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Inside Coverage

Sasquatch sighting

Last-second push

Local cafe puts foot forward with food, service

Huskers finish regular season on high note

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Rebounds proved vital for the Nebraska women’s basketball team’s Big Ten conference win. They beat Iowa 72-65 and garnered the first conference tournament championship win in program history. photo by andrew barry

Huskers from every end of the spectrum sound off on what it’s like to be LGBTQ at UNL p h o t o s

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M a t t

M a s i n

C Balta

Taylar Morrissey

Jimmy Schleisman

Gender queer senior discovers solace in ‘bubble of support’

Bisexual junior hopes to break stereotypes in media portrayals

Gay student finds acceptance among fraternity brothers

Mara Klecker DN Long before he cried into his rainbow comforter at 16 and told his mom he was a lesbian, C Balta knew he was different.

He would never wear dresses, one time refusing so adamantly that his exhausted mother had to call in to work.

C was Catherine back then. That was before the short dark hair and swooped bangs, before the gauged ears, before the arm tattoos of the rainbow flag and the pink triangle – the queer community’s symbol in Nazi Germany, before the surgical removal of his breasts.

It was before the senior advertising and public relations major felt comfortable with his body and himself.

Balta, now a 28-yearold senior majoring in advertising and public relations, identifies as transgender and more specifically, gender queer. Two years ago, he started going by both male and female pronouns. Recently, he has asked people to start using

“he” and “him” more often than “her” and “hers.”

“At this point in our society and culture, it’s just easier for others if I’m one or the other,” Balta said.

Balta moved to Lincoln from Los Angeles when he was 9 years old, after his parents divorced. It was a typical new-kid-in-town story, he said. The school was full of pre-formed cliques of light-skinned, blond girls. Balta’s dark Armenian features and unique sense of style didn’t blend in.

“The looks I got,” Balta said, flipping his bangs over his eyes, “I was an alien from outer space to them.”

And there were the questions and the sneers.

“Why are you in the girls’ bathroom, you fag?”

It was in the halls of Lincoln High School where Balta finally felt comfortable being himself. Diversity was more of the norm in a school where 45 percent of the students are nonwhite. Balta got involved in the LGBTQ group there and surrounded himself

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Conor Dunn DN Bisexual people are greedy.

Bisexuals are promiscuous. Bisexuals are confused.

These are the stereotypes Taylar Morrissey faces because of her sexuality.

“It isn’t so much a problem on campus as it is a problem in society in general,” she said. “Someone will ask me if I’m into boys or girls, and I’ll say both, and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s hot.’”

A junior film and new media major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Morrissey identifies as bisexual or queer. She said her favorite definition for her sexuality is one she quotes from bisexual activist Robyn Ochs: “I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way and not necessarily to the same degree.”

Morrissey graduated from Central High School in Aberdeen, S.D. She grew up among a population of about 27,000, about one-tenth the

size of Lincoln.

She officially came out to herself the summer after she graduated in 2011, right before she began attending UNL. Within months of finding her label, she told her younger sisters. Then in January 2013, Morrissey called her parents.

“My parents are really chill about it,” she said.

“They were just like, ‘OK. You know we still love you, right?’”

Since then, Morrissey recently came out on Facebook because she and her first-ever girlfriend of about one month decided to make their relationship Facebook official. She received nothing but positive encouragement.

It’s not that Morrissey didn’t realize she was attracted to both genders before coming out, she just didn’t have the right language for her sexuality.

“There’s no cut-and-dry version of any identity,” she said. “But especially to someone who identifies as bisexual or queer. That word means different things to different people.”

Morrissey said there’s a

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Mara Klecker DN The home video shows Jimmy Schleisman sitting in the corner of the basement, drawing a unicorn in the hard lines of a 6-year-old’s hand.

“Jimmy, why don’t you draw an airplane?” his dad asks.

“I don’t like airplanes.

I like unicorns,” Jimmy responds.

Twelve years later, Schleisman – now a sophomore marketing major – takes a deep breath and stands up in the middle of a Phi Gamma Delta chapter meeting. In front of all his fraternity brothers, he says it.

“I like boys.”

The college guys go quiet. When the silence is broken, no one echoes the words Schleisman had heard all through middle school. Those words that he had Googled one day after school. Faggot. Queer.

It’s about time, one brother said. Everyone laughed. “We’ve got you, man. You do you. We love you no matter what.”

But Schleisman never got the chance to hear his

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father say those words.

Schleisman was 9 when his parents and three siblings piled into the car and drove to Kansas City for a spontaneous Worlds of Fun trip before Easter Sunday.

But the rain fell hard the next day and the rest of the weekend’s dreary forecast sent the family back home to Lincoln.

It was 10 in the morning when a woman lost control of her pickup truck and came flying across the grassy median. The truck hit the family’s minivan head on. Schleisman’s seat belt snapped and he woke up with the top half of his body on the hood, glass shards all around him.

Raindrops had collected in his hand in the few minutes he had been unconscious. He didn’t notice the 12-inch gash on his leg or the pain from his fractured ankle. The shock was too great; pain was an afterthought. He stood and stared at the mangled mess of the van as ambulances’ sirens grew louder and the cars of good samaritans began to line the shoulder of

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Marissa Sichta

Tony Moran

Lesbian student faces challenges of fitting in with LGBTQ community

UNL’s opportunities allow gay student to accept identity despite rural roots

Conor Dunn DN Marissa Sichta often doesn’t think she’s gay enough to fit in with Lincoln’s LGBTQ community.

For Sichta, a senior English major at the University of NebraskaLincoln, places such as the LGBTQA Resource Center as well as Karma Nightclub and Cabaret, a local gay dance club, seem tightknit and exclusive. She said this is because she believes Lincoln and Omaha’s LGBTQ communities are small enough that everyone knows each other.

It’s not that Sichta thinks she’s been mistreated by members of the LGBTQ community, but rather what she feels is her own social awkwardness preventing her from having the confidence to walk up to other gay and lesbian people and introduce herself.

“I obviously don’t go (into Karma) looking like your typical lesbian,” she said. “I feel like I would be judged.”

Sichta said lesbians such as herself face a stereotype of having hairy armpits, a bad haircut and wearing what Sichta calls “butchy” flannel. And although Sichta admits wearing her fair share of flannel, she said she and many other lesbians don’t fit the stereotype.

“I’ve gotten the ‘Oh, you’re gay?’ a couple times,” she said.

“I’m definitely not a girly girl by any means. But I do like to dress nice sometimes.”

Although Sichta said she doesn’t deal with lesbian stereo-

types on a daily basis, she does occasionally get strange questions.

One time, a friend of hers asked if she could borrow a tampon from Sichta. Before Sichta could respond, her friend assumed she preferred using pads to tampons, simply because she believed lesbians hated “anything that penetrates.”

Sichta graduated from Gretna High school in 2010. During the last few months of her senior year, she came out to her closest friends.

Since she started attending UNL, Sichta has come out to her sisters as well as her parents and said she has received nothing but love and support.

But even though Sichta has no problem telling someone she is a lesbian, she is much more interested in people knowing who she is as a person. She said she doesn’t openly discuss her sexuality unless she is trying to make a point.

“I’m not just like, ‘Hi, I’m Marissa. I’m gay,’” she said.

Sichta has been in a relationship with another female UNL student for about two and a half years.

She said that when her girlfriend and her hold hands in public, they do get the occasional stares.

“We’re the same as any straight couple,” she said. “I know some people would be like, ‘Eww, why?’ but it doesn’t really bother me.

Usually if I see a mean look, I think, ‘All right, sucks for you.’”

But despite the weird looks, Sichta believes UNL to be a much more accepting and liberal environment than her hometown. She thinks it’s because college students

have bigger things to worry about than another person’s sexuality.

“You know a lot of people here, people don’t care as much,” she said. “People have bigger things to worry about here: graduation, exams, finals, work. I feel like (being gay is) just not as big of a deal here.”

When Sichta graduates from UNL, she hopes to get involved with a nonprofit organization where she is doing hands-on work and has the ability to travel. Wherever Sichta ends up, she knows there are going to be people who are accepting of her sexuality and people who don’t like it. And although she isn’t going to base her decision of where to live based on its LGBTQ community, Sichta hopes that wherever she moves, she will have the same rights as everyone else.

“It’d be nice to be treated like a straight human being,” she said.

“I still don’t see why in 2014 we’re still having this problem that gay people, or bi people, are secondclass citizens.”

Sichta doesn’t think she will go banging on any doors and speaking out for equality any time soon, but she doesn’t want to blend in to the heterosexual community either.

In a perfect world, Sichta says she wants to offer her support from the sidelines.

“I’d like to get more involved, but I‘m also OK with not being involved,” she said. “I’m content with where I am.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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supported gay marriage. Moran was one of the three students who said yes. Twenty-five said no.

“I don’t know that people Tony Moran knows he stands out. thought about it too hard,” Moran Moran, a senior philosophy said. “I think they were just parmajor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is a gay, black, rural roting what their parents were saying.”

Nebraskan.

During those years, Moran “It’s strange to think about kept his closet well fortified. Many how many ways in which you can be different from people,” he said. of his classmates thought he was asexual because he never men“At this point, I’ve accepted it and owned it and turned it into my tioned anyone he was interested in or talked about identity.” sex in general. He His experience It’s strange said his bookish is similar to many nature and apparrural, gay people, to think ent asexuality went where being closhand-in-hand beeted seems like about how many the only option. ways in which you cause, in his classmate’s view, “The He’s from Johnsmarter you are the son, Neb., a small, can be different less sexual you are, mostly white com- from people. At apparently.” munity in the After graduatsoutheastern por- this point, I’ve ing, he decided to tion of the state. In accepted it and come out of the 2012, 327 people closet to one of owned it and lived there. his close friends.

Whenever he turned it into my A few texts were drove into town exchanged, and from his home in identity.” the secret was out. the country, he That summer, he tony moran became the only senior philosophy major mulled over telling black person in more people but Johnson’s seven decided to wait. streets.

On campus, he was aware of “It was a good place in certain LGBT groups such as the Queer respects, not so great for others,” Ally Coalition — now Spectrum Moran said, because Nebraskan — but he wasn’t in a rush to join. conservatism is magnified in small “I went out of my way to avoid communities. them,” Moran said.

During a high school social In retrospect, he said he restudies class, he remembered his gretted this decision. A few weeks teacher asking the class if they

into his first semester, he chanced telling a distant family member on Facebook. It went through the familial grapevine, but everyone seemed to think it was some kind of joke. Tired of having the same conversation on Facebook chats, he just made a status about being gay.

“My mom was really angry that I didn’t tell her in person,” Moran said.

In his hometown, Moran’s coming out story became the talk of the town. One of his classmates asked him how he could be gay if he was black, “as if the two things couldn’t happen at once,” Moran said.

Once out, he embraced his “gayness,” but he was still a little hesitant about meeting other LGBT people. He decided to leave it up to a coin flip one November night freshman year. Heads,he’d go to a QAC meeting. Tails, he’d stay in Sandoz.

It was heads.

Moran said the first meeting was awkward, but after spending more time there he became fast friends with the group.

The racial, ethnic and sexual diversity on campus has given the chance for Moran to settle into his own skin. That opportunity, Moran said, allowed him to become who he is today.

“I gained the confidence to be open to myself,” Moran said. “I had been paranoid the entire time I was in the closet.”

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schleisman: from 1 the road.

By the time Schleisman passed out from blood loss, he knew his parents were dead. No one had to tell him. He just knew.

His dad had died instantly. A broken neck. His mother and sister died a few hours later in a hospital room. Severe brain trauma.

Schleisman, his brother and his sister went to live with his grandparents. When he finally returned to school, nearly two months after the funeral, the kids quickly found his weakness. He was shy. Withdrawn. A bit feminine. A target.

Last week – for the one-year anniversary of his coming out – Schleisman set up his own home video. In a sleeveless shirt that revealed his thick biceps, Schleis-

man sat cross-legged on the top bunk in his room. More than 950 viewers have watched the YouTube video and heard his message of strength and purpose.

“When you are told every day that you are worthless and don’t deserve to live because you are different, you start to believe that,” he said into the camera.

There were passing thoughts of suicide in his middle school years, he tells those on the other side of the screen. Schleisman is talking to the kids who want to start their own coming out story.

He tells of the “100 percent support” he’s gotten since he finally looked at his reflection last February in the mirror and told himself he was gay. He had just woken up in a cold sweat.

I don’t want to just sit at home and do nothing while the people I identify with are out in the streets, fighting for the right to say a wedding vow.” jimmy schleisman sophomore marketing major

“In the dream, I was running, escaping something,” he said, the deep resonance of his voice suddenly dropping off. “I finally just stopped and said, ‘Face this monster. Face whatever the fuck is chasing you.’ And that’s when I woke up and was honest with myself.”

After forcing himself to try relationships with girls during his

morrissey: from 1 lot of biphobia - fear of bisexuality - in society, even in the LGBTQ community. One common misconception Morrissey said people have of bisexuals is that if a woman has a girlfriend, that means she’s a lesbian. She said she’s even heard gay people say that a person can only be attracted to one gender. They say “make up your mind” or “get off the fence.”

“That’s like saying you can like cake or pie, but you can’t like both,” she said. “I don’t understand why people within the LGBTQA community are so determined to be close-minded. I think it’s unnecessarily dividing our community when we should all be working together to advance rights and get our voices heard.”

Morrissey believes the only

four years at the all-boys Creighton Preparatory School, every time he said it, a weight was lifted.

“I’m gay.” First to his roommate.

Then his fraternity brothers, his family, and lastly, his right-wing, conservative grandfather.

“They all knew,” Schleisman said. “They had always known.

It was just a matter of accepting myself.”

In the year he’s been out, Schleisman hasn’t received any negative comments on campus or from anyone in his circle of friends and family. That’s an encouragement, he said, and a testament to a future of acceptance.

“I want to be a part of the change,” he said. “I don’t want to just sit at home and do nothing while the people I identify with

are out in the streets, fighting for the right to say a wedding vow.”

If his dad were here, Schleisman said he has proof that he would be on the long list of his supporters. That proof is the last seconds of the home video, after the boy in the corner professes his love for unicorns.

“He’s probably going to be gay,” his dad says to his brotherin-law.

“Probably is,” the uncle agrees.

The camera jostles and shows a dad’s large hands on his son’s head. He ruffles the 6-year-old’s hair.

“Yeah, but he will be the cool kind of gay.”

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balta: from 1 way to cure misconstrued perceptions of sexuality is by speaking out and being a voice for the voiceless, which is why she wants to change the media. The media doesn’t portray an accurate representation of the LGBTQ community, Morrissey said.

“Very rarely will you see a film about queer people that will end with them as a happy couple,” she said. “They’ll either break up, both will die, one will commit suicide or be murdered. If it’s two girls, one of them will leave the other for a guy.”

Because Morrissey’s passion is making art and stories, she plans to create films that she hopes will change the perceptions about the LGBTQ community that she said the media has ingrained into the social consciousness. She believes

that significant change can come by exposing people to stories that don’t simply portray the stereotypical gay man, or the lesbian couple where one partner leaves to be with a man instead.

“We’re so much more than that as a community,” she said. “There are stories out there that are so much more interesting than those overplayed story arcs.”

If there is one thing Morrissey wants people to understand, it’s that people get to define their own sexuality.

“You should not force your own opinions onto their identity,” Morrissey said. “It’s their identity, it’s their choice, and they get to define what that is.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

with accepting people.

“I built this bubble of support, this circle of like-minded people,” he said. “And that was my savior.”

After his 2003 high school graduation, Balta went to UNL for two years. It was another adjustment walking around campus, wondering what the students around him were thinking, wondering if they watched to see what bathroom he walked into.

After two years of gender studies courses and working with the on-campus women’s center, Balta left school. For six years, he focused on his band, Once a Pawn, and performed as C Styles at drag shows in Lincoln and Omaha on the weekends.

Then in 2011, Balta came back

to school to study marketing. In his absence, a growing understanding of LGBTQ individuals had spread through the collegeaged generation. People still wonder, but Balta is open to any questions and any opportunity to educate.

“We are kind people in Nebraska,” he said. “Most people have gotten to the point where they are like, ‘This is the state of the Good Life. Let’s not worry about who you go to bed with.’”

UNL isn’t necessarily the most progressive place, Balta said. But for a red state of farmers in the middle of the country, Balta said he’s proud that messages of equality and acceptance cut through any stereotypes.

“It doesn’t always take a

picketing sign to make a difference,” he said. “Just being yourself and not hiding who you are is activism. It’s about staying true to yourself.”

Balta knows people have questions for him. There are still many who appraise the bright colored clothes, the mismatched shoes, the low voice that rises in pitch right before a chuckle and don’t know what to think. He? She? Which bathroom?

But none of that matters, Balta said. “We are all in the process of figuring out how we can be happy,” he said. “In that way, I’m no different than anybody. Why else are we here other than to be happy?”

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Transgender student wants to give young people more role models Jacy marmaduke dn Marc Woodman didn’t always know.

There’s a common misconception about transgender people: that they’re born knowing their appearance doesn’t match their identity.

But Woodman, a junior English and political science major from Nebraska City, didn’t realize he was transgender until he was 17 and read a newspaper article about a transgender man.

“It took longer because I didn’t know that trans men could exist,” he said. “Society places an unfair expectation on trans people to know from a very early age when there’s no representation. How do you know that you’re something when you don’t even know that it exists? Or when everything that does exist is so negatively portrayed?”

Initially, Woodman kept quiet about his realization.

“I was plotting that I would

graduate, get a law degree and make a lot of money,” he said with a laugh. “Then later I’d come out and transition and all that.”

But then his mother asked him a question: Why don’t you ever wear dresses?

“I said, ‘Well, there’s a good reason, Mom.’” His friends and family have been accepting. And since coming to the University of NebraskaLincoln, Woodman said he hasn’t encountered any discrimination, although he’s had his share of moments when he felt uncertain about outing himself.

“The typical Nebraskan attitude seems to be that people just mind their own business,” he said. “And that’s largely been my experience, here and in Nebraska City.”

But he counts himself lucky for being close to Lincoln, one of Nebraska’s two hubs of resources for trans people. At the Lincoln Planned Parenthood, Woodman was able to undergo hormone replacement therapy. Today, he’ll

occasionally run into old friends or acquaintances from high school — people who knew him by his birth name, before he transitioned.

They call him Marc now.

Woodman’s next steps are uncertain. He may go to graduate school, or he may look for a job in publishing after graduation.

Ultimately, he wants to work in publishing to help create more positive role models – both off the page and on – for young transgender people.

And he wants to counteract the stereotypical narrative of transgender-dom: the idea that trans people must undergo gender reassignment surgery, that they all must identify as one gender, that they all emerged from the womb with a full understanding of their identity.

“That stereotypical narrative, it presents a lot of misconceptions about trans people,” Woodman said. “And it makes it harder to transition.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Elle Barts went to her last job interview wearing a men’s suit and tie.

The University of NebraskaLincoln alumna has applied for 30 jobs since she graduated with a degree in communication studies in August. She’s filled out applications for server positions, working behind a makeup counter and working as a forensics coach at a high school.

Her resume – a solid GPA, four years of speech and debate, Big Ten forensics champion – gets her the interviews. But she said her identity as a transgender woman has prevented her from getting a job.

“I thought that my skill set would speak for itself,” she said.

“But I have to play the game in order to get a job. I have to represent as male, and it’s frustrating because I don’t feel like my authentic self.”

When Barts graduated, she thought she was set. She’d been hired as assistant forensics director at a private Catholic school in Omaha. But a week before she was to start, Barts got a call from the school. Administrators had Googled her name and found out she was transgender, thus breaking the Catholic Doctrine.

Such discrimination is legal in Nebraska for both public and private employers. The state’s anti-discrimination laws for hiring practices don’t apply to sexuality. gender. “Are you OK with that?”

Since then, Barts has secured multiple job interviews, three of she asked.

They said, “We’ve never had which were at one of those bemakeup counI’ve never been fore.” ters in Lincoln Barts didn’t department happier since I get the job. stores. Despite She’s heard her years of started transitioning, all kinds of excusexperience ap- but at the same es: “We decided plying makeup to go in a difto herself and time I can only be so ferent direction. others as a drag happy without a way We’re looking for performer at someone with a Karma Night- to support myself.” different skill set. club and CabaWe can’t tell you.” elle barts ret, she was “I’m just at unl alumna turned down a loss of what to from all the jobs. do,” she said. “I She says it’s because she made a mistake. She spent all this money and all this told the managers she was trans- time getting a college degree, and for it just to be worthless. … I’ve

courtesy photo never been happier since I started transitioning, but at the same time I can only be so happy without a way to support myself.”

Barts’ time at UNL was “amazing.” She said she never faced discrimination. But she’s beginning to fear that academia, an environment where all viewpoints are valued and pursuit of knowledge is required at the door, was simply a safe haven from the real world.

“It’s like your parents just dropped you off on the corner, and you don’t know where to go,” she said. “You think that your accolades and your triumphs in college are going to get you somewhere, but at the end of the day they’re not.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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ON CAMPUS what: “Ask a Black Dude” booth when: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: Nebraska Union

what: Study Skills to Improve Your Long-Term Memory when: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. where: Love Library South

what: HIV Testing Site when: Noon to 4 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Room 331

what: Free Community Tax Prep when: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. where: Nebraska Union

DailyER to host satirical ASUN debate if you go

#Party will face off with lone executive candidates in event with questions both serious, silly

what: Mass Debate 2014: Ignite vs. #Party when: Monday, 9 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Crib more information: Live-tweet using #massdebate

staff report dn It’s time for the annual DailyER Nebraskan Mass Debate, but this year, things will be a little different.

Because only one party is running for the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, the satirical newspaper has produced its own satirical party to debate Ignite for ASUN on Monday at 9 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Crib. #Party – made up of DailyER staffers Matt Sueper, a senior advertising and public relations major, Colin Loberg, a sophomore economics major, and Tyler Keown, a junior journalism major and Arts & Life editor at the Daily Nebraskan – will face off with Ignite in a series of questioning.

Segments will include traditional question and answer, lightning round, extreme lightning round, super-mega-uber lightning round: international edition-director’s cut, questions from the audience and activities.

Questions will range from seri-

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Three DailyER staffers are posing as members of an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska party with a main platform of reversing the Nebraska Union renovations. ous queries on Ignite’s platforms to light-hearted ones like, “Hey, do you need lotion?” #Party’s three made-up candidates, John Edwards, Rich Kennedy and Gerald, are “running” on a series of satirical platforms

that include changing the Nebraska Union back to the way it was before renovations; redesigning the NCard to make it circular, 5G-capable and including a builtin bottle opener; expanding the campus police’s drone program

(which doesn’t exist); excusing MIPs if they happened after a night of “butt chugging”; awarding a $5,000 scholarship to the student with “the sweetest thigh gap” and giving all Greek students a six-week vacation in Cancun.

The platforms are silly, but DailyER editor-in-chief Alex Wunrow, a senior advertising and public relations major, said the purpose of the debate isn’t just fun and games.

“Because there’s only one party, we know that we need to put on an event for exposure,” he said.

“We felt it was more important to do it this year than last year. This is realistically going to be the only chance they get before the election to interact with a large portion of the student body.”

And the silliness of it all provides another key opportunity, Wunrow said.

“We’re trying to make them feel uncomfortable,” Wunrow said.

“Because when you’re uncomfortable, you often reveal things you might not normally reveal.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Club celebrates Czech culture with week of events Madison wurtele DN Monday marks the beginning of the annual Czech Week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Czech Week is a program that shares information about the Czech culture with UNL and the Lincoln community. The Czech Komensky Club is hosting a series of events this week, and each event is free to attend except for the final concert.

The club is dedicated to the continual study of the Czech culture and language and to preserving the Czech heritage and culture in Nebraska.

“The Czech Komensky Club has been busy building a culture bridge between the United States and mainly Nebraska with the Czech lands,” said Mila Saskova-Pierce, the faculty adviser for the club.

This year, the Czech Komensky Club is planning even larger-scale events than have been held in past years because it is celebrating 110 years of being a club at UNL. UNL’s club is one of only two remaining clubs in the world. The only other one is at the University of Vienna

at Austria, according to SaskovaPierce.

Three events will be held throughout the week. The first event is on Monday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the East Campus Union’s Great Plains Room. This event, called “Dance with Radim,” gives students the opportunity to learn traditional Czech and classical dances from Radim Brach. Brach is a freshman global studies major who is a UNL Robitschek Scholar and European dance competitor. He has previously performed and taught with the winner of the first season of the Czech Dancing with the Stars, which he also took part in.

“He’s a star in the Czech Republic,” Saskova-Pierce said.

The second event is a lecture called “Unmixing Marriage: CzechGerman and Jewish-Gentile Intermarried Families in Bohemia and Moravia, 1938-1945.” The lecture will be given by Benjamin Frommer, the award-winning director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University. This event will be held on Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum on 1155 Q Street. A re-

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Dance with Radim when: Monday, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: East Campus Union Great Plains Room

ception will be held directly after.

The final event is a concert on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The concert will feature compositions from two of the top Czech composers Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana performed by Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra. Pictures of the Czech countryside will also be displayed to go along with the compositions.

To buy tickets to this event, students can visit www.lincolnsymphony.org

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“Unmixing Marriage: Czech, German and Jewish-Gentile Intermarried Families in Bohemia and Moravia, 1938-1945 when: Monday, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q Street or call 402-476-2211.

According to Saskova-Pierce, this concert is important to the Czech Komensky Club because Smetana’s “The Moldau,” was the melody used to replace the Czech national anthem when the Nazis banned the national anthem during their occupation of Czechoslovakia.

There will be a pre-concert reception from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. to be held in the mezzanine at the Lied Center. This reception will feature

what: Czech Landscapes when: Friday, 7:30 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts how much: Adults: $15/$30 Youth 17 and under: $5

Czech pastries called kolaches and a talk about Dvorak and Smetana.

“I think it is important that UNL students come to our events this week to learn about a culture prominent in the shaping of our state’s history and is likely a majority of native Nebraskans’ ancestral background,” said Sasha Denton, vicepresident of the Czech Komensky Club. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Members of LGBTQA community need to receive equal treatment in Lincoln, UNL UNL’s LGBTQA Resource Center is noninclusive, caters more to needs of allies than to people in community

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’m proud to be a member of the LGBTQA community at the University of NebraskaLincoln. We come from a diverse set of backgrounds with diverse needs and experiences.

UNL welcomes us with open arms, but our situation is not ideal.

Even though many protections exist for LGBTQA students at UNL, we are still marginalized. We live and go to school in a state that doesn’t offer us protections against discrimination based on our gender expression or sexual orientation. Because of this, we need a resource center that fights for all of us. Instead, we have a center that seems to cater more to the needs of allies than to the whole of the LGBTQA community.

Inclusion is powerful. It’s not tokenism or simple grouping. It’s the act of rejecting marginalization by allying your struggles with others. It’s the recognition of our interconnected and diverse experiences that are never about just a single issue.

The LGBTQA community is extremely diverse.

Every added letter is not a conspiracy to conquer the alphabet but a move toward further inclusion.

It’s recognition of how the identities can intersect and combine. There are transgender lesbians, queer asexuals, bisexual transgender men and even more combinations than there is space to list here. There are also people who reject simple classification. All of these identities are valid and deserve support. But in my experience, they aren’t all equally supported by the LGBTQA Resource Center.

Who is well supported? Allies. If you go to the LGBTQA Resource Center website, allies are given their own tab and section. This section does have a link to terminology but fails on many levels.

It equates allyship primarily with supporting sexual orientation and doesn’t give equal visibility to transgender and asexual individuals. Transgender and asexual individuals are both mentioned only once on the LGBTQ 101 page and only in passing.

All of the examples of persons coming out are gay persons coming out, not bisexuals, lesbians, transgender people, asexuals or any of the other identities that the resource center claims to be a resource to.

But that isn’t the most egregious offense on the page.

The LGBTQA 101 page also emphasizes he/she language over gender neutrality. As my colleague Ruth Boettner has noted, this language is extremely heteronormative. To briefly recap her thoughts here, to use he/she language is to erase the experiences of non-binary transgender persons. For a resource center dedicated in part to the support of non-binary persons, this is atrocious.

As for the actual resources available for transgender persons, they aren’t as easily apparent as those for allies. There’s a highly informative and useful guide for transgender persons, but it’s not located on the home page or under the resources tab. Rather, it’s located on the LGBTQA on Campus page only under a small tab. On that same page, allies are once again given more prominence than transgender persons and thus more visibility.

Visibility is so important for LGBTQA individuals and all marginalized groups. Visibility shows young marginalized individuals the possibilities that

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are open to them. Lupita Nyong’o first felt that she could be an actress when she saw “The Color Purple” and saw “people that look(ed) like me.” Though the struggles of race and sexuality are different, the power of visibility remains the same. LGBTQA visibility allows for young LGBTQA individuals to know they aren’t alone.

College is a time for many LGBTQA youth to explore and discover their identities for the first time.

This exploration is scary and can be hard to do alone.

By knowing there are others like you, you see that it can be done. You see that you can be the person you long to be and not only survive but thrive.

However, the LGBTQA Resource Center’s website, while having plenty of ally visibility, speaks to many LGBTQA identities in passing. They are only given a brief token mention, and their online resources seem to pale in comparison to those offered to allies.

One example is how he website appears to treat the asexual/aromantic population. Asexuals and aromatics are persons who do not experience sexual or romantic attraction. Just as gays or lesbians are marginalized because of their nonstandard sexual and romantic attractions, asexuals are marginalized for their lack of sexual and romantic attraction. They live in a world that values things that aren’t important to them and thus are often made to feel broken and wrong. Far from being wrong, asexuals — colloquially known as “aces” — are like the aces in a card deck: different but still valuable.

Often in the LGBTQA community, asexuals are overlooked or even erased. Even in the LGBTQA Resource Center’s acronym the A was first added with the inclusion of allies in mind.

As a resource for marginalized individuals, the LGBTQA Resource Center should serve them first and foremost. I do want to stress here that the LGBTQA Resource Center is a valuable resource to the LGBTQA community, even to the marginalized groups I have mentioned above. But the center’s most important duty is to serve the LGBTQA community, not its allies. Allies should serve the LGBTQA community — not the other way around.

Walker Edwards is a junior philosophy major. Reach them at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Instead, we have a center that is noninclusive and caters more to the needs of allies than the actual LGBTQA community.”

Lincoln city officials should extend health insurance benefits to same-sex couples, take steps to break recent legal stagnation

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eyond our campus, the fight for LGBTQA rights has been contentious in the broader Lincoln community. Since the controversy over the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance, many smaller battles have erupted over workplace protections and the extension of benefits. This year, Lincoln will have the opportunity to allow the same-sex partners of city employees to enroll on their partners’ health insurance plans. We need to support this extension of benefits to defy the stalemates and faulty rhetoric surrounding the rights debates of the past few years.

As things stand now, certain kinds of insurance provided by national agencies, such as life insurance, allow for same-sex partners to be beneficiaries.

This is largely because of insurance companies altering their plans to align with last year ’s Supreme Court ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act. But the language defining spouse or partner in many health insurance plans is ambiguous in that it does not state that partners must be opposite sex or legally married. In Lincoln, Blue Cross Blue Shield used to require that same-sex couples be both legally married and residing in a state that recognized their union. The repeal of DOMA changed the legal definition of spouse to anyone married under any state’s law, which caused Blue Cross Blue Shield to follow suit and change the wording in its policies. In states where these marriages aren’t recognized, it falls upon the individual employers, be they a government entity or a private business, to decide if they will extend coverage to same-sex marriages. In other words, any decisions about the city of Lincoln’s employees would not extend to private businesses in Lincoln or to other city governments.

Officials in Lancaster County faced the same debate last year, as they also use Blue Cross Blue Shield for employee coverage. Ultimately, the county commissioners voted unanimously to postpone the decision, citing a need to study the issue in more depth and a reluctance “to take the lead on this issue.” This decision was not only disappointing, but it could also be indicative of a more political motive in denying the extension of benefits.

Even in light of Nebraska’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, the issue is not as legally complicated as it is made out to be. There are, for example, no national prohibitions on extending benefits to same-sex partners. Lincoln Public Schools decided late last year to allow for same-sex partner health insurance benefits similar to those being considered by the county. The University of Nebraska system also permits these benefits for all domestic partnerships, regardless of if a couple is legally married or not. Both of these entities are public employers and their decisions have not been met by legal challenges.

Opponents of LGBTQA advancement in Lincoln love this kind of deliberate stalling to maintain the status quo of inequality. For example, the battle over t h e Fairness Ordinance exemplifies the popularity of this tactic. Introduced in 2012, the ordinance prohibited discrimination based on sexual ori-

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entation and gender presentation in employment, housing and public accommodations. The city council unanimously passed the Fairness Ordinance but quickly found that it could not enforce it because of a successful petition drive that called the ordinance to a public vote. The city council worried the ordinance would be killed, and the bill’s supporters hesitated to hold the public vote. More than a year has passed now and we still have a useless nondiscrimination law.

These are the kinds of stalemates our opponents love. They inhibit change while simultaneously allowing them to assume the defensive position. Suddenly, they’re not limiting the freedom of LGBTQA people but defending the religious freedom of certain Christians. This politically savvy rhetoric attempts to deflect accusations of bigotry by framing religious extremists as the victims of discrimination laws. We can’t let manipulative language obscure the hateful nature of these kinds of policies.

The battle over LGTBQA rights isn’t the first arena where religion has been used to justify discrimination. In 1964 and 1972, Christian groups sought religious exemptions to civil rights laws prohibiting prejudice based on both gender and race. Both times, Congress denied the legitimacy of these claims. We as a nation decided that no holy book or guy in a robe has the power to validate treating people unfairly. It’s important now that we see through the smoke screen of misleading rhetoric and stand by this principle of justice that we laid down 50 years ago.

Obviously, there are still many steps we need to take to make Lincoln fair, especially when you consider the lack of protections for our transgender community. But the impending debate around extending health insurance coverage to the same-sex partners of city employees will mark an important opportunity to break the legal stagnation of recent years. National change may be encouraging and exciting, but we can’t forget to work with our allies in the local and state government to improve things in our own community. City officials plan to make an official decision on this matter sometime this year.

Please support them however you can as we anticipate this debate.

Kate Miller is a senior philosophy major and a member of the ASUN Electoral Commission. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com and follow her on Twitter @TheKateriarchy.

We can’t forget to work with our allies in the local and state government to improve things in our own community.”

What would you like to see us debate on point-counterpoint Mondays? Tweet at us @DNOpinion or email us at opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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Brittany Juhnke, Sasquatch! Café’s manager, takes a customer’s order at the tail end of the lunch hour. The café serves sandwiches and salads that originated in the GroundUp Restaurants’ food truck as well as cookies from Sasquatch! Bakery.

Local Sasquatch Cafe focuses on food quality, building family through personable customer service

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ven though it has only been open just less than a month, the staff at downtown Lincoln’s new Sasquatch! Café is already on its way to becoming a neighborhood hangout.

“I get to talk to people, and that’s why I was super excited to (work at Sasquatch) because I get really excited to talk to people,” café manager Brittany Juhnke said. “My goal is to learn people’s names because I want people to feel like the café is a family. That’s really what this company stands for. You’re more than just a customer; you’re more than just a number. We want to build a family.”

But the concept of a welcoming, personable atmosphere isn’t new to Juhnke or the rest of the café’s management. Sasquatch!

Café is owned and operated by GroundUp Restaurants, which also owns Honest Abe’s, Sebastian’s Table and Sasquatch Bakery, all of which pride themselves on welcoming customer service.

Even before the team opened Honest Abe’s, its gourmet menu and friendly service cultivated a loyal following to the team’s food truck, its first restaurant endeavor.

“All the sandwiches and salads (served at Sasquatch! Café) are the ones that we did in the food truck originally,” said Brad Widman, director of operations and marketing for GroundUp. “We gained a fairly loyal following from people in and around downtown, but also people would drive out to wherever we were at.

We always knew from the get-go that that menu was really good. It was good combinations of flavors and taste and quality food, and we wanted to bring it back eventually.

It’s just that being in a food truck wasn’t exactly the right venue for the food to be given to the public.”

And though having the café in a permanent location has allowed for a steadier flow of customers and easier setup each day, Sasquatch! Café’s location isn’t unlike that of a food truck — size-wise, that is.

Sasquatch! Café is located inside the downtown Wells Fargo building at 13th and O streets. It’s smaller than a dorm room, yet big enough for the staff to cook food to serve what Juhnke estimates is about 200 customers a day. The café itself is really just a small counter, with the menu displayed on a TV above and the essential

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But even though the location kitchen equipment tucked neatly conveniently put the café in a highbehind the counter. The only plactraffic area, most restauranteurs es to sit are either on a small seating area near the bank tellers or, if would be wary of it’s size. It isn’t you’re one of the many Sasquatch! hard to imagine the possible issues that working in a space the size of Café customers who work in the Wells Fargo building, upstairs at a walk-in closet every day could pose. But Widman your desk. was confident they “I know specifiYou’re more were ready to take cally for the Wells on the challenge.

Fargo building and than just a “Having done for the employees the food truck in that work inside of number. We want past, we were it, we would just to build a family.” the prepared for a lot love to provide the of (challenges of convenience of a brittany juhnke working in a small really good lunch cafe manager space), and luckoption so that they ily, the two or three don’t have to leave people that work in the building if they there get along really well, because don’t want to, if it’s zero degrees out or 100 degrees out, and they the quarters are very, very tight,” don’t want to walk somewhere Widman said. “I would say the only real challenge is just people else downtown,” Widman said.

“We want to be able to provide being able to find us so far … bean easy, fast, convenient option cause not everyone’s familiar with that they would want to choose. (the building’s interior).”

So far, plenty of customers But then on top of that, there are, it seems like, a million different have found Sasquatch! Café, and many are Honest Abe’s or Sebassandwich places downtown, so tian’s Table customers who heard (we want) the people outside of about the new endeavor and dethe Wells Fargo Building to be able to walk over and get something cided to give it a try. Though Widman is happy the customers from that we feel like is a little bit difother GroundUp Restaurants are ferent.”

willing to give Sasquatch a chance, he hopes they keep coming back for the menu’s fresh gourmet salads and sandwiches. After all, Widman said the same attention to detail and commitment to fresh food is paramount in every GroundUp restaurant.

“I think it really comes down to the food and the people,” Widman said. “And as far as the food’s concerned, I feel like we have a really good culinary team who have really good palates as far as being able to pair combinations really, really well. Also, just we care about the details as far as food is concerned.”

Widman went on to describe the 12-14 hour process it takes to make Honest Abe’s french fries fresh, instead of using frozen ones like most burger places do. It’s this attention to detail, Widman said, that makes their restaurants different. In the end, they’re most concerned with providing a meal that was made with care — a meal with something different to offer.

“We believe that everybody has to eat to survive,” Widman said. “So it might as well taste good.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Delta Upsilon breaks mold with lack of stereotype UNL’s fraternity takes pride in diverse membership, international recognition vanessa daves dn Some of senior management major Adam Kauffman’s favorite memories from his time in Delta Upsilon involve sitting in a circle with his brothers and talking.

“I like hearing their opinions on whatever, whether that be politics or what we ate for dinner last night,” Kauffman said.

What makes Delta Upsilon special — and what makes those talks so memorable — is the diversity of the members of the house, Kauffman said.

“What I like is we’re kind of unique in that we kind of let you be who you are,” Kauffman said.

“I wouldn’t be able to peg a stereotypical DU. You could see all sorts of different stereotypes, but DU is unique in that I don’t see the house as a whole fitting into one stereotype.”

They are one of the few houses on campus that has at least one member in every college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They also have members of different ethnicities, from different areas of

the country and of different sexual orientation.

“We all have different opinions, so we can come together and talk about those opinions and nine times out of 10 those conversations end well — they never really get too heated,” said Jon Poarch, a junior geography and classics and religious studies major. “That diversity is really helpful for growth because everywhere in life you’re going to be surrounded by people that are different than you.”

Freshman pre-special education major Tim Kubert said living in a house with so many different personalities has taught him how to disagree cordially with people.

“Everyone has a different viewpoint, and you just have to find that common ground,” Kubert said.

Poarch said the house has grown exponentially over the past few years. In 2006, the house went under some reorganization and since then, it has grown both in quantity and quality, Poarch said.

Last year, the chapter was a finalist in the sweepstakes for Delta Upsilon International, meaning it was ranked as one of the top five chapters. Poarch, DU’s president, also won President of the Year last year.

“It’s cool to see how things can improve and to be a part of that betterment,” Poarch said. “We’re really trying to build off that growth and winning the sweepstakes is a good indicator of where we are as a chapter. It speaks to the way we’ve grown in the Lincoln community and internationally.”

Delta Upsilon was founded in

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Alex Pudenz (left), a senior biology major, and Sam Rogge, a senior biology major, study for biopsychology together inside the Delta Upsilon house on Sunday evening.

1898 on the foundation of the promotion of friendship, the development of character, the diffusion of liberal culture and the advancement of justice. Some of the authority figures in the house, such as the house dad and chef, attribute to those goals.

Tommy Donahue, DU’s house dad, affectionately known as “Tommy D,” attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for his undergraduate degree before going to law school. He writes letters of recommendation for some of the members and helps with technical issues.

For Kauffman, who is going to law school next year, Donahue has had a huge impact.

“For me, personally, he helped a lot,” Kauffman said. “I was treasurer, and I wrote the housing contracts for everybody, and he helped me with stuff like that.”

The chef, Aaron Young, also plays a big role in the house because he cooks for the members every weekday and helps with every philanthropy, whether it be Saved by the Taco Bell in the

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Brodie Morgan, a freshman finance and accounting major, plays basketball in the Delta Upsilon courtyard Sunday evening.

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Vega Pub Quiz 9 p.m. where: Vega when:

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Dollar beer night All night where: Duffy’s Tavern when:

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$2 Sangria All day where: Sebastian’s Table when:

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what: Piano Bar with Emily Bass when: 5 p.m. where: Zoo Bar

Discount movies when: All day Tuesday & Thursday where: Lincoln Grand Cinema cost: $5 per ticket

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Hold ‘Em Poker 6:30 p.m. where: 501 Bar & Grill when:

Ireland’s Dervish 7:30 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts when:

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Wind Ensemble 7:30 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall cost: $5 general admission/ $3 students when:

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Sci Pop! Where Science Intersects Pop Culture when: 7 p.m. where: Love Library South

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12 what: Student discount movies when: All day Tuesday & Thursday where: Lincoln Grand Cinema cost: $5 per ticket

what: Genealogy over Lunch when: 11:30 a.m. where: Love Library South

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“Between Conflict what: How (and Why) to & Conversion” Travel the World with when: 7 p.m.

Andy Stoll where: Jackie Gaughan when: 7:30 p.m.

Multicultural Center where: Nebraska Union cost: Free for students with NCard/ $5 for the what: Model Stranger public with Answer Me when: 9 p.m. where: Duffy’s Tavern what: Intensity Game Show when: 8 p.m. where: Nebraska Union

13 what: Fifth Biennial Vision Maker Film Festival when: All day where: Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

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Second Annual Community Poetry Slam when: 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union what: Andrew Solomon Lecture when: 5:30 p.m. where: Sheldon Museum of Art

what: King of the City Road Warriorz when: 8 p.m. where: The Bourbon

Week facilitates discussion on diversity Mac Wall DN OASIS and JGMC Week starts today with a full docket of activities exploring themes on race and culture.

Originally known as “Gaughan Week,” the program sponsored by the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center and the Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services will feature everything from discussions on white privilege to poetry readings. Most of the week centers on discussion of people’s different backgrounds. Students will be introduced to the Gaughan staff, who will then be leading them through talks of culture. Student panels will encourage students to go out of their comfort zones and experience different attitudes and lifestyles, all without leaving campus.

OASIS is a department that works inside the Gaughan center.

OASIS operates on the basis of three pillars: academic excellence, social engagement and diversity awareness. It organizes mentorship programs, hosts leadership symposia, covers heritage months and holds outreach events such as this week.

To start things off, a meetand-greet is planned for Monday.

OASIS members and the staff of UNL’s ethnic studies will be there

alongside free refreshments. Here, students will be able to meet other interested students and experts who will be speaking throughout the week. Tuesday features a keynote speech from Shelly Tochluk.

Tochluk is the author of “Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk about Race and How to Do It.” She’ll discuss the intent versus impact of speech. For example, a person using homophobic language to describe something in a negative way and the different impact it has on straight and gay people. The aim of her discussion is to open people’s minds so they can analyze the effect their words have on others.

The next two days include a panel on faith and religion followed by a digital poster display on Thursday. The posters come from UNL’s history students and focus on race, gender and law.

The week’s events will wrap up with a poetry slam in the union auditorium. The slam is open to UNL students as well as Lincoln residents and will examine themes surrounding identity while bringing communities closer. Rather than focusing on the identity of economic groups, genders or races, the poetry event focuses on one person. Poets are allowed to cover any topic relevant to them. By not limiting the poetry slam, JGMC hopes to display a wide variety of stories and

identities.

Although there are many opportunities for learning in the upcoming week, the important thing is to get a multicultural experience. The JGMC week looks to provide “interactions with people from cultures other than your own,” said Andre Fortune, director of OASIS and the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.

“OASIS and JGMC Week is designed to increase diversity awareness through difficult discussions,” Fortune said.

Fortune has been involved with the JGMC week before and continues to help engage the campus community in important conversations over diversity and inclusion and explore the common ground where different identities intersect. Tuesday’s keynote speech and Wednesday’s religion and faith panel will both make use of difficult discussions to educate people on diversity.

Both talks cover more controversial topics, but don’t seek to stir things up just for controversy’s sake. They will open up different channels for understanding.

Joel Orozco Almeida is a UNL graduate student working at the Gaughan center. He has worked there since August and spoke about how JGMC week includes and utilizes different parts of UNL, from RSOs to educational departments such as sociology. He

pointed to the ways the Gaughan teams up with groups such as the sociology and history departments. By cooperating, they can include different aspects in the JGMC week to better represent the themes they explore. They’re able to cover more than just race by cooperating with other departments. Almeida also said that JGMC is concerned with more than just skin color.

“Since race is visible,” Almeida said. “It tends to cause more conflict, just because it’s obvious.”

However, JGMC week wants to incorporate more than just race.

They want to cover everything that makes up identity.

For example, the history department will use digital posters to examine pivotal moments in our nation’s lifetime that pertain to race and identity. Almeida said posters will focus on oppression and where it came from, along with its impact. Moments from the civil rights era or the women’s suffrage movements will be depicted through the digital posters.

This adds a visual component to round out the week’s speeches and discussions.

All of the week’s events are free and take place at either the Gaughan or the union. A schedule can be found online at the OASIS homepage. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Writing in books creates personal experience maranda loughlin

I buy a lot of books at the Goodwills around Lincoln.

Paperbacks are $1. Hardbacks $1.50. And every once in a while, you can find a book not written

by Nora Roberts or Emily Giffin. Sometimes, there’s a couple old crumbs of award-winning literature or famous titles under the cake wastes of Martha Stewart craft books and questionnaire self-help books.

But sometimes this practice gets me into trouble.

Maybe it was a beginning-ofsummer-vacation mentality that made me think I could tackle fat stacks of reading material before school started, or maybe it was that I was being selfish, and no

one else could have those cheap books that I was going to read “someday.”

The pile began to grow as I continued collecting borrowed books from friends and family, intermixing the brand new, store-bought books with the thrift stores’ used titles. I started to treat other people’s books as my own, which cost me a lot of apologies.

I returned a dog-eared, tattered, water stained, blue-andblack-ink-bloodied book to my mom. I knew this wasn’t good manners in the book-borrowing world, and she knew, too. But she wasn’t mad; She was just curious.

“Why did you beat this book up so badly?” she asked in reference to the marks.

“I don’t know,” I said. “I guess I just liked those parts.”

When I am reading, I circle words I don’t know or ones that I do and just love. I underline metaphors, quotes or just bits of text that strike me. I draw lines

out to the margins to write ideas or notes. I dog ear pages that I want to go back and read or want to show other people. I read with a pen, and sometimes I draw all over the page not knowing exactly what I am doing, but it just feels good.

Then there are the avoidable destructions: stains from food dropped onto pages, rippled spines from spilled liquids, tears from flipping too fast and too casually and bruises from being punched by textbooks at the bottom of my book bag.

I am a monster.

But books aren’t fossil finds.

We aren’t going to break them by touching them. They aren’t delicate.

When I picture how an author would want their book treated, I can’t imagine he or she would want it on display, pristine page work, no scrapes or bruises. I honestly don’t think authors care if we manhandle their books. In fact, I think they would find it pretty cool or at the

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very least think it added character to their books. It’s a book that says, “Yeah, you’re pretty cool man.” But it’s not the author who is concerned with how we treat any given copy of theirs; it’s the person who paid for it and, as the saying goes, to each their own.

However, when it comes to our personal collection of books, why not write in them? Why do we only write and highlight in our $200 text books that we wont be able to sell back anyway?

Underline parts that made you happy, made you think or made you impressed. Write in the margins the way a part made you feel or the idea you had after reading it. Star things to add urgency to a particular thought or bit of text or just star pages to make them prettier.

Who cares? It’s your book.

But don’t mark up others. It’s not kosher.

Maranda loughlin is a senior journalism major. reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Modern country music strays from classic roots Keith Finn

Country roads, trucks, beers, John Deere and girls.

I just described a modern country radio station’s daily song selection.

Living in Nebraska for my teenage years taught me this: People here love their country music. In a small town, it’s hard to go through a day without hearing a country song. While flipping through the stations on the radio, this music genre took up most of the radio waves.

I worked at a pizza shop for four years, and the only music I heard while working was country. As I was working 20-30 hours a week, I was exposed to large doses of this style of music. After a while, it became hard to listen to.

It sometimes was hard to tell what song was playing because they all sounded so similar. I started to develop a general dislike for country altogether.

If anything, it really got me thinking.

Country music wasn’t always this generic. So what happened to country music, and why do I dislike it so much?

When country music first became prevalent, it was a way for singers with low voices to break into popular music. Hillbillies would sing bluesy songs with a hick-like inflection to give it an authentic country sound. Country music was the perfect combination of blues, folk and the South.

Older country music would utilize strings extremely well. Acoustic guitars, violins, pianos and steel guitars are what gave country music its first sound. The drummers played quick blues rhythms along with the stringed instruments while the singer voiced intriguing narratives about hardship.

People such as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard sang these stripped-down songs about their trials and tribulations.

These tracks would cover topics including jail time, family issues and addictions to hard liquor. “Folsom City Blues” by Cash and “Mama Tried” by Haggard are examples of exceptionally rooted country music.

Once the arena rock days of the 1970s showed the profitability music artists can achieve, country music started taking notice. Country artists started to infuse more rock ‘n’ roll into their songs, with the product being songs such as “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd and “9 to 5” by Dolly Parton. Artists were still able to make great music at this time, but the music sounded less country and more southern rock ‘n’ roll.

The beginning of the ’90s brought the beginning of the waning creativity in country music.

Country artists became huge popular music icons under the country pop genre. Popular musicians such as Shania Twain and Garth Brooks began creating songs with catchy choruses made for radio play.

“Man! I Feel Like A Woman” by Twain and “Achy Breaky Heart” by Billy Ray Cyrus were huge songs that were made for a large listening audience.

After that, the popularity of generic country music shot through the roof. Musicians started using relatable lyrics and cookie-cutter song techniques to generate a perfect formula for a hit country song.

Country artists incorporated simple rock into their tracks to sound like down-South versions of Nickelback. Toby Keith and Luke Bryan are two artists that exploit every country cliché so they can market to small-town listeners. Keith’s “Red Solo Cup” and Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” are the pinnacles of relatable country, and it’s these kinds of horribly written songs that achieve constant radio play.

I’m not saying all modern country music is awful, but it could be better. Songwriters George Strait, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson and Willie Nelson are fantastic storytellers who stick to the roots of country even though they have been making music for a long time.

The Zac Brown Band and The Civil Wars are two talented country bands that keep real musicality in their tracks.

Modern country music decided to use profitability when making music when they should be using originality. There are still some remnants from the old days of country music. However, we constantly exposed to the unimaginative structure of generic country music, which is extraordinarily disappointing. keith finn is a sophomore business administration major. reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Delta upsilon: from 5 DU has incredibly shaped my ability to see the world from other people’s perspective. It’s shaped me by giving me a lot of leadership opportunities and by putting me in those opportunities. I see every single person as having infinite potential.” adam kauffman

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fall or DU Donuts in the spring.

Among Young’s many accolades, he was a personal chef for a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, and he was recently interviewed to be on the Food Network.

“He’s been outstanding,” junior coaching and Spanish major Cale Kaiser said. “This year, we inducted him as an honorary member of Delta Upsilon, which was really cool.”

Young’s assistant chef, Jen

Constantineau, has a motherly influence on the house, according to Kaiser. She brings her 5-year-old daughter, Ava, with her to work a few times a week, and members of the house will play with her while she’s there.

“The fact that we are like big frat guys, and we can show compassion for a little 5-year-old is cool,” Kaiser said. “Guys go out of their way to hang out with her when she’s here. When it comes to

DU, we can we’re man enough to do the simple stuff like that.”

Delta Upsilon encourages its members to get involved on and off campus, and because of that, Kaiser said membership in Delta Upsilon has led to many opportunities. He’s involved in board of directors for Scarlet Guard, Greek Ambassadors, Dance Marathon and Big Event. “(Delta Upsilon) has made me more responsible,” Kaiser said.

“It’s made me ready to go into the real world, already as a junior. I feel confident that wherever I get a job, I can handle it.”

And he’s not the only one.

Poarch said without membership in Delta Upsilon, his college experience wouldn’t have been the same.

“It’s instilled in me a lot of growth and strong values,” Poarch said. “The foundation and principles have taught me so

much and DU has helped me go after those and promote those. It’s taught me how to build myself up and to build others up.”

Building each other up is what it’s all about, and the diversity is what brings them closer, Kauffman said. Being able to learn about where others come from and appreciate their background is one of Delta Upsilon’s strengths, Kauffman said.

“DU has incredibly shaped

my ability to see the world from other peoples perspective,” Kauffman said. “It’s shaped me by giving me a lot of leadership opportunities and by putting me in those opportunities. I see every single person as having infinite potential, which I don’t know if I saw before. And I really love seeing every single person that way.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Lindsay Lohan movies for the perfect Li-Lo marathon.

Miss Lohan is making a comeback. Thinner in the face, yellower in the teeth and the ripe age of 27, homegirl is gettin’ better. She’s on the uphill climb to stardom again. A decade later, to commemorate her biggest contribution to society, “Mean Girls,” we have compiled The Ultimate Li-Lo Lovefest Lounge Day List. She’ll always be our favorite twin … who wasn’t actually a twin.

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“Life-Size”

Tween-age Lohan’s journey to find her confidence and to keep the family dynamic of her life is a relatable experience for many. Not to mention Tyra Banks is a goddess who makes vapidity a tolerable trait. This movie sealed the deal: We all wanted to be Li-Lo. She was friends with a Barbie doll, her freckles were on their A-game, and she was kicking boy’s asses on the daily in football. This movie was a middle-ground moment of her career, meaning that this marathon can either go up or down from here.

“Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”

Things have to get worse before they can get better. Lohan is the rudest of teens in this pseudo-musical that features the subpar acting attempts of Megan Fox. Low-rise jeans and crop tops galore mark this film as a pinnacle of 2004 fashion trends. This movie contains synchronized DDR matches, tweenage parties and divas everywhere. Not to mention that Ms. Fox’s daddy’s house not only has a water fountain that she falls into after seeing her celebrity crush, but her father also has hot dogs catered to the party.

What’s better than a slinky Fox in a mini dress chowing down on a hot dog while Lohan gets to play the victor of high school absurdity?

“Freaky Friday”

A long-haired, middle-parted Chad Michael Murray is enough to make all girls break out in a rendition of Britney Spears “Hit Me Baby One More Time” serenade.

The film’s other full-named star Jamie Lee Curtis portrays the nightmare that is teenage angst. Not only does this movie feature Chinese food, it also depicts Li-Lo at her most musical. She portrays the perfect amount of grunge and makes lunch detention look fun. And never forget about her awesome sidekick friend who uses the phrase, “Maid of Horror.”

“Parent Trap”

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My god. This movie will put you in a glass case of emotion. From the ultimate pranking war that made everyone want to go to summer camp to find their long lost twin that they probably didn’t actually have, to the ultimate trek through the woods to the isolation cabin along with the horrible 20-something-stepmother, this movie gives children the horrible notion that they too can get their parents back together with some clever trickery and the power of true love. Not to mention that this movie spawned the best cinematic handshake ever and gave everyone fuel for their hijinks.

“Mean Girls”

We don’t even know where to begin. The most quotable movie of the past decade. Men and women of young and old can appreciate the wit, humor and truth of this Tina Fey masterpiece. This influential movie for teenage girls around the world worked to create social commentary on how girls are raised and adapt in the animal kingdom of high school. In this 2004 flick, we learned that “fetch” could totally happen and you can dethrone a queen bee by going through her hot body, army of skanks and arm candy AKA Aaron Samuels.

The limit of our love for this movie does not exist. Lohan showed her true acting potential by becoming believably teary-eyed and also gracefully falling into a trashcan.

Lindsay is now, and forevermore the Spring Fling Queen of our hearts.

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‘300’ sequel lacks visual storytelling Jack Forey DN “300: Rise of an Empire” is not quite as good as the first movie.

But sequels rarely are. Also, few films have as many bloody slow-motion stabbings as this one, and the filmmakers actually worked huge, fiery explosions into a movie set in ancient times. So that’s something.

“Rise of an Empire” is half sequel and half prequel, taking place in equal parts before and after the demise of the Spartans. It details the story of Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton), the death of King Darius and the rise of God-King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) from traumatized prince to the 8-foot-tall, gold decked monstrosity we remember from “300.”

Xerxes wants to rally his people and seek revenge on Themistokles, so he announces in his capital square that he will send the armies to war in Greece. What was just a Persian version of manifest destiny in the first movie becomes a personal vendetta in “Rise of an Empire.” Xerxes enlists the help of his father’s naval commander, Artemisia (Eva Green), to lead an assault against the Greek peninsula. A massive naval onslaught ensues, and Themistokles must unite the city-states of Greece to combat the Persians.

The Greek soldiers all make rousing, full-throated speeches at each other before heading into battle, and then they get to impaling every Persian soldier they see as the blood splatters toward us — in 3D. Some will find the nearly constant action repetitive, and the undeniably melodramatic plot (a step down from the more able drama of “300”) won’t help, either. Otherwise, it’s a very fun, gratuitous spectacle with more gore and decapitations than you can shake a spear at.

The problem is, the movie lacks Zack Snyder’s sense of visual storytelling. Snyder produced “Rise of an Empire,” but he didn’t direct it. Director Noam Murro seems to think slow motion is the most effective tool in his director’s toolbox, while Snyder’s pacing and nuanced visual technique are what contributed to the success

sea and witnesses two fellow soldiers devoured by horrible sea beasts. Then, it’s revealed that he is hallucinating on a ship’s deck. At this point, we’ve already been given exploding waters and a man emerging from a magic pool coated in gold and earrings — “300” was never praised for its historical accuracy, and flirting with paranormal elements acknowledges that none

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Nebraska ready to go for 18-team tournament on road Staff Report DN

The Nebraska men’s golf team travels to Aiken, S.C., Monday to compete in the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate at Palmetto Golf Club.

The team has gotten off to a slow start this spring with lessthan-stellar scores.

This will be the Huskers’ first tournament play since the Wyoming Cowboy Desert Intercollegiate Feb. 23, in Palm Desert, Calif., where they placed 18th out of 23 teams.

The Huskers were also 0-3 at the Big Ten Match Play Championships.

We all feel pretty good about this tournament and know that we all can play well.”

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“Everyone that is traveling this week knows that we are a lot better than how we’ve performed so far,” Jennings said. “We all feel pretty good about this tournament and know that we all can

Freshman Justin Jennings played in both outings for the Huskers this spring and said he is confident the team will start to post better scores as it moves forward.

a couple more weeks of really cold before we can get out and really start utilizing the golf course.”

The team will enjoy much warmer weather Monday and Tuesday, but the competition will continue to be a stiff test for the Huskers. The Palmetto Intercollegiate features some of the best competition in the region.

The Huskers will be part of an 18-team field and will be scored as a 56-hole stroke play event.

Nebraska was in the field at Palmetto last year as well. The team’s score of 895 placed it at 10 in the tournament. Augusta State University won in 2013 with a score of 856 and is included in this year ’s field of 18.

play well.”

Jennings is the team’s only true freshman, and after an impressive fall season, he will be a key player in the Husker ’s rotation.

A slight dip in performance at the beginning of spring is not surprising, especially for cold weather universities such as Nebraska.

The weather combined with the winter layover makes it tough for teams keep up a high level of play, Jennings said.

“Everywhere across America, there has been crummy weather this spring,” Jennings said.

“You’ve got to use these (indoor facilities) to the best of your abilities, but hopefully we’ve only got

Senior Matt Record is the only member of last year ’s starting five who will be returning to Palmetto this year. Record led the team with a 223 (+13), which was good enough for a T-32 individual finish.

The Huskers set out this week looking to improve on their recent finishes and hoping to build some confidence as they get further into the spring season.

The Huskers will then get the rest of the week off and head to Goodyear, Ariz., on March 20, for the Desert Shootout, which takes place at the Palm Valley Country Club.

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women’s basketball: from 10 bowling

Huskers grab 5th in road competition last weekend Staff Report DN

Nebraska junior Liz Kuhlkin placed fifth individually in the competition, with 1,261 total pinfall. She also averaged 210.2 pins a game in the tournament. Sophomore Bethany Hedley was the next best Husker as she finished 25 in the individual standings.

Hedley’s best game of the tournament was a 235.

Both the Huskers and Vanderbilt notched a team perfect game in the meet.

The Huskers return to action in April for the NCAA Championships, which take place in Cleveland, Ohio. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

team Vanderbilt had a total of 10,922.

UMES’s Victoria Jones grabbed The No. 2 Nebraska bowling team the individual crown with a total pinfall of 1,352 and took fifth place in the averaged 225.3 pins a Music City Classic in game. UMES also had Nashville, Tenn. The another bowler in the team went 12-3 during top five in the individthe weekend competiual standings in Metion. gan Buja. She knocked No. 8 Vanderdown 1,278 total pins bilt took the win in in the tournament, the tournament, as which was good for No. 1 Arkansas State fourth place. grabbed second place The second-place and No. 3 University bowler was Fairleigh of Maryland Eastern Dickinson’s Melanie Shore (UMES) claimed Kuhlkin Hannon, who was third. three pins off of the The Huskers had a total pinfall of 10,308, as the top- leader with a 1,349 total pinfall.

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Sophomore guard Rachel Theriot earned the tournament’s MVP award, as she paced the offense in the championship game with 24 points against Iowa on Sunday.

Hooper didn’t have the same back, but it’s almost a reflex.” win was in the bag as Yori highWith a minute left, the Husk- fived every team member on the luck as her teammate. After missing a left-wing 3-pointer, Hooper ers and Hawkeyes stood apart by bench and Iowa’s sophomore formissed a layup and field goal at- 3 points. ward Kali Peschel missed another After going in for a layup Cady Iowa 3-point attempt. tempt in back-to-back Husker poswas fouled and put up 2 points sessions.

The Huskers claimed the 2014 Junior guard Samantha Logic from the charity line. On Iowa’s Big Ten Tournament Championend of the court, Disterhoft at- ship game. put up a 3-pointer to add to her tempted a 3-pointer from the top 14-point game.

“It kind of feels like a long time Although Hooper dropped of the arc but missed and fouled coming,” Hooper said. “To have two free throws, Doolittle put up Sample, who then went for two this opportunity and be successful from the free throw line. two field goals in a row, followed is huge.” sports@ With 10.2 seconds left, the by a jumper by Logic. dailynebraskan.com Huskers’ Big Ten Championship Iowa’s Junior guard Melissa Dixon dropped two 3s in less than a minute to cut the Husker lead to 2 points, but Sample came back with a shot under the basket to pull Nebraska back up by 4.

With both teams in the bonus in the second half free throws made the game.

Cady fouled Disterhoft on a 3-point shot to get her fourth foul of the game. The Iowa forward then stepped up to the charity strip to drop all 3 free throws, and put the competing championship teams within a point of each other.

Laudermill got to step up to the line to make a free throw, then Theriot stepped up for two free throws on a technical and then Laudermill made her second free throw.

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Junior Robbie Kocks performs a 15.55 on the still rings in Norman, Okla., on Sunday, and his score is the new school record on the event.

New school record set in Husker loss at Oklahoma Staff Report DN The No. 1 Oklahoma men’s gymnastics team defeated No. 12 Nebraska in Norman, Okla., on Sunday by a score of 439.70-422.050.

In the meet, Husker junior Robbie Kocks set a new school record on the still rings. He earned a 15.55 and notched the highest score for the squad in the meet.

Senior Donovan Arndt added a 14.80 to the Huskers’ still ring final

score of 71.650.

Another strong performance came from Nebraska’s junior Grant Perdue, as he recorded a 15 on the floor exercise and a 15.25 on the vault. Perdue led the scores in both of the events for the Huskers.

The floor exercise was the best event for the Huskers as they tallied a 72 team score. The lowest score on the event was a 13.65 from sophomore Ethan Lottman.

Senior Eric Schryver provided consistent scores on his performanc-

es. In all three events he competed in, Schryver earned a 14 or better.

He led the team on the parallel bars with a 14.30 routine.

On the high bar, freshman Austin Epperson earned a season-best score of 14.70, and he led the Huskers in the event.

Nebraska’s next meet will take place at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday against No. 9 Iowa, No. 6 Minnesota, No. 8 Air Force and No. 7 Illinois.

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wrestling: from 10 this time by a score of 7-4.

In the 174-pound weight division, No. 3 Kokesh also had a firstround bye. His route to the championship was similar to Green’s as Kokesh notched a pin in the first match followed by two consecutive decisions. This locked up the title for Kokesh.

In the 149-pound bouts, junior Jake Sueflohn also had a bye in the first round, and he made it all the way to the finals. In the finals he faced Northwestern’s Jason Tsirtsis and Sueflohn struggled. Tsirtsis came away with the upset win via a 6-2 decision.

Redshirt freshman Tim Lambert dominated his first round

125-pounder match with a 13-1 major decision victory. After falling in the quarter final match up, Lambert found himself in the consolation bracket.

He managed to make his way into the consolation semifinals, but was stopped by Wisconsin’s Ryan Taylor.

This sent Lambert to the fifthplace match, which he won after he pinned Ohio State’s Nick Roberts.

In the 165-pound division sophomore Austin Wilson also made it into the fifth-place dual. He did not experience the same success as his teammate and lost to Illinois’ Jackson Morse in a 6-2 decision.

In the 133-pound, 197-pound

and Heavyweight divisions the Huskers all found themselves in the ninth-place match.

Only senior Caleb Kolb managed to win the ninth-place match in the 197-pound weight class as he earned the sudden victory 3-1 against Michigan State’s Nick McDiarmid.

In the 141-pound division, freshman Colton McCrystal lost two straight matches and failed to make it past a first round.

The Huskers will now prepare for the NCAA Championships in Oklahoma City, Okla., starting on March 20. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska gets shutout twice, rebounds with 3 wins, including revenge against Washington Josh Kelly DN The No. 14 Nebraska softball team won 3 out of 5 of its matches in Fullerton, Calif. Both losses came in 1-0 shutouts against No. 7 Arizona State and Fresno State.

Nebraska split games with the two ranked teams during the weekend, a big step for a younger team, said senior catcher Taylor Edwards.

“It feels great,” Edwards said.

“It’s been just punch after punch with top-ranked teams, and it was just great to finally get over that and do it for each other.”

Friday started with a doubleheader against Arizona State followed by an evening matchup against San Jose State. After being shut down by the Sun Devils 0-1, the Huskers’ bats came alive against San Jose State, as Nebraska took the game 4-1.

The offense continued to tear up the field, as the Huskers defeated Cal State Fullerton 9-2 on Saturday.

Also on Saturday, Nebraska faced a familiar foe from last season, No. 6 Washington.

Last season in the Women’s College World Series, the Huskies defeated Nebraska 4-3 in the first round of the tournament in an extra innings duel between the two schools. The loss forced the Huskers to face Florida in the elimination game where they lost in extra innings to be knocked out of the tournament.

The excitement between Washington and Nebraska continued, as the game was decided in the final inning.

Heading into the bottom of the seventh inning, Nebraska was down 1-0 after Washington scored a solo home run earlier in the game.

Already in a two-out situation, sophomore outfielder Kiki Stokes hit a ground ball to third base that was misinterpreted by the third baseman, and Stokes reached first base on an error. The winning runner stepped up to the plate.

Edwards was up next and was as confident as ever with Stokes on first base.

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Senior left-handed pitcher Zach Hirsch made two appearances during the home series against St. John’s. He earned a win and gave up just one hit in 2 innings of work.

Nebraska glides through 1st home series of season Nedu Izu DN file photo by cahner olson | dn

Senior Taylor Edwards earned the walk-off homerun to clinch a victory over Washington on Saturday. The Huskers notched three wins in the weekend trip.

“Before the at bat, I was just really excited that Kiki got on base,” Edwards said. “I was just telling myself ‘this is my team’.”

Edwards came up to the plate and was already put into a terrible spot, in a 0-2 count. Washington’s pitcher then surrendered two balls to make it a 2-2 count, which set up Edwards for a shot to win the game.

Edwards, under the most pressure she has faced this season, blasted the ball over the left field fence to give her team the first walk-off win of the season in a 2-1 win against Washington.

As soon as the ball came off the bat, Edwards began the celebration.

“I saw the ball in the air and saw the left fielder go back to the fence and not turn around, and that’s when I knew it was a home run,” Edwards said. “I was excited going around the bases.

Coming into home plate and cel-

I saw the ball in the air and saw the left fielder go back to the fence and not turn around, and that’s when I knew it was a homerun.”

Taylor edwards nebraska catcher

ebrating with my teammates, that was just a once-in-a-lifetime moment.”

Coach Rhonda Revelle said she knew her veteran hitter was in a good spot to get the win.

“I just felt like when Taylor got up, she was in a really good place,” Revelle said. “She’s been seeing the ball well. She was staying with them pitch for pitch.

When she hit the ball, I knew it was out right away, I was just hoping it would stay fair.”

Nebraska lost its next game 1-0 to Fresno State to give the Huskers a 3-2 record during the weekend, adding to an overall record of 15-8 with conference play beginning March 21 against Minnesota.

Next on tap for the Huskers is the Jayhawk Invitational in Lawrence, Kan., which is the first weekend in a month that the team will not face a ranked opponent.

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Arkansas spoils Nebraska senior night Razorbacks claim victory against Huskers 196.7-196.35 in meet Saturday night at Devaney Vanessa Daves DN The No. 14 Arkansas women’s gymnastics team defeated No. 9 Nebraska by a score of 196.7196.35 in the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Nebraska’s senior night.

Going into the meet, senior Jamie Schleppenbach said her goal was to have the best meet she could and just enjoy her last home meet as a Husker.

“Emily (Wong) and I are best friends, and we like to just have fun together at meets,” Schleppenbach said.

And that’s what they did, right up until the last moments of the meet when they showed the senior video. Wong and Schleppenbach sat on the floor with their heads together, holding hands and tearing up as they file photo by stacie hecker | dn remembered their four years of Seniors Emily Wong and Jamie Schleppenbach watch the senior video after the final home meet Husker gymnastics. of the season at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday.

“It’s sad to think that Jamie and Emily won’t compete in Devaney again,” Nebraska coach ally got the ball rolling,” Kendig They finished with a team score one-tenth of a point from each of Dan Kendig said. “But it’s so their scores, Kendig said that’s of 49.200. said. “The thing about that is we hard to get too worked up over it In the third rotation, Nebras- pretty much the difference in a because the nuts and bolts of our weren’t able to do the same thing meet. ka headed to the beam while Aron bars, beam and floor.” season are yet to come.”

Wong led the team with a kansas performed on floor.

Meanwhile, Nebraska had 9.90, and she was followed by Wong, who is No. 4 nationalArkansas comfour competitors It’s sad to peted on the bars, ly, posted a 9.90 to lead the team. Blanske’s 9.825. They finished in the all-around the floor exercise with a team Laeng followed with a 9.80, and where they were think that competition for led by Katherine Schleppenbach posted a score of score of 49.00. the first time all Jamie and Emily Arkansas finished up on the Grable, the third- 9.75. The final team score was season. Freshman beam with a 49.250 to win the ranked gymnast 48.825.

Jennie Laeng com- won’t compete in meet.

“We never had anybody fall in the nation. peted in the allGrable and Wong tied for the Devaney again.”

Grable posted a off the beam, but we had several around for the first all-around title, and they fin9.85 on bars to major wobbles,” Kendig said. time, posting a toDan Kendig ished up the night with ceremoArkansas was led by Grable contribute to the tal score of 38.475. gymnast coach nies to honor the Huskers’ senior on the floor exercise, who posted total team score of Nebraska startgymnasts. a 9.925 to contribute to the team 49.050. ed out the night Kendig said this week will score of 49.200. Amanda Wellick, In the second on the vault, where junior Jessie be about getting back in the gym DeZiel led the team with a 9.975. rotation, Nebraska was led by who is the top-ranked freshman and making an effort to fine tune in women’s collegiate gymnasWong on the bars, who contributFollowing her were redshirt those areas that lacked this weeked a 9.95 to the team’s final score tics, also notched a 9.80. freshman Ariel Martin (9.95) and end.

Arkansas was leading Neof 48.975. Laeng suffered a fall on sophomore Hollie Blanske (9.90).

“I’m up for the challenge, and They finished with a total team the bars, but finished to post a braska 147.450-147.350 as they I hope the team feels the same headed into the fourth rotation. score of 9.00. score of 49.550. way,” Kendig said.

Three Huskers stepped outArkansas competed on the “We started out on vault Sports@ vault, where it was again led side of the lines during their lights out, and Ariel Martin redailynebraskan.com floor routine, deducting at least

by Grable, who posted a 9.925.

Before the Nebraska baseball team’s series against St. John’s, Taylor Fish had only recorded an RBI and a hit in 5 at-bats.

Against the Red Storm on Saturday the sophomore catcher knocked in the game-winning run as a pinch hitter to aid the Huskers to a 7-6 victory and a sweep against St. John’s in their first home series of the season.

Fish ended the weekend jolting his batting average from .200 to .444, and his RBI total to 4 after Sunday’s 14-7 win. After not starting in more than a week, the catcher fell back in the lineup stringing two singles up the middle and tying senior Michael Pritchard with a pair of RBIs. “I had confidence at the plate, teammates had confidence in you and you stick to your approach, middle away,” Fish said.

The 33 runs scored during the three games left Nebraska coach Darin Erstad impressed with his team’s production.

“Early on I thought we did a fantastic job of setting the tone and being relentless every inning,” Erstad said.

“They went out knowing we had a chance to sweep and did a nice job taking care of business.”

Nebraska began the weekend where they left off last Sunday, beating St. John’s 12-4 in Game 1. Friday’s win marked the 36 consecutive seasons the Huskers had picked up a win in the home opener and marked the debut of junior pitcher Kyle Kubat.

In his first start of the season, the 6-foot-1 left-hander allowed 4 runs and 7 hits on 78 total pitches. Kubat’s inconsistency forced him out after 4.2 innings of work and set up the win for senior left-hander Zach Hirsch who hurled two scoreless innings.

Although Kubat was rattled in his first outing since last year, Erstad said he was impressed with the Kubat’s debut.

“It was good to seem him get out there and get in the swing of things,” Erstad said.

In Saturday’s action St. John’s made sure to fine tune its bats and get to Hirsch and the Husker bullpen the second time around.

After Husker right-handed ace, Christian DeLeon, tossed 6 solid innings to leave the game up 6-3, Hirsch

and senior right-hander Bob Greco combined for 3 earned runs to allow the Red Storm to tie the game in the top of the eighth inning.

However, Fish delivered on his first at-bat of the weekend and reign in any possible comeback win for St. John’s.

“To not have an at-bat in quite a few games and to come in there and be in that situation and come through is just a testament to Taylor’s work and his value to our team,” Erstad said.

The 20-year-old’s rip to right field scored teammate Austin Christensen to give Josh Roeder his first win on the year.

In Game 3, Nebraska got on the board first and early.

With Pat Kelly at the plate, St. John’s catcher Tyler Sanchez let Joey Graziano’s pitch pass him to allow junior right fielder Austin Darby score from third for the Huskers’ first run on the day. Pritchard scorched 3 doubles to become the first Husker to do so since Cody Asche in 2011.

Behind junior pitcher Chance Sinclair’s impressive six-inning performance, where he allowed just one Red Storm to cross the plate, Nebraska scored in the game’s first 6 innings to lead, 14-1.

Besides the early runs, Sinclair said pitching in front of the home crowd for the first time aided him to his third victory of the season.

“There’s nothing like playing a home game here,” the pitcher said.

“With great weather and a lot of fans, it really energizes you and the rest of the team.”

The victory in the rubber match also marked the fourth consecutive game Nebraska has finished victorious over its opponents.

Although the team had a stretch where they won just one in four contests, Erstad is looking for consistency as the team draws closer to conference play.

“We just need to win,” the coach said. “We got to continue to play well consistently. (Saturday) we didn’t play really well but we found a way to get it done. We just need to continue to string good performances together and the wins will come.”

Nebraska has one day off before sending junior Aaron Bummer to the mound to face Northern Colorado on Tuesday.

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DELIVERY

SO FAST WE ALREADY DID!

men’s bball: from 10 And Pinnacle Bank Arena was dancing.

“I told the guys in the locker room, that’s what college basketball should be about,” Miles said.

“The exhilaration that we are feeling, that our fans our feeling. That’s what it should be every night.”

The Huskers sealed a bye in this weekend’s Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis. They are the

No. 4 seed and will play the winner of the Ohio State-Purdue matchup.

Whether Nebraska will be dancing past next weekend is still to be seen. But Miles sure thinks this squad is deserving of an atlarge bid.

“They passed my eye test,” he said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

I told the guys in the locker room, that’s what college basketball should be about.”

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CHAMPS Huskers claim 1st conference title

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The Nebraska women’s basketball team poses with the Big Ten Championship trophy after taking down Iowa 72-65 on Sunday in Indianapolis.

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he No. 16 Nebraska women’s basketball team took the Big Ten Championship game 72-65 against the Iowa Hawkeyes not because they scored a lot but because they got the rebounds.

“It was a game where we couldn’t make a shot, but we found a way to win,” Husker coach Connie Yori said.

“That says a lot about our mental toughness. We did a great job on the offensive glass. Every game doesn’t come down to playing pretty, but you find a way to win.”

The Huskers went 20 of 64 from the floor, but out-rebounded the Hawkeyes 58-27 in the game on Sunday.

“It’s extremely frustrating to get out-rebounded like that,” Hawkeye freshman guard Ally Disterhoft said,

“but we handled a lot of adversity, and we never gave up.”

Disterhoft put the first points of the game on the board with a layup.

Nebraska junior forward Hailie Sample responded with a layup, and Disterhoft dropped another 2.

Senior forward Jordan Hooper started off her 18-point game with two made free throws after being fouled by junior center Bethany Doolittle.

Junior guard Tear’a Laudermill made a steal on Iowa’s end and drove the ball in for a wide-open layup.

Rachel Theriot followed with a jumper inside the key to start off her 24-point game, and Laudermill followed with a 3, the Huskers’ only 3-pointer of the half, to continue increasing the lead.

Nebraska went on a 13-0 run in the half, which was broken by Iowa’s senior guard Theairra Taylor with a 3-pointer from the left wing. The Hawkeyes were 4 of 15 from behind the arc in the first 20 minutes and 8-25 in the game.

After dropping a 3, Taylor turned around to get her third foul of the game. Nebraska was put in the bonus with 9:27 left in the half. Hooper went to the charity line for a 1-in-1 and dropped the first and then the second.

The Huskers beat the Hawkeyes at the free-throw line with 30 of 36 made in the game.

“Maybe we committed all of those fouls because we were more tired, but I hate to use that as an excuse,” Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said.

Junior forward Emily Cady turned

(Rachel) kept her calm and kept her cool.

She did a great job getting us the ball, but also taking the shots when she had them.”

Jordan Hooper senior forward

around to foul Disterhoft on Iowa’s end of the court to give the Hawkeyes’ leading scorer a chance to drop two shots from the charity line.

Laudermill ended the half with a drive to the basket and a layup to put the score at 34-26, Nebraska.

Theriot, who was awarded the tournament’s most valuable player,

started the second half with back-toback jumpers from inside the key. She then dropped a 3-pointer from the left wing after Disterhoft made a baseline jumper. “(Rachel) just kept her calm and kept her cool,” Hooper said. “She did a great job getting us the ball but also taking the shots when she had them.”

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NU continues late surge for NCAA bid Huskers defeat Wisconsin to close regular season play, keep hopes alive for NCAA tournament Andrew Ward DN Walter Pitchford danced in the center of the Pinnacle Bank Arena.

College students, young children, parents, middle-aged men and teammate Tai Webster danced with him. DJ Snake’s “Turn Down for What” blared over the PA system. A Nebraska flag flew above the chaos. Not a patch of hardwood could be seen as people piled onto the floor.

It’s something Pitchford, Webster and the rest of Nebraska basketball might have to get used to as the Huskers (19-11 overall, 11-7 Big Ten) took one step closer to an NCAA Tournament bid with a 77-68 win against Wisconsin (255, 12-5) Sunday night in front of a record-breaking crowd.

“Win the game, get in the tournament,” said sophomore guard Shavon Shields, who scored a game high 26 points.

“That’s what we were focusing on.”

And that focus showed right from the start.

Nebraska didn’t waste any time taking advantage of the raucous crowd of 15,998. Shields and Terran Petteway each made a layups to go along with a Pitchford 3. Then Petteway, who also scored 26 points throughout the night, tacked on a triple of his own giving the Huskers a 10-3 lead.

The Badgers settled down, though, tying the game on a Ben Brust 3-pointer with just a little more than 11 minutes to go in the opening half. And then, the game

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Junior Robert Kokesh earned the 174-pound Big Ten title during the weekend in Madison, Wisc. Junior James Green also earned an individual title in the 157-pound division.

NU takes 5th, wins 2 individual titles at championships amber baesler | dn Sophomore Walter Pitchford gets the two-handed dunk in the Huskers’ 77-68 victory against the No. 9 Wisconsin Badgers on Sunday at the Pinnacle Bank Arena. went back and forth.

A Shields layup for Nebraska.

A Josh Gasser 3 for Wisconsin. A Pitchford jumper for the Huskers.

A post move by Nigel Hayes for the Badgers.

The first half consisted of nine lead changes and five ties as both teams shot 54 percent from the field.

Wisconsin led 35-33 at the break.

“We struggled defensively in the first half,” Nebraska coach Tim Miles said. “We left a lot of shooters open.”

It was Wisconsin’s turn to get off to a hot start after the break.

The Badgers scored the half’s first 5 points to grab a 40-33 advantage. The Huskers battled back to cut the lead to one, but that’s as close as Nebraska would get until the momentum shift hit with eight minutes to play.

Ray Gallegos knocked down a 3-pointer, giving the Huskers a 53-52 lead. Then, Benny Parker wrestled the ball away from Wisconsin point guard Traevon Jackson and tipped it ahead to streaking Shields who dunked it home, giving NU a 3-point lead.

Wisconsin wouldn’t lead the rest of the game.

“Once we took the lead in the

second half, we went in the huddle and said, ‘We are not giving it up,’” Petteway said.

Miles said, “That was a real defining moment in the game. It was a big play.”

The Badgers did make it interesting, though.

Frank Kaminsky hit a couple of 3-point jumpers. Brust did the same. Both teams made trips to the free throw line.

But in the end it was too much defense as the Huskers forced 11 Badger turnovers, 3 more than their average.

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Juniors Robert Kokesh, James Green each earn weight class crowns, help Huskers in points Staff Report DN The Nebraska wrestling team earned a fifth place finish in the Big Ten Championships last weekend at Madison, Wisc. The Penn State Nittany Lions claimed the Big Ten Championship crown with 140.5 points, Iowa grabbed second with

134 points and Minnesota earned third with 114.5 points.

Nebraska had two wrestlers claim titles in their weight divisions: junior 157-pounder James Green and junior 174-pounder Robert Kokesh.

The No. 3 157-pounder Green, had the luxury of a first-round bye before taking on Illinois’ Zac Brunson via a pin. He then took on Minnesota’s Dylan Ness, who is ranked sixth in the weight class, and Green came out on top with a 7-3 decision.

This win advanced him into the finals matchup against No. 4 Derek St. John of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Green’s win also came by a decision,

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