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THE OPINION OF ASUN PRESIDENT THIEN CHAU
or the lead-up to the three ASUN student election groups launching their campaigns, I had planned on writing an opinion piece on the role of the ASUN president and University of Nebraska-Lincoln student regent. I wanted to provide some clarity and transparency on my actual responsibilities to help students better decide who could fill that role. Last week, I realized this isn’t the most important thing I could spend my time sharing with you all. It is a huge responsibility to represent the student body to university, community and government officials. I don’t deny that. However, the staff at ASUN and Varner Hall make the formal responsibilities of ASUN president and UNL student regent much easier for a full-time student to manage. Anything beyond those duties is completely up to the president, depending on how much he or she would like to accomplish. What I’d really like to share with you all goes beyond the role of any individual and extends to a campaign tradition that is essentially broken for more than 80 percent of students. SEGs run on a variety of issues, but diversity and inclusion are usually a feature of campaigns. This year is no different. In fact, it seems there is more focus on outreach and diversity this year than in the other three campaigns I’ve witnessed. This is no surprise, as rallies and discussions on race issues across the nation have galvanized student activism. Viewed in the context of how ASUN elections have typically gone in the past; however, the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion reveals the inherent problem with diversity and representation in our student government. Every year, SEGs recruit a handful of students from diverse backgrounds in ethnicity, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender and more. Every year, we share excited posts with a few too many exclamation points about how absolutely ecstatic we are to bring a voice to underrepresented students on campus. And every year, the vast majority of these non-white, non-Greek (in reference to the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association) students lose in the election. This is because Greek chapters are readily accessible and easily mobilized on election day to vote for whichever candidates have the most friends in fraternities and sororities, which make up roughly 17 percent of our campus. It’s no coincidence that voter turnout rarely rises above 17 percent.
This is not an indictment of the Greek system. I’ve enjoyed my time in my fraternity and appreciate everything the Greek system has done for me and this campus. This piece is written in hopes the student community at UNL will see what is wrong with how students are picked to be our voice at the Unicameral, the Board of Regents, the State of Nebraska and much more. We will not progress toward a more accurate representation of our campus on the ASUN senate simply because an SEG has a few minority, veteran, or LGBTQAI+ students on their slate. To illustrate, if all three SEGs had two non-Greek, underrepresented students out of the six Arts and Sciences senate spots, then we would have six students from underrepresented groups running for six spots, which sounds great in theory. Then election day arrives, and more than 80 percent of the student body, many of them from the same underrepresented groups, aren’t mobilized to vote as well as the Greek system is. As a result, those candidates lose. This is how elections are won by those with the right connections and lost by those who chose to take a different route in college. As I write this, I’m fully aware of the hypocrisy that seems to be oozing from my fingertips. Of course, I won my election from the Greek vote. There is no denying this reality. Year after year, efforts are made to try to mobilize students to vote. Year after year, I’m not entirely sure if these are wholehearted efforts. There needs to be a paradigm shift if we all really want ASUN to be a more representative body. Recruiting efforts alone are worthless without a more sincere effort to increase voter turnout. This responsibility, however, should not fall on ASUN alone if we want to see substantial progress. A collective effort from the hundreds of RSOs at UNL is needed to change the unfortunate reality. Do not let me or anyone running for student government try to “give you a voice.” Unless we want the momentum resulting from impassioned discussions about diversity and representation to fall to mere tokenism, then the student body, and special-interest RSOs specifically, needs to mobilize and help your own voice be heard. GUEST COLUMNIST THIEN CHAU IS THE UNL STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT AND UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STUDENT REGENT. REACH HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR VIA @DNOPINION.
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Shavon Shields falls over a Rutgers player at the Pinnacle Bank Arena during a Husker basketball game on Saturday. Shields was temporarily unconscious and went to a local hospital for further treatment.
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Julie Masters says she can’t guarantee much in life except for one thing: “All of us are going to die.” Masters is the professor-in-chair of the Department of Gerontology. A department that covers both the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, offering a bachelor of science, certificate and minor in gerontology. Only the certificate and minor are available at UNL. Gerontology is the study of the different aspects of aging. Masters said she believes gerontology is an important area of study because everyone will meet and interact with seniors in their life regardless of the career field. One of the electives the department offers is the course, “Death and Dying.” “We try to cover everything from why people die to once somebody dies, what do you do with the remains?” Masters said. She said the class covers topics including leading causes of death, death notification, suicide, euthanasia, grief, loss and the legal aspects of death. UNL alumna Caroline Haase took the class last semester. She plans to attend mortuary school start-
ing in August. “I had heard really good things about the class,” Haase said, “so not only did it relate, but I had a friend that had taken the class that said (Masters) was a really good teacher.” Masters is often brought up when students are asked about their favorite part of the class. “(She) is really passionate about death and dying,” sophomore pre-health major Sierra Mongeon said. “It sounds morbid, but she’s really knowledgeable. She’s good at what she does, and that makes me want to learn about it.” “She’s really soft spoken, but she just has this great sense of humor,” Haase said. “Her favorite thing to say to us was that we were all gentle souls. I’ve never been called a gentle soul before in my life, and she must have called me that 10 times.” Masters said she enjoys teaching the course to students and affecting the way they look at the world. “I love every facet of the class because it’s such a gift to be around people who are trying to understand, ‘Why does life matter? Why does my time at the University of Nebraska matter?’” Masters said. “It’s because of the difference they can make in the lives of other people.” “It’s cool to see the importance of death in our lives, because it’s natural,” Mongeon said. “We’re
all going to die.” One of the main projects in the class allows students to create a death plan. “We get to plan our own funeral,” Mongeon said. “We pick out what we want for a coffin, for a funeral home, for flowers. We get to write our own will. We go through the legal processes and write our own advanced directives.” Students are encouraged to have some fun with the project. “It’s meant to be light-hearted,” Masters said, “because this can be a pretty intense project.” Haase said she made hers marching bandrelated. “My cause of death was that I died in a tornado during band camp,” she said. The project could have more significance than some students realize. Colin Hays was a biology major when he took Masters’ course in 2013. “We stayed in contact after he took the class because he asked me to write him a letter of recommendation,” Masters said, “which I was glad to do because he was such a dear, young man.” In the summer of 2014, Hays was diagnosed with a blood cancer, before passing away that November. Masters and her students sent a sympathy card
to Hays’ mother, and they stayed in touch after that. Hays’ mother, Karla, returned Hays’ death plan to Masters, along with the story of how they were able to use it. “They were able to take the plans that he created for the class and use them for his life,” Masters said. “That made me realize the class was even more important than I realized.” Death and Dying can also have occupational benefits, as students familiarize with the terms and concepts. “Getting comfortable with the words makes it easier for them,” Masters said. “They are able to say to someone, ‘You know, I’m sorry, but there’s nothing more I can do for you.’ It doesn’t make it any easier, but it’s not so startling, because you’ve heard the words before.” Even if students don’t plan on going into a health-related field, Masters said she hopes they take away a new viewpoint on life. “Every second is a gift,” Masters said. “When we can see that gift, it puts it in a different perspective. Death shouldn’t be something we fear, but rather an opportunity to really appreciate what matters most in life.” NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Giving back through UNL’s ExtensionCorps SARAH WONTORCIK DN For University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore Megan Poppert, it’s about making a difference in the lives of children, teaching them about what they’re eating and encouraging them to lead healthier lives. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Poppert volunteers with UNL’s ExtensionCorps program at Pyrtle Elementary School and Culler Middle School, where she instructs young students about food and nutrition. After teaching a nutrition lesson at the elementary school, Poppert goes to the middle school to host a cooking club, where the kids apply what they have learned. She said the cooking club is similar to a home economics class. “The other (class) is me giving them knowledge about healthy lifestyle choices, being physically active, and what we want to eat more of and what we want to eat less of,” Poppert said. ExtensionCorps is an AmeriCorps program in which members provide direct service to youth and communities in two areas: nutrition education and science literacy. ExtensionCorps helps the UNL outreach program, Nebraska Extension, make an impact in various Nebraska communities. According to the UNL ExtensionCorps website, nearly 75,000 Americans are engaged in service in AmeriCorps programs to meet critical needs in education, the environment, public safety, homeland security and other areas. ExtensionCorps program staff member Christina Franklin said the program’s lessons on nutrition and science literacy make a difference in children’s lives. “(ExtensionCorps members) are reaching underprivileged children in those two areas,” Franklin said. “The most memorable moments and my favorite part is when you hear from members that they feel like they’ve made a difference in a Nebraskan’s
life.” For Poppert, a pre-speech language pathology major, interacting with the students is her favorite part. “At the elementary school, we were talking about going out to eat and fast food, so we did this cool activity where they picked out what they ate at restaurants,” Poppert said. “We looked at calories, all the fat grams, stuff like that. They were so shocked when everything had over 1,500 calories. One of the little boys came up to me and he goes, ‘I am never eating there again.’ We discussed how they could still eat there, but the different healthy options they could choose. He came back the next day saying that his family went there for dinner, and he made them all get salads to be healthier because he didn’t want them eating all of that fat.” Poppert described another moment when she showed her students how much fat was in their favorite fast food meal by calculating how many tablespoons of butter were in the meal. “I think (one boy’s) meal was eight,” Poppert said. “So we just held up a stick of butter and said, ‘Here, do you want to eat this?’ and he goes, ‘No!’” Poppert encourages students to get involved with ExtensionCorps. It looks good on a resume, she said, and it’s a great networking opportunity for someone going into the fields of nutrition education, dietetics or teaching. “I’ve definitely opened my eyes to a lot of things I normally wouldn’t have seen if I wasn’t (part of ExtensionCorps), just because of the different schools that I’ve been into,” Poppert said. “I definitely think that has impacted me to see those children actually learn something, saying, ‘Oh yeah, I should eat this. I shouldn’t eat pop and candy for a snack. I should get carrots and peanut butter.’ Those little things that they tell me are really cool.” NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Student fees pay administrative salaries BAILEY SCHULZ DN According to the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska website, $25,888,018 in 2015-2016 student fees is projected to be allocated to certain organizations, programs and facilities across campus. That comes to $598 per student per semester. This money helps cover a variety of expenses, such as University Program Council events, Lied Center for Performing Arts student tickets and something many University of Nebraska-Lincoln students may not know: administration salaries. Tom Waldo, chairman of the Committee for Fee Allocations, said the administrators who re-
ceive at least a portion of their salary from student fees work for ASUN, Campus Recreation, UPC and the Nebraska Unions. “I know for a fact that all the event administrators, usually I think it’s just the director, receives part of their salary from student fees,” he said. While some administrators have their salaries paid for in full by student fees, others have salaries paid only partially by University Program and Facilities Fees, with the rest coming from the program’s self-generated income. There are six administrative salaries paid for by student fees, according to Waldo. “In Fund A, we have ASUN, UPC and UPC Lied. And ASUN, I think they employ just three people in the ASUN office, and then all their
salaries are paid through student fees,” he said. Waldo said in Fund B student fees go toward a portion of Stan Campbell’s salary. Campbell is the Campus Recreation director and associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs. Allocated student fees are given in a lump sum and combined with other sources of income, which the department then divides into categories, Campbell said. He said it gets blurry as to “how much of those student fees would go toward the administrative salaries versus what percentage might be from self-generated income.” Campbell said it’s common practice across college campuses for student fees to cover at least some administrative costs, especially within the Big Ten Conference. The only exception is
Northwestern University, the conference’s lone private institution. Waldo said he’s not sure how many students are aware they pay student fees at all, let alone that their fees help pay administrative salaries. Students should understand they have to pay people to supervise programs that run through student government, Waldo said. “I think most students realize that their student fees go towards these departments. I don’t know that they would realize that, or really stop to think that some of those might be personal expenses versus operating expenses,” he said. NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Elevate focuses on outreach, student voices COLLIN SPILINEK DN As student government election day draws nearer, Association of Students of the University of Nebraska parties rush to prepare their campaigns for election. The party Elevate announced its candidacy on Monday, Feb. 1, becoming the third to do so. The party consists of Leemah Nasrati as candidate for president, Spencer Creal as candidate for internal vice president and Stetson Heirigs as candidate for external vice president. The three juniors met as members of the Freshman Campus Leadership Associates during their first year of college. “That’s one reason why we’re so confident,” Creal said. “As opposed to colleagues, we’ve been working together on projects both inside and outside of ASUN since our freshman year.” The three came from three different places, Nasrati from Omaha, Creal from Lincoln and Heirigs from South Dakota. “We all share that underlying passion of really accomplishing things, taking them to the next level and doing what it takes to get things done,” Heirigs said. When it came to the name, the group took into consideration the meaning of the word and their goals. “The name is really central to what we’re trying to do,” Creal said. “That is, to elevate people’s voices who don’t usually have a sort of say, who might not even have any idea what ASUN is or what we do. So we reach out to those people, find those people and make sure that their ideas become a part of what we do.” The group focuses not on key platforms, as most of the parties share the same ideas. “It’s a nice thing to know that everybody sort of has the same ideas of what they want to see done in terms of the issues they care about,” Nasrati said.
“I love that everyone running cares about mental health, and I love that everyone running says that they love diversity and inclusion. But we really do want to see specific action taken in those areas.” “Platforms don’t really change that much year to year, and I think people are starting to understand that,” Creal said. Elevate also wants to increase awareness of ASUN and let the students know that there is a place where they can share ideas. “One of our key things is outreach,” Nasrati said. “We want to make sure that ASUN is accessible to as many people as possible and that it actually is responding to, as dramatic as it sounds, the will of the people. We really need to make sure, and ASUN really needs to make sure, that it’s doing what is best for the most of campus.” Although Heirigs is proud of everything ASUN has done, he still wants more for the campus. “It’s a balance of continuing what’s been productive with the student government, but also bringing in some new ideas as well,” Heirigs said. Heirigs said Elevate had some issues with finding a slate to work with, but they eventually found the right people. “That’s something I’m really proud of about our slate,” Heirigs said. “They have very diverse backgrounds, some that have gotten involved in ASUN and others that have not been involved in student government.” When creating Elevate, the three candidates wanted to make sure that they really wanted to run for election. “You don’t want to run for president just for the sake of being president,” Nasrati said. “You really want to make sure that you have ideas and you think you’re the best person to carry those out. Because that’s what running is saying. I wanted it to be a sincere effort on my part and on all of our parts.” NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Envision aims for more representative ASUN EMMA OLSON DN
here,” Otoski said. Otoski is a junior political science and communication studies major from Lincoln. The Envision party plans to pool its three dif- He served in the U.S. Army for seven years ferent personality and leadership experienc- before attending UNL. He is currently the president of the University of Nebraskaes to increase diversity in the Association of Lincoln Student Veterans OrStudents at the University ganization, as well as a memof Nebraska and introduce ber of ASUN’s Committee for a more inclusive student I realized Fees Allocation. body at UNL. Whitacre is a senior entrethe potential Envision announced preneurship and veterinary Justin Otoski, Lizz WhitASUN has to make science major from Eden Praiacre and Pooja Chand rie, Minnesota. She was the change, and I would be running for founding president of UNL’s ASUN president, internal want to be one of No Kill Advocacy Club and vice president and exterstarted two animal welfare the people who nal vice president, respecnonprofits, as well as her own tively, last week. create change.” business called Family Pet The platform includes Project. She also sits on the LIZZ WHITACRE combining differences internal vice presidential board for Revolution Rescue. and strengths to create a candidate “I realized the potential student government more ASUN has to make change, representative of the stuand I want to be one of the dent body and its goals. “If we want to hit 30,000 students for enrollment, we need stuENVISION: SEE PAGE 9 dents to feel as though they will have a place
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Radiate strives to ‘turn flames into fires’ SARAH WONTORCIK DN Laurel Oetken was an eighth grader when she first got involved with student government. She was required to give a speech in front of her entire eighth grade class in order to earn a spot in her high school’s student government. By the time she graduated high school and began her freshman year at the University of NebraskaLincoln, she knew she wanted to get involved on her college campus. “I knew that Freshman Campus Leadership Associates was going to point me in the right direction of how to get involved on campus and do the networking that’s necessary to make a difference and make an impact on your school,” said Oetken, a sophomore advertising and public relations and broadcasting major. FCLA is an appointed group of freshmen who serve as liaisons between the freshman class and UNL’s student government: the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. It was FCLA that led Oetken to pursue more responsibilities within ASUN. Midway through her freshman year, she was appointed to a senate seat for the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Last spring, Oetken was elected to again serve as a representative for CoJMC. Oetken is now running for internal vice president with the Radiate party. As internal vice president, Oetken would work internally with the senate body, and serve as a liaison between many other organizations on campus. The internal vice president also governs over the senate during Wednesday night meetings. Oetken said the role of internal vice president is to oversee the senate, “which is a really cool thing to do also because that’s a role all on its own – to commence meetings and get people all on board and stay on track.” Though she said the individual roles would be important, the executive team would work collaboratively to implement its platforms. In addition to redefining their roles and working together, candidates in the Radiate party plan to take their party’s name seriously. “Radiate is about turning flames into fires,” said UNL junior Spencer Hartman, Radiate’s presidential candidate. “We believe that each person has their flame; their flame is their passion. For me, my passions are learning, for people and for service. My goals for me would be to focus on two primary areas: academics, which is the reason why we’re all here as college students. I want to focus on what we’re not getting from the university as students that we should be getting in academics. The second thing is people. I want to work to ensure that we have a safe, equitable and thriving campus community. This is where we live and work. I want to help build that kind of culture here on campus as well.” After years of the same three-issue platform structure within ASUN election groups, the Radiate party has decided to introduce something new if elected. “The idea that we had with Radiate was that we don’t want to have a traditional platform and run a traditional campaign,” Oetken said. “We are so much more than a three-issue campus. In previous years, parties would run on three issues. For example, sustainability, mental health awareness, working with the health cen-
ter and things like that. We can do so much more as a senate body to encompass all of the issues that are going on on campus and address those as a student body.” Hartman has been involved with ASUN since his freshman year and currently serves as the speaker of the senate. In his time working with ASUN, he’s noticed that the three-issue platform doesn’t always work well. “Seeing how the senate has operated over the past couple of years, I see that oftentimes, the executive team comes in with a few goals and then there seems to be a lot of struggle with getting the senate to buy into the goals of the executive team,” Hartman said. “Then people, at times, end up working against each other; the synergy doesn’t happen. I think the way we’ve built our team and the way we’ve built our philosophy is we want to try and create a senate that is driven by the passions of individual senators. Our job as an executive team is to help bring those ideas or concerns to fruition to fix problems. Rather than a top-down policy approach, we want to empower senators so that they can make a difference and represent their colleges and create synergy among the senate and executive team.” Running for external vice president is junior advertising and public relations major Morgan Rezac. All three candidates believe that each person’s passion should be pursued and “radiated” throughout campus. With this philosophy, each candidate has his or her own passions to pursue if elected. For Rezac, that passion comes from her experience working with ASUN’s Technology Fee Committee. “When I joined the Technology Fee Committee, I did not have any clue what money that I paid as a student went toward,” Rezac said. “There are so many different things that our money goes toward that can help us as students that nobody knows about because it’s not communicated well to students at all.” Oteken said she hopes to bring sexual assault awareness and open up dialogue between students and faculty members. “I’ve struggled in classes trying to work up the courage to talk to professors and I don’t think that should be a problem,” Oetken said. “I’ve had a few incidences where family members have had encounters with sexual assault - that’s something I truly am passionate about making a difference (on).” To achieve this goal, Oetken said she wants to educate students on their rights under Title IX and encourage a better understanding of sexual assault. “I think we’re a generation that’s living in a ‘me’ society, and I think that we need to start thinking about ‘us’ collectively, as a whole, and our actions and how they affect everyone,” she said. All three candidates stress that Radiate’s platform is about being flexible with ASUN’s agenda in order to address issues that matter to students. “Our idea behind Radiate is to encompass all the passions of students at UNL and to really bring them together and hone in on those to make changes on campus,” Oetken said. “We want it to be a platform and adjust that platform based on what students need and what students think is important, because essentially we are representing the students on campus. We’re not representing ourselves, our views and what we think is important, but we’re representing the
COURTESY PHOTO | DN student body as a whole.” In the coming weeks before elections on March 9, Hartman, Oetken and Rezac said they plan to campaign in a way that isn’t intrusive to students, but is also effective in spreading the word about Radiate’s goals. “I genuinely enjoy just visiting with other students who live here in our campus community, learning what they’re passionate about and what ideas they have for campus,” Hartman said. Rezac said she also enjoys getting to talk to people around campus. “We’ve been having a lot of fun trying to connect with students via Facebook and Twitter,” Rezac said. “We really want to learn about the passions that students have and the con-
cerns they have.” Oetken said this week the three candidates will take a tour of every college on campus in order to reach out to as many students as possible and hear what they’re talking about. “We want to know the students who are there and we want to see what they’re facing every day,” Oetken said. “The overall idea with the campaign strategies that we have is really just meeting students where they’re at and getting their perspective, hearing what they’re passionate about, hearing what they struggle with, hearing the challenges they face and trying to come up with plans to combat those problems while we still can.” NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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UNLPD arrests student for selling drugs The University of NebraskaLincoln Police Department has issued 14 narcoticsrelated citations since the beginning of February. STAFF DN
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department arrested and charged a UNL junior computer engineering major Wednesday for selling and distributing marijuana after finding 77.8 grams of the drug in his residence hall room at Kauffman Residential Center. On Feb. 2, officers cited a UNL sophomore Kauffman resident for possession of drug paraphernalia after responding to a report of the odor of burnt marijuana. The resident allowed officers to search his room, and “numerous marijuana pipes and other paraphernalia were located,” according to the report. The resident claimed ownership and was cited and released for possession of drug paraphernalia.
The next day, officers were again dispatched to a residence hall room in Kauffman in reference to a complaint of the smell of marijuana. Officers made contact with the same sophomore computer science major and later his roommate, 20-year-old Matthew Martin, who walked in after officers arrived. Officers discovered marijuana and drug paraphernalia during a search of the dorm, and Martin was arrested after admitting to selling and distributing marijuana. His roommate was cited and released for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Martin is a web editor at The Daily Nebraskan. Last week, UNL Housing officials at Harper Hall reported a vandalism that occurred inside
the building. An unknown person had urinated inside the west stairwell of the building, and housing officials said there would be clean-up costs related to sanitizing the stairwell from the ninth floor down to the first floor. According to the report, the investigation is ongoing. Just after 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, non-UNL-affiliate female reported that, while she ran into the UNL Dairy Store, her 10-year-old son – who was left in the vehicle – saw a man get into the driver’s seat of the car. After noticing the child, the man got out of the vehicle and left the area. NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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ENVISION: FROM 6 people who create change,” Whitacre said. Chand is a junior political science major from Pleasanton, California. She is a member of Kappa Delta. She volunteers with her sorority for CEDARS Home for Children and is involved in off-campus internships. The three met through mutual friends and decided they would make a great team for ASUN office. “Envision literally means what a future possibility could be,” Whitacre said. “We hold an open-door policy in order to meet with other students and learn what they see as a possibility, and we want to make those things happen.” Otoski said, in the past ASUN has been filled with the same pipeline of students that come from Freshman Campus Leadership Associates and move to ASUN senate. “We want ASUN to represent campus as a whole, and there’s diversity with that,” Otoski said. Otoski said he was lucky as a nontraditional student to run with past student election group Empower. He said Envision will bring a fresh perspective to ASUN. Envision plans to focus on mental health and the whole UNL community. Otoski has steps in place to expedite the process of meeting with a mental health care professional on campus. He wants the age of majority law to be changed so students who are 17 or 18 don’t need a parent signature to talk to a mental health professional. “Some students just don’t want to approach their parents with that,” Otoski said. Whitacre wants to go out of her way to find passionate students on campus to help them put their ideas into action. She also plans to use her background to create a pet-friendly campus for people who use emotional support animals at school. “We are beyond the point of thinking the animals aren’t going to come to campus,” Whitacre said. “We might as well start implementing rules, policies and regulations to help retain students and break down across campus barriers.” Chand wants inclusivity to be a main focus on campus. As an out-of-state student, she feels other out-of-state students need to feel integrated and part of the culture when they come to campus. “I want to make campus a safer, more comfortable school in order to retain more students,” Chand said. The Envision party plans to use its past successes to help people see change on campus. “We all represent a different part of the campus community, and that gives us another perspective,” Chand said. The group sees the campus’ potential and wants to uncover it. “What students can envision is what we are going to accomplish,” Whitacre said. NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Far away from home, Kalenta finds support system BECCA MANN DN
After a season and a half as a Nebraska women’s basketball player, senior Anya Kalenta picked up her first double-double and a careerhigh against Penn State on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Scoring just six points in 10 Big Ten games earlier this season, the forward found her rhythm, and with it, her success. Born and raised in Minsk, Belarus, Kalenta comes from a family dedicated to basketball. Kalenta’s mother, Yaniua, played for the national Russian team and her father, Ryhor, was a coach. Kalenta was an avid basketball player throughout her childhood. She ventured to the United States for college in hopes of a different experience than what was offered back home. “The level of competition is much different here,” Kalenta said. “I also just wanted to explore something new.” Her yearning for new experiences led Kaletnta to Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As a freshman, she averaged 9.3 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. But Kalenta decided Broward wasn’t the place she wanted to be. After competing on the Republic of Belarus’ team at the U-20 European Championships, Kalenta set her sights on Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana. A standout player for the Trailblazers, Kalenta scored double digit points in 29 of the 30 games she played. As a sophomore, she was No. 13 nationally in scoring, averaging 20.8 points per game. After being recruited by Nebraska, Kalenta left VU after just one season. Kalenta said that before she moved the United States, she had no idea she’d get to play at a Division I school or what it would take to get there. After considering Utah State, East Tennessee State and Indiana, Kalenta chose Nebraska not only because of its facilities, but also because of the athletes on the team. “The players were all friendly and they were genuine,” Kalenta said. “They weren’t fake.” At Nebraska, Kalenta is majoring in chemistry and hopes to attend graduate school to study organic chemistry. Chemistry is a tough major, but Kalenta balances it with athletics with her strong time management skills and lots of studying. Lots and lots of studying. “I don’t really have a social life,” Kalenta said. “Pretty much, I do homework all day, along with practicing.” After spending her afternoons at practice, Kalenta spends a few hours every night, and more on the weekends, on homework. When the team travels, Kalenta brings her books along, studying to and from games. Kalenta has been juggling heavy course loads and basketball since her sophomore year at Vincennes. Because she didn’t have a steady course load at Broward College, Kalenta took 50 credit hours at VU to be eligible to play at Nebraska. When she first moved to the United States,
FILE PHOTO | DN many of Kalenta’s classes were either English language or filler classes. She received just nine transferable credits from Broward College. Although it’s a lot to handle, Kalenta says she enjoys school and finds her classes interesting. Securing eligibility was just the start of many challenges Kalenta would have to overcome in her transition to Nebraska. “Here, it’s a system,” Kalenta said. “You need to learn the system that the coaching staff tells you and suggests how you should play. In junior college, you just have a ball and you play.” After breaking her nose during her junior year, Kalenta had surgery late that October and wore a required protective mask for the first few games of the season. Kalenta began her career at Nebraska with 14 points and eight rebounds in 18 minutes
against Pepperdine. Continuing her opening weekend success, she put up 10 points and seven rebounds against Alcorn State. A stress fracture in her foot forced Kalenta out for the start of Big Ten play. After missing all of that December and part of January because of the injury and a bout with the flu, Kalenta played her first conference game against Penn State on Jan. 15, 2015. She played in 12 games during her first season at Nebraska and averaged 3.2 points per game. After pushing through last season, Kalenta entered this season with hopes it would run more smoothly. She hasn’t had to battle injury or illness this season, but with the talent on this year’s team, finding a place on the starting lineup still isn’t an easy task. The differences between junior college and Division 1 are evident to Kalenta and required
her to step up her training and playing at Nebraska. “It’s just a little different because in junior college you have a couple plays, and everything is based on how capable you are with playing offense,” Kalenta said. “Here, it’s better to be a defensive player. Of course, the physical level here is also way higher.” Kalenta hasn’t started this season, but she has appeared in all 23 of Nebraska’s games. Before her standout performance against Penn State on Feb. 2, Kalenta had scored just six points in Big Ten play. Kalenta earned her first double-double as a Husker with 14 points and 11 rebounds against the Nittany Lions. “I just went out there and gave everything
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Despite win, NU is still trying to get over the hump
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Nebraska’s win against Rutgers Saturday, Feb. 6 came on the heels of the team’s toughest stretch of the season. In games against Michigan State, Michigan, Purdue and Maryland, the Huskers went 1-3. All four opponents sit in the top half of the Big Ten, and three are ranked in the national top 25. Nebraska coach Tim Miles said he learned two things in the four-game stretch. First, keep recruiting. “We need more size; we know that,” Miles said. “We have got good guys, but we just have to keep going if we want to be elite. And that’s the goal here.” Second, his team can compete. “Our guys know that our game plan, our style of play can give us a chance to win,” Miles said.
He knows the team lacks size. Everyone knows that. So his squad has become a fast-break team. The Huskers are at their best when they play fast and move the ball. They like to play fast, which is why freshman guard Glynn Watson Jr. was visibly upset when the team wasn’t moving the ball against Maryland. The Huskers are also scoring more points, 74.5 per game, than any other Miles-led Nebraska team. Nebraska is also taking incredible care of the basketball. Nebraska’s 9.6 turnovers per game are the second lowest in the Big Ten. That can be credited to Miles’ “You turn it over, you hit the treadmill” policy. Nebraska won the turnover battle against Maryland 18-6. The team hasn’t had a negative turnover margin since Jan. 16 against Illinois. A shorter rotation is allowing a couple of team members more playing time and experience, includ-
ing Watson, who chalked up eight points with nine assists in the win against Rutgers. But perimeter defense was missing in the fourgame stretch. In the four games, Nebraska allowed the teams to shoot at least 53 percent from beyond the arc. Nebraska shot less than 35 percent from three-point line in all four games. Purdue, which averaged 34 percent from three-point territory, shot 58 percent against Nebraska. The game against a subpar Rutgers team came just in time for Nebraska. Nebraska needed a win to keep pace with the middle of the pack in the Big Ten. It could be a start to what will need to be a better stretch of games for the Huskers. Miles doesn’t want his team to come away from going 1-3 in the four-game stretch with a lack of confidence. He doesn’t want his team to think they are “just good enough” to lose. A few defensive lapses against Michigan ended
up costing Nebraska a game it put itself in a position to win. It was the same story against Maryland Wednesday. An offensive rebound by Maryland off a missed free throw late in the game led to a threepointer and an insurmountable Terrapin lead. To combat the hit to his team’s confidence, Miles has urged the Huskers to buy into the process, wanting them to get better every day. “You can compete with anybody, but it’s going to take a full 40 minutes,” Miles said. “It’s going to take excellent execution and an effort like you wouldn’t believe.” Miles is happy his team can compete, but he wants to win. SPORTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Shields’ grimacing fall overshadows NU win When senior forward Shavon Shields took a tumble in the second half, the team and the crowd each held its breath. MICHAEL DIXON DN
Few moments are so accurately described by a cliché. When Shavon Shields was motionless after a horrific fall onto his back during the second half of Nebraska’s 87-63 win against Rutgers Saturday, you could, quite literally, hear a pin drop inside Pinnacle Bank Arena. It was a scene so exceedingly rare to see on a basketball court: Shields, undercut after jumping underneath the Rutgers basket, couldn’t brace himself and hit both his back and head. From the second he hit the floor, he didn’t move. While you never want to see this happen to any player in any sport, for it to be Shields made it especially difficult to stomach. Minutes prior, Shields surpassed 1500 career points and moved into the program’s top-10 all-time. He’s a guy who’s given the program everything he’s had for four years. Often, he flies under the national radar, and remains one of the country’s most overlooked players. Immediately, Nebraska coach Tim Miles attended to Shields, and quickly motioned for extra help. “You see him in the air and as soon as his hip hit the kid’s shoulder and his feet go way up, you know it’s not good,” Miles said. “I was worried for him and scared for him.” Medical crews, equipped with a backboard and stretcher, came onto the floor. Shields, according to Miles, had lost consciousness and couldn’t remember anything that had happened. Few people said anything; many watched, hoping it wasn’t anything close to as bad as it initially looked. On the NU bench, a few players embraced each other, but said nothing. Benny Parker stood alone on the sideline, as did Andrew White III. “(It was) really scary, just because I think most basketball players go through a fall like that,” White said. “It’s just a matter of how serious it is when you land. You can hit a back, shoulder, head, or neck.” Soon thereafter, Shields’ mother, Senia, joined the handful of staff members working with Shields. “I wanted his mom out there because I knew how she would be,” Miles said. “I wanted her to feel like she was getting the information, so I asked her to come out.” After a few minutes, they were able to transfer him to the backboard and get him onto the stretcher. The Rutgers bench, not too far from where Shields had fallen, had been completely silent throughout the process, and rose, along with every fan in attendance, to give Shields an ovation. “First of all, our hearts and our concerns go out to Shavon Shields and his family and
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Nebraska coach Tim Miles looks on at Shavon Shields who is evaluated on the court after taking a gruesome tumble onto his back during the second half on Saturday’s win against Rutgers.
his health,” Rutgers coach Eddie Jordan said. to move,” Miles said. “He was just following directions.” “We hope he recovers very soon.” Finally, a few hours When Shields was after the fall, news exiting the floor, Parker, “You see him in came that Shields’ CT joined by Nick Fuller, scans were negative, he jogged across the court the air and as soon was released from the to give him a pat on the hospital, and would be arm. as his hip hit the kid’s treated with the UniJust a few minutes shoulder and his feet go versity’s concussion after Shields was carted protocol. off, Huskers Sports Net- way up, you know it’s You’d be hardwork reported he did pressed to find another have movement in both not good,” Miles said. “I situation where the arms and legs. ESPN also was worried for him and concussion protocol felt said he movement in all scared for him.” like good news. extremities. Then, the “We are relieved Omaha World-Herald’s and thankful Shavon Dirk Chatelain reported TIM MILES has been released, and Shields was headed to a Nebraska CoaCh that his injuries aren’t local hospital for further more serious,” Miles testing. said in a statement. “We will follow the propGiven the scene just moments prior, all of er protocol and get him back to full speed.” it was a relief for coaches, fans and players. Even after the game resumed, there was “He didn’t move because we told him not
an eerie silence within the arena. Both the players and fans were only going through the motions. Only after a bit of good news, followed by a garbage-time 3 from fan-favorite Johnny Trueblood, did PBA resemble its old self. “At that point, you just try and get through the game as quick as you can,” Miles said. “The game feels so unimportant.” Especially for the players. “It’s tough to get back to (playing) ball,” White said. “Luckily we were in a pretty good playing position and we were just able to close out the game. In that situation you just want to win the game and get to our errors and stuff later. It’s more than this game, obviously.”
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NU’s road struggles continue with 26 turnovers BECCA MANN DN
The Nebraska women’s basketball team was unable to overcome a sloppy start at Assembly Hall Sunday afternoon, suffering a 59-47 defeat to Indiana. The loss marked the third conference defeat on the road for Nebraska (16-7, 7-5) this season and the first loss against Indiana (15-9, 7-5) in Big Ten history. Another mountain of turnovers — 26 — along with a slow, sloppy start in the first half ultimately plagued the Huskers. The Hoosiers (11-0) have yet to lose a home game this season. “I just thought this was a game about who wanted it more,” Nebraska coach Connie Yori said. “This is one that is really going to be bothersome because we had the ball in our hands and in our grasp.” Indiana scored 23 points off of turnovers and 11 fast-break points. Nebraska’s struggles started early, as the Hoosiers scored the game’s first six points. Double coverage of freshman forward Jessica Shepard under the basket pressured the Huskers into giving IU easy steal opportuniteis and committing several turnovers. A late first-quarter basket by senior forward Anya Kalenta put the Huskers up 13-12 at the end of the first quarter, but the Hoosiers took control again midway through the second quarter.
Indiana earned a 30-24 advantage going into the half by controlling the glass, out-rebounding the Huskers 26-22. IU found success in forcing turnovers and scoring on fast breaks. By halftime, Nebraska had 14 turnovers, six more than Indiana. The Hoosiers had put up 15 points off of Husker turnovers and grabbed seven fast-break points. With Nebraska trailing 45-35 heading into the fourth quarter, frustration began to set in. Shepard was a leading force for the Huskers, but picked up her fourth foul to start off the final quarter. NU’s other starters; senior guard Kyndal Clark, sophomore shooting guard Natalie Romeo and senior point guard Rachel Theriot; made just two of the team’s 47 points. The trio averages 32 points per game on the season. “It’s hard to have your starting back court score two points for you and expect that you’re going to get anywhere close to a win,” Yori said. Seventeen of Nebraska’s 47 points came from the bench. In an atrocious shooting game for both teams, Nebraska only shot 35.7 percent, but still outshot Indiana, which shot at 31.9 percent. The difference was ball control. The Huskers coughed up the ball 26 times while committing 16 fouls. Indiana made 14 turnovers and 10 fouls. Although NU is ranked seventh in the nation for three-point shots, the Huskers went just 2-13 for three pointers against Indiana. “We just didn’t have a good shooting day,” Yori
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said. “You can’t expect kids to hit shots all the time. Natalie (Romeo) has been so consistent making shots for us recently. She didn’t shoot it very well, but it’s just one of those days.” Shepard, who went 8-17 from the floor while grabbing 13 rebounds, scored a large portion of Nebraska’s points Shepard secured her ninth doubledouble with Nebraska, matching a freshman record set by Debra Powell in 1981-82. Even with Shepard’s contributions, the Huskers failed to protect the ball, and Indiana grabbed
14 steals. Although the Hoosiers won Sunday’s match, Nebraska will have the opportunity to turn the tide when Indiana travels to Lincoln later this month. Indiana is undefeated at home, but the team is just 1-5 in conference road games this season. The Huskers have just two road games left this season. Nebraska will next travel to Minnesota on Feb. 11. SPORTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Nebraska suffers loss to Iowa by narrowest of margins SYDNY BOYD DN
Sometimes, a win in gymnastics comes down to sticking a landing and perfecting the details. The Nebraska women’s gymnastics team wasn’t able to get those details perfected before losing by .300 points to Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, Saturday, Feb. 6. The Hawkeyes beat the No. 14 Huskers 196.650-196.350. Although the road meet didn’t provide the Huskers with the same atmosphere as the Bob Devaney Sports Center, the Huskers kept the same mindset. “We went into just like any other meet,” junior Jennie Laeng said. “We were focusing on our energy and coming together as a team. That never changes.” Laeng and sophomore Grace Williams led the team with personal career-highs and event titles in vault and floor exercise. Even after walking away with a loss, six Huskers set career or season highs at the meet. “Those improvements show that we’re getting better, but we need to be able to put all the pieces together,” Nebraska coach Dan Kendig said. “We had some landing and rhythm issues throughout the meet and just weren’t able to come out on top.” Sophomore Danielle Breen was a major point contributor for Nebraska, helping the team on uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. Breen set a new career-high on floor with a 9.875. Freshman Megan Schweihofer set a new season high on the balance beam with 9.85, and junior Ashley Lambert tied her careerhigh with 9.85 on bars. “We talked as team after the meet, and we all know that we just need to get into the
gym this week and get our bodies recovered, get everything back to where it needs to be before we compete again this weekend,” Williams said. Nebraska began the competition on the uneven bars. Laeng, Lambert and Williams each put up a solid 9.85 to lead the Huskers to 49.000. Both Breen and freshman Catelyn Orel scored 9.725s. For the second rotation, the Huskers competed on vault, scoring 49.125. Laeng led the way with a 9.875, followed by Schweihofer and Blanske, who both scored 9.85. Both freshman Sienna Crouse and Williams made 9.775s, finishing the rotation. After two rotations, Iowa led 98.22598.125. “Nobody fell; it just came down to landing across the whole meet,” Laeng said. “That’s where they beat us at. Overall, it wasn’t a bad meet. It was a good meet for us. It’s just those details that we have to back into the gym and work on.” Nebraska’s third rotation was the floor exercise, and the Huskers scored 49.125 overall. Williams hit a new career high of 9.925, Breen scored 9.875 and Schweihofer earned a 9.825. After three rotations, Iowa held the lead 147.375-147.225. On the beam, the final event, the Huskers scored 49.100. Schweihofer and Williams scored 9.85, Blanske made a 9.825 and Breen hit a 9.800. Orel put up a career-best 9.775 to finish the meet. “We didn’t have any huge, major mistakes,” Williams said. “As the rotations went on, we were just surprised. Our confidence was so high, and we didn’t focus on the little details that we did last weekend. Going into
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The women’s gymnastics team gathers in a circle before a recent meet. Ranked No. 14 in the country, Nebraska was upset by Iowa on the road on Saturday.
the gym this week, we just need to focus on the little things that are going to improve our team.” The Huskers will return home next Friday, Feb. 12, for the Tumble N’ Rumble meet against Minnesota. The meet is scheduled to
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Multiple NU track athletes collect top finishes STAFF DN
The Nebraska track and field team hosted the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational at the Bob Devaney Sports Center Indoor Track Friday, Feb. 5 and Saturday, Feb. 6. Several top tier track teams came to compete, including Texas, Texas Tech, Kansas State, Auburn, Arizona State, Illinois, UCLA, Iowa State, Kansas and Missouri, making the meet Nebraska’s largest home meet of the indoor season. No team scores were kept, but the Huskers did bring home five individual and team titles, as well as several other high finishes. Junior Mate Koroknai, freshman Oliver Alexandre, junior Drew Wiseman and senior Cody Rush cruised to victory in the men’s 4x400 relay and set a meet record of 3:08.47. Alexandre and Rush made the fastest splits with times of 46.784 and 46.933, respectively. Sophomore Antoine Lloyd won the title for the 60-meter hurdle with a time of 7.80, while his teammate, senior Oladapo Akinmoladun, finished in second place with a time of 7.82.
In the women’s 600-meter dash, sophomore Karolina Pahlitzsch placed first with a time of 1:30.99. Redshirt junior Anna Peer ran unattached in the 5,000-meter race for her first race of the indoor track and field season. Clocking 17:13.34, Peer posted the second best time in the event. Sophomore teammate Bonnie Smith finished fourth with a personal best time of 17:26.51. The men’s distance team also made a strong showing, particularly in the 5,000-meter race, in which sophomore Austin Post finished third with a time of 14:42.12. Close behind him was sophomore Alec Sery, who finished fourth with a personal-best time of 14:43.84. Freshman Lakayla Harris placed fourth with a personal-best time of 23.92 in the women’s 200-meter. Rush placed second in the men’s 400-meter with a time of 47.18. Sophomore Sam Bransby placed third, setting a personalrecord of 47.59. Alexandre and Koroknai finished in fifth and sixth place, respectively.
In the 600-meter-dash, Bransby ran a personal-best time of 1:17.38, the second best time in Nebraska indoor history. It is also the second best time in the Big Ten this season. Senior Levi Gipson was right behind Bransby with a time of 1:18.13. In the field events, sophomore Nick Percy finished third in the weight throw. Throwing 63-1¼ (19.23m), he set a new personal best. For the women, senior Tristen Sharp threw a season-best 60-6¾ (18.46m), which earned her fifth place. Senior Tess Merrill took home fifth place in the women’s pole vault, clearing an indoor personal best of 13-2½ (4.03m). Sophomore Cody Walton set a personal record of 22-0¾ (6.72m) in the men’s long jump and of 6-5½ (1.97m) in men’s high jump. Sophomore Noah Gabel won the men’s long jump with a jump of 23-2 (7.06m) and tied for first in the men’s high jump with a 6-6¾ (2.00m). Sophomore Reka Czuth set a new personal record in the women’s high jump of 6-1½ (1.87m) just one week after making it on the Nebraska indoor top 10 list. She is now first
in the Big Ten, tied for second in the nation and tied for third in Nebraska indoor history. Junior Tierra Williams took second place in the women’s triple jump with a jump of 42-1¼ (12.83m). In the men’s triple jump, sophomore Kaiwan Culmer jumped 49-11¼ (15.22m), enough to earn him third place. In the heptathlon, the Nebraska team posted new personal bests. Walton scored a total of 5,515 points in the event, earning him second place. He won the heptathlon pole vault at 15-9 (4.80m), a personal-best. Finishing third overall with 5,318 points, Gabel had a personal record of 15-5 (4.70m). Junior Guy Fenske finished with a total of 5,222 points, enough for fourth place. Friday, Feb. 12 and Saturday, Feb. 13 the Nebraska indoor track and field teams will split up and play the Pittsburg State Gorilla Classic in Pittsburg, Kansas, and the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas. SPORTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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The No. 6 Nebraska men’s gymnastics team lost its dual with the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners, 447.450-428.700, in Norman, Oklahoma, Saturday, Feb. 6. The dual was the Husker’s seventh run-in with a ranked opponent and its second time facing the defending national champion Sooners. “It’s like a mini NCAA championship,” Nebraska coach Chuck Chmelka said. “And we were battling back-and-forth with them.” Nebraska, as a team, lost every event to the Sooners, but managed the second-highest score of the season and in school history. Oklahoma boasts five of the top nine rated all-around performers in the country, and flexed its collective muscle on each event, winning all the individual events as well. Chmelka said this dual was Nebraska’s last chance to experiment with its lineup and with indi-
vidual routines before the duals move to a “five-up, five-count” format. In the duals before the Winter Cup, which runs from Feb. 18 to Feb. 20 in Las Vegas, teams send up six competitors, and the top five scores are counted. “We wanted to get all our guys in and some of them were pretty raw, pretty rookie, and they did a great job, overall,” Chmelka said. A number of Huskers were competing at events for the first time. Chmelka said it was worth taking the chance to provide them experience and boost depth for later in the season. Despite the loss, Chmelka said there were a couple of bright spots individually for Nebraska. “Sam Chamberlain, our senior, had I believe, his career-high on vaulting,” Chmelka said. “He nailed it, just nailed it, looked like a dart going into a dartboard, just stuck right on the floor. It was awesome.” True freshman Anton Stephenson finished second in the all-around for Nebraska and said his
consistency was a major factor in his success in Norman. Stephenson also scored his first 15 or better in his college career on the floor exercise Saturday. “I stuck my dismount on my floor set, which is the first time I’d done that in competition,” Stephenson said. “It was awesome. I remember looking over at my teammates, and them all cheering me on, and my coaches looked pretty happy. Senior Ethan Lottman finished second in the pommel horse with a score of 14.75. Lottman is tied for third in the country on the pommel horse and finished behind No. 2 Allan Bower of Oklahoma Saturday. Stephenson said Lottman’s success on the pommel horse uplifts the team. “Everyone gets real motivated, gets really excited and then we usually use that intensity throughout the rest of the competition. It fuels us a little bit,” Stephenson said. Coming back from Norman with a loss has not dampened the hopes of Chmelka and the Huskers.
Only three Huskers will be heading to Las Vegas for the Winter Cup, leaving the rest to rest and recuperate for more tough competition. Nebraska will play at No. 7 Iowa, No. 3 Ohio State and No. 9 Penn State, then host No. 4 Minnesota and Iowa before heading to the Big Ten Championships. Chmelka said he hopes the lessons learned early in the year will pay off in the end. “I had a feeling we were going to be a really great team,” Chmelka said. “We’ll find out how good we are in the second half of the season.” “It’s going to be grueling, but on the same side of it is, if we can win a few of those, it’s going to give our guys so much confidence come Big Tens and NCAAs, that we know we can beat these guys,” Chmelka said “Frankly, we’ve never really felt that before.”
to challenge them and looked to Kalenta to do so. Coach Yori relies on Kalenta to step up when needed. “Anya can put the ball in the basket,” Yori sad. “She’s shown that, really, throughout the year.” Although Kalenta has been far from home
throughout her college basketball journey, her support system has always been there. Kalenta’s parents have only been able to see her play in one game as a Husker, but she knows a support system is always present. “No matter where I am at, Florida or Indiana or
Nebraska, I will always meet someone who is eager to help me without asking anything,” Kalenta said. “They just want to help me.”
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