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tuesday, february 11, 2014 volume 114, issue 093

Inside Coverage

NU baseball ready to start new season

Double Damsel

Huskers to open up with games in Tempe, Ariz.

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It’s going to look nice. It’s different when you live off campus.”

Jonathan Jarmon

People don’t fit one narrative

senior psychology major

Trans people can speak for themselves

4 Keeping eyes on the road New bill aims to stop drivers from texting

2 20th century style inspires fashion exhibit Student showcases illustrations and original garments

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The Glenn Korff School of Music will put on a Cinderella opera adaptation featuring two versions of the classic fairy tale character on stage at the same time.

I like the whole modern look of it.”

Carrie Niemeier

Renovations to the Nebraska Union are still ongoing, but the Crib is now open for students. It isn’t completely finished, but the construction shouldn’t hinder students needing to study.

almost there

senior post-secondary education major

It’s like they picked the busiest time of the year. If you like dry wall, now is your favorite time.”

Adam D’Josey

story by Layla Younis photo by Tyler Meyer

freshman exploratory and pre-professional major

Renovated Crib open for public use, study areas near Caffina Cafe now closed

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he Crib in the Nebraska Union is now open after a month-long renovation delay.

However, the lounge area on the north side of the union is now closed off as construction workers paint and install wood flooring. Because students typically study in the north lounge, the number of people in The Crib and the food court area in the center of the union may see a traffic increase.

Ryan Lahne, associate director of the Nebraska Unions, said the furniture in the north lounge has been relocated throughout the union.

“The furniture throughout the building is pretty tight and in less convenient locations, but we are hoping that the impact is fairly minimal,” Lahne said.

The Crib has a lower stage, which isn’t yet complete, that union administrators hope will be used for poetry nights and other performances.

The renovated area has new lights and wood flooring that is to help guide visitors around the union on Red Letter Days and New Student Enrollment.

For Alec Wiese, a junior exploratory major, the change in scenery is nice, but he said he does have to change his five second route through the union.

“It can be mildly inconvenient, but it’s so minor,” Wiese said.

Chandell Tillman, a learning space counselor in the union’s laptop checkout room and junior criminal justice major, said she saw fewer people come check out

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I walked in from the (south entrance), and I felt like I didn’t know where I was. It shows that the university is improving the area where students study.”

Francisco Mora-Becerra senior electrical engineering major

Activist sheds light on human rights in China Former Chinese prisioner discusses why China may view US as threat, says two are very different Melissa Allen DN

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When the United States talks about China, it talks about military power, it talks politics, it talks economy – but it doesn’t talk about human rights, according to a former Chinese political prisoner in a lecture held Monday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Harry Wu spoke to an audience in the Nebraska Union of about 75 students and faculty members about U.S. and Chinese relations.

The lecture, hosted by the University Programming Council, focused on China’s governmental, economic and military role in the global community.

Wu, who spent 19 years in a Chinese labor camp, is the author of several books about Chinese

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Harry Wu spoke on U.S.-China relations in the 21st century in the Nebraska Union auditorium on Monday night to an audience of about 75 students and faculty. labor camps, including his autobiography, “Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China’s Gulag, and Troublemaker: One Man’s Crusade Against China’s Cruelty.”

In 1992, he founded the Laogai Research foundation, which aims to increase awareness of Chinese Labor camps.

One issue that doesn’t get

discussed about China is human rights, Wu said.

Right now, all the focus is on the Diaoyu Islands (also known as the Senkaku Islands), a group of islands North of Taiwan in the South China Sea. Japan, Taiwan and China are all trying to have control over these small islands.

“China in the past, didn’t care

about these islands,” Wu said.

“Recently, China said, ‘Hey, this is our island.’ Why is China suddenly interested? Oil.” Currently, 70 to 80 percent of oil is imported into China from other countries, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Wu said if China were to seize control over these islands, it could shift the balance of power.

Wu said the reason why China might view the U.S. as a threat and “always takes America as a major target” is because the countries are very different.

“One is about freedom, democracy, privatization and development,” he said. “The other, socialism, communism, no privatization and no development.”

China is also expanding its power to extract resources from other countries, Wu said.

“Today, China is expanding their power everywhere, like Africa,” Wu said. “In Africa, there’s oil sources and mining.”

Wu has gotten some heat over the years for his views on the Chinese government. Twenty years ago, he said, Chinese students opposed his views on China’s Communist Party. They waved signs with the words, “troublemaker,” on them.

Jiuzhou Qin, a senior electrical engineering senior from China, said modern students no longer have the same view on the Chinese government than they did before.

“The perspectives are different now than what we were 20 years ago,” Qin said. “We aren’t students with ‘troublemaker’ signs. I know we still have a lot of problems, like air pollution and corruption. I don’t like my government, but I love my country.”

Peter Bock, a senior management and marketing major, is a member of UPC. Bock proposed having Wu as a speaker earlier this year.

“We wanted something academic and relatable with current events,” Bock said.

The purpose of the lecture was give students an opportunity to learn a new perspective on U.S. and China relations.

“Students will leave with a new perspective on how other countries run, and hopefully they’ll be more aware on global issues,” said Nora Williams, a sophomore advertising major who helped set up the event.

“This involves the future of the

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ON CAMPUS what:

Word Essentials when: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. where: Architecture Hall, Room 107 what:

College Possible when: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. where: Andrews Hall, Bailey Library Room 229 what:

MyUNL Blackboard – Managing an Organization when: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Architecture Hall, Room 107 what:

Entomology Lecture when: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Entomology Hall, Room 202 what:

Living in a Digital World when: 5 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Pewter Room

IN LINCOLN what:

Preservation Association of Lincoln Brown Bag Series – Jim McKee when: Noon where: Nebraska History Museum, 15th and P Streets more information: This is a free event. what:

Jazzocracy when: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. more information: No cover charge.

china: from 1 U.S. and China, and it’s an important topic because a lot of people aren’t aware of our country’s relation to others.”

Although there is no end in sight for the communist party, there’s hope for more and better personal exchanges between China and the rest of the world, Wu said.

“I appreciate one thing about China, and that’s the personal exchanges,” Wu said. “So many Chinese come to America, Britain, whatever. And so many Americans, British, Indian, whatever, come to China. That wasn’t happening a few years ago.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Lincoln native to debate military policy Mara Klecker DN

institution of a draft and the permanence of U.S. military commitments.

While the purpose of all E.N. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Af- Thompson Forums is to bring in diverse viewpoints on internafairs Derek Chollet will return to his hometown of Lincoln on tional and public policy to spark conversation and debate, this Tuesday to speak on U.S. foreign particular presentation policy and military is unique, said Katie Cerstrength and invantes, coordinator for volvement. the forums.

Chollet will “We are lucky to have join Boston Unia Lincoln native return versity internahere so we can benefit tional relations from his experience in professor Andrew the State Department, Bacevich to discuss the White House, Capitol and debate “The Hill and the Pentagon,” American Military: Cervantes said. “He’s War and Peace, had an incredible impact Spending and Polichollet and worked with some tics.” The presenof the biggest names in tation is this year ’s American foreign policy.”

Chuck and Linda Chollet attended Lincoln Wilson Dialogue, part of the “Us and Them” E.N. Thompson Fo- Southeast High School and gradrum on World Issues theme. The uated in 1989. He went on to attend Cornell University. Before forum will begin at 7 p.m. at the his current position as principal Lied Center for Performing Arts. advisor to the Under Secretary The moderated debate will touch on the size and role of the of Defense for issues related to U.S. military, the use of drones Europe, the Middle East and Afin surveillance and combat, the rica, Chollet served as a Special

Assistant to the President and senior director of a strategic planning committee. He has written and co-written six books detailing American foreign policy and military involvement.

Bacevich has been called “one of the most provocative – as in thought-provoking – national security writers out there today.”

A West-Point graduate, Vietnam veteran and father of a fallen Marine, his several books and articles critique the American attitude toward and treatment of recent military members.

Lloyd Ambrosius, professor of international relations and history, said he looks forward to hearing the dialogue between Chollet and Bacevich.

“Andrew Bacevich has emerged as one of the best informed critics of American military operations and the costs associated with them,” Ambrosius said.

Both Cervantes and Ambrosius encourage students to attend the forum. The monetary costs of war directly impact the economy and thus the job market, Ambrosius said, and therefore students

if you go what: “The American Military: War and Peace, Spending and Politics,” dialogue for the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. who: Assistant Secretary of Defense Derek Chollet and Boston University international relations Professor Andrew Bacevich. when: 7 p.m. Tuesday. Pre-talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Lied’s Steinhart Room. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. cost: Free.

Tickets can be reserved by calling 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231, can be picked up in person at the Lied Center box office or ordered online.

should have an invested interest.

“Even if students aren’t concerned with issues of war and peace in a direct sort of way, they should be concerned about their own futures and the impart – for better or worse – that our nation’s foreign policies will have on those futures,” he said.

Ambrosius said he hopes students and all attendees can come

away with new insight.

“Both Bacevich and Chollet are exceedingly well informed,” he said. “They will agree and disagree and when we have that kind of dialogue between informed people, we are bound to learn something.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

UNL to host career fairs, offer resume review Prospective employers from various fields to have booths on campus for three days Jacob Elliot DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting its Spring Career Fair this week.

Career Services is hosting the fair, which will take place Tuesday in the Nebraska East Union Centennial Room and in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room on Wednesday and Thursday.

The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

The Spring Career Fair is an opportunity for students to net-

ployers that they might be workwork with 100 to 200 employers of different businesses who will be ing for when they graduate,” said representing themselves at the fair. Bill Watts, director of University Advising & Career Services.

On Tuesday, the fair will tarThe Spring Career Fair is benget students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural eficial for students now and in the future, said Rachel Larson, Resources. Wednesday’s fair will the College of Business assisfocus on business, government, science and liberal arts students tant director of Career Services.

Students may and on Thursday, find jobs and inthe fair will focus It’s your ternships in their on engineering, business area, and technology and chance to they’ll also find science students. networking opSome of the em- describe your portunities that ployers include skills and explain they can use in the Peace Corps, Walt Disney World, Ver- your experiences.” future.

Career Services izon Wireless, U.S. Rachel Larson is also offering Navy and Gallup, assistant director of career 20-minute walkamong others. For in resume reviews a complete listing Monday through of the employers Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in attending the fair, check the Caroom 230 of the Nebraska Union. reer Services website.

“One of the ways you, as a “This is a fantastic chance for student, would hopefully be getour students to meet, right here on campus, with potential em- ting a callback from an employer,

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if you go On Tuesday: where: Nebraska East Union Centennial Room when: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

On Wednesday and Thursday: where: Nebraska Union Centennial Room when: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Walk-in resume reviews: where: Nebraska Union, room 230 when: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday thru Friday

is by handing in a resume,” Larson said. “From that standpoint a resume is essentially a business card at a career fair, as students don’t typically have that. From a resume standpoint, it’s your

chance to describe your skills and explain your experiences, and hopefully they’ll see you as a potential candidate.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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ing to the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety. According to the 2013 DMV manual, the average Scottsbluff Sen. John Harms wants amount of time it takes to write to turn texting while driving into and send a text is about 4.6 seconds. If a person were driving at a primary offense through the Ne55 mph, he or she could drive the braska Roadway Safety Act. length of a football field in that Currently, texting and driving is a secondary offense, which time.

Not wearing a seatbelt is means drivers can only be cited for texting if they are cited for an- also dangerous. In 2012, 112 other violation. If passed, the act people died from not wearing a seatbelt when the car crashed, would allow police to stop any individual found texting behind according to the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety. the wheel.

If caught without wearing The act, Lega seatbelt, drivislative Bill 807, ers receive a $25 would make not I think that ticket. First-time wearing a seatbelt (the bill) offenses for texa primary offence ting while drivas well. Nebraska actually saves ing can include is one of 17 states fines from $200 that doesn’t have people’s lives to $500, as well primary offense when you look at as 3 points placed charges for seatit.” on the offender ’s belts. driving record.

“I think that john harms The Nebraska scottsbluff senator (the bill) actuRoadway Safety ally saves people’s Act is scheduled lives when you look at it,” Harms said. “We could to be voted on later this session and is Harms’ priority bill. do a lot more on saving lives. It Students had various reacreally is a critical issue. Seatbelts tions to the bill. are the same thing. Seatbelts have “I’m mixed about it, because been proven to save lives.” sometimes I text and drive, and In 2010, Harms passed a bill, I sometimes don’t wear my seatLB945, prohibiting the use of belt, but at the same time I know handheld wireless communication devices – cellphones, PDAs, it’s super dangerous,” said Jennifer Roberts, a freshman animal pagers or laptops – behind the wheel. The bill was amended so science major. “So I think it’s a good thing because it would defthat a $200 ticket could only be initely stop me. It’s your life; you given as a secondary offense.

In 2012, there were 144 should take care of it.” news@ crashes in Nebraska related to dailynebraskan.com cellphone distractions, accord-

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Kevin Thor, a junior communication studies and management major, studies in the newly renovated Crib space. The Crib and the rest of the Nebraska Union will continue to undergo renovations for the next couple of months.

laptops on Monday because the north lounge is closed.

Previously the north lounge was connected to the laptop checkout as well as the NCard Office, providing easier access for students who needed to get to those areas. With that area blocked off, Tillman said she thinks students likely believe the laptop checkout is closed as well.

Cedrick Stubblefield, another learning space counselor and junior electrical engineering major, said the old laptops that used to be in the walkway were put into the ASUN office and other storage areas.

Stubblefield said he would’ve preferred the renovations to be completed at a more convenient

time because there wouldn’t be fewer people using the laptop checkout room.

“Maybe they should have done this in spring break,” Stubblefield said.

By the end of spring break all the construction should be complete and the new furniture, which is the last phase of the project, should be shipped, Lahne said.

“The access is certainly less convenient and we have tried to create temporary signage to help people continue to use this service,” Lahne said.

Even though it’s difficult to get access to the laptops, the laptop checkout desk, the NCard Office and Computer Lab are

still available to students.

Jessica McManigal, a junior veterinary technology major, said she comes to the union a lot when she has classes because she commutes from Omaha.

McManigal’s said she is looking forward to the completion of the union renovations.

The construction project is on schedule and should be complete by the end of spring break.

“It will be a challenging couple of weeks for us.” Lahne said.

“We appreciate everybody’s patience and look forward to the finishing product following spring break.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Campus briefs Report: State has undergone extensive water-level decline

The state of Nebraska has experienced unprecedented groundwater declines during the last year, according to the Nebraska Statewide Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report.

Between spring 2012 and spring 2013, all but three Nebraska counties experienced water-level declines of more than one foot, with some decreases amounting to as much as 25 feet. The average decline was 2.54 feet, according to the report as summarized in a university press release.

“An average one-year decline of this magnitude has never been recorded before in the state,” said Aaron Young, groundwater resources coordinator at UNL. The report compares spring water levels around the state from year to year and analyzes regional trends.

It’s available online at http://go.unl.edu/groundwater or can be purchased in print at the Nebraska Maps and More Store on the first floor of Hardin Hall or online at http://nebraskamaps.unl.edu.

Child development instructor lands teaching award

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Candice Batton, director and an associate professor of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said that guns are not very effective when it comes to self defense. She said people who have guns are more likely to have their gun taken away and used against them than to actually be able to use their gun in self defense.

After recent college shootings, gun violence expert explains gun usage in today’s society Layla Younis dn Every week, the Daily Nebraskan interviews a notable figure on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus in an effort to allow campus leaders to deliver the news in their own words. This week, we chose Candice Batton, director and associate professor of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, about gun violence in the United States.

On Jan. 24, there was a shooting at South Carolina State University where one student died. On Jan. 21, a teaching assistant stabbed and shot another teaching assistant at Purdue University. On Jan. 20, a college shooting occurred at Widener University, in Chester, Pa. The University of Oklahoma briefly shut down on Jan. 22, because of a shooting that was a false alarm.

Daily Nebraskan: What do you know about gun violence?

Candice Batton: We know that a significant amount of lethal violence in the U.S. involves guns.

About two-thirds of homicides involve guns. This is different than a lot of other countries. That’s one thing we know. On of the reasons that guns are such a problem with regard to violence is because they have the likelihood of them resulting in lethal violence, (which is) so high.

If somebody is beaten or

recipe for gun violence. stabbed, if they can get to a trauDN: What are other areas or isma center, there is a good chance that the can be saved because of sues that cause gun violence?

CB: It varies, but when you the amazing advances in medical knowledge and trauma care. But if look at the big numbers or trends in number that’s where we would somebody is shot, depending on, you know of course if they get to look (at impoverished areas, young males and drug trafficking gangs) a trauma center, where the shot is for most of it. Guns can be involved … the gun shot can be lethal instanin any type of situation, but certaneously and there is nothing that can be done. So that’s certainly part tainly young males and gangs (is) a lot of it. of the problem as well.

DN: What do you say to people There are a lot of guns in the U.S. That’s not uncommon in other who say we should ban guns?

CB: One of the arguments that’s countries also, not all (though). often made against gun control legThere are countries that have high gun ownership rate, but gun vio- islation is that the criminals are the bad guys and will still get guns. lence is much higher in the U.S. or violence that turns into lethal vio- It’s only the law-abiding citizens that will turn in their guns, and so lence. in that sense it may not actually DN: Why does gun violence affect the people turn lethal in the U.S. who are actually more than in other committing gun But I don’t countries? violence in the CB: That’s the big know the first place. On the question. Researchother hand, we ers have studied that, solution. There’s also know that and there are differno definitive guns are not actuent ideas. One of the ally that effective things that has been answer.” when it comes looked at in more candice Batton to self defense. recent decades is the director and associate People who have widespread use of professor of the school of them are more guns among drug criminology and criminal likely to have that trafficking gangs. justice gun taken away These are often relafrom them and tively young males, often times racial and ethnic mi- used against them, then to actually norities who are in impoverished be able to use it effectively for self defense. Or we see, it’s unfortuinner cities. Some of these things, when they all come together, it nate, but sometimes, say children increases the likelihood of vio- coming across guns in the household, that aren’t properly stored, so lence. You know, most violence is then we can see accidental deaths. perpetrated by young males. We know that economic deprivation Not common, but those sorts of scenarios are more likely than actually contributes to crime and violence being able to effectively use a gun rates. Drug trafficking, this is an to protect yourself. illegal enterprise, and it’s not like DN: What are other options to someone can call the police for help lower gun violence? for trafficking drugs, so this also CB: There are other westernincreases the risk. You combine all of these things together and it is a ized industrialized nations (that)

do not face the same issue with gun violence as the U.S. and that has resulted in some researchers saying, ‘Well, gee, maybe it has something to do with our heritage the kind of wild west mentality,’ that the U.S. kind of started. But I don’t know the solution and there is no definitive answer.

DN: Do you think we would have less gun violence if there were more preventive programs for people to get out from impoverished areas and drug trafficking gangs?

CB: I think it would help. You are talking about huge broad scale prevention efforts that would improve the quality of life for people living in our country living in poverty or deprived conditions. I suspect it would help, but we aren’t geared towards prevention. We are geared toward reaction. Prevention can take five, 10 years, to actually implement and to get people who are growing up in more positive environments where they are not accustomed to seeing violence.

DN: Is there a correlation between gun violence and the number of people in prison?

CB: It would be hard to actually find a statistical correlation because as a whole our society tends to be one that wants to punish the criminals and in way send them to prison … but our society, as a whole, tends to be that way towards any type of criminal. Now add a gun and compared to the ones without guns and it probably does increase the likelihood that somebody would be sentenced to prison. But as a society we tend to focus on imprisonment and incarceration as a means of punishment. As opposed to other more rehabilitative or less kind of restrictive responses, which is why we have an overcrowding problem.

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big ten briefs 43 former/current Big Ten student athletes competing in Winter Olympics

At least 43 former or current Big Ten student athletes are competing for medals in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Not all of the athletes are representing Team USA – some are competing for Austria, Canada, Finland, Japan and Sweden.

The University of Minnesota boasts 14 Olympic participants, eight of whom are hockey players. Wisconsin has 12 Olympians, Michigan 8, Ohio State 4, Illinois 2 and Michigan State 2.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate and bobsledder Curt Tomasevicz is the only Husker Olympian this year. Tomasevicz won gold as a member of the four-man bobsledding team in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

UNL had 18 current and former Huskers in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where wrestler Jordan Burroughs won a gold medal.

‘The Monuments Men’ based on Big Ten graduates

Two of the characters in the new movie “The Monuments Men” are based on a University of Iowa and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign graduates.

Frank Stokes, played by George Clooney, graduated from the University of Iowa in 1921, going on to teach drawing at the university and eventually become a leading figure in 20th century art.

Stokes and Edwin Carter Rae, an art history professor at the University of Illinois became two of 350 “Monuments Men” dedicated to protecting and preserving culturally significant art pieces from theft or destruction in war.

In the years following the war, the group returned more than 5 million works of art stolen by the Nazis in Europe.

“The Monuments Men” opened in theaters on Friday.

University of Michigan museum to feature prehistoric snake fossil exhibit

A Ph.D. graduate of the University of Michigan unearthed a rare prehistoric snake fossil on the side of a road in India in 2004. A decade later, the fossil’s story and research will be detailed Friday in a lecture entitled “India Before the Himalayas: When Snakes Ate Dinosaurs.”

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History will install a permanent exhibit of a life-sized, hand-painted sculpture based on the 67 million-yearold fossil. The sculpture will show the snake posed to strike at a dinosaur seconds before a mud avalanche covers the reptile. It’s a hypothesized scenario researchers say explain the position of the snake’s remains.

Ohio State Study: Drug trafficking destroying Central American forests

Drug trafficking is leading to increased deforestation in Central America, according to a Ohio State University researcher and lead author of an article published in the journal Science.

Forests in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and surrounding nations are being slashed to create hidden landing strips and interconnected road systems that create new smuggling routes for drug traffickers. The traffickers also convert forested land into farmland as another way to launder money, often paying off government officials to ignore illegal deforestation practices.

The article asserts that drug policies can also indirectly be conservation policies in these regions.

—compiled by mara klecker news@dailynebraskan.com

Jenny Leeper Miller, assistant director of University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Ruth Staples Child Development Lab, has won a national teaching award.

The honor, titled the Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children’s Tylenol National Child Care Teacher Award, is given to 50 teachers to recognize the “critical role of child care teachers in providing quality early care and education,” according to a university press release.

“It gave me a lot of pride to be part of this group of early childhood educators that are receiving this acknowledgement,” Leeper Miller said in the press release. “It’s exciting for me to be getting this recognition in my field and that early childhood education is being recognized. I’m also overwhelmed by the support and encouragement from my colleagues, parents and co-workers.”

Lied Center seeks talented Nebraskans

The Lied Center for Performing Arts is looking for participants for its two-day Celebrate Nebraska event to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

The event will feature as many as 12 Nebraska acts performing in a free event to “celebrate the immense talent of artists in the state,” according to a university press release. Applications can be found at http:// www.liedcenter.org/celebratene. The event is open to all talents and all ages, although applicants younger than 19 need a signature from a parent or guardian.

UNLPD offers new public safety training sessions

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department is offering a new outreach series of community training sessions that will focus on public safety. The sessions are offered once a month from noon to 1 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, and are designed for faculty, staff and students. Each presentation will be about 30 to 35 minutes ending with a question and answer period; participants are encouraged to bring food and refreshments. The idea came from UNLPD Chief Owen Yardley’s desire to have an outreach program that is focused on issues related to a campus community. The sessions are all free and registration is available at http://go.unl.edu/93sf but is not required to attend. Other topics are also being considered such as crime prevention, international student education, sexual assault awareness and more.

The schedule is as follows: • March 4 – Spring Break Safety, Aaron Pembleton, UNLPD • April 10 – Emergency Preparedness, Mark Robertson, UNLPD • April 15 – Active Shooter Awareness, Koan Nissen, UNLPD • May 1 – Nebraska Game and Parks Safety Briefing, TBA • July 17 – Active Shooter Awareness, Koan Nissen, UNLPD

Birdfeeders donated to School of Natural Resources in honor of student

The School of Natural Resources’ new birdfeeders celebrate student’s passion for birds and wildlife. Two birdfeeders set to the north of Hardin Hall on UNL’s East Campus were donated by Dave and Linda Titterington in remembrance of Brian Smith. Smith was a student who worked at the Titterington’s store, Lincoln’s Wild Bird Habitat Store, and was a devoted employee. Smith’s interest in birds led him to the freshman fisheries and wildlife major’s trip to Puerto Rico, a study abroad trip in March 2008. On the trip, Smith passed away from an undiagnosed heart defect after just two days of being on the trip. Smith was only 20 years old. With the help of the Titteringtons, family, friends and fellow faculty, staff and students there were organized fundraisers to help create the Brian M. Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund. It helps students attend the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

sophomore wins jazz composer award

Sophomore John Kosch, a student at the Glenn Korff School of Music, received the 2014 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer award. The award – named after Herb Alpert, trumpeter and American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers member – was established in 2002 by the ASCAP foundation and is intended to inspire gifted jazz composers younger than 30. Recipients are selected through a juried national competition. A Lincoln native, Kosch is studying for a bachelor’s degree in music education with an emphasis in composition. He has played a variety of instruments at the university and also partakes in several vocal ensembles. Kosch also spends his time as an active musician and teacher in the Lincoln community. He has also taken part in groups such as the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra and Bobby Layne Orchestra.

Kosch’s winning piece, “Only You,” was a part of his fall 2013 composition portfolio, which the UNL Jazz Orchestra recorded and performed on the 5th Annual New Music for Big Band from UNL concert in December. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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OPINION

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Texting while driving needs to be primary offense in Nebraska The Nebraska Roadway Safety Act would make the roads safer for Nebraskans, and the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board urges its passing.

The law would make texting while driving a primary offense. It would also make not wearing a seatbelt a primary offense. Right now, both of these are only secondary offenses, and drivers have to be pulled over for a different offense to get ticketed for them. This isn’t enough.

Whether we all admit it or not, texting while driving can be tempting. Your phone is probably just sitting there, beckoning to you from your car ’s cupholder, the side compartment of your bag or your pocket. There should be plenty of time to check it while you’re at the stop light.

And your eyes will only be off the road for a second, right?

The consequences of looking away for that second, which inevitably becomes much longer, are just too serious to have laws that don’t punish this risky behavior. When your mom is probably nagging you more than state law about something so dangerous, something has to change.

(After all, people don’t always listen to nagging from their moms.)

As for wearing your seatbelt, come on. This is a nobrainer. You may not believe in the scare-tactic videos we all went through in driver ’s ed. But it’s absurd that some may not feel inclined to use something that requires little extra time or effort and could save your life.

The DN Editorial Board commends state Sen. John Harms for introducing this bill. People might not put their phones away and buckle up because their moms told them to or because of an editorial. But they may be more inclined if it’s the law. Let’s get this bill passed. opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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Celebrity victims deserve respect

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hat’s your favorite movie?

Do you like “Midnight in Paris” or maybe even “The Pianist” the most?

Maybe you’re more of a television person, and you like light-hearted comedies such as “Frasier” or “Parks and Recreation.” Just keep in mind, each of these has at least one child sex scandal floating in its midst. Is it still your favorite?

When it comes to separating an artist’s personal life from his creative work, there are always pitfalls. Dylan Farrow’s open letter, published in The New York Times, regarding Woody Allen’s suspected child abuse charges, has caused us all to become involved with her personal struggle, whether we like it or not.

Yet these things are never as easy as they seem. Although we immediately want to root for the underdog, the victim, the abused, we cannot ignore whatever other evidence is brought up. As Allen wrote in his own article in the Times, he was innocent. With the Yale-New Haven Hospital to back him up, and his own phobias disproving the supposed scene of the crime, we find ourselves lowering our pitchforks and asking ourselves who to believe.

But should we?

I’m not here to tell you who is right. I’m suggesting we change how we should react to information like this. No one likes child abuse or these sex scandals, especially when they seem to parade out of Hollywood every week.

We’re all too familiar with these stories, but no matter how hard we try to plaster the end

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credits to them, we’re hit with another sequel.

“The Pianist” director Roman Polanski was accused of sexually abusing 13-yearold Samantha Geimer, and has not returned to America since. Kelsey Grammer was accused of statutory rape in 1995, and Rob Lowe was videotaped having sex with a 16-year-old girl in 1988.

What are we meant to do, relinquish our love for the works they contributed to? Or are we meant to turn a blind eye?

Neither.

As Geimer said in her own open letter to Farrow, we should never ignore these cases. We should always feel more biased toward the victim, no matter how limited the evidence, because molestation charges typically don’t contain a substantial amount of evidence.

If we refrain from giving children support, especially ones submersed in Hollywood, then their cases will remain muted.

I’m not saying you should boycott Woody Allen. I’m not saying that you should hate his work. But next time someone asks you who your favorite director is, be sure to keep Dylan Farrow in mind.”

However, as she also notes, this doesn’t give us the go ahead to ignore the accused’s rights, no matter how obvious the verdict might be.

What we need to remember in these cases is that we, the audience, are not guilty. We are not the lawyers. We are not the prosecutors.

Although it’s not our responsibility to place innocence or guilt on anyone, these cases should encourage us to take action.

They make us more aware of the world around us. We realize that if it can happen behind the silver screen, then it can happen in our neighborhoods as well. We should be motivated to give voice to those who don’t have it, knowing the repercussions of silence from how it unfolds in the news around us. If something seems wrong, we cannot turn the other way.

You should fight for that child as much as you can, because if you don’t, the trial will turn into a game of “he said/she said,” as The Atlantic writer Natalie Shure said.

Because the evidence itself can be unclear, it appears that perhaps the greatest bit of justice anyone can ask for is the support of the public. Whether it’s by taking a more public stance on the issue, such as writing an open letter (if you have the opportunity to do so) or addressing news sources. Whereas trials get delayed, and evidence is withheld, sometimes the best thing any of us can do is support the wronged. To make them feel like they’re not alone and need not to be silent any more.

I’m not saying you should boycott Woody Allen. I’m not saying that you should hate his work. But next time someone asks you who your favorite director is, be sure to keep Dylan Farrow in mind.

Emily Kuklinski is a sophomore English and theater major. Follow her on Twitter @TheFunnyEmily. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Allies need to respect, Technology in class reveal support group’s experience more personal distraction

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f you want to be an ally, you have to actually be an ally. To be an ally means you don’t try to make your activism about you. To be an ally means when you make mistakes – and you will make mistakes – you own up to them. Most importantly, being an ally means you recognize you’re the sidekick, not the hero. You support, you stand up for, but you never speak for the groups you’re an ally to.

Piers Morgan said he is an ally, but he has failed in all of the above. Recently he had Janet Mock, a transgender woman, on his program. The first interview, while cordial and kind, was not respectful.

Morgan dedicated most of the interview to the details of Mock’s surgery and romantic life rather than her activism, and he consistently disrespected her journey and gender.

From the tagline that read, “Was a boy until 18” to referring to her as “being a man,” Morgan did something you should never do to anyone, especially a transgender person. He misgendered Mock, disrespected her life and her gender. When taping the interview, Mock had no idea that this insulting tagline would be used to describe her. When the episode aired she protested, taking to Twitter to voice her concern.

Instead of acting as an ally should, Morgan viewed Mock’s response as a personal attack on himself. Rather than recognizing that he had deeply insulted Mock, he attacked her, even saying that he was a victim of “cisphobia”(bigotry against nontransgender people). Morgan had Mock back on his show and continued to disregard and misgender her.

He noted his longtime support of gay rights against Mock’s protests that gay rights are not transgender rights.

Morgan made it all about himself. If he’s an ally, he needs to use his rich and cisgender privileges to stand up for transgender women. Instead he prioritized his ego rather than the struggles of the group that he says he’s an ally to. He made a huge mistake and refused to own up to it.

Allies can make mistakes. Being an ally means standing up for a group whose experiences is entirely different than your own. Things you find normal can be huge struggles, and phrases or arguments that may seem inoffensive are actually the worst

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thing that could possibly be said. It’s understandable to make mistakes. The proper response is to recognize what was done, apologize and never do it again.

Allies don’t get to dictate what’s offensive and what’s inoffensive to the groups they ally. White people don’t get to dictate what’s offensive for black people. Straight people don’t get to dictate what’s offensive to gay people. Cisgender people don’t get to dictate what’s offensive to transgender people.

What’s offensive is deeply tied to personal experience, and if you’re not part of an experience, how can you know what that experience means?

Allies don’t get to dictate how the group they support lives their lives. They don’t get to choose the narrative of the group they support. This is exactly what Morgan tried to do. Morgan wanted Mock to fit some sort of predetermined narrative he has about transgender women. When Mock refused to be defined by that narrative, Morgan viewed this as a personal attack upon himself. Then he tried to use the narrative Mock had rejected to somehow support his own views, in turn further insulting Mock.

Twenty years ago in Nebraska, Brandon Teena was murdered for his gender identity and given a tombstone with an epitaph of “Daughter, Sister, Friend,” erasing everything he died for. His right to live and be recognized was taken away in life and then in death. The job of an ally is to fight so people can live the lives they deserve, tell the stories they want to tell and be who they want to be. When allies make it about themselves, they fail at all of this and fail the groups they promised to support.

Walker Edwards is a junior philosophy major. Reach them at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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walked into class five minutes late, which is actually right on time for me, and took my seat in the front row. I opened up my laptop to begin taking notes when Spotify loudly reminded me that I forgot to press pause. Now that I’d made sure to cause a scene, I turned around to see if anyone noticed the interruptions I had just made to our professor’s lecture. A few respondents smirked while the rest stared blankly, seemingly unaware of anything that was not their computer screen, even the lecture.

As technology evolves, it’s only becoming more prevalent in the way we look at education. The possibilities it provides for our ability to learn have unfolded tremendously in the past decade. However, this is the same space that connects us to the rest of the world through social forums such as Facebook and other personalized Web pages. And although a great place to network, the Internet has ultimately become a distraction both in and out of the classroom.

I’ve only been on this campus for little more than a semester but have already seen many teachers fail to fix this problem. The divergence of technology has become so accustomed in the classroom that it can hardly be ignored. Almost every teacher uses Blackboard to collect assignments, create online discussion boards and send out grades. Some of my teachers have even required me to create Pinterest and Tumblr accounts.

However, there are a handful of teachers who are stuck in their ways and will avoid utilizing technological resources at all costs.

These are the same teachers who don’t allow students to have their laptops out in class, or if they must, “LAPTOP USERS TO THE BACK ROW.” These teachers carry the mentality that if students choose to surf the Web instead of listening to their lecture, then they ought to do so without distracting the rest of the class.

Makes sense, right? Wrong. I have one teacher who insists that anyone wishing to take notes on their laptop is to sit in the first few rows. Sure, he can tell himself he’s keeping a better eye on his students by making this a classroom rule. But the truth is: I can get on Facebook while sitting in the front row of a classroom just as easily as in the back row. I’m just going to distract more students by doing so. Or am I? Who’s really paying attention to what I’m doing on my laptop, let alone the monotone lecture being presented at the front of

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the classroom?

I’m sitting in class, taking notes when I receive a message on Facebook. I hesitate to open it because it’s from the boy I’m infatuated with, and I know better.

I know that if I take one eye off of this dull PowerPoint, just about anything will seem more important than the interesting information that’s currently being presented in such a boring way. The temptation that little red notification presents is something most techsavvy students can relate to, but the ability to resist these temptations lies within one’s desire to learn.

And here I find the connection between our selfindulged distractions and what it is we’re being distracted from. Too often do we care more about the way we present ourselves online than in real life, as if the two aren’t completely correlated. We find it easier to make ourselves appear interesting rather than actually being interested in something because a lot of the time it’s easier. And knowing what you’re interested in, well, that can be the hardest part. But trust me when I say you’ll never figure it out by scrolling through your Facebook Timeline.

Immersing oneself in subject material can be a challenge with the Internet ready to distract us at the push of a button. This is the world we live in, and it’s only getting more advanced from here. As we become more dependent on technology for social and educational purposes, we must not forget what disconnects us from our ability to learn is first and foremost, ourselves.

Gabriella Parsons is a freshman journalism major. Reach her via twitter at @gab___i (that’s 3 underscores) or at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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aRTS & LIFE

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double damsel Glenn Korff School of Music puts on new twist on classic fairy tale in ‘Cendrillon’

Story by Maranda Loughlin | Photos by Jennifer Gotrik

UNL Opera prepares for the opening of “Cendrillon.” Performances of the opera will be on Feb. 21 and 23 in Kimball Recital Hall.

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royal ball, a fairy godmother ’s magic spell, a midnight curfew and a lost glass slipper.

While these may certainly be familiar aspects of the classic fairy tale, “Cinderella,” they’re just a portion of the Glenn Korff School of Music’s latest adaptation, “Cendrillon.”

Led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln opera director William Shomos and based on Jules Massenet’s take on the story, this isn’t just the familiar tale of indentured servitude turned happily ever after to which audiences should be accustomed. This is a version in which Cinderella’s father is alive and well and additional scenes seek to add context and impact. This is a version with a touch of directorial flare.

“Our production goes a little further,” Shomos said. “I think the opera was intended to have a traditional fairy tale setting in the Massenet version, but we’re updating it to a 1930s Hollywood-esque type of feel.

To play up the idea of people putting on facades.”

The time period known as the “dirty thirties,” which bred Sean Connery, imprisoned Al Capone and created the cheeseburger will now be the setting of Cinderella. The tale of a happily-ever-after and a beautyis-only-skin-deep message will be seen through the eyes of the ’30s.

Not content with century leaps in setting, Shomos has developed more of his own changes.

“And what I’ve chosen to do with this particular production, is to actually split the role of Cinderella apart,” Shomos said.

The role of Cinderella will be played by Jamie Unger, a graduate student, and by Alexandra Tiller, a senior voice performance major, and it will be played at the same time.

One girl will play the side of Cinderella before the Fairy Godmother comes along, while the other will play the side of Cinderella after the Fairy Godmother comes along. But both will be on stage simultaneously.

“They are the same character, but two aspects of the same character,” Shomos said.

Shomos decided to add this additional quirk to the opera because of

Hixson-Lied professor William Shomos directs an adaptation of Cinderella that is based on Jules Massenet’s version of the story. a problem he has with the original storyline.

“We all know and can agree that the message of Cinderella is that beauty comes from within,” Shomos said. “It is the inner Cinderella that is beautiful, and the externals are not important.”

“If that’s the truth, why does she have to put on a pretty dress and

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Designer finds inspiration in 1900s Maria Barmettler

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DN For Lindsay Ducey, illustration is everything.

Ducey, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln studies fashion in the textiles, merchandising and fashion design program. As part of Ducey’s thesis work, her exhibit “Capturing a Style” will be shown through Feb. 14 at Home Economics Building on East Campus from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

Her designs hark to 20th century illustration sensibilities, which inspired her own drawings and original garments.

“Illustration is my favorite part of the design process,” Ducey said.

“I love trying to interpret a mood or feeling and also the style on paper. It is a way to be able to see the designer’s skills on paper and also see the research that was done and what all goes into the final garment.”

To start out, Ducey researched numerous fashion illustrators from past decades and decided on designers from the 1900s for inspiration, a century in which fashion illustration and illustration at large took broader prominence. Because it was the time of the Industrial Revolution, these practices hit the mass media and several artists were discovered. After finding many fantastic artists, Ducey said she narrowed it down to four: Tony Viramontes, Erté, Bernard Blossac and Mats Gustafson.

While researching these artists, Ducey examined the works they’d

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Until Feb. 14 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. where: Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery

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Lindsay Ducey, a graduate student in the textiles program at UNL, stands in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery currently displaying her work. Her show ends this Friday. created, both in terms of garment assembly and illustration. She studied what medians they used, types of silhouettes they created, what colors were used most often, how they draped their garments and the overall construction process.

Once she gathered the information she needed to truly understand each artist’s aesthetic and style, Ducey used this as inspiration to design and construct her own garments, along with fashion illustrations portraying each piece.

The first wall in her exhibit is filled with numerous sketches and illustrations ripped straight out of Ducey’s sketch book. It demonstrates the process of developing the final illustration for a garment.

Throughout the exhibit there are eight varying looks. Six dresses and two outfits that have three different pieces to them each. Along with each garment there is a fashion illustration that is inspired from that 20th century artist’s style.

Ducey gave her proposal for the exhibit back in June and continued to research, she said. Mid-October was when she started the first stage of the garment assembling – the muslin stage, which is when a designer uses a cheaper fabric to construct the first draft of a garment.

“I probably waited a little too long to begin constructing the garments,” Ducey said. “It got a little hectic working on eight pieces at once towards then, however, I still

managed to finish them all up in January.”

Several of Ducey’s garments featured a diverse range of backs – some open back or with cut outs. A few of garments had bright colors and varied from short-hem length to long-hem length. Others were more neutral colors, for example, one of the jackets was black, white and gray patterned fabric with large sleeves. One of the dresses had extreme volume and had several layers to it from top to bottom with the colors of black and pink.

Other dresses were more constructed and fitted to the body.

While all different in degrees, the 20th century-inspired exhibit share a cohesiveness as well, and the accompanying illustrations next to a given garment allude to the process of interpreting the onpaper drawing into the three-dimensional reality.

Barbara Trout, a professor at UNL who teaches multiple apparel design classes, has been Ducey’s adviser for the past two years. Trout has always been there for Ducey as

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Music-robbing The Kin returns for Lincoln show Staff Report DN The city of Lincoln may see a string of burglaries up until Tuesday night.

The Bourbon Theatre is playing host to The Kin, a band that is famous for its “musical robberies,” which involve the band members invading local shops and eateries to perform original songs. The show starts at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, and tickets are $12 at the door.

The musical robberies started a year ago when two members of the band, brothers Isaac and Thorald Koren, surprised restaurant patrons at a popular New York City diner by simultaneously bursting in the door and into song. Since then, the band has participated in several musical robberies in places around the globe, including at The Sundance Film Festival, SXSW and a French airport.

Although the robberies have become a part of the band’s routine, employees at The Bourbon Theatre are not expecting it to happen on Tuesday night.

However, that doesn’t mean the band won’t stage a robbery elsewhere in Lincoln.

“I’ve heard rumors that they might be invading a few coffee

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8 p.m. where: The Bourbon Theatre how much: $12 at the door

shops, bars or restaurants while they’re in the area,” said Dustin Hunke, publicist for The Bourbon Theatre.

The band also visited Lincoln this past fall when it opened for P!nk during her show at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.

“When they opened for P!nk last year, they announced on stage they would be coming here soon, so that whole audience knows about it,” Hunke said.

Aside from touring with P!nk, this is the band’s first major international tour. The Kin are known for performing with a pop-rock sound yet providing a show that varies from a typical pop band. The brothers Isaac

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‘Fear & Loathing’ revels in drugs Jack Forey

The cult classic “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” based on Hunter S. Thompson’s novel and directed by Terry Gilliam, is one of my favorite films.

This drug-frenzied film is brash, wild, loud and a little angry, aiming to give traditional American values and plot structure the finger.

Johnny Depp plays Raoul Duke, a fictional version of Thompson, who is sent to Las Vegas for a weekend to cover a low-rent motorcycle race called the Mint 500. He trumps up his assignment into a grand odyssey, calling it “the American Dream in action.” Along for the ride is Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro), his lawyer and partner in crime. Dr. Gonzo advises Duke to “get a very fast car with no top. And you’ll need cocaine. A tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts … and we’re gonna have to arm ourselves to the teeth.” These are two men on a mission.

The film begins breathlessly, as Duke and Gonzo tear through the Mojave desert in a convertible with a large suitcase full of drugs in the trunk. Their trip to Las Vegas is a nightmarish experience. The city takes on a fluid, unsavory nature as the two of them consume more and more mind-altering chemicals, trash hotel rooms, order endless carts of room service just because they can, threaten people, go to a carnival stoned on ether and so on.

They try anything they can think of in a city of endless possibilities.

courtesy photo It’s easy to miss the point in a movie such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” That’s because the characters are looking for a plot to get involved in and constantly failing. The point is that they can’t find a purpose. They don’t know how to use their freedom. There are quite a few moments when the characters declare a mission of importance, follow through some, then give up or forget about their plan altogether.

The first of these moments is when they tear through the desert and pick up a hitchhiker (Tobey McGuire), then stop on the side of the road. Dr. Gonzo growls and asks the hitchhiker if he wants to know the “truth.” He tells him that he and Duke are heading to Vegas to kill a heroin dealer named Savage Henry, then pulls a revolver out of a paper bag and points it to the sky. Savage Henry is never mentioned again, and there are no bullets in the gun.

Some of these plot threads are superfluous, bubbling up in the background or in throwaway dialogue and scenery. Others build upon themselves and come forward as the film moves along.

LSD users would liken this plot structure to tripping acid, seeing things in the corner of your eye and those things disappearing when you try to look at them.

Ultimately, our two antiheroes are adrift on the winds of vice in a microcosmic representation of American greed. As they try to survive a three-day bender full of hallucinations, sinister vibes and technicolor debauchery, the camera makes us take the ride, twisting and dropping and forcing new perspectives, fixing us at certain angles to watch things we don’t want to see, in ways we don’t want to see them. The vital cinematography is underlined by a rollicking classic rock soundtrack, screeching and riffing with the angst of the 1960s and ’70s.

A scene that sums up the attitude of the entire film involves Duke and Gonzo visiting a hotel lounge while tripping on acid.

Duke sits at the bar, wobbles around and mutters something about golf shoes, then abruptly snaps around to see that everyone in the lounge has become a giant, monstrous lizard. He sees beneath the glitzy façade of Las Vegas, and

into the reptilian hearts of what he perceives to be droves of venal people seeking vice and pleasure in a modern day Gomorrah.

Toward the end, Duke sits alone in yet another trashed hotel room as he types out an essay about “the wave” of the ‘60s counterculture. He laments the misguided drug use that led to its downfall: “Less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark – that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

The hippie movement became a victim of its own directionless nature, and many of them became hopeless drug addicts.

“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” is at once a funeral dirge and a bestial cry, a celebration of life and freedom and the “American way.” Duke’s sordid journey in Vegas represents a culture-wide drug bender as a result of the disillusionment with the promise of the ’60s. The film explores this iconic moment in American history through Duke’s directed madness, and his jaded acceptance of chaos. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro both give performances so electric and often terrifying, you might think they dropped some adrenochrome before the cameras rolled.

During one of the first screenings of the movie, novel author Hunter S. Thompson is reported to have jumped out of his seat during the opening scenes, screaming “Bats!” and running out of the theater. That should give you an idea of the logic on which this film operates. “Buy the ticket. Take the ride.”

Jack Forey was completely sober when he wrote this review. Ask him why at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Hoffman will be immortalized in film vince moran

One thing was always guaranteed whenever watching a film featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman – there would be at least one great thing about it no matter how bad the rest was.

Hoffman, who tragically died earlier this month, was undisputedly one of the greatest American actors of our time, and, arguably, of any time.

Hoffman proved that even an unconventional and portly man could have a career in Hollywood if he was as uncommonly talented.

His unglamorous physical features, the antithesis of the Hollywood leading man archetype, made him the greatest character actor of our time. No matter what character he was embodying, a villain in a Hollywood blockbuster like “Mission Impossible III,” a flamboyant historical figure in a biopic like “Capote,” or a theater director in an American art house film like “Synecdoche, New York,” he always created characters that

were so alive, original and human you’d swear they are living somewhere in non-filmic reality.

During the course of his career, Hoffman acquired four Oscar nominations and one win for his incomparable incarnation of the author Truman Capote in Bennett Miller’s “Capote,” a film that is a testament to how far he could disappear into a role. His usually gruff, deep voice is replaced with amazing validity with Capote’s signature high feminine one. However, Hoffman doesn’t merely mimic the man he is representing but, much more importantly, finds his soul and effortlessly displays it.

His most recent nomination comes from American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master,” in which he starred at titular master, Lancaster Dodd, the leader of a religious cult inspired by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Hoffman’s performance is, fittingly, masterful – playing a man so determined in his own answers to life’s greatest questions, he becomes entangled, obsessed and lost in his false presumptions, in the end believing them.

As with so many of his other performances, Hoffman’s presence on screen is electric and mystifying. The charisma he displays makes one understand how those desperately looking for someone to lead them would be drawn

to his persona like a moth to the flame.

Hoffman worked with Anderson five times and produced some of his best work with the director.

“The Master” was the first time he was given a lead role in Anderson’s films, but as a supporting player, Hoffman’s presence was always felt. A perfect example of this is in “Punch-Drunk Love.”

While Hoffman doesn’t have much screen time, he effortlessly steals each scene he’s in, with a particularly rousing and hilarious scene when he violently loses his temper during a phone conversation.

Other films that feature Hoffman in scene-stealing supporting roles include “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “Moneyball,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Cold Mountain,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Doubt” and famously as music critic Lester Bang’s in Cameron Crowe’s semiautobiographical music film “Almost Famous.”

His lead performances are, to no surprise, equally affecting, exemplified by his stunning performance in Sidney Lumet’s tragic drama “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” where Hoffman plays a drug addict who attempts to rob his own parents’ jewelry store only to have events spiral out of control. Hoffman’s unflinching commitment to undesirable characters is once again present in an

APP OF THE WEEK PIZZA COMPASS

Akua Dawes DN The app Pizza Compass is exactly what the title suggests: a compass for pizza.

I first came across the app after seeing an enthusiastic tweet from my friend and wondered how a pizza lover such as myself had never heard about the convenient app.

The interface is very simple. The colors are clean and there’s not much going on except a pizza slice pointing in the direction of the nearest pizza restaurant. Follow the arrow and it will take you to the closest pizza restaurant of your choosing. By rotating the pizza slice you can change which restaurant you wish to go to. The app comes equipped with a map

and directions to the store via Foursquare. The map has a pizza slice representing each pizza store around.

The best feature is the steam that comes off the slice as you near your chosen pizza store.

At face value, Pizza Compass may just seem like a useless app that does the same job of Google maps, only with a prettier interface. But imagine you’re walking the streets of Chicago or Kansas City, famished looking for something to eat. Instead of going to Google and sifting through the thousand of search results that pop up, simply open the app and pizza compass will lead you to the land of milk and honey (and pizza). arts@ dailynebraskan.com

overwhelmingly intense and emotional performance.

As is the case with the great James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman left life far too young, but he has left behind characters and films that will entertain, educate, move and inspire audiences for generations to come. His person may have passed, but his unparalleled work in the cinema will immortalize him.

It’s still difficult to grasp the concept of someone whose work was so exciting and important to so many people dying at 46 years old. Hoffman’s death has left a gaping hole in the world of film that cannot be filled by any other actor. He was entirely unique, and won’t be soon forgotten. It is saddening and frustrating to imagine all the performances he would have given had he lived to old age, but that just makes the performances we was able to give all the more special.

Hoffman will still be appearing in the next two installments of The Hunger Games series, “Mockingjay: Part I” and “Part II,” and Anton Corbijn’s “A Most Wanted Man,” which is currently playing at the Sundance Film Festival.

Vince Moran is a senior film studies, English and history major. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Dressing up for class makes you feel more awake MARIA BARMETTLER

Most of us have had that dreadful 8:30 a.m. class that’s such a struggle to attend. All you want to do is roll out of bed, brush your teeth, grab a coffee and go.

However, should we all look as if we just woke up? Even if that actually may be the case?

Dressing up for class can be a foreign idea to some people, and when I say “dress up” I don’t mean wearing a skirt with your hair curled and pounds of make up on. Simply wearing a pair of leggings, throwing on a flannel over your shirt and matching it with a beanie could be considered dressing well for class.

People have called me crazy for not wearing baggy sweat pants, a hoodie and Uggs to class, but, in my defense, there are some valid reasons on why you should dress up for class.

As I was reading a fashion blog the other day, The Darling Prepster, I came across some of the following reasons.

For starters, wearing very casual attire can put you in a sleepy state of mind. I have experienced this one for sure. On days when I wear yogas and a T-shirt to class I’m less productive and more prone to be in a lazy mood. Waking up just 10 minutes earlier, fixing your hair and picking out an outfit can even wake you up a little more and ready to focus for the rest of the day.

Being dressed and ready for the day can help you stay on track of what you need to get done. It may sound strange, but you will feel so much more prepared and motivated. Dressing as if you are going to be lounging around all day may lead to that.

People may also take you more seriously. When a person takes care of him or herself and presents with confidence, people will take notice and perhaps respect the effort. This is true especially when it comes to professors and teachers. A student who doesn’t take the time to get ready for class could come off as lazy

What are your favorite quick-andeasy outfits for a rushed morning class? Hit us up on Twitter @dnartsdesk. and inattentive.

Presentations are frequent, too. In college, we have many presentations, projects and speeches.

Dressing well can show your classmates that you are prepared and taking whatever you have to do seriously.

Also, dressing up can be fun.

Fashion is a method of self-expression. Even if the people you see walking to class are complete strangers, they can see some of your personality through what you wear. Whether your style is punk rock, hipster, bohemian or grunge, what you wear can show this. Your style is one thing that you get to share with other people without actually knowing them, so why not?

Dressing up day-to-day leads to a better sense of style. For me, when I see other people dressed well or find someone wearing an outfit I love, it makes me want to keep on improving my own style.

Everyone is different. If you are the type of person who loves wearing sweat pants every day and couldn’t care less about getting dressed up, then you do you.

However, if you do love clothes, fashion and putting outfits together, then waking up that 10 minutes earlier will help you look the way you want.

It isn’t about trying to impress people; it’s just showing yourself and others that you take yourself seriously and respect yourself as well. Not to mention it is also a great confidence booster.

The saying is definitely true: look good, feel good.

Maria Barmettler is a sophomore textiles, merchandise and fashion design major. Reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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EP, “GET ON IT” this past fall. and Thorald provide the vocals “I don’t think we truly beand guitar while their drummer, Shakerleg, opts to use his bare came The Kin until Shakerleg knuckles instead joined,” Isaac of drumsticks Koren said on the for percussion.

I don’t think band’s website.

According to the “For the six years we truly band’s website, before that, we the brothers met became The Kin played with great Shakerleg as he musicians but it until Shakerleg performed on a always felt like New York sub- joined.” we were putting way and were together an enable to persuade semble. Whereas isaac koren vocals/keyboard him to join their now it feels like duo. we’re a unit. He’s After workhelped us make ing with the producer Tony sense of being a band, of being Visconti, who is famous for his The Kin.” arts@ work with David Bowie, the trio dailynebraskan.com released their first major-label

Despite all-star cast, film sinks with bland script Sean Stewart DN That awkward moment when you buy a single ticket to “That Awkward Moment.”

It’s the kind of movie you go to on a date because you’re a sucker or – much less frequently – the kind of movie you go to uncomfortably alone because you have to review it. Nestled in the typically dry cinema months of January and February, “That Awkward Moment” never promised to be more than a good date movie.

Unfortunately, it broke even that promise.

The initial trailers for the movie presented a romantic comedy that could easily have tipped either way – surprisingly good or predictably dreadful. Perhaps if not for the cast, the illusion of the possibility for a good movie would have been absent.

Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller star as three 20-something buddies each tackling the pivotal moment in a relationship when it either ends or becomes committed. While Efron’s place here is less surprising, Sundance Film Festival darlings Jordan and Teller promised to bring the extra push to the movie.

Unfortunately, for a movie centered on the brotherhood of three friends, Efron, Jordan and Teller aren’t able to create the chemistry necessary to really sell it. In fact, Teller is the only one who really delivers. He manages to bring a distinctive charisma and humor to his character. Efron’s performance is far too bland and ultimately unmemorable.

The biggest surprise in the film’s acting is Jordan’s atypical woodenness. Usually an extremely easy actor to watch, here he feels flat and out of place. His character and the film suffer for it.

I find myself forgiving the lackluster performances in “That Awkward

Moment.” The screenplay doesn’t give the actors much to work with. Billed as an anti-romcom, “That Awkward Moment” is in truth just a hybrid of every romantic comedy before it. I never could decide if the film has too much plot or not enough.

What I am sure of is that every shred of it is hopelessly derivative.

Each plot point is seen five minutes before it actually arrives and is brought about in such a contrived manner that the relatively brief running time of 94 minutes feels like ages – like watching hours of reruns of a show that was never very good to begin with. The script approaches the universal relationship question: “So, where is this going?”

In “That Awkward Moment,” though, we all already know.

The film’s music and the directing don’t help the lazy script at all.

Because every moment feels like it’s taken straight from any romantic comedy we’ve ever seen, we aren’t given any authentic ones. We never see the characters just living or anything outside the tedious tropes of the genre. As a result, we never really feel. The music is oppressive, trying to compensate for the lack of any legitimate catharsis by commanding exactly what the film wants us to feel.

We’re told what to feel but never given a reason to feel it.

There is a scene midway through the film when Teller’s character jokingly tells his girl that he is slumming, that he is too good for her. I couldn’t help but chuckle at how appropriate the joke seemed. Teller broke through last year for his arresting coming-ofage role in “The Spectacular Now.” He managed to bring a surprising depth to what could have easily become a run-of-the-mill teen drama. Teller has once again been making waves at this year’s Sundance, starring in “Whiplash,” widely considered the best film at this year’s festival.

Similarly, Michael B. Jordan gave

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a pivotally heartbreaking performance in last year’s “Fruitvale Station,” a role many – including myself – believed deserved an Oscar nomination. Before “Fruitvale Station,” Jordan made a name for himself in HBO’s “The Wire” and in NBC’s “Friday Night Lights.”

Both Jordan and Teller have proven themselves to be some of the most promising young talent in Hollywood.

So what are they doing here? arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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cinderillon: from 5 have this cover girl figure in order to win the prince over and be accepted by society,” he said. “It is only when Cinderella has all the trappings of what we believe is physical beauty that her life suddenly gets better.”

Unger plays the role of Cinderella after her transformation into a beautiful young woman who’s fit to be a princess. Tiller is cast as the more unconventional role.

Shomos sees the two actors in contrasting ways of similarity and difference and said this split-performance storytelling allows the team to dig into the psychology of the piece in ways not possible otherwise.

“First of all both of them are first-rate singers that sing the daylights out of this opera. They both are very deserving of their roles,” Shomos said. “But they are very different types. In many ways.”

“We don’t look anything alike, and we don’t really sound anything alike,” Unger said.

“We are both sopranos, but we are both different types of sopranos,” Tiller said.

The women also have their own relationships to the story of Cinderella.

“For myself, ‘Cinderella’ was the first story I ever knew,” Unger said. “When I was 2 years old, and I couldn’t even read the words yet I would read the picture book to my mom in bed, and it’s one of my first memories I have. I think there is a lot people who have that same kind of love for this story and want to see it told in a beautiful way.”

Tiller said she enjoyed both the cartoon version of Cinderella and the Rodgers and Hammerstein version.

“I’m a huge Disney fan,” Tiller said. “I have many memories of long, long car trips. We had a TV in our car that was hooked up to a VHS player, and we would put the movie in, and we would watch it all the time.”

As two individuals playing flip sides of the same character coin, “Cenderillon” has tested both women in ways their previous roles have not.

“I wouldn’t say that it has been easy, but I wouldn’t put a negative connotation on it either,” Unger said. “I think that it’s added a layer of acting dimension onto what we are doing, because it is very complicated to have two people on the stage at the same time, playing the same person but with different perspectives of where (Cinderella) is at with her life.”

“So it’s definitely been a kind of stress in that way too because we all have to make sure that we are really connecting,” she added.

And despite the difficult nature of the production, the opportunities its complexities present hooked Tiller.

“It’s definitely an interesting challenge,” she said. “But I personally loved the idea, and I love things like this that offer a social commentary of sorts.”

cucey: from 5 a source of advice and consultation, Ducey said. Trout would give feedback on each piece Ducey worked on and pushed her to take garments to “the next level.”

“For one of the garments, Lindsay started it out as a dress, but Trout suggested to open it down the middle, making it a jacket and then add two under pieces to go with it,” said Marjie Ducey, Lindsay’s mom.

Though Ducey’s gallery shows her thought and construction, she did admit to some challenges along the way.

“When taking illustrations from other artists and creating my own unique work, I wanted to experiment more,” Ducey said. “I had a lot of ideas and it was hard to pick and choose certain details and finalize them.

Another difficult part was moving from the illustration phase to the garment assembly stage. A lot of times the silhouette would change, or I had to fix something.”

It is very complicated to have two people on the stage at the same time, playing the same person but with different perspective.” jamie unger graduate student

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Alexandra Tiller, a senior voice performance major, plays one of two Cinderellas in UNL Opera’s “Cendrillon.” The opera explores a conventional and an unconventional version of the character.

opera festival, where Shomos was In the play, the two roles of the leading role and Unger was in Cinderella interact with each other the chorus. in multiple ways, helping each “We’ve been around the world other throughout the strand of together,” Unger said. “He has events in the play. a lot of great ideas, and when “Sometimes I’m like coaching he said we were going to do this her basically saying, ‘Come on girl, you gotta go get your prince. whole conceptual thing with CinYou gotta get over there. You’ve derella, I just told him I would go gotta do this,’” Unger said. “Other with it. I mean he had all of these ideas, and I didn’t really see at the times, it’s us looking into each othtime how it was really going to er’s eyes and reflecting about how workout, but I trusted him.” our life as Cinderella has turned “It’s been neat to see how it out. We just have a lot of differhas unfolded, what was in his ent relationships with each other depending on where we are at in mind, come to life on the stage,” Unger said. the show.”

Although Tiller hasn’t known While Unger is graduating Shomos for as long, she too has a with her master’s degree in Aupositive rapport for her director. gust. Tiller, 21, will be a fifth-year “This is the first time I have senior next year because she addgotten to work with him directly ed a women and gender studies like this, and he is fantastic. He is minor to her vocal performance a great director, and he is always major.

Unger is 27 years old. She willing to listen to your concerns,” took a four-year gap between her Tiller said. “ It’s been really great to be able to ask questions like undergraduate degree and the ‘What do you think my character beginning of her graduate educawould be doing right now?’ and tion. After being a choir teacher, a things like that to make the prosubstitute teacher and an admisduction as good sions counselor, as possible.”

Unger decided Because the to come back. play is a French “I was such a good admisTell us about variation, the opera is also sions counselor your favorite sung in French that I recruited English myself back to reimaginings with subtitles. This school,” Unger has required a said. “A lot of of classic lot of practicpeople won’t fairy tale stories. Drop ing for both of do their underthe Cinderella grad and their us a line on Twitter roles. master’s at the “I don’t same school, @dnartsdesk. think (singing in but I felt like I a different lanwas just getting guage) is as difa taste for the ficult as people music here, and I wanted to get what I had missed think it would be,” Unger said. “It certainly isn’t easy, but as freshmen out on before.” and sophomores in college we start After six years in the music working in four different languagprogram with Shomos, Unger feels like she has known the op- es that we will perform. I am very era director for a long time. The lucky to have a voice coach who is fluent in french, but it definitely is two have been in shows together and also traveled to Ireland for an a tricky situation.”

Even with so much going on within the opera – Massanet’s adaptation, the split role cast and the French interpretation – there are other parts of the opera that still need to be accounted for.

“First of all, the music is just beautiful and I think everyone should have a chance to listen to it, and the chorus sounds really beautiful too,” Tiller said. “Everyone is just doing so well, and it’s a really great production. I also think the social commentary is a really nice addition to the opera, and I think it will only help the story.”The show will be on Feb. 21 and Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets to the opera are $20 for adults and $10 for students and senior citizens from the Lied Center Box Office.

After hundreds of hours of practice leading up to the performance, Unger has high hopes.

“I just hope people will come see it,” Unger said. “There is a lot of heart in this production.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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“As for advice for other fashion students, I would say to be really efficient with your time and do not procrastinate,” Ducey said. “Garments and projects take a long time, and when you are better at managing your time and meeting deadlines you can be successful not only in the program at this school but also in this industry. Another important part is to develop your own style. You don’t have to be the best at drawing or painting, but being able to project your ideas onto paper is what really matters.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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dn Big ten homeroom 1. Penn State (18-5 overall, 9-2 Big Ten)

5. Iowa (19-6, 7-4)

The No. 11 Nittany Lions added tallies to the loss and win column this last week with a 73-70 loss to Iowa and a 74-54 win against Michigan. Four of the Nittany Lions notched double figures in the Hawkeye game, but they couldn’t get the win. Senior guard Maggie Lucas led with more than 20 points in those back-to-back games and moved herself to No. 5 on the Big Ten Conference all-time scoring chart.

2. Nebraska (17-5, 7-3)

The No. 21 Huskers walked away with Big Ten wins this week against the Wisconsin Badgers and the Michigan State Spartans. At Wisconsin, Nebraska trailed the Badgers for a majority of the game but caught up in the last few minutes to put the game in overtime and win by just 1 point. Against the Spartans, the Huskers redeemed themselves after they lost at Michigan State on Jan. 9. Nebraska took an early lead with a 22-0 run in the first half, and the Spartans couldn’t get closer than 17 points, allowing Nebraska a 76-56 win.

3. Michigan State (168, 8-3)

Despite beating Illinois by 16 points earlier in the week, the No. 25 Spartans lost their four-game win streak when they traveled to the Pinnacle Bank Arena and lost to Nebraska by 20. Against the Illini, the Spartans took a 17-point lead into the half.

Scoring was led by freshman guard Tori Jankoska and junior forward Becca Mills, who each earned 22 points. Although the Spartans dominated Nebraska by 13 points on their home court earlier in the season, they couldn’t claim the second win.

4. Purdue (17-7, 7-5)

The Boilermakers beat both Ohio State and Michigan this past week, moving them to No. 23 in the NCAA rankings. Making 27 of 29 free throws brought home the win against the Buckeyes on Thursday, as well as senior guard Courtney Moses’ 18 points. Three-pointers during the game against the Wolverines allowed the Boilermakers to pull out the win. In the last two minutes, sophomore guard April Wilson and freshman guard Ashley Morrissette sank shots from behind the arc to ensure the 65-56 win.

After a five-day break from a loss against Nebraska, the Hawkeyes turned around to beat No. 11 Penn State, 7370. The 3-point win can be attributed to junior center Bethany Doolittle’s field goal with 1:12 left to put Iowa ahead by 1 point, followed by two made free throws from freshman guard Ally Disterhoft.

Iowa beat Northwestern on Monday.

6. Michigan (15-9, 6-5)

After beating Northwestern by a mere 2 points on Thursday, the team turned around and lost to No. 23 Purdue on Sunday. Although junior forward Cyesha Goree notched her eighth doubledouble of the season with 12 points and 11 rebounds, the Wolverines couldn’t make up for their lack of field goals in the final eight minutes of the game, leaving them behind by 9 at the final buzzer.

7. Indiana (17-6, 4-6)

After losing three Big Ten games in a row, the Hoosiers pulled off back-toback wins in the conference against Illinois and Wisconsin. Despite the six losses in the Big Ten, Indiana has done well overall with no out-ofconference losses to add to its record. Although the Hoosiers added two wins this week, it’s nothing to exactly boast about considering Wisconsin and Illinois have the two worst records in the league.

8. Minnesota (159, 4-6)

Minnesota also beat Illinois this week, but only by a 5-point margin. Junior guard Rachel Banham and redshirt freshman center Amanda Zahui are pretty much carrying the team considering they combined for 47 of the 66 total points against Illinois.

They have an easy schedule next week, too, because they play Wisconsin. Considering the team only has two high scorers right now with Banham and Zahui, it might be difficult for the Gophers to pull off the win against Northwestern, which has the same conference record.

9. Northwestern (14-10, 4-7)

The Wildcats suffered two losses last week against Penn State and Michigan. Although Penn State was the obvious favorite to win the game, Northwestern put up a good fight considering the Nittany Lions only won by a 4-point margin, 79-75. The Michigan game was even closer, with a 2-point loss to the Wolverines.

Northwestern came back from a 7-point halftime deficit, but freshman guard Ashley Deary couldn’t manage to tie of the game with a lastsecond shot, giving the Wildcats their second loss in a row. The losing streak hit three after a loss at Iowa on Monday.

10. Wisconsin (10-13, 3-8)

The Badgers started off the week with an 82-71 win against Ohio State – their first Big Ten win in five games. They continued to put up a fight on Wednesday against the Huskers; the game went into overtime, and the Badgers just barely lost on their home court, 71-70.

Wisconsin followed the close game with a 76-69 loss to Indiana.

11. Ohio State (14-13, 4-7)

Ohio State took three losses last week to Wisconsin, Purdue and Penn State. The Buckeyes hardly even put up a fight against Purdue and Penn State, which both rank in the top 25. They lost by margins of 16 and 20 points, respectively. Ohio State junior guard Raven Ferguson and sophomore guard Ameryst Alston were the top scorers against Penn State with 16 points each, but without other players contributing many points to the scoreboard, Ohio State was able to pull out only 54 points to Penn State’s 74.

12. Illinois (9-15, 2-9)

Illinois hasn’t been able to claim a win since the Michigan State game on Jan. 23. Since then, the Fighting Illini have been on a fivegame losing streak, putting them at the bottom of the totem pole in Big Ten rankings. Despite beating the No. 25 Spartans earlier in the season, Illinois lost to them 69-53 this past week, followed by a close 66-61 loss against Minnesota. The Fighting Illini had a 7-point lead with 4:10 left in the game, but a 17-5 Minnesota run gave the Gophers the win.

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WARD: from 10 I admit, I didn’t think Nebraska was going to win at Northwestern on Saturday. And I really didn’t think they were going to win after scoring 16 points in the first half. I didn’t think even Miles could encourage a team to win after that kind of offense coming off a blowout loss.” but was able to gut out a win against the best defensive team in the Big Ten Conference in one of the ugliest basketball games I’ve witnessed this season.

The only reason I can come up with as to how that happened: Miles is a master motivator.

There were times this season when I thought Nebraska could have thrown in the towel.

After the Huskers lost to Purdue on the road was one. They had the Boilermakers on their heels throughout that game, and they couldn’t close the deal. The same goes for the Penn State loss, which might have been the low point of the season if not for the Michigan catastrophe.

Each time I thought Nebraska would never come back from a loss, it responded with a statement.

Not just the team, but individual players, too.

Shields went from averaging 5 points a game in Nebraska’s first

four conference games to 11 points in its past six. Walter Pitchford has scored at least 10 points in four straight games since a mediocre performance in the Penn State loss.

And Petteway knocked down a clutch 3-point jumper and scored 17 points after being held to 5 against Michigan.

Miles has a way with words.

If you’ve ever heard him talk, you know this. After talking to him for a few minutes, I want to throw a jersey on and dive after loose balls for him.

I admit, I didn’t think Nebraska was going to win at Northwestern on Saturday. And I really didn’t think they were going to win after scoring 16 points in the first half. I didn’t think even Miles could encourage a team to win after that kind of offense coming off a blowout loss.

But once again, Miles found a way to motivate his team. He found a way to ignite them to victory. The Huskers’ fourth in six

WOMEN’S BBALL: from 10 “I just know my teammates The team has even dropped can shoot the ball and score, so 20 or more in four of its games.

I can put trust into them that, if The best assist total came in the I make a pass to them, they’re lopsided win against Michigan going to shoot it and make it,” on Jan. 29., when the squad had Cady said.

27 assists.

Cady said passing game has Yori said the team has muladded another tiple players who dimension to the can dish out asWe’re very team, which cresists, and the asunselfish, ates more diffisist numbers get culty for opposbetter with more and sometimes ing teams. experience in “We’re very that can hurt us, competing with unselfish, and the same players. sometimes that but other times “I knew Racan hurt us, but it’s really nice.” chel could pass it, other times it’s rebut I feel like the ally nice because rest of our kids emily cady junior forward Rach (Theriot) are doing a pretty had what? Like good job of find12 assists,” Cady ing one another, said. “That’s pretty good, and and I think that just comes with when your team meshes like playing together,” Yori said. that, it’s kind of hard to stop” “Some of those kids have played The success of the Huskers in together for quite a while, but Big Ten play can stem from the our passing was at times very, assist numbers. The squad has very good.” sports@ put up more than 10 assists in evdailynebraskan.com ery conference game this season.

games.

How far can this take them, though?

It’s been a signature season so far.

Nebraska got that win against a marquee opponent when it upset Ohio State. It won two games in a row in Big Ten play for the first time in school history. Now, it’s got that road win it so desperately needed.

How far can the Huskers ride this momentum?

I don’t know. It could easily end Wednesday night against Illinois.

But I do know this. Miles can motivate this team to do things I didn’t think it was capable of.

So let’s see where you can lead them, Miles.

Andrew Ward is a senior broadcasting major.

You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS NU collects two women’s gymnastics honors

After No. 8 Nebraska’s victory against No. 23 Penn State on Saturday, senior Emily Wong and junior Jennifer Lauer picked up conference awards for their performances.

Wong was named Big Ten Gymnast of the Week for the second time this season. She won the all-around title for the fifth time in five events this season with a season-high score of 39.575 against the Nittany Lions. She placed first on the bars and floor, third on the vault and fourth on the beam against Penn State. Wong is ranked third in the country in the all-around, and she ranks in the top 10 in the nation on floor and bars.

Lauer was given the conference award for event specialist of the week. She tied for first on the beam against Penn State with a season-high score of 9.925.

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Junior Jennifer Lauer won the beam against Penn State on Saturday with a score of 9.925.

BASEBALL: from 10 Pritchard was one of two Huskers with more than 130 plate appearances to go homerless last season.

“We probably need one so we can get him out of thinking about it,” Erstad said. “He tries his little heart in practice to hit one out.”

Slicing a liner up the middle, or down the right and left field lines has been Pritchard’s forte.

In his first three seasons, Pritchard belted 24 doubles, including a teamhigh 13 his junior year. He’ll enter this season boasting a .341 batting average.

One- or two-baggers have never been a problem for Pritchard. He even recorded his first collegiate triple last season. But the long ball is a milestone he’s yet to pass since coming to Nebraska.

Pritchard’s looking to change that though this year.

“I’m sick of the goose egg,” he said with a laugh. “I’ll take an inside-theparker.”

And slamming a pitch for a roundbagger isn’t Pritchard’s only goal this season.

For the past three seasons, the 2010 Creighton Prep recruit has more

times than not been coined the designated hitter. Now that he’s a senior, he knows he won’t have a chance to play Major League Baseball just by swinging his bat.

“Nobody drafts a 5-11, 170-pound DH,” Pritchard said. “I never took practice completely seriously when I was out there. I think this year I’m finally figure out that to get in the outfield and play everyday, you got to practice hard every day. I think I’ve started to do that.”

It’s undetermined what position Pritchard be calling home behind the mound this season, but when the Huskers travel to Tempe, Ariz., for their first game Friday, he’ll be hoping to call the grass behind third base his permanent home.

“If it was up to me, I’d play all 56 games in left this year,” he said. “Being on the bench is fine, but being in the field is a completely different feel. You feel like you’re more a part of what’s actually going on.

“I’m excited to get out there and show what I can do.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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The Nebraska baseball team enters the 2014 season with the No. 26 recruiting class in the nation, including Boston Red Sox 22ndround draft pick outfielder Ryan Boldt.

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Seniors hit mat for final time at home in defeat Wrestling for team led by juniors, Shawn Nagel, Caleb Kolb take center stage one last time in Lincoln Austin Pistulka DN This wrestling season has been all about the juniors. Jake Sueflohn and Robert Kokesh are both in the top five nationally, and James Green is No. 1 in the country.

But the Husker wrestling team honored the seniors on Friday.

Friday was senior night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, and it commemorated Shawn Nagel and Caleb Kolb.

Nagel and Kolb have had similar paths as Husker wrestlers.

Nagel wrestled at 125 pounds most of his career. He started as a true freshman and was the only true freshman to start that season.

He received the Granite Award and finished second on the team with 9 pins. He went 0-7 in duals but finished in the top five of three tournaments that season.

“Nebraska’s a great school to come to,” Nagel said. “The mix of academics and athletics both have a great tradition. The wrestling team is great because we are just like a family. We all hang out, we come in (the practice room), we beat the crap out of each other, and then we’re friends off the mat.”

As a sophomore, Nagel again started at 125 pounds. He went 6-21, including a 4-15 record in duals. He went 0-2 at the Big Ten Championships that year. He improved his record his junior season, going 16-17 with a 6-10 dual record. Nagel’s biggest win came against Michigan’s Rossi Bruno his junior year, when he pinned the favored Bruno in 2:14. This win launched Nebraska to the upset win against No. 11 Michigan.

In his sophomore and junior seasons he received Academic All Big

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Senior 133-pounder Shawn Nagel planned to redshirt this season but stepped into the lineup when academic issues forced a starter out. He lost to Michigan’s Rossi Bruno 7-6 on Friday night.

Ten honors.

This season was supposed to be Nagel’s redshirt year, but after sophomore Anthony Abidin was unable to continue wrestling because of academic issues, Nagel decided to cut his time at Nebraska a year short to help out his team.

“It is what it is,” Nagel said.

“It’s better for the team. The coaches believed in me so it had to be done. Next year, what if I blew my knee out or something?

Because a lot can happen in a year. I’m going to miss the sport, but it was the best thing for the team.”

He has gone 2-4 in duals this year at 133 pounds, with one of those wins coming by a pin.

Kolb redshirted his freshman season. He finished with a 27-5

record and received Nebraska’s redshirt-of-the-year award. As a redshirt freshman, he finished with a 15-13 regular season record and was seeded No. 4 in the Big 12 Conference tournament. He was upset in two straight matches.

As a sophomore, Kolb didn’t start for the Huskers, but he did finish with a 6-0 record.

Kolb’s junior season was his breakout year. He finished with a 17-19 regular-season record and he earned a trip to the NCAA Championships. There, he finished 1-2 with an overtime win.

This season, Kolb has a 6-5 record and a 3-5 dual record. All five of his losses have been decided by 2 or fewer points. He was ranked No. 20 for a couple of weeks but was ousted after four straight losses to higher ranked

opponents.

All of the hard work came to a culmination on Friday. Nagel nearly beat No. 19 Rossi Bruno, losing by a 7-6 decision, and Kolb had to dig deep to ride out his opponent to get the win 5-4.

“The past five years have been the best years of my life.

I loved the sense of family that we have here at Nebraska,” Kolb said. “I’ll miss when Kokesh and I would throw each other against the walls back when we were the same weight. I’m so happy that I could come out and thank everyone who has supported me these five years.”

After moving from the Coliseum to the Devaney and into an all new wrestling room, they only have two more sure opportunities to wrestle for the scarlet and

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Senior 197-pounder Caleb Kolb, who broke through with an NCAA Championships appearance in 2013, won his last match in Lincoln, 5-4, against Chris Heald of Michigan.

Next year, what if I blew out my knee or something? Because a lot can happen in a year. I’m going to miss the sport, but it was the best thing for the team.” shawn nagel

senior 133-pound wrestler

cream.

“They’re awesome people,” coach Mark Manning said. “I want them to go out with a bang.

Caleb wrestled three years, and this will be Shawn’s fourth year

on varsity. Both these guys need to go out as All-Americans. They need to be going out with something they will remember, something memorable.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Junior walk-on joins team after time away from track Megan Lush walks on to become distance runner for NU after qualifying for 2014 Boston Marathon Mike Shoro DN

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Senior Brandon Videtich, who lost his doubles match alongside sophomore Bradford Zitsch on Saturday in Nebraska’s victory against Denver, said conditioning in practice helps confidence.

Practice builds dedication, stamina for men’s tennis team With meets against Creighton, No. 49 Louisville ahead, No. 59 Nebraska focuses on endurance Sydny Boyd DN Practice makes perfect for the Husker men’s tennis team. Nebraska coach Kerry McDermott emphasizes the importance of hard work, dedication and discipline to his team and implements those qualities into his practices.

“I always stress discipline because without it great teams, athletes, teachers and coaches can fall apart quickly.” McDermott said. “Discipline is a building block that needs to be developed if you want to be a great player or team.”

The Huskers practice six days a week for three hours.

They are allowed one day off a week in accordance with NCAA rules. They practice outdoors when the weather permits it, but they focus their time on the indoor courts.

“We always work really hard at practice and conditioning in preparation for matches,” senior Brandon Videtich said. “It is up to us to push ourselves. Coach McDermott has always communicated that to us.”

For the men’s team, a typical practice includes first warming

We all have days where you come out to practice and you’re not feeling your best. You need to still try and improve.” brandon videtich senior tennis player

up on the court. They do skipping and dynamic exercises to get their muscles going and to prevent injury. Then the team completes a tennis warm-up of hitting balls on the court. Some practices are harder than others.

“We need to stay positive,” Videtich said. “We all have days where you come out to practice and you’re not feeling your best. You need to still try and improve. Every day is a new opportunity for that.”

After the warm-up, the team does drills that work on technique and patterns. They practice on playing out points from the baseline with and without serves along with other fundamentally based practice drills.

“Conditioning is important to our confidence,” Videtich said. “You need to be able to last all day, (or else) you won’t be able to play well. Knowing that you have stability, the stamina and the conditioning to last all day and doing anything it takes to win is the most important thing.”

The most important thing during practice is repetition, McDermott said. The Huskers focus on repeating strokes, serves and returns as many times as pos-

sible during practice.

“It’s important to feel good mentally during practice,” McDermott said. “Your practice should be how you play in a match, and there shouldn’t be a difference. I firmly believe that you must practice as you would play with intensity and focus.”

On Saturday, No. 59 Nebraska will face Creighton and No. 49 Louisville in a double header at the Nebraska Tennis Center.

The practices leading up to the matches will be geared toward endurance and stamina.

“It’s most important to focus on stamina and endurance because tennis has become a much more demanding sport then in the past,” McDermott said.

“Over a long match you must be able to have the endurance to stay out there on the court and wear your opponent down.”

The team will work hard during practice to focus their energy on playing strong throughout the entire match.

“In the end, I want to make sure it is my guys who are standing up raising their hands up for a victory on the court and watching their opponent cramping on the ground,” McDermott said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

To make the cross country and track teams two years after last running on a team, Megan Lush had to walk.

The junior biological systems engineering major ’s path to the Nebraska track and field team was not well-trodden. She walked on her junior year at NU, after barely competing at the varsity level in high school and not even considering joining the NU track and field team until summer 2013.

She now runs the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter events.

On Friday at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, Lush ran a personal-best time of 18:33.69 to finish 14th in the 5,000-meter event.

“I knew I wanted to keep running just because I liked having that in my schedule,” Lush said, “and it was kind of always one of those things where it was like it would be awesome to be on the team, but I never thought I would be able to get to that level.”

Lush ran cross country her sophomore, junior and senior years of high school. She competed as a member of the track team all four years of high school but as a distance runner only her junior and senior year. She ran sprints her freshman and sophomore year. She said she made the switch simply because she was already running for the cross country team.

Lush said she ran only about one or two varsity races in high school, and the only reason she file photo by jennifer gotrik | dn got to run varsity was because her Megan Lush, who joined the Nebraska track team before her team was resting its best runners junior year, ran a personal-best time of 18:33.69 to finish 14th in for a meet a couple of days away the 5,000 meter on Friday at the Frank Sevigne Invitaitonal. from the one she competed in.

She originally had no intention of running for NU. out to Harris. She said she met thought, ‘OK, maybe I actually It all changed when she qualihim a few weeks later and was could run with these girls and not fied for the 2014 Boston Marathon terrified and for good reason it just constantly be the last one at during the summer after placing seems. practice,’” Lush said. fourth in her age “I probably Harris didn’t guarantee her a group at the 2013 wasn’t going to do spot but gave her workouts to do I mean, Lincoln National it,” Harris said. on her own.

Guard Marathon. my friends He said walking “She was here for the right She said a runner on after two years reasons,” Harris said. from Concordia all along would away from the sport It was her work ethic, her enUniversity, Kim always be like, was not a common thusiasm for running, her desire Wood, ultimately thing, and he wasn’t to be on a team and a need for convinced her ‘You know, you expecting much. team depth that won her the spot, to email NU disHe asked for her run so much, you Harris said. tance and cross times in high school While doing a workout Harris country coach might as well join as well as what she gave her, she happened to find the David Harris. had been doing since team while it was working out, “I mean, my the team.’” then.

Lush said. She said Harris waited friends all along megan lush A half marathon after the team was done working would always be junior distance runner her freshman year at for Lush to finish out hers. He like, ‘You know, NU and a full maratalked to her and offered for her you run so much, thon her sophomore to start working out with the team you might as well join the team,’” year. Harris also asked her why right away. It seems he is glad he Lush said. she wanted to join then as op- did.

She said Wood told her she posed to when she first enrolled “She’s a good person, a very might as well see what Harris had at NU. good student,” Harris said. “She to say and that it would’nt do any “What I told him was that adds to the program by just being harm except to a bit of her ego if I missed having a team, and it in it.” she didn’t make it. sports@ was getting to the point where I It was then that she reached dailynebraskan.com

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The Nebraska baseball team, which is receiving votes in three major polls, opens its season on Friday in Tempe, Ariz., with games against Pacific and No. 2 Oregon State, which qualified for the College World Series in 2013.

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ichael Pritchard loves his teammates, but even he’s starting to get tired of seeing the same faces every day.

The senior outfielder has practiced against the same teammates since Jan. 24.

The Huskers have spent countless hours playing against the same faces smothered in eye black. The same heads topped with a white letter ‘N’ on the cap. And the same facilities during the season’s unpredictable weather.

“People are over hitting off of our own pitching,” Pritchard said in the team’s press conference Feb. 3. “I think guys are over going into the Hawks (Field). We’re definitely ready.”

Coach Darin Erstad and the Nebraska

baseball team are prepared for their season to begin.

“I don’t even have to say anything,” Erstad said. “They’re ready.”

Nebraska will kick off its 2014 season in warmer conditions on Friday against Pacific, when it travels west to Tempe, Ariz., for the Husker Classic. The weekend opener will also contain games against Oregon State and Gonzaga on Saturday and Sunday, and it will feature 19 returning Huskers, including Pritchard.

Although he’s one of the veterans, the 22-year-old doesn’t feel any pressure to be the leader.

“Obviously, everyone’s always looking for senior leadership and guys who have been around for a while,” Pritchard said.

“For this team, the leadership kind of falls on everybody. We have eight or nine guys that you can you say, ‘Wow, that’s one of the leaders of our team.’”

Out of the 18 new Huskers who helped Nebraska’s recruiting class rank No. 26 in the offseason, the most talked-about newcomer is arguably freshman outfielder Ryan Boldt.

In June, the 19-year-old was drafted in the 22nd round by the Boston Red Sox, and because of his base running and batting intangibles is expected to start in center field this season.

Boldt recorded 12 stolen bases in the XXV IBAF Under-18 Baseball World Championships in Seoul, South Korea, to help Team USA capture its first crown since 1999.

There’s a reason the reigning World Se-

ries champions wanted to have the thirdranked outfielder in the country on their club.

Erstad said he plans on inserting him in the bottom of the order at the start of the season to ease him into the college level.

“Everybody’s all excited, he gets all the publicity,” the coach said. “But let’s not forget he’s a young kid – he’s a freshman. He’s going to have his bumps along the way, just like they all are.”

Another key recruit will be corner infielder Bryce Only. The Algonquin, Ill., native blasted six home runs in 2013 to aid him to a No. 19 ranking among third base recruits in 2013. His power could play a key role for Nebraska, as the team tallied just 15 long bombs all last season.

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Passing game assists NU on four-game winning streak Theriot’s career-high assist performance helps Nebraska to 20 total assists in Saturday victory Eric Bertrand DN The setup is the key to scoring.

The crucial part of the setup for the Nebraska women’s basketball team is the pass.

In their victory against Michigan State on Saturday, the Huskers totaled 20 assists. Sophomore guard Rachel Theriot notched a career-high number of 12 in the win.

Coach Connie Yori said this team has exceeded her hopes as a passing squad.

“Our ball movement is good,” Yori said. “Rachel is pretty outstanding as a passer, but the other kids are contributing.

Look at what Emily (Cady) is doing, and other kids are contributing at passing.”

In Big Ten play, the Huskers have the most assists per game with 18.1.

With an average of 7.8 assists per game, Theriot ranks second to Iowa’s junior Samantha Logic in the assist category during conference play.

What allows Theriot to excel in passing?

“She’s got size so she can see over the defense,” Yori said.

“There are point guards that are more penetrating point guards and see through the defense. She sees over the defense.”

The Huskers have had to adjust to the style of play from Theriot. Cady said the 6-foot guard keeps the other players more alert in the game.

“As an offensive player?

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Sophomore guard Rachel Theriot, who ranks second in the Big Ten in assists during league play, and the Huskers have had 20 or more assists in 4 of 9 conference games this season.

I never know where she’s going, if she’s going to shoot it, if she’s going to drive it or if she’s going to pass it.” emily cady

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After NU lost by 29 at Michigan on Wednesday, coach Tim Miles said he didn’t see determination from the Huskers when things went bad. On Saturday, the Huskers beat Northwestern, 53-49.

Miles’ motivation lifts Huskers to victory after demoralizing loss

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Yes,” Cady said. “I never know where she’s going, if she’s going to shoot it, if she’s going to drive it or if she’s going to pass it, so we always have to be aware of where she’s going.”

Theriot accounts for about 39 percent of the assists on the entire season for the Huskers. She has totaled 144 on the year.

When it comes to getting buckets or dropping a dime, Theriot said she doesn’t have much of a preference.

“Probably a pass,” Theriot said. “I don’t know. I don’t really care.”

The second-best helper on the Huskers is junior forward Emily Cady. She ranks eighth during conference play with an average of 4.3 assists a game.

With players who can take advantage of good scoring looks, the assist numbers become easier to get, Cady said.

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andrew ward

Tim Miles didn’t see what he wanted.

His team had just been destroyed by Michigan. And when I say destroyed, I mean completely demolished. The Wolverine lead ballooned past 30 points in the first half. Then to more than 40 in

the second.

It was a complete dismantling.

But that wasn’t the thing Miles talked about in his post-game radio interview.

“I just don’t see the determination and fire when things go bad,” Miles said after the loss to the Wolverines on the road.

He wasn’t kidding. The Huskers looked beat from the midway point of the first half on. The only energy I saw came from the scrubs off the bench in the game’s final minutes.

Terran Petteway looked like a ghost compared with the way he

normally plays. Shavon Shields started out strong but faltered with just 2 second-half points.

Michigan got to any spot on the floor it wanted without any hesitation.

It was probably the worst I’ve ever seen a Tim Miles-coached team play.

But then, somehow, something clicked the next game. The fire Miles said was missing was there.

Nebraska scored just 16 points in the first half at Northwestern

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