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UNL student held at pipeline rally Science RILEY JOHNSON DAILY NEBRASKAN

Despite an arrest Monday and an earthquake the next day, University of NebraskaLincoln student Tyson Johnson continued to speak out against TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline in the nation’s capital Tuesday.

Johnson, a senior political science and economics major, said he was confused when the floor began shaking and a chandelier started swinging in Nebraska U.S. Senator Mike Johanns’ office. Talks had just begun between Johnson and some of Sen. Mike Johanns’ staff when people ducked under tables as the 5.8 magnitude quake moved the ground. But, like the day before, his focus was steadfast on the pipeline.

Monday, U.S. Park Police arrested and released six Nebraskans, including Johnson, for protesting the pipeline’s permit bid outside the White House. Johnson said police cited the group for failure to obey lawful order charges because the front-gate area where the protesters gathered requires visitors to keep moving.

TransCanada needs President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to approve the oil company’s permit to connect tar sands oil deposits in Alberta, Canada, to Texas oil refineries. On that route, the pipeline would cross Nebraska’s Sandhills region and over the Ogallala Aquifer.

Johnson, a volunteer for the anti-pipeline group Bold Nebraska, said that his opposition to the pipeline and its route led him to make the trip to Washington, D.C. “This wasn’t on a whim,” Johnson said of his arrest. “It was important to get this message out about the Keystone XL pipeline.”

Johnson and his fellow protesters say the pipeline poses not only an environmental risk, but its economic benefits would be poisoned in the event of a spill. Bold Nebraska plans to continue the

protests for two weeks.

TransCanada contends the pipeline will create jobs and that it is capable of handling any spills that may arise.

“Americans have a choice to make: grant the permit and seek oil from a friendly nation like Canada or deny it and seek oil from countries like Venezuela,” said Adam Singfield, a TransCanada spokesman.

The CIA estimates the United States consumes more than 18 million barrels of crude oil per day. Rather than relying on what he called “conflict oil” from riskier suppliers like Venezuela and the Middle East, the U.S. should receive its oil from a country it has a stable, solid relationship with, Singfield said.

But Johnson said instead of focusing on feeding an oil addiction, the United States should focus more on renewable, clean energy. Potential spills would be a set back to the region that overlies the largest underground water supply in the North America, he said.

Yet according to Singfield, the pipeline is the safest way to move the oil, safer than trucks and trains. On its website, the oil company said the spills that do happen are small. The site adds that 80 percent are less than 50 barrels and 0.5 percent more than 10,000 barrels.

However, John Stansbury, a UNL civil engineering associate professor, released a report earlier this summer that said the likelihood of any worst-case oil spills would be larger than TransCanada reported.

The Keystone XL pipeline would create 20,000 construction jobs, Singfield said.

TransCanada figures pin the total contribution to Nebraska’s economy at more than $467 million.

There’s no guarantee that number of spin-off jobs would be created, Johnson said, and the possibility of spills clouds any benefits the line has to offer.

However, Singfield said TransCanada covers the

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Tyson Johnson (fifth from right), a senior political science and economics major, protests the Keystone XL Pipeline with other members of Bold Nebraska before his arrest Monday.

PROPOSED PATH FOR KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE TransCanada’s proposed pipeline would transport tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas oil refineries. Environmentalists fear Keystone XL spills would pollute the Ogallala Aquifer the pipeline overpasses. TransCanada spokesman Adam Singfield said the pipeline would wean the U.S. off of “unfriendly” foreign oil.

Keystone Pipeline Proposed Pipeline Expansion SOURCE: TRANSCANADA

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clean-up costs for restoring oil-covered farmland, so counties and residents wouldn’t have to bear the brunt of those costs.

Officials expect a decision on the pipeline in November.

But Malinda Frevert, news director for Bold Nebraska, said even though the decision is a few months away, the vacationing president will hear the protesters’ voices.

“Yes, Obama’s in Martha’s

Vineyard right now, but the aides, staffers and people who are part of the decisionmaking process see what’s going on,” she said.

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There’s 30 minutes left in class, but only 15 minutes left on the parking meter. The only solution is to risk getting a ticket or skip out on class.

Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln often experience this parking catch-22.

But now the solution is likely in their pocket: a cellphone.

The UNL Parking & Transit Service launched a new system to allow people to feed the meter via cell phone.

“We are introducing a new service, another payment type that allows customers another parking option,” said Dan Carpenter, director of Parking & Transit Services.

The pay-by-phone system, also called RingGo, made its way to UNL in June, Carpenter said.

Users of the pay-by-phone system must register with the RingGo website. They are required to submit their license plate number, color, make of

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vehicle and payment details.

People can pull their vehicle into one of the designated locations at UNL. The pay-byphone option is available at all UNL parking meters, the 17th and R streets garage, two different locations on East Campus, Area A at Hardin Hall and Area C just north of the College of Dentistry.

The user can call the number on the meter and go through the process of answering how long they plan to stay and what location they are at.

The UNL meters run from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and the parking garage is open 24 hours. The hourly rate is $1 per hour or $5 a day. There is a 30-cent transaction fee and users can pay an extra 10 cents to receive a text message to alert them that their time will expire in 10 minutes. At that time students can add additional time with

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Parking launches Pay by Phone LORENA CARMONA

Some of the world’s smallest particles will soon have a new $13.8 million building, where nanoscientists can meticulously and accurately measure the particles’ size and properties.

The construction of the Nanoscience Metrology Facility will be complete in December. It is scheduled to open in the late spring of 2012.

David Sellmyer, director of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, wrote the grant proposal for the new facility.

Also a professor of physics and astronomy, Sellmyer explains nanoscience in a nut shell as “the study of matter in its smallest dimensions.”

Metrology is the science of measurement.

The Nanoscience Metrology Facility will enable students and faculty to not only create the special miniscule objects, but measure their structure and properties too.

“Nanoscience and nanotechnology has blossomed in the past five to 10 years,” Sellmyer said. “It’s because of nanoscience research that we are able to have things like cell phones and computers.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we emphasize nanoscience as an applied science.”

The building was funded partly with a grant of $6.9 million from the National Institute of Standards and

Alcohol survey now asks sexual identity DAN HOLTMEYER DAILY NEBRASKAN

Before beginning the school year, most freshmen at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln filled out an online survey, sent out by Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Juan Franco, answering questions about their alcohol consumption, experience, habits and — for the first time since the survey’s release in 2009 — their sexual orientation.

To some, the question felt a bit out of place.

“I did notice it,” said Sophia Loveless, a freshman history major. “I was confused as to why it was there, because I couldn’t see it relating at all to alcohol consumption.”

John Batenhorst, a freshman electrical engineering major, likewise couldn’t see

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the relevance and chose the “prefer not to respond” option. Angela Hensel, a general studies major, described the question as “kind of random.”

But university officials said including the question was deliberate, relevant and intended to help students in the long run.

“There’s a national trend on all health surveys to look at LGBT health,” said Linda Major, assistant to the vice chancellor of Student Affairs, referring to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Major collaborated with Pat Tetreault, director of the university’s LGBTQA Resource Center, to add the question, she said.

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It’s like Harry Potter.

Think back to the first book and remember Hogwarts: an exclusive wizarding school that is divided into four different, even more exclusive houses into which students are sorted by an old, perpetually grumpy, talking hat.

The students do not choose – they are chosen. And although students may try to talk the hat into a different decision, it is up to the hat to judge their personalities within a matter of minutes and to choose where they belong.

Now think about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s greek system – an exclusive system within the larger college experience into which a girl must be invited.

The term “sorority” carries the baggage of years of stereotypes all on its own, so they need not be repeated here.

But it is the recruitment process that has yet to be stereotyped, partially because each girl that enters the process will leave it differently and partially because no one has told the story from the inside.

From the outside, the rush experience looks something like this: girls dressed to the nines, walking around campus, entering and exiting houses, under constant supervision of honey-hunting bros.

By the end of the week, they have found the ideal support system – a group of girls that will love and accept them despite their flaws and life’s challenges.

But there are two sides to every story. And beneath the hair, the make-up, the dresses, the insecure smiles, the conversations and even the stereotypes, there are girls – real girls terrified of rejection.

Before the process even begins, girls are sent a brochure with official greek terminology (“sister,” “bid,” “chapter”), a schedule for the week, commonly asked questions and a list of appropriate clothing for each day of the recruitment process.

And then it’s time to begin.

Recruitment is a process that begins casually, but quickly progresses to one of the most stressful tests of a girl’s college experience. Girls are putting themselves through an emotional hell in order to find friends.

Monday and Tuesday are devoted to a brief “getting to know you” period. All girls in recruitment (over 800 this year) move into their dorms

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Jamie Partington, freshman speech pathology major, (front row from left), Katelyn Leming, freshman pre-nursing major, Abby Uecker, freshman undeclared, and Kathleen Loach, freshman nutrition major, cheer toward their recruitment guides during bid day.

Monday. That evening, they are divided into small groups of about 20 girls, each group led by a recruitment guide.

The guides are not allowed to be associated with their sororities for the entire week of recruitment, in order to keep from influencing the girls while they are trying to find the house that best suits them.

Girls are also given lists containing the yearly costs of each sorority and the rules of the recruitment process.

Monday evening, every girl is invited into each chapter for 20 minutes apiece. Within the time limit, they must sell themselves by displaying their best qualities and making a lasting impression on the one or two members with whom they speak.

The process is rigorous and takes hours, but is preferred to last year’s method.

A year ago, girls watched slideshow presentations about each of the sororities and preferenced houses based upon their first impression. Likewise, the houses chose the girls they wanted to meet based upon their applications.

Erika Franta, a senior psychology major and the Panhellenic director of sorority recruitment said the change in the recruitment process was suggested by the National Panhellenic Council.

“They just thought that it

was ridiculous that each new member did not get to meet at least one member of each chapter,” she said.

Tuesday evening, both the potential members and the chapters must decide which houses they want to visit again, and which girls they want to invite back, respectively. This process is called “preferencing.”

“Sometimes you feel like the houses make their judgements and they don’t know very much about you,” said Renee Donner, a freshman anthropology and international studies major. “And you kind of second-guess your personality.”

Days three, four and five continue this process, but with fewer houses and larger amounts of time in each.

The tears begin Wednesday.

Girls are invited back to a maximum of 10 houses.

There are no guarantees that a girl will be invited back to 10 houses (or any at all), nor is a girl guaranteed an invitation back to the house of her choosing. On this day, girls will attend each party (house visit) for 30 minutes.

The next two days follow the same structure, with the same uncertainties and fewer houses to which one can be invited back. On day four, a girl can view up to

Stress, long lines await customers of the DMV HORIZONTAL I.D. NEBRASKA

NATE RULEAUX I decided to hit the Department of Motor Vehicles real early.

At my first visit to the DMV, I went to the help desk and politely waited 20 minutes for the woman working to tell the person on the phone they needed forms A and B for their plates. Once off, I smiled, she didn’t, and I asked how turning 21 worked around here. She said I needed my driver’s license, social security card and two pieces of mail from my permanent address. All this should be brought in 10 days before my birthday if I planned on having my driver’s license before the big day.

July 7, the place was

packed. Lines and lines and smells, everything you expect when visiting. I awkwardly looked around, hoping I was getting the right number from the machine, and filling out the correct forms and putting in all the right information.

I took a seat and watched the monitored, muted television from my elementary school style plastic seat, waiting for my turn.

Eventually this cowboy looking kid walked by and shot me one of those, “I know you,” looks followed by an, “Oh, shit. I don’t feel like talking,” look.

“Yo,” I said.

“Hey man.”

“Haven’t seen…”

“Since high school…”

“Remember that time at the strip club…”

The conversation was

short, pointless and went by quickly since his number was called. It gave this weird feeling of age. I couldn’t remember the kid’s name and only remember hanging out once or twice. He actually lived down from my parents place, and had a hot mom we all used to gawk at during basketball games.

He came and left and I was up.

“This won’t do,” the mustached license maker said.

“What won’t do?” I asked, thinking I missed a spot on the form.

“There are no stamps on these letters.”

“Yeah, there are,” I said, pointing to the ink prints. The pieces of mail were all credit card agencies and bullshit junk mail.

“Nope, I need real stamps not these.”

“Look, there is my name and address and the return

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six houses, and on day five, a girl can view up to three houses.

Thursday, a girl spends 50 minutes in each chapter, and also receives a tour of what could potentially be her new home.

Up until this day, it’s hard to grasp the emotional connection some of these girls had to this process or the system. As I watched the process unfold, I saw insecurity reign as girls allowed others’ opinions define them. I could not understand how these girls had convinced themselves that this system could make or break them.

But Friday changed that.

Friday was the most personal day, with a girl attending three (or less) houses for an hour each. On this day, a girl was not only expected to hold conversations with different members of each house (as they did every other day of the week), but they were also shown the more intimate side of each house, through a video and rituals.

And then I got it: Once everything is said and done, where do you want to go home? Who do you want to laugh with, cry with, be silly with and be accepted by?

“It was definitely a positive experience in the end and seeing the houses and seeing yourself there and then

opening the card and knowing that that’s where you’re going to be for the next four years – it was probably the happiest I’ve ever been,” said Donner. “I can already tell that some of these girls are going to be my best friends.”

But, as with the rest of the week, there are no guarantees, not even on bid day.

And as the girls who had made it through the week opened up their envelopes, screamed and ran to their new homes, there were some left devastated.

“There was a house that I really loved, and all of the girls I talked to there – we had a lot in common,” said Jennifer Swenson, a freshman political science major.

“So I really thought I was going to end up in that house, but I didn’t.”

Each story is different, however.

And like Harry promises his young and terrified Albus Severus in reference to his fear of landing in the wrong house, “The Slytherin House will have gained an excellent student, won’t it?”

Despite the ups, the downs, and after the tears and the excited shouts, each house has gained more than just a new member. They have a new sister.

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The University Program Council (UPC) has a new array of expectations of both themselves and from students after bringing headlining rapper, Big Boi to campus last fall.

But their No. 1 goal and challenge in 2011-2012 is to do more with a lot less.

“Instead of investing all of our money and resources into one huge activity, such as Big Boi, we want to use our funds to bring more events to campus while retaining the same entertainment qualities as the Big Boi concert,” said Jason Dunn, a senior film studies major and UPC president.

Bringing high-quality entertainers to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be a challenge for UPC, as UNL has the smallest university programming budget of any school in the Big Ten. “We want to prove that we can use our money effectively and appeal to a largely diverse audience, even with our smaller budget,” Dunn said.

UPC has 10 major events planned for the fall semester.

A discussion with Miss America; a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Queer roundtable discussion with three cast members from MTV’s “The Real World;” a comedy show with Rob Paravoinian; a Horror Film Festival at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater; and an acoustic music festival are just a few of the big upcoming events that UPC is working on.

Tim Kinoshita, a senior biological systems engineering major and UPC public relations manager is most looking forward to a performance by rap/hip hop artist Mac Miller at the Bourbon Theater on Oct. 21 at 7 p.m.

“I think he’s a great artist and that students should definitely come out to see him,” Kinoshita said. “It seemed like that concert was the one people were most excited about at the Big Red Welcome so

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Zombie invasion spreads KRISTINA JACKSON DAILY NEBRASKAN

The infection begins on Friday. That day is humanity’s last stand.

The annual Lincoln ZombieFest opens Friday with new events for participants.

The two-day festival offers Lincolnites a chance to commune with the undead before they join them. The new format offers guests, panels and more options for how to become a zombie.

The Lincoln Zombie Walk has been steadily growing in popularity since it began in 2007. What started as a onetime flash mob promotion for a haunted house has grown into a two-day festival after drawing over 2000 participants last year.

“We were shocked by the response,” said organizer Rebeca Rose.

The festival offers various panels and guest speakers on Friday at the Pershing Center.

“Mad TV” alum Pat Kilbane, author of “The Brain Eater’s Bible,” is the featured guest speaker. Kilbane is bringing his makeup artist Dean Jones, who worked on such films as “Pirates of the Caribbean:

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Dead Man’s Chest” and “Fast & Furious.” ZombieFest is raffling a chance for one zombie to have their makeup done by Jones for the walk on Saturday. Proceeds from the raffle will go to the CEDARS’ Bridges program, which offers apartments to disadvantaged young people living on their own.

However, the festival offers many other ways to get involved in the walk itself.

Makeup classes on Friday will teach those who want to do it themselves how to create wounds and hollowed eyes. The festival is also holding a zombie market for DIY

IF YOU GO WHEN: Friday, Saturday, noon - 5pm WHERE: Pershing Center, 226 Centennial mall South HOW MUCH: $5 for makeup

zombies. For $5, workers will zombify the remaining participants from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

Victims will receive blood packets and wait in strategic

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NANOSCIENCE: FROM 1 Technology (NIST). The other half of funding will come from university resources and private donors.

In addition to a new building, the funding will also renovate and revamp the basement of Jorgensen Hall, which opened in 2010, where nanoscientists can continue

their research.

For professor of mechanical engineering Brian Robertson, the renovation of Jorgensen Hall’s basement is most exciting, especially the installation of new microscopes that will be completed by the end of this year.

“These high-power and

field-emission microscopes will allow students, faculty and researchers to analyze the objects they create more closely so that they can figure out how to make them better,” Robertson said.

The University of NebraskaLincoln is one of 12 schools that was given a grant by

NIST to build a scientific facility. There were 160 proposals nationwide for the NIST grant.

One of the abilities engineering and science students will now have is access to a “clean room.”

“A clean room is a space in which air is filtered and

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The Nanoscience Metrology Facility is set for completion in December and is planned to open late spring 2012. purified,” Sellmyer said. “If someone makes a small device in a non-clean room it will immediately obtain dust. If the dust gets between the layers of the object it will ruin the product.”

The facility will also enable the creation of better nanomagnetic material that goes into making clean energy, electric motor cars and nanoparticles, which can be injected into cancer or tumor patients to help kill cancer cells.

Inside the facility are various tools that will help scientists with their research, such as a $2 million electron microscope.

Sellmyer said one of the most important benefits of the building is that it will provide equipment for students, faculty

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and researchers to use whereas an individual researcher or department would never have the funds to purchase such tools.

Sellmyer also anticipates that the facility will make UNL more competitive in the Big Ten, as six other schools in the conference have special centers for research and science materials, which are similar to UNL’s new facility.

“The renovation of the Jorgensen Hall basement and of the new building will allow UNL to be far more competitive in the Big Ten and allow UNL researchers, students and staff to do things they only dreamed of doing before,” Robertson said.

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RULEAUX: FROM 5 and address and the return address…”

“Sorry sir. NEXT.” My mind filling with obscenities and screams that sounded like the dad from “A Christmas Story.” I grabbed my shit in a crunched pile and tossed a smoke in my mouth.

I went back to the computer took another number with a wait time of 40 minutes, ran out to the car, lit the smoke and booked it across town back to my apartment. There I grabbed mail from the university and LES. Zoomed back. But no luck; the ticket number had passed.

I grabbed a new form, new number and waited for another hour.

This time all was well. I took my picture, was told I was too blind to drive without

glasses on and told them I was a donor.

I got into the next line to pay and get my printed-paper I.D. “Nate Ruleaux?” A girl turned around in line, also from the Waverly class of 2008. Her name also eluded me, but I remembered her nickname was, “Spankin’.”

“Yo,” I said.

“Hey man.”

“Haven’t seen…”

“Since high school…”

“Remember that time at the New Year’s party…”

Then it was over and we kept standing.

Eventually another girl I used to make fun of in art class showed up in line. But we didn’t acknowledge each other, and I was grateful to Spankin’ for not pointing out

UPC: FROM 5 my presence.

I remembered how loud both girls were when they started talking about who hated who, saying names of the past like Heather from math and Stacy from AP English. They all still hung out and lived together and drank together. I couldn’t remember the last time I called up one of my old gang.

30 minutes went by. The line never moved. Spankin’ and the girl had started listing off their criminal offenses. The second MIP last month, the first DUI last semester.

“The girls and I are going downtown tonight, and all I want is my fucking driver’s license.” Spankin’ said loud and sharp towards the front of the line. She then began telling the epic and dramatic tale of how

she lost her old one either in the toilet or out the car window.

“Excuse me everyone,” some grumpy frumpy woman from behind the counter came out, obviously a manager, “The entire computer system across the state has just crashed for driver’s licenses. You may still get you photo taken but we cannot check you out or print it off. The system could be up in an hour or so, or not until tomorrow. You may bring you form back then or wait if you would like…”

I waited, Spankin’ didn’t. I waited until closing with four or five others. The computers never turned back on.

definitely come out to see him,” Kinoshita said. “It seemed like that concert was the one people we’re most excited about at the Big Red Welcome so tickets may go pretty fast.”

Kinoshita encourages students to get ticket fast because The Bourbon only holds 700800 people.

The Resident Hall Association, Campus Night Life, the College of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources, Student Affairs and ASUN (The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska) are some of the campus organizations UPC collaborates with most often. This year they teamed up for the Homecoming concert.

“The Homecoming concert will be our biggest event this semester,” Dunn said. “We’re bringing Josh Gragan from ‘American Idol’ season two.”

UPC also hopes to juice up their advertising via social media networks in the coming semester.

NATE RULEAUX IS A SENIOR THEATER PERFORMANCE AND NEWS EDITORIAL MAJOR, REACH HIM AT NATERULEAUX@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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Freshmen, here’s all the advice you need CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER DAILY NEBRASKAN

Half of the advice one receives as a freshman is incidental and useless, like, “Pick up your textbooks in Neihardt because that’s easier than going to the Union Bookstore.”

Don’t believe his lies, Leonard.

The remaining half is overly general and too closely resembles common sense to feel like you’ve been done any favors. “Don’t try too hard to fit in.” Oh, so I shouldn’t be irritating?

Roger. I’m all about that.

Now, am I really suggesting that 100 percent of the advice you’ll get your first year is bad and that the guidance that will follow this lede is somehow untethered by that very claim?

Don’t ask so many damn questions.

Here’s how to be a good dorm resident and for God’s sake do not stray from the righteous path.

1. It is never your job to “make the floor fun.” If you ever find yourself thinking, “I hate that the floor looks so grave today, what with everyone walking quickly from place to place and concentrating very hard at their desks,” you should stop. College students who aren’t busy have their own ideas of what constitutes fun and leisure. If they’re not working then they’re likely pursuing it. There’s not really any third category of people sitting in limbo waiting to be rescued. It is never your responsibility to blast Matchbox 20 through your 1990s stereo speakers (why did you even bring those?) because people look like they could use a dose of fun. I’m not saying don’t socialize. A simple, “Hey, friend, you want to go out tonight?” or “Want to listen to some music in my room?” is totally

reasonable. But careening down the hall yelling awkwardly dated cultural references will not make you any friends. Here’s an example of a thought that literally no one ever has: “Who’s the maniac outside screaming for more cowbell? No more chemistry for me today!”

2. Introduce yourself around the floor within the first week or so. You’re not trying to pocket votes, so kissing babies between everlasting handshakes isn’t necessary, but just try to say “hi” to everyone. Believe me, it’s going to suck in April when you’ve never met that guy at the end of the hall and yet you pass him everyday. Both of you will be crippled with the knowledge that you should know each other’s names but it’s eons too late to be introduced. But, Chance, you say, “I’m just not that type of person. I’m not bubbly and I think overly social people are pretty unhip.” Greeting people you live 20 feet away from by name doesn’t make you a friend collector or disingenuous. You’re a freshman in a college dorm in Lincoln, Neb. There’s no “cool” prize, but you can keep wearing those sunglasses inside if you want.

3. Sex-iling is messy business. Look, we’re all adults here. If your new roommate has (or is likely to procure) a significant other(s) you can take a pretty good guess at what they do behind closed doors. You’d just prefer it’s not behind your closed door with you sitting in the hallway like some wayward vagrant when the comforts of the room you’re paying thousands of dollars for are unavailable.

Physical romance in a shared space is just a massive “do unto others” scenario. No one wants to be banished from their own room because banging is more important than

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Chris Deaton, the leader of the resistance, said he and some friends began the resistance as another way to get involved in the event after seeing it the year before.

“I was downtown with my wife and 30 people came around the corner,” he said. “It looked like fun,” he added, but, “We wanted to do something a little different.”

After attending a meeting about safety, members of the resistance force will break into groups and watch for the zombie hordes. Deaton said they hide in alleyways with NERF guns and shadow the zombies before the groups join back up at Broyhill Fountain outside the Nebraska Union.

“They come at us and we unload on them and they defeat us,” Deaton said.

a sanctuary. One hopes that you did not come to college to spend it in your room and I tend to be of the mind that the closer you can get to just you and a mattress the better. I don’t know your life, but chances are that superfluous amenities (extra game systems, oversized wardrobes or hundreds of CDs/DVDs) are only distracting you from what you should be doing and taking up your space. Maybe right now you have time to lounge on your new futon and knock out a movie a night (ah, what a sweet beginner’s mistake that was), but in three months you won’t. In 12 months, you shouldn’t. And when that time comes, my guess is that you’ll a prefer a tidy living space in which you can sleep and work to a crowded museum of unusable excess.

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Last year, she said, “We got no complaints, even with 2,000 people.”

Zombies, victims and the resistance still obey city laws and the rules of the walk, and other Lincolnites play along for this one night.

“Everyone gets to exist in this make-believe world,” Rose said. “Everyone believes in it.”

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respecting the person you sleep an arms length away from nine months out of the year. And to those of you who submit at first on the grounds that you’d rather not have serious conversation that involves sex, being asked to vacate your own room is grounds for a serious conversation. Your bitterness will only grow over time until one night you kick down the door on your roommate and his/her companion.

Then things really start to get awkward.

4. Go to a floor thing one time. Just for a second, just to see how it feels. I know there’s nothing cool about bowling on East Campus or joining the floor broomball team, but this goes back to number two and being a reasonably pleasant and social person. I did the bowling thing once my freshman year and found that my RA was a really cool guy, even if everyone else was inauspiciously weird. Also (and I can’t state this in more general terms), doing things with people is how you make friends. If nine out of 10 times you want to throw back your head and laugh at the idea of going to dorm-sponsored Tailgate Parties and Quiz Nights, then by all means, guffaw to the high heavens, but it’s worth it to attend a laughable event once, even if it’s just something to joke about later.

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UPC is also taking applications for new members early in the semester. Students interested should check out involved.unl.edu/upc.

The Midwest Acoustic Fest is UPC’s kickoff event, which will be on Sep. 16 at 5 p.m. in the Union Plaza. The festival will feature artists Jay Nash, Kyshona Armstrong, and Steve Means and will have various games booths and free food.

“We’re really excited for this semester,” Dunn said.

“We want to get bigger and better and show UNL what we’re all about.”

UPC is planning a headliner concert of Big Boi magnitude but just who is coming and other details are under wraps for now.

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$300.000 grant to bolster study-abroad scholarship fund

Enriching yourself in another culture is something the University of NebraskaLincoln encourages, but traveling to another country got a little easier, thanks to a $300,000 grant by the University of Nebraska Foundation. The grant will be used to give scholarships to students to travel abroad through the Global Gateway Program, which seeks to enrich the knowledge of students about different cultures. The grant supports the third year of the program.

Rec Center hosts free classes for week

Before the real stress of college sets in, the University of Nebraska Recreation Centers are offering free group classes. Students can get into shape or stay fit by dancing with the Zumba or Hip Hop Hustle classes, or by water classes or yoga.

Classes are available at the Campus Recreation Center from 6:15 a.m. to 10 p.m. or at the East Campus Activities Building at noon.

Barber named head of Extension Education

With technology changing the concepts of classrooms, a new director of the University of NebraskaLincoln’s Extended Education and Outreach program will ensure students can get a college education, no matter the location. UNL Dean of Admissions Alan Cerveny appointed Marie A. Barber executive director of Extended Education and Outreach at UNL. Barber has more than 20 years of experience in distance education teaching and learning, including being director of Instructional Design and Development where she helped create opportunities for faculty development in distance education.

UNMC honors 6 with Future Scientist Award

Six students got a taste of their future career when the University of Nebraska Medical Center awarded them the 2011 Richard Holland Future Scientist Award in August.

The scholars were given the award based on their oral or poster presentations on the research they did during the summer through the Institutional Development Award Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence Scholars program.

Portnoy announced as 10th Fulbright scholar

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln saw a record number of students and faculty receive a Fulbright Scholarship in 2011, and the university can add one more person to that list.

Robert Portnoy, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at UNL, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to be based at China’s Nanjing University to teach and lecture on psychology at Chinese universities.

Portnoy hopes to contribute to China’s mental health policy by focusing on decreasing stigma and increasing access to mental health services in Chinese higher education.

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alcohol: from 1 “Linda and I went to a LGBT training institute this summer,” Tetreault said.

“One of the things I had mentioned was being able to include optional identity questions. She said, ‘Well, that’s something I can do.’”

One of the survey’s main purposes is to inform students about their peer group’s alcohol use, which is usually lower than students expect, Major said. That data from the survey is used to track interests among specific groups, such as students in the greek system or honors program.

“That’s how we used the data,” Major said.

The inclusion of a question on sexual orientation is intended to help the university collect, then share, the same customized data for LGBT students, but “that’s way down in the future,” she added. “It would take a lot of data before we’d feel comfortable.”

The available information on students’ health habits, specifically drinking in this case, more often reflects the majority’s needs, Tetreault said. Collecting more specific information can help tailor health services UNL provides to minority populations like LGBT students. But there was another layer of need, as well, she said, citing the truism that, “if you aren’t counted, you don’t count.”

“If we’re not collecting that data … then you still remain invisible,” Tetreault said. “So I think that it provides some visibility as well as affirmation.”

Tetreault said the national trend of gathering orientation-specific information, cited by Major, reflects an increasingly accepting society, particularly since she first came to UNL in the late

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“I have been able to see tremendous changes in the climate of the university,” she said. “(The trend) is part of that shifting cultural and societal environment.”

But Tetreault said there is still work to be done. For example, LGBT youth are at higher risk for abusing alcohol and other substances than their straight peers, a fact often attributed to the stress of discrimination, harassment or abuse they can face from intolerant communities or households.

“So we talk about the concept of minority stress, which is well-documented,” and can affect any minority, Tetreault said. But she warned against taking the concept too far.

“People have the tendency to think, ‘Oh, it’s this really fragile community,’” Tetreault said.

“But on another level there’s a lot of resilience and health in the LGBT community.”

In the end, Tetreault said, the two main focuses of the survey question were gathering information on a segment of the population for which many general health questions remain unanswered, and to improve visibility.

“I also think an important aspect is that (asking for orientation) goes beyond health issues,” Tetreault said, something she sees happening already. “If we want to be included, we need to be visible.”

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“It takes the meter trouble out of the picture when using this system,” Carpenter said.

Within the first month, there were 180 transactions and out of those 120 were from recurring users.

Carpenter said he believes that this service will be for the more occasional users and will have a higher usage rate among students than among faculty.

When a person parks in one of these spots, the meter will continue to say expired.

However, parking enforcement will be able to check the RingGo website on their phones or call a dispatch to find out if there’s still time on the meter. Parking enforcement officers will use the license plate number to find out if the user’s meter is expired. If the license plate has a black box then the vehicle still has time, Carpenter said.

A red or yellow box means time has expired.

The system has been successful in European countries, Carpenter said.

“We were looking for other options for parking,” Carpenter added.

Other places around the U.S. are also using parking systems similar to this.

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Sixty-eight students from the University of NebraskaLincoln returned to the state from England. The Nebraska at Oxford Program in England hosted UNL students studying abroad from July 17 through Aug. 13. Business students spent four weeks learning about Britain’s political and international economic policy while students from other majors enrolled in a British theater, arts and literature courses. The students were taught by staff and faculty from Jesus College and had field trips to go along with the courses they were taking.

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university using this specific vendor,” Carpenter said.

He said he gets to attend conferences and has seen companies like RingGo over the years grow in the U.S. “In the parking world, we are seeing lots of partnerships between different parking systems,” he said.

It is only a matter of time until the UNL pay-by-phone system makes its way across Lincoln.

Ken Smith, the parking manager for the City of Lincoln Parking Services said that UNL and Lincoln tried to team up but were unable to do so at the time.

“If Mr. Carpenter and I can pull this off, we will have one of the first university and city using the same number,” Smith said.

It would be a great to get the same vendor then it would be a great collaboration for the university and Lincoln, he said.

One UNL student was unsure about the new system.

“I don’t think it is a good idea,” said Justin Jones, a sophomore history major. He said he didn’t think it was fair to other people, as those who pay by phone may hog the spots.

He said people should stick to getting a permit or feed the meter traditionally – with quarters, dimes and nickels.

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Blackboard changes not useful enough Students returning to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after summer might have noticed a few changes in the preferred method of classroom communication, Blackboard. Still, we’re guessing many students did not pay attention to myriad notifications on the front page of Blackboard last year, instead focusing on the more immediate concern of printing out reading for our next class.

Like it, love it or hate it, the new Blackboard is here to stay. And it’s not all bad. For instance, the new home page allows you to organize your activities by moving them around. Organizations, course evaluations, grades and courses all remain relatively easy to access.

From there, though, things get a bit more confusing. For starters, unless you are one of the lucky few whose instructors migrated their classes over from the old Blackboard, none of your old classes appear on the new system. Trying to find that one reading you used two years ago that is relevant to today’s research paper?

You’re out of luck. Students can’t migrate courses — only instructors.

Then, the new course interfaces are more than a little odd. The modules on the page are a jumble of alerts, announcements and to-do lists. The Daily Nebraskan could see this being useful, if instructors took the time to add items to all of these modules. However, most instructors seem to utilize Blackboard only for posting syllabi, a few announcements and sometimes even posting grades. Given that students don’t seem to be able to add things to course to-do lists, the new course pages are little more than extra computer code.

Gone, too, are the “Syllabus” and “Course Documents” pages on the course sidebar, replaced by the amorphous “Course Content.” Instructors can change it to include their own specific preferences, but again, there’s no set, easy way to access what students use Blackboard for – grades, syllabi and readings.

It is true that the transition to new Blackboard 9.1 is nothing like the debacle of the transition from WAM! to MyRed; in fact, Blackboard 9.1 will probably give students much less trouble than the confusing maze of MyRed menus. But it is the Daily Nebraskan’s opinion that, unless instructors suddenly utilize many of the new features of Blackboard, the changes simply were not worth it.

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Ejaculation a danger to society

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ou know what I think?

I think ejaculations are wrecking society worse than Goldman Sachs and high-frequency trading combined.

Why do I say this? For starters, according to Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky’s “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” the ejaculation of male primates is triggered by the sympathetic nervous system, a group of nerves known primarily for eliciting the “fight-or-flight” response.

Here’s an example. When Suzy from Harper Hall and Tom from Zeta Beta Zeta start rolling around in the sack, nerves from Tom’s parasympathetic system release nitric oxide, which causes the smooth muscle in the blood vessels in Tom’s penis to relax. This, in turn, allows for more blood to flow into the penis and for Tom’s little friend to get harder than a final exam on Aristotle’s “Metaphysics.”

However, as sex wears on, Tom starts breathing faster and his heart rate speeds. Tom’s body gradually takes on the tone of the aforementioned fightor-flight system. And though Tom fights to hold on, the parasympathetic tone gradually leaves his body, terminating at the penis, and Tom has an … um … enormous sympathetic response.

So, that horrible feeling guys have after sex? It’s not just because you slept with your best friend in a drunken stupor… it’s because you slept with your best friend in a drunken stupor AND your blood is flooded with enough hormones to raise Godzilla’s blood sugar to diabetic proportions.

What does it matter? At best, this situation means that over a male’s lifetime he has thousands — or in Wilt Chamberlain’s case: millions — of deciliters of circulating stress hormones that our female counterparts don’t. What’s more, the intensive sympathetic response makes it hard to produce another erection... thus leading to males’ lack of stamina.

More concerning, however, is the effect of male ejaculation on dopamine levels. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that, although originally associated with reward, is now equally recognized as a molecule of reward anticipation. It’s dopamine, it seems, that keeps us going through college, grad school, slavery to corporate America, and finally, as Sapolsky suggests, belief (and reward) in an afterlife.

However, according to researchers, modern society is overrun with high

DAVID LOGAN levels of dopamine. High levels of dopamine are consistent with personalities that lack empathy and extoll conquest and aggression rather than nurturing and communality.

What’s more, as Harvard professor Emily Deans indicates, males in particular are at a higher risk for dopaminerelated disorders like schizophrenia and sociopathy. As Dr. Deans states, although she qualifies it as an oversimplification, males are “dopamine dominant” in contrast to females.

So, it seems the male external ejaculation, through sex and masturbation, further intensifies dopamine dominance in males by two mechanisms. First, dopamine is a precursor to certain stress hormones, and so it’s needed in large quantities to sustain repeated ejaculations during which these molecules are released. Second, orgasm itself perpetuates a large release of dopamine in both sexes, and consistent high levels of dopamine are correlated with a greater desire to orgasm or anticipate various other dopamine-producing situations.

I am not, by the way, committed to the view that people become addicted to sex specifically because of dopamine. Dopamine released during sex is released through a different pathway than dopamine released during drug addiction. I am only suggesting that male ejaculation habitually raises dopamine in males.

Readers may scoff at the idea that something like the male orgasm could have these effects, but the view is conventional among non-Western spiritual traditions such as Daoism and Tibetan Buddhism. In some Daoist traditions, for instance, male external orgasm is known as the “tiny death.” It’s believed that ejaculation depletes a man’s “jing,” or life force energy, which can lead to complications like baldness, disease and other bodily malfunction.

Now, here in 2011 at a research university, we might not believe in “jing,” but scientific evidence does show that, upon ejaculation, males have a significant increase in hormones implicated in downers like male pattern baldness and

prostate cancer.

So what do we do? One solution may be celibacy, such as that practiced by full-haired pugilists Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee. But who wants that, particularly when there lurks another possibility that is so much more strange and interesting?

In a 2004 study by the Rutgers department of psychology and New Jersey College of Medicine, magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated that females with spinal cord injuries were able to climax through the vagus nerve, or the nerve that runs from the viscera to the brain.

Now, I won’t touch on the varieties or complexities of female orgasms, but we ought to consider that this particular sort of orgasm avoids the male stress response and is incredibly similar to the “internal orgasm through the neck” expounded in various Daoist and Tantric texts.

Would it be possible for males to climax internally through the vagus nerve, rather than externally through the fightor-flight response, as ancient traditions suggest? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer may be “yes.”

According to the polymath and University of Minnesota alum Drew Hempel, the vagus nerve climax can be achieved by male practitioners of meditation and Qigong. According to Hempel, these practices can ionize neurotransmitters in the gut — our body’s largest repository of serotonin — which can then travel through the vagus nerve and cross the normally prudish blood-brain barrier, thus giving neck-pulsing, orgasmic-like sensations written about in Daoist texts.

Qigong and meditation, Hempel said, are the opposite of dopamine obsession: they focus on present awareness and a lack of anticipation for future events.

However, though pulsing necks and Hempel’s experience are commonplace among esoteric traditions and monasteries, to my knowledge there are no controlled studies to corroborate his claims.

And so, as a scientist I remain skeptical, particularly of the idea that certain neurotransmitters can be ionized and cross the blood-brain barrier.

So, if you are male and don’t believe in the efficacy of Qigong, I only suggest you do what you can to avoid the dangers of dopamine: go to sleep as soon after as possible.

DAVID LOGAN WOULD LIKE TO THANK DREW HEMPEL AND ALL THE OTHER INTELLIGENT RESEARCHERS WHOSE WORK CONTRIBUTED TO THIS COLUMN. REACH HIM AT DAVIDLOGAN@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

Budget cuts could use a little creativity

ast semester ended on the uplifting note of budget cuts. Nothing pairs better with May finals than a good old-fashioned argument over money, tenure and who deserves degrees and who does not. We have now had an entire summer to think about how the university will fare with all these trimmings.

In case you missed the news of our money debacle last year, here are some highlights: Students seeking art education or industrial and management systems engineering degrees will be switching majors or packing up. These majors had few enough students to “justify” cutting the programs. The potential budget cuts were announced last spring and the ax fell on the programs on June 10. The organ performance major was initially cut, but since then has been successfully reinstated.

The new budget cuts will save the university an underwhelming

$5 million.

However, if the administration had just asked the students for budgeting guidance, we could have bumped that up to a cool $5.5 million, easy. We, the college students that have saved up months worth of laundry to take home, we who have survived for years on Ramen and saltines. No one knows how to scrape by on the least amount of money better than a college student.

First thing to go — and this one is easy — is MyRed. For the general welfare, just take it. The program has to be costing the university something. The administration can have that money to allocate somewhere — anywhere — else. Buy another Coke machine to go with the one outside the Lutheran Center, make T-shirts and hand them out; it doesn’t matter. Just please, in the name of Tom Osborne, get rid of it. We will collaborate on Facebook pages or Google+ hangouts.

That’s free and it works.

KALEY COOK Any money spent on press releases could be saved as well. Media snafus have created more than a little avoidable disgruntlement. Announcing the budget cuts the same day as the head basketball coach received a raise only highlighted the money issues. We have all learned by now that money is not shared between academics and athletics, but it took us a long time and many classroom discussions to figure it out.

The university would be better keeping things closer to the vest. No more press releases. A little mystery never hurt anyone.

Even now, in the wake of budget

cuts, the University of NebraskaLincoln’s $800 million baby, Innovation Campus, has camped out on the horizon. Its advertisements are only drawing attention to the money the university is willing to spend elsewhere. So, any money being spent on media coordination would be better spent on other things.

All that is merely pennies, however. The winning idea, the pièce de résistance is this: Cut all education programs. Early, secondary, special — everything must go. They aren’t going to make any money in the future that could potentially funnel back into the school, so chuck ‘em.

That is the point here, right? To be able to make more money later? If money is the entire bottom line, let’s not sugarcoat it. There is little money to be made in education (case in point: the university’s current money struggles) so we might as well not perpetuate the problem any further by educating new teachers and professors. The horse is dead — we are going to stop beating it now.

Sarcasm aside, spending is too high and revenues are too low. I get that. I understand cuts need to be made, but when education majors cannot catch a break from an educational institution, something is amiss. And the university is still first and foremost an athletic… I mean, educational institution, right?

Economic times may be hard and tough decisions need to be made, but let us not completely forget what higher education is supposed to be about. If we choose to sit around saying, “These education programs are the reason we can’t have nice things,” while we spend money elsewhere, we are ignoring what a university should be. Money makes the world go around, but without education, we wouldn’t know that the world was orbiting the sun and surrounded by a solar system. We wouldn’t even realize it was spinning at all.

KALEY COOK IS A SOPHOMORE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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PRACTICE NOTES FOOTBALL MULTIPLE PLAYERS RECEIVING REPS AT KICK AND PUNT RETURN Football coaches will often label a position battle in fall camp as open.

John Papuchis made one battle seem wide open Tuesday. The NU special teams coach fielded questions about the kick-return game after the Huskers’ practice Tuesday afternoon.

“We haven’t really narrowed it down,” Papuchis said. “Right now; Ameer (Abdullah), Jamal (Turner), Tim Marlowe, Brandon Kinnie, Kenny Bell, Aaron Green.

They’re all getting reps and we’re evaluating their reps on tape.”

The past four years featured Niles Paul in some return capacity, and Marlowe has fielded kicks for the past two seasons.

Papuchis mentioned Nebraska’s need for a “quickstrike guy.”

“I think potentially we have some guys who can do that, but they’re young and they have to prove it on Saturday before I get too excited about them,” Papuchis said.

Kinnie also fielded kickoffs in 2010.

Papuchis also went on to add that he should add freshman Braylon Heard to the list of potential returners.

The freshmen, Heard, Abdullah and Bell all have high school experience

returning kicks.

“We’ll make a decision going into next week,” Papuchis said. “They’re all talented and they’re all getting plenty of reps.”

Speed, Marlowe said, was the factor that everyone is bringing to the table now.

“There’s just a ton of speed on this team,” Marlowe said.

“It’s a great thing to have.

We’re deep, so whoever we have out there, they’re going to be making plays.”

FRESHMAN QUARTERBACK TEARS ACL Pelini confirmed that freshman quarterback Tyson Broekemeier will be out for the remainder of the season after tearing his ACL in fall camp.

“It’s part of the game,” Pelini said. “You know, injuries happen. It stinks for him, but he would have been a redshirt guy anyway. It’ll just slow his development a little bit. But he’ll rebound from it.

Everybody does.”

Broekemeier’s injury further depletes the quarterback spot on the depth chart, a position that lost Cody Green to Tulsa and Bubba Starling to the Kansas City Royals.

While another quarterback has been removed from the 2011 equation, Pelini said the injury would not result in freshman Jamal Turner’s return to the backfield.

HUSKERS BATTLE HEAT With temperatures clearing the mid-90s and the heat index crawling over 100, Nebraska players dealt with some weather issues Tuesday.

The Huskers practiced on the two outdoor practice fields outside Hawks Center.

“It was hot out there today and it was good to see them fight through the elements,” Pelini said of the Huskers.

While players felt the heat, Pelini didn’t feel it disturbed practice significantly.

Temperatures are expected to stay in the upper-80s the rest of the week.

“I thought it affected our guys a little bit, but I think we’re getting better, we’re making progress,” Pelini said.

MIDDLETON MOVING ON Pelini confirmed that the scholarship of cornerback Lazarri Middleton was not renewed this year.

Middleton, a native of Long Beach, Calif., spent the past two seasons providing depth in the defensive backfield. He redshirted in 2009.

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RECEIVERS: FROM 10 Jean-Baptiste and freshmen Jamal Turner and Kenny Bell. All four figure to get playing time, but Fisher made it clear the depth chart is far from established.

“I’m not going to play potential, I’m going to play productivity,” Fisher said.

“If guys are producing in practice and they understand the plays, I don’t care if you’re a walk-on or a fivestar recruit. I’m looking for guys who understand the offense and can execute the offense and make plays.”

Fisher admitted it isn’t always easy to command a group that consists mainly of younger players that are still learning practice and study habits. That’s where Kinnie comes in.

This year, he has a dual role of being a No. 1 receiver and a willing teacher to all the younger players.

“I want to be a leader for those guys, someone they can come to with anything,” Kinnie said. “I feel like I’ve

got a relationship with every one of them, and they see that and they know that.”

While Kinnie’s influence has helped the receiving corps, the senior also credits Fisher’s coaching style.

Though the punishment for dropping passes can be brutal, Kinnie said the new coach’s presence has allowed everyone to ease up.

“We just had to relax and start having fun,” Kinnie said. “The offense isn’t so robotic. It’s just like, get open. We took it upon ourselves to have fun and be goofy. We have fun, but we also put our hard hats on and come to work every day.”

While loosening up his players and helping them feel at ease has reportedly helped improved their catching (Fisher said there was just one drop in Tuesday’s practice), he knows he can’t go easy on them.

Last year’s mistakes cannot

be repeated if NU hopes to succeed in offensive coordinator Tim Beck’s scheme.

“What I’m looking for is week-to-week, day-to-day, meeting-to-meeting, that we’re continuing to get better and that we won’t be repeat mistake-makers,” Fisher said. “That tells me it’s not important to you or you just really don’t care.

So we’re seeing things getting fixed.”

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Taylor Martinez’s teammates say he’s back to the form that had him an early Heisman-hopeful last season.

Kinnie, Martinez’s favorite target from last season, has also pointed out onfield improvements from last season.

“He’s a lot more relaxed back in the pocket,” Kinnie said. “He’s controlling things up at the line with receivers, giving us calls and things like that.”

Along with espousing optimism in this season’s Taylor Martinez, Husker receivers also added input and an interesting perspective into last season’s Martinez, struggles he faced on the field, and the criticism he faced off of it.

“He was a freshman playing at the University of Nebraska, where football is everything,” redshirt junior Tim Marlowe said in addressing the criticism Martinez received from fans and the scrutiny he came under with national and local media.

“I mean for a 19-yearold kid to play in the Big 12 Championship, the kid had a hell of a year, and I think he’ll just get better and better.”

Kinnie also emphasized Martinez’s youth in assessing some of the low points during last season.

“I don’t think he knew how to handle it all,” Kinnie said. “It was all just so fast and he was only a

He’s controlling things up at the line with receivers, giving us calls and things like that.”

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freshman. That would be hard for anybody.”

With youth and injuries no longer a concern for Martinez, he will enter a new conference and a new offense with equal opportunities to either enchant Husker fans or escort himself back under the metaphorical bus many an angry Husker faithful threw him to last year.

The prevailing sentiment of his teammates and coaches throughout the spring and early fall camps certainly point to the former rather than the latter.

“He’s really grown from that (criticism) and has taken on more of a leadership role,” Marlowe said.

“He’s kind of our calm in the storm. He’s been getting after it this fall and I’m really excited to see what he’s going to do on Saturdays.”

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Sports DAILY NEBRASKAN

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wednesday, august 24, 2011

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on tight Youthful, TAlented REceiving Corps will bring excitement while learning new system

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Senior Brandon Kinnie led Nebraska with 44 catches and added five touchdowns last season. The 6-foot-3 wideout has taken up more of a leadership role this fall for the Huskers.

ast year, the Huskers’ receiving corps struggled with consistency, suffering in several games from a case of the drops. The Texas game, in which NU receivers dropped four likely touchdowns, certainly comes to mind. In response, receivers coach Ted Gilmore was let go.

Enter Rich Fisher.

Those drops aren’t going to fly this year.

“Let’s put it this way: We’ve got a penalty system in place, and they don’t like the penalty system,” Fisher said. “We’re not doing a whole lot of it, which means we’re doing what we need to do. That’s been a point of emphasis for us, something we talk about constantly.”

And what is that penalty system, exactly?

“We’ll keep that in-house,” Fisher said with a smile.

“You wouldn’t like doing it, trust me.”

Sophomore receiver Quincy Enunwa is a little more forthcoming on the subject.

“It depends on how he’s feeling. Sometimes, we just run across the field and do up-downs,” Enunwa said.

“Sometimes we’ll just do up-downs. And sometimes, he might throw the ball as hard as he can at us, along with the other (punishments). That’s if he’s really mad.”

In Fisher’s eyes, especially with so many young receivers vying for playing time, it’s important that he establishes his ground rules now.

“We talk about establishing culture and what we want that wide receiver position to consist of in terms of toughness, preparation and playmaking,” Fisher said.

“It’s a total package. They’re learning how I want them to perform.”

Fisher has been asked to remake the receiving corps without a lot of experience to fall back on. Brandon Kinnie is the only returning wideout who recorded more than one catch last year and easily leads the group in career receptions with 59. The next closest is senior Curenski Gilleylen, who has 19 career catches, but none last year.

Among the young receivers are an exciting quartet oozing with potential: sophomores Enunwa and Stanley

receivers: see page 9

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Redshirt freshman Kenny Bell is one of a handful of electric new talents for the Huskers.

Bell caught three passes for 42 yards in Nebraska’s Red-White Spring Game in April.

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Sophomore Quincy Enunwa saw limited action last season, but is competing for a starting spot this fall.

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Martinez shows off confident, improved demeanor Maturing QB has players, coach behind him in second year Matt PAlu Daily Nebraskan

Hear of the adulatory anthem “T-Magic?” The parody of the B.O.B. and Rivers Cuomo collaboration “Magic” has received 164,908 views on YouTube since its inception in October.

The number of views of an unsteady, 34-second, hand-held recording of a television screen on which Bo Pelini is seen “chewing out” Taylor Martinez during the Texas A&M game from last November? That would be 373,911.

Those numbers are telling.

Within a frame of a few weeks, Taylor Martinez transformed from the somewhat surprising winner of Nebraska’s 2010 quarterback competition into an early season Heisman hopeful and then into the team’s biggest scapegoat.

But 2011 is a new year for Martinez and the Huskers, and all reports thus far point to a genuine sense of increased confidence in the redshirt sophomore, who was referred to as “awesome” earlier in the month by his head coach.

“I think he’s stepped up big time this summer,” senior receiver Brandon Kinnie said. “He’s made tremendous strides in being a leader, being more vocal and being consistent. So that’s good for us. That’s real good.”

While everyone worth asking has pointed to Martinez’s improved off-field intangibles, sophomore receiver Quincy Enunwa has noticed changes on the field as well.

“His accuracy is definitely better,” Enunwa said. “I mean he’s putting the ball in spots you wouldn’t think he could put it in.”

martinez: see page 9

Now healthy, Delano happy to be competing again Robby Korth DAily Nebraskan

A new position coach, a new shoulder and a brand-new season.

Senior middle-blocker Brooke Delano is adventuring into unexplored territory for the 2011 season.

Delano had a torn labrum repaired Jan. 5, which had nagged her since the spring of 2010. Now recovered, Delano is itching to get back on the floor.

“I’ve been off the court for eight months,” Delano said last week. “Sitting out all spring makes you want to play. You can learn a lot from watching, but I can’t wait to get out there.”

Delano hit the court for the first time since her surgery at Nebraska’s annual Red-White scrimmage on Saturday. She finished with five kills on a .059 hitting percentage.

Delano’s last month of the 2010 season was marred by injury and her production dropped off, yet by the end of the year she led the Big 12 in blocks with 1.42 per set.

Hopes are still high for the Bellevue native. Despite the taper at the end of the year, Delano was a unanimous selection to the preseason AllBig Ten team for 2011.

Delano ended last season as a first team All-American —­a feat new position coach Dan Conners thinks she could repeat.

“Based on her work ethic and her ability, I don’t see any reason why she couldn’t be an All-American again,” Conners said. “Of course that is to be determined, she’s got to work for it.”

So far two-a-days have been nothing out of the ordinary for Delano and her repaired shoulder.

“It’s common coming back

from (a surgery) that you feel it a little bit,” Delano said.

“But right now everybody is feeling a little pain.”

NU has a right to feel pain; two-a-day practices at the college level can be grueling. Last season, Delano was pushing the Huskers through the soreness and tired muscles as team captain.

This time around, Delano will have to lead the team without the responsibilities of captain.

“The dynamics of the team this year are different,” Conners said. “They saw something in Jordan Wilberger and Bridgette Root, and they wanted them to be the captains. I don’t see it as a slap in the face to Brooke – the team respects her. She will still be a leader for us this season.”

Delano feels that her absence while rehabbing her injury allowed the team to grow in a different direction.

She understands why NU decided to go without her as a captain.

“One of my main goals was to make sure I could get myself back on the court,” Delano said. “I wasn’t out there and you kind of get out of the flow. (The injury) is not the sole reason, but it played a big part.”

Despite not being named a captain, Delano’s role as a leader won’t change for Nebraska. During the Red-White scrimmage, she was vocal on the court.

“My leadership style isn’t going to change,” Delano said.

“I’m going to continue with what I’ve been doing and lead by example, which was really hard to do when I wasn’t on the court.”

This season isn’t going to be any easier for Delano, even with the repaired shoulder.

“She might have a tougher time than she did last year,”

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In her first action since shoulder surgery, NU’s Brooke Delano notched five kills in Saturday’s Red-White scrimmage.

Conners said. “Teams are going to try and go after her a bit more. She’ll be ready – she’s a little more experienced.”

Delano looks to bring more than just a repaired shoulder and a hitting percentage of .403 to the table. Delano will bring intangibles that have

been amplified by her absence from competition.

“I’m going to bring intensity and energy to the court,” Delano said. “(Sitting out) gave me a different edge for this season.” robbykorth@ dailynebraskan.com