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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

OK, here we go.

Around this time last year, I was talking to a friend about the time I’d be spending promoting the Daily Nebraskan as ASUN elections approached. I was saying that without a “yes” vote for DN funding, I wouldn’t have a job for the year.

Another classmate overheard me and instantly launched into a rant about why the DN was total trash. According to him, the paper gets nothing right, everything we produce is meaningless and everyone who works there is stupid.

Needless to say, it was hard to sit there and listen.

Though (I hope) not everyone aggressively demeans the paper to our staffers, plenty of people have chimed in on our website or social media to point out when we make mistakes. It’s OK, I get it. It’s funny for you. And, believe me, it’s embarrassing for us.

Being opinion editor, even though my colleagues try to congratulate me on our best-of-the-best, it seems I hear much more often about the worst-of-theworst.

I would argue the fact that we produce content that sparks conversation means we’re doing our jobs well. But of course I don’t like it when we use a weak source, miss a typo or have uniform ideologies. We’re better than that.

But please don’t let one mistake make you think the people in this office don’t care. And please don’t assume that one controversial column means we don’t understand our readers.

Every week we have opinion section meetings where we talk about issues that recently sparked our interest. If someone has been thinking about a topic but doesn’t have a cohesive argument, other writers offer their thoughts on which direction it could go. Multiple nights a week, I exchange a series of emails and sit-down conversations with my writers about finding evidence, organizing arguments and convincing the reader to stick with them through their columns.

Some weeks we’re off our game. I’m too tired to critically think about weak points in the column, or the writer is too busy to spend as much time editing as we’d like. We have varying opinions, but sometimes I wish we had more diversity to fairly balance our section.

So, yes, we make mistakes sometimes. We notice them, we cringe over them

and we work to fix them.

Now to you, dear reader: If you feel strongly about content you’ve read recently, think you have a good response or want to add some variety to our section, please keep letting us know. Write a letter to the editor. Come write for us.

To me, the opinion section is the perfect space for non-journalism majors who enjoy writing to tackle issues they care about. Of course you have to be mindful and respectful and well-researched. But if you consistently have strong feelings on discussions happening around campus, then join the paper that can be a platform for those issues.

If you want your voice to be heard, write about it. Just know we put a lot of care and time into sharing our voices with you.

Thanks for listening, Amy Kenyon Opinion editor

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Sophomore Sarah Hove holds one of the many caterpillars that she raises. Hove found her first caterpillar at Holmes Lake and later channeled her enthusiasm for caterpillars by taking an entomology class to learn more about them.

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The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is director Brittanie Witter’s comedic attempt to convert The Complete Works of Shakespeare, which is anywhere between

Theatrix puts on rendition of Shakespearean texts KATJA DUERIG DN Brittanie Witter, a senior theater major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, performed “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” her senior year of high school. She said that it’s her favorite show she’s ever done.

“I love this show so much,” Witter said. “It’s just so much fun.”

This weekend, she’s directing it for Theatrix, a student-run theater organization that puts on shows twice a semester. Witter had to submit the play and be chosen to direct it. The show will run in the Lab Theatre on the third floor of the

Temple Building at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Since it’s being presented in the middle of the semester, the cast and crew only had five weeks to put it together, compared to the usual two months.

The show packs all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays into 97 minutes, a feat completed by only three actors. Luckily the stars, Thomas Boyle, Brenna Hill and Spenser Stokes are friends in real life that have acted together for years.

“I got really lucky with the casting,” Witter said.

She said that their history together made it easier on her as a director.

The actors’ relationships with each other cre-

ate a unique personal aspect to the play. Witter said that because the show relies partially on improvisation, the actors had a say in how they wanted to play their parts.

“They all decided that they were going to be caricatures of themselves,” Witter said.

On stage, the actors call each other by their real names.

“It’s a play mostly based on improvisation,” Witter said. “All the words are there that are in the Shakespearean texts, but then everything in between is just them riffing off each other.”

It begins with the trio attempting to do a complete run-through of the first play, but they quickly realize that approach will take too much

time and they group the remaining 36 into a series of sketches.

Originally written in the 1980s, this play is adapted to modern pop culture. It features an Othello rap, a cooking show and Shakespeare’s tragedies presented as a football game. Witter said that this, combined with the play’s approach to referencing Shakespearean texts, makes it interesting for both Shakespeare buffs and those less familiar with his work.

“This is not yo mama’s Shakespeare,” she said. “It has such a modernized twist on it that it’s accessible to anyone.”

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Academy Awards discourage thoughtful film Zach Fulciniti

The Academy Awards came and went this past Sunday, as they do year after year. Since it’s been a few days, you’ve probably stopped thinking about them already.

If you would be so kind as to think about them one more time, and then never again for as long as you live.

My thesis is simple: Stop giving a shit about the Oscars.

Maybe the Oscars, wholesale, aren’t worse than any other awards ceremony. I certainly wouldn’t refute the argument that the Golden Globes is a bigger waste of time.

But the film industry’s biggest awards show is unique. For one, the Academy Awards are the most popular in the United States, typically pulling in about 40 million viewers. They’re a lightning rod for film buffs, film casuals and people who like to pretend they’re one of those two things I just mentioned.

In other words, year after year, the Oscars get hyped.

And it’s not that the Oscars get it wrong all the time. They have gotten it wrong before. The 1995 ceremony, where “Forrest Gump” beat out both “Pulp Fiction” and “The Shawshank Redemption” for Best Picture, was a particular travesty. And the only time they really “get it wrong” is when they

pick the one movie that’s clearly not as good as the others. They did that with “Forrest Gump.” It would have been difficult to get it wrong this year.

“American Sniper,” maybe?

For the most part, even if we disagree with who wins a certain award, we generally agree that the winner deserved it as much as anyone else. It’s rare that an award is given to someone who without a doubt didn’t deserve some recognition.

Yes, the Oscars mostly get it right, but it doesn’t matter. The real problem is that we shouldn’t care what those people think in the first place. The Academy has done very little to earn credibility and has done far more to destroy it.

The Hollywood Reporter is kind enough to interview Academy members each year about their Oscar ballots, and those interviews usually give us good insight into why the Oscars shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Last year, an elderly female executive member of the Academy interviewed with THR about her ballot, revealing that she hadn’t seen all of the movies in the Best Picture category. She went on to say that the movie she refused to watch was “12 Years A Slave,” because she’s “lived long enough to know what it was like for a person to be a black person in America. I mean, it’s not anything that I’m not aware of. I may still go and see it (the film), but I just don’t want to.”

She chose not to see it because she doesn’t like severe violence, which would be understandable if it wasn’t her obligation as a member of the Academy to see all of the nominated movies, and beyond that, because she knows enough already about the struggle of black people.

Two other Oscar voters admitted to the LA Times last year that they voted for “12 Years a Slave” without actually seeing it. Should Director Steve McQueen, a respectable and talented filmmaker, even want to accept an award from people

who didn’t see his movie?

One of this year’s voters, a member of the writer’s branch who has an Oscar of his own, offered his opinions on the nominated films. Most notable was his description of eventual Best Picture winner “Birdman.”

“I thought it was very playful. The whole business with the wings in his hallucinations was just a bit of inspired foolery. It was a delightful romp,” he said.

Anyone who’s seen “Birdman,” a brilliant film with a lot of thematic depth in addition to technical accomplishments, should be offended at such a horribly inaccurate and one-dimensional description of the film coming from someone who has an Oscar for writing. If an Academy Award-winning screenwriter could have such a stupid opinion of a well-written movie, why should we care what any of them think about anything? Especially the executives, whose biggest contributions to the film industry are monetary and not creative.

I love “Birdman,” but if “delightful romp” is the reason the Academy gave it Best Picture, Alejandro Inarritu should give it back.

Every year, tens of millions of Americans obsess over the judgments of a collection of writers, directors, producers and executives who have demonstrated that they don’t care enough to watch all of the movies they vote on and have the potential to completely misunderstand the ones they do see. Why do we care so much what these people think?

The truth is that the Oscars aren’t for us. They are for the film industry. I don’t necessarily disagree with the Oscars’s existence. Mass media is a land of ego and arrogance, and it’s no surprise that these people like to get together and wank each other every once in a while. Let them circle up if they must.

But we don’t have to watch it. We don’t have to wank back.

Even if I didn’t think the Academy Awards were a poor candidate for America’s biggest awards ceremony, I would still insist upon all of you ignoring them. What the Oscars does, what IMDB’s Top 250, AFI’s Top 100 and every other award ceremony in existence does is cause us to focus on whether one film is objectively better than another, and if we skip straight to this step, we ignore the question of whether one film can be objectively better than another, or whether it matters.

Instead of focusing on whether “Birdman” is better than “Boyhood,” we should just do our best to understand what both films are trying to accomplish and how successful they are. What are their central themes? What do they tell us about our world? What qualities of the characters do we see in ourselves?

The Oscars turn cinema into a sport, when it’s supposed to be an academic discipline. Maybe if that one voter spent more time trying to really understand “Birdman” than trying to figure out if it’s better than seven other vastly different movies, he would see it as more than just a “delightful romp.”

Does the Academy think “Birdman” is better than “Boyhood?” Does it think “Whiplash” is better than “Selma?”

Better question: Who gives a shit? See them all anyway. And “The Imitation Game” and “The Theory of Everything” and “American Sniper” and “Grand Budapest Hotel.”

And then decide for yourself, not which film is better, but what all of them are trying to say, and how they go about it, and if they’re successful.

Nothing depresses me more than imagining all of the rubes choosing the “Forrest Gump” DVD over “The Shawshank Redemption” at Blockbuster because it “won Best Picture.”

A simple rule of thumb: Don’t be a rube.

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4 PROGRAMS TO TUNE INTO ON KZUM LYDIA COTTON DN Local radio is one of the most valuable and underappreciated assets of Lincoln. 89.3 KZUM is Lincoln’s community broadcasting station and one of its many creative outlets. KZUM is one of the unique personalities that makes Nebraska’s music scene so vibrant, one that all too often goes unnoticed. I have always been curious about radio because I’ve always wanted to learn about music. Music connects people in the kind of way that is hard to come by in the digital age. These programs are run by people we live next to who have enough drive to put something worth being heard out into the world. By listening, you not only are hearing something interesting, but you’re supporting your community. It’s one of the best ways to know and hear from the talent in Nebraska. For people who have interest in both music and their community I suggest turning on KZUM for a change. Here are a few of the programs I have come to love.

1. BEFORE DAWN: TUESDAY 6 A.M. – 8 A.M.

Before Dawn is the indie music program

to help you forget that you’re awake before 8. You’re bound to hear something new and songs you may not ever have heard if you were listening to Pandora. Producer Dylan Bliss delivers an easy start to the morning with refreshing music for any indie lovers out there.

2. XRATED WOMEN IN MUSIC: THURSDAY 1:30 P.M. – 3 P.M.

XRated Women in Music is one of my favorite programs on KZUM. The program, run by Shannon Claire, is entirely for the ladies of music. The program features songs from Loretta Lynn to Waxahatchee and everyone in between. This is a great program to hear some of the best new music by women and features a lot of live local talent as well.

3. THE MESSAGE: SATURDAY 5 P.M. – 7 P.M.

The Message gives listeners electronic indie music for the start of their night. The program is a great way to hear unique and new music. Radio producer Alex Schumacher provides a great station for electronic music.

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I am never as productive as I am on Wednesday nights, and I have to give some credit for this to the funk brought on by Casey Welch. Welch always plays something I’ve never heard before and always some-

thing that keeps me upbeat and working.

Something about hearing Teena Marie while cleaning can make you kick it up a notch. For any Ol’ Pub Soul Club fans, this is the program for you.

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Student finds healing in caterpillar-raising der.

LAUREN BROWN-HULME DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore Sarah Hove scans the path at Holmes Lake as she paces back and forth, sweating in the July heat as she searches.

After two hours, she finally sees it.

A fluorescent green caterpillar crawls right in front of her on the sidewalk.

She screams, runs to the nearest trash bin and sifts through the black sack until she finds a used bag from Wendy’s to place the caterpillar in.

Its size was unlike any she’d seen before, and the horns on the backside of this particular caterpillar looked painful to touch.

She cautiously lifted him into the bag, excited to see him grow into something beautiful, transforming from a hornworm to a moth.

She knew what that metamorphosis felt like.

She’d seen herself slowly grow and change into something better, too.

Hove was known as the star tennis player, not as part of the theater crowd. So when she decided to try out for her school talent show her junior year of high school by reciting a poem she had written, it was a shock to everybody.

It was an even bigger shock to her peers when the poem, titled “Something Beautiful,” discussed issues like equalizing gay rights.

Hove isn’t gay, but she supports those that were, and her opinion surprised her Lincoln Southwest High School classmates.

She was shaking as she stood behind the microphone, lit by one spotlight on the Lincoln Southwest auditorium stage.

“I think it’s time we take a stand and rise Against the lies, against the cries Against anything that makes you despise The person next to you Why is it so hard to turn to the stranger next to you and say ‘Hi’?”

She received a standing ovation and still heard the screams and cheers as she exited stage left. After her performance, students praised Hove and teachers showed video footage of her poem in their classes. Hove was on top of the world.

Then a few weeks later, Hove said, she was beat up in her high school lunchroom in front of the entire school by a girl who was offended by what she had said in her poem in support of gay rights.

Hove said she was hit in the face with a food tray and that the girl pulled her hair and slammed her head against the floor over and over.

The thing Hove remembers most were her hands. They were black and blue from trying to protect her head.

For months she didn’t write poetry, and in her freshman year of college, she began to suffer from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disor-

She refused to go anywhere without someone with her. She was always on her guard, looking at strangers around her and hoping one of them wouldn’t be her next attacker.

She lost sleep because of night terrors. She turned to food for comfort but then binged and purged every day.

She went to therapy, but the therapists made her relive the day she was assaulted. She tried to find distractions to keep her mind off of what had happened.

It’s why she went looking for that first caterpillar at Holmes Lake. It was important to her to care for something that would make the world more beautiful.

“There was just something about caterpillars that fascinated me,” Hove said. “People don’t really see them that much unless you’re looking for them. They go through this whole process, and it takes a few months and then they turn into this beautiful thing.”

In the fall semester of her sophomore year of college, Hove took an entomology class that required her to care for a tobacco hornworm. Even though the class had nothing to do with her hospitality major, she wanted to learn more about the creatures she had become so connected to.

Hove’s professor, Tiffany Heng-Moss, said she stuck out among the class of about 100 students.

“Whenever students would have extra caterpillars at the end of the semester, she wanted to take all the extras with her to keep rearing them,” Heng-Moss said. “That’s probably one of the first times that I’ve had a student that has been that interested that they wanted to take on the responsibility after the end of the semester by caring for other students’ caterpillars.”

Hove greets the 50 caterpillars she keeps at her boyfriend’s apartment like someone would greet his or her dog upon arriving home. When she watches TV, she’ll often place one on her finger.

The caterpillars are housed in three buckets with nets on the side so they can move up and down freely. They’re placed by a window so they can get their required 12 hours of sunlight a day.

When they first hatch, they eat what Hove describes as a cement-like mixture of nutrients.

Once they reach the stage of development in which they can chew better, the caterpillars eat tomatoes that Hove cuts into smaller pieces.

Hove said she’s awful at caring for animals.

But there’s something about seeing her caterpillars get larger each time she sees them that brings her joy.

Hove’s boyfriend of almost two years, Alek Lien, was wary of keeping the bugs at his house at first. Now, he’s in full support of Hove’s hobby because he said he knows it helps her cope with her trauma.

“It took a little bit of time to understand why she enjoys it so much,” Lien said. “She relates to caterpillars in a way of ‘this thing went through a huge transformation and so did I.’ She’s beginning to realize that it’s not a bad transformation that she’s gone through, it’s just a transformation of life.”

Hove still battles depression and an eating disorder. She said there isn’t a day that goes by that she doesn’t think about what happened to her that day in the cafeteria. She finds comfort in her favorite quote: “Just when the caterpillar

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Sophomore hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major Sarah Hove plays with one of her caterpillars at her boyfriend’s apartment. Hove began raising caterpillars years ago as a way to cope with PTSD after being attacked for reading an original poem of hers that advocated for gay rights.

I am learning, gathering experiences and forming into a beautiful human being that when it is ready, will break out and fly.”

SARAH HOVE

sophomore at unl

thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”

When she lets her moths or butterflies fly free for the first time, she remembers that quote.

She watches them take off to experience the world with wings. She is still growing hers.

Move ahead 4 classes

After being assaulted in high school, sophomore finds solace from PTSD in peculiar hobby

“Every day I am in metamorphosis,” Hove said. “I am learning, gathering experiences and forming into a beautiful human being that when it is ready, will break out and fly.”

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4 REBOUND SHOWS TO GET YOU OVER ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’

BY NOW YOU’VE SAID GOODBYE TO LESLIE, BEN, RON AND THE REST OF THE PAWNEE CREW. HERE ARE A FEW SHOWS TO FILL THE VOID IN YOUR HEART LEFT BY THE FINALE OF “PARKS AND RECREATION.” 1. Brooklyn Nine-Nine

The cop Fox show shares writers with “Parks and Rec” and won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy in 2013.

Plus it also has a former “Saturday Night Live” cast member in a lead role (Andy Samberg). The show boasts similar character types to “Parks and Recreation,” along with witty dialogue paired with some feel-good inner-office relationships.

The good news is that the show is popular and has already been renewed for a third season, which means it’ll likely be around for a while.

2. Broad City

You love Amy Poehler and Amy Poehler loves “Broad City.” In fact, Poehler was a big fan of the show when it was still a web series, and she helped bring it to Comedy Central. Like Leslie Knope, “Broad City” boasts interesting female leads who find themselves in hysterical scenarios.

3. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

If you’ve ever wished “Parks and Recreation” was darker, dirtier and less sober, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is a perfect fit.” “It’s Always Sunny” characters are not as nice or sane as those in “Parks and Rec,” but the show is filled with hilarious writing and scenarios that “Parks and Rec” fans may enjoy.

4. Bob’s Burgers

Though a cartoon, “Bob’s Burgers” is filled with some of the best sitcom writing on TV today. Like “Parks and Rec,” the show is warm and feel-good, with life lessons and morals taken into account.

Plus, “Parks and Rec” stars including Aziz Ansari and Nick Offerman have voiced guest spots on the show.

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CAMPUS STYLE

DEVIN OWENS JUNIOR ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS MAJOR We love great style here at the Daily Nebraskan Arts and Entertainment section. That’s why this year, we’ll be scouting out the best-dressed students on campus to feature in our very first weekly street-style section. We plan on featuring all interesting University of Nebraska-Lincoln style. Whether that be a stylish sorority girl or a man wearing a Scooby-Doo costume on campus, we’re look-

ing for the best and most unique fashion on campus. So to all you trendsetters out there, your next outfit might be printed right here in the Daily Nebraskan.

Boots: Steve Madden Leggings: Victoria’s Secret Shirt: The Limited Scarf & Sweater: Unknown Bag: Michael Kors

I don’t like to dress down; this is about as dressed-down as I will get,” Owens said. “Normally I’ll try to dress up a bit more, and I’ve been like that since high school.”

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LAUREN BROWN-HULME DN When University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior theater major Patrick Stayer had jaw surgery two years ago, his vocal training was set back.

In that time, he focused more on movement arts within theater such as dance and juggling. He took a special interest in stage combat, a technique that creates an illusion of fighting without causing harm to stage performers.

Little did he know, he’d stumbled on the well-kept secret of Nebraska’s theater program. UNL is known as the top stage combat school in the theater community.

The university’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film has three professors who are certified to teach stage combat, which is more faculty than anywhere else in the nation. It’s also home to an armory of weapons as well as manuscripts and books written by the fight masters who have created stage combat in the United States.

“We have tools to really do some cool stuff, that’s what stands out most to me about this school,” Stayer said. “There are a lot of actors here that don’t take advantage of the opportunity to learn stage combat. I think this is a travesty because learning stage combat has helped me so much as an actor.”

Stayer was originally introduced to stage combat when he performed in his first show at Nebraska, “The Three Musketeers.” After gaining an interest in fight scenes, he said he was discouraged when he discovered only upperclassmen could enroll in stage combat courses.

Stayer said he didn’t want to wait that long, so he and a few of his peers persuaded professor Harris Smith to teach them technique during the summer. One of those peers was 2012 theater graduate Cale Yates.

“I didn’t know anything about stage combat when I came to this school either,” Yates said. “I know people who have tried for years to get (Smith) to teach them. He’s really good at a weapon called small sword, so it was really cool to have him be able to teach us.”

Students become Actor Combatants when they have been certified in three weapons and have had more than 30 hours of instruction. Throughout a class, students learn how to hold a particular weapon when fighting, different stances as well as the history of the weapons.

Stayer spends up to 15 hours practicing for a fight scene that may only last for 40 seconds.

In addition to his own performances, Stayer choreographs for the Lincoln Community Playhouse, the Haymarket Theatre and the student-led production company, Theatrix.

“I think it’s worth it because I live to do this stuff,” Stayer said. “Stage combat is my favorite thing I’ve come to learn from this program because it’s so concentrated. I learn

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Patrick Stayer, a senior theater major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has studied stage combat since he was a junior. The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film has one of the premiere stage combat programs in the country. The school was gifted the personal manuscripts of Dave Boushey, who founded the Society of American Fight Directors and is considered the founder of modern stage combat.

He dabbles in a lot of different things. He likes to get out there and experience everything that he can try, so that’s very commendable for a performer.”

CALE YATES

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so much from every weapon style and every teacher I’ve had. That’s why I’ve gone out of my way to get training from so many different people.”

Every March, the students participate in “Fight Night” during the Lincoln Assassination Workshop sanctioned by the Society of American Fight Directors. The judges, or fight masters, determine whether the student is proficient in weapon combat or not.

“You perform the fight in front of judges to show you know not only how to use the weapons safely but that you know how to use it as tool to enhance the scene,” Stayer said.

“You can be the most talented fighter ever, but if you can’t act it doesn’t do you any good.”

Even after the class with Prof. Smith, Yates and Stayer worked closely on stage combat in the time Yates attended UNL. He said he was impressed with Stayer’s passion for movement disciplines beyond just stage combat.

“He dabbles in a lot of different things,” Yates said. “He likes to get out there and experience everything that he can try, so that’s very commendable for a performer.”

Stayer, @StageCombat_Pat on social media, will graduate with certification in every

stage combat weapon. But Stayer is a self-proclaimed jack of all trades, not a master of any one trade – not even stage combat, he said.

“Most people find their calling and they go after it,” Stayer said. “I don’t feel like a lot of people leave this school with a huge collection of things they don’t know what to do with. I don’t know too many people that are floating around like me right now.”

Stayer said his dream job would be to work for Cirque du Soleil. He wants to be walking on a tightrope wire or flying through the air on a trapeze.

He said although his end-all-be-all goal isn’t stage combat, it has helped him in everything he does as an actor. It’s trained him to engage his whole body in all the other movement disciplines he’s passionate about.

“I find that I enjoy moving and helping others to move,” Stayer said. “In terms of stage combat, I want the people who do come and watch it to come up afterwards and say it was so cool. As a performer, I want to be able to inspire people to want to learn this and learn it well. They can here (at Nebraska).”

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IFC alcohol policy is encouraging, albeit unrealistic The days of the stereotyped fraternity rager may be numbered.

A new policy instituted this year by the Interfraternity Council aims to curb heavy drinking at member fraternities’ social functions. And it’s an encouraging policy, albeit a bit of an unrealistic one.

The new rules are an effort to eliminate mass consumption of alcohol at fraternity parties off campus, a worthy and necessary pursuit at a time when chapters are increasingly under fire for concerns about sexual assault and student safety. The need for stringent guidelines cannot be overstated at UNL, where just last fall freshman Clayton Real died at an off-campus “frosh” party from complications due to drinking.

The new rules are a clear and coordinated effort to weed out heavy drinking, but make no mistake, they’re strict – some might say draconian. Among the new rules: – “Kegs or the use of “beer bongs” and/or any other devices that permit mass consumption of alcohol shall be prohibited at all times.”

– “Liquor over 30 proof shall be strictly prohibited.”

– “Liquor shall not be served straight or in shot form at any time, including mixed shots.”

The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board understands the need for policies as strict as these, especially with the increased attention focused on campus sexual assault and safety at fraternity

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them in the coming weeks and months.

But it’s unrealistic to expect rule changes that essentially prohibit the

consumption of liquor at fraternity parties will alone achieve that end. In the same way it’s naive to assume abstinence-only education can eliminate unprotected sex, it’s naive to think simple rule changes will prevent someone from sneaking a flask of rum or a bottle of Jim Beam into a party house.

Put simply, the IFC’s policy is commendable, but expecting it to be enforced line-by-line absent police intervention is a tall order. Consider, for example, that requirement that “alternative beverages and food must be easily accessible at all times,” which carries a minimum $25 sanction. The policy calls for a chapter to have sober event monitors – either 10 percent or four of the attending members, depending on which is fewer – ensuring functions off campus don’t violate IFC risk management and social policies.

So, it relies heavily on self-reporting.

We’re interested to know how fraternity chapters will adjust to these rule changes and hope they will foster an inter-fraternal dialogue so they’re followed and clearly understood.

With the new policy, it appears, the Interfraternity Council is attempting to institute a culture change. It’s a necessary one, and we hope it works. To those who balk at the new guidelines or find them outrageous: Remember, no one is forcing you to join a fraternity.

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Public should hold American media accountable for honesty Tegan Colton

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t’s sad to say that Americans have become used to the media lying to them.

Fox News is under worldwide fire lately as the Parisian government has taken steps to literally sue the network for “dishonoring” them with false claims. The network, which reportedly stated that Paris is overrun by radical Muslims who terrorize both non-Muslims and police, admitted to making “some regrettable errors” but denied responsibility, citing the American right of free speech.

Ah, yes. Free speech: the right to lie and spread false claims, apparently. And the fact that the United States itself has mostly laughed this off with a proverbial shrug and a “Fox will be Fox” attitude suggests we’re used to, or even expect, this sort of behavior from our media.

At least most of us are skeptical of what it tells us. In 2012, Gallup published a poll that revealed more than 60 percent of Americans

“have little or no trust” in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly.”

According to Gallup, the number of media skeptics is the highest it’s ever been. And in light of what’s been happening with Fox, that’s probably a good thing.

Still, as high as that number is, I wonder if it isn’t high enough.

The media has been used pretty much since our nation’s birth to manipulate the masses into making decisions (see Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”). The fact that our government, people in power or other various groups control and influence what’s publicized to persuade public opinion isn’t new, but to think it’s purely an American issue is false. The act of press manipulation has been happening ever since the press’s existence, with Egyptian pharaohs intentionally rewriting history to better suit themselves and German dictators convincing a nation of their racial superiority and moral right to claim the rest of the world as their own. There has never been a time in history when the media hasn’t been used as a tool to grab power, and yet only 60 percent of Americans doubt its total sincerity.

But among those 60 percent, how many really know what to trust? It’s easy to nod knowingly at the silliness of Fox or get a good laugh out of some headlines from the National Enquirer. But even the skeptics among us may find it hard to doubt highly respectable sources such as BBC or NPR when they have

a reputation for being honest.

But we should always question what we hear, even if it’s from a reputable source.

Even among respectable sources such as Forbes, journalists such as Vickery Eckoff have been fired for speaking about issues that go against what the source believes its audience wants to read. As Mark Twain’s editor once said, the news must “respect (the people’s) prejudices or perish.” All media is some sort of business. And while a source may not outright lie about the information it’s giving, it may be controlling what you hear for fear that you – the reader – won’t trust it anymore.

So maybe the media itself isn’t the problem. Maybe the problem is our refusal to ask questions. Maybe the problem is our automatic trust in what we want to hear and distrust of what we don’t.

I want to say it’s good that people are slowly losing faith in the media, but in some ways it isn’t. This core issue of blind faith still persists, even among skeptics. While we’re losing faith in media, we’re gaining faith in conspiracy theories and outright insistence that everything we’re told is false. At least 50 percent of Americans believe in some sort of conspiracy theory. Distrust in governmentsanctioned information isn’t inherently bad, but many people believe these elaborate theories without sufficient evidence or logical basis for their beliefs. The result is thousands of people honestly believing vaccines give you autism, global warming is a lie, Obama is a

foreign spy and a plethora of others that are so ridiculously untrue they can be socially damaging. It’s important to note that just as complete trust in the truth of the media is blind, so is complete distrust of it. If any of us want the truth, we have to ask questions – lots of them, and about everything. And we have to believe the best answer, even if we don’t like what we find.

Maybe Americans are used to our media lying to us, but that doesn’t mean we’ve solved the problem. Our problem isn’t necessarily the media, which isn’t going to change.

Our problem is with our decision to trust media (or distrust it) without taking much time to investigate the topic ourselves. We trust blindly without asking enough questions. Yes, some will use their free speech to lie and manipulate, but others will use their free speech to expose those lies. In this way, America provides a great arsenal of information for us to find what’s true and what isn’t. That said, you’re never going to find it all in one neat place. Too many people put too much trust in one source or another and find it difficult to differentiate between logical and illogical statements in the same place. So, investigate.

Question. Everything is biased; that’s inevitable. But don’t let that deter you from digging a little deeper and deciding for yourself what makes sense.

TEGAN COLTON IS A SENIOR ENGLISH MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

O’Reilly scandal shouldn’t be swept under the rug Grady Wiedeman

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few weeks ago, the nation was wrapped up in the controversy of Brian Williams. As a public, we were enraged that Williams would betray our trust and exaggerate reports over what he saw during his reporting in Iraq. However, Mother Jones reported that Bill O’Reilly had committed actions that were very similar to Williams. In a bit of irony, this was published the same day our own Vicki Klafter discussed the Williams scandal in the DN. Yet, the public response to O’Reilly’s actions has been surprisingly minimal. It appears as though Williams will take the fall for media mistrust while O’Reilly’s actions will be swept under the rug.

My immediate thought when I heard

about this was that Mother Jones is a leftleaning news source and may have been a bit over critical of O’Reilly. However, as the days passed, the New York Times did a follow-up to this story and the response that O’Reilly had presented. With a bit more credibility added to this story, there’s no reason not to question O’Reilly’s journalistic ethics for this story and throughout his program, just as we demanded happen to Williams.

Unlike the Williams scenario, O’Reilly didn’t back down from the claims. O’Reilly didn’t apologize for his comments and continued to insist that they were true. He also launched a wave of ad hominem attacks against anyone who refuted his claims, though this isn’t unusual for his show. However, as the wave of evidence floods against O’Reilly, he won’t back down. In fact, he threatened the reporter who published the aforementioned New York Times article.

But once again, if you turn on Fox News during The O’Reilly Factor ’s regularly scheduled time (which I must recommend against), you will find O’Reilly attacking anything that rhymes with liberal. O’Reilly hasn’t stepped down, nor is it likely that he will receive a six-month suspension. This demonstrates one of two things: either Fox

his reports, he also gets away with threatenNews and the rest of the United States don’t ing other members of the journalistic comhold O’Reilly to the same journalistic ethics as they do for Williams, or there’s a clear munity and continued ad hominem attacks.

So either way, this double standard. is pretty bad. Even Considering that though I believe I have Either Fox News O’Reilly was with CBS made it very clear that at the time of his alleged and the rest of I don’t like O’Reilly, I exaggerated reports, it don’t think this should would be reasonable to the United States don’t just apply to him. If say that he should be any other journalheld to the same standard hold O’Reilly to the same ist said these things, as Williams. Let’s also journalistic ethics as they would we be so easy take into account that to forgive or forget? they were both reporting do for Williams, or there’s Based off the recent exon serious international a clear double standard.” ample of Williams, we affairs at the time. For do so much more even Williams, it was the war when he apologizes. in Iraq; for O’Reilly, it This is the double stanwas the Falklands War. dard that I was talking about earlier. Maybe Both were credible news sources, and both we all consider Fox News to be a ridiculous had exaggerated reports.

But even when we consider all of this, it news source; but it still has a massive viewdoesn’t appear as though they are both be- ing audience. Maybe we consider O’Reilly ing held to the same standards. This makes to be at the fringe of the political spectrum, me both relieved and disappointed. To hear even though he also has a massive viewing audience. I would like to consider both of that O’Reilly isn’t taken very seriously will always bring joy to my day, but at the same those statements true, but they don’t answer time it disappoints me that he will get away why O’Reilly will receive no consequence with these actions without repercussions.

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the Violence Against Women Act in 1980, tus? Context? Relationship?

Being touchy-feely in itself isn’t an of- improving services for women who have been injured by domestic violence or sexual fense. If Biden had continued to pursue her after she pulled away, that would’ve been a assault. Women are better, on the whole, for problem. Since he didn’t, and since we don’t the steps he’s taken.

The woman in the video has known know, we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

Maybe the issue isn’t that he’s as handsy Biden for years. To me, she doesn’t look unas a spider trying to get peanut butter off comfortable. To others, she may. Ultimately, this doesn’t matter all its legs simultaneousbecause none of us ly, it’s that he’s a politiknow what she’s cian. America prefers its Biden may not act thinking. Concrete politics to be clear of hulike our image of actions like movman emotions. Our leading away or issuing ers should be stoic. Touch the stoic politician, but he a public statement is used as a weapon to shouldn’t be faulted for would indicate disassert dominance. When taste. Where the Hillary Clinton lost that.” evidence stands, we her composure in New just cannot know.

Hampshire, it opened a In Spanish, there’s not even a good conversation about how we view our leaders. Emotional vulnerability in others puts translation for “creepy.” The equivalent concept is not even recognized in other people on their guard.

Personally, I trust the person who acts countries, a sign that we’re putting on our blinders to a real issue – how we treat those as they are, regardless of how the media says they should. We’ve seen a lot of cov- that don’t fit our definition of normal. erage on what constitutes inappropriately Biden may not act like our image of the stotouching women, but not on how they’re ic politician, but he shouldn’t be faulted for treated as unworthy of making their own that. The decision to point out Biden’s flaws doesn’t spotlight injustice, it just creates it. choices.

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for his actions.

I don’t think there will ever be one solid reason why some journalists can get away with essentially lying to the public and threatening those that question them. Legally, Fox News doesn’t have to do anything against O’Reilly. It’s not illegal to be a liar or a jerk. But even if they don’t have corporate punishments, I don’t think it speaks well for our society to not demand action against O’Reilly or any other journalist who acts in this manner.

While I’m not proposing a witch-hunt

against everyone in journalism, I think we should be more mindful of the rhetoric that journalists use and be more mindful of allegations against journalists. After all, we decided that they should be telling us the truth with the case of Williams. And now that we made an example out of Williams, let’s make sure that we can apply this same standard across the board.

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ell, dear reader, it’s been five weeks since the semester started and that means only one thing: Projects are starting. A diorama due next week, five papers due tomorrow and, of course, Monday nights you’re stuck with your stupid class group. And you hate them. And you wish you could just do everything by yourself because “they don’t do anything.”

I understand the pain my friend, and for the longest time I too wondered why they put us in class groups. I mean, I get it, in our future endeavors we’ll have to work in teams at our various careers. Very few of us will be lucky enough to get a job where we don’t have to work with others. But the people I work with will want to be in the group, right? I’ll get along with them great and everything will be peachy and I’ll probably own a yacht.

Oh wait. This is real life. Shoot.

Group work in college is sometimes akin to sticking one’s head in a vice. It takes for-

ever, you feel like you are doing all the work or that your group mates just don’t “get it.” I know that’s how it’s always felt for me in the past. What I failed to realize, and what many still do, is that group work is actually more useful than working alone. Beyond that, it can also be very fun. Instead of being absolutely annoyed by every moment that I’m not flicking through Facebook, I’ve actually started enjoying the process.

It all started when I got into my advanced writing class. It’s a fantastic class, and I was overjoyed by the subject matter (self-directed fiction writing, a real treat!) But then I heard we’d be getting into groups. Normally I’d have instantly rebelled at the idea, but I decided to try something new this time. I didn’t go in with any assumptions except that we all wanted to be in this class. The whole group was fairly wary at first, but then we started talking and sharing bits about ourselves and we started getting work done. A big help for our group was a clear definition of goals and roles. We decided from the beginning what we wanted the group to do and who we were going to trust to get those tasks done.

Now of course, not everyone gets so lucky.

Sometimes your group just can’t (or worse, won’t) get together and get goals accomplished.

However, learning how to work in a group isn’t all about being in the perfect set up. Quite the opposite, in fact. I’ve learned more about being a good teammate from some of the most terrible groups imaginable. Some members never showed up, some would try to domi-

nate the entire conversation, sometimes a person would purposely do less work because they thought we’d be perfectly happy doing their work too. There was even one group where a person thought they could do everything by themselves, so we basically let them. By the end of the semester they were run ragged and our group had to scramble to pick up the pieces.

There are definitely disadvantages to a group. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a ton of positive reasons to work in a group. You have access to more resources as a group. You also can diversify your objectives to accomplish more tasks in the same period of time it would have taken just you to do one task.

Perhaps the best part of group work, for me, is the increased creativity it provides. I mean, I’d like to say I’m fairly creative on my own, but I know for a fact that I don’t have all the answers to a problem. If you honestly believe you can accomplish everything better on your own, you might be better off working by yourself.

Because no one likes to deal with a narcissist unless he pops pills and walks with a limp.

Now, obviously working in a group means the work is going to go a little slower at times.

By virtue of being in a group, everyone’s voice should have equal bearing and that means giving everyone the chance to form an opinion.

You won’t always agree with your group, either. As long as you can learn to work toward compromise in your group, however, this never turns into a disadvantage. Every voice is important, so don’t think that by

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shutting someone down you’re improving your group’s productivity.

I learned this the hard way. I used to be in the “dominate the conversation” category during discussions. At one point, I was just putting the finishing touches on a particularly well-reasoned thesis about why our group should work on the presentation Tuesday night and one of my associates, who rarely ever seemed to talk, raised a hand. After acknowledging her, she proceeded to let me know that she completely disagreed with how we were setting up our project because it was going to take us at least a week longer than it needed to. It was an idea I’d never considered and it was infinitely more efficient. Score one for group work.

So you may be thinking now, “But Jaz, that doesn’t help me right now. I’m already stuck in a terrible group.” If that’s the case, well, I’m sorry to hear that. What do you want me to do? I’m just a voice on a piece of paper. Try engaging in open and honest conversation, setting goals and compromising, like I’ve suggested. It might help. If not, remember that there would be no way for you to appreciate what a good group is like without first learning what an absolutely awful one is like. I hope that’s, uh, helpful for you reader.

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