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Inside Coverage

Finding the perfect fit

Pushing for change

Tri Delta offers leadership opportunities

Group demands commitment to Alta Gracia

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Going big

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The No. 11 seeded Nebraska men’s basketball team is entering its first tournament since 1998 and is slated to play a daunting Baylor team photo by shelby wolfe

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Regents announce nominee for interim president Board to consider Dr. James Linder as Milliken’s temporary replacement at Friday meeting staff report dn The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has made a nomination for interim NU president.

At its Friday meeting, the board will consider appointing Dr. James Linder, president of the University Technology Development Corpora-

Regents to vote on Breslow Ice Center Friday Gabrielle Lazaro DN Whether the proposed Breslow Ice Center will finally “break the ice” is to be decided Friday at the University of Nebraska Board of Regents meeting. The project proposal for the center is now being brought back with full support from the Business Affairs Committee.

The regents meeting will be at 8 a.m. in Varner Hall, 3835 Holdrege St. It’s open to the public and audio streamed at www.nebraska.edu The Breslow Ice Center project has existed for more than six years after an initial pledge of $7 million from former Nebraska State Auditor John Breslow.

In January at the last regents meeting, the $11 million ice center was discussed, and a vote on the program statement was tabled because of uncertainty about the deal between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the City of Lincoln.

They decided to hold off to discuss things such as financing, said Melissa Lee, regents spokeswoman.

“Since then, financials for capital building costs have been figured and majority of the board was in support,” said student regent Eric Reznicek, a senior finance and marketing major, in an email. “What it will solely come down to will be the operating agreement with the city. That was where an easy majority of the discussion stemmed from.”

Reznicek, who is also the UNL student government president, said the board decided last time that the ice center was a good project and would be in support given a solid operating agreement with the city.

Lee said the regents will make a decision on the program statement, plan and budget at the Friday meeting, and the operating agreement will be brought back to the board when it’s finalized.

Construction for the ice center to be located southwest of Haymarket Park would begin once all funding commitments

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tion and the senior associate to the Nebraska Medical Center and is president of NU for innovation and currently a professor of pathology and microbiology. In addition to his economic competitiveness.

Linder would begin the role on employment with the University of Nebraska, Linder is the May 3, taking over for chief medical officer of current NU president Roche Diagnostics HeJames B. Milliken. Milmatology of Boston. liken is leaving to be“Dr. Linder’s excome chancellor of the perience and presence City University of New with the university York. were large factors (in If Linder becomes the decision),” said Eric interim president, he Reznicek, Association of will not be considered Students of the Univerfor the permanent posisity of Nebraska presition. A national search dent and senior finance is in progress for Miland marketing major. liken’s permanent suclinder “Working in the past cessor. closely with President In the past, Linden Milliken and his past work with the has served as the CEO of UNeMed university will provide for a very Corporation at the University of

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smooth transition into the new president. We also looked for someone who would not be pursuing the role permanently and that could provide a seamless transition.”

Linder would become a fulltime employee on April 1 and take over for Milliken following his resignation on May 2.

“The Board of Regents considered several outstanding candidates for interim president, and Jim Linder emerged as our consensus top choice to lead the University of Nebraska during this period of transition,” said Howard Hawks, chairman of the Board of Regents. “Dr. Linder is very familiar with the university, having served in faculty and administrative positions at UNMC and in the Office of the President on a full- or part-time basis for more

Dr. Linder’s experience and presence with the university were large factors (in the decision).”

Eric Reznicek asun president

than 30 years. He has a wide range of related experience in teaching, research, and external engagement which will serve the university well while we complete the search for the next president.”

Linder will continue his employment with Roche Diagnostics while he is interim president.

“I have great pride in the University of Nebraska, so I am deeply honored to serve as interim presi-

dent,” Linder said. “I have learned a great deal by working with President Milliken and understand the priority of maintaining the momentum that has built on each campus, and in our university-wide institutes. At the same time, until a new president is selected, the university must be ready to pursue new opportunities that arise.”

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Women’s Center director: Feminism is still necessary in American society

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very week, the Daily Nebraskan interviews a notable figure on the University of NebraskaLincoln campus in an effort to allow campus leaders to deliver the news in their own words.

In honor of Women’s Week, we chose to interview Jan Deeds, director of the Women’s Center and associate director of Gender Programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

DN: Why do you think it’s important for women to defend their political, social and economic rights?

Deeds: I think every human being has basic amenable rights and should be respected. And so I think it is important for every woman to know they have not just the right, but also the power to do that. I don’t want women to feel like they have to be doing this all by themselves. There are a lot of people working together to try and help them have their rights.

DN: Do you think that there’s still a need for feminism?

Deeds: Oh yeah. As soon as there’s no more sexual assault and women are paid equally with men in similar jobs and no one dismisses a woman’s opinion, then

Jan Deeds, director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Women’s Center, says that until women are paid equally and there’s no more sexual assault, feminism has a long way to go. we can say that we’re done. But right now there’s still a lot of inequity, and as long as there’s inequity, we need to continue to move forward. What I think feminism is is recognizing that there are power imbalances and that you should do something about it. As long as we have those imbalances, I think people will still continue to think about why people are judged or limited based on their gender. Why does that happen and how do we fix that?

DN: What do you think of the new wave of feminism with celebrity women like Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus, who are advocating feminism, yet being hypersexualized in their music, performances and style?

Deeds: I think that part of feminism is believing that women have the right to make decisions about their own sexuality and about the idea that we should take women seriously regardless of how they present.

I think that women get so many mixed messages about

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Panel sheds light on meaning of modern feminism Feministing.com bloggers join DN editor to discuss how to counteract trolls, online hatred Layla Younis DN At the age of 8, Zerlina Maxwell was arguing with her father because she supported Michael Dukakis in the 1988 U.S. presidential elections, and today she is a blogger and editor for feminist blog Feministing.com.

Maxwell, a political analyst and contributing writer for The

New York Daily News, theGrio. petuates the idea that there is com and EBONY.com, spoke to a negative connotation to the students at the University of Ne- word “feminist.”

“When you decide to not call braska-Lincoln on Wednesday yourself a feminist, the negative night, along with Feministing image projects further,” Halper editor and blogger Katie Halper, said. a New York-based It doesn’t matcomedian, writer, What we ter what people satirist and filmare trying call themselves, maker, for “Femithe main goal of nisting: Offline to do as feminists feminists is to be and Unfiltered” an ally, Halper as a part of Wom- is grow the said. en’s Week 2014. movement.”

“What we are The two writers were joined by zerlina maxwell trying to do as feminists is grow student panelist feministing editor the movement,” Ruth Boettner, a Maxwell said. senior French and When Halper was a child, global studies major and Opinion editor at the Daily Nebras- she thought everyone who was underrepresented was workkan.

Both writers agreed that saying, “I’m not a feminist” perblogging: see page 2

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Zerlina Maxwell, a blogger and political analyst, discusses feminism in today’s society. Maxwell has written for Feministing.com and EBONY.com, among others.

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Auntie Anne’s can’t pin down April opening date

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ON CAMPUS what: Leadership Luncheon: Staying Rooted in Agriculture when: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union

what: Safe Spring Break Fair when: 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. where: Various locations on city campus

Jacob Elliot DN Auntie Anne’s will open in the Nebraska Union food court in early April, but union staff won’t give an exact date.

The pretzel vendor will sit beside the recently opened Subway Pizza Express in the 682-square-foot space Sbarro previously used. This will be the second Auntie Anne’s in Lincoln; the other is at Gateway Mall.

Auntie Anne’s will initially serve plain and salted pretzels and freshly squeezed lemonade and will later expand to pretzel bites and pretzel dogs. Eventually, the restaurant hopes to feature its entire menu, including flavored pretzels and pretzel sticks. Flavored pretzels will include cinnamon sugar, sweet almond, honey whole grain, sour cream and onion, roasted garlic parmesan, jalapeno, raisin and pepperoni.

Barton Development. “So when we “We’re hoping that it’s really heard about the news and were putgoing to bump our sales,” said Travis Crow, manager for Subway and ting in the Pizza Express, we decided that it would be a great fit and would Subway Pizza Express at the Univerbe a great product to offer the college sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“There is not a whole lot for stu- crowd.”

The Subway-Auntie Anne’s dents to snack on during classes, and partnership allows I think that someAuntie Anne’s to thing like a pretzel I think that serve its products is a great snack for in nontraditional students as they are something locations, such as traveling through like a pretzel is a Walmart. UNL was classes,” he said. also considered a Auntie Anne’s great snack for nontraditional locawas founded in tion for this transi1988 by Anne and students.” tion.

Jonas Beiler in LanTravis Crow “Our ultimate caster, Penn. Today, subway manager goal with the Pizza it offers food and Express and the beverages at more Auntie Anne’s is just than 1,500 locations in 48 states and 30 countries, accord- to offer something different to UNL students and to hope that it is acing to Auntie Anne’s website.

“Recently Auntie Anne’s just be- cepted,” Snyder said. news@ came a franchise partner with Subdailynebraskan.com way,” said Amy Snyder, co-owner of

Anti-sweatshop group Nebraska History to push for more support Museum to close for renovations

Colleen Fell DN what:

Annual Women’s History Month Banquet when: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. where: Nebraska Champions Club, 707 Stadium Drive

what: Physics Colloquium when: 4 p.m. where: Jorgensen Hall, Room 136

regents: from 1 are in place and authorization to proceed is received from the NU president.

The 55,393-square-foot facility would be used by UNL’s hockey, curling and broomball club teams. It would include a professional-sized rink, 700 seats, locker rooms, maintenance and storage areas along with room for expansion.

The official confirmation of the appointment of James Linder as the interim dean of the University of Nebraska will also be a part of regents meeting.

Other topics to be voted on at the meeting include the creation of new undergraduate certificates and bachelor ’s degree programs at both the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture and the University of Nebraska at Kearney, various budgeting and financing matters at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Fund B fee allocations for 20142015 at UNL. news@ dailynebraskan.com

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student group is continuing to push for more sweatshop-free apparel in the University Bookstore after an initial petition was rejected by administration.

UNL United Students Against Sweatshops sent a petition to Chancellor Harvey Perlman in mid-February requesting funds of $250,000 to bring more Alta Gracia Apparel products to the bookstore.

Alta Gracia operates out of the same-named province in the Dominican Republic and provides workers with a living wage.

David Cossaart, co-president of USAS and a junior global studies major at UNL, said after Amber baesler | DN giving Perlman the petition, the The University Bookstore added an additional rack of Alta Gracia group was told that an addition- clothing, a sweatshop-free clothing production company. Alta al rack of apparel would be put Gracia is sold on more than 100 college campuses nationwide. in the bookstore.

However, Cossaart said the student group noticed the bookWe want to see a substantial comstore had decreased its selection of Alta Gracia Apparel before the mitment made to Alta Gracia.” additional rack was put in.

“We don’t know if that’s all they’re planning to do,” Cossaart David Cossaart said. “We don’t feel that’s suffiunited students against sweatshops co-president cient.”

The group has a meeting planned with Perlman on Thursbers said they don’t believe in- man, the group will plan more day to discuss the next steps to protests, he said. creasing the demand will be a potentially bring more product Cossaart said he doesn’t see simple process. to the bookstore. Cossaart said why, if it were marketed properCossaart said he feels as if the the goal of the meeting is to ly, Alta Gracia Apparel wouldn’t bookstore is expecting USAS to hopefully secure more funding, be a success at UNL. carry out the promotion. but there isn’t necessarily a miniThe line is currently carried “We’re certainly doing evmum amount the student group at more than 100 other universierything we can,” Cossaart said. will accept.

“But there’s no way a small ties, including the University of “We want to see a substantial group like us can do all of the Notre Dame. commitment made to Alta GraDespite potential marketnecessary marketing.” cia,” Cossaart said. ability, the line also has a social Cossaart said it’s important Perlman said there may be that the bookstore market the conscience. limitations with what the book“It’s a stepping stone to a apparel so it will have a chance store, which is managed by Folmore fair garment industry as a against other brands. He said it’s lett, will be able to do. whole,” Cossaart said. also necessary to add more of a “While they have been very A living wage from Alta Gravariety of apparel to make the good partners, there are limits product available to all students. cia Apparel provides its workers to how far we can direct their with enough to support a famThe bookstore currently only inventory,” Perlman wrote in ily and pay for food, housing, carries Alta Gracia women’s an email. “I am certain if it is healthcare and other necessities. clothing and lacks a wide varidemonstrated there is a signifi“It’s what consumers, espeety of styles or designs, Cossaart cant demand for Altagracia (sic) cially students, want,” Cossaart said. products, they will be happy to said.

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blogging: from 1 ing together for the same goal of equality, but she was sad to realize not everyone is.

If people call themselves feminists but don’t stick up for other issues, that means they aren’t really feminists, Halper said.

“That just means you’re a conscious person and self-interested,” Halper said.

Halper said she was a feminist before she even began to call herself one, but the words used don’t matter.

“You should change culture, not the language,” Halper said.

For example, Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, started a campaign to ban the word “bossy,” but a counterargument exists saying not to ban the word bossy but to own the word.

“Ban the word bossy, but someone else will come up with a

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The time it takes to build Auntie Anne’s in the Nebraska Union will be the determining factor of its opening date in early April.

new word,” Halper said.

It’s the same thing with society replacing the N-word with the word “thug,” Halper said.

But Halper and Maxwell’s publicly known feminism has come with negative backlash.

Maxwell said she gets numerous death threats and rape threats online, but will take screenshots of the threats and post them online. Sometimes people will apologize after, but that doesn’t make the apology sincere.

“The way that I deal with trolls is I publicly shame (them),” Maxwell said.

Harper doesn’t accept apologies after the fact, either.

“That’s not an apology,” she said. “That’s covering your ass.”

But when Maxwell is in an in-person situation and someone says something offensive, the situation is different.

When you decide to not call yourself a feminist, the negative image projects further.”

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If she is in a place where people are around and she feels safe, she will speak up, but if it’s at night and no one is around, she said she gets herself out of the situation.

“For me, it’s taking the power back,” Maxwell said. “I’m a survivor of sexual assault.”

Maxwell doesn’t have a background in women’s studies, but she was a lawyer and gives a different perspective to the feminism

blogging world.

“When you say you’re a feminist, you build a community,” she said.

Tess Mayer, a senior fashion merchandising major, said it’s important for students to be educated in social issues.

“You need to take feminism as an overall branch of equality,” Mayer said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska history museum renovations

The Nebraska History Museum will close Sept. 1 to prepare for $8 million in renovations, which will last at least a year.

• The museum will Construction bids will take place close Sept. 1 for $8 in the fall, and renovations will bemillion in renovations gin in October. The museum at 15th and P streets should be open again • It will reopen in 2016 in 2016.

• Renovations will “We’re still in the design and deinclude mostly velopment phase with the architects, but we know we are going to close interior fixes, like in September,” said Lynne Ireland, plumbing, heating, deputy director at the Nebraska ventilation and air State Historical Society. “(It) seems conditioning updates reasonable to assume that we’ll be pretty much closed in 2015.”

• The museum’s The museum, which consists of entrance will also exhibits on the state’s founding and move development, hasn’t had a significant upgrade or renovation since it • Funding for the opened to the public in 1982. renovations is “Time marches on, and a lot of coming from those infrastructure systems have cigarette taxes deteriorated and building codes have also changed, too,” Ireland and an allocation said. from the Nebraska Renovations will include changLegislature es to the interior of the museum with one noticeable change to the exterior: • While the museum The main entrance will be moved to is closed, staff meet fire codes. will participate in “Right now the main entrance to the building is located on the public educational northwest corner of the building, programming and and because it is not visible from the sponsor a spring elevators and the stairwells it doesn’t 2015 touring meet fire codes, so that main entrance will be changed to the middle exhibition at the of the building,” Ireland said.

Great Plains Art Most of the changes to the muMuseum seum will be interior fixes. There will be renovations to the heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems.

“The work that we’re doing on So we want to bring the story up this renovation, a lot of it is going to to contemporary times; over time, be things that you won’t see,” said we’ll be replacing all of the exhibAnn Billesbach, associate director for its with newly done exhibits and interpretation and education at the we’ll be adding more of the story Nebraska State Historical Society. of Nebraska during contemporary A vapor barrier will maintain times.” humidity control. Electrical systems While the museum is closed, will be renovated and pipes fixes the museum will still be involved will prevent leaking. Many of the with the public. Museum staff plans changes are to serve the public and to try to provide some programmaintain an effective environment to ming while renovations are under preserve museum collections. way.

“We preserve our museum col“We’re trying to keep all of our lections in that building, not only audience engaged with us durthe things that are ing the times the on display but our building is closed, We’re going and then when we museum storage is in that building to be doing reopen we’ll be and, of course, temable to offer a lot perature and humid- some fundraising of new kinds of ity shifts are really programming and to replace all of challenging for long exhibits,” Billesterm preservation of our exhibits.” bach said. historic materials,” The museum ann billesbach Ireland said. plans on doing nshs associate director The majority some public profor interpretation of the funding has gramming, activiand education come from the capities with school tal construction budchildren and some get. Last year, the public lectures during the renovaNebraska legislature allocated $6 tion period. Staff will work with million during the course of three other area museums and sponsor a years for the renovation of the mu- spring 2015 touring exhibition that seum, with the rest of the cost being relates to the Civil War at the Great paid through cigarette taxes.

Plains Art Museum.

With most of the money going The renovations may put the to renovations, the museum didn’t building out of commission for a receive any money to redo any of the long time, but Ireland said they’re exhibits that are being taken down. worth it.

“We’re going to be doing some “It’s sort of a question of old fundraising to replace all of our ex- age and needing to get a lot of these hibits,” Billesbach said. “It gives us basic systems dealt with so that the a chance to rethink how we tell the museum can continue to serve the story of Nebraska, and right now public,” Ireland said. our chronological exhibits that talk NEWS@ about the history of the state actuDAILYNEBRASKAN.com ally end at the eve of World War I.

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Fasting event to provide education Pi Tau Sigma to McCartney Martin DN Amnesty International and Middle Eastern Students Unite (MESU) are hosting the first Fast-A-Thon at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Thursday.

The event begins at daybreak, which is when participants will eat one meal before fasting, or not eating, the majority of the day. At 6 p.m., participants will meet at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center in Room 202 for presentations from two speakers, followed by a traditional Middle Eastern dinner.

Speakers will include John Mabry of the Lincoln Food Bank and UNL graduate student Asawar Sajid. Mabry will speak on how students can fight hunger in Lincoln, and Sajid will speak on the significance and nature of fasting in the Islamic religion.

The idea of this event is to raise awareness of hunger in the community while giving students an opportunity to learn about Islamic faith, said senior political science major and Amnesty International member, Shams Al-Badry.

as Northwestern and Vanderbilt, “The food bank always needs assistance, and with fasting it have held Fast-A-Thons in the past. gives you the patience and kind of Al-Badry is involved in a nationputs you in their shoes,” Al-Badry wide student activist organization, Project Nur, and heard the idea said. “And that’s what we’re aimof the Fast-A-Thon from a fellow ing for, just to have some kind of member. connection with people. Poverty “It’s about bringing the comis in Lincoln, and we tend to overmunity together and focusing on a look it.” cause,” she said.

The participation of fasting Lincoln restaurant Falafel should be decided at the student’s King will provide a discretion because traditional Middle fasting is a mental It’s about Eastern dinner. Enand physical pracbringing trees will include tice. falafel and kabob Junior theater the community sandwiches and design and technirice, along with cal production ma- together and shawarma, which jor Sonia Sandoval focusing on a is an Arabic dish plans to participate in which meat is in and attend the cause.” placed and cooked event.

“Three of my Shams Al-Baldry on a spit and then amnesty international member shaved off and sorority sisters are served by itself or apart of MESU so I in wraps or sandsupport them, and in respect to their culture and the wiches.

Al-Badry said the two hostsignificance of the event, I do plan to fast,” she said. “I just hope I can ing organizations are keeping this year’s event small to see how it get through the day. It will definitegoes. With only 40 available tickly be about self-control,” Many other universities, such ets, there aren’t many left. Fliers

host Thursday blood drive

if you go what:

Fast-A-Thon when: Fast begins Thursday at daybreak, speakers at 6 p.m., followed by traditional Middle Eastern dinner where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Room 202

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were released earlier this week to promote the event, however most advertising for the event has been through word-of-mouth. Students who want to buy tickets for $5 each can contact Amnesty International at amnesty.unl@gmail.com.

All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Lincoln Food Bank. Students are also encouraged to bring canned goods to the event to donate as well.

Although not required, donations are more than welcome. news@ dailynebraskan.com

New ASUN Senate to take over next month At last full meeting, current senate passed no legislation but discussed Big Event, care week STAFF REPORT DN The current Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senate held its final full meeting on Wednesday.

The senate – led by President Eric Reznicek, a senior finance and marketing major, Jeff Story, external vice president and a junior English and political science major, and Kaitlin Coziahr, a senior economics, finance and management major – passed no legislation.

Beginning April 2, the new slate of senators and executives will be installed, many of them Ignite for ASUN members. Kevin Knudson, a junior political science major, will be the ASUN president; Grant Garrison, a junior psychology and biology major, will be the internal vice president; and Christina Guthmann, a junior international business major, will be the external vice

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ASUN executive-elects (left to right) Christina Guthmann, Kevin Knudson and Grant Garrison will assume their roles near the end of the ASUN meeting on April 2. president.

At the meeting, senators discussed the “Creating a Tradition of Care Week,” which will begin

after spring break and will focus on issues such as safety, communication, health, sustainability and diversity.

Senators were also remind-

ed that Friday is the last day to register to volunteer for the Big Event.

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what: Pi Tau Sigma The Nebraska Student Chapter blood drive of Pi Tau Sigma will host a blood drive from noon to 4 p.m. Thurswhen: Thursday, noon day. to 4 p.m.

Pi Tau Sigma is an Internawhere: Nebraska tional Mechanical Engineering Honor Society and is co-hosting Community Blood Bank the drive with the Nebraska Combloodmobile, located munity Blood Bank inside the on 16th Street across bank’s bloodmobile, which will from Nebraska Hall be on 16th Street, across from Nebraska Hall and north of area C more information: parking area.

Walk in or make an “We are doing a blood drive appointment by calling because our chapter focuses on community service and profes402-486-9414 sional development,” Joe Farley, a senior mechanical engineering major and president of Pi Tau Sig- were sick and needed that blood,” ma, wrote in an email. “This is the Deeds said. “When students or third year we have partnered with young people donate, they are the Nebraska Community Blood likely to continue to donate for Bank, and it has always been sucthe rest of their lives.” cessful. We like serving the NePeople are encouraged to dobraska community, and donating nate in the winter when blood blood to the Nebraska Communisupplies tend to run low. ty Blood Bank directly affects that “With that cold weather we’ve community.” seen a lot of illnesses, so we alThe bloodmobile is one of ways need the blood, especially O about three in the country and negative and O positive,” Deeds contains six beds, according to said.

Ashlee Deeds, a Farley said he donor recruitment hopes the drive has When representative for a high turnout. the Nebraska Com“We want as students... munity Blood Bank. many donors as Donating only donate, they are possible so the takes 45 minutes bank is using their likely to continue to an hour, Deeds time and resourcsaid. A donor starts to donate for the es efficiently,” he the process off by wrote. “Each unit rest of their lives.” checking in and anof blood will save swering a series of lives.”

Ashlee deeds confidential quesThe Pi Tau Sigdonor recruitment tions regarding ma blood drive’s representative health, travel and donor goal is 43 dolifestyle. nors. About half as “The actual many people have needle is only in the arm for about already made appointments to five minutes,” Deeds said. give blood. If a person wishes to To donate blood, students donate, the bloodmobile will take must meet certain qualifications walk-ins or an appointment can including weighing at least 118 be made by calling 402-486-9414. pounds and being at least 17 years Anyone who registers for the of age. Students can not donate if Pi Tau Sigma blood drive will be they have experienced flu or coldput into a drawing for two $50 gift like symptoms or have taken an- cards to the University Bookstore. tibiotics within the last 72 hours.

Giving blood helps the comFor students who are unsure munity, Deeds said. The Nebraska about donating, Deeds asks them Community Blood Bank provides if they have ever known anyone blood to hospitals in Lincoln and who was sick and needed blood. the surrounding community.

Most people start donating be“It’s a great way to donate cause they knew someone who without having to empty your needed it, she said. pockets,” Deeds said.

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Q&a: from 1 “what is an empowered woman, what does it mean to be empowered and have sexual agency?” Does that mean I can stick my tongue out and waggle myself on a pole and not have anyone judge me for that? I think it’s a complex issue. It kind of goes back to the whole concept of sort of “slut-shaming,” that women shouldn’t be sexual but we expect them to be sexual. And so that if you do things that are sexual, you’re looked down on, mocked or criticized.

And if you don’t, then you’re a prude and you’re sex-negative. It’s really hard to win nowadays. I think it’s important to not pit women against each other. Every so often there will be a big cover story on TIME or Newsweek that says “Stay at Home Mothers V. Working Women: They’re Fighting.” No, we’re not. Everybody needs to decide, and everybody needs to support everybody else in making their choices.

Don’t make up a fight between women. I think we need to let people make their own choices. I think we need to talk about it and challenge people about it.

DN: Who do you believe is a good role model for women today and why?

Deeds: I think there are lots of good role models. Malala (Yousafzai), the young woman who was injured by the Taliban and is stepping out for girls’ rights. I think that there are lots of women leaders in Congress and

women in popular culture that are the workplace that allow you to do all the things you’re expected to do. Being challenging the status quo and leading. There are women in our own city told that things are fine now and that doing positive things. So I think any we can just go on about our business. woman who is setting her own rules, I think that’s a big challenge. Because then if you’re the person who says, challenging the stereotypes, going beyond the stereotypes. There are men “No, this is still a problem,” your culthat support that too. I think we need ture says, “You’re just whining, you don’t understand, we’re fine now, it to go beyond. Feminism now really must be you.” In the does look at intersecand ’80s, the ’70s tionality. You’re not I think a big ’70s especially, the womjust one thing, I’m not en’s movement said, just a woman; I have challenge “The issues that we’re a lot of other identiis being told that experiencing, you as a ties that are a part of person are experiencthat. So being able to we have equality ing, are part of the bigsee how those interger culture. It’s not just sections work. There now ... and we you. It’s the climate; are people from across Jan Deeds it’s the environment. the spectrum that you women’s center director You’re not crazy becan say, “That’s my cause you’re frustrated role model because by this, it’s true, it’s they’re defending other people’s rights, defending their happening to lots of people.” Now, we get the message that you are crazy and own rights; they’re making the world that it must be you because the law says a better place.” it’s fine. They’re dividing us again and DN: What do you believe is the saying you can’t trust other women. In biggest challenge women face today?

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original columns and original headlines from the dn archives

DN quotes of the week “Tolerance takes on a lot of different forms.

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

Josh Bivins

Senior history and religious studies major and UNL Women’s Center library resource assistant

“There’s this phenomenon where women ‘hover’ over the toilet seat to avoid germs.

They even make little paper covers you can use. As you can imagine, hovering can lead to kind of nasty results…And yet these paranoid ‘hoverers’ choose to run through the bathroom with bare feet. It mystifies me. But maybe they’re just imitating Britney Spears, a la 2004?”

originally published april 30, 1992, by curtis bright | dn

originally published april 30, 1992, by Lisa pytlik | dn

Kayla Simon

Opinion Columnist

“There are a lot of sentiments that feminism isn’t necessary anymore, and that it’s dead.

It’s important to keep feminism current and relevant.”

Tayler Lord

“Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered” event chairwoman and University Program Council liaison

“Walking outside, I snapped a quick selfie.

I was now a guy wearing a fedora and snapping a picture of it in a public place like I was proud of myself. I was, at that moment, a pure douchebag.”

Jack Forey

Arts & Life Columnist, on being dared to wear a fedora for a week

“We don’t want to be a one-hit wonder.

Still though, it’s a monumental day for this program.”

Tim Miles

Men’s basketball coach, on team’s No. 11 seed in NCAA Tournament

“In the past we’ve done a lot of education, but education only goes so far. We want to make it more of a social norm – something cool, something that everyone just does.”

Reed Brodersen

ASUN environmental sustainability committee chairman and junior environmental studies major, on Earthstock 2014

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originally published feb. 20, 1992, in the dn

Bigfoot hunt relieves boredom Creative myth no longer fantasy to columnist despite dead ends

M

y life is boring.

I’ve watched the movie “Spinal Tap” like 16 times. I still like R.E.M. Sometimes I go to bed before 11 p.m.

I don’t like jalapeno peppers. I worry about lint and losing my hair.

I love to golf.

Last Friday, my sister-in-law gave birth to a seven-pound baby girl. I’m now an uncle. I’m Uncle Bob. Everyone has an Uncle Bob. Every Uncle Bob is boring.

The fast lane is overrated. It’s too much work.

I’d rather watch television. Sit in my La-Z-Boy. Watch the colors dance across my Zenith. Let the colors hypnotize me.

But sometimes, in these long hauls of sweet boredom, something exciting comes up that’s just too weird to let pass.

This time it was an all-expense-paid Bigfoot hunt near Green Mountain Falls, Colo.

In the last few years, a good number of people in this mountain village just outside Colorado Springs say they’ve seen hairy man-like creatures running around their town. Besides verbal accounts, one man, Dan Masias, even has photographs of footprints, and, even spookier, hair samples from some animal that researchers from Louisiana and California can’t identify.

Being a journalist with a keen sense for the hot yellow story, I jumped at the idea of catching Bigfoot. Being a school of these same instincts, the College of Journalism picked up the tab.

So last Thursday morning, DN Photo Chief Eric Gregory and I headed west from this little college community and its little issues into the mountains where all things – including feet – are big.

We had questions to be answered. Did someone in Green Mountain Falls have a gorilla suit?

Did all these people decide to have some fun?

Was someone dropping acid into the water supply of this village?

bob Nelson

Or, are there strange man-like creatures in Pikes Peak National Forest that have been raiding trash cans in Green Mountain Falls trying to find food? Are they just hungry relatives of man, forced by starvation to abandon their isolation?

After talking to Dan Masias, a Colorado real estate developer, and seeing the results of the research done on the footprints and hair samples, I must admit the story is baffling.

He said he had seen two of these things. He could be lying. He has pictures of the footprints.

They could be fake.

An old couple two houses away from Masias swear they saw one of these things outside of their cabin. They could be lying.

Something broke into their porch and got into their trash cans. Hairs were taken from the broken door. A Louisiana State researcher called them “the weirdest thing (he’d) ever seen.”

Maybe the hairs were put there by a hoaxer.

Maybe he or she got the hairs from some weird genetic experiments on apes and then broke into these people’s cabin. Maybe the LSU physiologist is confused.

Other neighbors of Masias said something hairy and walking on two feet tried to run away with their cat. I guess those people could be lying too.

After talking to Masias, Eric and I headed into the mountains to find the creature. We set up camp on a ridge about 1,000 feet up the mountain behind Masias’ cabin. About 80 feet from our camp, we set up a Bigfoot trap made of cucumbers, oranges, ravioli and chili. Eric pre-focused his camera on the pile of food. We sat around our campfire waiting for sounds in the night. We heard a few things. We tried a few pictures. The

food was still there in the morning.

The next day we searched for footprints along a creek and lake above Green Mountain Falls. In two places we smelled a heavy, musky scent like the one Masias had described earlier as “the creature’s odor.” We found no footprints.

That night we hiked down to Green Mountain Falls and spent the night behind the cabin where the hair was found. We set up another Bigfoot trap of sardines and oriental Ramen noodles.

We got no pictures.

Now you might think that after so little success, I might believe these creature-seers were pranksters or a bit loony.

But I realized during the long, dark nights of waiting for the creature that these people’s personal accounts, the smells, the pictures and the research already had convinced me that the thing exists.

Both nights we sat – serious and senses on edge – waiting for the creature to take our bait.

There were no Bigfoot jokes. To us, the creature existed. It was flesh and blood and walking the perimeter of our sight; the outer edge of our hearing. I thought we would soon be mauled. I knew the creature couldn’t exist, but I knew it did. I had become an irrational believer.

I suppose if Eric and I had gotten a picture of the creature, thousands of people would have rushed to capture it. They would have trapped it, caged it, stuck needles in it and probably killed it.

Or, nobody would have believed the photos we took were real. My journalism professors would have mocked me even more. My parents would have changed their name. My siblings would claim I was adopted.

So I guess the trip did turn out a success. I got to believe in the creature without hurting it and I won’t get accused of doctoring a photo.

Driving back to Nebraska, I told Eric just how lucky we had been.

He told me to shut up and slow down.

I moved back out of the fast lane. Eric was right. Bigfoot and I don’t belong there.

Bob Nelson is a senior newseditorial major and a Daily Nebraskan columnist. Originally published Oct. 4, 1989.

Compulsive complacence Slacking turns into chain reaction as graduation draws near

T

atiana Cooley is the American memory champion. She won a memory contest called the U.S. Memoriad ‘99 in New York in February. After looking at a stack of 100 portraits for 20 minutes, she could pair 70 of them. A real (normal) smarty could probably do 20.

Because she’s got such an amazing memory, she never had to study in college, because she could just remember what her notes looked like.

I am not Tatiana Cooley.

I do not have a memory of steel, and man, do my grades prove it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not flunking out or anything. I just can’t seem to do as well with the whole scholastic thingy as I could a few years ago.

This is my big question, though: Am I less motivated than I was before, or am I just becoming stupider as the years progress?

Realizing that this is not an easy question to answer (like #83 on my theater history test), I decided to motivate myself and do some research on my own academic past. Yes, folks, it’s long, and it’s getting messier with each passing day.

Bear with me.

When I was a youngster I found out I had some kind of disease called “gifted.” (If you’re unsure, this is a disease teachers treat by “giving extra work,” and kids treat by “calling names.”)

No one knows exactly when I acquired it, but they kept telling me that it was a good thing. Kids who are gifted are apparently supposed to grow up to run the world and design space shuttles.

Mm-hm.

I lived this interesting little gifted life until I was in about seventh grade. That’s the year I took pre-algebra and got a C+.

The world ended.

I actually cried. I wasn’t used to getting anything but A’s (and a smattering of B’s), and I didn’t know how to handle myself. I decided then

erin reitz and there to commit to never getting a C again.

Yeah, awfully funny, I know.

Little did I know in my time of seventh grade all-knowingness that I would go on to lose all kinds of interest in high school (with the grand exception of my history, art and English classes, because the teachers were just so flippin’ cool). I scored a few more C+’s and practically flunked chemistry.

(Wait, maybe I did flunk. Damn those repressed memories! Damn them to hell!)

I graduated with a respectable GPA and began my quest for scholarly superiority at college four years ago. With motivation oozing out of my ears, I came away from my freshman year with a 3.65. One-tenth of a point away from the Dean’s list, I was certain that I had regained all of my smartness and was ready to work toward my 4.0.

Okay, honestly, your laughter is waking up your sleeping classmates. Cut it out. Thanks.

My grade point slipped a little in my sophomore year, and once I took on the task of being a student assistant in the halls, it began to, well, nose-dive. (Recently hired SAs, please take note.)

I am now at the point where I’m attempting to raise my GPA from the dead, Dr. Frankenstein style.

This, as you may be well aware, is not easy.

However, because I do have some of my brain left, I understand that it is not impossible. I think.

Truth be told, I’ve really had to kick myself in the ass this semester and work hard. Of course there’s still a little bit of slacker in me that gets in the way every so often.

(Side note: The slacker bug can infect you for three or more years while at college. It is very hard to get rid of. Many, many nights of hard drinking are guaranteed to help. Excuse me, strike that, guaranteed NOT to help! Sorry, I read my Health Center Wellness guide wrong.)

Now for the meaningful message, kids: You can’t afford to slack off, even though you think you can. Because once it starts, it’s an ugly chain reaction that’s wickedly tough to stop.

This has been my problem, especially over the last two years. I’ve taken much, too much advantage of the “freebie absence days” that profs give, and really needed them when I’ve gotten sick.

I’ve turned lots of assignments in late because it’s only a couple of points off at a time. Things get nasty when those points add up.

I’ve taken advantage of extensions and never followed through. More than one professor has been disappointed in me.

So there you go. I haven’t been turning into an imbecile – I’ve been screwing off.

Thank goodness I was able to use the reasoning skills I’ve acquired in college to actually solve a problem! Now maybe I should put them to work on something that’s actually going to matter. Like my classes.

This next part may remind you a little of your NSE tour.

If you’re in your first or second year, take it from someone who’s been around the screw-up block.

Don’t mess with this opportunity. Be involved, but not to the point where you’re losing your grip on your studies. (That’s why you’re here, remember? Yeah, I knew you could.) Don’t skip too many classes. Get your work done. Call your mother. Eat your veggies. You know what I’m saying.

Give yourself a chance to do well. It’s never too late to light a fire under your butt, so do it.

Erin Reitz is a senior theatre performance major and a Daily Nebraskan columnist. Originally published April 7, 1999.

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Delta Delta Delta sisters find community in leadership opportunities, body image project

story by Madeline Christensen photo by Stacie Hecker

W

hen sophomore biology major Emma Schultz came to the University of NebraskaLincoln, she hadn’t even considered going Greek.

However, after a camp counselor convinced her to try the sorority recruitment process the summer before her freshman year, it wasn’t so much that she chose Delta Delta Delta but that Delta Delta Delta chose her, Schultz said.

“At the end of a long recruitment week, I had no idea what to expect from the girls that would become my sisters and friends,” she said. “I was reassured by the kindness, respect and understanding that I was shown from so many new faces.”

To many of the sisters of Delta Delta Delta — better known as Tri Delta — the house on the corner of 16th and R streets just felt like home in the middle of the hectic and stressful rush process.

“Tri Delta was a place where I could just be myself and not have to worry about anything else,” said sophomore advertising and public relations major major and Tri Delta philanthropy chair Rylee Terry.

Terry coordinates all of Tri Delta’s philanthropy events that support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

“Tri Delta’s philanthropy proceeds to St. Jude really stuck with me during recruitment,” Terry said. “It was a big part of my decision. I felt like giving back to such a wonderful and powerful organization would be a fantastic opportunity.”

Terry was able to go to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for a leadership conference through her efforts with Tri Delta, which she said she believes has been her favorite experience since joining the sisterhood.

“I was overly joyed to share this experience with my Tri Delta sisters from various chapters throughout the United States,” Terry said. “Being a part of the Greek community, I have had the opportunity to make many connections throughout campus, gained many friendships outside of Tri Delta and had the privilege to give back to our community of Lincoln.”

Terry said she is also passionate about Tri Delta’s Body Image 3D program, which

Sorority sisters of Delta Delta Delta hang out together and talk about spring break plans on a Wednesday night at their house on the corner of 16th and R streets. Tri Delta, as it’s commonly called, is known for its philanthropy that supports St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and its Body Image 3D program that encourages healthy body image. sets Tri Delta apart from other sororities on campus. The program encourages body image awareness and education, focusing on healthy minds, healthy bodies and healthy spirits.

Tri Delta is the first nationally recognized chapter to have a program such as Body Image 3D. “This program has allowed our chapter here on campus to grow our sisterhood while maintaining and encouraging positive body image,” Terry said.

“Greek organizations are much more than a group of friends,” Schultz said.

“They are also corporations with goals and obligations to be met. Being Greek is an investment in yourself and an incredible way to devote yourself to others. I don’t think I could have found this experience anywhere else. For me, holding the vice president of finance position will be one of the most important learning experiences of my college

Weed proves versatile drug for high experience ZACH FULCINITI

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specimen that can grow up to about 8 feet tall. The flower is harvested from the plant, and the leaves are trimmed from the flower, which is then dried, sold and smoked.

Among other qualities, the cannabis plant itself is simply beautiful. It’s highly colorful and has a distinct, pleasant scent. The flower itself is usually a light green color, with small orange-red hairs and, I’ve been writing a column about if it’s good quality, clear white crystals of tetrahyrdocannabinol, weed for more than two months now, but lately I’ve been think- or THC, marijuana’s primary psying, have I really written a column choactive compound. By reducing the temperature temporarily about weed?

So far I’ve discussed the way during the growth period, expeeconomic factors affect government rienced cultivators can cause the policy as it pertains to marijuana, plant to turn purple. Purple weed, the potential medical benefits of known simply as “purp,” is valued the cannabis plant, the dispar- among well-informed smokers, ality between our government and though the color itself does not indicate higher qualour society’s view ity weed. The logic on drugs and, two What is it? is that if a grower weeks ago, I talked What does knows enough to about how Nebrasproperly turn the ka has been affected it do? How do you plant purple, he by legalization in or she is probably Colorado and how smoke it? Buckle growing a qualit might benefit up.” ity product. Purp is from following suit. also really pretty.

These things are all Cannabis plants weed-related, but they’re political are typically one of two species: and social issues, they’re not so sativa or indica. They’re known for much about the drug itself.

This week I just want to talk producing different effects. Sativas have more THC and less cannabidiabout pot. What is it? What does it do? How do you smoke it? Buckle ol, or CBD, and visa versa for indicas. The former generally causes a up.

Weed, known by many names, more energetic high, and the latter is a recreational drug. It is the flower of the cannabis plant, a beautiful fulciniti: see page 6

‘Marijuana,’ ‘weed,’ ‘kush,’ — whatever you call it, columnist offers variety of ways to toke it

career.”

Schultz’s position at the vice president of finance has her in charge of things she said she never thought would be possible as a sophomore. Among other tasks, she reports employee payroll and pays utility bills.

Junior ethnic studies major and collegiate/alumni relations chair Sophie Loveless joined Tri Delta last spring through open recruitment.

“I chose Tri Delta because it felt like the right fit for me,” Loveless said. “As a sophomore, the opportunity came at the perfect time in my college career, as I was looking for a way to branch out. Coming into college I never thought I would go Greek, but it’s been one of the best decisions I’ve made.”

Loveless said the sense of community she has gained through joining has shaped her college experience in the past year.

“On a campus with thousands of students, it’s hard to find a place where you

feel like you belong, and it’s nice to have found that,” she said. “When you belong to a sorority or fraternity you belong to not only your house but a larger community of people all sharing similar experiences.”

This year, Schultz is living in the Tri Delta house for the first time, and she couldn’t be happier.

“Moving in has brought me much closer to my Tri Delta sisters,” Schultz said. “It’s helping me learn more about them and myself,” Whether it’s pulling pranks or pulling all-nighters, Schultz said she’s made some of her best memories at Tri Delta.

“There is never a dull moment and there is always someone to confide in or laugh with,” she said. “Being surrounded by these young women is an incredible source of happiness in my life.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

DN Arts Guide to Spring Break at Home Make your own oasis.

Pillow forts are out, but giant piles of sand in your living room carpet are so in. Make that space in front of your TV the beer can-covered beach everyone else is getting tetanus on. Add a fan and spritzer, and it will feel just like the ocean spray.

Social media!

Don’t forget to show people how much fun you are having this week! Head on over to Holmes Lake and ask your mom to take pictures of you on its white-sand beaches.

Your mom loves taking pictures of you. P.S.: Photoshop is a great tool!

Don’t move.

Don’t even think of getting up from your couch.

You have worked too hard on that beach body to strain it this week.

Every drink deserves its own Umbrella.

Even cups of water. Seriously. Buy your own pack of mini-umbrellas and adorn every single drink this week. Nothing creates that magical spring break spark than a vibrant piece of paper popping out of a Hamm’s.

Get that tan.

Or don’t, actually.

But if you really do want a tan…

Your computer screen may radiate into your empty, dark bedroom – and soul – but it won’t be the light to bronze that skin. We recommend spray tans and those lotions that smell all sorts of awful. You can even craft cool and

far-out designs on your body by using stencils!

Drinking, duh.

Since this is the only real defining feature of a traditional spring break, don’t forget the booze and get as shithammered as possible everyday. And if you’re by your lonesome, you can win every drinking game you play. Plus, use this week as your own “Rocky IV” montage but with alcohol. It’s time to step your drinking game up!

Go so far as to even clean your room. It could be nuts.

Maybe move.

Have sex!

Actually, we take back our “don’t move” suggestion. You’re liver will be stronger after this week, and maybe you should consider working off that beer belly, too.

Get your shit together, ya goof.

We’re talking laundry, massive amounts of laundry.

We’re talking about starting all those projects that are due in a month.

We’re talking 12 hours of straight sleep. (Avoid doing this multiple nights; time will cease to hold meaning.)

You don’t have to head south to go south. You’ll have the house to yourself. Make it special.

Watch “Spring Breakers.”

Have you seen it yet?

Neither have we, but it sounds like a proper movie for those lonely nights.

- compiled by katie nelson and nate sindelar

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FRIDAY

SATURDAY

21 what: Them Other Dudes where: 501 Bar & Grill when: 9:30 p.m. what:

Third Thursday Ukulele Jam where: Roots Music Shop when: 6 p.m. what: An Evening with Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers where: Vega when: 9 p.m. cost: $8 what:

String Demons Duggan’s Pub when: 5 p.m. where:

what: Shpongle with Desert Dwellers where: The Waiting Room Lounge, Omaha when: 9 p.m. cost: $18 in advance/$20 at the door what: Jay Say The Capital City Showcase where: Bourbon Theatre when: 9 p.m. cost: $5 for 18+; free for 21+

SUNDAY

22

23

what:

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what: Chiz Rider, trumpet player where: Piedmont Park when: 6:30 p.m.

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2 Gals & a Guitar MoJava Cafe when: 7 p.m. where:

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Tyler Orr Crescent Moon Coffee when: 8 p.m. where:

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24 what:

Sphynx Duffy’s Tavern when: 9 p.m. cost: $5 for 21+

Hold ‘Em Poker 501 Bar & Grill when: 6 p.m.

where:

where:

what: Poetry at the Moon with Sheila Maria Tinkham where: Crescent Moon Coffee when: 7 p.m.

The Metoyer Chess Tournament where: Culprit Cafe, Omaha when: 9 a.m. what:

Karaoke Duggan’s Pub when: 9 p.m. where:

what: Lancaster Antique Show & Sale where: Lancaster Event Center what: Lancaster Antique when: 9 a.m.

Show & Sale where: Lancaster Event Center when: 9 a.m. cost: $4 admission where:

Single Barrel when: 9 p.m.

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Writers and Poets Night hosted by Paul Baker where: Gratitude Cafe & Bakery when: 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

25 what:

The Slam Up Tour Backline Improv Theatre when: 8 p.m. cost: $5 where:

what: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band where: The Waiting Room Lounge, Omaha when: 9 p.m. cost: $15-$20 what: Soweto Gospel Choir where: Lied Center for Performing Arts when: 7:30 p.m. cost: $28-$38 what:

Joshua Powell Crescent Moon Coffee when: 7 p.m. where:

THURSDAY

26 what:

Open Mic Night Meadowlark coffee & Espresso when: 8 p.m.

27 what:

ZZ Ward The Waiting Room Lounge, Omaha when: 7:30 p.m. cost: $18 in advance, what: The Astrohillbillies $20 at the door where: Crescent Moon Coffee what: Lady Antebellum when: 7 p.m. with Kip Moore and Kacey Musgraves what: PONTIAK where: CenturyLink where: Bourbon Theater Center, Omaha when: 9 p.m. when: 7 p.m. cost: $8 for 18+; $6 for 21+ what: The Hitchcock 9: The Ghosts Collecwhat: 10,000 Strongmen tive accompanies “The where: Zoo Bar Lodger” when: 9 p.m. where: Film Streams, cost: $5 Omaha when: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. cost:$10-$12 where:

what:

Coyote Union Knickerbockers when: 9 p.m. where:

where:

what: The River Monks with Bonehart Flannigan and Scott Severin where: Vega when: 9 p.m. cost: $5 for 18+ what: “Hot, Hot, Hot” Nebraska Jazz Orchestra concert where: Cornhusker Marriott when: 7:30 p.m.

what: Common Root Mutual Aid Center with The Dancing Dead where: Bourbon Theatre when: 3 p.m. cost: $8 for under 21; $6 for 21+ what: The Chippendale Dancers where: The Alley when: 8 p.m.

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a promising basketball star, busts into the joint zooted on “Disco Godfather” is a clas- something strange. Panicked, sic Blaxploitation film — and Williams shouts, “Where is Bucky, and what has he had?” if you haven’t seen any, it’s a Turns out it was straight great place to start.

PCP, so Williams swears to put First thing you should know before you start one of an end to this drug once and for all — and he gets the whole these flicks is what the drug in question is. Sometimes it’s town to join him, too, to “attack the whack.” Williams, who is reefer. Most of the time it’s that conveniently nasty heroin. an ex-cop, But this time uses his conaround, it’s nection to angel dust the departthat is makment to grant ing its way himself peraround the mission to community unleash his and even full fury on t u r n i n g any no-good your little pushers dealsister into ing drugs to a zonkedactual chilout zombie. dren. These “Disco Godyoungsters father” feahave become tures Rudy drug fiends Ray Moore, cooped up a legend in an overand staple to run hospital Blaxploitafilled with tion films.

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“Disco Godfather” is a or fake emotion into mundane poorly made film. Ever line is lines. read badly, the script is awful, Moore stars as the Disco Godfather aka Tucker Williams, the editing is extremely rough, owner and founder of the Blue- and a few boom mics are visberry Hill disco, the spot for ible from time to time. But as a whole, it’s a thoroughly enanyone who wants to get down joyable film. Definitely worth and boogie, or as The Godfather checking out whenever you says, “Put your weight on it!”

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Healthy eating transcends diets, includes thinking about what, how much you are eating As I write this, I am eating puppy chow. If something tastes good, then it is good for you, right? While I wish this were true nearly every day, science tells me that this is incredibly wrong. To some people, the knowledge of what is good for you and what is not is second nature.

Aside from a basic understanding that sugary high-fat foods are nogos, I never understood how some people knew all kinds of healthy eating tricks. For example, green tea boosts your metabolism and eggs have “good fats” in them.

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There are so many rules when it comes to eating right that I decided to attend a luncheon seminar the university was hosting this past week. The main premise was twofold. They talked about how diets can fail and that consistent healthy eating habits matter more when someone is trying to make a change.

One of the first tips they gave was to eat only when you’re hungry.

I chuckled to myself because everyone already knows that — or so I thought. However, when I began to sit and consider the idea, I realized how much food is a priority in our society.

At least for me, I eat when I’m happy or sad, when I’m up late working on homework, when it’s a normal meal time or when I’m simply bored. Rarely do I wait for my body to tell me that I’m hungry.

Rather, I just eat so methodically that the idea of waiting to feel actual hunger seems odd.

This brought up another obvious yet likely overlooked idea. Mul-

titasking is never a good idea, especially when eating. As a culture, we are constantly trying to be more efficient and this means we eat while working on homework or surfing the Web. However, when we eat without consciously thinking about each bite we take, we often eat more than the portioned sized and do not stop when we’re satisfied, rather we stop when our tummies begin to hurt.

Another big thing Americans struggle with is portion sizes. There are so many different rules, so I decided to say, “screw it” to all but four.

1. Any kind of meat should be the size of a deck of cards or about the size of a closed fist.

2. Fruits or veggies or a combination of both should take up half of your plate.

3. Use smaller dishware. In the United States, everything is oversized, and this trend has carried over to dishes. If you simply buy smaller dishes, the likelihood that you’ll overeat decreases drastically.

4. The fourth rule isn’t really about portion sizes but about eating often enough. If you are trying to maintain or lose weight you should actually eat every three to five hours to keep your metabolism steady.

The seminar concluded by saying if you feel hungry often, try to

eat more super foods each day. But, they didn’t go in-depth about what super foods are. I’ve noticed this is a common theme. People always talk about “super foods,” but what does that even mean? Well, WebMD defines a “super food” as a food that can “help ward off heart disease, cancer, cholesterol and more.”

These unprocessed magical eats include beans, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, salmon, spinach, green tea, tomatoes and walnuts, to name just a few. The thing that all of these foods have in common is that they’re all very high in antioxidants, vitamins and nutrients.

In my quest to eat healthier, I’ve noticed I do feel less drowsy and am in better spirits when I cater to my digestive system. That being said, it once again comes down to moderation. As college students, it sometimes seems we are genetically engineered to crave pizza all the time.

However, although I still indulge in pizza some days, I try to make myself eat some broccoli or a salad first.

Maybe this is what growing up feels like; I’m starting to enjoy vegetables more than I ever thought I would.

But don’t get me wrong, pizza will always reign supreme.

Cassie kernick is a freshman advertising and public relations and journalism major. reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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High-quality weed is referred to as dank, kush, fire, flame or headies. Smokers in different communities may have their own names for it; my friends back in Ohio preferred “kush.” It costs about $20 a gram, enough for about two or three joints. Lower-quality weed is usually called schwag, mids, dirtweed or reggie. It’s usually a darker green or brown, with fewer hairs and no crystals. It doesn’t have as pleasant a smell and doesn’t taste as good as kush. A fair price would be $5 a gram.

It’s difficult to say how much a smoker might buy in any one transaction. It depends on frequency and quality, among other things. If a responsible University of NebraskaLincoln student, such as myself, prefers to smoke alone and only on the weekends, he or she would probably only purchase a gram at a time. Kush, being higher quality, might last someone a week or two.

Someone who smokes several days a week would probably purchase an eighth of an ounce, or 3.5 grams, at a time. An eighth of kush would cost about $50, while an eighth of mids would cost about $20. In choosing a level of quality, it’s important to consider availability (you might only be able to find one or the other), financial strain and your own tolerance level.

So you decide to smoke weed for the first time, you decide between kush and mids, you find a drug dealer (good luck) and next thing you know you’re in possession of a controlled substance.

Congratulations! The next step is to figure out how you want to smoke it. This is the really fun part because everyone has different preferences.

Different methods are good for different things.

The older crowd: your hippies, baby boomers, 40-somethings, generally prefer joints, known to sticklers as marijuana cigarettes.

bongs, which use water and/or You take a piece of tobacco paper and line it with weed, then roll it ice to cool the smoke and make it easier to hit. up. Rolling papers nowadays have In my four years as a smoker, evolved from simple tobacco paper: I’ve owned and used a number of many come fruit- or food-flavored bowls. My first was green and yeland some are made of organic hemp. The latter are my favorite. low, with the shotgun on the right side. It was the only bowl I’ve ever It generally resembles a crude cigahad that was designed for use by rette, minus the filter. You can buy filters, which make rolling much a left-handed person such as myself. A friend of mine accidentally easier, but most people don’t.

Joints are good for small threw it out a window, I believe.

That person is not really a friend gatherings; they’re easy to pass anymore. around. They’ve generally fallen I’ve smoked small bowls, large out of favor, though. The potbowls, wide bowls, long bowls, smoking youth of today prefer blue, red, pink, blunts, the term for orange and black a small, thin cigar called a cigarillo I’ve smoked bowls. I’ve smoked double that has been empsmall bowls, bubblers, bubblers, chiltied out and filled lums, one-hitters with weed. They large bowls, wide and steamrollers. A generally hold about a gram of bowls, long bowls, nice piece is a point of pride; give it a weed, two or three blue, red, pink, name and keep it times more than safe and clean. the average joint, orange and black The best piece which makes them bowls.”

I’ve ever smoked ideal for a larger out of was a bong, group of people. about a foot and a half tall, made of Among blunt smokers, there’s a thick, blue glass. Through the years wide variety of wrap preferences.

The most common choices are it has been called Blue Magic, Jack the Ripper, James Bong and much White Owl and Swisher Sweets. more. The advantage of a bong is I personally prefer Garcia y Vega the ability to take huge hits. It’s a cigars; they burn slowly and, untall cylinder with a little hole in the like lots of wraps, don’t have an side for a stem or slide. The slide artificial fruit flavor. dips down into the water, so that Joints and blunts are especially when you light the weed end and common among people who only suck in through the mouthpiece, smoke occasionally. They’re porthe smoke is pulled through the table and easy to dispose of. But rolling can be a difficult skill to ac- water, cooling it and filtering out quire, and for more regular smok- any ash or resin. One of the most fun things in the world is watching ers, the best option is a reusable the little smoke bubbles pop and piece: a bowl. Bowls, which are just pipes used for weed instead fill your bong with milky white smoke. But still, there’s nothing as of tobacco, come in all shapes and sizes; they’re the best opportunity satisfying as big, hard bong rip.

Joints and blunts are more costto customize your smoking experieffective, which makes them ideal ence. They can be made of wood, for occasional smokers. Pieces are plastic, metal or glass, they can be simple and straight or colorful and a long-term investment, so they’re better suited for regular smokers, ornate or they can be bubblers or

but they carry greater risk. If used for weed, they are technically paraphernalia and you don’t want to get caught with one.

Outside of smoking, there are other methods of consuming marijuana. The most common secondary method would be vaping. Vaping causes the plant’s THC crystals to evaporate but doesn’t combust the plant. Vaping is better for your lungs and throat, as you’re not inhaling actual smoke, and it is ideal for someone who doesn’t want people to know he or she is “smoking” weed. There’s very little smell.

Another popular method of consumption is edibles. Unlike smoking and vaping, which take effect almost immediately and last two or three hours on average, edibles take up to an hour to hit you, and once they do they can last up to 10 hours. Edibles are not for inexperienced smokers. If you’re going to eat one, pace yourself and be among friends. Relax, it’s not going to last forever. Maybe go see a movie and get a large popcorn; although, I’m partial to nachos.

Those are the big three. Any other method, such as tea or tincture, is highly uncommon.

Well, if you’re planning a trip to Colorado or Washington, this column (and a plane ticket) will have you on your way. Some other good things to pick up would be a grinder, an abundance of lighters (you will lose them) and a stash box of some sort. Your best bet is a mason jar, they’re the best at sealing in smell. Any of the items I’ve mentioned can be purchased at a smoke shop or head shop.

Keep some water nearby and don’t overdo it on the munchies. That’s a rookie mistake.

Have fun. zach fulciniti is a freshman journalism major. reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Collaboration inspires honest, thoughtful album Gibbs, Madlib depend on past experiences, raw emotion to create latest album “Pinata” kekeli dawes dn There is no “avant-garde” hip-hop.

Hip-hop is hip-hop — if it’s genuine, it’s real. It’s the only way this collaboration makes sense. Freddie Gibbs is the most authentic gangster rapper today. You can tell because he doesn’t tell stories of cooking ‘cane for the sake of credibility; he’s just being an honest artist who tells it like it is, the way he wants.

As a producer, Madlib works in the same way. He’s known for being exceedingly eccentric by taking cues (and samples) from music’s elusive greats like Monk or Sun Ra and turning hip-hop inside out and on its head. Though often unconventional, his production is always made of raw impressionistic sketches or meditative groove mantras from hip-hop’s madman from LA. In 2009, the two artists paired up for the single “Thuggin’” and because of the great chemistry and great reception, they worked for four years to make a full-length album together.

That album is “Piñata”.

From an artists and repertoire’s point of view, these two cats are from both ends of the spectrum.

It’s gangster coke rap and beatmaker’s delight, avant-garde hiphop. But as artists, there couldn’t be a better pairing. Both are confident in their craft and confident in their ability to push it forward.

Madlib goes strictly soul on this album, providing just the right kind of backdrop for what Gibbs calls a “gangster Blaxploitation film on wax.” The album swings from interludes, beat switches and skits that sample some of the films Gibbs has in mind and films Madlib has sampled many times before.

“Shame,” the album’s second single, is a love song — a pimp and pusher’s love song. And the pimp and pusher loves many, many women. To them, BJ the Chicago Kid sings the hook, “It ain’t got to be the walk of shame, baby/ and it’s only if you know the game, baby.” Madlib cues the Manhattan’s sample to respond, “Here we are again ...”

But the soul-heavy production sets to the scene to many cinematic moments of Gibbs’ life, from childhood to adulthood. “Harold’s” is an ode to Gibb’s favorite fried chicken joint he frequented in adolescence (and got laid at while parked behind the restaurant after school).

Moods range from the nostalgic to the playful, or blunted, rather, on “High,” the best take on Freda Payne’s ’77 smash since Styles P. Madlib shows he can make trap he wants, as long as he can throw in a healthy helping of laser gun sounds. Gibbs flows and grooves about ditching college to blaze up on his couch, and Danny Brown bounces in with his pogo-stick

“PIÑATA” Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

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The supporting cast on “Pinata” is insanely strong. They’re pleasant surprises rather than the gimmicky co-sign verses from labelmates plaguing the industry today. Earl Sweatshirt, Mac Miller and Domo Genesis, young emcees who’ve spent the past two years in the dank basements of California’s best producers, definitely hold their own on this album, alongside Gibbs and others (it’s unfair

to spoil the surprise; don’t look at the tracklist).

Midway through the record, Madlib interrupts the smooth, velvet grooves with one of his clunky percussive fusion beats — probably pulled from his rare finds out in Ethiopia — and lets Gibbs loose on it. He sprints through Madlib’s jungle, diving under vines, dodging trees. “Remember everybody ain’t loyal/All the real n***** in the jail or deep in the soil/Gotta spit it how I live it/I beat the street and

report.”

Then Madlib breaks into the coldest, soulful cut of the record.

It’s a slow ride, spacious, melodic and almost mournful. The song is “Real,” Gibbs’ diss record aimed at Young Jeezy. “Real” isn’t a baseless diss track; it’s about authenticity, and Gibbs is honest about how he felt betrayed, embarrassed by, and disappointed in a man he once admired who turned out to be nothing but a “fraud.”

“Pinata” is a thoroughly solid

album. It’s consistent in content and ranges in style. It’s concept, pace and aesthetic is focused. It’s a well-executed body of work by Madlib, who has is musical mind in British Prog, Ethiopian Funk, Brazilian Samba and Kraftwerk all at once, and it is an impressive showing from Gibbs, who has been rhyming impressively consistently for the past five years.

On the tail end of the album’s first full song, “Scarface,” Madlib samples Blaxploitation star Rudy Ray Moore of “Dolemite” fame, as he frequently does. As The Inclination’s soul ballad, “I’m Gonna Make Love Last This Time” fades, Moore prophecies, “... and hope, they’ll have enough soul, just maybe they’ll figure it out.”

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Huskers open sand volleyball season in Hawaii

No. 7 Nebraska will play against No. 2 Southern California, No. 5 Hawaii in weekend invitational Eric Bertrand DN Justine Wong-Orantes played eight years of beach volleyball with Sara Hughes.

The two have competed internationally together.

In 2011, they claimed the AAU Junior National Beach Championship and took ninth in the FIVB Youth World Championship.

Wong-Orantes said they know each other’s shots and tendencies like the back of their hands.

Now both freshmen are slated to see each other again.

This time on opposite ends of the sand.

Hughes is in the top pairing at University of Southern California, and Wong-Orantes is the captain of the Nebraska beach team and also in the top position.

The No. 7 Nebraska sand volleyball team begins its season Thursday with matches against No. 2 USC and No. 5 Hawaii.

Wong-Orantes said she requested the top spot just so she could have the

chance to take on her former beach Kelly Claes.

Hawaii has a 5-1 record and its partner.

“It’ll be really interesting to play loss also comes from a Pepperdine on the other side of the net from her,” sweep. The No. 1 pairing for Hawaii is made up of junior Brittany Tiegs Wong-Orantes said. “That will be reand senior Karissa Cook. The duo ally fun.” has lost only one dual Going against this season to Pepperher former partner, It’ll be nice dine’s Lara Dykstra Wong-Orantes will be and Becca Strehlow. paired up with either to see Friday and Satfreshman Melanie urday, the Huskers Keil or sophomore tropical scenery will take part in the Amber Rolfzen. and not have to Hawaii Invitational, “It’s definitely see cornfields.” which is also held in different styles, but Honolulu, Hawaii. both of their attitudes Kelsey Fien Both USC and and determination is sophomore player Hawaii are in the great,” Wong-Orantournament, and the tes said. “They both Arizona Wildcats will want to compete and also see action. love the sand.”

The Wildcats are undefeated so far For some of the Huskers, the change of the view is one of the better in the season. They have taken down Arizona State, Grand Canyon, Arizona perks of the competition.

“It’ll be nice to see tropical scenery Christian and Tulane. This season, the No. 5 position has proven to be and not have to see cornfields every the consistent duo for the team. Seday,” sophomore Kelsey Fien said.

The Huskers will not only take in nior Emily Kiser and freshman Sarah Seiber are 5-0 in duals this season. the scenery, but they will have some Fien said a Husker victory boils stiff competition. down to something simple.

So far this season, the Trojans are “It’s more about who brings their 4-1 in duals. The lone loss of the year ‘A’ game and is smart in situations,” was a 5-0 sweep against Pepperdine.

But USC recorded three sweeps of its Fien said. “I think that’s what sand is.”

With the Huskers preparing for own this season. the sand season for the past month and The top team for the Trojans congetting a week of outdoor practice, the sists of Hughes and senior Kirby Burnfeelings on the team are on a high. ham.

“I’m pretty confident in my Former Huskers’ indoor player Alexa Strange transferred to USC last team,” Fien said. sports@ year just for sand volleyball. She is the dailynebraskan.com squad’s No. 2 pairing with freshman

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Freshman sand volleyball player Justine Wong-Orantes will compete against long-time partner Sara Hughes, who plays for USC. Hughes is in the top pairing for the Trojans.

women’s bball: from 10 ing the tournament,” she said.

“As much as we’re rooting and cheering for our men’s basketball team, it’s hard when you haven’t been there.”

If the team does make it to the Sweet 16 it could potentially play the reigning champs and No. 1 seeded Connecticut on Nebraska’s home court in the Lincoln regional.

The Huskies have made it to at least this stage of the NCAA Tournament for the past 20 seasons in a row. They went undefeated this season with a 34-0 overall record and have lay claim to six of the past 12 national titles.

“That’s a huge opportunity that we could play them at our home court,” said Hooper, who averages 20.3 points per game.

“But you have to take care of business in the first two games.”

Hooper played with two of UConn’s players on the USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team last summer: junior forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who averages 12.4

points per game and senior guard Bria Hartley, who averages 16.4 points per game.

Junior forward Tear ’a Laudermill said she still wants to go farther this year.

“It’s great to have a Big Ten championship on our backs,” said Laudermill, who had the secondhighest 3-pointers this season with 54. “It’s not about having a ring, it’s about going further. Like coach said, we’ve got to be hungry.”

If the Huskers make it past the UConn Huskies, they could potentially face No. 2 seeded Duke once again in the NCAA Tournament. This time it would be in the Elite Eight.

Unlike Nebraska and UConn, the (27-6, 12-4 Atlantic Coast) Duke Blue Devils lost in their conference championship game.

“I don’t have any feelings of finishing anytime soon,” Hooper said. “I know it will end, but I’m just focusing on Fresno State and trying to worry about that.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior Brandon Videtich said the Nebraska Tennis Center’s bubble collapse didn’t stop the Huskers from practicing. The No. 60 Huskers are slated to compete against No. 58 Wisconsin and No. 50 Minnesota this weekend with an 8-6 record.

Despite bubble collapse, NU is ready Sydny Boyd DN The No. 60 Husker men’s tennis season has found success so far this season. However, the team has yet to participate in any conference play.

Last week, the Nebraska Tennis Center’s bubble collapsed, creating a difficult situation for the Huskers. But the weather has been nice enough that the team practiced on the outdoor courts.

“We’ve had a really strong week of practice,” senior Brandon Videtich said. “It was really good to get back outside. We’re a better outdoor team, so we got to do that this week.”

This Friday, the Huskers will host No. 58 ranked Wisconsin for their conference home opener. After playing the Badgers, the Huskers will travel to Minnesota for another conference match against the No. 50 Golden Gophers.

increase their scores this weekend “Playing conference is big,” Viagainst Wisconsin and Minnesota, detich said. “It’s the more intense coach Kerry McDermott said. part of the year, and it’s nice to start The Huskers’ single game has off with Wisconsin. We’re dominant over Wisconsin, so hopefully improved since playing Wisconsin as well, the coach said. Sophomore we start out 1-0 going in.”

Dusty Boyer claimed the No. 1 Overall, the Huskers are 8-6, spot, going 10-3. going 2-4 against ranked teams.

“They are The last time the working really Huskers faced the We never hard for their Badgers, it was a Big spots.” McDerRed victory, winning gave up.

We mott said.

4-1. The Huskers won Senior Tom that match in January, work hard and Blackwell is at and a lot has changed give it our all for 9-3 for his singles for the team since every point.” play this seathen. son. He has been “We never give Brandon Videtich switching beup,” Videtich said. senior tennis player tween the No. 2, 3 “We work hard and and 4 spots. give it our all for evThe Huskers ery point. Hopefully, are coming off a loss against Drake. we use that.”

They lost to the Bulldogs 4-0. The Now, doubles team sophomatch was physically and mentally more Marc Herrmann and junior hard for the team.

Beau Treyz are at the No. 2 spot, “It was a really tough match,” 6-5 overall. They are looking to

Videtich said. “But one thing that coach said to us, is that we are fighters. At one point we were down 3-0, but we didn’t stop fighting.”

The Huskers plan to take that “fighting” mentality into this weekend against their two conference opponents, McDermott said.

Before this week, Nebraska had a higher ranking but dropped to No. 60 after losing to Drake and Utah. In the Big Ten, the Huskers are ranked ninth.

“I want to step in for the team and give them whatever I can this weekend,” Videtich said. “Whether that is a win or support, I’ll give it to them the best that I can.”

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blocks.

“It’s extremely difficult to get to the rim against these guys, which is something we like to do,” Miles said.

Thus the brooms and foam fingers.

The rebounding is also an area of concern, Miles said. Nebraska ranked ninth or worse in every rebounding category in the Big Ten and struggled particularly with taller players such as Purdue’s 7-foot A.J. Hammons and Illinois’ 6-foot-11 Nnanna Egwu.

But Miles said the Huskers have played better in that category recently.

On top of the length, Baylor also plays primarily zone defense, something almost unheard of from a Big Ten team that almost always sees man-to-man.

The key to breaking that zone?

Patience.

Baylor forces teams into quick shots that create transition opportunities, Miles said. And almost anyone can score for the Bears when those opportunities occur as they have four guys that average double figures, led by Jefferson at 13 points a game.

The most dangerous player in transition is senior guard and sharpshooter Brady Heslip, who shoots 47 percent from three and Miles calls “one of the best in the

country” from behind the arc.

Even with all those weapons, the team had a film session earlier in the week and seemed to have a strong grasp on what they need to do, sophomore forward Terran Petteway said.

“It’s really just taking your time,” said Petteway, a Texas native who played against Baylor while at Texas Tech. “We watched the Iowa State game, and they were patient. They didn’t rush a shot. They passed up a good shot to get a great shot almost every time down the floor.

“The way their zone is so spread out, we’re going to have to get it into the high post. If you can get it into the high post, that’s breaking down the whole zone, really.”

So the team knows what it has to do, it just comes down to gaining confidence after a tough loss to Ohio State the last time the Huskers took the floor in the Big Ten Tournament.

Miles said a win on Friday would do a lot of good for his program.

“Now, we have to get on equal footing,” Miles said. “We have to make up for that loss. We have to win in the NCAA. You can talk big. Act big. Think big. But you’re not big until you do it.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

baseball: from 10 “You got to learn how to win,” Erstad said. “Those are very difficult situations to come through, and the more you do that, the confidence grows. When you’re in that situation again, there’s a belief factor.”

Nebraska is riding a threegame win streak heading into its first Big Ten series of the season

against Iowa on Friday and Erstad still has a sense of urgency with every matchup.

“At the end of the day they grinded it out and found a way at the end,” Erstad said. “We have to play way more consistent baseball to get anywhere this season.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Spring slump doesn’t stop NU from competing Brett Nierengarten DN The Husker men’s golf team will travel to Goodyear, Ariz., for the Desert Shootout hosted by Kansas State University. Competition starts today at the 7,015 yard, par 72 Palm Valley Country Club.

The Huskers are looking to break out of an early spring slump after finishing 18th out of 23 in their spring opener in California and 17th out of 18 at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate in Aiken, S.C., last weekend. The Huskers couldn’t shoot a 296 as a team in the first round and then shot a 308 in the second and a 311 in the third.

“Obviously, it’s not the start to the spring we wanted.” Junior Ross Dickson said. “We’re staying positive, especially since there’s plenty of golf left to be played this season.”

Dickson has been a bright spot for the Huskers early on in the season. Dickson notched a top30 finish in South Carolina and is second on the team with a 74.3 stroke average this spring after leading NU in stroke average during the fall season.

“The key to my personal success to start the spring has been sticking to the process.” Dickson said. “I put a plan in place at the start of the season and it’s been helping me stay focused on what

We’re staying positive, especially since there’s plenty of golf left to be played this season.

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I need to do to get better.”

Senior Matt Record has also been a key to the Huskers success along with Dickson. Record leads the team with 73.3 stroke average in the spring. Dickson and Record are

joined in the Huskers five-man lineup by senior Mike Siwa as well as juniors Josh Reinertson and Calvin Freeman. Dickson believes having an upperclassman-heavy team will help the team down the stretch.

“Upperclassmen will always add experience to any team, as a junior now I can’t tell you how important the experience of being a starter the last two years has been to me.”

Dickson said.

Bowling Green, BYU, Cal State Fullerton, Columbia, Creighton, Drake, Grand Canyon, Idaho, Kansas, Kansas State, Kansas City, Long Beach State, Northern Iowa and Southern Utah will all join the Huskers in Arizona, making this the smallest field the team has played against this spring.

The Huskers finished 6th out of 16 in last year’s Desert Shootout, their best finish since runner-up in 2007. If NU were to repeat last year’s 6th-place finish, it would tie with

the team’s best finish all season, which came at the Price’s “Give Em Five” Invitational on Oct. 25 and 26.

The Huskers are very familiar with this tournament, having competed in it every year since 2005.

“We have prepared well, doing what we can back in Lincoln.”

Dickson said. “We managed three qualifying rounds before traveling this week, which I feel has been the main difference going into this tournament than the other spring tournaments.”

After this weekend the Huskers will get a week off before traveling to Iowa City, Iowa for the Hawkeye Invitational on April 12 and 13. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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6th-week loss prepared women’s gymnastics team for tournament

softball brief The No. 15 Nebraska softball team won its home opener 10-3 against the Iowa State Cyclones.

Wednesday’s game at the Bowlin Stadium started off slow in the first three innings with no hits for either team.

But the Huskers decided the game’s fate in the fourth and fifth innings when they batted 3 home runs and a grand slam.

Nebraska pulled ahead by 4 runs.

The Cyclones’ only points came at the top of the fifth when the Huskers made 3 errors.

Nebraska’s grand slam was set up when sophomore infielders Dawna Tyson and Alicia Armstrong walked onto first and second bases. Sophomore outfielder Kiki Stokes then made her way onto the bases and set the stage for junior outfielder Kylee Muir. With no outs yet Muir hit the grand slam — the first of her career.

The Iowa State game was Nebraska’s fourth straight win this spring season to put them at a 19-8 record.

The Huskers will stay at home to take on

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Freshman Collin Jensen will compete in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in the heavyweight group. Jensen compiled a 20-13 record throughout his season. He will be joining six of his teammates in the tournament, three of whom have had success at NCAAs before.

3 veterans, 4 rookies head to NCAAs for wrestling Austin Pistulka DN The final tournament of the year is here, and the No. 7 Nebraska wrestling team is primed and ready to take on Oklahoma City.

The Huskers are taking seven wrestlers to the final meet of the year. The Huskers are hopeful to crown their first national champion since 2011.

Leading the Huskers into nationals are juniors James Green (157 pounds), Robert Kokesh (174 pounds) and Jake Sueflohn (149 pounds). This is their third trip to the championships and having that experience will help.

Last year, Green and Kokesh were named All-Americans with Sueflohn falling one match shy of that honor.

Joining the trio of juniors will be freshmen Tim Lambert (125 pounds), TJ Dudley (184 pounds), Collin Jensen (Heavyweight) and sophomore Austin Wilson (165 pounds). This is Wilson’s second trip to nationals.

Although this is the freshmen’s first trip as competitors, the coaches have helped them know how to handle the atmosphere.

“I’ve watched it before, and the

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atmosphere is great,” Jensen said.

“The coaches have said you have to do your normal thing, do your normal routine, and stay relaxed. You can’t overthink the situation.”

Green and Kokesh are in the driving seats when it comes to seedings. They are ranked No. 1 and No. 3 respectively.

“You have to beat everyone,” Kokesh said after the Big Ten Tournament, “but a high seeding really helps.”

Green and Kokesh both have one loss on the season. Green can avenge that loss in the semifinals against Wisconsin freshman Isaac Jordan. Jordan is the fifth seed and could be Green’s biggest competition in getting to the finals.

Kokesh’s one loss came against defending national champion Andrew Howe of Oklahoma. Howe is the No. 2 seed, and the two could meet in the semifinals for a shot at Big 12 champion Chris Perry of Oklahoma State.

Sueflohn will have a harder road as the No. 6 seed in the 149-pound weight class. If he makes it into the semifinals where he will likely take on the No. 2 seed, Nick Dardanes of Minnesota. Dardanes finished third at the Big Ten tournament.

The next best seed goes to Dud-

ley at No. 8 and 184 pounds. Dudley’s second-round match will be the rubber match between him and Michigan’s Domenic Abounader.

Dudley won the first match in Lincoln overtime and Abounader took the win at the Big Ten Championships. Both matches were decided by two or fewer points.

Lambert is a No. 12 seed. Wilson and Jensen were not seeded and were drawn into their respective slots.

Sayingthat coach Mark Manning is excited about this time of the year would be an understatement.

“It’s the pinnacle of our sport,” Manning said. “You only have four years to make it here, and you can’t waste those opportunities. We have a lot of guys who we think can do something special this year. Anything can happen. It is the time of the year where dreams are realized.”

Manning said he wants to improve on how the Huskers finished a year ago. They finished 13th, scoring 38 team points and taking seven athletes to the tournament.

“Our guys are focused,” Manning said. “They are not going to let it get to their heads. We just have to go out and do what we do, and good things will happen.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Women’s gymnastics coaches and athletes have their eyes set on the Big Ten Championships.

After Nebraska lost its first meet in the sixth week of the season, head coach Dan Kendig said it was OK. Kendig said the Huskers did their best, and that’s all they could hope for because all the mistakes they made early on would prepare them for the bigger meets later in the season — such as the Big Ten Championships.

This year, the Huskers are returning to the Big Ten Championships to defend their three-year winning streak.

All of the teams they will be competing against are tough, Kendig said. But if he’s worried about any specific team, it’s Michigan.

“Michigan is the highest rated team here, and they struggled a bit last weekend, so they’re going to want to come back with a vengeance,” Kendig said. “They are the top team, and they were picked to be the top team. They’re very talented.”

Kendig said the only thing the Huskers can worry about is themselves.

After a week of shortened daily practices Kendig said he hopes the team will be well rested and ready to compete.

“We have a purpose, and it’s all about quality over quantity,” Kendig said.

As the regular season came to an end, three members of the team were awarded Big Ten honors. Senior Emily Wong and junior Jessie DeZiel received first-team All-Big Ten honors for the third time based on their Regional Qualifying Score (RQS). Sophomore Hollie Blanske received second-team accolades for the first time.

Wong, DeZiel and Blanske have consistently competed in the allaround this season. Kendig said they make up half the team when it comes to competition time.

Wong has won the all-around title in every meet she’s been eligible. Heading into the championships this weekend, Wong will be a two-time defending all-around champion, with her high score at a 39.725.

Jennie Laeng will be competing in the all-around for her third time this season. Last week, the Huskers competed against Illinois, Michigan State and Ohio State to take home a

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Freshman Jennie Laeng will be competing in the all-around competition for her third time this season, but this time in her first appearance at the Big Ten Championship. victory and win a share of the regular-season Big Ten conference title.

In her second time competing in the all-around on the collegiate level, Laeng earned a 39.325 to contribute to the final team score of 197.050.

“We had a really good meet last weekend,” Laeng said. “We didn’t have the mindset to go in and win.

We went into the meet with a mindset to go in, do our jobs and have fun. And I guess it worked. So, hopefully we can do that again this weekend.”

The team will leave Thursday morning for University Park, Pa. On Friday, it will have a day of

practice and an evening banquet.

Saturday, the meet is split up into two sessions. Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State will be competing in the first session at 11 a.m. and Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Penn State will be competing in the second session at 2 p.m.

“The fact that we’ve done it before helps us,” Kendig said. “But at the same time, we have to treat it with respect and get after it because there are literally four other teams that could come away with this.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sophomore forward Terran Petteway leads the Huskers into the NCAA averaging 18.1 points per game. Petteway will be getting a taste of his home state of Texas when the No. 11 seeded Huskers go into the second round of the NCAA tournament to take on the Baylor Bears.

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ome interesting items might be popping up into the Nebraska men’s basketball team’s practices this week.

Brooms? Foam Fingers? Guys on ladders?

Coach Tim Miles is pulling out all the stops in preparation for his team’s second round NCAA tournament matchup against Baylor (24-11 overall, 9-9 Big 12) Friday at 11:40 a.m. in San

Antonio.

“I just don’t feel comfortable with (Baylor ’s) length and athleticism inside,” Miles said Tuesday.

Here’s a hint: not many teams do.

Baylor starts 7-foot-1 Isaiah Austin, 6-foot-9 Cory Jefferson and 6-foot-6 Royce O’Neale.

On top of that, massive starting frontcourt 6-foot-8 Rico Gathers plays 18 minutes off the bench.

It’s extremely difficult to get to the rim against these guys, which is something we like to do.”

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That length was one of the reasons Baylor made a run to the

Big 12 title game before losing to Iowa State. And it poses threats

on both ends of the court.

The Bears rank among the nation’s best in blocked shots and rebounding. They out-rebounded teams by nearly 7 per game while reeling in 14 offensive rebounds, which was good enough for 12th and ninth in the nation respectively.

They also block 5.6 shots a game, led by the 7-foot-3 wingspan of Austin, who ranked fourth in the nation in total

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Huskers prepare for 1st round against Fresno State

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If No. 4 seeded Huskers beat Bulldogs, they could play Connecticut in Sweet 16 Natasha Rausch DN With 7:53 left in the game, Jordan Hooper sprained her ankle.

No. 2 seeded Duke had the game in the bag after that.

The Norfolk regional is where the Huskers ended their NCAA Tournament run last season. Duke took the 53-45 win and moved on to the Elite Eight to play Notre Dame, where it lost 87-76.

Nebraska coach Connie Yori said this year is different, though.

With a Big Ten Championship and the most home wins in Husker history (16), she said the team is still looking for more.

“I told them after the Big Ten Tournament that there’s two things that can happen,” the Big Ten Coach of the Year said. “You can either be complacent and satisfied or really hungry, and I feel like in the few days we’ve practiced, we’ve been really hungry.”

On Selection Monday, the (256, 12-4 Big Ten) Huskers were given a No. 4 seed and are set to play No. 13 seeded Fresno State in Los Angeles in the first round.

The (22-10, 13-5 Mountain West) Bulldogs also won their conference championship before entering the NCAA tournament.

If the Huskers make it to the second round of play, they will be up against either No. 5 North Carolina State or No. 12 BYU.

Nebraska claims rivalry win in extra innings

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Senior forward Jordan Hooper is entering her last NCAA tournament with more than 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her career. Hooper said the season isn’t over yet.

“We are not overlooking anybody, and we are not written in the Sweet 16 right now,” Yori said.

“It’s hard to win two games in the state tournament.”

But Yori said having experience as a team will help in this

year ’s bracket.

“Having been there and having had some success in last year ’s tournament, our kids should feel some comfort in play-

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It wasn’t the prettiest win, but the Nebraska baseball team found a way to come back and beat in-state rival Creighton 5-4 in extra innings.

The Huskers struggled to catch fire in the first half of the game, which frustrated coach Darin Erstad. But the late-inning rally eased some of that frustration.

“I was very disappointed in our effort, being locked in early on,” Erstad said. “I’ll give our guys credit; that was not an easy situation. They have a tremendous bullpen to go tie it up again and get the lead against a heck of a closer. I tip my hat to my boys.”

It was a slow start for both teams. Nebraska had a 2-run lead until the Bluejays bounced back and scored 3 runs to give them the edge.

Impressing Erstad on the mound was freshman pitcher Jake Hohensee who was put into a sticky situation in the eighth inning to hold the Creighton hitters from getting anything going.

Hohensee went 2.1 innings and only allowed 2 hits after a sloppy start last week against Northern Colorado when he gave up 3 runs that led to a loss.

The turnaround that was showed was one of the reasons why Erstad chooses to put him out there.

“Jake’s got the stuff,” Erstad said. “He’s a young guy that we continue to throw into the fire. You have to take your lumps along the way, but he’s mentally tough. He went out there and pitched great, and we just need to build on that.”

After a few missed opportunities the two teams were forced to continue to extra innings where the Bluejays struck first after a runner was able to steal home after a wild pitch from junior pitcher Josh Ro-

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Sophomore infielder Jake Placzek hit a ball in front of the center fielder in the 10th inning to allow his teammate sophomore infielder Austin Christensen score the winning run. eder.

Creighton was up 4-3 going into the bottom frame of the 10th, but the Huskers didn’t layover and give up against the rival.

Sophomore first baseman and left-handed pitcher Austin Christensen started the rally by hitting a single down the line to tie up the game. With Christensen on second base and two outs, sophomore infielder Jake Placzek was up.

Placzek continue to battle against Creighton pitcher Jake Peter, making the right-hander throw as many pitches as possible, which set up for a fastball that Placzek needed to capitalize on.

He then hit a low fly ball to the right center that landed just in front of the center fielder to have Christensen turn on the wheels and round third base to score the winning run.

For Placzek, it was the battle that

let him win the game for his team.

“You got to compete in and out and just gotta grind,” Placzek said.

“That’s what I did with two strikes. I know I didn’t hit well, and I was just hoping it was going to fall. It was a pretty sweet feeling.”

Placzek, a native from Omaha, was well aware of the Creighton-Nebraska rivalry and it was special for him to be the one to end the game.

“Watching this rivalry my whole life and then playing in it and getting a big hit like that in that kind of situation was sweet,” Placzek said. “I love it. We got a little bit of momentum now, and we just need to keep that rolling.”

After winning their first extra innings game of the season Erstad said that winning is a contagious situation that his team now knows.

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