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UNL administration suspended Sigma Nu Thursday after an investigation found the house violated fire and other codes.

Sigma Nu suspended for spring semester, house remains closed Colleen Fell DN Members of the African Culture Connection perform during An Evening at the Sheldon event Thursday night.

Charles Ahovissi, artistic and executive director of the African Culture Connection, performs as part of a song and dance routine.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sigma Nu chapter has been suspended at least through the end of the spring 2014 semester, university officials announced Thursday.

The suspension and other university-imposed sanctions are the result of an investigation that found fire code and alcohol violations at the chapter’s house, 625 N. 16th St. Juan Franco, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said the fraternity no longer has any formal affiliation with the university and is no longer recognized as a UNL-approved housing unit.

All chapter activities for the fraternity have been suspended, and while upperclassmen will be able to live in the house without fraternity status, freshman members won’tt be able to move back in after it is reopened. He said some of the freshmen will live with their families in

Lincoln. Otherwise, they’re expected to pay for other UNL housing options.

Franco said the university is waiting to take more disciplinary action until UNLPD has finished going through a list of fire code and other violations. The inspection took place Wednesday.

Police said they expect a list of the violations to be released Friday morning.

Lincoln Fire Investigator Rick Campos said Wednesday that it will be at least a week before Sigma Nu members will be let back into the house. Beyond that, he said he’s not sure how long it will take to bring the house up to code.

Franco said the university’s main concern is student safety.

“We’re working with the chapter and chapter leadership, UNLPD and Greek Affairs to put in safeguards to ensure our students’ safety,” Franco said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Fees committee OKs Campus Rec budget increase Colleen Fell DN

Members of the African Culture Connection perform during An Evening at the Sheldon event to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. week at the Sheldon Museum of Art Thursday night. The evening featured a reception and dedication of artist Helen Ramsaran’s work “Sanctuary,” which was recently installed between the Sheldon and the College of Business Administration.

Members of the Committee for Allocation of Fees at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln approved an 8.7 percent budget increase for the Campus Recreation Center at its Thursday night meeting.

The committee also approved a less than 1 percent increase for the Nebraska Unions

and stable funding for the Collegiate Readership Program.

Union staff members originally came up with a budget for the 2014-2015 school year with a zero percent increase.

CFA member Travis Anderson, a senior construction management major at UNL, said he was impressed with and appreciated that the Union staff was able to

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Minimum-wage jobs teach marketable skills, money management Students with low-paying jobs say hard work pays off in other ways, despite smaller paychecks Mara Klecker DN At age 19, Molly Chapple was handling thousands of dollars a day.

The sophomore journalism major was working at the customer service

booth at Sun Mart, a grocery store in Falls City. It was a minimum-wage job, but it was a job, and her responsibilities showed the trust her employer put in her.

The $7.25 an hour grew to $7.85 an hour by her fourth year, but she said she gained more than just the paycheck. She learned how to schedule and manage her time. She figured out her taxes and began saving her money.

“I don’t think I could have gotten all of those skills without my job,” Chapple said. “There’s something to be said about actually getting up and going to work 7 to 4, doing work and making money.”

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braska Legislature and raises the state’s minimum wage up to $9 an hour during the next three years, a student working part-time isn’t coming home with a large paycheck. But the experience alone might pay off.

L’Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie, a private school in Rabat, Morocco, wants its wealthy students to have that experience. The school, which costs $8,400 a year to attend, requires each student to take a month-long internship at a lowpaying job, according to The Atlantic magazine. The goal is to show the students the realities of the other side of the socioeconomic scale, a side they aren’t on.

The school reports students com-

ing back from the internships with interpersonal skills and cultural understanding they couldn’t get from their courses or their travel-abroad experiences, which is also a requirement for the students.

Emily Wilber, an assistant director at Career Services, agrees that marketable skills and experience do come from minimum-wage jobs, but believes there are other sources of such skills.

Wilber said she also sees volunteering and organization involvement as ways to gain the communication, problem-solving, time-management and interpersonal skills that one would get at a minimum-wage job.

“At some point, though, students

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need to consider upping the stakes and getting an internship,” Wilber said. “Because that’s where real career opportunities can lie.”

Gerardo Soto, a freshman biological sciences major and aspiring pathologist, hopes to find an internship in a research lab within the next few years. Though he was an involved and successful high school student, he doesn’t have any job experience to put on a resume or pitch to internship employers.

“I’ve never had to work,” Soto said. “My parents preferred that I spend my time on other things, mainly just focusing on college.”

Soto said there’s been times he’s thought about getting a job. He’d like

the extra spending money and he knows he’ll eventually have to enter the workforce.

“I don’t think I’d mind flipping burgers for minimum wage,” Soto said. “I do see it as a good experience and there are some skills that I’m probably missing out on – paying taxes, money management, just the responsibility.”

For now, though, Soto said he just wants to focus on schoolwork. Balancing extracurricular activities and maintaining grades is harder in college, he said, and he wants the grades necessary to get into medical school.

“I’m not worried about it yet,”

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ON CAMPUS what:

Trent Graphics Prints & Poster Sale when: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Rotunda Gallery what:

Get Rec’d when: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. where: Campus Recreation Center, Courts 1-4

IN LINCOLN what:

“Barefoot in the Park” when: 7:30 p.m. where: Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2500 S. 56 St. more information: Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students what:

PRCA Championship Rodeo when: 7:30 p.m. where: Pershing Center more information: Advanced ticket price is $22 and $28. Day of show tickets are $26 and $32. Tickets are on sale at all Ticketmaster locations.

correction In a Jan. 23 Daily Nebraskan article titled “UNL panel discusses staff social media strategy,” College of Business Administration Dean Donde Plowman was incorrectly quoted in her comment on social media strategy. Students do not post on behalf of the college.

If you spot a factual error in the Daily Nebraskan, please report it by calling (402) 472-2588 or emailing news@dailynebraskan.com. An editor will look at the inaccuracy, and the Daily Nebraskan will run a correction or clarification in this spot the next day.

Board of Regents to review 6-year graduation rates nam tran dn The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will hear an update at its Friday meeting on the ongoing effort to increase the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s six-year graduation rate, a key goal for administration.

“It’s a priority for us to do better on graduation rates so we want to present those figures and see how we’re doing and where we need to improve and what kind of things we can do,” said Melissa Lee, board communications manager. “I know the campuses are very interested in what they can do to work more with students to help them be more successful and graduate on time.”

In other business, the board will vote on the consolidation of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of Nebraska at Omaha engineering colleges, begin the process of finding a replacement for departing University of Nebraska president J.B. Milliken and discuss renovations and room and board rates at UNL. One $12.3 million renovation to Me-

morial Stadium would update the sound system and install Wi-Fi in the area. The renovations would be completed by August.

When it comes to graduation rates the board’s goal will be to increase each campus’s undergraduate six-year graduation rate and have a goal of exceeding the average of its peer institutions. As of 2013, UNL’s six-year graduation rate was 66.8 percent, higher than in previous years and above the national average but less than that of its peers.

Board chairman Tim Clare said the vote to approve the program statement and budget for the Breslow Ice Center will be a highlight. “(It) started with the very generous donation from the Breslow family, and it’s been a long time coming,” Clare said.

The Breslow Ice Center will likely be built on land south and west of Haymarket Park. More than six years after John Breslow donated $7 million toward a hockey rink in Lincoln, the board will finally discuss their decision and whether to move forward with the project tomorrow.

“Other items we’re looking at are dorm rates,” Clare said. “We want to make it fair and equitable for students and we also have to make it fair and equitable for the university because we’ve got bond obligations we have to pay that were used to construct the facilities

if you go what: Board of Regents meeting where: Varner Hall, 3835 Holdrege St. when: 10:15 a.m.

so we have a delicate balance between those two.”

The search for Milliken’s replacement is still in the preliminary stages. Regents say the search could take as long as a year.

“With the university and President Milliken’s departure, I believe he’s done an outstanding job as well in carrying us to heights that we’ve never experienced before and I believe that he’s truly left the University of Nebraska in a better place than it was when he took over as president 10 years ago,” Clare said.

“So our job is to find someone that will carry us to even higher heights so we’re going to be engaged in that process as well.”

The board meeting is open to the public and will be livestreamed at nebraska.edu. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Hypnotist to perform again on East Campus Jim Wand, who has performed with comedians such as Jay Leno, returns to host two Friday shows

staff report DN President Barack Obama is putting pressure on colleges and universities to fight rape and sexual assault on campuses across the country.

On Wednesday, Obama created a task force of senior administration officials to coordinate federal enforcement efforts. The announcement came a month after the president allotted Congress one year to show it had reduced sexual assaults in the military. The focus is shifting to encompass college campuses.

A report by the White House Council on Women and Girls called “Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action” showed that rape is most common on college campuses. One in five students has been assaulted, according to the document, but only 12 percent of students report the crime.

Obama is calling for more transparent enforcement of appli-

courtesy photo considers the subconscious as a hard drive and the conscious mind as a processor.

“Hypnosis is like a type of software that reprograms the hard-drive to bring about changes to the processor,” he said. “So what we’re going to do is alter a state of consciousness; whereby you enter the subconscious mind, implant suggestions, which are then carried out by the subconscious mind.”

Wand has a Ph.D. in psychology and has been working in the field of hypnosis for more than 30 years. He performs more than 200 shows each year and has performed at more than 9,000 professional engagements.

Wand has performed with stars such as Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and Chris Rock.

The performances will be

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Jim Wand, Hypnotist when: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union, Great Plains Room price: Free for UNL students with a valid NCard; $5 for non-students in the Nebraska East Union’s Great Plains Room at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The event will be free for all students with a valid NCard.

Entry for non-students will be $5. news@ dailynebraskan.com

cable laws and greater emphasis on developing effective campus policies to prevent and respond to sexual assault.

Vice President Joe Biden accompanied Obama at the proceedings announcing the task force.

Twenty years ago, Biden secured passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which provided federal help for victims, health care professionals and law enforcement.

“Our daughters, our sisters, our wives, our mothers, our grandmothers have every single right to expect to be free from violence and sexual abuse,” Biden said at a press conference Wednesday. “No matter what she’s wearing, no matter whether she’s in a bar, in a dormitory, in the back seat of a car, on a street, drunk or sober – no man has a right to go beyond the word ‘no.’ And if she can’t consent, it also means no.”

The task force is expected to submit recommendations in 90 days.

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Jacob Elliott dn Jim Wand is returning to East Campus.

The hypnotist performed at the University of NebraskaLincoln’s East Union last year, drawing in about 800 students.

His performances have become a popular event, and the University Program Council wants to give the students what they want, said Joe Grobeck, a freshman accounting and finance major and UPC member.

“He’s a rather renowned hypnotist, so I believe he will bring a lot of excitement and a lot of energy,” Grobeck said.

“He’s actually bringing a couple of protégés, so he’s going to be training two other hypnotists then so I think that will be new.

He’s good at getting the crowd involved.”

Wand will perform two shows at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Friday. The hypnotist uses a number of routines throughout the show, referencing various themes of pop culture, such as The Simpsons, South Park, Duck Dynasty and the Evolution of Dance. Each show ends with at least 20 to 30 people being hypnotized.

Wand said there are two parts of the mind: the conscious and the subconscious mind. He

Obama targets sexual assault on college campuses

One of the programs featured at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s first-ever learning management systems showcase could replace Blackboard in 2015.

The showcase features presentations by Canvas, Desire to Learn and Blackboard itself, which UNL has used since 1999. In fact, UNL was one of Blackboard’s first large clients, said Heath Tuttle, assistant director of learning and emerging technologies.

The LMS showcase aims to give students, faculty and staff an opportunity to look at the different types of learning technologies that are available, as well as feedback about the current LMS meeting their needs, Tuttle said. Canvas held its presentation on Jan. 17, and Desire to Learn will be held Jan. 31, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. in 115 Burnett Hall. Blackboard will present on Feb. 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. in 115 Burnett Hall.

“These are companies that are growing and have good products,” Tuttle said. “They’ve been adopted by other Big Ten schools. These are companies that have the functionality that faculty, staff and students would probably want to take a look at.”

Sophomore computer science major Lance Johnson said he thinks the general layout of Blackboard works effectively but finds it frustrating when professors don’t seem to know how to use the system or simply don’t use the system at all.

“It has generally been flawless for me, but professors and TAs that use it or barely use it create a huge disparity in regards to its complete usefulness,” he said. “Younger pro-

fessors and TAs seem to use all the potential of Blackboard much more and it is a great experience, versus the ones who don’t have a clue what they’re doing with it.”

Complaints from junior psychology major Inga Guliyeva and junior mathematics major Emma Reid include the system crashing while taking quizzes and students not receiving an automatic email notification when a professor posts an announcement.

At the Canvas presentation, presenters went through a step-by-step process as to how exactly a student would migrate from Blackboard to Canvas, while highlighting the simplicity of their system. Canvas also has certain features not available on Blackboard, such as a video tool for submitting assignments or posting to discussion boards.

“It’s not only time-efficient, but it creates an experience between instructor and student and from student to student that is a lot more engaged and personalized,” said Carli Tegtmeier, the presenter for Canvas

by Infrastructure.

For now, Tuttle said, the university just wants people to be exposed to what’s out there.

“You guys are the ones who use it and can tell us what you need,” he said. “If we decide to go to that point then we will sit down and work with those contingencies, faculty and ASUN, but that all really depends on how these showcases go and what kind of feedback we get.”

UNL’s three-year contract with Blackboard will expire on July 1, 2015, along with the other three NU schools who will all negotiate contracts together, he said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Sea anemones named for ANDRILL team that discovered them Colleen Fell DN When the University of NebraskaLincoln Antarctic exploration team was studying water current patterns under ice shelves in December 2010, they found something they never expected: a brand new species.

Thousands of live sea anemones, about one to two inches in length, were burrowed up inside the ice.

“It was like, ‘Eureka!” said Frank Rank, executive director of the ANDRILL Science Management Office at UNL and professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at UNL. The anemones were recently named Edwardsiella andrillae, in honor of the ANDRILL team, and featured in the journal PLOS ONE. The ANDRILL team, made up of scientists from the U.S., Italy, Germany and New Zealand, used an underwater robot with an attached camera and vacuum-like tube to see and gather the anemones where the team is currently working under the

Ross Ice Shelf. The robot, called SCINI (Submersible Capable of sub-Ice Navigation and Imaging), is about 4 feet in length and 8 inches in diameter.

Bob Zook, ANDRILL team member and founding engineer of SCINI, said finding the sea anemones was more than a surprise.

“Saying my jaw dropped isn’t enough,” Zook said. “We literally all fell out of our chairs.”

However, bringing the anemone samples back to base was easier said than done.

Rack said the fog was so thick, the team had to wait until a helicopter could be sent to the camp to bring the team back to the McMurdo station.

The anemones were stored in small jars of ethanol until they were tested.

The process for identifying the anemones couldn’t begin until 2011, however, because of a lack of funding.

“As interesting as they were, the anemones don’t pay the bills,” Rack said.

The ANDRILL team, which usually does geology-based work, needed help from a biologist. That’s where

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The ANDRILL team, which includes several UNL scientists, discovered in 2010 a new species of sea anemones burrowed in ice.

Marymegan Daly of Ohio State University stepped in.

Rack said Daly worked on identifying the anemones in her spare time.

The team still has a long way to go figuring out everything there is to

know about the anemones, Rack said.

“It’s pretty remarkable that anything can live inside ice,” Rack said.

ANDRILL members are still trying to figure out how the anemones burrowed underneath the ice shelf.

Rack said it’s possible that the anemones make holes in the ice with metabolically concentrated salt.

“They definitely can’t generate enough heat to make holes in the ice,” he said.

The ANDRILL team also wants to figure out the anemone’s population density, reproduction habits and other habitat characteristics.

Rack said the team needs more biologists to help with the endeavor and UNL biologists are currently in talks to work on the project.

“We don’t understand what senses they have or what the survival advantage is of being in a ridge or trough on the surface of the ice,” Rack said.

Zook said the anemones are a sign that there’s an entire undiscovered ecosystem in and around the ice shelf.

He said one of the next steps is to explore the ocean floor.

“There’s life there or there’s not; either way it’s significant,” Zook said.

Zook is currently in Antarctica

and said he plans to spend about one more month there before returning to Lincoln.

The ANDRILL team may return to the Ross Ice Shelf later this year as a part of the WISSARD project if negotiations with the National Science Foundation and scientists currently leading the project are approved.

They hope to use a new SCINI prototype where the ice is about 800 meters thick.

The next big step for the anemones is for the team to figure out how to transport them back alive, Rack said.

“There’s a lot to think about and it’s going to involve talking to a lot of different people,” he said.

Rack said he appreciates the funding and support the team has received so far from the National Science Foundation.

Either way, this is just the beginning for the team and the anemones.

“This is a fantastic discovery,” Rack said. “But it’s only step one.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: MICHAEL COMBS

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Michael Combs, a political science professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializes in black and urban politics, among other fields. tyler williams dn

now heads of Fortune 500 companies. We also have an African American who is president of the Every week, the Daily Nebraskan in- United States. There have been terviews a notable figure on the Uni- some very significant changes, but we also have to bear in mind versity of Nebraska-Lincoln campus in an effort to allow campus leaders change or changes do not mean to deliver the news in their own the same thing as the elimination words. This week, with Martin of racial differences and racial Luther King Jr. Day in mind, we disparities.

DN: How do you feel the elecchose Michael Combs, a UNL political science professor who tion of President Barack Obama specializes in judicial politics and has changed African American culture, if at all? constitutional law, black politics Combs: I don’t think it has and urban politics. Combs is a former president of the National changed African American culConference of Black Political ture. No, electing Obama has not Scientists, and his recent publi- changed African American culcations include “Civil Liberties ture. But I would say one of the significant consequences of havand the Constitution: Cases and Commentaries,” “Race or Place? ing Obama serve as president of Emerging Public Perspectives on the United States and that conseUrban Education” and “Police quence or result is the increase in Brutality and Public Perceptions the trust, that African Americans of Racial Discrimination: A Tale of have for government, trust in government.

Two Beatings.”

DN: What are your thoughts Daily Nebraskan: What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day mean and feelings on the recent Association of Students of the Univerto you? sity of Nebraska racial incident at Michael Combs: Well, when I think of Dr. Martin Luther King’s UNL? Combs: We have to bear in national holiday, I find that it is extraordinary that America has mind that we live in a civilized sohonored a man, or a individual, ciety, and I take the position that if I can express an idea, or senwho did not make a significant invention nor did he lead an army tence, or concept without historically insulting people I would do on the battlefield. Why is that?

That America has chosen to hon- so. But we have to use it in a way or an individual who has never that strengthens relationships, it strengthens our understanding of served in public race and racial difoffice. What did he ferences rather than do? I would sugDr. King’s just to say “well I’m gest to you that Dr. dream is free.” Yeah, you’re King in a real sense free to say a lot of represents the best an unfolding, things, we’re free, values and prinit is not an issue of ciples that America achieving dream. whether or not I’m has to offer to the It takes a lot for free. Another side world. He remindof that equation is, ed America that it his dream to be am I being responwas a greater na- realized.” sible. tion than it was DN: Would you presently living.

Michael Combs say that Martin LuThat we hold these political science professor ther King’s dream truths to be self evis realized today? ident, that America Combs: The is a better nation, a answer to that is a very resoundgreater nation when those prining no. His dream is an unfolding, ciples and precepts and values achieving dream. It takes a lot for are applied to all citizens – that’s what King’s birthday means to King’s dream to be realized. And I sometimes question whether or me. not America and Americans are DN: How have racial issues facing African Americans prepared to make the sacrifices, or to make the changes for the changed since you’ve become infull realization of King’s dream. terested in politics?

Combs: When I think about Bear in mind, King’s dream is not race over the last 20, 30 years, I something that you can do on the see a nation that is possibly less playground. His dream calls for America to make some very fundainvolved in the visible overt types of instances of discrimination. mental changes in terms of how it Differences are not treated overtly sees itself, some changes in terms of how policies are made, changes now as much as covertly. We are a more polite nation; we are a na- in terms of how we see people, tion in which African Americans how we value people. And that’s have been included on some lev- an achievable one. Now have we els. We now have African Ameri- done enough, no. But I don’t want my articulation of what his dream cans who serve in the United States Senate, African Americans means to be used as an explanawho have served in the United tion for not achieving it. I’m trying States Supreme Court. We even to share with you the challenges have African Americans who are and obstacles that stand between King’s dream and America achiev-

ing that dream.

DN: What is American apartheid?

Combs: American apartheid makes reference to discrimination in housing, discrimination in terms of employment, discrimination in terms of education. There is a lot of separate education, separate housing, separate in terms of employment opportunities. So that’s what I had referenced. And not only equal footing but their inequities and disparities that are systematic.

DN: What are the things in the American political system that are preventing King’s dream from being realized?

Combs: Some of the elements within American society would be the value that Americans attach to certain races of people. I oftentimes ask my classes, ‘If you had $2 and if a child were being born and you only had $2 to invest in the stock market, which child would you bet would be most successful at 40?’

You don’t know who the parents are going to be, you don’t know what schools, what neighborhoods the two children are going to grow up in. Which one would you invest your $2 in and that $2 would be used for your retirement once you turn 65, and that’s all you had.

Who would you bet on? Most students say the white kid, because whites have greater advantages.

DN: What are some of the challenges that African Americans face in academia?

Combs: One of the major challenges that African Americans face is that their competence, their credibility are often challenged. And I want to add this: These kinds of reactions to African Americans is not a result of affirmative action. Throughout the history of the United States, African Americans who were educated, African Americans who had ‘achieved success’ in this society were questioned, so it is not a stigma of affirmative action as so many persons would like to argue. Throughout the history of the United States there has been that stigma that African Americans are less competent, less moral, less of full human beings as compared to whites.

DN: What is the future of the Civil Rights Movement?

Combs: I would argue that the civil rights movement is a movement that really challenges America to be what it says it is in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. America presents some very cherished values that can be useful in any society that you end up in. Equality, fairness, liberty, those are values that any and every society can make use of.

Its just what we mean by and how we make application of those values. In and of themselves they are impressive, but it’s how we interpret and what sense we make of those values.

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cfa: from 1 initially maintain the budget.

“I’ve been a part of the budget process for three years, and I appreciate being able to keep the budget under control,” Anderson said.

A sub-committee recommended an increase of $29,769 to the Union budget because of additional utilities expenses. Chancellor Harvey Perlman approved the increase last week. The budget increase was approved unanimously by the CFA. The committee also approved the 2014-2015 budget for Campus Recreation, but not without changes to the original proposal.

The Campus Recreation Staff and Campus Recreation Advisory Committee originally requested $6,598,262 for the 2014-2015 school year, an increase of 8.7 percent from last year ’s budget.

The Campus Recreation Advisory Committee requested to reduce costs by taking away the East Campus Injury Prevention Coordinator Position.

“We feel that that’s an impor-

tant position, especially to East Campus,” John Dembowski, CFA member and graduate student of accountancy at UNL, said.

Dembowski said there might be the option of rotating the position, but not removing it entirely.

CFA member Xingjian Wang, a senior economics and political science major at UNL, had questions concerning parts of the budget which were discussed during Tuesday’s meeting.

Wang said he wanted to know more about the need for additional custodial staff, expansion of the East Campus Recreation Center weight room and other parts of the budget.

After about five minutes of discussion, Anderson requested a movement for a roll call vote and the motion was seconded.

CFA approved a budget of $6,598,262 to Campus Recreation for the 2014-2015 year without taking away the East Campus Injury Prevention Coordinator position.

The budget was passed with

nine yes’s, one abstain from Anderson and one no from Wang.

CFA also unanimously passed an allocation of $916,000 for the Campus Recreation’s Repair and Improvement Fund budget. There was a zero percent increase in the budget.

“We agree with a zero percent increase, totaling out to $20 a student per semester,” said Hanna Jenkins, CFA member and senior advertising and public relations major at UNL. Stan Campbell, associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs at UNL, said he was pleased with not increasing the budget while keeping quality services for students.

“We’re doing everything we can to keep service at the level it is,” Campbell said.

An allocation of $160,000 to the Collegiate Readership Program’s 2014-2015 budget was also approved unanimously. The next CFA meeting will be held Tuesday to hear appeals from Fund B Fee Users.

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perience working for minimum wage.

“I worked my way up and stuck with it,” she said. “My time there shows I was dedicated and responsible at an age where others may not be as motivated. I definitely plan on telling that to future employers.”

Wilber wants students to understand what and how to tell such future employers about their minimum-

wage job experience.

“It’s about looking where you come from, where you are and what your goals are,” Wilber said. “At Career Services, we aren’t fluffing it up, but we are (telling) students that they now have skills they often take for granted.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

wages: from 1 Soto said. “I have gotten skills from other places and I will start looking (for a job). It’s just my first year of college, so I have time.”

Chapple is considering going back to Falls City this summer. Maybe she’ll go back to Sun Mart, she said, or maybe she’ll land an internship at the Falls City Journal.

Either way, she’s proud of her ex-

The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts is seeing success with the December redesign of its website.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been trying to focus on making its websites more accessible with consistently updated information.

“We know that better content that’s more relevant to our audiences attracts a better viewership,” said Meg Lauerman, director of University Communications.

The Hixson-Lied’s website was the first to adapt to the new-and-improved design and it appears to have already made a difference.

“I’ve heard reported that time spent on the site is really above average, particularly in watching videos,” said Andy Schadwinkel, marketing director for University Communications. “I think we’re seeing that people who are coming to the website are spending more time (on the university’s website) than other websites.”

The web framework is called “4.0” and is a major update to the university’s recruitment strategies.

“This is an integrated effort that involves admissions work and reaching out to high school students,” Lauerman said. “And the website is a big help to get information across to students that might come here.”

The website has content that is updated more often, such as photos, as well as student bios and videos. It should bring more repeat traffic because of the amount of quality content, according to Bob Crisler, director of Internet and Interactive Media for University Communications.

“I think we’re in a really solid place,” he said. “But one of the primary motives is we certainly need to be competing at the highest level.”

The student profiles are getting a lot of traffic, Schadwinkel said, and updating the website is a big part of maintaining the site’s appeal. He said the college is working on a content strategy to outline an overall schedule when content should be updated, and he suggested that there should be new content every day to be relevant.

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The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts’ new website feature parallax scrolling and many visual elements.

Mobile capacity is also one of the top reasons the new web framework was invented.

Dean Charles O’Connor couldn’t be reached for comment, but Schadwinkel said his views were positive.

“I know the dean was really excited about how the website came together,” Schadwinkel said. “He feels really strongly that the site is one of the better ones he’s seen for that type of college.”

The website contains a top navigation bar and eliminates sidebars to make the website easier to navigate.

“Redesigning will provide a better perception of the college,” Crisler said. “It should bring more repeat traffic, there’s a lot of content there.”

Monitoring how much time is spent on the site as well as page views is giving the college an idea of what is attracting the viewers.

“We’re very optimistic that this approach in the web will make it more appealing and inspirational and will attract more visitors,” Lauerman said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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d n e d i to r i a l b oa r d m e m b e r s HAILEY KONNATH

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DN quotes of the week “I would hope that the next president has some of the same qualities that J.B. Milliken has – professional and personal.”

Bob Whitehouse, UNL regent

“I’m less interested in celebrating the token achievements of women than I am in living in a world of equality.”

Oliver Tonkin, Opinion columnist

“Trying to play when the guitar is out of tune is like forgetting to put pants on before going to class. So save the un-tuned nopants-romance for between-the-sheets or practice-while-pooping jam sessions when the tuner is out of reach.”

Joe Wade, Arts columnist

“We just have to continue to get better, having an attitude of ‘be a better player, be a better teammate’ every day.”

Tim Miles, Husker basketball coach

“And that quality is that whoever possesses that voice must have the ability to stand up and reach beyond partisanship. Stand up and reach beyond bickering and look for real solutions.”

Dave Domina, Democrat, announces US Senate candidacy

“The Olympics are meant to unify the world, not to be made into a discussion of arbitrary politics. However, it’s safe to say that freedom of the press, LGBT acceptance and public safety hardly constitute as arbitrary.”

Damien Croghan, Opinion columnist

“You, Megabus, you were so alluring with your discounts and already cheap travel, those supposedly cushioned seats we saw in a Google search, the thrill of the high road. You seemed so… mega.”

Nate Sindelar & Maranda Loughlin, Arts columnists

“People into the media and stuff – I don’t really try and pay attention. I just believe in myself what people don’t. And I surprise people.”

James Green, wrestler

“As far as efficiency, I don’t think (ASUN is) efficient. I don’t think I’m as efficient as I should be.”

Annie Himes, ASUN Senator

“If your reserved friend isn’t jumping wholeheartedly into conversation, they’re probably just thinking about philosophy, Kim Kardashian or some other topic of great interest.”

Kayla Simon, Opinion Columnist

“Snapchat, like most social media platforms I use, is a playground for me to dance around in, never taking it too seriously.”

Tyler Keown, Arts & Life Assistant Editor

letters to the editor policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor and guest columns but does not guarantee their publication. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit or reject any material submitted. Submitted material becomes property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be returned or removed from online archives. Anonymous submissions will not be published. Those who submit letters must identify themselves by name, year in school, major, and/or group affiliation, if any. Email material to opinion@ dailynebraskan.com or mail to: Daily Nebraskan, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Lincoln, NE 68588-0448.

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Lift barrier on illegal drug research

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n December, a team of Swiss researchers found that administration of LSD with cognitive therapy sessions significantly reduced feelings of anxiety in terminally ill patients. It was the first study of its kind in 40 years, but it wasn’t exactly groundbreaking. According to a Nature review on neuroscience, in the decade or so before LSD prohibition there were “more than 1,000 clinical papers discussing 40,000 patients, several dozen books and six international conferences on LSD-assisted psychotherapy.” There was a total of 10,000 scientific publications on the drug. Physicians were quickly realizing that acid presented an entirely new dimension to their options for treating chronic pain, addiction and psychological trauma, leading Time magazine to call LSD “an invaluable weapon to psychiatrists” in 1955.

And then suddenly, nothing. LSD, along with drugs like mescaline, psilocybin and marijuana, were made “Schedule I” by the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, making it a felony to possess any quantity of the substance without a Drug Enforcement Administration license. Research stopped. Its clinical applications were declared illegal and invalid. Its effects were unacceptable, at least compared to those of alcohol and tobacco.

Still today the barriers toward research are impossibly high, essentially amounting to prohibition for consumers and scientists alike. These barriers prevent life-changing treatments from reaching patients and put the greatest questions of science indefinitely on hold, including the nature of human consciousness itself.

Schedule I substances are substances deemed by the DEA to have a high potential for abuse, have no currently accepted medical use and lack accepted safety standards for administration under medical supervision.

The definition is problematic, especially for relatively new and synthetic chemicals such as LSD. If researchers aren’t able to study these drugs, then no “currently accepted medical use” will be found. Scheduling is self-reinforcing. Once a substance is declared to be Schedule I, it’s unlikely to ever be removed from the list no matter how clear the preliminary findings were.

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Marijuana got lucky. Because it has always been widely available and doesn’t require a working knowledge of organic chemistry to produce, it has remained ever-present, even through prohibition. As a result, much of the governing class has lived through ages of persistent marijuana usage, perhaps even picking up some extracurricular knowledge of the subject in college, and found that it truly isn’t the social ill it’s made out to be.

A longitudinal survey conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that individuals haven’t changed their opinions of marijuana much since the 1970s, yet the percentage of Americans who support legalization has jumped from 12 percent in 1969 to 52 percent today. The only way to account for this is the shuffling out of the Silent generation (born 1925-1945) and Boomers taking their place.

A generation sick of spending billions of dollars and squandering millions of lives in foreign and domestic drug wars didn’t take much to convince. And so every week we see new bills proposing to lessen penalties for marijuana users or to widen availability to those who need it.

But where are the protesters wielding signs demanding that politicians legalize DMT? There probably won’t ever be any, if only because many of these drugs are relatively obscure.

Pharmaceutical companies have no reason to lobby for them despite their obvious clinical usefulness. MDMA and LSD-assisted psychotherapy require just one or two doses per year compared to the daily antidepressant pills which 10 percent of Americans take, often for the duration of their adult lives. In any case, the patents for most of these drugs have already expired; there’s simply no money in

them. In fact, legalization and incorporation of psychedelics into medical practice would probably do enormous damage to the pharmaceutical industry.

Scientists are just as uninterested as industry. According to a Popular Science article on LSD testing, the number of scientists with DEA licenses has shrunk from 550 to 349 since 2010.

Even if one were able to navigate the labyrinth of regulations for working with Schedule I substances and getting experimental designs approved, the funding for researchers in this area is basically non-existent. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funds limited studies with the intent to understand how these drugs work in animals, but explicitly doesn’t allow funds to be used on potential medical applications of the drugs. Choosing to study psychedelics would be setting oneself up for a career of red tape and professional isolation.

These restrictions are another in a long history of politics, poorly disguised as science, getting in the way of progress. LSD, MDMA and most other psychedelics are statistically less dangerous than any number of perfectly acceptable hobbies, such as riding a horse.

Yet for lawmakers, these mental experiences are intolerable, just as intolerable as stem-cell research was to Bush or heliocentrism was to renaissance-era clerics.

Without business incentives, popular support or interest from scientists and physicians, how will prohibition end?

Psychedelic science’s only hope is a small but committed community squeezing all of the data they can out of these drugs. Small experiments such as the Swiss study into LSD-assisted treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder will eventually capture the interest of the scientific community again. With sustained pressure, we might see patients being treated with biannual acid trips in the future. Or maybe not. It’s impossible to know how their efficacy compares to the more orthodox methods without further research – research that won’t get done without a revolutionary shift in the way we think about drug policy.

Shariq Khan is a sophomore biochemistry major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Accents don’t measure intelligence

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y stepdad has a noticeable accent. I would describe it as Midwestern. For example, instead of pronouncing “dog” as “d-aw-g” he pronounces it as “d-oe-g,” putting heavy emphasis on the ”o.” Growing up, I used to think this was funny, but after taking a few linguistics courses, I felt really bad about the way I perceived his accent. By laughing, I was somehow making it seem like he was less intelligent because he pronounced something slightly differently than I would. The truth is the English language has been spread out and changed from place to place. Today, we really can’t determine what exactly is proper. So who are we to judge what’s right and what’s wrong in people’s speech?

Accents are often attributed to different regions of an area. What counts as proper English in Nebraska might be completely different than what New Yorkers believe to be “high language.” Tamara Rakic, a psychologist at the University Jena in Germany once said, “Those who have an accent give away their ethnic background as well.” The good thing about categorizing accents is that we can learn a lot about an area and where accents and languages originated. While it’s a useful tool in understanding linguistics and the evolution of language, it can limit us. We start categorizing people by their accents, putting them into groups and making false assumptions about them. No two people are alike and no two languages are alike.

One of the biggest assumptions that exists is that people from the South or from New York City have poor English skills. This myth was addressed in PBS’s special “Do You Speak American?”, which explored how people across the U.S. speak and perceive language.

According to the documentary, a group of 150

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people from southeastern Michigan ranked the correctness of the English language spoken within the 50 states. The lowest rankings were southern states and northeastern states, such as New York and New Jersey. However, the documentary showed how communities in the South use language to share stories about their heritage. The words and accents they use are unique features of their region.

One interesting tidbit about language is that the southern dialect is actually most closely related to Old English, according to a special by the History Channel. The aristocrats even went as far as to use “ain’t.” In some cases just by inserting a lilt (which is where the voice rises and falls on certain vowels) into the old English, you get a Southern accent. Actually studying linguistics or paying attention to your parents stories can reveal a lot about the history of a region and its people. This study contradicts how many people have perceived this accent as unintelligent or unrefined. Who are we to judge exactly what is right and what is wrong in regards to language? What exactly is standard, anyway? Since language is so unique and personal, we shouldn’t assume one language is better than another.

Yet we continue to make stereotypes about language, which form at a young age. According to a study by Katherine Kinzler and Jasmine DeJesus on accent perceptions in the

U.S., children in Illinois and Tennessee between the ages of 9 and 11 thought people with Northern acc-ents seemed smarter, while people with Southern accents seemed nicer. While we can easily make assumptions like these, we can’t let them determine how we feel about an entire region of people.

These perceptions are learned behaviors, and they can and should be changed. As a society, we should be making more of an effort to incorporate these different dialects into our language. Instead of passing judgment on different dialects, we should seize the opportunity to learn about other cultures and individuals. Shouldn’t our ideas and the content behind them say a lot more about who we are?

The punctuations and inflections are mere technicalities. We use our language to express pieces of who we are and where we come from and there is great power in that.

Instead of just using grammar or standardized English to decide if we’re intelligent speakers, we should let words and thoughts speak for themselves. The ability to analyze and to think critically is more important than the rules of our language. We should be teaching these skills at young ages and not punish or laugh at those who speak a little differently than us. We’re all united in one aspect: our unique ideas. We convey them in different ways through language and express ourselves through different channels. Some of us have a Southern accent, others have an edgy New York way of speaking and others might use a Midwestern vocabulary and vowels. There is nothing wrong with any of them, and it’s time we became more accepting.

Christianna Friedman is a senior secondary education major. Follow her on Twitter @ChristiFriedman and reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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finding your

fit

Personal trainer Kelsey Turner focuses on helping her clients get fit by getting to know them on personal level to tailor individual workouts story by Madeline Christensen | photos by Andrew Barry

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t’s 6:15 on a Wednesday morning, cold enough outside to make anyone retreat back under the covers for the day.

For University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Recreation Center trainer Kelsey Turner, it’s go time.

The nutrition and health sciences graduate student is already adjusting her microphone headset to begin an early morning barbell strength class.

“It is incredibly hard to get up at 5 in the morning, but we kind of have a core group here that keeps each other going,” Turner said. “We’re all tired together, so we just try to have a good time.”

For Turner, motivation is a two-way street – her driving force comes from inspiring others to reach their goals.

“I love to hear progress,” Turner said. “That is my favorite. People will email me or call me and tell me how many miles they’ve run or that their plank time has gone up, weight loss, anything.

Even if it’s a tiny change, just knowing I helped in some way is super gratifying.”

Turner has been a personal trainer since 2011.

She first came to the Rec Center her freshman year as a volunteer assistant. After a while, she was offered a part-time job.

“I was inspired by this whole environment to pursue nutrition and exercise,” Turner said.

“When I was a program assistant, I was seeing people come in and out of that office all the time.

I made friends with the student staff, and just being here, it’s hard to not get sucked in and love it.”

Turner said to her, exercise isn’t just about gaining muscle mass or losing weight – it’s mentally cleansing. However, exercising regularly wasn’t always on the top of her list.

“I ran track in junior high and a little bit in high school,” Turner said. “I liked it a lot, but I wouldn’t say I was super into exercise and my health. I didn’t really watch what I ate or made sure I went to the gym everyday.

“When I came to college, I realized there was this awesome facility here, and since then, it’s be-

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TOP: Helia Coetzer catches a medicine ball thrown by her trainer Kelsey Turner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Recreation Center. Coetzer has met with Turner since December 2013 to help target ways to improve Coetzer’s fitness.

ABOVE: Turner times Coetzer as she participates in an exercise prescribed by Turner. As Turner keeps Coetzer’s time, she also watches Coetzer’s form to make sure she is doing the exercises properly.

Rather than Epitomes make music family affair quick fix, make lifestyle change Local band finds time in busy schedules to rehearse, make new music, perform as a family unit

CASSIE KERNICK

New Year’s resolutions prove unsuccessful because of lack of commitment As January comes to a close and February nudges its way in, one is considered successful if he or she is still living up to his or her New Year’s resolutions.

While it seems absurd to wait for a specific date to take charge of some aspect of one’s life, it seems even more ludicrous that the majority of New Year’s resolution makers don’t keep their resolutions for more than a month.

This year, I decided to make a New Year’s resolution; I was going to get my life together. Although to the outside observer I may seem pretty put together: I go to school, have a job and am involved on campus. The desire to end my battle with weight struggles once and for all is deeply nagging at me.

I want to lose weight. I know, I have the same goal as about 90 percent of Americans.

But more than wanting to just lose weight, I want to experiment with different types of exercise, eating habits and daily lifestyle changes to actually live a more healthy life.

I know that I’m not alone when I divulge that I’m unhappy with my body. I have done fad diets many times before. Some have worked in the short term, and some have just been a waste of money.

However, even when the diets did work, it was only for a little while before my weight bounced back up.

It was from this realization that I discovered the seemingly obvious truth behind why New Year’s resolutions don’t work: They’re based on some extreme lifestyle

Have any exercise tips? Let us know at @dnartsdesk. change looking for a quick fix.

But what in life can one obtain instantly and without practically any effort? Seemingly, nothing.

Yet with weight loss people want a quick and easy fix, and when they don’t receive it, they give up, disheartened and unsatisfied.

I, myself, have been guilty of expecting to find a miracle solution so that I can continue to skimp on going to the gym and eat whenever I have the slightest craving.

Finally, I am tired of cursing my luck for not being blessed with a more efficient metabolism and hating almost anyone who can eat what they want. I am ready to stop being bitter and start taking an active role in not only the way I look but also in my physical health. I want to set attainable goals, try different exercises, eat a more balanced diet and ultimately change the way I think about health and fitness.

I am not a skinny bitch. I don’t have a privileged metabolism. I, like Jennifer Lawrence, can think of about a billion things that taste better than skinny, yet I want to change my life for the better. And I want to help others kick the stigma that there is only one way to get healthy.

So don’t give up on New Year’s Resolutions just yet. Instead, hit the gym with me. I ‘ll be the one wearing baggy sweatpants because none of my shorts fit anymore. Who doesn’t love the extra cushion freshman year brings?

Regardless of how skinny, fat, healthy or out of shape someone is, there are always ways to better oneself. So get up and get moving with me. Goal for this week: Plan ahead and schedule in time to exercise as frequently as possible.

Cassie Kernick will be writing a series on her experiences in as many facets of fitness she can explore. Reach her at arts @dailynebraskan.com

Cassie Kernick DN To be a part of The Epitomes is to be family.

Literally.

For the Lincoln-based band, Patrick Beardslee plays guitar and sings lead vocals. He’s also the cousin of half-brothers Jordan Novak, bass guitarist and back-up vocalist, and Dylan Kunc, drummer, who make up the rest of the trio.

“My first inspiration was my family,” Novak said. “Some of my family members are very gifted musicians, but really every band is an inspiration in some way because of their different sounds and styles.”

While each member may find their creative sparks in different places, their extended families’ musical inclinations inspire all of them.

“My grandma was a music major,” Beardslee said. “She used to teach music, so I think everybody gets it from her.”

Although many of the boys’ family members were musically inclined, learning to play and perform music for themselves came later in The Epitomes’ lives. For Kunc, it all fell into place when he received his first drum set.

“I had just gotten a drum set for Christmas after my 16th birthday and I just started playing with Pat (Beardslee) and eventually we started the band,” Kunc said.

Beardslee had been playing guitar for a while when Kunc received his drums, but it was when they started collaborating and playing around together that Beardslee really began to experiment with different instruments.

“After playing a few years I decided to pick up piano my junior year of high school,” Beardslee said. “My grandma showed me the keys and I just taught myself from there.”

He went on to teach himself the banjo, and from that point the idea of a band was conceived.

Beardslee and Kunc played one show before enlisting Novak to play bass guitar.

At the time, Novak was finishing up school at Iowa State.

Although he didn’t know how to

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Jordan Novak, Dylan Kunc and Patrick Beardslee are all members of the local Lincoln band the Epitomes, who often play at Knickerbockers.

play bass then, his previous experi- week to work on things.”

Beardslee is a biochemistry ence with guitar helped him pick it up quickly, and The Epitomes were major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and, although Kunc is born. a senior at Lincoln Northeast, he Though the Merriam-Webster intends to go to UNL in the fall. dictionary defines “epitome” as While schedules are sometimes “a perfect example,” the bandmates agree that their version, pro- difficult to align, they make time to practice and to play at least one nounced “epi-toams,” holds little show a month. meaning.

“We play a lot at Knickerbock“It was just kind of a play ers, but my favorite place that I on words,” Beardslee said. “We have played would be at The Waitthought of the word epitome and ing Room in Omaha,” Kunc said. then that led to The Epitomes, beWhile the cause it sounded group ventures to kind of cool.”

Music is Omaha occasionBecause of ally, the members the lack of a clear just about are content with explanation, The staying in the local Epitomes are think- expressing scene for the time ing of evolving into yourself and kind being.

The Epitones – a “I just think name based from of having fun with we’re a young fans’ suggestions band with young in order to encour- it.” talent, and I think age less confusion with pronuncia- Patrick Beardslee it’s pretty cool to lead singer and guitarist see how much tion. we’ve improved When the band in a year,” Novak members are not said. “And I’m excited for us to deliberating on a new name, they are likely trying to find time to keep improving.”

After playing together for a practice among hectic schedules. year and a half, The Epitomes’ “Some of us are students; some of us have careers, too,” said No- sound continues to adapt with the vak, who currently works in Lin- music they enjoy. From Led Zeppelin to The Black Keys to John coln. “So it’s hard to match up, Mayer, who’s concert they atbut we try and get together once a

tended together in November, the bands’ range of musical taste is really what inspires their blues-rock sound.

“We like to play a lot of different rock, and we like to play just straight up blues sometimes,” Beardslee said. “But then other times we like to play just folk. Our sound is not very definable.”

Beardslee’s personal affinity for BB King, Ray Charles, Metallica and The Red Hot Chili Peppers inspire the feeling he tries to portray when writing songs.

“Almost all of the songs that we have came from me just messing around on the guitar, and then somehow I like the sound of it, and then I just kind of mess with that and kind of make it into a song,” Beardslee said. “There are only two or three of the songs that I actually wrote down all the lyrics. I mean I just kind of think of how the song makes me feel and just kind of put words to it.”

“I’m not a very lyrical person,” he said. “I really have to sit down and think a lot if I’m going to write out some decent lyrics.”

While Beardslee prefers acoustics, it’s the witty lyrics of the song “Sherrie Derriere” that makes it a crowd, as well as a band, favorite.

The original song was written by

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friday, january 24, 2014

How-to: Prepare for running in the cold weather Before you tie your shoe strings and slip out into the negative-degree weather today, and for the next couple of months, make sure you know how to successfully and safely go for a run in the winter weather.

Make a plan Plan your route ahead of time. Know where you’re going to start and where you’re going to finish. If you’re new to running, plan your course close to home (or wherever you plan on wrapping up) in case you get tired faster than expected or arn’t warming up enough to compete with the frosty winds.

Even moreexperienced runners have trouble keeping stamina in sub-temperature weather because of the cold air that leaks into their airways and lungs.

Wearing the right equipment When not geared-up correctly, you could slip on ice, acquire hypothermia or obtain frostbite. To protect yourself from the cold atmosphere, you should wear multiple layers of clothing on your body.

A scarf should always be wrapped around your neck, mouth and nose if possible. A neck gaiter is also a solution (it’s that thing that looks like a ski mask worn in all of the bank heist movies).

Having a scarf and/or a neck gaiter warms the air before you breath it in, which would otherwise ice your body.

Cover your ears, fingers and toes because these appendages are more susceptible to frost bite

because of less blood flow. For extra hand and finger protection, wear mittens. Keeping your fingers together in a mitten collectively traps body heat and keeps the fingers warm.

Avoid wearing cotton because it has little-to-no insulating ability, which will leave you feeling cold and damp from your own sweat. Instead, wear moisture-wicking fabric clothing. Wicking fabric is a material that draws moisture away from the skin to the outside of the clothing, evaporating it.

This prevents moisture from collecting between the article of clothing and your skin.

Lastly, wear a wind breaker as a protective shell from the wind and precipitation. It seems like a lot of layers to have, but a wind breaker is absolutely needed in below-zero-degree weather.

Warm up Lastly, it’s important to warm up before basking in the cool weather outside. A not-so-clever tip: Warm up inside. Jog in place for five minutes if you have to. The goal of warming up is to get your heart rate high and to loosen joints and muscles.

It’s easier to get warm in the comfort of your heated home.

You could also take a five-minute warm shower to get your blood pumping, but make sure to not get your hair wet.

A Couple Tips: Exercise in the warmest part of the day: Mid afternoon.

Stay visible when running. If you run in the morning or at night, wear reflective gear. Clothing with reflectors can be found at almost any

‘Spring Breakers’ offers unexpected view Jack Forey

Alien has tons of shit.

He’s got nunchuks. He’s got a really nice bed – excuse me – work of art. He’s got shorts in every damn color, Calvin Klein body spray, dark tanning oil, tons of sheeeiiit.

And that’s just his bedroom.

He has “rooms full of shit.”

He believes life is all about big booties and money falling, y’all.

He even has followers. He preaches to crowds of them once every year. Alien is even willing to die for what he believes.

“Spring Breakers,” the film in which Alien is a character, is one of the best that came out last year.

It’s the latest work from Harmony Korine, whose previous film, “Trash Humpers” was shot on VHS and consisted of little more than him, his wife and his friends humping trash cans, talking to odd locals and breaking stuff.

That film is trash, but it’s beautiful trash (You’d be surprised what you can learn about a society by going through its garbage). It’s about strange, numb people living lives of quiet desperation in the mundane streets of Anywhere, USA. “Spring Breakers” is like that.

It wants us to care about people we don’t feel comfortable around, like the mindless, binge drinking party-girl or the mindless, macho jackass who flaunts his possessions to strangers. Aren’t they human beings, too? The genius of Korine’s work is that he manages to have it both ways: He criticizes and celebrates his subjects at the same time.

The film opens with a semimusic video for Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.” It’s an exploitative montage of party people gyrating their bodies, flipping off the camera and grabbing their crotches, all in slow motion. “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” is the perfect song to open this movie. It contrasts light electronic hums with brash, loud bass droning, a contrast in tone that parallels Korine’s contrast of intent. These opening shots are

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The movie’s sun-bathed spring breakers want nothing more than to get loaded and have a good time; they’re hedonists, and Alien is their prophet. They’re enjoying themselves, and maybe they’re even happy. It’s an empty lifestyle that attracts vice and violence.

They’re human beings. They’re shallow. All of these things are true, and the movie wants us to alternately condemn and celebrate the exploits of these characters.

Three of the four girls are basically interchangeable. Faith (Selena Gomez) stands out amongst her friends. She’s the “good” girl.

Faith wants an escape as much as her friends. She just has a different kind of escape in mind. Her idea of “the best spring break ever” doesn’t involve getting arrested, bailed out by a fishy-looking thug named Alien (James Franco), then taken to a thuggin’ house party full of gangsta ass, well, thugs. Things get too real for her. Faith decides to drop out of the spring break odyssey, but not before Alien can express his love for her. Think about that – Alien, the prophet of spring break hedonism, conveys his devotion for Faith, the Bible study girl who tells her grandmother, “This is the most spiritual place

I’ve ever been.”

The remaining girls become Alien’s disciples of sorts, brandishing assault rifles as they dance to his performance of Britney Spears’s “Everytime.” Alien calls Britney Spears “an angel if there ever was one on this earth.” He truly believes that. The scene itself is tender, but ridiculous. Heartfelt, but satirical.

“Spring Breakers” is surprisingly egalitarian. Alien, going against the grain of hip-hop culture, doesn’t subjugate the girls to the role of “hoes.” He treats them as equals, calling them his soul mates. He even enlists their strength in a series of robberies. It could be that he had an epiphany during the scene where Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens turn the tables on Alien by making him fellate the barrel of a gun as though he were giving the two of them oral sex. This is the point where he declares them his soul mates.

One might pose that the film objectifies women. Or is it the women in the film who are objectifying themselves? What if that is what they want? (Bunuel’s “Belle de Jour,” a 1967 French story of daytime prostitution, comes to mind.) Benson and Hudgens seem perfectly aware of what they’re

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cast. Frasier ’s brother, Niles, is a psychiatrist as well and shares his love for high-end culture.

Their father, a retired cop, falls on the other end of the spectrum, opting to sit on the recliner with a beer over attending the opera with his sons. His physical ther-

doing. Their characters are definitely strong enough to carry out their will, even if that will is in service of vice and greed.

As Alien says, “Some kids want to grow up to be president, be a doctor … I just wanna be bad.”

There’s more to this film than meets the eye, but the stuff that does meet our eyes is gorgeous.

Korine told cinematographer Benoit Debie to make the film look like “a Skittles commercial on acid.”

The score by Cliff Martinez and Skrillex is like a simmering cauldron of bass and electronic pomp.

It’s meant to be an intoxicating experience. This is why lines of dialogue and images of writhing beach parties repeat themselves, like in a fever dream.

It’s a vicarious experience.

There’s glamour and glory in crime and vice. If there wasn’t, movies like “Goodfellas” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” wouldn’t exist.

Better to work out those fevered dreams of being bad on the screen than on the streets.

Jack Forey also has nunchucks and a variety of disparate cosmetic accessories.

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apist, Daphne, is a slightly daft English woman whom Niles falls deeply in love with, though he doesn’t have the courage to tell her so.

This may sound like typical sitcom fare, but “Frasier” takes tropes and pushes them in unex-

pected directions. The show isn’t afraid to end an episode on a sad moment or to let story lines play out the way they’re expected to.

The dialogue between characters is great as well. Frasier ’s vocabulary is theatrical and oversized, and his word choice often feels too big for the moment, which is often where the comedy is found.

This is a common thread in the show – laughing as this highclass elite deals with situations he considers beneath himself.

You root for him despite his pretentious airs, because he’s still a good person, even if he does sometimes act like a snooty old man.

There’s a lot more I’d like to say about “Frasier,” but part of my enjoyment of the show has been rooted in my coming into it blind. It’s an easy show to dismiss because of its age, but its a genuine gem. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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NETFLIX Try and name the show that has won the most Emmys.

“Seinfeld”? “West Wing”?

“The Love Boat”?

No. It’s “Frasier,” and everyone should watch it if they haven’t.

The show, a spin-off of “Cheers,” ran from 1993 to 2004.

It picked up 37 Emmys during that time, including five straight awards for best comedy.

It was totally justified. Hidden behind the laugh track is a brilliantly written sitcom centered around a lovably pretentious radio psychiatrist and his misadventures.

Frasier Crane is a Seattle celebrity, his radio show attracting callers from all over looking for advice. He’s a connoisseur of the finer things in life, be it wine older than he is or furnishing his expansive apartment with replica Coco Chanel pieces.

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With Oscar nominations announced and the Golden Globes, Screen Actors’ Guild, Producers’ Guild of America and Broadcast Film Critics’ award shows having already taken place, the Oscar race has become excitingly close in several categories, while increasingly apparent in others.

Unsurprisingly, David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” and Alfonso Cauron’s “Gravity” came through nomination morning with the most nods, 10 a piece, while Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” followed closely behind with nine nominations. This sets up a thrilling and unpredictable race unlike any in recent memory between the three films. It isn’t difficult to make a case for any of the contenders, and any one of them could walk away with the golden statue on March 2.

“12 Years a Slave” is probably the frontrunner at this stage, having won Best Drama at the Golden Globes, Best Picture at the Critics’ Choice Awards and tied for Best Picture at the Producers’ Guild of America Awards. Period pieces are always considered Oscarbait material and McQueen’s unflinching depiction of American slavery, a subject embarrassingly absent from film history, would be a winner almost no one could argue against. However, McQueen’s artistic aesthetic is less conventional and uplifting than the films that tend to win Oscars, which could result in a loss to a more popular and digestible film.

The contenders, “Gravity” and “American Hustle,” have also taken home a number of awards already this year.

“Gravity” won Best Director at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice, and tied with “12 Years a Slave” for the Producers’ Guild of America’s Best Picture. The film’s special effects are unprecedented in comparison to modern blockbusters, and its incorporation of digital technology is the most revolutionary since “Avatar.”

“American Hustle,” Russell’s comedy period piece, is also technically impressive in its immersion into the 1970s.

It features an all-star cast, all at the top of their acting game.

The film won Best Comedy or Musical at the Golden Globes (a category that was possibly even more competitive than its drama counterpart this year) and the Screen Actors’ Guild award for Best Ensemble.

While McQueen’s film may be too artistic and thematically difficult for voters to get behind, “Gravity” and “American Hustle” have the opposite downside of being pure escapist entertain-

ment, having little to offer audiences besides a good time.

Best Director is a less close category, with Cauron having won both the Golden Globe and the Critics’ Choice statues for directing. But until the Director’s Guild of America announces their winners on January 25th, Steve McQueen and David O. Russell still stand a chance for Oscar gold, with the legendary Martin Scorsese as a dark horse in the running for “The Wolf of Wallstreet.”

The Best Actor race is equally tight. Matthew McConaughey is the frontrunner with a Screen Actors’ Guild, Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe Drama award for his performance as a homophobic electrician who gets AIDs in “Dallas Buyer’s Club.” But Leonardo DiCaprio’s Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his hilarious, over-the-top performance as an indulgent Wall Street broker in “The Wolf of Wall Street” proves he could provide some competition. Bruce Dern’s incredibly moving and subtle performance in “Nebraska,” along with his status as a veteran in the industry could also propel him to the stage as well.

If there are any two categories that seem locked up, they are Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. It would be safe for Cate Blanchett and Jared Letto to prepare their speeches and clear another space on their mantle piece, because they have both won the Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, and Screen Actors’ Guild awards for their respective performances.

Blanchett gives a harrowing and unforgettable performance in Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine,” and Letto’s unrecognizable transformation as a transsexual battling AIDs is incredible in “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Outside contenders in Best Actress are Golden Globe Comedy or Musical winner Amy Adams for “American Hustle” and Sandra Bullock in “Gravity.” Jonah Hill and Michael Fassbender’s brilliant and memorable respective performances in “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “12 Years a Slave,” provide unlikely competition for Letto in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Best Supporting Actress is currently a race between Screen Actors’ Guild and Critics’ Choice winner Lupita Nyong’o in “12 Years a Slave” and Golden Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence in “American Hustle.” Newcomer Nyong’o gives a heartbreaking performance as a lusted after and abused slave, while Lawrence chews through scenery as the reckless and volatile wife of a con man.

Lawrence’s win last year, which some have argued was premature, hurts her chances of winning two years in a row.

If J-Law can pull it off, it would make her the youngest actress to have two Academy Awards at the age of 23.

There is still a long time until the winners of the 86th Annual Academy Awards are announced from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, but so far, this year’s races are close and will hopefully provide a more entertaining and shocking Oscar ceremony than the typical predictable awards show they have recently become. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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come a very important part of my life. When things begin getting busy, working out becomes me time. I turn off my phone and just go.”

Turner said she hopes to show others what a difference pushing yourself and exercising regularly can have on your daily life.

“I would say my training style is very over the top,” Turner said. “I love being here, I love working out and I love helping people, so I think I can be a little … exuberant? I do think I’m motivational, but if you want someone who instills fear then that’s probably not me.”

Since Turner began personal training, she’s worked with four to six clients every semester, each with individualized workout plans.

Through the Rec Center personal training program, clients first start off with a session called a “PT Starter.” It includes a fitness assessment with a personal trainer, a nutrition assessment with the dietitians and nutrition staff on campus and an hour-long personal training session.

“Through the PT Starter, you can get a picture of things your doing well and also areas you can work on,” Turner said. “Based on that classification, you can kind of go from there for how the workouts should go.“ Turner said she also makes sure she takes time to really listen to her clients.

“For people to like fitness, it’s so important that it be individualized,” Turner said. “So I like to sit down with clients and find out what their goals are, whether that be building muscle mass or increasing their cardiovascular ability.”

Junior equine science major Helia Coetzer said she just needed the motivation to keep going.

A client of Turner’s since December, Coetzer has already seen improvement in her cardio endurance, increased her number of reps and has had substantial weight loss.

“I’ve never been very strict with fitness,” Coetzer said. “I did cross country in high school, but when you come to college you sometimes start to ignore your health – you eat,

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Turner and Coetzer stretch together after a workout. Turner often participates in the exercises and stretches to demonstrate the proper form to Coetzer. you don’t exercise and you don’t care.”

After going home for breaks, Coetzer said she noticed the health issues her family experienced from weight gain and decided she didn’t want to follow the same path.

“So I signed up for a personal trainer,” she said. “I was nervous when I first started because I was scared I would get someone mean that would just tell me what I had to do. But it wasn’t like that at all.”

In fact, since Turner and Coetzer were paired up a month ago, Turner already looks to Coetzer as her own personal training success story.

Coetzer said she recommends the program to anyone who struggles with keeping a schedule.

“I have no problem starting something, but it’s hard to keep going,” Coetzer said. “Having a personal trainer makes me check in and see my progress. Obviously, she’ll be able to tell if I’ve been doing my workout or not. That really motivates me. It’s a really great way to start and get on a schedule.”

The personal training program at UNL also helps match clients with

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Coetzer said she couldn’t have asked for a better match.

“Kelsey’s really inspiring and inspirational all the time,” Coetzer said. “She’s not like a boot camp instructor, she’s really motivational and listens to everything I tell her and incorporates it into my workout, which is great. That really helps me work on the areas I want to improve most.”

Turner said it’s clients like Coetzer that make her love personal training.

“My training style and her personality just mesh really well,” Turner said. “We have a good time.”

As the two made their way to Cook Pavilion Wednesday night for a session, it felt less like boot camp and more like two friends catching up.

Turner prefers doing the workout alongside Coetzer instead of just telling her what to do. As they make their way through Coetzer’s workout plan, it’s hard to keep it serious.

“Don’t forget to breathe,” Turner said during a bridge, which helps with abdominal strength.

“I already passed out,” Coetzer said, mid-bridge.

“Wow, your bridge is pretty good for a passed-out person.”

It’s hard for the two to hold the position through the laughter. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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No more late-night Raising Cane’s. Although a university president probably has better restraint than to go get chicken at 1 a.m., any late night Cane’s lust will go unsatisfied.

No longer having the Sower watch out for you. While there are plenty of strange-looking buildings with even stranger things on top of them in NYC, Milliken won’t have the metallic statue watching over him from the clouds every time he’s outside.

No more doing anything for cheap. Welcome to New York, J.B.! While we Nebraskans continue to enjoy our low cost of living, have fun paying $3.50 for something on a dollar menu.

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Novak, who assists with song writing whenever ideas strike.

The Epitomes are enjoying the time they get to spend while making music, even if the future of the band is uncertain.

“I have a really big dream of having a song that would be a theme song for a Disney movie,” Novak said. “I know that sounds crazy, but I just think that would be awesome.”

Even though Novak has high aspirations for the band’s music, Beardslee would be content writing a song for Disney or just playing in a basement.

“If something happens for it - great, but if it doesn’t I’m OK with that because I can always do it as something for fun,” Beardslee said. “Music is just about expressing yourself and kind of having fun with it.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Seasoned Huskers face young Hawkeye team season, including a 191.75-191.65 loss to Utah State as well as close With senior Emily losses to Ball State and Georgia.

The Huskers have an experiWong at the helm, enced team competing, led by seNU looks to use its nior Emily Wong, who was recentnamed Big Ten Gymnast of the experience against 0-3 ly Week and has won the all-around Iowa squad title in both meets this season.

“I think we have all done really well this season, individually and as a team,” Wong said. “We’ve Vanessa Daves still got more in us, and obviousDN ly there’s more work to be done.

We’re just trying to get in (the After barely defeating Alabama gym) and work hard every day.” and Kentucky last weekend, the In its last meet, Nebraska Nebraska women’s gymnastics scraped by with a win after recovteam will be traveling to Iowa ering from mistakes in three out of City, Iowa, on Friday to compete the four events. Even though the in its first dual meet against the team didn’t have its best perforHawkeyes. mance, Kendig said, it was good During the last competition be- to see how they competed under tween the Huskers and the Hawkpressure, since they hadn’t faced eyes, Nebraska walked away with that before. a 197.675-194.950 win. With Ne“All in all, I felt like the team braska winning its did a good job (last first two meets of weekend),” Kendig It’s all about said. “Obviously it the season, coach Dan Kendig hopes confidence. depends on your the streak continperspective; you When gymnasts ues. can easily focus on “I’m a big be- are confident, the things that were liever in success bad. I think it’s breeds success,” great things can worth bringing up Kendig said. (the mistakes) as happen.”

In the meet, long as you don’t the Huskers will dwell on it. You Dan Kendig compete their first make a mistake. women’s gymnastics coach rotation on bars, You fix it. You focus followed by vault, on getting better.” floor and beam. The Sophomore Hawkeyes will begin on vault and Hollie Blanske also thought the proceed to bars, beam and floor. meet last week brought about a This year, the Hawkeyes have positive mindset for the team. a relatively young team, with no “We all just came together seniors competing. They do, how- and fought through everything,” ever, have six letter winners re- Blanske said. “It’s good knowing turning from the 2013 season. we can come back and still end Since the season began, Iowa strongly.” has improved its team score by This week in practice, Kendig nearly six points. The Hawkeyes said the team has been working lost all three meets thus far in the on certain areas in preparation

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Senior Emily Wong (left) won the first Big Ten award of 2014 as Gymnast of the Week, claiming the honor for the third time in her career. In the meet against Northern Illinois, Wong earned a 9.95 on the floor to help take home a win for the Nebraska team. for the first conference meet this weekend.

“We’re working on so much of the same things,” Kendig said.

“We’ve got to get confident in handstands and on bars. We’ve

got to work on our landings everywhere.”

At the end of the day, Kendig said his goal is for the athletes to simply get better every day. His philosophy is that the only com-

petition they have is themselves, so they should focus on their own scores and performance.

“It’s just about confidence,” Kendig said. “When gymnasts are confident, great things can hap-

pen. Right now I feel like we’re in a good place. We’re healthy, and we’re getting better.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

NU to challenge Air Force twice David Stover DN After coming off the weekend’s too-close-for-comfort performance against No. 10 Ole Miss, the No. 5 Husker rifle team looks to improve their individual scores this weekend.

Coach Stacy Underwood is holding her team to high standards and is emphasizing the mental aspects more than the physical in order to achieve success. Focus is the priority, as the Huskers’ schedule doesn’t get any easier as they compete against No. 7 Air Force on Saturday and Sunday.

“We have focused more on character development than skill development,” Underwood said about this week’s practices. “We have spent more time on creating a positive team environment.

I believe we have all the skills already and the key to utilizing those is working on the mental aspect. The more synergy we have as a team the better our performances will be.”

The score may not have been to the expectations that Underwood would have liked for the first meet of the spring season, but one shooter who has remained consistent is freshman Rachel Martin. Earning scores of 569 and 587 in smallbore and air rifle against Ole Miss and placing in the top five in both categories for the Huskers multiple times throughout the season, Martin has embraced the team’s attitude for this week of slowing things down and focusing on the development of their psyche rather than the physical elements of rifle.

“We have been doing a lot of mental training as well as working on the fine details of our positions,” Martin said. “We’ve been able to take our strengths and make them even stronger, while building our weaknesses up to improve our overall score.”

Redefining the Huskers’ focus is how Underwood plans to prepare for Air Force. Underwood is implementing some new tactics for helping the shooters better focus on the nuances of the shooting process for this

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Junior Kelsey Hansen helped her No. 5 Nebraska team to its first win of 2014 after shooting a 573 in smallbore and a 586 in air rifle against the No. 12 Ole Miss.

We have been doing a lot of mental training as well as working on the fine details of our positions.”

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meet and for the rest of the year.

“We have had the same focus in training but are using some different techniques to emphasis those fundamentals,” Underwood said. “This semester we have included a lot more free training sessions instead of drills. This has allowed each shooter to work on specific areas that they need to improve on.”

The tactics they are taking away from practices this week make the Huskers hopeful for better production at future meets.

“We are definitely looking to

improve our home score,” Martin said. “Our goal is to stay calm and carry over what we have been working on in practice and execute it in the match. It will be a long weekend for everyone seeing as we have back-toback matches. But we are able to keep the right mindset and help each other achieve our goals. Air Force is a very capable team and we look forward to competing with them.”

The competition this weekend remains steep as the Huskers go from one ranked team to another.

tion will bring.

“I think everyone is stoked,” Lehmicke said. “I think the whole team is pretty excited because we have a young team so they don’t really know how it’s going to be, what we’re getting into. That’s always exciting when it’s a whole different experience for them. For me coming back I remembered this

weekend last year and it was super fun. It was just nice having some tough matchups in a weekend with some great teams coming in.”

The winner of Nebraska versus Georgia Tech will face the winner of the Vanderbilt-Texas Tech matchup. The losers will face each other in a consolation match. No matter what happens the players

“Any team that is ranked in the top 15 right now is competition,” Underwood said. “We are all battling for the top 8 spots to earn a spot in the NCAA championships.”

The Huskers main competition looks to be junior Meredith Carpentier who fired a 592 in air rifle and sophomore David Higgins who lead Air Force with a 576 in smallbore in last weeks lost to No. 1 Alaska Fairbanks.

Air Force comes in with a 5-3 record and looks to bounce back, however, the Huskers remain defiant to the Air Force’s plight for victory.

“Our focus from the beginning is to focus on the fundamentals. To keep things simple.

If we are masters of the basics of our sports we will be great competitors in high pressure matches,” Underwood said.

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tennis: from 10 Lehmicke said. “They’re really compassionate about the team and for us to do well.”

The best thing that Lehmicke could do to prepare her team is to share with them what she experienced in the ITA Kickoff Weekend last year. Knowing what’s ahead, she gave her team the closest to an exact picture of what the competi-

know to take things step by step and to not focus on the big picture.

“In the end you’ve got to focus on who’s across the court from you that day,” Lehmicke said. “It doesn’t matter what the ranking is, it just matters who you’re competing against.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

women’s: from 10 The Huskers had more of a balanced offense with four starters scoring more than 10 points each.

Northwestern’s offense flowed through Inman, Coffey and Douglas, as they were the only Wildcats to pass 10 points.

Three-point shooting was a struggle for both squads in the previous meeting, as the Huskers went 4-20 and the Wildcats shot 4-21.

Since the start of Big Ten Conference play, Theriot has stepped up the offense in her game, Hooper said.

“Rachel’s been great,” she said.

“I think she needs to just keep doing what she’s doing. “ Hooper also said opposing team’s defenses are still not putting enough attention on Theriot, which is allowing her to succeed in scoring.

“I don’t think they still fully realize what Rachel’s capable of,” Hooper said. “So I kind of hope they just keep playing the way that they are. But they are definitely going to figure it out pretty quick, and hopefully that will open me up a little bit more, and Em (Cady).”

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Senior Brandon Videtich (above) and sophomore Bradford Zitsch were ousted by Florida State’s doubles team 6-3 on Monday.

Huskers travel to Los Angeles for ITA competition Sydny Boyd DN This weekend the men’s tennis team will travel to Los Angeles for the ITA Kick Off Weekend. On Friday, Nebraska will have its first competition against Texas Tech.

The No. 53 ranked Raiders are the No. 2 seed this weekend in Los Angeles. The Raiders are led by sophomore Hugo Dojas, who’s No. 65 in singles and No. 33 in doubles with freshman Maxime Hinnisdaels.

No. 60-ranked Nebraska had a successful fall season on the doubles court. However, in order to pull the upset, the Huskers will likely need to secure the doubles point Friday. If they do this, they will move onto play in the consolation match.

The tournament will last until Sunday, Jan. 26. It’s at the LA Tennis Center on 14 of their outdoor courts. The Huskers have been practicing on indoor courts coach Kerry McDermott said, but he isn’t worried about the adjustment. Last weekend in Florida the Huskers played outdoors and resulted in split matches between Florida Gulf Coast and Florida State University.

On the second day of the competition, No. 2 UCLA will play Wisconsin. UCLA has a stacked roster with No. 1 senior Clay Thompson, whose 18-1 fall season brought him to the top of the ITA Singles Rankings, junior Marcos Giron (No. 11), freshman Mackenzie McDonald (No. 62), sophomore Karue Sell (No. 64) and freshman Gage Brymer (No. 120) who all have national singles rankings.

The championship match will take place on Sunday morning following the consolation match

that afternoon.

“We aren’t going to focus on anything except having our guys learn what their strengths are,” McDermott said. “And then having these guys do what they do best and keep doing it over and over until it becomes automatic… like a habit.”

Working through a hamstring injury, senior Brandon Videtich is secure and optimistic in his team’s capabilities going into the tournament.

“It definitely held me back last weekend,” Videtich said. “Matt Pahls, our trainer, and the rest of the staff have really been working hard with me to get me match ready.”

Following last weekend’s tournament in Florida, McDermott has a better idea of his lineup for the ITA Kick Off Tournament.

“We feel like this past weekend just helped our team with getting used to the nervousness and jitters that you get while playing dual matches,” McDermott said.

Videtich knows the reality of how Texas Tech plays the game but feels that he and his teammates are fully capable of putting up a strong fight.

“If we can dig deep,” Videtich said, “and just trust our training, I think we can come up with a strong win against a good team.”

The ITA Kick Off Tournament will set the Huskers up for the rest of their spring season. Though it’s too early to predict how that will go, McDermott is determined.

“As long as we can get stronger mentally,” McDermott said, “and not give in and to hold true to what our strength is on the court, then I have a feeling that good things will happen for this team.”

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Nebraska fixes ‘simple things’ for Air Force meet

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Senior 197-pound wrestler Caleb Kolb (right) lost in his last match against Iowa’s No. 16 Nathan Burak 3-1 on Saturday. Kolb is currently 5-2 in the season and 2-2 in dual meets. He will take on No. 15 Braden Atwood of Purdue.

NU goes on road for pair of meets After 1st dual loss of season, Huskers will take on No. 11 Buckeyes, No. 21 Boilermakers Austin Pistulka DN The No. 10 Nebraska wrestling team is being thrown right back into another challenge this weekend after coming off the first dual loss of the year against No. 2 Iowa.

The Huskers take on two ranked Big Ten Conference teams this weekend. Friday pits the Huskers against the No. 11 Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus. The Huskers then travel to West Lafayette, Ind., to take on No. 21 Purdue. With the end of the season coming fast, the Huskers look to rise to the challenges and prove that they are a team worth noticing.

“I expect two great wins for the team,” freshman 125-pound Tim Lambert said. “As long as we go out and each guy gives 100 percent, I have no doubt in my mind that we will come out with two victories. We have incredible talent in the guys we have and they give 100 percent every time we are out there and with that we will accomplish a lot.”

With No. 1 at 157 lb. junior James Green is looking to continue his dominance. His accolades he’ss racked up this week have been numerous. He’s ranked No. 1 in all five of the rankings and has received the wrestler of the week award from two groups. With all of the hype surrounding him, the team has continued to stay focused, assistant coach Tony Ersland said.

“It’s just business as usual for us,” Ersland said. “That’s the expectation we have for our program. We have a lot of great kids in the room that are capable of not just being No. 1 but being national champs, All-Americans, Big Ten champs, so really I think it’s just a business-as-usual kind of thing. I

A couple matches that will mean sure, those things can be distractions, but our kids and coaches turn the tide during the Ohio State do a good job of when we get into dual are in the 184 and 125-pound weight classes. These matches have the room, you get down and do the closely ranked wrestlers going at work that you need to do to be sucit. At 184, No. 11 freshman TJ Dudcessful.”

The coaches have made a small ley will take on No. 8 sophomore Kenny Courts. Dudley has been change to the practice schedule on a hot streak of late against top this week and have started to work mainly on individual technique 10 opponents having only one loss against top 10s this season. At 125, rather than as a team.

No. 9 Lambert will take on No. “Practice has been good,” Er16 freshman Nick sland said. “We really have worked I expect two Roberts.

The only match hard on individual great wins where two ranked kind of workouts opponents will with our guys this for the team.” battle in the Purweek. We worked due dual is in the on things specific 197-pound weight to each guy to make class. Nebraska will him better as they send No. 20 senior work towards the Tim Lambert freshman wrestler Caleb Kolb to take Big Ten championon No. 15 Braden ships.”

Atwood.

The wrestlers With only one dual loss on have liked the difference, Lambert the record, the No. 10 Huskers are said. looking past it as they continue into “I’ve been really enjoying the March and nationals. individual aspect of it because it sports@dailynebraskan. allows me to improve on a lot of com stuff,” he said.

the Huskers edged them out by .6 points.

Top-10 ranked “The ring team got us going, and then vault was awesome,” Huskers face No. 11 Chmelka said.

Air Force in 1st home Air Force is coming off a 440.7412.2 loss at Oklahoma last weekmeet in renovated end. Senior Nick Owen scored a Devaney Center 14.65 on the pommel horse, which earned fourth place in the event in the tournament. In the all-around, freshman Tim Wang earned third Eric Bertand with a score of 83.35.

DN “They (Air Force) were pretty darn impressive at the first meet,” The No. 9 Nebraska men’s gymChmelka said. “They were solid, nastics team hosts No. 11 Air they hit and they were doing hard Force for its first home meet on gymnastics. They looked good. I Saturday in the Bob Devaney was impressed by them.”

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Chmelka also said the Falcons Nebraska coach Chuck Chmelare a well-coached and a discika said the crucial goal for the plined team. team early in the seaHe said last season son is to fix the simple the Huskers would things. excel at an event in “Just fix the misone tournament, but takes we made at then the next meet the Rocky Mountain that event would be Open,” he said. “And the weak point of the do the best we can at team. not making any falls or The experience of large errors.” his team would elimiThis will be the nate this from occurfirst meet for the squad ring this year, Chmelin the newly renovated ka said. epperson Devaney Center.

“They’re all mental “I feel like it’s gomistakes,” the coach ing to be an experience said. “They all can do I’ve never felt before,” freshman this stuff in their sleep. It’s just Austin Epperson said. “Yeah, we a matter of when there’s a little got my first meet out of the way, pressure. When you’re nervous but competing in this Huskers sta- about something, your body does dium is going to be unreal.” funny things.”

Chmelka said the Huskers Chmelka said he has seen this have been waiting for a chance to happen before in his 26 years with perform in the fresh arena. the Huskers. It seems to be an is“I know every guy in here is sue at the beginning of the season. excited to go out there and perBut the coach said this year ’s form there,” Chmelka said. “I team shouldn’t have to worry mean just walking in there and about this problem. looking up at the ceiling and look“We are a more mature team,” ing around. I mean everybody in Chmelka said. “The guys, they’ve here knows what it used to look been through the war already. like. It’s just so exciting.”

They know what’s up. Even The last time out for the Huskthough it’s super early in the year, ers, the squad surged into secthey need to just go out there and ond place in the Rocky Mountain perform.”

Open. The Oklahoma Sooners For Epperson, the significance took home first, but the Huskers of the meet is keeping the strong defeated Arizona State, Washingstart to the season going. ton and Air Force.

“I feel it’s important that we Chmelka said the Huskers maintain our winning streak,” Epwere trailing Air Force going into person said. the final two events. The Falcons sports@ couldn’t hold onto the lead, as dailynebraskan.com

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Senior diver Kaitlan Walker, along with seven of her teammates, compete at the Devaney Natatorium once more before graduating.

NU seniors compete in final home meet Josh Kelly DN The Nebraska swimming and diving team will host its final meet of the season on Saturday at the Devaney Center Natatorium where it will face off against Illinois.

Nebraska is currently 3-2-1 while the Fighting Illini are a little more seasoned, having competed in 14 meets this season with an 8-5-1 record. This competition will also mark the first meeting between the two Big Ten Conference schools since the Huskers beat the Fighting Illini last season 194-106.

Saturday’s meet will mark the final time the senior swimmers and divers on the team will set foot in the Devaney Center Natatorium.

“I can’t believe it’s here already,” freshman diver Anna Filipcic said. “The seniors on the dive team have been such a huge part of the team for me and to think that senior day is already here is crazy.”

Filipcic isn’t only impressing the veteran divers on the team, but also the Big Ten. She earned the Big Ten Freshman of the Week earlier this season after scoring a 303.40 in the 3-meter dive and a 278.70 in the 1-meter dive against Northern Iowa. She won both events.

“That was just something that wasn’t expected at all,” Filipcic said. “I just had this huge wow reaction when I found out about it.

It was awesome to get the honor.”

This weekend will be the first

time the Huskers have hosted an event since November and with the season wrapping up shortly the team is looking to make a statement, according to sophomore swimmer Taryn Collura. She said this weekend will be a great way to prepare them for what’s ahead and she knows that a home event will be an advantage for the Huskers.

“This is our first meet of 2014 and we’re going to use this to prepare us for what is ahead. I love competing here in Lincoln,” Collura said. “We usually have a big crowd that shows up and there’s great vibes. It’s nice to return to that.”

The swimmers and divers on the team hope to have results similar to the meet that they had last season against the Fighting Illini where they beat them in six of nine relays. The Huskers won 12 out of the 16 events that weekend.

Following the meet this weekend, the Huskers will travel to Ohio State next week. This Big Ten matchup will be the last duel of the season for Nebraska before heading to the Big Ten Championships in Minneapolis. With only a few more chances left the Huskers are digging deep, and they know what has to happen to finish out the final stretch of the season on a strong note, Filipcic said.

“This semester we’ve been really cracking down at practice,” she said. “Right now everyone has the mentality to kick things into gear and to get things done.”

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Sophomore runner Levi Gipson was named Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week for the first time in his career after his performance at the Holiday Inn Invitational, where he ran a personal best time of 1:17.65 in the 600 meter.

Track to compete in 1st scored meet Thomas Beckmann DN The Huskers track and field team prepares for its second week of intercollegiate competition as it competes in the Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational and hosts the Colligan Memorial Invitational.

The NWU Invite is unscored and will be held at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Friday. The Colligan Invite on Saturday, also held in Lincoln and will be the first meet that is scored.

Last Saturday, the Huskers stormed the Holiday Inn Invitational with 11 individual titles.

Freshman sprinter Kadecia Baird made her collegiate debut with a 200-meter time of 23.7 seconds.

Sophomore mid-distance runner Levi Gipson was awarded the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week for his second place performance in the 600-meter run and 4x400 relay, which won the finals by more than three seconds.

“I was very surprised,” Gipson said. “I didn’t really have that in mind, but that’s a nice honor.”

The Nebraska Wesleyan Invite will feature the Prairie Wolves as the opponent. Nebras-

We’ve got to keep perfecting that talent so when it comes to conference, we can put up a lot of points.”

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ka has met up with the Prairie Wolves once already this year in the Holiday Inn Invite. Nebraska Wesleyan is currently being led by senior distance runner Brock Taute, who was named Great Plains Athletic Conference athlete of the week.

This meet will be unscored, so there won’t be too many Husker starters competing against the Wolves.

“A lot of our teammates don’t compete in the Wesleyan one,” Gipson said. “The sprint ones (starters) might be only one of the few ones that is competing and they’d just do the 800 one for conditioning.”

Junior mid-distance runner London Hawk finished second, right behind Levi Gipson with a time of 1:18.40 in the 600-meter.

“It depends on the athlete,”

Hawk said. “They (the coaches) might be like, ‘oh, let’s try and get more training’ and they’ll have them run both on Friday and on Saturday.”

On Saturday the Huskers will enter their first scored meet of 2014 as they host the annual Colligan Memorial Invite. Last year, the Huskers took the crown as they defeated the Crimson Tide and the Tar Heels. This year, the opposition features the Wichita State Shockers and senior thrower Adam Esau, who won the shot put in the Herm Wilson Invitational.

This meet will be a test of some of the athletes’ endurance, as this will help prepare them to run tired.

“This meet will be more about training through,” Hawk said. “You’re going to be a little sore and a little tired. The point is

more about training. We’ll worry about the big meets when the big meets come.”

Despite the initial obstacle of fighting through fatigue, the team still looks to improve on the marks they’ve set in the past month and the marks they’ll set Friday.

Last week, the men’s 4x400 relay team posted a 3:11:12 for the race, which was just three seconds away from the school record. They look to build off that this Saturday, Gipson said.

“We feel like we have a lot of talent, but we’re not going to rely on talent,” Gipson said. “Because we have the talent, we’ve got to keep perfecting that talent so when it comes to conference we can put up a lot of points.”

For Hawk, what gets him and the team through the tough moments is the roars and cheers of the home crowd.

“Fans definitely help a lot,” Hawk said. “It’s crazy when you come down that line and they’re screaming and fighting for you.

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No. 63-ranked sophomore Maggy Lehmicke helped the Huskers to a win against Creighton after beating her opponent 6-4, 6-0.

NU to host 3 ranked teams in kickoff weekend Sophomore guard Walter Pitchford missed his final 3-pointer of the game, giving the Nittany Lions the opportunity to pull ahead by 5.

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ebraska had every opportunity.

A 9-point lead when Penn State went nine minutes without scoring in the first half. A 6-point lead after the Nittany Lions made a run to take a 2-point lead of their own. The ball down 2 points with 11 seconds to play in the game.

But the Huskers (9-9 overall, 1-5 Big Ten Conference) couldn’t capitalize on any of those chances in a 58-54 loss to Penn State (10-10, 1-6) at State College, Penn., Thursday night.

The defeat drops Husker coach Tim Miles’ road record to 1-14 at Nebraska. The Huskers have never won back-to-back games in Big Ten play since joining the league.

“We just kind of relaxed and didn’t keep up the defensive intensity,” Miles said in a radio interview after the game. “It was just too bad. It was just our failure to execute anything.”

Nebraska started out as well as it did in Monday’s upset of Ohio State.

The Huskers jumped out to a 26-17 lead midway through the first half while Penn State failed to score in just over nine minutes. The problem was Nebraska couldn’t get a shot to fall in four minutes, and only led 29-22 at halftime.

The Nittany Lions shot just 24 percent before

the break, but Nebraska committed 6 turnovers and only shot 40 percent to keep Penn State in the game.

The second half provided little offense, but the Nittany Lions kept subtly cutting the lead down until they took a 53-51 lead with a minute to go on a D.J. Newbill dunk and free throw.

That’s when things got interesting.

Nebraska ran its offense for a few seconds before Walter Pitchford missed a 3-pointer, which was rebounded by Penn State with 45 seconds in the game. Then John Johnson hit a 3-point jumper to extend the lead to 5 points with 18 seconds left.

Terran Petteway quickly knocked down a leaning 3-pointer on the other end to cut the lead to 2 points. Eleven seconds were on the clock now.

On the ensuing inbounds pass, a Nittany Lion player threw the ball out of bounds to give the ball back to Nebraska, still down 2 points with 10 seconds to play.

Deverell Biggs then dribbled off his own foot, Penn State forced a jump ball and took possession. Tim Frazier knocked down a pair of free throws with .5 seconds to play and the rest is history.

“It was just an embarrassment the last two minutes of the game,” Miles said.

Petteway led the way for Nebraska with 15 points, followed by Ray Gallegos who finished with 10 of his own. Penn State had four players in double figures, led by D.J. Newbill’s 16.

Penn State outscored the Huskers 30-10 in points in the paint and also put up 22 points off 14 Nebraska turnovers. The Nittany Lions were also able to snatch 11 offensive rebounds, despite having a significant size disadvantage down low.

“I can’t tell you how many times our big guys had the ball in their hands and just got it stolen away,” Miles said.

Nebraska will now look to get back on track in a Sunday matchup against Minnesota (15-5, 4-3) at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The Golden Gophers knocked off No. 9 Wisconsin earlier this week.

Miles hopes his team won’t be affected by the loss at Penn State.

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The first opponent for Nebraska will be Georgia Tech on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Starting off the season the HuskTop programs from around the country are getting together this ers sit in the top 25, but for coach Jacobson, it can’t be a focal point for weekend and the No. 25 Nebraska his program. women’s tennis team is honored to “We tell our kids to just come out be selected as one of the hosts for the here and give your best effort and annual event.

The ITA (Intercollegiate Tennis to have a positive attitude,” Jacobson said. “Don’t worry about rankAssociation) Kickoff Weekend gives ings. All we ask is that you come the best teams a chance to gain a out and compete as hard as you can berth to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. Fifteen teams every single time and let the result be what it is. We don’t talk a whole are selected as a host site and this lot about rankings. season the Huskers It’s all about the prowill be able to comcess and that’s what It’s all pete at home against we’re focused on, the three other teams about the getting better every that were selected in single weekend.” process and their bracket.

Although they‘re After domi- that’s what we’re ranked, the Husknating in-state foe ers bring a young Creighton 7-0, Ne- focused on.” team to the table this braska coach Scott weekend.

SophoJacobson thinks that Scott Jacobson more Maggy Lehmwomen’s tennis coach his squad is more icke, being one of than ready for the the veterans on the high-octane weekteam, knows that it’s not going to be end. a smooth beginning for a team that “We’re going to work hard at has six of 10 players playing in their practice. Work on a few things that we need to work on, like doubles,” first season.

“We can’t expect to beat evJacobson said. “But overall, I think eryone right away, that’s not how we just got to continue what we’re it works with a young team, but doing and I think just having a match under our belts will help us I think that we have quite a few hard workers and they really have this weekend.” the passion and desire to succeed,” Traveling to Lincoln, this weekend will be No. 16 Vanderbilt, No. 18 Texas Tech and No. 19 Georgia Tech. tennis: see page 8

Huskers prepare for Big Ten rematch against Northwestern “I hope it doesn’t come back and bite us when we need a bye-week After winning 1st some other week,” Hooper said.

I do think that this was a good matchup at home, No. “But rest time.”

21 Nebraska travels Nebraska coach Connie Yori said she’s still seeing the weariness to face 12-7 Wildcats on her players. once again “We had practice yesterday (Tuesday),” Yori said. “We looked like we were running in mud, and we had the day off the day before.”

Eric Bertand The Wildcats’ last time out was DN in a 90-65 loss against Purdue on Thursday. The squad had four playThe No. 21 Nebraska women’s basers in double digits: freshman forketball team hits the road for Evanward Nia Coffey, freshman guard ston, Ill., to battle Northwestern on Cristen Inman, sophomore forward Sunday.

Lauren Douglas and sophomore The Huskers (13-4, 3-2) are comguard Maggie Lyon. Northwestern ing off a 2-point loss to Purdue on was outrebounded 53-26.

Sunday. Sophomore guard Rachel Yori said the Wildcats put out Theriot led the a young roster, and squad in points that gives the HuskWe have a with 19, while juers an edge. nior forward Emily “The advantage little more Cady was all over that we have is that experience, but the boards with 16 we have a little more total rebounds. experience, but they they have really, In the loss, have really, really really good senior forward good athleticism,” Jordan Hooper Yori said. athleticism.” put up 9 points, 4 The best way to rebounds and she describe the WildConnie Yori went 4-of-8 from women’s basketball coach cats is through their the free-throw line. play-making skills, “I think I was Yori said. more frustrated “Super athletic,” Yori said. with myself in that game, honestly, “One of the most athletic teams in than tired,” Hooper said. “I don’t our league. We saw that when they think I was anymore particularly came here.” tired in that game than any others.”

In the first meeting on Jan. 2, the The Huskers had a bye-week game came down to a point, as the this week. Hooper said it was a Huskers ousted the Wildcats 66-65. much-needed break, but this could have come at a better time. women’s: see page 9

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Nebraska sophomore Rachel Theriot won Big Ten Player of the Week after her performance against Purdue and Minnesota. Theriot had a career-high 33 points in the overtime game against the Gophers, and she currently averages 7.0 assists per game.