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Verizon deal boosts reception Lack of cellphone service to be a thing of the past with improved antennae

verizon wireless improvements • Tripled calling capacity • Quadrupled 4G strength • Tripled video capacity • Installed antennae in all areas of stadium • Improvements planned for East Stadium expansion

Daniel Wheaton DN Last fall, Emma Feldman, then a University of Nebraska-Lincoln freshman, made her way into the student section of Memorial Stadium. Her family was sitting somewhere in East Stadium, and her mom wanted to know where she was. So she pulled out her phone and sent her mom a text.

But it didn’t go through — a problem that has plagued Feldman, her family and thousands of other spectators inside Memorial Stadium.

Feldman, a sophomore education major, said when she finally had sufficient service, her phone “would freak out because it was getting so many (texts) at once.”

Come Sept. 1, Feldman should be able to text her mom, check Facebook and upload pictures to Instagram during the game against Southern Mississippi University.

New antennae located throughout the more than 81,0000-seat stadium have been installed to boost Verizon Wireless cellphone signals and ease strain on its data network. The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved a $35,000 annual lease

photo illustration by STACIE HECKER | DN

Verizon is improving phone service in Memorial Stadium, so students will now be able to text and tweet throughout the game. for the new equipment at its June meeting. The hardware, installed over the summer, is expected to triple the network strength within Memorial Stadium though officials say more equipment may be installed soon.

“Everything (in this phase) is finished,” said Chad Loecker, a Verizon Wireless system performance manager who oversaw the project. “Fans should notice an improved experience.”

Loecker said the reception was poor because the antennae could not handle the demand of the entire crowd.

Due to the extreme demand, calls, texts and data would be lost. Now that smartphones have become more commonplace, the problem was compounded.

Phones would search for a lost signal, and batteries would slowly drain. The concentration of antennae divides the demand on the network between them. Unlike normal cellphone antennae, these only transmit information from phones that are close to them. Essentially, each part of the stadium has its own small network.

According to the lease, Verizon installed the hardware on the

field level, on the concourses and in the stands. Additional antennae were placed in the west side of the stadium as well. Loecker said that they were placed to make the coverage as equal as possible.

The ability for the network to handle calls has been tripled along with the video capacity, Loecker said. Also, Verizon’s 4G network has been improved in the area.

On Verizon’s 4G Network, signals should be even stronger, he said.

“It amounts to a network that is at least four times faster for everything: texts, calls, Twitter and Facebook.” Loecker said.

Cellphone coverage was among the complaints fielded by

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Big red balloons courtesy photo

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s new advertisement targets prospective students across the Midwest. Local agency Archrival produced the ad, which cost $125,000.

New ad focuses on increasing enrollment than expected. Official numbers are due out in September.

University officials hope the new commercial’s unconventional style showcases student life at UNL and captures the attention of out-of-state students.

“I think a lot of times (schools) want to use ads to Cristina Woodworth brag about themselves,” said DN the commercial’s producer and director Jon Reisinger, from the The University of Nebraska- Lincoln-based youth marketing Lincoln released a new national firm Archrival. “It takes a lot to commercial this week, mark- step back and say, ‘This is the ing the first time the university life experience you’re going to has produced an advertisement have,’ instead of just quoting focused solely on stats. Instead of recruitment. talking about it, We definitely “That’s a sigwe showed it.” nificant change Reisinger wanted from past years,” said this is the said Alan Cerveny, to show a first ad project dean of enrollment different side of he’s been inmanagement, who volved in with the university said UNL has alUNL. ways tried to fit campus ... We The commerseveral different cial features vidmessages into think and we hope eo of different their past commer- others will think university activcials. ities and classes The new ad, it is a refreshing including kayawith a theme of king, golfing direction to take.” “starting your stoand dance. ry at Nebraska,” “We wanted will air on televijon reisinger people to see archrival sion mainly in the (the commerChicago and Omacial) and go ha markets, as ‘Huh. I didn’t well as across the know you could do that in Nestate of Nebraska, Cerveny said. braska. I didn’t know you could The ad debuted Aug. 25 dur- do that in Lincoln. And I didn’t ing the Nebraska-UCLA volley- know you could do that at the ball match on the Big Ten NetUniversity of Nebraska-Linwork. coln,” Reisinger said.

“We’re obviously looking at The ad cost $125,000 to prowanting to ratchet up recruit- duce, according to Kelly Barment this year,” Cerveny said. tling, UNL news director.

“And we are anticipating this Bartling said those costs commercial will help us in those don’t include the price of teleefforts.” vision spots, but many of these UNL’s enrollment dipped spots will be free because netslightly below 24,600 students works offer free advertising to last year and Chancellor Har- schools during a broadcasted vey Perlman, who announced athletic event. his goal to boost campus enrollShe said the university has ment to 30,000 by 2017 in 2011, said in May that fall 2012 enrollment figures could be lower advertisement: see page 3

Commercial aims solely for recruitment with ‘unconventional’ video approach

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go bye Saturday’s home opener could be the last time the sky turns red from release of thousands of touchdown balloons

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he first touchdown of the season could be the last hurrah for one longtime Husker tradition.

Nebraska Athletic Department officials announced Aug. 13 that the tradition of fans releasing 5,000 red balloons on the first touchdown at every home game will be suspended indefinitely after the Sept. 1 game, due to a helium shortage.

“It wasn’t so much a decision, but it just happened,” said Ethan Rowley, marketing director for University of Nebraska Athletics. “Our distributor ran out of helium.”

According to Rowley, after a mild winter, natural gas use was below average. Because helium is a by-product of extracting natural gas, the amount of helium extracted was also below average.

“The U.S. extracts 80 percent of the helium in the world from a few places in Texas and Kansas,” said Gerry Harbison, professor of chemistry at University of NebraskaLincoln. “They used to have a national helium reserve but it’s basically being sold off.

There’s a limited supply of helium.”

Rowley hopes that the shortage will

be a temporary situation. Helium is used heavily in hospitals for MRIs and in industrial construction for arc welding.

“If the situation came that we could get more and it wouldn’t be taking away from those other areas, we would make it work,” Rowley said. “It’s truly not a budget issue.

If it was out there, we would get it.”

Until more helium is available, Rowley said the plan is to hold a few tanks back and release a few balloons each game and lower the number released on the Sept. 1 game to between 2,500 and 3,500 balloons.

One idea being tossed around is having “touchdown kids” at each game stand at the end of the field to release 15 or 20 balloons after the first touchdown.

“Just so we can hold on to that tradition, a small piece of it would be around still,” Rowley said.

While most people associate helium with party balloons and comically squeaky voices, helium also has many scientific and medical uses. According to Martha Morton, research instrumentation facility coordinator for UNL, helium is used for MRIs, the

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Large Hadron Collider and superconductors used in research instruments.

While the Athletic Department spends from $4,000 to $5,000 on helium per year, UNL spends about $11,000 per year on helium for research, Morton said. However, this number pales in comparison to the upward of $40,000 in helium the University of Illinois uses at its instrumentation facility.

Beyond being lighter than air, helium has a number of unique properties that make it extremely valuable to researchers.

“Liquid helium is really the only straightforward way of creating 4 degrees Kelvin, which is the temperature needed to run superconductors,” Harbison said.

According to Morton, 4 degrees Kelvin is just about absolute zero (minus 452.2 degrees Fahrenheit), at which all molecular motion stops.

“Even space isn’t at absolute zero,” Morton said.

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UNL fails to make top 25 in LGBT housing survey Emily Nitcher DN A survey from a nonprofit LGBT advocacy organization gave the University of Nebraska-Lincoln four out of five stars when it came to LGBT friendliness, but UNL failed to make the top 25 list because of the university’s housing and inclusion policies.

The Campus Pride Climate Index, a national assessment of LGBT campus life, gave UNL 1.5 out of five stars for housing/residence life and two out of five for policy inclusion.

For the last five years, Campus Pride has used the index as a tool to rate the LGBT friendliness of colleges and universities across the nation, according to Shane Windmeyer, executive director of Campus Pride. Pat Tetreault, director of the LGBTQA resource center and assistant director of student involvement, first filled out a profile for UNL on the website in 2007 with the help of Juan Franco,

vice chancellor of student affairs.

The 50-question assessment said UNL Housing’s lack of genderneutral housing, bathrooms and LGBT-friendly roommate-pairing system detracted from the university’s overall LGBT friendliness score. UNL Housing Director Sue Gildersleeve said that her department has not made any changes, but will review its policies based on the survey’s findings. Housing has started working with LGBT students more closely in the past few years to fit their needs, Gildersleeve said.

“We’ve had lesbian and gay students for many years, and we’ve been aware of that,” she said. “Oftentimes our students have been comfortable with that.

This is not a new thing. Transgendered students are not new, but something we are becoming more aware of.”

One reason UNL scored poorly in the housing category is that transgender students are not allowed to be housed in accordance with their gender identity or ex-

We just have to work toward a more inclusive environment.”

Annie Pigaga junior unl student

pression. According to policy, students are given a housing assignment based upon their birth sex, Gildersleeve said.

The majority of the residence halls offer gender-neutral bathrooms on the first floor that do not have showers, Gildersleeve said.

She also said most bathrooms in the halls offer individual showers.

Another question on the survey asked if UNL offered genderneutral or single-occupancy restrooms in campus housing.

The survey also asked if UNL offered a way for LGBT students to be matched with a LGBTfriendly roommate.

“We don’t at this time offer students to be matched with LGBTQA students,” Gildersleeve

said. “To be honest I hadn’t even heard of that approach.”

Gildersleeve said she will work with the residence life staff to look into whether UNL should begin offering such an option.

“We should have more options,” said Alejandro Benavente, a sophomore general studies major who identifies as gay and gender-netural. “Some people don’t feel fully female or fully male.”

Benavente said while he has been satisfied with the options offered by Housing, others in the LGBT community may not be.

At this time Housing has no plans to make policy revisions. Instead the department takes a more quiet one-on-one approach to accommodate students.

Annie Pigaga, a junior adver-

Football tickets leave paper behind Paper tickets become a thing of the past this football season for UNL students Virginia Gormley DN Electronics have taken over one more aspect of Husker life. Football season tickets will now be sent directly to University of Nebraska-Lincoln students’ NCards and simply scanned upon entry.

The change came after studying other universities with similar systems and as an effort to make gameday proceed quickly and smoothly for everyone, according to Athletic Department officials.

Electronic tickets do not require validation like the paper tickets did.

“Students weren’t validating their tickets the week before,” said Holly Adam, athletics ticket office manager. “Everyone would wait until gameday and then we would have a line running out to Stadium Drive. We’re just trying

to streamline the process.”

Although other schools have similar ticket processes, UNL is unique in letting students sell their tickets to others, she said.

“It has been a challenge with the software company since they have never set up this kind of system,” Adam said.

In order to transfer tickets, students must first go to Huskers.com and click on the “My Account” tab. From there they can then select “Transfer Tickets.”

The website requires users to enter the game, the ticket recipient’s name and their email address and phone number. The recipient must then accept the offer and the tickets will then be transferred to his or her NCard.

For sales to non-students, the ticket will be sent to them via email to print off. A validation fee anywhere from $32 to $52 must be paid to the university for nonstudent sales depending on the game. Tickets may only be sold one at a time.

“I’m planning on trying to buy tickets for the important games, but it’s kind of complicated,” said

transferRing tickets How to transfer a ticket:

1. Go to huskers.com 2. Click on the “My Account” tab under “Tickets” 3. Log in 4. Select “Transfer Tickets” 5. Enter the recipient’s name, email address, and phone number 6. Click confirm

How to accept a ticket:

1. Check email 2. Click on offer and press “Accept” 3. Non-students must print tickets, but tickets will be transferred to the NCards of UNL students 4. Offers must be accepted within two days Chris Svoboda, a sophomore advertising major. “I think the student section will be diminished since it’s now more complicated to get tickets.”

Jon Dau, a freshman mechanical engineering major, also did not purchase season tickets. But Dau

said he plans to buy tickets for games.

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Recycling program seeks volunteers est in volunteers so far,” Henson Nate Sindelar said. “We expect close to 30 or 35 DN (volunteers) this first week.”

In 2009, volunteers collected “Go Green for Big Red” coordinators Prabhakar Shrestha and an average of 700 pounds of waste per game, but the followJeff Henson are ready for aning season saw a decrease to 500 other year of saving pounds per the world. But they’re game. Shresgoing to need a little In the tha stressed help. beginnning that numbers The program, which as impromotes recycling in they didn’t want weren’t portant as oththe area surrounding to (recycle) but er goals.

Memorial Stadium, is “This is our entering its fourth year. now they seek Lincoln, this Last season, 150 green bags out. is our univervolunteers collected sity,” he said.

9,500 pounds of aluWe’ve come a “It’s not about minum cans, bottles how many long way.” and plastic cups from pounds or peowalkways and parkple. It’s more ing lots surrounding Prabhakar about getting Memorial Stadium, the message to shrestha according to a univergo green for big red the tailgaters sity press release. This coordinator and spectators year, Shrestha and that recycling Henson, both Univeris a habit.” sity of Nebraska-LinAs the tailgaters fill lots outcoln graduate students, hope to side the stadium, each is given a collect even more. green bag and encouraged to fill “We’re seeing a lot of inter-

it with their recyclables. Before and during the game, volunteers make rounds collecting the already-full bags and tote them to designated bins.

“Most tailgaters have been receptive,” Shrestha said. “In the beginning, they didn’t want to, but now they seek green bags out.

We’ve come a long way.”

Volunteers will receive a Tshirt, a 24-ounce steel water bottle, lunch and drinks. The meals will be provided by local sponsors including Runza, Raising Cane’s and Pepsi.

“In addition to saving the world with recycling, you get a bunch of free stuff too,” Shrestha said.

The focus on the pre-game party has always been a part of “Go Green for Big Red.” UNL Recycling, Americorps and the city’s Recycling Office formed the program when Landscape Services workers pointed out a lack of recycling options in tailgating areas at home games, Henson said.

But now, Shrestha said, the effort is largely student-based. The co-

gameday recycling in 2011 • 150 Volunteers • 9,500 pounds of aluminum cans, bottles and plastic cups recycled ordinators are now looking to expand the program and reach out to local organizations for help.

“Schneider Electric provided volunteers last year,” Prabhakar said. “It’s a win-win for both: Companies and students (get) to interact with each other.”

Prospective volunteers can email recycling@unl.edu or call 402-472-9139.

“We’re trying to take the program beyond the campus and get the community involved,” Shrestha said. “Because Husker football doesn’t stop at the edge of campus.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

tising and public relations major who identifies as bisexual, said she has lived in campus housing each year she’s attended UNL. “We may have problems, but I’m happy here,” Pigaga said. “We just have to work toward a more inclusive environment.”

Tetreault expects UNL’s low policy inclusion score to increase after the Employee Plus One policy, which extends insurance benefits for the domestic partners of university employees and was adopted by the university this summer. That policy begins in January 2013.

Windmeyer said UNL should be proud of the four out of five star overall ranking.

“It’s important that campuses like Nebraska come out as LGBTQA friendly and I commend any campus for wanting to be responsible,” Windmeyer said.

“And I congratulate Nebraska for being a leader in the rural Midwest.”

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BreakDown of LGBTfriendly score • 2 out of 5: Policy Inclusion • 4.5 out of 5: Support and Institutional Commitment • 5 out of 5: Student LIfe • 1.5 out of 5: Housing and Residence Life • 4.5 of 5: Campus Safety • 4 of 5: Counseling and Health • 4.5 of 5: Recruitment and Retention Efforts For the full breakdown, visit campusclimateindex.org

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Memorial Stadium access policies to remain largely the same Memorial Stadium admission policies during football gamedays will largely remain the same from last year regarding stadium access and admission, according to a university press release.

The major change concerns prohibited access to certain areas of the stadium due to continued construction. Despite the construction, direction signs and a new pathway in the center of East Stadium are in place for fans to quickly proceed to their gates.

Memorial Stadium’s gates will open 90 minutes prior to kick off, the release said. Express lanes will be available for some spectators, but fans carrying items such as purses, small camera bags and plastic water bottles won’t be permitted to use those lanes. Backpacks are not allowed in the stadium. Fans are allowed to enter and exit the stadium for the first three quarters but must re-scan their ticket upon entry, according to the release.

Starting this season, students must scan their NCards to enter the stadium. NCard-scanning only applies to students sitting in student-designated areas, sections nine through 14 of the southeast corner of the stadium, the release said.

Students with tickets for sections nine through 11 must pick up a required wristband at the tent east of Gate 23 beginning four hours prior to kickoff. Wristbands are not required for students sitting in sections 12 through 14.

Most other policies such as the restriction of alcoholic beverages and smoking in the stadium will remain the same, according to the release.

correction An article published in the Thursday, Aug. 30 edition of the Daily Nebraskan headlined “Left, right work to claim youth vote” gave incorrect titles for Andrew LaGrone and John-Robert Bloom. Andrew LaGrone is the chairman of the Nebraska Federation of College Republicans.

Bloom is the president of the University of

Nebraska-Lincoln College Republicans. LaGrone was at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., working for the Nebraska Republican Party as a staffer.

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correction An article published in the Monday, Aug. 27 edition of the Daily Nebraskan headlined “Hazing investigation continues” incorrectly reported the name of the suspended Sigma Lambda Gamma

chapter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It is the Nu Beta chapter.

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balloons: from 1 Unfortunately, according to Harbison, no viable alternatives exist for helium in balloons or superconductors.

“You can fill balloons with hydrogen but unfortunately it’s explosive,” Harbison said. “You’d have hydrogen leaks with inexperienced people working it and then you’d have an explosion.”

While there is the potential to recycle helium utilized by research facilities, the system is extremely costly, according to an email by Dean Olson, director of the NMR Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Olson said it would cost between $100,000 and $150,000 to install a system to collect helium and another $500,000

for a liquification facility.

Largely, helium for balloons represents a very minute portion of the total helium used, Morton said.

“Helium balloons are the least of my worries,” Morton said. “There are places around the nation that put off bringing in scientific instruments because they couldn’t get any helium. We’re crying into our coffee.”

For some researchers, the balloons are just an annoying use of a precious resource.

“It irritates me a bit,” Harbison said. “Letting off 5,000 balloons for a touchdown is a bit crass. My guess is filling those balloons is going to take a millionth amount of the world’s supply. I think it probably just annoys a bunch of scien-

tists, but it has no practical impact on the price of helium.”

The tradition of releasing red balloons after the first Husker touchdown has been around since the late ‘40s. According to Rowley, the tradition started after a women’s group started selling red balloons downtown.

“I’ve gone to every game since I

was literally 7 years old,” said Tessa Hlavaty, a sophomore psychology major and lifetime fan of the tradition. “It’s something I remember from being a really little kid. I feel like everything is changing the way it’s going right now. That was always the constant.”

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advertisement: from 1 not determined how many spots to buy in the Chicago market or what the price of those spots will be. University administrators hope the commercial will draw more outof-state students to the school, said Meg Lauerman, director of University Communications.

“We know we need to boost out-of-state enrollment,” Lauerman said. “We also know if students and their parents don’t know about us, we certainly won’t get chosen. It’s our responsibility to introduce ourselves into that market.”

Lauerman said the concept for the commercial came largely from target audience studies.

“We know what students need to know about us according to our audience research,” she said.

The commercial took about six weeks to go from the strategy phase to final product, according to Reisinger. He said an extended 90-second version of the commercial will be available online and the television spot will be 30 seconds.

Cerveny said the Internet will be the main vehicle for the commercial’s message.

“When we have national commercials like this one, hundreds of thousands of people

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Construction workers lower a beam onto the top of East Stadium on Thursday. The steel beam signified a “topping out” of construction, in which the skeleton of the building is completed. An American flag is attached to the beam to represent patriotism and freedom.

An evergreen tree is attached to symbolize the job’s success without a loss of life and as a good luck charm.

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Tom Osborne addresses media outside East Stadium on Thursday. Osborne signed the beam along with Chancellor Harvey Perlman.

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Chancellor Harvey Perlman sports a Nebraska hard hat while on site for the raising of the final construction beam for East Stadium on Thursday.

verizon: from 1 the Athletic Department, according to Marc Boehm, executive associate athletic director.

“We heard of some Husker fans who were annoyed that their phones wouldn’t work,” Boehm said. “We’re happy that we could work with our business partner to bring a better experience to Husker fans.”

Among those with a complaint was Christina Yeager, a freshman animal science major.

“The reception was absolutely

horrible during the games.” Yeager said. “When you get enough signal, all of the texts come in and you can’t respond fast enough.”

Verizon also plans on installing more antennae once the East Stadium expansion is completed.

However, Loecker said, the network isn’t perfect. In the coming weeks, Verizon plans on testing the capabilities of the network to make sure customers are happy.

“It’s just the optimization phase,” Loecker said. “We’re al-

most completely done.”

With the new antennae in place, Feldman reflected upon her cellphone signal outrage from last year.

“Whenever my family and I would see a Verizon advertisement during the game, we’d make some kind of smart comment,” she said. “I’m really looking forward to the changes.”

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are seeing it both on television and the web and are learning about the university,” Cerveny said. “And many of those viewers will be prospective students.”

As of Thursday afternoon, the commercial had just under 3,000 views on YouTube. It was uploaded by the university on Aug. 28.

Cerveny said it’s difficult to put a specific value on how important these types of commercials are, but he said if they weren’t effective, businesses wouldn’t be spending million of dollars on advertising.

The new ad will most likely be the only commercial the university produces this school year, he said, adding that one new commercial is typically put out each fall.

Reisinger said he thinks there is a lot of opportunity for this specific commercial to attract interest because of its unique approach.

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Zipcars will also help is even worse. Books are pretty steep in price, too. Throw in the money lighten traffic congestion. That means you spent on clothes, gas, Jimmy John’s and can leave campus later and still arrive on other additional fees and you are left with time.

Zipcar’s website states that members next to nothing.

Let’s not forget, though, you still have save around $500 per month compared to to pay for transportation. You may be those who own a car. $500 is a lot of money.

If you were to use Zipcar through all four armed with a bus pass and a five-speed, but neither of these are much help when years of college, you would save about almost $18,000. Since the average student you want to take a spontaneous trip to see your grandparents who live 50 miles away. graduates about $25,000 in debt, $18,000 can go a long way.

Car payments, insurance and gas add According to the website, Zipcar is up to a lot of money. There is also maingrowing at a steady rate of 30 percent a year. tenance and oil changes that you have to worry about on top of that. Not only is It is in more than 50 cities and on more than the car expensive, but the permit is a good 100 campuses. In the next 10 years, who chunk of money, too. And although you knows how many cities will have Zipcars. may pay for a reserved spot, you aren’t I’m guessing it will be a lot, though, considering “10 percent of the world’s population always guaranteed one close to your residence hall. You also have to remember that is expected to adopt car-sharing as a primary mode of transportation.” The growth your car sits in the lot untouched for the of the company clearly states its practicality majority of the day. You might even go days without using it because downtown and appeal to students.

Joining Zipcar is simple. You can sign is within walking distance. Face it, owning up online or even from your phone. After a car is a hassle and a waste of money.

Zipcar is here to help with that. Ac- filling out the usual name, address, etc., cording to Zipcar’s website, after you pay your driving record is examined. Then you a $25 application fee, you can use one of are given a card that uses radio frequency identification technology to access and unthe cars for just $7 an hour or $66 per day. lock the Zipcar. The key will be inside and Reservations give you 180 free miles. And you are free to cruise. The process is quick you won’t have to worry about gas, either, and painless and you’ll be on the road besince there is a gas card inside the car.

No insurance? No problem. According fore you know it.

Being broke sucks and giving plasma to their website, Zipcar provides $300,000 per accident in liability coverage for mem- isn’t much fun either. A job requires you to miss out on social events and, most imbers over 21 years of age. Those who are under 21 get insurance coverage up to the portantly, Husker football games. Have no state-mandated levels. The website states, fear though, Zipcar is here to help. Save the world and save some cash. Join Zipcar “For both third party and Zipcar vehicle damage claims, the member may be re- today.

JoVanna Balquier is a freshsponsible for a damage fee of up to $750 man English major. Reach her on if they’re involved in an incident during twitter at @_JoBalquier and at their reservation.” Therefore, buying inopinion@ surance is another expense a Zipcar user dailynebraskan.com

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The rental he new thing on campus is the Zipcar, a car that is accessible car is also said to students 24/7. This rental to reduce conin car is mostly targeted at stu- gestion dents who don’t have a car parking lots. on campus or who don’t want I park on campus with to bother with parking on campus. The concept of the Zipcar sounds appealing, my car, and time but in actuality, it’s just a stale idea that each I’ve done so, I won’t be used. The program is something haven’t had any that most students probably think is a problems. I usually good idea, but when it comes to actually use my car about twice using the car, they will shy away. a week, and I can always One reason why students will not use find a parking space. the new Zipcar is its costs. According to You might think the Zipcar website, there is a $25 registration fee and a $7 fee for every hour that the Zipcar is a good way to run that you use the car. to the grocery store The Zipcar website claims that gas or to Target, but getand insurance are included, but think ting a Zipcar for about it for a minute. The money that just one errand you have put toward the registration and hassle. additional hours is basically like paying seems like such a One could just ask a for gas in your own car. friend who may also need While some may say that the benefits outweigh the costs and that it’s cheaper to go to Target for a ride. My freshman year, I didn’t have a car on campus, but than buying a parking permit for the year, take into consideration the reality whenever I needed to run an errand, one of the costs of the Zipcar versus the park- of my friends was already going where I needed to go. I never found it a hassle ing garage or parking lot. For one year, it to ask anyone for a ride, nor did I find costs about $500 to park in a garage and it inconvenient that no car was readily about $300 to park in a parking lot. At available to me. first glance, these may seem like hefty I will admit that the Zipcar would numbers. But if you use the Zipcar for six days at $66 per day, the cost is more than benefit local students who want to go home for a weekend more than it would the cost of a one-year parking lot permit. out-of-state students. I If you use the Zipcar for am from Minnesota and eight days at that rate, it The theory there is no way that I costs the same amount as a of the Zipcar would rent the Zipcar year in the parking garage. for $66-a-day to go home For me, the benefits seems practical, for a weekend. For me, and costs of the parking lot that is more than I pay in and garage outweigh the but the reality is gas to get home. Having convenience of the Zipcar. impractical. I just my car on campus has I know for certain that my car will be there and that I don’t see it having been convenient. There is no hassle with having can use it whenever I want. all the benefits to register or wait for a There is no hassle or waitcar. At this point in time, ing around, and after a few that everyone there are only four Zipweeks of use I will have thinks it will have.” cars on campus. What gotten my moneys’ worth happens when they are out of a parking permit. all in use? I would have to wait to use Zipcar also claims that it is a green one and who knows when one would be solution, but it’s still a car that adds polavailable. lutants to the air. It’s just as convenient The theory of the Zipcar seems pracand “green” as carpooling with someone tical, but the reality is impractical. I just or having a car that you only use once don’t see it having all the benefits that or twice a week. If you really want to be green, you can walk or ride a bike; both everyone thinks it will have. I’m sure you will find that the Zipcar is a waste alternatives are much better for the enof time and effort and you are better off vironment.

If you don’t want to hassle with a having your own car on campus. The car at all, then use the bus system. Each ease and benefits of having a car on campus, in my mind, outweigh the benefits student at the university has a bus pass. of the Zipcar.

The bus cuts down on your expenses as Victoria Hartzog is a Junior a student. You don’t have to pay for gas English Major. follow her on and don’t have to ask a friend for a ride.

Twitter @VictoriaHartzog and Though waiting for it could be a hassle, reach her at opinion@ the bus still saves you energy, money and dailynebraskan.com is convenient.

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WEEKEND Once in a blues moon courtesy photos

story by jourdyn kaarre art by natalia kraviec

Bluesmasters to unite in Lincoln for tonight all-star benefit concert

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incoln does not realize the sheer madness about to hit this city this weekend.

With the first Husker football game on Saturday and perhaps the largest collaborative force of blues artists the city has ever seen, Lincoln will be bursting at the seams.

The blues will be flooding the capital city this Friday for the Bluesmasters Concert, a tribute to the late Hubert Sumlin and Pinetop Perkins, as well as a benefit for the University of Nebraska’s Legends Scholarship fund.

Mick Fleetwood, drummer of the band Fleetwood Mac, will

host the event. Bluesmasters is a chart-topping collaborative effort featuring artists of national renown and special guests, including Eric Gales and Otis Taylor.

The Allman Brothers Band will headline the billing Friday. Elvin Bishop and Leon Russell will also perform.

Tim Tucker, chief architect of the concert and guitarist in the group, describes the presence of The Allman Brothers Band as reason enough to attend.

“It’s a one-time deal with the Allman Brothers,” Tucker said.

“You’re not going to see that show too many times. It’s a onetime deal. Spare no expense.”

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Dave Hilligoss laughs while chatting on-air with Cathy Blythe via Skype on Monday. The two host KFOR’s morning show. KFOR is up for the Legendary Station Marconi Award.

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Icky Blossoms guitarist and vocalist Nik Fackler will release his debut album as InDreama this October. InDreama recently signed on with the New York label Team Love Records.

Omaha musician boasts eclectic history, bright future michael Todd Hearnebraska.org

››The following story was

published by hearnebraska. org on Aug. 30.

The sound of a spacebar punctuates the three-minute mark of InDreama’s “Saw a Blind Dad.” It tags the end of a sluggish section of plodding drums, phasing

vocals and a guitar lagging just behind the rest. Draped over it all is a whooshing digital wind that gives way only to the sudden scrape of feedback.

Just imagine your parents listening to what comes next.

Nik Fackler doesn’t have to.

InDreama’s main character, divided into a number of voices on the forthcoming self-titled album, introduced his band to his

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parents — and for the first time anywhere — at a reunion of his

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Local station nominated for radio’s highest honor katie fennelly DN Local radio station KFOR 1240 AM is up for the highest honor in the radio broadcasting world, a Marconi Award.

The Marconis, awarded by the National Association of Broadcasters, are named after Guglielmo Marconi, creator of the radio telegraph and the man often credited with the invention of radio.

“They (the Marconis) are to broadcasting what an Emmy is to TV, a Grammy is to the music industry and the Oscar is to the film industry,” said Cathy Blythe, a host for the radio station’s morning show.

KFOR is a finalist in the Legendary Station category, an award

given based on a variety of criteria, including ratings, previous awards and innovative programming, as well as contributions to the radio industry and to the station’s community.

Joy Patten, the station’s general manager, said that in its 88-year history, KFOR has continually strived to meet the criteria.

“Every year is an exemplary year at KFOR,” she said. “The station deserves this recognition in the company of the best of the best radio stations in America.”

Patten and Blythe will represent the station at the awards ceremony on Sept. 20 in Dallas.

Even if the station doesn’t win, Patten said being a finalist is an honor.

“We are extremely honored to

be in the top five in this category alongside some of the biggest stations in the country,” Patten said.

KFOR is a small market station and Patten said she thinks a small market station has never won the award.

“We’re hoping this will be the year that happens,” she said.

Blythe, who co-hosts the station’s morning show with Dave Hilligoss, has won a Marconi Award twice, in 2002 and 2005.

She said would love to see the station receive the same recognition.

“For KFOR to also receive a Marconi as Legendary Station of the Year would be such an admirable feat, considering there are 14,000 radio stations in this coun-

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Acting carries ‘Lawless’ through wavering plot cameron mount dN

Virginia for a quiet waitress life, is such a conventional role that it’s almost offensive she isn’t given more to do. Wasikowska Gritty, well-acted and with a compelling dose of originality, “Law- is likable as the daughter of an over-protective preacher, but less” is a mostly successful, but fatally unfocused Prohibition-era like Chastain seems to exist merely to distract from all the gangster movie.

The film follows three broth- violence, of which the movie has plenty. ers (Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Throats are slit, brass knuckJason Clarke) in Prohibitionera Virginia as they grow and les are liberally employed and defend their moonshine busi- bullets solve most day-to-day problems. If the movie had more ness. The brothers are tough focus and cohesion, the violence and violent when necessary, but protected by local law enforce- would make sense, like if this ment until the arrival of Charlie character was clearly fighting Rakes (Guy Pearce), a sadistic, for one thing and that character flamboyant, hair-gelled-to-hell another.

But with a special deputy fightdozen strands ing on behalf of rival Throats are of half-finChicago gangsters. ished story LaBeouf plays slit, brass arcs and mudthe youngest of the dled claims Bondurant brothers, knuckles are to justice, the not quite as hard- liberally employed gore comes off ened as the others as random and and desperately and bullets solve u n n e c e s s a r y. wanting to prove his most day-to-day The climactic worth. shoot-off conThis is LaBeouf’s problems.” veniently kills attempt to prove his off whoever acting worth as well, should probably die and hasn’t which he does in his best perforyet with a storm of arbitrary mance to date, holding his own gunfire devoid of tension. next to the likes of Hardy, Pearce Rocker Nick Cave wrote and Gary Oldman. It may not be the screenplay for “Lawless,” enough to distance himself completely from “Transformers” and based on the book “The Wettest County in the World” by one of “Even Stevens,” but he makes a the actual Bondurant brothers’ case for big-time dramatic roles grandsons. in the future.

While packing some origiJessica Chastain and Mia nal punches, the script is never Wasikowska play Hardy’s and quite sure what story to tell.

LaBeouf’s love interests, reSome characters, like LaBeouf’s, spectively. Chastain’s character, a former dancer who moves to seem written for a realistic pe-

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Lawless

STARRING Tom Hardy, Shia

LaBeouf, Gary Oldman

DIRECTED BY

John Hillcoat

riod piece. On the other hand, Pearce, who, while providing the movie’s most memorable performance (complete with twitching and dress gloves that regularly need the blood wiped off them), seems written for a cartoonish parody.

Despite its flaws, “Lawless” stays afloat with a superb cast and well-crafted direction

by John Hillcoat (“The Proposition,” “The Road”). It’s part “True Grit,” part “The Assassination of Jesse James” and part “Boardwalk Empire.” There are enough traces of each that you can mostly go along with the ride, forgetting that it’s not as good as any of them. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

indreama: from 5 parents’ band, Bumpy Action. It didn’t go well.

“That was a disaster,” Fackler says, and his friend and bandmate Dereck Higgins explains why: “The thing is it was this reunion show, so everyone is my age and older. So they came to relive, get drunk and have a good time. It wasn’t about listening to music, but about it being a backdrop.

“Here come Mom and Dad saying, ‘Hey, it’s our son,’ which seems nice. But then we did our thing: “Bam!” And it was totally punk. So it was like, ‘This ain’t going on.’”

With a laugh, Fackler says, “My mom came up to the stage and were like, ‘You have to stop now.’”

About 30 years separate Fackler from Higgins, 57, who further explained the difference between Bumpy Action’s crowd and the folks who responded positively to InDreama’s second concert.

“Each generation has to have its own voice,” says Higgins, who plays bass in the live version of InDreama. “The hell Nik’s going to come up and play some Lynyrd Skynyrd. Are you kidding me?

“Just like when I played with my dad, I played his stuff,” he continues, speaking in front of his collection of vinyl in his home.

“But once I created my own voice,

That was a disaster.” nik Fackler

on playing a show with his parents

the hell I’m going to play some motherfucking blues if I can help it.” Higgins hates the blues, he says.

While Fackler has recently released an album, directed music videos, toured across a few states and as of Aug. 21 sits at No. 10 on the College Music Journal chart with his other band, Icky Blossoms, he didn’t pick up music until the age of 21 with The Family Radio, joining Higgins. By that time, Higgins had already had a musical influence on Fackler, sharing not only his records, new and old, but the stories behind them.

Having taken up film as his form of creative expression — mostly as a form of rebellion against his parents’ choice of music, he says — Fackler worked on his first feature film, “Lovely, Still,” until he reached the age of 23. When it released in 2008, he says it felt as if something died.

Throughout his travels across North and South America promoting the film he turned finally to making music as a way to express

his newfound feelings and perspective. This is how InDreama came to be.

Now as the album composed mostly in GarageBand celebrates its plan for release, Oct. 23 on Team Love, Fackler and Higgins are working out the final touches.

The test pressing arrived on Aug. 27, and Higgins looks forward to being able to help sell the record and ship it internationally through his YouTube account and the community of vinyl listeners and collectors he has found.

Plus, he no doubt hopes to keep sharing his own massive record collection with Fackler, who now knows a little more about Higgins and his thoughts on their friendship.

“It’s hard to keep it straight with people, but you know, I look over and I see Nik. He’s my friend, but he’s also ... like a son almost,” Higgins says with a smile and a laugh.

Michael Todd is Hear Nebraska’s managing editor.

Reach him at michaeltodd@ hearnebraska.org.

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this week in film At the Ross: “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

directed by: Benh Zeitlin • Friday – 5:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:15 p.m.

• Saturday – 1:15 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:15 p.m.

• Sunday – 1:15 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m.

“Celeste and Jesse Forever”

directed by: Lee Toland Krieger • Friday – 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

• Saturday – 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

• Sunday – 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m.

Husker Football on the Big Screen –

Nebraska vs. Southern Mississippi Saturday – 2:30 p.m.

New In Theaters: “The Possession”

directed by: Ole Bornedal starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Madison Davenport

“Lawless”

directed by:

coat

John Hill-

starring:

Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce

DN Weekend Pick: “Celeste and Jesse Forever”

directed by:

Krieger

Lee Toland

starring:

Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Chris Messina – compiled by cameron Mount - arts@dailynebraskan.com

GIMME 5: Summer Blockbuster Failures Gimme the worst qualities of 2012 summer blockbusters

1.

Rom-coms with comatose spunk

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Giant reptiles with unaltered, prim voice of Rhys Ifans

3.

Idris Elba’s phony-baloney Southern accent

4.

Conspicuous lack of “Lincoln” previews

5.

Nudity for the sake of nudity

compiled by Lauren blunk | Art by natalia kraviec

Bethany schmidt | DN

Chuck Stevens gives the sports report on KFOR’s “The Morning Show with Cathy and Dave.” KFOR was recently nominated for a Marconi Award in the Legendary Station category. try,” Blythe said.

Throughout her 40 years of employment at KFOR, Blythe said she has seen the station’s strong commitment to its listeners grow, all while adapting to changing technologies. “(By) connecting with listeners on a personal level, serving the community by keeping our finger on the pulse of what’s going on and, at the same time, su-

per serving our clients who have placed their trust in us, just as the listeners put their trust in us, the station has been able to stay current in a climate driven by other news formats,” she said.

Blythe added that earning and maintaining listeners’ trust is something that KFOR and Three Eagles Communications, the station’s parent company, strive for on a daily basis and is something

that has allowed the station to deliver the news for nearly nine decades.

“Relating to people is something that never goes out of style,” Blythe said. “KFOR has a reputation for dependability, credibility and integrity and we take that responsibility very seriously.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

bluesmasters: from 5 In addition, Tucker said he believes this is the last time to see The Allman Brothers Band west of the Mississippi.

Tucker, a Lincoln native, had no hesitation planning the concert in Lincoln. He anticipates it will generate a large amount of money for the university.

Andy Washburn, the senior director of operations for the Nebraska Alumni Association, said the money will benefit the Nebraska Legends Scholarship, which is a key ingredient in Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s goal toward generating a student body of 30,000 by 2017.

“We (alumni) are looking to do something to give back to the university at the end of the day,” Tucker said.

However, when it came to getting legendary artists to the Star City, Hubert Sumlin and Pinetop Perkins were the driving forces.

Both men passed away after recording the second Bluesmasters album and for some, performing at this concert is the least they could do to honor the men. All it took was a phone call.

“They influenced every type of music along the way,” Tucker said of Sumlin and Perkins. “Everyone wanted to be involved some way.”

This includes Eric Gales, an American blues-rock artist and special guest at Friday’s concert.

“Hubert Sumlin was like a godfather to me,” Gales said. “We played together several times. I have mad respect for him.”

Gales and other artists will gather Friday at 6 p.m. for the concert at Haymarket Park.

The event is a partnership between Blues Events, the Lincoln Saltdogs and the University of Nebraska Alumni Association.

Tickets run from $85 to $165 and can be purchased online at etix. com.

Not only will the event be for those physically at the concert, but the show will also be taped for distribution all over the world.

Even Howard Stern partnered

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Eric Gales is just one of many renowned blues musicians who will take the stage Friday night in a lineup that includes The Allman Brothers Band, Otis Taylor, Elvin Bishop and Leon Russell. The evening will be hosted by Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac fame.

with the event, according to Tucker.

“It (the blues) touches your soul,” Gales said. “There are a lot of deep things about it. Even if there were no lyrics in the song, you’d still be moved by it. There’s just something about it.”

When asked what people can expect from the Bluesmasters concert, Gales offered simply, “Man, expect to be blown away.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

if you go The Bluesmasters Concert

when: Friday, 6 p.m. (doors at 5 p.m.) where: Haymarket Park, 403 Line Drive Circle how much: $85-$165 (online at etix.com)

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3-D film technology shows promise of innovation

cameron mount The use of 3-D in movies continues to rise.

But in addition to the slew of upcoming 2012 3-D releases like “Resident Evil: Retribution,” “Life of Pi” and “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” it was announced this week that new technology may allow viewers to see 3-D movies sans glasses and that the last two Star Wars prequels will get back-to-back 3-D re-releases next fall.

Despite this, criticism of 3-D is loud and steadfast, with grumblings about muddled picture quality and articles like Roger Ebert’s “Why 3-D doesn’t work and never will. Case closed.”

But there is a side of the 3-D argument rarely considered, rendering most criticisms shortsighted and moot. Most 3-D films today may be gimmicky and crude, but there is evidence for 3-D’s promising future in the film ex-

perience that is worth supporting.

Rajneel Singh makes his point in “The Case For 3D,” in which he outlines the history of technology use in cinema.

Since the 19th century, technology has continuously garnered criticisms of being gimmicky. Movies were once only viewable by one person at a time through a Kinetophone. Early Technicolor processes involved gluing together single-color film strips (an expensive fire hazard).

And 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the first visual marvel and box office hit in terms of color, sound and animation technologies, was, like 2010’s “Avatar,” a fairly unoriginal story.

The peak of 3-D cinema will be nothing like “Avatar” or virtual reality video games at the arcade.

Imagine, instead, an experience as immersing and realistic as dreaming. Picture the perfect recreation of depth and perspective serving an artful original story. Knowing the bounds that cinema and technology have leapt in the past 75 years, place yourself another 50 or 75 years in the future.

Today’s convergence 3-D projects images are simply placed slightly ahead of one another.

That may be the limit of our ability now, but what systems will replace and build on today’s technology? To assume that every iteration of 3-D will be muddy, cause headaches and seem unrealistic is remarkably shortsighted.

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It isn’t within our means now, but there are many steps toward that reality and convergence 3-D is just one.

Since early color technology was subdued and artificial, should improvements have stopped with black and white?

Singh makes the point that until the 1960s, the limitations of Technicolor meant that everything on screen needed to be resplendently lit. The fantastic “Wizard of Oz” became possible, but creative manipulation of shadow and darkness required black-andwhite for a couple more decades.

Critics of color technology existed then, just as 3-D critics now, recit-

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Club rugby seeks players, greater following at NU Team encourages players to join even if they have no previous playing experience

trying to grow a sport the players believe has a lot of potential.

“It’s not a huge sport yet,” said Kayla Reyes, a flanker who has been playing for two and a half years. “But it’s slowly getting big.”

The club team is trying to encourage potential players to join the Chris Peters team, even if those players don’t DN have experience with the sport.

“It takes you A heap of women multiple seasons yank and tear at one You take to learn the game, another until evenbut once you learn that first tually, a white orb the basics (you can emerges from the pile. hit and you stand play),” said Tessa The oblong ball Phillips, a senior sails backward and back up after hooker and last into the hands of getting plowed year’s team capa mud-drenched tain, who is enterathlete. She dashes by this massive ing her fourth seaaround the side of girl and realize son with the team. the mass, only to be “You take that caught just above the nothing is broken.” first hit and you pelvis by a woman stand back up after who has yet to fish the Tessa Phillips getting plowed by grass out of her teeth. senior this massive girl Rugby is a raw and realize nothgame. It’s sport at its ing is broken.” core.

Rugby is a game that involves At Nebraska, it’s still in its inadvancing a ball to the opponent’s fancy. Though it has a small folgoal area. Players may handle the lowing, the Huskers’ club team is ball with their hands and are only

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Rugby, like football, is a physical game. A ruck, a term which connotes a fight for the ball, is formed when a player is tackled. allowed to pass it backward. No blocking is allowed, and if a player is tackled, a fight for the ball, or ruck, is formed.

Of course, the sport is more complex than that. Rugby shares its roots with soccer and American football.

The three share a common goal of advancing a ball to a goal area, as well as the concepts of kicking and physicality.

The club rugby team, which took third place in the Great Plains Union conference championship tournament last season, begins its 2012 season on Friday when the team’s rookie squad, composed of firsttime players, plays the annual rookie game against rival Wayne State College. Last season, Nebraska split the season series 1-1 with Wayne.

“It’s always a really good game,” Reyes said.

Starting at 8 p.m., the game will be played on Vine Street Fields at 17th and Vine streets under the lights on synthetic turf.

The regular season actually begins on Sept. 29 with the alumni game, a game where players suit up in prom dresses and play alongside UNL alumni and members of the Omaha rugby club, the Omaha Goats.

“It’s kind of a nice way to kick the year off and reminisce with old friends,” Reyes said.

The fall season is mostly composed of league games, which qual-

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Nebraska’s club rugby players are passionate about the sport and are looking for more members. ify the team for spring tournaments.

When the spring season kicks off, the team will begin to travel to more tournaments, competing for championships and cash prizes.

When the team finishes in the money, which Phillips said it did 10 or 11 times in 13 attempts in 2011, the money goes into the funding for the program. Players pay annual dues near $100, which only pays for a small portion of the cost of gear, registration and travel.

In fact, club Rugby is expensive. Registration with USA Rugby runs $60 per player, a set of jerseys for the team runs upward of $2,000 and travel runs $200 for a van rental, plus gas and hotel rooms for the athletes.

Some of that money comes from club sports funding, which Phillips estimated in the $1,000 to $2,000

range. The rest of it comes from fundraisers, like cleaning the Ice Box, where the Lincoln Stars hockey team plays.

“It’s (freaking) disgusting,” Phillips said.

That’s why the team tries to avoid it at all costs. They sell T-shirts and they place calls out to companies, hoping for a sponsorship that will not only keep them on the pitch, but keep them out of the Ice Box. “We don’t want to have to ask for money from the girls when we travel,” Phillips said. “We’re all broke college kids.

“Most of the girls couldn’t go.

Nobody can afford that.”

As it stands right now, the team holds a sponsorship from Claremont Apartments for cash, as well as one from Pies and Pints, in the form of discounted pizza and beer

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According to Nebraska’s Will Compton (51), the Huskers will take the season one game at a time. back. “That’s probably the biggest Collins and defensive back Deron Wilson are the anchors of the de- thing, just seeing different defensive fronts and just expecting anything. fense. Wilson had the most intercepRunning plays against not one detions on the squad, which set an FBS record last season, returning eight fensive front, but four or five.”

Although picks for touchdowns.

Southern Miss This season, new Our isn’t expected to head coach Ellis Johnson arrives from South expectations have the same success they saw Carolina, where he was in 2011, the squad the defensive coordina- for our team still presents a tor. Although he did not is to win them challenge for coach the Gamecocks all.

That’s what the Huskers that against Nebraska in the they haven’t seen Capital One Bowl, he we have on for a while in an still put in some of the opener. Martinez prep work for the team, ourselves.” acknowledged which beat the Huskers will compton the difficulty 30-13. senior linebacker that comes with Nebraska’s offense adjusting to the is preparing for a deunknown, but fense similar to the one he ran at South Carolina, but modi- remained confident in the unit’s progress. fied to fit the 4-2-5 template South“I think our whole offense is ern Miss will use as its base defense. very excited to show how far we’ve “We’ve gone against multiple defensive looks, not seeing the same came,” Martinez said. “Hopefully with what we’ve been doing in fall thing,” said Rex Burkhead, NU I-

camp, we can translate that to the game.”

“It’s time to hit somebody else instead of just hitting each other all the time,” senior tight end Ben Cotton said. “Cracking heads with teammates is only fun for so long.”

After going head-to-head all summer and beating up on one another, Nebraska is ready to try and beat up on someone else. While it’s clear that the Huskers are itching to get back onto the field, Compton said it was important to stay focused on one opponent at a time and to not let a nonconference game get overlooked.

“If we approach each and every game like its own season and take each week at a time, one game at a time, the sky’s the limit for us,” Compton said. “Our expectations for our team is to win them all.

That’s what we have on ourselves.

“Hopefully we’ll take care of business on Saturday.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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548-371-27 claimed national titles: 2 (1958 – UPI, 1962 – UPI) conference titles: 8 Defending Conference USA champions 18 consecutive winning seasons stadium: M.M. Roberts Stadium (36,000) rivals: Louisiana Tech, Memphis, Tulane notable current players: WR Tracy Lampley, DE/OLB Jamie Collins, CB Deron Wilson notable former players: Brett Favre, Reggie Collier, Ray Guy, Derrick Nix and Sammy Winder all time record:

Nebraska: • Host an annual “blackout” game – this season, the game takes place Sept. 29 vs. Louisville • Strong home tradition – since opening a rebuilt M.M. Roberts Stadium in 1976, the Golden Eagles have won 74.5 percent of their home games • A distinguished band – like Nebraska, USM’s band is the “Pride of” its state. The Pride of Mississippi has performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, as well as for presidents, governors and foreign leaders.

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Cross country team keeps building SARA HINDS DN Saturday is the Creighton/UNO Classic, the first meet for the NU men’s and women’s cross country teams. Head coach Dave Harris hopes he hasn’t run his team too hard.

The past week of practice for the men and women has been intense, and the heat doesn’t help.

Harris doesn’t plan to lighten up practice Friday either, as he would for other meets. They’re “training through” the meet rather than resting up. Even though it’s the first meet of the season, it’s not one with many Division I opponents.

“I look at everything as a building block, and this is the first block that we’re putting down in racing for this season,” Harris said. “We’ve been building blocks in training. We haven’t had a lot of time together, not even three weeks yet, but we’re building on top of workouts right now. And so this will be the first race and we’ll build on top of this

race to the second and the third and on down (through the) season.”

Harris is looking for the upperclassmen on the women’s side to step up at this meet, but he’ll be watching the freshman runners as well.

Freshmen Sarah Dweikat and Tess Keller are running in their first college meet Saturday.

Going from high school to college can be a difficult transition, but add in running a few miles every day, and managing time and eating healthy somehow become even more crucial.

Keller is still transitioning from her New Jersey high school cross country to cross country in college.

“There’s a lot more training and core work,” Keller said. “(There are) a lot of more miles, I haven’t ran as many miles as I did this past summer. But it’s part of being in college I guess.”

Keller knows she’s just a freshman and lacks the college race experience many of her teammates hold, but she holds an

advantage over her teammates: as Harris wants. He is concerned practice has been too demanding She has four years to improve.

For that reason, Keller isn’t look- on his freshmen.

“I think they are relatively ing to run a personal best on Sattired right now from the training,” urday.

“There’s no time I’m expecting, Harris said. “I’m concerned that but I’m just hoping that I keep get- maybe I’ve got them a little too tired. But we’re training and that’s ting better and better,” Keller said. the point of the seaShe doesn’t son that we’re at have exact numright now, we’re not I hope we bers running trying to rest.” through her mind. can kinda Harris said he She’s just looking is always looking to build on her race perk our legs to build on top of this Saturday. training and races, For Keller and up and run on and preparation for the other freshmen Saturday.”

Saturday’s meet is running Saturday, Dave Harris just another “buildthe meet will be an head cross country coach ing block.” Train opportunity to gain hard now and the experience.

The tone is set for the same applies to the rest of the season. Train hard now upperclassmen, who are looking to and races are easy. Saturday’s meet gain more experience. is just a small step in the season for “I think they know it’s just a part of starting the season, going NU – a step Harris hopes his team can take. to a race and establishing kind of “I hope we can kind of perk where they are on the team,” Harour legs up and run on Saturris said. day,” Harris said.

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a rapid impact on the other new members of the Huskers as well.

On Aug. 28, freshman Alexa Strange tallied 36 assists in NU’s annual Red/White Scrimmage, and although her main position is right side hitter, Cook said she’ll also be used to back up All-American Lauren Cook at setter, too.

The San Clemente, Calif., native said Busboom has made her transition to Nebraska much easier.

“She’s really taken me under her wing,” Strange said. “We always work a half an hour before practice on my setting, and she’s made playing the game much easier for me.”

The freshman also made a splash last Sunday with her first career kill to help capture the win against the Fighting Irish.

“I was a little nervous and overpassed the ball,” Strange said with a laugh. “At first I thought, ‘Oh no!’ but it thankfully went over and ended up being a blessing.”

The Huskers hope to carry the winning momentum into this weekend when they travel west to face Colgate and UC-Irvine in California.

Both games will be played Saturday as NU will first match up with the Raiders at 5 p.m. and meet the Anteaters at 10 p.m.

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We have high hopes, and I think with the talent we have, we can definitely achieve those goals.”

“We have a lot of girls back from last year, and I think that drive will help us in the end.”

It was enough for head coach John Cook to hire his former player.

“I loved coaching Dani as a player, she is a winner,” he said.

“She played two different positions here, she has a passion for coaching and I’m excited to work alongside her to help our team accomplish its goals.”

And Busboom’s debut as a Husker coach couldn’t have been better.

On Aug. 24, the Huskers defeated St. Louis 25-13, 25-17, 25-18 in front of 4,129 fans in the 2012 season opener.

Busboom said she was happy to be back in front of the Sea of Red, this time from the bench.

“It was exciting to be back in the Coliseum and experience game day here again,” she said.

Nebraska went on to make the weekend even more special for Busboom as the Huskers capped a five-set win against then-No. 1 UCLA and defeated Notre Dame in three sets to begin the season 3-0.

The assistant coach has been impressed with everyone’s contribution thus far this season.

“The freshmen did a great job, and they’re going to have even more chances to contribute as the season goes on,” Busboom said.

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Former NU setter/libero Dani Busboom is excited to return to Nebraska as an assistant volleyball coach.

The first win can sometimes be the hardest.

After struggling in its first few games of the season, the Nebraska women’s soccer team came away with its first victory against New Mexico on Sunday. Looking to carry that momentum into this weekend, the Huskers will hit the road, taking on Baylor on Friday followed by Cincinnati on Sunday.

“It was good, we were able to come out, able to show the kind of teams we can really play against,” goalkeeper Emma Stevens said.

On Sunday, the key to the Huskers’ victory was on the offensive side.

While New Mexico came out quick and aggressive, Nebraska was able to stay with the Lobos in the first half. Although Nebraska had fewer shots on goal than New Mexico, the Huskers made their shots count. Midfielder Katie Kraeutner put the Huskers ahead 1-0 with a goal late in the first half.

“We needed to be just as aggressive as them, we knew they were going to press us from the start,” Stevens said. “Last time we played them they came out and started hitting us and bumping us around.”

This aspect in starting the game strong was a struggle for the Huskers in their first weekend, but they have since shown improvement in that area. Although last Friday’s game against Virginia Tech resulted in a

loss, one of the strongest parts of the game for the Huskers was that they stayed with the Hokies in the first half, matching them with their shots on goal.

“We really emphasized pressing,” forward Mayme Conroy said. “We thought we could do it, playing with them at half. We didn’t give up and we kept going, but we just couldn’t finish it.”

While starting slow offensively has been a first-half issue, the defensive side has become an issue in the second half with finishing out games.

All but one of the goals allowed by the Huskers so far has been in the second half.

But with the victory against New Mexico giving them the confidence to put together a complete game, the Huskers hope that they come out with some greater confidence, especially with the underclassmen on such a young team.

“We have a lot more players confident on one-versus-one and getting more shots off,” Conroy said.

In the first matchup of the weekend, Nebraska will face Baylor, in which Nebraska leads the all-time series 12-6-2. Baylor has started off the season well at 3-1 and made the NCAA Tournament last year. When Nebraska and Baylor last faced off it was a tough battle between the two, ending in a 0-0 tie.

Although this will be Nebraska’s first-ever matchup against Cincinnati, the Bearcats have had a solid start to the season at 2-0-1.

As Stevens put it simply, the goal for the Huskers this weekend is to just come away with two wins.

“They will be good games. We know what we are capable of,” Stevens said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

recruits: from 10 New Jersey, has led the charge for Clement. Ron Brown, the Husker running backs coach, is also in on Nebraska’s effort.

Clement’s top choices include Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Nebraska. The running back would be in line to compete for playing time early in his college career, should he choose Nebraska. With Aaron Green leaving the program in the offseason and Rex Burkhead graduating after this season, Ameer Abdullah and Braylon Heard represent the only running backs on Nebraska’s roster with experience at the position.

Last season, Clement ran for 2,510 yards and 34 touchdowns as a junior at Glassboro High School.

Shortridge, the other undecided prospect visiting this weekend, comes to Nebraska from Loxahatchee, Fla., and has the Huskers high on his list of potential schools. The 6-foot-3-inch defensive tackle weighs in at 275 pounds and could bring depth to a critical area of the Nebraska defense.

Shortridge received a scholar-

ship offer from Nebraska in midJuly and is making his first visit to the school. He previously committed to Wake Forest, but decommitted less than a week later.

The defensive tackle’s top schools are Nebraska, Wake Forest, Texas A&M and Boise State.

Husker defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski is Nebraska’s lead recruiter for Shortridge, and may make a push for a commitment this weekend. Nebraska has yet to land a defensive tackle for its 2013 class. The group does include defensive ends A.J. Natter and Christian Lacouture, but the Husker coaching staff likely wants a commitment from an interior player as well. Last season they brought in Aaron Curry and Vincent Valentine at the position.

In addition to Clement and Shortridge, Nebraska will bring in 2013 commits Lacouture (defensive end), Josh Banderas (linebacker) and Zach Hannon (offensive line) this weekend.

Compiled by Lanny Holstein in conjunction with 247sports. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Ameer Abdullah, above, saw game action as a true freshman running back in 2011. Potential recruits like Corey Clement may have an opportunity to play early in their careers as well.

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Taylor Martinez, above, said he’s looking forward to showing fans and media how much the Husker offense has improved in the offseason.

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ebraska’s first opponent, Southern Mississippi, is no joke.

It’s a strange feeling.

Tennessee-Chattanooga, Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic and Western Michigan are the four seasonopening opponents in the Bo Pelini era. This year, at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Pelini’s squad has to face a 12-2 squad that played David to Houston’s Goliath, slaying the Cougars en route to a Conference USA title.

“We’re playing a quality football team, so we’ll be challenged right from the get-go,” senior linebacker Will Compton said. “We have to have a sense of urgency about that.”

No fooling around. No shortcuts.

How could they take shortcuts anyway?

Southern Miss is about as easy to read as hieroglyphics.

“There are a lot of unknowns,” Pelini said.

“The other team has a new staff so we’re going to see some things we haven’t seen before.

We need to be ready to make adjustments on the fly. I’m looking forward to seeing how our football team comes out of the gate.”

The Southern Miss squad Nebraska can watch on tape is drastically different from the one that will take the field Saturday. Coach Larry Fedora is gone off to North Carolina and stud quarterback Austin Davis is gone as well, a graduate of the 2012 class.

Now the Golden Eagles are a mystery.

Any one of three quarterbacks could play (though junior Chris Campbell will start), and the offensive identity is anyone’s guess.

Compton and the Blackshirts are putting their money on a spread attack.

After all, Southern Miss has the personnel to satisfy the requirements. They have four or five running backs who could see the field, many of which are adept pass catchers – one of which will likely see more time in the slot than in the backfield. Tracy Lampley,

the team’s No. 2 receiver from last season, brings back more than 500 yards and four touchdowns to the Golden Eagle offense. It’s Nebraska’s job to stop him.

“We’re going to be put in more situations where we need to just recall on vanilla-type defenses and we just need to apply our rules and play within the scheme, adjusting to things,” Compton said.

What could end up being the biggest concern for the Huskers, however, is the other side of the football.

“I think they call themselves the ‘Wild Bunch,’” said NU quarterback Taylor Martinez. “I know they’re very well coached and they’re very fast.”

Southern Miss’ defense lost seven players who saw significant playing time from last year ’s team, but return some of their biggest playmakers. Defensive end Jamie Collins, in particular, is on Martinez’s radar.

“He’s really good,” Martinez said. “I heard he’s a first-rounder.”

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When Dani Busboom got word that the Nebraska was considering hiring her to join the volleyball coaching staff, she wasn’t even in America.

The then-Louisville assistant coach was training a couple of the school’s athletes on the USA Volleyball’s Select A2 Program for a tournament in Europe.

It wasn’t easy receiving the good news through overseas communication, Busboom said.

“It was tough because we couldn’t really talk normally because of the nine-hour time difference,” she said. “So it took a while to actually get a hold of each other.”

But when the two parties did finally reach each other, the good news was clearer than ever.

“It wasn’t something I was expecting so soon,” Busboom said. “I was so excited. It’s something I’ve been hoping to get the chance to do for a while.”

Prior to joining the Nebraska staff, Busboom assisted Louisville to a 24-9 season, including a trip to semifinals of the Big East Conference Tournament.

And this isn’t Busboom’s first stint with the Nebraska program. As a former player, she’s quite familiar with the Huskers.

The Cortland, Neb., native was NU’s setter and libero for four years (2003-2006), and became the singleseason record holder when she recorded 580 digs during her senior year.

In her last season, she was also named Big 12 co-Libero of the Year and ranks second among NU’s alltime leaders in digs (1,281) and eighth in assists (2,925).

Busboom’s biggest highlight arguably came when her 21-dig performance against Stanford helped the program capture its third and most recent national title in 2006.

Busboom is hoping her last memory as a Husker player will imitate her first memory as a Husker coach.

“We have high hopes, and I think with the talent we have, we can definitely achieve those goals,” she said.

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End of tradition shorts fans of gameday experience

Chris Peters Nebraska’s trademarked touchdown balloons are vanishing into thin air this year.

At first sight of a touchdown, Memorial Stadium’s masses release a sky full of red balloons. It’s a tradition that has been standing since the 1940s, and a tradition that will be absent from all but Nebraska’s first football game this season.

In April, the federal government announced that helium prices would see a sharp increase, up nearly $10, opposed to the normal $0.50-$1 annual increase, with the price effective for fiscal year 2013.

This resulted in a spike in demand for helium and created a shortage.

Bye bye, balloons.

With costs rising faster than a scarlet balloon on gameday, the university opted to axe the tradition, or rather, put it on “permanent hiatus.”

Nail in the coffin.

I don’t see it coming back. Once the change is made, you won’t see the balloons back. Helium costs will be high for the foreseeable future, and even when the shortage ends, the price will still likely remain higher than a kid sucking the life out of a Mylar balloon.

When the price is up, the cost is up. And when the cost is up, the desire to return to the balloons will be way down, at least for those in charge.

Sure, the balloons were mostly paid for by the sponsors printed on the balloons, but unless those sponsors are willing to throw down additional dough, the tradition’s as good as dead.

As far as I’m concerned, the bal-

loon has already popped.

It’s a sad reality, a reality that didn’t have to happen in the first place.

Even if sponsors didn’t want to fork over the extra moolah, the university could have fronted the bill.

What’s the price of tradition?

Last I checked, Nebraska is the school that stubbornly avoided modifying the football uniform for decades just to keep a conservative fan base from flipping its lid. Yes, the school caved this year with an alternate jersey, but aside from the addition of the color black, the helmet remained essentially the same.

This is a school positioned in a conservative state with a conservative outlook. Nebraska football is about as stubborn and set in

its ways as any school you’ll find in the country. Tradition is everything here.

There’s no reasonable explanation for abandoning ship. Husker fans should be left in a daze, heads itching for an answer.

Could an answer come in the form of a new tradition? Who knows?

Maybe Nebraska has a few tricks up its sleeve and has something ready to unveil in the second game. But, for the time being, there’s going to be a sense of emptiness at Husker games for many fans – a deflated balloon.

Chris Peters is a senior journalism and advertising & public relations major.

Contact him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Nebraska brings in a pair of undecided 2013 recruits this weekend to witness its opening game with Southern Miss. Corey Clement, a four-star running back as ranked by 247sports, and Kyle Shortridge, a three-star defensive tackle, plan to make their visits this weekend.

Clement, from Glassboro, N.J., will be making his first trip to Nebraska’s campus. The running back is taking visits again after committing to Pittsburgh earlier in the year. He still holds an offer from the Panthers and is verbally committed to the school, but has decided to consider his options further after committing early in the recruiting process.

Nebraska was in the running for the 5-foot-11-inch, 200-pound high school senior before he committed to Pittsburgh. He has a scholarship offer from the Huskers and is being heavily recruited. Ross Els, the Nebraska recruiting coordinator and the team’s lead recruiter in

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