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Robinson does more with less Outside hitter good for more than kills

10 Edible car race set for Tuesday Students built food vehicles with new twist

3 Quick, to the Popemobile!

Pope Francis’ charity inspires Vatican City

4 Music duets muddle messages Take a look at the 5 worst music collaborations

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Local sub shop Doozy’s is committed to its friendly atmosphere of memorized orders and fresh ingredients in oven-baked sandwiches despite the constant competition with surrounding chain restaurants photo by jennifer gotrik

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the garden’s growing Sheldon commemorates 50 years with new new sculpture, ‘Sanctuary’ story by Kelli Rollin photos by Stacie Hecker

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he Sheldon Museum of Art is celebrating its 50th anniversary by bringing more sculptures to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

To commemorate 50 years, Sheldon Director Jorge Daniel Veneciano said he and his colleagues want to make a lot of changes, which include revamping the museum’s sculpture garden. The Sheldon also aims to increase the diversity of art on campus.

Various people donated some of the artwork, but other funds and artwork came from the Sheldon’s “Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years” campaign aimed to collect 50 works of art in honor of the museum’s anniversary.

A new sculpture on the west side of the College of Business Administration was partially installed two weeks ago as part of the Sheldon’s changes to its sculptures and sculpture garden. The sculpture, “Sanctuary,” was a gift.

Veneciano said the sculpture, which he describes as “white surrealist trees,” will be finished when the special-ordered white gravel arrives and is added to the base. He said the final touches should be completed within the next week.

Another change the museum is making A new sculpture, “Sanctuary,” outside the College of Business Administration is part of the Sheldon Museum of Art’s 50th anis to move the “Birth of Venus” sculpture, niversary celebration. The piece is by New York sculptor Helen Evans Ramsaran and resembles a grove of trees. which some people refer to as “the boot,” on the grass hill near the Nebraska Union.

He said sculptures provide learning “It’s a real gift to the campus and the students to be able to walk along and see opportunities to the community and stuthese important works of art right there on dents, so it makes sense for a university to the walkway or be able to sit near it,” Vene- have them.

Because it’s not obvious what a sculpciano said. “We hope it’s inspirational.”

Abby Christensen, a sophomore ac- ture is at first glance, he said, the artwork counting and finance major, said she walks provides intellectual challenges.

“That’s the right spirit for

by Architecture Hall frea university campus,” Venequently and likes to look It enhances ciano said. at the sculptures near it.

He said sculptures such Christensen said she did the quality as the steel tree near Andrews a scavenger hunt that involved taking pictures of life for students Hall catch the attention of students, which is a goal of havof the sculptures on and faculty and ing the artwork. campus.

“It enhances the quality of “I think they’re a re- everybody here.” life for students and faculty ally nice thing to have jorge daniel and everybody here,” he said. because it makes the The artist of the newly campus look more gorveneciano added sculpture by CBA, geous in a sense,” Chrissheldon director Helen Evans Ramsaran, will tensen said. “Then it’s speak at the Sheldon on Jan. not just buildings.”

23, as part of UNL’s Martin Veneciano said the sculptures are an extension of the museum’s function allow- Luther King Jr. Week. Ramsaran is Africaning the Sheldon to bring teaching opportu- American and cites African trees as the inspiration for her sculpture. Ann Gradnities and inspiration beyond its walls.

Veneciano said the museum’s staff is wohl, public relations and marketing manalso looking to add more artwork on both ager at the Sheldon, said she hopes to have East and City campuses, especially with Charles Ahovissi, founder of African Culthe space that the new master plan will in- ture Connection in Omaha, perform with clude. Some smaller pieces will be added to his band at the event.

Students walk near the “Sanctuary” sculpture. The piece is part of a larger effort to news@ expand the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s sculpture collection. the sculpture garden, but not until spring dailynebraskan.com because of the cold weather and snow.

UNL plans steps for anti-intolerance campaign Colleen Fell DN

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln administration has unveiled a list of initiatives planned as part of the “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever!” campaign.

The list includes educational workshops, upgraded incident-reporting software, social justice brown bag discussions and training for Association of Students of the University of Nebraska members.

Launched Nov. 25, by UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and other university leaders, the anti-intolerance campaign was the administration’s response to a series of racially charged controversies on campus.

Juan Franco, vice chancellor at UNL, said educating students on racial and discrimination issues is a top priority for administration.

“We want to make things right,” he said. “There’s a lot of momentum

behind this issue right now with students, and we need to take advantage of it.”

Franco said the campaign is important because UNL still faces racial incidents, even recently.

Racial graffiti written on a restroom stall door in Westbrook Music Building was reported to UNLPD Wednesday night. Of the incident, Franco said he was “most disappointed.”

The university already holds multiple events to help spread awareness of the issue on campus such as town hall meetings, small group discussions and black and Latino leadership symposiums. Still, Franco said, the university can and has plans to do more.

A plan to purchase new incident reporting software is currently in the works. Even though the university already has this type of software, Franco said, the new software will be

more comprehensive, making it easier to report incidents. Franco said there will be a link to the system on the front page of UNL’s website.

“For example, if I’m walking down the sidewalk, and I see a racial slur, I can report it right away,” Franco.

The software will also offer a function that enables users to see if the incidents they reported have been given attention by either administration or police.

There are also plans for a diversity retreat with the Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services at UNL. The event, called Colors of UNL, is designed to duplicate Colors of KU at the University of Kansas.

Colors of KU is a three-day retreat with a program to encourage students to foster respect and appreciation for other cultures.

Franco said administration plans not only to educate current students,

Events and initiatives being planned for the “Not here, Not Now, Not Ever!” campaign • Educational workshops • Efforts to ensure diversity on committees • Provide opportunities for students from different groups to engage with each other • Purchase upgraded incident-reporting software • Provide sensitivity training to ASUN members • ”Colors of UNL” event • Social justice brown bag discussions but also to get the ball rolling with incoming freshman. A diversity workshop for all incoming freshmen and transfer students is currently being considered in order to provide upfront education.

Students can expect to see multiple tolerance-related workshops in the near future, Franco said.

“Obviously we want to educate

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On campus what: Employer in Residence Hyland Software when: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. where: College of Business Administration, atrium more information: Hyland Software employees will meet with students to discuss opportunities at their company.

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Mountains and Ghosts: New Ikat Tapestries and Prints when: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. where: Robert Hillstad Textiles Gallery, Home Economics Building

IN LINCOLN what: Nebraska Wesleyan University Elder Gallery Exhibit when: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. where: Elder Gallery, 50th Street and Huntington Ave.

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Safe Kids Child Passenger Car Seat Inspection Event when: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Anderson Ford, Mercury and Mazda, 2500 Wildcat Drive

what: Nebraska Wesleyan University Women’s Choir, Men’s Glee, Jazz Concert when: 7:30 p.m. where: O’Donnell Auditorium, 50th Street and Huntington Ave.

campaign: from 1 students about the issues,” Franco said, “but we also want to break down stereotypes and ensure more interactions between groups.”

Franco said workshops would unite the UNL campus.

“When people are around each other and learn about each other, they get along,” he said.

Eric Reznicek, ASUN president and a senior finance and marketing major, said while ASUN is not very involved with the campaign, members are making their own plans to help combat discrimination on campus.

“We’re hoping to be very actionoriented,” Reznicek said.

“We’re delighted with how ASUN is responding to the incident,” Franco said.

The campaign will stick around for as long as it is needed, Franco said.

“If we feel that we are making a significant impact, we will feel successful,” he said. “It probably won’t be called a campaign forever, but definitely through next semester.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Humanities faculty optimistic amid global funding decrease gabrielle lazaro dn Humanities are facing funding decreases and political criticism across the globe, but whether the humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have been devalued is up for debate.

Stephen Goddard, interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, said there’s been no intent at UNL to decrease funding in the humanities.

“I am very optimistic about the future of humanities at UNL,” he wrote in an email.

“Our departments are working very hard to recruit new students, and they are helping students understand the many and varied career paths available to students of the humanities. The humanities are critical to the College of Arts & Sciences and to UNL.” At UNL, funding decreases vary by department, and the humanities haven’t seen a particular decrease because budget cuts have happened across many areas, according to Department of History chairman William Thomas.

“I think the humanities are highly valued, both in Nebraska and across the United States,” Thomas wrote in an email. “I don’t think that the humanities has been devalued at all, and every day I see students and people in the community of Lincoln who love history, literature, philosophy and languages, and they always want to learn more about these subjects.”

Thomas said that for some time at the national level, there has been a focus on the sciences and mathematics, and some

further hurt the humanities.” have suggested that the humaniThe humanities are importies have suffered as a result. tant because they help see the “I don’t see it that way, and in fact see many ways that the full range of human life and humanities have been valued,” experience, said Thomas, who wrote in an email that the huhe said. manities help people imagine In particular, the English department has been lucky be- what they do not know.

Belasco said the humanities cause of loyal alumni and donors that help keep many of its teach exactly what it means to be a human in the important projects contemporary afloat in creative world, along I am very writing and the with problem digital humanities, optimistic solving in the said department largest sense. chairwoman Susan about the future “It helps us Belasco. move beyond “ N a t i o n a l l y, of humanities at facts and figit’s always at risk UNL.” ures, in other for funding,” she stephen goddard words – the said. “There’s very interm dean of college of imagination,” few external fundarts and sciences she said. “These ing possibilities. are important When it decreases tools for not just of course there’s an social understanding but self impact.” understanding as well.”

External funding has always Belasco argued that those in been problematic, Belasco said. the humanities could do a better “Many politicians are not job at educating as to why the persuaded that the humanities provide the kind of experi- humanities are important and how they can prepare one for a ence that is necessary in today’s world,” she said. “There has just career.

“Cultivation in the imaginever been the kind of funding nation and critical thinking are that there has been for the scicrucial life skills,” she said. “If ences.” you’d prepared for a very narIn fact, Gov. Rick Scott of row job five years ago, you’d Florida convened a task force last year suggesting liberal arts be out of luck. Having a broad and social science students pay background in the humanihigher tuition fees, according to ties makes you quicker on your feet. I think people don’t always a New York Times article. understand the humanities are “That seems nonsensical to me,” Belasco said. “It obviously an important background for costs more to outfit a lab for sci- everything. We’re getting too wrapped in preparing for one ence than it does for a humanities education – the humanities career – occupations, jobs are education is fairly low cost. I changing too quickly to prepare for a single career.” can’t imagine why that would be news@ a solution, certainly that would dailynebraskan.com

Research to determine if remote sensing can measure biodiversity Melissa Allen dn While most of his peers are making plans for retirement, Art Zygielbaum is in the beginning stages of his third career.

After decades working in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerospace Advisory Panel, interrupted by a brief stint at Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, he’s now a research associate professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies. He courtesy photo is currently working on a new Art Zygielbaum, a research associate professor, is pictured $2 million project to determine working on another project during his time at the Center for whether remote sensing technolAdvanced Land Management Information Technologies. ogy can measure biodiversity of a region.

Remote sensing is a technique of measuring landforms by using will be able to tell if remote sensing systems for spacecraft and electromagnetic waves from an ing can be used as a biodiversity testing Albert Einstein’s Theory aircraft or satellite. of Relativity. indicator for the future.

“Every plant characteristic “I was pursuing a Ph.D., but Zygielbaum’s role will be has different levels of light re- comparing and testing calibra- I was also playing with a toy on flected from it,” Zygielbaum said. tions of the instruments and data Mars called the Viking,” Zygiel“Different plant life cycles reflect used in the research to show how baum said. “I ended up preferdifferently, and different levels of accurately remote sensing pre- ring it (to) working on the disserhealth of the plants reflect too. All dicts the already-known biodi- tation, so I quit that. But I always these signals put together have felt bad about it.” versity. spectral differences.”

Then a chance to develop John Gamon, an adjunct It’s as simple faculty member ways to use NASA technolas looking at a of the School of ogy and education through UNL bouquet of flowWe were Natural Resources, came up in 1998. Until 2001, Zygers. If you have ielbaum was the research and deapproached Zygreally a bouquet of velopment director of Nebraska ielbaum about the healthy daisies, surprised when Educational Telecommunications project. then the whole “It was a dark before he began working as a bouquet will be we learned that and stormy night,” special government employee for yellow. But if we actually got NASA’s Aerospace Safety AdviZygielbaum said. you bring in a sory Panel.

“No, I’m kidding. variety of flowart zygielbaum He returned to UNL to be the John came to me research associate professor ers, the signals three weeks before director of the National Center for and colors bethe proposal was Information Technology in Educome more comdue. It was last min- cation for three years. plex, Zygielbaum said. Remote ute, but we thought we ought to “I decided I would retire in sensing may use these differences go for this. We turned it in and 2005 and finish my Ph.D. at the in plant colors to tell how much ripe old age of 58,” Zygielbaum thought that it was a good exerbiodiversity is present in a given cise for next year to try again. We said. “I finished that in 2009, area. stayed on and found out I could were really surprised when we The National Science Foundateach. So that’s career number learned that we actually got fundtion is funding the project, which ing for it.” three.” will begin in May, and will last Zygielbaum’s past experiencZygielbaum’s experience in four years. The University of Mines and expertise make him highly remote sensing can be traced back nesota is leading the team of re- to his first career. After earning a skilled in his field, said John Carsearchers from Appalachian State bachelor’s degree in physics from roll, the director of UNL’s School University, the University of Wis- the University of California at Los of Natural Resources. consin and UNL. They will use Angeles in 1968 and his master’s “You have someone who has remote sensing to measure the in electrical engineering from the huge technical skills that he’s debiodiversity of Cedar Creek Ecoveloped throughout his career,” University of Southern California system Science Reserve in Min- seven years later, Zygielbaum be- Carroll said. “He’s one of the nesota. The biodiversity of the remost phenomenal people you gan working on his Ph.D. disserserve has already been measured. will ever meet in your life. When tation while working as an engiBy comparing the informa- neer for the Telecommunications most people are retiring, he’s just tion gathered from remote sens- Research Section at the Jet Pro- revamping his life.” ing to the information received pulsion Laboratory. Zygielbaum news@ without remote sensing, the team spent a decade developing trackdailynebraskan.com

research roundup Half of Americans spend more than one-third of income on rent, study finds

About 50 percent of renters pay 35 percent of their monthly income toward rent, according to a new study published by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Compared to 1960, the percentage of renters has nearly doubled. Some of the factors driving the increase include the foreclosures after 2008 and the Great Recession. Millions were displaced from their homes alongside high rates of sustained unemployment. Home ownership became risky, and people began turning to renting, according to the study. The largest increase in percentage of monthly income spent on rent is with those in their 30s, though most age groups experienced about a 4 percent increase.

The study estimates that any further increases are likely to be small, and the growth of renters is likely to slow.

Nebraska receives D on state ranking of toughest gun control

A state-by-state analysis has ranked California, Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut as the toughest states on gun control laws. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gave each state an A- grade. Seven of the states with the highest grades also have the lowest gun death rates across the country.

In contrast, Nebraska received a D. Each state was awarded points on topics such as background checks and access to firearms, regulation of sales and transfers and gun-owner responsibilities.

Fear of loneliness causes unhappy couples to stay together, study says

Engagement season is upon us. But according to a new study, it’s just another symptom of a much darker truth. According to researchers from the University of Toronto, the fear of being single is what prompts less-than-happy couples to stay together.

The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, has found that loneliness can be a powerful factor in the decision between splitting or sticking.

“Those with stronger fears about being single are willing to settle for less in their relationships,” said lead author Stephanie Spielmann, postdoctoral researcher in the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychology in a press release. “Sometimes they stay in relationships they aren’t happy in, and sometimes they want to date people who aren’t very good for them.”

Instagram offers highest investment returns for businesses

If you’re looking to kick off your business, don’t look to Twitter to gain followers.

SumAll, a business analytics firm studied Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and confirmed that Instagram was the social medium that would give business owners more return on their investment. The firm found that Instagram was the source between a 1.5 to 3 percent revenue gain, while business in the U.K. could boast at least a 3.6 percent gain. Another study “How Top Brand Marketers Use Instagram” found that Instagram’s 40 million pictures a day is what keeps it the fastest growing of the top social networks.

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Students to compete in edible vehicle competition Tyler Williams DN Twenty-six teams comprised of a freshman class of biological systems and agricultural engineering students will face off in the annual Incredible, Edible Vehicle Competition on Tuesday.

The racing event will take place in the Great Plains Room of the Nebraska East Union from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The students are tasked with constructing cars using only edible materials. The teams will then roll the culinary creations down a sloped track.

The cars will have an initial run down the track as an elimination round, and the vehicles that survive will move on to a second round. The vehicle that travels the farthest while staying in one piece will be the winner.

The teams must also make a poster explaining how they assembled their vehicles. To add an extra challenge to this year’s competition, the vehicles are limited to containing below 1,300 calories. The winners of the competition will be given University Bookstore and Dairy Store coupons.

“(The competition) is an experience for first-year students to get the feel of engineering design, and do it in a creative way,” said Evan Curtis, student services coordinator for the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, who organized the event.

The competition also serves as an important introduction to building scientific posters and giving presentations because the poster and presentation are the only graded parts of the class event.

“We were looking for a project (where the students would learn about the design process),” said Dennis Schulte, biological systems engineering professor. “There is nothing more realistic in engineering than working with restraints.”

The cars will be judged on creativity, the length traveled and straightness of the vehicle’s course, with points being deducted for breaking apart, hitting rails and careening off course.

The Edible Vehicle Competition is part of E-Day, an annual day for engineers. A number of alumni from major Nebraska corporations will attend

if you go what: The Incredible, Edible Vehicle Competition when: Tuesday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. where: Great Plains Room, Nebraska East Union

to show students what professional presentations look like, Schulte said.

“I’m definitely excited to be in the competition and see what everyone will come up with,” said Tori Bart, a freshman biological systems engineering major who will compete with three other group members. Bart said this is a project she and her classmates have been looking forward to all semester. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Judges examine student-made vehicles at last year’s Incredible, Edible Vehicle Competition in the Nebraska East Union.

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big ten news briefs Bi-pedal robot takes 15 steps at UM

After several attempts, MARLO, a third-generation bipedal robot, took 15 steps on the University of Michigan’s campus Saturday.

The robot is one of three in the “Assume the Robot is a Sphere” series designed by a professor at Oregon State University. A team at UM is working on stabilizing the robots on uneven ground.

MARLO is one of only two bipedal robot models in the world, meaning it walks like a human – the heel strikes the ground first, then the toe rolls forward to balance weight.

Researchers said MARLO’s campus walkabouts will become more frequent as testing continues.

Minnesota’s Physics Force to showcase Physics Circus

The Physics Force at the University of Minnesota will present the “Physics Circus” on Thursday. The show is full of physics-based acts that combine science and slapstick humor.

The show includes large-scale demonstrations like dropping one of the members 20 feet while shooting a ball at him. The act demonstrates the effect of gravity on projectile objects. A member will also propel himself across the stage in a cart using the force of a fire extinguisher.

The Physics Force is an outreach program of the university’s College of Science and Engineering. In addition to performances around Minnesota, the group has performed at Disney’s Epcot Center and various television shows.

Program teaches history through quilters Tyler williams dn The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s International Quilt Study Center & Museum is partnering with Nebraska Educational Television and the Nebraska State Historical Society to bring Nebraska history to life for children in the classroom using the work of famous quilters.

The series, called “Stories from Nebraska Quilters,” uses online lesson plans and interactive modules to teach history to elementary teachers. The first module, titled “Grace Snyder: Tiny Stitches, Big Life,” focuses on the life and quilts of Nebraskan Grace Snyder and is available for free on the series website at http://nequilters.org/.

Snyder, who died in 1982 at 100 years old, was known for her intricate quilts that were often composed of thousands of tiny pieces.

A quilt she completed in 1943, “Flower Basket Petit Point,” used more than 87,000 tiny triangles to create a pattern of colorful floral bouquets.

Patricia Crews, recently retired founding director of the quilt center, said Snyder’s quilts are an ideal educational tool because they illustrate the history and settling of Nebraska.

“She humanizes the pioneer spirit,” Crews said. “She brings growing up on the plains to life for kids.”

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Quilter Grace Snyder’s “Flower Basket Petit Point” is famous for its integration of thousands of tiny pieces.

On the website, instructors can access lesson plans and modules based off Nebraska’s history education requirements. NET provided the visual images and audio

recordings used for the modules.

“This site is about people, quilts and Nebraskan history,” said Chet Kincaid, senior producer at NET. Snyder’s personal history de-

picts pioneer life. Born in 1882, she moved to a homestead in Custer County with her family, including nine siblings, when she was 3 years old. From an early age, she began sewing together small pieces of fabric.

As she grew older, she quilted to pass the time while tending to her family’s livestock. After marrying her husband Albert Snyder, who was also a small part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, Snyder was left with plenty of time to practice her quilting while raising her four children. She began to enter county fairs and win numerous awards, eventually becoming nationally recognized for the complexity of her quilting style. Snyder’s talent was recognized first by the Quilters Hall of Fame in Arlington, Va., in 1980 and again by the Nebraska Quilters Hall of Fame in 1986.

NET and the quilt center hope Snyder’s life will captivate and motivate children to learn and explore more into the rich history of Nebraska’s founding, settling and growth as a state. Educators across the state are encouraged to utilize and modify the lesson plans and modules for their classrooms.

The next part of the educational series will probably focus on Ernest B. Haight, a farmer known for dramatic Depression-era quilts made by machine, according to a university press release. news@ dailynebraskan.com

UW-Madison researchers notice biological changes from meditation

Meditation may produce molecular changes in the body, found a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as researchers in Spain and France.

The study investigated the effects of a day of intensive meditation practices on a group of trained meditators versus a group who were instructed to engage in quiet non-meditative activities. After eight hours, the meditators showed changes in gene-regulating systems and inflammatory genes. These changes are correlated with faster physical recovery from stress.

There were no differences in the tested genes between the two groups at the start of the study.

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University of Iowa creates new algorithm for matchmaking sites

Researchers at the University of Iowa said they’ve identified a better formula for matchmaking online dating sites. They’ve developed an algorithm that uses a person’s contact history to match him or her with potential dates. It’s similar, they said, to how the model Netflix uses to recommend movies based on past choices.

The researchers said they have been contacted by two dating services interested in the algorithm, but the potential isn’t limited to online dating. Job recruiting sites or college admissions could use the program as well.

The researchers found that on one unnamed dating site, men made up 80 percent of initial contacts, only 25 percent of which were reciprocated. To improve that rate, the researchers think that the algorithm based on behavior would more accurately match people than users self-evaluations. The researchers estimate the model would increase the 25 percent of reciprocated contacts to 44 percent.

—Compiled by Mara Klecker news@ dailynebraskan.com

Bruno Mader and Evellinne Maria, international students, welcomed the winter by playing in the snow on Sunday.

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Aakriti Agrawal, a sophomore actuarial science major, enjoyed the first snow of the season by playing around

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Humanities should remain a priority across the world Today’s Daily Nebraskan reported that the humanities field has been at risk lately, from decreases in funding to open criticism.

Thankfully, humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are still alive and strong.

Stanford University describes the humanities as “the study of the myriad ways in which people, from every period of history and from every corner of the globe, process and document the human experience.” Fields of study that fall under this umbrella include history, anthropology, English and modern languages. The most popular humanities-related field of study at UNL is English, which has 258 majors, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

No major in the humanities field makes an appearance in UNL’s top 10 most popular majors, which includes business administration and computer science. Thus, it may be easy for some to write it off in favor of fields that seem more lucrative, such as biological sciences.

This, however, would be a mistake.

A major in business or somewhere in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics realm doesn’t necessarily put you on top. The flexibility of majors in the humanities often allows for further flexibility career-wise. For example, Logitech’s Chief Executive Officer Bracken Darrell said earlier this year that he loves hiring English majors because “the best CEOs and leaders are extremely good writers and have this ability to articulate and verbalize what they’re thinking.”

But the legitimacy of a field isn’t just about its marketability. To return to Stanford’s definition of the humanities, they teach us about something very important: the human experience. What’s more valuable than that?

One of the best examples of humanities work at UNL is the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. It includes the Walt Whitman and Willa Cather Archives, as well as the Omaha Indian Artifacts and Images digital research collection, which offers texts, photographs, artifacts and other information on Nebraska’s native Omaha nation. The CDRH’s faculty and staff represent the history, English and anthropology fields at UNL, among others. Projects like these open learners, young and old, to new worlds and experiences that tell a story about how we got to where we are today.

History teaches us where we and those around us came from.

Foreign languages allow us to communicate with people across borders. The English field allows us to observe the evolution of our language over time while potentially learning a little bit about history – except delivered in a manner less boring than that of a textbook. These are the kinds of things the humanities field is all about, and they are not expendable.

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Don’t skip exercise during finals

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know, it’s that time of year. Dead Week is here, and everything that doesn’t involve studying for finals suddenly has to be pushed aside. That list may include all-night Netflix marathons, three-hour midday naps, hanging with your buds and, yes, exercise. When I’m stressed I certainly don’t feel like wasting an hour of my time at the gym, but unfortunately this is exactly the wrong reaction. Arguably Dead Week is the most important time for students to exercise all year, and here’s why.

First of all, exercising will help you to remember all of that stuff that you’re studying.

Ever since the landmark 1990 Salk Institute study, which showed that mice who exercised produced far more brain cells in the area of memory-creation than mice who didn’t exercise, there have been loads of studies further investigating the effects of physical activity on memory. Although these studies have had mixed results and can’t seem to pin down an answer for why this might be true, there is a general consensus that gentle exercise kicks your brain into memory-storing gear in a natural and mentally beneficial way.

A more recent study published in the Public Library of Science in May found that women who listened to words while riding a bicycle were able to remember those words significantly better than counterparts who sat while listening or listened after exercising.

That is to say if you really can’t tear yourself away from your flashcards, maybe you should think about taking them to the gym with you.

I myself can attest to this. I listened to a short story audiobook two summers ago, and I can still remember the minute details of the stories I heard while working out – such as a particularly strange conversation between a drunken man and a talking bottle.

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Secondly, working out helps you manage stress. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, exercise has been shown to improve alertness, concentration and overall cognitive function. The ADAA also points out that even just five minutes of aerobic exercise can stimulate anti-anxiety effects.

I don’t know about you, but I would willingly trade five minutes of jumping jacks for fewer chemistry final nerves.

Third, exercising helps you sleep. It stimulates your brain, increasing alertness, but it also tires you out. This may seem like a bad thing if you’re trying to stay up late hitting the books, but as I’m sure everyone has heard sleep is very important for storing memories and overall health. It follows then that it’s important to get tired when you’re supposed to and to sleep soundly for as long as you can – both of which exercise can help with.

Last but not least, physical activity just makes you feel good. Whether or not you have been working on your bod all semester, I think we can all appreciate the emotional significance of exercise. For me, working out for only 20 minutes – running or just walking – can really put a bad day in perspective. Exercising also just gives me a sense of accomplishment, because hey, even if I didn’t ace that test at least I didn’t let it stop me from attacking

the track. This little extra boost of self-esteem and confidence might not directly improve my finals grades, but I certainly wouldn’t bet against it helping me out.

Now I know all of this sounds pretty great in theory, but actually acting upon it is an entirely different story. If you’re like me, maybe you haven’t worked out as often as you would have liked, and maybe you’re a little out of shape. This lack of motivation syndrome plays right into the hands of my TV-watching obsession, and trust me: I know how hard it is to pull yourself away from the screen when a good movie is on. But the good news is that this is a pretty great time to improve your work-out habits. With the free time of winter break and the chance of a brand-new year approaching, it’s reasonable to think that if you start exercising more regularly now you might continue doing so in the future (New Year ’s resolutions, anyone?). What a lot of us need is a short-term reason to get out the door, and improving our ability to tackle finals, or just to take a break from studying, isn’t a bad excuse to use.

Working out also doesn’t have to mean intense, hour-long sweat sessions. You don’t have to start with 30 or even 20 minutes of physical activity. Even if you start with just a few crunches or an occasional walk around the block, at least it’s something. As the often quoted Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. It doesn’t matter how drastic that step is, or why you take it. What’s important is that you just begin.

Devin Grier is a freshman biological systems engineering major.

Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Pope’s Batman-like charity stands as inspiration

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ope Francis is the hero Vatican City deserves, and he’s exactly the man we all need right now. In a time when people are plowing down others to buy their children the latest “(Something)–Me–Elmo” doll, sometimes you need a super pope to help you re-evaluate your priorities during the holiday season.

Recently, a mysterious and knowledgeable source told the Huffington Post that “Swiss guards confirmed that the pope has ventured out at night, dressed as a regular priest, to meet with homeless men and women.” Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the “Almoner of His Holiness,” has said before that when he wants to go out for a stroll of Vatican City at night, that there’s a “constant risk (Francis) will come along with (him).”

Holy Man of the Church, everyone!

You know what this means: The pope is freaking Batman, and Krajewski is his Robin. He’s the face of a religious nation by day and incognito caregiver at night.

How haven’t we seen these signs before?

We know he loves soccer and is a fan of rugby, so that’s how he keeps his heart and spirit in shape. And have you seen the size of the Bible? The man is bound to have some major muscles packing under his papal attire. I mean for goodness

sakes, he even has a freaking Popemobile.

Next thing we need to do is look for a Vaticave, and all of our speculations will be true.

But if anything’s for sure, this is what we know: The pope is also a master of disguise, and has been fighting against the system. He’s breaking bread and conversing with the poor. In doing this, he has been sending his Pope Signal for the whole world to see. He’s spreading the message of caring for your fellow neighbor, even when they haven’t a door to knock on. Although he’s the leader of one of the largest religious groups in the world, his taking time for those in need speaks volumes of his character, and he’s been simultaneously re-imagining the image of the Catholic Church as well.

And we should all follow suit with Pope Francis and become superheroes ourselves, regardless of whether we’re Catholic. As always, capes and tights are encouraged.

Lincoln is like Gotham right now: We’re under attack by the Penguin and Mr. Freeze. Why else would it be snowing over here? It’s not all because of science, I’ll tell you that much. What we need to do is follow the Vatican’s example. We need a few super friends running around this joint and cleaning up the city of cold shoulders. There’s a reason why the

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Vatican is bathing in 61-degree weather, guys. It’s because the pope’s warm heart is defrosting the negative energy from the city-state. When comparing the volunteer rates between Lincoln and the Vatican, the differences are stark. The Chronicle of Philanthropy last year ranked Nebraska as 32 on their list of generously charitable states, where families at home donated 4.1 percent of their household income to charities. The Vatican City, on the other hand, makes it a priority to help those in need. The Vatican released a statement earlier this year that the Vatican Bank had donated approximately $70 million to charities in 2012. The church that year had only closed with a profit of $2.8 million, but residents of Vatican City offered nearly $66 million through a voluntary collection of the church.

Granted, Lincoln and Vatican City have their differences. For one, residents

of Vatican City are more than likely wealthier than we are, and do this more out of religious obligation than anything.

However, it’s still rather impressive that they can still come up with that much money for having such a small population. We should be motivated by their efforts to at least attempt to meet their charitable quota.

So, let’s step up to the plate. We can do this. If we just take the time to activate our charitable abilities, we’ll achieve our goal. It’ll be not only for the betterment of our homes, but to make sure winter isn’t so harsh of an adversary this year.

We need to devise a plan. Together we’ll form our own collective of superhero gooddoers. We’ll be called the Lincoln League (name pending). We shall be comprised of teachers, students and volunteers. In this time of giving, our main objective is to obliterate Scrooges and loneliness all around the Lincoln area. Put on your mittens, folks; we’ve got some work to do.

How do we do this? Well, there’s a powerful plethora of people presently being proactive. Find them. You can find somewhere to donate, such as the Lincoln Community Health Charities United Way Partnership, which gives your money to local-area health charities. You can even give your time to the Food Bank of Lincoln, and collect or drop off food for those who need it this holiday

season.

We’ll do wonders with this place. You’ll lose your Tony Stark heart and exchange it for Captain America’s. All of us will aim to KAPOW! hunger, POWIE! the cold and ZZZZZWAP! out selfishness.

I swear by Odin’s beard that if we focus our powers of good together, we’ll show Mr. Freeze and the Penguin who’s boss this Christmas. We’ll transform Lincoln into a better version of itself, and we’ll all benefit from it. There will be a feeling of comfort, knowing your fellow men and women are working for the same, collective vision for our city.

As Pope Francis has shown us, you don’t need to be a pope to help make the world a better place. If we all treat others with the same respect we would our own families, we’ll become more of a community than just a simple city. In this age of the commercialization of the holiday season, we tend to lose sight of the true idea of what Christmas is all about: giving. Giving others your time, your energy and your thoughts.

Let’s light up Lincoln with something other than Christmas lights this year. C’mon super friends, awwwwaaaaaay!

Emily Kuklinski is a sophomore English and theatre major.

Follow her on Twitter @ TheFunnyEmily. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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A Doozy’s kind of day Local sandwich shop relies on loyal customers, fresh ingredients to overcome nearby competition

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Doozy’s menu offers a wide variety of pizza, sandwiches and salads. Dining in and ordering a meal to go are popular options at the downtown location.

Ariel Hadwiger, Michaella Kumke and Angela Heesacker-Smith dine together inside of Doozy’s on N 14th Street Each sandwich offers homemade bread, melted cheese and fresh ingredients.

t’s a cold, December afternoon just like any other.

As the lunch hour rolls around in downtown Lincoln, Subway customers wait for their sandwiches at the register and over at Jimmy John’s there’s a line to the door.

But tucked away amid the hustle on 14th Street, customers Kathy Paisley and Julie Hestermann are simultaneously taking their traditional “first bite” into what they’ll tell you is the best sandwich in Lincoln – at the local Doozy’s Oven Baked Subs.

“It’s that combo of the melted cheese, the homemade bread and the fresh toppings,” Paisley said. “It’s a Doozy kind of day.”

The two used to frequent the sandwich shop at its former Edgewood location at 56th and Pioneers streets for years, but now coming downtown for some Doozy’s has become a special occasion.

“We promise we weren’t the reason Edgewood closed,” Paisley said with a laugh. “We tried our hardest.”

Doozy’s has been a staple for years in the downtown area and so has its customers.

“I’ve worked here since ‘97, and I’ve had some of the same customers since I started,” said manager Shannon Smith. “I think the reason they keep coming back is the food, but I also think it’s the fact that we deliver I love the their food to their table and they kind of get to customers – relax over their lunch break. We just have a that’s the reason I more cozy atmosphere, rather than the com- work here.” mercialized places that are just trying to make shannon smith doozy’s manager that dollar.“ Smith began working at Doozy’s 16 years ago as a summer job. Now, she’s married, has kids and still loves the little sandwich shop.

“I love the customers – that’s the reason I work here,” she said. “A lot of them know us by name. We know them, too. They don’t even have to order their food. Obviously you don’t make a million dollars working at a sandwich shop, but I love it.”

Doozy’s is famous for their hot, toasted sandwiches with lots of cheese and daily homemade bread.

“We actually physically make the bread here, by our hands, every day,” Smith said. “It’s kind of that comfort food, like mashed potatoes or meatloaf. Just nice and warm – that’s how people describe it to me.“ The place itself holds a lot of memories for its customers and employees alike.

“We work in ministry together, and we have had some of our best inspiration at Doozy’s,” Paisley said about her and Hestermann. “We took some long lunch breaks, but we were working.”

But perhaps the biggest testament to their Doozy’s loyalty was the time they bought Doozy’s t-shirts and went as Doozy’s employees for Halloween.

Smith, too, has a few stories with the Doozy’s family.

Smith recalls a night when a strange man with a trench coat came into the store. She misheard him and thought he was trying to hold the place up for money.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God guys, we’re gonna get robbed!’”

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Santa myth threatens to ruin parent-child relationships CASSIE KERNICK

There is a certain stigma about Santa.

Is it a harmless childhood delusion or does he actually “sit on a throne of lies” as Buddy the Elf (Will Ferrell) in “Elf” accuses? Whether a person feels strongly one way or is totally indifferent, in Santa is the staple of the holiday festivities, especially in America.

In an attempt to find out who the man behind the beard truly is, I searched to find a mall Santa that would agree to meet with me. However, this proved to be a major issue as most places that have a seasonal Santa around have a strict no-media policy.

While the reason for this is likely because of the photo companies they have deals with, this left me with an uneasy feeling.

So to investigate this further I went to an innately truthful source, a child. My 3-year-old niece is a huge Santa fan. She cried hysterically as a baby whenever she was left on a stranger’s lap, but now every year going to the mall to take photos with Santa is one of her favorite festivities.

When I asked if Santa was a nice guy she said, “He’s nice cause he is.”

OK. This was said with complete conviction as she smiled at the thought of her bearded friend. We then proceeded to talk about all the things that Santa does as she spoke with

complete certainty. My last question caught her off guard.

Where I asked her what Santa does when it was not Christmas.

After pausing and stopping to take a bite of her corndog, she finally said, “Uhhh, he goes and lives in a hotel with Mrs. Claus and they eat cookies.”

She said this very matter-of-factly and then returned to eating her lunch. In my niece’s mind, Santa was an unwavering truth.

I could not help to think back to when I was younger and would anxiously await Santa’s visit each year. We would always go outside on Christmas morning and there would be footprints in the snow from last night’s reindeer. My parents always went all out. Their dedication, however, only made it worse when I discovered that Santa was not a real magical man.

I was fairly young when I found my Easter basket in my mother’s closet and my world came crashing down around me. I went to find my mom and started sobbing about how she had lied to me and then it all clicked. If the Easter Bunny is not real then Santa and everything else was all a lie, too.

I was bawling, and though too old to be throwing a tantrum, I went manic.

My mom still jokes today about much I freaked out, but to me it’s still an ugly memory representing one of the first times I realized my perfect and noble parents were not actually of such pristine character.

While many argue that it is harmless to continue the practice of Santa each year, I could not help but feel a twinge of sadness knowing that someday, in the next few years, my niece’s reality would also experience a har-

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Spears’ latest release falls compared to past albums maranda loughlin

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who love Britney Spears, and those who love to hate the 32-year-old singer.

While no one can deny the prominence that Spears reached, both parties can agree on one thing.

The now mother of two, known for several smash hits of the ‘90s, has slowly nosedived from teen pop stardom to a K-Fed-less hasbeen.

Thing is, I still like her.

From her cinematic adventure in “Crossroads,” to her breakout eroticism accompanied by Banana the snake at the VMAs, Spears has always been a charismatic performer. But her newest album, “Britney Jean,” a record supposed to be Spears’ “most personal album ever,” lacks intimacy and individuality through all 10 tracks.

Taking a glance at her discography, one can see Spears’ metamorphosis from the suggestive pseudo innocence of her 1999 album, “…

Baby One More Time,” to a still suggestive but now pseudo confidence in her most recent, “Britney Jean,” a facade for the star’s much-publicized meltdowns and breakups.

Along with the album’s general lack of charm, the music digresses much from her earlier honeyed sounds and adheres to the same robotic club hits of her more recent album “Femme Fatale.” Her music’s dominating dubstep and digitalized melodies take away from the star’s famous bubblegum pop that hasn’t been heard since the rise of “Chillin’ With You,” is especially desperate. On Spears’ “most personal album yet,” the star pulls at the world’s heart strings and solicits her little sister to accompany her on a downward spiral of novelty. The track is anything but “chillin.”

The song begins with an acoustic strum progression that sounds promising but slowly backfires when Spears begins chirping “you” and queues the off-putting beats of a computer-generated montage. She uses her deliberately baby, schoolgirl voice to feign innocence while she sings about wine.

Britney enjoys red while Jamie fancies herself white, and that is about as personal as the album gets.

Despite the radio-worn and predictable beats of “Britney Jean” and the blonde babe’s sparrow face on the album cover, Spears chan-

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“Britney Jean,” released on November 29, is the eight album from Britney Spears. nels her inner animalistic fierceness in “Work Bitch,” something I just simply cannot deny. The electrically charged and frisky track preaches to “bitches” everywhere that we must work if we want Lamborghinis, martinis and to look hot in a bikini – shallow albeit catchy.

This song contains the same steamy, punchy and kinetic beats of the former baby-less Britney, and it begged me to watch the music video, which led to Pandora’s box rich and gold with Britney-esque traits.

Fast cars. Leather whips. Fishnets. Explosions. Sharks. Hair flipping. Lacy lingerie. A plethora of body rolls, and of course a desert, where at one point Spears is standing on a plastic island being circled by hammer head sharks. It isn’t a snake, but it is primitive. Everyone loves seeing the animal in Britney.

Yet, though I loved the oilslicked, hair-crimped video, I did notice the celebrity is more tame than she once was. The glittered ghost of Britney’s past would be riding a hammerhead bare-back and doe-eyed into a bedazzled wonderland of fame.

I suppose this new kitten-like nature comes after alternating constant mental breakdowns with continuous comebacks since her breakup with the curly-haired, Justin Timberlake.

Or maybe it’s the three medio-

Long distnace relationships can thrive vanessa daves In “How I Met Your Mother” (one of my all-time favorite TV shows), Ted Mosby said, “Long-distance relationships never work. Long distance is a lie teenagers tell each other to get laid the summer before they leave for college.”

Seems about right, doesn’t it?

Long distance in college doesn’t make sense. How can you be in a relationship with someone you can’t see on at least a weekly basis? It shouldn’t work. And in a lot of cases, it just doesn’t work.

College is the awkward limbo period where you’re “technically” an adult, but you still ask your parents for money about every other day, eat ramen noodles and peanut butter sandwiches for every meal and haven’t quite figured out how doing your taxes even works. So what validates the potential success of long-distance relationships in college students?

I’d argue that love is something so fundamental, it has the ability to consume someone in a way other things don’t. Love isn’t taught; it’s like breathing. It’s something so much more natural than making enough money to support yourself, learning how to cook or teaching yourself tax codes.

My boyfriend and I had been dating for about a year and a half when it came time to pick colleges.

It was a decision we made keeping the other in mind, yet focusing on our own personal goals. When he decided to go to Kansas State University to major in biology/ pre-med, and I decided to come to Nebraska to pursue journalism, things got complicated. We knew we’d give long distance a shot no matter what, but we didn’t know what to expect.

Luckily, other people did. I know at least five couples off the top of my head that tried, and successfully managed a long-distance relationship when I was a senior in high school.

“It’s really not as hard as people think it is,” they’d say.

“It makes you appreciate your significant other even more,” they’d say.

“It gives you a chance to grow and develop yourself outside of the relationship,” they’d say.

And it’s all true.

I see my boyfriend, Maxwell, about every three weeks. We talk on the phone almost every day, text nonstop and try to make time to Skype at least once a week. Being without him has made me value our time together even more and try to make it special. And both of us are making new friends, making the most of college, getting involved and although we miss out on parts of each others’ lives we don’t miss out on any part of the traditional college experience.

The thing is, long-distance relationships take a tremendous amount of dedication and work.

They can’t be one-sided or halfassed. Both people in the relationship have to be willing to make sacrifices: They both have to want it to work out in the end, because otherwise it won’t work out at all.

I’d even go as far as arguing that long-distance relationships often have more merit than other relationships purely because they require so much more effort.

It means waiting weeks, or even months, before you can spend quality time together. It means missing out on important things in their life, and even missing out on things in your life to make time for them. It means going above and beyond to make sure they know you’re thinking about them, even though you can’t be together.

Instead of waiting by the phone every night or checking the mail every day, hoping to hear from your significant other, technology has drastically changed the culture of long-distance relationships. Couples can text all day, FaceTime with the touch of a button and Snapchat each other hideous selfies keeping each other up-to-date on every aspect of their life.

But no matter how you twist it, long distance isn’t easy and it seems to be becoming a lot more common among college students.

If a couple is trying long distance, it means they have the maturity to trust each other enough to not be with them every second of every day, and they are invested enough to make sacrifices for the other person. The way I see it, long-distance relationships have a lot more to them than what Ted Mosby is making them out to be.

Vanessa Daves is in a serious and committed relationship with How I Met your Mother. Send her selfies at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

cre albums, two marriages (Let’s not forget her 55-hour affair in Las Vegas) and one prolonged custody battle that de-clawed this feline.

Thing is, I really do like Britney.

I heard the coos of her once sticky sweet voice in the song “Perfume,” which explores a triangle affair involving another woman, a man and an ex-girlfriend (Britney). Spears hopes that the new gal smells her perfume on her former man. She wants to “mark her territory,” and I am left wondering just what exactly, a Britney Spears smells like.

Another notable song on the CD is “Passenger” where Spears sings in a wholesome voice how she wants to be a passenger in her own life.

And I say no. Britney, get back in the saddle.

Overall “Britney Jean” is a picnic basket of different sounds.

There is the nostalgic acoustic melody paired with an artless tech-y pulse, a lovey-dovey but weak sister duo and a raunchy, dirty Britney we have always loved who whips her audience into shape.

If the album had more tracks similar to “Work Bitch” with a handful of sappy ballads, it would be worth the grab, but where it stands right now, I’m left wondering if she ever will do it again. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in “Philomena,” a new film directed by Stephen Frears.

‘Philomena’ provides fulfilling, strong cast Hannah Ratliff dn “Philomena” is not the typical college kid’s movie. There are no explosions, no humor that your grandmother would disprove of and no shirtless Ryan Gosling.

Nevertheless, it was a movie I was really excited to see.

I guess that’s because I’m not always the typical college kid when it comes to movies. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good superhero blockbuster and I’ve seen “Crazy Stupid Love” more times than I’d care to admit. But sometimes, I just want to see a really great performance from Judi Dench. And if that makes me an old lady, so be it.

Dench did not disappoint, by the way. She portrays Philomena Lee, a real Irishwoman whose son out of wedlock was taken from her by the nuns she was staying with 50 years before the story begins.

As an aging woman, Lee en-

lists the help of cynical and out-of- ploration of faith and religion. As work journalist Martin Sixsmith Sixsmith and Lee uncover more (Steve Coogan) to track down information about where Lee’s her now-grown son. Dench’s porson, Anthony, was taken, Lee trayal of a sweet, deeply religious must grapple with the idea that woman who is haunted by her the church she loves so much took past left me in awe advantage of her all of her acting abilthose years ago.

‘Philomena’ Sixsmith and Lee ity. From her lighter moments, like handle each disis a movie constantly badcovery in distinctly not to be missed.” gering Sixsmith different ways, with about the omelet Sixsmith seeing bar at the hotel Lee’s blind faith as they stay in, to her heartbreaking unreasonable in the face of the performance as she revisits the wrongdoing they discover. By the place in which she was separated end of the film, you’re either as from her son, I expect Dench’s frustrated as Sixsmith is or find performance will earn some wellLee to be wonderfully inspiring. deserved buzz.

With great performances, a What I didn’t expect, though, fascinating true story and enough was for “Philomena” to become poignant moments to make you more than a sweet story about an tear up just the right amount of adorable old lady and her long- times, “Philomena” is a movie not lost son. I was wrong.Along the to be missed. arts@ way, the audience becomes aware dailynebraskan.com of another theme entirely – an ex-

The worst music collaborations

Brad Paisley/LL Cool J, “Accidental Racist” “Accidental Racist” is the kind of song that just makes you wonder, “Who on earth thought this was a good idea?” Written by Paisley and Cool J, the 2013 song is essentially an uneasy apology and attempt at understanding between two men of different racial backgrounds. Unfortunately, the song isn’t exactly a heart warmer. Filled with confusing lyrics such as “If you don’t judge my do-rag, I won’t judge your red flag” in reference to Southerners donning confederate-flag gear, and an overall mediocre production on the song, “Accidental Racist” is quite possibly one of the worst music collaborations of all time. Not to mention confusing and offensive.

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Christina Aguilera/Cee Lo Green, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Is there anything more terrifying than Cee Lo Green? How about Cee Lo Green trying to seduce you while you’re trapped inside his house on a snowy night?

Other than invoking disturbing Cee Lo images, the song isn’t so terrible if you’re a fan of Christina Aguilera trying to out sing and out diva anyone she comes in contact with.

B.o.B./Hayley Williams, “Airplanes” The summer 2010 was filled with tweets and statuses quoting, “Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now.”

So could I. My wish would be that this overplayed and over-quoted song would have never happened. The unlikely collaboration between the hip-hop artist and Paramore singer was actually a phone in on both ends. Neither party has sung together or met each other until performing live on stage for the first time.

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Limp Bizkit/Lil’ Wayne, “Ready to Go” It was only a matter of time before these two found their way into each other’s arms.

“Ready to Go,” was the first single released off of Limp Bizkit’s latest album, “Stampede of the Disco Elephants.” Though the collaboration between the rapper and metal band may seem puzzling, things start making sense when you consider that the two are on the same recording label. With poetic lyrics such as “throw them fingers up, and finger fuck the sky,” and “fuck the world, bust a nut,” this may be a shocking addition to some. But believe me, it’s well deserved. And hey, credit to Fred Durst for still making music despite the whole world begging him to stop.

John Denver/The Muppets, “A Christmas Together” Listen, there’s nothing wrong with The Muppets. But I have a real grudge against John Denver. To be honest, I’m just really jealous he was able to collaborate with Kermit the Frog. They collaborated for the Christmas album, “A Christmas Together - John Denver & The Muppets.” The album isn’t necessarily awful, it’s filled with the same Muppets charm that they deliver with most works and collaborations.

That “country boy” John Denver, however, is a real piece of work with his acoustic-y singer/songwriter style and soothing voice.

Plus did you know his real name is Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr? You can’t trust anyone these days. Especially John Denver.

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Doozy’s sandwiches are made-to-order and served warm. Garlic bread, cheese sticks and chips are available as side options. she said. “So I went and hid behind the pop machine, because apparently that was going to save me. He had gone into the bathroom and it looked like he had something like a gun in his trench coat.”

Smith called the police and told the man to leave. When the cops

stopped him down the street, Smith was in for a surprise.

“He actually just had a Jimmy John’s sandwich hidden in his coat,” Smith said. “He had only come in to see if we had coffee.”

With so many sub shops in the area, Smith said competing realisti-

cally just isn’t an option.

“You just don’t,” Smith said. “In the last year, sandwich shops were popping up left and right. You get nervous, because obviously everyone always wants to go try the new thing.”

But big sandwich chains aren’t go-

ing to know their customers by name.

“I’ve made so many friends here,” Smith said. “I’ve seen so many different people drop in, all walks of life.

You start to understand them after a while.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

think these parents have some footing to stand on. In this article, psychologist David Kyle Johnson argues against the most frequent ways parents justify Santa. The most common reasonings hold that the tradition is harmless, brings joy to the children and encourages the growth of a child’s imagination. Johnson counters that no lie is harmless in the development of children.

He also argues that when children expand their imaginations, they know that what they are pretending is not actually real, which is what makes it imagined. Johnson asserts that if one believes something to be true then the benefits of being imaginative are lost, and when they do come to discover the truth it can be emotionally straining on the child. The New York Times

ran a piece that drew similar conclusions, urging parents to re-evaluate if the joy Santa brings is really worth straining their relationship over.

My curiosity about this only continues to grow as I go back and forth over which philosophy I would practice if I were ever to have children. Not only am I unsure if allowing children to believe in something that is not true detrimental to development, but what about the fact that parents let their children sit on some stranger’s lap year after year, just to further this delusion.

Who is the mall Santa throughout the rest of the year, is he a sweet, harmless, retired old man? Or is he a random, homeless, past meth user who slipped under the radar as he is only a seasonal employee?

While all this may seem like out-

landish accusations, is there any proof otherwise? Maybe this is why Santa does not do media interviews, for all anyone knows he may not even be literate. Not only are parents handing over their child to a stranger, they are often paying absurd amounts of cash to capture this precious, yet deceptive moment.

So whether one cannot wait to carry on the Santa tradition, or has some reservations about the process, one thing is for sure, always make children use hand sanitizer after meeting a mall Santa. He just may be a drug mule in the off-season.

Cassie Kernick is convinced all mall santas are drug mules. Tell her why she’s wrong at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Santa: from 5 rowing blow.

Is Santa actually harmless? Is there not a small source of distrust that develops in a parent-child relationship when the child discovers that they have been spoofed for years? Even though it would be nearly impossible to draw a tangible connection between strain in a family relationship and the myth of Santa, it’s hard not to wonder if it has long term effects.

Many traditionalists may call it absurd, but a simple Google search shows hundreds of hits about parents who are starting to question if Santa is a good idea. Parents deciding to outlaw Santa in their home and opt for a more honest holiday celebration make up many of the top posts.

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Nebraska East Union offers a six-lane bowling alley that students can use at a subsidised rate.

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Sydney Rotthaus, sophomore advertising and public relations major, went bowling at the Nebraska East Union on Sunday.

Women’s basketball: from 10 more steals. Nationally, Utah State we tried to create. Our game plan worked until some of our key playis ranked eighth among Division I ers started getting in teams, getting 13 steals per game.

If they don’t foulIntrouble.” the first half, During the game sophomore guard against Nebraska get a steal, Makenlee Williams on Sunday, the then a lot of times and senior guard JenAggies had a total nifer Schlott had four of 16 steals. you get a good fouls each for Utah “We’re tryState; Schlott fouled ing to lead the look.” out in the second half. country in steals,” connie yori Missing Schlott, their Finkbeiner said. “I women’s basketball coach leading scorer, who liked our competiaverages 22.6 points tive spirit tonight. per game, the Aggies All of our playcouldn’t make a comeback against ers played hard. Nebraska’s poise Nebraska. Their style of defense, played through some of the havoc

however, gave Nebraska the chance to see how its new style of offense plays out in a game situation.

“Their style of play allows those kids to stay on the floor a little longer with the zone,” Yori said. “This is a defense we are going to see a lot of times this year. We definitely weren’t perfect, but at the same time we made a lot of shots. This is the first time we’ve seen this defense this extensively.”

Nebraska’s next game is home this Saturday against its in-state rival Creighton at 11 a.m. at the Pinnacle Bank Arena. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

bowl would want the deflating team, coach and program there to represent their name?

Bowl games are a celebration of the sport, and the selection committees could have very well have been thinking: what if Pelini does it again? What if he calls a play chickens*** again on live TV? What if he almost hits our ref with a hat? What if, what if, what if.

Pelini isn’t completely and totally at fault for the bowl selection. I’m a firm believer that the people who run the BCS and bowl selections got an average of a 16 on the ACT and probably don’t know how to pronounce “bowl,” but at the same time, image plays a lot into these selections.

Oklahoma and Alabama are matched up in the Sugar Bowl, which sounds nice, but Alabama is going to smoke OU like a nice turkey. It’s the name, the history, the tradition, that got OU into the BCS game with Alabama (that and a win over Oklahoma State, but prior to Saturday, the Sooners didn’t deserve an at-large BCS bid whatsoever, and

What if Pelini does it again? What if he calls a play chickens*** on live TV? What if he almost hits our ref with a hat? What if, what if, what if.”

I still don’t really think they do).

But I digress. The image at Nebraska is shattered, and you can blame Pelini for that.

There’s a reason why after any Nebraska penalty, the cameras on ABC and ESPN cut to Bo Pelini on the sideline. That’s what Nebraska is known for now. That’s what people think of when they think Nebraska. They think rampage. Getting blown out in big games. The occasional miracle.

A victory over Georgia might just be the saving grace for Pelini’s job and for the program. A win over an SEC opponent would boost the image, maybe make the Husker faithful forget some negatives about this year.

But a loss? What would that do?

What would the season look like in the eyes of Nebraska fans and football fans around the country? What would the image of Nebraska be?

Not good.

A win changes the Nebraska image ever so slightly. It gives the bad taste of this season an all-right taste, and a little bit of hope going into next season. A loss, on the other hand, might as well be the metaphorical flush-of-the toilet on a season fans will want to forget.

Calling it a “must-win” game against Georgia may be an understatement.

Chris Heady is a sophomore journalism major. You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

dn Big ten homeroom 1. Penn State (6-2)

The Nittany Lions are currently the highest-ranked team in the Big Ten Conference at No. 12. Their only two losses thus far have come from No. 1 UConn and No. 4 Notre Dame. The team has been led by senior Maggie Lucas, who leads the team averaging 21.3 points a game, including 30 in a win on the road against Georgetown on Dec. 8. The Nittany Lions have two big tests coming up at South Dakota State on Dec. 11 in Brookings, S.D., and at home against No. 24 Texas A&M on Dec. 15.

2. Iowa (10-1)

The No. 21 Hawkeyes have been on a roll lately, winning their last six games, including the Cancun Challenge Championship game on Nov. 30, over UNC Wilmington and their matchup with Syracuse in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Dec. 5.

The Hawkeyes are first in the Big Ten averaging 84.3 points per game, which is more than 5 points higher than the next team. They square off with in-state rival No. 17 Iowa State in Ames on Dec. 12.

3. Purdue (6-2)

Similar to Penn State, both the Boilermakers’ losses have come from top-10 opponents (No. 2 Duke and No. 6 Stanford). Purdue has won games with a balanced scoring attack, with five players averaging more than 7.5 points per game. The most efficient of those scorers has been Courtney Moses, who is averaging 14.5 points per game and shooting 52.6 percent from the field. Its next game is against Kansas in historic Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. 15.

4. Indiana (9-0)

The Hoosiers are the only remaining unbeaten team in the Big Ten. The main issue with the Hoosiers this season is that of their nine games, only two have been against teams with winning records. The Hoosiers do have one of the most explosive scoring attacks in the Big Ten, averaging 79 points per game, which is second in the conference. Following a game at home against Milwaukee on Dec. 11, the Hoosiers will be able to prove if they’re a contender when they have three straight road games against teams all .500 or better.

5. Nebraska (7-2)

After winning five straight to open the season, including four by double figures, the Huskers have slipped up, losing two of their last three. The Huskers have been led by senior Jordan Hooper, who’s averaging 21.6 points per game. Nebraska is currently third in scoring margin in the Big Ten, outscoring their opponents by 14.7 points on average. The Huskers will look to get back on track when Creighton makes the short drive into Lincoln on Dec. 14.

6. Minnesota (9-2)

The Gophers have won seven of their last eight games and are doing so by being the best defensive team in the Big Ten thus far, allowing only 57.1 points per game. Not only are they playing great defense, but junior Rachel Banham leads the conference in scoring at 22.2 points per game. The one major flaw with the Gophers is their schedule; they are eight games into a 12-game homestand and have only played three road games so far.

7. Northwestern (6-2)

The Wildcats are one of the best overall defending teams in the Big Ten. They rank third in scoring defense and opponent field goal percentage as well as second in turnover margin. The main reason for their two losses however has been their offense, which ranks last in the conference in scoring at 66.8 points per game. They look to gain some confidence scoring the basketball on Dec. 14, against Loyola (Ill.), which has only kept three of its nine opponents under 80 points this season.

8. Michigan (6-3)

The Wolverines have won three of their last four games, all of which were power conference teams. Their scoring attack has been led by Shannon Smith, who is averaging 17.3 points per game, as well as Cyesha Goree, who leads the Big Ten in field goal percentage at 62.5 percent. The Wolverines will look to continue their success in a tough part of their schedule as they take on undefeated Eastern Michigan on Dec. 11.

9. Ohio State (6-5)

Since a blowout victory over Lehigh on Nov. 27, the Buckeyes have lost three in a row. The only consolation to those three losses is all of them came against ranked opponents. The Buckeyes are currently last in the conference with a scoring margin of plus-2. The Buckeyes’ schedule doesn’t get much easier, as they take on a 7-1 Army team on Dec. 13.

10. Wisconsin (6-2)

The Badgers have won their games this season by being one of the better defensive teams in the conference, allowing just 61.8 points per game. They are also one of the best teams in the Big Ten at defending the 3-pointer, holding opponents to just less than 24 percent on the season, which is second in the conference. Following a thrilling 62-60 win over in-state rival Marquette, Wisconsin has a chance to prove itself as a contender in the Big Ten when it takes on No. 23 Gonzaga on Tuesday night.

11. Michigan State (5-4)

Similar to the Buckeyes, the Spartans have also lost three in a row, only none of their losses have come against ranked opponents. The Spartans are able to score the basketball, ranking third in the conference at 77.2 points per game, but they also let their opponent score the basketball, allowing 68.4 points per game, third to last in the conference. They look to get their first win when they take on 2-6 Oakland on Dec. 15.

12. Illinois (5-5)

Illinois is the only team in the Big Ten without a winning record and has lost four of its past six games, with all those losses coming by 23 points or more.

The Illini’s main problem is the way they are shooting the basketball; they rank second to last in the conference at just 39.4 percent, including 31.8 percent from the 3-point line. Illinois will look to get back on track against UT Martin on Dec. 21. compiled by Brett Nierengarten sports@dailynebraskan.com

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Petteway, Shields key futile rally against Creighton Sophomore forwards combine for 43 points, but not until after Bluejays shoot out to dominant lead Chris Heady DN Early in the first half Sunday night, Tim Miles watched Creighton jump on his Huskers in the first few minutes. It was layup after layup and Miles thought his team was down at least 13-3.

He gazed up at the scoreboard: 22-3.

“I’m just like, ‘Holy cow,’” Miles said. “It just didn’t feel like that as a coach. I thought we were closer but we weren’t.”

Nebraska was crushed by its in-state rival Creighton 82-67 on Sunday, derailing the Huskers from their three-game win streak and dropping them to 6-3 in their first nine games of the season and leaving the Huskers with more questions than answers.

“I apologize to our fans,” Miles said in his post-game radio show.

“You have to credit Creighton. They kicked our tails.”

That would be putting it lightly. Creighton jumped out to a 22-3 lead and didn’t stop from there. The Bluejays led 51-25 at the half, shooting 54.8 percent from the floor and 7-16 from 3-point range.

“It escalated in a hurry,” Miles said in his post-game press conference.

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McDermott did as he pleased and had 11 points in the game’s first five minutes. He nearly tied all the Huskers in the first, finishing with 17 points in the half. He had 33 for the game.

Creighton also held Nebraska to just 9-of-30 shooting in the first half and 1-12 from 3-point range, as Nebraska shot an abysmal 30 percent from the floor.

“We couldn’t play much better than we played to start the game,” Creighton coach Greg McDermott said. “In my wildest dreams, I didn’t envision a start like that.”

Nebraska did its best in the second half but hardly made it a game.

Miles told his team at halftime to try and get the lead down to 15 by the 10-minute mark, which it failed to do. The Huskers did win the second half 42-31, but still fell hard 82-67.

“I’m glad our kids fought back, but I don’t believe that winning the second half is that big of a deal,” Miles said.

Just as Miles thought he had found a starting lineup that worked, a lineup that led Miami by 9 at the half and finished the game up 11, the Huskers lost badly. Miles has switched the starting line up four times this season.

The only positives that came out of the trip to Omaha were Shavon Shields and Terran Petteway, who accounted for 43 of Nebraska’s 67 points. Shields led Nebraska in scoring with 22 points and 7-13 shooting with 4 rebounds and 2 assists, and Petteway scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half.

“I thought Terran and Shavon were really on the attack,” Miles said.

Without Shields and Petteway, the rest of the team accounted for 24 points on 8-of-27 shooting from

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Sophomore forward Terran Petteway scored all but 4 of his 21 points in the second half as the Huskers tried to come back against Creighton on Sunday, but poor shooting in the first half doomed Nebraska. the floor. Of the seven players who played besides Shields and Petteway, only one made a 3-point shot.

“I like what Creighton did a

lot better than what we did,” Miles said. “They played great. They moved the ball. That’s a good team.

Greg has a team of a lifetime.”

Nebraska will have some time to try and pick up the pieces, its next game a home matchup with Arkansas State (5-2) on Dec. 14. Arkansas

State is coming off of a 86-61 win over Niagara on Dec. 2. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Football postseason Roundtable Beat writers look back on 2013 regular season, discuss future of program

Kyle Cummings: As cliché as it sounds, it really has been a roller coaster of a year.

Now that we’ve made it through the entire regular season, let’s evaluate this team.

Right to the point: what grade do you give to Nebraska’s season overall and what’s your basis?

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Nebraska was 6-1 in games started by redshirt freshman quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr., who threw for 803 yards, 7 touchdowns and 7 interceptions in 8 games this season.

KC: Fair assessments. It seems like we all agree there. Finally, give me one quick reason Husker fans should be optimistic about next season and one main concern Husker fans should have moving forward.

NI: I think fans can look forward to the defensive line next year. The idea of having Randy Gregory and Avery Moss on the ends of Vincent Valentine and newly committed recruit Terrell Clinkscales is enough to make any defensive fan salivate. Toss in the fact that the only guy leaving on offense who made a major impact this season is Quincy Enunwa, and this team’s days look much brighter next year. The only main concern I can think of is who will step up next year as defensive backs?

KC: It’ll definitely be interesting to see if Husker fans would rather see Stanton or Armstrong to start next season. Nedu, you stole the words from my mouth. The way the defense has progressed through the season is no doubt exciting. That’d be my positive to hang on to. Unfortunately, though Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst did come out and show his support to Pelini, I have to think the same type of conversations will be going on next season if Nebraska drops a few, especially if that means the Huskers won’t be playing for the Big Ten Conference Championship again.

NI: It may have had a minor impact mentally, but I’m not sure it had enough to lose its games against Minnesota and Michigan State at least. I know this is repeating the obvious, but what hurt the team the most was having many of its players play banged up. Like Chris said, I don’t think they lost their first pair because of the fire surrounding Pelini, but I do feel playing less healthy and forking the ball up played a higher role in their defeats.

Nedu Izu: I agree with Chris on how well this team battled having second – and third-team players. I agree that Ameer Abdullah had a phenomenal season and put the team on his back in way more games than not. However, I think dealing with on- and off-the-field distractions the way this team did is worth higher praise.

The young guys on this team all had highlights at one point or another, Westerkamp’s clutch catch for example. The staff, although inconsistent at times, did a great job producing great backups and preparing them in their first full season of play. If you were to tell me all the things would have come about throughout the season, I would have thought you were crazy to predict eight wins. Because of that, I give this team a B+.

CH: I think in the heat of the moment Bo said it hurt the football team, but in reality I really don’t think it did. If you’re an athlete you need to know how to take criticism. Especially here. If you drop a pass, someone hates you. The players know that, and I think that they understand the gravity of Bo’s situation, so I would be shocked if it actually had an effect on the team in their play. When you’re on the field that stuff goes away. If Bo’s job were safe, rather than hanging in the balance, this team would still be 8-4. Bo’s job security had nothing to do with Westerkamp’s catch, with 38 unanswered points to UCLA, with the loss to Minnesota. It could have been a minor distraction, but I don’t think they would have performed better if it wasn’t happening.

CH: Positives: You have arguably the best running back in the country coming off of a historic season.

Ameer Abdullah will be a monster next season, even more so than this season. Negatives: Get ready for a quarterback battle that will be covered like crazy. Mr. Johnny Stanton – remember his name, because you’ll be hearing a lot of people talk in the spring about Stanton vs. Armstrong at that starting position. It’ll be a positive because both seem poised to lead the team (Stanton redshirted this season), but there will be lots of scrutiny and attention on that position and that battle, so be ready for that.

Chris Heady: I’m going to give them a C, Kyle. With a slew of injuries, you really can’t blame a team that had the preseason promise of an undefeated season for going 8-4. But with that said, there were plenty of games that Nebraska still could have won. UCLA was a mess in the third quarter, but the Huskers led at halftime. The home losses to Iowa and Michigan State both had opportunities for Nebraska to take the lead late, which they failed to do. So the mistakes are there, and the losses are there and the embarrassment of the coaching staff is absolutely there. But with arguably the best play in the program’s history (or at least one of the most exciting) with Westerkamp’s catch and a late-game win over Michigan on the road, not to mention Ameer Abdullah’s unreal season, I give this team a C. An average season for an average team.

KC: I tend to lean a little closer to Chris’ grade. Nebraska clearly had to endure some tough adversity through the year, but it’s just hard for me to call an 8-4 season, especially considering Nebraska’s manageable schedule, anything above average. Nedu, you already pointed out off-the-field distractions, more specifically the speculation around Bo Pelini’s job security. Pelini said it hurt the team through the year.

What do you guys think? If there’s no talk about Pelini losing his job, does this team perform better?

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Doing more with less Robinson contributes for Nebraska with more than just kills story by eric bertrand File photo by Morgan Spiehs

A Nebraska volleyball player has accomplished a lot this year by earning high honors and leading the team, but the biggest contribution she has made is setting up the future.

Senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson, the Big Ten Player of the Year, accumulated big offensive numbers for the Nebraska volleyball squad this season, and it didn’t seem like she could be stopped. Robinson earned the conference honors just before the NCAA Championships, but her postseason stats haven’t continued down the same path as her regular-season ones.

After the Huskers’ first two matches of the postseason, Robinson stats aren’t comparable.

In conference play, Robinson totaled 352 kills, which averages to 4.69 kills per set. She also had a hitting clip of .349 percent.

Her stats in the first two matches of the tournament: 14 kills and a hitting clip of .256 percent.

Her offensive efforts in both of the matches accounted for less than 20 percent of the squad’s attack. Against the Fairfield Stags, Robinson was 15 percent of the offensive production, and against the Oregon Ducks, she was responsible for about 18 percent of the kills.

She accounted for less than 20 percent of NU’s production only once in the regular season.

On Aug. 31, against St. Louis, Robinson posted 9 of the Huskers’ 48 kills, which equates to close to 19 percent of offense.

What was the outcome of the match?

The Huskers swept St. Louis, just as the squad did to the Fairfield Stags and the Oregon Ducks last weekend.

Prior to the NCAA Tournament, Robinson had only three other matches in the season in which she didn’t record double-digit kill numbers: against St. Louis, Georgia and University of LouisanaMonroe.

What were the results of these matches?

The Huskers swept all three opponents. The Huskers are 5-0 with Robinson earning fewer than 10 kills in a match.

In the competitions last weekend, the Huskers had other players pick up the offense, like sophomore Kelsey Fien against

Senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson (center) had a total of 14 kills in two games – sweeps of Fairfield and Oregon in the 1st and 2nd rounds of the NCAA Championships – over the weekend. The Huskers are 5-0 this season in matches during which Robinson, the Big Ten Player of the Year, records fewer than 10 kills.

Fairfield and freshman Kadie Rolfzen against the Ducks.

Fien lead the attack with 8 kills against the Stags, and Rolfzen posted 15 kills against the Ducks.

Robinson said the pressure of carrying the attack is alleviated when she is on this kind of Nebraska team.

“Any night, somebody can go off,” Robinson said. “All I have to do is pass, and make sure the passes are perfect. Or, I have to get a good dig and help in that way.”

Robinson posted 19 digs and 7 block assists in the first two rounds of the tournament. She also added a service ace in both competitions.

Nebraska coach John Cook said Robinson was a mix of three different players he’s coached in the past.

“She’s kind of a combination of Jordan (Larson), Jenn Saleaumua and Gina (Mancuso),” Cook said. “If we took those three and molded them, that’s what we get, Kelsey Robinson. That’s why we call her ‘The Robo.’”

Rolfzen said Robinson is a great mentor for what it takes to be an elite outside hitter.

“You have to be able to do everything,” Rolfzen said. “You can’t just do a couple things great, and she can do everything exceptional.”

Rolfzen also said she aspires to be like Robinson.

“She’s like my role model now,” she said. “I want to be that for somebody else in the future.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

On her way to earning Big Ten Player of the Year honors, senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson led the conference in league play with 4.69 kills per set, averaging 17.6 per match. Yet in the five games this season that Robinson did not surpass 10 kills, the Huskers did not lose a set.

Here are the statistics from those matches:

KELSEY ROBINSON: MATCHES WITH FEWER THAN 10 KILLS MATCH

Aug. 30 (vs. Louisiana-Monroe) Aug. 31 (vs. Saint Louis) Sept. 7 (vs. Georgia) Dec. 6 (vs. Fairfield) Dec. 7 (vs. Oregon)

ROBINSON’S KILLS

PERCENT of NU KILLS

RESULT

7 9

21 (7 of 33) 19 (9 of 48)

W 25-11, 25-21, 25-4 W 25-20, 25-16, 25-16

9

20 (9 of 44) 15 (6 of 39) 18 (8 of 45)

W 25-21, 25-23, 25-14 W 25-15, 25-9, 25-17 W 25-22, 25-19, 25-22

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Hooper leads Nebraska without aid of 3-pointers For 1st time in college career, senior forward has game without 3-point attempt, but still nets 33 points Natasha Rausch DN

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Nebraska coach Bo Pelini was penalized during the Huskers’ last game of the regular season against Iowa, then was fined for criticizing the officials after the game.

Image of Pelini may have cost Huskers in bowl bid chris heady The Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl must have been dropped on its head as a child.

The bowl, which this year should have selected the fourthbest Big Ten Conference team to play the fourth-best Big 12 team, decided to look at helmet decals rather than statistics or a game played in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Nov. 9, and chose the Michigan Wolverines to play Kansas State instead of Nebraska.

Logical, considering Michigan and K-State have never played each other and that a Nebraska-

K-State reunion for a bowl game would have probably broken records for attendance and moneymaking opportunities.

But regardless, the Huskers got put on the back-burner to play in the Gator Bowl vs. Georgia, an SEC powerhouse plagued, like Nebraska, by injuries.

So the question now exists: Why choose Michigan over Nebraska?

Michigan, a 7-5 team that went 3-5 in the Big Ten and finished next to last in the Legends Division. A team that, other than playing Ohio State close, had no decisive victories and lost to Nebraska at home.

What if the answer were Bo Pelini?

I know, he’s not the sole reason why people can pit and pout about this and that, but seriously, what if it was Pelini’s antics that dropped Nebraska down a bowl game?

Could that be a legitimate reason?

Reports early Sunday night said that both the Gator Bowl and the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl wanted Michigan and each saying it had Michigan. Omaha WorldHerald writer Dirk Chatelain tweeted that it looked like Nebraska “had a bye week” because no reports of their bowl placement had been confirmed with the two bowls wanting another team.

So really, with the Gator Bowl and Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl not wanting Nebraska, it’s clear Nebraska was a fall-back school.

They couldn’t get a first-round draft pick so they got the low second rounder instead.

No one wanted Nebraska; who would? The image of Nebraska has been torn, and what

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Zero – the number of 3-pointers senior forward Jordan Hooper attempted at Sunday’s game against Utah State.

For the first time in Hooper’s career at Nebraska, she didn’t make or even attempt a single 3-pointer during a game.

“The last time I didn’t shoot a 3 in a game was probably sophomore or freshman year of high school,” Hooper said. “It was our game plan. We had a different game plan. I was supposed to stay on the block a little bit more this game and work the baseline a little bit more, so I didn’t really get a lot of opportunities to get out on the perimeter.”

Even with the new game plan and no 3-pointers, Hooper still managed to score 33 points for the Huskers, most of which came from block and baseline shots. Hooper’s double-double – 33 points and 14 rebounds – was a career high and helped Nebraska end its twogame losing streak.

With Hooper in the paint and on the block, junior forward Emily Cady and sophomore point guard Rachel Theriot were able to get 7 and 8 assists, respectively, with their looks to Hooper for the points. Cady also ended the game with a double-double, with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Although Nebraska coach Connie Yori didn’t exactly plan for Hooper not to shoot any 3-pointers, her game plan worked out the way she was hoping.

“They kind of sell out in the kind of defense they play,” Yori said. “If they don’t get a steal, then a lot of times you get a good look.

We made a lot of shots, so that was really positive. Jordan was really good, but Emily played a great

file photo by Myrlie | dn

Senior forward Jordan Hooper was one of two Huskers to record double-doubles against Utah State on Sunday.

It was our game plan. We had a different game plan.” jordan hooper senior forward

floor game for us, too.”

Utah State coach Jerry Finkbeiner said, his defense is designed to “wreak havoc” on op-

ponents. With this style of zone defense, the Aggies are able to get

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