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Six-year graduation rate climbs to 67% UNL presents an upward trend in graduation to NU Board of Regents, aims to meet or exceed rates of peer schools Story by Frannie Sprouls Graphics by Bryan Klopping

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tudents who don’t graduate in four — or even five — years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are still more likely to graduate than not. The UNL 2005 entering class graduated nearly 67 percent of its remaining super-seniors in 2011.

William Nunez, associate to the chancellor and director of Institutional Research and Planning, presented the numbers to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents Jan. 27.

Nunez said in an interview, when looking at the range, the six-year graduation rates have gone from the 40 percent range in 1990 to the 60 percent range in 2005.

Ellen Weissinger, senior vice chancellor of academic affairs, said she didn’t have an explanation to why the six-year graduation rates for UNL have grown in the last decade.

“But my guess is it would be related to a couple of other things that have trended the same way,” Weissinger said. “One, of course, is the academic profile of our undergraduate student body as a whole … I think the other thing that has trended over that decade is the quality of our faculty.”

While reaching the 67 percent graduation rate is a proud moment for UNL, Weissinger said the university is dissatisfied at where it is compared to other institutions.

Nunez agreed.

“The question is, what do we compare ourselves to?” Nunez said. “Us to us is really good progress … but then you got to say, compared to what?”

UNL’s six-year graduation rate is placed against a group of peer institutions, such as Colorado University, Colorado State University, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, Iowa State University, Kansas State University and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

The graduation rate of the peer institutions averages at 70 percent and the immediate goal for UNL is to get a litter higher than the 70 percent, Nunez said.

“It’s an ambitious goal,” Weissinger said.

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Trend of six-year graduation rates UNL’s Institutional Research and Planning recently announced that UNL’s six-year grad rate is on the up and up. Of those who entered UNL in 2005, 66.6 percent graduated in six years. This is up from 47.1 percent for the entering class of 1990.

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UNL began taking steps in order to move the percent higher than its peers. Nunez said the university is looking carefully at information gathered about students during the past years.

“We just had programs for the masses in the past. We put in place learning communities, we had mid-semester check, we had several programs like that,” he said. “Now we’re pretty much looking at the student.”

When students are accepted, the university looks at their potential for success or being an at-risk student, based on statistical modeling, Nunez said.

Certain students who are at risk are contacted by advisers, he said.

“We’re trying to unify the advising system,” Nunez said. “We now have a system in place … so a student can go anywhere on the campus and that advising material that he or she has been advised on is online.”

This system is called MyPLAN. “Broadly, MyPLAN is a computer application that allows an adviser and a student to keep a digital advising record,” Weissinger said. “So it’s not in a file folder in a desk drawer anymore.”

Weissinger said the problem with a file folder in a desk drawer is only one person can look at it at once and if a student changes his or her major, the file folder tends not to go anywhere. “(MyPLAN) creates the ability to create a

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Class of 2015’s UNL takes on trash in Recyclemania views lean left, study says Frannie SProuls Daily nEbraskan

Daniel Wheaton Daily Nebraskan

A study of freshmen entering college showed that the class entering college in 2011 is more liberal on a number of social issues.

The survey of “The American Freshman,” done by the University of California, Los Angeles, asked more than 200,000 freshmen questions pertaining to their education, political opinions and career goals.

The most notable shift is that political and social opinions tend to be moving toward the left. Even though the numbers of students claiming to be conservative or liberal — 20.7 percent and 27.6 percent respectively — remained about the same, issue-based opinions fluctuated.

Overall, support for samesex marriage, abortion and marijuana legalization has increased since last year’s study.

Notably, 71 percent of college freshmen were in support of gay marriage.

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Given the sway youth had in the 2008 presidential election, America’s college students are a political force not to be ignored .

Last semester, Michael Wagner, a professor of political science, conducted a similar study measuring the opinions of the University Nebraska-Lincoln’s student body.

Unlike the national poll, there is less of a political middle ground at UNL. In the Big Red Poll, 37 percent of UNL students claimed to be liberal, while 36 percent of students identify as conservative.

“People may just be starting to pay attention during Occupy Wall Street or the presidential campaign.” Wagner said. Wagner believes that the unique socio-political environment may have caused the spike in liberality. In his survey, Wagner also gauged support of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

Those who supported it fell left-of-center on the political

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Recyclemania kicked off at the University of NebraskaLincoln for its third year Sunday.

It is a friendly competition between colleges and universities with the overall goal of increasing awareness on campus about recycling, said Jeff Henson, UNL recycling co-coordinator.

The competition will last eight weeks. The last day is March 31.

Competitors have the chance to compete in two different divisions: the Competition Division and the Benchmark Division.

This year, UNL is competing in the Competition Division.

“We’re here to win it!” said Prabhakar Shrestha, UNL recycling co-coordinator.

“And we’re participating in all the five categories.”

These categories are Grand Champion, Stephen K. Gaski Per Capita Classic, Gorilla Prize, Waste Minimization and Targeted Materials, which has subcategories of paper, cardboard, cans and bottles and foodservice organics.

Grand Champion divides the weight of recyclables by

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Recyclemania when: Feb. 5 to March 31 where: Recycling bins all across campus Students can stop by the booth on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to sign the recycling pledge. Contact Prabhakar Shrestha or Jeff Henson, UNL Recycling coordinators, at (402) 472-9139.

the combined weight of recyclable and trash, the Per Capita Classic divides the weight of recyclables by the campus population and the Gorilla Prize is who recycled the most by weight.

Waste Minimization is the combined weight of recyclables and trash divided by the campus population, while Targeted Materials takes the weight of the targeted material by the campus population.

The only category UNL isn’t participating in is electronics.

UNL Recycling is collaborating with Sustain UNL, the environmental student group on campus, for

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Recyclemania.

One of the strategies for winning the competition this year is to introduce a new theme each week in order to keep the competition fresh in students’ minds, Henson said.

“Each Tuesday of this competition, in front of the union or around the union, we’ll have some type of display booth or activity,” said Sustain UNL President Neil

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Tabor, a senior environmental studies major.

At the booth, students will sign a recycling pledge and have the opportunity to win prizes.

“The pledge says ‘I will recycle all materials that I use during this eight-week competition period and I

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UNL offers new Civil Engagement program Certificate could give UNL grads competitve edge cristina woodworth daily nebraskan

Nancy Mitchell said when she worked as a copywriter years ago, she often thought, “I could be using what I’m doing for a much greater good.”

Mitchell, the director of Undergraduate Education at the University of NebraskaLincoln, has tried to live by that mantra ever since. She has done her part, volunteering for several organizations, including serving on boards for the Humane Society and the Red Cross. Now, Mitchell wants to help students get more involved in the community as well.

Mitchell, along with Linda Major, assistant to the vice chancellor of Student Affairs, has created a new civic engagement program for UNL students. The program enables students to graduate with a Certificate in Civic Engagement on their official transcripts.

Civic engagement is loosely defined as connecting classroom learning with the opportunity to make a difference in the community.

Students involved in the voluntary program will follow a two to four year timeline, during which they will learn about different civic

engagement values like lead- solver for an issue,” she said. ership, diversity and commuJuan Franco, vice chancelnication. There also will be a lor of student affairs, said he student-designed final proj- hopes the program encourect and a presentation of the ages students to volunteer things they have learned. more.

“We wanted to allow stu“This is an avenue to recdents to link the things they ognize students who are alare already doing,” Mitchell ready engaged in community said. “We wanted the program service,” Franco said. “I think to help students develop and it says a lot about a student’s align their prior interests.” character if they’re willing to Major added, “The program do things to help other peothoughtfully and intelligently ple out.” links outside the classroom To earn the Certificate in activities with Civic Eninside the gagement, If students are classroom students will trying to get into learning,” she not have to take any exsaid. “It cregrad school or tra classes ates a holistic med school, a or spend college expecertificate like more time at rience instead the univerof having two this can look sity.

Mitchseparate lives.” really good. ell said they Both Mitchhave worked ell and Major to make the talked about Nancy MItchelL program cothe imporDirector, Undergraduate Education hesive with tance of stucourses that dents becoming active, engaged citizens students are already taking.

Students in the program will in their communities.

“Whether it’s a university take four, three-credit courscommunity, a national com- es that they can select from munity or even a global com- specially designated civic enmunity, students can help gagement (CE) classes. Three change the world in whatever of the four courses have to be way they wish,” Mitchell said. upper-level classes. The proMajor agreed, saying the gram is open to all majors.

Besides these classes, parprogram can push students to get more involved in an issue ticipants will also be involved in a series of student-dethey are passionate about.

“You can start from drop- signed experiences on camping $5 in a can and progress pus, in the community or to become an active problem beyond that support the CE

learning values. The program is kicking off this semester with a small pilot group of 22 students.

There is already strong support for the program from the university community. Major said the deans of every college have said they support it.

So why would students want to have a Certificate in Civic Engagement?

Franco said it will make students stand out when it comes to job interviews, internships and even graduate school.

“Employers are looking for someone with integrity and good character,” he said.

Mitchell agreed. “If students are trying to get into grad school or med school, a certificate like this can look really good,” she said. “Employers, too, want students with a civic capacity to make the world a better place.”

Mitchell also emphasized that the certificate doesn’t have any kind of agenda.

“Students can express themselves in ways that are appropriate for them,” she said.

Besides the job benefits that can come from a CE certificate, research has shown that volunteering helps people’s mental health as well, Major said.

“Engaging in the community makes us feel better,” she said. “We feel good when we give back.”

Major said this, with

experience, having volunteered on a number of boards for United Way and for local substance abuse agencies.

She also volunteered with a group of students in New Orleans in 2007 after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city.

“It’s just really important to be someone who gives back,” Major said.

Mitchell added that studies have shown people who volunteer are generally happier and less likely to be depressed.

“People are happier if they have a purpose,” she said.

Students who decide to become involved in the program will also have the opportunity to contract a class that is not already designated as a CE course. There will be two civic engagement coaches for students to get help from. Linda Moody, director of service learning for the Center for Civic Engagement , and Kris Baack, director of leadership education for the Center for Civic Engagement , will be the coaches.

Overall, Major and Mitchell said they hope many students decide to take advantage of this program.

“You can either just put your foot in the door or immerse your whole body,” Major said. “Students should become engaged at whatever level they desire.” cristinawoodworth@ dailynebraskan.com

graduates: from 1 digital advising record rather than a paper advising record,” she said.

Weissinger said she believes student success comes from the influence of everybody on campus, from the person who cleans the offices to the people in Landscape Services to people who work in the Nebraska Union.

“Everybody who works on the campus has to think it’s their job to support student success,” she said. “And to contribute to a student, each in our own unique way, staying in college, getting through their program and graduating.”

When graduated students are asked why they stayed in college and graduated, a faculty member is often involved, Weissinger said.

Weissinger — who dropped out of college her second semester of her sophomore year — said a faculty member kept in contact with her and encouraged her to return to college.

And she did, after one semester off.

“Often, there are people who aren’t faculty members who make that difference,” she said. “So everybody on campus has to think it’s their job.” franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

Community desk Lecture: ‘Rethinking Immigration and Education in the Age of Global Vertigo’ when: Monday, Feb. 6, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Ballroom what: Lecture by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco from New York University. contact: Mary Willis at 402472-9677 or mwillis2@unl. edu Faculty artist: Craig Fuller when: Monday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall what: Tuba/Euphonium recital by faculty member Craig Fuller. cost: Free and open to the public contact: Mike Edholm at 402-472-6865 or medholm2@unl.edu Spring Career Fair when: Tuesday, Feb. 7 and Wednesday, Feb. 8, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Centennial Room what: Potential employers will discuss job and internship opportunities with students. schedule: *Engineering, technology, science and agriculture – Feb. 7 *Business, liberal arts, government and non-profit – Feb. 8 contact: Christina Fielder at 402-472-8029 or cfielder2@ unl.edu Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Primary and Secondary Sources: when: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. where: Love Library South, ESC Room 111 what: Lecture by Kathy Johnson, professor and humanities librarian at UNL, about the print and electronic resources UNL Libraries has that cover the period from 400 C.E. to 1700 C.E.

contact: Sue Leach at 402472-0703 or sleach1@unl. edu

Blood Pressure Checks when: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Wellness Booth what: Students, faculty and staff can get their blood pressures checked by one of the University Health Center nurses. cost: Free contact: Suzanne Forkner at 402-472-7443 or sforkner2@ unl.edu Lecture: ‘Insect Control Options for Organic Farming; What Role Do Biopesticides Play?’ when: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: East Campus Union what: Lecture by Chelsea Piitz, an entomology graduate student at UNL. contact: Jeri Cunningham at 402-472-8678 or jcunningham1@unl.edu MBA Information Sessions when: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 5:30 p.m. where: College of Business Administration, Room 222 what: Information sessions for students to learn about MBA program benefits and features, career advantages and the application process contact: Samantha Bruckner at 402-472-2338 or sbruckner2@unl.edu Poker Night 2012 when: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m. where: East Campus Union what: Texas Hold’em poker tournament. Prizes awarded to top three players. cost: Free Symphony Orchestra Tuesday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall what: Concert by the Symwhen:

phony Orchestra cost: $5 general admission, $3 student/senior, available at the door an hour before concert contact: Mike Edholm at 402-472-6865 or medholm2@unl.edu Nebraska AfricanAmerican Domestic Violence Action Committee’s Annual Conference when: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: East Campus Union what: Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend the Nebraska AfricanAmerican Domestic Violence Action Committee’s Sixth Annual Conference. Register at 402-472-9292 or at bob@ fvclincln.org cost: Free and open to the public contact: Jan Deeds at 402472-2598 or jdeeds1@unl. edu Lecture: ‘Ecohydrology: Coupling, Connectivity and Challenges in Forested Catchments’ when: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 107 what: Lecture by Holly Barnard from the University of Colorado-Boulder. contact: Lorrie Benson at 402-472-7372 Theta Phi Alpha Noodles and Company benefit night when: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Noodles and Company, 210 N. 14th Street what: Benefit to help raise funds for the house that Theta Phi Alpha built, an organization that focuses on helping the homeless.

With every purchase at the

restaurant, 25 percent of the proceeds will go toward Theta Phi Alpha.

Prairie Schooner Irish Issue Launch Party when: Thursday, Feb. 9 to Friday, Feb. 10, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. both days where: Sheldon Museum of Art, Abbott Auditorium what: Irish writers Nuala Ni Chonchuir and Deanie Rowan Blank will interview and read from their works, followed by a panel on contemporary Irish literature. The next day, Irish writers Aidan Rooney and Sandra Bunting will interview and read from their works, followed by the Irish issue launch with guest readings. cost: Free and open to the public contact: Trey Moody at 210887-9723 or treyemoody@ yahoo.com UNL FFA Alumni meeting when: Thursday, Feb. 9, 5 p.m. where: East Campus Union what: Meeting of the UNL FFA Alumni. Pizza will be provided.

Lecture: Ted Kooser when: Thursday, Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union what: Ted Kooser will speak on and present his poetry.

Tea and cookies will be provided.

My Funny Valentine when: Thursday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, the Crib what: Night filled with chocolate fondue, mocktails and comedy improv Lecture: ‘What Comes Down Must Go Up: The Competing Effects of Precipitation and Evaporation on

Water Availability’ when: Thursday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Auditorium what: Lecture by John Lenters on how precipitation and evaporation affect water availability.

Lecture: ‘Exploring How Chemistry Students Think’ when: Friday, Feb. 10, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hamilton Hall, Room 112 what: Lecture by Professor Vicente Talanquer from the University of Arizona. The lecture is open to the public. contact: DeNeice Steinmeyer at 402-472-3523 or dsteinmeyer2@unl.edu Lecture: ‘Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Do the Rhumba: The Rebirth of Latin Jazz’ when: Friday, Feb. 10, 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. where: Rococo Theatre, 140 N. 13th St. what: Lecture by musician Chris Washburne, followed by a concert by Washburne’s NYC Latin Jazz band SYOTOS. Includes dinner. cost: $27 lecture, dinner and concert, $12 concert only Lecture: ‘Ordained Women in the Middle Ages: When Women Were Clergy’ when: Friday, Feb. 10, 4 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Auditorium what: Gary Macy, from the religious studies department at Santa Clara University, will lecture on the role of women in the Christian church cost: Free and open to the public Closing Reception: Red Meat and Gluten when: Friday, Feb. 10, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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Nebraska Union, Rotunda Gallery what: Closing reception for the Red Meat and Gluten art exhibition.

Dinosaurs and Disasters when: Saturday, Feb. 11, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Morrill Hall what: A day filled with handson activities in the museum exploring this year’s theme of droughts and floods. cost: Free for faculty, staff, students and immediate family members. General admission is $5 for adults (19 and older), $3 for children (5 to 18) and free from children 4 and under. Family rate is $10 for up to two adults and children.

Double Reed Day when: Saturday, Feb. 11, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. where: Westbrook Music Building what: Workshops, master classes and instrument maintenance. Register by filling out a form and sending it to William McMullen. cost: $10 registration fee contact: Mike Edholm at 402-472-6865 Cocktails with Larry Miller when: Saturday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m. where: Lied Center what: One-man show by comedian and performer Larry Miller. contact: Shannon McClure at 402-472-4700 or liedcenterinfo@unl.edu — compiled by kim buckley, community@ dailynebraskan.com

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UNMC discusses evolution of medical ethics in human trials Maren westra daily nebraksan

It’s been seven decades since United States scientists intentionally infected Guatemalans with gonorrhea and syphilis for research, but attempts to protect participants in clinical research are still an issue.

Currently, there is no federal guarantee that volunteers in medical research will be provided care or compensation if they are harmed, even if the trials are federally sponsored.

In response to the October 2010 discovery that a 1940s study in Guatemala involved the intentional infection of hundreds of people, President Barack Obama asked the bioethics commission to investigate whether existing rules and

guidelines adequately protected participants in clinical research.

According to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the commission reported in September that public health officials were to blame for the incident in Guatemala, and the bioethics commission’s website said unethical research like this would never happen today.

In December, it reported something else: The guidelines that exist are, indeed, enough.

However, the commission outlined a set of 14 improvements it recommends be made in federally sponsored research trials. These improvements include maintaining more specific data about each experiment and making it easier for the public to access information about clinical trials online. The

rest of the guidelines are outlined in a report on bioethics. gov.

According to the same article in The Chronicle, many clinical trials take place at universities, and the level of care and compensation offered by these universities varies greatly.

LuAnn Larson is a nurse manager in the clinical research center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She said when participants enroll in a clinical trial, they sign a contract that usually assigns liability to the third-party company that developed the drug being studied. She said UNMC assumes responsibility for providing care when it is needed.

She also said it’s “extremely rare” for a person to suffer harm because of involvement in a

clinical trial.

UNMC senior associate director of Communications Tom O’Connor echoed Larson on this matter.

“I hope we don’t harm anyone,” he said.

Larson said she’s been practicing medicine for 15 or 20 years and as long as she can remember, strong efforts have been made to protect medical volunteers.

She said that UNMC follows GCP, or “Good Clinical Practice,” guidelines.

“Adherence to the principles of good clinical practices (GCPs), including adequate human subject protection (HSP) is universally recognized as a critical requirement to the conduct of research involving human subjects,”

according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website.

After its report, the Bioethics Commission is scheduled for more meetings and reports on ethics in medicine.

A public meeting was held Feb. 2 and Feb. 3 in San Francisco. The committee discussed the matter of medical countermeasures for children, an issue especially prevalent after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requested to be allowed to test the anthrax vaccine on children, even after adults suffered adverse reactions to the vaccine including disability and death.

Other issues on the agenda included genome sequencing and neuroethics. Descriptions

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A snowman of more than 12 feet was constructed at the home of Rusty Andresen Saturday evening. The skull design was done by two local tattoo artists, Dusty Noha and Adam Hart of Hartland Tattoo. With the additional help of Andrew Carroll, the tuxedo sporting, undead Mr. Frost was completed in approximately four hours.

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Wagner said he believes the impact of social media may have also caused this spike.

With an increased flow of ideas, Wagner said, people tend to be more open to new ones.

“You have people who are away from their parents for the first time, so it makes sense,” Wagner said.

The shifting opinions are building up the hopes of people working for those within the gay community as well. Ashley Moffat, president of the Queer Ally Coalition and a junior psychology major, is excited to see attitudes change.

“I know that there is a very strong progressive base,”

Moffat said. Even though UNL is more politically polarized, Moffat said she’s had a relatively easy time promoting activities from the QAC. “Our campus is very progressive,” Moffat said. She explained how the university is very supportive of the QAC and the LGBTQA Resource Center. Moffat believes there is a clear trend of acceptance nationally and on campus. This is reinforced by a May 2011 Gallup poll which has 53 percent of people polled supporting gay marriage. This is the first time this opinion has been in the majority.

“I think gay rights is one of those issues that doesn’t

change that much,” Moffat said.

The fact that it deals with people, not policy, has Moffat hopeful for the future.

Alec Kaus, a freshman political science and art major, is a member of UNL Young Democrats. He believes this is a social shift toward liberal norms.

“We progress, and things seem to right themselves,” Kaus said.

The survey also asked a number of questions pertaining to students’ futures. When asked about employment, a solid 2 percent chose “unemployed.”

“Well, you have to account for smart-ass,” Wagner said.

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letters: from 4 tion was beyond unprofessional and was, frankly, downright petty. The day before, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Juan Franco wrote a very professional and well-written article explaining the situation, and I have emailed him to commend him for that. However, Ellen, to give your response in such a petty way completely ruins the academic integrity of the DN. The DN is a newspaper for students, by students, and it is a learning tool to help journalism students prepare for the real world. For you to come in and use your authority to trash the paper’s coverage is not only unprofessional and petty, but is also unacademic and pathetic. I expect more from my chancellors, and I have also emailed UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman. If anyone should be let go in this whole situation, it looks like it should be you because of your lack of respect for the academic process. I would grade your response like you did to the DN, but to do that would also be an embarrassment to the integrity of the educational process. To say I’ve lost faith in the leadership of UNL would be an understatement; I’m embarrassed to be graduating from an institution that would allow you to be a leader.

P.S. — I want to clarify that calling you Ellen and calling Juan Franco by his title was based solely on my respect for his integrity and professionalism and my lack of respect for you for having neither.

Greg Bright

senior film studies major

Housing did their best to respond to bedbug situation; RA, DN overreacted

The Daily Nebraskan keeps trying to incite scandal by alleging that Housing officials intentionally withheld information or lied to students about bedbugs on campus. But what the editorial staff call “apparent lies” are anything but to the discerning reader.

The Selleck Resident Assistant that claimed her Residence Director asked her to lie must have been under a lot of stress, because she seriously misunderstood the intentions of her boss. From reading the email exchange between the two, it was clear that Selleck RD Corrine Fricke was simply trying very hard to respect Selleck RA Amanda’s privacy.

Fricke wrote, “if you feel OK sharing, you can let them know that facilities is treating the

room.” That doesn’t sound like she was asking Amanda to keep quiet.

As for the “many RAs” too afraid to come forward, I’m simply not buying it. If they have concerns, they should bring them up with their supervisor, not the newspaper. If the DN insists on continuing to reference them, it should at the very least publish their concerns so they can be verified.

Last is the DN’s concern that a press release was not issued the moment a rumor of bedbugs was voiced. A wise journalism professor once told me, “Never ascribe to malice what can be attributed to ignorance.” As college students, you expect immediacy. Technology makes communication so easy. But Housing is a bureaucracy, like it or not, and bureaucracies are slow-moving beasts. What’s more, Housing officials are not nearly as familiar with technology as the average college student. Communication is important, but not urgent; news takes time.

While it is not perfect, Housing has done a lot for students in the past weeks, and for that, it earns the benefit of a doubt.

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of the conversations and results of these meetings have been posted on the bioethics commission’s blog on its website.

Despite the alleged rarity of harm to participants in medical research, “there’s always horror stories,” Larson said.

“There have been bad things that have happened in research over the past years, so they came up with … GCP (guidelines) to try and prevent that,” she said. “People follow them.” marenwestra@ dailynebraskan.com

recylcing: from 1 support recycling,’” Tabor said.

Events haven’t been finalized yet. Henson said a photo contest and a video contest are in the works throughout the next eight weeks of competition.

Other than participating in events and signing the pledge, students don’t have to do anything other than recycle.

“The goal is to elevate consciousness and make a conscious effort to recycle when the opportunity presents itself,” Henson said.

Tabor said the purpose of the competition is to teach students why recycling is important and getting the word out to students instead of doing anything extra to win the competition.

“They should try to get others excited (about recycling) so they have incentive to get involved,” Tabor said.

“And try to shift the culture a little bit.” franniesprouls@ 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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Graduation rates rising, new goals set

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln showcased more good news on Jan. 27 at the Board of Regents’ meeting.

This time, it was UNL’s rising six-year graduation rate.

In past years, graduation rates have been as low as 40 percent over six years, rising recently to the entering class of 2005’s six-year rate of 67 percent. Despite the increase, university officials have set a goal higher than 70 percent, the level of many peer institutions.

The Daily Nebraskan is pleased to see students graduating and is confident students are receiving a worthwhile and valuable education. Related coverage has indicated job-placement rates also are up, and job satisfaction, even in a recession, is high.

Comments specifying an end goal higher than 70 percent provide further encouragement, as UNL is clearly unsatisfied with the status quo. Though six-year graduation rates of 67 percent represent improvement over the recent past, they are nowhere near the level needed to maintain the status, prestige and quality of a major research university. At the same time, the DN would like to highlight a possible area of concern — the new policy adopted by the Board of Regents mandating 120-credit-hour majors.

While UNL’s graduation rates are climbing, they are only worthwhile if degrees from UNL carry meaning.

Still, the DN is cautiously optimistic that the new policy will provide both financial and academic benefit to its students, and should make graduation rates climb even higher.

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Ellen, I would like to tell you personally that your response to the Daily Nebraskan’s news coverage of the bedbug situa-

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he First Amendment is under attack in the United States.

More than 200 years ago, Congress passed the Bill of Rights, with this line at the very top: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” While much of the world continues to languish under the oppressive rule of theocratic governments, the United States has strived to be a beacon of religious tolerance. This was a place where men and women were free to worship their god or gods, or to worship no god at all. Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have laid down their lives in defense of this sacred right.

But on Jan. 20, President Obama gave it all away.

As a corollary to the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (known as “Obamacare”), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has issued a mandate to America’s healthcare providers. This mandate requires health insurance plans in the United States to cover contraception, sterilization and abortifacients — the socalled “morning-after pill.”

Because the mandate is all-encompassing, Roman Catholic hospitals and schools are also subject to the directive. As you might imagine, this is very problematic for the Catholic Church, which teaches that life begins at conception and that termination of life after conception is murder.

But this debate isn’t about abortion or birth control. It doesn’t even matter whether you agree with the Catholic Church’s position on those issues. As long as you recognize that Catholics hold those beliefs, it becomes crystal clear that this HHS mandate is grossly unconstitutional. To a Catholic healthcare worker in the United States, the requirement that the worker participate in something he or she

benjamin kantack views as murder is more than just uncomfortable – it’s morally abhorrent.

It goes against everything he or she believes about life and death, and it makes him or her a collaborator in infanticide.

Before this mandate, the 625 Catholic hospitals and 7,498 Catholic schools in the United States could at least choose not to take part in an action they viewed as morally reprehensible. Now, they are legally obligated to participate.

The mandate does include exception for “religious employers.” But the criteria are so narrowly defined that the Catholic Church’s schools, universities and charitable organizations don’t qualify because they serve non-Catholics. Under the administration’s guidelines, even Jesus Christ – who healed many afflicted persons who didn’t share his religious beliefs – wouldn’t count as a “religious employer.”

Imagine, if you will, that the Obama administration ordered all U.S. restaurants to serve cheeseburgers. They concluded that, because cheeseburgers are awesome, America would be a better place if citizens could walk into any restaurant and buy a cheeseburger.

Perhaps this sounds like utopia to you – and, as a lover of cheeseburgers myself, I can certainly sympathize. But for a devout Hindu restaurant owner who believes cows are sacred and not to be killed, this cheeseburger society would be no paradise. Rather, he would be forced to abandon his religious beliefs or sacrifice a

career he’s spent his life building in order to comply with the law. The legal exemption would be useless, because he serves non-Hindus in his restaurant. He is faced with an unthinkable choice – should he give up his religion, or his livelihood?

What kind of country forces its citizens to make this choice?

Maybe you think Catholics are silly for opposing abortion and contraceptives.

Maybe you also think Jehovah’s Witnesses are silly for refusing blood transfusions, or the Amish are silly for resisting technology, or Jews are silly for not eating bacon.

Guess what? That’s OK. This is America, and you’re entitled to your opinion. But you’re not entitled to stuff a Baconator down an Orthodox Jew’s throat – and neither is the federal government.

Thankfully, American Catholics aren’t taking this affront to liberty sitting down. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is brewing for an extended legal battle over the mandate, and they intend to pull no punches. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, issued a letter to local parishes, stating “We cannot and will not comply with this unjust decree. Like the martyrs of old, we must be prepared to accept suffering that could include heavy fines and imprisonment. Our American religious liberty is in grave jeopardy.”

Don’t think that this fight is just about Catholics and abortion. It’s about all of us Americans, whether we are Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists or otherwise. It’s about not setting a legal precedent that will erode the most hallowed rights protected by our Constitution and its amendments.

In short, it is a fight our nation of liberty cannot afford to lose.

Benjamin Kantack is a senior political science and Spanish major.

Follow him at @BenjaminKantack and reach him at BenjaminKantack@ dailynebraskan.com.

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nowing things don’t last is a large part of what drives us.

Let’s say this is the only chance you have to read this column.

I’m not implying “only chance” in a morbid, next-step-get-hit-by-a-bus kind of way. You just wouldn’t be able to find it again. All copies of this Daily Nebraskan are recycled, the DN website goes down and my hard drive wipes itself clean.

In other words, reading this column would be a one time offer. The equivalent of Morpheus’ red pill, reading experience-wise.

Here’s one: What if you knew this is the last thing I’ll write?

When computer scientist Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he gave an excellent lecture on fulfilling childhood dreams. “The Last Lecture” went on to become a YouTube sensation and best-selling book. He passed away less than a year later.

I don’t think I’m alone in reading Christopher Hitchens’ final year of work with special intensity.

Knowing that it wouldn’t be long before his work became part of the great Hitchens canon changed the experience of reading it. In his last year, I read Hitchens’ articles like a boy eats cookies fresh out of the

oven, chocolate chips still gooey, knowing the cookie’s interior warmth would soon fade.

Does something passing away give it inherent value? Enhanced value?

Why does this change of perspective seem almost mystical?

This awareness is made present by the guiles of marketing. Girl Scout cookies’ success is, I’m sure, largely because they’re available only once a year. The perceived urgency sells as many boxes of Thin Mints as does the cookies’ deliciousness.

One of the earliest websites I can remember visiting as a small child was “The Death Clock.” The site still exists, and in fact appears to have neither been updated nor redesigned in the last 10 years.

“The Death Clock” asks for certain personal information, which it then uses to approximate your date of death, based on U.S. life expectancy.

Adjusting factors like one’s Body Mass Index, smoking habits or optimism levels allows insight into the effects of body weight and disposition.

In theory, I will die Wednesday, Sep. 18, 2084. As of Saturday, I have 2,165,884,950 seconds left.

Most of the time, I’m unaware of time’s wake. My limited seconds affect my behavior very little. If I could maintain awareness of the passing moments, I might be able to prioritize them better, to invest in

marc koenig what’s significant.

The church which I attended for much of my childhood burnt down in 2007. To be able to recall this place of mystical happiness and growth, yet be unable to return there is a profoundly strange experience.

But the strange wistfulness is a good sign. It illustrates real investment, life poured into something vibrant. Losing the Zion Church of my childhood clarifies something in my mind, and confirms its goodness and worth. It confirms the hours I spent there were meaningful.

We’re largely propelled by life’s closing doors: there’s limited time and limited opportunities available to us.

It’s important to foster this awareness.

Throughout her childhood and adolescence, my wife Kaylee kept a system of notebooks in which she meticulously journalized out the motions of her days. A stack of these journals sit on our bookshelf.

All the angst-filled Xanga posts

Kaylee wrote in Xanga’s brief, mid2000 heyday have vanished, but her written notebook entries remain. If we want, we can open the pages to Sept. 11, 2001, to walk along a younger woman’s thoughts, processing confusion and pain.

Kaylee’s hours of scribbling bear the fruit of our amusement and joy: her past selves have not been erased, but rather, are preserved.

I would be the first to tell you checking my Gmail inbox or Facebook notifications feels like doing something important and worthwhile. If I neglect the task, I feel like I’ll lose something: the perception of missed opportunity hounds me.

Yet when I look at my years of using Facebook, the memory of hilarious statuses and good times is thin and insubstantial. My time spent staring at an endlessly scrolling newsfeed isn’t emblazoned on my mind the same way that Youth Group is.

I’m guessing once Facebook’s dominance wanes, as did Xanga, Myspace and LiveJournal before it, it’ll look similarly faddish and its replacement inevitable.

This isn’t to say Facebook is a waste of time or isn’t an incredibly convenient way to spread information and communicate with others.

I’m worried that the alternative is just much more vibrant.

As I grow closer to bona fide

adult life, I feel myself drawn more and more into a glut of distraction and irrelevant information. Newsfeeds, tweets and emails threaten to douse out passionate, interesting endeavors, such as keeping a journal or reading.

While it sounds obvious, some things are just more worthwhile than others. We should invest in something that invests back in us, makes us grow – something that shines on in our minds long after we’ve logged out of our Facebook accounts.

Life’s doors do close: I’m always struck by the fact that there is a literal limit to the amount of words and books that any person will be able to read. There’s a set amount of great conversations we can have, logistically speaking, before we find ourselves out of breath.

So, I might as well put as much as possible into each opportunity. If I’m going to read something, I might as well really read it. If I’m going to talk to someone, I might as well really listen to them. It won’t be easy.

Let’s say that this is the only chance you have to read this column.

Will you read it? Really, really read it?

Marc Koenig is a senior English major. Reach him at marckoenig@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Showcasing researchers that “define the future of critical thought,” the ambitious Humanities on the Edge lecture series has fostered a new type of intellectual community at the University of NebraskaLincoln. Launched in the fall of 2010 by UNL English professors Roland Végsö and Marco Abel, each season of the cross-disciplinary speaker series features a new topic dealing with humanities research: “The Political Turn” in 2010-2011, and “Biopower and Politics” in 2011-2012.

“We had the feeling that, while UNL’s campus provided a lot of resources for those interested in the theoretical humanities, there was no unified forum for the discussion of these ideas,” Végsö said about the series’ preparations, which began about a year before the first lecture. “As a result, people from different departments and disciplines didn’t really have active conversations about these issues on campus. One of our primary goals was to bring these interested parties together by inviting nationally and internationally known scholars to UNL.” This season has already featured University of Wisconsin’s Sara Guyer, who presented about the politics of life, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ Jodi Dean on social media and the discourse of democracy.

This spring, the series will feature Michael Hardt of Duke University on the need for a new New Deal, as well as University of Minnesota’s Cesare Casarino on the universalism of the common.

“When we select our topics, we try to put the emphasis

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above: Assistant English professor Roland Vegso poses outside of Andrews Hall Feb. 2.

Vegso and fellow professor Marco Abel started the “Humanities of the Edge” lecture series during the fall semester of 2010. right: Associate English professor Marco Abel stands in the hallway of Andrews Hall Feb. 2. This year’s “Humanities on the Edge” lecture series is called “Biopower and Politics.” on issues that are at the cutting edge of contemporary theoretical research within the humanities,” Végsö said. “The problem of biopower and biopolitics represents such a contemporary hot issue. Many of the questions are still open.

There is a lot of work to be done in this field.”

The series aims to not only bring these critical perspectives to campus, but engage a student body that isn’t necessarily easy to reach.

“We very much hope to get the undergraduate student body to attend the lectures,” Abel said. “Because we feel rather strongly that the experience of attending UNL, an institution of higher learning, should be informed by

genuinely intellectual experiences rather than being driven merely by vocational desires - no matter how important those are.”

One of the ways the series is addressing this hurdle is by holding events at the Sheldon Museum of Art instead of a less-inviting classroom setting.

The first season of the series saw between 75 and 100 attendees per event. To further engage with the student body, all of the invited speakers are asked to guest-teach a graduate seminar. Abel has incorporated lecture attendance, as well as an essay by upcoming speaker Cesare Casarino, into his undergraduate film series course. At the graduate level, Végsö and Abel’s coordinated

theory seminars center on the series’ topic for that year.

“It was one of our most important objectives to call attention to the pure intellectual fun that comes with these often abstract philosophical debates,” Végsö said. “We were hoping to cast a wide net both in our selection of speakers and also in terms of the audience we would like to reach.”

Sustaining this objective isn’t cheap and Abel says paying for flights, hotels, meals and honoraria adds up quickly. While the series quickly developed a track record that garnered reputed speakers at lower-than-normal fees, both Végsö and Abel spoke of the eventual need for a stable annual budget or endowment.

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In her new book, “The Odditorium,” Melissa Pritchard melds the historical with the fantastical to create seven stories and one novella of intrigue and mystery.

Pritchard’s collection explores the minds of real-life characters whose lives are shrouded in mystery.

The Daily Nebraskan caught up with Pritchard to discuss the many facets of her creative process in “The Odditorium.”

Daily Nebraskan: How did you find the inspiration for the story “Ecorché: Flayed Man” that appears in your collection of stories, “The Odditorium?”

Melissa Pritchard: On a trip to Florence, Italy a few years ago, I had a small guidebook called something like, “The Secret Places of Florence.” It suggested visiting La Specola, the city’s Museum of Natural History, specifically the eighteenth century wax anatomies in glass cabinets. If you were a parent, this would be a great excursion for your bored 10-year-old. Well I’m very much a bored 10-yearold, so I shot right over there, found the wax medical anatomies — rooms and rooms of them — and was horrified, enchanted, intrigued and the only living, non-waxen person in there.

During subsequent visits to Florence, I returned at least three more times to see these famous anatomies, buying

up all the books related to them in the museum’s little gift shop. Eventually, I worked up the courage to write what became “Ecorche: Flayed Man.” DN: You have done quite a bit of research on each character discussed in “The Odditorium.” At what point in your research did you begin to formulate the fictional situations and stories included in your book?

MP: That would require a separate answer for each of the eight pieces in the book but generally, I was drawn in first by the main character around whom the story forms. Robert Ripley, for instance, was someone whose “Believe It or Not” cartoons in the Sunday newspaper had always frightened and enchanted me as a child. At a certain point a couple of years ago, I decided to find out just who he was. As a plump tomboy in Oak Park, Ill., I dressed up as Annie Oakley in chaps, a fringed vest, cowboy hat, two pop pistols with a leather holster. I also collected a few kitschy Native American and cowboy gimcracks from dime stores. Later on in Arizona, I spent six years or so involved in Navajo and Lakota cultures and, at one point, learned about Sitting Bull and his friendship with Annie Oakley. “Pelagia, Holy Fool,” came from my reading a non-fiction book about women mystics, and when I came upon the story of Pelagia and the tradition of the Holy Fool, I knew I

“So far we have been lucky, since UNL has been willing to support us financially,” Végsö said. “But fundraising is likely to be an issue that we will have to face in the future. Our hope would be to find ways to transform what’s essentially a make-shift effort into a standing series.”

Both coordinators bring a unique cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspective to their work. Abel, a German native, specializes in film studies and literary theory, and is currently studying German and European culture. Végsö, a Hungarian native, describes

had a story (or the story had me). Kaspar Hauser came through another non-fiction book, Jeffrey Masson’s “The Wild Child,” a study of a nineteenth century German feral child. In each case the person preceded the research and more importantly, my obsession with the person gave me the energy to pursue the research.

DN: The common thread of the eight stories is mystery and intrigue, and they certainly seem scary. If people thought of them as “scary stories,” would this be taking a shallow view of the tales?

MP: I think fear, wonder, terror, curiosity and an instinct for the sublime are all mixed in us. I was very

aware while writing these that I was appealing to and gratifying my own love of mystery and the bizarre; following the hidden child-self who wants to be thrilled, terrorized and found peering over the precipice.

These stories, aside from the last, are all set in history, yet I find conventional history unreliable, doubtful and too often, dull. The best stories are not on stage but behind the curtain; human life is far more exciting, unpredictable, magical and ultimately, mysterious, than we are socially conditioned to believe.

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his research “at the intersection of literature and philosophy,” specializing in comparative literature and international modernism.

“Both of us tend to bring international and interdisciplinary approaches to our work,” Végsö said. “In addition, the fundamentally theoretical orientation of our work is also something very important to us. When we started working on the speaker series, we wanted to create a community

The Super Bowl turned 46 on Sunday and being a 22 year-old sports fan, I have a volatile relationship with the big game.

My first Super Bowl was a Joe Montana victory against the Denver Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV and, in the 21 years since then, the Super Bowl has provided me with some memorable moments and some big letdowns.

This year’s game and festivities were enjoyable for me and my friends. We watched some football, saw Madonna try to be young again and dissected the commercials like we were a market research group.

My Super Bowl Sunday began early with set up for the party (most notably our prized pot of cocktail weenies) and cleaning our horrendously dirty house. The party started at 4 p.m. One of my favorite parts of hosting was reacting to everybody’s choice of alcohol for the evening. One memorable selection included a friend who decided to bring four bottles

of Boones Farm. Every time he took a drink, we reminded him we weren’t in high school anymore.

At 4:30 p.m., we all settled down with our plate of goodies and our beverages of choice, eager for our date with Super Bowl history. What follows is the live feed.

4:48: Eli Manning looks like a sleepy animal.

5:17: Kelly Clarkson sings the national anthem. We were hoping for another Christina Aguilera-style, botched effort.

Half of our Super Bowl party was yelling at the TV, hoping it would throw her off her game.

The other half of our party was yelling at the first group to respect the national anthem.

5:38: First commercial of the night is for Bud Light Platinum, which happens to be one of my favorite beers. The commercial contained one of my favorite Kanye songs, “Runaway.” Good start to the night, but not very funny, and these are the ones we remember.

5:39: Eli Manning looks like a sloth, which explains his sleepy appearance.

5:43: It’s a safety for the first points of Super Bowl XLII. That’s a really weird way to start off the scoring. Las Vegas just pocketed a ton of money

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Friday afternoon at Zen’s Lounge: friends catch up and laugh over drinks; someone steps up to the microphone and a hush comes over the bar.

It’s story time.

Such is the scene at a No Names Reading Series event.

The series, hosted by graduate students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Creative Writing Program, allows students and the Lincoln community to come out and hear prose and poetry from burgeoning writers.

The series was originally started by UNL alumnus Alan Yates but responsibility has been handed down as students graduate. Currently, the series is curated by Nima Kian and Bret Shepard.

Kian, an English graduate student, used to read his poetry at events before he was asked to run the event.

“The No Name series is true to its name,” Kian said.

“It’s not about your name or who you are; it’s about your work.”

The events are also about social interaction. Many of the students who attend are also from the English department and are already familiar

with each other. They sat around tables and compared stories, both written and oral.

“There’s a real sense of community here,” Shepard said. “We do it at a bar, so you have a drink and get a chance to talk to your friends and people who are going through what you’re going through.”

That’s a general theme with the No Name series.

Students who have gone through the processes that come with writing are able to talk with each other.

They are able to relate to and help to inspire one another.

“We all have stories and poems that have been rejected that we still have hope for,” Shepard said.

“We get that applause and support when reading our work and we get to know that our work matters. We all commiserate together.”

Kian agreed, adding that it allows for the spread of ideas.

“It’s a great way to relieve stress,” Kian said. “The thoughts that permeate in our minds eventually end up on paper, so we can come here and see what others are going through.”

Another perk of having bimonthly events is being able to see what’s new with the

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world of poetry. Many young writers are on the forefront of new styles of poetry and No Name allows others to see where poetry may be headed.

“This defines what the poetry scene is like today,” Kian said.

The event usually features one poetry and one fiction writer for balance. As it stands, the only people allowed to read students’ work are other graduate students

from the English department.

However, Kian and Shepard said they may open the floor to other departments, including Hixon-Lied College.

These events take place every other Friday at Zen’s Lounge and the next reading will be Feb. 17.

“We want to build communities” Kian said. “It’s all about connecting to other people.”

philosophical reference points don’t always align, the duo’s shared belief in the series’ mission is stronger than their differences. He said that “theory is in the end a toolbox that exists, and continues to be developed, in order to enhance our ability to make sense of and

act upon the world.”

The series’ next lecture “What to do in a Crisis: A Biopolitical New Deal” will take place Thursday, March 29th in the Sheldon Museum of Art.

my status as the biggest nerd at the party. I might not be going home with a girl, but at least I dig a good movie.

6:43: Why are we not over the talking baby yet? I’ve been thoroughly creeped out by these talking financial babies for the past six Super Bowls. Please move on! I’m losing sleep at night!

6:47: Danny Woodhead scores a touchdown. Woodhead, a Nebraska native, has been a fan favorite for the past two seasons since his appearance on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” before getting cut by the Jets. This touchdown got a collective cheer at the party, regardless of who everyone was rooting for. Our little Danny got a touchdown. GO NEBRASKA! HALF TIME! If there’s one thing that supremely divides any Super Bowl party, it’s the halftime show. The girls usually want to check it out, but most guys think the halftime show is no more than a 30-minute food-smokebathroom break.

This year, Madonna played. Madonna isn’t exactly the most exciting show: She’s old and it seems like she reached her peak and has been falling slowly since the mid-1990s.

Madonna comes out for her performance being pulled by 50 Roman slaves. She is dressed as a sexy pharaoh or something and everyone sits in silence.

An man is playing a harp

and hopping around the stage. Everybody is still pretty confused. None of us really understand why Madonna was ever so famous.

The girls start comparing her to Lady Gaga. I tell them she was the first Lady Gaga - she wore crazy clothes and had hit after hit in the late1980s through the 1990s. The girls continue to stare at the screen in a confused daze.

Then, this guy, who looks like Richard Simmons, walks and jumps on a tight rope while Madonna “sings.” Seriously, this old lady is crazy.

LMFAO gets a big reaction, both positive and negative.

“Those guys are douchebags,” one of my friends says.

Three of the girls defend their music and personas, followed by a fair amount of eye-rolling.

It was cool to see Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. on stage. I like both of them and they seem to embody what Madonna was all about back in the day – sexy, shocking pop music.

Cee Lo Green joins Madonna for “Like a Prayer,” so it seems that the theme of this halftime show is, “See, Madonna isn’t as old as you think!”

At the end of the performance, she falls under the stage amongst a giant pillar of smoke. A giant “world peace” sign glows in the aftermath.

As the second half starts, the booze flows. The football continues and the lines of reality become blurred. The emotions come in waves. I remember laughing and feeling disappointed and then it all ending too early. There’s a reason why people constantly claim that the day after the Super Bowl should be made a national holiday.

Everyone is hung over and during the winter, it’s harder than ever to get up and go to work or school.

Somebody at our house wanted to watch “The Voice” after the game, but my roommate vetoed that option by exclaiming, “We recorded the Puppy Bowl!”

The football season is complete and our party was a bright spot in my own personal Super Bowl history.

While I’m sad that the football season is done, at least we have Puppy Bowl re-runs to tide us over until next season.

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While Végsö said they both share an interest in the politics of aesthetics, they approach the subject from different philosophical backgrounds.

“We do believe that our differences complement each

other very well,” he said.

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5:52: Victor Cruz scores the first touchdown and does the Cha-Cha. America loves it!

5:55: So far, the commercials have been very underwhelming. The girls seemed to like the commercial with the cute Coca-Cola bears and the guys all seemed to like the one with the naked M&M’s candy. Seems fitting.

6:00: Chicks dig Tom Brady.

6:01: Guys are jealous of Tom Brady.

6:05: Budweiser lets America know how stupid prohibition was and our party celebrates the fact that the man in the Budweiser commercial could legally get drunk again.

Yay! Repealing prohibition!

6:15: It looks like Brandon Jacobs weighs 300 pounds. In all reality, he’s 6’4, 265. That’s still one giant running back.

He looks and plays like one of the ridiculously good but fake players I’ve created over the years in my Madden football video game. Except in

my game, I would have gave him a sweet name like Captain Slaughter.

6:20: The girls once again state how cute they think the Coca-Cola bears are. They still have yet to say anything about the football game.

6:24: The New England Patriots have a punter with the last name Zoltan. The classic Ashton Kutcher flick, “Dude, Where’s My Car?” features a cult with the same name. It’s easy to recognize the cool people at the party by who makes jokes whenever the Patriots punt the ball.

6:31: “Star Wars” is being re-released in 3D. They’re releasing them in order, so “The Phantom Menace” comes out on Feb. 10. There is a delayed silence, followed by, “Jar-Jar Binks sucks.”

6:36: The AVENGERS! I was looking forward to that movie trailer ever since I heard they’d be debuting the trailer at the Super Bowl. When it started, I screamed at everybody to shut up and stared at the screen without blinking during the entire thing.

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A typical resume only gets 20 to 30 seconds of attention from a potential employer. Scary, right? Now, more than ever, it’s important to format a resume to make you stand out.

Randy Hawthorne, vice president of business development at Firespring in Lincoln, said that in many cases a resume will receive even less than 20 seconds.

Although Hawthorne said he believes that the traditional resume is nearly extinct, in many more traditional professions, resumes can be vital.

“The last job I filled, I got so many resumes and had so little time that I only looked in-depth at the ones that were referred to me or that I already knew,” Hawthrone said. “That meant that 50 or so resumes didn’t even get 20 seconds.”

The job search process is rough. There’s no doubt about that. UNL students are in scramble mode when it comes to finding the perfect summer gig. Students spend much of their time researching their options, joining exhausting amounts of extracurriculars, sucking up to connected professors and constructing an eyecatching resume. “(When building a resume), it’s important to get into the mindset of what the employer is desiring,” said Kelli Kapustka Smith, assistant director of UNL Career Services. “It’s not preferred to build a resume without an end focus.”

Some people think that, when building a resume, one should only include the boring, monotonous details. However, more and more people today are taking their resumes to the next level by throwing in an avant-garde edge specific to their objective. But how creative is too creative?

“I hire creative people so nontraditional approaches to the resume are welcomed,” Hawthorne said.

“But people shouldn’t let the creativity get in the way of providing the important information.”

Hawthorne agrees that there are certainly ways to present a stellar resume without all the bells and whistles. He states that students should emphasize their “expertise and accomplishments” rather than extracurricular activities and previous jobs. Hawthorne is prone to come across a multitude of creatively constructed resumes at Firespring.

“We recently got a resume that was delivered with a t-shirt and it had our company’s logo on it,” Hawthorne said. “We all thought it was really cool, but some brands may have been offended because the logo was slightly modified.”

Hawthorne, who works in a creative profession, has received his fair share of aesthetically risky resumes.

He said an artistic resume can only be effective if the personal brand is carried through the entire resume and the creativity is thought out and not distracting.

“You do run the risk of being more offensive with creativity,” Hawthorne said.

“Some HR managers may be put off by the type style, the color or the designs and you’ll be immediately dismissed.”

It’s important to recognize a creative company and a professional occupation when tailoring an application.

“When working with a student, it depends on the type of job and industry,” Smith said. “For example, a graphic design major and a finance major are going to have a different style and a little more freedom in terms of creativity and the way they express themselves.”

The creators of dzineblog.com featured the article “35 Brilliant Resume Designs.” Within this blog lie, not only a resume but also, an artistic representation of each individual. The use of graphics, typography, colors, shapes, photography and various surfaces automatically sets the job seeker apart from the rest.

However, it is important to note that the bulk of these applicants are applying to creative, artistic positions.

Sending the same colorful resume would not bode as well when applying for clerical work.

“Taking risks, doing something unusual (in a resume), runs the risk, in more conservative industries, to come off as odd or strange,” Smith said. “If expected to be a suit and tie profession, there are generally different expectations.”

The more time one takes to fine-tune his/her application pieces and make it relatable to each individual employer, the more success one will have. Make sure to cater to the potential employer when creating resumes. The better an applicant knows the audience, the better luck the candidate will have in the competitive search for a job. ingridholmquist@ dailynebraskan.com

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Pritchard: from 5 DN: In an interview with Sativa Peterson of the “Phoenix New Times” you said, “In this collection, I posed an ethical dilemma, unanswerable, ambiguous, reverberant, at the core of each story.” Is this ethical dilemma continuous throughout the book, or is it specific to each story? In what way does the book challenge the reader to answer difficult questions?

Do you as the writer seek to answer the ethical dilemmas in “The Odditorium?” Do they need an answer?

MP: I think the foundational question I’m asking is about human cruelty. Why are we cruel to ourselves and to one another? Why do we too often lack the empathy that would bring understanding, forgiveness and peace to our homes, to our communities and cultures? Why is our connection to the earth so broken? For me, it never works to write a story from the perspective of, or because of, the ethical

question. I try instead to let the depth of the story reveal itself to me, to wait for the moment when I realize, “Oh, there’s that question arising again: why do we harm one another? Why do we, at critical times, lack the courage to be empathetic, to forgive, to love and to love ourselves?”

Honestly, I didn’t realize I had this question running through all the stories until I was finished with the collection and took time to think about what connected the stories, besides history. I haven’t answered that question, by the way. I am simply posing it in different, historically inspired fictional guises.

DN: Did you encounter anything unexpected in your journey of writing “The Odditorium?”

MP: I was so deeply happy writing these stories, and I think that surprised me.

Willa Cather once said something like, “True happiness is losing yourself in something greater than yourself.” With

each of these stories I utterly lost myself, first in the research and then in the telling. That kind of joy, being in service to the stories - its purity - surprised me.

DN: In an interview with ASU News you talk about how architecture played a big role in the stories. How does the setting function from story to story?

MP: At some point in writing this collection, I realized that every story in “The Odditorium” had an unusual piece of architecture affecting it, affecting the main character.

Since I have always been interested in how architecture shapes human consciousness, in the difference between sacred and profane space and in how subtle pressures of shaped space affect our moods, our dreams and even our relations with others, I was fascinated and excited by this connecting thread running through the stories.

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DN: This summer you will be a member of the guest faculty at the 2012 Prague Summer Program, a study abroad program in the Czech Republic. This year’s theme is “Pitching the Sacred: Art and Spirituality.” Does the notion of spirituality in art play a role in your own writing? In what ways, if any, do spirituality and the supernatural affect “The Odditorium?”

MP: I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in comparative religions, practice yoga, meditation and attend mass, though not regularly. I am drawn not so much to religion, however, as to the spiritual experience, to what mystics and mysticism have to teach us. Having explored a number of the world’s religions, faiths and spiritual practices, my own practice

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DN: What prompted you to create a poster modeled after an old newspaper announcement in conjunction with the collection?

MP: The idea came from my agent, Joy Harris. She initially thought of presenting the collection to potential publishers with a kind of 19th century carnivalesque, big top kind of feel. Sarah Twombley, her assistant at

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hoppen: from 10 home and with the game very much in reach, seemingly give up. After a greatshooting first half, the Huskers couldn’t buy a bucket after intermission. They had a scoreless drought of more than seven minutes.

Unfortunately, we’ve seen plenty of those stretches before. But the offensive struggles never seem to leak into the team’s effort. Sunday they did. The Gophers spent the second half getting uncontested layups and dunks.

They got every loose ball and killed NU on the glass. They owned the hustle stats (second chance points, fast break points).

The Huskers didn’t punch back.

They always punch back.

They scrap and claw. They might take some bad shots, but it’s not out of selfishness.

But there was Talley in the second half, pulling up for a 25-foot 3-pointer on the break with a wide-open Bo Spencer standing in the corner.

There was Caleb Walker half-heartedly fouling a Gopher player on a layup, giving him an and-one opportunity.

I’m not trying to single these guys out, because it

wasn’t just them. It was everyone. And this isn’t my opinion. Sadler said his team lacked toughness and didn’t grind the second half out.

Brandon Richardson said the Huskers didn’t leave their egos at the door.

So what’s the solution? Doc says he doesn’t know. He mentioned potentially playing some different guys, and with Diaz out for the foreseeable future, he’s going to have to. But is that really the answer? He’s only played seven players for the past couple of weeks, so he’s clearly wary of throwing the other guys out there.

Nebraska’s struggles aren’t anything new. The team has been in a rut for a while now and attendance numbers reflect that. But there has always been a very hardcore, close-knit group of Nebrasketball fans, people that admired the hustle and tenacity Doc’s teams always displayed, regardless of what the scoreboard said. They continue believing that as long as the effort is there, the talent will catch up someday.

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Nebraska senior Toney McCray reacts after fumbling a rebound out of bounds against Minnesota on Sunday. The Huskers were outrebounded 31 to 24.

basketball: from 10 In fact going into the locker room it looked like NU had all the momentum.

At the close of the half Caleb Walker stole the ball and dished it to Bo Spencer, who then returned the pass for an alley-oop dunk that brought the Devaney Sports Center crowd of 6,683 to its feet.

The Gophers turned around quickly and got a bucket on the other end.

Then the Huskers raced down the court, got the ball to Walker at the 3-point line and the senior drilled a 3-pointer to give Nebraska a slim 33-32 lead at the break.

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started a 9-0 run to pull out to a 48-39 lead and never looked back.

Minnesota outshot NU 66.7 percent to 30.8 percent in the second half and outscored the Huskers 37-28.

“You’ve got to give Minnesota credit,” Sadler said. “At halftime, they made an adjustment of switching everything one through five when they realized we didn’t have a low post presence like you’ve got to have.

Minnesota had 40 points in the paint versus 24 for Nebraska and that was due to the Gophers ability to penetrate quickly, according to Minnesota coach Tubby Smith.

“They forced a couple of

turnovers and we rebounded the ball and got out in transition, and that is why we were able to do that,” Smith said.

“I didn’t think that they did poorly. We made a conscious effort to run more and run harder.”

Sadler echoed Smith’s sentiments about attacking the rim.

Because his team was unable to attack, it was unable to get much offense going, he said.

“The fact of the matter is you have to get the ball inside,” Sadler said. “Whether you score from down there or just touch it down there is the biggest thing. If you don’t make tough plays, you’re not going to go to the free throw line.

“Overall, I’m very disappointed.”

With the loss, the Huskers drop to .500 for the first time this season, yet Sadler is unconcerned with his squad losing its focus.

“I think there’s too much character on this team for them to quit,” Sadler said.

“They’re frustrated, but there’s a lot of basketball left to be played.”

And despite the demoralizing loss to the Gophers, guard Brandon Richardson remains optimistic, because NU’s problems are “fixable.”

“You don’t choose this game because it’s an individual sport,” Richardson said. “It’s a team sport. Guys on the team

MINNESOTA AT NEBRASKA MINNESOTA 69 Minnesota Nebraska FG percentage 3-point shooting Free throws Rebounds (Off) Assists Turnovers

32 33 MINN 54 7 for 17 8 for 16 31 (11) 18 14

NEBRASKA 61 37 69 28 61 NEB 43.8 7 for 21 12 for 13 24 (8) 10 14

NU LEADERS Bo Spencer: 18 points, 5 assists Toney McCray: 15 points, 6 rebounds SOURCE: HUSKERS.COM

need to recognize that including myself ... but it’s something that’s correctable and it needs

to be fixed, ASAP.”

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NU women bounce back, place first at quad meet

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Freshman Ricco Hall placed first in the 400-meter dash with a personal-best time of 46.93.

He also anchored Nebraska’s first place 4x400-meter relay.

Invitational, when they finally broke through.

“We’re seeing signs of life,” sprints/hurdles/relays coach Matt Martin said.

In events 600 meters or shorter, the Huskers nabbed five victories, claiming another six top-three finishes.

Nebraska was just one of the 40 colleges that fielded participants in Friday and Saturday’s meet, not counting the numerous unattached participants.

Hall, who Martin said is one of Nebraska’s top upand-comers, took first place in the 400-meter dash. The win came in dramatic fashion, as Hall needed a personal record time of 46.93 and a come-from-behind run to take first.

“Ricco Hall has really established himself as somebody who’s got NCAA-level potential,” Martin said. “For him to be patient and kind of run his own race said a lot about him. It’s hard to pass in an indoor track.”

Nebraska sprinters Dexter McKenzie and Tim Thompson finished first and second, respectively, in the 200-meter dash to add another Husker win, while the 4x400-meter team, anchored by Hall, took first in the special session.

Husker women Weekes and Ellie Grooters won the 200-meter dash and the

600-meter dash, respectively. Grooters’ personal best 1:32.35 gave her the win, while fellow Husker Ellen Dougherty took third place behind a personal best time of 1:34.75.

“They competed hard,” Martin said. “You can’t run scared.”

While the Husker sprinters were just starting to hit their stride, combinedevents athletes were performing in their first heptathlon or pentathlon of the 2012 season.

Nebraska’s top heptathlon athlete Bjorn Barrefors, a former All-American in the event, said the first heptathlon of the year is preparatory.

In the past, Barrefors hasn’t performed in the event.

However, an injury in the past led Barrefors to decide to participate in Friday and Saturday’s heptathlon, hoping to achieve an automatic qualifying score for the NCAA championships.

Barrefors fell 49 points short of an NCAA automatic qualifying score, which this year is set at 5,750. His score of 5,701 would have been enough to earn him a place at the NCAA meet last year.

One athlete at the Sevigne Husker Invitational did earn an NCAA automatic qualifying score, however.

Wisconsin’s Japheth Cato’s score of 5,939 broke the

Sevigne Husker Invitational record, last set in 2008.

On the women’s side, pentathlon participants Anne Martin and Jordan Stiens took second and third place, respectively, with Wisconsin’s Dorcas Akinniyi winning the event with 3,991 points, 126 points more than secondplace Martin.

Both Martin and Stiens set personal records for total score in the event, with Martin also earning personal bests in the 60-meter hurdles (8.93), shot put (36-1 1/2) and 800-meter run (2:24.19).

Stiens earned personal bests in the 60-meter hurdles (8.74), high jump (5-2 1/4), shot put (39-2 1/2), long jump (18-1 1/2) and 800-meter run (2:25.54).

Husker distance runner Ashley Miller was named the meet’s Most Valuable Female Athlete after she set a personal record in the women’s mile special with a time of 4:39.11, nearly an NCAA automatic qualifying mark. Her time in the mile ranks fourth best in Nebraska history, and 12th in the nation this season.

Wisconsin’s Cato, who won the heptathlon with an NCAA automatic qualifying score earned the Most Valuable Male Athlete honors. chrispeters@ dailynebraskan.com

bowling

Huskers take fourth at Prairie View A&M invite sara hinds daily nebraskan

With a McDonald’s sandwich in her hand, Kayla Johnson was minutes away f r o m boarding the plane.

The senior NU bowler and the o t h e r women on the t e a m johnson w h o made the trip this past weekend to Arlington, Texas, were returning to Lincoln. with a fourth place finish at the Prairie View A&M Invite.

“They had two days of qualifying, NU was the qualifying leader,” said coach Bill Straub. “Then on this last day, we had three 4-out-of-7 matches, we won one and lost two and that’s how we finished fourth.”

NU went 10-3 at the invite, finishing behind Vanderbilt, Maryland Eastern Shore and Arkansas State, respectively.

For Straub, the final results were no surprise.

“The top five teams there finished one through five,” he said.

Johnson took first

individually with an average of 239 for the weekend.

But Johnson said the weekend was a success for NU as a team.

“It’s the first time we’ve done our full potential,” she said.

This is only Johnson’s second year traveling with the NU bowling team, her third year on the team. She got her start in bowling because of her grandparents, Dorothy and Walt.

“My grandparents own a bowling center, so I grew up in one,” said Johnson.

Plaza Lanes in Washington, Ill., was the starting place for Johnson and her big goals she set for her senior season.

“I wanted to be in contention for bowler of the year, and I wanted to make an AllAmerican team,” said Johnson. “And of course I want to win nationals for our team.”

With just one more classic and one more invite before the NCAA Championships, NU is in the last half of the season. Johnson said her progress on her goals has been “very good.”

“My individual season has been really well, and as a team we’re building ourselves more and more every time,” said Johnson.

Traveling and placing near the top has become the usual for the NU women’s

bowling team this season.

The Huskers have never placed lower than fourth all season. With one second place, one third place and three fourth place finishes this season.

Next weekend the women travel to Baltimore, for the Morgan St. Invitational.

Then the women have a month-long hiatus until the women head to the Music City Classic in Nashville, Tenn. After that is the NCAA Championships in April.

With just two more trips between now and the NCAA Championships, the postseason was on the mind of Straub this weekend.

“The post-season selection starts with a basis of wins or losses for the complete regular season and we had as many wins as anybody in the event,” said Straub. “That helps us a lot toward post season selection.”

The weekend was also good for junior Kristina Mickelson who averaged a 221 and placed sixth individually.

Freshman Lizabeth Kuhlkin averaged 217 and placed eighth.

With the successful weekend, Straub said he believes his team is still doing well.

“Our goal for the season is to succeed, so far so good,” he said. sarahinds@ dailynebraskan.com

For every problem there is a possible solution not too far away.

For the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team, its problem last Saturday was the squad’s struggle on the beam event.

This weekend the Huskers’ goal was to improve on their performance and gain back their confidence when they traveled to Norman, Okla., to compete in a quad meet against No. 5 Oklahoma, No. 25 Minnesota and Centenary.

The No. 9-ranked Huskers found their solution.

After being narrowly defeated by No. 20 Missouri last weekend, 195.725-194.550, the Huskers finished first in their quad meet Friday, topping their opponents with a 196.750 score.

It was NU’s energy and confidence that made the difference for the team, according to coach Dan Kendig.

“They had high energy heading into the meet and during the meet,” he said.

“They were ready to show everyone how good Nebraska is and they did that.”

Nebraska (196.750) placed ahead of the second place Sooners (196.475), the Gophers (194.55) and Centenary (188.60).

The Huskers began the meet with gymnast Emily Wong who kicked the team off with a 9.825 score on bars.

Kendig said the sophomore’s performance help set the tone for the rest of the lineup.

“That first person is so important,” he said. “She had a great day in every event for us.”

Junior Lora Evenstad ended the event with a season-high score of 9.900, assisting NU to a 49.225 first-place tie after one rotation with OU. Next was the unbalanced beam.

Janelle Giblin, who scored a career-low 8.100 last weekend, led the Huskers off with a 9.750 performance. The junior was then followed by gymnasts Jamie Schleppenbach, Evenstad and Jessie DeZiel who tallied 9.050, 9.725 and 9.850 scores.

But Huskers Wong and Katelyn Busacker’s careerhighs helped Nebraska finish with a 49.075 team score on the event, an improvement from their previous meet of 46.950.

Wong took home the Huskers’ first event title scoring a 9.925. She also finished the day second in the all-around hitting a 39.450. Busacker tied her career mark with a score of 9.825, rounding out the beam lineup.

Coming into practice last week, Nebraska didn’t speak about their previous struggles on beam, and that is what helped the team improve their scores, according to Busacker.

“I think that was important because we didn’t focus on the negative and how we felt,” the gymnast said. “Focusing on the positives and what we’re capable of doing last week helped us this weekend.”

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Senior Katelyn Busacker scored a career-high 9.825 on beam to help NU to a 49.075 team score on the event.

Busacker has started for the Huskers the last two meets, and improved her score on beam Friday from her 9.475 performance in her debut on Jan. 28 against the Tigers.

Although Busacker is in her first season at Nebraska after transferring from Ball State, she said beating the Sooners on their home turf made the win that much sweeter.

“I didn’t know what to expect but I knew (Oklahoma) was a big rivalry for us,” the Papillion, Neb., native said.

“The other girls and I got really into the meet, because we knew it would be competitive.”

The team then moved to the floor event, where they began with what looked like a discouraging beginning.

Although Schleppenbach led off with a 9.825 performance, junior Brittany Skinner followed with an 8.275 performance, her first performance on floor this season. But it didn’t take long for her team to pick back up the pieces.

“The rest of the lineup hit and were unbelievable,” Kendig said.

Following Skinner, DeZiel and Evenstad had 9.875 and 9.925 performances to help the Huskers tally a 49.175 floor score. DeZiel would go on to win the all-around for the third time this season with a score of 39.500.

Evenstad tied her careerhigh on floor and finished third for the Huskers with an all-around score of 39.325.

But those weren’t the only two that impressed Kendig.

“Lauer was the last one up and we need every little bit of what she had,” Kendig said.

The freshman ended the

rotation with a 9.725 score, a career-high.

After an impressive careerhigh performance on floor by Evenstad, Nebraska was ready to compete in their final rotation, vault.

“It was exciting going into the last event. We all knew it was a close score and had to performance our best to finish on top,” Busacker said.

Heading into what has been arguably their most successful event so far this season, the Huskers, who usually perform the event first at home, felt confident, according to Kendig.

“We rocked vault and the rotation was my favorite,” the coach said.

Lauer began the Huskers with a 9.750 performance, followed with an equivalent score by Skinner. After that, the numbers only improved.

Evenstad, Wong and DeZiel followed their teammates with 9.775, 9.875 and 9.925 scores.

Schleppenbach captured the crown title with a 9.950 score.

The performance helped Nebraska improve to a 3-1 overall record, improving tremendously from previous meets, Kendig said.

“I never counted a major mistake and we scored over 49 in every event,” he said. “It was great to see them get excited and see how hard their work is paying off. Physically we were healthier this meet than we have been in a while.

“We needed everybody and it was a total team effort. I really liked the enthusiasm they showed when they hit routines. Things are working out for us and I’m proud of them.” neduIzu@ dailynebraskan.com

wrestling: from 10 Following the loss against Penn State, the Huskers had two days to re-collect their momentum and prepare for Minnesota.

“If we’ve got 10 competitors, we bounce back. It’s not an issue,” Manning said. “Stand up and be a man. Dust yourself off.”

Redshirt freshman Robert Kokesh got NU off to a good start, winning his match at 165 pounds to give the Huskers a 3-0 lead. But Minnesota countered with eight consecutive victories, including close wins at 184, 141 and 285 pounds.

“You change those around and it’s a tight dual,” Manning said. “We have to wrestle a little bit harder.”

At 184 pounds, NU junior Josh Ihnen led late in the final period before giving up a takedown as the buzzer sounded.

“It was kind of a bang-bang thing,” Manning said. “It just didn’t go our way. Josh is going to learn from this and it’s

going to bode well for him come Big Ten time.”

NU freshman James Green added a win for the Huskers in the dual’s last match, but the result was no longer in doubt.

Although Minnesota won by 19, Manning said the margin didn’t accurately paint the picture of the dual.

“The score definitely wasn’t indicative of the match,” he said.

Manning added that his team will learn from the experience and improve as the season winds down.

“We’re not into losing tight or winning tight,” he said.

“It’s about being our best.

Our guys did a good job of wrestling hard. We just have to be able to win those close matches and be able to close them out sometimes.”

Manning said that while wrestling highly ranked teams gives the Huskers learning experiences, it isn’t the barometer he uses to

gauge the team.

“I don’t judge my team by whether it wrestled Iowa or Penn State because it’s all about matchups,” he said.

“It’s all about getting individual guys to realize their goals and achieve their goals, and you can’t achieve your goals right now. You can achieve your goals in March. That’s when it counts.”

He made a comparison to the Butler men’s basketball team, which never went undefeated, but played in the national championship game each of the past two years. He said the same thing can happen in wrestling.

“Someone might get whipped here tonight, but turn around and win the Big Ten,” Manning said. “We’re into proving our destiny and making it happen. You can’t hope it’s going to happen. You’ve got to make it happen.” zachtegler@ dailynebraskan.com

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Minnesota 69, Nebraska 61

Lack of effort leads to NU low point Dan Hoppen

Nebraska guard Bo Spencer scored a game-high 18 points and added five assists in a losing effort Sunday afternoon.

just mediocre Sunday’s 69-61 loss to Minnesota dropped the Huskers to 3-8 in big Ten Conference play and 11-11 overall s t o ry b y r o b b y k o r t h | p h o t o b y b e t h a n y sc h m i d t

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uring warmups for Nebraska basketball’s game against Minnesota on Sunday, Jorge Brian Diaz was visibly absent. The center was unable to play because of a foot injury and is likely out for the season, NU coach Doc Sadler said.

“He’s hurting. I would say that it’s going to be a long shot to see him play the rest of the year,” Sadler said. “His feet are just killing him. He can’t play; he can’t walk. You can’t compete at

this level with your feet killing you. They haven’t gotten any better; they’ve gotten worse.”

And the Huskers missed his inside presence in their 69-61 loss to the Gophers. Minnesota outrebounded NU 31 to 24 and managed 11 rebounds on the offensive end.

And Nebraska’s poor performance is a result of a lack of toughness on both ends of the floor, Sadler said.

“I don’t think we had the right mindset that

when we’re in league play you need to have the right mindset,” Sadler said. “When things get tough that’s when you really have to start grinding.”

But the problems the Huskers encountered were in the second half. In the first half the Huskers were outshooting Minnesota 59 to 45 percent.

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There’s no use beating around the bush — this has been a rough year for the Huskers.

They’ve lost three games by more than 24 points and it took them five games to finally get a conference win.

They lost Andre Almeida, whom they were counting on for big minutes down low, before the season even started. Two key contributors, Dylan Talley and Jorge Brian Diaz both missed five games, leaving the team with a major void in the scoring department.

Despite all that, Sunday was the season’s nadir. Maybe the nadir of Doc’s tenure here.

I’m not trying to be harsh or overly critical here and I’m certainly in no place to call for anyone’s head. But I’ve been going to Nebraska basketball games since before I could dribble a basketball myself, and the debacle Sunday against Minnesota was one of the toughest games I’ve ever watched.

It wasn’t even about the final margin. Nebraska’s played far worse games and suffered much more embarrassing defeats.

But as long as Doc Sadler was on the sideline, you knew the players were going to give everything. No matter how big the mismatch talentwise, they never stopped hustling or fighting. Down 20 points, Cookie Miller would still dive on the floor for a loose ball. Down by 30, 6-foot-4 Ryan Anderson would still kill himself fighting for rebounds against guys half a foot taller than him.

The talent hasn’t always been there. But the caring?

That never wavered.

Until Sunday.

It was appalling to watch a Sadler-coached team, at

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PSU, UM overpower Huskers Sprinters start strong during young season track and field

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Nebraska’s sprinters are gaining steam.

A rough start to the season against Houston left Husker runners and coaches frustrated and hoping for improvement.

Coach Gary Pepin and sprints/hurdles coach Billy Maxwell both mentioned Nebraska’s youth as a reason for Nebraska’s lesser performance.

The next week, elite runners Ashley Spencer and Andrew Riley of Illinois gave Nebraska a few

headaches, but allowed some Husker runners to break through.

Mara Weekes set two personal records and Ricco Hall continued to improve, coming close to victories in the 200-meter dash and the 4x400-meter relay. Sophomore Miles Ukaoma gave Riley, the defending NCAA champion, a decent run.

Steadily, they kept getting better until Saturday’s Frank Sevigne Husker

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If you wanted to know the outcomes of the No. 7 Nebraska wrestling team’s duals against Penn State and Minnesota during the weekend, all you would have to do is look at the scores.

But that wouldn’t tell the whole story.

Even though the Huskers’ 31-6 loss to the No. 2 Nittany Lions and 26-7 defeat at the No. 4 Golden Gophers may have been closer than the final tally would indicate, the pain of the losses wasn’t eased for NU coach Mark Manning.

“I don’t find comfort in it at all,” he said.

Penn State controlled the pace from beginning to end against the Huskers in front of 2,673 fans at the NU Coliseum.

The Nittany Lions earned two major decisions, a technical fall and a pin en route to their victory Friday night.

“They’ve got some guys that are pretty talented. If we’re not

as talented, we’ve got to match it by being tougher and better conditioned,” Manning said.

“It’s a simple equation in my mind — but I don’t wrestle. I’ve got to get my guys to believe in that more.”

The bright spot for NU came in the 133-pound match between Nebraska junior Ridge Kiley and PSU’s Frank Martellotti. Kiley trailed 3-1 late into the third period before garnering a point from a stalling violation and earning a reversal with seven seconds remaining.

“I was just thinking, ‘I need to ride him out,’” Kiley said.

Manning said Kiley’s heart won him the match.

“That kid (Martellotti) dictated a lot of stuff,” Manning said.

“He (Kiley) kept fighting the whole time. He got his opportunity and took advantage of it.”

The victory was Nebraska’s first on the night in six tries.

“Coach said, ‘Get the ball rolling.’ That really got me going.

It just kind of motivated me,”

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PSU’s Ed Ruth started the Nittany Lion’s 31-6 victory Friday night with a pin of NU’s Tyler Koehn at 174 pounds.

Kiley said. “Our expectations were better than the outcome of this match.”

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