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costs of going green story by Sam Egan Nebraska Sustainability Roundtable opens energy p h o t o s b y C o u r t n e y C a i n conservation discussion among UNL students

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Jesse Starita, education associate for the Education Outreach Association at the Water for Food Institute, leads a round table discussion on campus food and water conservation at the third annual Nebraska Sustainability Roundtable.

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Vivian Nguyen, a senior environmental studies major, answers a question regarding dining hall food waste in a roundtable discussion centered on sustainability. The group discussed a variety of topics including dining halls, sporting events and water waste.

ind and solar power won’t be main energy sources for Nebraska any time soon.

At least until cheaper, better batteries are developed and dayto-day wind pattern predictions become more effective, said Jerry Hudgins, the chair of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln electrical engineering department.

“Energy storage is a big, big problem,” he said Tuesday night at the third-annual Nebraska Sustainability Roundtable, where he was one of several experts and students that discussed a variety of environmental issues.

Held by the UNL Environmental Sustainability Committee, the roundtable featured discussions led by experts in four areas: energy, food and water, campus sustainability and recycling and

solid waste. About 80 people attended the public meeting and had the chance to ask experts questions about environmental sustainability, as well as discuss their ideas and concerns.

At the energy discussion, the group covered topics such as the cost of solar power and ways to improve public transportation, but many of the questions focused on asking why there isn’t more green-energy usage in everyday life. Hudgins said there are numerous reasons. Primarily, the reasons are cost and competition.

Hudgins said there’s a push to develop green energy resources, but there are some challenges to overcome before they can be as practical as fossil fuels.

For example, powering cars with electricity in addition to

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UNL to compete in 2nd annual Corn Bowl blood drive nam tran dn The Corn Bowl Blood Drive Challenge is returning to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Innocents Society – in collaboration with the University of Iowa’s President’s Leadership Society and the Nebraska Community Blood Bank – is sponsoring the second annual challenge.

The blood drive will span two days: Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Mari’s Lounge in Sandoz Hall and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Harper Dining Hall.

Nebraska will again be competing with Iowa to see who will donate the most blood as part of the Blood Rivals competition.

Nebraska was the winner last year with 126 pints and Iowa collecting 44 pints, said Colby Argo,

But I think students should be excited for the competition, for the chance to show a sense of pride for winning last year. ” Colby Argo innocents society

keeper of traditions for the Innocents Society and a senior biol-

beat Iowa, which has already collected 211 units, Argo said.

The Innocents Society worked with the blood bank to organize the event. The blood bank was tasked with much of the advertising, such as flyers going into dorm mailboxes, hanging posters, table tents set up in the union and social media outreach. The

ogy and political science major.

The main goal of the event is to

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After debate last week over derogatory language use by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student government, which resulted in a senator using racial slurs, it’s unclear what action is being taken, if any.

Sen. Cameron Murphy, a graduate student in biochemistry and nutrition, cited a routine by comedian Chris Rock and made other comments about minority groups at the Nov. 13 Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senate meeting. The comments stemmed from a debate over a resolution that would encourage senators to not use derogatory language, which Murphy said was a restriction of free speech. The resolution passed with a vote of 16 senators for, 6 against and 4 abstaining from the vote.

President Eric Reznicek, a senior finance and marketing major, said ASUN is discussing the events that transpired with its administration, but said the status quo remains the same.

“We’re going through the administration and ASUN and working to understand the very technical outlay of our bylaws and our constitution and whether or not that was violated,” Reznicek said.

He would not say what parties were involved with discussions surrounding Sen. Murphy or if any action will be taken.

However, there are three possible ways in which an ASUN senator could lose their position, according to the ASUN Constitution and verified by ASUN executives.

The first option would be action by an individual student.

Any UNL student could make a case to the Student Court and propose that a senator be impeached. If the Student Court then ruled in favor, the senator would be impeached.

The second option would be a proposal by an ASUN senator.

A senator could propose the impeachment within the senate. A secret vote would occur requiring a two-thirds majority vote to put the option on the table. It would then go to the Student Court and if ruled in favor, the senator would be impeached.

Finally, an administrator could present a case to the Student Court and it would rule on the impeachment.

Reznicek said there’s a level of responsibility with free speech that can’t be ignored.

“I understood the argument for free speech that night,” Reznicek said. “But with that ability and with that honor and right of free speech comes a level of respect. When you ignore that respect, you put yourself in a situation of losing that right.”

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The Center for Great Plains Studies will host a seminar on the relationship between climate change and insects on Wednesday.

“Insects are not something most people think about when they consider climate change, but they have a huge impact on our ecosystems,” said Katie Nieland, publications specialist for the Center for Great Plains Studies.

Leon Higley, a professor of natural resources, will host his lecture titled “Climate Change and the Insects of the Great Plains” from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum.

“Insects are responding more quickly and differently (to climate change) than we expected,” Higley said, specifically in regard to population growth and associations with water. But that doesn’t mean climate change will make the skies of Nebraska “darken with the flight of millions of ravenous grasshoppers.”

Examining the influence of climate change on insects in the Great Plains isn’t a matter of predicting what will happen – it’s about explaining what is happening, he said.

Many insects affected by climate change are pollinators that have tremendous effects on food production, Nieland said.

Higley graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and he also graduated

On campus what: The Role of Allies Lunch Discussion by the LGBTQA Resource Center when: Noon where: Nebraska Union, Room 200

what: Amnesty International Movie Night - “Food, Inc.” when: 7:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union auditorium

what: “Climate Change and the Insects of the Great Plains” by Leon Higley where: Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. when: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

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The next lecture in the Paul A. Olson seminar series will be about insects of the Great Plains and their relation to climate change. from Iowa State University with a master’s degree in entomology and a Ph.D. in entomology and crop physiology. His research focuses on forensic entomology, plant-insect interaction, insect conservation and

pest management in relation to environmental impacts.

Higley is one of the few researchers in the world working on the study and conservation of the Salt Creek tiger beetle. The

tiger beetle is one of the most endangered insect species in North America and only verified scientifically to have a breeding population in Lancaster county.

The seminar is free and open

to the public and will also be live streamed online at connect.unl. edu/gpc-olson. The video will be posted on the Center for Great Plains Studies website at www.unl. edu/plains after the seminar.

This seminar is the first of the Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies. Upcoming Olson seminars include “Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 and the Swan Gondola” with UNL English professor Tim Schaffert, , on Jan. 15, “A Prophet without Honor?

Malthus on the Great Plains,” which is a lecture on population change in the Great Plains with Derek Hoff, a Kansas State University economic historian, on Feb. 26. And a March 19 lecture

by Miguel Carranza, a professor of sociology and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Businessweek ranks part-time MBA No. 18 in nation Maggy Lehmicke DN Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Business Administration’s part-time MBA program No. 2 in the Big Ten Conference.

The weekly business magazine released its 2013 business school rankings on Nov. 7. The rankings are based on a survey of more than 10,000 recent graduates in part-time and executive MBA programs at 138 business schools, measuring factors such as GMAT

scores, completion rates and postMBA outcomes. UNL’s part-time MBA program placed No. 18 out of 78 programs ranked.

UNL’s part-time MBA program has been around since about 1970, according to Gordon Karels, CBA’s associate dean. He said focusing faculty and motivating students has played a key role in the growth of the program.

“We’ve been really successful in our program with student satisfaction,” he said.

The program attracts a wide variety of students, Karels said.

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“Our part-time program is taught by the same faculty who teach in everything else we do. That really does set us apart.”

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CBA Dean Donde Plowman said the flexibility of the program has helped attract working students.

aimed at students from various majors who want an intense program that allows them to refocus, Karels said. He said it would require a commitment of one extra year and students could be admitted directly from undergraduate programs.

Plowman said UNL’s program was the only MBA program in Nebraska to be ranked.

“The faculty is extremely proud of the ranking,” Karels said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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A student waits idly as her blood is drawn during the first annual Corn Bowl Blood Drive Challenge against the University of Iowa in Mari’s Lounge of the Sandoz Residence Hall.

Innocents also advertised by contacting Greek chapters to get the word out..

“The Innocents Society has created a Facebook event and NCBB has tweeted about it as well. Social media has been a big element of promotion this year,” wrote Ashlee Deeds, the donor recruitment representative at the Nebraska Community Blood Bank, in an email.

The hashtag for the event is #ISAVELIVES, and T-shirts will be given to the first 150 donors to make an appointment.

To donate, students must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 115 pounds and be in good health (no cold or flu-like symptoms for 3 days). Students must eat a good meal before donating and stay hydrated. Students must remember to bring their photo ID with them when donating.

Donation appointments can be made at www.ncbb.org or call (402) 486-9414. But Argo said there will be enough beds to support any students who decide to go at the spur of the moment or don’t want to make an appointment.

“Besides being a blood drive there are obviously a number of students who want to give blood,” Argo said. “But I think students should be excited for the competition, for the chance to show

“You can do it either online, on campus or some of each,” Plowman said.

Some schools maintain high standards in their full-time programs, but loosen their standards for part-time programs, Plowman said. UNL’s part-time program doesn’t rely on lecturers like some other programs do, she said.

“Our part-time program is taught by the same faculty who teach in everything else we do.

That really does set us apart,” Plowman said.

CBA is looking into launching a full-time, accelerated MBA program in the near future, Karels said. The program would be

corn bowl blood drive challenge when: Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. where: Mari’s Lounge in Abel Hall on Wednesday, Harper Dining Hall on Thursday more information: Appointments can be made at www.ncbb.org or call (402) 486-9414. students must: • be at least 17 years old • weigh at least 115 pounds • have no cold or flu-like symptoms for 3 days

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The Residence Hall Association meeting was filled with much discussion Tuesday, as students debated whether to allocate funds to The Big Event, a mobile projector for Neihardt Hall and to the Nebraska Aviation Organization.

RHA debated for 30 minutes over whether to allocate funds to the Nebraska Aviation Organization.

After an amendment to the amendment, the allocation of $100 was approved to the Nebraska Aviation Organization.

The Nebraska Aviation Organization is a new organization on campus that hopes to spread awareness and provide resources for students interested in aviation, whether it’s career related or just for fun, said Justin Kyser, a junior business administration major and the club’s founder and president.

NAO has two meetings a month. One is educational where they have fly instructors come talk or discussions about what’s

going on in the aviation world, and the other is a get together where they do something for fun.

They plan to do a fly over for the Nebraska vs. Iowa Football game.

Where the funds will go is up to the discretion of NAO on whether to spend it on advertising for the fly over, promoting the organization or assistance in reaching out to other sources of funding.

There was hesitance whether or not funds should be approved because of other RSO’s asking for money in the future.

“We have the ability to pick and choose whether or not we think an organization is going to be successful. We can already see how much dedication there is in this, so I don’t think we need to be afraid,” said Seamus Mulcahy, freshman architecture and HSS vice president. “I actually think we should encourage this, especially when it’s a small amount of money, we’re already giving out thousands of dollars to other organizations just because they’re already here.”

RHA also allocated $1,000 to the ninth annual Big Event,

which will be held April 5, 2014.

The Big Event is a one-day service project across Lincoln where volunteers work with private residences, churches, libraries or the parks and recreation department.

Various tasks in past years have included cleaning libraries, landscaping and helping an elderly woman clean her basement.

“This is actually a really big event that touches peoples lives,” Ethan Schwarten, RHA events committee chair and sophomore biology major, said. “It gets students more involved and forms connections with other groups. I plan on doing it again this year.”

The Big Event plans to use funds for advertising, updating tools, printing – such as liability forms, postage and T-shirts.

The T-shirts will account for a large part of the funds because students aren’t charged for them – they’re an incentive, the Big Event committee said.

In the past, the Big Event has had about 200 volunteers and committee members hope to get 300 volunteers this year. This will be achieved by increasing social media, for instance. In the

past, the athletic department donated Adidas gear, and students who registered for the event and shared a status would be put into a drawing. Booths will also be set up in residence halls and at the Nebraska Union where students can sign up, they said.

RHA also allocated $200 to Neihardt Hall for a new projector. Half of the money will go to the projector and half will go to accessories, such as a cart to make it mobile.

The new projector will provide recreational entertainment such as a video game tournament and movie channels, and it can also be used for future RHA events. The current projector rarely works and is bolted down, said Taylor Bosch, freshman mechanical engineer and RHA speaker of the senate.

“I know since its bolted in the ceiling you can’t use it in other parts of the building, but with this new one it could travel to other floors for activities and the honors program could possibly use it,” Schwarten said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Neihardt Hall and others were not designed to have rooftop gardens, so they cannot support their weight, he said.

There’s one rooftop garden on campus, Starita said, at the Whittier Building on Vine Street.

This’s because the building was recently renovated, and he said students could expect to see more rooftop green spaces showing up around Lincoln in the future.

Attendees at the food and water discussion also talked about food waste on campus, and what students can do to reduce it. UNL throws away 136,000 pounds of food every year, Starita said.

Some solutions brought up were composting, portion control and changing the sizes of

plates in the dining halls.

Alyssa Cody, an advertising and public relations and Spanish major, enjoyed the discussion and learned some new things, she said.

“I think it’s a really cool event because it’s not just limited to environmental studies majors,” Cody said.

Prabhakar Shrestha, who lead the recycling discussion, said the main goal of the roundtable was to empower students to get involved.

“If there’s one thing you guys remember when you leave here today, it’s that you can make a difference,” Shrestha said. “And we’re here to help you.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

sustainability: from 1 pert and he was happy to listen gasoline is a way to increase to students’ ideas. fuel efficiency. But the batterThe conversation ies that supply touched on many that electricGasoline’s topics, but many stuity are bulky, dents joined in when expensive and energy rooftop gardens far from comcame up. One stupletely replac- density is about dent wanted to know, ing gasoline, 100 times greater with so many flatHudgins said. roofed buildings on “Gasoline’s than the best campus, why aren’t energy density batteries.” there more rooftop is about 100 gardens? times greater jerry hudgins There would be than the best engineering department chair more if there could batteries,” he be, said Matan Gill, said. sustainability coorAt the food dinator for UNL Facilities and and water discussion, Jesse StarManagement and leader of the ita, education outreach associate campus sustainability discusat the Daugherty Water for Food sion. However, dormitories like Institute, was the in-house ex-

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Take time out of busy schedules to donate blood Yet again, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be hosting the annual Blood Rivals drive against Iowa. This year ’s Corn Bowl Blood Drive Challenge will be in Sandoz Hall’s Mari’s Lounge on Wednesday and in Harper Dining Hall on Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days.

The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board acknowledges that the university and other sponsors seem to constantly be asking students to donate their time and blood for various causes. It may be inconvenient to find time to give with busy class and work schedules. Heading to one of these locations may seem out of the way. There may be too many questions to answer and too many past travels to explain.

But this is a continuous need and a considerable contribution to the community.

There will always be calls for aid. In recent days, you may have noticed promotions on Facebook and other websites to donate to the American Red Cross to aid relief in the Philippines. After the unknowable typhoon destruction, that community is especially in need of thought and care. And even without these world events, people in our community regularly need blood transfusions and other procedures.

These may seem like grand issues beyond student control. And you have excuses. Finals are coming up. You can’t drop everything to volunteer in another country. Your cupboards are empty and you need to buy groceries before you donate large sums. But the drive is important.

On a lighter note, it’s a chance to beat Iowa in a friendly neighbor competition. It’s a chance to show school spirit and earn bragging rights. Most importantly, it’s a chance to make a meaningful contribution before the chaos of Thanksgiving and the end of the semester.

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skinny caramel macchiato with one pump toffee nut, one pump vanilla, please.”

“I’ll have a grande coffee, make it black.”

“Uh, can I just have a double shot of espresso? I don’t have time for a nap.”

As a barista and avid coffee drinker, all of these orders come out of my mouth one too many times a week. Any coffee addict knows how it is. quickly, sometimes as soon as 12 to 24 hours afYou wake up hoping that there is still cofter your last intake. This is why that first cup in fee left in the pot. If there isn’t, you’ll take the the morning is crucial for some, because it wards grade deduction for being late to class. There off the soon-to-be withdrawal effects. Although comes point in your life when you move from it’s unlikely, you can overdose from taking in too coffee drinks that taste like chocolate milk much caffeine. To kill you, it would take about an laced with Ritalin to hardcore excess of 5 grams of caffeine. The black coffee that screams you cup of coffee has about 60Most people average won’t be sleeping tonight.

100 mg of caffeine, so death is very You’re sitting in the library are unaware unlikely. when 2 p.m. rolls around and Most people are unaware that the temptation to nap takes that caffeine is caffeine is a drug. In fact, caffeine precedence over studying. is the world’s most widely used Do you dare leave your prime a drug. In fact, psychoactive substance because it spot at the library with the caffeine is the works and works quickly. Unlike chance someone will take it? many other drugs, it’s used as a Or do you put your trust in world’s most productivity tool. Additionally, your fellow students not to widely used the caffeine in coffee can create a steal your things while you sense of heightened mental quickpsychoactive get a cup of joe? ness. The brain is responsible for For some, coffee is the clos- substance this result. We all have something est thing to an addiction in called the “blood-brain barrier.” because it works their lives. In no way am I inThe blood-brain barrier prevents tending to downgrade the se- and works bacteria, viruses and most drugs riousness of actual addictions, from entering the brain – except but the addiction to coffee is quickly.” for caffeine. “Once inside the nerrapidly increasing. Just like vous system, caffeine is believed most addictions, this one comes with its own to plug up the receptors of adenosine, a neurounique withdrawal and overdose symptoms. modulator that acts like a brake on nerve cells Suddenly you stopped your morning intake of firing their messages across synapses.” With coffee and now you’re feeling sleepy, have con- those receptors blocked, the brain’s own stimstant headaches, are irritable and have a lack of ulants, dopamine and glutamate, can do their concentration. work more freely. More simply put by Stephen You are most likely suffering from caffeine R. Braun, “Caffeine’s power is like putting a withdrawal. Unlike other stimulants, you can block of wood under one of the brain’s primastart to feel the effects of this withdrawal fairly ry brake pedals.”

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Since we know it’s an actual drug, what makes us come back for more? Just a shot in the darkness of my coffee mug, caffeine most likely has a thing or two to do with it. But there are many more things to love about coffee. The smell. The habitual preparation. The taste. The jolt of energy in the morning. When your barista has mastered the skill of “latte art.” The perfect balance between coffee and creamer.

I have fallen under all of these spells.

“Whatever, coffee is good for you” is what I use to justify my mild addiction. My favorite relationship I have right now is between myself and my coffee mug. For most, the benefits of coffee greatly overpower the drawbacks.

Not just the benefits as to why you love it so much, but benefits it has on your body.

Individuals with heart diseases or diabetes should grab a cup of coffee, because according to a large 2012 study, coffee will extend your life expectancy. Coffee has also been shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 20 percent in men who consume at least six or more cups a day. And women, good news! If you’re drinking four cups or more a day, your risk of getting endometrial cancer is reduced by 25 percent. Coffee can also make you less-stressed from lack of sleep, sharper and overall happier with life. It has been shown that the more coffee you drink, the less likely you are to suffer from depression. In both Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, depression is a common symptom, but coffee can have protective effects against this.

So to all you coffee drinkers, keep doin’ your thang - drip, espresso, Keurig, French Press or however you like it. Keep on standing in line at your favorite coffee shop hoping one day the barista will get your order right and remember your name. It’s been around for centuries, so why stop now?

Claire Wieger is a sophomore business and advertising/public relations major. Follower her on Twitter @Clurko_Bangz. Contact her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Censorship cuts off discussions

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hild-proofing children’s literature is like baking sugar-free sugar cookies. Sure, it might look and feel like the same thing, but once you take a bite, you never want to eat them again.

And do we really want to dissuade children from reading? No, no we don’t.

What many people – parents in particular – fail to recognize are the negative connotations associated with altering content in literature.

There was recently a column in The New York Times where a mother explained her approach to reading the “Harry Potter” series to her 5-year-old child. She discussed how she would alter some of what happened in the books to fit with the morals she was teaching him.

For example, she added a snippet to the first book, making Harry have to write a paper before being given the spot on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Because she had been teaching her son that you don’t get rewarded for bad behavior, she didn’t want him thinking that Harry’s rule-breaking was something to be glorified.

Albeit this is a minor example of contentbending, it still affects the kids who are being read to. Not only because it’s a falsified piece of the story, but because you’re taking away a key opportunity to have a discussion with your children.

I started reading “Harry Potter” when I was 8 years old. It took some begging, but after a couple of artistically crafted arguments, my mother caved in and let me read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ’s Stone.” However, there was a catch. My mother was aware that a child died later on in the series, and so before I could start reading, I had to wait for her to finish the books. And what happened afterwards was, forgive the pun, magical.

We talked about the books. Not just about the plot, not just summarizing the book, but we had in-depth discussions about what was going on. My mother was put in a similar situation to the columnist: Harry doesn’t always make good decisions. The characters in the series don’t always say the nicest of things, and

like, and thrive off of, attention. Having these discussions with my mother about what was going on in “Harry Potter” was a way for me to know that she was listening. It was a way to know that my opinions mattered, and we bonded because of that.

She’d do this with children’s movies too.

If I had a nickel for each time my momma paused “Toy Story” and talked about Woody’s life decisions, I’d have enough nickels to get Andy through college. Talking to her about there are dark situations that take place. But what was going on in the books and movies I watched made me passionate about literature my momma didn’t decide to ignore the bad things. She cast her motherly Lumos charm on and cinema. I like questioning character ’s motives, and it’s reflected by my majors, English them instead.

When the scene where Harry disobeyed and theater.

There comes a time when parents need to Madam Hooch’s instructions came up, and he question if their child is too started flying on the broom, my young to read a book or watch mother asked me if what Harry Talking to a movie. There’s a reason why did was a good thing or not, and books have reading levels. her about why. And we talked about it. I Sometimes it’s best to just told her it was a bad thing, but what was going shelve those stories for anothhe was doing it to help his friend, er time until your children can Neville, so it was sort of brave on in the books fully appreciate certain stories on Harry’s part. This brought up and movies I with you. a variety of other scenarios, like However, parents determining how to make deci- watched made shouldn’t be afraid of chalsions based on consequences and lenging books. If my mother whether certain choices are worth me passionate had sugar-coated each tiny it in the end. As for language, about literature happenstance that questioned my mother decided to keep in moral judgment, then the the “bloody hells” and “damns.” and cinema. I books wouldn’t have been My mother told me that the lan- like questioning interesting. There’d be no guage wasn’t favorable for my tension. And if those are the 8-year-old tongue, and I believed character’s only kind of stories your parher. I had to if I wanted to avoid motives...” ents tell you, why would you having her transfigure herself want to read other things? into a Howler. But I was also old enough to distinguish appropriate and inap- No one likes reading about only happy endings. People like dynamic characters and story propriate language. lines, and depriving them will leave them sour Those moments where we read and talked together were some of the happiest moments about reading. Don’t take away the chance for of my childhood. When you’re a kid, parents kids to learn and to be passionate about reading. tend to discredit or shove off quite a bit of the Emily Kuklinski is a sophomore things you say. Who can blame them? More English and theater major. You can than half of the stuff I said when I was little reach her at opinion@ was nonsensical gibberish about my love of dailynebraskan.com “Free Willie” and “Teletubbies.” But children

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pass popcorn Just Pop’d offers popcorn flavors inspired by popular movies story by Amanda Stoffel | photos by Morgan Spiehs

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ith cardboard cutouts of Marilyn Monroe and Austin Powers, walking into Just Pop’d is a movie lover’s dream.

Movie posters ranging from “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” to the classic “The Wizard of Oz” plaster the walls of the small, but homey, store on the south side of Lincoln. Located in the Clock Tower Shopping Center, Just Pop’d welcomes customers with the atmosphere of a small-town soda shop. Except instead of rows of candy and soda, Just Pop’d offers visitors homebaked goods, and like the name suggests, freshly-made gourmet popcorn.

Started in 2009 by Annette Bockman, Just Pop’d calls Papillion home. But within four years, the franchise has grown, boasting six stores in four different Nebraska cities, with two in Lincoln.

Scott Sims, owner of the 70th and A streets location and the first-licensed location off of the original store, opened up his Just Pop’d a little more than a year ago.

He hasn’t always been a popcorn connoisseur, however.

Instead, Sims would have been more likely to build a store than to own one.

“I was in construction for 30 years and we decided to make a change and invest in this,” he said.

Sims said that change came from wanting a change of pace.

“You beat your body up working hard outside in the winter months and the summer months,” he said. “So I decided, you know, to give something else a try.”

While all of the stores in the Just Pop’d family are similar to one another, Sims wanted to add some variety to his location. Along with the variety of gourmet popcorn, Sims’ location also offers smoothies, ice cream and cappuccinos, allowing Sims to stay busy even in the summer months.

But the staple of any store location is, of course, the popcorn. With the classic white popcorn being made daily, customers know that they are going to be getting the best quality of popcorn.

So then what happens with all of that leftover popcorn? Sims said their white popcorn never sits on a shelf for more than 24 hours.

“That’s the whole premise behind Just Pop’d,” Sims said. “Any white that’s left tomorrow morning we pull out and start making popcorn balls with it.”

And even the popcorn balls are unique. Rather than being made with the traditional corn syrup, Just Pop’d opts for a softer and sweeter alternative: marshmallows.

They say this allows for even more sweetness and for those enjoying the treat to not worry about chipping a tooth.

Along with the classic flavors like white, caramel and cheese, the store offers nearly any combination of popcorn imaginable — including custom orders.

“We literally have 50 flavors on the shelf,” Sims said.

“Every day you get somebody that comes in and wants a different flavor or a different combination.”

Most of the specialty flavors are based off of movies.

Anything from “E.T,” a combination of apple-flavored popcorn with peanut butter drizzle and Reese’s Pieces, to “Monsters, Inc.,” a blue raspberry popcorn (which Sims warns will, in fact, dye your tongue blue) mixed with Skittles. Just Pop’d brings a festive mood to any movieviewing experience.

The flavors and combinations are mainly determined

by Bockman at the head store, but Sims has introduced some custom combinations that are only at his store. More recently, Sims’ combinations are more patriotic.

“We have one that we did for veterans, because I’m a veteran, called ‘Desert Storm,’” he said. “We had a lot of people that came into our store who were all from Desert Storm, and they wanted something that had nuts in it. So we have five pounds of glazed nuts that go into the mix. That one’s a really yummy one.”

Dave Sims prepares a fresh batch of popcorn at the Just Pop’d location at 70 and A streets on Friday. Just Pop’d serves a variety of snacks and types of popcorn.

A trash can designed to hold about 30 gallons of trash is instead filled with popcorn balls costing less than a dollar each at Just Pop’d.

Customers shop at the Just Pop’d location at 70 and A streets, which features several movie posters and other pieces of film merchandise. The store has a variety of popcorns, many of the kinds are named after movies.

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Jazz Combos prepare for yearly performance Cassie Kernick DN Whether it be through the fictional stylings of Duke Silver or the soul-moving sounds of Louis Armstrong, there’s just something about jazz.

Aaron Stroessner, a doctoral of musical arts candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, describes the genre as, “freedom, strength, vulnerability, beauty and melancholy.” These five words are what performers in UNL Jazz Combos hope to portray at their concert on Nov. 20.

The ensembles will put on a free performance at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Westbrook Recital Hall.

The event will feature both graduate and undergraduate students involved in the Glenn Korff School of Music jazz studies program. For those not as musically literate, Russell Zimmer, a first-year doctoral of musical arts student, describes how UNL Jazz Combos work.

“Students sign up just like any other class, however, students must audition into combos,” Zimmer said. “The auditions are primarily to put students at like-skill levels in the same group. This semester, with so many more interested students, there are a total of six groups ranging from three to eight members.”

Of these six groups, two consist completely of graduate students. One is a jazz quintet and another is a “jazztet.” The quintet features a trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass and drums, and a “jazztet” has those five instruments along with trombone and guitar players. In the jazztet, the graduate students typically perform more student-written pieces.

UNL does not offer a doctoral

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Russell Zimmer practices his trumpet during a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jazz Combos practice Tuesday evening in Westbrook Hall. Zimmer and others are members of an ensemble consisting of both undergraduate and graduate students that perform periodically on campus. degree in jazz but does offer undergraduate and master ’s degrees in the field. Those who love music but are not jazz majors are still welcome to audition and play in a combo.

For some it’s not a love of jazz that caused them to get involved with these groups but, instead, an intense passion for music in general.

“I don’t love jazz. I do like music though,” said Chris Varga, a doctor of musical arts in compo-

sition. “I started music early and stuck with it. This is how I feel I can make a positive contribution to the world.”

While Varga said he doesn’t to love jazz, he spends a considerable amount time around the music, coaching and playing in one undergraduate combo and playing in two graduate combos. He said the difference between the combos is largely in what kind of music they play.

“Graduate combos play a mix

of original compositions and arrangements done by members of the group,” Varga said. “Undergraduate combos typically play tunes selected by their coach, but students are encouraged to suggest repertoire as well.”

In preparation for performances the undergraduate combos meet once a week for one hour, and the graduate combos meet twice a week for one hour.

Even though practicing can sometimes be dread-worthy, practices

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Max Stehr practices his upright bass Tuesday night in Westbrook Hall. Stehr and other graduate students are a part of the UNL Jazz Combos ensembles that perform through the Glenn Korff School of Music. are generally relaxed, Stroessner said.

“We largely approach (practice) like a gig situation, we show

up and play things we never worked on previously,” he said.

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Free info session Film festival tackles water pollution answers renting questions Mac Wall DN

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Activism is hard work.

There are often early mornings, long hours and the need for an undying desire to fix a problem few others will.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival may be able to help with that last part.

The festival is coming to Lincoln as a cooperative effort between Threads Footloose & Fancy and the Nebraska-based Groundwater Foundation. Moviegoers can see six films chosen to highlight the effects of water pollution and the Also playing will be stories of ways it can be stopped. advocacy, including the efforts of Attendees will also be supporta group of California children to ing the Groundwater Foundation, keep state parks open, documented which works to recognize ecoin “How the Kids Saved the Parks.” friendly practices and keep water All of the films shown will be clean and sustainable. The screentied back to Groundwater’s fight ing will be taking place today at the for preservation. Juxtaposing the Mary Riepma Ross harsh realities of Center from 6:30 pollution and neWe try to get glect with examples p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are $10 and activism will give out into the of can be purchased a rough outline of from Threads, community. This is how anyone interthe Groundwater ested in the cause Foundation or at the biggest thing could help. the door. we’ve done.”

Groundwater These six short is an advocacy oriHaleigh riggle films cover a vaented non-profit festival organizer riety of themes organization conshowcasing water cerned with the repollution, presersponsible use of wavation and its impact. The festival’s ter sources and their preservation. itinerary includes several docuThe group works out of Lincoln, mentaries, one being “A Changing but supports Groundwater GuardDelta,” which documents the efians, trained volunteers who work fects of the Colorado River Delta’s as watchdogs and educate others drought on the local population.

if you go

For students that are considering a move off of campus next year, UNL is offering a free information session on the costs of renting.

The session, called “Are You Ready to Rent?” is being hosted by the Academic Success Program and will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. in Room 110 of Love Library South today. Shelley Stall from Student Legal Services and Erin Wirth from Student Money Management are the featured presenters. Along with information and handouts, the speakers will present the audience with different scenarios and questions.

The purpose of the event is to encourage students to consider every aspect of moving into an off-campus house or apartment, academic success coach Cheryl Pflueger said. The presentation aims to make students more aware of the financial and legal aspects of signing a lease.

“Students should consider attending to become an informed consumer of all the different aspects that should go into the decision to rent before signing a lease agreement,” Pflueger said.

Stall is planning on bringing examples of legal documents, such as a lease and roommate contract, for students to see. Along with the docu-

what: “Are You Ready to Rent?” when: Wednesday, 3-3:50 p.m. where: Room 110 Love Library South how much: Free

ments, Stall brings with her an expertise in all of the legal aspects of renting.

“Basically, we’re trying to address any question that students might have, whether they’re first-time renters or looking to rent again,” Stall said.

Topics that include roommates, pets, parking spaces and laundry facilities will be addressed. Additionally, the presenters will bring up the issue of eviction, and how to avoid it or deal with it.

“We’re going to talk about the nuts-and-bolts things of living off campus,” Stall said. “We want you to find out what is important to you.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

The Wild And Scenic Film Festival when: Wednesday, 6:308 p.m. where: The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center how much:

$10

Courtesy photo on eco-friendly practices. These people go into different communities, Nebraska and otherwise, and work independently in the name of Groundwater. Groundwater Guardians do everything from ecological education to spearheading green initiatives across the nation.

One of those initiatives is Groundwater’s Green Site program. This program works to recognize areas that show exceptional commitment to the preservation of groundwater. These sites are parks, golf courses, forests and any other green areas that can prove their desire to keep the world and its water pollution-free. This group is an up-and-coming non-profit, and by adding their name to this festival, they hope to garner the attention of the community and UNL’s student population.

Groundwater’s Heather Voorman, who helped to team up with Threads, said she hopes the festival will give moviegoers the boost

they need to become involved in preservation and advocacy.

Voorman recalls her inspiration to work for Groundwater.

“I’ve lived on the Missouri River my entire life,” Voorman said.

“I just want to do something I’m proud of.”

One of the more recent additions to the cause is Threads and their lead merchandiser Haleigh Riggle, who is organizing the festival. She says Wild & Scenic caught the attention of Threads, who then sought to coordinate with Groundwater to hold the screening.

Threads is a small clothing outlet in Lincoln. But despite its size, it tends to be fairly involved with the community, sponsoring charity events and working alongside non-profits.

“We try to get out into the community quite a bit,” said Riggle.

“But this is the biggest scale thing we’ve done.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Cinematography helps make ‘12 years’ vince moran

Vince Moran DN Since its release, Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” has become renowned for its unforgiving depiction of American slavery, and has already been dauntingly labeled “a film everyone needs to see.”

This can be proved by typing the film’s title along with this phrase into Google, which brings up a slew of popular news sites including CNN, The Huffington Post and The Washington Post.

While I agree that this is a film that deserves as large an audience as possible, I believe that statements like this force one to look at “12 Years a Slave” merely as a film about slavery, and not as a cinematic work of art.

This is not to say that its subject matter, a topic cinema has avoided for far too long, doesn’t make it an important film, because it is imperative. It is not that the film simply takes on this ugly time in American history seriously. In short, it’s not what the film is about, but how Steve McQueen and company recreate this period of history, how they communicate what it is about, that makes it “a film everyone needs to see.”

This distinction is important, because the reason other films about black history, like Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” “Lincoln,” “The Help” and “Amistad” fail to be deemed “mandatory” viewing is not because their subject matter is less important, but

because they are not nearly as masterfully crafted as McQueen’s film.

Every shot in a McQueen film looks impeccably thought-out and crafted. He is one of the few modern directors who uses lighting and color in an intentional way, making them as essential to conveying his message as the writing and acting.

His shot composition is also incredibly detailed. He values the long shot, which is particularly effective for displaying violence. Instead of quickly cutting after each blow is struck using Bourne-like editing, McQueen’s cold camera movement captures the action, forcing the audience to witness each horrific act without giving them the satisfaction of not seeing something.

This artistic practice is almost completely absent from current cinema. Hollywood is afraid an audience will get bored if they hold a shot too long, and therefore uses numerous shots to depict scenes where one would have perfectly sufficed.

McQueen’s rejection of this practice is explicitly seen in an unforgettable scene where the main character Solomon (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is dangling from a tree by a noose, barely supporting himself only by the toes of his feet. Many directors would have displayed this perturbing shot momentarily before quickly moving on, believing they had given the audience enough time to process what happened without making them dwell on it. McQueen, on the other hand, lingers on this shot in deep focus for what unbearably feels like several minutes.

Holding this shot does several things. First, it establishes without words how normal a sight like this was in this world. Because of the deep-focus shot, the other slaves can be seen moving around the plantation doing their everyday activities. No one looks twice at Solomon, possibly because they

are scared of what would happen to them, but also because this is an everyday occurrence.

Secondly, it shows that the audience does not actually get the gist of the scene when the period of time Solomon’s helpless, worn-out body hangs from the overbearing tree is merely alluded to. Instead of participating in witnessing this appalling act and being forced to contemplate it for an extended period of time, the audience is let off the hook and asked to focus on the scene that follows it.

McQueen wants the audience to see the physicality of scenes like this, to take in the physical pain and humiliation Solomon is going through. By establishing this, the audience can come to some understanding of Solomon’s mental and emotional state without having the situation rhetorically spelled out for them.

There are several other scenes McQueen incorporates that could be described as similarly experimental.

These scenes are not vital to the plot of the film, but oftentimes stand out in one’s memory more than plotdriven ones because they are communicating something ambiguous, provoking and intellectual.

One such scene occurs after one of Solomon’s rescue attempts has been extinguished. The camera meticulously captures each twitch and expression, no matter how small, displayed on Solomon’s face as he searchingly, yet blankly, and almost unbelievably, looks at his surroundings, sometimes appearing to look directly at the audience. Scenes like this can be read differently by each individual that sees something worthwhile in the subtle and moving poetry of the shot, yet another aesthetic choice Hollywood avoids like the plague.

The final, and perhaps most obvious, example of McQueen’s unprecedented talent behind the

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JAM Lifehouse “Hanging by a Moment” Jennifer Rooney DN Have you ever thought of living in the moment and not worrying about the future? What if it was because of someone you’ve met and can’t ever think of leaving? What if you had to let go of everything for them?

This is the idea explored in the song “Hanging by a Moment,” by Lifehouse. Found on the album “No Name Face,” this song is my jam. It explains to live in the moment with that special someone, because that will make you happy.

Nobody knows what they’re getting into when they do this, but what’s the point? You can change your future just by living in the moment with nothing to think of and nothing to worry about.

The song starts off with “Desperate for changing/Starving for truth/I’m closer to where I started/I’m chasing after you.” This reaches people’s emotions right away because it grabs the people that would like to change who they are but don’t know how, or the people who are still trying to find themselves. And a certain person you can find can do all of this for you.

“Hanging by a Moment” is off of Lifehouse’s debut album released in late 2000 and was the first single released off the album. It was written by lead singer Jason Wade in five minutes, and it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1995, Wade moved to Los Angeles and met bassist Sergio Andrade. Together with drummer Jon Palmer they formed a band called Blyss. Following the addition of Aaron Lord and Collin Hayden, and a deal with Dreamworks Records,

camera takes place when the barbaric and malicious plantation owner Edwin Epps breaks down on his slave/lover Patsey and brutally and ruthlessly whips her nearly to death. While first-time viewers of the film may not realize this because they are so disturbed by the content of the scene, McQueen shoots this long sequence entirely in only one shot, flawlessly moving the camera back and forth and around the action, expertly choreographing a demented and despicable dance of human suffering.

The staggering amount of things that have to go right for a scene like this to succeed in one take is incredible to think about. The actors are all concurrently putting forth impossibly emotional performances that they have to maintain not only throughout this minutes-long scene but also through the multiple takes it would take until McQueen felt he got what he wanted.

McQueen and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt made the interesting decision to place excruciating scenes like this in a particular context and environment. They don’t film the South to be some inherently evil place, like Nazi Germany or Communist Russia are typically depicted, but instead create an even more troubling atmosphere by focusing on the beauty of the surrounding landscapes of the plantations, making one ask, “How could all this happen in such a beautiful place?”

For these reasons and many more, “12 Years a Slave” is “a film everyone needs to see.” It is important because of its content, but could never be as essential or unforgettable if it didn’t deliver its content in such an unsympathetic and artistic way.

Vince Moran lives for the long shots. Contact him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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the band changed its name to Lifehouse.

“Hanging by a Moment” has a personal meaning for me, because I always look to the future for things and never realize that doesn’t make me happy. The emotional vocals describe a bigger meaning and show that this is something big that everyone needs to realize in life. Make yourself happy the way you want to. Sometimes it’s good to look to the future, but not always, especially when you have that one person that makes you happy in this one moment. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

The formal show this week is the only one this semester. The spring of 2014, however, will see two separate performances, one for graduate and one for undergraduate students. While the show tonight does not have a specific theme, Varga said it will be entertaining.

“There is a requirement that everyone has to improvise, this is one element that separates ‘jazz’ from other styles,” Varga said.

Despite the single concert this semester, all combos do have other opportunities to perform. On Tuesdays at the Single Barrel from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., different combos trade off playing. There are also numerous recitals each semester that students are able to participate in.

This experience has led John Kosch, a sophomore music education major, to consider pursuing a future in jazz.

“I am highly considering pursuing graduate school education in jazz studies,” Kosch said. “I think it would be very cool to direct and/ or write music for successful jazz ensembles in the future.”

While undergraduate students like Kosch don’t have the opportunity to compete, graduate students have chances to do so on a national level.

“In February this year, we played at the Elmhurst Jazz Festival and received multiple honors for both ensemble and individual performances.” Varga said.

For Zimmer the allure of UNL’s jazz combos is not just his love for jazz, it is the deeper societal significance he sees that makes his devotion stronger.

“The more I got into the music the more I realized its importance to American culture,” Zimmer said.

“Jazz is one of our only pure American art forms, coming from the struggles of freed African-American slaves adapting western life.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Deeply dark Joker character helps drive graphic novel Miles Rothlisberger DN No villain can stir such strong senses of admiration and revulsion as potently as the Joker.

His maniacal escapades and psychological bouts with The Batman and others within Gotham City’s decrepit streets spawned decades upon decades of comic books, television shows, movies and video games.

As strange as it may seem, however, the Joker somehow elevates himself to an entire new level of macabre zaniness and animosity above his other portrayals in the graphic novel “The Joker: Death of the Family.”

From the moment one opens the novel and gazes at the first page, the tone channels bleakness. The strong colors, from the cloud-infested sky to the textures behind every character, possess a weight that gives each panel a distinctly dark tone. The imagery itself shows distinct detail and provides grit to the narrative as well.

Every character exhibits realistic facial expressions, and the art design harkens to traditional styles of The Batman and other heroes without becoming too cheesy.

Finally, the Joker, arguably the most important character to nail down visually as well as textually, manages to appear unique and even creepier than usual. His simple work shirt, stitched with a “Joe” name tag, as part of the Joker’s devotion to subtle humor, and tool belt almost exude a maintenance man serial-killer vibe. Of course, his face holds the most creepiness to disturb readers, with wires and straps pulling back the piece of separate flesh onto the otherwise skinless smile.

This gruesome physical predicament that the Joker endures is where the previous comics left off. After requesting that his face be sliced off as part of a “rebirth,” the Joker disappeared for quite some time, leaving The Batman and his fellow crimefighters to wait for his inevitable return as they pummeled the rising movement of Joker-imitators.

With his return, however, the Clown Prince reveals his grizzly transformation into a true monster.

Now, with a newfound spring in his step and glee for personal torture and pain, he hopes to transform The Batman as well by targeting not just Gotham City but everyone Batman holds dear.

For a tale that focuses more on character development than action, the story holds up exceptionally well, with each character in each issue within the anthology providing compelling dialogue and innermonologues that resonate from their bitter and remorseful attitudes toward the Joker. Punches fly and blood spurts from kicked mouths from time to time, though the interaction between Batman’s closest friends and allies and the scenestealing sadist himself strengthen the narrative for what could be considered one of the best-written graphic novel stories, even if The Batman only truly plays an important role in the first and last chapters

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$29.99 of the novel.

The Joker, as mentioned before, definitely shows that he is the primary focus of the entire piece.

He certainly never fails to impress, regardless of which chapter one reads. Not only does his appearance change, but his psyche changes as well.

His wretched smile emphasizes not just a cruel trickster but a hateful and almost fanatical creature, willing to murder and decimate not just for laughs but also for his desperate goal to alter The Batman just as he himself became altered. The Joker is no longer just the chuckling mastermind with a sick sense of humor.

Once a man whose face had ripped right off of his skull, he became an animal with a darker and more heinous game.

In spite of the quality work, one problem rears itself in the novel. As a Batman-oriented graphic novel, the fact that the Teen Titans and even heroes Starfire and Arsenal make an appearance almost removes some of the darker tone of the novel. While one of The Batman’s Robins became associated with the Teen Titans, the fact that the admittedly brighter and outlandishly super-powered characters burst into Gotham City nonetheless slightly lightens the mood that the narrative attempts to push so hard. Though the Joker’s pages make up for this slight problem and then some.

Comic book or graphic novel fans who have not already read “The Joker: Death of the Family” owe it to themselves to crack this one open and become captivated by the heavy art, the great narrative and a different Clown Prince to be mesmerized by.

Those who have never read a graphic novel before, yet wish to try one, cannot go wrong with this excellent piece of work either. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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“Usually you don’t have people come in when they’re mad,” Scott

in all the time.

For Scott, the best part about owning his branch of the Just Pop’d

Just Pop’d also stays involved with the community, donating to local schools and businesses. They even helped out with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s “Senior Day” for athletes, giving students a bag of the “Red and White Mix,” white popcorn mixed with cinnamon Hot Tamales.

But perhaps what is most endearing about the business is that it’s all in the family.

Dave Sims, when asked whether he’s the boss, smiles and jokes.

“You have to be careful of who you call ‘the boss,’” he said. “That would be my son, Scott.”

Dave is the father of Scott and Annette. Bockman is his youngest daughter, but he comes around to help out at Scott’s location, helping to train new employees and to, as Scott says, “be the comedian.”

Customers are always welcome, with some even making Just Pop’d a part of their own families. Scott recalls one particular customer who employed his help to make the announcement of her twins’ birth special. “[She’s] been a customer here since the day we opened and had twins, a boy and a girl,” Scott said.

“And we made her little pink and little blue popcorn balls. And then she made a little sticker for ‘em that said ‘I’ve just popped.’”

Scott said she brings her twins

said. “They’re coming in to get something they like.”

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Penn State coach Bill O’ Brien

match against a very talented defense. I think our offense has some confidence because we’ve had some success throughout the year, but we are coming off our worst performance from a week ago.”

“This is a senior class that meant a lot to this program. This is a bunch of guys that are good students, good football players. Many guys that embraced their roles within this football program, and it would mean a lot to everyone here to send them out on a winning note. So hopefully it’s a great crowd to pay their respects to this senior class, because this senior class stuck through this program, this University during a tough time.

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz

On the seniors:

“We practice it very intently during fall camp, and during the week. It’s part of the script we like to move the field with on Fridays. We like to do it once or twice each Friday. You can never get enough of it, you never know when the opportunity is going to be there, and I really was pleased to see how our kids and our coaches put everything together. That hard work paid off.”

On Iowa quarterback Jake Rudock:

“No. 1, we think, mechanically, from techniques to playing the position, his footwork and everything, that he’s as good as anyone in the conference, and it shows. He’ll move up in the pocket. He’ll go through his reads, and if he doesn’t like it, he’ll find the check down, which I think he does really well. He has a nice spin on his ball, can make all the throws. He’s done a nice job at the line of scrimmage getting them in the right runs depending on techniques and what you show them. We think he’s done a really nice job of developing, but he’s really a guy who does a nice job of handling their football team.”

Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen

On fullback Pat Zerbe:

“Pat Zerbe is a guy that has been a tremendous leader for us in the locker room, on the practice field and off the field. The reason is No. 1, he’s a very mature guy, he’s a very bright guy, and he’s a guy that does the right thing. He makes the right choices, and he’s embraced his role here as the fullback, and a special teams core player. I can’t say enough about Pat. Pat will go on to be a very successful guy in life.”

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald On Michigan State’s defense:

On his first experience with the rivalry with Minnesota:

“You get the feel, not just through the week, but through the year, and you reach out and understand things. It doesn’t take long walking through the locker room to see the axe sitting there in the trophy case, and it’s going to be right back in there or empty, one of the two. And that lets you understand real quickly how important the rivalry is. You hear more about it, you learn more about it, and I’m real fortunate to be a part of the great rivalry. It’s fun to see the kids light up and they’re telling experiences that they’ve had. It’s fun to bring back players that have been involved in this game and hear about the great victories and the tough defeats that they’ve had.”

On the differences between running backs James White and Melvin Gordon:

“If you look at them both, what the ability that Melvin’s done this year is that he’s had the ability to run within the tackles. I think James has always been able to do that, and Melvin gets outside on the fly sweeps and is more involved with the outside edges of the defense. James is more involved with the protection at times, because of his experience, and because of his understanding with playing so many reps. James does a great job with our screen game which you’ve seen him be involved in. So there’s a difference that Melvin’s involved on the outside more, and James is involved in protection more and in the screen game. In tackle-to-tackle, they’ve both done really well.”

“You look at what they do schematically, and (defensive coordinator) coach (Pat) Narduzzi and coach (Mark) Dantonio do a great job. They have a great plan in all phases from first down to third down; From when you’re backed up to when you’re down on their goal line, they’ve got a plan. They have a very experienced group in the defense, especially all the seniors have played for a number of years in it, and they have executed at a very, very high level. The initial credit goes to their staff, and then to the young men that play. Together, they understand the concepts, and they understand the strengths and weaknesses, and they show up to the ball in a bad mood. There’s a reason they’re as solid as they are.”

On expectations and how they’ve changed:

“My expectations coming into the year were pretty simple. We knew we had some young guys we needed to develop, and bring them along with some of the guys that have had experience from a year ago, so that was priority No. 1. We were pretty banged up last spring, so we were behind rep wise, but I thought the staff did a good job on getting us prepared for the first month of the season. Then I learned that when adversity struck us this year, that our guys are resilient, they got character, and they’ll fight, and you’ve got to help them. Do a better job as a staff to help them win, but I’ve learned about our group is that they’re a bunch of fighters. We went into each game with the same mind set and the same attitude from a preparation standpoint.”

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer

On running back Ameer Abdullah:

“He can do everything. He’s a heck of a player, and somebody who has great change of direction, and great vision. He’s tough. There’s really nothing he can’t do, he’s a heck of a football player, and a tremendous leader.”

On the improvement of defensive back Ciante Evans:

“Ciante had a good year last year. He was all-Big Ten. He’s somebody who continues to get better and works hard at his trade. He’s an experienced guy that provides really good leadership on that side of the football.

He’s a team captain, and I think he’s a good football player. We ask our nickels to do a lot, he’s in there a lot. He plays corner, and base, and nickel and he went and he spread us out. We ask him to do a lot, and he’s been a very valuable member of our defense.”

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio

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On keeping guys ready when they’re a heavy favorite against Indiana:

“I think this one is a little different, because they see the video tape. They see them putting 40 plus points on our rivals, on Penn State who we have great respect for, and other teams. We’ve seen them score on Michigan State. I don’t think we’ve struggled, just some health issues on defense, so I don’t see that at all. The good thing about the offensive side is that we have a lot of maturity. You tell those four linemen, and they show up each day and every day so I’m not worried about that at all.”

Indiana coach Kevin Wilson

“What you do is try and find out who the person is you’re recruiting. You look for the quality of their work, and the competitiveness of their high school schedule. You listen to their coaches, and you listen to the people within the program itself. After that, it’s a little bit of a gossip as you go, as they come to your camp. I think they gain experiences as they move through their college career.”

On the development of the offense:

“I think our receiver group as a whole has grown steadily along with Connor Cook. I think they’re performing at a very high level. If you watch that Nebraska game, the catches that (receiver) Bennie Fowler was making, he’s been consistent throughout the Big Ten season, and Tony Lippett as well and Keith Mumphrey had some big games as well, had a huge catch in this game. Keith is a very confident player. Our guys go hard, and then you got (Mac)Garrett Kings playing as well so we got some guys played in and out of there, and have done an outstanding job, and have made some big time catches.”

On Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner:

“He’s a guy that can hurt you in a couple of different ways. He was responsible for 350 yards of offense against us last year, so we certainly didn’t have the answers a year ago. We’ll try to work on that this week and see if we can put up a little better front.”

Minnesota coach Jerry Kill On preparing for Wisconsin:

“The big thing we’re doing, just like Wisconsin, is preparation to play a great football team. Offensively, defensively, kicking-game wise, Wisconsin has no weakness, and their defense is playing at a very high level. Their offense always has, and continues, to be impressive. Their defense is very good, and led by (linebacker Chris) Borland who is a great linebacker. We got our work cut out for us, and we’ve been working hard in preparation, and trying to get ready to play.”

On the meaning of winning the Paul Bunyan Axe:

“It would mean a great deal to our seniors, and they’ve been through a lot in the transition of our program, and it’d mean a lot to our state. I know it means a lot to Wisconsin, and it’s a great rivalry, and it’s been played for a long time. It means a lot to both teams, and we’re going to have to play at a high level to beat a team like Wisconsin, because I think they’re very, very good.”

Illinois coach Tim Beckman “We had talked all week long about being there in the fourth quarter with an opportunity to win the football game. We were down 12 with five minutes left. Our players battled back after falling down, and I think we gained our feet, and came back slugging, and gave ourselves an opportunity there at the end of the football game. I continue to see this team progress in the manner we ask them to do. Of course we need to get W’s, there’s no question about that, and we know we have another opportunity this Saturday.”

On Purdue coach Darrell Hazell:

“I know what type of football coach Darrell Hazell is, because I had that opportunity to coach with him at Ohio State. He’s a fabulous person and a great football coach, and he’s trying to instill the same things that we all try to instill when we’re coming into a new program. I wish him the best, and of course we play this week. I know he’ll have the Purdue program where he’d like it sometime here shortly.

Purdue coach Darrell Hazell

On development of the defense:

On stopping running back Carlos Hyde:

On recruiting quarterbacks:

“These guys really, since August, they’ve done a wonderful job of leading our football team through the offseason and through spring practice, and have continued to do so. It’s always a bittersweet day for all college coaches and teammates. It’s a celebration of a lot of great things. A lot of them aren’t done yet, but a lot of good things have happened in the past.

It’s a little bittersweet knowing they’re not going to be around much longer. It’s always a very special day, and we got a great group of guys.

They’ve done a nice job, and we’re very, very proud of all those guys.

On the loss to Ohio State:

“Well we have 11 guys out for the year, and then you count in the guys who adjust. You’re going pretty far down, so we’ve taken offensive players and put them on the coverage unit, which is pretty common, but only one or two, not five. So we spent a lot of work on Sunday, and tomorrow we’re going to work. The guys like (running backs) Warren Ball, Ezekiel Elliott, Jordan Hall, those are all examples of guys we’re going to use on coverage units.”

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini

On the seniors and senior day:

“To me, it’s their full package. You have to account for their quarterback, and their ability to spread it out with very fast players on the perimeter. So if you want to get one-on-one with your secondary, play on an island, they’re going to exploit you with some talented players and a quarterback that can deliver, and an O-line that can block the play action, and movement and normal passing, lot of bubble screen, and run pass combo plays. Carlos is a tremendous back, and is playing at a high level, but he’s really a quality part of a quality offense that has a lot of balance because of a lot of strong players across the board. So it’s going to be a very strong challenge.”

On confidence winning the game:

“I think our offense, when it is together, can play with a lot of teams that play well. Last week, we did not handle the elements and our opponent very well, in a very poor outing. It’s going to be hard for us to slow that offense down, because they’re very, very good, and at the same time we got to find a way to keep up and

“I think a lot of times we’re in the right place, we’re just not making the plays right now. Those things will come. Schematically, we’ve gone back of forth on the odd and the even front, and it comes down to at the end of the day making plays when you have the opportunity to do that.

On the upcoming Senior Day:

“These are the guys that lay the foundation on how you want your program to be. These guys aren’t getting the desired wins, but they’ll be able to look back a couple years from now and say ‘Hey, this is something we helped start – this tradition here at Purdue.’ I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to work with these guys for the last eleven and a half months.” compiled by Thomas beckmann sports@dailynebraskan.com

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The crew team is always looking for new and dedicated members to join their squad. As part of Miller’s job, she is eager to find those people.

“The fall is our big recruitment time,” Miller said. “We have open boathouse nights where people who are interested can come and see the boathouse and learn about what we do.”

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Smith said that the team is working hard toward the ACRA Championships through extensive workouts and practices. Until November, the team was out on the water, and now the rowers are focusing on conditioning and staying fit for the start of the spring season and the return to the water. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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After the 41-28 loss to Michigan State at home Saturday, Nebraska was officially kicked out of the Big Ten race and now has no chance at winning the Big Ten Legend’s division, but junior wide receiver Kenny Bell said after practice on Tuesday the team doesn’t anticipate a drop-off in competitiveness in the season’s final two games.

“It’s an easy thing to shut it down when you feel like you aren’t playing for the conference championship anymore,” Bell said. “(But) the response of these guys, we had a great practice today, there was a lot of energy and that shows the resilience of the team.”

Bell said after the game Saturday he had some “select” words for the team.

“I think a lot of the guys were feeling the same way,” Bell said. “After a tough loss you try and talk to the guys and make sure everyone’s mind is right.”

The next two games against Penn State (6-4, 3-3 Big

Ten) and Iowa (6-4, 3-3) will determine which bowl Nebraska will be in this winter, and though out of the conference race, Bell anticipates both teams will get Nebraska’s best shot.

“You got to win football games, those are the expectations around here,” Bell said. “These last two games are by no means a cake walk.”

Bell finished the game Saturday with 7 receptions for 81 yards and a touchdown.

Sirles ‘frustrated’ with turnovers

After the first play of Saturday’s game, an 8-yard rush up the middle by junior Ameer Abdullah, senior offensive lineman Jeremiah Sirles knew the Huskers would be able to run on the No. 1 rushing defense in the country.

Sirles said it wasn’t that Michigan State had stopped the

Huskers on Saturday, it was themselves.

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Pure, utter frustration. We came out so fired up knowing that we could move the ball on these guys.”

Nebraska beat Michigan State in almost every offensive category Saturday. More first downs, more total yards (392) more passing yards, more rushing yards, fewer penalties; but it was the turnovers, five of them, that kept Nebraska from moving the ball. Sirles and offensive coordinator Tim Beck each said the turnovers messed up any rhythm Nebraska had.

“We still came out of the day Ameer a 100-yard rusher and almost 400 yards of total offense, and it’s just so frustrating,” Sirles said. “You hear the No. 1 defense. You hear 1.9 yards per carry and to go out there give them the ball in that position is super frustrating.”

Offense to be tested again

Beck had a slew of compliments for the Penn State defense after practice Tuesday.

“Good defense, well coached, really good D-line,” Beck said. “Very active defense line, good linebackers, smart guys, good tacklers in the open field, the secondary is the same thing. Rarely are they out of position for you to beat them. You gotta execute. Obviously we can’t turn the ball over. You saw what that got us.”

Penn State held Purdue to just 264 total yards in their 45-21 win, and gave up just 41 rushing yards.

“They’re great up front, their line backing core plays well and they move well on the back end,” Bell said. compiled by chris heady sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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A LOOK INTO THE RECENT HUSKER SPORT SCENE THROUGH A STATISTICAL LENS

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The No. 10 Huskers have a 10-game winning streak heading into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The stretch is Nebraska’s longest winning streak since it opened the 2000 season 15-0. NU hosts Boston College on Friday having won 17 of its past 18 games.

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For the first time since a shutout of Wisconsin on Jan. 29, 2012, the No. 11 Nebraska wrestling team won the 125-pound, 133-pound and 141-pound matches in the same dual meet. The victories propelled the Huskers as they defeated Northwestern 25-16 in their season opener on Sunday.

For the first time since 2011, the Nebraska men’s basketball team had five players (Ray Gallegos, Deverell Biggs, Tai Webster, Leslee Smith and Shavon Shields) score in double figures in a game. Behind Gallegos’ gamehigh 18 points, Nebraska beat South Carolina State 83-57 on Sunday.

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The No. 11 Huskers used a 9-0 run at the beginning of the second half to turn a 5-point halftime deficit into a 4-point lead against Utah. The Utes came back to tie the game at 49, but they never regained the lead as Nebraska pulled away to win 75-69.

The No. 6 Nebraska volleyball team had an attack percentage of .402 against Michigan State in the Huskers’ sweep of the Spartans on Friday night. The clip was NU’s highest of the season, and it came against a Michigan State team that ranks fourth in the Big Ten allowing an overall hitting percentage of .177 this season.

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Walker: from 10 She can twist, she can spin, she has all the tools. I kept telling her parents from the beginning that this girl can do pretty darn good, she just needs to stay with it. She’s done that. She’s put in the time.” abel sanchez michigan dive coach

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Nebraska sophomore point guard Rachel Theriot, who was injured throughout last season, dials in a shot earlier in the year.

Theriot moves past injury for Huskers Natasha Rausch dn The nail marks the spot.

Sophomore point guard Rachel Theriot lines herself up for the foul shot. One dribble followed by a deep breath. And then she jumps.

“Not many people jump in their foul shots,” Theriot said. “But it works for me.”

Theriot didn’t learn her skills all on her own, though. With three older brothers — Josh, Dallas and Brian — she had no other option but to learn how to play basketball.

“I was always in the gym playing with them,” Theriot said. “They helped bring out my competitive side and helped me get to where I am now.”

Theriot could play a pickup game of basketball at 4 years old, even before she could pick up a pen to write in cursive.

Basketball was what she grew up with. Although she tried other sports like softball, nothing could compare to three-pointers and breakaway plays.

“I played softball a lot when I was younger,” Theriot said. “I just loved basketball more. Softball was just a way to take a break from basketball and do something different for a while.”

Growing up in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, Theriot attended Midpark High School, where she played varsity basketball and even-

tually became a three-time All-Ohio performer and was named the Northeast Lakes District Player of the Year as a senior.

After averaging 16.6 points, 11.0 assists and 6.0 rebounds per game, Theriot led her team to its second consecutive district title in her senior season.

A slew of college letters followed: Xavier, Louisville, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan State, Dayton and Washington. Even though schools like Ohio State, Dayton and Xavier were much closer to home, Nebraska was her first choice.

“In general, the feeling from Nebraska was just better,” said Theriot, who is now ranked No. 6 in Big Ten assists per game. “Moving to the Big Ten helped. But the coaches and the team chemistry are what really drew me to the school.”

Moving 12 hours away from home was an adjustment without her parents being at every game. But the people — the fans especially — made the transition easier.

“My parents always used to show up for my games,” Theriot said. “But now they can only make it to one or two during the season.

Nebraska is different, though. One of the things I really like is that the fans are so supportive.”

In her first season at Nebraska last year, Theriot made her debut against the No. 11 Maryland where she made 6 points and 4 assists. During the season Theriot had a foot

injury, but that didn’t stop her from having 28 straight starts out of 34 games.

“It was very frustrating,” Theriot said. “I knew I didn’t want to sit out.

It’s not fun to play with an injury, but you gotta do what you gotta do. It made me a stronger person mentally and physically.”

Theriot started this season with another injury. This time it was an ankle sprain. After deciding to leave Theriot on the bench to recover in the exhibition game against Pittsburg State, Nebraska coach Connie Yori started her in the second exhibition game against the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

“She played all of last season with a foot injury,” Yori said. “So no one really got to see the kind of plays she can make because she was basically playing on one leg. Her health will be one of the big keys to our success this season.”

Before every game, Theriot focuses on the opponent and what the team has been doing in practice to prepare herself for the competition, she said.

“I always try to come in mentally prepared,” said Theriot, who had a career-high 28 points in Friday’s game against Utah. “I put all of my effort into every game.

I think I’m starting to fill into my role of being more aggressive and vocal on the court as the point guard.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

At 1 month old, her family moved her almost 8,000 miles from the Philippines to Albuquerque, N.M., so her family could avoid the backlash of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption — the second-largest eruption of the century. Her Filipino family members have referred to her throughout the years as the “Mount Pinatubo baby.”

Now Typhoon Haiyan is taking her back. So she can support the cause. So she can help restore cities, like Leyte, from utter ruin.

So she can help the families affected by the death toll reaching almost 4,000 and the missing persons toll reaching 1,600.

But Walker won’t be helping in the most usual of ways. Although she is sending her prayers and helping St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church collect funds, Walker wants to help the Philippines by representing them — as an Olympian. *** Tania Cagnotto is a pure breed.

With both of her parents being successful Italian divers, she had no chance at any other life.

Standing at 5-feet-3-inches, she was the first female Italian diver to win a medal in a World Championship followed by a slew of others.

But forget the lure of shiny gold, silver and bronze medals.

Nebraska senior diver Kaitlan Walker idolizes Cognotto for her lines.

“I think she is just beautiful to watch. She has really pretty lines,” Walker said. “She just makes diving look so effortless.”

That’s what Walker wants — to make her diving look effortless. To make her lines perfect. To be just like Tania Cagnotto.

To be an Olympian.

But that’s the part that’s not effortless. Walker doesn’t care.

Working hard in the pool and on the boards is like a home-awayfrom-home for her.

“You know when you go on vacation and you sleep in a hotel bed all the time and you come home and you lay in your bed and it’s just a comforting feeling?” Walker said. “That’s how I feel when I get back in the pool. When you rip a dive or when you have an amazing top, it sounds silly, but it kind of feels like flying. It just makes me happy.”

Walker didn’t find this happiness until she was 16 years old.

Before the water, she was stuck in a routine as a gymnast and needed a change.

“I had done gymnastics for so long that it just kind of became a

habit,” Walker said. “Other kids, they would do like basketball and soccer, all of the other sports, and try them out. All I knew was gymnastics and school, and that was it.

So I just wanted to try something else.”

In just a week after quitting, Walker found herself completely bored in her hometown of Albuquerque. So her mom suggested she try diving.

“A lot of gymnasts, when they quit, either become divers or pole vaulters or cheerleaders, but I wasn’t going to do cheerleading,” Walker said. “So I tried diving, and the coaches saw potential, and I just enjoyed it and stuck with it.”

Starting off, most divers learn the front dive. But considering gymnasts train for years to perfect landing on their feet, it came as more of a challenge for Walker.

Landing on her head took some practice.

“In gymnastics the floor is really springy so you just jump and it’s super quick,” Walker said.

“And on the spring board you have to get the timing of the board and that took a lot of practice.”

After learning the basics, Walker began diving for Abel Sanchez, a former Olympian and four-time All-American at the University of Michigan.

“He just has a passion for diving,” said Walker, who still calls her former coach on a regular basis. “Abel was the one who really perfected my dives. He’s like a second dad to me.”

Sanchez was also the one who inspired her from the beginning to become an Olympian for the Philippines. But that doesn’t come until later. Until she realizes her passion for diving. Until she realizes her passion for the Olympics.

Until she realizes her passion for the Philippines and those affected by Typhoon Haiyan.

After only a few months of training, Walker competed in her first meet in the 2006 Hilary Grivich Memorial Invitational in

Woodlands, Texas. Upon arriving at the meet, she was already sizing up the competition. An Olympic gold medalist from the Sydney Olympic Games, Laura Wilkinson, was the first person she noticed.

After seeing the opponents and the better divers and the competitive nature of the meet, Walker scratched her 3-meter dive, leaving her to compete in just the 1-meter diving.

“I came there to do one meter and three meter, but I got so nervous,” Walker said. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, these girls are amazing.’ They’re doing better dives. So I just didn’t compete three meter and I only did one meter. The fact that my coach brought me to that meet for my first meet ever, I pretty much pooped my pants. I don’t know how else to say it. I was really scared.”

There was a reason Sanchez took Walker to this meet. He saw something in her. Maybe it was her athleticism or her lines or her great feet. Whatever it was, he saw that Walker was capable of competing in more than just the Grivich Invitiational or even the NCAAs, which she hopes to place in for the first and last time this season.

“She can twist, she can spin, she has all of the tools,” Sanchez said. “I kept telling her parents from the beginning that this girl can do pretty darn good, she just needs to stay with it. She’s done that. She’s put in the time.

I thought back then she could be special, and now she’s on her way.”

Sanchez thinks she is capable of being an Olympian — just like her Italian role model.

But her role model never had to face an injury more severe than a slip off the board and a few bruises. sports@ dailynebraskan.com Look for part two of “honoring home” in thursday’s edition of the daily nebraskan.

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honoring home Husker diver’s dreams of becoming Olympian are fueled by far more than gold medal, but rather representing her home – the Philippines

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Nebraska senior diver Kaitlan Walker, originally from the Philippines, has set a goal to represent her home country in the Olympics after her career for the Huskers.

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aitlan Walker drowns out the sounds of Fox News as she works on her homework.

Then she hears it — the Philippines.

“You don’t hear the Philippines very often on the news so I was instantly just listening to that,” Walker said.

Typhoon Haiyan tore apart her homeland, and all she could do was sit and watch. Although she’s confirmed that all 50 of her extended family members living in Metro Manila and Dagupan City

are OK, she still wants to help, somehow.

“I have aunts, uncles, great-aunts and uncles, cousins and second cousins over there,” Walker said. “I didn’t know if everyone was OK because I didn’t know exactly where the typhoon hit when I first heard about it. Now I know they were north of the eye of the storm, so they are OK.” Walker realizes that natural disasters, which once drove her away from the Philippines, are now driving her back.

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Walker, who is just recovering from an injury, toes the line in practice.

Walker executes a dive in practice earlier in the week. The senior diver placed fifth in the 1-meter dive last Friday.

Nebraska values teammates more than wins kyle cummings dn Following Saturday’s 41-28 loss to Michigan State, freshman quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. received a text from teammate sophomore running back Imani Cross.

The message: “No matter if you’re a quarterback that throws 100 touchdowns and 0 interceptions or you don’t throw any touchdowns and 100 interceptions, I’m still going to trust you and I’m still going to have your back,” Armstrong said.

Nebraska’s loss on Saturday destroyed all hopes of the Huskers making the Big Ten title game – the goal and standard, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said.

Sure, it stings. But overall, that’s not what’s important, junior receiver Kenny Bell said.

“I love football, and it hurts,” Bell said. “We put a lot of time into

this. When you put 350 days out of year into something, it’s going to hurt when you lose. But you have to have a positive outlook on life.

We play a game and we’re blessed.

Everybody in that locker room has a pretty good understanding of what’s going on.

“You have to stay mentally tough, and you do that by circling the wagons around the guys you love. These guys come in and do it every single day in the weight room, upstairs, in the locker room and down on the practice field. Everything else can go by the wayside.

We’ve got each other, and that’s all we need.”

Now the three-loss Huskers will need to stick together and fight through two more games, in what will determine which mid-tolower-level Big Ten bowl Nebraska will play in at the end of the season. After dropping down in the Big Ten rankings, the Huskers are

now projected to play in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl or the Taxslayer. com Gator Bowl with a possibility of playing in the Outback Bowl, though really the only Big Ten bowl game tie—in that has been eliminated for Nebraska is the Rose Bowl.

Still, it’s about more than what bowl game the Huskers will play in at the end of the year.

“No matter what the outcomes of games are, I know my teammates have my trust and they have my back and no matter what goes on, they’re going to be there for me,” Armstrong said. “It just helps me move on and helps me drive to the next week and be able to overcome this.”

As it turns out, that was the exact message Pelini told his team after the game on Saturday, he said.

“You have to stick together,” Pelini said. “I told them, ‘You are going to deal with things like this for your whole life. You can either

stick your head in the sand and cry and duck and run or you man up and go.’ Like I said, I believe in the character of this team and they understand. They’ll come out and respond the right way and we’re going to need to because it’s going to be a heck of a challenge going into Penn State.”

Nebraska will hold its head high above the sand and travel to Pennsylvania this weekend to play Penn State in Nebraska’s first game of the season without a trip to Indianapolis on the line.

So when the Huskers arrive at State College on Saturday, they won’t just be playing for bowl projections.

They’re now playing to notch 10 wins this season. They’re playing for bragging rights. But most importantly, they’re playing for pride. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Husker wide receiver Kenny Bell, who recorded 7 receptions, including a touchdown pass in Saturday’s 41-28 loss to Michigan State, said the best way to move on is through mental toughness.