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Gaughan to provide 24/7 study lounges Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan

Students gather in groups in the Nebraska Union, poring through textbooks and quizzing each other on vocabulary. Others sit at tables in the library with their headphones in, heads bowed over pages of notes.

At midnight, when the Nebraska Union closes, students close their books, put on their backpacks and meander home to finish studying.

But starting this semester, students don’t have to return to their dorms to finish studying. The Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center will be open 24 hours Sunday through Thursday during dead week and finals week.

Starting at midnight Sunday, students will scan their NCards at the front desk when they arrive and when they leave, said Association of Students of the University of Nebraska internal vice president Jeff Lopez, a senior chemical engineering major.

“RSOs will have access to

if you go 24-hour study center where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center when: Dec. 4 to Dec. 8 and Dec. 11 to Dec. 15 For all UNL students with NCard only.

NCard must be scanned when arriving and when leaving. their offices and there will be rooms open for study,” Lopez said.

Certain rooms will be open for study groups, as well as other quieter rooms for individual students studying.

Lopez said there is also the possibility of coffee and snacks being offered to students.

ASUN worked on this idea for the entire semester and got the go-ahead Wednesday morning.

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Jon Ferneau, a sophomore criminal justice major, (right) spots Mark Whitney, a freshman criminal justice major, during their early morning workout at the Campus Recreation Center on Nov. 30. Ferneau and Whitney are both specialists in the Army Reserves and will be deploying for a 12-month tour of Afghanistan next August.

Next fall, two UNL students will leave their studies behind to serve as military police during a 12-month voluntary deployment in Afghanistan

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ophomore Jon Ferneau and freshman Mark Whitney are both criminal justice majors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They both hail from Plattsmouth, Neb. The best friends quote the movie “Grandma’s Boy,” train, eat and hang out together.

But in August 2012, Ferneau and Whitney won’t be anywhere near a classroom. Instead, the Army Reserve specialists have decided to suspend their college careers and deploy to Afghanistan on a one-year tour as military police.

While both say they have wanted to deploy for a while and prove they can serve their country effectively, their official decision came a few weeks ago. Ferneau and Whitney each say the other was his reason to deploy, so neither had to go alone.

“It’s either both of us or none,” Ferneau said.

As of Wednesday, more than 1,700 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan since U.S. forces invaded in October 2001, according to the Associated Press.

The two realize the harsh truths of war; the threat of death, injury or psychological casualty. But for the two Nebraska natives, the bond between them, as well as opportunity to serve, keeps their war fears at bay.

“I just have it in my mind we’re coming back the same way we left,” Ferneau said.

Even though the Ferneau and Whitney families live two houses apart in Plattsmouth and the reserves graduated high school in successive years, the two said they weren’t initially friends.

“When I first joined the Army, I didn’t really like Jon,” said Whitney, who changed his mind once he got to know Ferneau better during basic training. “Now we can’t go an entire day without talking to each other.”

Each morning, Ferneau and Whitney work out at 6:30 a.m., then go for breakfast and sit and talk. After class, they typically reconvene for lunch and again for dinner, hanging out and working on homework the rest of the night.

“When one makes a decision, the other one knows that’s the decision he’s making also,” said Alek Gaard, a friend of Ferneau and Whitney’s and a junior secondary education major. “It’s kind of like they’re one.”

Both recently joined Theta Chi fraternity together and say their friendship has grown into an unbreakable bond.

“Jon’s another brother my mother never had,” Whitney said.

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Study links agreeability to lower credit scores Kim Buckley DAily Nebraskan

Being selfish might be good for your credit score.

A study by researchers at Louisiana State University, Texas Tech University and Northern Illinois University found several correlations between personality and credit score. A highly agreeable person was more likely to have a low credit score, according to the study.

“What we see is that individual human behavior is consistent with our behavior financially,” said Jeremy Bernerth, an assistant professor of management from Louisiana State University and one of the lead authors of the study. “People who are agreeable are friendly and warm, so the idea is if you have a family member that is in trouble financially, you’ll help. If you’re in the

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stores this weekend and get asked to take out another credit card, you’re more likely to accept.”

Researchers gave study participants personality surveys and looked at FICO credit scores. FICO scores range from 300 to 850 and are predictors of risk. A high score means that consumer is less risky.

Scoring highly on agreeability means those people

are more likely to take financial risks like co-sign on a loan or accept store credit cards, Bernerth said.

He said students should be more cautious if they are agreeable.

Erin Wirth, programming coordinator for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Student Money Management Center, said she hasn’t seen agreeability affect a person’s credit score at the

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center.

“They know there is the risk of (doing) something like co-signing on a loan,” she said.

Wirth said the results of the study were plausible.

But she added there was probably some ignorance on the part of the consumer.

“If you’re agreeable and don’t think about the consequences of your (financial) actions, you can put

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Impulsive? Blame your genes, study says conor dunn daily nebraskan

Impulsive behavior can sometimes bring out the worst in people, and a new study suggests a person’s DNA could be a contributing factor – especially for men.

A psychology professor at the University of NebraskaLincoln found that men and regular alcohol and tobacco consumers were more likely to exhibit impulsive behavior than women and non-alcohol or non-tobacco users.

“We kept an eye out for the studies suggesting the relation between the gene neurexin 3 (NRXN3) to alcohol and nicotine dependence, as well as impulsive behavior,” said Scott Stoltenberg, an assistant professor of psychology and lead author of the study. “We

then decided to look into what the connection could be between all three.”

Stoltenberg said NRXN3 is the gene that helps hold neurons, which carry messages from the brain to the body, together.

“If communication isn’t working properly, the neurons might be too close or too far apart from each other,” he said.

Although Stoltenberg has been researching the genetic influence on an individual’s risk for health problems for nearly 15 years, this specific study’s data was collected during a threeyear period, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

A total of 477 male and female college students participated in the study, but

only 439 became the main analysis for the study due to an inconsistency in gene variations, Stoltenberg said.

In an attempt to gain more accurate results, Stoltenberg and his partners only researched whites in order to reduce genetic variation.

Out of the 439 college students that were tested, 65 percent were female participants and 35 percent were male.

“Women tend to participate more than men when it comes to getting college students to partake in research studies,” Stoltenberg said.

The testing was conducted at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., where participants were brought into a lab to fill out an extensive questionnaire with questions regarding their smoking and drinking

habits as well as drug use.

Researchers asked the students to complete computerized tasks, which measured their reaction time.

Finally, each student had the inside of his or her cheek swabbed to extract DNA for genotyping.

“We found this newly discovered connection to be more prevalent in men than women,” he said.

But Stoltenberg said the gender differences weren’t surprising.

“The pathways from genes to behaviors is very complicated and there are many different hormonal issues between genders that come into play,” he said.

Impulsivity was also significantly higher in the students who regularly used tobacco or who had alcohol or drug problems. Students who had dealt with

physical, emotional or sexual trauma before age 12 also had higher scores.

Rebecca Ramm, a freshman biology major, said she agrees with the study’s findings regarding the gender difference.

“From what I’ve learned, testosterone has been shown to be, among other things, the cause of more rash decision-making and men naturally have more testosterone than women,” she said. “I think genes that could be identified as ‘impulse genes’ could just be triggers for even higher testosterone production.”

Stoltenberg said the reason impulsive behavior is more closely related to NRXN3 in men than women is unclear to him, but it isn’t the most interesting data that came out of the study.

“The fact that we found

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any difference is interesting, and gives us the chance to do follow-up research so we can perhaps discover more,” he said. NRXN3 isn’t the determining factor for the relation between genetics and impulsive behavior, he said.

“There are around 25,000 genes in the body and impulsivity can be affected by any of them,” he said.

“Many factors go into how a person controls their behavior, and we still don’t have all the answers just yet.” conordunn@ dailynebraskan.com

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rotc: from 1 Susan Nawrocki, Ferneau’s mom, said she’s glad her son has someone making the journey to Afghanistan with him.

Nawrocki said although her son will have other reserves to confide in, it’s his friendship with Whitney that will help him deal with the psychological pressures building up before deployment. The two will serve in separate units, but both will do military policing.

“Yes, I know he serves with a bunch of guys once a month, but it’s important to go over with someone you know,” she said.

No Fear The memory of a high school friend’s military brother’s death serves as a reality check for Ferneau, who said for as hard as he tries to avoid thinking about death, it’s unavoidable.

But Ferneau said he’s not afraid to die.

His fear hasn’t consumed him. He has just learned to live with it.

Ferneau’s decision came somewhat as a shock to Nawrocki, even though she had known he would eventually deploy when he first joined bethany schmidt | daily nebraskan the Army Reserves in April 2009. She found out through Ferneau (left) and Whitney sit down for breakfast at their “official table” in Abel Dining Hall after their morning workout Nov. 30. “(During army training), we a Facebook post a few weeks would have to scarf down our food,” Ferneau said. “Now we can take our time eating.” ago.

Nawrocki said she’s scared Mark Whitney said he had helped care for their parents, Trading Tests for of what might happen to him, but she stands behind his the urge to leave Nebraska working full-time jobs and Bullets and the United States recently contributing to family exThe college careers for both decision to penses. because of his students hit a standstill when deploy. The William Whitney, a 73-year- they leave for Afghanistan. Inexperience I’m not scared distance from living abroad old military veteran of 21 stead of purchasing books for home just of getting shot, in the Philip- years, has suffered health the fall 2012 semester, Whitmight prove blown up or pines during problems ever since his one ney and Ferneau said they even more year of army service in the will draft a last will and testahis youth. losing my limbs, heart-wrenchWhile he Vietnam War and his expo- ment, just in case. ing with FerI’m scared of admits a tour sure to Agent Orange.

Meanwhile, spring semesneau in Afwhat’s going to Whitney has had two major in Afghanistan ter represents one of the last ghanistan. is the farthest heart surgeries, diabetes and times either will take an exam happen to my “I miss him thing from a recently learned he has pros- in the next few years. when he’s just family if I don’t vacation, he tate cancer, he said.

“The new test is to dodge 40 minutes come back.

But despite William Whit- bullets,” Ferneau said. said he just away,” she jon ferneau wants change ney’s health problems, his Under that stress, William said. unl sophomore criminal justice major from “normal son said his father told him to Whitney said he worries bethany schmidt | daily nebraskan When Fermake sure he comes back to about how the two might be society.” neau lies Ferneau sits at breakfast with Mark and Whitney’s brother, In addition, see his mother. changed by war. awake at night, ideas of missMichael Whitney, a junior pre-law major (center). ConversaIn his heart, Mark Whitney Whitney said it’s his belief ev“All you worry about is ing out on family functions tion at the table consisted of football talk, inquiries about and hanging out with friends ery reserve wants to deploy said he doesn’t feel that’s all staying alive,” he said, “and vampires and “Words With Friends” strategies. his father wishes. despite their fear of death. that’ll kill ya.” weigh on his mind, he said.

“Dad just wants to live to More important than mainAfter his year in Vietnam, still lingers in the backs of “It’s almost like you’re miss- Deployment tests reserves’ see me come back,” he said. abilities to perform their astaining sanity while under Whitney said it took 10 years their minds. ing yourself for them because And his son intends to re- fire, Whitney said he worries for him to assimilate back into To this point, the two have you know you’re not going to signed jobs, he said. turn to both his mother and about the transition home for civilian life. For many years, maintained a lighthearted spirLike Ferneau, Whitney also be here,” Ferneau said. said he’s not scared – at least his father. his son and his friend. crickets woke him up at night, it, joking around with friends If anyone’s going to die, not for his own life.

A Father’s Footsteps According to 2010 Penta- he said. like Gaard, whom they might “I’m not scared of getting though, Mark Whitney said it gon data, nearly 67,000 U.S. William Whitney expected “The combat zone is easier never see again. his son’s deployment deci- shot, blown up or losing my won’t be Ferneau. troops deployed to Iraq and to live in than coming back to Their favorite joke, accordHe can’t imagine it. sion. Another year of college limbs,” he said. “I’m scared of Afghanistan have been di- civilian life,” Whitney said. ing to Ferneau: “Don’t worry And won’t. just didn’t seem to fit his son, what’s going to happen to my agnosed with post-traumatic While both Ferneau and guys, we’re just taking a year Ferneau will come back stress disorder since 2000, Whitney say they don’t think off to go study abroad.”

Whitney said, who he says family if I don’t come back.”

For the past few years, alive, Whitney said. needs constant action and with 7,700 new diagnoses last they will become psychologiRileyJohnson@ Whitney and his siblings have motion.

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Online magazine promotes healthy habits for students Conor Dunn

academic program coordinator for the William H. Thompson Learning ComThe University of Nebras- munity, also came to Barka-Lincoln has taken anoth- rett to ask if she knew er step in promoting health about the magazine. Barand wellness on campus rett said she called a meetthis year by forming a ing to see how partnership UNL might piwith StuIt’s really useful lot this magadent Health zine for stubecause our 101, a nadents. students can tional onBarrett said line magacome directly to the group zine. came to one us for resources “It’s kind conclusion: if there’s a of a new “How could and savvy particular we not invest way to get in this?” workout video students An edition or food recipe more inof the onterested in that they want line magazine their health comes out more information and wellonce a month. about. ness, made Of the four for the stukim Barrett pages UNL assistant director of wellness dents by customizes, services at campus recreation center the stuthe UHC and dents,” said Rec each have Kim Barrett, their own page. The reassistant director of Well- maining pages in between ness Services at the Cam- are filled with any other pus Recreation Center. health-related information Starting in September, the UNL wants to include.

University Health Center, The information that Campus Recreation Well- goes on these pages inness and Fitness, Hous- cludes various health artiing and Dining Services cles, food recipes, self-care and Student Involvement guides, polls and videos teamed up to purchase four made by the Rec’s perpages in the magazine to sonal fitness trainers and customize to UNL’s needs. the Student Involvement Barrett said the idea for team. The content featured becoming involved with also relates to the time of Student Health 101 was the year it is published. In came from one of her old the December edition, the students. She took this re- health center’s page conferral to Veronica Riepe, tained a variety of informadirector of Student Involve- tion on how to de-stress ment, who heard of the during finals week. magazine’s success from “It’s really useful because other universities. Tony our students can come diLazarowicz, the assistant rectly to us for resources if daily nebraskan

there’s a particular workonline out video or food recipe that they want more inforStudent Health 101 mation about,” Barrett said. what: National online Students also have the magazine promoting chance of participating in a health and wellness $1,000 drawing each month where: http:// readsh101.com/unl. by answering a short queshtml tionnaire on their opinion about that month’s edition.

Any UNL student is able to participate in publishing student connection to StuUNL’s section of Student dent Health 101, said a moHealth 101 each month. bile edition of the magaBarrett said students can zine exists, but it lacks the get involved by either sub- interactive tools needed to mitting videos or working make it run properly.

“We are working on with professionals to write building this up to include different articles.

“Everything that is sub- videos and other features,” mitted into our section of Taylor said. “Currently, it’s the magazine has to go still in the works.”

Student response is the through an approval process by the magazine’s most important factor goboard of medical profes- ing into UNL’s part in the sionals and dieticians,” she magazine, Barrett said. In September, there said. were about 38 Barrett We’re publishing

By Nosaid her what the students readers. vember, that favorite want to see. number jumped part of to about 500. the web“We’re pubsite is kim Barrett assistant director of wellness lishing what the the vidservices at campus recreation center students want to eos. see,” she said. “ I f “We can see people like the videos, they’re which parts of the webmore likely to read the sto- site the students are hitting most. If there’s something ries, as well,” Barrett said.

Jennifer Snyder, the mar- not being viewed, chances keting coordinator for the are it won’t be in the next health center, said the only edition.”

Barrett said if UNL can complication she has seen with Student Health 101 is continue to grow its stuits lack of a mobile appli- dent readership, more investments will be put tocation.

“I use my smartphone all ward the magazine. To the time and, when I try read the December edition, to look up the magazine, go to http://readsh101. it comes up kind of clut- com/unl.html. conordunn@ tered,” she said. dailynebraskan.com Chelsea Taylor, UNL’s

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They’ll Get Your Dollar Tomorrow Dec. 2, 1913 Tag Day is coming. Hurry! The committee in charge of the Cornhusker banquet has decided to reserve Wednesday as official Tag Day. A committee of thirty active and mercenary students will canvass the campus and uptown district thoroughly, selling tickets for the big banquet.

Every student should buy a tag, or rather a ticket, on Wednesday, so bring your dollar and come on the campus some time during the day. Those who think that they will be able to fool the committee by staying in their rooms all day will be slightly embarrassed by the entry into their private domain by one of the money seeking delegation of taggers.

Progressive Party Elects H. Andersen, J. Kessler Nov. 29, 1944 Harold Andersen and Joe Kessler were nominated as the Progressive Party candidates for senior and junior class presidents at Tuesday evening’s party convention held in the Union ballroom.

Andersen is the president of his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta and Student Council, managing editor of the Nebraskan, member of Phi Beta Kappa, and listed in “Who’s Who in American Universities and College.” Kessler, a member of Phi Delta Theta, is Nebraska’s star backfielder on the varsity football squad.

ASUN May Revamp Elections Dec. 1, 1967 Election of ASUN senators from districts might strengthen the role of student government, according to Bruce Bailey, chairman of the newly-created ASUN executive committee to evaluate election systems.

“The only way we can get what we want,” he said, “is to have a strong ASUN. Perhaps if we are able to go to representatives in living units, it will orient the Senate to problems of the students.”

Bailey, appointed to the head the committee selected by ASUN President Richard Schulze, said he became interested in investigating election systems when he began questioning the value of representation by colleges.

Non-law students are urged not to study at Law Library December 2, 1985 A sign at the entrance to the Law Library on East Campus greets students in the following way: “STOP: Do NOT come into this library unless you are a law student or need to use the legal collection. The law library is not a study hall. Study hall space is provided in Rms. 125/126.”

With finals week fast approaching, UNL students probably will be spending a lot of hours in the campus libraries. The Law Library, however, only can be used by law students or those using the law materials, said Ruth Witherspoon, assistant dean of the College of Law. — Compiled by mitch mattern mitchmattern@dailynebraskan.com

study because they wanted to know whether a low credit score was an indicator of bad behavior on the job, like theft, Bernerth said.

“A lot of companies use credit scores in the hiring process,” he said. “The justification is that they wanted to protect against theft.”

The study found no correlation between credit scores and theft, but it did find that a high credit score indicated high job performance.

Bernerth said if a person follows through when here or she is asked something, that person is more likely to have a good repayment history, which makes up part of a credit score.

Wirth said she has seen credit scores linked to a person’s responsibility and maturity. But she also said it was important to know that it may not be a true picture of a person’s personality.

“If you have a low credit score, it doesn’t mean you’re not responsible or you don’t do a good job (at work),” she said. kimbuckley@ dailynebraskan.com

Dec. 2, 1901 One of the Omaha papers had the following to say concerning Coach Booth in a recent issue: W.H. Booth, head coach of the champion football eleven of the university of Nebraska, is in Omaha for a few days, visiting former college mates of Princeton, the school where the big gridiron instructor learned the game.

Mr. Booth says that he can yet make no statement as his plans for next year, since he has decided nothing definitely so far. He is the recipient of several offers of coaching positions at different universities prominent among which is that from the university of Wisconsin.

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“The biggest struggle was The 24-hour study hours finding a place on campus will be offered again in the that wasn’t college-specif- spring during dead week ic,” said Reanna Nicholsen, and finals week. During an ASUN the summer, The main senator and ASUN will concern was a junior acevaluate the tuarial sci- security and making results. ence major.

“I think sure the study center down The prothe road cess of ar- was going to be a we could see ranging the safe place it potentially study hours happening as jeff lopez a whole 24 was lastuniversity of nebraska internal vice minute be- president, senior chemical engineering hours,” Lomajor pez said. “For cause the Gaughan right now, for Center had this semester difficulty finding staff to and next, it’ll be trial runs.” work the whole night, LoNicholsen said she pez said. hopes students will use the “The main concern was Gaughan Center for studysecurity and making sure ing because it will be open the study center was going all night, unlike the Wick to be a safe place,” Lopez Alumni Center and UNL said.

Love Library. “People wantLopez and Nicholsen will ing to study will take admeet with Gaughan Center vantage of it,” she said. franniesprouls@ workers Friday morning to dailynebraskan.com finalize details.

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Rushed nature of congressional session didn’t provide enough time to accurately assess, change health care bill

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magine you have a book report due next week on “War and Peace.” In case you’re unfamiliar, it’s about 1,400 pages long. Do you really believe you can read and understand such a book in a week? Now, imagine you’re a member of Congress and faced with a bill that is 1,928 pages long. Can you make a rational decision on such a bill in fewer than 30 days? Such was the case in the fall of 2009.

The Affordable Care Act of 2009 (ACA), better known to the public as “ObamaCare,” will be remembered as a significant step in the destruction of constitutional republicanism. While I believe its advocates had the best of intentions, the ACA fails to be effective policy for several reasons.

First, it introduces a constitutionally controversial mandate to buy insurance.

Second, it propagates the culture of overly complex and comprehensive legislation in Washington. Finally, the ACA fails to address the wildly expensive cost of our nation’s health care system.

The Affordable Care Act was challenged by a coalition of states immediately after being signed by President Obama in March 2010. The lawsuits focus on the constitutionality (or lack thereof) of the individual mandate to buy health insurance.

There have been several different judicial opinions on the matter. At this point, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case. They will likely reach a ruling in 2012.

I’ll leave it to them to decide whether the individual mandate in the ACA is constitutional.

The individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act amounts to a tax increase on the young and healthy to pay for care for the old and unhealthy. Democrats are quick to say that the “fine” isn’t a tax, but in practicality the two are the same. A “fine” of $750 for not buying insurance seeks to punish people for living. Unlike auto insurance, which is mandated for people who drive, health insurance is mandatory for being alive.

The individual mandate dramatically lessens the incentive for individuals to be responsible for their own health decisions. The mandate misleads the American people into believing they are helping masses of indigent people. The purpose of the mandate isn’t to provide Americans access to care.

The purpose is to increase the number of Americans paying insurance premiums and thereby spread out the burden of the cost of care rather than reducing the cost itself.

Before I go further, I’d like to recognize the argument that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act encourages preventative care. Such a statement may be correct, but it goes counter to my belief in the role of government. Government may provide aid for the indigent, but it isn’t intended as a cradle to the grave nanny state.

The Affordable Care Act is a massive piece of legislation. When finally signed by President Obama, the ACA

justin green was more than 1,900 pages in length. Illiteracy jokes aside, it’s essentially impossible to digest a bill of this length and give it honest debate during a congressional session.

Any bill too lengthy or complex to be fully debated should never come to a vote on Congress’ floor. If such legislation needs to be broken into 10 unique bills, then so be it. Bills of such complexity are bound to cause such fiascoes as the nationally embarrassing “Cornhusker Kickback” involving Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. In addition to causing problems during debate, such massive policy changes are extraordinarily difficult to accurately assess.

Overeager legislators put forth a litany of “changes” and “reforms” that have clouded methods of measurement.

In the end, this length and complexity complicates attempts to review policy outcomes.

Much has been made about the origins of the ACA. The central feature, the individual mandate, was first proposed by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. In the past, this plan was supported by individuals like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other powerful Republicans.

However, the source of a proposed law has little to do with its effectiveness or legality. This law shouldn’t be opposed because it was sponsored and passed by Democratic majorities. The law should be opposed because it’s misguided. It seeks to treat symptoms of problems in health care rather than the problems themselves.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t the worst piece of legislation in history. In fact, it contains several regulative moves and market reforms that might work out. Instead of isolating precise problems in our system, however, the ACA uses grapeshot to attempt to hit something instead of nothing. Pragmatists and conservatives alike should be wary of such legislation, whether it regards healthcare reform or homeland security (cough, cough, Patriot Act).

I’d prefer to stake out a more nuanced position on health care reform and offer a few additional pieces of

advice. First, always remember that “reform” and “progress” really just mean “change.” Until given time for review, all we know is that things will be different.

Second, revisit the idea of establishing pools for highrisk individuals. Both private and public pools are viable options. What is most important is ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions can have access to care without dramatically increasing premiums for the rest of us.

Finally, and this can apply to readers of both parties, negotiations must be in good faith. A principle reason for the mess of the bill dubbed “ObamaCare” was the intransigence of GOP legislators.

Instead of offering advice or proposing amendments and solutions, Republicans started saying, “No!” and stopped acting like members of Congress.

If we really want to get serious about health care reform, it’s best done incrementally. Skepticism, not the terribly shortsighted and

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ealth care.

Feel free to pause here and argue with the person sitting nearest to you.

The Affordable Care Act of 2010, or “ObamaCare,” as some have lovingly called it, has caused a lot of debate, to say the least.

The issue that has stirred the most debate in this law is the individual mandate, a critical component of the act that will require all Americans to have health insurance.

The question of whether this mandate is constitutional has been scrutinized repeatedly. Next year the Supreme Court will try to sort it out.

The individual mandate is critical to President Barack Obama’s plan because, as he puts it: “If an insurance company has to take you, has to insure you, even if you’re sick,

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foolish vision of “progress,” should be the guiding light of governance. Proposals exist to standardize electronic records, reform medical malpractice suits and ease limitations of regulations on nonprofit insurance pools. These proposals should be addressed individually and slowly.

The key is to avoid the poisonous idea that all legislation must be comprehensive. How? Legislators must focus on staying within reasonable limits of governance. Citizens should actively work to restrain the steady creep of government power.

By avoiding comprehensive reform, it’s possible to pursue a better health care system for all Americans.

Justin Green is a Senior Political Science and History Major. Follow him on Twitter @beargreenz, read his blog at HuskerRed. tumblr.com and reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

but you don’t have an individual mandate, then what would everybody do? They would wait till they get sick and then you’d buy health insurance, right?”

Much of the debate about this issue focuses on the commerce clause. Supporters of the individual mandate say the clause allows the government to require people to buy insurance, because when people don’t buy insurance it affects everyone else. (Because when uninsured people get sick and need care and can’t pay for it, that causes everyone’s insurance premiums to go up.) Opponents, meanwhile, argue that the Commerce Clause doesn’t give Congress that much power.

So far, the bill passed, going 3-2 in district court decisions and 4-1 in appeals courts. The most

evan marolf recent case, in the Washington D.C., Court of Appeals, ruled in favor of the law, saying, “The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems.”

By the way, in two of the appeals courts — which have three judges each — that upheld the law, two of the judges had been appointed by a Republican president. And in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional, Judge Frank Hull sided against the mandate.

Hull was appointed by President Clinton in 1997.

In that ruling, the court said that Congress doesn’t have “the ability to compel Americans to purchase an expensive health insurance product they have elected not to buy.”

Now, there’s obviously a lot of gray area in the Constitution.

The Commerce Clause is certainly no exception. Here’s the entire text: “(The Congress shall have power) To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”

Nothing about that is black and white. And, of course, that’s how the Founding Fathers wanted it to be. They knew they couldn’t predict every law that would ever be introduced or the conditions under which they would be introduced, so they left it open to interpretation.

That’s the Supreme Court’s job: to try and clear up the gray areas and determine whether the government is acting within the powers it has according to the Constitution.

The issue in this case comes down to Congress’ power versus citizens’ rights. On the one hand, the Supreme Court might

use a broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause to determine that Congress does have the power to require people to buy insurance. On the other, it might say that since the Constitution doesn’t specifically give Congress that authority and, because our government was meant to leave most rights to the people, Congress can do no such thing.

Like I said, it all comes down to interpretation.

Which keeps bringing me to this question: If it’s just a matter of interpretation, who cares? I’m no constitutional scholar, and the Supreme Court justices are far more qualified than me or anyone else to interpret this matter, but do we need them to?

There are plenty of cases where the Supreme Court must rule one way or the other on significant issues.

I don’t think this is one.

This is a big issue, but it’s not Brown v. Board or Miranda v. Arizona.

If the government is allowed to require people to buy insurance, which some 85 percent of people already have and 99 percent of people want, is that really going to make or break the balance between civil liberty and government’s responsibility to improve general welfare?

One more question: Why are people so worried that the government is going to force them to buy something that they would buy anyway? Everyone wants to have insurance, but when the government decides it’s going to require them to, that’s crossing a line? It’s kind of like a kid getting mad at his mom for telling him to eat his dessert, because he’s a big boy and no one tells him what to do.

Americans have always been, and always will be wary of government expansion. That’s a good thing. But in this case, people need to realize that sometimes government does good things.

Without the individual mandate, we’ll still be stuck with one of the biggest problems of the current system: A few people who can afford health insurance choose not to pay for it, for whatever reason. Some of those people get sick and aren’t able to pay for their medical costs. This causes insurance costs to rise for responsible people.

To be clear, the health care law is constitutional.

Going by precedent, the government has typically been pretty broad in its interpretation of the Constitution. And since this is an issue that already affects all Americans, it should have the power to regulate it.

But really, do we need to keep having this argument? The bill passed through Congress. Republicans don’t like it. You win some, you lose some.

Hopefully Americans win with this one.

Evan Marolf is a junior political science and history major. Follow him on twitter @evanmarolf and reach him at evanmarolf@ dailynebraskan.com

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R•E•S•P•E•C•T Lincoln musician Ishma Valenti strives to spur social, political progress with lyrical rap on debut album story by Cara Wilwerding

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swear, it’s like maybe they don’t care or they ain’t hearing us/I’m tired of my tax dollars steady putting fear in us/ buy a couple bombs so we can do a few experiments/blow a couple villages up for the experience.”

Local musician Ishma Valenti writes to inspire.

He uses his music, primarily conscious rap, as a catalyst for change.

Valenti is a member of the production group A to Z Productions, along with partners Zach Watkins, Dean Cloud and David Trevino. AZP has been together since 2003, with more than 15,000 records sold locally. They were recently recognized nationally with the TUNE Music Award and are now working on scoring independent movies.

In the past six years, Watkins put out three solo albums with the help of his partners. Now it’s Valenti’s turn.

On Jan. 1, Valenti will release his debut album, “Respect.” The goal of this album is to teach morals and analyze social issues through lyrical rap.

“I’m putting my philosophy on my album,” Valenti said. “People are still unaware that things need to change; that we need to progress even more.”

Valenti explained that “Respect” takes an objective look at the world and the problems within. People don’t realize that something is broken and everyone should be outraged, he said.

Specifically, Valenti wants to change the central government. Although he supports federal politicians, he doesn’t think they’re proactive enough. The government needs to take a different stance on the war on drugs and the war on oil, according to Valenti. In his mind, all political issues can be solved through understanding and consideration.

“You don’t drill for oil if you have respect for the environment or the people that live there,” Valenti said. “I feel like it just goes full circle with the way we need to change things, and it can start with respect.”

Watkins thinks Valenti is changing the way people think in a way he doesn’t even realize.

“I think what really makes him unique to other musicians is his intelligence,” Watkins said. “He has a voice about all these things – being educated and being respected. It changes the way rap artists and hip-hop artists are portrayed.”

While “Respect” won’t officially be released until next year, Valenti plans to give listeners a sample tonight at his event, “The Prelude to

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Respect.” He is linking up with local artist Ben Jones, founder of Anti-Oppression Art, to bring a musical medium to the First Friday art walk.

Valenti will perform with musicians Amy Schmidt, Digger Thompson Kids and Kara Larson. They will play acoustic versions of six songs from “Respect” and tracks from Watkins’ upcoming album, “Upon Another Planet 2.”

Watkins said Valenti’s biggest strength as a musician is his ability to progress and play other genres of music. Valenti was somewhat skeptical

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of playing indie music at first, Watkins said.

“At first he didn’t necessarily like that type of music, but he’s really good at evolving and setting the bar and learning how to be different,” Watkins said.

On New Year’s Eve, Valenti is holding an album release party at Wasabi Bar and International Grill (114 S. 14th St). The album will sell for half price before it goes into local stores and iTunes. With the $5 cover charge, spectators can expect to hear DJs and watch Jones conduct a

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People have been asking for a solo release album for years, Valenti said. He is proud to have his chance in carrying the torch for AZP. “I’ve built this reputation of being this lyrical rapper and rapping about things that matter,” Valenti said. “I’m exicted to finally deliver what people have been asking for.”

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A new genre of music has come out of the woodwork: country-tinged gothic folk.

The artist spearheading this newly labeled genre is Chris Bathgate. The smalltown feel that can be heard in his music may stem from his birthplace in rural Iowa or his upbringing in rural Illinois. Bathgate was formerly part of the band The Descent of the Holy Ghost Church. In 2008, he was picked as a Starbucks’ “Pick of the Week.”

His first full-length album, “A Cork Tale Wake,” got him signed with Quite Scientific Records. Bathgate’s new album, “Salt Year,” is said to be more of a self-reflective and mature narrative of his life. The Daily Nebraskan was given an opportunity to sit down with Bathgate to talk about his music, his background and his future plans.

Daily Nebraskan: What is your next move?

Chris Bathgate: Once we get home from the tour, do writing and get ready for Mittenfest in Michigan, which is a huge benefit concert, and then we will be having an EP coming out in mid-January.

DN: What inspired your genre, country-tinged gothic folk?

CB: I think we are given that genre but really our genre is undeclared. We do

have some of those gener- met beautiful and amazing al aspects with the solemn people. We are also eating and slow country or tradi- really well.

DN: Do you put some of tional American music. But really I love rock ‘n’ roll your Midwestern upbringand I listen to a lot of heavy ing into your music?

CB: Whether I know it or metal. Mostly the music just comes from a lot of differ- not, it’s there. The Midwest is just so flat and all of the ent interests.

DN: On your bio online, space and industrial agriculyour music is said to flood ture have just helped shape my music and the listener my life. And with intense I think my music I just think imagery and is reflective of that cornfield emotions. my own personal upbringing How do you just sneaks go about donarrative.The into my life ing that? Is it purpose of my whether I in the tone music, now, is to want it to or and lyrics or not. is it just feeldocument life DN: What ing it down accurately. is the greatest to your very core?

CHRIS BATHGATE memory you had at one of CB: I think artist of new album “ salt year” your concerts my music is reflective of my own per- or something that was unsonal narrative. My mu- usual that happened?

CB: The coolest moment sic doesn’t necessarily talk about a certain who, what, we had was on our way where or when. The pur- to Seattle, Wash., and you pose of my music, now, is could just tell you weren’t to document life accurately in the Midwest anymore. It in song, creating a feeling. I was one of the most awelike to run through the mu- some and frightening mosic spectrum looking for a ments because there were these snowy mountain reaction to certain music.

DN: How would you de- passes with huge pine trees scribe your experiences on and we were going downtour? hill for 45 minutes at a six CB: This tour has been in- degree angle. It was the tense and bizarre and had a most intense moment, and lot of success in attendance. then after all of that we had We would go to some plac- finally gotten to the coast es and it would be packed and we could see how far more than we had antici- we had come.

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Midnight on Wednesday finds Heidi Bartlett sitting crosslegged before a piece of drywall, X-ACTO knife in hand.

The floor of the Tugboat Gallery is cluttered with hidetanning materials and a partial deer hide. A single table holds a sewing machine and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” album, which served as inspiration for one of the largest pieces that will be on display at the First Friday art walk.

Bartlett and her artistic partner, Anthony Hawley, will open their show, “Heidi and Tony’s A Little Chiffon Goes a Long Way” at the Tugboat Gallery.

“We wanted something (a name) that had a playfulness to it,” Hawley said. “(Something) that suggested an experience.”

And “experience” seems to be the main focus of the gallery.

Aspen logs rest against one wall, a preserved set of wings and a tail from a pheasant rest in an opposite corner and deer heads made from tanned deer flesh stare upward.

White paper walls have been installed to force gallery viewers to maneuver the gallery in a specific way.

“When we first met, we had this shared interest in making art that is a kind of environment, rather than just single discrete objects,” Hawley said.

“We had this shared interest in a total experience.”

Most of the show’s works

were collaborative pieces done by Bartlett and Hawley. Each will only have a few pieces on display that they created independently.

The particular piece Bartlett is stationed in front of has a circular graphite drawing, faintly resembling the center of a tree stump. She drags the knife across the surface of the board, creating a textured hatch-pattern below the drawing. As she works, she talks.

“We wanted to make it seem like one cohesive piece of work,” Bartlett said, explaining they each bring their own styles and materials to the table. She prefers to work with animal byproducts, like feathers and flesh. He, on the other hand, chooses wood, graphite and paper as his mediums.

The two artists have been exchanging ideas and talking about this show during the course of the last year. During the past month, Bartlett and Hawley have been piecing their show together in the Tugboat Gallery.

Now, two days before the show, Bartlett scrambles to put finishing touches on the gallery’s layout before First Friday.

Both artists have spent the past year traveling nationally and internationally and their adventures have served as inspiration for this display.

“We just did a lot of things in the past year that would affect what this would be,” Bartlett said. “This is something that exists between us right now … something we

need to say today.”

Bartlett was particularly inspired by galleries and shows she attended while in Venice, as well as her week-long study of movement at the Pilobolus dance studio in Connecticut.

The galleries and shows she attended while in Venice integrated the entire gallery into the display. Instead of a museum-style format, in which the walls are simply space for individual’s works to be hung, the entire space becomes part of the work, creating an entirely new environment for viewers.

“We’ve been talking about the recalibration of space: How can we change it or make it feel different or more like itself?” Bartlett said.

To incorporate the lessons she learned about movement from Pilobolus dancers, Bartlett invited Kate Running, one of her friends and the show’s technical assistant, to perform at 8:30 p.m.

Running worked on part of her costume — a white chiffon hood — for her dance, or really, her movement. She is waiting to choreograph the performance until the day before the show’s opening.

“A lot of it will end up being impromptu and experimental,” she said. “I’m excited.”

Like Bartlett, Hawley has spent a large portion of the past year traveling, mainly to art residencies on the East Coast and in Italy.

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A boozy one-night stand turns into something more in director Andrew Haigh’s “Weekend.”

Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New) wake up the morning after expecting to part ways. However, something between them clicks and they can’t pull themselves apart.

During the course of 48 hours, they get to know each other, get drunk and high and have sex. But their relationship is sweeter, more wistful and more tonally complex than it that might seem at first glance.

The writing, cinematography and acting, Cullen in particular, are all very good. Haigh and cinematographer Urszula Pontikos are highly competent visually and create a logic in the images that is too rarely seen in modern film.

Falling into the New Queer Cinema movement, “Weekend” rejects heterosexuality as a default and identify construction it supposedly entails. While the

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protagonists are still outsiders, the film suggests that the first step to acceptance is accepting one’s self. Russell has come out to only his closest straight friends, yet he still finds it difficult to confide in them about gay issues. His major arc is to overcome the shame he still feels as a gay man in a straight world.

Russell hopes some day he won’t be jeered for showing affection in public. When that day happens, maybe then the LGBT film can overcome its shackles of the social-problem film. Haigh’s film is mostly solid, but it still begs the question, can love really form during the course of a weekend? tomhelberg@ dailynebraskan.com

‘The Skin I Live In’ full of genre shifts, bizarre plot premise Cameron Mount Daily Nebraskan

After your stomach fully settles, it will likely take another day or two to know exactly what to make of “The Skin I Live In,” Pedro Almodovar’s darkly bizarre thriller of mad scientists, sexual perversion and disturbing twists.

Antonio Banderas stars as Dr. Ledgard, who develops a speciality in face transplants after a grisly car accident leaves his wife burned head to toe. Seeing her reflection, his wife commits suicide in front of her teenage daughter Norma (Blanca Suárez), who requires extensive psychiatric treatment. When Norma is later raped, Dr. Ledgard embarks on a vengeance plan unfortunately reminiscent of “The Human Centipede,” though, in its own arthouse style, there’s a tiger-costumed rapist, sexual reassignment surgery and fetishes for burnt flesh. All this is background for understanding the movie’s mysterious centerpiece: Vera (Elena Anaya), a beautiful woman with too-perfect skin and eerie resemblances, locked away in Dr. Ledgard’s upstairs bedroom.

If that’s somewhat hard to

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follow, imagine the story told in a constant stream of jumbled flashbacks spanning 12 years and teetering just as often among genres. This is gothic horror told in bright, bold colors, all with a delicate dose of WEEKEND self-aware camp.

There is a nagging senseTom thatCullen, Almodovar is Starring: Chris New merely manipulating for shock value he reveals Mary as Riepma Rossthis increasingly twisted web.

But quite unlike movies like “The Human Centipede,” it provokes Grade deep ethical questions about power, obsession and scientific experimentation, and swings among fragmented themes with style and skill. It sparks passion-fueled reactions and discussion, with a story that on paper is disquieting if not detestable. Taken as a whole, “The Skin I Live In” jolts and overwhelms a bit too much, but it’s a roller coaster worth the upset stomach.

Cameron Mount Take a seat right here, NBC. We need to have a talk.

Remember 2004? I’d understand if you’ve blotted it out.

Your famous “Must See TV” Thursday lineup, which once held the likes of “Cheers,” “Seinfeld” and “Frasier,” was reduced to “Will & Grace” and “Joey.” Really, NBC? “Joey?”

And at 8 p.m. like you were proud of it? Of course, if it’s any solace, most viewers were too bored to be properly embarrassed for you.

Then, in 2005, a miracle.

Or, at least a steady stream of sense: “The Office” and “My Name is Earl,” followed by “30 Rock” in 2006 and “Parks and Recreation” and “Community” in 2009. NBC was suddenly the hub of consistently funny comedy. And while I’ve memorized more Dwight quotations from “The Office” than I have state capitals and go to uncomfortable lengths to praise Tracy Morgan’s absurd “acting” on “30 Rock,” the brightest and most consistent comedic gems belong fully to “Community.”

So, NBC, let’s talk about this hiatus.

Evidently, it only takes six years to become so smug with success that you forget how precariously you sit atop that comedy throne. Perhaps the air up there doesn’t quite have the oxygen level we enjoy closer to Earth, because why else would you throw perhaps your most ardent and loyal fans under a bus twice in one year?

For those that don’t remember, “Community” faced cancelation just last spring, when Chance Solem-Pfeifer valiantly laid his claim for its continuation in a Daily Nebraskan column. And while Chance’s cojones unquestionably staved off the NBC reaper for a good nine months, we all know how long NBC’s memory lasts. And, this time, they

mean it, officially shifting the likable but off-target “Up All Night” into the “Community” time slot.

So what makes me rave and rant about a sitcom featuring a “Breakfast Club”-esque study group? Most simply and essentially, the characters. Joel McHale plays Jeff Winger, the self-obsessed former lawyer forced to attend Greendale Community College when caught with a fake degree.

Chevy Chase, long regulated strictly to pasttense comedy conversation, makes a triumphant return as moist towelette tycoon and racist curmudgeon Pierce Hawthorne.

But the show’s foundation for brilliance comes from Abed Nadir, played by Danny Pudi. Though not explicitly mentioned, it becomes clear that Abed has something akin to high-functioning autism. He interprets everything in terms of television trivia and tropes, though is laughed off by the others as a socially awkward pop culture junkie.

What the study group never realizes is that Abed’s impersonal analysis of each week’s hijinks is always accurate.

Abed knows the intricate construction of every story ever put to film. Because of this, he can explicitly deconstruct each episode’s happenings as they happen, complete with all the right pop culture references.

“Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas,” a stop-motion animation special that could have whizzed comfortably by on gimmick, was an ingeniously disturbing example of the show’s layers. In the episode, Abed is the only character that realizes they are in an animated wonderland. His mention of this only elicits distracted concern from the study group, who half-heartedly wonder if Abed has finally cracked.

Is the study group right, and Abed literally lives each day of his life in a different fantasy

mind frame? Does the “Community” we watch depict the reality of Abed’s God-like omniscience over the group, or are we seeing a social outcast with Aspberger’s syndrome

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tragically misconstrue reality week after week? The viewer never knows, and an endless bank of television and movies to work from ensures an infinite combination of angles, layers and subversions.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: Hey now, Charlie Kaufman, I don’t need 12 meta-layers to laugh at a TV show. This is exactly why “Community” hits the perfect balance. The show doesn’t merely string together pop culture jokes in ridiculous ways, a sure-fire path to jumping the shark or losing steam.

Instead, each episode grounds its self-awareness in heartfelt well-written comedy, with fully fleshed characters and ensured freshness. Besides the media arsenal, each season requires a new guest star to teach the course the study group will take together. Ken Jeong and John Oliver entered the show in this way, and John Goodman plays a mean vice dean of air conditioning in season three.

Earlier this season, “Remedial Chaos Theory” pushed

the show’s boundaries even further. When a pizza delivery man arrives during a Yahtzee game, the group agrees to roll the die to determine who goes to collect the pizza. Abed remarks that the die could fall six different ways, necessitating six different timelines. The group, as always, ignores him, but the show proceeds to play out each scenario, with subtle interactional differences leading to often dramatic results.

And though it’s never mentioned, each timeline says something essential about each character.

When childlike Troy leaves (rushing to not miss anything fun), Pierce is accidently shot by Annie, and Britta’s joint engulfs the apartment in flames. The implication is that no one notices how Troy’s carefree personality holds the dysfunctional group together. The only timeline when something doesn’t go wrong is when Jeff leaves, a character who assumes the role of father-like leader, though his ego has been the source of the group’s problems since he joined. The episode’s intricacies are pitch-perfect, hilarious and mind-boggling to parse through, regardless of the implications of Evil Troy and Evil Abed on the series’ future.

Yes, television is a moneydriven business, but, NBC, you should know that shows need time, care and advertising to become success stories.

Even “Seinfeld” didn’t reach the Nielsen top 30 until season four. Look, NBC, I’m willing to forgo mentioning all glaring similarities to the Conan fiasco and speak from the heart: You have something amazing that people love. Please don’t mess it up.

Email NBC and join the “Save Greendale” Facebook group, then reach Cameron at cameronmount@ dailynebraskan.com.

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tugboat: from 5 Hawley and Bartlett agree that their commitment to the art and trust of each other are key to the creation of their shows. And, if opportunities present themselves in the future, the pair looks forward to yet another collaboration.

Bartlett pushes back on her heels, finished with the piece.

She glances to her next project — a series of white strips pinned to the wall and floor — and moves toward the center of the room to grab supplies to begin work. katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com

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Tom Helberg It’s rare, but not unprecedented, that a director remakes his own film.

Alfred Hitchcock did it with “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Michael Haneke did it with “Funny Games.” But what would possess Géla Babluani to remake his own excellent thriller “13 Tzameti” (2005) as the completely brainless “13” (2010)?

The original film is in black and white and in French. Is there any need for color to enjoy a film? Is reading subtitles really that bad?

The original film follows Sebastian (George Babluani), a handyman who decides to follow instructions left for someone else not knowing where

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they will lead. All he knows is that he could make some money. That’s all the audience knows, too, and both go further down the rabbit hole together. I can’t spoil the surprises here, but they are dark, compelling and quite violent.

The remake, “13,” completely ruins what the original film kept secret for half its running time. The first shot gives it away, then resorts to flashbacks to tell the story. It assumes that the viewer can’t make the leap of faith to not understand what’s going on for half the picture.

“13” is an assault on the senses and is utterly offensive on a filmic level. Unnecessary dialogue and shots tell us what we already know again and again. I’m not sure if the film caters to the most cinematically illiterate or is just unintentionally and unspeakably bad.

Lining up an uninspired list of name actors including

Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke and Ray Winstone, the actors all phone in their performances, except Sam Riley who takes the lead role. His motivation is set up in a painfully contrived manner. His father is in the hospital and needs an operation. His mother and sister depend on him. It’s painfully forced. The original film left the protagonist’s backstory a mystery, and it was better for it.

In the remake, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson plays a part so wooden, unnecessary and laughably bad that has nothing to do with the narrative whatsoever. The usually wonderful Michael Shannon of “Take Shelter” (2011) and “Revolutionary Road” (2008) turns up, but he’s horribly miscast. And the only thing worse than a Statham movie is a Statham movie in which he constantly wears a fedora.

“13 Tzameti” worked mostly because of its unrelenting

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tension. Its twisty, neo-noir look is stylish and shocking.

It leaves viewers completely in dark about how the story would unfold. Like its remake, “13 Tzameti” takes itself very seriously, yet the original works because it actually delivers thrills.

“13” is one of the most unnecessary Hollywood remakes in recent memory.

That’s a shame, because the original film is a surprising treat. Do yourself a favor and rent “13 Tzameti.” “13” was apparently only played in Los Angeles and was unceremoniously released direct to DVD weeks later. It’s one to avoid at a Redbox near you.

Tom Helberg is a senior film studies major. Reach him at tomhelberg@ dailynebraskan.com.

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“I got interested in this tension between natural and synthetic materials,” Hawley said.

He began to work with both kinds of supplies, using tree branches and the tape from cassettes.

The two artists met while Bartlett was an intern for the Tugboat, displaying her senior show in the hallway directly outside the gallery. Although they parted ways shortly after that show (Bartlett to study in New York and Hawley to continue attending art residencies), tentative plans hung for a collaborative show.

Their first show was centered on sawing a tree down.

The display included the remnants from the tree and an audio recording of the process.

Tonight’s display will also include the audio recording of the creation of “Heidi and Tony’s Bad Romance,” a large, circular piece etched with tree branches while the pair listened to remixes of “Bad Romance.”

The Gaga-inspired piece is offset by Bartlett’s feather pieces, which she had to work with a taxidermist to learn to create.

“I really feed off of other people’s energy, so it works well for me to collaborate than to work on my own,” she said.

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valenti: from 5 its time to be so musical, with instrumental arrangements that have been perfected. Access to a wide range of instruments has given AZP a style different from many rap groups. Valenti described their sound as jazz meets synthesized pop. Watkins’ history in orchestra brought in synthesized strings — violas, violins and cellos. They have also worked with Faith Apostolic Holiness Church choir, which came in to record live.

In terms of inspiration, Valenti said he is inspired to be a messenger. He is encouraged by his family and Watkins, whom Valenti called “instant inspiration”

and “inspiration in a can.” Working as co-director of the Guidance to Success (GTS) Youth Program has also motivated Valenti in different ways.

As an organization that provides resources and structured activity to underprivileged and at-risk youth, GTS has four main goals. Through mentoring and guidance, volunteers hope to establish brotherhood, encourage change, focus progress and stimulate success.

“I think it just keeps me grounded. It keeps me relevant with the youth,” Valenti said. “I see what they’re going through and I see what’s going on out

there.”

GTS offers weekly tutoring sessions and ACT prep, along with guest speakers, community service opportunities and six basketball teams. They also visit local college campuses and take field trips.

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Valenti said he most enjoyed the Brown v. Board of Education field trip.

“As a program, we stress education,” Valenti said. “For them to go there and see what people

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The most rewarding part of the program is seeing the kids have fun, Blanton said. That’s the kind of inspiration that’s addicting, according to Valenti.

Hearing some of the tasteless music that kids at GTS listen to also pushes Valenti to create music with a purpose. Every song that AZP produces has a specific message, Valenti said. They don’t make mediocre songs.

Valenti thinks the song order and timing arrangements in his new album are flawless. He hopes “Respect” can take listeners through a musical journey.

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basketball: from 10 Bob Devaney Center. Freshman Hailie Sample said it will be nice to hear crowds not cheering for the opposing team.

“It will be nice to play at home with our home crowd and a little more familiarity,” Sample said.

UTPA, out of the Great West Conference, enters the game with a 2-5 record against subpar competition so far in 2011.

The Broncs average only 54 points a game with just one double-figure scorer in sophomore LaQuita Garner, who averages 11.8 points a game. Its offense is one of the worst in Division I basketball, ranking 292 out of 336 teams in the nation.

Despite being a heavy favorite in its next game, Sample said Nebraska is focused on working on what it needs to do to get better.

“I think we are going to focus on ourselves and what we need to do to get better,” Sample said. “We had a lot of flaws against Georgia Tech, so those will be the primary focus.”

One of those flaws during the Georgia Tech game was coming out more aggressive at the outset. Georgia Tech outscored Nebraska 18-5 in the game’s first eight minutes and dominated in the paint, scoring 30 more points than the Huskers.

Yori said the blame for not beginning the game with better focus and aggressiveness is placed solely on the coach.

“Obviously I didn’t get our guys ready to go and it’s disappointing,” Yori said. “They played scared in the first half of Georgia Tech, not taking the ball strong to the basket at all, which has to change.”

Though the Huskers struggled in assertiveness in their loss, they did have resiliency late in the second half cutting the lead — which had loomed near 30 points at one time — to 12 points. That resiliency was seen throughout the road trip, especially in a comeback victory against Florida State.

Nebraska will use the hardiness developed in its first games on the road throughout the season, especially because they are so young, Sample said.

Being mentally tough was a key aspect gained from the nineday road trip, Sample said.

Now that NU returns home, junior captain Lindsey Moore said the team will look to apply that experience it gained traveling away from Lincoln on the court.

“It is not going to be easy for teams to beat us this season,” Moore said.

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“They’re playing well and they’ve got an elite player in Pelger,” Cook said. “She’s a great player and they’re playing well. They’re going at a faster tempo than what they have in the past. Serving’s going to be really big for us tomorrow night, to get them out of system.”

While the Wildcat players couldn’t comment on facing Nebraska directly — NU had yet to defeat Jackson State for the right — coach Suzie Feliz said the team intends to play its finest volleyball Friday night. With the volleyball field reduced to the top-32 teams, NU is fully prepared to face some top competition.

“Are they the 32nd ranked team in the country? Their RPI’s (26) higher,” Cook

said. “Unless you’re Penn State, you’re going to have to play a pretty good team in the second round.”

The Wildcats play a distinct style from much of the Big Ten competition Nebraska is used to, focusing much of their offensive attention to middle blockers like Pelger. Despite that, Cook feels that the team should be ready to face the Big 12’s fourth-ranked team.

“They run a slower set in the middle so they can throw it up there anytime they want and they do a nice job of taking swings on that,” Cook said. “It’s a little bit different style.”

If the Huskers win, they will advance to Hawaii for the West Regional and face

either Pepperdine or North Carolina, which upset California Thursday night. If they lose, several streaks would be snapped: The Huskers would fail to reach the final 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 18 years and the Huskers’ 37-match home winning streak, including postseason, would come to an end.

As would the season, and the careers of the three seniors. So, no pressure right?

“I’m going to just love it,” Brooke Delano said. “The Coliseum has been good to me these last five years, so what better way to end than on a win?” seanwhalen@ dailynebraskan.com

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After a 20-day hiatus from match competition, the Nebraska wrestling team is eager to return to the mats.

The Huskers travel to Las Vegas this weekend to compete in the 30th annual Cliff Keen Invitational. Still u n d e feated, the team joins a field of 34 opponents, Koehn including fellow Big Ten members Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin in the tournament, their first since sweeping a trio of duals at the Wrestle for a Cure Duals in Harrisburg, Pa., on Nov. 12. Sitting at No. 21 in the NWCA poll, the Huskers boast that they don’t like to dwell on the constantly changing rankings.

“(Coach Mark) Manning always talks to us about not looking at the rankings,” said junior Tyler Koehn. “It doesn’t really mean much.”

Instead, the Huskers have focused on wrestling against each other and improving during the dualless downtime, which their rank has repeatedly shifted despite the lack of outside competition.

“We go as hard as we can during practice,” Koehn said. “We’re still doing the same stuff. Still competing they way we’d be competing otherwise.”

Manning repeatedly advises the wrestlers to take care of business on the mat instead of dwelling on the rankings and other outside distractions, a lesson especially relevant because of the late-November void in matches.

“The bottom line is it’s about making improvements with ourselves and trying to block out those distractions,” he said. “You lose focus when you lose sight of getting into that wrestling room every day

and going to work. Outside distractions can alter your mindset and you’ve got to be able to control that to be at your highest level.”

Mental preparedness has always been a key tenet of Manning’s coaching.

Through all of Manning’s 150 wins with NU, that has been a constant and likely a key factor in his being named 2011 International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles International Freestyle Coach of the Year.

After assisting former Husker Jordan Burroughs in becoming the first American to claim a wrestling World Championship since 2006, the coach was named the award’s 2011 recipient Nov. 1.

Manning was Burroughs’ personal coach as he made a “meteoric rise” through the international wrestling ranks, winning his first FILA World Championship in September. Before his success at the international level, Burroughs became the school’s only two-time national champion after

capturing the 165-pound national title in 2011 and earning the prestigious Hodge Trophy, given to the nation’s most outstanding wrestler.

Even through the Huskers’ downtime, Manning said he wanted to ensure that his players didn’t lose sight of their own goals.

“It’s real important to stay focused and continue to work and get better,” he said. “With practice, you’re always trying to improve your physical skills but the mental skills of controlling your mind and what you put in it and staying positive is even more important.”

With the weekend’s duals at the Las Vegas Convention Center, NU looks to improve upon a 4-0 record that includes wins against Bucknell, Kent State, North Carolina and Navy. The Huskers return to the Devaney Center mats on Dec. 10 to open the home portion of their schedule against 15thranked Wyoming. faizsiddiqui@ dailynebraskan.com

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After 20 days off the board, the Nebraska diving team is ready to jump back into the water.

T h e Huskers travel to Iowa to compete in the Iowa In- aumueller vitational, w h i c h begins Friday and runs through Sunday.

The competition will be the team’s first since both NU’s swimming and diving teams defeated the University of Nebraska at Omaha 192-100 Nov. 11 at the Devaney Natatorium.

Diving coach Natasha Chikina said she can’t wait to see her team compete this weekend.

“It’s exciting because we’re going to be able

to compete against some Big Ten schools and it’s a three-day event,” she said.

Along with Notre Dame and South Dakota State, the Huskers are one of three teams to bring its divers to the meet. Other opponents include Denver, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Washington State.

Chikina said the Hawkeyes and No. 16-ranked Michigan will be the Huskers’ biggest challenge.

“They’re the two Big Ten teams and are notorious for having great diving teams,” the coach said.

In the team’s last meet against UNO, Nebraska diver Payton Michaud posted a score of 284.63 in the 1-meter drive. The score topped the sophomore’s previous career-best as a Husker when she posted a 284.15 at last year’s Big 12 Championships.

Chikina said her team, who has swept all four events hosted at the Devaney this year, has done

great as a group so far this year.

“When we compete with everybody we do our best,” she said. “Most of our girls have done a great job and have been consistent since the beginning of the year.”

Junior Kaitlan Walker won the 3-meter dive against the Mavericks when she set a career-best score of 294.88, surpassing her previous best of 282.75 that she set against SDSU last season.

Walker said the team has been working on polishing their finishes since their last meet.

“We’ve been working on the details in our entries, jumping high and cleaning up the dives,” she said.

The Albuquerque, N.M., native said the team needs to continue their success in order to take the meet.

Chikina agreed.

“If we can stay more consistent than the other teams we’ll be in a good position to qualify for finals,” she said.

Preliminaries will begin at 10 a.m. each morning with finals starting at 6 p.m. each evening.

The diving coach added that she’s bringing all six divers to the meet.

“Every one of them are special and bring true talent to the team,” Chikina said. “They all have their own strengths and weaknesses and I just hope they do well enough to compete in the finals.”

The three events performed by Nebraska will be the 1-meter spring board, the 3-meter spring board and platform, with one being performed each day.

Walker said having one event per day will make it easier for the team to focus.

“I think we’re ready and we’re looking forward to the meet,” she said. “If everyone can compete to their full potential and what we’re capable of it will be a great meet for us.” neduIzu@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska freshman David Rivers fights for a rebound in a game earlier this season.

Brandon Ubel, but Sadler said the ball only entered the post on 32 of 77 possessions.

The loss dropped Sadler to 10-14 in games decided by one possession in his NU career. He can remember most of those occasions and just what the Huskers did wrong in the losing efforts.

He said close games typically come down to each team’s best player. If a star can make plays down the stretch, he increases his team’s chances at victory.

“Usually, that one guy makes a difference, that guy that can just break you down,” Sadler said. “Plays can be defended.”

Nebraska’s next opponent, Creighton, has one of those guys.

Sophomore Doug McDermott has picked up where he left off after a spectacular freshman season. The forward has already been named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week twice this season. He’s averaging 23.7 points and 8.5 rebounds, including a 25-point, 12-board effort in the Bluejays’ comeback win against San Diego State Wednesday.

At 6-foot-7 and 220 pounds, it’s hard to defend him with a guard. But McDermott is also a tough test for post players, as he’s shooting better than 50 percent from behind the arc this season.

So how does Sadler plan on defending McDermott?

He doesn’t know.

“We’re still trying to figure

that out,” Sadler said. “Nobody has done it.”

To be fair, NU will spend much of Friday and Saturday focusing on Creighton preparation and will likely develop a plan to try and neutralize McDermott then. But even if they can slow the sophomore, Creighton has plenty of offensive firepower behind him. The Bluejays have five other players who average more than eight points per game and are averaging 88 points per game as a team.

The momentum also favors Creighton. While the Huskers are coming off a last-second loss to Wake Forest, the Bluejays overcame a 17-point deficit Wednesday to down the Aztecs and have won all six of their games.

The Huskers have already dropped two close home games and haven’t gotten out to the start they were looking for.

Caleb Walker knows the team didn’t do what they wanted to Wednesday night.

But there’s little use looking back. All the Huskers can do is move forward, starting Sunday at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha.

“We have an opportunity to make it right,” Walker said. “We need to focus on being a team again. We need to get back to sharing the basketball and playing good defense and in these next three days we have a chance to do that.”

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The Nebraska bowling team is hungry for a championship.

Fresh off of a runner-up performance at the Valparaiso Crusader Classic, the team heads to Huntsv i l l e , Texas, t h i s johnson weekend to compete in the inaugural Track Kat Classic, hosted by Sam Houston State. After earning a one seed and falling just four points short of a victory at last weekend’s tournament in Indiana, senior Kayla Johnson and the Huskers are looking to win it all this time around.

“That gave us a good start to the year,” Johnson said. “We’re hoping to make that even better at

this tournament. It gives us something to work for, to aim for first and second.”

Unlike the bowlers, coach Bill Straub didn’t find himself disappointed with the team’s Crusader Classic performance in the least. He believes his bowlers performed to the best of their abilities and that he could have asked no more of them.

“They led it like they were supposed to and they lost the last match,” he said. “Hopefully that doesn’t happen this time.

I’ve got nothing to complain about, as far as performance goes.”

The Huskers will send seniors Johnson and Valerie Calberry to the weekend event. Along with the seniors, juniors Kristina Mickelson and Shalima Zalsha will make the trip with sophomore Yan Ling and freshmen Jaclyn Sutton and Liz Kuhlkin. Sutton was a last-minute addition to the lineup, which Johnson believes adds a new dimension to the team. According

to Johnson, Sutton will be brought along to gain experience, but also to compete and rack up points for the Huskers.

“I’m hoping she can do well and help us out a lot,” Johnson said. “We have a new face and we’ve worked hard so we can turn our second-place finish into a first.”

Although she finished with the most overall points in the team’s Crusader Classic Championship match against Valparaiso, Johnson said she doesn’t feel as if any extra weight has been placed on her own shoulders.

“There’s really nothing personal about it,” she said. “I have to put up 10s on the board to help my team. Whether I have the high score or not isn’t the first thing in my mind.”

Despite the perceived lack of experience presented by Track Kat Classic teams, such as Sam Houston State, which is in its second year of competition as a whole, the Huskers

are preparing to face tough competition throughout the weekend’s events. Johnson places no less value on the inaugural Track Kat Classic tournament than any others.

“I think it’s really important that we end the fall season on a good note and come back in the spring and do our job, Johnson said.

Throughout the regular season, the team has had its sights set on competing in the NCAA Championships in April. For them, the long-term goal rests there and can only be achieved through hard work during early season matchups such as this weekend’s.

“Every match we take match by match, and we want to walk away with a ‘W’ and not an ‘L’,” Johnson said. “And the more wins we have, the greater chance we have to be at nationals. And once we’re at nationals, we go to work.” faizSiddiqui@ dailynebraskan.com

coach Rose Washington said.

“We knew we had to play almost a perfect game,” Washington said. “That’s just the reality. There’s size, but as the match went on, size was a factor.”

Added to the size was the atmosphere in the NU Coliseum, which created a hostile environment unlike anything the Tigers had seen, JSU outside hitter Christine Edwards said.

“It was a little nerve-wracking playing in a closed gym with so many fans,” Edwards said. “And playing against a team that’s twice our size, but we just played our hardest and did what we had to do.”

Edwards was the most valuable player for the Tigers, Cook said, on a night where the Huskers forced the junior, who hit .261 on the season, to hit .061 on 49 swings.

Overall, what Cook was most pleased with was Nebraska’s ability to force its tempo on Jackson State.

“When you go from the teams you’ve been playing in the Big Ten it’s a different style,” Cook said. “In that the athletes aren’t as big and as physical. So you can’t let them dictate how you play.”

And the Huskers were able to force their will on the Tigers. On the evening, NU had 43 kills, 20 more than JSU and hit .438 with only eight errors.

But more importantly to the players, the Huskers were able

to enjoy the first-round win and their second-to-last game in the Coliseum for the 2011 season.

“We wanted to make it a point tonight and the whole tournament to have fun with the whole team,” Brooke Delano said. “Because this is our last opportunity with this team, so why not have fun while you’re doing it?

“I think we made it an extra point tonight, a lot more than the last couple matches.”

And Delano didn’t just have fun Thursday night. She also performed. The senior had two block assists along with 10 kills on 16 swings with only one error to post a hitting percentage of .562 for the evening.

She was just living up to Cook’s expectations. The Huskers will need Delano and the other middle blockers to keep perform well offensively if they plan to go far in the tournament, Cook said.

Delano knows that she’ll have to keep performing well on the court because there won’t be another opportunity for the senior at a national title.

“I had some talks with the coaches and it’s kind of now or never,” she said. “You just have to live in the moment and love this team, because there’s a lot of girls who want to get this back.”

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Huskers (from left) Hannah Werth, Hayley Thramer, Morgan Broekhuis and Lauren Cook celebrate a point during Thursday night’s win.

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s Jackson State and Nebraska ran by the net to high-five before the start of the first round game of the Division I NCAA Volleyball Tournament at the NU Coliseum, the first few Huskers bent down to slap the hands of the opposition.

The Tigers featured just four players 6-foot or taller. The Huskers have 10.

And the height difference was apparent on the court. JSU

managed only one block on the night while NU produced six, as the Huskers swept the Tigers 25-10, 25-16 and 25-13.

After one set of action in which libero Lara Dykstra only saw one dig, the freshman was pulled out of the game and replaced with Paige Hubl in a black jersey.

There was nothing wrong with Dykstra, NU coach John Cook said, he just wanted to see how Hubl could perform in her place in case of any

issues NU might face down the road in the tournament.

“I’ve noticed in my experience in coaching the NCAA tournament tends to bring out a few more nerves,” Cook said. “I just wanted to get these guys in a bit so going down the stretch they’re comfortable, so I played everybody I could tonight.”

But the Tigers knew that they would have to put together their best game of the season to even compete, JSU

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up we ended up missing a lot of class. That’s a challenge for our team, especially the younger kids, so hopefully we can get back into some a normal state this week.”

Nebraska will look to improve on a 6-1 record going into Sunday’s matchup, which will tip-off at 2:05 p.m. at the

Doc Sadler didn’t sleep much Wednesday night.

That’s become a common theme for the NU coach after close losses in previous years.

After a bad game, Sadler commonly schedules a morning practice to get the team back into shape.

But that wasn’t the case this time. The practice gym was empty Thursday morning.

Sadler said he typically schedules those early morning practices when effort and hustle were lacking the night before, but he thought the energy Wednesday night wasn’t the problem. Poor execution was the culprit.

“I thought the effort, speed and energy was great, but there wasn’t any substance to any of it,” he said. “The only time you (practice early) is when you don’t get effort. Our guys gave effort. It’s just that we got confused.”

The Huskers had planned to pound the ball inside to post players Jorge Brian Diaz and

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many to recommend Pelini for the position.

A formal announcement is expected to come Monday, according to multiple

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Home has never looked so good for the Nebraska women’s basketball squad, coach Connie Yori said.

“We have been gone for a while and it will be nice to go home,” Yori said.

After a three-game, nineday road trip to the southeastern portion of the country,

One down, five to go. The problem is, the next five will be much tougher than the first for the Nebraska volleyball team: NU faces longtime Big 12 nemesis Kansas State Friday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Wildcats come in on a bit of a run, having won three straight matches, including a 25-18, 25-22, 2517 sweep of Wichita State Thursday afternoon to advance to face the Huskers. But KSU in general has struggled outside of its home arena, going 5-6 in true road matches, as its match with NU will be.

The Huskers, meanwhile, have yet to lose in 15 home matches, including a win against Iowa State at the Devaney Center.

In what will be the final match at the NU Coliseum for seniors Brooke Delano, Brigette Root and Jordan Wilberger, perhaps it’s fitting KSU will be the opponent – after all, the trio has faced KSU a combined six times in their careers.

If the Wildcats’ match with WSU is any indication, stopping Kaitlynn Pelger should be priority No. 1 for NU coach John Cook. Pelger led the Wildcats with 15 kills on .290 hitting and added 17 digs and two block assists for good measure. NU has some experience with her, though, as Pelger was on last year’s Wildcat team, which failed to win a set in its two matches against the Huskers.

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Multiple sources reported Thursday night that Carl Pelini has been offered the head coaching job at Florida Atlantic University and the Nebraska defensive coordinator is expected to accept.

Current FAU coach Howard Schnellenberger announced he would retire at the end of the season in August. Florida Atlantic (1-10) will finish its season Saturday against Louisiana-Monroe.

ESPN’s Joe Schad reported Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne was one of

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afternoon to host Texas-Pan American. Nebraska went 2-1 on the trip, with its only loss coming to Georgia Tech on Wednesday.

The road trip that began Nov. 23 and ended Dec. 1 took a toll on the Huskers, not just on the court but in the classroom as well, according to Yori.

“Nine full days is a long time to be gone,” Yori said.

“The way the schedule ended

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Nebraska coach Doc Sadler argues a call during NU’s 5553 loss to Wake Forest Wednesday night.