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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Watching someone else do my job for a night:

4:24 p.m.

I arrived at The Daily Nebraskan newsroom on Sunday to find Josh Kelly standing in the doorway of my office wearing a black button-up, black pants, black shoes, a navy sport coat and a pre-tied red necktie. Some song by Rob Thomas blared from a speaker behind him.

He was smiling. Beaming, really.

Apparently, his first act as editor-in-chief of The Daily Nebraskan for a day was to corrupt my office with adult contemporary rock.

“Hey boss,” I said.

Here’s a little bit of context: Last semester, I made a bet with Josh, the sports editor, that if we got 1 million views on our website for the semester, I’d give him my job for the day.

I thought 1 million would be insane, because it would be nearly double our traffic from the previous semester.

But I was wrong. We reached 1 million, and my punishment for not believing my staff was to give someone else the job.

So while Josh ran the newsroom for a night, I decided to view the newsroom through a lens I never can as editor-in-chief: a wallflower.

A lot of my day is usually spent in my office doing a variety of random things for the paper. So my goal last night was simple: sit back, shut up and watch the newsroom.

What could I learn about the paper and the people that work for it by not being editorin-chief?

With that, the night began with Josh playing Rob Thomas in my office, while I quietly found a spot to sit and watch the newsroom beat along to someone else’s drum.

5:24

Josh’s first true test as editor-in-chief would be making the 5:30 budget meeting.

Every night – at exactly 5:30 – the senior editors meet to go over content in the paper and online the next day.

The second 5:30 hits, Lani, the online news editor, is usually in my ear barking that it’s 5:30, and every second we’re not in budget, we’re late and Chris when are we meeting for budget Chris Chris Chris!

She keeps me on my toes.

At 5:30, Lani was editing. The sports section was watching the Patriots go for two against the Bronco’s in the AFC championship game. The minute passed without a stir - without a mention of budget.

At 5:31 - Josh walked out.

And like the sun coming up tomorrow, the certainty of Lani came in.

“It’s 5:30. Are we going to have budget?

It’s 5:30 - are we going to have budget? Josh – Josh, are we going to have budget?”

“Alright -– budget,” Josh said.

And the newsroom followed its new leader into the conference room.

5:34

Budget went quick. Josh saved sports for last. Afterward, he gave a short speech.

“Tonight should be an interesting night,” he said. “And just so you know, I have an open door policy. If anyone wants to come chat and share ideas, I’d be open for any-

thing.”

Just for the record: My door is usually open.

Anyway, Josh ended the meeting with, “Let’s have the best night of the semester.”

5:59

“Josh, some new, nice paperwork for you,” Mara, the managing editor, said walking into my/his office. “Also, it smells pretty nice in here.”

“Yep,” Josh said. “It smells nice, it’s not cluttered, all those coffee cups in the corner are gone.”

“Looks great, I like what you’ve done with the place,” Mara said.

“Me too.”

Josh then asked Mara to get him a paper clip. And right hand to God, she did it. This is remarkable considering 1) I didn’t actually know we had paper clips in the newsroom and 2) I love Mara, but if I asked her to donate a kidney, I think she’d just turn up her music and pretend she didn’t hear me.

Then, she said Josh was doing his job well, and at 5:59, I felt the newsroom slowly turning over.

6:29 p.m.

I got a little bored. The news section went into their weekly budget, where they assign stories for the week. Josh was apparently getting really into his work. (Rob Thomas turned off).

So, I went over to the A&E desk to see what they thought of Josh’s leadership thus far. The arts desk, in a nutshell, is a firing squad that launches insults across the newsroom to Josh and the sports desk on a pretty consistent basis. There’s a certain cynical charm to the section, so of course, I wanted to know their thoughts.

“I haven’t even noticed him yet, so not doing so hot,” Gaby said.

“He needs to drink black coffee, clearly,” Alex said.

“That’d make him throw up. He wouldn’t do it.”

A sports editor walked out of Josh’s/my office and walked past me by the arts section.

“Chris, how does it feel to be back out with the peasants?”

“Feels great,” I said.

“Getting back to your roots as a normal writer?”

Actually, a little. It was nice.

7:37 p.m.

I left the newsroom to get dinner and a cup of coffee and returned to find the tables had turned.

“Josh is creating a hostile work environment,” Lani announced.

“Yeah, he promised us he’d buy pizza for the newsroom and he didn’t,” Mara said.

“Then, he encouraged my writers to steal.”

“Cookies,” added Mara.

Josh denied these allegations. Later, he gave Lani his credit card to go buy pizza. He told her to buy one. She bought three. I gave her a high-five.

8:05

I was dragged into the A&E weekly budget after I finished my dinner.

I was an arts writer as a freshman - when both Gaby and I were shy freshmen who only took a story or two a week.

Gaby’s clearly come out of her shell. She started the meeting by welcoming me, then writing up “5 reasons why Chris Heady sucks” on the white board.

You can feel the love, can’t you?

I introduced myself as a freshman. Was just seeing if A&E is the right fit for me.

“If you want to take a story, that’s fine,” the print editor told me, “if not that’s totally cool.”

The room laughed. It’s the typical DN pitch to new writers, which brought me back to three years ago, sitting in this same room as a terrified freshman.

The end of the budget wrapped up by Gaby asking me to take a preview of a Burlesque show. I denied it.

“Those days are over,” I said.

8:52

I walked into Josh’s/my office. Josh was working on a column for the next day. Johnny Cash played on his laptop behind him, one monitor in front of him was the word document he was writing on, the monitor next to it a picture of the house from “Up” sailing into the sky via balloons.

I sat on the opposite side of my/his desk.

A first.

“In about 10 minutes, we’re going to have a little break - I’m going to gather everyone and we’re going to watch my favorite Pixar short. I think it embodies storytelling. Hopefully, it’ll inspire some people.”

Ambition is pouring out of the guy, I’ll give him that.

9:04

Caught Josh’s/my office door closed.

I opened it up.

“Open door policy, huh?

“Yeah,” he said. “Anyone can open my door at any time.”

9:16 p.m.

Josh was true to his word. He invited some people into my/his office and they watched the Disney/Pixar ’s short film “Feast.”

It might have been just for show. Maybe

a because-he-can thing. Regardless, Josh was trying to make an impact, if was a small one.

He’s trying. I’ll give him that.

9:58 p.m.

Josh closed his/my door again.

“That’s the second time you’ve done that,” Mike said.

Josh cracked the door open.

“Third.”

“He’s cranky as dictator,” Mike said to me.

“I’m not cranky,” Josh said.

“Close your door and your open door policy,” Mike said.

“You’re fired,” Josh said, and closed the door.

It was Josh’s third fake firing of the night.

10:26

As we neared deadline, Josh disappeared to finish his column so I assumed some editor roles again. I checked on design and copy and photo, threw away a couple pizza boxes.

I couldn’t help myself, OK? But six hours of watching the newsroom and 1500 words documenting the innerworkings of the newspaper later, sitting back at the table I began the night at I kept thinking about that arts section budget meeting.

It took me back to my freshman year, when I was too scared to take a story and being an editor was my worst nightmare. It also reminded me of my roots.

I think one thing that people realize when they get into a leadership role or when they move up in the world, be it on the varsity basketball team or the head of a non-profit, is your passion can take a hit The day-to-day grind in your profession or passion can be tough. I know plenty of athletes who have played so long they hate the sport. When a passion becomes a job, it can become tedious and annoying.

What watching the newsroom taught me was how important it is to rekindle your passion every now and again. Not that mine has dwindled, but the beauty of journalism can be dimmed by sitting in an office. That’s not what journalism is. Sitting in budget meetings, watching freshman talk excitedly about beginning reporting classes and eavesdrop-

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At the time of deadline, Josh finished his column and his tie was a little bit looser around his neck than at the beginning of the night. He was stressed, a bit frazzled.

Tomorrow, he’ll be back as sports editor.

And I’ll be back in the office, and a small part of me will wish I was out roaming the newsroom, just watching.

11:17

The DN gets a little weird at about 11. Our deadline is midnight, and we’re usually for some reason or another. Last night, we were trying to fill space. “One Direction” played from the design nook. Eight editors swarmed around the final pages writing headlines and getting in final edits.

Josh sat on a couch nearby. His tie was off.

“Alright, final thoughts on the night Josh,” I said.

“Happy.”

“What’s that even mean?”

“Because I’m done with everything now.

And I did what I set out to do.”

“Which is what, sit in Chris’ office for three hours?” Andrew Barry, the photo editor, said.

Josh laughed.

“No,” he said. “Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.”

I know I did.

Sincerely, Chris Heady

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Donuts, Pokémon and late-night tales from the library We sent four reporters to spend the night at some of UNL’s 24-hour spaces. Here are their stories.

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Tianna Bankhead and Kelly Lejeune use a whiteboard to study at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons area in Love Library.

At 9 p.m. Thursday, bookbags were splayed open; the tables were smothered with textbooks and notes. Korean characters, court case timelines and chemistry formulas covered the whiteboard walls of the study rooms. For many college students, Thursday nights are synonymous with beverages, bad decisions and an amnesia of any academic responsibilities. But in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons, the desks were filled with people studying, snacking and snoozing.

The area is accessible 24/7, making it one of the few places UNL students can go to study anytime.

Some students arrive for their after-dark studying because of the commons’ novelty.

“My grind is usually too much for the library, but I wanted to check out the new place,” said Kevin Real, a senior biological systems engineering and chemistry student.

Others come because it’s a central space on campus. Gabrielle McGraw, a senior English major with curly lilac hair, stayed in the commons to meet up with her friend. To pass the time, she slept at a desk, resting on a Pokémon scarf doubling as a blanket.

“I have a night class,” she explained when she woke up more than an hour after she fell asleep.

After 10 p.m., however, the commons calmed.

Steve Friesen, a custodian, said it was a quiet night. The lack of late-night students made it easier for him to get work done from the start of his shift at 10:30 p.m.

“You never know, you’re talking about coffee spills, stains, and you don’t know what you can do until people leave,” he said.

He was one of three custodians cleaning the 30,000 square feet of the commons that night.

Coffee spills can be a significant problem, with a new Dunkin’ Donuts located in the space, he said. Paper cups litter the tables of the area, like pins on a map of the sleep deprived.

The cafe is open until 1 a.m., and a line forms even at 11 p.m. By this point, the cafe is manned by a single employee, shift leader and sophomore UNL student, Jason Wisenbaker.

Wisenbaker began working for the chain in May 2015 and was a frequent customer before his employment.

“I like coffee, and I like donuts,” he said.

“I love it.”

But his time at the chain hasn’t always been a fun experience. During winter break, a man robbed the Dunkin’ Donuts Wisenbaker was working at in Omaha.

About 8:10 p.m. on Dec. 27, a man dressed in all black with a ski mask entered Wisenbaker ’s work with a gun and demanded he give him the money in the store safe.

“It was like ‘LOL I’m going to die at Dunkin’ Donuts,’” Wisenbaker said.

After handing the man more than $1000 in cash, he made Wisenbaker and his coworker enter the freezer so they wouldn’t see him leave. They waited in the negative 2 degreefreezer until they thought it was safe, then ran into the back office, locked it and called the police, he said.

Once the police arrived and he was safe, Wisenbaker realized the way the ski-masked man behaved was strange. He seemed to recognize the layout of the shop, knowing where the safe and freezer were located.

There was also something about the way the man spoke and looked that was familiar, Wisenbaker said.

Wisenbaker remembered hearing of another Dunkin’ Donuts robbery in Lincoln the

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Sleepless and stressed out in Architecture Hall We sent four reporters to spend the night at some of UNL’s 24-hour spaces. Next, a night at Architecture Hall.

BAILEY SCHULZ DN It’s 3 a.m. Campus is still dark, the streets are empty and most would assume University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are sleeping back in their residence halls. But architecture students know better.

Aiden Schneider, a sophomore architecture major, understands all too well that Architecture Hall is usually alive, even in the dead of night.

“I would say that there probably is at least one person here, excluding janitors,” he said.

“Students (are here) all hours of the night and all hours of the day.”

Yaan Chen, a sophomore, said he usually spends anywhere from 10 to 15 hours in Architecture Hall. But the long hours haven’t turned him away from the major.

“I love it,” he said. “It’s been torturing us, but we still love it.”

On 11 p.m. Wednesday, only two weeks into the semester, the building was full of second-year students working on a project. The assignment asked them to create a structure for a dog park at Holmes Lake.

For the assignment, students visited the dog park and chose the location to build the structure. Back on campus, they were tasked with making a digital model of their design and creating smaller 3-D models for the assignment.

PHOTO BY ADAM WARNER | DN Sophomore Abigail Nelson said the group Chandler Nohr ruffles through papers while working on designs with Nathan Holst at Architecture Hall at the University of Nebrasproject is one of the most difficult assignments ka-Lincoln. The UNL students are in their second year of studying landscape architecture. she’s had so far.

“It’s hard,” she said. “But I know with my group and with the feedback they get, it’ll be lot.

“I’m here more than I’m at home,” she said. hours of working. And while she hasn’t done successful.”

“Our year’s pretty bad at blaring music,” “It’s still fun, though. Some- this herself, she knows someone who brings in The most timehe said of his fellow sophomores. “We’ve got an egg crate to take naps under the desks. how, I find it fun.” consuming part of One time we got in trouble, but music’s music.”

While all the hours spent in the building Christy said she’s spent these projects is makAlong with the fellow students, the college four or five nights in a row may seem extreme, it has resulted in a support ing the physical moddone with one of professors are another great support system for staying awake to work on system of students ready to help each other do els, Nelson said. architecture majors, Christy said. what it takes to make it through a project. projects.

“Cutting anything our projects and a couple She said while she was intimidated by how “The college is so tight-knit,” Schneider “I just take little sporadic by hand with several people in my studio and hard they pushed her in the beginning, she apnaps,” she said. “Then, I said. “I’ve probably never been so tight with layers like this will preciates it now. just slept for like three days a group of people so fast. Everyone is just so take hours,” she said, I went to the top floor of “They do prepare you so well for the upstraight afterwards. I don’t similar. It doesn’t really matter where you referencing her 3-D Architecture Hall and just coming years and just the overall career that came from or what you like or do, it’s just pretthink people really realize model. you’re going into,” Nelson said. ty much a family right when you get in.” how much goes into being Junior Hannah threw our projects off While the workload is sometimes intense, Sophomore Shayla Dick agreed. an architecture major. My Christy said her last the roof, just because we she said she believes it will all be worth it by “One of my favorite parts is the small comroommates have no clue. model took her 60 the end. munity that you build,” she said. “We all spend They know I’m here all day, were so done with it.” hours to complete.

“It’s definitely more difficult than I expectcrazy hours here, so you get to know people on but I’m literally working the These models are ed, but like I said, it’s going to pay off at the a more personal level.” whole time.”

HANNAH CHRISTY one of the reasons so junior architecture major And of course, that support system of stu- end, and they’re just training us for what realThe architecture stumany students spend world architects actually do,” Nelson said. “If dents finds ways to help each other de-stress. dents get creative to make it several hours in the “One time,” Christy said, “we got done you have a successful project and you present through the extended stays building. It’s easier to it, every minute is worth it...it’ll go in a portwith one of our projects and a couple people stay at Architecture Hall, where they have ac- in the building. folio, and it’ll just help in the long-run to get a Sophomore Joe Mueller said different stu- in my studio and I went to the top floor of Arcess to tools and supplies than to take a model chitecture Hall and just threw our projects off good job and (with) the rest of my life.” dents have different methods of staying awake. home and risk damaging it. the roof, just because we were so done with it.”

“Some people take caffeine pills, some peoAnd those hours in the building add up NEWS@ Mueller said they’ve also battled stress by quickly. Nelson said her record amount of time ple take coffee,” he said.

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‘The first line of defense in a world full of terrors’ KELSEY CONNELLY DN It’s midnight on Friday, Jan. 22, and the halls of Abel and Sandoz residencies have started to quiet down, but the night is just beginning for juniors Mitchell Lofgren and Benny Chavez.

Lofgren and Chavez spend their Friday evenings checking in residents and guests at the two residence halls.

As the night begins, they set up two iPads to scan NCards and wait for the rush of rosycheeked residents.

“We are the first line of defense in a world full of terrors,” Lofgren said. “And by terrors, I mean drunk college kids.”

While many people wouldn’t choose to spend midnight to 4 a.m. checking in crowds of college students on a Friday night, Lofgren and Chavez don’t mind.

“I’m a night owl,” Chavez said. “I’m up anyways, so if I’m going get paid to do it, I might as well.”

Rap music plays from Lofgren’s phone as the two are greeted with the familiar Friday night crowd of party-goers starting about 12:15 a.m.

Friday night shifts are never dull for Chavez and Lofgren. While their interactions with residents and their guests rarely last more than a minute, they keep them entertained.

“You meet some really interesting characters with this job,” Chavez said.

But not all interactions at the check-in desk are friendly or entertaining, Lofgren and Chavez said. The pair is often faced with the task of having to turn students away that aren’t residents if they don’t have a form of ID, which can lead to conflict.

“We make friends, and we make enemies,” Chavez said.

Chavez and Lofgren also have the responsibility of making sure guests who are turned away don’t sneak in through other side entrances of the residence halls.

On Friday night, they caught three students attempting to be let in through other entrances.

“You have to follow the rules, and sometimes that makes people mad,” night desk supervisor Patrick Sullivan said.

But conflict is uncommon for Lofgren and Chavez.

“I feel like if you approach this job with a light-hearted attitude, everything goes well,” Chavez said.

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Holly Clauson uses her phone during her shift at the Abel-Sandoz welcome center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Chavez and Lofgren have worked the Friday night shift at Abel and Sandoz since the beginning of the school year and have gotten to know many of the residents. Because of this, they said, they sometimes feel like the dads of the students who walk through the doors.

“We like to think the job we do is pretty important,” Chavez said.

This kind of relationship is evident on

nights like Friday when they attempted to convince a resident it was a bad idea to call her exboyfriend. Or when Chavez had an entire conversation in Spanish with a resident who had mentioned she was in a Spanish class.

Making friends is one of the perks of working the night desk, but safety is always the top priority.

Checking in students until 4 a.m. is worth

sacrificing their Friday nights because they know they help keep students safe.

“You have to know when to be serious because we do have a lot of responsibility,” Lofgren said.

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Community safety officer Tom Tegley said the area should be calm. Maybe there will be problems with non-students trying to sleep in the space or arguments over a study room but likely no significant issues, he said.

Throughout his career, Tegley said he’s seen a man screaming about wizards while barefoot in the snow, and a student who was able to act sober when he actually had alcohol poisoning.

It’s an easier part of the job, but an “interesting” one, he said.

There will likely be no more than four people late at night, said Madison Mascare, a sophomore art student who works at the commons’ information desk. She came to that conclusion because every hour of her 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. shift for the night, she’ll have to walk around and count the number of students in the area.

“I don’t have classes until noon, so I get

plenty of time to sleep,” she said. “I planned out my schedule specifically so I get enough sleep.”

Once Mascare’s shift is over, the days of other employees begin.

The cafe’s donuts are baked every morning around 4:30 a.m, usually by Vernon Joseph, the manager of the commons’ Dunkin’ Donuts.

They’re made in a room around the size of a closet next to the cafe.

“It’s about a third to a quarter of the size of the kitchen we normally use,” he said, “We have to use every square inch we have.”

His recommendation for the best donut at the cafe is maple frosted, but the most popular is the glazed, he said.

Days are long right now, as the cafe is busy.

About 60 dozen donuts are sold every day, often

by Joseph himself.

“When somebody says ‘Oh, that’s a good

donut,’ I’m like ‘Yep, I made that this morning,’” he said, “I love the look in someone’s eyes when they buy a donut. They say it’s like a child in a candy store, but it’s like a grown-up in a donut shop.”

As Joseph starts work, it’s still hours before the Friday morning sun will rise. The darkness covering campus has plenty of time left.

But by 5 a.m., the commons is nearly vacant.

Desks are clean, chairs pushed in and donuts are in the oven, primed for the rush of students sure to come. The stories of the night’s students and employees are over. The new ones will come with the next day.

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LEARNING COMMONS: FROM 4 week before on Old Cheney Road. It was the same location from where a past co-worker had been transferred to the shop in which he was working; A co-worker who looked and sounded like the man in the ski-mask.

Wisenbaker told the police about this connection. Then, last week, his director of operations called him to tell him his old co-worker had been arrested in connection to the robbery, in part because of Wisenbaker’s help.

Remembering the robbery still shakes him up, he said.

“The first night I couldn’t sleep,” he said. “I had really bad nightmares. But it’s fine now.”

Wisenbaker said he wouldn’t go back to the Dunkin’ Donuts where the robbery occurred, and he would rather stay at the one in the commons. He said he didn’t expect anything dramatic to happen there.

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Late-night Mass meets students’ needs

We sent four reporters to spend the night at some of UNL’s 24-hour spaces. Finally, a different kind of night life.

ZACH HAMMACK DN For many of University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Catholic students, Mass at the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and Newman Center has become a staple of campus nightlife.

“I think having Mass late at night is great,” junior pre-law major JB Davis said. “It gives more students an opportunity to come together and worship God as a community.”

Davis, along with other Catholic students at UNL, go to daily Mass at 10 p.m. The Mass is available from Monday to Thursday at the church located at 320 N. 16th St. On Thursdays after Mass, students socialize at Newman Center community nights.

“We all gather in the John Paul II Hall at the Newman Center and have food, hang out and just get to know everyone better,” Davis said.

He said each community night usually has its own theme with related games and movies.

Students can also learn about Newman Center intramurals and volunteer opportunities in the community.

“Some community nights include signing up to go on a mission trip or to take classes at the Newman Center,” Davis said. “It really helps everyone meet each other and get to know everyone better.”

Newman Centers, which appear on campuses around the U.S., are a hub for Catholic campus ministries. Their namesake, Blessed John Newman, was an intellectual force in U.S. Catholic history.

In April 2015, the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln dedicated the new St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and Newman Center. The new church added more space for a burgeoning number of Catholic students at UNL. Attendance at Sunday Masses averages about 2,000 students, according to the center’s website.

Overcrowding had been a problem at the old Newman Center; the new space aims to

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln students pray at 10 p.m. Mass at the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Lincoln, Neb. on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. After Mass, the students stayed for community night. combat this issue.

Pat McBride, a father of a UNL student, said the Newman Center hopes to draw more students back.

“There were students before would come to events and it was too crowded, so they didn’t come back,” McBride said. “I think some people in the past went away, who said

there isn’t room for me. And now we don’t have that issue.”

Davis said the new church is a great blessing.

“The new church means a lot to me, and to everyone in our community. It is big enough for everyone,” Davis said. “It is also so beautiful, and its beauty can draw some curious

people in and lead to conversion.”

While 10 p.m. might be considered a late time to hold Mass, it meets the needs of college students, McBride said.

“A lot of things happen later at night for college students,” he said.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department issued more than a dozen minor in possession citations early on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – and two additional citations during the week – and responded to three narcotics-related incidents, one hit-and-run and three DUIs. A 22-year-old UNL student was cited for littering after being found urinating in the Andersen Hall parking lot. This is the sixth report of public urination in the parking lot in the past year.

Just after 2:30 a.m. Friday, 21-year-old UNL junior Zachary Degner was cited for driving while intoxicated and negligent driving after dispatch advised an officer of a vehicle hitting curbs and possibly a pole, according to an incident report. The nutrition, exercise and health science major was found to be driving with a .212 BAC.

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cusing on queer theory and pedagogy, she tacey Waite’s career in writing starttries to disrupt normal practices. ed with jealousy.

“A lot of professors teach students Before she was an assistant Engthey shouldn’t use ‘I’ in academic essays lish professor at the University of – in a sense, we’re erasing the author” she Nebraska-Lincoln, she graduated with a said. “But why? I encourage students to Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. think about this and about history: What Long before that, she was the youngest if we did it differently?” of seven siblings – and the only one who She describes her teaching processes couldn’t read or write yet. “I remember as a way to do things in a more “strange, being jealous because they all had access to what I didn’t,” Waite said. “So I would queer way.”

Contradictions, unsettling feelings just pick up books and pretend.” and difficulties – three of the things Waite Although she was the last to learn, she is the only family member who took writ- presents in each of her class syllabi. She ing and ran with it. She didn’t just rely on also applies these expectations as a coach of UNL’s competitive Slam Poetry Club. school to keep herself on top of writing.

“Writing is hard,” Wait said. “The perShe took matters into her own hands and formance element of slam poetry is hard, created writing projects for herself, even too. But we should teach students to find writing personalized stories on handmade pleasure in difficulty. Resistance is an Christmas cards. amazing moment Her ability to render personalizaI’m afraid every time I to have.”

Waite has expetion was something read my work to rienced these moshe carried with her ments of fear herto UNL, according people. Writing about self, as a published to her students. writer of numerous “I love the mo- your own life makes you essays, conference ment you see some- feel vulnerable, but I write to papers and poetry one’s light bulb collections. Among go off,” she said. understand myself.” her work is “Butch “Something just Geography”, a colclicks.

Something STACEY WAITE assistant english professor lection of poems they read or wrote written from her interested them. I own experiences want my students growing up as to wonder why that someone who does not conform to gender is.”

Taking a step back, analyzing and identities.

“I’m afraid every time I read my work “wondering why” is a process Waite stresses in her classes specializing in composi- to people,” she said. “Writing about your tion, rhetoric, feminist and gender studies, own life makes you feel vulnerable, but I write to understand myself.” queer theory, creative writing and poetry.

But Waite’s writing doesn’t only help In these classes, she encourages discussion to show herself. She said people and colabout the power language has to shape the lege students all over the U.S. come to her way cultures think and behave.

“Language builds worlds,” Waite said. with gender stories. Most involve being told they can’t do something or look a cerWaite also teaches her students to avoid making things one-dimensional. tain way because of their genders.

“Who decided it should be this way or She said she wants students to know that that way?” Waite said. “I go on this ride of changing opinions can make them more re-thinking things with my students. I’m open-minded citizens. prepared to show up to class and realize One instance when Waite was reI’m wrong sometimes.” minded by her own advice was when she The new ideas students bring to class stepped off the plane at the Lincoln airport for the first time. Raised in New York, make Waite step into her own difficulty – she panicked as she looked around and her mission for every student who walks couldn’t see any buildings. A sigh of relief in the doors of Andrews Hall.

And because of this, Andrews Hall is hit when she reached downtown Lincoln. where she plans to stay.

“People who grow up in New York or “It’s a beautiful thing when your life big cities tend to think the middle of the country is all the same,” Waite said. “I was and your work are the same thing,” Waite making all of these erroneous assump- said. “I think I’ll hang out with the Nebraskans for quite a while.” tions, but I was wrong. There’s diversity everywhere you go.”

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Stacey Waite is an assistant English professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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KELLY: The day I went to 7 Nebraska events

For the first time ever, I walk into the Devaney Indoor Track, and see a group of Colorado State Nebraska hosted seven runners jogging for warmups. “Summer Love” by Justin Timberlake is being played over the speaksporting events, the most it ers. Halfway through the song, the PA announcer has in years. The sports editor lists the results of the women’s long jump. Husker Reka Czuth took the competition with a 5.84 meter visited all of them in one day. jump, almost 20 feet!

As I plop down in the middle of the 1,228 fans who attended the meet, I see Nebraska Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst in the middle of the track.

JOSH KELLY He’s easy to spot as he’s wearing a black longDN sleeve with the red Nebraska logo on it whereas evI’ve been a student at UNL for nearly five years eryone else around him is wearing red track suits.

Big day for him. Big day for a team that’s not now, and up until Saturday I never heard “Go Big even competing right now: the football team. It’s Red” chanted more in one day. hard to ignore how many recruits are visiting this On Saturday, Jan. 23, Nebraska hosted seven sporting events, the most the university has held in weekend and one of the notable parts of it: the a long, long time; at least since I’ve been enrolled men’s basketball game against Michigan. I mean, the team is on a four-game win streak, fresh off a here.

So I mapped out the day in an attempt to attend win against No. 11 Michigan State and it’s also the third annual #AveryStrong Day. Pinnacle Bank every single one. The ten and a half hour day was compiled of farewells, fan support, cheap food, pop Arena is going to be packed and recruits will be shown a glimpse of the Nebraska fan base and the music, a lot of red and someone who had the same facilities. idea I did for the day.

Which reminds me, I got to head over to PBA *** now. I grab Andrew and we leave at 12:17 p.m. for 10:41 a.m.

Photographer Andrew Barry shows up to my the 1:00 p.m. tipoff with “Riptide” by Vance Joy being the last song we hear at the Devaney Indoor house near Haymarket Park to join me for the day.

Track.

We have a rough idea of what we want to accom12:56 p.m. plish in this. Our only plan is to watch as many Andrew and I just finished bolting from the sports as possible. So we hop into my white, 1999 Isuzu Rodeo and head to the Bob Devaney Sports parking garage on 11th and Q street because we let Center to watch the swim team face Illinois on Se- the beat writers use the DN’s lone parking pass.

We approach Pinnacle Bank Arena, and even nior Day. minutes before tipoff, fans are still filing in. Andrew 11:17 a.m. and I just want to get in as soon as possible. My ears We enter the Devaney Natatorium. On our feel like potato chips that are about to break off. right is a food and beverage table with fruit, coffee We go through the ticket office door and are in, and bagels that were most likely softened up by the just before player introductions, too. chlorine in the air.

Instead of going straight to the court, I walk Sophomore Jordan Ehly just won the 100-yard breaststroke, her first victory of the day. After I see through the tunnel on the right toward the the northeast corner entrance. On the left in one of the the results, I look back at the stands, full of Husker rooms I see the National Championship trophy the fans. volleyball team had won last month. It makes absoAndrew goes off to take photos of the meet as I spot swim beat writer Trev McDiffett sitting on the lutely perfect sense that it’s there.

I turn left to head to the floor and coming out left side of the stands, laptop being balanced by his knees. I look over and Trev’s typing with a brace on of the locker room is coach Tim Miles, wearing his yellow #AveryStrong shirt just like he did last year his right hand. when the Huskers faced Michigan State.

“How did that happen,” I ask.

We walk parallel to the court and once he’s “Ugh...long story…,” he says.

I tell him to save it for another time then. Still, seen, the crowd roars and he pumps his right hand in the air. Seconds later...the National Anthem begood on him for typing his gins, the starters take off notes in the humid environtheir #AveryStrong shirts It’s a really unique ment. to show off the old school I find out from him that culture we have jerseys they’re wearing for I just missed the Senior Day the game and they tip off ceremonies where all the here.” against the Wolverines. senior swimmer and divSHAWN EICHORST 1:53 p.m. ers were given flowers by Athletic Director Minutes ago, Kansas the coaches. Heck, even the transfer Andrew White Illinois seniors were given III sank a three-pointer to flowers by the Nebraska coaches, too. put Nebraska only down 33-30 against Michigan; It’s after 11:30 a.m., which means the track team is about to start the Mark Colligan Memorial meet a team that is more comfortable on the outside than down the hall. I tell Trev good luck on the rest of the in.

Now, the volleyball team and coach John Cook day and exit the pool area after Taryn Collura with is getting honored for their National Championthe 50-yard freestyle. Andrew sticks around for a bit to talk with one of his photographers who is in ship win against Texas a.k.a. “Enemy of the State.”

Then, Avery Harriman and other children batbetween the lap pool and the diving pool. tling pediatric cancer are on the big screen with 11:44 a.m.

ART BY MICHAEL JOHNSON | DN “My Hero” by Foo Fighters being blasted through the PBA speakers. To be honest, I get goosebumps every time I hear the song, thinking back to the #AveryStrong Day I covered last year.

2:40 p.m.

I’m pacing by the student section, say hi to a few classmates and as I stand in the second row next to the aisle to watch a few minutes as Nebraska tries to claw its way back into it against Michigan.

The guy next to me, Caleb Havekost, warns me.

“Mike Riley might come back for that spot,” he said.

Yep. Football coach Mike Riley, one of the most popular people in Nebraska, stood next to the senior accounting and management major for the first half of the basketball game.

Right before the start of the game, Riley was going sit next to AD Shawn Eichorst and Chancellor Harvey Perlman in the third row. As he walks up the stairs, Havekost stops him for a second.

“We have a spot for you,” Havekost told him.

So Riley says sure and sits next Havekost and his friends. Coincidentally, Riley was standing in

the same spot he was for the last #AveryStrong Day on Jan. 24 2015, 50 days after he was hired on as Nebraska’s head football coach.

Havekost and his friends had plenty of questions for him, too.

They talked about recruiting, the players and families who are in town and how much he loves the passion at Nebraska.

Havekost was still curious about a few more things.

“Do you get tired of the selfies and stuff?” he asked.

“I love it,” he said. “They never get old.”

Later, Riley had to split it off at halftime. He shook their hands and said it was really nice to sit with them.

Havekost promised him that his spot would be saved if he wanted to come back. So as the game winded down with Michigan defeating Nebraska 81-68, I grab Andrew and we head to the Dillon Tennis Center to see the men’s tennis team face

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Shepard powers Huskers to 5th straight win SETH OLSON DN Behind an all-around offensive outburst, the Nebraska women’s basketball team used three 25-plus point quarters to run away from Michigan (11-8, 3-5) for a 93-81 victory Sunday afternoon in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“This is a great win for us,” Nebraska coach Connie Yori said. “It’s awesome on the road. This is a 50-50 game probably with Rachel.”

Nebraska (14-5, 5-3) had arguably its best offensive game so far this season, doing so without senior point guard Rachel Theriot, who was out with a foot injury.

“We scored 93 points without our starting point guard,” Yori said with a laugh. “That’s pretty amazing we were able to do that. We had mismatches all over the place today. Our players were smart and took advantage of the fact Michigan didn’t have much of an inside game.”

But until shoot around, it was assumed Theriot was good to go. When Yori and the team knew Theriot wouldn’t be able to play, the Huskers weren’t sure what type of scoring they would get without their efficient offensive catalyst.

And despite having little game plan without their senior leader in the lineup, the Huskers got a surprise breakout performance from senior guard Kyndal Clark.

Channeling her inner Natalie Romeo, Clark scored all 15 of her points in the first half, all of which came from three point land. She was five for seven from deep in the first half, providing a spark while stepping in for Theriot.

“Kyndal hit those shots and took Michigan out of what they wanted to do,” Yori said. “Kyndal making shots makes us a heck of a lot better. And that was so fun she hit those and necessary.”

Freshman forward Jessica Shepard continued to dominate opposing defenses with yet another double-double, this time exploding for 35 points and 20 rebounds.

“She (Shepard) wanted the ball,” Yori said.

“Whether it was off of a post-up or an offensive rebound, she wanted it.”

Shepard’s 35 points tied her career-high while her 20 rebounds were the second most by a freshman in school history. 11 of her 20 rebounds came off the offensive glass, giving Nebraska an ample amount of second chance opportunities.

Shepard wasn’t even aware of the kind of numbers she was putting up once again. Sunday’s game marked the fifth straight game the freshman has scored 20 or more points.

“I had no clue,” Shepard said. “As a team, when Rachel is out, we all know that we need to step a little. And my teammates did a great job of finding me when I was open.”

Since tearing her ACL during her senior year of high school, it has taken Shepard awhile to get the ball rolling again, but she finally feels she is almost back to normal.

“I think I’m getting back to where I was,” Shepard said. “I’m definitely getting use to the dayin, day-out grind every day.”

What was even more impressive was how Shepard raked in off the chart numbers. The Fremont, Nebraska native scored 23 points and col-

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3-point game a focal point in Huskers’ loss In Nebraska’s 81-68 loss to Michigan, the Wolverines made 52.4 percent of their three-point shot attempts.

BRETT NIERENGARTEN DN Glynn Watson took two dribbles to the right, pulled up and nailed a 3-pointer to beat the first-half buzzer against Michigan Saturday.

The crowd cheered, but that was one of the few times the crowd of 15,745 at Pinnacle Bank Arena was happy about a 3-point attempt by either team.

Watson’s trey was just Nebraska’s second out of 12 first-half attempts, while at the other end of the floor, Michigan had connected on six of its 11 first-half 3-point attempts.

Michigan dominated Nebraska on shooting from the tip-off. In the first four minutes

of the game, Michigan knocked down four 3’s from three different players to build an 18-6 lead.

“A few of those mistakes were mine,” Nebraska wing Andrew White said. “And when you have a team like that that’s a rhythm offensive team, you can’t let them get rolling.”

Michigan built a lead that would prove insurmountable, causing the Huskers to engage in a shootout with the Wolverines.

Such a contest isn’t something you want to play against: a team that shoots 49.1 percent from the floor and 41.8 percent from a 3-point land; not to mention that it has the conference’s best 3-point shooter, Duncan Robinson.

Robinson, Derrick Walton and the rest of the Wolverines torched the Huskers from beyond the arc — and all over the floor really.

Robinson scored 21 points and three triples while Walton added 19 points and four treys.

As a team, Michigan hit 11 shots from downtown on 21 attempts.

The Huskers? They shot 27 percent from

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Guard Tai Webster and the Nebraska defense clamp down on Michigan’s Derrick Walton driving to the basket.

Husker wrestling loses third straight, falls to No. 2 Iowa NICK GEBHART DN The Nebraska wrestling team lost its third match in a row, falling 21-11 to No. 2 Iowa Sunday afternoon at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

The Huskers were behind throughout, but got a boost from junior TJ Dudley, as he pinned seventh-ranked Sammy Brooks just 1:40 into the 184-pound match.

“It was just a basic snap down. A snap down and run to the leg,” Dudley said. “Once I get my hands locked in in that kind of situation, the match isn’t going to last much longer.”

The pin gave the Huskers six points, and put them within reach of the lead, trailing 15-11. But Nebraska wasn’t able to muster another point against one of the best teams in the country.

Junior Aaron Studebaker faced off against No. 3 Nathan Burak for a chance to cut further into the Iowa lead, but he narrowly lost 4-2. The victory gave Iowa an 18-11 lead and sealed the victory for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa’s heavyweight No. 7 Sam Stoll defeated junior Collin Jensen in the final match of the day.

Besides Dudley, only two other Huskers won.

Senior Anthony Abidin won the 141-pound match 7-6, and Austin Wilson won the 165-pound match 2-0.

Senior Jake Sueflohn and redshirt freshman Tyler Berger each lost matches by one point against opponents ranked higher than them.

Juniors Tim Lambert, Eric Montoya and Micah

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Junior TJ Dudley lifts up his arms in celebration after upsetting Iowa’s seventh-ranked Sammy Brooks.

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Women’s gymnastics defeat Rutgers in home opener SYDNY BOYD DN The lights were down, the music was loud and the fog machines were misting.

The Bob Devaney Sports Center was filled with 3,032 fans cheering for the Nebraska men’s and women’s gymnastics teams Saturday. Among those fans were hundreds of kids in awe of the gymnasts about to enter.

In the double dual, the women’s gymnastics team defeated Rutgers 195.25-193.075 in its first home meet of the season, but the Huskers weren’t competing for themselves. They were competing for each other, their coaches and the fans cheering “Go Big Red” throughout the crowd.

There was a sign above the mats that said “Team Above Self.”

“Team Above Self” means exactly what it says, but even more than that, it means representing the team and being great leaders for the program, the university and the State of Nebraska, senior Hollie Blanske said.

“We focus a lot on the team and team character because without each other, we’re not a team.”

Sophomore Grace Williams said.

The strong focus on the team is what carried the Huskers through the ups and downs of the meet.

During the first rotation on vault, the Huskers scored their highest vault score of the season so far, 49.200. Freshman Megan Schweihofer led the way with a 9.90, the highest vault score by a Husker this year, followed closely by Williams and Blanske, who both scored a 9.85.

“We stayed close, we stayed focused and the

PHOTO BY CALLA KESSLER | DN The Nebraska women’s gymnastics team gathers in a circle during its home opener.

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SPORTS: FROM 9 UNO in its home debut at the new facility.

3:17 p.m.

We enter the Dillon Tennis Center, an indoor and outdoor facility located next to the Devaney Center, which is so much closer than the old facility that was located near 70th and Cornhusker Highway that was about a 20-minute drive from campus.

I walk up the stairs to the second level where the 1,400 seats are and see that doubles matches are just wrapping up. Brothers Dusty and Toby Boyer are about to get another win for Nebraska on the day.

After a short break, singles begins.

I walk to an open area of seating behind court 4 where Andrew Dzulynsky is going against UNO’s Marko Minic. I put my jacket and bag in the seat next to me and just admire the place.

With thuds and squeaks in the background, I look up at the lights. The facility has the lights facing up and reflecting down on the court rather than hanging them above to face the court. That was one of the more interesting features of the place. I also look right to the east end wall where they have murals of every men and women tennis player at Nebraska. I thought for a second they were former tennis players who were successful as Huskers. No. The current players for the tennis teams were getting legendary treatment at a place that was long overdue.

4:33 p.m.

Andrew Dzulynsky has already defeated Marko Minic, 6-4. Only one singles match remains and that’s over on court 5 on the all the way right side where Nebraska’s Bradford Zitsch is facing UNO’s Erik Anderson.

All the fans pack over in the corner to cheer on Zitsch, who is looking to give Nebraska a complete

Center. sweep against UNO. I drop my backpack off in the press area and The players who are already done are with the explore the place. There’s so much energy and supfans too. Andrew Dzulynsky is having his postport at gymnastics meet. After each routine, the game Goodcents sandwich.

Zitsch is in a tough spot, though. He’s down 6-3 teammates hug each other, high-five each other; whatever they want. It’s encouraged. You don’t and it’s not looking good. His teammates are being see basketball players taking a long celebration plenty vocal with him in between serves. after Andrew White III makes a three-pointer. It’s “Let’s go Ford. Hit it.” overlooked how much dynamic and excitement is “Here you, Ford.” an integral part of gymnastics as opposed to other “On it, Ford.” sports. Both men’s and women’s teams competing On the next serve, Zitsch gets a close judgment under one roof. What more call to tighten the deficit to could you ask for?

6-4. Then 6-5. Then he tied The kind of thread 7:53 p.m. it a six following a subtle I see is that people The women’s gymbackhander was too much nastics team has already ground for UNO’s Anderson are excited to be around defeated Rutgers 195.825to cover. They switch sides.

193.075 and the men’s Zitsch serves, but he hits Husker athletics.” team only has a few more the net. 7-6 Anderson. UNO SHAWN EICHORST exercises left. coaches and players are all Athletic Director I spot Athletic Direcyelling “one by one” to Antor Shawn Eichorst once derson. The Maverick makes again. This time, I’m close it 8-6, then 9-6. Ultimately, though, Anderson defeats Zitsch 10-7, erasing the enough to where I can ask him for a short interview.

It looks like he’s about to leave so I grab him for a possibility of a sweep. The Huskers still won 6-1. quick second.

Andrew Dzulynsky thanks the fans for coming, “Hey, Shawn,” I said. walks down the stairs to prepare for the team’s later I introduce myself. Walk with him as he uses matchup against North Dakota at 7 p.m. the Devaney Center storage room as a quick route With an hour and 11 minutes until the gymnasto the parking lot so he can get to the tennis center tics double duel at 6 p.m., Andrew and I head to for the men’s final match of the night.

Raising Canes for a chicken strip-filled break.

I had to ask: just how many events have you 5:56 p.m. been to today, Shawn?

Another event where Andrew and I make it in “I’ve been to the them all,” he said with a the knick of time. chuckle.

We catch another set of player introductions.

So for a few more minutes, we talked about goThis time it’s “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC being ing to all seven Husker events. The student journalplayed.

3,032 fans are in attendance at the Devaney ist getting paid $15 for the story is talking to the guy

who makes more than $1 million a year.

He talked about how terrific it was to be in the student section once again for #AveryStrong Day. I also brought up that he had coach Tim Miles, coach John Cook and coach Mike Riley all at the basketball game earlier in the day.

“It’s a really unique culture we have here,” he said. “It’s very positive, very optimistic, very caring. It’s a humble group. They care about everyone and everything. When you have a dynamic group of people like that, all pulling in the same direction, good things happen.”

Eichorst talked with a lot of fans in his Huskerfilled day and he reflected on that.

“The kind of thread I see is that people are excited to be around Husker athletics,” he said. “It’s a connection point, a spirit point, pride point.”

He then exited the storage room to the parking lot and I went to go grab Andrew and my things in an attempt to get to the tennis match.

8:37 p.m.

We’re too late for the match. Cars are leaving the tennis center, but we go in anyways. In all fairness, we were cut off by a silver Lexus with a license plate that says “VIVA RED.” I walk up the stairs and the players are meeting on the court, discussing their 7-0 sweep against North Dakota. The only person up in the lobby is a fan with her small cockapoo dog named Teddy, who was wearing a white Nebraska Tennis shirt.

This is the first part of the day where there’s near absolute silence.

Then, the team finishes up their talk, yells “Go Huskers” and disburse, ending the day that was compiled of six Nebraska home wins and one loss.

Ultimately, a successful day for Eichorst and the rest of Nebraska.

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GYMNASTICS: FROM 12 energy stayed high,” Nebraska coach Dan Kendig said. “Grace stuck the first landing and that started us off strong.”

The Huskers moved to uneven bars for their second rotation, scoring a 48.775. Williams earned a 9.875, followed by Blanske with a 9.85.

“While I’m getting ready to go, I’m thinking about my teammates.” Williams said. “Before we compete, we just focus on each other. That’s what matters: encouraging each other.”

After the first two rotations, Nebraska led 97.975-96.900.

The third rotation was on the balance beam, where Williams led the team with a 9.90, Blanske scored a 9.85 and sophomore Danielle Breen scored a 9.825. Junior Jennie Laeng struggled with finding her balance and slipped off the beam, scoring an 8.40.

“Jennie just had one of those days,” Kendig said. “She’s going to be fine.”

Laeng was emotional after her performance, but Blanske said it’s just a part of the process.

“It’s absolutely understandable because it’s frustrating,” she said. “But, I talked to Jennie briefly and just said that I had the same situation during the first meet and that she has to remember to use it as fuel and motivation. She’s awesome and a great competitor.”

In the final rotation, Blanske earned the floor exercise title for a second straight week, tying her career high with a 9.95.

“The moment when you absolutely nail a routine and you know that you did the best that you could, it’s just incredible,” Blanske said. “It’s overwhelming a little bit because in my heart I know that I can do it, but to actually do it in front of a crowd and to do it for my teammates, and my coaches, and my family and all of the fans, it makes it that much more meaningful.”

Breen and freshman Sienna Crouse both hit 9.825, while Williams and Schweihofer both scored 9.65 for Nebraska, placing Nebraska on top of the rotation and the meet.

Nebraska returns to the Devaney Center Friday, Jan. 29, when it will take on No. 3 Michigan at 6 p.m. The team is looking forward to working on its season-long goals and the upcoming competition, Kendig said.

“Success breeds success. You never stay the same. You continue to keep working and making improvements, and that’s what we’ll do.”

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The match was also significant for two former Huskers, world bronze medalist James Green and world gold medalist Jordan Burroughs, who both returned to Nebraska for the unveiling of banners in their honor.

The match also set a home attendance record for Nebraska wrestling, attracting 3,952 fans.

Despite losing three straight matches, Dudley remains optimistic about Nebraska’s season.

“We can win a national championship,” Dudley said. “No doubt about it.”

Dudley also said winning matches isn’t extremely important because Nebraska can still win the Big Ten, even with a losing record.

“It’s about wrestling hard, and getting better and staying consistent,” Dudley said.

The next time the Huskers hit the mat will be against Illinois Friday, Feb. 5 at the Devaney Center.

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Huskers take doubleheader

MEN’S BASKETBALL: FROM 11 the 3-point line.

Nebraska fell into the trap of playing Michigan’s game.

Coming into the game, Nebraska coach Tim Miles said he was worried about Michigan’s floor spacing and middle-ball screens.

The Wolverines were able to burn the Huskers using both offensive elements. Every time Nebraska punched, Robinson, Walton or another Wolverine would deliver a responding blow.

When Glynn Watson laid a ball in with 11:29 left in the game to cut the Michigan lead down to 8, Michigan’s Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman made three free throws after he was fouled shooting a 3-pointer.

After Tai Webster made a successful corner 3-pointer four minutes later, the Husker faithful rose to its feet. The next possession, Michigan’s Mark Donnal was left alone near the bucket for an easy deuce to bring the Wolverines’ lead back to eight.

Less than a minute after that, Shavon Shields drilled a 3-pointer from the wing to make it 64-59. Abdur-Rahkman answered with a fadeaway jumper to beat the shot clock and make it 66-59.

In in its first two matches at the new Dillon Tennis Center, Nebraska defeats both UNO and North Dakota.

CHRIS BRUMMETT DN The Nebraska men’s tennis team began 2016 with a 6-1 win against the University of Nebraska Omaha Saturday afternoon.

After a short break, Nebraska capped off the weekend double header by dismantling North Dakota 7-0.

Nebraska’s only point lost on the day came when senior Bradford Zitsch narrowly lost a singles match after UNO’s Erik Anderson forced a third and final set, winning the back-and-forth duel by a final score of 10-7.

Besides the loss, there were two other matches that were tightly contested.

The combination of brothers senior Dusty and freshman Toby Boyer was tested a little more than expected, but they edged UNO’s Colin Buckley and Ignace Warson 7-5.

In the other close match of the day, the Husker doubles team of Zitsch and senior Andrew Dzulynsky was forced to play an extra set before disposing the North Dakota duo of Dave Bergstrom and Travis Lau. Saturday was the first time the Huskers played in the new Dillon Tennis Center. The team seemed to have no complaints about the new arena.

“It was a good start to the season,” Coach Kerry McDermott said. “It was a good first match in this facility, and we just loved it.”

“I thought the guys played pretty well, played good doubles. Singles-wise, I thought Omaha was pretty competitive. Obviously, we won five of six singles matches, but they made us play, and I thought that competitiveness is a lot better for us at this time of the year just to get things going.”

Coach McDermott was also pleased with the effort against North Dakota.

“We didn’t know a whole lot about North Dakota,” McDermott said. “They seemed like a pretty disciplined team. It was good for us to get a win. I thought our team played well. We’re getting ready for next week. We have some big battles with Oregon and Denver, and these two matches were good preparation for next week.”

The next three matches for the Huskers will be at home at the Dillon Tennis Center. Then, Nebraska will go on the road to play Wichita State. Its next game is against Denver Friday at 7 p.m.

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This could all be a positive for Nebraska.

Besides a few missed defensive assignments, Nebraska got beat by a Michigan team that was just having one of those games. Even when they were by 18 in the second half, the Huskers battled back to within two.

“If you’ve been watching college basketball for the shorter shot clock, the leads aren’t safe,” Michigan coach John Beilein said. “It can go so quickly. Eighteen can get to 12 quickly, then you answer with two more threes, and it’s six.”

Outshooting good shooting teams isn’t part of Nebraska’s identity. It fell into the trap a little bit, but when a team outscores you by 15 from the 3-point arc and starts each half by scoring 18 and 21 points, respectively, on its first nine possessions, what can you do?

In the past, one wouldn’t dream a Nebraska team could have fought back into the game after being down 18 points against a team that couldn’t miss. This team did, and almost finished the job.

“We just fought. We knew we were better than what we were playing before, and I think everybody just wanted to do their part to get us back into the game,” White said.

So, although Miles won’t be happy about a loss, there’s plenty to take from almost winning this one.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: FROM 10 lected 15 rebounds in the second half alone, ensuring Nebraska would hold onto its 10 point first half lead.

“That’s a phenomenal game,” Yori said. “That’s a great game for anybody. She did that in a half.”

The Huskers jumped out of the gates for 28 points in the opening quarter before equaling Michigan’s 25 in the second quarter to take a 53-43

lead into halftime.

Nebraska built the early double-digit lead by shooting 60 percent from the field in the first half making 21 of 35 shots, including 6 of 12 from downtown. The Huskers finished the game at 50 percent shooting, making 34 of their 68 shots.

“We shared the ball,” Yori said. “We did a good job of being unselfish. We weren’t worried about

who was scoring. We were just trying to get a good shot.”

Junior center Allie Havers chipped in 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists while sophomore guard Natalie Romeo added another 12 points for the potent Huskers offense.

After dropping the opening three Big Ten games of the season, Nebraska has now won five

straight. And with, the next four all coming against the lower half of the Big Ten, the Huskers could continue to ascend the conference ranks.

Nebraska returns home to host Wisconsin at 7 p.m.

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