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make your own Customers build their own pizza and flattizas, which cost between $4 and $6 at the Subway Pizza Express and are made in less than five minutes.

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Subway Pizza Express saw a busy opening day Wednesday. The space behind the counter was often crowded with many employees working to prepare and cook pizzas for students and other customers.

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ubway Pizza Express opened in the Nebraska Union Food Court Wednesday, serving Italian food to customers from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The new restaurant offers a variety of pizzas and toppings, including round personal pan pizzas and “flattizas,” which are square and thin. As with the regular Subway, customers can personalize their meals, choosing which toppings they would like. The toppings are similar to Subway’s offerings and include: -Meats: turkey, ham, pepperoni, roast beef and sausage -Cheese: parmesan and a shredded mozzarella blend -Vegetables: onions, mushrooms, green peppers, tomatoes, banana peppers and olives -Sauces: barbecue, sweet onion, buffalo and chipotle southwest Pizzas are heated for about 90 seconds before being served to the customers, and prices range between $4 and $6, similar to Subway sandwiches.

This is the first Subway

Pizza Express built as a standalone and on a University Campus. While another Subway exists at College Station, Texas, and serves pizzas, it only offers three different kinds, said Subway Pizza Express manager Travis Crow.

Crow said the staff had a busy day. The restaurant served about 500 customers in its first day and made about $2,000 in sales, Crow said.

“The biggest thing is trying to make sure the line moves just as smoothly as it would on the Subway side,” Crow said.

“One thing we really strive for at Subway is to make your own food, but we’re still getting you in and out really quick. That’s something we want to do the same over here, at those same standards.”

The staff at the Subway Pizza Express had its biggest day of preparation on Tuesday, training 10 staff members for about 16 hours.

He said that while being the first restaurant of its kind presents a challenge, the developer, Barton Development, has a lot of previous food experience.

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DN plans open forum for ASUN REECE RISTAU DN Three uncontested executive candidates for student government will face questions from the public Thursday night.

The 2014 Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Open Forum will allow students to learn about and question the platforms of Ignite for ASUN, the only official party running in the student government elections. The forum, hosted by the Daily Nebraskan, will be in lieu of typical debates that occur during multiple-party elections. It will be digital, which means students can tweet questions using the hashtag #DNforum. The questions will be chosen and asked by a moderator.

The forum will be at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Crib, located next to Runza.

Students can also watch the forum from home through a livestream and tweet questions to the candidates. The live-stream link will be posted on the Daily Nebraskan homepage at www.dailynebraskan.com before the forum begins.

Sen. Christina Guthmann, Ignite external vice presidential candidate and a junior international business major, said she thinks the forum will aid Ignite’s goal of connecting with students.

“One of our platforms is about connecting campus with ASUN,” Guthmann said. “This is a good way to get that going.”

Sen. Kevin Knudson, Ignite presidential candidate and a junior political science major, said the group will talk about its platforms, but they also want to have an open dialogue about student concerns.

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Yeongho Kim, a graduate student studying biochemistry, works in a lab in the Beadle Center. In order to be competitive enough to receive research grants, the Beadle Center has high-end technology such as the Morrison Microscope.

Intensive microscope research gains UNL prestige among peers courtesy photo

Ignite for ASUN is the only party running in this year’s student government elections. The executive candidates will answer questions on their platforms at 7 pm. Thursday in the Nebraska Union.

The platforms originally outlined by the party are connecting campus, protecting student rights and working with senators on personal projects.

“We don’t want to shut anybody out,” said Grant Garrison,

internal vice presidential candidate and a junior biological sciences and psychology major.

The Daily Nebraskan has traditionally hosted a debate for ASUN executive candidates but changed the format this year to fit

the lack of competition while encouraging student participation.

“It’s important for students to come,” said Hailey Konnath, editor-in-chief of the DN and a senior

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Mara Klecker DN Christian Elowsky spends up to six hours a day sitting in the dark taking “sexy” pictures.

The Morrison Microscopy Core Research Facility researcher uses the adjective facetiously, and the corners of his mustache turn up into a smile. The colorful pictures he takes with the $365,000 Nikon A-1 confocal microscope are beautiful. But most

people wouldn’t consider “taking a peekypoo” at fluorescent green endoplasmic reticula in corn cells particularly “sexy.”

The microscope takes up one whole wall of the small dark room on the first floor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s George W. Beadle building. Two large boxlooking things are stacked on the floor near the scope. They create

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Groups to co-host bone marrow donor registry

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ON CAMPUS what: Red Cross Awareness and Preparedness Night when: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Centennial Room

what: “Really Really” by Paul Downs Colaizzo when: 7:30 p.m. where: Temple Building

what: Second Chance Cinema: “Frozen” when: 7 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. where: Mary Riempa Ross Media Arts Center more information: $1 for UNL students with Ncard

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of a person’s DNA line up directly with someone in need of a donor, the process continues.

The University of Nebraska- This is a one in 30,000 chance, Lincoln is hosting a drive to according to Mediratta.

Cancer is the second leadgive students, staff and faculty an opportunity to register as ing cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers bone marrow donors starting for Disease Control and PrevenThursday.

Delete Blood Cancer is tion. Much of this death occurs from cancer of the blood. cosponsoring the drive with The most common method Camp Kesem, a group of college campuses that help orga- of donation is a peripheral nize summer camps for chil- blood stem cell donation. The dren of families that are coping process is just like donating plasma — a neewith cancer. dle is inserted “The four maDonors into a major vein jor drives serve to and the blood is will not be solicit and regisremoved, then ter donors,” said donating at the passed through Jai Mediratta, a a machine and sophomore mi- events, (but) are returned to the crobiology and registering to donor through biology major the opposite and coordinator become donors arm, Mediratta of the bone marsaid. row drives, in an until they get a The second email.

“Donors match.” method of donawill not be donattion is used only ing at the events, jai mediratta about 15 percent bone marrow drive (but) are regiscoordinator of the time and tering to become is the true bone donors until they marrow donaget a match.” tion. In this procedure, the bone Students can register Thursday and Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 marrow cells are extracted from p.m. in the Abel Hall lobby and the pelvic bone, not the spine.

“It’s a misconception. A lot March 18 and 19 in the Pewter Room in the Nebraska Union of people think you have to be awake when it happens or that from noon to 3 p.m.

“It’s the first time they’ve we take it out of their spine, but none of those are true,” Maniaci ever done a drive through Desaid. lete Blood Cancer, so we’re exHealth insurance covers the cited to help them,” said Olivia cost of both procedures. A bone Maniaci, a junior donor recruitmarrow transplant is the only er from Delete Blood Cancer.

Mediratta said the process option for many blood cancer patients, and about 70 percent for registration is just filling out a few forms and swabbing the of patients look to the national registry. inside of the cheek. If 10 parts

if you go what: Bone marrow donor registration drive when: Thursday and Friday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Abel Hall lobby

“At Camp Kesem, I’ve seen first-hand how destructive cancer can be to families and the lives of children.” Mediratta said. “Such a small amount of effort can go such a long way.”

Maniaci hopes to see about 100 people added to the registry during the event, but she has seen only three people register at a previous event in Kansas City, and one of them was a perfect match. Eligibility requirements are pretty basic: Donors must be between 18 and 55 years old with being and weigh a minimum of 110 pounds. According to Maniaci, many people who aren’t able to give blood are still able to register as bone marrow donors.

Those who are generally in good health are able to register.

While the rare possibility of taking bone marrow from the source concerns a lot of people, Maniaci said donors never regret it.

“You’re literally getting to save someone’s life, and the tradeoff is to feel like you have a little bad bruise on your back,” Maniaci said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Lecturer speaks on faith, science tyler williams dn Greg Ganssle believes that even in a modern world filled with innovative technology, Christianity and science can go handin-hand.

Ganssle, a senior fellow of the Rivendell Institute at Yale University, gave a lecture on Wednesday in the Nebraska Union titled, “Be Reasonable: Evidence, Faith, Sciences and the Question of God,” in which he said a person can be a devout Christian and still work in the scientific field without feeling conflicted.

“I’m not trying to make the case that God exists. … It’s much more about clearing the objects in people’s minds,” Ganssle said.

Faith doesn’t have to conflict with logical reasoning, Ganssle said. Those who believe in the Bible can still consider things such as evolution and the age of the Earth both in a scientific way.

Ganssle said the idea that the existence of God can’t be proven is false. The same is true for evolution. Scientists can present mountains of evidence on evolution but they can’t prove without a shadow of a doubt that evolution happens, Ganssle said, because there is a chance, no matter how infinitesimally small that chance may be, that evolution doesn’t exist. Ganssle said the

I’m not trying to make the case that God exists... it’s much more about clearing the objects in people’s minds.” greg ganssle

senior fellow of rivendell institute at yale university

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Religious scholar Greg Ganssle speaks about evidence, faith, science and the question of God. Ganssle is a senior fellow from Yale University’s Rivendell Institute. same is true for God. People can only know about God in two ways, Ganssle said.

He said people can use the Bible and its scriptures to confirm their belief in God, and they can also observe the natural world around them and wonder how all of the Earth comes to be.

Taylor Sander, a freshman physics major, went to Ganssle’s presentation because he didn’t

know if the lecture was for Christianity or against Christianity.

“It was all right,” sander said. “I came out of curiosity to see what it was; it didn’t really change my opinions on anything.”

Ganssle began working in campus ministry after receiving his bachelor ’s degree at the University of Maryland. He eventually received his Ph.D. from Syr-

acuse University in 1995 where he completed a dissertation on God’s relation to time, which received a Syracuse University Dissertation Award. Ganssle specializes in philosophy of religion, metaphysics and history of philosophy. In addition to teaching, Ganssle has published nearly three dozen articles, edited two books and authored “Thinking About God: First Steps in Philosophy” and “A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism.”

The lecture was sponsored by the Fellowship Of Christian Grad Students who are represented by UNL Christian Grad Students and Campus Crusade, which is a similar group dedicated to undergraduates. news@ dailynebraskan.com

research: from 1 the lasers that send specific light wavelengths to excite a particular color. That color signal is then captured and transmitted into an image.

“We do cool stuff,” Elowsky said. “People should know about it. And when I say cool stuff, I mean cool stuff.”

He reaches into the wastebasket for the cool – and sexy – example of a tobacco leaf, which has dried and shriveled since he first imaged it. He slides it into place and the image pops up on the screen. The chlorophyll appears as bright red on the screen and the leaf’s veins are clear to the eye. Elowsky likes looking at plant cells the most, but he’s looked at all kinds of things during the 12 years he’s worked in the lab. He took two years off to do similar work at Johns Hopkins University but came back to UNL in 2004. Since 1999, the lab has worked with 326 researchers,

doing work for companies such as Cargill, ConAgra Foods and Nestlé Food. Besides researchers in the engineering, chemistry and biology departments on campus, the lab also does work for the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Elowsky contractually can’t give details about some of his work, but he’s imaged everything from spiders to potato chips, and one of his coworkers was paid to get an up-close look at chocolate.

The variety of principle investigators are proof that the lab’s importance extends beyond the campus, said the lab’s manager, Joe Zhou.

“It’s one-of-a-kind in Nebraska,” Zhou said. “We are one of the most heavily used facilities in the Midwest, and among Big Ten universities, we are doing very well.”

Elowsky wants more people

to know about the lab.

“We have this jewel hiding in the biotech center, and we are some of the only confocal on campus,” he said. “We are kind of buried in the dark here.”

Between the $2 million in equipment and the four researchers, each with his or her own area of expertise, Elowsky said he estimates that the lab is able to meet about 90 percent of requests.

That percentage wouldn’t be so high if it weren’t for a $1 million donation from Ken Morrison in 1999, Elowsky said.

“We are competitive because of our equipment we bought with that money and the hours we put in,” he said. “Of course if I had a pie in the sky, I’d want equipment updates and a promise to keep everyone we have, but we do all right.”

Zhou agreed. As research grants are becoming harder

and harder to get, Zhou said he knows it’s important to provide top imaging technology for researchers to add visualizations to their projects to be more competitive.

“The work we do is important, and the people who do it have to look beyond the ‘beautiful garbage,’” Zhou said. “The people we have here have training and know what to look for.

And they work hard. They work for many hours in the dark.”

Even though the days spent in the dark room looking through the eyepieces and a the computer screen can get long, Elowsky is passionate. He loves his job.

“Even if I were to win the lottery, I’d still be here,” he said.

“I might just come in a little bit later and probably get a different chair, but I’d be sitting right here.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

news briefs Hip Hop musical to take stage march 13

The Amish hip-hop musical “Crossing Over” will return to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a fullstaged reading on March 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Johnny Carson Theater of the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

The event will be free and open to the public. To further develop the musical, both Stephanie Salzman and Deborah Brevoort, who are nationally acclaimed writers, will join the cast and crew of the musical, according to a university press release. “Crossing Over” marks the latest installment of the Lied Center’s new works development program, better known as “Grow a Show.”

“Crossing Over” is a musical that tells the story of Rebecca, an Amish girl with a passion for music. The musical will feature a combination of local and UNL talent and will focus on exploring the needs of the individual vs. the needs of a community, cross-cultural relationships and the ties that bind us all.

The musical first gained traction at the Lied Center when in September it was chosen from more than 100 submissions to be the featured production in the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) New Musical Theater Workshop. These workshops are intended to identify shows that could potentially have Broadway trajectory and give the writers a chance to show their work to a panel of experts who will provide feedback. Both Salzman and Brevoort have returned to their homes in New York in order to advance further their work while prepping for a return to Nebraska and the full staged reading in the Johnny Carson Theater. Seating will be limited.

To reserve a seat, visit the Lied Center ticket office, 301 N. 12th St., or call 402-472-4747.

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California scholar to deliver OASIS speech on change

Shelly Tochluk, an author and scholar on issues of race, will deliver a speech on being an agent for change Tuesday at 3 p.m. Tochluk’s speech will focus on intent versus impact and being an active agent for change. The speech will take place during OASIS and Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Week and will be free and open to the public in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. Tochluk is the department chair of education at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she is also the author of “Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It.” Tochluk is an educator that has a background in psychology; she spent 10 years as a researcher, counselor, and teacher in California’s public schools. Currently she trains teachers to work with the diverse school population in Los Angeles. Tochluk wants to explore a better understanding of personal relationship to race, white privilege and systemic racism, all from the perspective of a white woman, educator, and former All-American track and field student-athlete at UCLA. Questions that Tochluk will delve into during her talk are: • What does it mean to be white?

• How can developing an awareness of racial identity help communicate across race with less tension?

• How can a deeper understanding of race help avoid unconsciously injuring one another?

Visit http://www.unl.edu/oasis/oasis-jgmc-week for a full calendar of events about OASIS and Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Week beginning Monday.

ASUN names annual student migration game REECE RISTAU DN The student migration game for the 2014 Husker football season will be the game against the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Iron N, the official student section of the University of NebraskaLincoln football team, recommended Wisconsin to the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senate. It voted unanimously in favor of the recommendation at its weekly senate meeting Wednesday.

Senators also unanimously passed legislation supporting Earthstock, an event that will run during the entire month of April to promote sustainability on campus, as well as work to empower UNL students to recognize their impact and secure healthy and clean lives for everyone, according to the resolution.

Each week of April will encourage different environmental practices.

There will be energy conservation competitions, sustainability expositions and speakers.

Melissa Bakewell, a coordinator of Earthstock and junior advertising major, said the event will try to connect college students with environmental sustainability.

“I wanted it to be more about

youth culture and to celebrate the Earth,” Bakewell said. “But, there’s an environmental spin on it and something that could speak to college students.”

Jeff Story, ASUN external vice president and a junior English and political science major, presented various bylaw changes to senators. Senators attempted to change the meeting location of the senate next year to the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center three times a month and East Campus once a month, but Story struck the lines from the bylaws until further discussion can be held.

One of the bylaw changes included the creation of a graduate student task force with a goal of better connecting graduate students to ASUN. Eric Reznicek, ASUN president and a senior finance and marketing major, said ASUN worked with the Graduate Student Association to create the task force.

Reznicek also said ASUN has been working on a rebranding effort with the Jacht Club, a advertising agency based in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. He said the group has been working on what ASUN might look like in the future.

The release of a rebranded ASUN may happen next fall.

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UNLPD saw 10 cases of vehicle vandalism in February and an additional case on Tuesday. Police say the type of vandalism has changed, from broken-out windows to exterior scratches.

UNLPD: Vehicle vandalism rising, form changing Charlie Wulke, a graduate student majoring in music composition, sings during Wednesday night mass. Several different Masses were held in the Nebraska Union on Ash Wednesday.

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ash wednesday photos by C a h n e r O l s o n Freshman Amanda Hilger (left), and Anna Rodriguez participate in Wednesday night Mass in the Nebraska Union. Ash Wednesday signifies the beginning of Lent.

UNL awards professorships to 6 diverse faculty members

Vehicle vandalism is on the rise at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Not only are the numbers rising, but the type of vandalism that occurs is changing, too.

In February alone, there were 10 cases of vandalism, with four of those being car vandalism. An additional case of vehicle vandalism occurred Tuesday.

Damage caused to vehicles in February and March were scratches to the cars, but police aren’t sure if it was done with a key or another object.

Police said this form of vandalism to cars is a recent change.

From October through January, there were seven cases of vehicular vandalism. However, none of them were from scratches. Instead, these cases involved dents made to cars and car windows broken out.

The tricky thing with car vandalisms is that it’s difficult to tell whether the damage is intentional, or if someone accidentally brushed next to the vehicle, police said. The other issue is that it’s not easy to track down or identify the perpetrators, police said. However, police said they are able to take some precautions by using cameras in the parking garages and lots.

The first case of vandalism occurred on Feb. 13. A student told police his car had been keyed while it was parked near Memorial Sta-

subway pizza: from 1 Barton Development owns the current Subway at the union and the Buffalo Wings & Rings on 350 Canopy St. Sometime next week, staff will hand out free pizzas to customers,

although Crow said he hasn’t decided how many yet.

Free or not, the pizzas seem to be pretty popular with customers, he said.

“Even before we opened,

staff report DN Six University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members have earned named professorships of three types. They’ll be recognized at the Honors Convocation April 13.

The faculty members are Rebecca Lai, chemistry; Laura White, English; Mark Walker, mathematics; Susan Swearer, educational psychology; Jordan Stump, modern languages and literatures and Alexei Gruverman, physics and astronomy.

Lai has received the Susan J. Rosowski associate professorship of chemistry, which recognizes associate professors with good walker records of scholarship or creative activity, according to a university press release.

Lai joined UNL in 2007 and specializes in the area of biosensors and bioanalytical chemistry. Students may know her for her honors seminar course “A Muggle’s Guide to Harry Potter’s Chemistry.” Lai was also awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award this year.

White has received the John E. Weaver professorship for English, which honors professors who demonstrate sustained and extraordinary levels of teaching excellence and national visibility for instructional activities or practice.

White joined UNL in 2000. She teaches 19th century British literature, with an emphasis on Jane Austen studies, and has published

people were really excited,” Crow said. “And I hear that the cheese bread sticks have been a huge hit so far.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

“I don’t think it’s an authentic Italian pizza that you would get out of a pizzeria, but I think that it’s good for it being part of Subway.”

Jemalyn Griffin

integrated media communications graduate student

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Laura White received the John E. Weaver professorship for English honoring sustained and extraordinary levels of teaching excellence and national visibility for insturctional activities. three books. White has received multiple awards for teaching.

Walker, Swearer, Stump and Gruverman have all earned the Willa Cather/Charles Bessey professorship, which honors professors with an exceptional record of distinguished scholarship or creative activity. The four professors will choose between the Cather/ Bessey distinction before the April convocation.

Walker joined UNL in 1996. He is an internationally recognized leader in research in algebraic Ktheory and is also a researcher in the fields of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. He has won the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award and is graduate recruiting chair.

Swearer joined UNL in 1997 and specializes in bullying prevention. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, has

been elected to the Society for the Study of School Psychology and is a recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award.

Stump, a distinguished authority on the French writer Raymond Queneau, came to UNL in 1992 from Illinois. He has translated 20 novels and will translate three more novels before the end of the spring. He received the FrenchAmerican Foundation’s Translation Prize in 2001.

Gruverman joined UNL in 2007. He’s currently the lead researcher on a $315,000 National Science Foundation grant and is also working on four other research grants. He “has a highly regarded publication record and is in high demand as a leading speaker in a rapidly growing field of piezoelectric force microscopy,” according to the release. news@ dailynebraskan.com

“I think that with a little bit of tweaking, maybe a little extra time in the oven, I think they’ll perfect it. It didn’t seem like 90 seconds today, with how warm the pizza was, but it was still cooked.”

Lawrence Chatters

doctorate student in psychological studies in education

“It’s really good. You can put whatever you want on it, so it kind of makes it a little better than just regular pizza.”

Hayden Hopkins senior biology major

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journalism and global studies major. “It’s important to get to know who you’re voting for before you do and have an opportunity to ask them important questions.”

Daniel Wheaton, projects editor for the DN and a junior journalism and broadcasting major, will moderate the forum. Wheaton said the DN is hoping for a big outcome.

“We’re hoping to get a big response from people,” Wheaton said. “It’s a chance for students to interact with the candidates, which is a rarity these days.”

Knudson is looking forward to

dium. The scratches were made to the passenger side rear door. Police said it’s difficult to tell whether the damage was intentional, and there are no suspects.

Then, on Feb. 14, an individual reported to police that hisvehicle, which had been parked in either the NE-TV parking lot or the Avery Street parking lot, had been vandalized. There were two large scratches on the driver’s side rear door handle, the passenger side front and rear doors, passenger side quarter panel and scratches across the hood of the car.

Police said it’s easy to tell if a person or vehicle caused damage to another vehicle by looking at the lines made by the scratches. If the lines are straight, it’s likely they came from another vehicle. More wavy or jagged lines indicate that the scratch was created by a person.

A third case of vehicular vandalism was reported to UNLPD on Feb. 25. The victim said the vandalism to hercar probably occurred between Feb. 18 and Feb. 21 in the 17th and R parking garage. Two scratches made to the rear driver’s side door cost $500.

On Tuesday, a UNL student told police his car had been vandalized while it was parked in one of four lots on campus. The vandalism could have happened as early as Feb. 22. The victim said there were scratches on the passenger side of his vehicle. news@ dailynebraskan.com

if you go what:

2014 ASUN Open Forum, presented by the Daily Nebraskan where: Nebraska Union Crib, or online (Link will be posted to dailynebraskan.com before the forum.) when: Thursday, 7 p.m. more information: Tweet your questions with the hashtag #DNforum getting students involved.

“I’m excited for their excite-

ment,” he said.

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“I really like it. I like it because it’s really cheap and really quick. There’s not a whole lot of options, but the ones I’ve had so far are really good.”

Tyler Chonis

senior biochemistry major

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campus pro-tips

When, where and how to consume pizza in Lincoln Subway Pizza Express has officially arrived in the Nebraska Union, which means pizza is on everyone’s minds (as if it weren’t already). The restaurant joins the ranks of multiple pizza spots in Lincoln. To aid you on your search for Italian(ish) fare, we’ve compiled a list of some of Lincoln’s pizza staples — and when and how you should eat them.

Yia Yia’s: Order a beer (or five). Start with the free bread, and then gently begin your foray into your unique, cheesy experience.

Try not to spill any sauce on your flannel, you hipster.

Toppers Pizza: Good all the time. Excellent when consumed after leaving the bars. So drunk. Such pizza. Wow. Ramos Pizza: Best delivered to your apartment at 2 a.m., accompanied by some great (or terrible, if that’s your thing) horror movies.

Pepperoni and cream cheese is where it’s at.

Subway Pizza Express: It’s best eaten – or inhaled – on your 45-minute lunch break in the union, while checking your email, writing a paper or reading a really boring novel for class.

Sbarro: Maybe you should just get Imperial Palace instead.

Pizza Hut/Papa John’s/Domino’s: Eat these when you attend an on-campus event and feign an interest in public servitude/religion/ scholarly pursuits for a half-hour or so in exchange for a belly full of free, albeit mediocre, pizza. It’s OK. We all do it.

Homemade: The possibilities are endless. You can eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner or in the middle of the night. Put an entire bag of cheese on it, put bacon on it — maybe even throw on some crispy fried onions, like you put on a green bean casserole. The world is your oyster. Best enjoyed without pants, and if you really want to go nuts, in bed.

Valentino’s: You can eat it at Husker football games, at a conference or casually with your friends. You can even gorge on the ridiculously sized Valentino’s buffet. Perfect for any occasion. We may go astray from time to time, but we always come back to you.

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Liberty means nothing without joy

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fter studying tens of millions of players, marketing firm Swrve found that 0.15 percent of mobile gamers accounted for 50 percent of all in-game revenue.

That means that three people out of 2,000 are outspending the other 1,907.

These players are called whales like a high roller in a casino.

If you were a game developer, should you go whale hunting? Make your game about keeping those three players happy and leave the rest out in the cold? Or would you try to focus on happiness for all, rather than happiness for only those willing to make in-app purchases?

That is the question: In our increasingly niche and capitalist world, who gets to be happy? As a nation conceived in “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” the answer should be everyone.

But increasingly happiness is a privilege. From apps to nations, happiness should be a right: something for both the high rollers and those down on their luck.

Of course there are people who think happiness should be a privilege. That only those who worked hard, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and made something of themselves deserve to be happy. That happiness is something that must be earned. This is a complete misunderstand-

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ing of both success and happiness.

There are people who work hard every day and put in that extra mile but don’t go to bed happy. Happiness is personal and subjective.

Some people will find joy in working hard and persevering, and others will find joy in sleeping through classes and procrastination.

Some people will find happiness by overcoming obstacles and reaching their goals. They can look back and see joy in the fact that they made it. But no matter how much hard work they put in, they’re lucky. For some, getting out of bed is a herculean endeavor. Some people don’t have the means to reach their goals. They could pull themselves up by their bootstraps — if they had boots.

If happiness is something that can only be earned, what happens to those who can’t earn it? What happens to the weak, the sick, the

From apps to nations, happiness should be a right: something for both the high rollers and those down on their luck.”

poor or anyone else marginalized in society?

Do they not deserve happiness because they were born a certain way, or in a certain time, or in a certain economic condition?

No. Life and liberty are nothing without happiness. Who cares if you’re alive and free if happiness is forever beyond your reach?

Does it matter how long you’re living or what you’re making if none of it brings you joy?

As a nation, we have focused immensely on life and liberty but little on happiness.

When we do focus on happiness, we often focus on one group’s happiness over another.

For example, even though anti-gay right-todiscriminate bills failed in Kansas and Arizona, a nearly identical bill has bipartisan support in Mississippi. Healthy and wealthy U.S. citizens are also the most likely to oppose the Affordable Care Act despite its benefits to the poor and unhealthy, according to the Urban Institute’s most recent survey on health reform.

In both of those cases, people of privilege are opposing protections and benefits for the marginalized in society. More than just opposing the life and liberty of the marginalized, they are directly opposing their happiness.

Protecting a right to discriminate is protecting the right to choose another ’s happiness. And as my colleague Travis Eubanks wrote last Friday, happiness and health are interconnected.

Happiness isn’t just for one type of person, nor for only the people you choose. We all deserve it, so let’s all strive for it.

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

Co-opting gay best friends Firearms in schools create leads to trivial friendships dangerous opportunities

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very girl needs a gay best friend!”

You hear it on TV, in movies and in everyday conversation. I used to say it all the time. When I hear it now, I can’t help cringing a little.

It’s not because I’ve become a homophobe overnight. Far from it. I have, however, recognized the problems that lie within this phrase.

A reality show called “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys” featured four straight woman/gay man best friend pairs and chronicled their everyday lives.

A while ago, I watched a few episodes of its first season because, “Hey, that TV show title totally describes me!” I was surprised — but not in a good way.

Rather than reminding me of the good times I had shared with my gay best friends, the show seemed to be an overly dramatized version of reality. Granted, this is what most reality shows are, but this one got under my skin. A lot of the pairs disparaged each other freely — to each other’s faces but even more to the cameras when they were solo. The relationship between Rosebud and Sahil especially bothered me.

Rosebud was an actress and what one may describe as a free spirit. Sahil, on the other hand, was quite shy and still not out to his family. During the first episode, she dragged him to a gay club even though he was visibly uncomfortable with it. I didn’t watch much, so maybe he broke out of his shell later. Nonetheless, they demonstrated a common issue with these friendships.

Fellow straight girls, gay men are not your accessories. They are not boys “who you can actually take shopping or ask for fashion advice!” Everyone is different. If your gay male friend isn’t a fashion expert, don’t try to force him into that mold. And above all, sexual orientation shouldn’t be on your list for what makes a perfect friend.

Now I admit, I used to be a girl who did this. I peg the beginning of my reputation as a “fruit fly” to the fateful day when my oldest friend came out to me in front of a Dunkin’ Donuts when we were 16. From that point on, it just mushroomed. In my first three years of college, I met a new gay man at almost every party. I remember my roommate saying to me, “Ruth, the gays — they just smell you.” I used to brag about how I had more than 20 gay male friends and that my future wedding would be the “gay social event” of the

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year.

This embarrasses me now. Not only was I co-opting gay men for my own benefit, but I realized some of these friendships were superficial. I had become friends with them almost wholly because of their sexual orientations. Many of them I no longer talk to. Thankfully, though, the friendships that lasted are stronger than ever.

Let me tell you about my best friend. His name is Caleb, and incidentally, he’s a gay man. We met when we were 16 and 14, and we’ve only lived in the same city for two years of our almost seven-year friendship.

Naturally, we’ve dropped probably thousands of dollars on gas money and plane tickets to make sure we see each other at least once every few months.

We’ve been through a lot together: from grad school applications and job hunting to bad breakups and family drama. Once, he and another friend of ours drove two hours in the middle of the night from our hometown to Lincoln after my then-boyfriend and I had broken up. And he didn’t kill me when we got back together a few days later.

Our friendship is road trips, Beyoncé, whiskey and the Café des 2 Moulins in Paris. We’ve taken selfies on top of the Eiffel Tower, and we’ve drunk wine together on the kitchen floor. Our respective genders and sexual orientations aren’t what make our relationship great. It’s great because we love each other, as much as two friends can.

Every girl doesn’t need a gay best friend. Every girl needs a friend like Caleb — gay, straight, whatever. If there’s a Caleb in your life, you are so, so lucky.

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

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n Jan. 14, Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial, Neb., proposed Legislative Bill 879, a bill that permits teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns in public and private schools and universities in the state of Nebraska, as long as they have 24 hours of training. In addition to training, teachers would need school board approval to carry a handgun in the classroom or on campus. Growing up in rural Nebraska, I have been around firearms my whole life.

I took hunter education classes in middle school, my family shoots trap every spring and summer, and I have been deer hunting with my grandpa and uncles. I know firearms are not toys, and the safe use and handling of guns is always on my mind when I am around them.

Though I believe people have the right to keep and bear arms, I don’t believe firearms belong in Nebraska schools — even in the hands of teachers and staff.

The high school I attended employed an armed school resource officer: a trained police officer employed jointly by the city police department and the school. Many other schools across the country employ similar officers who have undergone extensive firearm and safety training, but some western Nebraska school districts don’t have the access to funds to hire an armed school resource officer, and emergency response times in rural areas are much greater than in urban areas.

These are some of the concerns that Christensen himself has raised.

Currently, Nebraska law allows on-duty uniformed police officers to carry weapons on school property, but off-duty officers and citizens with conceal-carry permits are not allowed to do so. If LB879 passes and school boards decide to enact it, teachers and staff would be required to undergo 24 hours of training in addition to Nebraska’s current 8 hours required for a concealedcarry permit. Recently, two of Nebraska’s border states, Kansas and South Dakota, have passed laws allowing teachers to carry firearms in school, but officials from these states haven’t noticed a large amount of districts taking advantage of these laws. In Kansas, liability insurance problems have proved obstacles to teachers carrying firearms in school, as reported by the Omaha World-Herald. This is the sort of problem that could come up in Nebraska if LB879 is passed.

The classroom and school are supposed to be safe places to learn. While I think armed school resource officers make

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schools safer, teachers and other staff armed with handguns won’t. More guns on school campuses will only increase access to the wrong people, and it would only be a matter of time before a teacher failed to secure his or her weapon. Even if a teacher or staff member is allowed to carry a firearm in the classroom, there is a risk of he or she being overpowered and the weapon being used against him or her.

Educators and other politicians also have problems with the bill. Jay Sears of the Nebraska State Education Association said in the bill’s hearing on Feb. 28 that trained officers alone should carry weapons. In the past, Gov. Dave Heineman has raised concerns with the bill as well.

Instead of allowing teachers and staff to carry firearms on campuses and in classrooms across Nebraska (especially in rural areas where response times are greater than in populous areas), lawmakers in the state should focus on law enforcement reform or look at providing funding to schools to hire trained police officers.

Many schools now secure their buildings throughout the day with controlled access to entrances and security cameras, allowing staff to monitor guests coming in and out of the school.

If LB879 passes, teachers in public and private schools, colleges and universities (including our own university) will be allowed to carry handguns in the classroom, if the schools’ administrative bodies choose to allow it. While firearms are useful tools for hunting and self-defense, allowing them in school classrooms and on university campuses only presents more opportunities for things to go wrong.

Travis Eubanks is a freshman SpeechLanguage Pathology major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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REALLY REALLY Student production questions moral limits of survival during, after college

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even undergraduate performance majors will take the stage to play a group of college students in the midst of preparing for their final midterms – as well as their lives after college – for writer Paul Downs Colaizzo’s play “Really Really.” The play opens to the aftermath of a party, the events of which are disputed and manipulated by the students to suit their own purposes.

“The play really deals with survival and what are you willing to do to get what you want,” said Kirstie Smith, a senior theater performance and biology major, who portrays Leigh in the play. “It’s also a story about controlling your narrative and what happens when you start letting people tell your story for you.”

In the play, a visit from Leigh’s sister Haley causes a stir within the group that forces them to consider what’s at stake for each of their respective futures. With relationships, careers and personal reputations on the line, each must decide how to maintain his or her side of the story and at what cost. Director Laura Lippman said the play represents conflicts that are highly relevant to a millennial audience.

“We’re all put in situations where we have to ask, ‘Am I willing to lie or cheat or break rules in order to get what I want?’” Lippman said.

“It all goes back to one of the play’s central ideas that you are your first priority. You have to look out for yourself.”

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Laura Lippman poses on the set of her first show, “Really Really,” as a director at UNL. She came to Nebraska after teaching acting and directing at the University of Arizona.

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Kirstie Smith (sitting), a senior biology and theatre performance major, and Tatiana Gantt, a freshman theatre performance major, rehearse for the premiere of “Really Really,” a play directed by Laura Lippman at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.

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Trey Martinez, a theatre performance major, rehearses for the premiere of “Really Really.”

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Michelle Ingle, a freshman theatre performance and education major, helps her fellow actress Tatiana Gantt, a freshman theatre performance major, put on her stage makeup before their show on Wednesday evening.

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For “Really Really,” Lippman must guide dual, often conflicting storylines to represent the interests of each character.

“It’s a balancing act,” Lippman said. “With this play, you’re basically playing two narratives, the women’s narrative and the men’s narrative. And so, the goal is to show each narrative as truthfully as we can so that the audience gets to hear both, and then the audience can decide.”

While “Really Really” is Lippman’s first show as a director since coming to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August, her directing and acting credits are expansive. Before coming to UNL, she taught directing and acting at the University of Arizona. Cast members found that her organic style of direction allowed for more freedom and creativity. For Tony Thomas, a sophomore theatre performance major, Lippman’s guidance has allowed him to better identify with his character Jimmy, Leigh’s boyfriend. “(Lippman) is really flexible in the idea that she lets us go through our process to find our characters, our motives, our tactics,” Thomas said. “When you’re always being told what to do, you might not connect with it as an actor, but when these different ideas are coming from us, (is) when it clicks, it sets in personally and we understand it so much better.”

The set for “Really Really” utilizes alley seating, in which the stage bisects the audience, with the performance taking place in the middle of the crowd. In a play of competing narratives, this arrangement presents audience members with different perspectives, depending on their vantage point. However, for the actors who are often performing barely a foot away from the audience, it has offered a fresh set of challenges.

“It’s totally different to have someone behind me while I act,” Thomas said. “For the proximity to the crowd, it’s a little bit crazy, but it will be interesting to play with because it is so intimate that even the most subtle gestures will be picked up. You don’t have to make gestures big and grand to be visible, so people will be able to see me cock my head or crack my fingers, which really helps with realness.”

Lippman notes that while the close-up performance will demand complete focus from the actors, the subject matter of the play has provided the cast with relatable characters and settings. She explains that many actors have drawn on real-life roommates, peers and acquaintances to bring their characters to life on stage.

“I think in terms of finding a play that’s a good vehicle for these actors, this is great, because it’s age appropriate, and it’s focusing on issues that both they and the audience are dealing with,” Lippman said.

“So I think it works very successfully in that each of them can each relate to some component of what they’re exploring in the play.”

“Who doesn’t love shopping, right? Well, I ended up hating shopping by the end of it all.”

Michaela Stein sits in between boxes of new shoes and racks of new clothes — plaid shirts, leather pants and a freshly dirt-painted jersey. The second year graduate student is in charge of the costume and makeup design for the upcoming modern play production “Really Really.”

Since the rehearsals started, Stein has been traveling around Lincoln in search of the best outfits to fit the roles of each individual character. Although the play is set in the present day, that doesn’t mean it was easy to find the costumes. Stein was presented with different types of problems that come with buying all new wardrobes for a seven-member cast.

“Usually for a period show you are able to just take the actors measurements and go build their costumes to fit them,” Stein said. “I can’t take all of the actors to the mall and be like, ‘OK, now try all of these on.’”

However, it wasn’t as difficult to find costumes for the men as it was for the women.

“The guys were easy because their pants are so specific with sizing, but for girls it’s more of, ‘Well, I am a (size) 6 or an 8, so it depends on the brand’ sort of thing,” Stein said. “So you buy a 6 and an 8 and, sometimes, a 10 and a 4 so you come back with, like, three or four of

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Death metal band finds audience in Midwest, beyond Garoted blends various types of music to appeal to local, international listeners robert specht dn From an outside perspective, death metal can seem a bit uninviting.

With its common sonic themes of abrasive guitars, guttural vocals, blasting drums and lyrical themes of hatred, misanthropy, violence and death, sometimes it’s a tough genre to get into, but for Garoted, it’s what they do best.

Guitarist Zach McKeighan, drummer and vocalist Nolan Weber, guitarist Drew Frerking and bassist and vocalist D. Stansberry have been playing together since 2008. The band was formed after Weber and Frerking met. The two had played in bands before, but Frerking was looking to start a

more serious project.

“I was from Beatrice, and Nolan was from Hanover, Kan.,” Frerking said. “Being from such small areas, it was kind of crazy we were able to meet.”

Stansberry joined on vocals, and McKeighan joined the band immediately after their first performance at the now-closed venue Sidewinders. Stansberry also took up playing bass after their original bassist quit.

“There was no bad blood there,” Stansberry said.

“When you’re in a band, everyone’s gotta be on board,” Frerking added.

The name “Garoted” comes from the term “garrote,” a method of execution via strangulation with an iron collar or razor wire that was popularized in Spain.

“A lot of death metal bands are named after methods of killing, and most of them are taken,” Drew said. “That one was a good one to go with.”

The band intentionally chose to spell “garroted” incorrectly both as an aesthetic choice and to make their name stand out.

“We found that ‘garoted’ was an improper way to say ‘garrote,’”

Weber said. “We thought ‘Hey, the logo can be symmetrical now, that works. And we’ll just pronounce it wrong.’”

Their influences are broad, as each member enjoys different kinds of music. Though the band identifies its sound most with traditional death metal, most of the members don’t listen to much death metal, and the band tries to stay open with their sound.

“We never really sought out to stay pigeon-holed on one sound,” Frerking said. “This is the stuff that comes naturally to us.”

Though the members’ musical tastes vary greatly, from country to hip-hop to Meatloaf, Judas Priest has influenced Garoted the most.

“Judas Priest is the best metal band in the world,” Drew said.

“We can all agree on that.”

The band released its first album, “Praise Hate, Praise Murder, Praise The Beast” in 2010 and released an EP “Evil Personified” in 2011. Both recordings were done in a studio, but the band was never happy with the end result.

For the band’s newest album, the

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Garoted members named their band after a popular 20th century Spanish execution style. The Lincoln-based band will release a vinyl later this year.

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Legalization of ‘Stellanator’ bests DN reporter marijuana frees up law resources dn dare

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I had a fairly simple mission.

In retrospect, I could have been asked to diffuse a bomb to stop World War III or to actually talk to women. I mean, they could have asked me to do those things, although the fate of the world and my self-esteem would have been seriously jeopardized.

Instead, my demanding editors assigned me something seemingly easy as I was debriefed at the secret headquarters of the Daily Nebraskan office. I was tasked with trying to eat “The Stellanator” at Stella’s Bar and Grill in Bellevue, Neb. I was expected to tackle the biggest case of my life, which involved devouring a colossal burger within 45 minutes. But that was all the intel I received, understandably.

My editors simply gave me the manila folder containing the specifics, puffed a solemn cigarette in my face and gruffly wished me luck.

I was in for a hellish experience.

Dear God, how I wish I had prepared. If only I had known the horrors that I would have to endure, I would not bestow this mission upon my worst enemies. If only I had known.

I left the Sandoz parking lot at around 6 p.m. with a band of fellow writers, photographers, warriors and friends. One of them, DN sports writer Austin Pistulka, even wanted to terminate his own Stellanator “for fun,” he claimed. While that should have triggered red flags, my mind was not on my environment but on my assignment. Really, I let my guard down because I liked the company.

Once we arrived at the fateful destination, an employee at Stella’s greeted us brusquely. Quickly, he asked to see who dared hope to exterminate two monstrous burgers that had just been conjured up a short time ago in the fires of the Third Circle of Hell.

Once my contemporary and I revealed our mission, a look of sympathy crossed his face as he showed us to a spacious table.

With our multiple paper plates and choice beverages, we thought we could do what we came to do. We thought we were ready. Once our enemies were released upon us, though, we quickly realized that we might not survive the challenge, let alone con-

illustration by michael johnson | dn quer it. I seriously considered aborting the mission after gazing at the beefy beast before me.

Taller than the imps of Hades that created it, the Stellanator snared six patties — each 6.5 ounces of hamburger meat — six fried eggs, six pieces of cheese, 12 pieces of bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, jalapeños and peanut butter within its bready jaws. Only two large, likely blessed skewers contained the monster. That is, they contained it until the waiter told us that it was time to start the 45 minutes.

I swear I think I heard that thing growl.

God have mercy on my soul.

With a momentous “go,” we started to gorge our Stellanators.

From the beginning, we were forced to eat swiftly and tactfully. Remembering my years of training in local buffets and potlucks, I began taking as large of bites as I could muster without relinquishing my life. Yet, the

gigantic sandwich tasted so damn good. I made a rookie mistake: I took too much time. I smelled the roses. I almost accepted a doomed fate.

My partner, on the other hand, had much better luck. Without using any weapons, such as forks or knives, he seriously maimed his Stellanator with the most primitive of tools: his bare hands and his teeth. After such courage, I hold the utmost respect for him.

I felt at that moment, elbows-deep in caramelized onion and anguish, that I would be privileged to tackle the tasty demons of the restaurant world alongside him.

At the end of the carnage, neither of us succeeded in killing our Stellanators through eating and digestion. I ate around three of the beef patties, along with an assortment of vegetables and eggs. My comrade devoured all six of the meaty slabs, with many toppings as well.

While we could not eat them en-

tirely, our gargantuan Stellanators were mortally wounded, which eventually caused a peaceful death and burial within the nearby trash cans.

Jesus, I wish we had prepared.

My partner experienced the meat sweats, along with general discomfort early on. Mine came the next morning.

Even after the pain subsided, I had disjointed nightmares about burgers, peanut butter and cooking timers for multiple nights.

I had another pain that I had to curb: I was contractually obligated, and I have to let the world know the truth. It hurts, but I have to do it.

My friend somehow consumed nearly two-thirds of his Stellanator.

Normal human beings cannot swallow that much beef and tomatoes.

Also, he was too willing to take on the challenge, and he was too nice to other human beings. If someone were gifted with the skill to absorb pounds upon pounds of food, statistically they would very likely be arrogant or stuckup.

After delivering the story and mission documents to my superiors, I notified them of my friend and his peculiar behavior. We have been monitoring for superhuman cyborgs for years, considering that America’s past experiments escaped laboratory containment in 2007. They truly believe that they have human emotions as their programming attempts to duplicate happiness, sadness and, as in my friend’s case, excitement. They are mostly harmless, but who knows what they are capable of if their mechanically expanded stomachs allow them to intake inhuman quantities of human food?

Why Austin decided to eat with me is beyond my understanding. He may have had his own dark mission in mind. Perhaps the maiming of his Stellanator would change the future.

Maybe he wished to gain extreme amounts of energy for some elaborate plot. Whatever the case may be, I hope the world will consider his courage at Stella’s before it does what it cruelly does.

Goddammit.

Everything tastes bitter now. miles rothlisberger is a freshman English and journalism major. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

‘3 Days to Kill’ proves sloppy film sean stewart dn We go to the movies to marvel.

But after watching “3 Days to Kill,” I was left marveling at how a movie made it past so many levels of production in such an overproduced Hollywood system to culminate in such a perfect mess.

Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) is a killer for the CIA who decides to get out of the business after a botched job reveals he is terminally ill with a rare form of cancer. He moves to Paris to spend his last days with his estranged wife and daughter, but when his former employer offers him an experimental drug, Renner is sucked back into the violent world he left behind.

If this all sounds vaguely familiar, it’s probably because it is.

Granted, there is not much original turf left in the spy genre, but “3 Days to Kill” does not make an attempt at freshness. The scribe, Luc Besson, is very obviously trying to cash in on his success with the “Taken” franchise, playing up the spy-daughter dynamic once again. In fact, the movie is essentially “Taken” meets “True Lies.”

Though the premises for these two superior films are not miles apart, their tone is. “3 Days to Kill” attempts to cash in on both the dark action of “Taken” and the

comic, parodying lightheartedness of “True Lies.” The result is a tonally awkward sort of beast — a film not even sure itself what it is trying to be. Despite the film’s attempts at comedy, I only laughed a few times — and never once because the film was trying to make me.

The three primary women Renner interacts with in the movie are all handled so carelessly it wouldn’t even be fair to say they are one-dimensional. It would be more accurate to assume the writers just put emotions on a dartboard, put on blindfolds and gave it a go. Renner ’s supervisor, Vivi, is introduced at the start of the film as a disciplined and mannered CIA strategist. When she reappears — now blonde — she is bossy, reckless and over-sexualized. Are we to understand some drastic change has taken place in her character other than her hair color? It’s more likely the producers decided the film needed some kind of sex appeal and decided to warp the character. Whatever the explanation, her character never feels like a character, just a lazy copout.

Likewise, Renner ’s wife and daughter are thrown into the story haphazardly. His wife — understood to have a lover — leaves on a three-day trip (wow, what a clever title), leaving Renner to reconnect with his daughter. What-

ever reconnecting purportedly occurs is laughable, as Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld) continuously flips back between bitter angst and daughterly love at the convenience of the storytellers. None of her emotion is consistent and none of it feels genuine. When Renner ’s wife returns, she obviously can’t help falling back in love with him.

Just for clarity, this is the second day she has seen him after he abandoned her with their daughter five years previously. If that sounds a little fast, it is handled even faster — and sloppier — in the film.

Almost as guilty as the writing is the directing. The two come together in such a gross amalgam of blatant clichés and unbelievable turns of plot that I found myself literally having to look away.

The pacing is disastrous, shoving plot points at the viewer quickly and carelessly, perhaps trying to prevent the audience from noticing how contrived the previous one was. It doesn’t work.

I have no idea what the seasoned Costner and the promising Hailee Steinfeld are doing in this movie. Unemployment would have been a better career move.

My favorite thing in “3 Days to Kill” was Costner riding a purple bicycle. That says more than an entire review can. It’s the emptiest movie I’ve seen in ages, and I wouldn’t watch it again, even if I

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really really: from 5 every article of clothing and then you have to take what doesn’t fit back.”

Stein was given $2,000 for the costume budget, which paid for everything, right down to the actors’ undergarments.

“Everyone gets new shoes for the show, and we also had to provide underwear and all sorts of things,” Stein said. “There are certain scenes where the actors are down to their underwear, and everything gets designed, from their shirts down to the socks that they are wearing.”

Stein sorted through clothes from different types of department stores such as Forever 21, T.J. Maxx and Dillard’s. But she didn’t always find what she wanted.

“It’s interesting designing a period show,” Stein said. “First, you are doing all the costumes and getting them approved by the director. But then you are going out and finding those pieces. Some of it was like, ‘Oh, I found that outfit on Pinterest while I was doing research for the costumes, but now I can’t actually find it.’ So I had to build a few things, which was actually kind of fun.”

Not only did Stein get to sew pajama pants, but she also was able to destroy a few props as well.

“It’s like crazy to buy a new pair of shoes, like really nice cleats and then you have to think, ‘Well they’re cleats, so they have to be gross. Gotta ruin them now,’” Stein said. “But that’s what you do. You make or buy things and then have to distress them to make them look real. It’s all part of the show, and it all comes down to the story.”

Despite the amount of time and gas money it took to find the perfect costumes, Stein said she enjoyed working as the costume designer for the “Really Really” production. ““We all know these characters in the show,” Stein said. “We all know

these types of people.

Just fitting those stereotypes and thinking, ‘Oh yeah, I know who these people are. I’ve seen them all over campus. This is what they always wear.’ The thing that feels so cool about it is that the costumes feel so natural on the actors.”

Stein usually is a set designer, but has a little costume experience because of her undergraduate history with plays. But that doesn’t take away from the excitement of buying new clothes, even if she won’t wear them.

“It’s pretty great getting to dabble in other parts or areas that I don’t usually get to play in,” Stein said. “Having to find all of these wardrobes and (putting) them together was really fun.’

One outfit stands out particularly for Stein.

“There is a girl in the show that has leather pants, and coming up with the outfit to wear with that was super fun,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to wear leather pants, but I could never pull them off. Then I see it this way, where it’s like I finally get to buy all of these things for these different characters, which is really cool.”

makeup Because the play is set in the present day and the stage is so close to the audience, the makeup for “Really Really” will not be heavy coverage theatrical makeup, and it will not be over the top. Stein is also in charge of the actors’ makeup for the performance.

The actresses will be using their own makeup and putting it on themselves. The actors will not have fullface makeup on and will only wear it to define their features.

“It’s nothing really spectacular.

Because the audience is going to be so close, the actors are mostly going to

wear their street makeup,” Stein said.

“There’s no big makeup or hair choices that are going to be uncommon for the audience.”

Although the makeup in the play is not as detailed as the costumes, Stein believes both parts are important in exemplifying the setting and storytelling of the play.

“It’s such a poignant story for our time,” Stein said. “It talks about issues that we all face. I hope that a lot of people see it just so that it awakens them into seeing much technology affects their lives.

“It makes us all ask, ‘What will you do to get what you want?’”

set/lighting On one side of the stage is the classic fraternity-esque apartment decorated with a communal basketball hoop taped above a door frame.

On another side of the stage is a spotless apartment decorated with the perfect balance with of modern and Pinterest-y accessories.

Surrounding it all is the audience, which is immediately forced to pick a side: boys vs. girls.

“It’s really interesting that, right away, an audience member is walking into the stage, and they essentially have to chose which side that they are on,” said Travis Jensen, a senior studying technical design in production. “It’s a very strong statement from the beginning.”

Since last semester, Jensen has been designing the stage and has spent at least six weeks building the entire setting for the play. The stage and setting for “Really Really,” are not the traditional aspects audience members have come to expect.

The setting is based on two apartments, a boys’ apartment and a girls’ apartment, both on either side of the

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stage. Jensen has been picking out props for both apartments since November.

“You can only do so much with the dialogue, and then it’s my job to give the actors something to do with their environment so they actually feel like they belong there,” Jensen said. “So you just kind of reflect on the characters’ personalities and what they would do in their own room.”

“The girls’ room is very much decided by Pinterest ideas because that’s what girls these days do,” he added. “The guys that live in the space are all rugby players and total bros.”

Jensen is knocking two things out with one stone: his first main stage show with the university and his capstone project, both of which he said he is excited to achieve. But he is also excited to see the audiences receptivity to the play.

“It’s going to be really interesting to see the reaction of the audience and students and faculty,” Jensen said.

“Not only the reaction to the play and the controversial subjects but also to what they think of my design as well.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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LEGITIMIZE IT

As the effects of marijuana legal- eight miles south of Sidney.”

The obvious intention of the ization unfold in Colorado and Washington, the world watches in article is to portray Colorado’s anticipation of good news or bad, “experiment” as a failure that is depending on which way you stretching the budgets of law enforcement in other states. That lean.

For those unfamiliar, Colora- may very well be true, but here’s dans aged 21 years or older are al- the thing.

The marijuana itself isn’t maklowed to purchase up to one ounce of pot from any licensed dispen- ing your job harder, it’s the law saying you have to arrest people sary, and they’re allowed to have with marijuana. None of the rouup to six cannabis plants growing at any given time. Any amount of tine traffic stops that turn into weed harvested from those plants drug busts happen because hippies are causing wrecks or engagis lawful as long as it stays in the ing in mortal combat on the highhome where it was grown. They’re way. allowed to travel with up to an If Nebraska legalized mariounce as long as it doesn’t leave the state. Washington’s law is juana, the amount of weed coming into the state wouldn’t increase similar, although it doesn’t allow for personal cultivation, and the significantly. These sheriffs know state’s recreational dispensaries that better than anyone because it’s reaching the state in droves don’t open until next year.

On the first day of recreational anyway. The only difference sales in Colorado, which taxes would be that departments could marijuana at 25 percent, more than devote their resources to more $1 million worth of pot was sold. important things such as violent crime, which, in many cases, is That’s probably an alarming figure for some people, but it’s only caused by drug criminalization so high because it was a historic anyway.

The idea that this is Colorado’s day for thousands and thousands of smokers who have been wait- fault is complete horseshit. It’s Neing for the day when they no lon- braska’s fault for maintaining draconian drug policy. Do you think ger had to deal with sketchy drug sheriffs in the Centennial State are dealers.

Other states are watching complaining about the marijuana closely, and in the past few months, moving along their sections of the highway? No, because they don’t medical marijuana has advanced in Florida, Georgia and Minne- have to arrest people for it and sota, while recreational marijuana they can focus on things that actuhas advanced in Alaska, New ally matter.

This article, and the news it Hampshire and Oregon. On Tuescarries about how Nebraska has day, the District of Columbia voted to decriminalize pot, treating it been affected, is not a call to arms against Colorado. It’s just further as a civil offense warranting a $25 fine. Needless to say, this is an im- evidence that trying to prosecute people for mariportant time juana is a futile for a moveendeavor and ment that has a waste of time been growing Should weed and money. It’s steadily for be legal? Tell us further evidence decades. criminalizThe way @dnartsdesk or that ing drugs creates in which lemore crime than galization #dnartsdesk whatever it hopes affects states to prevent. that do not Anyone readpartake, so to speak, is a key issue. Nebraska ing that article, or this column for that matter, should be thinking, has shown no signs of taking the plunge, but who knows what will “Let’s follow Colorado’s example and make this a problem for the happen after the 2014 elections? other states that haven’t woken Probably nothing, but wishful up and smelled the overwhelmthinking isn’t always a bad thing. ing stank of a failing war on drugs A recent article in the Omaha combined with the hot brewing World-Herald, “Colorado pot pot of shifting attitudes toward trade is smoking Nebraska Panlegalization. I am bad at metahandle budgets,” lays out the situation for counties in western phors.”

I sympathize with the sheriffs, Nebraska dealing with an influx I do. They don’t write the laws; of sticky green Colorado goo. The they enforce them. But sheriff and basement of the Deuel County police organizations all over the Courthouse, the story says, is country have been outspoken in filled to the rafters with marijuana, most of which is seized along In- opposition to relaxing our drug laws at the same time they are terstates 76 and 80. Deuel County Sheriff Adam Hayward calls it a complaining about the prevalence of drugs. “drug pipeline.”

Drugs aren’t going away, least He goes on to say that it’s of all marijuana. You can continue “way too easy” to buy pot legally in Colorado and bring it back to to kick and scream, or you can get Nebraska or other states. Once over it. Too bad I know which one you’ll choose. the pot is sold, there’s no regulazach fulciniti is a tion. Cheyenne County Sheriff freshman journalism John Jenson laments the increased major. reach him at arts@ availability of marijuana, saying dailynebraskan.com that the “border of the drug war is

garoted: from 5 members chose to self-produce.

“Our demos always ended up sounding the way we wanted our records to sound,” Weber said. “We’re not going to go back to a studio again.”

“We want to focus on writing and performing,” Frerking said. “We don’t want to spend all of our time and money on studio space and then not have it sound the way we want.”

The band’s new album, “Visions of Death and Destruction,” was recorded in late 2012 and will be released on CD and vinyl by Dunkelheit Produktionen, a record label in Aachen, Germany. The album’s release has been delayed several times but is expected to drop later this year.

“With small underground labels, distribution can be different,” Frerking said. “A lot of times, each release on the label pays for the next.”

Most of Garoted’s releases are currently out of print, but the band plans on doing more pressings of its newest album, and the band’s music is available on ReverbNation.

“We’re going to do a limited cassette release domestically before the vinyl release later this year,” Frerking said. “Cassettes are really cost-effective to press and sell.”

With the Internet, the band has been able to attract fans from around the world, including France, Germany, Indonesia, Costa Rica and Iran.

“People around the world have this same kind of aggression,” Weber said. “The whole metal community is worldwide.”

The band often frequents Missouri and Kansas, performing often in Lawrence and Kansas City.

“Kansas City has the coolest turnouts,” Weber said. “It’s almost like we have a second fam-

ily there.”

Though they have not toured outside of the Midwest, the band garners a large audience at many of their shows locally. Often, the most effective way to promote locally is through fliers, rather than through Facebook or ReverbNation.

“Our shows get mostly promoted by word-of-mouth,” Weber said. “There’s a lot of great people — all of us friends — we all just want to have a good time and hear good music.” Recently, three of the band’s members have moved to Lincoln, which has made writing and performing simpler.

“A lot of change has happened in the last year,” Weber said. “Before that, we were all in different towns, and it was hard to get together. Now that we’re centralized, it’s made it a lot easier.”

With the new album and a new central home in Lincoln, the band plans to tour this summer, something it hasn’t been able to do in the past. Though the band members have plans to tour beyond the Midwest, they still enjoy playing in Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.

“In Lincoln there’s a lot of really cool things going on right now, a lot of great bands,” Stansberry said.

“I see a lot of new people at every show,” Weber added.

With house shows and DIY venues, it can be hard to find out about shows and ways to get physical merchandise, but the band agrees that the best way to get into the metal scene is to just go to shows and talk to people there.

“People should come to more metal shows, whether it’s at the Bourbon or Duffy’s or in someone’s basement.” Stansberry said.

“It’s such a great community.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Parker helped hold the Hoosier point guard to just 10 points on 4-of-14 shooting, while recording 8 points and 3 steals of his own in 19 minutes.

“Coach just told me to let him know I’m going to be here all night,” Parker said.

Now the Huskers will host Wisconsin with NCAA Tournament implications on the line.

This will be the only matchup between Nebraska and the Badgers as both teams conclude their regular season Sunday.

Miles said if the Huskers play anything like Wednesday, Sunday will be an entertaining game.

“Tonight was one of those gutty efforts,” Miles said. “If you asked this group at Charleston that their calling card was going to be defense, that they were going to win at Michigan State and at Indiana, they would have looked like you like you were from Mars.

“But they have done that. And now we got to make the tournament. We got to make it.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

That’s when Shields, Nebraska’s second-leading scorer, took over after Petteway received his fourth foul with 8:27 to play. He scored 6 straight points to give the Huskers a 59-55 lead. He finished with 17 points and 8 rebounds.

Indiana’s Devin Davis then took a pass from a diving Williams and completed a layup to cut the lead to 1 point with 2:30 to play. Pitchford then took the steam out of the Hoosiers when he knocked down a huge 3-pointer to give Nebraska a 4-point lead with fewer than two minutes left.

He recorded 17 points as well for the Huskers.

Indiana missed a couple of shots, and Nebraska finished the game by making 8 straight free throws, six by Petteway and two

by Parker, to seal the win. Petteway scored 13 points on 30 percent shooting.

The Hoosiers struggled offensively the entire night, becoming Nebraska’s eighth straight opponent to shoot worse than 40 percent. Ferrell, Indiana’s leading scorer, struggled in particular, as he was hounded by Parker the en-

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2014 BIG TEN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT 6. Minnesota (19-11, 8-8) Thursday, MARCH 6

Jan. 23 vs. Wisconsin: W 64-53 Feb. 12 at Wisconsin: W 63-50

1. Penn State (22-6, 13-3) Jan. 16 vs. Ohio State: W 66-42 Feb. 2 at Northwestern: W 79-75 Feb. 9 at Ohio State: W 74-54 Feb. 20 vs. Northwestern: W 82-73

8. Ohio State (15-17, 5-11) Feb. 23 vs. Northwestern: W 71-62

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In a nutshell: Penn State was ranked in the top 10 for most of the season and has been the class of the Big Ten for the past few years. It’s no surprise the Nittany Lions are the 1 seed.

In a nutshell: Two seasons ago, the Buckeyes tied for second in the Big Ten. Then legendary coach Jim Foster left, and so did their offense. They are last in the league in scoring.

11. Wisconsin (10-18, 3-13) Jan. 23 at Minnesota: L 64-53 Feb. 12 vs. Minnesota: L 63-50

3. Nebraska (22-6, 12-4)

9. Northwestern (15-14, 5-11)

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Feb. 23 at Ohio State: L 71-62 In a nutshell: The Wildcats’ season included wins over Purdue and Nebraska. But not even that can remedy a seven-game losing streak.

4. Purdue (21-7, 11-5)

Jan. 16 vs. Minnesota: W 88-85 (OT) Feb. 5 at Wisconsin: W 71-70 (OT)

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In a nutshell: A spitting image of last year’s NU team that made the Sweet 16, the Huskers sat at .500 in conference play before reeling off nine straight wins.

In a nutshell: The Boilermakers have won the tournament two years in a row, and they ride the longest winning streak in the conference as they go for their third straight title.

Feb. 13 vs. Illinois: W 69-55 March 2 at Illinois: W 81-56 In a nutshell: The Hawkeyes excel at one end of the court but underwhelm at the other; they lead the conference in scoring and allow more points than every team but Illinois.

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Feb. 13 at Iowa: L 69-55 March 2 vs. Iowa: L 81-56 In a nutshell: The Fighting Illini have lost 10 in a row.

Only three of those defeats were by less than 10 points. Even weirder? Their last win was on the road against Michigan State.

track and field Huskers to send six to NCAA Championships

Six Nebraska men’s track and field athletes were selected to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships, which begin on March 14 in Albuquerque, N.M. Senior Patrick Raedler qualified in the long jump. He leads the team with a jump of 25-9.5 at the Tyson Invite on Feb. 14.

The other five Huskers to make the list of entries are underclassmen.

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preview: from 10 that hard work recognized and rewarded by the other coaches in the conference.”

After the Big Ten Tournament, the Huskers will take a week off before learning where they will begin play in the NCAA Tournament. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

For more women’s basketball coverage including Big Ten Homeroom, go to dailynebraskan.com tourney: from 10 fresh your memory, the Tigers won that game 9-6.

This football game could foreshadow what a rematch between Penn State and Nebraska in the Big Ten Championship game of women’s basketball would look like.

It probably would not be as low scoring as the football game but just a pure dogfight between two fully fueled fighter jets ready to defend their programs. Don’t count on another 72 3-point shooting percentage from Nebraska if a rematch ensued. Don’t bank on Penn State being out-played in most facets of the game.

The best Big Ten Championship game that could happen would be Penn State against Nebraska.

No upsets or surprises this time around. The Cinderella stories don’t need to make headlines in this tournament.

Eric Bertrand is a sophomore journalism major. You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

In a nutshell: Like the Gophers, the Wolverine rebounding machines are really good against the teams below them but winless against the teams above them.

Jan. 12 at Michigan: W 79-72 March 2 vs. Indiana: W 76-56 In a nutshell: Although the Spartans don’t lead the conference in any major statistical categories, they have lost only once since Jan. 23.

Feb. 19 vs. Michigan: L 70-58 In a nutshell: Once upon a time, the Hoosiers were 14-0 and ranked No. 22. After scoring 80-plus points in nine of those games, they haven’t scored more than 78 since Jan. 2.

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The relay team of sophomores Jake Bender, Levi Gipson and Cody Rush and freshman Drew Wiseman was selected for the 4x400 relay. The team’s best time of the season also came at the Tyson Invite, where it finished second behind LSU with a time of 3:06.93.

Sophomore hurdler Oladapo Akinmoladun was also selected. In the Big Ten Championships on March 1, he ran a school-record 7.61 in the event.

and it also says a lot about the ability of our coaches to make us a better team,” Hooper said.

Theriot, Cady, Laudermill and junior forward Hailie Sample also received awards, including AllBig Ten honors.

“I am thrilled for our players,” Yori said. “They put in a ton of work to get better all year long. It is really gratifying to see

7. Michigan (17-12, 8-8)

10. Indiana (18-11, 5-11) 2. Michigan State (21-8, 13-3)

12. Illinois (9-20, 2-14)

In a nutshell: The Badgers do boast a first-team all-conference performer, Michala Johnson, who is fifth in the league in scoring. But no other Wisconsin players are in the top 20 of the list.

Feb. 19 at Indiana: W 70-58

Jan. 27 at Illinois: W 80-68 Feb. 16 vs. Iowa: W 74-73

5. Iowa (23-7, 11-5)

awarded before the Big Ten Tournament, and Nebraska captured multiple awards. For the second year in a row, coach Connie Yori was named Coach of the Year, and Hooper became the first Husker to be awarded Big Ten Player of the Year honors.

“I think that says a lot about the amount of work we put in to get better throughout the season,

In a nutshell: Good, but not great. Seven of the Gophers’ eight conference losses are to the top five seeds – none of whom they beat this season. That’s why they’re on the NCAA bubble.

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Nebraska leads from opening tip to final buzzer, puts away victory with late free throws to beat Indiana in big road game story by Andrew Ward photo by Shelby Wolfe

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ebraska needed a little of everything.

A slumping shooter. A spark of energy off the bench. Clutch performances from its second and third leading scorers.

And, of course, some timely free-throw

shooting.

Add it all together and the Huskers (18-11 overall, 10-7 Big Ten) came out of Bloomington, Ind., with a 7060 win against Indiana (17-13, 7-10) Wednesday night, halting a two-game Hoosier winning streak.

“They were really determined,” Nebraska coach Tim Miles said in a post-game radio interview. “I thought if we got off to a quick start we could hold them off, and we did.”

And it all seemed to come together right from the opening tip for Nebraska, as the Huskers never trailed in the game.

The Huskers used a hot start by sophomore forward Walter Pitchford, Nebraska’s third-leading scorer, to jump to a 9-3 lead. Pitchford scored all 9 of those points.

“Walter was huge,” sophomore guard Benny Parker said in a post-game radio interview. “He was pumped even before the game.”

Indiana bounced back, as no other Nebraska player scored until sophomore guard Shavon Shields made We really a free throw with 14:36 left in the opening half. needed Ray After trading baskets for a few possessions, the to knock down Nebraska lead eventually some shots for us, expanded to 11 points after a Terran Petteway jumper, and he did.” with 5:10 to play in the half. tim miles Indiana chipped away men’s basketball coach at the lead and Troy Williams cut it to 5 points with fewer than two minutes before halftime. Ray Gallegos came out of a shooting slump soon after, knocking down a 3-pointer to give the Huskers a 34-26 halftime lead.

Gallegos made three shots from behind the arc in the game after making just one in the past three games combined.

“We really needed Ray to knock down some shots for us, and he did,” Miles said.

Nebraska got into trouble early after Petteway, the Big Ten’s leading scorer, picked up his third foul less than a minute into the second half. Indiana couldn’t cut into the lead, though, as Gallegos hit his second and third 3-pointers of the game, extending the lead to 11 points once again.

That’s when things got interesting.

The two squads traded baskets for a few minutes before Indiana went on an 8-0 run, led by back-to-back 3s

by Yogi Ferrell and Will Sheehy to tie the game at 52-52.

Sophomore forward Walter Pitchford opened the scoring for Nebraska with a jump shot on its first possession, and he finished the game with 17 points, 9 rebounds and a block. Pitchford scored the Huskers’ first 9 points.

NU to open tourney after bye No. 3 seed Huskers play winner of Thursday’s game between Minnesota, Wisconsin on Friday

indiana: see page 8

women’s basketball

Rematch of Big Ten powers would be fitting

Natasha Rausch DN The 12 conference wins. The four Big Ten losses. The two overtime games. The third-straight 20-win season.

And it’s all come down to this.

The Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament is taking over Indianapolis, Ind., with Penn State and Michigan State as the top two seeds and Nebraska and Purdue just behind them in third and fourth, respectively.

The tournament begins Thursday, but these top teams earned a first-round bye. Their tip-offs are slated for Friday.

Nebraska (22-6, 12-4) will play at 8 p.m. on Friday against either the No. 6 seed Minnesota Golden Gophers (19-11, 8-8) or the No. 11 seed Wisconsin Badgers (10-18, 3-13). The Badgers and Gophers go toe-to-toe on Thursday to decide who will play the Huskers in the second round.

Both the Wisconsin and Minnesota games ended in overtime wins for the Huskers during the regular season.

Sophomore point guard Rachel Theriot hit a career-high 33 points in the Minnesota game to help Nebraska out of its 14-point second-half deficit. She dropped all eight shots from the charity line and hit another 9 points from behind the arc.

The Wisconsin game was the third victory in the Huskers’ nine-game win streak. Junior forward Emily Cady stole the

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The No. 16 Huskers are 9-1 in their past 10 games entering the Big Ten Tournament, which begins Thursday. They beat potential opponents Minnesota and Wisconsin in overtime this season. to be successful in the areas we win for the Huskers by deflecting an entry pass to ensure the weren’t successful in,” Laudermill said.

71-70 win in overLaudermill time. Junior guard We all play said the team is Tear ’a Laudermill just working on put up 21 points in together, getting itself back the game, includand now together after the ing 5 3-pointers. loss so it can focus Although the we’re just trying for the tournament Huskers had a and maybe even perfect February to figure out the championship with eight wins, what’s next.” game. they ended their “We have great season on an 82- tear’a Laudermill team chemistry,” 66 loss against junior guard she said. “We all the Purdue Boilerplay together, and makers. now we’re just trying to figure “We’re just going to prepare out what’s next.” and have good practices in order

The Boilermakers beat the Huskers twice this season — once at the Pinnacle Bank Arena and once on their home court. Last season, Purdue ousted Nebraska with a 77-64 victory in the semifinals. In 2012, the Boilermakers beat the Huskers in the Big Ten Championship game, 74-70 in two overtimes.

If the Huskers make it past Minnesota or Wisconsin and then past their next competitor, they will once again compete in the championship game on Sunday at noon.

The postseason honors were

preview: see page 9

It’s time for the final step before the Big Dance. Let’s leave Cinderella at home for this one.

The Big Ten women’s basketball tournament kicks off on Thursday in Indianapolis, and provides the chance for a rematch of Big Ten powers No. 1 seed Penn State and No. 3 seed Nebraska.

For this to happen, both teams need to make it to the championship game. Penn State would likely have to beat No. 4 seed, Purdue, and Nebraska would probably need a win against the No. 2 seed, Michigan State. The fact that the Nittany Lions and Huskers can only meet in the final would make the game even more meaningful. It couldn’t get any better than that.

What might you remember from the last meeting between the two?

If you’re a Husker fan, you probably remember the 16 3-pointers made by Nebraska or the 20-point margin of victory. You remember taking down the No. 9 team in the country and the firstplace team in the Big Ten. What do I recall from the game?

The No. 2 scorer in the conference, Penn State senior Maggie Lucas, was made irrelevant and went into the locker room at half without

a point. Lucas would go on to score 17 meaningless points in the second half.

The game was just too far out of hand. Nebraska couldn’t miss a shot from beyond the arc, and the home crowd was completely into it.

But guess who remembers this game just as much?

Penn State does.

I imagine senior forward Talia East remembers the game too.

With 17 seconds remaining in the first half, she got her third personal foul and needed to be on the bench for the end of the half. A teammate threw a towel to her, and she chucked it right back at the bench.

Frustration set in and she clutched her head and stomped her way off the court. A Penn State coach went over to talk her down before the half ended.

Also, I would assume a collegiate basketball program would recollect the worst loss of the season. Even with a 19-point loss to undefeated, No. 1 UConn on Nov. 17, the largest margin of defeat taken by the Nittany Lions this season was in Lincoln.

Sure, the Lady Lions went on to take the Big Ten title when the Huskers couldn’t clinch it in their season finale against Purdue. This should drive the Huskers to want to go all the way and earn the Big Ten Tournament championship.

This time around, don’t expect a 20-point win for either team. I expect something similar to the “Game of the Century” between Alabama and LSU in 2011. To re-

tourney: see page 9