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Dear readers,

If you saw me on March 2, I was likely wearing a blue robe with a white stole around my neck.

No, I wasn’t cosplaying as one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s blue wizards, but rather, I was welcoming our new members to Omicron Delta Kappa.

A year ago, I was initiated into this honor society when a precession of robed people surrounded me as I was copy editing in the Daily Nebraskan office.

I’m not entirely sure why I applied to ODK. The best answer I have is I wanted to see if I was good enough. One of the pillars of ODK celebrates “journalism, speech and mass media.” Those three nouns account for about 80 percent of my daily activity, so that was enough justification for me.

Now a year after being in this organization, I have the chance to reflect.

ODK made me realize I’m living in a bubble. There are some days when I only see my DN cubicle and the speech team room in Oldfather Hall, and literally everyone I talk to is pursuing degrees in the humanities.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a college experience like that. It’s certainly comfortable. There are days when I end up hanging out with the same people for the entire day.

ODK challenged me to get out of my bubble. We’re a diverse group. My class has someone from each college, multiple Greek houses and other walks of life.

I would have never even met half the people in my class had I

not joined.

On Wednesday, we had our first meeting with our new members. They all seemed a little weirded out, as I was a year ago.

After initiation week, banquets and working together on projects, they’ll have 20-some new friends they never expected.

Honor societies aren’t for everybdoy. But whether you choose to don a robe or not, breaking out of your own bubble will make for a better college experience.

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About a year ago, Walter Bircher became a guilty Innocent.

Or the least Innocent. He wasn’t sure what you call a person who drops out of the Innocents Society because it doesn’t happen often. Semantics aside, Bircher decided he’d seen enough of the chancellor’s senior honorary after watching an inductee get tackled on a cold day last March.

That morning, the Innocents class had prepared the junior inductee – who requested the night before this story was published that his quotes and name be removed – like they would anyone else.

Relax your body. Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Tilt your chin down and bend your knees.

And then – thwack.

The student was sent to the University Health Center for a brief concussion test, which he passed.

Bircher told the other members that was it and he was leaving.

To Bircher, this tradition – blindfolding, circling and, one by one, charging at an inductee until the final member bull-rushes the student to the ground – was hazing. And he wanted no part in it. *** On Friday, popular blog Total Frat Move published a video sent by an anonymous UNL student allegedly depicting one of the tackling ceremonies. The headline: “Check out this video of the University of Nebraska openly endorsing hazing.”

The undated 12-second clip shows a blackrobed figure standing surrounded by red-robed figures. Nine of the red robes run past the person in the center, coming close but avoiding contact. Then the 10th person grabs the blackrobed figure around the middle and brings him – or her – to the ground. Everyone cheers.

The ceremony was an example of “university sponsored and supported hazing,” the tipster said in an email. The writer draws a comparison between the tackling and acts of hazing that other student organizations, especially Greek ones, are punished for at UNL. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Code of Conduct defines hazing as follows: “Any activity by an organization or by a member of an organization in which a member, prospective member, pledge or associate of the organization is subjected to acts which cause harm or create the risk of harm to the physical or mental health of the member, prospective member, or pledge.”

Student organizations that participate in hazing are eligible for a variety of sanctions, as outlined in the Student Code of Conduct.

In 2012, multicultural sorority Sigma Lambda Gamma faced a year of suspension as punishment for hazing that included making students wear robes, keeping them awake for long hours and forcing them to carry eggs for a week as part of an initiation ritual.

The Innocents haven’t faced any such punishment or charges relating to the tackling of inductees.

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turn a phone call requesting comments for this story. Ben Zitek, another adviser tasked with answering applicants’ questions about the tackling ceremony, didn’t answer a Sunday afternoon request for comment.

To Bircher, the group is guilty of hazing. And he said the tackling ceremony isn’t the only questionable practice the Innocents endorses.

Bircher said he experienced other forms of hazing during his initiation week in 2013, including seemingly harmless things such as carrying around a red bandana and a deck of cards everywhere he went. He was reprimanded when older class members found out he wasn’t doing either.

It became not-so-harmless, though, when members of the older class came into his room in the middle of the night, woke him up, blindfolded him and drove him around for 40 minutes, while playing eerie music, until they had him stand on the edge of a highway for five or 10 minutes.

Afterward, they met up with other members for a celebratory “we made it” kind of meal, but Bircher didn’t feel like the experience had brought him closer to the group. If anything, he said, it pushed him away. Other Innocents members declined to confirm Bircher’s story.

And while websites with features such as “Instagram Babe of the Day” aren’t necessarily the best news sources, combined with stories like Bircher’s, they raise a few questions.

Some former members wonder: If the Innocents is a collection of UNL’s top leaders and brightest students, why is the tackling still happening? And what does it say about UNL? The answer lies in one of the Innocents’ integral components: tradition. *** For a club approaching its 112th anniversary, traditions matter. And through two world wars, a limbo period in the ‘70s and a revitalization in the ‘80s, tackling has endured as one of the group’s

most prominent ceremonies.

In early days, thousands would flock to view the tacklings. In the ‘40s, new Innocents were inducted months early out of fear they would be drafted. Today, tackling remains an integral part of the Innocents’ identity.

Members have a defense against allegations of hazing. They say inductees don’t have to be tackled if they don’t want to.

The Innocents is upfront on its membership application that inductees may opt out of the ceremony. But Peter Bock, a former Innocents member and UNL alumnus, said this hardly ever happens because no one wants to be the person who disrupts the tradition.

And while he wouldn’t comment on last year’s tackling incident or brand the tackling ceremony as hazing, he said the Innocents need to retire the tradition.

“If you look at it objectively, it’s a huge injury risk,” Bock said. “It’s a liability for the university; it’s a very public thing that isn’t necessary. And the only reason I think it’s stuck around is because of the traditional aspect and that’s the way things were.”

Bock called the continuation of the practice “ridiculous” and said it doesn’t reflect well on the university.

“We’re supposed to be a representation of the brightest people at UNL, and the fact that we get hung up on doing things for the sake of tradition and put people at risk of injury is silly,” Bock said.

But because the tackling is voluntary, it exists in a grey area that allows the Innocents to continue the tradition in spite of accidents similar to last year’s.

Innocents President Joe Farley, a senior mechanical engineering major, defended the practice.

“It’s OK because things happen,” Farley said. “The important thing is that you address it afterwards and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”

In light of what happened last year, the goal

with this year’s tackling was to avoid similar accidents, Farley said.

“We addressed that and we didn’t have any incident this year because we wanted to essentially protect the individuals we were selecting,” Farley said.

In the past, Farley said, some members may have more harshly tackled inductees whom they knew personally, resulting in rougher impacts.

Farley said he and the rest of the Innocents hope to start a trend of safer tackling.

That’s not an entirely new sentiment. The inductee who inspired Bircher’s departure from the Innocents had been coached to avoid injury.

Bircher said allowing the tackling to continue sets a dangerous precedent for future classes of the Innocents.

“It keeps going and nobody asks, ‘Why are we doing this?’” Bircher said. “Why are we creating all this hardship for people aside from the fact that it’s the way it’s always been done?”

Former Innocent and UNL alumnus Qian’li Wang brought up another argument in defense of the tackling: The practice, although physical in nature, doesn’t carry malicious intent.

“It is simply a ceremonial gesture,” Wang said in an email. “It is not done forcefully. It is not done with any intent to harm, intimidate, or embarrass.”

The Student Code of Conduct addresses that form of defense: “The intent of any person engaging in hazing activity or the consent or cooperation of any person who is a victim of hazing will not constitute a defense to an allegation of misconduct for hazing.”

Bircher and Bock said it’s time for change. And it’s not like change is unheard of for the Innocents: Over the years, the group has transcended from an all-white, all-male society with an impression of secrecy to today’s diverse organization with an online roster and a Twitter account.

But one thing that hasn’t changed is, perhaps, the group’s most important byproduct of all: lasting friendships.

Wang, who’s an immigrant from China, said the relationships and camaraderie he formed with “the best students on campus” are invaluable to him. Bock said he hopes to keep for life the friends he made through Innocents.

For Bircher? Not so much. His relationships with fellow Innocents were tense last year because he had a hard time assimilating to the group, and leaving definitely didn’t help. But even he admits the group serves a purpose on campus. *** For the Innocents, the trademark red robes are a symbol of unity. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. The voices of 13 are greater than one.

And some members, it appears, have little tolerance for dissent. That much was evident Friday night after Bircher commented on the Total Frat Move article on his Facebook, and later received a call from an alumna. Take down the article, he recalled her saying, sending a message that he considered threatening, petty and a power-move all at once. Her message was simple.

“People will not be happy.”

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After refounding, ODK shifts focus to reputation COLLEEN FELL DN Kathleen Loach knew she needed to be part of an honor society that wasn’t “one size fits all.” After getting involved in a variety of diverse activities, from Greek life to the Husker Equestrian Team, she wanted membership in a society that matched her personality and ambition.

Loach, a senior psychology and advertising and public relations major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, found a home with Omicron Delta Kappa, one of three honor societies at UNL. The diversity of Omicron Delta Kappa’s members is what Loach enjoys most about the society.

“The more broad views there are, the better the work is going to be,” Loach said.

The society celebrates five different areas of achievement including scholarship, athletics, campus/religious/student government activities, journalism/mass media and creative and performing arts.

Omicron Delta Kappa is the only society not included during Ivy Day ceremonies. The ceremonies are a long-standing tradition at UNL and give recognition to students in the other two societies, Innocents Society and Mortar Board. The tradition, which dates back to 1889, involves the honor societies’ members planting ivy during a large ceremony.

Nationally, Omicron Delta Kappa accepts both juniors and seniors, but the UNL chapter only accepts seniors. In order to be recognized at Ivy Day though, the society must strictly consist of seniors nationally.

Juan Franco, vice chancellor for student affairs at UNL, said although Omicron Delta Kappa is prestigious, it doesn’t count as a senior honor society. However, the society can find an alternative way to recognize itself, Franco said.

“I suspect that if the ODK membership wanted to, it could put on a quality program similar to Ivy Day either by itself or together with other honor societies on campus,” Franco said.

Those close to the organization said they suspect the organization simply hasn’t been at UNL long enough.

As a national society, Omicron Delta Kappa is

more than 100 years old, but the organization has only been at UNL for a few years.

Sammi Kaiser, a 2010 graduate of UNL, helped refound Omicron Delta Kappa at UNL in 2011.

She said that prior to its refounding, the society was present on campus, but it didn’t recognize its members in the way the other two senior honor societies did. Kaiser wanted to reform the society after seeing that space in the others was too limited.

“We’re too big of a university… We’re not honoring enough people,” Kaiser said.

Anna McTygue, a senior advertising and public relations major at UNL and member of Omicron Delta Kappa, said even though the society isn’t given as much recognition, she doesn’t believe it to be a little sibling of the other two.

“The fact of the matter is that we are the youngest, but there’s still a lot of camaraderie,” McTygue said.

Though the societies can be competitive in selecting members, she said there’s no bad blood among them.

“We’re friends,,” she said. “We’re all in very good standing with each other.”

Though the society isn’t as well-recognized, McTygue said she thinks Omicron Delta Kappa’s youth is an advantage.

“It allows us to get a variety of students that the others might not,” she said. “We don’t want a cookie-cutter circle.”

McTygue wanted to join the society because of its emphasis on celebrating creative performing and fine arts. She said she thinks people who feel like they don’t fit in to the other well-established societies might apply to Omicron Delta Kappa.

McTygue said not being included in Ivy Day doesn’t hinder her passion and respect for the other honor societies.

“We still have a lot of respect for Ivy Day,” she said.

As for attaining senior honor society status in the future, Loach said she thinks it should happen.

“It’s the same application,” she said. “We have different standards, but it doesn’t mean they’re lower.”

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Its members don hoods, wear robes and carry an air of mystique with them.

From its origins as a strictly male society, which in the early years was a pep squad that led student rallies before football games, to its hand in establishing a student government, the Innocents Society has built a reputation on effecting change at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

And last week was the official induction of the 111th class of the society.

Innocents is deeply steeped in tradition. The honor society’s emblem features the head of Mephistopheles – a demon in folklore – underscored by two crossing tridents. The emblem signifies the act of overcoming evil forces and doing good deeds, said Jeff Story, keeper of traditions for this year’s Innocents class.

This emphasis on tradition was a draw for Story when he applied for Innocents last year.

“I had known members of the society, and they were the people I always looked up to and who I knew were great examples of leaders for me personally,” Story said.

Established as the chancellor’s senior honorary society in 1903 under the guidance of Roscoe Pound and George Condra, the Innocents was founded as a way to gather students from across UNL to act as campus leaders and promote school spirit. Pound, who was dean of UNL’s College of Law at the time and went on to be dean of the Harvard Law College, modeled Innocents after similar societies at Ivy League schools.

Pound and Condra named the society for the 13 Pope Innocents, who historically were seen as champions against forces of evil. They also chose the emblem.

In the 1910s, members helped the university acquire an athletic field for football games.

In 1938, the Innocents formed the first student council, which today is known as the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska.

More than half a century later, in 1998, the Innocents partnered with students and administrators to combat Initiative 413, which threatened substantial budget cuts to higher education institutions in Nebraska. During football games, Innocents donned blue sashes over their robes in protest to the initiative, which was later defeated.

In Innocents, Story said he was brought together with students who had different experiences than his own in working to benefit students.

“In the society you have to try and mesh almost immediately,” Story said. “It helps when you can feel more of an immediate connection when you know you’re part of a long tradition, and one that’s entirely distinct to Nebraska.”

Notable Innocents alumni include former Nebraska senator and governor Bob Kerrey, current NFL player Kyle Vanden Bosch, E.N. Thompson Forum namesake Elwood N. Thompson and for-

mer Lincoln mayor Don Wesely. Honorary Innocents include former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and football coaches Tom Osborne and Bob Devaney.

In 1976, women were first admitted to the Innocents in compliance with Title IX. Since then, the Innocents have sought to expand its reach across campus, said current president Joe Farley.

Though candidates are chosen through a process of blind selection, Farley said the organization has sought to reach out to groups that haven’t been involved with the Innocents to select individuals that represent the growing parts of campus.

“Each of our members is from a different niche on campus, and they’ve each been able to offer a different perspective,” Farley said. “But above anything we select students who exemplify the society’s three values, which are scholarship, leadership and selfless service.”

Recently, Innocents has put a greater focus on service and outreach throughout the state, Story said.

“We do try to find ways of mixing the traditions we have with our goals for the future,” Story said. “But our mission of academic excellence, leadership and service hasn’t changed.”

The 2005-2006 class of Innocents established Innocents Volunteering Across Nebraska, where they challenged future classes to a charity of their own.

This year, the 110th class expanded its work to 10 communities across Nebraska, volunteering at local food banks and participating in other community building renovation projects.

Story said in the past decade, Innocents classes have also worked to revitalize older traditions as well.

Nebraska’s transition to the Big Ten Conference marked the end of a 93-year-old tradition in which the Innocents traded a bell trophy (originally taken from a church in Seward) with the University of Missouri’s senior honor society based on the winner of the Nebraska Missouri football game.

The next year, the 2011-2012 Innocents class adapted this tradition to UNL’s annual football game with the University of Iowa, and a trophy exchange was established with the President’s Leadership Society in what was dubbed the Corn Bowl. The two societies also set up a blood drive competition between the two schools.

Every year, the senior honor societies are honored at a spring ceremony called Ivy Day. At the ceremony, members of the Innocents Society and Mortar Board walk from the Champions Club carrying a fake string of Ivy and presidents of both societies plant it at Love Library.

For members, traditions like these create a connection to the past.

“We want to continue to invest in the next generation of students and leaders on campus to maintain the university’s advancement even long after we leave,” Farley said.

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Mortar Board continues tradition of giving back BAILEY SCHULZ DN Last Monday morning, members of the Black Masque Chapter of Mortar Board donned black robes and masks and tapped their new initiates.

Mortar Board, which was founded in 1918, has been a part of the University of NebraskaLincoln since 1921. The senior honor society defied some societal norms; the society is known as the first-ever national organization honoring senior college women and didn’t allow men to enroll until 1975.

Today, there are more than a quarter of a million members spanning across 231 chapters in 46 states.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s branch has had a few notable alumni, including James “J.B.” Milliken, former University of Nebraska president. He’s now the chancellor of The City University of New York. Jane Hirt, former Chicago Tribune managing editor, is another one-time member of UNL’s Mortar Board.

There’s a minimum GPA of 3.3 set by Mortar Board’s national headquarters, but Andrew “AJ” Blazek, biochemistry and Spanish major and the president of UNL’s Mortar Board, said there are no other specific requirements.

“All of our members read and judge applications based off of our three pillars of scholarship, leadership and service,” Blazek said.

“From there we evaluate and discuss and from there decide who we believe should be in the next class.”

There are about 30 members enrolled per year, each initiated through a process called “tapping.”

Christina Guthmann, an international business major, was tapped last year during a Monday night dinner for her sorority.

“They announced your name, and then it worked out that they tap you with the Mortar Board gavel on both shoulders, and then take a picture with you,”she said. “It was really exciting.”

Each Mortar Board member is given a certain position and responsibility. Guthmann, for example, is the professor of the month chair.

Members honor a noteworthy professor each month by going to his or her class to read them a speech.

Other members are given titles, such as president, and others are in charge of events such as homecoming or initiating new members. Each position is decided through an election process.

“You do have one specific role, but at the same time you’re kind of in every position because you’re helping everyone out,” Blazek said.

The Mortar Board society stands on the three virtues of scholarship, leadership and service. An example of their service is their national project, which is currently “Reading is Leading.”

Jake Petr, a Mortar Board member and a meteorology-climatology major, said he believes what he’s learned from the organization will stick with him long after graduation.

“That’s one of the things that will be impactful for me moving on, trying to make sure that I give back to the community and be more involved in service,” he said.

The UNL branch goes to Clinton Elementary School and works with students for an hour a week to help develop reading skills as part of “Reading is Leading.”

They also help host October’s Jack-OLantern Jog and certain events at homecoming with Omicron Delta Kappa.

“Being in Mortar Board is extremely beneficial because not only are you able to have

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Grad student works to save lions in Africa Andrei Snyman splits his time between Nebraska, Africa to do research on lion conservation MELISSA ALLEN DN

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Andrei Snyman, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, works with lions in his research in southern Africa. He splits time between Lincoln and the nation of Botswana every year. there, Snyman called Carroll and asked about the possibility of attaining a Ph.D in the United States.

“Of course, I said yes, and the rest is now history,” Carroll said.

After one semester in Georgia, Carroll was appointed the Dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources, and both Carroll and Snyman moved to

MORTAR BOARD: FROM 6 an impact on campus by setting up philanthropies and leading by example. At the same time, you also are impacting yourself,” Blazek said.

“It’s humbling being around so many great people that allow you to grow yourself while at the same time working all together for the betterment of the university.”

Mikaela Balfany, a senior actuarial science major, agrees that being in Mortar Board has many benefits.

“Everyone in the group is such an inspirational leader on campus, and are passionate about so many different types of activities,” she said. “They kind of expose you to new ideas, different ways to be a leader and just how to

have passion in everything that you do.”

A similar senior honor society on UNL’s campus is the Innocents Society, a more exclusive organization that takes 13 members each year. Members of both parties have a running joke about a long-standing feud between the two.

“It’s a 100 percent friendly rivalry,” Blazek said. “Basically, we accept that we’re both two groups of great leaders on campus. We kind of just make up the idea of a rivalry because it’s fun to compete against them and push ourselves to try and do better. There’s no bad blood at all.”

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UNL. Carroll and Snyman return to Botswana every year as part of a undergraduate education abroad program opportunity. Students are able to study the importance of conservation and the relationship between people and animals.

“I love taking students to Botswana to have a chance to see the real bush but also

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Andrei Snyman lives in a near perpetual state of winter.

A graduate student in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources, Snyman spends the school year in Lincoln and May through August in Botswana – when the Southern Hemisphere experiences winter.

Before coming to UNL in Fall 2013, Snyman spent nine years as head of research for the Northern Tuli Predator Project in the Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana. The project focuses on the conservation of carnivores, primarily lions, by collaring them with GPS trackers and following their movements in and out of the game reserve.

Population pressure presents a major challenge to the conservation of these carnivores.

“There’s less and less space, and now there are just islands of wilderness in the sea of humanity,” the South African native said. “The population of big cats was crashing because of this, so we collar them to see where they go and how they get from point A to point B.” In 2011, Snyman met John Carroll, who at the time was a natural resources professor at the University of Georgia. Every year, Carroll took students to Southern Africa to study abroad.

“About 5 years ago, we moved across the border into Botswana because the area offered a bit more flexibility for our program as we wanted to begin introducing some formal research projects,” Carroll said. “There I met Andrei who was head of research for the Mashatu Reserve and studying both leopards and lions.”

After their second year of taking students

the challenges facing the continent relative to wildlife conservation,” Carroll said. “They also come back realizing that Americans don’t have all the answers and in fact we need to go to places like Botswana to learn how other cultures view common problems quite differently and often arrive at quite different and creative solutions.”

Before his stint at the Mashatu Game Reserve, Snyman’s goal was to be a professional hunter. He studied game and ranch management at the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. His professor at the time, a big cat biologist, needed a field technician for tracking lions. Snyman took the job.

Now he is doing his Ph.D. research on lion conservation in the 21st century.

“I’m using resources at UNL to map out the region to predict where they’re going, and where are the good and bad spots they travel through to get from point A to point B,” Snyman said.

Snyman’s research with UNL and the Northern Tuli Predator Project has helped to maintain lion populations in and out of the game reserve. By tracking the lions’ movements as they travel through farmland or villages, the Mashatu game reserve can call locals to warn them a lion is in the area and to shelter their cattle until it passes. This prevents locals from killing the traveling carnivores and helps to build relationships with the people living around the game reserve.

There’s a lot to lose if you’re a cattle-owner living side-by-side with lions.

“There’s the human awareness factor you have to work with,” Snyman said. “I like working with animals, but you have to work with people, engage them. You have to see it from the point of view of the villager because it’s a big matter to lose cattle.”

Now Snyman is working toward becoming a professor himself and said he hopes to expand his research on lion conservation while in the U.S. “I’d like to teach and manage projects from a university,” he said. “I want to take students out for study abroad and open up opportunities and connections to facilitate research in Africa.”

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David Rivers and other Husker seniors were honored Sunday night after their dedication to the Nebraska program. Nebraska will play Penn State on Wednesday.

Senior night spoiled with loss to No. 9 Maryland NICK WILKINSON DN In the season finale at Pinnacle Bank Arena Sunday night, the No. 10 Maryland Terrapins defeated the Nebraska men’s basketball team 64-61.

With the loss, Nebraska will play Penn State in the first round of the Big Ten tournament on Wednesday.

On senior night, Moses Abraham, Kye Kurkowski, Trevor Menke, David Rivers and Leslee Smith all dressed in a Husker uni-

forms in Lincoln for the last time.

Junior guard Shavon Shields led the Huskers with a season high of 26 points and six rebounds while junior guard Terran Petteway finished with 19 points. As a team, the Huskers shot 31 percent from the field (18-59).

Maryland freshman guard Melo Trimble scored 21 points for the Terrapins, shooting 5-9 from the field and 2-3 beyond the arch.

Trimble also made 9 of 10 free throws on Sunday night.

The Huskers stayed evenly matched with the Terrapins throughout the first half. Pette-

way earned 14 points going 4-14 from the field but was 0-3 beyond the arch.

Senior guard Rivers was 1 of 6 from the free-throw line late in the game. He went 1 of 2 with 1:31 minutes left in the game, which made the score 61-57. Rivers fouled out shortly after with three points and five rebounds.

With 42.9 seconds to go in the game, Shields drove through three defenders to come up with the points and the foul to make it a 62-61 game.

Maryland’s Dez Wells inbounded the ball after a timeout and knocked down a jumper

with Petteway in his face. Maryland led by three with 8.9 seconds to go in the game.

Petteway inbounded the ball and passed it to Shields looking for the three. Nebraska went 2-14 shooting threes as Shields missed the potential game-tying shot.

Nebraska dropped the final eight games of the 2014-15 regular season.

Nebraska will play Penn State Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at the United Center in Chicago at the Big Ten tournament.

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Husker seniors deserve to be called best class Austin Moylan

In a society too often obsessed with the next big thing, the next sweeping trend or the next breaking story, simply finding time to stop and reflect has become all the more difficult.

But if there were ever a group deserving of such reflection and appreciation, it would have to be the 2015 senior class of the Nebraska women’s basketball team. If nothing else, the seniors’ four years in Lincoln have served as a reminder that dedicated, hard-working college athletes remain the core of college athletics, despite whatever the latest NCAA court case may be or whatever the latest news headline may say.

“They embody a lot of the values that we deem important in our program,” coach Con-

nie Yori said. “(The values) of hard work, of perseverance, of toughness, of buying into their roles. I think those guys have done all of those things, and that’s the reason they’ve accomplished what they’ve accomplished.”

The four seniors –­ Emily Cady, Brandi Jeffery, Tear’a Laudermill and Hailie Sample – have led by example, and it’s no coincidence that they leave Nebraska as the winningest class in Nebraska basketball history both men and women.

“In today’s day and age, to have four kids come in at the same time and all of them leave at the same time and all of them on track to graduate, I think that says a lot about their perseverance and stick-to-itiveness,” Yori said.

While there’s no shortage of talent with this group, the 2015 seniors will largely be remembered for their consistency on and off the court, as well as their ability to lead the team through one of the biggest transitions in program history. Not only did this class break in Pinnacle Bank Arena and its state-of-the-art basketball facilities, but the seniors also led the team through its first four seasons in the Big Ten Conference, a transition that wasn’t always easy.

And they won some games along the way.

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Nebraska’s dominating victory against Illinois in the Big Ten tournament on Thursday night was the group’s 116th win together. The Huskers have won 20 or more games in each season with the 2015 senior class and come Selection Monday, Nebraska will be making their fourth straight NCAA tournament appearance for the first time in school history. With a record of 116-43, Nebraska is in the midst of putting the final touches on the greatest four-year run in school history.

But before all the wins and awards, the collective story of the 2015 seniors began long before they had even stepped on campus. They were a heavily recruited group, talented enough to be looked at by many other schools besides Nebraska. Yori, who has been at Nebraska since 2002, said that the Huskers may not have landed the four players had it not been for the success of the 2009-10 Nebraska women’s team, a group whose 32-2 record and 30-game winstreak remains the best season in school history.

“Typically, when you’re not as good, it’s harder to recruit. It’s pretty simple,” Yori said.

“The better players don’t necessarily want to go to a program that isn’t winning. So we got a pretty good group to come in and a big part of it is we had just come off a great season.

“This group is a reflection of the 32-2 season.”

The Huskers got commitments from all four players during their junior years of high school and was Nebraska’s first top-25 recruiting class in school history. The group has largely lived up to the hype.

“Every year is a little bit different, but we felt good about the group when they came in,” Yori said. “And in a lot of ways they’ve met those expectations. They’ve been as good as advertised.”

Beyond the winning, the seniors liked what they saw in other areas of the program, from the fans to the style of play Yori encourages.

“I just liked how hard Nebraska works,” Sample said.

“The style of play that they have, the runand-gun style of play and just how much heart goes into it.” Cady agreed.

“I think the big reason why I cam here was coach Yori is such a great coach,” Cady said. “I knew that she puts a lot of effort into coaching and that’s the kind of coach I was looking for.

And also we have really, really good fans and I saw that and that made me want to come here.”

Sample and Cady started from the moment they walked onto campus and have since combined for 259 starts between the two of them.

Cady, who’s from Seward, Nebraska, has 33 career double-doubles, including 11 this season. She was named to the 2014 and 2015 AllBig Ten second teams. This season she has averaged 12.5 points and 10.4 rebounds per game.

Going into the Big Ten tournament, Cady had scored 1,415 career points and ranked third alltime in rebounds Nebraska with 1,089. She’s a great defender and has developed into a formidable passer out of the post, as her 302 career assists are more than any other post-player in school history.

“She always comes ready to play,” Laudermill said. “She’s one of those players where you hardly have to tell her anything. She’ll get

it done the first time.”

Sample, who has been roommates with Cady since her freshman year, has gotten to know Cady well and appreciates all she does on and off the court.

“I love the passion and the fire that I know she’s going to bring on the court,” Sample said.

“I think she’s a big reason why we rally when we do come back in games; it’s because she’s leading the way every time.”

Sample, at 6-foot-1- forward from Flower Mound, Texas, has also been a consistent player for the Huskers. She has been a solid defender since Day 1 and provides another rebounding and scoring presence for the team. She has averaged 7.4 points and 6.9 rebounds this season and was a member of the All-Big Ten Defensive Team last season.

“Hailie is tough as nails,” Jeffery said. “At times she’s hurting, and you’d never know she’s hurting. That’s what is amazing about her.”

“She just works hard,” Laudermill said.

“She’ll give her all. Coach will even yell at her, and she’ll just sit there and take it, you know.

And that right there, that’s a lot. You have people that yelling doesn’t get to them, but Hailie, she’s just one tough girl. She’ll stick with it and she pays attention to detail. She’s a player where you don’t even have to repeat yourself.”

Laudermill, a guard from Moreno Valley, California, has had to work her way into a starting role over the years but has developed into one of the most talented players on the team.

Her 13.7 points per game this season rank second on the team, behind only junior point guard Rachel Theriot, whose season ended in early February with an ankle injury. Laudermill is also one of the better shooters on the team and ranks in the top five in school history in career three-pointers. She’s also known for her defense and athleticism on the perimeter and was named to the 2014 All-Big Ten second team.

“I love playing with T,” Sample said. “And I love T off of the court too, I love hanging out with T, it’s just so much fun. She’s a fun person and she makes you in a happier mood. Every time I come into practice and if I am in a bad mood, it’s like she can tell. She’s like, ‘Here we go, here we go!’ I just like her energy and excitement.”

And finally comes Brandi Jeffery, a guard from Vacherie, Louisiana. Jeffery did not start until this season, but has steadily improved her entire career into a reliable guard with a wide range of skills. She led the team in steals this season and averaged nearly seven rebounds per game despite standing at only 5-feet-7-inches.

She averaged 7.7 points per game and many times came up with big plays in big moments for the Huskers, especially this season.

“When I think of Brandi, I can just see how big her heart is when she plays,” Cady said.

“And she’s not just playing for Nebraska, she’s not just playing for herself or her team, she’s playing for her family too. It’s fun to see how Brandi has grown.”

“She’s the type of person, friend and teammate that just has your back,” Sample said.

“And I just love that about her.”

It has been a fun and interesting ride for the four seniors, each of whom has contributed immensely in their own ways to a team that has

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“I have a greater appreciation now than I would have maybe 10 years ago,” Yori said. “Because I think it’s really hard to stay on top. And we’re not winning conference championships every year, but we have been really consistent.

We’ve won more Big Ten games with this group than any other school that we play against. But it’s hard to be consistently good. Everybody has those years where they are up and down, but over a four-year span, to average 24 wins over that span, that’s pretty impressive.”

Above all else, it might indeed be the wins that have been most impressive for the 2015 seniors. The group won 24 games together their freshman year before losing in the first round

of the NCAA tournament. The next season, Nebraska won 25 games and made only the second trip to the Sweet 16 in school history. And last season, the group won the Big Ten Tournament on their way to 26 wins and another NCAA tournament.

The best part is that the ride isn’t over quite yet. If the team is to continue the trend and notch one more win than last season’s total, the Huskers might be playing deeper into March than ever before.

“We still have a lot more games to play and a lot more wins that we want to get,” Sample said. “So we’re focused on what’s next.”

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Husker bowling goes 4-1 in Music City Classic CODY NAGEL DN The No. 1 Nebraska bowling team was in Nashville, Tennessee, this weekend competing at the 2015 NCAA Music City Classic. The official start of the tournament was pushed back to Saturday because of inclement weather.

There was no official team victor because of the shortened tournament.

The classic began with 23 teams competing followed by five more teams arriving on Saturday. The teams that arrived on schedule still bowled team matches, which would count toward their records. Nebraska went 4-1.

The Huskers started Day 2, the official start to the tournament, with a loss to No. 8 Maryland – Eastern Shore 988 -977. After a 1,022-901 win against No. 10 North Carolina A&T. Nebraska lost its second match of the day, 1,032 – 978 to Bethune Cookman.

Trying to keep pace with the host team, No. 6 Vanderbilt, the Huskers finished Saturday with victories against Florida A&M and Saint Peter’s University.

Going into the final day of the 2015 NCAA Music City Classic, Nebraska was in seventh place with a total pinfall of 5,044. No 6 Vanderbilt led the field with a pinfall of 5,237.

Five Baker matches were scheduled for Sunday’s competition. The Huskers went 4-0 with their first game counting as a bye. Nebraska finished Sunday with total pinfall of 5,310.

In the final match of the day, the Huskers bowled the highest team score of the weekend with pinfall of 1,206 against the Commodores of Vanderbilt. But it was not enough as Vanderbilt claimed the unofficial title with a two-day total pinfall of 10,535.

Sophomore Gazmine Mason won the individual competition this weekend with a five-game average of 230.60. Senior Lizabeth Kuhlkin placed 12th with an average of 213.60.

“We kind of know what we needed to do between now and if we are lucky enough to make nationals. If we can make the right corrections and do the right things , sky is the limit, the team is deep and talented,” assistant coach Paul Klempa.

On March 25, the No. 1 Nebraska bowling team will know what seed they will be going into the NCAA Championships on April 9-11.

The Huskers will be in search of their fifth NCAA title and 10th title overall in St. Louis.

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Husker senior Robert Kokesh defeated Penn State’s Matt Brown to win his second-straight conference title.

Nebraska senior wrestler wins Big Ten Conference title Senior Robert Kokesh takes second-straight Big Ten title in 174-pound weight class with 7-3 win RILEY BOWDEN DN Nebraska senior Robert Kokesh brought home his second-straight Big Ten Conference title at 174-pounds on Sunday with a 7-3 victory against Penn State’s Matt Brown.

Kokesh was the only Husker wrestler to compete for an individual championship, and as a team, Nebraska took seventh with a total score of 85.5.

Brown was the 2013 Big Ten champion at 174-pounds and returned to the championship this year after a third-place finish in 2014.

Kokesh started the championship match

with a takedown, taking an early 2-0 lead in the first round. Brown earned an escape before the period ended, narrowing Kokesh’s lead to 2-1 at the end of the first.

Kokesh earned two points in the last second of Period 2 with a takedown of Brown.

He carried a 4-2 lead in to the third period.

He continued to attack in the third period and started the period with an escape, earning a takedown on his way to a 7-3 win and his second-straight Big Ten title. The No. 1 nationally ranked Kokesh fought through a highly competitive Big Ten at 174-pounds.

The top-four wrestlers in the weight class all wrestle in the conference.

Kokesh’s second title run began Friday with a bye. He pinned Michigan’s Taylor Massa in the quarterfinals in 15 seconds, the fastest pin in the tournament’s history. He met Minnesota’s Logan Storley in the semifinals for the second-straight year. Kokesh beat Storley 3-2 last year and 2-1 in 2015.

The two-time All-American Kokesh will now shift his focus to the NCAA championships in St. Louis starting on March 19. He will likely run into a couple of Big Ten oppo-

nents on his way through the national bracket. His best finish at the NCAAs came in 2013 when he placed third. He goes into the 2015 NCAAs undefeated at 34-0.

More than 100 wrestlers suited up for the 2015 Big Ten Championships. The Husker squad started the week with five wrestlers with a No. 5-seed or higher. Kokesh at No. 1, senior James Green, 157-pounds and junior Anthony Abidin, 141-pounds, at No. 3, No.4 sophomore Tim Lambert at 125-pounds and at No. 5 redshirt sophomore Aaron Studebaker at 197-pounds.

Of those five Huskers who received topfive pre-seeds, three placed in the top five including Kokesh. Abidin advanced to the third-place match where he fell to Minnesota’s Nick Dardanes. No. 3 Green won the third-place match against Josh Demas of Ohio State.

Ohio State and Iowa split the Big Ten title this year. This was just the sixth time in the history of the tournament when two teams finished the event tied.

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NU women’s tennis splits weekend matches SETH OLSON DN The No. 53 Huskers suffered their first conference loss of the season on Sunday to No. 29 Purdue 5-1 at the Nebraska Tennis Center.

“Purdue is probably one of the top-three teams in the conference on paper so we knew it was going to be a battle,” Nebraska coach Scott Jacobson said. “I thought coming in it was a great opportunity for us and initially the trust in our abilities was there, but we had a tough time in doubles. We couldn’t quite get it done, but we still played hard.”

The Boilermakers took the pivotal doubles point by winning 2 of the 3 doubles matches. The Nebraska tandem of senior Izabella Zgierska and sophomore Mary Hanna (9-0) had not lost a doubles match all season at the No. 1 doubles spot. They were defeated for the first time on Sunday by Purdue’s duo of senior Daniela Vidal and junior Tess Bernard-Feigenbaum, 8-0. Junior Maggy Lehmicke and sophomore Lisa Andersson evened the score with an 8-5 victory, but junior Mackenna Maddox and redshirt freshman Katerina Matysova lost a nail-biter in

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gles matches. Zgierska and Hanna fought off Georgia State junior Linn Timmermann and sophomore Terani Kamoe for an 8-5 victory while junior Maddox and redshirt freshman Matysova cruised for an 8-3 victory.

Singles appeared to be a breeze as well for Nebraska as all four of the Huskers who won their singles matches won in straight sets.

Lehmicke did so 7-6 (6), 6-2 while Shivalingaiah won 6-1, 6-3. The Swedish sophomore Andersson also won in straight sets 7-6 (2), 6-2 as did Matysova in her 6-0, 6-3 victory.

Meanwhile, Zgierska fell in two close sets 7-5, 6-4 as did Hanna 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Andersson said that although Purdue may be a much better team than Georgia State, the Huskers treat every team equal as they head into any match with the same mentality.

“Every opponent we play is good,” Andersson said. “We aren’t going to have an easy match from now on so we need to go out with the same energy and do our best by fighting for every point. That’s all we can ask for.”

Husker to win her singles match (4-6, 6-4, the rubber match 8-7 (2).

Coach Jacobson said it wasn’t a surprise 7-6), Nebraska went downhill quickly. Hanthat Zgierska and Hanna lost, given the fact na didn’t play her match, but the other four Huskers all suffered defeats at the hands of they didn’t execute movement and played the Boilermakers. Zgierska was defeated in more passive than they did aggressive.

“We weren’t quite aggressive enough ear- straight sets 0-6, 2-6 as was redshirt freshman Spurti Shivalingaiah ly in the first doubles,” 3-6, 3-6. Lehmicke lost in Jacobson said. “There three sets 6-2, 1-6, 7-10 were games where we I was happy that as did Matysova 6-4, 4-6, didn’t move when we I made it through 0-6. had the opportunities With many of the sinto.” because it was a mental gles matches being back Jacobson said taland forth, the Huskers ented teams like Pur- step for me being were in a mental battle due will take advan- nervous.” with only Andersson tage of those mistakes. coming out on top.

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WHO Husker junior Shavon Sheilds

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Despite junior Shavon Sheilds’ seasonhigh 26 points, Sheilds missed the game tying shot at end of regulation, lossing to Maryland 64-61.