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Inside Coverage

Expanding the rainbow

A new spin

UNL’s LGBTQ clinic sees more visitors

Newest baton twirler learns UNL traditions

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Selection Sunday

For the first time since 1998, the Nebraska men’s basketball team claimed a No. 11 seed in the 2014 NCAA Tournament. The team will go toe-to-toe against Baylor on March 21. Check out the DN Bracket Challenge for more matchups. photo by jake crandall

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon eliminates pledge process SAE creates new policy ending pledging in attempt to stop hazing in its chapters nationwide Staff Report DN The brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity gave house tours to prospective members this weekend, but something was different this year: there’s no pledge process.

On March 9, the national Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity eliminated the pledge process from all chapters because of hazing inci-

dents. Under the new policy, prospective members become part of the fraternity after receiving a bid, finishing the online Carson Starkey Pledge Certification Program and signing the Scope of Association Agreement.

The Carson Starkey Pledge Certification Program is an online program that introduces prospective members to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity’s policies, events and resources. To complete the certificate, members have to pass a quiz with 100 percent to ensure the perspective members understand all the rules and policies of the organization.

The new recruitment process is named after Carson Starkey, who died while pledging because of excessive drinking at California Polytechnic State University in 2008. California Polytechnic State University suspended the fraterni-

There really is no reason for the pledging process.” adam pfeiffer

sigma alpha epsilon chapter president

ty and won’t consider reinstating the organization until 2033.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was labeled the deadliest fraternity by Bloomberg News. Nationally, nine students have died in events relating to the fraternity since 2006.

The Lambda Pi chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln disbanded the pledge process for a period in the early 2000s, said Adam Pfeiffer, chapter president and a junior economics and English major.

Members from UNL’s chapter told Pfeiffer that omitting the

pledge process is a positive change and will help with recruitment.

He said he doesn’t know why UNL’s chapter of the fraternity brought back the pledge process.

“There is really no reason for the pledging process,” Pfeiffer said.

He said other Greek organizations might soon follow Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s example and get rid of their pledge process.

“We’re happy to be leaders, not followers,” Pfeiffer said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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The Nebraska Lambda Pi Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus on May 26, 1893, and has 110 active members today.

UNL student dies Saturday at Bryan West staff report dn A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student died after suffering from influenza Saturday.

Kyle VerMaas was a sophomore biological systems engineering major. He died of influenza A or of related complications, according to updates on his mother Lisa Lierz VerMaas’ Facebook page.

“We know you’re all waiting

Grace Thomas, a senior English major, and Yan Xin Lee, a junior computer science major, document an artifact for History Harvest at the Nebraska History Museum on Saturday afternoon. The event invited locals to share historical artifacts and stories for inclusion in a digital archive.

reaping the harvest

photos by Jennifer Gotrik

Women’s Week offers 15 events throughout week UNL participates in National Women’s History Month with speakers, panels, luncheon mara Klecker dn

Lee and Thomas volunteer at the Nebraska History Museum on Saturday afternoon for History Harvest. The harvest was organized by a UNL history class.

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on the MRI results,” Kyle’s aunt, Lori Lierz Kreifels, wrote on the Facebook page. “It showed the virus has taken over his brain.

It is his wish that his organs be donated, so we stay and pray as they complete that process.

Please continue praying for Kyle and his family.”

VerMass had been in the intensive care unit at Bryan West since at least March 8, according to his mother ’s Facebook page. news@ dailynebraskan.com

This week marks the 35th Women’s Week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Fifteen events will celebrate women’s accomplishments while acknowledging the struggle for gender equality, said Jan Deeds, the director of the Women’s Center.

“This week is important because even though things are better in many ways, there are still many obstacles for women, and women’s accomplishments are

not celebrated at the same level that men’s are,” Deeds said.

The events include a film festival showing the work of Native American filmmakers, a presentation of the Chancellor’s Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Status of Women, a Feminist Pioneers luncheon and a panel discussion of women in the military.

Deeds said she is most excited for the Feminist Pioneers luncheon on Wednesday because she remembers looking up to the women on the panel when she was a student at the Women’s Center in the 1970s and ’80s.

“The stories they will tell are going to surprise and inspire anyone who attends,” she said.

Deeds invites men to attend the week’s events as well. Men share the planet with women, Deeds said, and they too can gain from better understanding women’s lives.

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University Faculty Brass Quintet when: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. where: Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets what: Chris Abani Public Reading when: 7:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Heritage Room

UNL GRAD MAKES CORVETTE SEATS MORE COMFORTABLE

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The College of Business Administration has introduced two new graduate and certificate programs specializing in business administration and intercollegiate athletics administration.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when: 7:30 p.m. where: Temple Building more information: Tickets are $6.

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St. Pat’s 2014 with Beaver Damage, Bogusman, Red Cities when: 9 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St. more nformation: tickets are $5 what: St. Patrick’s Day Poetry at the Moon with Patricia Scott when: 7 p.m. where: Crescent Moon Coffee, 140 N. 8th St., lower level

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration created new graduate and certificate programs for fall 2014.

The graduate programs specialize in business administration and intercollegiate athletics administration. The certificate programs are business analytics and supply-chain management.

Enrollment is open for all of these programs.

The business administration specialization is a 11-month accelerated study program designed to give students thorough instruction on all aspects of a functional business with a focus on the strategic business framework, communication and teamwork skills necessary in the modern business world.

The program is comprised of 10 courses with 36 total credit hours, including a required internship.

The Master of Arts in Business with a specialization in business administration (MABA) is cohort-based, which means students start and stay together through graduation to help form lasting business and professional relationships.

“The advantages of cohortbased programs lie in the development of professional networks, the ability to offer more team-based projects and the ability to move students through highly focused programs in a short period of time,” said Gordon Karels, associate dean of CBA.

future business leaders and The faculty teaching the courses will be the same who leaders already working to solve teach in the current MBA pro- specific business problems by analyzing large amounts of data. gram, both on-campus and onThe curriculum line, said Sheri for this course Irwin Gish, exThe includes four ecutive director of advantages online courses. communications This proand marketing for of cohort-based gram accomCBA. modates current CBA and the programs lie in UNL students as UNL Department well as profesof Intercollegiate the development sionals seeking Athletics will part- of professional to make more ner for the internetworks, the informed busicollegiate athletics ness decisions a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ability to offer based on alprogram, guaranready available teeing internships more team-based data. for all students projects and the The supplyenrolled in the ability to move chain manageprogram. Students ment certifiwill be immersed students through cation is also in the real world available and challenges of ath- highly focused includes four letic administra- programs in a online courses. tion by blending The certification classroom teach- short period of seeks to give ing and work ex- time.” business leaders perience within the ability to use UNL athletics. gordon karels associate dean of cba analytical skills “(The interns) to address difwill assist in the ferent needs in operations side of the athletics department,” Karels the continually changing global said. “They might be expected to market place, as well as using complete research projects in the technology in making supplyarea they are assigned and even chains more efficient and profitshadow different members of able.

Enrollment in both of these the functional group to underprograms is open and interested stand the expectations that are individuals should contact CBA placed upon the employees.” for more information either by The graduate program also phone at (402) 472-2338 or online requires a total of 36 credit at http://cba.unl.edu/gradprohours, but can be completed in grams. two years. news@ The business analytics cerdailynebraskan.com tificate program will prepare

General Motors’ Corvette line of vehicles has been criticized for having uncomfortable seats, so University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate Shawn Meagher organized a team of people to test out seats. He mapped the posteriors of different people and developed a seat optimized for comfort and support, according to a university press release.

The new seat design was featured in a March 11 Bloomberg News article.

“The important thing, especially in a car like this, it’s your main communication with the road,” Meagher said in a video interview with Bloomberg, in which he takes a reporter along for a test drive. “You’re feeling everything that’s going on, that’s communicating what the car’s doing.

That’s how you’re going to get the most out of the car.”

After earning his undergraduate degree in 2008, Meagher earned his master’s through the double degree master’s program from UNL and from the University of Rouen in France.

“They set him up to work with plastics and polymers and he specialized in polycarbonates,” said Mehrdad Negahban, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, who worked with Meagher during his time at UNL. “I’m happy that (Shawn) went on to do good things in the world.”

AGRICULTURE FACULTY, STUDENTS EARN HONORS

Four members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln agriculture faculty won faculty awards from the Nebraska Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture.

Don Wilhite received GSD’s Award of Merit for his work at the National Drought Mitigation Center. Shripat Kamble won the Excellence in Extension Award. Kamble is a specialist in urban entomology who promotes the safe use of insecticides. Dann Husmann won the Excellence in Teaching Award. Tim Carr, a professor of nutritional biochemistry received GSD’s excellence in Research Award. His research focuses on how cholesterol is transported in the body and how diet affects cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

GSD also honored two UNL students. Amanda Hare, a senior biochemistry major, received the Outstanding Undergraduate Award. Daran Rudnick, a graduate student studying biological systems engineering, received the Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant honor.

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Madison Wurtele dn The Rainbow Clinic’s clientele is growing at the University of NebraskaLincoln.

The clinic, which services the needs of LGBTQ individuals and their families, has seen an increase in clients in the last year and a half as people have become more aware of their services. It was added to the UNL’s Psychological Consultation Center about three years ago and partners with Outlinc, a nonprofit organization that encourages the wellbeing and advancement of the LGBTQ community, to bring awareness of the clinic and its services to campus and Lincoln.

Its services include couples, family and individual therapy, which are available to UNL students and the Lincoln community.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality found in a Jan. 2014 National Transgender Discrimination Survey that 41 percent of transgender people have attempted suicide, as opposed to 4.1 percent of the overall U.S. population. A study conducted by the advocacy group Campus Pride indicat-

ed that about onefourth of lesbian, gay and bisexual students and university employees have been harassed because of their sexual orientation. One-third of transgender students reported being harassed.

The clinic is intended to be safe place where individuals can receive confidential affirmative psychology.

“Because of the historically difficult relationship between psychology and the LGBTQ community, it is important to have a clinic where people can come to safely express their identity,” said Peter Meidlinger, a clinical psychology graduate student and therapist

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The therapists at The Rainbow Clinic are students in the clinical psychology doctoral program at UNL. Debra Hope, a psychology professor at UNL and a licensed Clinical Psychologist, directs The Rainbow Clinic.

She ensures that all therapists complete additional training before they work with Rainbow Clinic clients.

“I think it is important to have high quality services that are affordable,” Hope said, “We are affordable for everyone.”

The cost for The Rainbow Clinic is $10 for intake and $25 for therapy sessions, with the possibility of a sliding fee based on a person’s ability to pay. This

ensures that even those without insurance can afford care.

The Rainbow Clinic began about three years ago as a way to offer specialized services for the members of the LGBTQ community.

The center had already been seeing the needs of members of the LGBTQ community and decided to open a specialty clinic.

Since its start the clinic has gradually seen more referrals and has become more well known, Hope said.

The first resources are the counseling and psychological services, but The Rainbow Clinic is also available to friends and family of the LGBTQ community, Hope said.

If an individual is interested in The Rainbow Clinic’s services, he or she can contact the PCC at (402) 472-2351 and request The Rainbow Clinic. If personnel are not available to talk to at the time of the call staff will take a message and the individual will be called back as soon as possible. Day and evening appointments are available year round.

“The clinic exists in the sense that we are a safe place where members of the LGBTQ community can receive affirmative psychology,” Meidlinger said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

ROSS TO HOST ACCLAIMED FOREIGN FILM

As part of the Vision Maker Film Festival, the film “Omar” will be shown at the UNL Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center this week. The film, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film, is a thriller set on the Israeli-Palestinian border.

The Ross website describes the film as “A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s either a freedom fighter or a terrorist - you decide - ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat). Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant. So begins a dangerous game-is he playing his Israeli handler (Waleed F. Zuaiter) or will he really betray his cause? And who can he trust on either side?”

The film is not rated.

MAN JAILED FOR HANDING OUT RELIGIOUS LITERATURE AT ARENA

Larry Ball, a 76-year-old Lincoln man, was arrested and accused of trespassing Saturday afternoon while handing out religious fliers. Ball handed out a small, green booklet titled “How to Know God” to spectators at the Nebraska Boys State Basketball Tournament held in the Pinnacle Bank Arena. Ball told the Associated Press that he plans on fighting his charges.

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A winner from a past EntrepreneuringDays@UNL event accepts his award. This year’s event will take place Tuesday through Thursday at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 P St.

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Nicole Rauner dN The biggest misconception about sex trafficking is that it doesn’t exist.

“In reality, sex trafficking occurs everyday,” said Karissa Van Liew, a junior music education major. “There are approximately 27 million people trapped in slavery today, which is a number most people have no idea about. Sex trafficking is a category of slavery.”

Van Liew hopes to bring the topic to the forefront of the public’s awareness with the Anthem of the Voiceless event on April 13.

The University Lutheran Chapel, located at 1510 Q St. is hosting the event.

The event is a benefit concert for Tiny Hands International, a non-profit organization aiming to prevent sex trafficking in Nepal.

The concert will feature a flute duet and spoken narrations performed by five University of Nebraska-Lincoln students.

Narrators will be sharing real stories of Nepalese girls and their involvement in trafficking to India accompanied by pieces of music performed by a flute duet, Van Liew said.

“Basically, we are helping to raise awareness and funds in an artful way, utilizing spoken word and music,” she said.

Van Liew decided she would use her musical abilities to actively help and promote an organization before she graduated college.

In the past year, she has been researching human trafficking to increase her own awareness. She’s been planning this recital for the last two years.

“Human trafficking has truly fueled a flame inside of me,” she said. “I have gotten really passionate about the issue. I just think about sweet, innocent lives that are sold, and I become adamant about rescuing them from this brutal bondage. Human trafficking is one of the things that keeps me up at night and one of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning.”

Sex trafficking is an issue locally as well as internationally.

“A key way to end this awful cycle is to stop the demand,” said Ingrid Holmquist, a junior broadcasting and Spanish major and student advocate for sex trafficking awareness. “I don’t think that the majority of men buy girls so that they can perpetuate this vicious cycle. I think it comes from lack of

if you go what: Anthem of the Voiceless when: April 13, 3 p.m. where: University Lutheran Chapel, 1510 Q St.

education and awareness.”

According to the Tiny Hands International website, nearly 10,000 to 15,000 Nepali girls are trafficked across the border each year to brothels in India and forced to become prostitutes. The girls generally range in age from 7 to 24 with an average age of 15 years old, the website said.

“Imagine yourself, your sister, daughter or friend sold for about $100 to an unknown cruel person and to an unknown place,” Van Liew wrote. “You are then forced to either have sex with men every day or face physical harm, by being burned with cigarettes, strangled or starved. If that scenario does not stir someone emotionally, not much will.”

Holmquist said students should attend the event to hear the stories of survival and hope and be impacted the way she was.

“Students should absolutely go to events supporting this cause and should become educated and aware of these issues because our generation carries a lot of weight in terms of reform,” Holmquist said.

Funds raised at the concert will go to Tiny Hands International and help intercept girls. It takes about $100 to intercept one girl, which means to prevent a Nepalese girl from crossing the border into India, Van Liew wrote.

The funds will also provide help to girls who have been rescued, such as medical assistance, jobs and places to live.

Many people, even in Nebraska, are taking a stance against both local and international sex trafficking.

“I think (Nebraska) Sen. Amanda McGill, professor Sriyani Tidball and organizations like Tiny Hands deserve a massive pat on the back in regards to bringing light to this issue,” Holmquist said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

The Center for Entrepreneurship is hosting its 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln New Venture Competition, also known as EntrepreneuringDays@UNL, this week.

Last year, the center decided to combine the two competition events it hosted every year – the local competition and the international competition – to create EntrepreneuringDays@UNL. This is the 26th year the center has hosted the international competition and the second year of the combined event.

The event will be Tuesday through Thursday at the Embassy Suites, 1040 P St. All UNL students can attend for free and watch peers compete or visit the booth to meet with entrepreneurial and established companies as well as service providers. An itinerary is available at http://cba.unl.edu/about/ centers/entrepreneurship/events/ entrepreneuring-days/.

“I haven’t been (in Lincoln) that long, but in my short many of years here, we’ve just seen the interest in entrepreneurship at least double,” said Theresa Welbourne, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.

The business plan competition

starts Tuesday. It’s designed for UNL students and allows them to compete, present ideas and learn.

“We’ve more than plateaued this year,” said Kyle Gibson, research assistant professor at the Center for Entrepreneurship.

“We’ve actually expanded the number of teams that we’ve allowed in, especially on the first day. We’ve had a swell in local participation; we’re up to 30 teams I think, and last year there were probably about 18.”

The competition involves six judges with four teams per judge.

Each team is given 10 minutes to present its idea and another 10 to have a Q-and-A session with the judges. The judges then pick a winner from their group and those winners compete, with overall winners chosen later in the day.

“We have a first, second and third prize, and then we also have the grand prize of $50,000,” Welbourne said. “The money has to be used to start a business so we’ll only consider teams that are serious about them, while other teams are doing it more for the learning experience.”

Intersect, a 2013 Omaha event for Nebraska’s startup community, will be working with students dur-

ing the Tuesday sessions.

Thursday will consist of the international business competition, which will involve college students from around the world.

Gibson said the center really wants to reach more people from other colleges and universities, as well as colleges within the university, such as the College of Journalism and Mass Communications or the Hixson Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.

“It’s fun; it’s a chance to bump elbows with people you don’t normally get to bump elbows with,” he said. “There are people who are busy and hard to get a hold off, and we try to get them all in one room.

They know that the goal of all this is learning. They’re there and they understand that this is a helpful process.”

There will also be opportunities for learning experiences for students or people there who aren’t interested in the competitions. There will also be keynote speakers, presentations and booths for anyone to come see.

“The goal for us is really about learning,” Welbourne said. “We use the word ‘entrepreneuring’ because it’s very active, and we’re really believers that for students to learn

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EntrepreneuringDays@ UNL where: Embassy Suites, 1040 P St. when: 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesday. Full itinerary available at http://cba.unl. edu/about/centers/ entrepreneurship/ events/ entrepreneuring-days/.

and internalize it, they have to be doing something. We watch the students go from the pitch they do in class to the pitch they do in front of these judges, and it changes dramatically.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

2 UNL faculty speak at Capitol Hill Every day, parents make choices about whether or not to let their daughter play soccer or what kind of mouthpiece to buy their son for his first day of Pop Warner football.”

staff report dn Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors testified as expert witnesses on concussions and brain injuries in sports on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Dennis Molfese, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior; and physics and astronomy professor Tim Gay spoke at the molfese House of Representatives Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing.

The hearing focused on the measures the sports industry is taking to protect athletes.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln physics and astronomy professor Tim Gay was one of two UNL faculty members to speak at a Congressional hearing last week. his first day of Pop Warner football,” said Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska, the subcommittee’s chairman. “Unfortunately, it seems like every day, we hear about how participation in certain sports can be dangerous.

We want to better understand the innovations being made by sports leagues, equipment manufacturers

and the medical community to make all sports safer.”

Lawmakers and testifiers discussed changing game rules, increasing coach and player education and developments in brain injury and equipment research.

Gay spoke on the need for improved helmet safety.

“It is apparent that adding more energy-absorbing foam to a helmet will lower the maximum forces delivered to a player’s skull and thus reduce the risk of a concussion,” he said.

Molfese spoke about the need for patients to accurately report symptoms of a brain injury to doctors.

“In the absence of objective measures, this long-used approach is fatally flawed,” he said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

women: from 1 The outreach to student veterans through next week’s events attempts to highlight and honor women’s service in the military and educate our university community.” michelle waite

assistant to the chancellor and member of the student veterans task force

Deeds is also a member of the Student Veterans Task Force and found it important to include events about the experiences of women in the military, she said.

On Tuesday morning, retired Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught will present as part of the “Honoring Women’s Service in the Military” event. Vaught served in the Air Force for 18 years, retiring in 1985 as one of the most highly decorated women in the U.S. She was one of few women who served in the Vietnam War in a position other than a nurse. Only a handful of women had been promoted to brigadier general by the time she achieved the distinction in 1980.

Tuesday evening a Veterans and Military Service Resource Fair will give veterans an opportunity to learn about campus and community resources available to them.

Michelle Waite, assistant to the chancellor and a member of the Student Veterans Task Force, said the Women’s Center is positioned to help with the university’s mission to serve and provide resources to student veterans.

“The outreach to student veterans through next week’s events attempts to highlight and honor

if you go Ongoing

Vision Maker Film Festival

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Through Thursday Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

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Celebrating Women of Character, Courage and Commitment

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Through Friday Nebraska Union Rotunda Gallery

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Leadership Luncheon: Women in Religion

women’s service in the military and educate our university community,” Waite said.

Women’s Week is a part of National Women’s History Month, which was started in the 1970s to educate Americans on the historical contributions of women.

The annual Women’s History Month Banquet on Thursday will feature Cecilia Fire Thunder, the first woman elected as president of Ogala Sioux.

The final event of the week is a performance of “Las Hermanas Padilla,” Tony Meneses’ story of

10 sisters-in-law who bond while their husbands are fighting in an unnamed war. For more information about Women’s Week, visit involved.unl.edu/womens-week.

Though Deeds encourages everyone to attend the week’s events, she wants students to know that the Women’s Center is active all year round.

“If you want to help us plan something, come on up to (room) 340 in the Nebraska Union and get involved,” Deeds said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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10 a.m. where: Nebraska Union, room posted

Brown Bag Open Forum with the CCSW Staff Council

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11:30 a.m.

Nebraska Union, room posted

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Veterans and Military Service Resource Fair

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Chancellor’s Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Status of Women

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11:30 a.m.

Nebraska Union, room posted

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Honoring Women’s Service in the Military

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3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Nebraska Union, room posted

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Doin’ Time with Peterson Toscano

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6 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, room posted

4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Nebraska Union, Fischer Lounge, 2nd Floor

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Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered

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7:30 p.m.

Nebraska Union, room posted

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Thursday

Leadership Luncheon: Staying Rooted in Agriculture

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11:30 a.m.

Nebraska East

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Union

Annual Women’s History Month Banquet

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6 p.m.

Champions Club, 707 Stadium Drive

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Women in Combat Panel

7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Auditorium

Wednesday

Leadership Luncheon: Feminist Pioneers

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11:30 a.m. where: Nebraska Union, room posted

Leadership Luncheon: Sisterhood is Global

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11:30 a.m.

Selleck Presidential Dining Room

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Las Hermanas Padilla

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7:30 p.m.

Carson Theater more information: Tickets are $15 for students and $20 for general admission. where:

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Fraternities, sororities should follow SAE, eliminate pledging Any person who has seen a movie set on a college campus probably thinks the Greek system is the only method of socialization at universities. The Greeks are portrayed as the cool kids on the block. They are the prettiest, richest and most likely to be successful. More importantly, they have friends – a whole house full of them – that they refer to as “brothers” and/or “sisters.” It makes sense that this lifestyle is romanticized and coveted no matter what the entry fee is. Unfortunately, hazing is one thing not limited to the silver screen portrayal; it’s something that happens in reality, and sometimes students are seriously injured or killed during their pursuit of fitting in with their “brothers” and “sisters.”

Now the national chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is saying enough is enough. They are cutting out the pledge process, and the DN Editorial Board would like to congratulate them. Beyond the Greek community at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are hundreds of Registered Student Organizations and groups that students join without having to first survive a pledge process. In fact, beyond the university’s walls, graduates will find themselves in jobs and social situations where they will choose to become a part of those organizations. However, they will not have to first endure a pledge process. Pledge processes are not and should not be necessary for making friends. We believe that sororities and fraternities have their places on campuses, and they’re a perfect fit for some students. But is it necessary that those students be forced to do certain things just to prove they belong?

This is, of course, not something that all Greek organizations do. We also understand the importance of bonding in the context of a fraternity or sorority, a goal the pledge process often fulfills. But, there are other ways to do it that are less, well, ridiculous.

Pledging and experiences like it aren’t integral parts of socialization in life beyond college. We want to thank SAE for eliminating the process and encourage other fraternities and sororities to follow suit.

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Students need religious education

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his is a public university and a secular institution, so what I’m about to say might shock you. Let’s talk about religion. Let’s talk about faith. I ask for your patience to stay with me.

We’re so afraid to talk about religion. We don’t want to offend. We don’t want to be accused of proselytizing. All of the sudden, we assume our minds are so fragile that any talk about religion will indoctrinate them. We’re afraid of being critical of religions for the same reason we don’t want to offend and we don’t want to push things on somebody else. But if we’re going to prepare students for the world, we need religious education in our universities. If anything, we need an environment that doesn’t deny religion as an active and inclusive part of life.

Recently, Marshall Poe, a former history professor and adviser at the University of Iowa, wrote in The Atlantic that we should teach religion in universities. He doesn’t mean “religious studies” but to have actual clergy of various faiths come and teach young students as college courses. In his work with undergraduates, he found that many of them were “disappointed, confused and lost.” They were suffering and miserable. They didn’t know how to look to the future, how to deal with life’s messes and were giving up.

After being unable to help them as an undergraduate advisor, Poe realized religion could “teach them how to live” and bring “order to the thoughts and actions of people whose thoughts and actions are naturally disordered.”

Poe is onto something. He doesn’t think everyone has to align with a structured faith.

He offers secular spiritual training as an option as well. I think there’s a spiritual and

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emotional deficit among young people today.

Students are distracted with football games, class requirements, house parties and clubs and groups to join. Yet a significant part of the human experience is excluded. We’re afraid to talk about religion and spirituality as a way to educate.

We assume young minds can imagine complex mathematical concepts, the history of the world or the molecular structure of this and that, but we think that mentioning religious doctrine is unbearable and unfair.

The product of this suppression is a harsh binary between religion and science. Science just happens to be religion’s harshest critic and most prominent alternative. Science is safe to talk about in universities but religion isn’t.

Religion is something that happens in private, behind closed doors and only with people who already think the same as you.

The most dangerous thing about binaries is the laziness they allow. The framing of binaries allows for one to pick a side that is most

comfortable and stick with it. One can assume that the work is over and can’t be accused of being apathetic. But the work is never over.

The suppression of talk about religion and lack of religious education doesn’t let people talk to people who think differently. They’re not even prepared to ask questions or answer them.

In the words of acclaimed and Pulitzerwinning author, Marilynne Robinson (who is also a devoted member of the Congregational Church), “the debate seems to be between a naive understanding of religion and a naive understanding of science. The us-versus-them mentality is a terrible corruption of the whole culture.”

For Robinson and for me as well, the discussion between science and religion ought to be about humanity and people, not about trying to prove one side superior to the other. The university ought to take this comprehensive and dynamic approach.

Religion is an inevitable idea of life, and anybody equipped with a college degree should be able to talk about it freely, comfortably and with good taste. They should be allowed to talk openly about their personal alignment with faith and spirituality. We as college students owe it to ourselves to explore all the ideas we can, to grow in our convictions and to be good to each other. If our university isn’t going to provide, then we need to start changing our own assumptions and start the conversation.

Jane Seu is a senior political science major. Follow her on Twitter @jane_seu. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

We’re so afraid to talk about religion.

We don’t want to offend. We don’t want to be accused of proselytizing.”

Grading standards should Writing thaesis teaches be equal for all classes patience, important skills

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ost college students are familiar with the “my classes are harder than yours” competitions. Sometimes these are simply a way of coping with stress. In critically examining college grading systems, though, I’m disturbed by several trends. Some classes expect a vast majority of students to receive barely passing grades on tests and even the class as a whole. Friends have complained about this in everything from a mid-level chemistry class to a required history of theatre class. When most of the class gets a C, students are discouraged and receive a permanent damper on their GPAs. I don’t mean to suggest we hand out A’s willynilly to any student we think is funny, pretty or pitiable. If we’re going to continue with standardized grades, though, we need to be more consistent with our standards and link them to useful, personal student feedback.

Letter grades are generally used to report grades to local, state and national administration.

These marks turn students into numbers, for the purpose of getting an overall feel of how a teacher or institution is doing. But you can’t always put two A’s or two C’s next to each other and say they mean to same thing. There’s a difference between receiving a C because you rarely showed up to class and a C because the professor told you that was the highest you could get.

My argument here is two-fold. First, students need more than just letter grades to tell them how they’re doing in a class. If students are going to improve, they need to know which areas to focus on and which to draw strength from. For example, I took a fiction writing class last semester, and I entered it with a lot of doubt about my abilities as a writer. The instructor used an Early/Middle/Late scale to tell us where he saw the development of each piece of our writing and how much time we should continue to give to it. An Early meant “maybe this topic isn’t for you” or “rethink how you’re approaching this piece” or “don’t give up, but keep looking.” The Middle/Late marks told me “you’re headed the right way, have confidence” and “don’t call it good enough, keep working.”

While this was a scale that could be translated into grades later, it was more about our individual

Amy kenyon work, where we were and what we needed. He didn’t have to write much on the paper, but I knew a lot more about what his expectations were and where I stood. Responses such as these take a little extra writing time from teachers but can easily be added to any class.

Secondly, if public schools and universities are going to continue to use standardized grades, they need to actually make them standard. Depending on the subject area and type of school, there are various national, state, district and school standards that may affect a class. While teachers always have to show student performance of some kind, it’s not always clear who’s measuring it or how. On a local level, every professor gets to decide what the letter grades mean in that class, yet GPA is treated as a universal indicator of student achievement. How do we defend the C we spent endless late nights fighting for next to the A that was handed to us without question?

Education is a deeply ingrained aspect of our society. As such, stressed-out students, demanding parents, overworked teachers, well-meaning citizens and inadequate officials will always raise debates and struggle for control. Ultimately, though, education should be about the students. Where and how are we going to learn the most? What’s going to get us where we want to be? How can we improve ourselves and how can we demonstrate that improvement? Institutions and professors need to keep these questions in mind and strongly consider the grades they’re delivering.

Amy Kenyon is a junior secondary education English and theatre major.

Follow her on Twitter @AmyKenyawn.

Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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n March 14, I defended an undergraduate thesis to graduate with distinction from the College of Arts & Sciences. It was the end product of about 10 months’ worth of research, typing and editing — and blood, sweat and tears. I’m already required to write a thesis for the Honors Program, but honors theses have much simpler requirements. It may have been a lot of work – more work than was required of me – but I don’t regret it for a second. In fact, I would recommend it to anyone.

During my junior year at the University of NebraskaLincoln, I had finally settled into the major I would stick with (French). I knew the deadline for deciding my thesis topic and adviser was impending. However, I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. After meeting with Karen Lyons, the associate director of the Honors Program, I thought I might write a short story in French. But was I passionate about that? Not really.

In the spring of 2012, I was taking my junior honors seminar in African Politics with Alice Kang. I took the class hoping to learn more about a continent I knew next to nothing about. We had to do individual projects on an issue within Africa; I chose to write a paper on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I quickly realized as I researched how interesting (albeit, depressing) the background of this issue was. As the project drew to a close, I knew I couldn’t stop there. I was already thinking about adding a global studies major, even though it would probably require me to enroll in a fifth year of school. Nonetheless, it felt like the right decision. I decided to make my paper topic the topic of my honors thesis, with Kang as my adviser.

I began my thesis research in May 2013. I spent that summer reading articles and books while balancing my part-time job and two summer classes, writing my abstract midway through. In October, I finished the literature review. Then came the hard part: the body.

About one-fourth of my thesis body included information from Congolese military and government documents, which were all in French. I was in a French translation course during the fall of 2013, but this was a completely different animal. I sifted through strange military jargon. I covered my wall with important sticky notes. I fought with the Interlibrary Loan office (whose employees probably have my name memorized by now). WordReference quickly became my third most visited site on Google Chrome. By the end of the fall semester, I had a complete draft.

I spent this semester doing final revisions before my

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defense last Friday. Now that it’s over, it feels really weird — as if a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

Nonetheless, I feel as if I finished the process a much better student.

For one, if I didn’t know how to use the library before, I do now. I checked out book after book and read more than a dozen journal articles from JSTOR and Project MUSE. I also ordered about 15 different sources via Interlibrary Loan and learned that reading microfilm is one of the most obnoxious things you’ll ever do.

Writing a thesis teaches you much more than how to navigate your library. You learn important research and writing skills. You learn how to take in and interpret information. You learn how to use rhetoric to make your point.

If you’re multilingual, you have almost twice as many sources to choose from; if you read sources in your second language, your comprehension and vocabulary improve.

You also learn patience and how to pace yourself more than you’ve probably ever had to in college. There were weeks where I didn’t touch my thesis at all. Sometimes this was because I didn’t have a deadline coming up and had other priorities, but often it was because I needed to walk away for a bit. Sexual violence is, as you can guess, not pleasant to read about. An important lesson in the thesis process is to not let your work overcome you. While you want to get the word out, you must take care of yourself first.

In the end, I created something I’m truly proud of and something I’ll hopefully continue in a doctoral program in African history. I’m less than two months away from graduating. When I look back at my college experiences, my thesis was one of the hardest things I ever did — but also one of the best.

Ruth Boettner is a senior French and global studies major. Follow her on Twitter @ruthen1. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Morgan Miller, a freshman textiles, merchandising and fashion design major, practices her baton routine at the rec on March 13.

a new spin story by Grace Solem-Pfeifer | photo by Cahner Olson

Twirling fulfills dreams, upholds tradition for Husker baton twirlers

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s the 90,000 fans of Memorial Stadium look on, Morgan Miller hurls a baton 100 feet in the air. If it isn’t thrown with the right amount of revolutions, the wind could take it. If it lands before she completes a series of spins and leaps, it might fall to the ground or even hit her. But it doesn’t. Miller snatches the baton out of the air, and the crowd erupts into cheers.

Miller, a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is one of many athletes who take the field during game days, but she is one who must execute her feats in full make-up with an unfaltering smile. Behind the seemingly effortless control with which she wields her baton is a lifetime of dedication, practice and injuries. Since Miller began twirling at 5 years old, her passion has earned her four black eyes, torn hamstrings and hip liga-

long legacy of Husker pride. ments and broken nearly every finger.

“This year I was really happy to be a guide “People don’t consider baton twirling a sport, and show (Morgan) the but think about all the athlettraditions here, espeics — the running, the hours of Not only am I twirling cially because she’s not practice, the countless injuries,” from Nebraska,” FoehMiller said. “We get hit just as and leaping and linger said. “I was able many times as the football playdancing and all that, but to show her the ropes ers do on the field.”

Originally from Hollidays- I’m also crossing the length in the same way that I was shown the ropes burg, Pa., Miller, a fashion design when I was a freshmajor, joined senior Rachel Foeh- of six football fields.” man. Nebraska is a relinger, an advertising and public Morgan Miller ally special place, and I relations major, as the second feaunl twirler think anyone who has ture twirler for UNL. For Foehgone to a Husker game linger, who is the fourth member knows that. The main of her family to twirl for the unithing I wanted to teach Morgan is reaching as versity, the opportunity to twirl with Miller was many of those 90,000 people there as a possible.” a chance to pass on the baton, as well as share a

twirler: see page 7

ST. PATRICK’S DAY

Many students see St. Patrick’s Day as drinking holiday vanessa daves dn Every year, St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, bringing shamrocks, gimmicky green clothing and lots of booze, but the true meaning behind the holiday is generally forgotten in today’s drinking culture.

St. Patrick, the patron saint the holiday is named after, is remembered for his bravery, patience and listening to God to follow the call to share the gospel with the people of Ireland, according to an article published in National Geographic.

St. Patrick was born in Britain to an aristocratic Christian family, and he was kidnapped at 16 years old to be sold into slavery as a shepherd. Though as a child he showed no interest in Christianity, his experience in slavery supposedly brought him to Christ.

According to National Geographic, a voice came to him telling him to escape.

St. Patrick took a pirate ship back to Britain where he was reunited with his family, until that voice came back and told him to return to Ireland.

In Ireland, he was ordained as a pastor, and from there, he dedicated the rest of his life to spreading the gospel with the Irish.

Every March 17, people around the world celebrate his life, but instead of viewing it as a religious holiday, many view it solely as a drinking holiday.

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, bars and restaurants in Lincoln prepare for the mass amount of people that will come out looking for a good time.

“We really try to make sure we’re well-staffed and wellstocked on food and liquor,” Fuzzy’s Shift Manager Alex Pace said.

And sometimes, St. Patrick’s Day celebrations mean keeping a close eye on the customers and cutting them off, if necessary. If a bartender at Fuzzy’s notices someone is slurring his or her words or stumbling extensively, he might give that person a soda or suggest food to sober the person up.

“It’s a bit like working with kids, actually,” Pace said. “(St. Patrick’s Day) is basically an excuse to go out drinking, relax and get away from the stress of homework.”

For freshman Ory Wickizer, being in a fraternity means that commemorating St. Patrick’s Day comes with parties to celebrate it.

“I never really celebrated it for it’s original meaning anyway,” Wickizer said. “I enjoy the holiday for what it is, but I don’t know the full meaning behind it.”

And most of the people he hangs out with don’t, either.

Although elementary school activities around the time of St. Patrick’s Day taught him the basics of St. Patrick himself, the focus of the holiday has shifted, and today’s generation generally doesn’t know the true significance behind it.

st. patrick’s: see page 7

Green Beer, just in time for St. Patrick’s day.

Ingredients: -Green food coloring -Beer -Mugs

1. Place two drops of food coloring in the bottom of a mug.

2. Pour beer on top. Presto!

Magic! Green beer!

Note: The beer does not taste different, nor does it turn lips green.

Compiled by Maranda Loughlin arts@dailynebraskan.

An Arts Desk limerick:

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Midterms looming days away, The DN Arts Desk lost its way, Our stomachs thick with fear, We replaced it with beer, A miracle upon this St. Patty’s day.

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Places to get a tattoo

Sacred Heart. Boasting three talented artists with a shop located in the Haymarket on 140 N. 8th St., Sacred Heart is a comfortable environment to get a tattoo.

Painted skateboards adorn the waiting room walls, and each tattoo room is divided to give you the privacy and comfortability for your session with an artist. All of the artists are welcoming and ready to provide you with what you’re looking for.

courtesy photo Tobey is sent to jail for manslaughter and is released two years later. He wants to get revenge on Dino for killing Little Pete. He’s helped by a plucky English car collector named Julia (Imogen Poots), who can help him prove his innocence. Tobey also has his garage crew to aid him in his quest for vengeance, including helicopter pilot Benny (Kid Cudi), who spots obstacles and traffic conditions from the sky.

Paul should have picked a different role. He looks uncomfortable trying to capture Tobey.

He’s effective in some scenes but other times he fizzles, seemingly not sure what to do. I don’t necessarily blame him. I blame the director and the writers. Surely Paul, two-time Emmy winner, is capable of turning in a great performance. The issue in “Need for Speed” is that he isn’t given a real character to portray. He’s simply dropped into the middle

of an ill-advised video game property on the pretense that his fame will sell the film, which it will.

This movie is not sure which direction it wants to go. Sometimes it’s funny; other times it’s unflinchingly serious. It’s OK to be both, but the film makes no attempt to reconcile its tone shifts.

Sometimes the movie is just baffling; there is a scene where holographic unicorns gallop across the screen at full speed, then shatter into a million bits, scatter towards the camera (because for some reason, this movie just had to be in 3D) and form a pattern on the floor, which then somehow becomes a top-dollar sports car that Tobey built and plans to sell for $3 million. If someone can tell me why this makes sense in a movie supposedly based in reality, I am all ears.

“Need for Speed” is an inconsistent, poorly done film with a few standout moments scattered

“NEED FOR SPEED” STARRING

Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper

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Iron Brush. The shop is located on 226 South 16th St, not far from campus. The shop is clean, professional and provides a warm welcome for both first-timer tattoo clients and those who have been at it for awhile. Each of the six artists are extremely talented and ready to work with customers to produce a tattoo exactly like you want. The artists are both extremely friendly and eager to work with customers. Iron Brush is a top-notch pick.

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throughout a directionless, occasionally juvenile script. One gets the impression that this could have been much better. I assumed that Paul would be the redeeming element in what would otherwise be an unremarkable cash grab of a film, and instead he turns in a surprisingly unenthusiastic performance.

Hopefully, the rising star will pick his roles more wisely next time. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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‘Child’s Pose’ lacks emotional warmth “Child’s Pose” is the new film from Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer. The film follows the desperate acts of an aging mother after learning that her son has accidentally run over a young boy and killed him.

“Child’s Pose” opens scathingly. The mother, Cornelia, vents to her sister about a recent confrontation with her son, Barbu. Cornelia unveils both her desperation to connect with her son, along with her overbearing nature. In a scene shortly after, Cornelia consults the housekeeper who tends to both her house and her son’s, soliciting her for information about the state of her son’s house, relationship with his girlfriend and even trivia such as whether or not he has read the book Cornelia purchased him. Though goodness is evident in the extent of her investment in her son, the obsessiveness makes Cornelia an intrinsically uneasy character.

Though her motives seem relatively innocent, they manifest in very disturbing ways. One scene particularly captures the complicated relationship between the mother and her son. Back at Cornelia’s house the night of the accident, Cornelia rubs antiinflammation cream on Barbu’s back. Netzer very deliberately instills discomfiture: the lighting is almost eerie, the gloves Cornelia wear make an unsettling squashing sound as she rubs on the cream, and her hands veer low on Barbu’s back as she appears to straddle him.

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‘Need for Speed’ needs direction, character The “Fast & Furious” franchise can stay seated. It isn’t going anywhere.

“Need for Speed” doesn’t bring enough inspiration, action or character to compete with the popular racing franchise, and it barely hangs together well enough to work as a standalone film.

“Need for Speed” is two things: an adaptation of a popular video game franchise and a vehicle for Aaron Paul’s career in a post-”Breaking Bad” world.

The problem with movies of video games is that they usually have very little to do with what actually happened in the game.

That’s a bigger problem than usual in the film adaptation of “Need for Speed,” based on a series of games that had next to no storyline whatsoever. When the credits roll, and we see, “Based on ‘Need for Speed,’ by Electronic Arts,” I have to ask, which part was that? Was it when all of the main characters were playing the namesake video game in their garage?

The movie is about Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul), known to be an exceptional street racer, who currently works in a garage modifying cars. After winning a race with a customized car he built, he attracts the attention of former rival Dino (Dominic Cooper), to whom he owes a debt.

Dino challenges Tobey and his partner Little Pete (Harrison Gilbertson) to a race to pay off his debt. Little Pete is killed in the race, during a slow motion sequence that is so gratuitous and drawn out that I found it impossible not to laugh.

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The delicate balance between sympathy and disgust Cornelia’s actions instill require very minute work by the actress portraying her. Luminita Gheorghiu saves the film from straying to disaster through her nuanced portrayal of the woman. As she manipulates seemingly everyone around her in the attempt to secure her son’s freedom from manslaughter charges, Gheorghiu never allows cracks in Cornelia’s opaque morals. We’re left constantly having to make our own convictions or absolutions and Gheorghiu’s performance ensures we’re never confident in our allegiances.

Netzer and co-writer Razvan Radulescu’s screenplay delves headlong into the power plays and conflicts of the family. Unfortunately, immersing us so completely in the family’s mechanisms threatens to alienate. No member of the family is obviously likable. They bicker, pull strings and accuse. This setup makes for an interesting character study but makes investment in the story brutally difficult. Indeed, the most inherently sympathetic characters in the film are the members of the victim’s family, their anger and sense of loss showcased briefly immediately after the accident and extensively in the film’s closing scene. This other, perhaps more normal, family serves to draw attention to just how flawed Cornelia’s is. They also facilitate the introduction of an effective social commentary into the film.

Cornelia and her sister arrive at the scene of the accident in fur coats, fresh from the opera. They

are absorbed in their phones, already trying to contact officials and lawyers who can assist in Barbu’s freedom. Genuine emotion is not evident. Conversely, the young boy’s family — obviously lower class — is outwardly in pain. Throughout the film, Cornelia’s manipulations always bear a sinister tinge. The family’s long-reaching power manifests corruption, and all the while the apparently impoverished family of a dead young boy mourn.

“Child’s Pose” features the shaky camera style relatively common in modern indie films.

Unfortunately, the style lends nothing to the feel or story of the film. It only acts as a distraction from Gheorghiu’s otherwise inescapable performance. Similarly disappointing, the entire film is essentially drained of color. This visual style initially lends to the gritty feeling of the family’s state. After nearly two hours of visual and emotional coldness, though, the film is left worse for wear.

The film’s strongest scene is its last, as Cornelia visits with the mourning family. As each family tells the other about the sons, the surface conversation effectively reveals the distance between the two families. Cornelia speaks of her own son as if he too is dead — a thing of the past — and the decadence of her family reaches its climax. This decadence, however, is something we’ve been shown all along. Nothing changes, and the film — mirroring its color scheme — essentially remains static from start to finish.

Not even Gheorghiu’s wonderfully complex turn as Cornelia

Mojo’s Dermagraphics & Design. With the tagline “Tattoos as Original as You,” Mojo’s, located on 1245 S. 9th St, provides detailed work for any customer looking for a creative masterpiece. With the three artists, Mojo, Tanner and Evan, the shop is oriented on creating unique tattoos that show the clients’ individual style. A shop that welcomes both appointments and walk-ins, Mojo’s is a place to stop by.

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Morgan Miller, a Husker baton twirler, prepares for a baton competition last weekend.

Off the field, rigorous training is essential to prepare for performances. In high school, Miller spent every night at the gym from 6 to midnight.

In addition to practicing twirling routines, endurance is key for field twirling.

“It’s dancing and then some,” Foehlinger said, referring to the athletic demands of the sport. “When you’re talking about field twirling, for my pregame performance last year I traveled 600 yards in 12 minutes. Not only am I twirling and leaping and dancing and all that, but I’m also crossing the length of six football fields.”

Few high school twirlers make the leap to performing at the collegiate level. During her sophomore year of high school, Miller made the decision after attending a “Twirler a Day” event at the University of Cincinnati, where she was able to perform on the field at a football game.

“At the time I was on the borderline of deciding if I wanted to twirl in college, especially because I had a hip injury at the time,” Miller said.

“After I came off that field, I said ‘I’m twirling in college. That’s it.’”

That same year, having never been to Nebraska, Miller set her sights on twirling at UNL, after a Husker pre-game show on YouTube caught her attention. She was attracted to the energy and unique style of the marching band, as well

as the fervor of the fan base. Two years later, she made her first trip to Nebraska in order to audition as a feature twirler. Soon afterwards, the 18-year-old from the East Coast learned that she would become an integral part of Husker culture and tradition. Foehlinger said in her four years as a feature twirler, she has often been asked to sign autographs and to take pictures with young fans.

“When you tell people you’re a twirler, typically they’re like ‘Oh, so what exactly do you do?’” Foehlinger said. “But once you say you’re a Husker baton twirler, it is a whole different story. They’ve been to the game; they’ve seen that there are only one or two twirlers, and suddenly, it’s a big deal.”

The responsibilities of college twirlers don’t end with football season, however. Their year is divided between field twirling (performing on the field with the marching band) and competition twirling, competing in individual and team twirling events at regional tournaments.

In many ways, competitive twirling is more demanding than field twirling, because unlike football fans, judges scrutinize performances for technical skill. And no, Miller emphasizes, skill is not determined by whether or not you drop the baton.

“Drops are not the end of the

world,” Miller said. “It’s just like a basketball player — you don’t make the hoop every time. When you’re tossing a baton 100 feet in the air, judges care more about the spins and bodywork underneath it. Field (twirling) is more about what makes the crowd happy. For some reason they go crazy when I do rolls on the ground, and they love twirling fire which you can’t do at a competition.”

For the past two years, Miller has won her division in the one baton solo event, and this summer, she will represent UNL at the National Collegiate Championships.

After college, Miller hopes to open her own twirling studio to spread the popularity of twirling in the Midwest, and maybe even apply her fashion design degree to open a costume shop. For now, however, calling herself a Husker twirler is enough to keep her busy.

“To twirl in college is both the end of your career and the peak of it, because there is no professional twirling,” Miller said. “It’s the highest you can go. Baton twirling requires so much time, and sometimes you can’t hang out because you’re at the gym or you have early morning practices. At the end of the day, though, I’m here fulfilling one of my dreams.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

that it truly holds for our culture.”

For Marz General Manager Jason Ables, the skewed vision Americans have on the idea of St. Patrick’s Day is something that affects how the bar prepares for the night. But, Ables said, there’s nothing wrong with people focusing more on the social aspect rather than the religious aspect.

“I think that people are different, and it has different meanings depending on what is in their life,” Ables said. “St. Patrick’s Day is just a good reason to go out and have fun.”

In past years, Marz has had small crowds show up in the past to the bar. To prepare, the bar usually just puts up decorations and makes sure all the food is ready to go.

“We traditionally go for the food side rather than the bar side,” Ables said. “Food is our strength. The bar side is easy — all you have to do is have beer and have Irish whiskey.”

In terms of the bar business, Ables said, it’s just one of those things that’s been commercialized for a long time, and now, it’s the only way people really know how to celebrate.

“It’s just one of those things that’s taken on a life of its own,” Ables said.

It’s a life full of four-leaf clovers, leprechauns and Irish whiskey, but St. Patrick is remembered every year nonetheless. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

st. patrick’s: from 5 “People have definitely changed the meaning of St. Patrick’s Day,” Wickizer said.

Freshman Cheyanne MacClain, whose birthday is on St. Patrick’s Day, said that most holidays today are celebrated and associated with drinking. On college campuses especially, the emphasis on drinking is prominent and the religious aspect of holidays like St. Patrick’s Day tends to fall by the wayside, MacClain said.

“If you honestly took a survey asking people what religion St. Patrick’s Day is for or what it symbolizes, I guarantee you the majority of people would have no clue,” MacClain said. “We are raised to celebrate the holiday and not to appreciate the depth and meaning

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Every class was about the same. I’d go in and sit down wearing my fabulous fedora, feeling the eyes of people around me. People seem to talk differently to you when you wear a fedora. How could you wear a fedora and talk to someone like you’re not wearing one? It’s a very distinctive hat. You have to have something distinctive to say if you’re going to wear a friggin’ fedora.

By the fourth day, I began to wear the fedora between classes and afterward. I would forget that I had it on. I’d be sitting at my computer and look up, and there it was getting comfortable on my head, putting down roots.

I almost didn’t wear it to class the next day. I was afraid.

I’m glad it’s done with. Really, wearing the hat wasn’t that bad. I must confess I think I can pull it off (just sayin’), but some off-hand stylistic experimentation isn’t worth the silent, judging eyes of an entire university’s students.

The moral of this story is that unless you’re at some kind of gala, playing jazz or solving crimes in the 1940s, you don’t need to be wearing a fedora. jack forey is a junior film studies major. Reach him at Arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Context is indeed everything, and wearing a fedora with a hoodie, T-shirt and jeans is an invitation for silent judgment. My editors dared me to wear a fedora to every class for one week, and I accepted the challenge.

The fedora hat was introduced to the United States in the 1880s and has since become an iconic symbol for detectives and gangsters in ’40s and ’50s films. While wearing a fedora with a suit or other appropriate attire can potentially be quite stylish, it’s still important to remember that context is everything.

In recent years, a certain stratum of our fair society has taken to wearing fedoras on a regular basis, seemingly to compensate for social awkwardness and/ or a lack of personal style. You know the type: the guy who dons his fedora proudly, walking around in his trench coat and a faded Pokemon shirt that looks a size too tight. Yes, it’s fine if that’s who you want to be, but you should know that wearing that hat doesn’t make you cool like an old-fashioned gangster or a hard-boiled detective. It just makes you look kind of clueless.

The moment my editor Nate Sindelar loaned me his fedora, I could start to feel the eyes on me. Walking outside, I snapped a quick selfie. I was now a guy wearing a fedora and snapping a picture of it in a public place like I was proud of myself. I was, at that moment, a pure douchebag.

There was still some time before my first class, so I decided to stop by the glorious new Subway Pizza Express at the Nebraska Union. I was now standing out of them. But, I digress. The in line for Subway Pizza while point is I thought I had figured wearing a fedora. out the so-called moral of the “Well,” I thought to myself, story, and I was trying to argue “I didn’t see this coming.” it to the other group members.

Walking into my first class, I ended up discussing it rather some people turned their heads passionately, getting in mind just as people normally do when someone enters the class. Then, this great vision for what the play would be. Then I realized two of them looked back again I was wearing a at the exact same fedora. It has only time. I am certain I’d go in now occurred to they noticed the me that my teamhat. What is less and sit mates were not certain is exactly swayed by my arwhat they were down wearing my gument because I thinking the mofabulous fedora, was wearing that ment they noticed hat. I was left to the fedora. Most feeling the eyes wonder if I was a likely it was simvictim of hat prejply confusion, of people around udice. something along me.”

I should menthe lines of, “Oh tion that the hat … he’s wearing a hat today. That’s different. was too small for my head. This made it uncomfortable to wear.

I think we have a quiz today … but that hat. What’s the hat It may have even constricted my blood flow. Because it was an about? Why do I care so much? odd fit, the wind blew it loose.

I’m so confused. Everything is Once I was chatting with a friend meaningless.” between classes and a gust of In another class, I was working with a group to translate an wind knocked the fedora off my head. It started to roll across the Irish fairy tale into a stage play.

Incidentally, this is the weird- parking lot, looking like a tire, balanced perfectly on the rim est goddamn fairy tale I’ve ever read. “Jack & Bill” is a mixture and traveling just fast enough to of insanity, pointlessness, giants remain out of my reach as I shuffled toward it. I consider myself who talk as their heads are cut in lucky that nobody was around to half, wells full of blood and an old woman wearing huge boxing snap a picture of the happening gloves with 15 inch nails sticking and post it to Reddit. It was just

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NU maintains 5th place in tournament weekend Riley Bowden DN The Husker rifle team traveled to Murray, Ky., on Friday to compete in the NCAA Championships. Nebraska finished the weekend in fifth place with a team score of 4,660. The West Virginia Mountaineers took home the title with a team score of 4,705.

The Huskers ended Friday in fifth place with a smallbore score of 2,313. Freshman Rachel Martin led Nebraska on Saturday with an air rifle score of 590. The team finished Saturday with an air rifle score of 2,347 to keep Nebraska in the top 5.

The Huskers’ best individual performance came from sophomore Denise Martin. Martin led the smallbore squad with a 586, which qualified for the individual championships. Martin’s 443.3 in the individual competition earned her a

third place.

The fifth-place finish Saturday is the Huskers’ best finish at the NCAA Championships since the 2007-08 season when they placed fourth. Husker senior ReAnn Wilson said she was extremely proud of the way the team performed, but not surprised.

“During our last match of the season, we were the most prepared we have ever been,” Wilson said.

“We went to the line fearless and determined to show what Husker rifle is all about.”

Saturday was emotional for Wilson as it was her last competition as a Husker.“As a senior shooting my last match for this program, I felt like a competitor,” Wilson said. “My teammates have supported me and believed in my abilities all season. I left everything out on the range and have absolutely no regrets.”

Wilson was one of the few se-

nior contributors on the underclassman-dominated roster. Wilson will graduate this year along with fellow senior Sunny Russell.

Coach Stacy Underwood completed her second year as the team’s head coach on Saturday. Underwood joined the team after a stint as an assistant at Kentucky, and in her first year took the team back to the NCAA Championships. Last year, Underwood led the team to a seventh-place finish.

Underwood said she was pleased with the team’s effort, not only at the NCAA’s, but also through the entirety of the season.

“I am extremely proud of this team,” Underwood said. “This is a young team who has worked hard learning a new system. With the same continued work ethic and discipline, there is no limit to the success they will achieve.”

Underwood’s second year

brought new challenges, but experience from last year helped her coaching ability.

“As a coach, you are always tweaking your training and coaching philosophies each year based on team members and situations you experienced from the previous years,” Underwood said. “This team was so fun to coach. They were responsive to training and willing to work. You cannot ask for anything more as a coach.”

Underwood said from the very beginning of the season that they were top-five team. She said that with a solid amount of effort there was nothing the team couldn’t accomplish.

The Huskers will return eight of 10 shooters next season, and will be looking to improve on their top-5 finish as they gear up for next season. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska defeats all 3 opponents Allowing only 2 runs, No. 14 NU took wins against Jackson State, Northern Illinois, Kansas Josh Kelly DN The No. 14 Nebraska softball team came in and conquered the Jayhawk Invitational this weekend, defeating every opponent the team was dealt.

Nebraska went 3-0 in its last non-conference weekend of the regular season, beating Jackson State, Northern Illinois and Kansas.

The team was supposed to have a Sunday matchup against Jackson State, but the game was canceled due to imminent weather.

In two out of three of the meetings the Huskers put the run rule into effect, which took a lot off sophomore pitcher Emily Lockman.

“It’s so nice to have that support behind you on the other end,” Lockman said. “The offense has been playing great for us, which helps you so much as a pitcher.”

Lockman was on the mound for the 2 run-rule games, throwing 8 strikeouts and allowing 2 runs between the 2 games.

In the final game of the weekBetween Lockman and senior pitcher Tatum Edwards, the duo end against Kansas, there was allowed two runs throughout the drama toward the end as freshentire weekend and shutout two man outfielder Austen Urness was going for a fly ball in left of Nebraska’s opponents.

Lockman said the level play field.

As she was going to make needs to continue for the pitching a play in the seventh inning she staff.

“I think the biggest difference stumbled, causing an injury that right now is what we are able to has yet to be disclosed by the do,” Lockman said. “We’re get- team. She left the field after the ting people out consistently, and play happened. The Huskers finished the game and won 1-0 we need to keep on that truck.” against the Jayhawks.

The first team Nebraska facNebraska took down es Iowa State on was Jackson State on Wednesday, which is Friday when the team the first home game notched the game in 5 of the season for the innings. The next victeam. The mid-week tim for the Nebraska matchup is followed offense was Northern by a weekend series Illinois on Saturday. against conference The Huskers won 10-2. foe Minnesota, a Leading the way schedule the team is on the offensive end not worried about. was senior catcher “We’re pretty Taylor Edwards, who Lockman confident right now,” hit her seventh home Lockman said. “We’ll run of the season against Northern Illinois. The sec- have a good week of practice ond most home runs by a player ahead of us, and we’ll be ready to on the team is held by three dif- go next weekend.”

The team is pumped to able to ferent players who have 2 home come back home and play at Bowruns.

For Edwards, to get the job lin Stadium in front of the Husker fans. done early was a huge confidence “I know we’re extremely exbooster for her and the rest of the cited to come back and play in team.

“It felt really good to get things front of the home crowd,” Eddone early,” Edwards said. “I think wards said. “It’s something that we’ve been looking forward to, it was our preparation for it that really did it for us. The coaches told and we just want to show our us to have laser focus as a team. We home fans some good softball.” sports@ wanted to get better, and that gave dailynebraskan.com us a certain edge this weekend.”

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Senior ReAnn Wilson scored a 588 in air rifle and a 569 in smallbore in her last competition as a Husker in the NCAA Tournament. Wilson was part of a fifth-place finish for Nebraska.

Josh Kelly DN The runs came plenty during the weekend as the Nebraska baseball team took two out of three games against No. 25 UC Irvine.

Entering the weekend, the Anteaters had one of the best pitching staffs in the country, having the nation’s best team ERA of 1.49. That number dramatically changed after the Husker offense was done with them.

Heading into the weekend, coach Darin Erstad knew what to expect from the elite team from California.

“They are good at what they do, and if you don’t have a good approach, they will destroy you,” Erstad said.

After a late inning rally that came down to the wire, the Anteaters defeated the Huskers 7-6 on Friday night.

Nebraska bounced back the next day with a relentless attack in the doubleheader that finished out the series with the Huskers winning two of three games against the Anteaters, a huge stride for Erstad’s program.

“Any time you play a doubleheader, and to go on to win both of them, it’s very difficult to do,” Erstad said.

“Against an opponent like that, that can pitch like that, they responded well after a tough one and a fantastic job on their part.”

In front of a season-high crowd of more than 5,000 people, Nebraska dominated in Game 1 of Saturday afternoon by defeating UC Irvine 13-4, which set up for a Game 2 that would determine the series for the two schools.

The first run for the Huskers didn’t occur until the fourth inning, but it didn’t stop there. The offense broke out to score 5 runs between the seventh and eighth to give themselves enough of a lead to beat the Anteaters again.

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Senior pitcher Zach Hirsch helped Nebraska to two wins in a row against UC-Irvine this weekend. Hirsch allowed 14 runs total, while the Husker offense claimed 27 runs in three games.

that was followed by 14 more hits in Game 2, Erstad gives the pitcher credit for giving the offense the opportunities to break out and take over.

“Hands down, without a question, our pitchers controlled and threw strikes,” Erstad said. “It was nothing that set off a firestorm inning. That right there sets a tone for everything and allows you to build an opportunity.”

For Hirsch, it was a mindset that was required of them for the series, which is something that the staff wants to carry over as the season continues.

“The general gist of it came down to competing with the stuff that you have,” Hirsch said. “That we’re all good enough to pitch here and needed to go out and need to act like you’re that good and get things done. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

of their seats in the eighth inning. It was a crucial moment as junior infielder Pat Kelly prevented a comeback from the Anteaters by snatching a ball hit down the middle and then throwing it in mid-air to get the last out of the inning.

The first person to celebrate was senior pitcher Zach Hirsch, who was saved by Kelly; soon after the two chest-bumped each other heading into the dugout, a rare moment for the team.

“It was the heat of the moment,” Hirsch said. “I was pretty pumped up, and I was really happy for PK (Pat Kelly). You never know what’s going to happen for the rest of that inning. Only giving up one run and leaving with the lead and giving our offense a chance to score some more runs was great.”

Although the offense put up a season-high 19 hits in Game 1 on Saturday

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Nebraska claims Big Ten title Vanessa Daves DN The last thing on coach Dan Kendig’s mind was winning a Big Ten title going into Nebraska’s meet against Il-

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Minnesota and Nebraska finished the season with identical Big Ten records of 6-1 to share the conference title.

On top of that, Nebraska finished its meet with an overall team score of 197.050, which is the second time the team has finished with a score above 197 this season.

“It’s unbelievable,” Kendig said.

“I’m proud of the team and happy for what they’ve accomplished.”

Nebraska started out on vault for the first rotation, where five Huskers tied for identical scores of 9.875. This gave freshman Jennie Laeng her career-high score on vault, and the team finished with a 49.375 on that event.

“It was a great way to start out the meet,” Kendig said.

In the second rotation, Nebraska headed to the bars. Senior Emily Wong led the team with a 9.925, followed by junior Jessie DeZiel’s 9.875 and identical scores of 9.825 from Laeng and junior Desiré Stephens.

Sophomore Hollie Blankse missed her release on bars but still had a great routine, Kendig said. She finished with a score of 9.30. Junior Amanda Lauer competed for her first time on bars and notched a 9.80 to contribute to the team score of 49.200.

In the third rotation, Nebraska headed to the beam, where Kendig said the team had six solid routines.

Laeng and Wong competed to post identical scores of 9.875, and DeZiel led the team with a career-high 9.90 to contribute to the team score of 49.250.

“Jessie had a great routine,” Kendig said. “She had no wobbles and really stuck her dismount.”

Going into the fourth rotation, Nebraska was still in the lead, but only by three-tenths of a point. The team finished out the night on floor exercise.

Wong led the team in that event with a 9.95. Blanske contributed a 9.875, while DeZiel contributed a 9.775. Stephens scored a 9.80, and Laeng added a 9.75. Freshman Ariel Martin also competed on floor and added a 9.825.

“Ariel Martin had an absolutely wonderful routine, so we are really proud of her,” Kendig said.

The Huskers finished out on the floor exercise with a final team score of 49.225 to win the meet.

“I thought it was really good for our kids because they had a lot of positive energy,” assistant coach Heather Brink said. “They stayed together as a team, and they were really relaxed in the sense that they went out and just had fun.”

Wong scored a 39.625 to win the all-around title, which she has con-

sistently won in every meet she’s been eligible. Laeng also finished out the night, after competing in the allaround for her second time, to gain a career-high score of 39.325.

This meet concluded Nebraska’s regular season, and the Huskers will start competing in post-season meets next weekend at the Big Ten Championships.

“We still have a lot of work to do,” Kendig said. “I’m happy about the confidence we gained from the way we performed today, especially coming from the fact that they knowThe nowNew York Times Syndication Sales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 they’re Big Ten season champs.” sports@ For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 dailynebraskan.com For Release Saturday, January 26, 2013

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The men’s basketball team and Husker fans gathered in the Pinnacle Bank Arena for Selection Sunday. Nebraska coach Tim Miles led the Husker mens’ basketball team to a No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament in just his second season as coach. The team will be headed for San Antonio to play the Baylor Bears.

Selection Sunday gave the Nebraska men’s basketball team a No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in Husker history since 1998.

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t all happened in an instant.

Sophomore forward Walter Pitchford sat with his hands over his head. Sophomore guard Shavon Shields chomped on his gum. Sophomore guard Benny Parker covered his mouth with his hand. All three were staring at the Pinnacle Bank Arena big screen.

Then CBS’s Greg Gumble announced over the arena speakers what everyone was waiting to hear.

Pitchford jumped in the air.

Shields picked up Parker. Coach Tim Miles hugged everyone. Assistant coaches kissed their wives.

“Go Big Red” chants sounded seconds later.

That’s the reaction expected when nearly 2,500 fans hear their team made the NCAA Tournament

for the first time since 1998. The Huskers claimed a No. 11 seed and will play the No. 6 seeded Baylor in the opening round in San Antonio.

“I had chills going through my whole body,” sophomore forward Terran Petteway said. “For us to do this in Coach’s second year?

Crazy.”

Gumble’s announcement capped a night filled with pumpup videos, speeches, red and tan leather couches, pep band music and then jubilation.

The celebration is something Miles didn’t expect heading into the year, but it’s something Nebraska can build on.

“It’s a great start, but it’s not the final step,” Miles said. “Let’s say we win and make a run. Is that

good enough? No, that’s not good enough. We want to be a team to make a run every year.

“We don’t want to be a one-hit wonder. Still though, it’s a monumental day for this program.”

The relief didn’t come easy, though.

The Huskers entered Sunday night’s Selection Show on the proverbial tournament bubble. And the anxiety showed on the coaches’ and players’ faces, especially after bubble teams such as Dayton and BYU were announced ahead of Nebraska.

“I’ve never been that nervous before,” Shields said.

That anxiety quickly left, though, as Nebraska was announced in the West regional, the

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second announced on CBS. Petteway in particular was excited about the announcement as he is a native of Galveston, Texas.

“I’m excited,” Petteway said after the watch party. “I already have people calling me and blowing up my phone.”

The Huskers now move their attention to their opponent. The Baylor Bears enter the game after a runner-up finish in the Big 12 Tournament. Nebraska will play Friday in San Antonio with the time yet to be announced.

Additionally, Creighton is the No. 3 seed in the West Region, making a Bluejay-Husker matchup a possibility in the third round.

However, right now, the team is focused on Baylor.

“We’re looking forward to the matchup, but we can’t worry about Creighton,” Petteway said. “We have Baylor on Friday.”

Nebraska has never won an NCAA Tournament game. Miles said this will help the team’s concentration.

“It’s going to be easy to just focus on Baylor and not Creighton,” Miles said.

Miles didn’t talk about the opponent too much, though. He was far too excited about the NCAA Tournament berth.

“I was just so happy for first: our players, second: our fans,” Miles said. “It was good, but it ended up being great.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

NU loses 18-point lead, game to OSU Nedu Izu DN INDIANAPOLIS – Amedeo Della Valle’s first three of four foul shots against Nebraska finished the same way. Each trickled in and out of the rim of the Bankers Life Fieldhouse to retain Nebraska’s six-point lead with 5:59 remaining in Saturday’s quarterfinal matchup.

However, the sophomore guard came through in the final 12 seconds of Ohio State’s second Big Ten Tournament contest to lead Ohio State to a 71-67 victory against Nebraska and knock the team out early in the 2014 conference tournament.

After scoring one point in the first half, Della Valle finished with 12 points to finish as Ohio State’s second leading scorer behind junior forward LaQuinton Ross, who finished with 26.

The Huskers led by 18 with 13:45 remaining in the game before the Buckeyes stormed back to stay alive another day.

“The last 13 minutes, they really did an excellent job of getting us rattled,” coach Tim Miles said. “Their physical defense out front I thought really got to us, too. But really at the end of the day, when you have a lead like that, you should be able to hold it and keep it and find a way to win, but unfortunately we weren’t able to.”

Sophomore forwards Terran Petteway and Walter Pitchford and sophomore guard Shavon Shields paced the Huskers with 20, 15 and 12 points, respectively. However, Nebraska’s leading scorers each committed too many fouls in the second half to aid in Ohio State’s comeback victory.

Petteway, who also led the Huskers with 7 makes from the free-throw line, committed his fifth foul on Ross to exit the game with 58-seconds remaining, while sophomore guard Benny Parker and Shields finished with

four each.

As a team, Nebraska committed 26 total fouls.

Did Miles think the foul trouble affected them in the game’s latter minutes?

“Definitely,” he said. “Anytime we took Benny out, it hurt us. When we took Shavon out, we really struggled.”

Although the Huskers began the game trailing 3-11, 3-pointers by senior guard Ray Gallegos, Pitchford and Petteway anchored Nebraska back in the game and tied it at 20 with less than five minutes to play. The defense, which cooled down junior center Amir Williams and Ross from consecutive field goals, allowed Shields and Gallegos to finish the half with consecutive paint shots and send the Huskers into the locker room with a 31-28 lead.

The Huskers began the second half with a 17-2 run helping them widen their lead-margin to 48-30.

However, their quest for the first Big Ten Championship began to fall apart thanks to a late surge from the Buckeyes’ offense.

“We just had to take care of the ball, and we didn’t,” Petteway said. “I mean, that cost us the game.”

In their first round game Thursday night, it looked as if the Buckeyes were on the verge of packing their bags and heading back to Columbus, Ohio.

Their counterpart — then 14-17 Purdue — stayed in contention for an upset throughout the contest and even led 51-47 with less than nine minutes to play.

But just as the team has done several times this season, Ohio State found a way to prevail and did so against Nebraska.

When the Buckeyes went on a 14-4 run midway in the second half, the Huskers began to feel the momentum leave their side of the court.

“We just didn’t stay together.

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Sophomore forward Terran Petteway moved to sixth place in Nebraska’s single-season scoring record in the Big Ten tournament game against OSU; he, however, fouled out in the second half. said Parker, who suffered a leg injury in the first half.

After cutting Nebraska’s lead to five with less than 4:14 left to play, Della Vella drained his first shot from downtown to cut Ohio’s deficit to 63-61.

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by Ross gave Ohio State a 65-63 lead, Nebraska found itself in the same hole they began the game in.

“We just didn’t stay together,” Parker said. “Everyone’s spirits just went down.”

The loss didn’t hurt Nebraska’s chances of an NCAA Tournament bid, but Petteway said the team’s goal was to travel back to Lincoln as champions.

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We came in with the intentions of winning the Big Ten Tournament” Terran Petteway sophomore guard

tions of winning the Big Ten Tournament,” the guard said.

Petteway finished his first season as a Husker with 561 points, placing him seventh on Nebraska’s single season chart.

His total figure marks the highest set since 1996-1997 season when Tyron Lue tallied 603.

After having its stay in Indianapolis cut shorter than ex-

pected, Nebraska will head to San Antonio to take on its first opponent of the NCAA Tournament — Baylor.

The contest against the Bears will mark NU’s first March Madness appearance since the 19931994 season where the program lost to Pennsylvania, 90-80. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Eight Nebraska track and field athletes hopped on a plane from Lincoln to Albuquerque, N.M., on Wednesday. Five returned to Lincoln as All-Americans on Sunday.

NU’s 4x400-meter relay team broke its school record and finished second. Senior captain Patrick Raedler finished fifth in the long jump, and sophomore Oladapo Akinmoladun finished ninth in the 60-meter hurdles at the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend. Nebraska tied for 17th with Notre Dame and USC with 12 points. Oregon won the team national title with 62 points.

The record-setting relay team of junior Ricco Hall, sophomores Cody Rush and Leci Gipson and freshman Drew Wiseman ran a little under two seconds faster than the previous record of 3:6.93, which was set exactly one month earlier on Feb. 15 at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. The team’s time of Hall 3:05.25 is the fastest in NU history and was only bested

by LSU’s 3:04.10.

Rush said the relay team led its heat from start to finish. That was the plan going into the race, which allowed the team to avoid some of the issues those in the second heat dealt with. The second heat included several of the higher seeds.

The second heat’s teams were running much closer together, causing more congestion and less room to run, Rush said.

“We ran the best we’ve ran all season by far, but we also got a little help from some of the teams in that last heat,” Rush said.

Hall was a late addition to the relay team. Sophomore Jacob Bender, who was listed as the leadoff man for the 4x400 on the seeding sheet, had a hamstring injury that had been bothering him since the 2014 B1G Indoor Championships, Rush said. Hall was then given the nod to take his place.

Rush said Hall and Bender have different running styles and the order had to be changed up a bit, but the mental adjustments needed for the switch were minimal.

“We knew that Ric was going to come in and do just as good as Jake has done the entire year,” Rush said. “We had full confidence in everybody in the relay so that was a good lift off your shoulders knowing that no matter what you’re going to do, you’re going to get the best race of the season. You just have to make it happen.”

Raedler said going into the meet he would like to place higher than fifth, his finish in the long jump last year. Raedler, who has been dealing with a recurring hip injury, placed fifth again this year with a jump of 7.77 meters, earning his second All-American designation.

“It feels pretty good,” Raedler said to NU media relations. “Going into my final jump, I thought, ‘This is my last indoor jump for Nebraska ever; I have to jump well.’ I was really nervous. I’ve rarely been that nervous before a jump, but I am happy with how I placed today.”

Raedler was tied for the fifth seed going into the meet with Arkansas sophomore Jarrion Lawson. Lawson ended up winning the long jump national title with a winning jump of 8.39 meters.

Raedler had expectations of finishing as an All-American.

While Akinmoladun said he did not want to set goals for any specific time or place, he said coaches and friends expected him to win an individual national title in the 60-meter hurdles. That did not happen as Akinmoladun finished ninth and failed to advance to the finals at nationals for the second straight year. His time of 7.70 was the second-fastest time he ran all season. Arkansas freshman Omar McLeod won the 60-meter hurdles in 7.58.

The Huskers will kick off the outdoor season with the Arizona State Invitational in Tempe, Ariz., March 28-29. sports@ dailynebraskan.com