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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 volume 114, issue 093

Perlman confirms college merger at UNL

Therightpath Assistant defense secretary, political scientist debate next step for US military at E.N. Thompson Forum

jacy marmaduke and maranda loughlin DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s architecture and fine and performing arts colleges will merge in July 2015, administrators confirmed Tuesday.

UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Ellen Weissinger, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced the plan to join the College of Architecture and the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts to college faculty last week. The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will need to approve the merger.

“These two colleges have a lot in common and share a lot in the allied fields of design,” UNL spokesman Steve Smith said. “They stand more to gain by their combined size then to stand alone.”

Administrators say combining the two colleges will boost efficiency and stability. But the primary motivation behind the consolidation is the range of “opportunities to advance both programs,” Perlman wrote in an email Tuesday.

New art- and design-related majors will rise from the consolidation, and Perlman said he expects greater enrollment for the new college.

“UNL is a medium-sized research university, and we have to be even more strategic than our peers about maximizing our existing resources,” Weissinger said. “The creation of the new college is just the latest example of a trend on our campus to create larger, more diverse academic units that can achieve at a much higher level.”

Perlman said he does not expect any faculty or staff changes, but that could change as plans for the merger evolve. Curricula may also change, he said.

A steering committee made up of faculty and staff from the two colleges will design a collaborative process for uniting the two colleges, according to a university press release.

Kim Wilson, architecture interim dean, and Chuck O’Connor, HixsonLied dean, will lead the committee.

The new college will retain the Hixson-Lied name and be lead by O’Connor. For fall semester of 2013, the College of Architecture enrolled a total of 497, while Fine and Performing Arts enrolled a total of 776.

Mergers are nothing new to UNL. The current College of Education and Human Sciences is the result of a 2003 consolidation of the former education and human sciences colleges. Since the merger, undergraduate enrollment has increased by about 25 percent and research funding has dou-

U.S. Department of Defense Assistant Secretary of Defense, Derek Chollet, met for an interview in the Embassy Suites Hotel before his E.N. Thompson Forum presentation last night. Chollet is a native of Lincoln, Neb., and is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Defense on international security strategy and policy issues related to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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he E.N. Thompson Forum on Tuesday night focused on two potential paths for the United States military as it emerges from more than a decade of conflict: recalibration and reform.

Andrew Bacevich, a political scientist from Boston University, and Derek Chollet of the United States Department of Defense took the stage of the Lied Center for Performing Arts for a talk titled “The American Military: War and Peace, Spending and Politics.”

Chollet, a Lincoln native and assistant secretary of defense under fellow Nebraskan Chuck Hagel, said recalibration is the game plan. The U.S. is exiting more than a decade of non-stop war with Iraq and Afghanistan, conflicts that killed more than 7,000 Americans and injured tens of thousands. The withdrawal of Iraq troops and the oncoming exit in Afghanistan mean it’s time for serious cuts to

But Bacevich said recalibration isn’t defense spending, Chollet said.

Next month, President Barack Obama will enough. He introduced a question for the audience: Are military exertions makpresent the first post-war defense ing the U.S. more secure and more spending plan. In the meantime, prosperous? If the answer is no, he Hagel plans to cut $70 billion in desaid, then it’s time to significantly fense spending during the next two reform the military. years, Chollet said.

“Our national security estab“This is not just a math exerlishment is so invested in the status cise,” he said. “The United States quo carrying over from the Cold still has global interests and reWar that our leaders lack the cresponsibilities, and other nations are ative capacity to produce or evalumodernizing their militaries and ate alternative approaches,” he challenging our traditional techsaid. “And so, we blunder on.” nological superiorities. We have to Bacevich, true to form as an outwork harder to align our defense spoken critic of the U.S. military, strategies with our fiscal strateBacevich said the establishment has demongies.” strated “an inability to win wars on Chollet said the military is facing a new era where the U.S. must reassess and our terms.”

“We did not win and we did not end the recalibrate its global efforts.

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Merger: see page 3

Rec: Student fees won’t increase for ice center Gabrielle Lazaro dn Student fees will not be raised if the estimated $11 million proposed Breslow Ice Center gets approved, according to Amy Lanham, acting associate director of Campus Recreation.

“It (the money) would come from reserves that are already in place,” she said. “It would come from auxiliary funds … it would be something that students would already be paying into.”

The University of NebraskaLincoln Recreation Center would provide $1 million toward the construction of the ice center. The initial $7 million was pledged six years ago by former Nebraska State Auditor John Breslow, as well $1 million in donated land from the city of Lincoln. Up to $2 million could come from The West Haymarket Joint Public Agency and the University of Nebraska Foundation would raise the rest.

The 55,393-square-foot center would be built on land south and west of Haymarket Park. It will have one professional-sized rink, 700 seats, locker rooms, maintenance and storage areas along with room for expansion.

UNL’s hockey, curling and broomball club teams could also use the facilities.

“I know we have students now that are driving back and forth from

Fremont and Ralston,” Clare said.

“They’re going up there for ice time, so I know there’s demand with UNL. I also know there’s demand in the city. In fact, ice hockey folks themselves told me they’d use 500 to 600 hours of ice time, so I know there’s demand there.”

As far as increasing student fees to accommodate programs offered by the ice center, this would still have to be looked into, Lanham said.

“We’d like to not do that,” she said. “Ideally there would be no increase in student fees, but if there were a large number of students that wanted that and wanted their money to go to that we might look into it. We would increase student facility fees based on what students were telling us they wanted to spend those monies on.”

The funds provided by the West Haymarket JPA would be from contingency funds left over from the construction of the infrastructure for the West Haymarket. “(The university) indicated to us that they were short on the fundraising side so we took that up to the JPA board and asked them whether they thought it was something they could do,” said Trish Owens, deputy chief of staff to Mayor Chris Beutler. “They decided they’d like to hear from the public and take that up at their meeting. The decision is whether we want to reinvest those funds in another community facility that could potentially bring money in as a catalyst, the same way that

the arena does.”

Owens said a large part of the decision-making would depend on what citizens had to say. She said she expected quite a few people from both sides at the meeting.

Concerns with the ice center include the estimated price being higher than average. A three-sheet ice arena in Sioux Falls, S.D. that’s under construction is estimated to cost $8.5 million.

Comparing these other ice centers to the Breslow Ice Center is like comparing apples to oranges, Lincoln Regent Tim Clare said. He also said he thought the other ice centers were made out of metal.

“What we’ve done is say OK, let’s keep the interior/exterior integrity the same and let’s instead go inside the building and see if there’s amenities we can remove,” Clare said. “There’s a conference room, I don’t know if we need a conference room. If we remove it, it might free up money to add another sheet of ice to budget.”

Building two sheets of ice makes the center more feasible for tournaments, which would add travel revenue such as people staying in hotels and eating at restaurants, he said.

Comparing centers is also difficult, especially when the university has not received bids on the current proposed plans. UNL only has project estimates, said Christine Jackson, vice chancellor for business and finance.

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The Lincoln Junior Stars practice in the Ice Box Arena on Tuesday afternoon. The Ice Box, currently a 5,010-seat arena, hosts the Lincoln Stars hockey team and many youth hockey programs.

“We understand why the questions are being raised and we are trying to identify the same answers that you are,” she said. “We have

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two needs in the arena: one need to support campus recreational need and another need to support community recreational skating. We also

have to keep in mind what the donor had in mind for the facility.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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12 ON CAMPUS what:

Social Capacity: Getting Producers to the Conservation Table when: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hardin Hall

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Institute for Ethnic Studies Colloquium – The Politics of Language: Racial Slurs and American Society when: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Colonial Room more information: Free admission

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The Call of the Wild: Studies of SIV infection in natural hosts in the wild when: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Beadle center, Room E103 more information: Open to the public

IN LINCOLN what:

One Billion Rising for Justice Poetry Reading and Benefit when: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. where: Meadowlark Coffee and Espresso, 1624 South St. more information: Free and open to the public

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Jazz at the Moon with Jazzocracy when: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Crescent Moon, 140 N. 8th St.

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Lyp Schitck when: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. where: The Alley, 1031 M Street more information: Cover is $5 at the door.

‘Let Us Eat Cake’ event to discuss marriage equality Melissa Allen dn The LGBTQA Resource Center of the University of NebraskaLincoln is hosting its 6th annual “Let Us Eat Cake” booth.

On Wednesday, the booth will be set up in the Nebraska East Union from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., and again on Thursday at the Nebraska Union from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The purpose of the booth is to facilitate a discussion on marriage equality for same-sex couples.

“The number of states that support marriage equality has doubled within the past year or so,” said Lindsay Spaulding, a junior psychology major who works in the center. “There’s big social changes going on right now.”

When the LGBTQA Resource Center sets up its booth at the east union, it will have a large red cake with white frosting. On Thursday, it will have three large cakes: red velvet with cream cheese, strawberry with lemon cream cheese frosting and a chocolate cake with bavarian cream filling.

“It’s one of the events that we reach out into the community the most,” Spaulding said. “It can be intimidating for people to come up to the office, so this is our opportunity to go out to the rest of campus.”

Last year, the booth on city campus received 182 visitors.

Because the east union doesn’t receive as much student traffic as the city campus union, the visitor count was lower. Most students eat in the dining hall, and can’t bring cake in, whereas students at the Nebraska Union can take their cake with them when they leave to eat lunch.

Even with the smaller crowd, the center still feels it’s important to reach out to students on east campus, said Tony Moran, a senior philosophy major.

“It’s important to create the

“Let us eat cake” what:

LGBTQA Resource Center booth to raise awareness on marriage equality for same-sex couples, and to hand out free cake. where: Wednesday: Nebraska East Union 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Thursday: Nebraska Union 11:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. bridge between the two campuses,” Moran said. “We don’t want to avoid them over there.”

Spaulding, who will be one of the students handing out cake at the east union, agreed.

“We’re still going over there, even though it’s smaller,” she said. “We’re just trying to give them cake. Free cake.”

The booth was set up to correlate with Valentine’s Day, said Pat Tetreault, the director of the LGBTQA Resource Center.

“It ties into a Marie Antoinette theme,” Tetreault said.

“Most people who get married have cake. It’s a typical way to celebrate.”

When Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake,’ it wasn’t about marriage equality but about class, Tetreault said.

“When you don’t have rights as everyone else, you are automatically a second-class citizen,” she said.

The “Let Us Eat Cake” booth is not about convincing students to believe in the opinions of the LGBTQA community on marriage equality, Spaulding said.

“We’re not trying to sell everyone on something,” she said.

“We just want to give free cake.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

UHC promotes kindness acts through social media Health center to host Union Plaza event, featuring a video about what students share in the week Diego de los Reyes DN A new University Health Center campaign aims to promote random acts of kindness at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Emily Schuckman, an educator in Health Promotion and Outreach, said the main goal is to inspire a sense of community on campus.

The campaign invites students to share their random acts of kindness on the health center’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. On Friday, health center staff will hold an event from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the Nebraska Union Plaza showing a video featuring what students shared.

“It’s the first time we’ve done it like this, but usually every year we do something for random acts kindness they’ve seen posted inof kindness week,” Schuckman volve neighbors helping scoop sidewalks, giving compliments to said.

This campaign is also meant to people and giving a ride to someone whose car broke down on the reduce student stress.

“Sometimes students can feel side of the road.

Kane Znamenacek, a graduate alienated or isolated, and if you’re helping your friend out randomly, assistant in Health Promotion and it lifts your spirit, and hopefully Outreach, hopes students continue some positive emotions come up to do actions to help others after the campaign. from it,” she said.

“Hopefully people will get a The student sense of pride out response to the of it and enjoy it,” campaign has been Hopefully he said. “Maybe slow so far. people will some of them will “We’re hopeful then help somethat students are get a sense of body else, and it’ll doing the random perpetuate itself.” acts of kindness, pride out of it and While they and that we’re just enjoy it.” hope to hold the not getting the share back,” she Kane Znamenacek event again next year, health cenhealth promotion outreach said. “There are ter staff members videos on the web graduate assistant stress that this about random acts week is not the of kindness of peoonly time to enple from all over doing them, but I think it would be courage well-meaning actions to awesome to have a UNL-specific fellow students.

“We’ll definitely continue to one out there.” put that word out there for random Some of the random acts of

sean flattery | DN acts of kindness on social media and platforms like that throughout the year,” Schuckman said.

The event on Friday will consist of several screens on the Nebraska Union Plaza, which will continuously show the video mix of random acts of kindness across campus.

“It’s cold outside, so it’ll be something quick,” she said. “The video won’t last very long, so you can come, get some free hot cocoa and popcorn, watch the video and then continue on with your night.”

Students who wish to participate can share their random acts of kindness, whether they gave or received one, on the health center’s social media pages. They could also use the hashtag #RAK, or #RandomActsofKindness.

“We’re all about spreading kindness,” Schuckman said.

“We’re not trying to sell students anything, we just want this to be a positive and uplifting thing for students. Just sharing the love, essentially.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

RHA approves funding for Nepali event Nepali Diversity event funds will help support nurse working in Nepal to end sex trafficking Gabrielle Lazaro dn In the country of Nepal, an estimated 12,000 children, mainly girls, are sex trafficked each year, according to ChildSafe International, a network under the international non-governmental organization Friends-International.

Freshman global studies major Rachel Longren is trying to raise money for her friend and mentor,

Karin Feltman, a nurse currently living and working in Nepal to end child sex trafficking.

With the help of various University of Nebraska-Lincoln organizations, such as the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, the Women’s Center, Students Overcoming Stereotypes (SOS) and recently the Residence Hall Association, a buffet dinner and awareness fundraiser will be held March 12 at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.

“I just want to say how impressed I am for taking this initiative, whether it was you or a group,” said Kaitlin Ferris, RHA co-adviser and Pound Hall residence director. “It gives me goose bumps. It really shows a lot of compassion, and I think it’s awesome.”

Senate Bill 21, the allocation of funds to the Nepali Diversity event, was approved unanimously

and cultural and daily life inforat the Tuesday RHA meeting.

The allocation of $1,000 will mation. The event will conclude go toward food costs, with any with a short presentation.

The event will be advertised remaining funds being donated to with table tents, posters, mass the cause. The buffet will consist of emails and Greek lentils, rice, dumphouse announcelings and rolls.

I wanted ments.

“This is exactly The money will what the people eat to do be going to Feltover there,” Lonman in Nepal so gren said. “It’s also something a little inexpensive, so we different and more she can continue to live there and to can feed as many help others. These people as possible. global.” funds would go I’m expecting a lot Rachel Longren to various things, of people.” freshman global studies major such as a water There will also filter system, blanbe a raffle throughkets and a heater, out the dinner.

Raffle tickets will be sold at the all things she needs in Nepal that door at $3 for two tickets. To raise she wouldn’t need here, Longren said. awareness, the event will include “Even though the money is golearning booths with health and wellness issues, Nepali initiatives, ing to one person, it shouldn’t be a maps and demographics of Nepal big issue,” said Liz Herrick, YARD

tendency to support the troops through car bumper stickers and Budweiser commercials during the Super Bowl demonstrates “cheap grace,” Bacevich said.

“If indeed we support the troops, our obligations should go well beyond cheering or buying beer,” he said. “We ought to be examining our consciences.

We’ve allowed the troops to abused and misused — we ought to feel pretty uncomfortable about that.”

Drones were another point of contention. Chollet said the choice to use unmanned vehicles to target terrorists and radicals weighs heavily on administration but comes only after a careful evaluation of the risks involved of both action and inaction.

Bacevich wondered whether the tactic simply “spreads the poison” and does little to combat terrorism.

“Do we think that if we assassinate enough bad guys, the result will be that we will exhaust

the supply of radical Islamists?” he said. “What if in assassinating bad guys, and inadvertently killing people who are not bad guys, the effect is simply to create new bad guys?”

He said the military needs to reevaluate its involvement around the world. Islamic countries, he said, are struggling with the process of reconciling classical religion with the social modernization in a world that is both growing and shrinking.

“One thing we ought to have learned from the last decade is having a bunch of U.S. troops bungling around does not help that process,” Bacevich said. “It exacerbates it. We have an interest in getting out of the way while they solve their problem.”

Chollet agreed, saying that the U.S. can’t — and shouldn’t be — the sole global power.

Regardless, he said, “people look to us. They want more U.S. involvement, not less. But that doesn’t mean our job should be

Senator and junior child, youth and family studies major. “The more we can support her, the more she can support other people.”

Harper-Schramm-Smith senator and freshman accounting major Annie Lundeen asked whether this event would be held in the future if it’s successful.

Longren said she would like to hold another similar event in the future and enjoys doing something campus-wide that can help another country.

“I wanted to do something a little different and more global,” she said. “The biggest thing is the awareness factor, and I want people to see what we’re doing to help with that.”

This event is open to all students and free of charge, although donations are welcome. news@ dailynebraskan.com

military: from 1 Iraq war,” he said. “The United States no longer occupies Iraq, but the war continues to occupy Iraq. We will not win the war in Afghanistan, and with all probability that war also will not end.

So although Obama’s military force is admirable in many ways, the fact of the matter is, the allvolunteer force has not proven to be an especially effective instrument of policy.”

Both Bacevich, a Vietnam veteran, and Chollet decried the low American involvement in the armed forces. Less than 1 percent of Americans are in active duty today, compared with 9 percent during World War II. That low level of involvement means the country can’t count on citizens to pitch in when the need for troops is underestimated, such as at the beginning of the Iraq War. Instead, Bacevich said, the military must depend on mercenaries, who “cost a heck of a lot and (don’t) get the job done.”

And the American public’s

CHOLLET’S TIPS FOR ASPIRING GOVERNMENT LEADERS Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Derek Chollet, who grew up in Lincoln, gave four tips for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who want a job like his one day.

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GET A GOOD EDUCATION Chollet graduated from Cornell University, but he said students can get a great education in UNL’s political science and global studies programs.

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BE A STUDENT OF THE GAME Staying updated is easy, whether your preference be Twitter, TV or newspapers. Chollet himself is partial to the classics – he reads the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal daily.

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DEVELOP NEW IDEAS BUT LEARN FROM THE PAST “In high school I was really into political history,” Chollet said. “I read all the time.”

GET AN INTERNSHIP Chollet traveled to Washington, D.C., and other locations for myriad internships, often unpaid. He encouraged UNL students to seek out opportunities through other universities to study in the nation’s capital.

or can be being in charge of everything.

“I can’t think of any meeting that I’ve been in where people are asking for less of us. People are always asking for more. That’s

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Merger: from 1 bled, according to the press release.

Nationally, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University have consolidated fine and performing arts and architecture col-

leges.

Wilson of the College of Architecture and O’Connor of Hixson-Lied were unavailable for comment Tuesday afternoon. news@ dailynebraskan.com

I don’t really like it. I don’t like it at all, actually. I feel like it’s not going to be architecture anymore … I guess I don’t know enough about it, but I would rather they didn’t. Although, I heard they only did it because they are massively in debt.”

Anne McManis

sophomore architecture major

If we are getting more facilities or resources then I think it’s a really good idea. For my first project, we did a collaboration work with dance majors.

If we got together and did stuff like that more often that would be interesting to me.”

Julie Reynolds

sophomore architecture major

It will be good in the long run. Finances will be combined, so it will provide a cushion for the colleges. The only negative effects won’t be seen for 10 years, as far as the curriculum.”

Joe Johnson

6th year grad student of architecture

I’m always interested in collaborations, and not just in music, because I’m a composer. I don’t know with the merger if they’d be able to create some type of joint project. That would be beneficial, and they would get to know each other better. I would personally be interested in collaborating.”

Masayoshi Ishikawa

2nd year graduate student of music

date taller men.

The average height of the men involved was 5 feet 9 inches and the average height of the women was 5 feet 4 inches.

The researchers said the preference may be based in evolutionary psychology.

White, green roofs help offset global warming

Cool roofs – those painted in light colors – may offset global warming, according to a study of six U.S. cities.

The study, coauthored by three scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, showed that roofs that reflect the light save energy, specifically in warmer Southern areas. The U.S. Department of Energy says such reflective and light colored roofs may keep the surface 50 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than traditional black tar roofing. Mark Jacobson, an environmental engineering professor at Standford University, said the study does not show global impact.

children, young adults caffeine intake jumps to 73 percent

More than 70 percent of American children and young adults consume caffeine on any given day, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

That percentage has stayed relatively stagnant over the past decade, though the study showed kids are turning to replacing soda with coffee. In 2000, coffee made up only 10 percent of caffeine intake for young Americans; today it’s 25 percent.

The percentage of kids drinking energy drinks jumped from 0 percent to 6 percent, mainly due to the growth in energy drink availability.

USDA confirms Americans’ love of pizza

There’s now a study confirming what most Americans already know: This country loves pizza.

A recent USDA study analyzed eating habits of U.S. adults and children from 2007 through 2010 showed that 13 percent of adults eat pizza on any given day. More men are eating it than women – 15 percent compared to 11 percent.

But it’s the children who are eating the most – they are twice as likely than adults to consume pizza.

Pizza provided nearly one-third of daily calcium intake for the average American and outlined pizza’s other nutrients: fiber, potassium and lycopene.

Teens just as stressed as adults

Teenagers’ stress levels are right up there with adults, according to a study by the American Psychological Association.

During the school year, the stress level for teens jumps above that of American adults.

Surveying 1,018 teens and 1,950 adults, the study found the average stress level in teens to be about 5.8 on a 10-point scale during the school year. During the summer, the level dropped to 4.1. Adults reported an average of 5.1.

Eighty-three percent of kids said school was their major stressor and 59 percent said time management and multiple activities were stressors. Adults identified working and the economy as their main stressors.

Teen girls’ stress levels were 1 point higher than their male peers (5.1 to 4.1) and overweight kids reported higher levels of stress (5.2 to 4.4).

UGH. #STRESS

height matters in relationships

Height may affect your love life, according to a study conducted by sociologists at Rice University.

The study analyzed dating advertisements on Yahoo! from 455 men and 470 women in the United States. More than 13 percent of the men wanted to date women shorter than themselves and almost half of all of the women – 48.9 percent – said they’d only

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Perspectives need to be recognized in college merger University of Nebraska–Lincoln administrators announced yesterday a merging of the architecture and fine and performing arts colleges, which is planned for July 2015. The plan is awaiting approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

UNL spokesman Steve Smith said the two colleges “stand more to gain by their combined size than to stand alone.”

This merger has the potential to bring some excellent changes and new opportunities to both colleges. For example, there’s planning happening for new art- and designrelated majors, and enrollment could increase, according to UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman. But administrators must also keep in mind that they would be serving even more different sorts of students – and they must take this into account with all the decisions they make.

The College of Architecture had a fall enrollment of just 497 students, compared to a fall enrollment of 5,600 in UNL’s biggest college, the College of Arts & Sciences, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

These architecture students’ opinions, interests and styles of learning remain important, no matter their small numbers.

Any projected curriculum changes or faculty or staff changes should thus respect both fine and performing arts majors and architecture majors alike and not favor any certain field.

Those who are administrators in the new college should also keep in mind that they are serving a new demographic of students and might need to approach things with a different frame of mind.

Each student in this new, merged college will bring his or her own perspectives. And there’s no reason each can’t be embraced.

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‘Cookiecott 2014’ hinders Girl Scouts

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he Girl Scouts of America provide a platform that “builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place,” according to the mission statement. We also know them as the cookie entrepreneurs in green vests, capable of conquering even the most hardened criminal and persuading their patronage. Recently, however, the Girl Scouts have become a target in the ongoing pro-life/pro-choice debate.

When I first heard about a group boycotting the Girl Scouts, I thought “This is the work of The Onion. No reasonable human being could actually do something so stupid like boycotting little girls trying to sell cookies for a good cause.” Alas, I remembered the limitless bounds of human stupidity and found out this is, in fact, a thing.

A group, Cookiecott 2014, has begun a boycott against the Girl Scouts and their cookies in response to a tweet made by them linking a Huffington Post article that listed women who should be considered for women of the year.

Their Facebook page also linked a Washington Post article that recognized seven women and their achievements in 2013.

Among them are Wendy Davis, democratic candidate for Texas governor, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Both are pro-choice. Davis filibustered all day in the Texas Legislature against a bill to defeat an anti-abortion bill. The bill failed to pass. Never mind that other people on the list include Janet Yellen, an economist, and Mary Barra, chief executive officer of General Motors Co. – hardly the most politically abrasive types. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist shot by gunmen who didn’t like

Legislators need to stay on track with gun laws

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any travesties have been unjustly thrust upon the American public. From Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine – the list goes on and on. Why has justice not been served in the form of firearm reform? The American public, and subsequently media outlets hastily lose interest.

According to data compiled by Jessie Klein, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Adelphi University, there have been 137 school shootings since 1980, 60 of which have occurred since 2002.

This should be a grave concern for Americans – people shouldn’t be able to come into our schools and shoot and kill our classmates, our friends and our families.

We need to refocus our attention to these problems and protect our citizens – especially because Nebraska has the highest black homicide rate in the U.S. as reported by the Violence Policy Center.

Sen. Bill Kintner of Nebraska’s Legislative District 2 has a bill to call for stricter gun policies in Omaha but would essentially disallow federal legislation to affect Nebraska gun owners. But we need to also look at the bigger picture and understand this is a national problem. Sripal Bangalore’s 2013 study in the American Journal of Medicine found that Americans have the highest civilian gun ownership (88.8 per 100 people) and also the highest number of gun-related deaths (10.2 per 100,000 people) worldwide. We thus can’t pick and choose the areas in which we want to combat gun violence, and we must work with Congress to combat it nationwide.

When we witness these tragedies, we need to advocate for legislative reform continuously and not switch gears to a separate issue. Policymakers will have a more difficult time deciding which issues are important to citizens if we don’t have a clear voice as to what we want done.

We have the ability to change the firearm system in the U.S. – but reform takes time. Sadly after a few months of spinning our wheels, while Congress and state legislatures try to reform gun control, we move on to the next issue. In fact, Gallup did a survey be-

tween Jan. 10 and 14 of this year showing that only 39 percent of Americans feel the firearm laws in the U.S. need to be stricter. On the other hand, Pew Research Center found that 51 percent of Americans felt we needed to control gun ownership in the U.S. just one month after the Sandy Hook shooting.

We care about these issues because they affect the people around us. From school shootings to workplace violence, we’re statistically in favor of changing the laws.

After time passes, however, we become tired of viewing coverage from the rampages and try to forget the horror. But these rampages follow a pattern in which we can base our gun control policies, such as where they get the weapons. We’ve all viewed coverage from school shootings and know that most of the time those individuals get the weapons from their parents or other relatives. In fact, Mother Jones’ comprehensive guide to mass shootings from last year reported that between 1982-2012, shooters obtained guns legally in 49 separate shootings.

Still, as this is a complex issue with many contributing factors, we need to explore other facets such as mental illness and bullying. These two influences, among others, need to be further explored in order to better contest this problem. If we only legislate and enforce policies banning weapons then we may be missing a larger root of the problem. But that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it.

Passing sweeping reform in a statistically unproductive Congress is especially challenging with a great deal of partisanship and other major pieces of legislation being deliberated. Cooperation with this issue, however, is vital even if both sides’ goals aren’t entirely fulfilled. Both actors in this dispute can be satisfied in the end. As voters and members of one of the greatest democratic societies of our generation, we have the ability to pass gun control that both protects the sport, while keeping our families, friends and schools safe from gun violence.

Mark Batt is a junior political science major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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girls receiving an education, is also on the list.

The Girl Scouts are no strangers to allegations. The National Review published an article in 2000 stating that “the Girl Scouts’ leaders hope to make their youthful charges the shock troops of an ongoing feminist revolution.” State Rep. Bob Morris of Indiana wrote a letter in which he stated that the Girl Scouts role models are mostly “feminists, lesbians, or Communists.”

As an ardent and loyal customer of Thin Mints and Samoas, I will defend the Girl Scouts and their honorable mission to empower girls and deliver a delicious product. Politicizing the Girl Scouts to suit an agenda, however righteous it may be, undermines the very point of Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts serve as a way to build invaluable leadership and social skills, confidence and a sense of civic duty that translate into later life.

The Girl Scouts have no official stance on abortion or any other political issue. However, critics may argue that they are implicitly advocating certain stances.

The Girl Scouts organization did apologize about any misperception of endorsement. Still, this boycott is misguided.

Why can’t a little girl raise a few bucks to

go camping or whatever it is that Girl Scouts do? I, unfortunately, don’t have firsthand knowledge of the Girl Scouts activities. But after exhaustive research, I discovered their secret political agenda. They participate in multiple community projects aiming to improve their local community, the environment and to develop healthy social skills through camping and other fun things. They include Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs to encourage girls to pursue traditionally male-dominated fields.

They’ve partnered up with Lego Robotics and NASA. For example, they design robots. Wait.

Now I see it. How nefarious of them! They’re hell-bent on designing abortionist robots.

For every box of cookies you boycott, I will buy 10. For every cheerful and hopeful Girl Scout you turn away at your doorstep, you only embitter them to reject your dwindling way of life. Why, they will ask, do you boycott the Girl Scouts? Because they made a tweet recognizing accomplished and capable women who may serve as role models to young girls all around? They may have a different political opinion than your own, but isn’t that kind of the point of America? You may have a political right to boycott little girls, but your sense of moral command, from which you’ve supposedly based your boycott, has disappeared.

That just means it’ll take a few extra days before the Thin Mints sell out.

Oliver Tonkin is a senior political science, global studies, and Latin American studies major. If you or someone you know is a girl scout, he’ll buy a box of cookies from you.

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Lincoln bicyclists deserve road consideration, respect

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his Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, marks an anniversary for me: one year since my bicycling accident.

I’m not talking about one of those relatively benign fender-benders or one of those self-inflicted falls on a slick street that leave one with small holes in one’s jeans, sweater-elbow and glove-palm. I was hit by a car going full speed in downtown Lincoln.

I was riding north on 13th Street. I had a green light at the intersection of 13th and P streets. A yellow Jeep pulled up to the intersection opposite me and signaled for a left turn onto P Street. Assuming that he saw me and knew I had the right of way (left turns giving way to straight, of course), I kept going.

He sped into the intersection. I swerved hard to my right, but I couldn’t get out of the way, and his front bumper connected with my left side.

Physically, I got out better than I had any right to. I had a tooth knocked out and another chipped to the root. My right leg was badly bruised, and my arms were cut and scraped to hell. But people get hit like that and die; I really have no right to complain.

However, my mental state is sort of another story.

For a while, I was incredibly nervous about cycling anywhere. But eventually, just like with all anxieties, I beat my fear of cycling downtown by forcing myself to cycle downtown – a lot. I’ve been cycling to class, work, The Coffee House, the theater, the grocery store, etc. My phobia wasn’t replaced by an absence of feeling, though; the residual effect was somewhere between confusion and frustration.

I had three main takeaways from my experience. First off, the pavement isn’t very forgiving to cyclists. The ground breaks whatever it touches.

The metal of a twisted bike frame breaks the rest.

I wasn’t wearing a helmet on Feb. 13, 2013. Not wearing a helmet on Feb. 13, 2013, could have easily been the last mistake I ever made. Not even being dramatic. I was lucky to not hit my cranium on

the way down. If you take nothing else from this column, at least remember to always wear your helmet.

Seriously.

Secondly, drivers aren’t very forgiving to cyclists.

Even in broad daylight, in the middle of the afternoon, in perfect visibility, it’s apparently really easy for an otherwise competent driver to completely miss the presence of a bicycle. And visibility is typically a bit less than perfect. Add to this the fact that most drivers would rather not share the road with a small, light, slow, man-powered vehicle (i.e. a bicycle), and the roads become a reasonably dangerous place to be.

The third part of my experience was the worst, save the actual impact of the crash. During the aftermath of the accident, I quickly discovered that the legal environment isn’t very forgiving to cyclists, either. In a lot of ways, being on a bicycle is similar to being on foot. On flat ground, an easy cycling pace is comparable to an athlete’s running speed. Bicycles also mimic the short stopping distance and maneuverability of the walker. We’re used to seeing cyclists and walkers sharing footpaths through campus. And I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve been honked at, waved at or recklessly sped past while riding on the street.

The law sees things differently. Under Lincoln law, bicycles are treated identically to cars, and cyclists are supposed to be “granted all the rights and be subject to all the duties” of drivers. Riding a bicycle in a crosswalk in downtown Lincoln, even in an attempt to avoid an oncoming car, is apparently a traffic violation akin to driving on a sidewalk.

So drivers treat bicyclists like pedestrians, but the law treats us like drivers. It’s counterintuitive.

It’s dangerous. It should change. It probably won’t.

What can we do to fix it?

Wear helmets, I guess. Be really careful. And, well, ask as often and as loudly as we can: Don’t hit us, please?

Benjamin Curttright is a junior English major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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Kekeli DAwes DN We’re 50 years removed from what television is telling us was the most important decade of modern times.

But after watching The Beatles tribute on CBS last week (read: failing to avoid The Beatles tribute on CBS last week), my personal generational disconnect couldn’t be more apparent.

I couldn’t care less about Ed Sullivan. My world didn’t seem to be radically changed by The Beatles in any way, shape or form.

I kept coming across articles and editorials written by boomers that pointed to the moment those lads from Liverpool set foot on American soil, the very course of our planet Earth shifted.

Now, don’t believe the hyperbole. I’m sure the world sounded a lot different to a lot of kids after the first strum of “All My Loving.” The Beatles had such a significant impact on popular music and culture from that point on, so in the memory of someone who saw that show 50 years ago, The Beatles may have seemed to be everything. But listening to that performance, as someone born generations after the fact, the performance is new to me — it’s rough, sloppy and badly recorded.

Our memories don’t need to have context. Music, however, does.

We hold memories most dear to us in a vacuum. We remember everything awesome about our seventh birthday party. We want those perfect moments to stay perfect; throw out all the lame presents and party fouls — lets focus on unwrapping that RC mini helicopter. When our lovers are away, we form what we believe to be their most ideal self into our minds. We can rewrite our own memories.

But things change when you see your mom’s VHS recording of your poorly-attended 7th birthday party or those furious texts and voice mails from your ex. We can’t rewrite our own histories.

There’s a certain narrative to our lives that we are comfortable with. There’s a certain narrative to our lives we wish we had. So we edit our lives as we go. We leave the text messages and pho-

Stuart Kolnick, Recycled Sounds owner, sorts vinyl records in the store Tuesday. Kolnick has been the owner of Recycled Sounds since it opened in 1992.

Play it again shop offers retro atmosphere, albums

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“It’s very convenient to have a record store or someone like University of Nebraska– Lincoln freshman exploratory Adam Mc- within walking distance of my dorm,” he said.

McGinnis said that Recycled Sounds, owned Ginnis, who’s been collecting records for and run by Stuart Kolnick has a about four years, Recycled better old-school vibe than other Sounds is the place to go It’s very record stores in Lincoln. for old school and rare LPs, posters convenient “Stuart is a very nice guy and and a retro feel. very knowledgable when it comes The record store is cluttered to have a record to music,” McGinnis said. “He’s alwith records, CDs, tape cassettes ways able to give me new informaand record storage cases. Posters store within tion about the bands I like.” line the walls floor to ceiling. walking distance.”

While McGinnis is into classic McGinnis has been a customer rock and likes the rare albums that of Recycled Sounds since his sophAdam mcginnis Kolnick provides at the store, he omore year of high school and refreshman exploratory major said there isn’t a large selection of members being impressed by the newer alternative artists. amount of LPs and posters lying But according to McGinnis, Kolnick has imaround the store. proved his stock of new artists recently.

McGinnis considers himself a “genuine audioKolnick said the store holds about 300 to 400 phile,” owning more than 200 records.

works from local artists and that coming into the store is more about discovering something different.

Recycled Sounds has recently begun a new series called Third Thursday, where local artists like Blue Sky Angel Parade, Jeremy Powers and Suzy Sugata perform for free every third Thursday of the month at the store.

In these performances, the store has an amplifier at the front of the store and according to Kolnick, the sound is of good quality.

During these events and others, such as Lincoln Exposed, Kolnick offers store discounts for customers. He also has discounts due to the amount of goods in his store.

“Sometimes there’s just too much stuff around

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Listeners embrace sound quality of vinyl records Vinyl becomes newest fad, music enthusiasts discover deeper experience alex lucke dn Vinyls are taking notes from karma.

They’re transforming a “what goes around comes around” mentality into a tangible and profitable reality.

Records are taking the music world by storm, dominating the realm of music fads for collegeaged listeners. A sweet nostalgia for some and a newly found love for others, records are making a comeback in sales, popularity and overall music experience.

“They (records) have stood the test of time,” said Jeffrey Loos, owner of Backtrack Records. “They had a down swing but people figured out that analog records sounded better than CDs, and they’re back. (I’m) totally for vinyl record LPs. Number one, I own a record store. Plus, analog is a better sound than digital.”

One of the most significant differences between records and other formats is the sound quality. “(Records) sound much more open, not compressed,” said Ryan Larsen, owner of Roots Music. “The volume can be turned up more, and the sound swells around you instead of pounding the listener in the head from one direction.

“I forgot how good quality records sounded, especially in a room like Roots has.”

Roots has a room designed with the intention of optimizing the listeners’ experience, allowing them to listen to music the way it was intended to be heard.

The difference in sound isn’t necessarily positive or negative though, just different.

“I think it’s important to remember our ears don’t have a sonic standard. We can adjust very quickly to what we’re listening to at the moment, and that can become the standard,” said Thomas Larsen, professor of History of Rock Music, History of Jazz, Digital Audio Production.

He‘s also a self-proclaimed record enthusiast.

“I actually got in a band when I was 15 years old, and I had an older brother that was in a band before that. We were really into that aspect of it: buying the equipment you need for the band and figuring out your parts on the records.”

For Larson, records were an essential aspect of venturing further into his personal listening experience.

“I’m in favor of music, and if people want to listen on records, I think that’s great,” he said. “I get into music on a deeper level by playing in groups. Growing up, I had some friends that were really into high-fidelity stuff, buying

not better.

“Most all bands do vinyl now, (the format is) only growing and getting better recordings.”

On the other hand, Larsen believes that vinyl records are a fad and will be usurped by more con-

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$2,000 turntables.

They really got into it.”

Recently, sales of vinyl records have increased dramatically, thanks to a new appreciation of the look and quality of music on vinyl.

“As it turns out, the only category of physical product that is actually increasing in sales right now is vinyl records,” Larson said.

Loos believes the sale of records will continue to do well, if

venient methods of listening.

“It’s something cool for the time being,” he said. “The interest will decline again. Flipping records every 20 minutes takes more effort and is less convenient than listening to an MP3 player.

Our culture is consistently more motivated by instant gratification, and I don’t think we are likely to regress.”

By having to manually flip the record, haul equipment around and care for the vinyl records, turntables and records require patience and tenacity. There’s no shuffle, no repeat. It’s all reliant upon the touch of the listener, a

personal connection that modern “Records are a way to study music listening often lacks. music,” Larson said. “The his“(Record production is) a tory of the record industry is a cycle, and eventually, digital devery rich and diverse part of our vices will most likely have better heritage. The studio musicians quality of reproduction. At that and producers had a larger role point, the ease and convenience in what was considered enterof carrying an abundance of mutainment, as well as influencing sic will trump the coolness facwhich way the industry was gotor of having a vinyl collecing.” tion,” Larsen added.

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Jeffrey loos contributed to “I’m lucky to owner of backtrack records the production of be able to study the album. music through“When I out the day,” bought a new album, I would take Larsen said. ”I will play an album it home, put it on, sit there and lisnumerous times in a row if the ten to it and look at the artwork,” store is busy with customers. LisLarson said. tening multiple times may seem Aside from providing a deepboring to most people, but I feel er and more intimate connection it enables me to really understand with the music, vinyl records have left their mark on history. records: see page 7

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Helms Alee exhibit focused, clean, harsh sound is even more focused, even as the band explores new sonic territory.

“Sleepwalking Sailors” is the band’s third album, but marks the debut on its newest label Sargent House (its former label, Hydra Head, folded in 2012.) In the last 8 years Sargent House has made a name for itself by signing some of rock and metal’s best bands, and Helms Alee are no exception.

Although the band’s sound was most comparable to Baroness at the time of its last album, “Weatherhead,” the bands have moved sonically in separate ways since then, Baroness turning toward a clean hard rock sound, and Helms Alee diving deeper into the loud possibilities of sludge metal.

Both were excellent avenues for the bands to take, as both “Green & Yellow” and “Sleepwalking Sailors” are great examples of how metal bands can evolve over time without losing their edge.

There’s a heavy emphasis on vocals and on harmonic variety.

All three of the band’s members are vocalists; though Verellen is effectively the frontman of the group, James and Matheson-Margullis provide both backing and lead vocals throughout the album.

James and Matheson-Margullis’ clean harmonies allows the band to breathe in between the pounding drums and fuzzy riffs too thick to cut through and provides contrast with Verellen’s high, roaring vocals. This juxtaposition between clean and harsh is essential to the

Seattle-based sludge metal band explores loud, sonic sound in new album ‘Sleepwalking Sailors’ Robert Specht DN Come for the riffs, stay for the atmosphere.

Seattle-based Helms Alee have both down pat and do it with a skill and energy that many hard rock bands attempt to emulate but don’t succeed, and “Sleepwalking Sailors” is the band’s best example of that so far.

Everything about the band is loud: guitarist Ben Verellen combines high, atmospheric guitars with crunchy, thick riffs, while Hozoji Matheson-Margullis wails on the drums, using heavy amounts of rhythmic pounding toms to give each track a heavy, low, dragging pulse. Accentuated by Dana James’ overdriven fuzzy bass lines, this gives the band a heavy, powerful sound without being cluttered or overstated. Each member’s parts are equally well heard and can each be pored over and enjoyed.

This has been a key element in the band since its beginning, but in “Sleepwalking Sailors” that sound

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courtesy photo Helms Alee sound and helps accentuate how truly insane some of the more intense moments are.

The clearest use of this is on the song “Fetus. Carcass.,” where soft verses and loud choruses are both equally compelling and engaging and make for one hell of a song when put together.

People unfamiliar with sludge metal may be surprised by the immense presence of bass guitar on

this album. Many bands of this genre defy rock tradition (that is, to use the bass guitar as a subtle emphasis instead of its own voice) by having the bass equal or close to equal to the guitar and always able to be heard. James’ bass parts are a powerful example of how effective this can be, providing a clear presence during the softer parts of songs and providing a low punch during the fuzzier, louder moments.

All of the songs travel, explore and expand from the band’s source; no song repeats an idea without going to something completely new. This makes it hard to pinpoint what are slow songs and fast songs, although the aptly titled “Slow Beef” is probably the best example of the band’s ability to have a more spacey, dream-like sound. But it, such as many of its other tracks, can’t help but even-

tually break down into a full-on sludge riff. The album closes with “Dodge the Lightning,” which sees the band going closest to shoegaze, then coming back to be faster and louder than ever. It also features the album’s best use of harmonies.

This is an album you’ll want to listen to a few times. Each song is dense and varied and there’s a lot to take in. The buildup to each riff and climax Helms Alee creates in all of its songs makes them thrilling play after play. Helms Alee toe the line between rock and metal and end up with a great album for fans of both. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Ellis shows ‘it’ talent in new album Robert Ellis’ 2nd album features inherent talent, Americana sound Joe Wade DN Some albums are great because their monumental testament to music is like a wonder of the world, which travelers flock to given the opportunity.

This album is the familiar landmark that has guided you home hundreds of times, and only you see the magic of it.

“The Lights From the Chemical Plant,” by Robert Ellis, was released Tuesday and is his second album.

Sounding like country, but not quite.

This album fits into the Americana genre of music, but not quite. Definitively, it’s a storyteller-album that’s rooted in the country music genre, at least on the surface, but defies the practice of sticking a label on it.

However, the predominant sound listeners might recognize comes from producer Jacquire King, who has worked with Tom Waits on several albums.

The song “Bottle of Wine” has all the characteristics of a Wait’s song, despite the twang in Ellis’ voice. A jangly piano opens with a somber melody and the ambient creaking of wood makes the song sound as if it could have been recorded in a dusty saloon on an old player-piano. The intimacy in Ellis’ vocals draws the listener in and creates the desire to sit alone with a bottle of whiskey.

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courtesy photo Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the rich sound of a saxophone deepens the mood.

Like much of the album, the feeling conjured is that beautiful moment of hanging out in a bar just before the bartender cuts you off and after all the social drinkers have left. Or, like driving on a highway at 4 a.m. when your car has the only headlights on the road. It’s that selfvalidating experience where you own the moment and forever after hold it in your heart as something

special.

That’s what makes this album great and completely alien to mainstream music. All the songs on the album are sung slow and sweet, making them akin to the singer/ songwriter style of the ‘70s. If you like artists such as James Taylor, Willie Nelson and Hank Williams then Ellis is an absolute must for your record collection.

Following on the heels of “Bottle of Wine” is a cover of Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years.”

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JAM Brand New “The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me” Nathan Sindelar DN Call it mopey navel-gazing, call it suburban sad-bastard, call it what you will, but Brand New’s “The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me” is one of the best alternative rock records of the mid-2000s.

Released in November of 2006, the album marked a distinct turning point for Brand New, a band whose Long Island roots began in the angst of a developing pop-punk scene. Where its second record, “Deja Entendu,” showed maturation and growing sophistication, “The Devil and God” displayed the result of the rise to relative fame and its psyche-tolling aftermath.

The 12-track album is 55 minutes of introspective self exploration and storytelling — a torn dichotomy of questioning for both artist himself and audience as well.

While the title reflects the ongoing battle of faith that’s ever-present in the band’s music, it also alludes to the ways in which the writers, frontman Jesse Lacey and lead guitarist Vincent Accardi, challenge their own demons.

The opening song, “Sowing Season,” offers a microcosm for Brand New in its entirety — a split between soft, uncertain coos of self-loathing with the explosive roars of newfound empowerment.

“Is it in you now,” the songs asks before channeling Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If.” “… to bear to hear the truth that you have spoken/ twisted up by knaves/ to make a trap for fools? Is it in you now/ to watch the things you gave your life to, broken/ and stoop and build them up/ with worn out tools?”

Their answer is a deafening, “Yeah!”

While it may not be immediate ear candy and while the lyrics may be unrelentingly opaque at times, the album’s cohesive aesthetic and contrasting intensities drive its power home. This is a work that exists for no reason but itself. Sure, lines can be taken for metaphors and analogies for one’s own life, but, ultimately, this music is about and for the purposes of those who brought it screeching to life.

As when the band performs the live version of the record’s cataclysmic “You Won’t Know,” Lacey throwing

Ellis’ version is fantastic and the mood from the previous song carries over. Comparatively, to Simon, this song has a honky-tonk vibe but still sounds iconic.

Overall, Ellis is one of those rare-breed musicians that other musicians talk about. He’s got “it” — that special quality of inherent talent. Albums like “The Lights From the Chemical Plant” are hard to find, something serious music junkies can tell you, and that makes it a precious gem worth finding.

The other songs to check out are: “Houston,” Tour Song” and “Pride,” for a taste of the full experience. Assuming you like it, it won’t matter what anyone says about it. You’ll have found a place casual music fans never knew existed. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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tos behind, but us music lovers always keep the songs. In that sense, music holds a certain power.

Like a mixtape, sometimes music can become perfectly recorded memories that stay constant throughout time but have such an immense emotional capacity. A song can pull memories as perfect as you hold them in your mind. The joke about music is, a song is always new to somebody. Suddenly, that emotionally rich song is a blank slate.

In the same way we go to music to preserve our own narrative, or our own personal status-quo, music is used by many to define a certain generational narrative. But attaching generational narratives to music is tricky, because that narrative vanishes once taken out the transistor radio and put onto the iPod. So when we hear that music was better back in the day, or that it meant something, it doesn’t really hold up.

Generational, rose-tinted nostalgia becomes a problem when sweeping claims are accepted as truth or gold standards, because those selective truths are impossible to challenge. Certain realities are conveniently left out. Take, for example, the claim that today’s R&B is much worse than the classic, soulful soul of Smokey Robinson or Marvin Gaye.

This, of course, is painfully false.

Smokey Robinson never gave his object of affection any sort of agency in his creepy and rape-y track “Just My Imagination”. Nor did Marvin Gaye in the classic, “Let’s Get it On”, which is lyrically pretty sleazy (“Giving yourself to me could never be wrong/ if the love is true …”).

Then, it was cool for a man to cry over a woman because women were there to be courted and fawned over.

Women were still reduced to objects of affection; the patriarchal power dynamics of today were very present then. It’s obviously not about

when women were reduced to objects. The problem is that women still are, and that a woman’s humanity apparently depends on when she exists relative to your date of birth.

Sure, Marvin had brilliant, sensible, politically potent words as well. But let’s not view misogyny as a new issue.

It wasn’t called out in 1974 because it wasn’t even believed to exist. Robin Thicke didn’t pull “Blurred Lines” out of nowhere.

He’s pulling out that same pass that was given to Marvin Gaye and is still given today.

One should blame the attitude of not critiquing past generations for “how bad music has become.”

We didn’t get here by mistake.

Our critical neglect led us to this point. If we choose to tolerate this of iconic artists of the past, what should we have expect from artists today who view these older musicians free of fault?

Young Robin Thicke saw nothing wrong with “Giving yourself to me/ could never be wrong.”

No one thought to point that out to him. So what would you expect from a young artist who planned to make a career ripping Marvin Gaye?

It’s important to recognize context. For whenever we disregard context, we’re disregarding some realities that conflict with whatever status quo we want to maintain — whether it be a personal issue, or a larger, political world view. Sometimes, this is harmless — The Beatles didn’t change everything in one night on Ed Sullivan’s show 50 years ago.

Still, you can’t avoid addressing contextual realities in order to support a fabricated narrative.

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Contact him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Traditionally, gimme fives are written by the arts desk, then forced upon the artists, slaves to our will. No matter what inane things we write, they have to find something to draw. How mighty is the pen, really, when you’re in that situation.

We feel bad, though — they seem tired and overworked.

We’ve decided to throw them a bone and let them draw the art first, putting the creative pressure on us.

Build a house of cards. It’s just going to fall, and humans are reminded of their failures often enough. Instead, do something you can’t goof, such as sleeping or sitting still. Another tip — don’t wear a ring on your middle finger. That’s a look for uncle Paul.

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Don’t lift two really big rocks. Are you looking for spare change? Are you trying to impress someone? Let sleeping rocks lie. And if you do lift up two enormous boulders, lift with your back, not your legs. Your body deserves punishment.

Don’t go skiing with fake guns. Use real guns instead, for safety reasons and also to be prepared for duels. Also, if you’re going off a ramp, tweak your legs back and give them a look that says “yeah, I control you.”

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the mic stand — his symbolic connection with the listener — and turning his back on the audience for the final gnashing moments illustrates the intention of his art.

“Jesus,” easily Brand New’s most popular single, is the perfect embodiment of the album’s title, “Limousine” establishes a degree of artistry rarely matched, the untitled instrumental track 10 caps the molten emotion beneath the previous songs’ swelling, and “Handcuffs” ends it all in a fading sadness that leaves a listener in awe.

Really, though, each incredible song compels in its own way and together, “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me” is simply an unstoppable force of oppressive atmosphere and dynamic creativity. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Don’t be Steve Irwin now — he is dead. Don’t be an alligator either, because people are going to want to rip off your skin and make it into shoes and luggage. Really, you shouldn’t be involved with anything in this photo. Don’t wear those shorts. Don’t get that haircut.

Don’t let a wasp sting you in your eye, doofus.

Blink instead. You’re hopeless.

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records: from 5 Grab good quality albums and take care of them. Definitely listen to them and appreciate the history, musicianship and art.”

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Kolnick, owner of Recycled Sounds, stocks and prices vinyl yesterday. Recycled Sounds is located at 9th and O streets. The store sells a large selection of vinyl, CDs, DVDs and posters.

There were always people looking for The Beatles, The Smiths, the [Led] Zeppelin records. Part of the odd difference between the rise, the new resurgence, is that a whole lot of it is more expensive than [records were] 10 years ago.”

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Larson said he enjoys diving deeper into the artwork, letting the visual aspect of the experience pull him below the surface.

Loos emphasizes collaborating, or “tweaking,” a room for listening is essential to having the best experience he can with vinyl records.

These men also had suggestions for current record owners on how to maintain their collection and get the most for their money.

“Keep vinyl records & covers in great shape like new, they’re not cheap but a great investment,” Loos said.

Record pricing ranges from as little as $20 per record, to a few hundred for originals like The Beatles’ “White Album” and “Revolver.” Vintage records in original packaging have an incredible resale value, and although modern music is being produced on vinyl, the classics still reign supreme according to Larsen.

“Grab good quality albums and take care of them,” he said.

“Definitely listen to them and appreciate the history, musicianship and art.”

When everything boils down though, he said the music is what ultimately matters — records deepen the listener’s experience by consuming them in sound, forc-

ing them to sit down and appreciate every aspect of the finished product.

“If you’re going to go buy a record player specifically to have that listening experience I think that’s very cool in the respect that too often today we listen to MP3s, which are compressed way down, and we’re listening to them on earbuds which means we can hear all the other stuff. It’s really degrading the listening experience.”

A fanfare of trumpets relentlessly blare in the background and Larson shoots one of those “see what I mean” looks.

“Having a record forces you to sit down and listen to it right there. I think that’s really cool.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Now, Kolnick said most of the CDs he sells are over the Internet on his Amazon store, recycledsounds_lincoln, and over half of his customers are going back to buying records.

“I don’t know that I ever saw a serious drop off (of vinyl sales),” he said. “There were always people looking for The Beatles, The Smiths, the (Led) Zeppelin records. Part of the odd difference between the rise, the new resurgence, is that a whole lot of it is more expensive than (records were) 10 years ago.”

In his 21 years owning Recycled Sounds, Kolnick said Pearl Jam albums have been “one of those that has always sold.”

UNL junior guitar performance major Andrew Barrett has bought Beatles records from Recycled Sounds and enjoys the community-based atmosphere of the store.

“I’m really fond of places with niche markets that are inde-

and no real rhyme or reason to the discount,” Kolnick said.

And the rest of the store has mostly stayed the same ever since Kolnick decided to open it more than 20 years ago.

“I had just enough for the first month’s rent and a few other things,” Kolnick said. “It’s just me. Very low budget, not a lot of high dollar things. There was no Internet then. You just kinda had to hope you’d get a little bit of press.”

He had worked at another record store in Omaha for a few years, where he learned the basics of operating a record shop, and when a spot for a store became available in Lincoln, Kolnick said it was just time for something different.

In 1992, when Recycled Sounds opened, records were selling.

“Nobody was buying anything else,” Kolnick said.

Later, he said, sales of vinyl, cassette tapes and CDs were

pendently run,” Barrett said. “I especially like going to a physical location to buy music. It’s nice to have a space dedicated to music.”

Barrett first visited Recycled Sounds as a freshman at UNL and now tries to visit when he wants an album on vinyl.

“I like having a physical experience when listening to music,” he said. “And with vinyl you have full-size art.”

Kolnick said customers come and go, but having many customers and collectors is important for his stock.

“Nowadays with the kind of new resurgence in vinyl again, it does mean that there always has to be new customers because if you are very genre or artist specific, it gets harder and harder to find the things that you are looking for,” Kolnick said. “You always need new collectors.”

What has changed since ’92 is how Kolnick spends his time working as owner of the store,

which he said still needs more online visibility.

“I end up spending a few hours at a time sending messages, posting things, things that I never had to worry about or didn’t deal with very much before, as opposed to getting around to pricing,” he said. “Sometimes it takes things longer to work their way onto the rack because I’m spending a couple of hours on the computer.”

But Kolnick hopes to keep selling records and more CDs and having stock in the store that “you just don’t see anywhere else.”

“With the extent of how much stuff you can find through the Internet, it’s still a place that you can kind of just wander and search through the bins and find something that you’d never heard of or seen.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Michigan coach John Beilein

Penn State coach Patrick Chambers

On his team dealing with fan behavior, after suspension of Oklahoma State’s Marcus Smart for shoving fan:

On Iowa:

On parity in the league:

“The biggest thing, and I’m sure every coach in the country is going to be reminding their team of it today if they didn’t yesterday, is that you can’t let anybody get in the way of your career, get in the way of your responsibilities to your team, and most importantly you can’t ever let anybody get to you in a way that’s going to affect you in a negative way.”

Iowa coach Fran McCaffery On loss against Ohio State:

“I was really impressed with the Iowa team we saw on Saturday. They really played the game the way it should be played. I thought they were hitting on all cylinders.”

“This is a crazy league this year.

Anybody can win on any given night, as this league has proven and shown.”

On freshman guard Graham Woodward:

“Graham’s been great. He’s shooting nearly 40 percent from three and we need to open up the court for him and (junior guard) D.J. (Newbill) in order to get some drive and space action. … He’s stepped in there, he’s got a lot of courage, got a lot of heart and a lot of guts.”

On defending Michigan’s Glenn Robinson III, who scored only two points in Iowa’s win:

“We didn’t make any changes from what we did the last time we played them as far as Robinson is concerned … going into that game we put (senior forward) Melsahn (Basabe) on him, and we were concerned. Melsahn’s a more traditional forward, and I look at Robinson as more of a two than anything else.”

Illinois coach John Groce

On continuing to progress:

“The biggest thing for us is that we’re continuing to get better. We’ve played some good basketball here in the month of February. [Sunday], against Penn State for the first time from a won-lost perspective, our kids were rewarded for their efforts. …

The kids have continued to fight, continued to improve and get better. Our veterans showed great maturity yesterday as I switched some things with our lineups.”

Northwestern coach Chris Collins

Ohio State coach Thad Matta

“It’s been an issue; you’re going to have fans yelling at you and saying things to you. You don’t respond to them. That’s the best way to go about it, and really it might be the only way to go about it. They pay the money for the ticket, they can sit there and they can scream and yell what they want. … You have to ignore them and keep your focus on the game.”

“There is a lot of talk on all the freshman. You look at a guy like Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith and what they’ve done and what they’ve meant to this program. I think from the standpoint of seeing Aaron playing at the level for four straight years that he’s played at. …

I don’t know if there’s too many seniors in the country that have won as many games in four years as those two guys have.”

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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo

Minnesota coach Richard Pitino

On sophomore guard Gary Harris’s shooting in loss to Wisconsin:

“He took some bad shots [Sunday], and he doesn’t do that very often. …

Sometimes we had lineups on the floor that he felt the pressure to score, and I felt the pressure to try and get him shots. At the same time, as he said, he took a few bad shots, and then the good shots he had didn’t fall. He doesn’t do that very often.”

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan On interior defense:

“It’s been probably, from our level, average … The guys that are filling those spots now, the learning curve is what it is at this point.

They’ve had some good games and they’ve had some games where they’ve struggled. (Freshman forward) Nigel Hayes has definitely helped us out in that area with post defense and all. That’s what we do, we teach. We point out things: angles, footwork, different things to try and help these guys get better.”

On the evolution of fan behavior:

“The thing that’s just changed more than anything is the rise of all the social media. Fans have always been passionate … that has remained the same. What’s added to it now is the constant accessibility with the rise of Twitter, Facebook, all these things. The fans can get to the players in more ways than just showing up to the game.”

“It’s an incredible, unique trait to have to be a high school player … and then come in to sit, and not be a starter, and just come over and play like a starter after sitting cold for a few minutes. He has done a great job of jumping off the bench and doing a terrific job of filling in for us and helping us to score points.”

Purdue coach Matt Painter On telling his team how to handle fans:

“We did not play the kind of defense necessary to beat Ohio State, particularly the second half.”

On freshman guard Zak Irvin:

On junior forward Maurice Walker:

“He’s been huge for us, because he’s different than (junior center) Elliot (Eliason).

Elliot is probably a better defender and a better rebounder, but Maurice Walker is as good of a low-post scorer in the conference. When you play against teams who are shutting you down from the perimeter, you need to be able to go inside. … He’s worked really hard, he’s in great shape, playing with great confidence.”

Nebraska coach Tim Miles

On road win against Northwestern:

“It’s important, because you earn confidence. You can try and inspire and motivate guys all you want, but confidence is truly earned with performance.

When you know you’re doing the right thing and you’re figuring out how to be successful. … I don’t know if that game would look any different if we played at Northwestern, in Lincoln, or in a park in Evanston. … We were fortunate to come out of there with a win.”

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tennis: from 10 The most notable difference from a year ago is her confidence level has grown tremendously. We’ve asked her to step up to a different, much higher position, and she’s embraced that opportunity with a sense of confidence, tremendous leadership and self-beliefs that quite honestly we’ve never seen from Izzy. You always knew it was in her. We always knew the ability level. She was very, very gifted...The self-belief is something that stood in the way, and this year we’ve seen her confidence grow, not only in the spring, but also in the fall.” scott jacobson women’s tennis coach

ska hails from Miesbach, Germany, where she competed for Gymnasium Miesbach. During her high school career, she rose to the No. 117 ranking in Germany.

Many of the incoming freshmen in this year’s class will benefit from being able to ask Zgierska for help adjusting to life in the United States.

There are six freshmen on the team, and four of them crossed international borders for the opportunity to play for Nebraska. Part of this group is fellow German Katerina Matysova, who calls Erding, Germany, her home.

Zgierska had four German teammates when she came to Lincoln as a freshman, but adjustments still needed to be made.

The awkward transition of her home country to Lincoln, the challenges of learning to speak English and on top of all of the international transitions, trying to be a student athlete. She felt the frustrations of it, so she understands what it takes to guide them through.

“In my freshman year, we had five Germans here,” Zgierska said. “It helped me a lot because at the beginning, it’s always new to be in a different country. The culture is totally different. So it’s nice to have some people that share the same values and culture.”

She received a lot of support during her career from Zeppernick, who is also a German native.

“It’s always nice to have international people,” Zgierska said.

“You learn a lot about different cultures so it’s nice; I think it’s a

good mix.”

Zgierska made her transition to the U.S. in the 2011-12 season, and she ended her freshmen year 7-5 in singles and 14-3 in doubles.

In her sophomore year, she saw a decline as she suffered a losing season, going 11-15 in singles and 10-10 in doubles. However, Jacobson said Zgierska has acquired much more confidence in herself and is just beginning to turn a corner in her career.

“The most notable difference from a year ago is her confidence level has grown tremendously,” Jacobson said. “We’ve asked her to step up to a different, much higher position, and she’s embraced that opportunity with a sense of confidence, tremendous leadership and self-beliefs that quite honestly we’ve never seen before from Izzy.

“You always knew it was in her. We always knew the ability level. She was very, very gifted …

The self-belief is something that stood in the way, and this year we’ve seen that confidence grow, not only in the spring, but also in the fall.”

So as Zgierska continues to improve her game on the court, she continues to grow in her role as the team’s veteran leader, a role in which she will eventually receive the reins from Zeppernick and take the lead for 2014-15.

Zgierska is ready to impart her experiences to the next class and to continue improving in the game that brought her across the Atlantic. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska junior Izabella Zgierska, one of only two upperclassmen on the Huskers’ women’s tennis team, is 2-2 in both singles and doubles through NU’s four duals this season. Zgierska is coming off a 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-8) victory against Kansas’ Maria Belen Luduena.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: from 10 more guard has also provided a spark on the defensive end, tallying six steals in his past three games.

The Husker tri-captain is back.

“I hope that guy stays,” Petteway said.

And the Huskers will need both Shields’ defensive and offensive intangibles in Nebraska’s game Wednesday.

After going 1-1 in their two games on the road, the Huskers will play host to John Groce’s 1410 Illinois basketball team.

“We have to focus because Illinois’s going to be a tough team,” Miles said Sunday. “Even though they’re where they are, they’re dangerous.”

Although they’ll enter Lincoln 1-8 in their past nine games and tied for last in the conference with Penn State, the Fighting Illini will have the upper hand against the Huskers.

The men in blue and orange swept the Huskers at home and away last year, beating them by 20 in their first meeting and 72-65

We have to focus because Illinois’s going to be a tough team. Even though they’re where they are, they’re dangerous.” tim miles men’s basketball coach

in Champaign, Ill. It wasn’t long ago that they were ranked in the top-25, something Miles doesn’t want his team to forget amid Illinois’s recent struggles.

“They were ranked as high as No. 23 in the country not more than a month ago, so something’s right with those guys,” Miles said. “There’s been something wrong, but we have to focus our concentration there and putting together wins.”

Junior guard Rayvonte Rice will pose the biggest threat to Nebraska, as he’ll enter Wednesday ranked fourth in the conference

averaging 5.4 defensive rebounds while scoring 16.5 points per game.

Illinois will be the first of eight final opponents the Huskers have to round out their season, and five of those games are at home. Depending on how Nebraska and its Big Ten foes fair this last month of the season, the Huskers have a chance to be in some kind of postseason tournament, something that looked to be out of question a month ago.

“Let’s just win all eight,” Miles said, “and we won’t have to worry about it.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Since opening the conference season 0-4 and losing 7 of 8, the Huskers have won 3 of their past 4 games, including a victory against Northwestern that ended a 12-game losing streak on the road.

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A LOOK INTO THE RECENT HUSKER SPORTS SCENE THROUGH A STATISTICAL LENS

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Nebraska was able to get its first road win of the season on Saturday against Northwestern by a score of 53-49.

Nebraska’s 14-5 run to open the second half and its 56.5 percent shooting performance in the second period helped contribute to the Huskers’ win, which broke Nebraska’s 12-road-game losing streak. Sophomores Walter Pitchford and Terran Petteway led the team in points with 15 and 17, respectively, as well as in rebounds, with a combined total of 13 out of the team’s 31.

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Amid its three victories in four games at the Hotel Encanto Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M., No. 8 Nebraska beat New Mexico State, 11-0. Senior catcher Taylor Edwards went 3 for 3 with an RBI in the win, and junior outfielder Kylee Muir hit a 3-run home run. Sophomore Hailey Decker also hit a home run. Nebraska won its first two games against UTEP and Florida State before losing to Florida State in the fourth game.

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Freshman Rachel Martin shot individual records of 593 in air rifle and 585 in smallbore in Nebraska’s victory against North Carolina State on Saturday. Her overall total of 1,178 in the competition made her the leader in total points on the team. The No. 5 Huskers recorded their second-highest score ever to beat the Wolf Pack, 4,690-4,561. On day two of the competition, Nebraska posted an air rifle score of 2,358, the fourth-best air rifle score in school history, and beat Army, 4,669-4,650.

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Nebraska’s track and field team placed first in eight events in the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational this past weekend. Sophomore All-American sprinter Levi Gipson ran the fastest split of the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 46.987 seconds, which got the Huskers the win. Junior distance runner Connor Gibson ran his personal record of 4:04.05 to win the men’s mile.

Another Husker who broke a personal record was sophomore Cody Rush, who won in the 400-meter dash with a personal-best time of 47.05.

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No. 59 Nebraska defeated No. 52 Denver 5-2 over this past weekend. Although the doubles team of senior Brandon Videtich and sophomore Bradford Zitsch was unable to pull out a win, sophomores Andrew Dzulynsky and Dusty Boyer won in a 7-5 tiebreaker to claim the doubles point. Junior Beau Treyz beat Yannik James at the No. 5 spot 6-3, 6-0, for Nebraska’s easiest singles victory and gave the Huskers a 2-0 lead in the dual.

Redshirting provides wrestlers experience Underclassmen wrestlers learn from tournaments during seasons off from varsity competition Austin Pistulka DN Athletes who redshirt get to take a year to not worry about competing and focus on learning the system.

That is true in most sports.

Wrestling is a bit different, though. Wrestlers are allowed to compete in open tournaments at their own cost. They get an extra year to compete and better themselves before competing for the university.

Junior Robert Kokesh redshirted his first year at Nebraska. Kokesh dominated that season, going 34-1.

His only loss came against future national champion and teammate Jordan Burroughs. Kokesh’s 34 wins ranked second on the team behind Burroughs, and he led the team with 19 pins. He received Nebraska’s redshirt of the year award. Kokesh appreciates this season for what it taught him about weight loss and how to compete at a high level.

“I learned a lot my redshirt season,” Kokesh said. “People who come out of high school, they just drop the weight in just a few days.

Coming to college, that’s what I started to do, but after wrestling against the top guys and knowing FILE photo by andrew barry | dn my weight was an issue, I had to Junior 174-pound wrestler Robert Kokesh practiced with former change that. Also keeping a positive Husker Jordan Burroughs during the year he redshirted. Now attitude the entire season, I think Kokesh is an All-American and is ranked No. 3 in the country. that’s one thing that changed is going out there and thinking I can win every match.” a lot of great people like Robert ication of how he will perform later.

Kokesh is now in the top three in Kokesh, Austin Wilson, TJ Dudley, “It’s really important when you the country, and he who are all ranked can get a redshirt year,” Manning credits his redshirt in the top 25,” Newsaid. “It’s important not to take a The year I season for a lot of his berg said. “I think year off. A lot of people waste a redshirted success. it’s helped me be- year of their college development “I don’t think I come a better wresthinking, ‘Oh, I will just take a year really helped. I would have (been as tler and get to better off, next year I’ll turn it on.’ It’s not successful),” Kokesh was really green positions and helped about turning it on. It’s about taking said. “The year I redme improve.” pride in turning it on every day. It’s shirted really helped coming out of high Newberg has about understanding that you only me as a wrestler. had to sacrifice time get four opportunities. If that redrobert kokesh I was really green and money to get shirt season isn’t used properly, then junior 174-pound wrestler coming out of high himself to the open you’re going to suffer as a redshirt school. I was really tournaments to comfreshman.” immature in my wrestling style. My pete outside of the practice room.

Manning has seen that a number redshirt year, the coaches really de“It’s something I knew I would of wrestlers have improved dramativeloped me a style that went with have to do,” Newberg said. “That’s cally after redshirting. my hard-working style I had, and it the sacrifice you got to make. It’s the “We had some guys in our prowas a good change for me.” kind of thing that makes you better. gram who, for the most part, when Many current freshmen are red- Being able to go to those tourna- they use the redshirt year, they are shirting, including McCoy New- ments and getting that experience twice the wrestler they were the berg. He is currently 24-8 with a tie really helps you in the future.” year before,” Manning said. “It’s all for team-high eight pins on the seaCoach Mark Manning realizes about moving forward and not reson. He understands the importance just how important a redshirt season maining the same.” of his redshirt year. sports@ can be, and he knows how an athlete “I have the chance to wrestle dailynebraskan.com handles his redshirt season is a pred-

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Freshman gymnast Travis Gollott notched the highest pommel horse score of his young Nebraska career, a 13.70, in the Huskers’ home meet against Air Force on Jan. 25.

Freshman gymnast adjusts to college level Travis Gollott already making difference for men’s gymnastics, stresses family atmosphere for team Sydney Harris DN More than 1,600 miles. That’s the distance that separates freshman Travis Gollott from home. That’s the distance that separates him and his twin. That’s the same distance that separates him from family.

Gollott, a California native, is a new member of this Nebraska men’s gymnastics team, but he doesn’t feel that way.

“When they brought me here, I felt like I was part of a family,” Gollott said. “I didn’t feel excluded at all. There was no judgment; I felt like I belonged here.”

But Gollott is focused less on himself and more on his teammates. He is fond of the team in and out of the gym.

“Everyone becomes a really big family; we hang out together, we live with each other, we eat, sleep and breathe with each other every single day,” he said. “There’s never a day you’ll get bored with

In high school, it was more individual, whereas here, I want to get up and do my best for the team.” travis gollott freshman gymnast

these guys or you’ll ever get tired because they’re in the same boat as you.”

This camaraderie was apparent in a Monday night team practice. The gymnasts were constantly cheering each other on and encouraging one another to stay strong.

A new team, new coach and new location are all things that can make an athlete feel out of place, but Gollott said he felt welcomed from the start. Gollott is also at a completely different level of play.

According to him, college gymnastics is a big change from high school gymnastics.

“In high school, it was more individual, whereas here, I want to get up and do my best for the team,” Gollott said. “So here it’s more for the team, whereas back in high school it was just for me.”

Gollott has competed in all of Nebraska’s meets this season, earning career highs of 14.50 on the floor exercise against Minnesota and Illinois on Feb. 1, 13.70 on the pommel horse against Air

Force on Jan. 25 and 13.75 on the vault at the season-opening Rocky Mountain Open on Jan. 11.

Team camaraderie is a huge component of the men’s gymnastics team now that some of the team’s athletes are out for the year, according to coach Chuck Chmelka.

With the loss of gymnasts, Chmelka has made the sophomores and freshmen, such as Gollott, step up and take on a larger role for the team.

“Their roles are very important to the out coming success of our team. No doubt about it,” Chmelka said.

Gollott is well equipped to take on this responsibility with his teammates’ support. Even when things aren’t going well, Gollott is becoming acclimated to college gymnastics.

“Anybody can do this on the good days,” Chmelka said. “It’s the hard days where you really have to fight through it, and it’s when you learn the most.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sophomore guard Shavon Shields averaged 6 points in Nebraska’s first four conference games but has scored 11 points per game in the Huskers’ past six games.

AS SHIELDS HAS HEATED UP, SO HAVE HUSKERS, WHO GO FOR 4TH WIN IN FIVE GAMES AGAINST ILLINOIS ON WEDNESDAY story by Nedu Izu | file photo by Matt Masin

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f you followed Shavon Shields in the first half of Nebraska’s season, you would have thought he was well on his way to being Nebraska’s most valuable player.

Twenty-eight, 22, 15 and 17 were just some of the point totals he put up in the months of November and December. But as the temperature outside decreased, so did his shooting performances.

In Nebraska’s final non-conference game, against Cincinnati on Dec. 28, he went 1 for 11 for a season-low two points. And his start to Big Ten Conference play wasn’t anything to boast about either.

Shields had a better display against Iowa, tallying 10 points, but that was followed with fourpoint performances against Ohio State and Michigan and a fivepoint performance against Purdue, respectively, to begin the month of January.

But like the end of every tunnel, Shields found a bright spot in

his game the second time around against the Buckeyes on Jan. 20.

“He was so determined,” Nebraska coach Tim Miles said after the game. “I mean, nobody was going to stop him. It was like that guy from last year that we knew was going to take the next step.”

Shields regained his form he had at the beginning of the season, scoring 18 points to assist Nebraska in its first conference victory of the season, a 68-62 victory against Ohio State.

His teammates saw hints of their tri-captain treading away from a season long sophomore slump.

“That’s the Shavon I know,” said sophomore guard Terran Petteway, who leads the team with 17.5 points per game. “He played his butt off. I’m glad he’s back.”

Since the comeback, Shields has recorded double digits three out of Nebraska’s past five games, including a team-high 13 against Michigan on Feb. 5. The sopho-

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Challenges await in spring for NU

Junior from Germany becomes mentor for team’s young players

Huskers’ spring season to include top-10 opponent, difficult and prominent courses staff report DN In a time when students are bundling up and bracing themselves for the oscillating Nebraska cold, the Nebraska men’s golf team is preparing to start its spring season.

The Huskers participated in five tournaments in the fall, traveling to Missouri, Colorado, Ohio, New Mexico and Texas, with its best performance coming in its last meet. After shooting 865 and placing sixth out of 15 teams at the Butterfield Trail Golf Club in October, the Huskers are looking to build on the momentum accumulated over the course of its fall season.

“Well as a team, we all feel like we can play a little bit better,” junior Calvin Freeman said.

“Early in the season, we’ve really worked hard on short game be-

cause from what I’ve heard from the other players, the first two courses we’re playing on really stress getting up and down and making short putts and getting good chips.”

The spring season for the Huskers begins with the Big Ten Match Play Championship in Bradenton, Fla., at the Concession Golf Course. According to Golf Digest in a 2006 vote, Concession was named the Best New Private Golf Course of 2006. Concession was also in Golf Digest’s top 75 most difficult golf courses in 2012.

The first match won’t be easy for the Huskers, as they not only have to deal with a difficult course, but a difficult field as well. No. 6 Illinois looks to be the favorite, as it was the runnerup in the NCAA Championships last year and has played well this year.

“We’d like to get a shot at Illinois because they finished second in the nation last year,” Freeman said. “They beat California in the NCAA Tournament, who by a lot of people’s standards were considered the best college team of all time. We’d like to get a shot at them this year. They’ve won it a couple years in a row, the Big Ten Match Play. We’ve got Ohio State first and foremost.

The first two courses we’re playing on really stress getting up and down and making short putts.” calvin freeman junior golfer

We got to beat them to get to Illinois.”

The Huskers will also travel to California, South Carolina, Arizona, Iowa, New York and Indiana. Of all the destinations the Huskers will be attending, one of the more prominent courses they will be playing at is Oak Hill County Club in Rochester, N.Y. “They had the PGA Championship last year, so everyone is kind of chomping at the bit to see how we match up against the pros,” Freeman said.

With key performances from juniors Freeman and Ross Dickson and freshman Justin Jennings, the Huskers will look to them to continue their solid play.

“We all worked pretty hard in the weight room over winter,” Freeman said. “We’ve all gotten a little stronger, and we’re all on

nutrition plans. We’re making some pretty good progress.”

Dickson’s best performance during the fall season came at the Firestone Tournament in Akron, Ohio, placing 13th, while Freeman’s best score came during the Wimberly Tournament in Las Cruces, N.M., tying for 26th. Jennings’ best performance came at Butterfield Trail, tying for 26th.

“We’ve set some team goals that we feel are pretty realistic,” Freeman said. “We want to do really well in the Big Ten Tournament, and we’d like to reach NCAA Regionals this year and see where we can go from there because as a team we don’t think we’ve come close to our potential. I think we’re going to get there.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

After learning from older international players before her, Izabella Zgierska now returning favor Thomas Beckmann DN The Husker women’s tennis team is full of young players just starting to learn the ropes. Out of the 10 players on the roster, only two have made it past their sophomore years.

These two are senior Maike Zeppernick and junior Izabella Zgierska.

This year, Zgierska has been acclimating to her role as one of the team’s veteran players, and when the year ends and Zeppernick graduates, Zgierska will take the reins as the team’s sole senior member.

Zgierska is the team’s No. 2 singles player behind sophomore Maggy

Lehmicke.

Zgierska and Zeppernick are already working to assist the freshmen through learning the ropes of collegiate competition and helping the sophomores develop their games. Coach Scott Jacobson has been satisfied so far with the way they both lead. “[Zeppernick] is just a tremendous leader,” Jacobson said. “Tremendously positive and optimistic person, and that’s really what we see in Izzy as well.”

Zgierska said the freshmen on the team are under tremendous pressure.

“We try to help them out, show them that it’s just all about effort and having fun on the court,” Zgierska said. “And whatever happens, we can’t change the result, you just have to put all the effort in. We’re just trying to help them out the best we can.”

Zgierska’s international origins are also a key component to allowing her to be a go-to resource for the incoming freshman class. Zgier-

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