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Inside Coverage

California dreamin’

Student remembered

NU to open NCAA run in Los Angeles

Family reflects on son’s giving personality

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Vietnamese restaurant Banhwich offers exotic cuisine, including bubble tea and ‘green waffles’ to Lincolnites looking to try something new. photo by david gass

Regents begin search for interim NU president

space crunch story by Diego de los Reyes | photo by Amber Baesler

Shelbey White, a freshman biochemistry major, eats her lunch in the Academic Grind on Monday afternoon in Oldfather Hall.

Renovations to the space will include a new fire command center and have affected the coffee shop’s space and seating.

Space that was part of Oldfather’s Academic Grind to become new fire command center

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tudents are experiencing a space shortage since renovations began in the Academic Grind coffee shop last Thursday.

A fire command center is being built on Oldfather Hall, on a space adjacent to the coffee shop.

The renovations are because of building codes, said Pat Groeling, superintendent at the construction site. As a high-rise structure, code requires a fire command center on the main level. The center will include monitoring and status indicators for any life safety equipment needed in case of an emergency.

This project is in conjunction with an upcoming project to update the fire alarm system at Oldfather Hall.

The construction affects the space occupied by

the Academic Grind, the coffee and snack shop on the first floor of the building.

Larry Rivers, on-site manager at the Academic Grind, said the conIt’s a bit struction work creates a couple of problems for the coffee shop. Rivers chaotic. said that he’s seen a reduced cusWe’re trying to fit tomer flow at times, with students complaining about the noise. more people in “It’s a bit chaotic,” he said.

“We’re trying to fit more people in less space.” less space.” larry rivers To accommodate the construcacademic grind manager tion, the Academic Grind had to move the vending machines outside its lobby and has reduced the space between tables. When the construction is done, the

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Lincoln religious leaders challenge female stereotypes Colleen Fell DN The rabbi who hadn’t eaten was taking cold medicine before he fainted during a service. The congregation looked to Nancy Coren to take over preaching.

Coren, a spiritual lay leader at Congregation Tifereth Israel, said this experience gave her the confidence to pursue a leadership position in the Jewish community.

Coren, along with three other panelists, spoke at a luncheon Monday afternoon as a part of the 35th annual Women’s Week at the University of NebraskaLincoln. The talk focused on women in religion with four women of different faiths discussing women’s leadership in religion for before a group of about 50 people.

The point of the discussion was to advance tolerance among people on campus of differing religions, said Josh Divins, a library resource assistant in the UNL Women’s Center and a senior history and religious studies major at UNL. “Tolerance takes on a lot of different forms,” Divins said.

“We can have civilized conversations centered around religion even if there are differences.”

A woman wearing hijab should be a strong woman. Wearing hijab is not only a religious duty but is a public announcement.” abla hasan assistant professor of practice of arabic

The panel discussion included women of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The group debunked common misconceptions about women in their faiths and the importance of understanding other religions.

Courtney Bruntz, a classics and religious studies lecturer at UNL, is of Buddhist faith.

She said the average Buddhist woman does not fit into the stereotype.

“I don’t do yoga — yoga is Hindu,” Bruntz said. “We don’t live in Athleta and carry around yoga mats.”

Bruntz said the foundations of Buddhism that she practices include methods of self-awareness to discover and develop one’s true self.

“I don’t meditate,” she said.

Religious stereotypes for women can also carry false connotations.

Abla Hasan, an assistant pro-

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fessor of the practice of Arabic, said Muslim women are often viewed as oppressed because they wear an hijab, a veil that covers the head and chest.

“They must be forced by husbands, families and societies, right?” Hasan said.

This is not the case.

“A woman wearing hijab should be a strong woman,” Hasan said. “Wearing hijab is not only a religious duty but is a public announcement.”

The panelists also discussed women’s different leadership positions in religion.

Sidnie White Crawford, a Willa Cather professor in the department in classics and religious studies at UNL, is an Episcopalian priest at St. Marks on the Campus.

She said she has never experienced any problems being an ordained woman.

from three months to a year, depending on how long it takes to Members of the NU find a new president, Clare said.

The interim president will not be Board of Regents say considered for the permanent pothe interim president sition and is likely to be chosen from within the university system would be excluded or the Nebraska area. from ongoing search “It’s not imperative that they have a background in administration. It’s helpful, but it’s not a must,” Clare said. “Other characterMelissa Allen istics we’re looking for is someone who’s passionate and continues to dn move the university forward.”

The board has formed two The interim president of the Unicommittees in its search for a perversity of Nebraska might be anmanent president: the Search Outnounced as early as Friday. reach and Advisory Committee As NU President James B. Miland the Screening and Selection liken leaves office at the end of the Committee, Clare said. next month to become the chanThe Search Outreach and Adcellor of City University of New visory Committee’s goal is to ask York, the Board of Regents is in business and community leaders the selection process to temporarand elected officials ily replace his position across the country while they search for what qualities they candidates to fill the should be looking for position permanently. in the new president.

“They’ll choose After the information someone that can work is compiled, the Search with President Miland Selection Commitliken before he leaves tee will work with four to make the transition finalist candidates to go smoothly,” said Menarrow the search. lissa Lee, the commuStudents are invitnications manager of ed to share their input, the Office of the Vice Lee said. milliken President for UniverAt the bottom of sity Affairs. the page at www.neAlthough nambraska.edu/presidenting the interim president is not search, an online feedback form is an item on the Board of Regents agenda for Friday, items can be available for anyone.

“It’s very, very important,” added to the agenda 24 hours in she said. “We want to hear from advance, Lee said.

Nebraskans, students and facAlthough the date is tentative, the board is shooting to name the ulty what they’re looking for that position on Friday, said Tim Clare, can be taken into account by the chairman of the Board of Regents. board.” news@ The interim position could last dailynebraskan.com

Perlman releases details of university-wide budget cuts ADDRESSING THE DEFICIT STUDENT AFFAIRS Lowering state funding in the Office of Student Affairs by $475,774. This would cut four graduate assistant positions and would shift expenses from state funds to student fees.

Units that receive fees would have to reduce operational costs to mitigate potential increases for students.

FLOORS Reducing weekly burnishing of floors to once a month, saving $100,000.

IANR Reducing educational media support by $406,000.

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Eliminating $200,000 in support for summer session programs.

CHANCELLOR’S BUDGET Cutting $318,226 of discretionary resources for strategic initiatives.

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SALARIES Withholding 1 percent of the estimated 3 percent salary increase pool, resulting in $3.2 million in savings.

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ON CAMPUS what: Honoring Women’s Service in the Military when: 10 a.m. where: Nebraska Union Auditorium

what: Protecting and Enhancing Your Online Reputation when: 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. where: Love Library South, Room 111

what: Safe Spring Break Fair when: 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. where: East Campus contact: 402-472-7448

what: Chancellor’s University Safety Committee (CUSC) Open Forum when: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union, Room TBA

what: Internships (with Career Services) when: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. where: Love Library South, Room 110

Student remembered for positivity, smile mara Klecker dn The photo on Facebook is grainy and tinted slightly yellow. It shows a piggyback ride between two college-aged brothers, the one – older by just a year – on the back of the other.

It was posted about midnight, shortly after the older brother, with the dark features and mischievous grin, died after a week of fighting a virus that went to his brain.

“Words can’t describe how much I’m going to miss Kyle VerMaas and all of the shenanigans he put me and my family through,” wrote Connor VerMaas, a freshman actuarial science major, on the photo’s caption. “I know he’s in a better place and he’ll be looking out for everyone. R.I.P. bro I’ll see u again.”

Kyle had experienced a cold the previous week and started vomiting on March 6. His roommates left him to rest in his apartment at The View and then found him unresponsive Friday afternoon. He was taken to the ICU at Bryan West Hospital, where he remained unresponsive and on a ventilator until he died around 11:30 Sunday evening.

When he arrived at the hospital, Kyle tested positive for Influenza A. After about four days in the hospital, though, lab work showed a negative test for the same virus. The actual virus that infected his brain is unknown.

Kyle, a sophomore biological systems engineering major and a graduate of Pius X High School had big dreams and a big heart, said his mother, Lisa VerMaas.

He planned to study abroad in Spain this summer and had aspirations of one day designing prostheses, or artificial limbs. Kyle was always a giver, she said, even in death. She remembers talking with him about organ donation when he was in high school and remembers him checking the donor box on his driver’s license application.

“To know he’s a donor,” she said. “It means everything, and it describes Kyle. Such a giver.”

His friends described him as a prankster. Always looking to make someone laugh. Whether it be running around Pius X High School, throwing toilet paper into the trees on the night of graduation or purposefully letting out a loud, girlish scream as he plunged from the top of the RipCord at Worlds of Fun a few years ago with friends.

About 60 friends and classmates visited him in the hospital,

what: Women in Combat Panel when: 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Auditorium

IN LINCOLN what: Entrepreneuring days: UNL New Venture Competition when: All day where: Embassy Suites, 1040 P Street

Final forum to address US’s fall in academic rank Layla Younis DN

Tyler Williams dn The Nebraska Aviation Organization wants to purchase an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone.

So it took to surveying Recognized Student Organizations to gauge support.

“We are a new organization here on campus and need the assistance of other organizations on campus to make this purchase if they want to use this service,” said Justin Kyser, Nebraska Aviation Organization president and a junior business administration major.

The organization is asking other RSOs to complete the survey, asking if groups on campus would be interested in utilizing such technologies and if they would be able to help purchase such a device.

If enough RSOs support the drone, the group would purchase a “quad-copter” type drone, which would be small enough to be housed in a residence hall room and be operated by executives of NAnO at the request of RSOs. Drones of this type cost about $1,200 and require rechargeable batteries that cost about $1,500.

Maintenance will be limited to recharging the drone’s batteries.

The drone would have a 14 mega pixel camera capable of recording 1080 pixel video, and it would be used to photograph and film large group events on City and East campuses.

“They (RSOs) seem to like the idea of being able to record their events to look back on them in the future,” Kyser said. “Most of them would like to utilize the drone to be

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Kyle VerMass, a sophomore biological systems engineering major, passed away on Sunday after fighting a virus. sitting around in the small waiting room and exchanging stories.

They started listing ways to describe him. Loyal. Funny. Positive. A spark.

Twenty-five of them squeezed into the cramped ICU room on Saturday and said their goodbyes.

“You are missing the party,” his friend and sophomore journalism major Mary Sullivan said.

He was always the life of the party. That’s one thing all of his friends agreed on.

“His motto was ‘go big or go home,’” his mother said. “He did everything to the fullest and pushed the envelope on everything.”

That attitude came with its own challenges for his parents, Lisa said.

But no matter what, he was always loving, loyal and hardworking, she said.

Kyle’s friend and sophomore child, youth and family studies major Mary Kay Sievert said she was inspired by Kyle’s recent efforts to improve himself. He made the

Dean’s list, was focusing on school, was a member of the Newman Center and was excited to study abroad.

Thinking about everything he was working toward has been the hardest part for everyone, Lisa said.

“In those last moments, I just told him over and over again how much I loved him and how proud of him I was,” Lisa said. “I just said, ‘Go with God, and we will see you there.’”

Lisa said her son never forgot to say ‘I love you.’

“He never ever ever left us without saying it,” Lisa said. “Without saying ‘I love you, Mom and Dad.’” Kyle’s rosary service will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church. The funeral Mass will be Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Peter’s, followed by burial at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery and lunch at St. Peter’s. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Aviation group surveys RSOs on drone purchase

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Veterans and Military Service Resource Fair when: 4 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Fischer Lounge

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The next E.N. Thompson Forum will feature Yong Zhao, who is known for his work on globalization and technology in education.

ter connect our new organization able to make videos to attract more people to their events down the with the RSOs already on campus,” said Jayme Cox, vice president of road.”

NAnO and freshman biological sciNAnO could also use the drone ences. to help plan events such as the Big This isn’t the first instance of Red Welcome and East Campus’ Bull Fry with aerial pictures that UNL getting involved with UAVs. would help organizers better lay Matt Waite, a journalism professor of practice, created the drone jourout large events. The group says nalism lab two years ago in the Colit would only use the drone in arlege of Journalism and Mass Comeas where express permission had munications. The lab was asked to been granted to do so and would use the technology in such a way stop flying by the Federal Aviation Administration last July, because as it would not violate the privacy of any individual or group that may “public entities” are not allowed to fly UAVs under happen to be in the current law. The area.

Most of legality of who can “The legality of use drones and operating drones (the RSOs) when is still up in in U.S. Airspace the air. is being highly seem to like the UAV law endiscussed by the idea of being able tered the limelight Federal Aviation earlier this month Administration to record their when a Virginia lately,” Kyser said. events.” court ruled that the As current law FAA could not fine states it is illegal justin kyser a photographer to use drones in a nebraska aviation for using a UAV to commercial manorganization president take photos for film ner. Because NAnO and money. is not going to be The FAA plans on appealing charging RSOs for their services, the decision, because “The agency this restriction does not apply to is concerned that this decision could the group. The small size of the proimpact the safe operation of the posed drone also allows the group to skirt legal guidelines as a “quad- national airspace system and the copter” falls within the “Remote safety of people and property on control/ Model Aircraft” classifica- the ground,” the FAA said in a press tion with the Federal Aviation Ad- release.

NAnO is interested in any curministration. This would allow the drone to be operated below 400 feet rent RSOs’ opinion on the potential and within line of sight of its opera- drone purchase and uses for it. The tor without any special legal permit brief survey can be completed and submitted online at http://tinyurl. or licensing. com/UNLdrones.

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“Catching Up

When the Soviet Union successor Leading the Way: fully launched Sputnik into space in 1957, the U.S. education system American Education changed forever. Now everyone in the Age of in the U.S. is worried about rankGlobalization” ings and being No. 1. when: 7 p.m.

“When we don’t come out No. 1, we’re worried,” said Marjorie where: Lied Center for Kostelnik, dean of the College of Performing Arts Education and Human Sciences. “(Sputnik) led to a rededication to education.” was named one of the 10 most inThe next E.N. Thompson Fofluential people in education techrum on World Issues speaker will nology in 2012 by Tech & Learn put all that into perspective TuesMagazine. day night.

The title of his lecture is also Yong Zhao, the presidential the title of one of his books, chair and director of the Institute “Catching up or Leading the Way: for Global and Online Education American Education in the Age of at the College of Education at the Globalization.”

University of Oregon, will speak “He helps us understand if about international education we are, in fact, falling behind,” rankings in the U.S. and differKostelnik said. ent countries for The forum the forum at 7 p.m. wanted to address I hope Tuesday in the Lied the comparison Center for Performpeople walk between the U.S. ing Arts. CEHS education system is sponsoring the away and say and other counspeaker. tries to fit with this The ranking of ‘Wow, it takes a year ’s topic, “US & the U.S. doesn’t lot to educate Them,” said Katie matter, but people Cervantes, coordishould be informed youth.” nator of the forum. about what the “Professor ranking and num- marjorie kostelnik Zhao is a leading college of education bers mean, who is expert to analyze and human sciences dean tested and what the state of Americountry the tests can education,” are from, Kostelnik Cervantes said. said.

Kostelnik said she hopes stu“He is going to translate what dents go to the event and underassessment means and is helping stand that education is an enterus be informed,” Kostelnik said. prise, that it takes a lot of people Zhao is internationally recogto educate and that education is an nized for his work on globalizaintellectual task and cognitive task. tion and technology in education.

“I hope people walk away and He has published more than 20 say, ‘Wow, it takes a lot to educate books. He won the Early Career youth.’”

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oldfather: from 1 It’s always a good place to study. It’s near to other buildings on campus so you can come in between classes really quick and also because you can come get snacks. I mean, I’m still going to come here.”

Jessica grable senior biological sciences major

business will regain some of the lost space.

“We’re getting back around three feet of space, by pushing back one wall, supposedly,” Rivers said.

Students have been affected since the construction started.

“I’ve noticed that there’s not enough space,” said Melisa Lisak, a junior business administration and French major. “That was a common thing that happened when it was bigger, so now that it’s smaller, it’s worse.”

Jessica Grable, a senior biological sciences major, said the current table configuration might discourage students to grab a seat. Students usually don’t sit at a large table even if there’s only one person in it.

“Now when somebody sits at this table, no one is going to come in to sit in this table or that table,” she said, pointing to the contigu-

ous tables formed because of the construction.

Some students prefer the Academic Grind to other study places because of its location.

“It’s close to my classes; there’s coffee and just about anything,” Lisak said.

Jacob Grothe, a senior biology major, likes the atmosphere at the coffee shop.

“It’s a quiet way to study, and it’s easier to study here than in the library, which is jam-packed at all times,” he said.

But Grable said the construction won’t stop her from visiting the Academic Grind.

“It’s always a good place to study,” she said. “It’s near to the other buildings on campus so you can come in between classes really quick and also because you can come get snacks. I mean, I’m still going to come here.”

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ASUN to host scavenger hunt Jacob Elliott dn The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska is hosting a scavenger hunt — but students can only participate if they sign up for The Big Event.

This is ASUN’s newest way of spreading awareness of the Big Event, an annual studentrun community event. Individuals have until Friday to sign up.

More than 1,700 people have signed up, but ASUN is hoping to have at least 3,000 volunteers.

Last year, 2,700 people volunteered for the event.

“Hopefully, (the hunt) just increases awareness about The Big

bags filled with spring break supEvent and increases the amount of volunteers,” said Pat Ryan, co- plies.

Those who sign up to volordinator for The Big Event scavunteer will know enger hunt. their job location To participate I would on March 29. The in the hunt, indiBig Event will be viduals must sign encourage from 9 a.m. to 3 up for The Big everyone to p.m. April 5.

Event at bigevent.

Vo l u n t e e r s u n l . e d u / b e - v o l - register for the big could be cleaning unteer and follow up parks for the @TheBIGEVENT_ event.”

Lincoln Parks and UNL on Twitter. kate kollars Recreation DepartClues for the scarthe big event co-chair ment, organizing let ticket will be public libraries or tweeted at 1 p.m., painting private 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

The first person to get this residences.

“It’s quite a variety of tasks,” ticket and turn it in the ASUN office will win Adidas drawstring said Kate Kollars, co-chair of The

faith: from 1 I think as time goes on the (discrimination) gets to be less and less.”

Sidnie white crawford

episcopalian priest at st. marks on the campus

“My husband has been very supportive,” she said.

Crawford said many of her religious mentors have been men.

Coren said she was influenced by her grandfather who was a rabbi.

“I remember thinking, ‘When I grow up, I’d like to be a teacher and help people that way,’” Coren said.

Crawford and Coren both said the Episcopalian church and Judaism have come a long way in terms of gender equality.

“The Episcopalian church began ordaining in the 1970s and now every diocese has to acknowledge women’s ordinations,” Crawford said. “I think as time goes on, the (discrimination) gets to be less and less.”

Bruntz said the foundings of Buddhism represent men and women in equal light. She said

both monks and nuns shave their heads and wear religious robes to strip away their gender differences.

Still, some religions have a ways to go in terms of public perception.

“We need more effort from Muslim women explaining that it’s her choice to wear the hijab,” Hasan said.

Jan Deeds, director of the UNL Women’s Center, said it’s important for people to talk about religion, especially because it’s often discouraged.

She said the topic of women in religion is important for both women and men to discuss.

“Spirituality and religion are central to identity,” Deeds said.

“There’s a way to talk about it respectfully.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Big Event and senior anthropology and biological sciences major.

“Basically anything that volunteers can help without standing on ladders or using power tools.”

Volunteers are recommended to wear closed toed shoes and work clothes, and will be provided free breakfast and lunch.

“I would encourage everyone to register for the big event,” Kollars said. “It’s a really good opportunity to give back to the community. … Hopefully (the scavenger hunt) gets students thinking about getting involved in the community besides just The Big Event.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

DN A&L editor to lead next year’s Dailyer Nebraskan Staff Report DN

Keown plans to build on the momentum he said the Dailyer has this year as a result of inThe University of Nebraska- creased online-exclusive content and events such as the Mass Lincoln Publications Board Debate, which pitted the lone named junior journalAssociation of Stuism major Tyler Keown dents of the Unieditor-in-chief of the versity of Nebras2014-2015 Dailyer Neka executive party braskan. against a made-up Keown, who is curtrio of satirical rently an Arts & Life candidates. assistant editor at the Keown also Daily Nebraskan, has plans to alter the worked at the Dailyer, design process of a satirical bi-weekly the paper, giving newspaper, for two page designers years. He was named more time to lay editor with a 4-1 vote keown out the paper, and and was up against begin producing Dailyer staffers Colin video content as Loberg, a sophomore economics major, and James well as boost recruiting efforts. news@ Crowl, a senior English major. dailynebraskan.com

big ten briefs Iowa sees highest four-year graduation rate in recent memory

The University of Iowa saw a 51.1 percent four-year graduation rate for its students who enrolled in 2009, nearly 3 percentage points higher than the previous year.

This year’s percentage is the highest in recent memory, according to a university press release.

The press release also said the university has offered incoming undergraduates four-year graduation plans for many years, guaranteeing access to required courses and offering tuition waivers when classes fill up and delay graduation.

Staring this year, all new students will be on that plan.

The university has a 69.6 percent six-year graduation rate from students who enrolled in 2007, which is a slight dip from the 70.8 percent for students who enrolled in 2005. Nationwide, the six-year graduation rate is slightly under 50 percent.

University officials point to retention programs as the reason for the high retention and graduation rates.

U.S. News scores Michigan State highest in elementary, secondary education graduate programs

Michigan State University hit the top of the U.S. News and World Report’s list for elementary and secondary education graduate programs for the 20th consecutive year.

Michigan State also earned the No. 1 ranking for its graduate programs in nuclear physics and industrial and organizational psychology.

The university’s College of Education was named the 15th best education college in the nation and had

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seven other programs ranked in the top 10, including those in curriculum and instruction, higher educational administration and educational psychology.

Wisconsin-Madison reaches agreement in animal care investigation

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have reached a settlement agreement after a 2010 investigation regarding seven citations related to animal care on campus.

The university agreed to pay a $35,286 fine for citations on animal welfare, poor conditions at animal housing facilities, expired veterinary drugs and failure to report an event to a veterinarian.

The university has adjusted its procedures and policies to address the issues and minimize risk to animals used in its research facilities.

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campus briefs Great Plains museum opens ‘Dry Times’ exhibit

UNL’s Great Plains Art Museum has opened a new exhibit, “Dry Times,” which will display drought-related artwork from Jess Benjamin, an Omaha ceramic artist. The exhibit is a part of the event “Drought in the Life, Cultures, and Landscapes of the Great Plains,” a special event during the 2014 Great Plains Symposium. The event will be hosted by the Center for Great Plains Studies and will be April 1-4 at UNL. The Symposium will feature scientists, scholars, agency officials, farm leaders and others from across a variety of other disciplines and organizations. They will share their expertise and perspectives as the event explores all aspects of drought in the Great Plains. Benjamin’s exhibit will run through May 18. On April 4 during 5-7 p.m. Benjamin will be present at the exhibit’s First Friday reception at the museum, located at 1155 Q St. Through Benjamin’s artwork there is focuses on water usage that occurs in the Great Plains and through her artwork she will present research on similarities between hydrological objects, chemistry and cartography. The Great Plains Art Museum is free and open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays (it is closed Mondays, holiday weekends and between exhibitions).

Workshop to help enhance online reputation

Kiyomi Deards is leading a workshop that will provide lessons for people in ways to protect their images and further improve their career prospects through managing their online reputations. Deards is an assistant professor in research and instructional services.

The workshop will focus on social media websites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other online searches and these might play a part in a person’s professional reputation and how they could also have an influence in hiring decisions. The discussion will also cover steps that someone can take to either protect or repair their online image. The session will be an hour long and is at 10:30 a.m. March 18 in Room 111 of Love Library.

Student uses Indiegogo to fund research trip to Botswana

Using Indiegogo, a crowdfunding website, Katie McCollum is funding a research trip to Botswana this summer, where she will lead a conservation project on a near-threatened bird species known as the kori bustards. McCollum traveled to Botswana as an undergraduate on a study abroad trip that was led by John Carroll, a former professor at Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and current director of UNL’s School of Natural Resources.

McCollum, influenced by her experiences in Botswana, formulated an idea for a master’s thesis that would focus on the kori bustard, a large bird native to eastern and southern Africa. The kori bustard was recently moved up to “near threatened” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, which is a list that determines the conservation standing of species, subspecies and selected subpopulations on a global scale.

In her campaign, she has created a web page with video and redeemable “perks” that involve handwritten postcards and hand-woven baskets for anyone who is able to contribute to her fund. As of Monday, McCollum has raised half of her $2,000 goal. For anyone interested in helping McCollum, they can visit http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ kori-bustard-conservation-in-eastern-botswana. The campaign will close March 28. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Researchers from the University of Minnesota are part of a nationwide team who have found evidence of the “first tremors of the Big Bang.”

Researchers from the BICEP2 Collaboration announced Monday the first direct evidence for the theories regarding the origin of the universe. Their data represents the first images of gravitational waves in space, confirming a possible first step in the “Big Bang.”

The researchers traveled to the South Pole to observe microwaves in cold and stable air. They analyzed their data for more than three years to rule out any errors.

—Compiled by Mara Klecker news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Each year the Women’s Center, in collaboration with many different student organizations, academic and administrative departments and community groups, coordinates UNL Women’s Week, a week-long series of events in March to celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. Women’s Week will include a free screening of “All of Me” at the Mary Ross Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, Vision Maker Film Festival, Women in Combat Panel, “Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered” and a display in the Rotunda Gallery.

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Women’s Week offers many events for every student This week the DN Editorial Board would like to encourage all University of Nebraska-Lincoln students to attend UNL Women’s Week events.

Throughout the week, the Women’s Center is working with other student organizations to represent and discuss women’s issues in a variety of areas. These include topics in film, religion, leadership, the military, agriculture and history. Screenings of films and performances of Tony Meneses’ “Las Hermanas Padilla” provide visual enactments of relationships and struggles. Panels of speakers pull together multiple perspectives and opportunities for discussion.

Some events have limited seats or tickets that have to be purchased. However, the variety of events during the week means everyone should be able to find a few times and topics that work for him or her.

While devoting specific time to these discussions is certainly important, this isn’t the only week we should think about these issues.

March is Women’s History Month, and the UNL Women’s Center is open throughout the year. Women form a significant part of this university and the United States as a whole. Yet women have been historically marginalized and misrepresented in multiple aspects of society. Weeks such as this are needed to highlight the issues that permeate our everyday lives.

You also don’t have to be an expert on any of these specific discussions to attend and learn from them. The goal of these events is to open discussion to the student population. This means people of all gender identities and ideologies.

If you’re nervous to attend an event, ask a friend to go with you.

If you go and have questions afterwards, ask the speakers. Or go to the Women’s Center any time. The people there will help you access an array of resources on many different topics.

Don’t shrug away something that could be a beneficial learning experience.

Don’t pass off the importance of these issues this week or throughout the year. Attend Women’s Week events and pay attention.

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Gaming plays into female stereotypes

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antasy is fantastic. You can do virtually anything in fantasy. You can write long novels about magic and hobbits or short novels about wizards on archipelagos. Fantasy allows anyone to comment on and escape the real world.

But fantasy isn’t written in a vacuum, even though some fantasy takes place in one. Real world trends and real world issues get written into fantasy consciously and subconsciously.

Conscious trends are easy to avoid or insert, but subconscious trends can be harder to notice.

QCF Design developers of the game Desktop Dungeons didn’t set out to be sexist when they started developing their game. However, in the first freeware version of the game, every character was male. As they moved into beta, they wanted to fix this by offering both female and male characters for every class and race.

This meant for every type of elf and every type of mage, a player ’s character could be male or female.

This is a hard task, as it both doubled the work for QCF and made a tricky goal for believability. A veteran orc warrior shouldn’t look like a human warrior, and she should be dressed for battle not the runway. QCF Design wanted the female characters to “be adventurers first and runway models second.”

This took active effort for the QCF Design to achieve. The developers had to look beyond one-dimensional caricatures of women and

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create women who wouldn’t look out of place casting spells or storming a castle. QCF Design admits it wasn’t perfect and struggled with several of the characters. Nonetheless, QCF was able to create a diverse and well-rounded cast of women for a game that was previously male only.

But why does this matter? Shouldn’t games just be about the gameplay? Isn’t fantasy meant to be an escape from the real world?

According to The Entertainment Software Association, women make up 45 percent of the gaming population. In addition, there are far more adult female gamers than there are male teenage gamers, despite what stereotypes would have you believe. Women are a large gaming block and deserve to have representation in the games they play.

But it goes beyond that. If games and fantasy are an escape, why do they have to be an escape from well-rounded women? When young men are bombarded with sexualized and marginalizing portrayals of women, how

will this shape how they interact with real women?

The way we marginalize women in fiction seeps into the real world. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, dedicated to examining media gender bias, reports that for every woman in film, there are three men, even though the U.S. has a one to one balance of men and women. From 2006 to 2009, in all G-rated films, there wasn’t a single female character shown to be a leader in science, law or business. When looking beyond how women are portrayed on screen, women are also discriminated behind the camera with nearly five men for every woman.

These statistics show that how we create fantasies has an impact on the real world through the employment and portrayal of women. It’s not enough to state an intention not to be sexist. You have to put in the work and make active decisions to impact the way women are marginalized in the industry. Even though QCF Design was only working on an RPG, it resisted falling to stereotypical and marginalizing portrayals of women.

We live in a diverse and fantastic world.

Our fantasy should reflect this. Men, women and everyone else deserve equal stakes in the fantastic. You can literally do anything in fantasy, why make it just about, and for, men?

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

Students should not have Americans should take steps to be told to wash hands to dissolve partisan gridlock

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heard this ridiculous statistic that the majority of guys don’t wash their hands after they use the restroom. That may be true, but judging from my experiences in women’s restrooms, that figure is about right for women as well.

I’m not sure what it is about college that turns regular, rule-abiding college students into animals. Last semester, I was washing my hands in a Pound bathroom when I saw a rather passive aggressive poster warning people to stop peeing in the shower. This was in a public restroom that the whole floor has to use. The fact that there even needed to be a poster is a bit disturbing.

In fact, a study reported in The New York Times found that people were not as good at washing their hands as they self-reported. Of the adults polled, 91 percent told researcher they washed their hands. When actually observed, only 82 percent did so. While women washed their hands more frequently, I’ve seen way too many instances of girls flouncing right by the sinks without batting an eyelash.

There’s this phenomenon where women “hover” over the toilet seat to avoid germs. They even make little paper covers you can use. As you can imagine, hovering can lead to kind of nasty results. Plus, toilet seats aren’t even that dirty.

WebMD reports that infections are unlikely on toilet seats because germs can’t survive for very long on them.

And yet these paranoid “hoverers” choose to run through the bathroom with bare feet. It mystifies me. But maybe they’re just imitating Britney Spears, a la 2004?

That brings me to the issue of shower shoes.

Imagine my surprise when I talked to multiple people who don’t own or use shower shoes. Once again, the wisdom of Seventeen Magazine has failed to accurately prepare me for this possibility. I thought it was a given that everyone wears them. I mean, foot fungus is the automatic goto, but even worse, MRSA (methicillin resistant staph aureus), a life-threatening infection, can be transmitted in public showers.

Business Insider found that 95 percent of people don’t wash their hands long enough to kill

Kayla simon harmful bacteria, if they wash them at all. And those unwashed hands can be linked to 50 percent of all foodborne illness outbreaks.

“How?” you ask.

Because then people go to public dining halls and choose not to use the tongs. I get that grabbing a cookie with tongs isn’t as convenient as reaching into your pantry, but this isn’t your house.

The university regularly contends with seasonal illnesses and common germs. If it wants to tackle this problem completely – and it has shown it has through placement of hand sanitizer around dining and residence halls – signs may be the way to go. A study in the Journal of Environmental Health found that people are more likely to wash their hands if there are signs reminding them to do so. A simple reminder may be all it takes.

I’m not a germaphobe in the slightest. If I found a slightly dusty candy bar in my room, you can bet I’ll be eating that sucker. But there’s a difference between having no concern for your own health and directly contributing to the decline of others’. It’s like second-hand smoke – keep in mind you’re not just doing it to yourself. Ignoring bathroom logic and etiquette means you’re helping spread potentially harmful diseases. We’re not 5 years old anymore. I shouldn’t have to remind anyone to wash their hands.

Kayla Simon is a sophomore Communication Studies and Political Science major. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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en. Lindsey Graham leaned over to Secretary of State John Kerry during a hearing on the State Department budget and said, “Hey John, good job, let me know what I can do to help you with Boehner.” Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, was speaking to Kerry, a former Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, about the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner. Graham thought his microphone was off when he said this, creating a gaffe and some tension between Boehner and himself. However, the intent was for members of both parties to work together to pass meaningful legislation.

Regardless of speculation, this attempt is what is referred to as bipartisanship. We hear this term a great deal, but what exactly is it? Is it the opposite of partisanship – bickering between parties and ideologies – or is it simple cooperation? Bipartisanship can be both. This term is used when members of both parties or from two separate political ideologies support the same issue or legislation.

With Congress’ low approval rating, we hear more about partisan arguing than any type of cooperation.

Partisanship doesn’t come from a few members of Congress. There’s no derivative of partisanship, nor is it defined with one simple sentence. Partisanship is a complex, argumentative and political tactic used to achieve goals in legislative bodies. It is a vicious circle that we find ourselves in more and more lately. A member of the House represents about 700,000 constituents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and members will vote and support items their constituents support.

However, there is no state where all citizens think alike, thus making it difficult for their representative to know whether to support legislation. Congress can defend itself for the shutdown and budgetary setbacks, but we need to understand that Congress represents more than 300 million Americans, some who are incredibly obstinate but still require representation.

Partisanship is our fault, America. If Americans and Nebraskans are tired of Congress and bitter partisanship, simply disapproving and complaining about Congress won’t fix anything. A recent Gallup poll showed Congress had a 13 percent approval rating at the beginning of 2014. Members of Congress are elected to serve the public, and at least most of the time, their work is for our benefit.

Watching one news station or listening to one person on the radio will not help you be informed if you vote,

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complain or discuss politics or public policy. Instead, read the newspaper, understand the issues before you decide you’re simply for or against them and meet with your representatives about your concerns.

Congress has had historically low approval ratings in recent years, and I will be the first to blame partisan gridlock. Partisanship doesn’t just stem from members of Congress, however. Congress is the most direct contact an American citizen can have with the U.S. government, and it reflects the attitudes of the people. If you want to meet with Nebraska’s members of the House or meet with Sens. Deb Fischer or Mike Johanns, just call their offices and try to set up a meeting. It’s not that difficult to talk with a staff person who is educated on issues affecting Nebraska and can tell you why his or her boss voted for or against an issue. Chances are, he or she can explain issues and votes to you, or at least point you in the right direction. Then you will understand there are more than two sides to an issue.

The body of the people – the U.S. Congress – should be a mirror to the American electorate not a higher intangible branch of elitist people. These people are public servants who were elected to lead. As pissed off as I become when partisan bickering takes the place of discussing actual issues, I still have faith in the institution itself. Call or write your member of Congress and talk to their office about your concerns, your issues and your views. Don’t lose faith in this body of people – your direct contact to the most powerful government in the world – even though some members may have lost faith themselves.

Mark Batt is a junior political science major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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Hoang Nguyen, owner of Banhwich Café, serves his first customer before the lunch rush. The café, located at 27th and Vine streets, has been open since September 2011.

new kind of ‘wich Banhwich Café offers vietnamese food to lincoln residents

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ubble tea, by itself, is legendary to some.

The tapioca smoothie combination has gained popularity exponentially since its birth in the 1980s.

Banhwich Café on 27th and Vine brings this newly established food to Lincoln. Since September 2011, Banhwich has been serving a wide variety of customers traditional Vietnamese dishes, bubble tea and “green waffles.” “(The green waffle) is a coconut flavored waffle that’s crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside with pandan extract that gives it the green color,” said employee Nina Pham.

Because the menu is considered untraditional when compared with local fare, many customers are intimidated by Banhwich’s offcolored options and unexpected bubble tea flavors such as red bean, taro and lychee. “(Banhwich has) lots of customers that come in here and are shy about what to get,” employee Elizabeth Homp said.

Luckily for those who aren’t brave enough to venture out on their own, the employees know what to recommend based on personal experience with the menu.

“Before I came in here, I didn’t know anything about Vietnamese,” Homp said.

Now, after a few months of employment, she can share her newfound obsession with customers. When it comes to bubble tea recommendations, Homp relies on fresher flavors.

“I’m a really big fruit person,” she said. “I don’t really care for powders.”

The fruit flavors include classics such as strawberry, banana, mango and pineapple.

But other fruits such as kiwi and papaya allow customers to explore flavors outside of their comfort zone.

Pham, when asked what her personal favorite was, responded with one of Banhwich’s many Banh Mi options.

“My favorite is the traditional sandwich, the number seven – the meatball,” she said.

The appeal is all over the board, drawing in those familiar with Banh Mis and those that aren’t.

The Banh Mi, a traditional Vietnamese sandwich served on freshly baked baguette, is offered with a variety of meats ranging from grilled beef to vegetarian friendly alternatives with fresh vegetables for garnish.

Although Banhwich prides itself in traditional cuisine, the restaurant’s modern and American approach appeals to the lesser brave of the foodie crowd. The name of the café embodies this belief.

“Bahnwich is a combination of Bahn (which) is the Vietnamese way to say sandwich, so it’s the combination with the American name,” Pham said.

This strategy appears to be successful because although Banhwich is local to Lincoln, its customer base is from all over the Midwest.

“Usually we get people that travel,” Pham

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Students resurrect SAGE to help raise gender awareness Student RSO ‘Students Advocating Gender Equality’ looks to close the gap between men & women Robert Specht DN Whether it’s through small-group discussions, plays or cupcake sales in the Nebraska Union, SAGE is looking to open students’ minds.

Audrey Nance, a sophomore journalism major and treasurer and cofounder of SAGE, formed the group in the fall of 2013. Nance and fellow co-founder Meredith Cain, a junior women’s and gender studies major, interned at Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and attended a Planned Parenthood Young Leaders conference in Washington, D.C., last summer.

“I had never been in an environment so supportive, that I agreed with on so many levels,” Nance said. “Interning for Planned Parenthood made me know that social activism was what I wanted to do.”

The conference was for students who run Vox Chapters, which are official Planned Parenthood-affiliated campus organizations that provide resources to universities across the country. Nance and Cain wanted to start a Vox Chapter at UNL but found they had to have an already active group on campus.

SAGE, which stands for Students Advocating Gender Equity, was founded at UNL in the early ’90s, but

was revived earlier this year by Nance and Cain. Students for Choice was formed in the late 2000s but has lacked visibility in recent years.

“We saw that UNL had SAGE and Students for Choice, but they were dormant clubs,” Nance said. “We decided to breathe new life into them.”

Nance said despite what one may think about Nebraska’s conservative political climate, the university has a lot to offer students when it comes to resources regarding gender, sexuality and health.

“The politics of our state could use a little work but that doesn’t diminish the resources that our university offers,” Nance said. “We have a really great Women’s Center, and they’re extending a helping hand to all students and doing great education stuff like Women’s Week. We also have a great LGBTQA Resource Center.”

The group has recently seen an increase in visibility on campus with its “Gender Equity Bake Sales” at the Nebraska Union. The group sells cupcakes priced at $1 for men and 77 cents for women to raise awareness about America’s wage gap.

“We’ve done two in the union and one in the Sheldon,” Nance said.

“We’re now getting invited places; it’s been really positive. People are really getting it.”

The group members were worried they would receive backlash because of the sensitive political topic, but Nance believes that’s the point of the bake sales.

“People say ‘It’s not fair!’ Well, that’s the point,” Nance said. “The whole purpose of the exercise is to be aware of that. Women don’t get a dis-

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How to cure your St. Paddy’s hangover Joe Wade DN It doesn’t matter how you got here.

The reality is that you feel like crap and are probably thinking of skipping today altogether because, well because. I’ll save you the annoying “Top O’ the mornin’” and get right to the list.

1. “The hair of the dog”: Despite this traditional method of curing a hangover by just drinking more, all it really does is prolong the effects. I’ve tried this method many times with only limited success. However, if you want to try it, limit yourself to fewer than three drinks and lie on the couch for the day. Just remember to cut yourself off after three, otherwise you are just repeating what got you here in the first place.

2. Drink plenty of water. This is what you should have been doing last night while swimming with your fishy friends. We all know that at some point while drinking the seal gets broken, and the bathroom becomes the place to visit almost as often as the bar. Your body loses lots of fluid and nutrients, thus you have to rehydrate somehow. Being dehydrated is one of the main components to a hangover.

3. Sports drinks. Again, you should’ve had one of these before bed. The benefit of drinks such as Gatorade is that while rehydrating you, they also replenish electrolytes. I’ve had 50/50 success with this. Half the time I vomit it back up and lose more fluids. And mixing cheap wine with Gatorade doesn’t count. Trust me, it just makes it worse.

4. Vomiting. Hugging the porcelain goddess is a great way to relieve you of your stomach contents, but the trouble is that by morning all the alcohol has moved past your stomach while you were sleeping. All you are really doing is dehydrating yourself more.

5. Coffee/caffeine. This is a good

michael johnson | DN way to get you up and moving again but can make your body lose fluids just as alcohol can. It’s better to have several cups rather than one strong cup because it does still help put some fluids back into your body. Keep chugging water, though.

6. Greasy food. Fatty foods such as pizza, hamburgers and fries are actually really good to have in your system to help soak up the alcohol.

The trouble is you have to eat it either before or while you are drinking the alcohol. Having it for breakfast the next morning is just going to make your toxin filled body work harder and you feel worse.

7. A good breakfast. Right now your body wants fluids as well as specific nutrients. Things such as vitamin C, vitamin B, potassium, cysteine, salts and sugars. Get some bacon,

eggs, orange juice and bananas. The cysteine in the eggs will actually help your liver process the toxins. Bananas replenish all the potassium you lost in the bathroom, and who doesn’t like bacon? Your body will love you for the amino acids the bacon provides.

If you have a stash of vitamin supplements take a couple of the B1, B6 and B12 with a few glasses of water.

8. Aspirin. Not Tylenol. And only take a couple. If you can, just skip this one because it can cause damage to your liver and stomach. My mom always told me to eat something when I took aspirin for my frequent migraines as a kid, so you should listen to her, too.

9. Alka-Seltzer. If you are going the medicine route and plan on taking the day off, try this first. The fizzy ton-

ic basically has aspirin in it. You add it to the glass of water you should be drinking anyway and, if nothing else, it will help you sleep it off.

10. Fresh orange juice with an egg. I’ve never tried this one, but I’m eager to try it out because apparently it works in about 30 minutes. Ideally you get a small glass of orange juice, which you have juiced yourself, and add a raw egg to it. Next, stir it together and drink it. Make sure you use pasteurized eggs (the kind you get at the grocery store) and clean utensils to cut down the risk of salmonella.

Also stay close to the sink. Just thinking about drinking a raw egg makes me queasy, but I’d still try it at least once for the sake of argument.

11. Rub sliced lemons in your armpits. What? I don’t even … uh, next?

12. Exercise. Personally I’d rather try the lemon method. Also sweating makes you dehydrated right? Right, so don’t exercise.

13. Don’t drink the night before.

(They made me add this.)

14. Drink Sprite. Basically, drinking this lemon-lime beverage helps your body metabolize the alcohol faster according to a recent study at a Chinese university. The science seems solid enough, but this is also a new trend that could end up being malarkey because of the sugar. It just seems that someone would have figured this out long before the results of the study were published on Oct. 7.

Soda water is an alternative.

Really there is no actual cure for a hangover other than time.

My personal favorite is to be zen about it and try to enjoy the hangover experience. Pretend you are Jack Sparrow and yell gibberish at people until you feel better.

Cheers!

Joe Wade will drink you under the table, then help you get out from under there the next morning.

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Lecturer to help students avoid social media faux pas

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questions and answers. I find it’s best to give about a 15 minute talk, and then go from there with questions, so Kiyomi Deards, assistant professor of people know what to ask questions research and instructional services at about.

DN: What will you be talking the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, about in your workshop tomorrow? will present an hour-long workshop KD: I’m pretty much going to talk on social media and online reputations about how to figure out what your onTuesday at 10:30 a.m. line reputation is and then The presentation, talk a lot about LinkedIn. which will be held in The reason I’m focusing room 111 in Love Library on LinkedIn is because South, will help students I have talked to profesidentify what their online sionals who say they only reputation is and how to search for their potential change it with the help of hires on LinkedIn. And positive, professional soif you’re not there, then cial media. Deards, who that’s it. You’re not considoften presents on social ered. So LinkedIn is very media presence, recently important. spoke with the Daily DN: Why would you Nebraskan about social consider yourself an audeards media and her coming thority on social media? workshop.

KD: I’m not sure there Daily Nebraskan: Is tomorrow’s workshop going to be in- ever really is an authority on social media because it’s always changing, but teractive or more of a presentation?

Kiyomi Deards: It’ll be a little bit I’m quite active in it. The great thing is, since I’m so active in it, I can step away of both. We’ll start with a presentation from it, for months, even for a year, but and then have quite a lot of time for that’s okay because I have put in all the

groundwork, and now I can afford to step away and just do maintenance instead of having to really start from scratch.

DN: Why do you think this is important for students to know?

KD: These students, they grew up in a very different time than I did.

People weren’t even getting on the Internet until I was in college. My life is not online. Very little information about me is out there that I didn’t put out there intentionally. But for these students, it’s very important to be conscious of things you’ve said or videos people have taken of you and posted that are out of your control. The worst possible thing is if you say something that could be taken offensively, and if people think it’s funny or bad, either way, they will post it a lot, and that circulates. So if you’re one of those people, you need to bury that deep with lots of other good things about yourself.

DN: What do you hope students will learn from your workshop?

KD: I hope that they’ll learn that it doesn’t take a huge ongoing commitment to manage your presence online.

It just takes a couple of days to do the

groundwork. You have to do maintenance as you change jobs or work on a new project, something like that. But it’s not difficult to have a professional appearance.

DN: Few young students think long-term enough to view social media as a method of making connections for the professional world. Many simply see it as a method of communicating with their friends. Do you hope to correct this way of thinking?

KD: Well, I think it’s both. I primarily use Twitter for my job. You’ll rarely see me post something on Twitter that isn’t somehow related to my job or academia. But every once in awhile, I’ll post something that I have a personal interest in, usually after hours or on weekends, when people expect something more personal rather than professional. You don’t have to totally separate [those ways of thinking]. But you have to be aware that [online], you’re speaking in a public space.

Whatever you say, it’s there forever, and if you can take it the wrong way, someone will. [Laughs] It’s my biggest fear, really, that someone will interpret something I said innocently as offensive.

DN: What do you think is the biggest mistake young people make on social media?

KD: I would say the biggest mistake – and people of all ages make this mistake – is that people don’t differentiate the difference between stating a problem and insulting people. You can calmly say, you know, “I’m at the airport, and I had a horrible experience” or “I had a bad day”, without calling someone the antichrist or using offensive language. People need to distinguish between “I’m having a bad day” and calling someone something horrible.

DN: Why did you decide to put this workshop on in the first place?

KD: It’s a topic that I speak off and on for different professional associations and things, and they mentioned that no one had done this workshop [at UNL] in a long time. So I thought, well, I talk about [social media] all the time. I just revamped the presentation to fit my own personal style.

DN: How often do you see students making mistakes on social media that could cause them problems down the road?

KD: You could find an example

every day. It’s just constant. Not all of them are that bad. But one that comes to mind is this one story of a man who posted – using his real name on LinkedIn – that he was so upset that no one would hire him as a librarian or something and how he should be getting a job because he was a man. And it all sounded very entitled. So me, if I was in the position of hiring someone, would not be interested in helping an entitled person. Whatever position you’re in, you’re going to have to work with and speak to other people.

So, you need to have some concept of what’s okay to say and what’s not.

I suppose that can be taught, but employers won’t want to teach you that.

DN: What’s the biggest piece of advice you have to offer about being professional on social media?

KD: I would just say the best piece of advice – if you don’t come to the workshop tomorrow – is to do everything as though you are talking to the person whose respect you cannot lose. If that’s your mother, your grandmother, whoever – act as though you’re speaking to that person. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

student voice: women’s month March is Women’s History Month. We went out and asked people if they were aware and what their opinions on the month are.

“I know for Black History Month, we learned a bit about history and stuff that goes along with that, but nothing really about Women’s History Month. I wish we did more stuff to honor that.

I think it’s important to know. I think it’s important to have, just to honor and remember.”

Maggie McDermott freshman elementary education major

“As far as themed months, I think it’s a good way to recognize people who contribute a lot. It’s better than doing a day or a week. I think a month is a good way to recognize people who have done a lot. Unfortunately, I don’t think Women’s History Month is promoted nearly as much as Black History Month, but it’s a good way to pay homage.”

Dan Matya

sophomore business administration major

“I haven’t done anything to celebrate, but I just saw on the internet or something that it was Women’s History Month.

I think just the history is important. You learn about what we’ve kind of done and what we’ve been through, and it’s a time to reflect. I’m probably not going to seek [some type of celebration] out this month, but maybe if it arises.”

Michelle Carpenter senior athletic training major

There’s not really events for [Women’s History Month] like I thought there would be.

In class, they never talk about Black History or Women’s History Month. I think it’s important.

I mean, people look at us differently because we’re ‘beneath’ men. So I think it’s good to show women’s contributions in history. I think it’s needed, people seem to forget.”

Aneike Jones junior child, youth, family studies major

“I think any month that celebrates anything is important because it gives awareness to things that you didn’t know. Especially women’s history, a lot of times you don’t know things that women have done and the things we do in our daily lives. I think any month that we can celebrate is very important, and I think we need to be as aware as we can of everything that’s going on. I knew it Women’s History Month, but I think if we had more stuff to celebrate or just bring awareness, people wouldn’t forget.”

Mercedes Bender sophomore psychology major

“I knew that last month was Black History Month, but not that this was Women’s History Month. It’s a time just to reflect and look back on stuff and just see how far women have come. You know, we’ve gone through women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement, stuff like that. If we don’t learn from history, then history is going to repeat itself.”

Micah Peterson sophomore water sciences major

—Compiled by Gabriella Martinez-Garro arts@dailynebraskan.com

Lecture to look at novel, ‘Stigmata’ Kekeli DAwes DN Venetria Patton, the director of the African American Studies and Research Center and an associate professor of English and African American studies at Purdue University, will have a presentation 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Bailey Library of Andrews Hall. She will focus on her most recent published work, “The Grasp That Reaches Beyond the Grave: The Ancestral Call in Black Women’s Texts,” which looks at the importance of the ancestral figure in Black American culture, particularly Black American literature.

The particular piece of literature Patton will be discussing during her lecture will be “Stigmata,” a novel by Phyllis Alesia Perry.

“What I am arguing is the way reincarnation is treated in that text is connected to beliefs about the ancestral presence,” Patton said.

Patton’s lecture, as a part of the Women’s and Gender Studies Spring 2014 Colloquium Series, examines the distinct cultural and historical role black women have in relation to this notion of the ancestral presence. Kwakiutl Dreher, an associate professor of ethnic stud-

ies and English at UNL, organized the lecture and said she found it important to look into the works of black women.

“Because of some of the historical approaches to our history, there has always been a threat of being erased or ignored by history,” Dreher said. “I’m especially glad it’s Women’s History Month because it points to the fact that we are part of this history, and here is the evidence of this history.”

“The Grasp That Reaches Beyond the Grave” recognizes and examines the works of other African American women writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison and filmmaker Julie Dash, who, as women, draw upon distinct aspects of the ancestral figure in various ways.

“These women are really responding to stereotypes of black women that developed during the era of slavery in which female slaves were not seen as mothers,” Patton said. “Basically they were described, in Toni Morrison’s terminology, as ‘natally dead.’ They were seen as animals who didn’t have maternal feelings.”

The work that Patton examines is a direct response to that notion, which became a cultural stereotype.

She said in the same way mothers

Literature allows us a different opportunity to grapple with this.” dr. venetria patton

director of the african american studies and resrearch center

and daughters, separated during the time of slavery, built families of their own, black women writers today opposed the idea of the “natally dead” black women in their work.

“If we look at their films and literature, one of the things that they are doing is pointing to maternal connection,” Patton said.

Dreher, a former classmate and colleague of Patton, found that a recognition of the ancestral figure can help dismantle stereotypes.

“Paying attention to the ancestor, drawing upon the ancestor, rebukes and subverts those kind of theories about the African, in general, and the African American, to be specific,” Dreher said.

Dreher said she found it important to look into this link with the ancestral, especially today.

“I see this trend of this dis-

respect of history,” Dreher said, pointing out that various pop artists name-drop historical moments and figures without understanding what they really mean. “What Dr. Patton does is remind us of our history, in particular, the ancestor and how important the ancestor is to community – to group.”

Patton said literature especially helps examine issues of cultural identity and beliefs.

“I think that in studying different literary references, it provides an avenue to think about perhaps our own spiritual beliefs or other group’s beliefs, and provides better cultural understanding,” Patton said. “Literature allows us a different opportunity to grapple with this.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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“Iron Man,” released in 2008, helped to set off a trend of superhero films over the past six years. Four superhero movies are set to be released this summer.

Someone needs to save us from superhero films

action became stylized; the costume became sleek and the story feelgood.

Sean The problem with this is that the Stewart sheer number and power of superhero movies forces everything else to the margins and compromises the integrity of any film trying to do something atypical – something original. The superhero movie, after The warming weather has me conall, is not conducive of originality. vinced spring is here. With spring, If you think about it, all superhero and eventually summer, the shorts movies are essentially the same: the will come, along with the beach same basic elements to the origin photos and the blockbusters or, story, apocalyptic plot and intense as they’re now known, superhero stylized action followed by eventual movies. triumph.

I love superheroes. I love the Of course the point is to not idea of them. I love the mythologies think about it. The superhero genre and the intricate backstories. I love has oversimplified itself to the point the grandiose story arcs. I love that that it has become the modern the underdog – albeit an underdog equivalent of the mindlessly violent wearing tights – gets to beat up the ’80s action movie. As with '80s acbad guy, save the world and crack tion movies, there are exceptions. a wise comment. Just like many The Dark Knight trilogy stands as adolescents who didn’t necessarily one of the most impressive trilogies fit into the “cool crowd, I relished across any genre. The exceptions, the adventures of misfits-turnedthough, are far overshadowed by heroes. I read the comics, played the the tidal waves of formulaic junk. games and wore the shirts.

Another inescapable side effect Unlike most fanboys and fanof the superhero genre is the sequel girls, though, I had the particular or, as it’s now known, the sequel’s fortune to see a sort of real-world unspinoff’s prequel’s sequel. Together derdog revolution. I was one of the with Harry Potter, superhero movprivileged few geeks who grew up in ies have fertilized a movie landthe narrow window when geeky be- scape increasingly dependent on the came cool. I came of age in the midst idea of a franchise. In the name of of the origin story of the proper suan easy buck and a quick, if guilty, perhero movie, saw its first and of- pleasure, it seems that anything reten-rocky adventures and witnessed motely successful gets green-lit for its final maturation into the towering a sequel, regardless of whether a blockbuster event it has become. It sequel would really service the plot was a glorious and satisfying transi- or characters in any interesting way. tion, the birth and growth of the suOf course, unnecessary sequels perhero movie. are nothing new. But their absolute Now the superhero movie needs inescapability seems to be a conto die. struct of the last Was that a little 15 years. Blunderblunt? Let me exIf you think ing sequels are plain. Since 2008’s now the standard. about it, all “Iron Man” proved Craft a franchise the universal mar- superhero movies and ride it into the ketability of the suground (looking at are essentially the perhero movie, the you “Hangover” or two major comic same.”

“Taken”). companies, Marvel As a fanboy, the and DC, have been enthusiasm with scrambling to make as many as poswhich people have adopted my sible. This year will see the release heroes is warming. As a lover of of “Captain America: The Winter film, though, the superhero genre Soldier,” “The Amazing Spider-Man and the franchise mentality it 2,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past” breeds stand as perhaps the most and “Guardians of the Galaxy.” The constricting elements of Hollywood years 2015 and 2016 are slated to see today. The simple, glossy pleasures the releases of the “Fantastic Four” of superhero movies crumble when reboot, “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” compared with the almost euphoric “Ant-Man,” “Batman vs. Superfeeling of seeing a truly exhilaratman,” “Captain America 3,” “Xing original film or when compared Men: Age of Apocalypse” and “The with the potent catharsis of intelAmazing Spiderman 3.” ligently and empathetically written Announced films without renarratives. Unfortunately, there’s lease dates include the “Amazing no genre curbing in sight.

Spider-Man 4” and spinoffs “VenThankfully, narrative televiom” and “The Sinister Six.” sion of the last 15 years has picked I’m out of breath. That’s quite a up much of film’s slack. Incredible, list. That’s the problem. Everybody well-developed and creative stoknows Hollywood cares first and ries are, in fact, being told. Fewer foremost about money. It’s simple and fewer, though, are coming to a really: As long as superhero movies theater near you. Those that do are continue to return increasing profbeing more and more bottlenecked its, Hollywood will keep churning in awards season, leaving much of them out. As their financial benefits the year parched, reserved only for are continually proven, superhero eye candy, movies with immediate movies increasingly replace every gratification but low in nutritional other type of blockbuster. Those value. blockbusters lacking a cape or tights However much I love superhethat do manage to make it through roes, and though there is no krypto completion become disconcerttonite that I can see, my beloved ingly similar to superhero movies. superhero movie needs to die.

This year’s “RoboCop” remake, Sean Stewart is a for example, saw the character himsophomore English major. self and the film’s theme tweaked Reach him at arts@ and simplified to fit the mold. The dailynebraskan.com

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count for buying things, but they’re still getting paid less. Whether it’s 77 cents or 98 cents, it’s less, every time.”

Though SAGE has been on campus for 20 years, the group was inactive for a long period of time. Nance said she wants to see the group maintain a long-term presence on campus in the future.

“The reason (SAGE and Students for Choice) ended is people aged out,” Nance said. “It was really strong but when all the members graduated, that was the end of it.”

One of SAGE’s main priorities this spring is to recruit freshmen and sophomores on campus. “(Underclassmen) are the people who are going to carry the torch when we’re gone,“ Nance said. “There are really great groups on campus right now, and without freshman, they’re gonna fizzle out.”

Cain and Nance have so far coordinated all of the group’s events this semester, but SAGE has begun holding weekly meetings offcampus at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso.

“You don’t have to RSVP or anything,” Nance said. “We’re always going to have the meetings there.

Now is the time to get involved; it’s brand new. You’re not gonna be the new kid; we’re all new kids.”

SAGE frequently collaborates with other groups on campus including Students for Sexual Health and UNL International Socialist Organization and plans on working with other groups on campus in the future.

“There are a lot of really great groups working on campus right now,” Nance said. “We’re all connected. We all want everyone to be whoever they want to be. So people can feel safe and welcome wherever they are. I think that’s what all of these groups are working towards.”

The group intends to do a “condom crawl” with SSH where members will hand out free condoms at bars downtown to promote safe sex.

“Bars are the best place to hand (condoms) out,” Nance said. “It’s

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The Students Advocating Gender Equality group holds many events, including cupcake sales where women are charged less. like, ‘I know you’re gonna be looking for one of these later. I’ve got you covered. Literally and figuratively.’”

SAGE is also co-sponsoring a theater event with UNL International Socialist Organization. The play, “Mom Baby God,” is a fictional onewoman play based on playwright, actress and reproductive rights activist Madeline Burrows’ experiences attending pro-life fundraisers and rallies. The play will be performed two nights, April 18 and 19, in the Haymarket Theatre at 803 Q Street. Tickets are $10 for students/ low income, $20 for adults.

“This kind of collaboration allows us to bring bigger, better events,” Nance said. “That’s what we want to try for in the future.”

Nance believes education and open conversation are key to creating change, whether it’s in lowered rates of STDs, abortion or sexual violence.

“Everybody gets socialized the same way, and everyone has to go

around deconstructing that whole bullshit,” Nance said. “These issues still happen even if you don’t want to talk about them.”

Nance firmly believes there’s a culture of shame in our society around talking about sex and gender and hopes SAGE will help foster more candid discussion about health and safety on campus.

“If we don’t talk about it people are gonna figure things out through a process of trial and error, and the error is what’s gonna suck,” Nance said. “We just try to make it easier.

You can talk to people and learn from other’s mistakes instead of making your own.”

Nance wants SAGE to create an inclusive space for open dialogue and education on campus.

“There’s no reason to feel bad about moral choices,” Nance said.

“SAGE is all positivity, all inclusive, all that good stuff.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Grilled lemon grass rib eye with fried egg is one of the options at Banhwich Café. sine entailed. said, “We have people traveling “It’s odd, and it’s unfamiliar from Colorado and Omaha. They get at least five to 10 sandwiches to them,” Homp said, “People are because they have to travel back like, ‘Vietnamese?’ It sets them off.” and forth.”

After leaving a comfort zone The traffic in Lincoln alone of burgers and fries, customers though has provided enough deare hooked. mand for the potential of another “It’s funny how the McDonlocation in a different side of the alds gets rushes, city. when (customers) “We’ve had lots For bubble spend three to of congestion from tea, we four bucks over people clear across there – they could town that want us have fun mixing get a decent meal to open a restaudifferent flavors here,” Homp said. rant down there,” “It’s kind of ironPham said. together.” ic.”

The Bahnwich Banhwich cusfanbase is as dinina pham bahnwich employee tomers have made verse as the poputhat realization lation of Lincoln, and continue to and the diversity is much accredited to the surround- choose the café’s fresher options over fast food alternatives. In ing neighborhood. fact, the café doesn’t pay for adThe rest of the customer base vertisement. Instead, they rely on initially wasn’t as confident about word of mouth by customers that what traditional Vietnamese cui-

have fallen for the taste of traditional Vietnamese.

“We don’t do much (with) ads because we try to spread the world from people to people that come here,” Pham said.

Apparently this tactic is working. Banhwich is consistently receiving an inflow of new customers excited about what the café has to offer. With new customers comes new wild flavor combinations.

“For bubble tea, we have fun mixing different flavors together,” Pham said.

Some are braver than others, and when given the opportunity to take full advantage of the menu, these customers often do.

“A little girl came in once asking for watermelon with coffee flavored bubbles,” Homp said, “That was odd.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

APP OF THE WEEK The Simpsons: Tapped Out

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Gabriella Martinez-Garro DN Imagine a world without “The Simpsons.” No Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge or Maggie.

Now imagine you have the chance to bring it all back but on your terms.

That’s the premise of “The Simpsons: Tapped Out,” a new, free app from EA Games, which uses animators and voice actors from the classic TV series. The game begins with a cutscene showing Homer Simpson at the nuclear power plant accidentally blowing up Springfield. It’s up to Homer and the other characters to rebuild the city and bring back its iconic residents.

After a brief tutorial, users are able to construct and create a Springfield the way they see fit. As players enlarge the town and complete goals, characters and buildings (Principal Skinner and Springfield Elementary, for instance) become available.

The game is similar to the app “Farmville” in that tasks are completed in real-time and most take multiple hours to finish. The longer the tasks, the more experience points and money is earned.

Although the app is free and users can advance without paying, rare donuts are available to purchase and can be used to speed through tasks and create rare buildings. Donuts can also be gained through leveling up and on special occasions, such as St. Patrick’s Day or premieres of new “Simpsons” episodes.

Although collecting money and constructing the town can be addicting, the true gems of the game are found within the characters’ actions and dialogue.

Users can make Ned Flanders “Condemn Science” for 45 seconds or tell Mr. Burns to “Hide Nuclear Waste.”

The app is nearly as charming as the show itself and just as addicting. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU looks to outdoor season Mike Shoro DN The Nebraska track and field team began its March like a lion and will try to end it the same way.

The Huskers started March off with a second-place finish for the men’s team and a third-place finish for the women’s team at the 2014 Big Ten Indoor Championships.

Two weeks later, Nebraska capped its indoor season with five Husker men earning first-team All-American honors and one earning secondteam honor at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships.

Senior Patrick Raedler finished fifth in the long jump for the secondstraight year, and junior Ricco Hall, sophomores Levi Gipson and Cody Rush and freshman Drew Wiseman finished second in the 4x400meter relay with a school record time of 3:05.25. Sophomore Oladapo Akinmoladun finished ninth in the 60-meter hurdles, earning secondteam All-American distinction.

As soon as the NCAA Indoor Championships ended, the second half of the track season began.

After an indoor season in which three Huskers earned Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week designations and several Huskers broke personal and school records, the focus now shifts to outdoor.

The Huskers fell a combined three places short of two indoor conference titles at the Big Ten Championships this season.

Coach Gary Pepin said falling short at indoors this year was disappointing, but it doesn’t change the main goal of winning a conference championship or two this spring.

“Indoors, we were close, and so outdoors we feel that we have another good team and a good opportunity and a lot of new events,” Pepin said, “and so we’ll see how we stack up against the conference.”

The men’s team will look to defend its status as the reign-

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Nebraska senior long jumper Patrick Raedler earned All-American honors by finishing fifth at the NCAA Indoor Championships and looks to continue that success in the outdoor schedule. ing outdoor conference champions. The Huskers won the Big Ten Outdoor Championships last year with 131.5 points, 38 more

than second-place Minnesota. The women’s team will try to improve off of its sixth-place, 75-point finish. Last year ’s winner, Penn

State, finished with 135.

This outdoor season, Pepin said Nebraska’s biggest outdoor competition should again include Penn State and Wisconsin, the former winning the 2014 indoor women’s title and the latter winning the men’s. But Pepin said the Huskers may be a better outdoor team than an indoor team.

The annual move to the outdoors means more events for more athletes to compete in, which means more opportunities to rack up points. Some of the new event additions include the 4x100-meter relay, javelin, discus, hammer throw, steeplechase, intermediate hurdles, the 5,000-meter run, the 10,000-meter run, the women’s heptathlon and the men’s decathlon.

Practice for the outdoor season has already begun. Pepin said he stayed in Lincoln during the NCAA Indoor Championships to coach practice for those not competing at nationals.

The first scheduled meet of the year is the Arizona State Invitational in Tempe, Ariz., but Pepin said the great majority of the team won’t compete then. Those who will make the trip to Arizona are those who haven’t had a chance to compete in their event yet this year because it’s an outdoor event.

As always, there are individual exceptions, he said. Junior jumper Ellie Ewere is one of those exceptions, as she’ll again compete in the horizontal jump events.

But for the majority of the athletes, their first competition will be at the Arkansas Spring Invite in Fayetteville, Ark. By that time, most of the athletes will have had about a month of practice in, Pepin said.

The first Husker home meet of the year will be the Nebraska Quad at Ed Weir Stadium on April 12. Competition will begin at 11 a.m. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

tennis: from 10 instructing experience, which he applied to the athletic program.

“Coach McDermott and I work well together,” Tongoona said. “We both come from big, hard-working families, and so we believe that hard work is a key to success.”

From Harare, Zimbabwe, he played for the Huskers from 1999 to 2002 under the coaching of McDermott. While on the team, he earned many awards and honors.

“We know what it takes to make a good team,” McDermott said. “We look for players who are determined to improve, will work hard every day, go to class, respect each other and be committed to helping make our program a top 25 team on a regular basis.”

Tongoona was captain for two years before his graduation in 2003.

During his senior season, he went 12-16 in singles and 17-12 in doubles.

“We clicked when I played for him,” Tongoona said. “When the opportunity to work with him came up, it was a chance to work with someone with the same coaching philosophy and values.”

He was the men’s tennis team’s lifter of the year in 2000 and was a second-team academic All-Big 12 player in 2000. He also served on the Student-Athlete Advisory Board.

“I trust any decisions that Fungai has, and he respects the fact that

We want them to thave the best chance to win that day.” kerry mcdermott men’s tennis coach

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Nebraska assistant coach Fungai Tongoona played for the Huskers from 1999 to 2002 under head coach Kerry McDermott before returning to Lincoln in 2012.

I am the head coach and will have the final word on any issues,” McDermott said.

Tongoona’s coaching experience has helped the Husker team and program, McDermott said.

McDermott and Tongoona started coaching together in 2013, when they led the Huskers to a 10-15 overall finish, including a 2-9 Big Ten

Conference record.

“We just want to know that at the beginning of each match that we as coaches made the best decision for our team,” McDermott said. “We want them to have the best chance to win that day. It is then up to the players to go out and perform and make it happen.”

Both coaches value the impor-

tance of communication on the court, a pillar of success that imprinted on McDermott and Tongoona as players.

“We both have our own ideas,” McDermott said. “At times we might butt heads, but we feel that the differences we both have make us really look at the situation and come up with the best solution for the team. It’s all about communication.”

Tongoona said being a coach at Nebraska is unique.

“As a coach at Nebraska you become part of a long line of tradition that started in the Bob Devaney days,” Tongoona said. “A tradition of hard work and honesty and most of all success the right way. Nebraskans love their sports here, and wherever you go, you are treated well as a coach.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior gymnast Emily Wong is ranked No. 1 in the Big Ten and No. 4 in the country in the all-around after winning her ninth all-around title in 10 duals this season on Saturday.

Wong collects final weekly honor

Nebraska senior Emily Wong won her ninth all-around title of the season on Saturday against Illinois, Michigan State and Ohio State to help the Huskers clinch a share of the Big Ten Conference title, and on Monday she was named Big Ten Gymnast of the Week for the fifth time this season and third week in a row.

Wong is the top-ranked all-arounder in the conference and is No. 4 in the country.

On Saturday, Wong finished first on the bars with score of 9.925 and won the floor competition, tying her season-high score of 9.95 for the fourth time this year. She finished fourth on the vault and the beam.

Wong is ranked in the top 25 nationally in all four events.

Catcher hits way to Big Ten award

Nebraska junior catcher Tanner Lubach was named the Big Ten’s player of the week on Monday, earning Nebraska’s second player-of-the-week honor of the season.

Lubach started 4 of Nebraska’s 5 games last week, going 8 for 16 at the plate with 2 doubles, a triple and a home run. He drove in 8 runs in the Huskers’ three games with Lubach in the lineup, including both games in a doubleheader against UC Irvine on Saturday. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

men’s basketball: from 10 11-3 just more than five minutes into the game. Miles looks livid.

He stares at Walter Pitchford as he walks back to the bench.

Pitchford, who just missed a pair of questionable 3-pointers and gave up a couple of offensive rebounds, ignores Miles’ stare.

Miles enters the huddles, barking orders to his players. As it breaks, Pitchford makes a comment directed at Miles.

“What did you say?” Miles yells at Pitchford.

The 6-foot-10 sophomore shrugs his shoulders.

Play begins again, and Miles goes to Pitchford, who is now sitting on the bench.

“I’m not going to deal with that today,” Miles says, pointing his finger at Pitchford.

He gives one more look at his center and goes back to the game.

2:41 p.m.

Shavon Shields picks up Miles to hold him back.

Benny Parker just got leveled into the base of the hoop by an Ohio State defender while attempting a layup. No foul is called, and Miles is letting the referees know what he thought about the no call.

Assistant coach Chris Harriman now has to help Shields restrain Miles, who almost jumps out of Shields’ grasp.

Terran Petteway and Leslee Smith each lend a shoulder to carry Parker, who looks to be holding back tears, back to the bench.

Shields sees Parker – his roommate and closest friend on the team – for the first time. He grimaces, but still manages to bring the team together.

They break the huddle and walk back onto the floor.

3:09 p.m.

Nebraska’s fired up now.

Shields just hit a layup and is fouled to give Nebraska the lead for the first time in the game after trailing by as many as 8 points.

He pumps his fist. Miles follows suit. Then he turns to the

couple hundred Nebraska fans sitting behind the Husker bench.

“Let’s go,” he yells, encouraging the fans with another fist pump.

They follow suit, cheering even louder as Shields knocks down the free throw.

The Huskers took the momentum into the locker with a 31-28 lead at halftime.

3:38 p.m.

Shields looks up at the clock and smiles.

Parker just hit a baseline jumper to give Nebraska a 10-point lead. And Shields knows the Huskers are rolling.

Shields then blocks a Buckeye shot, spurring a Petteway layup on the other end. Then David Rivers draws an offensive foul, which also entices Ohio State’s LaQuinton Ross into a technical.

Buckeye coach Thad Matta calls timeout. Shields skips back to the huddle like a little kid on a playground.

Still smiling.

4:11 p.m.

Things are starting to unravel now.

Sam Thompson’s dunk with 4:35 to play cuts the Husker lead to just 2 points after it ballooned to 18.

Nebraska’s body language tells the tale.

Bench players bounce their legs up and down as they sit.

Shields throws his arm in the air every time he doesn’t get a call.

Petteway throws his head back with each turnover.

Miles calls another timeout.

4:31 p.m.

The final buzzer sounds.

Tai Webster hangs at the back of the line as his team begins to shake the hands of Ohio State players in coaches.

The freshman, who finished with zero points and 3 fouls, stares at the ground. He never looks up as he slaps the hands of the opponent.

He follows the team into the locker room.

Pitchford bites his jersey and puts his hands on his head. Parker limps off the court with his head down. He came back in later.

Miles brings up the rear.

One by one, reporters leave the room, and Miles is eventually left alone.

He looks at the trainer. The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 Shakes his head.

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4:54 p.m.

The whiteboard in Nebraska’s locker room says it all.

“Frustration = losing” is written in green.

Players walk around in towels. No one says a word.

Parker comes out of the shower and is swarmed by three or four reporters.

Smith keeps his back turned toward his locker and begins to change.

He still can’t believe what happened.

“I’m not in a good mood at all,” he says. “I’m disappointed.

Upset. All the negative feelings you get. But we can move forward and learn from this.”

Petteway walks into the room now after fulfilling his press conference requirements.

He goes to his locker, puts his headphones on and sits down. He buries his face in his arms.

He sits there for two minutes.

5:03 p.m.

Miles walks back into the locker room and closes the door to the coaches’ area.

Five minutes later, reporters are allowed in. Miles greets them with a smile on his face.

“Where do you get those shirts?” He asks two reporters wearing the similar clothing.

The room laughs.

He talks about his team unraveling. He candidly discusses the referees and foul trouble. He credits Ohio State for its aggressiveness in the second half.

He repeats things he’s talked about before with local reporters. He doesn’t back down from a question.

He says this all with an honest smile, admitting his team’s defeat.

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Young Huskers look ahead after Top-5 finish Riley Bowden DN The Nebraska rifle team capped off an impressive season with a fifthplace finish at the NCAA Rifle Championships.

Nebraska started the season with a No. 9 ranking and a new class of shooters that had yet to be proven at the collegiate level. The Huskers youth didn’t faze coach Stacy Underwood, who believed that her team, with enough effort, could be a top contender.

“I told the team they were a top-five team if they trained hard from the start, and that is exactly where we finished,” Underwood said.

The team ended with a 10-2 record and were ranked as high as No. 4 in the country.

This season was Underwood’s second year as a head rifle coach.

Husker senior ReAnn Wilson was a junior when Underwood started but was still affected by the guidance of her coach.

“My coach, Stacy Underwood, has implemented life lessons into every practice and has helped me set goals for my future,” Wilson said.

Underwood’s performance

in her second year as head coach didn’t go unnoticed. Underwood added an early milestone in her career last week, as she was named coach of the year by the Collegiate Rifle Coaches association.

“I believe the award is a reflection of all the friends, family, coaches, professors and student athletes that took the time to invest in my personal development,” Underwood said.

Underwood took on a team in 2012 that hadn’t made the NCAA Championships in two years. In Underwood’s first year, the Huskers went to the NCAAs, taking seventh place overall.

Nebraska says goodbye to two graduating seniors this season: Wilson and Sunny Russell. Wilson shot her entire four years at Nebraska and was a top contributor for the Husker air rifle squad her senior season.

“Coming into Nebraska, I was a student athlete,” Wilson said.

“Thanks to my coach, teammates and this program, I will leave Nebraska as a Husker, someone with fierce determination, a fearless mindset and the heart of a champion.”

The team will miss the senior leadership but returns 8 of 10

shooters in its lineup next season.

This year, Nebraska relied on performances from a lot of the younger shooters, who were able to pull out great performances in big moments.

Freshman Rachel Martin was consistently in the team’s top five for both smallbore and air rifle.

She led the air rifle squad Sunday at the NCAA Championships with a 590. Martin will be one of the many returners who look to improve and make an impact next year.

“I believe that there is always room for improvement,” Martin said. “My job is to keep working hard and give the years ahead of me everything that I have.”

Martin will be part of a team next year that has seen what it takes to succeed, Underwood said.

She said belief in themselves will be key heading in to next season.

“We now have a great foundation because the team truly believes,” Underwood said. “Everyone now sees what is possible.

They understand the sacrifice, discipline and intensity that comes with competing for a national championship.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Freshman Rachel Martin led Nebraska with a score of 590 in air rifle at the NCAA Championships on Saturday. She tied for second on the team with a score of 579 in smallbore.

Senior transfer makes most of time Josh Kelly DN Last season Bob Greco was pitching against teams such as Waldorf and Central Christian at Westgate Field in Omaha. This week the senior transfer is preparing for his first home series at Haymarket Park as a Husker pitcher.

Greco played four seasons at Bellevue University before transferring to Nebraska this season.

He still wanted to continue playing baseball after earning a degree in business administration.

It didn’t take long for Bellevue University coach Duane Monlux to notify coach Darin Erstad that the pitcher isn’t done playing collegiate baseball.

“Coach Monlux just had talked to me and said, ‘Hey, we would love to keep him, but he wants to try it at the Division I level. As much as we would love to keep him, we would love for him to play for you guys,’” Erstad said.

“There was a couple other schools involved, and we just did our thing and tried to convince him this was the best place for him to be, and so far, so good.”

For Greco, the move to a Division I program was a surreal experience, as he was given opportunities to work on his game in a way he wasn’t able to at Bellevue University.

“I’ve never had a strengthand-conditioning coach,” Greco said. “I’ve never had, really, an athletic trainer.”

At the beginning of the season, he was trying to ease himself in, but with only one season on the team, he had to hit the ground running, and it was made clear what he had to do for Nebraska.

“It was a little nerve-racking

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at first, but once we got into the season, they kind of relied on me,” Greco said. “And I have to

give it to them for giving me the opportunity to throw in games.

I’ve got to perform if I want to

keep throwing.”

Greco has made eight appearances totaling 11.1 innings so far this season and has a 1-0 record.

He has faced Pacific, Gonzaga, Oregon State, Utah, The Citadel, Northern Colorado and UC Irvine. His first and only win so far was in the opening weekend against Pacific.

The right-hander has allowed 7 earned runs and has given up 11 hits during his time on the mound, showing off the experience that he brings to the table.

“He’s a mature kid who has handled the transition to Division I baseball very well,” Erstad said “We put him into some situations where he’s had to throw strikes and get people out.”

As a senior transfer he’s in one of those rare situations where he is older than most of the team and is already gelling well with the veterans on the team.

“Being the old guys on the team we kind of make jokes, ‘We don’t want to run that much, us old guys, don’t want to blow something,’ so that’s kind of how we molded,” Greco said. “We’re more mature than most of the kids.”

The Huskers continue their homestand with a mid-week matchup against in-state rival Creighton before beginning Big Ten Conference play. Although Greco is not set to start, he’ll be a player who will be thrown into crucial situations because that’s the kind of player that the team needed for this season.

“He’s done just a great job and he’s come as advertised,” Erstad said. “He said he’s going to be a grinder and battler on the mound, and he’s done just that.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

“It’s the same type of intensity, just creating college experiences for them,” Erstad said. “That’s another game where the fans will be into it, and there will be stuff on Twitter.

There’ll be talking, and that’s what it’s all about.”

The game starts at 6:35 p.m., and one of the players who’s not letting the confidence takeover is junior outfielder Austin Darby. He knows the in-state meeting could go either way.

“It’s a huge game,” Darby said.

“It’s what coach Erstad has been saying, it’s trap game and you got to go in there and just take it to them.

You can’t just wait around and let them hit us first.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior pitcher Bob Greco, who transferred to Nebraska from Bellvue University for this season, has allowed 11 runs in 11.1 innings of action for the Huskers.

baseball: from 10 ers see that and we just have to have that intensity all the time.”

Another thing that coach Erstad also knows is that there’s a lot of chatter between the two schools and there always has been, whether it’s the players or the fans.

Adam Taylor Looks to Get More Playing Time

Redshirt freshman running back Adam Taylor has been a wildcard since coming onto campus last year. He was recruited in the same class as sophomore running back Terrell Newby, who received a good portion of playing time behind Ameer Abdullah and Imani Cross.

This season, he is eager to work in some playing time of his own at one of the deepest positions on the team.

Sophomore quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. is sure he’ll be getting quality possessions this coming season.

“He’s worked hard, and he’s still young, but at the same time, he’s been working,” Armstrong said. “He shows it in the weight room, he shows it off the field, and he shows it on the field. He’s strong and he’s physical.”

One of the things that’s making a smooth transition to this season is the running back rotation, and Armstrong said he expects Taylor to be a part of that deep rotation, especially after the way he played at Saturday’s practice at Memorial Stadium.

Receivers Strengthening Relationship with Armstrong Jr.

This will be the first season without quarterback Taylor Martinez, and with Armstrong being the front runner for the position, receivers have been working on chemistry with the young quarterback.

Sophomore receiver Jordan Westerkamp said he’s trying to get into the film room more with Armstrong, and so is everyone else. Last season he had a lot of time with Armstrong, and now the other receivers, along with him, know that Armstrong is poised for the starting role.

“He’s obviously the front runner as the starter, so we’re definitely building a lot more chemistry right now,” Westerkamp said.

“We’ve been doing a great job together.”

After Martinez was injured last season, the receivers were tasked with adjusting to a new quarterback mid-season, and they’re stressing not to miss a beat with Armstrong by the time the fall season begins.

This season, the receivers know they don’t want a rotation between quarterback of all positions and that it’s crucial to have him go all season long.

Abdullah Raving About Basketball Team

When asked what he thinks about the men’s basketball team, senior running back Ameer Abdullah was instantly excited to talk about the NCAA Tournament squad.

He said that he loved playing basketball in high school and that he’s athletic enough to have a spot on coach Tim Miles’ team.

“Those guys are living out my dream,” Abdullah said. “I tell Coach Miles all the time that if he needs a player, I’m going to use all five of my fouls.”

Abdullah compared himself to sophomore guard Benny Parker but he said that he had a little bit more bounce than Parker and that he’s able to dunk.

He joked that he’s always giving players such as Walter Pitchford advice. He tells him to get in the post more often, and then he said that he’s happy that they aren’t listening to any advice the running back has given them.

Like many fans in Nebraska, Abdullah is already looking forward to a Nebraska-Creighton matchup in the third round of the tourney. He said he always looks forward to watching Doug McDermott play and where he will end up in the NBA. This Friday he has nothing else on his schedule other than the second round game between Nebraska and Baylor.

“I’m going to go to my couch and be watching that,” Abduallah said. “Baylor’s going down, baby.”

—Compiled by Josh Kelly sports@ dailynebraskan.com

women’s basketball: from 10 The good news is that we don’t have to play on anybody’s home court. In women’s basketball that’s the way it works. Sometimes teams have the advantage, and other times no one does.”

WOMEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT: LINCOLN REGION 5. North Carolina State (25-7, 11-5 ACC) Past five games: 3-2 Feb. 23 vs. Virginia: W 68-66 Feb. 27 at Pittsburgh: W 79-68 March 2 vs. No. 2 Notre Dame: L 84-60

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swered,” junior guard Tear ’a Laudermill said. “We know where we’re going, and we know where we’re playing, and we’re thrilled.”

After winning the Big Ten Championship, the No. 4 Huskers will compete in the Lincoln bracket against No. 13 Fresno State in Los Angeles on Saturday at 3 p.m., where neither Fresno State nor the Huskers have the homecourt advantage.

“The good news is that we don’t have to play on anybody’s home court,” Nebraska coach Connie Yori said. “In women’s basketball, that’s the way it works. Sometimes teams have the advantage, and other times no one does.”

Nebraska earned its secondhighest seed in NCAA tournament history. It claimed the highest seed, No. 1, in 2010.

Now that the team knows it’s ranking, Yori said she, along with the coaching staff and team, will do what they usually do – take it one game at a time.

“It’s really not about what your seed is,” she said. “It’s about who you’re playing and where you’re playing.”

Nebraska’s opponent, the

Fresno State Bulldogs, claimed their conference championship in the 2014 Mountain West Tournament in the final game against Colorado State. Besides winning two conference championships in the past two years, the Bulldogs have won eight straight games since Feb. 19.

“We’re going to have a lot to learn about them in the next few days,” Yori said. “They shoot a lot of outside shots from the little I know about them.”

If the Huskers make it past the Bulldogs, they will move onto the next round to potentially play No. 5 North Carolina State or No. 12 BYU on March 24.

“If we do get past the first round, we have a lot more to learn,” Yori said.

And if the Huskers make it past the second round to the Sweet 16 as they did last season, they could potentially face overall No. 1 Connecticut. But Nebraska would be on its home court in this regional game on March 29.

“You have to take care of business in the first two games to get to the regional,” Hooper said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

March 7 vs. Syracuse: W 79-63

In a nutshell: The Wolfpack are back in the tournament for the first time since 2010. Senior center Markeisha Gatling leads the country with a field goal percentage of .676.

March 8 vs. No. 2 Notre Dame: L 83-48

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12. BYU (26-6, 14-4 West Coast Conference) Past five games: 4-1

In a nutshell: The Cougars led the WCC in

Feb. 22 at Loyola Marymount: W 91-67

field goal percentage both offensively,

March 1 vs. San Diego: W 71-58

making 44 percent of their shots, and

March 7 vs. Pepperdine: W 77-51 March 10 vs. Pacific: W 77-64

defensively, holding opponents to 35 percent shooting.

March 11 vs. No. 18 Gonzaga: L 71-57

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4. Nebraska (25-6, 12-4 Big Ten) Past five games: 4-1

In a nutshell: The Huskers have won 12 of

Feb. 27 vs. Illinois: W 72-65

13 en route to a conference championship

March 2 at No. 19 Purdue: L 82-66 March 7 vs. Minnesota: W 80-67

and will try to make the Sweet 16 for the second straight year.

March 8 vs. No. 19 Michigan State: W 86-58 March 9 vs. No. 23 Iowa: W 72-6

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13. Fresno State (22-10, 13-5 Mountain West) Past five games: 5-0

In a nutshell: The Bulldogs ride an

March 1 at San Diego State: W 67-63

8-game winning streak into the Big Dance.

March 7 vs. San Jose State: W 107-80

They have made the NCAA Tournament –

March 11 vs. UNLV: W 80-65 March 14 vs. Nevada: W 82-71 March 15 vs. Colorado State: W 77-68

and lost in the first round – each of the past six years.

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baseball

Huskers poised to host Jays in rivalry game Josh Kelly DN

The Husker baseball team is riding high as they face in-state rival Creighton in a mid-week matchup at Haymarket Park.

Nebraska is coming off a weekend when the team won two out of three games against No. 25 UC Irvine, a team that had the nation’s best overall ERA heading into the weekend.

Against one of the best pitching staffs in the country, the Husker offense exhirsch ploded, scoring 26 runs total during the weekend for an average of 8.7 runs per game.

For coach Darin Erstad, the series was a huge statement for his team, but the success needs to continue for them to get to where they want to be.

“It shows what we’re capable of doing,” Erstad said. “It shows that we’re capable of playing with quality teams. It’s my job to get them to play at a consistent level all the time.”

After taking the doubleheader, the Huskers have an overall record of 11-7 with Big Ten Conference play beginning this weekend after the Creighton matchup.

For years the rivalry with Creighton has been an interesting one for both programs.

Senior pitcher Zach Hirsch said he understands the challenge of not only playing Creighton, but also playing during the week rather than the weekend.

“It’s always fun to play Creighton,” Hirsch said. “It’s an important mid-week game. We understand the importance of all these mid-week games and we’re going to come out and try to get a win.”

The Bluejays are 9-5-1 after winning back-to-back games at home against South Dakota State during the weekend. The team has bounced back after an 0-4 start to the regular season.

As in most seasons, the two schools will face off twice this season.

Last season, the teams split the two games. Both games were in Omaha, where Creighton won the first game 5-3 and the Huskers won the second matchup in an offensive battle 12-9.

The last time the two teams played each other at Haymarket Park the Huskers won 5-3 in the 2012 season.

A trait that coach Erstad stresses to his team is the intensity that they need to carry to each game, and Creighton is one of the crucial ones for them.

“It’s easy to get up for an opponent like that,” Erstad said. “Our play-

Freshmen Esther Ramacieri and Allie Havers and junior Tear’a Laudermill react to seeing Nebraska’s name announced during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show party at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Monday. The Huskers are scheduled to play Fresno State on Saturday.

california dreamin’ Nebraska opens NCAA Tournament as No. 4 seed in Los Angeles story

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unior forwards Hailie Sample and Emily Cady sat side-by-side, legs crossed, as they and their Husker teammates awaited the NCAA Tournament announcement.

The team and coaching staff sat on the sidelines staring up at the big screen with the fans behind them.

The anchors announced the North Carolina

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State-BYU game and then announced Nebraska’s name. But the screen lagged behind the anchors’ voices. No one in the audience could see the Huskers’ seed.

The technological mishap led to a belated jolt of excitement from the fans and team.

Senior forward Jordan Hooper said it was a bit melodramatic.

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“They didn’t put it up there,” she said.

“How are you supposed to react to something they don’t put up?”

But once the screen finally caught up and showed a No. 4 seed for the Huskers, Cady and Sample threw up their arms in excitement and joined the audience in applause.

“Finally, we can get all the questions an-

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men’s tennis

Former Huskers obtain role as current coaches Duo aids Nebraska’s rank in top 50 in 2nd season since former returned to NU sydny boyd DN The team’s dynamic is an important element of the No. 50 Nebraska men’s tennis team. Its coach, Kerry McDermott, establishes that dynamic alongside assistant coach Fungai Tongoona.

Both coaches were players at Nebraska, which makes them very familiar with what it takes to play Nebraska tennis.

“We work well together,” McDermott said. “We are both pretty open minded but honest when it comes to making decisions about the team and the direction we want this program to go.”

McDermott, a native of Grand Island, Neb., competed for the Huskers from 1976 to 1980 and lettered all four years. He played No. 1 as a senior.

“Even when I was a player on the team at Nebraska, I would always try to encourage my teammates,” McDermott said. “I love to compete, and as my senior year was winding down, my coach, Jim Porter, asked me if I was interested in being an assistant. I didn’t hesitate with my answer.”

McDermott claims the most victories by a Nebraska tennis coach in the program’s history with more than 350 wins. McDermott’s 350th win came against Troy in March 2013 from a 4-1 victory, which he coached alongside Tongoona.

“We both pretty much have the same philosophy toward coaching,” McDermott said. “We feel that if players commit to the program, then it is our responsibility to raise these guys up in a fashion that will represent themselves and the University of Nebraska in a positive way.”

Tongoona’s Nebraska journey started with McDermott asking him to leave his tennis professional job in Texas and come to Lincoln.

While also a former Husker tennis player, Tongoona brought in more

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NU endures highs, lows of game Andrew Ward DN INDIANAPOLIS — Before the NCAA Tournament celebration, Nebraska traveled to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Tournament.

Though it was a short one-day stay, it was memorable. Here’s a minute-by-minute look of Nebraska’s game against Ohio State on Friday from press row.

1:42 p.m.

Tim Miles pops onto the TV in the Indiana Pacers practice court in Bankers Life Fieldhouse, now serving as the media workroom for the Big Ten Tournament.

Miles stands outside his locker and talks to ESPN sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards during a break in the Michigan-Illinois game. Nebraska tips against Ohio State in less than an hour.

Two reporters glance at the TV. “That’s Tim Miles, right?” one asks the other.

“Yes,” the other man confirms.

“Man, three or four years down the road, that’s going to be a great program,” the first one says.

“It’s been fun to watch him this year, that’s for sure,” the other guy replies.

2:20 p.m.

The Nebraska men’s basketball team trots onto the floor for the second time after a brief stint in the locker room.

The clock ticks down to five

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Nebraska coach Tim Miles yells to pump up the Nebraska crowd during a timeout early in the second half of the Huskers’ loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament.

minutes before the opening tip.

The team looks serious.

No singing, dancing or marriage proposals like the last time the Huskers took the floor against Wisconsin at Pinnacle Bank Are-

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They’re all business as the Nebraska pep band plays “Hail Varsity,” and the Buckeyes warm up across the gym.

2:36 p.m.

Miles leans over to a referee, and play stops.

Nebraska trails Ohio State

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