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Inside Coverage

Pretty lights

A space for creativity

DJ performs in first live-band tour

Innovation Campus to have Maker Space

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On the defensive

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Junior running back Ameer Abdullah, who ranks No. 6 in the country and No. 1 in the Big Ten this season in rushing yards, said he is excited to face Michigan State, which is No. 1 in the country in rushing defense. file photo by morgan spiehs

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UNL dining halls integrates trans-fat-free food gradually

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niversity of Nebraska-Lincoln Dining Services will likely go trans-fatfree – eventually.

Pam Edwards, assistant director of dining halls, said UNL is working with its brokers and prime vendors to make necessary changes after the Food and Drug Administration made a preliminary decision last week to begin phasing trans fats – partially hydrogenated oils – out of foods and ban them from food entirely down the line. The FDA estimated that its ruling could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths caused by heart disease each year.

As dining services add trans-fat-free foods to the dining halls, it will collect student input on the new products. In all halls, Edwards said, a certain part of the food line will publicize a product being tested and workers will collect student opinions on score cards.

Trans fat, which can be found in foods from microwaved popcorn to baked goods to frozen pizza, was created in the ’40s to prolong shelf life of foods and to lower costs.

Popular concern about the health risks associated with excessive consumption of trans fats rose about 10 years ago, said Robert Hutkins, a food science professor. Trans fats have been correlated with cardiovascular disease.

Hutkins said foods containing trans fats have a significantly lower amount than they did five years ago, and many companies have already done away with trans fats in recent years. Those that haven’t will have to find replacement ingredients.

It’s uncertain whether new dining hall foods will taste the same and have the same texture with a replacement ingredient. Currently, if a product has less than 0.5 trans fats, the company isn’t required to list it and this ruling will change that as well.

story by Gabrielle Lazaro photo illustration by Matt Masin

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Teen’s death brings synthetic UNL to keep enrollment pace marijuana battle to forefront despite extended deadline Police officers, legislators fight against popular usage of K2 despite illegal status in Nebraska Reece Ristau dn William “Billy” Tucker, an 18-year-old, died on Oct. 13 after a night of partying in Waverly.

Tucker had smoked synthetic marijuana, went to sleep and never woke up.

Synthetic marijuana, often known as K2, is a form of manmade marijuana created from spraying various chemical components onto natural herbs. The drug became popular among high

school and college students a few years ago and has taken lives as its popularity has risen.

According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department, there have been five citations at UNL in 2013 related to K2. The Lincoln Police Department reported 117 citations from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31.

The problem with K2 is that it’s technically legal, said Capt.

Chris Peterson, a member of LPD’s drug task force.

“Just as it sounds, synthetic marijuana is a man-made marijuana product meant to mimic the effects of natural-grown marijuana,” Peterson said. “The problem is that our laws and statutes for synthetic marijuana have not been able to keep up with the chemical equations for producing it.”

K2 is marketed commercially as potpourri or incense, Peterson said. Companies are able to alter their products just enough to

stay within the legal confines of production. In Tucker ’s case, officers found a package of “Scooby Snax Potpourri” and a pipe in his pocket.

Legislators are fighting these companies.

“The Nebraska Legislature has been continuously trying to craft language for statutes that is believed to be all-encompassing as chemical compounds change,” Peterson said.

There’s debate among law enforcement officials as to the legality of the substance in Nebraska.

Sgt. Casey Ricketts of the UNLPD said that because of a ban, all forms of K2 are illegal.

“It was outlawed in 2011 in Nebraska, and before the ban, K2 was common,” Ricketts said.

“Since the outlaw, there has been a significant reduction. It is illegal to buy.”

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Extension gives university more time to develop frame for more students, tenure track faculty kelli rollin dn Slow and steady may win the race for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Last week, Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced a three-year extension to reach the university’s enrollment goal. Instead of accomplishing the goal of having 30,000 students by 2017, Perlman extended the deadline to 2020, giving the university more time to develop necessary infrastructure.

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Ellen Weissinger, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, wrote in an email that the extension doesn’t change the pace of the university’s efforts to recruit more students.

She wrote that the central goal of UNL won’t change either: to grow in size, diversity and quality of the student body and tenure track faculty. “(It) seems like the right goal for UNL,” Weissinger wrote.

“Conversations with deans, associate deans and department chairs gave us a growing sense that our original timeline put us on a path to grow too quickly.”

Weissinger wrote that the new timeline still requires larger incoming class sizes.

“We’ll all have to work just as creatively and effectively to recruit and support students as we have in the last few years,” she wrote.

In a Nov. 7 letter to cam-

pus, Perlman wrote that during the State of the University address this September, he admitted to underestimating the need to build more infrastructure, such as increased facilities and amount of advisers and teachers, to support the increased number of students.

“We don’t announce goals we don’t think we have a reasonable chance of achieving,” Perlman wrote in an email. “But we are also ambitious.”

The proposed growth rates to reach the 30,000 vary each year.

Projected growth rates each year are as follows: 2 percent (2014), 2.7 percent (2015), 4.6 percent (2016), 3 percent (2017), 2.9 percent (2018), 3 percent (2019) and 3 percent (2020).

UNL enrollment has decreased by 148 students since 2011, but Perlman said that

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unl research team develops sensors to enhance rail safety University of Nebraska-Lincoln electronics engineer Hamid Sharif and his team are working to develop a wireless sensor network to provide realtime railcar monitoring that alerts the engineer to potential problems. A $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation funds the work, as well as Union Pacific Railroad, based in Omaha. The research was highlighted in the 2013 UNL Research Report, released by the UNL Office of Research and Economic Development this month. Sharif’s network will use wireless sensors to detect current conditions in each railcar and send it wirelessly to the locomotive engineer and possibly the next station. This data can help prevent spoilage if refrigeration fails, monitor livestock conditions and identify malfunctioning parts. The system is now being fieldtested at the Transportation Technology Center Inc. near Pueblo, Colo. Sharif expects the network to be available by 2015.

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On campus what: International Food Bazaar when: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, first floor

what:

Nebraska Innovation Campus (NIC) Update when: 1 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union, Arbor Suite

what: 10th Annual Chili CookOff when: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. where: East Campus Union, Great Plains Room more information: $5 or 5 cans of food per person; $10 or 10 cans of food per family.

Soup bowls are a $2 donation.

IN LINCOLN what: Talbott Brothers Band, with Evan Bartels & The Stoney Lonesomes when: 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St. more information: $5 for ages 21+, $7 for 18+

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Matthew Jockers, an assistant professor of English at UNL, specializes in digital humanities by mining novels. Jockers maps the plots of thousands of novels and looks at what plot structures make best sellers and which ones do not. Through this, he can find trends in novels through the centuries and decades.

Data-mining lit professor begins 2nd research project Newest project focuses on concepts, wording and trends in 19th, 20th century literature jacob elliott dn Matthew Jockers has been hard at work in the field of datamining through scanning and documenting large collections of books to reveal patterns and ideas previously unseen.

Jockers, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, uses a type of text analysis called macroanalysis. Instead of focusing on the themes, ideas and concepts of an individual author, macroanalysis compares the individual to the group.

His previous research looked at late 18th and 19th century books, and now he’s looking at more than 50,000 books from the 19th and 20th century. The books are compared to point out similar wording, overarching concepts and other literary trends among individuals, sexes, time periods, regions or demographic groups.

Jockers said he worked with Aaron Dominguez, a physics and astronomy professor at UNL, to figure out the math needed for

his research. He presented the you go and you look just at the information to Dominguez, who best sellers, you discover the best sellers are not positive. About 70 found a solution called the “Fouto 80 percent of the best sellers rier Transformation.” have negative plot lines.”

“Long story short, this forPreviously, copyright issues mula allows me to generate a prevented analysis of more modgraph of every single plot shape in all 50,000 of my novels,” Jock- ern books, but recent lawsuits filed by The Author ’s Guild ers said. “Once I have the shape, have changed that. The guild I can use another mathematical formula to compare to one an- wished to prevent Google and HathiTrust Digital Library from other.” scanning books to create a digital Computers make Jockers’ work easier. He has been able to archive and claimed that doing so would go against copyrights. use programs to find certain patIn his summative assessment, terns in thousands of books.

Judge Denny Chin said scanning This information brings to light potential answers to many was within aspects of fair use and was a public benefit. Beof the literary world’s questions. cause of this ruling, thousands of Themes and ideas of overarching societies and cultures will recent books have been opened up to Jockers’ rebe able to be more search. clearly defined.

Matt has “Matt’s reCompanies and pushed the search for the writers can even last couple of use the information envelope in more years has been to determine what to refine and makes a good book. complicated ways expend what Looking at the texts.” of looking at you can do with 19th century books, text analysis; beJockers has found Susan Belasco yond the simple that about 70 perenglish dept. chairwoman searching becent of the books yond what you have neutral or negand I might be ative plots, while able to do in a text looking for only 43 percent of the 20th cenwords and strings,” said Sutury books are negative. san Belasco, chairwoman of the “In other words, things don’t English department. “Matt has get better (in the 19th century),” pushed the envelope in more Jockers said. “They either end the same or worse. So the first complicated ways of looking at takeaway is, it looks like in the texts.” news@ 20th century more writing tends dailynebraskan.com to be positive. Well, then when

UNL’s part-time MBa ranked No. 18

by Businessweek Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the College of Business Administration’s part-time MBA program No. 2 in the Big Ten Conference in its 2013 Top Business School rankings, which were released Nov. 7.

UNL was ranked No. 18 out of 80 ranked programs.

The University of Michigan was No. 10 overall. The ranking is based on a survey – an academic quality measure that includes GMAT scores, class sizes and completion rates – by recent graduates and a calculation of post-MBA outcomes. This ranking began in 2007, dividing the country into six regions. While at UNL, part-time MBA students often maintain fulltime employment while studying. UNL also offers a flexible MBA, which gives students the option of taking classes on campus, online or a combination of both. “Our mission is to develop exceptional leaders to help change the world,” CBA Dean Donde Plowman said. “This recognition for our MBA program is another indicator of the outstanding quality of our business programs in the College of Business.” news@dailynebraskan.com

trans fat: from 1 “Will people quit eating food because it tastes different?” Edwards said. “We don’t know yet.

There’s a lot of things that can happen.”

Edwards mentioned that a few years ago, a company brought in trans-fat-free cookies that didn’t taste good, so dining services didn’t purchase them.

Fortunately for the vendor companies, there will be a 60-day comment period where the public can express their opinions on the proposal.

“If it does take effect, companies will be working very diligently to identify substitute products or ingredients,” Edwards said. “But it’s important to recognize that a lot of changes have already been taking place and a lot of companies saw this coming so they’ve been preparing for it.”

Across campus, items sold with trans fats include Stouffer’s Lasagna and barbecue beef Hot

Pockets. Big-name products that include trans fat as a staple ingredient are vegetable oil shortening, Crisco and many kinds of doughnut.

“Personally I would like to see that we as consumers could do without the government mandating this,” Edwards said. “But we haven’t done a good job, so that’s why this is happening.”

Edwards warned that eliminating trans fats isn’t the answer to America’s obesity epidemic.

She said Americans eat too many calories and have too much sweetener in their diets. But eliminating trans fats will save lives and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, she said. Hutkins agreed.

“This is a good public health move made by the FDA,” Hutkins said. “When a company can say our food has no trans fats, that’s a good thing.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

UNL Recycling participates in 4th annual Game Day Challenge Recycling volunteers to collect recyclables throughout gameday outside, inside Memorial Stadium Colleen Fell DN In a collaboration with the “Go Green for Big Red” program, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will participate in the Game Day Challenge at Saturday’s football game against Michigan State at 2:30 p.m.

The Game Day Challenge, which is a competition among colleges and universities to promote waste reduction at football games, is run by the College and University Recycling Coalition, RecycleMania and Keep America

Beautiful and is supported by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The goal of the competition is to see which universities recycle the highest proportion of waste from football games.

UNL Landscape Services will team up with various student groups to collect recyclable materials in campus parking lots.

Partners from Intercollegiate Athletics, ROTC and Recycling Enterprises will collect trash within the stadium as usual.

Prabhakar Shrestha, co-coordinator for UNL Recycling and a graduate student of natural resource sciences, said UNL currently recycles 70 to 80 percent of the five tons of waste gathered each game day from Memorial Stadium and receptacles around the stadium. Shrestha said he was pleased with the amount of garbage the university recycles each game.

“It’s a mix of what can be recycled and what can be compos-

“Nobody really pays attented,” Shrestha said. “If (the pertion to the ginormous amounts of centage recycled) were higher, the waste that come from program would the games,” Shrestha require a lot more It’s a mix said. “We generate so money and efmuch waste, but we fort.” of what don’t talk about it.”

Ohio State, Allison Kraft, a which recycles can be recycled junior biology maabout 90 percent and what can be jor at UNL, said she of its waste from was surprised to home football composted. If learn that UNL goes games, is the top- (the percentage through about 10,000 recycling school pounds of trash each in the Big Ten recycled) were game. However, she Conference. higher, the said she thinks UNL UNL has comdoes its part to elimipeted in the pro- program would nate most the waste. gram since 2010 require a lot more “It’s good that against more than 600 other univer- money and effort.” the (recycling) percentage is high,” sities, and it has Kraft said.

“But one of the top Prabhakar there’s always room university recyshrestha cling programs, unl recycling co-coordinator for improvement.”

Carly Adams, a Shrestha said. sophomore food sciStill, Shresence and technology tha said it’s immajor, said she never would have portant that the university raise guessed that the amount of waste awareness about the trash issue.

is so high.

Both students said they would have guessed the amount of waste to be about 1,000 pounds.

“I’m definitely surprised to learn that it’s that high,” Adams said. “I think some of it could be avoidable.”

Shrestha said UNL Recycling is seeking volunteers to help with the efforts on Saturday. Volunteering is open to anyone and those who volunteer should meet on the west side of the Sheldon Museum of Art at noon on Saturday. Shrestha said there will be people in UNL Recycling Tshirts to guide volunteers. Shrestha said he wanted to emphasize that those who volunteer will still be able to attend the entire game.

Volunteers will also be treated to free Valentino’s pizza, Pepsi products and will be given a steel water bottle. He said he’s expecting 25 to 30 volunteers.

Aside from manning trash receptacles, volunteers will be handing out eco-friendly green

if you go what: Game Day Challenge when: Saturday at noon where: Sheldon Museum of Art west side

bags to tailgaters and taking pictures.

Even though there will be an emphasis on recycling this weekend, Shrestha said this attitude should be constant throughout the entire football season.

“The message is the same every week,” Shrestha said, that Husker fans should be paying attention to the amount of trash they are throwing away. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Athlete reliance on online classes not a factor at UNL on whether those students should enroll in online courses is no more NU Athletic and no less restrictive.

Barber said online courses can Department says provide flexibility for students enrollment of with busy schedules. But just because a class works better with a student-athletes is student’s schedule doesn’t necessame as non-athletes sarily mean it’s easier.

“Online courses need to be treated by students just as seriously as any in-person course,” lane chasek Barber said. dn Online courses often have the same level of rigour as in-person The NCAA’s Division I Board of courses. The workload in such Directors asked late last month courses combined with the lack for an examination of online of a faculty member to actively courses and how much student remind students of assignments athletes should rely on them – but and coming presentations often University of Nebraska Athletic means students Department offienrolled in online cials say the matclasses need to be Online ter isn’t an issue self-motivated. courses here.

With that, misA l t h o u g h need to be treated u n d e r s t a n d i n g s athletes enrollabout course mateing in online by students just rial can be harder courses has be- as seriously...” to address in online come a trend classes. across the coun“In an in-perMarie Barber try in recent online & distance education son course, an inyears, senior asstructor can look sociate athletic at somebody’s face director Dennis Leblanc said the and clearly tell, ‘OK, I can see percentage of University of Ne- there’s something you’re not unbraska–Lincoln student athletes derstanding,’” Barber said. “But enrolling in online courses isn’t with online classes, you don’t significantly greater than the per- have that kind of face-to-face centage of non-athlete students, communication. Therefore, the inhe said. structor has to be very intentional “The question about how about including clear instrucmany online courses are appro- tions, numerous ways and times priate for any student, not just for communication to occur, a vaathletes, to take has always been riety of checkpoints to determine present,” Leblanc said. “If you progress as well as a way to estabcheck UNL course listings, you’ll lish instructor presence.” see that the number of online For some students, athlete or courses offered at UNL has been non-athlete, the one-on-one intersteadily increasing. It’s not just at actions provided by an in-person UNL, either. On a national level, class can be more beneficial than practically all college campuses flexibility, Leblanc said. are offering more online options Leblanc said student athletes for classes this year than they did often meet with both their indilast year.” vidual academic advisors and his Leblanc said he doesn’t know department to determine what of any Nebraska student athletes class schedules will work with who rely mostly on online cours- their training, travel and competies. tion schedules. Because students Marie Barber, executive direcare able to work on assignments tor for Online & Distance Educaand complete assigned readings tion,, said UNL’s ultimate goal for on their own time, online courses all students, is to make sure they are often beneficial to student athtake all the classes they need to letes who travel often. However, graduate. The NCAA operates Leblanc and his department nevunder a similar rule that all stuer set out to make student athletes dent athletes should be making take mostly online courses. progress toward graduation in “Whether or not online classtheir college athletic careers, she es are appropriate for a student, said. and that includes any student, re“UNL really treats all stually depends on who that student dents the same when it comes to is,” Leblanc said. “Different stuenrolling in classes,” Barber said. dents have different needs.”

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When Innovation Campus completes construction in 2014, it will include a Maker Space, a place for students to create and innovate with 3-D printers, lasers and other equipment.

Maker Space will spur creativity, collaboration Innovation Campus officials hope program will foster ingenuity, community among students sam egan dn Nebraska Innovation Campus is hoping to foster creativity, community and collaboration with a space for students to create and innovate called Maker Space, said Kate Engel, the community management and operations director.

Officials discussed the move at the Innovation Campus update meeting in the Nebraska Union Auditorium Thursday afternoon.

NIC staff also discussed the intention to move into the campus and begin operations by May 2014 and move the University of Nebraska– Lincoln food science department by 2015.

NIC Director Dan Duncan said leaders will have to wait for the sticker shock to wear off be-

fore they can start innovating.

To complete construction of the 2-million-square-foot research campus on schedule, construction must maintain pace of 80,000 square feet per year at an estimate cost of $40 million per year, Duncan said.

“It’s a very, very aggressive growth strategy,” Duncan said.

But if they can secure funding, he said NIC could change the world.

Engel wants the Maker Space to be thought of just like the Campus Recreation Center. It would be student-run, with student-taught classes, where anyone could go to engage in creative activities such as carpentry and engineering. It would be an environment where anyone can build and create, in a space that encourages collaboration, Engel said.

Business Accelerator Director Terence Bowden said the ultimate goal of the Maker Space is to have it work directly alongside the business accelerator, which will support development and entrepreneurship. That way, start-ups can go to Business Accelerator to polish ideas, and then develop the prototype right next door.

“We want to be able to say, ‘Come on down, use a 3-D printer,

We’re going to make a lot of people nervous, including myself, but that’s what you have to do to shake things up and drive innovation.”

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use a laser,’” Engel said.

There are still safety issues that need to be addressed. Not everyone knows how to use power tools, let alone a laser cutter, but for the Maker Space to fulfill its potential, leaders need to do whatever they can to enable creativity, Duncan said.

“The Maker Space has to be a place where there aren’t a lot of rules,” Duncan said.

He said officials are discussing having people take safety tests to use dangerous equipment.

However, the Maker Space is still only in its conceptual stage, so it’ll be given a lot of thought, Duncan said.

“It’s very dependent on funding and who works with us,” Engel said.

Alternative Service break group will head to California nicole rauner dn

ment, said the trip is a way to be exposed to diversities in a special way that you don’t get from being in Nebraska. Mora doesn’t know The University of Nebraska Lincoln’s Alternative Service Break if the distance of this trip will group is going to California in have an affect on the number of participants.

January to gain knowledge of mi“Usually there are 25 students grant workers and their impact that go, but this is an ASB that on the United States economy and will be farther,” Mora said. culture.

On other trips, students have Alternative Service Breaks are part of UNL’s Center for Civic ventured to places such as Missouri, Oklahoma or Colorado.

Engagement. The program places The main point of these trips is teams of students in communito not only serve, but, to broadties to participate in community en horizons and to help others service projects through physical in summer, fall, engagement. winter or spring It’s great “It’s a great way breaks. to expose to expose students The 2014 winto immigration,” ter trip will be to students to Mora said. “Central Central Valley, CaValley is the heart lif. This trip will immigration. of immigration.” be farther away Central Valley The trips are a from Nebraska great way to spend than trips in the it the heart of part of a break past, and it offers immigration.” helping others ina different side to stead of just laying volunteering. ana mora around watching Students of asb volunteer television. It puts any major who you in close contact want to learn with other students first-hand about with the same volunteer drive the problems faced by other communities can apply for the trip. and can become your friends.

Shelby Bates, a senior secondThough the last information meeting was Thursday, applica- ary special education major, has stayed friends with people from tions aren’t due until Nov. 22. Apher group and plans to go on anplications can be picked up in the other trip in the spring. Bates went Civic Engagement office in the Nebraska Union or on the Center to the Pine Ridge Reservation and for Civic Engagement website. It spent time with their community includes an essay and a $25 de- of students and teachers.

“We got great insight,” Bates posit. said, “We were able to see how Ana Mora, a junior nutrition education differs in reservations.” and health sciences major and The winter trip is Jan. 1-10, undergraduate student worker for the Center for Civic Engage- and travel will be by charter bus.

if you’re interested what:

Alternative Service Break when: Jan. 1-10, 2013 where: Central Valley, Calif. application deadline: Nov. 22 pick up applications at the Center for Civic Engagement in the Nebraska Union or online at http://engage. unl.edu/ParticipantApplicationWinterBreak2014.pdf.

Application includes an essay and $25 deposit.

Students will work alongside migrant workers and learn about workers’ rights and education from national leading experts.

Opportunities for students include studying immigration and citizenship as well as seeing the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Ocean and the Grand Canyon.

While Bates plans her second service trip, she reflected on more than just the volunteering aspect of her trip.

“My view was more worldly in just recognizing and understand differences,” Bates said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

With UNL and private companies trying to reduce risk as much as possible, finding funding for a center that allows anyone to use expensive equipment however they want might take some time, she said.

Ideally, Duncan said, the Maker Space would be privately funded, which would help entrepreneurs, students and researchers put their creativity to use in an uninhibited fashion. Safety will be a top priority no matter who funds the Maker Space, he said.

“We’re going to make a lot of people nervous, including myself,” Duncan said, “but that’s what you have to do to shake things up and drive innovation.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

enrollment: from 1 It does seem to me an awfully daunting assignment to stay above 80 percent.” hal daub nu regent

would change as smaller classes graduate and larger ones take their place.

He said the recent decrease is because of unusually large graduating classes.

Compared with other NU schools, UNL saw the largest freshman enrollment at 12.3 percent from 2009 to 2013. The University of Nebraska at Omaha had a 7.1 percent increase and the University of Nebraska at Kearney had a 10 percent decrease.

A large part of the enrollment goal is to not only increase enrollment, but to keep the already-enrolled students. UNL’s goal is to stay above 80 percent retention.

But the competition to attract Nebraska high school students is tight.

According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System 2010 data, 19,057 Nebraska high school seniors went on to college. All NU schools compete with each other and other Nebraska schools for those students.

“It does seem to me an awfully daunting assignment to stay above 80 (percent) once you look at the pool,” NU Board of Regents member Hal Daub said.

Nebraska regent Bob Whitehouse said once looking at the reality of the goal, he thought administration made the right choice.

“I think that the Academic Affairs Committee folks felt that these were more reasonable and more in line,” Whitehouse said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

k2: from 1 However, Chief Deputy Jeff Bliemeister of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said the law isn’t so clear.

“It’s complicated to say the least,” Bliemeister said. “There are specific types that are illegal by state statute. I would argue that other types that are currently being sold, although not specifically described in controlled substance statutes, might be analogs or derivatives that are illegal.”

Bliemeister referred to K2 as synthetic cannabinoids. He said this term is correct because the substance is a designer drug. He was the dep-

uty who worked on Tucker’s death.

“We found a form of synthetic cannabinoid and a pipe in Billy Tucker’s pocket after he died,” Bliemeister said. “Our investigation revealed that he had been using the drug the previous evening as a substitute for marijuana.”

Bliemeister said Tucker’s cause of death was sudden death due to consumption of synthetic cannabinoids, but the mechanism of death is unclear. He said police are uncertain what the drugs did to actually cause death, but cited a cardiac arrhythmia as an example of something that could occur.

A freshman journalism major who wanted to remain anonymous said she is an active marijuana user and has tried K2.

“It’s like the chemical version of marijuana, and it hurts,” she said.

“You can tell it’s not natural from tasting it. It makes you lose your memory, and it’s like you’re in a fog.”

The student said she wouldn’t try K2 again, regardless of its legal status.

All the officers agreed synthetic marijuana is extremely dangerous.

“Because some of these things are sold in store fronts or over the In-

ternet, it can seem safe,” Bliemeister said. “It is not safe. It can lead to not only death at its worst, but to hospital visits and an array of different things.”

Peterson also warned against the use of K2.

“While there is always a concern about taking any types of drugs, from marijuana to cocaine and meth, there is an additional concern with synthetic marijuana,” Peterson said.

“There is no controlled processes in it. You don’t know what you’re ingesting into your body.”

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ASUN meeting was embarrassment to students, university How embarrassing.

That was the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board’s response to an Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senator’s racial-slur-ridden rant at the group’s Wednesday night meeting. It was embarrassing for the senator, graduate student Cameron Murphy, who poorly represented students when he used the N-word several times during debate, questioned whether the wearing of sombreros in a Homecoming Week skit was offensive and offered a story of how he was called a “cracker” as proof of his cultural awareness.

It was embarrassing for ASUN, which passed an admirable resolution to eliminate offensive speech from its members’ vocabulary but is now under fire for the comments of one thoughtless senator.

And it’s embarrassing for the student body for allowing Murphy to become a student representative in the first place.

During debate, senators argued about the necessity of the resolution, introduced by Sen. Claire Eckstrom, a senior fashion design major, because ASUN already has a non-discrimination clause in place.

If the non-discrimination clause was doing its job, Murphy wouldn’t have made his comments in the first place.

And really, what right does one group of students have to decide whether minority groups need protection from discrimination? Sure, free speech is alive and important.

But our student representatives should hold themselves to a higher standard in the way they conduct themselves and interact with others.

In the end, the senate did pass the resolution, a move the Editorial Board applauds. But Murphy is getting more press for his offensive and misguided comments. What’s more, he insinuated that “cracker” is a racial slur comparable to the N-word. Obviously, it isn’t. “Cracker” doesn’t carry the weight of an ethnic group’s centuries of mistreatment.

Murphy won the election for senator through a write-in campaign, although at press time it was unclear how many votes he received. Whatever the number, he received too many.

This incident could be a good opportunity for students to more closely examine how ASUN senators are representing the school. Let’s applaud the senators, like Eckstrom and her supporters, who are culturally and socially open-minded.

As for the rest, UNL can do better.

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ike anyone whose relatives guilttripped them into being Facebook friends, I avoid reading a lot of the links posted by my extended family. I just don’t have the heart to tell my mom she’s not really friends with Kate Middleton or my great aunt that agave nectar doesn’t actually cure cancer. A particular favorite is videos warning about all the “new” tricks rapists and murders are using – disguising guns as cellphones, using audio tracks of crying babies, spraying victims with ether-filled perfume bottles, the list goes on. While these videos usually have good intentions, one crime clip making the rounds on my Newsfeed has proven particularly problematic.

The video, a news broadcast from somewhere in New York, warns about a “new game” called “Knockout,” in which teenagers dare each other to walk up to random strangers and punch them in the face, often with the goal of knocking them unconscious.

It also shows clips of the game allegedly being played by exclusively black teenagers attacking white victims. Video interviews feature only young black men explaining what “Knockout” is. A brief Google search revealed a small handful of similar reports from New York, New Jersey and Michigan, all in the form of local news segments and offering the same blurry video clips of black teenagers chasing white strangers.

Beyond just scaring my grandma, these videos sensationalize interracial violence in a way that promotes the stereotype of black men as violent criminals. For starters, there’s little evidence that this phenomena is an “epidemic” at all. The reports offer nothing beyond the anecdotal evidence provided by the video clips. From what I can gather, there have been no more than eight of these alleged attacks.

Plus, these kinds of reports are hardly new.

Stories of the specific game called “Knockout” go back to at least 2011 and bear a striking resemblance to the “Wilding” panic of the early 1990s. Hell, there’s even a (terrible) John Travolta movie about it. And yet the news media packages these incidents as a mass happening and a new threat against white America. I

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don’t mean to excuse the violence in these videos, but their popularity gives us an important chance to examine the news media’s portrayal of race. These stories become popular by both riding on and reinforcing damaging stereotypes about young black men.

Of course, sensationalizing stories isn’t a new trick for the media. We all remember the uncomfortable talks we had with our parents after the “Rainbow Party” story broke. But the racial element to all of this is what makes it so troubling. Multiple studies show that since the 1960s, news stories disproportionately feature violent crimes committed by black males, often explicitly portraying them as threatening and without a name. This namelessness encourages audiences to make racial generalizations by discouraging them from seeing the person as an individual. The prevalence of the news media gives it considerable influence in the shaping of public perceptions of race. For example, an American Psychological Association study showed that black male faces caused the most aversion in white test subjects than any other racial group. Another demonstrated that more than 40 percent of white participants surveyed said that “many” or “almost all” black men are violent.

These stereotypes have extremely damaging consequences in the real world. People in charge of protecting the fairness at the foundation of our nation — such as lawmakers, police officers and jury members — are just as affected by the media as the rest of us. When stereotypes shape their thoughts, we end up with policies like New York’s “Stop and Frisk” law, which allowed police officers to search anyone that they perceived as acting suspicious. This method was overwhelmingly de-

ployed against black and Hispanic men. War on drug policies came from a similar place of racially-motivated fear and have decimated communities by disproportionately incarcerating massive numbers of black men. Though white people use drugs at roughly five times the rate of their black counterparts, black offenders are 10 times more likely to be arrested and sentenced to jail time. Even juries, made up of our peers to supposedly protect us from unjust punishment at the hands of the government, are extremely affected by this faulty racial perception. One Philadelphia study found that juries are 38 percent more likely to sentence black offenders to death than white offenders. These figures become even more dismal when the victim of the crime is white. And these statistics are just a tiny, nauseating slice of the dizzying racial inequities in our justice system.

Perhaps most damningly, stereotypes are used to justify the murders of young black men. The images in these “Knockout” videos and their claims of a full-blown war against white people are the same fear-based propaganda white murderers have used to explain away their crimes against black victims since the Antebellum South. Beyond Trayvon Martin, there are multitudes of other, unreported incidents of unarmed black men being killed out of fear. One piece specifically about “Knockout” celebrated a man for shooting his alleged attacker (and, interestingly enough, also contained an advertisement for a book about the “Biblical case for being armed”).

I certainly don’t mean to call anyone, especially my grandma, racist with this column.

But as consumers of media, we need to be intensely critical of the way it shapes how we see the world. While no act of violence is ever permissible, we must question the way the media relates these incidents to us and resist classifying entire groups as dangerous based upon these misrepresentations. It’s our responsibility to correct these damaging attitudes and all of the inequalities that come with them.

Kate Miller is a senior philosophy major. follow her on twitter @TheKateriarch and Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Retail employees should enjoy Thanksgiving, too

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lack Friday, also known as “the biggest shopping day of the year,” is just two weeks away.

It’s the day when all the retailers will be competing to get the customers into their stores.

Stores often attempt to attract customers by opening their stores at increasingly earlier times. This practice seems to assume customers would rather shop on Thanksgiving night than on Black Friday morning. While these times could generate a lot of revenue for the store, they also come at a price ‑ the employees. Employees should be at home spending quality time with their families on Thanksgiving, not working 10 to 12 hours and getting paid minimum wage.

I worked in retail for a few years and have worked on Black Friday. While the time does fly during these shifts, they’re also very stressful. However, when I was working in retail, I wasn’t coming in at 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving. These retailers shouldn’t expect their employees to leave their families on one of the most familycentric holidays of the year. Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for what you have and to spend time with the people you love the most.

Black Friday is separate from this time. Black Friday is the day where you go shopping and work crazy hours.

Thanksgiving is the day where you spend time with the people you love. That’s the

way it should be. However, every year retailers open their doors earlier and earlier.

Two years ago, the norm for stores was opening the doors at maybe midnight.

Now, most retailers are opening up their doors at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving, around the time a lot of families are enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner. People might not realize that when stores say their doors open at 6 p.m., some employees have to come in at least two hours before that to get the store ready. In reality, employees are there at 4 p.m. and might not get off until 4 a.m.

It’s not only working these long hours, but what it’s like during work. Sometimes when I was working, we’d be so busy I wouldn’t even get all of my breaks. Business is nonstop. Unless you stand up to your supervisors and tell them you haven’t been on break, they won’t care.

This is why we need to put some rules in place. For the workers being forced to come in, at least make them feel comfortable. Retailers really should take care of their employees because they’re the ones who are going to take care of customers and make sure they come back. If workers are happy, then morale in the workplace will be strong, and customers will remember that.

Also of note, federal law doesn’t require retailers to offer a special holiday premium to employees. The companies decide whether or not their employees

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receive that incentive. These hours take them away from their families and don’t necessarily guarantee they’re getting paid extra. If companies really insist on making their workers come in on Thanksgiving, then they should make holiday premiums a requirement. It’s hard getting by anymore, especially if you’re a broke college kid. If companies expect their workers to come in and work, then they deserve proper compensation.

Even if workers were offered these incentives, Thanksgiving hours aren’t practical. Most people want to be at home with their families as well. In my family, we usually eat around 4 p.m. and then we spend the rest of the afternoon drinking coffee and watching “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer.” We cherish the time we get to spend together. We reserve Black Friday for holiday shopping. Companies offer low prices on items in the store, such as 60 percent off a Kindle Fire or inexpen-

sive video games at $10 apiece. You have to remember they also carry a limited stock of those items. You’re unlikely to get big-ticket items unless you get there six hours before open. It’s just not worth missing out on Thanksgiving with your family.

Companies should respect this time and stand out by making their deals on Black Friday morning again. When’s the last time a store had door busters at 7 a.m. on Black Friday? I would go to a deal like that because it’s practical. Most people have the day off and probably would rather come in at 7 a.m. than 4 p.m.

Thanksgiving day. They’ll come shop, bring their families, and the retailers will make money. The workers will be happy and generate more revenue because they won’t be forced to sacrifice their holiday.

It’s a win-win situation.

People aren’t reacting positively to the earlier trend. A petition on Change. org has been going around asking major retailer Target to push back its door busters until Black Friday. Target announced that several of its stores would be opening at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Even more alarming, Toys”R”Us announced it will be opening at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Many people have been threatening to boycott all the major retailers if they don’t push back their hours.

As college students, we might not see our families as much as we want because

of distance, crazy school schedules or insane work hours. Spending time with our families is extremely important. Some of us might be working in retail and have to face the reality that is Black Friday. Do we really want to work when we could be at home with our families enjoying the holiday? Not to mention that we only have Thanksgiving break before we are thrust into finals week. Do we really want to spend hours waiting outside for retailers to open?

Don’t get me wrong, I love shopping. I live for Black Friday, but these early hours are ridiculous. Having worked in retail, I completely sympathize with the workers.

I wouldn’t want to come in on a holiday either. Working early on Black Friday is expected, especially if you work in retail, but Thanksgiving Day is just unacceptable. We should boycott these stores and let them know we’re not buying into their corporate crap. Forcing employees to come in and work on holidays without giving them proper incentives is wrong.

Thanksgiving is a day of familial joy, and it’s a time to spend with your family. Black Friday is separate from that, and that’s the way it should be.

Christianna Friedman is a senior secondary education major.

Follow her on Twitter @ChristiFriedman and reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Andrew Barry | DN

The Best Buy on 48th Street uses a demonstration area to promote the PlayStation 4, but the demonstration device was accidentally broken earlier by a customer. The PlayStation 4 releases Nov. 15 and costs $399.

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Trisha Havel, Kendra Smith and Vanessa Smith wait in line at Best Buy for the midnight release of the new PlayStation 4. Havel said she was waiting in line because she was a “good grandma.”

sony’s playstation 4 brings out hopeful fans for an early shot at the new video game console

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A crowd of people line up outside of the Best Buy on 48th Street for the midnight release of the PlayStation 4 video game system.

The original PlayStation console was introduced in 1994 by Sony Computer Entertainment.

waiting games “It’s just for the experience. You know, to be able to have the new technology first is always a bragging right sort of thing. I’m looking forward to trying something new. I haven’t owned a PlayStation console in a really long time. It’ll be interesting to have the new thing and convert over to the new platform.”

“I wasn’t even planning on getting it tonight. I read this article that they might not even have any until maybe 2014. After the first couple weeks, after they’re all sold out, it’s just basic supply and demand. You might not be able to get any.”

“I’ve gotten more into gaming lately, and I think the PS4 is going to be pretty exciting. I’m not sure when I can get it otherwise, so I don’t want to wait for two months or something.”

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Pretty Lights makes a tour stop in Lincoln Touring music from his new album, “A Color Map of the Sun”, DJ is joined by a live band.

Yuliya Petrova dn Pretty Lights is on tour performing with a live band for the first time ever.

Pretty Lights will play Pershing Auditorium with Blood Diamonds, Paul Basic and Purveyors of the Conscious Sound on Friday at 8 p.m. The tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. The show is open to all ages.

Derek Vincent Smith, the DJ behind Pretty Lights, stepped into the music scene in 2006 with his first album, “Taking Up Your Precious Time.” Smith is now touring with his fourth album, “A Color Map of the Sun,” with a whole new presentation of his musical vision — a live band.

Smith produces and DJs dance music with beats rooted in hip hop and electronic music.

“He has his own style and a new take that no one else is doing in this genre of music, a very unique style people can relate to in a lot of different worlds,” said Justin Kadlec, co-owner of Rad Kadillac Productions. “Once you hear the music, you just know it’s a Pretty Lights song.”

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Pretty Lights’ DJ, Derek Vincent Smith brings his first live-band tour to Lincoln. The electronic musician performs Friday at 8 p.m.

Smith’s unique style is conveyed on his latest album, approximately two years in the making. The sounds on the album are all Smith’s records in their originality. Smith created his own vinyl collection to sample from.

Many tracks on the album include traditional instruments such as cello, violin, trumpet and trombone, and less common instruments such as harmonium, marxophone, nyckelharpa and a resonator mandolin from the 1950s.

“Pretty Lights has taken electronic music to a whole new level,” Kadlec said.

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Stick it to the man, or at least the lunch lady Jake Greve DN ››Disclaimer: The DN Arts Desk doesn’t advise stealing from the dining halls, and the acts in this column are fictitious.

On a tight college budget, most students can’t really afford to buy much of anything, let alone food.

I’m not sure about you, but I need food to survive, at least most of the time. A common solution to the problem of university hunger is a meal plan at the dining halls.

There’s one problem with the meal plans, and it’s that they are robbing you blind. The cost of a meal plan isn’t even cheaper than buying individual meals if you are like me and don’t eat three

meals a day.

What’s especially bad about the dining halls is the fact that they close early. Sometimes I get hungry at night, and I’m guessing you do, too. So here’s what you do — fight back against the tyranny of the dining halls. If the lunch

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International groups share culture through food The International Food Bazaar will be held by cultural RSOs on Friday in the City Campus Union.

Hannah Eads dn Nine registered student organizations (RSOs) will be participating in the International Food Bazaar at the University of NebraskaLincoln on Friday as the last event in International Education Week.

The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the first floor of the City Campus Union in the Rotunda and Union Square areas.

The event is cash only, but students who present their NCard will receive free Pepsi products.

Cultural ambassadors will host the event.

“The goal is to give the UNL and Lincoln communities a real way to see some of the cultures that are represented here,” Office of Student Engagement graduate assistant Jamie Unger said. “It’s easy to forget the diversity we have on campus.”

Each organization has control over what they sell at the bazaar, and each organization’s students cook the food, according to Unger.

“We encourage sample-sized portions so people can taste the menu items from each country,” Unger said.

The groups also list all of the ingredients for those with food allergies.

One of the nine groups par-

ticipating is the Czech Komenský Club, named after the 17th century Czech educator and philosopher, Jan Amos Komenský. The club was established to “promote and study all things Czech,” according to club president Carter Hulinsky.

For this event, the Komenský club will be serving goulash with dumplings, a recipe that originates in Moravia.

“The goulash differs from your grandmother ’s casserole, as it contains no noodles or hamburger,” Hulinsky said. “Instead, our Moravian goulash has beef, stewed tomatoes, onions and a variety of ground peppers to give it a little kick.”

Hulinsky said that the dish has created its own following after the club served it multiple years in a row.

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Jim Belushi’s improv show takes stage at the Lied Kieran Kissler dn Jim Belushi, a “Saturday Night Live” alumnus, is coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts this Friday night.

Formerly starring on the sitcom “According to Jim” and in several movies, Belushi is performing his comedy show “Jim Belushi and the Chicago Board of Comedy” at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $45.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students can buy discounted tickets for $12.50.

Lincoln is one of several stops on his comedy tour. As well as this tour, he also currently travels with his band, the Sacred Hearts, and continues to act in TV shows and movies.

“We began talking with Mr. Belushi a long time ago about a performance at the Lied Center,” said Bill Stephan, executive director of the Lied Center. “We were thrilled to be able to secure a prime Friday night performance with him and the rest of the Chicago Board of Comedy on our stage.”

The members of the Chicago Board of Comedy touring with Belushi include comedians Larry Joe Campbell, Jon Barinholtz and Brad Morris. Their routine is mostly improv, which means that each performance is unique.

“They are literally coming up with material on stage, that evening, in the moment,” Stephan said. “Every night the audience is seeing a performance for the first time.”

While this is the first time Belushi has come to Nebraska, the Lied Center has a history of providing popular comedy shows. In the past, comedians such as Joan Rivers and Bill Cosby have graced center stage.

Lied Center staff members are expecting a full house on Friday night. Most of the available tickets are now sold, but the remaining few are quickly disappearing. The free

An open letter to “RogerSterlingJr” of Total Frat Move.

Dear sir, As someone who is on occasion subjected to the writings of Total Frat Move via social media, I feel that I must first and foremost say that I can, on very rare occasions, find entertainment in the musings of 20-something, pseudo-adult males. I also enjoy clever and pointedly written works of satire. However, your (stupidly titled) column “Why Girls Should Not Cut Their Hair Short” is neither satire nor is it intelligent. (I did find it entertaining, though, but in the way that watching someone trying to push open a “pull” door is entertaining. Not in the way that Louis C.K. stand-up is entertaining.)

In your column, you address fellow males and note that none of you ever dreamed of being with a woman who didn’t have long hair.

To that, all I have to say is that us women never grew up imagining ourselves with someone who’s an asshole and who won’t find us attractive if we have short hair. So I guess everybody has to make compromises.

You state that this is “a disturbing trend spreading across gender lines.” There are two things wrong with your assertion: 1) Gender is a social construct. The idea that only men can have short hair is an illusion that has been created by society. By that same logic, Jesus shouldn’t have rocked long locks because it crossed your precious “gender lines.” And 2) women having short hair is not disturbing. The fact that people still think victim blaming is acceptable is disturbing. Hyperbolizing the “importance” of female hair length doesn’t make it a problem.

Even with your ­­ — what shall we call them — technical difficulties, you do raise some good points. Hermoine (Hermione), as you call her (or as those of us in the real world know her: Emma Watson) did get her hair cut short. As did Beyonce.

And Jennifer Lawrence. And Anne Hathaway. But what you fail to real-

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Some of us were served these dishes by our relatives, but others join our organization to learn about and celebrate their rich heritage, because of their relatives’ absence.” carter hulinsky

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other items from those same RSOs and others.

International Education Week includes other events, such as a visual representation of other countries’ currency compared to U.S. currency, film screenings of “Girl Rising” and “The Dialogue,” an international photo exhibit, international soccer trivia and an

advanced Japanese conversation table.

Unger described the International Food Bazaar as a fun way to share cultures and a way to “top off” the week’s events.

“Sharing their food is a way to share their culture,” she said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Black Friday is only two weeks away. Scary, isn’t it? If you’re one of the hardened souls who can handle that hellish scene, then it’s time to start preparing. The early bird gets 10 percent off a TV at Best Buy, after all.

1. Hit the gym. The broader your shoulders, the more you’ll be able to stand your ground as other customers swarm around you, trying to grab Tickle-Me-Elmos or whatever. Plus, it’ll give you a bit more confidence, so if you see a guy or gal that catches your eye, you’ll be able to approach them, ask for their number, then shove them to the ground and grab the last halfoff “Game of Thrones” box set.

2. Expose yourself to the cruelty of the world.

Even more important than having physical strength is having mental fortitude. Go look up that video of the Syrian gas attack and make yourself watch part of it. It’ll help to create the sense that the world is an unfair place, an asset you can use while buying cheap items for your loved ones.

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Former “Saturday Night Live” actor Jim Belushi brings his comedy show to the Lied Center Friday at 7:30 p.m. tickets available to UNL students have been claimed.

“We made lots of free tickets for Jim Belushi’s performance available through Marketplace, and students have reserved all of them almost immediately,” said Frank Stroup, a member of Lied Center’s campus

engagement staff.

“Belushi’s humor is suitable for all adults who love to laugh,” Stephan said. “You don’t have to be a certain age to appreciate the incredible talent of this team.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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dishes by our relatives,” Hulinsky said. “But others join our organization to learn about and celebrate their rich heritage, because of their relatives’ absence.”

He said that the majority of the club is comprised of Czech descendants, but also includes some Robitschek scholars, who are international students..

“We hope to share our interest in Czech culture and heritage with our fellow students, and greater University community,” Hulinsky said.

Some of the other dishes being served at the Bazaar are: Korean barbecue tacos from the Korean Student Association, bubble milk tea from the Taiwanese Student Association, pad thai from the Thai Association of University of Nebraska and spring rolls and beef stew from the Vietnamese Student Association, among many

ize is that these women are talented and beautiful. And more importantly, they are people who chose to wear their hair however the hell they wanted.

As a writer for TFM, I understand that the purpose you serve generally revolves around saying things you think others are just too shy to say. You are the savior to those who don’t have the guts to really tell the world how they feel. I get it. I feel the same way about telling people that their writings are poorly articulated and that their vernacular is in dire need of expansion.

As a fellow speaker for the more reserved members of society, I feel it is my duty to remind you of what year we are living in. This is 2013.

If you wish to return to the archaic ways of the 1950s, you’re going to have to enlist the help of Doc Brown and Marty McFly. Now that the time of poodle skirts and sock hops has passed, so too has the belief that women act, speak and dress for the acceptance of men. At least for the members of society who, you know, actually like women and don’t just view them as objects for which they can insert their genitalia into.

I would also like to acknowledge that your examples of women who “can’t” pull off short hair are actually some of the most admired women in popular culture.

Beyonce is easily one of the best performers of the past decade. Her haircut did not change her talent or her beauty.

Emma Watson portrayed one of the most recognizable fictional characters of all time, and her cutting her hair was a way for her to show her maturity and the transition of her life.

That award that Anne Hathaway accepted was called an Oscar, something that less than 1 percent of the world’s population will ever even get to hold. Her hair was cut in one take while she was acting in a film that had a $60 million dollar budget.

While she was crying. Consider this my defense of Ms. Hathaway: her performance was worthy of awards, she chose to commit to creating an authentic experience for the audi-

ence, and she is still stunning.

Jennifer Lawrence is on a continuous rise to stardom and her haircut hasn’t changed that. You say that before she cut her hair, “you’d only bang her if she lost 10 pounds.”

I somehow find it really hard to believe that you actually believe she needs to lose weight or that, if given the opportunity, you would say “no” to an intimate moment with Ms. Lawrence.

As for your belief that Rihanna’s short hair shouldn’t be replicated because she also, as you put it, “rocks the ‘I just got punched by my boyfriend’ look,” I would like to point out that what Rihanna experienced is something that happens to countless women across the world. The only difference is that she is a celebrity. You stating that she “rocks” the look of abuse shows less impact and more incompetence on your part.

At the end of the day, I can only assume that your disdain for women with short hair stems from your intimidation by them. A woman with confidence won’t let you tell her what to do or how she should look.

As you put it “[a]ll of those odd insecurities you have about your looks are only highlighted with short hair.” Women with short hair actively choose to reveal their “flaws,” as it were. And you, Mr. “RogerSterlingJr,” can’t play the savior to someone who doesn’t need saving.

Maybe I’m completely off base.

Maybe you just wish you were as beautiful as women are with or without short hair. In that case, I know some great drag queens who are always in the mood to paint faces.

As someone who had short hair for many years, I openly admit that, yes, some haircuts were bad. But I’ve had bad haircuts with long hair.

I wear my hair in ways that make me happy and show who I am. Kind of like how your ignorance and misogyny show who you are.

Until your next column that requires massive corrections, Sincerely yours, Amanda P. Stoffel AMANDA STOFFEL IS A senior communications major. Reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

3. Start eating better. Your body is a temple, dude. Treat it well and it’ll treat you well.

Buy a juicer (not a nice one, though; the nice ones will be on sale that Friday) and heaps of spinach, berries and nuts. Your body will digest food better and feel lighter, and as an added plus, you’ll gain some toughness from having to taste all that nasty crap.

4. Map out your angle of attack. Where does the day start for you? Sears? J.C. Penney? The Buckle? It all depends.

What is the layout of the mall? Where are the exits? You need to know this stuff. Make a list of all the items you need, then go to the courthouse and request a blueprint of wherever you’re shopping. Many stores have secret tunnels and teleportation portals for savvy shoppers.

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5. Watch tapes of previous years.

Not sure where you’ll get them — likely on the black market or the deep Web — but track some footage down and learn from observing. If you look closely, you’ll see the pros and veterans. No kids with them, no fear in their eyes, no mercy. See that guy running through the penny fountain? He might look like an idiot, but he just shaved 8 seconds off his route to Radio Shack.

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stealing food: from 5 gods are going to rob you blind, so effective that I tested it out in various situations. Food was why don’t you return the favor?

That’s right, start stealing eventually not able to satisfy my hunger for worldly possessions, from the dining halls.

It’s really not that hard to so I moved on. I was bringing stock your fridge with the din- in enough of a variety of food ing halls’ delights. I’ll tell you that I eventually needed new dishware. Naturally, I employed how. the skills that Step one: Eat your I had develmeal like you usually Honestly, oped for stealwould. I don’t care ing food and how you eat it, just it was a used it to fill eat your damn food. my cabinets.

That’s why you’re lot of fun finding I would take there. new things worth more dishes Step two: Go back than I needed up for “seconds.” Fill stealing from the and just put up your plate with dining halls.” them in my what you wish to backpack — it take.

Step three: Find a secluded was as simple as that.

In three meals, I was able area in the dining hall and sit down. (The back room in Selleck to steal more things from the dining hall than anyone could is a very good for this.)

Step four: Check your sur- possibly need. Seriously, I have more than one of everything roundings, and then find a way to stash the goods in your back- from the dining hall; I don’t even pack or purse. Wrapping things want this stuff, it’s just sitting on in napkins can work for some my shelf, untouched.

Honestly, it was a lot of fun food, but for more substantive to find new things worth stealitems, you may need containers.

I found this method to be ing from the dining halls. The

most fun I had was when I wanted to take a jar of Nutella from CPN. The hall was moderately busy, and the employees were patrolling the area. One lady was watching my every move, it seemed. She wouldn’t ease up, so I decided to sit down. Just as I was about to give up, she went into the kitchen for a moment to chat. Immediately, I got up and headed straight for it. With my backpack unzipped, I snagged the jar as I walked by, threw it in the pocket, zipped up my backpack as I promptly exited the dining hall. As I was hurrying out, I saw the hawk-eyed lady walk out of the kitchen again.

She was suspicious, but unable to do anything about it.

In the end, I feel more satisfied with paying for the meal plan when I can see the rewards of going to the dining halls.

I would advise anyone who doesn’t like being ripped off to steal whatever he or she wants from the dining halls, even if it’s something ridiculous; I have a napkin dispenser. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Winter Wellness Festival prepares students for the cold cassie kernick

Typically the word “festival” is associated with music, dancing and a social gathering much resembling a party.

However, the definition of festival took on a different meaning for the Health Center from Nov. 12-14, when it hosted the Winter Wellness Festival. It was nearly impossible to miss, located in the entrance of Love Library between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. the first two days, and then in the East Campus Union on the final day.

While there was no music or exciting behavior coming from this booth, it did possess two of college student’s favorite things: free stuff and free food. Immediately, I was met with a red bag and allowed to go down a line and pick out any of the free things on the tables.

These included practical things for winter, like touch screen gloves that are usable with smart phones — because, honestly, what student would wear gloves in the coming winter if it prevented them from texting or changing their music in between classes?. They also offered hand warmers and hand lotion to relieve some of the minor issues of winter.

As I continued to walk down the line, I had the opportunity

lesser-known winter solutions, including wearing rubber bands on one’s shoes to increase traction. While it did offer the obvious advice of eating and drinking wisely, it did offer specific advice that is more obscure. For instance, it explained that alcohol and caffeine can cause one’s body to retain less heat. I would have never known until this event that my beloved coffee is causing my body to lose heat among the elements.

The other sheet of paper was equally helpful. On one side, it listed “Free Stress Relieving Apps” and on the other side it listed “Budget-Friendly Study Break Ideas.” As finals approach, it is often not the blistering wind that affect students’ health, but the stress and pressure that begins to sink in steadily. That is ex-

routinely offered and least folto take Kleenex pocket packs lowed advice of getting enough and a thermometer. These were two helpful items that students sleep was not included.

This was reshould, yet likely freshing: So often would not, spend The Health the only advice money on..

Center did about staying Typically free healthy during stuff does not actu- an impressive the winter is to ally come free, but get enough sleep. today it did. The job of drawing While scientifionly real plug they students in to cally this may be did for the Health accurate, most Center was add two their events and students have sheets of paper to offering relevant classes, jobs, clubs my bag. The first and other commitsheet advertised and helpful ments that make seven steps to help sleeping a solid promote a healthy information.” eight hours a night lifestyle during sheer fantasy. the winter months.

Instead, the list included baAmong these, I expected to see the typical list: eat right and get sic advice such as wearing the proper shoes for the weather, and enough sleep. However, the most

actly why this sheet was actually engaging: Most students do need help with maintaining stress and finding better ways to relax.

Even though some students may have only come for the free merch, muffins and hot cocoa, the Health Center did an impressive job of drawing students in to their event and offering relevant and helpful information. Although it seems that the advice we are offered as students is often impossible to follow, the literature handed out was easy to abide by. Now students who attended the event and read the pamphlets can feel a little more prepared when someone anxiously screams, “Winter is coming!” cassie kernick is a freshman journalism major. reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Gaga’s ‘Artpop’ falls flat ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ offers an intimate look at love compared to previous albums While the story may not be for everyone, it leaves a profound impact on those who connect with it.

Jack Forey DN Up to a certain point, I felt like “Blue is the Warmest Color” would play out to be epic softcore pornography; that it would be another teen melodrama like so many done before, only with more sex. It follows the life of a depressed, self-absorbed teenage girl named Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and her romance with the older, blue-haired Emma (Léa Seydoux.)

Adèle is pressured by her catty friends into dating a boy she doesn’t really like. She has sex with him, and the scene we see is graphic and depressingly empty.

After she breaks up with him, she starts crying and shoves a candy bar in her mouth to console herself. The very first shot of the film is Adèle running toward the bus, but then it drives away without seeing her. The movie really picks up once Adèle meets Emma. Most of the running time is devoted to their intense romance and sexual exploration.

The film is structured in a way that implies the emotional growth Adèle will experience as we follow her story. The screen is always filled with faces, so close to us that we feel like we can just reach out and touch them. The soundtrack is riddled with wet, smacking noises as we watch characters eat meal after meal. The same kinds of sounds are heard as Adèle and Emma kiss. The sounds are sometimes uncomfortably intimate, and they reminded me that love

is not always pretty and clean.

Love can be dirty and leaves one vulnerable to pain. When you are in love, the world falls away, and nothing else matters.

Director Abdellatif Kechiche must have said something along those lines to his cinematographer, who filmed the movie as a series of intimate close-ups with backgrounds out of focus. We don’t really feel the need to know anything about why Adèle is the way she is; why she hangs out with her petty friends or any details about her relationship with her parents. All that matters is that she felt emptiness — then she found Emma. There is even one scene in which the two of them are so overcome with tenderness and passion for one another that they begin to grope each other loudly in the middle of a café. There are other people around, but we are not given reaction shots of those people, because who cares what they think?

By the time we reach the controversial eight-minute sex scene, we may not understand why it’s there. I think the scene is as long as it is because it contrasts the routine emptiness of the earlier, briefer scene with Adèle and her male classmate. This scene feels more alive and meaningful. Adèle is here because she wants to be and not because she is pressured by her peers. Both actresses, Exarchopoulos and Seydoux, were brave not only because of the skin they bared for their roles, but the depth of emotion and pain they brought to their characters.

The film is not without its flaws. There’s the ever-present shaky cam that I feel is the bane of modern cinema (somebody get these cinematographers some Dramamine). The sex scenes may feel gratuitous to some viewers, and they could be right. There have been complaints of a male perspective in the scenes of female-on-female sexual intimacy.

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Abdellatif Kechiche Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Because this was directed by a man, that criticism isn’t far-reaching.

I also think it could be shorter, but I don’t know what could be cut out. Kechiche spends a lot of time with quiet shots of walking, sitting, reading, etc. There is an interesting rhythm going for this movie, and I think cutting it down would diminish its impact.

I walked out of the film not with a neatly wrapped up story on my mind, but with an impression of what the characters felt in the time I spent with them. It’s not a movie for everyone, but for anyone who wants to see an unsentimental love story like few ever depicted in the cinema, I highly recommend it. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Someone jokingly told me they thought the title for Lady Gaga’s third and most recent album was “Artpoop,” not “Artpop.” Although the latter may be the correct name, the former is certainly more accurate.

In her new album, Lady Gaga, again, tries to be daring, risky and different. Instead of emitting the quirky Lady Gaga feel from her first two albums, featuring weird, yet meaningful and catchy songs such as “Poker Face” and “Born This Way,” in “Artpop,” her lyrics lack the thematic dynamic that was present in her last two albums and melodically combine an odd mixture of ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s type sounds.

There isn’t much substance to the lyrics. Most of the songs are sexual, and she seems to go about addressing the topic in the most odd way she can possibly think of. In “G.U.Y.,” which stands for “Girl Under You,” she starts with audio in an ephemeral voice saying, “Greetings, Himeros, god of sexual desire, son of Aphrodite. Lay back and feast as this audio guides you through new and exciting positions.” Other songs such as “Venus” and “MANiCURE” talk about the relationship between two lovers, and “Sexxx Dreams” — well, use your imagination to figure that one out.

If the songs aren’t about sex, they’re about love, her image or the terrible influence of pop culture on humanity. One of the songs, “Dope,” is a ballad that features strong vocals. Besides the main lyric, “I need you more than dope,” the song is actually pretty good. The main instrument accompanying her is the piano, and one of Gaga’s mottos is that any good song should sound good with just a piano in the background.

By far, the best song of the album is “Gypsy,” because it has a real message that’s true to Gaga’s experience as a pop star. The song is about how her love life and life on the road will never align. “Gypsy” has a good melody that shows off her voice in a way the other songs don’t. She uses her voice strategically in each song of the album to show different ranges of emotion.

Her ability to portray different events through the sounds of her voice shows spectacular talent and is definitely a highlight of the album.

“Mary Jane Holland” is about how women are slaves to pop culture, constantly feeling the pressure to be perfect, reminiscent of themes from“Paparazzi.”

There are a few songs that are dance-worthy and are going to be popular party songs in the coming months, like “Applause” and “Aura,” but they don’t have much depth.

As a whole, this album is

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The songs are quirky, but her attempt to stand out and be different wasn’t as effective as her prior endeavors. For an artist who claims to be constantly reinventing her image and using her music as a method for activism, it doesn’t seem like she’s really branched out. She uses jaded themes in her songs and, other than creeping people out with her awkward voice-overs, she doesn’t seem to try anything different. However, individually, each of the songs are catchy, and there are a few songs that especially stand out. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Opening for Pretty Lights is Purveyors of the Conscious Sound of Omaha. Producer and DJ for Purveyors of the Conscious Sound, Andy Boonstra, said he has seen a Pretty Lights concert,

but never from backstage.

“It’s been a dream to open for him,” Boonstra said. “Pretty Lights has had a huge effect on electronic music in general and always has high energy shows.”

Members of the bands Lettuce and Break Science will form the live band for Pretty Lights on Friday.

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Anyone can come down and have a great time at a Pretty Lights show.”

“Pretty Lights is a concert to definitely see and hear. It’s going to be one huge dance party and a memorable evening.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska swimming and diving team will compete against Iowa and South Dakota State Friday

It’s good to know a few of his (the opponent’s) tendencies, No. 12 Huskers will but not making it a bigger deal than it needs to be. Sometimes begin competition you focus more on stopping with new athletes in what your opponent does than on what you need to do.” the lineup and a The coaches are trying to new venue prepare the wrestlers for what they will see on Sunday, but want to put most of the weight on them. austin pistulka “We watch film, not like dn football with watching extensive film, but you want to look It’s time to break out the sin- for tendencies,” Ersland said. glets: the Husker wrestling “Everybody has tendencies, team opens its dual season Sun- and we want our guys to know day at the Bob Devaney Sports about them. Not necessarily foCenter. cus on them to the The Huskers start detriment of what the year with a conthey want to do, but ference battle against just to be aware of No. 21 Northwestern. some of the things Nebraska has a 9-2 that will be going record against Northon out there so they western, and last can make adjustseason the Huskers ments or wrestle acdefeated the Wildcats cordingly. We want 25-12. This year, the to focus on what we 12th-ranked Huskers want to do.” look to do the same.

With the season ersland “I think everystarting, old ritubody is excited,” asals and habits start sistant coach Tony showing up again Ersland said. “We’re going to as the wrestlers prepare for the be at home in a new venue and dual. it’s exciting. We’ve got a lot of “I think we all have a few,” new guys in the lineup, either Sueflohn said. “We all have our guys are transfers or coming off own little superstitions and evof redshirts. So I think it’s very erything. I just stick to it.” exciting. A lot of the younger The coaches do not think of guys are looking forward to it. these as superstitions but more There’s just a good energy that’s as routines, Ersland said. coming from this weekend.”

“Everyone has their own The Devaney Center will routine,” Ersland said. “Some provide a new experience, Ermay go a little far to say as sland said. superstition, but I think every“We had a little preview of one has that routine that they it at wrestle-offs and at the Daget comfortable in. You’ll see ktronics (Open), a lot of that as it so we kind of gets closer and But I know, but every guys are cutting time out, it’s a weight, that’s think it’s new experience when they get for these guys,” a real positive into that routine Ersland said. and rhythm. So excitement for “I’m sure with it there is some of being in a new these guys.” that but nothing building it will that I would call tony ersland be a little more superstition.” wrestling assistant coach exciting for the The Huskers guys. But I think look to win this it’s a real posidual and contive excitement for these guys. tinue to improve as they make There’s no negative energy.” their way to March.

The team has prepared for “We are just excited to this dual for weeks now. Wres- watch these guys grow and detlers are in a tricky situation velop,” Ersland said. “The team when it comes to scouting their you see on Sunday will look opponents because focusing too very different from what we much on an opponent could be have in March. In terms of just detrimental. being where we want to be. Be“We all watch film,” junior ing ready to be All-Americans Jake Sueflohn said. “I’ll at least and National Champs.” talk to my coaches about tensports@ dencies that my opponent has. dailynebraskan.com

brett nierengarten dn The Nebraska swimming and diving team will host its first home meet of the season Friday against Iowa and South Dakota State.

The Huskers are led by junior Natalie Morris so far this season.

Morris has finished first in the 200 fly in both previous meets this season and has also been impressive in the 100 fly, finishing first against Iowa State and third against Arkansas.

“Our expectations of Natalie are high to begin with,” coach Pablo Morales said. “But this year she’s raised the bar even higher because of her consistent training and attention to detail.”

Junior Taryn Collura has also performed well for the Huskers this season. Collura has not finished outside the top two this season, including winning the 100 free during the meet against Iowa State. Collura has also finished second twice in her other event, the 50 free.

“Taryn’s coming-out party was the Big Ten and NCAA championships last year,” Morales said.

“She is definitely one of our top sprinters.”

Also swimming well for the Huskers has been senior Shannon Guy, who has finished second in every event she has competed in.

Not only is Guy important to the Huskers in the pool, she is important outside it playing a leadership role for the team.

“My role is to motivate everyone to perform well,” Guy said.

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The Nebraska swimming and diving team will face Iowa and South Dakota State Friday during the team’s first home meet of the season. The team has not competed since Oct. 26, giving team members time to recover after the Arkansas meet and focus on its upcoming competition.

Morales knows his team hasn’t been perfect so far this season, but he expects big things in the upcoming meet, he said.

“From a mental standpoint, we are fired up to face our first conference opponent,” Morales said.

The team has not competed since Oct. 26 giving team members recovery time from the Arkansas meet as well as plenty of time to focus on the Iowa and SDSU. Despite not having a meet

in over two weeks, the team is not letting up on practice efforts.

“We are continuing with our hard training phase with hopes of peak performance in December.”

Morales said.

On the diving side, coach Natasha Chikina has been stressing execution.

“We’ve really been focusing on polishing the dives we’ll be competing with,” Chikina said.

Chikina expects a lot from her divers in the coming meet.

“We want our divers to be consistent in their performance and focus on team and personal goals,” Chikina said.

Following this meet at home, the Husker divers will head to Columbia, Mo., for the Mizzou Invitational Nov. 21-23, and the swimmers will travel to Kansas City for the Kansas Classic the same weekend which starts on Nov. 22. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

going to be around a guy that is as unselfish as he is.”

Abdullah, who has recorded eight touchdowns on the year for Nebraska, said he’s excited for the contest this weekend, which will decide who is in the driver ’s seat in the Legends’ division title.

“Every time we play Michigan State, it’s a fist-fight,” Abdullah said. “Those guys are tough.

They are a great defensive bunch.

They are very sound and talented.

We’ve gotten the best of them the last two years. We need to watch film, find their weaknesses and

try to exploit it.”

Nebraska has had plenty of injuries on the offensive line in front of Abdullah, which most recently lost junior offensive lineman Mike Moudy from a shoulder injury this week. He doubtful for Saturday’s game, Pelini said.

Senior offensive lineman Brent Qvale said he’s not worried how the offensive line will perform this weekend, as he’s confident in any player who steps in.

“We’ll get a group of five out there who we feel can get the job done, and I think we’ll be just

fine,” he said. “That’s what you have to practice throughout the week with the group of guys you have. That way they can get ready to go and just trust that everyone is doing their own preparation in order to go out there and perform at their best.”

Saturday’s contest will be the eighth in the series between Nebraska and Michigan State. Nebraska has won each of the previous seven games between the two teams. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

football: from 10 for a long time, so they are pretty advanced. They understand their system and not only what people are trying to do to them.”

Still, the Spartan’s defense has yet to face a running back as productive as Abdullah so far this season.

“I can say that he’s everything you want on the field, and he’s everything you want off the field,” Pelini said about his running back. “He brings it every day. He has a burning desire inside of him to compete. And he’s about the right things. You are not

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The Huskers will take on Michigan Saturday, and similar to the Spartans, the Wolverines use a stout defense to try and control the game, Robinson said.

“They get balls up, and balls come back that most times they go down,” Robinson said. “You just have to be prepared to take a lot of swings and be good in transition.”

The Huskers held off a Wolverines comeback effort in the first meeting, as NU won in five sets after winning the first two sets of the match.

Robinson recorded a doubledouble in the match with 23 kills and 17 digs in the competition.

She also had a hitting percentage of .408 percent. Hall was in control of the blocking game with 9 block assists in the match. Haggerty and both Amber and Kadie Rolfzen added 5 block assists as well.

Michigan had three players notch double digit kill numbers with senior middle blocker Jennifer Cross recording 13. She also fired 2 aces against the Huskers.

Despite the high kill numbers, the Wolverines attack was riddled with attacking errors, as they piled up 29 in the match. They also had three players record double digit digs in the competition, and senior Ally Sabol earned the most with 13.

Cook said his job as a coach is to make sure the team learns every week, and it all comes down to one thing to know if the team is getting better.

“If we win, we know we improved,” Cook said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson and the rest of the NU volleyball team will face Michigan and Michigan State this weekend.

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Basketball team to finish 3-game homestead This team is trying to learn how to win and how to sustain intensity and how to execute well.”

Nebraska will face South Carolina State with Biggs and Gallegos, who will be off suspension chris heady dn The Nebraska men’s basketball team will play South Carolina State Sunday in its final home game in a three-game home stand to kick off the 2013-2014 season. Nebraska (2-0) comes into the game on the heels of coach Tim Miles’ 300th win Tuesday night against Western Illinois in a 62-47 win.

Nebraska is led in scoring this season by sophomore Shavon Shields, who has averaged 20.5 points in two games. He earned NCAA Player of the Week and Big Ten Player of the Week honors when he scored 28 points against Florida Gulf Coast. Shields has had plenty of scoring around him so far with two newcomers averaging more than 10 points. Sophomores Terran Petteway and Walter Pitchford are averaging 15 and 10 points per game, respectively, and have begun their Nebraska campaigns on a positive note since transferring.

“This team is trying to learn how to win and how to sustain intensity and how to execute well,” Miles said after the game Tuesday.

Because of its high scoring and high percentage shooting (48 percent on the year as a team) Nebraska has yet to trail in a game this season, even to two opponents who made the post-season last year.

South Carolina State (1-2) comes in off a 93-59 blowout loss against Michigan. Michigan had 15 3-pointers against South Carolina State, which was one 3-pointer

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Sophomore guard Shavon Shields has averaged 20.5 points in two games and earned NCAA Player of the Week and Big Ten Player of the Week when he scored 28 points against Florida Gulf Coast. shy of tying the school record. The Bulldogs’ leading scorer through three games is Matthew Hezekiah, who is averaging 15.7 points per game, as well as 4.7 rebounds and shooting 63 percent from the

floor. The other Bulldog averaging in double-figures is Jordan Smith, who has 10 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.

South Carolina State is coming off a 6-24 season, which included a

15-game loss streak.

Nebraska will have two new faces for the game Sunday. Both junior Deverell Biggs and senior Ray Gallegos will be off of their two-game suspensions and are

expected to get their first minutes of the season against South Carolina State. Gallegos, who led the Big Ten in 3-pointers last season, is a captain and could start for the Huskers. Biggs, who is a transfer from Seward County Community College, will see the floor for the first time since the Nebraska scrimmage on Sept. 30. Pitchford said he can’t wait to see him out on the floor during a game.

“He does not like to lose,” Pitchford said, who added he’s aggressive and will “do anything to win,” like diving on the floor for loose balls.

With the presence of Biggs, the starting point guard battle will heat up with freshman Tai Webster (8.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1 assist per game so far) and Biggs competing to lead the Huskers up the court.

“When you have multiple handlers and playmakers, that can really help create more opportunities for those other guys,” Miles said of having multiple point guards. “I think when we get all of our guys out there and you add Ray Gallegos and Deverell Biggs to that lineup and you play Shavon (Shields) or Terran (Petteway) at the four with Walter (Pitchford) there, it can be an interesting group.”

Tip off from the Pinnacle Bank Arena is set for 2 p.m. Sunday. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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SOCCER: from 10 home makes it even easier for the players to ease themselves into the tournament, Jackson said.

“I think that’s probably the best part is that we can be at home and have that kind of comfort,” Jackson said. “On our field, we are always playing and stuff like that. We’re very good on the road, but I think we’re also very strong at home. It’s just good to have your home crowd and home field.”

Both Nebraska and Southeastern Louisiana had similar paths to the NCAA Tournament, both winning their conference championships last weekend.

Nebraska defeated Iowa 1-0, while the Southeastern Louisiana beat No. 1 seed Stephen F. Austin in a game that ended in a penalty kick.

Although the Huskers don’t know a lot about their opponent on Friday, they are aware of the team’s talent.

“They’re good enough to get into the NCAA Tournament, so we definitely can’t take them lightly at all, and we can’t look over them,” Jackson said.

The Lions have been nearly impossible to score on all season, putting up 11 shutouts on the year. They’ve also only allowed one team to score more than one goal against them, and that was Stephen F. Austin during the regular season.

After winning the Big Ten Tournament Championship last Sunday, coach John Walker gave the Huskers a few days rest to mentally prepare them for what’s ahead. The players now believe they are ready for Friday and are excited to begin their quest to the National Championship.

“We took a couple days to just relax and enjoy it,” Kraeutner said. “It’s a big accomplishment, and John (Walker) definitely gave us some time to just reflect on how big of an accomplishment that was. We’re ready to go now and we’re focused and hungry.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

cross country

Team hopes to end on high note at NCAA regional

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Senior forward Jordan Hooper has led the women’s basketball team in scoring this season, with a career high of 27 points and 11 rebounds in the UCLA game.

Huskers travel to Utah for 1st away game Women’s basketball team, coming off of a 2-game winning streak, will play against Utes

It’s going to burn the first three, four or five minutes that you’re in there, but you’ve got to play through it and find the toughness and that’s how you play in altitude.”

runners on each team. we want to get out and finish the “We’d like to place in the top best we can,” Harris said.

Runners would like 15 on both sides,” Harris said.

Harris also said the players “We’re not ranked there, but are the most healthy they have to place in the top that’s our goal.” been all season. Several of the 15 in both men’s Harris said the men will try runners have been struggling to stick with Iowa during the with various injuries throughout and women’s races, race because Iowa the season, and Haraccording to coach was only one place ris said he’s happy to ahead of them at have all of them in top the Big Ten Chamshape. pionships, coming Harris expects vanessa daves in 10th. Harris befreshman Anna Peer to dn lieves the men have be leading the women. a good shot of getHe also thinks senior After competing against their ting ahead of Iowa co captain Isabel Anhighest competitors at the Big this time. Senior drade is going to have Ten Championships two weeks co-captain Jarren a good race. ago, the men’s cross country Heng said he hopes Andrade said she team came home depleted, and to lead the team to hopes the team places the women’s team returned a higher ranking so andrade in the top 15, and inconfident. The men placed last, they can gain respect dividually, she wants while the women’s team moved amond their rivals. have her best race of up a place from the previous “We had a team meeting, the year. year. and we’re just trying to recu“I just hope we all have a “I was disappointed with perate and refocus from the Big good time, and I hope I’m thankthe men,” Ten meet and just go ful and know I gave it my all at coach David out there and beat as the end of it,” Andrade said.

More than Harris said. many teams as posSo far this season, the men “I thought we sible,” Heng said. have won three meets and anything were ready to I n d i v i d u a l l y, placed 16th and 11th in the othrun to a higher else, we want to Heng hopes to place er two. The women have come spot and beat get out and finish in the top 50 overall, in second twice, and have also some teams. which he considers placed fourth, 24th and 11th. In I don’t think the best we can.” quite a feat because the final meet, Harris said he anyone thinks there will be many hopes the team ends on a posidavid harris they had their athletes competing. tive note. cross country coach best race.”

On the women’s “I think it has the ability to Friday afside, Harris said do (end the season on a positernoon, the the team came out tive note),” Harris said. “But we cross country team will be com- of the Big Ten Championships have to take care of it and do our peting in its final meet of the having moved up the Big Ten job. I think we have the chance season at the NCAA Midwest ladder. He said he was pleased of moving up and hopefully we Regional in Ames, Iowa. The with the women’s performance can gain some respect for our race is hosted by Iowa, and the and thinks the team has a good team.” men’s race starts at noon, di- chance to beat some other teams. sports@ rectly followed by the women’s dailynebraskan.com “More than anything else, race. Harris is able to take seven

connie yori

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natasha rausch dn The Utah women’s basketball team is used to the altitude — 4,327 feet, to be exact.

Although Lincoln sits at only 1,176 feet, coach Connie Yori says the team just has to “suck it up.”

“It’s going to burn the first three, four or five minutes that you’re in there, but you’ve got to play through it and find the toughness and that’s how you play altitude,” Yori said.

“We don’t have the luxury of going out there and adjusting to it beforehand. Basically you’ve got to be tough. Particularly in the beginning of the game when that first wave hits you and you realize there’s a little altitude.”

Besides adjusting to the altitude, the Huskers will also have to adjust to a new arena as they travel to their first away game in Salt Lake City against the Utes Friday at 5:30 p.m.

The Utes and the Huskers have met three times before, and each time the Utes left with the victory.

The first meeting was in 1976 and the second in 1978 with final scores of 71-57 and 56-52. The third and last time the teams met was in 2007 on a neutral court where the Utes came away with a 56-44 win.

Since the last time the teams have met, Nebraska has been ranked 15th. The Huskers are coming off of a two-game winning streak in the season thus far. Its first game against UCLA ended with a final score of 77-

49, while the second game against Alabama ended with a score of 6248.

In the game against UCLA, sophomore guard Rachel Theriot had a career-high of nine assists.

Senior forward Jordan Hooper has led the team in scoring so far in the season, with a career high of 27 points and 11 rebounds in the UCLA game. Against Alabama, she only made three out of 12 shots from the floor, however.

“You can’t expect Jordan to carry it every night,” Yori said. “All of her misses were just short; we just looked tired. Emily (Cady) and Rachel (Theriot) are the two who are going to have to step forward.

Jordan’s not going to get 27 points every night. It’s nice when she does, but it’s important that we find other ways to score.”

Junior forward Emily Cady has averaged 18.5 points per game in the season, while Theriot has averaged 11.5 points per game. Theriot is hoping to improve for the Utah game.

“Overall making points is a team effort,” said Theriot, who made five assists in the game against the Crimson Tide. “If they’re guarding Hooper, we have to make the extra pass. Us as teammates have to feel confident in each other.”

Leading Utah in scoring as well as rebounds, senior forward Michelle Plouffe averages 15.1 points

per game, as well as 8.3 rebounds.

She is making the Utah record books as second in career blocks (127) as well as in defensive rebounds (659).

In the first game of the season against Denver, Plouffe made five of her last seven shots, totaling 15 points in the game. Freshman forward Emily Potter contributed 16 points to the team’s 73-56 victory over Denver. Utah’s freshmen players made almost half of the Utes’ overall score with 35 points. Junior guard Ciera Dunbar and sophomore guard Danielle Rodriguez each made 4 out of 7 shots in the season opener.

Coach Anthony Levrets has led the Utes since 2010, and before that he was an assistant coach at Utah and Southern Oregon. Levrets has led the team to its title as 10th in the All-Time By Percentage rankings of the NCAA Division I Winningest Teams section of the 2013-14 record book.

So far in the season, Utah has tallied 12 turnovers as of the Denver game, while in the past two games, the Huskers have averaged 17 turnovers.

After playing against Utah, the Huskers will begin preparing for their next home game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Thursday at 7 p.m. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

football practice notes Nebraska ready for Michigan State

Nebraska takes on No. 16 Michigan State on Saturday in what could decide the Big Ten Legend’s division title. Coach Bo Pelini said after practice Thursday the team had a good week of preparation and is ready to be tested by the Spartans.

Outside of Michigan State’s defense, Pelini said he looks for the Spartans to play into the strengths of quarterback Connor Cook, who Pelini said has “a big-time arm.”

“He’s a young quarterback in his first year. He’s getting better,” Pelini said. “He does a lot of good things, has a big arm, talented kid that makes some young mistakes at times, but he’s gotten better as the season has gone on. I think they do a good job of protecting him in their scheme.”

With a win, Nebraska would control the Legend’s division for a chance to play in the Big Ten championship in December and Pelini said he expects his team to feed off the crowd’s energy.

“The crowd is always great, it’s always a huge benefit to us, but the crowd only does you good if you’re executing your football,” Pelini said. “They’re not going to play for us the same way Michigan’s crowd didn’t play for them. At the end of the day, we have to execute at a high level. Our emotions will be high; we’ll play off the crowd. The crowd is always great. It’s good energy, but you have to keep it under control to make sure you execute your football.”

Offensive line hit hard

Nebraska’s offensive line has been hit hard with injuries this season, most recently adding junior Mike Moudy, who is doubtful for Saturday’s game, Pelini said, because of a shoulder injury.

Pelini said he’s unsure who will be available for the Husker offensive line this weekend against Michigan State.

After senior offensive lineman Jeremiah Sirles went down during last week’s game against Michigan, sophomore

Zach Sterup came in to fill the void. Pelini said he liked how Sterup responded last week and expects him to play at the same level against Michigan State.

“You have injuries and it gives guys an opportunity to step up,” Pelini said. “I think (Sterup) will take the challenge. I think he’ll step up. I think that’s the case across the front. I promise you this: We’ll have five guys lined up on the offensive line. It’s going to be their job and their challenge to step up to the task.”

Pelini also said junior wide receiver Jamal Turner as “5050” for Saturday’s game.

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Nebraska junior running back Ameer Abdullah ranks No. 6 in the country and No. 1 in the Big Ten this season in rushing yards, averaging 134.78 yards per game. He said he is excited to play against Michigan State, which ranks No. 1 in the country in rushing defense.

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ichigan State ranks No. 1 in the country in rushing defense, holding opponents on average to 42.44 yards per game.

Nebraska junior running back Ameer Abdullah ranks No. 6 in the country and No. 1 in the Big Ten this season in rushing yards, averaging 134.78 yards per game.

On Saturday, when Nebraska faces off against Michigan State at Memorial Stadium, something has to give.

The Spartan defense is also No. 1 in total defense and No. 3 in passing and scoring defense in the nation this year. Coach Bo Pelini attributes Michigan State’s defensive success to the experience the starters bring.

Pelini said he remembers some of the same defenders Nebraska will face this weekend from two years ago, when Nebraska took down Michigan State 24-3 in Lincoln.

“A lot of these kids are three- and four-year starters,” Pelini said. “That bodes well for you. I think they play to their strengths on defense. They are committed to running the football. They are committed to stopping the run. And they execute well. They are just a well-coached, sound football team. That leads to good things for your football team. They play the right way.”

That all comes from a coaching staff, Pelini said, that he has a lot of respect for. “(Michigan State defensive coordinator) Pat Narduzzi does a really good job,” Pelini said. “They are well-coached on defense. They communicate well. They’ve been in the system

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NU begins NCAA Tournament play josh kelly dn Up to this point, the No. 10 Nebraska soccer team has accomplished every goal it has set, and Friday the Huskers will begin their journey toward their new goal of a national championship as they host Southeastern Louisiana in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“We’re really pumped,” senior forward Jordan Jackson said. “We’re just really fortunate and really humble to be in this experience and in this kind of position for our team. It means a lot to us, and we’re just trying to do the program right and start off with a good win and build off of that.”

Nebraska heard about the first-round pairing Monday evening during the selection show.

This is the first time the team will play against the Lions. This is also the first time the Huskers will play in the NCAA Tournament since 2005.

For the players, the NCAA Tournament isn’t something to take for granted as it’s the first time any of the current players have competed at this stage.

“It’s so exciting,” sophomore forward Katie Kraeutner said.

“It’s a privilege to keep on playing and having our season keep going. Obviously not very many teams get to make it to this point, so it’s definitely super exciting for us. Motivation and determination for this team is super high right now. We’re just taking it one at a time, but we’re super focused.”

The first round game will begin at 2 p.m. at the Nebraska Soccer Field. Having the game at

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volleyball

Huskers face off against Michigan, MSU Nebraska volleyball looks to strike back after losing to Michigan State earlier in the season eric bertrand dn

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Freshman forward Jaycie Johnson scored the only goal in NU’s win over Iowa to claim the Big Ten Tournament title. The soccer team will compete it the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday.

The No. 9 Nebraska volleyball team will face No. 16 Michigan State and No. 19 Michigan this weekend.

Earlier in the season, the Huskers fell to the Spartans in four sets in East Lansing, Mich.

For the Nebraska squad, this is the players’ chance to strike back at the Spartans.

“I don’t think we gave them our best shot,” senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson said. “It’s going to be a whole different game. We have a little bit more to give and a little bit of revenge.”

The Huskers enter Friday’s match on the back of a six-game winning streak.

“I think we’re in a great spot right now,” Robinson said.

In the loss to the Spartans, Robinson led the Huskers’ attack with 20 kills, .333 percent hitting

clip and 12 digs. The Huskers’ blocking game had contributions from many players, with sophomore middle blockers Meghan Haggerty and Cecilia Hall earning four block assists. Hall also had one solo stuff block.

The balanced offense of Michigan State helped lead the way to a victory, as three players recorded double digit kill numbers, with senior outside hitter Lauren Wicinski notching 20 kills. Junior libero Kori Moster led the Spartans’ defense with 20 digs.

Nebraska coach John Cook said with Michigan State as the first match, the Huskers have had more time to prepare to compete against the Michigan than they had in the first meeting.

“We will be better prepared, because last time we had to play them on the second night,” Cook said.

This gives the Huskers more time to prepare against the Spartans rapid speed system.

“They’re fast,” Robinson said. “If we can’t serve them tough, then we got to be able to dig. We just need to play Nebraska volleyball and play how we are used to playing.”

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