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UNL mourns death of Mandela

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Layla Younis DN The Afrikan People’s Union will host a candlelight vigil Friday at 6:30 p.m. outside the Nebraska Union to memorialize the life of Nelson Mandela.

Mandela, the South African politician and activist, died of complications from a lung infection Thursday at the age of 95.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was the first black president of South Africa. He spent 27 years behind bars for his antiapartheid leadership and speaking against racial discrimination and segregation.

Barakah Ibisomi, an international student from South Africa, was skeptical when she saw a tweet about Nelson Mandela’s death Thursday afternoon, but when Jacob Zuma, current president of South Africa, confirmed his death, she was saddened.

Ibisomi, a senior finance major at the University of NebraskaLincoln, said she knows South Africa as a nation is grieving.

“He’s at peace because he’s been through a lot,” Ibisomi said.

Dawne Curry, an associate professor of history and ethnic studies at UNL, met Mandela in South Africa twice – once at an awards ceremony in 2002 and a short time later at a Civil Society conference.

“I will always remember his humanity, his graciousness, his dignity,” she said. “And the spirit of ubuntu – the soulful humanity that he possessed- that I feel I

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have tried to aspire to as a professor and a person to my friends and loved ones.”

Curry, who published a book in 2012 about apartheid in the South African township of Alexandra, said Mandela’s death will be a terrible loss for the people of South Africa.

“But I think people will find comfort and honor what he stood for,” she said.

Curry is hosting a study abroad program this summer to South Africa.

Louisie Buzi, president of the African Student Association and a senior child, youth and family studies major, found out about Mandela’s death right before her night class.

“It’s sad to see him go because he did so much,” Buzi said.

Mandela has had health issues in the past, which is why Ibisomi said she had to double check that his death was real.

In 2001, at the age of 83, Mandela was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Eleven years later in 2012, Mandela was hospitalized for stomach problems.

Robert Perry, a graduate student who teaches ethnic studies classes, researched and created a website project to inform UNL students about the 1966 Nebraska protests against apartheid.

“His death should touch the lives of every Nebraskan,” Perry said.

Perry said he was interested in researching UNL’s connection to South Africa because he focus-

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The Daily Nebraskan asked students: What was your reaction to Nelson Mandela’s death?

“I was kind of waiting for him to die. He was 90-something and sick for such a long time. Do I feel horrible about it? No, not really. I guess I’m just jaded.”

Graham Swanson freshman english major

“I found out through Snapchat, actually. It was a sad face with the caption, ‘Nelson Mandela died.’ It was a shock, ‘cause he was healthy again (after being hospitalized earlier this year).”

Rousol Aribi

freshman architecture major

“It’s a really huge loss because of what he did, leading South Africa out of apartheid. Not a lot of leaders are as loved as he was.”

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students admitted to not buying all their required textbooks due to cost.

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bill introduced in U.S. Congress last month aims to make textbooks and classroom sources available online for free.

The “Affordable College Textbook Act” was introduced by Sens.

Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Al Franken, D-Minn., and would create a grant program with the intent to provide free online textbooks and other educational sources for students.

Some universities have already begun implementing free or reduced-price online sources and textbooks. The National Science Foundation granted the University of California, Davis $250,000 for faculty to develop a free online textbook accessible to anyone and can be easily updated with new information.

The bill would b e built o n a

similar concept by using competitive grants from the Department of Education to fund online source databases.

Since 1978, textbook prices have increased by 812 percent according to the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics – three times the rate of inflation.

Seven out of 10 undergraduate students admit to not buying all their required or recommended textbooks, according to a 2011 U.S. Public Interest Research Group survey.

Along with free online sources, the act would implement pilot programs for grantee university faculty in leadership on educational materials. Grantees would have to submit annual reports of improvement and share it with other universities.

Every year, updated information renders older editions of books useless, said Brian Moore, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor of music education.

Tuesday, Moore provided training sessions for students and faculty on how to publish online textbooks and integrate them into classroom settings.

“The big advantage with something like this is that information online can be updated quickly,” Moore said.

“It can also be more interactive, which is huge for me. You can have other links, audio, images and cross-references.”

Moore said he teaches his courses

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Recycling plan aims to increase Lincoln’s low rate City’s solid waste committee proposes garbage haulers offer curbside recycling for convenience nam tran dn The Solid Waste Advisory Committee wants to make it easier for people in Lincoln to recycle by taking a different approach to raising recycling rates.

The committee has created the Solid Waste Plan 2040, part of which suggests that garbage haulers offer curbside recycling services.

The city recycles about 18 percent of its waste, just more than half the national average of 34 percent, said Miki Esposito, direc-

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tor of the Lincoln Public Works and Utilities Department.

“In convenience, we do a lot of education already,” Esposito said. “We do offer the multi-material drop-off centers, and we think we have probably reached the capacity on those two things.

The one key missing piece is that convenient curbside recycling for people.”

The talk of having garbage haulers include recycling options has been around for a while.

Other cities such as New York and Seattle require residents to recycle, separate and maintain their wastes and pay attention to the way they treat their garbage.

In these cities, waste inspectors come to residents’ houses and charge fines if they aren’t managing their waste.

The committee doesn’t want to force residents to recycle but rather have garbage haulers offer the service, Esposito said.

“The committee was driven by how low Lincoln’s recycling

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Mike Philpot, an employee at Recycling Enterprises, gets bales of cardboard ready to be shipped manufacturers. Recycling Enterprises can process anything, such as 3,500 pound bales of tin cans. rate is,” she said. “The advisory committee spent close to two

years meeting, coming up with some recommendations and one

of those recommendations was Lincoln, on the other hand, had that in order to increase recycling a recycling rate of 51 percent in rates, we need to make it a little 2012, and the national college more convenient for people and campus average is 26 percent, acthat is for haulers to provide or cording the UNL Recycling weboffer curbside recycling services.” site.

At this point, But the univerthe plan is still sity’s recycling rates conceptual and were comparable The one implementation to Lincoln’s current key missing is uncertain, Esrate in 2002, said posito said. While piece is that Prabhakar Shresthe Solid Waste tha, one of the UNL Management plan convenient Recycling coordinawill make it more curbside tors. convenient for “A couple of recycling.”

Lincoln residents things have gone to recycle, the our way,” Shrestha Miki Esposito committee wants said. “First of all, director, works and utilities to make sure resiwe keep track of evdents know that erything so we have it’s not mandagood database mantory. agement and good statistics. We “The plan doesn’t mean that keep track of everything going a resident has to participate,” Esout of the University of Nebraskaposito said. “The mandate is realLincoln. Because as a university, ly on the haulers’ side to provide there’s different entities and difand offer that service.”

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On campus what: “Hidden Legacy: Traditional Performing Arts in the WWII Internment Camps” when: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center more information: Free event.

what: X-Treme Bingo when: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. where: Cather-Pound-Neihardt Dining Hall

what: Robert Bergstrom memorial service when: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Andrews Hall, Bailey Library Room 228

IN LINCOLN what: “Deck the Halls” – Lincoln Symphony Orchestra when: 7:30 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts more information: $15 to $30 for adults, $5 for17 years and younger.

UNL research team creates new way to X-ray Colleen Fell DN A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has developed the first compact laser-powered X-ray device.

The device, which has the ability to produce synchrotron x-rays, is ideal for multiple research applications. Donald Umstadter, a UNL physics professor and director of the Diocles Extreme Light Laboratory, led the project.

“We kind of got lucky to have the right components first,” Umstadter said of having access to the laser and other equipment, funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

The new laser, with a beam about 3 inches in diameter, is able to produce some of the highest intensity levels, having a beam focus hotter than the sun, Umstadter said.

The current laser used “produces more power than the entire world uses for a very short period of time,” Umstadter said. The new laser, though not as powerful, has a higher repetition rate.

Before this laser system, the only other synchrotron laser systems available to use were about the size of a college campus. The new system, which Umstadter said is about 10,000 times smaller, can be engineered to fit into a truck.

Umstadter and a team of researchers and scientists began work on the project during the summer of 2006.

Nathan Powers, a graduate student of astronomy and physics at UNL, has been active on the project since it began. Powers said after the system is completely finished by the end of the 2014 spring semester, it

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Technicians work in the control room while conducting research with a laser in the basement of Behlen Laboratory on Wednesday. The laser they are working with is hotter than the sun and can be used for purposes such as detecting weapons of mass destruction inside cargo entering the United States. can be used for a variety of applications.

“Obviously we will want to use it to improve (research) at UNL,” Powers said.

Commercialization may also be an option for the system.

“We’re not fully sure,” Powers said of how many other applications the system will be able to be used for.

“Kinds of basic research, biochemistry, medical type research and we can outsource it.”

The X-ray system may already have interested users, Umstadter said. The project’s proof of concept is currently being funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to demonstrate that the new X-ray source can be used to improve X-ray

radiography. This technology can be used to screen incoming cargo carriers for nuclear materials, which wasn’t possible before, Umstadter said.

The technology can also be beneficial for medical purposes.

The light currently used for Xrays, Umstadter said, is white light which, similar to a fluorescent bulb,

composed of all colors. The new system is more like using a laser pointer, comprised of only one color.

Umstadter said white light is not as effective because the light is not as focused.

“With our laser, we can put the light exactly where it needs to be,” he said.

The radiation given to potential patients would be of a higher quality, Umstadter said, making it possible to use a lower dosage and do less damage to the patient.

At UNL, the laser will be able to be contained in three different rooms in Behlen Laboratory. In one room, Umstadter said he plans to have the system take up the space of a large table-top. The beam can also be sent into an opposing room on the same floor. In the lower basement, the beam will come through a hole in the ceiling into a radiation-safe room with three-foot thick cement walls and a lead door.

Another part of the laser system Umstadter said he liked was the gold and sapphire used.

“We have scientific bling,” he said.

The sapphire, which is about 4.5 inches in diameter, is used to amplify the laser light signal level. Another part of the system is gold-plated.

As for the scientific value of the system, Umstadter said it will be an important investment for the future of UNL. Powers said he thinks this development will put UNL on the technological map.

“We have the potential to be at the forefront of research and not rely on outside sources,” he said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Professor starts journal focusing on human trafficking Layla Younis DN A University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor will be the editor-in-chief of the first international human trafficking journal.

Rochelle Dalla, a faculty affiliate of UNL’s Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, submitted the proposal last year.

“I just downloaded all the questions and started writing this proposal,” said Dalla.

The Journal of Human Trafficking was approved about a month ago and will be published by Routledge, a global humanities and social sciences publisher. The quarterly, peer-reviewed journal will cover bonded labor, forced labor, sex trafficking and trafficking in children.

The first issue will be released in early 2015.

Dalla said she is looking to recruit people for the editorial team, which will focus on the content and theory of the manuscripts printed

in the journal.

“For three weeks now, I have been trying to hand-select people from around the world,” she said.

Before getting the journal approved, Dalla submitted two proposals to make minor changes the publishers requested.

The original proposal included too many people from the United States who studied mostly family science and not other areas. Routledge wanted more international influence on the journal, to include more scholars from different disciplines and to change the name from International Journal of Human Trafficking to just Journal of Human Trafficking.

“We still keep it at international, but we call it the Journal of Human Trafficking,” Dalla said.

Dalla said she was willing to make any changes for the journal to be successful.

Her interest in human trafficking started when she was advising a student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who helped with an outreach program for female

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Rochelle Dalla, an associate professor of child, youth and family studies, founded the quarterly Journal of Human Trafficking, which will debut in early 2015. prostitutes in Omaha.

After talking to the student, Dalla said she researched sex trafficking and realized there wasn’t a lot of writing about family dynamics of girls in the sex trade. All the

Internship fosters student’s love for politics Kelli Rollin DN

istered for fall classes at UNL, so she withdrew from her courses and decided to take the opportunity.

Janet Sanchez’s recent curiosity in After a week of orientation, inpolitics helped her get an internship that is awarded to only 24 terns are assigned a congressional people in the nation each semes- office or federal agency to work at to gain experience. Sanchez was ter.

The senior business admin- placed in the office of Sen. Mark istration major at the University Udall, D-Colo., who is the chairof Nebraska-Lincoln recently re- man of the Committee on Armed turned from a semester-long in- Services and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. ternship in Washington, D.C., While there, Sanchez said she through the Congressional Hisand the other interns were expectpanic Caucus Institute.

Sanchez, 22, was born in Colo- ed to maintain the office, answer phones, sort emails and schedule rado and grew up in building tours. She Mexico until her famsaid interns also atily relocated to Scottstended meetings and bluff when she was in took notes when their first grade. mentors were too busy According to the to attend.

Congressional His“Working with panic Caucus Institute so many people, you website, the purpose have to make sure of the 12-week, paid supplies are where internship for Latino they are supposed to undergraduate stube,” Sanchez said. dents is to strengthen But she got to do leadership skills and sanchez more than keep the ofexpose students to the fice in order. legislative process. The “They let us work internship also gives college credit to interns and aims on projects that we were interestto promote the presence of Lati- ed in,” she said.

Because the Colorado floods nos in the government and federal were happening while she was in agencies.

D.C., Sanchez said she did a water For every open internship spot, five applications are re- research project, which looked at ceived, so the competition is high. how to conserve and manage waSanchez said she heard about the ter in Colorado.

She has an interest in immiinternship from a friend who did it and recommended it to her. This gration law and criminal justice, so she said she was excited when past summer she applied and was the interns got to listen to a panel accepted, but she was already reg-

presence special. of eight senators, five of whom Sanchez was one of two inworked on the immigration bill. terns from the Midwest and the “That was just really inspiring only applicant from Nebraska. and a once-in-a-lifetime kind of “She added to the group being thing,” she said. from Nebraska,” Arias said. “She Meeting people, such as senators and congressmen, was her fa- put in a different perspective on vorite part of the experience, she things.”

Sanchez said she was “probsaid.

As her ultimate career goal, ably the first person from Nebraska a lot of Sanchez said she hopes them had met” to pass a law, though That was in the group of she’s not sure what just really interns. kind yet.

Arias said Sanchez said the inspiring and a because Sanlast presidential elecchez was from tion is what sparked once-in-a-lifetime a state that a her interest in politics kind of thing.” lot of students because she wanted don’t think to make an informed janet sanchez decision when voting. senior business administration about as having a Latino She researched platpopulation, “it forms and political opened the eyes of the group.” processes so she knew what was “It made them realize that the going on in the election. When doing so, she said she realized Latino population is everywhere, there’s more to politics than meets not just in the usual, big states,” she said. the eye.

Sanchez said that there’s a “Politics is a big huge umbrella on top of everything else,” San- lack of awareness inside and outside the Hispanic community of chez said. “I’m seeing how much the importance of having Hispanpolitics plays into our everyday lives whether we want to admit it ic leaders.

She said she went into the or not.”

Crista Arias, college program internship excited about the opportunity to learn, but she gained specialist for the Congressional more than knowledge. She also Hispanic Caucus Institute, guided gained relationships with a large the interns and touched base with network of people and a reminder each of them weekly. of her heritage.

Arias said Sanchez was al“It really makes you proud of ways very positive and not afraid who you are and where you come to ask questions. She said most of the applicants are from states from,” Sanchez said. news@ including California, New Jersey dailynebraskan.com and Texas, which made Sanchez’s

research she found was from different journals and not in one central location.

“I really wanted a central place of dissemination,” Dalla said.

Dalla has a background in fam-

ily science, so she was intrigued as to how family influenced these girls. After studying and working with the outreach program in Omaha, her interest moved to studying human trafficking in Third World international countries.

“That’s how I ended up going to India,” Dalla said.

Last July, Dalla spent two weeks in India researching and interviewing 30 females who worked in brothels.

She said she noticed that females in the brothels in India tried hard to get their children out of that profession, but their society made it difficult because of shame of the job and money issues.

Anna Shavers, a co-chair for the Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking and a law professor at UNL, said the journal will be discussed at the next conference, even if there is no formal presentation on it.

“We are quite proud of her accomplishments,” Shavers said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

books: from 1 using online materials and doesn’t include hard copies of textbooks.

“I think over time, professors will definitely move away from paper textbooks,” he said. “You can compare the same thing with CDs and iTunes. ” A staffer in charge of the Nebraska Bookstore’s textbook department, who chose to remain anonymous, said this bill might be a loss for university bookstores.

“Bookstores might lose business,” he said. “But not everybody wants online books. Ninety-five percent of the people that come in want real books.

They’re more versatile, they last a long time and can be used anywhere. If the bill were to pass, it would have some effect on bookstores, but it wouldn’t be as bad as you’d think.”

The bookstore employee said publishing companies might not approve of this act.

“Publishing companies tend to overcharge online textbook customers,” he said. “The books cost nothing to produce. They’re greedy. Even if they just charged a dollar per online textbook, they would still be making money. They’re used to huge profits, and they don’t really want to lower those prices.”

He also said free online textbooks for college students could mean fewer scholarships offered from the university.

“If students have the online books, universities can reduce scholarship opportunities to students since a lot of students use their scholarship money to go towards textbooks,” he said.

He said he doubts the bill will pass.

“It might pass in the Senate because they’re democratic, but not in the House, no,” he said. “We’re talk-

ing about the same issues that divide Democrats and Republicans: adding to the deficit or cut spending. A majority of the house is Republican, and I don’t think they’re going to want to pass.”

Kelsey Saunders, a freshman exploratory major, said she hopes the bill passes.

“That would be really nice,” Saunders said. “Students wouldn’t have to lug around books and just use their computers. I think students would use their class sources a lot more if they were all online.”

Xinyu Miao, a freshman exploratory major from China, agreed.

“This would be good for international students,” Miao said. “Our tuition costs are higher, and textbooks are so expensive in America.”

In China, textbook prices are added into tuition costs. If students don’t use hard copies of textbooks, students can access most of their textbooks online for free.

“There are websites that people can use to download free movies and music,” Miao said. “The government doesn’t care too much about shutting them down, even though producers are angry about this. But students can use these websites to download their textbooks for free, and anyone can look at them.”

Moore said he would like to see the bill go through.

“If you ask students to look up a fact online during class, their first access point is Wikipedia,” he said.

“Quality online textbooks would be a good source for them to use. It’s about using authoritative sources instead of using websites that a bunch of people can add their opinions to.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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East Campus Student Involvement helped students, staff and their families get ready for the holidays. Among the activities at the Nebraska East Union, they were able to decorate a frosted vase and build a block snowman.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln students decorate a Christmas tree at the Holiday Pinterest Party in Nebraska East Union on Thursday night. East Campus Student Involvement supplied the material for seven different holiday crafts.

pinning the tree research roundup Research says brain wiring leads to differences in communication of sexes

A focus on the wiring of men’s and women’s brains has led researchers to discover a potential reason behind communication differences between the sexes. Professors from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that men’s brains are wired to communicate using their perception and action, while women’s are wired to send messages using their analytical ability and intuition.

The study helps explain why men are predisposed to learning and performing one task at a time, while women’s memory and social skills make them better equipped for multi-tasking and working with a group.

New Jersey parolees less likely to commit new crimes, study says

Criminals paroled out of jail are 36 percent less likely to commit new crimes than those who complete their full sentences, says a study conducted by Michael Ostermann at Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice.

But the study, which focused on New Jersey inmates, found that nearly as many parolees in New Jersey are sent back to prison for violating parole as those who serve full terms.

The study comes in the wake of the decreasing prison population in New Jersey, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project’s research director, Ryan King.

Speed Friending breaks through comfort zones tyler williams dn It can be intimidating to study in another country, but graduate student Taylor Gee wants to help ease that stress.

The Student Involvement East Campus graduate assistant created a meet-and-greet event specifically for international students: Speed Friending. Gee partnered with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Women’s Center, UNL Connect and several international students to put the event on from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday night in the Nebraska Union. The event will help international students build relationships with domestic students.

“Making sure international students have a good experience is important for me,” Gee said.

Having traveled abroad for three consecutive years to Sweden, Italy and Costa Rica, Gee knows what it’s like to be out of the loop on social norms and cultural ideas in a foreign land full of strangers.

She explained that international students might not be aware of some of the more subtle social nuances in American culture and might be nervous about their English skills. Gee said they need people to help acclimate them to the United States, and Speed Friending will help that.

The event is set up “kind of like musical chairs,” Gee said.

Two circles of chairs will be set up, with people in the outer ring shifting chairs every few minutes. A list of several questions will be given to every pair of speed frienders to help stimulate conversation, such as what’s your biggest fear, what vegetable are you and what you would do if the world was going to end in 15 minutes. When time is up, the pairs can exchange contact information before switching partners.

Claire Hauser, a UNL Women’s center graduate assistant, collaborated with Gee on the event. Hauser said domestic students benefit by learning how to communicate and relate to di-

verse peoples.

“One of the reasons foreign students come (to UNL) is to experience American culture,” Hauser said.

Building these relationships abroad can be an important ability in the career world, where job opportunities and projects could come from anywhere, she said.

Other events like Speed Friending have been held on campus, such as Dating 101 last week, in an attempt to help international students better understand and absorb American culture, Hauser said.

After the event, the organizers plan to get feedback to improve the event and plan more events with the goal to build relationships between foreign and domestic students in the future, Hauser added.

“We’ve reached out a lot to international students, but I would really encourage domestic students to come,” Hauser said. “Get outside of your comfort zone.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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LINCOLN: 18%

NATIONAL: 34%

US ties for 19th least-corrupt

Widespread corruption is a global problem. The Corruption Perceptions Index, a grade given by anti-corruption group Transparency International, measured 177 countries on a scale from zero to 100, zero being most corrupt and 100 being least corrupt within a country’s government. The United States was graded a 73 and tied for 19th place with Uruguay. American corruption stemmed from money laundering as well as campaign finance and government contracting issues. The countries found least corrupt are Denmark and New Zealand, both of which received a score of 91. Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia each took home a score of 8 and were considered the most corrupt.

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AVERAGE RATES OF RECYCLING COLLEGIATE

UNL: 51%

NATIONAL: 26%

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Study says cats don’t listen to their owners

A study published by Animal Cognition has found that cat owners may never get the love they want from their feline friends.

Researchers monitored 20 cats for eight months respond to strangers and their owners at home. When being called, 50 to 70 percent of cats turned their head, 30 percent moved their ears and 10 percent responded to the voice by meowing or moving their tails. These results were the same regardless of if the voice calling was their owner or a stranger. However, the study also revealed that the cats responded more intensely to their owner’s voice.

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from the Lincoln Public Works and Utilities Dept.

ferent people that are doing different things so since I’ve been here what I’ve tried to do is I try to include everybody under one umbrella. I contact them personally.”

If Lincoln stays at its current recycling rate, Esposito estimated that the landfill would

be closed in 2032. The driving question is how Lincoln can maximize the landfill space available now, she said.

Shrestha said that while convenience is obviously a key to raising recycling rates, it’s still not enough.

“What we need to know is

that people are really motivated here to do this,” Shrestha said.

“We try to tell (students and employees) that this is a recycling-friendly campus and you shouldn’t be left out.” news@ dialynebraskan.com

sponsible for soothing and helping the country.”

Perry said despite the number of years Mandela was incarcerated, his legacy will continue to live on and inspire people.

Gregory Wilson, Afrikan People’s Union president and a

senior nutrition and health sciences major, said in a way he sees Mandela’s death as a good thing because he is not suffering anymore.

“I appreciate everything he did,” Wilson said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

mandela: from 1 es on digital humanities as well as the 1920s post wars.

Perry found out about Mandela’s death while on his computer at the Nebraska Union.

“He was partially responsible for uniting that country,” Perry said. “He was largely re-

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ian tredway | dn

Free, online texbook bill will greatly benefit students The national chains of previous generations are now being replaced by their online equivalents. Borders closed the last of its bookstores in fall 2011. Kindles and other eReaders have risen in its stead. After years of pressure from illegal streaming and subscription companies such as Netflix, Blockbuster officially shut down earlier this fall. With the introduction of a new bill to Congress, the same shift could be happening with college textbooks.

The Affordable College Textbook Act is designed to increase the number of textbooks available online at little or no cost to students. This has many potential benefits to create academically legitimate and convenient online material, reduce the weight of material students lug around campus, make updates quick and accessible and increase the likelihood that students will access and read their textbooks. Textbook prices have increased at a ridiculous rate – 812 percent since 1978, according to Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Bearing that in mind, it makes sense that seven out of 10 students surveyed in a 2011 U.S. Public Interest Research Group survey said they’d decided against buying a textbook required for class.

Textbook costs shouldn’t be an obstacle for students’ to access all the materials they need to further their education. This bill would help eliminate the problem.

Change is often uncomfortable, and the goal isn’t necessarily to let companies fall away. Establishing a system like this will be an ongoing process. More thought will have to be put into how to maintain traditional textbooks as an option for students and how to fund the writers of textbooks. However, technology is an undeniable part of our society, and online resources should be embraced rather than feared. The primary concern in education should be creating flexible and affordable resources for students, not protecting the profit margins of textbook companies. opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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College education should be free

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ublic: (1) of or concerning the people as a whole, (2) open to or shared by all the people of an area or country, for example, a public library, and (3) of or provided by the state rather than an independent, commercial company.

A university that only some can afford is by definition not public. To any of you who see the heavy shackles of student loans on the horizon, to any of you working full time just to have enough money to pay for an increasDon’t misunderstand. My argument is neiingly mediocre education: Be indignant. Your university and your state are cheating you out ther a political nor an economic stance. This of what everyone deserves: an unhindered issue supersedes society and is about the fulfillment of the individual. Regardless of the education “directed to the full development of cost-benefit analysis to society, the human personality.” a quality education is a funIncreasing tuition and deRegardless damental right afforded to all creasing standards are two sides beings. Yes, stomping of the same problem. The corof the cost- human out corporate-culture in uniporate mindset has infected all versities and making higher levels of university administra- benefit analysis to education universally availtion. Public universities are not society, a quality able would do wonders for the businesses, and they shouldn’t education is a economy, but the issue is much be run like one. greater than that.

The word education has fundamental right Once upon a time, people taken on a completely different wouldn’t have called free unimeaning than ever before. Un- afforded to all versity a childish idea, hopeless til his death in the 1950s, John human beings.” socialism or an idealist fantasy.

Dewey was America’s most Thomas Jefferson wrote that influential voice on education. “no other sure foundation can be devised for His vision of public higher education was the preservation of freedom and happiness” “giving citizens the opportunity to find ‘large and human significance’ in their lives and than public education. A State that failed to do so would “leave the people in ignowork.” How did we get from this to education as a service commodity sold to clients as an rance.” A free college education for all isn’t even unprecedented in our recent history. In investment in human capital? the 1960s, California decided that any citizen Why did you come to UNL? To invest in yourself? To learn the hottest who wanted to go to college ought to be able skills that employers are looking for? To earn a to. All public schooling was essentially paid for by the state. This continued for some time, diploma that will be your ticket to compete in but as the years passed, policy changes slowly the job market? eroded the original ideals. Today, four years of UNL brochures are littered with stats and figures on the pay-off of a college degree. The in-state tuition, room and board runs at more than $108 thousand at UC Berkeley, the state’s College of Arts and Sciences at least makes an flagship school. effort to remind students that an education can Contrary to the insistence of our elected have value outside of job prospects, but this doesn’t preclude the fact that the headline of leaders, the reason for this shift from publicly their “Why Liberal Arts?” webpage proudly funded to privately funded universities isn’t reads “SKILLS EMPLOYERS WANT THAT due to economic necessity. Tuition couldn’t GO WITH YOU ANYWHERE.” The fact that a have increased 27 percent beyond inflation in page needed to be created to justify exploring the past four years without someone playing the works of humankind and the fundamen- an active role. The shift is the result of a series tal laws of the universe says enough about the of political decisions and cultural movements, state of the university today. True education which have left public universities state-controlled, but in every other respect, indistinhas lost its place in a university directed by guishable from their private counterparts. market forces.

shariq khan

The government has consistently reduced its support for public colleges over the years.

Since the 1990s, funding per full-time student has fallen by 26 percent.

To make up for the deficit, the university stops serving you, the student, and starts serving the revenue-gods. Instead of increasing funding for instruction and hiring full professors, the university must attract customers by remodeling the Nebraska Union, spending $22 million on revamping the Campus Recreation Center and generally converting an area intended for concentrated scholarly pursuits into a four-year post-adolescence vacation spot. All Perlman’s talk about pushing to keep education affordable is meaningless if the solution is increasing online classes and squandering money on state-of-the-art leisure centers.

There’s no reason that public education shouldn’t be free at this stage in our history.

If relatively poor countries such as Oman, India, Brazil and Egypt have found the money, then we can, too. The state and federal governments combined spend much more than $116 billion on Pell grants, financial aid and direct support to universities, not including the many billions spent by the federal government on subsidizing student loans. At current prices, which are themselves ironically inflated by the university-as-a-business model, making all public 4-year and 2-year colleges truly public and free would cost $130 billion. Simple reallocation could easily shift the burden of paying for college from individuals to society. It’s 2013, and we live in the richest country in the world. Social services should be about more than helping the human body merely survive in the concrete jungle. Humans are made of more than flesh.

Why is forcing a 14-year-old to work and take out loans to get a middle school education would be considered a horrible human rights abuse, but doing the same for a 19-year-old is looked on by many as a harsh, but accepted fact of life, a right-of-passage which may be somewhat unfair, but nevertheless an afterthought?

Humans don’t look like humans if they are kept in darkness. Without free thought and creative exploration, we are animals. In a country as rich as this one, we are obligated to satisfy this natural right and make public education truly public.

Shariq Khan is a sophomore biochemistry major. Contact him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

UNL needs mascot to represent female demographic

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icture Memorial Stadium it strikes me that a large part of our campus isn’t being represented. To address on a football Saturday.

Hear the roar of the crowd this issue, we should introduce a new mascot to the sidelines: Lady Cornhusker. intermingled with the I’m sure this idea is going to raise a Tunnel Walk song playing few questions. Why do as a thousand we need a female mascot? balloons float lazily in their I’m proud We’ve got two perfectly impatient owner ’s hands. good mascots already, Every Husker game day is to be a is there really a need for enveloped in layers of tradia third? Can we afford tion from a time before 300+ Cornhusker, and I all the fabric necessary sellouts. From the little ritu- would love to see to make the costume? als that every fan performs UNL take such a Would she like piña coto the longstanding and exladas and getting lost in pected events, it’s clear that progressive step the rain or is she more of tradition is an essential elea coffee and classic movment to the football experi- in representing ence. the entirety of its ies sort of girl? For future reference, it’s the latter.

One such tradition is The answer to the first our mascot Herbie Husker. student body.” question is not as simple.

Herbie, that simple farmer with the silly smile we see dancing up Several colleges across the United States and down the sidelines, is our oldest have female mascots. From Austin’s Katy mascot. He was first adopted in 1974 and the Kangaroo to North Carolina’s Minerhas stuck around ever since. He gets the va the Spartan, female mascots are not an uncommon sight. crowd pumped, he’s a killer dancer, and The University of Nebraska–Lincoln the Husker fans love him and his counterpart Lil’ Red. Yet whenever I see them could easily make this proposal a reality

jaz schoeneck with an actual, physical costume for Lady Cornhusker. We already have two legitimate mascots, creating a third wouldn’t be a huge leap. A female mascot would have many benefits. Sports today are no longer a man’s game. Our volleyball team is having a great season, and our women’s basketball team has an 8-2 record this year. Having a female mascot would show an attitude of acceptance from of the university. Herbie and Lil’ Red represent the university well, but they don’t represent the 45.8 percent of UNL students who are women. Lady Cornhusker would inspire teams and crowds while simultaneously spreading a message of equality and open-mindedness both on

our campus and on any campus that she visits.

There are only positive results from creating a female mascot, but her image should also be considered. Lady Cornhusker should fully and positively represent the female population at the University. First and foremost is her race.

Obviously, as we’ve seen with the recent ASUN incident, race is still a large subject of discussion on campus. Undoubtedly it would be difficult to please everyone when it comes to the Lady Cornhusker ’s ethnicity, but it would be best to go with a racially ambiguous design. Going with one distinct race would be a polarization of the campus and would go against what the Lady Cornhusker represents. By making her race less distinct, the university would be making a great stride in its effort to be an open and accepting environment.

Another consideration in the Lady Cornhusker design would be how she is dressed. Because she won’t be able to speak, a lot of her personality will be derived from how she looks. Having an overly sexualized mascot would be det-

rimental to what she represents. At the same time she wouldn’t benefit from a completely androgynous outfit. Honestly, the same overalls and shirt combo featured on Herbie and Lil’ Red could work.

It would put her on an equal level with our current mascots, and it would make it easier to implement her presence on the field or court.

If done correctly, the creation of a female mascot could be a great addition to the university. She would be a representative of change and forward thinking that’s highly needed here on campus. She would show a commitment to supporting the female demographic on campus and act as role model to future generations.

Kids love our mascots. Having a female mascot that’s on equal terms with our current beloved mascots could be a great teaching tool. I’m proud to be a Cornhusker, and I would love to see UNL take such a progressive step in representing the entirety of its student body.

Jaz Schoeneck is a Junior English and Film Studies Major.

Contact him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com or on Twitter @jaz_schoeneck

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moving mountains Big Red Ski and Snowboard Club to host movie premiere at Bourbon Theatre

story by Madeline Christensen | art by Randall Owens

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inter sports in Nebraska are a little flat, but that doesn’t discourage the Big Red Ski and Snowboard Club.

For “those who dream of mountains but who are cursed with going to school in the flatlands,” the club does whatever it takes to shred some fresh powder — whether that means building an urban ramp or road tripping to the Rockies.

When junior biochemistry major and club co-captain Cole Johnson saw a booth for the club at Big Red Welcome his freshman year, he said he couldn’t pass it up.

“Seeing a booth that says ‘Big Red Ski and Snowboard Club’ makes you look twice in Nebraska,” Johnson said.

The same went for sophomore Mariah van Waes, who had two older siblings in the club already.

“When I came to UNL, I had already met some pretty neat people in the club, so I decided to join as well,” van Waes said. “On a whim, I decided to go on the winter break trip last year in Aspen and ended up having a grand ole time.

I’ve been an active member ever since.”

Don’t let the name fool you: UNL’s Ski and Snowboard Club doesn’t stop when there’s no snow to be found.

Since van Waes joined the club, she has also been on two of the annual tubing trips down the Elkhorn river during Labor Day weekend and a kayaking and canoeing adventure on the Niobrara River.

“And at the end of the year, the club has a formal, which is, to put it simply, an event you wouldn’t want to miss,” van Waes said.

While the Big Red Ski and Snowboard Club can’t do anything about Nebraska’s terrain, it does try to bring a taste of the mountains to Lincoln every year with a ski/snowboard movie premiere.

On Friday the club will be hosting the Nebraska premiere of “Chasing Skylines” at the Bourbon Theatre.

“We have alumni with ties to Poor Brother Productions, so they have always been great about hooking us up with awesome films to show,” junior co-captain Ben Nordin said. “This film is produced by Red Bull Media House who also

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Gaming excludes many from medium nathan sindelar

I remember watching my brother slam our translucent purple controller into the ground.

I remember the borderline agony that read through his face after another failed speed-run through Facility in “Goldeneye 64,” a pinnacle of 1990s gaming.

Keegan was trying to beat each level of the first-person shooter on their hardest setting, in the fastest time - a feat that would unlock the video game’s assortment of silly, entertaining and empowering cheat modes. The level he was trying at, Facility, was the hardest one, and it offered the greatest reward too, the Invincibility cheat. I can’t count the number of retries I watched. I can’t measure the premature aging to which that purple, three-pronged controller was subjected on this single mission alone.

All this, too, came after my brother beat the levels on the first difficulty, Agent, then again all the way through on the second, Secret Agent. After merely completing the missions on the game’s most challenging mode, he then proceeded to attack their time limit requirements. All this, as well, offers an

exemplary showcase of the unique situation in which the video game medium places itself.

Few other forms of art or entertainment present those who seek to consume it with the same affronting learning curve. No one says, “I don’t really watch movies.

I’m bad at them.” Hardly a person, it seems, would concede, “Yeah, I don’t know. Music is just not my thing. I’m really bad at listening to it.” Yet, in the realm of interactive entertainment - art - the “I’m no good, so I don’t play” rationale is the most frequent I’ve heard as an excuse or explanation for a given person’s aversion to or disinterest in the modern video game.

That too, only considers one group of potential players, those unaffected by disability. What if, then, we were to look beyond people like myself and my brother, both with no diagnosed mental disorders, disabilities, etc., both without any physical limitations of the same nature (so far as we know)?

What if, then, we considered the returning Iraq veteran who lost his left arm in combat? What if we take into account the nearly 60 million Americans who deal with a disability of some kind every day of their lives? Without a left hand, an arm, let alone two complete sets of fully functioning fingers, that veteran’s chances of enjoying “Goldeneye” in the same way, maybe even at all,

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are slim to none.

So, for one thing, why are games so difficult?

I would argue that, for a majority of people, the first and most prominent challenge that faces them would be the input methods themselves. To interact with the virtual spaces video games situate players in, there must be a physical and reciprocal relationship between our side of reality that matches, mirrors and informs another, digital, one. We press a button on a controller, and, on the screen, Mario jumps.

A jump and a single button press relationship is not really complex, which serves the example above just fine, but, now image playing as James Bond, controlling him as he stealths, shoots and explodes his way through a military base - using the monstrosity of a Nintendo 64 controller to boot.

Well, it’s not 1997 anymore, and though designers’ aesthetic tastes may have matured or developed over time, coming to some form of refined elegance, games and their necessitating of evermore complex input methods have not reached a similar stage.

Just last month the world saw the release of two, brand new video game consoles in Sony’s PlaySta-

tion 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One. The PS4 comes with the latest iteration of the company’s Dualshock controllers, the Dualshock 4. This new gamepad has been heralded by journalists and enthusiasts the Internet over as the best thing since sliced bread. The reviewers at theverge.com said, “the company has made perhaps the most comfortable gamepad I’ve ever laid hands on.” Over at IGN: “What’s most striking about the DualShock 4 is how everything from the D-pad to the action buttons — and even the center trackpad — are within effortless reach.

I’ve never had to arch my thumbs or index fingers to reach the shoulders or home button, which now falls between the two analog sticks.

Simply put, the DualShock 4 feels fantastic.”

Perfectly enough, the reviewer mentions the D-pad (four buttons), the action buttons (four buttons), the center trackpad (a omnidirectional touch screen that also compresses down to serve as a large button too), the shoulders (four buttons), the home button and the two analog sticks that reach nearly 180 full degree of rotation each and press down, two individual buttons in and of themselves. So there’s 16 options there, ignoring the touch pad, joystick rotation courtesy photo

Mark Barlet speaks after his AbleGamers Foundation won a MS Society Da Vinci award in 2013 for their 48-page guide to making more accessible video games.

Love can’t be defined by behavior scale TYLER KEOWN

I don’t understand love.

I don’t understand the intricacies, the idea of trusting another with your insecurities. Stuff sounds bogus.

I also don’t really understand my psychology of social behavior class, maybe because I assume motives are always derived from selfishness and evil.

Tying those two things together, a recent assignment for that class asked me to read through a list of 38 items, called the “Desired Loving Behavior Scale” and respond with how much I’d like or dislike each thing to happen in my current relationship.

Seeing as the most important relationship in my life is currently between me and episodes of “Frasier” on Netflix, reading through the list

was a laughable experience. I had to pretend I wooed a girl into a relationship, and based on the list, she’s willing to do just about anything to make this work. Here’s the 38 items that I can’t tell to an actual person, so I’ll tell it to our readership.

1.“Tell me I make you happier than anyone else.”: No? It’s not going to mean anything if I just say what you want to hear.

2. “Make our relationship a mutual project.”: This makes me picture a son and his father restoring an old muscle car. That isn’t the dynamic I want with you.

3. “Say to me, ‘you mean so much to me.’”: Again, this is going to lose any sense of meaning if you jam the words into my mouth.

4. “Do my laundry every once in a while.”: Gross, dude! I’m not going to touch your underwear, you troll. You wore the clothes, you clean them. Sheesh.

5. “Tell me what you like/dislike in bed.”: I like old Sun Chip crumbs and the scent of vanilla, based on my current situation.

6. “Put a note on my car.”: I will

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‘Kill your Darlings’ sets itself apart with great acting, screenplay Jack Forey DN “I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …”

So go the opening lines of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” and madness is a part of what John Krokidas explores in his film, “Kill Your Darlings.” The film takes its title from a William Faulkner quote: “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”

What he means is that as a writer, one should be careful not to overuse personal meanings, as you alienate your reader. In the film, a young Ginsberg, played

by Daniel Radcliffe, receives this advice from his English professor.

The film casts light on an under-explored chapter in the lives of the Beat poets Jack Kerouac, played by Jack Huston, William S. Burroughs, played by Ben Foster, and Ginsberg, who all met while attending Columbia University in 1944. After being accepted to the university, Ginsberg meets Lucien Carr, played by Dane DeHaan, whose intelligence and charm earn Ginsberg’s admiration.

Enlivened by one another and frustrated with rigid academic tradition, they vow to begin a new literary movement, which they dub “The New Vision.” They rendezvous with the infamous Burroughs, who introduces them to the possibilities of better writing through stimulants. There’s a fantastic scene where Ginsberg, Carr

and Burroughs spend the night in a colleague’s study, taking drugs and cutting up literary classics to create new meanings and sentences. When the colleague finally walks in, Burroughs croaks, “Someone get this man a pair of scissors!”

“Kill Your Darlings” wants to wander through its historical setting rather than keep with a straight plot line. This is an issue with many films based on true events, but this one manages to keep it together. The movie’s appeal may be limited to those who are familiar with the Beat generation, but it may offer an interesting attraction for members of the gay community.

It’s a rare film where the gay characters are not defined by the fact that they are gay. It also features Radcliffe in a brief but daring gay sex scene, a far cry from his Harry Potter days.

The real story, however, is the murder that bonds these men for the years to come. One of the first images in the film is of the body being disposed of, but we do not yet know who has been killed.

Once we do learn his identity, the title of the movie takes on a grim subtext.

The movie is full of strong performances from Radcliffe, DeHaan and Foster. Foster makes an excellent turn as Burroughs, the frog-voiced junkie queer criminal poet, and DeHaan is great as Carr, who displays sophistication and cunning on the surface while angst and torment smolder un-

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‘After Tiller’ film offers emotional journey Documentary directed by Martha Shane, Lana Wilson follows 4 late-term abortion doctors

and one hopes that he will continue to take on similar interesting roles in order to stay relevant after the end of the massive franchise.

On the whole, “Kill Your Darlings” is a competent study of re-

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Susan Robinson is one of four late-term abortion doctors followed in the film, “After Tiller.” The documentary is named after George Tiller, who was killed by anti-abortion activists in 2009. committed their lives to making sure they have that option in order to prevent harm these women may do to themselves as well as their unborn children.

Directors Shane and Wilson follow their subjects through their work day, intercutting it with archive footage and their interviews with the doctors. They film the doctors meeting with patients, showing the compassion and care they feel for every individual that walks through their door. The camera never reveals the patients’ faces, and instead captures the nervous movements and twitches of their hands and feet, as well as their bloated stomachs, not shying away from the unborn topic of the conversations taking place.

This footage is moving, as are the interviews that show that none of the doctors take what they do lightly. They are tormented by the job they perform and by antiabortionist activists who threaten their lives and sometimes even act on those threats. At the end of the day, the doctors feel rewarded by the work they are doing and are reluctant to quit this mentally and emotionally demanding job because of the lack of replacements in their field.

The pro-life activists are never given a chance to give their perspective on the story, which is fitting since this isn’t a documentary focused on converting people to a particular side of the conflict.

The film’s goal is to present these four unusual people’s stories and let them explain themselves unfiltered by religious, political or media rhetoric.

There are moments when the film diverges into overtly sympathetic and emotional territory by incorporating saddening music cues and unnecessary shots of beautiful landscapes and wildlife

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George Tiller Martha Shane Lara Wilson

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center that take away from the moving moments it captures through interviews and office footage, but these moments are few and far between.

“After Tiller” is tailor-made for pro-choice viewers who will embrace its message, but also offers well-displayed and thoughtout explanations that pro-life viewers may be able to respect even if they ultimately disagree. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

This film is produced by Red Bull Media House who also created ‘The Art of Flight,’ which is widely regarded as the best snowboarding movie pretty much ever.”

Ben Nordin

big red ski and snowboard club co-captain

by Red Bull. They could also grab a raffle prize or two that might even benefit them on the mountain.”

Nordin said this is a good chance for students to check out the RSO without committing to anything.

Above all, Nordin said the Big Red Ski and Snowboard Club is all about meeting people and having a good time. He said his favorite memory so far was his

thy film about a morose, disenchanted group of men and what they all meant to each other. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Dorm styles that could replace Cather and Pound

Underwater dorm. This might be a bit more expensive because you’d have to give every resident a scuba suit and you’d have to figure out the logistics of filling an entire building with water (and keeping it there). But I bet if you guys pulled it off, it’d be a total hit with students. Release a few exotic fish in there (shark RAs?), install some coral, and let students experience something new. Who knows, you might inspire some young minds to enter the field of marine biology. That’s what college is all about, isn’t it?

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freshman year winter break trip with the group to Big Sky Resort in Montana.

“I got on the bus with two other guys from my dorm,” he said. “We knew most of the other members but not nearly as well as we were about to. After a week of hanging out, riding and hot tubbing, I had made some of the best friends of my life.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Space dorm. Complete opposite from the underwater, but just as cool. You could glue those glow-in-the-dark stars to the ceiling of each room and make everyone reminisce about their childhood. Get some cool doors that slide open when you scan your NCard. Hand out astronaut food at the front desk, such as dehydrated jelly and egg shells (a delicacy in space). Also, figure out a way to turn off gravity in the building. Ask that Clay Anderson fellow for more tips.

iOS 7-themed dorm. Everyone I’ve talked to likes the iPhone upgrade, if you don’t count about half of the people I’ve talked with. I really like it, though. It’s clean and efficient, qualities that would serve students well in their housing. Make all the walls semi-transparent, but not to point that it actually serves a purpose other than being aesthetically pleasing. Give every student a flashlight. Serve more apples in the dining hall. I’m running out of ideas here.

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created ‘The Art of Flight,’ which is widely regarded as the best snowboarding movie pretty much ever.”

There will also be a fully stocked bar and plenty of raffle prizes to enter to win.

“I think everyone should come out for one of two reasons,” Nordin said. “If they are already a member of the ski and snowboard community, they will be in for a real treat seeing a ski film made

al-life characters that takes equal turns into romance and tragedy.

It’s a good film for those who are interested, but some viewers will be turned off by the prevalent sex and drugs. Regardless, it’s a wor-

John Krokidas Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

Pound Hall is kind of dear to me. I lived there my freshman year and had a pretty decent experience. Yeah, it’s outdated and rickety, and there’s a constant stale smell that permeates every inch of that building, but I also made one of my closest friends there and having my own room was a fair enough trade for less than stellar conditions.

Next year Cather/Pound will be nothing more than a beige memory. While I’m sure UNL is already planning on building more of those faux-apartment buildings like Knoll, I’d like to propose a few more ideas for the higher-ups to consider.

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Vince Moran DN Dr. George Tiller was one of the first and only doctors to practice abortions in pregnancies more than 28 weeks along in his clinic in Wichita, Kan. In 2009, he was shot and killed at the age of 67 by an anti-abortion activist while ushering at his local church.

Martha Shane and Lana Wilson direct the documentary “After Tiller,” which follows the four remaining doctors that carry on Tiller ’s work. Whatever one’s personal views on abortion may be, there’s no doubt that these four individuals have more courage and belief in what they do than almost anyone.

The four abortionists are Warren Hern of Boulder, Colo., Shelley Sella and Susan Robinson of Albuquerque, N.M., and LeRoy Carhart who operated out of Bellevue, Neb., until late-term abortions were banned in the state because of studies claiming that the fetus could feel pain in these late weeks of pregnancy. Carhart moved to Maryland and has opened a new clinic to continue operations.

Abortion has remained a controversial topic since the landmark case of Roe v. Wade in 1973, and late term abortions are the epitome of controversy because of the development of the fetus into a more recognizable human baby.

Most of the population has firmly established opinions on abortion, and “After Tiller” is unlikely to drastically sway pro-life viewers onto its side. However, it does offer an insightful look inside the lives of these doctors as they explain why they do what they do.

The film is anything but antiabortion, but it also doesn’t gloss over the dramatic effect and toll the job has on these physicians.

They are adamant about their profession but are never without reservations. The interviews with the doctors are poignant and revealing of how deeply they have thought about what they do. As Robinson says, “Nobody wants to get a f**king abortion,” but some women believe it’s the only choice they have, and these doctors have

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Dinosaur dorm. I’m guessing most readers are saying “Oh, hell yeah” mentally as they read this, which makes sense, because this is one of the best ideas I or anyone else ever had. Build a scale replica of a brontosaurus skeleton and use the rib cage as a stair set.

Paint triceratops donning Husker gear all over the walls. Bring an actual dinosaur back to life with a mosquito you found mummified in shale. Train it to eat students that can’t keep their GPAs up.

Hall of mirrors dorm. I like this one because I also like watching other people suffer. Line the walls with all kinds of mirrors, both concave and convex, and make getting around a total mess.

Have a strobe light going so the light flashes off the mirrors and disorients others even more. Hire a scary dude to wander the halls holding a shovel that has blood on it. Install secret passages behind the bathroom sinks. I realize this is turning into a haunted house dorm, but I don’t even care.

Cather was basically a haunted house anyway.

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In Bruges Nathan sindelar DN “In Bruges” is a film that wades through subjects such as the accidental murder of a child, the crushing guilt that comes with it and, eventually, suicide.

It’s also a comedy.

So goes the nature of the black comedy genre, and so goes the 2008 film directed by Martin McDonagh.

The Oscar-nominated film, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, follows the two hitmen as they lie low in the Belgian city of Bruges after the botched murder that leaves a young bystander dead. Waiting in the gorgeously medieval city for word from their boss, Harry, who is played by Ralph Fiennes, the duo spends their time sight-seeing, mocking fat Americans, boozing and developing an odd sort of friendship that only the context of fantastical architecture, tourist robbers and murder-for-money can provide.

As in most stories, things get serious, and I won’t spoil any of the plot’s development. But the film certainly earns the Best Writing, Original Screenplay nod it received five years ago. The complex and emotional themes explored in the movie are almost delighted in as the character-driven dialogue swoops from moment to moment and builds upon itself from scene to scene.

After being chastised for using the word midget, Ray (Farrell) lets it slip again, on accident before bed.

The camera hangs for a moment as he notices his nowprivate insensitivity. When he wakes he next morning Ray goes on a racial stereotype-filled rant with no comprehension of the bile he’s spitting. He ends the spiel with a line about dwarfs, smiling to himself at his own conscientiousness.

Though the bit may be flippant, as the character tends to wax, “In Bruges” doesn’t shy away from more earnest considerations and provides a layered experience both in its subject matter and its criminal story of respect, honor and redemption.

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Beautifully shot on-location in the ancient city, artfully crafted and damn funny too, “In Bruges” is a great burn on a slow midweek evening. arts@dailynebraskan.com

and the unmentioned Share and Options buttons.

“Feels fantastic for whom,” I might ask.

When Mario’s jump became Master Chief’s alien eradication, when the gameplay grew in tandem with the technology that powered it, becoming increasingly complex in its interactive capacities, the controllers grew as well.

But, while the Dualshock 4 may “feel” that much better than its predecessor, it certainly has not become more accessible. In actuality, as our inputs have grown up with their games, they’ve become harder and harder, as did the “Goldeneye” levels, themselves alienating and eradicating Master Chief’s potential audiences along with the monsters he slew and continues to slay.

Sony’s controller is just an example of the complexity that faces newcomers and seasoned players alike. Looking at the company’s multifaceted gamepad ignores the motion controls of the Nintendo Wii, the touch screen controls of the Wii U and the full body inputs that the Xbox One’s Kinect allows.

On top of this, and even though something like the body motion control of the Kinect may help include some, there’s still another large factor in the accessibility of video games - the inherent design philosophies that have permeated the medium since its time the arcades.

When games were coin-operated, it made sense to make the titles as challenging as possible.

Failure meant that no single player hogged the machine too long without paying again. So, while the software had and has to be immediately gratifying - to incite players to keep going - it also must to deliver some pretty crushing challenges of physical and mental

dexterity. Today, beyond the coinop and into the one-and-done purchase of most titles, that philosophy still reigns.

Games like “Super Meat Boy” and “Dark Souls” delight in their own roguelike difficulty, and problematic, reductive language like “play” and “beat” - both so commonly associated with video games - thrive off of and continue to hinder the medium’s potential for expanse and power.

The point of all this is not only to explicate how video games’ narrow focus on complexity and challenge hold it back from all they could be but also to explore and raise awareness of the ways these qualities hold back those people who might most appreciate or utilize video games’ greatest offerings.

The Able Gamers Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping players with disabilities experience games, as well as developers create the most accessible options possible, operates from a belief that videogames are important and especially beneficial to those who are held back from many of the things an unaffected person might take for granted.

“I believe that there is nothing more powerful for people with disabilities than the freedom that only video games can provide,” reads a quote from the charity’s founder, Mark Barlet. “It is an art form that allows us to all run, jump and be whatever we want to be.”

The organization offers a nearly 50-page document that renders the most common and easily remedied issues of non-inclusive game design for creators to take in and include as early on in their game’s development process as possible. It argues that, due to the large number of disabled gamers in the world (a world that only

becomes more interested in games with each passing day), incentives should not be an issue for companies that seek money above all else.

The document covers factors from cognitive and physical mobility to visual and hearing impairments.

It delivers tiers of accessibility vs practical implementation and presents the information with the concession that, no, there is really no way to make one game readily available for the consumption of by anyone with any form of impairment.

But it does make damn clear that there are ways to make games better and that if one game doesn’t get the job done for one group of people, there’s another one out there or coming down the pipeline that will.

There is a constant tug-of-war between idealistic optimism and practicality here, especially with a medium comprised of businesses trying to maximize profit, but the point is to acknowledge the discrepancy within and potential for good that can come from these games, the gamers and companies. Before I met a friend who had to overcome his own physical limitations to play the games and experiences he loved, I’d never considered the ways in which the medium I too loved held back so many other people. This piece is food for thought.

Hopefully, with more thinkers, more voices in the conversation and, hopefully, as technology develops into more complex forms, we and it can be utilized to facilitate the entertainment, comfort and education of as many people through video games as possible.

Nathan Sindelar is a senior journalism and English major. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

love: from 5 ated by corporate America to sell greeting cards. I’m not going to lie just to create romanticism.

19. “Accept my imperfections.”: As soon as you stop referring to my forehead as wall-like, I will change your name to something other than Thunder Thighs in my phone.

20. “Remember my birthday.”: I’m not going to forget it. You made me tattoo it in a serif font on my shoulder blade, remember?

21. “Good sex.”: Sex good! Sex good!

22. “Say to me, ‘Let’s make love.’”: Fine, let’s make love. No, I didn’t mean it. Stop winking at me.

23. “Be supportive of me and my decisions.”: I’ll do this if you do. When you said buying a smaller refrigerator to put in our big-

13. “Be a good communicator.”: Be a good non-mumbler, maybe.

14. “Take a more active role in sex and foreplay.”: This one is fair.

I’ve been watching from the bench, I’ll admit.

15. “Say that you want to marry me.”: I don’t? I’m 23, and this is 2013. Tell your mom (and my mom) she can wait a few more years for grandchildren.

16. “Create a sense of security between us.”: It’s hard when those left-wing nutjobs want to take away my guns!

17. “Cook a special meal for the two of us.”: If by “special,” you mean the side dish is going to be a bowl of chewable multivitamins, I can do that.

18. “Say, ‘I love you with all my heart and soul.’”: Souls were cre-

draw you a frog (I draw pretty decent frogs) on a Post-it and stick it on the car next to yours, just to spite your weird demand.

7. “Seduce me.”: You’re telling me the Sun Chip crumbs in our bed aren’t doing it for you?

8. “Be a good listener to me.”: Maybe pronounce your words. You mumble a lot, dear.

9. “Spend time talking with me.”: Do I have to? I never know what to say, because you mumble all the time.

10. “Be open to trying new sexual positions.”: OK. (Sorry, mom.)

11. “Leave a rose on my pillow.”: ...what? I mean, I guess I’ll do it if you ask me to, but I feel weird about this.

12. “Help me through rough times.”: Sure, whatever.

ger refrigerator was “Stupidtown, USA,” it really hurt.

24. “Make a mix tape or CD of songs for me.”: One or the other!

Give me both and I’ll never look at you in the same light!

25. “Talk about our future together.”: Hopefully, there are hover cars.

26. “Say to me, ‘I like spending time with you more than anyone else.’”: Not gonna say that. You haven’t met this guy at my work, Chet. Dude’s a hoot-and-a-half.

27. “Take walks with me during the day.”: Fine, I’ll stop taking you on so many night walks.

You’re still going to wear the leash, though.

28. “Write poems.”: Nah, I’m not about this. Use your time to make a pizza or something.

29. “Be sympathetic to my feelings.”: I can’t relate to being mad about what happened on a rerun of “Flavor of Love.” I just can’t.

30. “Have sex in strange places.”: Any place is strange if I’m having sex there.

31. “Oral sex.”: Stop. Stop, stop, stop. Mom, tell her to stop.

32. “Make me cookies and brownies.”: No, probably not. I might buy one of those insane DiGiorno two-in-one boxes that have both pizzas and cookies in them, if that’s any consolation.

33. “Encourage me to keep going during sex.”: You know how I get sometimes. Blame the game, not the player.

34. “Say to me, ‘You are the best thing that ever happened to me.’”: No. One time I fist-bumped Jimmy

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35. “Say to me, ‘I’ll always love you.’”: Woah dude, big claim. I’ll probably love you for at least the next week, maybe longer if you stop mumbling so much.

36. “Change your religion.”: Haha, what? Are you serious? Get outta here.

37. “Say to me, ‘I think we make a good couple.”: Remember that time at Olive Garden when we burped at the same time? That is how I think of us.

38. “Initiate sex.”: I just bought a new Lifehouse album, so this shouldn’t be too hard.

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have a heart-breaking loss, (you have) to bounce back that same day and compete at the highest level.”

Tournaments are based more on The Nebraska wrestling team heads the individual. Duals are one team to Las Vegas this weekend for one of the biggest tournaments of the year. versus another, and winning matches The Cliff Keen Invitational will feature gives teams points. A tournament, on more than 30 collegiate teams from the other hand, is more for individuals to focus just on what they’re doing. around the country. Most of the teams There’s an overall team score, but it participating in this tournament are has a much lesser effect on currently ranked in the how someone will wrestle top 20 on InterMat. a match. For example, in a “We’ll find out a lot dual if the team is down this weekend,” coach by four points, the wresMark Manning said. tler will try to pin his op“This tournament’s a ponent to give the team a nationally ranked tourlead by two, but in a tournament. There are a lot of nament the team scores great teams in there, and are often not known until we are just getting our the very end. Without the guys prepared to go out team score in mind, the there and let it go.” wrestler can go out and No. 4, 174-pound jujust win instead of wornior Robert Kokesh, has kokesh rying about winning a gone to this tournament certain way. before — finishing third Kokesh has some and first in his two previous showings — and knows first hand words of advice for the young guys as they get a start on a big stage. how tough the competition will be.

“Just stick to their game plan,” he “It’s a very competitive tournament,” Kokesh said. “We see a lot of said. “They’ve been working on what different teams that we don’t normally they needed to work on since the beginning of the seasee throughout the season. Just stick with son. A lot of West Coast It’s fun to that. If you have teams. For me, I think wrestle the to face a good guy, I’m going to have eight don’t get caught up to 10 ranked guys in best competition in that. It’s just anmy weight class, which other match. It’s all always makes it excit- in the nation. It just practice leading ing. It’s fun to wrestle makes the win up to the end of the the best competition in year at the NCAA the nation. It makes the that much more tournament. One win that much more sweet.” thing I was always sweet.” told by my coaches ROBERT KOKESH The Huskers will is that you are never junior wrestler be riding on a lot of too young to win momentum as they are and I’ve found that coming off of a solid Saturday of wrestling. While the du- it really helps me keep the pressure als have helped give Nebraska confi- down and keeps me focused.”

The tournament starts Friday. dence, tournaments are different from Championship matches and consoladuals. tion matches are on Saturday begin“In duals, you may have one match,” Kokesh said, “but in a tourna- ning at 11 a.m. sports@ ment, you have to prepare for three, dailynebraskan.com four, maybe five matches. If you do

Huskers prepare for mid-season match Coach has high hopes for team, which will travel to Iowa City, Iowa for Hawkeye Invitational thomas beckmann dn The Nebraska swimming and diving team will travel to Iowa City, Iowa, on Friday for the annual Hawkeye Invitational. The invitational will feature Boise State, Denver, Iowa, Milwaukee, Notre Dame and Washington State all competing in a midseason swimming extravaganza.

The Huskers are 1-2-1 on the year and swimming head coach Pablo Morales has high hopes for this meet. With almost two weeks to prepare and momentum from their performance in its last meet spurring them on, the team is looking for a strong midseason performance.

The Huskers are coming off of a second-place performance in Topeka, Kan. The Huskers only trailed the hosting Kansas Jayhawks, as junior Natalie Morris and sophomore Taryn Collura won both of their respective events, along with distance swimmers Bailey Pons and Morgan Flannigan recording seasonhigh times.

Morris posted a meet record time of 2:03:33 in the 200-yard butterfly, while Collura set a season best 51.18 in the 100-yard freestyle.

“Our girls started out really well and just got stronger and stronger,” said Morales.

The Hawkeye Invitational will be a meet for the Husker swimmers to establish themselves on a national scale. Teams from all over the nation will be at Iowa’s campus recreation center, including Notre Dame, which is ranked 18th nationally.

This meet will be a key midseason indicator for where the team is at from a competitive standpoint. Morales is expecting an optimal performance from his team, primarily because they have been given two weeks to rest and prepare.

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The Nebraska swimming and diving team is looking for a strong midseason performance after about two weeks of preparation. Coach Pablo Morales said he expects to team to be competitive.

I feel like we have a reall good balance, all the individual strokes, you know the butterfly events, the 100, the 200.

Sort of a senior-laden group.” pablo morales swimming coach

“I feel like we have a really good balance, all the individual strokes, you know the butterfly events, the 100, the 200,” Morales said. “Sort of a senior-laden group, three of the four girls are seniors. So I expect them to have a good meet.”

This sort of balance is what it takes to be competitive, and will be crucial for Nebraska.

“You have to be (balanced) to be competitive,” Morales said on what it will take to compete.

Even the freshmen are expected to perform well in this meet. In the Kansas meet, freshman Erin Oeltjen placed sixth in the 200 yard backstroke, along

rales said. “I expect us to be really competitive.”

The Huskers look to start the meet off strong with sprinter Collura in the 100 yard freestyle.

Even after her season-best performance, Morales still feels her best has yet to come.

“She’s definitely built on that, even though that’s (51.18) a real strong midseason swim, she’s capable of faster,” Morales said. “We’ve come to expect big things out of Taryn.”

Morales also considers the rest of his team to be deep and well-balanced, including veteran leadership out of his distance swimmers.

with Julia Roller placing 10th in the 200 yard butterfly.

“It’s great seeing the freshmen develop,” Morales said.

“You recruit them; it’s fun to watch both Julia Roller, Erin Oeltjen, as well as Anna (Filipcic). Now Anna, we’re just now starting to see make some really good progress and really starting to make some breakthroughs.”

The meet will begin on Friday, and it will run until Sunday.

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creighton: from 10 Our main focus is going to be getting him out of his sync and just make sure the rest of the team doesn’t get comfortable.” leslee smith junior forward

ent Sunday night.

“I’ve followed him a lot, just to see his game and see his weaknesses,” the junior forward said.

Unfortunately, for Smith and his teammates, there aren’t many flaws in McDermott’s style of play.

Through its first seven games of the 2013 campaign, Nebraska has had five different players lead its team in scoring. For the Bluejays, McDermott has been the man to finish as their leading scorer in all but one of their games.

In the past three seasons, the senior forward has finished first in points per game at Creighton and is currently sixth in the nation with 24.4 points per game.

“He’s a really good player,”

Smith said.

Last year, the Preseason AllAmerican set career-highs in points per game (23.2), 3-point field goals (77) and free throws made (189) and led Creighton to its fifth NCAA Tournament appearance in eight years.

McDermott’s ability to rack up points also helped project him to be a top-5 draft pick in the NBA. However, he decided to return for his senior season and has made his opponents dread his choice.

Although it’ll be his first time playing in the cross town rivalry, sophomore forward Walter Pitchford said he knows that tempers can be on the rise when the two teams square off.

“I felt it from last year,” he said.

In last year’s matchup, McDermott puzzled Husker defenders throughout the night to finish with a game-high 27 points. The 64-42 victory against Nebraska also included a floor scuffle with Husker senior guard Michael Peltz and drew a technical foul from Nebraska coach Tim Miles.

Nebraska will coast into Omaha this weekend with a 25-21 series advantage against the Bluejays and will enter Sunday clinging to a three-game winning streak.

Although McDermott will be the Huskers’ biggest threat on Sunday, they understand that he won’t be the only one, Smith said.

“Our main focus is going to be getting him out of his sync and just

make sure the rest of the team doesn’t get comfortable,” Smith said.

Joining McDermott as a doubledigit scorer so far this season is senior forward Ethan Wragge who averages 12.1 ppg, and also poses as a threat from downtown (30-for-59, 50.8 percent).

“Every time he shoots it you think it’s going in,” Miles said.

Along with Creighton’s hot shooter, are junior guards Devin Brooks and Austin Chatman, who average 9.9 and 8.6 ppg, respectively.

Emotions were high in their previous matchups, and you can’t expect it to be any different in their 47th encounter Sunday, according to Miles.

Although a victory against the team that was ranked through its first six games won’t come effortless by any stretch, Miles said it would be a vast boost of momentum for the Huskers heading into the rest of their non-conference schedule.

“It’d be great,” he said. “It would be important to our kids and important to our program. That rivalry is really important to us.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sophomore guard Shavon Shields, who is averaging 12 points a game, and the NU men’s basketball team will face Creighton Sunday.

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Kill leader: Liz Brenner (480)

Best win: 25-22, 25-19, 25-19 vs. No. 8 Minnesota

Assist leader: Lauren Plum (945)

Worst loss: 23-25, 25-22, 23-25, 23-25 vs. Auburn

Dig leader: Amanda Benson (473) Block leader: Ariana Williams (102)

Kill leader: Kelsey Robinson (481) Assist leader: Mary Pollmiller (1,142) Dig leader: Kelsey Robinson (356) Block leader: Cecilia Hall (121) file photo by morgan spiehs | dn

Sophomore middle blocker Cecilia Hall spikes a ball during a recent match. The Husker volleyball team will enter the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Fairfield Friday. leyball squad has played in front of more than 8,000 fans in every home match.

“An opponent team walks into our court, and they’re going to be shaking a little bit,” Robinson said.

“It’s a given. You don’t walk in and feel comfortable. Hopefully, it works to our advantage.”

Cook said other coaches have a trick to deal with opposing crowds.

“The coaches tell them, ‘Hey, we’re the home team. The crowd is for you,’” Cook said. “So you just lie to them a little bit.”

The Ducks and Hurricanes will be the first matchup on Friday.

The Hurricanes (19-11, 12-8) come into their match on a three-game win-

ning streak.

Junior outside hitter Savanah Leaf commands the offense with 433 kills on the season and an average 3.83 kills per set. The Canes have four more players contributing 235 or more kills this year. The squad also has a solid serving game with an average of 1.37 aces per set, and Leaf leads the team with 38 on the year.

Junior Emani Sims, who has made 149 total blocks this year, leads Miami’s blocking game.

The Hurricanes’ opponent has features a strong one-two punch attack.

Junior outside hitter Liz Brenner and senior middle blocker Ariana Williams lead the offense for the Ducks,

posting 480 and 320 kills on the year, respectively. Brenner holds an average of 4.62 kills per set.

The Ducks’ defense is balanced, as six players have recorded more than 150 digs on the year. Freshman Amanda Benson has lead the way with 473 digs and a 4.59 digs per set average.

In the blocking game, Williams paces the team with 102 total blocks, and sophomore Canace Finley is close behind with 91.

If the Ducks win and the Huskers win, it would be a rematch of last season’s Elite Eight stage of the NCAA Tournament. The Ducks emerged victorious in that meeting in four sets. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

MIAMI 19-11 (12-8, fourth in ACC) Best win: 21-25, 25-18, 19-25, 25-22, 15-10 vs. No. 12 North Carolina

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Worst loss: 23-25, 24-26, 21-25 vs. Tulsa

19-12 (14-4, second in MAAC)

Kill leader: Savanah Leaf (433)

Best win: 25-12, 26-24, 26-24 vs. Hampton

Assist leader: Blair Fuentez (864)

Worst loss: 17-25, 19-25, 21-25 vs. Cornell

Dig leader: Ryan Shaffer (542) Block leader: Emani Sims (149)

Kill leader: Marilyn Peizer (351) Assist leader: Rachel Romansky (1,006) Dig leader: Carsen Mata (479) Block leader: Caitlin Stapleton (81)

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Shuttle offers easy access to basketball games The only way I knew before the shuttle came along was walking, so this is the best thing now.”

Free service allows students to get to Pinnacle Bank Arena for men’s and women’s games

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With temperatures reaching as low as 16 degrees on Wednesday night, the jaunt from campus to Pinnacle Bank Arena can become a dilemma for students.

That’s why there is now a shuttle service to get students to Nebraska basketball games without having to make the long and cold walk to the arena.

Without the shuttle service, there are many complications that can arise when going to the basketball games.

If you’re driving, you have to figure out where to park near the arena which will add a $5 charge.

The shuttle is free for students.

Anna Whaley, a freshman exploratory major, said walking is the worse alternative for students going to the game.

“It’s warmer in the buses, and it saves us from the cold weather,” Whaley said. “It’s a far walk for people. and when it starts to snow then more people will be using it.”

At the beginning of the basketball season. an email was sent out to those who had season tickets in the student section.

And with cold weather, the shuttle service has had an increase in travelers.

lems so far.”

With Lincoln’s temperatures dropping, Williams thinks that he will be picking up even more students.

“I don’t know if people will take it when the weather ’s nice, but with the cold weather I think more and more people will choose to take it,” Williams said.

The shuttle service shows up to each stop approximately every 20 minutes in the two hour span before the games.

There are five shuttle stops each gameday.

The stops are the 14th and Avery parking garage, Selleck Hall, the 16th and S street bus stop, Knoll Hall and then Abel and Sandoz halls.

After students in the loop are picked up, they are all dropped off at the north side entrance at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Not only do the shuttles provide warmth during this time of year, but in most cases it gets fans to the arena quicker as well. A walk to Pinnacle Bank Arena from campus would take about 20-25 minutes. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Students take the shuttle bus to the Pinnacle Bank Arena from campus to watch the Nebraska men’s basketball game Wednesday.

The shuttle service is free for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students.

For Allan Elliott, a sophomore PGA management major, it’s the best way to get from point A to point B. “The only way I knew before the shuttle came along was walking, so this is the best thing now,”

Elliott said. “I’ve been going to the basketball games since my freshman year, and for me, it’s just a way to go to the games.”

Each home game, two shuttles start picking up students on campus. One of the drivers, Nick Wil-

liams, has been working for the university for three years. This is his first year of driving students to the basketball games, and he has already seen a notable rise in students taking the shuttles to the games.

“The first couple games, we had a few people here and there,” Williams said. “During Thanksgiving, we had almost no one.

The Miami game is the first time we’ve had a lot of people taking it. There hasn’t been any prob-

After two losses, Huskers to face Utah State Coach Connie Yori says team will be challenged on Sunday following recent struggles on the court eric bertrand dn The No. 15 Nebraska women’s basketball team (6-2), on the heels of two consecutive losses, will face Utah State on Sunday.

In the Huskers’ latest loss to No. 18 North Carolina, the Huskers felt they had the chance to win the game, but UNC went on a 23-4 run late in the first half, which propelled the Tar Heels to a victory.

The Huskers had four players earn double-digit points in the game, with senior Jordan Hooper leading with 18 points, despite finding herself on the bench because of foul trouble in the first half.

“I’d finally hit some shots, and then foul,” Hooper said.

Nebraska coach Connie Yori said it is important for the starters to not be in that situation.

“Some of those kids who have to play big minutes for us have to stay out of foul trouble,” Yori said. “We’ve talked to them about

that, and we’ve just got to do a more guard Makenlee Williams, who is 16 of 36 when shooting better job of that.”

Another key reason for the from downtown. Her 3-pointer loss was turnovers. The Huskers percentage is 44 percent.

The defensive rebounding had 21 in the game. numbers will come from junior “They scored the vast majorguards Ingrida Strikas and Elise ity of points on two things: we turned it over and they got la- Nelson, who have totaled 27 and 29 defensive yups,” Yori said. boards so far in “You can’t win if We will be this season, respecyou don’t take care tively. of those things.” challenged Nelson and The coach also Schlott will head said rebounding on Sunday, no the steals for the goes into the cat- question about Aggies, as they egory of things to have put up 18 and take care of in or- that.”

15 take-aways in der to win. connie yori six games, respecThe Huskers women’s basketball coach tively. have taken advanUtah State is tage of going to the not a first-half or a line this season, as the squad has managed to go 12- second-half team. They compete for-12 in the last game. The team equally well in both halves, as has converted on 142 out of 185 they have put up 261 points in the free throws this season, which is first half and 260 in the last half of games this season.

76 percent.

The Aggies may be able to The Utah State Aggies (5-1) will play South Dakota on Thurs- force turnovers against a vulnerday before heading to Lincoln for able Huskers squad. The Aggies have accumulated 79 steals in the showdown with the Huskers. the season, and the Huskers have The previous game for the Agturned the ball over 128 times this gies was a win against Cal State year.

Northridge by a score of 75-67.

With the Huskers’ recent Senior Jennifer Schlott led the struggles, Yori said this match-up Aggies with 27 points, 7 assists and 3 steals in their last game. will test the Nebraska squad.

“We will be challenged on Schlott accounts for a large part Sunday, no question about that,” of the Aggies’ offense with a field Yori said. goal percentage of 43 percent. sports@ The shot from behind the arch dailynebraskan.com will primarily come from sopho-

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Senior forward Jordan Hooper lead the scoring against UNC with 18 points but found herself on the bench because of foul trouble in the first half. Coach Connie Yori said the team will try to stay out of foul trouble when it faces Utah State this weekend.

moudy: from 10 “These are my closest friends out here. I love suiting up and playing with the guys next to me. You make lifelong friendships out there. I’m still friends with guys from middle school and high school from the team. That’s why I play football.” mike moudy

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in the top 60 players in the Midlands Region.

As a senior in 2010, Moudy averaged double figures in pancakes per game, helping Coach Jeff Ketron’s Douglas County High School team to the Class 5A state playoffs. Moudy’s play earned him first-team all-conference and first-team all-state honors from the Denver Post. He was also selected to play in the USA vs. the World all-star game in Miami the following January. It’s not a surprise that at 6’5” and 300 pounds, he is a talented football player. However, he isn’t in it for the glory, he says.

“I play football for the brotherhood. Of course, there is all of the personal glory that goes into it, but I can’t think about it like that,” Moudy said. “These are my closest friends out here. I love suiting up and playing with the guys next to me. You make lifelong friendships out there.

I’m still friends with guys from middle school and high school from the team. That’s why I play football.”

Moudy felt at home at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and felt his high school experience would serve him well. For Moudy, football is more than just a game: It’s a family tradition.

“My dad has always had roots in the game,” Moudy said. “He’s the reason I got started. I was home-schooled until the eighth grade, and that was the first year that I played football. I loved it.

That’s where I met a bunch of my friends.”

put in a lot.”

He said that his dad encourMoudy’s high school offenaged him to play football and sive line coach said that Mike’s even through all of his number hard work and effort is the reason changes, he’s worn the numbers why he plays for the Huskers. his dad once wore. Moudy beams “His character is second to when he talks about his parents, none,” coach Gene Hill said. “I David and Shannon Moudy. He never had to worry about him. He attributes all of his success to brought leadership and was the them. hardest worker on the team. Af“I love talking the game over with my dad,” Moudy said. “He ter practice, he’d still be out there making sure he was the best he is the main influence into why I could be.” play it. My mom This year, just is the advice giver.

He was a like all of the rest, She is who I go Moudy brought to when I’m havfine young that same attiing problems and man when I first tude to the Husker when I need inpractices. Moving sight. She is my met him, and from left to right rock, and she has guard was a diffialways been there he continually cult change, but he for me. Her sup- amazes me with said he was going port is amazing; to play his best for she loves coming his maturity Long. Moving from up here for games. and strength of the scout team was For them, coming a big jump, but just up here for a game conviction.” like everything is the highlight of brian stebbins else, Moudy attheir week.” mike moudy’s former teacher tributes it to hard For his parents, work and dedicatraveling to a game tion. consists of watchIn high school, Moudy leaned ing their son switch between right on English teacher Brian Stebbins and left guard, step in for injured teammate senior offensive line- for guidance and support. The relationship that the two still have man Spencer Long and perfect his footwork. Before stepping in for helps Moudy throughout both his academic and football career at Long after his injury in the Purdue game, Moudy watched end- UNL. “He was a fine young man less amounts of film, worked and when I first met him and he conreworked his hand placement and footwork and built up his confi- tinually amazes me with his maturity and strength of conviction,” dence.

Stebbins said. “Mike took in ev“It’s all about hard work and effort,” Moudy said. “You have to erything we studied in class and

was able to personalize so much of it because he has, obviously, a gifted intellect; moreover, Mike has a deep intellectual curiosity and the innate ability to feel.”

After he graduates, Mike hopes to take his ability to feel and personalize to a classroom and impact students just as Stebbins did for him.

“He is the reason that I chose my major: English education,” Moudy said. “He finds students that have potential, and he doesn’t give up on them. He doesn’t ease up, he runs you through the grind.

I’m so much better for having had him. He is a very close friend of mine just because of how big a mentor he has been. He is the reason that I am where I am.”

Moudy described high school as the most important four years of his life and they molded him into the man he has become.

The transition from being homeschooled to being a recognized athlete was the one he needed to launch him into his success.

“I thought I had it all figured out my senior year to freshman year here at Nebraska,” Moudy said. “We got a packet and I was on the program and I thought I was all prepped for it. Then I got here and it was a huge transition both mentally and physically. It was hectic, but I found the balance. The people that God has put into my life are the biggest blessing. I couldn’t have gotten here on my own.”

Anyone from the town of Castle Rock could talk extensively about Mike Moudy. He is a home-

town hero and an idol for the young football team of Douglas County High School.

“His humility is inspiring,” Stebbins said. “Mike stands out to me not because of his ability to pass block, pancake a defensive tackle on a run play or even his gifted intellect shining through a brilliant analysis of ‘The Heart of Darkness.’ Mike Moudy stands out to me because he is exactly the kind of man I hope to be some day: A man of humility, service, dedicated to his family and his savior.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Junior offensive lineman Mike Moudy, a former high school standout in Colorado, said he felt at home at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and with the Husker football team. He felt his high school experience would serve him well on the team.

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efore becoming a Husker, junior offensive lineman Mike Moudy was a standout at Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colo.

Moudy earned first-team honors in the Southern League for his play during the 2008 campaign. Ranked among the top 10 players in the state of Colorado in 2010 by Rivals.com, and the service also listed him among the top 35 offensive tackles in the country.

Scout.com ranked Moudy among the nation’s top 300 overall prospects and among the top 30 tackles in the nation, while SuperPrep Magazine listed him

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NU to face in-state rival Creighton Huskers will try to stop their biggest threat, Bluejays’ leading scorer Doug McDermott

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Huskers begin NCAA play Nebraska will enter the tournament Friday against Fairfield at Bob Devaney Sports Center

nedu izu dn Sophomore guards Terran Petteway and Shavon Shields each have led the Nebraska men’s basketball team in scoring a combined five times and an average 15.7 and 12 points a game, respectively.

But neither of them have been as prominent to their squad over the years as the 6-foot-8-inch forward of their next opponent.

After defeating Miami 60-49, the Huskers (6-2 overall) will battle 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year Doug McDermott and the Creighton Bluejays (6-2) Sunday evening at the Century Link Center.

Nebraska newcomer Leslee Smith said he’s been studying McDermott’s technique and knows what challenges his counterpart under the rim may pres-

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Nebraska’s victory against Creighton last season included a floor scuffle involving Husker senior guard Michael Peltz and also drew a technical foul from coach Tim Miles.

The No. 8 seed Nebraska squad enters the NCAA Tournament on Friday with a match against the Fairfield Stags (19-12, 14-4). The winner of this game will face the victor of the Oregon and Miami competition, which also takes place Friday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

Nebraska coach John Cook said he figured out where Fairfield is from only this week.

“Well, I learned they’re from Connecticut. I thought they were from North Carolina,” Cook said.

The Stags compete in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, and

Cook said they perform like a typical small conference team.

“They play really good volleyball — they’re not as athletic as we are,” Cook said. “But they still have really good players and they play a good style of volleyball.”

The Stags’ defense has five players who have more than 235 digs this year, with redshirt senior Carsen Mata leading the way with 479.

On the offensive side of the court, the Stags also feature balance. Junior Marilyn Peizer leads the attack with 351 kills on the year and a 3.08 killsper-set average. Three other players have tallied more than 235 kills this year.

As of late, Fairfield has found its stride by winnning 14 of its last 15 matches.

One factor the Huskers are counting on is home court advantage.

“It’s a huge advantage,” senior Kelsey Robinson said. “Having the home court in our facility, it’s probably two or three points right there.”

In their first season in the new court at the Devaney Center, the vol-

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