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stand Supreme Court to hear same-sex marriage, gay rights arguments in cases

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Gay couples should have every right as straight ones.”

he Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two cases pertaining to LBGT rights on Tuesday and Wednesday. The rulings, which will handed down during the summer, will set defining precedents on same-sex marriage and gay rights in a larger context.

Proposition 8

Taylor Gollin

The case Hollingsworth v. Perry challenges the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8. The proposition made same-sex marriage illegal after it was briefly legalized by the state. According to SCOTUS Blog, 18,000 same-sex couples were married before Proposition 8 became law. The plaintiffs are Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier who were denied a marriage license in May 2009 for being a same-sex couple. They argue they were unfairly discriminated against.

Proponents of Proposition 8 argue the measure simply “restore(d) the traditional definition of marriage.”

sophomore speech pathology major

Hopefully we’ll have equality for same sex couples.”

The Defense of Marriage Act

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear the case United States v. Windsor. Edith Windsor, an 83-year-old woman from New York married Thea Clara Spyer in 2007 after they were a couple for more than 40 years. When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor was denied an exemption on federal estate taxes because of the Defense of Marriage Act. She paid $363,000 in taxes. The Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996, defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. It bars same-sex couples from receiving benefits like heterosexual couples.

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Opinions

The Supreme Court is hearing the cases as support for same-sex marriages increases. According to the latest poll numbers, 58 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage. Each generation has seen a marked increase. Among 18- to 32-year-olds, 70 percent support same-sex marriage, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

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I hope it’s legalized so everyone has the same rights.”

I absolutely support it.

The Supreme Court is a wonderful place to get this settled.”

Aaron Tsui

sophomore business administration major

Daniel Stalder

senior political science major

My basic opinion is to let them go ahead and marry. If these kind of people fought for civil rights, this is something I can suppport.”

Brian Christensen senior history major

Bold Nebraska discusses ‘game plan’ DANIEL WHEATON DN Questions surrounding the public hearing and decision on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline remain unanswered, but Bold Nebraska, an activist group leading the charge against the pipeline, isn’t wasting any time.

Meeting in the Nebraska Union Monday evening, members of the group discussed their game plan to fight the pipeline.

After Gov. Dave Heineman’s approval of the new route in January, the state department announced the plan for a public hearing in Nebraska.

Ben Gotschall, a member of Bold Nebraska, said the hearing should occur sometime before the end of April.

Political drumbeats pressuring Obama to decide have increased in the past several weeks.

The Senate gave a nonbinding thumbs-up Friday to construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, granting new hope to the pipeline’s proponents.

North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven introduced an amendment on Friday to the budget proposal

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Jane Kleeb, executive director of Bold Nebraska, addresses the crowd at one of four meetings across the state held to update opposers of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline on the citizen lawsuit, landowner rights and other information. Members of the activist group met in the Nebraska Union Monday to discuss their game plan. to approve the pipeline’s construction. The proposal passed 62 to 37, which puts the Senate’s opinions on record. Both Nebras-

ka senators, Republicans Deb Fischer and Mike Johanns, voted along party lines favoring the pipeline. Measures attached to

the budget proposals aren’t binding and mainly serve as a way to send a message. It is often called a “vote-a-rama.”

“The Department of State has done four environmental impact assessments over the past five years,” Hoeven said as he rose to introduce his measure. “It’s time that the Senate step up with the American people. Time for us to join every single state on the route to say we support this pipeline.”

In Washington, the issue is largely divided based on party lines. Some Democrats oppose the pipeline because of the possibility of a spill. Secretary of State John Kerry said the pipeline is an opportunity for Obama to take action on his green energy agenda. If the pipeline is installed, it would transport more than 800,000 barrels per day of oil from the Alberta tar sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast.

Conservatives have been supportive of the pipeline, arguing it would create jobs in the shortterm and reduce dependence on foreign oil. The pipeline would largely be an export pipeline,

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Schafer named new NU regent Staff Report DN

His main areas of practice include agricultural law, banking, corporate law, real estate law and taxaGov. Dave Heineman announced tion, according to a press release his appointment of a Beatrice at- about the appointment.

He also owns a cattle farm in torney to the University of NePawnee County and is braska Board of Rethe director of a swine gents last week. operation in Iowa, acRobert Schafer cording to the press will replace Lavon release.

Heidemann, who reSchafer has also signed from the board served in the Nebraska in February to become Air National Guard as the state’s new lieua major and staff judge tenant governor. That advocate for the 155th position opened up Air Refueling Wing after Rick Sheehy resince 2005. He served signed Feb. 2 amid a in the Army National scandal involving nuGuard from 1985 to merous calls from his schafer 2005. state-issued cellphone Additionally, Schato women other than fer is a member of the his wife.

Nebraska Farm Bureau FederaThere were 16 applicants for tion, serves on the board of the the open regent position.

Nebraska Chamber of Commerce Schafer, 45, currently works as an attorney at Carlson, Schafer and Davis, a law firm in Beatrice. regent: see page 2

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On campus what: Networking Like a Pro workshop where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Unity Room when: 5:30 p.m. more information: Contact Sylvia Hall at shall14@unl.edu

what: “The Great Confusion: When Modern Art Came to the Midwest” lecture where: Sheldon Museum of Art when: 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. more information: (402) 472-2461

Research suggests students’ reluctancy to study abroad Lack of information may influence decisions about study opportunities Jacob Garbison DN More than half American students are considering studying abroad, but only 22 percent feel they have enough information to make an informed decision on the matter, according to a new study.

Education Intelligence of the United Kingdom polled about 11,000 British and American students, most of them ages 17 to 19. Of the Americans, 56 percent said they were considering studying abroad. But the Institute of International Education found in a poll only 9 percent of American undergraduates studied internationally between 2010 and 2011.

Just more than one-fourth of American students considering studying abroad said more information would make their decision easier, while 15 percent said they had enough information but they had to work hard to find it.

With so many U.S. students reporting they know enough about overseas travel, the Edu-

parts of the U.S.” cation Abroad office is willing About three-fourths of to try anything to get more stuAmerican students said the fidents through the door. nancial expense of studying “We are always looking to abroad was their main issue. do more,” said Stephanie Spar, Lack of confidence in foreign a senior and student worker with Education Abroad. “Every language ability was the main concern for 44 percent of stusemester we hold an Education Abroad fair in the Union, dent considering international and we do other fairs and pre- study, and 39 percent said they were most worried about leavsentations for different college ing their friends and family. and faculty. I have found that Senior Spanish major Emstudents that aren’t committed ily Judds, who won’t generally studied abroad make it very far in I have in Costa Rica, the process.” said her exLast year, 727 found that perience with University of the Education Nebraska-Lincoln students that Abroad office students studied aren’t committed was positive. abroad, just more “ H o n e s t l y, than 3 percent of won’t generally I think they the undergradumake it very far in do a spectacuate body, said lar job,” Judds Rebecca Luhrs, the process.” said. “I thought acting direcabout studytor of Education stephanie spar ing abroad for Abroad. senior student worker with a second time.

“We would education abroad My adviser was strive for more always around visibility and a to talk and anlarger presence on campus,” Luhrs said. “Stu- swer my specific questions one dents could always use more on one.”

Any students interested in assistance, particularly those with high financial need. The studying abroad should visit relatively low cost of living and the Education Abroad office on studying in Nebraska makes City Campus or visit educationstudying abroad appear more abroad.unl.edu. news@ expensive to UNL students dailynebraskan.com than it does to students in other

ON THIS DAY March 26, 2007 Female engineer numbers up

More women at four-year institutions are earning degrees in engineering and science in recent years than in 1996, according to the National Science Foundation’s report on March 3.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, women are also earning more degrees in engineering and science, according to Institutional Research and Planning data.

March 26, 1996 Abel Hall residents mourn teens

The 12th floor of Abel Residence Hall was quiet Monday afternoon.

The normally noisy floor had students creeping down the halls, peering into each other’s rooms. One student sat in the hall and cried as she talked on her cordless phone.

That day, 20 people from Abel Hall returned from the Columbus funerals of fellow UNL students Christina Dyer and Jacob Behlen.

Dyer and Behlen were among four Columbus teenagers, all 19, who drowned in a Columbus lake last week.

Ryan Gragert and Eric Kudron were also killed in the accident.

March 26, 1943 YooHoo! Rag Military Experts See Women’s Drill Inaugural

Right face! and they did it … The women’s unit of the ROTC met for the first time yesterday afternoon, and the results were more than pleasing to both the officers in command and the coed-ets. From 3:30 until 4:30 was spent in Sosh Auditorium where Dr. E. E. Lackey gave his first lecture in the map-reading series which will continue for the next eight weeks. This course is the same as what Dr. Lackey is teaching the army men.

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regent: from 1 & Industry and is the budget and planning chair for the Nebraska State Bar Association.

The vacancy on the board was for District 5, which encompasses 17 counties in southeastern Nebraska, including part of Lancaster County.

Schafer could not be reached for comment about his appointment to the board. The Lincoln Journal Star reported Schafer said he was looking forward to getting more involved with the university.

“I’m very thankful and appreciative to the governor and lieutenant governor for my appointment to this position,” Schafer told the Journal Star. “It’s always been an institution that’s been near and dear to my heart.”

He earned his bachelor ’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Juris Doctor from the University of Nebraska College of Law, according to the press release. He is a graduate of Pawnee City High School. He lives in Beatrice with his wife, Andrea, and their two young daughters.

Schafer will join seven other elected members on the NU Board of Regents. He will serve for approximately two years and will then have to seek election to the position in 2014.

The board supervises the general operations of the university and controls all expenditures.

Schafer told the Journal Star he hopes to bring a rural, agricultural-centered focus to the board.

“I feel we can’t forget our heritage and how our university started as a land-grant university,” he told the Journal Star.

Schafer said he also wants to look at the tuition assistance program for military service members that was recently cut by the federal government as part of across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration. He said the tuition assistance program was a major reason he joined the Army National Guard at the age of 17.

“I consider my guard family a separate one from my own family,” Schafer told the Journal Star. “I will do everything possible to try to continue the military tuition assistance for guard members.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

UNL graduate programs rank nationally in report REECE RISTAU DN Long papers and sleepless nights might be worth the effort for University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate students, at least according to national rankings.

In the U.S. News & World Report 2014 best graduate schools rankings, UNL’s programs made the list. And the UNL College of Law made a significant jump, moving up 28 spots from last year to No. 61, according to a UNL press release.

The improved ranking of the law college can be attributed to new factors this year ’s survey accounted for, such as the types of

When UNL joined the Big Ten, we didn’t just join good basketball and football.” william thomas

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jobs graduates attained. Schools with more graduates with lawrelated jobs were more highly ranked than those with more non-law related jobs.

Susan Poser, dean of the College of Law, said UNL students have been consistently netting law-related jobs.

The College of Business Administration’s online MBA program also faired well, ranking

No. 17, and UNL’s biological and agricultural engineering ranked No. 10. The history graduate program ranked No. 74 of 125 schools listed.

William Thomas, chairperson of the history department, said the ranking is better than it appears, as there are 18 universities with history departments that weren’t even ranked.

“We have had tremendous

national recognition that has helped our standing,” Thomas said. “I think it will continue in an upward trajectory.”

UNL’s history department is most known for its emphasis on U.S. Western history, as well as digital humanities, he said.

These two areas were not covered in the report.

Tim Borstelmann, graduate chair of the UNL history department, said the ranking looks good for the future of the department.

“Stay tuned, and I think we’ll see the department go up from here,” Borstelmann said.

Many UNL programs in humanities and social sciences were

ranked as well. UNL is No. 69 of 94 schools in sociology, No. 63 of 134 schools in English and No. 54 of 86 in political science.

“This will reflect well on the department,” said John Peterson, a Ph.D student in political science. “There have been a lot of positive things happening.”

The political science department is on the cutting edge of researching the links between political science and biology, he said.

“When UNL joined the Big Ten, we didn’t just join good basketball and football,” Thomas said.

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Ken Winston, a lobbyist for the Nebraska chapter of the Sierra Club, shows the crowd at Bold Nebraska’s meeting on Monday a poster from three years ago that expresses the same sentiment that those who oppose the pipeline still feel today.

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Alexandra Keriakedes, a Lincoln native and activist for Bold Nebraska, asks a question at the group’s meeting in the Nebraska Union on Monday. Keriakedes said it is important to oppose not only the Keystone XL pipeline, but anything that might threaten the environment for future generations. however.

In Nebraska, opinions on the pipeline vary widely.

“Only senators who take millions from big oil companies could think that tar sands passing through our country to some unknown destination is going to give us energy independence,” said Randy Thompson, a Nebraska landowner. “Stop grandstanding and get to work for the American people, not foreign oil companies. We will not sit by as foreign oil gets the rewards and we get a lifetime of risks.”

Thompson has become the face of Bold Nebraska, his face appearing on the group’s signs and website. Len Schropfer, a

farmer who lives south of Milligan, said he felt betrayed by elected officials who spout “talking points.”

“It’s just a network of lies,” he said.

Locally, support for the pipeline has been sold on the possibly for job creation. Additionally, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality released a report in January that found the environmental harms would be minimal. The pipeline’s opponents aren’t persuaded.

“A few thousand two-year jobs and 35 permanent jobs are only going to solve our country’s unemployment problem if this pipeline has mystical powers

of some kind,” said Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska executive director. “Farmers and ranchers along the route will need all the magic out there when a spill happens, since our own government does not have a solution to clean up tar sands.”

Kleeb cited a 2010 tar sand and chemical spill in Michigan that “displaced hundreds of families and is costing over $1 billion.”

Political chatter surrounding the pipeline does not equate to action. The decision, which still rests on Obama’s shoulders, is expected later this year.

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Bold Nebraska offered supporters free buttons, wrist bands and T-shirts to show their opposition of the pipeline at the meeting in the Nebraska Union on Monday.

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Heidi Reinhart, lead teacher for the 15th Nebraska Capitol Forum on America’s Future as well as a teacher at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart in Omaha, gives advice to a student about a global topic.

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Emily Schmidt, a sophomore in high school, participates in a discussion as a student senator during the 15th Nebraska Capitol Forum on America’s Future at the State Capitol yesterday.

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Autumn Lemmer, a senior in high school, reads about U.S. foreign policy topics at the State Capitol yesterday.

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High school students selected as student senators for the 15th Nebraska Capitol Forum on America’s Future at the State Capitol partake in a discussion yesterday. This forum is sponsored by Humanities Nebraska and is designed to engage high school students in a discussion about the nation’s future.

news briefs UNL to join in statewide tornado drill

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will participate in a National Weather Service-led tornado drill starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

The drill will be conducted as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, according to a press release.

“All students, faculty and staff are asked to participate and familiarize themselves with the locations of designated shelters and with tornado warning procedures,” the release said.

The UNL tornado warning policy can be found on the UNL Police Department’s website police.unl.edu.

President of Federal Credit Union to retire

President of the University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union Bob Torell announced he will retire on April 17.

“It is a good time for me to retire and turn the reigns over to someone new to lead the credit union to what I believe will be a very successful future,” Torell said in a University of Nebraska-Lincoln press release.

Torell began working at the credit union in 1982.

With Torell as president, the credit union has expanded to 10,000 members, $80 million in assets and a full range of financial services.

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The Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union is currently exhibiting “Be the Change” art from the LGBTQA Resource Center. The gallery features portraits and interviews of transgendered people and promotes tolerance and diversity on UNL’s campus.

LGBTQA Be the Change Week begins UNL’s LGBTQA resource center will showcase exhibits on campus Layla Younis DN The University of NebraskaLincoln LGBTQA Resource Center kicked off its Be the Change

Week Monday, unveiling the “Love makes a Family” and “Pioneering Voices” exhibits in the Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union.

“Pioneering Voices” showcases pictures of transgender people alongside frames that share their stories, while the “Love makes a Family” exhibit showcases families within the LGBTQ commu-

nity, including their stories and his YouTube video “Zach Wahls Speaks About Family,” went viquotes from family members. ral.

Both art exhibits McDonald, showcase works a senior animal from the Family Working science major, Diversity Project, a with LGBT said it’s signon-profit organinificant that a zation that creates people is to their person with nabooks, photo-text tional recogniexhibits and cur- benefit. You have tion is coming riculum to increase to say, ‘It’s not OK to the university. diversity, said Pat to treat us like we Tony Moran, a Tetreault, director junior philosoof the LGBTQA Re- don’t matter.’” phy major, said source Center. he hopes Wahls Also this week, pat tetrault can encourage Zach Wahls, an LGlgbtqa resource center people to supBTQ activist who director port equality to was raised by two everyone. mothers, will give B e c a u s e a speech titled many families disapprove of “What makes a Family” Thursorientations, day. Melisa McDonald of Uni- non-heterosexual versity Program Council, which Tetreault said many young peois co-sponsoring the event, said ple from the LGBTQ community UPC brought Wahls in because fall into homelessness. They run

away from home or are kicked out, she said, making family support system important.

“Family is the basic support system, in our country people reject family members if they are LGBT,” Tetreault said.

Tetreault said in today’s world there is a lot of bias and stigma about the LGBTQ community, and the LGBTQ community needs allies and support from the community, which is why they are co-sponsoring a lot of their events during Be the Change Week. Tetrault said the resource center is helping bring Wahls to UNL because the LGBTQ community needs more people to stick up for its rights.

“Working with LGBT people is to their benefit,” Tetreault said.

“You have to say, ‘It’s not OK to treat us like we don’t matter.’”

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty will soon have access to an online series of workshops in the science, technology, engineering and math fields designed to help them gain an edge in National Science Foundation educational proposals and projects.

NSF is funding the workshops, which will be presented by former NSF program directors.

The UNL Discipline-based education Research group will offer the six two-hour workshops starting April 3, according to a university press release. Registration is due Tuesday, and each workshop is limited to 30 participants.

The workshops will take place in 103 Manter Hall. Descriptions are available at http://www.unl.edu/dber/workshops.

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Female voice should be represented on board of regents When Lavon Heidemann stepped down from the University of Nebraska Board of Regents earlier this year to become Nebraska’s lieutenant governor, Gov. Dave Heineman had a rare opportunity to appoint someone to fill the position. Sixteen people applied, five of them women.

The board hasn’t seen a female regent since 2003. And since 1869, only four of 123 regents have been women, although many have vied for the position in statewide elections. But Heineman didn’t take the chance to choose a woman, although at least one has the background in agriculture he said he’d be looking for in the new regent. Instead, he chose another man, matching the rest of the board’s voting population of the board nicely: Eight men, all white.

The Daily Nebraskan isn’t questioning whether new regent Robert Schafer is qualified for the job. This problem is about fair representation. Women make up about 47 percent of the student population, according to fall 2012 enrollment data. A board without women doesn’t provide a fair representation of the university it governs, and that’s been the case for more than 140 years.

Every other Big Ten university governing board includes at least one woman. In fact, the governing boards of all Big Ten universities but Indiana University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have at least three women. Most of the boards are made up of members appointed by the governor, which could be related to their diversity in gender as well as ethnicity — the Nebraska Board of Regents and the governing board for the University of Iowa are the only Big Ten institutions that include no non-white members.

It’s disappointing that Heineman neglected to think of diversity when he chose the District 5 regent. In the process, he overlooked a female farmer and engineer who hoped to bring her experience in agriculture to the board, a female retired accounting professional and a woman who works in higher education, among other candidates. He accepted the board’s 144-year status quo of male dominance with limited or no feminine influence. And he blew what will likely be his only chance to change it.

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Social media promotes rape culture

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ocial media helps connect communities, but it’s also helped contribute to rape culture in America.

This past month, the Steubenville , Ohio case came to an end. The two defendants were found guiltyand sentenced to serve time in the state juvenile system. It’s what happened afterward that has made headlines.

The Internet has influenced rape culture in the United States. The casual use of the word “rape” online contributes to this culture and hurts society. We see evidence of this with the reactions to the Steubenville case through social media.

Some news organizations showed sympathy to the defendants instead of the victim. Several news organizations completely ignored the fact that the two teens made a choice to sexually assault someone. Some news coverage focused on the assaulters and ignored the suffering the victim went through.

CNN commentators used the word “tragedy” to describe the fate of the two young men who were charged with the rape. Several news organizations broadcasted the name of the underage victim instead of redacting it.

The good news? These news organizations faced backlash from their viewers. For instance, more than 200,000 people signed a petition asking CNN for an on-air apology for its coverage of the trial.

Victims fear they will be blamed for being sexually assaulted or raped. The backlash some victims receive helps stigmatizes rape and makes it harder for them to come forward and seek the justice they deserve. People can make a bad situation even worse by blaming the victim.

The Steubenville victim said she felt reluctant to press charges because she was afraid of being harassed. Sure enough, she was harassed on social media after she came forward, Instead of focusing on the healing process, the victim had her safety threatened.

Unfortunately, the sexual harassment the young girl received online isn’t an isolated incident. A 13-year-old teenager in Connecticut pressed charges against two alleged rapists. She faced similar backlash as the victim in Steubenville.

People say it all the time, but it bears repeating: No one deserves to be raped. Period.

KIM BUCKLEY Some people online use the threat of rape to silence women. Liberal political commentator Zerlina Maxwell received online threats saying she should be raped after she appeared on Sean Hannity’s show to debate gun control.

Maxwell is a rape survivor. How is it appropriate to tell a rape survivor she should be sexually assaulted again? Hint: It isn’t. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with her views; it’s not OK. People can express their disagreements with a person’s views without having to threaten rape or sexual assault. These comments on the Internet only spread the rape culture in the country. Internet users should stop casually saying people need to be raped for simply expressing their opinions.

Instead of debating why they thought Maxwell’s view was wrong, people online made disturbing and threatening comments. Not only that, but they made derogatory insults based on her race.

This is especially problematic in that women of color are more likely to be sexually assaulted or raped.

The casual use of the word rape can be threatening, especially since it’s a problem many people face. About 17 percent of women and 3 percent of men have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape.

Victim-blaming makes it easier for people to stay silent if they’ve been sexually assaulted. More than half of rapes go unreported.

The rape culture in America makes people question whether it’s the victim’s fault. Hint: It’s not.

Victims shouldn’t be forced to apologize to the

people who assaulted them. But it happened two years ago to a middle school student.

A lot of this has to do with Internet hate. Being anonymous makes people feel more comfortable expressing views that are hateful. It’s easier to express hateful views of people when you’re anonymous. Other Internet trolls express misogynistic or racist views. Some people have even made a career out of Internet trolling. One Reddit user, Violentacrez, even became famous for being offensive. The anonymity of the Internet makes it easier for people to express these kinds of views.

The events in Steubenville and the backlash against the victim show why it’s important to discuss sexual assault and rape seriously. It also shows that we need to do a better job teaching people to intervene when they see these situations.

With the current attention paid attention to the Steubenville case, people can become more aware of sexual assault. People can acknowledge that rape is a real problem. They can choose to blame the assaulter, instead of the victim.

What people say on the Internet can have real-world consequences. Police charged two teen girlswith misdemeanor aggravated menacing and menacing after threatening the Steubenville rape victim’s life on Twitter. The Ohio attorney general, Mike DeWine, will convene a grand jury to closely take a look at whether more people should face a misdemeanor charge for failing to reporting the incident.

“I think people will need to feel that justice was done and that no one was obstructing justice in any way,” he said in an interview.

It’s actions like these that might help victims be more willing to report incidents if they have been sexually assaulted. Showing support to the victim instead of the assaulters can let people know that raping someone is unacceptable.

We can change the rape culture in the U.S. We can do that by first self-monitoring how we casually use the word “rape.”

Words have power. Choose your words wisely.

Kim Buckley is a senior newseditorial major. follow her on Twitter @kimceebee or reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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magine if your favorite charity only used 1 percent of its donations to do what it said it would. It actually happened with rock star Bono.

Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono, the vocalist of U2, isn’t only one of the biggest rock stars alive, but also has one of the most highlighted charity campaigns to fight inequality in the world.

It all seemed fine until, a few months ago, shocking news about ONE, his foundation, was released: Bono was keeping 99 percent of the money donated to pay his staff’s salaries. It all came to the surface when journalists received leather-covered books and $20 water bottles from ONE. They wondered how ONE was organized, financially speaking, and then they made the ugly discovery.

Kimberly Hunter, spokeswoman of the foundation, claimed, “Sometimes it’s pretty hard to get through to reporters with the information about the lives of the world’s poorest people. We think it’s important enough to try and break through the clutter ... That’s why we sent the boxes.” And, according to her, coffee mugs would stimulate the journalists’ interest in the poorest people.

Bono, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, is pocketing most of the millionaire donations that ONE, gets, mainly, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2008, ONE received about $14 million dollars and only designated about $179,000 in the projects they got the money for. Ninety-nine percent of the money went to the salaries of the “nonprofit” organization.

In their defense, they claim to focus on “lobbying” and not on direct donations. Besides, the money they get comes mainly from Gates and his wife and not from U2’s fans. And they conclude with a very charming sentence “we don’t want your money, we want your voice.”

Sure, they want our voice, to make U2 sell millions of copies of its albums. They want our voice to spread the word about this Mother Teresa of Ireland who “genuinely” cares about the poor in Africa. They want our voice to make their

MARIA ANTONIA GARCIA DE LA TORRE businesses profitable: Bono’s rock band and Bono’s foundation. Our voice, can be translated to two words: free press.

Rock stars are free to do whatever they want.

They’re free to fulfill almost any whim they may have. They’re free to live like royalty for playing drums, a guitar and for singing a few songs.

They’re also free, as many of them do, to give away part of their money in a discreet or in a red carpet kind of way. But donating, as Bono does it, adding politicians, NGOs and Bill Gates to the equation puts him in the spotlight. For good and bad. And his explanations still have a bad taste.

It’s not news that celebrities get involved in humanitarian projects because it favors their carriers.

Otherwise, as common sense dictates, they would do it secretly. Or they wouldn’t do it at all.

Shakira and her Pies Descalzos foundation, for example, have built schools for poor kids in Colombia, and every “good action” has been followed by microphones and cameras. In addition to that there’s no track in the website about the amount of money she gets for donors all over the world and no register of how much she gets with her brand-new wealthy sponsor: her husband’s soccer team, Barça.

The foundation never replied an email request sent by this columnist and there’s no information about it online. Shakira’s image, though, benefits

from that, as well as Juanes and his foundation to fight mines in Colombia. It’s some sort of a Hollywood trend, to lower unreachable stars to our prosaic level. It’s a politically correct way to get extra cash in their bank accounts. In Bono’s case, more than $14 million a year just by saying how much he loves starving kids in Africa.

Angelina Jolie could get an honorary degree in that department.

As good as ONE’s explanations may be, we still don’t buy it. We know as a fact that the image of Bono preaching world peace doesn’t match reality Bono keeping most of the donations to himself. And there’s nothing to say in his defense.

Bono tagged himself as the voice of the oppressed. He chose to use his influence on the youth to “make a difference.” Therefore, he shouldn’t hide under strange justifications. If he wants to set an example, he should donate 100 percent of the money he receives. Not 1 percent.

If he really cares, then he shouldn’t profit with ONE’s activities and he shouldn’t use it as a platform to sell more records. In fact, he should use money from his pocket to pay the salaries of those who work for ONE without touching the millionaire donations.

Is Bono truly committed to equality? If not, then he shouldn’t make a business out of it. He was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize, and still, he wasn’t in the Forbes Top 30 more generous celebrities of 2012. He wasn’t, because his project provides less than $200,000 a year to people in need. It’s nothing, compared to the actress Jami Gertz, for example, who donated more than $10 million (No. 1 on the list).

If Bono gave everything he receives a year, he would surpass the biggest donor of the list by $4 million. But he doesn’t, and still he has his worldwide image intact. And he should realize that even though he founded ONE, they’re not the same.

Maria Antonia Garcia de la Torre is a Ph.D. student on Spanish literature. Follow her on Twitter @caidadelatorre or reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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summer festivals provide music enthusiasts with variety of genres, locations

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Bonnaroo (June 13-16 in Manchester, Tenn.)

Though it can’t match the sheer size of SXSW, Bonnaroo’s lineup is one of the best for 2013. With their colossal headliners Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mumford & Sons, Bonnaroo is a powerhouse festival this summer. In addition to the veteran acts, Bonnaroo’s lineup also includes recent breakouts such as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Lord Huron and Kendrick Lamar and a slew of comedians.

The schedule has yet to come out, but it’s likely that many big shows will overlap with one another, an inevitable disadvantage for the music festival set-up. Tickets are still on sale for the quirky festival both for admission to the show and the campground, and though the first three ticket prices are sold out, it’s still an incredible deal to experience Bonnaroo’s exceptional lineup.

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Kanrocksas (June 28-29 in Kansas City, KAN.)

Kanrocksas, the biggest music festival closest to Nebraska, is back after a year-long hiatus while construction took place on the Kansas City Speedway, the location of the festival. Though the festival doesn’t have the mega-acts it had in its first year, the lineup is still filled with indie giants, such as Fun. and Passion Pit, and popular up-and-coming artists such as Imagine Dragons and Grimes.

Advanced tickets, which don’t count the cost of camping, are still available and are relatively cheap considering the solid lineup.

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Summerfest (June 26-30 & July 2-7 in Milwaukee)

Similar to Coachella, Summerfest is spread out over two weekends in the same location. Unlike the Californian festival, however, Summerfest offers different bands and headliners for each weekend. Though only a few headliners have been released, Summerfest generally delivers in bringing a variety of country, rock and indie artists. The downside of Summerfest is within the tickets themselves. Unlike most festivals, buying a ticket pass does not allow you into all shows. To see the headliners playing in the amphitheatre, concert-goers must pay for a separate ticket. Tickets are still on sale for Summerfest, both for general admission and to see headlining acts such as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jason Aldean, New Kids On The Block and Fun.

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this week in music Live in Shows: Wavves w/ FIDLAR and CHEATAHS

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The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St., Omaha when: Thursday, 9 p.m. how much: $15

Pleasure Adapter w/ Goon Saloon, Worried Mothers, New Lungs

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The Slowdown, 729 N. 14 St., Omaha when: Thursday, 9 p.m. how much: $5

The Whitest Kids U’ Know

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The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St., Omaha when: April 1, 9 p.m. how much: $18

New in albums: “Afraid of Heights”

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Wavves Warner Bros. genre: Noise rock label:

“Based on a True Story...”

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Blake Shelton label: Warner Bros. genre: Country

“Comedown Machine”

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Former Jack’s Mannequin frontman embarks on solo career cara wilwerding dn Andrew McMahon is making some dramatic changes.

Better known as the former front man for Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate, McMahon is delving into his own consciousness as he starts his first solo tour. He’ll stop through Omaha this Saturday to perform some new tracks, some old tracks and maybe even some that are still in the works.

While it may be his most notable, music is not the only positive creation McMahon has brought forth. After being diagnosed with leukemia in 2005, McMahon began Dear Jack, a foundation to help and support young adults battling cancer.

The Daily Nebraskan had a chance to chat with McMahon about his departure from old bands, inspiration on the road, new plans for Dear Jack and his freshest EP, “The Pop Underground.”

Daily Nebraskan: I heard this is your first official solo tour ever.

How’s it feel to be traveling and performing on your own, after so many continuous years with Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate?

Andrew McMahon: This is the first that I’ve really done it on my own with a full band. Obviously there’s a difference in having some new guys and some new blood out with me. The fact that I’m cycling through a lifetime of music in a night, that feels different. But the general act of touring is me and a bunch of guys on the road playing music, which has been my existence for 12 years or so, so that aspect is the same.

DN: Jack’s Mannequin played their final show together in November. Was there any specific reason for the breakup?

AM: It’s funny because I don’t really consider it a breakup. I think, for me, Jack’s Mannequin was the telling of one story, and it kind of came to a conclusion. For me, it was the retiring of the name and the concept so I could free up some headspace and move in a new direction.

DN: Before the final show, Jack’s Mannequin recorded one last song, titled “Wrecking Ball Heart.” How do the lyrics help describe the time you spent with the band? Was it an emotional track to record?

AM: That was a song that I had written for a number of years, shortly after “The Glass Passenger.” The decision to record wasn’t really in tandem with the decision to move on from the band. We were just sitting in the studio and didn’t have anything to do, so we just recorded it. In retrospect, though, it did feel very much tuned to the experience of moving on quietly from a relationship that meant a lot. I think it kind of gained its relevance on accident — parting ways with the band and the lyrics of the track do somehow feel connected.

DN: In your last blog post you wrote, “I will attempt to reinvent myself ironically as myself.” What personal freedoms are you enjoying now that you’re no longer tied to a band?

AM: I think I’m in a position right now where I can follow my inspiration without feeling an obligation to a label, or the concept of recording and then touring. I think you get in a bit of a hamster wheel as an artist signed to any record label.

Right now I have a lot of options on the table. Recording music for TV or film and collaborating with different artists. I’ll continue to write music and continue to make art, but maybe not in a traditional cycle like you see in a lot of bands. I think after doing that for about 10 years, it’s exciting to do something different.

DN: What changes have you had to make to accommodate your health since your diagnosis in 2005?

How’s your health been recently?

AM: There wasn’t really much done even though maybe there should have been, other than time off when I was being treated. I was

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McMahon was diagnosed with leukemia in 2005. Since then, he has started a charity called Dear Jack to benefit others who suffer from cancer. very blessed to receive a stem cell transplant from my sister, so I pretty much got back to work within a year or so since the diagnosis. Truthfully, since then my health has been pretty excellent. I’d be lying to say that I don’t think about it, but it’s not something that factors into my personal health any longer.

DN: The Dear Jack Foundation is going on its seventh year this July.

What new things are you doing with the foundation?

AM: The past year, we received our official non-profit status. We’re in the process of really digging in now that we have that status, redefining our goals and tasks. We’re doing some work with Cancer For College, which gives money to cancer survivors for college tuition. We do events every year, a concert every November and a golf tournament. I think as the year goes on here you’ll see us coming up with more ways to make money and see what we can do with both research and awareness for adults with cancer.

DN: You recently finished your new EP, “The Pop Underground.”

What can fans expect to hear? What is the official release date?

AM: Sometime in April, with a pre-order in the next couple weeks.

What I think of when I hear this music is it certainly feels like my music.

There are definitely some dramatic changes in the approach to production. There’s a lot of play with some more modern sound. You’ll have to hear for yourself to weigh in, but it’s exciting. It’s an upbeat record, and I really focused on the words, so I feel it’s pretty personal in that sense.

DN: How do you stay creative and motivated when you’re, as you say, “running short on inspiration?”

AM: There are a number of things. For one, traveling. There’s always been a sense for me that staying in motion and continuing to see different parts of this world and country from different perspectives is a good way to stay inspired. In this past year, I’ve found that a lot of inspiration comes from getting in a room with other artists and people who create for a living. That has become a bigger factor in my life than it ever has been. Collaboration is certainly a great tool for inspiration.

DN: Last time I saw you perform in Omaha the show was de-

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Andrew McMahon is known as the former frontman for Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate, but Saturday’s stop in Omaha marks one of his first performances as a solo act. layed because of a tornado warning.

Were you freaking out? What was going through your head?

AM: Well, truthfully, I remember when it all went down. I wasn’t really scared; I grew up in the Midwest for a number of years, so we weren’t really scared of tornados. Me — being a fan of exciting whether events — I stayed upstairs and caught a pretty good view of what everyone was afraid of. I think, more than anything, I was just crossing my fingers that everything would go well.

But yeah, it made for an interesting show. I’d never played a concert where the entire audience was put in a cellar.

DN: You’re scheduled to tour with OAR and Allen Stone this spring. How do these guys differ from your music style? What kind of crowd do you expect to draw at these shows?

AM: The OAR guys have been really good friends for a number

of years. Those are people I’m always excited to get out on the road with. One, it’s fun to be with your friends and two, the music they make is more geared to that jam band crowd, which are music lovers, people who really appreciate strong musicianship and a fun outdoor show. Having had experience with them, I think our crowds will line up pretty well. Allen, I had a few shows with him. I think he’s one of the freshest new artists to come out on the scene. It will be awesome; it will be a challenge to rise to the occasion and hold the stage with such great artists, but I think it will be a killer tour.

DN: So I realize your newest EP hasn’t even been released yet, but is there any other new work we should know about?

AM: Not anything just yet. The EP is coming soon, so were working that through the summer. But certainly I’ve got dates in the books,

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Saturday, 8 p.m. (doors at 7 p.m.) where: Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., Omaha how much: Sold out

when I return from this run, to get back into the studio to make more music. In March and April, songs I wrote for the TV show “Smash” will start running. We’re also going to put out a concert film of the last Jack’s Mannequin concerts this summer. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @ dnartsdesk

The Strokes lack essential musical evolution with latest album ‘Comedown Machine’ departs from carefree style with seeming effort anna gronewold dn Thank God the Strokes don’t care what anyone thinks.

The New York City-based indie rock band built an instant following in 2001 with its debut album, “Is This It.” Indie rock latched onto frontman Julian Casablancas’s garage-band brand of lazy that was somehow succinct enough to inspire continued listening. Early Casablancas wasn’t trying to impress you, but he didn’t waste your time either.

Within a few years, “Is This It” had made almost every best-ofmodern-music list, not only for initiating a new wave of alternative rock, but also for embodying a careless grunge lifestyle musicians across the nation move to New York City to find. The band’s following three albums saw significant success, though less critical acclaim, from the sort of effortless cool only someone with Casablancas’s perfectly greasy tresses can pull off.

But sometime between 2011’s “Angles” and the band’s recently released “Comedown Machine,” something changed. The Strokes started trying. And the result is a scattered collection of part-Strokes, part-pop, sort-ofpolished tracks that carry little of the overconfident charm the mu-

Unless a band creates a brand new sound as beloved as its old, there’s not much room for upward growth.” sic universe came to expect from Casablancas & Co. First and foremost, “Comedown Machine” is a shocking introduction to new vocals. Several songs, including the opener, “Tap Out,” find Casablancas departing from his signature hung-over moan to experiment with softer falsettos. But the milder vocals only serve to drag the album from one delicate experiment to another. “Slow Animals” and “Call it Fate Call it Karma,” relative slow jams, forsake the sense of structure that kept Strokes fans interested and engaged in previous albums. And while “Welcome to Japan” and “50 50” deliver classic Strokes groove (pleasant reminders of 2003’s “Room on Fire”) their existence only confuses the collection more, subtracting from any cohesiveness the album attempted. To be fair, the Strokes are caught in the great catch-22 of indie music. Unless a band creates a brand new sound as beloved as its old, there’s not much room for upward growth. Stick with a trademark sound and get called boring or stray from it and risk failure; there is no right answer. Unfortunately, the Strokes are adored for their specific style rather than their actual musical abilities. For multifaceted musicians, evolution is essential to survival. But, love him or hate him, Julian Casablancas isn’t a

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"COMEDOWN MACHINE" Strokes multifaceted musician. He is great at being Julian Casablancas: fuzzy yet calculated, confusedly efficient, a bastion of the post-punk revival.

But if “Comedown Machine” is any indication, alternate versions of Casablancas aren’t improvements.

Instead of adding to the complexity of their brand, experimentation with sound and structure take away from the Strokes’ uniqueness, resulting in dissolution into an already overcrowded genre.

Thank God the Strokes don’t care what anyone thinks. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @ dnartsdesk

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The Strokes emerged on the music scene in 2001, and were known for their unique sound and carefree image. Their newest album, “Comedown Machine,” is the group’s first attempt to experiment with and transform their music.

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Lollapalooza (Aug. 5-8 in Chicago)

In the past few years, Lollapalooza has had some giant headlining acts along with some very solid smaller indie, hip-hop and electronic bands. This year appears to be no different. Though the lineup has not been confirmed, it has been released that Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, The Killers, The National, The Postal Service and Vampire Weekend will be playing, likely as headliners. In addition to their rock and indie bands that show up, Lollapalooza is also known for Perry’s, an area dedicated to EDM music all day. Unlike many festivals that allow attendees to camp-out on the grounds, Lollapalooza doesn’t, which means that in addition to spending money on the ticket, it’s necessary to either find a hotel in Chicago or mooch off of a friend who lives in The Windy City. Early Bird Tickets will go on sale March 26, and the regular 3-day and 1-day passes will go on sale soon, though no date has been announced.

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Maha Music Festival (Aug. 17 in Omaha)

After the disappearance of Red Sky, Maha serves as Omaha’s only summer music festival. In recent years, bands such as Matisyahu, Delta Spirit and Spoon have headlined the one-day festival. After a change in location last year to Aksarben Village, the festival is growing in size, and Maha is beginning to find its footing both in lineup and character of the festival itself. The lineup has not been announced yet, but it will likely include popular indie artists and many local Omaha and Lincoln bands.

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Darius Rucker ’s decision to release country albums caused me to scoff at first but after listening to his version of “Wagon Wheel,” because it was trending on YouTube alongside Wiz Khalifa’s “Let It go,” I have a newfound respect for Rucker. I’m confident I would have never heard the taken down due to copyright is- song had it not been for the ease of video sharing, and if I were sues. Filling up my 800MB hard still performing I’d likely add it drive was a frequent problem, but musical ecstasy was never to my set list as a cover.

Thinking artistically, this acmore than a few drunken mouseclicks away. Eventually the file- cessibility raises the question concerning the seemingly resharing networks were pulled cycled retro sound appearing in from the Web because of their new music. All artists have an inown copyright issues, and I befluence which sparks the creative grudgingly made peace with the website that offers videos of cats process. Thus, is the accessibility dancing to “Gangnam Style.” to the pantheon of recorded music, the tech-savvy nature of this Look it up, it’s there. generation of artists with readDespite the cat videos, there ily available music gear and the are also countless intriguing muease of creating alternative to sic videos from up-and-coming mainstream electronic music the artists as well as established cause of a possible indie-minded musicians. The 13-minute “Hurricane” video, from 30 Seconds resurgence of non-Justin pop stars? Is YouTube the Pandora’s to Mars is available uncut and uncensored for anyone wanting Box of music or is it an open door for culture to create something to view it. Creativity and accesnew? sibility is king in Internet land.

Does that really matter?

During my brief music caI doubt it, because the fans reer around the time YouTube are the new industry gate keepemerged, the formula was still to ers. An artist will either succeed write songs and play or fail based shows. The videos would come after an All an artist off the merit of creativartist was signed to a needs today ity. That is the label. This new breed way it should of tech-savvy artists, is a smartphone be.

Artists, however, has a new established formula to work from. with a data plan or otherwise, It is one that embraces and who knows should have video sharing, withthe freedom to out a record label, as a what could explore their means to reach his or happen.” creativity as her potential fan base. well as have a The most intriguing place to showaspect of these organic videos case it. This accessibility and and music is the freedom to crefreedom allows the music indusate and let the viewer or listener try to stay fresh. Music is not a decide rather than trudging from competition between individuals one industry gatekeeper ’s office but, instead, it is a struggle beto another. All an artist needs today is a smartphone with a data tween the art and the artist. Fans should be the judge of what they plan and who knows what could want, not a corporate think-tank happen. suggesting what will sell. That’s This isn’t just a trend for not rock ‘n’ roll. Rock ‘n’ roll is music fans as a way to engage having the next big music trend themselves in music, it’s a trend on YouTube before the audience for artists as well. Established knows it is there. musicians enjoy the ease of shararts@ ing new material long before an dailynebraskan.com album is released. Accessibility on twitter @ is the key component to selling dnartsdesk records. Hootie & the Blowfish’s

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Despite the drugs, booze and sex that were responsible for the creative end of the music industry, it was the release of YouTube in 2005 that continues to make the rockin’ world go ‘round for a new generation of music fans.

The biggest trend currently in music is the way music fans experience it. Now more than ever fans expect to enjoy music on their own terms. People all over campus are glued into their music devices. I have no idea what they are listening to but they are absorbing it in a way I never had the freedom to when I was growing up. If I was brave enough to bring my Discman with me in high school, I had 10 songs on average to choose from and, usually, all of them were by the same artist. I quickly learned that listening to Ace of Base in public made for a socially awkward experience, while surrounded by blue-haired Green Day fans.

Recent music years have been great for everything alternative and indie. Gotye and Of Monsters and Men raked up millions of views. “Gangnam Style” was a phenomenon with more than a billion. Respectively, they were trends unto themselves, beyond the boundaries of genre and exclusivity of social order. An individual either followed a specific trend or he or she didn’t. Only singing out loud in the wrong moment is socially awkward.

When the video-sharing network emerged I was skeptical of the trend. Downloading music videos from file-sharing websites, as opposed to streaming them, seemed far more practical in the wake of MTV. My experience with the music I loved was something I didn’t want to lose.

Moreover, there were none of the annoying ads, internet lag or fear that my favorite videos would be

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Depeche Mode just added “Delta Machine” to it’s list of more than a dozen album releases. Despite the years of creating music, the group doesn not fail to surprise the audience with it’s latest edition.

Depeche Mode maintains pop flare after decades ‘Delta Machine’ remains fresh, despite bringing band’s album count to 13 joe wade dn My first rule of music is to never anticipate a new album too much, because doing so creates an expectation that can never be fulfilled. I decided to break that rule and get my hopes up for the new release by Depeche Mode.

“Delta Machine” was released March 26 and is the 13th album by the internationally famous band. My anticipation caused a fear that this new album would never measure up to the glory of “Enjoy the Silence” from the band’s 1990 “Violator” album despite Mark Ellis (a.k.a. Flood) engineering both. Depeche Mode is one of those synth-pop bands casual listeners could consider as an eclectic New Wave phenomenon from the 1980s, and, as such, a little fanatical skepticism is normal. However, Depeche Mode is the exception to normal.

After listening to the new album, those fears turned to shame for doubting the band’s continuous ability to create soul-drenching

Dave Gahan’s voice has aged like a fine wine and adds a mature allure to martin Gore’s lustrous sonwriting ability.” pop hooks.

The one type of song I was hoping for was a song like “But Not Tonight,” which is something instantly catchy and moody. Watch the concert video for the band’s mid-1990s Devotional Tour, and it’s easy to understand that Depeche Mode excels in creating that type of song. “Alone” is the must listen for that experience. The rest of the album possesses those elements but sometimes fails to draw the immediacy of sweltering affection from the listener like “Alone” does. The song is an angsty rush of bass-driven rhythms paired with the harmonization of vocals and massive, ethereal synth countermelodies.

Like Depeche Mode’s message in the lyric “everything counts in large amounts,” from the 1983 single “Everything Counts,” this band still pours the pop magic on thick.

Similar to “Sounds of the Universe,” released in 2009, this is an album that needs at least one full listen before the music

takes hold, mostly because the new album also lacks drums. The first few songs feel a little unfamiliar without the engaging rattle of a snare drum, but fans will quickly adapt as they rediscover the fundamental elements of the band. Dave Gahan’s voice has aged like a fine wine and adds a mature allure to Martin Gore’s lustrous songwriting ability. By the end of the album it feels like an album the listener has loved for a long time.

“Heaven,” which is the single, is the tip of the iceberg for fans who took an early YouTube listen. The song’s sparse mix captures the listeners’ ears with groovy guitar licks but, overall, feels like a whisper compared with the keyboard, synth-based leads characteristic of the band and also found on the rest of “Delta Machine.” However, typical of most songs written and composed by Gore, it will keep listeners repeating it frequently.

Despite the reference in the title, the blues sound is more of a metaphor instead than an actual-

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ity. “Delta Machine” is occasionally infused with bluesy guitar riffs like on the intro to “Slow,” as well as “Goodbye,” but otherwise, the listener should expect to hear an album full of synthpop crafted the way Depeche is known best for. Despite their three decades of musical activity, the band members persist in creating a flavor of musical artistry that hasn’t changed much and doesn’t need to. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @ dnartsdesk

If Carrie Fisher broke your heart, you’d have mixed emotions about it, too. Paul Simon highlighted more than a few when he recorded “Heart & Bones” in 1983.

Tucked between his early solo successes (“Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard,” “Love Me Like a Rock,” etc.) and his mid-’40s explosion, it truly is the forgotten Simon record. Duets with Art Garfunkel, following their wildly successful reunion in Central Park, were scrapped, and Simon admitted to being so introspective and melancholy at the time that he neglected to promote or tour “Heart & Bones” even a little.

But, still, it stands as the missing link between the confessional morose of Simon’s early writing and the so-called world music of his “Graceland” reinvention. The story on the record may even be more interesting than the story

of it. Most songs are endowed with a vague and ambient fluttering that positions the album as something of a drifting look at midlife crisis brought on by divorce and nostalgia.

Images of John Lennon’s death, the Blood of Christ Mountains and smoggy Los Angeles backdrops fit together like a sad and humorless dream across songs that, in their own way, all sound a bit like demos. Tunes that never quite made it out of the experimentation phase, stretched across ideas about adulthood that are beautifully reluctant to step fully into the light.

“Maybe I think too much,” Simon sings on two disjointed songs, “Think Too Much (a)” and “Think Too Much (b).” It wasn’t a bad problem for the songwriter to have in 1983, as it all poured into a bashful album of insecurities. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @ dnartsdesk

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two minutes, neither team scored, as the rounds of offensive fouls, missed shots and turnovers ensued.

Finally, with around six minutes left in the game, Moore hit a pair of free throws followed by a bucket by Sample to force Texas A&M coach Gary Blair to call a timeout.

Just as Aggie fans began walking out of the arena, A&M guard Jordan Jones produced a 9-0 run on her own to put the No. 9 squad back within seven.

The Aggie’s pressure defense and building momentum kept A&M within 10 for several more possessions, but a late-game effort

by Moore and Sample helped Nebraska hold onto the win.

“I give so much credit first of all to our team for being very focused,” Smallwood said. “They believe in what the coaching staff talks to them about and sets them up for. They commit to it as a group, which is everything.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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A missed shot by Nebraska allowed the Aggies to find junior Courtney Williams deep for another 3. A third consecutive A&M bucket put the Aggies up eight points.

Then Nebraska took over.

The Huskers pounded out a 19-2 run, with the help of secondchance looks, the long ball and rebounding, which was what coach Yori said would be the difference.

“One-A is rebounding,” Yori said on the keys to the game. “(They’re) a really physical rebounding team from all positions, but particularly from their inside kids.”

Nebraska’s run built a Husker lead to 25-16. While Texas A&M would eventually break NU’s lead to only two, Moore and Theriot finished the half on a 12-2 run, including the freshman guard’s buzzer beater to give the Huskers wiggle room again. “(Moore) pretty much did it all tonight,” Smallwood said. “I can’t say enough either on how much the team followed her.”

Midway through the second half, Texas A&M began to build momentum, as Aggie freshman guard Courtney Walker knocked down consecutive lay-ups to slash the Husker lead to 12. For the next

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football practice notes For the first time under coach Bo Pelini, the Nebraska football team was given a rest during the spring season. Usually the team begins to practice later in the semester, but receives no break.

This year, however, Pelini started practices earlier in the year and allowed the team to take a week off from practice. In the first practice back, the team responded well, offensive coordinator Tim Beck said.

“There’s never a time just to take a breath,” Beck said.

“Probably since August, they’ve probably had what, maybe 10 days off.”

Even though it had been more than 10 days since the Huskers had practiced, the coaching staff said the team was just as prepared on the field as they were when they left for break.

“We picked up right away,” linebackers coach Ross Els said.

“We told them ahead of time; you better get your nose in the play book. If you’re around, get up here and watch film, because we can’t go backward.”

While the break gives players a chance to rest, it also allows the coaching staff to step back and evaluate the progress the team has made throughout the spring, Beck said. Still, the players were in need of a break, he said.

“I think it was as much welcomed to (the players) as it even is for us to go back and look where are we right now, what do we need to do and look at; what do we need to get accomplished in the next five days,” Beck said.

No young players are sticking out

Defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski returns only one starter from last year on the line, yet he hasn’t seen any young players make a big leap forward, he said.

“We’ve got a long way to

go across the board,” Kaczenski said. “We’re fortunate we don’t have to play any time soon; we’ve got a long way to go.”

Still, the coaching staff is definitely looking for any young players to take a significant role in the fall.

“I’m going to look at all of (the young guys),” Beck said.

“Anybody that can help us play, they’re going to play at any position.”

Looking at the linebacker position, coach Els said while no young player has particularly stood out to him, he’s aware they’re all capable of making an impact in the season.

“We’ve got a bunch in the room,” Els said. “We’re rotating a lot of guys through. Nobody has really stood out and said, ‘I’m going to be taking this job.’

They look pretty even.”

Els looking at Spring game recruiting

On April 6, the Huskers will be able to take the field in front of fans for the annual Red-White Spring game. Recruiting coordinator Ross Els is already looking to bring recruits to the game.

“We think it’s going to be a great opportunity,” Els said.

“I don’t know how many we’ll end up with or how many we want, but we’re trying to get as many of our offers out to guys as we can.”

Els said the date of the spring game could help Nebraska bring in a number of long-distanced recruits, so he’s not setting any limits to how many he would like to see show up.

“I think (10 recruits) would be a pretty good turnout, but you know me; I want them all,” he said. “If a kid says he can’t come for whatever reason, I’m disappointed.”

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Softball team prepares to take on UNO NU will face in-state rival for the second time this season on Wednesday josh kelly dn On Wednesday, the Nebraska softball team squares off against the University of Nebraska at Omaha Mavericks. The game in Omaha will be the second time the in-state rivals battle this season.

The matchup at Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln has been postponed twice now because of weather conditions. Weather has played a huge factor for the Mavericks at home, resulting in six games being canceled, which means this week’s matchup will be the team’s home opener.

UNO is currently 22-3 on the season, two out of the three losses coming from ranked teams, including Nebraska.

Last Tuesday marked the teams’ first meeting of the season which ended with a 3-2 victory at Bowlin Stadium. The Huskers were not in control of the game for the most part, though. It was the bottom of the seventh inning, with two outs and two runners on. Nebraska was down by a run with infielder Mattie Fowler, who has been clutch for coach Rhonda Revelle’s team recently, coming up to the plate. The sophomore hit a walkoff single to right-center that brought in both runners to win the game for her team.

Following the game against UNO, the Huskers had a series of games at home against New Mexico State and Big Ten foe Northwestern. During one game, the team came back from a four-run deficit to end it with a walkoff walk, something that is all too familiar to this year ’s softball squad and junior pitcher Tatum Edwards, she said.

“It’s exciting,” Edwards said.

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Junior pitcher Tatum Edwards and the rest of the Nebraska softball team will take on the University of Nebraska Omaha Wednesday at Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln.

“We’ve had a few walkoffs before, and you don’t really expect it to happen. They tried to give us a push and tried to tell us that we’re here. Our coaches just said to keep on it.”

This Wednesday’s matchup will also mark the beginning of an eight-game road trip, a school record that includes outings against UNO, Illinois, Creighton and Iowa.

The high-powered offense currently has six players hitting above .300. Pitching for the Huskers are Edwards and freshman Emily Lockman. The two pitchers have combined for all the team’s wins on the season so

They tried to give us a push and tried to tell us that we’re here. Our coaches just said to keep on it.”

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far, Edwards is 14-4 on the season while Lockman is 8-2 when on the mound for her team.

Although Nebraska has been performing above expectations with a young roster, the recent weather has been a current topic for softball teams in the Midwest. Revelle said she believes her team isn’t fazed at all by the

cold conditions and is ready for the road trip.

“They wouldn’t tell you if they were cold,” Revelle said.

“They have energy like it’s 60 degrees out, and they’re able to handle it emotionally and physically.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Spring break brings woes to women’s tennis The team falls to No. 12 after losses to San Diego and Oklahoma State liz uehling dn The Nebraska women’s tennis team could’ve seen brighter days during spring break. The previously No. 7 ranked team tumbled to the No. 12 position after losing to San Diego and Oklahoma State. They currently hold a 15-3 record.

The Huskers might have been over-confident before traveling to California.

“We can’t overlook either team,” senior Mary Weatherholt said.

Senior Stefanie Weinstein and other players on the team knew that weather would be a factor before leaving to compete.

“The ball is slower outside,” Weinstein said.

Although the women did have plans to relax, they didn’t plan on coming home without a win.

Their 12-game winning streak was shattered by their first opponent, the San Diego Toreros, in 60-degree weather on Sunday.

There didn’t seem to be much of a difference in climate from Nebraska.

Weatherholt, who is currently ranked No. 10, started off the match with a seemingly easy 6-3, 6-1 win.

Unfortunately, she would be the

only Husker victor during singles.

Weatherholt, however, did not take the spotlight.

It was senior Janine Weinreich who held the crowd’s attention as she fought against her Torero opponent in a four-set tiebreaker. But her effort would not prevail as she ended up losing the 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (119) fight.

Doubles brought back two wins for the Huskers. The No. 7 duo, comprised of senior Patricia Veresova and Weatherholt, was the first win, and their doubles teammates Weinstein and Weinreich ended the match on the high note with a 9-7 victory.

After resting for a few days, the team faced Oklahoma State on March 21, also in San Diego, at the Delmar Country Club.

The day started off on a low note as the doubles team of Weatherholt and Veresova was defeated, followed by the loss of freshman Maggy Lehmicke and sophomore Izabella Zgierska.

Weinreich, who started singles, lost 6-4, 6-2. Veresova won her match 6-4, 6-2 and was followed by Weinstein who also defeated her Cowgirl opponent with a 7-5, 7-5 win. Lehmicke fell in the No. 4 position as did Zgierska in the No. 6 position.

The biggest loss of the day came when OSU’s No. 83 Malika Rose defeated No. 7 Mary Weatherholt.

The Huskers will face Penn State University on March 31 in hopes of gaining a confidenceboosting win. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior Mary Weatherholt, currently ranked No. 10, was the only NU player to win a singles match during the team’s trip to California, where the team played San Diego State and Oklahoma State.

Sand volleyball debut results in 4-5 record Team entered premier season No. 9, despite having no prior experience staff report dn The Nebraska sand volleyball team debuted in its first college season in California during spring break with a record of 4-5.

The Huskers entered their premier season ranked ninth in the country, despite having no prior experience in the sport. Nebraska’s opening schedule didn’t allow for a learning period, either.

During the course of eight days, Nebraska played four of the top five teams in the nation, losing to all four. The team also competed against No. 7 UCLA, but ended up winning the match 3-2.

In the Huskers’ final two matches against No. 4 USC and No. 5 Hawaii on March 22, Nebraska lost by a slim margin.

Beginning the day was Nebraska’s No. 1 duo of Kelsey Robinson and Alexa Strange, who got things started with a victory in the match’s first game. Then the Huskers’ No. 2 pair of Morgan Broekhuis and Kadie Rolfzen dominated in straight sets to give Nebraska a 2-0 lead over the Warriors.

However, Nebraska couldn’t manage another win to seal the

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Freshman Alexa Strange and the Nebraska sand volleyball team finished with a record of 4-5 during the team’s debut in its first college season. victory in the remaining three games, and fell to the No. 5 team in the nation, 3-2.

In the second match of the day against No. 4 USC, Nebraska kept things interesting once again. Broekhuis and Rolfzen added their second win of the day, this time in three sets. Am-

ber Rolfzen and Hayley Thramer picked up the other victory for the Huskers at the No. 3 position.

Once again, two wins were all the Huskers could muster against the Trojans, as NU fell 3-2 for the second time in the day.

The pair of losses dropped Nebraska below .500 to end the

Huskers’ inaugural sand volleyball season.

Nebraska volleyball players will now focus on the indoor season, as the Huskers take on South Dakota State Saturday in the squad’s spring opener. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Say Nebraska doesn’t slip up against Kent State or UTEP and pulls off two or three of those upsets they were so close to achieving against Ohio State, Michigan, Illinois or Michigan State.

All of the sudden, the Huskers are a 20-win team creeping up on seventh place in the Big Ten. Maybe a 13 seed isn’t too far away. The underdog support wouldn’t be far away either.

Nebraska’s not going to sneak up on anyone like Florida Gulf Coast did out of Fort Meyers, Fla. - or was it Orlando? Tampa? I’m still not sure where those plucky Eagles come from. But Miles’ gritty coaching style sure seems conducive to a 13-over-4 seed up-

set. That would get America’s attention.

Considering Nebraska’s abysmal tournament history (or lack thereof), viewers would latch onto a Nebraska tournament run like velcro to an old wool sweater.

Sure, FGCU’s incredible run is likely to come to an end against Florida, but who knows? Either La Salle or Wichita State is headed to the Elite Eight. Those guys barely made the tournament and were supposed to be gone before the weekend.

Why not Nebraska?

Grant Muessel is a senior news-editorial major. Reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Baseball focuses on K-State matchup before returning home After going 4-7 in road games, NU is itching to play at home again nedu izu dn If you’ve paid attention to the Nebraska baseball team through the first two months of the season, you might have thought they were homesick. Up until the first week of March, wins on the road for the Husker squad were tough to come by.

Although the team did finally pick up its first victory on the road against Louisiana Tech on March 9, Darin Erstad’s squad has shown signs that its itching to play at home again.

After going 4-7 in its road matches against four opponents, there’s no doubt Nebraska is anxious to play at Haymarket Park again and host Northwestern for a three-game series March 29-31. But before the Huskers attempt to continue their 4-0 streak at home, they’ll have one more road stop to make in Manhattan, Kan. On Tuesday, the Huskers (8-14 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) will take on their old conference foe Kansas State (16-8, 12-1-1 Big 12) to wrap up their elongated 12-game road trip.

Despite its less-than-stellar .500

play the past two weeks, there was an upside to Nebraska’s last stint on the road in Illinois.

In their season debut against a Big Ten Conference opponent, the Huskers used base stealing and clutch swings to pick up their first road series victory (6-4, 9-5, 7-8) from the Fighting Illini.

Darin Erstad said it was important to see his team’s bats come alive before leaving Champaign, Ill. “We did a great job of fighting back,” he said. “It’s good to see the offense get going and guys getting big two-out hits.”

Although the weather may have been a bit chilly, the Husker bats were far from it.

In their two victories over the weekend, Nebraska runners swiped six bases while lacing 28 hits. And the Huskers took advantage of the hit-and-run game, too.

While Erstad gave his players the green light to get in scoring position, the bats also chipped away for RBIs while players were in motion on the base paths.

The Nebraska coach said he was pleased to see his risky play-calling with two outs pay off.

“Those two out hits have been hard to come by,” he said. “Now they’re coming.”

Senior centerfielder Rich Sanguinetti said the recent victories on the road are because of the team’s new mindset.

We made a minor adjustment after Irvine as a group,” he said.

“We’ve been sticking with that, and it’s been working the past three games.”

And if Nebraska hopes to scrape out a victory against Kansas State, it’ll have to use that same scrappy style of hitting Tuesday.

Through 24 games, Wildcat starters have carried a 3.09 ERA and will send superb right-handed pitcher Jake Doller (2-1), who carries a 0.46 ERA, to the mound Tuesday night. His impressive pitching has helped lead the team to its current four-game winning streak.

But the hot play as of late and intimidation from the Big 12 team shouldn’t phase the Huskers, according to Sanguinetti.

“We face tough pitching also, so we’re just going to go out there and compete and do what we’ve been working on,” the leadoff hitter said.

Doller’s counterpart will be senior right-handed pitcher Tyler Niederklein (0-0, 11.25) who will be making his first start for Nebraska this season before the team returns home to perform in front of the “Sea of Red.” The team will have to take advantage of any momentum they can get against the Wildcats to end the road trip on a high note, Erstad remarked.

“Any time you can take the momentum away and get it back in your favor, it can kind of change the game a little bit,” he said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Coach Darin Erstad said the Nebraska baseball team is anxious to return home and play at Haymarket Park again after playing road matches against four opponents.

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NU could be next Cinderella story

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Nebraska senior guard Lindsey Moore dribbles past Texas A&M junior center Kelsey Bone during the second round of the Women’s NCAA Tournament on Monday in College Station, Texas. The Huskers won 74-63, advancing to the Sweet 16.

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ith just seconds left in the first half, Nebraska inbounded the ball to senior guard Lindsey Moore. Moore drove down the court, found an off-balanced Rachel Theriot who spun around a Texas A&M Aggie and tossed up a 3-pointer prayer at the buzzer. The shot landed, putting the No. 24 Huskers on top of No. 6 Texas A&M 43-32 at halftime.

That’s the way Monday night’s secondround of the Women’s NCAA Tournament game went for Nebraska, as the Huskers advanced to the Sweet 16 in Norfolk, Va., with a 74-63 win.

Junior Jordan Hooper led Nebraska to the win with 21 points, while Moore tossed in 20 points and 10 assists and sophomore Hailie Sample added her first career double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds.

The trip to the Sweet Sixteen is only the second time Nebraska has done so in program history — the last time coming in 2010.

“The one thing we’ve been talking about as a staff is just how hungry, healthy and happy this team is,” associate coach Sunny Smallwood said. “This is where your true character shows up. The type of people (Nebraska coach) Connie Yori surrounds herself with, whether its players or staff and this is the time of year where you love to see it shine through. And credit to Texas A&M absolutely, that’s a great, great ball club we just played.”

After battling back and forth early in the game, Texas A&M ran the court with the score tied at six. Aggie senior guard Adrienne Pratcher lined up a 3-pointer, launched up a shot and missed, but teammate center Kelsey Bone saved the ball

double sweet NEBRASKA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UPSETS TEXAS A&M IN COLLEGE STATION, ADVANCES TO SWEET 16 story by kyle cummings

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I’ve always been faithful to the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

My parents never deviated too far from Husker football; the last time they watched the NBA was Michael Jordan’s championship run against the Utah Jazz in 1997.

But when it comes to March Madness, we’re loyal servants.

Loyal as in, my parents plan their anniversary around watching the Elite Eight games that weekend.

This year, dinner at Bravo Cucina Italiana for their 29th will certainly be planned around Louisville’s tipoff time.

So believe me when I say this is the best NCAA Tournament I’ve seen, and it’s because of the amazing story lines.

Whether it was Indiana’s Victor Oladipo sinking Temple with seconds left or Aaron Craft of Ohio State draining a stone-cold 3-pointer and Iowa State’s Cinderella run with half a second on the clock, this is as entertaining as you’re gonna get in the month of March.

We’ve got a nine, 12 and 13 seed in the Sweet 16.

And did I mention Florida Gulf Coast? The 15-seed that knocked off Georgetown? The group of no-names with nothing to lose? The proud residents of Dunk City? (I think they gained that nickname because nobody actually knows the whereabouts of Florida Gulf Coast University.)

The only reason I’ve even heard of the FGCU Eagles is thanks to Dylan Talley and his game-winning shot against Iowa; Nebraska Media Relations informed us reporting folk that the last time Talley sunk a game-winner was during Nebraska’s 51-50 win against the Eagles in 2012.

Thanks, Dylan.

Just imagine, if you will, what it would be like to see Tim Miles’ Huskers in that position. Try to imagine the thrill say, four years down the road, when a scrappy team coached by Miles and led by senior Deverell Biggs breaks through for Nebraska’s first NCAA Tournament bid since 1998.

Can you even imagine the sensation?

Imagine this: Nebraska’s not far off. That four-year goal might not be such a stretch of the imagination. Nebraska notched wins this season over Valparaiso and Southern; both were tournament teams. Valpo didn’t look much better than a YMCA squad against Michigan State, but Southern nearly took No. 1 seed Gonzaga.

Those wins may not be much RPIwise, but it’s the recognition that

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