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Walk for Life rallies for unborn

Regents discuss health initiative

Anniversary of Roe v. Wade brings together 5,000 Lincolnites to protest abortion rights dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan

The sound of voices chattering was audible two blocks away from the capitol, growing louder and louder over the brisk January breeze.

Gradually they came into view: an estimated 5,000 Lincoln residents, clustered together in a multicolored mass at the tower’s west steps.

Another anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the still-divisive 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, had come and gone, which meant it was time for Nebraska Right to Life’s annual Walk for Life.

“Look at this crowd today,” said Gov. Dave Heineman, one of several state officials who stood beneath the westward-facing statue of Abraham Lincoln. His voice boomed over the crowd, which frequently cheered his comments like a pep rally: “Other states can’t say what we can say. We’re a pro-life state. This is a reflection of all of you.”

On the lawns flanking the governor’s podium, several volunteers stood holding clusters of pink and blue balloons like 10-foot bunches of grapes, to be released before the walk as a symbol of the more than 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. One of them, Rachael Tvrdy, said she’d attended the march since she was a child.

“It’s an issue that’s ingrained in my heart,” said the 24-year-old University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumna.

Tvrdy said she personally knew a woman who’d had an abortion and had spoken with several others, and understood the difficulty and pain of the decision.

“It’s hard. It’s never easy, and we understand that,” she said.

But she said that abortion wasn’t the solution to most situations that push a mother in that direction. Many pro-choice advocates cite rape, incest and the mother’s health as possible considerations for abortion, and a

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Discussion of Build a Healthier Nebraska dominated much of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents meeting on Jan. 27.

The regents spent just less than two hours listening to presentations on each of the four areas of the initiative, which were introduced to the Nebraska Legislature on Jan. 18.

A resolution to approve the initiative was passed during the meeting.

University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken began the presentation, but left the details to the experts of each project.

The initiative proposes a comprehensive cancer center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, a new UNMC College of Nursing facility in Lincoln, an addition to the Bruner Hall of Science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and planning and designing a new Veterinary Diagnostic Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The total cost of the initiative is $91 million.

“I absolutely feel this is an investment that could and will be addressed now,” Milliken said during discussion.

“The important point I think is, while there is a cash requirement, there is the need for commitment now.”

Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature Mike Flood spoke to the board, providing a legislative update as well as

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above: Rachael Tvrdy stands with other volunteers holding clusters of balloons at the Walk for Life rally at the Capitol Saturday. The balloons symbolized the abortions, numbering more than 50 million, since the Supreme Court Roe v.

Wade decision in 1973, and were released before the walk. “It’s really a touching ceremony,” Tvrdy said. below: Buttons lie on a table in the Nebraska Union’s Ballroom Saturday morning after the Walk for Life to UNL’s campus, where hundreds of marchers poured in for a bake sale, keynote speech and other events. small group of counter-protesters held signs across the street to that effect.

For Tvrdy, abortion after rape was “using violence (against) violence,” and she said if her own life were in danger from a pregnancy, she’d give her trust to God. “We need to have a presence here,” Tvrdy said, adding she was also against the death penalty. “I just believe we cannot take human life into our own hands.”

If Tvrdy was looking for a presence, the assembled crowd delivered. The thousands in attendance ranged from stroller-bound to greyhaired and filled almost two blocks of 14th Street from sidewalk to sidewalk. Red, stop-sign-shaped signs that read “Stop Abortion Now”

and others reading “Women Do Regret Abortion” were scattered throughout. Almost everyone had a “Life is Precious” sticker.

“It’s a cross-section of Nebraska,” said Julie Schmit-Albin, Nebraska Right to Life’s executive director. “You see young. You see old. You see different ethnicities. It’s not a stereotype.”

Politics were everywhere.

Potential candidates for Congress or state office spoke briefly and passed out stickers. State Sen. Pete Pirsch was on hand to explain LB 461, a “freedom of conscience” bill he introduced to the state legislature that would allow medical employees to back out of abortions, stem-cell research or several other procedures on

patient care, including STD and cancer screenings, contraception and other services. Planned Parenthood’s

religious grounds unless the patient could die otherwise.

Planned Parenthood frequently came up as the opponent in the anti-abortion fight as well. It provides abortions, but nearly its entire budget goes to other

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UNL anticipates Obama outlines federal-aid plan expiration of ADVANCE grant state of the union

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Mary Anne Holmes can summarize the necessity for women in the STEM fields in a sentence: Diversity equals excellence.

But the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has yet to achieve diversity in the science, technology, engineering and math fields, according to Holmes, a professor of practice in geosciences.

Women make up about 25 to 30 percent of the mathematics and bioscience

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department faculties, but the numbers only decrease from there. Departments like biochemistry and geosciences have less than 25 percent female staff. And some departments, like construction management, have no female faculty members at all.

That’s where ADVANCENebraska comes in.

The National Science Foundation gave UNL a five-year institutional transformation grant in 2008 to promote the integration of women in STEM field faculty positions through research, workshops and altered hiring practices.

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In his State of the Union address last Tuesday and again at the University of Michigan Friday, President Barack Obama sent a message directly to universities across the country,

The idea is pretty intense, but cheap tuition is important. If it works, great!”

Pete Stone, biology, junior

Anything Obama does is a bad idea.”

Sunny Battazzi, Lincoln resident

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including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Keep tuition under control or get less federal funding.

“We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money,” he said in the State of the Union, calling college attendance and affordability

an “economic imperative.”

“If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down,” Obama said.

While delivering that warning, Obama also announced proposals to increase the federal funding universities can use and

Well, I think it is not a bad idea. It would force our school to spend money where it is important like for research and to hire, more professors.”

Feiyu Lou, graduate student, actuarial science

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In general, our It can be a bad tuition is lower. idea, dependWe shouldn’t be ing on where punished for somethey cut from.” thing we’re doing Amanda Schmidt, already.” public relations, Elly Jurgensen, freshman business and psychology, senior

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make student loans cheaper to pay back. It’s all to make college more affordable, Obama said, at a time when student debt is more than the country’s credit card

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The federal funding in question doesn’t include the aid that goes directly to students, like standard Stafford loans or Pell grants. It instead comes from campus-based aid, which goes to colleges first to be given out to students.

That aid includes Perkins loans, work-study jobs and supplementary grants that go to the lowest-income students. A college’s funding for these programs would depend on its control of tuition if Obama’s proposal becomes law. He suggested streamlining programs to control tuition.

While his ideas are in the beginning stages, however, Obama has found some support already here at UNL, where about 60 percent of students borrow money for college.

“That sounds like a good idea to me,” said Shelby Koenig, a freshman biochemistry major. “I would say getting a college education is important. I think the government should do what they can to make sure everyone has the opportunity.”

Nur Azrina Azmi, a junior nutrition and health sciences major from Pennsylvania who said she receives federal grants to help pay out-of-state tuition, put her support even more bluntly.

“If it makes tuition more affordable, yeah, of course,” she said with a laugh.

Increase Perkins Loans Funding The Perkins Loan Program was one of the first student aid programs put in place by the federal government. These loans are given out by universities like UNL to students with exceptional need, and have a fixed interest rate of 5 percent.

Obama’s proposal includes and increasing Perkins loans funding from $1 billion to $8 billion, which would raise the number of participating universities from 1,700 to 4,000.

UNL hasn’t received any major new Perkins funding from the government in years, said Craig Munier, the director of the Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid, in an interview, because the loans replenish themselves.

“All we’re doing is loaning the money that people pay back,” Munier said of Perkins loans, one of the first federal student aid programs. In the 2010-2011 academic year, the university gave out $1.4 million in those loans to more than 1,200 students.

Because the loans don’t need much replenishment once they get rolling, the Obama administration has said this measure wouldn’t raise the federal budget.

“They must be going to look at schools that would qualify for Perkins if they had enough money,” Munier said of the administration. “There’s some desire … to get federal dollars moved around to where

they’re most needed today instead of where they were most needed in 1960.”

Double the WorkStudy Program Obama also wants to double the number of workstudy positions available on campuses around the country during the next five years.

Through this program, an eligible student who’s then hired by the university will have most of his or her wages paid by the government, making that student more attractive to cash-strapped departments.

“It gives them an advantage,” Munier said, though it’s not a guaranteed job.

“It’s a hunting license for jobs on campus, and sometimes in the community.”

At UNL, the government pays 70 percent of such a student’s earnings. UNL received almost $3 million in this funding last year, according to Institutional Research and Planning, while it paid only $1 million for those wages, Munier said.

If every student received the maximum $2,900, more than 1,000 students benefitted from the program last year. If the money were doubled, the student count likely would as well, though Munier added that the few who reach that $2,900 limit might be considered for more.

Nationally, the government paid colleges and universities nearly $1 billion in 2011 in work-study funds, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Unlike the Perkins proposal, this idea won’t pay for itself. Munier was supportive of the proposal, partly because the impact of work-study can spread.

For example, Munier said, 125 students currently tutor in seven local elementary schools.

“Expanding the workstudy program is exciting to me,” he said. “The only reason it’s not bigger than 125 students, quite honestly, is we don’t have enough money.”

Make Interest Rates Low and Tax Breaks High Obama’s proposals also spread beyond campusbased aid to the standard Stafford loans. Subsidized Stafford loans, available only to undergraduates after Congressional changes last summer, have had their interest rates steadily lowered over the past several years from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent.

That cut expires next year, meaning unless Obama gets his way in Congress, interest on student loans will double this summer.

Obama also called on Congress to extend the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which began in 2010 and is worth up to $10,000 in four years toward tuition costs for relatively low-income students. Some credit is available even if a student owes no taxes. That credit is set to expire this December.

Because much of the president’s proposed increases include partial matching or

funding by individual universities, each dollar in this plan has a bigger splash than other possibilities, Munier said.

“You can help a lot more people with what the president’s proposing than by putting the same dollars in Pell,” he said, though he was quick to add that “we need both.” potential impact But the threat of cutting federal funding from schools that don’t keep tuition down might be small for not-for-profit universities like UNL. Last year, the funding for campus-based aid to UNL amounted to just over $3 million, small change when compared to an overall budget of more than $1 billion.

And while UNL’s tuition has increased by about 5 percent each year for the past four years, the university stands well within the Big Ten Conference. Only the University of Wisconsin has lower in-state tuition, while UNL’s out-of-state tuition is lower than all but Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota.

“We have continued in this state to have a great interest in keeping tuition as low as possible, and that’s not a new idea,” said Christine Jackson, UNL’s vice chancellor of business and finance. “No one’s waking up in Nebraska thinking, ‘Oh, we’ve got to be costeffective.’”

Munier speculated that the hammer would fall harder on for-profit universities,

where tuition increases aren’t limited by politics and public approval like at a public university.

Around the country, many education officials reacted with caution or alarm at Obama’s proposals, with some saying that a push for quicker, leaner programs could hurt quality.

“We want to do that in ways that don’t compromise the quality of the educational experience,” Munier said.

Presidential Politics Obama will likely face a larger enemy in Congressional Republicans, who have become notorious for resisting his legislative agenda. He simplified loans and lowered interest for some students last year by executive order — this time, that’s not an option.

“Tuition is too high at most schools, but it isn’t the job of the federal government to punish those schools,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Higher Education subcommittee, told The New York Times last week. “It’s very arbitrary, and the president sounds like a dictator.”

Students here were somewhat pessimistic on the bill’s future.

“I’m not sure I see it happening,” said Josiah Fuchser, a senior dietetics major.

“Not a lot’s getting done with Congress and Obama — they don’t work together very well.” danholtmeyer@ dailynebraskan.com

Community desk Mock Interview Day when : Monday, Jan. 30, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. where : Nebraska Union, Room 225 What: Students can sign up for a 30-minute mock interview to help prepare for job and internship searches. contact : Career Services at 402-472-3145 or careerservices@unl.edu Grad Student Ethics Forum: Private Lives and Professional Lives – Relationships in the Lab when : Monday, Jan. 30, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. where : Nebraska Union what : Forum for graduate students to discuss ethical issues that may come up during their time at the university. contact : Steven Swartzer at 402-472-2104 or swartzer@unlserve.unl.edu The Serial Set: A Primary Source for Every Topic when : Tuesday, Jan. 31, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. where : Love Library South, ESC Room 111 what : Presentation by Charles Bernholz about the U.S. Serial Set, a primary source in American history.

Register at http://unl.libcal. com/event.php?id=15876.

Girl Scout’s Cookie Booth Sale when : Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. where : Outside of the Lutheran Center what : Girl Scout cookies will be on sale for $3.50 a box. Stock up on Thin Mints and Caramel deLites.

PRSSA Meeting:

Building a Brand Tuesdasy, Jan. 31, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. where : Andersen Hall, Room 15 what : Martie Cordaro, president of the Omaha Storm Chasers, will speak about building a brand around a team name and a new stadium in 2011 to the PRSSA club. contact : Phyllis Larsen at 402-472-8521 or plarsen1@unl.edu when :

Kappa Phi Club Rose Rush Tea when : Tuesday, Jan. 31, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. where : St. Marks On The Campus what : Rush for new members for the spring semester. For more information on Kappa Phi club, visit http:// kappaphiunl.webs.com.

Lecture: Managing Africa’s Water when : Wednesday, Feb. 1, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where : Hardin Hall, Room 107 what : Lecture by Marc Andreini from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. contact : Lorrie Benson at 402-472-7372 Lecture: The Future of the Past: How Technology Has Changed Our Understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls when : Wednesday, Feb. 1, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. where : Bessey Hall, Room 117 what : Lecture by Robert Cargill about the digital model of site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. contact : Barbara Starks at 402-472-2460 or

bstarks2@unl.edu Kyrgyzstan: After the Revolt when : Wednesday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. where : Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center what : Professor Bruce Thorson, 10 student photojournalists and a photographic assistant will present a slide show and video documenting the three weeks they spent in Kyrgyzstan for photography project about life in the country. contact : Bruce Thorson at 402-472-8279 or bthorson2@unl.edu EDEP (Eating Disorder Education and Prevention) meeting when : Wednesday, February 1, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. where : Nebraska Union (room to be posted) what : Meeting of the Eating Disorder Education and Prevention. All UNL students who are interested in advocating healthy habits and positive body image while raising awareness about negative messages and body pressures are invited to attend.

Career Fair Prep Night: Employer Panel and Resume Reviews when : Thursday, Feb. 2, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. where : Nebraska Union what : Information Session for students to learn about what employers look for during the interview process and get their resume reviewed. *Employer panel from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. *Resume Reviews from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

contact : Christina Fielder at 402-472-8029 or cfielder2@unl.edu

Sustain UNL meeting when : Thursday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. where : Nebraska Union, Food Court B what : Meeting of Sustain UNL. Economy of Love Study when : Thursday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m. where : Lutheran Center what : Discussion on how to be Christians in a world of poverty. It’s a five-week study on a video series by author Shane Claiborne.

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HIV Testing when : Friday, Feb. 3, noon to 4 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Room 142 what: Confidential HIV testing for students given by the University Health Center. cost: Free contact: Lee Heerten at 402-472-7498 or lheerten2@unl.edu

Month Kick Off with APU when : Friday, Feb. 3, 5 p.m. where : Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Room 212 what : Celebrate black achievement and fellowship along with soul food and the sounds of the APU Gospel Choir. contact : Bianca Harley at 402-472-5860 or bharley2@unl.edu

UNL Faculty Staff Certification of Recognition for Contributions to Students when : Friday, Feb. 3, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. where : Nebraska Union, Centennial Room what: UNL will host a ceremony to recognize faculty, advisers and staff members who have significantly impacted the lives of one or more UNL undergraduates. contact : Tonda Humphress at 402-472-3755 or thumphress1@unl.edu

Lecture: Being in Total Control of Herself: The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells when : Friday, Feb. 3, 5:30 p.m. where : International Quilt Study Center and Museum what : Lecture by Jeannette Eileen Jones from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Jill Kessler, Museum curator. contact : The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at 402-472-6549 or info@quiltstudy.org

Dream, Believe, Work, Achieve: Black History

dinosaurs and disasters when : Saturday, Feb. 4,

9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

University of Nebraska State Museum, Morril Hall what : A day of discovery and hands-on activities staffed by UNL scientists, graduate students and undergraduate students. contact : Kathleen Ann French, 402-472-6647 where :

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faculty artist: craig fuller when : Monday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m. where : Kimball Recital Hall what : Fuller will give a tuba/ euphonium recital. contact : Mike Edholm, 402-472-6865, medholm2@unl.edu

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Priscilla Grew never imagined a childhood interest would end up shaping her entire career.

She started out as a freshman physics major at Bryn Mawr women’s college in Pennsylvania. She said she quickly realized physics was not her passion. “I hated it,” she said with a laugh. It was time for a new plan.

She grew up taking family trips to Colorado. Grew always loved horseback riding, hunting for fool’s gold and learning about minerals. So she decided to try geology – and never looked back.

Grew was recently designated as a lifetime national associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies. This honor recognizes her extraordinary service for the past three decades on volunteer advisory committees of the National Research Council, including the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. She served 12 years on that committee, including eight years as chair. She is also the director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum.

Overall, Grew has served as a member of about two dozen National Research Council committees that have focused on geology and earth sciences research. She also chaired the U.S. delegation to geophysics congresses in Italy and Australia.

There are 1,601 National Associates designated in the U.S. and internationally. The honor is presented to people for their dedication to the National Research Council and the National Academies, which includes the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. Grew is one of just three Nebraskans to be given this recognition since the program began in 2001.

She joins previous University of Nebraska-Lincoln honorees Raymond K. Moore (engineering) and Stephen L. Taylor (food science).

Grew said she is pleased that this sort of honor finally exists. “You are donating your time to these committees, so I was thrilled to be recognized for my career,” she said. “I was also very surprised.”

Others who know and worked with Grew said she is definitely a deserving recipient of this award. Michael Zeleny, the assistant vice chancellor

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Priscilla Grew poses for a photo in Morrill Hall on Jan. 26. The National Research Council named Grew a lifetime national associate for her work in geology and earth sciences.

on research-related developments.

“It’s a little like being a news junkie,” she said. “It’s discovery. It’s always changing.”

Grew spoke excitedly about an article she read about several “lost” scientific slides attributed to Charles Darwin recently being discovered in a basement laboratory at the University of London. “I’m always excited when they find some new fossil,” she said.

Grew said the best thing about her job is that she enjoys doing it. “My hobby is the same as my work,” she said.

“It blends into fun.”

Grew said she and her husband, who is a geologist at the University of Maine, often do geology-related activities in their free time.

“We just love it. We do it for fun,” she said. “If we go on a vacation, we go to the Natural History Museum. If we go shopping, we go look at fancy jewelry with minerals in them.”

As for aspiring student researchers, Grew made one bit of advice very clear.

“You should do what you love,” she said.

She said students shouldn’t let themselves be pushed into certain majors or be forced to restrict their dreams.

“College is a chance to explore,” she said. “Students should take a variety of courses. Don’t narrow yourself too quickly; and never be afraid to try new things. Your career might end up being your hobby.”

for research at UNL, has known Grew for more than 15 years and said she always works tirelessly for her desired outcomes.

“Dr. Grew earned this recognition because of her national stature and her many years of service to committees of the National Research Council,” Zeleny wrote in an email. “Her service benefits the National Research Council and also UNL, as it helps us better understand national research priorities and issues.”

Zeleny said Grew is not only a great researcher, but a great person overall. “She’s a talented scholar, administrator and has provided valuable leadership to UNL,” he said.

“She always looks for the best in people.”

After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Grew went on to get her Ph.D. from Berkeley College. Out of the 80 geology students there, Grew was one of just two women.

She was one of about three or four females in the entire country with a doctorate in geology in her class of 1967.

When asked about the roots of her love of research and geology, Grew reminisced on her first visit to a museum.

Grew was about 6 years old and her parents took her to the Mesa Verde Museum in Colorado. The young Grew took notice of the miniature dioramas of cliff dwellers that were at the museum. “I was just fascinated by them,” she said.

Back at home, Grew tried to replicate one of the adobe

houses like the ones she saw at the museum.

“That was my first anthropologic experiment,” she said jokingly.

Grew said she remembers many family vacations where her parents would stop right along the road to let her search for fool’s gold or collect fossils. She said she thought of minerals and geology as a fun part of family vacations.

“I didn’t know you could do geology for work, for an academic subject,” she said.

She talked about sitting in her first ever geology class her sophomore year at Bryn Mawr. “The professor started going through slides of the Grand Canyon,” she said. “I was just in heaven. I was back on a family vacation.”

Since then, Grew has had many different career and research opportunities. She has travelled to Lake Powell in Arizona to do research in the Grand Canyon. She has worked as director of State Conservation for the state government of California.

In 1993, Grew came to UNL and became the vice chancellor for research. Then in 2003, she was named director of the University of Nebraska State Museum. She is also a professor for the earth and atmospheric sciences department at UNL and teaches a course about the geology of national parks.

Although she is no longer directly conducting her own research, Grew said she continues to keep up to date

The program also must combat implicit bias, or the tendency to preference male candidates over female candidates in the hiring process.

“If we say the word scientist, the first thing that pops into most people’s heads is a white guy in a white lab coat,” Holmes said. “So when we’re looking at applications for our next colleague, we have a picture in our minds of what or next colleague is going to look like.”

Concetta DiRusso, a professor in the Department of Nutrition, chairs a faculty committee that addresses implicit bias.

She said women are essential to STEM fields for reasons greater than diversity.

“Women are the major consumers in this country,” DiRusso said. “Consumers drive the economy, because they drive what’s being purchased.

So you can’t leave women behind. You’ve got to meet their needs and cater to their interests. The more women we have in positions of leadership, the more opportunity is apparent to those that are younger.”

Holmes and DiRusso cited increases in women graduating with degrees in the STEM fields, but they said those increases haven’t been met with increases in female faculty members.

In some fields, like veterinary science, women make up the

majority of students while men nobody teaches you that make up a heavy majority of stuff,” Holmes said. “You the faculty. That’s a detriment learn your science really well, for young females in search of but you don’t learn about being a faculty member.” role models, said DiRusso.

The million-dollar ques“Women tend to go toward tion, accordthings that ing to Holmes are more and DiRusso, nurturing You start with this is how UNL and social target of making will continue — that’s alit better for progress once ways been the grant ends the excuse women, but then in 2013. While as to why it just ends up the positions they conbeing better for of female faccentrate in ulty members the biologieverybody. hired over the cal sciences period will be over the safe, funding physical scimary ann holmes for research ences,” Digeosciences professor of practice and workRusso said. shops could be “But if their role models changed, they in jeopardy. But Holmes said she’s seen support for the would change with it.”

Regardless of hiring practic- program throughout STEM es, Holmes and DiRusso said departments because of benconditions are difficult for efits that transverse gender women in STEM faculty po- lines.

“All these better practices — sitions, especially those who are the only female members for searching for new faculty, of their departments. For this for having more people at the reason, the ADVANCE pro- table and improving teachgram supports mentorship ing methods — they’re better programs and puts on pro- for everybody,” Holmes said. fessional development work- “You start with this target of shops to assist new faculty making it better for women, members in job responsibili- but then it just ends up being ties like serving on commit- better for everybody.” tees and writing grant projacymarmaduke@ posals. dailynebraskan.com “You get out of school and

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stem: from 1 Time is almost up for ADVANCE-Nebraska, which aims to bring more women into stable tenure-track positions at UNL. Holmes, a co-principal investigator for the program, said its success is selfevident. Part of the program’s strategy includes the dual career program, an incentive to hire the qualified STEM field partners of new female faculty members. Program administrators planned to hire eight such couples during the grant period, and they’ve already hired 11.

“Birds of a feather flock together – brilliant scientists tend to marry other brilliant scientists,” Holmes said. “So usually when a pair comes, they’re both an asset to Nebraska.”

The next step is to change hiring practices. Currently, the school places ads for open positions in academic journals, but Holmes said women don’t generally seek jobs that way – they prefer to use networking and word-ofmouth to find positions.

“To attract more women to the faculty, you have to change the way you’re doing things, because for the previous two centuries, you were doing things a certain way and it wasn’t attracting women,” Holmes said. “And change is hard.”

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walk for life: from 1 federal funding, which law specifies must not go toward abortion services, frequently came under fire last year by Congressional Republicans.

The government nearly shut down when a federal budget deal hinged on that funding, but it came out protected.

In general, Americans are split down the middle on abortion. A Gallup poll last year showed 49 percent of Americans identified as prochoice while 45 percent said they were pro-life.

Walk for Life isn’t solely a Lincoln event. A similar protest was held last weekend in Washington, D.C., for example. Jeff Eickhoff, the Pro-Life Director for the Lincoln Diocese, said about 600 Nebraskans joined hundreds of thousands of marchers in what the Washington Post called “consistently one of the largest protests of the year.”

Once it started to move down 14th Street on its way to UNL’s Nebraska Union, Lincoln’s rally seemed to stretch the entire seven blocks at once. Unlike many protest marches, there was no chanting or shouting; the crowd instead seemed cheerful, talking animatedly or even singing hymns.

“As you can tell, the crowd is joyful,” said Sister Mary Helen, a member of Lincoln’s School Sisters of Christ the King, a convent that teaches in local Catholic elementary schools. “It’s a crowd of peace. That’s what we would like to continue in the world.”

Her fellow sisters were easily visible with matching dark blue veils, with nuns and priests from several

other churches joining them as well. Mary Helen said she’d attended almost every march since attending UNL — about 25 years — and joked that the crowd gets younger every year.

“We’ve all been created by the Lord for something,” she said after a moment, when asked why she kept coming.

“It’s basically the meaning of life.”

As the march arrived at the union, hundreds went inside for a keynote speech. The speaker, Ryan Bomberger is the founder of the Radiance Foundation and toomanyaborted.com, two affiliated anti-abortion groups that focus on what Bomberger called a person’s “intrinsic worth” and the historic and social context of the abortion debate, respectively. It was standing-room-only in the Centennial Room when he began.

Bomberger is biracial and was conceived by rape, a reason for abortion commonly cited by pro-choice advocates. His mother chose to carry him to term, however, after which Bomberger was adopted by a family of 15.

He used his life as an example of these other options and highlighted abortion’s higher prevalence among people of color. Like many throughout the day, he focused on the theme of the potential he said was lost through abortion.

“Every one of you, when you engage in this battle, you make me possible,” Bomberger said. “You make my children possible.” danholtmeyer@ dailynebraskan.com

regents: from 1 commenting on the initiative.

Flood said because each of the initiative’s four parts were introduced individually to the legislature, it gives each constituency a chance to speak to the legislature.

“The reality is, we’re not going to make the big decisions until we see the late February boundaries discussed,” Flood said. “I encourage folks to come in and put their best foot forward and let the legislature decide.”

Flood also spoke on keeping Nebraska students in Nebraska, particularly in rural Nebraska. He said there are opportunities in rural areas and the economy is outstanding.

One of the reasons why recent college graduates do not come back to rural areas is because there isn’t a concentrated area of people their age, according to Flood.

“This next generation … they aren’t going to show up anywhere in Nebraska because there’s a job,” Flood said. “They’re going to show up where they want to live.

That’s the challenge for rural Nebraska.”

Adding on to the Bruner Hall of Science at UNK would be a step in that direction, according to UNK Chancellor Doug Kristensen.

“Students are more likely to stay in rural Nebraska (who) are educated in rural Nebraska,” Kristensen said.

“We think UNK is located in the right area to be a beachhead for this.”

With the predicted 20 percent shortage of nurses by 2020, according to the Nebraska Center for Nursing, the addition to Bruner Hall will keep more qualified applicants at the Kearney division.

Out of Nebraska’s 93 counties, 73 have fewer registered nurses, said Juliann Sebastian, dean of the UNMC College of Nursing.

The affected counties are rural in nature, Sebastian said.

“It’s difficult for the population to move to the east and then move back,” Kristensen said. “We can make this the beachhead and reach out from Kearney. It gives us a great, great start to solving the problems in rural Nebraska.” franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

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letters: from 4 building, formerly Agricultural Hall, to serve as a symbolic gateway into the campus. It will make a visually dramatic entrance with the new greenhouses rising from the iconic outer walls of the IAB, symbolizing our future rising from the foundation of our past.

Adaptive reuse involves compromise, meaning not all of the building will be saved, but hopefully some use is found for its interior steel trusses. I’m glad that the new complex, which includes the former 4-H building, will include a historic display to preserve the memory of the State Fair in Lincoln and give mention to 4-H, the IAB, and agriculture.

I am grateful to Zach Wiegert of Nebraska Nova and Dan Duncan, Director of the Innovation Campus, who had the vision and will to preserve part of our Nebraskan heritage. In addition to their efforts, historic preservationists have worked for years to save this building, joined by hundreds of individuals who saw both historic and environmental value in preserving this large structure.

Thanks to Heritage Nebraska, the Preservation Association of Lincoln, and everyone who worked to save the IAB. Always remember that motivated individuals can make a difference!

Diane Walkowiak

Spokesperson, Save The IAB

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End of ADVANCE should not mean end of progress In 2008, the National Science Foundation gave the University of Nebraska-Lincoln a five-year grant to promote the integration of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field faculty positions. During the past four years, ADVANCE-Nebraska has worked to bring more women into tenure-track STEM jobs by researching, holding workshops for newly hired faculty and altering hiring practices.

But time is running out.

When the grant ends in 2013, the program will face jeopardized funds for research and workshops. And how can the university continue progress without funding?

The Daily Nebraskan supports ADVANCE-Nebraska and its efforts to improve the university for its students, faculty and staff of any gender. It recognizes the importance of ensuring that women are represented adequately at the university in all fields.

Increasing the number of women in STEM-field jobs isn’t just about diversity for diversity’s sake. Women are the primary consumers in the United States. Women role models are important for female students.

And women scientists often come accompanied by qualified scientist spouses as well.

Today, more and more women are graduating with degrees in STEM fields. But this increase isn’t correlated by an increase in female faculty members. In some departments, like the biochemistry, construction and geosciences departments, women faculty members are few and far between.

The Daily Nebraskan emphasizes the responsibility the university has to maintain its ADVANCE-Nebraska program, even after the grant runs out. This should be a priority until the STEM fields have an equal representation of men and women. No matter how long it takes.

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LETTERs lndustrial arts building to provide space for greenhouse and ode to Nebraskan culture

braska Nova and Innovation Campus are to be commended for their plans to restore the outer façade and incorporate it into a new greenhouse space.

It’s appropriate for this historic and unique century-old

It’s wonderful news that a good portion of the Industrial Arts Building will be saved! Ne-

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How to beat writer’s block

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t some point in college everyone has to write a paper. And at some point in that paper everyone gets writer’s block. Whether it is severe ADD kicking in, perfectionists getting in the way of their own work or total lack of any motivation, we all know the feeling of staring at a single line for several minutes without the slightest cognitive activity.

A lot of people will end up browsing Facebook or Pinterest for the next three hours. Some will make their entire home spotless rather than write another word. Many will spread their writer’s block to their roommate and bring as many people down with them just so they don’t feel like the only unproductive one.

However, there are some solutions. Though they aren’t guaranteed, and not all are practical, these 10 tips might assist the average college student in overcoming the crippling effects of writer’s block.

1. Don’t take yourself too seriously. As William Stafford put it, “There is no such thing as writer’s block for writers whose standards are low enough.” For those who are perfectionists, this simply means that you aren’t going to create your masterpiece the first go around.

Don’t worry about people judging the quality of what is essentially your first draft. After it is written, revisions are usually encouraged. Some of the best papers I have written started out as absolute train wrecks.

2. Use procrastination as a form of motivation. Though the saying goes, “procrastination is like masturbation, in the end you are only screwing yourself,” I find this highly misleading. If you only have a few hours to finish a paper, that’s all the more reasons to suck it up and get started.

And I guarantee in those few hours you will amaze yourself with how

ryan duggan efficiently you work. Granted the work is probably of poor quality and makes absolutely no sense, you will have defeated writer’s block.

3. Just start writing anything. Even if you are narrating your lack of thoughts, keep the stream of words flowing and force yourself to write constantly for a few minutes. This gets your mind going and there’s a better chance something will spark from your rambling than from staring at a blinking cursor.

4. Make it into a drinking game.

Preferably with a friend, although this is not necessary. For every paragraph you finish, a drink must be taken.

By the end of the night you, or your friend, will think you are William Shakespeare reincarnated and your paper will be done.

5. Have written ideas ready. Writer’s block is often a case of not being fully prepared, so thinking of ideas before getting to work is crucial. You can do anything from creating an outline to jotting down a few of the main points you want to discuss. Most importantly, write your ideas down. Having your thoughts before you is easier to work with than remembering you had a great idea earlier, but not being able to remember the actual idea.

6. Write down your ideas when they come to you. As we all know, good ideas come to us at very inconvenient times. Even if you have to jot down your thesis on a sheet of toilet paper, always force yourself to write your ideas down before they float away.

7. Get active. Leave your computer and go for a walk or go to the gym.

If you have been sitting at a desk for several hours, it’s nice to get the blood flowing and to stop thinking about the paper. While you are working out or getting some fresh air, your writer’s block will probably clear up and some good ideas will come to you. Plus, it’s nice to have a break every now and then.

8. Summon a Muse. Seeing how times are tough and contemporary authors no longer call upon the Muses, I’m sure one would be willing to work for a college student at a reasonable price. As to how you do this, I would suggest putting an ad on Facebook or yelling out your window. Hopefully a combination of the two will result in a quick response.

9. Work on other homework.

Though this may sound like the least appealing, it’s actually very beneficial. While you are working on something else, have your paper in the back of your mind. This way, you are still getting something done.

If any ideas come to you, or your writer’s block has cleared, you can then return to writing.

10. Google writer’s block. An effortless search may lead to more solutions of how to clear writer’s block, or perhaps it will only diagnose the symptoms you are already aware of.

However, for creative writers, there are interesting sites such as www. webook.com/911writersblock which assist in giving scenarios, characters or mere verbs to get your creative juices flowing.

Hopefully a few of these tips help the next time you encounter writer’s block. If not, seek a professor’s help and stop consulting a mere opinion columnist.

Ryan Duggan is a Junior English and Classical Languages major. Contact him at ryanduggan@ dailynebraskan.com

Free birth control measures raise questions

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ay back in August, the Department of Health and Human Services gave a preliminary OK to new preventative measures in women’s health. Chief among them?

The surprisingly controversial decision to force insurers to cover birth control without co-pay.

Some people would say, “This shouldn’t be controversial. Birth control is one of the most effective ways to prevent unplanned pregnancies.”

Those people would be right. In fact, 98 percent of women use birth control at some point in their lives.

On Jan. 20, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that yes, in fact, these rules were still going into effect, and that insurers must cover birth control on all employer-based plans, for free, no co-pay. But the big news from this announcement was the religious, conscience-based exceptions.

The news was that there aren’t really any exceptions. Sebelius and HHS rejected the arguments of the Catholic Church, affiliated hospitals

and healthcare organizations claim that disposing birth control (and even worse, for free) would violate their collective consciences.

The administration instead stuck to its original position, that houses of worship or places that primarily employ and serve only those of the same faith were exempt from the rule. And this is a good thing.

Just because a woman goes to St. Mary’s Hospital for medical care instead of Lincoln Memorial Secular Hospital (all names hypothetical) doesn’t mean she should get different standards of care from one and not the other.

Now, to be sure, there are other sides to this story. Standard Catholic doctrine says using birth control is a sin. Catholics maintain this primarily because the purpose of sex, in the mainstream Catholic view, is primarily for procreation. By definition, birth control removes this purpose.

I’m Catholic. I straight-up disagree with this statement. It leads to people like GOP candidate and former Sen. Rick Santorum to say rape victims need to “make the best out of a bad situation.” Santorum is

zach smith opposed to abortion in all circumstances, even to the point of punishing a rape victim by forcing her to carry a constant memory of that horrible day inside her for nine months.

But turning this to the standard argument about pro-choice, antiabortion — because that’s what this is really about, in the end — at least I can sort of get the Catholic Church’s position. If you believe sex is about procreation, then, of course, birth control is a sin. And if you believe the morning-after pill is abortion and life begins at conception, then, of course, it’s murder.

And, I suppose, as a large-scale organization, you’d want to lobby against laws allowing this.

But on the individual level, I’ve never really understood why people have the need to interfere in the inner workings of someone else’s uterus. Why you, random sign holder at last week’s March for Life , must travel to Washington, D.C., to lobby on the National Mall against a 39-year-old precedent?

There’s one more thing that I don’t get. People call themselves “pro-life” to mean “anti-abortion.”

In reality, if you’re “pro-life,” you ought to support all life, not just life before birth.

But people simply don’t. Other faiths have a demonstrated record of being anti-abortion and anti-birth control. Great. But they also have an equally long record of support for the death penalty and a terrible record of supporting political candidates who actually want to combat poverty.

Many kids who don’t get aborted end up being born into terrible living situations, destined for lives of crime and broken families. Some Christians who are opposed to abortion do everything they can to destroy Roe v.

Wade and nothing in the way of governmental support for these children

after they’re born.

They’re not “pro-life,” they’re “probirth.”

And that’s a fine position to take, if you’ll be honest about it. Oppose Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood – but by God, when those babies are born to some poor, unwed mother in Southeast D.C., do everything you can to deny her free healthcare and food stamps.

But let’s bring it back to birth control. Birth control simply isn’t about sinning and preventing conception. It’s about preventing conception so everyone doesn’t have 20 children. I’m aware that God said “go forth and multiply,” but at 7 billion humans and counting, God’s probably up in heaven regretting that command. Frankly, women (and men) don’t have the money to support a giant family any more. And so birth control makes a whole lot of sense to me.

And there’s no reason on earth why it shouldn’t be free.

Zach Smith is a senior music and political science major. Follow him on Twitter at @smithzach and reach him at zachsmith@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Email launches Nebraskan’s writing career tyler keown daily nebraskan

Omaha humor writer Tony Endelman isn’t afraid to write an email posing as someone else.

In fact, he has an entire website dedicated to his fake email. Endelman poses as Randy Penny, an excitable, fictitious character who replies to online inquiries.

He created the character a few years ago after sending a fake email to his boss. After showing it to a few friends, he started a blog of fake email to Craigslist entries, and thus, Randy Penny was born.

Endelman has released a book of these email, “Cordially F*#@ing with People,” and keeps up a website with the email transcripts at www.thanksrp.com.

Recently, though, Endelman has branched out from his Randy Penny

character and written a book of memoirs. “I Hope There’s Pie” came out in December and features humorous essays about drugs, depression and other life experiences.

The book has been wellreceived by critics. David Wexler, creator of MTV’s “College Life” referred to it as, “True to life, easy-torelate-to and unlike anything else out there.”

“He puts a spin of humor on everything,” said Tom Allisma, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and close friend of Endelman. “He’s very genuine.”

Endelman said there hasn’t been too much change in his life since the book’s release.

“A lot of people have been asking me to speak at functions and meetings,” Endelman said.

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Graduate student Jeff Alessandrelli sits behind his mask in his office in Andrews Hall Thursday afternoon.

Theatre of the absurd Poet’s work on French composer influenced by own persona Story by Cameron Mount Photos by Bethany Schmidt

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Every year, one book of fiction and one full-length book of poetry are chosen for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. On Jan. 30 and Jan. 31, the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize Celebration will acknowledge the works of James Crews, Greg Hrbek and Shane Book in two free events.

“Most students probably wouldn’t sit down with a book of poetry or short stories nowadays,” said Crews, winner of the Prairie Schooner’s 2010 award for poetry.

This apathy towards poetry and short stories is what the Prairie Schooner is striving to eliminate.

Prairie Schooner Managing Editor Marianne Kunkel and Editor-In-Chief Kwame Dawes have organized a question-and-answer session and meet-and-greet with the winners of the 2009/2010 Book Prize winners, in part to encourage students to be more involved in literature. The events will also include a reading from the writers’

if you go Prairie Schooner Events: Meet the Authors, Q&A when: Monday, 2 p.m. where: Andrews Hall, Bailey Library how much: free Readings and Performances when: Tuesday, 8 p.m. where: Rm. 15, Andersen Hall how much: free award-winning works.

“There’s something about the energy of a reading, getting to say hello to the poet or fiction writer afterward … that’s always been really gratifying for me,” Crews said. “It helps students to know that not all poets are dead white guys.”

The event is also intended to help writers and artists at the University of NebraskaLincoln come together in a new way.

“One of Kwame Dawes’s goals is to connect UNL’s creative writers with other artists across campus,” Kunkel said in an email. “So I

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ne look at Jeff Alessandrelli’s recently published book of poetry is enough to evidence its unconventionality. A silhouetted man in an umbrella-laden bowler hat wears a pair of Lennon-esque spectacles with opaque yellow lenses on the cover. The title, “Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound,” also provides an appropriate amount of whimsy for a collection praised for its raw and clever composition, and which Mathias Svalina deemed “a stunning & challenging book about what it means to love stunning & challenging music.”

“I was attempting to put myself in the place/ frame of mind of the book’s namesake, Erik Satie,” explained Alessandrelli. “Satie was a 20th century French avant-garde composer and a really weird dude. He was one of John Cage’s favorite composers, invented ‘furniture music’ and was also known for his composition “Vexations” that, complete with its 840 repetitions, was known to take 18-plus hours to play.”

While Alessandrelli’s writing incorporates musical notation and repetition of titles and phrases in order to mirror Satie’s style, he says it isn’t necessary for the reader to have this background.

“In most of the poems, Satie is more of a character rather than a historical figure,” he said. “I use quotes by him a lot but I also make things up and play around with the nature of Satie’s, and my own, persona. So hopefully it’s a varied experience, one that doesn’t require a whole lot of prior knowledge about Satie.”

In addition to writing poetry, Alessandrelli co-curates the Clean Part Reading Series with fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ph.D. student Trey Moody.

The series has brought notable poets like Arda Collins, J. Michael Martinez and G.C. Waldrep to Lincoln.

“He puts a lot of energy into working on and promoting the Clean Part Reading Series so that the community here in Lincoln can hear innovative poetry from nonlocal poets,” said Moody. “Jeff is a great poet who always seems to be working on new, exciting projects. Thankfully, his books and journal publications have been gaining muchdeserved attention from the poetry world in the last couple of years.”

Alessandrelli’s forthcoming poetry chapbook, “Don’t Let Me Forget To Feed the Sharks,” will be published this spring by Poor Claudia Press, though he says experience with the publication process hasn’t changed his approach to writing.

“Being published is rewarding in many ways,” he said. “But it’s actually writing that, for me at least, is just as rewarding. I try not to see the forest for the trees.”

Alessandrelli was more enthused by the experience of reading his work in public.

RIGHT: Alessandrelli reads a book of poetry at his desk Thursday; the book was written by him.

In most of the poems, Satie is more of a character rather than a historical figure...I use quotes by him a lot but I also make things up and play around with the nature of Satie’s, and my own, persona. So hopefully it’s a varied experience, one that doesn’t require a whole lot of prior knowledge about Satie.

JEFF ALESSANDRELLI graduate student

“I actually just got home from doing readings for “Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound” in Georgia,” he said. “It’s fun to yell your work at strangers who in many instances have never heard or read it before.

I get into it.”

Public performance is fitting, given the musical influence and style of his new book. In fact, Alessandrelli says a wide variety of musical inspirations make up his writing. He cited the Notorious B.I.G., Carrie Brownstein, David Bowie, Nina Simone and Pete Doherty among his influences.

“On a day to day basis I’m inspired by my dog Beckett Long Snout, by my recently purchased ‘It’s Potent!’ Benefit Eye Cream, by the Science Times section of The New York Times and by sleeping in,” he said. “I don’t much believe in concepts like voice, since I think my ‘voice,’ however it might be defined, is really nothing more than an amalgamation of the many, many other voices — both written and spoken — I’ve encountered since I was a kid.”

Joshua Ware, a fellow poet and friend of Alessandrelli who he met in UNL’s Ph.D. program, provided further insight into his Alessandrelli’s personality.

“Jeff Alessandrelli has neatly stacked piles throughout his house, which indicates both compulsive behavior and meticulous attention to detail,” Ware said. “Jeff Alessandrelli has the rugged but casual good looks of Hollywood actor Tom Jane.”

Given his lively style and personality, Alessandrelli’s admiration of Erik Satie makes sense.

Like Satie, whose last words are believed to have been “Ah! The cows...,” Alessandrelli brings a persistently unique perspective to his art.

“I don’t plan on dying,” Alessandrelli said. “But my final words will undoubtedly be ‘Thank you for coming.’”

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Droll voice defines ‘Monsters’ chance solem-pfeifer What is there to say about Chuck Palahniuk that isn’t better said by getting drunk alone and decrying the state of mankind?

We’re talking about the mind that gave us Fight Club (and subsequently scores of morons who will use “first rule, second rule” rhetoric to make every extracurricular they’re a part of seem fun), a story about con men who try and solicit money from kindly strangers by pretending to choke in restaurants and a culling song capable of causing instantaneous death.

I can’t speak to his actual mental state, of course, but it takes a mind with certain quirks to take the positions that Palahniuk takes on human interaction. A simple Wikipedia search notes the 49-year-old novelist as a transgressive writer, which in the most fundamental sense indicates that if there’s a status quo, so far as contemporary fiction writing is concerned, Palahniuk is pushing against those boundaries, whether it be with his twisted protagonists, their bone-dry voices or merely the subject matters that he chooses to tackle/invent.

Let’s talk “Invisible Monsters.” Finally released in 1999, the tale of depraved socialites and beauty queens would have been Palahniuk’s second novel had publishers not rejected it for being disturbing and weird.

“Chuck,” they probably said. “Let’s give this another go after you write the wildly successful ‘Fight Club.’ Because this is way too weird and you’re not even famous yet.”

“Invisible Monsters” exudes writing that’s quintessential early-Palahniuk. (As far as late-Palahniuk goes, stay tuned for next week when we discuss his newest work “Damned.”)

He’s a master of voice: one voice at least – that of the self-absorbed nihilist, who seems to only encounter people as dry and empty as his or herself. But in the context of a single book, the effect of this voice shouldn’t be diminished by the likes of me. The plot and characters could never exist independent of Palahniuk’s patented tone. The whole novel would be ridiculous — not to say it isn’t all far-fetched and a little pessimistically surreal as it is — but with the voice, it’s a full-bodied experience, as opposed to a moon-faced weirdo writing about fantasy worlds.

Though it’s one of his lesser-known books, falling short of the notoriety that the silver screen brought to “Fight Club” and “Choke,” “Invisible Monsters” is a

comprehensive taste of what Palahniuk typically offers as a writer.

In the same vein as “Fight Club,” this novel begins at its end with a shockingly violent and tense scene. It’s the wedding day of Evie Cottrell who, standing naked in her burning house (her wedding dress burned off), has just shot Brandy Alexander (a transsexual with a substantial secret), while our badly disfigured narrator (physically and psychologically), Shannon McFarland, describes the scene with all the fear and worry of a college student about to fall asleep in his/ her geology class. Then we backtrack to a time when Shannon is in the hospital following the “accident” (she was shot through her car window and the force of the bullet tears her jaw from the rest of her head) that simultaneously destroys her face and her dreams of becoming a model.

It’s clear very early, as a Palahniuk guides us back through the events leading up to Evie’s wedding, that he possesses the allimportant gift of being able to pull the reader outside of simple plot and through well-disguised assertions on the way humans behave.

The best evidence of this skill is when Shannon’s boyfriend, Manus, refuses to show the hospitalized woman (whose face is completely bandaged up at this point, like that of the Invisible Man) the photos of her face after the shooting. He

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launches into a story about Doberman owners taking their dogs to black market workers, as opposed to a regular vet, to have their puppies tales and ears clipped, because the inherent resentment generated from such a shocking event would forever be projected on a recurring character in the animal’s life.

“That’s the reason I can’t show you these,” Manus says, flipping through the photos over and over.

In the context of a rather disturbing, but eerily deadpan scene, Palahniuk basically manages to come off as extraordinarily talented.

This is a just a surface level analysis of Palahniuk’s abilities and what “Invisible Monsters” has to offer. The novel is chock full of twists, turns and revelations of mistaken identity. In fact, only the author’s deep-seeded taste for the disjunctive and nonlinear prevents him from being considered a great storyteller instead of a writer who is more focused on tone and theme.

Of course, subjective quality aside, “Invisible Monsters” is not for the faint of heart.

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“This may or may not be a good move on their part.”

Endelman also spoke about his writing process, or lack thereof.

“I sat down to write whenever I felt like it,” Endelman said. “I wrote a lot of the book from my office cubicle. But now I try to set aside an hour or two each night to get some writing done, even if it’s just jotting down ideas and notes.”

Endelman has confidence in his style of humor, saying that being proud of what you’ve written at the end of day is what matters.

“Worrying about how people will respond can put a stop to your creative process real quick,” said Endelman. “I don’t really give a shit about what other people think. For a while, I was nervous about how my parents would react.

But I don’t care about that

anymore either.”

While he may be receiving good reviews for his latest book, Allisma said Endelman hasn’t changed much.

“He’s not a rockstar,” Allisma said. “He’s very unusual in his sense of humor, but he’s just an average guy with comical reactions to average things.”

When speaking about the state of comedy in Nebraska, Endelman said he’d like to see it improve to the level of cities like New York or L.A. Despite Nebraska’s lack of the comedy presence bigger cities have, Endelman spoke well of Nebraska and the impact it has had on his sense of humor.

“At least we can claim Johnny Carson,” Endelman said. “Also when you think about it, the Midwest is just kind of a funny place.”

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schooner: from 5 reached out to professors of fiction are submitted every many artistic disciplines to year for consideration. These ask for their involvement.” unpublished works undergo The professors answered an intense selection process the call. According to Kunkel which involves a staff of gradand Dawes, the reading will uate students who narrow also include the selecphotography tion. The fiand dance nal selection The entire effort performances. is then made is to create cross Shane Book,

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“These are all gifted writers in common in terms of our interest in story and poetry. and we are thrilled to have It promises to be an excit- them agree to come for this ing event that we hope will event,” Dawes said. “We encourage folks to show up, please our prize winners.”

The Prairie Schooner itself even if just out of curiosity. is more than 85 years old, but I guarantee that there will be the Book Prize Series is only something for everyone to in its 10th year. According enjoy.” rachelstaats@ to Kunkel, more than 1,000 dailynebraskan.com books of poetry and short

Slam poetry comes to Lincoln’s Meadowlark Coffee adrienne anderson daily nebraskan

When Allen Ginsberg and his fellow beat poets began recording their poetry for electronic distribution, they had no idea that the idea of public performance would eventually turn into the 1980’s phenomenon of “slam poetry”, or “performance poetry.” By definition, slam poetry is poetry that isn’t meant to be read on the page; it is written to be read aloud, shared with an audience and judged just as harshly for the performance as for the content.

While Lincoln establishments, like Crescent Moon Coffee and Indigo Bridge Books have frequently held poetry readings, Meadowlark Coffee and Espresso will now be featuring a different kind of event – the Smash Teeth Poetry Slam.

Featured every second Thursday of the month, the slam poetry event will showcase poetry that is meant to be shared with the adult slam poetry community.

“The reason we’re doing

this is because coffee shops and poetry are a very interrelated genre, What with all the beat poets back in the day,” said Adam Hintz, the coowner of Meadowlark. “We wanted to cultivate that kind of community and one of the poetry communities is slam poetry, the urban representation of poetry.”

Meadowlark offers many other events as well, including benefit concerts, dance circles, open mic nights and film screenings. They even offer a seed swap for people involved in gardening. The purpose of these events, and the upcoming poetry slam, is to build a sense of community.

“It’s a reflection of our community,” Hintz said. “The things that people are talking about in poetry are things that we can really relate to.”

However, the slam poetry community is best kept to mature audiences, though many of the other events offered at Meadowlark are acceptable for all ages.

“Slam poetry is kind of known for being for adult audiences,” Hintz said. “There’s

if you go Smash Teeth Poetry Slam when: Feb. 9, 7 p.m. where: Meadowlark Coffee and Espresso, 1624 South Street how much: Free cursing and stuff.”

While Meadowlark is the only place to offer a slam poetry competition in Lincoln, there are other coffee houses in town that offer poetry readings. Indigo Bridge Books holds an over arching open mic night which offers live music, literature and poetry readings.

The event, which is held every Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m, is another opportunity for Lincoln to build community through expression. Indigo Bridge Books is helping take advantage of those opportunities by hosting the event, even though Amy Keller, a Lincoln resident, is in charge of it.

“The reason we open up our space is that expressing yourself is similar to the reasons why people read,” said

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Aja Martin, the general manager of the store. “You read because you want to know things ... It teaches about humanity.”

Martin opens Indigo Bridge Books’ doors in order to invite

the community in and establish a safe place to express itself. These aren’t all that different from the goals Hintz has for the Meadowlark Poetry Slam.

With available open forums,

Lincoln residents will have the opportunity to get to know their community, because as Hintz said, “We’re all in this together here in Lincoln.”

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Lincoln art studio offers unique classes, events Wine, art and music give Art & Soul its flavor

of “First Fridays,” in downtown Lincoln.

“We’ve always had our hours later on Thursdays and we wanted to do something fun to get people in here on those nights,” Slattery said.

As suggested by the name, “Third Thursdays” at Art & Soul occurs on the third Thursday of each month from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Each night showcases specific artists’ work and their pieces can be purchased. The art show is combined with live music, which is usually played by a local musician or band.

The night is dedicated to the artists, so there are no classes in session. Art & Soul serves food at the event and invites anyone to come look at art, enjoy the music and do some shopping.

“It gives you an opportunity to get out and do something on a Thursday evening,” Justina said. “It’s a fun atmosphere for everyone, including kids.”

Justina’s brother, Anthony, also manages Art & Soul, though he does more of the marketing for the business through mass emails and social media.

“We’re not really trying to compete with First Fridays,” said Anthony. “We’re just trying to offer something for people to do on Thursdays instead of Fridays.”

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From drawing and painting to cooking and baking, creativity is prevalent at Art & Soul.

This studio and mini cafe, a family-owned business located in south Lincoln, opened its doors last May. Justina Slattery, the general manager, works to create an open environment for everyone, regardless of talent.

“The purpose is to encourage people to explore the freedom of self expression and to provide an opportunity for people to do something creative and fun,” Slattery said.

Art & Soul offers both art and culinary classes, some for beginners and some for more experienced artists. Slattery teaches Watercolor Batik, which uses wax as a resist (medium), as well as Painting Between the Wines, a class that allows adults to pick up a paintbrush while enjoying a glass of wine.

“It’s a social, fun and laid back environment,” Slattery said.

Last December, Art & Soul began a series of “Third Thursdays,” which is its own spin-off

The next Third Thursday, which will be held on Feb. 16, will feature artists Roy Stoner and Heather Hingst Bennett and musicians Amy Schmidt and Christina Dodson.

Starting in May, Art & Soul will begin an Artists Market every Thursday with different vendors, including some with food.

“It will be like a farmers market atmosphere for artists,” Anthony said.

Katie Salstrand, a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student who was an art education major, is an employee and instructor at Arts & Soul.

“At Arts & Soul, anyone can come in and find something they like or something to do,” said Salstrand. “It’s been growing nonstop since they opened.”

Salstrand teaches a kids’ painting class entitled Les Petites Painters and co-teaches Painting Between the Wines with Justina. She also leads a class called Oh My Dog, which focuses on making things for dogs, such as dog tags and ceramic bowls.

Although no classes are taught on the third Thursday, Salstrand and other employees still enjoy coming in to Arts & Soul for the show and music.

The most recent one focused

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on Kathryn Slattery, who recently had a liver and heart transplant. The night raised money for Donate Life and prompted people to sign up to be donors. Kathryn’s artwork was featured and Anthony

played with his band.

“Hopefully we can build off of that night,” Salstrand said.

With all of the exciting events they put on and the classes offered, Salstrand loves being a part of the Art & Soul crew.

“The main thing I enjoy is the people I work with and for,” she said. “The Slatterys are an awesome family with a lot of creativity.”

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Wrestling: from 10 decisions to pull away from the Spartans.

“Maybe the score looked a little bit tighter than the match actually was,” Manning said.

He added that notching wins with tight margins will be crucial as the season moves on.

“I think winning the close matches is going to be huge going forward. One point can separate the national champion from the eighthplace guy,” Manning said.

“More explosion and offense can win you a tight match, so you need to stay aggressive.”

Two days after dispatching the Spartans, NU traveled to Madison, Wis., for a matchup with Wisconsin.

The Huskers made a statement against the Badgers by taking all 10 matches on the day.

“That’s the goal. I want our guys to be successful and wrestle well doing it,” Manning said. “It’s tough to shut any team out in any sport. It takes a pretty good effort.”

Manning said he was pleased with performances by sophomore Shawn Nagel and freshman Brandon Wilbourn, whose defeats Friday were the only NU losses against Michigan State. Nagel earned a major decision, 110, and Wilbourn won 10-4.

“He’s struggled some, lost a lot of really close matches in the last month. He opened up a little bit more, wrestled a little bit more aggressively,” Manning said of Wilbourn’s victory.

Another important triumph for the Huskers came courtesy of freshman Robert Kokesh at 165 pounds. No.

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Freshman Robert Kokesh scored 11 unanswered points against Wisconsin’s Ben Jordan on Sunday to win 13-4. The Huskers swept a pair of duals this weekend including a shutout of the Badgers.

6 Kokesh battled Wisconsin’s only ranked wrestler, No. 13 Ben Jordan. Kokesh trailed 4-2 early in the third period before tallying 11 unanswered points to not only win, but notch a major decision, 13-4.

“Any time you come from

behind in the third period, that shows a lot of heart, that shows a lot of character,” Manning said. “He just didn’t settle for winning.

He really dominated in the third period.”

Adding to the Nebraska margin against the Badgers,

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NU improves team score at weekend meet in Kentucky Sara hinds daily Nebraskan

The NU women’s rifle team achieved goals, shot and left. The women returned from the Roger Withrow Invite in Kentucky with a higher team average and a high-spirited coach.

“We did amazing ... we shot really, really good,” NU coach Morgan Hicks said.

The women came away with a 4,647 team average, which will replace their previous score of 4,619. The improvement puts Nebraska in better position for the NCAA Qualifiers. The top three team average scores make up half of a team’s qualifying score heading into the NCAA Qualifiers Feb. 18 in Alaska.

Junior Janine Dutton and freshman Kelsey Hansen

were big contributors to the increase in team average.

Dutton shot a 593 in air rifle and a 572 in small bore.

Hansen had the top small bore score and shot well in air rifle as well.

“She was really strong this weekend,” said Hicks.

“She had 587 in air which is a personal best for her.”

Sunny Russell also had a successful w e e k end. The sophom o r e beat her goal of a Russell 590 in air rifle with a 591.

“I feel like in air rifle I was pretty pleased with my performance,” Russell said.

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And as a team, Russell believes NU is ready for Alaska and “just to go into qualifiers feeling like this.”

“But we also know we do have things to work on,” she said.

The women have a couple of weeks to do just that. But first, they have something to discuss this week. At the beginning of the season the team sets team score goals for air rifle and smallbore.

Air rifle was set at 2,330.

“We’re gonna be changing that one on the board ... so we’ll be doing that on Tuesday,” Hicks said.

NU was six points away from their smallbore goal of 2,300.

“We just haven’t cracked it yet,” said Hicks. “But we managed to go higher on the air rifle.”

NU also shot well individually. Everyone shot above a 570 in smallbore and above a 580 in air rifle.

The individual performances of each woman provided the boost needed to attain a higher team average, which made for a successful trip to Kentucky.

“They put everything out there,” said Hicks. “And they smashed it.”

With the success NU had in Kentucky, Hicks is confident in her team’s ability to perform, especially at this point in the season. But Hicks knows there is still progress to be made as NU heads to Alaska.

“I think that we’re definitely starting to peak at the right time,” said Hicks.

“And we’re gonna’ really focus on fine tuning what we have now and showing that we are a team that can compete.” sarahinds@ dailynebraskan.com

NU senior Josh Ihnen garnered his fourth straight extra point victory with an 11-2 win over MSU’s Ian Hinton and a 12-1 major decision against Timmy McCall of Wisconsin.

To Manning, outscoring two teams 63-8 is even

more impressive when it is achieved on the road.

“You have to be tough enough to overcome some obstacles,” he said.

Overall, the NU coach was happy with the way the Huskers kept their momentum rolling throughout the

weekend.

“I thought up and down the lineup our guys wrestled real aggressively and did a good job of wrestling hard for seven minutes,” Manning said. zachTegler@ dailynebraskan.com

Track & Field: from 10 the meet with 161.50, with Illinois sitting in second with 133 and Nebraska’s 123.50 earning the Huskers third place.

“I think part of the reason they scored so many points is right now they’re scoring in a lot of events where right now we didn’t have any people in it,” sprints and hurdles coach Billy Maxwell said. “Like the distance running, we had one or two girls today that didn’t run, so it could’ve been a different story in those events.”

Last week, the Huskers won both the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs in impressive fashion – with senior Ashley Miller placing 2nd all-time at Nebraska in the 3,000-meter and with Katie Miller shattering a personal record in the 5,000-meter on the way

to a first place finish. This week, however, it was all Michigan, who took the top four spots in the 3,000 and the top three spots in the 5,000.

While Nebraska struggled to keep up in certain events, plenty of Huskers were able to break personal records in others.

Sprinter Mara Weekes broke personal records in both the 60-meter dash (which she won) and the 200-meter dash (in which she took second).

“She had probably the best day she has had at the University of Nebraska, particularly indoors,” Maxwell said.

Triple jumpers Anna Weigandt and Patrick Raedler both set personal records – Raedler’s en route to a first place finish and Weigandt’s to earn second.

Other personal bests were highlighted by Carter Wasem (weight throw), Bjorn Barrefors (pole vault), Jarren Heng (5,000-meter run) Ricco Hall (200-meter dash) and Jodi-Rae Blackwood (400-meter dash) on the men’s side.

Notable personal records on the women’s side were Jessica Furlan (mile run), Jordan Stiens (60-meter hurdles), Anne Martin (60-meter hurdles, 200-meter dash) and Ashley Miller (800-meter run).

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basketball: from 10 knew I needed to step up and that’s what I do when my shot isn’t falling.”

If it was not for Cady and Moore’s offense, NU could have been in a lot of trouble. Leaving Cady and Moore out of the offense, the rest of the Huskers shot just 10 for 43 from the field.

No one suffered more from the field then Jordan Hooper. She was 4 for 24, including 1 for 12 from behind the arc. Still the sophomore finished with 12 points.

“Who let’s a player go 4 for 24 from the field?” Yori said. “Well I do. Jordan just had a rough shooting game and we know she is a better shooter than that.”

Despite the offensive struggles for Hooper and the rest of the Huskers, they were able to cause problems on the defensive end for the Illini. Illinois shot 30 percent from the field and committed 23 turnovers.

Those turnovers led to 25 Husker points as Illinois managed just nine points off 14 Nebraska turnovers.

Hooper was a presence the entire game on the

NEBRASKA AT ILLINOIS NEBRASKA 67 Nebraska Illinois FG percentage 3-point shooting Free throws Rebounds (Off) Assists Turnovers

40 22 NU 33.3 4 for 20 21 for 25 43 (16) 9 14

ILLINOIS 47 27 67 25 47 ILL 29.3 1 for 9 12 for 17 45 (17) 9 23

NU LEADERS Lindsey Moore: 20 points, 3 assists Emily Cady: 17 points, 5 rebounds SOURCE: HUSKERS.COM

defensive end as well. The forward broke her careerhigh that she set last game against Iowa with 16 rebounds on Sunday afternoon to record her 10th double-double of season.

“I love rebounding,” Hooper said. “I think that rebound is mine every time a shot goes up and I go get it.”

Hooper also was a part of the combined effort to hold preseason All-Big Ten selection Karisma Penn to just three points in 30 minutes.

Nebraska now will have a showdown at Purdue on

Thursday. The Boilermakers lead the Big Ten with just one loss in the conference season after Minnesota upset No. 9 Ohio State on Sunday.

“I love this part of the season when everything starts to fall into place in conference,” Moore said.

“When teams start to win games they aren’t supposed to. Thursday’s game should be exciting, because Purdue is going to be hungry after losing its first conference game to Iowa.” andrewward@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska women’s swimming and diving coach Pablo Morales paced up and down the side of the pool cheering with excitement for his seniors. Morales even dressed up in a shirt and scarlet tie in their honor. Morales held a strong sense of enthusiasm for this class and all that they have brought to the team the last four years.

“This class is full of leaders,” Morales said. “That kind of leadership on a team is invaluable.”

Nebraska won 13 out of 16 events against Iowa State at the Bob Devaney Natatorium on Saturday, showing off its strengths as it prepared for the Big Ten Championships.

Nebraska racked up a total of 200 points compared to Iowa State’s 100.

For Nebraska, this victory has been long-awaited.

The Huskers have dropped close dual meets against Kansas and Illinois the past two weekends.

“The last couple of weeks have been good for us as a competitive standpoint,” Morales said.

The Huskers were in need of that key victory, according to Morales, and it finally came in Saturday’s meet.

“We have a knack of working so hard, training well, learning from those experiences,” Morales said.

“Things seem to be finally coming together.”

Nebraska started to take control in the 1,650yard freestyle by capturing the top five spots. NU

Nebraska freshman Natalie Morris won the 200-yard butterfly event on Saturday with a time of 2:06:65. sophomore Bailey Pons led the sweep with a time of 10:12.88. Pons then came back to win the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:01.62.

Ellan Dufour and Payton Michaud also won both of their individual events for the Huskers. Dufour took first in both the 200-yard and 100-yard backstroke, while Michaud grabbed the title in both the one-meter and three-meter dives.

In the 13 events that the Huskers won, five of those included events in which they took the top three

spots or better, demonstrating their depth.

Part of that depth was due to the Huskers’ senior class.

As Saturday was the Huskers’ final home meet of the season, the senior class was honored. This group consisted of captains Riley Seidel and Caroline Shea along with Bobbi Balogh, Mailene Leslie and D’Arcy Schmidt.

“I miss them already,” said Morales. “I think about this year, how smoothly it has gone, and how great the girls have been.”

With all of these strong

seniors, graduation will be a tough loss for the Huskers, according to Morales. There is a bright future ahead for the Huskers, however, and that future comes via freshman Natalie Morris.

Morris won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:06.65 and finished second behind teammate Shannon Guy with a time of 58.04 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly. Morris also contributed to the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relays.

“I didn’t do as well as I wanted to these past two weekends,” Morris said. “I

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wanted to come out here and do really well in preparation for the Big Ten Championships.”

With this victory Saturday, the Huskers are gaining a head of steam going into the Big Ten Championships, Feb. 15-18 in Iowa City, Iowa.

The Huskers will need all this momentum and depth as they head into the championships. Moving from the Big 12 to the Big Ten, Nebraska will be competing against more teams. While the Big 12 only had a total of six teams with women’s swimming and diving programs,

all 12 teams in the Big Ten have women’s teams.

“It’s exciting to be in the Big Ten,” said Morales. “It’s brand new territory for us and brings us high pressure and high intensity. It amps up the competition.”

Morris is looking to make her own entrance at the championships.

“I want to go out there and do what I can. I want to be able to score points for my team anyway that I can,” Morris said. “This season isn’t over yet.” angelahensel@ dailynebraskan.com

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The NU women’s gymnastics team began last Saturday’s meet against the Missouri Tigers with two career-high marks and a season-high score from three gymnasts to help capture the vault event title.

That performance was then followed by a team win on the bar event assisting the Huskers to a 98.425-98.025 lead after two events.

But what happened in their next event on balance beam was something even NU coach Dan Kendig had rarely seen in his 19 years as a coach at Nebraska.

“We’ve never even done that in practice,” Kendig said. “Tonight was a total surprise.”

The first performer on beam was Husker gymnast Janelle Giblin, who committed a fall 15 seconds into her performance. It didn’t take long until one of the team’s more consistent gymnasts fell again, 20 seconds later.

Giblin finished with a score of 8.100 on beam, a career-low for the junior.

But the errors didn’t end there.

Three more Huskers would tumble resulting to a season-low team score of 46.950 in the event.

“Momentum works both ways and today it worked in Missouri’s favor,” Kendig said. “Tonight was a total surprise.”

That was all the momentum No. 20 Missouri would need to take over the rest of the meet, as fans witnessed their No. 4 women’s gymnastics team fall Saturday to the Tigers, 195.725-194.55, for the first time this season.

Assistant coach Heather Brink, who coaches beam for Nebraska, thought the team lost focus in the third

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Junior Janelle Giblin struggled on beam Saturday, falling twice leading to a 8.100 score. event.

“We do practice meet situations all the time in practice,” she said, “once or twice a week. That has never happened.”

Prior to the beam event, freshman Jessie DeZiel scored a 9.85 on vault and 9.825 on bars, which later led her to win the allaround title with a score of 39.375. Sophomore Jamie Schleppenbach ended the vault event with a seasonhigh 9.90 score.

The Huskers then moved to bars where many of their performance scores by the judges seemed questionable to coach Brink. “(The scores) were definitely tight but that’s going to happen,” Brink said.

“We’re going to have to deal with it. I tell the girls not to focus on the scores, just their routines.”

Although the team had a shaky start, they finished with a total score of 49.125, with Giblin scoring a career-tying 9.90. She would go on to win the event for her third consecutive meet this season.

But what looked like a promising start quickly

diminished as the Huskers trailed after three events, 147.50-145.375.

In the final event, Nebraska finished strong as Lora Evenstad and DeZiel closed the meet with two consecutive 9.90 performances.

However, their late surge wasn’t enough as the Tigers scored a 48.675 in their last event on beam.

In order to move on, the team has to forget what happened, according to Brink.

“It just can’t happen again,” she said. “I believe in them and that’s why it’s so disheartening to watch what happened today happen.”

The team’s next meet will be against Oklahoma, Minnesota and Centenary next Friday in Norman, Okla.

Kendig said he won’t use Saturday’s performance as a prediction for what’s to come for the team.

“It’s not what happened today, it’s what happens Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, to make next Friday that much better,” Kendig said. neduIzu@ dailynebraskan.com

Grant Perdue scored two career-highs while still recovering from a foot injury from 13 months ago.

Perdue, a freshman, led the No. 9 Nebraska men’s gymnastics team to a third place finish at the Stanford Open on Saturday. The Huskers posted a score of 332.600, falling behind No. 5 California (339.00) and champion No. 6 Stanford (348.300). NU finished ahead of fourth-place Washington (251.200).

“I definitely wish it was higher,” NU coach Chuck Chmelka said. “We started off really strong and then started to make the mistakes.”

The Huskers scored 57.40 on the floor exercises, three points higher than their season average.

Perdue led the way for the Huskers with a score of 14.80, assisted by Andreas Hofer’s score of 14.50 and Hayden Henrioulle’s 14.10 points.

“Hayden did really well on floor,” Chmelka said.

“He was kind of just thrown into the routine and hit everything very well.”

NU also had strong scores on the high bar, reaching a team score of 55.20 on the event.

“The guys started our first three events outstanding,” Chmelka said. “We were right there with them for a while. We were sticking landings, everything was sharp, they did awesome.”

However, the Huskers’ pommel horse and vault scores were lower than usual. NU scored a total of 53.80 on the pommel horse and 56.10 on the vault, led

by Perdue’s score of 14.70.

“The first few guys really hit the pommel,” Chmelka said. “but then the last three guys made some mistakes. That’s the first time that’s happened all year, it was very uncharacteristic. It was just weird, because we were doing so well and then that hit and everybody got quiet.”

Perdue led the Huskers by earning the top three

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Freshman Grant Perdue scored 14.80 on floor and 14.70 on vault this weekend in Stanford, Calif. of both floor exercises (14.80) and vault (14.70).

“I definitely feel like I’ve improved,” Perdue said. “My confidence got boosted against Air Force last week and I carried that with me and it helped a lot.”

“He did phenomenal,” Chmelka said. “Having just come back after sitting out and doing a brand new routine, he hit everything beautifully.”

Perdue was out earlier in the season for six weeks due to a stress fracture in his foot. Perdue had the stress fracture for about 13 months before he got an MRI and found out he had the injury.

“I’m not 100 percent yet,” Perdue said. “I’m still pushing my injury.

Floor and vault are the two events that you need your feet the most, and I was happy with the high scores.”

Perdue began practicing with the team during the first week of January,

and the effort he’s been displaying showed in the meet.

“We knew he had it in him,” Chmelka said. “He has enough repetitions in him to make him confident.

NU has the next two weeks to practice and work on increasing its scores before the next meet on Feb. 11.

“The mistakes that we do make aren’t the same ones over and over,” Chmelka said. “Which is good, it means we’re fixing things.”

The end of those two weeks of practice leads up to the Huskers’ first meet against Big Ten competition. Nebraska will meet the Hawkeyes and Gophers in Iowa City.

“Were gonna be ready to go into the next phase of the season,” Chmelka said. “Phase two. I think the guys are starting to feel more confident, we just have to get back.”

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Men finish first, Women take third at Mark Colligan Memorial

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Senior Luke Pinkelman threw an automatic NCAA qualifying distance for the second-straight week on Saturday with a throw of 63-8 1/4.

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All season long Nebraska’s athletes have been wearing the patches.

It’s a white ‘MC’ overlaying a black circle. On every scarlet Nebraska jersey, the black circle is stamped above the left breast.

Saturday, seemingly everyone was wearing them.

Moms had them on their shirts, a little boy had his stitched into his hoody, and one student even wore a silver “MC” belt buckle.

The “MC” stands for Mark Colligan, Nebraska’s longtime throws coach, who passed away at the NCAA Championships in June.

Colligan focused his entire life around Nebraska track and field. Saturday, Nebraska honored his life with the first Mark Colligan Memorial.

Before the start of the meet, HuskerVision showed a video remembering coach Colligan, followed by

acknowledging Colligan’s family. New throws coach Carrie Lane said Colligan may have made an appearance himself.

“At one point the laser measuring broke down,” Lane said.

“Apparently coach Colligan was not a fan of that laser device and one of the kids said, ‘I think coach Colligan made this happen.’”

Nebraska’s throwers, most of whom Colligan coached last season, played through a lot of emotion at Saturday’s meet.

“I think they handled themselves well,” Lane said.

“I just asked that they channel that emotion in a good way.”

Senior All-American shot putter Luke Pinkelman threw an automatic NCAA qualifying throw for the second week in a row en route to a first place finish with a throw of 63-8 1/4.

Husker Chad Wright took second in the event.

Men’s shot put was the only throw event the Huskers would win, however.

“This was probably our most competitive meet to date,” Lane said. “I would’ve liked to have seen some kids rise to the occasion a little bit better.”

Team-wide on the men’s side, final-hour wins in shot put, triple jump, pole vault and a second place finish in the 4x400-meter relay gave the men’s team a nine-point victory against second place Illinois.

On the women’s side, Michigan and Illinois built an early lead over Nebraska, taking the top few places in most mid- and longdistance runs.

Nebraska’s two wins — in the 60-meter dash and the 800-meter run — weren’t enough to overcome the Wolverines or the Illini.

Michigan ended up winning

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NU women top Illinois, 67-47 Andrew Ward daily Nebraskan

Emily Cady was at the free throw line again.

That was the case most of the afternoon Sunday for Cady and No. 19 Nebraska as it won its eighth game this season shooting less than 40 percent from the field, beating Illinois 67-47 in Champaign, Ill. The Huskers (18-3 overall, 7-2 Big Ten) shot just 33 percent from the field, but because of their success from the free throw line, there was never any doubt in the result of the game.

Coach Connie Yori said not every game is going to be pretty.

“Everyone has their own opinion on art,” Yori said.

“Some like impressionist; some like the Renaissance. I don’t know what kind of art that game was, but I liked it because it was a 20-point win.”

NU took 25 free throws, making 21 of them to continue its success at the line this season.

Cady led the way for Nebraska at the line making all eight of her free throws.

The freshman finished with another strong game offensively, scoring 17 points on 4 of 7 shooting and adding five rebounds.

In addition to Cady’s offense, Lindsey Moore once again had to step up when the Huskers were struggling offensively.

With just less than four minutes to go in the game, Moore took a pass from Kaitlyn Burke and finished a layup while getting fouled. The basket concluded Moore’s 5-point run to push NU’s lead to 20.

Moore was once again a key factor when leading scorer Jordan Hooper struggled from the field. Moore finished with 20 points, four rebounds and three assists.

“A lot of it was just me deciding to attack the basket and get to the free throw line,” Moore said. “I

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The Huskers wear ‘MC’ patches on their uniforms to honor former coach Mark Colligan.

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Freshman Emily Cady was a perfect 8 for 8 from the freethrow line Sunday in Champaign, Ill.

Entering a pair of road duals against Michigan State and Wisconsin, the No. 7 Nebraska wrestling team wanted to continue gaining momentum.

Mission accomplished.

Between a 27-8 victory against the Spartans and a 36-0 rout of the Badgers, the Huskers lost only two matches over the weekend.

“Our guys are building some mental toughness,” NU coach Mark Manning said.

Against Michigan State, Nebraska found itself in an early hole after a technical fall by the Spartans’ Eric Olanowski in the dual’s first match.

But the Huskers

answered by winning eight of the remaining nine matches – four by three points or fewer.

“We won a couple tight matches,” Manning said.

“We practice to win tough matches. When you’re up by one point you’ve got to be able close a match out with good position and being a little bit tougher and a little bit more savvy.”

Among NU’s close victories were matches by No. 8 James Green (157 pounds) and Tyler Koehn (174 pounds) over No. 12 Anthony Jones and No. 11 Curran Jacobs, respectively. But the Huskers also added three major

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