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race issues on campus

here to stay ASUN executive committee falls 1 vote short of two-thirds majority needed to remove senator

RACIAL INCIDENTS AT UNL

after an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senator used racial slurs during debate and the N-word was found written in chalk in front of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. Minority students and administrators can agree on one thing: Racism is a problem at UNL. But some students wonder whether

The Daily Nebraskan’s Association of Students of the University of Nebraska beat reporter Reece Ristau interviewed Sen. Cameron Murphy, a nutrition graduate student, several days before the hearing with ASUN’s executive committee that decided whether he would be removed from office. In an open-room secret vote, the committee fell one vote short of removmurphy ing Murphy from office.

Daily Nebraskan: How do you feel about the various reactions to the comments you made at the Nov. 13 senate meeting?

Cameron Murphy: It depends on how you look at it. I was out of the loop obviously (Murphy was in Phoenix for a family matter) for a little while and so I got back and was like, ‘Wow, there’s a lot of stuff on the Internet.’

So, there are people that say that’s offensive, which, in a way was designed to be, simply to illustrate the point that some things can be considered really offensive and some things are not, right? So, the example that I used of the dental student that had dressed up in the sombrero and the corncob for gun belts, you know, a Pancho Villa kind of thing, and they call him Husker Hombre, is that offensive? I don’t think so. Maybe to someone else it is, but the point I was getting across is if you live in a society where all of a sudden you can’t say anything offensive, well then you might as well just be in the Soviet Union, then America ceases to exist. The problem is that people like to say, ‘Hey, we want to have speech codes,’ and I read (Chancellor) Harvey Perlman’s comments and I think this whole thing went way over his head because it focused so much on this one word which was just used as an illustration of something that is incredibly offensive that everyone is offended by and it really shouldn’t be used, but I don’t think it should be banned either.

Free speech is free speech. You can’t curtail it here, you’re either in support of it or you’re not, the only limitation would be the Supreme Court case of yelling fire in a crowded theater because you could cause bodily harm to someone else. You should be able to say whatever you want, whether it be popular or unpopular. And you shouldn’t be punished, especially at the university, this is supposed to be the place of ideas, where people formulate their opinions and their beliefs and formulate new ideas.

DN: What would you say to students who were hurt or angered by your comments?

CM: If you’re hurt by someone saying a word, I would say grow up. Honestly. Was the word directed at anybody? No, it wasn’t. That was one of the biggest things, was, you know, these were all hypotheticals to go through and say, ‘Hey, you know, this is offensive or this could be offensive,’ or maybe it’s in the correct context or true to the meaning of whatever the word is. You’re going to be offended by a lot of people’s comments in life… People have to ask themselves, ‘What if people say something to me that I find offensive, how do I react to that?’ That says a lot about your character. You just have to be able to walk away.

So if someone says something that you think is offensive and they’re a bigot or whatever, you just got to walk away and I don’t know what happened with the sidewalk chalk (Murphy was referencing the Nword being written outside a fraternity house), I don’t know what that was all about and I don’t obviously support any of that kind of stuff because, that’s directed at someone, that’s a lot different than saying something generally or something to illustrate a broader point but when something like that is directed at someone that truly can be hateful and that’s wrong and students who reacted negatively, I think, you have to grow up and understand that’s the way life goes. I can see where it really cuts deep. But unless you have a personal thing and even then, you just got to – if I were to say something, you know, and you were to come up to me and say, ‘hey, that really hurt me per

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1997 The Sigma Chi chapter at UNL receives one-year probation after members burn a cross in a field outside Lincoln during an initiation ceremony. The chapter’s members are required to perform community service, interact with minority groups and complete various other tasks as part of their probation.

JUNE

2006

English professor David Hibler faces criticism from Chancellor James Moeser after emailing pieces of prose containing the N-word to several faculty members.

FEBRUARY

2010

ASUN passes legislation calling for cultural sensitivity after the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange expresses concerns about UNL students dressing up in Native American headdresses and war paint at the Nov. 7 football game against the Oklahoma Sooners and again at the Nov. 21 game against Kansas.

APRIL

2010

Five UNL students distribute surveys asking students to draw their perceptions of Native Americans. Many students draw bottles of booze and casinos, others headdresses and tipis. And some students write instead of drawing pictures, saying Native Americans are victims and impoverished.

Others write they believed that Native Americans “pay for cable before food” and that many drop out of high school.

SEPTEMBER

2012

A UNL student creates Twitter and Tumblr accounts with the name “UNL Haters” to spotlight racist, homophobic and sexist statements made by UNL students on the Internet.

OCTOBER

2013

The Latino Graduate Association voices concerns to ASUN regarding skits performed by student groups at Monday Night Live, which the organization believed to be racially offensive. Some of the skits involved students wearing sombreros, ponchos and thick mustaches.

NOV. 20,

2013

Chancellor Harvey Perlman emails students and staff citing recent cases of insensitive racial impersonations happening on campus. He called on students and staff “to not remain silent or indifferent, but to confront and speak out against such outrages and embrace those against whom they are directed.”

NOV. 21,

2013

ASUN votes to schedule a disciplinary hearing for Sen. Cameron Murphy after racial comments he made during debate at a Nov. 13 senate meeting regarding legislation that aimed to remove derogatory language from senators’ vocabulary. Murphy said the legislation was a restriction of free speech and cited comedian Chris Rock as an example of why some words are not offensive. He recited one of Rock’s routines, which used the N-word.

NOV. 25,

2013

UNL launches the campaign “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever!” against intolerance in response to events of racial insensitivity happening on campus, including the N-word being written in chalk outside a fraternity house.

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Sen. Cameron Murphy waits during a deliberation portion of Monday night’s special Association of Students of the University of Nebraska meeting. Sen. Murphy was voted to remain in office in an open-session secret vote by ASUN executive committee members.

REECE RISTAU DN After lengthy deliberation at a hearing Monday, an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska committee fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required to remove Sen. Cameron Murphy from office for racial comments he made at a senate meeting last month.

But a group of seven ASUN members vowed in a letter Monday night that they would search for other ways “to address Senator Murphy’s actions” and called for his resignation. The final vote was 7 for removal, 5 against.

At the hearing Monday night, 12 members of ASUN and two administrators met to decide whether Murphy, a graduate student in nutrition, would keep his position with ASUN. After nearly two hours of deliberation, which was not open to the public, an openmeeting, secret vote took place.

The hearing was a result of comments Murphy made at the Nov. 13 senate meeting, during which he cited comedian Chris Rock, used the N-word multiple times and made comments about other minority groups. At the following senate meeting, Sen. Annie Himes, a junior history, global studies and Russian major, pro-

posed that Murphy be removed from senate for his comments, a move that received multiple seconds and resulted in the hearing Monday. Himes did not want to comment on the outcome.

Those who voted were all students and all involved in ASUN: President Eric Reznicek, a senior finance and marketing major, Internal Vice President Kaitlin Coziahr, a senior economics, finance and management major, External Vice President Jeff Story, a junior English and political science major, Sen. Jordan Hohwieler, a junior business administration major, Sen. Mary Pistillo, a senior mechanical engineering major, Sen. William Duden, a junior business administration major, Sen. Kevin Knudson, a junior political science major, Sen. Frank Stroup, a senior music education major, William Stock, a junior history major, Sen. Christina Guthmann, a junior international business major, Reed Brodersen, a junior environmental studies major and Maggie Schneider, a junior finance and management major. Also on the committee, but not participating in the vote, were Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Juan Franco and ASUN Director Marlene Beyke.

After much of the deliberation had occurred but prior to the vote, Murphy said the hearing went smoothly.

“I thought it went OK,” he said.

“We had a really nice conversation and since it wasn’t so off-the-cuff like it was the first time, for me, I was really able to go through and – it was a little different because we had to stick to just one case, we couldn’t get too sidetracked.”

Reznicek could not comment on the closed portion of the hearing.

“The deliberation went well, but other than that I can’t say anything about what happened during the closed session,” he said.

Reznicek said ASUN is examining how these events can impact the future.

“We are looking at doing a lot of work, not only with campus but internally with ASUN along the lines of social responsibility and sensitivity training,” Reznicek said.

He said the training would involve not only senators and members of ASUN but individual projects as well.

The anonymous letter from ASUN members took a more opinionated approach.

“As student representatives we find this decision appalling and against our pledge to represent all of the student body to the best of our ability,” the letter read. “In this respect we believe we have failed

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Racism persists despite campaign, students say Faiz Siddiqui and Jacy Marmaduke DN Bryan Colbert felt he had nothing to lose.

So when the junior broadcasting major took the microphone on Nov. 25, after a series of prepared speeches from University of Nebraska-Lincoln administrators and student leaders – speeches carefully penned to quell a growing storm of racial tension – he didn’t hold back.

“You reading your speech that you wrote out, that was very cute,” he said, addressing UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman from the back of a packed Centennial Room in the Nebraska Union. “But you don’t know what it’s like to be a minority, sir.”

Hundreds of students and faculty members shifted in their chairs.

Some laughed in discomfort. Others raised their eyebrows at those around them. But all were silent as they listened to the young man in the back.

“You’re disrespecting every minority student who has to work to make it in your world,” Colbert said.

“We’re fighting every single day so we can be equal. We’re all fighting every day. Except you, sir. What fight are you fighting?”

Perlman responded with a personal admission: He grew up the

STACIE HECKER | DN

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman speaks during the “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever!” anti-intolerance campaign launch Nov. 25 in the Nebraska Union. only Jewish kid in town.

“So I think I know a little,” he said. “Not the same as you; I don’t wear it on my face. But I’ve been there, and I understand it.”

It was an uncertain start to the “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever!” campaign, a university-led effort to unite students against intolerance in a to-be-determined series of activities, lectures and forums

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sonally because of past experience,’ CM: I think some people it did I mean you could say the same and some people it didn’t. I probably thing, being Irish, the N-word – as should have stayed away from the Neveryone likes to say now because word and we’re just going to (make they’re so afraid of actually enunciit politically correct) for everybody right now because I don’t want him ating the word – was used against (the Irish). People fail to realize to – we don’t speak that way around that the Irish were below blacks up little guys (referencing his 21-month old son, who accompanied Murphy until after the Civil War and to this to the interview). I probably shouldn’t day in Europe, Irish are not treated have used it because people tend to overly well. So, there’s something to understand, you know, it cuts have a habit of blowing it out of proportion, right? Even if you’re using it every direction. There’s going to by quoting someone else, but it also be racism, there’s going to be bigleads to illustrate a point to those who otry, you’re going to run into these are more attuned to people in your life is going on beand the question is If you’re hurt what cause some people how do you deal with them? I would by someone react so emotionally to what is going on be the first to tell saying a word, I that logic can escape you, I’ve lived in them. I think that’s San Diego (Calif.), would say grow what has happened Columbus, Ohio, to some of the stuCollege Station, up. Honestly.” dent body, and it’s Texas, Washingcameron murphy an indoctrination ton, D.C., North asun senator thing. A lot of people Dakota – I can tell don’t think outside you that certainly, the box too much. stereotypes are steBut for those who really understand reotypes for a reason. It’s like the it – one of the greatest movies ever knockout game you see that has made was “Blazing Saddles.” The Nbeen in the news – that plays into word is used there a lot. It was a coma negative racial stereotype, but it’s being proven to be correct. So edy but it was also exploring some of the deep racial tensions of the 1970s. stereotypes are earned and that’s And then Chris Rock’s thing in 1999 what I said about the Irish, you was the same thing. It was delving know, people say we’re a bunch of drunken, you know, fightin’ SOBs into these racial tensions in a funny way, but it gets the message across. and it’s kind of true, we are.

Carlos Mencia said, you know, it’s DN: You say stereotypes are interesting as a white man you can’t earned. Does that mean they should say whatever you want, if you’re a be applied to groups as a whole?

CM: No. If something’s going to black man or Hispanic man, even a woman, any race, in quotes, because be in the back of your mind, like the we’re all kind of one race, you can say Trayvon Martin case was a perfect example. No one really knows what a lot more things in our country that as white man you can’t say unless happened except the two people that were there and one of them can’t tell you want to be called the devil. That’s the story so we only have one side of wrong. That’s a problem. That’s part of what this illustrated for some peoit. But, you know, legitimately, if I’m ple. What’s intentional versus uninin a big city at night, there are some tentional? People can be offended by things you look out for because of the most random things just based on the stereotypes. That doesn’t mean, for example, if I meet someone in their history and how am I supposed to remove all that from my speech, I the parking lot who needs a hand, it might as well just not say anything, doesn’t mean you should give them a which gets into the point of what I wide berth just because of their skin color, I mean, all of our blood’s red, so was trying to say that once you start infringing some speech, you might you have to treat everyone the same as well just infringe all speech. That’s until they give you a reason not to. one of the things that makes America DN: In regard to the various student responses to your comments, do great is that we have robust debates.

DN: How do you feel about you think you created the dialogue Harvey Perlman’s email and the subyou hoped to create?

sequent “Not Here, Not Now, Not have people who are intolerant. So, to say that you, so for example, what Ever!” campaign?

Chancellor Perlman said, that we CM: I think there are two things, the first question is, ‘What is diver- will not have intolerable speech, is sity?’ I’ve been to schools that you in itself intolerable. So, in that case, would say are not diverse by the tra- Chancellor Perlman has now become ditional term. So most people when the bigot by infringing on the bigotry they think of diversity they think of of others. That’s part of what makes a numbers game, right, equal repre- America great, is that you can be a sentation. But like I said before, we all bigot if you want to, it’s not restricted. have red blood, so I don’t really see It doesn’t make it right but at the same time you can’t say ‘No, we’re going color, I don’t care what color you are or where you’re from or what your to kick that person out of school,’ or creed is, I just care that you – kind of whatever. Because that’s not, you the golden rule, that you treat me as I have to understand that you’re gowould expect to be treated, as I would ing to be offended in a place with free speech. If you don’t want to be oflike to treat you. So to answer that question, diversity is simply treating fended, move to Cuba, or some other everyone the same. I don’t think the totalitarian state where you can’t say response had time to develop yet. I anything unless the state approves think that Chancellor Perlman’s re- it. That was the point. Once you start sponse was a little from the hip – they down that road and say, ‘This is OK never analyzed the whole situation. and this isn’t OK,’ then it can filter I didn’t go to the forum, so I don’t down in to academic debate, things know, that’s pure (speculation), you like the climate debate.

DN: Do you think you’ll be reknow, but I think the key is that everyone gets treated the same. That’s moved from office? How do you feel the biggest thing with diversity, you about many of the senators supporthave to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to treat ing your hearing?

CM: Well, I supported my own everyone the same and give everyhearing, just because it gives you anone the chance to prove themselves other chance to sort of get the point and give people second chances, you know, people mess up – look at me. across. Honestly, when it comes to the whole impeachment thing, it This whole thing, you know, people can say, ‘Oh Cameron, what a jerk,’ would give me one less thing to do but people have to keep in mind that on Wednesday nights. I mean, there everyone makes mistakes and that’s were two things I wanted to do (in why you judge people individu- senate). The first was reform the way graduate exams are done because ally, you don’t just judge them on one event. You have to say, ‘Hey, what’s right now it’s a really corrupt prothe whole package,’ and some people cess – well not corrupt, but a corruptkind of did that with me – I got a let- ible process. It leaves it wide open for corruption so I ter that I read that wanted to fix that… said I should resign. ...Once And that other one I didn’t even run (for you start was getting the ice ASUN). I just got a rink built, which phone call… So yeah, infringing some is also sort of selfyou have to have serving because I more time to develop speech, you do play hockey and before you can say it might as well we’ve been wantwas right or wrong, ing that ice rink for I do think the initial just infringe all a long time. So you comment (the email) speech.” know, I didn’t run, I was shooting from a phone call one the hip and for the cameron murphy got day and said ,‘This chalk on the sideasun senator sounds like fun,’ walk – and I really and I will say that hope whatever I said didn’t instigate that, because that’s there are probably some people that support me and some that don’t and not the goal here. let the chips fall where they may at DN: How do you think tolerance this point. and free speech should best coexist? news@ CM: The very nature of free dailynebraskan.com speech means that you’re going to

murphy: from 1 you as leaders on this campus and sincerely apologize.”

Gregory Wilson, the president of the Afrikan People’s Union and a senior nutrition and health sciences major, said he did not expect Murphy to be removed and is looking toward the future. Murphy planned to meet with the union Monday night to speak about his comments but had to re-schedule to next week because of his ASUN

hearing.

“I kind of expected that to happen,” Wilson said. “I’ve noticed UNL is kind of a school where they talk about a lot but don’t put action behind it. Sometimes I do feel like the minority students don’t get represented the best. We’re going to try to change that next year – get some people to run for office, get some people in ASUN and to be senators.”

The Daily Nebraskan conducted a survey of the ASUN senate and found that of the respondents, all ASUN senators identify as white with the exception of one Asian student. Three senators did not respond.

Evan Hummel, a junior broadcasting major, said he thinks Murphy should have had his duties stripped.

“I guess I would be opposed to that (Murphy staying in office),” Hummel said. “The remarks I heard

from him are insensitive.”

Grant Garrison, a junior biological sciences and psychology major, and Himes signed the letter, along with five more ASUN members who wished to remain anonymous.

“As a result of Senator Murphy’s remarks, ASUN’s mission has been severely clouded and compromised,” the letter read.

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The University of Nebraska- campus building was defaced Lincoln is not the only Big Ten with a racial slur and a drawing institution that has experienced of a stick figure hanging from a tree in April, accordintolerance. Racially ing to the Journal insensitive incidents of Blacks in Higher and efforts to comEducation. bat them occur elsewhere in the conferIn February, a ence, too. photo of a black proThe Theta Xi frafessor who had died ternity at the Univerwas found with an sity of Michigan was X drawn through his disciplined for isface and a racial slur suing a “racially inwritten above his sensitive” invitation picture. to a “Hood Ratchet Purdue Student Thursday” party Government Presiproppe in October, accorddent Kyle Prendering to the Michigan gast said there isn’t Daily. a consensus on racMichigan’s Cenism at the university. tral Student GovSome people think ernment President it’s a problem, but Michael Proppe said others disagree, he the university has said. an “Expect Respect” “I think it hapcampaign to educate pens on every camstudents on diversity pus,” he said. But his issues. Students in university is “always the College of Literalooking for new ture, Science and the ways to increase diprendergast Arts are also required versity and respect to take a class that cultural values,” he fulfills a “race and said. ethnicity” requirement, he said.

Purdue has “Free Zone,” a “Michigan celebrates our diprogram to promote diversity versity, but we recognize there is awareness. Many departments still work to do around diversity also require students to take diand inclusion on campus,” he versity and inclusion courses or said. seminars, he said.

—compiled by At Purdue University, a colleen fell placard placed in front of a

letter to the editor Group of ASUN members calls for Murphy’s resignation As will be reported in the Daily Nebraskan and other media outlets over the next few days, ASUN’s Executive Committee, consisting of 12 members present, was unable to gain the sufficient two-thirds majority vote required to remove Senator Murphy from ASUN senate. As student representatives we find this decision appalling, and against our pledge to represent all of the stu-

dent body to the best of our ability.

In this respect we believe we have failed you as leaders on this campus and sincerely apologize. We vow this will not be the end to the issue.

We are currently investigating other mechanisms in place to address Senator Murphy’s actions. As a result of Senator Murphy’s remarks, ASUN’s mission has been severely clouded and compromised.

We call for Senator Murphy’s resignation.

-Sens. Grant Garrison and Annie Himes, and five members who wanted to remain anonymous

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racism: from 1 a campaign characterized by planned speeches and moralistic platitudes will be enough to correct it.

ASUN Sen. Cameron Murphy’s comments, which left him at risk of removal from student government, were the most recent racial controversy, but the incident wasn’t the first of its kind.

At last month’s campaign launch, many brought up the Monday Night Live skits during Homecoming Week in September, a “Huskers Around the World”-themed display that one student called “a competition to see how many cultural stereotypes you could fit into one skit.” The skits featured fried chicken and watermelon to represent African-Americans and burritos, mustaches and sombreros to represent Latino culture, among other stereotypes.

It was hardly the first display of racial intolerance at UNL in recent years.

Last year, an anonymous blog called “UNL Haters” dedicated to exposing racism and other forms of intolerance on campus shone the light of public scrutiny on tweets like “I just made an Indian cry by littering. Well, technically I hit him in the face with a beer bottle I threw out my window.

But whatever. #USA.” And further back, some may remember Sigma Chi fraternity members in 1997 burning a cross in a field as part of an initiation ceremony, a ritual associated with the Ku Klux Klan.

At the campaign launch, students asked administrators why they’ve taken so long to address such incidents in a cohesive and declarative manner.

Perlman said as long as he’s been chancellor, he’s “dealt with” every occurrence of intolerance he’s come across. In response to complaints about the Monday Night Live skits, he said he left the event immediately after he took part in a skit of his own at the beginning.

“But how many people were at Monday Night Live here in this room that did anything?” he asked, shifting responsibility to the students. “This isn’t going to be done just by administration. It will be done because each

of you takes responsibility for (fighting racism) and speaks out against it.”

Murphy, the ASUN senator under fire for his racial comments, had his own message for the people his comments offended.

“If you’re hurt by someone saying a word, I would say grow up,” the nutrition graduate student said.

Monday night, a 12-person ASUN committee voted against removing Murphy from student government.

But after the meeting, seven ASUN members submitted a letter calling for Murphy’s resignation and vowing to seek other outlets for addressing his comments.

Despite Murphy’s slur-laden speech, the scrawling of the N-word on a campus sidewalk and the administrative response to both, some students say cries of racism at UNL are overblown. Ask Spencer Garrett, a junior advertising and public relations and marketing major, and he’ll say the N-word is offensive, but only as long as people regard it as such.

“Racism’s only big if you make it big,” he said. “You don’t actively have to go after it.”

It’s white people who experience much of the racial issues at UNL, he said. Garrett said the presence of minorities requires white people to be extra careful, “all the time.”

“It doesn’t matter where I am, I’m always looking to see who’s in the room,” he said. “If there’s an AfricanAmerican or an Asian or anybody. Because who knows what you’re going to say that can be construed as racist to them?”

“I get it, Caucasians enslaved African-Americans a long time ago, hundreds of years ago,” he said. “Awful things happened, centuries of slavery and horrible conduct among our people, our people being Caucasian people, Europeans. But while we still may be linked ancestrally to those people, why do we still have to get crap for it all the time, from everybody?”

And Murphy, the embattled ASUN senator, said he isn’t racist; rather, he adheres to a mantra of color-

blindness.

“We all have red blood, so I don’t really see color,” Murphy said.

But Murphy’s words are just another example of a larger issue minorities encounter too often at UNL, students and faculty said. Especially the notion of color blindness. Jake Kirkland, assistant director of Career Services at UNL, said Murphy’s is a dangerous school of thought followed by too many.

“You don’t hear people of color say that, you hear other folks say that,” he said. “You don’t see color, but who are you kidding, you know?

Everybody sees color. It’s a cop-out, to be very honest with you. As I see it, to say that they don’t see the whole complete person, that they don’t view color, you can’t live if you do not view color. That’s what our country was formed on. Color. Even today, it has not changed.”

Black and Latino students wonder if a student body that’s 80 percent white can comprehend the struggles they encounter in Lincoln on a daily basis. Carmen Ochoa, a freshman psychology major, said the lack of cultural awareness stems from the school’s homogeneous student population. She said her mixed-race ethnicity was no big deal at a diverse high school of 2,500. But being white and Mexican at UNL, she said, is a novelty to her classmates.

“There are so many white people,” she said. “Many people I have met on campus don’t really have a clue about other cultures. I think the plain and simple fact that the university is so desperately lacking in diversity is what causes these kinds of problems.”

Freshman Angelica Jasiak agreed. Raised in an ethnically diverse community close to Chicago, the broadcasting and advertising and public relations major sees cultural prejudice as a problem because of UNL students’ lack of exposure to racial and ethnic minorities.

But UNL students are no more prejudiced than people elsewhere, said Andre Fortune, director of the Jackie

Some have warned against that Gaughan Multicultural Center.

“In my opinion, people at UNL mentality — packing minority students into assembly halls and large are not overtly discriminatory,” Forgatherings as a way of promoting toltune said. “I believe the majority of erance. Some lessons can’t be taught people I have met at UNL do not intentionally seek to be offensive or ra- by speaking into a microphone, said Keith Garcia, a graduate student in cially insensitive.” educational administration.

Still, heads of multicultural stu“It shouldn’t always be the student groups at UNL say their memdents of color who have to step up bers are no strangers to prejudice.

Asian World Alliance President Lisa and be your educational experience,” he said.

Chase, a junior marketing major, reASUN will launch its own camcalled the negativity and stereotyping paign to promote tolerance in the targeting Asian students that could be found on the UNL Haters website last coming days and weeks. It will include five pillars: health, sustainabilyear. Muslim Students Association ity, communication, safety and rePresident Osama Aljohani said he’s spect. Respect will be a primary focus, heard of about 10 instances of members experiencing racism since he said President Eric Reznicek, a senior joined in 2006. Most of the incidents, finance and marketing major, at the campaign launch. he said, involved the The campaigns hijab head coverI think the have come largely as ing worn by many a response to the slew Muslim women. He plain and of racially insensitive remembered leaning incidents that have on American friends simple fact that occurred during the in the dorms after bethe university is course of the semesing teased because of ter. But another Big his name. so desperately Ten school that has Administrators have charged them- lacking in diversity seen occurrences of racism in the past has selves with protect- is what causes taken to addressing ing students from these kinds of intolerance head-on, racial intolerance at rather than after the UNL, but they ad- problems.” fact. mit they don’t have Freshmen at Pura clear-cut solution. due University are Vice Chancellor for carmen ochoa introduced to Free Student Affairs Juan freshman psychology major Zone, a diversity Franco addressed the awareness program, larger problem at the anti-intolerance campaign launch, at orientation. Student body president Kyle Prendergast said many departcalling on attendees to help combat ments require students to take diverhatred.

“We did not come in thinking we sity and inclusion courses or seminars would have a comprehensive plan,” to graduate.

ASUN Internal Vice President he said. “We didn’t not come in saying we had a solution. We’re simply Kaitlin Coziahr, a senior economics, finance and management major, said saying, join us.”

Future events are planned for the the student body bears the responsibility for the division prevalent “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever!” campaign, but administrators have yet to among UNL students.

“We came to a conclusion that it release the details. The campaign will comes back on us that we’ve segrebring “special events, forums and gated ourselves as is, and it’s our own other activities” to campus.

fault for not crossing those lines more often,” she said.

The university can do its part by hiring more faculty of color and recruiting more minority students, said Amelia Montes, associate professor of English and Ethnic Studies.

At the launch, students questioned whether the efforts of administrators and faculty were enough to tackle the issue of racism, or whether they were simply for show amid the fallout of racially charged incidents.

“Right now, this is glitz and glamour,” said Nicholas Banks, a junior communication studies major. “Eventually, everyone is going to go home.”

Colbert, the first student to take the microphone at the launch, remembered sitting in an adviser’s office as a freshman with big dreams. He wanted to make the dean’s list. He was an A and B student in high school, he said. He wanted to become a sports broadcaster.

The second question his adviser asked, Colbert said: “You ever been in jail?”

He went on to explain to his adviser his hopes of providing for his mother.

“Next thing she asks, are you sure you’re not lying to me?,” Colbert recalled her saying. “Are you sure you’ve never been incarcerated?”

He was sure.

Years later, Colbert offered a challenge to the chancellor, in hopes that a similar incident wouldn’t happen to anyone else.

“You reading a speech off that podium is not doing anything for me,” he said. “It’s not getting me stopped being called a n-----. You need to step up your game, sir.”

The audience erupted in applause. “‘Cause now the world is watching.”

Hannah Eads, Colleen Fell, Zach Fulciniti and Reece Ristau contributed to this report.

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On campus what:

Stress Free Zone when: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union, first floor commons

what: Women Service Members Debrief when: Noon where: Nebraska East Union, Meeting Room B

what: iPad Roundtable Creating your own eBook when: 11 a.m. to noon where: Nebraska Union, Room TBA

what: Global Unification: A UNICEF Campus Initiative Club Meeting when: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Ubuntu Room

what: SNR Outreach Seminar: Michael Forsberg when: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 107

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Sbarro closes, new pizza vendor unknown Administration to announce later this week who will replace pizza restaurant in Nebraska Union Layla Younis DN Sbarro has officially closed in the Nebraska Union and the replacement vendor will be announced sometime this week.

An agreement with a replacement vendor is under review by the vendors, said Charlie Francis, director of Nebraska Unions.

“Our representative said that it has not been signed but that the appropriate staff have reviewed the document,” Francis said.

The vendor ’s representative said a decision will be reached by the middle of this week, Francis said.

“He will call me when that happens,” Francis said.

The vendors name is not being released because no official agreement has been signed, not because there is a problem finding vendors to replace Sbarro, said Steve Smith, news director at the University of NebraskaLincoln.

Smith said the new vendor might have to renovate the space, but they don’t know when the new restaurant will open for business.

Stewart Flanery, a junior political science major, said he didn’t know Sbarro was closed, but liked the company’s pizza.

“I don’t know a lot of people that complain about (Sbarro),”

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Sbarro has closed in preparation for a new pizza/italian vendor in the Nebraska Union food court. officials say the new restaurant will be announced this week.

Flanery said.

Flanery said he wants a replacement restaurant to be Five Guys Burgers and Fries or Pizza Hut.

Kelsey Turner, a nutrition and health science graduate student, said she has eaten at Sbarro before, but not the one at the Nebraska Union.

“It’s not my favorite, that’s why I’ve never ate it here,” Turner said.

Turner said she thinks a replacement vendor could be

Valentino’s because the university serves Valentino’s pizza on gameday.s news@ dailynebraskan.com

ASUN to test new public safety app Colleen Fell DN The University of NebraskaLincoln is considering offering a new safety option to students in the form of a smartphone app.

The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska will test the app, called LifeLine Response, for one year with a group of 150 to 200 UNL students starting in the spring semester.

Sen. Kevin Knudson, a junior political science major, has been working with Clandestine Development and said it will be beneficial in helping students commute safely both on and off campus.

“For example, if I’m walking from Love Library to my dorm, I have the app with me the entire time,” Knudson said.

The GPS-enabled app has two settings, each of which will automatically contact emergency response.

The first has a timer function, in which the user can program the approximate amount of time they think it will take them to get from one place to another. If the timer runs out before the user types in a code on the phone signifying their arrival, responders from LifeLine Response will contact the individual. If the person does not respond, LifeLine will contact the nearest dispatch center to the person.

For the second function, the user must hold a button the entire time they are traveling. If they let go for more than seven seconds, LifeLine will try to make contact with the person. If there is no response, again, the nearest dispatch center will be contacted.

Knudson said that because the app is GPS-enabled, LifeLine responders can find a dispatch center nearest to the user, which could be UNLPD, Lincoln Police or another emergency responder.

The purpose isn’t to replace the blue lights.”

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Students can sign up to use the app within the next couple of weeks, Knudson said.

“Ideally, we’ll have students that fully encompass the campus,” Knudson said. “We want students in residence halls, greek houses, the Haymarket area and those off-campus.”

Knudson said ASUN plans to talk with the Residence Housing Association at UNL to spread awareness about the app. There are also plans to use social media for promotion.

The cost to the university for the one-year pilot project will be anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000, at

$10 for each participating student.

If approved and made available to all UNL students, the LifeLine program will cost $60,000 to $70,000..

The program, as an alternative safety method, may not necessarily be a replacement to the 85 blue light telephone poles on UNL’s campus.

“The purpose isn’t to replace the blue lights,” Knudson said.

“I’m just focusing right now on making the new program work.”

ASUN President Eric Reznicek, a senior finance and marketing major, said there isn’t any formal criteria that the app

must meet in order for the university to get rid of the blue light poles.

“We’re looking to see if there is a good alternative,” Reznicek said. “We’re seeing that (the blue light poles) will hopefully become obsolete.”

The poles, which cost the university about what it would cost to use the new app system, had their usefulness questioned by police and students earlier this year.

The poles were called “outof-date” by UNL Police Chief Owen Yardley in early October. At the time, Yardley said he could not remember the last time one of the poles was used for an actual emergency.

Once the year-long project is complete, ASUN will decide whether to ask university administration to remove the poles. In the meantime, the poles will stay. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Timelapse photo project promotes water conservation ‘Platte Basin Timelapse: Seeing a Watershed in Motion’ to be presented in Hardin Hall Tuesday Mara Klecker DN A student stops at the drinking fountain in the Nebraska Union.

She bends over, takes a long drink, tugs her backpack up higher on her shoulders and walks away.

Mike Farrell and Mike Forsberg guess that she – like most Lincolnites – doesn’t know of the 30-mile journey from Ashland the water took before jetting out of the fountain.

Farrell and Forsberg hope to change that. The two assistant professors of practice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have spent three years collecting timelapse images each daylight

hour from 45 cameras set up along the Platte River in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. A public presentation of the images, “Platte Basin Timelapse: Seeing a Watershed in Motion,” will be held Tuesday at 7 p.m., in the Hardin Hall auditorium.

“I think it is important for students to know that they are a part of a natural system that for the most part is probably fairly invisible to them,” Farrell said. “Most people who are urban don’t have an understanding of where their water comes from or how it gets there.”

Such an understanding is important though, especially in the agricultural state of Nebraska, Farrell and Forsberg said.

“Water is our lifeline,” Forsberg said. “We all depend on it to survive. We all need it. We can’t lose sight of that. This is an opportunity to show people where it does come from and how nature uses it, how we use it and how we are all connected by it.”

It’s that connection that Forsberg said he hopes audience mem-

bers at the presentation are struck tion stories of the Great Plains.

His latest project was a book by. In a world that is heading toward the possibility of water wars “Great Plains: American’s Linger– violence over rights to limited ing Wild” and a PBS documentary of the same title. water resources, a community Farrell serves understanding of as the special projwater ’s importance Water is our ects manager for to the job market NET, Nebraska’s and the economy is lifeline. We statewide public needed, Forsberg all depend on it broadcasting netsaid. work. Farrell has “There’s that old to survive. We all produced awardline by Mark Twain wining documen– ‘Whiskey is for need it.” taries, including drinking and wa“The Platte River ter is for fighting,’” Mike forsberg Road.”

Forsberg said. “That assistant professor of practice Forsberg premay be true sooner dicts the storythan we think. We telling element of need to see water as photography will be used in fua community builder. We all need ture science and policy projects. to take care of it and in order to It’s hard to argue with the physitake care of it, we need to undercal evidence that timelapse phostand it.” tography provides, he said.

Storytelling images are the “The power of photography is perfect tool to promote that unthat it is an international language derstanding, Forsberg and Farrell and it is a witness to what is hapsaid. pening on the landscape today,” Forsberg has been a photograForsberg said. “Timelapse photogpher for more than 20 years, speraphy can do that, it’s like walkcializing in wildlife and conserva-

ing into a time machine. All of a sudden, you can see the seasons unfold, you can see flood, you can see drought, you can see the rise and fall of water, you can see the cropland grow and change.”

Though Farrell and Forsberg said it is too early to use the images as evidence of climate change in Nebraska, they can say that the images show the extreme changes the river has experienced in the last three years. In the first year of the project, 2011, Nebraska saw a lot of water. The next year, “it was like the faucet turned off,” Forsberg said, as the water from the Colorado mountains dropped to about one-fourth of what it had been the previous year.

“The land we live on is a living, breathing thing and it never stops and it is always changing,” Forsberg said. “It’s pretty compelling to sit back and get to watch those changes on a screen.”

Both Farrell and Forsberg said they hope to see the project continue. Though they want the images to serve as an environmental monitor, they said the project isn’t

if you go what: Platte Basin Timelapse: Seeing a Watershed in Motion when: Tuesday, 7 p.m. where: Hardin Hall auditorium more information: Free parking is offered in the lots adjacent to Hardin Hall

biased.

“We are not advocating for one position or another, we are just trying to provide information so people have a better understanding,” Farrell said.

Forsberg agreed.

“Photography is such a great communicator because it doesn’t pick sides, it just shows what is there,” he said. “You can’t argue with it because it is what it is.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Anti-human trafficking activist to visit campus Paul Yates to speak at Nebraska University Students Against Modern-Day Slavery meeting Kelli Rollin DN Tiny hands can help make a big impact.

That’s what one University of Nebraska-Lincoln student organization hopes to do by informing others about modern-day slavery, such as sex trafficking.

The Nebraska University Students Against Modern-Day Slavery will bring Paul Yates, the director of involvement for Tiny Hands International, to speak at

its meeting Tuesday.

Tiny Hands International is a local non-profit that aims to fight poverty by helping developing countries. One of the non-profit’s main focuses is to help victims of human sex trafficking.

Khloe Keeler, a journalism graduate student and president of NUSAMS, said the group is trying to bring in as many speakers as possible to spread awareness of sex trafficking.

The free event will be held in Andersen Hall room 15, which Keeler said is a great location to discuss these issues because trafficking is seen more in the media and it’s important for journalists to be aware of the issues and know how to report on them.

Sriyani Tidball, an assistant professor of practice for advertising, teaches a class on human trafficking and is passionate about the topic.

“Human trafficking is a big

Human trafficking is a big problem in the world, but it’s also a big problem in America as well as in Nebraska,” Sriyani tidball

assistant professor of practice for advertising and public relations

problem in the world, but it’s also a big problem in America as well as in Nebraska,” Tidball said.

Language is important when reporting about sex trafficking, Keeler said, because some words have negative meanings, though reporters don’t intentionally mean for them to blame the victim.

“We’re trying to move away from blaming the victim,” Keeler said. “We want to criminalize the buyer and not the victim.”

For example, buyers, those who purchase sex-trafficked people, are often referred to as “John,” which is a common name.

On the other hand, sex-trafficked girls are referred to as “Natasha,” which Keeler said has a more exotic sound.

Tidball said past speakers have all dealt with human trafficking in Nebraska, but Yates brings a different angle.

“We thought it would be good to end out the semester with a speaker that’s doing work internationally, but that still is a Nebraska person,” Tidball said.

She said the purpose of NUSAMS, which students started four years ago, is to see what Nebraska and Nebraska students’

roles are in stopping human trafficking.

She said students in NUSAMS are very passionate and committed to spreading awareness and stopping human trafficking.

“I believe they are the change,” she said.

According to the Institute of Medicine and National Research, though sex trafficking and exploitation are forms of child abuse, victims who are children and adolescents can still be arrested for prostitution. In most states, this would go on victims’ permanent records as offenders.

“There’s a real lack of awareness,” Tidball said. “To start, most people don’t even believe there’s an issue like this, but now it’s becoming more and more prominent.”

Tidball said she feels bringing in speakers and the NUSAMS group itself can bring that awareness to campus and Nebraska.

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Andersen Hall Room 15 who: Paul Yates, Tiny Hands International what: Paul Yates will talk about Tiny Hands International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people overcome poverty and preventing sex trafficking. where:

“At least people are talking about it,” she said. “That’s the first step.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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UNL needs real awareness to fix racism problem The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a racism problem.

It’s not a problem specific to UNL or Lincoln or even Nebraska.

It’s not any one person or organization or mindset’s fault. But it’s a problem. And it’s time we stop allowing our classmates, faculty members and administrators to ignore it. It’s time we stop allowing ourselves to ignore it.

Several instances during this semester, most prominently a racialslur-laden speech by an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senator and the writing of the N-word in chalk on a campus sidewalk in November, prompted statewide media attention and a campaign launch.

The “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever!” campaign, which aims to reject intolerance and promote a culture of respect, is a good start.

The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board commends administrators and students involved in getting it off the ground. But this alone will not solve the problem.

It can be difficult to think of concrete ideas for addressing racism because many only see it as an idea. A fix to this problem requires real awareness, which our community seems to lack.

It may not be on your radar. You may not be aware of the various forms it takes. This does not make you a racist. But it’s time to take a good, hard look at your actions. Are you contributing to an inclusive environment or an exclusive one? Are you treating everyone with respect?

University administration needs to implement real consequences for intolerance, not just send out somewhat vague emails and launch campaigns. Condemning statements and campaign launches are important and helpful. But more severe action is needed, too.

UNL has a racism problem. But it doesn’t have to be a lingering one.

Let’s figure this out here and now. Let’s start seriously evaluating what kind of university we want for ourselves, for our peers, for our faculty and staff, for our alumni and for future members of our community. Let’s not let this define us. It’s embarrassing. But, more importantly, it’s hurting our friends and our colleagues. It has to stop.

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ASUN needs diversity in elections

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y relationship with student government has been, in short, complicated. Not adorable, Rom-Com, makeup-kiss-at-the-end kind of complicated, but TommyLee-Pamela Anderson-multiple-divorces complicated. I’ve run for ASUN office and currently sit on the Electoral Commission, but I’m also painfully aware of its problems and limitations, including the need for more people to run for office. The recent outcry surrounding the use of hate speech in senate has, again, complicated our relationship.

For those who haven’t heard – I apologize in advance for ruining your day – a graduatestudent senator gave a speech against a proposed resolution that would discourage the use of derogatory language. His response included multiple uses of the N-word, flippant attempts at discrediting the MexicanAmerican Student Association and some bizarre Chris Rock references. The student body reacted with considerable outrage that was matched by Chancellor Harvey Perlman and other members of the administration.

What makes this situation so outrageous, beyond the butchering of a decent Chris Rock routine, is the role the ASUN senate is meant to play on campus. As an elected body of our peers, we expect the senate to represent the opinions of the student body. Obviously, this kind of blatant, racially-motivated hatred is not shared (I hope) by the students who elect the senate.

There are other ways the senate doesn’t represent the student body as well. Occasionally, senators will vote in ways that don’t align with the interests of their particular colleges – such as during last year ’s funding appropriations debate when a senator from the journalism college opposed necessary funding for the Daily Nebraskan. And on a demographic level, we have an all-white senate representing a student body that is 12 percent non-

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white students, according to the UNL Office of Institutional Research and Planning. On the other side of the coin, it’s no secret the senate is overwhelmingly populated by members of Greek houses, while only 17 percent of all students are in a sorority or fraternity, according to UNL Admissions.

These facts are problematic in many ways.

Most obviously, certain viewpoints are going unrepresented in the body that is supposed to be the voice of student opinion to the administration and that makes decisions affecting everybody at the university. There are instances where what is best for a white, Greek student might conflict with the interests of a nonwhite or non-Greek one. Everybody should be involved in discussions when these conflicts arise so fair, effective decisions are made.

Senate members have little reason to consider these outsider opinions when they can continue getting elected by maintaining the status quo. Moreover, a homogenous senate fails to provide the role models and social connections needed to increase the diversity of its future members.

These issues and the recent racism situation left me wondering who the hell elects these people. Last year, I joined the ASUN Electoral Commission, which is responsible for making the bylaws that govern student government elections. I wanted to see the ways that election rules discouraged student government outsiders from running. What I found, though, was that the entire commission is interested in

creating fair elections. Many people within the student government recognize the lack of diversity in the senate and are willing to address it. But there’s one major problem: Nobody new is running for senate.

The whole reason people such as the senator who used hate speech are even able to be in the senate is because so few graduate students run for office. The same is true for other colleges. When there isn’t a diverse group of candidates to pick from, it’s impossible to change the composition of the group we elect.

Surely, the student government could do more to make itself more accessible to new participants, although its lack of resources and cohesive infrastructure make this more difficult than it appears. The quickest way to affect major change in the composition of the senate is to do just that: Change the senate. We can hold people accountable for their negative actions, but there won’t be any meaningful shift in opinions until there’s more diversity in the senate itself.

So now I’m begging you – if you’ve been upset by what happened in the senate, or by what’s occurring on campus or really anything at all, please consider running for a seat on the ASUN senate. All of campus will benefit from the perspective you bring to the group. The process is less scary than you’re thinking, and there will be a meeting put on by the Electoral Commission at 3 p.m. on Dec. 6, in the Nebraska Union explaining how to run. Even if you aren’t elected, just campaigning and bringing to light issues that affect different areas of campus will improve overall awareness and set an example for future outsider candidates who want to run. Please consider coming to the meeting and remember that real improvement can’t happen unless somebody steps up to do it.

Kate Miller is a senior philosophy major. Follow her on Twitter @ TheKateriarch. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

UFC included women to turn profit, not for equality

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pproximately 16 years ago, Sen. John McCain famously labeled mixed martial arts as “human cockfighting” just a few years after the first fights of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. At the time, the UFC featured only men and had few rules, no weight classes and didn’t even require the fighters to wear gloves. It was raw and not far from street fighting in a cage. Since 2001, the UFC has come under new ownership and has progressed to include more rules and regulation to ensure athlete safety and appeal to the public. The UFC stands at the top of what has now become the multi-billion dollar MMA industry.

The UFC included eight weight classes.

Its ninth, added this year, is held by the bantamweight women.

This might seem like a great genderequality battle won. Combative sports are the ultimate masculine athletic activity.

Women are finally being accepted into this world as not only physically strong but as respected, legitimate and talented athletes alongside their male peers.

However, this isn’t quite the case. The triumph of women’s fighting doesn’t necessarily indicate a greater recognition of their fighting prowess. Female fighters became

popular when it was realized they were actually marketable. Unfortunately, the MMA industry is as much, if not more, defined by potential for profit as by the actual skills of its athletes.

The UFC had its first female fights in February, and on Saturday concluded its 18th season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” a reality show that gives up-and-coming fighters a chance for a UFC contract. This season featured female fighters competing for the first time who trained alongside male teammates. The two competing coaches were also women.

For years, as MMA was fighting for legitimacy, the question of women also entering the ring was just about out of the question. Even with women’s boxing as a professional and Olympic sport, women failed to gain real respect as martial champions as much as their male counterparts.

MMA was quickly overshadowing boxing anyway. Yet women quietly started to join in and were fighting in smaller promotions.

In 2011, UFC President Dana White said that women would “never” fight in his organization. In only two years, women are now headlining UFC pay-per-view cards.

The promotion and popularity of female fighters show that the most powerful people of the fighting industry have finally over-

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come the repulsion of having women fight in their cages. It also shows audiences are willing to pay to watch women fight. But that’s all that has been accomplished. Women fighters are now public because they generate profit.

The UFC promotion created the women’s bantamweight category around Ronda Rousey, the division’s current title holder and one of the coaches of “The Ultimate Fighter 18.” She was marketable not just because of her aggressive fighting style but because of her good looks. This was what attracted White to introduce women’s MMA into the UFC. It’s not unusual for a promotion to center around a particular champion, for MMA and all sports. Usually this person is not just a skilled athlete but also notably good looking. This has driven professional sports

since its beginning, both for male and female athletes. Soccer has Cristiano Ronaldo and Hope Solo; football has Drew Brees and Tom Brady. The list continues.

Unfortunately, this practice has tainted sports and distracted both the athletes and the fans from what is really at stake. As a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, I’ve been interested in combative and martial arts for the last 10 years. I never had any serious ambitions to become a professional fighter.

The joy and attraction of martial arts is and ought to be the personal growth that happens when putting yourself against another person. One learns the value of hard work and experience and overcomes challenges and fears. It’s less about the points won or the belts earned. Now with the popularity of professional MMA, martial artists can literally cash in and make it a living.

For the price of intense training and physical pain, MMA fighters become the spectacle of giant parties. Fights are held in large, stadium-like venues, and the cage is plastered with sponsor logos that feed this multi-billion dollar industry. The physical contest is still honest. There are no pulled punches or fake knockouts. No doubt these are great athletes who deserve rewards for their hard work. But they are pawns in a complex and political business.

At least these athletes are able to make a living from fighting than face a “desk job” even if it puts them at the mercy of the promoter and comes at the expense of their personal image. Now even the women can pursue their desires to compete.

There isn’t anything wrong with that, but it shouldn’t be accepted as real athletic equality. The female fighter has emerged as a timely trend, and she will be exploited as she always has and as the promoters see fit.

Opening up the industry to women is more about chasing the next profit, not about paving a road for female athletes.

It’s likely the UFC will continue to feed off this initial success of introducing women to mainstream MMA by promoting more fights and creating more weight classes. As long as fighters are popular and produce profit, the UFC has no reason to back away.

Women involved in this industry have a bright future. They must understand what they are subjecting themselves to, but at least they have this choice. And they’ll have the opportunity to defend themselves if they feel the need to. The resilience of women has at least given them that.

Jane Seu is a senior political science major. Follow her on Twitter @jane_seu. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Lincoln’s Embellish expands to include men’s boutique, Cuff, offering more casual clothing

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Megan Hatch looks at clothes at Cuff, a new men’s boutique on N 13th St. Cuff is located inside Embellish, the women’s boutique n our world of online shopping and expanding department stores, it can be difficult to experience personalization while shopping. that originally dominated the store.

As a result, many cities, like Lincoln, have found an increased market where boutiques can thrive. And with Lincoln’s rapidly expanding downtown business district, it is no surprise that locally owned clothing stores have been able to get a footing in the shopping scene.

Ashlie Hadden is the owner and operator of Embellish, a boutique located on the corner of 13th and P streets, next to the Rococo Theatre.

Hadden started the business in September 2011 and has prime real estate in the downtown district. So, it was only natural she broadened the market of her business.

In early September 2013, around the two-year anniversary of Embellish, Hadden opened Cuff — a menswear boutique that operates in conjunction with Embellish. Hadden said that expansion was a natural next step of her process.

“It seemed like there was a little bit of a demand for elevated casual men’s clothing in the area,” she said.

As a University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumnae with degrees in business administration and marketing and a minor in textiles, clothing and design, Hadden knows the importance of finding a niche market for clothing. That’s why Cuff focuses less on formal attire and more on clothing for who Hadden calls “the modern man.”

“He cares about how he looks, but he may still be more in touch with that manly side, a little more outdoorsy,” she said. “[The clothing] is for the creative class guy and young professional age group.”

Operating out of about one-third of the Embellish store, Hadden said right now, the size is just about right. However, if there’s more demand, she said there’s room for growth.

Hadden said she enjoys the ease at which customers can shop both men and women’s clothing, all in the same spot with both lines of clothing operating under the same price points.

Cuff occupies the back area of the Embellish boutique. Justine Ward said the Justine Ward makes a chalk advertisement for Embellish and the Cuff bouAs a boutique, Cuff offers highCuff’s customers are typically women buying clothes for their husbands or tiques. quality products for men. With blazers, boyfriends. sweaters, button-up shirts and a vari-

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Tips to make tiresome road trips enjoyable maranda loughlin

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A current exhibit at the Sheldon Museum of Art, “Its Surreal Thing: The Temptations of Objects,” features surrealist sculptures put together by Daniel Veneciano.

NYU art historian to speak at Sheldon surrealist exhibit Hannah Ratliff dn The Sheldon Museum of Art is blurring the lines between fantasy and reality with its surreal art exhibit, “Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects.”

The exhibition, which has been open since October, features solely surreal sculptures, unlike any other exhibition museum director Daniel Veneciano has seen at the Sheldon. Veneciano, who put the collection together, has been hoping to produce the exhibition for years.

“When I first came to Sheldon, I flipped through the sculpture catalog, and I noticed we had a lot of work that was either properly surrealist or surrealist in spirit, in influence,” Veneciano said. “So that gave me the idea of one day of doing an all-sculpture surreal exhibition… [which] is unusual.

Usually, you have paintings and collages included... I had this idea from four plus years ago and an opening came up in the schedule.”

The exhibition has since attracted the attention of author, art historian and professor at the City University of New York Mary Ann

Caws. Caws, whose particular interest in surreal art and fondness for the University of NebraskaLincoln drew her to the exhibition, will be speaking today at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon’s Abbott Auditorium about objectifying surrealist display.

“I think the first reason I ever got interested in [surrealism] was because everybody said, ‘It makes no sense,’” Caws said. “I thought, ‘Well, that’s interesting, everything else makes perfectly, sometimes boring, sense.’ So I never

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I have spent about an eighth of my existence in cars.

In that time, I’ve burned through mountains of mix CDs, tallied up obscene mileage and have eaten enough McDonald’s for six lifetimes.

While all this may seem fun, there are many traveling dangers that accompany road trips. There’s the more threatening sort of offense: the dozing semi-truck drivers veering into opposite traffic lanes, the monotony of corn and soy bean crops creating mirages of … well … something you probably don’t want to see and the ever-growing threat of barren radio wastes as your stock of carefully crafted mixed CDs drops by the hour.

Then there are the minor annoyances: too many car owners trying to be witty on their license plates (“THEG8EST”? Come on son.), bumpers adorned with political zingers or mini vans showing off the number of kids in tow with those stupid white sticker people expose on their back windows.

Stop reproducing.

Quaint off-highway gas stations house the most formidable bathrooms the world over – each decorated with fruity condoms or innovative graffiti scratched into bathroom stall walls. “Steven wuz here,” “Kate <3’s Benny,” “Benny luvs Steven?” Get real.

Lets not forget the delightful stench of people on these pilgrimages. There is a distinct difference between a four and a six-hour traveler. With every 24th of a day passed in a jam-packed car, good smells are hard to come by. With the residue of stale McDonalds, that mysterious semi ahead of you with some sort of farm animal on board and let’s not

forget the smell of your passengers.

Oh yes, we all collect each others’ body odor as well.

You are bound to smell like you haven’t bathed in weeks.

After pointing out all the less than kosher elements of driving through and out of the Midwestern prairies, I must admit, I still love road trips.

This past Thanksgiving break, I drove eight hours by myself to see family. Therefore, I compiled a list of the most crucial tips to having a successful road trip for future endeavors, for those on the interstate alone or with the pungent passengers mentioned above.

Step 1: Create a mass batch of mixed CDs, fresh with new music that you preferably haven’t heard before. Compile a list of recommended artists and songs from people you know, or hit up websites like last.fm or 8tracks to explore wide ranges of

mus i c that feature simil a r qualities to your c u r rent favorites.

8tracks is a “handcrafted internet radio” worth checking out in particular. This website is a compilation of playlists created by people with a love for music.

On the site, listeners can look up playlists based on where they are going or what they are feeling. Try looking up “road trip” on the site

to get some ideas for your car mixes. The first playlist of a road trip needs to have the right amount of sing-a-long songs that you can belt out the windows of your car, as well as a best balance of peppy, upbeat and fun songs. Some of my first set’s songs included: “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” by Jet, “Oxford Comma” by Vampire Weekend and “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire.

Step 2: Bring a camera.

Whether you’re by lonesome or with a group of people, you need one. Take a picture every time you stop — of gas stations and fields, of the gravel beneath your feet or that asshat’s license plate. Stop to take pictures. It may just be a small sign on the side of the road that causes you to think, or it may be the way the sun looks through the trees. Either way, you’re never going to see the sign or the sun the way you saw it at that moment.

It doesn’t even matter if you are good at photography or not; you’re never going to regret taking pictures on a road trip, but y o u will re -

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Step 3: Buy dorky shit from truck stops. That clown figurine? Yep. That t-shirt with the wolf howling at a glowing moon? Oh yeah.

Those “Fun Dog” brand hot dogs?

Absolutely. No way you couldn’t!

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Band Boston releases 6th Lied Center presents holiday album, ‘Life, Love & Hope’ show, Cirque Dreams Holidaze Kieran Kissler DN

Maranda Loughlin dn

Ten years later, Boston finally hammered out a 12-track album, that nobody was waiting for.

Everyone knows the basics of Boston such as “More Than a Feeling” and “Foreplay/Long Time” – classic favorites of dads everywhere – and the band’s iconic hairdos of the ‘70s. But here are a few uncommon and notable things the band has achieved in the past four decades.

“Boston” (1976) Boston’s first album, self-titled “Boston,” sold more than 17 million records in the U.S. and has been on classic rock station’s song rotations since. Although there were six members in the group, the first album was produced solely by classic rocker Donald Thomas “Tom” Scholz. He played every instrument in every song on the “Boston” album, and after gathered the other five members so that Scholz could tour his music, thus creating Boston.

“Don’t Look Back” (1978) The release of this album started an epic battle between the band and its record label, Epic Records. The band was irritated because Epic apparently pushed the band into releasing the album too early when it wasn’t quite finished. Scholz was quoted saying, “It was ridiculously short.

It needed another song.” The band’s title track “Don’t Look Back,” hit No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. A sure sign that maybe we really shouldn’t be looking back on the band’s history.

“Third Stage” (1986) Scholz is notorious for taking his sweet time in producing new records. After the last album’s lawsuit stint, it took Boston eight years to create a new album. Scholz moved onto MCA records where the album’s track “Amanda” became the band’s only No. 1 hit. The album sold more than 4 million copies. During the creation of “Third Stage,” the band was the first to use a Rockman guitar processor that was created by Scholz himself. For the first three Boston albums, Brad Delp was the sole vocalist. Delp sang all of the vocals including lead, harmony and backup.

“Walk On” (1994) Delp decided to quit the band after continuous fights with Scholz, but eventually reunited. Thus began Delp’s unsteady musical career where he flitted from the band RTZ and then became the lead vocalist in a group called BeatleJuice, a Beatles cover band. Today, BeatleJuice performs under the name BeatleJuice and Friends in memoriam of Delp who committed suicide in 2007. According to the New York Times and www.guitarworld.com, Delp was found in his bathroom along with the stench of coals and a note paper-clipped to his shirt addressing his fans: “Mr. Brad Delp. J’ai une ame salitaire.” Meaning: I am a lonely soul.

“Corporate America” (2002) This was the last album to feature the “golden” voice of Delp. At this point, Scholz and the band have created a whopping five albums within 26 years. In this album, new band members Anthony Cosmo and Kimberly Dahme joined the group and the band channeled its political strife through rock ‘n’ roll. Mostly the band pointed out the excesses of capitalism in America. Despite Scholz’s cultivated age of 55 at this time, he remained pretty toned.

“Life, Love & Hope” (2013) “Life, Love & Hope” comes out today and is the band’s sixth album. This may be a group that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but the new album retains the classic Boston sound. Scholz hammered out the album in his basement, using the same analogue tape, machines and equipment that Boston has used for the past 35 years.

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Cirque Dreams Holidaze, a worldrenowned theatrical and acrobatics tour, is tumbling its way to the Lied Center for Performing Arts this week.

Famous for its larger-than-life acts and performers, this is the first time the tour has performed in Lincoln. Performances are this Tuesday andWednesday at 7:30 p.m.

With a University of Nebraska-Lincoln student discount, tickets are $22.50 per person. General admission starts at $45 per person.

Jenn Sierra-Grobbelaar of Cirque Productions said the tour features more than 300 costumes and 30 performers split between 20 different acts. Along with traditional holiday music, there are several acrobats, balancing tricks, aerial stunts and twirling performances to accompany an original score that will also incorporate the holiday theme. While there have been several popular Cirque tours during the last 20 years, this is only the fifth year that the Holidaze tour has been entertaining audiences, however, it has already gained international respect.

“This will be our first time bringing Cirque Dreams Holidaze to the Lied Center, and we are excited to share our artistry with audiences in Lincoln,” Sierra-Grobbelaar said.

The Lied is known for bringing holiday shows to Lincoln. In past years, acts like “The Nutcracker” have graced center stage and drawn in large crowds. Cirque Productions has a long history of performing for audiences worldwide. Their artists and entertainers have played for more than 50 million people during the last several years, combining elaborate stage sets and choreography to go along with the acrobatics. Because of the Cirque Dreams Holidaze tour’s popularity, contact with management began long before this year’s performance season.

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Cirque Dreams Holidaze acrobatics tour is in Lincoln Tuesday and Wednesday at the Lied Center for the first time in history.

While tickets are still available, the demand has sharply increased within the last few weeks.

“Aside from the incredible theatrics, Cirque Dreams is one of the most talented, in-demand Cirque companies in the world,” said Bill Stephan, the Lied’s executive director. “We are very lucky to have them in Lincoln for two performances.”

Cirque Dreams Holidaze is led by director and creator Neil Goldberg. The cast includes artists from around the globe who will perform different holiday traditions from many cultures. Many of the artists have been performing since they were children, and all spend multiple hours perfecting their acts each day. According to several critics, the show is ideal for any member of the family.

“There aren’t enough shows today where mom and dad can bring the kids and grandparents; make it a date night; make it a fun time for teens, or entertain so many generations,” Sierra-Grobbelaar said.

Audience members can look forward to a performance that plays on traditional holiday stories with entertainment that features large gingerbread men, candy canes and 30-foot toy soldiers.

Along with those spectacles, there will be appearances by various snowmen, penguins, puppets and flying reindeer. The Lied is anticipating nearly sold out shows for both nights.

“The action is non-stop heartpounding and gravity-defying,” Sierra-Grobbelaar said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

And as the holiday season approaches, Cuff offers even more gift products. There are flasks, socks and even dapper kits for those looking for a well-groomed look.

“They’re fun little stocking stuffers,” Hadden says.

Hadden also said basic clothing items are very popular as the holidays approach. Items such as shirts and sweaters are excellent go-to gifts.

Looking beyond the holidays and toward the next buying period in February, Hadden is hoping to bring in more colors for men for the warmer months but also staying true to the brand. “[It will be] pushing the envelope without getting too crazy,” she said.

Hadden said she is currently attempting to focus on business fundamentals, making sure she can sell everything she buys.

“We’re still in that testing phase — kind of seeing what’s working and what’s not working,” she said.

As for the name of the store, Hadden said it took a lot of brain-

storming to find just the right word.

She wanted to keep the name simple to go along with Embellish, and the name Cuff offered simplicity as well as a visual image for customers.

“For me, cuffing something can either make it more formal, like having cuffs or cufflinks, or cuffing your pants can make it more casual,” Hadden said.

Both Hadden and Ward believe Cuff offers a special clothing experience for men without a lot of complexity.

“It’s easy stuff that adds a lot of style,” Ward said.

With a simple name and a central location, Hadden said she hopes Cuff and Embellish will last in Lincoln for years to come. Even without much advertising, Hadden said Cuff has received a lot of attention.

And owning a business like Cuff, for Hadden, allows her to work in a creative, personal workspace daily.

“I loved the feeling that it gave me of my own brand,” Hadden said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

ably haven’t been seriously used on road trips for the past decade, but you do feel a sense of accomplishment w h e n c o n quering a

yourself. Treat yourself. That candy bar and bag of jalepeno-flavored Cheetos can’t hurt as bad as a pack of “Fun Dogs.” There is really nothing healthy on the road anyhow.

The effects of truck-stop pizza on our liver and lungs is welldocumented for one, and besides salted nuts that will still give you the blood pressure of Nick Nolte, you’re basically safer with the Snickers anyway.

cuff: from 5 ety of pants, Hadden’s store works to provide men with products they can use in more than just their business lives. “[The products] mesh certain parts of your life and your wardrobe together,” she said.

Boutiques operate differently than larger retailers as well. Hadden buys for her store every six months, in February and then again in August. Multiple vendors operate out of three different convention centers in Las Vegas where Hadden chooses what she wants to carry in her store for the coming seasons. Because boutiques are targeted toward more specific items, Hadden only gets in six of any one item, ensuring that her store’s clothing is, in fact, special.

But along with clothing items, Cuff also offers novelty items.

Justine Ward, a senior fashion merchandising major and Cuff’s recently appointed assistant manager, said the side items make great gifts for guys.

“The whiskey stones are a big hit,” she said.

Road trip: from 5 Not only do these arbitrary objects make for great stories later on, they also add to the clutter of random things we collect in college. You can put “Bumbo The Clown” on your desk right next to the tiki mask you found in your purse after that quest i o n a b l e house party the other weekend.

Think of it as accessorizing your room.

Also, buy local food and snacks at gas stations. If not terrible, it will at least make for an interesting experience. The best beef jerky I have ever had was at a gas station in Wichita, Kan., and now every time I drive to Oklahoma I grab a small bag.

Really though, never eat those gas station hot dogs. They say “Fun,” but they really mean “Irritable Bowel Syndrome.” I think that goes without saying.

Step 4: Try using a real map, plebeian.

I mean, I’m also so very guilty of relying on my smart phone for everyday uses.

I could easily write out the directions to Oklahoma, (because it is basically a handful of highways and interstates) but, instead, I choose to leave my phone navigation system on for the 400 miles. Not only am I draining the battery, but I’m also collecting checks on the chart of my obscene laziness as a human being. I realize maps are old school and prob-

2-foot by 3-foot rectangle.

Step 7: Take road trips with people who also enjoy four wheels on pavement.

Let’s be real. There are road trippers and then there are flyers – the people who enjoy spending time in cars and those who feel trapped in the mini-van. For the safety of friendships and mental well-being, each group should stick with their own kind. If you bring a flyer on a road trip with you, don’t expect them to see the simple beauties that you do, but do expect to do the majority of driving while they sleep, the assholes.

Step 5: When you’re in the middle of your road Step 8: trip — the thick of Lastly, tired boredom — it’s end on the easy to get groggy and killer playbegin to drift. There list you’ve are a couple things to s a v e d do as precautionary for last. I measures to avoid this mean, you slump. First, grab a cofmade it; fee and two red bulls – art by mike rendowski | dn it’s the end yes two, because they’re of the road, always two for $5 figurative on the road. Next, roll down and literally. Enjoy a few mellow your window, and stick songs to relax after a long trip, or your face out, screaming get cranked to see Granny on Skrilthe words to some crazy lex and a bag of Skittles. songs you love. These I went mellow and cried to Tratracks should be upbeat, cy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” chilled to playful, sometimes “New Slang” by The Shins and felt raunchy and classics. way better about myself to “Eyes” For my voice-losing

by Rogue Wave. howlers, I went with Third Eye Blind’s So, there you have it, eight “Semi-Charmed moves to make on the road, for Life,” Michael Jacksanity and for super-great times, son’s “Beat It” and the for health – better but more likely always-awakening, “Hey worse – and for the qualification of Ya” by OutKast. all those hours I’d rather not consider lost.

Maranda Loughlin actuStep 6: ally doesn’t have a drivWear comfy clothes. ers license and should be Put on your high school track called in immediately if pants and your dad’s shirt that’s spotted in a blue four door. four sizes too big. Don’t try and Let us know at arts@ be that high class bitty on the road dailynebraskan.com who’s healthier than thou. Indulge

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APP OF THE WEEK Garfield Daily Comic Michaela Odens DN We all know Garfield just cannot get enough lasagna.

Well, if you find yourself unable to get enough Garfield, there’s an app for that.

The Garfield Daily Comic is a free Android and iOS app featuring just what its title says - the daily Garfield comic.

The software offers every single Garfield comic ever made, nearly 12,000 strips in total, and allows users to pick from any previous dates. One could even look up the strip that ran on his or her birthday or select the random button for a cat comic from a random day. The app also lets users save comics to their photos, so they can save their favorites at any time, which can be

posted to Facebook as well.

Under the information section of the app, readers can find biographies of all the characters, including links to the strips of their first appearances, Garfield’s being June 19, 1978, Odie’s, Aug. 8, 1978, and Liz’s, June 26, 1979. Garfield’s bio includes descriptions such as, “He’s a wisecracking, nap-taking, coffee-guzzling, lasagnaloving, spider-whacking, mailman-mauling fat cat.” While Jon’s says, “Garfield and Odie’s hapless owner. Decent but dull, with a fatally flawed fashion sense, Jon is a geek with a heart of gold.”

The info section also has links to other Garfield apps, including Garfield’s Wild Ride, Garfield’s Trivia Party and Garfield Coins.

The app prides itself on its navigation and search options, allowing the titles and toolbars to fade away naturally over the comics or disappear with the touch of a finger. The search options offer readers the ability to sort by date and even by thematic elements such as the cat’s famous love of lasagna.

Looking back at the old strips, it’s interesting to see how the comic has evolved throughout the years. Each of the characters seem to have received extreme makeovers throughout time, so, if you’re a Garfield super-fan or just looking for a quick daily laugh, the free Garfield Daily Comic app brings a nostalgic opportunity for comic lovers of all types. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Despite blackout, Jay Z gives great performance For 40 minutes fans were left in dark at Jay Z’s concert Sunday night in Pinnacle Bank Arena Layla Younis DN The Pinnacle Bank Arena turned into a room full of stars as Jay Z’s audience put up lighters to his song “Forever Young” this Sunday.

But the arena didn’t stay lit the whole time with fans enjoying music. The bright lights, beats and floor vibrations came to a sudden halt around 10 p.m.

No, Jay Z was not testing his audience members to see if they truly knew lyrics to his songs, and no, this was not set up. Instead, the rap artist’s performance was shut down when the entire venue succumbed to a power outage.

For 40 minutes audience members were left to grab drinks, make out or leave.

They did all that and more, socializing with former classmates, friends or co-workers for the duration of the blackout.

After multiple announcements were made that there was no emergency and that the arena’s system would have to be set up again, some people decided to stay and some decided to leave.

After the power outage, Jay Z changed into a football jer-

sey, since he too had some time on his hands, and the audience members who stayed saw stars light up.

Even while the concert was supposed to start at 8 p.m., (Jay Z didn’t start singing until 9 p.m. No opening performers were at the concert either) and aside from the mid-show delay, the music performed was worth the time – both the black out and the late finish-up.

Jay Z’s latest songs had less impact on the audience than his older hits, but that didn’t stop the crowd from dancing and throwing hands up in the air.

The rapper ’s old hits like “99 Problems” and “On To The Next One” had the audience screaming lyrics whenever Jay Z would point the microphone to the crowd.

“Tom Fords,” “Picasso Baby,” “Holy Grail” and “FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt” were some of the songs performed from his latest album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, which came out in July. Songs Jay Z is featured in, such as Drake’s “Pound Cake/ Paris Morton Music 2” were also performed. Producer and rapper Timbaland also brought his presence to the stage.

Jay Z brought people to their feet as he spun his rhymes, dressed in all black, with a shirt with a cross and a gold chain, but the excitement from the audience wasn’t so much because of Jay Z’s performance as it was, instead, simply because of his music.

More than anything it seemed, beyond the system malfunction or the artist’s best hits,

the group you came with was the largest-determining factor in whether the experience was incredible or utterly depressing.

Age groups ranged from approximately 10 to 50, and while some couples kept things cool, others brought out their wilder sides.

Unfortunately, the duo next to me was grinding on each other the entire time.

The lighters to “Forever Young” put more spark into the people of Lincoln, and that energy did not die once the concert ended.

So to the 10-year-old boy who went to the concert, the 50-year-old woman and the couple that would not stop rubbing up against each other, go ahead; stay forever young. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

a thousand books and is a distinguished professor… [It’s] a real treat.”

Caws will also discuss the exhibition itself, which was Veneciano’s attempt at creating not simply a collection in a gallery, but a way for the viewer to become immersed in the idea of surrealism.

“I love the exhibition, it’s a lot of fun,” Veneciano said.

“What we did in this show was group things together that don’t necessarily go together. Like a little tiny [sculpture] next to [a giant one]. Those don’t belong together. But this show is not just about surrealism, we’re trying to make a surrealist experience, as an exhibition. For me, that’s another aspect of the fun of the

exhibition.”

So far, the exhibition has been well received. Because surrealism isn’t based in reality, those who visit the collection have told Veneciano that the atmosphere feels less academic and more whimsical. He hopes the collection will allow visitors to have fun in a museum setting, as well as showcase the fine art he’s worked to collect.

“There’s incredibly good art by famous artists here as well as by local Nebraska artists,” Veneciano said. “It’s a different experience of an exhibition that people say is so much more fun than the usual art exhibition.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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surrealism: from 5 got bored by surrealism… I love the way it mixes everything all up together… the unconscious and the conscious, the high and the low, life and death, inside and outside, day and night, all those things. I like, a lot, the fact that it’s made up of contraries.”

Veneciano said he believes since surreal art is sometimes hard to understand and appreciate, Caws’ talk will help the community gain a better understanding of the exhibition and surreal art in general. Students don’t often get the chance to hear someone as knowledgeable as Caws speak, Veneciano said.

“It’s really an honor that she’s here,” Veneciano said. “She’s had an incredible career and written

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dn Big ten homeroom 100-yard games this season after running for 134 yards and a touchdown against Minnesota.

tackles, 7 tackles for loss, 2 forced fumbles, 2 interceptions and 2 sacks. The defense really stepped up, holding Ameer Abdullah to 85 yards, his lowest total of the season.

the roster took heading into those matchups. A bowl win will definitely help Bo Pelini in terms of moving forward with the program.

11. Illinois (4-8, 1-7)

1. Ohio State (12-0 Overall, 8-0 Big Ten)

The Buckeyes barely escaped the Big House after stopping the Wolverines on a two-point conversion.

But they still deserve to be in their current position.

Urban Meyer has brought this team to back-to-back undefeated seasons, and in today’s college football, that merits a spot in the National Championship. All Ohio State has to do now is beat Michigan State in Indianapolis, and they’ll look to Carlos Hyde to keep things rolling, averaging 156 yards per game against Big Ten foes.

3. Wisconsin (9-3, 6-2)

The Badgers not only had their bubble burst by Penn State at home, but after that loss, the Big Ten drop-off increases in terms of successful teams.

If the Badgers would have won, then the conference would have had three 10-win schools along with two teams guaranteed BCS bowls. What hurt the Badgers on Saturday was the play of quarterback Joel Stave. Although he threw for more than 300 yards with 3 touchdowns, the 3 interceptions hurt them enough to lose the game.

Still, Wisconsin will most likely find itself in the Capital One Bowl.

5. Minnesota (8-4, 4-4) In the 14-3 loss to Michigan State, running back David Cobb became the second player to run for more than 100 yards against the Spartan defense. Although it was barely more than that with 101 yards, it’s still something to be proud of. As Jerry Kill continues to coach the program, the Gophers are establishing themselves as a team that shouldn’t be overlooked in the conference. They also shouldn’t be overlooked by whomever they will play come bowl season.

After a 4-8 season, coach Tim Beckman is still safe, even though his team had a rough skid, losing six games 9. Indiana (5-7, 3-5) in a row in Big Ten play.

The Hoosiers, to no surAnother disappointment prise, put up another huge 7. Penn State (7-5, 4-4) offensive showing against is that he won’t be having The Nittany Lions’ win Nathan Scheelhaase leadPurdue. Indiana racked up against Wisconsin in Madi692 total yards in the 56-36 ing the offense anymore. son definitely gave them Scheelhaase threw for win against the Boilermaksomething to hang their ers. Tre Roberson was doing more than 3,000 yards this hats on. What stuck out the most of the work, throwing season with 21 touchdown most was freshman quara career-high 6 touchdowns passes, but he only had two terback Christian Hackenon Saturday along with 154 games this season in which berg’s performance against yards on the ground. The he didn’t throw an interthe Badgers. Hackenberg ception. The defense isn’t Hoosiers have improved threw for 339 yards along their record in each of Kevin shedding any light for the with a career-high 4 touch- Wilson’s three seasons as team, either. downs. That showing alone the head coach and hope solidifies Penn State as a that will translate to bowl team to reckon with for eligibility next year. the next few years. For Bill O’Brien to get back-to-back winning seasons with a shortage of scholarships is nothing short of impressive.

12. Purdue (1-11, 0-8)

2. Michigan State (111, 8-0)

Had the Spartans defeated Notre Dame earlier this season, we would be looking at an undefeated team going against Ohio State on Saturday, which might have changed the perception of the Big Ten Conference.

Regardless, there is a lot at stake in the title game. The Spartans could very well put up some points against Ohio State’s defense with Connor Cook making strides at quarterback and Jeremy Langford running the ball well. Langford has seven

after five conference losses, Michigan is sitting in the bottom half of the conference.

6. Nebraska (8-4, 5-3) 4. Iowa (8-4, 5-3)

Aside from Minnesota’s turnaround, the Hawkeyes should be commended for their impressive rebound that they made this season. Improving their record from 4-8 to 8-4 is tough, and they accomplished that after defeating Nebraska on Black Friday. Fueling Iowa that day were the linebackers, who combined for 28

To say the least, it’s been a season that can easily be forgotten for the Huskers.

They lost three games at Memorial Stadium for the first time since 2007, Bill Callahan’s final season. The team went winless against ranked schools, with the most impressive wins coming against Penn State and Michigan on the road, which is something to take pride in with how many hits

8. Michigan (7-5, 3-5)

Out of all the teams that Urban Meyer has faced in his two seasons at Ohio State, the Wolverines put them up against the wall more than any other on Saturday.

Devin Gardner finally lived up to all the hype, throwing for 451 yards and 4 touchdowns. If the Wolverines did that on a consistent basis, then they would be toward the top of the Big Ten. But

Huskers search for bench points

It was pretty clear that Purdue wasn’t going to get a single win against a conference opponent, but fresh10. Northwestern man quarterback Danny (5-7, 1-7) Etling showed the BoilThe Wildcats finally won ermakers that things can their first Big Ten game easily get better for them of the season, but comoffensively. Etling threw 485 ing in the final week of yards and 4 touchdowns the season, it can’t be the most exciting for coach Pat in their loss to Indiana, showing his team that Fitzgerald. It’s still a win, though. Trevor Siemian was the offense is capable up putting up points and findon top of his game, throwing some comfort even ing 4 touchdowns. Helping though Purdue only won him with that was wide one game this season: receiver Christian Jones.

Jones found ways to get the against FCS opponent ball all game, earning every Indiana State. one of the 182 yards that Compiled by Josh Kelly sports@ he had gained to go with 2 dailynebraskan.com touchdowns.

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Junior running back Ameer Abdullah was held to a season-low 85 yards against Iowa, but he was named first-team All-Big Ten on Monday for leading the conference with 1,568 yards this season.

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Junior guard Tear’a Laudermill dribbles against UCLA in Nebraska’s season opener. Laudermill had 10 points and 3 rebounds in the Huskers’ loss to Washington State on Saturday. Laudermill started the season on the bench and has now started four games.

Josh Kelly DN After suffering the first loss of the season, questions will always come up about what the team should do to fix the problems that led to the loss. And for the No. 15 Nebraska women’s basketball team, the frustration began immediately after a loss Saturday against Washington State.

Following the 76-72 loss to the Cougars, Husker coach Connie Yori knew that there were plenty of things to critique after being upset at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.

“We have a lot of work to do,” Yori said. “We’re just not able to take a lot of things away from opponents right now. We’ve got to get better defensively. We’re trying to find ourselves a little bit in terms of what we should do.”

The Huskers surrendered the most points they have so far this season, and although Yori knew that Saturday was going to be a difficult matchup, the problems on this year ’s team were hinder-

cause we haven’t gotten producing earlier this season. tion off our bench. Our bench has “We’re searching for backup players,” Yori said. “I’ve men- not produced consistently for us tioned that in a couple of our up to this point. So we’re going blowout games recently. That’s to have some of those guards to been a concern. There’s a big do something for us.”

Earning a posidrop off when we tion as a starter for put our subs in. So We went the team was juwe’ve got to get nior guard Tear ’a more production. with the Laudermill, who We’ve got to figure kids that have has stepped into that out.” her role. LaudOut of the 72 been producing ermill scored 10 points Nebraska points against scored on Satur- for us because Washington State day, only 4 of them we haven’t gotten on Saturday. Yori were contributed praises Laudermill from the bench. production off our for stepping up, Knowing this bench.” but said she still would be an isbelieves that othsue, the team tried connie Yori ers need to follow. finding a solution women’s basketball coach “Tear ’a Laufor this before the dermill has been season started. doing a good job “We’ve been opening up the bench, playing for us,” Yori said. “She’s moved 10 kids in a lot of our preseason into the starting lineup, and she’s games,” Yori said. “We knew it been pretty productive in moving was going to be a tighter game, into that spot. We’ve got to get and we went with the kids that some production from other playhave been producing for us be- ers though, backup post players

as well as backup guards.”

Carrying the load for the Huskers right now is senior forward Jordan Hooper, averaging 20.4 points per game. After Saturday’s loss the four-year starter knows that the loss will help them moving forward with the season.

“We’ll just keep building on this,” Hooper said. “This will definitely help us. We’ll go watch film on this one and we’ll get a lot out of this, I think, because that was a really good team with really good players. So I think it’ll really help us for the next team.”

Nebraska has five non-conference games left before Big Ten play and its next opponent is No. 18 North Carolina. The Tar Heels are 6-2 so far this season heading into the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

The last time the Huskers faced an ACC opponent was last year ’s Sweet 16 game against Duke, when the Blue Devils won 53-43 against Nebraska. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Junior running back Ameer Abdullah and sophomore defensive end Randy Gregory highlighted Nebraska’s selections to the All-Big Ten Conference team announced on Monday.

Abdullah and Gregory both garnered first-team All-Big Ten honors from the coaches and the media. Senior cornerback Ciante Evans was named to the first team by the coaches and to the second team by the media.

Abdullah led the Big Ten in rushing with 1,568 yards on the season, good for the fifth-best rushing season in Nebraska history and the most rushing yards by a Nebraska player since Ahman Green in 1997. He finished behind Ohio State’s Carlos Hyde with 130.7 yards per game, rushing for 100 yards or more in 10 of 12 games this year.

Gregory led the Big Ten with 9.5 sacks – 9 of which came during Big Ten play. He had 17 tackles for loss, leading the Huskers and finishing second in the conference to Ohio State’s Ryan Shazier.

Evans had 4 interceptions on the year and was sixth on the team with 44 tackles, including 11 tackles for loss and 3 sacks. Both numbers are school records for defensive backs.

Senior cornerback Stanley Jean-Baptiste and senior center Cole Pensick were also awarded second-team All-Big Ten honors.

The Huskers also had six players named honorable mentions: senior defensive end Jason Ankrah, junior wide receiver Kenny Bell, senior offensive tackles Andrew Rodriguez and Jeremiah Sirles, junior safety Corey Cooper and senior kicker Pat Smith.

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Players voice support for Pelini after loss Pelini barked at a referee. At the end of his rant, Pelini took off his hat and whipped it around in the direction of the referee’s face, drawing in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. With the two penalties, Iowa was given a first down on the Nebraska 15-yard line, which eventually resulted in a Hawkeye field goal.

“He said I was too close to him,” Pelini said after the game Kyle Cummings about the call. “I thought that DN was a chicken-shit call. Excuse my language on that, but I had never Twenty-three seniors and three seen anything like that before. other players walked into MemoThe bottom line is they knew they rial Stadium for what would be blew the call.” their last Nebraska home game on Pelini’s undeniable passion on Friday against Iowa. and off the field for his players is Many people wondered apparent. But what some people whether it would be Nebraska see as a passionate coach, others coach Bo Pelini’s last Nebraska see as uncontrollable anger, addhome game as well. As the Husking to the season-long saga. ers battled injuries and shaped an On Saturday, though, Eichorst inexperienced defense all season, overruled his policy, issuing a pressure upon Pelini to capture statement confirming Pelini’s Nebraska’s first conference title status with the team moving forsince 1999 heightened. ward.

When Nebraska was ultimate“We very much look forward ly knocked out of the Big Ten title to our upcoming bowl game and race, questions arose regarding Coach Pelini continuing to lead Pelini’s job status our program in with the Huskers, the future,” said I would play yet University of Eichorst in a Nebraska-Lincoln statement on Satfor Bo Pelini Chancellor Harvey urday.

Perlman and Nebras- against Satan Not only does ka Athletic Director himself and a Pelini have supShawn Eichorst report from the mained silent on the team of demons administration matter, in line with at the gates of the at least through Eichorst’s policy to the bowl game refrain from provid- underworld.” at the end of the ing personnel comseason, but he ments until the end continues to have kenny bell junior wide receiver of the full season. overwhelming So as Pelini took support from his the field on Saturday players. against Iowa, his future with Ne“He’s a guy that will go in the braska was as unsure to Husker ring and fight 12 rounds for you fans as ever before. and give it his all,” linebacker MiAbout midway through the chael Rose said. “He’s been a guy third quarter, Iowa faced second that’s helped so many of these and 12 from the Nebraska 42-yard guys get out of situations comline. Hawkeye quarterback Jake ing from home. He’s been a father Rudock threw a pass that sailed figure to a lot of guys who don’t over the head of falling receiver have a father figure in their lives.

C.J. Fiedorowicz.

He’s been a great teacher in terms Nebraska’s Zaire Anderson of life lessons as well as footballwas called for pass interference, wise.” and Pelini was not happy.

A father figure in particular

Following debilitating defeat, which included penalty on NU coach, team backs Pelini’s position

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Nebraska coach Bo Pelini during the Iowa game, in which the Huskers were penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct on Pelini in the third quarter. Pelini was critical of the officials in his postgame news conference. to junior receiver Kenny Bell, he said.

“Bo Pelini is a father figure to me,” Bell said. “He’s literally changed my life. I would play for Bo Pelini against Satan himself and a team of demons at the gates of the underworld. I love Coach Pelini, and I can say that with confidence for everybody in that locker room, every guy that’s played for him. People don’t appreciate how much more this game is to the guys that do it every day.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

pelini reprimanded The Big Ten Conference publicly reprimanded Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini on Monday for comments he made about the officials following the Huskers’ loss to Iowa on Friday.

The conference fined Nebraska $10,000, saying Pelini’s remarks violated the league’s sportsmanship policy. Agreement 10.01 of the Big Ten Conference Agreement states the Big Ten “expects all contests involving a member institution to be

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conducted without compromise to any fundamental element of sportsmanship.”

Those elements include, the agreement continues, “integrity of competition, civility toward all and respect, particularly toward opponents and officials.”

Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst said the university supported the Big Ten’s sportsmanship policy.

“We were disappointed with

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Tim Miles said junior forward Leslee Smith (above), along with Deverell Biggs, can provide sparks coming off the bench for Nebraska. Smith had 13 points and a team-high 9 rebounds on Saturday against Northern Illinois.

STOPPING THE HURRICANE ATTACK

The Huskers will face arguably their toughest competition yet this season when Miami visits Lincoln Wednesday night.

Nebraska coach Tim Miles knows the challenges his players will face come tipoff at 8:30 p.m.

“A year ago they were one of the top four teams in the country for a while,” Miles said. “They’ll find ways to hurt you.”

Although Miami returns none of its starters from last year’s squad, which made it deep into the NCAA Tournament, Miles recognizes this year’s team still possesses a threat, although the Hurricanes bring less experience to the table.

“It’s going to take some time to replace that, but I’ve always felt that there’s always a residual year,” Miles said. “There’s guys in the program that understand what it took to be that successful, and that really rubs off. Those are your core guys you can depend on.”

One of those returns will be senior guard Rion Brown, who currently leads the team averaging 12.4 points a game.

Miles said he’s impressed with the Hurricanes’ length and athleticism and added that if the

It was the work from a forward Huskers have any chance to win Wednesday, they’ll have to match and guard off the bench that provided a spark plug for the team their physicality inside and outdown the stretch to pull the team side the paint. to victory, something Miles said “They’re going inside a lot more he was thankful for. and their going to pose a lot of “We really have a blessing with challenges for us; there’s no Leslee (Smith) and doubt about it,” the Deverell (Biggs) comcoach said. “They have We really ing off the bench a variety of guys that have a to provide a scorcan make threes.” blessing with ing punch,” he said.

CHANGing the “Those have been Leslee and LINEUP really necessary for Deverell coming After Saturday’s 5-point us.” off the bench to win over then 2-3 On Saturday, the two Northern Illinois, Coach provide a scoring juniors led their team punch.”

Miles said he wasn’t with scoring 13 and too thrilled with the 18 points, respectim miles performance he saw tively. men’s basketball coach from his starters. The Although the coach Nebraska coach said wouldn’t say whether he’s considering making moves Smith and Biggs will start against to his starting lineup this week.

Miami, he added that he’s been “I think I’m going to switch up the thrilled with the energy they prolineup again,” Miles said. “I don’t vided to their teammates when know exactly how I’m going to do they enter the game. it yet, but I think it’ll be a differ“Leslee’s impressed me a great ent starting lineup just to get the deal,” Miles said. “He comes in blend right.” and he’s a powerful player. I like And according to the numbers his guys off the bench who can prostarters put up over the weekvide. I like those two guys coming end, who could blame him? and providing something else.”

Although Nebraska continued its Compiled by Nedu Izu winning streak at home when it sports@ beat the Huskies, its starters condailynebraskan.com tributed just 28 of its 63 points.

Coach Pelini’s actions this past Friday regarding game officials,” Eichorst said in a statement. “We immediately recognized and addressed the situation with Coach Pelini and the Big Ten Conference. In addition, Coach Pelini acknowledged and accepted responsibility for the inappropriateness of his actions and issued a public apology in advance of this reprimand.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

The odds are against the No. 8 Nebraska wrestling team when it comes to winning a conference title or a national title this year.

Penn State is on a tear, winning the Big Ten championship and national championship the past three years. Nebraska during that span finished eighth in 2012 and seventh in 2013 in the conference tournament.

In the 10 weight classes, Nebraska has five individuals ranked

by Intermat in the top 20. Penn State has all 10 of its starters in the top 20, with the average being sixth in the weight class. Many of the wrestlers on the team have already won at least one NCAA national championship. There is no chink in Penn State’s armor.

Well, at least this year.

Penn State has seven upperclassmen starters. Nebraska has three juniors and a lone senior starting this year. Not only does Nebraska have more wrestlers with eligibility left, but the young guys are competing at a high level against quality opponents.

Nebraska has already notched two dual wins over ranked opponents.

The underclassmen for Nebraska have a combined record of 101-43 (.701 winning percentage) already in the young season. Penn State underclassmen have a 74-40 record (.649).

Nebraska is averaging almost seven wins per underclassman, while Penn State is averaging less than four. This does not bode well for the three-time defending national champions.

The Huskers have also made a big push in recruiting and are leaving Penn State in the dust. Nebraska had six recruits commit. Those six combined for 12 individual state titles, and five are ranked in the top 15 in the country at their respective weight classes. Penn State has two commits.

The thing that the Nittany Lions have going for them is the fact that those two are ranked No. 1 in their respective weight classes.

The big statistic in wrestling is the pin. A pin is worth 6 team points in a dual or in a tournament. One pin is worth two regular wins. Those bonus points have helped some teams finish better at the NCAA Tournament even though they might not have taken as many guys or they had lost more matches. Nebraska once again is leading this column so far.

Through three duals this year, Penn State has 3 pins. Nebraska at that same point had 4, but Nebraska has matched that number in its past two duals alone.

Not only are pins good for scoring, but they are exciting. Fans want excitement, and for those who do not understand wrestling, it can be a boring sport. Boring sports do not get fan attendance. With the Huskers wrestling a more exciting style of wrestling fans will come to more duals, and more recruits will want to come to Nebraska. It all adds up to better teams and better finishes for the Nebraska wrestling team.

Let’s be honest: if Nebraska were to win the Big Ten conference and the national championship, it would take an almost impossible amount of upsets, and Penn State will probably repeat as national champions.

But the door is closing on the Nittany Lions. Nebraska is vastly improving in many areas and is bringing in the guys that will make the team successful in the future. Team success is what Nebraska wants. As a college, people do not want to see one guy win a national championship or a guy win the Heisman but the rest of the team stink to high heavens.

Nebraska wants team national champions in all sports and the wrestling team is doing everything it can to achieve that success.

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Junior guard Deverell Biggs drives past South Carolina State’s Adama Adams on Nov. 17. Biggs led the Huskers with 18 points in their win against Northern Illinois on Saturday, during which the Huskies cut a 13-point Nebraska lead to one with less than a minute remaining.

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After allowing rally by Northern Illinois in victory, Huskers focus on keeping feet on gas pedal with late leads

im Miles isn’t blowing any wind into his team’s sails.

He knows what his team has to improve on, and he knows they have to do it fast. Especially with the biggest week of the non-conference schedule looming.

After the Huskers narrowly squeezed by Northern Illinois Saturday with a 63-58 victory at home, Nebraska earned its fifth win of the season and a 5-2 record, but Miles knows the team could easily be 5-4 after this week with matchups against two teams that made it to the NCAA Tournament last year and are favorites to contend in their conferences: Miami and No. 20 Creighton.

There is a slew of things, Miles said, the Huskers need to work on before the two big games, the first being the lack of effort down the stretch.

In Saturday’s win against Northern Illinois, Nebraska led by 13 points with 13 minutes left in the game, and Northern Illinois cut that lead down to one in the final minute.

“I’m very disappointed we let them back

in the game, but more the way we let them get half this season, but take away the 26-point back into the game,” Miles said. “We got care- blowout over South Carolina State and Nebraska is minus-4 in second-half scoring. less. We were starting to worry about the high“We will have to get better in these next light plays and missed some free throws. We just had some turnovers that were uncharacter- coming days and get ready for Miami and Creighton,” forward Leslee istic of this team. At one point, I Smith said, echoing his coach. swear we had something like 7 We were Smith has been one of the assists to 3 turnovers, and then starting to positives Miles has seen so it ended up at 10 assists and 16 far this season and a player in turnovers, and that’s just bad worry about the whom he sees potential. Smith basketball.”

Inconsistent play through- highlight plays and has showed dominance on the block and the main true cenout the entire game has been missed some free ter on the team with 8.7 points a reoccurring theme with this per game and 6.7 rebounds to squad. Miles said after the 62- throws.” add to that. Yet, Miles still sees 47 win against Western Illinois tim miles room for improvement, bringtwo weeks ago that the team men’s basketball coach ing Smith off of the bench inwent into “non-competitive stead of starting him. mode.”

“We don’t really have a lot “You can’t afford to play like that and be successful,” Miles said. “Our of bigs that can come in and have an impact on guys need to understand that you need to stay the game,” Smith said. “So I told him I don’t mind coming off the bench and being the enon the attack, stay aggressive, and you have to ergy guy and getting the rebounds and scoring go out there and do your job.” a little bit, I just want to play that role.”

Nebraska is actually plus-14 in the second

Statistically, Nebraska seems to be there.

As a team, the Huskers are averaging 75 points per game and shooting 44 percent from the field, both significantly higher than last season. They also have three players averaging more than 10 points per game, Terran Petteway (16) Shavon Shields (12.4) and Deverell Biggs (12), who has come to be a vibrant scorer for the Huskers.

“Offensively, he really brings a lot to the table,” Miles said of Biggs before saying the junior guard needs to work on his defense.

And that’s how Miles works, with a positive and a negative. Because though the Huskers look to be ready for Miami and Creighton this week on paper, on the court Miles isn’t so sure.

“We just got to get everybody on the same page, and we’re not,” Miles said. “We have to get there sooner than later because it’s a huge week.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Nebraska takes experience into NCAA Tournament In close match against No. 1 Penn State, No. 9 Nebraska senses postseason atmosphere Eric Bertrand DN The Big Ten volleyball match-up of the season lost its luster on Wednesday when No. 1 Penn State clinched the Big Ten title. This mathematically ended the hopes for the No. 9 Nebraska squad to surpass the Nittany Lions for the top spot in the Big Ten. Instead, the Huskers had to settle for second place in the Big Ten. The contest against Penn State on Saturday still had meaning for the Husker team. It was senior night, and Nebraska coach John Cook said he treated the match as preparation for the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m excited for it,” senior Morgan Broekhuis said in a news conference on Nov. 25. “I think it’s kind of funny I opened Big Ten play against Penn State and here I’m going to close with Penn State.

So, kind of ironic in that sense.”

Broekhuis also said the two

squads always play a close com- For what it’s going to be like if we petition and she expected the can get to the regional and the reHusker fans to come out and show gional final.”

The tournament will consist their support in big numbers.

Her preconceived notion was of close matches, and the winners correct. The Bob Devaney Sports will be the teams that can find those final two points, the coach Center was packed with more also said. than 8,500 fans in attendance.

“This is what it’s going to be Freshman outside hitter Amber Rolfzen said the fans belted like,” Cook said.

The experience of the Penn out to a new decibel level.

“Well, a lot louder than I have State squad proved to be the difever been playing in front of,” she ference in the match because the Nittany Lions were able to find said after the Penn State match. those two points to win the sets Senior Kelsey Robinson echoed the thoughts but also said late, Cook said. He also said the inexperience of the the crowd will Huskers showed. play a large role Even though Experience in the NCAA wasn’t the only facTournament. this match tor of the match, but “We’re goalso the level of play ing to see that meant nothing,it from the seconda lot down the was still a really ranked team in the stretch,” Robincountry. son said. “I think big match.”

Both squads had having that crowd john cook three players with 10 really gives us an volleyball coach or more kills in the advantage, and match, but the Nitit’s an incredible tany Lions’ three put feeling to get to play in front of that kind of crowd up two more kills than the Huskers’ three players. for your last conference match.”

Penn State seniors Ariel Scott With emotions running high and Deja McClendon and sophofrom senior night, the Huskers and the Nittany Lions got the more Megan Courtney accounted for 44 of the 59 kills on the Nittany game started.

Lions side, while the Huskers had “Even though this match senior Kelsey Robinson and freshmeant nothing, it was still a remen Amber and Kadie Rolfzen ally big match,” Cook said. “I’m glad we got to go through it. It’s make up 42 of the squad’s 56 kills.

The Nittany Lions also had a a great preparation match for us.

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Nebraska outside hitter Kelsey Robinson, who was one of three seniors honored after Saturday’s game, had 14 kills and 9 digs in the Huskers’ 3-1 loss to Penn State. big contribution from senior Katie Slay. The 6-foot-6 middle hitter dominated the Huskers with 9 kills, 4 block assists and a solo

stuff block.

With a tough field of teams in the NCAA Tournament, the Huskers had a preview of what’s to

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