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President visits for first time since 2008 MARA KLECKER DN Less than 24 hours after his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama delivered a similar message on Wednesday afternoon to a much louder crowd than those seated in the House Chamber on Tuesday night. More than 11,000 people gathered in the University of Nebraska Omaha’s new Baxter Arena Wednesday afternoon to see the president deliver his first speech in Omaha since a campaign rally back in 2008. Obama repeatedly called to “break the fever” of increasingly polarized politics. Though the message echoed his State of the Union address, the president offered many well-received compliments to the Cornhusker State. More than 90 seconds of cheering followed the president’s entrance before, he waved his hands and spoke into the microphone, “I love you back!” But between the sprinkled references to the university, Omaha and Midwest “civility,” Obama was forceful in his words about change and progress – both in his term as president and in looking forward to the next presidency. “I want people to remember that America has been through big changes before and each time we overcame our fears and we overcame our challenges,” he said over rising applause. “Each time we made change work for us and each time we emerged stronger and better than we were before. That’s what we do as Americans.” Reiterating the main points of his State of the Union address, the president offered four big questions he said the county needs to find answers to. How do we make sure that this economy works for everybody and not just some people? How do we make sure that the spirit of innovation is used to solve some of our biggest challenges? How do we keep America and lead the world without becoming the world’s policeman? How do we have politics that reflects the best in us and not the worst? The president’s voice rose when addressing the last of those questions. “My only big regret is that our politics are even more polarized,” he said. “Our politics are even more rancorous than they were seven years ago. Bridging the gap will take the collective voice of citizens saying ‘that’s not the kind of politics we want.”
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The loudest cheering came about after the president addressed the idea of politically correctness. In a clear rebuttal to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the president urged the audience to “reject any policy that targets people because of their race or their religion.” “That is not about being politically correct, that’s just being offensive,” he said. The president said that singling out Muslims in particular is a betrayal of who we are as a country. At the institutional level, the president said he wants to see an end to political gerrymandering and the end of “crazy amounts of money—most of it hidden—in the political system.” Changing a system cannot result from simply a presidential wish, Obama said. But a call to citizenship and political engagement is a message he’s delivered before, he reminded the audience.
“I didn’t say ‘yes I can’, I said ‘yes we can’,” he said, raising a hand above the lectern. “I didn’t ask you to believe in my ability to bring about change, I asked you to believe in your ability to bring about change.” Standing in the snaking line outside the arena hours before Air Force One even touched down in Omaha, Creola Woodall said the change Obama’s presidency represents is why she was proud to sit in the audience wearing her t-shirt with Obama’s face and her hat with “44th president Barack Obama” in silver sequins. As the granddaughter of black sharecroppers, Woodall said she is especially proud to bring her grandchildren to see the first black president of the United States speak in the city she calls home. “I am just so glad to be in this atmosphere of people supporting our president,” she said. “I will not see another
black president in my lifetime, and I’m honored—for my ancestors especially— to get to remember this day. It’s a dream, really – one that my grandchildren might not even fully understand.” Fifteen-year-old Mekhi Sullivan interrupted, “I just hope he addresses school lunches at school,” he said, adjusting the Obama button pinned under his black and purple bowtie. “Because someone really needs to do something about that.” UNO international students Lingyi Hao and Yihan Ma from Shanghai, China also waited hours to see the president. Though both were hoping he would address gun control legislation, Hao said “I don’t really care what he talks about as long as I get to see him.” Ma agreed. “We would never get to see our president in our country. I’ve been in America for two years and I already get to see the president here. I’m shocked and excited.”
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Rapper finds artists’ oasis in Lincoln
After journeying for self-discovery and new lyrics, rapper Phoebe Dro Huxleigh’s desires are found upon coming to Lincoln.
ALEX LUCKE DN Phoebe Dro Huxleigh’s fuchsia lipstick is wrapped in a thick brown beard. She wears tie-dye dresses and leopard print coats and winged eyeliner and performs as Phoebe Dro. Her music is a mix of R&B and punk with intimate lyrics and debuted at the Bourbon to benefit a friend’s gender reassignment surgery.
The set was 45 minutes. Dro played every song she had, three cover songs and a few beats. She played “Namesake,” a song that ended a rhyme scheme with Phoebe Dro Huxleigh. “That was me coming out to Lincoln,” Dro said. Dro had already come out in Frankfort, Kentucky. Frankfort was her hometown. It was the town she lived in with her wife until Dro’s wife sent her on a backpacking trip. She told Dro that becoming transgender was taking too much of a toll on Dro’s anxiety and she needed a break from everything. So Dro went. She spent a month in Lincoln then moved on to Kansas City. After awhile, Dro ran out of money and relied on hitching rides off highways. She spent a few nights in tents alongside the road in the company of passing cars. Finally, she decided to call her wife and ask to be picked up.
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Dro’s wife told her that the backpacking trip was to empty the apartment so her new girlfriend could move in. “At that point, I still didn’t have much of a backbone,” Dro said. In high school, Dro was a self proclaimed “music prick.” She only listened to music that meant something because she didn’t want to listen to anything she couldn’t relate to. She made electronic dance beats for people to rap over. Three friends promised they’d work with her. After months passed and they still didn’t reach out to Dro, she decided to rap over her own beats. “I’m still not over the ‘can I be a rapper ’ hurdle,” Dro said. “I could not rap. People wouldn’t take me seriously if I did.” She didn’t perform her new music until she lived in Lincoln. Stuck in Kansas City, Dro called her friend’s mom to give her a ride back to Lincoln. She lived there awhile until Dro decided it was time to salvage or end her marriage.
A few months later she was back in Lincoln for the second time in a year. She’s still here, four years later. “It took me awhile to make friends,” Dro said. “It took me even longer to find my real friends.” Dro is a relationship person. She was in multiple relationships between 16 and 26. In Lincoln, it was the first time she was alone. Dro started performing her beats and rapping over them. Dro fell in love with melodies and the way they get stuck in listeners heads. She only listens to Drake for the melodies, not for Drake. She’s inspired by the underground YouTube hip-hop scene, especially Intuition, a solo artist who produces music on his own label. “His stuff is so emotional and heavy sometimes,” Dro said. “I want to listen to people confronting what they wouldn’t otherwise. That’s what I want to do with my art.”
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Studio blends art, education to help disabled NICK NIENDORF DN There’s a bustle within the large workspace as blank canvases give way to landscapes. Shapeless clay finds life in the form of masks and sketchbooks transform into comic books. Tables are in no short supply as 28 artists work tirelessly among one another. Welcome to Live Yes Studios. Situated across the street from the Cornhusker on 16th Street, the program began during August of 2011 in an effort to teach different art forms to adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental health diagnoses. Per the organization’s mission statement, the studio “seeks to break down societal barriers and create a space where individuality is fostered.” Working under the Resources for Human Development (R.H.D.) umbrella, the organization has sister studios in Kansas City and Omaha, among other places across the country. Many of those enrolled in Live Yes Studios also live in R.H.D. housing in Lincoln as well. Much of the staff have a degree in either art or music while others are self-taught. Each member brings with them a specific artistic niche in which they excel and each teaches their specialty once a week. Three times a day, members of the studio participate in classes to learn and gain a greater understanding of a variety of different artistic mediums. Students are exposed to painting, drawing and pottery as well as writing, photography, screenprinting and even music. The pieces created during these classes are eventually showcased during First Fridays at the Tugboat, where the artists earn money selling their creations. In addition to the more traditional work, original compositions have also been sold at these group shows. With access to pianos, guitars, basses, drums and a plethora of other instruments, the stu-
PHOTO BY TYLER MEYER | DN Since 2011, Live Yes Studios has worked to teach art to adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental health diagnoses. According to their mission statement, they hope to break down societal barriers and foster individuality. dio’s music section opens up new possibilities for exploration. With so many different areas of art for members to try, Live Yes Studios encourages each artist to expand their horizons as well as find what they excel at. “As long as we can afford it, it’s fair game,” said Natasha Scholz, the organization’s case manager. “It’s always so exciting when we get a new member and we can see what new art form they want to
bring to the table.” However, Live Yes Studios’ repertoire doesn’t stop at art. They’ve also had a plot in the Community Crops garden for two years. The opportunity to teach about nutrition and health hasn’t been passed up either, and Spanish has also been in the diverse curriculum. “A lot of it is teaching life skills, teaching coping skills,” Scholz said. “Sometimes, it’s not about art. Sometimes, it’s just about education.”
Scholz has been with the organization for several years, first as an intern ripping up carpet and painting walls when the studio was being built. Scholz switched her hours to part-time as she finished up her degree in art and psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduating in May of 2012. She now develops each of the programs that the artists are undergoing. She is one of more than 20 staff members working at the studio. With so many different personalities and skills to work with, she said that it’s really important that everyone gels together well in order to create the best environment possible. “The studio is a really nice outlet for a lot of folks with behavioral disorders and it teaches positive skills,” Scholz said. “Instead of punching a window you can throw paint on a canvas and then potentially sell that. Why not turn something negative into something positive instead of harming yourself?” Live Yes Studios prides itself on its impact not only in helping its members improve artistically, but in gaining life skills as well. “There was man here that, when he first started, only spoke in ‘yes’ or ‘no,’” Scholz said. “He would hardly write. He was refusing to eat and refusing to walk. He was refusing life. Seeing him slowly start drawing these little lines and to see those lines turn into shapes and then to see those shapes turn into people was incredible.” After that, the man began to walk again and his drawings began to mirror himself, both in likeness and in color. “Soon, he turned into the character of the studio,” Scholz said. “Everyone just loved talking to him. Seeing those types of impacts has made me very grateful for what I have. It also makes me just want to continue to help people express themselves. Many people in the studio don’t start with that ability. But, art gives it to them.” ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Festival to feature student playwrights’ works Theater major to have 10-minute play performed in Region V Playwriting Program
MADDIE STUART DN Each year, a group of students in the Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film attend the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival to participate in a variety of professional auditions, scholarship competitions and workshops. This year, Michelle Ingle, a junior theater performance major, wrote a 10-minute play that was one of six selected to be performed in the Region V Playwriting Program at the festival. Nolan Sullivan, a fifth year creative writing student, received honorable mention for his short play, “Love at Lightspeed.” The two were entered in the playwriting competition after being assigned to write these short plays for Virginia Smith’s Introduction to Playwriting (THEA 331) class. Smith has taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for more than 15 years and has written many plays in her time. “Learning from someone who has actually done what they teach at the topmost tiers? You can feel that; it’s spurring,” Sullivan said. Before this year, Sullivan had not written many plays, as he focused more on fictional
“My play is about friendship and how prose. This playwriting course gave him the chance to experiment with a new style. Gone even in the most unlikely circumstances, a simple and loving connection with someone was the “descriptive, interstitial matrix of can bring you back from the depths of deprose,” as he explained it. In a play, all you spair,” Ingle said. “I really fell in love with have is the dialogue and maybe a few stage directions here and there. Everything a writ- creating these characters.” “Love at Lightspeed” is a tale of love and er wants to convey must be told through the aliens. The poetic summary submitted to the words of the characters. competition described it as “a play about an Ingle is more a performer than a writer, emasculated husband who touts big passions and she admits this is the first time she has felt comfortable sharing her writing with her and a small attention span… and an alien civilization on the brink of annihilation.” peers. After a night spent scrolling through Prior to the 10-minute play assignment, months of a friend’s Twitter feed, Sullivan the class had worked mainly on prompts based on fun facts about their classmates and found his muse. “It was really mushy-gushy stuff, eytheir own lives. This was the first time the erollingly so at times,” he said. “But really students were free to write on any topic they endearing in a way.” desired. Sullivan said he sympathized with the As this was one of her first experiences as a playwright, Ingle said she was initially voice of that friend, trying to find the balance between poeticism and sincerity, actual and unsure of what to write about and how to get manufactured inner truth. her message across in only 10 minutes. Thus, he created Once she the character of Howstarted writing, I really fell in love ard: an artist who loves though, she got a love. better idea of how with creating these Conversely, Glinshe wanted the characters.” niveve, a writer and story to go and Howard’s wife, is found much of her based partly on Sulliinspiration in devan himself, and repreveloping the perMICHELLE INGLE sents the cynicism that sonalities of her JUnior theater major at unl plagues so many of us two protagonists. in relationships today. Ingle’s play, “I wanted to use “Boxed Wine,” Glinn and Howard to have a dialogue about tells the tale of William and Charlie, two men the tug between love and logic,” he said. brought together by simultaneously going “That struggle is eternal. Apollonian versus through treatment for terminal cancer. When Dionysian.” William’s family stops visiting him in the The play begins with the couple in their hospital, Charlie is the only one there to help living room as they break into an argument lift him out of a void of hopeless depression.
about the levels of sincerity the two of them show in their expressions of love. At the height of the fight, as Glinn is about to propose that the two take a break from each other, an alien teleports in between them. Freedrark of the Squeezneezian species needs Howard’s help to defeat another alien group who have laid siege to his planet. Their only weakness is love, and Howard’s quixotic nature promises ability to fend off the bad guys. The aliens came into play when Sullivan realized he had no idea who should “win” the lovers’ quarrel. Nobody wins an argument that never finishes, after all. Writing offers Sullivan an opportunity to get out of his own mind and create a world unlike that which he lives in. “Sometimes, we need to snap out of our own heads-- the Tweet-tapping tunnel vision,” he said. “Why not let an alien in jeopardy and a marriage in flux help you with that?” Ingle and Sullivan’s plays will be honored at the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Playwriting Program on January 17 – 23 in Bloomington, Minnesota. From this festival, the top two plays will move on to the national semifinals in Washington, D.C. in April. “Theatre has a strange way of making me forget everything stressful in life,” Ingle said. “Writing this play has given me a chance to explore my own creativity and communicate and connect with people in a new way. I am so grateful and excited for this opportunity.” ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
Sculpting transforms into decor business SARAH BERGER DN Joy O’Conner doesn’t keep track of how long it takes to make one of her many ceramic pieces in her EARTHENjoy line of jewelry and home decor. One of her small earrings might take a few hours to cut and glaze, then eight to 12 hours to fire in her kiln. But her hanging planters could take anywhere from four hours to form, three hours to carve and four hours to glaze. Then add in the eight to 12 hours it takes to fire in the kiln plus an additional eight hours to cool. But all of these are estimates. Each item from EARTHENjoy is handmade by O’Conner, but she doesn’t mind. She’s never said no to an order yet, even if that means long hours molding, carving and painting. O’Conner enjoys making each
piece so much that she sees keeping track of all the time she’s spent in her home studio in Omaha unnecessary. “Luckily, it’s really enjoyable for me,” O’Conner said. “It’s my hobby so I don’t mind doing it. When people ask how long it takes I don’t really know how to answer. I never track it because I don’t mind doing it.” EARTHENjoy is comprised of several different ceramic home decor items and jewelry. O’Conner makes everything from hanging planters to necklaces with tiny state cutout charms. Each item is glazed with bright pastel accents and some gold accents. Each piece also has sharp, geometric edges and influence. O’Conner has been working with clay since she found natural clay in the creek behind her grandpa’s house growing up. As she got older, she moved onto Scupley
brand oven baked clay in junior high and then took pottery classes in high school. In 2014, O’Conner started making ceramic Christmas ornaments with her mother-inlaw. Using the sgraffito method, O’Conner carved various geometric designs into her ornaments to give as gifts. “I had always worked with (clay) in some form, but I didn’t really take it seriously until I fell in love with that whole sgraffito deal,” O’Conner said. As she was giving out all of the ornaments and posting pictures of them on her Facebook, O’Conner kept getting suggestions about selling them around Omaha. She first started selling her work in Aromas Coffeehouse and within months was getting requests from other stores. Now, EARTHENjoy is sold at Scout Dry Goods, Hello Holiday and Wallflower in Omaha as well as Home and Closet in Lincoln.
O’Conner said she enjoys watching a lump of clay transform into a final product. As O’Conner makes each piece, she starts out with a rough surface and then smooths the multiple layers down until it’s ready to be glazed and fired. Another one of O’Conner ’s favorite aspects of working with clay is its versatility. If she gets bored with forming a pinch pot or wedging the clay to get air bubbles out she can move on to cutting out shapes for jewelry or glazing her already sculpted products. O’Conner said every piece is unique and all the steps she uses to make them keeps EARTHENjoy interesting. “It’s always a surprise,” O’Conner said. “Sometimes it’s a bad surprise, but usually it’s like ‘Oh this turned out way better than I thought it would.’” ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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Film reflects student’s love of nature
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UNL student Madeline Cass exposes the raw beauty of world with photography and poetry. CASSIE KERNICK DN Madeline Cass will be the first to admit that her website may not be safe for grandmas. Although it mainly features photos of nature, the occasional image of herself running naked through a national forest is also thrown in. As far as Cass’s hobbies and passions go, they’re as varied as the photos and poems on her website. Cass, like a lot of students, will admit that she’s uncertain about the future, but she is an anomaly in the fact that she’s content with figuring it out as she goes. One thing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln photography major is certain about is her love of captur-
ing moments, something that is inextricably linked to her love of nature. “Interacting with nature is the closest thing I have to spirituality because it makes you really realize that you are so small and just a little speck in the universe,” Cass said. “It lessens your problems and things that can feel so big when you stop to look at the sky.” Unlike some photographers, babies, seniors and weddings aren’t really the moments Cass loves to preserve. From houseplants to mushrooms, the naked body or a trip to India, Cass enjoys shooting moments that happen organically. Photography is the direction she is taking now, but it didn’t start that way. After high school, Cass attended the Kansas City Art Institute before transferring to UNL to declare a horticulture major. “I’ve decided that I’m just an artist who likes science,” Cass said. Although it’s taken her a few majors and years to discern her passion, Cass said photography has always been a part of her life. She first began shooting when her father got her a film camera in middle school. The Lincoln native spent hours at Pioneers Park or exploring land, sometimes public, some-
COURTESY OF MADELINE CASS | DN times private, for the sake of getting a good photo. Cass said she never thought of doing this as a career at the time because it seemed so natural; it didn’t register as a job. Another unconventionality about Cass is the miniature Panasonic she shoots on. “One of my friends told me that the best camera is the one you always have with you,” Cass said. “So I wanted the smallest and best I could find.” While she is working to purchase a Canon Mark 5D III, Cass said she still likes to shoot on film as well. As far as process, for Cass it’s all about stumbling upon the perfect composition.
“My best photos are from taking walks and finding kind of serendipitous scenes,” Cass said. This technique developed more in the summer of 2015 when Cass took a 6,000-mile road trip by herself. The path began and ended in Lincoln, hitting major national parks in places such as Colorado, Oregon and Arizona along the way. “I was really curious to observe myself and see what happens when frivolous stuff is not in your life,” Cass said. “I wanted to see
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A guide for staying warm Here’s a list of seven ways to keep the heat in this January weather.
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The sun pierces warmly through the light clouds this fine January morn, sending arrows of glory onto the Earth. As buildings bask in dawn’s love and cast oblong shadows, one can only ponder ab – Jesus Christ, it’s cold outside. Honestly, it looks super nice outside when you’re – you know – inside a building, but the minute you step outside, I swear to Jack Frost that the planet must be in some god’s bulk freezer and the sun is just the freezer ’s malfunctioning light bulb. Things, however, can only be very cold for the next few months. So, The Daily Nebraskan devised a guide on staying warm this chilly winter.
1. Just stop being cold. You know, the power to never feel cold again might lie entirely in your hands. You should just, like, convince your body to stop shivering. Just stop being cold. Stop that nonsense. 2. Start being warm. You know, learn to generate more heat by converting excess energy. The human body normally creates 200 volts of electricity to ward off predators and stun prey in the wild, so finding a way to turn those volts into warmth could be your next priority when trying to warm up. 3. Dress in layers. Wearing one layer of anything – even one layer of smoldering campfire – certainly won’t be enough to combat the cold. So dress in three or four layers of anything, from plastic bags to cabinet doors to actual coats. Remove layers if you get too warm; add more if you’re not warm enough. 4. Cling to someone and use their body heat. Find the warmest person that you can find and immediately embrace them to warm up. Be careful, your personal cuddle-bundle might try to get
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away, but persevere! It’s cold, dammit! Plus, if it’s too cold and you’re doomed to die, it’s easier to accept your doom with a new best friend.
5. Cling to your lonely self and hope that tears and dry-heaving will heat your body. Sometimes, the only person who will embrace you lovingly is yourself. But even then, tears become ice, and your body isn’t enough. Sometimes, without anyone there, what’s the point? Your lonely soul might already be as icy as the wintry air.
6. Burn classic literature for fire. Subpar books or issues of The DN and DailyER make for great kindling, so literary texts ought to make even stronger, longer-burning fires. To get the most out of your books, start a book club with all your friends so everyone can contribute their favorite classics – from Shelley’s “Frankenstein” to Dickens’ “Great Expectations” – for the best bonfire of the spring 2016 semester.
7. Never go outside. Of course, instead of fighting the tundra climate, you could just avoid it altogether. You could simply never leave the pleasant security of your room in order to keep warm. Send paid doppelgängers to your classes for you and eat the furniture and your clothes once your food supplies run out. You’ll eventually starve, go insane, or both, but hey – you’ll never be cold. ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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PHOEBE: FROM 4 Dro raps about being real, the dreaded L word and minute-long mini songs straight out of her diary. Austin Johnson, also known as Kamakauzzy, recorded Dro’s first mixtape with her. He considers himself to be lyrically conscious, similarly to Dro and was blown away by her awareness to detail and demand for content with value. “Just seeing her close her eyes and let what’s inside pour out is a feat in my opinion and I don’t think a lot of local, or even most popular MCs can claim the same,” he said. Aside from rapping, Dro also aspired to start a record label, but after further speculation created Little Giants, an artist collective aimed at keeping the Lincoln art scene alive. On Jan. 29, Little Giant is hosting an event at SP CE Commons on 14th and B streets. The top floor features April White’s and Leaves Brown’s art while the bottom floor shuffles between five and six bands. Dro wanted each band to play a single at a time then switch, so no one attending had to miss an entire set to look at the art. In Lincoln, Dro found love. She borrows dresses from friends and owns a handful of lipsticks from Open Harvest. She guiltily shops on Amazon and believes that aside from taste and touch, Lincoln has art for all the senses. Dro is so proud of the Lincoln art scene, she even lets it smear her makeup. “When I’m performing, I get so into it and sweaty that my eyeliner gets in my eyes and drips down my face,” Dro said. “So I have to wear waterproof.” ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
Phoebe Dro performs R&B music mixed with punk and intimate, personal lyrics.
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CASS: FROM 7 what you do when you don’t have a schedule and are making your own decisions.” This was when Cass would frequently set up a tripod by herself, and at times, nude model in scenic settings. She said she enjoys being her own model because of how hard she is able to push herself. Luckily, she got away without any tickets or major bruises from the summer. Whether it be botany or the human body, Cass is all about showing the importance of organic life. “I see photography as a way to interact with the world,” Cass said. “I go back and forth between wanting to take a photo of everything you find to be beautiful and also wanting the beautiful thing to live in the moment.” Cass doesn’t always work alone. Collaboration is a large part of her process and led her to work with Gretchen Larsen, a Lincoln native she met while working on the nonprofit MakeShift together. According to MakeShift’s website, the nonprofit is a com-
munity hub for creation and learning with much a mental and physiological process of common interests in science, technology, reaching further away from ourselves and into the physical space art and more. Larsen to try to uncover some distinctly remembers distant, unseen scene to working creatively bring to life in the imwith Cass on a night age.” at the end of summer. This sense of whim“We stayed up for sy and desire not to three hours late into leave a trace on the nathe dark night, arture around her is eviranging lights, clamdent in Cass’s pictures bering up ladders and the poetry that and burying our bodshe writes. As far as ies in the soon to die, free time, Cass likes to flat beds of flowers ride her motorcycle, go and greens to try to dancing and casually capture, again, sometrans rapper read her friends’ tarot thing deeper than cards. whatever we could In the future, Cass see with our eyes,” knows what she does Larsen said. “In this not want: working at a desk, staying in one sense, I guess the experience or process of place or being trapped inside. As far as what photography with Madeline (Cass) is very
I’m still not over the ‘can I be a rapper’ hurdle,” Dro said. “I could not rap. People wouldn’t take me seriously if I did.”
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she does want, the possibilities are as vast as a sea of dandelions. “I would love to move to Antarctica and take photos of glaciers,” Cass said. This is a goal she developed when she realized the next generation may never be able to see the glaciers. For Cass, nature isn’t just a beautiful backdrop, which is why sustainability is such a large driving factor in Cass’s life. “It’s becoming the job of an artist to make sustainability more aesthetically interesting,” Cass said. ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM
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ext month, everyone who owns a television will be tuned in to watch Super Bowl 50. It’s likely that for the fifth time in six years, the Super Bowl will be the mostwatched television event in the U.S. The athletes will arrive in peak condition. They’ll look monstrous on a giant screen in 1080p HD. As viewers, we can see everything from the whites of their eyes to the sweat pouring from their heads. The only thing you probably won’t see is if any athlete is using performance-enhancing drugs in the locker room before the game. It’s okay if you miss that part. Using performance-enhancing drugs is still very taboo in sports. We typically only see the words performance-enhancing drugs used alongside a player ’s name when they are being shamed and facing disciplinary action. But it’s time we allow professional athletes to push their bodies to the absolute limit if they so choose. It should be up to athletes to pursue their physical goals with the help of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids.
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Professor of philosophy at Hamilton College and author of Fair Play: An Ethics of Sport, Robert Simon believes that if a player wants to take that risk with their body, they should be allowed to. “If each of us ought to be free to assume risks that we think are worth taking, shouldn’t athletes have the same freedom as anyone else?” said Simon. Athletes are always going to strive to reach new physical limits, and the people that surround them are going to do everything in their power within the rules of professional sports to help them reach that goal. If players want to take the risk to have performance gains, they should be allowed to. These same players will also realize that taking performance-enhancing drugs could be detrimental to their performance. That is simply the associated risk that comes with taking performance-enhancing drugs. “After all, if we should not forbid smokers from risking their health by smoking, why should we prohibit track stars or weightlifters from taking risks with their health in pursuit of their goals?” said Simon. Many would argue that taking steroids gives an unfair advantage to the player, that this is cheating the rules of the sport. If the ban was lifted on performance-enhancing drugs and everyone was allowed equal access to them, no one could claim that another player had an unfair advantage. Many times, steroids are used to help players recover from an injury that would normally keep them out of the game. Chuck Klosterman at The New York Times believes if other substances like Botox and plastic surgery are legal, then why draw the line at steroids? “We’ve collectively
agreed it’s OK for an injured football player to take a shot of Toradol to help ignore an injury but not a shot of testosterone to help that injury heal faster,” said Klosterman. Steroid use can prevent muscles from tearing. This allows muscles time to heal and grow, allowing players to stay in the game. Professional athletes have access to many resources for making sure their bodies are kept in competitive condition. This includes the best workout facilities, dieticians and entire teams of people, whose job it is to monitor athletes’ health and performance and give them feedback on how they can improve. Sam Schuster, Ph.D. author of “There’s No Proof That Sports Drugs Enhance Performance” argues “What is more ‘fair ’ - the use of a team of sports specialists or a simple pill? What is the difference between training at altitude and taking erythropoietin to achieve a similar effect? And why are the strips of adhesive plaster on the nose - absurdly believed to increase oxygen intake - more acceptable than a drug which reduces airway resistance?” said Schuster. Professional sports rules allow many different techniques to improve size, speed and strength but then place bans on select substances with similar effects to allowed substances. Players and the teams that surround them are going to find ways to achieve the physical results they want, regardless of what rules are in place. It’s time we remove the bans on performance-enhancing drugs and allow everyone to have equal access to what they want. These are people that youth look up to, and they shouldn’t be viewed as rule breakers for trying to accomplish their goals.
It could be argued that being a player in the spotlight comes with the moral obligation to do what is right and set a good example. But is it wrong for kids to look up to someone who is using performance-enhancing drugs? Having a professional athlete as a role model can be great for kids, but the chances of a kid growing up to play professional sports is extremely rare. I don’t believe that if professional athletes take steroids to improve themselves, kids who look up to them will follow suit. A recent study done by the American Academy for Pediatrics found out what motivates teen boys to take steroids. The most reliable indicator of steroid use was self-esteem and body image. This suggests that teenage boys who take steroids do so not because they want to look like Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire, but because they want to look good for teenage girls. Let’s stop looking at our sports role models as cheaters for trying to better themselves and realize that professional athletes who take their sport very seriously will try to improve themselves by any means necessary. We should allow athletes access to performance enhancements. This can be monitored under the supervision of trained professionals. If players believe it will give them the results they desire, it’s their body and their decision to proceed alone. NATE SMITH IS A SENIOR CITIZEN JOURNALISM MAJOR. REACH HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR VIA @ DNOPINION.
Gaming can provide useful life lessons
’m running from the massive truck hurtling toward me. My goal to survive drives me to ignore a golden path of rings that would normally be so tempting. It’s the most intense moment of my young life. Then, the truck lurches even closer to me. Terrified, I accidently yank my controller, my only hope of escape, out of the GameCube. This was “Sonic Adventure 2,” and the speedy blue hedgehog I’d been controlling had just died. Video games like this helped raise me. When I was a kid, my dad would play Legend of Zelda or Metroid, and I’d be content to just sit and stare at the glowing television screen. Eventually, I’d grow up to go on my own adventures, and I’d even learn to face my fear of the truck chase from Sonic. Many people may say none of that matters — that I’ve wasted hours of my life on a bunch of pixels. In a survey by Pew Research Center, when
asked if video games “are a waste of time,” 26 percent adults said it is “true for most games.” Another 33 percent said it is true for some games. I’d say they don’t understand just how much a person can learn from gaming. They don’t realize how much life is like Mario Kart, for instance. Sometimes, you’ve worked really hard for first place. You’re zooming along the track, thinking you’re hot stuff. You’re untouchable. But then, some smug player hits you with that dreaded blue shell, and your cart flips. Meanwhile, Donkey Kong, Luigi and pretty much every other player zooms past you toward the goal. It feels incredibly unfair. The blue shell doesn’t miss its target, and only players near last place can get the item. Similar to real life, misfortunes we have no control over are part of the game. It doesn’t do much good to complain
about it when it’s a game mechanic, a rule built into the system. The best thing to do is to press start and hope the Mario Kart gods bless you that time around. Sometimes, luck isn’t what you need, though. Anyone who’s played Pokémon understands that raising your very own pocket monster requires a great deal of training. You walk from grass patch to grass patch, hoping that this one will be the chance to push your Pokémon’s level from 24 to 25. It’s dull. But it needs to get done if you’re going to beat the head honcho in town, the gym leader. A lot of a student’s life is spent in the tall grasses of Johto. Studying for classes, working part-time jobs, sometimes even maintaining a social life — all of these can be tedious, especially when you’ve been going through the weeks, performing the same pattern over and over. The
tedium is important though. Whether we like it or not, we need to train so we can level up in our education, career and friendships. If any video game can help a player level up in real life, it’s Harvest Moon. I didn’t know doing farm chores could make a fun game, but apparently it’s possible. One day, probably as I was milking my cow Bessie, I came to a realization. I could just use a cheat to get all of the items in the game (excluding animals). Then, farming would be a breeze and I’d be able to make enough money to get that goat I’d been wanting. In a matter of seconds, I found the cheat I needed on the computer. Soon, I was sitting, controller in hand, looking at my full inventory. The moment should have made me feel happy, but it did the opposite. I had nearly everything I want-
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What campus issue is most important to you? They force you to buy these new looseleaf ones (textbooks) and then you can’t buy them back. So, they’re a $100 for a looseleaf book, and then they won’t take them back from you.”
One of the issues that I’ve encountered is parking. (It is) difficult for commuter students.” BENJAMIN BLOWERS
I think creating a positive force within the Greek community is really good because I think the Greek community has really bad labels. So, changing that label, I think, is really something that will have large effects on our community.”
ALEX ROUSSEAU
I’d say recycling, throughout the whole campus. I’d say that (we need) more recycling bins.”
COLE LANE
I think as international students we have some problems because some companies don’t want international students, And sometimes, we have difficulty in communication because maybe they don’t understand us or we can’t understand them.”
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Throwback Thursday: Decade disaster
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ot only does a new semester await returning UNL students this spring, but a whole new decade full of problems, uncertainty and promise. The 1980s came in with a bang and will require understanding and communication on the part of people throughout the world. For the first time in history, the Soviet Union has invaded a country outside the Warsaw Pact—Afghanistan. It is the third time Soviet aggression has gained worldwide attention and will
most likely seriously jeopardize the SALT II treaty. American hostages are still being held in Iran and a grain embargo threatens Nebraska’s economy. American athletes, who have trained so hard for the summer games in Moscow, may have to sacrifice their opportunities to perform with talk of a possible boycott of the 1980 Olympics. Of a more immediate concern to UNL students is the 1980-81 “financial crossroads” budget request for a 15 percent increase in university appropriations. Faculty unrest continues over the central
administration and there have been hints at collective bargaining attempts for 1980. The abortion issue continues after an incident in September at the NU Medical Center and the regents are now considering safety guidelines for possible test-tube baby research in the 1980s. State Sen. Dave Newell may approach the Legislature with findings from an interim study to realign the NU Board of Regents into a superboard responsible for statewide coordination of higher education. And Sen. Ralph Kelly of Grand Island will continue his third attempt at raising the legal
drinking age in Nebraska from 19 to 21. Kelly says the bill has an excellent chance of passing in 1980 after failing to pass first reading in 1979 by two votes. Add a national election this year, and 1980 looks to be an action-packed year leading off a new decade—a complex and exciting decade which will require intelligent action from all of us. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PUBLISHED THIS EDITORIAL BY HARRY ALLEN STRUNK ON JAN. 14, 1980. IT IS A PART OF THE DAILY NEBRASKAN’S THROWBACK THURSDAY SERIES.
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Make sure to schedule some alone time With the start of the New Year comes new goals and resolutions. Prioritize to make time to care for yourself.
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ou’ve returned from break, exhausted from the festivities, and now, it’s back to the same old routine. It may have been fun while it lasted, seeing friends from high school, binge watching your favorite show on Netflix and raiding your parent’s fridge. The fun doesn’t have to stop there though, and it shouldn’t. Even though the beginning of the semester isn’t nearly as stressful as the end, it is still necessary to make sure you’re taking some time out for yourself each day. We all have busy lives at this point keeping up with social activities, going to classes and doing homework, internships and jobs. In between all of that, even though it might be hard, we need to set aside time for ourselves to relax. Everyone has at least one thing that helps them to keep calm, whether that’s taking a bath, going for a walk, reading, coloring or whatever else. Personally, I enjoy reading in my spare time, which is one of the most effective ways to reduce stress according to a study done at the University of Sussex. Other times, I like to watch Criminal Minds and cuddle with my new kitten, Butterscotch. Find whatever works for you and make sure you stick to setting apart a time every day to just do something you enjoy. Even if you are more of an extravert, try finding at least one thing you can do alone. There are so many reasons why spending some time alone, doing what you want to do, is beneficial for you. According to Sherrie Bourg Carter, one advantage is being able to clear your mind from other distractions that life brings to you. It also helps improve your concentration and increase productivity because when you spend that time alone, you’re removing those interruptions in your life. Especially when classes get tougher, it may be hard to believe that setting aside time to be alone rather than study all night will actually help you, but it will. This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t study, but make sure to take a break every once in a while. Another reason to take alone time each day is so that you can get to know yourself. At this age, it can be kind of difficult to know who you are and what you want out of life. Many of us are being told from so many people what we should and shouldn’t do. We’re getting told these things by our professors, parents, siblings and friends. Sometimes, we just need to step back, take time to ourselves and find what we want to do. It isn’t easy to do this without taking that time alone. I don’t necessarily do this myself, and I haven’t very often previously. This year, it will be my new goal to try to do this, and
ART BY ALY FRAME | DN it should really be everyone’s goal. Even if it isn’t your New Year ’s resolution, you can start it now. If you fall off, you can always start again. In an indirect sort of way, this may actually help you with your resolutions for the year. You know the ones I’m talking about, like making the Dean’s List, getting promoted at work or scoring that internship that you’ve been desiring. Now, you may be asking, how do I go about doing this? My first suggestion would be to have this alone time at the same time every single day to get into the routine. Write it into a planner or the calendar on your phone if you have to. You can even let your roommates know that you’ll be taking this time out each day, and have them help you to keep this time alone. A second suggestion would be to put
away electronics, unless they’re necessary to what you’ll be doing. If you’re writing or listening to music, it may be more useful to have your computer out. Otherwise, keeping yourself from these distracting devices, especially social media, will help you to make the most out of your alone time. Between phones, laptops and tablets it can be hard to put electronics away, but you should. Turn the television off if you have to as well. This is something you can start at any time. Even if we are a couple weeks through the beginning of the year, it isn’t too late to start. If you forget your goal in the next few weeks, you can start again. I know I’ll probably forget most days too, but I’m going to try to my best to schedule time for myself each and every day. I’ll put it into
my phone’s calendar, and I’ll at least make my best attempt at spending time alone each day. There isn’t any reason for someone not to at least try to make an effort to do this. There are plenty of benefits that can come from this, and it may even become the part of your day you look forward to the most. KYLIE PHILIPPI IS A SOPHOMORE SECONDARY ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS EDUCATION MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR VIA @ DNOPINION.
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(ESPECIALLY VIOLINS) we need you at UNL’s Glenn Korff School of Music and UNL Orchestras! Symphony Orchestra MW 1:30-3:10, F 1:30-2:20 ART BY DUNCAN REED | DN ed and little reason to keep playing. At times, we can find this kind of emptiness in the real world. We look for answers to our unhappiness, but we’re often mistaken as to the actual answer. Our shallow answers bring us down, subtracting instead of adding happiness. That answer to happiness often comes through other people. Whether you’re building a Minecraft house with a significant other or playing “Smash Bros. 64” with your uncle and dad who get a little too loud, games are usually more fun with others. I remember having sleepovers with my friend and waking up around six in the morning just to play one of the LEGO Star Wars games. We were trying to eke out all the hours of fun we could before it was time for me to go
home. Occasionally, life is a one-player game, and that’s okay too. We need time to improve on ourselves, to solve our own puzzles. Sometimes we just want to spend some time exploring the vast world by ourselves. The important thing is striking a balance between going solo and getting help from our party. Despite all the fun I’ve had playing games by myself, the moments I treasure most are the moments with others.
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Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday January 14 January 15 January 16 January 17 Singer, songwriter Evan Bartels performs at 8 p.m. at Vega, $8 day of show. Karaoke at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop at 8 p.m.
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”We Can Be Heroes: A Tribute to David Bowie” is from 9 p.m. until 2 p.m. at Vega for people 18 and older, $5.
Behind-the-Scenes tour at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at noon for $30.
”Red Cities with The Broke Loose and Producers of the World” at the Bourbon at 8 p.m., $5 for 21 and up and $17 for 18 and up.
Adult group skate lessons at the Railyard Ice Rink at 7 p.m. for $10. Andrea von Kampen with Mesonjixx and Walk By Sea at 9 p.m. for $5, 21 and up.
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