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ASUN parties fined for minor rule infractions elias youngquist daily nebraskan

Every year, when Association of Students of the University of Nebraska candidates begin the campaign process, they are given access to the year’s election rules. The rules act as a manual for running a miller campaign.

Any divergence from this guide, and they get fined.

And it happens every year. “ T h e electoral kamler commission is good at not fining you a ton of money,” said Party Party presidential candidate Kate Miller, a sophomore philosophy major. “We’ve paid only about 30 bucks and have had somewhere around 10 infractions.”

Both Impact Party and Party Party have incurred fines during the campaign thus far, an occurrence that current ASUN Internal Vice President Jeff Lopez, a senior chemical engineering major, says is common.

“Last year we ran our campaign unopposed and got fined,” Lopez said. “The rules are pretty detailed and indepth. It’s something that happens every year. If you cross your t’s and dot your i’s it won’t

happen. That being said, it’s very hard to do that in a large campaign like this.”

The Impact Party had its first fine of $10 this Wednesday.

“My understanding is based on the complaint, one of our candidates was talking about an upcoming campaign event within the ASUN office,” said Eric Kamler, Impact Party’s presidential candidate and a junior agricultural economics major. “Even if it’s not direct campaigning, it’s against electoral commission rules.”

Within the 41-page rule book, rules range from where and when parties can campaign to the number of party members that can be posted at a booth.

“I just think that some of them need to be consolidated,” Miller said. “They were probably created for individual events, I’m sure they make sense but over a while, they’re a bit unapproachable.”

For Party Party, the infractions have ranged from not having the necessary information on a poster to creating an open Facebook group to organize early.

“Probably our favorite violation was having two people at a table within 50 feet of a dining hall instead of the one. But then again, it’s the rules,” Miller said.

“You just got to bite the bullet.”

According to Miller, Party Party’s biggest issue with the fines comes from the inaccessibility of the rules due to a broken Web link as well as most of the complaints being filed by the Impact Party.

“I don’t think that’s a fair argument because everyone had

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Arlin Mares, maintenance staff member, changes a light bulb on the third floor of Smith Residence Hall on Thursday.

Mares has worked as a staff member in the Harper-Schramm-Smith and The Village residence halls for the past 14 years.

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Fix-it staff works tirelessly to repair dorm room fixes big and small.

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ome might say Arlin Mares is a popular guy. He’s been personally invited to hundreds of dorm rooms during the past 14 years, at all hours of the day and night.

But he’s not your typical college friend. Mares fixes all your problems.

Literally.

Mares is one of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s “fix-it” guys for HarperSchramm-Smith and The Village residence halls.

Many students who have lived in the dorms have submitted fix-it requests for one reason or another. Few, though, are aware of the process behind the repairs.

“It really does take quite a bit to keep an operation like this running,” said Mares, who has worked as a mechanic at HSSV for nearly 14 years. “Most people don’t see what goes on behind the scenes.”

On an average day, the HSSV maintenance office receives 10 to 15 fix-it requests from students living in the complex. The requests range from fixing a

malfunctioning refrigerator to getting a stain out of a rug. Mares said certain times of the year are busier than others.

“We always get a lot more slips during move-in times,” he said. “With the increased number of students on campus you’re bound to get more repair requests.”

Mares said that they got about 25 repair requests a day during the first week of this school year. Many of those requests involved televisions not getting all of the cable channels.

Overall, the most common requests the fix-it mechanics receive are repairing blinds and changing light bulbs. Mares said the blinds in HSS rooms easily get “blown out of whack” when students leave their windows open when it’s windy outside.

As for light bulbs, Mares said it is a constant battle. He estimated he changes 40 light bulbs a week just for the areas he is in charge of which are Harper Hall, Smith Hall and the north part of the Village.

Mares started out as a handyman helping with his father’s carpentry business, where he learned carpentry, painting and wallpapering skills.

After that, he worked for several remodeling businesses where he said he learned the majority of his craft.

“Basically, that’s where I picked it all up,” Mares said of the remodeling work.

“I learned all about floor work, electricity and plumbing.”

The facilities area for HSS and The Village is a maze of workshops and equipment. There’s the welding corner, the carpentry space and an entire room for painting jobs. There’s the room used only for refrigerator and heat pump repairs.

And then there’s the stock room. There are thousands of spare parts — everything from window panes to thermostat covers.

It’s as if a hundred resident rooms have been completely disassembled into tiny pieces and organized onto shelves. ”We try to keep 99 percent of the parts we need in stock,” Mares said.

There is a small office area in the corner of the giant workroom. Several old fix-it requests are taped up on a gray locker.

“These are the ones we thought were a little amusing,” Mares said with a laugh.

One request reads: “Some boy slept on our couch and now there’s salsa all over our carpet and couch and we do not have carpet/couch cleaner. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

State senators scramble to pick Employee Plus One vote delayed priority bills Frannie Sprouls

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With more than 300 bills to consider in the current legislative session, senators and committees have to prioritize — literally.

By Feb. 16, each senator, each committee and Speaker Mike Flood had to submit priority bills, or legislation that will be debated first now that public committee hearings have ended. Senators designate one priority bill each, committees designate two bills each and Flood designates 25 bills.

Those 104 bills, along with a select few bills that senators introduced early in the session and those with nonexistent opposition or fiscal impact, are likely the only ones that stand a chance of passage, according

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to senators.

“Unless your bill is a nobrainer or it’s a priority, it’s not going to get heard this year,” said Sen. Amanda McGill of District 26.

And in a session filled with contentious bills and budget issues, even priority status may not guarantee debate for a bill.

“Given the number of bills we have and the financial constraints of the state, it’s hard for me to say that we’ll get to every priority bill,” Flood said.

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After deciding not to vote on the Employee Plus One benefits expansion proposal in December, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents won’t be looking at the proposal at its March 2 meeting.

Employee Plus One benefits would extend benefits to the partners and partner’s dependent children of University of Nebraska employees.

The issue was postponed at the Dec. 8 meeting because Regent Howard Hawks of Omaha was unable to attend.

As for the March 2 meeting, Board Vice Chairman Tim Clare of Lincoln said that a resolution for Employee Plus One has not been submitted.

“Once that’s submitted, we’ll react accordingly,” Clare said in a telephone interview.

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Board Chairman Jim McClurg of Lincoln said information is still being gathered on the issue and doesn’t know at which meeting the proposal will be presented.

The initiative was first presented during the fall semester by NU President James B. Milliken.

“When I presented the Employee Plus One initiative to the Board of Regents last fall, I said it would be on a later agenda for action,” Milliken said in a statement. “I have discussed this with the chair of the Board and that is still our intention.”

Clare said some parties argue it is necessary to enhance recruitment, both of faculty and students while others contend the university doesn’t need the benefit package.

“There are a lot of variations

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on the proposals,” Clare said.

“I need to see what it says first.”

Emily Schlichting, a senior communications and political science major and student leader of the Plus One campaign, said it’s frustrating that it has not been voted on yet.

“I’m sure President Milliken has a reason for not bringing it forward,” said Schlichting, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska speaker of the senate. “I would like to see it pass before I leave the university.”

Schlichting will graduate in May. She said she is not discouraged by the fact it has not been on the agenda.

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“I think this is a policy that’s really good for the university,” Schlichting said. “I believe it will pass. I don’t think it will pass unanimously …

It has a reasonable chance. I wouldn’t call it strong, but I wouldn’t call it impossible.”

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dn flashbacks Fast games looked for Feb. 29, 1912 A fast pair of basketball games is what the coming contest with Kansas will be, according to those who have seen the Cornhusker team in its recent practice. Every moment possible to utilize since coming home from the trip to Ames is being used to get the team into perfect shape for the conflict Friday evening.

Kansas has a fast team this season, holding the championship of the southern division of the Missouri Valley conference. The Jayhawks were considered invincible until the two games played with Washington University last week, when they met defeat by a few baskets. Kansas, however, has more victories to her credit than Washington, so no contest of her title is probable.

Voice of Jiminy Crickett reveals his life story Feb. 29, 1940 It’s a far cry from “Paddlin’ Madeline Home” to “Wish Upon a Star,” from the midst of a Coolidge-era musical to a stellar role in a Disney cartoon fantasy, but that is the route taken by Cliff Edwards, star of vaudeville, motion pictures and radio for 22 years.

The little man with the popping eyes and the voice full of amusing variations was in Lincoln Wednesday for stage appearances in connection with the current showing of “Pinocchio,” in which he does the larynx work for Jiminy Crickett—Pinoch’s non-union conscience.

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The Nebraska Union Board approved space allocation recommendations and heard comments in an open forum Thursday night.

In the open forum Lane Carr, Association of Students for the University of Nebraska president and senior history and political science major, expressed concerns about the possibility of moving the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Computer and Phone Shop to the first floor in place of the current 24hour computer space.

The UNL Computer and Phone Shop had requested the switch. The Nebraska Union Board is in the process of

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having the LGBTQA Resource Center and Residence Hall Association switch rooms, with the resource center moving to Room 346 and RHA to Room 345. This would give LGBTQA the extra space they requested.

The Space Allocation Committee also recommended giving the Daily Nebraskan’s advertising room in the basement to Kingdom Impact, the Newman Center and The Fellowship of Catholic University Students. The three groups currently have no offices in the union and would share the space.

All groups have the opportunity to appeal the committee’s recommendations. news@ DailyNebraskan.com

Carmen Mostek researches maggots.

Her research could help with homicide cases, something the senior forensic science and Spanish major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hopes to work on some day.

How long a maggot has been living near a cadaver could help determine the time of death.

Sometimes it takes some waiting for the maggot to grow.

“It’s a lot easier to identify an insect if it’s an adult,” Mostek said.

A maggot in its third stage of life has three sphericals, circularshaped breathing mechanisms, in its rear end. Two sphericals indicate the second stage and one spherical indicates the first, Mostek said.

Once maggots are moved from the original crime scene, the change in surroundings causes them to stop growing for a certain amount of days, which poses a challenge to Mostek’s research.

“The goal is to recreate an environment just like the ones they had,” she said.

One way Mostek tries to achieve this is through making meat in the lab easier for the insects to digest.

Because insects can only scrape meat and cannot bite it, the insects have to secrete the enzymes of meat to break it down. Mostek uses different mixtures of chemicals and meat tenderizer to immitate the insects’ original environment.

Mostek’s interest in forensic science began in seventh grade.

She had always loved things like the Nancy Drew series and the game Clue. Although she said she knew it was cliche, she was largely influenced by the popular television show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

She began research in May 2009. She debated a summer job going into her sophomore year and asked Leon Higley, professor of applied ecology and

forensic sciences, if he knew anyone in need of a worker.

“He sat back for a minute and said, ‘Yeah, I do. You’re hired,’” she said.

He was her forensics adviser, but hadn’t taught Mostek at that time.

“I knew something about her interest, and she was really enthusiastic about her chance to do research and so forth,” Higley said about Mostek.

Mostek started working for Higley under the UCARE program, which provides undergraduates with research opportunities through the money UNL makes from its contract with Pepsi, Higley said.

That first summer, Mostek became familiar with insects by researching caterpillar colonies and the Salt Creek tiger beetle, she said. She attended a workshop in Indiana where she studied decomposing pigs. A pig’s cadaver “mocks a human’s (cadaver) very well,” she said.

Mostek developed the skills to pose questions and answer her own questions, Higley said.

“Students (who) have sincere enthusiasm in subject matter probably do the best,” Higley said, adding that he feels Mostek is a “good example” of this.

And while she’s come far in her confidence and research, Higley said she still holds a sense of self-doubt, which he says is a positive thing.

Higley said Mostek is able to ask questions like “Is my interpretation correct? Are these findings strong enough?”

She also helped Amanda Fujikawa, a natural resource sciences Ph.D. student, with entomology projects. The two women still work closely in their research, a relationship that both respect.

“She always wanted to make sure she was doing what she needed to be doing,” Fujikawa said. “Not everyone does that.”

While the research relationship has grown over the years, Fujikawa said it has gotten to the point where Mostek works more independently than ever,

as she helps Fujikawa research the development of blow flies.

“She knows what I’m expecting before I ask,” she said. “She just does it.”

Mostek’s progress isn’t the only thing Fujikawa respects.

“She cares about people endlessly, she’s willing to work with people endlessly,” she said. “(She’s) willing to help anybody who needs help.”

Mostek later studied abroad in Chile, and it wasn’t until after she returned that she began her own entomology research.

While she hasn’t had the chance to go to a crime scene yet, Mostek has been asked if she would like the opportunity, and, because of an agreement between UNL and the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office, could assist at one before the completion of college.

UNL forensics faculty and students will assist with crime scenes without pay, on request.

“It’s just such a great teaching opportunity,” Higley said.

And, in Mostek’s case, she’s received enough training that she could help at one of these scenes. Mostek would be studying the level of decomposition of a cadaver, as well as a wide variety of other changes that occur when an animal dies, which comes from the standpoint of biology, but also from a homicide investigation, Higley said.

But Mostek isn’t waiting for her opportunity. After graduation she plans to attend medical school and said it would be ideal to work in the forensic science field concurrently.

Mostek said her research “leads to some interesting discussion when presenting my resume.”

This doesn’t surprise Higley.

“It’s probably the biggest single thing she could do to improve her resume,” he said.

and the definition of a flavored malt beverage rise to the top.

For committees that hear fewer bills, however, the process is a bit different.

“Sometimes there’s an issue you’re facing in the legislature that you know you need to tackle this year,” said McGill, chair of the Urban Affairs Committee. “But (this year) we actually struggled a little bit, because we didn’t have many that stood out.”

McGill eventually chose to

prioritize LB863, which would create a film incentive program in Nebraska, and another bill relating to building codes.

Flood designates his priorities after seeing the senator and committee designations, which he said “really set the tone for the session.” Speaker prioritization is often the last hope for some bills that slip through the cracks as senators rush to garner floor time for their legislation. Often, lawmakers make deals with one

another to ensure prioritization.

“There really is a scramble,” McGill said. “You want to get the bills you care about prioritized. It’s like a big chess game to figure out where all your pieces fit.”

McGill said some bills inevitably get swept under the rug.

“We only have 60 days to do our work, and there are only so many hours in the day,” she said. “So we get through as much as we can.”

But Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee chair Sen. Bill Avery, of District 28, said the failure of some bills, even those in which the senators are deeply invested, is simply part of the legislative process.

“You roll with the punches,” he said. “After a while, you get used to it. You say, ‘OK, I’ll be back next year.’ Keep knocking on the door, and eventually someone will open it.”

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Senators question pay hike approval Feb. 29, 1988 While giving first-round approval Friday to a constitutional amendment that would raise state senators’ salaries, many Nebraska legislators remained skeptical of voter approval.

LR7CA would raise senators pay from $400 per month to $1,500 per month. Originally, the amendment proposed an $800 salary raise, but further amendments increased the amount.

Nebraska Union Board President Laura Collins, junior coaching and social science education major, said she hoped they could find a place for the 24-hour space and give the computer store what they wanted.

Dillon Jones, Party Party’s external vice presidential candidate and sophomore English major, also spoke in open forum.

Jones outlined some of Party Party’s plans for the Nebraska Union Board. These plans included raising ASUN awareness and making the organization more visible on campus.

The Space Allocation Committee presented its recommendations to the board. The recommendations included

Student’s passion is for maggots Daily nebraskan

Three NU students mature to age of 5 Feb. 29, 1968 Baffling as it may be to the comptroller and admissions supervisors, three University sophomores are celebrating their fifth birthdays Thursday.

Betty Miller, Robert Dalrymple and Marcia Martins are among 129,000 other persons in the United States celebrating their leap-birthdays, with 16,000 babies expected to join their ranks by midnight Thursday night. The three students were born on Feb. 29, 1948 (leap-day).

Being born on Feb. 29 presents some special problems, namely deciding when to celebrate one’s birthday the three years between leap years. Betty Miler solved this problem by celebrating her birthday on March 1 — Nebraska’s birthday.

collecting data concerning the possible change.

“I think it’s profit-oriented and not student-oriented,” Carr said. “They argued increasing the number of laptops and length of time you can have laptops checked out would reduce need, and that may be the case, but haven’t seen the data validating this.”

Carr suggested they take a year to collect data before changing the service because he said “to deprive students would be unfortunate.”

After hearing Carr’s comments, the Nebraska Union Board discussed the need to keep a 24-hour study lounge and the possibility of moving that space to the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.

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Carmen Mostek, senior forensic science and Spanish major, inspects fly specimens that resulted from maggots that escaped from their containers. Mostek hopes to use her forensic and entomology skills to aid in crime-scene investigations.

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legislature: from 1 Nevertheless, senators and committee chairs use priority designation to encourage the passage of the bills they care about most. In some cases, those bills are controversial, such as the child welfare bills prioritized by the Health and Human Services Committee, tax policy bills designated by the Revenue Committee and Sen. Charlie Janssen’s voter ID bill.

Other committee chairs prefer to prioritize bills that emerged from the body with unanimous

approval.

“It’s not an exact science,” said Sen. Russ Karpisek of District 32, chair of the General Affairs Committee.

Karpisek said he looks for “not overly controversial, but still important” bills to avoid eating up time on the floor.

For some committees, including the Judiciary Committee and the General Affairs Committee, prioritization involves wading through dozens of bills until issues like human trafficking

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Robotics, hovercraft to be at Big Red Road Show Event to include more interactive booths and focus on recruitment Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan

The University of NebraskaLincoln’s Big Red Road Show introduces Nebraska high school students to UNL by bringing the campus to them.

With UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s goal of boosting enrollment up to 30,000 students by 2017, colleges and university officials recognize the importance of recruitment.

The Big Red Road Show will be at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha this Saturday. UNL Director of Admissions Amber Hunter said in years past, the road show has also gone to western Nebraska.

When it comes to Perlman’s recruitment goal, Hunter said she wasn’t sure how much it would affect the event.

“The purpose is to expose

students to the academic offerings at the university,” Hunter said. “That has always been important, but it is more important to get Nebraska students to consider the University of NebraskaLincoln.”

The Big Red Road Show provides an introduction to mostly sophomores and juniors in high school, as well as some seniors making last-minute decisions, Hunter said.

“We’ve had great success stories,” she said. “We believe it definitely is beneficial.”

Amber Retke, assistant director of the College of Engineering, said the road show is an ideal first step for students.

The College of Engineering features one of the biggest booths at the road show. Retke said engineering competition pieces are brought in for high school students and parents to look at.

On Saturday, four vehicles will be brought to

the CenturyLink Center: a Formula 1 race car, two Baja off road vehicles and a quarter-scale tractor.

A 20-foot concrete canoe will also be brought in for students to see.

“We have lots of hands-on activities and different vehicles and displays that display different departments in the college,” Retke said in a telephone interview.

“It’s a great way to see an interactive side of the college.”

A robotic arm that simulates human tissue will be available for students to arm wrestle and a hovercraft made by NASA Microgravity University 2012 students will also be at the event.

But the pressure to recruit more students is there.

Retke said the College of Engineering has very large recruitment goals as well.

“We’re looking at being a lot more aggressive in the number of events we offer and the markets we recruit from,” Retke said. franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

fix-it: from 1 Another says: “(My complaint is) the light in my room.

The light strobes on and off and won’t quit. Really annoying. It was great for the rave I had last night in my room though.”

There’s also a request that had a page of photographs submitted with it. The pictures show the room’s bathroom and a toilet that was overflowing with soap suds, with a layer of more soap suds on the floor that were seeping out into the main area.

Mares said that request involved a room flushing a bottle of dish soap down their toilet which resulted in the explosion of suds.

Mares reminisced about the changes the fix-it program has gone through since he was hired.

He said students sometimes accidentally drop things like their keys or N-cards down the elevator shaft.

“We used to be able to retrieve them ourselves,” he said. “But now it’s against

code and we have to bring in the elevator company.”

Even having to deal with so many repairs, Mares said he still enjoys his job.

He said one of his favorite things is working with the student mechanics who are hired to help with the fix-it requests.

“I like showing the student mechanics the ins and outs of everything we do,” Mares said.

“I like seeing them progress.”

He told a story of one student mechanic several years ago who, like many of the students, was hired with no fix-it experience. After working as a mechanic for a semester, the student went home for winter break. His family’s dishwasher broke, and the student repaired it all by himself to the astonishment of his parents.

“That gives me satisfaction, that I can teach somebody,” Mares said.

Others also praise Mares for his commitment to working with students.

“When hiring mechanics, we look for someone who

can go into a student room while students are there and communicate with them and make them feel comfortable,” said Glen Schumann, associate director of Housing Facilities Operations. “They also need to be able to work with a wide variety of people. Arlin does that extremely well.”

Schumann said that overall he is very lucky to have a maintenance staff that keeps things so well-maintained.

He said there are 14 fix-it mechanics for the residence halls across campus, with many of those mechanics being 10year or longer veterans of the job. One mechanic at Selleck has worked there for 27 years.

Mares is certainly experienced in his job. When asked what he does if he encounters a fix-it request he can’t fix, Mares just laughs.

“Never happens,” he said.

“If it’s here, I can fix it. May take a little longer, but I will fix it.”

Kamler said. “It’s kind of the structure of it, they (electoral commission board) don’t have the manpower to watch over everybody. They kind of leave it up to the parties to catch one another.”

According to Lopez, the fines “aren’t meant to stifle one party or another,” but rather to keep order and facilitate

parties as much as possible.

“Stuff happens and there are honestly so many specific rules, breaking one is going to happen,” Miller said. “It’s only been $10 here and there and the electoral commission has been very fair and equal in punishments.”

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fines: from 1 access to the rules, they were in the ASUN office, Impact had the same access,” Lopez said.

In reference to the parties filing complaints on one another, Kamler said he felt this was the nature of the fines.

“The parties running against each other are sort of watchdogs against each other,”

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Student cuisiniers to vie for Top NU chef honor Cristina Woodworth daily nebraskan

Amateur chefs and hungry students alike can partake in the Top NU Chef competition on March 8 put on by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus NightLife organization.

The online registration deadline for the event is Saturday. It is free to register and Student Involvement will provide participants with ingredients and cooking equipment. It is also free to come watch the competition.

Up to 12 teams of one to three students, staff or faculty members will compete by having 45 minutes to prepare a special dish. The dishes will be tasted by a panel of judges, including Timothy Alvarez, an assistant vice chancellor of Student Affairs. Each team will be judged on the taste, creativity and appearance of their dish.

They will also be judged on using proper cleanliness while cooking as well as following a set of food safety guidelines.

Abbie Gabel, a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major and a Student Involvement employee, said the competition offers fun opportunities for both the competing chefs and audience members.

“There is a lot else going on even if you’re not a competitor,” Gabel said. “It’s a pretty popular event.”

The competition this year will also include a burrito-eating contest, cookie decorating and a brain freeze contest.

“Red Mango donated shakes for the brain freeze contest and the winner is whoever can drink their shake the fastest,” Gabel said.

There will also be a cake walk where students can win one of more than 50 cakes made by UNL culinary students.

Gabel encouraged students to gather a team and join the fun.

“This is a great event for students to venture out and try something new at no cost to them,” she said. “I hear students all the time watch competitive food shows and say they wish they could try it, so here is a great opportunity.”

Audience members get a chance to sample the dishes made by Top NU Chef competitors as well. They then get to vote for their favorite to choose the winner of the “People’s Choice Award.”

First, second and third places will also be awarded at the competition. Winning teams will receive gift cards, new kitchen supplies and a variety of other prizes.

Michael Garcia, a sophomore nutrition and health sciences major and culinology student, said he plans to participate in the competition.

“I figure it’ll be good practice,” Garcia said. “If I want to

make it in the food industry, then I need to put myself in as many positions to work under pressure and time constraints as possible.”

This is the third year that UNL has hosted a competition like this, according to Gabel. Last year, the contest was called Iron Chef Nebraska and had different rules. For example, teams had to concoct an entree that had to include rice as an ingredient.

Teams can choose to prepare any type of food this year, it doesn’t have to be an entree.

The competition will take place March 8 in the Nebraska Union Ballroom at 7 p.m.

Garcia said the hardest part about these types of competitions is choosing what to make.

“If something goes wrong during the competition and you’ve dedicated yourself to one specific dish, then things can get pretty hairy,” he said.

“Having a general idea, theme or flavor profile is really the way to go.” Garcia said he plans to just have a good time doing what he loves most — cooking. “(I like cooking) because there isn’t always a definite answer to something,” he said.

“Plus, it’s food. It’s delicious. I get to spend a majority of my time around food and in my opinion, that’s a heck of a way to spend my time.”

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DN commends Impact Party’s swift response At Tuesday night’s DailyER Nebraskan Annual Mass Debate, after the responses of the candidates to the DailyER’s bizarre questions, a new controversy emerged.

One or more of the debate attendees on the Impact Party’s side of the audience shouted homophobic slurs at the Party Party’s candidates, one of whom is gay.

Then, early Wednesday morning, an Impact Party supporter posted a list of reasons to vote Impact, including “We have the experience and knowledge to cause serious change” and “We have awesome merchandise.” One of the comments, posted by Wade Walters, a then-candidate running with Impact for the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Advisory Board, posted an additional reason: “We’re straight.”

Walters was, within the day, removed from Impact’s ticket. Presidential candidate Eric Kamler, internal vice presidential candidate Kaitlin Mazour and external vicepresidential candidate Kyle Wroblewski tweeted immediately after the debate that any member running who said homophobic comments would be asked to “stop any association with the party.” Impact, commendably, lived up to its promise.

But this issue raises larger concerns. First, that some students still use homophobia, in joke or serious format, as a reason to vote against candidates and parties is reprehensible. Homophobia, for some reason, is still a valid issue nationally. But on a college campus, in 2012, it’s amazing students still feel the need to express the opinion of a shrinking minority in society.

Second, the encouraging side of the story is that both parties, from their executive leaderships down, disavowed this language from the beginning. Impact followed through on their promise. Party Party is running with an openly gay executive member. Both parties agree that this simply doesn’t matter. Both parties have released numerous statements in support of equality and tolerance.

The Daily Nebraskan finds Walters’ statement inexcusable. We are pleased to see Impact’s swift and correct response. opinion @dailynebraskan.com

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Economic growth lifts China

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heard the following from Erin Burnett’s interview with Diane von Furstenberg on Feb. 14., the second day of Chinese vice president Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S. Furstenberg said when she was young, whenever she didn’t like her food, her mom would tell her to think about the kids in China who had nothing to eat; when her kids were young, they thought China produced everything. Now, her grandchildren think China is buying everything.

I’m not sure how long it takes for this switch, but I know what I experienced since I started to pay attention to the world.

Bread, eggs and milk, according to what my grandfather told me, are the symbol of the high standard of living in the United States. I was in elementary school, and I didn’t know much about the taste of fresh milk. I still remember when I asked my mom if she could get some milk for me. I promised her I just wanted to taste it, if it was too expensive. All I got then was powdered milk. It’s impossible to find fresh milk on the market if there’s no supply.

At that time, I had eggs and bread.

So, I believed if I could have fresh milk, my life would be the same as Americans. That meant a good life. I was full of hope at that time, because only one out of three elements was needed to live the American life.

I didn’t have to wait very long for that day’s arrival. I guess there were enough people looking for fresh milk. At the beginning of seventh grade, a milk market started to form.

Different producers were competing with each other. I started to have milk with many different flavors. For some reason, even for the same type of milk, different brands had very

jiaJun (ABE) xu different tastes back then. Since then, a jelly sandwich, eggs and milk became one of my breakfast options.

Around that time, the ranking of the Chinese Gross Domestic Product (GDP) started to become a popular topic in our daily conversation. Everyone liked to say something about it.

Even today, I can find many Chinese blogs made the “ambitious” prediction in the early 2000s that China would become the world’s third largest economy in 2015, then the second largest economy by 2050. At that time, I was getting more optimistic about my future. I started to imagine living in a country with the world’s third largest economy in 2015.

I moved to the east coast of China for high school. There was a map called Chinese equivalents from The Economist. The east coast is supposed to be the best part of China.

Going to high school there, I started to realize another change in my life.

Clothes switched from durable goods (last longer than three years) to nondurable goods (last less than three years).

Also, during that time, I started to become a big fan of newspapers.

One of my favorite is the Global Times, which features comparisons between China and the rest of the world. During those days, you pretty

much could find exciting growth stories about China every day. What’s more, bread and milk isn’t a favorable breakfast option to me anymore.

In high school, there was no time for a complex Chinese breakfast.

Bread and milk are one of the fastest combinations. Later, I learned that’s called the American way — fast.

My friend had asked me once if America had always been my choice for college.

That answer was definitely no.

As optimistic as I was, I had never imagined going to school in America until the day I got an offer from an American university.

Everything changed so fast and all of a sudden I realized America wasn’t just a symbol of high standard of living or an icon of the developed world. It was so close to me that I could even start to worry about which part of the United States I should go to in order to get my education. America isn’t just a symbolic region to me anymore; it’s a union with 50 states; a country combined with rural and urban areas; a nation that gathered the rich and the not so rich people.

All of a sudden, I realized China wasn’t a country where I had to imagine the taste of milk anymore.

It’s now a place people view as a world power. In my memory, for too long of a time, China has been criticized for too many people struggling under the poverty line. Not long after milk became accessible to the Chinese, many people started to believe China was a threat.

I disagree. Next column, I will explain.

jiajun (abe) Xu is a junior finance and economics major. reach him at jiajunxu@ dailynebraskan.com.

Neither Obama nor GOP qualified to lead US

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or eight years, we called a man “monstrous” for running budgetary deficits, sending young people to die on foreign battlefields and ignoring the basic rights of Americans here at home. In response, we elected a man who promised to deliver change.

Our hope was misguided. The change didn’t come.

President Barack Obama has done many reprehensible things as president. He has signed off on legislation that passed the buck in restoring fiscal stability to our nation. He has continued to assault civil liberties and displayed scant respect for human rights. He has been every bit the George W. Bush that Bush ever dreamed to be.

What doesn’t make the list? Religion, Obama’s country of origin, his secret plan to turn America into a communist state, etc. Look, folks, our president is an American-born citizen, who is publicly a Christian.

He isn’t some crazed atheist Islamic fundamentalist secularist goatherder from Kenya. Saying something enough times doesn’t make something true. Please turn off Fox News and take a few deep breaths.

It’s entirely possible to criticize bad policy decisions from our

president without spouting lies.

Maybe it’s the super-charged public discourse that makes us hyperventilate when a public official we don’t agree with speaks publicly. Maybe it’s just the pollution. Who knows?

What follows is what the eventual Republican presidential nominee should say about Obama’s failure to deliver hope and change: The president campaigned on ending the culture of graft, corruption and sleaze in Washington.

He’s failed to do so. Crony capitalism continues to run rampant.

Donors find the larger the check, the greater the influence. Washington hasn’t changed. This isn’t a good thing.

The president campaigned promising to stop the radical assault on American freedom perpetrated by the administration of President George W. Bush. He hasn’t. Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), authorized a drone strike on American citizens without due process, refused to prosecute war criminals from the prior administration and prolonged the war in Afghanistan. Had he not been a poor negotiator, we’d still be in Iraq. For once, thank God for failure.

Nothing breeds a climate for

justin green stripping liberty like warfare.”

Obama ran as an anti-war candidate. He hasn’t delivered.

While serving in the Senate in 2006, Obama voted against raising the debt limit. Back then, he understood the absurdity of unrestrained spending. Upon entering the Oval Office, he changed his mind.

Unfortunately, the GOP can’t say any of these things. What’s the common denominator here?

The GOP can’t honestly critique the president for these things without criticizing themselves.

Both political parties are wildly corrupt. The surest way to become wealthy in the United States is to win a major political office. Just ask Jon Bruning.

The GOP remains steadfast defenders of war and the crusade against personal freedom.

There’s no surer way to see a

middle-aged man get sexually excited about something than to discuss invading Iran with Rick Santorum.

Finally, the GOP is as guilty (if not more) than Democrats of debt and deficits. Obama isn’t nearly as blame-free as his defenders claim, but the bulk of new debt in the last 50 years stems from GOP presidents. Ask Reagan and George W. Bush where the money went.

The moral of the story is that most political discourse is just that: talk. The United States, once the land of the free and home of the brave, is now the bipartisan home of George Orwell.

We set people free by killing them. We deliver fairness by taxing more. We teach responsibility by running massive deficits and failing to take accountability.

Remember the quote from Animal Farm? “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

Americans have spent the last 150 years working to undo this kind of thinking. As of today, most people can reasonably say that they’re at least political equals. In the sense that matters most for our polity, all animals are equal.

As the eminent scholar Charles Murray said so well, there’s more to being an “American” than most politicians talk about: “The American project was not about maximizing national wealth nor international dominance. The American project — a phrase you will see again in the chapters to come — consists of the continuing effort, begun with the founding, to demonstrate that human beings can be left free as individuals and families to live their lives as they see fit, coming together to solve their joint problems. The polity based on that idea led to a civic culture that was seen as exceptional by all the world. That culture was so widely shared among Americans that it amounted to a civil religion. To be an American was different from other nationalities, in ways that Americans treasured. That culture is unraveling.”

Being free matters. There is only one candidate between the two major parties who appears to care about letting people live their lives as they see fit. Two words, two syllables.

Ron Paul.

justin green is a senior political science and history major. he blogs at huskerred.tumblr.com. reach him at justingreen@ dailynebraskan.com.

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talk into the mic, so sometimes I just had to scream.

Some of our early demos are a lot more raw and guttural vocally, but I had to think, “Let me try to just let myself sing.”

DN: Do you remember your first singing gig?

LL: Yes. No one was there! It was at an old fire station somewhere in Houston.

DN: Really? What was one of the weirdest places

“Come In and Cover Me” was born from Gin Phillips’ inspiration to write about a woman whose loss is a ghost that quietly haunts her, set in the beauty of pottery.

In a popular book culture obsessed with supernatural romance novels and intrigue, “Cover Me” fits the bill for the current climate. It’s full of ghosts, humor and love.

The Daily Nebraskan caught up with Phillips to discuss the book, which was recently chosen as Oprah’s “Book of the Week,” and to find out how her own experiences shaped her writing.

Daily Nebraskan: On your website you cite the Mimbres pottery in Boston’s Peabody Museum with helping you realize how art would fit in to your story. In what way was this an inspiration to research and write “Come In and Cover Me”?

Gin Phillips: The Mimbres exhibit helped me to clarify the story, but it wasn’t exactly the first glimmer of inspiration. I first came up with idea of Ren, a woman who, on the surface, has it all together — charm, humor, intelligence — but who was totally gutted by an early loss. I saw her sitting in the hot sand with the heat and the dust and the itch of it all. There was this great physicality to how she thought about ancient history.

But I didn’t have a sense of place yet. Then I visited the Peabody Museum in Boston and I stumbled on a Mimbres exhibit. The beauty of it was astonishing. I could see someone becoming obsessed with

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me is the group you would never see coming, but once you do, it’s hard not to love them.

Ume, (pronounced “ooomay”) is a Texas-based trio that rocks as hard and heavy as your favorite garage band, yet can still outmelodize your favorite folk indie group.

Lauren Larson, the group’s frontwoman, sings with a uniquely tender voice. But when she shreds, she takes no prisoners. Known for the vigor of their live sets, Ume has been noted as one of the top unsigned bands by Rolling Stone, has a video aired each hour on mtvU and performed at the SXSW music festival last year.

2012 is slated to be a big year for them, but the band members still value making connections with the audience and losing themselves in the music. Ume is playing Omaha’s Slowdown on Saturday, opening for Cursive. Larson stepped away from Ume’s national tour for a brief interview with the Daily Nebraskan.

Daily Nebraskan: You tour a great deal — do you feel you reach a wider audience through your heavy mtvU rotation or by playing in everyone’s hometown?

Lauren Larson: All of it definitely helps, but for us, the live show really connects with people in a certain way and it surprises people. We’ve picked up so

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many shows this tour and a lot of people didn’t know who we were. I could hear them in the audience — not knowing what it would sound like, lots of expectations. We just thrived on it. The crowd response has been really great.

DN: Do you guys have special gags you pull on tour, to keep the energy going?

LL: There has been an ongoing joke between Rachel Fuhrer, our drummer, and Tim Kasher of Cursive, with a toothbrush that keeps appearing places, just leaving it for each other on tour. The other day it was on our windshield.

But I think a kid in the audience stole it. We tried to get it back, but he grabbed it again! But we’re going to keep it going — it’s not her only toothbrush.

DN: When you first

started playing, who did you listen to?

LL: When I first picked up the guitar, I was a kid trying to play Nirvana songs. My hands were too small to play the power chords, so it really forced me to develop my own style, to work with alternate tunings. My first band was kind of a thrash-grindcore band with 20-second songs.

DN: How do you build your songs? Do songs rise from jams or do you bring parts you worked on earlier to the group?

LL: Both ways. Sometimes it’s a little struggle to have a song all together.

Other times it’s very instinctual and intuitive.

DN: Your latest album, “Phantoms,” and your earlier EP, “Sunshowers,” have such full sound coming from a three-person group.

How do you do that in the studio?

LL: The studio allows us to add more textures to the sound. We’ll add some keyboards and some vocal harmonies and layers. The album has a certain lushness and sweetness that can help anyone communicate to our music. And live is much more visceral, a still very loud experience for people, so we try to connect with them. Both are very passionate experiences, but it’s a lot more raw and physical live.

DN: You soar and whisper over the harshest guitar distortion on many of your songs. How did your singing style come about?

LL: I think my voice is something I’m still finding.

I was a guitar player way before I was a vocalist. I was terrified at any attempt to sing. I was terrified to

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‘a separation’ at the ross

Iranian realist film presents Doane professor to discuss Oscar-winning foreign film morally complex issues tom helberg

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Iranian import “A Separation,” directed by Asghar Farhadi, is specific to its setting yet completely universal.

The film opens with the viewer in the place of a judge, as a husband and wife are pleading their case directly into the camera. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader (Peyman Moadi) and daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi). It is implied but never explicitly stated that better opportunities for everyone, particularly Termeh, lie outside the country. Simin files for divorce when Nader decides he’d rather stay with his Alzheimer’s-stricken father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi).

When the judge will not grant a divorce, Simin moves in with her parents. Nader hires a maid (Sareh Bayat) to take care of his father, but a lie leads to a mess for all parties involved and more is on the line than just his marriage.

“A Separation” goes beyond the surface-level predicament of the titular parting, delving further into issues of generation,

During his Oscar acceptance speech, Asghar Farhadi, the writer and director of the film “A Separation,” brought to light the cultural beauty that many Iranians find in their war-struck homeland.

“At this time, many Iranians all over the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy,” said Farhadi, while accepting the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film on Sunday night. “They are happy not just because of an important award or a film or filmmaker, but because at the time when talk of war, intimidation and aggression is exchanged between politicians. The name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.”

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class, religion and gender. The script is marvelously tailored to provide no clear answers and leaves it up to the viewer to draw conclusions. The storytelling is highly objective, giving details without telling the viewer which side to take. This story could not be told anywhere else but in modern-day Iran, yet it contains truths that will ring true around the world.

The film won this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language film and was nominated for best original screenplay as well.

The foreign film category is

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notorious for awarding it to the “wrong” film, but this year, the academy got it right. “A Separation” is a morally complex, moving film that deserves the praise it’s receiving. tomhelberg@ dailynebraskan.com

Ross Theater. Kim Jarvis will lead a movie talk Sunday afternoon.

Jarvis, a history profesor at Doane College, is wellversed on political, cultural and social issues in the Middle East.

“As an undergraduate, I took a course in Islamic history and found the art and architecture of the Islamic world to be very beautiful,” said Jarvis, who has also been part of many educational seminars that inspired her to visit the Middle East.

Jarvis hopes to cover many issues during her movie talk while keeping the atmosphere conversational.

“I hope to briefly discuss my experiences in the Middle East and how Iranian cinema has impacted films globally,” Jarvis said.

“Based upon the film, I also hope to offer insight into the culture and people of Iran, which should add another, more humane dimension to the challenging diplomatic and political

if you go “A Separation” Movie Talk when: Sunday, 2:40 p.m. where: Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center how much: Free issues so much in the news lately.”

Danny Ladely, director of the Ross, said that the movie talk is bound to address many questions posed by the film, as well as engage the audience.

“The discussions are always very lively, interesting and answer questions about the movie,” Ladely said. “We had one last year that filled up our entire theater.

The talk will center on the cultural lives of the Iranian people and give an inside view to a place that is difficult for Americans to

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Dedication to thankless bit roles sets actress apart THE BIT PLAYERS

tom helberg Not afraid to look ridiculous for a laugh, Missi Pyle has a long history of playing thankless comedy roles.

Her most recent and critically acclaimed film is “The Artist” (2011), which took home the Oscar for Best Picture this past Sunday.

But she has paid her dues in a long career of goofytype roles to get there. Pyle could be described as an unconventional beauty, which for better or worse, is likely why she is often type cast.

She’s no stranger to Best Picture nominees, as her first film role was in James L. Brooks’ “As Good as it Gets” (1997) And although her role as a waitress was tiny, that’s not a bad apprenticeship for a film career.

Her first big film role came in “Galaxy Quest” (1999), a film I frequently recommend because of its brilliant understanding and parody of “Star Trek.” Pyle plays an alien named Laliari, part of the Thermian alien race. Their true form resembles a squid, though they can shape shift into human form to be more appealing.

Pyle’s commitment to such an outlandish role is commendable. She sells it with facial tics and a sense of naivete. She also gets it on with Tony Shalhoub (while she’s in squid form).

From there, she played bit parts in a string of 2004 comedies including “50 First Dates,” “Along Came Polly,” “Anchorman” and “Soul Plane.” It’s best that we try to forget the disgraceful “Home Alone 4” (2002).

Pyle also frequently guest

stars on television and has appeared on “Fraiser,” “My Name is Earl,” and “Two and a Half Men” (“call me Miss Pasternak”). More recently, she has appeared on “S#*!

My Dad Says,” “American Dad” and “Up All Night.”

She played the “Romanovian” member of Ben Stiller’s team in “Dodgeball” (2004), the one with the unibrow. She is nearly unrecognizable in the role.

Say what you will about the low-brow humor, but again, her dedication to the part is impressive. It helps to be fearless in comedy.

In Tim Burton’s 2005 update of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Pyle played Mrs. Beauregarde, the mother of Violet, the gum chewer. She looks a little Botoxed and plays the stuck-up stage mom to a tee. Though Burton’s film is largely unpleasant and inferior to first film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book, Mrs. Beauregarde has more to do in this film than the original. She is a failed baton twirler who pushes her

Iran concerning legal, religious and social issues. The award-winning film touches Islamic cultural issues that many Americans are unaware of. The talk aims to answer questions concerning the movie and the Middle East in general.

Farhadi concluded his speech saying, “I proudly

offer this award to the people of my country, a people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment.”

Sunday’s movie talk will try and shed light on that human element.

LL: We always have fun in the Midwest. It has really been good to us. We got such a good response from St. Louis at Groovefest this past summer. Now we are doing as much as we can, trying to get to Omaha right now!

DN: As female rock performers did you and Rachel have to demand to be taken seriously at the start? How do you swat off the critics?

LL: When we take the stage, I’m not even thinking about that. I’m just going to go out there and let myself go, rock out harder each night more than the night before. We’ve been playing (together) for over a year,

but (Rachel) is amazing. We both like to surprise people a lot. I had people the other day who didn’t even know that I was the girl guitar player in the band; thought someone else played it.

Yeah, that’s kind of frustrating.

DN: We hear you are a big fan of The Muppets. Did you know they just won the Oscar for Best Song?

LL: Aw, I didn’t even know! When I was a little girl, I did routines to The Muppet album (sings theme to “Mah Na Mah Na.”) So there is a special place in my heart for that.

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LL: Well, our practice was at this place called Francisco’s and we were surrounded by a lot of Black Metal bands, so we had to be loud to even get up to the volume! We’ve played on top of a roof before.

That was pretty cool.

DN: So you broke out of Austin. Is it really the magical music Mecca we hear so much about?

LL: Oh, we love Austin.

Yeah. So many bands and live music every night ... I love it. But it’s just changing like any other place.

DN: Are there any places in the Midwest that you look forward to going?

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With a few notable exceptions, Pyle doesn’t star in great films. But that doesn’t diminish her talent and

commitment to silly parts.

tom helberg is a senior film studies major. reach him at tomhelberg@ dailynebraskan.com.

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movie talk: from 5 access, as political conflict has created travel restrictions between the U.S. to Iran.

“A Separation” is a drama about the life of a family living in Iran. The film illustrates universal themes, such as marriage and family, as well as cultural differences within

daughter to succeed in ways she couldn’t. At least it’s an attempt to develop a minor character.

Now, Pyle stars in a minor role in “The Artist.”

The French film was shot in Hollywood with a mix of American and French stars. Pyle plays Constance, a silent movie actress who frequently co-stars with the Douglas Fairbanks-like George Valentin (Jean Dujardin). The part is modeled after Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), the villainous actress in the classic musical “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952).

Pyle gets one of the first big laughs of the picture as she behaves inappropriately, an action that wouldn’t have made it on screen in a “real” silent picture. Her scenes with Dujardin are reminiscent of those with Gene Kelly and Hagen, as they are warmly received on stage after a film premiere. I think “The Artist” is not the best picture of 2011, but it’s at least worth seeing for the performances, Pyle’s included.

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art like that. So that narrowed down my story to taking place in New Mexico. I started doing some research. Then I went on a dig in New Mexico where I met an archaeologist who talked compellingly about frontiers and the intersection points of cultures and a thousand other things. He really helped me to flesh out a whole world in prehistoric New Mexico and he brought Lynay and Non’s world to life.

DN: Quite a bit of research goes into the creation of most fiction novels. What form did most of your research take? In what ways did your first archaeological dig in New Mexico affect your view of what the novel’s setting should be?

GP: With “The Well and the Mine,” I had to do plenty of research, but the setting was an area I was very familiar with in terms of place if not time period. With “Come in and Cover Me,” I chose a field I knew nothing about and a state I’d never even visited before my first archaeology dig. I didn’t recognize a single plant or tree when I stepped into the canyon for the first time. I went on the two-week archaeology dig you mentioned, where I not only learned technique and theory, but I also met some wonderful archaeologists who not only knew what they were talking about but also loved to tell stories. Meeting the archaeologists helped connect me to experts who would continue to steer me in the right direction for the entire writing process. I made a couple of other trips to New Mexico to be led around to prehistoric sites by archaeologists and get a better feel for the land.

DN: It seems normal in many stories for ghosts to insert themselves into other characters’ lives at key moments, but in your novel the ghost of Ren’s brother appears in the quiet times. What prompted this choice?

GP: I love the quiet times. I think often in real life the most important moments — falling in love, realizing you’ve fallen out of love, changing the course of your life — happen very undramatically. I don’t know if that’s why Scott appears in the quiet times — I hadn’t really thought about that before your question. But I do think there’s always some question as to whether Ren really sees any of her ghosts,and it’s the quiet times of her day when she’s left herself unprotected and open to these intimate visits and reflections.

DN: Ren uses unorthodox researching methods when she’s in the field because of her unusual ability to communicate with ghosts. In what ways could a reader’s interpretation of the paranormal

Gin Phillips change their view of the story?

GP: Well, I’ve had people who love shows like “Ghosthunters” and seem very excited about picking up my book. I hope they’re not disappointed.

I’d call the book magical realism. There are ghosts, but they don’t do exciting things like push people out of windows or slit anyone’s throat. If that’s someone’s idea of the paranormal, they might find these to be boring dead people. These ghosts are wrapped up with memories and our ties to the past and our inability to let go of it. If you don’t believe in ghosts, but do understand what it’s like to have your past never very far away from you, these might be the ghosts for you.

DN: In a post on your blog, you write that there is not always a wide gap between fiction and real emotion. How do you accomplish the connection between the two in your new book?

GP: Oh, geez, I wish it were as simple as following a template and knowing you would bridge that gap. I think every writer’s goal is to tap into the real life and real emotions of a reader. It’s that kind of intimate connection that makes the best fiction. I try to do that by writing characters who are real to me and who I connect to deeply. I can only hope readers do as well.

DN: In another post, from the day “Cover Me” was released, you lament that reviewers did not think there was humor in the book. How do you incorporate humor into a book with overarching themes of grief and loss?

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But both have a certain quirkiness and humor to them, in part because that’s how a lot of us deal with fear and grief and loss.

DN: In the same post, you suggest that book reviews should be accompanied by a list of books the reviewer enjoys, so the audience can decide whether the reviewer’s opinion will be similar to their own. With that in mind, do you write with a specific audience in mind? Does the subjective nature of humor make writing for a narrower audience necessary?

GP: Oh, I’m sure humor and love and plenty of other things do sort of narrow an audience.

Both humor and ideas of romantic love are certainly subjective. I don’t write with an audience in mind in that sense.

I write the story that I’m caught up in, and I hope it resonates.

Later on, after the first draft is done, I do think of audience then in terms of making sure the story is clear and coherent in the ways it needs to be.

DN: In what ways was writing a novel that includes love and the paranormal a challenge?

GP: “Come in and Cover Me” is a story with several layers — love story, ghost story, Ren’s history, Lynay and Non’s history. I did find it challenging to tie all those threads together. I loved writing the love story because I was writing it as I got engaged and then married my husband, so there are bits and pieces of him in Silas’ character.

Overall I really enjoyed getting to know the ghosts. rachelstaats@ dailynebraskan.com

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It’s back to playing on the road for the Nebraska softball team.

After traveling for tournaments in Arizona, New Mexico and California, the No. 24 Huskers will now travel to College Station, Texas to compete against three teams in the Texas A&M Invitational.

The weather’s starting to get warmer and NU coach Rhonda Revelle said she hopes her team’s bats continue to as well.

“I’m hoping we can continue to swing at good pitches and get runners across the plate when we have them in scoring position,” she said.

The Huskers are coming off a month in which they scored 100 runs in their first 13 games, reaching that mark faster than any other team in school history. The team ended the month 9-7, which is the 10th time in the last 11 seasons the program has posted a winning month of February.

And the month of March only looks brighter.

Nebraska holds an all-time record of 420-242 in the month of March, posting a winning record in the month for 16 straight seasons.

Revelle added that she also hopes to see the team’s pitching and defense improve.

“Overall I want this team to improve in execution,” she said. “From a pitching standpoint we need to continue to work in the strike zone. Defensively we need to get used to playing with each other and play better than last weekend.”

In February the pitching staff posted a team earned run average of 4.20, allowing 78 runs, with 19 of them unearned. Last season the NU rotation allowed just five unearned runs in 55 games.

Defensively, the Huskers have already committed 25 errors in just 16 games, a team that surrendered 43 errors throughout the 2011 season.

After accumulating five errors in Nebraska’s first tournament of the season, Revelle relocated junior Gabby Banda from shortstop to third base. Since moving farther right of the infield, Banda has increased her fielding percentage to .906.

Banda said she’s felt more comfortable since moving to the hot corner.

“I feel more comfortable there and my instincts are better,” she said. “I feel more at home. I was injured in the fall and at shortstop you need more range. At third I don’t have to move as much and that’s helped put less pressure on my knee.”

Moving positions isn’t the only change the coach has made with Banda.

In Nebraska’s first game of the season, Revelle placed the

junior in the No. 6 spot in the lineup. Since then, she has moved Banda up in the order batting No. 2 behind lead-off hitter Nikki Haget.

“Even before the season I thought about moving her there,” Revelle said. “She has good speed and her on-base percentage has increased. She’s showed that she can produce and has done a nice job.”

Since hitting four spots higher, the Angleton, Texas, native has hit for a .360 batting average is third on the team with two home runs and 17 RBIs. She also holds a slugging percentage of .560 and an on-base percentage of .441.

Banda said she credits her coach for trusting her in becoming a productive hitter.

“I’m fortunate enough to know coach Revelle has faith in me and knows I can get it done,” she said.

“And it’s given me more confidence.

My heads clear and banda I feel like I can accomplish more things. I know what my job is and I love doing it.”

This weekend the Huskers have another challenge as they face three teams that played in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.

On Friday the team will start the tournament against Houston, a team that recently fell out of the top-25 rankings this week. The Cougars were one win shy of advancing to the College World Series last year.

In Game 2 and Game 4, Nebraska will also face off against host Texas A&M, a school Banda said she visited before committing to Nebraska.

“I never felt like they were a bid for me,” she said. “Nebraska felt more like home and the coaches are amazing. I wanted to get away from home and still have that home feeling with me. I knew this is where I needed to be.”

The infielder said the visit home will especially be special to her, as it’ll be the only time her family will get to see her play this season.

Banda said she hopes to play well in front of them and defeat the No. 21 Aggies.

“It’s a relaxing feeling knowing there going to be there no matter how I do,” she said.

“We’ve faced a couple Big 12 competitors this past weekend and we’re amped to play (Texas A&M). It won’t be any different.”

“We’re going to come after them with everything we have.” neduIzu@ dailynebraskan.com

wrestling: from 10 “We’ve got a lot of young guys, so the nerves could be there a little bit,” Ihnen said.

“But I think the coaches have done a good job of preparing us for that and I don’t think that will be too much of a problem.”

Ihnen added that finally getting an opportunity to wrestle in the postseason will provide the team’s four freshmen with quality experience.

“It’s basically like a mini national tournament. Being on that big stage, getting that out of the way before nationals,” Ihnen said. “That will definitely help some of those guys to be ready for that kind of environment.”

To begin the tournament, No. 1 Minnesota and No. 2 Penn State have three topseeded wrestlers apiece, while No. 4 Iowa, No. 7 Ohio State, No. 14 Michigan and No. 18

Northwestern all enter with one No. 1 seed. But for the Huskers, there are more important focal points than seeds.

“No matter where you’re seeded, you’re going to earn what your results going to be, so you got to go out there and earn it. It’s not going to be given to you by your seed,” Manning said. “You’re going to earn your finish, so you got to wrestle hard for it.”

It’s that time of year again — the time of year when anything can happen. “You can’t go out there just thinking about the best guys in your weight,” Ihnen said. “You got to go out there and you got to win a couple to get to those tough guys, so you’ve just got to take it one match at a time.” zachtegler@ dailynebraskan.com

The men’s gymnastic team has had two weeks off from competition to practice and get ready for its matchup against the Arizona State Sun Devils on Sunday. NU has had time off between meets before, usually with the first week off to rest and the second week to work on their routines.

This time, coach Chuck Chmelka took a different route.

“These past two weeks we didn’t stop doing routines, we didn’t really rest with anything,” Chmelka said. “We kept going in the weight room and we just kept doing everything the same.”

The Huskers, who haven’t competed at home in six weeks, have been using these two weeks to practice dismounts, which have been earning them too many deductions in the last meets to reach their goal score of 340.

“The guys have been working real hard, we’re still

focusing on sticking landings and upgrading difficulties,” Chmelka said. “So we’re just trying to improve on the areas we’re weak, and that’s going to show Sunday.”

Sophomore Robbie Kocks used his time to work on a new routine along w i t h his dismounts to earn as many points for the Huskers as he can. kocks “I want to get a high enough score to help out the team,” Kocks said, “Because with me only doing one event I need to focus everything toward that routine and it just needs to be a high score.”

Kocks has been working on a new rings routine with a difficult dismount to add points

to the overall team score. His new routine is 0.6 points higher than his previous routine.

“It definitely has a lot more strength skills,” Kocks said, “It’s going to help out the team. Our rings haven’t been doing too well, but that’s going to change.”

Kocks has been working for years on his strength, and Chmelka knows he’s at the point where he can compete and his routine will be good enough to get the points NU needs.

“He’s been working real hard and he’s doing really good,” Chmelka said. “He’s to the point now that he’s adding points and getting fewer deductions so it’s totally worth it.”

Chmelka said the gymnasts have been improving on their dismounts. They had a team competition where the only thing that mattered was how they stuck their landings to put the focus on dismounts and reducing deductions.

“We just missed the 340, which has been our goal, but we know we’re that kind of team and we just have to put a full meet together,” Chmelka said, “If we hit our routines there’s no doubt in my heart we can score a 350.”

The Huskers are also looking forward to having their first meet at home in six weeks and are expecting a large, loud crowd cheering them on at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The men will be competing alongside the women in Pepsi’s Pack the House, where admission, a large soda and hotdogs are only $1 each. Admission is free for any NU student with a current NCard.

“We’re just excited to be home for a change,” Chmelka said, “A lot of guys have some friends or family coming into town, hopefully we’re going to have a nice crowd. I would encourage every student to come. It’s going to be loud. It’s going to be a good meet.”

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The first Big Ten matchup in the history of Nebraska men’s tennis will be played this Friday at the Nebraska Tennis Center.

The Huskers, 6-4 on the season, take on No. 18 Illinois in a match that pits them against one of their top competitors in the new conference. Illinois is the Big Ten’s second-highest team in the rankings behind national No. 2 Ohio State.

The game offers the Huskers a chance to start the new Big Ten era off with a bang.

“It’d be great (to win),” NU coach Kerry McDermott said.

“It would mean that we beat a team in the top 25. It would give us some confidence going into the spring break and going into the conference season, but it is only one match, and it’s not just one match that makes or breaks our season.”

McDermott said that he wants his squad to take its schedule one match at a time, but sees great opportunity for his team in the Big Ten Conference.

“It’s going to be good,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of parity outside of Ohio State, the best team in the league.

There are a lot of teams in the top 25, and I think that on any given day, anybody can beat anybody. I told our guys that there are going to be a lot of close 4-3 matches.”

Getting a good read on how the Huskers will fare in their new league is a tough task.

With so many new opponents and very few reliable statistics to go on, it is hard to make a comparison between a Big 12 schedule and one in the Big Ten. “The only comparison that you have is the rankings,” senior Christopher Aumueller said. “It’s always hard to make comparisons. I personally don’t make comparisons.

On any given day, anyone can beat anyone. In the end, rankings don’t really matter either.

Any team is as dangerous as another team.”

The Huskers’ three doubles teams will be key to the team’s success in this Friday’s matchup with Illinois. The top two pairs, Aumueller and Benedikt Lindheim (No. 5) and Andre Stenger and Robert Schulze (No. 22) are nationally ranked.

“You could put them against anybody in the country, and they would do really well,” McDermott said. “When we can get the doubles point that can give us an advantage that we only have to win three of the singles points to win the team match.”

Aumueller said that he and Lindheim have been playing together for more than 10 years and have developed a connection that allows them to thrive.

“In tennis, it’s a whole lot about chemistry,” he said. “You can have two really good players, but if they don’t get along on and off the court, they won’t work. On our team, we know what to say to the other guy to get him motivated. I

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Christopher Aumueller, along with teammate Benedikt Lindheim, are the No. 5 ranked doubles team in the nation.

“We are pretty excited, obwould say that our best asset is our chemistry.” viously,” Aumueller said. “In Aumueller said he and the the end it is just a regular dual rest of the team are excited match. It’s just like the other to get the Big Ten season un- matches. We may be a little derway, but not simply for more excited though because the sake of starting in a new it’s Illinois, and they are in the conference. For them, it comes top 25.” lannyholstein@ with a shot at beating a team dailynebraskan.com like Illinois.

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Team looks to ride 9-match win streak angela hensel daily nebraskan

Even though the Nebraska women’s tennis team is in the heat of the season, its focus is just as sharp as ever.

Nebraska had three matches last week, and it continues play this weekend with matches in Lincoln against St. Louis Friday and Colorado Sunday.

After beating former Big 12 rival Kansas State on Wednesday 4-3, the Huskers are looking to carry momentum into this weekend.

“We want to focus on getting better every time we step on the court,” Nebraska coach Scott Jacobson said.

This weekend will be a good chance for the Huskers to make some of the improvements they are looking for.

Colorado is coming off a loss to in-state competitor Denver, while St. Louis has dropped its last three straight matches.

And for the Huskers, each

victory is critical. The only loss for the tennis team this season came at the start of the spring season against No. 8 Northwestern. But even with a strong 10-1 record, the Huskers are still looking to break into the top 25.

One Husker who has contributed to the squad’s consistency is NU junior Janine Weinreich. Besides her individual loss at Northwestern, Weinreich has only lost one other match this year, at Washington in February.

“It’s not surprising with how successful we have been.”

Weinreich said. “We have a really good team right now and have the potential to be better.”

Although Weinreich expects success from the Huskers, that doesn’t mean she wants to stop at No. 27 Nebraska’s current spot in the polls.

“I want to improve every match,” Weinreich said. “I’m working mostly on my footwork and being more focused,

so that I can have smoother strokes.”

But Weinreich isn’t the only Husker looking for more. Part of the success for the Huskers has come from their depth, according to Jacobson. During Wednesday’s match against Kansas State, Nebraska was without top senior Madeleine Geibert, who was sidelined due to injury. Nevertheless, weinreich the Huskers still came away with a victory.

“We can count on each player,” Weinreich said.

But this depth wouldn’t help the Huskers go anywhere without their sharp focus. With the long stretch of matches for Nebraska this week, and its tough schedule leading up to the Big Ten Championships in

April, it’s critical that they keep racking up victories.

“We stay focused on tennis on the court, and don’t think about anything else,” Weinrich said.

Although the Huskers are able to maintain this intensity, Jacobson says that his players still need their recovery time.

The players had some time off on Thursday so they can still balance academics and prepare for Friday’s match, according to Jacobson.

With that down time, Nebraska should be right at where it needs to be. Friday’s match against St. Louis begin at 7 p.m. at the Nebraska Tennis Center. After a day off, the Huskers will be back on the court against Colorado at noon on Sunday, chasing after improvement.

“We want to be better on Sunday than we were coming into this weekend,” Jacobson said. angelahensel@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sean Whalen INDIANAPOLIS — Northwestern women’s basketball coach Joe McKeown should file an insurance claim — his team just got hit by a train. In all seriousness, Nebraska’s 88-56 win over No. 11 seed Northwestern — a team they lost 63-51 to not three weeks ago — sent a message to the rest of the Big Ten: Do not take the Children of Corn lightly.

By halftime, NU had surpassed its scoring total from the previous encounter in building a 54-25 lead. The Huskers shot 58.6 percent matt masin | daily nebraskan overall, made 7 of 12 3-point shots and hit 12 free throws. Freshman Tear’a Laudermill gets hit in the face by Northwestern’s Kendall Hackney ThursThey finally achieved their ul- day in Indianapolis. The Huskers went to the line 32 times. timate offensive goal — Lindsey Moore and Jordan Hoop- us from the opening tip real- place where a message of game notes er got theirs (28 combined ly,” he said. “They’re capable revenge came in to play was ··NU’s 54 first-half points at halftime) without it of winning (the Big Ten Tour- the team’s disappointment points is a Big Ten affecting the rest of the team, nament) and so are a number in how it performed against Northwestern Tournament record. which had six players chip in of teams still in the first time. ··NU’s 88 points are between three and six points it.” ... (T)he fact “We did want Good luck the most in a Big in the half. to come back we were able Ten Tournament In the second half, with getting a comand show that game since Ohio the game far, far out of hand, ment from Yori to execute on we could beat State put up 89 in NU’s offense relented a bit to that effect, both ends of the them,” Simon 2002. with Moore and Hooper on though she did said. “We knew floor, I definitely ··Jordan Hooper got the bench, but the Huskers’ call the team’s to 1,000 points 51 percent field goal shoot- p e r f o r m a n c e think shows how we could have beaten them at akin to a “good Thursday — the ing and 39 bench points bode (good) we were home.” fastest to the mark well for the rest of the week- caramel with The win also today. in NU history. end, which will see NU face chocolate” and solidified NU’s seemed very ··NU’s 22 wins are Iowa Friday in the quarterfiLindsey Moore NCAA Tournahappy with her tied for 6th most in nals. nu point guard ment profile, school history.

The bracket sets up well for team’s perforas losing to the the Huskers. Purdue, Penn mance. While ··Thursday was the Wildcats was State and Michigan State sit the “revenge” fifth time this the only possible bad result factor wasn’t talked about on the opposite side of the season NU won by 30 or more points. bracket, meaning NU will much by Yori or the team this weekend. With 22 wins only have to face one of the — Yori said she had “happy and a strong Big Ten profile, three. While Iowa has won players, not angry ones” — NU will be in the NCAA Toureight games in a row, NU it seemed important to the nament regardless of what worst-case scenario for the has beat them twice and just players to show both North- happens. No team NU could No. 24 Huskers, who could beat their likely semifinal op- western and the Big Ten what realistically lose to can hurt move up a line in the bracket its profile, as Iowa, Michigan with each win from here on ponent, Ohio State, by 14 on they are made of. and OSU are all strong teams. out.

“I hope (it sends a good Sunday.

The only question now is While stopping short of message to the conference), But judging by the Huskers’ where the Huskers will end performance Thursday, they because this is the style we saying Nebraska is the team to beat in the tournament, want to play,” Moore said. up in the bracket. ESPN’s could find themselves closer McKeown didn’t dismiss the “And the fact we were able to Charlie Creme has the Husk- to a No. 5 seed than a No. 8.

Huskers’ chances of playing execute on both ends of the ers as a No. 8 seed heading Sean Whalen is a senior floor, I definitely think shows off to Little Rock, Ark. to face News-Editorial Major. on Sunday.

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INDIANAPOLIS — As nice as Thursday’s victory over Northwestern was, the Nebraska women’s basketball team is only a quarter of the way toward its goal — a Big Ten Tournament Championship.

NU’s next opponent is a white-hot Iowa squad in the tournament’s quarterfinals.

The teams will take the court 25 minutes after the conclusion of the 11:30 a.m. EST Ohio State vs. Michigan game Friday. The Hawkeyes have won eight games in a row since Nebraska beat them 60-53 in Lincoln on Jan. 26, and have pushed themselves from the bottom half of the standings to a No. 3 seed in the conference tournament.

The Hawkeyes’ run is admirable, given the absence of star guard Jaime Printy, who tore her ACL in a Feb. 2 win over Wisconsin. NU beat the Hawkeyes twice with Printy in the lineup (including a 7772 Jan. 8 win in Iowa City), and would theoretically have a great chance of a third victory without having to guard the Marion, Iowa, native.

Lindsey Moore isn’t too sure about that — she thinks the Hawkeyes may be stronger for the team bonding that

occurred after her injury.

“I haven’t seen them play recently, but I think the biggest thing is that they knew that Jaime Printy was such a huge part of their team that somebody had to step up,” she said. “Every player is doing more because she’s not able to play.”

The bracket now calls for four Friday quarterfinals featuring seven teams that expect to be in the NCAA Tournament, with only Penn State (who faces Minnesota) having an “easy” game. If the Huskers win, they will face the OSU/Michigan winner in Saturday’s first semifinal. A win there would put NU into Sunday’s final.

Coach Connie Yori isn’t thinking about the final at all. She said the team is back to the drawing board once it gets to the hotel, and preparing for Iowa is the only thing on her mind.

“I remember they were both really close games ... we were fortunate to win two games,” Yori said. “Iowa’s a really good basketball team and they’re playing their best basketball right now ... it’s hard to beat a really good team three times in a season.

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women’s basketball: from 10 “and that was a huge part of why we were able to get so many good looks. Our pressure was really bugging them.”

Nebraska moves on to the quarterfinals of the tournament Friday against the No. 3 seeded Iowa. The Huskers beat the Hawkeyes twice during the regular season, but since then Iowa has

won eight straight games.

Simon understands that Iowa will come out with the same intensity Nebraska did against Northwestern Thursday, because of those two losses.

“We need to prepare and be ready for every team we play,” Simon said. andrewward@ dailyNebraskan.com

Ubel ready to battle Gophers

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If there was a bright spot in the Nebraska men’s basketball team’s 62-53 loss Wednesday night to Iowa, it was the play of forward Brandon Ubel.

The junior from Overland Park, Kan., scored a careerhigh 17 points alongside seven boards while shooting a perfect 7 for 7 from the field.

NU head coach Doc Sadler thought had he done a better job coaching, Ubel’s night could have been even bigger.

He felt that Iowa couldn’t stop the Huskers inside, and there should have been better communication to NU’s players to get the ball in to Ubel as they struggled behind the arc going 4 for 24.

“I think we could get it in there quite a bit; we just didn’t do as good of job of coaching them to get in there like we should have,” Sadler said. “We should have done a better job.”

But a solid night isn’t something that’s a rarity for Ubel. This season he’s averaging 6.5 points per game and 4.7 rebounds per game.

But NU’s last four games Ubel has been on a tear.

He has put up 11 points per game and averaged five rebounds over that period.

But Nebraska’s lone true post player isn’t about to take all of the credit for his recent improvement.

“It’s easy when you’re just shooting layups a lot,” Ubel said. “Our guys have been penetrating pretty well and that’s helped a little bit.”

But once guards like Bo Spencer and Brandon Richardson do penetrate a Big Ten defense, it’s not like Ubel can throw it in the hoop.

Ubel had 13 points against No. 5 Michigan State last week while being guarded

by Big Ten Player of the Year candidate Draymond Green.

When he’s face off against some of the best in the Big Ten, Ubel’s turned up his intensity a couple notches.

“I’ve just been more aggressive in the post, making quicker moves, just waiting to see how things develop,” Ubel said. “But just being more aggressive has kind of been the story.”

Even though Nebraska has three players who are 6-foot11, Ubel, listed at 6-foot-10, is often the tallest player on the court for the Huskers, due to injuries plaguing Jorge Brian Diaz, Christopher Niemann

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Nebraska junior Brandon Ubel scored 17 points on a perfect 7 for 7 Wednesday against Iowa. and Andre Almeida.

That means that the junior has taken all the tips and played a lot of time at the center position for the Huskers, even though he’s listed as a power forward.

“It’s been different that’s for sure just going up against their biggest, strongest and usually longest guy every game,” Ubel said. “That was difficult at first, but you kind of find your groove and your niche a little bit and find angles and you make sure you do your work early instead of just making one-on-one moves.”

On Saturday Ubel is going to have to try and make some of those moves against

the large frontcourt of Minnesota.

Last time out, the Gophers put up 40 points in the paint.

The Huskers will need Ubel to slow down Minnesota’s penetrating ability to come up with a win — a win that’s necessary for Nebraska as it looks toward its first Big Ten Tournament.

“That’s definitely important for us. We’d like to go into the tournament on a winning note and get a little momentum going for us and some positive energy along with knocking some shots down going into the tournament will definitely help us out.” robbykorth@ dailynebraskan.com

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It’s that time of year again.

As the No. 8 Nebraska wrestling team readies for its first Big Ten Tournament, the whole season does not come down to this weekend for everybody on the team. The beginning of March, however, does signify a chance for the Huskers to achieve the goals they set out to accomplish when the season began in November.

“It’s exciting for our guys,” NU coach Mark Manning said. “It’s exciting for them to be able to meet goals and achieve things that they’ve dreamed about and they’ve been working for since

last spring and summer.”

NU junior 184-pounder Josh Ihnen echoed that thought, saying this weekend’s conference tournament in West Lafayette, Ind., will be the biggest stage for him and his teammates so far in the season.

“This is where you really want to go out and leave it all on the mat,” he said.

Entering the tournament, four of Nebraska’s wrestlers are seeded in the top four of their weight classes. Ihnen is the third seed at 184 pounds, senior Tucker Lane is seeded fourth in the heavyweight division and freshmen James Green and Robert Kokesh notched No. 3 seeds at 157 pounds and 165

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pounds, respectively.

For Manning, though, the seeds do not tell the whole story.

“We don’t have a No. 1 or a No. 2 seed. We don’t have a predicted champion,” he said.

“For us, it’s about winning championmanning ships and getting our guys to believe in that, have that competitive spirit to fight for that title when it’s on the line

this weekend.”

He added that the most daunting tests for his Huskers are their own mentalities.

“The biggest challenge, I think, is just themselves,” Manning said. “Staying loose, staying mentally prepared as far as thinking positive thoughts.”

Nebraska has had plenty of time to sharpen its focus. Since their last competition, the Huskers have had two weeks to prepare for the Big Ten Tournament.

“I feel like the team had a really good training cycle and we’ll heal up and be rested and ready to go on Saturday,” Ihnen said.

Manning said his squad has

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INDIANAPOLIS — The Huskers scored just 51 points in a loss against Northwestern on Feb. 16. They scored 54 points by halftime on Thursday.

Nebraska shot 58.6 percent from the field in the first half and went on to rout the Wildcats 88-56 in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis. The 54 points scored at halftime set a Big Ten Tournament record for points in the first half.

“Our players played with an aggressive mentality,” NU coach Connie Yori said. “They played with confidence. They did the things that we asked them to do. In the first time around, we were very passive, and I thought this time we just played with a different mentality offensively.

Nebraska led 12-9 at the first media timeout with 15:45 left in the first half. Northwestern managed just a free throw for the next nine minutes as the Huskers went on a 29-1 run to take a commanding 41-10 lead.

The lead never went below 25 points for the Huskers from that point on in the game. Yori said her team came out with more fire than it did in the first game against Northwestern.

“If you look at the stats, we won all of the aggressive stat lines today,” Yori said. “We turned them over. We won the battle of the boards. We got to the foul line more than they did. So those are things you look to do, we look to do within our system. And those are important stat lines.”

Jordan Hooper and the rest of her teammates came out firing from the start. The sophomore made her first three shots, scoring Nebraska’s first eight points. She finished with 18 points in a season-low 16 minutes.

“It wasn’t tough (to sit) because our team was doing so well, but it was kind of weird not going in every couple of seconds,” Hooper said.

Northwestern’s zone, which caused Nebraska to shoot 28 percent from the field in the fist match up, gave the Huskers no problems Thursday.

NU shot 51 percent from the field, making nine shots from behind the arc for the game.

Every Husker scored Thursday led by Hooper. Lindsey Moore got out of her shooting slump to score 14 points for the Huskers, while Katie Simon came off the bench to score 10 points and gave Hooper much needed rest in 19 minutes of action.

Yori said Simon’s contributions were huge for Nebraska.

“When Katie Simon, who barely played for us, is playing more minutes than Jordan, that’s a good thing in a tournament setting,” Yori said.

“We were fortunate to get the lead and hold the lead and not

taken advantage of the longer preparation period.

“Our guys are wrestling hard and they trained real hard,” Manning said. “I think the biggest thing is just the mental preparation we’ve done the last couple weeks and getting ready to perform to their best and believe they are the best.”

But winning will not come easily. Even though Nebraska is ranked eighth in the nation, the Huskers finished the conference season tied for fifth in the Big Ten. “The Big Ten Conference, I think nobody would argue, is the toughest wrestling conference in the country,” Ihnen said.

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have to bring the starters back in.”

Nebraska’s bench outscored Northwestern’s 39-10 for the game, its second game in a row over 20. Along with Simon, Rebecca Woodberry had a productive game with 12 points and six rebounds in 21 minutes of action.

For most of the second half, Nebraska had all freshmen on the court. The offense showed no signs of slowing as those freshmen accounted for 40 points throughout the game.

“We were successful because of our practices and we just work hard in practice.

So when we have a chance, when our teammates need the rest, we’re able to go in and contribute the way we’re supposed to and run our system,” Woodberry said.

The Husker defense held Northwestern to just 37 percent in the first half, forcing 15

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turnovers into 24 points, many of them layups in transition.

“Our defense created our offense today,” Moore said,

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NU to face Minnesota to wrap up 3-game weekend

Nebraska coach Connie Yori happily watches from the sideline during her team’s 32-point victory in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday afternoon.

And even though Manning said he is not concerned with creating a strong first impression at the Big Ten tourney, he did acknowledge the tough level of the competition in his team’s new conference.

“I think it’s great preparation for the NCAA Tournament here in a couple weeks,” he said.

“You can place in here, you can place in the NCAA Tournament.

I think it’s a good landmark for us to see where we’re at as a team.”

That statement may be more true for the Huskers’ younger wrestlers than anyone else.

This weekend, Nebraska will find out how tough Big Ten baseball really is.

While the Huskers play West Virginia Friday and New Mexico State on Saturday at the Dairy Queen Classic in Minneapolis, all eyes will be on Sunday’s matchup against Minnesota in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

While the game will not count in the league standings (much like last year’s “non-conference” matchup with Kansas State), the Huskers will finally face a Big Ten foe — in this case, a good one. In the preseason coaches poll, the Gophers were picked to finish third in the conference, one spot ahead of NU, and behind Purdue and favorite Michigan State.

Husker fans may be interested in NU’s opponents, but they can be assured that, to coach Darin Erstad, this weekend is all about the development of his Huskers.

“We’re not focused on who we’re playing, we’re focusing on our level of execution,” Erstad said. “(We’re) just focusing in on what we have in our house.”

This weeke n d should h e l p s h o w whether NU is the t e a m t h a t b l e w erstad several e a r l y leads en route to an 0-3 weekend two weeks ago or the team that put up nearly nine runs per game in a 4-0 weekend last week. NU’s pitching showed a major improvement last week, and NU’s top trio of Zach Hirsch (Friday), Jon Keller (Saturday) and Tom Lemke (Sunday) will start for the weekend.

Erstad didn’t feel the pitching performance changed that much between weekends, despite the big change in results.

“It’s baseball. We played pretty much the same, we just didn’t finish games the first weekend,” he said. “The starters did all

right (last weekend), I think there’s room for improvement.”

The bullpen will feature Travis Huber and Brandon Pierce in endgame roles — Erstad called Huber “1A” and Pierce “1B” for now — and will work to look more like the bullpen that held two leads and assisted in the comeback on Sunday than the one that blew three lategame leads against Gonzaga.

Nebraska begins the weekend against West Virginia on Friday. The Mountaineers, competing in the Big East for the final season before joining the Big 12, have exactly the opposite results as the Huskers — they won their first three before losing their next four. Those three wins came over Big Ten competition, as WVU knocked off Northwestern, Penn State and Iowa (they also lost 14-3 to MSU).

NMSU, Saturday’s opponent, is 7-3 on the season, with two losses to No. 4 Rice. New Mexico State’s projected starter, lefthander Ryan Beck, is 2-0 on the year with an ERA of 1.80. The Gophers are 3-4 after a series split with Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and are led by Kurt Schlangen, who has a .563 batting average and three RBIs. For the players, the weekend will be about more than just baseball.

With a deal proposed to replace the Metrodome with a new Minnesota Vikings stadium, this may be the Husker players’ only chance to play in the venue that saw two Minnesota Twins World Series titles.

Erstad remembers having a bit of a hard time playing the outfield there himself.

“I’ve got a couple of scars from running into people (at the Metrodome),” Erstad said. “Had my feelings hurt a few times missing some fly balls, but that’s part of the game and it’s going to happen, so it’s how we respond that’s what’s important.”

The players hope to have similar memories.

“I want to get out there and shag some balls and run under that baggy (outfield),” Richard Stock said.

“Seeing what Kirby Puckett did there, (Joe) Mauer playing there, it’s going to be surreal playing where all those great Twins played.”

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