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Hey there,

The Daily Nebraskan spent the last five years making a print-oriented newspaper for an audience that was decreasingly reliant on traditional print media with each passing year. Most of the freshmen in the class of 2018 were 11 years old when the iPhone was released. There’s a good chance that traditional newspapers never played a major role in their lives.

Last year, the university’s publications board launched a special committee with the goal of crafting a model for the DN that focused on digital content first and print second. After three months, the committee issued a recommendation to cut print issues from five days a week to two. The DN’s new focus would be on crafting a modern web-oriented newsroom.

I was the editor of the DailyER Nebraskan last year and served on the committee tasked with helping the DN readjust to the 21st century media landscape. With the DailyER, I found that our most successful content focused on being three things: timely, topical and local.

Timeliness is the key to being relevant on the Internet. It’s why news outlets kill themselves to try and be the first to report on a story. Your content can be great, but if you aren’t posting it online when people have an appetite for it, a great piece can go completely unnoticed.

Being topical matters, because writing about what people want to read about is just as important as sharing it when people want to see it.

Hyper local content is vital for helping the DN engage with readers on campus. The DN is UNL’s newspaper. We should know campus-related issues better than anyone in the state. Nobody reads a college newspaper to find out what is happening in Washington, D.C. or Hong Kong. People read it because they want to know what is happening at their college.

Before the semester started, I met with all of the section editors about crafting content with an online focus. I stressed the importance of being timely, topical and local; you want to know the crazy thing? This approach has worked so far.

Daily online readership is up 200 percent from last year. Our social media has been more widely shared, and our Klout score has gone up 18 points

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We still haven’t solved all of our financial problems, but we no longer have to sit around and wonder why students aren’t picking up the print issue.

We know exactly how many people visit our website every day and what they’re reading when they get there.

Our readership is steadily increasing as we get further into the school year.

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That’s how long it took UNL officials to acknowledge that a rape investigation was occurring on campus. Five months after a rape was reported at the apartment of a former faculty member, details are scarce, and a pattern of silence persists.

In response to press push, few details emerge jacy marmaduke and reece ristau dn The University of Nebraska-Lincoln revealed some details about rape allegations against a former faculty member in its interactions with the media this week.

In the university’s first confirmation that a former faculty member was accused of rape, UNL spokesman Steve Smith released a statement about 6 p.m. attesting officials “took timely and appropriate action” in response to the allegations. And in response to a Daily Nebraskan public records request, the university indicated that the young woman who reported the rape is a former, current or prospective student.

In the public statement, officials said they received the Title IX complaint on Monday but denied any wrongdoing.

“Our Title IX coordinator began investigating within two days of receiving notice of the incident,” the statement read. “The coordinator met with and took a statement from the alleged victim, who was also provided information about available options, including working with police. The university provided information to the alleged victim about rights under Title IX, about the university’s investigative procedures and about available services on campus and in the community.”

Next, officials “immediately barred the alleged offender from campus and instructed the individual to refrain from further contact with students.” Af-

ter interviewing all concerned parties “as quickly as possible,” the Title IX “coordinator found that the greater weight of the evidence showed the alleged offender had engaged in sexual misconduct in violation of university policy and recommended what further steps should be taken.”

The statement doesn’t say what further steps were taken, but it does point out that the accused is no longer employed at UNL. Also on Monday, officials denied the majority of the Daily Nebraskan public records request, which was meant to uncover information about the investigation.

The DN sent the request on Sept. 30, shortly after breaking the news that a young woman had reported being raped in May at the apartment of a former Glenn Korff School of Music faculty member. The newspaper requested: - Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and the former faculty member between the day the rape was reported and Sept. 23, when the faculty member was released from employment. This would include Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Vice Chancellor Juan Franco, Dean Charles O’Connor, Director John Richmond and all other administrators who may have had contact with the faculty member.

- Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and HixsonLied College of Fine and Performing Arts Dean Charles O’Connor between the aforementioned dates.

- Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and music school Director John Richmond between the aforementioned dates.

- Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and Arturo Perez, associate director of Equity, Access and Diversity Programs and interim Title IX coordinator, that specifically mentions the faculty member.

University Records Director Erin Busch provided the DN with about 20 pages of emails unrelated to the rape allegations but denied the remainder of the request.

Relevant records are being withheld for several reasons, Busch said: -They constitute personal information regarding personnel of the university that is not routine directory information. Nebraska Revised Statute 84-712.05(7) state that personal information in records regarding personnel of public bodies other than salaries and routine directory information may be withheld. The Bylaws of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska define “personal information” as “all records and documents pertaining to any person employed by the University, except salary and routine directory information.”

See Bylaw of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska 1.4.4.

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title ix: see page 11

Permanent investigator to be hired soon staff report DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln doesn’t have a permanent Title IX investigator, but it will by Jan. 1, leaders say.

Arturo Pérez has been the interim Title IX coordinator since July, meaning he helps lead investigations into accusations of sexual assaults involving students.

Perez, director of the Office for Equity, Access and Diversity Programs, took the role prior to the retirement of UNL’s former Title IX coordinator, Linda Crump, on July 1. A search committee is accepting applications for the permanent coordinator position, which became available Sept. 5. The potential candidates will be released once the committee decides on finalists.

Pérez said he received the required training

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necessary to act as coordinator before filling the role, as he has been a UNL Title IX investigator for several years. He didn’t have to complete any additional training to take over the interim position.

“We’ve not been without a Title IX coordinator because when Linda (Crump) was here,” Pérez said. “I was her deputy, and we also have another person who’s a trained Title IX investigator, Dr. Christy Horn.”

Horn is now the deputy under Perez.

Perez said guidelines for training aren’t mandated.

“There’s not an approved curriculum for the Title IX investigator or Title IX coordinator training,” he said. “The training is put on people who are familiar with the law.”

Law enforcement officials and law experts in the private sector are examples of people who conduct the training, he said. Perez was trained by the

National Association of College and University Attorneys.

“They provide training that talks about the legal standards and requirements for universities and colleges under Title IX,” Perez said. “There’s still a requirement that you have ongoing training as a Title IX coordinator, and I currently am participating in some online coordinator training.”

Perez said universities must continually update training practices whenever new information is available or laws are passed. For example, in March 2013, the Campus Save Act passed, furthering requirements for institutions of higher education to “educate students, faculty and staff on the prevention of rape, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.” Clery Act updates also mean training requirement up-

perez: see page 11

UNIVERSITY STATEMENT, OCT. 6 : “On Monday, Oct. 6, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln received a letter from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights informing us of a Title IX complaint. The OCR does not name the complainant in its letter; however, they obtained the complainant’s permission to reveal the complainant’s identity to the university so that it may have a fair opportunity to respond.

“In the matter that has resulted in this complaint, UNL took timely and appropriate action. Our Title IX coordinator began investigating within two days of receiving notice of the incident. The coordinator met with and took a statement from the alleged victim, who was also provided information about available options, including working with police. The university provided information to the alleged victim about rights under Title IX, about the university’s investigative procedures and about available services on campus and in the community.

“The university immediately barred the alleged offender from campus and instructed the individual to refrain from further contact with students. All parties in the matter were contacted and interviewed as quickly as possible given their schedules. The Title IX coordinator regularly informed the parties of the investigation’s status. When it was completed, the coordinator found that the greater weight of the evidence showed the alleged offender had engaged in sexual misconduct in violation of university policy and recommended what further steps should be taken. All parties were notified of the investigation’s outcome. The alleged offender is no longer at the university.

“The safety of students was never compromised at any time during this investigation. The safety of the alleged victim, of students and other members of the university community was of the highest priority throughout the entire process.”

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Sophomore Nick Knopik channels his comedic rap persona Zip Lock profile by Chris Bowling | review by Catherine Brackett

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ip Lock was born in a college dorm room.

Nick Knopik, a sophomore biology major and music minor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, had just finished his last final of the 2013-14 school year. He went back to his dorm room, sat in his chair and asked himself, “What am I going to do now?”

Knopik’s not the kind of guy who likes to have free time on his hands. So once he started examining a whole summer without a project to work on, he started thinking about a conversation he and his roommate had.

The two had thought up the idea of creating a rap album with Knopik ironically donning the persona of a ridiculous, absurd and clever emcee. But still, the album had to be high enough in quality that it sounded like someone was making an earnest attempt at a career.

So after that last final, and the question of “What now?,” Knopik downloaded the recording software FL Studio, bought a microphone and started learning how to piece together an album.

And thus Zip Lock, the guy who “wraps it up and keeps it fresh,” came to life.

“It’s interesting because Zip Lock is more of a character that I put on than me,” Knopik said. “So much of the music on this album sounds like stereotypical rap, very bumping with driving beats and even a little hardcore, then you listen to the lyrics and realize it’s totally ridiculous and honestly pretty lame.”

The album, which is titled “In Over My Head” and features a picture of Knopik as Zip Lock smoking a large cigar, is the product of Knopik’s summer. He spent three months working on seven tracks, sank $500 to $600 dollars into the project and spent a fair amount of late nights on YouTube learning how to use FL Studio.

“I had no clue how to use it at all so I opened it up and messed around with it thinking, ‘It can’t be that hard,’ and then quickly found out I didn’t know how to do anything,” Knopik said. “So it took me a good two to three weeks before I could even attempt to make a beat.”

After he put together the album, he went back to his character and thought, “What would Zip Lock do next?” And like most rappers who put together a mixtape or album, they want to get signed. So through the friend of a friend of a friend, Knopik found someone on campus who runs a label that signs electronic artists.

“More than anything I thought it would be funny to see this thing that was already a joke land on some kind of record label,” Knopik

said. “I didn’t think anything would come of it, but I got contacted by him and it’s been really fun working with him.”

The label, Hit Children Records, is run at the university by Chelsea Lemburg, a secondary education major at UNL, and Spencer Montoya, a Spanish and English double major at UNL. Hit Children Records, which also features Irish techno genius Myler and local rap group KaMaKAUZZY & Y.E.L.L.O.W., knew they wanted to work with Zip Lock from the moment they heard him.

“Any artist we put on Hit Children Records is an artist that we believe in,” said Montoya.

“People would definitely pay to see someone like Zip Lock, but money is never our motivator. We just want to support people making weird noises we like.”

So now that Zip Lock is starting to make a splash of sorts, it’s only natural that he has his first North American tour. And, to Knopik’s surprise, that’s exactly what’s starting and ending on Oct. 10 at Roca Berry Farm where Zip Lock was approached to play a set at the pumpkin patch.

“I have no idea what’s going to happen,” Knopik said. “It’s going to be at a pumpkin patch, so there’ll be people dressed up as zombies and what not, then the actors who work at Roca Berry will be interacting with people in the lines while I’m doing my thing.”

Knopik knows this might be the height of the Zip Lock era. As he put it, he didn’t think it would go anywhere but figured that it would be a fun project to work on. Now he’s got the label, the show, the album and the Twitter and Facebook accounts, and it’s all coming as a shock to him.

“The fact that someone wants me to perform live or that I’m on a record label just blows my mind because that was never in the plan,” Knopik said. “It’s kind of blown away my expectations because they were so low to begin with that even this small amount of success has been unbelievable.”

As for what the future of Zip Lock holds, Knopik isn’t sure. He doesn’t think there’s a market for his music, but he said that if he had the opportunity to work on another album he would absolutely go for it.

“This has been super fun and everyone who gets a taste of it, that I know of, seems to like it and I think that’s because it’s different, not because it’s great,” Knopik said.

“The quality of this is not professional, but if I ever got the opportunity to take it there, or at least close, I would without a doubt do it because it’s a blast.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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ick Knopik opens each song with his signature line, “Yo, it’s your boy Zip Lock!”

Knopik, a.k.a. Zip Lock, is an up-and-coming comedic rap artist. “In Over My Head,” the debut EP, features a parody rap style, similar to artists such as Weird Al, George Watsky and Bo Burnham.

Each song is cleverly written with (almost) family-friendly puns. He references artists, such as Jason Derulo, Watsky and 2 Chainz.

His style is a refreshing game changer from things that other comedic musicians have done in the past. He keeps it family friendly in a quirky way, while still throwing unexpected twists.

The genre of rap throughout the EP is very diverse. Each song gives you a different taste of Electronica, EDM, alternative, or hip-hop with a nice build-up. He brings in a lot of musical elements, such as a synthesized

trombone, xylophone and chorus vocals. His lyrics seem to be very relatable to the average college student with a real world perspective.

His tone of voice also complements his goofy sense of humor and cleverly written lyrics. When you think things are going to take a turn for the worst, he surprises you with lyrical charm.

Although, most of the tracks on this EP are light-hearted and goofy, the last song, “Manly Tears,” portrays more depth and creativity. He incorporates a somber vibe in the melody. In this song, his lyrics are more raw and based more so on his personality than his quirkiness.

We’re very lucky to have him on the UNL campus and for only $3, “In Over My Head” is totally worth it. If you’re feeling adventurous, give it a listen, but be prepared to expect the unexpected with Zip Lock. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Tale of war, disease hits UNL’s stage Directing

Director Ian Borden uses two words to describe his vision for “Unity (1918)”: simple and personal.

Borden, an assistant professor at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, said he has directed more productions than he can count, but “Unity (1918)” stands out to him because of the production’s themes regarding social implications and the value of a community.

“Unity (1918)” focuses on the small town of Saskatchewan, Canada, after the townspeople are forced to rally together when the Spanish flu breaks out right before the end of World War I. As more and more members of the Unity community become ill, the town is forced to come together in order to overcome the obstacles presented to them by the war and flu epidemic.

Borden is from the Canadian coast close to where “Unity (1918)” is set and moved to Nebraska a few years ago for his career and education. Borden said this play resonates with him more since he moved to Nebraska than it did when he was living in Canada. The strong sense of community and the willingness to reach out to one’s neighbors Borden found in Nebraska is similar to bonds and relationships the citizens of Unity must form to get through the conflicts they face in the play.

“People that are from this region will recognize themselves in the families they see in this play,” Borden said.

In addition to being from the area where the production is set, Borden also has personal ties to the historical setting of “Unity (1918).”

Borden had two uncles that fought in World War I. The first of Borden’s uncles, Bill, volunteered and left to serve in World War I when he was 15 years old. Another one of Borden’s uncles, Norman, was blinded by mustard gas while in combat in the same manner as one of the production’s main characters.

These personal ties make this production more valuable to Borden. He said he hopes to make the production’s themes regarding the value of community apparent and impactful through his directing. He has been pushing the actors on stage to make the character ’s motives, emotions and actions resonate with the audience and make a lasting impression.

“I hope the people who come out will be surprised by how much they see of themselves in the characters,” Borden said.

Lighting

“Unity (1918)” features different lighting than the typical UNL production. A variety of spotlights shine down upon the stage and back wall as the play unfolds.

In order to create more visual displays to attract the eyes and continue the story, patterned stencils cover some of the lights above the stage and the lighting enhances the different fabrics and textures.

“It adds light texture onto the wheat,” said senior set designer and theater graduate student Victoria Halverson. “So a pattern will appear on the wall and make it look a little bit different. This just gives them a different dimension.”

Set Design

Stage manager Henry O’Neal, a junior directing management major, broke down the meaning behind important set pieces that will be used in the production. On a 25 by 30-foot stretch, three separate platforms identify different locations – a telegraph operator ’s room, the mortuary and the Wilde sisters’ house.

This house also doubles up as another character ’s house, but it is set primarily as the home of the Wilde sisters.

A grave and trapdoor are an important part of the set. The trapdoor is transformed into a grave when a baby is buried in the second act. The coffin, aside from its natural use, transcends into a dream state with Beatrice Wilde.

Halverson said, “Beatrice is talking to Glen, who is a boy she has a crush on, who is over in the war. At one point, the coffin begins to light up, and his voice is emanating from inside the coffin, asking Beatrice to come be with him. Beatrice’s sister Sissy then pops up from the two-person coffin, causing Beatrice to think that her sister is blocking her from what she wants.” Unity (1918) poses some different makings that Halverson was able to try out her new skills on.

“I learned some stuff over the summer at a summer stock festival,” Halverson said.

“After finding that I’d be working in a small lindsey yoneda | Dn space and thought, ‘Let’s whip some of this stuff out!’’It was fun to incorporate what I Tony Thomas and Kirstie Smith, both senior Theatre majors, rehearse a scene for the had learned over the summer and along with play “Unity (1819)” in the Temple Building last Friday. Thomas and Smith portray the some different ideas.”

characters Beatrice Wilde and Hart in the upcoming play.

Costume Design

Based off the 1918 diary entries of Beatrice Wilde, each costume is a product of that era.

What makes these costumes unique is that, as with all other student-led productions, the costumes are all made by UNL students.

“For the period costumes, a lot of what 1918 was because of being in a small farming town during World War I, the clothing was fairly different,” said Megan Cudd, a junior costume design major. “The men had good trouser pants with an un-collared shirt, and the women didn’t have a lot of trim or frills on them. The women mostly wore shirts and blouses.”

The costume department, aside from handstitching and putting together the costumes for the cast, is also in charge of the cast’s wigs. For the period costumes, the actors need to long hair, while today in 2014, “women don’t need to do that,” Cudd said. All of the women also have to wear heels, and the men, nice lace-up boots.

Cudd’s favorite outfit is a pair of coveralls that will be worn by the character Sunna. The original pattern was a men’s size 44 pattern. Taking in the overall costume on a smaller woman may surprise people.

“I will be distressing the overalls with some paint tomorrow,” Cudd said. “That’ll be pretty fun.”

O’Neal’s favorite costume is that of a Canadian soldier. Although the costume is actually that of a British soldier, the costume department has made modifications for the uniforms of the field officer and lieutenant.

Even with such an intricate costume that asks for specifics on length, style and color, the costume department performed well on replicating and adjusting fits for each individual actor. arts@ —compiled by cait theisfeld and sarah berger dailynebraskan.com

the date at the beginning of her entries so Acting sometimes I’m thinking, ‘Wait, what day is “Unity (1918)” centers around a female and a male lead, Beatrice Wilde and Tony it?’”

Even though she has to memorize long Harte. Wilde and Harte are played by senior theater majors Kirstie Smith and Tony journal entries, Smith said she has enjoyed connecting to Wilde’s character. She said she Thomas. Wilde is forced to put the needs of admires the responsibility and strength Wilher family and community before her own in de possesses as a female protagonist and has order to help keep Unity together during the epidemic and war. Harte comes back to Unity enjoyed getting to feel and experience those emotions. from serving in World “Beatrice is doing the War I, having been Even though the best she can with what blinded by mustard gas, she’s been given, and she to find that his whole play is set almost tries to take care of her family has been killed by family and fellow townsthe epidemic. Harte then 100 years ago, it’s still people the best way that struggles to make a new very accessible to today’s she knows how,” Smith life for himself. said. “I think the comThe cast first audi- audience.” passion towards other tioned for the produchuman beings that Beation in late August, and Kirstie Smith trice expresses is somethe first rehearsals startsenior theater major thing we can all relate ed on Sept. 2. Since then, to.” they’ve been rehearsing Smith said she thinks four hours a day, five days a week in order to the audience will not only relate to Wilde, but get into character. the rest of the production’s cast as well.

Much of “Unity (1918)” is told through “‘Unity’ is about the relationships beWilde’s thoughts and perspective in the form tween characters within the town – the light, of journal entries, which are delivered as monologues. Smith said she has been devot- the dark, and everything in between – and ing extra time outside of rehearsals in order the coming together or drifting apart of to make sure she has all of Wilde’s journal en- people during a crisis,” Smith said. “Even though the play is set almost 100 years ago, tries memorized before the show opens. it’s still very accessible to today’s audience. I “It’s been a bit difficult at times memorizing some of (Wilde’s) entries that are para- think the show conveys a sense of closeness and community even in the most difficult of graphs long,” Smith said. “She always has

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Artist finds success selling art on streets Artist Jarrett Palmore, known as ‘3 Feet,’ gains attention in downtown lincoln for his cosmic spray paint posters jack forey dn “See that? That’s a fractal,” said a very intrigued drunk, checking out the colorful posters at 3 Feet’s stand in front of the Bourbon Theatre. “It’s a spiral pattern based on Fibonacci numbers, which are based on the Golden Mean.”

It’s a typical night for Jarrett Palmore, who carries his table and paints downtown several times a week, showing and selling his art to the people who walk by. Most days, he will spend several hours painting posters on the spot, finishing most of them in 30 minutes. His favorite subjects involve nature scenes, space and fantasy. He does everything with spray paint and a scalpel.

To most people, Palmore is “3 Feet,” a nickname given to him as a track star in high school. He calls himself a “martial mental artist,” someone who creates art and music through mundane objects and everyday means. Besides his cosmic spray paint posters, 3 Feet also dabbles in music, poetry and comedy. He cites Rudy Ray Moore and Richard Pryor as his comedy influences, and Bob Ross and Salvador Dali as his painting influences.

3 Feet is self-employed. He supports himself entirely by selling his art, which usually goes for $25 a poster.

“I’m not homeless,” he said. “I like being on the street and feeling the energy from people. I love meeting and seeing other artists, and painting on the street… it’s a good way to meet new people.”

3 Feet started his painting career in his native Alabama after discovering cosmic spray paint art on YouTube.

Immediately, he fell in love with it, he said. With one foot already in music and poetry he put the other two in painting. One day, he said, God told him to give everything up and live on the street, making art. He said he hasn’t suffered and has made efforts to help people, even helping to start two nonprofit organizations: Real Life Poets and Life For All. He has even had some poetry published with the Library of Congress.

In the four years 3 Feet has been doing street art, he has traveled to many cities selling work, including New Orleans, Atlanta and now Lincoln, where he has resided for a year and a half. He did his first artwork in Lincoln on his second day, when his neighbor asked him to paint a mural on his garage. 3 Feet painted a cityscape of Lincoln, complete with the Capitol.

“Then I went to O Street, and I liked how it looked down there and set up shop,” he said.

Recently, 3 Feet has begun marketing his brand and has been attracting more attention.

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Jarrett Palmore is a local graffiti artist who goes by the name 3 Feet. Palmore has been drawing and painting with acrylic for over 20 years. He is best known for his spray paintings on posters, cars and other surfaces.

He was featured in a segment on channel 10 and PBS, and has a Facebook page called “3 Feet Creations,” a venue for his project where he offers artworks not available on the street.

He’s also trying to organize a poetry set at Duggan’s Pub in the near future. Besides his signature spray paint posters, he offers glass painting, vehicles, skateboards, vases and even toilet seats; his own toilet seat is decked out in sharply rendered pyramids and planets.

He goes downtown mainly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and usually sets up somewhere on O Street, often near the Bourbon Theatre or Walgreen’s during the day. He greets all passers-by with a smile and a readiness to engage in discussion of all types. People will often find him in a frenzy of painting in the middle of a loud, crowded late night bar scene.

“I do it for the love,” he said. “Art stands alone… it’s not about the artist. It’s supposed to leave you with something instead of just being a pretty picture. If you’re an artist, it’s your job to uplift and bring positivity to people.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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UNL DJ Club revives dying organization Aspiring DJs find community among new, veteran performers to learn, practice, network chris bowling dn Four years ago, Björn Barrefors was looking for a club.

As someone who’d been interested in DJing since he was a kid, Barrefors, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer science graduate student, was curious if there was a group for people like him on campus after a friend from back in Sweden told him about how his university had one. So he searched the web and came up with an email for the president of a club called Discotheque.

He sent an email asking for more information and the president emailed him back.

“How did you even find this email?”

Three years ago, Joe Shea, a senior technical theater and design major, and Peter Helstrom, a fifth-year computer science major, were members of Discotheque, a club that was basically a disorganized group of people interested in DJing, lighting and/or sound with a name that neither Shea or Helstrom remembers the meaning.

Discotheque was close to failing because of poor attendance, its inability to service members outside of a close circle of friends and a lack of anyone wanting to run the club.

That’s when Shea and Helstrom decided to take charge.

“We just kind of pulled the club out of the ground,” Shea said. “When Peter and I came here three years ago we saw that it was a thing, but no one ever did anything with it so we contacted them and worked our way up to being president and treasurer.”

The two changed the name to UNL DJ Club, started getting involved in the RSO fair and changed the atmosphere of the club to be about creating a fun but productive environment for the members. Barrefors was one of the first to notice the change in the club’s atmosphere.

“It used to be a group of friends basically that just hung out,” Barrefors said. “When I joined, they were all DJs already so no one was coming to them to join. Joe and Peter have spent a lot of time promoting, getting events and doing RSO stuff.”

In its first year as the UNL DJ Club, Shea and Helstrom brought in guest speakers and professional DJs to teach members in a lecture hall-type of environment. But people didn’t respond well to that and by the start of spring semester, the club was back to where it started with only a handful of dedicated members. So this year they’ve completely changed the model again.

“It’s more interactive,” Shea said. “People actually come up and we let them do whatever they want. They can bring their own flash drives to plug in. It’s more of a collaboration style rather than a lecture hall.”

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Lucas Dunwoody, the primary programmer for DJ club, sets up his equipment. The DJ club meets on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in 107 Architecture Hall.

“People actually come up and we let them do whatever they want. They can bring their own flash drives to plug in. It’s more of a collaboration style rather than a lecture hall.” joe Shea senior technical theater and design major

The big idea the club wants to promote this year is its social and fun atmosphere.

They want to make the club more diverse and have every meeting feel like a party, so now more than ever, they’re accepting anyone who’s interested.

And even if people aren’t interested in learning how to DJ, if they have an interest in music and the party atmosphere, there’s a place for them in UNL DJ Club. That’s just another aspect of the kind of expansion the club is continuing to implement.

“We want to be known as the partying

club of the university,” Barrefors said. “If we can start making a little money from our events, we can buy our own speakers and equipment for the club so that it’s here and we can do more gigs.”

Events and performances are another thing that the club is revamping. Helstrom said when he started out in the club he would practice all the time but couldn’t book gigs because he didn’t have connections. That’s something everyone wants new members to have access to right away.

“We don’t just give people huge gigs

where the pressures always on,” Shea said.

“We have smaller gigs where they can just get up in front of people and actually do it instead of just practicing in the room.”

Three years ago, the club was essentially a group of people hanging out and messing around with DJ equipment. The meetings were disorganized and only serviced a circle of friends who already knew what they were doing.

Today the club has 261 likes on its Facebook page and averages 20-30 people at every meeting. It’s expanding to be more involved on campus, bring in a more diverse member population and redefine the face of the organization. But above all what the UNL DJ club wants is to get its name out there and get people involved.

“Mostly we want people to have a good time,” Shea said. “People that are already DJs come for the networks and to have a good time, but a lot of the new people are beginners that are just starting out. So our goal is for them to have fun and if they like it, they stay.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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DJ wants people to remember the night, not him KEKELI DAWES DN Imagine the idyllic, late spring high school pool house party reaching its fever pitch at dusk. The crowd of 400 is buzzing (on life, of course), your friends are all there, and you’re dancing so hard, you don’t even realize it’s been two hours already. The party is so insane, the most attractive girls are shedding their already skimpy bikinis poolside and jumping in.

No one remembers the DJ at a party like that. But none of that would have happened if the DJ was total crap.

That party was real, and even Seth Korte, a sophomore broadcasting major and music tech minor, doesn’t remember much of it. He just remembered he was on that night. Apparently, that’s a grand understatement. He heard later a couple was spotted having sex on the hood of someone’s car.

You know that DJ who completely ruined your junior year homecoming dance? Who always seemed to play the worst song possible?

Seth Korte is not that guy. He’s the DJ who you don’t remember because he was that good. He wants you remembering the perfect night.

“I want them to go home remembering ‘this TYLER MEYER | DN dance was awesome,’” Korte said. “I want them to remember they had a good time. I don’t want Seth Korte, a second year transfer student studying broadcast journalism with a minor in music technology, primarily DJs high school dances. He aspires to start his own them to remember I was a good DJ.” In some dorm rooms, students loft their business and expand his clientele during his time at UNL. beds to make room for a lumpy futon or frumpy bean bag chair. But in Sandoz 203, Seth Korte has rigged to his laptop a turntable controller “Within the first week of buying my equipment, that she said. and mixer and two massive black speakers that “This is one of the biggest problems of being I had about two gigs that I did, and from those when stacked, barely fit beneath his bed. two gigs, that’s how I’ve been able to get con- a DJ,” Korte said. “You may know what you like, Seth Korte is a Top 40 DJ who has several nections with other people and other schools,” but you don’t know what the crowd is going to high school dances, weddings and parties un- he said. like. So it’s a more ‘feel it out’ kind of thing.” der his belt. He’s been doing this since his senior There are some remixes of popular Top 40 The following summer, he saved up to buy year of high school but Korte’s interest in music the two massive speakers stacked under his songs Korte really likes, but he knows that some started as far back as he remembers. just wouldn’t play out well on the dance floor. raised bunk in Sandoz.

“I grew up in a family that’s got a musical “It sounds good to you when you sit down lisIt’s apparent Korte has standards. He’s critibackground, so I’ve always been influenced by cal of his quality and skill even as a beginner. tening to it, but if you think about, ‘If I heard this music because it’s been around me all the time,” But his skills improved and still grow. What on the dance floor, is this something that’s danceKorte said. hasn’t changed is his attitude to pleasing his able?’”

He started playing Korte keeps his ears and eyes open to how the client; his commitment to piano at a young age, and crowd responds to particular songs. Even though making a great party. this sparked in his interI want them to he goes to great lengths to pick just the right songs, Wesley Ball, a seest for music creation. sometimes the crowd simply isn’t feeling it. But nior at Raymond Central remember they had Once the digital tools beHigh School, can attest to Korte doesn’t panic - he has DJ crowd control came available to him, he a good time. I don’t want that. She’s worked with down to a science. And, yes, line dance songs such started dabbling in digital as “The Wobble” are a big part of that science.

Korte four times already them to remember I was a music.

“You kind of feel... if you see people start and is planning to work “I went to a private good DJ.” to leave, that’s when you should throw a song with him again to DJ the Christian school (Lincoln like that,” Korte said. “Sometimes you just gotta school’s upcoming prom.

Christian), and we didn’t take chances and just play (a song you really “He’s very good to SETH KORTE have school dances or anywork with, and he’s re- like). If people start to leave, you can always cut sophomore broadcasting major thing, so I saw a market it out early,” he said. ally motivated,” Ball said. open up for me to DJ and To be safe, before he heads out to a gig, he “He’ll ask you what you host dances for a school makes sure he has the top 20 selling songs from want and really personalthat was separate from school functions,” Korte izes your experience.” iTunes in his library. He’s a Top 40 DJ, after all, said. and he needs to keep his bases covered.

Ball doesn’t agree with the idea that you Korte saw it as the perfect way to fuse his Korte keeps a cool composure and often only notice a bad DJ. When Korte is at the decks, love for music with his love for people. looks thoroughly relaxed in his gym shorts, flip she said it’s very clear that Korte is good at what Even Korte said becoming a DJ isn’t a difflops and university T-shirt. He takes that with he does. ficult process. As a freshman, he started right him to his parties, behind the booth, but he does “I actually notice,” Ball said. ”He takes a lot away with what he had, cuing songs on iTunes have a secret: no matter how much he prepares of time to put in work for his playlist.” on a desktop computer. Korte thought he wasn’t What set Korte apart from other run of the (he runs entire mixes 30 minutes each day for a very good at it, now that he knows how to mix mill DJs was how invested Korte was in the week before a gig), much of what Korte does at and filter songs properly with three years under details of the party. He asked her specific ques- the show is on the go. his belt, but he apparently was good enough to “For the most part, my gigs are flying by the tions about what she wanted to hear and what start investing hard cash in his craft. seat of my pants,” Korte said. “Kind of.” she didn’t. Ball was just as much of a part of the “Things picked up pretty fast,” Korte said.

A part of that is the fact that Korte is thinking playlist making process, and she appreciated

several songs ahead in the mix, while taking into account the often unpredictable dynamics of a party that are party out of his control. Korte said the average DJ thinks song to song, but Korte thinks multiple songs deep. It’s a challenge he loves - the right mixing can enhance a mundane track. The order of the songs played is almost as important as the song itself, if not more.

I asked Korte if there are some songs that are just difficult to beatmatch (transitioning songs) or insert into a mix. Right away he started playing “The Wop.” Because of it’s cut time and double time alternating feels, it makes for an uncomfortable fade or filter-in. He sometimes starts this track off cold, simply because it’s so popular.

“The hardest part is getting your mix down and making sure everything sounds the way you want it to,” Korte said.

Beatmatching was a skill Korte had to work at to master. Moving from starting and stopping songs on iTunes to using professional DJing software, Serato and a turntable controller wasn’t the easiest transition. But he said his “natural ear” helps. He can pick out any melody and beat it out on the keys. He can match a beat in his ear just as easily. Once he had his hands on software that did much of it automatically, he could make flawless mixes.

Korte went into depth about pacing, and about how he sorts tracks by BPM, how many in a row he plays at a high tempo or low, and when to start different BPM sequences of songs.

“For the most part I’ll start my mix with something upbeat, something I know people are going to know. That’ll get them on the dance floor, and I’ll keep going with five or six songs around that same BPM, then I’ll throw in a slow song. Then that gives me a chance to change my BPM a little bit.”

The tempo of song he plays sometimes changes with the type of event he’s covering.

“For high school dances, I don’t necessarily play a lot of slow songs, but a lot of people are wanting to have the fast songs,” Korte said. “The last one I did a couple weeks ago - I only played three slow songs, and I DJ’d for about two and a half hours.”

It took a ton of prodding to get Korte to toot his own horn, but he admitted that from time to time, he lines up the perfect sequencing of tracks; he doesn’t think anyone notices. He never imagines that there’s a DJ in the crowd he’s playing for who just loses it after he kills a five song combo.

But Ball notices. In fact, Korte gives her sample song mixings and sequences before the party to get a client’s opinion on them.

“He’ll show me previews before and stuff, and he’s excited about it,” Ball said.

To Korte, it’s a part of the job description. It’s expected. Korte is always on time, and he often stays after dances to help staff and students tear down and clean up. He helps set up Facebook pages for parties. He’s committed to his clients.

“The reason why I love to DJ is I know how much I like having a good time, and I love being able to provide that for other people too. You kind of get that moment of, satisfaction when you see everybody out there having a good time, and you know that you’re the one making it happen.”

If anyone had part in a dance that left thongs and bras strewn across the bottom of a suburban pool, they’d probably get a great sense of satisfaction too.

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Cozy restaurant offers eclectic menu options CAIT THIESFELD DN I was in the mood for something different a few days ago.

Class had just ended and I, in need of caffeine, was looking forward to a hot coffee. At the same time, I was craving a homemade dish that reminded me of an Irish pub back home in Kansas City. For the last four years, I wasn’t aware that such a place existed until I found out about Toast.

Toast is definitely making its mark as one of the best restaurants in Lincoln. There are many things that single this restaurant out as one of a kind.

The customers are a diverse group.

College students come in for the coffee and ice cream. Toast is one of few restaurants that serve local favorites: The Mill’s coffee and East Campus Dairy Store’s ice cream.

Couples and families enjoy the food. With a variety of flavor on each platter, customers enjoy the mason jar beverages, lunch specials and weekend breakfast options.

For those more apt for liquor and other alcoholic beverages, the bartenders serve up a variety of wine, spirits and beer.

Toast is also a place of culture. Throughout the restaurant, including the restrooms, you may notice some familiar lighting, woodwork and large wine cabinet. These and a few other

items were reclaimed from Whittier Middle School, Omaha’s Burlington Train Station and Mister C’s Steak House.

Aside from the local treats, the beautiful bar and eating area, the food itself is amazing. As with the coffee, the variety of options will appeal to all crowds.

After gazing through a menu of delicioussounding eats, I decided to go with a spiced cider, hashpuppies and a cottage pie with brussel sprouts. Although I waited a short while for the cider, the hot beverage was well worth the extra minutes. I’d never tried hashpuppies before, but they’re definitely becoming a favorite.

The crispy outside along with the creamy potato mix on the inside blessed my taste buds with an array of flavor. The cottage pie with brussel sprouts stood out to me, so I gave it a try.

My mind was blown by the hot stew of vegetables and braised pork loin, topped with warm and chunky mashed potatoes residing next to one of my all-time favorite vegetable dishes, crunchy sprouts with bacon.

The meal was amazing, but I’m ready for a weekend breakfast visit. I’m currently imagining a slice of french toast stuffed with cream cheese and raspberries, topped with bourbon maple syrup and vanilla-infused whipped cream.

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TITLE IX: FROM 4 student of an educational institution. Nebraska Revised Statute 84-712.05(1) state that such records may be withheld. “Redaction of the records will not prevent the remainder of the record from revealing personally identifiable information and it will still be possible to identify the students,” Busch wrote.

- The records are developed by a public body charged with duties of investigation of examination of persons and institutions and the records constitute a part of the examination or investigation. Nebraska Revised Statute 84-712.05(5) states such records may be withheld.

- The records are protected from disclosure by attorney-client privilege.

HOW TITLE IX INVESTIGATIONS CAN IMPACT UNIVERSITIES

UNL could lose federal funding if the Office of Civil Rights determines it violated Title IX. A member of national survivor advocacy group End Rape On Campus provided background information on the way Title IX investigations proceed. Federal funding made up 18 percent of the University of Nebraska system budget in 2009-2010, so revocation of federal funding could be severely detrimental to the university. But if UNL enters a plea bargain, the source said, funding will likely not be revoked. Instead, investigators will make recommendations on how UNL should fix policies and what steps need to be taken. The only way fines can be issued is if a Clery Act complaint was also filed.

The initial steps of the investigation de-

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Toast is a coffee shop, deli and bar in a North Lincoln community called Fallbrook. It’ss based out of the hospitality company Red Herring Concepts.

PEREZ: FROM 4 pend on the type of complaint made and what the investigation reveals. Officials from the Department of Education will come to campus to interview students, administrators and anyone involved. If the complaint was made anonymously, students with information could identify themselves. Investigators would only make contact with the alleged survivor if the student chooses to come forward. The timeline after the initial investigation could range from one week to six months or even longer.

In similar cases, no complaint was filed.

Instead, investigators from the Title IX office, which is housed in the Office for Civil Rights, make inquiries based on media coverage. It’s not known how UNL came to be under investigation.

From there, investigators examine the sexual assault policies in place but also look at practices being used, the source said. It’s not just about what’s on paper, but also about what’s being implemented and what resources are available to students.

UNL joins a list of 79 other colleges and universities being investigated for possible violations of federal law about handling sexual assault complaints. Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Penn State University, Florida State University and Harvard College are all on the list as of May 1.

The University of Connecticut paid $1.3 million in fines in July to settle a lawsuit after five women alleged the school did not handle their cases properly.

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dates.

Perez will remain interim director indefinitely until the committee hires a new permanent director. Perez didn’t wish to disclose if he applied but said he doesn’t have inside access to the pool of applicants nor the committee members.

The position is posted on UNL’s employment opportunities page as the “Director for Institutional Equity and Compliance.”

Duties listed include “providing leadership, direction and oversight for many of the federal and state regulatory mandates of the campus and generates the campus affirmative action plans for women, minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities.” The director serves as the chief civil rights officer and the Title IX officer for UNL, according to the job description.

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Lincoln Calling

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Heidi Ore performs with Domestica at Duffy’s Tavern Wednesday night as part of the annual Lincoln Calling festival. Domestica’s frontwoman and frontman, Jon Taylor, are on a more than 20 year streak performing together.

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Comedian Grant Parsons performs to a crowd during Vega’s comedy showcase for Lincoln Calling on Wednesday, Oct. 8 in the Railyard. Parsons has opened for Doug Benson and Sean Patton.

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Ashley Trenhaile performs with The Baberaham Lincoln’s at the Bourbon Theatre Wednesday night as part of the annual Lincoln Calling festival.

The Baberaham Lincoln’s, a sideproject of local pop act LIFE Is Cool, played as part of the X-rated: Women in Music Showcase.

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Sol Seed performs at the Zoo Bar during Lincoln Calling on Wednesday. Sol Seed, hailing from Eugene, Oregon, was awarded “Eugene’s Best Band” award two years in a row by “Eugene Weekly.”

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Churls performs at the Bourbon Theatre Wednesday night as part of the annual Lincoln Calling festival.

Churls was the first band to play as part of the X-rated: Women in Music Showcase, easing into things with an acoustic set.

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Even skeptics can enjoy Lincoln Ghost Tours CASSIE KERNICK DN “Imagine yourself a new mom, you’ve just put your infant to bed, set her rattle on top of the dresser and gone to your room to sleep, when all of the sudden you hear the rattle shaking.

You go into the room to see the rattle is on top of the desk where you left it and your infant is quietly sleeping. This is just the beginning.”

Scott Colborn, leader of the Ghosts of Lincoln Bus Tours, implores the 45 attendees to imagine themselves in this situation as we pull up to our first stop. I think we were all expecting to feel some presence, but really we were just parked in front of a home as Colborn told the story of spirits once present there.

Maybe I was just too much of a skeptic.

From the moment we stepped on the bus, it was clear that my friend Rachel and I were out of place. We were 10 minutes early but the last ones to board. People who go on haunted bus tours are very serious about the practice and show up at least 15 minutes early.

From the beginning, it was clear that the ghost tour wasn’t going to live up to the glamorized American Horror Story version of ghost stories.

“There is the real paranormal and then there is Hollywood,” Colborn said.

And on this bus tour, we discussed the real paranormal. The real stories of Lincoln natives who had seen ghosts, interacted with apparitions or had a premonition about the future.

And while it was incredibly informative, it was not at all spooky.

This lack of fear was in line with the fact that Colborn believes most ghosts maintain the same demeanor they possessed in life, even in the afterlife. In his experience, he has found that ghosts generally are confused and may

just need direction and help. Colborn encouraged riders to think of ghosts as someone injured on the street and take the time to stop and help them.

From suicides at the State Penitentiary to UFO sightings outside of town, no topic was too outlandish to be discussed.

And for all of those only reading this to find out if the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is haunted, it most definitely is.

“If you were a ghost, where would you like to spend your time?” He used this logic to identify Memorial Stadium as the most likely place to have paranormal energy in Lincoln because of all the individuals who have been there and the emotional experiences that occur while at a game. Also, Colborn said, there have been paranormal sighting in Neihardt Hall, Pound Hall and the Temple Building.

Don’t be too worried, Huskers, Nebraska Wesleyan is just as haunted. Colborn told the story of a music teacher who passed away in her office on campus. Years later, everything seemed to freeze, and a new professor inhabiting the office was said to have looked out the window, not to see the usual buildings, but vast prairie land, almost as if she had taken a time machine. She turned around to see a woman with a tight bun standing in her office. After the sighting, the new professor looked through an old directory and the woman with the pinned up hair was the professor who had died in the office. The woman could never really get over the sighting and is believed to have moved out of state.

I considered myself a skeptic before. However, hearing about all these different spirits and sightings in such a nonchalant way made them seem a lot more plausible.

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the first hour the bus took a break at McDonald’s where the PLAYPLACE sign had burned out only to read YPLACE. I couldn’t help but think that this might have actually been some spirit’s doing, trying to make us think more critically about ghosts and why they are how they are.

Another surprising discovery from the tour was that many of the haunted homes were beautiful and located in nice neighborhoods, leading me to believe that affluence and paranormal ac-

tivity are positively correlated.

The Ghost of Lincoln Bus Tour takes place every year, but tickets must be bought in August at A Novel Idea bookstore. This includes waiting in line in order to be one of the lucky recipients of the $15 tickets. Whether you’re interested in the supernatural or simply a skeptic curious about the other side, the tour at least lets you in on what apartments not to rent in Lincoln.

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Browne brings signature croon to new album JOE WADE DN Lying in a hospital bed, staring at the ceiling and wondering how the hell I’m gonna foot the bill after having my guts shish-kebabbed because of one little gall stone is almost as worrying as trying to figure out what I really want to do with my life. I can switch channels on the TV as much as I like; the ones they have at the hospital are the same ones I have at home. Honestly the only real comfort I find sometimes is a familiar voice from someone I’ve been listening to all my life, someone like Mom, Dad or Jackson Browne.

“Standing in the Breach,” released Tuesday, is Browne’s 14th studio release since his 1972 self-titled debut. Browne, who turned 66 years old on Oct. 9, still has that iconic, smooth croon to drift away to, whether you’re cruising on the “Boulevard” or “Running on Empty.” The only difference with this older, wiser Browne is a slight rasp to his vocal tone and lyrical message.

One of the most politically poignant, and musically haunting, songs on the album is “The Long Way Around.” It starts with a guitar riff that’s eerily similar to the song “These Days,” sung by Nico from “The Royal Tenenbaums” soundtrack. Browne wrote “These Days” for Nico to record in 1967. The use of that guitar riff again on “The Long Way Around” creates a sense of continuity. It’s like a return to a thematic expression for the boomer generation.

Basically it seems like the children of the ‘60s still have something to say. Lyrically, the song bemoans the way people have changed, the daily issues of society and the sense of losing track of what’s objectively good. If you only listen to one song on this album, then I’d choose this one.

The song “You Know the Night” is something for serious music fans to appreciate because Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics. This song has an immediate extra bit of twang and bounces along with an up-tempo shuffle, like a train. You can practically hear the click of the tracks from the drum pattern, and if you let your mind drift

into the guitar part you can imagine Guthrie sitting in the corner of a boxcar playing for you.

Other songs to check out are “Leaving Winslow,” with its feel good alt-country vibe; the slow and steady piano-infused “Standing in the Breach;” and the shape-shifting nuance of “Yeah Yeah.” “Yeah Yeah” sounds like it was meant to be sung by a big band with Lou Reed, Warren Zevon and Elvis Costello, along with Browne of course.

Overall this album sounds like there is something Browne wants to say and there’s not a lot of time left to say it. Listening to this album is kind of like one of those sobering moments that follows waking up from anesthesia. The surgeon tries to tell you what condition you’re in, but the sugar-coated opioids in your system prevent the meaning from sinking in. Hitting the repeat button on this album is just as good as pressing the button that calls the nurse over for another round of morphine.

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Life experiences give refugee sense of purpose GRIFFITH SWIDLER DN The news was given to him in a small town a couple days away from his refugee camp. Jacob Manyang was going to the United States.

“I remember being very happy, of course,” Manyang said. “Everybody wants to go to America.”

At 27 years old, Jacob Manyang has been through more than most people will go through in a lifetime. He was born in Sudan (present day, South Sudan) and grew up surrounded by violence. When he was 8 years old, he was separated from most of his immediate family and went with one of his brothers and his uncle to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

Manyang, along with hundreds of other refugees, were packed together into a small compound in Ethiopia making life less than comfortable. Things such as school and water were made free and accessible, but there were catches.

“We would go to school for free but there was no school supplies, we were just children sitting in a room,” Manyang said. “There was a well that was open for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, and if you didn’t show up to get water in that time, you didn’t get water.”

One of the largest issues in South Sudan, and surrounding countries, is the amount of orphans. What happened to Manyang was not uncommon, and children become separated from their parents and displaced because of the relentless violence. Since it is extremely expensive to find the biological parents of these orphans, other measures must be taken.

“Where I’m from people are poor, but people are kind,” Manyang said. “Many children are without their parents, so relatives and friends will adopt these children into their homes willingly.”

The refugee camp was run by the United Nations, but unfortunately the people who ran the camp weren’t exempt from the corruption that seems to engulf many East African nations.

Food that was supposed to be rationed to the refugees would go missing constantly, and money wasn’t being used properly. Manyang said he recalls many days returning home from school with no food waiting for him when he got home.

All of that felt like a lifetime ago for Manyang. He was given the opportunity to come to the U.S. and study through fortunate circumstances he still doesn’t fully understand. He came to the United States in 2006. He was assisted by Lutheran Family Services and given an apartment in North Omaha. His brother joined him three months later, and they lived there for six years. He took English classes and attended Omaha Metropolitan Community College.

In 2012, Manyang got accepted in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and decided to study agronomy. His life as a refugee in Ethiopia seemed distant. At least it did until he went back, where the astounding realities of life in a refugee camp hit him as hard as ever. This last summer Manyang returned to Africa to study in Kenya.

Manyang was extremely rattled upon his return to Africa, he said. He witnessed thousands of people suffering, many from diseases that are curable and preventable. He visited family members in refugee camps in Kenya and real-

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Sudanese refugee and student Jacob Manyang works to help refugees living in his homeland through the club he created called Save South Sudanese Orphans and Widows.

ized the full magnitude of life there. The refugee camps lacked access to an abundance of clean water and cheap and effective medicine. This meant that a large surplus of people were dying from malaria or waterborne diseases.

“I remember walking into a school,” Manyang said, “and the kids were sitting on rocks, not chairs, with no school supplies.”

That is where Manyang’s non-profit organization, Save South Sudanese Orphans and Widows, comes in. Started by Manyang in 2012, the organization looks to work with larger organizations that have boots on the ground in the South Sudan region, such as UNICEF and other United Nations organizations.

In summer 2013, Manyang was trying to get his organization off the ground and trying to get an RSO started, so he met with Vicki Fisher.

Fisher, who works for the Office of Admissions at UNL, agreed to help him find students who might be interested in his organization.

“He is a very intelligent, articulate young man,” Fisher said of Manyang. “He is also the hardest worker I know.”

SSSOW attempts to raise awareness as well

One thing I really want to do is work with farmers back home and teach them effective ways to farm.”

JACOB MANYANG senior agronomy major

as funds for Orphans and Widows in South Sudan, with a heavy emphasis on clean water, mosquito nets and education. The money is then given to other organizations that will be able to make sure the money is used properly. It’s all about finding the most effective way to use the money and wasting as little as possible.

When he graduates in May, Manyang plans to keep his options open. He said he wants to continue to work with his non-profit organization as much as he can but also has other aspirations.

“One thing I really want to do is work with farmers back home and teach them effective

ways to farm,” Manyang said.

Jacob Manyang has an exceptional story and his passion for helping others is only magnified by his own past. Manyang is an extremely driven and charismatic individual, which rubs off on the people around him. People who hear Manyang’s full story are often eager to help, and people like Fisher just want to see Manyang succeed.

“Jacob’s story is incredibly moving and compelling,” Fisher said. “How could I not want to help?”

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STAFF: Lincoln Calling showcases best of city

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n anticipation of the heavy politics sure to dominate headlines in the Cornhusker state during the next month, Lincolnites should take this week as an opportunity to enjoy the best of their city before the election brings out the worst in all of us.

Tuesday night marked the beginning of the 11th Annual Lincoln Calling, a music, film and comedy festival spread across eight of the city’s most popular venues. The DN Arts Desk will be live-tweeting updates from multiple venues every night of the festival.

Lincoln Calling is one of the best things about this city, both because of what it does and what it represents.

LC is an opportunity for anyone to immediately delve into the Lincoln music scene. On any given night you’ll be able to

see some of the city’s most popular acts, such as Universe Contest and AZP, as well as newcomers such as Handsomer Jaws, See Through Dresses and Churls. During the course of a week, any uncultured jabroni could wander into town and wander back out again with a more complete understanding of Lincoln’s music, people and culture, as well as a few new favorite bands or artists.

It’s also an opportunity to sample great music from around the country, as bands such as Chicago’s The Kickback and Portland, Oregon, act Ages and Ages will be performing at Saturday’s showcase at Duffy’s.

In addition to music, the festival’s first night is composed of Homegrown and Found Footage film festivals.

The cinema in particular is a heavily centralized industry; most of the films screening

in Nebraska are the same Hollywood films playing everywhere else. Lincoln Calling is a rare opportunity for local movie enthusiasts to see what kind of work is being produced in their own backyard, and to see it on a big screen that’s normally reserved for Hollywood outings.

This year, the festival also features comedy acts on opening and closing nights, adding another dimension to LC’s exploration of Lincoln culture and entertainment.

What LC does is pack as much of the city’s culture into one week’s span as it possibly can. What it represents is something that not every city has: community.

As a flourishing college town, Lincoln is high profile enough to attract some significant musical acts, such as Elton John and

Nas. Yet, what really draws the big crowds is an opportunity to support local artists.

All this week the Bourbon Theatre, Duffy’s Tavern and The Zoo Bar, among others, will be packed with townies, ecstatic about the opportunity to drink alcohol and patronize Lincoln musicians at the same time.

In a midterm election year, with plenty of issues driving wedges between us, Lincoln Calling is a pleasant reminder that this city is bigger and better than all that, and that there plenty of ways for us to stick together and support each other.

Remember: Lincoln artists, filmmakers, comedians and musicians do what they do for the people of Lincoln. That’s you, readers.

So get out there and show them you care.

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Silencing dissenting opinions isn’t tolerance Tegan Colton

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he United States has a terrible history riddled with racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and all the various kinds of -isms out there.

It’s humbling to think racial segregation was made illegal only 50 years ago, and many of our parents and grandparents remember a time when these bigoted statutes were the accepted norm.

Since then, our society has made a serious conscious effort to discourage this age-old culture of intolerance. Advocates are passing bills, making speeches, running campaigns — all to raise awareness of the struggles of

disadvantaged people and help others act in a tolerant way. I applaud the triumphs in civil rights we’re slowly (but surely) making as a nation, but I can’t help but notice theres are some serious flaws in how we’re going about enforcing them.

Last year Phil Robertson of popular A&E reality show “Duck Dynasty” was fired for what were called “anti-gay” comments after he openly discussed his religious beliefs in GQ magazine. Robertson’s comments, in which he described homosexuality as a sin that’s “just not logical,” was understandably quite offensive and hurtful to many people.

In response, A&E placed Robertson on an indefinite suspension, explaining, “(Robertson’s) personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community.”

The outcry was stupendous. A&E, after being faced with thousands of petitions from angry fans and the threat of disgruntled politicians, released Robertson from suspension and began filming “Duck Dynasty” again.

Many found this agreeable. Many others, erate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necesdetestable. A&E, on its part, likely reinstated Robertson purely for business-related rea- sarily agree with.” While yes, those who are sons, as the network quickly discovered after gay are likely to be offended by Robertson’s comments, expressing firing him how popular beliefs that are offensive (and profitable) “Duck to people isn’t techniDynasty” really was. As I have to ask: Is cally intolerant. “That’s a sort of apology for alfiring someone just me,” Robertson said lowing Robertson back during his interview, in on air, A&E announced for expressing his or the admission that othits launch of “a national ers might have different public service cam- her religious beliefs views on the matter. What paign (PSA) promoting because you and many A&E did, silencing him unity, tolerance and and taking him off the air acceptance among all others don’t agree with (albeit for a short time), people,” which repre- them really an act of is actually much closer to sented the “core values ‘tolerance’?” the definition of intoler(of the) company.” ance than his beliefs.

I have to ask: Is But this method of sifiring someone for expressing his or her religious beliefs because lencing others for the sake of tolerance seems you and many others don’t agree with them to be how we respond to all possible roots of offense – no matter how innocent they acreally an act of “tolerance”?

The Oxford Dictionary defines the word tolerance as the “ability or willingness to tolcolton: see page 21

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Don’t dress in racially insensitive costumes Taylar Morrissey

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was scrolling through Pinterest the other day when I stumbled across a pin from an old high school friend that made me stop in my tracks. Oh no, I thought, it’s that time of year again.

It was a pin instructing the reader on how to create the perfect Sugar Skull makeup, as modeled by a white woman, pinned by a white woman. Donning Sugar Skull costumes for Halloween is disrespectful toward the spiritual nature of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos or “The Day of the Dead.” This example perfectly represents a larger issue faced every year during the Halloween season: cultural appropriation and stereotyped costumes.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love Halloween. It’s my favorite holiday. I love the candy and the movies and the music. I love the smell of pumpkin spice everything and the changing leaves and the decorations everywhere.

I love planning costumes and going to parties. What I don’t love is watching other white people make a complete and racist mockery of other people and cultures.

Lauren Duca of the Huffington Post defines cultural appropriation as “picking and choosing elements of a culture by a member of another culture without permission. This includes traditional knowledge, religious symbols, artifacts or any other unauthorized use of cultural practice or ideation.” It’s closely tied to racism and the reduction of cultures besides our own to costumes and oddities rather than thousands, millions or even billions of people.

This is an issue that has been going on for years, not just during Halloween. Halloween just makes the expression of it more socially acceptable than any other time of the year. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked past “Indian Princess” and “Geisha” costumes in my years of costume shopping.

It always astounds me that pretty much every company that sells these costumes seems to think it’s OK to peddle racist caricatures around this holiday. It seems intuitive to me that if you don’t belong to a certain culture, you shouldn’t be dressing up as that culture.

It perpetuates harmful stereotypes and creates a hostile environment for anyone from that culture who might see you.

For the last couple of years I’ve seen some great campaign posters floating around the web addressing this issue. I tracked them down to find the source and was both surprised and delighted to see that they originated from Ohio University’s student organization STARS: Students Teaching About

Racism in Society. Its “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume” campaign started in 2011 and so far has released three sets of posters showing the harmful effects of masquerading as cultural stereotypes. These powerful and widespread posters are coming from university students just like us, and to me that

speaks volumes about our generation’s awareness. They even raised national attention a few years ago when the campaign first began.

Still, we have a long way to go.

Whether it’s students wearing blackface or not understanding why “Mexican” costumes consisting of sombreros, ponchos

and drawn-on mustaches might be considered offensive or racist; racism and cultural appropriation are far from over.

So what can you do? The easiest solution is to stop dressing as other cultures for fun or as a joke or to look sexy.

When

you think about what costume you’re going to buy or make, consider whom you’re representing. Is the costume based entirely on dressing as someone from a different culture or race than yours? Is it based on stereotypes about that race? Does it use elements of other cultures that have religious or spiritual significance? If you answered yes to any of those questions, pick a different costume.

There are so many other kinds of costumes out there that you could wear. Don’t pick the one that carries on a harmful and deadly system of oppression.

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Scientists should include public in environmentalism Ben Curttright

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ercury colonization, Mars terraforming and the revolutionizing of Earthbound technologies to address the complex environmental issues of our self-created brave new world. The stuff of science fiction, to be sure, but in her Humanities on the Edge lecture at the Sheldon Museum of Art on Oct. 2, UCLA English professor Ursula Heise argued that we’re but a cosmological moment away.

Or an etymological moment, as Heise said.

She said the humanities can best participate in addressing the problems of climate change and environmental degradation by changing the way we talk about our place as humans in the greater world. Though there’s a lot to be said for the power of narrative to effect social change, Heise’s optimism with respect to the humanities seems to be just that: optimism.

Redirecting our discussions about climate change will help, yes, but until the conversation moves outside of academia and climate issues have a direct impact on those in power, the innovative solutions Heise imagines will remain imaginary.

Much of Heise’s talk centered on the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man. Among scientists today, the idea that we have left the post-Ice Age Holocene period and entered a wholly different era of the Earth’s history is very much up for debate. The argument for redefining the current age is fairly clear, though; humans, Heise said, have so thoroughly transformed nature that there’s no way out of human influence, and no going back.

What’s less clear, though, is how shifting these somewhat arbitrary terms around a bit will impact current environmental practice. To Heise this is an unambiguous truth.

Adopting the Anthropocene into historical and geological discourse will provide, Heise said, “a stage on which a new, more positive and forward-looking environmentalism can be built.” In this sense, calling today the Age of Man instead of the Holocene (Greek for, roughly, New Age) is a means of taking responsibility for human impact on Earth’s environment. The current state, we admit, is our fault; instead of debating how we got here, we can address where we’re going.

To an extent, Heise is question-begging here, though I don’t hold it against her in the slightest. Taking responsibility requires, first and foremost, a certainty of blame and despite the repeated insistence of the unified scientific community, human impact on climate change isn’t an accepted fact. As of November 2013, 23 percent of Americans didn’t believe global warming is happening, and 49 percent of Americans are not worried about

climate change, according to the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

Heise is an engaged environmentalist, professor at a major university and author of multiple books and articles on the topic of current climate science and the humanities. To her, climate change must feel like such a foregone conclusion that pointing out its connection to human activity is a waste of time. Unfortunately, especially in the conservative-leaning Midwest, it’s a battle still being fought by environmental scientists and public figures alike. Climate change is, of course, being driven by human activity, and our current policies with respect to emissions, pollution and consumption aren’t at all sustainable.

But until the right people accept this fact, whether environmental humanists call the current epoch “the Anthropocene” or not will hardly matter.

To whom should environmental humanists be directing their message then? Certainly not to each other, which I believe makes the debate about Holocenes and Anthropocenes irrelevant.

To the general public, maybe, as convincing people, particularly Americans, that their everyday driving, eating, powering and throwing away have long-term, negative effects on the planet can only lead to positive change. But to have the greatest real-world impact, environmentalism has to 1) convince China and India that pollution is bad and 2.) convince American

on pollution. But, as in so many other cases, capitalists that pollution isn’t profitable. when one group begins to see the adverse efFairly recently, China overtook the United fects of unregulated capitalist exploitation, States as the country with the highest level the corporations simply move the dirty stuff of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels somewhere else. Pollution hasn’t stopped; it’s and industrial processes; China accounts for just been outsourced, 23 percent of the world’s and neither the green CO2 emissions, while the Uninhibited pollution trees nor the clean air U.S. is a mere 19 percent. is profitable; outside your NebrasThe rapid industrialization ka apartment matters of countries such as China environmentalism is not. in the context of the and India contributes sigplanet. nificantly to still-rising CO2 The Anthropocene won’t The reason for emissions, and given their change that.” still-rising CO2 emisenormous populations and sions despite decades land masses compared to of research and adthe U.S., China and India vocacy is, in the end, the same reason for no will almost certainly emit even more CO2 in the future. Even if the U.S. performed an im- Moon base, no Martian exploration, no solar system colonization and no dramatic reimagpossible about-face and ceased carbon emissions, global pollution would continue rising ining of the terrestrial cityscape. Uninhibited as China and India, countries that Heise said pollution is profitable; environmentalism is not. The Anthropocene won’t change that. are still not fully urbanized, grow more and In light of Heise’s idea of human future, this more important in the world economy. sounds pessimistic, but I maintain: I’m only In a way, globalization has made the situaa realist. tions of Chinese pollution and American capiBen Curttright is the Assistant talists one and the same. As Americans began Opinion Editor and a fourth-year to recognize not necessarily the long-term English student. Reach him for comeffects of CO2 emission, but the short-term ment at opinion@ problems of acid rain, smog and sludgy rivers, dailynebraskan.com. the U.S. government has enacted regulations

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STEM field needs more diversity to be innovative Devin Grier

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he United States has always been known as a country of innovators.

We take pride in our history of overcoming the seemingly impossible. From the very start when the Founding Fathers were breaking away from Britain and crafting the frame for our Constitution, we were beating the odds and have continued to do so into the modern era.

We have the freedom to innovate, and this has worked to our advantage repeatedly throughout history.

However, other countries have begun to catch up. China, Germany, Australia, Brazil and others have emerged with new ideas and competitive economies. The U.S. is facing outside pressure to innovate better and faster. To keep up with the new competition, we have to adapt.

This ultimately means improving the education

system to fully utilize our human resources. It also means including everyone in the innovation process. The STEM degree field (Science Technology Engineering and Math) in particular has a serious diversity problem; we need more women in the field.

In December 2013, the Harvard Business Review published a study titled “How Diversity Can Drive Innovation.” The researchers surveyed 1,800 professionals in 40 case studies and looked at two kinds of diversity: inherent diversity (the traits you’re born with) and acquired diversity (the traits you gain from experience). Through focus groups and interviews, each professional was assigned a certain number of inherent and acquired diversity traits. If they had at least three traits of each kind they were referred to as having “two-dimensional diversity.”

Companies whose leaders possessed twodimensional diversity were found to be 45 percent more likely to report market share growth and 70 percent more likely to report capturing a new market. Diversity creates an environment that allows and encourages out-of-the-box thinking by challenging contributors to look at problems from a variety of perspectives. A diverse environment helps people to bring new insights and ideas to the table.

One of the biggest issues the world is facing

today is the conservation of resources. With the world’s population growing and more countries developing their economies, how can we make our resources last? A variety of new ideas and approaches are going to be required to find a solution, and if we want to succeed, it’s going to take all of us to figure it out.

The field that’s charged with solving this problem has a serious diversity issue. According to the Economics and Statistics Administration of the United States Department of Commerce, in 2009 only 2.5 million of the 9.2 million college-educated workers in a STEM field were women. That’s 27 percent. When the data was broken down by college degree, 48 percent of the men had engineering degrees compared with only 18 percent of the women.

Although other degrees are very important for solving today’s problems, too, it’s engineers who are trained to do so. This means that those who are the most poised to innovate have very low gender diversity.

This matters for a simple reason: it means that half of the U.S. population is underrepresented in the market of ideas. Imagine what we might accomplish if we used all of our opportunities for ideas. The U.S., and the world, needs more women in STEM fields.

But how can this be accomplished? According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

2012 Women’s Report, women entrepreneurs have less confidence than men and are more likely to be afraid of failure. They tend to expect too much of themselves and ask too little from others. Women may just underestimate their capabilities.

This suggests that fewer women go into STEM fields because they don’t believe in themselves, not because they’re uninterested or incapable.

As college students, what we say can have an influence on how those younger than us view themselves and the world. If we all let the girls in our lives know that we think they can go into a STEM field if they want to, they might just believe us. If we can remove the stigma against STEM for even a few girls at a time, the gender gap will gradually close.

Gender diversity isn’t the only diversity issue that companies face, and unequal pay remains an issue. However, if a more diverse workplace was embraced, and everyone’s ideas and contributions were valued, it would be a step in the right direction. We need everyone’s ideas to solve the problems of today.

Devin Grier is a sophomore biological systems engineering major.

Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Social media stifles productive debates Emily Kuklinski

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icking and choosing your battles isn’t as easy as it used to be. There was once a time when arguments sizzled out over a nice, cold cup of chocolate milk. But we now live in an age of 24/7 broadcasting where escalating arguments about fall fashions into kerfuffles has become our new national pastime.

According to a recent article from the New York Times, social media is silencing diverse debate. A recent report by Rutgers University and Pew Research Center found that the Internet is helping polarize what we read and comment on. Because of things such as Facebook’s updated news feed algorithms, we often get bombarded with news that aligns with our political beliefs. We don’t have to worry about watching or reading news that’s slanted to the left or right. The Internet is working to autocorrect our research to give us the answers we already want.

But even sharing a news story on Facebook doesn’t mean that you’re promoting conversation. Rutgers University and the Pew Research Center have found that this actually hinders constructive debates. Professor Keith N. Hampton, one of the scientists who helped conduct the social media experiment, attributes this to people not seeking out alternate news sources. When people comment, like or share an article, it’s only building upon opinions, not challenging them. And because of the social order of Facebook, where you’re friends with others who have some sort of an impact on your life, launching an alternate opinion could spark conflict that affects you in the real world.

What’s more, Facebook is a different animal when it comes to the Internet. As columnist Kaitlynn Schmidt wrote in the Daily Nebraskan last week, anonymity fuels bullying on the Internet with little to no repercussions. But on Facebook, where people have their names and identities out in the open, free to be judged by their friends, family and coworkers, one post can have a great effect on someone’s personal life. It had an effect on mine.

In high school, I posted a status about Obama being elected as president in 2008. I was a naive freshman who thought she knew everything there was to know about politics and social justice. So when a Democrat was elected to office, I expressed my displeasure.

Two minutes after posting my status, someone at school and I began an hour-and-a-halflong debate about politics. We insulted each other’s intelligence and even made a few jabs at our family members. In the heat of the moment, I thought I was in the right. I thought I was on top of the world, but the next day at school, my post felt nothing like a victory.

We didn’t talk again for a year. We averted our gazes in the hallway. And when we finally spoke to each other in person, it was in a bashful embarrassment. We both recognized one another as intelligent, good-hearted people and realized how idiotic we had been to let an Internet quarrel interfere with our real lives.

These fights have been ravaging my Facebook feed for years. And although many of the debates are on important topics that need to be discussed, they never get anywhere.

Social media isn’t the place to have political debates. You’re not face-to-face with the person, and it dehumanizes whomever you’re bouncing facts and figures off. The person on the other side of the computer screen is just a few lines of code and rapidly your inner editor takes a break. You say things you don’t entirely mean because your brain isn’t processing them as someone with a brain, with a soul. As New York Times columnist Sherry Turkle said, social interaction via technology has made us accustomed to being “alone together.”

Everyone’s opinions are constantly chang-

ing, evolving to become more refined and mature thought bubbles. Each thought floats freely above our heads, simultaneously porous and vulnerable to the world around us.

And there are people who only wish to pop our bubbles and block their own thought processes with thistles and thorns, barricading new thoughts from entering their minds.

But they’re easy to find. And you can choose to either have your bubble popped or to keep on floating. Because more often than not, there’s someone else with new ideas bubbling in their minds, ready to expand. Debating isn’t meant to be hostile. It’s to help us better understand the world around us. It’s when we block our minds from new ideas that we incarcerate ourselves.

I’m not calling for a world full of wallflowers. I’m simply calling for us all to interact with each other as human beings, to converse with one another without any ulterior motives other than to better understand one another and to learn. Are there people in the world who have horrendous opinions?

Of course there are. But the best way to help others see your side of the story is to keep a cool head and talk to them in person. It won’t always work, but it’s a better solution than seeping down to the level of an Internet troll.

Emily Kuklinski is a junior English and theatre major. Follow her @TheFunnyEmily. Contact her at opinion@ DailyNebraskan.com

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Quotes of the week, Oct. 9-16 “At 5:22 p.m. last Wednesday, three faculty members in the English Department complained about several unwanted novels being slipped under their office doors in Andrews Hall. The novel, “Could You Please F*** My Wife?” is literary hodgepodge of erotica, the police report stated.”

“Rock fans like to pretend that their genre is invincible from this effect, but no one has forgotten Nickelback or Seether.”

Dillon Mitchell

Arts columnist, on generalizing hip-hop based on radio hits

Crime roundup, Oct. 7

“I’ve developed a rather intimate relationship with stress. It lives with me and doesn’t pay rent. It lingers near the death of my phone battery and in the ache of my stomach because I forgot to eat breakfast. Oops.”

“These are supposed to be the best years of our lives.

We’ll never be this pretty or healthy again. And they suck.”

Annie Stokely

Daniel Wheaton

Opinion Columnist, quoting a classmate

Online News Editor

“Something magical happens when you sit in a room full of people and have to watch an exercise video.”

Joe Pickett

Curator of the Lincoln Found Footage Festival

“Remember to play nicely with others. Because when you think about it, life is one big group project. Most of the time, it doesn’t totally suck.”

Amy Kenyon

Opinion Editor

“Oil is any liquid you drink or use as a currency.

Sand is the enemy. Technological sounds of the future are mixed with technological sounds from the past to make a demonstration even mutants can comprehend.”

“The game will be cooking like meat in a Crock-Pot: simmering and slow-cooking.”

Eric Bertrand

Sports editor, on the dangers of Nebraska’s bye week

Thirst Things First

On their band ethos pre-Lincoln Calling

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COLTON: FROM 16 tually are. At Sonoma State University last year, school officials asked a student to remove her cross necklace, as it might cause the other students to “feel unwelcome.” In California, five teenagers attending Live Oak High School were ordered to remove their American flag t-shirts on threat of suspension, as it was the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo and wearing American propaganda could “lead to fights on campus.” And a first grader in North Carolina wasn’t permitted to read aloud her poem honoring her grandfather in a Veteran’s Day ceremony, as the poem mentioned how he “prayed to God for peace” and “strength.” The school didn’t want to offend the non-religious.

Our nation has bought into the idea that silencing opinions or gestures that could make others uncomfortable is the best way to promote a tolerant, open environment. In reality, silencing offense doesn’t promote tolerance – it eliminates it.

Daryl Davis, an accomplished Black musician, is familiar with this truth and has found that speaking with your enemies, rather than silencing them, changes minds and lives. Davis never understood why people joined the Ku Klux Klan in hatred of people like him, so he simply went out to ask them.

“Robert White was a Grand Dragon who had gone to prison numerous times,” Davis said concerning one of his conversations with

a KKK member. “At first, he was very violent and hateful but we talked for a long time.

Over time, he began thinking about a lot of the things he had done and said that were wrong. He quit the clan. Toward the end he said he would follow me to hell and back… and he gave me his robe and his hood.”

More than 20 members of the KKK have left the order because of their conversations with him.

“Invite your enemy to talk – give them a platform to talk because then they will reciprocate,” Davis said. “Establish dialogue.

It’s when the talking stops that the ground becomes fertile for fighting.”

Suppressing a person’s potentially upsetting beliefs through fear – either through the threat of losing their job or reputation – does nothing but promote a culture of narrowminded ignorance. If we aren’t allowed to air out our beliefs with others and discuss why we believe them with those who disagree, we’re doomed to recycle the same old patterns of intolerance over and over again.

Only by embracing true tolerance – patience toward opinions and beliefs one finds disagreeable – through honest, open dialogue with each other can we finally create the culture of acceptance we’ve been fighting for.

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Hey there,

The Daily Nebraskan spent the last five years making a print-oriented newspaper for an audience that was decreasingly reliant on traditional print media with each passing year. Most of the freshmen in the class of 2018 were 11 years old when the iPhone was released. There’s a good chance that traditional newspapers never played a major role in their lives.

Last year, the university’s publications board launched a special committee with the goal of crafting a model for the DN that focused on digital content first and print second. After three months, the committee issued a recommendation to cut print issues from five days a week to two. The DN’s new focus would be on crafting a modern web-oriented newsroom.

I was the editor of the DailyER Nebraskan last year and served on the committee tasked with helping the DN readjust to the 21st century media landscape. With the DailyER, I found that our most successful content focused on being three things: timely, topical and local.

Timeliness is the key to being relevant on the Internet. It’s why news outlets kill themselves to try and be the first to report on a story. Your content can be great, but if you aren’t posting it online when people have an appetite for it, a great piece can go completely unnoticed.

Being topical matters, because writing about what people want to read about is just as important as sharing it when people want to see it.

Hyper local content is vital for helping the DN engage with readers on campus. The DN is UNL’s newspaper. We should know campus-related issues better than anyone in the state. Nobody reads a college newspaper to find out what is happening in Washington, D.C. or Hong Kong. People read it because they want to know what is happening at their college.

Before the semester started, I met with all of the section editors about crafting content with an online focus. I stressed the importance of being timely, topical and local; you want to know the crazy thing? This approach has worked so far.

Daily online readership is up 200 percent from last year. Our social media has been more widely shared, and our Klout score has gone up 18 points

(if you’re nerdy enough to know what Klout is).

We still haven’t solved all of our financial problems, but we no longer have to sit around and wonder why students aren’t picking up the print issue.

We know exactly how many people visit our website every day and what they’re reading when they get there.

Our readership is steadily increasing as we get further into the school year.

And we believe that the myth that millennials don’t read news is simply that: a myth.

Cheers, Alex Wunrow Engagement editor FRONT PAGE ART BY LYDIA COTTON

*The Daily Nebraskan received its first anonymous tip regarding the rape allegations in July and the second in September.

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That’s how long it took UNL officials to acknowledge that a rape investigation was occurring on campus. Five months after a rape was reported at the apartment of a former faculty member, details are scarce, and a pattern of silence persists.

In response to press push, few details emerge JACY MARMADUKE AND REECE RISTAU DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln revealed some details about rape allegations against a former faculty member in its interactions with the media this week.

In the university’s first confirmation that a former faculty member was accused of rape, UNL spokesman Steve Smith released a statement about 6 p.m. attesting officials “took timely and appropriate action” in response to the allegations. And in response to a Daily Nebraskan public records request, the university indicated that the young woman who reported the rape is a former, current or prospective student.

In the public statement, officials said they received the Title IX complaint on Monday but denied any wrongdoing.

“Our Title IX coordinator began investigating within two days of receiving notice of the incident,” the statement read. “The coordinator met with and took a statement from the alleged victim, who was also provided information about available options, including working with police. The university provided information to the alleged victim about rights under Title IX, about the university’s investigative procedures and about available services on campus and in the community.”

Next, officials “immediately barred the alleged offender from campus and instructed the individual to refrain from further contact with students.” Af-

ter interviewing all concerned parties “as quickly as possible,” the Title IX “coordinator found that the greater weight of the evidence showed the alleged offender had engaged in sexual misconduct in violation of university policy and recommended what further steps should be taken.”

The statement doesn’t say what further steps were taken, but it does point out that the accused is no longer employed at UNL. Also on Monday, officials denied the majority of the Daily Nebraskan public records request, which was meant to uncover information about the investigation.

The DN sent the request on Sept. 30, shortly after breaking the news that a young woman had reported being raped in May at the apartment of a former Glenn Korff School of Music faculty member. The newspaper requested: - Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and the former faculty member between the day the rape was reported and Sept. 23, when the faculty member was released from employment. This would include Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Vice Chancellor Juan Franco, Dean Charles O’Connor, Director John Richmond and all other administrators who may have had contact with the faculty member.

- Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and HixsonLied College of Fine and Performing Arts Dean Charles O’Connor between the aforementioned dates.

- Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and music school Director John Richmond between the aforementioned dates.

- Any electronic communication between University of Nebraska administrators and Arturo Perez, associate director of Equity, Access and Diversity Programs and interim Title IX coordinator, that specifically mentions the faculty member.

University Records Director Erin Busch provided the DN with about 20 pages of emails unrelated to the rape allegations but denied the remainder of the request.

Relevant records are being withheld for several reasons, Busch said: -They constitute personal information regarding personnel of the university that is not routine directory information. Nebraska Revised Statute 84-712.05(7) state that personal information in records regarding personnel of public bodies other than salaries and routine directory information may be withheld. The Bylaws of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska define “personal information” as “all records and documents pertaining to any person employed by the University, except salary and routine directory information.”

See Bylaw of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska 1.4.4.

- The records constitute personal information regarding a student, prospective student, or former

TITLE IX: SEE PAGE 11

Permanent investigator to be hired soon STAFF REPORT DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln doesn’t have a permanent Title IX investigator, but it will by Jan. 1, leaders say.

Arturo Pérez has been the interim Title IX coordinator since July, meaning he helps lead investigations into accusations of sexual assaults involving students.

Perez, director of the Office for Equity, Access and Diversity Programs, took the role prior to the retirement of UNL’s former Title IX coordinator, Linda Crump, on July 1. A search committee is accepting applications for the permanent coordinator position, which became available Sept. 5. The potential candidates will be released once the committee decides on finalists.

Pérez said he received the required training

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necessary to act as coordinator before filling the role, as he has been a UNL Title IX investigator for several years. He didn’t have to complete any additional training to take over the interim position.

“We’ve not been without a Title IX coordinator because when Linda (Crump) was here,” Pérez said. “I was her deputy, and we also have another person who’s a trained Title IX investigator, Dr. Christy Horn.”

Horn is now the deputy under Perez.

Perez said guidelines for training aren’t mandated.

“There’s not an approved curriculum for the Title IX investigator or Title IX coordinator training,” he said. “The training is put on people who are familiar with the law.”

Law enforcement officials and law experts in the private sector are examples of people who conduct the training, he said. Perez was trained by the

National Association of College and University Attorneys.

“They provide training that talks about the legal standards and requirements for universities and colleges under Title IX,” Perez said. “There’s still a requirement that you have ongoing training as a Title IX coordinator, and I currently am participating in some online coordinator training.”

Perez said universities must continually update training practices whenever new information is available or laws are passed. For example, in March 2013, the Campus Save Act passed, furthering requirements for institutions of higher education to “educate students, faculty and staff on the prevention of rape, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.” Clery Act updates also mean training requirement up-

PEREZ: SEE PAGE 11

UNIVERSITY STATEMENT, OCT. 6 : “On Monday, Oct. 6, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln received a letter from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights informing us of a Title IX complaint. The OCR does not name the complainant in its letter; however, they obtained the complainant’s permission to reveal the complainant’s identity to the university so that it may have a fair opportunity to respond.

“In the matter that has resulted in this complaint, UNL took timely and appropriate action. Our Title IX coordinator began investigating within two days of receiving notice of the incident. The coordinator met with and took a statement from the alleged victim, who was also provided information about available options, including working with police. The university provided information to the alleged victim about rights under Title IX, about the university’s investigative procedures and about available services on campus and in the community.

“The university immediately barred the alleged offender from campus and instructed the individual to refrain from further contact with students. All parties in the matter were contacted and interviewed as quickly as possible given their schedules. The Title IX coordinator regularly informed the parties of the investigation’s status. When it was completed, the coordinator found that the greater weight of the evidence showed the alleged offender had engaged in sexual misconduct in violation of university policy and recommended what further steps should be taken. All parties were notified of the investigation’s outcome. The alleged offender is no longer at the university.

“The safety of students was never compromised at any time during this investigation. The safety of the alleged victim, of students and other members of the university community was of the highest priority throughout the entire process.”

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Sophomore Nick Knopik channels his comedic rap persona Zip Lock profile by Chris Bowling | review by Catherine Brackett

PROFILE

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Nick Knopik, a sophomore biology major and music minor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, had just finished his last final of the 2013-14 school year. He went back to his dorm room, sat in his chair and asked himself, “What am I going to do now?”

Knopik’s not the kind of guy who likes to have free time on his hands. So once he started examining a whole summer without a project to work on, he started thinking about a conversation he and his roommate had.

The two had thought up the idea of creating a rap album with Knopik ironically donning the persona of a ridiculous, absurd and clever emcee. But still, the album had to be high enough in quality that it sounded like someone was making an earnest attempt at a career.

So after that last final, and the question of “What now?,” Knopik downloaded the recording software FL Studio, bought a microphone and started learning how to piece together an album.

And thus Zip Lock, the guy who “wraps it up and keeps it fresh,” came to life.

“It’s interesting because Zip Lock is more of a character that I put on than me,” Knopik said. “So much of the music on this album sounds like stereotypical rap, very bumping with driving beats and even a little hardcore, then you listen to the lyrics and realize it’s totally ridiculous and honestly pretty lame.”

The album, which is titled “In Over My Head” and features a picture of Knopik as Zip Lock smoking a large cigar, is the product of Knopik’s summer. He spent three months working on seven tracks, sank $500 to $600 dollars into the project and spent a fair amount of late nights on YouTube learning how to use FL Studio.

“I had no clue how to use it at all so I opened it up and messed around with it thinking, ‘It can’t be that hard,’ and then quickly found out I didn’t know how to do anything,” Knopik said. “So it took me a good two to three weeks before I could even attempt to make a beat.”

After he put together the album, he went back to his character and thought, “What would Zip Lock do next?” And like most rappers who put together a mixtape or album, they want to get signed. So through the friend of a friend of a friend, Knopik found someone on campus who runs a label that signs electronic artists.

“More than anything I thought it would be funny to see this thing that was already a joke land on some kind of record label,” Knopik

said. “I didn’t think anything would come of it, but I got contacted by him and it’s been really fun working with him.”

The label, Hit Children Records, is run at the university by Chelsea Lemburg, a secondary education major at UNL, and Spencer Montoya, a Spanish and English double major at UNL. Hit Children Records, which also features Irish techno genius Myler and local rap group KaMaKAUZZY & Y.E.L.L.O.W., knew they wanted to work with Zip Lock from the moment they heard him.

“Any artist we put on Hit Children Records is an artist that we believe in,” said Montoya.

“People would definitely pay to see someone like Zip Lock, but money is never our motivator. We just want to support people making weird noises we like.”

So now that Zip Lock is starting to make a splash of sorts, it’s only natural that he has his first North American tour. And, to Knopik’s surprise, that’s exactly what’s starting and ending on Oct. 10 at Roca Berry Farm where Zip Lock was approached to play a set at the pumpkin patch.

“I have no idea what’s going to happen,” Knopik said. “It’s going to be at a pumpkin patch, so there’ll be people dressed up as zombies and what not, then the actors who work at Roca Berry will be interacting with people in the lines while I’m doing my thing.”

Knopik knows this might be the height of the Zip Lock era. As he put it, he didn’t think it would go anywhere but figured that it would be a fun project to work on. Now he’s got the label, the show, the album and the Twitter and Facebook accounts, and it’s all coming as a shock to him.

“The fact that someone wants me to perform live or that I’m on a record label just blows my mind because that was never in the plan,” Knopik said. “It’s kind of blown away my expectations because they were so low to begin with that even this small amount of success has been unbelievable.”

As for what the future of Zip Lock holds, Knopik isn’t sure. He doesn’t think there’s a market for his music, but he said that if he had the opportunity to work on another album he would absolutely go for it.

“This has been super fun and everyone who gets a taste of it, that I know of, seems to like it and I think that’s because it’s different, not because it’s great,” Knopik said.

“The quality of this is not professional, but if I ever got the opportunity to take it there, or at least close, I would without a doubt do it because it’s a blast.”

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REVIEW

N

ick Knopik opens each song with his signature line, “Yo, it’s your boy Zip Lock!”

Knopik, a.k.a. Zip Lock, is an up-and-coming comedic rap artist. “In Over My Head,” the debut EP, features a parody rap style, similar to artists such as Weird Al, George Watsky and Bo Burnham.

Each song is cleverly written with (almost) family-friendly puns. He references artists, such as Jason Derulo, Watsky and 2 Chainz.

His style is a refreshing game changer from things that other comedic musicians have done in the past. He keeps it family friendly in a quirky way, while still throwing unexpected twists.

The genre of rap throughout the EP is very diverse. Each song gives you a different taste of Electronica, EDM, alternative, or hip-hop with a nice build-up. He brings in a lot of musical elements, such as a synthesized

trombone, xylophone and chorus vocals. His lyrics seem to be very relatable to the average college student with a real world perspective.

His tone of voice also complements his goofy sense of humor and cleverly written lyrics. When you think things are going to take a turn for the worst, he surprises you with lyrical charm.

Although, most of the tracks on this EP are light-hearted and goofy, the last song, “Manly Tears,” portrays more depth and creativity. He incorporates a somber vibe in the melody. In this song, his lyrics are more raw and based more so on his personality than his quirkiness.

We’re very lucky to have him on the UNL campus and for only $3, “In Over My Head” is totally worth it. If you’re feeling adventurous, give it a listen, but be prepared to expect the unexpected with Zip Lock.

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Tale of war, disease hits UNL’s stage DIRECTING

Director Ian Borden uses two words to describe his vision for “Unity (1918)”: simple and personal.

Borden, an assistant professor at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, said he has directed more productions than he can count, but “Unity (1918)” stands out to him because of the production’s themes regarding social implications and the value of a community.

“Unity (1918)” focuses on the small town of Saskatchewan, Canada, after the townspeople are forced to rally together when the Spanish flu breaks out right before the end of World War I. As more and more members of the Unity community become ill, the town is forced to come together in order to overcome the obstacles presented to them by the war and flu epidemic.

Borden is from the Canadian coast close to where “Unity (1918)” is set and moved to Nebraska a few years ago for his career and education. Borden said this play resonates with him more since he moved to Nebraska than it did when he was living in Canada. The strong sense of community and the willingness to reach out to one’s neighbors Borden found in Nebraska is similar to bonds and relationships the citizens of Unity must form to get through the conflicts they face in the play.

“People that are from this region will recognize themselves in the families they see in this play,” Borden said.

In addition to being from the area where the production is set, Borden also has personal ties to the historical setting of “Unity (1918).”

Borden had two uncles that fought in World War I. The first of Borden’s uncles, Bill, volunteered and left to serve in World War I when he was 15 years old. Another one of Borden’s uncles, Norman, was blinded by mustard gas while in combat in the same manner as one of the production’s main characters.

These personal ties make this production more valuable to Borden. He said he hopes to make the production’s themes regarding the value of community apparent and impactful through his directing. He has been pushing the actors on stage to make the character ’s motives, emotions and actions resonate with the audience and make a lasting impression.

“I hope the people who come out will be surprised by how much they see of themselves in the characters,” Borden said.

LIGHTING

“Unity (1918)” features different lighting than the typical UNL production. A variety of spotlights shine down upon the stage and back wall as the play unfolds.

In order to create more visual displays to attract the eyes and continue the story, patterned stencils cover some of the lights above the stage and the lighting enhances the different fabrics and textures.

“It adds light texture onto the wheat,” said senior set designer and theater graduate student Victoria Halverson. “So a pattern will appear on the wall and make it look a little bit different. This just gives them a different dimension.”

SET DESIGN

Stage manager Henry O’Neal, a junior directing management major, broke down the meaning behind important set pieces that will be used in the production. On a 25 by 30-foot stretch, three separate platforms identify different locations – a telegraph operator ’s room, the mortuary and the Wilde sisters’ house.

This house also doubles up as another character ’s house, but it is set primarily as the home of the Wilde sisters.

A grave and trapdoor are an important part of the set. The trapdoor is transformed into a grave when a baby is buried in the second act. The coffin, aside from its natural use, transcends into a dream state with Beatrice Wilde.

Halverson said, “Beatrice is talking to Glen, who is a boy she has a crush on, who is over in the war. At one point, the coffin begins to light up, and his voice is emanating from inside the coffin, asking Beatrice to come be with him. Beatrice’s sister Sissy then pops up from the two-person coffin, causing Beatrice to think that her sister is blocking her from what she wants.” Unity (1918) poses some different makings that Halverson was able to try out her new skills on.

“I learned some stuff over the summer at a summer stock festival,” Halverson said.

“After finding that I’d be working in a small LINDSEY YONEDA | DN space and thought, ‘Let’s whip some of this stuff out!’’It was fun to incorporate what I Tony Thomas and Kirstie Smith, both senior Theatre majors, rehearse a scene for the had learned over the summer and along with play “Unity (1819)” in the Temple Building last Friday. Thomas and Smith portray the some different ideas.”

characters Beatrice Wilde and Hart in the upcoming play.

COSTUME DESIGN

Based off the 1918 diary entries of Beatrice Wilde, each costume is a product of that era.

What makes these costumes unique is that, as with all other student-led productions, the costumes are all made by UNL students.

“For the period costumes, a lot of what 1918 was because of being in a small farming town during World War I, the clothing was fairly different,” said Megan Cudd, a junior costume design major. “The men had good trouser pants with an un-collared shirt, and the women didn’t have a lot of trim or frills on them. The women mostly wore shirts and blouses.”

The costume department, aside from handstitching and putting together the costumes for the cast, is also in charge of the cast’s wigs. For the period costumes, the actors need to long hair, while today in 2014, “women don’t need to do that,” Cudd said. All of the women also have to wear heels, and the men, nice lace-up boots.

Cudd’s favorite outfit is a pair of coveralls that will be worn by the character Sunna. The original pattern was a men’s size 44 pattern. Taking in the overall costume on a smaller woman may surprise people.

“I will be distressing the overalls with some paint tomorrow,” Cudd said. “That’ll be pretty fun.”

O’Neal’s favorite costume is that of a Canadian soldier. Although the costume is actually that of a British soldier, the costume department has made modifications for the uniforms of the field officer and lieutenant.

Even with such an intricate costume that asks for specifics on length, style and color, the costume department performed well on replicating and adjusting fits for each individual actor.

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the date at the beginning of her entries so ACTING sometimes I’m thinking, ‘Wait, what day is “Unity (1918)” centers around a female and a male lead, Beatrice Wilde and Tony it?’”

Even though she has to memorize long Harte. Wilde and Harte are played by senior theater majors Kirstie Smith and Tony journal entries, Smith said she has enjoyed connecting to Wilde’s character. She said she Thomas. Wilde is forced to put the needs of admires the responsibility and strength Wilher family and community before her own in de possesses as a female protagonist and has order to help keep Unity together during the epidemic and war. Harte comes back to Unity enjoyed getting to feel and experience those emotions. from serving in World “Beatrice is doing the War I, having been Even though the best she can with what blinded by mustard gas, she’s been given, and she to find that his whole play is set almost tries to take care of her family has been killed by family and fellow townsthe epidemic. Harte then 100 years ago, it’s still people the best way that struggles to make a new very accessible to today’s she knows how,” Smith life for himself. said. “I think the comThe cast first audi- audience.” passion towards other tioned for the produchuman beings that Beation in late August, and KIRSTIE SMITH trice expresses is somethe first rehearsals startSENIOR THEATER MAJOR thing we can all relate ed on Sept. 2. Since then, to.” they’ve been rehearsing Smith said she thinks four hours a day, five days a week in order to the audience will not only relate to Wilde, but get into character. the rest of the production’s cast as well.

Much of “Unity (1918)” is told through “‘Unity’ is about the relationships beWilde’s thoughts and perspective in the form tween characters within the town – the light, of journal entries, which are delivered as monologues. Smith said she has been devot- the dark, and everything in between – and ing extra time outside of rehearsals in order the coming together or drifting apart of to make sure she has all of Wilde’s journal en- people during a crisis,” Smith said. “Even though the play is set almost 100 years ago, tries memorized before the show opens. it’s still very accessible to today’s audience. I “It’s been a bit difficult at times memorizing some of (Wilde’s) entries that are para- think the show conveys a sense of closeness and community even in the most difficult of graphs long,” Smith said. “She always has

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Artist finds success selling art on streets Artist Jarrett Palmore, known as ‘3 Feet,’ gains attention in downtown lincoln for his cosmic spray paint posters JACK FOREY DN “See that? That’s a fractal,” said a very intrigued drunk, checking out the colorful posters at 3 Feet’s stand in front of the Bourbon Theatre. “It’s a spiral pattern based on Fibonacci numbers, which are based on the Golden Mean.”

It’s a typical night for Jarrett Palmore, who carries his table and paints downtown several times a week, showing and selling his art to the people who walk by. Most days, he will spend several hours painting posters on the spot, finishing most of them in 30 minutes. His favorite subjects involve nature scenes, space and fantasy. He does everything with spray paint and a scalpel.

To most people, Palmore is “3 Feet,” a nickname given to him as a track star in high school. He calls himself a “martial mental artist,” someone who creates art and music through mundane objects and everyday means. Besides his cosmic spray paint posters, 3 Feet also dabbles in music, poetry and comedy. He cites Rudy Ray Moore and Richard Pryor as his comedy influences, and Bob Ross and Salvador Dali as his painting influences.

3 Feet is self-employed. He supports himself entirely by selling his art, which usually goes for $25 a poster.

“I’m not homeless,” he said. “I like being on the street and feeling the energy from people. I love meeting and seeing other artists, and painting on the street… it’s a good way to meet new people.”

3 Feet started his painting career in his native Alabama after discovering cosmic spray paint art on YouTube.

Immediately, he fell in love with it, he said. With one foot already in music and poetry he put the other two in painting. One day, he said, God told him to give everything up and live on the street, making art. He said he hasn’t suffered and has made efforts to help people, even helping to start two nonprofit organizations: Real Life Poets and Life For All. He has even had some poetry published with the Library of Congress.

In the four years 3 Feet has been doing street art, he has traveled to many cities selling work, including New Orleans, Atlanta and now Lincoln, where he has resided for a year and a half. He did his first artwork in Lincoln on his second day, when his neighbor asked him to paint a mural on his garage. 3 Feet painted a cityscape of Lincoln, complete with the Capitol.

“Then I went to O Street, and I liked how it looked down there and set up shop,” he said.

Recently, 3 Feet has begun marketing his brand and has been attracting more attention.

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Jarrett Palmore is a local graffiti artist who goes by the name 3 Feet. Palmore has been drawing and painting with acrylic for over 20 years. He is best known for his spray paintings on posters, cars and other surfaces.

He was featured in a segment on channel 10 and PBS, and has a Facebook page called “3 Feet Creations,” a venue for his project where he offers artworks not available on the street.

He’s also trying to organize a poetry set at Duggan’s Pub in the near future. Besides his signature spray paint posters, he offers glass painting, vehicles, skateboards, vases and even toilet seats; his own toilet seat is decked out in sharply rendered pyramids and planets.

He goes downtown mainly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and usually sets up somewhere on O Street, often near the Bourbon Theatre or Walgreen’s during the day. He greets all passers-by with a smile and a readiness to engage in discussion of all types. People will often find him in a frenzy of painting in the middle of a loud, crowded late night bar scene.

“I do it for the love,” he said. “Art stands alone… it’s not about the artist. It’s supposed to leave you with something instead of just being a pretty picture. If you’re an artist, it’s your job to uplift and bring positivity to people.”

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3 Feet Creations was created when artist Jarrett Palmore and neighbor, Robert Finney decided to become business partners last March. The two started working together after Finney asked Palmore to paint his car. ›

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UNL DJ Club revives dying organization Aspiring DJs find community among new, veteran performers to learn, practice, network CHRIS BOWLING DN Four years ago, Björn Barrefors was looking for a club.

As someone who’d been interested in DJing since he was a kid, Barrefors, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer science graduate student, was curious if there was a group for people like him on campus after a friend from back in Sweden told him about how his university had one. So he searched the web and came up with an email for the president of a club called Discotheque.

He sent an email asking for more information and the president emailed him back.

“How did you even find this email?”

Three years ago, Joe Shea, a senior technical theater and design major, and Peter Helstrom, a fifth-year computer science major, were members of Discotheque, a club that was basically a disorganized group of people interested in DJing, lighting and/or sound with a name that neither Shea or Helstrom remembers the meaning.

Discotheque was close to failing because of poor attendance, its inability to service members outside of a close circle of friends and a lack of anyone wanting to run the club.

That’s when Shea and Helstrom decided to take charge.

“We just kind of pulled the club out of the ground,” Shea said. “When Peter and I came here three years ago we saw that it was a thing, but no one ever did anything with it so we contacted them and worked our way up to being president and treasurer.”

The two changed the name to UNL DJ Club, started getting involved in the RSO fair and changed the atmosphere of the club to be about creating a fun but productive environment for the members. Barrefors was one of the first to notice the change in the club’s atmosphere.

“It used to be a group of friends basically that just hung out,” Barrefors said. “When I joined, they were all DJs already so no one was coming to them to join. Joe and Peter have spent a lot of time promoting, getting events and doing RSO stuff.”

In its first year as the UNL DJ Club, Shea and Helstrom brought in guest speakers and professional DJs to teach members in a lecture hall-type of environment. But people didn’t respond well to that and by the start of spring semester, the club was back to where it started with only a handful of dedicated members. So this year they’ve completely changed the model again.

“It’s more interactive,” Shea said. “People actually come up and we let them do whatever they want. They can bring their own flash drives to plug in. It’s more of a collaboration style rather than a lecture hall.”

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Lucas Dunwoody, the primary programmer for DJ club, sets up his equipment. The DJ club meets on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in 107 Architecture Hall.

“People actually come up and we let them do whatever they want. They can bring their own flash drives to plug in. It’s more of a collaboration style rather than a lecture hall.”

JOE SHEA SENIOR TECHNICAL THEATER AND DESIGN MAJOR

The big idea the club wants to promote this year is its social and fun atmosphere.

They want to make the club more diverse and have every meeting feel like a party, so now more than ever, they’re accepting anyone who’s interested.

And even if people aren’t interested in learning how to DJ, if they have an interest in music and the party atmosphere, there’s a place for them in UNL DJ Club. That’s just another aspect of the kind of expansion the club is continuing to implement.

“We want to be known as the partying

club of the university,” Barrefors said. “If we can start making a little money from our events, we can buy our own speakers and equipment for the club so that it’s here and we can do more gigs.”

Events and performances are another thing that the club is revamping. Helstrom said when he started out in the club he would practice all the time but couldn’t book gigs because he didn’t have connections. That’s something everyone wants new members to have access to right away.

“We don’t just give people huge gigs

where the pressures always on,” Shea said.

“We have smaller gigs where they can just get up in front of people and actually do it instead of just practicing in the room.”

Three years ago, the club was essentially a group of people hanging out and messing around with DJ equipment. The meetings were disorganized and only serviced a circle of friends who already knew what they were doing.

Today the club has 261 likes on its Facebook page and averages 20-30 people at every meeting. It’s expanding to be more involved on campus, bring in a more diverse member population and redefine the face of the organization. But above all what the UNL DJ club wants is to get its name out there and get people involved.

“Mostly we want people to have a good time,” Shea said. “People that are already DJs come for the networks and to have a good time, but a lot of the new people are beginners that are just starting out. So our goal is for them to have fun and if they like it, they stay.”

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DJ wants people to remember the night, not him KEKELI DAWES DN Imagine the idyllic, late spring high school pool house party reaching its fever pitch at dusk. The crowd of 400 is buzzing (on life, of course), your friends are all there, and you’re dancing so hard, you don’t even realize it’s been two hours already. The party is so insane, the most attractive girls are shedding their already skimpy bikinis poolside and jumping in.

No one remembers the DJ at a party like that. But none of that would have happened if the DJ was total crap.

That party was real, and even Seth Korte, a sophomore broadcasting major and music tech minor, doesn’t remember much of it. He just remembered he was on that night. Apparently, that’s a grand understatement. He heard later a couple was spotted having sex on the hood of someone’s car.

You know that DJ who completely ruined your junior year homecoming dance? Who always seemed to play the worst song possible?

Seth Korte is not that guy. He’s the DJ who you don’t remember because he was that good. He wants you remembering the perfect night.

“I want them to go home remembering ‘this TYLER MEYER | DN dance was awesome,’” Korte said. “I want them to remember they had a good time. I don’t want Seth Korte, a second year transfer student studying broadcast journalism with a minor in music technology, primarily DJs high school dances. He aspires to start his own them to remember I was a good DJ.” In some dorm rooms, students loft their business and expand his clientele during his time at UNL. beds to make room for a lumpy futon or frumpy bean bag chair. But in Sandoz 203, Seth Korte has rigged to his laptop a turntable controller “Within the first week of buying my equipment, that she said. and mixer and two massive black speakers that “This is one of the biggest problems of being I had about two gigs that I did, and from those when stacked, barely fit beneath his bed. two gigs, that’s how I’ve been able to get con- a DJ,” Korte said. “You may know what you like, Seth Korte is a Top 40 DJ who has several nections with other people and other schools,” but you don’t know what the crowd is going to high school dances, weddings and parties unlike. So it’s a more ‘feel it out’ kind of thing.” he said. der his belt. He’s been doing this since his senior There are some remixes of popular Top 40 The following summer, he saved up to buy year of high school but Korte’s interest in music the two massive speakers stacked under his songs Korte really likes, but he knows that some started as far back as he remembers. just wouldn’t play out well on the dance floor. raised bunk in Sandoz.

“I grew up in a family that’s got a musical “It sounds good to you when you sit down lisIt’s apparent Korte has standards. He’s critibackground, so I’ve always been influenced by tening to it, but if you think about, ‘If I heard this cal of his quality and skill even as a beginner. music because it’s been around me all the time,” But his skills improved and still grow. What on the dance floor, is this something that’s danceKorte said. able?’” hasn’t changed is his attitude to pleasing his He started playing Korte keeps his ears and eyes open to how the client; his commitment to piano at a young age, and crowd responds to particular songs. Even though making a great party. this sparked in his interI want them to he goes to great lengths to pick just the right songs, Wesley Ball, a seest for music creation. sometimes the crowd simply isn’t feeling it. But nior at Raymond Central remember they had Once the digital tools beHigh School, can attest to Korte doesn’t panic - he has DJ crowd control came available to him, he a good time. I don’t want that. She’s worked with down to a science. And, yes, line dance songs such started dabbling in digital as “The Wobble” are a big part of that science.

Korte four times already them to remember I was a music.

“You kind of feel... if you see people start and is planning to work “I went to a private good DJ.” to leave, that’s when you should throw a song with him again to DJ the Christian school (Lincoln like that,” Korte said. “Sometimes you just gotta school’s upcoming prom.

Christian), and we didn’t take chances and just play (a song you really “He’s very good to SETH KORTE have school dances or anywork with, and he’s re- like). If people start to leave, you can always cut SOPHOMORE BROADCASTING MAJOR thing, so I saw a market it out early,” he said. ally motivated,” Ball said. open up for me to DJ and To be safe, before he heads out to a gig, he “He’ll ask you what you host dances for a school makes sure he has the top 20 selling songs from want and really personalthat was separate from school functions,” Korte izes your experience.” iTunes in his library. He’s a Top 40 DJ, after all, said. and he needs to keep his bases covered.

Ball doesn’t agree with the idea that you Korte saw it as the perfect way to fuse his Korte keeps a cool composure and often only notice a bad DJ. When Korte is at the decks, love for music with his love for people. looks thoroughly relaxed in his gym shorts, flip she said it’s very clear that Korte is good at what Even Korte said becoming a DJ isn’t a difflops and university T-shirt. He takes that with he does. ficult process. As a freshman, he started right him to his parties, behind the booth, but he does “I actually notice,” Ball said. ”He takes a lot away with what he had, cuing songs on iTunes have a secret: no matter how much he prepares of time to put in work for his playlist.” on a desktop computer. Korte thought he wasn’t What set Korte apart from other run of the (he runs entire mixes 30 minutes each day for a very good at it, now that he knows how to mix mill DJs was how invested Korte was in the week before a gig), much of what Korte does at and filter songs properly with three years under details of the party. He asked her specific ques- the show is on the go. his belt, but he apparently was good enough to “For the most part, my gigs are flying by the tions about what she wanted to hear and what start investing hard cash in his craft. seat of my pants,” Korte said. “Kind of.” she didn’t. Ball was just as much of a part of the “Things picked up pretty fast,” Korte said.

A part of that is the fact that Korte is thinking playlist making process, and she appreciated

several songs ahead in the mix, while taking into account the often unpredictable dynamics of a party that are party out of his control. Korte said the average DJ thinks song to song, but Korte thinks multiple songs deep. It’s a challenge he loves - the right mixing can enhance a mundane track. The order of the songs played is almost as important as the song itself, if not more.

I asked Korte if there are some songs that are just difficult to beatmatch (transitioning songs) or insert into a mix. Right away he started playing “The Wop.” Because of it’s cut time and double time alternating feels, it makes for an uncomfortable fade or filter-in. He sometimes starts this track off cold, simply because it’s so popular.

“The hardest part is getting your mix down and making sure everything sounds the way you want it to,” Korte said.

Beatmatching was a skill Korte had to work at to master. Moving from starting and stopping songs on iTunes to using professional DJing software, Serato and a turntable controller wasn’t the easiest transition. But he said his “natural ear” helps. He can pick out any melody and beat it out on the keys. He can match a beat in his ear just as easily. Once he had his hands on software that did much of it automatically, he could make flawless mixes.

Korte went into depth about pacing, and about how he sorts tracks by BPM, how many in a row he plays at a high tempo or low, and when to start different BPM sequences of songs.

“For the most part I’ll start my mix with something upbeat, something I know people are going to know. That’ll get them on the dance floor, and I’ll keep going with five or six songs around that same BPM, then I’ll throw in a slow song. Then that gives me a chance to change my BPM a little bit.”

The tempo of song he plays sometimes changes with the type of event he’s covering.

“For high school dances, I don’t necessarily play a lot of slow songs, but a lot of people are wanting to have the fast songs,” Korte said. “The last one I did a couple weeks ago - I only played three slow songs, and I DJ’d for about two and a half hours.”

It took a ton of prodding to get Korte to toot his own horn, but he admitted that from time to time, he lines up the perfect sequencing of tracks; he doesn’t think anyone notices. He never imagines that there’s a DJ in the crowd he’s playing for who just loses it after he kills a five song combo.

But Ball notices. In fact, Korte gives her sample song mixings and sequences before the party to get a client’s opinion on them.

“He’ll show me previews before and stuff, and he’s excited about it,” Ball said.

To Korte, it’s a part of the job description. It’s expected. Korte is always on time, and he often stays after dances to help staff and students tear down and clean up. He helps set up Facebook pages for parties. He’s committed to his clients.

“The reason why I love to DJ is I know how much I like having a good time, and I love being able to provide that for other people too. You kind of get that moment of, satisfaction when you see everybody out there having a good time, and you know that you’re the one making it happen.”

If anyone had part in a dance that left thongs and bras strewn across the bottom of a suburban pool, they’d probably get a great sense of satisfaction too.

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Cozy restaurant offers eclectic menu options CAIT THIESFELD DN I was in the mood for something different a few days ago.

Class had just ended and I, in need of caffeine, was looking forward to a hot coffee. At the same time, I was craving a homemade dish that reminded me of an Irish pub back home in Kansas City. For the last four years, I wasn’t aware that such a place existed until I found out about Toast.

Toast is definitely making its mark as one of the best restaurants in Lincoln. There are many things that single this restaurant out as one of a kind.

The customers are a diverse group.

College students come in for the coffee and ice cream. Toast is one of few restaurants that serve local favorites: The Mill’s coffee and East Campus Dairy Store’s ice cream.

Couples and families enjoy the food. With a variety of flavor on each platter, customers enjoy the mason jar beverages, lunch specials and weekend breakfast options.

For those more apt for liquor and other alcoholic beverages, the bartenders serve up a variety of wine, spirits and beer.

Toast is also a place of culture. Throughout the restaurant, including the restrooms, you may notice some familiar lighting, woodwork and large wine cabinet. These and a few other

items were reclaimed from Whittier Middle School, Omaha’s Burlington Train Station and Mister C’s Steak House.

Aside from the local treats, the beautiful bar and eating area, the food itself is amazing. As with the coffee, the variety of options will appeal to all crowds.

After gazing through a menu of delicioussounding eats, I decided to go with a spiced cider, hashpuppies and a cottage pie with brussel sprouts. Although I waited a short while for the cider, the hot beverage was well worth the extra minutes. I’d never tried hashpuppies before, but they’re definitely becoming a favorite.

The crispy outside along with the creamy potato mix on the inside blessed my taste buds with an array of flavor. The cottage pie with brussel sprouts stood out to me, so I gave it a try.

My mind was blown by the hot stew of vegetables and braised pork loin, topped with warm and chunky mashed potatoes residing next to one of my all-time favorite vegetable dishes, crunchy sprouts with bacon.

The meal was amazing, but I’m ready for a weekend breakfast visit. I’m currently imagining a slice of french toast stuffed with cream cheese and raspberries, topped with bourbon maple syrup and vanilla-infused whipped cream.

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TITLE IX: FROM 4 student of an educational institution. Nebraska Revised Statute 84-712.05(1) state that such records may be withheld. “Redaction of the records will not prevent the remainder of the record from revealing personally identifiable information and it will still be possible to identify the students,” Busch wrote.

- The records are developed by a public body charged with duties of investigation of examination of persons and institutions and the records constitute a part of the examination or investigation. Nebraska Revised Statute 84-712.05(5) states such records may be withheld.

- The records are protected from disclosure by attorney-client privilege.

HOW TITLE IX INVESTIGATIONS CAN IMPACT UNIVERSITIES

UNL could lose federal funding if the Office of Civil Rights determines it violated Title IX. A member of national survivor advocacy group End Rape On Campus provided background information on the way Title IX investigations proceed. Federal funding made up 18 percent of the University of Nebraska system budget in 2009-2010, so revocation of federal funding could be severely detrimental to the university. But if UNL enters a plea bargain, the source said, funding will likely not be revoked. Instead, investigators will make recommendations on how UNL should fix policies and what steps need to be taken. The only way fines can be issued is if a Clery Act complaint was also filed.

The initial steps of the investigation de-

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Toast is a coffee shop, deli and bar in a North Lincoln community called Fallbrook. It’ss based out of the hospitality company Red Herring Concepts.

PEREZ: FROM 4 pend on the type of complaint made and what the investigation reveals. Officials from the Department of Education will come to campus to interview students, administrators and anyone involved. If the complaint was made anonymously, students with information could identify themselves. Investigators would only make contact with the alleged survivor if the student chooses to come forward. The timeline after the initial investigation could range from one week to six months or even longer.

In similar cases, no complaint was filed.

Instead, investigators from the Title IX office, which is housed in the Office for Civil Rights, make inquiries based on media coverage. It’s not known how UNL came to be under investigation.

From there, investigators examine the sexual assault policies in place but also look at practices being used, the source said. It’s not just about what’s on paper, but also about what’s being implemented and what resources are available to students.

UNL joins a list of 79 other colleges and universities being investigated for possible violations of federal law about handling sexual assault complaints. Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Penn State University, Florida State University and Harvard College are all on the list as of May 1.

The University of Connecticut paid $1.3 million in fines in July to settle a lawsuit after five women alleged the school did not handle their cases properly.

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dates.

Perez will remain interim director indefinitely until the committee hires a new permanent director. Perez didn’t wish to disclose if he applied but said he doesn’t have inside access to the pool of applicants nor the committee members.

The position is posted on UNL’s employment opportunities page as the “Director for Institutional Equity and Compliance.”

Duties listed include “providing leadership, direction and oversight for many of the federal and state regulatory mandates of the campus and generates the campus affirmative action plans for women, minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities.” The director serves as the chief civil rights officer and the Title IX officer for UNL, according to the job description.

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Lincoln Calling

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Heidi Ore performs with Domestica at Duffy’s Tavern Wednesday night as part of the annual Lincoln Calling festival. Domestica’s frontwoman and frontman, Jon Taylor, are on a more than 20 year streak performing together.

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Comedian Grant Parsons performs to a crowd during Vega’s comedy showcase for Lincoln Calling on Wednesday, Oct. 8 in the Railyard. Parsons has opened for Doug Benson and Sean Patton.

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Ashley Trenhaile performs with The Baberaham Lincoln’s at the Bourbon Theatre Wednesday night as part of the annual Lincoln Calling festival.

The Baberaham Lincoln’s, a sideproject of local pop act LIFE Is Cool, played as part of the X-rated: Women in Music Showcase.

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Sol Seed performs at the Zoo Bar during Lincoln Calling on Wednesday. Sol Seed, hailing from Eugene, Oregon, was awarded “Eugene’s Best Band” award two years in a row by “Eugene Weekly.”

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Churls performs at the Bourbon Theatre Wednesday night as part of the annual Lincoln Calling festival.

Churls was the first band to play as part of the X-rated: Women in Music Showcase, easing into things with an acoustic set.

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Even skeptics can enjoy Lincoln Ghost Tours CASSIE KERNICK DN “Imagine yourself a new mom, you’ve just put your infant to bed, set her rattle on top of the dresser and gone to your room to sleep, when all of the sudden you hear the rattle shaking.

You go into the room to see the rattle is on top of the desk where you left it and your infant is quietly sleeping. This is just the beginning.”

Scott Colborn, leader of the Ghosts of Lincoln Bus Tours, implores the 45 attendees to imagine themselves in this situation as we pull up to our first stop. I think we were all expecting to feel some presence, but really we were just parked in front of a home as Colborn told the story of spirits once present there.

Maybe I was just too much of a skeptic.

From the moment we stepped on the bus, it was clear that my friend Rachel and I were out of place. We were 10 minutes early but the last ones to board. People who go on haunted bus tours are very serious about the practice and show up at least 15 minutes early.

From the beginning, it was clear that the ghost tour wasn’t going to live up to the glamorized American Horror Story version of ghost stories.

“There is the real paranormal and then there is Hollywood,” Colborn said.

And on this bus tour, we discussed the real paranormal. The real stories of Lincoln natives who had seen ghosts, interacted with apparitions or had a premonition about the future.

And while it was incredibly informative, it was not at all spooky.

This lack of fear was in line with the fact that Colborn believes most ghosts maintain the same demeanor they possessed in life, even in the afterlife. In his experience, he has found that ghosts generally are confused and may

just need direction and help. Colborn encouraged riders to think of ghosts as someone injured on the street and take the time to stop and help them.

From suicides at the State Penitentiary to UFO sightings outside of town, no topic was too outlandish to be discussed.

And for all of those only reading this to find out if the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is haunted, it most definitely is.

“If you were a ghost, where would you like to spend your time?” He used this logic to identify Memorial Stadium as the most likely place to have paranormal energy in Lincoln because of all the individuals who have been there and the emotional experiences that occur while at a game. Also, Colborn said, there have been paranormal sighting in Neihardt Hall, Pound Hall and the Temple Building.

Don’t be too worried, Huskers, Nebraska Wesleyan is just as haunted. Colborn told the story of a music teacher who passed away in her office on campus. Years later, everything seemed to freeze, and a new professor inhabiting the office was said to have looked out the window, not to see the usual buildings, but vast prairie land, almost as if she had taken a time machine. She turned around to see a woman with a tight bun standing in her office. After the sighting, the new professor looked through an old directory and the woman with the pinned up hair was the professor who had died in the office. The woman could never really get over the sighting and is believed to have moved out of state.

I considered myself a skeptic before. However, hearing about all these different spirits and sightings in such a nonchalant way made them seem a lot more plausible.

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the first hour the bus took a break at McDonald’s where the PLAYPLACE sign had burned out only to read YPLACE. I couldn’t help but think that this might have actually been some spirit’s doing, trying to make us think more critically about ghosts and why they are how they are.

Another surprising discovery from the tour was that many of the haunted homes were beautiful and located in nice neighborhoods, leading me to believe that affluence and paranormal ac-

tivity are positively correlated.

The Ghost of Lincoln Bus Tour takes place every year, but tickets must be bought in August at A Novel Idea bookstore. This includes waiting in line in order to be one of the lucky recipients of the $15 tickets. Whether you’re interested in the supernatural or simply a skeptic curious about the other side, the tour at least lets you in on what apartments not to rent in Lincoln.

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Browne brings signature croon to new album JOE WADE DN Lying in a hospital bed, staring at the ceiling and wondering how the hell I’m gonna foot the bill after having my guts shish-kebabbed because of one little gall stone is almost as worrying as trying to figure out what I really want to do with my life. I can switch channels on the TV as much as I like; the ones they have at the hospital are the same ones I have at home. Honestly the only real comfort I find sometimes is a familiar voice from someone I’ve been listening to all my life, someone like Mom, Dad or Jackson Browne.

“Standing in the Breach,” released Tuesday, is Browne’s 14th studio release since his 1972 self-titled debut. Browne, who turned 66 years old on Oct. 9, still has that iconic, smooth croon to drift away to, whether you’re cruising on the “Boulevard” or “Running on Empty.” The only difference with this older, wiser Browne is a slight rasp to his vocal tone and lyrical message.

One of the most politically poignant, and musically haunting, songs on the album is “The Long Way Around.” It starts with a guitar riff that’s eerily similar to the song “These Days,” sung by Nico from “The Royal Tenenbaums” soundtrack. Browne wrote “These Days” for Nico to record in 1967. The use of that guitar riff again on “The Long Way Around” creates a sense of continuity. It’s like a return to a thematic expression for the boomer generation.

Basically it seems like the children of the ‘60s still have something to say. Lyrically, the song bemoans the way people have changed, the daily issues of society and the sense of losing track of what’s objectively good. If you only listen to one song on this album, then I’d choose this one.

The song “You Know the Night” is something for serious music fans to appreciate because Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics. This song has an immediate extra bit of twang and bounces along with an up-tempo shuffle, like a train. You can practically hear the click of the tracks from the drum pattern, and if you let your mind drift

into the guitar part you can imagine Guthrie sitting in the corner of a boxcar playing for you.

Other songs to check out are “Leaving Winslow,” with its feel good alt-country vibe; the slow and steady piano-infused “Standing in the Breach;” and the shape-shifting nuance of “Yeah Yeah.” “Yeah Yeah” sounds like it was meant to be sung by a big band with Lou Reed, Warren Zevon and Elvis Costello, along with Browne of course.

Overall this album sounds like there is something Browne wants to say and there’s not a lot of time left to say it. Listening to this album is kind of like one of those sobering moments that follows waking up from anesthesia. The surgeon tries to tell you what condition you’re in, but the sugar-coated opioids in your system prevent the meaning from sinking in. Hitting the repeat button on this album is just as good as pressing the button that calls the nurse over for another round of morphine.

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Life experiences give refugee sense of purpose GRIFFITH SWIDLER DN The news was given to him in a small town a couple days away from his refugee camp. Jacob Manyang was going to the United States.

“I remember being very happy, of course,” Manyang said. “Everybody wants to go to America.”

At 27 years old, Jacob Manyang has been through more than most people will go through in a lifetime. He was born in Sudan (present day, South Sudan) and grew up surrounded by violence. When he was 8 years old, he was separated from most of his immediate family and went with one of his brothers and his uncle to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

Manyang, along with hundreds of other refugees, were packed together into a small compound in Ethiopia making life less than comfortable. Things such as school and water were made free and accessible, but there were catches.

“We would go to school for free but there was no school supplies, we were just children sitting in a room,” Manyang said. “There was a well that was open for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, and if you didn’t show up to get water in that time, you didn’t get water.”

One of the largest issues in South Sudan, and surrounding countries, is the amount of orphans. What happened to Manyang was not uncommon, and children become separated from their parents and displaced because of the relentless violence. Since it is extremely expensive to find the biological parents of these orphans, other measures must be taken.

“Where I’m from people are poor, but people are kind,” Manyang said. “Many children are without their parents, so relatives and friends will adopt these children into their homes willingly.”

The refugee camp was run by the United Nations, but unfortunately the people who ran the camp weren’t exempt from the corruption that seems to engulf many East African nations.

Food that was supposed to be rationed to the refugees would go missing constantly, and money wasn’t being used properly. Manyang said he recalls many days returning home from school with no food waiting for him when he got home.

All of that felt like a lifetime ago for Manyang. He was given the opportunity to come to the U.S. and study through fortunate circumstances he still doesn’t fully understand. He came to the United States in 2006. He was assisted by Lutheran Family Services and given an apartment in North Omaha. His brother joined him three months later, and they lived there for six years. He took English classes and attended Omaha Metropolitan Community College.

In 2012, Manyang got accepted in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and decided to study agronomy. His life as a refugee in Ethiopia seemed distant. At least it did until he went back, where the astounding realities of life in a refugee camp hit him as hard as ever. This last summer Manyang returned to Africa to study in Kenya.

Manyang was extremely rattled upon his return to Africa, he said. He witnessed thousands of people suffering, many from diseases that are curable and preventable. He visited family members in refugee camps in Kenya and real-

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Sudanese refugee and student Jacob Manyang works to help refugees living in his homeland through the club he created called Save South Sudanese Orphans and Widows.

ized the full magnitude of life there. The refugee camps lacked access to an abundance of clean water and cheap and effective medicine. This meant that a large surplus of people were dying from malaria or waterborne diseases.

“I remember walking into a school,” Manyang said, “and the kids were sitting on rocks, not chairs, with no school supplies.”

That is where Manyang’s non-profit organization, Save South Sudanese Orphans and Widows, comes in. Started by Manyang in 2012, the organization looks to work with larger organizations that have boots on the ground in the South Sudan region, such as UNICEF and other United Nations organizations.

In summer 2013, Manyang was trying to get his organization off the ground and trying to get an RSO started, so he met with Vicki Fisher.

Fisher, who works for the Office of Admissions at UNL, agreed to help him find students who might be interested in his organization.

“He is a very intelligent, articulate young man,” Fisher said of Manyang. “He is also the hardest worker I know.”

SSSOW attempts to raise awareness as well

One thing I really want to do is work with farmers back home and teach them effective ways to farm.”

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as funds for Orphans and Widows in South Sudan, with a heavy emphasis on clean water, mosquito nets and education. The money is then given to other organizations that will be able to make sure the money is used properly. It’s all about finding the most effective way to use the money and wasting as little as possible.

When he graduates in May, Manyang plans to keep his options open. He said he wants to continue to work with his non-profit organization as much as he can but also has other aspirations.

“One thing I really want to do is work with farmers back home and teach them effective

ways to farm,” Manyang said.

Jacob Manyang has an exceptional story and his passion for helping others is only magnified by his own past. Manyang is an extremely driven and charismatic individual, which rubs off on the people around him. People who hear Manyang’s full story are often eager to help, and people like Fisher just want to see Manyang succeed.

“Jacob’s story is incredibly moving and compelling,” Fisher said. “How could I not want to help?”

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STAFF: Lincoln Calling showcases best of city

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n anticipation of the heavy politics sure to dominate headlines in the Cornhusker state during the next month, Lincolnites should take this week as an opportunity to enjoy the best of their city before the election brings out the worst in all of us.

Tuesday night marked the beginning of the 11th Annual Lincoln Calling, a music, film and comedy festival spread across eight of the city’s most popular venues. The DN Arts Desk will be live-tweeting updates from multiple venues every night of the festival.

Lincoln Calling is one of the best things about this city, both because of what it does and what it represents.

LC is an opportunity for anyone to immediately delve into the Lincoln music scene. On any given night you’ll be able to

see some of the city’s most popular acts, such as Universe Contest and AZP, as well as newcomers such as Handsomer Jaws, See Through Dresses and Churls. During the course of a week, any uncultured jabroni could wander into town and wander back out again with a more complete understanding of Lincoln’s music, people and culture, as well as a few new favorite bands or artists.

It’s also an opportunity to sample great music from around the country, as bands such as Chicago’s The Kickback and Portland, Oregon, act Ages and Ages will be performing at Saturday’s showcase at Duffy’s.

In addition to music, the festival’s first night is composed of Homegrown and Found Footage film festivals.

The cinema in particular is a heavily centralized industry; most of the films screening

in Nebraska are the same Hollywood films playing everywhere else. Lincoln Calling is a rare opportunity for local movie enthusiasts to see what kind of work is being produced in their own backyard, and to see it on a big screen that’s normally reserved for Hollywood outings.

This year, the festival also features comedy acts on opening and closing nights, adding another dimension to LC’s exploration of Lincoln culture and entertainment.

What LC does is pack as much of the city’s culture into one week’s span as it possibly can. What it represents is something that not every city has: community.

As a flourishing college town, Lincoln is high profile enough to attract some significant musical acts, such as Elton John and

Nas. Yet, what really draws the big crowds is an opportunity to support local artists.

All this week the Bourbon Theatre, Duffy’s Tavern and The Zoo Bar, among others, will be packed with townies, ecstatic about the opportunity to drink alcohol and patronize Lincoln musicians at the same time.

In a midterm election year, with plenty of issues driving wedges between us, Lincoln Calling is a pleasant reminder that this city is bigger and better than all that, and that there plenty of ways for us to stick together and support each other.

Remember: Lincoln artists, filmmakers, comedians and musicians do what they do for the people of Lincoln. That’s you, readers.

So get out there and show them you care.

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Silencing dissenting opinions isn’t tolerance Tegan Colton

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he United States has a terrible history riddled with racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and all the various kinds of -isms out there.

It’s humbling to think racial segregation was made illegal only 50 years ago, and many of our parents and grandparents remember a time when these bigoted statutes were the accepted norm.

Since then, our society has made a serious conscious effort to discourage this age-old culture of intolerance. Advocates are passing bills, making speeches, running campaigns — all to raise awareness of the struggles of

disadvantaged people and help others act in a tolerant way. I applaud the triumphs in civil rights we’re slowly (but surely) making as a nation, but I can’t help but notice theres are some serious flaws in how we’re going about enforcing them.

Last year Phil Robertson of popular A&E reality show “Duck Dynasty” was fired for what were called “anti-gay” comments after he openly discussed his religious beliefs in GQ magazine. Robertson’s comments, in which he described homosexuality as a sin that’s “just not logical,” was understandably quite offensive and hurtful to many people.

In response, A&E placed Robertson on an indefinite suspension, explaining, “(Robertson’s) personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community.”

The outcry was stupendous. A&E, after being faced with thousands of petitions from angry fans and the threat of disgruntled politicians, released Robertson from suspension and began filming “Duck Dynasty” again.

erate something, in particular the existence of Many found this agreeable. Many others, opinions or behavior that one does not necesdetestable. A&E, on its part, likely reinstated Robertson purely for business-related rea- sarily agree with.” While yes, those who are sons, as the network quickly discovered after gay are likely to be offended by Robertson’s comments, expressing firing him how popular beliefs that are offensive (and profitable) “Duck to people isn’t techniDynasty” really was. As I have to ask: Is cally intolerant. “That’s a sort of apology for alfiring someone just me,” Robertson said lowing Robertson back during his interview, in on air, A&E announced for expressing his or the admission that othits launch of “a national ers might have different public service cam- her religious beliefs views on the matter. What paign (PSA) promoting because you and many A&E did, silencing him unity, tolerance and and taking him off the air acceptance among all others don’t agree with (albeit for a short time), people,” which repre- them really an act of is actually much closer to sented the “core values ‘tolerance’?” the definition of intoler(of the) company.” ance than his beliefs.

I have to ask: Is But this method of sifiring someone for expressing his or her religious beliefs because lencing others for the sake of tolerance seems to be how we respond to all possible roots you and many others don’t agree with them of offense – no matter how innocent they acreally an act of “tolerance”?

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Don’t dress in racially insensitive costumes Taylar Morrissey

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was scrolling through Pinterest the other day when I stumbled across a pin from an old high school friend that made me stop in my tracks. Oh no, I thought, it’s that time of year again.

It was a pin instructing the reader on how to create the perfect Sugar Skull makeup, as modeled by a white woman, pinned by a white woman. Donning Sugar Skull costumes for Halloween is disrespectful toward the spiritual nature of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos or “The Day of the Dead.” This example perfectly represents a larger issue faced every year during the Halloween season: cultural appropriation and stereotyped costumes.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love Halloween. It’s my favorite holiday. I love the candy and the movies and the music. I love the smell of pumpkin spice everything and the changing leaves and the decorations everywhere.

I love planning costumes and going to parties. What I don’t love is watching other white people make a complete and racist mockery of other people and cultures.

Lauren Duca of the Huffington Post defines cultural appropriation as “picking and choosing elements of a culture by a member of another culture without permission. This includes traditional knowledge, religious symbols, artifacts or any other unauthorized use of cultural practice or ideation.” It’s closely tied to racism and the reduction of cultures besides our own to costumes and oddities rather than thousands, millions or even billions of people.

This is an issue that has been going on for years, not just during Halloween. Halloween just makes the expression of it more socially acceptable than any other time of the year. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked past “Indian Princess” and “Geisha” costumes in my years of costume shopping.

It always astounds me that pretty much every company that sells these costumes seems to think it’s OK to peddle racist caricatures around this holiday. It seems intuitive to me that if you don’t belong to a certain culture, you shouldn’t be dressing up as that culture.

It perpetuates harmful stereotypes and creates a hostile environment for anyone from that culture who might see you.

For the last couple of years I’ve seen some great campaign posters floating around the web addressing this issue. I tracked them down to find the source and was both surprised and delighted to see that they originated from Ohio University’s student organization STARS: Students Teaching About

Racism in Society. Its “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume” campaign started in 2011 and so far has released three sets of posters showing the harmful effects of masquerading as cultural stereotypes. These powerful and widespread posters are coming from university students just like us, and to me that

speaks volumes about our generation’s awareness. They even raised national attention a few years ago when the campaign first began.

Still, we have a long way to go.

Whether it’s students wearing blackface or not understanding why “Mexican” costumes consisting of sombreros, ponchos

and drawn-on mustaches might be considered offensive or racist; racism and cultural appropriation are far from over.

So what can you do? The easiest solution is to stop dressing as other cultures for fun or as a joke or to look sexy.

When

you think about what costume you’re going to buy or make, consider whom you’re representing. Is the costume based entirely on dressing as someone from a different culture or race than yours? Is it based on stereotypes about that race? Does it use elements of other cultures that have religious or spiritual significance? If you answered yes to any of those questions, pick a different costume.

There are so many other kinds of costumes out there that you could wear. Don’t pick the one that carries on a harmful and deadly system of oppression.

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Scientists should include public in environmentalism Ben Curttright

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ercury colonization, Mars terraforming and the revolutionizing of Earthbound technologies to address the complex environmental issues of our self-created brave new world. The stuff of science fiction, to be sure, but in her Humanities on the Edge lecture at the Sheldon Museum of Art on Oct. 2, UCLA English professor Ursula Heise argued that we’re but a cosmological moment away.

Or an etymological moment, as Heise said.

She said the humanities can best participate in addressing the problems of climate change and environmental degradation by changing the way we talk about our place as humans in the greater world. Though there’s a lot to be said for the power of narrative to effect social change, Heise’s optimism with respect to the humanities seems to be just that: optimism.

Redirecting our discussions about climate change will help, yes, but until the conversation moves outside of academia and climate issues have a direct impact on those in power, the innovative solutions Heise imagines will remain imaginary.

Much of Heise’s talk centered on the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man. Among scientists today, the idea that we have left the post-Ice Age Holocene period and entered a wholly different era of the Earth’s history is very much up for debate. The argument for redefining the current age is fairly clear, though; humans, Heise said, have so thoroughly transformed nature that there’s no way out of human influence, and no going back.

What’s less clear, though, is how shifting these somewhat arbitrary terms around a bit will impact current environmental practice. To Heise this is an unambiguous truth.

Adopting the Anthropocene into historical and geological discourse will provide, Heise said, “a stage on which a new, more positive and forward-looking environmentalism can be built.” In this sense, calling today the Age of Man instead of the Holocene (Greek for, roughly, New Age) is a means of taking responsibility for human impact on Earth’s environment. The current state, we admit, is our fault; instead of debating how we got here, we can address where we’re going.

To an extent, Heise is question-begging here, though I don’t hold it against her in the slightest. Taking responsibility requires, first and foremost, a certainty of blame and despite the repeated insistence of the unified scientific community, human impact on climate change isn’t an accepted fact. As of November 2013, 23 percent of Americans didn’t believe global warming is happening, and 49 percent of Americans are not worried about

climate change, according to the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

Heise is an engaged environmentalist, professor at a major university and author of multiple books and articles on the topic of current climate science and the humanities. To her, climate change must feel like such a foregone conclusion that pointing out its connection to human activity is a waste of time. Unfortunately, especially in the conservative-leaning Midwest, it’s a battle still being fought by environmental scientists and public figures alike. Climate change is, of course, being driven by human activity, and our current policies with respect to emissions, pollution and consumption aren’t at all sustainable.

But until the right people accept this fact, whether environmental humanists call the current epoch “the Anthropocene” or not will hardly matter.

To whom should environmental humanists be directing their message then? Certainly not to each other, which I believe makes the debate about Holocenes and Anthropocenes irrelevant.

To the general public, maybe, as convincing people, particularly Americans, that their everyday driving, eating, powering and throwing away have long-term, negative effects on the planet can only lead to positive change. But to have the greatest real-world impact, environmentalism has to 1) convince China and India that pollution is bad and 2.) convince American

on pollution. But, as in so many other cases, capitalists that pollution isn’t profitable. when one group begins to see the adverse efFairly recently, China overtook the United fects of unregulated capitalist exploitation, States as the country with the highest level the corporations simply move the dirty stuff of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels somewhere else. Pollution hasn’t stopped; it’s and industrial processes; China accounts for just been outsourced, 23 percent of the world’s and neither the green CO2 emissions, while the Uninhibited pollution trees nor the clean air U.S. is a mere 19 percent. is profitable; outside your NebrasThe rapid industrialization ka apartment matters of countries such as China environmentalism is not. in the context of the and India contributes sigplanet. nificantly to still-rising CO2 The Anthropocene won’t The reason for emissions, and given their change that.” still-rising CO2 emisenormous populations and sions despite decades land masses compared to of research and adthe U.S., China and India vocacy is, in the end, the same reason for no will almost certainly emit even more CO2 in the future. Even if the U.S. performed an im- Moon base, no Martian exploration, no solar system colonization and no dramatic reimagpossible about-face and ceased carbon emissions, global pollution would continue rising ining of the terrestrial cityscape. Uninhibited as China and India, countries that Heise said pollution is profitable; environmentalism is not. The Anthropocene won’t change that. are still not fully urbanized, grow more and In light of Heise’s idea of human future, this more important in the world economy. sounds pessimistic, but I maintain: I’m only In a way, globalization has made the situaa realist. tions of Chinese pollution and American capiBEN CURTTRIGHT IS THE ASSISTANT talists one and the same. As Americans began OPINION EDITOR AND A FOURTH-YEAR to recognize not necessarily the long-term ENGLISH STUDENT. REACH HIM FOR COMeffects of CO2 emission, but the short-term MENT AT OPINION@ problems of acid rain, smog and sludgy rivers, DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM. the U.S. government has enacted regulations

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STEM field needs more diversity to be innovative Devin Grier

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he United States has always been known as a country of innovators.

We take pride in our history of overcoming the seemingly impossible. From the very start when the Founding Fathers were breaking away from Britain and crafting the frame for our Constitution, we were beating the odds and have continued to do so into the modern era.

We have the freedom to innovate, and this has worked to our advantage repeatedly throughout history.

However, other countries have begun to catch up. China, Germany, Australia, Brazil and others have emerged with new ideas and competitive economies. The U.S. is facing outside pressure to innovate better and faster. To keep up with the new competition, we have to adapt.

This ultimately means improving the education

system to fully utilize our human resources. It also means including everyone in the innovation process. The STEM degree field (Science Technology Engineering and Math) in particular has a serious diversity problem; we need more women in the field.

In December 2013, the Harvard Business Review published a study titled “How Diversity Can Drive Innovation.” The researchers surveyed 1,800 professionals in 40 case studies and looked at two kinds of diversity: inherent diversity (the traits you’re born with) and acquired diversity (the traits you gain from experience). Through focus groups and interviews, each professional was assigned a certain number of inherent and acquired diversity traits. If they had at least three traits of each kind they were referred to as having “two-dimensional diversity.”

Companies whose leaders possessed twodimensional diversity were found to be 45 percent more likely to report market share growth and 70 percent more likely to report capturing a new market. Diversity creates an environment that allows and encourages out-of-the-box thinking by challenging contributors to look at problems from a variety of perspectives. A diverse environment helps people to bring new insights and ideas to the table.

One of the biggest issues the world is facing

today is the conservation of resources. With the world’s population growing and more countries developing their economies, how can we make our resources last? A variety of new ideas and approaches are going to be required to find a solution, and if we want to succeed, it’s going to take all of us to figure it out.

The field that’s charged with solving this problem has a serious diversity issue. According to the Economics and Statistics Administration of the United States Department of Commerce, in 2009 only 2.5 million of the 9.2 million college-educated workers in a STEM field were women. That’s 27 percent. When the data was broken down by college degree, 48 percent of the men had engineering degrees compared with only 18 percent of the women.

Although other degrees are very important for solving today’s problems, too, it’s engineers who are trained to do so. This means that those who are the most poised to innovate have very low gender diversity.

This matters for a simple reason: it means that half of the U.S. population is underrepresented in the market of ideas. Imagine what we might accomplish if we used all of our opportunities for ideas. The U.S., and the world, needs more women in STEM fields.

But how can this be accomplished? According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

2012 Women’s Report, women entrepreneurs have less confidence than men and are more likely to be afraid of failure. They tend to expect too much of themselves and ask too little from others. Women may just underestimate their capabilities.

This suggests that fewer women go into STEM fields because they don’t believe in themselves, not because they’re uninterested or incapable.

As college students, what we say can have an influence on how those younger than us view themselves and the world. If we all let the girls in our lives know that we think they can go into a STEM field if they want to, they might just believe us. If we can remove the stigma against STEM for even a few girls at a time, the gender gap will gradually close.

Gender diversity isn’t the only diversity issue that companies face, and unequal pay remains an issue. However, if a more diverse workplace was embraced, and everyone’s ideas and contributions were valued, it would be a step in the right direction. We need everyone’s ideas to solve the problems of today.

DEVIN GRIER IS A SOPHOMORE BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

Social media stifles productive debates Emily Kuklinski

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icking and choosing your battles isn’t as easy as it used to be. There was once a time when arguments sizzled out over a nice, cold cup of chocolate milk. But we now live in an age of 24/7 broadcasting where escalating arguments about fall fashions into kerfuffles has become our new national pastime.

According to a recent article from the New York Times, social media is silencing diverse debate. A recent report by Rutgers University and Pew Research Center found that the Internet is helping polarize what we read and comment on. Because of things such as Facebook’s updated news feed algorithms, we often get bombarded with news that aligns with our political beliefs. We don’t have to worry about watching or reading news that’s slanted to the left or right. The Internet is working to autocorrect our research to give us the answers we already want.

But even sharing a news story on Facebook doesn’t mean that you’re promoting conversation. Rutgers University and the Pew Research Center have found that this actually hinders constructive debates. Professor Keith N. Hampton, one of the scientists who helped conduct the social media experiment, attributes this to people not seeking out alternate news sources. When people comment, like or share an article, it’s only building upon opinions, not challenging them. And because of the social order of Facebook, where you’re friends with others who have some sort of an impact on your life, launching an alternate opinion could spark conflict that affects you in the real world.

What’s more, Facebook is a different animal when it comes to the Internet. As columnist Kaitlynn Schmidt wrote in the Daily Nebraskan last week, anonymity fuels bullying on the Internet with little to no repercussions. But on Facebook, where people have their names and identities out in the open, free to be judged by their friends, family and coworkers, one post can have a great effect on someone’s personal life. It had an effect on mine.

In high school, I posted a status about Obama being elected as president in 2008. I was a naive freshman who thought she knew everything there was to know about politics and social justice. So when a Democrat was elected to office, I expressed my displeasure.

Two minutes after posting my status, someone at school and I began an hour-and-a-halflong debate about politics. We insulted each other’s intelligence and even made a few jabs at our family members. In the heat of the moment, I thought I was in the right. I thought I was on top of the world, but the next day at school, my post felt nothing like a victory.

We didn’t talk again for a year. We averted our gazes in the hallway. And when we finally spoke to each other in person, it was in a bashful embarrassment. We both recognized one another as intelligent, good-hearted people and realized how idiotic we had been to let an Internet quarrel interfere with our real lives.

These fights have been ravaging my Facebook feed for years. And although many of the debates are on important topics that need to be discussed, they never get anywhere.

Social media isn’t the place to have political debates. You’re not face-to-face with the person, and it dehumanizes whomever you’re bouncing facts and figures off. The person on the other side of the computer screen is just a few lines of code and rapidly your inner editor takes a break. You say things you don’t entirely mean because your brain isn’t processing them as someone with a brain, with a soul. As New York Times columnist Sherry Turkle said, social interaction via technology has made us accustomed to being “alone together.”

Everyone’s opinions are constantly chang-

ing, evolving to become more refined and mature thought bubbles. Each thought floats freely above our heads, simultaneously porous and vulnerable to the world around us.

And there are people who only wish to pop our bubbles and block their own thought processes with thistles and thorns, barricading new thoughts from entering their minds.

But they’re easy to find. And you can choose to either have your bubble popped or to keep on floating. Because more often than not, there’s someone else with new ideas bubbling in their minds, ready to expand. Debating isn’t meant to be hostile. It’s to help us better understand the world around us. It’s when we block our minds from new ideas that we incarcerate ourselves.

I’m not calling for a world full of wallflowers. I’m simply calling for us all to interact with each other as human beings, to converse with one another without any ulterior motives other than to better understand one another and to learn. Are there people in the world who have horrendous opinions?

Of course there are. But the best way to help others see your side of the story is to keep a cool head and talk to them in person. It won’t always work, but it’s a better solution than seeping down to the level of an Internet troll.

EMILY KUKLINSKI IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND THEATRE MAJOR. FOLLOW HER @THEFUNNYEMILY. CONTACT HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

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Quotes of the week, Oct. 9-16 “At 5:22 p.m. last Wednesday, three faculty members in the English Department complained about several unwanted novels being slipped under their office doors in Andrews Hall. The novel, “Could You Please F*** My Wife?” is literary hodgepodge of erotica, the police report stated.”

“Rock fans like to pretend that their genre is invincible from this effect, but no one has forgotten Nickelback or Seether.”

DILLON MITCHELL

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“I’ve developed a rather intimate relationship with stress. It lives with me and doesn’t pay rent. It lingers near the death of my phone battery and in the ache of my stomach because I forgot to eat breakfast. Oops.”

“These are supposed to be the best years of our lives.

We’ll never be this pretty or healthy again. And they suck.”

ANNIE STOKELY

DANIEL WHEATON

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“Something magical happens when you sit in a room full of people and have to watch an exercise video.”

JOE PICKETT

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“Remember to play nicely with others. Because when you think about it, life is one big group project. Most of the time, it doesn’t totally suck.”

AMY KENYON

OPINION EDITOR

“Oil is any liquid you drink or use as a currency.

Sand is the enemy. Technological sounds of the future are mixed with technological sounds from the past to make a demonstration even mutants can comprehend.”

“The game will be cooking like meat in a Crock-Pot: simmering and slow-cooking.”

ERIC BERTRAND

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COLTON: FROM 16 tually are. At Sonoma State University last year, school officials asked a student to remove her cross necklace, as it might cause the other students to “feel unwelcome.” In California, five teenagers attending Live Oak High School were ordered to remove their American flag t-shirts on threat of suspension, as it was the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo and wearing American propaganda could “lead to fights on campus.” And a first grader in North Carolina wasn’t permitted to read aloud her poem honoring her grandfather in a Veteran’s Day ceremony, as the poem mentioned how he “prayed to God for peace” and “strength.” The school didn’t want to offend the non-religious.

Our nation has bought into the idea that silencing opinions or gestures that could make others uncomfortable is the best way to promote a tolerant, open environment. In reality, silencing offense doesn’t promote tolerance – it eliminates it.

Daryl Davis, an accomplished Black musician, is familiar with this truth and has found that speaking with your enemies, rather than silencing them, changes minds and lives. Davis never understood why people joined the Ku Klux Klan in hatred of people like him, so he simply went out to ask them.

“Robert White was a Grand Dragon who had gone to prison numerous times,” Davis said concerning one of his conversations with

a KKK member. “At first, he was very violent and hateful but we talked for a long time.

Over time, he began thinking about a lot of the things he had done and said that were wrong. He quit the clan. Toward the end he said he would follow me to hell and back… and he gave me his robe and his hood.”

More than 20 members of the KKK have left the order because of their conversations with him.

“Invite your enemy to talk – give them a platform to talk because then they will reciprocate,” Davis said. “Establish dialogue.

It’s when the talking stops that the ground becomes fertile for fighting.”

Suppressing a person’s potentially upsetting beliefs through fear – either through the threat of losing their job or reputation – does nothing but promote a culture of narrowminded ignorance. If we aren’t allowed to air out our beliefs with others and discuss why we believe them with those who disagree, we’re doomed to recycle the same old patterns of intolerance over and over again.

Only by embracing true tolerance – patience toward opinions and beliefs one finds disagreeable – through honest, open dialogue with each other can we finally create the culture of acceptance we’ve been fighting for.

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

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