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Bedbug heat treatments, dorm evacuation debated Frannie Sprouls Daily NEbraskan

The count is more than 170.

Each room suspected of bedbugs by one of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s employed bedbug sniffing dogs is heat treated. Each treatment costs a minimum of $1,000 per room if the equipment can be

used twice that day. If not, it is $1,300 per room.

These are figures University Housing Director Sue Gildersleeve, unavailable for an inperson interview since Feb. 10, wrote in an email.

Once bedbugs are detected in a room or piece of furniture, a high heat treatment is the preferred method to get rid

of the bedbugs, according to Housing protocol.

But even if a single room is determined to have bedbugs and treated, there is a chance that bedbugs could scurry to another room to escape the heat.

Holly Davis, an insect diagnostician at Kansas State University, said bedbugs can

scurry through vents and spread easily.

“I know that if (the exterminators) do find an infestation in one room, they’ll treat nearby rooms just to be sure,” Davis said in a telephone interview.

UNL has not done this.

Gildersleeve wrote that UNL elected not to treat adjacent rooms in order to sweep and

treat affected rooms in a timely manner.

“Our contractors use chemical barriers around room perimeters and in electrical outlets so that they won’t spread to other rooms,” Gildersleeve wrote. “They also tape the closed area around the door.”

Mark Lesher, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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effects of the two-term limit were immediate.

“We lost 270 years of experience all at one time because 20 people were removed,” Avery said.

More time afforded in the legislature means more time to learn how the body works and become comfortable with the system, said Avery, who called term limits a “bad policy.” But Sen. Thomas Hansen of District 42 argued that Carlson’s measure would interrupt a natural cycle of turnover in the Legislature.

“That’s not the will of the people,” Hansen said. “The will of the people voted in 2000 that Nebraska needed term limits.”

Hansen estimated about 70 percent of his constituents in western

Nebraska would oppose the termlimit extension. Speaker Mike Flood of District 19 said he voted against the measure because memory of the state’s 56 percent approval of a twoterm limit is too fresh.

“It’s too early to ask voters to relook at that,” Flood said.

If the proposed amendment appears on the ballot, it will likely appear next to a proposal to increase legislators’ $12,000 annual salary.

“You put both of those on the ballot, and I don’t think either one will pass,” Hansen said. “And I would much rather see the pay increase be on the ballot by itself because it’s more realistic.

Avery said voters’ support of term

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Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, will be launching the Born This Way Foundation this week and Susan Swearer, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln educational psychology professor and anti-bullying expert, will be among a select group of scholars to help kick off the event.

The Born This Way Foundation’s mission is to empower youth and promote tolerance and individuality. Swearer will be one of five speakers leading a discussion topic at an all-day symposium today. The symposium will be the foundation’s first sponsored event, with the official launch of the BTWF to occur later tonight.

“It’s an incredible honor to be asked to be involved in this,” Swearer said about the launch. “The (Born This Way) foundation is all about youth empowerment and bravery, and I think it’s great that Lady Gaga has chosen to bring more attention to the problem of bullying and intolerance in our society.”

Representatives for Gaga contacted Swearer last summer about possibly participating in the launch.

Swearer received national attention in 2005 when she co-founded the Bullying Research Network, a virtual space where experts can collaborate and share ideas and resources about antibullying methods. The network has about 100 members according to Swearer.

“We felt that there weren’t a ton of places to talk with other anti-bullying researchers,” Swearer said about creating the network. “We wanted a common place to share ideas.”

Swearer said she believes her work with the network was one of the main

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Is it a good idea to extend the term limit from two consecutive four-year terms to three terms?

“No, I believe they get caught up in doing the same thing over and over again. We need new ideas.”

-Kyle Krause, sophomore business administration major

“In a way it’d be good because they’d have more time to get business done.”

-Stephanie Rubenthaler, sophomore pre-nursing major

“It always sounds like a good idea, but the term limits are in place to keep them from getting too much power.”

“No, it gives the people less of a chance to get that person out of office. If someone is in there for too long, I think they’ll get too much power.”

-Karter Sasse, junior political science major

-Hillary Naumann, freshman communication studies major

DailyER Nebraskan holds ASUN debate elias youngquist daily nebraskan

Though heaven’s bladder seemed to let loose outdoors, the two competing Association of Students of the University of Nebraska parties were furiously Mass Debating to an audience of DailyER Nebraskan staff and the student body.

Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the

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Nebraska Union Ballroom, the Impact Party and the Party Party traded jabs and puns at the annual DailyER’s Mass Debate. For nearly 30 minutes the two groups made fun of the election process and blew off steam while DailyER staff presented questions to the parties and judged responses.

“We all know how awkward it is to have somebody

walk in on you while you’re mass debating, so let’s get started,” said Dylan Bliss, a senior business administration major and entertainment editor of the DailyER, as the event began.

The room stayed divided with the Impact party’s supporters sitting to one side and the Party Party’s supporters on the other. Eric Kamler,

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Professor selected to attend Gaga foundation launch

Bill aims to extend term limits

tate legislators have reached a 30-12 consensus on first-round debate for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow senators to serve three consecutive four-year terms rather than two.

But opponents say voter consensus may be a different story if the measure makes it to the ballot in November.

Term limits were implemented in Nebraska in 2006 after a successful public movement for a constitutional amendment in 2000. Voters were forced to choose between a two-consecutive-term limit and no limit at all and deserve a third, more lenient option, said Sen. Tom Carlson of District 38, who introduced the measure to extend term limits.

Sen. Bill Avery of District 28 said the

Region 7 contact, said in a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon adjacent rooms should be inspected.

“Bedbugs will migrate to other areas looking for a blood meal,” Lesher said. “They are attracted to body heat and

Impact Party’s presidential candidate and a junior agricultural economics major, sent a mass message to his fraternity, Alpha Gamma Rho, who made up about 60 percent of Impact’s crowd, according to Kamler. The fraternity members were very

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reasons she was asked to help launch the BTWF. Merilee McCurdy, an associate professor of educational psychology at UNL, said Swearer deserves recognition for her dedication to anti-bullying research.

“It seems like she’s just doing more and more each year in terms of research,” said McCurdy, who has worked with Swearer for more than 10 years. “Just for the university and for our programs she has provided a lot of national attention, which is just great.”

McCurdy also said she thinks Swearer continues to get excellent opportunities because of her personality.

“Sue is very engaging, very enthusiastic about her work,” McCurdy said.

“People who work with her once want to work with her again. I think that’s one reason she gets all of these great opportunities, like being at the White House last year and now working with Lady Gaga.”

Last March, Swearer was invited to the White House by the Obama administration to speak at an antibullying conference put on by the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. She has spoken at many other

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Andrew Dickinson, a junior journalism major, was selected to be the 2012-2013 Daily Nebraskan editor-in-chief. Dickinson is this year’s DN photo chief.

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It took three rounds of voting Tuesday evening to elect the 2012-2013 editorin-chief of the Daily Nebraskan, the result of what one Publications Board member called a “perfect storm” of two qualified candidates.

Such a scenario hasn’t unfolded in at least six years.

After two tied votes, Publications Board chair and third-year law student Adam Morfeld changed his vote, thus electing junior journalism major Andrew Dickinson as editor-in-chief in a 4-2 vote.

“We’re constantly losing readership,” Morfeld said.

“Since I started, it’s cut in half. We need to try something new. We need to take a risk. I changed my vote to Andrew with that in mind.”

Dickinson, who is currently the Daily Nebraskan photo chief, said he hopes to take the paper in a new direction, with a focus on eye-catching design and photography, better communication and a higher emphasis on recruitment.

“It’s everywhere on campus, but when you have a bland front page, that doesn’t really pull anybody in,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing we can do for the paper.”

With experience in reporting coursework and copy editing, Dickinson has an understanding of the editorial aspects of the paper, but he said his background in production is more essential.

“Being able to see the paper as a whole is the most important thing, and I think that’s my strongest point,” Dickinson said. “I understand how stuff happens from start to finish.”

And in a struggling industry, Dickinson’s focus on visual elements is more important than ever, said senior fine arts major and DN

art director Bea Huff.

“He has a vision that’s different from anything we’ve ever done at the DN,” Huff said. “We really need to focus on Web and video and technology more because, I hate to say it as part of the newspaper industry, but print is dying.”

Senior English major and current editor-in-chief Ian Sacks, who sat in on deliberation, said it was one of the most difficult processes he’d ever participated in with the paper. The board interviewed the two candidates, Dickinson and junior journalism and political science major Riley Johnson and heard testimony from newspaper staff members before voting. The sevenmember board was one person short because of work commitments, so the board held two executive sessions to resolve the tie between Dickinson and Johnson.

“They filled in each other’s holes very well,” Sacks said. “No matter what, we were looking at a very professional and cohesive paper next year. But it was difficult because there were no obvious flaws with either candidate.”

With two qualified candidates, the Publications Board really couldn’t make a bad choice, said board member and associate journalism professor Tim Anderson.

“I don’t remember ever a choice as difficult as this one,” Anderson said. “In one way, it’s sad that they both applied the same year.

But on the other hand, it’s great that two people so qualified and so intelligent and so experienced want to be in charge of the (paper). The Daily Nebraskan would’ve been well taken care of no matter which way the vote went. I’m just glad we didn’t have to stay till midnight.” jacymarmaduke@ dailynebraskan.com

carbon dioxide.”

But he said if the adjacent room is unaffected, there is no need to treat it because it’s a waste of time and money.

Davis was cautious of going room-by-room to treat for bedbugs. “(A single heat treatment) might not be really successful,” Davis said. “You might have to counterattack the whole building to clean it out.”

But Gildersleeve said it’s up to the pest control agency to make the call to evacuate the dorms.

Some colleges and universities have gone the extra step to evacuate an entire building to successfully treat it.

Reinhardt University in Waleska, Ga., had an outbreak of bedbugs in September 2010. About 70 male students camped out in the gymnasium for a week while their residence hall was treated for bedbugs.

“We had a company come in and they did a whole treatment process for it … treating the room, mattresses and furniture,” said Shalyn Hernandez, Housing and Conduct coordinator at Reinhardt.

Hernandez said the pest control company made the call to treat the whole building.

“You’re going to treat every room that has a problem,” said Chuck Tindol of Allgood Pest Solutions in Lawrenceville, Ga. “That’s normal progression. If you have a number of rooms, you’ve just got to treat the whole thing, even if it’s just preventative.”

Tindol and Allgood Pest Solutions treated the residence

hall at Reinhardt University.

Tindol said there were infested rooms on every floor of the hall.

“We worked closely with the administrators,” Tindol said. “We took all of (the students’) belongings and inspected them. They were only allowed to take a couple days worth of clothes and went to the gym while we treated.”

Tindol said once the building was treated, bedbug dogs were brought in to confirm the rooms were bedbug-free.

“It was the right decision for what we had,” Tindol said.

In her email, Gildersleeve wrote University Housing was not advised to evacuate certain sections of halls to treat the entire floor or the entire building.

Even if the sweep of all the residence halls is successful, there is no guarantee that bedbugs will not return to campus, experts have said.

Housing has purchased multiple PackTites, heat-treating duffle bags, to treat luggage, backpacks and other small items. A heat box was also constructed in the basement of Abel Hall to heat treat couches, chairs and large items. It purchased Cryonite, a CO2 unit, to freeze-treat bedbug-infested furniture and other items in common areas.

Once the spring semester finishes in May, all rooms will be inspected once more.

“This May, after students leave campus, we’ll do another sweep with dogs to inspect rooms before summer conference/camp guests arrive,” Gildersleeve wrote. “Then in early August, we’ll do another sweep of any rooms/halls

used for summer guests so that rooms are cleared before students arrive for fall semester.”

Gildersleeve wrote more training on bedbugs will be developed for resident assistant training.

As for factoring bedbug treatments into Housing’s budget, Gildersleeve wrote treatments will be factored in but the amount has not been determined.

“This will not affect rates for next year,” Gildersleeve wrote.

But in light of this year’s bedbug situation, Housing has created a bedbug task force that will remain in place past this semester.

The main goal of the task force is to find a solution for dealing with residence hall bedbugs, said Kelly Bartling, UNL news director.

Since the creation of the task force in January, it has worked on the protocol for handling bedbugs.

“It’s evolving as more resources become available,” Bartling said. “The protocol has been important … for the most part, their work has been focused primarily detection and eradication.”

Three weeks ago, a UNL Facilities bedbug task force was created in addition to Housing’s task force. Christine Jackson, vice chancellor of Business and Finance, called together facilities, human resources, police, Housing and the University Health Center, Bartling said.

“We all sat around and talked about protocols, education, information … looking at the bedbugs broader than just

“Bedbugs will migrate to other areas looking for a blood meal.

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Housing to assess whether we have the resources we need, who needs to be educated,” Bartling said.

From the task force, a bedbug response website was created. The website provides prevention information, tips for travelers, a FAQ page and links to more information.

The university-wide task force’s main goal is to look at the educational aspect of bedbug prevention and to identify areas that may need to be scrutinized, Bartling said.

These areas would include Nebraska Union lounge areas, Love Library lounge areas and any area where people would be sitting in upholstered furniture for long periods of time.

Housing’s task force has also determined a new method for detecting bedbugs. Verifi is a newly manufactured bedbug detection device Housing will be testing in March. Verifi uses carbon dioxide, human pheromones and bedbug kairomones to attract and trap the bedbugs in a room.

As for residence halls, Gildersleeve wrote that Housing’s protocol will be posted on the website in the near future.

The protocol features information describing the detection and treatment process. franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

ASUN DEBATE: from 1 vocal, at times overpowering and booing the Party Party’s responses.

“I can’t control what they say, and I don’t necessarily approve,” said Kamler about the sometimes offending comments made by Alpha Gamma Rho. After the debate, Impact responded to accusations of “homophobic slurs” students said they heard in the Impact supporters section.

“If any of the offenders are party members we ask them to halt any association with the party,” Impact tweeted. “If the offender was a supporter then we demand they stop wearing our shirt. We no longer want their vote. Again, we are truly sorry about these comments. As a party, we demand better from ourselves.”

The parties took turns mocking one another as well as their platforms.

The frequent fines to the Party Party in particular were made fun of as Kate Miller, Party Party presidential candidate and a sophomore philosophy major, exclaimed a particular four-letter “F” word into the microphone after fumbling over an answer.

“There’s a fine,” shouted Kamler with a grin.

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From left, the Impact Party — Kaitlin Mazour, Eric Kamler and Kyle Wroblewski — and the Party Party — Blake Rostine, Dillon Jones and Kate Miller — sit on separate sides during the annual DailyER Nebraskan debate Tuesday in the ballroom of the Nebraska Union. The event was moderated by three staff members of the DailyER. was also a frequent topic of the debate. Dillon Jones, a sophomore English major and Party Party’s external vice presidential candidate, was frequently referenced as Party Party’s diversity candidate and was comically prevented from speaking.

“I think it went really well.

I wish I could’ve talked more, but as the diversity candidate, we felt I should just sit there and be black,” Jones said.

Impact Party was also questioned about its diversity or lack thereof.

“To say that race has anything to do with diversity is wrong,” said Kaitlin Mazour, Impact’s internal vice presidential candidate and a junior English and history major. “We come from three very different white communities.”

With a week left until March 7 and the end of campaigning, according to

Kamler, from here on out it’s “time to get serious and get down to it.”

“Other than the time length thing, I felt that it went really well,” said Jacob Zlomke, editor-in-chief of the DailyER and a junior English and film studies major. “Both parties were good sports with it and they took a lot of stress off of us by coming in and being willing to have fun with it.”

we need to do is change the rules of elections to make them more competitive.”

Incumbents boast a financial advantage that goes beyond the restrictions of term limits, Avery said.

“The incumbents have such an enormous advantage as far as money,” he said. “And money buys you

yard signs; it buys you literature; it buys you mailings. It makes it hard for challengers to gain any traction. A lot of the time they look at the award chest the incumbent’s brought up and they say, ‘Well, I’m not even going to bother to run.’”

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terms: from 1 limits is because of a misguided attempt to make elections more competitive.

He compared the situation to a baseball game hosting two teams: the incumbents and the challengers. The first team plays with the advantage of bigger bats and a closer outfield fence, so the incumbents win every time,

Avery said. But rather than taking away the incumbents’ advantages, the fans — the voters — simply tell them they can’t play anymore.

The challengers replace the incumbents and the cycle repeats itself.

“They don’t change the rules,” Avery said. “They just change the players. What

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Occupy Lincoln campers rally, reach new agreement with city dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan

Even as the Occupy Lincoln camp’s deadline to clear out was pushed back two months, from March to May, sympathetic groups across the country and in Lincoln rallied Tuesday in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

About two dozen members of Lincoln’s MoveOn chapter, linked to the political advocacy group MoveOn.org, gathered at the base of the Capitol in answer to a call to action against what they called the movement’s suppression. Interviews with several of them evoked the spirit that sparked the sustained protest last September.

“The Occupy movement has really focused the country on the increasing concentration of wealth,” said Bud Narveson, a MoveOn member and retired English professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “Its value is that it’s not focused on any particular action. It’s just calling the nation’s attention.”

Similar rallies were reported in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities.

Lincoln’s small assembly was greeted with sporadic, supportive honks from passing traffic, recalling the noisy support of Occupy Lincoln’s downtown demonstrations last year.

Narveson was referring to the country’s inequality of income and wealth. The gap between the very rich and everyone else has been growing for some

time, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office and other reports. Today, the top 1 percent of earners earn about one-fifth of the nation’s income, inspiring the movement’s signature slogan, “We are the 99 percent.”

It was that disparity, along with anger about the disproportionate influence of corporations and the wealthy over politics, that breathed life into Occupy Wall Street — and by extension, Occupy Lincoln — last fall.

“It is democracy in action,” said MoveOn member Barbara Traudt, who teaches constitutional law at Doane College. “I mean, this is what democracy is about: not what’s going on in Congress, but people getting out and asking for a redress of grievances.”

Protests in dozens of cities quickly settled into campsites in the fall, usually on public land. In Lincoln, about 50 tents sprung up on the Centennial Mall.

Lincoln’s camp is one of the handful left after those in New York City, Boston, Oakland, Ohio, Denver and others were evicted by their host cities, sometimes violently or late in the night. Lincoln protesters credit extensive and open communication with city officials for their camp’s longevity.

But despite a peaceable relationship, Occupy Lincoln was told to clear out by March 1 to make way for the mall’s

This is what democracy is about ... people getting out and asking for a redress of grievances.”

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renovation this summer. Protesters insisted on negotiating, and the city came to a deal early this week to extend that deadline until the first day of May. For the most part, Lincoln’s “occupiers” were happy with the deal.

“That’s going to depend on who you talk to,” said Jo Tetherow, a retired real estate assessor who’s been with the Lincoln’s protest since its beginning. “I personally am thrilled.

We can show the country that we can work together.”

Jeffrey Eggerss, an Occupy camper and sophomore communications and international studies major at UNL, added he was relieved a decision had been made at all.

The group, which has several more members who aren’t camping, has been extending its roots outside of the mall this year, with several education and community initiatives. But what happens to the movement’s physical symbol after May remains up in the air, Tetherow said.

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On Monday, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln unveiled a new tool for students: MyPLAN. The program is designed to streamline student academics, advising and, as the name suggests, planning.

Faculty advisers were able to access the program for the first time Jan. 3, and professors could use it as early as Jan. 30.

The university has made efforts to test the program and some of its features. In the fourth week of classes during the spring 2012 semester, a pilot was launched to test the “red flag” feature of MyPLAN, with students in the William H. Thompson Scholars Learning Community.

The flagging aspect shows clear markers of when a student is struggling in one of four areas: attendance, academic performance, academic participation, academic preparation, and late and missing assignments top advisers.

Amy Goodburn, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and a member of the MyPLAN team, said the team’s focus right now is reviewing the data from the first two pilots.

According to Goodburn, the first pilot was designed to help program coordinators with the learning community know when a student was struggling in one of the five flag areas. For example, when they missed class or had late

or missing assignments, the flag alerted the coordinators and remained on the student’s MyPLAN page until the issue was resolved in a process called “clearing the flag.”

She said this process began with the notification to program coordinators, who then contacted students to discuss the issue with them. When this was done and solutions to the problem had been identified, the coordinator contacted the professor who had flagged the student and the flag was removed.

Vanessa Roof works for UNL’s Institutional Research and Planning and is a member of the MyPLAN team. She said students don’t see flags on their MyPLAN profile, but that they are visible to academic advisers. She also said there is no policy regarding how and when a professor can flag a student.

“It’s kind of relative to the needs of the class,” she said.

“It’s really meant as a communication tool.”

In a midterm-grades pilot, during the sixth week of classes, MyPLAN was used to record grades.

The second pilot was intended to save time. According to Goodburn, members of the learning community have to report their midterm grades every semester. The usual method for this is to have students bring a piece of paper signed by their professors to their coordinators. Using the flag feature of MyPLAN eliminated the need to do this

when the professor marked a student’s midterm grade, because the coordinator could see the grade online.

“It’s too early to determine the success of the pilot,” Goodburn said, but she also said 64 percent of professors participated in the midterm pilot, and they reported saving time.

Brandon Baratta, a sophomore WHT scholar studying pre-criminology and criminal justice, said only one of his teachers flagged his grade during the midterm pilot, so the experience did not save him very much time.

According to Baratta, gradereporting on MyPLAN has a lot of potential if more professors take advantage of it.

“It actually would make it a lot easier than spending all the time and trying to track people down … to get them all the papers,” he said.

Goodburn said that one of the recommendations the team is going to make to MyPLAN developer Starfish Retention Services is that it create a grade system separate from the flag system. Grades recorded in Blackboard are not visible in MyPLAN. Both Goodburn and Roof said professors can’t see how students are doing in other classes, and that the ability to look at a student’s grades, attendance and flags is restricted to advisers and in the case of the pilots, the WHT coordinators. marenwestra@ dailynebraskan.com

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Swearer said one thing that has impressed her about the BTWF is Gaga’s dedication.

“Lady Gaga and her mother have both been very involved throughout this whole process and have put in an incredible amount of work,” Swearer said.

Swearer also said she appreciates that Gaga seems genuinely passionate about the cause and didn’t create the foundation just because she is a celebrity.

“Just listen to the lyrics of ‘Born this Way’ and what they say about intolerance,” said Swearer, who is

a self-proclaimed Gaga fan.

“The lyrics are exposing an issue that is extremely important in society today.”

Swearer said she became interested in researching anti-bullying solutions while doing her graduate research. She said she started studying bullying two years before the Columbine High School shootings in 1999. After Columbine, she said, bullying became much more of a national conversation.

The launch of the Born This Way Foundation will include several other guests, including Oprah Winfrey and the Department of Health and Human Services

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

The event will take place at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.

Swearer said she is looking forward to both the symposium and the kickoff of the foundation.

“I think it will be quite the event,” she said. “There’s going to be music and DJs and, of course, Lady Gaga will be there, which means it’s probably going to be over the top.”

For more information on the foundation, visit BornT h i s Wa y F o u n d a t i o n . o rg .

More details about the Bullying Research Network can be found at go.unl.edu/vgf. cristinawoodworth@ dailynebraskan.com

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DAILY NEBRASKAN editorial board members IAN SACKS editor-in-chief CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER arts & entertainment editor opinion editor HAILEY KONNATH RHIANNON ROOT ZACH SMITH

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Parties blunder in DailyER’s ASUN debate

When you participate in a debate designed to make fun of the political process, make sure you don’t also make fun of your platforms. The two political parties competing in next week’s Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections offered two approaches to handling the DailyER Nebraskan’s annual Mass Debate, and though they provided some laughs, neither was a total hit.

Both the Party Party and the Impact Party tried to roll with the DailyER’s odd questions, even the ones designed to criticize each party’s political platforms.

But each of them failed, to some degree. And perhaps that’s the way the DailyER wanted it.

Party Party was too irreverent, even for the DailyER Nebraskan’s debate. Cursing into the microphone in a rebuttal to Impact’s opening statement and joking about underage drinking, while perhaps true representations of college life, aren’t appropriate for a debate setting. At least a semblance of decorum ought to be maintained.

Irreverence, however, is not limited to the Party Party. Impact’s obviously staged tackling of a Party Party “activist” and its loud crowd consistently interrupting Party Party candidates was just as inappropriate as Party’s antics. But Impact had bigger problems. Even at the DailyER debate, joking about how your party is like the font “Wingdings” because it doesn’t make sense, or how your proposed UNL mobile app would take three years to implement, is far too self-deprecating to be effective.

Ultimately, the biggest failing falls on the DailyER. With a scant, 25-minute debate, the DailyER failed to address the significant issues in the race. ASUN should matter to students, satirical venue or otherwise. Tuesday’s debate didn’t quite recognize that.

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Red flags ignored in shootings

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n Monday in Ohio, America witnessed another school shooting. A young man, who students later identified as T.J. Lane, carried a gun into the Chardon High School cafeteria, in Chardon, Ohio, and opened fire, killing two students and sending three others to the hospital before being chased out by a teacher. Though he was eventually caught by police and is now in custody, the damage caused can be neither repaired nor paved over.

The Chardon High incident is the latest in a string of school shootings to have taken place in recent years, but it’s not the largest or the bloodiest. It follows on the heels of, among others, the Millard South shooting in Omaha early last year, the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech that left 32 dead and, of course, Columbine.

The aftermath of the Chardon shooting has, thus far, stuck to the mold of posthigh school shootings fairly strictly. Subsequent interviews with friends, peers and classmates of the shooters almost always reveal they were nice, quiet, reserved individuals who were frequently bullied and ostracized by their peers and classmates. In almost every case, there have been clear warning signs that indicated an act of extreme violence was imminent — a suicide note here, a morbid Facebook post there — that were never uncovered until after the fact. And in almost every case, the underlying response from those close to the shooters is the same: They never saw it coming.

That, really, is the problem. The signs were there, some of them clear as day, but nobody ever bothered to look closely enough to see it coming.

There’s no good reason for this. It’s just general shortsightedness, a terrible excuse.

Though it pains me to say it, the average

david smith school shooter fits a fairly well-defined profile.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two students behind the Columbine massacre, were reported to have been frequently bullied and excluded by their peers. In addition, several psychiatrists later found Harris to have been a clinical psychopath and Klebold to have been depressive.

Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre, was noted to have been plagued by several health and mental disorders throughout his life, including severe depression and selective mutism. He was also made a target of bullying, much of which was reportedly based on both his difficulties in school and his South Korean background.

Robert Butler Jr., the student responsible for the Millard South shooting, never fit in with his peers after moving to Omaha from Lincoln. He also experienced trouble in school in the days leading up to the shooting.

Finally, there’s Lane, who on the surface seems to be the exception to the rule. Other than a disturbing Facebook post from Dec. 30, post-shooting interviews have painted him as a quiet, reserved young man who seemed to be sad most of the time. Friends and acquaintances have spoken very well of him in interviews, saying he was nice; he was funny; he was easy to talk to. He never

would have shot up the school.

But he did. They all did. And weeks or months from now, looking back on the Chardon High shooting, I don’t doubt the signs of the impending bloodshed will be as clearly discerned as they now are for Columbine and Virginia Tech. Some new evidence will be uncovered, some information will come to light and it will be made clear to all that Lane was headed for the shooting at Chardon High for a long time.

And if this conclusion had been reached beforehand — by friends, parents, teachers or whoever — then maybe those who had died in the shootings would still be with us today.

This isn’t a defense of the perpetrators — it’s far from it. But whether we can see them right now or not, there were hints that what happened at Chardon High was going to happen. No human being is capable of fully hiding his or her problems from the world.

In his documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” Michael Moore interviewed musician Marilyn Manson, who for a time faced widespread accusations of being one of the reasons behind Columbine.

Moore concluded the interview by asking what Manson would say to Harris and Klebold if he had a chance to speak to them. Manson answered by saying that he wouldn’t say a single word to them and would rather listen to what they had to say, and “That’s what no one did.”

While the actions of Lane and other such perpetrators are indefensible and unforgivable, had those around them paid a bit more attention and listened a bit more closely, those actions could have been prevented.

david smith is a sophomore newseditorial major. reach him at davidsmith@ dailynebraskan.com.

Working conditions demand gov’t regulation

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wrote this column on my MacBook Air and proofread it on my iPad, devices that are dear to me and which power much of my work and recreation. Like many happy Apple customers, though, I’ve been forced to consider the very unhappy conditions under which these gadgets, and others like them, are produced. How should those of us who love and depend upon our electronics feel about the suffering of the factory workers who are laboring and even dying for us?

While information about worker suicides and unsafe conditions has been making the rounds for some time, the latest and loudest critique began with a recent stirring piece in The New York Times on the operations of Foxconn Technology, Apple’s manufacturing partner that operates electronics factories in China.

Foxconn seemingly holds the health and safety of workers in outright contempt: “Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms.

Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk.

Underage workers have helped build Apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records.”

In addition, there have been numerous reports of injuries arising from the use of harmful chemicals and from explosions in some of the factories.

And of course, there have been several instances of worker suicides, which have rightfully drawn a great deal of attention.

On the one hand, these terrible conditions gnaw at us. We know it’s our demand for high-tech products at low prices that drives corporations to pay workers less and spend less on safety, not to mention move their manufacturing into countries with little to no regulation. On the other hand, workers freely choose to take these jobs. Foxconn regularly turns away

job-seekers because the pay and the conditions they offer are better than many other options available, particularly for young rural workers. Without the demand and thus the factories, many of these people would struggle to feed their families and would end up exploited in some other way.

Indeed, this is the position on sweatshops taken by Nicholas Kristof and Paul Krugman.

With those two poles of the debate in mind, I still feel comfortable asserting the exploitation of poor workers is a moral wrong. We ought to prevent others from exploiting disadvantaged people. In order to end the exploitation, neither market forces nor an organized boycott will suffice. We need government regulation requiring sufficient wages and safe conditions.

Regulation will almost surely lead to higher prices, but it’s time we priced human dignity into the feature checklists of our immorally inexpensive electronics.

I rely on regulation of corporations for three reasons. First, I don’t think the corporations can adequately police themselves when they face competitors who refuse to improve their manufacturing standards. The reality (or at least the perception among corporate leaders) is that customers and stockholders wouldn’t find much value in improved working conditions.

Second, I disagree with those — such as Forbes’ Tim Worstall — who argue these might be bad working conditions for us but not for the Chinese. The notion that there should be different cultural standards for human flourishing or for what brings human beings to grief is one I reject.

Even if we agree a sufficient wage for Chinese workers falls far below a sufficient wage for Americans, the same simply isn’t true of working conditions. What’s dangerous for me in America is also dangerous for someone in China, and arguments to the contrary can’t get around the

ari kohen problem of valuing some human lives over others.

Finally, I don’t think it’s sufficient or helpful to point the finger at consumers.

“If you care so much about the Chinese workers, then don’t buy an iPad” reveals a misunderstanding pointed out by tech writer MG Siegler: “The real key here is that this story could have been written about any number of technology companies that have to deal with hardware manufacturing.

This sad state of affairs is the way the world works in this space. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive.”

Siegler isn’t writing as an apologist; indeed, the New York Times article makes the same point: “The company has plants throughout China, and assembles an estimated 40 percent of the world’s consumer electronics, including for customers like Amazon, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Nintendo, Nokia and Samsung.”

In short, you’re not doing yourself or Chinese workers any favors by buying the Galaxy Tab instead. We can no longer completely disengage from computing and simply abstain from the purchase of electronic devices altogether. While this point is philosophically troubling for some and simply ignored by others, it raises a critical question: What is our moral obligation to workers who are being exploited in the making of our devices if we actually need those devices?

Many of us couldn’t turn back the clock if we wanted. Today, even a college professor who spends his

days poring over dusty tomes of ancient political philosophy has a job predicated on computing in ways that were unimaginable until recently.

I suppose I could write by hand, conduct classes without my iPad, go to the library’s stacks rather than use Web-based versions of books and journals and give a phone number rather than an email address to my students and colleagues. But it’s so much quicker and easier to do these things with the devices I own, and less of an option to communicate in analog ways.

And that’s for someone who teaches and conducts research in the field of political philosophy. It would be much more difficult for my political science colleagues to disengage from their computers, since they use them for the statistical analysis of evergrowing piles of data. And, of course, many professions and whole industries are based on the existence of personal computing devices. A quick visit to any hospital or a peek inside a squad car will show that computers are ubiquitous.

At bottom, the difficulty is I can’t simply choose to disengage in order to do what I consider my moral duty.

It’s not the same as reading “The Jungle” and deciding not to eat meat.

If I feel morally responsible for the way animals or workers are treated, I can stop being part of the problem.

But with the gadgets that so dominate our lives, we face an externality: We each can disengage from all of this technology only if everyone else agrees to either do the same or make a great many allowances for technological abstainers.

Society’s technological web doesn’t excuse me or give me a moral free pass to collect a stack of iPads whenever a new one is developed. But it does suggest that consumers who want to do the right thing can’t go it alone. Such moral-minded consumers need help because each one can’t unilaterally

disengage from all the products that are being produced under poor working conditions. Government intervention is routinely the best and often the only way to deal with large-scale coordination problems concerning human rights and human well-being.

Of course, regulation presents its own challenges. If all products sold in the United States suddenly had to be manufactured under standards congruent with U.S. labor laws, the Chinese government would be incensed and might well have a case to present to the World Trade Organization. Nor can the United States simply slap some sort of regulation on American-based multinationals and call it a day. The issue of working conditions is often once or twice removed from any Americans.

The best case scenario relies on governmental regulation by the Chinese themselves, perhaps as a result of pressure from the West or from international organizations.

No one can implement labor laws in China except the Chinese, of course, and the West hasn’t been particularly successful in making inroads in China with regard to human rights more broadly.

I’m something of a pessimist, then, at least in the short term, though perhaps that’s because meaningful change usually requires a long view. Until our leaders — both political and corporate — decide to make human rights an integral part of their agenda overseas, putting pressure on countries like China to change their labor standards, there might not be a perfectly moral choice for consumers today.

Ari Kohen is Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. He blogs at kohenari.net. Reach him at opinion@dailynebraskan.com.

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assion has driven Gerardo Meza’s life to the place it is now, and he couldn’t be happier.

“I’m at that level in my life where I’m just looking down on everything and feeling really calm,” Meza said. “Whatever I choose to do now is always going to be the right choice.”

But Meza, 48, hasn’t always had such a clear picture of what his life would be. A mix of passions for art, music and teaching have overlapped to make Meza who he is today: a teacher at Arts and Humanities Focus Program, the founder of the Lincoln band The Mezcal Brothers and a visual artist with work featured nationwide.

“I’ve been an artist longer than anything,” he said.

While attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the mid to late 1980s, Meza said he painted constantly. The group of friends Meza made in college gave him the opportunity to put some work in local galleries, as he was working toward his bachelor’s degree of fine arts.

Meza, who never took out a loan for school, worked enough to pay for his classes until eventually deciding to drop out. He knew he could later get his degree if he needed it, but said he wanted to focus on his art at the time.

“In the back of my mind, I knew that there’s not really a job out there you can have being an artist — you just have to be an artist,” Meza said.

Meza took his portfolio around the country to show his art in small galleries and sell pieces to collectors. At that

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time, his reputation in Lincoln was that of only a painter, but he had other ideas.

As Meza started to get fed up with what he called the “pretentious and superficial” world of gallery openings, he started focusing more on music — something he had been interested in since childhood.

As a child, Meza remembers long jam sessions with his younger brother Tony who now does vocals and percussion for The Tijuana Gigolos.

But in those days, Tony played drums while Meza played rhythm guitar and together they founded The Mezcal Brothers.

“We had the original White Stripes setup,” he said.

A couple members asked to join after seeing The Mezcal Brothers’ high-energy performances live. But after playing openers for years, Tony and bass player Marty Steinhausen left the group to focus on other jobs. The lineup has changed after that, but the band has remained the same since 2005.

After recording their first album in 2000, The Mezcal Brothers toured the United States for the next eight years for at least part of every year, peddling their high-energy rock to a national audience. In 2006, they toured Europe and recorded their fourth album with Jungle Records.

“In that genre, we were wellrespected, right up there with people we respected,” Meza said. “We worked hard for that.”

The band plays exclusively in the Midwest now because all members have families and careers in Lincoln.

“I’ve had this band for 13 or 14 years and it’s (composed

MEZA: see page 6

It’s an extra day. My birthday falls after it, so it just moves my birthday back. It adds another day to Black History Month. Procrastinate on paying rent, I guess. It gives me an extra day to do that.

Derrell Bradford, senior sociology major

To make sure that our calendar stays on course basically.

The year as we have it isn’t exact. It’s like 365 and onefourth a day, but we can’t have a fourth of a day so every four years, they add one on. One of my friends has a birthday, so I’ll tell her happy birthday. She’s 4 years old.

Rebecca Johnson, sophomore English and Spanish major

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Gerardo Meza, an art teacher with the Lincoln Public Schools arts and humanities focus program, talks with a student from his desk Friday, tucked into a corner of the school’s expansive art studio and surrounded by pictures of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Bob Dylan and other artists.

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Event explores evolution of jazz, hip-hop

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On May 12, 2008, local law enforcement and federal agents stormed the Agriprocessors meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. Officials arrested nearly 400 undocumented workers in the raid.

The event, known as the Postville Raid, is the largest and most expensive immigration raid in U.S. history.

Film director Luis Argueta’s documentary “abUSed: The Postville Raid,” examines the impact the event had on the workers, the town of 2,000 and immigration as a whole.

Nebraska Appleseed, the Lincoln chapter of the NAACP, the University of Nebraska Institute for Ethnic Studies and the Progressive Student Coalition are hosting a free screening of “abUSed: The Postville Raid” at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. A question and answer session with Argueta will follow.

Daily Nebraskan: Can you explain the Postville raid for our readers?

Luis Argueta: It was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history and by far the most brutal. Hundreds of federal agents and state troopers and local law enforcement surrounded the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant and

Usually, when hip-hop is present at a college function, one expects a party.

However, The Shaolin Jazz Project event hosted by the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Tuesday night was something much more — a meeting of musicians and scholars to take in a performance and discuss the place hip-hop holds and will hold in academic circles.

The Shaolin Jazz Project is the musical and visual brainchild of two Washington, D.C. natives, Gerald Watson and DJ 2-Tone, who visited the University of NebraskaLincoln Tuesday.

After seeing the artwork of Logan Mills on the cover of “Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers,” a mixtape merging the works of the Beatles and the Wu Tang Clan, Watson and DJ 2-Tone set off on a similar project, but with jazz music, called “Shaolin Jazz: The 37th Chamber.”

As Watson worked to further what he called “the visual and audio experience” of the project, it quickly expanded beyond the turntables to more artwork, fashion and graphic design.

From a musical standpoint,

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Luis Argueta’s film “abUSed” examines the impact the 2008 Postville, Iowa, raid had on local immigrant families. arrested 389 undocumented if you go workers. These people were then processed over four days “abUSed: The Postin a fast-track operation, a “juville Raid” screening dicial assembly line.” and discussion DN: How did the idea for when: Wednesday, 6 this documentary come about? p.m.

Argueta: I read an article where: Mary Riepma about the legal proceedings of Ross Media Arts the workers and felt the need Center how much: Free to go to Iowa. My original plan was to be there for only a few days, but then I saw what was so many times to let them going on and stayed longer.

DN: What was it that made tell their stories. I talked to the undocumented workers, you stay?

Argueta: The people. So their families, social workmany people were speaking ers, volunteers and lawyers. to me about the tragedy and abused: travesty, and I had to stay.

It was all so compelling. So see page 6 I stayed, and I came back

DJ 2-Tone said the project’s initial aim was to “fuse together” a capella tracks from the Wu Tang Clan with music from jazz musicians that resonate to him. But he made sure that “Shaolin Jazz” was not to be mistaken for a superficial mashup. “(The songs) wouldn’t be certain jazz songs that match tempos with Wu Tang Clan songs, but maintain the essence of jazz and maintain the essence of Wu Tang,” said DJ 2-Tone at Tuesday night’s event.

Looking deeper than the superficial was the theme of the panel discussion that preceded DJ 2-Tone’s live set at the Gaughan Center. All the panel members, Jeannette Jones, a professor of African and African-American studies at UNL, Watson and DJ 2-Tone, emphasized that the connections between hip-hop and jazz are deeper than many of us think or have been taught.

Jones and DJ 2-Tone drew many parallels, both historical and cultural, one of them being the socioeconomic, in which hip-hop and jazz were born.

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All I know is that there’s only 28 days in February usually.

I just know it’s every four years; I don’t know why.

I’m probably going to bake because it’s my night off — few things, probably cookies and brownies — and then I’m going to hang out with my roommate and best friend.

Nicki Costanzo, sophomore pre-nursing major

I hate it; it’s so annoying. Every four years you get an extra day. I get the point, but it’s just annoying. Me and my buddies plan on having a little drinking party on leap year. Were going to do the Dirty 29.

David Gleason, senior economics major

It helps us keep the seasons from changing so drastically over the decades. Winter is always winter and summer is always summer. It’s very helpful in that way. I plan to go to Free Pie Wednesday at Village Inn as my traditional Wednesday celebration that I’ve been pretty faithful to over this year.

Dan Buhrdorf, UNL fine arts graduate

upcoming events “abUSed” screening; talk with director Luis Argueta follows when: Wednesday, 6 p.m. where: The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St. how much: $9.50 (public), $7 (students)

Leap Day Party

when: Wednesday, 9 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O how much: $2

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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men when: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union how much: Free

Six Characters in Search of an Author when: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. where: McDonald Theatre, 51st Street and Huntington Avenue how much: $10 (public), $5 (students)

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the blind leading the blind »how » to diet for spring break

katie nelson I’ve had it; my cookies are frosted, if you will (that sounds a lot dirtier than it is). I’m very sure another project or test or assignment is going to send me over the edge.

I’m going to quit school.

I’m going to run away to London and live as an illegal immigrant and marry some guy because he’s got a sexy accent, nevermind the terrible dental care.

Luckily, I was convinced by the girl who sits two seats behind me in geology that that was a terrible idea, simply by uttering two words of salvation: spring break.

As soon as class was over, I found myself in front of my mirror, clad in my bathing suit and reaching for something with which to cover up.

Winter was not nice to

me this year. I step on the scale and I find that I’m 10 pounds heavier than I should be, which brings me to somewhere between pregnant and beached whale.

And I’ve only got three weeks to make a change before spring break — I’m not going to let a few pounds weigh down my delusion that true love can be found on the drug-and-alcohol-ridden beaches of my choosing.

Cosmo said I should have started working the extra weight off the day I looked at the Thanksgiving turkey, but let’s face it, that magazine is all photo-shopped anyway.

So, for real women like me, I’ve come up with a simple plan to slim down before the most overrated week of my life. I’ll focus on nutrition during the first week, exercise during the next and reward my hard work and dedication by picking a spring break destination during the final week.

The most obvious way to trim your waistline (and/or all the other areas

in need of trimming) is simply to eat healthy, a task that is relatively simple if you have the restraint to keep yourself from the cookie jar.

If you live on campus: it shouldn’t be too hard to eat healthily. After all, most of the dining halls have replaced their nutrition facts cards with signs that simply say things like “protein” or “fruit.”

They’ve also created a “healthy plate diagram” with plenty of pictures and very few words to guide you through your dining experience. Stick to that and you should be golden. And don’t forget — beautiful girls eat dessert.

If you live off campus, your situation is a little more complex. Just stay away from any food with a picture of Paula Dean on it, and you should be good to go.

My bikini might look better under a cover-up now, but give it a couple of weeks. (Seriously, though, that’s all I’ve got.) katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com

Beach season will soon be upon us, which is the same as saying regret and malformed body images will soon be upon us. Also, locusts. Maybe. That’s for another time.

The first step to not having bloated tourists scoff at your spring break physique is eating well, I’m told. But different voices produce varying advice on what makes the optimal diet.

Some people will tell you to enjoy your life and eat cake. But you killed Marie Antoinette and now she doesn’t say that anymore.

Others will advocate for a healthy diet.

Healthy how? Physically healthy? This is difficult to do. It involves self-discipline, which of course only matters in a world where pleasure is

There’s something primal and weird about it. Enjoy.

Fruits — You’re rotting on the vine. Let the fruit do the same.

Grains/starches — Eat starches. Eat so many starches. And refined carbs. Those are great too. You know that pop/rock tune about the girl whose very happy in her “white bread world” and lives out her days undisturbed. That song could be about you. Chow down.

Meats — The biggest mistake people made on the Oregon Trail was salting their meat. Don’t give me that lip service about preserving as much of the game as possible. Salting meat was the first step toward all the opulence and dry rot that those notorious Fort Laramie galas.

Queue the rations down to bare bones and let’s all fend for ourselves.

That’s the run down. Also, if it’s bland and tasteless you want, the dining halls are a world of mediocrity just waiting for your grubby little fingers.

Chance Solem-Pfeifer is 95 percent starch. Reach him at ChanceSolemPfeifer@ dailynebraskan.com.

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abused: from 5 Through their testimonies, the film recreates the raid and its aftermath. It shows how the Constitution was trampled and due process was not followed. I wanted these people to know that I wasn’t there to get a good sound byte, I was there to understand them.

And then I went to my native Guatemala, to talk to five families that were deported.

The people I talked to in Iowa sent photographs and letters with me to give to them, and it just broke my heart. This community was ripped apart, and lives were broken.

DN: Since the raid, how has immigration changed?

Argueta: We are now repeating Postville three times

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real, i.e. don’t worry about it, kids.

The key, in my eyes, is not to let food trick you.

So-called savory foods aim to make you think life as you know it might one day match the wonderful tastes your mouth experiences.

Well, the mouth is a lie factory, so fire the foreman and let all the child laborers go home for the day.

Symmetry. Symmetry is what you want. Make your food choices as drab and non-committal as the turning orb on which you live.

I’m willing to break it down for you by food group.

Sweets — They are a sometimes food, for that moment when you’d like to remind yourself of the transience of true joy. Oh, that’s a really nice Butterfinger BB. I remember when the Simpsons was good. Aaaand it’s gone. We learned an important lesson here today, Pony Boy. Vegetables — These will only prolong your life. I can’t imagine you enjoying that. But on the plus side, they can be super boring. I recommend eating the lettuce directly from the head.

a day. Close to 1,100 (people) are deported daily. And although the Bush era is over, the Obama administration has a dubious record when it comes to immigration. And every day, families are broken and communities are pulled apart.

DN: What reactions has the film elicited so far?

Aguerta: The most common reaction is that people have opened their eyes to the real story of undocumented immigration. Maybe people have never been close to the type of people I interviewed. A lot of them say, “Oh, I didn’t know it was like that.” For me, it’s been very satisfying — and I want to bring the facts of

immigration to light, to show people that rights are violated every day.

DN: Why is this an important documentary for people to see?

Aguerta: Seeing undocumented immigration for what it really is will change people’s hearts and hopefully their minds. We need a solution to this very serious problem, and right not we are enforcing laws that aren’t practical. Our country is known for compassion, and we need to engage in a more compassionate dialogue in order to get past the present situation of immigration.

become this staple in Lincoln,” Meza said. “There’s no real reason to quit.”

When The Mezcal Brothers started to slow down, Meza started writing music for a new

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The end of the reconstruction period was followed by the hundred-year rule of Jim Crow in the South that crippled the African-American community. These events and eras fueled the development of jazz. Hip-hop was born after the destructive race riots of the 1970s and out of the disastrous crack epidemic of the Reagan years.

Jones went on to point out the deep complexities of race that influenced the growth of jazz music. She noted that historically, the top jazz musicians would often play to “whites-only” clubs.

“There’s a group of scholars who would argue that (the then-popularity of jazz) lessens

the racial tension,” Jones said.

“I would argue that it compartmentalizes the racial tension.”

Despite the prevalence of jazz scholars in academic culture, DJ 2-Tone argued that hip-hop receives no such intellectual treatment.

“Hip hop still gets a bad rap, no pun intended,” he said.

When UNL professor of English and ethnic studies Kwakiutl Dreher asked what it would take for hip-hop to be seriously taught, Jones’ response indicated the burden is on the academics.

“It takes the will of people like you and I,” she said. “We need to be able to show the demand.”

But it takes more than just two professors — it takes at least 80 students to demand a course.

DJ 2-Tone briefly mused about hip-hop production classes being taught alongside school jazz ensembles, 20 years in the future. He passionately articulated that hip-hop is gradually working its way into academia, and in fact, faster than jazz did.

People like himself, Watson and Jeannette Jones are moving hip-hop forward. He expressed hopes Tuesday night that other academic communities would join them.

“You can either get with it or get left behind.” kekelidawes@ dailynebraskan.com

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band, The Bellflowers, which Meza described as having “an old-school, country gothic sound.”

Meza said the band attracted both new and existing fans of The Mezcal Brothers, but The Bellflowers broke up about two years ago when members became too busy with their careers and families.

Meza’s girlfriend, Kristen Bailey, played the singing saw for the group. The two knew each other from the Lincoln music scene and had been dating for about six years when The Bellflowers started. They have now been dating for 10 years, engaged for two, but have no real plans to get married.

“We’ll do it for family or friends or whatever, but we have to figure out what the actual ceremony would mean at this point,” Meza said.

At the same time Meza was touring the country with The Mezcal Brothers, he finished his bachelor’s degree of fine arts and received an art education degree from UNL. For the next few years, he was a substitute art teacher.

The real passion to start teaching young children came after Meza was asked to paint a few murals for the city of Lincoln in collaboration with young artists. The only remaining mural can be found in the pedestrian tunnel at 4th and F streets.

“I get more satisfaction in

seeing kids learn and figure out their own painting than making a good piece of art for myself,” he said. “That’s why I love teaching so much. I love to see kids succeed.”

One of Meza’s students at Arts and Humanities Molly Steadman said she thinks Meza’s musical and artistic background have had a strong influence on her.

“I learned about so many different musical and visual artists from him,” she said. “His music taste is fantastic. I love it.”

Steadman, a senior, said the dozens of pieces of artwork that engulf the walls surrounding Meza’s desk have sparked her interest in surrealism.

“He talks about different things, too, like philosophy, which is always helpful when you’re creating an art piece,” Steadman said.

One thing Meza tries to communicate to his students is to not be affected by the pressure to go to college and grow up quickly.

“I tell them to take the time in college to figure out who they are,” he said. “You might end up with a piece of paper at the end of it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s you. It’s just what you chose to do at that time.”

The same freedom applies to Meza’s home life. His 2-yearold daughter, Ruby, has already been showing interest in

music and art, picking up and humming with her ukulele and banging in rhythm on her snare drum.

“I can see the difference in how developed she is,” Meza said. “It kind of freaks me out when she draws and tells me what it is. You don’t see that in a 2-year-old.”

He said he is curious to see if Ruby’s interests hold true in the next few years, but doesn’t force any music or art on her.

“Our household is amazingly creative,” Meza said.

Meza said the house is never silent. Music is playing from one room. Somebody is singing in another. Nobody walks down the stairs without tripping over an instrument.

These days, Meza continues to perform with The Mezcal Brothers, but said he will focus on writing music for his solo career, with a more folk-based, acoustic sound.

He will also continue making art in his home studio, most of which ends up at Gallery 9 in downtown Lincoln.

In making music and art, Meza has one philosophy that he also shares with his students.

“Your purpose is to speak the truth as an artist and that’s what gets you through,” Meza said. “Be true to yourself when you’re making art and you’ve already succeeded.” shelbyfleig@ dailynebraskan.com

Would 1) change “he” to “(s)he” 2) change “his” to “his/her” in the entire ASUN constitution.

The ASUN Constitution would remain unchanged.

Be a regularly enrolled member of the college he proposes to represent and agree in writing to resign if he should terminate his/her enrollment in that college during the term of the office for which he seeks election.

Be a regularly enrolled member of the college (s)he proposes to represent and agree in writing to resign if (s)he should terminate his/her enrollment in that college during the term of the office for which (s)he seeks election.

Section 1. The Student Senate, hereafter referred to as the Senate A. Composition. The Senate shall consist of forty-one (41) elected members with voting privileges, and the president, Internal Vice President, and External Vice President, who shall serve without voting privileges except herein after noted.

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Education, competition bring senior to Nebraska Michelle O’donnell daily Nebraskan

Senior Andreas Hofer had a drive for gymnastics from a very early age, a drive that would bring him across an ocean to compete in a different country.

Hofer was born and raised in Heidelberg, Germany.

Being raised by a second generation gymnast, Hofer was brought to the gym at an early age to get a head start on becoming the thirdgeneration gymnast in his family.

“My dad and grandfather were gymnasts,” Hofer said.

“My dad w o u l d take me to the g y m w h e n I was around 2 or 3 years old.”

Hofer went on hofer to join a club team in Germany when he was 5 years old. He also took up tennis, but after a while he decided his drive was in gymnastics.

Hofer, 25, earned two third-place finishes in the allaround at the 2003 and 2005 German Championships.

From 2006-2008, Hofer competed for the extended National Team of Germany.

He also competed with his club team in Germany in the 1 Bundeslinga, which is the highest gymnastics league in Germany.

“When I was 17 in the juniors, I won vault in Germany,” Hofer said. “The next year, I won floor and switched from juniors to seniors.”

Hofer made a friend in Germany who would eventually lead him to NU.

Teammate David Jacobs lived on the military base where his father was stationed in Heidelberg, and he practiced gymnastics at the same gym that Hofer trained.

“I started gymnastics in Germany, and his dad owned the gym I practiced at,” Jacobs said. “That’s how we met.”

Jacobs would return to the United States at the age of 14, but his younger brother stayed in Heidelberg and continued to practice alongside Hofer. Jacobs would return to Germany every winter break to visit his family, and would run into Hofer at the gym.

By the time Hofer had finished his schooling, he wanted to take a short trip to the United States to take English classes and see something different. Hofer got in touch with Jacobs and came to Nebraska to take English courses in January of 2009.

“He was able to practice here while he was in the course,” Jacobs said, “and then he was offered a scholarship and became a part of the team.”

Hofer wanted to keep practicing while he was taking his English course, so he practiced at the gym and was approached by the coaches about competing for Nebraska. Hofer talked to his parents about the scholarship and they gave him their full support.

“They said I would be stupid if I didn’t take advantage of that,” Hofer said. “So I decided to come back in the fall.”

Hofer returned to Germany at the end of April to take his ACT and SAT at one of the American schools in Germany. He then enrolled at the University of NebraskaLincoln in the fall semester

of 2009 as a sophomore gymnast.

Currently, Hofer is a junior in school, but a senior in gymnastics, meaning this is the last year he can compete. A few weeks ago, Hofer injured his wrist and has not been able to compete in all six events, but his goal for the end of his last year is more than just being able to compete in all six events again.

“It would be a dream to make top six at nationals,” Hofer said, “We just have to do really good. The team has so much potential.”

Although Hofer won’t be competing next year, he still plans on being a part of the team. Coach Chuck Chmelka asked Hofer to help coach the team next year, an opportunity Hofer is excited about.

“It gives me the opportunity to stay with the team,” Hofer said, “Of course I’d rather compete for another year, but I can’t change that.”

Hofer is majoring in international business with minors in finance and accounting. He is unsure of what he wants to do with his degree, but is planning on using the next year to figure that out.

“One good thing about not competing next year is that I can focus on my career a bit more,” Hofer said, “I can get internships and look into jobs.”

Looking back on his life, Hofer has no regrets, only new goals. One of Hofer’s goals this year is to be top six at nationals, after placing 11th at last year’s nationals. But Hofer’s main goal is to finish knowing he did the best he could do.

“It wasn’t really a disappointment that I didn’t make top six last year,” Hofer said.

“I just knew I did my best.” michelleodonnell@ dailynebraskan.com

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Big ten homeroom men’s basketball 1. Michigan State (246 overall, 13-4 Big Ten) Even though Michigan State lost badly, 70-55, to Indiana on Tuesday, it still controls its own destiny in winning the conference title and cannot do worse than a tie for the crown. The Spartans need a win at home versus Ohio State on Sunday to lock up the title. Provided the Buckeyes get through Northwestern on Wednesday, it should be an interesting game.

2. Ohio State (23-6, 11-5) The Buckeye’s Aaron Craft was named a first team Academic All-American on Thursday by CoSIDA. Craft is the first sophomore since 2008 to be named to the first team. He is also joined by two fellow Big Ten players, Northwestern’s Drew Crawford (second team) and Michigan’s Zack Novak (third team).

3. Michigan (21-8, 11-5) The Wolverines had reeled off four straight conference victories before that streak came crashing down in a 75-61 loss to Purdue Saturday. Michigan will now try to regroup with a couple of games against teams in the bottom grouping of the conference, Illinois and Penn State, before the Big Ten Tournament begins. If they can do so, the Wolverines look to be a dangerous team with two dangerous scorers in Tim Hardaway Jr. and Trey Burke.

4. Wisconsin (22-8, 11-6) Wisconsin is fresh off a 52-45 win against Minnesota Tuesday and is looking to beat Illinois in its final tune up before the Big Ten tournament. The Badgers could be a formidable team in the postseason. With a

tough defensive mindset and a senior leader in guard Jordan Taylor, they have the look of a team that makes a run in the big dance.

the 3-point line during that stretch.

9. Minnesota (17-13, 5-12) The Gophers have lost six 5. Indiana (23-7, 10-7) games in a row but will look Indiana’s Cody Zeller was to end that streak in their recently named one of 20 regular season final against finalists for the Oscar Rob- the Huskers at home. The ertson National Player of the last time the two teams met, Year trophy. He is also one Minnesota got the better of of 25 finalists for the John the Big Red 69-61. Senior Wooden National Player of forward Trevor Mbakwe will the Year award. The freshlead Minnesota in his last man averages 15.4 points game at the Williams Arena. per game and 6.5 rebounds 10. Illinois (17-12, per game.

6-10) 6. Purdue (19-10, 9-7) Illinois broke a six-game The Boilermakers picked up losing streak with a 65-54 an enormous win for their win against Iowa on Sunconfidence going into the day. The celebration may postseason when they beat be short-lived for the Illini, down the Michigan Wolthough, as they are slated verines 75-61 on Saturday. to play No. 15 Michigan and Purdue had lost to each of No. 16 Wisconsin this week. the seven ranked teams it Wins over those two teams had played to that point and would really have the folks there were some doubts as out in Illinois popping the to whether it would ever win champagne. the big game. Going forward, the Boilermakers will 11. Nebraska (12-15, be relying on senior forward 4-12) Robbie Hummel to lead the The Huskers could use a team in scoring. win Wednesday night for a group of seniors who will 7. Northwestern (17- be playing their last game 11, 7-9) at the Bob Devaney Sports The Big Ten’s leading Center. It has been a rough scorer, Northwestern season for the group and forward John Shurna, is they should come out averaging 20.6 points per inspired against the Hawkconference game and could eyes. Look for the crowd to be the Wildcat’s first scoring be more into the game than champion since Ray Ragelis they have been since early lead the conference in 1951. in the conference season.

Shurna lead Northwestern to a 67-66 win in Happy Val- 12. Penn State (12-17, ley this Saturday. He had 23 4-12) points in the contest.

Tim Frazier leads the conference in assists with an 8. Iowa (15-14, 7-9) average of 6.3 per game.

Matt Gatens seems to be The junior guard is on pace turning it on for the Hawkto be the Nittany Lions’ first eyes at the end of the ever conference leader in season. The senior guard the category. Assists are has scored 21, 30, 33 and not all that Frazier offers, 22 points in his last four however. He is also the Big games, two of those against Ten’s second leading scorer ranked conference foes. with 18.7 points a game.

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Big ten homeroom women’s basketball 1. Penn State (23-5 overall, 13-3 Big Ten) The regular season champs will look to claim their title outright with a win in the Big Ten Tournament. PSU finished its season on an absolute tear, winning 12 of its final 13 games. The Nittany Lions are the best team in the Big Ten and teams will have to go through them in Indianapolis to win the conference title.

2. Ohio State (24-5, 11-5) The Buckeyes won a fourway tiebreaker to claim the No. 2 seed in the tournament this week. OSU didn’t help itself out, though, after being dominated by Nebraska on Sunday. After the Buckeyes seemed to be the favorite in the Big Ten, they have struggled away from Columbus this year. All five of Ohio State’s losses have come away from home.

3. Iowa (19-10, 11-5) The last time the Hawkeyes lost was Jan. 26 in Lincoln.

Eight games later, Iowa is the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament.

The crazy thing is it has done most of this without its leading scorer. Jaime Printy suffered a knee injury earlier this month and has not played since. The Hawkeyes could have a rematch with the last team to beat them (Nebraska) in the quarterfinals of the tournament.

4. Purdue (21-8, 11-5) The Boilermakers won their final two games of the season to claim the final first-round bye slot in the tournament. However, those games were against the lower half of the Big Ten in Michigan and Indiana. Before then, Purdue had lost five of its last six after being in first place for most of the first part of the season. The Boilermakers have some work to do now to win a Big Ten Tournament title.

5. Michigan State (1910, 11-5) Another hot team, the Spartans knocked off two ranked opponents during their four-game win streak to rise to the No. 5 seed in the tournament. The nice spot about this seed is they get to play the worst team in the league in Indiana Thursday in the first round.

No team will want to play the Spartans during the tournament.

6. Nebraska (21-7, 10-6) There is a huge difference between the Big Ten’s top six teams and the bottom six teams. The Huskers are a part of that upper tier and proved they can compete for a Big Ten title with Sunday’s win over Ohio State.

Nebraska’s two leading scorers in Jordan Hooper and Lindsey Moore had just 16 points combined. NU will need its freshmen to perform the way they did in the game against the Buckeyes to win the tournament.

7. Michigan (19-10, 8-8) The Wolverines struggled in a pair of losses to end the season. After dominating Nebraska, Michigan has lost three of its final four games with its only win coming against cellar dweller Indiana. The Wolverines will need to regroup as their NCAA Tournament hopes are on thin ice right now.

8. Minnesota (14-16, 6-10) The one thing the Gophers don’t like about the Big Ten tournament is it’s not in Minneapolis. Minnesota can knock off upper-tier teams in Williams Arena. However, it has a very winnable game against Wisconsin on Thursday in the first round of the conference tourney.

After that, though, it will be hard for them to knock off tournament favorite Penn

State in the quarterfinals.

9. Wisconsin (9-19, 5-11) With its win on Sunday against Illinois, Wisconsin locked up the No. 9 seed in the conference tournament. It may not seem like a big win, but there is quite a difference in playing a decent Michigan squad and a pretty bad Gopher squad.

Not only did that game give the Badgers a better seed, it snapped a six-game losing streak. That may not be much, but it could give Wisconsin some sort of momentum.

10. Illinois (11-18, 5-11) The Illini seemed like they were going to compete with Indiana for the worst team in the Big Ten this year. But then they started winning a couple of games, including a huge win over Ohio State.

Illinois had a chance to get the No. 9 seed but lost to Wisconsin. Don’t count this team as an easy out in the tournament though.

11. Northwestern (14-15, 4-12) The Wildcats are playing the only upper-tier team they beat this year on Thursday.

Northwestern is the 11th seed in the tournament and plays the 6th seed Nebraska. The Wildcats beat the Huskers in Lincoln Feb. 16. This team is dangerous for Nebraska because it has the confidence to upset them in the first round.

12. Indiana (6-23, 1-15) At least the Hoosiers got a win in conference. They can thank the Badgers for giving them a two-point win last week. Unfortunately, the season looks like it’s going to end on Thursday when they take on Michigan State in Indianapolis. Indiana will look to rebuild after an awful 2011-2012 season.

— Compiled by Andrew Ward

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If there’s one thing that has become evident in Nebraska’s recent move to the Big Ten, it’s this: When a conference switch happens, old rivalries are pretty much kissed goodbye.

However, that isn’t exactly the case for the Nebraska women’s tennis team.

On Wednesday, the 34thranked Huskers will welcome former Big 12 Conference foe Kansas State to the Nebraska Tennis Center to rekindle a rivalry that has been extremely competitive throughout the past 13 years. Since 1998, Nebraska is 7-6 against KSU. “I think everyone’s excited because we used to be in the Big 12,” senior Madeleine Geibert said.

“The matches with them have been quite close in the past.”

In 2009, the Huskers — then ranked No. 63 — were upset by the unranked Wildcats 5-2. Geibert was unable to play in that loss because of a leg injury, but last year she solidified the victory for the Huskers in the team’s thrilling match against the 31st-ranked Wildcats. NU narrowly escaped the match 4-3.

Team captain Mary Weatherholt remembers that day vividly.

“I just remember it was a hard-fought match at their court, and the whole team fought really hard,” she said. “We’re really excited.

We’ve been playing them every year, so I’m happy to see them on the schedule even though we switched to the Big Ten.” Currently, NU holds an eight-match win streak and dropped seven spots in the Feb. 28 ITA Women’s Tennis Rankings. KSU, on the other hand, fell out of the ITA

Rankings for the first time this spring.

The Wildcats (4-5) have lost three out of their last five matches, but those numbers can be somewhat deceiving.

All five of KSU’s losses have come at the hands of ranked opponents.

Early in the season, the Wildcats were defeated by No. 4 Georgia and No. 44 Purdue. Then, in three consecutive matches, they faced No. 40 North Texas, No. 31 Arkansas and No. 28 Tulsa.

They lost all three matches.

For Husker supporters, a glass-half-full approach would suggest KSU is a team that is winless against five ranked opponents — keeping in mind that NU is currently the nation’s No. 34 team. A glass-half-empty approach, on the other hand, would imply that the Wildcats are a team that isn’t intimidated by national rankings.

“We know first-hand that they’re always a tough opponent,” Weatherholt said.

“This year, there are so many good teams. You just never know what to expect on any given day. You just never know what team is going to show up.”

More recently, though, the Wildcats are coming off two strong wins against unranked opponents. They defeated UT-Arlington 5-2 and swept Arkansas-Little Rock 7-0.

KSU is led by 24th-ranked singles player Petra Niedermayerova, who was defeated

by NU’s Geibert in last year’s No. 1 singles match. Also, Karla Bonacic — a native of Brno, Czech Republic — is this year’s 89th-ranked singles player.

“I expect them to come out ready to play, and I expect the same from us,” Weatherholt said. “It should be a good match.” jcreid@ dailynebraskan.com

sports notes Past Nebraska football stars on Hall of Fame ballot Former Huskers Trev Alberts, Tommie Frazier and Eric Crouch are on the 76-player ballot for the 2012 College Football Hall of Fame, which was announced Tuesday. The inductees will be announced on May 15.

Alberts, a four-year starter at defensive end in the early ’90s, was Nebraska’s first-ever Butkus Award winner as a senior in 1993. He recorded 96 tackles and had 15 sacks, helping lead the Huskers to an undefeated season and Orange Bowl berth.

Crouch led Nebraska’s option offense in 2011 on his way to the Heisman Trophy.

He threw for 1,510 yards and seven touchdowns and added 1,115 yards on the ground with 18 touchdowns.

He holds the Nebraska career record for total offense with 7,915 yards.

Frazier quarterbacked the Husker offense to national championships in 1994 and 1995. He was named the most valuable player in both games. In his senior season, he finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting behind Ohio State running back Eddie George.

Junior chosen for U-20 national soccer team Nebraska defender Ari Romero was named to the Mexican National Team’s Under-20 squad that will compete in the CONCACAF Championships, which start March 1 in Panama City, Panama. Romero has started 21 games in her career at Nebraska and has accumulated five points.

Mexico will be competing in a group with Canada, Jamaica and Haiti and will be looking to secure a spot in the U-20 World Cup. Coach honored Nebraska track and field coach Gary Pepin, fresh off his women’s team victory at the Big Ten Indoor Championships this weekend in Lincoln, was named the Women’s Indoor Track Coach of the Year on Tuesday.

Pepin has now been named conference coach of the year 23 times, and Tuesday’s accomplishment was his seventh time winning the women’s indoor award. Pepin led the NU men to a third-place finish this weekend as well. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Junior Brooke Thomason is hitting .318 with two home runs and 13 RBI through 16 games this season for Nebraska. needs six more home runs to become the first ever Husker to hit 27 home runs in three seasons.

Thomason said she hopes to celebrate the trip with her team leaving undefeated.

“A wish for me would be to go 5-0,” she said. “And realistically, I think that can happen. We have to just play and focus on our game and not worry about the other teams. We have to make sure we hit every pitch.

“As long as we’re playing well offensively and defensively, the score will take care of itself.”

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Patricia Veresova (left) and Mary Weatherholt hope to extend the Huskers’ eight-game win streak Wednesday.

When Brooke Thomason stepped into the batter’s box for her at-bats last year, she would try to predict what the opposing pitcher was going to throw. She said she admits that wasn’t the best method to improve her chances of getting on base.

This year, Thomason said she’s taken a different approach when stepping up to the plate.

“In the past, I tried to outguess the pitchers to think what they’d be throwing,” she said.

This year, Thomason isn’t thinking as much and so far that has been the biggest difference in the Nebraska player’s offense this season.

During the Troy Cox Classic, Thomason helped her team outscore their opponents 56-10 by accumulating seven hits and knocking in seven runners during the three-day tournament.

NU coach Rhonda Revelle described the left-handed hitter as explosive in the tournament two weekends ago.

“I think she had a great plan this last tournament,” she said.

“When she’s at the plate, she’s ready to attack strikes. When she gets into that zone, she does damage and she showed that.”

Through 16 games, the Overland Park, Kan., native has carried a .318 batting average and has hit two home runs while driving in 13 RBI. She also leads the team with 12 walks and is second on the team with a .677 slugging percentage.

But her offense isn’t the only asset Thomason brings to the team.

Last season, the right fielder held a .960 fielding percentage and committed two errors. Through the first 11 games of the season, Thomason has carried perfect fielding percentage and it was in Nebraska’s last game she displayed her stellar fielding ability, according to Revelle.

In Nebraska’s game against New Mexico State, the Huskers trailed 2-0 early when an Aggie batter hit a home run in the first inning off Tatum Edwards. The host team nearly added to its lead in the second when Malena Padilla lined a single to right field with a runner on second and one out.

Aggie pinch runner Chelsea Dohrwardt attempted to score from second on the play, but an accurate throw

by Thomason nailed her at the plate.

“If there was one play that changed the whole momentum of the game,” Revelle said, “it was that throw from right field.”

This Friday, Nebraska will travel to College Station, Texas, to play their first of five games in the Texas A&M Invitational. The tournament’s host will be Big 12 team Texas A&M, a team who defeated the Huskers twice in as many games in their last year in the conference.

Thomason said that she’s excited to face the team’s former conference rival.

“We have a great opportunity to do something special this weekend,” she said.

“It’ll definitely be a battle at the plate. I’m very excited to play a Big 12 team again.

These games will showcase our improvements and they’ll be fun to watch.

“It will be a confidencebooster no matter if we win or lose, as long as we play well.”

Revelle said she wants her No. 24 team to just focus on Friday’s opponent first — Houston.

“We’re aware of who we’re playing this weekend but right now we’re thinking about Houston,” she said. “It’s fun to think that we’ll be playing a Big 12 team again but we’re just trying to play one game at a time.”

The coach added that she hopes to see her team maintain its offensive consistency.

Thomason has batted over .300 the past two seasons and is one of two Huskers to hit eight home runs in the first two seasons as a Husker. The preelementary education major

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NU’s Ridge Kiley will be the seventh seed at 133 pounds for this weekend’s Big Ten Tournament.

Past experience prepares junior for final matches Zach Tegler

Just being confident and believing in your training daily Nebraskan and that you’re always in A year ago, Nebraska wres- the match.” tler Ridge Kiley needed to Snyder said the victory win one match to qualify showed the grit and resolve for the NCAA Champion- Kiley embodies. ships. In the fourth place “The guy pours his heart match at the Big 12 Tour- and soul into wrestling,” nament, Kiley earned that Snyder said. “It was good victory against Iowa State’s to see him continue to fight Ben Cash. and to see him persevere.

“Winning that match defi- It’s just good to see a guy nitely gave me some relief,” that works that hard — Kiley said. “I remember good to see it pay off in a once I finished that match I big match like that. You’ve was able to refocus for na- got to believe in yourself, tionals.” you’ve got to believe in Although Kiley garnered your training and you’ve a berth in the NCAA Tour- got to be tough enough to nament (and won a match make it happen when it in it), he was not about to comes down to those crulay back on the accomplish- cial moments.” ment — and he said the exStill, Kiley wasn’t exactly perience will push him to satisfied. finish this season on top.

“I guess it would be more “I just wasn’t satisfied fun to totally dominate your with my performance at opponent,” he said. the Big 12 Tournament last Even though Kiley is one year,” Kiley said. of the country’s top-20 This season, Kiley — now wrestlers, he has set higher a junior — is ranked No. 18 standards for himself. in the country at 133 pounds “I won’t be satisfied with and is the seventh seed in my seeding or my ranking,” the Big Ten Tournament. Kiley said. “I have higher He finds himexpectations self in a cirfor myself I won’t be cumstance than what the similar to his polls and evsatisfied with one year ago. erything says. my seeding or But this time I just have to my ranking. I around, Kiley go out there will be better and I have to have higher prepared. prove it. And expectations for He has I’m capable myself than what been here beof achieving fore. my goals.” the polls ... (say).

“I’m just reBut Kiley ally focused Ridge Kiley pays more atnu junior wrestler on performtention to oning at Big mat results Tens because than the rankthat’s when it matters,” ings. And while his season Kiley said. “My weight, I has been through ups and think, has seven spots open downs on its way to a 15for nationals. I just have to 11 record, Kiley is excited perform. I can’t dwell the heading into the year’s final matches that I have lost, two events. but I can learn from the “You’ve just got to look mistakes that I’ve made and at the season as a learnjust be prepared.” ing process,” Snyder said.

NU assistant coach Bryan “Try to get better for every Snyder said Kiley is able to match. All that counts right take those mistakes in stride now is what you win from and learn from them. beyond now. Everyone’s “I think he handles losses 0-0 from here on out.” well. I think they motivate This is a lesson Kiley has him,” Snyder said. “Your already learned. Snyder confidence takes a hit when added that Kiley’s NCAA you’re on some of those Tournament experience will tough grinds when you’re pay colossal dividends in wrestling and you haven’t this year’s postseason. won in a while. But Ridge “It’s always one thing just is the type of kid that can to get there, win a match get through it for sure.” and feel what it’s like, so This season, that resil- he’s a veteran in that sense,” iency was on full display in Snyder said. “It’s good to Kiley’s match against Penn calm your nerves and have State’s Frank Martellotti. a sense of, ‘I can do this.

The Huskers’ 133-pounder I’ve done this before. I can allowed a takedown early in do it again.’” the first period and trailed If Kiley can indeed make 3-1 with only 30 seconds re- the NCAAs again, he would maining in the match. After still expect bigger things winning a point from a pen- from himself. alty, Kiley scored a reversal “Just getting to the NCAA with 8 seconds left to win Tournament last year, get4-3. ting that experience and re“Winning a match like alizing that I’m not going to that is always a little bit settle for just being a qualimore exciting,” Kiley said. fier,” he said. “I want to be “Matches like that every up there on that podium.” once in a while are pretty zachtegler@ dailynebraskan.com fun to come out on top of.

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In the seniors’ final time out at Devaney, Richardson and the Huskers hope to secure a season sweep of the Hawkeyes Just more than a month ago, Brandon Richardson had one of the best nights of his career. He made nine of his 10 shots and scored a season-high 25 points to help the Huskers escape Iowa City with a 79-73 win over the Hawkeyes. It was the kind of game that rewards a senior for five years of hard work.

Unfortunately, those feel-good moments have been few and far between this year. The Huskers have won just once since that Jan. 26 game and the most points Richardson has tallied in any other game is 15.

But on that night, the pain from an otherwise rough season subsided.

“It was just one of those nights,” Richardson said before practice Monday.

“When I threw it up, it went in. Credit my teammates for finding me and putting me in the right position to score the basketball.”

Richardson will get another chance to torch Iowa Wednesday night, in the final home game of his Husker career.

Fellow seniors Toney McCray, Bo Spencer and Caleb Walker will try to ensure that their last memories of the Bob Devaney Sports Center aren’t bitter ones.

Despite the 12-15 record (4-12 in the Big Ten), the Huskers, and the seniors especially, hope there’s much more

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basketball in their futures. NU players remain confident that wins Wednesday and Saturday at Minnesota, plus a run in the Big Ten Tournament, could keep the season alive for a while longer.

“Opportunity is a huge word,” Richardson said. “We do have opportunity, but it’s not going to be easy by any means. Hopefully, you take ownership as far as making the best out of your opportunity because you never know what can happen. You have to keep fighting. You never know what can happen.”

Iowa is the first hurdle, a task that looks significantly more difficult than it did a month ago. The Hawkeyes started slowly but have won four of their last eight and climbed from the depths of the conference standings to eighth with a 7-9 league record.

“We had some tough losses,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “There have been a couple nights we just didn’t play well. Everybody was sideways. You’re coming in the locker room; you’re disappointed; you’re disappointed in yourself; we’re disappointed as coaches; you’re trying to figure it out.

“But that’s what the journey’s all about. You got to fight through it. You got to keep coming.”

The Hawkeye coach’s sentiments sound similar to the sound bites that have been emerging from the NU camp all season. The Huskers got another obstacle to fight through in Saturday’s loss to Michigan State — point guard and leading scorer Spencer injured his ankle, leaving his status for Wednesday in question.

If Spencer is unable to play or is limited by the injury, even more responsibility will fall on Richardson’s shoulders.

He and Spencer have split point guard duties this season, but it’s the LSU transfer that typically brings the ball up.

Whether or not Spencer is available, the going will be tough. Regardless of the outcome, Husker fans know what to expect from Richardson: solid defense, few turnovers and smart shots — and every once in a while a 25-point surprise awaits.

“I feel disappointed because we didn’t accomplish some of the things we wanted to do,” Richardson said.

“But just because things haven’t gone our way doesn’t mean we throw in the towel and give up. Just depending on how things work, hopefully we can make something happen.”

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Bats starting to heat up for NU Sean Whalen daily Nebraskan

Nebraska baseball coach Darin Erstad likes to say he’ll “ride the hot hand.” Lucky for him, he’s got most of the team to bet on right now.

While the sample size is small, NU’s offensive production has improved markedly since last season. In 2011, NU ran a .270 (batting average)/.359 (on-base)/.742 (onbase plus slugging) line and averaged 5.4 runs per game.

Through seven games in 2012, the team’s line has improved to .329/.399/.826 and the Huskers are averaging nearly two runs per game (7.3) more.

Lost amid the bullpen and fielding issues that led the team to a winless opening weekend in Arizona was the consistent hitting of the team — NU put up 16 runs in three games against a Gonzaga squad known for its top-level pitching. The offense then exploded for 35 runs in four games last weekend in Texas, leading to a four-game win streak and 4-3 record.

Chad Christensen (.414/.469/1.159) has been obliterating the baseball this year with eight runs, four extra base hits and eight RBI in seven games. He was honored as the MVP of the Kleberg Bank College Classic last weekend and took a spot on the All-Tournament team with six other Husker hitters (not including pitcher Jon Keller, who was also honored).

Not that you’ll hear him brag about it.

“I’ve just got to do the same thing every day,” Christensen said. “Just go day to day, try to help win games.”

While the junior from Cedar Rapids may not be willing to puff his chest out too much, his teammates are very willing to sing his praises.

“Chad puts all the work in — he deserves it,” Josh Scheffert said. “We want him to keep that going, keep having good ABs, because that helps us all out.”

Thing is, Christensen isn’t the only Husker on a tear.

Scheffert (.375/.412/.850) has been plugging along, and so has just about everyone else.

Kale Kiser (.174/.406/.580) is the only Husker in anything like a slump, and he’s still getting on base 40 percent of the time.

Despite rainy or cold days like Tuesday, NU’s hitters can still practice like it’s July in Anaheim. Nebraska’s indoor facilities, particularly the new hitting facility, keep the hitters in good shape, rain or shine, warm or cold.

“We have the best indoor facilities in the country,” Erstad said. “We have two full football fields at our disposal to have full team practice and the best indoor hitting facility in the country, in my opinion.

We’re set; we have no excuses.”

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Junior Josh Scheffert is hitting .375 this season with a .412 on-base percentage. when you factor in the fact that many of the Huskers aren’t totally sure where they will play on a daily basis. Erstad’s “dayto-day” motto has been firmly established, as several players have taken on multiple positions. Christensen moved from shortstop to left field and back after an injury to Pat Kelly. Scheffert plays first, third or DHs, depending on the game. Newcomer Richard Stock (.400/.400/.920) catches, handles first and DHs. The players can always be relied on to drop a line like “I’ll play wherever the team needs me,” and Erstad answered questions about the changing lineup card by saying, “We’re going to put the best people on the field on each particular day.”

As the Huskers prepare to head north to the Metrodome for the Dairy Queen Classic in Minneapolis this weekend,

the hitters hope to remind the locals more of Kirby Puckett than Bombo Rivera (exactly).

NU may still be without the services of Kelly, and Kash Kalkowski (groin injury) is listed as day-to-day as well.

With those setbacks — and the fact that the Metrodome isn’t exactly a college hitter’s paradise — it would be easy to assume a bit of a letdown from Christensen and the gang.

Wherever they play, the Huskers aren’t changing how they run their offense. Especially not when they’re as hot as they are now.

“We’re gonna take bags, were gonna try to execute things, bunt for hits,” Christensen said. “It’s just a part of our offense ... it’s what coach (Will) Bolt’s preached since the fall. It’s nothing new.”

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