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LETTERS FROM THE EDITORS

Dear reader,

Seven semesters working for the Daily Nebraskan have equipped me with a handy parlor trick: I can think back to any given semester and tell you one or two of the “big stories” that occurred on campus within the time frame.

Seriously, quiz me.

Spring semester of my freshman year? Huge crane nearly falls on Knoll Residential Center. Also, bedbugs. Fall semester of junior year? ASUN tries to impeach a senator after he makes insensitive racial remarks, and administrators launch a campaign aimed at combatting racism and prejudice on campus. Spring of sophomore year? The future of the University Health Center is in the balance as UNL leaders look to hand over control of the facility to Bryan Health.

Looking back on this semester, though, I have trouble picking just one or two.

I guess the most obvious candidate would be last week’s ousting of football coach Bo Pelini and the hiring of Oregon State’s Mike Riley to replace him. The move marks what could be a turning point in Nebraska’s football program as the team struggles to achieve the success that characterized the Tom Osborne era.

But to pinpoint the coach transition as the only defining event of the semester may be a little shortsighted.

Four members of the UNL community died this semester: freshman Clayton Real, alumnus Colin Hays, Glenn Korff School of Music business manager Michele Deaton and, just last week, junior Evan Heyen. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the degree to which these deaths impacted the friends, family and loved ones of the deceased.

Additionally, Real’s death spurred a police investigation that resulted in the arrest of four students and the suspension of FarmHouse fraternity.

Sexual assault, student safety and administrative transparency took center stage in September and October, when the Daily Nebraskan reported a student had accused a former Glenn Korff School of Music faculty member of rape. On Oct. 3, we reported the university is under federal investigation for potential Title IX violations in its handling of the case.

Also in September, a rowdy tailgate gone wrong resulted in 13 arrests. Crowd members at the Indian Center reportedly tried to tip over a charter bus, pelted a police officer in the head with a full can of beer and damaged police cruisers.

When you put it all together like that, it becomes clear that a lot of horrible things happened this semester. But this semester wasn’t all bad. No semester is.

Students banded together in a candlelight vigil to honor the memory of Real and Keaton Klein, who died during the summer. Students surrounded Lincoln’s federal building to protest police brutality and racism in the aftermath of a Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot unarmed teen Michael Brown. Students worked together to create a 50-foot by 60-foot tifo welcoming Miami fans to their “worst nightmare,” making national headlines.

That’s just a sampling, but I spy a common theme: When students work together with a common goal in mind, good things happen. When students are engaged on our campus, they can take a heartbreaking story and turn it into a happy one – or at least a hopeful one.

So in the end, I’m torn about what the biggest story of the semester was. And I’m beginning to wonder if it’s a question even worth asking, if doing so reduces our campus to a collection of tragedies and misfortunes. We’re more than that.

Maybe my parlor trick isn’t so useful after all.

Sincerely, Jacy Marmaduke Editor-in-chief

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Greek chapters give back with philanthropies KATIE KNIGHT DN Whether on pristine fraternity lawns or in cozy sorority meeting quarters, philanthropy events seem to happen every week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

So far this year, there have already been about 30 philanthropy events on campus. Evidence of the events can be found in many places, whether on the new sign in the marquee by the Nebraska Union or by students changing their profile pictures on Facebook to support their event.

“Honestly, philanthropy is one of our biggest roles,” said FarmHouse philanthropy chairman Anthony Krohn. “We take pride in service and reaching out to the community and getting our name out there.”

In Phi Kappa Theta, service is one of the fraternity’s main pillars. “(Philanthropy is) a pretty big part of what we do,” said Phi Kappa Theta’s philanthropy chairman Rob Brockhaus. “One of our mottos is ‘give expecting nothing thereof.’ So we kind of keep service a pretty important part of our fraternity.”

These events generate money for organizations around the region and the country.

“St. Jude is the philanthropy for Tri Deltas nationwide, which I think is really cool,” said Tri Delta philanthropy chairwoman Danielle Kostal. “We made $54,700 last spring, so that actually makes us the highest earning chapter of our size in the country.”

Although many fraternities and sororities such as Tri Delta support nationwide charities and organizations, some UNL Greek chapters have more of a local focus. Brockhaus said Phi Kappa Theta has pushed for its members to contribute on more of a local level.

“We like to get involved with not only our philanthropy events, but other events around campus like Greek Week and the homecoming blood drive

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Philanthropy events provide charities around the region and the country with funds for various causes each year.

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Greek Affairs educates, trains members on risks UNL addresses hazing, alcohol abuse, other behavoirs gaining national attention in Greek communities CHRIS BOWLING DN With issues of sexual assault, hazing and highrisk behaviors in Greek communities gaining national attention, universities around the country have been looking at their approach to these problems and evaluating whether they’ve adequately addressed them.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Greek Affairs Director Linda Schwartzkopf said leaders take an education-first approach.

“We have a long history with trying to address high-risk behavior,” Schwartzkopf said.

“If you look at hazing or sexual assault, generally there’s one component in every situation and that is alcohol. So I think working toward addressing alcohol and other high-risk behaviors, we’ve been doing this for a long time.”

Greek Affairs targets issues of concern by putting on summits or gathering representatives from each chapter to discuss problems in the community. Currently, Greek Affairs is working with the University Health Center’s Counseling and Psychological Services program to develop training sessions for Greek leaders, who will then present the information to individual chapters on campus.

“We’ll have an ongoing risk management program that won’t just be a one-day retreat but will be something that continues on a regular basis throughout the spring semester,” Schwartzkopf said.

UNL’s Greek system has dealt with hazing, high-risk behaviors and accusations of sexual assault over the years. Most recently, the university suspended FarmHouse fraternity after a police investigation determined that member Clayton Real died of alcohol poisoning from a night of drinking at a FarmHouse party.

In 2009, Sigma Chi fraternity was suspended after several members were charged with hazing, procuring alcohol for minors and sexual assault, the last of which was dropped.

Following the suspension, Sigma Chi underwent a membership review and dropped

nearly half of its members, and it was reinstated in 2012, but the chapter was suspended again shortly after when investigators found it had hosted an off-campus party where alcohol was served to minors.

Since the 2008 hazing incident, Schwartzkopf said, hazing has been a topic of discussion with Greek chapter leaders, and now all new members receive a pamphlet about the new member experience. The pamphlet details what the experience should and shouldn’t look like, as well as the legal definition of hazing, activities that would be considered hazing, where to report it and other related topics.

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Greek alumnae stay connected with chapters ALI PAASCH DN A core tenet of the Greek system calls for fraternities and sororities to build their pledges into leaders. As the Director of Leadership at the Center for Civic Engagement, Gamma Phi Beta alumna Kris Baack exemplifies that quality on a daily basis.

“I learned a lot about how to manage and lead others to reach our goals or accomplish our tasks,” Baack said. “It was because of my experiences working as an international volunteer leader that I decided to pursue a doctorate in leadership.”

Baack is a 1975 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“When I was in college, Gamma Phi Beta provided me opportunities to learn and grow in an environment that was positive and supportive,” she said. “We were encouraged to be the best we could be and to push ourselves to reach our potential.”

UNL Greek alumni have applied their expe-

rience in an array of disciplines across the country and the world.

Margo Berends, a 2014 graduate and Alpha Omicron Pi alumni, is in a teaching assistant program in France where she will spend one year as an English teacher teaching at four primary schools in South Western France.

Berends was connected to this program through Alpha Omicron Pi’s live-in house mom, UNL Honors Program adviser Ann Koopman.

“Through (Koopman) I found out about, applied for and attended the Public Policy Leadership Conference at Harvard (University), which greatly shaped my academic path and post-graduation career plans,” Berends said.

“Through Ann I also got connected with Dr. Damuth, the fellowships advisor, who told me about the teaching assistant program in France.”

At UNL, Berends was an orientation leader in New Student Enrollment and a member of Homecoming Court.

“AOII connected me to a lot of different resources on campus, helped me get involved and helped me gain leadership experience,” Berends

When I was in college, Gamma Phi Beta provided me opportunities to learn and grow in an environment that was positive and supportive.”

said. “Most of the organizations that I was involved in during my time at UNL, I found out about through other members of AOII when I was a freshman. They encouraged me to get involved and apply for different opportunities.”

Alumni stay connected with their Greek organizations once they graduate with programs like Founders Day, specialized alumni events and social media.

Once initiated into a fraternity or sorority,

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members are members for life. Each organization has its own way of handling donations, but most rely on alumni for help.

“I try to be a lifetime member by providing financial support and being there for the women,” Baack said. “Whether it is doing a leadership workshop or helping a sister find her passion or just being a mindful listener.”

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Successful alumni credit lessons from Greek life BAILEY SCHULZ DN From business tycoon Warren Buffett to Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has produced a large number of esteemed alumni since its beginnings in 1869.

As institutions that promote a wide variety of valuable skills, many fraternities on campus have seen fellow brothers fall into the “successful alumni” category.

Scott Gesell is the executive vice president and general counsel for the independent mortgage company Gateway Mortgage Group. He was a member of Beta Sigma Phi in college and acted as the secretary of fraternity counsel while living in the house. He was also an Innocent’s Society member and Homecoming king candidate.

After graduating in 1981, Gesell acted as the fraternity’s national director of recruitment for five years. Since then, he has been on the board of directors. He’s also a national officer of the fraternity.

“I enjoyed it when I was there,” Gesell said.

“It was a great experience from a standpoint that it gave me some structure.”

After moving from Norfolk to Lincoln, Gesell said being involved in the fraternity made his transition to college life much easier.

“The fraternity kind of brought it down to size for me,” he said. “I was with a bunch of guys that were pretty dedicated to getting an education.”

Gesell also contributes much of his success today to being involved in a fraternity. He said fraternity life gave him social skills and management experience that helped him later in his professional and personal life.

The Sigma Phi Epsilon alumnus passed “I will be the first to tell you, fraterniaway in August 2013 from prostate cancer, but ties have their plusses and minuses,” he said.

“There’s been a lot of negatives about fraterni- he’s remembered by many for his lasting impression on the college. ties out there, and rightfully so, but While in college, Korff reined in there’s also a lot of positive things an impressive number of achievethat get done in there, and I think ments. A native from small-town that gets skipped over a lot.”

Heron, he was a member the fraternity Frank Uryasz is a Chi Phi alumSigma Phi Epsilon. nus and the president and founder He was also a member of the naof Drug Free Sport, a company that tional chemistry honors society Phi manages drug-testing programs for Lambda Upsilon, served as the vice professional athletic organizations president of Theta Nu Science honorsuch as the National Collegiate Athary, was selected as a member of the letic Association.

Gamma Gamma Gamma honorary He was a UNL undergraduate and was a member of the Innocents from 1979 until 1983 and an acKRIS BAACK Society. tive member in his fraternity as the Ross Hecht, a fellow Sigma Phi Eprush-chairman. Today, he still plays silon alumnus who was an adviser to an active role in Chi Phi. the house while Korff was president, “The thing about fraternities said Korff was a gentleman through is you never really leave,” he said. and through.

“You’re in it for life. So I’m still an ad“He was the president of the fravisor to the chapter, and I also serve ternity for two years, which is very unon Chi Phi’s national governance usual,” Hecht said. “As a matter of fact, committee.”

I only know of one other person that Uryasz also acknowledges Chi was president two years, and that Phi for teaching him skills that he was was during World War II when we able to put into practice later on, such didn’t have any guys in the house.” as the importance of philanthropy While attending college, he was and management skills. a member of student council, inter“You probably didn’t realize it FRANK URSAYZ fraternity council, was nominated during the time that you’re in the for Outstanding Nebraskan and was fraternity, but it’s really grooming voted an Outstanding Collegiate you for leadership once you get out of Man finalist… all within the four years before school,” he said.

Glenn Korff is a name many students may his graduation in 1965.

He spent one year at the University of Nerecognize, as UNL’s school of music is named in braska College of Medicine, and then received his honor.

his MBA from the Wharton School of Finance in 1968, where he was placed on the Director’s Honor List.

After graduation, Korff went off to New York to work at Salomon Brothers from 1969 to 1974, and then Goldman Sachs from 1974 until 1992. He was named vice president executive director of the company in 1976. He semi-retired in 1992 and went on to manage his personal investment company, Korff Holdings.

Korff would often return to Lincoln to watch Husker football games, and at a 2010 game he reconnected with Mary Arth, a fellow UNL alumnus. The two had dated while in college and continued to see each other through the years following the football game.

“He was a very kind man,” said Arth, who had graduated in the same class as Korff. “He lead most of his success back to his education here and also the hard-work attitude of Nebraskans.”

Arth, who was in a sorority herself, said “the fraternity gave him camaraderie with other men on campus. It gave him social skills. It gave him, truthfully, a love of the community.”

In his later years, Korff was a philanthropist for the University of Nebraska, the Centennial Mall, the Madonna Rehabilitation Center, his hometown of Hebron and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

“He was a man who really taught me about the arts, which is amazing,” Arth said. “I think that in his later years the arts became very important to him, and that’s why he endowed the Glenn Korff School of Music and also, in the Lied Center, the Glenn Korff Broadway Series. I think he thought that enriched people’s lives and made them better people.”

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Pranks between Greek houses create memories ANNIE BOHLING DN At 3:30 a.m. and eight feet in the air, a Beta Theta Pi fraternity member pressed two feet against the front wall of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house and tried to yank down the chains that held a giant wooden sign.

“We decided to pull a prank on Phi Delt, which is two houses down from us,” said Dayton Stange, a senior advertising and public relations major. “The four of us decided we were going to steal what’s called the Woodchoppers sign.”

Pranks are part of the culture in the Greek system at UNL. Stange said the annual Woodchoppers

event by Phi Delta Theta is a party in the country. Everyone dresses like lumberjacks, he said, and different sororities compete to win.

“We each grabbed a plaid shirt and tried to disguise ourselves as Phi Delts,” Stange said. “We even called one of our buddies who is a Phi Delt at Mizzou and tried to get the handshake just in case anybody questioned us or saw us. He didn’t give it to us.”

Stange and another Beta member hoisted the other brother up to the sign while the fourth kept a look out.

“He keeps pulling and pulling and we’re not getting anywhere so he grabs the top of it and took it with both of his hands and pulled as hard as he could, and it just rips out of

the wall and crumbles to the ground and just crushes all of us,” Stange said.

Stange said the sign was solid wood, stood more than a story high and read, “Woodchoppers – May the best house win.”

“The four of us pick the sign up and just sprint off along the side of the house where there’s actually one kid out smoking a cigarette,” Stange said. “He just like watched us take it, and he had no idea what was going on.”

The four young men ran with the sign down the alley way behind the fraternities.

“We jumped in a bush with the sign and waited 20 minutes to see if anything was happening,” Stange said. “We’re pretty sure no one even noticed.”

They loudly and proudly took the sign inside Beta. Two days later, they returned it.

“We drove to the back lot, dropped it off, knocked on the door and ran,” Stange said.

The sign and building were unharmed.

“We didn’t want to cause any damage or anything,” Stange said. “That wasn’t our intention. It was just a prank.”

That was four years ago when Stange was a freshman. Now, Stange still lives in Beta and has lots of friends in various fraternities, including Phi Delt.

Phi Delt doesn’t hang the sign outside anymore.

“I’ll always look back on it and have a

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PRANKS: FROM 7 Most people aren’t looking for trouble. They’re just looking to have a little bit of fun. And it’s always fun to go talk to some cute girl at a sorority about something like that, about stealing their banners or whatever.”

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good laugh,” Stange said. “It’s all in good fun.”

Over the years, many sorority members have taken composites of members from fraternity walls and vice versa.

“That’s always a classic one,” Stange said.

Another fraternity member, whom the Daily Nebraskan will refer to as Parker, noted that the pranks are often between men and women at fraternities and sororities. The senior biology major doesn’t want himself or his fraternity identified.

“The cool thing used to be to sneak out at night and go over to a sorority and steal their banner,” Parker said. “And then take them back to your house and hang them up in our rooms.”

It’s more fun for the males and females to pull pranks on each other, he said.

“Especially if there’s alcohol involved, guys usually don’t want to mess with other guys because it’s just not worth it because it could actually lead to a confrontation,” Parker said. “Most people aren’t looking for trouble.

They’re just looking to have a little bit a fun. And it’s always fun to go talk to some cute girl at a sorority about something like that, about trying to steal their banners or whatever.”

For the fraternity men, Parker said he thinks the pranks on the sorority women are mainly to get the attention of the opposite sex.

The senior, who lived at his fraternity’s house during his first two years at UNL, remembers stories about sorority sisters stealing “pledge paddles” from fraternities, too.

The biggest time of the year for shenanigans in the Greek system is definitely during Homecoming, he said.

Heyen remembered for kind-hearted nature KATIE KNIGHT DN Twenty-two-year-old University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Evan M. Heyen passed away last Wednesday from a pulmonary embolism. He was majoring in child, youth and family studies.

Originally from Hastings, Heyen loved music. He had a passion for singing and playing his guitar and was in the marching band in high school. He and his brother, Adam Heyen, often sang at their church.

Long-time friend Abby Kuntz remembers that, more than anything, Heyen had a big heart and loved having a good time.

“He was the most kind-hearted person that anyone could have known,” Kuntz said. “There wasn’t a single person who met Evan who didn’t like him. He was very protective of his friends, he was just a funloving guy.”

Heyen is survived by his parents, Don and Lynette Heyen, his brother and many extended family members.

“He made an impact on everyone’s life,” Kuntz said. “And if there’s one thing everyone could take away from him it would be his good-hearted nature.”

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“Last year, Phi Psi got part of their float burned down by another house,” Parker said.

“That’s a very extreme case. That’s the most extreme thing that I’ve seen in the last four years.

That is pretty ridiculous for that to happen. They were pretty upset about it. But they didn’t know who did it, so who are they going to be mad at.”

Homecoming is important in the Greek system, so things can get crazy around that time, he said.

Both Stange and Parker said many friendships are intertwined between the fraternity houses. Stange said his best friends are at four or five different houses.

“I think there’s always going to be that underlying competitive spirit between fraternities,” Stange said. “You kind of start to realize that that competition isn’t as important as it seemed when you’re a freshman coming in and rushing at all these houses.”

“I think you start to realize that we’re all here for the same thing and that’s a higher education, an experience at this university and the end of the day, that’s all that really matters.”

Parker said joining a fraternity or sorority is a great way to make new friends.

“The only reason I have the friends I do today is because of (my fraternity),” he said.

Stange said while competition does exist during rush week and in the fraternities’ philanthropic efforts and GPAs, the togetherness and brotherhood is what matters.

“I think when it comes down to it, it’s about the experience and making those four years that much better and I think that’s what truly embodies fraternities and sororities,” Stange said.

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The study found that 44 percent of college students had engaged in binge drinking, meaning they consumed four to five drinks in a row. This shifted public understanding of oncampus drinking from a harmless pastime to a public-health concern and led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which financed the first survey, to invest millions in further research.

In 1999, eight schools received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to combat binge drinking. Among them was UNL, which received a $700,000 grant to spend across five years thanks in part to Linda Major, assistant to the vice chancellor of stu-

dent affairs.

“To change a culture, you have to look at it very complexly,” Major said to the DN 15 years ago, when UNL received the grant. “The good news is we have planning and strategy time. The bad news is that there is no action.”

It’s something Greek Affairs has addressed through educational opportunities like new member summits.

“We’ve always used the new member summit as an opportunity to educate our newest members on a variety of topics,” Schwartzkopf said. “This was the first year that we specifically focused on bystander intervention.”

Greek Affairs also works closely with Women’s Center Director Jan Deeds, who has addressed these issues for years and helped speak on the issue of sexual assault in the new member summits.

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and Huskers Helping the Homeless and feeding the hungry,” Brockhaus said. “Part of it is to get our name out and to get involved with stuff on campus.

But also, getting involved with local stuff allows you to see the impact you’re having.”

Whether the philanthropy supports local or national charities, the preparation is always extensive. “(Philanthropies) take quite a bit of planning and working with a lot of different people,” Brockhaus said. “Talking to people that can make us Tshirts and talking to food vendors, also people that can donate, talking to alumni. A lot of advertising.

So it’s good to kind of have a community put together to help us out with that.”

In the spring semester, FarmHouse has three separate philanthropies partnered with four other Greek organizations, so good communication and planning with each house is critical to its success.

“A lot of it is communication with the other house, or wherever we’re hosting the event, just making sure that it’s squared away,” Krohn said.

“Figuring out all the food, the different venues.

It’s not too bad leading up to the event, but the last couple of weeks when we’re finalizing things gets pretty stressful.”

Even with all the stress of planning, the philanthropy chairs admit to the fulfillment and rewarding feeling they get after the events are finished.

“One thing we try to do is teach our members the importance of service and how it’s rewarding for ourselves, but also the impact we’re having on the organizations that we help and donate to,” Brockhaus said.

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Rikki Neumann, a junior fine art major,and her daughter, Olivia, sits in front of the mural she created at 28th and O streets. Neumann’s painting was inspired by her friendship with a Ponca tribal enrollee and own Native American roots.

UNL art student’s mural honors Ponca Tribe CHRIS BOWLING DN A mural at 28th and O streets depicts a Native American locking eyes with a bald eagle, as calm blue hues in the background fade to a colder purple.

The painting, colorfully adorning an outside wall of the Osni Ponca Department of Economic Development, looks into the past and future of the Ponca Tribe.

Rikki Neumann’s creation was a project for her Self as Subject class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The junior fine art major took partial inspiration for the project

from her own Native American roots: She has an ancestor who’s Cherokee.

While working at the UNL Children’s Center last summer, she made friend’s with someone who’s enrolled in the Ponca Tribe.

Then, this year, Neumann approached her coworker ’s sister about the prospect of painting a mural on the side of the building where she worked, expressing hope of teaching the community about the Ponca.

Now, the mural is nearly complete. Its story, however, wasn’t always clear. Neither was Neumann’s own path to Lincoln.

Neumann began taking classes at UNL when her daughter was almost 2 years old.

She had previously attended The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles before returning home and getting a job at a makeup store. After three years without opportunities to advance, Neumann decided to return to her artistic roots. It was a hard decision she hopes will show her daughter the importance of education.

“I think that her seeing me work through the challenges of being a college student will instill a sense of ambition and perseverance in her,” Neumann said. “Sometimes I feel like I don’t spend enough time with her, but I know in the future she will appreciate what I am accomplishing and be proud of me.”

That quality of ambition is something

Eddie Dominguez, the Self as Subject teacher and Neumann’s mentor throughout the process, noticed in his student.

“She’s a leader,” Dominguez said. “She’s Hispanic, a single mother and doing her studies. I mean, that takes a lot of ambition.”

Neumann’s challenges are unlike those of most students. She said a unique challenge for her is to be able to focus on school and work on projects, like the mural, while her daughter is in daycare.

Otherwise she’s back to caring for her now-4-yearold daughter.

It’s that ambition and drive, combined with Neumann’s inherent desire to give back, that

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PONCA: FROM 1O Dominguez saw as the driving force behind her project that stood out from a class full of eclectic and powerful works.

“It’s an unusual project,” Dominguez said.

“It’s not something she gets to keep, it’s a gift to the community.”

And that was Neumann’s goal throughout the whole process. Throughout the fall, Neumann and the mural thrived on the help of volunteer art students and community members. In addition, painting a mural is expensive, and had it not been for the donation of paint, brushes and other

supplies from places like Ace Hardware and Neighborworks, Neumann wouldn’t have been able to finance the project.

As the painting of the mural comes to a close, with Neumann and a few other artists adding the last pieces of detailing, the young artist who hopes to teach one day has a lot to reflect on through the experience. Whether it’s as a director or designer of community and public art projects, or just generally as someone trying to make a local impact, Neumann’s found that a lot can be accomplished when people are willing to work together toward

a good cause.

The process also showed her how important it is to show youth the power of coming together as a community. She said urban youth, specifically, need to have more projects like this that can show them the kind of impact art can have in their lives.

“Young people are not always encouraged to pursue art as a career,” Neumann said. “I want to show them that it is possible. Art is a way we can spread messages of hope, inspiration and educate all people.”

But aside from all these things that Neumann

can reflect on, the most fun part of the whole project for her was still painting it. For her, nothing was better than watching the piece come to life.

“I got to meet a lot of new faces, teach kids how to paint using brushes and aerosol cans, and teach people about the Ponca tribe,” Neumann said. “The most memorable was the day that 13 people of all ages and backgrounds came to paint with me. We worked as a team, had fun and accomplished a lot.

That was my goal.”

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International students learn US dating culture BAILEY SCHULZ DN International students who come to school in the United States are often faced with cultural challenges that domestic students don’t think twice about. On Thursday night, the UNL Student Involvement International Student Board aimed to help international students with one such challenge by holding the lecture “Dating 102: U.S.A. Style.”

The event, which was held in the Nebraska Union’s Regency Suite, sought to help international students better understand dating norms in the U.S. This is the second dating discussion aimed at international students. Last year ’s “Dating 101” also sought to inform others about their new culture. The events were created by Claire Hauser, a counseling coordinator of the Women’s Center, and Taylor Gee, a graduate assistant for Student Involvement’s East Campus programs.

“Working with international students has always been a passion of mine,” said Gee, who studied abroad for three consecutive years.

“Both Claire and I started this when we came for graduate school and our Ph.D., and we started this International Student Advisory Board and both these events,” Gee said. “The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is such a big institution that the international engagement is something that we’re really trying to improve on.”

The speakers at the discussion revealed stereotypes often portrayed of dating culture in the United States, informed listeners of the appropriate social settings and taught listeners how to differentiate between friendship and a relationship.

The term “friend-zone” was defined, and speakers informed the students how it’s common in the U.S. to have both friends of the same sex and friends of a different gender.

There was even a step-by-step route to follow to ask someone on a date.

First, look for common ground with the person, and make sure you have something in common with them. Next, begin small conversations, before giving them an appropriate compliment, trying to focus on something that doesn’t have to do with image.

Then, state your intentions, suggest a casual outing or activity and leave space for a yes or no answer.

Gee said she hears from fellow board members how difficult dating in a new country can be.

“There’s frustrations, because sometimes they’d like to date, but it’s so much work because they can’t understand United States culture,” she said.

Further discussions pointed out differences in U.S. dating compared to dating in other cultures. According to one speaker, American dating moves at a much slower pace, which can be confusing for international students when first joining the U.S. dating world.

The discussion also focused on red flags in dating, such as a partner showing controlling behavior, isolating the other from friends and family, or disregarding boundaries.

Hauser has seen some instances of “red flag” relationships first hand.

“We encounter students at the Women’s Center sometimes who are coming and looking for help because they are experiencing some unhealthy pursuit from domestic students,” she said. “So if you think about the people who would maybe stalk someone or try to be in a controlling relationship, international students might be more vulnerable to that because they don’t understand our legal system and they also don’t understand our norms.”

As for a Dating 103 next year, Gee hopes it’ll be continued.

“We did get a lot of good feedback from the Dating 101 last year,” she said. “People just felt that it was really helpful.”

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Weekly crime: stolen chocolate found, methylone ANNIE BOHLING DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department is investigating a sexual assault that reportedly happened in a dorm room. UNLPD was dispatched to Burr Hall on Monday at 8:30 p.m.

The victim, a non-UNL student, told police a UNL student sexually assaulted him or her. The suspect isn’t a stranger to the victim. Each individual was interviewed by UNLPD. The police report said the victim was given the Voices of Hope information, a 24-hour crisis intervention and advocacy group for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Also on Monday, a Schramm Hall resident and UNL student reported to UNLPD that $535 worth of clothing and chocolates sent to her from Berlin, Germany, were stolen. The police report said no one knows when the items were taken from the parcel, but it was sometime between Sept. 1 and Oct. 10. The individual said the package was already tampered with or damaged when she picked it up from the front desk of Schramm Hall on Oct. 10.

On Tuesday, Phi Gamma Delta made a belated report to UNLPD: Its $285 worth of outdoor holiday decorations were stolen between Nov. 24 and 25. About 14 strands of purple and white lights, an electric timer and an extension cord were taken.

“The lights were ripped out and smashed,” Phi Gamma Delta President John Weber told the Daily Nebraskan. “We don’t have the funds to replace them or fix the rest.”

A rare narcotics case was also in the police reports this week.

A baggie of methylone – a Class I narcotic – was found on the floor of a common area inside The Village North on Thursday.

“Methylone is often seen as one of the products seen in bath salts,” said Sgt. Doug Peterson of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse defines bath salts as a new family of drugs containing synthetic chemicals related to cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant.

Peterson said UNLPD has rarely seen methylone or any type of bath salts on UNL

campus.

While walking through the parking lot of the Nebraska Union Thursday morning, a UNL employee was hit by a car. The police report said the victim was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The incident took place on the east side of the union.

At 2:42 a.m. Friday morning, UNLPD arrested Alex Van Norman, a senior psychology major, after he failed to yield to a traffic control device. Van Norman and another UNL student were found to be intoxicated and police found two open containers in Van Norman’s vehicle. The passenger claimed one of the containers and Van Norman said the other bottle was left behind by a third passenger.

Van Norman was cited for a DUI and had a BAC of .237. His passenger was taken to his home.

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100-level Japanese Table Hone up your Japanesespeaking skills from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.

Health Promotion and Outreach Booth Check out the University Health Center’s booth in the Nebraska Union from noon to 1 p.m. to learn about various health and wellness topics and receive free items.

Economics tutoring Need help on your last ECON test? Omicron Detla Epsilon is hosting free tutoring from 10 a.m. to noon at the College of Business Administration.

Big Red Singers and Vocal Jazz The Big Red Singers and UNL Vocal Jazz Ensemble will give their last performance of the semester at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Show will include music by Cher, Justin Timberlake and Harry Connick Jr’s “We Are In Love.”

THURSDAY, DEC. 11 Starry, Starry Night From 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Morill Hall will host a look at the winter sky through the UNL Student Observatory for $2 per person.

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Music Theatre Showcase At 7:30 p.m., nine scenes from classic and contemporary musicals will be performed in a 50-minute, free performance by UNL’s musical theatre students.

Cellist Yo Yo Ma recalls influences in lecture Renowned musicians Yo Yo Ma Cristina Pato Lorenzo discuss Silk Road Project at Lied Center JACOB ELLIOTT DN Renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma commenced a rare lecture on Friday with a joke.

“A boy goes to his father and says ‘Dad, I know what I want to be when I grow up,” Ma told a packed auditorium. “I want to be a musician.’ The father looked at his son and, shaking his head, he said ‘I’m sorry son, you can’t do both.’”

Ma’s speech at the Lied Center for Performing Arts centered on the cultural citizen and its role, as part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. Assisting him in his speech was the Silk Road Musician, Cristina Pato Lorenzo.

Ma built off his earlier point, noting that in order to be a musician, in order to be a cultural citizen, a person cannot simply look at the technical aspect of music. In order to fully experience the nature of art, an individual must enthrall themselves in the code and DNA of the medium itself. They must be able to keep their minds open, understand the

frame of mind of the musician and put forth the energy that the initial musician used to create this song every time they play, he said.

Lorenzo recited a poem by T.S. Elliott to emphasize this idea: “Before she was rushing, We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” The lecture focused on three major influences of Ma’s career.

By re-examining the Bach Cello Suit No. 1, a song that he had played since his childhood, Ma said he was able to find the interconnection between the arts, how music can inspire the artist and all those who hear it.

Finally, Ma touched on the Silk Road Project. The project focused on bringing together musicians from around the world to perform for the prosperity of culture and music. Its name comes from the Silk Road Trail, which allowed cultures to intermingle with each other economically and artistically.

This project caused Ma to rethink culture.

Culture doesn’t belong only to the rich or privileged. It’s the scientific, economic, political and historical contexts that shape and influence our lives.

To finish off his presentation, Ma boiled down his concepts to three basic ideas: understand yourself, be open to others, and connect with others.

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Then the Bluejays went on a 10-0 run, and n Creighton’s 65-55 win against Nebrasmade clutch rebounds and took advantage of ka at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Sunday, the breakdowns by the Huskers on defense. the visiting Bluejays were able to capitalOnce the run was established, Miles said ize on mental errors and a lack of intenit was difficult to stop what they were doing. sity on defense from the Huskers.

“We get a 10-point lead, and then I think The players said they made mental lapses our shot selection and decision-making fragin the game that lead to many of the Bluejays’ mented out,” Miles said. “When they come points in the matchup. down and get in rhythm on offense, they’re “They made all the right plays,” senior tough to keep up with.” forward David Rivers said.

Transition was a major problem for the In the first half against the Bluejays, the Huskers. They were unable to box out on Huskers were able to force 10 turnovers, but in the second half the intensity went down. ill-advised shots, and Bluejays repeatedly In the second half, Creighton only turned the rebounded the ball, sprinted down the floor and converted on a shot. It happened in the ball over twice. Turnovers were a factor, as closing minutes of the first half and in most Nebraska scored 17 points off of Creighton’s of the second half. miscues. Eleven of the 28 points scored in the “They’re a great transition team,” Pettefirst half came off of turnovers. way said. “That’s how they get a lot of their When looking at the second-half break3s. Chatman’s electric down, it was all mental, in transition – him and junior forward Terran When they come Brooks. We were trying Petteway said. to slow it down, grind“We didn’t have down and get in ing it out and making enough urgency in the second half,” Petteway rhythm on offense, they’re them play for 30 seconds.” said. “In the first half tough to keep up with.”

After the Huskthey hit a couple, but we ers had the 24-14 lead still played with the urTIM MILES against the Bluejays, gency that we needed. In nebraska basketball coach they were outscored the second half, as they 51-31. For the Bluejays, got on that run, it kind of it was the relentless on went away.” the offensive side of the ball that lead to their In the opening minutes of the game the Huskers were sticking to Creighton like bees first win at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Miles referred to the in-state rivalry as on honey. The Bluejays weren’t able to find any wiggle room to make a shot, which didn’t a “dog fight,” and it would be defense that would prevail. The lack of defense is what ulhappen in the first four minutes of the game. timately beat Nebraska. When faced with an As the game progressed, the aggressiveness diminished as Creighton stuck to its opportunistic team, defense is critical.

“We didn’t play good enough defense,” game plan of a relentless offense.

Petteway said. “When you give a team like “We stopped attacking,” Petteway said. that open looks, they build momentum; they “We were being soft with our execution on kept on knocking it down.” our plays. It wasn’t so much them; it was us.”

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Nebraska freshman guard Tarin Smith attempts to block a Creighton player’s shot in the game on Sunday at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The Huskers lost the game 65-55.

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Riley fits Nebraska’s bill as football coach

1. He is 61 years old.

2. He played college ball as a defensive back for coach Bear Bryant at Alabama in early 70s.

3. He coached at Oregon State for 14 non-consecutive seasons and coached for San Diego Chargers for three.

4. His father, Bud Riley, was an assistant coach at Oregon State while Mike was in high school.

5. In 14 seasons he accumulated a 93-79 record at Oregon State and was 6-2 in bowl games.

6. His 93 wins at Oregon State are the most in school history.

7. During his time at Oregon State he produced NFL quarterbacks such as Derek Anderson, Sean Canfield and Matt Moore. Current quarterback Sean Mannion is also projected to go the NFL after this season.

8. He held open practices at Oregon State to not only the media, but the fans as well.

9. While Nebraska has 31 players competing in the NFL right now, Oregon State has 25.

10. He turned down head coaching positions at USC and Alabama during his career at Oregon State.

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Forty days and 40 nights – that’s how long it took the Huskers to hire coach Bill Callahan after firing Frank Solich, which turned out to be not as scriptural as Husker fans were expecting.

As for the newest coaching search, it was a lot closer to 40 hours than it was to 40 days.

During his lone search, athletic director Shawn Eichorst was pretty quiet and swift in his hiring of new head coach Mike Riley. Although many were hesitant about the move that was announced Thursday morning, there’s some merit to the reasoning behind the hiring of the 61 year old.

My first reaction to Riley being hired was just ‘wow.’ I took a double check, and yes, it was true. The Huskers just hired a coach who had a 93-79 record at Oregon State. It was thought Eichorst would grab a “big name” coach to lead Nebraska out of the Tunnel Walk on Saturdays.

But if you really think about it, it’s a pretty good fit on many levels.

Coach Riley is considered to be one of the nicest, most genuine coaches in college football. He rode his bike to work in Corvallis, Oregon. He’s soft spoken when speaking with players, media and anyone for that matter. He even let fans attend practices.

It’s hard to think a guy like that would throw tirades on the sidelines or have an outburst. The most trouble he’s gotten into in his life was egging a car when he was a kid, nothing since then.

You think he’s a good fit for humble Nebraska yet?

The first thing you have to worry about is his relationship with the players, which should be no problem for Riley. The players can’t treat Riley like a new stepdad. To put it in Nebraska terms: It’s like giving Tim Miles the stink eye the first time you meet him. It just doesn’t make any sense.

The next thing you worry about is whether he can turn Nebraska into a great team rather than a good team. He doesn’t bring in top five classes because, well, it’s Oregon State. The Beavers are second to the Nike-backed Ducks.

But with Oregon State’s resources the Beavers have the No. 42 recruiting class for 2015, according to rivals.com. As for Nebraska, the Huskers are No. 36. Makes you think what he can do with a national brand with much more resources.

Yes, his classes aren’t the flashiest compared to the classes produced by Pelini, but that doesn’t hold his team back from getting quality wins.

In 2012, the Beavers defeated both Wisconsin and UCLA, teams who embarrassed Nebraska that year. His defense held the teams to 27 points, seven points coming from Wisconsin, which is hard to imagine after they pummeled Nebraska to get 70 points in India-

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New Nebraska football coach Mike Riley shakes fans’ hands at Friday’s press conference. Riley was the coach at Oregon State for 14 years before coming to Nebraska.

If Riley had a better record at Oregon napolis that year.

Can he win games, even when his team is State you would have no doubt in your mind that he’s a home-run hire. No doubt about it. counted out beforehand? Yes. With the resources, and the right staff, RiRiley’s eye for talent is quite evident, sending many players to the NFL. Compared ley can make a boom at Nebraska.

Though it was hard for him to leave a to Nebraska’s 31 players competing at the long-time home, Riley said next level, Riley has sent 25 he’s going to add somefrom Oregon State.

Coach Riley thing to the Nebraska footHe’s produced quarterball program. backs such as Derek Anderis considered “It is truly an honor to son, Sean Canfield and Matt join the University of NeMoore. Oregon State’s cur- to be one of the braska family,” Riley said rent quarterback, Sean Man- nicest, most genuine in a statement on Thursday nion, is also projected to be morning. “Though we love drafted in the NFL this year. coaches in college Corvallis and Oregon State, Other pro players in- football. He rode this is an once-in-a-lifetime clude Steven Jackson, Jacopportunity to coach at one quizz Rodgers and Brandin his bike to work in of the nation’s most storied Cooks.

Corvallis, Oregon.” football programs and I Recruiting will play a can’t wait to get started.” major factor in Riley’s job as So what made him the head honcho in Huskerville. If he’s able to maintain a presence on chose Nebraska?

He was offered head coaching jobs at the West Coast and in Texas, then Nebraska USC and Alabama during the 2000s, which recruiting classes could see a spike.

Another reason why he fits the bill at Ne- makes you think. What did those programs braska is his attitude toward walk-ons. He see in him at the time? More importantly, what does he see in Nebraska that entices loves them.

He considered Oregon State to be the him to leave his hometown.

If you’re an Oregon State fan, you had to “walk-on capital of the world.” believe Riley was going to stay in Corvallis He thinks any player has a chance to make forever. So what made a Northwest guy leave an impact.

In 2005 he produced two award winners. his home for Lincoln, Nebraska, late in his He had wide receiver Mike Hass win the Bi- career?

We’ll just have to find out if Riley turns letnikoff Award, the best wide receiver in the country. He also had kicker Alexis Serna win out to be scriptural rather than, you know, the Lou Groza award, which is awarded to Bill Callahan. the best kicker in the country.

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Nebraska advances to Sweet Sixteen VANESSA DAVES DN The No. 11 seed Nebraska advanced into the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament with two wins during the weekend. The Huskers will take on the No. 3 seed Washington Huskies on Dec. 12 in Seattle.

The Huskers first battled against Hofstra on Friday.

In the first set alone, Nebraska had four service errors. Hofstra had three.

The Pride took an early lead in the first set, but the Huskers recovered from a 9-5 deficit after a 5-0 run that was mostly fueled by kills from sophomore outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen.

Still, Hofstra didn’t back down. The score tied back up at 10-10, and neither team took more than a two-point lead until the Huskers were up 19-15.

Even then, Hofstra was right on their tail and eventually tied up the score at 23-23.

“We believed we could compete the whole time, so we weren’t really surprised where we were at,” Hofstra senior outside hitter Kelsie Wills said. “It was exciting to look at them and see them in a bit of distress.”

The score tied up for three set points until Nebraska won 27-25.

“Every single game, no matter who we’re playing or whatever it may be, we always have to have the mindset that we have to go out there and do our best shot,” Rolfzen said. “It’s the NCAA Tournament. Everyone who’s here deserves to be here. That was no different with them tonight.”

The Huskers took a step toward looking more like themselves in the second set, Nebraska coach John Cook said.

The set started out with an easy 7-2 Nebraska lead before Hofstra called a timeout.

Though Nebraska was up 12-4 at one point, a 4-0 run from Hofstra caused Cook to call a timeout. And at 16-10, Hofstra called another. The Pride was finding ways to keep their team competitive against the Huskers. It wasn’t enough to overcome Nebraska, though.

The Huskers were up 23-14, but Hofstra had a 4-0 run. Then, at the set point for Nebraska, Hofstra had another 5-0 run. Still, the Huskers pulled out a 25-23 victory to win the second set.

The Huskers took a quick 5-1 lead in the third set, causing Hofstra to call a timeout.

The third set was the only time throughout the match where Nebraska maintained a steady lead. In fact, Hofstra called its second timeout early in the third set, when the score was at 16-9.

The closest Hofstra got to tie the game was when the score was 9-5 or 4-1 and the team was only four away. A 5-0 run by the Huskers got the score up to 19-9. And eventually, the Huskers took the third set 25-16.

“I told you Hofstra was good,” Cook said.

“They played some really good volleyball, gave us some really good fits. There are some well-skilled players over there.”

Cook also said there was as struggle to finish off the sets tonight. At set points, Hofstra would push Nebraska to keep them there before finishing it off.

“We weren’t in a great rhythm tonight,” Cook said. “They’re pretty good defensively, and we got stuck in a couple of rotations we

couldn’t get out of. We didn’t trust what we’re normally trained to do.”

Hofstra coach Emily Mansur said the team came with a mindset of knowing it had nothing to lose.

“We wanted to make Hofstra a name,” Mansur said. “At the end, we knew that we had to make the chance. And our players, throughout the whole year, they really fought.

And at the end, the team never gave up.”

Nebraska’s next match was even more intense when it went up against Utah on Saturday.

The Huskers took the first two sets quickly, but the Utes didn’t let them take it easy. The final scores were 25-23 and 25-22, respectively.

Then, Utah took the second two matches 25-23 and 25-17. And in the fifth set, the Huskers sealed a 15-11 victory.

“It was a very, very satisfying effort tonight,” Cook said. “I told our team before the match that Utah was going to put a lot of doubt in our heads at times in this match, and we had to fight through that. And I think that’s been one of the things in the past, is when teams put doubt on us, we kind of let them affect us, and tonight we just kept battling.”

Cook said Utah really brought it. But at the end of the day, serving and passing were big parts of that battle, and Nebraska won that aspect. But looking at hitting percentages, Utah was consistently higher than Nebraska in every set except the fifth.

“You look at the stats, it doesn’t make a lot of sense,” Cook said.

Cook also said the crowd did more than just bleed red in the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

A fan clad in a red onesie and a red Afro wig took laps around the court to pump the crowd up, leading cheers involving everyone in the arena. Another was dressed like Santa Claus. And another was proudly wearing a corn hat.

There were thousands more. Some wore shirts from the white out a few weeks ago.

Others wore scarves and held witty signs.

One thing was for sure: Devaney was on fire.

Well after Pitbull’s “Don’t Stop the Party” had stopped playing, fans were still excitedly clapping to the beat.

And Cook said it’s what fueled the Huskers to victory.

“It was a great match,” Cook said. “The crowd was awesome. They definitely got their money’s worth tonight. You could tell they were really into it. It was great volleyball, so it was easy to be excited as a spectator watching the match.”

For Cook, this win means more than just moving forward to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament.

“This was a huge, huge breakthrough for us,” Cook said. “Winning Game 5 here and how we did it – as a coach, this is what you dream about, is that your team will learn and get better through the season and learn from their experiences. So, tonight definitely showed that we learned from those earlier matches and how to really be aggressive in Game 5.”

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Sophomore outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen tries to notch a kill in a match during the weekend. She racked up 28 kills in two matches.

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STRENGTH Gymnast uses diagnosis as motivation STORY BY NICK WILKINSON

There they are yet again. Two rings, each one seven inches around, hanging down just above his head. Nebraska senior gymnast Robbie Kocks stares up at them as the spotter behind him whispers words of encouragement.

But the veteran gymnast already knows. It’s late April in Norman, Oklahoma, at the men’s gymnastics NCAA Championships, and Kocks wants to be No. 1. He constantly has visions of himself up on the rings doing his final routine at nationals. Every time he sees those images in his mind – the rings, the lights bouncing off the blue mats below – chills jolt down his spine. He knows he can make it there, and that’s what’s motivating him the most.

Throughout his accomplishments, including becoming a Husker gymnastics recordholder, 22-year-old Kocks could barely make it through the day without feeling exhausted. He blamed his fatigue on his active lifestyle.

He knew something was wrong when he dropped 20 pounds this summer.

“I was just getting really bad stomach cramps after eating. Eating anything,” Kocks said. “I finally went to a doctor about it, he sent me to see a gastroenterologist, and they told me I had Crohn’s disease.”

According to the Crohn’s Foundation of America website, Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease where the body’s immune system mistakes good bacteria in the intestines with harmful invaders, so it attacks the bacteria, causing a multitude of symptoms.

Kocks had already looked up what Crohn’s disease was before he was even diagnosed, so he was a little bit prepared. In the back of his mind, he kind of knew he had it.

Despite being diagnosed with an untreatable disease, Kocks said he doesn’t think it will affect his season. Without even knowing he had it, Kocks dealt with it all last season and still placed third in the conference championship.

“I get these flare ups where my body just aches and it feels like you have the flu and a heavy body,” Kocks said. “Everything just hurts. I always wondered why I was so tired all the time, and I always associated it with my high intensity, but it wasn’t.”

Crohn’s disease can cripple its victims with vicious, painful flare-ups, as they’re called.

Without any warning, a storm of nausea, abdominal pain, fevers and more can stop a person’s day. Each victim suffering from the disease will have his or her own private hell made up of variations of these components, but all will share the guarantee of loss of normal life, and the knowledge that there’s no cure.

Crohn’s disease is diagnosed in about 1 in 10,000 people every year. Through the constant feeling of having severe influenza – loss of appetite, fever and tiredness – Kocks decided long before his diagnosis that he had other plans for the next few years and the rest of his life. He’s a person with Crohn’s disease, not Crohn’s disease.

“I swore to myself that it would not get in the way of my gymnastics and it would not hinder me at all,” Kocks said. “In my abilities, or my mindset, or in my life.”

Kocks described Crohn’s disease as a rollercoaster. He said the biggest thing he has to focus on is taking care of his body and reading off what he is able to do every day. Kocks said dealing with the disease has been the hardest thing he’s had to deal with but thinks it couldn’t come at a better time.

“I think it just makes me stronger,” Kocks said. “It’s good that I’m able to manage it. It’s not treatable, but it’s definitely made me stronger. It’s helped me to stay positive in crappy situations because no matter what happens everything is going to be just fine.”

Nebraska coach Chuck Chmelka said Kocks’s diagnosis is beyond sports.

“It was scary,” Chmelka said. “You never know what is going to happen or what it is exactly. We’ve been pretty fortunate with the time given to him, so he can figure out what he needs to do, and we got lucky that it wasn’t during the season.”

If Kocks was diagnosed during the season, then he probably wouldn’t have been able to compete this year, Chmelka said.

Kocks is on a medication called Remicade that he said helps tremendously with his symptoms so he can practice pretty efficiently. Every six weeks, Kocks has to get infusions of Remicade, works by blocking the actions of a certain natural substance in the body. This helps to decrease swelling and weaken Kocks’ immune

system, thereby slowing or stopping damage from the disease.

“My coaches have worked with me the entire semester,” Kocks said. “I think communication is the biggest thing with it. I’ve missed several practices with procedures, infusions and everything. But I think they trust in my abilities and they trust in what I bring to the team and everything that I want for all the guys, so its unbelievable how much trust my coaches have in me.”

Kocks said it’s normal to get discouraged, and he does from time to time, but he bounces back pretty quickly.

“My teammates have supported me a good amount,” Kocks said. “Any time I’ve wanted to talk about my disease, they bring me up, and they literally tell me ‘You’re Robbie Kocks, you can do anything.’”

Chmelka said Kocks was pretty scared about life. But since his diagnosis, he’s more determined than ever.

“I think he realizes that he can be OK, and that he has his entire senior year to be great,” Chmelka said.

Kocks said he still has visions of the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma, and all of his coaches there watching his final routine as a Husker. The visions will never cease to give him chills. Regardless of any adversity he has faced or will face this upcoming season, Kocks said nothing is stopping him from realizing his National Championship.

“Nothing has changed,” Kocks said. “This disease is not something that’s going to hinder me and I’m not going to let it. I really do believe because of this, and everything I’ve gone through, I believe I’ve become a better person and I think I have a better step up on the competition because of it.”

When Kocks started to wonder if he was going to stick around for a fifth year at Nebraska, he decided he had to change his life.

It was toward the end of his third year.

The criminal justice major from Lawrenceville, Georgia, competed in only four meets that season. He consistently scored a 14.00 or higher on still rings, but he knew he hadn’t tapped into his full potential.

Kocks had a fifth year of eligibility because

he redshirted his first season as a walk-on for the Huskers. He started wondering if he should stick around because he did have another year to compete. He knew if he were going to do that, he would have to give 150 percent and leave nothing on the blue mats of the gym floor.

“I said to myself, ‘If I put everything toward gymnastics and every moment in the gym was spent well, then I could do it.’”

Kocks knew where he wanted to be, and he knew he wanted to be at Nebraska, but he said he had to commit everything to reach that goal.

“I said to myself, ‘How great am I able to become?’”

Kocks said his coaches “put a little spark into him.” They would constantly say he had the potential to be an All-American on rings; Kocks just didn’t really understand how.

It was at that point, nearing the end of his third year, when he started to understand how to get there.

“I found out what motivates me the most, and I started thinking about doing the right things in and out of the gym,” Kocks said.

“When I started doing all the right things in my whole life, that’s when I started seeing the most improvements in the gym.”

Coaches and teammates started to look up to Kocks and rely on him late in the season last year when his team faced a handful of injuries and sickness that was swapped between one another.

With everyone counting on him, Kocks said Nebraska was the place to be. From that moment on he was constantly thinking about how to become better. “‘What can I do in the gym?’ I was constantly thinking,” Kocks said. “‘What can I eat before practice?’ I tried to find all the right things to eat so I wouldn’t cramp up. In the gym, I started training smarter, working on the right skills for rings and training with consistency.”

Outside of the gym, Kocks said he had to change his lifestyle as well. He said his mind wasn’t in the right place when he came to Nebraska.

“It was about having a normal experience; going with the flow, but once I started to understand my purpose here and how much of an opportunity I had, that’s when I started to

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Senior Robbie Kocks competes on the rings in a meet. Kocks was diagnosised with Crohn’s disease, but he uses it to motivate himself during his training. change,” Kocks said.

Chmelka said Kocks has grown amazingly during his tenure at Nebraska.

“He was a walk-on – he wasn’t even our most talented walk-on – when he came to Nebraska,” Chmelka said. “His first year was rough. You kind of lose focus when you don’t compete. It was a struggle at first, he did some things outside that he shouldn’t have done, but he has become a man and has been getting better and better as an athlete over the years.”

Kocks almost didn’t stay. After weeks of deliberating whether a fifth year of eligibility

was the right thing for him he made his decision. He wanted to commit everything to the rings and leave school on top, so he’s staying.

Since his decision, he broke the school record on rings twice, achieved five personal bests, earned third place at the Big Ten Championships, finished seventh in the nation on rings overall, 11th at nationals, he was named to the Second team All-Big Ten, he was the 2014 most improved of men’s gymnastics at Nebraska and earned the weight lifter award of 2014.

“It’s been the greatest experience of my

life here at Nebraska,” Kocks said. “It’s crazy because I’ve had so many people tell me how I’ve gone literally from nothing to being a school record holder and team leader this year.”

Chmelka has high expectations for Kocks.

He said he doesn’t want to put any pressure on him, but the goals are to win a Championship and be an All-American.

“Every position on rings has to be held and just nailed. If he sticks a landing here and there I know he can get there,” Chmelka said.

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Earlier this season, Kocks was voted team captain of the men’s gymnastics team.

“Robbie is total leader in and out of the gym,” Chmelka said. “Every day he brings incredible work ethic. He went from struggling in school to excelling in all areas. It was just about effort. That’s what life is – you have to work. Nothing is going to be given to you and he knew that. Now that he realizes that, he has the chance to be great.”

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Coaches strive to balance in, out-of-state talent CHRIS BOWLING DN Matthew Martin can boil down what he and other coaches look for in future Huskers down to a few key characteristics.

“We’re looking at someone that can compete at the Big Ten level and potentially the national level,” said Martin, Nebraska track and field sprint, hurdles and relays coach. “Athletic ability is first and foremost, that’s your starting point.”

With that, he and other coaches also consider academic ability, a team-orientated metality and good character and work ethic as things that make an individual fit the mold of a Nebraska student athlete. It’s all part of a recruitment process that’s integral to the success of the program.

The future of any collegiate sports program relies on the ability of coaches and athletes to grow and fulfill team goals, but none of that would be possible without good raw talent in the form of recruiting classes.

One consideration that’s taken into account, though, is the balance between in-state and out-ofstate athletes. Recruiters, such as Martin, have to work to maintain a homegrown feel to their programs while also looking nationally and internationally for the best talent.

kind of contacts that we have.”

“We always start with Nebraska,” Martin said.

In other words, regardless of location they’re “We, like everybody in the athletic department, looking for individuals with the ability to help want Nebraskans first and foremost, but obviously them reach their team goals. However, one of the it’s hard to have nothing but Nebraskans and be biggest obstacles in recruiting these out-of-state competitive at the level we’re charged to compete athletes is competing with other schools from all at.” around the country.

Traveling is also an obstacle Mar“You have to show them why Netin and his staff have to overcome. braska is a good choice to leave home Although cost isn’t an issue for them, and all those choices that are so close, their budget allows them to travel any and a lot of those kids know Nebraska, distance they need to for a recruit, the but they haven’t seen it,” Martin said. time it would take for them to tour NeIt’s an obstacle that isn’t as prevabraska and surrounding states isn’t an lent among international athletes as economical use of their time. they don’t often have any precon“I can go to New York or Texas ceived ideas about a school in Texas, and go to a big track meet in one of Florida, Nebraska or any other state. those areas and see hundreds of kids It’s all just the United States to them, in one or two days,” Martin said. which works in Nebraska’s favor as it “That’s probably just a flight there and MATT MARTIN creates an even playing field. back versus driving hundreds of miles One way Nebraska can attract to cover all of the upper Midwest.” these athletes, whether they’re inThe result is that track and field recruits a handful of Nebraskans, and once they’ve state, out-of-state or international, is scholardecided they have the local talent they need, it’s ship money. Track and field has a unique setup with their scholarship money as they’re an basically open season. equivalency sport, which means it can divide “There’s no difference in a Kansan and a Jamaitheir scholarship money and distribute it howcan in our eyes,” Martin said. “It’s all about how big of a talent pool there is in those areas as well as the ever it sees fit.

But despite all the flights, meetings and other hoops recruiters have to jump through to compete for national prospects, Martin said he still thinks local talent is one of the best places to build a base for the team even if they haven’t had the advantages of other athletes.

“The kids might not have had a lot of exposure to track and field at our level of competition, but they’ve been well prepared in the sense that they’ve been around good coaches and good people, so they’re willing to work hard,” Martin said.

In addition, Nebraskans also bring a sense of homegrown pride to the team as most of them have grown up Huskers and are naturally excited to contribute to the tradition. It’s an attitude that’s infectious and might be lost if a balance between in-state and out-of-state wasn’t found.

“If you don’t have enough local mixed in, then you lose the attitude and workmanship and pride that goes into being a Husker,” Martin said. “So you would have a lot of athletic people that might not have the pride of doing it for the school or the team, and you definitely run the risk of having a disconnect there.”

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Husker divers pick up win at Hawkeye Invitational Nebraska sends 3 divers to compete individually in Iowa City, Iowa, to return with 1 win, 4 Top 5 finishes

BRETT NIERENGARTEN DN The Nebraska swimming and diving team sent three divers to compete as individuals in the Hawkeye Invitational this weekend.

As a team, NU’s three divers came away with one win and four top-five finishes in three events. Nebraska’s competitors included sophomore Anna Filipcic, junior Nicole Schwery and freshman Francesca Giganti.

Filipcic led the way for the Huskers in the first two days of the meet capturing top-five finishes in both of her events.

Her first came on Friday with a fifth-place finish out of 22 divers in the 1-meter dive.

Filipcic’s preliminary round score of 301.40 was the highest in preliminaries; she finished with a score of 276.85 in the eight-diver final

round. Filipcic was the sole NU diver to compete in the first day of competition.

On Saturday, Filipcic finished fourth in the 3-meter. Just like the day before, Filipcic posted the highest score in the preliminary with a 348.05. She then earned a score of 303.50 in the finals. Teammate Schwery finished two places out of a spot in the finals, finishing 10th, while Giganti finished 19th.

Schwery said it wasn’t the team’s best performance, and they all had an OK performance.

Schwery and Giganti came back strong in the platform dive on Sunday after not qualifying for the finals in the 3-meter.

Both qualified for the finals with Giganti in third and Schwery winning the preliminary round. Schwery took the momentum she had from the preliminaries and went on to win the event. Giganti finished fourth overall, and both divers set personal bests in the finals.

“I think we did well especially just coming back from an invite,” Schwery said. “It was especially good because we got to go up against some people we will against during Big Ten’s and zones.”

The full team is back in action with a dual meet against Northern Iowa at home on Dec. 12.

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Kokesh claims 1st in Cliff Keen Invitational TYLER ARLT DN Nebraska hit the road this weekend for a three-day tournament in Las Vegas. Matches started on Friday and went through the championships on Sunday.

Forty teams participated in the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, including other Big Ten Conference schools such as Michigan and Minnesota. This tournament was unique for the Huskers as it also featured small schools such as Grand Canyon University and Utah Valley University. Nebraska also got the rare chance to see Nebraska-Kearney in action this weekend.

Nebraska sent 10 wrestlers to Las Vegas and had four come back with top 10 finishes.

Nebraska’s only first-place finish came from senior Robert Kokesh.

“The tournament went well for me, but there are still a lot of things that I need to improve on throughout the season to win a national title,” Kokesh said.

Kokesh said competing against so many

teams this weekend made the tournament a good experience.

“It gave me the ability to wrestle different opponents with different styles,” Kokesh said. “It also showed me the things that I need to continue to work on to be successful.”

Even in victory, Kokesh said he’s looking to improve.

“I would like to always maintain a positive attitude and continue to build on my technique so that when the Big Ten tournament and national tournament arrive I am prepared to win them both,” he said.

Sophomore Justin Arthur, who wrestles at 149, is competing as an underclassmen and is performing up to Nebraska standards.

Arthur took fourth this weekend and finished with a record of 6-2.

“I think the week for me was a positive week,” Arthur said. “There were a lot of things I learned and that I need to improve on. I definitely felt stronger in a lot of areas that the coaches had worked on me with.”

Arthur said the team didn’t perform the way it wanted to.

There were a lot of things I learned and that I need to improve on. I definitely felt stronger in a lot of areas that the coaches had worked on me with.”

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“It was an up and down weekend with its highs and lows,” Arthur said.

With all the different teams at the tournament, Arthur said he was impressed with the competition.

“It was a neat experience to get to wrestle at the Las Vegas tournament,” he said. “The level of competition there is unbelievable. It will help me out for the NCAA’s.”

Kokesh said he along with the rest of the team has a chance to go far this season.

“Our team is still growing and improv-

ing and we have a lot of work to do to finish at the top in March.” Kokesh said. “I believe that this team has the capability to contend for the Big Ten and National Titles.”

Nebraska heads home this week to battle the Badgers of Wisconsin. Nebraska will look to improve its dual record to 2-0 in the Devaney Center.

The match is set for Saturday, Dec. 13 at 6 p.m..

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Bowling coach brings success to program CHRIS BOWLING DN At 63, Bill Straub is 6 feet, 5 inches, 220 pounds – he points out that he used to weigh a lot more – and been coaching Nebraska bowling in some way or another for more than 25 years. Under his tenure, the women’s and men’s bowling teams have won a combined 11 national championships and countless other NCAA titles. But, while he’s grateful for all the opportunities he’s been afforded at Nebraska, coaching was never part of the plan.

“I’ve always been oversized,” Straub said. “I played every sport there was when I was a kid, and I liked it so much that I wanted to find one that I could play professionally.”

But team sports proved to be tricky for the Lincoln native because so much of it was circumstantial. To advance past the collegiate level the athlete had to go to the right school at the right time with the right coach, and even then there was still proving ground to overcome. With that in mind, he turned his sights toward individual sports.

Straub was faced with a hard decision to make: either persuade his parents to move to Florida, so he could play golf or learn how to bowl. Straub never did end up surrounding himself with the expansive courses and

warm weather, but he did fulfill his dream of playing professionally as he was on the men’s professional tour in the mid ‘80s.

Eventually he found his way to Nebraska after he was asked to help coach the team with a grad student through a friend he made on the tour. He came on, and the next year that graduate student was gone. While he didn’t know anything about coaching, the opportunity couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.

“When I was asked if I could help, it was coming at a time when I didn’t want to be on the tour, which is roughly 35 weeks a year living out of a suitcase week after week,” Straub said. “So I thought about giving it a shot from the sideline and it’s worked out much to my advantage, which I’m very grateful for.”

When it comes to his success at the program and propelling it to be one of the top bowling forces in the country, Straub said there isn’t anything fancy he and his staff focuses on. More than anything, Straub focuses heavily on the fundamentals of the game because no matter how much the athletes change, it’s still the same sport.

“The game is fundamentally the same,” Straub said. “I try to teach the sport regard-

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Nebraska bowling coach Bill Straub talks with one of his athletes during a tournament. Straub has been at Neberaska for more than 25 years.

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BOWLING: FROM 22 less of whether you were born in the 2010s or the 1930s.”

And that success has attracted attention from other schools throughout the years.

When Vanderbilt came to Straub and said they had an offer he couldn’t refuse, Straub said he had big ears but that it still wasn’t good enough. University of California-Santa Barbara approached him with a similar offer that ended in a similar fashion.

Straub has been a supporter of Husker athletics for a long time and the support he’s received from the athletic administration through the years is a big reason he’s still coaching after all these years. The role has been invaluable to the players’ experiences.

“He taught me specifically to never step up and make a shot unless I’m 100 percent confident and to always trust my ability,” senior bowler Liz Kuhlkin said. “Obviously, there are many fundamental things he taught me for my growth through the program, but some of the emotional and spiritual things he teaches us mean the most.”

After she graduates, Kuhlkin plans to be a part of a revived professional women’s tour. It’s an opportunity she said she owes to the work of coach Straub as well as assistant coach Paul Klempa, who will have overseen her growth for the past four years by the time she graduates next spring.

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But that doesn’t mean he’s ready to quit any time soon. Like Kuhlkin and the countless other players he’s been able to work with through the years, Straub owes something to every team he coaches.

“We have an excellent team this year, top to bottom, and I don’t want to quit on them,” Straub said. “They came here because they were made an offer that I would do my best to try and help them develop them as players, I don’t hold that lightly.”

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“I’ve gained leadership qualities that I don’t think I could have gained anywhere else.”

As Straub looks into his own future, retirement is definitely on his mind. At 63, Kuhlkin said he isn’t losing any of the witty and eccentric personality he’s known for, but he knows there will be a time to call it quits for good in the next few years.

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egg 6 “Major” beast 10 Porter’s regretful Miss 14 From Basra, say 15 Time to stuff stockings 16 [sigh] 17 Start of an algebra problem 20 Toby filler 21 To ___ (perfectly) 22 Heating option 23 Least fresh 27 Throw one’s support behind 29 “___ nerve!”

30 Poet with a “fanatic’s heart” 32 Passage preventers, often 33 Québec assent 34 Jettison

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Outgoing flight stat The rest of the algebra problem Kitty “L’___ c’est moi” Alternative to Yahoo!

It has feathers and flies Black Sabbath’s genre Benchmarks: Abbr.

Think tank types Like stir-fry Meditation sounds One-in-a-million Messenger ___ Answer to the algebra problem Steaming Causes of some celebrity clashes

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of jazz 2 Dadaist Jean 49 3 Guy’s mate 4 Regard as 50 identical 5 Fine cotton 52 thread 54 6 Prefix with -form 55 7 Parks in front 57 of a bus?

58 8 Sonnet part 9 Xenophobes’ fear 64 10 Muesli morsel 65 11 Mrs. Robinson’s movie 12 “Fine with me” TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 13 Classic quintet F O X Y H A F T 18 Response to “Who, me?”

O D I E E E R I E T I N A L Y C R A 19 Marked, in a way L O N G T H E S E M 23 Menu general A M S E C T T A T A T R A I N 24 Gumbo thickener H T O W E R U S N A E F A S S T E E P 25 “Wow!” P U R P L E H A Z E 26 Actress Harper of “No Country M A N A T O for Old Men” A P S T I R A D E 28 Savvy about J I M I H E N D R I X O E L A N A S A P 31 Until now R L I N C R O L E 34 Cause of a boom and L A D Y E N O L bust?

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“Take ___ a sign”

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Subject of a cap, in sports

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Compound in Agent Orange Venerate More Scroogelike Tee off Equilibrium Battlefield fare: Abbr.

Pull together

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Slaughter in baseball Some highlight reel features, for short Summer hrs.

Parisian’s possessive Ore suffix Affectionate sign-off

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Nebraska Senior center Moses Abraham

Abraham attempts to get a put back

6 p.m. tipoff at Pinnacle Bank Arena

PHOTO BY DAVID GASS | DN

The Huskers fell to the Creighton Bluejays on Sunday by a score of 65-55. Abraham went 2-for-2 in the game.