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Hey there,

This is the last thing I’ll write for a college newspaper. After four years of working for the Dailyer Nebraskan and a semester with the Daily Nebraskan, my time working for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student newspapers is coming to a close. I’m graduating in a couple weeks, so I’m taking this column as an opportunity to express my gratitude for all the opportunities and friendships that the DN and the Dailyer have allowed me.

As bittersweet as it is to stop working on a project that you’ve dedicated the last five years of your life to, I’m glad to be done. It means I’m finally accomplishing what I set out to do when I moved to Lincoln in 2009 – I’m graduating with a college degree.

Neither of my parents went to college, so I didn’t really know what to expect when I came to UNL for undergrad. Luckily for me, I stumbled upon a copy of the Dailyer my freshman year, and I immediately sought out how to join the staff. The Dailyer was my first love, and I will never forget all that I learned while working there. But I am equally grateful for the fact that I had the opportunity to work as the engagement editor for the DN. If I had to offer one piece of advice for an underclassman at UNL, I would stress that he or she get involved with some organization on campus. Surround yourself with good people who share the same drive and passion that you possess. Nothing is worse than being surrounded by constant apathy.

Whether you join a newspaper or UPC or ASUN, I cannot stress enough how many opportunities will be presented to you. So much of what I’ve learned at UNL is how to recognize opportunity when it’s available and to take it.

My personal experiences at the DN and the Dailyer have taught me how to collaborate with diverse groups of people while keeping an eye on long-term goals. And then when you accomplish those longterm goals, reevaluating and resetting your goals. Don’t get compla-

cent feeling good about yourself because there is always more to do.

But not for me. I’m all done with my time at UNL, and now is the time to say goodbye. I’d like to thank the DN staff for welcoming me over from the Dailyer. I’ve learned a ton in my short time here, and my respect for the DN and the people who work at it has grown immensely.

I’m excited to see where the DN and Dailyer go from here. They’ll always have a fan with me.

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Wyn Wiley is a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in advertising and public relations. Wiley got his start in photography six years ago.

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itting at Bruegger ’s Bagels on a Sunday afternoon, photographer Wyn Wiley read out his favorite quote from the documentary “Castles in the Sky.” “‘There was once a man who became unstuck in the world – w ­ ith a Polaroid camera he made pictures of all the people he met, and then he gave all the pictures away. He would never forget their faces.

There was once a man who became unstuck in the world – and each person he met became a little less stuck themselves.

He traveled only with himself and he was never alone.’”

Wiley, who graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in May with a degree in advertising and public relations, took up photography six years ago when he picked up his dad’s camera out of curiosity. Today, the 22-year-old who started college aiming for a career in music has traveled as far as India for photography and has progressed in his career as a photographer, educator and public speaker.

He has worked for brands such as Pepsi, Mary Kay and Adidas, as well as celebrities such as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

“I’m training my creative muscle and learning how to create the best art I can make,” Wiley said. “Constantly making something fuels me to strive for the zenith in my work.”

Wiley considers his work a gradual

learning process to continue to surpass has no specific style he focuses on, but the next level. Although he has overall rather channels his viewpoint on what enjoyed the opportunities to work for are the most important characteristics of major brands and travel, he said some the subject. “(My photography) is the byproduct of his greatest moments are here in Nebraska, shooting senior portraits, sorority of me and where I point my eyes,” Wiley said. “It’s a fun portraits and the like. adventure to go “For me, I have People who care, through the process found huge joy in of meeting different doing work for cliare willing to step people and making ents here in Lincoln,” great art.”

Wiley said. “People outside the box, trust Wiley has really value it when in me and are honest worked as a youth they are showing it with me can make great, counselor and lecto their friends, their turer for photo and family or people beautiful photos.” video at UNL’s Colwithin the commulege of Journalism nity, and I truly apand Mass Compreciate that.”

WYN WILEY munications. Wiley Before the shoot photographer gave a TEDxYouth even happens, his talk last year, and main goal is to get to he’s currently formknow the client and ing a project called Catapult that will be try to understand their personality so he can better capture it on camera. Once in geared toward teens who are seriously action, Wiley said he goes for the moment focused on creative arts.

“This sounds so cliche, but I want to and strives to make the best work possimake a realistic impact,” Wiley said. “Not ble that makes the client happy. some frou frou presentation, but instead “I really have a passion for people something that people can take and learn who are passionate about life,” Wiley from.” said. “People who care, are willing to The Lincoln native has taken his talstep outside the box, trust in me and are honest with me can make great, beautiful ent across the world. He has been to places such as Canada, Germany, Italy, photos.”

France, England and most recently India, Ultimately, Wiley said he just wants to make his subjects happy. He said he to photograph for weddings and other

events. Emily German, a UNL graduate in advertising and art history, told stories of their friendship and their trip to Italy for a bridal shoot. She remembered at the time of the bridal shoot, it was a dreary day in Italy, but Wiley remained persistent and continued to take pictures.

“I think he has this phenomenal eye for capturing life,” German said. “I would like to say that he is very generous to others through his talents.”

Throughout his career, Wiley has encountered many people in the photography and advertising business. Ben Harms, an entrepreneur photographer and founder of Pilgrimer coffee shop who’s known Wiley for about five years, said the photographer is difficult to describe.

“You need a giant, beautiful explosive picture to describe Wyn Wiley,” Harms said. “He is the most genuine, kind, delightful person who happens to be extremely talented.”

Passing on his experiences through TEDx talks and lectures at CoJMC, Wiley said he’s found a way to pass on the impact of photography through teaching.

“I love teaching because you can see changes happening in students right in front of your face.” Wiley said. “It’s so cool to see how a camera unlocks and transforms students creativity and accesses talent they didn’t know they had.”

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CA Waller plays his guitar in his music room on Tuesday. Waller drew inspiration for the first song he wrote from a John Fahey song.

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Musician sees himself as performer, not songwriter STEPHANIE CAVAZOS DN Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, blues musician C.A. Waller has donated his talents to Lincoln for more than 30 years.

In addition to performing and writing his own music, Waller teaches a course on blues music from his home.

“Blues is African-American music,” Waller said. “I do a whole class on the history of the blues. I was one of the original historians on the Blues Foundation’s list of educators.”

Waller said he has learned many things from his studies. The history has influenced how he has approached music and why he felt that singing is the key component to music.

“Blues is about the voice,” Waller said. “I mean, the very first instrument was the voice.

The blues came out of a tradition where you didn’t have instruments, and you weren’t allowed to talk. The slaves on plantations weren’t allowed to talk or to communicate.

The only time they were allowed to make noise was in church on Sundays. Talking was not a part of blues tradition, singing was.”

When choosing what songs to cover and perform, he said the piece has to fit his personality.

“A lot of people just sing songs they like,” Waller said. “It’s not that at all. Pick songs that you’re not going to get sick of because you’re going to play them a lot. Pick songs that you like. I don’t pick songs just because I like them, I pick songs to suit my voice. I pick songs that are boisterous, loud and take a lot out of you. I want to constantly challenge myself; the song has to be in some way reflective of who I am.”

He said he doesn’t limit himself to just

one genre, and all music is creative.

“I listen to everybody,” Waller said. “I listen to all music because it has value and it’s good. It’s either good, or it’s not music.”

When writing music, the performer said he takes ideas from other sources and makes them his own.

“All writing is plagiarism,” Waller said.

“I just find something that I like, and I find a different way to do it. You write by arranging music, and you bring something new to it. I’ll start playing a song the way I want to

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WALLER: FROM 6 “I want to scare the death out of the guitar players in the room, and make all of the girls go, ‘Wow, he’s loud.’”

C.A. WALLER blues artist

play it, and the band starts playing it how it’s originally done. I’ll have to overpower them because that’s how I want it to be played.”

Waller said he doesn’t consider himself a songwriter, despite composing his own music. He said performing is his main priority.

“I think of myself as someone who is a performer who just happens to write songs from time to time,” Waller said. “I want to scare the death out of the guitar players in the room, and make all of the girls go, ‘Wow, he’s loud.’”

Off-stage, Waller works for the City of Lincoln. On-stage, Waller said he creates an alter-ego. The musician said he takes pride in his C.A. Waller persona. The character ’s voice is the most important attribute to a good performance.

“C.A. Waller is just a character I play on stage,” Waller said. “He’s a character on

stage, but it’s a character of whom I’m very fond. That’s my voice and that’s the way I sing. God didn’t give me a very pretty voice, just an awful lot of it. I don’t mind stretching it out for a couple hours of the day.”

Oftentimes, Waller performs at Crescent Moon Coffee located in the Haymarket. Michael Stelzner, an employee, commented on Waller ’s performances at the café.

“I’ve seen Waller perform here quite a few times,” Stelzner said. “I just think it’s fantastic to see someone taking a style, which is antiquated, like acoustic delta blues, and is able to take a really fresh and modern spin on it. It’s nice to see someone reintroduce a lot of these class songs that really formed the basis of American music, and bring them to a new generation.”

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Semester break affords students time to read for enjoyment ERIN MANSUR DN

118 North 14th street The allure of a used bookstore that had cats brought Alan Masters into A Novel Idea Bookstore four years ago. A year after he applied in 2011 as an undergraduate in English, Alan got a job at A Novel Idea and has been rotating through different book genres ever since.

“You’re always meeting new people with different interests,” Masters said. “Because I sell books it give me an opportunity to have books recommended to me.”

Recently, Rebecca Makkai suggested “The Borrower.” The book is about a young boy who is kidnapped by a librarian to prevent the parents from sending him to an antigay class.

Masters said that books with elements of magic interest him most. The book “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman is his favorite book currently. It is a fictional story about what happens when the Gods people bring into America are forgotten over time.

“You meet all these scary concepts of what happens when the thing that people worship begin to disappear,” Masters said.

“It’s grandiose and filled with imagery.

When I put the book down I thought I had lost something. Gaiman keeps you hanging on to every moment.”

Books have continuously impacted his life, from his mom being an English teacher to his job as a bookseller. Masters said books are an important part of anyone’s life. He said the way reading evolves over time is not something to be feared, as long as people continue to read.

“People like to say that e-readers are bad, but really they’re not,” Masters said.

“They still like the tactile scenes of the smell and feel of a book. But you can’t lug 14 or more books with you on vacation. As long as you’re reading it is okay.”

interests are so vast that the books they bring in can range from children’s classics to quilting guides.

“I was moving from apartment to apartment with nine boxes of beatup paperbacks and she had already had a huge hard cover collection going before we’d met,” Scott said.

“We started off just mailing books to people, but then we eventually got a warehouse down in the Haymarket and then we decided it was just time to open a bookstore.”

Scott said he does not have a particular genre he enjoys over another, but he always seeks out books that will interests him and that are well written. Topic is of little concern as long as it can grab his attention, as is the case with the Beverley Nichols book “Merry Hall.” It’s the story of an Englishman who buys and attempts to fix up an old mansion.

“If after ten pages or so we don’t have interest, we move on,” Scott said.

“It’s amazing the types of things that we might pickup. You never can tell what books you might find. I’m always looking for a book that I haven’t seen before, and after doing this for so many year it’s difficult.”

The books Scott reads and buys are generally nonfiction. When buying, the main goal is to find books he is willing to read and have a long shelf life. He does not have a favorite book, much like he doesn’t have a favorite genre. But he does have several go-to books of interest that he is eager to talk about if given the chance.

“I read a lot about fly fishing and I’ve always had interest in military history,” Scott said. “Recently, I’ve been branching out and looking for things that have to do with foreign militaries. I’ve been reading ‘illegally’ about the Teutonic Knights and Hussite Wars. I’m just waiting for someone to bring it up in conversation so I can share my knowledge with somebody.”

Scott said that running Bluestem has introduced him to many new topics and this has always given him joy.

“I learn more here on a daily basis than I did in college,” Scott said. “Someone will get me thinking about something and then I’ll go off and do some reading on my own. Everyday you have wonderful conversations.

People get so excited when they find a book that they can’t find anywhere else.”

SCOTT WENDT: BLUESTEM BOOKS

JEFF MOSCARITOLO: INDIGO BRIDGE

As University of Nebraska-Lincoln students move toward a semester break that will likely be filled with movie-going and Netflix binging, I must suggest an alternative activity. Read some books. It’s hard to read for fun during the school year alongside textbooks, projects and papers, so winter break will be the perfect opportunity to knock out or create a reading list.

Downtown Lincoln has several local bookstores that house new and used book that are reasonably priced in a variety of topics. The Daily Nebraskan sat down with local booksellers at A Novel Idea Bookstore, Bluestem Books and Indigo Bridge Books to talk about their favorite and most inspirational books and why they think reading is a paramount activity.

ALAN MASTERS: A NOVEL IDEA BOOKSTORE

137 South 9th Street Scott and his wife Pat Wendt have been collecting books since they were in college. Their personal collections turned into a necessary income in 1975. Scott said their

701 P Street in the Haymarket Creamery Building Jeff Moscaritolo is a literary man in many ways. He is a writer, an English teacher at Doane College and a bookseller at Indigo

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Bridge books. He orders fiction, philosophy and religion books for the local business. He said he does not have a particular genre he admires. However, his favorite author is Don DeLillo, an American novelist who writes about governance, policies and theories revolving around the Cold War era. His favorite novel by DeLillo is “Underworld,” a dystopian novel set in the 1950s.

“His sentences are amazing,” Moscaritolo said. “It’s a lot about society deconstructing.

He’ll write about art and terrorism and the ways they can intersect. He describes himself as a writer who couldn’t have written what he did if he hadn’t experienced the Cold War or the Kennedy assassination.”

In his experiences as an teacher, Moscaritolo said that there are books from his education in high school and college that have re-emerged in his curriculum. The book “Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison was introduced to him in high school but he didn’t actually read it until he was assigned to teach it in a literature class. He said the book had a great impact on his life.

“It’s eye opening,” Moscaritolo said. “I bonded over that book with a friend of mine who has a line of it tattooed on her. The book is about a black man who has a certain degree of privilege, but it’s also about him realizing his own selfishness. It’s got a lot of roots in storytelling and how we understand events that are personal and society wide in history.”

Moscaritolo said books are an important part of social society because they help us connect and contemplate information more solidly than digital platforms.

“There is this thought that you are reading a book to finish it that I think is encouraged by e-readers,” Moscaritolo said. “With a hard copy you are more likely to slow down your own reading process and write down responses and to look back at what you have commented on. Even though they take up a little more space, don’t stop reading hard copy books. Read for self-betterment.”

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Drake’s 2011 album, “Take Care,” holds a strange and special place in my heart. I can’t say it’s the best album to come out of 2011; Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues” is an existential crisis turned folk masterpiece, and “Strange Mercy” solidified St. Vincent as a weird rock queen. I’m not even sure if “Take Care” was the best hip-hop album of 2011, because I wasn’t really listening to hip-hop extensively yet.

I still thought Childish Gambino was the smartest rapper working because of “Camp.”

My first exposure to hip-hop was The Gorillaz’s “Demon Days,” released in 2005, but I didn’t know what hip-hop was at the time, so I credit Kanye West’s magnum opus “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” with really getting me into hiphop. I listened to it over and over again. It was my first foray from indie and garage rock into something wholly new. I was hooked.

I think it was a natural progression for me to move from Kanye’s best album to Drake’s. After all, without albums like Kanye’s “808s and Heartbreaks,” where would Drake be? Thinking back, the first time I remember listening to “Take Care” was winter break during my junior year of high school. Ohio winters are always pretty miserable, colder than it ever should be with enough snow to produce black sludge on the roads.

It didn’t take at first. I was still new to hip-hop, I found Drake’s voice too nasally or I didn’t get why he sung some lyrics in the middle of a verse.

But I kept listening to the album, and like most albums will do, “Take Care” began to grow on me.

My growing fondness of “Take Care” prompted me to find more hip-hop, which is one of the many reasons I treasure the album so much. “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is my favorite album, it got me into hip-hop, but “Take Care” opened the door for me. It changed my perception of hip-hop at the time and helped me further see the value of the genre.

“Take Care” was shelved for a bit after that during my digging into hip-hop. I rediscovered “Demon Days” and spent time working my way through Kanye’s discography. Because of his features on “Take Care,” I got into The Weeknd shortly after his trilogy of mixtapes dropped. I explored some Odd Future, specifically “EARL” and “Goblin.”

As I often do when I’m enamored with new music, my old favorites fell by the wayside. But once the dust settled, I found myself coming back to “Take Care” more and more. This time though, I had someone with which to share it.

I met Tyler in sixth grade, and we’ve been best friends since. A large part of my free time in high school was spent either working or pretending to work on the high school magazine I was a part of, and there was a large part of high school from my sophomore to midway through junior year where I spent more time with other members of the magazine than the friends I held before it.

When Tyler and I began to rekindle our friendship in the second half of junior year, we spent a lot of time driving. We’re from a boring suburb, so our options were limited to what we could both afford to do, and because I didn’t work, driving was about it. While we cruised, we shared music. The first thing I shared was “Take Care.”

Since then, I’m not sure “Take Care” has ever left Tyler’s six-CD player.

“Take Care” is more than a soundtrack to a time in my life. There was plenty of other music that defined my high school experience. But “Take Care” is like a soundtrack for our friendship. We’ve spent countless nights driving around, blasting “Take Care” and chain smoking Turkish Royals, while rapping along as best we can.

It’s not a perfect album. That Birdman feature is pretty stupid, and I still don’t like “Make Me Proud.” And while Drake’s lyricism is fantastic, there are moments where it falters. But “Take Care” feels like home to me in a lot of ways. The memories of Tyler and I both mastering the impossibly fast-paced rhymes of “HYFR” and nailing “Underground Kings” feel like yesterday. The dark nights where there was no singing along to “Marvin’s Room” do too.

When I went back to Ohio for Thanksgiving break, I got trapped at my dad’s house without a ride back to my mom’s. I called Tyler, and like he’s done repeatedly in the past, he came to pick me up. I told him to cruise instead of driving me home. And nearly three years after the first time, he handed me a Turkish Royal, put on “Take Care” and we cruised.

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5 Lincoln salons to update your ‘do 1. Sweet Jane, 1725 O St. The salon was remodeled within the past five years and hosts a small number of local hairdressers. Appointment only.

2. College of Hair Design, 304 S 11 St. As a learning tool and trade school for students, the College of Hair Design offers haircuts and services at an affordable price.

But be cautious. As one DN employee said: “When I went to the College of Hair Design, my hair designer wept. She had never seen hair like mine before and didn’t know what to do.”

3. Iasan & Sebastian, 213 S 9th St. Iasan & Sebastian offers cut and style services ranging from $27 to $33 for men and $44 to $59 for women. Available services also include keratin treatment, perms, updos and brow wax. The studio salon was also listed in ELLE magazine’s Top 100 salons in America in 2010.

4. The Captain’s Chair, 1315 P St. A barbershop Lincoln staple since 1953, The Captain’s Chair is located close to campus and is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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5. Oasis Barber Shop, 2709 O St. Suite 9 The barber shop and salon opened at its new O Street location in May and has since continued to make renovations to its upper level, which will eventually include a nail and pedicure area.

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MEGAN SVOBODA Megan Svoboda is a fifth year senior. She graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University where she majored in psychology and minored in biology, but she’s continuing her studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to get into medical school.

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Russe, The Buckle and Forever XXI. We stopped her in Love Library to ask about her 4-inch pumps while she was studying physics. She said her style is dressy casual, not sweatpant casual.

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“I want to help people and it’s always been my goal to go into healthcare. I’ve gone back and forth with different majors to become a doctor. And if I stray away from it for any reason I will always go back.”

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Flim professors, students discuss 2014 movies In retrospect, 2014 proved to be an eclectic year for films.

Blockbusters such as “Interstellar” competed against small-scale indie flicks such as “Love is Strange” and “Boyhood” in an Oscar race that’s shaping up to be a mixed-bag.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln film professors and students shared their views on 2014 movies and more.

Daily Nebraskan: What are your favorite movies of 2014?

Professor Gwendolyn Foster: “Welcome to New York,” “Under the Skin,” “Two Days,” “One Night,” “Child’s Pose” and “White Reindeer.”

With many of her top choices being small, independently made films, Foster credited their directors, saying they are “passionate and uncompromising” whose scaled-down pictures are a welcome respite from megablockbusters.

Dr. Marco Abel: “Phoenix” and “The Lies of the Victors” (both German foreign language films).

Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ryan Professor of Film Studies: “Under the Skin,” “Boyhood,” “Jodorowsky’s Dune,” “Whiplash,” “Only Lovers Left Alive” and “Goodbye to Language.”

Both Professors Foster and Dixon cited Jonathan Glazer’s art-house sci-fi flick “Under the Skin” among their favorite films of the year.

“That is, without a doubt, I think the most technically advanced, the most aesthetically ambitious and the most creative film of the year,” Dixon said. “It’s a masterpiece.”

Justin Tromblee, senior film studies major: “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Big Hero 6” El Hines, junior film studies and women and gender’s studies major: “The Amazing Spiderman 2” Andy Huggins, senior film studies major: “Godzilla,” “The Raid 2,” “The Lego Movie,” “Birdman” and “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”

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DN: What are your least favorite films of 2014?

tetstellar,’” Abel said. “The reviews are pretty uneven about the film and I tend to be more on the middling to hesitant side.”

Dixon: “Le Week-End,” “Nightcrawler,” “Interstellar,” “Snowpiercer,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “St. Vincent” Tromblee: “Transformers: Age of Extinction.”

Hines: “Maze Runner.”

“At the ending there was no closure and no explanation,” Hines said of the movie adaptation of James Dashner’s bestselling novel. “The characters also weren’t very welldeveloped, and I just don’t think it was a very well-constructed film at all.”

Huggins: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

DN: What films have impacted you the most in your life?

“Les dames du Bois de Boulogne.”

Tromblee: “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy “My first degree was in music with an emphasis in other medias, primarily movies and television so when I watch films I’m a dual observer,” Tromblee said. “The motifs of the first film follow through all three and as more action came the more entertaining and upbeat the music became versus the first

movie which was more subtle.”

Hines: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”

Huggins: “Alien.”

“It really changed my perception of film,” Huggins said. “It taught me that films can have a really strong emotional response. The suspense is palpable.”

(On the most overrated films of the year) Foster: “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Nightcrawler,” “Only Lovers Left Alive,” “Boyhood,” “Jodorowsky’s Dune,” “We Are the Best!” and “Le Week-End.” Abel: “Interstellar.”

“I’m not sure how I feel about ‘In-

Foster: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Weekend,” “Meshes of the Afternoon” and “At Land.”

Abel: “Contempt,” “Taxi Driver,” “Heat” and the 1979 German motion-picture “The Marriage of Maria Braun.”

Dixon: “La Dolce Vita,” “Chelsea Girls” and French resistance film

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15 D.I.Y. Christmas gift ideas 4. Any type of art: drawing/painting/ sculpture/etc.

1. Stuff made of wood I made my mom a coat rack for Christmas one year.

She’s been crying tears of joy ever since.

2. Stuff you knit

Paint a tasteful, elegant nude portrait of your significant other or family member. They will cherish it for thousands of years.

You can knit a scarf or pair of socks with a cool pattern.

It’ll be swell.

5. Handmade card

Get some construction paper, and little sticky foam owls and hearts and stuff.

Write some heartfelt words and put a 20 in there.

3. Stuff you sew

I don’t know what you sew.

But it’s the thought that counts. Think about it.

6. Record a song

9. Make jewelry

You have a beautiful, sonorous voice, and your guitar skills are comparable to Duane Allman. Your lyrics are butt though, so record an instrumental.

Buy some string, some of those block letter beads and craft some heartfelt or funny phrases that she’ll never forget.

7. Write a poem/ chapbook

8. Make a video of some sort

Nothing says “you mean very little to me” like a collection of bad free verse poetry. In Romansh!

11. Bake cookies/ confections

Everyone loves cookies with reindeers and snowmen on them, or a skull and crossbones. For a special treat, replace random ingredients with psychoactives.

Crinkle up some colorful tissue paper and glue them to a green popsicle stick.

Just like the real thing.

Record a heartfelt holiday greeting or your stand-up material. Catch minor acquaintances in compromised situations such as “on the toilet,” “in class” or “at a funeral.”

12. Sketch comedy

Make an audition tape, submit it to a network or cable channel, get a pilot, make it big. Everyone will be proud and they will forgive you for not giving an actual gift.

14. Mixtape

Introduce your family and friends to Mac DeMarco, Run the Jewels and other bands that have been in your queue all year.

10. Paper bouquet

15. Scrapbook

You and your friends have had some pretty damn good times. Print off those photos that haven’t left Facebook and give them a tangible object to prove your friendship.

13. Homemade cider (recipe by Cait Thiesfeld)

Spiced Cider Ingredients: 64 fluid ounces apple cider ¼ c. mulling spices (cinnamon, cloves, allspice, star anise and shredded orange peel) Cinnamon sticks Sliced oranges Crystallized lemon Cheese cloth and twine Directions: Pour apple cider into a large pot. Wrap mulling spices and lemon into a cheese cloth and tie up with twine. Turn on stove to medium.

Stir occasionally. After 5 minutes, add cinnamon sticks to the pot. They will give a slight kick to the cider.

As cider begins to boil, turn down to low and continue cooking for 5 minutes. Let cool for a couple of minutes.

Pour into glass glasses or heat-resistant mugs. Garnish with sliced lemons.

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Be hesitant to trust Husker coach rumors Bret Bielema got a lot of attention from Husker fans on Wednesday.

An article on the website Footballscoop.com, which covers coach searches around the country, made the Arkansas football coach the topic of the day when it published a 54-word blurb saying Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst was targeting Bielema for Bo Pelini’s old job.

Within a few hours, Bielema had refuted the claims. But that didn’t stop sports pundits from sharing the false news all afternoon, as if Eichorst himself had stepped up to the podium and read it into a microphone.

We have a feeling this kind of thing is going to happen a lot in the coming weeks, so Husker fans, we implore you: Don’t believe everything you read.

The rapid-fire spread of misinformation is a ubiquitous side effect of modern media. Strangers on the Internet can write basically anything – George Zimmerman shot himself, Vince Gilligan is making another season of Breaking Bad, the colored square on the edge of toothpaste tubes indicates its composition – and someone is bound to buy it and share it.

Sometimes, it’s easy to tell the article you’re reading is a hoax. Simply eye the page’s masthead or click on its “about” section to check for mention of satire, or Google the “news” along with

the word “hoax.” You can debunk most articles within a few seconds.

The Footballscoop.com article, though? That wasn’t satire. A Google search for “Bret Bielema Nebraska hoax” won’t produce any relevant results because it wasn’t explicitly a hoax. The information was just wrong.

We at the Daily Nebraskan are no strangers to anonymous sources, but Football Scoop’s vague reference to “sources” – no modifiers – probably should have been a tipoff that the scoop wasn’t so tantalizing after all. Take caution when a media outlet doesn’t specify why its anonymous source is qualified to speak on the matter at hand.

Regardless of your views on Pelini’s dismissal, there’s something kind of fun about following the top-secret search for his replacement and speculating about potential candidates. Just remember Mom’s words and take what you read with a grain of salt, and for Pete’s sake, don’t tweet about it or share it on Facebook as if it’s true until you’re sure it is.

That goes for the coach search and for anything you read about John Green being the Zodiac killer. The Internet sure is a crazy place.

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EDITORIAL POLICY The editorial above contains the opinion of the fall 2014 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board.

It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

A column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily

Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of Daily Nebraskan employees.

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‘Nebraska Nice’ slogan highlights state’s mediocrity Vicki Klafter

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even months ago, the Nebraska Tourism Commission officially changed our state’s slogan from the recognizable “The Good Life,” to “Visit Nebraska.

Visit Nice.” Yes, I rolled my eyes too when I heard it. This slogan sounds about as appealing as, “Visit Nebraska. Visit Forgettable.” At least the previous slogan had somewhat of a ring to it.

The new slogan’s two sentences act as a confirmation of Nebraska’s already limited reputation for creativity.

I was homeschooled, and in 9th-grade English, my mom banned the word “nice” from my vocabulary, along with “walk,” “said” and “went,” because so many words can easily replace these generic choices. At the time, I was offended. I had sworn off writing as any sort of career, so extra effort for writing assignments was outrageous. But as they say, “the devil doth move in mysterious ways,” and here I am, a journalism major. My conversion to loving writing is part of the reason why I’m so annoyed with the new slogan. If I can find a different word, so can the Nebraska Tourism Commission.

It’s not as if the commission did a poor job of surveying the state’s residents and finding out what word most appeals to them. The agency spent nine months and $75,000 on research before announcing it in May. Nebraska has had trouble for decades finding a slogan that’s uniquely Nebraskan. Some of the previous slogans include: “My Choice, Nebraska,” “Come See What We’re Up to Now,” and “Send a Postcard from Nebraska.” These have some glaring issues – Nebraskans aren’t predominately pro-abortion rights, we don’t talk to anyone outside of Nebraska and rural post offices are being shut down– so this time the commission created the extremely broad and bland “Nebraska Nice.”

Does broad and bland represent Nebraska?

It comes down to the difference between the image that the Nebraska Tourism Commission wants to promote to other states’ residents and the true character of Nebraskans – if such a thing can be generalized to a population of 1.9 million.

The Nebraska Tourism Commission is trying to promote our state. That’s their job. But let’s face it, Nebraska isn’t much of a tourist attraction, unless an out-of-state resident is attracted to a Nebraskan, which has been known to happen on rare occasion.

The commission’s job is especially difficult because the two of the main attractions to come to Nebraska are family and hunting, and thanks to our remote forestry and camping parks, you can kill two kids with one shot. However, these

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College football should be abolished before someone else dies Oliver Tonkin

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he University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a moral imperative to shut its football program down. Too many players suffer traumatic brain injuries from repeated, violent hits while playing football, thus resulting in severe physical and mental anguish that sometimes ends in suicide.

I’m not some anti-sports counter-culture contrarian spouting off some nonsense. I’m a football fan. I love the Huskers. I’m hoping we hire Scott Frost, Rich Rodriguez or Craig Bohl to replace Bo Pelini. I love the Buffalo Bills and hope we crush the Broncos this weekend. I understand football’s importance to Nebraska and many communities across the United States. I don’t say this lightly, but we should ban college football.

Others who call for shutting down football base their arguments on financial infeasibility or the degradation of academics. Recently the University of Alabama-Birmingham elected to shut down its football program for financial reasons. Those are legitimate arguments to end college athletics. The vast majority of programs rely on millions-of-dollar subsidies from student fees and other sources just to break even. These arguments, however, pale in comparison to the unmitigated risks of traumatic

brain injury that’s pervasive in football.

Injuries and on rare occasion, deaths, do occur in other sports. Last month, Phillip Hughes, an Australian cricket player, was struck in the head by a ball and died from massive head trauma the next day. Hockey goalie Clint Malarchuk nearly bled out after a skate slit his throat. Former Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore suffered a broken neck and concussion after Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi sucker-punched him from behind and fell on his neck during a hockey game in 2004.

Yet all these and most other gruesome accidents, are aberrations. They’re so irregular that choosing not to play a game to avoid that risk is completely different than choosing not to play football. Injuries are prevalent throughout athletics, but football is the only sport in which brain injuries are endemic.

Scientists and medical professionals have yet to definitively, causally connect Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy to acts of suicide by football players. Yet they’re coming increasingly closer to making that link. Last year researchers at University of California Los Angeles identified the protein that causes this type of brain trauma in living ex-NFL players. CTE can only be diagnosed in deceased persons. This new research is one step closer to linking football injuries to this debilitating disease that has similar symptoms to Alzheimer’s. Seventy-six of 79 deceased former NFL players were found to have CTE in a recent study.

Further, it was thought that only concussions could result in any meaningful harm. New studies indicate, however, that “repeated blood-brain barrier disruption(s)” can result in brain damage. Even if football players never suffer a concussion, they’re still at severe risk of permanent brain injury. According to the Sports Concussion Institute, football

is the most common sport with concussion risk for males with a 75 percent chance.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has been grossly negligent in its response to mitigate and research these harms. Last semester, I wrote that the Northwestern University football shouldn’t unionize because of the implications, Title IX concerns and academic issues. Earlier this semester, I amended my position to assert athletes shouldn’t receive a salary, but I now grant that unions could better serve athletes than the NCAA can. Student athletes brought suit against the NCAA, alleging that governing body had ignored the severity of concussions. A settlement was reached where NCAA appropriated $75 million for the research and monitoring of head injuries. Additionally, new protocols will be imposed to monitor and diagnose header injuries. Previously, the NCAA had no universal concussion injury treatment guideline and enforcement mechanism, even though they had the knowledge that concussions were worse than what was previously thought. Although our understanding of brain injuries, from concussions to CTE, is limited, this doesn’t validate continuing to play football. Rather it reinforces the argument to impose a moratorium on it.

Many people defend college football and other seemingly dangerous activities by asserting that a ban on anything (criminal acts notwithstanding) contravenes liberty. If people know the risks and still want to play football, they should. If they want to ride a motorcycle or eat fast food, they should. I agree with this argument. I like to skydive, drive a car, and I like to drink whiskey. Thus, I won’t argue to shut down the National Football League. Mature adults are capable of making that decision. However the brains of college-aged persons aren’t fully developed until well into their 20s. Even if we knew

all the risks and the NCAA was completely transparent, I’m not convinced that 18-year-olds, fresh out of high school, should be making this kind of decision about their long-term mental health.

Former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson killed himself in 2011. The remarkable thing about his death was that he shot himself in the chest to deliberately preserve his brain for research. It was later found out that he suffered from CTE. He was 50 years old. Just a few days ago, Ohio State football player Kosta Karageorge was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head, implicating suicide.

He had suffered depression following several concussions. The coroner ordered an examination of his brain to look for any signs of traumatic brain injury. Karageorge sent a text message to his mom four days before his body was discovered: “I am sorry if I am an embarrassment but these concussions have my head all fucked up.” He was 22 years old.

Football causes traumatic brain injuries that can cause people to suffer from Alzheimer’s-like effects, depression and even suicide. Many people revile at the thought of UAB ending its football program. Imagine if the five-time National Champion Cornhuskers end their program. This would echo loudly throughout the football world. Much of Nebraska would revolt if this were to happen.

Alas, I’m not Shawn Eichorst. Money talks, and Nebraska football does a lot of talking. The questions remains: Are we willing to accept these risks for a game?

OLIVER TONKIN IS A SENIOR GLOBAL STUDIES, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES. REACH HIM AT OPINION@DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR ON TWITTER @THEBRUTALWOLF.

Social media shouldn’t affect employment Savannah Tyrrell

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ocial media is a massive part of society’s evolution. Articles go viral in a matter of minutes, discussions can be had between people in opposite parts of the world, and employers can know more than they need to know with a quick Facebook

search.

As social media has grown and all but taken over our culture in the past 10 years, it’s surprising that the views surrounding what’s posted on social media haven’t changed. Our generation is the one that seems to be paving the way for open mindedness regarding many topics: gay marriage, legalization of marijuana and the general sharing of differing opinions. Social media platforms are a way to quickly share your views, what you find entertaining or upsetting and of course, simply con-

nect with others. So, when are employers going to embrace the evolving world of technology and the behaviors that emerge because of it?

The headline of a Businessweek article from a few years ago sums up the argument: “Employers, Get Outta My Facebook: When considering job applicants, prospective employers have no business poking around their profiles on social networking sites.”

I recently went to a training session on workplace etiquette and one of the subjects was what you should or shouldn’t post on your personal social media sites. It’s no surprise that I’m opinionated and that I’m not afraid to share my opinions.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are all ways I can show my friends a little bit more about myself. So, where should I draw the line of being myself and refraining from posting content on social media simply because I’m afraid it will offend a future employer?

When I asked this question in my training, the answer that I received was that if I have to question if it will be offensive, don’t post it. I had recently posted a video of George Carlin, who likes to use various versions of f*** in his stand-up performances. I was advised to take the video down by a coworker whom I respect. Would I want the CEO to see the video? I ended up deleting the post be-

cause regardless of my personal views, I still want to get paid.

However, I question why I needed to do so.

What may be offensive is completely subjective. Where do you draw the line? Is posting things about religion or differing political views acceptable? Judging what is considered distasteful depends on the individual.

In an article for NPR, Yoki Noguchi mentioned the fact that after job interviews, potential employers often try to friend request job candidates because there are some questions that aren’t permissible to ask in a face-to-face interview.

For example, you can’t explicitly ask if someone plans to have children. Though there may be nothing to hide on your page that you can think of, you never really know what picture may be interpreted negatively or what post will be offensive to another person. If you don’t accept the request however, the employer may read that as an implicit admission of guilt.

My proposition is this: If you can’t ask the question in an interview, maybe you don’t need to know the answer. We must shy away from the idea that there isn’t a difference between personal life and work life.

If I post a video that I find humorous and my employer finds it distasteful, they may sub-

consciously make decisions based on that judgment. However, I can assure you that what I post on Facebook doesn’t affect my workplace professionalism or the quality of my work.

I’m worried about my personal social views affecting my potential to be hired, but for others, it could be their religious affiliation or sexual identity. Noguchi from NPR interviewed a business law professor at the University of Miami who gave an example, “How do you prove that the employer Googled you and learned that you want a big family, or that you keep the Sabbath? It’s much harder to prove, especially since many of these judgments are even formed subconsciously.” And according to NPR, “research proves that employers are discriminating based on what they find on social media. Those who self-identified online as Muslim averaged 17 percent fewer callbacks nationally.”

Employers need to leave personal information alone. If I don’t offer the information and it doesn’t affect the work I do, then employers don’t need to know it.

SAVANNAH TYRRELL IS A JUNIOR ADVERTISING & PUBLIC RELATIONS MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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KLAFTER: FROM 15 elements are nowhere near exclusive to our state.

Besides, what type of slogan uniquely promotes that? “Shoot Animals and Family”?

Nebraska does have a few seasonal attractions that are unique to our state – The College World Series, Henry Doorly Zoo and Nebraska football – but the best slogan I could derive to collectively describe these features was: “Watch Captive Wild Beasts Assert Aggression with Toys.”

So, the commission chose to focus on the “nice” people whose general consideration for others can be spread out like cold butter on a hot bagel over the rest of the elements of the state.

Again, this quality isn’t exclusive to Nebraska.

Most of the Midwest carries the identity of being “nice” to some extent or another. In fact, both Minnesota and Iowa have played on the “nice” phrase for different promotional campaigns, and the fact that Iowa used it first is enough reason alone to ditch this sluggish slogan.

Despite my detest for this word as an adjective and its lack of ingenuity, I must concede that it does accurately describe the elements of Nebraska that are less than ideal.

A literal definition of nice is: pleasant, agreeable or satisfactory.

These words are exactly why “Nebraska Nice” was agreed upon: It doesn’t offend anyone.

Nice doesn’t mean compassionate. It doesn’t mean kind. It doesn’t mean go out of your way to accommodate the needs, circumstances or identities of others. It also doesn’t mean “come to our state for vacation because it’s better than all the rest!” On the contrary, it passively suggests Nebraska as an option and conveys that we don’t really care if tourists come here or not. We won’t

be inconvenienced either way because we are “nice.”

This message is definitely not an effective strategy for a state that is lost in the rolling hills of the Midwest like the belly button lost in Ursula’s voluptuous stomach rolls.

But this is exactly why I have enjoyed growing up here. It isn’t flashy. It’s consistent. It stays.

The people are real and unpresumptuous.

These qualities were exemplified in a recent study conducted by the University of NebraskaLincoln. The study, called the Nebraska Rural Poll, found most communities reported a sizable disparity between the qualities they consider crucial for a good community and the qualities their communities actually possess. These qualities include jobs/economic opportunities, available medical services, affordable housing, well-maintained infrastructure and effective community leadership. Nebraskans aren’t extraneous complainers. For the most part, they’re honest and they evaluate their communities accordingly.

This evaluation doesn’t mean they’re satisfied with being mediocre, either. It means they’re involved and concerned. They’re consistent and hold their communities to the same standard.

Most importantly, they’re present: a rare feature in an age of technology that distances people from reality and each other.

So maybe a more fitting slogan could be: “Real Life, Real Nebraska.”

Either that or: “Nebraska … At Least You Aren’t in Iowa.”

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Breaks slow down scholastic momentum Jaz Schoeneck

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inter break is almost upon us once again, and I’m sure every student has some sort of plan for his or her time off. They might not all be productive plans, but every student in Lincoln knows that for the next three weeks they won’t have to stress about tests and schoolrelated work. It’s a time for relaxation, for togetherness and for partying inside because your beers will freeze over too quickly outside. Every year, when the “non-denominational cold weather fun times” come around, I hear someone complain to no one in particular that, “we used to get a whole month off and now it’s only three weeks.” This year, I sat down and thought about the shortening of the break over the last few years. I know this opinion isn’t going to make me more popular, but I honestly believe that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln would benefit from shorter breaks all around.

Woah, calm down readers. Put away the pitchforks and the week-old pizza crusts.

This idea isn’t meant as punishment for lazy students. I’m not some sort of sadist who gets pleasure from the suffering of others; on the contrary, I believe this idea will actually reduce suffering.

Generally, a traditional summer break lasts through all of June and July and into August. Apart from those taking summer classes, students are free of any sort of scholastic responsibilities for those three months. For some, it’s a time of reflection and self-growth.

For most, it’s a time to spend in an alcoholinduced coma where the days become one big blur of parties, work and sleep. That might be a bit of hyperbole, but you get my point: the unstructured nature of school breaks can be very detrimental to some people. Going from absolutely structured time to basically unstructured anarchy is a difficult transition for anyone.

The biggest problem with the school systems in Nebraska (and with many across the country) is that we’re constantly losing our scholastic momentum. This was especially true when we still had week-long fall breaks. As it is, every few weeks, we get an extra couple days off. I can’t say I don’t enjoy the time off. It’s nice to take a break from the pounding pressures of school. The little breaks aren’t really my biggest issue, though. It’s the three to four weeks for “not-Christmas” and the three to three and a half months we get for summer. In the past, I’d finish out the

spring semester strong and then vegetate for the next three months before coming back and pretending I could still be an effective student. Sure, I could have taken summer classes, but it costs even more money to go to school during break.

I’m still not thrilled about the idea of summer school, but I understand the appeal now. Lost momentum is really difficult to regain, and this on-again, off-again scheduling feels designed to trip people up. I believe that school systems in the U.S. should adopt a more European-style calendar. Europe conforms fairly unanimously to this schedule system, but I’m going to focus primarily on France’s calendar. French students go to classes for about five months, then have a little less than two months for summer break, go for another five months, have just around two weeks for winter break, and the cycle repeats. In between the two larger breaks, there’s one week off for spring and autumn. That’s it. Those are all the days they have off throughout the year.

There are no random Mondays off and no little three-day breaks thrown like lawn darts randomly across the calendar; they just go to classes the rest of the time.

Some very astute readers are probably thinking to themselves, “But Jaz, there’s still a break in the middle of the semester. Doesn’t that kill momentum?” The answer, my brilliant reader, is yes. It does disrupt the flow, but it’s a necessary disruption. Everyone needs a break from time to time. Students are

under a lot of pressure to meet everyone’s expectations and accomplish all of their goals while still maintaining a healthy-ish diet and finding time to sleep. Having a break halfway through the semester allows students to recharge and refocus. What makes this different than the various recharge breaks we get across the semester is that there is only one.

They don’t get a break after every quarter. They don’t get a day here and a couple days there to randomly disrupt the momentum of students and unfairly hinder one or two classes. They get one week. That’s easy to plan around for students and parents.

So I guess what I’m trying to say is that I believe we should all go to school for long, unbroken periods of time; that we shouldn’t have three whole months off to do nothing.

Oh, geez. I didn’t mean for it to come across like that. Just consider it for one moment. Consider completing your education efficiently with less stress put on yourself, your teachers and your parents as an added benefit. You wouldn’t have to start and stop all the time.

You could have breaks and enjoy them but not get bogged down by inactivity. You could finish school more quickly as well. I know the idea is unpopular, but I hope I’ve given you something to consider.

JAZ SCHOENECK IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND FILM STUDIES MAJOR. CONTACT HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR ON TWITTER AT @JAZ_SCHOENECK

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reaks – we all love them. It gives us the chance to relax, eat good food and spend quality time with our families. College breaks are different from the small but scattered breaks back in high school.

The schedule of short breaks works at the high school level because all the students are from a central location. However, the idea of shorter breaks in college has out-of-state students cringing.

A large portion of students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln don’t live too far from their homes in Lincoln, Omaha or Gretna. But what about those who live farther away? Gas may be getting cheaper, but airplane tickets are far from cheap. Air travel is efficient, but stressful and expensive. It creates the stress of finding a ride to the airport, checking in, or possibly being late and missing your connecting flight. Air travel during the holidays is as stressful as finals week, and if you have to make a connecting flight with a layover, plan for a long day.

Thanksgiving break was two days shorter for me because of flying and its particular challenges. Both while heading home and coming back to Lincoln, I had short layovers in crowded airports on some of the busiest days of the year. Every year, people get stuck with major delays with their planes, and some miss their flights completely.

Plus, flights are expensive. If there were shorter breaks, out-of-state students wouldn’t be able to afford flying home or their parents would only fly them home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. That brings in the issue of housing on campus. Only Selleck, Husker, Pound, suite-style halls, Fedde and Village/Courtyards are available for break housing, and there aren’t any dining services available for students over break.

Dorms being closed is especially frustrating for people who arrive on campus early before dorms reopen. I got back to campus Sunday morning at 10 a.m. and HarperSchramm-Smith didn’t open until 1 p.m. My friend and I were essentially forced to wait in the Nebraska Union until the dorms reopened.

This isn’t fun when you had a 5 a.m. flight and all you want is a shower and your bed.

While most in-state students get to enjoy a longer break, out-of-state students are struggling with traveling costs and returning to unopened dorms. So what’s a solution? I say give students longer breaks. Yes, most of the student body is from Nebraska, but students who are traveling further lose several

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days of their breaks to travel. Longer breaks A large portion of students are on campus for sorority recruitment, so why not just have allow students the extra the first week of classes time needed for travel without interfering with If there were shorter that week as well? Most of the first week is an having an equal amount breaks, out-ofoverview of the syllabus of time off from school. anyway so not too much Making winter break state students wouldn’t work is done. Beginning shorter would force outbe able to afford flying classes earlier in the of-state students to eisummer would provide ther remain on campus home or their parents more time for students or spend more money for would only fly them home to be with their famless time at home. ily when it counts most: Where would these for Thanksgiving and during the holidays. longer breaks come High schools can from? We can begin Christmas. ” keep their many short classes earlier in the sporadic breaks, but colsummer, decreasing the time spent in the harsh Midwestern winters. leges should increase their break time. I know

several students who have not been home once for a break. If there were longer breaks students would feel more refreshed after their time at home and ready to finish the rest of the weeks until the next break. Breaks are meant for relaxing and seeing your family.

An increased shortening of breaks would be the downfall of out-of-staters because they wouldn’t have the ability to go home. Instead they’d be stuck on a deserted campus, similar to how it feels on a weekend without a Husker football game. So do us out-of-staters a favor and increase the days off for breaks, please?

SUSANNAH FOOS IS A FRESHMAN ADVERTISING & PUBLIC RELATIONS AND BROADCASTING DOUBLE MAJOR. FOLLOW HER ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM @SUSANNAHFOOS.

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Internet’s fair usability depends on net neutrality Bryant Grimminger

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n Nov. 10 President Obama expressed his support for keeping the Internet neutral and asked the Federal Communications Commission to begin regulating the Internet more like a public utility. This has thrust “net neutrality” further into the political spotlight. Basically, net neutrality refers to whether Internet service providers should be allowed to speed up connections for a price. Personally, I’d love for my whole dorm floor to be able to stream Netflix without running out of bandwidth. So what’s the problem? First, giving certain sites priority over others won’t necessarily improve the Internet. Second, I don’t trust cable companies and neither should you.

Net neutrality refers to the current practice of providing equal access, bandwidth and download speeds to all websites, content providers and services. If cable companies improve connections to make

a fast lane, they will make slow lanes. The Internet won’t magically support more traffic after getting rid of net neutrality. You might be able to watch a video on YouTube faster, but your Facebook might take longer to load. Furthermore, net neutrality helps startup sites to access the same speeds as popular sites. If we lose net neutrality, new websites will have to find the extra money to compete with established sites. Facebook didn’t become the giant it is today overnight. If telecommunications companies had forced Mark Zuckerburg to pay extra fees, we might not have Facebook. In order to protect innovation within the Internet, we must protect net neutrality.

One critic of net neutrality, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, would like you to believe that the Internet will be broken by net neutrality. Cruz claimed via Twitter that net neutrality is essentially “Obamacare for the Internet,” insinuating that net neutrality will give the government too much control over the Internet.

I understand why people are concerned with further government regulation. The words “government” and “fast” aren’t often used together. But FCC protection is necessary for a big reason: Net neutrality has been a fundamental part of the Internet since its creation. This isn’t some new policy the Obama Administration is trying to implement.

Net neutrality allows the Internet to be a free and open environment, whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat or neither.

Then again, perhaps you still want sites such as Netflix to be given extra speed so you can watch your movies faster. I don’t blame you; every second I’m not watching The Legend of Korra is a second wasted. Still, you shouldn’t ask yourself, “Do I want a faster connection?” But instead ask yourself, “Do I trust my Internet provider to give me a faster connection?” If you’re unfortunate enough to be using Comcast or Time Warner Cable, this is a very important question to ask. Consider that Comcast and Time Warner make up about 35 percent of the U.S. broadband market, and are the most despised companies in the United States. I’m not joking, and if you’re currently dealing with either of these companies, you know why. Both Time Warner and Comcast are infamous for their poor customer service and horrible prices. Make no mistake, if these companies set up fast and slow lanes, you’ll be paying for it – either in money or in the time you spend waiting for content to load.

Ethics are huge in the net neutrality debate. If Comcast gets the power to charge sites for faster speeds, it will take advantage. Comcast has actually bullied Netflix into paying fees by intentionally slowing down its connection. Netflix wasn’t the only one hurt; all of the customers using Comcast to access Netflix were unfairly given slower speeds.

Net neutrality is necessary to prevent Internet service providers like Comcast from having too much power over the Internet.

Comcast will tell you that Netflix takes up more than 30 percent of all of the bandwidth in the United States; that it is unfair to charge all customers for the infrastructure upgrades that just apply to Netflix customers. There’s certainly merit in that argument. Still, I find it hard to believe telecommunications companies are making such a fuss for our sake.

There’s a reason Verizon Wireless sued the FCC to overturn net neutrality. There’s a reason Comcast spent roughly $11 million in 2014 on Congressional lobbying. ISPs are desperate to get rid of net neutrality for one simple reason: money. Once net neutrality is gone, Internet providers will become both producers and middle-men, and the only ones who benefit from that are the corporations – not people.

I’m sure we’ve all had our share of Internet turmoil, whether you couldn’t submit a paper because of connection issues or your Xbox Live cut out for the 15th time in one night. This isn’t caused by net neutrality. I know we’re leery of government oversight, but if the Internet becomes a utility in the eyes of the FCC, that won’t be the end of the Internet.

There’s a reason power and water are regulated by the government: Everyone needs them to be affordable and reliable. Isn’t it time for that to be true for the Internet as well?

BRYANT GRIMMINGER IS A SOPHOMORE ACTUARIAL SCIENCE MAJOR. REACH HIM FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

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‘We are not Mike Brown,’ but we can still fight injustice

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write this message on Wednesday, November 26, 2014, nearing the morning hours of Thursday and I am writing to publicly reflect and comment on the decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson – but this commentary is not only about that case or solely about me. These comments are for my higher education colleagues and the students we are hired to develop through curricular and co-curricular environments. These are my words, I am not writing on behalf of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln or as a University spokesperson.

I believe God is in control of my life. Yet, I AM AFRAID – As a 6’2”, 350 lb. black man, identifiably “dark-skinned”, and father of two black boys I am afraid for our lives. It didn’t take this week for that to happen.

But, we are not Mike Brown.

I no longer live in inner-city Kansas City, Kansas; I live in suburban Lincoln, Nebraska. A place where I can’t tell you when I have heard a gunshot, let alone police sirens in my neighborhood.

Whereas in KCK I heard gunshots on the regular and sirens around the clock.

I am not Mike Brown.

But still, I am no fool to the systemic, historical, and everyday injustices people of minority groups face. I would be foolish to believe that my privileged life cannot be taken if a person with power and privilege (that I do not possess) decides I am less than a human being and my life does not matter. No matter how many degrees I earn and how polite my sons are our lives are still considered less than – we are criminal, dumb, and dangerous until proven otherwise.

needed). Support students of marginalized comBut, we are still not Mike Brown. munities by rebutting fallacies, ignorance, and I have had multiple encounters with the police from an early age, yet after each interaction false statements in your classroom, organization, and/or department. If you are unequipped to adI was able to come home. Just hours ago I spoke equately do this right now: to each of my parents; I put my kids to bed and (a) Encourage support through working said “I love you.” God-willing we will wake up with people that can (e.g. CAPS, Ethtomorrow and many days after. No nic Studies, LGBTQA Resource Center, disrespect to those that say “I am OASIS, SSS, Women’s Center) Mike Brown” or “I am Trayvon”, but (b) See one of the offices above for I am neither of these men, nor am I your own personal and professional Emmett Till – these black men lost development ASAP their lives. On top of that, a system (2) Avoid simply supporting what is in place that allowed the men that is “trending” today. Again, no disrekilled them to set a precedence for spect – where is the conversation about legally devaluing the lives of black ALS ice bucket challenge these days? men. I cannot know all the facts of Months from now don’t forget inequiany of their stories, but in my mind table systems are operating every day, the fact is these young men and far even when they are not getting nationtoo many others have lost their life al headlines. We need to continuously when it seems they did not have to.

FORTUNE work to break the systems that disproWith all due respect, we can pray, portionately fail minoritized groups. we can vote, we can protest, we can (3) Don’t assume all blacks or people of color keep #BlackLivesMatter trending, and none of that brings these people back, nor does what I pro- are mad at white people. Personally, I am not mad at white people. I am mad that Mike Brown’s life pose. However, for those of us tasked with educating and developing students I propose a few was ended. I am mad the person that took Mr. things that you can do right now; these are also Brown’s life – whether justified or not – has not, to my knowledge, apologized to the loved ones left applicable for students working with peers. behind. I am mad that the people I care about are (1) Support students. There are students who are angry, hurt, exhausted, and overwhelmed. No angry, afraid, hurting, and feeling exploited. I am matter your race you can be supportive by asking mad that there is nothing I can do today to see imindividuals what they need, if anything right now. mediate improvement tomorrow.

(4) Seek to better understand. Some blacks (I apologize to any student or alumni of the Universities for which I have worked for any time you are mad at white people. Some blacks are mad at ever felt I didn’t support you in a way that you police, media, God (or another deity), and anyone

that disagrees with their current feelings. None of us can ever truly understand someone else, but we can seek to better understand why people are hurting, angry, and afraid. At the same time, seeking to better understand and rebut people who are ignorant to the facts and lived experiences of oppressed people can also help support student development.

(5) Educate yourself with the facts. As a black man seeking to enhance social justice, I still have a lot to learn. As educators and learners we should all seek to acquire knowledge about the inequities that historically and currently exist in our society.

This will better equip us to SUPPORT STUDENTS. This is just a start and what I felt called to write over the last couple hours. I am confident more than what I propose can be done and should be done.

As much as I wrote this message for me as a time to reflect; I wrote this for my colleagues and students that will return to campus unsure of what they can do or what they should do. I wrote this for the students that are too hurt, too angry, and too overwhelmed with emotion to speak up. I wrote this for those that are not surprised by what they’ve witnessed these past few days, as they have seen this all too often. I write this for those that will speak up, but do not have the platform or privilege I have to reach people with more power and privilege.

ANDRÉ FORTUNE ASSISTANT TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR OF OASIS AND JGMC

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Plan Your Weekend Friday, Dec. 5

Theatrix presents its first performance of “Wildflower” at the Temple Building. Tickets are available up to an hour before the show, which starts at 7:30 p.m., on the third floor of Temple.

Coolio, Grammy-winning hip hop artist of “Gangsta’s Paradise” fame, will play at the Vega with special guest Shark Week. Tickets start at $18, doors open at 8 p.m., and the show starts at 9 p.m.

“An Animated Musical Christmas,” based on classic holiday claymation, is TADA Theatre’s latest production. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for children.

Famed Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will give a lecture at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. A First Friday reception at the Sheldon Museum starts at 5 p.m., and the lecture starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are free for UNL students.

Saturday, Dec. 6 Saturday is the second night of UNL Student Dance Projects at Mabel Lee Hall. General admission is $5, and $3 for students, and the performances begin at 7:30 p.m.

Country singer Brynn Marie is set to perform at the Single Barrel. Tickets are $5 and the show starts at 9 p.m.

ART BY MIKE RENDOWSKI | DN

Sunday, Dec. 7 The Nebraska State Tree Lighting will take place at the Rotunda of the State Capitol Building. The event is free for everyone and begins at 2 p.m.

UNL’s traditional choirs will join forces for “Cocoa and Carols” at Kimball Recital Hall. Two concerts are scheduled for 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively. Admission is $3 for students and $5 for the general public.

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PHOTO BY JOHN FICENEC | DN

Wyn Wiley stands on the top level of the 14th and P street parking garage. Wiley’s photography has allowed him to travel to countries such as India and England.