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On most afternoons, he can be spotted rushing between buildings around campus, similar to nearly every other student except for his dress shirt and tie. Power-walking from meeting to work to yet another meeting and to an occasional class, his work schedule can be hectic. Yet from his positive attitude and appreciation for his job, no one would never know he’s been going at top speed all day.

“It’s gonna be one of those weeks,” Residence Hall Association President Kevin Rush said before a meeting that would end at 8:30 p.m.

“Right after this I’m going to run over to the union and get cracking away at my homework.”

Kevin Rush, a senior special education major, is in his second term as RHA president. As a homecoming king candidate, New Student Enrollment orientation leader, students with disabilities representative to ASUN and member of the search committee for housing director, Rush is a busy student. However, he didn’t always have the level of intensity he now shows for campus involvement.

“Coming into campus, my grades weren’t very good,” Rush said. “My freshman year I was actually toying with the idea of academic probation.”

At the end of freshman year, Rush took a look at his life and reevaluated what he wanted to be in his life and career. About the same time, he received a position working in the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities.

“In working in that office, I kind of found a newfound passion for wanting to be a

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The 36th annual American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout will be celebrated in the Nebraska Union and the Nebraska East Union on Thursday, Nov. 17 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The two themes for this year’s smokeout are “It is time to quit?” and “Are you ready to take the plunge?” said Jennifer Snyder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Health Center marketing coordinator.

The University Health Center will have lungs on display to show the effect smoking has on them. One set of lungs will be from a non-smoker and the second set of lungs will from a smoker.

Smokeout participants will have the chance to make a pledge to quit smoking, she said. Those who do, will receive a silicone watch that goes along with the theme, “It is time to quit.”

The watches are symbolic of the idea that quitting persons should quit in small steps, Snyder said, such as taking a few minutes or even seconds out of the day to resist the temptation to smoke. They are meant to serve as a reminder of the pledge.

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Resident Hall Association President Kevin Rush works Tuesday afternoon in the Students with Disabilities Center before the RHA meeting that night. Rush, a senior special education major, works and attends classes all day every Tuesday. below: Rush leaves his office in the Student Union to walk over to his job at Services for Students with Disabilities.

SPED teacher,” Rush said.

“Had it not been for me getting a job at the students with disabilities center, I don’t think I would’ve had what it took. It took that observation to see what all it takes to be in that profession and it got my butt into gear.”

Because of encouragement and support from his professors, Rush said he was able to gain more confidence in becoming a special education teacher.

“I’ve kind of been on the high road ever since,” Rush said.

Unlike other students who

change their majors five or six times, Kevin Rush says he’s known he wanted to be a special education major since his sophomore year.

“I’ve been surrounded by the field of education all my life,” Rush said. “My dad works in York with behavioral disorders and my mom works as a cook at a school.

So both my parents have shown a passion and interest in working with children.”

Beyond his parents, Rush said his high school basketball coach was his primary influence for going into special education.

“I became a TA for the teacher,” Rush said. “At the time it was to milk time with the coach, but I really came

Miss America to speak at Math Day event creates issues UNL against eating disorders for dining halls Christine Scalora Daily Nebraskan

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Today more than 1,600 high school students will swarm the University of NebraskaLincoln City Campus to put their math skills to the test.

UNL math faculty and students, as well as UNL Dining Services, will be working extra hard to accommodate the temporary population

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surge and provide a positive experience for potential UNL students.

Among the Math Day volunteers is Jimmy Owens, a junior math major. Owens participated in the event for three years as a high school student.

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After winning the crown, Miss America, Teresa Scanlan, spoke out against lost appetites and hope.

Scanlan will share her platform “Eating Disorders: A Generation at Risk” in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union today at 7:30 p.m. The event is free for students with a valid NCard and costs $5 for faculty, staff and the general public.

The University Program Council (UPC) is sponsoring the presentation and it is the group’s final event of the semester.

In January, Scanlan became the first Miss Nebraska to be crowned Miss America. She is a native of Gering, Neb., and graduated from Scottsbluff High School.

UPC invited Scanlan to speak because of her ties to Nebraska and the topic of her platform, said Christian Habib, UPC diversity and education chair and a senior philosophy major.

“Eating disorders and body images are things that are only going to become more and more pertinent as media

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influence grows,” Habib said.

“I’m extremely interested …to see how she speaks about such a difficult topic in today’s society.”

Scanlan’s interest in the topic developed when a friend told her she had an eating disorder, Habib said.

Tim Kinoshita, UPC public relations chair and a senior biological systems engineering major, said Scanlan’s age, 18, will help college students in the audience relate to her presentation.

“She just graduated from high school in May 2010, so there’s going to be a lot of people in the audience who are going to be on the same level, in terms of age, and it helps drive home the idea a lot more,” he said.

Also, her platform is timely and “a really great cause,” Kinoshita said.

“We definitely feel like she’s one of the most qualified to speak on this topic mainly because she has been speaking on this topic for a greater portion of her time as Miss America,” Kinoshita said. “I feel like it would really drive home (the issue) to a lot of people, coming from a high figure such as Miss America.”

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Habib also said Scanlan’s experience as Miss America will make the presentation interesting.

“She’s coming close to the end of her term as Miss America, so it’s a good time for her to look back and a good time

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for us to hear a very interesting perspective from someone who, at such a young age, has been able to experience so much,” Habib said.

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“I think it’s a great recruiting tool because it gets a lot of high school students into the university,” Owens said.

“They get to eat in the dining hall – they get to see the math department and the whole campus.”

Gordon Woodward, the director of Math Day and mathematics professor, said the purpose of the event is “to highlight the importance of mathematics and the fact that it can be fun, and to give the schools a chance to compete in an important academic area.”

Woodward said there are both team and individual math competitions throughout the day beginning at 8 a.m. in the Nebraska Union.

He said the top 10 winners of the individual math test will be awarded scholarships to UNL, with the first place individual will receive $8,000, second through fifth places will receive $4,000, and the rest will receive $2,000.

“I think the recruitment is a big deal,” Woodward said of the event. “I know we get a lot of former Math Day students at UNL. We don’t get as many of the top 20 placed individuals as we’d like, but they are recruited by top colleges all over the country.”

According to Woodward, almost the entire math department is involved with Math Day in some way.

“We need over 100 volunteers so we have a lot of our own majors, but also a lot of students who are taking math courses are helping out,” he said. “All the faculty are involved, and almost all the graduate students.”

UNL Housing Dining Services assistant director Pam Edwards was told to expect between 1,500 and 1,600 extra people for the event.

“One of the things we do for these types of events is look at the menu for that day,” Edwards said. “We want to make it so people can move through the line quickly.”

Edwards said this means options like the stir-fry line, which take extra time are out. Otherwise, she said the menu varies, but is based on what has been popular and worked well in past years.

“We also had to move Thanksgiving dinners and Good-Fresh-Local dinners, since these are big meals and require extra preparation,” Edwards said.

Diana Lacy, who checks

event to raise awareness about the effects smoking has on not only the body, but on bystanders.

“Smoking is one of those things that you choose to do to yourself and you end up doing more damage than you may think,” Snyder said.

Health Center workers stress the fact that it’s far better to quit when someone is young and the sooner someone quits, the better.

“I have seen many people attempt to quit when they are much older, and it is very hard for them,” Snyder said.

“Often times it doesn’t work out for them.”

This is one of the main reasons why Health Center representatives are targeting people who are in college to spread awareness and also encourage them to not start smoking.

“Not only are you creating health issues with your body,

NCards at the Selleck dining hall, said Math Day students will have cards with them to make her job a bit easier.

“I’ll be busy, but I’ll have help,” Lacy said. “The secretary will come check Math Day cards, and I will check regular student cards.”

“Hopefully they don’t all come at once,” Lacy said.

While signs have been up in dining halls for a few days warning students of the coming horde of high school students, some UNL students are still a bit disgruntled.

Amy Pettit, sophomore film and new media major, said she has friends coming from out of town on Thursday, and she had to change their dining plans.

“I was going to take them to GFL, but they moved it because of Math Day,” Pettit said. “They could just give each kid $10 and let them go eat at Qdoba or something.”

Pettit also had a prank planned with another friend that had to be postponed because of the dining situation.

“It’s ruining my plans, my social life!” Pettit said.

Sophomore electrical engineering major Kathleen Gegner said she plans to avoid the dining hall during the times when the high school students will most likely be eating.

“I’m definitely not coming here at the time they say they’re coming,” Gegner said.

“It’ll be like a zoo in here.”

Edwards said it’s important to remember that the high schoolers are UNL’s guests.

“At the same time, students need to know there’s a lot of extra folks,” Edwards said. “If they’re in a hurry they might want to look at changing their schedule. They might want to eat a little earlier or later than usual.”

Owens said giving the Math Day students a good experience is more important than the inconvenience at the dining halls. As a former participant in Math Day, he said the exposure to UNL’s campus and knowing the university had a good math department were among the reasons he chose to come to UNL himself.

“High schools send their best students to this event,” Owens said. “I always had a lot of fun, even though it’s annoying to wait in line in the dining halls.”

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but the cost of being a smoker is very expensive to keep up with,” Snyder said.

The event typically has a lot of traffic in the unions during the lunch hour, she said. For the event to be as successful as possible, representatives will be available in the unions during that time. They will inform students about the event and encourage people to think about quitting smoking.

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smoking statistics ··28.5 percent of college students are smokers ··Between 4 and 7 percent of people can quit smoking without medicines or outside help ··25 to 33 percent of smokers who do use medicines stay smoke-free for longer than six months ··Smoking is responsible for one in five deaths in the United States ··8.6 million people suffer from smoking-related diseases Source: American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org)

ASUN approves rule changes for this year’s student elections Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan

The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska held a quick meeting Wednesday night.

Only one bill was voted on at the meeting: Government Bill #9.

The bill, which was approved, stated the 2012 election rules be approved by the ASUN senate.

The rules, formulated and revised by the Electoral Commission, must be adopted each semester, said ASUN President Lane Carr, a senior political science and history major.

“To my knowledge, there hasn’t been any rule changes,” Carr told the senate. “If there are changes you would want to make, that’s something that can be brought to the Electoral Commissions.”

The only changes made to the election rules were dates

for the general elections and form deadlines. Executives and committee chairs didn’t have much to report and a few were not present at the meeting.

External Vice President Matt Hilgenkamp, a senior accounting major, ran the meeting because Internal Vice President Jeff Lopez, a senior chemical engineering major, was in Chicago.

Emily Schlichting, speaker of the senate and senior communications and political science major, also wasn’t present at the meeting.

Carr arrived late to the meeting because of Huskers Fighting Hunger, informing the senate the forum was “a smashing success.”

During his executive report, Government Liaison Committee Chair Eric Kamler, a junior agricultural economics major, informed the senate of the recent TransCanada pipeline decision.

The liaison committee and ASUN were planning to host a forum about the pipeline debate where speakers could present different sides of the pipeline.

Because it was announced that the pipeline route would be changed, Kamler said the forum wouldn’t take place.

“Instead of our forum, we’ll probably move to get Sen. Mike Flood here to speak on how things transpired,” Kamler told the senate. “We’re going to try to make that happen the last week (of November).”

I wanted to run for the open position.”

The following year, he decided to create a party and run for RHA president, a decision that led him by chance to his now vice-president Mike Dunn via a mix up in meeting settings.

“I had a meeting I initially thought was going to be at Abel but it ended up at Harper,” Rush said. “Coincidentally, when I went to the conference room, Mike was there. So I sat down with Mike and thought he was part of the group I was working with.”

Rush says he ended up asking what his plans were for next year and asked him if he wanted in on the party he was starting.

“I had gone to a few meetings and he had me in mind,” said Mike Dunn, senior communications studies major and RHA vice-president. “He went to the wrong meeting place and I ended up being there.”

The election was narrowly won: “Very, very close win, six votes I think,” Rush said.

After the win, Rush described the then adviser as being a major influence on developing him as a leader.

“After we won I was like

‘Oh, crap. Now what?’” Rush said. “Craig Lennon was good at influencing me to see how I influence people as a leader.”

Overall, Rush credits much of his success to the people around him.

“At the end of my junior year when I was debating whether or not to run again, I don’t think I would’ve run again if it wasn’t for his energy,” Rush said about Dunn’s energy for RHA. When he isn’t going to his primarily evening classes, sitting down for meetings with groups around campus or working at the Students with Disabilities office, he enjoys Husker athletics.

“Part of it is I want to coach once I graduate as well as teach,” Rush said. “I look at more than the average fan, things like who isn’t playing very well tonight, who I would sub out. It tends to drive whoever I’m with crazy.”

He also enjoys playing tennis, a sport in which he won a state title in high school but hasn’t had much time for since. Sports in general appeal to Rush, who tentatively hopes to run in the Lincoln half-marathon.

With the end of his term

on the horizon, Rush is excited to move on to student teaching full-time and becoming a teacher.

“I’ll be done with classes in May, but I’ll be doing student teaching until December,” Rush said.

Rush’s enthusiasm shows when he talks about special education and future plans.

“I know I want to teach. I want to be in a classroom and teach students, but I could later see myself being a special education professor,” Rush said. “One of my big focuses with special education is secondary education and transitioning (after high school). A lot of students struggle with that next step, they have everything provided up until then and there’s a lot of asking ‘What’s next?’”

Rush mentioned the possibility of working for a vocation rehabilitation center as a vocational counselor or even being a policy writer for education.

“In the near future I really want to teach, you know, working with students, finding out what their individual goals are,” Rush said. “My goal is to do everything in my power to make sure that student is successful.”

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According to Rush, the desire to become a special education teacher was the primary reason for coming to the University of NebraskaLincoln and joining its highly ranked special education program.

Rush said he wasn’t very involved beyond sports in high school, so when he came to UNL, he wasn’t entirely sure if he wanted to bother with getting involved.

“I was toying around with being involved, but I kept thinking, ‘I wasn’t even involved in high school. How am I going to be in college?’”

Rush said.

Lucky for Rush, he lived next door to then RHA president Sammy Nabulsi freshman and sophomore year, who encouraged him to run for the open position on the RHA executive board.

“He’s actually one of my best friends,” Rush said about Nabulsi. “I think if it wouldn’t have been for his support, I wouldn’t have gotten into RHA in the first place. He was the first to knock on my door and see if

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UNL psychology professor wins prestigious research award mary rezac daily nebraskan

Lesa Hoffman received a degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999 and now she’s back winning awards.

Hoffman, an associate professor of psychology, recently won the Cattell Award from the Society of Multivariate Psychology, which is awarded annually to a young researcher “who has made outstanding contributions to multivariate experimental psychology and who shows promise of continued work of a very high quality,” according to the society’s website.

Scott M. Hofer, president of the society and coordinating officer wrote of Hoffman’s work in the announcement of the award: “Dr. Hoffman is highly respected for her contributions to the understanding of lifespan development and aging, with special emphasis on innovative and sophisticated approaches to the analysis of longitudinal data.”

According to Hofer, being awarded the Cattell Early Career Research Award is “one of the highest honors that one can receive for early career achievements in quantitative psychology.”

Hoffman said that when she first came to college, she had a “very naïve approach to psychology.”

“I thought it just meant helping people,” she said.

As she continued her studies, Hoffman said it was the research, data analysis and a professor that really drew her in.

The exposure to different methods and models of research, particularly in Calvin Garbin’s psychology classes,

that sparked her interest, she including those who haven’t made it to old age, she said. said.

But when Hoffman isn’t “It’s just the idea that math is useful – that’s what I resonated busy winning awards for her with,” Hoffman said. “The in- research, she can be found terplay of the choices that you writing her new textbook and make in research and how the teaching graduate classes.

Hoffman said teaching is way you set up the studies influences what you’ll find was one of her favorite things to also what interested me,” she do.

“I teach all graduate courssaid.

Garbin, a professor of psy- es and they’re electives, so chology at UNL, said he was none of my students have impressed with Hoffman even to be there,” Hoffman said.

“They’re there as an underbecause they graduate stuMy whole want to be.” dent.

She en“When she perspective is the joys showing was an underway you see the her students graduate, she world depends on different renot only took search modthe required what you know. els to use and stats course, The more models helping them and also took you see, the more see the usefulthe senior levness of math el courses, but ways you are able and statistics she took all to analyze data. in psycholthe graduate ogy. stats courses “My whole while doing Lesa Hoffman associate professor of perspective is research,” psychology the way you Garbin said. see the world The research Hoffman is being rec- depends on what you know,” ognized for examines cogni- Hoffman said. “The more tion and aging. Hoffman said models you see, the more she was interested in studying ways you are able to analyze the aging population because data.”

As for the math involved, she found the research on the topic thus far to be method- “even if you hate statistics, it changes the way you see ologically problematic.

“There’s a lot of research the research you are doing,” on cognition and aging, but Hoffman said.

Garbin said he enjoys havit’s all cross-sectional,” Hoffman said. “The problem is ing Hoffman as a part of the that the people who are older faculty.

“I can’t tell you how conare alive for a reason – is a 90-year-old really a good rep- venient it is to have someone resentation of the aging pop- on the faculty here that was an undergrad, someone I can ulation?”

This research has allowed point to that walked these her to use different designs halls and went through the and models of research to ex- same classes,” Garbin said.

Garbin teaches the first year amine the aging population,

graduate courses while Hoffman teaches the second year courses, and they frequently collaborate about what to teach.

“We want to make sure what we are teaching meshes together to get the best possible feel of what they are doing,” Garbin said. “(Hoffman) is a very good teacher. I’m lucky I get to hang out with her a lot. It’s a joy and a delight.”

Hoffman’s textbook about longitudinal analysis was written in response to a lack of textbooks on the topic, Hoffman said.

“I’ve been frustrated for several years trying to find a textbook that explains the models easily,” Hoffman said.

On writing a textbook as a young associate professor, Hoffman said, “It’s not something that most junior faculty would choose to do.”

Still, Hoffman saw it as a necessary move for her classes.

“I’ll probably only sell 10 copies a semester to students.

It’s not going to be on the Amazon Best Seller list,” she said. “Oh well.”

Outside of the classroom and research, Hoffman said she enjoys reading, running and watching TV “I’m kind of a homebody,” Hoffman said.

“When you’re writing a textbook and teaching and conducting research, there’s not a lot of time for much else,” Garbin said.

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Geography Bowl offers chance to learn about world Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan

Each year, University of Nebraska-Lincoln students look forward to a quiz competition on East Campus: the Geography Bowl.

The Geography Bowl arrives at Hardin Hall Thursday, giving students the chance to flex their geographical knowledge in an informal way.

“It’s an opportunity to get students exposed to interesting facts about the world in which they live,” said Brian Baskerville, a environmental geography graduate student and secretary of the Geography Student Organization (GSO). “What we’re hoping for is to get the students exposed to geographic ideas and knowledge.”

About 80 to 100 students show up to the Hardin Hall auditorium for the geography bowl each year and not all participants are geography students.

Chris Nycz, an anthropology and geography graduate student and president of GSO said the event is open to all majors. The Geography Bowl has been held at UNL for the past couple of decades, said Brian Wardlow, GSO adviser and research assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources.

“It’s a tradition at Nebraska,” Wardlow said. “I think it is something that’s fairly unique and it happens once a year.”

This year, the format of the bowl changed a little bit to keep everybody involved, Nycz said.

Students show up at 6:30 p.m., alone or in groups of two, and apply at the door.

Students without a partner will be paired with someone.

Each team will receive an answer sheet. Questions will be read and displayed and time will be set. After each round, answers will be given.

Teams will turn sheets into a grader, who will grade the responses for the 10 rounds and select the teams with the top three scores as the winners.

The questions won’t focus just on dots on the map as geography covers a lot of many topics such as human geography, atmosphere, earth formation and climate, Nycz said.

Questions about popular TV shows and movie stars will also make their way into the bowl.

“In the past, we’ve had questions about places in ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Lord of the Rings,’” Nycz said.

Spectators can also get in on the fun by entering to win prizes between rounds, including gift certificates from local businesses, a Trader Joe’s gift basket, T-shirts, drawstring backpacks and hats.

But there is more to the competition than prizes.

“I think the best part about the Geography Bowl is making students aware of how much geography they already know,” Nycz said. “It makes them more aware of the broader scope of geography.”

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opinion

Letters Column poorly classifies Israel

I found Evan Marolf’s comments about the Middle East and the relationship between Iran and Israel to be careless generalizations. True, the two nations are embroiled in a situation that could have negative implications around the globe. However, upon analyzing the recent political history of these “mortal enemies,” as Marolf puts it, it is not hard to see that Iran takes the cake for fueling the “nuclear” fires worldwide. Israel has never once made an existential threat

against Iran, nor has it intended to use its nuclear weapons for anything but defense. Iran, on the other hand, has made numerous existential threats against the Jewish state, even going so far as to deny the veracity of the Nazi Holocaust. The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, believes that America and Israel are satanic agents of the West, and he holds fast to the belief that Jewish-American strings — Zionism, money — pull the strings of the political world.

Israel is not without its own problems, but to lump them in

the same “Middle East” boat as Iran is careless and misleading. They only want to defend themselves, and will attack if they deem it necessary to their survival. Would American stand for similar existential threats?

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Penn State fan thanks supportive Huskers

I would like to thank your football team for the overwhelming response to us during our tragi-

cally troubled time: Tears ran down my face as you met and prayed for the victims on Saturday; A woman behind me sobbed openly. It was the second time I cried that day. The first was when we pulled into our parking spot Saturday morning. Only one car was parked already and it was decked out in Husker Red. As we drove by I saw a sign that read Huskers (big N underneath) for PSU players. You cannot imagine how I felt. Later I went up and met Nate, a Big Red alumnus from New Jersey, and as I hugged him and thanked him,

I cried. His words were so comforting. No one but another fan of his university can understand what we are going through. Nate and his wife, a graduate of West Chester University are expecting their first child and Nate expressed concern as to the kind of

father he would be. I think everyone who reads this will agree he’ll be a great dad. Thanks, Nate, and thank you all Nebraska fans.

Francine Campagnini

Aston, Pa.

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Income-based student loans are positive, but need work

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ittle about American economics is settled or straightforward at this point, so let’s look at where all sides can agree: Student debt is out of control. Yes, the state of Nebraska ranks 36th in a report on average student debt for the class of 2010. If it helps to brace yourself, go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief for relatively simple Midwestern comforts.

But then consider Nebraska’s figure: $21,227 per student. More tangible, that’s 106,000 packs of ramen. Across the United States, the average student’s debt is about 20,000 more ramen bags at $25,250, up 5.2 percent from the class of 2009. Cumulatively, America owes $600 billion dollars in college debt, according to an article in the New Yorker by James Surowiecki.

Two million college graduates are unemployed, and millions more are underemployed. Debates have shown how unlikely dramatic overhauls are in this climate, but this makes smart fixes like income-contingent loans all the more pressing.

Since the late 1970s, four-year college costs have risen three times as quickly as inflation. Why? Increasingly, the fear is that we’re living in an education bubble, where Americans are borrowing more to spend on college than college is actually worth.

To support this, wages for college

graduates have fallen during the past decade, and the unemployment rate for recent graduates is 9.1 percent according to a Nov. 15 Olympian article.

The big flaw with this claim is that non-graduates are in an even worse position. Surowiecki points out that high school grads face 22 percent unemployment, and the amount college grads earn compared to high school grads is at an all-time high.

More relevantly, education, like health care, is a much different economic phenomenon than most.

Surowiecki uses economist William Baumol’s concept of cost disease to explain how certain sectors of the economy don’t tend to increase productivity at the rate we’ve become accustomed to. Manufacturing has developed an extraordinary ability to produce increasingly more with increasingly less. Since Henry Ford, businesses have worked to automatize more and more of the process.

Televisions are bigger, brighter and cheaper than only a few months ago, with no sign of slowing.

Education, on the other hand, has understandably more trouble making production more efficient. During the past 30 years, the teacher-to-student ratio has kept relatively constant at about 16 to one. Teacher output hasn’t become more efficient. Colleges, of course, can’t keep paying 1980

cameron mount wages, and prices must rise to keep up. To make matters worse, colleges must stay competitive by investing in expensive facilities and faculty while creating low student-to-teacher ratios.

The good news from this is that there is no college bubble. The bad news, of course, is that there’s no easy way out.

The public either must get used to higher rates of tuition, lower faculty wages or make college more productive. This last point shouldn’t be immediately dismissed, but higher student-to-teacher ratios certainly isn’t the answer, and an overhaul would require a radically new conception of college.

The magic balance among these factors isn’t going to be settled overnight, but this makes immediate alleviation more important in the face of our current crisis. There may not be a bursting bubble, but there is an

out-of-control repayment problem.

Obama recently announced plans to reduce student loan payments to 10 percent of discretionary income when graduates apply to the federal incomebased repayment plan. After 20 years, anything unpaid from the loan would be forgiven. This is reduced from the 15 percent income payments and 25year forgiveness maximum in effect today. This is helpful, but many of the original default problems are still glaring.

A recent Los Angeles Times column

by Richard Colvin explains how income-contingent loan repayment may hold the answer, or at least a vital step. Like Obama’s plan, incomecontingent loans offer a single interest rate for all borrowers. But the money is automatically withheld from paychecks by employers and is managed by the IRS. Keeping with Obama’s proposal, 10 percent of a borrower’s earnings would go toward student loans. The more employers earn, the faster their debt is repaid.

As it runs now, students and parents traverse a maze of options, each with their own limits, rates and repayment options. While Obama’s plan is on the right track by offering income-based repayment, it still requires monthly check-writing and annual reapplying. If loans were tied to paychecks, the process would be

universal and automatic, as Social Security and Medicaid taxes are now.

Colvin points out that two decades ago, Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wisc.) proposed an income-contingent repayment plan, remarking that such a plan would be “virtually eliminating the default problem and saving immense amounts of money.” Petri’s plan was dismissed, because at the time, the IRS was just moving to electronic processing. Adding student loans would have overwhelmed and already challenging shift.

Now, these barriers are gone, and the plan is needed more than ever.

Petri is still a member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and recently revisited his two decades-old plan. Congress should pay attention. In Australia and Britain, for example, 98 percent of student loans are repaid in income-contingent programs.

While Obama’s proposal is an important first step, the health care cost fiasco has proven how easily unchecked problems can spiral out of redeemable control. If the student debt problem is to stay in manageable territory, intelligent practicalities should come before radical (and divisive) upheaval.

Cameron Mount is a junior Secondary English Education major. reach him at cameronmount@ dailynebraskan.com

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Since becoming the first-ever Miss America from the state of Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan is promoting awareness of eating disorders.

The next stop in her tour is the University Program Council Presents Miss America at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Daily Nebraskan commends Scanlan for choosing a cause that allows her to use her position as a beauty symbol positively. Former Miss America winners have sometimes promoted less influential platforms, such as abstinence-only sex education, like Miss America 2003, Erika Harold.

As a national pageant winner, Scanlan is perhaps the most relevant advocate eating-disorder awareness could ask for.

If unrealistic beauty standards in the media are one of the driving forces of eating disorders, it means a lot to have someone like Scanlan promoting a healthy body image.

The DN would like to thank UPC for bringing Miss America to campus. Of any issue-oriented presentation, Scanlan’s seems particularly beneficial to college students. As one of the demographics most susceptible to the negative influence of images constantly bombarding them, eating-disorder awareness is fitting for a college campus. The disorders affect as many as 10 percent of college-age women, according to National Institute of Mental Health.

Scanlan, 18, herself fits the college-age demographic and is working to lower the high rate of eating disorders and promote overall physical and mental health.

She will present today in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union at 7:30 p.m. For more information on eating disorders, visit nationaleatingdisorders.org.

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Jiajun (Abe) Xu demand theory would tell us that price would be determined by the supply and demand of the market — in our case, the job market. Then, if the price of the labor were set to be higher than an equilibrium price, demand will be less than supply.

As a result, some people can’t find a job. Based on the minimum wage requirement, companies can hire only a certain amount of people. It’s not because they don’t want to create job opportunities, but they just can’t afford it.

Entrepreneurs would always be innovative in terms of making more profits.

If they can’t make much profit under the minimum wage regulation in the United States, then they will move their operations overseas. Some people might argue that big corporations are unethical or unpatriotic for shipping American jobs overseas, but what if the high labor cost made it impossible for them to survive?

You may think that’s just the situation for people who work in a manufacturing industry. If somehow you managed to take a job that can’t be replaced by cheap labor overseas, then your job is secure. You’re probably right on that.

If you looked at the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services table from the U.S. Census Bureau, then you may find evidence. While America is running a deficit in goods trading, it had a great surplus in service trading. This is the current U.S. competitive advantage in terms of global trading.

Let’s make this competitive advantage

more specific. If you own an Apple product, turn it around; you will probably find a marking that says, “Designed

by Apple in California – Assembled in China.” In terms of trading, the actual Apple product is the good, while the technology patent, the design patent, is the service. For every Apple product, the design is from America, while the manufacturing is done in China.

No doubt, a designer for Apple would receive a higher pay and receive more benefits than an assembly worker anywhere in the world. As a college student, you want to be the designer more than the assembly worker. During the past three decades, globalization has forced world assembly workers to compete on an approximately the same level. In the near future, when more and more parts of the world are connected by information technology, you probably won’t have to be in California to be a designer for Apple.

If you look at items around you, you will possibly see items with tags that say “U.S.A. Proudly Made,” but most likely you will see that they’re made overseas. That’s the shift that happened years ago.

In addition to being made overseas, you will find more being designed overseas now than before. For example, if you look at cellphones, you may see Samsung, which is South Korean. If you are a fan of PlayStation, that is a product of Japanese company Sony. If your dream car happens to be a BMW, that’s a German brand.

As Thomas Friedman, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, titled his book, “The World is Flat.”

I agree. While more competition is on its way, it’s better for you to get yourself ready for a good job in the future than just getting yourself a college degree.

Jiajun (Abe) Xu is a Junior Finance & Economics major. Reach him jiajunxu@ dailynebraskan.com

Profound moments lost in noise of workaholic lifestyle

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There is an entry on the Wall Street Journal’s Hire Education blog called “Is Higher Education Worth the Money?” The popular idea is that a college education will pay itself back. If you believe in the value of higher education and think that once you graduate from college you’re guaranteed a good paying job, you should be careful.

The world has changed. To be ready for your dream career, a diploma is necessary, but it’s far from enough. The question we’re trying to answer today isn’t whether we should get a college education, but whether it’s sufficient for our future.

There is no doubt that everyone wants a well-paying job. A new car is probably unnecessary, but it’s nice to have one. A huge house is a luxury, but it won’t hurt to own one. You may not agree with the idea of a generous health care plan, but when your employer offers to pay a big portion of your medical expenses, you may not be willing to say no.

The job market isn’t doing so well right now; that’s no secret. More college graduates are having a hard time finding a job that would meet their expectations. For sure, there will be more competition. These graduates are serious, and they are real.

If you have taken some economics classes or heard comments on the minimum wage from some business professors, then you will probably agree that a minimum wage limited the competition on the labor market. Under the minimum wage regulation, the employer can’t pay any wages lower than a certain amount. According to the United States Department of Labor, “The federal minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees is $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009.”

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otal Noise.” These are the two words author David Foster Wallace used to describe the sound of current U.S. culture.

I agree. But first, let me define noise.

Noise is distinct from music or conversation because it lacks order.

Noise’s marked quality is chaos that prevents organized meaning. “Total Noise” is a kind of cultural haze that shrouds the important, discrete bits of daily experience.

Cultural noisiness manifests itself in many ways, but the most important characteristic is disruption. Conflicting streams of information blend together in a confused jumble.

Technology is often associated with the noise. You’ll be deep in conversation when your phone buzzes and a text message breaks up the flow of thought. While crafting a research paper on the computer, emails appear noisily in your inbox.

Reading a particularly striking op-ed, you repeatedly check your Facebook newsfeed and its OCD stepbrother, the ticker. Both brim with irrelevance.

In a culture of total noise, music is omnipresent to the point where it ceases to register at all; silence is far

louder and more obtrusive. Pandora, XM radio, MP3 players and Spotify are just a few tools that channel music to our ears. Music underlays the daily commute, walks between to classes, bus rides and study sessions.

The Internet provides us with endless strings of information in a vast web of abbreviated, loosely related thoughts. My Google Reader routinely breaks 500 unread entries, which I imagine is on the low end for most RSS feeds.

At some point, even hearing the high-pitched hum that older televisions emit becomes impossible, as they drone during our conversations and meals and in our living space.

The noise also comes to define our relationship to work. Multitasking is preeminent. Stress functions as the default setting. We’re harried, swamped in work and proud of it.

Workaholism is an admirable trait.

Students routinely paint competitive pictures of the many obligations and assignments they’ve got on their plates. We all brag about just how very screwed we are.

Our dilemma — our noise — reminds me of the film “Waking Life.”

In one scene, a character talks to another about how film captures the mundane, everyday moments and renders them holy, in capturing

marc koenig them. “But we walk around like it’s not holy,” the character continues.

“We walk around like there’s some holy moments and there are all the other moments that are not holy, but this moment is holy, right?”

The characters then, hilariously, attempt to have a holy moment, staring at each other in complete silence.

Seconds pass. One character’s eyes shimmer — you can see it — verging on tears. The other eventually breaks the silence: “It’s all layers, isn’t it? I was in and out of it, the holy moment.”

The awareness of truly holy moments is what we risk losing in a culture of noise. We risk the moments when we transcend the automatic and just experience things, and their layers, in an unfiltered, enhanced way.

I don’t think it’s practical to live an unending stream of holy moments,

however; we’d be constantly engrossed, unable to function. Culturally, though, we tend to go to the opposite extreme: We don’t appreciate daily profundity.

A life of automaticity and noise can lead to a dryness of living. Distraction and occupation produce a weird sort of numbness. Taken too far, and I’m left with the feeling the day passed through me, instead of vice versa.

What should our response to cultural noise be? How can we work to perceive the layers of sacred stuff that accompany each day?

I can’t say for sure. I’m certain the response will vary person by person, but I can guess at some common factors: Being OK with silence, reflection sans multitasking, maybe just a cultivated ability to notice things and make connections between them.

What makes a moment sacred?

Often, for me, these moments are accompanied by an elusive, personal quietness.

Say you wake in the early, autumnal morning, and the room’s air is crisp and pre-winter cold. The sound of vehicles on the roadway is muted, distant and wind-like.

When you wake, you’re surprised to find a whole world outside of

yourself. You haven’t yet thought of work, breakfast, the night before or the day to follow.

This moment is the opposite of noise. This moment is holy.

I think what accompanies moments like this is a sense of profound gratitude. This sense of value and awe is accessible in so many places.

Profundity is accessible in the expansive seconds of silence (awkward or comfortable) during a conversation. It’s accessible while praying in the middle of a stodgy church service, while taking the first steps out of your front door, shoveling snow in the mornings, attending a candlelight vigil or noticing the way someone laughs.

Practicing a reduction of cultural noise isn’t a new notion. The Judeo-Christian tradition of Sabbath, for example: a day of intentionality and rest.

If we, as Americans, replaced our ethos of Total Noise with a demeanor of careful appreciation, gratitude and rest, we’d probably be better off. Less high-strung, healthier — our lives fuller.

We might move toward a sort of holiness.

Marc Koenig is a senior English major. Reach him at marckoenig@dailynebraskan.com.

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Someone just stabbed you in the back, literally.

When asked to describe himself in five words, Brandon Aylor found himself momentarily speechless.

He paused, finished his coffee, leaned back and pushed the bagel half for which he didn’t have cream cheese across the table.

“Intelligent, hardworking, unorganized, loud and,” he said, pausing, “fun.”

The junior, self-declared “awesomeness” major is also working toward a degree in theater performance, a decision for which he was banished from his household.

Aylor began acting through a local theater company, Stage, when he was 7-years-old. He continued

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performing throughout high school, more as a hobby than anything. Up until his junior year in high school, Aylor planned to become a chemistry or pre-law major in college – jobs that were safe, he said.

He played John Proctor in his school’s production of “The Crucible,” and during one of the performances his dreams of the future transformed from the fluorescent lights of a lab to the spotlight of a theater.

“Suicide’s pretty much the other option,” he said.

Throughout his performances at the Johnny Carson School of

Theatre and Film, Aylor has absorbed instruction from directors and professors for the roles he has taken on, but he has learned more about himself through the characters he has embodied.

“When you take on a different character in theater, you’re not actually becoming a different person, you’re becoming a different part of yourself you didn’t know you had,” he explained.

Plus, he loves the attention.

“No high, no drinking binge, nothing can compare to hearing the people that came to see you up there feel real emotion because of what you’d just done,”

The Thanksgiving meal you’ve been slaving over for days just burnt up in the oven.

he said.

For now, Aylor plans on heading to L.A. when he graduates and he is willing to give up whatever it takes to get work.

He already has experience sleeping on park benches.

Aylor grew up in a strict family, attended Pius X High School and recalls the ominous trouble that brewed when he started to question his family’s chosen religion.

Throughout the numerous times Aylor was kicked out of his house during high school; he learned how to live out of a car or tent. At one point during his senior year, he spent three weeks living in a

tent hidden behind the trees in his backyard. He was only discovered when his brother mowed over the extension cord he’d snaked through the yard and connected to his house for power.

The fights with his parents worsened when he told them he was planning on majoring in theater. They refused to help him pay for school and cut him out of their will.

“It was one of those things, like the straw that broke the camel’s back,” he said. “It wasn’t really a straw. It was more like the piano

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A FINER ART

Katie Nelson For the greater portion of the semester, I have been reporting and writing on nothing but theater: Lied Center this, Johnny Carson School that. And I have to say I’ve loved every minute of it.

Last year, I entered the Daily Nebraskan fresh out of high school, where I had participated in the school musicals each fall.

As a beginning reporter, I was always very excited to write about the Lied, what with its regal theater and beautiful tree-lights.

So this year, when I started getting assigned stories for other theaters, I was a little lost. Sure, I’ve participated in community theater before and I’ve seen a production or two at the Johnny Carson School, but these people weren’t professionals.

These people weren’t acting on sets that made you believe you were in some far away, fairy tale land or in costumes that put Halloween to shame.

And it wasn’t until I sat, petrified in my seat, in the Lab Theater during “Killer Joe” that I understood that some of the best theater found in Lincoln isn’t making a brief stop on a

national tour.

Instead, it is created on a budget of $125 or with a set made from pieces pulled from a dumpster.

Its aesthetic comes from a series of costumes sewn in the basement of the Johnny Carson School.

Most of all, it’s created by students. These people aren’t being paid a dime – in fact, they are the ones paying – to act, design sets, stage manage, you name it. They spend endless hours working on every production. Rehearsals are often four or more hours, six nights a week.

Students have become comfortable enough with the floor of the Johnny Carson School to consider it a bed away from bed and the building itself a home away from home.

They know that, as theater majors, they are going to launch themselves into the bottomless cultural maws of New York, L.A. and Chicago and their success is anything but guaranteed.

Rent may have to be forgone for new headshots.

Monotonous jobs needed to pay the bills might suck up the time that would otherwise be spent auditioning. Extra money is

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Sometimes teaching requires more of instructors than what can be accomplished in the classroom.

For performance instructors in the University of NebraskaLincoln’s school of music, playing off-campus isn’t just encouraged; it’s a requirement. Performance professors at UNL must play in high profile settings, while musicologists aren’t bound by the same requirement.

“It’s about the prestige of the performance,” said Paul Barnes, a professor of piano at UNL. “We can’t do just local performing.”

For Scott Anderson, a professor of trombone at UNL, his days of both performance and teaching date back before his time at UNL. He started teaching in 1992 at St. Cloud State University, and his weekdays were typically filled with a lengthy commute to play music.

The trombonist would teach in the mornings, drive more than an hour to the Twin Cities to practice with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and drive back to St. Cloud for evening lessons.

“It’s a juggling act,” Anderson said.

Before that, Anderson played for four years with an Air Force service band. He also put in time playing lots of “free gigs” in the Twin Cities area before people took notice. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra recognized his skill and potential and eventually Anderson was playing nearly full-time with the orchestra.

He began teaching at UNL in 1996, but made weekend trips to play with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as late as 2005. During his time at UNL, Anderson played with the Des Moines and Kansas City Symphony Orchestras, as well as orchestras in Lincoln and Omaha. Spending around four weeks a semester on the road and all of the

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traveling and fast food wasn’t friendly to Anderson as time drew on.

“That life isn’t entirely sustainable when you get in your

40s and 50s,” Anderson said.

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Holiday film season holds promise

cameron mount There’s bound to be a healthy dose of eye-rolls and disappointments in any movie season, but audiences have reason to be excited about the 2011 holiday film lineup. Big risks by established directors, sure-fire blockbusters and new approaches to classics look to satisfy even the most

cynical film fans.

Two of the most intriguing movies open Thanksgiving weekend, aiming to set a positive tone for the season.

Through a vigorous and spirited marketing campaign which spoofed “The Hangover,” “The Twilight Saga” and others, “The Muppets” has already generated significant buzz. Fans of the Muppets are hopeful that Jason Segel and Amy Adams will be able to capture the sweetness and bouncing energy of previous incarnations without being sentimental or hokey. It’s an achievement that Muppets movies have claimed in the past, for example “The Great Muppet

Caper,” (1981). The patience and artistry it must have taken to set the scene up is baffling.

In later films, however, animatronics and Muppeteering gave way to more straightforward technological ploys that lacked magic. Luckily, “The Muppets” seems well aware that cheap gags aren’t the way to recapture the original spirit.

“Hugo” also debuts Thanksgiving weekend and contains such a strange mix of elements that it will be impossible to ignore. Martin Scorsese is directing Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law and Ben Kingsley, all in a 3D adventure story. It tells the story of Hugo, an orphan that

lives in a Paris train station until he encounters an eccentric girl and a mysterious toy shop. Beyond that, the plot is still tough to put together, but the trailer evinces a sprawling and dreamlike plot that is ambitious to say the least. Scorsese has tightly integrated use of 3D and under his direction could bring the format to new heights.

“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” doesn’t see wide release until Dec. 9, but a limited release has already garnered dozens of positive reviews. Based on

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Cris Rook slipped her hand into a puppet, transforming the cloth object, dressed like a nun, into Sister Mary Annette, the alter ego to her character, Sister Amnesia. Puppet and puppeteer turned to one another and began to carol a short preview to the song they will sing during the performances.

The sisters are back for another round of nonsense with singing, dancing, puppets and holiday cheer.

“Nuncracker: The Nunsense Christmas Musical” will be making its Lincoln debut at the TADA Theater in the Haymarket on Thursday evening. The show will run through Dec. 18.

“Nuncracker” is the third installment in the “Nunsense” series.

In this narrative, the nuns have built a television studio in their basement with the money Sister Amnesia won from the Publishing House Sweepstakes in the original show, “Nunsense.”

The sisters are trying to broadcast a live rendition of “The Nutcracker,” but their dancer, Sister Leo, breaks her leg.

From there, the four nuns, Mother Superior (Judy Anderson), Sister Hubert (Angelia

Onuoha), Sister Amnesia (Rook) and Sister Robert Anne (Emily Kollars) take on the show-mustgo-on mentality, transforming Tchaikovsky’s ballet into a series of comedy routines and song-and-dance numbers.

Not to mention the puppets.

Director Robert Rook used to be a puppeteer and has used his skills to help Cris Rook develop her puppet character, Sister Mary Annette.

He has also used his previous experience in stand up comedy to add humor to the characters’ lines and body language.

And somehow, beneath the biblical jokes and music variety, ranging from rock to reggae, writer Dan Goggin implements life lessons about the true meaning of Christmas and believing in oneself.

The six-member cast has been rehearsing four hours a night, Monday through Thursday for the past four-and-a-half weeks.

Anderson, Onuoha and Rook have acted together in their roles before. Kollars was completely new to her role as Sister Robert Anne.

Robert Rook said having three returning characters helped bring Kollars up to par with the other actors.

“I wouldn’t have put the

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WHERE: TADA Theatre, 701 P St. HOW MUCH: $18 show on this season if I hadn’t already had the three actors agree to come back,” Robert Rook said.

“You get to see what someone else will bring to that character,” added Cris Rook, who is also the music director and choreographer. “It keeps it fresh.”

As the newest addition to the sisterhood, Kollars, a junior family science major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, received a lot of help and direction from other cast members, both in acting and singing.

“It was like being invited into a family,” she said.

Despite the quirky personalities of each of the nuns, Robert Rook said he has tried to display a more human side to each of the characters, so the audience can better relate to them.

But audience participation is not limited to feeling with the characters.

During the show, Sister

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Cris Rook gives life to Sister Mary Amnesia in “Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical.” The play opens Thursday and will run through Dec. 18.

Amnesia will draw seat numbers and audience members can potentially win prizes.

“I’m not going to give away any secrets,” said Robert Rook.

“They’re comically biblical surprises.”

Any and all are encouraged to attend and are asked to make a donation to the food drive at the door. The drive has been running for eight years.

Robert Rook looks forward to opening night.

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the classic spy novel, the film features Gary Oldman as a disgraced British spy rehired in secret during the Cold War. Reviews promise intelligent plot twists and absorbing visuals. And with “Let the Right One In” director Tomas Alfredson at the helm, its success isn’t difficult to imagine.

“Young Adult” will also be released Dec. 9, from “Up in the Air,” “Juno” and “Thank You For Smoking” director, Jason Reitman. The film has stayed relatively under the radar, but with Charlize Theron, J.K. Simmons and Patton Oswalt in the lead roles, there’s no reason to expect anything less than Reitman’s best. The film follows a writer of teen fiction who returns home to relive her glory days.

On Dec. 16 comes “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”

Holmes now finds himself faced with a new criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty, believed to be behind an intricate plot involving the death of the Crown Prince of Austria.

The action will most likely be stepped up a notch, along with Robert Downey Jr.’s wry comebacks. The formula worked well for the first movie, but the sequel will have to set some boundaries if it’s to become a continuing series. Critics of the first complained of its flashy divergence from the legendary detective stories and it would be a shame if “A Game of Shadows” sacrificed a smart story for bells and whistles.

Dec. 23 is the kind of day that can make or break the winter film season for movie fans.

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is most likely to succeed, with “The Social Network” director David Fincher in charge.

Though an acclaimed Swedish adaptation has existed since 2009, trailers for Fincher’s version paint a stylized adaptation

“I got to the point where I had done all that stuff and I didn’t need to do it anymore.”

After a two-week European tour in 2000, Anderson has tried to keep closer to home. Now he likes to stay within a day’s drive from Lincoln, continuing to do freelance work in Lincoln and Omaha and Kansas City, on occasion.

Barnes has spent his fair share of time on the road, as well. He played a concert at Minot State University last weekend.

“We try to miss a minimal amount of teaching,”

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that should please fans of the novel. Like “The Social Network,” Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor is composing the film’s score, sure to blend perfectly with the book’s gritty story of a publisher entangled in a deepreaching scandal.

“The Adventures of Tintin” is slated for a Dec. 23 release as well. Like “Hugo,” the film puts a distinguished director behind a sprawling family-friendly adventure. Steven Spielberg directed and Peter Jackson produced this performance-capture 3D film, which follows the comic strip story of a boy abducted aboard the S.S. Karaboudjan.

Reviews so far are favorable, praising, though there’s reason to doubt the “Polar Express”styled performance-capture.

The trailers evidence a visual feast, and there’s no reason to doubt this will be the best use of the technology, but critics aren’t convinced “Tintin” will be the film to bring life to realistic CGI. Dec. 23 will also see the release of “Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,” and surprisingly, there’s reason to believe the talent behind this fourth “Mission: Impossible” will set this entry apart. Most striking is that the film is directed by

Brad Bird, director and screenwriter of “The Iron Giant,” “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille.”

Also, many scenes were shot in IMAX, a telling attempt at a more immersive experience for audiences.

Just two days after “The Adventures of Tintin” comes another Spielberg film: “War Horse.” The story follows a World War I cavalry horse as he befriends a young man and makes his way through the war.

“War Horse” looks sentimental and in the wake of much bigger films doesn’t seem to have high expectations for itself.

With Spielberg’s touch, though, it should do the trick for those that want a Christmas outing that tugs predictably on the heartstrings.

Many of these films are poised uncertainly, promising blockbuster wonder while balancing too much for guarantees. For most, though, the list of pros is extensive enough to make for a promising holiday lineup. Even with a few disappointments, audiences should take comfort that there’s more than enough films to avoid “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” until winter break is long over.

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“Patrons have always told us that they look forward to these ‘Nunsense’ shows and we have just as much fun working on them,” he said. “It’s been great to spend them with the nuns.”

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Barnes said. “(Performance) is something we’re required to do for our job.”

Barnes said up to a third of his job is dedicated to performance. He is able to mostly travel on weekends and spends most of his time on campus in private lessons, which are easier to reschedule than rearranging a class, Barnes said.

Barnes is already scheduled to play in California during UNL’s spring break next semester and at the Lincoln Center in New York City in March for a celebration of Philip Glass’s 75th birthday.

Additionally, Barnes teaches

and performs in Vienna during summer breaks and plays at the Lincoln Center about two times a year.

Anderson still performs off-campus as well and currently plays with UNL’s faculty brass quintet and that group toured the Czech Republic in 2007 and 2010. He plans to play in the North Carolina Brass Festival this February. But Anderson wants to dedicate as much time to actually teaching as possible.

“I want to devote my time to what I do with my students here,” he said.

Although he claims to be an open book, Aylor didn’t tell his classmates that going home meant sleeping in a brightly-colored plastic tube in a park of his choosing and he now shares a home with his best friend, Derek Cook.

Cook is a junior fine arts major, currently on a university hiatus. The two bonded seven months ago when they were both venting to a mutual friend, were introduced and then continued venting to each other. They have been best friends since. Both struggle against their conservative families in their pursuits of the arts.

“You can choose to be a sheep and it’s going to be boring,” Cook said, “or you can choose to be a wolf, like us, and it’s going to be lonely and you’re going to have to struggle.”

At this point, Aylor dons a British accent, explaining that he has convinced everyone at Risky’s Sports Bar and Grill, where he works, that he is from London. In a matter of sentences, he has gone from

the topic of being homeless to assuming a boisterous British personality.

Futuristically, Aylor is willing to give up anything it takes to “make it,” even if “making it” is doing commercials for the rest of his life. After he gets to L.A., he has no projected timeline for the unfolding of his dreams, so long as he is able to survive off them.

After all, he already knows what it means to give up a warm bed and sacrifice relationships.

There’s only one person he won’t give up in his pursuit: his best friend, Derek.

For the second time, he searches for words only to conclude that it’s the only sacrifice he is unwilling to make.

Two buzzes draw his attention to his phone and he answers with an outrageously overdone British accent; it’s Derek. He runs through inside joke after inside joke, says he will be home soon and hangs up.

Then he heads out the door to drive to his home: one that isn’t a park bench.

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AYLOR: FROM 5 that fell on the camel and killed it.”

Aylor recalls his aunts and uncles teasing him about his major at the last Thanksgiving they spent together.

But the adversity is what drives him.

Aylor describes himself as the kid who always has to prove people wrong. So he took on two jobs, found some loopholes in his FAFSA forms and slept on park benches for his freshman year in college so he could spend his money on classes instead.

“I’ve slept on park benches, slept on the ground, slept in a playground,” he said, adding his companion during his gypsy years was a Rottweiler-German mix, named Zeus.

“I do love him more than my brother, Connor,” he said, shrugging moments later.

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Band slips up, quits happy pop Katie Fennelly With a title like “Hello Sadness,” it’s hard to stay positive.

For Los Campesinos!, it really shouldn’t be that hard. The group has been known to embrace nothing other than the happiest of pop songs (think “You! Me! Dancing!,” a dizzying pop anthem featured in Budweiser commercials). But the band’s fourth LP experiments with feelings of loneliness and despair. While it is definitely a new direction, it isn’t a complete departure for the Welsh septet.

“Hello Sadness” is still 40 minutes of indie pop with a lot of glockenspiel action.

Most of the songs are busy with instruments and backing vocals. But the album is missing catchy choruses and the band’s overwhelmingly comedic feel. Even though this is likely a sign of growth, it’s disappointing.

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Speaking of disappointing, try listening to lead singer Gareth Campesinos’ voice for 10 tracks straight.

The whiny, nasal voice delves into melancholy topics, only further entrenching the listener into a state of despair.

And despite the overwhelmingly negative turn for the band, “Hello Sadness” does have its redeeming, yet fleeting, moments.

Album opener and single “By Your Hand” focuses on tongue-in-cheek lyrics and simplistic instrumentation.

A pounding bass line builds momentum for the title track “Hello Sadness.” Of the new album, these are the only songs that are recognizable, given the band’s previous work.

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Don’t take me wrong: I’m not saying professional theater isn’t amazing – it is. It has the ability to take my breath away.

Instead, I’m saying that the raw passion of the amateurs adds something that cannot be duplicated in the professional world.

To those whose payment is simply an audience’s applause, I salute you. I’ve got a list of shows a mile long and I can’t wait to sit in those folding chairs in that hole-in-the-wall theater and pay you with my applause.

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Nebraska veterans lead Huskers to finish AUSTIN EPP

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In what turned out to be their last cross-country race as Huskers, seniors Katie White and Ashley Miller came away with All-Region Honors for finishing in the top 15 at the NCAA Midwest Region hosted by Northern Illinois.

“I wouldn’t have had it any other way,” Miller said.

“I was mentally and physically ready, and I really wanted to go after it. It feels great.”

Overall, the women’s team was able to place four runners in the top 75, placing sixth out of 15 teams.

“The women ran as well as they could run,” head coach Jay Dirksen said.

“They fought and scratched for everything they earned this season.”

Because it was her last race, Miller knew she had to put everything on line as soon as the starting gun went off. According to Dirksen, Miller did just that by leading the first mile of the race.

“To be in contention, I had to go out hard, stay in contact with the main pack and finish as strong as I could,” Miller said.

Going back to her high school days in Tipton, Iowa, Miller was a multisport athlete. In track, she was a 15time state champion, winning in multiple events. She was also a star on the basketball team, scoring more than 20 points per game her senior year and winning two state championships during her career.

As a freshman, Miller was recruited by Nebraska to be an 800 meters runner.

However, that spring Miller

battled a leg injury and was never able to compete at full speed. The next fall, Miller was advised by the coaching staff to go out for cross-country.

“I had a feeling I could be a strong c o n tributor for the team,” Miller said, “because I was a WHITE successful long-distance runner in high school without putting much effort into long-distance training.”

At first, the distance seemed intimidating to Miller.

“I had confidence I could adapt when I put in the dedication, but it was tough in the beginning,” Miller said. “I had good teammates who encouraged me to stay with it.”

As her collegiate career progressed, Miller found herself becoming a more consistent runner. By her senior year, Miller was leading the Husker team in a majority of the races.

“It’s a proud feeling to consistently have solid races,” Miller said. “During previous seasons, I would have the occasional lapse from race to race.”

Dirksen was also quick to point out his senior’s consistent progression as a runner.

“She just kept getting better and better all year, and she finished her career off with what I though was her best race ever,” Dirksen said.

Next year, the women’s

team not only loses Dirksen, who plans to retire after coaching for 42 years, but will also lose four senior runners. Nonetheless, Dirksen believes they will be just fine without him because of the leadership that the four seniors have instilled into the program.

“The biggest strength on this year’s team was our leadership,” Dirksen said.

“The younger girls have had the opportunity to be around great leaders like Miller, who did a great job of leading by example.”

Although the cross-country season has came to an end, both Dirksen and Miller are still far from the finish line of their careers, as they look forward to the indoor and outdoor track seasons.

Miller says she has big goals for track season. She also has big goals for after her athl e t i c career ends.

Majoring in nutritional science and dietetics, M i l l MILLER er will spend this spring applying for internships and graduate school applications when she isn’t flying around the track.

“Ashley is a special athlete and a special person,” Dirksen said. “She’s a great student, has great pride and a great work ethic. There is no doubt she’ll be ready for the track season.”

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PRACTICE NOTES FOOTBALL The Huskers are gearing up for the final road trip of the 2011 regular season. Their trip to Michigan will mark the end of their second two-game road stint of this year, but NU running backs coach Ron Brown thinks they’ve handled it well.

“We’ve had some growing pains, but I think we’ve matured coming around,” Brown said. “We’re used to big venues on the road.

We knew that going into the season; we’ve

experienced it so far.

We’ve been in all kinds of atmospheres and all kinds of scenarios and circumstances, a la last week. So, we’re excited about going to the big house. It’s going to be a great game I think.”

Nebraska’s first season in the Big Ten has been about a new series of sights.

“I think our kids are really enjoying it,” NU offensive line coach John Garrison said. “It kind of almost feels this entire year, every away

game’s been almost like a bowl trip. You know, you’re playing a bowl game, you’re playing a new venue and I’ve never been there so I’m looking forward to it. I know a lot of guys on staff are, I know our kids are too. You wouldn’t want to play anywhere else other than the Big House or here in Lincoln or major venues. And that’s why they guys are here, to perform on those platforms.”

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VOLLEYBALL: FROM 10 confidence points, I would call it,” Brooke Delano said. “We just started to get our roll on. We just needed a couple of points where it boosted our confidence and we got in our groove.”

The offense looked much more like normal, as Broekhuis, Werth and Mancuso were able to combine for 11 kills against two errors. A key difference was the lack of errors on NU’s end, as only two of the 35 attacks missed the target. Also, after being outblocked 3-1 in the first, the Huskers recorded four in the second set.

The Huskers kept their form in the final two sets, simply burying the Gophers with kill after kill.

Lauren Cook had 14 assists in the third set alone, which NU won 25-15. The Gophers made a match of it in the fourth, tying things up at eleven early, but Werth and the Huskers were just too much, never trailing in a 25-16 set win.

The win moved the Huskers one match closer to the Big Ten Championship, with the team’s final three coming against unranked teams. Still, the press conference after the game largely skipped over that, instead focusing on the improvement the Huskers showed since last Saturday’s sweep at the hands of Purdue.

VIEW VIDEO ONLINE AT DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM “This week in practice was really good,” Jordan Wilberger said. “We came in Monday and we were ready to work. It started out rough, and that feeling we’d experienced this past week, we knew we didn’t want to continue in it.

People made adjustments and as a team we started to play together and stuff started to work.”

Werth was the star of the night, racking up 14 kills on 29 attacks with 17 digs and two block assists. Mancuso and Broekhuis also added 14 kills and Delano helped

out on both ends with a .348 average (nine kills) a solo block and seven block assists. Cook, in her first home match since NU’s win over Illinois Oct. 22, had 47 assists and 12 digs.

Next up for the Huskers is Wisconsin Saturday night at the NU Coliseum.

This will be the last regularseason home match, though NU should get two more in the NCAA Tournament, and it will be senior night for Delano, Wilberger and Brigette Root.

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MARTINEZ: FROM 10 getting tackled.”

The practice has helped the redshirt sophomore improve, but he’s still young said NU coach Bo Pelini.

“It is an area he still needs to work and grow in,” Pelini said. “I know from being an option quarterback myself in high school that it

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is something that you get better at the more you do it. That just happens by doing reps. Coach Osborne always said that with as much option as they ran, it is something you just need to rep-rep-rep. I think it’s pretty obvious.”

The option has burned more than the Nittany Lions this year. Martinez burned opponents early and often in the first part of the season with the option. Fake pitches and simple keepers helped him to long touchdown runs against Tennessee-Chattanooga and Fresno State.

On a play that involves timing in a big way, Martinez is relying on his instincts as well. About 10 minutes of practice each day is devoted to the option, Martinez said.

He’s also grown in other aspects of the game this year.

He believes game management, an area where he was criticized, is now a strong

suit. With every game it’s getting easier.

Through 10 games, Martinez has thrown for 1,688 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Of his 7 interceptions, three came in one game against Wisconsin. Since the Huskers took on Ohio State, he is 77-120 through the air for 865 yards and six touchdowns. The option has opened up the play-action pass as well, helping Martinez to several downfield passes this season.

NU receivers have appreciated Martinez’s growth and improvement season.

“He’s throwing in windows,” freshman receiver Kenny Bell said. “He’s making good reads. He’s progressed a lot as a quarterback. Then again, he’s only a sophomore, so he’s got a lot of good football ahead of him.”

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Tyler Koehn moved up a weight class in an effort to help the Huskers fill a big hole.

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Junior guard Dylan Talley has averaged 8.5 points per game this season and is tied atop the team’s rebound column.

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This summer, Dylan Talley was going through a session with some teammates at Blinn College, a junior college in Brenham, Texas, when he took a shot to one of his quad muscles. There were no trainers around, so the Nebraska basketball recruit headed home.

By the time he arrived on UNL’s campus a short while later, the injury had worsened. The quad was tight and the injury had calcified, swelling up to the size of a tennis ball.

Suddenly, the most heralded recruit of the 2011 class couldn’t run. Coach Doc Sadler said there were six to eight weeks this summer when Talley couldn’t do anything except shoot free throws while his teammates practiced.

For a player trying to get acquainted with a new system and style of play, that’s usually not a good thing.

However, Talley doesn’t appear to be suffering any ill effects so far. He said he’s 100 percent healed now, and it shows. After NU’s first two games — both victories — Talley is tied for the team lead in rebounds and is averaging 8.5 points per game.

“It’s been pretty tough at times with the quad injury setting me back in my conditioning, but I feel like I’ve pretty much got my conditioning back,” Talley said. “I’m still getting used to (the system), but as long as I keep watching film I’ll get the hang of it.”

Talley’s first action came in an exhibition win against Doane last Monday. He scored 12 points in 18 minutes and said afterward he felt he was in good enough condition to play a little more.

Sadler gave him that opportunity over NU’s first two regular season games.

Talley played 20 minutes against South Dakota and 21 this Monday against USC. He was particularly effective against the Coyotes with 10 points, nine rebounds and five assists in his Husker debut. He struggled finding his shot against the Trojans but still contributed seven points.

Talley is one of two new Huskers this year that have experience at the Division I level. Point guard Bo Spencer played three years at LSU before transferring and sitting out last season.

Talley played his freshman year at Binghamton University, where he was named

the American East Conference Rookie of the Year. He spent last season at Blinn before joining the Huskers.

Though both transfers have played well so far, Sadler believes they aren’t close to what they’ll be in a month or two.

“Like anybody that’s sat out a year, it takes them a while to get going again,” Sadler said. “I don’t think you’ll see Dylan or Bo as good as they can be until December. They’ve played at this level before.”

Talley was recruited to NU to give a sometimes stagnant offense a scoring injection. He’s been a scorer at every stop he’s made in his career. He totaled more than 2,000 points at Life Center Academy in Burlington, N.J., and averaged 16.2 points per game as a senior. At Binghamton, he averaged 11.8 points and reached double figures in scoring in 17 of the 26 games he played.

Talley truly broke out at Blinn, where he averaged 23 points per game on 49 percent shooting. That effort earned him scholarship offers from LSU, Gonzaga, Colorado and Tennessee, as well as NU. Sadler said the injury briefly made Talley consider redshirting, but he

burned that opportunity by playing in the exhibition game. And NU has benefitted from his decision to play. Talley has embraced his role as a scorer, but is willing to be more than that if that’s what the team requires.

“That’s what I think he wants me to be,” Talley said. “I think that’s my role.

If that’s what he wants me to be, I’m happy to be it. I just want to win.”

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unranked Huskers into the NWCA/USA Today Coaches Poll rankings, released Tuesday, with NU sitting tied at 24. Big Ten teams Iowa and Penn State rank atop the poll at No. 1 and 2, respectively.

The Huskers host both the Hawkeyes (Jan.13) and Nittany Lions (Feb. 3) this season at the NU Coliseum.

Still, Koehn doesn’t concern himself with the rankings, individual or team. He didn’t know about the ranking.

“It doesn’t really mean much because, you know, anything could happen at any given time in this sport,” he said.

Koehn’s beliefs are consistent with Manning’s teaching style. The coach emphasizes that the wrestlers eliminate outside distractions in an effort to preserve their mental psyche.

“The bottom line is that it’s about making improvements with ourselves, trying to block out outside distractions like rankings,” he said. “You lose focus when you get away from, you know, packing up your lunch and getting into that wrestling room every day and going to work.”

For now, the junior plans to focus on himself and the effect he can have on his team.

“At the beginning of the year, we had a talk about short-terms goals and also long-term,”

Koehn said. “Right now, shortterm I want to be able to perform well both as a team and individually. Hopefully win the Big Ten and do well in nationals and be an All-American.”

Koehn wants to make the most of the two years he has left with the wrestling program. Unsure about his career plans, the business administration major knows that his opportunity to wrestle is only temporary.

“I’m planning on starting my future in the business world, but I haven’t really thought much about it,” he said. “I’ve still got two years left here. I’ll see where it takes me.”

But his coach doesn’t doubt he’ll be successful in whatever he chooses to do. Manning sees Koehn as an asset to the team and a role model for other wrestlers.

“Tyler’s a steady guy,” Manning said. “He’s a very smart, level-headed young man who just carries himself in a first-class manner. He’s a first-class kid.”

Going forward, Manning sees Koehn emerging as an experienced leader for his young team.

“He’s a positive guy and he’s always moving our team in a positive manner,” he said. “I see any guy who’s always helping our team and thinking positively as a leader. And Tyler’s one of those guys.”

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“Nobody will ever be perfect, but a couple of those were in tough situations,” coach Bo Pelini said. “Off the top of my head I can think of three, but they were in crucial situations.

We could have extended drives.”

So what’s the answer?

Kinnie is one who emphasizes sticking to the routine. He thinks that by switching things up and catching extra balls after practice will mess with his psyche.

But he does admit there are some technical issues he’s discovered he needs to address. He said he often jumps for passes he doesn’t need to, which messes with his

concentration.

Other than that, he doesn’t have many words of advice. There is no secret formula for catching passes. Kinnie said it’s about looking the ball in the whole way and focusing on making the catch before worrying about defenders or starting to run upfield.

“Sometimes it’s lack of focus or lack of hand placement,” he said. “It’s something you’ve got to get through. That’s what I’m here for. I’ve got to catch the ball.”

The Huskers had problems early in the season bringing some passes in, but the problem seemed to rectify itself after a few games. Kinnie in particular had trouble bringing some balls in, but reestablished his spot as one of the Huskers’ more dependable receivers.

Now the issue has popped up again. Kinnie and Bell have both put up good numbers lately but have left some yards on the field too.

Jamal Turner has had a few misplays this year that have had a role his decrease in playing time.

Especially for the young receivers, the key is forgetting about a drop as soon as a play is over. The longer they dwell on it, the more it sticks in their head. That’s Kinnie’s philosophy, and as the group’s senior leader, it’s what he preaches.

But sometimes that’s easier said than done.

“When we don’t get it done, we not only let the whole offense down, we let the whole team down,” Bell said. “So we’ve got to work on that, and we’re going to.

We’ll get better.”

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Brandon Kinnie has grown tired of the questions. You can see it in his face.

But if the problem were solved, the questions wouldn’t need to be asked.

The issue would evaporate as quickly as it sprung up.

So what’s with all these dropped passes?

“We’re wide receivers and we can’t drop the ball,” Kinnie said after practice Monday. “You’ve got to catch it.

It’s frustrating to go through, but at the same time, you just have to get through it and flush it.”

Kinnie was one of the main culprits this past week, dropping two passes that could have gone for first downs. But the problem doesn’t end with the senior.

Several Huskers have had trouble hanging on to the ball this season, and while the drops didn’t cost the Huskers a victory against Penn State, they played a pivotal role in the Northwestern loss that threatens to keep the Huskers from reaching the Big Ten title game.

“A drop can be the same as a fumble or a turnover or an interception,” receiver Kenny Bell said. “It’s absolutely demoralizing, and it’s something that we’ve talked about all year. It’s something we can’t allow to happen.”

No receiving corps is mistake-free. Drops are a part of the game, particularly when a team has young receivers and a young quarterback who may still be getting their timing down together.

But quarterback Taylor Martinez has been lasersharp lately and most of the balls bouncing off receivers’ hands are very catchable.

Hannah Werth had 14 kills and 17 digs in the match to secure her 8th double-double of the season.

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hree games, two points better.

That was the goal set by Nebraska volleyball coach John Cook for Wednesday’s match versus Minnesota, his version of Al Davis’ famous “Just win, baby.”

The fourth-ranked Huskers accomplished Cook’s goal, taking a hard-fought match in four sets against the No. 19 Gophers, 17-25, 25-18, 25-15, 25-16. After a tough first set, NU settled down and showed Minnesota why they are the only team in control of its destiny in the Big Ten race.

The first set was an

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extremely messy one for the Husker offense, which committed 10 errors (including one service) in the set, hitting just .105. The usually well-organized defense was anything but, failing to keep a number of balls alive while surrendering three aces and a .308 average. After NU pulled off a four point run to take the lead 11-10, the Gophers pulled ahead and away, eventually taking the set 25-17.

The set marked the first time all season NU had dropped four sets in a row, as the team was swept Saturday night at Purdue.

“We were still playing

Purdue (in the first set),” Cook said. “We were just in a funk. I was worried we wouldn’t get out of it.”

The play of the match may have come in the second set when Hannah Werth made a diving return of a ball inches from the ground before eventually spiking the ball for a kill, giving NU a 8-5 lead.

The Huskers never trailed in the set from there, eventually pulling it out 25-18.

“At the start of the second game, we just got a couple

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Martinez settles in with option Jeff Packer Daily Nebraskan

In the season opener of 2010, Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez constantly split the Western Kentucky defense, gutting their efforts for 127 yards rushing.

Several other teams suffered as the Huskers used two weapons to produce similar, or worse, results: Martinez’s legs and the zone-read option play.

This year, Martinez’s feet are still keeping the quarterback’s mobility, but it’s another option attack that is getting the job done as well. The Huskers are running the traditional and triple options under coordinator Tim Beck’s new offense and Martinez is settling in.

For the Corona, Calif. native, it’s an exercise in repetition. He hadn’t run the option very often before college.

“I think I’ve grown a lot just because every time we do an option, I get better and better at it,” Martinez said. “I think last game I think I ran it pretty well.

Every game I’ll keep getting better.”

Nebraska fans got familiar with the Huskers’ versatility on the option during the victory at Penn State.

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Taylor Martinez has kept opposing defense guessing with his option play this season.

The team’s third and final score featured a last-second Martinez pitch to running back Rex Burkhead inside the Nittany Lions’ 20-yard line. Executed like so many

end-over-end tosses in Nebraska lore, the pitch came as Martinez was brought to the ground and had fans talking immediately.

“We do that every day

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Lauren Cook grabbed a team-high 47 assists in her performance Wednesday night.

in practice,” Martinez said.

“So finally, I could get a pitch off when I’m actually

martinez:

Eight pounds might not seem like much.

It’s about as heavy as a modest stack of textbooks, a little more than that of the average newborn. A full load of laundry might weigh more.

But ask junior Tyler Koehn what eight pounds means to him, and he’ll tell you it makes a whole world of difference.

After acclimating himself with the 157 lb. weight class throughout his early career, the NU wrestler made the jump to 165 to fill in for sophomore Caleb Kolb when he suffered a minor injury early in the season.

With help from a nutritionist and a little extra work in the weight room, he gained the weight necessary to make the switch. But he couldn’t regain the valuable experience of facing off with the crop of wrestlers he’d become so familiar with in the preceding years.

“You’re always used to

wrestling good guys,” he said. “But it’s just different people with different skills.”

With a 2-2 individual record, Koehn is steadily making his presence known on the mat and in his weight class. At Saturday’s Wrestle for the Cure duals, the he picked up a decisive shutout victory over Brandonn Johnson from then 24thranked Kent State, pulling the Huskers within a point of the Golden Flashes in a match that yet-undefeated NU would eventually win.

Head coach Mark Manning is confident that Koehn can make a name for himself. “(Koehn) makes us stronger,” he said. “He can compete with anyone in the country at 174. He’s been in our lineup the last two years and he’s been through the grind of a couple of seasons.”

Koehn’s victory over Kent State, along with that of heavyweight Lane Tucker, propelled the previously

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