myself. At least it was my decision. I was drunk on the power. But an hour later, I was lonely, bored and out of Oreos. It’s a feeling I think I can expect from time to time.

Without a roommate, I can no longer count on anyone to lend me snacks or let me in after I’ve locked myself out of the room for the fifth time. I can finally decorate my room however I like, but taking the posters from my childhood home made the room I grew up in look empty and unfamiliar.

There are trade-offs for every independence you gain in college, and they don’t stop after freshman year.

For me, the dorms were the right choice for my sophomore year. The familiar moving routine, the overwhelming autonomy and the euphoria of my own shower have more or less combined as reminders that I belong here, but sophomore year will still be a year of firsts.

Grace solem-pfeifer won an oreo-snarfing championship in the seventh grade. Not really, but Congratulate her anyway at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Embrace the positives of syllabus week shelby fleig You know when people tell you college is going to be the most intellectually challenging time in your life? Almost like it’s a good thing? Like you should embrace the mental stimulation and cross your fingers that you come out of college with a more refined worldview and haircut? Maybe get frameless glasses. Download the audible app. Whatever it takes, really. It sounds nice for a while, especially after a summer that would make Nikki Sixx blush.

Then, it’s the first day of class.

Syllabus day. And your plans to retire off the coast of Capri are out the window faster than a toad’s wink. This hangover isn’t so bad, you think. I could work through old age.

Your professor is now reading aloud, word-for-word, a packet of information about his or her class, their specific expectations and the University’s policies. You are reading along too, until you realize you’ve been able to tie your own shoes and brush your own teeth for somewhere close to 15 years.

You are procuring debt for this.

But you gotta get that degree.

You gotta buy that suburban home and you gotta be able to shop for your J. Crew-wearing family of four exclusively at Trader Joe’s, or else you really haven’t made it, have you? So suck it up and make the best of syllabus week by turning negatives into positives.

Negative: Your syllabus is 20 pages thick.

Positive: Trees are for losers.

Negative: Your professor is reading the syllabus slowly and monotone, lulling you in and out of sleep.

Positive: Watching your head lean back as you fall asleep and shoot up every time you awake is keeping the guy two rows behind you from falling asleep.

Negative: Alphabetical seating is mandatory.

Positive: You’ll already know your cellmate when you go to detox in a few weeks.

Negative: You don’t know where all the resource centers your professor is encouraging are.

Positive: Nobody knows where all the resource centers your professor is encouraging are.

Negative: The reading looks extremely complex at first glance.

Positive: You might actually learn something, you jerk.

Negative: Your syllabus is printed in comic sans.

Positive: Your IQ is higher than a college professor’s.

Negative: Your professor seems scary and she’s outlining a semester full of in-class participation.

Positive: You can both see and hear, unlike a substantial subgroup of the world population.

You have a brain that can analyze another human’s personality and make opinions based on that judgment. That’s pretty neat. As for the in-class participation, there’s just nothing good about that.

Negative: All of your professor’s office hours conflict with your schedule.

Positive: Only tryhards go to office hours. (I have a low GPA).

Negative: The syllabus says all exams are in the testing center.

Positive: Dropping out of school is still an option.

Negative: Ugh, there’s like, ZERO cute girls in your class!

Positive: You’re going to be a wealthy computer programmer in the near future.

Negative: The lines in the bookstore are monumentally long.

Positive: This is the only exercise you’ll get all week.

Negative: Your professor made all your textbooks required.

Positive: By the time the semester ends and you’ve been eating only ramen and ice cubes for three weeks, the insulting textbook buyback offer you’ll get will seem like a small fortune. And you can keep eating ramen anyways.

For what it’s worth, syllabus week isn’t so bad. We don’t have much homework and those who will soon emerge as the most annoying people in your lectures are still nameless heads in the crowd.

You still have your tan from summer and the football team’s success isn’t yet affecting your daily mood.

You haven’t been on campus long enough for the dining hall mashed potatoes to enter your bloodstream by process of osmosis. You’re okay.

We, together, will make it through syllabus week. We will work hard to stay awake and threehole-punch and store our syllabi in color-coded binders. We will use this week as an excuse to go out more than usual and most importantly, we will collectively lie to our parents about what we’ve learned so they don’t make us come home.

Shelby Fleig rocks a mad j-crew outfit from time to time. drop some fashion hints at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Ways to tell you’re a freshman.

You’re annoying me. If I’m glaring extra hard at you, you’re probably a freshman.

You’re standing in the huge line at the book store.

Write your own books, dummy.

“Something/Anything?” by Rundgren

You’re in my way. I’m large and in charge, you’re small and not worth rhyming about.

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If you’re down with Com Truise, Hot Chip, J Dilla, TV Girl, Lindstorm or Tame Impala, you should definitely check out who those cats are down with: Todd Rundgren.

Rundgren’s 1972 pop-opus, “Something/Anything?” is a great place to start.

Rundgren is one of the great American singersongwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalists who broke out of the ‘70s. “Something/Anything?” was his most ambitious pop release, before he ventured into the mystical, then-uncharted lands of early experimental prog-rock. Rundgren continued to be a massive musical influence, but his only charttopper was his single “Hello It’s Me”, from “Something/Anything?”. That was the last time he found himself in the Top 20, so if you didn’t know who Todd Rundgren is, there’s a reason why.

You keep saying you’re happy to be here. You don’t even know what happiness is. I can promise you it’s not this.

You’re at an 8 a.m. chemistry lecture. What are you doing? Learning? I’m going to fight you after class.

Chances are you may not know Todd, but you’ve heard the 1983 smash “Bang on the Drum All Day,” which is, for better or for worse, an immovable fixture in the canon of popular American culture. However, “Something/Anything?”, made 10 years prior, couldn’t be farther from that.

Rundgren recorded 18 of the 25 double album’s tracks himself, ranging from deep and soulful (“Sweeter Memories,” “Cold Morning Light”), sweet and loveable (“Marlene,” “I Saw the Light”), heavy rock (“Black Maria,” “Couldn’t I Just Tell You”), silly and whimsical, like the schoolyardthemed “Piss Aaron” and his mid-album “Intro” that serves as a quirky informational tour of the “sounds of the studio.” The album’s got the grooves and the blues with the sunshine and the sparkles.

“Something/Anything?” really is a huge album to digest, but it goes down so well. It’s definitely worth checking out.

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‘Gone Home’ pushes storytelling boundaries Nathan Sindelar DN To play “Gone Home” is not just to walk some distance in another person’s shoes.

To play this new video game is, instead, to wade through the fabric of a family and the person herself.

Created by The Fullbright Company, an independent team of four, “Gone Home” is many things. It can be called a first-person adventure game, a mystery, a grunge love story, an interactive epistolary exchange, a character study. It can be the condensation of what makes someone who they are — into the span of two hours.

To describe what “players” do in this game as “play” is simplistic and problematic. To call “Gone Home” a game at all may be the same.

A game can generally be defined by the abilities and governing rules of the player, clashing with the programmed rules and abilities of the player’s environment that produce problems for him or her to solve.

As the famous game developer Sid Meier puts it, “A game is a series of interesting choices.”

In “Gone Home,” no enemies shoot at the main character. No outright puzzles block the user from progressing. No one has super powers. No one has armor stat bonuses and no fetch-quests fill the doldrums.

The only decision to make is to continue searching or not. After a yearlong trip across the world, Kaitlyn Greenbriar arrives back at her home, a mansion in Portland. The year is 1995. Neither her parents nor her younger sister are there to greet her. On the family answering machine, the message Kaitlyn left just before her last flight echoes into the empty room.

From here, those that choose to continue are treated to the milieu of an ailing marriage, a father and husband dealing with the disappointments of his writing career, and, most of all, players get to meet a young girl, finding herself and finding love.

The story is told in scattershot fashion. Users can open cupboards, look inside boxes, read notes, letters and the remnants of tattered wills.

They can find a receipt caught in the air-conditioning vent, a “gentle-

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man’s” magazine tucked under old books, diaries, detention slips and “Street Fighter II” combos. These people and their lives unfold before us as a daughter returns from her own long journey, meeting her family anew and learning through what’s left behind.

Unlike The Chinese Room’s spiritual predecessor, “Dear Esther,”

— another first-person non-game — “Gone Home” wrangles the complexity of telling a coherent story despite an audience that can walk, look and listen where and when they please. While “Dear Esther” played opaque monologues in random and arbitrary order as players progressed across a haunting and

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The University of Nebraska Foundation has openings for NU student fundraisers to call alumni and ask for their support in both the Lincoln and Kearney offices.

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Help Wanted Carlos O’Kelly’s is now hiring servers, hosts and cooks for nights/weekends. Apply at 4455 N. 27th St. or 3130 Pine Lake Rd. Join the CenterPointe Team! Part-time positions available in residential program working with substance abuse/mental health clients in a unique environment. Must be at least 21 years of age and be willing to work a varied schedule including overnights and weekends.

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desolate island, the means by which Fullbright Company’s narrative is produced reside so believably in the fiction that players cannot help but discover the necessary components.

The front door is locked. Where would a family hide the spare key?

The magic of “Gone Home” is as simple as that situation and spaced knowingly throughout the tale. It’s the living details left by humans that define them in the game. The weekly TV guide with “X-Files” circled for 9 p.m., Chun-Li’s Helicopter Kick scrawled on the back of a Super Nintendo cartridge (down-arrow, (hold), up-arrow + kick for those uninformed), the hidden truths and moments of weakness, the triumphs and failures littered in the recesses of home. Home, not as the physical construct, but the abstract concept of it we bring with us.

To attach a score, a figure as evaluation of worth, to something so personal doesn’t feel quite right. The people that made “Gone Home” and their lives are as intertwined with the experience as are the fictional Greenbriars.

Yet, this piece of software is also important to its medium.

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offensive defensive p l ay e r s t o w at c h p l ay e r s t o w at c h Compiled by Lanny Holstein

Compiled by Kyle Cummings

The Nebraska offense returns nine starters from a 2012 unit that ranked eighth in the nation in rushing yardage, and the one-two punch of Ameer Abdullah and Imani Cross returns. But this season, the Huskers look to make a splash in the passing game, too.

Nebraska’s young defense is by far the biggest question mark for the Huskers heading into the 2013 season. We know about seniors David Santos and Jason Ankrah, but there’s plenty of room for newcomers to develop into prominent roles this season for the Nebraska defense.

Zaire Anderson, Linebacker

Coming off an ACL injury that kept him out most of the 2012 season, the junior will be part of a nice one-two punch at linebacker alongside Santos. Anderson showed promise last year, but he was plagued by an injury and sat out the rest of the season. This season, he has the confidence of defensive coordinator John Papuchis. The speed at linebacker could make things easier for the secondary.

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Senior quarterback Taylor Martinez did not reach his goal of a 70 percent completion rate in 2012, but the school record-holder for total offense may get closer to that level this season.

Taylor Martinez, Quarterback

Let’s get the obvious out of the way early. Martinez is the leader on an offense that could be a top-10 unit nationally by season’s end. He’s the nation’s leading rusher and a three-year starter. Martinez again worked with quarterback coach Steve Calhoun in the offseason and is primed for another jump. He said he wanted to complete 70 percent of his passes in 2012, but he managed to connect on only 62.5 percent. Look for him to get a little closer to his goal this season. Also, keep an eye out for this guy in the Heisman race. He’s a dark horse right now, but with a little luck, he could be in New York in early December.

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Senior cornerback Stanley Jean-Baptiste made a splash with an interception against Ohio State in 2011, but he will try to have a larger impact this year after a quiet season in 2012.

Stanley Jean-Baptiste, Cornerback

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Junior wide receiver Kenny Bell was on pace to become Nebraska’s first 1,000-yard receiver through 11 games last season, but two poor outputs held him to 863 receiving yards.

Jean-Baptiste first gained the attention of Husker fans with a critical interception that set Nebraska up to beat Ohio State two seasons ago. Now, the senior cornerback hides in the shadow of senior captain Ciante Evans. But only figuratively, of course.

Standing at 6 feet 3 inches, Jean-Baptiste adds height to the group of players fighting for a spot as a defensive back. That depth at defensive back will allow Papuchis and the defense to be flexible this season, Papuchis said. Coach Bo Pelini has said JeanBaptiste will be one of the top guys in the nickel position this season.

Kenny Bell, Wide Receiver

Nebraska has never had a receiver earn more than 1,000 yards in a single season.

Greats such as Irving Fryar and Johnny Rodgers had great college careers at Nebraska, but they never attained the milestone. Bell thinks he can change that. In his first two seasons, the junior has accumulated 1,324 yards through the air, going for 863 a season ago. He was on pace to top 1,000, but 14 total yards at Iowa and against Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game derailed that goal. This season, Bell is back for more. He’s a Biletnikoff Award candidate and has an improved quarterback throwing him the ball.

Randy Gregory, Defensive End

Junior college transfer Randy Gregory has made perhaps the biggest splash among coaches and fans alike in Nebraska this offseason. The highly recruited defensive end out of Arizona Western Community College has added depth at the defensive end position. With Gregory’s potential, senior Jason Ankrah is looking forward to the possibilities for the defense this season. Gregory entered fall camp weighing around 225 pounds and in shape, Pelini said. While he was taking a lot in mentally, Pelini said, Pelini has liked what Gregory brings. Not only the coaches, though, are saying good things about Gregory, Gregory’s teammates are ready to see the 6-foot-6-inch end.

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Senior guard Spencer Long helped lead the way for a rushing offense that ranked in the Top 10 and was a second-team All-American in 2012, and he is a preseason All-American this year.

Spencer Long, Guard

I understand it may be hard to watch an offensive lineman, but look out for Long this season. Some publications have him as a first team All-American this season, and he is coming off second team All-American honors from a year ago. Long is a former walk-on from Elkhorn, Neb., and understands the tradition of great offensive linemen at Nebraska. Look for him to pave the way for a running game that finished No. 8 in the nation a season ago and returns its top two rushers.

tournaments (as did the tennis and bowling teams), but their maleteam counterparts still encountered much greater attendance.

Even if you disregard the football team, Nebraska’s men’s sports receive more support than the women’s sports.

And that trend is unlikely to change, even though NU women’s programs have experienced far greater recent success.

Apart from the football team, the only team that draws a crowd of more than 10,000 per home game is men’s basketball, which averaged 10,352 fans in 2012-13.

The Husker men went 15-18 and played two ranked opponents in the Devaney Center.

The women’s basketball team, on the other hand, finished 25-9 with two victories in the NCAA Tournament, and it played five ranked opponents at home. But women’s basketball games took place before average crowds of only 5,243, just more than half of the average men’s crowd.

One could argue that firstyear coach Tim Miles’ injection of energy into the men’s basketball program could skew the numbers, but from two years ago to last year, attendance at men’s games increased only 3 percent.

Attendance at women’s games

increased 14 percent, which is significant – but also brings up another key point.

Whatever increased support women’s teams can garner is only temporary.

Take, for example, the women’s soccer team, which had 827 fans per home game in 2004, the last time it won two games in the NCAA Tournament. The next season, only 473 fans attended every game for a soccer team that was not as accomplished but still made the NCAA Tournament.

The notable exception in Nebraska is the volleyball program, which has not finished a season ranked worse than 16th since 1982 and can be viewed as the state’s female equal to football.

But as all sports fans probably know, there is a bias against women’s sports. And not even the “Greatest Fans in College Football” can overcome it to support other sports programs.

Last season, the softball team, which finished ranked No. 11, hosted average crowds of 697 people. The baseball team, which plays in a larger stadium at the same location, played for audiences of 2,746, and it ended up a game below .500.

To recap: you have an average men’s team and an excellent wom-

en’s team, playing pretty much the same sport, and the former had 2,000 more people in attendance than did the latter.

Now back to basketball, the men’s team and the women’s team play, literally, the same sport. The men’s team has a losing record.

The women’s team goes to the Sweet 16. And the attendance at men’s games is nearly double that of the women’s.

By the way, student tickets for men’s games cost $50.

Students can go to women’s games for free.

If they still choose to watch men’s basketball over women’s, the outlook is dim for the Nebraska women’s teams to gain the support they deserve.

In the 2012-13 season, four of Nebraska’s nine men’s teams (that’s less than half for the mathematically challenged) finished in their sport’s Top 25. By contrast, eight out of 13 women’s teams (that would be more than half) ended up in the Top 25.

Yet, Husker fans continue to show up to men’s games instead of women’s games. If they haven’t changed their ways yet, they won’t in the near future.

Zach Tegler is a senior news-editorial major. You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Offense leads way for fast start

football practice notes Many players will see field Saturday

Jaycie Johnson and Mayme Conroy each score multiple goals as the Huskers win their first two games

Coach Bo Pelini likes the depth at most positions on the team this year, he said. While the offense is loaded with proven weapons who will be rotated in and out of the game, the defense will also have a number of players see the field.

“You’ll probably see more guys subbing than you’ve seen in the past,” Pelini said. “I think that’s just a product of college football now. It’s so fast. The more guys you have available, the better off you are going to be.”

Special teams coach Ross Els said depth will also impact how he decides who to put in for kick and punt returns. With more skill players rested, Els said, he’s able find fresh legs easier for return men.

“We do have more depth,” Els said. “We plan offensively and defensively to roll a lot of guys in, which means we can roll those same guys in on special teams.”

Because so many players will be cycling on the field, Pelini said he will probably hand out fewer Blackshirts this year. Pelini said he didn’t want to hand one out to every player who stepped on the field, but rather only those who make their marks.

Josh Kelly DN After a strong weekend to start its season, the Nebraska soccer team is off to its best start in eight years.

Coach John Walker’s team fired on all cylinders, defeating Southeast Missouri State and Cincinnati at Nebraska Soccer Field during the Husker Classic. After the weekend, the Huskers are 2-0, undefeated through two games for the first time since the 2005 season.

Helping the Huskers on the offensive side of the ball during the first weekend were junior Mayme Conroy and freshman newcomer Jaycie Johnson. Each scored two goals, which accounted for every goal in the first matchup, a 4-1 victory over Southeast Missouri State on Friday.

Johnson scored another goal to cap off a 4-0 win over Cincinnati on Sunday. After Sunday’s game, during which the temperature was around 100 degrees, many players, including Conroy, were glad things ended on a positive note for the team.

“I’m excited that we went 2-0 on the weekend,” Conroy said.

“The Cincinnati game didn’t start off strong for us, but we followed through. We’re feeling very confident right now.”

Also impressed with the way things have started for the team is Jaycie Johnson, who as a freshman competed in her first two college soccer games during the weekend.

“We’re feeling pretty high about ourselves right now, like we can go and win the Big Ten Championship and head into the NCAA Tournament,” Johnson said.

Johnson earned the Big Ten offensive player of the week award and the Big Ten Freshman player of the week award.

Johnson scored three goals and had two assists in her first two games and is currently leading the Big Ten conference in points, with eight. She is also the first Husker to earn freshman player of the week since 2009, when Morgan Marlborough was named both offensive and freshman player of the week.

The last Husker soccer player to earn offensive player of the week was Conroy, who is still finding ways to reach the back of the net.

Pelini says offensive line is improved

Senior quarterback Taylor Martinez feels his front line is the best unit on the offense this year.

“I think this is going to be one of Nebraska’s best offensive lines we’ve ever had,” Martinez said.

“They are going to be the strong point of our offense. There are so many good players up there and strong guys who have played in big games, and I’m excited to see

how they do.”

Pelini also sees improvement on the offensive line, he said, attributed to the amount of players vying for time on the field.

“I think we are better. I think we are deeper,” Pelini said. “I think that will definitely help us. I like the group up front, but they’re not the finished product.

But I think we have really good depth and a lot of guys that I have complete confidence in.”

The offensive line will be led by returning seniors Brent Qvale, Jeremiah Sirles, Cole Pensick and Andrew Rodriguez.

Kicker position still undetermined

Pelini has yet to name a starting kicker for the Huskers, and he said he probably won’t know who will take care of kicking duties until Saturday.

“That competition is ongoing,” Pelini said. “I think we have two very capable kickers, and in some way, we will probably share the duties. It’s close.

It’s a close competition right now.”

Throughout fall camp, sophomore Mauro Bondi and senior Pat Smith, a transfer from Western Illinois, have been fighting for the spot. Punting responsibilities, though, are more than likely covered, as Pelini has expressed enthusiasm for punter Sam Foltz.

“I think kicking-wise, we’ll be fine,” Els said. “I thought Mauro and Patrick competing for that kicking spot will be good, and hopefully you’ll see them both in the game, not because one missed, but because we want to play them both.”

--Compiled by Kyle Cummings

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Nebraska forward Mayme Conroy scored two goals in the Huskers’ first two games, victories against Southeast Missouri State and Cincinnati that have the team looking way ahead.

The 2005 team that started out undefeated at 2-0, just like this year’s squad, lost its next two games on the road against Duke and Ohio State. This year’s Huskers will also go on the road after starting 2-0, facing BYU on Saturday and following with matches against Utah State, Arkansas and

San Francisco and San Diego at the Kansas Tournament in Lawrence, Kan. While the 2005 team did not win the Big 12 Conference Tournament, this year’s team aspires to surpass the team from eight years ago that edged its way into the NCAA Tournament.

“The team goal is to obviously win every game, especially at home,” Conroy said. “We need to get more shutouts this year because last year we only had three.

Every game counts, and it all goes towards the Big Ten Tournament and then the NCAA Tournament.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com file photo by morgan spiehs | dn

cummings: from 10 ding during football game day in Nebraska. But it’s OK to have weddings on any other day, because “game day” only pertains to football.

Don’t look now, but those forgotten women’s sports have been pulling their weight.

While many Husker fans could tell you the women’s bowling team won the NCAA championship last year, many might overlook the Husker bowlers who won the first two NCAA championships in history and led the nation with four national titles.

And some might be able to remember that the women’s basketball team has made the Sweet 16 twice in the past four years. But, not many would mention that the women’s soccer team won a league-best eight Big 12 Championships.

Still, women’s sports remain in the shadow of Nebraska’s powerhouse sports: football, men’s basketball and baseball.

To be clear, I’m not saying men’s sports receive too much credit at Nebraska. That said, though, I have faith that Nebraska’s women’s sports will soon receive the recognition they deserve.

Certainly the overshadowing of women’s sports is not exclusive to Nebraska. I actually assume it

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Sam Foltz has all but locked up a spot as punter, but Mauro Bondi and Pat Smith are still vying for the kicker position. happens at every school to some degree.

That’s inevitable, really. Football and basketball are the most popular college sports in the nation, and nothing, seemingly, will change that. Naturally, more people will tune into those sports and care about following them on a more regular basis.

But that doesn’t mean women will be overlooked forever either.

We’ve seen a number of women’s sports take the national spotlight. People recognize the name Pat Summitt, who led the Tennessee women’s basketball team to eight national championships.

And the Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team gained respect for its record-winning streak of 90 games.

Those schools certainly hold women’s sports in just as high of a spotlight as their male counterparts, if not higher.

I think Nebraska is on its way, too.

Possibly the most popular women’s sport (except maybe basketball) is volleyball, and look no further than Lincoln to find one of the richest collegiate traditions in the sport. Nebraska volleyball has already proved to be a premiere sport during the fall.

Sure, Memorial Stadium has the ongoing NCAA record of 325

consecutive home sellouts, but the volleyball’s previous home, the Coliseum, held the volleyball record of 181 straight sellouts, which was also the longest streak in all women’s athletics.

With such a large following, volleyball is already leading the charge in bringing women’s sports more recognition in the Cornhusker State.

And the rally is trickling down through other teams.

Remember when the Huskers won the national title in bowling?

Not many cared during the season, but many proud Nebraskans tuned in to watch the bowling

team take home a title.

That will carry over. I’m not saying people will flock to their meets, but they might check to see how they are doing next season.

That’s a good start. With success will come recognition.

Women’s athletics have been stellar at Nebraska recently. While they should already be receiving just as much hype as men’s teams, that will happen soon, if only for a few months.

Kyle Cummings is a senior news-editorial major. You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com.

volleyball: from 10 Cook feels he may have the two who are able to do it.

They would be junior transfer Mary Pollmiller and freshman Kelly Hunter. Both played in the Red/ White game and each recorded more than 20 assists in the match, and they played well, Cook said.

Pollmiller played two seasons at Tennesee and was the SEC’s

freshman of the year in 2011.

Hunter comes into the Nebraska program as a part of the No. 1 recruiting class for the Huskers.

She also received the Andi Collins Award last year for the best high school setter in the nation. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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’m pretty sure it’s borderline illegal to plan a wedding during Husker game day.

That means for 12 Saturdays in the fall, the state of Nebraska turns its attention to 11 college students dressed in red and white running around attempting to push people down, kicking a ball and drenching themselves in water between plays.

What about Fridays? Are those days OK to schedule weddings in Nebraska? How about Sunday?

That’s when the Husker volleyball or soccer teams often play during the fall.

So, let me rephrase that first rule: It’s illegal to schedule a wed-

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n 2007, the Nebraska football team hit a 40-year low – not only on the field, but around it.

As the Huskers staggered to a 5-7 record in coach Bill Callahan’s final season in Lincoln, attendance at home games dipped below 85,000 people for the only time since Memorial Stadium’s seating capacity expanded in 2006.

Clearly, Nebraska fans value quality in choosing whether to attend games.

Or do they?

Because last year, the Nebraska women’s basketball and softball teams each made the Sweet 16 in their respective national

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Robinson OK after injury quiets Devaney Center more serious injury to senior outside hitter could have led to major lineup changes for coach John cook. eric bertrand dn With the new home court for the Nebraska volleyball team this year, there was a lot of talk during the offseason about how loud the newly renovated Bob Devaney Sports Center could be.

On Saturday night, the new discovery was how quiet the arena can be.

In the second set of the Red/ White scrimmage, senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson went diving just off the side of the court to save a point when she made an awkward landing on her left shoulder.

“She’s dove like that probably 1,000 times in her life,” Nebraska coach John Cook said. “It was a fluke thing.”

The entire crowd went silent, and the only sound heard throughout the building was Robinson’s

of her stuff, so we are expecting weeping.

With a standing ovation from her to be able to play this weekend,” Cook said. “The good thing the packed Devaney Center, Robinson walked off the court and into is, she’s young and heals fast.”

Even with the good news for the locker room, and play resumed the team, Robinson’s absence just as it had been going before. showed how much Nebraska’s “When any of your teammates goes down, right away you’re like, game plan revolves around her.

‘Oh, my gosh,’” fellow senior Mor- Cook is thinking about implementgan Broekhuis said. “She’s going ing a new two-setter system, but if a major injury were to play a big part in our to occur to a starting team.” outside hitter, then the Freshman Kadie team wouldn’t be able Rolfzen replaced the to use the system. injured Robinson with “That would pretty the red team leading much take us out of a the second set 23-13.

6-2,” the coach said afPlaying the last ter the scrimmage. six points of the set, With Robinson apRolfzen didn’t have pearing to be set to much of a chance to play this weekend, contribute to the team, the strategy of choosbut she was able to ing what system to record one dig before robinson run becomes difficult the set concluded. The for Cook, unlike last Papillion native did season when the coach show signs of struggle knew exactly how he wanted his on her serve in the third set, comlineups to shape up. mitting two service errors in re“I don’t know,” the coach said. placing Robinson.

“We are going to discuss it as a “We are already thin at outside hitter, and if she can’t play we are staff this afternoon and keep mullreally thin,” Cook said. “Because ing it over, and then make a decision.”

Kadie is not ready.”

The 6-2 system requires a team Cook updated the situation in to have two strong setters, and his news conference Monday.

“She (Robinson) worked out, lifted this morning, and did most

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kelsey robinson, a senior transfer from tennessee, left during the second set of saturday’s red/ White scrimmage with a shoulder injury but is set to return for nebraska this weekend.