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NU volleyball player arrested in hit-and-run robby korth daily nebraskan

Lincoln Police arrested junior Husker volleyball player Lauren Cook Sunday at about noon on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident. Cook was also cited for driving on a suspended license, according to Katie Flood, a public information officer with Lincoln Police.

Motorcyclist Nathaniel Kollars, 30, of Lincoln, and his passenger Sharon Stratman, 54, of Yankton, S.D., pulled over to the side of the road when a black SUV hit them at 11:51 a.m., according to the police report. The man and two witnesses said they saw the

vehicle head westbound on Humphrey Avenue, away from the accident. According to the police report, witnesses said Cook seemed visibly distressed but made no attempt to stop.

Kollars suffered a broken leg, and both he and his passenger were taken to BryanLGH Medical Center West in Lincoln, according to the accident report.

About eight minutes later, Cook called police dispatch to inform officers of the accident and waited for their arrival a half-mile north of the 14th Street and Alvo Road intersection, Flood said.

There were no drugs or alcohol involved in the crash, according to the police report.

Cook’s front tire was shredded, and it would have been difficult for her to drive further from where she was parked, said David Beggs of Lincoln Police.

Cook’s license was suspended due to several previous speeding citations, Flood said.

Leaving the scene of an injury is a Class 3A felony, carrying a maximum punishment of five years in prison or a $10,000 fine.

Cook was released on 10 percent of a $5,000 bond after being detained by Lancaster County Corrections between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

As of 4 p.m. Monday

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afternoon prosecutors had not decided whether to charge Cook with the felony count or a misdemeanor charge. The plan is to make that decision by her court date Nov. 8 at 2 p.m.

Driving on a suspended license is a misdemeanor and is not generally punishable by jail time, but is a separate offense from the felony count. Cook could be charged on both, according to the Lancaster County Attorney’s office.

Volleyball coach John Cook, Lauren’s father, commented on the situation during his weekly press conference Monday morning.

“It’s days like this that I wish my kid was a sorority girl,”

coach Cook said. “And this probably wouldn’t be a big deal.”

But despite the attention, the volleyball program will continue to run as it did before.

Lauren Cook will remain a Husker, and she attended class and team workouts Monday, he said.

“We’re working through with how we’re going to resolve that,” John Cook said when asked if Lauren will play. “We have procedures in place and we have ways we’ll deal with that, and it depends how fast we can get through all that.”

According to her father, Lauren Cook was on her way to get treatment at Memorial Stadium

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7,000 pounds collected by UNL recycling Frannie Sprouls Drew Cuiffo, a senior nutrition, exercise and health sciences major, lifts weights while Zach Smith, a senior history major, spots him on Oct. 29. Cuiffo lifts weights three times a week, has two rugby practices per week and a rugby game every weekend.

Many students enjoy regular exercise. But experts say there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed.

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hen Drew Cuiffo, a senior nutrition, exercise and health sciences major, first began attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he knew working out regularly was necessary to keep up with his love for rugby.

“I exercise five to six times a week, twice a day if it’s offseason for rugby,” Cuiffo said.

His workouts last about an hour and a half and then he does yoga directly afterward, he said.

“I love yoga,” Cuiffo said. “I couldn’t function without it.”

When exercising at the Campus Recreation Center, Cuiffo said the results can be quite addicting. “My friends and I get pretty stressed out if we miss a workout,” Cuiffo said.

However, for some people, the love of exercise can become a problem. Compulsive exercise, also known as obligatory exercise or anorexia athletica, is a mental condition affecting those who can’t stop exercising.

Cuiffo said he doesn’t have the disorder, but he has seen many people spending too much time in the Rec Center.

“Unless you know what you’re doing, it’s easy for you to injure yourself,” he said.

According to WebMD, too much exercise can lead to injuries, exhaustion, depression or suicide.

Charlie Foster, the coordinator for eating disorders at Counseling and Psychological Services at the University Health Center, said the

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Cuiffo grimaces while completing the last repetition of his third set. He said he travels around the weight room completing four sets at each station. media have created a particular image that people are striving to have.

“You find it especially in men’s magazines,” she said. “Only 2 percent of the population ever looks like those images on the front cover of fitness magazines.”

Foster said that over-exercising leads to kidney and muscle problems and even begins to cause changes within the brain.

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A large group of people waited just inside Gate 15 in Memorial Stadium after the Oct. 29 football game.

As fans exited the stadium, their heads turned to look at the group and the pile of burlap sacks lying on the ground. Some people wore green drawstring bags on their backs and others put blue rubber gloves on, all waiting for their cue.

“Just plastic! No cardboard!” called Jeff Henson, co-coordinator of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Recycling and a community and regional planning graduate student.

More than 70 volunteers showed up after the football game to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Game Day Challenge.

“We didn’t expect this much volunteers,” said Prabhakar Shrestha, co-coordinator of UNL Recycling and a natural resource sciences graduate student.

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“So I think it was an exceptional turnout.”

Henson also said he felt the day went extremely well.

“We had a great level of participation from our volunteers,” Henson said.

“The recycling rate inside the stands was outstanding. I bet we recycled at a 95-percent rate in the area we got to recycle in.”

Chris Zegar, president of Recycling Enterprises, did not have an exact amount of how many pounds were recycled as of Monday. He estimated more than 7,000 pounds of plastic and cans were collected during the challenge.

“I think it probably is not as much as other years,” Zegar said. “But I think it’s because there wasn’t as much bottles in the stadium. It was an early game in the morning and not as many people were getting pop.”

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New congressional loan plan UNI professor would ease students’ pockets to discuss sex, comic books Dan Holtmeyer

his first three years; if he continues at the same rate, daily nebraskan Howard will graduate with Last week, President Barack more than $53,000 in debt.

Obama announced that a He said he plans to go congressional program to into social work, focusing make student loans more af- on youth and adolescents. fordable and easier to repay UNL graduates with his mawould start next year, two jor typically make about years earlier than planned. $22,000 a year out of colThe two-part program lege, according to a survey will simplify the repay- of 2009-2010 graduates adment process in two ways: ministered by UNL Career For students who have fed- Services. eral loans through a priAccording to the U.S. vate lender such as a bank, Department of Education’s those loans, called guaran- calculator at studentaid. teed loans because banks ed.gov, under the old IBR are guaranteed against any plan, a single person like loss by the government, can Howard would owe just $70 be converted to direct gov- a month on that debt, inernment loans. This cuts out stead of more than $600 per the middleman while retain- month in the standard paying original terms and con- ment plan. Under Obama’s ditions. Secondly, for low- new plan, which will start income students, monthly next year, this monthly paypayments could drop by a ment would be even lower. third.

Howard and fellow se“That’s dollars in people’s nior, Alicia Dominguez, pockets,” said Craig Mu- who’s majoring in sociology nier, director of the Office and ethnic studies and plans of Scholarships to go to law and Financial The federal school, said Aid at the Unithey can apgovernment stood versity of Nethat for the risk and the preciate braska-Lincoln. help.

Both Both build banks stood for the could qualify off changes the profit. People were for the quickgovernment put er forgiveness saying,‘What the in place years that comes ago to save hell are we doing from social money while work as well. this for? addressing the “It sounds rapidly growlike it’s meant craig munier ing problem of to help me,” director of scholarships and financial aid student debt, said Dominwhich now guez, who matches the wants to use her future law nation’s credit card debt. degree for immigration law American students gradu- issues and nonprofit work. ate with an average debt “We’ll see if it does, but I of $24,000, an increasingly think that it will.” heavy load in an economy still riding the waves of the Loan Consolidation Second, while Congress 2008 recession.

In 2009, Congress voted to switched to direct student stop paying for guaranteed lending, millions of student loans, opting for a com- borrowers are still paying pletely direct line of federal off loans that remain from student aid. Congress also the old system – when approved an Obama plan banks were subsidized by that set monthly payments the government for a profit for low-income students at and guaranteed against any 15 percent of their discre- loss if a borrower defaulted, tionary income, which is for example.

“The federal government the gap between their earnings and 1.5 times the of- stood for the risk and the ficial poverty line. After 25 banks stood for the profit,” years, the debt held by stu- Munier said. “People were dents who qualify for this saying, ‘What the hell are income-based repayment we doing this for?’”

Starting in January of next plan would be forgiven.

Two years later, Obama year, the government will and the U.S. Department of offer students who have a Education are raising the mix of both kinds of loans the chance to make them all stakes. direct, starting next January Income-based repay- and ending the following ment summer.

First, monthly payments Students who don’t have a for low-income students mix of loans wouldn’t qualwill drop by one-third to 10 ify, but if eligible students percent of discretionary in- take the government’s offer, come, and that debt would interest on the formerly pribe forgiven after 20 years of vate loans will drop by 0.25 payment instead of 25. percent. If students make But the loans must have their monthly payments distarted in 2008, and stu- rectly from a bank account, dents must also take out a interest on all of their loans loan in 2012 to qualify. If a would drop by another 0.25 student has already begun percent. paying back her or his debt, “They’re providing the he or she can’t use this op- borrower an incentive to tion, though they’re still eli- quit doing business with the gible for the older income- banks,” Munier said. “This based repayment plan. represents lost income to “This is to deal with peo- the banks but significant ple on the extremes,” Mu- savings to taxpayers.” nier said. “IBR’s going to Most UNL students might appeal to those who have not be able to take advanabove average indebted- tage of this new rule, howness and below-average ever, he said. The universalaries.” sity converted its lending Take, for example, Chris system to direct loans more Howard, a senior child, than a decade before the youth and family studies federal government. major who said he’s accu“If the (undergraduate) mulated $40,000 in debt in student has always been

DO YOU QUALIFY?

President Barack Obama announced two changes to how students can pay back their federal loans last week, but the changes’ many conditions and exceptions have left many of those studentsconfused. Follow these flowcharts to see if you qualify.

INCOME-BASED REPAYMENT OPTION Have you already begun repaying your debt?

No

Yes

Did you start borrowing in 2008 or later?

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Yes

Will you take out at least one more loan in 2012 or later?

Yes

You are one of 1.6 million borrowers who can take advantage of the discounted income-based repayment plan, which will set monthly payments at 10% of discretionary income and forgive debt after 20 years of payment.

Are your monthly payments more than 15% of your discretionary income (income above 1.5 times the poverty line)?

Yes

No

You’re still eligible for the original income-based repayment plan, which bases monthly payments on 15% of discretionary income and allows forgiveness after 25 years.

You’ll have to make the standard payments, or use one of the other repayment options at www.direct.ed.gov.

SPECIAL LOAN CONSOLIDATION Do you have a mix of direct government and private loans?

Yes

No

Have you consolidated the private loans into direct loans?*

Yes

Interest on formerly private loans drops by 0.25%.

Did you set up payments so they’re paid automatically from a bank account?

Yes

No

Take another 0.25% decrease on interests on all loans. *Between January and June 2012.

here ... all they have is direct loans,” he said. But, he added, transfer students might have the necessary mix, and “there could be some graduate students around here that have some (eligible loans).”

Dominguez said she knew several people from out of state who deal with the confusion of different kinds of loans, adding that she’s

Philosophy and humanities professor Harry Brod will speak about sexual consent and Judaism in comics

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glad Obama is stepping in to help students. But whatever happens, she said, the students that need that help will find a way to meet the challenges of debt.

“Money has always been tight,” she said to nods of agreement from Howard.

“Growing up working-class, you know you can make it, no matter what.” danholtmeyer@ dailynebraskan.com

When Harry Brod introduces himself, he says he was a part of two big events.

Not only were his parents survivors of the Holocaust, but he was also in college during the new wave of the 1960s.

Brod, a philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Northern Iowa and expert in men’s studies, will give two talks at University of NebraskaLincoln on Tuesday and Wednesday. “Asking for It” is Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., and “Superman is Jewish?” is Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; both are in the Nebraska Union.

“Asking For It” deals with direct consent in sexual relations, Brod said. In his presentation, he said he speaks on the ethical considerations two people owe to each other when engaging in intimate behaviors. While many may assume this consent is strictly directed at male-tofemale relationships, Brod said it’s also important in same-sex relationships.

Brod said his presentation won’t emphasize legal framework as much as it will the “moral being of this intimate behavior of our lives.”

While he said he shares his views in presentations, he also opens it up to audience discussion and questions. Audiences have been known to ask whose obligation it is to make sure relationships have consent and about situations when someone has been drinking, he said.

“I always appreciate that, because I know if one person in the audience has a question, there’s someone that has the same question,” Brod said.

Audiences have also come up with arguments, he said.

“People come with views; that’s how we make progress,” Brod said.

The topic will be a little lighter on Wednesday, as Brod presents his lecture, “Superman is Jewish?”

Brod will discuss the Jewish aspect of comic-book superheroes. Brod said when looking at today’s comic-book heroes, most of them were created by Jewish men.

“I set out to explain, this can’t be a coincidence,” he said. “What is going on?”

Brod said he hopes his talk doesn’t just attract Jewish students or those who are fans of superheroes, as he tries to make his presentations understandable and entertaining to a general audience.

“Everyone knows enough about Superman to know what I’m saying,” he

said. “People find it interesting and fun.”

Brod used his old comicbook collection as material for his presentation’s research and found an entire field based on comic book studies.

He credits his background for his interests in his broad research. “(It) made me very aware of issues of social justice and the importance of fighting oppression in all forms,” Brod said.

He first became interested in gender studies while in college. As many women started support groups in search of empowerment, Brod and other men created similar groups, “to discuss personal issues in our lives,” he said.

He said his interest in victim blaming, or blaming assault victims, peaked years ago.

“It takes 20 years to become an overnight sensation,” he said, adding that when something becomes the new wave, people think it’s new, when really there (have) been underthe-radar studies happening for years.

After seeing Brod present, Jan Deeds decided he should speak at UNL. Deeds, associate director for student involvement in gender programs and the director of women’s center on campus, said she found Brod entertaining, making the subject of sexual content light. She also got positive feedback from the men in attendance, she said.

In addition, Deeds worked with Brod on the American Men Studies Association and spoke with him at a conference last April.

Deeds said she loved how respectful Brod is toward his audience.

“He doesn’t assume people are bad,” she said.

She said that because Brod is a pro-feminist, both men and women find comfort in having the discussions he presents. The topics are intriguing, providing a new outlook on what sexual consent is, Brod said.

Jeff Reznicek-Parrado , a doctoral student in educational psychology as well as the men’s program coordinator, has worked with Deeds and is working with student organizations sponsoring Brod’s visit.

PREVENT, which strives for healthy relationships; Hillel, a Jewish student organization; Men @ Nebraska and the Judaic studies at UNL are all sponsoring the talks. Reznicek-Parrado summed up Brod’s point, saying, “Sex is the most fun when you’re having sex with someone who wants to have sex with you.”

“It’s humor that makes you think,” he said, adding that instead of accusing or “finger wagging,” Brod’s presentation will be more inviting for everyone to be more intentional and ethical in their sexual relations.

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Forum to address Club benefits children global water scarcity and members alike Brent Koenigsman Daily Nebraskan

This year’s E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues kicks off at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s lead lecture series will feature Sandra Postel, the founder of the Global Water Policy Project. She will speak about water and the new issues surrounding its availability and use. With a skyrocketing world population, water has become a hotbutton topic and a source of conflict.

Katie Cervantes, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues coordinator, said she was excited about Postel’s lecture.

“It’s important because water is essential to life, so I think that we need to start having more attention drawn to this water shortage,” Cervantes said.

“We’re often interested in other resources like oil, but this has much bigger implications.”

The water shortage Cervantes speaks of is evident in world statistics. According to UNICEF, one in eight people worldwide do not have access to safe and clean drinking water. The United Nations Development Program found that half of the world’s hospital beds are filled with people who have a water-related disease.

While all of this is happening, water is only becoming scarcer and the population continues to grow.

Postel’s lecture aims to bring attention to this issue.

University of NebraskaLincoln law professor Sandra Zellmer, an expert in water and environmental law, had high praise for Postel.

“Over the past three decades Sandra Postel’s

statistics ··Globally we use 70 percent of our water sources for agriculture and irrigation, and only 10 percent on domestic uses. ··84 percent of the people who don’t have access to improved water live in rural areas, where they live principally through subsistence agriculture. ··Less than one in three people in SubSaharan Africa have access to a proper toilet. ··More than half of the developing world’s primary schools do not have access to water and sanitation facilities. Without toilets, girls typically drop out of school at puberty. ··443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases. ··Girls under the age of 15 are twice as likely as boys their age to be the family member responsible for fetching water. ··Almost two-thirds — 64 percent — of households rely on women to get the family’s water when there is no water source in the home. ··In developing countries, as much as 80 percent of illnesses are linked to poor water and sanitation conditions.

publications have brought attention to the increased number and severity of water shortages around the world and how these shortages lead to economic disruption, food crisis and societal strife,” Zellmer said.

Zellmer went on to say

··Nearly one out of every five deaths under the age of 5 worldwide is due to a water-related disease. ··By investing in clean water alone, young children around the world can gain more than 413 million days of health. ··Half of the world’s hospital beds are filled with people suffering from a water-related disease. ··884 million people do not have access to clean and safe water.

37 percent of those people live in SubSaharan Africa. ··The average container for water collection in Africa, the jerrycan, weighs more than 40 pounds when full. ··The United Nations estimates that SubSaharan Africa alone loses 40 billion hours per year collecting water; that’s the same as a whole year’s worth of labor by the entire workforce in France. ··According to the World Health Organization, for every $1 invested in water and sanitation, there is an economic return of between $3 and $34. ··One in eight people worldwide do not have access to safe and clean drinking water.

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that Postel has not only said that water shortage is a problem, but “she has also offered practical pathways toward sustainable water management solutions.”

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A variety of students came out to help with the Game Day Challenge. Agriculture fraternity Alpha Gamma Sigma’s freshmen picked the challenge as their freshman philanthropy, said Grant Potadle, a freshman animal science major.

Sara Cooper, the adviser for the environmental studies program and Sustain UNL, was one of the volunteers.

“A lot of these are my kids,” Cooper said.

With so many volunteers, recyclables in three areas of the stadium were picked up in less than an hour. In 2010, the task took more than an hour and a half with only half of the stadium covered.

Volunteers started in the East Stadium and made their way to South Stadium and then to West Stadium seats. Each person carried a burlap sack with them and only picked up plastic bottles, as well as the occasional aluminum can.

“I’ve probably filled three so far, maybe about three and a half,” said

Alex Bartlett, a junior environmental studies major.

Bartlett had just finished collecting in South Stadium when he made the estimation.

Certain volunteers ran up and down the bleachers, trading empty sacks for the full sacks. Runners dumped full sacks into recycling bins at the bottoms of the bleachers.

Potadle was one of the runners. By the time he reached West Stadium, Potadle said he had brought down 40 to 50 full bags of recyclables.

Another group of volunteers wheeled the recycling bins to Zegar. He parked under the bleachers and dumped bin after bin into the back of the truck.

One of the areas in the stadium not covered by volunteers was North Stadium.

Steve Torske, the building and grounds supervisor for the athletic department, said there is a cleaning crew that is allowed only so much time in the stadium and cannot work simultaneously with the

recycling team. “(Volunteers) might see a person picking and may skip that row,” Torske said.

“That’s why we probably keep them separate. Once we start our cleaning crew, we don’t want them together.”

Torske said he was not the one to make the call whether or not volunteers recycled in North stadium.

The cleaning crew consists of members from ROTC. “I think what it was, was a concern about us being able to get ahead of ROTC and their clean-up effort,” Henson said. “The people we were working with were adamant that ROTC be able to begin as quickly as they could. So they just did not want us to slow down that process.”

In the end, Shrestha credited the success of the challenge to the students.

“It’s all about the students,” Shrestha said. “You feed off of whatever they tell you. It’s just so encouraging.” franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

correction On Oct. 31, the Daily Nebraskan reported that the University of Nebraska President J.B. Milliken’s proposed “employee plus one” benefits extension would cover up to 200 same-sex partners. The Daily

Nebraskan would like to clarify the same proposal would also likely cover more opposite-sex partners than same-sex partners, according to NU Vice President of Business and Finance David Lechner.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Dance Marathon is much more than its name suggests.

The 10-year-old club raises money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The marathon is in its 10th year of supporting the Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha.

This club is not only a UNL tradition but also has strong roots in the Big Ten. Throughout the year, members of club work to set up different fundraisers to raise money for 25 families in the Lincoln and Omaha communities with children who are going through medical procedures and need help financially.

Each of the 25 families gets two students who spend time with them throughout the year.

The club also has a morale team to boost spirits during the annual marathon.

Ethan Froeschl, the morale director and a senior biochemistry major, explained the duties of the morale team.

“Right now we’re planning the different dances, skits, themes and costumes that we’ll use to keep every hour of (the) marathon interesting and exciting,” he said.

Besides the annual marathon, the club also hosts events

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throughout the year, like the family day tailgate before the Nebraska-Northwestern football game Nov. 5.

Jordan Broekhuis, the social media chair and a senior music major, said the club works with organizations within the community to raise money for the families. It will also be working with Chipotle Nov. 7 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dance Marathon will receive 50 percent of the proceeds made if customers mention Dance Marathon. It will also hold a dodgeball tournament Nov. 6.

Jaime Michelsen, dance marathon president and a senior industrial engineering major, also talked about an annual trip the group takes to a hospital for a

tour and to see where the children it benefits get treatment.

“It’s big motivation for the rest of the year and keeps us excited about raising money for these amazing kids,” she said.

Jess Bomberger, the family relations chair and a senior prenursing major, said the club is important.

“It’s why we survive,” she said. “We serve a purpose. We motivate ourselves because we know we’re making a difference in a child’s life. It’s probably why each of us got involved after the marathon, because it changed our life. It’s for the kids.” meganpeda@ dailynebraskan.com

Dance Marathon holds

exercise: from 1 “Over-exercising can cause the brain to release addictive chemicals that make people feel better after they exercise,” Foster said. “It’s just not healthy.

Too much does more harm than help.”

Foster said that she believes the age group of 15 to 24 year olds is most susceptible to compulsive exercise, because youth are taught as early as high school that they have to look a certain way.

However, some students believe that society, as opposed to the media, is the cause of compulsive exercise.

“The media doesn’t teach men and women to obsess over their image, society does,” said Makesha Carter, a freshman theater education major.

“The media only makes the

obsession worse.”

But according to Laurie Thomas Lee, a broadcasting professor at UNL, people wouldn’t know what society thinks without the media.

“The media serves to appeal to our vanity by promoting products and services that fill a particular demand,” she said.

“Society and the media tie together hand in hand.”

At the Rec Center, the Injury Prevention and Care department is in charge of serving those who are injured in Campus Rec programs and facilities, as well as providing education for injury prevention.

Robin Whisman, the assistant director for IPC, said the most common injury she sees is sprained ankles.

“We see our fair share of

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around 11:45 a.m. Sunday. This was after the team’s 3 a.m. arrival to Lincoln after Nebraska lost its match against Penn State in University Park, Pa. And even though it’s his daughter, John Cook iterated that this was a normal situation and that it “wasn’t the first time something like this has happened and probably not the last.”

He said he’s handling the situation like he would for any member of the Nebraska volleyball squad.

“This is one of our players,” John Cook said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s Lauren or any one of our other players — it’s part of coaching. Probably (at) 95 percent of volleyball programs, we wouldn’t be talking about this.”

John Cook refused to talk about the legal process, however. Lauren Cook’s court date scheduled for today was pushed back, according to the prosecutor’s office.

But whether the junior setter will get jail time is still up in the air.

“It just depends on what we charge her with,” a prosecutor’s office representative said.

All of this is just the potential criminal side to the case: Lauren Cook may also be sued for damages in civil court, regardless of what she’s charged with

by Lancaster County.

Lauren Cook was not made available for comment.

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overuse injuries, particularly from excessive running,” she said.

As compulsive exercise is an addiction that doesn’t normally go away on its own, CAPS serves its patients with therapy that allows a person to find exactly what is healthy to be doing in their exercise and reduce the excessiveness of their exercise.

“Very often someone else has to make the suggestion that one is overworking themselves,” Foster said.

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‘Employee plus one’ benefits staff, university

At last Friday’s University of Nebraska Board of Regents meeting, President J.B. Milliken proposed an expansion of health insurance benefits to domestic partners of university employees. The proposal is popularly known around campus as “employee plus one,” as it not only gives benefits to same-sex partners, but also allows for other non-related dependents to receive coverage.

During the past year, every faculty senate in the University of Nebraska system — the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Nebraska Kearney and the University of Nebraska Medical Center — has adopted resolutions backing employee plus one.

In addition, student governments at UNL, UNO and UNK have expressed their support. Every chancellor in the University of Nebraska system has endorsed it.

Each and every person or group connected to this proposal and its effects has supported it. The fact, then, that the votes are shaky in the Board of Regents for employee plus one, is ridiculous.

Look at the facts. Every school in the Big Ten, UNL’s new academic and athletic conference, gives some form of domestic partner benefits. A vast majority of UNL’s peer institutions, and a majority of the peer institutions of other schools in the University of Nebraska system, offer domestic partner benefits. It makes economic sense to do so.

Note the cost of adding the benefits — $750,000 to $1.5 million, according to NU officials — and then compare that increased monetary cost to the cost to students of not offering these benefits. By that, we mean the university’s inability to hire the best faculty and remain competitive with its peers.

Faculty members consider health insurance benefits for their partners, married or not, when taking a job. Chancellor Harvey Perlman noted that candidates have already declined job offers for this reason.

Votes in the Board of Regents shouldn’t be a problem for such a common-sense proposal. It’s aimed to help UNL hit its goal of 160 more tenuretrack faculty by 2017. It will make the University of Nebraska more competitive. It’s simply the right thing to do.

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Modern computing still an art

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teve Jobs was right; society is limiting itself, starving itself by relegating computer science to the “5 percent of the population over there in the corner.”

And it’s no surprise. He was speaking from experience.

Thanks to Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of late computer pioneer Steve Jobs, I spent the entire weekend mulling about senseless musings like, “I’m a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight.” Maybe he was (slightly) delusional, and maybe he took too much of a liking to the psychedelic acid trip, but, suffice to say, Jobs became known for much more than just LSD-induced fantasies. And a computer engineering background wasn’t all it took.

Computer science students: The truth might hurt, but the best of you wasn’t actually one of you in the first place. He was a liberal-arts-obsessed computer engineer who dropped out of school to pursue the paramount of an alternative lifestyle.

Living in a commune and giving up most types of food to show discontentment with a materialist society wasn’t enough for him. In similar fashion to famed Beatle George Harrison, Jobs, in 1974, ventured to India, with hopes of “finding himself.” Leaving aside that all he found was dysentery, Jobs was willing to put aside his work to embark on a romanticized existential journey, jeopardizing his future employment prospects.

Computer science students of today won’t so much as leave their dorm rooms to embark on an existential journey across campus.

Jobs believed computer science shouldn’t solely be a code-based, caffeinedemanding major reserved for the social pariah with the chafing problem. “In my perspective … science and computer science is a liberal art, it’s something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life,” Jobs said.

A quick look at Apple’s history cements the idea that modern computing is, in fact, an art. Jobs was the vision behind Apple, and although a techie himself, he relied upon company partner Steve Wozniak for the dirty work, early on. The perspective that Jobs gained from his freelance

Faiz siddqui education, including a calligraphy class he took at Reed College, was central to his company’s pursuit.

“I think our major contribution was in bringing a liberal arts point of view to the use of computers,” Jobs said, in a 1996 interview with National Public Radio’s Terry Gross. “[I]t was to bring beautiful fonts and typography to people, it was to bring graphics to people.”

Beyond Jobs, scores of modern technology’s most renowned have advocated bringing computer science to the liberal arts education. Brian Kernighan, an esteemed computer scientist and a UNIX OS initial developer, was the subject of a 2002 New York Times article for just that reason.

That year, he began teaching a classroom of Princeton undergraduates about the effects of modern computing in society, in a course called “Computers in Our World.” Encouraging open discussion and “quantitative reason,” the class was a sort of symposium that detailed prominent tech-related issues, like privacy.

Facebook — the privacy issue of the century — wasn’t even dreamed up in 2002.

But imagine the potential benefits similar, university-wide programs could yield, especially nowadays. After all, these are students who specialize in being inquisitive minds, who learn for learning’s sake, who actually enjoy their course content.

Positive implications for innovation would fly through the roof.

Pursuers of bachelor’s of arts degrees would suddenly be afforded the power of self-determination, enabled to apply their respective expertise to modern technology.

This doesn’t mean building an empire. It means building an iPad app that chronicles English history, dreaming up a graphical interface that details the subject of

ever-dreaded economics, finally bringing the interactive classroom to life.

The biggest technology boom since the beginning of time simply won’t reach its full potential if the “computer geek” can’t so much as make the game-changing phone call. The all-too-prominent field of computer science must begin to hone people skills, knowledge applicable to the outside world.

No, I don’t mean the World of Warcraft.

Computer science can no longer be restricted to what’s actually inside the casing. A study of human anatomy is useless without any practical application. Breeding a well-rounded computer geek will not only do its part in eliminating the stereotype, it will eliminate the need to deal with an arrogant prick. It will breed innovators out of talented, but inhibited, coders.

Would this constitute a complete shakeup of the purely mathematics-based computer science education? Yes. Is this some sort of ill-conceived attempt to compensate for my own mathematical failures? Probably. But I’d like to think that the idea of hippy-ing up the study of computers is 100 percent Steve Jobs approved.

After all, Jobs made a career out of changing the game. His graphical user interface, the keyboard and mouse, the allin-one computer, revolutionized the idea of home computing. If anything, an ambitious proposal in his name is a testament to who he was.

In his commencement address to Stanford’s 2005 graduating class, Jobs alluded to the final days of his friend Stewart Brand’s publication, the “Whole Earth Catalog.”

“It was the mid-1970s … On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous,” he said.

“Beneath it were the words: ‘Stay Hungry.

Stay Foolish.’ … And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.”

“Stay hungry, stay foolish,” he said.

It’s about time we embraced the latter.

faiz siddiqui is a freshman news-editorial major. Follow him on twitter at @faizsaysthis and reach him at faizsiddiqui@ dailynebraskan.com.

Obama bound to win re-election despite critics

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he 2012 presidential election is about a year away, and most of the focus right now is, of course, on the Republican candidates.

But I’m going to make a bold statement: it doesn’t matter.

President Obama will win next year, no matter who the Republican nominee is.

There’s no question that people are unhappy with Obama’s performance, at least in some areas – namely the economy.

But most Americans have also seen the president try repeatedly to pass bills to support the economy and put people back to work. They’ve also seen Republicans in Congress repeatedly attack Obama’s plans and then refuse them like a baby refusing Gerber’s carrot mush.

We’ve all watched the Republicans do everything they can to prevent Obama from accomplishing anything. As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has stated several times, his number one priority is to make Obama a one-term president. While that’s a bold and commendable objective, it amazes me that he thinks this will help his party.

Sure, there are a lot of

Republicans who can’t stand Obama and his liberal, socialist, communist policies. But if there’s one thing Americans hate more than a government that doesn’t give them what they want, it’s a government that doesn’t get anything done. We’re all pretty irate with Congress for its polarized spirit and inability to compromise. And I believe most people are fairly moderate in their political views, at least more moderate than Mitch McConnell.

Maybe some people like to hear this kind of talk. But to the average, rational American who cares more about his/her family’s and this country’s prosperity than about party lines, it makes McConnell sound like (pardon my French) a jackass.

Americans like cooperation.

Compromise. Pragmatism.

All things Obama has shown more and more, and Republicans less and less.

And the president has had some success as a president, including in the Middle East, where our last president started two wars and didn’t finish anything.

Obama finally took out the guy we’ve been trying to get for the last ten years.

Even though he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger to

Obama look shoot Osama decisive Bin Laden, and strong he did pull in foreign the trigger on affairs. And the mission.

Americans And although like a strong Bush’s adminand decisive istration may president. Esdeserve some pecially when credit for he can be gathering intelevan marolf strong without ligence that overextending our resources. would eventually lead to that Something else that could mission, it still goes down as end up helping Obama — or Obama’s accomplishment. hurting Republicans — is It’s not so much about who taxes. People want higher did the work, but about how Americans perceive the taxes on the wealthiest situation. And everyone will Americans and on corporaremember that this happened tions. According to a Galunder President Obama. lup poll in September, 70 Obama also employed a percent of Americans want successful strategy in Libya the government to increase that led to the end of the taxes on corporations, and 66 percent want taxes increased Gadhafi regime. He did this without any American casual- on people earning more than $200,000 a year. ties; in fact, no American Republicans don’t like soldiers ever set foot in the taxes. country. This fact is signifiIt seems superfluous to cant, because no one in the expand on that, but I guess I U.S. wanted to get involved will. The Republican candiin another war the scale of Iraq or Afghanistan. Libya dates have talked about taxes could easily have ended up some, and most of it involves cuts. Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 as a similar situation, so this plan — a flat tax at nine peradministration will get credit for handling it well (however, cent for everyone — would significantly reduce taxes on don’t forget how quickly we the upper class and busitook out Saddam Hussein, and what followed). nesses, while raising taxes on These achievements make the lower class. This reminds

me of a phrase Republicans love to throw out there. What was it again?

Oh yeah, I remember: class warfare.

Cain’s plan seemed to gain popularity quickly, mostly because it’s “simple.” But thinking about the plan makes it seem a lot less desirable.

People aren’t feeling especially magnanimous toward wealthy Americans right now, and those are the people who would see their taxes cut significantly with this plan. In fact, 84 percent of Americans would see their taxes go up, some of them by nearly 1,000 percent.

Furthermore, you can’t offset tax cuts on the rich with higher taxes on the poor. Thirty percent of a rich person’s income is a lot more than nine percent of a poor person’s income. This plan would devastate the lower class and significantly reduce revenue. If you’re keeping score, that’s a lose-lose.

In general, people seem more supportive of higher taxes on wealthy Americans than they have in recent years. Many Americans have voiced this sentiment (see: the 99 percent movement), but the Republican presidential candidates have stood firmly on the side of the

richest class and corporations.

Obama, meanwhile, has tried to push for higher taxes.

Of course, Republicans have stymied his attempts.

Americans are looking for a president who will fix our fiscal problems. Many people have come to understand that raising taxes might be necessary to decrease government debt and the drag that it creates on the economy.

President Obama has shown he’s ready to do that, among other things, but Republicans in Congress have done everything possible to stop him.

They have this idea stuck in their head that if they stop the Democrats from fixing anything, the people will put a Republican in the White House.

What they have failed to consider is the fact that Americans don’t care how government fixes things, they just want things fixed. And they want compromise. Obama’s willingness to compromise, along with Republicans’ willingness to let the country down the tubes until 2012, will make him tough to beat next year.

Plus, he killed Osama.

Evan Marolf is a junior political science and history major. Reach him at evanmarolf@ dailynebraskan.com

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English faculty members rock hard between grading papers, teaching classes

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English professors Steve Buhler, on left, and Jack Vespa rehearse at the home of bandmate and graduate teaching assistant John Schulze on Oct. 29.

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upelo Springfield has to be the most intellectual rock band in Nebraska; it has a Harvardeducated drummer and three University of Nebraska—Lincoln English professors on guitar and bass.

As one would expect, Tupelo Springfield is a different breed of musical ensemble.

The band grew out of latenight jam sessions in the English department.

“Our colleagues were aware of our band, and we got some requests to play at the year-end English department party,” assistant professor of English Jack Vespa said. The bandmates are a tight group of English professors; Vespa alternates between the bass and guitar, John Schulze, a graduate teaching assistant, and Steve Buhler, professor of English, play the guitar and Kelly Stage, assistant professor of English, is the group’s drummer.

Walking up to the band’s practice space, a rocking rendition of The Beatles, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” blared from open windows. It’s hard

not to be taken aback by the elaborate guitar solos radiating from the speakers. This is not your average garage band.

These men are genuine musical dynamos.

“The strength of our band is our songwriting and we like to give Steve (Buhler) enough shredding time,” Vespa said with a laugh. “I’ve learned that when songwriting, it’s better not to cram too many words into the song.”

Having three songwriters in Tupelo Springfield is an obvious advantage. The band admits to taking some lyrics and song structure from some of their favorite musicians, but it’s no secret that some of the best musicians take hints from proven musical masterminds.

The band plays a number of cover songs in addition to their original tunes. Some of their favorites to play include Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing,” a number of Bob Dylan songs and Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth.” “‘For What It’s Worth’ is very timely because of the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab

Spring,” Buhler said.

The band plays regularly at the Zoo Bar, Zen’s Lounge and Meadowlark Café.

“Meadowlark Café is a great place to play,” Buhler said.

“The sound is great and it’s really comfortable.”

Tupelo Springfield tries to play at least twice a month.

With the upcoming graduation of Schulze, the band is trying to cram as many shows into the next couple of months as possible. Various English professors are big supporters of the band, and the bandmates insist that they don’t offer extra credit for students who attend their shows.

Tupelo plays their own version of bluesy rock, and one of Vespa’s songs called “Sepia Tone” sounds like an educated man’s take on the Grateful Dead sound.

“Seems like a tarot card/ set under a jack of hearts,” Vespa sang. The band plays their songs with enthusiasm and an obvious love of music.

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Professor Kelly Stage, on drums, and graduate teaching assistant John Schulze play during rehearsal for their band, Tupelo Springfield, on Oct. 29.

DailyER event hopes to set One-man act self apart, increase readers aims to cheer at Lied Center jacy marmaduke daily nebraskan

Nearly four years after its first issue, the DailyER Nebraskan has a message for the student body: The bi-weekly satirical newspaper is an independent publication, not a subdivision or affiliate of the Daily Nebraskan. And students should be reading it.

The staff hopes to make its message clear and increase readership with “DailyER Nebraskan presents,” a fourband showcase at Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St., at 9 p.m.

Wednesday.

“We’re trying to set the DailyER apart in its own right,” said Dan Stier, a junior English major and DailyER staff writer who helped organize the event for a class project.

Attendees can hear Boom Chick, Gaston Light, Snake Island! and Conflict Between at a cover charge of $5 for 21 years and older and $7 for 18 to 20 year olds. The event was born from a class project in Stier’s COMM 210 class.

if you go

The DailyER Nebraskan Presents: Boom Chick, Gaston Light, Snake Island! and Conflict Between when: Wednesday, 9 p.m. where: Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St. how much: $5 21+, $7 18-20

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He and a group of classmates were required to get involved with an on-campus RSO, and Stier said the DailyER was the obvious choice because of his standing as a staff writer. He took a preexisting house show and reorganized it by adding more bands, changing the venue and putting the DailyER’s name on the project. Several years ago, the DailyER put on a series of monthly shows at the Bourbon under

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His income taxes say he’s an entertainer. Various publications across the nation and the world call him “charming,” “hilarious” and “insane.”

On Wednesday, audiences will get the chance to assign their own adjectives to the world-renowned, one-man show.

Tomas Kubinek, the selfproclaimed certified lunatic and master of the impossible, will perform at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Kubinek was born in Czechoslovakia, and when he was 3 years old, his parents smuggled him out of the country in order to escape Soviet invasion in 1968.

His family relocated to Canada and it was in that country that his passion for performance was born.

He saw his first circus at age

if you go Thomas Kubinek when: Wednesday, 7 p.m. where: The Lied Center how much: $18 general

5, and by the time he was 9 years old, he had given his first performance.

“When I was a little kid, I would go to the library with my dad, and we would see puppet shows and theater shows,” he said. “It’s a joy to be involved in the whole thing.”

During his teenage years, Kubinek performed his act in coffee houses and made his official debut into the circus world as the back-end of a horse for a Brazilian clown duo.

However, his career progressed past a horse’s rear, and

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Stage presence must be convincing Neil Orians

The other day I reviewed Mac Miller’s concert, and it made me think a lot about the performance aspect of music.

Something I tend to hark on is the idea that music is art and needs to be thought about as more than just the same thing again and again and again.

But the performance aspect is equally important to the experience of music.

Outside the Daily Nebraskan, I am a teacher at the Academy of Rock (AoR)

program through the Northeast Family Center.

Let me first say that I love both my jobs dearly. Part of what I do at AoR is teach kids aged from elementary to high school how to play musical instruments (guitar, bass and drums) in bands together. The one thing that is the hardest to teach is stage presence.

In order to put on a good show a musician doesn’t have to jump all around a stadium stage with pyrotechnics and costume changes. But what does need to be apparent is a sense that the musician is enjoying what he or she is doing. This idea gets lost on kids who are learning instruments.

And it’s not always a focus issue; that they need to focus on the instrument so much that they can’t manage to bob

to the beat or move around a bit.

Half of the time, they feel silly for even thinking about it.

But imagine for a moment you go out to a show at Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O St., or Knickerbockers, 901 O St., and see a rock act. Instead of being into their own music, the musicians just stand there and look at each other while playing. That sounds boring as all get out. I don’t care how intricate or good the music is, if it doesn’t look like the band is having a good time, then the audience will not be able to have a good time.

That’s the reason big arena shows became such a huge deal in the first place: they were entertaining. That’s why pop stars like Britney Spears or the Black Eyed Peas are

His extensive experience with club bands makes him vital to the arrangement of the band’s songs. Vespa described him as their “musical director” and his dynamic guitar playing brings credibility to the band’s sound.

The band’s next show is at the Meadowlark Café on Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. If you get a chance to talk to them after the show, they’re open to discussing anything from their love of The Rolling Stones to the influence of 19th-century British literature on 20th-century American authors. matthavelka@ dailynebraskan.com

kubinek: from 5 Kubinek became interested in a variety of other subjects.

Alongside performing, he now directs, writes, teaches and “builds props and ideas.” “(It’s) pretty much the full gambit of arts as they relate to creativity and expression,” Kubinek explained.

Throughout the years Kubinek has been inspired by many, including puppeteer Jozef van den Berg and vaudeville actor Al Simmons.

However, he also remembers being inspired by an array of people throughout his life who are not world-renown.

“When I was growing up ... there was this old bus driver and he would flirt with all the old ladies and he would sing out loud,” he said. “I thought that was great.”

Wednesday’s show will combine his magic, acrobatics and storytelling skills, while placing a special emphasis on humor.

When in front of an audience, Kubinek strives to go beyond merely performing.

He understands from his own life experiences that each and every person coming to his show has a different story.

Kubinek’s mother was a nurse, and after watching her care for people throughout his life, he now tries to do the same for people attending his shows.

He said he strives to connect with the audience through his routines.

“People are coming to be healed in a way. They come to the theater with a whole world inside them of feelings,” Kubinek explained. “That’s part of being a comedian, too,

is knowing that you’re helping to heal people.”

Another major part of his show that has also morphed into his identity is his title of insanity.

Kubinek said he does not portray an actually diluted mind on stage, but instead, a carefree spirit.

“The lunacy that I like is a level of playfulness and irrelevance and gusto,” he said.

From the minute he walks onto the stage to the minute he walks off, Kubinek is performing. He has no favorite part to his show because he is enjoying every minute of it.

“It’s like saying, ‘What do you like about life?’” he said.

“It’s the sorrow, it’s the joy, it’s the beauty, it’s the laughing. It’s everything.”

Kubinek last came to Lincoln more than a decade ago and looks forward to returning. “(It’s) being there with everybody and having a nice audience laughing,” he said.

“And the world-famous Lincoln scrambled eggs.”

Shannon McClure, the director of marketing and publications for the Lied Center, said she is expecting the audience to mainly be a combination of families and older people. However, she said she thinks college students would also enjoy Kubinek’s performance.

“I think the type of show that Thomas Kubinek does harkens back to the golden age of the great vaudeville performers,” she said. “Perhaps it’s naïve, but it’s a very pure kind of comedy.” katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com

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River Riot. They seemed interested in their brand of music and at the end of the day that is all that truly matters.

Musicians need to be pleased in their work just like any other artist in order to truly create good work. Unless they can convince their audience that they know and love what they’re doing, they will have no luck.

Neil Orians is a senior fine arts major who likes long walks on the beach, two-tone ska and holding hands with that special someone. Will you be that someone? Reach him at neilorians@ dailynebraskan.com

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The red-headed siren is back.

Well, it seems she never left. Florence, along with her backing-band, the Machine, released her first album, “Lungs,” more than two years ago, but the band has never stopped promoting the album, even to the point of loaning a song to the Julia Roberts chick-flick “Eat Pray Love.”

“Ceremonials” is the band’s sophomore release.

Listeners expecting “Dog Days Are Over, Part 2” will undoubtedly be disappointed, as the optimistic moments on the album, while they exist, are flooded by rushing, eccentric and certainly twisted anthems.

Florence Welch’s voice is as powerful as ever, and her lyrics are more revealing. What makes Welch so appealing is her ability to spin stories in a Tim Burton-esque wonderland.

While other emotional powerhouses like Adele sing about love, Welch sings about devils.

Tribal drums and soulful choirs only amplify the theatrical tenor of the album, especially on “Shake It Out,” the album’s first

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official single, and the thundering “Heartlines.”

“Leave My Body” is nothing less than a spiritual experience enhanced by Gregorian-like chants of “Moving up to higher ground/History keeps pulling me down.”

“Ceremonials” is a 12-track album, but there are six additional tracks on

the expanded album. Get the extended edition, if only for “Bedroom Hymns,” a hounding, forceful track that deserves a place on the album.

Christmas came early for fans of Florence and the Machine. Those who aren’t yet on the Florence train might as well hop on board,

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as she isn’t going to go anywhere but up the charts.

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“That was a really cool way to stay involved in the community,” said Jacob Zlomke, a junior English major and editor-in-chief of the DailyER since fall 2010. “When leadership changed it sort of fell by the wayside, but that’s something I’d like us to get back into doing.”

Carson Vaughan, who graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010 with a degree in journalism, modeled the 12-page newspaper, which comes out every other Tuesday, after The Onion. The DailyER pokes fun at individuals and groups on campus and beyond but is “fair in its offenses,” according

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entertaining to watch. To me, it was just something to deal with while waiting for my set to come up.

Katy Perry performed “Firework” flawlessly on David Letterman once and I was completely unimpressed because she practically stood in the same place the whole time. As much as I love Miss Katy I couldn’t get behind a boring performance.

And then I’ve seen bands like Panic! at the Disco. They make, for the most part, terrible music. Whiny, immature lyrics over somewhat complex chord changes that are otherwise very predictable. But they put on a show. They were, at the very least, something interesting to look at while waiting for Fall Out Boy’s (and subsequently, blink-182) set at

Sophomore album release appeals with theatrical tenor

tupelo: from 5 The band switched instruments after Vespa’s song and jammed out a rockin’ rendition of “Personal Jesus” with Buhler belting out the lyrics.

The band members’ influences range from REM to George Harrison to the late `70s singer-songwriter explosion, and their original songs reflect their diverse musical tastes. Vespa is the main songwriter and the unofficial band leader of Tupelo Springfield. His personality is fitting of an intellectual rock star, outspoken and witty.

He insisted that Buhler is an invaluable asset to the band.

nearly as successful as they are; it’s not the music.

That is the reason I gave Mac Miller a good grade in my review. It wasn’t his music that did it for me, it was the performance. He sold me his act and left me wanting more, to be frank.

I once saw a band in Springfield, Mo., while I was on tour with one of my old bands. It was their first show as a band, and they acted like it. It wasn’t that these guys were young either; they were older than me (I was 19 back then, these guys were easily five years my senior). It wasn’t a lack of knowledge in their music or ability in playing that made their act as terrible as I thought it was; it was their performance. I wasn’t sold on their act. I wasn’t given something

to its code of conduct. Last fall, the paper grew to include “Seeds,” an entertainment news section comprising music, movie and concert reviews and interviews with nationally recognized bands.

Zlomke said satirical pieces can “illuminate absurdity in a way that a serious news piece can’t” because of the absence of objectivity.

“If something’s not funny, it’s not going to get published,” he said. “But it’s hard to be satirical and funny if you’re uninformed. Otherwise it just ends up being penis jokes, which are fun, but not very poignant.”

Since the paper was established in spring 2008, Zlomke said content has seen marked improvement. Now, the paper is funnier, cleaner and more popular, according to Zlomke.

“I run into the problem where there’s content that’s good and publishable, but it’s not as good as other content,

so it doesn’t end up getting published,” Zlomke said.

“Which is a pretty great problem to have. Newsracks are usually empty when we go to put the new ones in. Either someone’s reading them or throwing them all away.”

Although readership seems high, Zlomke and Stier said they would welcome an increase. They’re hoping Wednesday’s show will do the trick. Stier chose Duffy’s as a venue because he’d heard positive feedback about the bar, which is establishing itself as a mainstay for concerts.

The bands represent a variety of backgrounds and stages of success: Boom Chick is an unsigned boy-girl duo from Brooklyn, Snake Island! describes its music as “big-beat psychedelic” on its Facebook page and hails from Omaha, Gaston Light is a signed twopiece Americana band from Dallas and Conflict Between is a local alternative rock band with two UNL student

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“Ideally we’d get a lot of people, but it’s on a Wednesday night, so who knows?”

Zlomke said. “Hopefully everyone will come out and have a good time. Duffy’s has a really cool atmosphere on its own.”

A 16-cent portion of student fees funds the newspaper, so funding for anything but the basics is difficult to come by. But according to Stier, there’s a reason the event isn’t a fundraiser.

“We’re on our knees as it is trying to get people to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter,” Stier said. “We didn’t want to go out and ask for money.

We’re just pairing up with Duffy’s to put on a good show.”

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For those of us who still believe in the beauty of listening to an entire album, the B-side is sacred. But with the invasion of the digital age, paying for individual songs has become the norm. The B-side has become a lost art.

Fortunately, The Decemberists found it.

The Portland band’s latest EP, “Long Live the King” is a collection of songs that didn’t find a place on the impeccable LP “The King is Dead,” which was released earlier this year. Although these songs didn’t make the cut, that doesn’t mean they are throwaways. Like much of The Decemberists’ work,

each song walks the line between a literary masterpiece and towering mockery.

The EP opens with “E. Watson,” a poetic retelling of the despicable Edgar Watson, a 19th century plantation owner turned killer. The sinister drama continues with “Foregone” and the spooky “Burying Davy.”

The band finally lightens up with “I 4 U & U 4 Me.” The love song bounces along as singer Colin Meloy bears his heart above roots-driven music.

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Arrest leaves team’s Huskers shoot 280, fate unknown break school record final kill in a match against Iowa. She has been training with the other players for years, knows coach Cook’s system and has plenty of talent around her to help if she struggles.

Still, Lauren Cook may be more difficult to replace than any other member of the team, especially in the middle of Big Ten play, due to the setter’s game management role. While Root should be capable of keeping NU at a high level, there’s a reason Cook starts and stars: she gives the team the best chance to win.

And this situation isn’t going away anytime soon.

Bruce Stephens, a Lincoln attorney who specializes in criminal law gave his take on the case, saying that above all else, this might not be finished until “well into next year.”

He also weighed in on a number of topics relating to the case.

On whether being familiar name will hurt Cook legally: “If I were Lauren, I’d be a little bit concerned that, depending upon the judge, (I) could be used as an example, as Joe Blow off the street might get a little bit (of a) different sentence. I’m not saying that’s going to be the case ... (but) you can have a situation where a judge doesn’t want to be seen as going too easy on a person because of who they are.”

On Cook turning herself in: “The judge will probably give her some credit — go easier on her — since she turned herself in. She did the right thing.”

Sean Whalen In the wake of Lauren Cook’s arrest on Sunday, I spent much of Monday afternoon talking to any police or prosecutor remotely connected to the situation. I can honestly say I put in more legwork on this situation than anything else I’ve done covering the Nebraska volleyball team this season.

I found myself asking weird questions for a volleyball beat writer. Were handcuffs involved? Was the car driveable? Who posted the bail? None of these questions had anything to do with Friday’s match with No. 23 Michigan.

But one that can’t be answered does: Will NU have strong play from the setter position during the match?

There’s just no definitive answer yet; too much hangs in the air between both the court proceedings and disciplinary action from the team/ university.

As of Monday’s press conference with coach John Cook, Lauren was still attending team functions. But a suspension wouldn’t exactly be a shocker, and if the junior setter misses time, the coaching staff already has a plan: Brigette Root will start if Cook can’t. Root, a fifth-year senior and co-captain, was last seen slamming down the

On whether the Class 3 felony charge will be brought: “To start out with that would be normal — now whether it ends up (staying a felony) is another matter. I’d say (there’s) a good chance it doesn’t end up a felony since she turned herself in.”

On whether this case merits jail time: “I don’t think so. I’m assuming if all she’s got is speeding tickets, this won’t be a jailable offense.

Depending on all the little factors I’m not privy to, this (case) seems a good candidate for probation.”

Stephens said that a plea bargain is the most likely end to this case and that previous issues, like her six speeding tickets, “won’t be much of a factor.” He did say, however, that the charge of a suspended license is a bigger deal than many think, and that Cook getting her license back will be an issue.

So, with all this in the background — and the team just having lost its No. 1 ranking this week — a season that seemed almost in cruise control as late as Saturday seems really murky right now. To win a national championship — and maybe even to beat Michigan — Nebraska needs Lauren Cook setting the ball.

So, while it may have very little to do with volleyball per se, the fallout from Cook’s arrest may be the biggest factor on whether NU wins the Big Ten Championship or makes the Final Four. sean whalen is a senior news-editorial major.

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Madeleine Sheils (pictured) and Kayla Knopik led the Huskers to a school-record round total of 280 at the Alamo Invitational. Both are on the leaderboard in the top 10.

True freshman Shelby Though many were surprised by her phenomenal Martinek wasn’t a member of last year’s team, but that play, Knopik wasn’t.

“I’ve been hitting the ball didn’t stop her from joinwell the last two days, but ing in on Monday’s fun. Her today everything just sort of 2-under par 70 boosted her came together,” she said. “At from 23rd to 10th overall.

Coach Krapfl believes her one point I thought I was going to shoot a 17-under team has the tools to finish the tournament at the top, par. I couldn’t miss.”

Her coach was surprised, but realizes it won’t be an too, but for a different rea- easy task heading into tomorrow’s final round. son.

“Our approach tomorrow “It actually surprises me that she hasn’t done it be- will stay the same: confifore, to be honest,” said dent and relaxed,” she said.

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The team shot a round teams in the field, so if we total of 280, which broke come out confident and rethe previous record of 284. laxed, everything should be Knopik was a member of fine.”

After Monday’s results, the team that broke the record last year, but breaking there shouldn’t be a lack of the record a second time confidence. Sure, it’s tough to relax when you’re the top was more satisfying.

“It felt amazing last year,” team, but Monday proved Knopik explained, “but this that a lack of confidence time around it’s just that should not be a factor.

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Chances are you’ve most likely heard the memorable Mark Spitz quote, “Records are meant to be broken.”

On Monday, the Nebraska women’s golf performance embodied that statement.

In the second round of the Alamo Invitational, the Nebraska women’s golf team jumped four spots in the rankings to establish themselves as the tournament’s top-ranked team. Not only did the team break the school’s all-time best-round record, but three players also snuck into the tournament’s individual top 10.

In Robin Krapfl’s 25 years at Nebraska, the head coach had never seen anything like it.

As the team progressed through some ups and downs during the fall season, Krapfl pointed to one thing that made the late season run possible: the team’s attitude.

“I’m really proud of them,” she said. “They’ve all had great attitudes this fall, even when they struggled. It’s nice to see the hard work pay off.”

The hard work and positive outlook did, indeed, pay off. Leading the way for the Huskers on Monday were seniors Kayla Knopik and Madeleine Sheils. Both shot three-under-par and both are in the top 10 of the leader board.

Sheils’ 142 two-round-total puts her in sixth place, just two strokes behind the leader. A top-10 finish tomorrow would mark her 13th-career top-25 finish and her eighth top-10 finish.

“Madeleine has been playing great all fall,” said Krapfl.

“She’s been very consistent and reliable.”

While Sheils shined on Monday, so, too, did teammate Kayla Knopik. The senior from Papillion-La Vista High School broke her previous career best by two strokes. She is four strokes behind the leader and currently tied for 10th overall, along with teammate Shelby Martinek.

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Big ten homeroom 1. Nebraska (7-1, 3-1) vs. Northwestern The Huskers looked dominant against Michigan State Saturday. The Blackshirts finally lived up to their name (and their preseason hype) and the offense’s rushing attack got the job done. With their decisive victory, the Cornhuskers moved into a tie for the Legends Division lead. Now Bo Pelini’s squad controls its own destiny, and it hope to keep its momentum going against struggling Northwestern this week.

If Nebraska’s defense can keep playing well, it could find itself in Indianapolis Dec. 3.

5. Ohio State (5-3, 2-2) vs. Indiana Freshman quarterback Braxton Miller apparently did his homework last week and utilized a last-minute 40-yard heave to help Ohio State defeat Wisconsin on Saturday. After early season difficulties that forced Ohio State out of the top 25 for the first time since 2004, the Buckeyes have strung together two consecutive victories against ranked teams.

Now, Ohio State has some momentum going into November. Perhaps the most shocking part of OSU’s turnaround is the fact that it now controls its fate in the Leaders Division.

9. Purdue (4-4, 2-2) at Wisconsin If Purdue’s alternating results so far are any indication, the Boilermakers will notch a victory this week. Unfortunately for its pattern of following losses with wins, Purdue is traveling to Wisconsin Saturday, trying to avenge last week’s loss to Michigan. The good news for the Black and Gold is that quarterback Caleb TerBush is coming off the highest-rated performance of his career. However, that showing came with only 13 passing attempts. The Boilermakers will need to throw the ball better to win some games.

2. Michigan State (62, 3-1) vs. Minnesota Even though Sparty put in a strong defensive performance, holding Nebraska to more than 140 yards beneath its average output, Michigan State was never able to get going on offense. The Spartans were held to three points for the first time in eight years Saturday. Kirk Cousins and the rest of the Michigan State offense will try to rebound this weekend against Minnesota, which boasts the second-worst defense in the conference.

The Spartans are still in the thick of things in a crowded Legends Division.

6. Penn State (8-1, 5-0) Idle Yes, Penn State is the only team undefeated in conference play. Yes, its only loss came to the secondranked team in the country (Alabama). But until it proves it can beat good competition, the team will garner no respect. The Nittany Lions are atrocious on offense and are second to last in the Big Ten in scoring, while their defense has been able to beat up on teams that rank an average of 60th nationally in the same category. Nebraska, Ohio State and Wisconsin remain.

10. Northwestern (35, 1-4) at Nebraska After a five-game losing streak, Northwestern scored its first win of the season in six contests with Dan Persa at the helm.

The Wildcats will travel to Lincoln this Saturday hoping to keep their win streak alive. Northwestern’s offense is not a weakness, as it averages more than 30 points per game. But the Wildcats’ 90th-ranked scoring defense will need to tighten up in order to win important games down the stretch, and a good display against the Huskers would be a start.

3. Michigan (7-1, 3-1) at Iowa The Wolverines cannot be written off, either. Its only loss of the season was at Michigan State, and this season, the Maize and Blue has coupled a tough defense with an already explosive offense.

Michigan leads the Big Ten in rushing – an impressive stat in a league that includes Nebraska and Wisconsin. Michigan heads to Iowa City this Saturday following an easy win against Purdue, and a date with Nebraska two weeks from now will be crucial to the tight division race.

7. Illinois (6-3, 2-3) Idle The meltdown continues for the Illini. After a 6-0 start, Illinois has dropped its last three contests.

In their past 12 quarters of football, the Illini have scored only four touchdowns. And the bad news gets even worse: after a bye week to try to collect themselves this Saturday, No. 15 Michigan and No. 20 Wisconsin await later in November. For a team recently regarded as a threat to take the Leaders Division and crash the Big Ten Championship game, a potential 7-5 record could be disappointing.

4. Wisconsin (6-2, 2-2) vs. Purdue Talk about the hands of defeat. In the past two weeks, Wisconsin has lost road games on long touchdown passes in the waning seconds. Those two plays — one at Michigan State, the other at Ohio State on Saturday — have dropped the Badgers from sixth to 20th in the BCS Standings.

In that span, Bucky Badger has gone from being a national title contender to not even controlling its own conference destiny. This week, quarterback Russell Wilson and Wisconsin will be back in the comforts at home to play Purdue.

8. Iowa (5-3, 2-2) vs.

Michigan Maybe it was looking ahead to Michigan. Maybe Iowa just can’t win on the road. Maybe Minnesota just flat out beat them.

Whatever the reason, Iowa went to Minneapolis with a chance to share the Legends Division lead and left with a humiliating loss that places them fourth in the division with three more ranked opponents on its schedule. The Hawkeyes are suddenly in a position where bowl eligibility is not a guarantee. In order to get to December, Iowa will probably have to win a road game.

11. Minnesota (26, 1-3) at Michigan State For at least one more week, bowl eligibility remains a possibility for Minnesota. After upsetting Iowa at home last week — the high point of a season overflowing with lows — the Golden Gophers go to East Lansing for a matchup with Michigan State. Even in its two victories, though, the Gophers have not been particularly impressive.

Wins against Iowa and Miami (Ohio) came by a total of seven points. And with two ranked opponents remaining, Minnesota could go another year without a bowl appearance.

12. Indiana (1-8, 0-5) at Ohio State The Hoosiers have one of the worst defenses in the nation. Indiana has allowed all but three opponents more than 30 points this season, and it is yet to beat a Football Bowl Subdivision squad. The Hoosiers are the only Big Ten team that remains winless in conference play, and the task of earning a victory doesn’t get any easier this week as they go up against a hot Ohio State team. For the 16th time in 17 seasons, Indiana will not reach the six-win mark.

— Compiled by Zach Tegler

Runners look ahead after tough finishes Nedu Izu Daily Nebraskan

After a tough meet in Wisconsin Oct. 14, the Nebraska cross-country team women’s team placed seventh and the men last place in its first Big Ten Conference Championship in Champaign, Ill., this past Sunday.

The Husker women were led by top-30 finishers Katie White (22nd) and Jessica Furlan (29th) who ran a 20:53 and a 21:01. But their placements weren’t enough as Michigan State placed three runners in the top 10 and won their second straight Big Ten women’s cross-country championship.

White and Furlan were accompanied in the top 50 by fellow senior teammates Ashley Miller (35th) and Erica Hamik (47th) who finished with times of 21:09 and 21:26.

Wisconsin took home the men’s crown, placing five runners in the top six, making it their 13th consecutive championship and 45th overall. Its score of 17 points was the second-lowest score in championship’s history.

The Cornhuskers were led by team junior Trevor Vidlak and senior Brad Doering who finished 35th and 42nd in the race.

Nebraska coach Jay Dirksen said both teams made improvements from their previous 32nd- (women) and 38th- (men) place finishes in their previous meet.

“I think overall we ran better than we did at Wisconsin,” he said. “Our women did all we could do and a lot of it had to do with how our top four runners finished in the race. Jessica’s been a great leader and had a great race.

“Trevor and Brad also ran great and both competed

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The Nebraska swimming and diving team’s season got tougher in a hurry.

After a scrimmage, an alumni meet and a contest with South Dakota State in Lincoln, the Huskers traveled to Houston this past weekend for the Holiday Inn and Suites Med Center Invitation. After three sessions of competition during two days, NU came out in fourth place behind Arkansas, Boise State and Rice and in front of Houston.

NU assistant coach Doug Humphrey said the invite presented a chance for the team to swim against programs it doesn’t normally get to compete with.

“It was the first opportunity for them to travel,” Humphrey said.

The combination of strong opponents, a unique, demanding competition schedule and cold weather at the outdoor meet created a situation for the Huskers to gain experience.

“Absolutely a perfect test for our team,” Humphrey said.

Juniors Hayley Martin and Alyson Ramsey turned in the best finishes for Nebraska.

Martin placed third in the 200-yard freestyle.

Her time of 1:52.77 was less than a second out of first place.

Martin also had a top-10 finmartin ish in the 100-yard freestyle.

Ramsey finished third in the 1-meter dive.

Along with Martin, who Humphrey said found her midseason form in the event, freshman Kelly Dunn had a strong showing.

“We had athletes step up and have some great swims and compete very well,” Humphrey said.

And despite minor mistakes, he said he was pleased

with NU’s display.

“We were pretty happy overall,” Humphrey said.

But only four meets into the season, there are also chances to improve.

“We still have some room to grow,” Humphrey said. “The whole season’s part of the process.”

The invitational in Houston, though, forced a growth spurt.

“It was good to have some good teams,” Humphrey said.

Martin added that the level of the competition was good preparation for the remainder of the year.

“They’re good teams,” she said.

The format of the tourney also contributed to the learning experience. One session Friday afternoon and two during the day Saturday made for a lot of swimming in a short span of time.

“I myself swam nine events in a day and a half,” Martin said.

The team rarely gets to swim in tournaments with this unique layout.

“It’s different than any other

“During that meet I knew I was fully recovered and I knew the next day the pain was gone,” he said. “It was the first time since the year before, at the same meet, I was able to really push myself.”

Since his return, the Yuba City, Calif., native, has finished consistently in the top three for the Huskers, while teammate Vidlack has finished first three times for the team this year.

Doering said the co-captain’s consistency and his teammates’ improvements have helped ease the departure of the team’s top runners from last year.

“Trevor had a great summer and you can tell he was ready to go when we got the season started,” he said. “All of our guys had good summers and that’s why we’ve improved so much. It’s made a huge difference and they know that’s what they have to do to have a successful season.”

Nebraska’s next race will be Nov. 12 at DeKalb, Ill., when they compete in the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships.

Doering said he’s excited to get another opportunity to place higher and run again.

“It’ll probably be my last race, too,” he said. “Definitely looking forward to it and it’ll be good to go out and compete against some of these teams. We want to show that we can beat them, especially with how we ran at Wisconsin.

“With regionals we have a chance to improve with how we did in the past, especially since none of the other teams have really changed.

It’ll be good to compare and see where we’re at as the season comes to an end.”

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football: from 10 Pelini rewarded the effort by announcing the defense would get their Blackshirts, the famed black practice jerseys, before Monday’s practice. Sure enough, there was some black mixed among the sea of red jerseys at Monday’s practice.

“Oh yeah, I think our swagger is coming back for our defense,” Dennard said. “I think everybody was doubting us, so we were just trying to show the world that our defense is back.”

Not coincidentally, the defense is returning to form along with Dennard.

As the injury reduced his effectiveness for the first

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really well at the conference meet.”

Vidlak finished with a time of 24:37 while Doering finished five seconds away with a 24:42, both personal bests.

The men recorded an average time of 25:17 and Doering said it was his mostmemorable meet since being at Nebraska.

“That might be the fastest time we’ve had since I’ve been here,” he said. “ Y o u look at our top t h r e e guys and they all ran their fastest times this White season. I was definitely happy with my finish and it was the best race I’ve ever ran.

“Before the meet, I found out that my brother and his wife just gave birth to twins and were going to come to the race. That definitely added motivation for me to run better in the race.”

Dirksen said he’s seen a huge improvement from Doering since his return to the team after being injured throughout the 2010 season, “He ran well this weekend and I’ve seen him improve a lot this season,” he said.

“He’s came back looking great and has ran some of the fastest races of his career.”

Doering was sidelined in the Huskers’ first meet of the year at the Creighton/UNO Classic due to a hip injury he suffered last year. But since his 2011 debut at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational, the senior said he’s felt 100 percent healthy.

We had athletes step up and have some great swims and compete very well.” doug humphrey nu assistant coach

invitational we’ve ever been to,” Humphrey said. “It was pretty taxing.”

Martin can attest to this.

“Everybody was tired and really beat down,” she said.

Despite the physical exertion the invite required, the fact that the Huskers had a good performance in such a major event may be an indication of things to come.

“I think it showed that our team is getting better,” Humphrey said. “There’s no giveup in this group.”

After a good opening to the season, Humphrey said the team is poised to improve throughout its campaign.

“They’re just geared up to be very successful,” he said. zachtegler@ dailynebraskan.com

month and a half of the season, his NFL draft stock began to fall.

But Saturday’s showing should prop Dennard back into the discussion of top defensive backs in April’s draft. After the win, ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper tweeted that he thinks Dennard played his way back into the late firstround discussion.

This Saturday’s game against Northwestern provides the senior with another chance to boost NFL

teams’ opinions about him. Northwestern’s Dan Persa is the kind of mobile quarterback that has challenged NU’s defense in the past. But if his effort against Michigan State says anything, it’s that Dennard is more than ready for another test.

“It is nice to have Dennard against anybody,” Bo Pelini said. “He is feeling healthy and playing good football.”

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Lavonte David and Nebraska’s defense finally earned their Blackshirts after eight games of up-and-down defense. While Bo Pelini acknowledged the team has not yet reached the standard the team wants, he said that the last few games have been a “signal that guys get it.”

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ome say the color black is chic or slimming.

The starters on the Nebraska defense will be sporting the shade for the first time this season, but the honor is rooted in much more than a fashion sense.

News that the program’s famous Blackshirts would be awarded was quick to follow Nebraska’s dominant defensive performance on Saturday, but the Huskers spoke more on the matter at Monday’s press conference.

“It isn’t something simple

that should be granted,” NU coach Bo Pelini said of the tradition.

Pelini referenced his time as the Husker defensive coordinator in 2003 when he got familiar with the idea. For the coach from Youngstown, Ohio, the custom should be about meeting expectations.

“To me, that means practicing to a certain standard,” Pelini said. “Have we reached the standard that we want? No, we haven’t.

But when you start heading in that direction, preparing well and doing the right

things. To me, that is a signal that guys get it.”

Concerns about if or when the coaching staff would choose to hand out the practice jerseys has arisen in recent weeks. Many thought the decision was made to award the Blackshirts after the Huskers held Michigan State to 187 total offensive yards. Pelini defended the staff’s decision to hold onto the coveted items until eight games into 2011.

“We are the ones watching film and tape and have an idea of what our

standards are and what we want to have,” Pelini said. “I wouldn’t say it gets annoying, but the constant asking of when we will do – it gets bad. When we do it is the right time. You don’t want to just do it. I always feel like anything you do in life, you don’t do it just to do it.”

Talk of the Huskers’ defensive triumph turned to the resiliency of Nebraska’s offense. The Huskers answered a question mark of their own as they ground out 270 total yards on the top defense in the Big Ten

on Saturday.

NU junior Rex Burkhead didn’t put up career numbers Saturday, but the running back might as well have with the grin that he wore Monday. After accumulating 157 yards and three touchdowns, Burkhead was understandably tired.

“A little sore, I’m not going to lie,” Burkhead said. “But we came out with a win, so that’s always a good feeling.

It makes you not a sore as you think you would be.”

The Plano, Texas, native carried the ball 35 times

against MSU, an effort that left some wondering if the freshmen running backs could be relied on more.

“I think we have used the freshmen a lot. He hasn’t had 30 carries every game, but every week is different,” Pelini said. “I know Rex would like to have the ball 40 times. That is who he is. Every game is different, but trust me, we have a lot of confidence in our

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Secondary shuts down MSU, fulfills challenge Dan Hoppen Daily Nebraskan

Secondary coach Corey Raymond had a challenge for his players this week. Hold Michigan State receiver and All-Big Ten candidate B.J. Cunningham to less than 88 yards receiving. It wasn’t going to be an easy task, as Cunningham is Kirk Cousins’ favorite target and had already amassed 48 catches and 723 yards coming into the game.

He left Memorial Stadium with the same statistics.

The combination of cornerbacks Alfonzo Dennard and Andrew Green nullified Cunningham, holding him without a reception for the first time this year. Cousins targeted his star receiver six times, but other than a five-yard pass interference penalty he drew on Green, Cunningham was a nonfactor.

Surprisingly, the few times Cousins tried to get

Cunningham involved were when Dennard was in coverage. A preseason AllAmerica candidate, Dennard was slowed early in the season by a leg injury, but said he finally felt back to full strength this week.

It showed.

The senior had a careerhigh three pass breakups, all in the first half. He played a critical role in forcing Cousins into one of the worst games in his career.

“I guess he felt that he could try that against them and it didn’t work obviously,” receiver Brandon Kinnie said. “He looked good.

He looked like he got a little pep in his step and he got his balance back.”

Raymond’s test for his defensive backs may have helped in inspiring Dennard before one of the best games of his career. Defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said Dennard loves challenges and coach Bo Pelini called Dennard “as

He looked like he got a little pep in his step and he got his balance back.”

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prideful a player as I’ve been around.”

“We challenged him all week,” Carl Pelini said. “He locked his guy down. They may have caught one or two balls on him, but other than that he was all over guys.”

Without Dennard’s playmaking, the defense would have been hard-pressed to shut down the Spartans’ offense in the way it did.

Michigan State had 187 yards, and only 86 of those came through the air.

After the game, Carl

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Andrew Green (3) and Alfonso Dennard (15) celebrate after a defensive stop during Saturday’s 24-3 win against Michigan State.