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Bank secures naming rights to new arena Kim Buckley daily nebraskan

The downtown Lincoln Haymarket arena has an official name.

Mayor Chris Beutler announced at a press conference Tuesday that Nebraska’s Pinnacle Bank has secured the naming rights of the new arena, making Pinnacle Bank Arena the official name of the development.

“This long-term partnership is a positive reflection of Pinnacle Bank, the new arena

and the future of our community,” Beutler said.

Pinnacle Bank signed an $11.25 million, 25-year contract for the arena naming rights. This amounts to $450,000 a year. This is one of the highest naming rights in Nebraska, said Dan Marvin, arena project manager.

The bank will have the option to negotiate for renewal after 25 years, Marvin said.

The contract Pinnacle Bank signed to get the naming rights will be released to the public and online in the next

few days.

Marvin said the agreement with Pinnacle Bank was a negotiation process. The group with the arena identified prospective candidates early in the process, he said. The group then had discussions with those candidates before choosing Pinnacle Bank as the title sponsor.

The city broke ground on the arena in September. Pinnacle Bank Arena is expected to be completed in September 2013.

The 470,400-square-foot

arena will cost $179 million to build. Lincoln voters approved the funding of the arena in May 2010.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s basketball teams will play home games there, and the center will seat more than 16,000 people.

The NU Athletic Department will pay $750,000 a year for 30 years beginning in 2013 for use of the arena.

This is part of an agreement

by UNL and the city that the board and council approved in 2010.

Pinnacle Bank chairman Sid Dinsdale said the company was excited to become the title sponsor of the arena.

The Dinsdale family started Pinnacle Bank in 1938.

“It’s much more about the appreciation of our company in Lincoln and the state of Nebraska,” Dinsdale said.

The family has run the bank for more than 70 years.

It is this stability that makes Pinnacle Bank a good company to have the naming rights, Marvin said.

NU Regent Tim Clare said

This long-term partnership is a positive reflection of Pinnacle Bank, the new arena and the future of our community.” chris beutler lincoln mayor

the state has a “local Nebraska leader” in the bank.

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UNL students favor Obama, survey reports But they are also more likely to be Republican, political science class finds Riley Johnson Daily Nebraskan

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students favor President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election and have not endorsed any of his potential Republican challengers yet, according to a recent survey.

In its second year, “The Big Red Poll” — administered to all UNL students and developed and analyzed by 34 undergraduates in a UNL political science class — surveyed 3,352 or about 13 percent of the 24,593-student population.

Kiersten Haugen, a spokeswoman for the political parties and elections class and a junior international studies, political science and Spanish major, said candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney or Ron Paul have far from secured the endorsement of UNL students.

“If you want to win student votes, pick up your game,” Haugen said.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Romney and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas lead the pack with 7 percent of students in favor of them. Former House Speaker Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry received 3 percent of the vote. Herman Cain, who recently announced he would suspend his campaign, received 5 percent of the vote. 26 percent of students said they didn’t know who they favor in the 2012 presidential election according to the survey.

Overall, the study found that campus is slightly more liberal, 37 percent, than conservative, 36 percent, with 27 percent of students identifying themselves as moderate. The class’s instructor, Michael Wagner, an assistant professor of political science, and his students say the study shows a nuanced student body and gave his students a chance to undertake a time-intensive project that provides

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I don’t oppose keeping ‘Dead Week’ dead, but certainly it would take some flexibility out of the way I can conduct my class.”

at a glance ··37 percent liberal, 36 percent conservative and 27 percent moderate ··45 percent Republican, 42 percent Democrat and 13 percent Independent ··37 percent favor President Barack Obama in the 2012 election ··82 percent strongly supported UNL’s move to the Big Ten ··83 percent plan to vote in 2012

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Source: 2011 Big Red Poll results

a political portrait of their university.

“It’s not easy to write a 95-question survey that 3,300 students will take,” Wagner said.

A majority of the respondents to those 95 questions were women, 55 percent, and 73 percent were undergraduates. Nearly all of the respondents, 92 percent, said they were born in the U.S., with 70 percent Nebraska-born.

Survey respondents were more Republican than Democrat, 45 percent to 42 percent, respectively.

Self-identified independents made up 13 percent of respondents. In a question framing experiment, the class discovered UNL students overwhelmingly supported the Campus Recreation Center renovations when the question said the improvements would “provide more exercise equipment for students to use.”

However, when they asked some respondents if they would support the student-approved renovations “despite a $20 million price tag,” only 50 percent of the respondents said yes, according to the survey.

Unlike the American public, UNL students have a “nuanced” view of abortion, Wagner said.

On one hand, a majority of students, 57 percent, said they support Nebraska

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story by riley johnson art by bob al-greene Dead Week is the only thing standing between University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and Finals Week. For many students, like senior journalism and international studies major Becky Gailey, it’s a nightmare.

“Really, Dead Week kills students because we have so much to do,” Gailey said. “It makes me want to scream and go running down O Street.”

Gailey, like her peers, has projects and papers to work on this week before final exams next week.

In April 2005, the UNL Academic Senate adopted the 15th Week Policy, which requires faculty to administer final exams for full-semester classes during Finals Week and allows lab practicals and make up, repeat or self-paced exams during Dead Week.

While some students would rather see a true “dead” week with canceled classes and no due dates, several university administrators say the policy might be UNL’s only practical pre-Finals Week option. But they do suggest that effective communication could help resolve end-of-semester chaos.

“We’ve probably got as good of a policy as it gets,” said David Wilson, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs.

As Wilson sees it, the semester doesn’t end for anyone. Students slave away during Dead Week and Finals Week, and faculty correct their exams almost until Christmas Eve, Wilson said.

“It’s like the semester collapses of its own weight and the 15th Week Policy says don’t pile on, don’t add more bricks,” he said.

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Just do it and get through.

Relax over Christmas.”

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graduate student in animal sciences

I wish this week was off, but I can’t afford to skip my classes, and it feels like I’m cramming for the week of finals.” leandra mclennon

sophomore biological sciences and pre-med major

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Occupy camp remains determined despite cold dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan

Winter doesn’t technically begin until two weeks from today, but Lincoln is already dealing with weather that would suggest otherwise.

On Monday, an icy northern wind during the weekend’s snowfall drove wind chills into the single digits, before the temperature fell to near zero that night. Tuesday, with a temperature hovering in the upper teens, was practically warm.

Through it all, Occupy Lincoln continues to camp out on the Centennial Mall, a stretch of grass and sidewalk just north of the Capitol Building. While the number of tents has fallen to about two dozen, or half of its peak when Lincoln’s protest began in mid-October, self-labelled “Occupiers” say they remain as resolute as ever.

“It really wasn’t that bad,” said Shauna Nielsen, 20, bundled up in winter pants and a coat Tuesday afternoon. Cocooned in a sleeping bag and blankets, she said, sleeping in her tent overnight was actually “quite delightful.”

“I did not want to get out (this morning),” Nielsen said with a smile.

Occupy Lincoln is the local branch of the Occupy Wall Street protest, which started in September in New York City and has since spread to cities beyond and across the country. Its members are united in frustration with today’s political system, which they charge has been

bought by corporations and the wealthy to the detriment of everyone else. A common slogan of the movement, “We are the 99 percent,” is a jab at the top 1 percent of earners, who control a hugely disproportionate share of the nation’s income, wealth and, protesters say, power.

Nielsen and others have also cited their anger with banks’ behavior leading up to the 2008 recession and subsequent government bailouts.

Like Nielsen, other campers shared similar accounts of sleepy comfort under a pile of blankets, including Jeffrey Eggerss, 21, a communications and international studies major at the University of NebraskaLincoln. With a North Face four-seasons tent and sleeping bag rated for minus 10 degrees, he said he’s “pretty thoroughly equipped.”

The biggest concern in the tents, he and others said, was overnight condensation from their breath.

Shoveling snow for campers and pedestrians alike has been a common way to keep warm, and the extreme cold has led to some other, more unexpected, coping strategies.

“We’re using our coolers now to keep things warmer,” Eggerss said, including water, ever more precious as temperatures fall. He pointed to a blue tank of water next to the food tent frozen solid. Wilson gave the last gallon of milk a knock with his fist and winced in pain – also frozen.

Coffee, now in particularly

survey: from 1 Fetal Pain law, which bars abortions after 20 weeks on the possibility that the fetus could feel pain.

Conversely, a majority of students, 67 percent, do not support the defunding of Planned Parenthood.

Wagner said this shows most of the respondents are anti-abortion after 20 weeks, but they also recognize that Planned Parenthood offers more services than just abortion.

Tyler Hamik, a sophomore general studies major and student in the class, said the survey dispelled a myth that college students don’t care about politics and aren’t informed.

“It’s good to see a student body that has the same views as adults on the same issues,” Hamik said.

Among noteworthy points: - 82 percent strongly supported UNL’s move to the Big Ten - 47 percent of UNL

students eligible to vote in Nebraska said they support Sen. Ben Nelson, while 25 percent said they don’t support Nelson and 29 percent said they don’t know - 56 percent said they do not support any of Nelson’s potential GOP challengers and 25 percent say they support Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning - 83 percent of students plan to vote in 2012, 46 percent voted in 2008 and 40 percent in 2010 Wagner estimated that the overall margin of error in the study is 4 percent.

Amelia Breinig, another student involved in the survey and junior broadcasting major, said she will walk away from the class feeling accomplished.

“This is the first class where I’ve had my name attached to something that affects so many people,” Breinig said.

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correction On Dec. 5, the Daily Nebraskan ran a story about Rwandan genocide survivor, Emmanuel Habimana and UNL student Natalia Ledford’s documentary on the topic. The story incorrectly identified senior broadcasting and international studies major Ledford as a junior, and the “Nebraska in Rwanda” study abroad program that she participated in took place in 2009

not 2010. Although Habimana talked about receiving less education than those not persecuted during the genocide, he returned to school after the genocide and is now a law school student in Kigali where he will graduate in two and a half years. If you

spot a factual error in the Daily Nebraskan, please report it by calling (402) 472-2588. An editor will place the correction that will run in the print edition, also using bold type.

high demand, and warm food are nonetheless fixtures of the camp, sustained by a continuing flow of donated produce, peanut butter and pasta from members and supportive Lincoln residents. Several campers even made s’mores Tuesday, toasting marshmallows by the propane-fueled patio heater that is one of the camp’s only sources of warmth.

Monday afternoon, near the food tent and stove on the southern end of camp, Chris Wilson and William Matchett helped themselves to steaming, homemade chunky apple sauce. A blue tarp, like those clamped over most of the camp’s tents like moss on boulders, shielded them from the north wind as Wilson warmed his gloved hands with his breath.

“I try not to think of the number,” he joked. Wilson, 21, recently reclaimed a job as a welder, and said that while Sunday night was his first experience with camping in snow, things were going well.

Many of Occupy Lincoln’s numbers, however, will continue the fight from home.

Empty patches of bare grass among the snow are all that remain of several tents as many pack up for comfort or health.

“It’s just, ‘Do what you can,’” Nielsen said. “People understand.”

Consolidation for warmth is another reason for fewer tents, she pointed out. Her tent provides overnight shelter to three others as well,

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Chris Wilson (left), 21, keeps his hands warm against Monday’s bitter north wind while William Matchett eats some warm, homemade apple sauce. Matchett, who describes himself as a wandering poet and handyman, had been planning on traveling to the west coast by now, he said, but even with the cold, “the Occupy thing is too good to pass up.” for example. Several continue to attend the camp’s rallies and general assemblies, or to assist in other ways, Nielsen added.

Many are also waiting for the imminent arrival of an Army surplus tent, ordered online and shipped from Kansas City. Dana Garrison, a junior agricultural education major, said she expects that tent to be up by the end of the week. It should be big enough to hold the dozen or so campers who stay overnight at any one time, many protesters said.

The tent will be so big, in fact, that Garrison anticipates some difficulty with city requirements. She plans

to have the appropriate permit ready when the tent is erected, but not to turn that permit in beforehand.

Such is the frustration among Lincoln’s protesters, most of whom have jobs or school during the day, that even a Nebraska winter — not to mention frozen milk — won’t bring them down, several campers said. Several affirmed Tuesday that the camp would last through whatever the next few months bring.

“There’s absolutely no doubt,” said Jo Tetherow, 60, who seems to be an unofficial matriarch of the camp. She’s planned to stay through the holidays, as have others.

Eggerss also pointed to the

recent evictions and other confrontations with police at several Occupy camps around the country, including the original in Manhattan, as reason for Lincoln’s own to stick around.

The camp, Eggerss added, is a kind of “stronghold.”

“We’ve got to hold out, not just for ourselves, but for the entire movement,” he said. “I don’t think we’re going anywhere.”

Tetherow, the self-proclaimed oldest protester in the camp, shared Eggerss’ resolve.

“It’s kind of fun to beat the weather,” she said. “And we’re beating it.”

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Photographer speaks on conservation Demetria Stephens Daily Nebraskan

The multimedia presentation Michael Forsberg brought to the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Dec. 6 took people in the audience on a journey of the migration of animals and the cycles of water through photographs.

“People need to be connected” to water and nature, Forsberg said.

Forsberg, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumnus, holds a degree in geography with an emphasis in environmental studies. With the E.N. Thompson Forum’s theme on water issues in mind, Ian Chapo, a sophomore political science and economics major, said Forsberg, “has a special ability to speak about water issues with his background in geography.”

Chapo is also on the E.N. Thompson Program Committee, which plays a role in selecting speakers for the E.N. Thompson Forum.

Forsberg quoted noted Nebraskan photographer Joel Sartore when he said, “Nature photography is photographing a butterfly on a flower. Conservation photography is photographing a butterfly on a flower with a bulldozer in the background.”

Before the lecture at the Lied, students in the E.N. Thompson learning community were able to ask Forsberg questions in a private session. At that time, Stephanie Emodi, a sophomore political science and environmental studies major,

said she wasn’t sure how much of an impact Forsberg would have. “His profession speaks for him,” she said, referring to his role as a conservation photographer.

Emodi is a teaching assistant, along with Chapo, in the learning community.

Throughout the Q&A session, Forsberg related to the students. When he was going to the university, he said he didn’t think he would end up being a photographer. What led him to photography was working at UNL Outdoor Adventures. He went on trips but didn’t bring anything back. One trip to the Rocky Mountains made him fall in love with the Great Plains.

He borrowed a camera, took a photograph of two light rays shining through the morning clouds on the rocky terrain and knew photography was what he wanted to do.

A class he took from professor David Wishart at UNL also led him to study geography. The first half of the class started out with the textbook and, in the second half, Forsberg said Wishart taught the geography of rock ‘n’ roll. It was the human aspect of geography that interested Forsberg.

The marriage he made between the geography and photography really happened when he started working for NEBRASKAland magazine.

“What I do is just geography veiled in photography,” Forsberg said.

His work at the magazine led him to photograph the Sandhill cranes. The birds migrate every year through

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Nebraska native Michael Forsberg presents at the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues Tuesday night. He spoke about and showed his conservation photography of the Great Plains in an effort to connect water, wildlife and landscape. the Sandhills and, like “freight trains” in rural communities, people can hear them coming and see them for a time. Their stopping places along the Platte River attract thousands of birdwatchers each year and the recreational activity is on the rise. Forsberg said this is an opportunity for farmers and ranchers. By maintaining grasslands, “neighborhoods” for the birds and other animals can be kept healthy and rural communities’ economies can be stimulated.

Forsberg explained that some things everyone can do to be more connected is to plant something that you can eat. “Even if it’s celery in your window sill,” he said. Or, he said, you can go camping and bring your own water, something to

What I do is just geography veiled in photography.”

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make you appreciate water more.

After the lecture, Emodi said her impression of Forsberg changed. He had given people a positive image of the water problems we are facing and gave some explanations of what can be done about them.

“It’s not just water, it’s the soil,” Forsberg said. He gave an example of dust storms in New Mexico. “How can we do more with less and keep the natural ecosystem?”

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dead week: from 1 Wilson said he isn’t convinced a truly “dead” Dead Week would give students a studying advantage heading into Finals Week, citing his experience as an undergraduate student and time mismanagement.

A week off might be just a week of procrastination, leading to last-minute studying and all-nighters, he said.

“When in every single class you have a test, paper or project due during Dead Week, it defeats the purpose of having a Dead Week,” Gailey said.

A policy, aimed at giving students “room to breathe,” could do better, she said.

Gailey said she would support a 15th week without due dates, where projects and papers are due the week prior or during Finals Week.

Association of Students of the University of Nebraska President Lane Carr, a senior history and political science major, said he thinks the current policy serves its purpose of protecting students as they buckle down and finish up their work for the semester.

In regard to changing the policy, Carr said he doesn’t think a Dead Week policy would change end-ofthe-semester stress many students experience. Carr admitted he puts off projects many times, but that is a reality everyone has to work around.

“It would be great if we didn’t have anything to do during the 15th week, but that is simply not a reality,” Carr said.

However, both Wilson and Carr say they would entertain and examine a policy change if enough student input supports the change.

But to Wilson, solving the semester-end stress stimulant and workload dilemma that is Dead Week

might not be accomplished with policy change.

“I’m not persuaded that any policy will be the ultimate solution – there will always, for good reasons and bad, be students and faculty who will want to and need to have an exception to any policy,” Wilson said.

Fair forewarning and communication As the 15th week policy states, students should notify their instructor of a violation. If there is no resolution, the student should take his or her complaint to the president of the ASUN president and, ultimately, the department chair.

The policy stipulates that if instructors assign projects, papers and presentations for the 15th week, they must have done so before the end of the eighth week in writing.

Through Tuesday, ASUN has received three 15th Week policy violation complaints, which are under review by the academic committee, according to Carr.

Gailey has not filed a complaint or told her teacher because she doesn’t want to seem like the student who thinks her problems are worse than her classmates. Many students might not know about the policy, Carr said, despite ASUN’s effort to inform campus on its website.

Juan Franco, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said he doesn’t remember a complaint reaching his office and when he hears about them, the violation is typically accidental in nature.

“The only time we have complaint, it’s not bad intention,” Franco said. “(Faculty) might have just forgot.”

In Alexander Vazansky’s case, the violation arose from good intentions.

arena: from 1 Vazansky, a history lecturer, said he postponed the deadline for a book review, originally due Dec. 2, to Dec. 9 after he needed to leave for Germany because of a death in his family.

That violated the eighthweek assignment clause, but Vazansky said he thought doing so was necessary because he needed time to correct the papers and give students feedback prior to Finals Week.

But his students didn’t alert him of the violation.

Instead, he learned of the violations through his colleagues.

Wilson said some of the panic and confusion in smaller classes can be resolved with discussion.

While not all classes, especially larger ones, can avoid Dead Week issues through communication and negotiation, it is an option for those in smaller classes.

Shifting the semester around to accommodate a true Dead Week would affect the dynamics of a semester, as the university would either need to extend the semester to 17 weeks to maintain 15 weeks of instruction or shorten instruction time by a week to 14 weeks, increasing class length.

“I don’t oppose keeping ‘Dead Week’ dead,” Vazansky said. “But certainly it would take some flexibility out of the way I can conduct my class.”

In the end, Wilson said he doesn’t want the university to add unnecessary or hindering policy at the expense of the university community.

“Every time you try to create rules you actually sort of limit students’ and faculty members’ ability to respond, you constrain them,” Wilson said.

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“It is only fitting it is named as such,” he said. “I believe Pinnacle Bank Arena will be a spectacle and point of pride for Nebraskans.”

Clare said construction

of the arena was ahead of schedule and on budget. The project has provided internships for college students, he added.

“We’re experiencing a lot

of momentum,” he said. “And our new partner, Pinnacle Bank, will only boost our momentum.”

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DAILY NEBRASKAN editorial board members IAN SACKS editor-in-chief ANDREW MCCLURE

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our view

Student political poll reaps wealth of information A little more than three weeks ago, University of Nebraska-Lincoln students checking their emails found a link to a political survey from one of associate professor Michael Wagner’s political science courses. The contents of the email, a poll which more than 3,300 students (13 percent of the student body) answered, has yielded results containing a wealth of information about the political views of the UNL student body.

The survey results are sure to be an asset to researchers at the university, both faculty and student, in quantitative and qualitative projects. From recognizing the president of UNL’s student government (Lane Carr) to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, from Nebraska’s GOP senate primary to UNL’s move to the Big Ten, the data is a veritable minefield of surprising facts and figures.

For instance, a plurality of students favor incumbent President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential race, and an even stronger plurality favors incumbent Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) in his race against a contested Republican primary. Respondents hold diverse views, identifying as nearly equal proportions of liberal and conservative, with a small group of moderates. The questions — 95 in all — go on and on, covering the controversial topics of abortion, the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street and more.

Undergraduates in UNL’s University Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) program now have an additional source of original data to use in facultyled and individual projects. Professors studying student political views have an authentic, somewhat representative sample of students on campus. The Daily Nebraskan thanks Wagner and his class for administering the survey, and the students who responded to their questions.

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Age shouldn’t delay marriage

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he next time I write a column for the Daily Nebraskan, I will be a married man.

I’m 22 years old, getting hitched at the end of the month. Future wife is an amazing woman, also 22. We’re high school sweethearts, having dated since junior year and all through the first 3-1/2 years of college, with a brief hiatus between those two periods. I couldn’t be happier.

Marriage though, socially speaking, is a fraught thing. As a nation, statistics show that half of all marriages end in divorce.

As a culture, marriage tends to be viewed through a veil of cynicism. As individuals, we interpret marriage through our lenses of personal experience, be that experience hurt, joy, fidelity or divorce.

Despite this, the majority of Americans will be married at some point. Marriage statistically results in an increase in perceived life happiness, and often in household income. The wedding business doesn’t have to worry about remaining solvent. Marriage isn’t going away anytime soon.

But even so, all the social tension surrounding the concept of modern marriage makes young marriages like my own increasingly rare – and increasingly scrutinized when they do happen.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2009, the median age at which an American man first marries is around 28.4 and women are about 26.5. In Los Angeles during the summer, my fiancée’s coworkers, many significantly older than her and largely single, were amazed when she showed up one day, newly betrothed.

Why this tilt toward later marriages?

What’s the difference between now and 1970, when 22 was dead average for tying the knot? Is any given age better to marry than another?

Unsurprisingly, given this column’s setup and my personal history, I’m in favor of younger marriages.

The 20s are a time of universally acknowledged upheaval and change. This is often provided as rationale for avoiding an early marriage: you’ve got to avoid

marc koenig diluting your personal growth. Or you should at least wait until you know your “true self” before it’s safe to commit to another, equally complicated human being.

But I think of the same situation inversely. If you conceive of marriage as a “till death do us part” and “in sickness and health” variety of lasting commitment to another person, it’s an enormous gift to be able to “grow up” in tandem with the person with whom you’ll spend the rest of your life. A younger marriage can be a boon to longevity and intimacy both.

My fiancée and I can recall distinct periods of growth and trial throughout our relationship. We’ve already experienced high school, the flux of entering college and the changes that come during a college career: switching majors, internships, study abroad programs. Being able to share our youth — and sometimes struggle through it — is a huge advantage.

I’m not advocating that everyone marries young – or even that everyone should get married. There are many, many good reasons not to do either of these things.

Marriage is not an innate need or goal, and it’s only right to pursue in a specific context. What I am addressing is society’s response to younger marriages and how it often seems terribly misplaced.

Assuming you’re in a context where the possibility of marriage exists, one reason to not marry your significant other might come down to your age. But that shouldn’t be the biggest factor – in fact, as I’ve argued above, that might even be a reason to commit early.

What’s more important than your ages is desiring your partner’s wellbeing, even instead of your own. What’s most important is a genuine, long-term commitment to one another, built on something greater

than mere proximity or attraction.

A greater predictor of marital lastingness: Are you willing to sacrifice for this person every day? In ways that won’t be especially glamorous, or immediately fulfilling?

Is this person just that great? Will they do the same for you?

I understand that many view this sort of long-term, self-minimizing commitment as a risk – to your future careers, future opportunities, future happiness. And if you haven’t found a person in whom you can truly invest, of course, don’t jump into anything.

But so often, what plagues American culture with regard to marriage is just a fear of losing a sense of yourself – a fear of having to support and be supported by another person. Thinking about getting married forces you to ask, what if?

And that’s the killer – there are just so many ways you can imagine things going wrong. Maybe you’ll marry the wrong person. Maybe the two of you will come to have different interests. You’ll fight. You’ll despair.

But the truth seems to be that no one who enters a long-term relationship is born being perfect for the other person.

Slowly, you become the best — or rather, only — person for the other. You both grow.

I find this bond immensely liberating, instead of the kind of numbness pop culture promotes marriage to be. Sacrificing the American idols of self-reliance and personal sovereignty does leave a void. But if that void is filled with mutual self-sacrifice, love, connection and a resilient joy, then the loss seems worthwhile.

The options aren’t to either lose yourself, or refrain from serious, long-term commitment. Rather, marriage augments.

Of course it’s scary. Commitment of any kind is. Things will go wrong. There will be struggles. There already are struggles.

But in marriage you encounter them together in a unified front. There will be struggles – but also, I hope, inestimable joys.

Wish us luck!

marc koenig is a senior english major. reach him at marckoenig@ dailynebraskan.com.

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entence diagrams. Gerunds. Unhinged dangling participles.

Those six words have the power to transport former students of all ages back to high school English hell. And, I’ll admit, I present them as fragments mostly out of spite. Prescriptivist grammar, which nitpicks and labels, prepared to pounce on every split infinitive, is a woeful misunderstanding of the purpose and range of language.

As a future English teacher, I can just about wallpaper my room with my running, “Uh oh, better watch your grammar around Cameron!” joke tally. But I don’t care where your preposition falls in a sentence, and neither should you. Language and speech carry fascinating insights into culture, power and the inner workings of the brain, none of which require the tenets of grammar Nazism.

You probably won’t be surprised to know that you didn’t develop your mastery of language through a textbook. Instead, you soaked it up, quickly acquiring grammatical competence. It’s a complicated business, which is why babies are almost too easy to make fun of. But humans have evolved extraordinary abilities to babble and test out their speech while discerning its nuances.

You won’t hear a toddler say,

“Put I ball there over,” because they haven’t been around any speech constructed in that way.

We subconsciously monitor what language elicits positive, negative or no reaction, and adjust accordingly.

What people seem less likely to admit is that language acquisition doesn’t stop before grade school, requiring a move to explicit instruction. Language is always socially bargained. Humans talk, monitor reactions and adjust accordingly. Those who speak English do not need English “expertise,” any more than people who grill hamburgers need to be expert chefs, casual basketball players need to be expert athletes or people with a checkbook need to be expert mathematicians.

People naturally pick up the skills needed for the culture they inhabit.

Of course, if you burn all of your hamburgers, miss every basketball shot or fall into bankruptcy, you’ll feel the social repercussions. In the same way, “bad English” is English that fails to fulfill its communicative purpose.

“Good English,” as Larry Andrews explains in his book “Language Exploration and Awareness,” demonstrates “success in making language choices so that the fewest number of persons will be distracted by the choices.” It is appropriate and comfortable to

cameron mount the purpose and context of an interaction.

If you call your rabbi a dick, for example, you’ve violated all of these rules and demonstrated bad English. If you call your friend a dick, however, you may or may not be OK. It depends on whether it will be interpreted as unnecessarily distracting, and how much of a dick your friend is being in the context of your relationship.

Think of language as an event, not an object, with judgments about appropriate language levied as a social tax.

If language is a contextualized event, grammar books are meaningless when they list isolated sentences such as, “The dog jumped over the fox” or “Dead week is an ironically named insult.” Who is speaking these sentences, why are they saying it and for what audience? Between peers? In a YouTube submission?

Across lines of status, culture and gender?

These are much more important

questions than whether subject and verb agree. If subject and verb didn’t agree, and meaning or comfort were inhibited, the speaker would feel the social tax and automatically adjust his or her language accordingly.

If a grammar rule hasn’t been subconsciously picked up at this point in one’s life, it’s worth questioning how important that rule is. As long as meaning is obvious and social norms aren’t violated, grammar fiends create discomfort where there doesn’t need to be.

African American Vernacular English is often at the brunt of language criticism. Unless this speech functions differently than every other language, however, there is nothing ungrammatical about it. Indeed, AAVE follows its own rules that are just as arbitrary as Standard American English or any other language or register.

The verb “be” in AAVE, for example, marks habitual activity (“I be going to the store”) which standard English dialects don’t even allow. Double negatives can be employed for emphasis (“Nobody do nothing about that”) and it would be absurd to insist a different meaning given some of English’s arbitrary conventions.

By fulfilling a useful communicative purpose, these “rules” construct accepted meaning in

their appropriate social contexts, as does any language.

Since language conveys social messages, not all registers or languages are appropriate in every setting. There is a language of power, which for better or for worse, determines who receives respect and attention. But speakers of AAVE aren’t alone in needing to become adept at switching between types of language. We switch among the different language conventions needed for teachers, pastors, friends, newspaper readers, parents and strangers with subconscious ease. People should learn the language of power needed for interview and essay contexts, while simultaneously developing awareness and mastery of their informal registers.

Grammar Nazis: prescriptivism is a tough habit to break, but it starts with thinking about what speakers’ language choices actually mean. From there, you can decide whether it’s your place to decide if their choices are subverting your interpretation for valid reasons, and what you’ll accomplish by reorienting them into your own specific language context.

Totalitarian grammar might be your social tic, but judgment based on arbitrary rules is mine.

Cameron Mount is a junior Secondary English Education major. He can be reached at cameronmount@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Nate Ruleaux I wonder who reads this column, what they think it is about, if they like it or hate it.

It’s been a semester of writing about these strange, uncertain days of college. Back when I was writing about nights of breaking the law and raging with the best of you, it all seemed pretty straightforward.

The column this semester seemed to just be the same big old continuous story of a few random moments in one student’s life at the University of NebraskaLincoln.

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we do off campus, or what I do. What the people around me seem to do. Drugs and alcohol have been involved, along with sex and love. Women and men, boys and girls, living out the night hours between class and homework.

I mean, here I am, 21 years old, just telling stories like I always do. Staring at this last column of the semester, drinking whiskey and avoiding the five papers due this week. And I feel like this column needs a little something other than another story.

I want to take a look at what my hours after classes are like now, and what they used to be like. We used to always be together, freshman through junior year. Not just me and my closest friends, but everyone. Anymore you just find yourself distanced by work, school and bullshit. I mean, I live in the same apartment building as two of my oldest friends, but when the hell do I ever see them?

I guess I see them on the weekends. Or on certain weekends when it works out with my job and we happen to be at the same spot downtown or at a party or something.

Which might make that the reason it becomes so important to be 21. It is important for us all to be able to go places and be together. I know I’m not alone in thinking this, because everyone I know my age who is busting their ass to leave this place tell me (in those few minutes we have together) that they can’t wait to get together this weekend with so and so.

This might sound like a big bummer column, but it’s meant to be the opposite. Those of you who are underage; running around from party to party, freezing in the cold walking back to campus from 27th Street in the 4 a.m. Lincoln night; you have each other, right next door. It’s

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HOLIDAYS “It’s exciting to be able to celebrate the holidays in your own way, (to) put some expression into it,” Kreinbring said.

Aside from the peacock tree, other decorations were in the house, including a tree with ornaments from Kreinbring and Snyder’s families on it. Decorating for the holidays is an activity that brings the four together.

Sophomore marketing and merchandising major Roger Steen Allen II and his roommates, Kyle Kreinbring, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, Cade Snyder, a senior architecture major and Katie Richard, a senior English major, decided to decorate their house for the holiday season.

“We’re just fun – we like to decorate,” Allen said. “It puts us in the celebrating

mood.”

Kreinbring and Snyder were in charge of this year’s Christmas decorations.

The two were tired of the red-and-silverthemed tree they had for the past three years, so they ventured to Hobby Lobby looking for ideas for the newest addition to their Christmas décor. The result was a peacock-themed tree, topped off with feathers in place of the traditional star.

“It’s nice to have something that shows that we’re a family,” Kreinbring said.

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Chance “Leave Me Alone” Solem-Pfeifer The main points of the above moniker are simple: one, that I am a person (Chance) and two, that I want you to leave me alone. If the second part weren’t so important to me I’d ask your name.

But it is. You understand.

The accordance with that all-important second part (I feel my space is being violated even having you read this), I want you to be mindful of where you study.

Namely, I want you to be sure I’m not there.

Now if I were a considerate person (but what does that mean really), I would seclude myself in my room, as solitude is so important to me. But I’m not giving me advice, am I? So this dead week and finals week when you’re scoping out study spots, I encourage you to get unconventional with it. This is the time of year to break new ground.

If the monotony of life has taught me anything, it’s that monotony, much like evil in Mordor, does

not sleep. Do something twice and it will become boring. Sure, a new study spot may seem like Socrates’ gift to scholarship the first time we slump our fragile bodies and underwhelming intellects into the chair.

But by take two and three, we’re checking Facebook like we don’t live in a 10-mile radius with 20,000 other people practically indistinguishable from ourselves and blogging as though the Internet is some kind of democratic echo chamber for opinions and not the maw where our inconsequential thoughts go to die of retweet deprivation.

What I’m saying is now is not the time to discover that your favorite study haven has lost its luster.

I’m not even sure Love Library has any luster this time of year. What’s the use of attempting privacy and focus when every Tom, Bill and Sally comes rushing to the stacks, lugging all of their bad study habits in tow. Is that an antiquated version of “Ford vs. Chevy” you’re playing on your Dell? Get the hell out of my life.

And for the love of Pete, don’t try and work in your living space this time or year. Some of you have probably even put up holiday decorations to

distract you from the impending anguish of your family’s own celebrations.

It’s like the Christmas you’ve always wanted! If your own delusions won’t distract you from your work, I can’t say what will.

Coffee shops are a decent choice this time of year, and yet there’s something about scores of frantic people all confined in one spot that makes them think it’s OK to do nothing, because, hey, at least we can all hi-five each other as the ship sinks, right?

Perkins is nice, but the food will kill you.

Hi-Way Diner is nice, but the clientele will kill you.

Let’s get all Oliver Twist with it. If your parents abandoned you as a child, where would you go? Probably a bus station of some kind, mingling among the ragged and the outcasts. Plus, if you fail your finals, you’ll be used to this crowd when Mom and Dad don’t dig the idea of higher education with no scholarship.

Besides, if you’re hanging out with bus station vagrants, I won’t be there.

Thanks for that.

Chance solem-Pfeifer is looking forward to inheriting one of the best jobs ever. Reach him at chancesolempfeifer@ dailynebraskan.com.

Katie Nelson Everyone has their own version of paradise. Some choose white sand beaches. For others, it’s the deep backwoods of some northern state. For me, it’s a small room in the belly of Neihardt with one table and endless books.

You read me right. My version of paradise is a study room in Neihardt. It may not be the same as your version of paradise. It’s better.

Screw the holiday season — it’s nothing more than a meaningless, commercialized extravaganza anyway — it’s finals time.

It’s time to go out there and ace those tests and to climb one step closer toward your life goals. At least, that’s what I will be doing. You, on the other hand, should probably just quit now.

Seriously. I have faith that there is a McDonald’s out there — somewhere — that will (barely) scoop you out of your state of poverty originally brought on by the depressed job market.

However, if you have seriously diluted yourself into thinking you will find happiness and success

in life, be my guest. Go ahead. Try and study.

As an advice columnist, I suppose I should spend the rest of this article giving you tips about how to study successfully or, even, where to study. However, I prefer to use this space to berate you mercilessly and inform you of how incredibly brilliant I am.

Surely reading my words can do nothing but inspire you. You’re welcome.

If you’re wondering where the best place is to study and when the best time is to study, the correct answers are: EVERYWHERE and ALL THE TIME. Seriously? You really think you will be able to absorb more into your peasized brain at a certain time of day or in a “studious” setting?

You’re studious? Really?

Sure, your math book is open on the table across the room from you, but your television is on. So far, the only thing you’ve successfully studied are the shirtless photos of the guy who sits across the room from you in the math class whose book sits across the room from you now.

Let me clue you in: staring at his, shall we say, asymptote, for the past four months has not helped you with differential equations.

I mean, how else are you going to be successful?

How else are you going to maintain the affection and mercy of your parents?

You’re out of their house now – you might as well be dead in their eyes. And with that partying habit, you will be soon.

I’m sure you’re thinking that my parents must adore me. They do. But I can’t say I’ve ever felt the same affection for them. I don’t believe a demigod such as myself could have been born to such undereducated people – they only have their master’s degrees.

No, I’m quite sure I was adopted, and I’m firmly convinced my mother is Athena and my father is Rick Perry. I don’t blame them for their inability to raise me themselves; after all, one is working their way to the White House and the other has been ruling the world for centuries.

Don’t ask me how they met.

As I sit in paradise, I wonder what it will be like to finally claim my place in the heavens beside my mother as the god of studying, the entity you will pray to for years to come when you need that little bit of extra help on a test.

I prefer sacrifices of goats or small children.

Bow down to me.

Katie Nelson is a sophomore broadcast major.

Reach her at katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com.

Westbrook ends season with musical mash-up Adrienne Anderson Daily Nebraskan

As the year begins to wind down and the holiday season sneaks in, more and more people are crowding into theaters and halls to see classical holiday concerts. Carols are sung at shopping malls and pop stars churn out holiday albums. This is the only time of year when it is appropriate to listen to Christmas albums on repeat.

But amid the holiday carols and choirs, the Westbrook Recital Hall will be offering a very different performance this season – a Musical

Theatre Showcase hosted by professor Alisa Belflower, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s coordinator of musical theater studies.

The showcase, which takes place on Friday, Dec. 9, is a collection of scenes from a variety of musicals, which are narrated, directed and hosted

by Belflower.

“The showcase is a performance which introduces UNL students pursuing training in musical theater to the public,” Belflower said. “The students performing in the showcase have been training for this performance in a fall semester course.”

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As one of the free events hosted by Westbrook, she offers this showcase as a holiday gift to the public, giving them the opportunity to see a variety of musicals, some of which have recently been released as well as time-honored classics. Her appeal to the public seems to be working.

“I love to see a diversity of musical theater songs in one place,” said Anna Schoettger, a freshman vocal performance major at UNL. “It’s fun to see the raw emotions that performers put into musical theater, and with a showcase you can get so many different emotions.”

But the showcase isn’t just

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Tim Madden, a junior music major, Andrew Keller, a freshman vocal performance major and Jordan Deffenbaugh, a senior theater/directing major, perform during a rehearsal for the Musical Theatre Showcase, which will be open to the public on Friday. a gift to the public. It’s also an important opportunity for the students in the musical theater program at UNL. “Because we do a variety of scenes, every student has a starring role in this performance,” Belflower said.

By allowing each student the chance to appear publicly as a performer, they are given

the experience they need to successfully continue a career in musical theater.

Overall, Belflower hopes to show the community the importance of continuing musical theater programs.

“Musical theater is not exclusively a historical art form.

(It is) an active community of talented composers, lyricists and playwrights writing musicals,” she said. “Universities and new musicals are a fabulous fit to introduce both performers and audiences to exciting new works.”

Schoettger agreed: “Unlike

classical music, it is musicals that we can relate to in today’s society.”

Music, she believes, is written for events and problems in our world today, and it’s something she wants to be showcased for everyone, not just confined to students of the music program.

“It is important to find a way to express the emotions that come with the crazy world we live in, which is something musical theater does so well.”

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If you’re ending your junior year and wondering where all your pals are or why life feels like it is slowing down, don’t worry about it. I don’t know why I did, because everyone needs that little bit of time to relax before hitting your last year or years here. We have each other and this newly discovered freedom to have one unified bullshit excuse to call up whoever

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Nervous.

That’s the word that best described freshman Lizabeth Kuhlkin in her first ever collegiate bowling tournament.

“I was 100 percent nervous,” she said.

“I wasn’t sure if I’d travel right away with the team.”

T h e Husker not only got the call to be on the kuhlkin team’s t r a v e l squad, but she was told she was a starter.

Nebraska traveled to Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 11 to compete in the Crusader Classic.

In the tournament, the Schenectady, N.Y., native averaged a score of 202.4, helping the Cornhuskers finish in second place. She also earned all-tournament team honors for her performance.

Besides winning a national championship and making the travel squad, Kuhlkin said that there’s another goal she’d like to achieve this season.

“Making travel squad was already a hard ladder to climb and I did that,” she said. “If I win rookie of the year, it would be an even bigger accomplishment.”

NU coach Bill Straub said the freshman has already had a big impact on this season’s team.

“She’s off to an excellent start and she brings some intangibles that we didn’t see last season,” he said. “She has fundamentals that have helped her blossom. We know when we recruited her she had great potential.”

The Nebraska bowling team

has won three national titles in the last decade, becoming one of the top programs in the nation.

Kuhlkin said watching the Huskers national championship in 2009 is one of the reasons she chose Nebraska instead of other schools.

“I remember being 16 years old and watching them win it on television,” she said.

“I loved their chemistry and heard about their great coaching. I heard how great the program was and I knew coming here would open doors.”

She played other sports when she was younger, but said bowling has always been a part of her life.

“I came from a bowling family,” she said. “My dad bowled and he got me into this sport.

It’s a sport I’ve always loved playing.”

The 18 year old started bowling when she was 6 years old and said part of the reason she picked bowling instead of other sports is because of chemistry.

“I also played softball and basketball, but there’s just something about bowling,” Kuhlkin said. “In this sport you need team chemistry to be successful. I thrive off that and when I do well, it’s an amazing feeling.”

In Nebraska’s last tournament, she finished 19th overall with a 199.6 average.

Despite being one of three Huskers to finish in the top20 in singles, Kuhlkin said she could have done better.

“I missed spares I shouldn’t have,” she said. “But averaging 200 in collegiate events is a great accomplishment. I know I did well but at the end of the day I want to help my team out as much as possible.”

Although Straub agreed that her first tournament was better, he said that he still sees a lot of promise in the freshman.

“This event was more

challenging to her particular development,” Straub said.

“She’s such a hard worker and I think she’ll only gain positive learning from this tournament.”

Kuhlkin came into this season as the youngest member on the roster. She said she’s used to being the youngest on every team she’s been on and uses that as a drive to become better.

“I always get picked for being the youngest on the team,” Kuhlkin said with a laugh.

“I’ve always had older friends and I’m used to it now. I like the fact that I’m younger and up there with my older teammates. I thrive to work has hard as them and I respect a lot of them, especially the seniors.

“I’m great friends with them and I see how successful they are. I definitely look up to them.”

The Huskers next meet will be Jan. 19, when they compete in the Big Red Invite. It will be their first home meet of the season.

Kuhlkin said that she won’t use the long break to just sit around.

“I go home next Saturday and I’m going to make sure to keep practicing and stay sharp,” she said. “I’ll still be working on my game and keep in touch with coach Straub. We’ll only have three days to practice when we come back.

“We have a lot to work on and we’ll aim for first place and continue on our quest for nationals.”

Although there have been only two tournaments so far this season, Straub said the freshman has shown solid maturity.

“You couldn’t predict that in advance and we’re blessed that she brings that to the team,” he said. “I think she has a bright future.” neduizu@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior Dylan Talley has been limited with a thigh injury recently and was held scoreless against CU. Nebraska coach Doc Sadler said Talley is playing at close to 30 percent.

Nebraska hopes to improve outside shooting against zone defense Robby Korth daily nebraskan

Nebraska basketball isn’t just hungry for a win.

It’s starving.

The Huskers (5-3) are coming off back-to-back losses to Wake Forest and Creighton and, at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, NU will have its chance to get back in the win column against Florida Gulf Coast University (3-5) at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

After the 76-66 loss at Creighton the Huskers came out and practiced on all cylinders Monday, guard Bo Spencer said.

“Everybody had good focus,” Spencer said. “We’re trying to put that game behind us and move on and get us on a high streak and

move forward.”

That move forward is crucial for the Huskers’ season, Spencer said. Wins should start pointing the seasoned squad in the right direction.

“If we can just get on a roll and get a lot of positives going our way then we can get a lot of momentum in the winning direction to get us going forward,” Spencer said.

But the Eagles, based out of Fort Meyers, Fla., aren’t likely to go down without a fight.

FGCU is 0-5 on the road this season. However, those losses include a 73-72 loss to Nebraska’s next road opponent, Texas Christian, a 65-64 loss to Southern Methodist and a 76-67 loss to ACC opponent Maryland.

And what makes the Eagles so tough to compete with is their ability to scheme defensively, NU coach Doc Sadler said.

“They play every defense imaginable,” Sadler said. “So they keep you off

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Nebraska guard Bo Spencer led the Huskers with 29 points against Creighton on Sunday. NU lost to the Bluejays 76-66 to fall to 5-3 on the season. The three losses have all come during the last four games. balance.”

The Eagles have used their schemes to hold opponents to 39.5 percent shooting and have outrebounded opponents by three rebounds a game this season.

But Nebraska has issues on the offensive end shooting the ball and Sadler is unsure how the Huskers might handle having to take shots from outside.

The Huskers shot 38.6 percent against Wake Forest. That percentage will likely have to increase if NU wants to put up points against the Eagles’ lane-collapsing zone.

And Dylan Talley’s thigh injury won’t help the Huskers down the road. The guard, who averages 9.4 points a game in just more than 20 minutes, is playing at about 30 percent, Sadler said.

“He wasn’t really any better (Monday),” Sadler said.

“Right now I think he’s just out there because he doesn’t want to miss. He is not healthy and he can’t move.”

But despite Talley’s poor play Sunday — no field goals and no rebounds in 20 minutes — and losses in three of the last four games, Sadler remains mostly pleased about

his squad’s performance so far this season.

“I’m really only disappointed in our deal against Wake Forest because I think we’ve played pretty well in the other ball games,” he said.

And the numbers the Huskers put up back him up.

The Huskers shot 47 percent against Oregon in a shootout loss and NU held Creighton to its lowest point total in a half this season: 32.

But with all that aside, Nebraska has to stay sharp for a talented Eagles squad, Sadler said.

“They’re not just some easy team where you can

come out and win,” Spencer said. “We’ve gotta be ready to play.”

So, with three losses, the question is why did Sadler schedule such a talented opponent when his team needed a victory? The Eagles came out of nowhere.

FGCU was 10-20 last season, but is getting some rejuvenation from first-year coach Andy Enfield.

“Did I know Florida Gulf Coast would be this good?”

Sadler said. “Probably not.

But they’re a good basketball team.”

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Distance running twins work to be known as individuals zach Tegler daily nebraskan

She is a senior middle distance runner for the Nebraska track and field team. Her main event is the 800 meter; the best time she has recorded in that race is just north of 2 minutes, 7.3 seconds. In all three of her years at NU, she notched a top-15 finish at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships. On top of it all, she has also been named to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team.

And there are two of her.

Twin sisters Blaire Dinsdale and Brooke Dinsdale began their running careers as 9-yearolds in a summer track and field program near their hometown of Traer, Iowa.

“It kind of just started out pretty small,” Blaire said.

But the hobby eventually evolved into something much more, and by the time they graduated from North Tama High School, they had garnered plenty of accolades through track.

Blaire set the Iowa high school record in the 800-meter run. Brooke is second on that list, though she won more individual state titles (14) than Blaire (nine) did. The competition even carried over into the classroom; Brooke and Blaire were the valedictorian and salutatorian of their class, respectively.

“Every day is a competition with each other,” Blaire said.

“Especially during the season, it can get pretty competitive.”

This becomes apparent with

one glance at their personal bests in the 800. Brooke holds a 0.03 second advantage over Blaire in that distance.

“It’s always really close, which is very enjoyable,” Brooke said. “It’s nice that blaire we’re both dinsdale r e a l l y competitive with our times.”

Three years ago, the two chose to come to NU. Blaire said she wanted to brooke leave Iowa dinsdale for a new experience but stay in the Midwest.

Brooke added that Nebraska was the top choice for both of them.

“It was close to home, which was a big factor,” Brooke said.

Now entering their senior seasons, the Dinsdales maintain that having each other as teammates has a lot of positive consequences.

“It’s a really nice advantage,” Blaire said. “We share a lot of experiences.”

Brooke echoed that the support system she can find in her sister is helpful.

“I think it would be strange

not to have her around,” she said. “It’s just kind of the norm for me.”

However, being twins on a sports team does have its downside. Blaire said ever since they were young, many people have viewed the two as a tandem instead of separate individuals.

“It’s kind of frustrating,” she said.

She added that she and Brooke have “about the same talent,” but any time they can each have distinguishable finishes in races, it helps ease the problem.

“It helps us stand out as individuals,” Blaire said.

Brooke feels like she and Blaire have become acclimated to being treated from some perspectives as a duo.

“I think it just comes with the situation,” Brooke said. “And we’re used to it.”

In the end, though, more good than bad has come from the Dinsdales running on the same team together.

“It’s a blessing to have someone you can call your best friend and best competitor,” Blaire said.

And while the two seem identical in their accomplishments and look the same in numbers on a stat sheet, Brooke believes distinctions between her and Blaire can still be drawn. Having a twin sister as a teammate is only part of her identity. It isn’t who she is.

“I’m Brooke,” she said. “I’m not ‘the Dinsdale twins.’” zachtegler@ dailynebraskan.com

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Number of consecutive games that wideout Alshon Jeffery has recorded a catch. The junior has seven touchdowns and 614 yards this season.

Number of wins for the Gamecocks against Nebraska. The teams have played three times, most recently in 1987.

South Carolina’s rank in passing defense in the country. The Gamecocks are giving up 133 yards per game, trailing only Alabama.

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No. 10 south carolina (10-2, 6-2 SEC) Second place in SEC EAST It was early October when South Carolina made a decision that many saw coming. The Gamecock football team dismissed problem-child quarterback Stephen Garcia, meaning the position fell to sophomore Connor Shaw. He’s started the team’s last seven games, throwing for 12 touchdowns and six interceptions. He can move around in the pocket and keep plays alive and, when he’s got Alshon Jeffery to throw to, that’s dangerous.

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Utilize Shaw’s mobility

South Carolina has not had a consistent identity on offense this season since quarterback Stephen Garcia was dismissed and tailback Marcus Lattimore went down with an injury. Before his injury, Lattimore was having a Heisman-worthy season, with 818 yards on the ground with 10 scores through seven games. However, the Gamecocks have found ways to win behind quarterback Connor Shaw’s dual-threat ability and, against Clemson, Shaw was able to have one of his best games because of his mobility. The sophomore was 14-for-20 for 210 yards and three touchdowns.

Get pressure on Martinez early

Jeffery has contributed at least two catches in every game this season. With 614 yards on 45 grabs, he has a team-leading seven touchdowns. Jeffery was a preseason SEC pick and was a finalist for the 2010 Biletnikoff trophy, the award given to the best receiver in college football.

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It seems like it would be a key in any game, but especially against quarterback Taylor Martinez. He’s had his issues throwing the ball this season. Martinez has completed only 56 percent of his passes this season and has thrown seven interceptions. If South Carolina’s defensive line, which only rushes four, leaving good coverage for the secondary, makes its presence known early in the game, Martinez will be rattled and forced into errors.

Don’t get caught up in the history

Elvin Ingram is in the business of putting pressure on the run game and passing quarterbacks. For Ingram, business has been good in 2011. The senior defensive end was honored with a spot on the All-SEC first team for his 44 total tackles and 8.5 sacks. The Hamlet, N.C., native even has two interceptions this season.

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three keys against huskers

Unlike Nebraska, South Carolina is devoid of any grand football history, making the pressure so much greater for this Gamecock team searching for the program’s first-ever 11-win season. Many consider the Capital One Bowl to be the best non-BCS bowl and, with its Jan. 2 placement, a lot of national attention will come its way. The Gamecocks have a history of choking in bowl games, and it needs to treat this like any other game to avoid the same letdown.

— Isabelle Khurshudyan, Daily Gamecock Sports Editor

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An Advanced look at NEbraska’s postseason contest against the Gamecocks Burkhead will be running against a tough South Carolina defensive front.

The Gamecocks have held teams to an average of 135.9 yards this year, meaning the Huskers will have to work to get their average 223.

Expect Burkhead to get a lot of carries as the Gamecocks rank second in the country at stopping the pass.

Few four-year linebackers have been as prolific as Lavonte David has been in two for the Huskers. The All-American will look to add to his 274 career tackles and the Huskers probably hope the Miami native can produce another double-digit day in that category. South Carolina’s passing attack is weaker, so look for David stretching from sideline to sideline to stop the Gamecocks’ run game.

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One of the better one-on-one matchups this bowl season has to offer is Dennard vs.

Jeffery. Dennard has recorded six pass breakups this season, most of them coming against the Big Ten’s better quarterback-receiver duos.

If Shaw and the Gamecocks decide that they want to put Dennard’s reputation to the test, it will definitely make things interesting.

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three keys against gamecocks Play fast

Everybody likes to talk about “SEC speed.” Nebraska coach Bo Pelini doesn’t buy into it. The Huskers have the athletes and the offense to put pressure on South Carolina down-after-down. NU has shown this season that, when the offense gets in the rhythm, it can push the ball down the field with ease. A quick start and sustained momentum will be critical if the Huskers want to grab their 10th win against a Gamecock defense that is giving up just 18.8 points per game.

Pound the rock

South Carolina has just two losses this season.

One was against Arkansas, the other against Auburn. The Huskers can’t throw the ball all over the field like the Razorbacks can, but NU can mirror what the Tigers were able to do. Auburn ran the ball 67 times for 246 yards on its way to a 16-13 upset victory. When Nebraska takes the field on Jan. 2, the offensive line and running back Rex Burkhead will be fully rested. Expect the carries to continue coming Burkhead’s way.

Disrupt Shaw’s role in the offense

The sophomore quarterback has stepped up his game late in the season, helping the Gamecocks rise to a No. 9 BCS ranking. In South Carolina’s last three games, Shaw has completed 72 percent of his passes and has six touchdowns to just two interceptions. He is also a threat on the ground, rushing for a combined 285 yards and four scores in the last three games. NU can’t let Shaw’s dualthreat ability dictate the outcome of the game.

— Doug Burger, DN Sports Editor

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Number of wins for Bo Pelini against AP top-10 teams in his four years as Nebraska’s head coach.

South Carolina enters the game ranked No. 10 in the AP Poll and No. 9 in the BCS.

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