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Out of the dollhouse

Role reversal

Alpha Delta Pi to move back to campus

Husker bats stifled in home defeat

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Telling their stories

Friends and family mourn the loss of Aneuris Polanco Foxan at Cristo Rey Cemetery before burying her. Foxan died at the age of 33 because of pneumonia. To bury Foxan, the family had to exhume Smiley Danni Foxan, who died at age 10 from falling off a five-story building while flying a kite. This photo and others will be shared at a show at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, “Two Wings to Fly,” Thursday night. photo courtesy of kaylee everly

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VICTORY, FOR MOST Ignite candidates grab nearly all ASUN spots in 1-party election, fee users receive approval REECE RISTAU | photos by cahner olson

ASUN ELECTION RESULTS

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70% said yes

EXECUTIVE CANDIDATES President: Kevin Knudson (Ignite)

90% 90% 91% Internal Vice President: Grant Garrison (Ignite)

ASUN President Eric Reznicek (left), Internal Vice President-elect Grant Garrison and President-elect Kevin Knudson wait for results from the 2014 ASUN elections Wednesday night.

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External Vice President-Elect Christina Guthmann (left) and Garrison celebrate their victory in the 2014 ASUN elections on Wednesday night at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop.

evin Knudson’s Wednesday began at 4:30 a.m. He couldn’t go back to sleep.

His day ended triumphantly nearly 17 hours later at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop in downtown Lincoln. A phone call informed Knudson and his running mates in Ignite for ASUN, the only party running, that they won student government elections. All fee users also received funding.

About 12.8 percent of students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln voted, which Knudson said he was pleased with, considering a single-party election garnered 3.9 percent in 2007. The number of voters was 2,920.

Ignite’s goal for voter turnout was 12 percent, Knudson said.

“I’m really proud of the team today – we were up at 5 a.m. getting stuff ready, and we’re still here at 9 p.m. after waiting for results,” he said.

Knudson, a junior political science major, is now the presidentelect of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska.

Christina Guthmann, a junior international business major, is the external vice president-elect and Grant Garrison, a junior biology and psychology major, is the internal vice president-elect.

Guthmann won with 91 percent support and Knudson and Garrison won with 90 percent.

“Of course, there’s always little competitions between us three,” Guthmann said. “It’s fun to have the bragging rights.”

All the fee users also came out on top. The Daily Nebraskan received funding with 58 percent support and the DailyER Nebraskan with 59 percent support.

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Police say 1,400 cameras assist their efforts on campus Colleen Fell DN Students may not realize it, but they have about 1,400 cameras monitoring them at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The cameras aren’t monitored around the clock, but they can be helpful in assisting the UNL Police Department with crimes in real time.

“When incidents are in progress, we can switch over to different cameras and see what’s on the scene,” UNLPD Sgt. John Backer said. “It’s helpful when getting descriptions of the suspects.”

The cameras are spread through both City and East campuses and aren’t concentrated in any specific areas, said Bryan Meehan, systems administrator for UNLPD. The cameras are located most-

ly on and around buildings and traffic intersections.

“They’re used for football games a lot,” Meehan said. “We can monitor the traffic flow so we can get people across the streets.”

Use of security cameras is a growing trend not only for police departments but also for other agencies and institutions. Globally, the video surveillance market is expected to expand by 12 percent in 2014 alone, according to IHS Technology, a division of the global research company.

“These agencies are seeing the benefits of these systems,” Backer said.

Police use the on-campus cameras not only on calls in progress and as a proactive measure but also for earlier crimes committed “It’s not CSI, you can’t go back and zoom in after the fact,” Backer said. “A big tool is finding out

when it happened and then look for other clues based on that.”

There’s not a set of cameras or area that is monitored more than others, Meehan said. In fact, the cameras are randomly monitored.

Meehan said it depends on which department needs to view the footage, such as Nebraska Athletics or University Housing.

Despite the high number of cameras, Backer said the department understands the need to respect students’ privacy.

“We don’t want to create an environment where people feel like they’re being watched everywhere they go,” Backer said.

Some students aren’t bothered by the cameras.

Sarah Budzinski, a junior special education and elementary education major, said she doesn’t mind having so many cameras on campus.

“I see them in parking lots, otherwise I don’t really notice them anywhere else,” Budzinski said.

The presence of the cameras may also deter crime, she said.

“If students were made more aware of the cameras, they might be less likely to do things that they aren’t supposed to,” Budzinski said.

One UNL student said he likes having the cameras but doesn’t think they’re always effective.

Matthew Bertelsen, a freshman business administration major, said his bike was stolen after parking it outside of Abel Hall.

When he called police to report it stolen, they told him the cameras in the area weren’t functioning at the time so there was no video of

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A security camera in the Nebraska Union is one of about 1,400 cameras on campus.

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Alpha Delta Pi prepares to move in to new house With an increase in members, sorority looks forward to more room for memories

The chapter is very excited for the opportunity that it’s going to bring to our chapter.”

Lauren Wilson alpha delta pi president

Melissa Allen DN Alpha Delta Pi has outgrown its dollhouse.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln sorority is making plans to move into the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house for next fall. Right now, the sorority house resides about a mile from campus on South 16th Street in the Yates House — or as it is commonly referred to, “the dollhouse,” because the exterior design and trimmings.

The chapter found out that its proposal for the Lambda Chi Alpha house got accepted by the WRK Real Estate, the house’s owners, on Feb. 24.

“The chapter is very excited for the opportunity that it’s going to bring to our chapter,” said Lauren Wilson, a junior food science and technology major and chapter president of the sorority. “We’re excited to live there.”

The historic dollhouse building was built in 1891 and is included in the National Register for Historical Places.

It has been used as a bed and breakfast, as well as a home to past fraternities and sororities.

“The house that we have now is beautiful and has lots of character, and it’s perfect for a sorority,” said Jessica Marion, a freshman child, youth and family studies major and an Alpha Delta Pi member. “But it’s far,

and I don’t have a car or time to get there when I want to go on Thursday to do homework there. It’s a pretty easy walk when it’s warm, but when it’s cold, it’s impossible.”

This will be the first time Alpha Delta Pi will have a sorority house on campus in about 20 years. The university reclaimed the property of the old Alpha Delta Pi house by Harper-Schramm-Smith Residence Halls after 30 years of the sorority living there. Since then, the members have lived on a dorm floor in Cather Residence Hall and on one of the floors of the Acacia fraternity house before moving into the dollhouse.

“It is amazing to think that the past years, we have gone from living on a dorm floor together, living in a fraternity house while our current house was being renovated, to having a beautiful house on G Street,” said Alyssa Christensen, alumna and former president of the chapter, in an email. “It still seems so surreal that we will be on campus and right next to other Greek houses.”

When the sorority moved into its current house in 2011, the chapter had 40 members.

Now, that number has grown to 68. The dollhouse is only able to room 15 people at a time.

The house in which Lambda Chi Alpha resides was built

in 2011 and holds about 64 people. Lambda Chi Alpha President Tony Bertino did not respond to multiple phone calls requesting comment.

The location and size of their new house will bring about positive change for the sorority, Wilson said.

“We want more space for our chapter so we can fit into one building,” Wilson said. “It will be a benefit to be closer to other Greek organizations and life on campus.”

Linda Schwartzkopf, the director of Greek Affairs, agreed.

“For a lot of students, the huge part of the Greek experience is the residential living piece. So having a chapter house on campus will be a big benefit for membership for (the sisters),” Schwartzkopf said.

“They’ve just worked very hard to recruit new members.”

The new house does more than benefit current members of the chapter, Christensen said.

“Having a home on campus will allow for the chapter and alumnae a place to come together and have many years of memories,” she said. “Our chapter of ADPi has been working hard for the past years and with many difficult challenges, we have continue to strive for more membership.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

cops briefs Student encounters phone scam regarding $8,300 grant

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police were contacted Monday morning about a phone scam.

A UNL student received a call on his cellphone from an unknown male offering to give him an $8,300 grant for school. The man on the other end said the student would only have to pay a processing fee. The number was private and the man didn’t identify himself with any organization.

The student called the UNL Financial Aid Office, whose representatives advised him against the grant.

TEENAGER PUNCHES STUDENT’S FACE IN DOWNTOWN LINCOLN

A UNL student experienced minimal injuries late Saturday night after being assaulted by a teenager in the downtown Lincoln area.

The student told police he was walking in the area of 16th and S streets when he heard someone yelling at him from behind. The teenager, a 16- or 17-year-old boy, was telling the student to wait. The student stopped, and when the boy caught up to him, he punched him in the face and ran away laughing.

The student was left with a small cut on the inside of his lip.

CUSTODIAN REPORTS SMILEY-FACE VANDALISM IN BURNETT A UNL custodian called UNLPD after discovering vandalism in Burnett Hall.

There were chalk drawings on the floor of Room 232, possibly from a project that wasn’t cleaned up.

The drawings consisted of large circles and smiley faces.

Police said the drawings aren’t a huge deal, but will have to be shampooed out of the carpet.

MAN FINDS MISSING CAR NEAR MEMORIAL STADIUM

A man and his car were reunited after it went missing early Sunday morning.

The man had reported it stolen to Lincoln Police about two hours before UNLPD located it in a parking lot near Memorial Stadium.

UNLPD found the car running with the driver’s door open. The owner of the car said he had last seen it in the downtown area. He said his spare key, which was missing, had been in his pants pocket that night.

The man said nothing was missing from the car, but an article of clothing that wasn’t his was left behind.

There was no damage to the car.

—Compiled by Colleen Fell

Earthstock to generate Friends Beyond Borders sustainability awareness forges student bonds Jason Shaneyfelt DN

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The organizers of a monthlong sustainability event are looking to the words of poet Wendell Berry for inspiration.

“Because we have not made our lives to fit our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, the streams polluted, the mountains overturned.

Hope then to belong to your place by your own knowledge of what it is that no other place is, and by caring for it as you care for no other place.”

Earthstock, organized by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Environmental Sustainability Committee, will take place throughout April and is aimed at engaging University of Nebraska– Lincoln students in learning about sustainability. Earthstock is based off last year’s Focus Week but has been rebranded and modeled after Woodstock, the three-day music festival held in 1969. The event will feature several small events and one main event in the greenspace next to the Nebraska Union each week.

“We’re at a turning point in the way our climate is going, in our social and economic paradigm of America and we want to show peo- that same carbon footprint. Students ple that, but we also want to show will then be able to put their results people that to be sustainable is re- and a conservation pledge on a paally easy, and there’s a lot of things per foot and place them on a 12-footyou can do, a lot tall poster. of choices you can On April 9, ... we also make that are pretty Earthstock will hold simple,” said Nick the New Growth want to Gerken, a senior Business Expo feashow people that biological systems turing local busiengineering major to be sustainable nesses that practice and a member of the sustainable tactics. is really easy, and Environmental Sus“We always tainability Commit- there’s a lot of think that business tee. “We thought the and sustainability Woodstock model of things you can do, can’t work together, connection and fun a lot of choices because you think was really powerful that business is all for you can make that and really spoke to profit and sustainus as students, and are pretty simple.” ability doesn’t make so we latched onto any money,” said that.”

Melissa Bakewell, a nick gerken Earthstock will junior advertising environmental sustainability kick off with a twoand public relations committee member day event starting major and a member April 2 from 10 a.m. of the Environmento 2 p.m. in the greenspace. Students tal Sustainability Committee. “It’s will be able to enter things such as just showing that businesses are their water and electricity usage on adopting that and making sustainan iPad, which will then tell them ability something that can produce how many Earths would be needed a profit.” to sustain a world of people with

courtesy photo The third week will feature Bikefest on April 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the plaza next to the Nebraska Union. Students will be able to take their bikes to several stations and get them tuned up for the spring months.

Earthstock will end with an allday block party on Earth Day — April 22 — in the plaza and greenspace. The block party will feature booths and displays from several RSOs, as well as food, music, art and a special T-shirt printing where students can bring in any T-shirt and have the Earthstock logo printed on it.

“My personal wrinkle is just to create a culture where sustainability is cool,” Bakewell said. “It’s a culture. It’s something you want to be a part of. Everybody assumes that you have to be in environmental studies to care about this stuff and we just want to show that this can be a part of anyone’s life.”

For more information on Earthstock, visit Green UNL’s Facebook page or follow Green UNL on Twitter @greenunl. news@ dailynebraskan.com

It was a weekend of firsts for Jing Wu. Wu, an international student from China, spent Friday through Sunday with a domestic student as part of the second Friends Beyond Borders event at the University of NebraskaLincoln. Wu experienced her first margarita. Her first Runza. Her first visit to a Midwestern farm.

But what sticks out most was the Midwestern hospitality.

“I told people that I was going to Nebraska, and people said that in Midwestern America people are very nice and friendly,” she said. “And I really think so after this.”

Friends Beyond Borders, planned by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska and the Diversity Strategic Development Committee, pairs a domestic student with an international student of the same gender for all or part of the weekend. During this weekend, the domestic student hosts the international student by, in most cases, taking them home to meet their American families and showing them their American lifestyles.

Amanda Barnard, a junior English and communication studies major, signed up along with a friend from her sorority to host an international student and was paired with Wu. Barnard and Wu originally met each other at the Thursday social provided through the Friends Beyond Borders program where there were games for the participants, as well as general safety information.

Aakriti Agrawal, diversity committee member and a sophomore actuarial science major, said this year’s kick-off social went great. About 70 UNL students participated in the weekend.

“I think everyone did a really good job of making friends that weren’t necessarily the people they were going home with and just getting to know other people,” Agrawal said. Barnard and Wu kicked off their weekend together by going to Lazlo’s

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About 70 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, both international and domestic, took part in Friends Beyond Borders last weekend.

Brewery in the Haymarket for dinner, where Wu drank her first margarita. Other students participating in the event, including international students from Saudi Arabia, South Korea and China, joined Barnard and Wu. The group then went to Ivanna Cone for dessert.

The next morning, Barnard took Wu to her family’s dairy farm in the small Nebraska town of Diller. Barnard’s aunt, who owns the state’s largest familyoperated dairy farm, gave them a tour of the farm.

Wu was able to bottle-feed newborn calves and witnessed the milking process of cattle. She said she was surprised by the differences of American farming to Chinese farming when she saw how efficient the farm was with technology.

“China has small farms and everything is human-based; there’s more labor,” Wu said, “Agriculture here is really advanced.”

The girls filled their afternoon with four-wheel riding and haystack racing before returning back to Lincoln for Wu to try one of Nebraska’s greatest traditions,

Runza. To wrap up the weekend, Wu and another international student participating in Friends Beyond Borders, prepared Barnard and her friend traditional Chinese and Korean cuisine that Sunday evening.

“That was really fun for us,” Barnard said. “We got to eat something that they knew how to make.”

Barnard was impressed by the willingness of Wu and other international students who participated.

“Coming over here (to the U.S.) is really scary, and I think it’s really courageous that they would even sign up for a program like this, or just come to the University of Nebraska and be outgoing and try to make friends,” Barnard said.

After the weekend, both girls agreed that international and domestic students can relate to each other and be friends.

“Even though we all have very different cultures, we’re all college students,” Barnard said.

“We’re all dealing with the same things.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Charity provides for Nepali villages Power a Village, started by 2 UNL students, prepares for April fundraiser, will sell tickets next week Madison wurtele dn Two senior mechanical engineering students want remote villages in Nepal to see the light.

Mohan Basnet and Walter Bircher started Power a Village three years ago with a mission of providing electricity to rural Nepali villages and have done so for two villages so far. This year, they hope to raise $50,000 and bring electricity to five more villages.

Students can help with the fundraising effort and learn more about how Power a Village is trying to change the situation in Nepal by attending the organization’s Taste of the Himalayas event on April 5. This event will feature authentic Nepali cuisine, Nepali dance performances, a silent auction of Nepali handicrafts and paintings and a presentation on Power a Village’s past projects.

It will take place in the Unity Room at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The group will be selling tickets in the Nebraska Union on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tickets can also be purchased through the organization’s website, www. poweravillage.org. Prices are $20 for students and $25 for non-students.

“We have already proved with our past projects that if we have the funds, we can make things happen,” Basnet said.

Basnet is from a village in Nepal where residents used to have no access to electricity. He has experienced firsthand what it is like to be without this basic technology. This experience inspired him to start Power a Village.

Many villages in Nepal are dependent on kerosene-burning lamps for light. The fumes from these lamps can lead to negative respiratory effects. Power a Village wants to provide sustainable

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Pictured are members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of Medlife, which is taking a service trip to Lima, Peru, for spring break.

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Mohan Basnet and Walter Bircher, two senior mechanical engineering students, started the organization Power a Village three years ago with the hopes to provide electricity to rural Nepali villages.

They hope to raise $50,000 for the organization this year.

We have already proved with our past projects that if we have the funds, we can make things happen.”

Mohan Basnet

power a village co-founder

electricity to these villages so the people living there will not have to deal with these side effects, Bircher said.

While Power a Village is not the only organization looking to bring electricity to remote parts of the world, it is unique in the way that the members do things.

“We have connections in Nepal so we don’t actually have to travel there,” Bircher said.

The organization has a member in Nepal. Basnet and Bircher

also have connections with people in construction and equipment wholesaling in Nepal. This saves the organization tens of thousands of dollars in travel costs and allows them to use donor money more wisely, Bircher said.

The group spent two years doing background research and started focusing on fundraising last year, which led to them to being able to provide electricity to two remote villages in Nepal us-

ing hydroelectricity for one and solar-powered electricity for the other.

The organization hopes to continue to grow and is working on becoming a federally recognized non-profit organization. The members are also working on becoming a registered student organization at UNL and plan on expanding to campuses throughout the country.

In the future, they want to continue to provide electricity to remote villages and be able to offer economic empowerment sessions to those villages they help.

“I think that a lot of people in America take electricity for granted, and I think it’s really hard to envision life without electricity being born in America,” Bircher said.

“But it’s important to realize that there are people without the use of this basic technology.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

research roundup many career options available for themselves as for boys.

Researchers believe that the doll itself overrides the career aspirations suggested by its costume.

Smartphones push parents to ignore children, study says

Smartphones are taking parents’ attention from their children, according to a study by Boston Medical Center.

Researchers observed parents and children at local fast food restaurants and took note of children’s behavior and reactions when the parents had their eyes on their phones.

Forty of the 55 families observed were absorbed in their texting and Web surfing, according to the study. Nearly a third of the parents had their phones in hand during the entire meal.

Some children appeared unaffected by their parent’s distraction and others acted out in attention-seeking behaviors.

1 in 10 americans believe html is an std

One in 10 Americans surveyed thought HTML – a language used to create websites – was a sexually transmitted disease.

The study was conducted

by Vouchercloud.net. The study also found that 77 percent of respondents could not identify what SEO – SearchEngine Optimization – stood for. More than one in four identified “gigabyte” incorrectly as a bug commonly found in South America and nearly one in four thought an “MP3” was a “Star Wars” robot. Twelve percent said “USB” was an acronym for a European country, and 15 percent believed “software” was a term for comfortable clothing.

Despite the incorrect answers, 61 percent of the respondents said it’s important to have to have a good knowledge of technology in this day and age.

study: GIRLS WHO PLAY with barbie HAVE limited CAREER ASPIRATIONS

Girls who play with Barbie dolls have limited career goals, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon and University of California, Santa Cruz.

The girls who played with Barbie dolls, no matter what the dolls were dressed in, saw themselves in fewer occupations than they thought possible for boys. In contrast, girls who played with Mrs. Potato Head reported nearly as

30 percent of 1-yearolds spanked at least once last month

About 30 percent of 1-yearold children were spanked at least once in the last month, according to a study from the University of Michigan.

Researchers studied 2,788 families who had participated in a previous study of new births. The study found that 10 percent of the families were visited at least once by child protective services.

Researchers said spanking can have negative consequences on the child, and parents need to be made aware of alternate and more successful discipline techniques.

Study sheds light on music’s impact on emotions

Not everyone enjoys music, according to a study conducted by Spanish and Canadian researchers.

People who have a low sensitivity to music make up less than 5 percent of the population. These people reacted with normal sensitivity levels to other rewards.

The study asked participants to rate the amount of pleasure they experienced while listening to excerpts of soothing pieces of music. The second experiment asked participants to perform a quick monetary task where they could win or lose real money. The experiments both engage the reward-related neural circuits in the brain and heart rate and skin conductivity was tracked for each participant.

The study found that those who said they found little pleasure in music were being honest. Their reactions to music were much lower than their reactions to the monetary task.

The researchers hope the study will help explain the neural processes by which music evokes emotions and may shed light on brain conditions.

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cameras: from 1 the bike theft.

“What good are (the cameras) if you can’t even use them?” Bertelsen said.

The cameras are not pointed at places such as dorm rooms or residence halls, Backer said.

The cameras usually use only video, but audio is sometimes implemented. If this is the case, UNL employees will be notified that they are being recorded and signs will be posted, according to the university’s closed circuit television camera policy. In order for a recording to take place, advance written authorization

of the vice chancellor from that department is necessary.

Meehan said the cameras record footage in certain places and have an at least 30-day revolving video. After that, the footage will be erased, unless there is an archived case.

However, all the monitoring comes at a cost.

There may be a need for more cameras in certain places, Bertelsen said.

“They definitely need to have more around bike racks,” Bertelsen said. “I work at a bike shop, and a lot of people bring in stolen bikes.”

Meehan said the university is always looking to improve campus security by adding more cameras, but it can be expensive.

He said the average cost for an analog camera is about $250 and a digital camera is about $500.

Meehan said he foresees more digital cameras being used in the university’s future, as digital cameras offer a better picture than analog.

However, the switch may take some time because of the costs.

In addition to new cameras, Meehan said old ones often have to be replaced because ofweathering.

“It’d be like setting your camcorder outside all winter long,” Meehan said.

Backer said he expects technology to improve in coming years with increased video quality, especially at night, and better storage solutions for the videos.

For now, Backer said he’s happy with the system and thinks it is an asset to the department.

“It adds a whole new dimension on solving crime,” he said. “And it makes us better at it.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Students to use spring break to serve others Diego de los Reyes DN

jors, they’re not the only ones attending the trip.

“We actually have a lot of engineers too because a lot of the Forty University of Nebraska-Lincommunity service projects are on coln students are spending their rockier areas, because that’s were spring break in Lima, Peru, as part of the activities of the internation- the slums are, where we’re going to,” said Rebecca Ramm, a senior al organization called Medlife.

“Medlife is an international Spanish major and treasurer for organization that works to bring the UNL Medlife chapter.

Ramm, founding member of mobile medical clinics to areas the Medlife chapter at UNL, is of the world and areas of certain organizing a fundraiser for some countries that don’t have access to members of the trip. The fundraisadequate medical care,” said Kayleigh Lewandowski, a junior mi- er will help facilitate airline and travel expenses. It’ll take place on crobiology major and fundraising Monday, at Yogurtini on 48th and chair of the UNL Medlife chapter.

O streets from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

While this group is going to Volunteers will also have a Peru, Medlife is also running trips supporting job, shadowing local this spring to places such as Ecuadoctors and helping them do their dor, Tanzania and India. job.

Lewandowski described Lima “They take the physicians as a big, “pretty modern” city. from local com“But there munities, so that are mountains on Last year it’s not just an the outskirts, and American docsometimes people we took a tor coming in and physically canfixing everything not get down the group of 21, and and then leavmountain to get this year we’ve ing because that medical care,” Ledoesn’t sustain doubled it.” wandowski said. anything,” Ramm This is the Kayleigh said. “So they take second year the the local health chapter is organizLewandowski care professionals ing trips to South unl medlife fundraising chair and volunteers America. from anywhere, “Last year we and they place them there and try took a group of 21, and this year to set up a health infrastructure.” we’ve doubled it, which is super Spring break isn’t the only cool,” Lewandowski said. time students can volunteer.

The students who volunteered “Our members go on trips all will provide help for a variety of around the year, but we just have medical services in the mobile one main spring break trip,” Leclinics set up by Medlife. wandowski said. “We encourage “You could be on triage, you our members, if you can’t go durcould be on gynecology, dentistry or just the regular physicians and ing spring break, go during winter break if you want. We’ll help what you do depends on whatever the doctor wants you to do,” you get there. That’s just not the big group trip we’re going.”

Lewandowski said.

Ramm also mentioned that She recalled an experience that stood out to her on last year’s members do small-time volunteering in the Lincoln community. trip.

The Medlife chapter at UNL “There was a woman, she looked exhausted, and she had raises funds for Medlife through a been sick, and her infant had been variety of events. Last semester it sick,” Lewandowski said. “I re- hosted an event called Music for member she was so exhausted, Medicine, which featured music groups from around campus. and I was like, ‘Do you want me This semester, the chapter is to hold the baby while you take a seat?’ and she just looked so hosting a run called “Five Dollar 5K“ on April 26. relieved, you know, because she “So basically the proceeds walked probably a really long way. She just looked so relieved to from these two events go to Medlife, and what it does with it have a second to herself, and that is buy supplies, so they can help was pretty good to me. That really out these people,” Lewandowski stood out to me, you know. Just said. helping people.”

Ramm said she has high exThe experience in the mobile pectations for the trip. clinics goes beyond medical.

“I expect an overall confirma“It’s great if you want to praction of what I want to do with my tice your Spanish,” Lewandowski life,” she said. “This is the first said. “I’m sure my Spanish probtime I really get to act on that deably improved more than it does sire to serve an underserved popon a semester class here.”

While Medlife’s mission and ulation for medical purposes.”

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elections: from 1 ceived 70 percent support; UPC received 61 percent. The Lied Center Discounts program received 68 percent support.

The University Health Center received 63 percent support; ASUN received 62 percent support; Campus Recreation programs and facilities received 73 percent.

Parking and Transit services received 68 percent support; the Nebraska Unions and Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center received 61 percent.

The Debt Services Facility Fee to finance the unions, the Gaughan center and UHC received 53 percent support.

The Newspaper Readership Program, which provides four major local and national papers to campus, received 65 percent support from students. Last year, the program failed to pass by 36 votes, slightly below 50 percent.

A constitutional amendment to increase the number of senators on the ASUN senate depending on student population passed with 72 percent support.

The requirement for it to pass was 66 percent.

Two independent candidates won the positions they were running for: Matt Smoot, a junior music education major, for a senate seat in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and Logan Peters, a sophomore animal science major, for an atlarge position on the Committee

for Fees Allocation.

Amanda Clymer, a sophomore agricultural economics major and the third independent candidate, did not win a spot as an advisory board member for the College of Agricultural and Natural Resources.

One write-in candidate received a senate seat as part of the College of Education and Human Sciences: Grant Thomas, a junior social science major.

The Ignite executives will now focus on their platforms of keeping students’ first MIPs within the university, solidifying UNL’s Good Samaritan policy, hosting town-hall style meetings and connecting students with ASUN. As the DN has reported this semester, whether this year’s lack of competition was a result of student apathy or exhaustion has yet to be seen. During elections, 309 students viewed the ballot but did not vote. Ignite is aware of this trend, given its platform of connecting with students. It’s something the executives will focus on.

“That was the frustrating thing, people would ask, ‘Why are you doing this?’” Garrison said about running as a single party. “When you care about something, you have to care about it – whether anyone sees it or not.”

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our view

Students should be more involved in ASUN elections In Wednesday’s Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections, 12.8 percent of students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln logged onto MyRed to cast their votes for the ASUN representatives, as well as student fee allocations.

The only party running, Ignite for ASUN, won all three executive seats. The University Program Council, the Daily Nebraskan and the Dailyer Nebraskan will all keep their student fees. The students also voted to support funding all Fund B users, such as Transit Services and the University Health Center.

The low turnout isn’t entirely surprising, and it was better than it could have been. Of the four one-party elections, this year had the second-highest turnout. 2011 was higher, with 13.6 percent of students voting.

Without debates and active campaigning, it’s hard to get excited about ASUN. But elections are still important because ASUN executives make policies that affect you and the ballot is asking permission to use your money.

If you approved our fees, the Editorial Board says thank you. If you didn’t, tell us what you’d like us to do. We have some exciting changes coming next fall, and we’re thrilled you’ll get to see them.

Still, the level of student apathy is concerning. In the past, we’ve had four one-party elections, and the highest overall voting percentage is still in the high 20s. As individuals seeking higher education we have the ethical obligation to participate in civic discourse. Don’t let apathy and “slactivism” get you down. You have a voice — use it.

An editorial isn’t going to reverse this trend. We encourage next year’s ASUN senators and executives to think about how to ignite (pun intended) interest in the student body as well as push student voters to pay attention. Elections aren’t meaningless, no matter how low the voter turnout is or how few parties run. We can only strive to do better next time.

Again, thank you for approving our fees. We’ll still be here. For you. opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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Society affects men’s body images

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ast fall, I was reading on a bench outside of Andrews Hall. On another bench nearby were some volunteers running a bake sale. Many students stopped and looked longingly at the treats, lamenting their lack of cash.

One guy in athletic shorts and a cut-off Tshirt glanced at the table and frowned. “No, thanks. Gotta watch the physique.”

I admit that at the time I allowed myself a smirk. “What guy cares so much about his figure to pass up food?” I wondered. However, looking at a recent article in the Atlantic, the number of young men who obsess over their figures is quite a bit higher than I thought.

The article cites two studies on male eating disorders. According to the first, published by Biological Psychiatry, about one in four men has some kind of eating disorder, which is a vast difference from the generally accepted one in 10. The other article cited, from JAMA Pediatrics, acknowledges that many males “may not be recognized by their health care providers as having a weight-related disorder because of the sex-specific presentation.” The two most commonly acknowledged eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia as attempts to lose weight.

These statistics are alarming.

Perhaps we don’t hear about eating disorders in males nearly as often as in females because what classifies as an eating disorder is rarely associated with being male.

Men with eating disorders face an interest-

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ing challenge. As the Atlantic article said, they want to lose weight to look slim, but they also want to gain muscle mass. Just as the socially idealized image of a woman is very different than that of a man, we can’t expect the resulting eating disorders to look the same. The National Eating Disorders Association’s page on male eating disorders goes into many correlation studies on male anorexia and bulimia, but it hardly mentions the male tendency to want to bulk up. Studies show that one in four boys, and not all of them competitive athletes, turn to energy and muscle building supplements as they attempt to get in shape, some starting as early as the sixth grade. According to Dr. Mark A. Jenkins these supplements are little more than harmful anabolic steroids in disguise, specifically those containing the supplement creatine.

Why is being muscular so important?

Watch “300.” Glance at the cover of a romance novel. Men are told that more muscles mean

Just as the socially idealized image of a woman is very different than that of a man, we can’t expect the resulting eating disorders to look the same.”

#Party brought needed attention to ASUN election

t a university not well known for political efficacy, there’s been a particular lack of interest in this year’s elections for the Association of Students at the University of Nebraska. Ignite for ASUN ran unopposed in this year’s student body elections. The annual Daily Nebraskan debate between parties was converted into an open forum because, well, you can’t debate yourself, can you?

The political climate needed something specific: unbridled, unadulterated enthusiasm. And that’s what we got, in the form of #Party for ASUN. #Party was the Dailyer Nebraskan’s pet project this political season. The party formed as an avenue for Dailyer staff to comment on the single-party election that took place Wednesday. Within two weeks, #Party had hundreds of Facebook likes, a six-item political agenda and some really sharp promotional photos.

First, a confession: I didn’t know that only one party was running for ASUN elections until the sign-up date had come, gone, returned and gone again. If not for my responsibilities at the DN, I quite possibly still wouldn’t.

Much like in the United States, there are three major groups at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The first group is the government itself, or more specifically, its members as individuals. In this case, that’s ASUN. They participate in student government by organizing platforms, running for election and putting proposals into action. And I think it’s safe to say they generally believe in the legitimacy of student government.

The second group is the media. They participate in student government by watching other people participate in student government, researching and interpreting the government’s actions and passing on key points to the public.

They are much more critical of campus politics – for example, the DN’s point-counterpoint on ASUN from March 3 – but the media generally see it as something worth talking about, something worth addressing and something ultimately worth fixing.

The third group? People who don’t care, i.e. basically everyone else. They’re the people who assume student government doesn’t affect their lives (not entirely accurate) and that voting won’t do them any good (somewhat more accurate).

For ASUN, this year’s election provided a nearly unprecedented opportunity to skip the voter platforms and go straight to crafting policy. For the average voter, there was nothing to gain from following a single-party election for student government, besides continued student fees.

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Enter #Party.

The satirical characters of John Edwards, Rich Kennedy and Gerald gave disenfranchised students a standard to rally to. Their “Let’s Change the Union Back” platform was the most hilariously hyperbolic representation of conservatism I’ve seen outside The Onion. And most importantly, their existence drew attention to an election that otherwise would have garnered little interest.

Without #Party, there would have been virtually no interest in this election. With #Party, there were hundreds of students talking about the election on Facebook and Twitter. There were people at the Dailyer Nebraskan Mass Debate on Monday cheering on the return of Sbarro and the re-relocation of the union Starbucks.

Now even the people who only attended for a laugh know more about the ASUN election process. They know more about Ignite for ASUN’s 2014 platform.

They know this year’s election was, to put it lightly, a flop. They know how to keep next year from turning out the same way.

For taking something as heavy as a nearly complete lack of student interest in ASUN and making it not only interesting but funny, we have #Party to thank. They raised the profile of a nothing election more than the election itself did. They got people talking about change.

When it comes to pervasive, society-type issues like this, getting people talking is half the battle.

The other half comes next year by maintaining some of the energy that came with #Party and channeling it into actual student participation in elections, which admittedly isn’t the easiest thing. But without #Party, we wouldn’t have that energy in the first place.

Benjamin Curttright is a junior English major. He voted for Gerald. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

you’re more manly and, therefore, more desirable. Even action figures exemplify this beefy, stalwart ideal.

Many of us remember the “normal Barbie” photos that went viral last year. Artist Nickolay Lamm 3D-printed a doll based on the average 19-year-old woman, and because of a crowdfunding campaign, it’s likely that “Lammily” will soon be arriving at a toy store near you.

I’m excited for a doll with more realistic and healthy proportions to model for young girls of today. However, I don’t think we should stop with girls. Dr. Raymond Lemberg, an expert on male eating disorders, claims that action figures depict an unrealistic man in the same way that Barbie depicts an unrealistic woman. Can’t we get a Captain Average action figure? A GeeI’m-Normal soldier? The image of masculinity that the media presents us with doesn’t seem to settle for anything but Larger Than Life — that is, bigger and better than what is normal.

The men in my life are naturally competitive. They like bigger and better. This leads me to believe that, while men and women are both presented with a societally idealized image of their gender, men are more likely to see that impossible standard as possible. Looking back at the JAMA Pediatrics study, many young men go to great and harmful lengths to achieve that physique. It’s important to realize, as women continue to combat the objectification and idealization of their own bodies, that men aren’t so entirely exempt from the same treatment.

We owe it to our friends and brothers to see them, not their hulking (or not so hulking) physiques.

Annie Stokely is a sophomore English major. Follow her @Anna_Bee_94. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Consider all definitions of ‘feminism,’ not just one

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eminism. Noun. “The advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.”

This is the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of feminism. It’s rarely that simple, though. With success in the women’s movement comes complexity that encompasses a number of ideologies, spin-offs and disagreements: radical feminism, cultural feminism, third-wave feminism — the list goes on. The mainstream media and anti-feminists have embodied a misunderstanding of what it means to be a feminist. However, discord between feminists hasn’t necessarily helped people’s understanding of their cause, either.

If you couldn’t guess, I identify as a feminist and furthermore find any false impressions of the term extremely alarming to the future of feminism. However, I understand that being a feminist does not just mean one thing like the media and anti-feminists have framed it. To say there must be one central definition of feminism and one definition of a feminist would be like saying Democrats and Republicans must create, once and for all, one sole definition of their political identities.

In Debra Baker Beck’s “The ‘F’ Word: How the Media Frame Feminism,” she uses the work of historian and philosopher John Fiske to reason the general misconceptions we see in media. Fiske is known for attributing meaning-laden codes to what we define as reality. As he was quoted in “The ‘F’ Word,” Fiske defines such codes as “a system of signs, whose rules and conventions are shared amongst members of a culture.” Therefore, what passes for “reality” in any culture is merely the product of that culture’s codes. These codes frame femininity in mass media and ultimately effect the public’s perception of feminism.

When we look at how our culture has coded feminism, it’s easy to point out the negative connotations that have been perpetuated by the media. Although the media provides a place for people to present feminist issues to a larger audience, it tends to operate in what Marilyn Crafton Smith calls the field of allowable images. These images often limit how outside viewpoints such as feminism are presented — if at all. We can see the ideas of feminism that have been misconstrued as its goals have evolved since the women’s suffrage movement.

For instance, before 1920 you could have found five people who identified as feminists, and they were all likely to be women who were advocating for the same thing: women’s suffrage. Whereas today you might find five people who identify as feminists and each of them

Gabriella Parsons

could be advocating for different things, such as equal pay, LGBT equality, women’s rights, contraceptives and so on. The term itself has been interpreted differently by both people who identify as feminists and people who don’t. Feminists no longer advocate for the social and political justices of only women, but rather women, men and also people who don’t identify with a gender.

It’s clear there are many brands of feminism and a level of disagreement among feminists that comes with them. However, people who identify as feminists and also those who don’t should acknowledge the many contexts in which feminist work is done. Feminists need to work together and embrace the direction feminism is heading — which is forward, but only if we allow room for selfrepresentation. Let people do their own feminist work.

When I asked Jaclyn Cruikshank Vogt, an English graduate research assistant at the University of NebraskaLincoln, for her thoughts on feminism, she said, “For me, the basis of feminism comes through self-awareness and self-examination. Do the choices I make contribute to gender disparity? Do my choices contribute to the disenfranchisement of others? If I don’t know the answer to those questions, then I need to find out. And once I do, I then need to decide if I am willing to change my behavior for the betterment of others.”

As bell hooks famously put, feminism is for everybody. Therefore, we should allow feminism to be for everybody. We know that the media has participated in the elongation of feminist stereotypes. It’s time to face them head-on by implementing the changes that feminists want to see. However, we must first reflect on our own behaviors before we’ll see any change.

Gabriella Parsons is a freshman journalism major and a member of Freshman Campus Leadership Associates.

Follow her on twitter at @gab___i (that’s 3 underscores). Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Nebraskan to lecture on travel, dreams

hired at an IT department and fixed computers for the next three Andy Stoll plans years because it paid much better than being a just-graduated filmto tell stories from maker. But he knew he wouldn’t his four years and couldn’t be a computer technician his whole life. abroad during UPC “Let me put it like this: My presentation mother is a psychiatric nurse, and my father is a social worker,” Stoll said. “I have been taught my whole life that I am supposed to do good maranda loughlin in the world. And I wanted to do dn good, but I had to go see the world before I could start doing it.”

“I quit my job, I sold all of my During the years between things, and I bought a one-way graduating and hopping from ticket to China, and I just left. I country to country, Stoll flipped had never been out of the country through National Geographics in my entire life.” every night and watched travel Globetrotter Andy Stoll is documentaries. coming to the University of Ne“It reminded me that there was braska-Lincoln this Thursday to a big world out there I would have speak to students on traveling the to go see,” Stoll. world and fulfilling their dreams Instead of seeing and experias part of a University Program encing the world for a single year, Council (UPC) event. The talk, which was the Stoll’s initial plan, “How (and Why) to Travel the he traveled the world for four World with Andy Stoll” starts at years.

7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union “I had some really incredible Auditorium. experiences,” The event is Stoll said. “I free for stulived in a Buddents with an dhist temple in NCard and $5 Korea. I ended for faculty, staff up playing an and the general 18th-Century Stoll will talk public. soldier in a BolThere were lywood movie about his posta lot of nomiin India. I lived nations for in a mud hut college adventures. speaker events village, and I this year, said What exciting things worked on a Nora Williams, 500-acre cattle do you plan to do the public relaranch in Austions chair for tralia. I did all after college?

Tell us UPC, but all sorts of things of the counin the past four on Twitter at cil members years. @dnartsdesk. thought Stoll “I think would be the the biggest gift best fit because I got was the of his experience with talking to ability to see different ways of livcollege students. ing and really see the world,” he “A lot of us feel like we don’t said. really know what we are doing But this isn’t the biggest point with our lives, and Andy Stoll is of his talk this Thursday. just a really good inspirational Stoll now travels around the speaker that motivates students to country speaking about his expedo something different,” Williams riences and encouraging college said. students to create their own. He In fact, Williams is one of those believes that not everyone’s dream students. is to work a 9-to-5 job in a tiny cu“I mean I definitely don’t have bicle. a plan yet, so going and travel“I try and help students undering and experiencing a different stand that the dreams of the life type of life in different countries that they want to live is different is something I would really like to than maybe what our culture exdo,” Williams said. “I think everypects,” Stoll said. “Whatever your one should experience things that dream is, as crazy as it seems, is aren’t normal or traditional.” possible. If a guy like me can do it, Stoll first realized his dream than anyone can.” when he was 23 years old and in Stoll said he is “nobody spethe process of graduating from cial.” college. However, it took him “I don’t have any special skills three years of saving and planor abilities, and I am not endowed ning to begin accomplishing his with special characteristics. I’m goals. just a guy, and I just had this re“I was bright-eyed and ally big dream,” Stoll said. “I just bushy-tailed, and I really wanted wasn’t going to take ‘no’ for an to change the world,” Stoll said. answer, and hopefully my story “I realized very quickly that I works and can inspire some of the had a problem because I wanted students of UNL that their dreams to change the world, but I actuare possible, too.” ally had no idea how the world Traveling the world for four worked because I had never seen years brings its own set of chalit.” lenges, including differences in After graduating with degrees language, culture and climate. in film and business, Stoll was

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Deriuse Augustine, a Dominican farmer, and his children, David Castillo, 12, and Benjamin Castillo, 17, return home from a 14-kilometer hike. They journey daily to and from the fields where Augustine harvests yucca, oranges and sugarcane.

Telling their

stories Thirteen UNL journalism students present stories from people living in the Dominican Republic, Haiti during Thursday night showcase at the Ross

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hirteen University of NebraskaLincoln journalism students will tell the stories of people they met during their international trip to the Dominican Republic. “Two Wings to Fly: Stories of fear, hope and economics in the Dominican Republic” will debut at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Thursday at 7 p.m.

The international photojournalism trips are possible through an endowment from Howard Buffett, Joel Sartore and Tom Mangelsen, and take place twice a year, once during winter break and another during summer break. Past trips have included India, Brazil, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and, most recently, Ethiopia. After preparing and researching topics while in school, students spent around three weeks in the foreign country, conducting interviews and capturing photos and videos.

Nickolai Hammar and Faiz Siddiqui, both junior journalism majors, worked together on a multimedia piece regarding the controversial baseball culture in the country.

“Baseball has been an integral part of Dominican culture for decades” Hammar said.

“It’s the source of a lot of people’s livelihoods because there’s so many jobs that go into it. It’s really contentious part of their culture because it’s a source of great wealth but also a source of a lot of problems.”

While Hammar focused on capturing images and video for the story, Siddiqui, one of three reporters on the trip, helped with the narrative

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Isandro Vargas rasises fighting roosters in his backyard in Santo Domingo. Cockfighting is an integral part of Dominican culture. Men from all social and economic classes come together to take part in cockfighting, as the environment acts as social club as well as a blood sport.

The fights usually last about 10 minutes, but can end as quickly as five seconds. The fight ends when one rooster dies or gives up.

side. Siddiqui’s written story was published on Feb. 4 for NewsNetNebraska while the more visual side of the story will be told at the event.

Hammar also worked on a story with fellow UNL journalist Joseph Moore on a story about a garment factory called Alta Gracia in the Dominican Republic. Unlike many factories in the Dominican Republic, Alta Gracia gives its workers livable wages and livable working conditions such as air circulation, bathroom breaks, ergonomic chairs and reasonable shift length.

Anna Gronewold, a senior journalism major, was also among the three reporters for the trip and was chosen after applying for the first time.

“I didn’t know anything about the DR or Haiti before,” Gronewold said. “As journalists, we do a pretty good job of trying to show the good and bad parts of the country. I think there were really important people we met with really fascinating stories.”

Gronewold worked with photojournalist Andrew Dickinson on a story about towns near the Haitian border and said one of the most rewarding parts of her trip came toward the end.

“One of the sources at the end … we asked her when the last time she cried was,” Gronewold said. “And she said, ‘I would be crying right now if you weren’t here. What you’re doing is so encouraging, and nobody’s ever asked to hear my story before.’ Sometimes sources, they tell you that, but to actually have someone say that, completely unprompted, was really

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“Two Wings to Fly” will also feature stories on sex workers, Dominican citizenship and cockfighting, among other things from the perspective of people from all walks of life.

“I think it’s really important for people in general to be exposed to problems that are completely foreign to their own living situation,” Hammar said. “I think it’s easy to overlook problems that you have here but seeing stuff that’s different enough to be interesting to them kind of makes them reflect on problems that are surrounding them. I also think it’s important for people to come by these because people can be inspired by any small details of the story.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Nebraska musicians take talent to SXSW stage Nebraska producer Ready Red organized SXSW showcase, introduced local acts to festival kekeli dawes dn South by Southwest (SXSW) is one of the biggest, if not the most important, national showcases for independent music each year. Artists from all around the country work for years to earn a slot at one of Austin’s many venues and this year Nebraska acts will be taking the stage at a showcase a Nebraskan helped organize.

Lawrence “Ready Red” McIntosh is a promoter and entrepreneur who works with Roc Nation, Jay Z’s label. He played a large role in bringing the superstar emcee to Lincoln this past December. He’s done media work everywhere from the Oscars to the Grammys. For the past three years, he’s organized the AmpLive Showcase at SXSW, and this year, he’s bringing Nebraska acts Ras Dega, Dymondz, AZP and King Kliff with him.

Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m, there will be a showcase at the Lucky Lounge in Austin. The next day there will be a longer showcase at The Hudson from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Each artist pays a fee to perform on stage for 10 to 15 minutes, and at the end of each showcase the best bands get five minutes or one song to perform for celebrities, representatives of Roc Nation and other music label representatives.

They are competing for a $25,000 deal

from The Senate Production Group to distribute some work through Warner Bros.

Hang w/, a live streaming mobile app, will cover the event via Facebook and Twitter. Justin.TV will live stream event and REVOLT TV will interview the best of the best after their performances. Fans in Lincoln will be able to watch AZP perform as if they were at Duffy’s, and a viewer might even catch them on REVOLT later on in the season.

“Since I’m from Nebraska, I want Nebraska well-represented,” Red said. “One of my goals is to start promoting not only the Midwest, but Nebraska, because it is the center of America. I want to break an artist from here.”

One of those acts is AZP, a band Red had been looking forward to working with for a while.

“A long time ago, before AZP started, Zachary (Watkins) was one of the artists I wanted to work with,” Red said. “I wanted acts to showcase Lincoln, Neb. for the Jay Z pre-party.

I felt that because Roc Nation would be in the building, I couldn’t have any sucky acts. I needed the best of the best, not all rap, something that was good; something that was dope. It’s been a marriage since then.”

Red said he found it was important to seek out and work with acts who are willing to commit to their work. He found that if he worked with artists who cared about their work as much as he cared about the work he does as the A&R for The Senate Music Group and his other media endeavors, good work would come from the collaboration naturally.

“I think they are innovative and young and are destined for greatness in the industry. There’s no one else like them in the industry. They’re

They are innovative and young and are destined for greatness.” lawerence “ready red” McIntosh promoter and entrepreneur

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Ishma Valenti, lead singer and co-founder of the band AZP, performs at Bourbon Theatre during Lincoln Exposed. Valenti and the band members of AZP will be performing at SXSW, a music and arts festival in Austin, Thursday through Saturday. stubborn and confident enough to be successful; they’re just waiting on their moment — and this might be it.”

AZP has been working on this trip since November, and it may have that attitude Red spoke of. Zachary Watkins, lead singer and keyboardist for the Lincoln-based hip hop-rock group, recently locked down another showcase for SXSW.

“If you pitch to people the same way they pitch to you, it works out,” Watkins said. “It was much easier than I thought.”

Watkins realized that you don’t always need a label to set you up for a big festival like SXSW. “In the music industry today, no promoter or label can talk more about your music than you,” Watkins said.

“So I think one thing we’ve gotten really good at is presenting who we are; we pump ourselves.”

Watkins still says AZP has the fans to thank for its trip to Austin and showcase on Saturday.

“If it wasn’t for our following here … the love and dedication that we got here for our band is hugely what put us on another level,” Watkins said.

“Just seeing all the love on our Facebook page, I felt like that what’s the guy who looked at our stuff saw.”

“It is really important for the artist to understand how important social media is.” Red said. “Part of what I do is to figure out what I can do to help.”

Red was largely dissatisfied with the false promises the SXSW festival gave to up-and-coming artists. He recalled coming across venues that attracted many hopeful artists but didn’t attract any figures in the music business. He wanted to change that.

“The goal of AmpLive give artists a showcase that means something, where they can be heard.” Red said.

He added that too many venues in SXSW don’t give artists a proper platform to get their work out.

“They are relying on you, the artist, and the fact that they said this is a ‘SXSW endorsed venue’ to get the people there,” he said. “There are no industry people there, so our showcase is there to give artists a real outlet to the music industry.”

AmpLive is a showcase of mostly hip-hop acts, and Red wants to make sure their music lands on ears that could help them out.

“YG is going to be there,” he said.

“Problem is gonna be there and we are

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Single Barrel corrals country in downtown Lincoln Single Barrel brings Nebraska meat, state-inspired cocktails, whiskeys to downtown Lincoln cassie kernick dn Although it’s a relatively new bar to the Lincoln scene, the Single Barrel is already a staple of downtown.

The owners, Heath Macomber, Rick Willmott and Judd Davis, knew they wanted a location close to the stadium to attract gameday crowds. They also knew steak would be on the menu, so they looked for a location where there weren’t many other steak restaurants. The result? Downtown Lincoln.

“This location came up, and they jumped on it because it’s kind of a middle ground between downtown and the Haymarket Area,” said general manager Day-

ton Spomer, who has been a part of the restaurant crew from the beginning.

The chophouse and bar, located on 10th and P streets, appeals to families by day and pulls in a mixed demographic at night. The Single Barrel puts a special emphasis on being unique. Although beef is what’s for dinner in Nebraska, it’s where they purchase the steaks that makes dinner at the Barrel worthwhile.

“There’s not many places that can say all of their proteins are raised in Nebraska, and most of them are within an hour or two of Lincoln,” Spomer said.

And while it is a chophouse, there is a lot more than just steak on the menu. The restaurant also offers burger combinations, roasted vegetable sandwiches and even eggplant chips.

Maintaining variety in their lunch and dinner choices is important, as is making sure their drinks set them apart from competitors. They said they do this by offering an extensive selection of their staple alcohol, whiskey.

“It’s our whiskeys that draw a lot of people in,” Spomer said.

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Amber Kluczynski, a local bartender, talks with a customer behind the bar at the Single Barrel. During the day, the Single Barrel serves alcohol and food, and many nights, it hosts concerts and line dancing.

“We’ll consistently have over 150 whiskeys that we offer.”

In addition to the largely locally distilled whiskeys the Single

Barrel also offers original cocktails. These drinks are named after Nebraska locations and deviate from the normal preparations of

these classic drinks.

Kait L’Archevesque, a bartender at the Single Barrel, said she thinks their Bloody Mary is their most specialized drink.

“In the Lincoln Bloody Mary we use our house steak sauce so it is extremely special,” L’Archevesque said. “We also smoke our tomatoes, and it’s made fresh weekly.

When it is served, the glass is rimmed with our house cured bacon, brown sugar and salt.”

While she thinks this is their most unique drink, her personal favorite is the Grand Island Iced Tea, which is a raspberry-andlime-spiked tea. From North Platte to Omaha, nearly all the major locations of the Great Plains are represented on their cocktail menu.

And although they are highly specialized, their prices range from $5 to $7.

The Barrel also offers appetizer specials Tuesday through Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. as well as drink specials at the same time Tuesday through Friday. There are also different specials and promotions during the themed nights.

Just a few weeks ago, the Single Barrel made some chang-

es to their themed week night events. Bingo night is now hosted on Wednesday evening and is a 21-and-up event. However, there is a 19-and-up college night takes place every Thursday. Along with the themed events, there is live music at least once a week.

“Every week we have a band in here, but we try to get as many touring acts as we can,” Spomer said, adding they bring in nationally known acts frequently.

The restaurant and bar brings in a range of all different ages of people. While the dim lighting and rustic décor give off a very country feel, Spomer said he believes the demographic shifts constantly with the events they are hosting.

Regardless of if one is a country western fan or not, the Single Barrel believes it’s friendly and inviting atmosphere offers something for everyone.

“I love working here because it’s basically a family environment, we have a lot of fun and there’s a huge sense of team work,” L’Archevesque said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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DN reporter dared to be nice benjamin cleveland dn “Be nice,” they say.

“Do good things,” they say.

“Treat others the way you want to be treated,” they say.

Easy enough, right? Not at all.

Especially being overly nice. Being “too nice” makes most of us feel uncomfortable. Maybe it’s because most of the time it’s covertly forced, which in some cases is because we’re trying to avoid conflict. For some reason, doing good things makes us feel weird.

Personally, being recognized for doing such things is what stirs that awkward feeling within me.

However, I had to put my coldhearted ways behind me this week and be nice because I was dared to.

Well, really, I’m being paid to.

First, I tried complimenting some of my teachers at the end of class. It really felt like I was just being a big-time class pet, which I didn’t want. But I went for it anyway. At the end of my Spanish class, I gave a cheerful “thank you” to my professor. Unfazed, she continued to read something behind the podium. My pride sank a bit, having reaped no reward for my good deeds. A splash of conviction came upon me as I realized that’s not why you should do good deeds. Yay, life lesson. Another professor of mine genuinely appreciated it and looked a little surprised. He thanked me and wished me well during the rest of my day. This led me to ask myself: Should teachers really be surprised at a thank you for a class taught well?

Probably not. That is unless their class is absolutely awful, which, in this case, it wasn’t. And because our professors put in a lot of time to teach

michael johnson | dn their courses we probably should feel inclined to say thank you more often.

Next up, high fives. This was by far my favorite act of niceness. On a campus starved of totally awesome high fives I went around and slapped palms with some of UNL’s finest random people. These people didn’t need my high fives; I needed theirs.

And it was going to be epic, actually epic, like that scene of high five madness in the movie “Hot Rod.” The majority of the people I came into contact with would see me with my hand held up, give me a “What

the … ?” look and awkwardly raise a hand and give a weak high five, the kind where you can feel the other person’s skin just slide down yours until it’s completed. Others would understand more and laugh along with me and return my high five. People were confused as to why I wanted to give them a high five. Maybe the high fives didn’t rub people exactly the right way, but hey, at least no one left me hangin’.

But I was still missing something huge: social media. Because social media has a huge role in our society,

I had to make sure to be nice to someone on the Internet. I chose Twitter. I favorited my ex-girlfriend’s tweets from the last couple days because that’s what a good ex-boyfriend would do. As one may expect, it yielded no response. Could it be because it’s my ex-girlfriend? Maybe, maybe not. Nonetheless, I felt and sensed that for some reason I had gained the upper-hand in the breakup.

“Treat others the way you want to be treated.” What a beautiful quote. The golden rule. A lot of people live by this quote, and it made me think: what would I want people to do for me? That’s easy; give me money.

I took a walk down O street with $1 in my hand, just waiting for the right male or female to try this little experiment on. Finally, a good male candidate emerged. I approached him and asked him straight-up if he wanted a dollar. He said no. I showed him the dollar’s front and back side, showing that this was no “poop dollar” gag attempt. I asked again if he wanted it. Again, he said no and walked away. I was confused. Does humanity not trust one another anymore? Can we not accept a free $1 bill from a random person? Was it weird that I offered a random guy a dollar?

Yes. I learned some real stuff on this experiment about being nice. I learned to, well, you know. It makes others feel good, and it makes you feel good. And that makes everyone feel good. So be nice, you jerk.

Benjamin cleveland is a Freshman Journalism major. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Ignore social shaving standards DIRTY TALK

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What I didn’t realize when I was younger was that we all have burning questions about sex. I was not the only one freaking out about what I look like beneath my clothes because most of us didn’t have anyone to compare ourselves to besides porn stars and celebrities we’d seen in movies. And there’s nothing wrong with looking at these people and admiring their bodies, but movies and porn are not guidelines for sex.

What I wish I had figured out when I was so worried was that you shouldn’t judge yourself for your appearances and worry so much about what the other person will think of you.

I got the sense when I was younger, and I assume most other people my age did, too, that men

do not like pubic hair, that they’re disgusted and turned off by it. This was, of course, an illogical assumption. Every man is different; some are indifferent.

Eugene Mirman, who voices Gene Belcher on Bob’s Burgers, made a great video for Rookie magazine’s “Ask A Grown Man” series about dating and sex. He says “If you’re hooking up, they’re way more focused on hooking up rather than wondering ‘these aren’t the pubes I ordered!’”

He also said that, yes, there’s more of a chance that men in our generation will expect a women to be shaved, but that doesn’t mean she has to.

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decide and that whatever my decision was it wouldn’t be a big deal.

The people who insult women who shave or don’t shave are just immature and close-minded. I also understood that communication doesn’t hurt either. A suggestion from your significant other about your pubes isn’t a bad thing. It’s OK for them to suggest something when there’s good reason behind it. What’s not OK is someone judging and insulting your body and your decisions.

Hair is natural; it is meant to protect you. There’s no need to feel ashamed about it. Plus the hair is yours, so whatever you decide to do is going to benefit you.

Choosing whether to shave is also not just about the look. Although some women just prefer one over the other because of the style there are other benefits to both sides as well.

Some women say that shaving feels better to them; it’s smoother and makes them more sensitive to stimulation. Some feel that hair is just in the way, especially during cunnilingus. Pubic hair can also be irritable for guys during intercourse, another reason why talking it out is crucial.

But the major downside to shaving is that it can open up to more bacteria and could increase your risk of getting an STD. So it’s important that if you decide to shave you do so with caution. Trimming the hair

first makes shaving easier and less irritable. Then make sure to use a clean razor and shaving cream that is sensitive to your needs and to be careful when it comes to creases in your skin. It’s a vulnerable area, so shaving down there takes more time and carefulness than when you’re shaving your legs. And keep in mind that shaving against the grain can also cause redness and razor bumps.

The fun part of shaving is the options when it comes to design.

You can go completely bald, you can leave a “landing strip” and there are even stencils for designs such as hearts and triangles. Waxing might also be a better option for you if the upkeep of shaving is too time-consuming.

Not shaving basically comes down to you being comfortable with your hair. And your significant other might tell you that they think the hair is attractive or that they find the feeling of your hair pleasurable.

Communicating about topics such as pubic hair just makes everything more comfortable for you.

You may grow up thinking one way and then change your mind, and that’s OK. What’s important is that no matter what you do, make sure you’re taking care of yourself and doing whatever works best for you.

Hannah eads is a freshman journalism major. reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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What I think that communicates, or what I have learned, I guess, is that the world is safer, more friendlier, more welcoming than we are often led to believe as Americans.”

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Andy Stoll will speak in the Nebraska Union Auditorium Thursday night. After traveling the world, he plans to tell students to pursue their dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.

However, Stoll said none of these obstacles were as difficult as people might think.

“The thing to remember is that I traveled for four years almost entirely over land and almost entirely on public transportation,” Stoll said.

“I was never robbed, I was never pick-pocketed, and I didn’t die.”

“What I think that communicates, or what I have learned, I guess, is that the world is safer, more friendlier, more welcoming, than we are often led to believe as Americans,” he said.

During Stoll’s talk, he said he plans to tell students that any dream is possible.

“You can have a crazy idea in your head, and you can make it happen,” Stoll said. “Whether that is a trip around the world or starting a business or being an artist. We really have a lot of choices in our lives on what we want to do.”

Stoll said he also believes it’s not so much the destination that matters but the journey.

“In college, we are all extremely worried about what we are going to do with our life, but there are many possibilities. Part of the journey is trying to figure that out, and that gives you the opportunity to try a bunch of things,” Stoll said. “While I was figuring out what I wanted to do with my life, I also figured out what I did not want to do. I would make a terrible monk.”

Stoll will talk about his experiences traveling the world with a backpack containing only three pairs of clothes, a laptop and a camera. His journey took him through at least 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and the Americas. While on his adventure, Stoll worked in Bangkok at a dress factory that paid 60 cents an hour, climbed

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Mount Kilimanjaro with Tanzanian street kids and leaped off of the world’s tallest bungee jump in South Africa. These are only a few of the memories Stoll has, and during his presentation, he plans to share more.

“That is what I do: I tell a bunch of stories,” Stoll said. “I hope this helps the students understand that there is a lot of possibility out there, that they can live their lives as they imagine even if it is something different from what their parents or society is directing them towards.”

Stoll didn’t always go on adventures by himself. In fact, he took his parents to China for their first time out of the country. Before his presentation, he will meet up with his parents to tour UNL’s campus before his speech. This isn’t Stoll’s first time in the Nebraska or even at UNL. “I follow Nebraska football, and I am Nebraskan by birth, so I am just extremely happy to come,” Stoll said. “I’m just excited to come back to the home state and get to share my story with the Huskers.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

sxsw: from 5 trying to get 2 Chainz and 50 Cent nervous, but I’m still going to rock to come out.” the show like I’m supposed to.”

That may be good news for NeHe said that it was the support braska emcees Dymondz and King that gives him the confidence to Kliff, who were both very eager to succeed. seize this opportunity. “(It) really means a lot to me,” “Now is the perhe said. “It touches fect time. You’ve got my heart.”

I’m nervous, to catch it when the Watkins said he time is right,” King feels the same. but I’m still Kliff said. “SXSW “We’ve proven going to is such a big event we have talent here, for music in genphotography rock the show like from eral. If you do muto graphic design to sic, you definitely I’m supposed to.” musicians, we have want to be there. So it all,” Watkins said.

I hooked up with “To go down there Dymondz Red, and we made and represent that, nebraska act at sxsw it happen.” it’s huge.”

Representing Although much your home base is is at stake for these important in hip hop and it means artists, to Kliff, this trip is more much more once stepping out. about the opportunity than mak“Being one of the pioneers, to ing it big. be stepping out of the box as far as “My father always used to tell just the local scene, moving around me after I lost basketball games and getting a little more national that if you lost, (it) is cool, but how exposure is a beautiful thing,” Kliff many shots did you take?” Kiliff said. said. “If you don’t take no shots, Dymonds couldn’t say enough you can’t make no baskets, so about how much he valued repre- we’re going down there and shootsenting his home state. ing our shot.” arts@ “It’s beyond words — I can’t dailynebraskan.com even explain,” Dymondz said. “I’m

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Big ten homeroom Hawkeyes have struggled down the stretch, losing 5 of their last 6 games. The Michigan won the last five games of the season to leave team’s offense has been one of the most explosive in no doubt it was the regularthe country, averaging 82.6 season champion, finishpoints per game, which is ing three games ahead of second-place Wisconsin. The sixth overall and first in the Big Ten. However, Iowa’s Wolverines have once again team defense ranks 10th in cracked the top 10 in the AP poll, coming in at eighth in the the conference, as it is one of only three teams allowmost recent edition. Sophoing more than 70 points per more guard Nik Stauskas game. They open up play was named Big Ten player in the Big Ten Tournament of the year after averaging 17.4 points and shooting 48.9 against 11 seed Northwestern on Thursday. percent from the floor.

1. Michigan (23-7 overall, 15-3 Big Ten)

2. Wisconsin (25-6, 12-6)

6. Nebraska (19-11, 11-7)

Nebraska finished off the regular season in thrilling fashion, defeating then-No. 9 Wisconsin and likely clinching a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998. In just his second year at the helm, Tim Miles was honored as Big Ten coach of the year.

It’s not all good news for the Huskers, though. The team is averaging just 67 points per game, which is 10th in the conference, and NU is only outscoring its opponents by 3. Michigan State (23-8, 2.3 points per game, which ranks eighth in the Big Ten. 12-6) The Spartans finished tied for second in the final conference 7. Minnesota (19-12, 8-10) standings, which is impresThe Gophers are in the botsive considering they were plagued with injuries through- tom half of the conference but have still managed to win out the year. The team’s top 19 games this season. They three scorers this season all currently sit as one of Lumissed at least three games nardi’s “first four out” and will because of injury. The Spareither have to do some work tans average 76.2 points per in the Big Ten Tournament or game, which was second in get some losses from other the conference. With some rest and a full roster, the Spar- bubble teams to receive an NCAA Tournament bid. Mintans will look to improve on nesota starts Big Ten Tournatheir projected 5 seed in the ment play Thursday against NCAA Tournament.

10th-seeded Penn State.

Wisconsin was one of the hottest teams in the Big Ten down the stretch, winning eight in a row before falling to Nebraska in the regular season finale. Balanced scoring has been key for the Badgers, with all five starters averaging more than 9.5 points per game. The Badgers have played their way into a projected No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, according to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi.

4. Ohio State (23-8, 10-8)

After a win against Michigan State to close out the regular season, Ohio State is once again in the top 25, coming in at No. 24. The team has won with defense this year, allowing 59.1 points per game this season, which is the best in the Big Ten by more than 3 points. The Buckeyes do not have a bye in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament and will take on the 12 seed Purdue Boilermakers in the first round on Thursday.

5. Iowa (20-11, 9-9)

After being ranked in the top 25 most of the season, the

8. Illinois (18-13, 7-11)

The Illini closed out their season winning four of their last five games after previously losing 10 of 11.

All four of those wins were against top-seven teams in the conference. Junior guard Rayvonte Rice is currently in the top 10 in the conference in scoring, averaging 15.7 points per game. Despite that, the Illini still rank second-tolast in the Big Ten in scoring offense. Illinois looks to be NIT-bound barring a title in the conference tournament this weekend.

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The Nittany Lions have been led by guards D.J. Newbill and Tim Frazier, who are both top 10 in the conference in scoring this season. Penn State’s defense has been where the team has struggled this season, ranking 11th in the Big Ten allowing opponents to score 71.2 points per game. The Nittany Lions also rank last in the conference in 3-point defense this year, allowing opponents to make 34.8 percent of shots from behind the arc.

11. Purdue (15-16, 5-13)

The Boilermakers have also struggled on the defensive end, ranking last in the conference in scoring defense.

On top of that, they are allowing opponents to make 42.1 percent of field goals and 33.2 percent from the 3; both of those marks are in the bottom half of the conference.

The Boilermakers need to win at least two games in the Big Ten Tournament in order to avoid back-to-back losing seasons.

12. Northwestern (1318, 6-12) After surprising everyone by starting 5-5 in the conference, the Wildcats have since lost seven of their last eight games of the season to finish at 6-12. The Wildcats are not only the worst offensive team in the Big Ten but one of the worst in the country, ranking 349th out of 351 teams in scoring offense, as well as 345th in field goal percentage.

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2014 BIG TEN MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT 6. Iowa (20-11, 9-9) Thursday, MARCH 13

Jan. 9 vs. Northwestern: W 93-67 Jan. 25 at Northwestern: W 76-50

1. Michigan (23-7, 15-3)

8. Indiana (17-14, 7-11) Dec. 31 at Illinois: L 83-80 OT Jan. 26 vs. Illinois: W 56-46 In a nutshell: With the help of Big Ten freshman of the year Noah Vonleh, the Hoosiers led the league in rebounding margin. But the team’s youth came with a pitfall: it has the worst turnover margin in the Big Ten.

In a nutshell: Before Feb. 22, all six of the Hawkeyes’ losses came against currently ranked teams. But they lost 5 of their last 6 despite the efforts of Big Ten first-teamer Roy Devyn Marble.

Feb. 2 at Indiana: L 63-52 March 4 at Illinois: W 84-53 March 8 vs. Indiana: W 84-80 In a nutshell: The Wolverines returned many of the pieces from their 2013 Final Four team, including sophomore Nik Stauskas – who was named Big Ten player of the year.

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11. Northwestern (13-18, 6-12) Jan. 9 at Iowa: L 93-67 Jan. 25 vs. Iowa: L 76-50 In a nutshell: Only 4 of the Wildcats’ 12 Big Ten losses came by single digits. But along with Ohio State and Michigan, they were the only team to knock off Wisconsin on the road this season.

3. Michigan State (23-8, 12-6)

9. Illinois (18-13, 7-11)

Jan. 15 at Northwestern: W 54-40 Jan. 28 at Iowa: W 71-69 OT Feb. 13 vs. Northwestern: W 85-70 March 6 vs. Iowa: W 86-76

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Dec. 31 vs. Indiana: W 83-80 OT Jan. 26 at Indiana: L 56-46 In a nutshell: The Illini lost eight games in a row in January and February – the longest losing streak in the Big Ten this season.

But down the stretch, they turned it on and became a tough out.

In a nutshell: Before the season, the Spartans were picked to finish first in the conference. Midway through the league schedule, that seemed likely, but they lost 6 of their last 10 games.

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7. Minnesota (19-12, 8-10) Jan. 8 at Penn State: W 68-65 March 9 vs. Penn State: W 81-63

4. Nebraska (19-11, 11-7) 5. Ohio State (23-8, 10-8) Dec. 31 at Purdue: W 78-69 Feb. 8 vs. Purdue: W 67-49 In a nutshell: The Buckeyes had a season similar to the Badgers’. They were 15-0 and No. 3 in the nation before an up-and-down conference season that included a 1-point win in Madison.

Jan. 4 at Ohio State: L 84-53 Jan. 12 at Purdue: L 70-64 Jan. 20 vs. Ohio State: W 68-62 Feb. 23 vs. Purdue: W 76-57

In a nutshell: Yet another tale of a team that started strong but limped through Big Ten play.

The Gophers haven’t won consecutive games since Jan. 8, yet they boast wins over Ohio State, Wisconsin and Iowa.

Saturday, MARCH 15

In a nutshell: A tale of two teams: one before Jan. 26 (9-9) and one after (10-2). The Huskers not only played their way to a first-round bye in the Big Ten, but into a likely NCAA bid.

10. Penn State (15-16, 6-12) Jan. 8 vs. Minnesota: L 68-65 March 9 at Minnesota: L 81-63

2. Wisconsin (25-6, 12-6) 12. Purdue (15-16, 5-13) Dec. 31 vs. Ohio State: L 78-69 Feb. 8 at Ohio State: L 67-49

Friday, MARCH 14

In a nutshell: The Badgers opened the season 16-0 and peaked at No. 3 in the polls before slumping in January. Then they won eight in a row, including victories against Michigan and Michigan State.

In a nutshell: The Boilermakers and their league-worst scoring defense lost 11 of their last 13 games. They won only one conference road game and have only one Big Ten honorable mention: 7-footer A.J. Hammons.

baseball: from 10 “It kind of lets you know where you’re at,” Darby said.

“It lets you know that you can’t overlook your opponent, no matter who it is, whether it’s the best team in the world or the worst team. When you’re facing an opponent that you should beat, you have to go out and beat them.”

The two-game meeting was the first time the Huskers played during the week rather than the weekend. A major concern for the team this season is leaving all of the off-the-field activities, such as school, behind before taking the field in a mid-week matchup.

In a nutshell: Junior D.J. Newbill ended up as the second-highest scorer in the conference, and although they swept Ohio State, the Nittany Lions couldn’t beat any other perennial Big Ten favorite.

Jan. 22 at Minnesota: L 81-68 Feb. 13 vs. Minnesota: W 78-70 Feb. 25 vs. Indiana: W 69-58

Coach Erstad preaches to leave your backpack out of the door. You have to be able to separate everything and play the game and be there.”

AUSTIN DARBY junior outfielder

“You have to eliminate outside factors like that,” Darby said.

“Coach Erstad preaches to leave your backpack out of the door.

You have to be able to separate everything and play the game and be there.”

The Huskers continue their

the Final Four. I don’t think Izzo lets them leave his program without achieving that. And that starts with building momentum in the Big Ten Tournament.

So there you have it.

One other thing I forgot to men-

tion. The players who saw extra playing time when those starters were out with injury are going to be much more confident now.

That kind of depth is huge in tournaments.

So I’m telling you.

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homestand with a three-game series this weekend against UC Irvine, which starts on Friday at 4:35 p.m. The Anteaters are 12-4 heading into the series.

One thing is certain for Erstad and his group of players: they aren’t going to consider themselves the favorite again this season.

“We don’t have to worry about being overconfident heading into the weekend,” Erstad said. “It’s my job to get them turned around and ready to go.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

ward: from 10 cruits. He gets guys who will help him build his program. Probably one of the coolest bits of information about Izzo: every four-year player he’s had has gone to the Final Four.

That’s Appling, Payne and Dawson this year. They have never gone to

Michigan State.

Big Ten champs.

Lock it in.

Andrew Ward is a senior broadcasting major. You The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation can reach him at 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 sports@ For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 dailynebraskan.com For Release Thursday, January 24, 2013

izu: from 10 in the paint with his team-high .497 field-goal percentage this year. With his 220-pound figure, Robinson gave opponents fits, including the Huskers, against whom he scored 19 and a season-high 23 points this year.

They nearly lost a nail-biting 71-70 win against the Huskers on Jan. 9. But the key word is nearly. The Huskers almost became 16-0 at home. But almost doesn’t cut it in the post-season.

Almost doesn’t win you a No. 1 seed in the tournament, which is something the Wolverines have earned with their play all season.

A couple of missed layups by Nebraska’s sophomore forward Terran Petteway and junior forward Leslee Smith continued the Wolverines’ winning streak that eventually snapped at 10 games on Feb. 2 against Indiana.

However, they’d get revenge in the last game of the season with an 84-80 victory on March 8.

Although three of its seven losses this season came to conference foes, Michigan did not lose twice to any Big Ten team this season. In fact, Michigan beat each league opponent at least once and swept Minnesota, Purdue, Nebraska and Michigan State.

Coach John Beilein’s team finished the season winning seven of its final nine and has all the intangibles to be crowned the 2014 conference champions. His strategic coaching style has clearly translated into his players finishing as the best field goal percentage offense (.480) and rebounding defense (30.7) in the conference and is why the conference committee couldn’t award only Tim Miles the Coach of the Year award.

I can’t rule out the late-season efforts by Nebraska and Wisconsin. Both schools winning eight of 10 each in the past two months was clutch and commendable. But I can’t see them or any-

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Michigan sophomore Nik Stauskas earned Big Ten player of the year honors after finishing among the conference leaders in many offensive statistics. He averages 17.4 points per game. one putting up an upsetting claw fight against the Wolverines’ “Big 3.”

This year marked the 14th time in program history the Wolverines won the conference regular season championship, but they’ve only captured one tournament title.

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Nedu Izu is a senior broadcasting and psychology major. You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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After defeating Northern Colorado 10-2 Tuesday, Huskers fall to Bears 9-2 Wednesday at home

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Sophomore guard Shavon Shields scored 26 points to help Nebraska beat Wisconsin on Sunday and earn a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament, which starts Thursday.

Huskers begin postseason in Big Ten tourney

The tricky part about Friday’s game isn’t who Nebraska’s already beaten. It’s game-planning for two teams, Miles said. Luckily, both teams have similar tendencies.

“They are both extremely aggressive and get to the basket well,” Miles said. “They aren’t on completely different ends of the spectrum, so there are some things we can do. We’ll prepare Andrew Ward that way.”

DN Ohio State is coming off a win against Michigan State on Sunday It’s all been about the NCAA and boasts one of the Big Ten’s Tournament for people talking best defenses, led by the conferabout the Nebraska men’s basket- ence’s defensive player of the ball team. year, senior guard Aaron Craft.

Beat Indiana. Beat Wisconsin. On the other side, Purdue limps And the Huskers are in for sure. into the weekend having lost its The members of the squad, last six games. have goals to achieve first, Regardless of who the oppothough, as coach Tim Miles point- nent will be, preparation and foed out earlier this week. cus haven’t been an issue for the “We can pursue a goal,” Miles Huskers who are coming off one said. “What took Michigan three of the biggest wins in school hisand a half months to do, we can tory Sunday night, Miles said. The all do in four days. Fair or not, team seems ready to go, but Miles that’s how this thing works. doesn’t want his team to settle.

That’s our No. 1 goal: bring home “I asked them, ‘Is this the fina Big Ten Championship, just like ish line?’” Miles said. “They have our women’s team did.” to understand that we’re not even Pursuit of that goal starts close.”

Friday when the “We got a Huskers take the long way to go to They Bankers Life Fieldget better, and I house floor in Indithink they know are both anapolis for the Big that, too,” he Ten Tournament. extremely said. “We haven’t Nebraska enters even played our the tourney as the aggressive and get best game yet. So No. 4 seed and will to the basket well.” hopefully we can play the winner of see that happen in tim miles the 5-12 matchup, the future, when men ’ s basketball coach which will pit Purit means somedue against Ohio thing.”

State.

As far as the The fact that the Huskers won NCAA Tournament goes?

11 conference games and finished Co-captain Shavon Shields fourth in the Big Ten surprised some and Miles said they certainly people, Miles said. He thinks his think the Huskers are in. Howevsquad will get mixed reactions this er, winning a few games in the Big weekend.

Ten tourney wouldn’t hurt.

“I think some people will shake “We can’t control that stuff,” their heads like they can’t believe it, Shields said. “We can only keep and we’ll have to keep earning their focused on what we have going.” respect,” Miles said. “Then there are Miles agreed. some people who actually think we “Things are out of your conare a good team and we’re going trol; you don’t ever feel at ease to be a tough out. It’s probably about anything,” he said. “I think 50/50.” we’re an NCAA Tournament The Huskers already have the team. Little or no question about respect of either opponent they it, regardless of what happens in will play, as they split with both the tournament.” teams during the regular season, sports@ winning both matchups in Lindailynebraskan.com coln.

No. 4 seed Nebraska awaits Thursday winner of Ohio State/ Purdue game in Indianapolis

Junior outfielder Austin Darby went 2 for 4 with 2 runs in Tuesday’s game, but he was held to a 1-for-5 performance at the plate in the Huskers’ 9-2 loss to Northern Colorado on Wednesday. Darby scored 1 of Nebraska’s 2 runs.

story by Josh Kelly | photo by Amber Baesler

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t was just one of those days when the Huskers were in a hole and their opponent kept on digging toward a 9-2 victory for Northern Colorado.

In Game 1 of the two-game home series between the two schools, the Nebraska offense didn’t have any trouble getting runs across the plate and won 10-2.

For Game 2, the Huskers had a hard time mustering anything up and getting a rally going in the afternoon game against the 5-13 Northern Colorado Bears. Heading into the game, the Bears were 0-10 in road matchups.

It was a big win for the visiting program, and Nebraska coach Darin Erstad raved about the mindset the Bears had going into the second game.

“Let’s make one thing clear right now: Northern Colorado whooped our butts,” Erstad said. “They played fantastic.

“Make no mistake, they came out and

On the pitching end, the Huskers had took what they wanted, and they earned evnine pitchers take the mound. Erstad said ery second of it. I tip my hat to them.”

There wasn’t a single inning in which they had trouble early in the count putting themselves in jams in althe Bears’ offense exploded; most every inning of the it was just a relentless attack Northern game. against the Nebraska pitchColorado “I didn’t like our iners that gave them their first tensity early on,” Erstad road win of the season. whooped our said. “We’re getting beIt all started in the first inhind, and the only thing ning, when Nebraska fresh- butts. They played we can throw over the man pitcher Jake Hohensee fantastic.” plate is a fastball in hittook the mound in his first ter ’s count, and you’re collegiate start. The young going to get hurt that right-hander only went 2 inway when they’re in the nings, allowing 3 runs before baseball coach zone.” being replaced by another Junior outfielder Ausfreshman pitcher, Ben Miller. tin Darby was also disapIn the first 3 innings the Huskers only had 1 hit, a slow start that pointed in the performance, saying the game couldn’t keep up with the production com- was a huge lesson for him and the rest of the team. ing from their opponent.

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Beat writers predict Big Ten Tournament champions andrew ward

Finally at full strength, Michigan State to fly under radar, surprise top seeds at league tournament Finally. It’s here.

I love the college basketball regular season, don’t get me wrong. But this is what it all comes down to.

It’s tournament season, and it’s time to predict the winner of the Big Ten. My friend Nedu Izu is taking the easy route here and proclaiming No. 1 seed Michigan will do the same thing it did in the regular season.

I like the Wolverines. When they get going offensively, few teams can beat them. But sorry, Nedu, there’s another team from Michigan in this tourney that will

win it all.

And that’s Michigan State.

Michigan State has quietly entered this tournament as the No. 3 seed, overshadowed by a loss at Ohio State the final game of the season and by red-hot Wisconsin.

I don’t know how no one is talking about the Tom Izzocoached Spartans, but they seem to be flying under the radar. Make no mistake, they are on my radar.

Let me give you three reasons why Michigan State will be rocking those Big Ten Champion hats on Sunday in Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

1. Health: The Spartans have been battling injuries all season long. First, senior center Adreian Payne went down, then senior guard Keith Appling, then junior guard Branden Dawson. All three of those guys are starters, and two of them — Payne and Appling — were All-Big Ten performers last year. They’re all back now, ready to make a tourney run. Michigan State lost at Ohio State because those players were getting back into game shape. They also hadn’t played together in the better part of a month. They have to get used to that again. When those three are playing well, Michigan State is one of the best teams in the country. But one player makes them a Big Ten and national title contender, leading to my second reason.

2. Gary Harris: This sophomore guard is freaky good. He

Nedu Izu

No. 8 Michigan, led by trio of sophomores, to pick up where it left off and clinch 2nd Big Ten tourney title julia nagy/ the state news

Sophomore guard Gary Harris carried Michigan State through an injury-riddled season, averaging 17.5 points per game this year. had to take a massive offensive load when Appling and Payne went out, but he didn’t back down. He got criticized for his shot selection during that stretch, but when you’re the only player on your team who can create his own shot, you have to take some chances. He still managed to average 17.5 points and almost 3 assists a game. When Harris is playing his best basketball – driving to the hoop and creating offense for his jumper – Michigan State is the best team in the country. It

all depends on how he gets back in the groove with the other three starters who have been injured, though. I’m not worried about that because Michigan State has another weapon.

3. Tom Izzo: He’s one of the top 3 coaches in the country, and maybe in the top 10 all-time. Plus, he does it in a different way. He breeds players for success. He doesn’t get the one-and-done re-

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Nik Stauskas. Caris LeVert. Glenn Robinson III. Need I say more?

If you don’t know who these three are yet, look them up in your nearest search engine. If you’re unable to or just too lazy, don’t worry — my following sentiments will get you caught up and lead you to agree with me on why I think Michigan (23-7, 15-3 Big Ten) is the team to beat this weekend in the Big Ten Tournament.

These three 6-foot-6 Wolverine sophomores have made headlines all season with their playmaking skills, leading their team to 73.1 points per game and a No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. There’s

a reason this team is ranked eighth nationally and has the potential to be seeded No. 1 in the NCAA Tournament.

Let’s start with Stauskas, the 20-year-old forward from Ontario.

If you were to name an offensive category, there’s a good chance Stauskas finished the season ranked in the top five. Points per game?

Fourth. Minutes played? Second.

Three-point percentage? Third. Free throw percentage? Fifth. He carried the team with his 17.4 points and 35.2 minutes per game, and .458 3-point and .811 free throw percentages.

Oh, and Stauskas was also named the 2014 Big Ten Player of the Year this week, becoming the second Wolverine in two years to be given that title (Trey Burke, 2013).

Now on to his 19-year-old teammate, LeVert.

The guard from Ohio finished as Michigan’s second-leading scorer with 13.4 per game, and he started each game this season. Like Stauskas, LeVert proved clutch at the charity line the entire year, sinking in .808 percent of his free throws while also posting an astounding .410 percentage from downtown.

And last, but not least by any standard, is their team captain, Robinson.

Like his father during his glory days at Purdue, the 20-year-old was a force to be reckoned with

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