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tuesday, march 5, 2013 volume 112, issue 114

Shall we dance?

Sticking the finish

DN endorses Sense for ASUN

Local tango club invites Lincolnites to join in the dance

Women’s gymnastics wins final home meet

Editorial board cites realistic, obtainable platforms

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ASUN hopefuls spar in final debate Conor Dunn DN

Caleb Larsen, a senior computer science major, poses in his kitchen with his 9 mm CZ 75 P-07 pistol. Larsen has been around guns his whole life, but he became a gun owner about a year ago. Larsen has the gun to protect himself and his wife, whom he met at a Bible group at UNL.

Student sentiment toward gun control remains mixed story by Daniel Wheaton | photo by Matt Masin

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aley Herzog’s gym class inside Omaha’s Millard South High School on Jan. 5, 2011, ended with a gunshot.

It was the first day of her last semester, the beginning to an end to her senior year. Then a shot rang out from the assistant principal’s office about 40 feet away.

Millard South senior Robert Butler Jr. had shot Assistant Principal Vicki Kaspar with his father’s Glock .40. Shortly thereafter, Butler took his own life.

Kaspar, who was supposed to hand Herzog and her graduating classmates their diplomas, died of her injuries hours after the shooting.

“I remember driving home and seeing a sunset, and I started to cry,” said Herzog, now a sophomore broadcasting major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “I thought about how (Kaspar) would never see one again.”

The shooting at Millard South and 2007 Westroads Mall shootings have added Nebraska to an ever-growing list of shootings in the U.S. And just like everywhere else, guns and gun rights prove to be a polarizing topic among UNL students. The gun-rights divide separates urban and rural, Republican and Democrat; gunowners and non-gun owners. In rural Nebraska and rural America,

guns are woven into the fabric of life — kept in the back of trucks and used for sport shooting and hunting. For other students, guns conjure the images of mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn. Student support for gun-control measures both locally and nationally is mixed.

Making a move on gun control

Last week, the U.S. Senate heard testimony for a bill that would ban assault weapons sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). And in January, Obama released a series of executive orders, and proposals for Congress, all aimed at reducing gun violence.

Included in these are increased funding for mental health services and more thorough background checks.

It’s illegal to carry a gun on UNL’s campus.

Last December, more than 300 college presidents contributed to the guns-in-America debate by signing a petition calling for President Barack Obama and Congress to pass legislation that would reduce gun violence. Presidents from three Nebraska colleges signed the letter: Nebraska Wesleyan University, Bellevue University and

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The final debate between parties vying for executive power in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska tested the feasibility of each party’s platforms Monday night.

Throughout the debate hosted by the University of NebraskaLincoln Honors Program, the Revive Party, Engage Party and Sense for ASUN candidates drilled each other with questions on the fiscal responsibility and effectiveness of their platforms.

Sense received criticism from Revive for its platform to gauge student opinion on creating smoking-designated areas around campus. In a previous debate, Sense said students who smoke outside of the smokingdesignated areas may have their N-cards taken as punishment.

Revive’s internal vice presidential candidate Sierra Allen, a junior marketing major, said she didn’t support the punishment.

“What if they have to take a test later?” she said.

Sense’s presidential candidate Blake Rostine agreed with Allen and said he doesn’t think Sense will execute the N-card punishment part of its platform.

“We’re listening to what students are saying,” Rostine said.

“We saw something that isn’t going to work, and we’re going to change it.”

Engage Party was criticized for its proposal to create a third Nebraska college prep program in South Omaha. Audience members asked how a program in South Omaha would benefit UNL students and why ASUN should be spending their money on students in Omaha.

Presidential candidate Eric Reznicek, a junior marketing and finance major, rebutted, saying Engage doesn’t plan to fund the program with student fees, but through grants and outside funding.

“We were all given an opportunity for a higher education,” Reznicek said. “Why would we want to disallow someone else that same opportunity?”

Engage’s internal vice presidential candidate Kaitlin Coziahr, a junior finance, economics and management major, came under fire for her role as ASUN’s communications chair.

Rostine, a junior German and political science major, said Coziahr has had a year to work on projects as communications chair and hasn’t been because she has been “saving them to campaign on.”

Coziahr argued there are lim-

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Perlman launches mysterious ‘Perls of Knowledge’ Cristina Woodworth DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman thinks “YOLO” is stupid.

On Feb. 25, Perlman started using his Twitter account to promote “Perls of Knowledge,” a new website featuring the chancellor in a series of short YouTube videos. Wearing a suit and seated in a leather-backed chair next to a model ship, Perlman learns how to use “YOLO.” He dispels student fears of a zombie apocalypse – “Not on my watch,” he said. And his “Kevin Bacon number” — it’s two, thanks to a former law school classmate. In one video, Perlman

It’s kind of difficult to control the chancellor when he wants to get something off his chest.”

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shows viewers how he really feels about the “Harlem Shake.”

The videos have many scratching their heads, but Perlman has remained fairly mum on the purpose of the whole thing.

“It is what it is,” he told the Daily Nebraskan on Monday night.

In addition to showing Perlman instagramming a stuffed

chick, the Perls of Knowledge website links to the UNL Office of Undergraduate Admissions website, a virtual tour of UNL and the official UNL website, leading some to believe the goal may be to attract future students to the university.

“You can probably infer that current students and future students are his intended audience,”

said Steve Smith, interim news director at UNL. Smith also said Perlman’s tweets might not be as out-of-character as some think.

“It’s kind of difficult to control the chancellor when he wants to get something off his chest,” Smith said. “He’s always had a little bit of a wild side in him.”

Smith said this side of the chancellor has been visible in the past, like when Perlman brought Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee to campus in 2005 to film the show “Tommy Lee Goes to College.”

Student reactions to this different side of the chancellor seemed

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UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman assures students there won’t be a zombie apocalypse in one of his “Perls of Knowledge” videos.

DN Voter’s Guide Check out DailyNebraskan.com today for an election guide to the 2013 Association of Students of the University of Nebraska races.

The guide will feature bio information for all executive and senatorial candidates on the March 6 ballot. The guide will also run in print on Wednesday. @dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan

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u.s. supreme court hears voting rights act appeal

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Mara Klecker DN The charged issue of racial discrimination was brought before the Supreme Court Wednesday in a case that challenged the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The case rose out of Shelby County, Ala., which is 85 percent white, according to 2011 Census Bureau data. The county is ask-

ing for the court to overturn Section 5 of the landmark civil rights legislation passed in 1965. The challenged section requires nine states — Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia — and select counties or communities in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, South Dakota, Michigan and New Hampshire, all with histories of

voting discrimination, to receive prior approval from the U.S. Department of Justice when implementing polling procedure laws.

The case sparked controversy over whether such laws are still needed in certain areas of the country and has become a part of a larger discussion of whether racism and discrimination remain primary issues for Americans. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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dn flashback March 5, 2002 Budget cuts affect some class choices

For some nontraditional students, the storm of budget cuts might blow over without leaving much of a mark.

But others won’t be quite as lucky.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln nontraditional students, such as those who are older or have families, often have different scheduling needs than traditional graduates or undergraduates.

Don Swoboda, dean of the Division of Continuing Studies, said night and evening classes might be trimmed down because of $8.3 million in budget cuts proposed by Chancellor Harvey Perlman on Feb. 5.

March 5, 1985 ‘Angels’ aid campus community I’d like to think that we’ve evolved past discrimination, but in all fairness I don’t think all people have.

There are still people in the South and even in the North, just because they can. The law should still be in place until we can see that there are no segregation desires between people.”

Bryan Hansen

I think we have evolved away from (racism), but I don’t think any harm could come from having these rules in place to make sure that we keep doing things the right way.” cassie Carney senior english major

I don’t think that our nation is entirely past racism, especially in a lot of southern states. I think any laws that are there to help protect the rights of minorities are really important, even if some people may think otherwise.”

Audrianna Davis junior broadcasting major

sophomore pre-health major

I think (Shelby County) should be released from federal regulation and allowed to run their own affairs.”

Gerald Friberg visiting student

I think that it’s good that we’ve evolved, but I feel that we still need those laws in place to make sure that other minority groups will have the same opportunities as other cultures.”

Rebecca Roberts senior child, youth and family studies major

I feel like we’ve definitely come farther since the ’60s, but I think there is a definite possibility of voting discrimination occurring in certain areas.”

Jordan Harper

People who have pondered a career in the military, yet paled at the thought of a crewcut, are in luck. A new service-oriented group on campus and sponsored by the U.S Airforce allows members to join with absolutely no military obligation.

Angel Flight, founded in 1954 at UNL, is a nationwide group of mostly college students dedicated to serving their campuses and communities.

Angel Flight members work with the Arnold Air Society (honorary Air Force ROTC cadets) in various philanthropic events.

March 5, 1915 ‘Prom’ to be social feature of the week

Arrangements for the Junior “Prom” Saturday, March 6th, to be held at the Rosewilde party house are now completed. The feature of the dance is to be the five-course dinner served before the dancing starts. The guests will be seated around tables decorated with lighted candles and shades and dozens of the prettiest flowers to be found, and with light from the candles casting dreamy shadows the dinner will be served while the best quartette in the stage sings enchanting music.

The committee reports that only eight more tickets are to be sold, so if you intend to go you must get busy and buy your ticket today, as they will all be gone by tonight.

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sophomore exploratory major

gun control: from 1 debate: from 1 the College of Saint Mary.

UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman told the Daily Nebraskan in January he did not have a chance to sign the letter and said he generally doesn’t sign petitions unrelated to university issues.

But Perlman made one thing clear.

“I am opposed to guns on campus,” he said.

UNL will host a panel discussion on guns and gun rights Tuesday night in the Nebraska Union Auditorium.

At UNL, students and faculty members who own guns may store them at the UNL Police Station in the 17th and R parking garage.

Ninety gun lockers are available, and 80 are currently being used, according to Assistant Chief of Police Charlotte Evans. Sgt. Jeffrey Hohlen said use of the lockers varies semester by semester.

“For some students it may sit there and wait for hunting season,” Hohlen said. “And for others it might come out every day because they trap shoot.”

The lockers have been available since the new station opened in 2004 as a mandate by University Housing for student weapon storage.

opposing views

Like most issues rooted in politics, parental influence and hometowns affect the views of students at UNL. Herzog said she’s always had a liberal view on guns. Herzog’s experience mirrors many others who grew up in an urban setting.

Her parents don’t own a gun, and her family doesn’t hunt or shoot for sport.

“I had no idea how conservative Nebraska was until I got to Lincoln,” Herzog said.

She isn’t opposed to guns. She thinks background checks should be stricter and hopes there can be a discussion over mental health following repeated tragedies.

Colton Berck, a junior accounting major, grew up in Stromsburg: Population 1,171. As a child, Berck went hunting with his father and other friends. For several years, his dad even maintained a small shop attached to their house where he would sell guns.

“Guns have just been a normal part of my life,” Berck said.

On recent controversies, he said he considers himself “more of a spectator.” He’s used to hear-

ing people back home draw quick conclusions fearing reductions in their gun rights. After Sandy Hook and Aurora, he thinks people who fear the government is going to take away their guns are missing the point.

“I don’t think people have really absorbed what is happening,” said Berck, who doesn’t agree with knee-jerk reactions to proposed gun regulations.

Andreas Allen, a lobbyist for the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association, shares Berck’s smalltown perspective. The NFOA advocates for the advancement of gun culture in Nebraska. Allen has lobbied for a Nebraska bill that opposes any federal action that would limit access to assault rifles.

His father was a police officer and was familiar with the weapons he had. Allen realized guns were important after witnessing the county sheriff train his mother how to use a handgun for her safety. Allen believes improving mental health care could be more effective in reducing mass homicides than gun restrictions.

He believes the key to bringing people together on the gun debate is promoting gun safety. By demystifying guns, he hopes gun opponents will relax their views.

He said bringing sport shooting to cities would help people become more comfortable and safer with guns.

“You get to see what death really is, what really happens when you pull the trigger,” Allen said.

out in the open

Caleb Larsen, a senior computer science major, doesn’t hide his feelings on gun rights. Larsen has a concealed carry permit and an open carry permit. Sometimes

he wears his handgun on his hip.

“When I wear it, I’ve been asked if I’m a police officer,” Larsen said. “I think it’s kind of funny.”

Shortly after turni n g 21, he applied for the permits to legally purchase a handgun. Larsen said he hasn’t worn his gun recently, mostly because his wife doesn’t like what other people might think about him.

Larsen wants to send a message. With his gun out in the open, he believes he can deter crime.

“It’s just like when a police car drives by,” Larsen said.

He said he generally doesn’t get reactions when he wears his gun on trips to the grocery store and the bank. Nebraska state law permits individuals to open carry anywhere except for on school grounds or at school events. Gun owners can open carry a weapon in more places than they can carry a concealed weapon.

He supports the basic second amendment right to bear arms and believes individuals should be allowed to take them anywhere.

Larsen also thinks private businesses should have the right to choose whether they allow guns on their property.

The Second Amendment, he said, ensures personal defense and as a final defense against tyranny.

He doesn’t believe Obama is “going to take away everyone’s weapons,” but he is generally wary of government action that limits access to guns. Additionally, “sensationalist media attention” surrounding tragedies concerns Larsen because he said it glorifies the act and sometimes the gun.

“Don’t vilify the weapon,” Larsen said. “Vilify the villain.”

searching for solutions

Jon Duerschner agrees with Obama’s plans to limit gun violence. The freshman chemical engineering major said he supports the right to bear arms, but says making weapons more difficult to get could ensure guns don’t end up in the wrong hands.

“I think we have more regulations for who can drive a car than for owning a gun,” Duerschner said. “I think that’s pretty ridiculous.”

Like many others, he said he feels both sides of the discussion aren’t on the same page.

Duerschner blames the media for blowing some of the president’s gun-related proposals out of proportion. “He’s not taking all of the guns away,” said Duerschner, who described himself as cautiously optimistic about Congressional gun control efforts.

Nick Pestello, president of the UNL Rifle Club and a senior history and philosophy major, said he’s middle-of-the-road on gun issues though he.

Pestello joined the Rifle Club when he first came to UNL in 2009.

He supports resticting the online sale of ammunition, and he doesn’t support guns on campus.

But Pestello believes an assault weapons ban would do more harm than good.

“It won’t do anything to reduce violence,” Pestello said. “If you ban them, you will create a black market.”

Aside from the air rifle that he uses for the club, he recently purchased an AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle akin to the M16, a U.S. military assault rifle.

Pestello said teaching gun safety can help reduce the amount of violence.

Hearing the news about the Aurora and Newtown shootings brought back some emotions to Herzog, the Millard South alumna.

As witness to tragedy, she said she isn’t sure if people really understand her perspective. Shootings make Herzog think about the families of the shooter and of the dead.

But though gun violence took her assistant principal and injured her principal, she understands guns are just a part of American life.

“You never expect someone is going to shoot someone or take their own life,” Herzog said. “I think it will continue, but the best we can do is to not forget those times and do the best we can to raise awareness.”

Even opponents to gun control understand the gravity of weapons, and the need for more responsibility for gun owners.

“You can’t legislate responsibility, you have to teach it,” Allen said.

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The final ASUN debate between Engage, Revive and Sense parties was held in Neihardt Hall and moderated by the Honors Program on Monday. The debate consisted of general questions open to all parties, party-specific questions and questions from the audience. Voting for ASUN opens Wednesday morning.

itations to her job.

“I definitely wouldn’t say I’m saving anything,” Coziahr said. “I want you to understand that I am working on things. You may not see them right away, but they are being done.”

Revive Party was accused of promoting favoritism with its platform to return block seating to Husker games. External vice presidential candidate Sam Adams, a junior finance and economics major, said Revive believes its block seating platform will create an incentive for students to get involved on campus.

“It’s just to create a sense of community,” Adams said. “We want to reward the groups that are doing things on campus.”

But Engage’s external vice presidential candidate Jeff Story, a sophomore political science and English major and member of Phi Delta Theta, said block seating creates less of a community than Husker games already have.

“I don’t necessarily want to sit by another Greek person at an event,” Story said. “I like random seating because I get to meet new people.”

Sense’s internal vice presidential candidate Sarah Cast, a junior actuarial science major, agreed.

“How do you create a sense of community when you’re sitting next to the same people each week?” she said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Revamped Mall to offer interactive lessons Restored Centennial Mall to feature indepth Nebraska history information Mara Klecker DN In the next two years, Nebraska’s Centennial Mall — the seven-block strip that connects the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to the Capitol — will transform into a place to interact with Nebraskan history.

At last Friday’s Statehood Day celebration, the Nebraska Education on Location program unveiled its plans for an interactive information system that will enable Centennial Mall visitors to use QR codes to access a website with indepth information on the state’s history. The interactive technology program will be among the first to use QR codes in an outdoor venue in the United States, according to

campaign director Susan Larson Rodenburg. The educational program is a part of the larger Centennial Mall restoration project that will begin once the $9.6 million campaign goal is met.

The aesthetic side of the project, including fountains, landscaping and the “Spirit of Nebraska” pathway was announced last March.

The campaign currently has $7.7 million in financial commitments, Rodenburg said, and it hopes to reach project completion by 2015.

Rodenburg is looking forward to the end result.

“The center blocks, with the new educational component, will not only be beautiful and historical but also educational as well,” she said.

For Rodenburg, the restoration is long overdue. Since the construction of Centennial Mall in 1967, the space has become unsafe and unsightly, she said.

“It’s degraded; the steps have broken apart,” Rodenburg said.

“It’s not accessible.”

As a native to Lincoln, Rodenburg remembers visiting the mall and the Capitol as a little girl. Because of these memories, she wants to provide a meaningful interactive experience to the 35,000 fourth graders she said come annually to visit the State Capitol from all over Nebraska.

“We feel an obligation to be able to provide them an additional educational experience along the mall about the state,” she said.

“The mall and this new interactive education system will help bring history alive for visitors and students.”

Roger Ludemann, who helps with the project’s fundraising, is also looking forward to the educational program.

“It will allow the mall to be ‘active’ in its role as an educational tool in addition to being a beautifully done architectural project,” he said.

College students will also

He said he believes the educabenefit from the improvements, Rodenburg said. The north end of tional program will be beneficial to the mall will provide a place near a range of students, from prospective teachers who plan on working campus where students can access in the state to students who have an local Wi-Fi. interest in history.

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UNL students in susan rodenburg campaign director “We are very the mall’s restoraexcited about the tion. fact that we are “The space will close to transforming this area into provide outdoor social interactivity something that all Nebraskans can areas with local Wi-Fi access, inforbe very proud of,” she said. mation on Nebraska history and news@ a link to state government,” said dailynebraskan.com Ludemann.

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PERLMAN: from 1 to be mostly positive.

“I don’t have a clue what any of this stuff means, but I think it’s absolutely hilarious,” said Jon Feder, a junior philosophy major.

“Does he even know what he’s up to?”

Erik Nelson, a sophomore actuarial science and finance major, also said he has been enjoying Perlman’s tweets and videos.

“I do not know what Harvey Perlman is up to, but I find it humorous,” Nelson said. “I think it’s a good way for him to reach and connect with the student population.”

Nelson said he hasn’t heard anything negative about Perls of Knowledge from fellow students and said people have particularly been enjoying Perlman’s rendition of a “Harlem Shake” video.

Smith said the website and tweets could also just be a way to shake things up.

“Serious institutions don’t always have to take themselves so seriously,” he said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Sample Ballot General Election March 6, 2013

Association of Students of the University of Nebraska ❑ Brennan Andrews REVIVE ❑ Kelsey Baldridge SENSE ❑ Erin DuBois REVIVE ❑ Claire Eckstrom ENGAGE ❑ Jessica Francis SENSE ❑ Artie Goll REVIVE ❑ Cassie Kirkpatrick ENGAGE ❑ Shelby Kruse ENGAGE ❑ Chelsea Kubicek SENSE ❑ Billy Stock REVIVE Sam Adams REVIVE ❑ Lydia Wilke ENGAGE Anders Olson SENSE ❑ _________________________ Jeff Story ENGAGE ❑ _________________________ _________________________ ❑ _________________________ ❑ _________________________

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Distribution of Student Fees collected from each full-time student per semester for the fiscal year 2012-2013

Do you approve of $4.49 of your student fees being collected to support UPC (University Programming Council)?

Do you approve of $3.06 of your student fees being collected to support the Lied Center Discounts program (50% off student tickets)?

Do you approve of $148.98 of your student fees being collected to support the operation of the University Health Center?

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Do you approve of $88.21 of your student fees being collected to support the Nebraska Unions?

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Sense for ASUN provides most realistic platform »Editor’s » Note: Editorial Board member Hailey Konnath, who lives with Sense for ASUN presidential candidate Blake Rostine, sat in on the board meeting but didn’t vote or speak in favor of or against any party.

With three parties on the ballot, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska 2013 campaign season has given students more than enough platforms to think about when they head to MyRed to vote on Wednesday. They range from simple initiatives to vague promises to ridiculous notions.

Candidates have debated their plans to improve the university on four occasions. But after all the arguments have ended, students must face the reality of each party’s promises.

All but one of the Daily Nebraskan’s editorial board members, excluding Konnath, believe that Sense for ASUN provides the most realistic, achievable and desirable platforms for UNL’s student government. The party’s plans regarding sustainability — creating a committee for student-led sustainability research, establishing a green revolving loan fund and making ASUN meetings paperless — are achievable and cost effective. Sense has specific plans on increasing involvement of international students in ASUN by translating bylaws into multiple languages. And the party’s other platforms, like gauging (and listening to) student opinion on establishing designated smoking areas on campus, are all feasible as well.

It almost seems pointless to argue some of Revive Party’s unrealistic platforms, but we will. Revive Party offers students a decidedly Greek-flavored array of platforms, such as bringing block seating back to Husker games and making volunteering a requirement for all students. Both platforms would be peachy for the one-fifth of the student population that’s involved in Greek organizations, but they wouldn’t serve non-Greek students. Further, Revive’s plan to privatize Housing and Career Services represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the way a land-grant public university operates. Often, Revive reaches too far beyond the powers of student government with ideas such as making college more affordable — the entire country has yet to solve that conundrum — and instilling community service requirements on the student body. If Revive is elected and finds that its platforms are unachievable, the executives will be forced to pursue another set of unforeseen goals that didn’t get the go-ahead from students.

Then there’s Engage Party. The candidates present some admirable ideas, including increasing student involvement in ASUN, creating more of a community feel among RSOs and increasing communication between ASUN and the student body. But those ideas should be integrated into the student government regardless of party. They’re no-brainers, and to present them as the lifeblood of Engage’s platform without many specific plans to achieve them is a cop-out. The more specific platform of creating a South Omaha college prep program would be a large expense that wouldn’t directly benefit students.

All the parties have plenty of platforms, but Sense is the only party that’s proved it can follow through on them. If students are looking for that kind of accountability in their student government, they should vote for Sense on Wednesday.

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Celebrities influence diplomacy

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ince when did basketball and politics go hand-in-hand? We all know that American culture is idolized and constantly watched in our country, along with numerous foreign countries. As an example, I can imagine that reruns of “Seinfeld” are still being played in many foreign countries today as a popular sitcom. But has the relationship between culture icons and political figures gone too far?

Hall of fame basketball player Dennis Rodman recently returned from a trip from North Korea after talking to the 28-year-old dictator, Kim Jong Un. According to CNN, Rodman said Kim Jong Un is “a good friend,” and “doesn’t want war.” So can we, as Americans, trust these celebrities? Should we use our culture as a bargaining chip to interact with societies that are heavily regulated and reclusive?

If celebrities are the only way to gain information from unpredictable governments that can help protect national security and relations with these hostile countries, then I don’t see a problem with it. If you look at this scenario with Rodman, he made it farther into North Korea than any member of our press had in decades — without getting arrested, of course. And somehow now, Rodman and Kim Jong Un after a late night soiree, are bros. Despite the legal problems Rodman has had in the past, we have to take his information from Kim Jong Un seriously or we may be making some serious mistakes.

Rodman isn’t the first to visit other leaders.

Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez visited Fidel Castro, Charles Lindbergh talked to Adolf Hitler, and Beyoncé, Usher and Mariah Carey played a concert for Moammar Gadhafi’s sons. Despite troubles in other countries, especially those that tend to have a strict dictatorship present, by sending these celebrities in, we’re able to assess the seriousness of situations and underlying conditions of countries and leaders.

So why are these celebrities so popular with dictators? We all know a little bit about Rodman’s drug problems and legal problems. These problems can create a bit of a stir in American society, but are they viewed in the same light as these dictators?

Surprisingly, it doesn’t seem to be that

MARC MAREAN way. Of course, Kim Jong Un didn’t seem to mind as he had dinner with Rodman. Even with a troubled background, celebrities can still cause a stir in politics and gain new camera time away from their normal lives.

In Rodman’s case, he’s now nearly the only source of information we have on Kim Jong Un’s character, values, morals and, most importantly, policy regulation. If we want to immediately throw away Rodman’s information because of his legal issues in America, then we as a society are being stubborn. Rodman’s testimony of Kim Jong Un can help us create a decent relationship with a potentially dangerous country.

Besides gaining insight on dictator behavior and possibly creating better relationships with countries, these stars can also examine their culture. What are the values of this society and what do they respect or look up to? What is oppressing them (besides the dictator)? It’s these sorts of questions and the answers they uncover that can help the United States provide assistance and services to this country and better establish these positive relationships.

For example, North Korea, as we’re finding out very quickly, is incredibly into basketball.

Basketball players traveling to North Korea have a greater social status among North Koreans. By sending over these sports stars, these informal conversations between dictators and athletes can help rejuvenate foreign relations that create peace

time and positive future interactions with unpredictable leaders.

Let’s make a hypothesis that can be somewhat extreme. This love for basketball can help North Korea establish some sort of athletic team that can help them participate in future Olympics and other national competitions. Those relationships created through such an informal means can have a huge impact on culture and the current society of North Korea. Despite an already strong sense of nationalism, this can help develop relationships with other nations.

However, this can also be a consequence, as North Korea can create negative relationships with countries in the United Nations or positive relationships with dangerous countries that jeopardize America’s safety. Regardless of the way you want to look at it, creating these relationships between leaders and celebrities both have consequences. However, these “first steps” are becoming more and more popular and shouldn’t be discarded as bad diplomacy.

And of course, North Korea is a special case.

Any diplomacy that happens there has a lot of attention, along with the fact that North Korea is very unstable in its policy making and diplomatic responsibility. In other countries, celebrities are constantly sent overseas and are constantly involved in some way with a country’s people, whether that is a concert, public forum, competition, etc. In these cases, countries are used to foreigners and their habits. In the case of North Korea, everything that is said and done by Rodman will be used in helping Kim Jong Un create an image of America because of the lack of interaction with American society.

Despite Rodman’s past, we have got to trust that he has America’s best interests in mind to create some sort of diplomatic relations with North Korea. And maybe this will create something for the future of both of our countries or even their diplomatic stance with South Korea.

Whatever happens, getting the government to stand behind important celebrity meetings with world leaders is a promising first step in creating relationships with these countries.

Marc Marean is a sophomore, secondary-education major. Reach him at opinion@

Liberal arts degrees offer more job opportunities

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rts and Sciences majors often get a bad rap. Majoring in subjects like communication studies and English will often get reactions ranging from “What are you going to use that for?” to “Would you like fries with that?”

Surprisingly, though, some people think this stereotyping means these majors should be done away with altogether.

On Feb. 19, Thought Catalog published Matt Saccaro’s piece, titled “The Case for Removing (Almost) All Liberal Arts From College.”

The gist of Saccaro’s argument is that liberal arts should be cut from colleges almost completely to make way for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) majors.

“The hypothetical freshman tries his hand at pre-med in the first semester only to change to a pitifully easy (and generally worthless) major in communications … If (liberal arts) degrees were removed, those people would batten down their mental hatches and major in something useful, or they’d pursue building worthwhile skills outside of Academia; they’d become plumbers and electricians instead of miserable, cash-strapped, debt-laden retail workers.”

I found out through perusing Saccaro’s website that he actually apologized for this article and more or less rescinded everything he said. He, in fact, holds a degree in history and even has a Kindle eBook published in this field.

Still, it’s worth examining his original claims because I’m sure he’s not the only one to have ever made them.

I disagree with the notion that all liberal arts majors are lazy. But then I recalled a few scenes from one of my lecture classes. More than once I’ve heard students ask their neighbors the name of their TA. On one day in particular, two

girls in front of me took pictures on Photobooth of themselves looking sullen and bored. They subsequently posted them on Facebook with a caption complaining about the class.

The problem is that all kinds of students are lazy, which is a burden shared between the students themselves and the system. I’ll explain why, but first, let’s explore these fields a little more.

What can you do with a degree in the liberal arts/humanities? Forbes contributor Vivek Ranadivé wrote that this kind of degree is actually “more valuable than learning any trade” — and he holds an engineering degree from MIT and a Harvard MBA. One of the reasons he gives is because much STEM-related work can be (or can eventually be) done by computers and machines. But you can’t teach a computer to analyze existentialist literature.

Ranadivé adds, “I think we should make the liberal arts education more rigorous. If you teach students one trade, that skill might be obsolete in a few years. But if you teach people how to think and look at lots of information and connect dots – all skills that a classic liberal education gives you – you will thrive.”

A liberal arts major done right will also set you up well for post-baccalaureate work: law school, master’s and Ph.D. programs, etc. For instance, majors in philosophy, history, anthropology and English are highly accepted into law programs.

The notion that a liberal arts major puts you on the fast track to being your local Starbucks’ employee of the month is cliche, not to mention oversimplified. There are tons of examples of humanities majors who became very successful and well-known figures. Mitt Romney was an English major. Peter Thiel, Paypal CEO, studied philosophy. Ken Chenault, American Express CEO, has a degree in history. Business Insider lists several others, including Michael

RUTH BOETTNER Eisner and Ted Turner.

The subjectivity of liberal arts can also pose a problem in any aspect. STEM majors are pretty much always incredibly demanding. On the other hand, liberal arts majors have fewer core courses and therefore, their majors’ difficulties are more flexible. For example, the biological systems engineering major at UNL requires 134 credit hours. My French major specifically requires only 24 hours, plus a required minor or double major, which can add as little as 18 more hours.

Here’s where the burden is on the individual student — where the laziness often rears its ugly head. Non-STEM majors must take the initiative to find ways to get the most out of their schooling, because it’s often not planned out for them so specifically.

Students must retain a certain level of autonomy and realize that their majors will, for the most part, be as easy or hard as they make them. STEM majors require lots of memorization as well as direct application of what you learn. Majors like English, French, etc. are more ambiguous. The application requires a little

more abstract thought. The quadratic formula never changes, but you can read a Robert Frost poem six times and get something different out of it each time.

Personal motivation and effort is also a key factor to succeeding in the liberal arts. Classes in the STEM field are often accompanied by labs spanning a few hours each week that require you to apply what you’ve learned in your lecture class. The humanities lack that obligation. What you take away depends on how much individual thought you put into it.

Part of the reason why students often fail at this personal autonomy is our flawed K-12 education system, which statistically doesn’t prepare kids for university coursework. According to a report from ACT, only 22 percent of American high school students are “collegeready” in all subjects.

The Council on Foreign Relations report listed a number of other indicators: American students’ inferiority to other countries’ students, one in four students not graduating high school in four years, 80 percent of Americans only knowing English in an increasingly globalized society, etc.

Repairing the education system will be a complicated process, and I don’t have all the answers. That burden lies on those qualified to do so. But as students, we’re qualified to make our own future, and so many young people want the path to that future to be easy. As the cliched saying goes, nothing worth having comes easy.

When I was still an education major, one of my first courses was taught by a PhD candidate with more than a decade of teaching experience. He cited statistics stating that a small amount of college courses today are “reading or writing intensive.” Determined to break that mold, we read four books (all non-fiction perspectives on American education) in five

weeks with a project on each. Any written assignment required at least 1,000 words. In the spring semester of 2012, two of my courses combined required about 100 pages of reading a week.

Despite the difficulty that this coursework brought, I can easily say that these three courses I’ve described were my favorites I’ve taken throughout my undergraduate career thus far. Presently, I may not have to spend several hours in lab per week, but I read hundreds of pages and write multiple essays each semester.

If I’m not reading in-depth case studies on Africa or international news, it’s Voltaire, Molière or 17th-century poetry — in my second language.

I don’t mean to belittle STEM majors at all.

I can’t understand calculus or organic chemistry to save my life. But that doesn’t mean that my coursework is a joke in comparison.

No matter how you spin it, I find it problematic at best to say that one major or field is inherently more difficult than another.

Moreover, it’s wrong to suggest that anyone who can’t handle the rigorous coursework of a STEM degree “(has) no place in college,” as Saccaro (initially) wrote.

We must remember one of the main reasons why we (hopefully) get degrees: to do something we actually like. If math makes you want to rip your hair out, it shouldn’t be your career, no matter how much money it can make you. Same goes for philosophy or history. No matter what you choose to do, milk it for all it’s worth and then some.

The professional world can only benefit from people who are happy in their posts — people who never want to stop learning.

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

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Lincoln Tango Club invites, teaches locals new dance, creates distinct community

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f you are ready to spice up your Friday night, the Lincoln Tango Club is here to help. The club, which focuses on the Argentine Tango, invites people from all skill levels to join them and see why most people who stop by the first time keep coming back week after week.

When Sandra Halpern first moved to Lincoln from Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1997, she brought with her the vivacious stylings of the Argentine Tango. Halpern taught dance at various studios around Lincoln and saw a surge in interest for the social dance but still faced the problem of finding a space to practice what was being taught, one that increased even further once a tango club was opened in Lincoln.

“Then a tango bar opened in, I believe, 2000, so that was a great push for me to keep teaching, and it increased the number of students and the interest in general of the tango community,” Halpern said. “Then they closed the bar but we found out we could get nuVibe for Fridays, and on Mondays we have classes at the DelRay and we can also stay there after just for dancing.”

Despite the loss of the tango club, a hefty amount of tango lovers still remained, enough to continue with tango gatherings and practice through the Lincoln Tango Club. Though Lincoln’s population is not enough to sustain a large tango following like that of Miami or New York, Halpern said she still sees the following in Lincoln slowly growing.

“I think we are having more people,” Halpern said. “I think the number is increasing slowly, but also it is good for us to join with the Omaha tango people. So whenever they have an event in Omaha, or if we have one in Lincoln, we try to support each other.

But I think there are people with lots of interest in tango in Lincoln.”

If the first image that comes to mind when the word “tango,” comes up is of an extremely seductive couple with roses in their mouths, the real Argentine Tango may be a shock.

“What I brought here in 1997 was what we call ‘open embrace,’ which is the Tango de Salon,” Halpern said. “That was what I taught to the students, but in this country, most of the tango in this country is close embrace, so Dick Kahle and Samantha McCulloch, members of the Lincoln Tango Club, dance at the DelRay Ballroom last night during a club gathering. through the years I started to learn close embrace. I used to teach a mixture of close and open embrace. It’s not a competition dance; it’s “Once people start, it’s kind of a lifelong a social dance. It has to do much more with deal,” Berggren said. “When new people come to the connection with your partner and with the nuVibe on our Friday night, what we try to do is music than anything else.” divide the area where we dance so we have one The relationship between dance partners is area for those who just simply want to dance and one that has been highly dramatized through those who are learning. We started having a half Hollywood. Though it is possible to form a deep hour lesson at the beginning of the lesson but the relationship with a longtime dance partner, exproblem I found was the regulars were waiting pecting to find romance through the tango is a until after, which was difficult because we needed rookie mistake. them to help teach the beginners.”

“You hear about these single dances, particuEven if you are just beginning, Berggren said larly for those of my generation, as a great place to that nothing, no instruction videos or YouTube tumeet a man or a woman and then you can go off torials, can compare to dancing the and have a romantic time,” longArgentine tango with a partner in time member Jerry Berggren said.

There’s real life and seeing how invincible “Tango just isn’t quite that way. a whole it can make someone feel.

Most of us like dancing with dif“There’s a whole getting lost ferent partners on a regular basis. getting lost in the in the music and getting lost in Not to say that romance doesn’t the partner experience that you happen, but I’ve got a really good music and getting can’t see or feel on a video,” Bergfriend who has a boyfriend and lost in the partner gren said. “Several years ago, my they tango and she dances with experience that primary dance partner now and I everyone in the room.” were dancing and the moons and Because the Lincoln Tango you can’t see or the stars aligned — I can’t exClub emphasises the social aspect plained it any other way. It was of dance, a tight-knit community feel on a video.” the music, the moment, everything has blossomed. Both Berggren Jerry Berggren was just right. Afterwards she literand Halpern said they see many lincoln tango club member ally said, ‘Did you feel that?’ And students who leave town keep in I did. It doesn’t happen very often, touch with the club and continue probably in my almost-10-year their love for tango elsewhere. career I’ve almost felt it three or four times, and “Once you get bitten by the tango bug, you you keep wanting to try and find that and that’s can’t stop,” Berggren said. something that keeps coming back with patience Despite the closeness of the club and though and practice.” many of the Lincoln Tango Club’s members have arts@ been dancing for years, the club is always open to Chuck Phillips, first-year member of the Lincoln Tango Club, dances with partner Sandra Halpern at the dailynebraskan.com new members and beginners who may be new to on twitter @dnartsdesk DelRay Ballroom Monday night during a club gathering. the tango culture.

Local blues musician dies, leaves behind Lincoln legacy casey kettler dn Last month, music lost a bit of its magic.

Morris Holt, more commonly referred to as Magic Slim, died Feb. 21, in a Pennsylvania hospital. He was 75 years old. During the span of 36 years, Magic Slim released 36 records under various labels. He and his band, “The Teardrops,” won the W.C. Handy awards for “Blues Band of the Year” six times over, the last one coming in 2003.

For many years, Slim has been a staple of the Lincoln music scene, and his passing leaves an irreplaceable void for some local musicians but also some seeds of wisdom.

“He was a really good friend, that’s the main thing for me,” local keyboardist Josh Hoyer said.

“He’d come down and sit at the bar whether there was a show or not.

He’d be willing to talk with me or anyone. He had a big personality, you know?”

Magic Slim was a guitarist who immersed himself in the Chicago Blues. He was missing part of his pinky on his right hand. He stood at more than 6 feet and wore a trademark cowboy hat.

However, for some his most defining feature was his guitar playing.

“Magic taught me that you don’t have to play a lot of notes,” local musician Lucas Kellison said. “He

was the first guitarist that showed me you could really say something within the notes.”

“He could play fewer notes than anyone else and still do more ‘playing’ than anyone else on the stage,” said Levi William, a local blues guitarist.

For some younger musicians in Lincoln, Holt and his music played a large part in the beginning years of their musical journey.

“My first playing experience was with Magic,” Kellison said. “I was only 15 at Duggan’s Pub open mike.”

William had many chances to share the stage with Magic Slim.

“The first time I played with him, I didn’t know much about him,” William said. “A learning lesson is what it was ... I learned that I would never be as good as that man.”

“A lot of people played with him,” Kellison said. “It’s really a testament to his character. He didn’t care if it was a 15-year-old kid on stage with him who just picked up a bass; he just wanted to play the blues.”

“He was very nice to me, being as young as I was,” William said.

It is difficult to succinctly describe the magnitude of his contribution to the music community of Lincoln, but his absence indisputably leaves a void.

“He was the face of the Zoo Bar,” Hoyer said. “He brought le-

gitimacy, both by playing with his band regularly and by serving as an ambassador between the Zoo (Bar) and the artists passing through.

“He would come down all the time, and sit in with the regionally and nationally touring acts,” Hoyer added. “People were surprised he lived in Lincoln, you know, acts getting to play with a figure who helped build the sound of Chicago Blues.”

Such national recognition and legitimacy is hard to find and these musicians with lumps in their throat.

“It’s a huge void,” William said.

“I don’t know that it could necessarily be filled. But all those musicians he taught and helped will try. Those little tiny seeds will pop up and, hopefully, help to fill that gap.”

“It won’t be filled,” said Hoyer.

“No one will replace that man.

“He did teach a lot of the young people — and by young I mean as old as 50 — how to play and that we (musicians) are really here for the listener.” Hoyer said. “He used to play that song, ‘Mustang Sally,’ that no one really wanted to play because there’s not much to it, and it’s kind of corny. But then he’d point out at the audience, and we’d see how much fun everyone was having ... plus, he said you get paid more when everyone’s having a good time.”

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Blues musician Morris Holt, better known as Magic Slim, died Feb. 21 in Pennsylvania. Memories of Magic Slim and the legacy he leaves behind live on in the hearts of Lincoln musicians.

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my week with country anna gronewold dn I have a strict no-twang policy.

I tolerate, but don’t particularly adore, dogs; I prefer red wine to beer and my ’91 Camry usually doesn’t handle dirt roads “Like A Rock.”

As a native Nebraskan, I’m happy to distance myself from the stereotype. I’ve never been a “Redneck Woman,” and that’s quite all right with me.

But I would like to be a Renaissance woman. If I can listen to Ke$ha, Third Eye Blind, Chopin, the Glitch Mob and Laura Marling, often all in one sitting, what’s stopping me from exploring a genre heralded by much of Nebraska as God’s music?

Country music, how I love to hate thee. But I’m a grown-up now, and adults back their opinions with facts and experience, rather than blind emotion. Don’t knock it till you try it, right?

So, in a grand experiment of self-control and objectivity, I listened exclusively to country music for the past seven days. For one judgment-free week, I fed my ears with steel guitars and honky-tonk (I still don’t know what honkytonk is), open to whatever conclusions I might happen upon.

Spotify is my best friend, in real life and on the Internet, so I began with playlist creation. I also had help from my second best friend Brady, one of the nicest wannabe cowboys you’ll ever meet. Brady explained that even within the genre there are varied opinions on what constitutes real country music. He made me a red-dirt country playlist (a real genre named for Texas dirt, which is bigger, better and redder than ours) and instructed me to avoid Jason Aldean at all costs.

This is what happened to my Spotify sidebar: Pop country: Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum, Luke Bryan, Hunter Hayes Classic country: Randy Travis, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash Red dirt country: Aaron Watson, Granger Smith, Brantley Gilbert, Eli Young Band Other artists: Eric Church, Chase Rice, Miranda Lambert, Dixie Chicks, Jason Aldean More than anything, this undertaking made me realize how often I listen to music and how much I rely

on it to set a mood. Picking a single genre — any genre — for an entire week discounts the variety of emotions and circumstances we experience from day to day. Brad Paisley was the perfect soundtrack for some of my week, but there were other times when the thought of a banjo riff made my stomach churn.

Country music is great for: Driving — I went into Omaha on Friday and listened to Eli Young Band and Josh Abbott Band the entire trip. Soaring melodies, pounding rhythms and “keep on dreaming even if it breaks your heart” are perfect at 75 mph.

Beaches — I’m getting the vibe that country singers live in a land of eternal summer. As winter drags on, the way country singers talk up lakefront barbecues is achingly alluring.

Really obvious harmonies — I can sing all four parts of anything now.

Country music is less than ideal for: Running — When I exercise, I need Eminem screaming in my ears. Even the poppy-est of country singers can’t stir up enough positive adrenaline to carry me to the Rec and back.

Studying — Motivation is not country’s strong point. The majority of artists sing about places they’d rather be: in a better relationship, driving down Texas back roads or lounging on a porch, a beer in hand. I would rather be: not doing homework.

Making friends — Listening to country music in the Coffee House is like singing the “The Star-Spangled Banner” from the turrets of Great Wall of China.

Two genre-specifc observations: Inverted gender roles — At least in comparison to modern pop, the men and women of country music carry strange identities.

There are a lot of deep-voiced men trying to convince ladies they are special (I can dig a constant stream of affirmation). In contrast, the women are raging vixens determined to forget their past lovers and murder their ex-boyfriends’ current girlfriends.

Nostalgia — Every other country song holds a deep longing for the days of yore. Call it regret, call it storytelling, the genre plays on a sense of remembrance. To me, this is country music’s defining feature. And as I dived into the genre, I was shocked by how many personal memories

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Blake Shelton solidified his spot in the country scene with his No. 1 single, “Austin,” which he realeased in 2001. the songs evoked even for me: Garth Brooks karaoke at my cousin’s wedding, blaring Luke Bryan on the way to the Ozarks last spring break, watching fireworks to “God Bless the U.S.A.” Something about these songs sticks to the soul; I almost don’t have a choice.

I wish I could say this week was a beautifully transformative experience, and I discovered a new favorite niche.

But I can’t; this week was a struggle.

There were brand new non-country albums I wanted to explore, and I missed being able to sing along to my favorite artists. At times I chose complete silence in place of yet another country song. I only made it through the classic country playlist once. In a moment of weakness, I listened R. Kelly’s “Radio Message” 17 times.

But I can’t shake the sense of simplicity and nostalgia permeating the genre. While I don’t think I’ll be revisiting those Spotify playlists any time soon, I can’t guarantee Blake Shelton won’t show up on my summertime soundtrack. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

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George Strait emerged in the country music scene in 1981. Since then, he has recorded almost 60 No. 1 hits.

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Murs and Ellie Goulding have been more than successful in reaching Top 40 radio. These pop artists are quickly climbing the The Beatles, Queen, The Rolling Stones, The Who and many other charts and are even overriding American musicians.

British artists made their way to There are, however, striking America in order to top the Billsimilarities between the United board charts. Many of these musicians succeeded in becoming States’ pop princesses and the household names and still influ- UK’s leading female singers. Cher Lloyd is a combination of Katy ence music, or at least the idea of finding fame in America, to this Perry and Ke$ha, when it comes to image and sound, while Rita day.

When I hear the phrase “Brit- Ora is generally comparable to Rihanna. ish Invasion” I don’t think back Most people like to lean toto the 1960s or 1970s. In fact I am wards music that resembles the caught in the “invasion” that is genres or other currently taking they enplace.

Unlike the first artists joy listening to.

Unlike the These compariwave, which first wave, which sons could be included a mul- included a multitude why British arttitude of rock ists are so popubands, today’s of rock bands, lar in the United flood of British today’s flood of States. entertainers are Collaborabringing pop mu- British entertainers tions with wellsic to the states. are bringing pop established musiThe Beatles startcians also add to ed the trend of music to the states.” the continuing rock bands maksuccess of foreign ing a name in America, and artists such as Adele artists. Cher Lloyd’s radio hit “With Your Love” features Mike Posner, are starting the pop movement. and Olly Murs is making waves Adele made it big in the with “Trouble Maker” which feastates when she received her first Grammy in 2009 for “Best New tures Flo Rida.

Some artists are even taking Artist” after the success of her new acts under their wing in order single “Chasing Pavements.” This to spread word. Ed Sheeran, who is was just the beginning for Adele not within the pop genre but is inwhen it came to finding a name in deed British, is opening for Taylor America.

Though people such as Leona Swift in her upcoming tour after the success of their duet “Everything Lewis and Natasha Bedingfield Has Changed,” which reached have played major roles in the effective continental crossovers, number one on the iTunes Top 10.

These clever tactics are conI credit Adele for starting what would become the next British tinually expanding the fanbase Invasion, because of the overflow for up-and-coming acts.

Although individual artists of English artists in the few short seem to be conquering the cross years after all her accomplishover into the United States, bands ments. such as Florence + The Machine People such as Taio Cruz, Jesare also dominating the musie J, Rita Ora, Cher Lloyd, Olly sic scene. More specifically, boy bands seem to be doing rather well.

The era of the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync is long over, but newcomers The Wanted and One Direction are gladly filling that gap.

The two most popular boy bands in the nation happen to be from the UK. It’s the new rage in the world of teenyboppers.

The success of One Direction is commonly compared with that of The Beatles. Now before I start a battle of the decades by drawing a comparison between the two,

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British boy band One Direction’s fanbase is no longer limited to teenyboppers. With successful singles such as “What Makes You Beautiful,” they have climbed to the top of U.S. music charts. hear this out.

I can’t predict whether the band’s music will have a longterm effect in the future when it comes to musical and lyrical influences, but the fan craze is highly similar. Everywhere I turn I can’t help but stare at the shrines built in every Walmart corner with the boy band plastered on cups, posters, socks, wallets, makeup, etc.

It’s crazy.

It wasn’t long before One Direction got its name out in the world of music. They boys are now worldwide and are selling out arenas as fast as performers such as Justin Bieber.

They are a prime example of how possible it is to gain global success. Stories like this only push other artists to do the same, because the objective for almost any newcomer is to get their name and music out to as many people imaginable.

E! recently announced that The Wanted will be granted its own reality show on the network,

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Adele captivated American listeners in 2009 when she won a Grammy after “Chasing Pavements” blew up the charts. and we can only imagine how much the fan base will expand.

The station already has a show titled “Chasing The Saturdays” that takes viewers into the world of the popular UK girl group, The Saturdays, and follows their attempts to expand into America.

Not everyone will snag a show on TV, but it has proven to be successful in building titles for people.

An Englishman and the former brutal judge on American Idol, Simon Cowell, has made more than a name for himself in the United States and continues to bring talent with him. Since the discovery of One Direction, I predict that Cowell will continue to utilize his ability to introduce more successful artists.

I believe Little Mix is the next

girl group to make it big here. The band was discovered on Season 8 of the UK’s X Factor and is currently signed under Cowell’s label. I’m definitely keeping an ear out for them.

From TV shows to mentors to making it big the old-fashioned way, we can only predict that more and more English artists will make their way to the states and accomplish great things.

It’s easy to say that pop culture is morphing and British entertainers are part of that transition. This current British Invasion is an ongoing event and who knows what other talent our ears will be exposed to in the near future. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

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Substance abuse helps, hurts artists

joe wade I still remember the first time I tried vodka. Worst hangover I’ve ever had — my head felt like it was going to explode. It was like a steam engine with giant iron gears grinding my neurons into mush and, as my stomach churned from the weight, I could feel the vomit rising in my throat. I was young, naive and experimenting with life. It took years to develop an actual taste for hangovers as something to be appreciated. The most important thing was that I was willing to face the consequences of feeling sick while trying to put on a good show for everyone around me. I considered it part of being a musician.

I can’t, however, remember the first time I heard The Beatles. It seems that my appreciation for British rock ‘n’ roll is just part of my DNA. The sound of it has also been the cause of many hangovers. Music is something fans are predisposed to, which is not unlike the recreational use of nefarious substances. The incursion of The Beatles upon me in the late ‘80s left a mark like a heroin addiction. I simply wanted more.

Much of the band’s recorded material was socially acceptable, although their drug habits were seldom discussed in the conservative atmosphere in which I grew up. Despite bands like The Beatles’ creative appreciation of substance abuse, I could listen to them in any situation.

The Beatles’ music is classified as an oldie. Therefore, it was non-offensive, and my parents didn’t object to me listening. Reflecting on the Fab Four now, John Lennon’s angst was never far behind the candy-coated pop tunes. Hidden within the songs was an anthemic call to cause trouble and ask questions about life. Drinking one or two vodkas too many was just one form of that.

Long before my introduction to alcohol, there were a few bands, from across the pond, that made the biggest waves. Oasis, Blur, Bush, The Cranberries, The Clash and Radiohead were just a few of the bands that acted as my great professors as I was coming of age. Vodka was the drink, which was posh and sleek enough to

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Kate Nash will release her newest album “Girl Talk” Tuesday.

Unlike her previous work, this album depicts a chaotic, selfloathing side of the artist.

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Considered the face of the “British Invasion,” The Beatles brought a unique version of rock to the United States in the 1960s. reflect the nasally angst of those art- alcohol, substantively speaking, and are embracing moments of musical ists. My parents often cautioned me about the terrible effects of alcohol, clarity. None of them have entirely fallen out of the public’s embrace but which only made me curious later in in 2013, the release of new material life. The warm-mouth feel and slightfrom these artists feels monumental. ly sweet earthy flavor glistens like The Stooges, speplatinum, making cifically Iggy Pop, it inviting but once ingested, it destroys Vodka is like is not actually British. Iggy Pop, who rational thought. The a game of has been plagued by inebriated individual drug addiction, often might even attempt Russian roulette. collaborated with Dato relocate a perfectvid Bowie in Britain. ly well-positioned It’s fun while an The two artists also newspaper box into artist is young but spent part of the mid a swimming pool. if he or she wants ‘70s in Berlin weanStubbornness is the ing themselves off quality shared by to be releasing their addictions. Mathose bands and the drunken stupor in new albums at 60, terial for Iggy Pop’s “The Idiot” and “Lust which I’ve found my- it’s important to for Life” were written self while listening to learn when to put during that time. The “Karma Police” at two albums are ac7 a.m. on a Tuesday the bottle down.” claimed for establishmorning, fearful of ing Iggy Pop as a solo the day ahead of me.

The consequences were becoming artist.

Also among the American-born more apparent to me and I realized artists who rose to fame in Britain is many of my favorite artists were no Jimi Hendrix. This guitar god is the longer creating new music. The dark reason why many musicians first side had gotten the better of them.

This year there are a few ragged, picked up the same instrument. Henstubborn and experienced music drix’s career was sadly cut short by an overdose on Sept. 18, 1970. He spent icons set to release new albums.

Specifically David Bowie, Depeche the first half of the ‘60s performing in the U.S. with little notoriety, but in Mode and The Stooges. Artists such as these are well past the abuses of 1966, he moved to London where he

quickly became popular.

Part of the phenomena among rock stars is the abuse of alcohol and other substances. In sports, the use of performance enhancing drugs is taboo, but in music, it is almost expected. It’s widely known that Hendrix was a frequent user of LSD, which added to the psychedelic scene of the era. However, according to his biography, alcohol caused Hendrix to act violently. David Gahan, lead vocalist of Depeche Mode, has often been hospitalized for his addictions. One of the bands greatest tours, the Devotional Tour in 1993, is mesmerizing to watch on the recorded videos but, that year, was also one of the roughest on Gahan when he suffered a heart attack while on stage.

While things such as vodka can be fun, hangovers interesting and the effects creatively enhancing, there is a harsh reality to it as well. Nietzsche said what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The stubbornness to keep doing those things, which could eventually be fatal, creates an inspiring sense of struggle for creative minds.

Vodka is like a game of Russian roulette. It’s fun while an artist is young but if he or she wants to be releasing new albums at 60, it’s important to learn when to put the bottle down. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

‘Beast’ offers spectrum of emotion Josh Ritter’s latest album details divorce, lacks complexity chance Solem-Pfeifer dn If genius loves sorrow, Josh Ritter is late to the game but making up for lost time.

In his widely beloved previous three albums “The Animal Years,” “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter” and “So Runs the World Away,” Ritter garnered songwriter-of-the-new-century-type acclaim. The praise rained in from Paste Magazine’s Top 100 Living Songwriter’s list and from kingpin novelists such as Stephen King and Dennis Lehane.

These efforts — now fading fast in the rear view — drown and resurrect their narrative messages in metaphor, turn-of-phrase and Americana fairytale.

By contrast, Ritter’s seventh studio release “The Beast in Its Tracks” is a 43-minute, personal preoccupation. The performer is candid about the fact that it chronicles the emotional turmoil reared in the shadow of his recent divorce. That disclosure makes for an interesting storyline, but even without it, there’s no obfuscating that Ritter’s songs are directed at and around lost love that was half unrequited and half misguided.

“Whoever you are, getting married is a hopeful act, and when it doesn’t work out, it’s a shock,” Ritter told Rainn Wilson on the comedian’s web series “Metaphysical MilkShake.”

Such a shock, in fact, that in the press tour for “The Beast In Its Tracks” Ritter admitted to abusing alcohol and experiencing suicidal

thoughts following his separation.

And there are immediately noticeably moments on this album when anger simmers from those places of hurt and despair. The troubled “Third Arm” and “Evil Eye” open the volley of sentimental fervor backed by Ritter’s standard fingerpicking fair.

By the middle of the record, the inevitable phoenix’s rise and the illumination of Ritter’s powers of forgiveness burn a little premeditated, but the lyricism still has its confoundingly eloquent moments.

“How many times is truth you take to be true just truth falling apart at the same speed as you?” asks the songwriter in the fourth track, “Hopeful.”

“Hopeful” motor-mouths in the vein of “Animal Years” favorite, “Thin Blue Flame,” but in line with the themes of the new record, sounds more like an ecstatic psychotherapy patient than a bubbling poet.

“New Lover” appears to be a direct homage to the singer ’s estranged wife, letting her know he’s taken up with a new flame and hopes she has, too (until the singer admits he’d be pleased if she were miserable). It would come off as an adolescent play at reconciliation if not for lines such as “I feel like a miser/I feel low and mean/for accusing you of stealing/what I offered you for free.”

“Joy To You Baby” holds up a similar saintly sentiment, but sees it all the way through, espousing happiness to the ex-wife, the world and to Ritter himself.

Musically, the album is stripped, sans the full-band productions of “So Runs The World Away.” Acoustic guitar and Ritter ’s croon are centerstage, enhancing the already-overwhelming feeling of intimacy that will accompany the tracks from bed-

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Nash displays self-loathing in latest work anna gronewold dn In the 1999 rom-com “10 Things I Hate About You,” Health Ledger and his pleather pants follow Julia Stiles’ character into the purple lights and the chaotic feminist rock of Club Skunk. If Club Skunk were a real place, it would be the ideal stage for Kate Nash to perform her new album, “Girl Talk.”

Angry girl music might be a harsh term, but “Girl Talk” is a harsh set of tracks. The English singer and songwriter’s 2007 album “Made of Bricks” went platinum on a mix of piano-pop and quirky, airy vocals.

“My Best Friend Is You,” released in 2010, followed a similar formula with more instrumental variety and a smattering of punk influence in “Mansion Song.” But Nash’s third full-length album abandons the sweetness altogether with a frenzied collection of unpredictable tracks.

“Girl Talk” opens with a fairly depressing “Part Heart.” The song is a giant crescendo as Nash repeats, with increasing volume and intensity, how drinking, nail-painting, friends and self-harm all leave her feeling numb. The second track, a bouncy, electric “Fri-end,” complains about poor treatment from a lover. Track No. 3, “Death Proof,” is driven by a dark bassline and lyrics like, “Burn burn, burn my heart, baby/ take a piece, yeah I don’t need all of it.” And so the album goes.

“Girl Talk” continues its hectic parade of high intensity self-loathing until suddenly it doesn’t.

Listeners can only assume Nash crashed and burned midway through “Girl Talk.” Tracks swing violently between the aforementioned openers and songs such as “Labyrinth,” a strikingly strippeddown Nash muttering about mazes falling apart and trying to let go.

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The standout song is the album’s closer, “Lullaby for an Insomniac,” in which the same washed-out Nash half speaks, half sings for two-anda-half minutes about hiding in the shadows as she watches the days go by. Then a beautiful symphony orchestra emerges from behind her to close out “Girl Talk” in an appropriately confusing manner.

That artist told SPIN magazine in a Feb. 20 interview that she felt the songs were building up inside her, waiting for a release.

“I felt like I absolutely needed to do this album,” she said, “and if I didn’t, I would have needed to go to a mental institute.”

The upbeat tracks are fun and the chaos is relatable, but the disorder of “Girl Talk” implies that Nash doesn’t care about being taken seriously. A therapeutic album is fine, but “Girl Talk” reads more like a teenage diary than any legitimate artistic evolution. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

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Josh Ritter’s album, “The Beast in Its Tracks” takes the listener through various emotional stages of the artist’s recent divorce. room to ballroom on his current tour.

With a second novel in the works, Ritter walks on uncharted creative ground and has maybe earned the right to go on hiatus from the literary and emote a little. Criticism of “The Beast in Its Tracks” would likely point to the fact that Ritter stands paramount as a songwriter because he weaves messages like other singer/songwriters can’t.

That’s not so with the new album with its simple songs and plain choruses.

Still Ritter said of writing this dark, organic pit of a record, “I feel that art is a biological change.”

“The Beast In Its Tracks” is, then, an unruly reminder that an artist’s creative well — even one as deep as Josh Ritter ’s — isn’t a static source. Abilities change as the well dries up, overflows, sours and cleanses itself.

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magic slim: from 5 Kellison offered a different perspective.

“Magic Slim and (fellow blues musician) Sean Benjamin have given Lincoln a musical identity for decades, where there wasn’t one previously,” Kellison said. “Now, the new generation needs to pick up the slack, build on the foundation that has been laid and make new music full of love, generosity and collaboration.”

Holt is survived by his son Shawn, also known as Lil’ Slim, who continues to play the blues, albeit in his own way.

“Shawn is his own man,” Hoyer said. “Particularly in blues, what you play reflects who you are. Magic was

a hard-working, fun-loving, sweet man. Shawn is a different kind of person, equally as deep ... when he plays he goes into a sort of meditative state.

What he plays is truly awesome, I even catch myself being a fan on stage sometimes.”

For these local musicians, the loss of Magic is palpable.

“When I walk in here now (the Zoo Bar), it doesn’t feel the same,” William said. “The same way it felt when (former Zoo Bar owner) Larry Boehmer passed. It just feels kind of empty.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

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my jam M. Ward’s “Post-War” andrew larsen dn I grew up with classic rock blaring in the car, grooving from my dad’s office and rumbling from my brother’s bedroom. In high school, I was introduced via friends and the Internet to newer, “cooler” bands to get into. Since then I’ve loved intertwining my love of the old stuff with the discovery of the underappreciated, but I hadn’t found that one artist that seemed to be able to encapsulate everything I loved about both. At least, not until I first heard M. Ward.

My introduction to this ragged balladeer was 2006’s “PostWar.” If “Post-War” was “The Godfather,” then “Hold Time” is “The Godfather: Part II.” Everything that’s great about “Post-War” and his four previous albums is amplified and magnified on his 2009 release.

M. Ward’s album sequenc-

ing is top-notch. He starts off with the mid-tempo yet hooky “For Beginners,” which transitions right into “Never Had Nobody Like You,” which features a Gary Glitter-like stomping beat and his She and Him cohort Zooey Deschanel. With this album M. Ward manages to evoke a sound that’s reminiscent of nearly every decade in rock music. “Rave On” is a ‘50s-style Buddy Holly cover again featuring Deschanel.

The closing song “Outro (a.k.a: I’m a Fool to Want You)” contains his trademark ’60s-style surf guitar riffs. Throughout his songwriting is intimate yet tackling large themes like the best singer-songwriter’s of the ’70s. M. Ward is both a throwback to music’s glory days and a pioneer in its future. “Hold Time” is the personification of that idea. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter

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women’s gymnastics: from 10 score for vault tonight, which was promising, but we need to get more landings. We can’t expect great scores without the good landings.”

Iowa started off on bars where it posted a solid team score of 49.100. Emma Stevenson led the Hawkeyes with a 9.875.

Nebraska’s first rotation took them to bars, where it scored a 49.625, which was the secondhighest score in school history.

Giblin led the Huskers as she scored a perfect 10.000, only the second perfect mark on bars in school history. Not far behind was Wong and DeZiel, who scored a 9.95 and 9.925 respectively.

Kendig was, as expected, happy for Giblin’s accomplishment.

“She had been wanting that for a long time,” Kendig said. “She was knocking on the door, and coming so close. It was just beautiful tonight, and could not have been done any better.”

Giblin was lost for words when asked how special the night was to finally get a perfect 10.

“I don’t even know,” Giblin said. “It was just so exciting, and everyone was just as excited as I was. I have worked so hard to finally get that, and it was amazing to get it in my last meet here.”

Nebraska followed up the record-setting score on bars with a solid beam total as well.

The Huskers put together a strong showing with a score of 49.250. DeZiel and Giblin once again led the Huskers, each scoring a 9.875. Jennifer Lauer added a 9.85, and Nathe chipped in a 9.80.

Nebraska headed to the floor to end the night, once again putting up a solid score, posting a 49.400.

Wong and DeZiel led the Huskers with scores of 9.925 each.

Lauer put up a strong score of 9.90, while also battling through a lingering shoulder injury. Freshman Hollie Blanske added a 9.85.

The Hawkeyes struggled on beam to end the night, scoring just 48.075. Iowa did put together

Head coach Connie Yori was named Big Ten Coach of the Year Monday afternoon, and has told the press constantly she’s willing to switch defensive and offensive looks depending on how the game is going or the team they’re playing, a vital coaching tool for tournament situations. Yori believes her team is not only ready for tournament season, but ready to make a push.

And so do I. The Big Ten tournament will have some surprises, I’m sure, but the biggest surprise would be an early exit by Nebraska. A tournament title would

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In the all-around, DeZiel and Wong led the Huskers, scoring a 39.675 each. For Iowa, Alie Glover scored a 38.925, including a

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Nebraska will hit the road next weekend, facing Minnesota, Arkansas and Centenary in Minneapolis, Minn., with a share of the Big Ten conference crown on

this spring.

Papuchis said the transition for the two freshmen from prep football to college has gone smoothly.

“They haven’t really been eased at all,” Papuchis said.

“Courtney is running with the second group and he’s been doing a good job. He doesn’t look like a guy that was in high school two months ago. D.J Singleton – same way. D.J. is doing some good things.”

The majority of the Husker graduating class last season played defense.

Now, with so many question marks about the Blackshirts, defensive coordinator John Papuchis said the defense has responded with the right attitude.

Because Nebraska lost so many seniors, a number of young guys will get a look at a big defensive role.

“We’re real young at some spots and older at others,” Papuchis said. “So there’s a lot of potential. But that’s all that is right now is potential. There’s a lot of work that has to be done in the course of the next 40 practices to be ready to go.”

Emily Wong performs on the balance beam Tuesday night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

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not be shocking with the way the team has been playing recently, and Sunday’s loss does not reflect on the shape of the current team. Come NCAA Tournament time, Nebraska should be at the top of its game and will be an under-the-radar at a No. 4 or 5 seed.

Some may write them off, but you shouldn’t.

You should believe in rule No. 3, because Nebraska is the prime example. chris heady is a freshman news-editorial major. you can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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big ten men’s basketball telecoference Tom Crean, Indiana:

On senior class and senior day this week “Obviously the improvement has shown up in the record and what they’ve endured from the beginning. All the time that was spent in the building to grow. They stayed with the plan. Even if they didn’t understand the plan, they stayed with it.”

On mid-major programs “The term (mid-major) is becoming obsolete when you look at what programs have done over a period of time. There are power conferences, and we’re in one of them, and more importantly there are power programs. I think when you talk about VCU, when you talk about Butler, most certainly Gonzaga. They’ve been main-staged.”

Fran McCaffery, Iowa:

On the play of the defense recently “Defensively, we were pretty solid against two very good teams.

Again our offense has been inconsistent, but I’ve been impressed.

I think everyone is adjusting and hopefully we’ll be getting better and better.”

On loss against Indiana “It was hard against Indiana because we weren’t making any shots. We had hoped to shoot the ball better because they are tough team, and they run off of your misses.”

John Groce, Illinois:

On senior day versus Nebraska “Obviously I was very happy with our seniors over the weekend.

It was a great day at the Assembly Hall; it was the 50th anniversary of a special building. Those guys really came through and made big plays. Nebraska was terrific.”

On Brandon Paul on being named Naismith award finalist “Really proud of Brandon on how he handles himself on and off the court. Very coachable, he loves the game. He’s excited as the other guys are to finish strong and play good basketball.”

Bill Carmody, Northwestern:

On overcoming the deficit against Ohio State “Managed to battle back and make some shots, get some stops. I like the fact that we rebounded decently. They kept fighting and kept trying and battling, and I thought that was a really good sign.”

On Big Ten tournament seeding “We’re probably going to play Minnesota somehow. I’m not sure right now. Still some flux with the last week of games this week. I have a general idea of who we’ll play.”

Brian Daly, Penn State assistant basketball coach:

On Minnesota game “Minnesota, on their senior night, they came out against us early and were aggressive and now we’re looking forward this week.”

On Jermaine Marshall’s play in the win versus Michigan “Jermaine’s really been aggressive throughout the course of the season. He realized he had to be the guy to score points for us.”

Matt Painter, Purdue:

On DJ Byrd’s performance against Wisconsin “He got on track and got into a rhythm shooting the basketball. He stepped up and made some timely shots and did a good job shooting on offense and finding some open looks. He really did some important things for us.”

On second half against Wisconsin “We were able to get in the paint and drive the basketball and get some floaters. We did a pretty good job keeping them out of the paint. Defensively we were just trying to keep them away from the basket.”

Tom Izzo, Michigan State:

On previous week “It’s been a tough week for us, losing to Ohio State and Michigan.

Two of those were road games and in this league it’s not easy to

win a road game. Michigan made some good plays and (Trey) Burke proved to be the player that he is.”

On reaction to Wisconsin’s last loss “Little bit surprising, Matt Painter’s team’s always plays hard. Wisconsin doesn’t lose much at home. I got to give credit to Bo (Ryan); I wouldn’t have picked them as high as they are. They’ve played some phenomenal basketball and sometimes it happens.”

Bo Ryan, Wisconsin:

On Jordan Berggren being named a Naismith award finalist “I consider that quite an honor for someone that has the point production. Mostly it’s people who are scoring. For him to be up there scoring 11-12 shows how much he’s meant to us.”

On regular season as a whole “Every team has its rough games like we have recently. I thought that the consistency was much better, we had some bad moments where we didn’t play well and we didn’t shoot well. You always want more.”

John Beilein, Michigan:

On win at home against Michigan State “We had a great atmosphere here in Ann Arbor against a very good Michigan State team. It was a great win for us. Not as pretty as other wins that we’ve had, but we showed a lot of toughness and fortitude.”

On season as a whole “I don’t know any season of my life that hasn’t been a roller coaster. It feels like we’ve been up and down, but we feel like we’ve been mostly up. We have 24 wins this season and we embrace that more than anything.”

Tim Miles, Nebraska:

On last game at the Bob Devaney Sports Center “It’s an exciting time for our program with a move to Pinnacle Bank Arena. We’re going to have state of the art facilities for any major college basketball team. It’s also a sentimental time because there’s so much historical value to the Devaney with men’s and women’s basketball. Hopefully we come out with a victory against Minnesota.”

On Dylan Talley’s recent performances “Dylan’s done an exceptional job in the last handful of games, stepping into the role of point guard, understanding when to facilitate and when to score. I’m very proud of Dylan and the progress he’s made.”

Thad Matta, Ohio State:

On Deshaun Thomas being named Oscar Robertson award finalist “He’s meant a lot to this program in the three years. That he’s been here and Deshaun is a guy that’s earned his stripes through hard work and we’re really proud of him for being on that list.”

On difficulties of season “We’re playing in a great league. We have great players, great teams, great coaches and great fans. You know you’re in for a battle and when you’re a coach you try to get your team to play their best basketball knowing that they’re playing great teams on the other side of the basketball.”

Vince Taylor, Minnesota assistant basketball coach:

On team’s state of mind “I think we’re playing with a lot more focus and we’re really just going game by game. Our chemistry is getting better and we’re cutting down on our turnovers, which has been this team’s biggest nemesis.”

On coming game with Nebraska “We know it’s going to be a tough, uphill battle against them playing at home where they have higher shooting percentages. They beat Iowa there, which was a really big victory for them. They’re a really physical team and we got to come in with a really tough mentality.” compiled by josh kelly

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mentally draining.

“Every single shot you have to think about what you want to do and how you want to hit it. If you Golf is a leisurely sport. scored a 72, your brain is thinking Whether it’s getting out on the green with a few friends or play- that through 72 times,” Lapa said.

The fact that golf is an indiing a couple rounds of putt-putt, few people realize the skills needed vidual sport has an impact as well.

After five hours of conto play the sport. Of stant thinking and becourse, one must have ing by yourself, your the talent and the corbrain becomes “fried,” rect techniques to be according to Lapa. a skilled golfer. But So just how exactly there is one thing that do they manage to separates a good golfer keep their sanity? from a great golfer, ac“Staying positive, cording to Nebraska staying in the moment junior golfer Matt Reand trusting myself cord. That separation is and my abilities,” Remental stamina. cord said.

Record started According to these record working with a sports golfers, positivity is psychologist last year, key. If they get too saying his game was suffering before his meetings. Now hung up on a bad shot, before long his skills and mindset have drasti- all of their shots become bad. However, if they are able to move past a cally improved. bad shot, it doesn’t have much of “Psychology is 90 percent of an impact on their game. the game,” Record simply said.

Lapa proved this to be true Freshman Kolton Lapa described just what makes golf so after making a 60-foot putt to win the tournament in Florida for the

Nebraska men’s golf team. Rewind traditions he has to do before a a few strokes and you’ll find Lapa tournament. standing barefoot in the water getFirst, he washes his clubs in ting ready to hit the ball. a particular order. Then he goes Going into the round, Lapa and through and listens to a set list of his opponent were tied. After a few songs. During the tournament, strokes, Lapa found his ball sitting Lapa also uses music as an escape just on the edge of the water. Once and stress manager. he read the putt, he “The last thing thought about what he you want to do is be had to do. stressed,” Lapa said. “I “I’m just telling try to get my mind off myself, ‘Get it one last golf as much as I can.” time, just hit it,’” Lapa He does this by said. thinking of funny After he hit the ball, movie quotes, his he realized half way friends and family or through that it might by humming a song. get decently close to the Along with indihole. vidual self-motivation, “Then it went in, motivating the team is and I went a little crazy. important as well. Allapa It was so exciting,” Lapa though golf is a single said. player sport, Record His experience is a prime exsaid the best win is when the team ample of how a little motivation wins. can go a long way.

“You always have to be supRecord also uses positive thinkportive of your team,” he said. “Uling as his pregame “ritual.” He fotimately if everyone plays well, the cuses on what he needs to do and team is going to do well.” sports@ how to get it done. Lapa does the dailynebraskan.com same, but he also has a few other

Lighter class schedule helps Neisen’s game jessica west dn

myself every day to not think about school and only focus on golf.”

“She’s playing much better Perhaps one of the hardest parts of playing a collegiate sport is this spring,” Krapfl said. “She has a more relaxed schedule and finding the balance between being a student and being an ath- she can focus on getting better on the course.” lete.

Being one of two juniors and Unlike other college students who focus primarily on their the oldest team member, Neisen studies, an athlete’s time has to has found herself in a leadership be divided perfectly between his role among the rest of her teammates. Having the team constantly or her own sport and school. If he or she isn’t careful, the stress of it watching her, she said, has alall can severely affect an athlete’s lowed her to set a good example of performance. Junior women’s how managing your studies and golf is essential to having a sucgolfer Steffi Neisen is no excepcessful golfing career. tion.

“Steffi has excellent leadership During the Nequalities,” Krapfl braska women’s said. “Her teamSchool golf fall season, mates look up to Neisen struggled distracted her. She’s efficient with being able with her time and to execute dur- me from golf. I’ve focused in practice ing competibeen learning to and that’s good for tion.

According the other girls to to both Neisen balance my time.” see.” and NU women’s “I can feel the steffi neisen golf coach Robin junior women’s golfer transition into the Krapfl, Neisen’s leadership role,” 16-credit hour Neisen said. “I’m class load last fall was hindering the way she was actually really comfortable being the leader. It’s an honor to have performing on the golf course.

“School distracted me from the other girls learn from not only golf,” Neisen said. “I would find me but the other junior Katelyn myself stressing over my classes Wright, too.”

As part of being a leader, Neiswhile I was supposed to be practicen has learned from her mistakes ing golf.”

“Her heavy class load was over- and is more focused now than ever. Krapfl said because of this, whelming,” Krapfl said. “It definiteNeisen has grown into a smarter ly affected her fall season.”

Since the start of the spring se- golfer.

“Now that she has found a mester and golf’s spring season, little balance, I can see the growth Neisen has been working to find the ultimate balance of academics in her game,” Krapfl said. “She and golf. So far, she said, she’s is mentally and physically prepared, and she’s very methodibeen pretty successful. cal. She knows and understands “I’ve been learning to balance my time a lot better,” Neis- her game and she knows her en said. “I set aside free time for weaknesses. She is a very tal-

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Steffi Neisen approaches a shot during a tournament last season. Neisen is playing much better golf this semester after a heavy class schedule during the fall season. ented golfer and we’re lucky to have her.”

With only a few tournaments left in the season, Neisen has created goals for herself, and goals for her team to work up to, as well.

“As a team I would like to see us just play really well in our next few tournaments to get to region-

als,” Neisen said. “As for myself, I haven’t competed as well as I have wanted to in the past, so I am striving to finish the next three tournaments in the top 25. I’m more focused now, and I know that I can do it.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Huskers look for 7th-straight win against Iowa liz uehling dn The Nebraska women’s tennis team is back on the road once again after its short break at home this weekend.

The Huskers are scheduled to compete against the Iowa Hawkeyes at 3:30 p.m. at the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex this Tuesday in hopes of returning victorious.

This will only be the Huskers third time on the road this season.

“We all enjoy traveling together,” said sophomore Maggy Lehmicke, “It can be a pain to get motivated to do homework, and missing classes can be difficult, but traveling really isn’t too bad.”

Not only do the girls look forward to traveling to Iowa, they are also anxious to compete against a conference opponent. This will be the Husker’s second Big Ten foe since facing off against Ohio State on Feb. 2, which led to Nebraska’s first Big Ten victory of the 2013 season.

The Huskers’ win against the Buckeyes left them at No. 17 in the ITA national rankings.

Since then, the Huskers have worked their way up in the rankings. Nebraska currently sits at the No. 10 spot after consecutive wins against Illinois State, Colorado State, UALR and Wyoming.

Earlier in the season, Lehmicke said senior Mary Weatherholt had presumptions the team could be somewhere in the top 10. Weatherholt foresaw the future of the Husker women’s tennis team correctly. On Feb. 26, new ITA team rankings were posted, and there sat Nebraska at No. 10.

“Being ranked No. 10 is amazing,” Lehmicke said. “I know I never expected it … We all got a text from Bella (sophomore Izabella Zgierska) with a picture of the rankings. We were all amazed and so happy that it was happening.

Now we’re aiming to be higher.”

The Huskers fall just behind their next Big Ten competitor, Northwestern, who sits at the No. 8 position, but Tuesday’s match will bring them closer to the No. 1 posi-

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Maggie Lehmicke runs after an opponent’s shot during a match earlier this season at the Nebraska Tennis Center. Lehmicke and the Huskers are searching for their seventh-straight win Tuesday against the Hawkeyes. tion in rankings.

“It’s always the goal to be ranked No. 1,” Lehmicke said.

The match against the Hawkeyes is yet another opportunity for the Huskers to work their way up to the top.

Lehmicke said the team focus is on winning, but it takes every

match day by day. The future has been put on the back burner for the Husker women, but they know each match counts toward becoming the best. This holds true for Iowa on Tuesday.

“We have the opportunity to prove a lot of people wrong,” Lehmicke said.

Consecutive Big Ten play starts with the Hawkeyes. Once Nebraska returns home from Iowa, the Huskers will face Illinois at the Nebraska Tennis Center on Friday, March 8. The match is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Janelle Giblin poses after sticking a landing Tuesday night as her teammates rush to congratulate her. Giblin recorded a perfect 10 on the bars to lead the Huskers to victory over Iowa.

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motions were high at the Bob Devaney Sports Center for the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team, but the Huskers put together a 197.675-194.950 win against conference rival Iowa.

The No. 10 Huskers, who honored Janelle Giblin, Brittany Skinner and Kassandra Nathe on senior night, beat the No. 24 Hawkeyes by winning all four events and the allaround Monday night.

Giblin said although it was an emotional night, the team kept those emotions in check and delivered a great performance.

“I am just so proud of this team,” Giblin said. “It was an aweIt was an some night to end my career here awesome at the Devaney. I tried holding back my emotions, but there were just so night to end my much.”

It was indeed an “awesome” career here at the night at the Devaney Center, as the Devaney.”

Huskers finished with their best overall score of the year and the third janelle giblin senior women’s gymnast best score in the nation, by posting a 197.675.

Nebraska started off on vault by putting together a season-high score of 49.400.

Sophomore Desire’ Stephens started things off with a 9.80, and scores would only go up from there. Junior Emily Wong and sophomore Jessie DeZiel helped the crowd come alive with scores of 9.95 each, both career highs. Chants of “10” echoed throughout the Devaney Center.

Nebraska women’s gymnastics coach Dan Kendig was pleased with the result, but noted the team needed to stick more landings in order to improve.

“It was just a great night overall,” Kendig said. “Our best

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Northern Colorado vs. Nebraska Projected Stars

But they were hot, on a 20-game win streak, and I had to pick them.

Switch courts to the Nebraska women’s team in 2012, and you’ve got the same recipe. A hot shooting team with a stud 3-point shooter (Stephen Curry for Davidson in 2008 and Jordan Hooper for Nebraska) and a team that plays nitty-gritty defense.

Despite losing Sunday to No. 7 Penn State, Nebraska hadn’t lost since the Jan. 17 game against Illinois. Gochris heady ing into the game, the Huskers were on a 10-game win streak, the secondI only have three rules when it comes longest in program history. Nebraska to selecting teams in tournament played the Big Ten Champs for 35 brackets: 1. All Big 12 schools advance in minutes as close as any team has this year, and if a couple balls would have the first round (that’s my inner-Kanbounced the Huskers way, that streak san talking). could have easily gone to 11.

2. If their colors are yellow and I assure you, the loss didn’t quite black, never pick them to win (Iowa put out the fire in Nebraska. If anyand Missouri bias speaking). thing, another log was just placed on 3. Always, always pick the hot top of it. More fuel team. for an already motiI was among If their vated team. the few people in Before the Penn colors are my bracket pool in State loss, Nebraska 2008 to pick the No. yellow and black, hadn’t lost for 48 10 seed Davidson to days. The Huskadvance to the Elite never pick them ers beat Minnesota Eight. to win.” twice, a team that Seriously, I still beat Penn State just have my bracket last week, and has from that year if you three wins of more than 20 points. NU don’t believe me. When I compared held three teams in a row to season brackets with friends prior to the lows in points (Michigan, Iowa and tournament, they scoffed at me. Told me a 10 seed could never make it past Wisconsin).

Hooper, who was named All-Big the No. 2 seed such as Georgetown or a strong No. 3 seed such as Wisconsin. Ten first team Monday afternoon,

BIG TEN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL AWARDS Award

Name

Coach of the Year First Team All-Big Ten

Team

Connie Yori Rachel Banham Jordan Hooper Tayler Hill Maggie Lucas Second Team All-Big Ten Adrienne Godbold Karisma Penn Morgan Johnson Kate Thompson Lindsey Moore Big Ten All-Freshman Team Shayne Mullaney Rachel Theriot Maggie Lyon Ameryst Alston Taylor Manuel

scored more than 25 points four times. Lindsey Moore had more than five assists seven times. Freshman Rachel Theriot picked up two Big-Ten Freshman of the Week honors, was a unanimous selection for the All-Big Ten Freshman team and improved her career high in points to 19.

Teams like that don’t diminish after one loss.

Not only that, but this team seems to be born for tournament suc-

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cess. Moore has logged in more minutes than any other Husker player and never seems to be tired, a perfect attribute for a star point guard in a tournament.

Hooper seems primed to go off from 3-point range at any given moment, a skill that is essential for both comebacks and extending leads.

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Game

Nebraska

Northern Colorado

Game 1 Game 2

LHP Aaron Bummer (0-0) TBA

RHP Eian Raeber (0-0) TBA

Home baseball game postponed to Wednesday staff report DN Because of the threat of inclement weather in Lincoln Tuesday, the Nebraska baseball team will now play a double-header against Northern Colorado (3-4 overall) on Wednesday.

Game one, which was scheduled to be played at 12:05 p.m. Tuesday, is now slated to start at 12:05 p.m., Wednesday, while game two will begin approximately 45 minutes after the end of the first contest.

Sophomore left-hander Aaron Bummer, who was expected to pitch the second game of the series, will take the mound for the Huskers (27) in game one, according to Nebraska coach Darin Erstad.

The Huskers will go into Wednesday’s double-header having won two straight against New Mexico after losing seven in a row to start the season.

In game one against the Lobos, Nebraska used a six-run rally in the bottom of the sixth inning after being down 0-5 to pull off the 8-5 victory. Husker pitchers Michael Hoppes, Josh Roeder and Dylan Vogt hurled three scoreless innings to secure the team’s first win of the season.

Junior right-hander Christian DeLeon continued the solid pitching, throwing eight scoreless innings to help Nebraska sweep the short series 3-0. The 6-foot-3inch starter struck out five Lobos, while third baseman Josh Scheffert cranked a two-run homerun in the sixth inning to help DeLeon earn his first victory of the season.

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