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‘Women of character’

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Slam poet Buddy Event honors women’s service Wakefield drops his brand of verse in military

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Freshman diver Anna Filipcic will be the only Husker representing Nebraska at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis on Thursday. photo by amber baesler

‘scores kill creativity’ story by Layla Younis | photo by Stacie Hecker Yong Zhao presented an E.N. Thompson Forum lecture on Tuesday night called “Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization.” Zhao is a professor at the University of Oregon and is an internationally renowned scholar on globalization and technology in education.

E.N. Thompson speaker emphasizes value of creativity over test taking

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ong Zhao’s first grade teacher said every student is a kernel of popcorn: Some pop early, some pop late and some are burnt.

Today, Zhao is an internationally recognized scholar known for his work on globalization and technology in education. He was the last speaker for the 2014 E.N. Thompson Forums on World Issues.

More than 100 people listened to Zhao speak to students about how the U.S. education system doesn’t adequately compare with other countries because the U.S. is founded on different principles.

The founding fathers didn’t build the education system to turn students into employers but creative entrepreneurs, he told the audience. After Sputnik launched in 1957, everyone in the U.S. thought American test scores were low and declining compared with those of other countries, but historical data doesn’t show that.

Historical data shows not that U.S. education and test scores are declining but that test scores have always been low, Zhao said.

China’s education system and test scores have always been better than those of the U.S., he said.

Even though students and the U.S. education

system don’t have the same test scores as students in China, America has the largest prosperous economy in the world, he said.

To fit with the current economy, students today have to be creative problem solvers. But in the past 20 years, the U.S. education system has led students from being creative to test-driven.

Children at age 1 have a 98 percent capacity for creativity, but that percent declines by the age of 5 and even more so when students enter fourth grade and begin taking tests.

The idea that achieving high test scores will create future jobs isn’t right, Zhao said. He said creativity and diversity are key elements to helping grow students into future job markets.

Most schools have some sort of talent show so students can show off their creative skills, which exemplifies how the U.S. was built on a society that promotes creative thinking and not test scores.

“Scores kill creativity,” Zhao said.

In the last 20 years, the U.S. education system has been trying to promote and increase test

Computer chips are replacing cognitive abilities.”

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NU president search goes on despite closed-process bill failing Colleen Fell DN The Nebraska Legislature recently shot down a bill granting more privacy to candidates seeking the University of Nebraska’s top jobs, and NU Board of Regents members are not pleased.

The board originally announced its unanimous support of the bill – LB 1018 – at a hearing in early February. Still, regents said they are going to leave the issue alone and determine the best possible candidate under the current state statute.

Current NU President James B. Milliken will leave office at the end of April to become the chancellor of City University of New York. An interim university president could be announced as early as Friday.

The current statute says the

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identities of the top candidates must be released after a top group of four candidates is determined.

The proposed bill would have kept the identities of all candidates a secret, only announcing the final candidate. The Legislature’s Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee voted against the bill 5-2 on Feb. 12.

Omaha Regent Hal Daub said the outcome of the voting will be a detriment to the university and potential candidates.

“People who are highly qualified are discouraged from trying for the job,” Daub said.

Daub pointed out the recent search for a new president at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

After the four names were made public, all four candidates withdrew or were removed from

consideration for other reasons.

Opponents of the bill said the bill is contrary to the nature of the public university.

“It seems contradictory to being that person’s tenure with a basically secret process,” John Bender, journalism professor and member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee at UNL, said during a hearing for the bill on Feb. 6. “We want candidates for these jobs that are open to public scrutiny.”

The bill came under more criticism by members of the media.

They said the bill would set a bad example, especially regarding growing concern of government secrecy.

“Why would we change the exception of public policy for one party?” Alan Peterson, attorney

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The members of Lambda Chi Alpha, currently located at 16th and R streets, are leaving the house. The members will live off campus, and Alpha Delta Pi sorority will move into the house.

House acqusition prompts fraternity to look off campus Melissa Allen dn Lambda Chi Alpha is looking for new off-campus housing opportunities.

Last month, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of Alpha Delta Pi successfully acquired the house of the current UNL chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha on the corner of 16th and R streets.

The sorority will make a move from its current house on 16th and G streets in the fall.

The house currently occupied by Lambda Chi Alpha was built in 2011 by HRK Real Estate. It’s one of the largest on campus, with enough space to fit 64 people. But with about 20 fraternity brothers living in the house, the chapter was not able to sustain the house, said Tony Bertino, president of Lambda Chi Alpha and a junior advertising and public relations major.

Now the fraternity is looking for alternative ways to live in close proximity with each other off-campus, he said.

“We plan on being a functioning off-campus chapter,” said Bertino, a junior in advertising and public relations.

“We’re looking at houses that we can live in close to each oth-

er. We’re trying to look at all our options.”

Lambda Chi Alpha will be joining the ranks of the other houseless fraternities, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Chi, Pi Kappa Alpha and Beta Sigma Psi. “We have a number of nonhoused fraternities that are very successful,” said Linda Schwartzkopf, the director of Greek Affairs. “They feel their experience is just as rich as those who are living in Greek houses on campus.”

The fraternity will make the transition as smoothly as possible, Bertino said.

“It’s obviously going to be a big change, a challenge to make the transition, but we’re excited to explore advantages without the house,” Bertino said.

Not having the burden of trying to fill a house with members is one advantage, Schwartzkopf said.

“They’ll be able to approach recruitment differently,” Schwartzkopf said. “I think part of it is recognizing the target market for possible members won’t be interested in living in a house. A lot of students want to live in living communities or, if they’re from Lincoln, in their

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Jacht Ad Lab takes on ASUN rebranding job REECE RISTAU DN Eric Reznicek thinks students don’t know what the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student government does.

To combat the lack of awareness, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska turned to UNL’s Jacht Ad Lab to rebrand ASUN’s image and focus. Jacht is a student-led advertising group that has also worked with the University Health Center and University Libraries.

About 85 percent of the student body knows what ASUN is, according to a survey by Jacht, but Reznicek said he thinks many students only know the big picture actions.

Reznicek, ASUN president and a senior finance and market-

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ing major, said the rebranding ef“In general, ASUN needed a fort is to help students understand new image for the student body,” how student government can help Maloley said. “Students don’t althem. ways take (ASUN) seriously. They “We kept dealing with this needed to change the approach on whole need for rehow they appeal focusing how we to students.”

(ASUN) communicate with ASUN’s logo students,” he said. is a red square needed “We figured some with the ASUN of it had to do with to change the acronym on it and the perception of spelled out below. approach on how ASUN – that comes Reznicek said it back completely they appeal to isn’t very attracto marketing and tive and is difficult students.” brand image.” to implement to Jacht account posters.

Kaylan MAloley manager Kaylan Along with jacht account manager Maloley, a junior shaping the overmarketing major, all student govand other members will recreate ernment’s image, Reznicek said ASUN’s logo, mission statement, the group will do the same with color scheme and social media accounts. rebranding: see page 3

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ON CAMPUS what: Leadership Luncheon: Feminist Pioneers when: 11:30 a.m. where: Nebraska Union, room posted

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Senior accounting major Nicholas Troxel pitches his business idea to judges at the Entrepreneuring Days competition for $50,000 at Embassy Suites on Tuesday morning. Troxel’s business was Summit Nutrition, a company that would produce the first cannabis-infused protein bars to alleviate soreness after workouts.

what: Safe Spring Break Event when: 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union

what: Sci Pop! Making ‘Inception’ Real when: 7 p.m. where: Love Library South, Mezzanine Study Room 201

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Commander says women’s military legacy is just starting Mara Klecker DN

what: Moran Woodwind Quintet when: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall more information: Tickets are $5 for general admission, $3 for students/seniors

IN LINCOLN what: Ghosts of Guyana when: 9 p.m. to midnight where: Knickerbockers, 901 O St.

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Davina and the Vagabonds when: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. cost: $10

lambda: from 1 homes. There’s a number of students that find not having a living unit appealing.”

The fraternity can continue making a positive impact on campus, Schwartzkopf said.

“Lambda Chi Alpha has the ability to be successful, but it will require some effort to make the transition,” she said. “Can it be done? Absolutely.”

To the members of the Alpha Delta Pi chapter who will be moving into the house after about 20 years of living in offcampus units, the Lambda Chi Alpha members wish them the best, Bertino said.

“I would personally like to say I wish them the best of luck,” he said. “It’s a big move for them to be able to move back to be closer to other Greek houses on campus. They’ve been given a great opportunity.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

A snowstorm prevented a retired United States Air Force brigadier general from speaking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Tuesday.

About 40 people – many in uniform – showed up to the Nebraska Union Auditorium to hear Wilma L. Vaught speak of women’s contributions to the U.S. military. But with Vaught’s flight canceled, Anita Curington, J3 Domestic Operations Officer at the Nebraska National Guard and 92nd Troop Commander, spoke in the retired general’s place.

The event, “Honoring Women’s Service in the Military,” was part of UNL’s 2014 Women’s Week, “Women of Character, Courage and Commitment,” and Vaught was scheduled to be the keynote speaker.

Vaught served in the United States Air Force for more than 28 years, retiring in 1985 after serving as one of the only women in a non-nursing position in Vietnam. In 1980, when she was promoted to brigadier general, she was one of just a handful of women who had ever achieved the distinction.

She was also elected president of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.

After a brief overview of the history of women in the military put together by the cadets of the ROTC programs at UNL, Curington told stories that demonstrated women’s changed role in the military.

From serving as nurses and cooks in the Revolutionary War to fighting in combat in the Middle East today, women have proven their commitment to their country, Curington said.

“From the beginning, the role of women in the armed forces has been limited, but that did not stop a few valiant ladies from leaving their mark,” Curington said.

Ladies such as Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man in the Revolutionary War and cut out musket balls in her thigh with her own knife to avoid surgery and certain discovery by Army doctors. Her gender was discovered after her third injury, and she was discharged.

Or Clara Barton, who was a pioneer nurse in the Civil War and founded the American Red Cross.

“I am honored to have had these women of character, courage and commitment as the giants upon whom I can stand as I pursued my military career, which afforded me the opportunity to command,” Curington said.

Curington said more recent names as well, her voice cracking.

“We’ve also lost sisters along the way,” she said.

She blinked away tears as she named the two Nebraska National Guard women – Linda Ann TarangoGriess and Tricia Jameson – killed in 2004 and 2005 respectively. TarangoGriess was 33 and Jameson was 34.

In 2013, military leaders lifted the ban on women in on-the-ground combat roles. It comes after many other important authorizations. Women were allowed to enlist in the all-volunteer army when the draft ended in 1973, were first admitted into service academies in 1976, were first allowed to

WOMEN’S ROLES IN U.S MILITARY: 1775: Women served as laundresses, cooks and nurses in revolutionary war 1782: Deborah Sampson serves in Washington’s army disguised as a man 1973: Women allowed to enlist in all-volunteer army after draft ended, ROTC programs allow female cadets 1976: Women first admitted into service academies 1978: Women allowed to serve on non-combat naval and marine ships 1991: Women allowed to fly in combat missions 1993: Women allowed to serve on combat ships 2000: Capt. Kathleen McGrath becomes first woman to command a navy ship 2004: Col. Linda McTague becomes first woman commander of an air force fighter squadron 2013: U.S. military leaders lift ban on women in on-theground combat roles serve on non-combat naval and marine ships in 1978 and were allowed to fly in combat missions in 1991 and serve on combat ships in 1993.

Curington looks forward to more opportunity for females.

“As I approach the end of my career, I cannot wait to see how your generation takes the U.S. military to the next level,” she said. “With all of the positions in the military open to women, I look forward to watching them chart their own paths.”

Curington was talking to the 10 female veterans in the room and the six female ROTC cadets when she said a legacy isn’t measured by service but by the paths you blaze.

Navy ROTC Cadet Laine Phillips,

a sophomore Russian major, wants to be one of those trailblazers. She knows it will be easier for her because of the women who came before her. Phillips said it’s important to remember how recent some of the progress is. ROTC programs didn’t allow female cadets until 1973.

“I’m just really proud to be a part of the military today, look back and see how far we’ve come,” Phillips said.

Phillips hopes to join the Navy, though she isn’t sure if she will make it a career yet.

“I really just want to be an example like these women in history,” she said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department will soon begin sending out UNL alerts to students, faculty and staff before testing its alarm system this semester.

The news was announced during the Chancellor’s University Safety Committee (CUSC) meeting on Tuesday, when a faculty member raised concern about the testing of severe weather announcements on city campus.

According to David Giraud, a research technologist from the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, the severe weather alarms often interrupt the end of class, causing professors to dismiss class early. The alarms for severe weather warnings are scheduled to go off on the first Wednesday of every month at about 10:15 a.m.

The timing of the testing is coordinated with Lancaster County’s siren system, according to Mark Robertson, the emergency preparedness coordinator at the UNLPD. This means alarms on campus are scheduled to go off at the same time as those of the Lancaster County siren system.

“The reason it happens at that odd time is they wait until the signal from Lancaster County to do that,” Robertson said.

Robertson said UNL is in the process of becoming classified as a storm-ready campus, and the tests are necessary for the university to conduct. The alarms aren’t tested on days when there is a chance of severe thunderstorms.

“If it happens on a stormy day at that time, you can pretty much count on it being the real thing,” Robertson said.

The committee also discussed representing CUSC at the coming student-led Emergency Preparedness event. The Emergency Preparedness event is on April 10 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, the UNLPD, the Red

Cross and the Lancaster County Emergency Management have also been invited to participate in the event. CUSC plans to be present and will set up a booth.

The committee also stressed UNL employees retaking their Injury and Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP) core training. The IIPP is the general policy in place at UNL to ensure campus safety, said Brenda Osthus, the director of Environmental Health and Safety. UNL employees are required to take the training once, but exactly how many times an employee needs to complete the IIPP core training is up to each department, unless there’s a major revision to the policy, Osthus said.

“I do encourage taking it more than just once, especially for longterm employees,” Osthus said. “I think that’s certainly a good idea.

But as an institution, we haven’t mandated that.”

After establishing the 2014-15 meeting dates for the CUSC, the committee nominated Kyle Hansen, the Campus Recreation Center representative, for vice chair of CUSC. The election will be in July.

Lastly, CUSC discussed the Campus Safety Walk, which will be April 24 and will start at the 17th and R parking garage. During the walk, people determine areas on campus they feel are potentially dangerous areas, such as a poorly lit area that may need additional lighting. Students are welcome to join. Participants need to register for the event and can contact UNL Police Sgt. Jeff Holen at jholen2@unl.edu to register.

CUSC offers an open forum during its meetings twice a year to give faculty, staff or students an opportunity to sit in on a CUSC meeting and bring any safety questions or concerns before the committee. The next CUSC open forum will be Sept. 15 at the Nebraska Union. The committee strongly encourages any UNL staff and students to come and voice any potential safety concerns. news@ dailynebraskan.com

RHA talks year-end events, sustainability Gabrielle Lazaro dn Environmental sustainability and end-of-school-year events were discussed in abundance at the Residence Hall Association meeting on Tuesday.

The allocation of funds to Senate Bill 33: Earthstock 2014 and Senate Bill 34: Carbon Footprint Event were both approved.

Earthstock 2014 is a monthlong event in April consisting of learning, growing, educating, engaging and empowering students for environmental sustainability.

“It’s really more of a movement than an event,” said Reed Brodersen, ASUN environmental sustainability committee chair and junior environmental studies major. “In the past we’ve done a lot of education, but education only goes so far. We want to make it more of social norm – something cool, something that everyone just does.”

The $750 from RHA will go toward on-campus events on the greenspace, such as an event offering volunteer opportunities and internships related to sustainability in the community and a block party on April 22.

There will also be an event where various state departments speak about sustainability and the environment in general, Brodersen said.

RHA events committee chair and sophomore biology major Ethan Schwarten motioned to allocate $750 from the contingency budget line, which passed.

The Carbon Footprint event will serve as a kickoff event for Earthstock 2014. It will be from April 2 to April 3.

The $500 from RHA will go toward booths, activities for students, renting equipment or a building and pledges.

Two end-of-school-year events were also discussed: 2014 UNL Spring Concert and the End of Year Bash.

The 2014 UNL Spring Concert, an annual event hosted by the University Programming

Council, will feature Big Sean on April 9.

In passing this bill, RHA became a co-sponsor with UPC and will offer services for printing table tents to advertise in the dining halls.

University Housing will print the table tents for free, said RHA primary adviser Melissa Peters.

The End of Year Bash will be held May 4. This yearly event had more than 3,000 students attend last year and typically features carnival rides, exotic animals, a magician, airbrush tattoo artist and a DJ, said Lewis Culliver, a member of the executive board for Campus Nightlife and a senior interior design major.

RHA allocated $5,000 to this event – $2,500 from the contingency budget line and $2,500 from RSO budget line.

Two other bills were also passed Senate Bill 32: The allocation of funds to Relay for Life and Senate Bill 37: By-law changes approval of election nomination procedures.

RHA will allocate $500 toward Relay for Life, an annual fundraiser held at UNL with free food and various activities.

All proceeds go toward the American Cancer Society for cancer research and treatment.

SB 37 was a three-part bill altering RHA elections, as outlined

by RHA president and a junior advertising and public relations major Matthew Knapp.

“The reason we’re doing this tonight is because if no one submits an intent-to-run form, then there is no procedure as to what happens next,” he said.

Now, if no form is submitted, the election date will be pushed back one week, two if it lands on a university holiday. The RHA Senate will move to nominate candidates for the general ballot.

If no candidate is chosen, then the RHA president will nominate candidates.

RHA’s next meeting will be April 1. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Conditioning room to close during spring break Nam Tran DN

chines should visit the Fleming Fields Annex Building on East Campus.

All of the strength equipment, along with a portion of the cardio equipment, will be relocated to Court No. 1, which will be open for exercise and workouts starting Tuesday.

The court will be the temporary home for the equipment while the conditioning room is being renovated and expanded. Renovations will start in early April and end in early August. The remaining cardio equipment from the room will be placed in the Super Circuit’s current space.

“On Court No. 1, which is the first basketball court when you go up past the Treadmill Loft, anything that you’re used to having will still be accessible,” said Katie Wilder, strength training and conditioning coordinator at the Rec Center. “It’s just going to be in a different space temporarily.”

Dulak said that most importantly, staff is asking students and members just to be patient.

“There is going to be some discomfort as we go through it by being closed for four days so that we can move the equipment,” Dulak said. “It just can’t happen overnight in order for us to get it from one floor to the next with the number of pieces that we’re working with. But from their patience, they’re going to be rewarded exponentially.”

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fortable in there. So we’re really excited about that.”

Approved by UNL students in October 2010, the expansion is part The Campus Recreation Center is of the YES 2 Better Rec Centers referclosing its Strength Training and Conditioning Room during spring endum. The referendum included the new Outdoor Adventures Center that break to prepare for renovations.

Beginning on Friday, the room, will open in late spring and the new along with the Super Circuit, will East Campus Rec Center that will open in spring 2015. close for a four-day period so equip“The overall goal of the referment can be moved to a basketball court. Renovations won’t be finished endum was more cardiovascular and strength training equipment for until early August. students and to im“This is perfect prove the faculties timing for us in that It’s perfect so that more people there will be a low stutimeing for us can do what they dent population (durwanted to do which ing the holiday) on because there will is exercise using campus and less foot those equipment,” traffic throughout the be a low student Dulak said. building,” said Chris- population.”

Dulak said with topher Dulak, assistant director for mark- Christopher Dulak the Rec Center averaging about 3,000 assistant director for ing and development marketing and development at people a day, it at the Rec Center. the rec center would be difficult The Strength to do renovations Training and Condiduring school, espetion Room expansion cially when 80 percent of those peowill include a 2,250-square-foot area, which will double the free weights ple are usually going to the strength zone. Along with new weight ma- training or cardiovascular areas.

While the Strength Training and chines, ellipticals, treadmills and Conditioning Room will be closed, bikes, there will be a new air system the rest of the Rec Center will still be and flooring.

“The airflow in that space is go- open. This includes the Cardio Zone, ing to improve exponentially,” Wild- Treadmill Loft, pool, indoor track, er said. “Because if you come in in the Cook Pavilion and sport courts. Any students and members who wish evening, especially when the weather gets warmer, it gets a little uncom- to use free weights and weight ma-

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Renovations to the Campus Recreation Center will begin next month and be finished in August. The Strength Training and Conditioning Room will be closed next week while its machines are moved.

forum: from 1 research roundup new research questions fat, heart disease link

Saturated fats may not cause heart attacks, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal. The results of almost 80 studies involving more than a half million people worldwide found those who consumed less saturated fat were not any heart-healthier than other subjects. The results suggest the relationship between saturated fats and bad cholesterol – a factor in heart attacks – is more complex and less direct that previously thought.

The study also found people who include pmega-3 fatty acids in their diets are at no less of a risk for heart disease, contrary to popular belief.

Federal government OKs study using marijuana to treat veterans’ PTSD

The Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to allow a long-delayed study to look at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The University of Arizona submitted the research proposal, which was first cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but the researchers were unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, an organization that supports medical research and legalization of marijuana, said this is the first time in more than 22 years that the National Institute on Drug Abuse has approved the purchase of marijuana.

The study will look at the effects of five potencies of smoked or vaporized marijuana to treat PTSD symptoms in 50 veterans.

It is estimated that between 11 and 20 percent of soldiers returning from recent wars have PTSD, and an estimated 7.7 million Americans have the disorder.

More than 1 million Americans currently take medical marijuana.

Report says homework loads changed little in 30 years

Homework loads haven’t changed much in the last 30 years, according to a report in the Brown Center Report on American Education.

The percentage of 17-year-olds who said they had one to two hours of homework on a typical night dropped from 27 percent in 1984 to 23 percent in 2012. The percentage of students who spent more than two hours a night studying remained at 13 percent.

The percentage of the 17-year-olds who said they didn’t have homework went from 35 percent in 1984 to 22 percent in 2012. Both surveys showed 11 percent of students had homework but didn’t do it.

The only significant increase in homework, the study found, was for 9-year-olds.

The percentage of 9-year-olds with no homework dropped from 35 percent in 1984 to 22 percent in 2012.

Though parents complain that their children have too much homework, the researchers said the findings suggest only a select few – specifically students hoping to get admitted to an elite university – have an overload.

UK researchers find 5-second rule works

The five-second rule might actually work, according to a study by researchers at Aston University in the U.K. The thought process is this: If you drop food on the floor, you have a grace period of five seconds. If you pick it up within those seconds, it’s safe to eat.

Researchers tested a variety of foods – toast, pasta, cookies and sticky candy – on a variety of flooring including carpet, laminate and tile. They found that the longer the food stayed on the floor and the wetter the food was, the more bacteria it accumulated. Carpeting was the least likely to transfer bacteria.

The study also found that of the people polled, 87 percent said they eat food they drop, 81 percent of which follow the five-second rule.

The researchers still caution against eating dropped food and emphasize the risk for infection.

scores, but with the decline of the middle class, students need to be more creative, Zhao said.

Two centuries ago, the majority of middle class Americans were farmers, but the industrial age changed the world’s job market. The industrial age created a rise in the middle class for production jobs. For example, people worked at factories such as the Ford Motor Co. The rise in technology has lost a lot of the jobs that people could once do. Ford now has machines working jobs that people use to work.

“Computer chips are replacing cognitive abilities,” Zhao said.

The jobs that once belonged to the middle class are not available for this generation, which is why students need to be creative, Zhao said.

Kristin Hamata, a sophomore education major, said she got to see Zhao speak in an education class and he reiterated the importance of diversity in the classroom and the importance of studying abroad.

“Creativity is the key in the

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An American Sign Language translator signs simultaneously during Yong Zhao’s lecture about education reform in America.

The lecture was given in the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7 p.m. Tuesday night. education system,” Hamata said.

Christalin Mason, a junior music education major, said understanding how the decline in the middle class is affecting creativity is something she didn’t

think about before.

“I would never want to deplete the creativity of my students,” Mason said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

rebranding: from 1 each of ASUN’s committees, such as the Sustainability Committee and the Diversity Strategic Development Committee. Giving the committees a similar look and color will group them as one collective group, he said.

ASUN approached Jacht in October to begin work on rebranding, which Reznicek said likely will be unveiled just before the start of the 2014 fall semester.

Since then, Jacht has conducted surveys and created student focus groups to grasp what students need and what will most attract them.

ASUN paid Jacht $1,000 of its advertising budget for the project, Reznicek said.

The advertising group will create the artwork for ASUN’s Facebook and Twitter pages and give the Communications Committee tips on when and how to use social media, but Jacht will not run the accounts.

Reznicek said one of ASUN’s problems has been its general image. He said each consecutive student government body pushes its own message, but ASUN wants Jacht to develop an “elevator message,” he said – a 30-second speech to define all of ASUN. The last time ASUN rebranded was six years ago, but Reznicek said the hype surrounding the change fizzled out after about a year.

courtesy photo The newly elected ASUN executives will be in office by the time the rebranding is applied.

Kevin Knudson, ASUN presidentelect and a junior political science major, said his involvement so far has been minimal.

“We haven’t had much to do so far with the rebranding, but we’re looking forward to working with Reznicek and (External Vice President) Jeff (Story) and the outgoing administration, as well as

Jacht Club,” Knudson said.

When asked, senior finance and management major Josh Kenney could identify what ASUN is, what the acronym stands for and that it runs the 475-RIDE program. He thinks the organization could use rebranding, though.

“With the apathy lately, rebranding probably would be good,” Kenney said.

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search: from 1 for Media of Nebraska, said during the hearing.

Proponents of the bill argued that having a secretive process would attract a larger pool of more qualified candidates.

“Now we’re going into this with one hand tied behind our back,” Daub said. “It’s sad the Legislature didn’t see fit to amending the bill.”

Daub noted that Milliken was chosen as the chancellor of CUNY

through a secret process.

“Do you think he would have tried for that position if it wasn’t kept secret?” Daub said. “He loves his job here – he wouldn’t have risked it.”

With the current statute, Daub said, some candidates will not seek out the NU job because of possible backlash.

“At this point in time, (the statute) accomplishes a chilling effect,”

he said. “Especially with the media.”

For now, Daub said the board doesn’t have specific plans to push forward with its side of the issue.

“It’s not a modern way of doing things,” he said. “We’ll let the matter lay for the present time and go on and find the best candidate possible.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Rebranding of ASUN holds great potential with full support Reaching students has long been an issue for the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska.

ASUN is attempting to change that by reaching out to Jacht Ad Lab for a rebranding that will include a new logo, mission statement, color scheme and social media accounts. The rebrand is a good move, although it’s only the first step of a turnaround for the underexposed organization.

Most students know what ASUN is, according to a Jacht survey, but ASUN President Eric Reznicek said he doesn’t think they understand its responsibilities and capabilities. And if students don’t know what the people representing them are doing, they’re definitely not going to care about it.

This year’s ASUN executives came into office with a goal to increase the organization’s student reach. On the surface, it appears they didn’t accomplish their goal, judging by the absence of competition in this month’s elections, the 12.8 percent voter turnout and the low attendance at events such as the 2014 ASUN Open Forum. But it’s now clear that ASUN has been working hard behind the scenes to prepare for changes next year.

The rebranding is important – and we’re sure Jacht will do a great job, as it has for other student organizations – but even more crucial is its execution. Next year’s executives had better be prepared to make social media and student connection a top priority. If they don’t, the most brilliantly designed campaign could still fall flat.

Reaching out to students on social media, meeting with students to see what they want from their student government, developing a cohesive image and mission statement – they’re all wise goals for any organization. The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board is pleased that ASUN is making a concrete effort to be more involved on campus. After all, more student involvement and feedback will make ASUN a more proactive part of campus, which would be good news for everyone. We wish ASUN luck.

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Vaccination preserves greater good

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octors fear me. Nurses scream when I come into the hospital.

I’m the monster medical students hear about at lecture, and why?

I’m the patient with a fear of needles. And because of my kind, measles are back with a vengeance.

It was announced recently that measles, an illness that JAMA Pediatrics reported was eliminated in the United States in 2000, has been popping up in the nation’s biggest cities.

According to CBS News, 16 cases of it have recently been reported in New York, resulting in four hospitalizations.

Of the people affected, nine of them are children. Other cities, such as Boston, San Diego and Dallas are also experiencing outbreaks of the ailment, and it’s only picking up steam.

As opposed to the typical 60 cases reported each year in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that number spiked to 175. Because measles are highly contagious and potentially deadly, it’s recommended that people receive vaccinations once they are 12 months old. And for a while, this procedure was what was able to keep tabs on the illness.

However, there’s another even deadlier epidemic that’s been hindering its effectiveness, and it’s called fear.

According to a study conducted in 2013 by

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the CDC, 82 percent of people who had gotten measles hadn’t been vaccinated, most of whom were ideologically against vaccination.

For some, it has to do with religious beliefs. It’s morally wrong to mix the blood of man with the blood of an animal, or it’s against God’s will because you’re not keeping the body holy and free of impurities.

Whereas for others, they believe natural forms of keeping you and your child healthy are more effective than vaccines, which might be a link to something such as autism (which has been disproven by the CDC).

A certain degree of fear is warranted. A good friend of mine in high school got the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. You’ll remember the almost zealous chants of the commercials, with countless women gracing the scene and shouting to the heavens how they were going to be “one less.” That’s what she wanted to be,

But it’s never OK to let fear be what prevents you from potentially saving you from potentially saving your child’s life.”

Need for Women’s Week signals real inequalities

s the Daily Nebraskan has already reported, it’s Women’s Week at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Throughout the past week, there have been diverse events to honor women and stimulate dialogue. Brigadier General Wilma Vaught spoke Tuesday night about her experiences as one of the first women to shatter the glass ceiling in the military. The event included four other women who had served in the military. Wednesday night, the University Program Council and the UNL Women’s Center will present “Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered,” a panel conversation on how feminism has evolved, on and off the Internet.

It’s great that we have Women’s Week. It’s not great that our society sucks so much that we need it.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Women’s Week is outstanding, necessary and supportive of women and should continue to do so once our society achieves equality. However, the very fact that we have a designated week to recognize women’s achievements proves our society is still unequal.

I should acknowledge that I’m a privileged white male and anything I say in regard to promoting equality must be scrutinized. Please indulge my attempt to build some credibility.

My mother helped inspire me to advocate for the feminist movement. As a young single mom, save for a few months when I was a baby, she raised me while earning her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at UNL. I have a difficult enough time completing my bachelor’s, and here she is, being a boss, getting her Ph.D while tolerating a petulant child. She taught me right, educating me on many social justice issues.

Some people may think feminism has accomplished its goals. I vehemently disagree with that statement but I understand one of its implicit points.

Ideally we would no longer have institutional and social inequalities that adversely affect women. In many ways women are no longer inhibited by the same patriarchal oppression that they once were. Instead it’s been replaced with a more subtle subversive mechanism of oppression easily disguised as equality.

Title IX was an attempt to mandate equal access to educational programs and activities that received federal funding. This led to more women competing in college athletics to the point where the numbers of men and women became roughly equal. However,

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the press and the public tend to support men’s sports more than women’s. It’s not only the large challenges women face that contribute to this culture of inequality but seemingly small things like sports fandom.

Technical equality doesn’t equate to true equality. The law can only do so much; culture needs to change.

There are ways for UNL students to get involved.

The Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women (CCSW) is one way. Students, staff and faculty representatives serve on their respective councils to advocate women’s environment on campus and advise Chancellor Harvey Perlman. The Women’s Center offers resources and programs for people of all genders.

PREVENT, a Registered Student Organization, aims to prevent and end relationship violence through peer education. Other RSOs exist like the Society of Women Engineers and Engineers Without Borders, which won the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Status of Women.

Every underrepresented population need not fight their battles by themselves. To achieve true equality, the fight requires participation from everybody. White men such as me may not be the spearhead, but we can be part of the spear that pierces through injustice and inequality. And I’m sorry my male bros, but if you’re not part of the solution, you just might be part of the problem. There may exist artificial constructs that discourage non-marginalized persons to participate in social justice issues, but if you act in good faith, you can be an ally. Until we collectively eradicate inequality, people of every gender should celebrate Women’s Week with zeal.

Oliver Tonkin is a senior political science, global studies and Latin American studies major. Follow him on Twitter @ thebrutalwolf. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

but she ended up being one more person who reacted negatively to it. She was in and out of the hospital throughout high school before she was admitted to a hospital in California to be closer to her family and also to undergo tests. She’s doing extremely well now, but it’s a memory that a trip to the doctor ’s office can’t get rid of.

The situation my friend went through isn’t the norm. The measles vaccine has been around for 50 years and has prevented an estimated 10 million deaths, which ends up being about one-fifth of all the deaths prevented by modern medicine. The HPV vaccine has been around since 1993 and could use some developing.

Still, that doesn’t help with my phobia of shots. As soon as the doctor takes out that little alcohol swab, my heart begins to reenact the scene from Indiana Jones. You know the scene: where the guy is holding the other dude’s heart. It’s not a very pleasant experience.

Nonetheless, I’m still in favor of getting vaccinated. I would rather have my face go white as a ghost rather than allow myself to succumb to illness and die.

It’s OK to be cautious about what you’re putting you and your children through. It’s OK to be afraid of getting sharp things stuck in your arms. But it’s never OK to let fear be what prevents you from potentially saving your child’s life.

Emily Kuklinski is a sophomore English and theatre major. Follow her on Twitter @TheFunnyEmily. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Don’t blame models for body image expectations

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n Feb. 25, Jamie Perry published a blog post on her website, Imperfect Yoga Life, titled “Dear VS Swimsuit Catalogue: Eff You.” The title should catch all women’s eyes right away because of Victoria’s Secret. A lot of us probably shop there. And to see that someone is saying “eff you” makes us even more interested.

This article argues that Victoria’s Secret may not focus on all body types for women. “I’m hating on how you and the industry is telling a huge lie to women across the world: skinny is the only beautiful that exists,” said Perry to Victoria’s Secret.

Yet, I disagree. Not just the swimsuit catalog but Victoria’s Secret overall focuses on having a size in every piece of clothing for all body types.

Victoria’s Secret strives to show people there’s a size for everybody.

The first time I went to Victoria’s Secret, I was asked if I needed to be sized and what I was looking for. The workers were really helpful in finding something that would fit. When I was in the dressing room, they were interested in how things felt and if they weren’t OK. They helped me find something that was better. They even acknowledge budgets for their customers. The Victoria’s Secret website also helps all body types find the perfect clothes to fit comfortably and look amazing on you. It offers various sizes and styles. It also explains the way each type of bra fits a woman.

The swimsuit catalog didn’t only have bikinis made for people without an “hourglass figure, full breasts or hips,” as Perry said. The tops included crop tops, halters, bandeaus, bralettes and triangle tops. The bottoms ranged from low-cut to high rise.

They not only had itsy bitsy bikinis that had half of the booty showing and padded tops that pushed boobs two sizes bigger, but also one pieces and tankinis that covered everything from top to bottom.

Most women in catalogs, modeling barely any clothing, only appear skinny. Unlike what Perry said, some of these women do have “full breasts and hips that you look at and just know God had big plans for them.” These women strive to become

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models. They work out and diet to be the size they want. They wear makeup and cover up things to not show the public, just like we do. They aren’t perfect either.

According to Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross, more than 80 percent of women aren’t satisfied with the way they look. This isn’t only focused on women who believe they’re overweight but also women who believe they are underweight. We all cry for the same reason. We all look at the swimsuit models and tell ourselves we’re never going to look like that. But in all honesty, we won’t.

The models don’t even look like that.

Don’t do what Perry did and complain about how swimsuits are only made for people who don’t have any fat or don’t have any curves. I don’t have either of those things, and I still have trouble finding a swimsuit. And don’t blame your troubles on Victoria’s Secret. The company fights for you to look your best in a swimsuit that fits comfortably with all of the varieties they offer.

Perry’s encourages her readers to “love yourself and who you are.” I agree with that sentiment.

Don’t let catalogs with women modeling lingerie and swimsuits make you feel inferior. The models do look good, but so will you. So keep eating those Girl Scout cookies and stop reading articles that say you need to lose weight or what’s hot or not.

Jennifer Rooney is a Freshman Journalism Major. Follow her on twitter at @jooney_13. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

We all look at the swimsuit models and tell ourselves we’re never going to look like that. But in all honesty, we won’t.”

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Touring slam poet says ‘yes’ to UNL visit Buddy Wakefield to bring old, new mashups of his work to entertain students on Wednesday amanda Stoffel Dn

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The NGO Nakatani Gong Orchestra entices a crowd at the Sheldon Museum of Art. The NGO is the only bowing-based gong orchestra in the world.

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The NGO Nakatani Gong Orchestra is a touring project, where conductor Tatsuya Nakatani teaches local participants made up of five musicians and five non-musicians.

if you go: what: Buddy Wakefield Slam Poetry when: Wednesday at 7 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Auditorium cost: Free

he said. “There are a lot of loAfter traveling continuously gistics, and this is my first time since early March and with with a tour manager. When I see many more miles to go, the only a new ‘to-do’, my heart rolls its way Buddy Wakefield, in true eyes. But I’ve been realizing it’s much more fun to communicate poetic fashion, can describe his when I just say ‘yes’.” current mental and physical Saying yes is what brought state is as “riled up and wasted Wakefield to UNL to perform. on light.”

Matt Mason, whom WakeWakefield, known for his field has known for more than a slam poetry, is a three-time decade, is the executive director world champion in his profesof the Nebraska sion. But he deWriters Collecscribes what he I’m being tive, a non-profdoes in a simpler it that sponsors way. myself for a Louder Than “I’m being A Bomb. LTAB living.” myself for a livwas brought ing,” he said.

Buddy wakefield to Nebraska in In collaboslam poet 2011 and works ration with the to allow high Nebraska Writschool students ers Collective, Wakefield will perform Wednes- to compete in poetry slam bouts. day evening at 7 p.m. in the Ne- Mason described it as a month long festival, with the first four braska Union Auditorium. teams competing at the first conWakefield became a writer test on Wednesday. and performance artist in 1998.

“Most of the bouts are in In 2001, he decided to live in his Omaha, but we like to do a Honda Civic for two years and four months, touring all across feature bout with the previous North America. His current tour year ’s winner, which was Lincoln High,” Mason said. “We will be taking him on that jourwanted to do something special ney once more, with some extra for this one, and Buddy had constops along the way including: tacted me saying he was comAustralia, Africa, Europe, Canaing through the area. So we set da, the U.K. and Iceland.

With this being his first tour it up.”

Mason is anticipating a largin a few years, Wakefield has allowed it to teach him more er turn out than usual because of Wakefield. But he said the numabout himself.

“I’ve been learning a lot about patience and kindness,” slam poet: see page 6

Feministing bloggers to speak on women’s issues Blog editors to partake in panel discussion about modern world feminism Grace Solem-Pfeifer DN As part of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Women’s Week, a panel discussion on Wednesday will feature two editors from the blog Feministing who will discuss the modern women’s movement and its role on college campuses.

Hosted jointly by University Program Council and the Women’s Center, the event “Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered” will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Regency Suite of the Nebraska Union. The featured panelists Katie Halper and Zerlina Maxwell are both contributors to the

Feministing blog, which is an online community of feminists that encourages activism and dialogue about modern women’s issues.

“The event really speaks especially to young feminists today,” said Tayler Lord, the event chair and liaison for UPC and the Women’s Center. “There are a lot of sentiments that feminism isn’t necessary anymore, and it’s dead. It’s important to keep feminism current and relevant.”

In addition to contributing to Feministing, Katie Halper is a New York-based comic, writer and filmmaker. She has written extensively about rape culture and women’s issues in politics. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Huffington Post, Jezebel and the LA Times.

Zerlina Maxwell is a political analyst and contributor for the New York Daily News. She writes about issues ranging from feminism to pop culture, to the intersection of racial and gender issues.

Maxwell and Halper will be joined by Ruth Boettner, a senior

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Katie Halper, an editor at Feministing blog, comic, writer and filmmaker, will be one of three panelists at the “Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered” discussion Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Union. global studies and French major, who’ll also serve on the panel to provide a student perspective.

Boettner is also the opinion editor for the Daily Nebraskan. Each panelist will give a 20-minute presenta-

tion regarding personal experience with feminism, followed by a question and answer portion moderated

by Women’s Center programming assistant Jamie Porter.

“Sometimes ‘feminist’ seems like a scary word to people,” said Porter, a senior Spanish and psychology major. “This is a really great event for people who don’t identify as feminists in order to understand (the movement) more concretely and put more humanity to the label of feminism. Labels can be nebulous but here are three women up there saying who they are and what they believe in.”

The discussion will debate topics such as effects of the recession on women, abortion access and how feminism must address the needs of racial minorities and LGBT individuals.

One major theme of the discussion is the role of social media and the Internet in reforming feminist organization and discussion. While blogs and social media have provided online communities with a space for discussion, it has afforded femi-

if you go: what: Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered when: Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Regency Suite cost: Free

nism’s opponents the same ease of access. It’s a lesson the two bloggers are well versed in; last year when Maxwell appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News to advocate anti-rape education for men, she received numerous death threats and personal attacks on the Internet.

“Blogs and social media are how many college students keep up with current events.” Porter said. “For blog sites like Feministing, that format also affects how students get to

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Pop culture music Sci Pop Talks! explores ‘Inception’ fans lack passion of classic rock bands Joe Wade

There’s an annoying gnat in hipsterdom that flies in the ear of culture and speaks of the evils of noble rock stars.

Through buzzes and chirps, it says that being cool is no longer cool; real rock stardom is a joke and always has been because they are all just pumped up egos, right? The question lingers like a festering itch because the gnat, itself, is unsure of what to make of such a bold statement.

But who other than a rock star is going to eat peyote with Bryan Cranston, hallucinate the death of romance and lie in comatose consciousness with the ghost of Walter White.

It seems the western world is scared of passion unless it can be approved by commodification and shrugged off as a fashion choice

while waiting for its next flappy fix.

Every industry is hungry to know what I “like,” so they can invade my vision with things they think I want to buy or shackle me to a social movement with a brightly colored bracelet.

I, for one, am not passionate about bracelets. If there was a nude model walking around downtown, wearing only symbolic bracelets, then that might be artistic enough to inspire me. Otherwise, I just see a lot of empty symbolic gestures, which are nothing more than a passing trend.

The problem is that this attitude has bled into the music scene.

Yes, the ability to be a professional musician, have your music heard by millions of people and support yourself by doing what you love is cool, but what is it that we‘re really hungry for? Perhaps the better question is: will future generations think of pop hits such as Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” or Psy’s “Gangnam Style” the same way they think of Beethoven or Bach?

It could be suggested that classical composers are remembered

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If you Go:

In its 4th session, pop culture seminar to explore idea of inception in biological sciences

what: Sci Pop Talks!

Making “Inception” Real when: Wednesday, at 7 p.m. where: Love Library Room 201 cost: Free

Cassie Kernick DN In the film “Inception,” Leonardo DiCaprio’s character poses a telling question.

“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?”

He answers, “An idea. Resilient, highly contagious - once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate.”

The line compels while informing viewers about the film’s subject matter, but does it also have some underlying truth?

It’s questions such as these that the ongoing Sci Pop Talks! hope to encourage, and Dr. Ramesh Laungani will speak specifically on the idea of inception Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Mezzanine Study Room of Love Library.

The variety of topics addressed in the Sci Pop discussions all strive

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Wednesday’s Sci Pop Talks! Making “Inception” Real presentation will focus on the concept of implanting ideas in a person’s mind and how the film’s fiction may be more plausible than it seems. to encourage students to look at science with a new perspective. Kiyomi Deards, an assistant professor at UNL, has managed all advertising and media aspects of the talks and has a passion for these events because she was a kid who always asked “why,” Deards said.

“Most scientists get into science because we want to know why things happen,” she said. “Making connections between science and

pop culture allows us to answer ‘why?’ using entertaining examples to illustrate difficult concepts.”

The fourth in a series of talks dedicated to science and pop culture, Making “Inception” Real, draws from ideas generated in the film “Inception.” Laungani, a Doane College biology professor, didn’t think of the topic immediately after seeing the film, but, when approached to do a lecture connect-

ing science to popular culture, the idea sprang up almost instantly.

The concept of implanting ideas into one’s brain may seem like fantasy, but Laungani said this happens regularly in other organisms.

“There’s this biological phenomenon where a fungus can cause insects to change their behavior in a really drastic manner that ultimately ends up killing the insect, but it’s good for the fungus,” Laungani said.

For example, when a Cordyceps fungus infects an ant, it completely takes over the ant’s brain, Laungani said. The ant, which would normally stay on the ground for safety, now climbs a tree to an extreme height. Once the ant has climbed far enough, a stalk sprouts out of the ant’s brain. While it kills

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wade: from 5 hind the songs, is a work of art worthy of the older breed of music fan.

One of the songs, “Huey Newton,” was about a hallucinated conversation she had with the deceased Black Panther Party founder, which was brought on by her prescribed sleeping pills (for jet lag) and not being able to sleep one night, according to an interview with NPR. That kind of song mythos is right up there with the legend of Paul McCartney being dead, as inferred from the clues on some of The Beatles’ albums, or satanic messages on Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” if you play the song backwards.

Where did all the fun go? Maybe we’ve become so busy and jaded that we can’t remember how to have fun on our own without the aid of commodified, downloadable content. That’s not cool, so why do we do it?

One of the problems might be the lack of crazy rock stars to look up to because all the really fun ones died from trying to live life a little too full. But, if someone isn’t out there trying to glimpse over the edge of all rational sanity by doing something, perhaps a little scary, then we’re all going to be stuck waiting for someone who will. Such as the buzzing of flies, it’s not something I really feel passionate about listening to.

We know you are all anxious for spring break, but before you flee the snowy shores of Nebraska for someplace with an ocean view, do Joe a favor and tell him he’s wrong by letting us know what you’re passionate about at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

so well because they are approved through academic study, and pop songs aren’t afforded the same recognition. However, The Beatles wrote pop songs, and I seriously doubt they will be forgotten any time soon.

Another example is heavy metal, which, in its purest form, lasted from the end of the hippies until grungy alternative rock slaughtered it with Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Sure the behemoth of metal will never truly die, but the glory days of having bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath have faded back into the mystical ether from whence they came. That era of music has a memorable vibration, which, when heard decades later by listeners too young to be a part of it, still has an iconic familiarity. And part of the appeal was the passion, or rather devotion, music fans had for the music they were listening to.

Just like those bracelets, heavy metal fans wore the symbolic attire to show their passion. The difference is that you know a metal head when you see one. You either run away from them for fear of getting your ass kicked, or you buy them a beer and swap stories about beating the crap out of anarchist punks who wore prescription lenses.

Now they were passionate fans.

I imagine if they saw me not wearing the proper yellow, pink or whatever color wristband, I’d have to spend at least a week in orthopedic traction.

I’m almost sad to think that fans of bands such as St. Vincent don’t have the same conviction to passionately engage with the world around them. Her recent album, if really listened to and devoured with Internet searches for the stories be-

inception: from 5 it’s just a matter of biology providing “all of the craziness” needed.

Once a general goal is set and a better understanding of how the brain works is achieved, Laungani said using the same basic processes that the fungal spores employ could result in advances in anything from treating Alzheimer’s to more intense forms of advertising.

While this is largely theory in its current state, he thinks it can be tested. This may seem largely conceptual rather than realistic but Laungani said this is the purpose of science.

“In fact, the point of science is really to generate new questions,” Laungani said. “Sci-fi is almost like an end point. It causes us to think if we want to make something real, let’s figure out how to get there and let’s ask all the right questions in order to get there. And that’s the importance of sci-fi movies in culture.

It shows a possibility.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

the ant, this serves as a means of reproduction for the fungus. From this stalk, spores will shoot out and the process continues.

Even as the example of the fungus and the ant may sound like something straight from a science fiction novel, in biology this is a relatively common process, Laungani said. And while it may seem this happens in nature and not with humans, Laungani said we need to reevaluate just how advertising works.

“Our current mechanism for getting an idea into somebody’s brain is advertising,” Laungani said. “Think of the ads on the side of your Facebook page that you never look at, but for some reason when you’re driving home you want Jimmy Johns rather than Burger King. We have ways of implanting ideas into people’s brains already, so can we take advantage of biology and achieve similar goals.”

He believes once individuals determine a specific goal to achieve,

feministing: from 5 dents, not only those who self-identify as feminists.

“Inclusion is a major theme of feminism, and it’s also big part of a college campus,” Lord said. “I think this is an important conversation to have, and it’s a conversation college students are willing to have.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

interpret and interact with news.”

The guest panelist will also be hosting a blogging workshop at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in the student involvement room to teach students the basics of writing and working for a blog.

The panel discussion is open to all students, and Lord emphasizes that the event is relevant to all stu-

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Joe Wade DN Foster the People fans hoping to get their kicks pumped might be in for disappointment if they’re expecting the new album to be as up-beat and radio friendly as “Torches.”

But that’s kind of the best part.

In high school terms, the band members were like geeky freshmen who didn’t know their place in the natural pecking order and were always in the way when someone turned on the radio. Now, these sophomores just kicked the crap out of a guy and took his lunch money.

Sophomore albums are difficult for any band because, while the debut album may get a band through the door of fame, the second has to be even better if it

compared to the synthesizers of Foster the People, but they are so similar you could almost call it a rip-off.

Other songs to check out for the depth of the Fosters’ musicality are the acoustic guitar-infused songs “Goats in Trees,” “Fire Escape” and “Nevermind.”

Now not near as similar, but still embarking on the disco path is the song “Best Friend,” which conjures a possible comparison to Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” Actually that might a stretch, but “Supermodel” is loaded with moments where I found myself reminded of other songs by other artists. It seems as if the Fosters are “taking the lunch money,” if you follow the previous metaphor.

Despite the artistic blending of these familiar musical hooks, the only other constant on this album is the conceptual theme of the lyrics, which is the dark side of capitalism, according to an interview with Mark Foster in NME. Listening to the song “Ask Yourself” with that concept in mind makes the song horribly depressing to think about as a college student. The song isn’t as blunt, but an individual could infer the question: “When I graduate, am I going to be over-

“SUPERMODEL” Foster the People educated and unemployed?” Or musically: “Have we degraded our artistic voices into only producing a stream of catchy loops that were sampled, repackaged and sold?”

Thinking about it, this album doesn’t make me feel pumped up at all.

But I’m glad I have a “Coming of Age” album I can relate to in my post-high school years. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

slam poet: from 5 bers are usually high as it is.

“We usually get between 100 and 200 people just for a bout,” Mason said.

But a big crowd is something that Wakefield is well accustomed to after performing for more than 13 years. In his time as an artist, Wakefield has developed the ability to tell when someone is experiencing this style of poetry for the first time.

“I’ve seen every demographic across the board, and I can always tell when there’s a new face in the crowd,” Wakefield said. “At the end they are nothing but over the moon.”

Wakefield recalled one time when he was surprised by a couple of audience members.

“I was in Gunderson, CO, and I am not tender with my language. But there was this woman who was a couple of decades older than me with her husband,” he said. “They waited in line through high school and college students, and they didn’t buy anything. But she just said, ‘We did not expect to have such an amazing time.’”

Wakefield’s shock at the comment stemmed from the topics that he addresses through his writing. This new tour features old work, new work and mashups that discuss sexuality, politics, passion, love, privilege and the all encompassing human experience.

“They were people who wear privilege on their sleeve and could be offended by my challenges,” he said.

But Wakefield believes that watching slam poetry requires active participation by the audience.

“You show up and participate in existence and psychological evolution,” he said. “I present

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Buddy Wakefield, 39, is a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and will be performing at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. facts disguised as opinions, but there’s a consciousness ‑ the un-

deniable air that we share.”

While Wakefield doesn’t have

favorite places to perform per se (he has what he calls “100 percent-ers”), Canada has proven to be a 100 percent-er on many occasions.

“Anywhere in Canada is rad.

They have good mojo,” Wakefield said. “They love to laugh and participate and be present.”

In order for Wakefield to give just as much as the audience does in his performance, he had a ritual of visualization that began back in 2008 when he spent three months house-sitting for Amber Tamblyn.

“In my head I wouldn’t allow myself to go out onstage unless I had a big smile on my face,” he said. “I would picture myself flying up through this sun dome that (Amber) had in her house, kind of like the way an ‘80s hair band shoots up out of the floor.”

As time went on, the visualization evolved into Wakefield imagining himself jumping down from somewhere high up and beginning to run. Now, however, the visualizations have started to change.

On the first day of 2014, one of Wakefield’s friends from Cirque du Soleil told him this year was the year of the horse.

“I would try to visualize things before going onstage, and I started seeing a stampede,” Wakefield said. “The first two times it happened the results felt negative.”

He said horses are animals which can’t be stopped, so until the stampede subsides, Wakefield said he’s taking a pause from picturing it in his mind.

Thankfully, though, Wakefield’s tour is following in the hooves of the horses. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Top-tier Kidz Bop albums

You read it right. We trudged through the depths of depravity to bring you a countdown of the best five Kidz Bop albums of all time.

This album rung in the 2010’s right with the Cyrus smash, “Party in the USA,” The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” and King Bieber’s first KzBp entry with “One Time.” Historic. A classic collection for what will surely be a classic decade of Kidz Bop albums.

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Pretty much the best collection of the best feel good music ever made by anyone ever. “Complicated,” “Don’t Let Me Get Me,” “Soak Up The Sun” and “A Thousand Miles” ‑ all strong songs sung by strong women. And then sung by small children.

Perfect playing for Women’s History Month.

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Any music enthusiast knows this as “The Bop of The Iraq War.” There are some seriously powerful songs for trying times here, such as “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” “Listen To Your Heart,” by DHT and, of course, “Photograph.” The ultimate tear-jerker.

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Band’s sophomore album proves relatable, brooding compared to first upbeat album

wants to stay there. “Supermodel,” released March 18, is either going to impress music lovers with a wide variety of well-crafted songs or turn fans off with the album’s darkly brooding, grownup feel. Overall, if you didn’t take the band seriously before, then that’s about to change.

This is an album to identify with and personalize, if you can.

Remember those awkward teenage years when you just felt misunderstood and your favorite escape was that mix-tape of MP3s you could always rely on. Listening to this album’s single “Coming of Age” is as familiar as Coldplay’s album “X&Y.” The sound takes the listener back to the day when he or she discovered life was more complicated and less exciting than dreamed. Despite all the homework, after-school jobs and nosey family members, there was still magic in the catchy melodies that didn’t judge you or ask too many questions.

One of the striking things about the songs on “Supermodel” is just how familiar they are to those pop-tunes you loved so well. The instant “Coming of Age” got into my head I jumped over to the Coldplay album to listen to “Talk.” The Coldplay song is a little more guitar driven

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A surprise, yes, but the franchise is making a long-awaited comeback with better than the actual version renditions of the new songs that we will love forever such as “Wrecking Ball,” “Royals,” and “The Cup Song.” One of the most amazing KzBp recordings ever, “What Does The Fox Say” really makes this album one for the ages.

Kidz Bop

The quintessential. The ultimate. The record that should’ve been pressed in gold and slapped on the Voyager. The hits keep coming so hard it hurts: “Oops!… I Did it Again,” “Bye Bye Bye,” “All The Small Things,” “Summer Girls,” “Kiss Me,” and “Blue (Da Ba Dee).” There’s no better way to start the Kidz Bop reign than with this generation’s “Like A Rolling Stone,” Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”

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The jam of the week is the jam of the week no matter who it’s by, and whether you do or don’t buy into that jam is irrelevant.

I know you got your own thing that gets you by.

People have their day to day, their bit of strange and even when they’re alone.

Scratch that, especially when they’re alone. Everybody needs a space of his own to be himself, a place to escape the stress of trying to be normal.

John Frusciante, former guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, had a solo, creative spurt through the mid-90s that was so strange it dumbfounds me every time I hear his 1997 album “Smile From the Streets You Hold.” According to musical legend, this 17-track album was released to get drug money, presumably heroin. Shortly after its release, Frusciante was treated for his addiction, rejoined the Chili Peppers, and the band released “Californication.”

“Smile From the Streets You Hold” has since been pulled from shelves and has yet to be re-released.

Years ago, in my early 20s, I spent my days suffocating beneath the weight of expectations I couldn’t relate to. All the successful people around me looked like robot sheep chasing a dollar. My only consolation was my isolated nights with strange bits of art I knew none of those suffocating people would ever hear about. Sure, I was lost and depressed, grasping for a coping mechanism ‑ something to tell me that I was OK, something to let me know that what I was going through was something everybody goes through.

I wanted something visceral to shake me loose.

Then I saw a film called “Nobody Needs to Know,”

by Azazel Jacobs. On the soundtrack is the song “Estress” (originally released as “Estrus”) from Frusciante’s album.

During a scene in the film, the main character, Isis, is at the height of an existential crisis, listening to the song and using a screwdriver to violently punch a hole through her bedroom wall. “Estress” is one of the few mostly-coherent songs on the album. Sonically it buzzes with lo-fi emotion and is anchored by Frusciante’s pounding guitar strums, which accompany his wailing, strung-out vocals.

It captured the spirit of the scene and what I was feeling at the time so perfectly that the moment in time stopped for me.

It was inspiration and medication rolled into one.

Heroin is a scary drug despite its visceral appeal of playing on the edge of life and death. This album taught

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The haunting appeal of “Smile From the Streets You Hold” is that the first time you listen to it, you aren’t sure what kind of song you’re going to get next. Some songs sound naked, as demos without polishing. It’s like looking into the mind of your favorite artist while he or she is going through the creative process.

It’s an unspoken bond between you and artists, where they can try out whatever they want. You even allow them to audibly relax with a bong hit before starting the next song, such as Frusciante’s instrumental song “For Air.” Other less coherent songs, such as the 6-minute “Breathe,” are full of stops and starts. There’s no concrete idea of what the artist is trying to do musically, other than tap into the creative well. By studio standards this album sounds like a wretched cry to help Frusciante enter rehab, but once the listener accepts the sound for what it is, it’s just beautifully honest.

Listening to the album then was like a kind of rehab for my spiritual self. It made me feel better because it symbolized a place of escape, a momentary somethingto-do that would disrupt the insanity of my day to day.

Listening to it now is just as cathartic. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Big ten homeroom 1. Michigan State (26-8 overall, 12-6 Big Ten)

5. Nebraska (19-12, 11-7)

9. Northwestern (1419, 6-12)

The Wolverines hit a wall when they played the red-hot Spartans in the Big Ten title game. Make no mistake, though; Michigan won the regular-season crown for a reason. Sophomore Nik Stauskas claimed conference player of the year honors and will lead the Wolverines into the NCAA Tournament where they are a No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region.

6. Illinois (19-14, 7-11)

10. Indiana (17-15, 7-11)

3. Wisconsin (26-7, 12-6)

7. Iowa (20-12, 9-9)

Everything finally clicked for the Spartans in Indianapolis. Michigan State rolled to a Big Ten title behind a healthy cast of stars. It struggled during the regular season with injuries, but there’s no doubt who the best team in the Big Ten is after last weekend.

The Huskers added to their successful season with a No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament. However, Nebraska struggled in the Big Ten Tourney, losing to Ohio State in the quarterfinals after blowing an 18-point lead. They will play Baylor in the Big Dance on Friday.

2. Michigan (25-8, 15-3)

The Badgers also fell to the Spartans in the Big Ten Tournament but still managed to land a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Sophomore Sam Dekker gives this team another dimension with his offensive versatility. The key to a successful run, though, will be defense for Wisconsin, as it will likely play hot-shooting Oregon in the third round of the Big Dance.

No team was playing better at the end of the year than Illinois, which lost to Michigan by missing a last-second floater in the Big Ten quarterfinals. Junior Rayvonte Rice proved to be a star throughout the season, finishing ninth in the conference in scoring.

Illinois will host an NIT matchup against Boston University this week.

Everyone seemed shocked when the Hawkeyes found out they would be playing in the NCAA play-in game in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday. Iowa finished 3-7 in its last 10 games, limping into a conference tournament loss to Northwestern in the first round. The Hawkeyes might be the most talented team in the Big Ten, but they didn’t play like it toward the end.

8. Minnesota (2013, 8-10)

4. Ohio State (25-9, 10-8) The Buckeyes are as tough as any team in the country.

They don’t play pretty but always manage to stay in games. That’s what happened in the Big Ten Tournament, as the Ohio State team lost a close game to Michigan in the semifinals. Ohio State is a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tourney.

The Gophers had a strong case to make the NCAA Tourney, but the selection committee didn’t think so. The Gophers failed to pull off a big win in the conference tournament and will now be a No. 1 seed in the NIT. The team plays High Point in its first game.

The Wildcats surprised many when they upset Iowa in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. It was a good finish to a promising season for first-year coach Chris Collins. Northwestern looks to have a bright future under its new coach.

In early March, it looked like the Hoosiers were going to make a run into the NCAA Tournament.

Then a loss to Nebraska halted that momentum, and Illinois dominated the team in the Big Ten tourney. Now Indiana looks to rebuild and reload next year after a disappointing season.

11. Penn State (15-17, 6-12)

Like Northwestern, the future is bright for coach Patrick Chambers and Penn State despite losing senior point guard Tim Frazier to graduation. Still, Penn State has a lot to build on for the future.

12. Purdue (15-17, 5-13) Purdue limped to the finish line, losing its last seven games, including a 2-point loss to Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament. Purdue does return big man A.J. Hammons, who led the conference in blocked shots. He’ll be a force if he can improve his offensive game.

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sports brief Baseball game moved to Wednesday

Tuesday’s baseball game between Nebraska and Creighton in Lincoln was postponed until Wednesday because of weather. The game will begin at 5:05 p.m. at Hawks Field. Anyone with a ticket to Tuesday’s game should use the same ticket for Wednesday’s game.

Left-hander Kyle Kubat will take the mound for the Huskers in place of scheduled starter Aaron Bummer. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

DIVING: from 10 2013 Junior West Nationals for her 1-meter dives. Not to mention she was also a Junior Zone champion in both the 1- and 3-meter dives in 2012 and 2013.

Even before she knew she would attend Nebraska, Filipcic knew she had to consider coming to the school not only because she lived in the Cornhusker state but also because of the familiarity of the school’s diving team.

“Being a Nebraska native, it was something that I automatically had to consider,” Filipcic said. “It felt like it would be a really smooth transition, and I think being able to have the diving team as something that I already kind of knew while coming to a new environment would be really helpful.”

Besides being a competitive athlete for Nebraska, Filipcic also is the only music major on the Husker team. The Husker diver started playing the French horn in grade school and has loved playing the instrument ever since.

“At my elementary school, you were required to play the violin in second grade,” she said.

“In fifth grade, you could pick a band instrument if you wanted, and I don’t know why, but for some reason I just knew I wanted to play the French horn. It just looked so cool.”

Even with the responsibilities she has as a student athlete, Filipcic, according to her coach, achieves a great balance between the two.

“She’s really determined, really talented, and when she sets her goal, she will go for that goal,” diving coach Natasha Chikina said. “Besides being a good athlete and a good diver, she’s also a good friend and student.”

Filipcic’s teammates also agree on how determined she is on setting her goals.

“I think that she’s a really hard worker, and she’s really driven,” senior diver Payton Michaud said. “She has a lot of high

goals for herself, and she loves to set out to accomplish them.

She’s one of the funniest people, but she’s also really serious about what she does. She’s also pretty inspirational because she’s a freshman that made NCAA for the first time and no one else has on the team, so that’s pretty cool.”

Filipcic is the first Husker diver to qualify and compete in the NCAA Championships since Amie Buoy placed 18th in the 3-meter dive in 2005.

“I am so excited,” Filipcic said. “I’m also honored because it’s a big competition with a lot of really good divers. It’s going to be exciting just to be there and see what everyone else is doing.”

Filipcic will be competing in both the 1- and 3-meter dives in the NCAA Championship competition set for March 20-22 at the University of Minnesota’s Aquatic Center. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Trio of Huskers claims all-Big Ten accolades Senior Emily Wong, Junior Jessie DeZiel named to Big Ten 1st team for 3rd straight year Tuesday

WRESTLING: from 10 coach Jason Powell (2004) and Mike Nissen (1963). Donahoe and Powell placed second in their conference tournaments. Nissen did not have a conference tournament to compete in. Sueflohn, Green and Kokesh all placed in the top two in the conference tournament, with Kokesh and Green being champions.

If history has anything to say about how these guys will finish, it’s not looking great. Of the 11 national champions, five have been in the 125-pound weight class or its equivalent. That is not saying that only little guys can win at Nebraska. Three of the other six champions weighed 190 pounds or more. The remaining three were at 157, 165 and 177 pounds.

The catch there is that Jordan Burroughs is two of those.

Only Burroughs and Jim Scherr (1984) had the ultimate success in the middle weight classes.

The middle weight classes range from 149 pounds to 174 pounds.

Sueflohn, Green and Kokesh all fall into that range. That bit of history does not bode well for these three Huskers.

The average number of wins for a national champion for the Huskers is 33 wins in the season.

Taking away the five wins necessary to win the championship in the tournament, the wrestlers had an average of 28 wins on

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Nebraska junior gymnast Jessie DeZiel is No. 16 in the country in the all-around. She has won two all-around titles this season and ranks in the Big Ten’s top five on vault, bars and beam.

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Nebraska junior 157-pound wrestler James Green is 29-1 on the season with a Big Ten championship under his belt. He is the top seed in his weight class at the NCAA Championships. the year at the start of nationals.

Sueflohn and Green both have 29, and Kokesh has a team-leading 32 wins on the year.

These stats are fun to look at and all, but these three guys have the chance to do something special, as do the rest of the qualifiers. All of the competitors for Nebraska have a lot of upside and are some of the hardest workers in the country. It doesn’t matter that Nebraska may not have another

Jordan Burroughs in this group of guys; anything can and will happen during March Madness.

Nebraska coach Mark Manning said it best when he said, “This is where dreams come true.”

Austin Pistulka is a freshman journalism major. You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Senior Emily Wong has received 32 event titles, nine of which are all-around titles, and junior Jessie DeZiel has earned nine event titles this season.

Wong has received five Big Ten Conference honors this season, and DeZiel has received one, all in the form of Big Ten Gymnast of the Week.

And on Tuesday morning, both Wong and DeZiel were awarded two more honors.

Along with sophomore Hollie Blanske, they were placed on the All-Big Ten Conference teams.

“Obviously, I’m not surprised the three of them are being honored because they are all-arounders,” Nebraska coach Dan Kendig said. “They make up half of our team at competition time.”

They were chosen based on a selection process executed last year in which the top 10 studentathletes are allotted points based on their Regional Qualifying Score (RQS). Based on the system, 10 points are given to the No. 1

This is just what we worked for, and it’s good to see that all my hard work has paid off.” jessie deziel junior gymnast

ranked athlete while one point is given to the tenth-ranked athlete.

Those with the 12 highest point totals were placed on the first team, while those with the next 12 highest points were placed on the second team. DeZiel and Wong earned first-team accolades and Blanske earned secondteam honors.

This is the third straight year that both DeZiel and Wong have been named on the All-Big Ten first team and the first time Blanske has received second-team accolades.

“I think it’s just an honor, especially to be ranked with all of the other girls up there,” DeZiel said. “This is just what we work for, and it’s good to see that all my hard work has paid off.”

Wong is ranked first in the all-around in the Big Ten with an RQS of 39.585. She’s ranked first on bars with an average score of 9.915, second on floor and beam with average scores of 9.935 and 9.890, respectively, and fifth on vault with an average score of 9.895. She’s the No. 4 all-arounder in the country, and she has won a

total of 32 event titles this season.

DeZiel is the Big Ten’s fourthranked all-around competitor and the 16th-ranked all-around gymnast nationwide, with an average score of 39.360. She’s ranked second on vault with an average score of 9.925, third on bars with 9.875 and fourth on beam at 9.870.

Blanske is ranked 11th in the all-around for the Big Ten with an RQS of 39.190. She’s ranked ninth on bars with an average score of 9.855. On vault and floor, her average scores of 9.870 and 9.870, respectively, have her ranked 10th in the league in those events.

“It’s just an honor of a job well done,” Kendig said.

Going into the Big Ten Championships this weekend with these accolades, DeZiel said it brings them more confidence.

“I’m really excited for the meet this weekend,” DeZiel said.

“We’re coming off a really good meet, so I think it’s going to go really well. I think we know what we need to do to build off of last weekend’s meet.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Huskers to host Iowa State in home opener the season so far.

Nebraska senior catcher TayNebraska finally ready lor Edwards’ season is proving to one to remember. Edwards hit for 2014 home debut be her seventh home run of the seaafter spending 1st son last week against Northern Illinois. She has hit the most home month of season runs on the team. away from Lincoln Leading into the game against the Cyclones, the Huskers are short a player. Over the weekend in the game against the Jayhawks, Staff Report freshman outfielder Austen UrDN ness stumbled when going for a fly ball in the outfield during the After being on the road for 26 seventh inning. Urness suffered a games, the Nebraska softball team concussion and was taken to the is finally back in Lincoln ready to hospital during the game. She play its first home game against stayed at the hospital for observaIowa State on Wednesday night. tion until she was released TuesLast weekend, the No. 14 day morning.

Husker softball team traveled to Husker coach Rhonda Revelle Kansas for the Jayhawk Invita- said she was thankful for the suptional, where the Nebraska team port Urness has received. left with wins against Jackson “Austen, her family and the State, Northern Illinois and Kan- entire Nebraska softball program sas. are grateful for the outpouring of Coming off a support for Aussuccessful weekten,” Revelle said Austen, end, combined in a statement. her family with the buildup Iowa State is of excitement and currently in a twoanticipation for and the entire game losing streak their first home Nebraska softball against Michigan game, the Huskand Wisconsin, program are ers are hopeful for while Nebraska another win. The grateful for is in a three-game Huskers put up winning streak a fight to protect the outpouring after its weekend their home field, of support for spent in Kansas. winning more Husker fans Austen.” than 76 percent of haven’t had the their home games. chance to cheer on rhonda revelle Iowa State is the softball team softball coach coming off of a 6-4 at Bowlin Stadium loss to Michigan. yet this season.

The team is 4-3 on The team expects it to give the the road. Though the Cyclones Huskers a home field advantage. couldn’t pull the win, it was a The Huskers are 11-1 in home big game for sophomore Brittany openers, winning the past eight in Gomez. Gomez recorded an Iowa a row.

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NU readies for new experience Following excitement of clinching Huskers’ 1st NCAA bid since 1998, team prepares for trip to Texas Nedu Izu DN The time was 4:38 p.m. Sunday at Pinnacle Bank Arena, and Tim Miles had a smirk as wide as a little boy at his first basketball game.

Staring at the flat-screen television in the arena’s Goldenrod Room, the 47-year-old coach’s grin grew larger with each passing second as he watched each Husker player trot onto the center of the their home court during lineup calls.

It wasn’t a game, but could you blame him?

After being kicked out early from the Big Ten Conference Tournament two days before, Nebraska and its coach were greeted by an estimated 2,500 fans, supporting and waiting for their team to discover its fate on waters they haven’t sailed since 1998 – the NCAA Tournament.

This isn’t Miles first rodeo either in the postseason.

“I did an interview today with a guy that said, ‘Now you haven’t been to the NCAA in 16 years,’ and I said, ‘Woah, woah – I’ve been to all kinds of tournaments in 16 years,” Miles said. The coach’s latest call came two years ago in green ties as the Colorado State head coach.

Sunday, however, was his first time doing so in a black and red polo with the letter ‘N’ patched on it. He was in the same position as everyone else who filled the west side of the arena seats that evening, awaiting Nebraska’s assignment, which came minutes later.

The crowd roared, along with Miles and the 15 players who jumped out of their black chairs in celebration.

“It’s a great start is what it is,” Miles said, suggesting the Huskers want more than just a berth in the tournament.

Like his coach, sophomore forward Walter Pitchford was also a part of the 2012 tournament when his former team, Florida, made it to the Elite 8. But teammate Terran Petteway, who will be making

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Nebraska players, coaches and fans react to the announcement of the Huskers’ berth in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. They play Baylor in San Antonio on Friday. his first appearance in his first kind of seems like another game. year with the Huskers, two days I think it’ll hit me when we get to San Antonio.” after the announcement still deShields arguably had a better scribes the feeling as crazy. year as a freshman, especially in In his first full season with a red and white jersey on, Petteway the season’s wearing on.

After getting the nod to enter led Nebraska with 18.1 points per the starting lineup in the second game and 23 blocks. And being half of the 2012-13 from Galveston, season, Shields finTexas, he’s alI think it’ll ished the season with ready expecting hit me when a .471 shooting pera strong presence centage, while averFriday from famwe get to aging 5.1 rebounds a ily and friends game and recording when the team San Antonio.”

23 steals on defense. takes Baylor in shavon shields But like the two the first round in sophomore guard old adages that most San Antonio. successful athletes “Everybody go by: there’s no ‘I’ and their mom will say Texas has been calling in team and defense wins championships. me asking me how much tickets That’s been the difference this are,” Petteway said after practice year; that’s gotten the Huskers to Tuesday. where they are now and not to But becoming the first squad the couches where they watched to play in the NCAA Tournament other teams continue their season in nearly two decades isn’t just last year. novel to Nebraska’s transfers.

In three of their last four The thought of playing his first game Friday hasn’t fazed sec- games of the regular season, the Huskers shut down its opponents ond-year player Shavon Shields.

“It hasn’t really hit me that to less than 37 percent shooting, including a 36.7 field-goal showwe’re going to the tournament,” ing at Indiana on March 5. And the sophomore guard said. “It

Nebraska isn’t worried about its latest blunder against Ohio State, where the Huskers let the Buckeyes climb back and win after being down 18 points.

The team is confident that its lack of defense late in that game won’t appear in the tournament, Petteway said.

“When we watched film, you can just feel it in the room,” he said. “Everybody was like, ‘There’s no way that’s happening again.’ The way we played, the emotions we were showing … we’re glad that happened in the Big Ten Tournament instead of in the NCAA Tournament.

“Now we can learn from it and move on.”

And when the Huskers travel to Texas to face off against the Bears on Friday, they’ll be moving one step closer to being the first men’s basketball team to win an NCAA Tournament game in Nebraska history. One move closer to a possible re-match against Creighton two days later. And one move closer to the program’s ultimate goal: a basketball national championship. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

MEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT: ANAHEIM REGION 6. Baylor (24-11, 9-9 Big 12) The Bears nabbed a 6 seed after

Past five games: 4-1

turning it on for the past two

March 8 at Kansas State: W 76-74

months of the season. Senior guard

March 12 vs. TCU: W 76-68

Brady Heslip shoots 47.3 percent

March 13 vs. No. 17 Oklahoma: W 78-73

from 3-point range, tied for third in

March 14 vs. Texas: W 86-69

the nation.

March 15 vs. No. 16 Iowa State: L 74-65

best choice to compete against whom.

No. 7 Nebraska to Fien said the team has an idea of who will be paired up play matches in with whom, but the lineups Hawaii, Arizona in could change. She also said she and junior Mary Pollmiller are 2nd season of sand partners. team’s existence Another possible pairing is freshman Justine Wong-Orantes and either freshman Melanie Keil or sophomore Amber Eric Bertrand Rolfzen.

DN Wong-Orantes said her partner would likely be Rolfzen.

Because Kelsey Fien is a BaWith the addition of Wongkersfield, Calif., native, many Orantes to the Huskers, the teammates had misconceptions sand team gains a leader with about her sand experiplenty of beach ence. volleyball experiThe sophomore ence. said most of her teamShe earned a mates believed she ninth-place finish played on the beach in the 2011 FIVB all the time.

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SWATCH Youth The beach is about World Championan hour and a half ships. drive from her house, Her familiarity she said. of sand volleyball “It’s still completeearned her the role ly new to me,” Fien of captain of the fien said. “It’s like a brand squad. new sport.”

“I was very The Nebraska sand volleyhonored and definitely acball team will begin its second cepted the role,” Wong-Orantes season Thursday when the team said. “Whatever I see, I try to heads to Hawaii. help them or give them a few Last year, the Huskers fin- suggestions. Any little thing I ished with a 4-5 dual record. think will help them.”

The team strung together a With the weather getting three-game winning streak warmer in Lincoln, the squad against Irvine Valley College, has had the opportunity to Loyola Marymount and UCLA. practice outdoors for the past The sand season for Ne- week at Spikes Beach Bar & braska lasts Grille. eight days, “If you Whatever and the don’t know team will I see, I try how to play in travel to that, it can be to help them or Hawaii and very frustratArizona. give them a few ing,” WongThe schedOrantes said. suggestions.” ule consists “It can defiof No. 2 nitely affect the USC, No. 5 justine wong-orantes game because freshman libero Hawaii, Ariyou have to zona, Grand strategize.”

Canyon and One area of Arizona State. strategy comes in the passing Unlike No. 1 Pepperdine, game. which has a full schedule of If the wind is strong, it can matches from March to May, make the ball move. One way Nebraska’s sand season has to to adjust to the wind would be be compact. to lower the passes and the sets, Fien, a sophomore, said Wong-Orantes said. having a full slate of matches “It can go all over the place,” would involve too much trav- she said. el and missed classes for the The Huskers feel they have squad to handle. gained confidence in their sand As the Huskers prepare to abilities in the past month of enter the second season, play- practices. ers feel more confident about “I just keep hearing, ‘We the sport. look so much better than last “We just have a better idea year,’” Wong-Orantes said. of what’s going on,” Fien said.

“That’s really cool to hear.”

The strategy in the sand The Huskers will put what game comes down to matchups. they have trained for to the test The Huskers will compare their on Thursday when they take on five doubles pairs to the oppos- USC and Hawaii. ing team’s duos and from there sports@ determine who would be the dailynebraskan.com

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11. Nebraska (19-12, 11-7 Big Ten) Past five games: 3-2

The Huskers won 9 of 11 to go from

Feb. 26 at Illinois: L 60-49

Big Ten bottom feeder to tourney

March 1 vs. Northwestern: W 54-47

team. Their oldest player, senior Ray

March 5 at Indiana: W 70-60

Gallegos, was 7 years old the last

March 9 vs. No. 9 Wisconsin: W 77-68

time they made the tournament.

March 14 vs. No. 24 Ohio State: L 71-67

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3. Creighton (26-7, 14-4 Big East) Past five games: 3-2

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The Bluejays are led by player-of-the-

March 4 at Georgetown: L 75-63

year favorite Doug McDermott, who is

March 8 vs. Providence: W 88-73

a couple of 30-point games away from

March 13 vs. DePaul: W 84-62

moving into fourth on the NCAA’s

March 14 vs. Xavier: W 86-78

all-time scoring list.

March 15 vs. Providence: L 65-58

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14. Louisiana-Lafayette (23-11, 11-7 Sun Belt) Past five games: 4-1 March 6 at Western Kentucky: L 75-72

The Ragin’ Cajuns are one of the few teams in the nation that score even

March 8 at Arkansas State: W 77-76

more than Creighton does. They

March 14 vs. Texas-Arlington: W 91-85

average 81.4 a game but give up

March 15 vs. Western Kentucky: W 73-72

more than 75.

March 16 vs. Georgia State: W 82-81 OT

BASKETBALL: from 10 “It’s a great honor to host a regional. It says a lot about our fans,” said Nebraska coach Connie Yori, who was the Big Ten Coach of the Year for the second year in a row. “It’s great to host a regional, but you have to win two games to get there.”

In the first round, the Huskers will play the Bulldogs at the Pauley Pavilion. If Nebraska wins, the team will move on to play No. 5 seed North Carolina State or No. 12 seed BYU. If the team wins the second round of tournament play, Nebraska could potentially face Connecticut in the regional on its home court.

Hooper said the thought of potentially returning to Lincoln to play for her fans against Connecticut, the reigning national champs and the No. 1 seeded team, is in the back of her mind. But for now she’s going to focus on the task at hand.

“You have to take it one game at a time,” she said. “You have to take care of business in the first two games to get to the regional.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska freshman Anna Filipcic qualified for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships by finishing fourth at the NCAA Zone Diving Meet on March 12. She has a high score of 348.50 in the 3-meter dive and 307.65 in the 1-meter dive this season.

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hen freshman diver Anna Filipcic walked into the University of Minnesota’s Aquatic Center on March 11, she hoped all would go according to plan when it came to her 3-meter dive.

Watching all the competitors dive before her, Filipcic waited for her turn to nail what she had practiced. Once it was her turn, Filipcic dove her second best score of 346.65. Knowing that this dive could secure her spot in the NCAA Championships, Filipcic watched her last competitor receive a score lower than her own.

In that moment, the competitor’s coaches turned

to congratulate her on the fourth-place finish and a spot in the NCAA Championships.

Filipcic grew up in Omaha, where she attended Omaha Burke High School and was an All-American in 2011. She placed in numerous statewide competitions during her four years there. Filipcic didn’t start diving until about seventh grade, after she started to transition out of competing in gymnastics and tumbling.

“When I was younger, I started out in gymnastics,” Filipcic said. “I started out in the basic, recreational gymnastics when I was 2, and I started being more competitive when I was about 8 or so. I kind of

did that until about seventh grade.”

Filipcic also competed in tumbling and trampolines, but because of the hassle of driving out of state to attend competitions, she started to put her energy into diving instead during her eighth-grade year.

Since then, Filipcic has competed on both her high school diving team and a club team. During her time in high school, Filipcic placed second in the 1-meter dive with a score of 443.10 at the Nebraska High School State Championships in 2011.

The Husker diver also dove for the Nebraska Dive Club. She received a second-place finish at the 2013 Junior Nationals and a fifth-place result at the

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NU eyes possible NCAA return Huskers to play Tournament games at Pinnacle Bank Arena if successful in opening rounds Natasha Rausch DN The Huskers are going back to junior guard Tear ’a Laudermill’s hometown: Los Angeles.

“I was so happy,” she said.

“I was like, ‘Wait, that means we’re going to L.A.? As in California?’”

In the NCAA Tournament selection show Monday, Nebraska was given a No. 4 seed in the Lincoln Regional and is set to play No. 13 seed Fresno State on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.

The Huskers might be going to California, but their NCAA Tournament run leads straight back to where it all started — the Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Lincoln was chosen as one of four sites to host the NCAA regional games. As part of the Lincoln bracket, the Huskers could return to their home court to play in the regional matchup in front of their fans.

“We want to get back here bad,” Laudermill said. “If we make it that far, it is going to be a big deal to play here.”

Laudermill said the honor of hosting a Sweet 16 game is a tribute to all the people who

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With victories against 13 seed Fresno State on Saturday and either 5 seed North Carolina State or 12 seed BYU on Monday, Nebraska would return to Lincoln for regional action. support the Husker women’s basketball program.

“Our fans just love us, and they treat us so good,” she said.

“There is no place like Nebraska.

They treat us with total respect.

You can’t go anywhere without a fan saying something nice to you, and we just love that.”

Senior forward Jordan Hooper said the love and support for the program stems from

a long line of legends such as former Nebraska basketball players Kelsey Griffin, Maurtice Ivy and Lindsey Moore.

“People have grasped women’s basketball, and they love it, and we love that they love it,” said Hooper, who was the Big Ten Player of the Year. “Our fans are great, and it’s really cool that we could bring the tournament back to us. To have everything

fall into place, it shows all the people who have helped this program, and we’re trying to take it further.”

If the Huskers make it past the first two rounds of tournament play, they will return to their hometown.

If not, they will join their beloved fans in the audience.

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The No. 7 Nebraska wrestling team is sending seven of its athletes to the NCAA Wrestling Championships, three of which have a very substantial chance of winning their respective weight class. Juniors Jake Sueflohn, James Green and Robert Kokesh are all seeded in the top six.

Sueflohn is the No. 6 seed at 149 pounds, Green the No. 1 seed at 157 and Kokesh the No. 3 seed at 174.

I think anything can happen in the NCAA Tournament, but these three definitely have the best shot.

Each of them has had a successful season. But how do they stack up against past Nebraska champions?

The last national champion crowned for Nebraska was undefeated Jordan Burroughs.

Burroughs seems to be considered a wrestling god. He is the only twotime NCAA champion in Nebraska history and the only one to have two undefeated seasons. That being

said, all three men have had similar paths to Burroughs’.

Both Sueflohn and Kokesh went into the Big Ten Tournament seeded No. 1, like Burroughs did in each of his championship seasons. Green was seeded No. 2. Burroughs was conference champion both years that he won the national title. That puts a check mark on the side of Kokesh and Green’s chances of winning the tournament. To top it off, Burroughs was the No. 1 seed going into nationals both years.

Green is the No. 1 seed heading into the big show.

What Burroughs did at Nebraska was amazing, and the fact these three have similarities in their journeys as his is worth noting.

Every Nebraska national champion had three or fewer losses on the year. Both Green and Kokesh have only one loss; Sueflohn has the chance to break that trend, as he is going into the tournament with four losses.

Of the 11 Nebraska national champions, eight were conference champions. The three who were not conference champions were Paul Donahoe (2007), current assistant

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