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E. n. Thompson Forum Is a Global Water Crisis avoidable?

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This month’s E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues will focus on the global crisis of supply and quality of water for agriculture.

In “Is a Global Water Crisis Avoidable?” Mogens C. Bay, the chairman and chief executive officer of the Omaha-based Valmont Industries, and E. Robert Meaney, senior vice president at Valmont Industries, will discuss issues surrounding the global water crisis and possible solutions to avoid disaster.

Valmont Industries is the world’s leading producer of center-pivot irrigation systems. The forum will be held at 7 p.m. tonight at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Bay and Meaney fall in line with the theme of global water- and energy-solutions for this year’s lecture series, said Katie Cervantes, coordinator of the E.N. Thompson Forum at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Project committee for new East Campus Recreation Center decides to renovate rather than rebuild; Regents to vote on final plans March 2

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wo University of Nebraska-Lincoln projects, voted on by students in fall 2010, are officially taking off.

The latest concept for the East Campus Recreation Center is ready to be considered for approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents on March 2, said Stan Campbell, the associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs and director of Campus Recreation.

The project review committee ultimately decided it would be more rational to renovate the existing East Center Recreation Center instead of tearing it down and starting anew. By keeping it, there would be more space allocated for an indoor running track, as well as a multi-purpose gymnasium, said LJ McElravy, a human sciences graduate student on the committee.

“It’s hard to tell students, ‘You don’t have a running track and you don’t have a gymnasium, because we wanted a new building,’” McElravy said.

After using the East Campus rec center for his own use, McElravy said he didn’t think it was possible to transform it into the new facility. But the architects chosen to design the renovations showed the

committee rendered images of what the finished center would look like, he said. This was possible after a company performing analysis showed the building was sound enough to remain standing for renovations, Campbell said.

Not only would there be more square footage in choosing renovations, he said, but money saved could purchase a walking/jogging track and maybe a multipurpose activity court.

In the proposed renovations, the building’s existing four walls, the roof structure and the second-floor concrete slab would be retained, Campbell said. The rest would be fully renovated.

“I don’t think from the inside it will be recognizable as the same building,” McElravy said.

On March 2, the proposed concept will require the vote from the full Board of Regents, Campbell said.

The review committee is recommending the building renovations to the board and will then have time to explain its rationalization, he said.

“We still have work to do with the design, but we have a structural analysis of the building,” he said.

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The theme was chosen because of the recently established Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute and the momentum it’s gained since its founding, according to Cervantes. The institute was founded by a $50 million grant from the Robert B. Daugherty Charitable Foundation headed

by Bay. Meaney serves on the board of the Groundwater Foundation, which is involved in educating the public on ways of preserving groundwater for future generations.

“Bay and Meaney fit perfectly into our theme,” Cervantes said. “They are international experts within that field and they will do a great job of assessing global water issues.”

Cervantes is involved in the coordination of E.N. Thompson events other than the forum and has worked with past lecturers like Michael Forsberg. Next year’s lecture series will focus on religion and global issues, Cervantes said.

Tonight’s lecture has also been designated this season’s Lewis E. Harris Lecture on Public Policy.

At 6:30 p.m. in the Lied Center’s Steinhart Room, James Specht, a professor of agronomy and horticulture

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CPN bedbug meeting reveals 20 new cases Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan

About 40 students and staff attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Housing’s bedbug informational meeting in the Cather/Pound/ Neihardt Dining Center Wednesday night.

“This is the best turnout we’ve had,” Housing Director Sue Gildersleeve said at the beginning of the meeting.

Gildersleeve began the

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meeting by informing students of the timeline for room searches and letting them know what rooms were confirmed to have bedbugs on Wednesday.

The dogs were able to sweep through seven floors of Schramm Hall. Nine rooms were confirmed to have bedbugs.

“We had no expectations going into it,” Gildersleeve said.

The sweep of the 6000/5000 building of

Selleck also occurred Wednesday, and 11 more rooms were confirmed.

While some of the rooms were treated earlier Wednesday, trucks were still parked in the walkways to heat rooms late Wednesday night.

Residence Life director Keith Zaborowski and Associate Director of Housing Facilities Glen Schumann sat on either side of Gildersleeve to answer questions.

Questions addressed a

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variety of topics. There were the expected questions of what to do when the dogs came through the rooms and how to prepare for the heat treatment.

Some students were worried about being in class during a scheduled heat treatment. Zaborowski assured students the heat treatment would not be done without the student present.

Gildersleeve gave the students a warning about what

their rooms will look after the treatment because one of the steps to prepare a room is to spread out the clothes.

“It’s going to be messy,” she said.

Another student asked if the dogs would go through the lecture halls throughout campus. Gildersleeve said it was not within Housing’s control, but she knew the university was looking into the situation.

The meeting lasted just

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more than an hour and while most people left at the hour mark, a few remained behind to ask more personal questions. One student asked about lofted beds, while another asked about dog allergies. Both Gildersleeve and Schumann said the dogs were only in the room for a couple of minutes, so it should not leave an effect on the room

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The achievement gap between the richest and poorest Americans has been widening for decades, and aid at the start of college may not be enough to bridge the divide.

During the past several decades, the impact of a person’s income level on her or his college attainment — for better or worse — has been amplified even as income inequality has increased, stalling the traditional equalizing power of a college education.

That’s according to a recent analysis by Martha Bailey and Susan Dynarski from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. The pair analyzed 70 years of U.S. Census data and compared Americans born in the early 1960s and early 1980s in terms of how many get to college, stay there and come out with a bachelor’s degree.

The results shows a clear trend, as the nation’s highest earners are several times more likely to stay in college long enough to earn a bachelor’s degree by age 25 than the lowest earners.

But the researchers instead focused on the gap between the extremes: Between the two samples, the bottom 25 percent of the country who finished college rose from 5 percent to 9 percent. On the other end of the spectrum, however, the percentage of the country’s top earners succeeding in college shot up

18 percent, from more than one-third of the group to more than half.

Meanwhile, shock waves from the 2008 recession still echo throughout the economy and national student debt is at its highest level ever, likely aggravating these effects.

The lowest earners clearly have a wall between them and college, but what the wall’s bricks are made of depends on who’s asked.

Many social scientists believe the forces behind the numbers extend deep into the country’s social and economic landscape.

The pure power of money is hard to ignore, as high-income parents spend almost 10 times as much as low-income parents on each child, according to a recent article in The New York Times on the country’s growing education gap. Women in poverty are more likely to have an unplanned pregnancy, perhaps persuading many to leave college or never go.

Race and income are also intertwined, as the legacy of centuries of racism that continues today leaves a lasting imprint on the financial resilience of people of color.

But there’s more to this trend than just money, many observers agree.

Some focus on the impact of parenting, pointing out that low-income families are more likely to have a single parent.

“Early life conditions and how children are stimulated play a very important role,” James J. Heckman, an

economist at the University of Chicago, told The Times.

“The danger is we will revert back to the mindset of the war on poverty … (when) giving families more (money) would improve the prospects of their children.”

“If people conclude that, it’s a mistake,” Heckman said.

The problem is instead incredibly complex, said Kelli King, program coordinator for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s William H. Thompson Scholars Learning Community, which focuses on low-income students.

“It’s an enormous question,” King said. “Is it solely money? No. Is that a factor?

Indeed.”

Three students and friends at UNL also pointed to single parents as an important factor, but not just because of the lost half of income.

“In a sense, we kind of owe it to our parents to be here,” said Cristina Garcia, a freshman child, youth and family studies major who lives with her dad, to nods of agreement from fellow freshmen Kateri Hiatt and Cristina Moreno. She’s the first in her family to go to college, and added that for many students like her, lacking an example and guide in the family can be another barrier.

“I come from a one-parent family and I’m here,” said Moreno, a freshman psychology major who pointed to a necessary ingredient: hope. “It’s possible; of course it’s possible.

I’m proof.”

Bill aims to limit access to tax-funded research Jacy Marmaduke Daily nebraskan

Since 2007, the ideology regarding public access to federally funded research has been simple.

Tax payers fund the research — thus, they should be granted access to it, according to a 5-year-old mandate that made all National Institutes of Healthfunded research free to the public for a year after release.

But the Research Works Act (RWA), backed by the Association of American Publishers, threatens to put an end to that ideology by terminating the NIH mandate and preventing other federal agencies from requiring open access. In effect, the bill could lock many research articles behind $15 to $30 paywalls.

The RWA aims to preserve the rights of publishers, who are not aided by tax dollars, according to an Association of American Publishers statement in support of the act.

“While the federal government may fund research or some portion of it, it does not fund the scholarly, technological or financial investments made for value-added journal articles produced by private-sector publishers,” the statement said. “The federal government should not be permitted to give

“There’s a lot of people away these private-sector products without the prior out there on Capitol Hill consent of the publishers.” lobbying against the RWA,” But opponents of the Westbrooks said. “I feel act are throwing their sup- very confident that it will port behind the antithesis not pass.”

If the bill does pass, of the RWA: The Federal Research Public Access however, open access chair Act (FRPAA), a bipartisan for the Graduate Student movement to extend NIH’s Association and graduate policy of open access to all history student Brandon Locke said UNL students federal agencies.

“We all know that the could bear the brunt of the University Research Libraries’ Works Act is The whole point purchase really bad, rebut the FRof publishing your of search arPAA is really research is so ticles that good,” said people read it, so w o u l d Elaine Westhave been brooks, assoit can change and unciate dean of improve lives.This free der the University Liseriously impacts previous braries at the mandate.

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“A highNebraskaelaine westbrooks er burden Lincoln. associate dean of university libraries on the Westbrooks at unl libraries said the RWA would hinm e a n s der the impact of research, that they would either have particularly in the medical to cut services or increase fields. student fees to cover the “The whole point of cost,” Locke said. publishing your research is However, Westbrooks so people read it, so it can said the library system is change and improve lives,” willing to take that risk.

“There haven’t always she said. “This seriously been mandates, so I don’t impacts that ability.”

Furthermore, West- think the world is going to brooks said the RWA could end,” she said. “This just damage a core value of makes it a little bit hardhigher education: ready er. We’ll keep working at access to valuable informa- (open access) whether this tion. Six university presses act gets passed or not.” jacymarmaduke have declared opposition @dailynebraskan.com to the RWA.

THE WIDENING GULF IN COLLEGE SUCCESS The researchers from the University of Michigan analyzed U.S. Census historical facts to find the college success of different income levels. They found a long-standing gap between the bottom and top 25 percent, a gulf that has only widened in the past several decades.

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Bailey and Dynarski suggest attempts to bridge the income-education gap must begin early to be effective.

“Differences in high school completion between children from lowincome families and those from high-income families explain half of the gap in college entry,” they wrote in their analysis. “Interventions that operate mainly on the college-entry margin — such as scholarships, college outreach campaigns, and mentoring — can only

alter the college-entry decisions of those who are able to respond. Those who have already dropped out of high school, in body or spirit, cannot benefit from these interventions.”

Along those lines, UNL began the Nebraska College Preparatory Academy in 2006. The program finds gifted, low-income students in middle school and provides guidance and other resources to facilitate acceptance to UNL while holding them to certain academic

standards. All three of the freshmen are part of the academy and said they and most of their peers wouldn’t be in college without it.

“In addition to financial assistance, students must imagine themselves at a university,” Amber Hunter, the academy’s director, wrote in an email. “Imagine if you played football but didn’t know the rules of the game.

How could you be successful and win?” danholtmeyer @dailynebraskan.com

ASUN tables bill at brief meeting elias youngquist daily nebraskan

In a meeting lasting slightly less than 19 minutes, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska tabled its sole piece of legislation and finished all business scheduled for Wednesday night.

The meeting opened with Internal Vice President Jeff Lopez, a senior chemical engineering major, the only one of the three executive members in attendance. According to Marlene Beyke, director of administration for ASUN, President Lane Carr, a senior history and political science major, and External Vice President Matt Hilgenkamp, a senior accounting major, as well as Government Liason

Committee Chair Eric Kamler, a junior agricultural economics major, were attending a University of Nebraska Board of Regents dinner with state senators.

The sole piece of legislation, Bylaw I: Amend Homecoming Steering Committee, was tabled for next meeting. The amendment changes the wording in the ASUN bylaws to accommodate the Student Alumni Association’s change of name to Scarlet Guard and removes the Student Foundation from the committee because the organization no longer exists.

Despite the amendment coming from Student Services Committee, the committee’s chair, Sen. LJ McElravy, a human sciences graduate student, decided

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to table it.

“Some of the things (changes and wordings) weren’t clear, and I just wanted to make sure before we voted on it,” McElravy said.

According to Lopez, ASUN is likely to make up for the short meeting today with the next two meetings’ heavy load of legislature. Two bills are currently tabled to be brought up at a later date and five appropriation bills for Fund A users are scheduled to be discussed at the next meeting. eliasyoungquist @dailynebraskan.com

WATER: from 1 at UNL, will deliver a preforum speech on public policy and the significance of addressing an issue like a global water crisis.

He said he will touch on how much water an acre of crops uses and how much water an acre of people use based on the most densely populated area in America:

Los Angeles.

Humans drink a gallon of water a day — eight glasses, or at least that’s what is advised — but plants drink more, Specht said.

Specht will give a brief overview of how to minimize the amount of water per crop to preserve resources. The pre-lecture

address will last about 15 minutes and end with five minutes for questions, he said.

“It’s the basis for what I wouldn’t consider a war between humans and agriculture,” Specht said. “But we need to allocate water better between the two.” westonpoor @dailynebraskan.com

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Candidates for extension dean narrow to 4 LARRY BROWN DAILY NEBRASKAn

The Cooperative Extension Division and Nebraska Cooperative Extension Service at University of Nebraska-Lincoln narrowed the search for an extension dean and director position to four candidates, two of which are current UNL faculty members.

The search for a new dean comes with the impending retirement of Elbert Dickey, director of UNL Cooperative Extension Service and dean of UNL Cooperative Extension Division. Dickey has been involved with the UNL Extension administration

since 1991, according to the Feb. 10 press release.

“We’re looking for a leader who can keep extension vibrant and on a national level,” he said, adding that extension offices are dotted all across the state with a total of dickey 83 serving 19 counties. Extension focuses on key areas including crop development, youth

development, family development and entrepreneurship, Dickey said.

One of the candidates is David Hardin, associate dean of the UNL Professional Prog r a m in Veterinary Medicine and director of the UNL School of Veterinary hardin Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. Hardin has been at UNL for six years, and

spent 12 years in extension work at the University of Missouri.

“I have a passion for extension work,” he said, adding that it gives him the opportunity to impact the state and nation.

Hardin used to be an entrepreneur in Hartville, Mo., as the owner of a veterinary practice.

“I know the some of the challenges rural business owners face,” he said. Hardin also said he worked with farmers to help them face various economic difficulties.

Hardin’s public presentation to UNL will be held March 26 and will focus on “transformational leadership.”

rec PLANS: from 1 While awaiting the Board of Regents’ approval, the committee has started the next step: researching the parking situation at the new rec center.

The committee’s goal is to create an elevated gymnasium with covered parking, without taking away existing parking spaces, McElravy said. Not only is student parking important for the space, McElravy said, but $13,500 would also have to be paid to replace whatever parking would be lost.

Instead, building a raised gymnasium would be either less or just as costly and would produce the “added benefit of covered parking,” McElravy said.

If all goes smoothly, the new East Campus rec center will open May 2014.

Another student-voted project, the new Outdoors Adventures Center, is also seeing progress.

The construction documents for the new facility, set to be located at 14th and W streets, are nearing time

to be approved by the Board of Regents, said Kyle Hansen, coordinator for Outdoor Adventures.

The Outdoor Adventures Center has also selected its vendor for the climbing wall that will go into the gymnasium of the new location.

Hansen said Eldorado Climbing Walls, based out of Boulder, Colo., is the vendor for the new location. The vendor also built the climbing wall in the current City Campus rec center.

The vendor was chosen in

carrie zepf type of road you’re on.

Slow drivers, by my definition, are people who refuse to go at least the speed limit. Unless roads are icy, there’s heavy traffic or a highly concentrated number of pedestrians, there’s no reason not to go the allowed speed.

It’s true that going five mph over may still earn you a speeding ticket, but when it comes to preventing accidents, carefully examining your surroundings and coming to the conclusion you can nudge up a couple mph isn’t dangerous.

Obviously, a slow driver will frustrate a speeder, but he or she will also irritate people trying to go the allowed limit, turning many by-the-book drivers into speeders.

Slow drivers are usually slow turners as well.

There’s nothing wrong with taking the time to make a turn, but when there’s a car coming up behind you at a green light, you don’t need to come to a complete stop.

My advice for slow drivers is to quit being scared of getting in trouble.

You’re allowed to actually go 45 mph in the 45 mph zone, and you are allowed to go 60 mph in a 60 mph zone. A cop won’t pull you over if you accidently exceed the limit by a few mph every once in a while.

By going the allowed speed limit, a lot of road

a competitive bid process, Hansen said.

To choose the vendors, Outdoor Adventures used a set of design criteria to compare between companies, Hansen said.

The new Outdoor Adventures facility is on track in its originally planned timeline, he said.

Campbell said the hopes are that the new Outdoor Adventures facility can open in time for the fall 2013 semester. tammybain @dailynebraskan.com

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partnerships in the public and private sectors. She also said she wanted to grow extension using increasingly popular measures including digital media.

“I want to talk about different delivery systems for extension,” she said.

Other candidates for extension dean and director include Deborah Sheely, assistant director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Institute of Food Production and Sustainability, and Duane Williams, associate director of the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Wyoming.

larrybrown @dailynebraskan.com

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orrible drivers come in all speeds and IQs. The common misconception suggests speeders are always to blame for car accidents. Although speeding is highly dangerous and is in fact known to cause accidents, speeders are not the only hazardous people on the road. While those who speed need to slow down a bit, slow drivers could also kick it up a notch.

The speeder can be a driver going anywhere from five mph over the speed limit to 50. Drivers on the highway or interstate going three to five mph over are no threat to anyone unless roads are in poor conditions. Those going 20 to 35 over at 2 a.m. with no cars around are only a threat to themselves.

Town and city roads are a different story. Going 34 mph in a 30 mph zone is not likely to cause an accident, but careless speeders going 10 mph over the speed limit will likely also find it hard to stop in time at a red light.

Unfortunately, the speeder is also a horrible parker more times than not.

It’s frustrating to wind through parking garages and lots only to find the one unoccupied spot is blocked by someone who thought their time was too precious to allow someone else to park.

It takes about 30 seconds to back up your car and straighten it out in the space. I don’t care how late you are; you have time to show some courtesy.

Still, the slow driver is even more dangerous than the speeder, in my opinion. Road rage is extremely common, no matter what

“I’m trying to talk to educators in extension across the state,” he said.

Second UNL candidate Susan Williams, district director of the UNL Southeast Research and Extension Center, has worked in extension for 20 and says the work will help improve Nebraska’s economy. Williams’ background includes working in education and accounting extension offices.

“Extension transforms research into practical use to help solve problems,” she said.

Williams’ presentation will focus on building sciencebased programs for youth and adults and establishing

rage will be prevented.

The cutter-offers, as I like to call them, are another kind of dangerous driver.

I have no idea where you have to be that’s so important you’re willing to risk a car slamming right into your bumper.

Cutting people off by accident in a situation where you may not know the town and have to switch into an exit lane is understandable. Cutting someone off just for the purpose of getting to your destination 30 seconds sooner is ridiculous.

Even worse are the “I’m going to cut you off, then drive under the speed limit” drivers. These are the worst kind. Speeding up to get in front of someone, then driving under the speed limit, is the most hypocritical thing any driver can do. It says “Hey, I’m totally willing to speed and cut you off, possibly putting your life in danger, and now I’m going to piss you off by going five under for the next 15 minutes.”

The way I feel about those people is similar to the way the Grinch feels about the Whos before he meets Cindy Lou. The best way to prevent accidents is to eliminate the speeder, slow driver, cutter-offer and all other kinds of irresponsible drivers.

People will always be in a rush to get somewhere — creating the speeder and cutter-offer — and cautious drivers will always be scared of getting a ticket.

However, if speeders slow down a few mph and slow drivers speed up a few, accidents have a good chance of being prevented.

carrie zepf is a junior broadcasting major. reach her at carriezepf@ dailynebraskan.com.

or the students.

The schedule for the remaining week and a half will fluctuate, depending on how many rooms are confirmed and whether the heat treatments go smoothly. Concerns about the dogs sweeping through apartment-style and suite rooms were raised after the meeting, like how the dog would check the storage space above the closet in the individual rooms.

Schumann said they had

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not considered that aspect of the suite-style rooms, but once they get to that point, they will figure out a way to check.

“I think it’s good students are raising a lot of questions,” Gildersleeve said after the meeting.

“These questions help us get a good idea of what to look into … No one is more interested in getting this done quickly than we are.” franniesprouls @dailynebraskan.com

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Research bill hurts taxpayers, universities In the tradition of American government, institutions and projects funded by taxpayer dollars are in turn deemed public. In this same vein, public access is allowed for all tax-funded research.

But according to an article in today’s Daily Nebraskan, a new bill in Congress, the Research Works Act, aims to end this logical relationship between tax dollars and public access by ending the mandate on federal institutions to require open access to tax-funded research. We feel the passing of the RWA by Congress would be an unjust and inappropriate action. Even if the superficial goal is to protect publishers, the RWA grossly violates the broader ideal that research paid for by Americans should be available to the people who shelled out the cash.

This violation would be particularly egregious in the field of medical research where taxpayers are asked to pay for research that, were the RWA to pass, wouldn’t fulfill its fundamental function: providing the public with results of new studies, potentially benefiting public health.

In considering the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s stake in the potential passing of the RWA, the removal of public access might damage UNL’s standing as a research institution. The proposed act would deny university students at UNL and elsewhere the access to verified and reliable research they’ve previously been able to take advantage of — an unfortunate blow to any university that prides itself on student research. In addition, UNL is also not in a position (nor should it have to be) to deal with the negative financial side effects of the RWA. University Libraries would be forced to purchase once-public research, money that would likely require an unnecessary increase in student fees.

In general, publishers should not be exploited, but trying to protect their private financial interests by unfairly burdening taxpayers, universities and students would be a miscarriage of fairness.

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Viewing China from within

››This column is part of an ongoing series

on China. The last installment was an introduction to the U.S.-China relationship.

Today’s focuses on the Chinese people.

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o understand China, you have to learn about the Chinese people.

Most of the time, the Chinese are interpreted based on interactions between the Western world and China. I believe a fundamental analysis is needed if you really want to discuss the Chinese people.

In Chinese, the Chinese people are called “Zhong Guo Ren.” With the development of China as a country and Chinese as a race, “Zhong Guo Ren” has had deep implications historically, culturally and politically.

To understand the original meaning of “Zhong Guo Ren,” we must understand the meaning of “Zhong Guo” first. The ancestors of the Chinese called the world they lived in “Tian Yuan Di Fang.” This phrase described the Earth as a square, with the sky as a sphere surrounding the Earth. They also believed China was located in the center of the square Earth.

In Chinese, “Zhong” means the center and “Guo” means country. As a result, they started to call their country “Zhong Guo,” which means “the country located in the center of the world.” They also began to call themselves “Zhong Guo Ren,” the people who lived in Zhong Guo. However, around 206 B.C., with the establishment and development of the Han Dynasty, the concept of “Zhong Guo Ren” changed. To the north of Zhong Guo, other nations began to establish themselves during the same time period. They were very different from Zhong Guo, especially in agriculture. The food resources of Zhong Guo were mainly dependent on farming, and because of their relatively advanced farming technology, its people usually had enough food during the year.

On the other hand, the countries to the north of Zhong Guo mainly depended on livestock and hunting. Hunting wasn’t a stable food source; as a result, they often were unable to get enough food during winters. This led to other nations invading Zhong Guo. However, with the boom of the Han Dynasty, this situation changed.

The Emperor Han Wu started wars against nations who stole food from China and who murdered Chinese citizens. Since then, the people of other nations began to associate Zhong Guo, or ancient China,

jiajun xu not only with abundant food, but also with strength.

In addition, the wars started by Emperor Han Wu also increased the reputation of the Han Dynasty in neighboring countries.

As a result, these countries began to use the name Han as another name for Zhong Guo, causing the words “Zhong Guo” and “Han” to become interchangeable. Since then, “Zhong Guo Ren” has changed to “Han Ren,” and “Han” has become the race with the largest population in China.

In 618 A.D., China went into another prosperous period under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. During that period, Zhong Guo became famous around the world for china and silk exports. Because china and silk were invented in old China, and the Tang Dynasty kept the manufacturing process secret, Zhong Guo held a monopoly on silk and china exports. As a result, Europeans began to relate china with the country of China. Now, Zhong Guo is now called China in English, and the “Zhong Guo Ren” are called Chinese.

What’s more, at that time, the connotation of “Zhong Guo Ren” started to change. It did not just mean “Han Ren” any more. As more races immigrated to China, “Zhong Guo Ren” started to mean all people who ever lived in the land of China.

The concept of “Zhong Guo Ren” is not simply shaped by Chinese history. Chinese culture played a very important role in shaping “Zhong Guo Ren” too.

According to Chinese history textbooks, “Zhong Guo Ren” are an ancient race who began to live in the land of China about 5,000 years ago. Because of agriculture, the “Zhong Guo Ren” developed a special feeling toward their hometowns.

They preferred to stay at home instead of moving around, and they returned to their hometowns for old age and burial.

There’s an old Chinese phrase describing these special feelings that says, “Luo ye gui gen,” which means, “After leaves drop

from the trees (after a Chinese person died somewhere else instead of home), they go back to the roots of the tree (a Chinese person likes to be buried in his or her hometown).”

The Chinese adore their ancestors, so they try their best to keep traditions to show their respect. For example, they celebrate traditional festivals like Lunar New Year. Chinese who live in every corner of the world celebrate the same festival in probably the exact same way, because they have kept the same tradition.

In most situations, Chinese show more enthusiasm toward people from the same region. There is an old Chinese phrase that goes, “Lao xiang jian lao xiang, liang yan lei wang wang,” which means, “The tears will come out if someone meets people who share the same hometown.”

So it’s more common to see a group of Chinese people, who probably came from the same area of China and speak the same dialect, as opposed to seeing a Chinese person alone around campus.

Most of time, Chinese traditional culture narrows the concept of Chinese, or “Zhong Guo Ren,” to keep the stability of the Chinese race and Chinese culture.

However, Chinese politics try to widen the concept of the Chinese people.

Throughout Chinese history, different minority races established dynasties in China and tried to Sinicize their citizens.

They tried to control the Chinese people through learning Chinese culture. This policy helped to widen Chinese culture and made China a more diverse community.

Also, with the growth of Chinese territory, more and more races began to live with the Chinese. Zhong Guo turned out to be a country with more and more diversity. Nowadays, as long as people have Chinese citizenship, they’re called Chinese.

Don’t be surprised if a blonde person tells you he or she is Chinese.

“Zhong Guo Ren” is supposed to be translated to “the Chinese people.” It’s a phrase invented by the ancient Chinese, and the connotation of that has changed with the development of Chinese history and the demands of Chinese culture and politics.

Look to my next column on the Chinese economy, explained through my own personal story.

Jiajun (Abe) Xu is a junior finance and economics major. Reach him at jiajunxu@dailynebraskan.com.

University, Lincoln must improve bus system

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hen I first arrived in Lincoln in September, I needed to go to the grocery store.

I waited 30 minutes at the bus stop in front of my apartment before I realized the bus wasn’t coming.

The bus never comes after 8 p.m.

The bus system in Lincoln isn’t functional enough to serve a city its size. If you work after regular business hours, you must have a car or live within walking distance of where you work.

For college students, this isn’t always an option. Cars, and the maintenance that accompanies them, are expensive. Plus, the bus system is much more environmentally friendly.

Many students work at night or on the weekends, or at least they’d like to. The buses not running after 7:30 p.m., and not at all on Sunday, makes this nearly impossible. Not only is it bad for the university population, it’s bad for the residents of Lincoln and for the city’s economy.

The bus system also makes it difficult for students to simultaneously

have an internship and work. Unless you are lucky enough to get a paid internship, it will be difficult to have an after-hours job while maintaining a internship during business hours.

You might be thinking, “Why don’t these people get a car?” It’s necessary to have money, usually procured through working, to be able to afford a car. And if you can’t work unless you have a car, it becomes a Catch-22. Even getting financing for a cheap used car can be difficult for students with no savings or credit history.

It’s also difficult for students who work and study full-time. How are they meant to get groceries and necessities? They can’t. They’re forced into buying the university’s expensive meal plan.

Apart from these concerns, there’s one that looms above all: safety.

Lincoln isn’t by any means a city plagued with crime, but it can be an unsettling walking home from class in the dark. Some classes are at night and certain university organizations hold meetings late into the evening. Students are lectured by the university to avoid walking

stephanie shipp alone at night. But sometimes it’s unavoidable, especially during the winter when days are shorter.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s shuttle system is inefficient as well. There are classes and on-campus events during the weekends.

Although this isn’t as much of an issue as in the city’s system, it should still be addressed. Some university jobs require night and weekend shifts, including both University Housing and the Daily Nebraskan.

It seems difficult for students who work on City Campus and live on East Campus to get to and from work safely.

You might now be thinking it’s not in the interest of the city to address this problem, but this isn’t just a university issue. It affects all

Lincoln residents. If your shift ends at 10 p.m., and you don’t have a car, there’s really no option but to walk home in the dark alone. It can’t be avoided unless you can afford to take a cab every night, but then you’d probably have a car.

As for the permanent Lincoln residents, a variety of jobs require work after 5 p.m. — hospitals, hotels, retail and even the state government all have positions that require employees to work after traditional hours. And these jobs aren’t always well-paid.

Especially with the new arena opening in the Haymarket in 2013 and Lincoln’s hope of further developing and drawing in new business, the issue needs to be addressed soon.

The city plans to install a trolley in the downtown area, which would be great, but the funding could be put to better use extending the hours of operation of the bus system.

Yes, it would be appealing to tourists, but most tourists in Lincoln will have cars. Also, citizens should come first, especially when tourism isn’t central to the city’s economy.

Even if the city doesn’t cut plans for the trolley, could funding not be found or juggled to meet the city’s needs?

It’s clear that the city must stay within its budget. I get it. Merely extending hours might be more reasonable to start. Waiting an additional 10-20 minutes for a bus and having the option to travel until 9 or 10 p.m. would not be the worst scenario. Not having as many buses on the road at once might also be a good option, if it allowed for longer hours of operation.

The new expansion is exciting. But if the city wants it to be a success, they need to extend bus hours. The new hotels and restaurants will require late-night shifts.

And these people need to be able to get to work.

The problem cannot be avoided.

It’s important and should already have been addressed. Yet it’s being treated as a luxury. Many rely on public transportation for their livelihood, and it’s time for the city to recognize this.

Stephanie Shipp is a doctoral candidate in philosophy. She can be reached at stephanieshipp@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Local theater kicks off year with timeless farcical play

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In a 2005 interview with “60 Minutes,” Morgan Freeman questioned the purpose of Black History Month, calling the tradition “ridiculous.”

Filmmaker Shukree Tilghman saw the interview and channeled Freeman’s concerns into a documentary that argues African American history should be situated in the larger narrative of American history rather than relegated to a single month. He traveled to different cities in the United States and wore a sign that said “End Black History Month” on the front and “African American History is American History” on the back as a means of garnering petition signatures and inspiring dialogue with average Americans.

Tilghman’s documentary “More than a Month” is February’s film in this

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season’s Coffee and Conversations in the Community, an ongoing film series hosted by the Community Engagement and Educational Outreach Department of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.

Every third Thursday of the month, NET presents a documentary film to the public. After each film, NET provides a panel of people to promote conversation and ask questions relating to the topics emphasized in the film. The screenings will

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Rob Burt, left, acts out a scene with Derek Cook in their rendition of “Charley’s Aunt.” The play opens tonight at the Haymarket Theatre and runs through Feb. 25.

Things come apart easily when held “Charley’s Aunt” begins as two coltogether by lies. Though lying doesn’t legiate gentlemen, Jack Chesney and help romantic relationships in reality, Charley Wyckeham, plan a luncheon it’s ripe for comedy on stage. to woo their respective loves, Kitty The characters in “Charley’s Aunt,” Verdun and Amy Spettigue. They run opening this Thursday at the Haymar- into problems when Charley’s aunt is ket Theatre, tell lie delayed and the men are upon lie and still get left without a chaperon, an It’s one of those away scot-free. But essential for courtship in plays that’s very that’s inherent to the Victorian England. Luckily funny; even if farce genre. their friend, Lord Fancourt “Every farce starts Babberly, or Babbs, is set you’ve seen it with one little lie to appear in “amateur thebefore, you will and everything gets atrics” and possesses an old die laughing. screwed up as a remaid costume. The lying sult,” said director and farcical shenanigans Sean Mcgill begin as they force Babbs Bobby Bonaventura.

UNL Theater Performance “It leads to another to impersonate Charley’s Alum lie and another lie aunt and win over the girl’s and another. The guardian and Jack’s father. farcical elements get tighter and tightAt the beginning of rehearsals, the er and tighter. It resolves at the end show almost lost its titular cross-dresswhen you have to tell the truth. It’s a ing character. The lead actor cast as textbook farce.”

Babbs became ill and wasn’t able to

if you go: “Charley’s Aunt” when: Feb. 16-18, 23-25, 7:30 pm, Feb. 19, 2:30 pm where: Haymarket Theatre, 803 Q St. how much: $10 for students, $15 for public

continue with the show. Bonaventura called an old college friend, Sean McGill, to play the part. McGill, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln theater performance alum, flew in from Chicago the next day to take the part.

“I enjoy the role itself, but I hate the dress,” McGill said.

McGill said he wasn’t concerned with perfecting the nuances of

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Sheldon series integrates theater, visual arts Katie Nelson daily nebraskan

A man sits at a table, reading a newspaper. A woman is perched on a chair across the table from him, idly playing the piano.

The figures are only a matter of feet from each other, separated only by a table, but the distance between them is obvious. They seem to be both partners and adversaries.

The above scene, depicted in Edward Hopper’s painting, “Room In New York,” is one of the central themes in the Sheldon Museum of Art’s latest collaboration with the Angels Theatre Company.

Throughout the month of February, the Angels Theatre Company is performing a series of short plays at the Sheldon. The performances, titled “Partners and Adversaries” take place every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at 5 p.m. the day of the show.

Only 40 seats are available

each night.

The series of plays is based on one of the Sheldon’s current exhibitions, similarly titled “Partners and Adversaries: The Art of Collaboration.” Each of the plays is based on relationships and is performed in front of one of five pieces in three of the Sheldon’s upstairs galleries. The list of plays includes the above-mentioned “Room In New York,” “Maria y Consuelo,” “Village Square,” “Thirteenth of June” and “Myths: Mickey Mouse.” Actors use the pieces as their backdrops. Each play lasts less than 15 minutes and when finished, a guide directs the audience to the next painting. Attendees carry their seats with them and arrange them before each play begins.

“It’s a really unique experience for the audience because not only is the audience looking at the actors, but you are also looking at the art,” said Judy Hart, the founder of the Angels Theatre Company.

if you go: “Partners and Adversaries” when: Feb. 21, 28, 6:30 p.m. where: Sheldon Museum of Art how much: Free While the performances are restricted to Tuesday evenings, the Sheldon’s exhibition, “Partners and Adversaries: The Art of Collaboration,” is open during the museum’s regular hours.

When Brandon Ruud, the Sheldon’s curator of transnational American art, started working at the museum, its galleries were dedicated to female artists.

“I started thinking about women artists and their partnerships,” he said, adding

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upcoming events E.N. Thompson Forum: Is a Global Water Crisis Avoidable? when: Thursday, 7 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts how much: Free

Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds w/ Pacific Dub and Vibenhai when: Thursday, 8 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St. how much: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

The Strivers Row Poets Showcase when: Friday, 7:30 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center how much: Free for students, $5 for public

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Festival reveals importance of here and now

Near purges lead to moments of reflection

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katie nelson Beginning last Wednesday, I found myself in the midst of Lincoln Exposed.

For those of you who don’t know what that means, Lincoln Exposed is the city’s second-largest music festival next to Lincoln Calling, and it features nothing but local acts.

I’m talking about a public event that begins at 6 p.m. and ends … whenever.

(Well, technically, there is a scheduled end time, but it doesn’t really exist.) I’m talking about people cramming themselves into tiny bars just to watch a band that most people in Lincoln, let alone the United States, don’t know anything about.

Lincoln Exposed was held at three venues this year: Duffy’s Tavern, the Zoo Bar and the Bourbon Theatre.

After Wednesday and Thursday, the bars switched their shows to 21+ and, as a little 1991 baby, I was left to sit in the Bourbon. I promise, it was not as pathetic as it sounds. I was there with friends, so at least I wasn’t sitting alone away from the bar.

The evenings’ crowds ebbed and flowed. Sometimes the venue was jampacked and sometimes we were joined only by the band on stage. As the evenings rolled on, I heard my fair share of metal, Latin, indie rock — you name it.

But the thing that surpassed everything — the music, the people, the drinks — was the atmosphere.

And that got me thinking.

It was sometime between dancing to a band I’d never heard before and standing on a railing to see a band over a head-banging crowd that an unusual thought occurred to me.

I know people always say life isn’t about the big things, but it’s true. And as I stood in the midst of crowds of people, some of whom were my friends, listening to this music, I suddenly

understood that.

As a society, we’ve gotten ourselves so worked up about the idea of success, we don’t stop to see what’s in front of us. Yes, some of the bands playing at Lincoln Exposed have been signed to national or local record labels and are producing music as part of their living, which is great. But just as many weren’t. They were simply there to share something they love.

Why is it always necessary to be the best instead of being the best you can be? Lincoln has so many wonderful opportunities for the fine arts, but I constantly hear people talking about “getting out.” Don’t get me wrong; I want out too. But constantly focusing on what’s ahead rips you away from what’s happening now. And right now, Lincoln has a hell of a music scene full of people constantly writing new songs and experimenting in new genres. First Friday may not be a display of Van Gogh’s work, but it’s something far better. It was created by an artist who is still living, working and creating for the sheer love of it.

Every time I interview any type of artist — actor, visual artist, musician — I’m always in awe of their courage. They are doing something they love, despite what they may have been told and despite the fact that it may have been hard to make rent last month.

Better yet, while most agree recognition from a larger market would be nice, it isn’t what drives them.

They’re driven by pure passion. Lincoln has so many things to offer its residents.

Sometimes we just get caught up in the rush of bigger and better prospects.

Life is a one-day-at-a-time sort of a thing. So try appreciating what’s going on here and now. You might be surprised what you fall in love with.

Nate Ruleaux I had that feeling in my mouth where saliva pools into those divots under your tongue. Sticky water rising over a dam line. I kept spitting in panic, but the drool kept seeping out of the corners of my mouth, rising from the back of my throat.

Peter wouldn’t shut the hell up. He kept talking into my right ear. I didn’t understand a word he said — only the sound of him speaking which seemed to hit the balance keeper of my inner ear, causing me to sway and spin.

I was panicking in the flood. I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I’d try the left eyelid, prying it open with all the concentration I could muster. Fear was rising with the spit in my mouth and the talk-talk-talk in my ear.

The left lid opened for a moment to show the dark driveway Peter and I were standing on, with one street light and a shadowed passersby who glanced up for a moment then walked into the house for the party.

Then it slammed shut.

“Hey, hey, hey.”

Sean was back from parking the car and his buddytap to my left shoulder shattered everything. My focus was gone. Eyes closed.

The only thing real was the cigarette I felt between my fingers, which I somehow brought up for another drag. The smoke floated on top of all that spit. It choked me out, filled me up.

My eyes shot open.

“Time to puke,” I thought.

I looked left, seeing a possible bush in front of the house as an option. But some people arrived and Peter and Sean started to move toward them and my puke spot.

I looked right, really fighting the weight of my eyes and the chunk in my throat.

There was a tree, but it was right in the open. Everyone there would see my terrible

scene. I’d never hear the end of it and Peter would ridicule me for the rest of the night. I’d be trapped in this house with no ride home, branded “Ralph Kid” — that sad sack of shit who goes to the party, blows chunks, then sits in the corner all night with water and no friends.

“Come on, asshole,” Peter said, grabbing my arm in a panic. He started to pull me toward the entry way of the house. I wanted, needed to stop him, I tried smacking him but my arms were limp.

If I opened my mouth to say anything, that Buzzard Billy’s we had earlier would come out instead.

“Come on!”

One last pull and I was inside the house. There at the door was our friend Nick, the owner. He shared his hellos with the back-intown pal. I stood stone-still and tried to think of things that weren’t vomit.

“Bathroom?” I burped out of the corner of my mouth.

“This way,” Nick said, leading Peter and I down the hall. The two were still blissfully unaware of the

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battle inside my drunken, sunken head.

“There’s the bathroom,” he said, pointing to a door on the right. I started for the handle. “Want a beer?”

He pulled two Budweisers from a box in his room and handed us each one. I had to get that saliva out of my mouth and back down to the Moria of my stomach. I opened the beer — “Cheers, Peter” — and drank.

Suddenly everything was fine. I pulled my hand away from the door. What felt like one of my worst drunken moments had suddenly been whipped away.

I felt more sober. My eyes and throat were fine; the spins were gone. I felt sober enough to do math.

“Show us around, man,” Peter said. And the night went on.

Nate ruleaux is a senior news editorial and theater performance major.

Reach him at nateruleaux@ dailynebraskan.com

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Derek Cook, left, and Sean McGill peer over Rob Burt’s shoulder at a letter during a practice for the upcoming show, “Charley’s Aunt.” The farce was first performed in England 130 years ago. playing a female character.

In the stage directions of the script, the author spells out that Babbs should have no idea how to be a woman.

“The stage directions are as dense as the dialogue is,” McGill said.

The more unbelievable he

is as a woman, the funnier the play becomes.

Rob Burt, who plays Jack, agrees.

“The stupider I feel doing the part, the funnier it is,” Burt said.

Burt, also a UNL alum, maintains that the essential comedy bits are staples of

the show, but doesn’t base his role on previous incarnations of the play. He avoided seeing other versions of “Charley’s Aunt,” but was familiar with the drawing room formula, as he has acted in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

“Charley’s Aunt,” written

by Brandon Thomas, debuted in England 130 years ago and remains as popular as ever. The Haymarket Theatre, now in its 10th year, planned to produce a special show to kick off the year. “Charley’s Aunt” proved to be an old and reliable favorite. Bonaventura said that the show has played somewhere in the world every single night since its premier.

“It stands the test of time (because) it’s pretty funny,” Bonaventura said. “It’s one of my favorite things ever.”

However, making an audience laugh isn’t all fun and games. Farce may be one of the hardest genres to pull off on stage, and the cast and crew of “Charley’s Aunt” would agree. Its stakes are higher than drama or comedy.

Bonaventura used spilling a glass of water and asking for a paper towel as an example. In drama, the character would remain calm.

In comedy, the character would become distraught.

In farce, the character

would stomp around waving his hands in the air and screaming for someone to locate said paper towel.

These highly animated bits the actors undertake must be logical and come out of the story. Extraneous actions would ring false, he said. Also, reactions and timing are key to success in farce. McGill said if the timing is off in a Greek tragedy, no one will notice. If timing is off in a farce, nothing will seem as funny.

“It’s essential that the timing is there,” he said.

So while the characters may lie through their teeth, the cast and crew find truth in the humor. With luck and a man in a dress, Bonaventura hopes the audience will find the humor as well.

“It’s one of those plays that’s very funny; even if you’ve seen it before, you will die laughing,” Bonaventura said. “If you’re looking for a great place to take a date, it’s funny, cheap and you’ll have a good time.

You can bring your mom.

You can bring your grandma. You can bring your sweetheart.”

Feb. 17 will be a Gala Night performance of “Charley’s Aunt” with drinks, a buffet and a silent art auction. Tickets are $50 for that evening.

tomhelberg@ dailynebraskan.com

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The theme for the 2011-2012 season is “Women and Girls Lead.” “(‘More than a Month’) just talks about what the role of African Americans are, the female African Americans, women,” said Martha

Florence, NET director of community engagement.

“Should we take on a more active role in making sure that ... Black History Month is more than just February?”

Tilghman started his journey to end Black History Month in 2006. He finished his first-person narrative

documentary in October 2011.

“I thought this would be timely and a relevant project and a timely question to ask,” Tilghman said.

Tilghman’s petition to end Black History Month comprised a large part of the project.

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“We knew pretty early on that there was nowhere we could really go with ending Black History Month since it’s not a law,” Tilghman said. “We can’t just march up the steps of Congress and present this to someone.”

For two days, he spent a couple hours presenting his petition and gathered 50 to 60 signatures on the streets of New York City.

“I wasn’t surprised of the ethnicity of the signers,” Tilghman said. “I was more pleasantly surprised at the amount of people who were willing to sign for the short amount of time I was out there.”

Though the filmmaker wanted the documentary to wrap up quickly, a lack of funding forced Tilghman to

travel to nine different cities during a five-year period.

“Every stop had a relevance to the sort of question we were asking at that particular time,” Tilghman said.

One of the cities he visited was Philadelphia. He said he stopped there because a school district had taken a step toward making African American history last more than a month in it’s curriculum. According to Tilghman, this district is the only one in the country to require students to take an African American history class before they graduate.

“I think it’s a potential step, sure,” Tilghman said.

“I’m a fan of it. I don’t think it’s the end-all, be-all.”

Though Tilghman had made documentaries

many female artists had intimate relationships with people also working with their art, such as curators.

“I started thinking of these relationships that were ... antagonistic and yet influential,” Ruud said.

However, the focus of the exhibition is not solely on romantic relationships. Ruud looked at the relationships between teachers and students and said he also explored dynasties, or relationships between more than two

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The 16th-ranked Huskers have struggled mightily in their last two games but hope to turn the tides tonight at home.

“When you see the ball go through the net, it helps your confidence for other parts of the game,” Hooper said.

That confidence will be needed from Hooper and the other Husker post players Thursday.

Northwestern poses problems for NU in the paint, Yori said. The Wildcats are a big team. Their frontcourt’s average height is about 6 feet 4 inches.

That frontcourt will challenge Nebraska especially after getting dominated on the glass by Minnesota in its last game. The Huskers lack their usual depth down low right now, with junior Meghin Williams battling sickness.

“Northwestern will challenge us up front with their size because they are so versatile,” Yori said.

“Meghin Williams has been sick the last few games, which is causing Jordan

(Hooper) and Emily (Cady) to be on the floor a lot.

We got to fight hard to get through it.”

Dannielle Diamant, a 6-foot-5-inch junior, leads the Wildcat frontcourt, averaging 13.5 points and 6.5 rebounds a game.

Yori said the Huskers will be ready to go Thursday no matter what challenges are ahead because of what is on the line at the end of the season.

“Every game is big; you never say that they aren’t as a coach,” Yori said. “You never chalk up wins as a coach and as a player. You have to have that mentality and we know this game is absolutely an important game for us.

“We are playing for an NCAA tournament bid and we are playing for a Big Ten championship so there is a lot to play for right now.” andrewward@ dailynebraskan.com

swimming: from 10 disqualification of Michigan’s relay team.

“We probably wish we could have gotten off to a better start,” NU coach Pablo Morales said. “We rushed our strokes a bit and need to swim more to our abilities.”

In the 800-yard freestyle relay, the Huskers started to find their rhythm and placed 11th, ahead of Michigan State. The relay of Martin, sophomore Bailey Pons, senior Caroline Shea and freshman Kelly Dunn combined for a total time of 7:22.76. This was just more than 13 seconds faster than the Huskers’ time at the Big 12 Championships last year.

Pons, a distance swimmer, led the way with the fastest split at 1:49.38.

“We had a decent result (in the 800-yard freestyle relay),” Morales said. “However, we were really, really wanting to do well.”

After winning the 800yard freestyle relay last year at their home pool, Indiana repeated with a time of 7:00.82. Just like the Badgers, the Hoosiers went on to give strong showing at the NCAA Championships. Indiana ended up placing seventh overall

in the relay last year.

Although Nebraska’s diving team was not able to score any points for the Huskers, it continued to show its strength. On Wednesday night the threemeter synchronized diving competition was held for exhibition. The event is currently not a part of the Big Ten Championships, but officials are looking to possibly add it in the future.

Juniors Alyson Ramsey and Kaitlan Walker combined to win the event.

The Huskers continue to battle against some of the country’s premier competition as they continue on with the Big Ten Championships today.

“We are ready to come back and do better tomorrow,” Morales said.

The morning session begins at 11 a.m. with the 500yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley and 50-yard freestyle. One-meter diving kicks off at 1 p.m. and finals for all of the morning events plus the 200-yard freestyle relay start at 6:30 p.m. The Big Ten Championships continue through Saturday. angelahensel@ dailynebraskan.com

After two weeks of grueling anticipation, the Husker bowling team will finally be back in action this weekend as they travel to Towson, Md., for the Morgan State Invitational.

The team will look toward senior Kayla Johnson to continue her dominate performance after she lead NU with a 239 average the last time the team hit the lanes at the Prairie View A&M Invite in Arlington, Texas. The Huskers rode Johnson’s momentum to fourth place, finishing behind Arkansas State, Maryland-Eastern Shore, and Vanderbilt in the invite.

NU will see Vanderbilt again this weekend at the Morgan State, and the Commodores have proven to be tough competition for the Huskers. Vanderbilt beat Nebraska in consecutive matches February 3-5 to take first place at the Prairie View A&M Invite.

Head coach Bill Straub said he isn’t worried about the level of competition of the 23-team field at Morgan State because he counts on the team to be mentally prepared no matter who they compete against.

The young team hasn’t finished worse than fourth the entire year, and Straub wants NU to add to its already successful record as the season continues.

The recipe for NU’s success isn’t just about execution, though. Straub’s coaching philosophy and how he prepares his players for the match are indicative of the mentally grueling nature of the sport.

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The women flew to Fairbanks, Alaska, for two different days of shooting. Today, NU has a match against Jacksonville State. The women will finish up their time in Alaska with the NCAA Qualifiers on Saturday. NU has had a few weeks of practice to prepare for the two matches this weekend. The last time they competed was in the Roger Withrow Invitational in Kentucky, Jan. 28.

Head coach Morgan Hicks said in an email Wednesday night that the women have fine-tuned during their practices.

“We have just pushed to make what we are doing so well right now better,” Hicks said. “Everyone knows where their weak areas are and where they can help the team score the most, so that’s what practice has been all about.

Just doing what will make our team score better.”

Raising the team average is on the minds of Hicks and the rest of her team. NU increased their team average

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In the latest NCAA bowling rankings, Nebraska finds itself at No. 8. The NCAA selection committee selects eight teams to move to the championship rounds, which means the Morgan State Invitational could prove to be make it or break it time for the Huskers.

Johnson knows the importance of having success at the last two tournaments.

“It’s never a definite to make it the Championships,” she said. “But more wins means a better chance.”

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Johnson has bought into her coach’s philosophy heading into this weekend’s invitational.

“To be more successful this week, we need to stay consistent on the lanes,” she said.

Johnson added that she felt good going into this invite, and the team has worked extremely hard since their last meet. She said the team is excited to head to the Morgan State Invitational because of the level of competition.

“We will get our first look at a lot of the Eastern teams that are ranked ahead of us,” she said.

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Senior Katelyn Woltersdorf and the NU rifle team have prepared for the past two weeks for this weekend’s NCAA Qualifiers in Fairbanks, Alaska. at the Roger Withrow Invitational by replacing a 4,619 with a 4,647. Today, the women have another chance to increase their team average. With a higher average, NU has a better score going into the NCAA Qualifiers match Saturday. One half of a team’s qualifying score is the top-three team average scores. Right now NU stands in 12th place. Hicks said moving up requires a higher team average. Shooting a 4,647 or higher like they did in Kentucky is the goal, she said.

“I don’t think the girls are too worried too much about the pressure of raising the average,” Hicks said. “I think we really want to and there is more of a desire to erase our old lower score and just make our average as high as we can.”

In order for the team average to increase, though, individuals have to produce high scores. Sophomore Sunny Russell hopes to shoot a 575 in smallbore and a personal best in air rifle.

Shooting high scores shouldn’t be a problem for

NU, according to Russell.

“We’ve been working hard and are shooting some of the best scores we ever have,” Russell said in an email Wednesday night.

Whether NU increases its average, the women are ready to compete.

“We had a break from the matches and are ready to shoot our final regular season match,” Hicks said.

Russell is prepared as well.

“We are all determined that we can do it, and we are excited to compete,” she said.

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She gets better and better every day, and a lot of that deals with the attitude she brings in.”

But performing in the three events wasn’t enough, according to Wong.

“For my sophomore season, my goal was to become an all-arounder,” she said.

“So far I think it’s gone pretty well.”

“Pretty well” is putting it lightly, as the sophomore has already set three new careerhighs this season.

On Feb. 3 in Oklahoma, Wong set another careerhigh on beam when she displayed a 9.925 performance, a score that is tied for first on the team.

Since she’s been inserted into the vault lineup, Wong has scored 9.875 four times, most recently during Nebraska’s Feb. 11 meet. In the team’s last meet, she also tied a career-best 9.925 score on floor for the second time this season. In that recordbreaking meet, the Cornhuskers also won their 17th consecutive Masters Classic, a meet that included six allarounders, the most Kendig said he’s ever seen during his 19 years of coaching.

The team’s chemistry and energy is what helped the team pick up their fourth win of the year, according to Wong.

“Our energy was high and we all had each other’s back,” the sophomore said.

“We all trust our teammates and when the first girl fell on beam, we all trusted the rest of the lineup.

“Having the home crowd cheer and get loud was nice and spirits were high the whole meet.”

During her sophomore campaign, Wong has assisted the Huskers by scoring at least a 9.85 in two events in each meet. The only other gymnasts to have done that for the team are senior Lora Evenstad and freshman Jessie DeZiel.

Kendig said he’s happy with the consistency Wong has shown and is happy to have reliable underclassman

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It’s no secret that in her first two seasons, Emily Wong has made an impact on the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team. She has an All-American honor to prove it, too.

NU coach Dan Kendig said if he could, he would clone a full team of the sophomore.

“I wish I had a whole team like her,” he said. “Emily’s an amazing young lady in the sense that she comes into practice each day ready to go.”

It doesn’t take much time for Wong to get ready for practice — probably because she’s forced to.

During the week, the nutrition, exercise and health sciences major leaves class to rush to Mabel Lee Hall just in time for practice at 1 p.m.

Although an athlete might be stressed going straight from class to practice, Kendig said stress is something he’s never seen from Wong.

“She gets better and better every day, and a lot of that deals with the attitude she brings in,” the coach said. “I don’t think there’s ever been a day where I haven’t seen a smile on her face. She’s very coachable, fun to work with and has great talent.”

That talent and attitude led Wong to a successful 2011 freshman year.

In her first season, the Grand Forks, N.D., native set impressive career-highs in bars, beam and floor.

On March 13 against Iowa State, she set a 9.875 careerhigh score on floor, and a week later set a career-high on beam, scoring a 9.90 at the Big 12 championships, a meet in which the team took first place.

Wong’s performances helped carry her team to the NCAA Super Six Team Finals where she set a career-high on bars when she scored 9.90 twice in the postseason meet, earning her First-Team All-American honors.

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on the team.

“We don’t win or lose on one girl’s performance,” he said. “We rely on everybody.

That’s what’s made it easier for the whole team. I don’t want them to be just good; I want them to be great. And I feel we’re getting closer and closer to that goal.”

Nebraska returns to action this Saturday on the road, where they will face off against the No. 20 Minnesota Gophers in Minneapolis. The meet will begin at 6 p.m.

During warmups, Wong likes to keep it simple. The sophomore said before meets she likes to visualize what she will perform and listen to music that will get her pumped.

Wong said that although they’re facing another Big Ten school this week, the usual routines won’t change and her team needs to stay focused on the primary goal: winning.

“We just want to focus on ourselves,” she said. “We want to show them how much we enjoy competing and by doing that hopefully escape with a win.”

Kendig said he thinks his team has shown during practice that it’s ready to compete against the Gophers this weekend.

“Their take on this is to come out better than the weekend before,” he said.

“That’s when you know you’re successful — when you get up there and do what you’ve been practicing.”

Although the meet is on the road, it might also have an at-home feel to it.

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Sophomore Emily Wong has become a leader for the NU women’s gymnastics team. As an all-arounder, Wong has set three career-highs this season. having the support of the athlete’s families.

“It will definitely make the trip easier for (the gymnasts) too,” he said. “We’ll also

Nathe and DeZiel, are from Minnesota, and Wong and Evenstad are from neighboring North Dakota.

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have a recruit for next season watching, too. It should be a good weekend.”

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With the Vandals ranked 66th and Bulldogs ranked 73rd coming in, Blackwell said the team can’t afford to take their higher ranking for granted after near losses to unranked Denver and East Tennessee State, no matter how the opponents feel about Nebraska’s ranking.

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fire away page 10

thursday, february 16, 2012

Nebraska aims to end their recent shooting slump tonight against the porous northwestern defense. The huskers shot a combined 31 percent in back-to-back losses against Michigan and minnesota. story by Andrew Ward file photo by matt masin

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o. 16 Nebraska needs a win. That is clear to coach Connie Yori.

“It’s a huge week for us,” Yori said. “We know that the biggest and most important game for us right now is this game.”

The Huskers are coming off backto-back losses for the first time this season, and another loss would hurt their chances of a Big Ten title and NCAA tournament bid.

The good news for Nebraska is it will be at home Thursday against a team that struggles defensively. Nebraska (19-5 overall, 8-4 Big Ten) hosts Northwestern (13-12, 3-9), a team that ranks 11th in the Big Ten in scoring defense, giving up 67.2 points per game.

Northwestern’s lack of defense could be the best antidote to the Huskers’ offensive struggles. In its last two losses, NU made just 40 of 126 shots from the field for 31 percent shooting.

Nebraska scored less than 60 points in each of those games as well, while it was forced to take a lot of shots because it was attempting to come back from significant deficits.

A lot of those shots were good, though, according to leading scorer Jordan Hooper. They just didn’t fall. “(There were) definitely times where I thought we could have gotten better shots, but I just think we need to keep shooting,” said Hooper, a junior forward. “The shots we are taking are fine … when we win.”

Another factor behind Nebraska’s poor shooting was the defense it played against in its losses. Michigan ranks second in the conference, giving up just 57.7 points a game, while Minnesota allows opponents to shoot just 37.7 percent from the field on the season.

Yori said the opponent’s defense shouldn’t make a difference in whether the ball goes in the hoop.

“From our stand point right now, we got to make some plays and we got to make some shots,” Yori said.

“It doesn’t matter what defense we see; we got to put the ball in the basket. We are our own worst enemy at this point, which is partly Jordan Hooper has shot just 29 percent in NU’s back-to-back losses. Hooper and the Huskers look to get back because of poor execution.”

When shots start to fall it helps on track against Northwestern’s defense, which ranks 11th in the Big Ten in scoring defense. other aspects of the game, especially on defense, according to Hooper. basketball: see page 8

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men’s tennis

Top-40 ranked Huskers garner respect Grant Muessel Daily Nebraskan

Three years ago the NU men’s tennis team was the hunted. Top-ranked teams consistently fed on the Nebraska squad. Now that Nebraska rests regularly in the ITA top 40, it’s become the hunter.

It has two players ranked in the top 80 nationally in singles. Those two are also ranked No. 7 nationally in doubles. Now that the bottom of the Huskers’ singles lineup has the killer instinct, they’re getting the respect of a top-40 team, sophomore Tom Blackwell said.

“I think we’ve earned the credibility to be a team to beat over the last three years,” Blackwell said.

The Huskers enter the weekend ranked No. 38 in the nation after what head coach Kerry McDermott called a “signature win” on Sunday night. They will face two ranked opponents this weekend when they square off against Drake and Idaho.

The Huskers have struggled against ranked opponents so far during the spring season in losses against Virginia Tech and Oklahoma.

Blackwell and junior Andre Stenger said those rankings may not matter as much outside the top10 teams as people think.

Stenger remembers hanging tough with top-ranked teams in the Big 12 including Oklahoma and Texas Tech last year. Blackwell said any team that gets recognized with a ranking can beat nearly any given team on any given day.

“Sometimes you play a team you think you’re a little better than, and you’re not as pumped up as you should be,” Blackwell said.

“So we think we’re supposed to go out there and

men’s tennis: see page 9

swimming & diving

NU struggles on day one of Big Ten Championships Angela Hensel Daily Nebraskan

The Nebraska women’s swimming and diving team started their entrance into the unfamiliar territory of their first Big Ten Championships with people that they could rely on — their teammates.

Wednesday night marked the kickoff of the Women’s Big Ten Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Iowa Aquatic Center. With the first two events being the 200-yard medley relay and 800-yard freestyle relay, the Huskers got to race in cooperation with the people they have spent their season training with.

While in most of the individual events swimmers may have a chance to race an event twice, this was not the case for the relays. Other than the 1,650-yard freestyle, all swimmers who made the top 24 in their respective individual events got the opportunity to race again in the finals later that evening.

For all of the relay events,

however, there is only one timed final.

For the Huskers, this meant they only got one shot to show their presence in each of the relays.

The competition in the Huskers’ first race was especially daunting. Last year’s champion, Wisconsin, won the 200-yard medley relay in the Big Ten Championships with a time of 1:36.68 and went on to place second in the NCAA Championships — right behind overall team national champion University of California, Berkeley.

Despite the difficult task ahead of them, Nebraska relied on a strong lineup of critical veteran swimmers, including sophomore Shannon Guy and juniors Hayley Martin and Ariel Weech.

Freshman Rebekah Land got her first chance to race by leading off with the backstroke leg of the relay.

While the Huskers had the slowest time of the 12 teams with 1:43.26, they ended up finishing 11th following the

swimming: see page 8

file photo by matt masin | daily nebraskan

Senior swimmer Bailey Pons and the NU swimming and diving team faced tough competition during relays on their first day of Big Ten Championships.