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The jet stream, a 140-mph current of air in the upper atmosphere, has been holding north in Canada for several weeks, contributing to the unusually warm weather in the U.S. last week. Above, a map of the jet stream on Jan. 4, a day of warm temperature records around the country.

Below, the jet stream Sunday. Dipping southward into the U.S., temperatures north of the stream have fallen closer to normal levels.

The Industrail Arts Building, located on the former state fairgrounds, sees little activity on Sunday.

Industrial Arts Building saved from demolition

After renovations, structure to be first completed part of Innovation Campus story by Dan Holtmeyer | photo by Kyle Bruggeman

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fter a century-long journey, the Industrial Arts Building closed since 2004 from disrepair and slated for destruction since 2008 - will be given new life as part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Innovation Campus.

That project is under development on the former state fairgrounds north of City Campus and will be based on food, energy and water research.

Developers and university officials announced Thursday that the building will hold sophisticated greenhouses and research labs within its original shell.

Those facilities will then be home to a research collaboration between university resources and private industry that is the campus’s

hallmark.

The building will join the former 4-H building as part of a four-building, interconnected complex that will be the first completed piece of Innovation Campus. For an idea of scale of this first piece, the completed campus will comprise 2 million square feet; this chunk takes care of 300,000 of that or 15 percent, said Dan Duncan, the campus’s executive director.

“So it’s a significant portion of the campus we’re kicking off with,” he said in a phone interview.

While the outer facade and architecture will be preserved and restored, the inside will be gutted to make way for the research space, said Duncan.

“What really made it feasible for this plan is it has

two levels,” he said. “It just came along that this was something that we could make work.”

The building appeared doomed to demolition in 2008, when consultants for the university recommended it be torn down and UNL couldn’t find another proposal worth the price.

But last September, primary campus developer Nebraska Nova Development LLC said it might be able to save some of the building.

That was a relief for several Lincoln residents and architects who rallied to preserve the structure, which is on the National Registry of Historic Places and had been in use through both world wars and the Nebraska State Fair since 1913. Diane Walkowiak, a leading member of

the Save the Industrial Arts Building effort, couldn’t be contacted by press time, but has called it a mixed victory, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

“This is not so much a historic preservation as an adaptive reuse,” she told the paper in an article published Friday. “The other option for the building was that it would be demolished. This is much better.”

Now, the plan for that preservation is ready. It includes building about 25,000 square feet of greenhouse space on the building’s roof, Duncan said. The space will augment the university’s current greenhouses, including the bioscience

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While most students at the University of NebraskaLincoln spent their winter breaks relaxing and diluting the stress of finals with the company of family and friends, a smaller group of students dedicated their downtime to disaster relief in Tuscaloosa, Ala. In late April 2011, a severe weather storm blew across states in the southeast for nearly three days.

The most significant damage was in Alabama, where an F4 tornado paved a milewide diagonal cut through the city of Tuscaloosa, killing 60 civilians. One civilian described to Linda Moody, director of service learning with the UNL Center for Civic Engagement, that it was like a bomb had been dropped on the city.

“It’s sad to say, but I look at the devastation here, and

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I wonder how there weren’t more lives lost,” Moody said. “The damage reminds me of Hurricane Katrina.”

Moody and the Center for Civic Engagement organized the trip to Tuscaloosa as a part of the alternative service breaks offered four times a year during spring, summer, fall and winter.

On these service breaks, students, faculty and staff are given the opportunity to travel to different places around the United States to volunteer in places of need.

The trip lasted Jan. 1 through Jan. 8, costing each volunteer $200 for housing, food, travel and a T-shirt.

“All of the volunteers

have been completely selfsufficient,” Moody said. “It’s one of the many things that makes their work down here even more impressive.”

The volunteers stayed at Trinity Presbyterian Church during the trip, sleeping on air mattresses in small classrooms located in the basement. Corinne McGill, a sophomore child, youth and family studies major and one of the six leaders for the trip, said that sleeping on the floor didn’t even matter.

“We’re so tired from all the work by the end of the day that we’re out the second we hit the pillow,” she

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McGill said a typical work day for the volunteers started at 8 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m., with an hour-long lunch break at noon.

Despite the fact the tornado occurred nearly a year ago, there are still large amounts of debris needing to be cleaned up.

“I was really shocked by how much debris is still laying around and hanging from the trees,” said Taylor Vaiskunas, a junior psychology and pre-med major.

Vaiskunas said he had spent an entire day with

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After glacial temperatures in early December, the new year brought temperatures across the country reminiscent of spring, not winter. Last week, Lincoln’s temperature was almost 70 degrees.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a winter this mild since I moved to Nebraska,” said Daniel Baquet, a freshman international business and Spanish major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who moved to Lincoln 12 years ago. He began this year by driving around town with his car windows down.

The warmth was hardly limited to Nebraska. Hundreds of high-temperature records were broken in dozens of states. Nearly the entire country was above freezing. In the Dakotas, some towns saw highs 40 degrees above normal. Lincoln’s temperature was the same as Miami’s.

Not surprisingly, most people didn’t seem to mind.

News reports showed outdoor tennis games and runners in shorts in Chicago and New York. Both cities were dealing with blizzards this time last year.

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The explanation for the bizarre heat might stretch from Canada to the Pacific and from the ground to the upper atmosphere, said two meteorologists at the National Weather Service station in Omaha.

“The pattern really switched” from early December, said Josh Boustead, who’s been working with the Omaha station for about 11 years, in a phone interview Friday. “All the Arctic air was bottled up well north into Canada.”

The force holding back that Arctic air: jet streams, high-speed currents of air propelled by the Earth’s rotation that flow eastward around the northern and southern hemispheres.

The northern jet stream typically meanders and shifts its way across the U.S. and Canada. It often defines a loose border between warm, southern air and cool, northern air. The storms that form where the two meet usually move along the stream like beads on a string.

Lately, Boustead said, the jet stream has been over Canada for an unusually long time, what

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NASA helps UNL students defy gravity Maricia Guzman Daily Nebraskan

While the sky may be the limit for some, a select group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students aims just a bit higher.

The UNL microgravity team has been chosen to participate in the 2012 NASA Microgravity University. The students will work on a series of microgravity, or reduced gravity, experiments and missions at the International Space Station.

A group of seven or eight students will travel to Houston April 20 through April 27. In the coming months the team will create a monitoring apparatus that will help to sense if harmful gases are present in the crew cabins of spacecrafts.

The team will be able to test and put their apparatus to use when they travel to the International Space Station.

This is UNL’s fifth straight year to have students participating in the program.

The students who get to go to NASA will also participate in microgravity experiments aboard specialized aircrafts during flights that will reach 35,000 feet above Earth and will simulate the “weightlessness effect” of being in outer space.

While only seven or eight students will get to travel to Houston, the entire microgravity team comprises 20 UNL students who collaborated in writing the proposal that got them accepted into the program. Last fall, the

students wrote their proposal to NASA demonstrating why they are capable and prepared to work with the institution on various research topics.

Schools from across the nation are participating in the program and each school will receive a NASA mentor who will help guide the students in building their apparatus that will be used in Houston.

In addition to working with NASA, the team will also work with various companies including Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Cbana Labs, Inc. “During the coming semester, we will be working with our NASA mentor and industry collaborators to design an apparatus and data collection strategy suitable for evaluating the performance of a micro flame ionization detector (a specialized sensor for monitoring air quality in spacecraft cabins),” wrote Carl Nelson, the groups’ faculty adviser, in an email.

Nelson has been the faculty adviser for the microgravity team for four years and is also a professor of mechanical and materials and biological systems engineering.

For freshman mechanical and materials engineering major Jeremy Olson, being a member of the microgravity team has been a great opportunity to apply what he has learned in a real-life setting.

Although Olson will not be traveling to Houston this year, he is eager to be a valuable member of the team and is excited to finally get started

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on the hands-on part of the project.

“I am most excited about actually being able to work on the flame detector,” Olson said. “Everything up to this point has just been working on the proposal. I am most nervous about making sure everything is thoroughly thought through. Once they head down to Houston everything is basically set in stone.”

Like his fellow teammates, Olson had to apply through the College of Engineering and meet certain academic requirements to join the team.

Nelson and Olson both agree that thus far a big challenge for the group has been trying to connect the thoughts of 20 different people during the writing and editing process of the proposal.

“The most difficult part of the writing of our 19-page proposal was probably the editing,” Olson said. “While

you have a room full of intelligent people, engineers are not exactly known for impressing people with perfect grammar.”

While students benefit from this program, NASA does as well.

“For NASA, this program increases visibility, supports their research mission, and helps foster their workforce pipeline,” Nelson said.

The microgravity team members certainly have their work cut out for them this spring semester, and they hope to continue their involvement in the Microgravity University program for years to come.

“I definitely plan on doing this program next year,” Olson said. “It is a great learning experience and a great way to get involved with engineering.” mariciaguzman@ dailynebraskan.com

tuscaloosa: from 1 some of the other volunteers just moving debris.

Sloan Matzke, a junior psychology major, spent one of her days cleaning out the water from a storm cellar.

“It was actually really disgusting,” Matzke said. “It got kind of scary when we started finding personal items in there that made it look like the people who lived there didn’t survive.”

Moody said one of the most significant things about the students’ work in Tuscaloosa was that the students have put in 900 hours of work altogether, which means that 900 hours of federal aid will be given to Tuscaloosa’s emergency management in return.

The Alabamans have been grateful for the students’ presence in Tuscaloosa, Moody said. She said the civilians would drive by waving and honking at the volunteers as they worked.

“They think it’s just amazing that college students from the Midwest are spending their time helping others halfway across the country, when they could be enjoying their time off from school,” she said.

One of these thankful individuals was an elderly man named Gary who was walking around the town filming a documentary of the disaster relief for his daughter, a speech teacher who had lost some of her students in the disaster.

It’s just amazing that college students from the Midwest are spending their time helping others.

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“This elderly man came up to us as we were working and shook our hands, thanking us for all the help,” McGill said. “He was just so gracious. It was really nice to hear his appreciation for what we were doing.”

According to Moody, there has been significant progress since they started their work. However, she said there is still a lot of need in Tuscaloosa. “People don’t realize that 7,000 out of a population of 9,000 people lost their jobs,” Moody said. “Schools, police stations, sanitation ... all of it was wiped out.”

Although a daunting task, Moody and the students perceived the experience as positive and energizing — one that would drive them to do more service work in the future.

Moody said that this was one of the rare times the people of Tuscaloosa felt like they were truly coming together as a community.

“I think that’s kind of a ‘Midwest’ thing,” she said.

“We’re willing to lend our help when it’s needed.” conordunn@ dailynebraskan.com

Community desk DEADLINE: May 2012 Graduation Applications when: Deadline is Friday, Jan. 27, 5 p.m. where: Applications can be turned in Graduation Services in Canfield Room 109 what: Students planning to graduate this May need to hand in a completed graduation form and $25 in cash or check for each degree to Graduation Services by Jan. 27. contact: Jennifer Verhein at 402-472-3636 or jverhein2@ unl.edu DEADLINE: Lenten Devotional Writers when: Sunday, Jan. 15 what: Deadline to sign up for Lenten Devotional Writers.

For more information, contact the Lutheran Center. contact: The Lutheran Center at lincoln@nelcm.com RESERVATION: Friends of the Lied 2012 Gala when: Saturday, Jan. 28 where: Lied Center for Performing Arts what: The Lied is accepting reservations for its 2012 Friends of Lied gala. The fundraising event includes food, entertainment and mingling with friends. contact: Donna Seefeld at 402-472-4704 Financial counseling sessions when: Thursday, Jan. 12, Tuesday, Jan. 17, Wednesday, Jan. 18, Tuesday, Jan. 24, Thursday, Jan. 26 and Monday, Jan. 30. where: TIAA-CREF sessions at the Wick Alumni Center Library on Jan. 12, 17 and 26; East Union on Jan. 18 and 26. Fidelity sessions at the Nebraska Union on Jan. 12 and 24; East Union on Jan. 17 and 30. what: Individual financial counseling sessions to help

faculty and staff. cost: Free contact: Dani Whitney at 402-472-0937 or dwhitney3@unl.edu UNL Extension Crop Production Clinics when: Tuesday, Jan. 10, Wednesday, Jan. 11, Thursday, Jan. 12, Tuesday, Jan. 17, Wednesday, Jan. 18 and Thursday, Jan. 19 where: Hastings – Adams County Fairgrounds on Jan. 10, North Platte – West Central R and E Center on Jan. 11, Gering – Gering Civic Center on Jan. 12, Ainsworth – Community Center on Jan. 17, Norfolk – Lifelong Learning Center, NECC on Jan. 18 and Fremont – Midland University Event Center on Jan. 19. what: Clinics will provide information for crop producers and agribusiness professionals to improve profitability and safety of crops. For more information and register, visit cpc.unl.edu.

Find Your Niche when: Tuesday, Jan. 10, Thursday, Jan. 12, Tuesday, Jan. 17 and Thursday, Jan. 19.

All events take place from 4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. where: Abel/Sandoz Welcome Center on Jan. 10, Harper Dining Conference Rooms on Jan. 12, outside CPN Dining on Jan. 17 and outside Selleck Dining on Jan. 19. what: Volunteers will help students find an organization on campus to be involved in by going over students’ interests and making recommendations. Participants can win prizes like a gift card to Red Mango or the Coffee House in a drawing.

Lecture: “Staphylococcus aureus: May I have some proline please?” when: Monday, Jan. 9, 4 p.m. where: Veterinary Medicine

and Biomedical Sciences Hall, Room 145 what: Lecture by Bill Schwan from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin.

Lecture: “Formulating, Applying and Constraining Hydrological Models: Modeling 101” when: Wednesday, January 11, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 107 what: William Woessner from the University of Montana will lecture about modeling methods used to describe and evaluate hydrological processes and systems.

Digital Textbook Workshop when: Tuesday, Jan. 10. 1:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Colonial Room what: Workshop to provide information about CaféScribe, the bookstore’s digital platform. contact: Derek Schuckman at 402-472-7300.

National Mentoring Month Celebration when: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. where: Sheldon Museum of Art what: Evening of intergenerational art activities to celebrate National Mentoring Month. The event is in collaboration with Heartland Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Sustain UNL meeting when: Wednesday, Jan. 11, 6 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Georgian Room A what: Meeting of the UNL Sustain Club to talk about goals and plans for the semester.

Lecture: “Integrating allometric relationships and body size plasticity with dynamic models” when: Thursday, Jan. 12, 3:30 p.m. where: Hamilton Hall, Room 112 what: Lecture by John DeLong MLK Freedom Breakfast when: Friday, Jan. 13, 7:30 a.m. where: Embassy Suites Hotel what: Keynote Speaker is Larry Williams, executive director of the Clyde Malone Community Center. cost: $20 contact: Jody Wood at 402472-0085 Exhibition Opening: What’s in a Name?

Inscribed Quilts when: Friday, Jan. 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. where: International Quilt Study Center and Museum what: Exhibition opening at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.

Lecture: “Learning Drug Design from Nature: Structural Enzymology of Polyketide Biosynthesis” when: Friday, Jan. 13, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hamilton Hall, Room 112 what: Lecture by Sheryl Tsai from the University of California, Irvine. Open to the public. contact: DeNeice Steinmeyer at 402-472-3523 or dsteinmeyer2@unl.edu Lecture: Elasticity of Prestrained

Structures when: Friday, Jan. 13, 4 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. where: Avery Hall, Room 115 what: Marta Lewicka from the University of Pittsburgh will talk about analyzing elastic bodies that demonstrate residual stress at free equilibria.

Refreshments will be served from 3:30 to 4 p.m. in Avery Hall, Room 348. cost: Free and open to the public contact: Steve Cohn at 402472-7223 2011-2012 Biennial Juried Undergraduate and Graduate Student Exhibition when: Friday, Jan. 13, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. where: Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, 2nd Floor Home Economics Building what: Elizabeth Bye, a guest juror from the University of Minnesota, will select works from students at the undergraduate and graduate level. Reception is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. with award announcement at 6 p.m. cost: Free and open to the public contact: Wendy Weiss at 402-472-2911 or wweiss1@ unl.edu Spring Welcome Back when: Friday, Jan. 13, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Ubuntu Room (202) what: Welcome Back party with music, food and fun. contact: Bianca Harley at 402-472-5860 or bharley2@ unl.edu Midwest Cup Show Choir Invitational when: Saturday, Jan. 14, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts

what: Invitational for show choir groups in the Midwest region. cost: $15 contact: Mike Edholm 402472-6865 or medholm2@unl. edu

Quilts for Community when: Saturday, Jan. 14. 11, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: International Quilt Study Center and Museum what: Interact with the Lincoln Quilters Guild as they work on their Habitat for Humanity project. contact: The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at 402-472-6549 or info@ quiltstudy.org.

Sunday with a Scientist: Robotics when: Sunday, Jan. 15, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Morrill Hall what: Program for families to learn about robotics from Shane Farritor from the College of Engineering at the University of NebraskaLincoln.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Chancellor’s Program when: Monday, Jan. 16, 2 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Auditorium what: Features Keynote Speaker Mary Pipher, a therapist, writer and speaker.

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Professor puts ethics of drone journalism into question DANIEL WHEATON DAILY NEBRASKAN

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a drone?

University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism professor Matt Waite has created a drone journalism lab. With a small amount of funds and a drone, Waite aims to write a book on how drones can be used to gather information for reporting.

The term drone is associated with unmanned military aircraft. However, the drones being used in this lab are much more similar to radio controlled aircraft. Waite is aware of the connotation of the term and plans to dispel negative opinions.

On Waite’s desk sits a grounded Parrot AR drone, which is “simply a toy,” Waite said. The drone is a quadricopter that can be controlled with a smartphone. The drone is about two square feet with a simple design.

The four blades create the balance needed for quality video. Waite mounted a camera on the base of the drone and posted his early attempts on the lab’s website.

“The intention of the lab is to figure out how to use drones for gathering information by actually doing it,” Waite said.

Aside from learning how to pilot the drones, Waite plans on opening a discussion about the ethics of drone journalism.

This isn’t UNL’s first foray into drones. Vishal Singh, a specialist in multimedia design at UNL, has developed a drone that can be used to survey crop growth.

“Drones are a wonderful tool for gathering information, but there will be more resistance gathering information about people than plants,” Singh said.

After announcing the lab in December, Waite has created a tumblr account for the lab and

has received buzz online.

But Waite isn’t the only journalist experimenting with drone journalism. Some of Waite’s acquaintances, including an editor of a Nebraska newspaper, have been flying drones on personal property or nearby, Waite said.

And the project has raised ethical questions.

“I understand how people may think that robots with cameras could be a bad thing,” Waite said.

Waite plans on being transparent by posting information online so the public can begin a discussion on how drones should and shouldn’t be used. Drones could be useful for video of mass protests for example, Waite said, and areas of large-scale devastation. Drones were used in the Russian protests against Prime Minister Vladmir Putin in December.

“This is a tool, and like every other tool it can and will be

misused,” Waite said.

His web presence has exposed the polarizing nature of drones.

“I think you are foolish if you don’t realize that the lab is both creepy and awesome,” Waite said.

People have been commenting on the ethical issues of the lab, and Waite said he hopes to get their questions answered.

Drone pilots must fly under the constraints of the Federal Aviation Administration. This month, rules regarding civilian drone use are scheduled to be released. kyle bruggeman | daily nebraskan Until now, Waite has been Professor of practice at the College of Journalism Matt flying only around his own Waite sits at his desk with his Parrot AR.Drone and other property.

“RC pilots know that you parts inside Andersen Hall on Sunday. don’t fly around people, airInformation about Waite’s ports or fly too high,” Waite crashed the drone. Because the drone depends on sun- progress can be found at said.

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Regarding the advances in perimentation have resulted trols failed and Waite hit the in the grounding of his drone. emergency button in a panic. technology Waite put it simWhile flying during the sunset Waite is currently waiting on ply: “Welcome to the future.”

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weather: from 1 he called “a very persistent jet configuration.” That means warmer air is more dominant over much of the country, and fewer snowcarrying storms find their way in.

“Not only do we not have snow here, but there’s no snow in the northern plains, either,” Boustead said. According to the National Weather Service, less than 15 percent of the country had snow cover Sunday. A year ago, that figure was 47 percent. “Really, it’s quite impressive,” Boustead said.

The impact can be dramatic, he explained, with a lack of snow often boosting temperatures by about 10 degrees. Snow reflects warming sunlight back away from the ground, for example, keeping surface temperatures relatively low.

As for the reason the jet stream has been staying to the north, Boustead pointed to two processes, one in the

South Pacific, the other in the North Atlantic.

In the Pacific, southern ocean water is cooler than average, a pattern called La Niña that comes around roughly every five years, alternating with warmer El Niño and neutral periods. In the Atlantic, there’s a stronger high pressure system in the tropics and a stronger low pressure system in the Arctic.

Both La Niña and the Atlantic oscillation tend to push the jet stream farther north.

Together, Boustead said, they can make a cold winter “difficult.” He hastened to point out, however, that other factors could come into play.

“It’s hard to prescribe any one pattern to El Niño or La Niña,” he said.

More certain, however, is that this warmth won’t last forever.

“The pattern will eventually shift,” Boustead said with

building: from 1 a chuckle. Indeed, temperatures have already fallen significantly as the jet stream began to move southward into the plains late last week, bringing cold front with it.

“But it doesn’t look terribly cold any time over the next seven to 10 days.”

A question on many people’s minds was whether the warmth had anything to do with climate change, otherwise known as global warming. Worldwide temperatures have been inching up for centuries even as ancient temperature patterns would suggest a cooling period.

The overwhelming majority of scientists pin the blame on humans’ burning of coal and oil, releasing carbon dioxide that then insulates the atmosphere like a diffuse blanket.

But its role in the warmth the past several weeks is anything but clear, said Barb Mayes Boustead, another

NWS meteorologist who’s working on a doctorate at UNL. Climate functions over decades and centuries, not days and weeks, and no one day’s record could be attributed to climate change, she said.

“What climate change would do is change how likely it is,” Mayes Boustead said. In terms of record temperatures, two-thirds of the records broken are for warmest temperatures, she said. “We’re setting more warm temperature records and fewer cold temperature records.”

And while that could have a hand in the unusual recent weather along with last year’s extreme weather, how it does so is something scientists are still exploring.

“The best answer is, it’s a piece of a bigger puzzle we’re still trying to figure out,” Mayes Boustead said. danholtmeyer@ dailynebraskan.com

greenhouses on City Campus and several more on East Campus, Duncan said.

“They’ll be state-of-theart,” he said, saying that they’ll also include improved security. That’s a key for research that might work with plant diseases like E. coli and salmonella, for example.

Those greenhouses will overlie a ground floor with ceilings about 16 or 17 feet high, Duncan said, to make room for scientific equipment on the way.

“It’s a very versatile space,” he said, and could be used for soil mixing or sterilization and prototype manufacturing equipment.

The ground level will likely also house electrical panels and other systems for the greenhouses above.

Whatever research finds its home in the building, Duncan said, university professors and students

will be involved.

“Very much so,” he said.

“We want to stimulate a lot of intern opportunities.”

The four-building complex was expected to cost about $80 million, from a mix of university, state and investor funding. This new plan will increase that cost, Duncan said, though he couldn’t yet say by how much.

“We actually got some efficiencies in operations” by repurposing the building and connecting it to the others, Duncan said.

However, he added, “It’s still more expensive than tearing down and building new.”

Construction is slated to begin this spring and be finished within two years’ time, Duncan said.

“The goal is to have all of the buildings up and running during 2013,” he said.

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Make the most of spring 2012 with the DN

Welcome back.

Three weeks have never felt so long. School’s here again, and if it’s your second-ever semester of college, it may have seemed this day would never come. Then again, as you read this, you’re probably hunched bleary-eyed over a plate full of eggs in an all-toofamiliar dining hall or sitting in a desk or hallway minutes before class. So, from that perspective, have three weeks ever felt so short?

If it’s your fourth, sixth or eighth semester, you know the drill by now. Enjoy returning to your own life.

You’re holding in your hands the first issue of the spring 2012 Daily Nebraskan. Savor it; this is a literal once-in-a-lifetime moment. We hope you’ll continue to turn to the DN throughout the semester for campus and local news, as well as the student voices it provides. We have a lot of fun projects planned this semester, from videos to arts to economic coverage and, come March, we’ll be your one-stop guide to the annual drama of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections. (You should care about those, really ­­- student government can affect your living conditions, requirements and student fees.)

But no matter what grabs your attention this semester, make it count. Don’t slog through to spring break uninitiated, writing off academics or previously steadfast goals. If fall semester was difficult either academically or socially, make spring the time to hit the books or branch out accordingly. If you found fall easy, challenge yourself to become more involved or increase your course load. Avoid the tendency to contract Second-Semester-Itis (similar to, though potentially more deadly than, the more well-known Senioritis), and make spring a period of growth.

We’ll be there to help you as you do.

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Warm weather ruins winter

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lasses are getting ready to start up again. Christmas, Hanukkah and all the other wintertime holidays are done. The New Year has come and gone. As students and faculty return to campus, readying themselves for what are, traditionally, the most grueling, brutal, and – dare I say – chilly months of the year. I say “traditionally” because there’s one element missing from this equation, a common aspect that is often overlooked and more often-lamented.

Where, oh where, is the snow? Where are the hapless pedestrians slipping and sliding down the sidewalks? Where are the children, screaming down hills on sleds, snowboards, bikes and whatever else they can find? Where are the disgruntled legions of working-class men and women grumbling as they shovel their driveways and sidewalks?

I’ll tell you where – nowhere, that’s where. They don’t exist. Without snow, they can’t exist. Without snow, winter can’t exist.

Seriously, have you been outside lately? It was 60-something degrees on New Year’s Day. This winter has, without question, been the mildest and least-wintery in recent memory.

Or at least in my memory. Barring that tiny bit of snowfall back in early December, the past few weeks have borne greater resemblance to Halloween and Thanksgiving than Christmas and New Year’s.

That’s a bad thing. Do we want Christmas to feel like Halloween, or do we want it to feel like Christmas?

Think of the children – the poor children, dressing up like Spiderman and Captain Jack Sparrow and Lady Gaga when they ought to be opening presents and eating Christmas cookies!

Oh, the madness! Oh, the humanity!

And what about New Year’s? Do we want it to feel like that day when the

david smith ball drops and everyone’s all drunk, or do we want it to feel like Thanksgiving? What if on New Year’s Day, instead of stuffing their faces with pancakes and bacon, like good hungover people, they stuffed their faces with turkey and … well, stuffing?

That’s just wrong.

Snow is one of those things that tells us it’s time to put away the Thanksgiving food and Halloween costumes, and start putting up Christmas decorations. Think about it – if all the calendars in the world suddenly vanished, and all the calendar apps on everyone’s phones stopped working, how would we know it’s time to run out and buy a last-minute Christmas gift? Trick question – you wouldn’t.

Without a nice, crisp layer of snow on the ground, that’s what we risk happening. When people picture this time of year, the picture is covered in snow 100 percent of the time. Without snow, winter simply isn’t winter.

The other seasons are the same way. Think back to this last summer. If memory serves, it was hot – really hot, as June is supposed to be. But what if it hadn’t been? What if, instead of the high 80s and low 90s, the average temperature this past summer had been in the mid 30s? What if you’d gone outside, tried to dive into your pool and gotten a concussion because you face-planted on a sheet of solid ice? Would that feel like summer to you?

What about this most recent autumn?

Think about the typical scene everyone pictures when they think of autumn: clear blue skies, bare trees and a literal carpet of leaves on the ground. Now picture that same scene, somewhere in the middle of September, completely buried under a foot of snow. Would that feel like autumn? Or, what if, on Halloween, everyone had dressed up as lifeguards and the cast of Baywatch because it was 70 degrees outside? Does that sound like autumn?

No? Didn’t think so.

The fact is that these seasons don’t stick out in our memories because of which holidays occur, or who has a birthday or which couple celebrates their anniversary. Summer is summer because of the heat and the long days.

Spring is spring because of the rain, the sun, and the winding down of the school year. Fall is fall because of the leafless trees and the chill in the air.

Winter is winter because of snow.

Some people just don’t get that.

They’re the people who celebrate visible grass during this time of year.

They’re the people who vacation in Hawaii to get away from shoveling their driveways. They’re the people who think that Christmas without Santa is still Christmas. Nobody knows how they got that way – maybe they got coal in their stockings one year. But the fact remains that their vision of winter is not a true winter.

A true Christmas has snow. It doesn’t matter if it’s fluffy snow, slushy snow, crispy snow, wet snow, heavy snow, light snow or yellow snow … OK, maybe not that one.

Point is, we need snow for winter to truly feel like winter. Also, with classes starting up again, I wouldn’t mind a snow day or six.

David Smith’s childhood was ruined when he found out snow cones didn’t have real snow in them. Reach him at davidsmith@ dailynebraskan.com.

Electability debate hurts Romney’s campaign

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he Iowa caucuses took place last week. After more than six hours of polls, projections and punditry, the results were still inconclusive. As the vote counting dragged on into the night and early morning, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum surged to the front of the pack. Finally, as my eyelids drooped and my head sagged, Romney edged out Santorum by eight votes, thereby ending the closest primary election in U.S. history.

One side effect of this long election was that CNN’s political talking heads quickly ran out of original, meaningful things to say about the GOP primary race.

Impatient, tired and increasingly loopy, CNN’s “Best Political Team on Television” started musing on a common theme of the Republican primary race: “Electability.”

As usual, nobody seemed to know where “electability” came from, or how a candidate could procure it. But they all agreed on one thing – whatever it was, Romney had it, and everybody else in the Republican field didn’t.

Electability (whatever it is) is the defining difference between Romney and “the anti-Romney” – the media’s term for whichever other candidate seems to be polling well at the moment.

But a closer examination reveals that “electability” is a word with many meanings – none of which really pertain to Romney or his chances of winning the Republican nomination. Ultimately, the persistence of “electability” in the 2012 election news coverage leads to a gross oversimplification of both the governor and the primary process.

So, what is electability? Most of the time people seem to use it as a code word for moderate.

The perception is that a more ideological candidate would be less palatable to independent voters, and therefore less likely to win in November. This argument convinced the Republican Party to choose John McCain as its nominee in 2008. Democrats who preferred Hillary Clinton also used this logic when comparing their candidate to Barack Obama.

But in 2008 neither one of these “moderate” candidates won the White House. The candidates with the most “electability” proved to be the least electable. Why should

benjamin kantack we expect 2012 to be different?

OK, maybe electability is actually about winning elections. If that’s the case, Romney’s gubernatorial victory in 2002 could be an advantage, especially because he won in the traditionally liberal state of Massachusetts. But Romney has lost a senate bid and a presidential primary and declined to run for reelection as governor because he thought he couldn’t win. Even if you don’t count his decision not to run for reelection, Romney has the worst win-loss record of any current Republican presidential candidate (1-2). Gingrich is 7-2, Huntsman is 1-0, Paul is 10-2, Perry is 7-2, and Santorum is 4-1. Romney is actually the least electable candidate by this definition of “electability.”

If you think that Romney’s one electoral victory is worth more because it happened in a blue

state, think again. In Massachusetts, Romney ran notoriously left of the Republican mainstream, calling himself “moderate” and his views “progressive.” He espoused liberal positions on both social and economic issues, and it paid off in the Bay State. Even if you believe Romney’s views have become more conservative since he was governor (and I do), the fact of the matter is that the “new” Romney isn’t the same as the “old” Romney who won the governorship.

Could electability have something to do with money and organization? Romney is undoubtedly the best candidate by these measurements, with a national campaigning and fundraising network (not to mention a personal fortune) at his disposal. But in 2008, despite spending $110 million on his campaign, Romney couldn’t buy the GOP primary.

Instead, McCain, whose campaign was often barely solvent during the primaries, ran away with the nomination.

By now, you might think I’m dead-set against Romney being the Republican nominee. But the truth is there are plenty of good reasons to support the former governor.

He has executive experience in

both business and politics. He has the most detailed economic plan of any of the candidates. He has a track record of bipartisanship that could be useful in a divided and polarized government.

Yet for all these feathers in his cap, too many people try to reduce Romney to one label: “electable.” Not only is this term vague and ambiguous, but it also really doesn’t apply to the governor – or if it does, it doesn’t really make him any more likely to win the presidency. Focusing so much on the myth of electability downplays the value of the factors that really matter for presidential politics.

Ignoring Romney’s real leadership qualities is a disservice to the governor. Simplifying the election to a dichotomy of “conviction versus electability” is a disservice to American voters. Whomever the Republican Party chooses for its nominee in 2012, the decision ought to be made based on the candidates’ respective positions and résumés, and not on some made-up quality ascribed to the one with the best hair.

Benjamin Kantack is a senior political science and Spanish major. Follow him at @BenjaminKantack and reach him at BenjaminKantack@ dailynebraskan.com

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ora Rolf has each of her pieces of artwork memorized down to the last detail. The difficulty, however, comes with attempting to visualize a major aspect of the pieces not outrightly shown in the galleries - the creative process.

She finally makes eye contact and apologizes for her lack of eye contact.

Rolf is a person her friends and co-workers immediately find one adjective for: funky.

She calls herself a visual artist and is now discovering that the process, not the finished product, is the most important part of art.

But beyond the creation of the art itself, the development of her career is an almost analogous process to that of her body of work and stylistic tendencies.

After receiving her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Concordia University Nebraska, time outside of school has let her to embrace art as a career.

“I’ve only been out of school for a few years, and it’s taken me a while to sort through things and decide that this is something that I enjoy and want to be a part of for the long haul,” she said, which is surprising, as she has been doing crafts for as long as she can remember and has two aunts working as artists.

Rolf began her residency with the LUX Center for the Arts last May. She has previously worked as an intern for the LUX and also in the framing department at Hobby Lobby (a job that allows her to frame her work for free and simultaneously introduced her to shadowboxes, which are 3D frames or glass boxes with objects inside).

She has filled several odd positions at the LUX when needed, including a teaching role.

Rolf has taught a wide variety of students, from kindergartners to a single high school student to

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Local artist Nora Rolf sits in front of her artwork installment “fibers and forms” inside Indigo Bridge Bookstore in Lincoln on Saturday. adults.

Although she is now the instructor, Rolf can’t help but refer to her own schooling on several occasions.

“Maybe I shouldn’t refer to school so much,” she said, looking slightly embarrassed for a second.

“I guess that’s kind of tell-tale that

I’m young.”

It wasn’t until deciding to take studio classes in college that she made the final decision to major in art. Studio classes allowed her to create whatever pieces she wanted, and in turn, forced her to think about art as a process instead of a finished product.

“You’re essentially becoming an artist because you have to figure out what the heck you want to make your art about,” she said.

“When you specialize in something for four years – get an education in it – it becomes part of your life.”

She remembers her university

education being very strict, recalling one specific, “eccentric” professor who would get after students for unintentional smudges, extra markings and anything that didn’t belong.

“I think that Nora is really

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Modern India inspires novelist Foer’s first novel reigns as a 2000s classic

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Nothing about Anuradha Roy’s rise in the literary world can be described on a small scale.

The author’s first novel, “An Atlas of Impossible Longing,” spanned 50 years and three generations, translated into 15 languages and named as one of the 60 most essential books on modern India by World Literature Today. Her second novel, “The Folded Earth,” is a layered story taking place in a remote town in the Himalayas, and was published in 2011 in the U.K. and India to highly critical acclaim. The novel will be published in the United States this spring and has been longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. Roy spoke with the Daily Nebraskan about her influences, writing process and her experience rising quickly as a major talent in modern fiction.

Daily Nebraskan: You first novel, “An Atlas of Impossible Longing,” is a big story with an especially wide scope. What influenced you toward that direction and what attracts you to that kind of story?

Anuradha Roy: I didn’t begin with the intention of writing anything with quite so wide a scope and often questioned my sanity during the process. But as the novel evolved and I realized that one of its themes was vanished landscapes - time, loss, change - well, then it just grew and grew.

DN: How did the process for writing “The Folded Earth” differ from your first novel? Did having this novel set in the present day change your approach?

AR: Every piece of writing

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AR: My husband and I Earth” was no different – but started PerI wasn’t in the same The themes became m a n e n t Black eleven agonies over apparent to me years ago that because as I wrote: They with our savthis time at ings, working least I knew developed from out of home. what to exthe characters and We wanted pect. It is the setting, not the it to be an not only set independent in the presother way round. press where ent, but also, we would in the town publish the where I live.

ANURADHA ROY books we To create AUTHOR wanted to, a gripping narrative out of the every- with no corporate edifice day and ordinary - to turn governing us. We still work that into something rich and out of home; we’re still an strange - and yet remain true independent, but from a onebook list it’s grown to 350 to it - that was the puzzle.

DN: Can you talk about titles by the most renowned

scholars of South Asian history and politics.

DN: Nationalism is a major theme of “The Folded Earth,” as is the environment. Do you set out writing with a political or social message in mind?

AR: I never start out writing with a message in mind – that kind of fiction is usually dead on arrival for me. The themes became apparent to me as I wrote: They developed from the characters and the setting, not the other way round. If some fiction starts stirring in my head, it happens all together - the people in it, the places - it doesn’t feel like a choice. I find it quite difficult to explain these things on a rational level.

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As busy college students (dare to dream, right?), a break represents an oasis of time to accomplish everything that’s charred to a crisp on the back burners of our priorities.

Break hits and we start making lists of internships to apply for, mountains to climb and novels to write.

It’s only 20 days or so, but we conceptualize it as some kind of indefinite sabbatical from the grindstone – one that will lend itself to some kind of unfathomable productivity.

But, of course, that’s silly.

Friends and family start calling your name because they like you (gross!) and then naps call your name because they want to ruin your life. And you show up back at school, hopefully with eyes less bleary and with a to-do list that, at best, has a couple items marked off.

So my dream of writing a bang-up column on the 21st century canon of fiction (covering two Chuck Palahniuk novels and two Jonathan Safran Foer novels) has fallen short – like way short. So we’ll

improvise Miles Davis style.

You know how Miles Davis used to have musical goals he failed to see through and then played something ostensibly worse and shorter.

That guy. We’re legends, me and Miles.

So we begin with “Everything Is Illuminated.” And in terms of contemporary fiction, boy, was it ever. You can’t be even a mild “book person” without knowing the name Jonathan Safran Foer and the implied influence he’s had on fiction in the last decade. I’m here to tell you, it’s all true. If you’re reading the work of writers under 30, you’re reading people that have been impacted by the debut novel of the then 25-year-old Foer. Of course, we’re talking about a book that critics lauded over (The Times stickered the novel with the always-polarizing “work of genius” tag) to the point that Foer (also the author of “Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close,” to be discussed next week) has been saddled with the overrated label, as well. What renders the overrated distinction irrelevant is that Foer went and did what most every writer in his wake is still trying to do - write a novel

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Told as a memoir, “Below Stairs” is the story of Margaret Powell’s life as a kitchen maid and cook in 20th century England.

When Powell left home at the age of 15, she escaped the poverty of her family, but found herself living a life much different than the one she envisioned; a life in which work begins before the sun rises and ends well after it sets.

In wealthy English homes, having servants was seen as a necessary evil by many people in the gentry class. Their presence was necessary for the “proper”

running of the house, but they were expected to do their work quietly and proficiently while staying out of sight.

Full of the trials and tribulations of the downstairs servants, “Below Stairs” detailed what servants experienced while the social structure of England was shifting in the 1900s.

Coming from a much lower social status, servants were not well-paid or respected, but all of them held dreams and ambitions of their own.

Powell dreamed of the day she could leave the service and get married, but finding a match proved difficult when employers considered any attempt by servants at having

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an outside life as dangerous to the running of the house.

“Below Stairs” is told in a style reminiscent of the “when I was young” stories my grandparents and greatgrandparents used to tell me as a child. Each tangent becomes its own story, full of wit and insight into a fascinating time in British history. rachelstaats@ dailynebraskan.com

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that’s regarded as both great and popular literature in an age when such territory is rarely reached by living authors, much less fresh-faced 25-year-olds.

If you don’t know the story of “Everything Is Illuminated,” it’s as beautiful as it is innovative and touching as it is charming (featuring an overarching tone that’s perhaps summed up by a quote from the text: “Humor is the only truthful way to tell a sad story.”) The plot of the book exists on several different planes: one that sees “the hero” of the novel (also named Jonathan Safran Foer) journeying to Ukraine to find a woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis, one comprised of letters from Foer’s translator, Alexander, to him and one that begins in the year 1791 and continues throughout history describing the past of the Ukrainian city, Trachimbrod.

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Foer’s prowess functions on two levels and though they might seem like fundamental holdings for a writer, it’s rare to find a young author who can marry them so blissfully. The Ukrainian translator, Alexander, one of the most unforgettable characters in recent memory, is an egotistical, defeatist whose skills with the English language resemble those of a child who’s memorized the most pretentious words in the dictionary, but has little inkling of how to adapt them from sentence to sentence. The character born from the alternately high and low-minded wordplay is as humorous as he is depressing, boasting of his “premium personhood” and indispensability to the female sex, while quietly admitting both his lies and inadequacies.

In much the same way, Foer manages scenes that appeal to a charming, yet low

common denominator of humor in translation error that doubles as a saddening representation of a Ukrainian grandfather’s anti-Semitism and personal suffering.

I speak for myself when I say there are too many books that I’ve heard of and far too few that I’ve read.

On the path of defying that trend, “Everything Is Illuminated” is a great place to embark.

On another note, I’m your new Daily Nebraskan A&E editor, so you can stop sending emails to the venerable Noah Ballard. It’s not that he doesn’t love you, but at this point I’m more likely to take your questions/concerns/ complaints/love letters/ diatribes/compliments seriously. Fire away! It’s your paper, after all.

first book. The good thing is all readers get most of it – certainly more than they lose – or nobody would ever read any foreign fiction.

DN: “An Atlas of Impossible Longing” has been translated into 15 languages.

Is “The Folded Earth” on the same track, and did you consider cross-cultural translation differently when writing this novel?

AR: It had never crossed my mind that “An Atlas” would get translated into a

single other language. With “The Folded Earth,” I knew of course that it might happen.

It is already out in Norwegian and soon going into French and Spanish and so on, but if you’re asking do I simplify things to accommodate the possibility of translations – then no, I don’t. Happily, it’s the translator’s problem, not mine, to deal with the problems of cross-cultural bewilderment.

Chance Solem-Pfeifer thinks you’ve got a pretty good thing going. Reach him at chancesolem-pfeifer@ dailynebraskan.com.

ROY: from 5 DN: There’s obviously a lot of influence from Indian literature in your work. Are there themes, subjects or styles from Indian fiction that you think go under-appreciated in the United States?

AR: That’s unavoidable. Of course there are nuances and allusions that many readers will miss - just as I miss plenty when I read books from, say, the US, Japan or Norway. For that matter many readers from India would miss the specifically Bengali nuances in my

rolf: from 5 methodical about her process,” said Stephanie Vendetti, the Gallery Director at the LUX. “It’s really about the colors she’s using, the forms she’s using,” said Madelyn Lorenzen, a friend and graphic designer. “I think it allows for more creativity than if it were made in a different way.”

For Rolf, college was a time to experiment with mediums. Like a kid in a candy store, she wanted to try everything.

“I really liked spray paint for a while, I guess,” she said, glancing away from the wall. “And cardboard, and then masonite (hardboard) was what we learned to paint on.”

She recalls one particular piece where she glued layers of cardboard upon cardboard to masonite, then sanded it down, (“because I really liked the woodshop too.”) then layered the finished product with stenciling and spray paint.

Aside from sculpting, Rolf studied drawing; her favorite subject is the female form.

“When she deals with the body, it’s usually the woman’s body,” Vendetti said. “I think that Nora’s work deals with a lot of interesting issues, especially what it means to be a woman.”

However, her most recent show at the LUX was centered on sculpture.

And, like her career in art, the technique is beginning to integrate itself permanently into her work and herself.

The recent show was important because she finally found her medium of choice – paper. Attracted by its accessibility, lightweight structure and color, Rolf describes paper as if talking about a friend.

After leaving the confines of the coffee shop behind, Rolf stands in

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Chipboard and cardboard make up works by Nora Rolf for her “fibers and forms” art installment at Indigo Bridge.

Indigo Bridge Bookstore, surveying her pieces in the makeshift gallery – the walls of a bookstore. Mostly, they’re paper sculptures hung from wires.

Some are organic shapes, resembling coral or grasses. Others are boxes and triangles.

Rolf stands in the doorway, pointing to each shape, chatting about its personal significance and the feedback she has received from others.

When she works, Rolf is a devotee of the moment.

She does not focus on the final product. Instead, she works with the materials she has chosen, shaping them instinctively.

“You have the power to pull together really, really good ideas and thoughts and from that comes this creation that you want to make,” she said. “You just need to work intuitively and get things done.”

Although paper is the main tool she uses to create the series currently hanging in front of her, Vendetti said Rolf incorporated other things into some of the sculptures, like sewing hoops.

“I think she does a good job of marrying art and

“For me, it was honest exploration. That seemed like the only way to come up with something worth making.”

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craft together,” Vendetti said.

However, a piece’s “meaning” when finished isn’t really important to Rolf. She likes her work to be “purposeful” to those viewing it and to have the self-satisfaction that it was well-crafted, but she’s not trying to trip anyone up with some sort of philosophical message.

Rolf poses in front of her work, chatting about wishing she’d worn a different sweater and telling the photographer that she can’t make a serious face for photos. In between shots, she glances around the room.

“For me, it was honest exploration,” Rolf said.

“That seemed like the only way to come up with something worth making.”

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An essential documentary, “Hell and Back Again” by Danfung Dennis, takes an all encompassing look at the war in Afghanistan and troops returning to civilian life back in the US. The film follows Sgt. Nathan Harris on his third deployment in Afghanistan, beginning in the summer of 2009 when the war is at its most violent point since the initial invasion. Harris, a U.S. Marine of Echo Company,

2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, is shot in the hip days before he was to be sent home.

The bullet ricocheted through Harris’ hip into his leg, rendering him unable to walk. Prescribed a plethora of addictive pain medications and working through physical therapy sessions, Harris’ adjustment to life back home is a struggle. Harris’ wife, Ashley, is devoted, but the toll on their marriage is apparent. For Harris, the banality of everyday life might be more difficult than his injury. Unable to find a parking space at Walmart, Harris wishes he were back in Afghanistan where everything was “simple.”

The film shifts its focus between Harris at home and on the battlefield. Some of the most poignant moments

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come with the Marines’ dealings with Afghan farmers.

Crops and homes are destroyed in battle and while the troops offer reimbursement, the damage is irrevocable for some. Other revealing scenes observe the Marines and locals in a town hall-style meetings.

Dennis’ film has a fly-onthe-wall quality about it.

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Huskers still searching for first Big Ten victory Dan Hoppen daily nebraskan

After three double-digit losses to mark Nebraska’s foray into Big Ten basketball, the Huskers had their chance to notch their first conference win at Illinois Saturday.

But the opportunity slipped through NU’s hands.

Literally.

The Huskers committed a season-high 20 turnovers in the 59-54, none more crucial than the one with 1:30 left in the game.

NU emerged from a timeout with the score knotted at 54-54 and attempted a pass to an open Bo Spencer under the basket. But the ball trickled away and out of bounds, and Illinois scored the last five points of the game to drop the Huskers to 8-7 overall and 0-4 in conference play.

“We had a chance to get a layup and just didn’t execute it,” coach Doc Sadler said on NU’s postgame radio show. “It’s very frustrating. You can’t go on the road and turn it over 20 times. You can’t win at home when you turn it over 20 times.

The game marked the returns of Jorge Brian Diaz and Dylan Talley, who had both missed the previous five games with injuries.

Neither started but the duo combined for 50 minutes.

The Huskers went on an 11-0 run after they checked in for the first time.

Sadler thought seeing two of its four leading scorers gave the team a boost.

“It just adds so much to our team when we’ve got those two guys out on the floor,” he said. “They’re only going to get better.”

Sadler did admit that he probably played the two returnees a little too much.

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Nebraska center Jorge Brian Diaz returned to the lineup Saturday after missing five games due to injury. He scored nine points in 22 minutes.

Neither had played in a game since a victory over TCU on Dec. 10. The coach suggested that the rust factor with those players may have contributed to the 20 turnovers.

There were several statistics that suggested the Huskers would have a chance to pull out the road victory.

After shooting 36 percent in its first three league games, NU shot 50 percent from

the field. It outrebounded Illinois and held Illini center Meyers Leonard, touted as a potential top-10 pick in the next NBA draft, to a season-low seven points.

But so focused were the Huskers on containing Leonard that they allowed Joseph Bertrand, a lightscoring sophomore averaging 5.5 points per game coming in, to score a career-high 25 points on 11 of

12 shooting.

Sadler said he was proud of the defensive effort overall but thought fatigue hurt his team down the stretch.

All five starters played 25 minutes or more and both Diaz and Talley were getting their legs back.

“I don’t think we can play any better defense,” Sadler said. “The fact of the matter is we probably had some guys out there that were

just really tired and didn’t defend the ball like we needed to. (Illinois) took advantage of them.”

Sadler pointed to the beginning of each half as a major contributor in the loss. NU had turnovers on its first four possessions and didn’t attempt a shot until the game was three minutes old. The Huskers rebounded and held a 25-22 edge at halftime, but Illinois stole

the momentum back with a 6-0 run after intermission.

“They made their plays and we didn’t make ours,” Sadler said. “The first five minutes of the game and the first five minutes of the second half is something we have to look at. That didn’t necessarily cost us the game, but it had a lot to do with us not being on the winning side at the end.”

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Turnovers, penalties still a problem for Pelini squad FOUR YEARS OF PELINI Nebraska’s season, coach Bo Pelini’s fourth, ended with a loss to South Carolina last week. And in an election year, it’s a good time to take a step back and evaluate those in charge. What’s your take on Pelini? Here’s a look at his first four years at Nebraska:

Jeff Packer Discipline is all important.

There’s no two ways about it. A talented team with discipline has it all, right?

Four years into the Pelini era and you can’t ignore the question.

The general feeling around Husker Nation appears to be in Pelini’s corner.

He’s racked up four straight nine-win seasons with two bowl wins. Fans have appreciated the cultural shift the program has gone through.

No pitchforks and torches here. There shouldn’t be.

But seriously persistent issues ought to have Nebraska fans concerned.

Turnovers and penalties were major headaches for the Huskers the past few seasons. To the coaches and players’ credit, results in those categories improved.

Nebraska had 24 turnovers and a school record 109 penalties in 2010. This year, 19 turnovers and 86 penalties were definite steps up.

But a glance at the four losses in 2011 shows that the demons of the past are still haunting the present. In Madison, the Huskers committed nine penalties for 80 yards and gave the ball to the Badgers three times.

Northwestern took the ball from Nebraska twice inside the Wildcat red zone.

Michigan appreciated three fumble recoveries and eight Nebraska penalties for 73 yards. Finally, South Carolina capitalized on one of two Husker turnovers and 10 penalties.

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In the spring and throughout the fall, this team talked about shoring up those problems and for the most part, they did.

In the offseason, rumor was that this defense had the potential to surpass even the ’09 bunch. Injuries both early and often hurt that possibility. More than anything, the Blackshirts didn’t execute like they usually do. The mobile quarterback had a hay day against the NU defense in 2011 and the Huskers allowed 350 yards per game.

Tim Beck showed promise this year. Options packages helped the Huskers confuse and run all over defenses.

His promotion offers hope to Pelini’s young offense. Nebraska didn’t live and die by the big play as it did in 2010, but it ran the ball just as well.

Despite some growing pains, Beck’s offense moved the ball more consistently this season.

A young and inexperienced group of receivers struggled at times in 2011.

The unit did prove resilient, bouncing back from tough performances, but fundamentals were a problem too often.

The losses in 2009 and 2010 could almost be explained away by smaller oddities and close calls. The ’09 Huskers were a few turnovers and

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Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and the Huskers have finished with at least nine wins in his four seasons as coach. a second away from a BCS game. Last season, many were left scratching their heads, wondering where the team could have landed with a completely healthy Taylor Martinez or fewer of those penalties.

This season doesn’t appear all that different. Execution

and discipline are, for NU fans, frustratingly still at the forefront of losses to unranked teams at home and top 15 programs on the road.

While the Huskers’ losses weren’t a direct result of being new to the Big Ten, next year will be year two. More

familiarity with something has never hurt anyone.

With what appears to be an easier schedule, or at least a different one, Nebraska could make the run the fans have been waiting for.

Next year is an opportunity to build up good will in the BCS, insurance for the

title-run friendly schedule of 2013. That won’t happen with these issues that have plagued the team recently.

Like this column, it all starts and ends with discipline.

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Huskers take down No. 6 Ohio State in their big Ten opener at the NU coliseum Friday Night zach tegler daily Nebraskan

At the conclusion of his heavyweight match against Ohio State, Tucker Lane brought the NU Coliseum crowd to its feet.

Nebraska’s Lane, the No. 9 285-pounder in the country, had just beaten the Buckeyes’ Peter Capone 3-1 — and he celebrated by letting out a scream. His victory was the Huskers’ first match win against a Big Ten foe as a member of the conference.

More importantly, it gave No. 12 Nebraska an early lead against Ohio State, which came to Lincoln as the No. 6 team in the country.

And although nine matches remained in the duel, Lane’s energy set the tone.

Nebraska went on to defeat the Buckeyes 18-16 in front of 1,451 fans Friday night.

The win was the Huskers’ school-record 10th straight to open the season, and it marked the first time since 2009 that Nebraska had defeated a top-10 opponent.

But NU coach Mark Manning said the victory’s significance should not be exaggerated.

“It’s another match as far as we’re concerned,” he said.

“I hope our guys think that.

We’ve got a lot of big matches coming up.”

Following Lane’s opening win, the Buckeyes claimed the lead with wins at 125 pounds and 133 pounds. Entering the 141-pound matchup between Nebraska’s Jake Sueflohn (No. 7 in the nation) and Ohio State’s Hunter Stieber (No. 6), the Scarlet and Gray held a 7-3 advantage. Stieber jumped to a 2-0 lead in the match with an early takedown, but late in the first period, Sueflohn knotted the contest with a reversal and never looked back.

“It’s just the way I wrestle,” Sueflohn said. “I’ve just got to keep on grinding it out.”

The true freshman from Watertown, Wis., outscored

Stieber 8-0 in the last two periods to earn a 10-2 victory.

The major decision helped give Nebraska new breath, tying the duel at 7-7.

“Well, Jake Sueflohn, you can’t ask for much more than that,” Manning said. “It’s a big win for anyone. I don’t care if you’re a freshman or a senior.”

He added that seeing Sueflohn in a deficit early was nothing new.

“He’s a go-getter, he’s a fighter. He has a tendency to lose the first takedown, then his engine gets started” Manning said. “He’s spotted a couple guys five points, good guys, and come back and change the tide on them.

That’s how he competes.”

The duel continued to be back-and-forth from that point, as the Huskers and Buckeyes split the 10 matches. No. 10 James Green added another win for Nebraska at 157 pounds, and No. 3 Robert Kokesh and No. 7 Josh Ihnen tacked on major decision victories that gave NU the extra point needed to win.

Kokesh defeated OSU’s Derek Heflin 9-1 at 165 pounds to give the Huskers a four point lead with three matches remaining. In the 184-pound match, Ihnen routed Craig Thomas 12-0 to extend Nebraska’s lead to five points and putting the duel out of reach for the Buckeyes.

Ihnen said he tried not to think about the 14-13 duel score heading into his match.

“You’ve just got to put it out of your head. You’ve just got to go out there and wrestle your own match and focus on what you need to do,” Ihnen said. “If you’re doing the right things, positive things are going to happen for you and for the team score.”

Even before Nebraska had clinched the two-point win, it was clear that Sueflohn, Kokesh and Ihnen’s major decision victories were the difference.

“It’s all about getting those

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Senior Tucker Lane celebrates after defeating Ohio State’s Peter Capone to give Nebraska an early 3-0 lead Friday night. guys to believe in themselves,” Manning said. “Those guys have been pretty steady this year for us.”

Sueflohn said that having the crowd behind the team also made a difference.

“It’s awesome to wrestle in front of this kind of atmosphere,” he said.

Nebraska will not be allowed to enjoy the win for long, though, as No. 1 Iowa will come to Lincoln Friday.

“We’re happy with this but we’ve still got, next week, a big duel, and now we’re looking forward to better things,” Sueflohn said.

Ihnen echoed the sentiment that the Huskers are headed for bigger accomplishments.

“I really think we have a special team here this year,” he said. “I think that we’re going to do a lot of special things and it’s just nice to see our hard work paying off in wins like this.” zachtegler@ dailynebraskan.com

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Freshman James Green won his 157 pound match 7-4 and tied the overall match score at 10-10. The Huskers went on to win the dual 18-16.

Moore scores 22 as Nebraska improves to 14-1 Andrew Ward

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Nebraska junior Lindsey Moore and No. 19 Nebraska impressed in front of a national television audience Sunday afternoon.

The Huskers won their eighth-straight game coming back from a nine-point deficit to win at Iowa 77-72 in a game broadcasted live on the Big Ten Network.

NU improved to 14-1 overall and 3-0 in the Big Ten in its first season in the conference with the victory.

“After the loss to Georgia Tech we have learned so much,” Moore said. “We all hate to lose and we are going to keep fighting no matter what the situation may be.”

Moore led the way for the Huskers coming up with big buckets late to help seal the victory, including a pair of free throws to make it a two-possession game in the closing seconds. The captain finished with 22 points, nine assists, seven rebounds and three steals.

Moore also had a momentum-changing shot in the second half in the midst of a 16-2 Iowa run.

After Iowa leading scorer Jaime Printy hit a three to put the Hawkeyes up nine midway through the second half, it was Moore who answered with a crazy shot in traffic.

Three defenders circled the captain, but Moore calmly swished a jumper to silent the Hawkeye crowd.

“I didn’t think that was going to go in, but I’m glad it did,” Moore said.

The junior stepped up in

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particular on a night when teammate and the Big Ten’s second leading scorer Jordan Hooper struggled offensively. Coach Connie Yori said Moore proved once again that she is a special player.

“Jordan may be the heart of this team, but Lindsey is definitely the soul,” Yori said. “She just wills our team to win and she made some tough, tough shots today.”

During the winning streak, Hooper has dominated the competition raising her scoring average from 17 points a game to 21.2 along with a league-leading 9.4 rebounds a game. She has also scored 30 points or more in three of the last four games.

However, that was not the case Sunday afternoon as the sophomore struggled against a feisty Iowa defense led by Iowa’s 6-foot-5 center Morgan Johnson. Hooper finished with 17 points and four rebounds.

Iowa’s Johnson caused problems early for the Husker

defense, recording a doubledouble by halftime with most of her points coming from offensive rebounds. After halftime, the center struggled due to an increased effort defensively led by junior Meghin Williams off the bench.

Williams had a career day on the offensive end for the Huskers while holding Johnson to just one rebound in the second half. The junior had career highs with 17 minutes and seven points while tying a career best with seven rebounds.

Johnson finished the game with 21 points and 12 rebounds after recording 14 points and 10 rebounds by halftime.

“We put more of an emphasis on the glass in the second half, and Meghin did a really nice job coming off the bench for us,” Moore said.

Nebraska’s bench proved better than its opponents’ once again as it outscored Iowa’s bench 17-8 led by Williams and freshman Brandi Jeffery, who added

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Nebraska guard Lindsey Moore hit two free throws with less than 10 seconds remaining to secure the 77-72 victory for the Huskers Sunday night in Iowa City. The junior had seven rebounds and nine assists to go along with her 22 points. six points.

The bench play was an emphasis at halftime after it scored just five points at the break, according to Yori.

“I came into the locker room at the half and said that our bench players had to do something,” Yori said. “We can’t have players just come in and turn the ball over in

the little time they are out there.

“Our bench came out and really did a nice job in the second half, especially Meghin and Brandi.”

The Huskers will travel to Madison, Wis. on Thursday for their third road trip in four games. NU’s ability to win road games can be attributed

to the competitive nature of the squad, Yori said.

“The kids that we have on this team love to compete and that’s what I saw out there today,” Yori said. “Iowa is a good team, but we came out here and just competed until something good happened.”

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