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democracy.” Today, however, has its own struggle, Jackson said. He asked anyone in the audience who knew someone in jail or foreclosure to stand; a scattered but significant group rose. Jackson then asked who was dealing with student debt or credit card debt; the crowd laughed as most stood, only to be quieted when Jackson asked who knew someone who had considered suicide.
The maze that was once enrolling in classes and paying bills just got a lot simpler. MyRED’s got a new look. During the weekend, university administration unveiled layout changes that promote efficiency in the selfservice student portal, which was introduced in 2009. Administration set out to make the changes a few months ago in response to negative user feedback. “They had a legitimate complaint that you had to click three or four times sometimes to get to the actual page you needed,” said Juan Franco, vice chancellor for Student Affairs. “(The new design) is more user-friendly in that it takes fewer clicks to get to the pages they want.” Students can use MyRED to pay bills, enroll in classes and access records, just as before – but the new layout could speed up the process. It employs more space, larger fonts and more easily accessible menu options. The website has a cleaner look overall, and Franco said the new design improved university branding. But more important, according to Franco, is the “intuitive” prioritization of the layout that will change depending on the time of year. “When you first sign on, it brings up the page you’re probably looking for initially,” Franco said. “Right now, your enrollment page comes up, but when it’s time to pay bills we can fix it so the first page to come up is what you owe, or your financial aid
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist, speaks at the Lied Center on Wednesday. He said Americans need to learn to overcome superficial differences. “We can choose direction over complexion... learning to live together in some unified way,” he said.
Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson speaks at diversity symposium DAN HOLTMEYER DAILY NEBRASKAN
As part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Diversity Leadership Symposium, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and has continued his own struggle for social and economic equality since, spoke Tuesday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Afterward, Jackson briefly visited the Occupy Lincoln camp, the local off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.
In front of a crowd of hundreds of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, faculty and Lincoln residents, Jackson touched on topics as diverse as history, economics, religion and current events. Jackson spoke deliberately and quietly at some times, crescendoing to rapid, strong speech at others. He never strayed, however, from his beliefs that the struggle for equality isn’t over, and Americans must learn to survive together. “Americans learned a bad lesson well,” he said. They
learned to live in a world of “paper-thin walls,” artificial gaps between groups of people divided by race or money. “We learned to survive apart.” Even after the abolition of slavery, Jackson said, inequality has left its mark on American history. A military force segregated by race fought World War II. Jesse Owens, the black track athlete who won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, famously embarrassed Adolf Hitler, who refused to shake his hand. But Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t shake
Owens’ hand, either, Jackson said. There have still been victories along the way, Jackson told his audience. Public schools were desegregated by law in 1954. Activists gradually expanded the right and ability to vote to blacks in the racist South, then those 18 or older. “They fought the battle of their day, and they won that battle,” Jackson said. “Young America came alive,” he said, and he repeated the line throughout his presentation. “We democratized
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Evaluations’ potency questioned LAUREN GEIGER DAILY NEBRASKAN
Greek Row on 16th Street is festooned with Christmas lights. Students all across campus are cramming for finals. And end-of-semester evaluations lurk right around the corner. Some students greet these evaluations with open arms, using them to voice their concerns and bring positive changes to the classroom. Others circle the numbers, scrawl a few words in the “other comments” section, stuff their slips of paper into a manila envelope and walk away without a backward glance. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Board of Regents Bylaws 4.5 and 4.6 state that each major administration unit must gather student evaluations and peer judgments as part of an annual review. Dave Wilson, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at UNL, said student feedback is used by department chairs and heads, faculty
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colleagues, college promotion and tenure committees, deans and award committees to provide advice to faculty members and to make decisions about salary increases, promotion, tenure and awards. This can put a mountain of pressure on professors, especially those seeking tenure. A Nov. 4 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education warned that endof-semester evaluations can inadvertently lead to grade inflation and could create increasing incentives for faculty to win over students. Edward Daly, an educational psychology professor at UNL, offered a caveat about student evaluations. “(Student evaluations) are important, but there are other critical indicators of an instructor’s success,” Daly said. “A tough but solid instructor might not be liked by many of the students who expected an easier course. The real measure of the course is how
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YOUR THOUGHTS Forty-nine readers shared their opinions this week at www.dailynebraskan.com. Check each Sunday for a reader poll. This week: Do you think professors and departments value students' professor evaluations?
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The University of NebraskaLincoln College of Law and the University of Nebraska at Omaha gerontology program have teamed up to create a dual degree program students will be able to participate in beginning fall semester 2012. “(The joint degree) made sense to us because of the aging demographics in Nebraska and the rest of the country,” said Susan Poser, UNL dean of the college of law. The dual degree will expose the students to important issues
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that they could face in their careers, she said. “Having someone schooled in both disciplines ensures the best interests of the elderly are taken into consideration while ensuring families and caregivers have someone on their side who truly understands their challenges from various angles,” said Julie Masters, chairperson of UNO’s department of gerontology. The program will offer three different combinations of degrees: a master’s in gerontology with a law degree, a master’s in gerontology with a master’s in legal studies and a certificate in gerontology with a law degree. In order for students to
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Chick-fil-A Express opens in Omaha New translations kaitlin karins daily nebraskan
After teasing the people of Omaha since 2002, Mutual of Omaha’s employees-only Chick-fil-A has a public counterpart in the Mutual of Omaha Bank Building lobby. “Plans have been in place for about a year for this Chick-filA,” said Chick-fil-A manager Karrie Bradford. “There was such a high demand from the public for this second restaurant. People wanted to know why the only Chick-fil-A in the state of Nebraska wasn’t even open for the public.” The grand opening of the new Chick-fil-A Express was Wednesday at 10 a.m., complete with balloons, Chick-fil-A mini footballs, a ribbon cutting and a first-bite ceremony. “The first-bite ceremony is a Chick-fil-A tradition where ribbon cutters take a bite out of the original chicken sandwich as the first people to eat in the restaurant,” Bradford said. The restaurant on 3333 Farnam St. will have limited menu
choices, but will include the spicy chicken sandwich. Customers will still miss out on Chick-fil-A milkshakes, which aren’t offered at the private Mutual of Omaha branch, either. But the spicy chicken sandwich is enough for freshman Jeremy Dickes, a computer engineering major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “I love Chick-fil-A because it’s the perfect marriage of McDonald’s-type fast food sandwich with a Raising Canes’ good, crispy chicken,” Dickes said. On the day of the grand opening, Chick-fil-A had about 1,000 customers by 3:30 p.m. Bradford said. Dickes wasn’t among them. “I don’t necessarily plan to make a journey to Omaha for the sole purpose of gnawing on some chicken, but the knowledge of having one in Omaha is enough to make sure I make the trip (to Chick-fil-A) next time I am there, which will probably be before the New Year,” Dickes said. “Unless I have some incredibly irresistible Harold-and-Kumar-like urge for
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Chick-fil-A.” But how long will Lincolnites have to make the hour-trip to Omaha for Chick-fil-A? “As of now I don’t know of any plans for other Chick-fil-A’s opening in Nebraska,” Bradford said. “But I am not associated with Chick-fil-A itself, but with the Mutual of Omaha food catering services.” Dickes said Chick-fil-A would
be successful in Lincoln with such a large fan base. “I would like to see a Lincoln Chick-fil-A franchise open in the upcoming years,” Dickes said. “I think the opening of one in Omaha is a great first step to achieving my dream of having the perfect chicken sandwich available to me within 10 minutes of home.” kaitlinkarins@
Doctoral student wins research award elias youngquist daily nebraskan
Amid the quiet cubicles of Jorgensen Hall, one student in the farthest back cubicle on the highest floor has received major national recognition for his work. But you’d never know it from his quiet demeanor. “(He’s humble) but he shouldn’t be,” said physics, astronomy and chemistry professor Peter Dowben. “He really did something superlative.” Juan Colon Santana, an electrical engineering doctoral student, recently received the Leo M. Falicov Prize, named after a prominent Argentinian theoretical physicist, for outstanding research performed by a graduate student in areas related to magnetic interfaces and nanostructures. More specifically, Colon won the award for working with gadolinium, a rare-earth metal and introducing the elements to electronics in order to make them more efficient. “We’re working on highgrade electronics and the goal is to introduce magnetism to these electronics,” Colon said. “The idea is to have a material and by introducing atoms that have magnetic properties, then they interact with the materials as a whole. The electronic properties are then going to change.” For more than three years, Colon has worked with the 17 rare elements in a process called “doping,” in which atoms’ magnetic properties are added to materials to change the properties of the materials. The importance of this is that magnets are used in electronic memory. “You have to have current running through them at all times,” Colon said. “These
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Juan Colon Santana, an electrical engineering doctoral student, works with large equipment to study magnetic properties inside Jorgensen Hall on Tuesday. (doped materials) don’t require current to store memory.” Colon has already received a patent from earlier work with chromium in the same vein of research he is currently working on. Colon achieved magnetism at room temperature, “which is desirable,” Colon said, for use in computers, which need to be able to run at room temperature. The processes vary for creating the doped elements, but the most recent materials were created by Jinke Tang of the University of Wyoming using a laser. “Jinke used the process of shooting a laser into the material, a pulse laser,” Colon said. “Since it is a pulse, it evaporates just the surface, which left the
doped gadolinium.” Originally from Puerto Rico, Colon graduated from the University of Puerto Rico but came to the University of NebraskaLincoln to complete his doctorate. “I have a colleague who studies here and he talked on a semester about going on to your doctorate,” Colon said. “I ended up coming here and it’s been great.” Though Colon came as a physics doctorate, he switched to the electrical engineering program. “It’s just so interdisciplinary,” said Jerry Hudgins, a professor and the department chair of electrical engineering and one of Colon’s co-advisers. “He’s made some
breakthroughs in materials,” Hudgins said. “If you look down the road, it has devices that can store information in very small magnetic fields. He’s done some good work in producing those materials and measuring them. He’s moved the study ahead a couple steps.” Dowben, Colon’s other adviser, echoed Hudgins on the importance of the project. “Juan did an excellent job of bringing new fundamental insights into magnetic semiconductors and at the same time complimented that work with real working devices,” Dowben said. “He also gave a very good talk, which didn’t hurt.”
legal compliance are very common.” Masters said many elderly people and their families could find themselves in situations in which the program will be vital to them. “So many of the challenges faced by older persons and families are complicated and require a more in-depth knowledge of how best to support an older person’s wishes in life and beyond,” Masters said. “Just
ask anyone who is working with a frail parent who has not planned accordingly.” There will also be efforts to include preparations to start a transactional and entrepreneurship clinic where students will help entrepreneurs with the legal issues involved in starting up new companies. The entrepreneurship program is similar in efforts with the dual degree program, Poser said.
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Roman Catholics, along with Catholics throughout the Englishspeaking world, probably noticed a difference in the prayers of Mass last Sunday. The new English translation of Mass was released Nov. 27 in parishes throughout the United States. About 50 curious Catholic UNL students attended a question-and-answer session about the new translation at Old Chicago on Monday night. Monsignor Joseph Nemec, the pastor of St. Teresa’s parish in Lincoln, was the main speaker. The talk was part of a series called “Theology OnTap” hosted by the UNL Newman Center every other Monday night. Nemec said this is the first time in 50 years that Catholics will have to relearn some of the prayers and responses in the Mass, which haven’t changed since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Nemec said during that council, bishops translated the prayers for Mass from the traditional Latin into English using dynamic equivalency, a smoother but less literal approach to translation. “Dynamic equivalency translates concepts and ideas, but not necessarily the words literally,” Nemec said. Now the English prayers have been translated using formal equivalency, which translates exactly what the words mean and say, Nemec said. “Instead of trying to say something in the shortest way possible, the new translation is more poetic and more visual,” said assistant pastor of the UNL Newman Center Ben Holdren. “It really paints those images (in the prayers).” Nemec said the new words add a whole new level of meaning to the prayers. “There’s an old adage that goes, ‘As you pray, so you believe, and as you believe, so you pray,’” Nemec said. Nemec pointed to the Nicene Creed, where instead of “One in being with the Father,” the prayer is now translated literally into “consubstantial with the Father.” “Consubstantial, in philosophical terms, means ‘same substance, nature or essence,’” Nemec said. “I could never say I’m
divine. We have a share in God’s life, but we are not consubstantial with the father.” Nemec pointed to another goal of the translation, which is greater unity in the Catholic Church throughout the world. Nemec said this could be seen in the change that many people stumbled over: the response to “Peace be with you,” which has changed from “And also with you” to “And with your spirit.” Nemec said the bilingual students at his parish noticed the difference in responses before the new translation came out, and would ask him why the responses were different in Spanish and English Masses. Nemec said the response has been “And with your spirit” for 2,000 years, and the only language to deviate from that was the English language for 50 years, post-Second Vatican Council. “Finally, we are praying like the rest of the world,” Nemec said. Nemec said the translation is the same throughout English-speaking countries, too. “It’s really beautiful,” Nemec said, “If you went to Mass in Australia right now, you’d hear the same words.” Nemec recognized that the change would take some getting used to, but so far he hasn’t heard any complaints. “Come Christmas, we’re going to have a lot of confused people, especially if they haven’t been with us since Easter,” Nemec said. “Change is hard, but this change is good, very good.” Holdren said so far, the UNL parishioners seem to be enjoying the new version. He said even though there was confusion and stumbling the first time through, people “just kind of laugh through it.” General studies sophomore Becky Volkmer said for her, the changes will take some getting used to. “Some of it is just really small changes, which can be frustrating,” Volkmer said. “I kind of find it entertaining, too.” Junior geography major Darrin Schultz said he was very pleased with the new translation. “I think the new translation is extremely reverent, and I love it,” Schultz said. “I see it really rejuvenating the faith. You really feel God’s sovereignty in the words.” maryrezac@ dailynebraskan.com
program: from 1 obtain this dual degree, they will have to be willing to commute. “Many of the classes in the gerontology program that are required for the joint degrees are offered on the UNL campus, but they (the students) will also have to take some courses in Omaha,” Poser said. Poser said the dual degree program is the College of Law’s effort to expose students to a wide variety
of career choices, for which law degrees are either essential or very helpful. “This will allow students who are interested in legal issues involving older people to get the training that they need to have successful careers,” Poser said. “They may end up practicing law and focus on elderly clients, or they could also end up running a nursing home or retirement community where issues of
Blakelee Brazda, a sophomore English major, said she believes this dual degree program will be a great addition to the university. “Since it’s adding curriculum to our existing law program, I think it will give those students more of a broad knowledge and preparedness for the real world and their careers,” she said. As for the curriculum changes, the information isn’t available yet, but will
be made available to the public once the kinks are worked out. Because the program is based at UNO, students will be required to apply to UNO graduate studies using the online application process, Masters said. Applicants are already being accepted and are encouraged to contact the department for further questions.
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Students to vote on senate expansion frannie sprouls daily nebraskan
A constitutional amendment to add six new senators to the student body government will be available for the student body to decide on. The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska passed Government Bill #10 at its final Wednesday-night meeting for fall semester. The proposed amendment raised much discussion, leading 19 senators to vote yes, one senator to vote no and five senators to abstain from voting. “It was not exactly how I had planned,” said ASUN President Lane Carr, a senior political science and history major. “I would’ve liked a full senate behind this. I think there were a lot of great concerns raised.” The passing of the bill doesn’t automatically amend the ASUN constitution; it allows the amendment to be added to the spring election ballot. During the spring semester, the electoral commission is required to advertise the language of the amendment in the Daily Nebraskan three times before it goes on the ballot. Then it comes down to the students. Historically, it has been difficult to pass constitutional
amendments, Carr told the senate. “The easier you can make (the language) and the cleaner the language, the better chance it has at passing,” Carr said. Carr presented different reasons for increasing the size to the senators. When the executive board was dividing senators into different committees, Carr said they had troubles having enough senators for each committee. “This is something that just came together and it makes sense to do it now, when we have the need for senators,” Carr said. “We’re having a larger university, so understandably students need more representation.” Currently, ASUN has 35 senators and this number has remained the same since ASUN’s creation in 1964. In the spring, students will still elect 35 representatives. If the amendment passes, the six additional senators will be selected by the appointments board. Many of the senators discussed if increasing the size of ASUN would be beneficial. Sen. Christian Habib, a senior philosophy major, raised the issue of communication. “I don’t see how this (amendment) will actually solve the problems
ASUN meeting nov. 30 bills 1. Government Bill #10: Constitutional Amendment: Increasing the Size of Senate to 41 2. Government Bill #11: ASUN Opposition of LB239 (requiring current and valid driver’s license to vote) Issues issues 1. This bill allows a constitutional amendment to be put on the spring election ballot. Students will make the decision to add six senators to the ASUN senate, bringing the total of senators to 41. 2. This bill states ASUN’s opposition to LB239, which would require voters to bring a governmentissued photo ID when registering. ASUN previously voted to oppose it, but because it was during a previous administration, this reaffirms ASUN’s opposition. votes 1. Passes: 19 yes, one no, five abstaining 2. Passes: unanimous previously stated,” Habib said during discussion. “Yes, part of the problem is we are a group of 35 students, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t using the tools we have as efficiently.” Speaker of the Senate Emily Schlichting, a senior communication studies and political science major, disagreed with Habib. “The point of this amendment is to help widen the workload,” Schlichting said. “I
think if we had more senators, we’d be closer to achieving more of our goals.” Discussion was cut short to vote on the bill, with some senators unable to speak for a second time. The vote only required a majority to pass. “Now students can decide,” Carr said to the senators before the meeting ended. “Students can make their opinion and that will be what resonates.” franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com
jackson: from 1 Many remained standing. “There are a lot of Americans who are living lavishly on the deck of the ship,” Jackson said. Others find themselves down on the hull, “and water’s coming in,” Jackson said. He was referring to the nation’s income inequality, which is at historic levels following the 2008 recession. The top 1 percent of earners, for example, earn one-fifth of the nation’s income each year. They also control about one-third of the wealth, compared to one-sixth for the bottom 80 percent of Americans, according to an analysis by the liberal Economic Policy Institute, which analyzed data from the U.S. Federal Reserve. “Too few have too much,” Jackson said. He joked that the economy now is like a football game where some players have an easier first down because they’ve inherited yards, to laughs from the audience. “Something has gone terribly wrong,” he said. He compared the economy to the human body. In the body, he said, if too much blood is concentrated in one spot, it’s called a clot or a stroke. “It only makes sense if it’s flowing,” he said. Because of that economic situation, Jackson repeatedly voiced his support for the Occupy Wall Street protests
to murmurs of agreement and claps from some in the crowd. The movement began in Manhattan more than two months ago when an eclectic group of protesters converged on the financial district and camped out in a public park in protest of income inequality and the power they say corporations wield over politics. Hundreds joined the original encampment, and similar camps popped up in towns across the country and around the world, including in Lincoln. “Occupy is really a new name for an old game,” Jackson said. “It’s a struggle for social justice. It’s a struggle for fairness.” In the past few weeks, however, Occupy encampments in several major cities have worn out their welcome. Police have cleared camps in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Video of an officer pepperspraying seated protesters at the University of California, Davis last week rapidly spread through the Internet, leading some to call for the university chancellor’s resignation. Still, Jackson didn’t doubt the movement’s durability. “Occupy can’t be peppersprayed away,” he said. “It can’t be arrested. Occupy is a spirit.” Occupy Wall Street has
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson prays with members of Occupy Lincoln after speaking at the Lied Center Wednesday. “Occupy is a spirit,” Jackson said. “It’s the movement of our times. It’s here to close the gap.” been criticized for what some say is a lack of a digestible, achievable goal, but Jackson said the movement simply needed to remain disciplined, nonviolent and focused. Even when Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat on a bus, he said, people asked, ‘Why’s she doing that?’ After his talk, Jackson walked over to the Occupy Lincoln camp, as he has done in several cities, to offer his support and advice. “There’ll be attempts to marginalize and discourage (you),” he told several members of the camp, including UNL students, who gathered around him. “Your point of view matters, but it’s a long struggle.” Occupy Lincoln was listening.
“He was giving advice to anyone who’s affected by any of these issues,” said Dana Garrison, a UNL junior in agriculture education and one of the camp’s organizers. In line with his words, she said developing a relevant, accessible message will be the camp’s next main step. Others were simply happy to meet the civil rights figure. “To get a hug and a handshake from the reverend has to be the most thrilling moment of my life,” said Mary Ann Shiech, who has also been with the Lincoln protest since its first day in midOctober. “Besides having my children.” danholtmeyer@ dailynebraskan.com
evaluations: from 1 much the students learned.” Daly added that most students gave reasonable feedback about courses he’s taught during his career, while a minority used them as a platform for inappropriately criticizing things they did not like about the course. Katie Oltman, a junior psychology and English major and a resident assistant in the Neihardt Residence Center, said she can relate to the pressure evaluations bring. “You might be really proud of your progress, but when you get the evaluations back and find that people didn’t think much of how you did, it’s heartbreaking,” she said. “But they can be very useful because they can point out where you’re strong and what you can move forward with.” Some faculty may not be above partaking in bribery to achieve positive feedback. “My TA in my chemistry class from the first semester of my freshman year bribed us to write good evaluations for her,” Oltman said. “She walked in with full-sized candy bars for us one day. It wasn’t one of those, ‘You don’t get candy if you don’t write a good evaluation,’ sort of thing. It was more, ‘Hey, I really like you guys, and we happen to be doing evaluations in class today.’” Students may doubt that anyone ever reads their comments, but Oltman reassures them otherwise. “I know there’s got to be at least someone in the department who reads them,” she said. “I had a friend who wrote a horrible review for a teacher and had that teacher the next semester. It was really awkward because it was obvious that teacher read that review.” And student evaluation of instruction is taken seriously, at least in the English department, said Susan Belasco, an English professor at UNL and chairperson of the English department. “After a semester is over, the evaluations are returned to faculty members, who write their own evaluations of the
class in response,” she said. Faculty members from other colleges take similar approaches to student evaluations. Charles Ansorge is an emeritus professor and was the department chair of educational psychology at UNL before he retired at the end of August 2011. “I personally reviewed what students wrote regarding each of the faculty members that I supervised,” Ansorge said. “I believe the same, or similar, process is followed in each department across the university.” End-of-semester evaluations are read by faculty members and department chairs, but wading through oceans of paperwork takes time. “Before online class evaluations, it took a long time for department secretaries to tabulate results of the surveys and type the student comments,” Ansorge said. “It was not unusual for this process to take up to four months to provide information to faculty members and the department chairs.” The Chronicle questions the reliability of student evaluations, citing that their feedback is unscientific and that students as customers aren’t always right. “While student evaluations are not the be-all and end-all of course-instructor evaluation, they do play an important role,” Daly said. Belasco encouraged students to take their responsibility seriously and write helpful comments about the course and the instruction for their instructors. In the end, the entire community that makes up UNL needs to focus on the bigger picture. “I encourage all members of our UNL community to take student feedback on instructors and courses seriously,” Wilson said. “It is one strategy for helping affirm and encourage excellence in teaching.”
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myred: from 1 information. Convenience is something we were striving for, and I think to some extent we’ve achieved that.” Franco said he’s spent the last few days checking in with students on the new layout, and feedback has been positive. “(The new design) is much more intuitive,” said freshman international studies major Field McDonald. “It’s easier to access important information, like class schedules or billing information. It’s nice to be able to search for information quickly and efficiently, and the new MyRED allows me to do so.” The faculty portal of MyRED will soon see similar changes
in design, but Franco said it could take months because of shifting priorities. Revamping the website is a long process, he said, because of the complex software involved. But according to students, the redesign is worth the effort. “The new MyRED interface definitely makes the site more user-friendly,” said Chelsea Lemburg, a freshman secondary education major. “I feel like the changes reflect exactly what the students and faculty have been asking for, so kudos to (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) for making MyRED less difficult and cumbersome to navigate.”
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irrelevant social problems. Political and economic leaders create certain crises that kindle public reactions. To have people ask for safety measures, the state allows religious violence or covertly organizes bloody bombings so the citizens demand protection. New bills are passed that strengthen the government’s grip on the country with tough security measures at the expense of citizens’ liberty. This happened during the last days of Hosni Mubarak, when his regime was involved in plotting the deadly New Year’s Day bombing at a Christian church in Egypt, fortifying his stranglehold on the country. One more example is crafting an economic crisis to force the public to let down certain social rights and dismantle public services. Another strategy to police the masses is denying education, leaving them in steep ignorance and foolishness. The quality of education given in certain areas tends to keep the gap in favor of the ones who obtained a degree from a prestigious university. For instance, one group is spoonfed while the other is trained to think; one is doomed to spend time hunting a job, the other immediately hired.
Last but not least, when one tries to replace corrupt leaders with a representative body, one is guilty of the crime of social disorder. In the Arab Spring, leaders made use of certain religious leaders to blaspheme those disobeying the ruler. The same scenario of marginalizing civil disobedience exists in the U.S. mainstream media. The Occupy movement across the country has been relegated to the lower tier and described as “anarchist hippies.” Several thousand of the demonstrators across the country challenged the 1 percent and demanded their
inalienable rights, yet corporate media outlets failed to listen to the “frustrated” protesters and convey what they have to say. Bill O’Reilly illustrated this in his show by saying, “All they have to do is take a shower and then get a job, if they went to college.” Manipulation of the truth damages credibility and creates a crisis of trust. Needless to say, social networks are now a haven of corporate media propaganda. Liking and sharing links and images on social networks without verifying the source could mislead the public from significant matters
and force them into intellectual bewilderment. It remains amazing how some people are able to achieve their goals through the use of persuasion or deception. Yet it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference between truth and manipulation when your intellectual filter is deactivated. As the American journalist Walter Cronkite once put it, “In seeking truth, you have to get both sides of a story.”
beligh ben taleb is a graduate student in history and a former fulbright scholar from tunisia. reach him at belighbentaleb@ dailynebraskan.com.
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hen one looks through the mass i v e amount of “knowledge” distributed through media, textbooks and social networks, one’s mind can hardly find peace. As Lee Segall once said, “A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.” Most people are in love with truth. And most people hate the idea of being manipulated. Yet truth could be easily distorted through various mechanisms to bewilder an individual. In fact, with the rise of sophisticated technologies, a variety of sources offers a digital alternative that instantaneously feeds the minds of “knowledge” seekers. Updates from smartphones, for example, reach consumers in a blink of an eye. News comes in from
the four corners of the globe, shaped and framed for a vast audience, the same information broadcasted through various sources and types. Often people don’t go beyond the headline and they content themselves with one channel or one newspaper. They sometimes use Facebook or Twitter as a haven for their updates. However, it’s hard to balance the benefit of a variety of sources with the potential to damage credibility and mislead the public. Having a variety of sources is one of the strategies of manipulation. Many sources control the society and hide serious problems from the public. Take the example of the “Arab Spring,” where media and social networks alike revived old scars of sectarian conflicts but failed to address serious issues, such as the hundreds of people massacred to overthrow the dictatorships. Important problems such as poverty, social inequality, education and health care are barely discussed in media and are blocked by a deluge of constant distractions, insignificant information and a lot of entertainment. Another strategy of manipulation is the creation of
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New MyRED design update deserves praise
Students logging into MyRED — the University of NebraskaLincoln’s student portal for records, financial aid, enrollment and payments may notice a few changes this week. For one, it finally looks like a professional website. Second, it’s no longer impossible to use. Since shifting from the previous student portal WAM — What About Me? — in 2009, the website was the subject of multiple complaints, including some from the Daily Nebraskan editorial board, for errors and difficulty in use. The site was so clunky that for months after its launch, the front page included a linked PDF instructing students and parents about the multiple pages they must click through to perform simple tasks like paying bills or ordering transcripts. The new design, thankfully, fixes this maze-like pain. Gone are the multiple side tabs of “Self Service,” “UNL Records,” “UNL Other Services” and “UNL Quick Links,” which ran beneath two confusing top options labeled “Student” and “Your Page.” (Contrary to everything “Your Page” implied, all student records were in fact accessed via “Student.”) None of that explained a third link labeled “Student Center,” which hosted content such as bills. To anyone able to discern what content each tabbed contained from its name alone, we commend you. Instead, the new MyRED offers a Nebraska-themed, although basic, menu with all important tabs clearly labeled on one page. A left-hand column provides important notices including account holds and to-do-list items. The middle section hosts five tabs: “Enrollment,” “Student Account,” “Financial Aid,” “Records” and “Additional Services.” The first four provide all relevant information — schedules, financial aid rewards, etc. — laid out in an organized fashion with no additional clicks. The “Additional Services” tab includes email and Blackboard information, along with less frequently needed features such as textbook pre-order and online voting. Finally, a right-hand column lists options related to enrollment and the ordering of transcripts. We are particularly pleased to see you can finally order official transcripts without going to Canfield, one of WAM’s old features. All in all, the new layout is very serviceable. All important content is on one page and requires no guesswork to find. Still, there are a few problems. The site is still bafflingly separated into two tabs. One is labeled “Student” (or “Applicant,” “Employee” or “Parent/Guest,” according to the type of account), the other “Welcome.” Given that the “Welcome” tab includes nothing but a quick list of the other account types and MyRED doesn’t default to the “Welcome” screen in the first place, the tab seems entirely unnecessary. There are still a few too many options in sections such as enrollment, (now accessed in a smooth-looking, popout menu, although it remains entirely unchanged except for the addition of some Husker red). Still, the new MyRED is, in all honesty, now as easy to use as WAM was. The Daily Nebraskan commends the administration for implementing these changes. It’s just too bad it took two years to make them. opinion@dailynebraskan.com
editorial policy The editorial above contains the opinion of the fall 2011 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. A column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of Daily Nebraskan employees.
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Remember the beauty of college life
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he Miss America website says Miss America “represents the highest ideals. She is a real combination of beauty, grace, and intelligence, artistic and refined.” However, I think Miss America, or at least Teresa Scanlan, helped me to realize the beauty of ordinary life as a college student. Her beauty, like the beauty of college life, should be obvious, but it took me a while to understand. At the beginning of the year, when I first heard of Teresa Scanlan winning the Miss America title from a classmate, I was busy preparing for an upcoming test. At the time, I thought the Miss America competition was simply a physical beauty contest. I promised myself, though, that I would look up her story online after the test. But I never did. I convinced myself that was just part of life. There were many Miss Americas years ago and there will be more in the future. It wasn’t that special. I wasn’t surprised at all that she was from Nebraska. I’ve never doubted that a young woman from Nebraska could win a Miss America title, if all she needed was beauty. During the summer, some of my friends suggested seeing Miss America in the Lancaster County Fair. Again, I wasn’t interested. I tried to convince them that we could just look at her picture, that people look better in pictures anyway. The benefit of looking at photos is that there’s no waiting line. If you’re interested in taking a picture with her, I have Photoshop for that. However, I was convinced by others who wanted to go. With friends, I went to the county fair. The moment I got out of the car, I started to question whether it was the best thing to do on a Friday evening. It was raining, humid and hot, a typical day in summer Nebraska. The ground was
jiajun (ABE) xu muddy. The waiting line for taking pictures with Miss America was long, and I was hungry. I decided not to wait in the line while hungry. I walked toward the food stands nearby after my friends got in line. My friends said, “we will call you when we get close,” but I really didn’t care. I was eating chicken fingers, walking toward Miss America, when my friend called. From a distance, I figured that she was young, but remarkable in a way that is hard to identify. I walked over and took a picture, with a hand on her shoulder. Hopefully, I didn’t still smell like fried chicken. That was my first time meeting Miss America. It was brief, but impressive. I felt that beauty could be real, not artificial. Almost six months later, I found out that the University Program Council would be bringing Miss America to speak on campus. This time, I was motivated. I should listen to how she speaks, I figured, if I want to learn more about her. She looked more mature and walked to the stage with a confidence that shines effortlessly. She talked about her extraordinary experience as Miss America and her normal life in Nebraska. Surprisingly, one of her high school friends even sat beside me. As she shared her personal story, I felt closer to her,
though I sat far away. As she mentioned in her speech, she was and still is an ordinary Nebraskan girl. However, she’s unique in that ordinary way. She realized the beauty of being ordinary and the potential of the future. In fact, I believe this is the beauty of life. It’s beautiful if you’re willing to work on it. The beauty of Miss America, Teresa Scanlan, was around me since the beginning of the year, but I didn’t get it until 11 months later. Sometimes, I found myself complaining about my normal college life: staying up late to get ready for tests, struggling to wake up in the morning, going to classes, doing homework and commuting between school and apartment. It’s boring in a way that rotates every six months or so, but it’s beautiful in a way that was stuffed by infinite possibilities. We have the opportunity to explore life’s beauty, but most of the time we choose to ignore it. I understand this week at school might be one of the worst of the year. Keep in mind, next week and the week after could be worse. People are already starting to complain, but the beauty of college life is still around. These last two weeks, either to finish school or just a semester, probably won’t be easy. You will probably have to fight long and hard to get through them, but like finding the beauty of Miss America, it takes time and effort. At times, you might lose your direction, you may doubt the meaning of hard work, you could even lose your future goals, but don’t give up yet. Tomorrow, you’ll find out that it’s all worth it. In the final weeks of the semester, explore the beauty of college life.
jiajun (Abe) xu is a junior economics and finance major. reach him at jiajunxu@ dailynebraskan.com.
Out-of-state tuition excessive, life of debt unacceptable
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the Board of Regents meeting Dec. 8, the Opinion section asked its writers “What one change would you make to the university, if you could?” Today’s column comes from damien croghan.
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ollege is expensive. I’ve justified taking out an abundance of loans, viewing my education as an investment into a high-paying career. Maybe I’m disillusioned, but I’m starting to grow leery. Why? Because I pay out-of-state tuition. Right now, I’m in roughly $36,000 of debt. Because I’m double majoring, I’m on the six-year plan. That means I’m a little more than halfway done with school. Don’t view me as unmotivated; it just took me a few years to figure out what I wanted to do. Each year of self-discovery has only set me back further – not in terms of my growth, but in a monetary sense. That’s the paradox of higher education. I recognized if I didn’t go to college, I’d be stuck where many of my friends are: working the same job they’ve had since high school, still living at home with their parents, talking about their dreams as if they’re no longer within reach. My dreams are within reach. The
price of the education I need to achieve those dreams, however, is becoming more and more impractical. That is, unless I can finally get in-state tuition. Everyone talks about deferring loans, which is a great idea ... if you’ve graduated. However, if you have yet to receive your degree then dropping out of school, deferring loan payments and re-enrolling isn’t feasible. But I can’t afford to stay in school either; if I had instate tuition, I’d pay significantly less. Fiscally, my best course of action would be dropping out for a year to receive in-state tuition. I’m starting to believe that student loans are a form of institutionalized oppression. I literally can’t afford to drop out; if I do, I will have to start paying back my loans. Because I won’t have my oh-sovaluable Big Ten degree, paying back those loans would be too much. Not to mention paying my bills, or (God forbid) having any disposable income. Why is it that I need to live in Nebraska for one year WITHOUT being in school in order to be considered a resident? It’s argued that this is for tax purposes, but the jobs I’ve held have made me such little money that I end up not paying much in taxes at all.
Damien croghan Not to mention my on-campus jobs are non-taxable income. Thank you, work study. The jobs I’ve held outside of college? I’ve worked at a movie theater ($6.25 an hour), a fast-food restaurant ($7.25 an hour) and a horse race track ($8 an hour). In my entire life, I’ve made about $12,000. Sad but true. I point this out to demonstrate that my income doesn’t compensate for my out-of-state tuition hike. In-state students pay about $8,000 for tuition and fees, whereas out-of-state students pay about $20,000. That’s a $12,000 difference. Annually, I pay an extra amount that rivals my (current) lifetime income. That doesn’t include the discrepancy of credit hours. In-state students pay $208.25 per credit hour. Out-of-state students pay $617.75. That’s almost triple for out-of-state
students. Student loans are necessary for most students to attend a university full time. I love the education I’ve received and the people I’ve met. The college experience is priceless. Wait. That’s completely untrue. If I’m $36,000 in debt now and I have two years of school left, I could be more than $60,000 in the hole by the time I’m done with college. I’m sick and tired of how schools justify the price difference. Fact: I’ve been an adult for four years. Of those four years, I’ve spent all in Nebraska. Yes, my permanent address is in Iowa. But it’s in Council Bluffs. My hometown is closer to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln than many towns in Nebraska. Omaha is literally a five-minute drive from my apartment complex. I use my close proximity to UNL as an argument, but UNL shouldn’t matter. The university should be accessible to all out-of-state students, close to the Iowa-Nebraska border or otherwise. We have this supposed prestige of being a Big Ten school, so our degrees should be worth more now. Does lowering tuition for out-of-state students depreciate the value of the degree? No. It just makes our awesome school more accessible. The argument that Nebraskans pay
taxes to state institutions is irrelevant. They’re paying to give their students the college experience. This includes exposure to other students from all over the US. Since we are a new member of the Big Ten, we need to compete, but not just in sporting events. How can we draw more people to Nebraska (which is stereotypically boring and full of corn)? Lower tuition. We have the educational opportunities. Lower tuition could be what lures a prospective student here rather than Michigan or Ohio. I don’t foresee the university crumbling financially if out-of-state students paid in-state tuition. Actually, revenue would grow, especially if our out-of-state enrollment skyrockets. Since when was it acceptable for UNL to put its students at a disadvantage for the sake of being similar? We should be striving to make ourselves better, not the same, as other Big Ten schools. Offering a flat tuition rate, combined with the prospect of a Big Ten degree, could be the lethal combo that places us at No. 1 in an arena other than Memorial Stadium.
damien croghan is a senior news-editorial and international studies major. reach him at damiencroghan@ dailynebraskan.com.
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A Beautiful grind
lincoln’s various coffee shops provide different locations, products and atmospheres for studying, social gatherings or time to yourself r e v i e w s b y n o a h ba l l a r d | p h o t o s b y b e t h a n y s c h m i d t
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f you’re like me, which I certainly hope you are, you’ve spent most of your collegiate career looking for the perfect place to read, write and hangout around pleasant people in
The Coffee House 1324 P St. The Coffee House, or “CoHo” to those in the know, proudly serves Panache coffee and is located close to campus. It’s only a few blocks from the Nebraska Union. Inside, you’ll find an abundance of seating, Wi-Fi (with
Cultiva Coffee Co. 727 S. 11th St. I’m still intimidated by Cultiva, but it definitely has the best espresso in town. Located in Near South, it’s quite convenient to those students who live downtown because living in the Village or the Courtyards isn’t actually having your own apartment because you can’t smoke or drink in them and they cost a
The Mill Coffee and Tea 800 P St. The Mill is a watershed for Haymarket hipsters, both the employees and the patrons. The establishment offers a wide variety of seating, both inside and outside, when weather permits. Summertime smokers flock to the outdoor patio to be seen puffing away,
Meadowlark coffee and Espresso 1624 South St. Meadowlark is a pretty decent coffee shop offering affordable drinks and live entertainment on some nights. The only drawback is the distance from downtown and the fact that it’s in a strip mall. Also, you get a lot of weird,
an otherwise relaxing environment. No business specializes in that particular aesthetic more than the myriad coffee shops around Lincoln. Primarily downtown, Lincoln is saturated
purchase and politely asking for whatever esoteric password they’ve created for that day) and a lot of recognizable faces, including a lot of UNL faculty and grad students. Another plus for this coffee shop is that the owner, Mark Shriner, vaguely resembles Ray Rocket from the hit animated show of the early aughts, “Rocket Power.” Trust me, you’ll see it.
lot of (your parents’) money. Cultiva is a hub for downtown artists — you’ll see a lot of artwork and advertisements for artwork hanging around the otherwise small seating area. Because you really have to be “in” to spend any time there, don’t worry about people taking up a lot of space or hanging out for very long. But, much like the Soup Nazi on the seminal sitcom “Seinfeld,” don’t piss off the baristas or no coffee for you.
caffeinating and reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s latest tome on why being a vegetarian isn’t only the most responsible, but also most morally acceptable decision a young person can make. Does that bearded barista look familiar? That’s right. It’s Max Wohlgemuth of incidental “I wear ridiculous outfits to Husker games and subsequently get filmed a lot” fame.
emo high school kids just sitting around talking too loud about their lofty dreams of eventually leaving Nebraska. While I can respect that, I’d rather just sip my coffee, catch up on my Age of Baroque reading and enjoy the ambiance — an eclectic set of tables and chairs and knickknacks fill the shop — undisturbed. Some nights are better than others. If you need help with your school work though, it’s a popular hangout for professors.
with these types of shops that allow caffeine addicts and javaphiles to be picky in the kinds of places they are willing to frequent. The following compilation factors in location, quality of products and
Crescent Moon Coffee 140 North 8th St. Crescent Moon is truly embracing their newfound home in the basement of the Apothecary Building. Now, with a lot more space, you’ll often find fledgling musicians honing their craft and the occasional weirdo strumming chords and crooning about all his friends being dead.
Downtown Starbucks 1201 P St. A Starbucks is a Starbucks is a Starbucks. But that’s not always a bad thing. If you’re looking for a cup of coffee that tastes like every other cup of Starbucks coffee you’ve ever had, then this is the spot. It’s important to be comfortable in your environment, after all.
NUVIBE 126 North 14th St. NuVibe is a great location for mediocre people with underwhelming life dreams. Sure, the coffee is OK and who can complain about gelato? But it seems to be the coffee shop of bros and
Sunrise Coffee co. 1265 S. Cotner Blvd. None of the editors here have actually been to Sunrise, but we love supporting local businesses, so we’ll recommend it anyway.
general atmosphere of Lincoln’s more recognizable and frequented locations for your consideration before settling for Nebraska Union coffee or that brown horse piss they serve in the dining halls.
You have to take the good with the bad. Crescent Moon is a great location if you’re looking to spend a lot of time studying or hanging out with friends and invites a “take your time” attitude you won’t find in larger, corporate establishments. Also, tell Amanda — the owner’s daughter — that Noah says, “Hi,” and if she’s not seeing anyone, maybe we can hang out or something. You know, take it slow and whatnot.
This location provides Wi-Fi and a few tables, while also providing outdoor seating during the warmer months. Most of the baristas are college kids, and you’ll probably realize there’s someone there you hooked up with like three years ago and then it’ll be awkward and you’ll never want to go to Starbucks again until they get fired or quit or whatever. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
... oh what’s the polite word ... sorority girls who attend UNL. The ambiance is sterile — just the way greek people like their aesthetics — and it’s often crowded, causing the Wi-Fi to slow down to speeds of which even Roy Helu Jr. would be embarrassed. But at least there’s a location that keeps these fools away from the CoHo.
Sure, it’s completely out of the way, but sometimes it’s nice to get away from all the idiots downtown and have a little piece and quiet. And, it couldn’t possibly be worse than NuVibe or the Sheldon museum’s excuse for a coffee shop.
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Career costume designers uphold tradition
Unseen work, countless hours go into perfecting outfits for all Carson shows KATIE NELSON DAILY NEBRASKAN
Ann Watson began her career in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film costume shop as a volunteer, helping to finish costumes as the deadline for an upcoming show crept nearer. Thirty-six years later, she is still working in the Temple building’s basement as the costume shop manager. Since the finish of the costume shop’s most recent renovation in 1983, it has been the center of design and creation for all costumes used in the school’s productions. The costume department contains laundry and dying facilities, more than three storage units, workshop space spread throughout the basement and 900 square feet of the basement of the Gold’s Building in downtown Lincoln. It’s also used as a classroom. Watson maneuvered through sewing machines and mannequins as she gave a tour of the costume shop. A four-person design class hovered over computers and costume plans at one of the various tables, and work-study students scrambled to find homes for the racks of discarded “Lady Windermere’s Fan” costumes that littered the room. Watson is in charge of keeping designers and costume technicians on schedule, her goal for every show being that costumes are completed by the first dress rehearsal so only minor
changes are left to be made. black-and-white costumes Currently, she has a crew as a direct reflection of that includes three graduate Lady Windermere’s charstudents and 10 graduate acter. During production students that work in her meetings — which always shop. Watson is also a sew- consist of the set, lighting, ing technician herself and costume and sound designjumps into projects when- ers, as well as the director — the director will review ever she’s needed. She left the shop and and approve or disapprove moved the storage room of the designs. Costume designs can be that holds the men’s clothing. Walls are lined with modified during shows, but shoes, and racks of suits rarely are they completely and sweaters form a laby- changed. “You can have a nonrealrinth. Watson maneuvers the istic set ... and the clothing room without hesitation, will provide all of the inforpointing to boxes and iden- mation about the productifying their contents with- tion,” Stauffer said. “What I’ve learned is that, as a out reading labels. It quickly becomes ap- designer, I can have more parent she has memorized impact on a show than as a performer.” where most The costume costume Nothing is rocket team doesn’t pieces and science, and we’re begin building materials are stored, sayjust here to have a costumes unthe actors ing she has good time and get til have started never writit done. rehearsals, so ten down can crethe locations ANN WATSON they ate garments of costumes. COSTUME SHOP MANAGER for the spe“I’m getcific actor cast ting farther and farther past retirement in the part. From there, it’s age,” she said. “Janice and I roughly a four-week sprint to opening night. keep it in our heads.” Most of the women’s cosJanice Stauffer, an associate professor of theater and tumes used in “Lady Windfilm and costume designer, ermere” were built strictly found her passion in cos- for the show. Building costumes begins tume design, when she decided she didn’t like acting with a series of patterns, in plays written while she fabric and sewing technicians. was in school in the 1960s. Watson moved through On average, a designer will look over the show’s the storage space, fondly script and begin to research, known as “the dungeon,” sketch costume ideas and opening cupboard after look for materials eight cupboard of material. The to 10 weeks before actors shop continually stocks up begin rehearsals. Design- on fabric and fabric trimers pay attention, not only mings in case they need to to the era in which a play build costumes from scratch is set, but also, character — something that occurs on traits, symbolism and other a regular basis. As fabric shops become things. designers find “Lady Windermere’s sparser, Fan” included only themselves looking beyond
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Freshman dietetics major Olivia Adam, surrounded by hats made by a graduate level Costume Crafts class, works in the basement of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. The costume department designs, creates and stores all the garments used for productions in the school. Lincoln and Omaha, sometimes having to go as far as Chicago or New York, despite few increases in their budget during the years. “You really, sometimes, have to shop in your shop,” Stauffer said. Sometimes “shopping in shop” can mean creating a new costume out of an old garment in the storage units. Each sewing technician is assigned small projects to contribute to the construction of the costumes, depending on the amount of time they have between classes. However, as opening night approaches, all chip in for “as long as it takes,” Watson said. As with “Lady Windermere,” it was necessary to over-hire to complete the costumes. Before any technician lays a finger on a sewing machine or fabric, they need to have a pattern. Patterns are only available
New Christmas tunes kill holiday spirit
KATIE NELSON It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Stores have been decorated since Halloween, and city workers have hung Lincoln’s incomplete series of The Twelve Days of Christmas numbers downtown. And Christmas music is everywhere. Radio stations are converting to a 25-daysof-Christmas format. Overexcited college students (some who may or may not still believe in Santa Claus) are breaking out extensive iTunes Christmas playlists. But are these endless, everegregious remakes truly fine art? Probably not. Don’t get me wrong: I love the music, too. In fact, there are only three things I’ve ever truly wanted to do with my life: host the Macy’s Thanksgiving
Day Parade, become president of the United States and make my own Christmas album. Nothing really says Christmas like Mariah Carey belting out “All I Want For Christmas.” And what about the endless yearly CDs Hallmark used to produce? (At least before it became apparent that there are only so many times that Barry Manilow can remake “Jingle Bells.”) I get it. These are timeless classics that are practically required to truly get into the “Christmas spirit.” No tree, no living room is going to look quite as beautiful if it isn’t decorated to the Nutcracker Suite. Where is the line drawn between music and noise that feeds into the commercialization of the holiday season? Many Christmas songs were originally written for worship services. Take “Ave Maria,” “Gloria” or “Away in a Manger” as examples. Even the toe-tap-worthy “Go Tell It on a Mountain” was written for church. Multiple variations have been created with the original
hymnal Christmas music, some even impressive. However, at some point, Christmas music became commercialized. Let’s face it. That’s offensive. We live in America, damn it, and we are tolerant of all religions. So what if we fail to recognize any other religious holiday that falls in December? At least we’ve begun to refrain from playing the overtly religious music and instead have encouraged every artist under the planet to make a holiday CD. Even Kenny G has Christmas albums. Actually, he’s got multiple albums filled with Christmas saxophone music. Aside from celebrating the holiday, though, Christmas music has deterred choirs and extensive orchestral arrangements and has mutated to pop beats set to familiar lyrics. I draw the line at Michael Bublé singing “Ave Maria” with what could be a cross between soft jazz and R&B background. Let the music be, people. If you’re going to listen to contemporary Christmas music, try instrumental CDs; piano
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and cello (or the combination of the two) always have good arrangements. And if you’d rather listen to people sing, please refrain from anything done by an artist that also got a song on this year’s NOW (insert number here). This year, when you’re shopping, if you hear Lady Gaga stumbling through a carol that brings horrific images of the costumes she probably has dreamt for it, leave. And convert to a new religion. Christmas music may be mainstream, but that doesn’t mean you need to have poor taste in it. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go kill myself. I just heard Ke$ha’s rendition of “Santa Baby.”
for 20th and 21st-century costumes. Any show staged in an earlier time period requires costume technicians to create a pattern on their own. Watson opened a cupboard crammed with books, flipping through scaled drawings of clothing pieces dating back to the 16th century. Students can create life-size patterns by drawing onto paper lined with inch-by-inch boxes or using projectors. However, some have found the Xerox machine to be far more helpful when blowing up patterns to human proportions. Costumes can also be put together through a method called “draping,” in which technicians pin together pieces of muslin on a mannequin adjusted to fit the measurements of the actors. Then construction begins. Because of the rising cost of fabrics and the shrinking number of fabric stores,
technicians make rough drafts out of the costumes that can be adjusted during actors’ fittings. After yet another round of approval, students begin sewing the final product. Depending on the production, costumes can be pulled from the extensive storage units, and if a show is modern, entire costumes may be bought. In “Killer Joe,” some actors wore clothes straight from their closets. With roughly three weeks left in the semester, students are looking forward to the break. However, designers have already begun to contemplate the boot design for the school’s spring performance of “The Three Musketeers.” “Nothing is rocket science, and we’re just here to have a good time and get it done,” Watson said. KATIENELSON@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Orchestra to celebrate young talent, season SHELBY FLEIG DAILY NEBRASKAN
The approaching holiday season promises its fair share of Christmas music, carolers and Nutcracker dancers. The Lincoln Symphony Orchestra’s annual holiday pops show titled “Deck the Halls” will have all of the above and more. LSO will perform “Deck the Halls” on Dec. 2 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 12th and R Streets, in collaboration with the Lincoln Midwest Ballet Company and Lincoln Suzuki Talent Education Association. “It will be both religious and secular carols all clothed in the splendor of symphonic sound,” said Tyler White, LSO conductor. “Deck the Halls” will feature classical and popular holiday favorites. Dancers will perform the Nutcracker in the second half of the show, as they have for last several years. About 80 children ranging in age from 4 to 13 will play violins and violas in the first half, led by Donna Carnes, a Suzuki strings instructor. Carnes is most looking forward to her students’ chance to perform on stage with professionals and the fun of watching people get into the holiday spirit. “These kids have been in the audience at the Lied Center and now, they’re on stage playing with professionals,” Carnes said. “That’s magical.” “Deck the Halls” will be much different from shows both LSO and Suzuki students have played earlier this year. Carnes said this show is meant to celebrate the season with the community.
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“Because there are such a broad range of community groups, it should be great fun,” Carnes said. White said the mix of classical and popular music will show LSO members’ personalities, especially in the second half of the show. “You will see the combination of first-rate, serious musicians who are also enjoying the holidays,” White said. Lincoln residents and students can take advantage of recently lowered ticket prices if attending the show. Ticket prices are now $10 for students and $25 for general admission. White said the lowered ticket prices are a reflection of the LSO brand because members want to emphasize that LSO belongs to the people of Lincoln, so tickets should be accessible for everyone. White said the show is particularly appealing to students looking forward to the holiday break.
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“Before students head into the final slug of exams, this show can remind them of life and happiness,” he said. White said the show will be a premier of sorts, as LSO will play “In the Bleak Midwinter” for the first time with a soloist. However, he is most excited to see the reactions of audience members watching such a large group of young students perform with the orchestra. Tickets are still available and can be purchased on the LSO website, www.lincolnsymphony.org, or by calling (402) 476-2211.
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Husker freshman Kokesh aims to fill large shoes Zach Tegler Daily nebraskan
For now, Nebraska wrestler Robert Kokesh’s story is firmly linked to that of former teammate Jordan Burroughs’. After all, the only defeat of Kokesh’s collegiate campaign was at the hands of the twotime national champion in last season’s Red-White WrestleOffs. And eight months after Burroughs capped his NU career with an NCAA title in the 165-pound weight class, Kokesh has stepped into the vacancy left at that division. On top of that, Kokesh spent his redshirt season practicing with and learning from Burroughs, who has also claimed gold medals at the World Wrestling Championships and the Pan American Games. “The best situation in the world you could have is have a world champion to train with and wrestle with and get advice from,” NU wrestling coach Mark Manning said. “Robert has really taken advantage of that opportunity.” Kokesh, now a redshirt freshman, compiled a record
of 34-1 in his first year on the squad. The Wagner, S.D., native is 4-0 thus far in the 2011-2012 season and ranked No. 10 in the country at 165 pounds. He attributed much of this success to his coaching staff. “They take a lot of time with me,” Kokesh said. “I give a lot of my success to them so far.” He also said his experience training with Burroughs was valuable. “Getting to work out with him last year really improved my wrestling,” Kokesh said. In particular, Burroughs helped the three-time South Dakota high school champion with his footwork. “That’s where I’ve always needed work and that’s where he is best,” Kokesh said. “Jordan Burroughs is probably the best on his feet that I’ve ever wrestled in my life.” Manning alluded to the fact that Kokesh also garnered a mental edge from his work with Burroughs. “He knows he’s not going to wrestle anyone tougher than that,” Manning said. “Jordan has really done a good job of
mentoring Robert.” But now, although the two are still working together, Burroughs’ decorated career at Nebraska has faded, and Kokesh knows he has big shoes to fill. “No one can fill Jordan Burroughs’ spot,” Kokesh said. “There is some pressure, but I just go out there and do my thing, wrestle my style and try to control the match the best I can.” Despite outside expectations, Manning said the coaches haven’t put any extra pressure on Kokesh. “I think people expect a lot out of him because he had a great redshirt freshman year. But Robert’s just a different competitor than Jordan was,” he said. It’s time for Kokesh to make his own Husker history, and Manning said he has two important traits going for him. “His heart and his competitiveness. He hates to lose. He’s a go-getter. He’s got a neversay-die attitude. He’s going to wrestle hard for seven minutes and he’s going to fight you. That’s a great asset to have,”
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Taxing Big Ten prepared NU for pressures of tournament
ROBBY KORTH The Big Ten put eight teams into the NCAA tournament for volleyball this season, and that’s one more than the Pac-12. The difference: Nebraska. By adding NU, the Big Ten placed itself as the premier volleyball conference in the nation. Every week when reporters asked for anything unique, just anything about Purdue’s Big Ten Player of the year Ariel Turner or Penn State’s eight straight conference titles or Illinois undefeated run, the answer was always the same. Every week is tough in the Big Ten. And the Huskers came through it all with a 17-3 conference record and the first Big Ten conference championship in the history of Husker athletics. For the first time in program history the squad also got used to a back-to-back match format in the regular season. The Huskers played Friday nights then turned
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Outside hitter Hannah Werth celebrates a kill during a match earlier this season. The Huskers take on Jackson State Thursday night in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
Shot at title begins in friendly confines SEAN WHALEN DAILY NEBRASKAN
Perhaps the greatest strength of the Nebraska volleyball team lies in the fact that they knew exactly what to prepare for this week. In what Hannah Werth called the most exciting and most stressful time of the year, the Huskers have a lot of experience. Eight years in a row, coach John Cook’s team has found itself at home hosting the first two rounds of the tournament, and NU has never lost. This, of course, is the polar opposite of their opponent Thursday night, Jackson State, who is making its first-ever tournament appearance. “We’re all swamped with school. We all have finals, we have presentations and papers,” Werth said. “I’ve worked hard this semester knowing that this time would come.” For the Huskers to get to Hawaii, they need wins against the Tigers and the winner of the Thursday afternoon match between Wichita State and Kansas State. A key to booking their tickets could be success in set one: The Huskers have struggled opening matches up, losing eight of their last 11 set ones, winning only one in the six times they faced teams who qualified for the NCAA Tournament. After the Wisconsin game – another time NU lost its first set – Cook said “It wears me out” about the team’s performance in the first sets. For Werth, what needs to happen is more of a mindset as opposed to actual tactics to have earlier success. “We’ve had a trend where
we’re not as aggressive in set one,” Werth said. “One thing we’ve been working on is really focusing on each point. It’s something we’ve been working on and mentally, entering the gym every day.” Taking the first set will be expected against Jackson State. While the Tigers went undefeated in conference play out of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, their RPI is only 217, and they appear out-matched against the No. 2 Huskers. Christine Edwards has averaged 4.22 kills per set for the Tigers, but has yet to face a team from a volleyball power conference. The match with JSU will be the easiest NU will have as they face a brutal West Regional. While the team dislikes looking ahead, they are aware of how tough the competition will be, as the top three teams in the AVCA coaches poll could all be at the Stan Sheriff Center Dec. 9. “Like a lot of people thought last year in our regional, ‘that was the final four right there’,” Cook said. “And this is going to be a pre-Final Four in Hawaii. But, you have to beat the best to get to San Antonio and that’s what we’ll have to do.” While Werth likes the idea of going to Hawaii, calling it “a little vacation,” she knows full well that this region will pose a stiff test even to a team as talented as Nebraska. But, that’s not to say the Huskers won’t be able to pass. “Our team is going to rise to the occasion and produce
around quickly with a Saturday game six times during Big Ten play. And after all that, Nebraska earned its No. 2 overall seed in the tournament. Plus this is a team that performed well through adversity. Senior middle blocker Brooke Delano, a former All-American, saw limited time at the beginning of the year because of a shoulder injury, yet through the month of October the Huskers were 18-2. NU had to turn to backup setter and former walk-on Bridgette Root while Lauren Cook served her highly publicized two-game suspension. And the Huskers handily beat Michigan and Michigan State with Cook on the bench. But the most telling stat is this: Nebraska has dropped the first set in 13 matches this season. In those matches the Huskers are 10-3. And NU received some adversity directly from the NCAA tournament selection committee. Nebraska was placed in the Honolulu regional, but it’s going to be tough for fans to travel and support the Huskers that play well in front of a home crowd. After all, NU is undefeated at home. So based on that, it won’t be tough for the Huskers to
advance to the Sweet 16 in Honolulu. All they have to do is beat Jackson State on Thursday and turn around and beat most likely Kansas State, but maybe Wichita State, on Friday both at the NU Coliseum. And the Huskers have always performed well at home against opponents like the Tigers, Shockers and Wildcats. But a Sweet 16 trip is expected, and chances are that based on Nebraska’s No. 2 overall seed in the tourney they should meet up with Texas in the title game. After a year of going to the Coliseum and getting to know fans I know expectations are high. Every one of the 4,030 fans, that make the trips from cities across the state wants the Huskers to bring back their first national title since 2006, and you can bet they’ll travel to San Antonio, Texas for the Final Four. And even though NU might have to beat some of the top teams in the nation, No. 1 Southern California, No. 3 Hawaii and No. 10 California, it can do it. Nebraska can come through the adversity for itself and a dedicated fan base and for the first time since 2006 bring a national title back to Lincoln.
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great effort, great results (in the tournament),” Werth said. “We worked so hard; not just this season, but all summer, all last spring. We’ve been preparing for a very long time, we’re mentally ready, we’re confident.” Part of that confidence stems from the fact that, at least in the second round, the Huskers are guaranteed to know their opponents. “We know K-State very well, and we know Wichita State very well, we played them out in Grand Island in the spring (NU won 3-2),” Cook said. “It helps us. It’ll certainly help our preparation, we won’t have to wait for the tapes to come in.” But unlike teams just happy to have reached the tournament, this team has a single purpose: win. After all, nothing less is expected from Cook, the players, or the fans. “My expectations are greatness out of this team,” Werth said. “It’s the goal every year (at Nebraska) to win a national championship and go to the Final Four. “Unfortunately, I haven’t done that yet. I believe that we can, we have such great potential on this team. If there’s a time we can do it while I’m on this team, it’s this year.” SEANWHALEN@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011
OFFENS I V E LY IN E P T
Early season basketball lacks true excitement
DOUG BURGER
KYLE BRUGGEMAN | DAILY NEBRASKAN
Senior Bo Spencer and the Huskers produced a poor offensive night Wednesday against Wake Forest in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
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Nebraska entered Wednesday’s contest against Wake Forest with a chance to score 75 points or more in four straight games, something it hadn’t done it 10 years. It quickly became apparent that 10-year streak would survive the night. Neither team could find the bottom of the basket early on, but the Demon Deacons got hot after intermission and C.J. Harris made a layup with four seconds left to down the Huskers 55-53. NU had the ball in a tie game with 20 seconds left but a Bo Spencer shot careened wildly off the glass and was collected by Wake Forest. Harris scored on the ensuing possession and Spencer’s half-court attempt at the buzzer wasn’t close. The Huskers outrebounded Wake Forest (33-30), forced more turnovers (10-8) and
scored 10 more points in the paint (30-20). But none of those numbers could overcome the Demon Deacons one statistical advantage – shooting percentage. Wake Forest shot 44.7 percent, including 50 percent in the second half, compared to just 38.6 overall for NU. NU coach Doc Sadler told the team at halftime and during several timeouts that he didn’t even recognize what NU was doing on the court. The message didn’t get across, and for that, Sadler blamed himself. “It’s solely on me. I put the most selfish offensive basketball team on the court that I think I’ve put on the court in a long, long time,” Sadler said. “We had no respect for the opponent. I’ve not seen that team tonight, and that’s totally on me. That’s not on them. If you let guys just do what they want, that’s what they’re going to do. They’ve got to do what we want them to do.” Prior to the game, the Huskers identified Wake Forest’s
WAKE FOREST 55, NEBRASKA 53 1st WF NU
25 26 WF 44.7 Field goals (%) 6-for-18 3-pointers 30 Rebounds 11 Assists 10 Turnovers TOP PERFORMERS
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55 53 NU 38.6 6-for-23 33 14 8
NU: Bo Spencer (13 points, four rebounds, three assists) WF: Chase Fisher (13 points, 3-for-5 3-pointers) SOURCE: HUSKERS.COM
post defense to be its weak link and planned to exploit it with a healthy dose of post touches for Jorge Brian Diaz and Brandon Ubel. But NU quickly got away from that game plan and launched 23 3-pointers, only six of which went in. The plan worked when NU went to it. Diaz and Ubel combined to score 16 points on 50
percent shooting, but Sadler said the passes inside were few and far between. “We were told that their defense was the weakest part of their game and their post defense was weak,” point guard
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It’s Dec. 1. March is a long way off. The 8,104 fans in attendance Wednesday night scurried out of the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Within five minutes of Nebraska guard Bo Spencer’s desperation heave clanking off the back rim as time expired, the seats were empty. They wanted to get out of the building. Some might have wondered why they spent two hours watching a less-thanthrilling offensive horror show. The Huskers fell to 4-2 on the year with a 55-53 loss to Wake Forest. It wasn’t a game to be proud of. Nebraska shot 38.6 percent from the field and 26.1 percent from beyond the arc. But how much does the single loss matter? How much does the poor shooting matter? How much does ugly performance in front of a national audience really matter? It doesn’t. There was a lot of anticipation and excitement leading up to the game Wednesday night. At least I thought so. Two giant Big Ten/ACC Challenge stickers were pasted on the floor Wednesday night. Who knows where they’ll be the rest of the season? Maybe I got caught up in the Big Ten-ACC, Duke-Ohio State, Wisconsin-UNC talk. Maybe ESPN promos all week previewing powerhouse showdowns got me too excited. Turns out NebraskaWake Forest doesn’t have the same ring to it. It’s safe to say that until the BCS national title trophy is raised, basketball is little brother. College basketball doesn’t go down without a fight, though. There’s a blueprint for college basketball before
conference play begins. It employs a technique similar to any roadside fruit stand. Or as Dwight Schrute would say, “the money beets.” College basketball promotes and promotes and then promotes some more marquee matchups — like Tuesday night’s game between Duke and Ohio State — in order to drum up excitement for every Big Ten/ACC Challenge game. For the most part, it works. People turn on their TVs and analyze what a blowout win for the Buckeyes against the Blue Devils means. All these preseason tournaments consist of five or six mediocre teams. What the tournament organizers hope is that the two or three high-profile teams make it to the championship game so logos can be plastered everywhere, advertisers drool and the most money can be made. College basketball got what it wanted at the Maui Invitational this year. Duke and Kansas — two traditional national powers — played in a stellar championship game. But do Duke and Kansas need any more publicity? Don’t they have enough already? ESPN and college basketball promoters shove these matchups down our throats week after week to try to get us excited for basketball, but when the real excitement in March begins, these games in November and December aren’t even a blip on the radar. Every person in the United States with access to ESPNU Wednesday night had the opportunity to watch Nebraska’s matchup with Wake Forest. I doubt many took advantage of it. Others maybe found Minnesota against Virginia Tech to be more interesting. Most probably tuned into No. 9 Wisconsin taking on No. 5 North Carolina. College basketball will have its time and, like always, it will be spectacular. That time just isn’t now.
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Turnovers, poor shooting lead to NU’s first loss ANDREW WARD DAILY NEBRASKAN
Nebraska came into Wednesday’s game against Georgia Tech leading the Big Ten in scoring offense at 78.3 points on average per game. The Huskers could only muster 57 points, as it was defeated 73-57 for its first loss this season. Georgia Tech dominated Nebraska Wednesday to improve to 5-2 on the season despite a late charge by the Huskers. The game was the last of a three-game, nine-day road trip for NU. NU shot only 32 percent from the field, including just 25 percent from three-point range. The Huskers came into the game second in the Big Ten shooting 35 percent from behind the arc. “Didn’t play the way we are capable of tonight,” coach Connie Yori said. “We just weren’t as sharp as we needed to be.” The youth of Nebraska showed in the early going of this game especially,
according to Yori. The pressure from Georgia Tech caused problems all night for Nebraska as it committed a season-high 26 turnovers. The Yellow Jackets turned those turnovers into 28 points. “Little bit of a deer-inthe-headlights look tonight from our guys,” Yori said. “We did not handle the pressure that their athletes brought very well, which can be expected from such a young team.” Leading scorer Jordan Hooper struggled shooting the ball throughout, going only 35 percent from the field. The length of Georgia Tech gave the 6-foot-2inch sophomore problems, as the starting front court for the Yellow Jackets is all above 6-feet-4 inches tall. That height dominated in the paint for the duration of the matchup. Georgia Tech outscored the Huskers 5222 in the paint while causing Nebraska to miss a lot of easy shots in the lane with six blocks as a team. Despite the struggles
Hooper finished with a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. “Jordan struggled on this road trip from the perimeter,” Yori said. “Though she was able to take advantage of some mismatches in the second half tonight.” Lindsey Moore was consistent once again scoring 16 points along with four assists and five steals. The junior was the catalyst in a late comeback for Nebraska hitting four shots from three-point range in the second half. The comeback came after the final media time out, when the Huskers went on an 8-0 run to cut the lead to 12. Georgia Tech’s Tyaunna Marshall proved to be too much though, as she finished the night with gamehighs in 28 points and 13 boards. Moore said that the comeback after being down by so many points can be attributed to the Huskers resiliency as a team. “It really isn’t something you can coach, we just
keep playing until the final whistle,” Moore said. Problems with rebounding hurt the Huskers the whole game as they were outrebounded by the Yellow Jackets by 22, allowing them to record 54 rebounds. Nebraska had a rebounding margin of 10 before the Wednesday’s game, second in the Big Ten. A bright spot for Nebraska came from freshman Hailie Sample, who had nine points and provided some nice passing and defense with four assists and a couple of steals. Despite the defeat, Yori said this game still had some optimism. The Huskers’ youth will be better from this defeat, according to Yori. “This is a great learning experience for us,” Yori said. “That was an example of an extremely veteran team, against a young team like us. However, there were lots of positives to take out of this game.” ANDREWWARD@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Nebraska’s Jordan Hooper finished with a double-double,