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Salvation Army short on food for holidays Lis Arneson Daily Nebraskan

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Lincoln’s Salvation Army wants to meet the needs of its community. But this year, an influx in demand and increased difficulty obtaining food is proving to be problematic.

The Salvation Army is running extremely low on its food supply because more people coming in, said Captain Jamie Pennington.

“A year ago, we had a little over 3,000 families coming in (the whole year),” he said. “This year, over

Contruction to begin on two new suite-style dorms at the end of the semester

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he University of Nebraska-Lincoln will welcome two new suite-style residence halls to its campus by August 2014.

The halls will be just east of the Robert E. Knoll Residential Center on the blocks of 18th, 19th and R streets.

Together, the halls will house about 1,034 students, said Sue Gildersleeve, director of University Housing.

“We’ve had such a strong response to the Knoll Residential Center,” Gildersleeve said. “There’s been way more demand for it, so it made sense to go with that same style.”

Combined with Knoll, the two additional buildings will create a suite-style complex.

“They’ll have a central front desk so students will go to the middle building to get their

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informed of the situation last Tuesday while working on a film project at the Salvation Army.

“We’re a group concerned with diversity, and this is a form of diversity — socioeconomic diversity,” she said.

She told other members of Multicultural Students in Media, and they collected food items at their meeting Monday night. Vasquez encourages other students to contribute what they can.

“They’re still taking food even though it’s just a couple days before Thanksgiving,” she said.

“They need food throughout

the year.”

The Salvation Army wants to help those in need, Pennington said. “(Our goal is) to meet human needs in the Lord’s name, whatever human need might be lauren olson | Daily nebraskan out there,” he said.

Throughout the 13,000 families, which is year, the Salvation Army colsomewhere over 25,000 peo- lects and distributes food ple. So we’ve seen about a for those in need as well as providing budget or credit 500 percent increase.”

The Food Bank of Lincoln counseling.

“I think there are a lot of is a top supplier of food for the Salvation Army, Pen- stereotypes out there about nington said, but this year it the people who come in,” hasn’t been able to contrib- Pennington said. “Our average client has a job and an ute as much food.

“Our supplier is just not income; they’re just having able to get their hands on trouble making ends meet the food as well,” he said. and they’re living paycheck “Government grants and cor- to paycheck.”

Pennington said they are porate donations to the Food requesting holiday-meal Bank have been less.”

At the University of Ne- foods, but even the small braska-Lincoln, groups like things are appreciated.

“Even if you don’t have the Multicultural Students in Media are doing their part much to give, a can of to make up for the short- food goes a long ways,” age. Co-president Andrea he said. “Especially around Vasquez, a senior news-editorial and broadcast major food drive: who also works at the Daily Nebraskan, said she was see page 2

Occupy Lincoln to hold vigil for brutality victims kim buckley daily nebraskan

Occupy Wall Street protesters at the University of California, Davis were pepper sprayed by police on Nov. 18. The protesters, comprised of college students, received national attention because of the incident. A YouTube video of this attracted thousands of views and caught the attention of people in Lincoln.

The Occupy Lincoln movement will show its solidarity for students involved in this incident during the “Solidarity Action with Students facing Police Brutality” event

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Tuesday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The event will be in the Nebraska Union at 4 p.m. UNL alumnus Jason Nord came up with the event.

“The idea that people are trying to take away our First Amendment right is outrageous,” said Dana Garrison, a junior agricultural education major involved with Occupy Lincoln. “Universities are a hub for free speech for students. Of all places, it’s important to have free speech through universities.”

Garrison has a personal connection to the incident.

She grew up 30 miles from UC Davis.

“For me, it was heartbreaking to see this happening,” she said. “It’s disgusting that the police thought they could do that.”

It’s important to show solidarity to let the country know those students aren’t alone, Garrison said.

Brian Ellis, a member of Occupy Lincoln, agreed. He said it shows that the police action against protesters wasn’t going to be tolerated.

“People need to be held accountable for using excessive force,” he said. “Students are just like any other citizen.

They deserve the right to protest.”

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The videos and stories on where the only option they Facebook speak for them- have is to follow orders or else selves, Garrison said. they’ll lose their job,” he said.

E l l i s Garrison said said the whether there Universities are protesters will be a simidon’t want lar incident on a hub for free to see in- speech for students.

UNL’s campus cidents depends on the like the Of all places, it’s circumstances. ones at important to have The police have UC Davis free speech through acted profesand UC sionally and Berkeley. universities” have held diaThe posDana garrison logue with the junior agricultural education major sibility is protest movestill there, ment, she addthough, ed. he said.

The movement has an ex“Police are in the position tremely accurate legal team,

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she said, and the protesters are educated about legal ordinances on protesting.

“I think that Occupy Lincoln participants are willing to stand up in the sight of injustice,” she said. “We know what we’re allowed to do within the laws of our country, state, city and county.”

Ellis said he believes these incidents won’t stop the Occupy movement in Lincoln or around the country.

“It can withstand anything,” he said. “I think (these incidents) will anger people and drive them to join the movement.”

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ZingSale.com alerts shoppers to low prices Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan

Eyes beginning to droop and jackets wrapped tightly, shoppers wait outside various stores on Black Friday waiting to get the best deal first.

But there is another option out there: ZingSale.com.

Created in late 2008, ZingSale is an online shopping option for shoppers who would rather sleep in.

Prices of products change constantly and it can be difficult to keep up with the changes. ZingSale does the work for the consumer.

“We try to take advantage of those changes by letting them know when it’s found cheaper,” said Chris Garlotta, co-founder of ZingSale.

The concept is simple.

Consumers create a free account on ZingSale, select the products they wish to buy and an alert email is sent to their inbox when the lowest price is found.

Using a special code, ZingSale searches several hundred times a day and sends an email when it has found the lowest price, Garlotta

said.

SouthPointe Pavilions’ Old “We do a lot of our search- Chicago. es through Amazon, which “It’s just crazy when peogives us access to 10 (thou- ple go out in large numbers,” sand) to 15 thousand mer- said Schuyler Geery-Zink, a chants,” Garlotta said. “We’re freshman international studreally indeies and prependent of law major.

We’re really who’s selling “It’s dangerindependent of it. We’re more ous and it puts concerned stress on buywho’s selling with what’s ers and sellit. We’re more the lowest ers.” price.”

Geery-Zink concerned Klaire Zollsaid she does with what’s the a lot of online ner, a junior history mashopping and lowest price. jor at the she likes the University idea of Zingchris garlotta Sale. of Nebraskaco-founder of zingsale.com Lincoln, had For many never heard of people, Black ZingSale but said she would Friday has become more of probably use it because it al- an event, Garlotta said. lows shopping without hav“People enjoy going out ing to go to a certain store. shopping, they enjoy getting Zollner said she doesn’t a good deal,” he said. “But participate in Black Friday you don’t have to go and shopping. leave the house in order to “It’s just too many people,” do that. By shopping online she said. “They are over- through ZingSale, you get a commercializing (Black) Fri- wider selection of stores and day and there’s never any- more merchants who are thing for Thanksgiving.” looking and competing to Another UNL student has sell those products.” franniesprouls@ seen Black Friday shopdailynebraskan.com pers while working at the

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This year, many stores are opening their doors earlier than ever, but some Black Friday deals are falling short compared to those offered on Thanksgiving itself. Instead of more traditional 4 a.m. openings, many stores will open their doors at midnight on Black Friday or even on Thanksgiving Day. “This is a trend that started about three years ago at the larger shopping centers,” said Julie Lattimer, marketing director for SouthPointe Pavilions. She said stores surveyed their customers and found that most were ready to start shopping by the end of Thanksgiving Day. “This is also a way to shop with family that has come into town for the holidays.

Lincoln is just catching onto this,” she said.

Last year, Old Navy, Gap and Gap Kids, as well as Michaels, opened their doors for the first time on Thanksgiving Day. All three stores and the movie theater will again welcome customers on Thanksgiving Day. Old Navy and Gap will open at

midnight, along with Bed Bath and Beyond, Bath and Body Works, Banana Republic, Gymboree and American Eagle.

Jasmin Stonacek, a freshman speech pathology major at the University of NebraskaLincoln, has worked at American Eagle for a year and a half and this will be her first Black Friday.

“I chose to work on Black Friday, but I also love shopping,” Stonacek said. “But I’m now realizing that all the other stores are also opening at midnight, so now I won’t get the good deals I always have gotten in the past because I’m working 11:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.”

SouthPointe isn’t the only place where stores are opening early; Target stores across the nation will open their doors at midnight on Black Friday for the first time ever.

Target employees shared their outrage by creating websites, petitions and Facebook groups, such as “Tell Target to Save Thanksgiving.”

The petition was created

by Anthony Hardwick, a Target employee from Omaha.

“A midnight opening robs the hourly and in-store salary workers of time off with

their families on Thanksgiving Day,” the petition reads.

“By opening the doors at midnight, Target is requiring team members to be in the store by 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. A full holiday with family is not just for the elite of this nation — all Americans should be able to break bread with loved ones and get a good night’s rest on Thanksgiving!”

However, some employers at SouthPointe said they haven’t faced opposition from employees.

“I heard from the Old Navy manager she was having trouble picking who to work because so many people wanted to work,” Lattimer said. “This is a great opportunity for college kids who were not able to travel home for the holidays. Plus, many are getting holiday pay or time and half.”

Stonacek said she thinks working on Black Friday will be exciting.

“My mom was confused why I’d want to work Black Friday when I love shopping so much,” she said. “I’m not sure why I decided. I guess I thought it’d be fun.”

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Saturday to spotlight shopping locally

food drive: from 1 the holidays, people have to choose between putting food on the table or buying toys for their kids.”

Pennington emphasized the significance of giving back and helping those in need.

“We’ve all been in a position of need at one time or another, so it’s important to help out fellow humans in need,” Pennington said. “It makes you feel good to be part of the solution rather than contributing to the problem — to be a part of something bigger than yourself.”

Donations can be dropped off at the Salvation Army’s location at 27th and Holdrege streets.

Earlier store openings spark mixed emotions

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On Nov. 27, 2010, 130 small business groups and public organizations joined forces with American Express in what marked a new form of holiday shopping called “Small Business Saturday.”

Small Business Saturday, which was created through a branch of American Express called American Express OPEN, gives smaller businesses an opportunity to rally support from members in their communities amid commercial-centered events, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As

the shop local campaign gains attention, Lincoln’s own local shops hope the event has a positive impact on holiday sales.

Although this is only the second year Small Business Saturday will take place, many local businesses in downtown Lincoln plan on participating.

“I didn’t know about it until I received a letter from American Express,” said James Jeromchek, a Pacific & Maine manager.

“We don’t have any signs for it yet, but we’ll still open up for business even if we don’t get a lot of customers.”

Pacific & Maine, located at 1339 O St., specializes in custom promotional products and fashion retail.

Some managers, such as Jeromchek, feel that even though the event helps small businesses, the publicity for Small Business Saturday could be higher.

“The only problem is that no one knows what it is, which is why I don’t think we will have a huge difference in traffic,” Jeromchek said.

But some UNL students do plan on going out to support these local stores.

“I didn’t hear about Small Business Saturday until

recently when a friend of mine told me that they wouldn’t be doing Black Friday shopping this year,” said Justin Mueller, a freshman biology major at the University of NebraskaLincoln.

Mueller said he plans on going to some smaller shops in Lincoln for his holiday shopping.

“It will be great to see some of the local stores receiving revenue,” he said.

Megan Suing, a freshman elementary education major, said she plans on taking her mom shopping at local businesses.

“I want to promote small

businesses in this area,” she said.

Students like Suing see this as a chance to give back to the community as a whole.

“As shoppers we always go to the name-brand stores. I think it would be cool to see what other business have to offer,” Suing said. “I mean, you never know what you will find until you try it out. It’s our community and it’s great that someone out there is finding a way for us to support it in any way possible.”

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Marines collect for Toys for Tots at Husker games lorena carmona daily nebraskan

This holiday season, Toys for Tots stationed several drop-off opportunities for toy donations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“The goal is to provide a tangible form of hope for underprivileged children,” said Matthew Knipe, a Marine Corps Reserve Corporal and assistant coordinator for the Omaha-Council Bluffs Toys for Tots campaign.

The campaign has made its way to campus.

During several Husker athletic events between Nov. 18 and Nov. 25, Marines will be available to collect toys for their annual drive. The Marines were at the women’s basketball game against University of Southern California and the volleyball game against Wisconsin.

They will be at the men’s basketball game against

Oregon on Nov. 23 and the Nov. 25 Heroes game with Iowa.

Fans can donate new, unwrapped toys or cash during the games.

“All cash received will be taken and used to buy toys,” Knipe said.

Butch Hug, associate athletic director for facilities and events, helps coordinate these events and has been the UNL contact person for the Marines.

Hug said by having the Marines dressed in their uniform, it gives people a reminder of “gosh, I forgot a toy, I will donate some cash.”

He said toys do get received but there is a higher amount of cash being donated.

“It is just another opportunity for people to give back,” Hug said.

There are about 700 drop off areas in the

Omaha-Council Bluffs region, which stretches to surrounding areas as far as Kearney.

The campaign started Oct. 1 and will run until Dec. 16.

The toys will then be collected, sorted and put in the correct age bracket, he said.

By Dec. 21 and 22, the toy sorting has to be completed so the toys can be distributed, Knipe said.

The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program’s mission is to collect toys from October through December. The toys will be distributed as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community, he said.

Knipe said the campaign supports boys and girls, newborns to 14-year-olds.

“Books, stuffed animals, LeapFrog, jewelry and remote control cars are just a small slice of the types of donations we receive,” he said.

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It is completely 100 percent donations, Knipe added.

“We get some support from our corporate sponsors and the national program, but it is our local supporters who help out a lot,” Knipe said.

The campaign doesn’t collect food or clothing, but does ask that toys donated

are non-violent and nonreligious.

“We run into issues to get toys,” Knipe said. “Toys for 12-year-olds are more expensive than a toy for a 3-year-old.”

United Way takes care of the distribution of the toys, he said.

“It is great to see so many places get involved,” Knipe

said. “There are small businesses, corporate stores, schools and even bars that get involved as a place to drop off toys.”

Knipe said it’s all for the kids.

“We do it for the kids to make a Christmas dream come true,” he said.

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Professor leads lecture series on innovation

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Professor Shane Farritor shows off one of the inventions that he had a hand in creating. The magnetic camera can be used as a less invasive way for doctors to see inside of a patient’s body during surgery.

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In a new series, one University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor wants to know “What in the Hell are You Talking About?”

Shane Farritor, an engineering professor with an emphasis on robotics, is leading a series on how to innovate, which, according to Farritor’s website shanefarritor.com, will give a person “several tools to make you more innovative and creative.”

NUtech Ventures and the College of Engineering sponsor the seminar series that Farritor gained inspiration for while raising capital for his startup company, “Virtual Incision.”

“We’ve worked quite a bit in the past,” said Jill Thayer, operations and marketing

manager for NUtech Ventures.

Thayer said Farritor has a unique perspective in that he didn’t start out as a businessman. His perspective made it easy for NUtech Ventures to collaborate with him, she said.

“We felt that he learned some great lessons and wanted to support him,” she said.

The core concept of the seminar is discovering individual gifts that aren’t easy to find, Farritor said. You must be special and creative to be innovative, he said.

“We all have gifts to give, we just have to work hard to find them,” he said.

Farritor gained inspiration for the series by reading various books on innovation, and each seminar topic reflects ideas from his reading. One in particular is his

fifth seminar titled “Where Good Ideas Come From.”

The seminar is based on a book from Steven Johnson by the same title. Farritor said he believes certain environments promote good ideas.

“This has particular impact with the Innovation Campus coming,” he said.

Being innovative requires two key things, Farritor said: Be clear in what you are trying to communicate and be special in what you try to present.

“A pet peeve of mine with bethany schmidt | daily nebraskan some of my students and even some colleagues is Mechanical engineering professor Shane Farritor sits in front of mechanical sketches drawn that there is just poor com- on a whiteboard wall in his office on Nov. 21. Farritor will conclude his seminar series, “How munication,” he said. “I’m to Innovate,” today at 12:30 p.m. in room 110 in Jorgensen Hall. just trying to give my take innovative ideas, Farritor Farritor’s latest seminar on communicating great want unique ideas.

“In the old days your job said. will be today from 12:30 ideas.”

“We can’t all be a genius p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Room Farritor added that it pays would be what your degree to be innovative in today’s is in,” he said. “Not any- like Steve Jobs, but we can 110 in Jorgensen Hall.

LarryBrown@ all be innovative, if we try,” world, as more employers more.” dailynebraskan.com Students can produce he said.

Dorms: from 1 mail,” Gildersleeve said.

“It’s where the RD offices will be. It’ll be similar to the welcome center at Abel/ Sandoz.”

Nearly 420 parking spaces from three separate parking lots will be sacrificed with the building of the new halls.

“Parking and Transit Services will accommodate the residents in the remaining spaces in the parking lots located west and south of the Beadle Center,” wrote Dan Carpenter, director of Parking and Transit Services, in an email. “The remaining resident students may purchase parking in the 19th and Vine Street garage.”

Any faculty and staff parking spaces will be moved to the surface lot east of the 17th and R garage.

As with Knoll, students will need a meal plan because the suites won’t have a full kitchen. The halls will be open to a combination of freshmen and upperclassmen. Gildersleeve said University Housing has yet to figure out how signing up for the hall will work.

About $71.5 million is budgeted for the project, which will come from student room and board revenue during the upcoming years.

“We’ve issued bonds and those bonds will be paid back over 30 years,” Gildersleeve said. “We’ll use (room and board) revenues to pay back the bonds.”

The plan for the suitestyle dorms is to replace Cather and Pound residence halls. After conducting a study with the intention to renovate Cather and Pound,

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Gildersleeve said it would make more sense to put money toward construction rather than spend more money on renovating.

“We wouldn’t really be improving student experience,” Gildersleeve said.

Both Cather and Pound will be open for the 20122013 school year. In 20132014 and beyond, only one will remain open until the second suite-style hall is completed.

Gildersleeve said she isn’t sure which building will close first.

The question is how suite-style halls will factor into UNL’s goal of 30,000 students.

Gildersleeve explained the capacity of the new suite-style halls is more than what Cather and Pound would be, especially since

Cather and Pound have a lot of single rooms. She said the suite-style halls will help UNL reach that goal.

“That whole issue is under study,” Gildersleeve said.

“It will take some planning and studies to meet that demand (of reaching 30,000 students).” franniesprouls@ dailynebraskan.com

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Enjoy holiday break, but keep safety a priority Finally, Thanksgiving break has arrived. For many students, that means a quick trip home before heading back to Nebraska’s game against Iowa on Black Friday. For others, it means staying in Lincoln for a five-day break.

But regardless of what your travel plans may be, the Daily Nebraskan encourages all students to be safe during break. The holiday season is always a tough time to travel — many people are on the road, speeding to family holidays and the potential for drinking always accompanies a break.

The weather for the end of the week will be nice, with temperatures expected in the 50s and 60s during the game, which means, weather-wise, travel should be safe. But the DN reminds everyone to be extra cautious in all activities, no matter where or what events may be.

With little more than two weeks of school remaining after break, there is an end in sight to the semester. A safe holiday is important to everyone’s return. opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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lessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”

Do the words of President Herbert Hoover sound familiar? Politicians have been courting “the youth vote” with quotations like this for almost a century. As America’s national debt climbs, more and more voters are demanding that the United States balance its checkbook. But every time someone brings up the burden of debt on future generations, no one seems to do anything about it.

Last August, Congress hashed out an 11th-hour agreement to raise the debt ceiling and preserve the United States’ top-tier credit rating. As part of the deal, a 12-member bipartisan “supercommittee” was created to come up with $1.2 trillion in revenue.

But there was a catch. If the supercommittee failed to propose a plan (or if Congress failed to pass it), its failure would trigger automatic cuts in defense and Medicare spending.

Monday was the deadline for the supercommittee to propose its plan to Congress. They failed to strike a deal and Congress will head home for Thanksgiving no closer to a real budget solution. But the supercommittee was doomed from the beginning. Congress ordered the group to find agreement and then populated it with legislators who would never agree. The plan was doomed to fail from the beginning.

The disaster of the debt supercommittee began at its inception. The long, bitter fight over raising the debt ceiling proved that bipartisan agreement among 535 members of Congress was unfeasible. To remedy this, Congress asked Republicans and Democrats to nominate three senators and three representatives each to serve on the supercommittee. The idea was that each party could select its best economic policymakers and negotiators to work out a solution.

However, some members were selected specifically for partisan loyalty, and the group as a whole was generally uninterested in compromise.

Each half of the supercommittee

downgrade.

The supercommittee should have spent the last three months going through all governmental departments. The legislators should have identified waste and inefficiency and then eliminated them, period. Instead, some committee members tried to bargain for tax hikes along with the spending cuts. You don’t need benjamin kantack more money to spend less.

For years, the U.S. government blamed the other for slowing proghas been unwilling to confront the ress. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., status quo of massive overspending. complained that Republicans were Instead, they have repeatedly kicked unwilling to cross what she called a the can down the road, postponing “line in the sand” to raise taxes on the issue until the problems are most wealthy Americans. On the other dire and the solutions most drastic. side, Rep. Jon Kyl. R-Ariz., lamented When Congress had to address the that “If you look at the Democrats’ situation in August, they passed the position, it was ‘We have to raise buck onto a collection taxes.’” of 12 scapegoats whom There was, howIf just one they fondly called the ever, a flicker of hope. member had put supercommittee. Then, Last Thursday, Sen. purpose over while these 12 politiPat Toomey, R-Pa., party, we would cians rejected deal after broke with Republideal, Congress contincan economic policy have a plan for ued to spend its way and offered a plan that Congress to vote toward the next debt included tax hikes. But on. Instead, we crisis.

Democrats rejected the have nothing.

Herbert Hoover’s wise compromise. words have been reThere is no excuse for peated for decades. But the supercommittee’s changing the culture of Washington failure. All it needed was a simple is easier said than done. Here we are majority vote to pass a plan. If just in 2011, with a Congress hell-bent on one member had put purpose over party, we would have a plan for Con- buying things we can’t afford with money we don’t have and ignoring gress to vote on. Instead, we have the consequences. nothing.

America’s dependence on fiscal irAs if that wasn’t bad enough, Conresponsibility is depressingly similar gress tried to encourage the superto that of a drug addict, desperate committee by threatening automatic spending cuts if no deal was reached. for his next fix. How many times in recent months have politicians come The cuts would slice defense spendbegging to the American people for ing and prevent some Medicare one more stimulus, one more jobs payments to hospitals, essentially bill, one teensy-weensy tax hike? holding America hostage. But like When they tell us this will be the last any hostage situation, it would only one – promise! – should we believe work if someone cared enough to do them? something.

If the United States gets another Obviously, that didn’t happen. credit downgrade, we deserve it.

Now Congress is in a bind. They Would you entrust anyone so irrecan absorb the cuts, which Secretary sponsible with your money? of Defense Leon E. Panetta claims Benjamin Kantack is a senior powill be crippling to the U.S. military. litical science and Spanish major.

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s it just me, or are movies becoming more magical? As I looked over movie listings recently (wishing I could afford leisure time for them), I realized something. A startling number of movies out right now are fairy tale or myth-inspired.

There’s “Puss in Boots,” “Immortals,” “Breaking Dawn” — even the movie “Jack and Jill,” while not a fairy tale, is an obvious allusion to the nursery rhyme. Furthermore, two adaptations of Snow White are starting to be advertised for release next year. ABC now has a Snow White TV show. Keeping all the different adaptations straight is rather difficult.

I would be surprised by this assault of stories straight out of my childhood, except fairy tale adaptations and allusions are nothing new. Disney obviously has this niche in the bag with its profusion of Disney princess movies, from the original “Snow White” and “Sleeping Beauty” to “Pocahontas” and “Mulan.” “Tangled” and “The Princess and the Frog” are the most recent, although live-action interpretations with a more adult twist have become more popular than

animated ones lately.

While I appreciate attempts to give new visions to myths and fairy tales as much as the next person, it makes me wonder: Why are we being fed the same stories over and over? And why are there so many movies of the same story at the same time? The constant revamping of ancient formulas is getting old.

People think they want to see something new, but secretly, they don’t. Major movie studios like Disney know this and would much rather risk money on a story that already works than on a completely new one. Not only that, but they can’t let their rivals steal the spotlight, so they have to make their reused story better than another studio’s reused story. Chances are their target audiences are going to see them all.

I know we hate to think of ourselves as target audiences, but think about it: Do you have a favorite genre? Are you guaranteed to see a movie if it’s a horror or a romantic comedy or a biopic? I bet your answer is yes. Unfortunately, we can’t deny we have preferences, and studios are going find out what they are and capitalize on

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That leads me to my next point: Fairy tale movies appeal to our childhood nostalgia, especially fangirls. I would bet anything that you couldn’t find one girl who couldn’t name her favorite Disney princess or her most treasured bedtime story as a child. Studios count on the fact that older girls and women will give most fairy tale remakes a chance just to see if they did their favorite stories justice.

For instance, I knew I had to see if “Ella Enchanted” lived up to the book (it didn’t). I also had to know whether the new “Red Riding Hood” was eerily like “Twilight” (oh, it definitely was). We see the same pattern with comic book nerds who flock to movies like “The Dark Knight” and

“Spider-Man” and so on. Those movies have to live up to nerd expectations, but even if they don’t, at least the studio snagged their money. Luckily for the studios, criticism is the inevitable constant of nerd life.

On a more positive note, however, the fairy tale movie trend is also a result of our need to see beloved childhood figures turned on their heads and updated for the current generation. The upcoming adaptations of Snow White give her a more active role in the story. In both “Snow White and the Huntsman” and “Mirror Mirror,” Snow White actually fights to take back her kingdom from the evil queen, instead of being like the passive Snow White in the animated version.

In 2004, Hilary Duff starred in “A Cinderella Story,” a modernized retelling in which Cinderella is a high school student, and her “Prince Charming” is the most popular boy in school. “Beastly” (a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast”) goes along the same lines but focuses on the “beast,” who’s a high school bully cursed with a scarred face by one of his victims.

While most everyone loves the originals, the main characters (female ones most of all) don’t always match our changing norms. If I have a daughter, I’ll want to show her the classics. However, making more movies like “The Princess and the Frog,” in which the heroine makes her own destiny, would be very welcome. Letting the oldies dominate in fairy tale adaptations would simply be detrimental to future generations. Not that major movie studios are particularly worried about this, but they’re at least aware that it’s something we want.

Seeing the same movie plots over and over will still make me groan.

Hollywood needs to dig up more original material. Audiences are going to get sick of it eventually and it’ll show. However, the trend isn’t all bad because it’s necessary to keep old legends fresh. Otherwise, we’ll simply forget about them.

And we can’t just forget about the Prince Charmings, or the Sleeping Beauties, now can we?

Erica Bartz is a senior film studies major. Reach her at ericabartz@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Bourbon hosts post-Thanksgiving show Kelsey Haugen

is putting together this event with his band, Zed Tempo.

“The major focus of our first-annual Cold Turkey is to raise awareness of the event itself (and) to establish the event as a place where Lincoln and Nebraska residents can come spend their holiday weekend with family and friends,” Mustard said.

Because this event is new, the number of people attending is fairly uncertain, but Mustard hopes that it will be a great turnout so that they can host it every year. Regardless of the number of people who show up, any donations will be helpful and greatly appreciated, he said.

“Honestly, everything helps. Some folks feel that $1 is not very much help, but when you look at that multiplied by just 1 percent of the Lincoln population, that is almost $2,600,” Mustard said.

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The day after Thanksgiving is usually a day for Black Friday shopping, football, eating leftovers and once again claiming fatigue after eating turkey.

But instead of sleeping after the leftovers this year, there’s a more entertaining way to spend the day. The Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St., is hosting Cold Turkey 2011 from 3 p.m. Friday until 2 a.m. Saturday. This event includes a fundraiser and food drive for the Food Bank of Lincoln.

The event will feature several bands, including Mouth, Blue Martian Tribe and Wrekafekt. Some of the bands, such as Sharp, You Beautiful Creature and Solid Gold, have University of Nebraska-Lincoln students.

The show will start in the Rye Room and the late-night acts will perform on the main stage.

Craig Mustard, who runs open-mic nights and organizes events at the Bourbon,

can of food, he will be satisfied. So far on the event’s Facebook page people seem to be very willing to donate.

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responses from the community.”

The lineup of bands for the event on the Facebook page consists of several local bands as well as a few from out of town, including Mouth.

This Kansas City funk and dance band mixes elements of electronic-inspired textures and improvisation to create a danceparty style of music.

The band’s drummer, Stephen Gunn, is excited to play at the Bourbon for this event. “(Cold Turkey) is being hosted to bring people together in an effort to collect food to donate ... we’re excited to be part of such a cool event,” Gunn said.

The band recently released their 2011 holiday mix entitled “Escape From the

if you go Cold Turkey when: Friday, 3 p.m. where: Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St. how much: Free until 10 p.m., then $7 for ages 18-20, $5 for 21 and over Donations of three cans of food receives $2 off admission

Moon,” and they may play some songs off that album at the show. Mouth has played in more than seven states in the past three years, and they always create a party atmosphere within a show that is unique each time.

“Overall, we’ve been extremely fortunate in our opportunities,” Gunn said.

For this show, Mouth hopes people will come to hear their music, join the party and find it in their hearts to give a little during this holiday weekend.

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Couple leads band through lifetime of stories “I do have a lot of life al- daily routine was to sleep ready behind me,” Sticka until 3 p.m. and bike to the daily nebraskan said. I always have. (My hus- Highway Diner to play card Heather Sticka swears by the band) says that sometimes he games all night. They’d both primary rule of songwriting: feels bad because he knows recently ended relationships, She writes about what she he can never catch up. I al- Heather because she realized knows. ways tell him, be glad that that she and her boyfriend She knows what it’s like you can’t.” went together like “bagels to spend 3 1/2 hours a week The 33-year-old is the front- and dog shit.” washing dishes in a bathtub woman for Tsumi, a four“I didn’t have any confiand rubbing ashes from the piece indie-something — dence in anything I was docarpet of a three-bedroom they don’t like genre labels ing anymore,” she said. “I apartment in exchange for — band based in Lincoln. didn’t like what I was writing; guitar lessons.

Heather moved to Lincoln 13 I didn’t like how I sang. But She knows what it’s like to years ago for a relationship (singing) was the only thing take part in a bank robbery in that failed. When she started that made me feel normal, her adolescence and not go playing at open mic nights ever, my whole life.” to jail for it. nine years ago, she was the When she sang, things felt She knows what it’s like to only girl who played regular- brighter. It didn’t matter that miss work because the white- ly. The Lincoln music scene her lyrics felt awkward somehot jolts of pain in her limbs has broadened since then, times and she was the only leave her unable to sit up- and now Sticka’s band plays girl on stage and she didn’t right. regular shows, sometimes in always know what to do She writes what she knows. local standbys like the Zoo with her hands. She and Luke And she has for 16 years, Bar and sometimes in metal formed Tsumi with two other ever since she perfected the dive bars – that’s when their members (the current lineup six basic guitar chords and cover of Tool’s “Sober” comes includes bassist Ash Sharp The NewinYork Times Syndication Salesand Corporation learned how to play Nirvana’s handy. drummer Brandon Fil“About a Girl” (she still loves 500 Seventh New York, She metAvenue, Luke Sticka, her N.Y. bert)10018 and began dating a year that one.) Three days later, husband and Tsumi’s guitar- later. In 2007, they married.

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Luke Sticka said. “As intrinsic to our lives as it is, the band is still a separate entity. It’s more than the sum of our parts.”

He calls his wife, who has some vocal training from grade school, a “molasses and smoke alto.”

“Here’s this woman who should be in a staring contest with Norah Jones, and instead she’s here playing rock music with her husband,” he said.

Although she’s found musical fulfillment in Tsumi, the Stickas have had “a hell of a five years.” They’ve weathered four layoffs and a recent bout of health issues that left Heather in surgery and immobile in bed for weeks at a time. Over time, music lost some of its luster.

“When you can’t sit up and you can’t play, you kind of start to not like it anymore,” Heather Sticka said.

So she learned to crochet.

She made hats, hand warmers, microphone covers. She watched Netflix. And she had a realization: In all her years, she had never seen the ocean or most of the country. And she wanted to.

The future is uncertain, health-wise, but Heather plans to tour the southern U.S. in the spring by herself.

She’ll hit eight different cities, staying in each one for a few days.

“I’m done with my life getting in the way of me living,” she said. “I don’t want that to happen anymore. It’s good thatHARD all these things happen, because otherwise I wouldn’t be angry and fighting for the life that I’ve just been expecting for as long as I can remember.”

In the meantime, Heather is a cook (try her Thai carrot soup), a painter (glue on glass is a favored medium) and an assistant office manager at Open Harvest, a natural foods grocery store. She’s an avid fan of role-playing games like Final Fantasy and Baldur’s Gate. She’s a host to the touring bands that play in the front room of her and her husband’s home, and she cooks secret-recipe pancakes for attendees. She’s a stepmother to Luke’s 10-yearold daughter, Alaina, whom she called “the most amazing creature I have ever met in my whole life.” And always, she is a musician. After HARD a long plateau in her skill

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“Music is something that just happens for me,” Heather Sticka said. “I had a good muse for a while, and he was really pushy about all that stuff, but then he just went away. I had to figure out that the muse was inside of me anyway. Most of being a grown-up is just getting off your ass. If# 18 I want to be a grown-up musician, I’ve just got to get off my ass and do it.”

This winter, Tsumi will begin work on recording another album. Heather Sticka wants to host a recording party, where friends and family can hang out and enjoy the music with some beers.

They practice in the same front room that hosts traveling bands, a space the size of a child’s bedroom with walls covered in gig posters for Tsumi and associated acts.

She strums on an electric guitar, a new addition to the band, as she leans in close to the mic. She bares it all in the songs she performs. Her prime example is “True Story,” a song the band had to stop playing live because of audience reactions. “(When I wrote it) I didn’t try to be crafty; I didn’t try

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He was good, he just wasn’t it. The lyrics say ‘I’m sorry if you want to kiss me, you just can’t anymore. I’m sorry if you want to touch me, you just can’t anymore.’ The lyrics are just blatantly honest. When you have to break somebody’s heart, and you have to watch them slowly get it – that was awful.”

Whenever the band played the song live, Sticka would watch as her friends in the audience left the room, one by one, on the verge of tears, using a sudden need for a cigarette as an excuse.

In the song’s live recording, her own voice cracks multiple times, and she can still remember why. That night, a few of her friends who usually left the room when the song began stayed to listen.

They just stood there in front of her and cried.

“I’ll tell anybody anything, but I’m probably not going to tell you how I feel about it,” Sticka said. “On stage, I get to tell people how I feel. Watching other people respond with their faces, and dancing, and coming up afterwards and telling me, ‘This song made me feel this’ – it makes me feel whole.”

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The first track, “Over My Dead Body,” sounds like a Coldplay song rewired for Drake. His flows complement the unique beat wonderfully, and his lyrics are as clever as they’ve ever been. As the album plays on, the beats are exceptional and Drake sizzles on all of them.

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Thanksgiving break might be coming for students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but for Nebraska’s men’s basketball team, the break features two more games on NU’s difficult non-conference schedule.

“I don’t know that there’s a better schedule in the country,” NU coach Doc Sadler said.

Wednesday night the Huskers welcome their second Pac12 opponent on the season, Oregon, into town, and Saturday night NU will host South Dakota State University.

Sadler expects the Ducks, led by former Creighton coach Dana Altman, to be a challenge for NU. Oregon center Tony Woods, a transfer from Wake Forest, is itching for playing time.

Woods sat out last season in order to become eligible to play for the Ducks, and this season he’s started all three of the Ducks’ games. Woods is looking to make the most of playing time now, Sadler said. “(Oregon) is going to be a well-coached team that’s talented,” Sadler said. “They’ve got some talent that was sitting out last year. It’ll be a difficult ballgame, of that I’m sure.”

He also anticipates that the Ducks will keep the defensive pressure on NU, based on games Sadler coached against Altman in the past.

“Dana’s teams I’m sure are gonna press a bit,” Sadler said.

“Mostly play man-to-man, he’s going to have guys that can shoot the basketball.”

And that Oregon game is all NU is worrying about at the moment, even though it has to take on SDSU and then Wake Forest the following Wednesday as part of the Big Ten/ACC challenge.

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Brandon Richardson will look to continue his strong shooting this season, which has helped the Huskers start 3-0.

“We’re just getting ready for Oregon,” guard Brandon Richardson said. “That’s our biggest game, we’re just going to worry about them (this week) in practice. You can’t worry about other games because you just have to take care of the game that’s next.”

But once again NU will have to play without forward Andre Almeida, and at this point in the season Almeida’s progress on his knee injury has Sadler feeling pessimistic about his return to the court this season.

“Unless something drastically changes, Andre’s not going to play,” Sadler said. “Here it is almost December and it’s going to take Andre a month, so right now it’s not looking like he’s going to play at all.

So we’ll red-shirt him and see where he goes from there.”

Almeida’s absence aside, Sadler feels confident in his experienced team’s ability, even at the end of a close game.

There are multiple players that can take a shot and attack the rim, and this Husker squad is as offensively talented as any team he’s coached, through three games, Sadler said. And after the victory against Rhode Island he’s confident that his

team can put it through the hoop.

“If (guard) Caleb Walker goes 7-of-8 (shooting) most games, then we’re going to be in pretty good shape,” Sadler said. “But (guard) Dylan (Talley) can score; Brandon (Richardson) is shooting the ball.”

It all boils down to guard Bo Spencer’s ability to create good shots with his passing ability, Sadler said.

“When a shooter knows he’s going to get a good pass when he gets into a position to be open, they usually shoot better,” Sadler said.

Spencer credits his ability to pass to the shooters around him. He feels his teammates will always be looking for an open shot and that he can trust them.

And with that trust, Nebraska can get far in its inaugural Big Ten season, Spencer said.

“With the maturity we have anybody will take any big shot with the clock going down,” Spencer said. “It’s just confidence we’re developing and if we keep on winning and we keep on playing, the sky’s the limit for us.”

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After training for seven months, the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team is ready to compete again.

In their first meet since the 2011 NCAA Championships in April, the Huskers posted a score of 195.75 before an estimated crowd of 200 people at Mabel Lee Hall this past Friday.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln coach Dan Kendig said he was pleased with the results from his gymnasts.

“We had them compete in Olympic order and they did well in all four events,” he said.

“As a team they rallied and did a great job. We didn’t have everyone compete but they had great scores in all events and I was really impressed.”

The Husker women competed in the vault, bars, beam and floor events in their intrasquad meet.

“I was pleased with the crowd that showed up,” he said. “We had close to 300 people in Mabel Lee that night.

It was a great atmosphere.”

Sophomore Jamie Schleppenbach was the leading scorer in the vault event and said it felt great getting back on the mat.

“We trained all summer and preseason was pretty long,” she said. “It was pretty crowded and it felt great performing in front of a crowd, again.”

Fans got to see sophomore Emily Wong take home the allaround crown, as she tallied a 39.35 from all four events.

Schleppenbach said she saw only positive signs in her team’s first intramural meet.

“We didn’t have any major mistakes,” she said. “Everyone hit their routines and there were no falls. It was nice to see everyone get up there, hit their

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Jamie Schleppenbach led the Huskers in the vault event scoring during Nebraska’s Intrasquad meet on Friday. routines and have no mistakes.

It was a great sign.”

The meet featured four gymnasts who have earned AllAmerican honors during their career — senior Lora Evenstad, junior Kassandra Nathe, and sophomores Wong and Schleppenbach.

Although All-American juniors Janelle Giblin and Brittany Skinner didn’t perform, fans also got to see a couple newcomers in freshman Jessie DeZiel and senior Katelyn Busacker, a transfer from Ball State University.

DeZiel helped the US capture the gold medal at the Pan American games in late October.

Kendig said the true freshman and Busacker had great performances along with the rest of team and thinks the team has more depth compare to last year’s roster.

“Everyone hit their routines and did very well,” the coach said. “Now we go home for Thanksgiving and get ready for the second intrasquad meet in December.”

Kendig said the team has been working hard since the first day of school and said Friday’s meet was the first check

point in preparation for the 2012 season.

The coach added that if the team continues what it’s been doing the last few years, he thinks this year’s team has the potential to be better than last season’s roster.

“To do what they need to do they need to train year round,” Kendig said. “Our goal is to win the conference championship, get to the Super Six, finish in the top four, and like always, fight to win a championship.”

The team’s next Intrasquad meet will be held Dec. 9 at the Devaney Center.

Schleppenbach said the break comes at a great time for the team.

“The break will be nice to get healthy and take care of injuries,” she said. “I think between the break and the second intrasquad meet we’re going to work on cleaning up and getting ready for competition settings.

“We won’t change much; we’ll just work on getting adjusted for real time competition so when we go to the Devaney we’ll be ready.”

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Many coaches rely on senior leadership for success.

Nebraska women’s swimming coach Pablo Morales, on the other hand, doesn’t.

With strong performances by several underclassmen over the weekend, the Nebraska placed fourth at the TYR Invitational in Chicago, Ill. A number of young Huskers played a role in Nebraska’s respectable performance.

For starters, freshman Kelly Dunn surprised the eight-team field — along with her coaches — with a third-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle. She also made an impact in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing seventh.

Dunn wasn’t the only freshman to make some noise. Rebekah Land also contributed two top-eight finishes that day, posting sixth and seventh place finishes in the 50- and 100-yard backstroke events. She was also a part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team that finished second.

“We had some of our younger girls step up,” said assistant coach Doug Humphrey. “I was pretty surprised, but I’m really excited for them.”

Another Husker underclassman posted some impressive numbers, but her performance didn’t draw any surprise.

Sophomore Bailey Pons — last year’s Husker swimmer of the year — came into the invite with three first-place finishes in last weeks match against the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

“She’s not the vocal leader on the team,” Humphrey said.

“But she comes in, day in and day out, and puts up big numbers.”

The sophomore from Cedar Falls, Iowa earned a runner-up finish in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing just three seconds behind Northwestern’s Meredith King. Teammate Morgan Flannigan, a sophomore from Millard West, finished seventh in the event. In the 200-yard freestyle, Pons posted a sixth-place finish. Perhaps one of the more surprising performances of the weekend was that of sophomore Shannon Guy. Her lowest finish came in the 200-yard butterfly, an event she dominated in last week’s match against UNO. This week she placed sixth. Her next two events earned her third (100-yard butterfly) and fourth (50-yard breast stroke) place finishes.

The always reliable Hayley Martin posted two second-place finishes (50-yard freestyle, 400yard freestyle relay) and two fourth-place finishes (50-yard backstroke, 50-yard freestyle).

The junior also placed sixth in

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the 100-yard back stroke.

Martin’s contribution at TYR, and essentially over the fall season, hasn’t gone unnoticed.

“Hayley continues to impress, continues to get better,” Humphrey said. “She always steps up and does very well for us.”

The TYR Invitational offered the Huskers their first glimpse of Big Ten action. Out of the seven other teams competing, two were from the Big Ten, including Northwestern and Illinois. These two conference foes finished the invitational at first and second, respectively.

Although Nebraska finished fourth overall, some could argue that the diving team’s absence became a factor in the final score. The divers didn’t make the trip to Chicago. The Huskers only finished 177 points behind Illinois, so when you factor in three events in which the Huskers didn’t compete at all, it certainly could have had an impact.

Instead of competing at the TYR, the diving team will travel to Iowa City, Iowa on Dec. 2 to participate in the Iowa Invitational. Payton Michaud, Kaitlan Walker and Alyson Ramsey will get their first taste of Big Ten action. The swimmers won’t daily nebraskan compete again until Dec. 15 at the U.S. Diving Nationals.

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It’s called going the extra mile.

It can be applied to helping out someone in need or exerting an ounce more of effort to achieve a better result. In the case of the Nebraska women’s rifle team, though, the extra mile is about improving in the 54 days before its next match.

Against now-No. 11 Ohio State Saturday, the No. 14 Huskers fell by a final tally of 4,6194,605.

The dual was NU’s last in Lincoln for the season, and Nebraska won’t be in action again until they face Memphis on Jan. 15.

As a team, the Huskers’ struggles in the smallbore portion of the event continued. Only one Husker, junior Joyce Kim, was able to top the 580-point mark in smallbore.

“We have to improve the score, plain and simple,” NU coach Morgan Hicks said.

And while not one shooter from Ohio State shot more than 580, no one shot worse than 565 – and NU was forced to put sophomore Sunny Russell’s score of 559 toward the team total.

Smallbore has hindered Nebraska throughout the season.

NU senior Katelyn Woltersdorf said that in particular, the team

has suffered from bad performances in the kneeling position of the event.

“My smallbore wasn’t where I wanted it to be,” she said.

However, Nebraska did come in with good scores in the air rifle part of the competition.

Senior Sheena Mahloch led the way with a 584, while Russell, sophomore ReAnn Wilson and junior Janine Dutton followed with scores of 580, 579 and 578, respectively.

Woltersdorf said a good attribute of the Huskers’ showing against OSU was that no individual performance drastically outshined the rest.

“We were more consistent and together as a team,” Woltersdorf said.

After a 1-6 record (which has no bearing in whether the team qualifies for nationals or not) in the fall half of its season, Nebraska will have a month and a half to prepare for its next outing.

Woltersdorf said the most frustrating part of the season so far has been shooting sixes and sevens (out of 10) every once in a while.

“We are dropping two, three, four points in one shot,” she said. “We just need to work on shooting one shot at a time.”

Hicks said the short offseason will be good for NU. “We need a break,” Hicks

football: from 10 he has done everything in his power to help us out.”

Some worry if the program is stalled on the field, though, unable to get over a hump.

The Huskers’ loss to Michigan brought up an ongoing wound: Nebraska has lost three games in the regular season for the third time in four years. They’ve lost to an un-ranked team at home in each of Pelini’s four campaigns.

Pelini pointed to the Huskers’ conference records. In the Big 12, they had either a share or outright ownership of their division title.

“This year it didn’t happen for us,” Pelini said. “We have had some tough times. We have had a lot of injuries. We have had some things happen to us, but our kids are still coming out and representing the program the right way.”

The walk-on program was discussed in length Monday.

Callahan essentially did away with a program that was considered vital in the Huskers’ championship years of the 1990s.

Bringing back such a tool was important to Pelini.

“I think it is a testament to the

players and how hard they’ve worked and developed,” Pelini said. “It speaks to the type of commitment they’ve given. You go across the board and see a lot of guys who have contributed. Some of them have given up scholarship money and such, and it shows the type of young men they are.”

Regardless of his defenses, there are still naysayers. Cassidy understands some believe that nine wins aren’t enough.

“We respect what the fans have to say and we appreciate their support, but we have to do what we have to do to prepare for the next week or move on. That’s really what our focus is at.”

Cassidy knows one thing for sure: Things have changed those who have been in the program for four years.

“Not much is the same around here from when we first got here,” Cassidy said. “We stuck together, we stuck through it and it’s going to be one of the most memorable things in my life to go out with those guys one more time.” jeffpacker@ dailynebraskan.com

Big ten homeroom 1. Michigan State (9-2, 6-1 Big Ten) at Northwestern The Spartans took care of business last weekend against an Indiana team desperate for the season to be finished. And in doing so, wrapped up the Legends Division and punched its ticket for Indianapolis.

2. Penn State (9-2, 6-1) at Wisconsin Penn State goes on the road to Madison for a de facto Leaders Division championship. The Nittany Lions earned a good win against the Buckeyes last week, effectively knocking Ohio State out of the division race.

due to many miscues. The loss to Michigan knocked Nebraska out of the Legends division race and BCS bowl contention. The Huskers’ new rivalry against the Hawkeyes begins Friday and is the final opportunity to improve its standing with bowl representatives.

6. Ohio State (6-5, 3-4) at Michigan Ohio State was knocked out of the Leaders Division race by the Nittany Lions, who seem more comfortable on the road than in Happy Valley, where many questions still surround the program. The Buckeyes are now simply playing for a better bowl game and trying to keep its sevengame win streak against Michigan intact.

9. Purdue (5-6, 3-4) at Indiana Purdue enters the final week of their season, needing one more win to become bowl eligible. The Boilermakers are winless on the road this season, but the Hoosiers are winless against the FBS this season. At least somebody gets a win here.

10. Illinois (6-5, 2-5) at Minnesota The Illini, after a 6-0 start, have lost five straight. The Illini gave Wisconsin a scare in the first half last weekend but then allowed the Badgers to score 21 unanswered in the second.

11. Minnesota (2-9, 1-6) vs. Illinois Minnesota has been very inconsistent. They almost 7. Iowa (7-4, 4-3) at beat USC and Michigan Nebraska State and pulled off an The Hawkeyes finally took upset against Iowa, but care of their road woes, lost to North Dakota State beating the Boilermakers in and New Mexico State.

West Lafayette. But Iowa’s They certainly have a season finale promises to chance to build some be a tougher test in the momentum by beating the day-after-Thanksgiving slumping Illini. matchup against the Husk4. Wisconsin (9-2, ers in Memorial Stadium, a 12. Indiana (1-10, 0-7) vs. Purdue 5-2) vs. Penn State stadium where the HawkThe good news here is Wisconsin wants to get to eyes’ record is 2-13-1.

Indiana is one game away Indianapolis and show ev8. Northwestern (6- from a fresh start. The eryone that the Michigan last (and only) win came State loss was just a fluke. 5, 3-4) vs. Michigan monday, november 21, 2011 against South Carolina State But the Badgers have to State on Sept.

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The The Wildcats have made go through a team that Hoosiers latest loss was lost to Nebraska the same quite a late-season push, a 55-3 loss at Michigan week longtime coach Joe winning their last four State, which is lower than Paterno was fired and was games. They must now the 59 points surrendered beat only by Alabama prior take on the Legends to Wisconsin and NorthDivisions champions, the to that. western. Hopefully the Michigan State Spartans, 5. Nebraska (8-3, offseason treats Indiana who have lost two of their 4-3) vs. Iowa better than conference four road games this seaThe Huskers’ last road play has. son, falling to Notre Dame game in the Big Ten ended in September and Nebraska — Compiled by Matt Zvolanek like its first: a blowout loss in October.

3. Michigan (9-2, 5-2) vs. Ohio State Michigan routed a Nebraska team at home that appeared to be struggling after an emotional win against Penn State the previous week. For the Wolverines, an at-large BCS bid is likely, as long as Brady Hoke’s team can beat the Buckeyes.

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Travel can serve many purposes. It can be a fundamental aspect of one’s career, or it can provide an escape from the daily grind.

For Czech students Jirka Miklosy and Ludek Klucina, travel is a means of receiving a quality education.

“I want to put what I’m learning toward my career,” said. “It’s Miklosy said.been a long season so In the Czech Republic, far.”

Klucina is an undergraduWoltersdorf, ate To international businessthe winter major, Miklosyanis opportunibreak while represents pursuing his masters in inwhile dealing with legal issues. Nebraska how competitive the matches are against Iowa (1ty for hertechnology team to and improve and formation But none of that fazed the Big Ten is in its sports across 17 in Big Ten play) and Northbusiness.

Because they are attain the level of performance only at the University of Huskers. And Werth is proud the board. western (6-12 in Big Ten play) it wishes to.

Nebraska-Lincoln for a year, of how NU responded to adCook remains cautious.

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But it isn’t over. mousetraps,” Cook said. name atop the standings at Jirka Miklosy, an informational technology master’s student (left), and Ludek Klucina, an undergraduate international business student (right), pull on their it“Because will beofable to find a better his commitAll done is NU just needs to get the win the end of the will be country’s flag while posing forNebraska a portrait nov.has 18. The two became fast friends when theyseason met at UnL. ment to democracy and free comfort zone when competimarket economics, Paul Miklosy said, smiling.given network of grumpy.”

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“For (eight) years nobody opportunity, to spend a ate Nebraska in a number “I had to spend my first lic, Miklosy said. of shot in a month and a half,’” year studying in the Unit- ways. here been withoutable my fam“Every time they need to remember “And that’s all itwhen is, we an(my op-day has to win the Big thingNehvizdy ed States,” the said. description Woltersdorf “It’s as if“It’sI nevtotally different (than family and I) eat, we eat to- ily, and I was homesick,” reads. if things get rough over the portunity,” he got Ten except for Miklosy said.

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Czech the nicer here — more friendly. weekends, every lunch and national students, came to TheRepublic, Huskersbutwant to work quality of education is much People are very kind.” And dinner room and stayedThere’s there eat together, un- ismy lenge “It may not be perfect every that weopportunity there. also a big hard in order to find this men-said he agreed. lower,” Klucina said. with me. It was very nice like here.”

Klucina Brno night,” Cook said.

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Although Huskers dropped three games to conference opponents, coaches and players are determined to be sure season finishes strong Dan Hoppen Daily Nebraskan

Bo Pelini often looked frustrated during Monday’s press conference as reporters lobbed questions about why he didn’t play Brion Carnes or how he’s handled the roller-coaster performance of his team.

But, unlike in some of his earlier years, he held that frustration in, refraining from hostile retorts for the most part.

Until the last question.

A reporter had the guts to ask the NU coach what his team had to play for this weekend now that the Huskers’ chances of winning the Big Ten or even the Legends Division have evaporated.

Pelini remained calm, but didn’t bother disguising his displeasure.

“It amazes me that people could ask that question,” Pelini said.

“Obviously, when you’re an athlete, you compete to compete. It isn’t always about trophies. There is a lot that plays into it.

When you go to compete, you go to compete.”

There were no further questions.

It’s been an up-and-down season for the Huskers.

There were victories against Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State that had the Huskers dreaming of Big Ten trophies and BCS bowls. Deflating losses to Wisconsin, Northwestern and Michigan shook NU awake.

The Huskers won’t be making a trip to Indianapolis this year, nor will they be attending the Fiesta Bowl.

Reportedly the Fiesta Bowl organizers were salivating at the opportunity to pair NU

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Coach Bo Pelini surveys the field during Nebraska’s loss to Michigan at Michigan Stadium Saturday.

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Safety Austin Cassidy pursues Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson. Despite not competing in the Big Ten Championship game Cassidy says the team is still motivated. against Oklahoma.

Running backs coach Ron Brown admitted that’s a tough reality for the team to accept. The Huskers made it clear at the beginning of the season that one of their goals was to win the Big Ten. But according to Brown, the Huskers’ psyche will be very much intact come Friday’s match-up with Iowa.

“This time a year, it’s an act of the will,” Brown said after Saturday’s loss. “That’s not an excuse. You’ve got to dig down deep.”

Brown knows a thing or two about winning. He was a coach on all three national championship squads in the 1990s, all of which had perfect records.

But 18 times, Brown’s team fell short of its ultimate goal. And Brown said these

are the times when you truly learn what your team is made of.

“Three out of 21 doesn’t sound like a very good percentage, but that’s how it is in this game,” he said. “If you’ve got any character at all, you fight back. You still have an opportunity to have a great season and be in a very respectable bowl game.

You’ve got to learn how to learn how to fight back.”

That fight begins this Friday when new post-Thanksgiving rival Iowa comes to Memorial Stadium. The Hawkeyes have also fallen short of some of their goals and sit in third place in the Legends Division with a 7-4 overall record.

But Iowa is dangerous, particularly on offense.

First-year starter James

Vandenberg has thrown 23 touchdowns and just five interceptions and receiver Marvin McNutt is first in the conference in receiving touchdowns and yards.

So while some reporters may question it, the Huskers know they still have a lot to play for Saturday. There’s a chance to finish with nine or more wins for the fourth straight year and the opportunity to improve itself in the eyes of bowl scouts.

“This game means a lot for us on a lot of different levels,” Cassidy said. “This is huge for us. It’s going to determine probably where we end up going in the postseason, so there’s no time to reflect too much. We’ve got to learn from what happened and move on.”

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Four years ago, Nebraska was preparing for a season finale in Boulder, Colo., but many were looking at how far things had fallen. Doubts filled the air.

The future of an athletic director had already been decided and the end of a coach’s time was all but certain. The walk-on program was widely considered to be nonexistent.

Many streaks in school history had come to an end as well.

Fast forward to Monday.

Some doubts are rearing their heads, compounded by difficulties the Huskers have faced this season as well as in the past three under NU coach Bo Pelini. He’s not worried about outside perception.

“I don’t really care what is out there,” Pelini said. “What I concern myself with is where the program is right now, and I’m proud of where it is right now.”

Pelini was quick to mention his pride in his players and the program’s progress.

“We are a better football team

and the program has made strides from where it was when I walked in the door here,” Pelini said. “Our players are doing well academically and our kids represent the state and university the right way. They’re a good representative of what you want this program to be about.”

Pelini has molded four teams now, guiding a group of seniors that will play their final game in Memorial Stadium this Friday. One of those is senior safety Austin Cassidy. A recruit of the Bill Callahan era, Cassidy has seen a lot of change. He’s had two different coaches and athletic directors. There have been three defensive secondary coaches in his time.

“I think we’ve come a long ways. I would say that culturally, it’s a completely different culture,” Cassidy said. “Like I said earlier, I think coach Bo is all about winning, but more importantly helping us out and turning us into good people.

And I would honestly say that

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Cook pushes Huskers down Lady Devils, 70-50 for outright win of Big Ten Laudermill, Jeffery hold SSU’s leading scorer to five below season average Andrew Ward

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With its victory against Wisconsin Saturday coupled with a Penn State win against Purdue, Nebraska volleyball clinched at least a share of the Big Ten Championship.

But a share of the Big Ten crown isn’t good enough for NU coach John Cook. He wants this volleyball team to win the first Big Ten Conference Championship for Nebraska athletics as a whole. “ We ’ r e not going settle and even talk about that we have a share of it,” Cook said. “We don’t want to share werth it, we’ve come this far, we want to find a way to win this thing.”

As the standing sit, No. 7 Illinois, No. 8 Purdue or No. 12 Penn State could join the Huskers as champions if NU loses both its matches this week and any of the three teams win both of theirs.

On Tuesday University of Nebraska-Lincoln goes on the road to face off against Iowa in Iowa

City, Iowa and on Saturday the Huskers travel to Evanston, Ill., to take on Northwestern.

NU went into this season not knowing what to expect. But how well Nebraska responded is a testament to the program in such a difficult conference, Hannah Werth said.

“It just goes to show Nebraska volleyball accommodates to change really well,” Werth said. “Being part of the Big Ten is something everybody has grown accustomed to, we love this conference because every single night you’re getting the best volleyball you can get.”

And Werth did her part to put NU in a position to at least share a piece of the Big Ten title this week. For the first time this season the junior received the Big Ten player of the week award.

Werth posted two doubledoubles with 14 kills and 17 digs Wednesday against Minnesota alongside 14 kills and 13 digs against Wisconsin Saturday.

After Werth’s struggles early in the season she was forced to wear glasses again, the team dropped an early season matchup to Mountain West opponent Colorado State, and Lauren Cook missed two games

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Savannah State University Ezinne Kalu entered Monday night’s game averaging 23 points a game. The way Husker freshman Tear’a Laudermill played defense, no one could tell.

The Nebraska women’s basketball squad took care of Kalu and Savannah State at the Bob Devaney Sports Center 70-50 to improve to 4-0 on the season. The match-up was also the last of a four-game home stand for Nebraska as it hits the road for its next four.

Laudermill along with fellow freshman Brandi Jeffery provided a nice spark off the bench for the Huskers as they shut down the Lady Tiger’s top scorer, Kalu. The duo frustrated her, leading to her scoring just 18 points on 42 percent shooting while committing six turnovers.

During the first half, Kalu had only six points and was visibly frustrated, especially when Laudermill was on the court.

“After watching film I knew she was a good player, and coach kept telling me to pick it up in practice,” Laudermill said. “I knew I had to respect her.”

Laudermill also caused three offensive fouls against

the Lady Tigers.

Originally from Riverside, Calif., Laudermill finished the game with nine points while Jeffrey added six points for Nebraska in addition to their defense.

Sophomore Jordan Hooper continued to lead the way for Nebraska, scoring 15 points. She also had a game-high eight rebounds, just two rebounds shy of her third straight doubledouble.

Big Ten Player of the Week junior Lindsey Moore was consistent scoring 10 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals.

Moore also helped out on defense, guarding Kalu with Laudermill and Jeffery.

Though freshman Emily Cady has not been a huge scorer so far this season, she has passed the ball well in the paint. She finished Monday night’s matchup tying a game-high four assists.

“Emily is starting to pass the ball really well,” coach Connie Yori said.

Despite the 20-point win, Yori said that the Huskers came out flat after a big win Friday against No. 23 USC. The youth of Nebraska’s team was the main reason it did not play as focused Monday, according to Yori.

“It was nothing strategically we did, but I definitely started to see some red flags,” Yori said. “We did not have a good shootaround and usually there is a direct correlation between that and the game. Mentally

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Nebraska’s Rebecca Woodberry holds off Ezinne Kalu.

Woodberry recorded nine points in 16 minutes in NU’s win. we just aren’t there yet.”

The older players did have a nice contribution to the game because of their maturity, according to Yori.

In addition to the play of Hooper and Moore, senior Kaitlyn Burke and junior Meghin Williams provided a nice spark. Burke finished with four points and Williams recorded six rebounds, five of which were offensive.

Nebraska will need to mature quickly as it enters a three game, nine-day stretch in the southeastern part of the country. The Huskers begin the stretch against Florida A&M on Friday and will stay in Florida to take on Florida State.

NU finishes up the stretch by traveling to Georgia for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge at Georgia Tech. Both the Yellow Jackets and the Seminoles are receiving votes in ESPN/USA Today’s

top-25 poll.

“These next three games are really going to challenge us,” Yori said. “I don’t think I have ever had a team that is going to miss this much school.”

For the Husker players, they are not worried about the challenge of the upcoming games because of the team’s chemistry, freshman Rebecca Woodberry said.

The combination of hustle players, smart players and key role players is perfect, according to Woodberry.

“Overall, we are gelling really well as a team,” Woodberry said. “Off the court, we are always busting jokes and I think that kind of chemistry can be seen on the court.”

Nebraska will travel during Thanksgiving to play at Florida A&M at 2 p.m. Friday afternoon.

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