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A lab technician dusts overstocked shelves in a laboratory at the Veterinary Diagnostics Center on East Campus. The building is run-down and shelves have collapsed due to overcrowding.

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Facilities issues jeopardize UNL Veterinary Diagnostics Center’s future Story by Frannie Sprouls | Photo by Mary-Ellen Kennedy

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he University of Nebraska-Lincoln Veterinary Diagnostics Center (VDC) may soon lose its ability to provide services to Nebraska if it is not reaccredited in light of facilities issues.

“We’ll probably get provisional accreditation due to the facilities issues,” said David Hardin, department head of veterinary and biomedical sciences. “If these deficiencies aren’t corrected, we’d lose our accreditation and that has a rather severe impact on our ability to perform some of our duties.”

The center is up for

reaccreditation by the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians and will know the AAVLD’s decision within the next two or three weeks, Hardin said.

The purpose of the VDC is safeguarding animal health, according to Alan Doster, a professor at the VDC. Doster listed off the various services the VDC provides: surveillance testing of imports and exports, autopsies and research materials are just a few.

But unfortunately for the VDC the 37-year-old building is not up-to-date.

On Jan. 18, Sen. Tom

Occupy theater fights ‘monologue of wealth’ at UNL Occupy Lincoln brings UNO prof for interactive workshop on daily oppression dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan

“Theatre of the Oppressed,” a 40-year-old theatrical movement born in Brazil that has since spread around the globe, is coming to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this Saturday, courtesy of Occupy Lincoln’s Occupy Education initiative.

Doug Paterson, a theater professor from University of Nebraska at Omaha, will lead the theater from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Heritage Room. Paterson said instead of actors on

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a stage performing to an inert audience, this theater is a traveling, interactive workshop on oppression, justice and the key to liberation: dialogue.

“Instead of having a discussion about it, we do it,” Paterson said. “The content always comes from the participants. What I bring is structure and forms.”

The world is full of monologues, he said, referring to the one-sided expression of cultural influence and power, not just words.

“It’s a monologue of wealth and class and power,” Paterson said. “In terms of race, in terms of gender, in terms of sexual orientation, in terms of class, we all hit that. And we don’t know what to

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Hansen of North Platte introduced LB1066, which would provide $5 million for the planning and design of a new VDC facility. This bill is a part of the Build a Healthier Nebraska initiative introduced by NU President James B. Milliken.

“Our lab isn’t what you could say biosecure,” Doster said. “It wasn’t designed that way years ago.

It would be fairly easy for someone to get in here and take something or spread something.”

Doster explained that other labs have an area where the public can come in and the laboratory staff knows

via computer who’s going in and who’s going out.

There would be a specified area for the public to drop off specimens and they would not be able to access the entire laboratory.

UNL’s laboratory, however, is different.

“We were designed to be student-friendly,” Doster said. “With 9/11, that has all changed.”

There is also the simple problem of not having enough room. The ability to expand is not an option

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Avoiding a global water crisis was the main topic addressed Thursday night at the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues.

The forum, “Is a Global Water Crisis Avoidable?” focused on the needs of the food required to feed a growing population and the amount of water necessary to keep up with that need. The lecturers said they believed the future will bring new concerns for the acquisition and distribution of water around the world.

“Agriculture uses two-thirds of the world’s fresh water,” said Mogens Bay, the chairman and chief executive officer of Omaha-based Valmont Industries. “We must double food production in the next 40 years due to population growth.”

He added that although the crisis is avoidable, there are many issues that need to be addressed.

Bay opened by saying he would not present a precise road map to avoid such a crisis, but he would highlight public organizations that could be helpful in doing so.

After giving several global statistics on human water consumption, Bay focused on points to alleviate the issue.

It will be up to future enterprises and institutes like the Robert Daugherty Water for Food Institute to create solutions, Bay said.

E. Robert Meaney, senior vice president at Valmont Industries, spoke at the forum about water issues in Nebraska and globally.

“The Ogallala Aquifer is subject to depletion as are many others,” Meaney said.

Meaney said regions around the world have great needs

One of the most surprising things I heard was the need for agricultural commodities that will encourage investment around the world.

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for water due to large populations and industrial uses for production.

Bay also said low profitability of farming and agriculture is related to the crisis.

The price of agricultural commodities is necessary to feed the world and food will take over a large share of consumer spending in the future, he said.

“To produce the food we need, huge investments in all kinds of elements in rural infrastructure will be critical,” Bay said. “It will be necessary to pay for the advancement of agriculture, despite slightly higher commodity prices.”

Michael McKinney, an environmental engineering graduate student, found this statement both controversial and insightful.

“I’ve heard a lot good things about the forum,” McKinney said. “One of the most surprising things I heard was the need for agricultural commodities that will encourage investment around the world.”

James Specht, a professor of agronomy and horticulture, was interested in the agricultural commodities aspect of the presentation.

“The U.S. will provide a lot

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Bill could restart pipeline review Natural Resources Committee hears testimony on Keystone XL bill dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan

Despite a presidential permit denial last month, the Keystone XL pipeline proposal hasn’t died yet, and now one Nebraska state senator wants the state government to continue exploring and evaluating potential routes for the project through the state.

Since President Barack Obama’s rejection of developer TransCanada’s proposal in January, the Keystone XL, which would connect the oil sands of Canada to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico, has become the eye of a political hurricane in Washington.

Though Obama left the door open for reapplication, the Republican presidential hopefuls have made the project a major campaign issue and Congressional Republicans, including the

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delegation from Nebraska, are looking at several options to force the pipeline’s approval.

They point to the several thousand temporary jobs that the project would bring and say allowing oil from a friendly neighbor to go on the world market would help the country’s energy security.

But Republicans haven’t decided how they’ll tackle the issue and the likelihood of their plan passing a Democratic Senate and White House for now appears remote. The political uncertainty has left Nebraskan officials, who joined the federal review process after a legislative special session late last year, in a legal noman’s land for weeks.

“Unfortunately, we could not anticipate the circumstances and actions at the federal level (since then),” said Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion while introducing LB 1161 to his colleagues on the Natural Resources Committee. “I believe it is very important for the state of Nebraska to continue to move forward.”

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Nebraska State Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion explains his bill to the Natural Resources Committee Thursday afternoon.

The bill, LB 1161, would allow Nebraska to continue its part of the Keystone XL pipeline review process while Congress is tied up in a partisan battle.

Smith’s proposal is an amendment of two bills that came from last October’s special session of the legislature, which was called in the face of widespread pressure within Nebraska.

One, LB 4, dealt with the Keystone proposal and was a compromise in good

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Parking and Transit fee proposal divides ASUN Emily Nitcher Daily Nebraskan

The ASUN Committee for Fees Allocation remained divided on the approved Parking and Transit budget in its last meeting of the year.

The committee was looking at the big picture for all Fund B fee users, which includes Campus Recreation, Parking and Transit, University Health Center and Nebraska Unions.

Parking and Transit was the only fee user asking for an increase in student fees.

All other Fund B members requested either the same amount in student fees or a decrease.

The Parking and Transit fee increase was passed by CFA on Feb. 9 by a vote of 8-5. Parking and Transit was granted its full request of $707,823 at the meeting, which increases student fees by $5.90 per semester.

Senior nutrition and health sciences major and CFA member Sarah Wilson proposed an amendment during Thursday’s meeting. Wilson said she felt it would be a solution to a tumultuous issue for the

committee.

Wilson’s proposed amendment would have split the Parking and Transit increase in half between the capital replacement fund and student fees and would have allocated $559,912 to Parking and Transit.

The amendment needed a two-thirds vote to bring it to the floor for discussion. It failed to receive the votes needed and was not discussed.

Chris Seidholz, senior mathematics, economics and music major, was one of the CFA members to vote against discussing the proposed amendment.

“I voted down the amendment because I still stand by our first decision,” Seidholz said. “All the problems from the old amendment still exist in the new one.”

Nolan Johnson, junior management major and CFA chair, voted to open the amendment up for discussion.

“I’m frustrated that half the committee shot down the opportunity to decrease student fees,” Johnson said. “When someone

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wants to speak their opinion and aren’t allowed to, that’s disappointing as a chair.”

The committee then voted on approving the big picture for Fund B fee users, which passed with a vote of 6-4.

As it stands, Fund B could increase student fees by 5.8 percent.

ASUN will vote on Fund B allocations on Feb. 29.

Johnson, who is also an ASUN senator, said the Feb. 29 ASUN meeting “should be interesting.”

This was the final CFA meeting of the semester and Johnson was satisfied with the decisions made this semester.

“I think we did a fantastic job,” he said. “The university is going to change, (it) is projected to change rapidly and we focused not only on current students, but future students as well.”

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UNL professor opens AIDS clinic in Zambia heather haskins daily Nebraskan

Arguably the most iconic representation of the AIDS virus in popular culture came in the 1993 film “Philadelphia,” in which the protagonist’s purple and red skin lesions play a pivotal role in the film’s narrative.

These lesions are known as Kaposi’s sarcoma, a cancer closely associated with AIDS that causes a variation of herpes.

Kaposi’s sarcoma intrigued Charles Wood, director of the Nebraska Center for Virology and professor of biochemistry and biological sciences, to start a clinic in Zambia to treat HIV, AIDS and Kaposi’s sarcoma. Wood travels to Zambia three times a year.

The clinic is funded by the U.S. government and other international agencies, and as money becomes a concern for Western economies and the clinic, Wood said the introduction of the treatment centers has made a large impact.

“People were dying left and right because there was no treatment,” he said. “Now we see there is really hope.

People are taking drugs and they are healthier and living longer.”

Patients with HIV and AIDS come to Wood’s clinic for free treatment, which involves injections of drugs that target HIV and keep the virus in check.

“Unfortunately if you get (HIV or AIDS) you are infected for life,” Wood said. “(The treatment) keeps the virus dormant so your body can be maintained in good health.”

Wood stressed the importance of continuing to use treatment diligently,

Charles Wood minimizing the risk of creating a strain of viruses that is resistant to treatment.

A Feb. 10 NET Television documentary featured Woods, his clinic and the stories of hope derived from his efforts. In the documentary, one man, who is HIV positive and blind, sings about his gratitude and his dream to help the orphans of Zambia when he becomes rich. Another patient, a woman with swollen legs in hospice for an AIDS-related virus, remains hopeful that she will one day walk again.

Veenu Minhas, a postdoctoral research associate, has worked with Wood for 11 years and has been to his clinic in Zambia twice. Her job was to help train workers

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in Zambia and make sure that the clinic was being run using the correct protocol.

“It shows the more human side of science,” she said. “We are sometimes so involved in the science part of things and that documentary showed the human side of things.”

Minhas had Wood as her doctoral adviser and now works with him. She spoke about his encouraging attitude toward students.

“He advises you when you need it and he lets you explore things on your own,” she said. “He supports you in building up your own ideas. He is a good mentor.” heatherhaskins@ dailynebraskan.com

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A lab technician tests a petri dish for a culture sample on bacteria. anymore.

“We’ve crammed things into every nook and cranny,” Doster said. “There’s no room for us to expand.

We just don’t have any place to go. Our system is packed beyond its means.”

With barely enough room for current equipment, purchasing new equipment for the building isn’t possible. The ventilation is taxed beyond its means also.

“If you did an autopsy back here, you can often smell it throughout the whole building,” Doster said. “Especially on a hot, July day.”

A variety of packages with specimens come into the VDC every day, along with dead animals.

“You don’t know what’s in them,” Hardin said. “It could be all different types of microorganisms … some can be contagious to people.”

A new facility is needed to fix the issues at the

VDC, which will make the accreditation process smoother and less stressful. Without a new facility, loss of accreditation will follow, making it difficult to retain the highly-trained specialists working at the VDC, Hardin said.

Doster estimated 25 people are currently employed at the center, which is a foundation for the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. A loss of accreditation would deny students important hands-on experience, Doster said.

As the only veterinary diagnostic center in Nebraska, clients would have to turn to out-of-state facilities to receive answers.

And the farther away they have to go, the longer the response time is, Hardin said.

There are some tests the VDC doesn’t perform and material is sent to the federal lab in Ames, Iowa, which can cost the lab a couple

of days, Doster said.

“Many times our clients can walk in at 8 a.m. and, depending on the test, they can have the answer by 4 in the afternoon,” Doster said.

The facility is a state-wide resource that serves all segments.

“It’s difficult to name a segment in society it wouldn’t impact,” Hardin said. “From the work we do with food safety to even our education research programs … the lab contributes to those.”

Hardin said if the legislature does not vote and pass the bill, UNL will just have to return next year with a new bill proposal. He couldn’t speculate if the legislature would vote for the bill.

“I’ll leave that up to the elected officials,” Hardin said. “They’re going to do their very best … I’m confident that they’re going to do the very best job.” franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

Sandhills, a groundwaterrich and ecologically delicate region that stretches across much of the state.

The other bill, LB 1, laid out a similar process for all future pipelines.

After Keystone XL became legally dead, the question became which law applies now. Smith’s bill would cut through the question by separating the DEQ’s efforts from the guidance of the U.S. State Department, which could be kicked out of the review process by a hostile Congress.

“We want to modify (the bills) so the DEQ can continue down the path they were going,” Smith told the committee, pointing to the likelihood of TransCanada taking Obama’s offer and trying again. “This legislation is to make certain that Nebraska has provided the very best information if that comes about.”

Smith’s fellow committee members and several citizens who testified in both support and opposition agreed with his frustration with the federal government.

“I’m angry with people on the federal level for screwing around with what we did,” said Sen. Ken Haar, whose district is just north of Lincoln. “I have no faith in that process now.”

Representatives of TransCanada and the DEQ testified in support of Sen.

Smith’s proposal.

“We are ready to resume our engagement with the DEQ,” said Robert Jones, who oversees the Keystone pipeline network.

Mike Linder, the DEQ’s director, said the state review process had been ready to go when Obama’s decision and its aftermath brought the DEQ’s work to a standstill.

“The proposed legislation would give the DEQ the (necessary) flexibility,” Linder said, adding that the department’s consultants were “poised” to rejoin the process.

But several Nebraskans, both on and off the committee, questioned the need for the bill. Sen. Annette Dubas of Fullerton, Neb., said the very uncertainty that inspired the bill made it unwise to forge ahead. Haar also asked the TransCanada officials for assurance that a new application would still go around the Sandhills.

Others were more blunt, saying the bill did nothing but make the review process easier for the pipeline giant.

“The only spirit in this room is the ghost of pipeline past,” said Ben Gotschall, energy director for the political group Bold Nebraska and a rancher from northern Nebraska. He was playing on several references in the hearing to the “spirit” of the special session’s agreement, which Smith said

guided his bill.

“If we start doing political favors for TransCanada, where does it stop?”

Gotschall asked.

Bold Nebraska joined more than 30 other political and environmental groups earlier this week in circulating a petition against Congressional efforts to push the pipeline through. In 24 hours, the coalition reported about 770,000 people had signed the petition.

That effort reflects a shift in the pipeline’s opposition.

In Nebraska it largely came from conservative landowners, ranchers, farmers and environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club, that protested the risk of oil spills and the pollution of mining and consuming Canadian tar sands oil. Now that the controversy has reached a national scale, the environmental concerns have become more prominent.

Smith insisted his bill didn’t extend to a debate on fossil fuels or the pipeline itself, but some opponents wouldn’t hear it.

“You have not respected the voices of the Nebraskan people,” said Mary Pipher, a nationally known psychologist, author and speaker who lives in Lincoln. “It appears to me … this committee in particular has spent its year concerned about the well-being of TransCanada.” danholtmeyer@ dailynebraskan.com

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Phishers catch students, faculty Sophisticated email scams target university maren westra daily nebraskan

Phishing scammers commandeer email accounts to use as spam-sending hosts.

They steal information from computers and deceive users by instructing them to “log in” to websites that are actually fraudulent.

Michael Rasmussen, a freshman electrical engineering major, had to change his Facebook password because of a successful hack. His parents once received a spam email from what they believed was their bank. They clicked on a link and lost $1,000.

Recently this trickery has permeated University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty and student email accounts.

Emails impersonating UNL departments have been sent to students and faculty. Some of the spam email formats can be viewed at is.unl.edu/phishing/, a site where recipients of suspicious emails can upload what they have received to warn others.

Mark Askren, Information Service’s chief information officer, said scam artists will use campus logos and spoof campus events to make email recipients trust them.

Just because an email shows a trusted logo, UNL security officer Rick Haugerud said, doesn’t mean the source is valid.

“The key thing to understand is that there shouldn’t be any legitimate requests that come from UNL that ask them to enter their username and password to get anything,” Haugerud said.

According to Haugerud, anyone with an email address who signs up for something online is a potential phishing victim.

“It’s intended to take you to a page,” Haugerud said, “and typically you’ve got to do something on the page (to be hacked).”

Spam and phishing emails have become more sophisticated recently, Haugerud said. Since the start of 2012, spam emails look more legitimate than ever, he added.

He’s not the only person who has noticed more authentic-looking phishing schemes.

“I think (the emails) are becoming more specific, and I’ve seen this at other universities as well,” Askren said.

Askren suggests students check the return address of emails to see if they are valid, because long, unfamiliar addresses are warning signs that the email is a fake.

Askren’s strategy for avoiding hackers is to never click a link in an email, even if it does appear to be 100 percent official. For example, if he were to get an email from PayPal, a trusted site that he uses, he would open a new window and go the PayPal website instead of clicking on a link.

Haugerud said that all

UNL students and staff should know that the university will never ask them to make account changes or upgrades through an email.

“We’re not going to send someone a link and ask them to sign into something based on a security (issue) or a full inbox,” he said. “We just wouldn’t ask you to do that.”

Kyle Brown, a sophomore broadcasting major, said he used to fall for scams too.

Brown said he clicked links promising free products, and once downloaded fake spyware. Brown said the scams he fell victim to occurred when he was younger and were oriented more toward infecting computers with viruses than stealing information.

Askren, however, said that computer threats have evolved from viruses to phishing attempts. According to him, the most common motive is to use stolen login information to access a person’s email and spam the contacts of that person.

Haugerud said they sometimes go beyond this, however, by tracking a user’s movement on their computer. He said if hackers get the login information for someone’s email and then see what banking or social media websites that person uses, they can apply the information they have to those sites and hack people that way.

“They get a little bit and they just build on it,” Haugerud said.

Haugerud also said

dn flashback Palladian Valentine party Feb. 17, 1902 The Palladians met at their annual valentine party last Thursday evening at the home of D.D. Stull, 3228 R St. The evening’s amusements were varied and entertaining. When a number of dainty paper hearts were distributed no one knew what was coming. The purpose of the hearts, however, soon became evident. On one side of the heart was the name of a person and on the other side five numbers, opposite which were to be written the answers to five questions concerning the person whose name was on the front.

Much amusement was afforded by the variety and originality of these answers.

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hackers sometimes have a person’s information for months before using it so that person doesn’t realize what is happening.

According to Askren, “the threat has escalated.”

To help protect students, UNL provides all current students and staff with free antivirus web security from Sophos.

“I think it’s important that we continue our outreach efforts to make sure our students, as well as our faculty and staff, are aware of these anti-virus programs,” Askren said.

Haugerud advised students who believe they may have fallen for a phishing attempt to immediately change their passwords and check all their accounts to make sure they haven’t been compromised.

He said it’s “almost impossible” to catch the people who initiate these schemes, but that by being diligent, users can protect themselves.

For preventative measure, Askren reminded students that Information Services will never ask for anyone’s user ID or password. He said if someone receives an unexpected request, it is always wise to question its validity.

“If in doubt, call our help center,” Askren said.

Book store fire Feb. 17, 1905 Fire in the University Book store last night destroyed about three-fourth of the stock. The origin is unknown and the fire had been smoldering for some time when discovered.

By prompt action of the fire department the damage was confined to the rear end of the store where a large stock of new books had just been placed. The remainder of the stock was damaged considerably by smoke and water.

The stock is owned by D.B. Gilbert and R.C. Phillips and was partly insured. Damage to the store building was slight as the fire did not get much headway.

First call has been issued for baseball Feb. 17, 1910 The first call for baseball men has been issued by Coach Carroll and Captain Greenslit. Every ball player in the university, freshman as well as upper classmen, are urged to come out to this meeting. It will be held tonight at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house at 8 o’clock.

The prospects are that the largest squad in the history of the university will be on hand when practice starts. Cage work will probably be begun in the gym Friday. The gym will be fitted with new wire and netting to allow as many to practice at once as possible.

Receive diplomas Feb. 17, 1914 The annual mid-winter graduation exercises of the University of Nebraska were held at the St. Paul’s Church last night. Forty-five degrees and six military commissions were conferred by Chancellor Avery upon an exceptionally large graduating class.

Mr. Charles Hodgdon, University architect, gave an illustrated address on “College Architecture.” Views of buildings on the Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Minnesota, Princeton and other campuses were shown. Princeton was represented as having some of the finest school buildings and grounds in the United States. Campus plans of some of the western universities, such as Chicago, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin, were shown. Their good and poor points were brought out in comparison with the seven different proposed plans for a Nebraska campus. Plans have been prepared for separate City and Farm campuses, for an extended City campus with Twelfth street closed, as well as a plan with Twelfth street left open.

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A college lecture is a simple example, he said.

“It reinforces that life is a monologue, and you’re supposed to sit down and shut up,” Paterson said.

Some monologues, such as parental influence over children to keep them safe, can be a good thing, he added, but true to form, his workshop will completely avoid that strategy.

The theater group allows people to confront those monologues and convert them to dialogues – conversations through which power and thoughts can flow, he said.

The theater’s connection to Occupy Lincoln and the broader Occupy Wall Street movement is clear.

The protest, which began last September and spread across the U.S. and world, coalesced from widespread anger toward the perceived unequal influence of corporations and the wealthy over politics and the government – or as Paterson might say, the monologue of wealth.

“The system in which we live isn’t really designed for individuals to claim the power we have,” said Jeffrey Eggerss, a sophomore communications and international studies major. He credits fellow Occupy Lincoln member Nick Svoboda, a teacher and musician, with reaching out to Paterson for the event. “Money is one of the key players in anything,” he said.

Paterson pointed to banks in particular as having an inordinate amount of influence in society.

“We interrogate that. Anything that has power like that, we ask questions,” he said.

And while it deals with a serious topic, it’s not called

“Theatre of the Depressed,” Paterson pointed out with a laugh.

“The first thing about TO workshops is they’re fun,” he said.

Saturday’s workshop comes at a time of transition for Occupy Wall Street.

Occupy Lincoln is one of the few branches of the movement that still has a campsite, a physical reminder on Centennial Mall of the income disparities that brought about the protest.

But even that camp is nearing its end, as the city has ordered the campers to disperse by March 1 to make way for the mall’s renovation this summer.

Dana Garrison, a junior agricultural education major who often serves as an unofficial Occupy Lincoln spokeswoman, said discussions with the city on the date were ongoing.

Nationwide and in Lincoln, protesters are refocusing on housing troubles in their communities, laws to limit money’s political power and education.

Paterson has brought similar workshops to locations on every continent but Antarctica and believes the theater’s dependence on the participants is the key to the movement’s worldwide reach.

“Anybody can do this,” he said. “It becomes continually more and more public.

People use this tool.”

But more than anything, Paterson added, it’s fun.

The founder of “Theatre of the Oppressed,” Augusto Boal, gathered games from around the world, and these games are how the theater will begin Saturday, Paterson said.

“What the games are designed to do is show us how good we are

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E. Robert Meaney, left, and Mogens C. Bay speak at the E.N. Thompson Forum at the Lied Center Thursday evening. The topic for the night was “Is a Global Water Crisis Avoidable?”

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Doug Paterson at (dialogue),” he said. “(They) get to know each other, not touchy-feely, but as people solving problems together.”

The theater then moves to scenarios of oppression out of day-to-day life, which could be as mundane as a casually racist joke or a professor and student who never figured out how to communicate through the

power gap.

“It makes it real,” Garrison said. “It comes back to apathy, too … It brings it up so you can’t ignore it.”

“It’s about teaching action,” Paterson said. “The oppressed need to see a world that is changeable, malleable, and (that) they can do that.”

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of the innovation that’s necessary for the production of infrastructure that other developing countries need but don’t have,” Specht said.

Specht gave a pre-lecture on the importance of continuing the engineering and improvement of water delivery systems irrigation. He emphasized that humans need water for the crops for food, fuel and fiber.

“So we must think locally and act locally,” Specht said, “to ensure continued creation of the needed scientific innovation and technology, when coupled with human know-how, can be applied globally.”

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correction A Feb. 15 article regarding NU Regent Chuck Hassebrook’s announcement to run for the U.S. Senate incorrectly stated that he is the only Democrat running for the open seat.

Democrats Steven Paul Lustgarten, Larry Marvin and Sherman Yates have filed to be candidates in the Senate race.

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Prem Paul, the university’s vice chancellor of research and economic development, attended as well. He expressed pride in the contribution the university has with the issue.

“We have a great talent in this faculty and the students to contribute to this global issue through the Water for Food Institute,” Paul said.

Before the lecture ended, Bay said, “Now if I was a youth today and I was contemplating a discipline to pursue, I can’t think of a more important issue to work on.” westonpoor@ dailynebraskan

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Reasons abound to stop government ventures and let private sector handle space exploration

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WANT YOU … To help me build a colony on the moon!

Here’s why: In 1941, Henry Luce proclaimed the 1900s would be remembered as the “American Century.” By most objective standards, he was correct. Our nation was the wealthiest, boasted the strongest military, had the best schools and was liberal democracy’s great counterweight to communism.

The first 12 years of this century, however, have sucked.

This century has featured terrorist attacks, constant war and financial meltdowns across the world. For the first time since the 1970s, people can fairly question whether their life prospects will be better than those of their parents.

Unless the world ends in December (per those pesky Mayans and their calendars), there’s plenty of time to improve this century. Luckily, we have visionary leaders such as Newton “Leroy” Gingrich, who want America to go the basics.

By basics, I mean space. After all, we beat the Soviets into space, right? Some say the reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union was complex geopolitical realities and overstretched military spending.

That’s hogwash. All “Real Americans” know the Soviet Union ended because Ronald Reagan beat up Mikhail Gorbachev at 200 miles in alti-

tude.

We bested everyone once in space. Why not go back to where we’re the best?

To fix our problems, let’s build a colony on the moon.

After dealing with the Decepticons on the dark side of the moon, we might even be able to paint the entire moon with the American flag.

As soon as it’s up and running, let’s send a man to Mars. Before you know it, we’ll be discovering Endor and Tatooine.

Only these great projects can restore American confidence and assure our people that we’re the best.

Now, I know this might

justin green sound like a bad idea to some of you lesser mortals. In the spirit of my infinite wisdom, I’m going to preemptively answer a few questions that you’re all sure to have: Q: Don’t we have better things to spend our time on than building a colony on the moon?

A: No. Our nation’s government is not in 15 trillion dollars of debt. Our economy is fundamentally sound. Our government treats all citizens according to their rights and with a basic sense of respect for their dignity. What better things could we have to work on than a sweet colony on the moon?

Also, money isn’t a problem because it literally grows on Mars.

Q: In “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century” they have working electric cars, sweet shuttles that take people easily into space, an amazing space station, and awesome technology. Will building a moon colony

help us get there faster?

A: Yes. Just as giving away basic freedoms like the right to due process or habeas corpus keeps Americans safe, building a moon colony is the only way to ensure that we can have sweet technology as soon as possible.

I’ll go a step further and say that only a moon colony will ensure that we have an iPhone 10 by 2020.

Unless the government decides to do something, nothing is possible. Thank the good Lord we have political leaders like Newt Gingrich with the vision

required to think up big ideas for our country.

Stop.

I hope you realized the satirical nature of this piece before you saw the Star Wars references.

Space is the final frontier, but we don’t need to have it explored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

There is ample reason for private entities to explore space. You don’t have to be a science fiction fan to appreciate the scientific advances special exploration would encourage.

Better yet, the

American public doesn’t have to pay to see them.

Politicians like to say the rich don’t pay their fair share. That may be the case, but it’s far from the whole story. The basic reality of government is the middle class ends up paying for projects they don’t need. A bunch of lawyers in Washington, D.C., decide they want to do something and the cost can be damned.

That might work when the economy’s booming, unemployment’s low and other nations are still recovering from World War II. It doesn’t work when Brazil, India and China are rapidly growing.

There was an excellent time to explore space. It was called the Cold War. I don’t believe we need to beat al-Qaida or Iran to the moon anytime soon.

If the benefits of exploring space make sense, someone will explore space. If the benefits aren’t good, there’s no need to explore.

Leave government to mess up the Earth. They do a good enough job of that for us all.

justin green is a senior political science and history major. he blogs at huskerred.tumblr. com. reach him at justingreen@ dailynebraskan.com.

NASA programs prove inefficient and costly; require reworking to bring back glory days

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’m pro-space exploration. That doesn’t mean I’m pro-National Aeronautics and Space Administration and it certainly doesn’t mean I approve of the 2013 budget NASA announced on Feb. 13.

As a fiscal conservative, I believe there are very few things government can do that private enterprise cannot do better. Space travel has long been an exclusively governmental project, but business entrepreneurs have begun to change that reality.

The private company, Mojave Aerospace Ventures, launched

SpaceShipOne in 2004 and similar commercial space flights are attracting investors from around the globe. In the face of a burgeoning private space industry, NASA is swiftly becoming

less relevant, and its $17.7 billion request should significantly

be reduced.

At the same time, I also recognize NASA is one of the most popular programs run by the U.S. government, right up there with Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and welfare. There’s no political pressure to shut down NASA from either side of the aisle.

Even the anti-spending Tea Party rarely focuses its ire on America’s space program. The very thought of NASA evokes images of American ingenuity and patriotism, of giant leaps for mankind and beating the Soviets to the moon.

benjamin kantack We must come to terms with the fact that NASA will be around for at least the next few years. But today’s NASA is not the same as the romanticized NASA of the past.

In the good old days, John F. Kennedy gave the United States a deadline of 1971 to get to the moon and NASA responded — two years early. Nowadays, NASA is forced to scrap two Mars missions in order to pay for the James Webb Space Telescope, which is $5.2 billion dollars over budget and four years behind schedule.

The NASA of the 60s was a focused enterprise with a singular goal, a strict definition of success and a motivation to compete with the Soviet Union. Today’s NASA is diversified to the point that it has no central goal and no measurement of success. With no competitors to race, the organization has become complacent.

NASA is no longer a galvanizing force of national pride. Simply put, we’re not getting the same bang for our buck and our national coffers have too few

bucks to spend frivolously. How can we make it worth our while?

The first step is to examine NASA’s proposed 2013 budget and acknowledge what ought to be changed.

A good place to start is the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. The original OCO satellite crashed. Now we have OCO-2 in orbit, and NASA’s new budget calls for funding an OCO-3. The purpose of all these OCO satellites is to study the effects — which we already know — of carbon dioxide on the Earth’s atmosphere.

This knowledge has not translated into public policy and further evidence is unlikely to spur any more action to combat CO2 emissions. Continuing to operate OCO-2 is not cost-effective and building OCO-3 would double the amount of money spent on what amounts to an

ineffectual project.

Another budget item that should be cause for concern is “Astro-H,” a proposed X-ray telescope scheduled to launch in 2014. NASA has requested tax dollars be set aside to develop and build parts for this telescope.

This sounds great, until one considers that Astro-H is a Japanese satellite which will be owned and operated

by Japan’s space program.

Japan should use its own well-established space program to design and manufacture the necessary parts.

NASA also ought to take a hard line on boondoggles like the James Webb Space Telescope. Naturally NASA can’t refund the $3.5 billion it’s already blown on the telescope, but it could at least fire or demote the project managers and establish a culture of rewarding success and punishing failure.

Additionally, a great way to save money is to stop devoting so much attention to manned missions. We tend to think of Neil Armstrong on the moon as the epitome of NASA’s success and imagine putting a man on Mars to be the next big thing. But ask any modernday astronomer and they’ll tell you that unmanned missions can teach us just as much as manned missions for a fraction of the cost.

Dropping a rover on Mars isn’t as exciting as dropping a person there, but it’s much more reasonably priced and just as scientifically valuable.

These are all ways in which NASA could cut back on what it does.

But one extremely valuable project NASA could undertake is “Brilliant Pebbles.” We’re constantly reminded of the ever-present threat of Iran gaining nuclear weapons and of other potentially hostile nuclear powers. Brilliant Pebbles could provide a preventative network of small satellites capable of stopping ballistic missiles (including nuclear warheads) from threatening the United States or its allies.

For about twice the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope – which would only allow us to look at pretty things far away — America could have Brilliant Pebbles — which would pay huge national security, foreign policy and diplomatic dividends, virtually squelching the threat of nuclear terrorism.

NASA can be great again, if it avoids ineffective and wasteful programs and focuses on protecting America from its foes.

benjamin kantack is a senior political science and spanish major. he tweets at @benjaminkantack and can be reached at benjaminkantack@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Renowned Strivers Row Poets to bring intense, dynamic poetry showcase to Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center

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he Strivers Row Poets have been featured on HBO, PBS, NBC and ESPN. Members of their group have performed at renowned venues across the country including the Apollo Theater, the Smithsonian Museum and the White House for President Obama’s “Evening of Poetry and Music.”

Tonight they’re performing in the Unity Room at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.

The seven poets of Strivers Row have accomplished enough to warrant a lifetime of success, yet the two oldest members of their group are just 23 years old. But don’t mistake their youth for naivety. The Strivers Row Poets are a highly intellectual group that includes graduate students from Yale and Princeton.

The East Coast poetry collective has been performing as a group for less than two years, but each poet achieved some manner of individual success before they teamed up to form their spoken word supergroup. Now they perform together on a weekly basis and it’s safe to say that the Strivers Row Poets have created a strong bond with one another.

“We’re like a family,” said Miles Hodges, a 21-year-old Strivers Row poet. “We’re all Jasmine Mans

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connected in terms of how much we love spending time with each other and performing. We’re about showing love, being who we are and expressing ourselves in an honest way.”

Widely recognized as masters of spoken word, The Strivers Row Poets do a lot more than simply recite poetry. Their shows incorporate drama and music along with storytelling and raw emotion. They’re known for their passionate conviction and use of intense imagery to bring their poetry to life, in the hopes of entrancing their audience in the process.

“What’s special about spoken word is that it adds a bit of performance,” Hodges said.

“As a performer you have the opportunity to really convey your own truth and have some kind of control on how it’s perceived.”

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students can thank the University Program Council for putting this event together. UPC has been vying for a Strivers Row performance since last fall and they’re anticipating an entertaining show for everyone.

“I definitely think this event is something that all students can enjoy,” said Peter Bock,

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It’s been a long time since Nebraska has seen the funk, blues, rock and afrobeat stylings of saxophonist and bandleader Karl Denson.

Omaha fans haven’t seen him since his “cowboy hat phase.”

“I was wearing a cowboy hat every night on stage,” Denson said. “I actually bought a few really nice cowboy hats in Omaha.”

Denson’s been around the music industry long enough to have gone through the hat phase, as well as a “brightly colored pants phase,” but fans can expect to see him in rock and roll jeans and a black shirt when he comes to the Slowdown this Saturday night with his band, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe.

Most recently KDTU has been touring across the country, playing their multigenre music, as well as tributes to the Beastie Boys and the Rolling Stones. KDTU is teaming up Saturday with rock artist Anders Osborne

to play the famed Stones album “Sticky Fingers” in its entirety.

While organizing the tour last year, Denson and his manager talked about covering an album with a prominent saxophone and flute and they mulled over the idea for a year before settling on “Sticky Fingers.”

“The first idea was Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ because of the flute,” Denson said. “But we realized that wouldn’t probably translate to as many people. We wanted a band that would cross over a lot more demographics and the Stones made sense.”

Growing up, Denson listened to the Stones, other rock bands and a wide variety of musical genres that he now fuses together in his music. The two most influential were jazz and funk.

“As a kid, I listened to James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery: stuff like that,” Denson said.

His musical interests broadened even more in college. As a music major at California State University, Long Beach, he was introduced to classical music.

“I try to listen to stuff that I haven’t heard before,” Denson said. “Every once

If you go Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe w/Anders Osborne where: Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., Omaha when: Saturday, 9 p.m. how much: $22 (in advance), $25 (day of show) in awhile you find some nice old jams out there and it turns you on to different things.”

After college his music career took off when he was asked to be a member of Lenny Kravitz’s band.

He helped Kravitz record “Let Love Rule” in 1989 and stayed in the band for four years.

“I had been doing some recordings with Lenny for a couple of years when he was living in L.A. before I got the gig,” Denson said. “So when he moved to New York and started working on that record, he called me to record with him.”

In the early 1990s, Denson began receiving more recognition and started making his own records. He began making music with DJ Greyboy in 1993 and the two created

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tom helberg Sam Rockwell, as one critic put it, may often be relegated to playing the “colorful sidekick.” But there’s just about no other actor working today that plays that kind of part better.

The actor’s first big supporting role in the mainstream was in “Galaxy Quest” (1999), a brilliant parody and homage to “Star Trek” and its devoted fanbase. Rockwell plays an actor who appeared in only one episode of the titular sci-fi show. He was part of an away team to a planet and was promptly killed off, a reference to the “redshirts” who always died first on the original “Star Trek.” Rockwell is very funny as a sniveling actor who fears for his life once the characters make their way to outer space, thinking that fiction will imitate reality.

Another notable role for the actor was in Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (2007).

Rockwell plays Charley Ford, a member of James’ (Brad Pitt) gang and cousin to Robert Ford (Casey Affleck). Rockwell holds his own among the strong ensemble that also includes Sam Shepard and Jeremy Renner.

But Rockwell’s crowning achievement may very well be his role in Duncan Jones’ “Moon” (2009). The actor plays astronaut Sam

Bell, the film’s lead, who is a miner stationed on a large moon base. He oversees a mining operation for Helium-3, an element that in the future has solved earth’s energy crisis. However, without direct human contact for the duration of his three year contract, Sam begins to lose his grip on reality. As he is finally about to travel back to earth, he makes an alarming discovery.

Rockwell’s performance is marvelous and he plays nearly the whole gamut of human emotion from multiple personalities. He picked up a few best actor awards at film festivals, but he was robbed of an Oscar nomination for the 2010 awards. Rockwell shares much of his screen time with himself. I won’t give away how or why he has dual parts, but I can say that it never resorts to gimmickry. Sam’s dueling personalities are essential to the film’s themes of personal growth and the fragility of life. Rockwell deftly plays each man uniquely, yet they always maintain potent interconnections.

Other humans are hardly even in the film, except on monitors or in dreams. This is Sam’s turf and seeing anyone else on it would feel wrong. Luckily the only other entity he speaks with is the Hal-like computer GERTY (Kevin Spacey). This is Rockwell’s film and he carries it with ease.

More recently Rockwell appeared in “Iron Man 2”

(2010) a s Justin H a m m e r , a man w h o fancies himself to be an equal Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). He is similarly wealthy and owns his own defense company, but he lacks the charm or character of Stark. Rockwell’s best scene is when he takes the stage at the Stark Expo, mirroring a scene with Downey in the beginning of the film.

He manages a poor imitation of Stark’s swagger and stage presence and the scene is painful to watch yet very funny. “Iron Man 2” is a scattershot sequel, but Rockwell is one of the best parts of it.

Other notable parts include turns in George Clooney’s directorial debut

poets: from 5 the Diversity and Education Committee Chair for UPC. “It’s a unique, cool event that really doesn’t happen a whole lot.”

Tonight’s show will be the first time UPC and the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center have teamed up to host an event, according to UPC Public Relations Chair Matt Heng.

UPC hopes this will mark the beginning of a collaborative relationship between the two groups.

“We would like to incorporate them as much as possible into our events because we think it’s a really cool resource,” Bock said. “The Strivers Row is perfect for the Multicultural Center because it pretty much embodies what they’re all about.”

The Multicultural Center is a fitting venue for the group of fiery poets, who speak out against racism and disrespect.

The artists derive a lot of their motivation and poetic content from today’s prominent social issues. Hodges and his peers aim for a truly inspiring experience with each performance, trying to tear down social boundaries with their words alone.

“We’re against all racism, point blank,” Hodges said.

“We’re against all classist

if you go The Strivers Row Poets when: Friday, 7:30 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room how much: Free (students w/valid NCard), $5 (public) ideologies. We’re against dishonesty in the political spectrum and we’re against all advancements of disrespect.”

Five members of the Strivers Row Poets will appear at UNL this evening. Miles Hodges, Zora Howard, Alysia Harris, Jasmine Mans and Joshua Bennet will put their oratory skill on display for the student body.

The poetry showcase kicks off at 7:30 p.m. in the Unity Room of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. Admission is free for UNL students with a valid NCard and $5 for non-students.

It’s not often that UNL students are privy to the same entertainment as Barack Obama or an Apollo Theater crowd. Friday’s performance from a group of nationallyacclaimed wordsmiths is an exception. jacksampson@ dailynebraskan.com

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“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002) and playing the gonzo captain of a starship in the film adaptation of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (2005).

Though he usually hams it up in minor roles, Rockwell shines in all of them. He has the chops to carry films as well and will hopefully play more leading parts in the future. tom helberg is a senior film studies major. Reach him at Tomhelberg@ dailynebraskan.com.

Film confronts complexities of age “Tomboy” delves into the emotions, absurdities of youth

stones: from 5 the band Greyboy Allstars.

The Greyboy Allstars featured a music style called boogaloo — R&B and soul, mixed with mambo — which was popular in the U.S. in the 1960s. In 1998 Denson founded KDTU and has been leading both bands since.

Denson said KDTU uses more vocals, funk and hip hop in their music than the Greyboy Allstars do, allowing them to cover other bands, like the Rolling Stones.

“Over the life of the band, we’ve probably done about a 40 percent cover ratio,” Denson said. “Most of the time fans don’t recognize them as such, but we definitely draw from other sources.”

“Sticky Fingers” allows the musically-diverse Denson and Osborne — who trades in very pure rock and roll — to work together. They’ve

had many mutual friends throughout the years and finally found a way to play music together.

“He’s a simple rock and roll guy,” said Denson of Osborne. “He reminds me of Neil Young, he’s got his kind of energy. We’ve got two or three more shows in the spring, but who knows what else we’ll do together?”

Word of the concert and KDTU’s prowess as a live act has made its way to the ears of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, as well.

“I’ve been watching videos of the band on YouTube,” said sophomore business administration major Macy Robertson. “I’m getting really excited to see it live.” lindsaymccoy@ dailynebraskan.com

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Before Celine Sciamma’s film begins, the title flashes on the screen in multi-colored flashing letters. “Tomboy.”

If viewers weren’t given this clue, it might be impossible to discern the sex of the 10-year-old protagonist. It isn’t just the plain T-shirt, shorts and cropped blonde hair that makes this difficult. Laure (Zoe Heran), or Mikael, as she’s known to her new friends, has perfected the look, personality and awkward bearings of a pre-teen boy.

There’s much to be said about gender and expectations with this beautifully

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However, not everyone agrees we should mourn the loss of bookstores. In an onair discussion about the relevancy of independent bookstores, Slate Magazine writer Farhad Manjoo told CBC Radio that Amazon’s cheap prices could save literary culture, not destroy it. Manjoo asserted that “if bookstores die, literature will not die with them.”

Still, many brick and mortar businesses find it difficult to compete with web-based outlets because the latter are often more flexible and have lower costs. However, many indie bookstores have thought of using the web as a means of promoting their businesses.

A Novel Idea is one such business. Owner Cinnamon Dokken has found the Facebook page for A Novel Idea bookstore to be a valuable resource. A Novel Idea uses social media to post photos and reviews of books and promote educational resources.

“I was very wary of using Facebook at first because I didn’t want it to be some smarmy marketing scheme that has no soul to it,” Dokken said. “But I’ve been so delighted that it mimics the experience in the shop so well.”

Strangers have utilized the page to lend ideas to one another and share ways for readers to get involved in their literary and educational communities. These sorts of interactions are typical of the Lincoln indie bookstore environment and have been demonstrated online, as well.

“It reminds me that there’s nothing wrong with that medium,” Dokken said. “It all depends on how it’s used.”

On an average day the customers that circulate in and out of the cozy bookstore greet the employees by name and in turn receive the same

treatment. Dokken even practices intricate handshakes with regular customers.

“You’re not going to get this sort of interaction in an online experience,” she said.

And according to recent sales numbers at Lincoln establishments, the idea that independent bookstores are falling out of financial favor with the public could be fallacious.

Both A Novel Idea and Indigo Bridge reported their most profitable holiday seasons ever in 2011 and have continued to prosper since.

While some indie bookstores were threatened by the e-reader craze, many readers still find the need to be able to interact with a physical book.

“People like to be able to see what they’re buying and have it in their hands,” Dokken said. “(They like to) have a conversation about it with a knowledgeable book dealer, pet a cat, listen to some fun music.”

By comparison, customer satisfaction through Amazon is more difficult to achieve because of the lack of human interaction. Dokken said that many people are looking for what they would consider a more old-fashioned kind of service. People like to be able to support stores that contribute to the community. Figures in the Lincoln literary community assert that the notion of bookstores becoming outdated is untrue if the convenience of online service is considered alone.

“In the sense of ‘give me convenience or give me death,’ I guess we are obsolete,” Rymph said. “But in a sense of something that’s culturally important, absolutely not. Culture and community are still important to people and if all we had was Amazon, there would be no such thing as culture and community.” ingridholmquist@ Dailynebraskan.com

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Walking Dead suffers from lifeless “Nebraska” episode relationship with his best friend, Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal), gradually suffers.

Shane appears impulsive and irrational compared to Rick’s level-headed demeanor. In AMC’s weekly poll, 58 percent of viewers voted for Rick to lead their group during a zombie apocalypse, compared to a 10 percent vote for Shane.

Rick also demonstrates a more caring nature than Shane, which may have been what drove him to the bar in a small Southern town to find farm owner, Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson). As Hershel pours himself drink after drink, his honest and raw emotions are revealed. After experiencing the murder of his family and neighbors, Hershel is distraught and viewers can relate to him.

Hershel has finally lost his stone-cold exterior, which is significant.

As Rick does his best to comfort Hershel, Philadelphians Dave and Tony arrive.

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The midseason premiere of AMC’s critically acclaimed zombie drama, “The Walking Dead,” opens with a close-up of former police officer Rick Grimes’ (Andrew Lincoln) pistol. The episode is titled “Nebraska.”

He had just shot the zombified 12-year-old Sophia (Madison Lintz) amid the wails of her mother, Carol Peletier (Melissa Suzanne McBride). Sophia’s death signifies a turning point in the series, as characters mourn not only the loss of another life, but also their loss of humanity. Members of Rick’s group have lost all respect for the undead and are also beginning to lose respect for true human lives.

It’s all about survival now.

While there were few zombie murders in the episode named for our state, there was no lack of drama.

As Rick continues to solidify his role as leader, his

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Georgia in search of safer territory. There are lower populations and more guns in the Midwest, Dave says, which hints toward the minor Nebraska theme in the episode.

Despite producers’ attempts to entice Nebraskans into watching the show, they fell short.

One sentence about our great state is not enough to justify the title of this episode and only misleads viewers.

Although Dave hopes to find safer quarters, he has already begun to face a bitter reality.

“The truth is, there is no way out of this mess,” Dave said. “Just keep going from one pipe dream to the next, praying one of these mindless freaks doesn’t grab a hold of you in your sleep.”

The episode ends with a

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Conditioning propelling Nebraska to 5-1 start J.c. Reid Daily Nebraskan

When the No. 28 Nebraska women’s tennis team was preparing for Washington State this week, there was one aspect in particular that was on head coach Scott Jacobson’s mind – an aspect that has been a key element to NU’s impressive 5-1 start to the season: fitness.

“We’ve been working on our conditioning in practice,” said team captain Mary Weatherholt. “Our workouts during the week have definitely helped us out up to this point.”

F o r the third straight weekend, NU will host a pair of matches weatherholt at the Nebraska Tennis Center. The Huskers will take on Washington State Friday at 12:30 p.m., and will face Miami (Ohio) on Sunday at 1 p.m.

“Our fast start has had quite a bit to do with conditioning,” Jacobson said. “The team has tremendous work ethic in

practice, so when you combine that with fitness, that usually translates into quality weekends.”

So far this season, “quality weekends” have been a common occurrence.

During the past two Saturdays, NU was able to roll over its opponents in backto-back double-headers; matches that kept the Huskers on the court for close to eight straight hours. They defeated Wyoming, Eastern Michigan, Air Force, and Northern Iowa by a total of 27-1.

While Jacobson did acknowledge that proper conditioning played a huge part in Nebraska’s dominant performances, he also pointed out that he can’t take all the credit for NU’s high level of fitness.

“During the fall and winter, we do a tremendous amount of conditioning, but it really depends on the level of physical condition they return in,” he said. “This spring, some players have even done additional workouts on their own time.”

This weekend, however, will be different for Nebraska.

Unlike the past two weekends, NU won’t have to play back-to-back duals and will enjoy a full day of rest in

between Friday’s and Saturday’s matches.

“The team is looking forward to getting that extra day of rest,” Weatherholt said.

Friday’s match with Washington State (7-1) could prove to be something of a challenge for the Huskers. WSU started the season off with a bang, recording wins in its first seven duals. However, that seven-game win streak came to an end on Saturday when No. 44 Sacramento State defeated them 5-2.

“It definitely is a more ideal situation,” Jacobson said.

“The kids are ready for a little break. Not having an eighthour day will be great.”

The Huskers last faced the Cougars in 2005, coming away with a 7-0 victory. Nebraska is 1-1 all-time against Washington State.

When NU faces Miami (2-5) on Sunday, it could potentially be Miami’s second loss to a Big Ten opponent in as much as eight days. Last Saturday, the Red Hawks lost to Indiana 5-2.

So far this season, Miami is 0-2 against opponents ranked inside the ATI Division I Women’s Tennis Rankings, recording losses to No. 18 Vanderbilt and No. 55 Memphis. jcreid@ dailynebraskan.com

NORTHWESTERN: from 10 The bench scored one point all night off of a late free throw by Tear’a Laudermill, shot 0 for 8 and committed eight fouls in 34 combined minutes.

Northwestern was led by the frontcourt duo of Kendall Hackney and Dannielle Diamant, who combined for 36 points and 13 rebounds despite both battling foul trouble throughout the game.

Each Northwestern starting guard earned four assists and the team shot 45.7 percent.

The Huskers lost by 12 despite their prowess on the boards, where they outrebounded the Wildcats by five despite Northwestern

having 20 more defensive rebounding opportunities, as NU players like Hailie Sample (11 rebounds), Hooper (9) and Emily Cady (8) helped the Huskers to 21 offensive rebounds. NU also won the turnover battle by three.

For Hooper, the game just came down to missed shots.

“Our shots weren’t falling pretty much, so we’ve got to work on shooting and we know our shots will fall,” Hooper said. “That’s how I’d sum it up, our shots weren’t falling.”

They have to work on it fast. The Huskers still look good with a 19-6 record, 8-5 in conference play, but need

some wins towards the end of the year. Wisconsin, 3-10 in conference play, comes to Lincoln on Sunday and the game becomes nearly a must-win, as NU’s final two games are at Michigan State (8-5 in conference) and at home against No. 11 Ohio State.

The players know how important Sunday afternoon has become.

“We really need to get a win because we’ve lost three in a row,” Sample said. “We need to fight, we need to come back, so it’s really important.” seanWhalen@ dailynebraskan.com

ward: from 10 Both the Spartans and the Buckeyes are in the upper half of the Big Ten and OSU beat NU already once this season. Nebraska does not want the pressure of beating these two squads to make the tournament. A loss to the Badgers would cause the Huskers concern.

Of course, if the Huskers don’t figure out their offense here soon, the WNIT looks like the more realistic option. andrew ward is a sophomore broadcasting major.

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Ranked Big Ten foes to meet for second time Michelle O’Donnell Daily Nebraskan

The Husker men’s gymnastics team is ready to take on the No. 6 team in the nation after moving up three spots to No. 8.

Nebraska jumped three spots in the rankings from No. 11 to No. 8 this week with a team average of 335.217. But the current rankings are not what head coach Chuck Chmelka is after.

“The only ranking that really matters to me is at the end of the year after conference,” Chmelka said, “because it makes a difference who we actually have to compete against in the NCAA prelims. But it is nice when we move up.”

NU will travel to Minneapolis this Saturday to face the Minnesota Golden Gophers for the second time in two weeks. Last weekend the Huskers fell to the Golden Gophers 340.00336.500 in the Big Ten Conference opener.

“They got such a big lead on us early,” Chmelka said.

“There weren’t enough events to let us catch up, and we’re an end team.”

Last weekend the Huskers started off with a few mistakes on pommel horse, while Minnesota started off strong.

“We need to start strong on pommel horse this weekend,” Chmelka said.

“If we start strong I know we’ll do well.”

The Huskers have used this past week to put a lot of emphasis on pommel horse, working especially hard on dismounts which have been earning NU too many deductions at the past few meets.

“Every day we’ve been working on dismounts,” Chmelka said. “We lost a lot of points on them and to start off strong we need fewer deductions.”

Freshman Hayden Henrioulle recognizes the two spot gap in the rankings, but is looking forward to playing Minnesota again after this week’s practices.

“They’re ranked higher than us,” Henrioulle said.

“And it was really cool that we kind of closed the gap last week, so it’s going to be interesting to see if we can hold them this week.”

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Hayden Henrioulle and the Nebraska men’s gymnastics team take on No. 6 Minnesota this weekend in Minneapolis.

Henrioulle is currently dealing with a torn rotator cuff, allowing him to only compete in two of the six events – floor exercises and parallel bars. The date to fix Henrioulle’s shoulder is set for after this year’s season, which limits the events Henrioulle can compete on this year.

“I’m just trying to work through this and do the events I can right now and get better by summer,” said Henrioulle, “I can at least deal with it right now.”

Henrioulle is open to compete as an all-around, competing in all six events, but Chmelka is content with where Henrioulle is now.

“His first year’s been going great,” Chmelka said.

“He’s been competing in two events and he’s been working on horse and vault.

After Henrioulle’s shoulder heals, he plans on competing in all six events again. “I expect a lot from him,” Chmelka said. “He’s a real powerful and explosive kid. He’s an extremely hard worker, someone has tell him to stop or he’ll

just keep going. And really good things happen to kids like that.”

After facing the Golden Gophers last week and falling to them by 3.5 points, the Huskers know what to expect, but are still keeping a clear head.

“They’re better than I thought they were, to be truthful,” said Chmelka. “I know they were always a sound and well-coached team, but they have guys in key areas that have gotten better since I saw last.”

Chmelka and the team knows the capabilities of Minnesota, but the Husker’s confidence level has risen along with their team average, and NU is looking forward to competing with the Golden Gophers again.

“We’re ready,” Chmelka said. “I still think we’re a better team than them, we just have to go on the floor and show it.

“I do know that Minnesota will be nervous. But they’ll be ready for us because they know we’re after them.

It’s going to be good.”

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While the Nebraska women’s swimming and diving team got a chance to preview the depth of the Big Ten with the start of the Big Ten Championships Wednesday night, the real competition set in on Thursday.

Preliminaries for individual events started Thursday morning at the University of Iowa Aquatic Center with the 500yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley and 50-yard freestyle, along with the preliminaries for the one-meter diving competition.

No Husker swimmers made it back to finals for any of the three individual swimming events, but this task was much more difficult for them than last year as members of the Big 12.

With a range of about 80 to 100 swimmers competing in each individual event on Thursday, even adding less than a second could drop a swimmer down multiple places. In addition, the cuts to make it back to finals were also much faster in the Big Ten than they were for the Huskers last year in the Big 12.

In the 500-yard freestyle for example, a time under 5:04.55 would have qualified a swimmer for the top 24 in the Big 12. In this year’s Big Ten Championships however, a swimmer would have

needed to go under 4:49.72 to swim in finals later that evening.

Although no swimmers made it to finals, there were some signs of improvement for the Huskers moving forward. Out of the 23 swimmers that competed individually for the Huskers, 19 of them dropped time off of what they were seeded before preliminaries.

NU sophomore Bailey Pons had the highest place of any of the Husker swimmers, placing 37th in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:53.57. Junior Katie Davis ranked 43rd in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:05.68 and fellow junior Ariel Weech led the way in the 50-yard freestyle at 23.47 seconds.

The Huskers continued to place higher with their relays, finishing 10th in the 200-yard freestyle relay following disqualifications by Penn State and Michigan State.

In the diving part of the championships NU’s Payton Michaud secured a spot in the finals of the one-meter by finishing 14th with a score of 271.65. Teammates Alyson Ramsey and Kaitlan Walker came off their victory in the synchronized three-meter Wednesday night to each finish in the top 30. Junior Amy Herman finished out the Husker’s diving squad

by finishing 31st with a score of 243.10. The results of the one-meter diving finals were not available as the diving finals were still continuing Thursday night.

Wisconsin continued its winning streak by winning the 200yard freestyle relay at 1:28.46, setting a Big Ten meet and Pons conference record. Wisconsin senior Rebecca Thompson went all out in her final Big Ten Championships, winning the 50-yard freestyle.

In doing so, Thompson set another Big Ten meet and conference record for the Badgers.

After the second session of the Big Ten Championships, Minnesota was in the lead with a score of 235. The Huskers were in 11th place with a score of 41 and were ahead of Michigan State.

The inaugural Big Ten Championships for Nebraska women’s swimming and diving team concludes this weekend with competition continuing for the Huskers on both Friday and Saturday. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU set for weekend dual against UNI Multiple Huskers fighting to make Big Ten’s roster Zach Tegler

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On Sunday, the Nebraska wrestling team was matched up with Ohio State in the National Duals. A win would have sent the No. 8 Huskers to a dual against No. 1 Oklahoma State for a ticket to the Final Four of the tournament, which takes place this weekend.

“It would’ve been nice to get to face Iowa again and face Oklahoma State if we would have beat Ohio State at the regional national duals,” NU freshman Robert Kokesh said.

But that was not the case and the hypothetical situations are not worth pondering.

“Every week you’ve just got to take one match at a time and we lost a dual,” Kokesh said. “You’ve just got to recover from that, bounce back and look for the next competition we’re going to have.”

So while a Nebraska trip to the National Duals Final Four did not pan out, a dual against Northern Iowa was scheduled as a backup plan.

“The reality is we’re wrestling Northern Iowa on Sunday,” NU coach Mark Manning said. “They’ve got some good challenges for us.”

The Panthers will come to Lincoln for the contest

Sunday afternoon at the NU Coliseum. Despite being unranked as a team, UNI does present a number of legitimate tests for Nebraska.

“Their [1]33-pounder just major decisioned the No. 1 guy in the country and their 157-pounder is having a great year,” Manning said. “Their 184-pounder is ranked fourth or fifth in the country. It’s another match where we can get better.”

Northern Iowa boasts a lot of talent and will not be anyt h i n g near a pushover manning when the dual begins.

“They’ve got a lot of tough kids,” Kokesh said. “You know they’ve got a good program going.”

At the three weight classes where the Panthers are ranked, the Huskers will counter with a ranked individual of their own.

At 133, NU junior Ridge Kiley (No. 19) will battle No. 5 Joe Colon of Northern Iowa.

In the 157-pound match, No. 6 James Green of Nebraska is set to face UNI’s David Bonin

(No. 20), and the 184-pound match features two wrestlers rated in the top 10 in the country: eighth-ranked NU junior Josh Ihnen and No. 6 Ryan Loder from Northern Iowa.

“They’re well-coached,” Manning said. “We’re going to be ready to go here on Sunday.”

The dual will be Nebraska’s last event before the Big Ten Tournament in two weeks and will provide the Huskers their final opportunity to stay sharp in competition.

“That’s a big part, especially this time of the year, the postseason coming up,” Kokesh said. “You’ve got to stay sharp physically, emotionally and mentally. You’ve got to stay strong and you’ve got to keep pushing forward.”

Kokesh said he and his teammates will be able to take advantage of the final competitive tune-up.

“Since it’s our last regularseason match ... we’ll get time to work on things before where it actually makes a difference, which is at the Big Tens,” Kokesh said. “We’ve got to keep improving from this weekend, work on some things with the match this weekend and get better. Hopefully the coaches find some things that we need to work on and tune those things up so we can go into Big Ten strong.”

At the end of the day, though, Manning wants his team to treat the dual as it would any other.

“You lay it on the line each time out. It’s time to get better every time you step on the mat,” Manning said.

And that is exactly what Kokesh plans to do.

“Just got to go out there, wrestle my style, wrestle my stuff and put some things together to make me win the match and be successful,” he said. “Just got to go out there and work on my shots, work on my stuff on top and bottom.

It’s the last time we get to really work on anything.”

For Manning, it is important for the Huskers to gain this last crumb of experience heading into the conference tournament.

“We’ve got a young team,” he said. “They’re going to get better when they step out there on the mat and compete.”

And although Northern Iowa isn’t the opponent Nebraska expected to face a week ago, the Huskers will maximize the opportunities presented to them Sunday.

“Things aren’t always going to go your way, the way you have them planned,” Kokesh said. “That’s the way wrestling is. Just got to go out there and compete hard this week.” zachtegler@ dailynebraskan.com

Softball

Team looks to shore up defense Nedu Izu Daily Nebraskan

Bittersweet was the word to best describe the Husker’s 3-3 outcome in the Kajikawa Classic last weekend.

But, like a breath of fresh air, Nebraska is ready to play softball again.

This Friday, the No. 22 Huskers travel to Las Cruces, N.M., to compete in the Troy Cox Classic where they will battle five teams in three days.

The Huskers are coming off a tournament where they faced three top-25 teams in No. 8 Arizona, No. 12 Washington and No. 23 Georgia Tech and won three games out of six, including an 11-10 comeback win against the Wildcats.

During those four days, the defense committed 13 errors, while the pitching staff allowed 37 runs.

The tournament also marked the beginning of three new Husker careers.

Freshman Mattie Fowler said that although it was a rough weekend, she was happy to finally start her collegiate career.

“It’s been something I’ve been waiting for my whole life,” she said. “To go out there and represent the Huskers was an amazing feeling.”

In that weekend, Fowler was one of seven NU players to

commit an error, but the mishap didn’t reflect her overall play.

Coach Rhonda Revelle said the freshman did everything she asked of her. “ S h e played very solid at third base and I think she’s done exfowler actly what we thought she’d do,” Revelle said. “She was very game savvy and showed a lot of poise for a freshman.”

Third base wasn’t the only position Fowler played, as she also was one of three to start in the circle for her team. Fowler was the starting pitcher in NU’s 12-4 win against Idaho State, but she gave up four runs on four hits in two innings of work.

He teammates backed her up by producing a nine-run fourth inning. Although it wasn’t the start she’d hoped for, the freshman was happy to help out her team.

“I was nervous, but they were good nerves,” Fowler said. “I was just hoping to help my team out any way I can. Unfortunately it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to, but we all helped each other out.”

Fowler made her first career pitching start just 10 minutes after game two ended, which might have played a role in the freshman’s outcome, according to Revelle.

“We didn’t even plan to pitch her that much, since she hasn’t in a while,” Revelle said. “We also got her innings because we weren’t even sure if Tatum (Edwards) was going to be able to pitch.”

“We’re trying to reduce some of her responsibilities and just let her become comfortable.”

Although Fowler won’t be pitching in the upcoming tournament, she will be playing a different position.

Fowler will be moving to shortstop while Gabby Banda, who committed five errors last week, will take over at the hot corner.

The poor defensive play is not the reason for the move, though, Revelle said.

“Banda played (third base) during her freshman year and is comfortable there,” Revelle said. “Mattie played shortstop when she was younger, so we just decided to switch them.

“We’re planning to play them there throughout the whole weekend.”

Fowler said she’s confident in playing her old position again.

“We’re all confident and well-balanced,” she said. “We know we can back each other up and have a solid defense as long as we’re communicating.”

The Huskers start their first game of the tournament against Colorado State on Friday at 3 p.m.

One thing Revelle hopes to see from her team is an improvement in defense.

“We’ve worked a ton on getting our defense back to the consistent form that it was last year,” Revelle said. “I’m just hoping to see them get more comfortable and up to par like our offense is.”

Last weekend, Nebraska averaged six runs a game in a mix of different lineups made

by Revelle. But the Huskers are also hoping to improve their margin of runs with their opponents this weekend.

In their previous tournament, NU outscored their opponents by one, 38-37.

Fowler, who bounced back and forth between the second and seventh spot in the lineup with Banda, said she’s happy with wherever Revelle puts her in the lineup.

“It’s all about battling while I’m up there and scoring runs for the team,” she said. neduizu@ dailynebraskan.com

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handle their new positions.

“We’re fine, we’ve adjusted to our (position) changes pretty well,” Christensen said. “I mean, we’ve had (these assignments) for a while now. I think we’ll be OK.” A year after finishing last in the Big 12 in runs, more offense will be necessary if NU hopes to do better than the fourth place finish it was pegged for in the Big Ten coaches’ poll.

With the new Haymarket Park indoor practice facility and seven returning starters, NU can hope to see a modest increase in runs — even after losing their top 2011 hitter, Cody Asche — due to weaker pitching in the Big Ten. Gonzaga’s pitching is anything but weak. Gonzales is a projected Second Team All-American coming off a season in which he won his final 11 decisions and put up a 2.57 ERA with four complete games and 90 strikeouts in 19 games.

In his off days, he hit .291 with five home runs as the Zags’ first baseman. A pair of seniors — lefty Tyler Olson (6-5, 3.97 ERA in 2011) and righty Andy Hunter (34

Sadler said. “And whether they go small or they go big he can be that mismatch guy against us who we’re gonna have to do a good job with.”

But Nebraska has had plenty of time to get ready for the Illini this time around. Ubel and company are working on defense because the team that can defend the hoop is more likely to win, Ubel said.

“I think that week off is gonna be good for us,” he said. “We’ve got back to fine-tuning some defensive stuff. So I think that’ll be really good for us. Especially going into a game like Illinois, we’re both kind of struggling, whoever focuses up on the defense should have the advantage.”

But practice doesn’t always make perfect in games, Sadler said. All season long, the sixth-year headman has raved about his squad’s ability to perform in the Hendricks Training Complex, but based on the team’s performances on the Devaney hardwood and other arenas around the country, he’s unsure of how well his team will play against Illinois.

“We’ll find out Saturday,”

strikeouts in 39.1 relief innings in 2011) — will start for the Bulldogs on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Despite the skill level of the opposing pitching staff, Christensen expects the Huskers’ bats to get off to a fast start.

“It’ll be good for us to go down and face some good competition, some good pitching,” Christensen said.

“We’ve been swinging well ... there’s going to be a lot of runs this weekend, hopefully I can get some runs.”

If it feels like forever since the Huskers took the field, that’s because it has been some time: NU’s final game in 2011 was May 21 in a 4-3 win over Missouri – nearly nine months ago.

For that reason, among many others, the Huskers can’t wait for Friday night.

“We’re very excited.

The team is ready to go,” Kalkowski said. “We’ve been practicing for months and months. It’s been a lot of running and seeing our own pitchers. We’re ready to see someone else now.” seanwhalen@ dailynebraskan.com

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Friday’s Nebraska TuneUp is the last chance many of Nebraska’s track and field athletes have to make the 32-person team roster for the Big Ten Championships.

For that reason, many Nebraska athletes will sit out the event to focus on training toward the Big Ten meet. Athletes who are on the verge of making or missing the final roster, however, will need to put forth their best times.

“For some people it’s a very important meet,” coach Gary Pepin said. “(There are) some people that are still trying to solidify on our 32 team roster. How well they do this weekend determines (whether they make it).”

While Friday’s event mostly revolves around making the final Big Ten squad for the Huskers, not every participant is in a fight to join the roster. Some athletes, many already having solidified their spot, are competing simply to improve on a personal best time to prepare for the conference championships.

“Some of them just want to tune up — that’s the name of the meet — and bring down their personal bests,” distance runner Ashley Miller said.

The athletes who aren’t competing are either resting, recovering from injury or are sticking to a training routine that bypasses t h e meet.

“It’s n o t healthy to pracmiller tice at a high level and compete at a high level,” Pepin said. “People are training very hard this week, that’s why they’re not competing.”

Miller, who earned a second team All-American distinction at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 1,500 meter run, is one of Nebraska’s athletes that will sit out the meet.

Heading into next Friday’s Big Ten Championships, Miller will be one of two Nebraska athletes still undefeated on the 2012 season.

“I’m trying to hit these goal times that will allow

me to go to the NCAA meet,” Miller said. “This year there’s been some really tremendous competition.”

The Big Ten Championships will be the first time this season that Miller and fellow undefeated Husker Luke Pinkelman, will face competition that is on the same level they are in terms of personal bests.

“It is definitely hard when there isn’t someone directly in the race to push yourself,” Miller said.

Miller helped the women’s distance medley relay team break the school record last week at Iowa State. She competed in and won the women’s 800-meter run, mile run and 3,000 meter run, all with personal best times, but has yet to find out which event she will compete in at the Big Ten meet.

“I really don’t have a preference,” Miller said. “Whatever the coaches feel will be best for the team.”

Coach Pepin said the best chance Nebraska has to score highly in the Big Ten meet is to place a high number of athletes among the top eight finishers in numerous events.

“It’s not going to be any one event or one area for us,” Pepin said. “We’re going to have to have a lot of people entered in the meet across the board make contributions and score points for us.”

This weekend’s TuneUp will go a long way in helping Pepin and the rest of the coaches fill out the roster with athletes that will be able to score points for the Huskers at the Big Ten meet. Pepin said the team is still a step away and could benefit from a strong week in training and a good outing Friday.

“If we aspire to win the (Big Ten) meet we’re going to have to do better than we’re doing right now,” Pepin said.

According to Pepin, Nebraska will be joined by approximately 30 schools as well as some unattached competitors on Friday.

Notable schools in attendance include University of Nebraska at Kearney, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Creighton, Wayne State, Wichita State and Kansas State.

The Nebraska Tune-Up begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Devaney Center Indoor Track. chrispeters@ dailynebraskan.com

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Brandon Ubel and the Huskers will look to improve their inside game on Saturday against an Illinois squad that outscored NU 34-12 in the paint during the teams’ first meeting.

Sadler said. “Its been hard to tell in practice since they’ve been such a good practicing team. When you practice you always feel good about yourself.”

And NU will be trying to turn around a season where it’s managed an 11-13 record,

including just three victories in 13 Big Ten games.

For the players, it’s been a real disappointment. But these next few games will be a chance to make a statement.

“For us seniors this is not what we expected,” Walker

said. “We’re facing adversity right now and we can’t run away from it. We’re gonna try to win every one. Everybody on this team wants to win and we’re going to try and win one every time.” robbyKorth@ dailynebraskan.com

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Northwestern 63, Nebraska 51

Offensive woes for reeling squad painful to watch

andrew Ward

Nebraska’s Connie Yori walks off the court Thursday night after her team’s 63-51 loss to Northwestern. The Huskers held a 40-36 lead about five minutes into the second half, but the Wildcats went on a 27-11 run to end the game.

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Huskers shoot 28.6 percent from the field during third-straight loss

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hursday night was another dismal one for the reeling Nebraska women’s basketball team. Fresh off of two losses brought about by terrible shooting — and generally feeble offense — the No. 16 Huskers answered with more of the same, falling 63-51 to Northwestern, a team that is just 3-9 in the Big Ten, in front of 6,248 fans at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

NU’s putrid stretch of offense reached a third game, as the Huskers shot 29 percent from the field and made just five of their 28 3-point attempts (18 percent). NU’s most reliable player, point guard Lindsey Moore, had one of her worst performances of the season, shooting 3 of 12 for 10 points with just two assists.

The game ended on a scary note for Moore and for Husker fans. Late in the game, with the result already decided, Moore hit the ground near the hoop on

offense, clutching her left leg. Moore was able to walk off the court on her own power and head coach Connie Yori hopes the injury is “nothing serious.”

The loss was NU’s third in a row and fifth in its last nine games, pushing a team that has been in the top 25 closer and closer to the tournament bubble, as NU has now lost two games to teams with RPIs greater than 100 in four days.

Yori is not ready to hit the panic button.

“You always look better when you’re making shots,” she said. “We’re just struggling on offense. We did have tremendous effort.”

The effort paid dividends in the first half. The team rallied from being down as many as six to tie the game at 2929 heading into intermission. Jordan Hooper and Moore scored 21 of their 29 combined points in the first period

and the Huskers managed to stay in the game to make five more free throws than the Wildcats, who shot 46 percent to NU’s 33.3.

NU led 40-36 with 15:54 left due mainly to the exploits of Hooper.

Through that time, Hooper was shooting 7 of 12 for 17 points. She went on to miss her final nine shots and the offense again proved inept without her contribution.

In Yori’s eyes, as the Huskers missed wide-open 3-pointers and easy layups, their confidence in each shot eroded.

“Shooting is a lot about confidence,” Yori said. “You miss a couple and you start thinking about it. We’re not really getting worse shots than we were earlier in the year, we’re just not making as many.”

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NU to open season in Arizona Sean Whalen daily NEbraskan

Darin Erstad has made many trips to Arizona in February, but this weekend’s trip will be different.

After 10 seasons of playing in Arizona’s Cactus League every February as a member of the Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels, Nebraska’s new baseball coach returns to the desert for his first series as a coach.

The Huskers open the 2012 season in Peoria, Ariz., against Gonzaga in a three-game set beginning Friday. After three seasons languishing at the bottom of the Big 12 Conference, the Huskers begin play in the Big Ten this season. NU hopes for more success in what is traditionally a much softer conference: only one Big Ten team (Illinois) reached a regional last season.

The Huskers will be tested early by the Bulldogs, who finished second in the West Coast Conference last season with a 32-19-1 record, and were pegged as the league’s second best team in the preseason coaches’ poll earlier this month.

The Bulldogs are led by 2011 Co-WCC Player of the Year Marco Gonzales, a lefthanded strikeout artist, will start Friday opposite NU’s

Watching the Nebraska women’s basketball team pains me. The Huskers miss pointblank layups, they don’t have any flow offensively and they shoot way too many threes.

The Huskers’ offensive efficiency can be summed up in one possession against Northwestern on Thursday.

Emily Cady grabbed an offensive rebound off a missed three, but instead of going up strong right under the hoop for a layup, she passed the ball outside. Within seconds another three was shot and missed, but this time it was Jordan Hooper’s turn to pass up a wide-open layup. The Huskers proceeded to shoot their third three-point basket of the possession.

Three shots, three 3-pointers resulted in zero points for Nebraska. That is what I call an empty possession and the Huskers accounted for plenty of those Thursday.

This team takes the phrase “live and die by the three” literally. Twenty-eight of Nebraska’s 63 shots came from behind the arc. The Huskers made just five of those shots for an abysmal 17.9 percent.

Every Husker possession on Thursday was stagnant.

Most of the time the Huskers held the ball behind the arc, looked around for a little bit, passed the ball to Jordan Hooper and watched her try to do something.

For most of the night, that strategy kept NU in the game. Hooper did her part.

The sophomore scored 19 points and shot the ball well for the first 30 minutes of the game. However, one player can only do so much for a team. The Huskers continue to find that out the hard way.

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sophomore Zach Hirsch, who will be making his first career start.

Hirsch isn’t the only young starter taking the mound for Erstad: sophomore Jon Keller will start Saturday and freshman Kyle Kubat on Sunday. Despite the lack of experience in the trio — two of whom will be making their first career starts — the team has confidence its pitchers will

keep them in the ballgame.

“I’m not nervous at all with the three starters,” junior Kash Kalkowski said.

“They’re all great pitchers.

They throw strikes. I think they’re going to do very well.”

They’ll do even better with a solid defense behind them. Erstad made a number of switches during the offseason, putting players in positions he thought would

make them better both in college and in the pros. Junior Kurt Farmer will move from first to third, Kalkowski will take his spot, moving in from the outfield, while Chad Christensen moves to the outfield from shortstop.

Erstad made these changes early on in his tenure, and the players are ready to

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men’s Basketball

Robby Korth

Nebraska junior Chad Christensen will move to the outfield this season after playing shortstop last season. The Huskers will take on Gonzaga in a three-game set this weekend.

need more than just Hooper to score. Everyone needs to contribute in some way.

On Thursday, at least on offense, nobody else stepped up. Cady finished with nine points, but missed a few layups. The Husker bench recorded just one point and was terrible on the offensive end the entire game, missing all eight of its shot attempts.

It also combined for eight fouls to add to its inability to contribute.

Even Lindsey Moore, Nebraska’s leader, who normally turns it on in crunch time, was non-existent in the second half. She scored eight of her 10 points in the first half and could not do anything after the break against the Northwestern zone.

The junior’s confidence was so shook up that she was seen crying under the basket after injuring her leg late in the game.

The Huskers are now 8-5 in conference, 19-6 overall after opening the Big Ten with four straight wins. Two of their three losses came at the hands of two teams in the lower-tier of the Big Ten. Because of those losses, Nebraska’s NCAA Tournament hopes are on life support. The Huskers don’t have a strong resume even with wins at No. 12 Penn State and at No. 17 Purdue. The Huskers’ big non-conference wins were against USC and Florida State. Those teams are a combined 26-25 with mediocre conference records.

That combination of bad losses and a poor non-conference schedule does not bode well for the at-large chances to make the tourney for Nebraska.

If the Huskers lose to Wisconsin on Sunday, a team that is eight games below .500, they would be in major trouble with games at Michigan State and at home against Ohio State next week.

Two struggling teams will take the floor Saturday evening at the Bob Devaney Sports Center looking for a glimmer of hope headed into the Big Ten tournament, which starts Thursday, Mar. 8.

Illinois and Nebraska basketball will meet up on losing streaks. The Illini and Huskers have both lost four straight games, and Illinois has lost seven of its last eight.

“We can relate,” NU forward Brandon Ubel said.

“We’re both going through a little slide right now and we both had big wins in conference play so we both know it’s kind of ups and downs. We’re pretty similar in that regard.”

But despite the Huskers’ struggles down the stretch, NU senior Caleb Walker still feels like his squad can exploit an opponent that’s on a slide.

“All teams struggle, they’re facing adversity like

we have before this year,” Walker said. “So they’re going to come in here and try to turn it around and I think we can definitely try to carry that over into Saturday.”

Last time these two squads met was a 59-54 contest in Champaign, Ill., that ended in an Illini victory.

It was a game where both sides shot 50 percent or higher from the field, but the big difference was points in the paint: Illinois had 34 while NU only managed 12.

And Illinois’ ability to score inside came from the penetrating ability of 6-foot-5 Illini guard Joseph Bertrand.

The sophomore lit the Huskers up for 25 points in the last contest. For NU coach Doc Sadler, limiting him is key this time around.

“Bertrand had a good game out against us,”

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