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Duking it out

One giant leap for The Bay

Husker women play Duke in Sweet 16

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Shane Adams executes a kickflip off the bank of The Bay, a Lincoln skate park at 20th and Y streets, which opened on March 8. Mike Smith, owner and founder of The Bay, said he wants the park to act as a community resource for art and culture, as well as give Lincoln kids a safe place to skate and socialize.

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farm fresh story by Paige Osborne | photos by Matt Masin

The American drone war Should unmanned aircraft be used to target terrorists?

4 A little money, a long way MicroFinance club sends loans across globe

3 Am I original?

New 3D printing technology raises copyright issues

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High tunnels on East Campus are used to grow different crops and plants for various classes offered to agricultural majors. The high tunnels will be a part of the oncoming student-run organic farm on East Campus.

Student-run organic farm project will offer educational opportunities, chance for growth

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harles Francis has pushed for an organic farm on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus for 20 years. Now, three of his former students are making it happen.

Senior environmental studies major Neil Tabor and UNL graduates Jenn Simons, who works for the Agronomy Department, and Danny Martin met in Francis’ organic farming class last spring, where they got the inspiration to take what they learned from class to soil by planting an organic farm.

“I recognize their motivation and spirit to working as a team toward common goals,” said Francis, a professor of agronomy and horticulture, in an email. He said he plans to incorporate the farm into his curriculum. “They are very excited about what they can learn for themselves but even more enthused about developing this opportunity for others to learn and to have this available for future generations of students.”

The farm is on a half-acre of land outside the College of Law on Fair Street, divided into three sections.

The first site is an asparagus patch, the second is a hightunnel greenhouse that’s unheated and covered in plastic and the third site will be mostly for research, with intercropping so students can “try things on a bigger scale,” Tabor said.

The farm is expected to be mainly run by students.

The group got funding for the project through Indiegogo, a charitable website that funnels donations for various projects. The goal was $3,550 in 22 days, but it had been met within the first week and a half. Community CROPS, a local nonprofit organization for sustaining gardens, has sponsored the troupe.

“We’re helping them out because we want to see them succeed,” CROPS Executive Director Ingrid Kirst said in an email. “It’ll benefit us by having students learn more about organic farming, and then get involved with Community CROPS or just use that knowledge to grow their own food.”

The group plans to organize the farm into work shares where students can contribute a few hours a

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Senior environmental studies major Neil Tabor and UNL graduates Jenn Simons and Danny Martin are heading a project to grow organic vegetables on East Campus. After holding their first meeting Tuesday, which more than 20 students attended, the group hopes to make the most of the land given to them in the high tunnel and nearby field.

LGBT activist speaks at UNL Survey reveals uncertainty about ACE program goals DANIEL WHEATON DN

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Every University of NebraskaLincoln student is required to take Achievement-Centered Education classes, but not all of them understand why, according to a recent study conducted by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska’s Academic Committee.

The survey was targeted toward students currently in ACE 10 classes because those students were likely finished with their other ACE requirements, according to Micah Wullschleger, a senior anthropology and English major, during last Wednesday’s ASUN senate

meeting. Every student must take classes from 10 ACE categories.

The committee gave the survey to instructors to pass out in their classes. It received 42 responses from colleges, including the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

The university’s ACE website said ACE classes are required of every student to develop intellectual and practical skills in areas including written communication, problem-solving, sciences, history and world cultures.

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When Terry Wahls had to go to the emergency room one night in 2006, the love of her life wasn’t allowed to be at her side.

The relationship between Terry Wahls and Jackie Reger wasn’t recognized in the eyes of the Iowa hospital, although they’d been together since 1995.

When Reger tried to explain the situation to the hospital, she was asked to leave.

For their son Zach Wahls, the discussion about same-sex marriage is about recognition of their relationship.

Wahls, a 21-year-old college student turned LGBT activist, spoke to a crowd in the Nebraska Union Thursday evening.

His presentation “What Makes a Family” was both personal and political.

“I’m always asked two questions when people realize I have two moms,” Wahls said. “It’s ‘Dude. You have lesbian moms,’ which isn’t actually a question.

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LGBT activist Zach Wahls gestures to the audience in the Nebraska Union Auditorium Thursday. Wahls became famous after testifying against a proposed Iowa legislative bill in 2011 that would have outlawed same-sex marriage in Iowa.

And then, ‘Are they hot?’”

Even though his moms are gay, Wahls said he doesn’t consider it part of his identity.

“My moms don’t drive a gay car and park in a gay garage,”

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On campus what:

22nd Annual Robert Mittelstaedt Doctoral Symposium where: Embassy Suites, 1040 P Street when: 8 a.m.

what: Geography General Seminar on ““Engineer Cantonment (Stephen Long Expedition): The Intersection of Geography, Geology, Archaeology, History and Art” where: Hardin Hall, Room 163 when: 2 p.m. to 3:50 p.m.

ace: from 1 The survey asked the students what they knew about ACE, what goals they thought ACE is trying to accomplish and if ACE is accomplishing those goals.

It also asked how ACE has affected them in terms of experience.

Wullschleger said the results came back evenly distributed in three categories: 15 students found the program limiting, 12 students felt the ACE program does not meet its purpose and 15 students thought the ACE program was beneficial.

Some students said they should have the right to choose their classes. These students felt that taking classes outside their majors proved to be a waste of time and money, according to the survey’s results.

“At the university level, students should be at the maturity level to decide for themselves which courses to take to further their education,” one student said in the survey. “The ACE program is an expensive, unfortunate distraction.”

Other students felt the ACE program was a good experience, but was a distraction from their educational goals.

“I’m glad that I was required to take classes outside my major and some of them were quite enjoyable, but at times I’m worried it will have prolonged my graduating time,” one student said.

And some students said the ACE program was beneficial to them because it forced them to step outside their comfort zones.

“I would say it has expanded my college experience because I would have never have taken some of the classes I did take and would have not met/experienced much of what I have,” said a student who was fully aware of the ACE program’s goals.

There was no pattern among the individual colleges that responded, Wullschleger said.

The committee concluded that many students do not understand the purpose of the program and that there is a need for improvement.

“I think there are people who do know about the goals, but I don’t think it’s being communicated well enough why these goals are important,” he said.

Tim Lundy, a senior classical languages and English major, also presented the survey’s results during ASUN’s senate meeting. He said it may be promising to conduct a more expansive survey of university students in the future.

He said those who lead the ACE program believe it may be beneficial to send a survey to students four or five years after graduation and ask them how they feel about the ACE program down the road.

“It wasn’t a huge survey, but it’s definitely trends we can look at,” Lundy said. “There are definitely some student opinions here that are very valuable.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Veterans struggle to find jobs in Nebraska Mara Klecker DN Dominic Biondo is employed, but he doesn’t think it’s any thanks to his being a veteran.

Biondo, president of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Veterans Organization, is luckier than many veterans, who have found it difficult to find jobs in Nebraska, according to the Nebraska Department of Labor statistics.

The state’s unemployment rate for veterans ages 18-34 was about 4.5 percent in 2011, 4.7 percent lower than the rate of unemployed non-veterans, according to the labor department.

The rate of jobless vets fell from 8 percent in 2010 and 10.1 percent in 2009.

Though the overall rate was low, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed the 2011 unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans reached 11 percent in Nebraska.

LB588, a bill that would simplify and clarify the procedure for veterans claiming preference in employment for state and government jobs, is currently on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature but has not yet been added to the agenda.

Biondo used to claim a 10-point veteran preference – a measure that adds 10 points to the examination score of a veteran due to disability when applying for federal jobs – but said he hasn’t benefited from it.

“I never hear anything back from those jobs,” he said. “I actually think that the 10-point preference I claim is actually hurting my chances of getting the job because of the stereotype of disabled vets.”

Biondo graduated in May and found a job in September by what he calls “blind luck.”

“I happened to run into someone on campus that knew of a job opening,” he said. “I was in the right place at the right time. If it wasn’t for him, I would probably still be unemployed.”

Biondo said part of the reason veterans struggle to find unemployment is the way resumes are viewed. His military experience and skills, he expects, didn’t match the key words that employers were scanning for. Rather than preference points, Biondo said he would have benefited from having a career counselor help him translate his military experience on a resume.

Chris Timm, director of Career Services, and Assistant Director Tom

Allison agreed that veterans often find it difficult to indicate the skills they gained from their military background onto a paper that a civilian employer will understand.

Allison gave a presentation Wednesday night at an employment workshop for veterans sponsored by the Department of Labor on how veterans should approach writing resumes. Private sector positions usually call for a one-page resume, Allison said, whereas a federal position may require a three- to four-page, detailoriented application. Understanding when and what to include, as well as which resume structure will benefit applicants most, is something Career Services wants to help students with, he said.

Though Career Services offers no specific programs for veterans and staff does not initially ask students if they have military experience, one-onone counselors at Career Services are trained to help veterans in their employment searches. Timm said providing special career programming for veterans may be a focus next year, but because most student veterans are non-traditional students and are in a diverse range of academic programs,

such assistance may not be utilized or beneficial.

“I think every counselor and everyone who works for Career Services knows about the veteran experience, maybe not firsthand, but they know what steps they need to take an individual through,” Allison said.

Biondo and Allison also said they recognize misconceptions about posttraumatic stress disorder may also contribute to unemployment rates.

“Not everyone who has deployed has PTSD and people with PTSD can function normally in society,” Biondo said. “The problem is, veterans can’t properly articulate our skills into something employers can understand, and because of the stereotype, employers place our resumes at the bottom of the pile.”

Timm said even veterans who have struggled with periods of PTSD can find ways to explain those resume gaps to a future employer. “A veteran may come to (Career Services) and say, ‘Here’s why I’ve been out of the workforce because I’ve been suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder or recovering form an injury,’” Timm said. “We would coach them on how to describe that to an employer.”

The Career Services website also has resources for veterans, including O*Net OnLine Crosswalk Search, a service in which veterans can enter their military occupational code to get detailed descriptions of how they can explain their former military positions to employers. The library of the Career Resources Center also has an O*Net publication available students can check out, as well as other books regarding military-to-civilian transitions.

As a member of the Student Veterans Task Force, Allison said he takes his commitment to serving veterans seriously.

“I want to do everything I can to help veterans get through all the red tape,” he said. “Can we do more? Absolutely, but for right now we are doing all that we can.”

The Student Veterans Organization and the Career Services office are also promoting the “Hiring Our Heroes Career Fair,” which will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 2 at the Lancaster Event Center. The list of the approximately 90 employers that will be present is available at dol.nebraska. gov. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Engineering students build rover for NASA competition Lis Arneson Dn Eleven University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering students have spent six months and thousands of dollars preparing a planetary rover prototype — and they’re only halfway done.

They’re calling it the “Rover of the Corn,” and some of the group members will travel with it to Houston in June to navigate the “Rock Yard” at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The others will stay behind to work the robot’s controls as it competes in the 2013 RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition, an engineering challenge sponsored

by NASA and organized by the National Institute of Aerospace.

UNL was one of eight institutions selected to compete for the $6,000 prize. Since September, the engineering group has been designing and building a prototype with a $10,000 budget.

Joe Bartels, UNL team leader and a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, said the group members have dedicated more than 1,000 hours of work to this project. They meet every Monday afternoon for at least an hour and hold impromptu meetings throughout the week.

It was during one of these meetings that the group chose the name for its rover.

“We had a 10-minute brainstorming session,” Bartels said. “I said, ‘We’re not leaving until we pick a name.’”

Bartels said three team members and their faculty adviser, mechani-

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Tom Frederick, Kearney Lackas, Eric Markvicka, Joe Bartels, Walter Bircher, Alex Adams, Allison Miller, Mark Reichenbach and Effie Green sit in Scott Engineering building lab where they work on their robot, “Rover of the Corn.” The group was chosen to compete in June in the 2013 RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition, an engineering challenge sponsored by NASA. cal and materials engineering professor Shane Farritor, will travel to Houston. The remaining members of the team will be responsible for controlling the robot from the UNL campus.

“It kind of depends on who can drive the rover the best from UNL,” Bartels said. “Everybody wants to go down, but whoever gets the most practice at driving the rover gets to stay here. We haven’t quite come to

that bridge yet.”

Bartels said the parts to the rover are currently out in the machine shops. The team will construct the rover in May. Bartels said it felt great to qualify

for the competition.

“When we just started it was just four of us — we worked for a long time,” Bartels said. “We saw NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace really liking our design. We got some great feedback. That felt really good to know that we were good enough for NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace.”

According to the RASC-AL Robo-Ops website, UNL will compete against seven other teams from across the country.

Team member Mark Reichenbach, a senior mechanical engineering major, said UNL’s selection for the competition is a reflection of the team.

“It’s exciting,” Reichenbach said.

“Honestly, I haven’t been working in the lab that long. Everyone in there is really smart. So it doesn’t surprise me that the graduate students put something together that got chosen.”

Farritor said it’s been a pleasure to work with the students.

“These are obviously self-selected and very, very bright students,” Farritor said. “It’s a nice diverse group of undergraduates as well as graduate students who have more experience.”

Farritor said he has enjoyed seeing the students grow.

“They’re sort of organizing themselves as a coherent team,” Farritor said. “I think many of them have never had to work within budget constraints and things like that. It’s been really exciting to watch all of that develop. And watching all of these students — I think they’re really learning.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Vehicle almost crashes into Raising Canes MATT MASIN | DN

UNL graduates Jenn Simons and Danny Martin and senior environmental studies major Neil Tabor stand in front of their high tunnel on East Campus. Simons said they hope to do some experimenting with their crops, such as crossing tomatoes, basil and garlic into one.

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Police gathered at the downtown Raising Cane’s Thursday afternoon after a vehicle almost crashed into the side of the building. The vehicle’s driver drove up on the eastern curb of the restaurant, stopping close to the edge of the building. Few visible marks were made, except a tire skid mark near the restaurant’s door. Nobody was injured in the crash. Details from the police are pending.

week in exchange for produce. Or they could establish a “green fee,” a sum required of participants to sustain the farm. Down the line, the group would like to sell the produce or create a partnership with Dining Services.

But mostly, the farm is an opportunity for students who are interested in the organic side of agriculture.

“It’s really something we’re lacking right now,” Simons said.

“It’s something that’s growing in agriculture. We don’t have a lot of programs. This is a good approach to be a more competitive applicant.

It’s giving awareness to students about this growing issue.”

Martin said one of the goals for the farm is to attract students of dif-

to get involved Access the group Facebook page, UNL Student Organic Farm, for meeting information. ferent majors, not only to help on the farm, but to contribute to advertising, marketing and graphic design to propel it as a business.

“Our vision is for this to be a community for students to learn more about organic agriculture,” he said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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UNL MicroFinance club seeks new members kelli rollin dn A little bit of money can go a long way around the world, and keep going. At least, that’s proven true for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln MicroFinance club.

The club, which is three years old and seeking new members and officers, coordinates fundraisers and loans small increments of money to people in developing countries. Its next meeting will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Nebraska Union.

The club’s loans are facilitated through Kiva.org, a website that allows users to create profiles and request money – which will be paid back in six to eight months – for certain projects, businesses or needs. Then, loaners such as the UNL MicroFinance club view the profiles on Kiva and decide who to loan money to. Once the money is repaid, the process is continuous.

Josh Kornbluh, a senior psychology major and treasurer of the club, said they’ve loaned to KAT BUCHANAN | DN people in Bolivia, Kenya, RwanJosh Kornbluh, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior psychology major and treasurer of UNL’s da and other countries.

MicroFinance club, and Mitch Ohnstad, a senior advertising and public relations major and The loans come in $25, $50, president of the club, stand where club members hold meetings in the Nebraska Union. The or $75 and don’t include interMicroFinance club coordinates fundraisers and loans small increments of money to people in est. Kornbluh said the club lent out around $2,200 and has been developing countries and is seeking new members and officers. repaid $1,300 so far.

“We have around $900 that is out there right now helping lage. Though it was a different appeal to any major,” Ohnstad something the club doesn’t take people,” Kornbluh said. type of request, Ohnstad said he said. “People think we’re in aclightly.

He said the club makes all likes loaning to people who will counting and finance and it has Mitch Ohnstad, a senior adof its money through fundrais- vertising and public relations do something to help more than nothing to do with that.” ers the members organize themOhnstad said the club, like major and president of the club, just one person. selves: bake “What we’re trying to do is anything else, can have cons. said he and other sales, candle stimulate developing countries’ He said some people say loan“want What we’re members sales and the economy. That’s what the overall ing out money to these impovthis money to help like, as well as goal of microfinance is,” Ohnstad erished people could cause them as many people as trying to a spring concert said. “We’re helping them help to get in more debt or that it’s a possible.” series. Kornbluh do is stimulate handout. themselves. It does give people “I chose not to said bake sales Ohnstad also said this prothat ability to climb themselves loan to some people developing don’t bring in gram also does require computer out of poverty in a way.” because they didn’t the big bucks, countries’ Kornbluh and Ohnstad said access, which not everyone in have a high rate of but every dolneed has. But he said some vilthey want to see the club continpaying back the lar matters. And economy. lages have a center with computue, but it’s in need of members, money they were because the club That’s what the ers that people can use for cerloaned out,” Ohns- especially because most of the has to be frugal tain lengths of time, which helps. officers will graduate soon. tad said. overall goal of with money, he “I truly feel that it is benefi“It’s a way to help people.

And because of said not many microfinance is.” cial,” Ohnstad said. “It gives me the precautions the It’s pretty low-commitment, so people know it an opportunity to see what life is club takes when why not?” Kornbluh said. “It mitch ohnstad exists. also isn’t a bad thing to have on like somewhere else and to see it loans, Kornbluh microfinance club president “We’re relucthe struggles that other people said it has only lost a resume.” tant on getting Kornbluh said to become a have become.” one cent, which was attention for ourOhnstad said the MicroFimember, a person just has to atbecause of currency exchange. selves on campus because every tend meetings and contribute nance club was just one way for Ohnstad said the group likes dollar we spend on hotdogs or to give out loans directed to- ideas for fundraisers. Members him to get involved and make a things like that could be used to difference. ward education, agriculture or will also get to vote on loan regive loans,” Kornbluh said.

“It’s a little part of help, but cipients. the arts, but they’re open to any A Kiva profile includes a it goes for a greater good,” he Ohnstad said some people cause. person’s default rate — indicatOnce, the group helped a may be intimidated by the club’s said. ing how reliable a person is on news@ man who had a request for mon- name, but they shouldn’t be. paying back a loan, which is dailynebraskan.com “In a way, our club can really ey so he could sell rice to his vil-

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on this day 2007 Officials consider bus route changes

Lincoln’s StarTran bus system could see changes in routes and reductions in operating hours because of budgetary constraints.

Officials from the City of Lincoln’s Public Works and Utilities Department/StarTran division and the LincolnLancaster County Planning Department hosted an open house at the Energy Square Building, 1111 O St., to gauge input from residents on proposed routes as part of a Transit Development Plan.

1978 Speakers get tentative fee allocation

The Fees Allocation Board tentatively has decided to recommend an allocation for speaker funding despite an NU Board of Regents decision to cut those fees.

The allocation is recommended pending a clear definition of a speaker.

The board’s decision was to recommend that the East Union Program Council Academic Relations be given $2,750 and that UPC Talks and Topics receive $13,300.

1951 Duke Ellington to Present Concert in Coliseum April 11

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, who will play at the Coliseum April 11, was born in Washington, D.C. He was bestowed the name of Duke by a playmate when he was eight years old.

He originally intended to study art. While still a youth, Ellington picked up piano playing by ear and sometime afterward learned to read music. He had his own band which he often took to New York.

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Tara Warner, an assistant professor of sociology, stands at the playground of the UNL Children’s Center at City Campus Thursday. Warner analyzed national data to determine patterns in children’s self-projected life expectancy.

Researcher analyzes children’s expectations of their survival kelli rollin dn

Yumiko Shozu, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior international relations major, and Takuya Yokoyama, an English and actuarial science major, demonstrate a traditional Japanese dance at the annual Japan Festival, held by Global Friends of Japan in the Nebraska Union Thursday. The dance was a part of the cultural presentation of seasonal activities in Japan.

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Some children think they’re invincible – and others aren’t sure they’ll live to 35, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher found.

“We have this idea that kids have this ‘I’m going to live forever’ sort of attitude,” said Tara Warner, an assistant professor of sociology who analyzed the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health alongside a Bowling Green State University researcher.

“But when researchers started actually talking with kids and looking at this a little more in depth, we started to find out kids don’t tend to believe they are as invulnerable as we do.”

Warner and Raymond Swisher, an associate professor of sociology at Bowling Green State University, started their research three years ago, planning to analyze data from the adolescent health study. They combed over nationwide data from 20,745 adolescents, grades seven through 12, starting in 1995. The survey followed up with the adolescents in 1996 and 2001-2002 to note any changes in opinions or behaviors.

Warner and Swisher focused on the question “What are the chances that you’ll live to 35?” Adolescents had five answer choices ranging from “very certain” to “no chance.” They found 15 percent of surveyed children expressed a 50/50 chance, not a good chance or no chance of living to age 35.

Warner said 15 percent may not seem like a lot, but “the fact that 15 percent couldn’t even say ‘there’s a very good chance I’m going to live to 35’ is still quite startling.”

Warner said she and Swisher wanted “to dig deeper” into the communities and find explanations for these pessimistic attitudes about the future.

They looked at four specific areas in the survey that could undermine feelings of safety: the participant’s physical and mental health, behaviors, if he or she is a member of a racial or ethnic minority and his or her neigh-

borhood environment.

Warner said they noticed the participants’ neighborhoods affected how they thought about their survival.

She said they found violent and poor neighborhoods were closely associated with uncertainty of survival.

“This idea of looking at your future has serious implications about how we go about our day-to-day lives,” Warner said. “If you expect you’re going to live a long time, you are more committed to doing all the good things you need to do, but if you’re growing up in this situation where you’re like, ‘Who knows if I’m going to see tomorrow,’ that has serious consequences about how you can plan for your future.”

Swisher said personal safety is a “real concern for people in poor neighborhoods.”

“Most people take survival into adulthood for granted,” he said, “but for kids surrounded by violence, it can’t be taken for granted.”

Swisher said policymakers seem to think poor neighborhoods are disadvantaged due to lack of jobs or opportunities, but “it’s really because of lack of safety.”

He said he wants to see more safety-related policy so people don’t have to have these survival doubts.

Warner said these research findings don’t just apply to the participants but are universal.

“I think it also hits close to home for us here (in Nebraska) and definitely points to a need for more resources and attention to the neighborhoods in our backyard,” she said.

Warner said she would love to do research on communities closer to home, especially rural ones, because there hasn’t been a lot of research concerning how they affect adolescents’ attitude on survival.

“Nebraska is a great place to do research on neighborhoods in general because we’ve got a wide a variety of types of places,” Warner said. “I think there are plenty of avenues for future research.” news@ dailyNebraskan.com

wahls: from 1 he said mocking the labeling. He simply accepts the uniqueness of his life — much like adopted children or children in divorced families don’t consider their situations less “normal” than nuclear families.

Wahls’ ascension to fame happened in 2011 when he testified in the Iowa House of Representatives against a bill that would have overturned the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court ruling that legalized same sex marriage.

“The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character,” he said

in the now famous testimony.

He said a legislative intern recorded the testimony on a flip cam and uploaded it to YouTube.

That evening, thousands of people had watched the video. When he woke up the next day, he had 500 emails, 600 Facebook notifications and “too many pokes.” By the end of that week, he had appeared on every major broadcast news outlet except Fox News.

That video now has more than 17 million views online.

Wahls’ visit came as the University of Nebraska-Lincoln celebrates “Be the Change Week” hosted by

the LGBTQA Resource Center.

“I’m really pleased about the turnout,” LGBTQA Director Pat Tetreault said. The supportive tone mirrors national trends.

In a March 18 Washington Post and ABC News poll, 58 percent of respondents said they support same-sex marriage. Young people are showing high levels of support.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard two cases challenging measures that restrict gay rights — California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. Wahls opened his discussion with an overview of DOMA and

how the act limits the rights of same-sex couples. During oral arguments in the case against DOMA, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it created a “skim milk” version of marriage compared to heterosexual unions.

Kayla Morgan, a freshman child, youth and family science major said she changed her mind about same-sex marriage after viewing Wahls’ testimony.

“I’m all for it now,” Morgan said.

Even though her parents are strongly opposed, she said she hopes same-sex marriage can get

more recognition nationwide.

As an advocate for LGBT rights, Wahls stressed the importance of maintaining a civil discussion with opponents to same-sex marriage.

He said the fears that some people have, mainly on religious grounds, are “very real and legitimate.”

By respecting the “moral high ground,” supporters for gay marriage have a better shot at convincing others, he said.

“It’s emotional to hear some of the stories Zach had to share,” said Brady Greenwalt, a freshman French major. “But it’s comforting to know that things are changing in

a positive way every day.”

Near the end of his talk, Wahls marveled at the societal changes that have occurred in less than a decade.

He said when Terry Wahls broke her arm in 2011, the family was met with a surprise: the hospital staff didn’t ask for Reger to leave the room, and she was treated just like any heterosexual spouse.

“I’ve never been so happy about an ER story,” Wahls said.

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eyes from the skies Military drones: acceptable or not? Point-counterpoint on the use of unmanned aircraft

The use of drones both on and off American soil goes against the rights of Americans; government can target anyone it considers a ‘threat’

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f you know anything about drones and you don’t feel a little uneasy about their existence, then there is something wrong with you.

To be clear: I’m a pacifist. I don’t condone violence of any sort. In addition, I’m highly critical of our militaries’ involvement in world conflicts, especially ones we start. Our government has a history of using the veil of democracy or other ambiguous ideological justifications to sidestep laws, domestic and international, when it sees fit.

The way this point-counterpoint is constructed suggests the existence of drones is totally fine, but the usage is questionable. I’d challenge this tacit compliance and argue a more interesting conversation is whether drones are appropriate at all. However, it’s beyond the purview of this column to both challenge the existence of drones and the way they’re utilized and our government’s justifications.

Therefore, this column will focus on the justifications the Justice Department uses to defend their drone strikes.

Drones are robots in the sky with weapons our government uses to kill anybody they believe to be a terrorist – including Americans, if they feel like it. In other words: The fact that the government has given itself the extrajudicial authority to kill anyone it feels threatens America and uses ambiguous terms that allow for unchecked abuse of power is unsettling. This means the government can justify using drones in ways that could infringe American rights on and off American soil. Unlike traditional methods of using armed men, drones allow for a constant presence with lethal capabilities at the touch of a button. Which is horrifying. Even more horrifying is that the executive government has granted itself these extrajudicial powers.

When you hear that drones are a military option part of the

DILLON JONES United States’ counterterrorism strategy, you’re invited to conclude that all the targets are (presumably) AK-47 totting insurgents with an undying hatred of freedom and democracy in their hearts. The following excerpt from a confidential U.S. Justice Department memo, leaked a little more than a month ago, justifies these assassinations using the following condition: “… that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”

After reading the Justice Department’s justification, Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union had this to say: “Basically, it argues that the government has the right to carry out the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen … It recognizes some limits on the authority it sets out, but the limits are elastic and vaguely defined, and it’s easy to see how they could be manipulated.”

You might reasonably argue that this doesn’t really affect you. That you, loyal and valued reader of the Daily Nebraskan, could never be defined as “an operational leader” who poses an “imminent threat of violent attack against the United States” seems absurd. But again, that’s not necessarily the point (and also, you never know).

The point is that the Justice Department can apparently do anything it wants, even sidestep federal law and kill Americans, so long as it gives some hazy definition. That the Justice Department believes this, and moreover, has acted on this belief blatantly undermines the system of laws in which it functions. It demonstrates that our leaders can step outside the limitations whenever they choose, and it seems, with little recourse, as they’re still using drones.

Additionally, we should be asking whether the use of drones is an effective policy decision in the war on terrorism. A recent Associate Press article comments that the United States’ drone policy is creating unrest: “Pakistan claimed the drone strikes were radicalizing a new generation of militants and said it was capable of fighting the war against Islamist extremism in the country by itself.”

So in reality, what we have here is a self-perpetuating cycle.

Our counterterrorism strategy employs the use of drones to kill terrorists; however, this same policy radicalizes new militants to take their place. Thus, the drone policy ensures the continuity of the war on terror.

In truth, there are a whole bunch of moral and philosophical questions that underpin drones and their usage. It’s not a black and white issue. To treat it as such denies that drones and America’s drone policy, like all polices, is complicated, nuanced and warrants more attention than I have space to give here.

What I can say is, at the very least, the controversy surrounding this policy should concern you. The Atlantic, Gawker and The New York Times have written some fantastic and terrifying pieces on this issue. Take time to educate yourself.

Dillon Jones is a junior English major, follow him at @doornut_jazzy or reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Americans should use drones to combat terrorists regardless of their country of origin; minimizes collateral damage, protects soldiers

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n the 1970s, people believed people would be traveling to other planets and driving flying cars by now. Even though they were mistaken, they understood technology was going to evolve and change our every day lives. We now have cell phones, home computers and GPS systems we use every day.

Yet, for all the technology we have there is still the age-old question of: When is there too much technology?

In recent weeks drones – and more specifically MQ-1 predator drones – have come under fire from politicians and foreign nations pertaining to their usefulness, but more specifically their proper use. The debate about the proper use of drones has become so heated that Sen. Rand Paul (RKY) filibustered the Senate floor for about 13 hours, inspiring the nation to look at how drones are used.

He argued that no drone should be used on American soil to target U.S. citizens without a fair trial. He is right; this would go against the constitution and rights we hold as Americans. The idea of a predator drone being used on American soil is very disturbing, and no one should ever entertain the idea of using such military intervention here on U.S. citizens.

However, I can understand how an extreme advancement in drone technology (i.e., absolute precision targeting with less than one percent collateral damage) and proper protocol (i.e., a standard of operations that states who can use drones and in what situations they’re allowed to be used) could allow law enforcement to use lethal drones to help stop crime. Such situations would include taking out a maniac who doesn’t want to be apprehended — someone who is harming others and doesn’t look like he will stop. However, I don’t believe we have quite reached this level of technology, nor do we have protocols properly outlined.

With drone use outlawed on American soil, a lingering question remains: What about American citizens who are known terrorists overseas? These terrorists are technically American citizens, and I can certainly understand how some people believe we shouldn’t kill them without fair trial. However, once someone is a terrorist, I don’t view them as a citizen of any country.

If you are a terrorist, and anywhere but on American soil, you should be put down by any means

ZACH NOLD necessary. A drone strike is an easy and effective way to get that job done. However, if a terrorist works from within America, we should abstain from drone use no matter the conditions. Americans revere our country as anything but a warzone, and the idea that everyone in the U.S. deserves a fair trial resonates with all Americans.

If the terrorist is in another country, then it’s a different story.

We must remember that it doesn’t matter what country a terrorist is from, we don’t negotiate with terrorists. Of course, this leads to drone strikes in foreign nations who have sovereignty, which can lead to issues with those countries.

According to the Washington Post, 41 percent of Americans think we should use drones on American terrorist overseas, compared to the 52 percent who think we shouldn’t.

These countries where terrorists choose to hide need to be reminded that our drone strikes don’t just protect America, they are also curbing terrorism in their countries as well. Pakistan is a country where, due to our interests in Afghanistan, many drone strikes have taken place. However, in recent weeks U.N. officials have stated that the U.S. has indeed breached Pakistan’s sovereignty.

I disagree; terrorists in Pakistan have already breached their sovereignty, even if they’re from their own country. Once you are a terrorist you are no longer a law-abiding citizen. These terrorists need to be eliminated to ensure safety for the Pakistani people and surrounding nations. Frankly, it will also save Pakistan the trouble of having to send their military after an insurgent cell, which will save them lives, time and money.

So, what constitutes as a bad time to use drones? The answer to this question will change from mission to mission, but there are ethical advantages to using drones over manned aircraft.

First, drones don’t put our pilots in danger, which is a huge

advantage, and a reason why the future of warfare will rely heavily on drones.

Secondly, the precision with which a drone can strike greatly reduces collateral damage. This is due to their capability to stay on target for long periods of time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike, and their ability to divert missiles at the last second if needed. In fact, a column in the New York Times states how drones have a lower rate of civilian casualties than Pakistani military intervention. Political scientist Avery Plaw considered drone deaths in four separate instances in Pakistan and found the highest rate of civilian casualties to be 20 percent. This is significantly lower than when the Pakistani military goes after a terrorist cell with soldiers, in which 46 percent of the deaths are civilian deaths on average.

Finally, as discussed earlier, the definition of sovereignty will not be violated if followed by old rules of war. This is because no human with hostile intention from another nation will have to enter that nation’s space. Of course, this point is hotly debated. If the drone strike isn’t carried out properly it could cause collateral damage, which may ignite a national backlash.

What it really comes down to when we question whether a drone strike is necessary is the intelligence behind the strike. If the person we have killed is a known terrorist then we shouldn’t have any problems with it. Terrorists gave up their rights when they decided to harm others. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bullet, missile or knife used to kill a target, the outcome will be the same: death. So, if you take issue with a certain human being’s death, scrutinize the intelligence and the person who made the final decision. The means to the end doesn’t matter; it’s the decision behind the action one must scrutinize.

Drones are the future vestibules of warfare, and we must train good men and women to operate them. They are useful when it comes to surveillance and eliminating enemy combatants, but should not be used on American soil in today’s world. It seems that drones are fast becoming the easiest means by which accurate and quick kills can be obtained on the battlefield. We shouldn’t focus on the lethal capabilities of the drones, but rather the intelligence behind the kill orders.

Zach Nold is a senior English major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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Justin Feller pops a nose manual at The Bay, a new indoor skate park in Lincoln on 20th and Y streets. The Bay is a non-profit park started by Mike Smith and has been open since March 8. Smith said he hopes to help Lincoln kids by keeping them off the streets and in The Bay.

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In fact, with each kickflip, Lincoln may be actively reducing crime.

Such is the hope of The Bay, a non-profit indoor skate park that opened its doors on 20th and Y streets on March 8. The ultimate goal of The Bay is to offer a haven for children looking to pursue their passions.

“We want to be a place that helps kids,” said Mike Smith, the owner.

“This is the only place we know of that’s doing this kind of stuff. We hope it inspires other cities to do the same.”

And these community ambitions all began with Smith.

DROPPING IN

Four and a half years ago, Smith got a phone call from Edge 64, a now defunct skatepark in Lincoln.

The park had closed and the owners needed to find someone to take the ramps and warehouse. Smith went and checked out the park, only to find the ramps in disrepair and a lack of space. He chose to decline their offer, but an idea was born.

“That was first time I saw the opportunity to create The Bay,” said Smith, who also works as a motivational speaker. “You know, create a youth facility that could house skateboarding, but also art and other forms of creativity: a place that community could care about.”

He went to Omaha and found another park that was soon going out of business. A month later, he owned a skatepark-sized amount of ramps.

“We got like $70,000 worth of lumber for about $6,000,” Smith said.

“It was quite the steal.”

They brought the ramps to a space in the Westfield mall and the first iteration of The Bay was created.

Money was in short supply, however.

Smith and his small staff had to find a way to work on a small budget.

“When they opened, he had a couple hundred dollars in his checking account and he owed the mall a couple thousand,” said Shayne Pearson, a staff member at The Bay. When Smith wanted to make the facilities a bit easier on the eyes, he thought of a workaround that would get the community involved.

“We couldn’t even afford paint for the walls, so we just found kids in Lincoln (who) had experience with graffiti,” Smith said. “I just pointed each of them to a wall and told them to do whatever they wanted.”

Four months in, The Bay ran into financial issues. In the hunt for fundraising ideas, his wife gave Smith a book about a man who lived under a bridge for a year.

“I didn’t even read it,” Smith said. “I just saw the idea and decided to do it.”

Smith set up a deal with Lincoln radio station KFRX, which would call him each day to hear about Smith’s experiences living under a local bridge. The fundraiser took place during winter, with degrees reaching -14 Fahrenheit the first night. The plan worked, taking 27 days to raise $10,000, which helped The Bay keep its doors open.

Despite the lengths Smith was willing to go to in order to keep The Bay going, their first location, which

Smith referred to as the “Beta” Bay, brought problems.

“We had taken what was a sporting goods store and slapped it together into a skatepark,” Smith said.

“And we ran it that way for a couple years.”

One of the biggest problems: They didn’t have restrooms.

“We built good enough relationships with the stores next to us, luckily,” said Connor Schueth, a staff member. “They let us use their bathrooms. I’m not sure what else we would’ve done.”

The mall setting also resulted in the contrast of skaters and mall security guards. Like cats and mice, the groups didn’t always mesh.

“There was a couple of clashes here and there,” Pearson said. “Overall, though, it ran pretty smoothly.”

Eventually, though, the staff realized the scope of their ideas, including artistic and community investment, were too big for the mall. The mall also closed at 9 p.m., which pushed kids back out onto the streets. That was when they found an old motorcycle repair shop at 2005 Y St.

GRINDING IT OUT

After finding a location that fit their vision, the Bay staff encountered a whole new set of the problems – the most pressing being the design of the new park.

“For six months prior to starting to build, Mike would always sit in coffee shops and draw up designs, always saying ‘It’ll look just like this!’ until he’d change it up again,” Pearson said.

The park is 16,000 square feet, 10,000 bigger than their space at the mall. From the get-go, the team wanted to design a park with structural influences from the street.

“That’s the direction skate park design has been going,” Pearson said. “We’re moving away from the huge Tony Hawk-style ramps and more toward natural design.”

After finally designing the park, the team began construction last September.

“From September until two weeks ago, it was 12 hour days and long nights, and not enough sleep and too many Red Bulls,” Pearson said. “It was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but it was super rewarding, and the whole time we knew what it would be in the end.”

Last October, with only a small portion of the park built, they had professional skateboarder Ryan Sheckler come and put on a demonstration. He drew large crowds, and gave The Bay momentum to continue building the park.

The hard work came to fruition on March 8, when The Bay opened its doors to the public. Charging $5 for skaters to ride all day, the park has made a splash in its two weeks of business. Riders have come from all over, from Kansas City to Denver, to check out The Bay. “We even had a family come down from the Canadian border just to skate here,” Pearson said. “It’s been so cool.”

But even with the ramps in use, The Bay is still a work in progress.

Shane Adams executes a kickflip off the bank of The Bay, which just opened March 8. Owner and founder Mike Smith said he hopes the park may soon feature live musical performances and a coffee shop.

Jackson Greco (left) gets the scrape on his arm checked out by Treyson Russell while inside the skate park. Before housing The Bay, the building was most recently a motorcycle repair shop.

HELMETS AND PADS

Throughout mental and physical construction of The Bay, there has been a constant theme: helping kids out.

“I’m a believer that we were all created to do something,” Smith said. “And that’s been the big, driving force behind a lot of this. I believe I was created to do something, and when I started work on The Bay, I realized this is exactly what I should be doing. Whether it’s for one more

month or the rest of my life, I want to be doing this with everything I’ve got.”

Smith said he believes this is the way he can make the biggest impact on Lincoln and on kids in general.

One of the problems, however, came with the high percentage of boys that skateboard versus girls.

“Skateboarding is predominantly made up of boys, so we wanted something that girls could enjoy, too,” Pearson said.

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Skaters take a break and watch some friends skate around the park Wednesday. The Bay is open from noon to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

We couldn’t even afford paint for the walls, so we just found kids in Lincoln (who) had experience with grafitti.”

Mike Smith the bay owner

That’s where The Bay operators think the art gallery comes in. The park is currently building an art gallery in their building where Lincoln

students can have their work displayed.

Brian McCain is the director of media and arts at The Bay, and has

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this week in film At the Ross: “Stoker”

directed by:

Park Chanwook when: • Friday — 4:50 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:10 p.m.

• Saturday — 12:30 p.m., 2:40 p.m.

• Sunday — 12:30 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7 p.m.

“Like Someone in Love”

directed by: Abbas Kiarostami when: • Friday — 4:55 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:35 p.m.

• Saturday — 12:15 p.m., 2:35 p.m.

• Sunday — 12:15 p.m., 2:35 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:15 p.m.

New In Theaters: “Host”

directed by: Andrew

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Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel

“Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor”

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Tyler Perry Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross, Kim Kardashian

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DN Weekend Pick: “Spring Breakers”

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3D printing brings difficult, yet familiar copyright questions cameron mount dn Technology has revolutionized almost every industry, making more and more of our daily lives part of a digital universe. Now, with 3D printing technology quickly gaining force, even physical products may become downloadable, hack-able and share-able commodities.

Pharmaceutical companies and consumer goods manufacturers already make use of the technology, and with a Gartner report recently predicting that enterprise-class 3D printers will be less than $2000 by 2016, the technology is poised to become ubiquitous in the not-so-distant future.

But the future of the technology could potentially collide with copyright and other principles of originality.

“There are lots of different kinds of 3D printing,” said Jeff Thompson, an assistant professor of digital arts and new genres at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, about the growing presence of the technology that often flies over the public eye. “From motorized hot glue guns that extrude plastic to inkjet printer heads which deposit thin layers of glue on powder to build up a print to vats of resin cured by images from a digital projector. 3D printers are being made in huge factories and in basement workshops.”

While such technology was science fiction a few years ago, some of the more innovative aspects are appearing increasingly close at hand.

“In his book ‘Fab,’ Neil Gershenfeld talks about a 3D printer that makes objects that, when they wear out, can be recycled back into the printing medium and reused,” Thompson said. “It sounds like sci-fi, but so did smartphones, space flight, and a lot of other technologies.”

While the spread of 3D printing may not be a revolution in itself, Thompson said it’s the segments of the upward trend itself he finds so exciting.

“It might be a utopian view, but tiny steps aren’t really innovation,” he

said. “Anything that lets people make amazing, useful, or even dumb things is exciting and empowering.”

And because the technology is so new, Thompson said the immediate response has been unduly negative, and time will work out many of its criticisms.

“3D printing won’t replace traditional manufacturing in the next year or five years, but it also isn’t a new technology,” he said. “It’s more like two-dimensional digital printing. When it first became available, printing digitally was specialized and expensive. Now we can’t imagine not owning an inkjet printer, and when it breaks it’s cheaper to throw it out and buy a new one. I see 3D printing as having that same possibility.”

Now, an explosion of that technology could drastically affect conceptions of copyright. Take one of the most popular open-source items on 3D digital design portal Thingiverse: a bust of Yoda, which has evaded copyright action on the site for two years.

Ben Welstead, of the Lincoln screen-printing company Basement Ink, has become familiar with copyright considerations in his six years with the company. His two main reasons for getting involved in the business reflect appreciation for original, meaningful artistry.

“First, I had been traveling to Haiti, and thought that shirts would be a great way to raise funds to help support orphans and medical needs in the area we were visiting,” Welstead said.

“Secondly, when opportunities arose to print shirts for youth, there weren’t a lot of options for finding designs that weren’t, in my words “lame”, or blatant rip-offs of brand names and logos.

I wanted relevant shirts for youth that also expressed original art.”

Basement Ink is part of the Print Shop Collective at 33rd and B streets, which also houses the Little Mountain Print Shoppe and Love Equals photography. While its mission demands attention to new technologies, Welstead said the mission itself is top priority.

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Welstead, the founder of Basement Ink, shares the shop with Joe Horacek, founder of Little Mountain Print Shop. The duo has made shirts for Honest Abe’s Burgers and Freedom, West Lincoln Elementary School and New Covenant Church, among others. art, and take great pride in always pushing ourselves not to imitate but to simply create something beautiful,” Welstead said. “While we embrace new technology that helps us achieve these goals, at some point you have to draw a line if you are going to keep your business from becoming just like everyone else.”

Still, many customers come in to the store misunderstanding copyright laws, suggesting that 3D printing may further complicate matters.

“We get a lot of people that come to us and say ‘Hey, can you make this shirt but put my business or church name on it instead?’” he said. “And I say, ‘Sure, but we’d be breaking some laws, and wouldn’t you rather we create something together, that only you have and no one else?’”

In cases like this, Welstead appeals to the payoff of originality.

“A common request is to print shirts using the ‘Got Milk?’ slogan,” he said. “This campaign started run-

ning back in 1993. Do we really need to use something that was someone else’s creation two decades ago? Let’s draw up something fresh and original.”

In terms of how the 3D technology could be incorporated into daily life, Welstead expressed excitement for the myriad artistic and commercial possibilities.

“That, I can’t even wrap my head around,” he said. “Hypothetically speaking, if I had a printer in my house and wanted a new cover for my iPhone, I could purchase plans, print out the cover and slap it on my phone.

Maybe I needed a part for my broken dishwasher: get the plans, print it off, and I’m good to go. The possibilities are endless, really.”

For his own business, too, Welstead said he was open to the creative potential.

“Although it’s somewhat scary to think about such a new radical technology becoming commonplace, I do

see it as an interesting medium for artistic purposes,” he said. “In screen printing we work in two-dimensional art or at least the illusion of three-dimensional art. Printing something out in 3D opens an entire new door to really let the mind wander and create.”

That said, Welstead maintained that the openness of 3D printing technology shouldn’t take away conceptions of fair ownership.

“With the advent of Napster and the ability to freely download anyone’s art and property, I think it was the first time my generation had to check ourselves and look at what we were doing to the music industry,” he said. “Not only just to the industry, but to the artist creating the music.

Maybe I have a different view on this as an artist, but if I went online and saw my work being thrown around without my knowledge or permission, it would infuriate me.”

As access increases, Welstead said industries will have to negotiate the best way to respond.

“We will certainly go through a new phase of copyright infringement with this technology,” Welstead said. “People will start selling Hobbit figurines on Etsy and might not even think it’s illegal and immoral to do so.

But just like music, there will be ways that the industry will be brought back into check as much as possible.”

According to Thompson, though the landscape will change dramatically, the creative advantages and freedoms will strongly outweigh these concerns.

“Copyright is and has always been a moving target,” he said. “As someone who believes firmly in the benefits of an open culture, the idea that we could share three-dimensional objects online, print them for our own use, hack and remix them into new forms, and re-post the results is very exciting. Any steps toward taking ownership of objects, images, and media is positive.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

Online anonymity, communication make room for snark boom andrew larsen dn There’s no question the Internet has irrevocably changed the way humans communicate.

Any lingering argument between friends can be settled with a quick Google search. Texting, instant messaging and FaceTime are all distinct option in lieu of talking in-person.

But the web’s evolutionary tendencies with regard to communication aren’t necessarily uniform. They’ve illuminated and expanded one of the fundamental ways we interact with one another: through sarcasm.

According to livescience.com, sarcasm isn’t just a silly way to while

away the time with friends, it has an important biological function.

“People with dementia, or head injuries in that area, often lose the ability to pick up on sarcasm, and so they don’t respond in a socially appropriate ways,” writes Meredith F. Small of Live Science. “This is a pathology, which in turn suggests that sarcasm is part of human nature and probably an evolutionarily good thing.”

Pschologytoday.com examines the linguistic roots of sarcasm.

“The origin of the word sarcasm is derived from the Greek word “sarkazein,” which literally means to tear or strip the flesh off,” writes Clifford N. Lazarus of Think Well.

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shouldn’t be much of a surprise to our current generation, who frequently take to social media outlets like Twitter to rip whatever’s currently trending.

During last month’s Oscar broadcast, web magazine Slate created a “Snark Machine,” which kept updates streaming in from critics and comedians while they lambasted the ongoing proceedings.

According to University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior film studies and Spanish major Matthew Mejstrik, sarcasm has become a foundation of his friendships, both online and off.

“It happens in normal conversations. For the relationships I’m in, half of one conversation could potentially be sarcastic. Both of us know that it will be sarcastic, so we just go off on each other and try to keep it going.”

Mejstrik also noted the “slippery slope” that could come with excessive snark, where relationships become so entrenched in that style that it can be hard to adjust.

“It’s a way of joking around, but if you don’t have that type of relationship and try to do it there could be a miscommunication,” he said.

And that type of miscommunication can be especially problematic online, where the cyber wall can act as a barrier to the way people might otherwise openly communicated during personal interactions.

Ian Snyder, a senior film and new media major, spoke to what he said he sees as problems for effectively communicating online. Out-of-control sarcasm can stretch itself into rudeness.

“Online you can have anonymity, so people are more inclined to write whatever they feel like. There’s a lot less accountability for what you say online,” Snyder said.

Matt Waite, a professor of practice at the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications is quick to point out that just like anything in life, the way we act online has its highs and its lows. Waite said increased visibility made possible online plays a significant role in what we might only now consider to be negative patterns and trends in online discourse, mentioning UNL Haters specifically.

natalia kraviec | DN “Are stupid racist/sexist things from students on the rise, or are we just able to see what was already there now because of Twitter and Facebook?” he asked. “We should be careful to conflate visibility with a trend … for every idiot racist tweeting garbage, there’s an Arab Spring using the Internet to organize and reject a dictator.”

The average social interaction may not be concerned with toppling dictators or being as controversial as possible, but simply friends utilizing another way to share their lives, using snark and sarcasm as tools in that endeavor.

Sophomore film studies and English major Eric Holt cited conflicting feelings on how sarcasm is used in the cyber sphere, as opposed to in person.

“There’s a pretty healthy portion (of sarcasm) in both settings,” Holt said. “It’s harder to discern online, but the internet has also made it easier because you have that anonymity factor so it gives you liberty to be as sarcastic as you want.”

While snark may be more at the forefront now, Waite acknowledged

that it’s been around for a long time.

“Shakespeare is loaded with snark and dirty jokes,” he said. “The early days of America were filled with pamphleteers who wrote all kinds of crazy things about rival politicians. So it’s not like snark and sarcasm are new. (However,) what is new are social networks that allow us to see every time one of our friends uses snark or sarcasm, instead of us having to be there to hear it.”

And so far as exposure is a part of the battle in shaping our own online presences, Waite cautioned that once everyone follows a trend, there’s little room left for creation and innovation.

“Every great leap forward in communication technology has increased both the good and the bad,” he said.

“The Internet is no different, it’s just made it faster and easier. Hopefully, we’ll all realize that when everyone is being snarky, then no one is being snarky and we’ll find something better to do with our social networks.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @

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David Harrison rolls out of a smith grind Wednesday at The Bay. The skate park has future aspirations of holding a concert hall in one of the unfinished rooms in the building.

The Bay also serves as a designated Safe Place, which allows youth a place to go should they be facing a moment of crisis. A spot has been set aside where a kid is able to stay for up to a month, if they should need it.

“That’s what this is all about,” Pearson said. “Giving back.”

The Bay is planning on offering free art lessons and installing a stage for concerts. Lincoln-based Precision Skateboards will be moving their shop to The Bay, and there’s talk of putting in a coffee shop. And

this should all be open by next fall.

“We’re calling it ‘phase two,’” Smith said. “It’s a big undertaking, but I’m not someone who overthinks anything, so it’s easy to be day-to-day about it.”

Pearson agreed, mentioning the focus should remain on the kids.

“Whatever kids stay up dreaming about at night, we want to find a way to help them achieve it,” he said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @ dnartsdesk

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cameron mount Proving just how little you can predict in film and television, “Veronica Mars” may have just revolutionized both industries.

In a mere 10 hours, the cancelled-too-soon series starring Kristen Bell reached its $2 million Kickstarter goal to finance a “Veronica Mars” feature film. As of now, with sixteen days still to go, $4.14 million has been raised.

Now, fan support routinely outweighs the realities of corporate funding. “Arrested Development” and “Firefly” top the television examples, and cult classic films like “Fight Club” and “Office Space” flopped at their releases.

While the mighty voice of the internet has managed to push some projects, like the “Arrested Development” revival, into fruition, it’s typically an angry song-and-dance with nothing to show in the end.

Kickstarter proves once again that money talks.

But Warner Bros., who will distribute and market the film, doesn’t need $2 million. It’s pocket change for them. And this is where things get tricky.

Warner Bros. merely needed to be convinced that “Veronica Mars” was a profitable film to back. The 6,200 backers (averaging a $66 contribution) certainly proved that. It cost $35 for a digital version of the movie, a t-shirt and a PDF of the movie script, as well as “behindthe-scenes” updates. $6,500 lets you name a character and $10,000 gave you a line in the movie (specifically, “Your check, sir”).

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Mars” isn’t the anI'LL HAVE WHAT HE'S swer“Veronica to any crowdsourcing quesjust another piece of how WATCHING tions, big this boom will be. Kickstarter’s more independent-rooted success stories are increasing as well: Oscar-winner “Inocente” raised $52,000 on the site, and big names like Charlie Kaufman and David Fincher have financed their own exist as well, the concept of the risk falling on the public while the Kickstarter short films.

Kickstarter isn’t going to stop reward goes to big studios hardly seems ideal for the latter party. the reign of studios, but almost as importantly, it is shifting the pubKickstarter, the do-it-yourself paralic’s relationship with media proddise for the little man, is becoming ucts. If the “Veronica Mars” story is a corporate machine. successful, studios will be looking The only “Veronica Mars” Kickstarter option that includes seeing to the passion of audiences rather the movie in theaters is the $5,000 than the number of individual ticket sales. to rent out a theater in your homeThe “Scary Movie” franchise town. What that means for ticket continues to make money because sales when the movie premieres it appeals to a wide swath of the will help determine the project’s population. Its audience doesn’t success. If the would-be theater auget passionate about the next redience stays home with their digital download, this approach will lease; they’re looking for safe, straightforward have to be retooled. entertainment, and In an interview with Kickstarter’s they get it.

TechCrunch, “VeIf the passion of ronica Mars” creator incentives internet campaignRob Thomas called the path to this program becomes ing, however, were to decide what gets Kickstarter deal was suspiciously funded, the kinds of “labor intensive” films in production and that “to pitch symbolic in would look quite a movie to a studio instances like different. Add in that buys it is clearly creative incentives: ‘Veroinca Mars.’” the simpler way.” background roles, All this makes naming rights and a for a round-a-bout way to a revolution. Studio backing say on exactly where in production is still the simplest way to the big your money goes, and filmmaking screen, and by requiring fans to es- becomes uniquely interactive.

There will, of course, be grumsentially pay twice to see a movie in theaters, Kickstarter’s incentives blings as Kickstarter moves further program becomes suspiciously into the mainstream, supporting the big studio paydays the website symbolic in instances like “Veronica Mars”. Sure, the extra funds are once seemed to fight against. Although the changes the site brings helping production value – better about will be more subtle than a locations, more elaborate sets – but full-on upheaval, creatively speakwas it necessary for the entirety of ing, film fans owe Kickstarter their production costs to be crowd-funded? What precedent does it set for attention. cameron mount is a future projects: that studios need senior english education to see $4 million out of the public’s major. reach him at arts@ pockets before they back it? dailynebraskan.com

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record, but will have to fight for the win.

Sophomore Izabella Zgierska said that because Penn State is The Husker women are searchranked, they must take the opporing for a turn-around at Penn State tunity to move up the rankings.

Sunday. They hope to redeem “They are an opportunity for themselves from their rather messy us to move on,” Veresova said. spring break.

The Husker women know that After two spring break upsets they teeter on the edge of ending against Oklahoma State and San Diego, the normally consistent their season with a bang or going out as a bust. There Nebraska team are only six more went crashing It made us matches scheduled from the No. 6 pobefore the Big Ten sition. realize we Championships “Up until begin. Their goal spring break, we can’t win every this entire season had barely lost any match.” has been to be the games,” senior Big Ten champion.

Patricia Veresova Penn State is an opsaid. “Looking at Patricia Veresova portunity for them Penn State, we are tennis player to come back out really hoping to and show that they win.” won’t back down.

Currently, the “We’ve had a good season unHuskers are ranked No. 12. til spring break,” Zgierska said.

Penn State, a Big Ten competi“It made us aware that we have to tor, sits at the No. 30 position and continue to really (take) care and is looking to advance. They will work hard. We have to take every soon become one of the few highmatch and make it count.” ly ranked teams the Huskers will Practices for the women face during their 2013 season. were held inside this week, even “We don’t expect to win, but though their last matches were we always do the best we can,” Veresova said. “Losing those two played outdoors. It was time for the women to refocus and become matches was an eye opener. It prepared for Penn State. made us realize we can’t win ev“After our two losses, we supery match.” port each other with everything.

Penn State may be 18 positions We fight for our team and for away from the Husker women, each other. We look forward to but their record tells a story their playing Penn State and will come national ranking doesn’t: They’re pretty good. In fact, their team re- prepared to play our best for the win,” Zgierska said. cord is currently 11-2 and 1-2. sports@ Nebraska no doubt wants to dailynebraskan.com add another loss to Penn State’s

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Nebraska tennis player Patricia Veresova runs to a ball at the Nebraska Tennis Center. The Huskers are looking to improve after a poor spring break.

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This meet will not be scored kaylee everly | dn and only a few athletes from each team will compete. DurNU track and field coach Gary Pepin speaks with an athlete at ing the beginning of the season, the Bob Devaney Sports Center. His team opens the outdoor teams send athletes who have season this weekend. not had much experience in competition to the early meets, and most of the Husker arsenal here,” Blackwood said. were also ranked on the men’s will remain at home during the side, and four women’s teams The Huskers traveling will weekend to train. compete against athletes from made it in the top 20 ranking.

Coach Gary Pepin is not as No. 2 Arkansas, No. 19 MinnesoTexas A&M received the top concerned about the beginning ranking for the men’s teams and ta, No. 13 Oklahoma, Drake, and meets, but the comKansas State received the top Wichita State. petition will heat up, ranking for the women’s teams.

The HuskI will be along with the weathThese rankings are mostly based ers competed er, in April, he said. on the indoor season. against Minmissing One of the athletes Despite the solid team ranknesota at the who will stay behind that event, ings, Pepin doesn’t like to dwell Arizona State is Jodi-Rae Black- unfortunately to I n v i t a t i o n a l on the Huskers starting spot. He wood. He competed chooses to focus on getting his last week. in the last meet the train more here.” athletes ready for each meet they The Gophers Huskers attended and compete in. As an experienced will be the Jodi-Rae won the event title in coach, Pepin knows everything only other Big the 400-meter hurdles.

Blackwood Ten school in can change by the end of the seaBlackwood is eager to track athlete son. attendance go to more meets and “A lot of teams haven’t even at the invitacompete, but he’ll stay had a competition where their tional. and wait for when it’s whole team was there yet,” PeThe women checked in at his time. pin said.

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Husker point guard Lindsey Moore shoots over defenders at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Moore is trying to extend her Nebraska career with a win over Duke Sunday. in the second half to beat Oklahoma State 68-59 on March 26.

Led by eight players who average double-digits in scoring and create high defensive pressure, Duke is a favorite to make it to the Final Four in multiple expert brackets, but it will have to get through a hot, confident Nebraska team first.

“They play in a tough conference, and they have a lot of weapons out there, and they’re gonna be tough for us to guard, but I think that we can do it.” guard Lindsey Moore said. “I’m confident in the way we’re playing right now.”

Moore, who had 20 points, 10 assists and six rebounds in Nebraska’s win over Texas A&M, has been the main catalyst of Nebraska’s success, according to Yori.

“Lindsey is doing what Lindsey does,” the coach said.

Surrounding Moore are hot

Lindsey is doing what Lindsey does.”

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shooters like Jordan Hooper (21 points in the Texas A&M win) who aid a Nebraska offense that has scored 73 and 72 points in the tournament so far.

“I think we’re playing our best basketball right now,” said Moore, the starting point guard on the 2009 team that made it to the Sweet Sixteen. “I think we’re more able to play more loose and more free.”

Duke’s high defensive pressure could startle Nebraska, but Moore and her team won’t shy away easily. They’re not ready for this run, or this season, to be over

quite yet.

“We know this team is special and we want to prove to everyone why it’s so special,” Moore said.

“We want to keep going and see where our limits are and see how far we can go in the tournament.”

For Yori, those limits are a mystery.

“Can we be a final four team this year? I think it’s a little bit more of a stretch (than the 2009 team), but I do think the way things are going, you just don’t know.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Revelle says her team’s goal is to win the Big Ten Championship Josh Kelly dn The Nebraska softball team begins a seven-game road trip with its second conference series of the season this weekend. The Huskers travel to Urbana, Ill., to face Illinois at Eichelberger Field – the first time that the program has played in the state of Illinois.

Because of the field conditions, the teams will play a doubleheader at 1:00 p.m. Saturday and will finish out the series at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

For sophomore Mattie Fowler, conference play is an exciting part of the season.

“I’m really excited for the freshmen heading into the Big Ten,” she said. “We had an exciting series with Northwestern last year, and it followed through again last week.”

Nebraska coach Rhonda Revelle believes conference play is a huge test for her squad leading up to the postseason.

“The conference is a lot stronger this year, and there’s a lot more intensity, and it’s about competing for a championship,” Revelle said.

Illinois is currently 10-15 overall and began conference play last weekend by getting swept by Wisconsin.

The Huskers have had recent success against the Illini, sweeping them last year in Lincoln at Bowlin Stadium, when Nebraska outscored Illinois 20-2. Although the Huskers drove in 20 runs in the series, the total batting average for the team was only .217, while Illinois went .106 against the Husker pitching staff.

Last weekend was also Nebraska’s first conference series of the season. The team faced Northwestern, and Revelle’s squad took both games in the series, including a walk-off in the first game and a 14-1 win against the Wildcats.

Juniors Taylor and Tatum Edwards have been huge for the

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Shortstop Mattie Fowler tosses the ball back to pitcher Emily Lockman earlier this year. The Huskers are up to No. 19 in the national rankings this week.

Huskers as of late. Both helped Nebraska defeat in-state rival UNO. Tatum came in to relieve freshman Emily Lockman and notched six strikeouts in the final three innings to help give her team a shutout. She is currently riding a seven-game winning streak while Taylor went 2 for 2 on the game with a home run and two walks, giving her 93 on her career - the most walks in school history through three years.

This Sunday’s matchup, the last game of the series, will air on the Big Ten Network at 11:30 a.m.

It’s a standard that we’re setting for the program.” rhonda revelle softball coach

It will be the first televised game of the Husker softball season.

The Huskers are currently ranked 19th in the country - no big deal to the team.

“We haven’t focused on the rankings,” Revelle said. “We noticed it the first time we were

ranked this season, and I told them it’s a standard that we’re setting for the program. We’re just working on getting better each day and anyone can put a number next to us.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska volleyball player Morgan Broekhuis celebrates after winning a point. The Huskers open the spring indoor season Saturday. on Saturdays too.”

Broekhuis claims everyone on the team is excited – along with Husker Nation.

“I know we’re all excited, I know Husker Nation is fired up, so I think everyone is,” she said.

“The newbies, the new freshman, our transfers – they’re excited to kind of get a feel of what Husker game day is like.”

This Saturday, Cook looks forward to seeing the squad playing in front of a crowd. This game will get the newcomers a chance to show what they have along with it being a situation where the team can get all the nerves and butterflies out of the way. Once they have cooled down, he hopes they will be playing good volleyball by late April.

“I think the biggest thing on Saturday is just to get us back in playing, get us in front of a crowd,” he said. “We have a lot of new players that haven’t been out there much. Now they’re going to go out there and perform. This is great preparation for us to get through the butterflies and nerves and just start working our way back to the end of our season. And

hopefully, by the end of April you know, we’re starting to play good volleyball.”

Broekhuis feels this spring season is based on improvement. Yesterday, the squad was finding out what works and what doesn’t work in practice.

“I think it’s a work in progress,” Broekhuis said. “I think all throughout this spring we’re going to be working through things. Today, some things clicked, and some things didn’t.

I think that’s going to be an ongoing process throughout our entire indoor season.”

This weekend, she couldn’t say how the Huskers matched up against the Coyotes. She said teams are different when you lose members. As for what the Huskers goal is, it’s to focus on their own team and play the good Nebraska volleyball they’re known for.

“We’re not really sure in the spring,” she said. “People are different teams, they lose what they had in the fall. So I think this game is more about us trying to focus on our side, and if we play good Nebraska volleyball, we should be good.” sports@ dailynebraskan

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Tennis player Eric Sock places a forehand shot at the Nebraska Tennis Center. Sock and the Huskers have a couple of their most challenging games this weekend in Ohio State and Penn State.

Outdoor matches make for NU edge Ohio State and Penn State present major hurdles for McDermott’s team Matt NAthan dn The Huskers take on Ohio State Friday and Penn State Sunday, both on Husker home turf.

Coach Kerry McDermott said Eric Sock, Sebastian Florczyk and junior Tom Blackwell were the most excited for the weekend.

“Those guys have all the experience in the Big Ten competition and played against them last year,” McDermott said. “They’re guys that can understand what the Big Ten is all about.”

Tom Blackwell had a different opinion. He feels everyone is excited for this weekend. He noted many of his American teammates have been around Big Ten competition their whole lives, many of them watching Big Ten events for many years.

“I think everyone is pretty of the more talented teams we’ve gone up against this year. Penn pumped,” he said. “I always get State has a bunch of grinders, guys really excited for Big Ten matches. I grew up in the United States that will work hard. I feel like our watching college sports. Playing team is a bunch of grinders … those big name schools, it’s al- hopefully we’ll be more positive than those teams. Be good or bad ways a big deal. A lot of the Americans are pretty excited. A lot of us in bad situations while we’re out there playare excited. Dusty (Boying.” er) from Minnesota, he T o m I could be grew up on Big Ten tenBlackwell nis. He’s probably really ten deep on pointed out excited too.” an advantage As for team rank- their team, and Nebraska has ings, Nebraska is far over both from Ohio State. In Big their No. 10 guy teams: They Ten play, the Buckeyes is very good. They play well in are 3-0; the Nittany Liand ons are 0-3. The Huskers just have so much indoor outdoor situare 0-2. depth.” ations.

McDermott made a “They’re courageous statement. kerry mcdermott (Ohio State) He claims the Huskers men’s tennis coach pretty good,” are harder workers than Blackwell Ohio State and Penn said. “There’s State. He did go on to say some positive things about not many places that they’re really lacking in this year. I think both teams.

Ohio State struggles in outdoors a “I’d like to say that we’re little bit. And we’re a good team harder workers than them,” McDermott said. “They’re pretty indoors and outdoors, Penn State is the same kind of deal. They talented (Ohio state). They’re one

play indoors most of the year, and I think we’re a little more versatile when it comes to playing indoors and outdoors. We have a pretty good young team and I think Penn State is pretty young as well, so it’ll be a pretty good matchup there.”

McDermott said Ohio State is a great team. The team has so many guys who are good, even it’s No. 10 guy.

“I don’t see there being a bigger challenge just because they’re a top 10 team,” he said. “I could be 10 deep on their team and their No. 10 guy is very good. They just have so much depth.”

On the other hand, Penn State is almost opposite of Ohio State.

McDermott said they’re probably not as talented, but they still will grind their way through and give everything they have.

“Penn State is not as strong, and you know they’re probably not as talented,” he said. “But they’re gonna come at you and play hard.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

then we come out and our pitchers are lights out through the first three weeks, and we can’t even hit the ball. It’s just one of those things where we finally got to put two and two together.”

Pitching, offense, defense – the team couldn’t seem to put any of the three elements together on a consistent basis over the past two weeks.

“You find ways to lose,” Erstad said. “Whether it’s on the mound and then we hit, or we pitch and we don’t hit, or the defense falls apart then it’s been really good. You just have to be hooked up the entire time.”

Although the last weeks didn’t go as Nebraska would have imagined, the players did come out of it learning new things about themselves.

“We lost a lot of games, but we gained the confidence knowing that we can play with anyone,” Pritchard said. “We know that we’re right there, we just haven’t jumped over that hump yet.”

And with the latest setback of senior Josh Scheffert, getting

over that hump won’t be any easier these upcoming weeks.

Since Nebraska’s rubber match against Illinois last Saturday, the Lincoln native has been sidelined with a hand injury.

“He just heard a pop,” Erstad said. “The swelling’s gotten down a bit. I’d imagine here within the next couple of weeks we’ll have him as a pinch-hit possibility.”

Regardless of the senior’s absence from the dirt, the Huskers can’t afford to go on anymore stretches of losing baseball.

If the team expects to be a contender for the conference title, the winning has to begin this weekend, Erstad said.

“We have to play well,” he said. “We have to shoot for one of those top two seeds in the Big Ten to position ourselves to make regionals. We’ve lost a ton of close games. We really have to focus in on the weekends and make sure our guys are healthy and ready to go. We just don’t have any room for hiccups right now.” sports@ dailyNebraskan.com

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Sophomore guard Tear’a Laudermill lays the ball up at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The Huskers beat No. 3 seed Texas A&M to advance to the NCAA women’s tournament Sweet 16.

nebraska to play duke in sweet 16 story by Chris Heady photo by Morgan Spiehs

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we had a chance to win (the Texas A&M) fter the Nebraska women’s basketball game.” team’s historic win over Texas A&M on In fact, Yori said she felt confident her March 25, the Huskers will now face No. 2 seed Duke in the Sweet Sixteen No. 6 seeded team could beat No. 3 seeded Texas A&M, a former Big 12 Sunday afternoon in Norfolk, foe.

Va. “We’ve obviously made The 74-63 win over the AgWhen you’re some big strides,” Yori said. gies Monday night advanced working “After starting 2-3 in the Big the Huskers to the third round of the NCAA Tournament for with 18 to 22 year- Ten, who would have thought we would be in the Sweet Sixjust the second time in school teen at this stage?” history and the first time since olds, you never Not many people. And 2009. A win over Duke would be know.” even less would pick Nebraska the furthest a Nebraska team has in their next matchup against Connie Yori ever pushed in the tournament, women’s basketball coach Duke. and coach Connie Yori wouldn’t The Blue Devils sport a 32-2 put a win past her team. record, one of their two losses “When you’re working with 18 to 22 year-olds, you never know exactly coming to Connecticut – the No. 1 seed in the what’s gonna happen,” Yori said Tuesday. Bridgeport region. Duke beat Hampton in its first-round game 67-51 and came from behind “There really weren’t a lot of folks that thought

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Baseball teams looks for second series win After taking two of three games from Illinois, NU plays Northwestern Nedu Izu DN The Nebraska baseball team isn’t happy with the numbers they put up in mid-March.

While students were away on vacation for spring break, the Huskers (8-15 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) went 3-6.

After playing 12 games on the road, Nebraska will host Northwestern (10-6, 2-1) in a three-game series starting Friday in their first Big Ten Conference homestand.

Erstad said his players are ready to play in front of the home crowd once again.

“It has been a long time away,” the Nebraska coach said with a grin. “I’m used to longer trips, and that was a long one. They’re definitely responding. Now we just have to take it that next level and be able to execute in crucial situations.”

The trip back to Lincoln couldn’t come soon enough, according to Husker outfielder Michael Pritchard.

With the team coming off a losing road trip, the junior said he and his teammates are hoping to show the fans that their bats are warming up as fast as the weather.

“We’re ready to get over it and get some wins at home,” the outfielder said. “We’re excited and it should be a good time at the park.”

Junior right-handed pitcher Christan DeLeon (2-2) will start game one for the Huskers against Wildcat right-handed pitcher

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our pitching staff is and how it’s all our offense,” he said. “And

The Nebraska volleyball team plays its first spring match this weekend. The Huskers will take on the South Dakota Coyotes at the NU Coliseum Saturday.

Even though practice has been going on for quite some time, the team is not close to where they want to be. Coach John Cook isn’t expecting to make a major mark this weekend.

“It’s taken us a while to adjust back, but each day we’ve gotten a little better,” he said. “But I’m not expecting us to set the world on fire this week.”

Senior right-side-hitter Morgan Broekhuis had a similar statement to Cook’s. She and the rest of the team just wants to compete.

“I think being our first game, we just want to get out there and get better,” she said. “Everyday we come in the gym, we’re trying to get better. That’s just the same

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Closer Dylan Vogt throws a pitch at Hawks Field. The Huskers have used him exclusively out of the bullpen this season.

Zach Morton (3-0). DeLeon currently leads the team with 40.0 innings pitched and enters the series second on the team with 19

strikeouts.

Although Nebraska’s best starter will take the mound to start the series, his 2.70 ERA will

mean nothing unless the bats can come alive as well, Pritchard said.

“Everybody in the preseason was talking about how terrible