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Program celebrates 40th anniversary MAREN WESTRA DAILY NEBRASKAN

In 1968, San Francisco State created the first Black Studies program.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln followed suit three years later by implementing the same program, which eventually evolved into African American and African studies.

The 40th anniversary of this program was last month, and the Institute for Ethnic Studies hosted four days of events to celebrate.

UNL is the only Big Ten University that doesn’t have an entire department dedicated to African American and African Studies, sometimes called Africana Studies. This is because of differences in structure and demand between UNL and these other universities, according to Jeannette Jones, an associate professor of history and ethnic studies.

“Part of (the reason UNL doesn’t have this department) is exposure,” Jones said, adding that she believes the university needs to improve advertisement of the program to students who aren’t in the College of Arts & Sciences. “I think it can only get better.”

From Oct. 19 to Oct. 22, various events to celebrate the 40-year anniversary included speeches, film clips and poetry readings demonstrating the value of African American and African culture.

The trend of studying these cultures began in the 1960s and 1970s as part of civil rights activism, according to Kwakiutl Dreher, an ethnic studies professor and one of the event speakers.

It wasn’t until 2005 that UNL began offering an ethnic studies major. African American and African

Studies are only available as minors, but Jones said she thinks this is changing, and that UNL could potentially create a major out of the program within the next three years.

According to Jones, the reason this hasn’t happened yet is because in the past, the department lacked a sufficient number of tenured professors.

As more professors joined the program, the number of courses increased as well. Shimelis Beyene, Dawne Curry and Alice Kang teach African Studies. Lory Dance, Patrick Jones, Gregory Rutledge, Dreher and Jones teach African American studies.

Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, director of the Institute for Ethnic Studies, says the program is becoming increasingly important as globalization occurs and interest in Africa spreads.

“There’s so much (a person can) do with this minor,” she said.

Though many students use what they learn in this program to help them when entering the fields of law, government, teaching or social work, both Dreher and Jones said this program is beneficial for any student.

“It makes you flexible in terms of the way you view the world,” Dreher said. “It gives you a broad knowledge of the world, which then can inform

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the w a y you interact with people.”

J o n e s agrees.

“I think this is a degree for everyone.”

They both said the program is as much about the skills as it is about the content. Students learn to read, interpret and understand in new ways, including with

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Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots around the world have protested against the power of money in politics and income inequality for almost two months. But for Occupy Lincoln, it was only a matter of time before protesters met a new foe: the Nebraska winter.

Wednesday, winter weather delivered its first strike, with winds from the north gusting at about 20 mph, temperatures a few degrees above freezing and a wintry mix of snow and rain. Wednesday afternoon, most protesters were at work and school. But it was apparent that Occupy Lincoln had taken a hit.

“I think it got cold and people scattered,” said Andrew Ivanhoe, shivering and clutching a cup of coffee as he stood alone, holding aloft a now plastic-covered cardboard sign that read “Fight corruption, not government,” on the Centennial Mall along L Street.

Occupy Lincoln’s tents, between 40 and 50 in number, extended down the mall in both directions from where he stood. The

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grass around them was coated with a wintry slush; about a third of the tents had at least partially fallen to the wind. One, in front of the State Office Building, was half-surrounded with water.

“This was expected,” said Ryan McCollum, a student at Southeast Community College.

Minutes before, he’d returned to his tent, half-collapsed, to find everything inside soaked, including a soggy textbook he needed for his next class.

“Definitely going to have to do some rethinking for this one,” he admitted, motioning at his tent. But when asked if he planned on staying anyway, McCollum, an Army Reserve member, used the same word: definitely.

“We all knew something like this would come about,” he said.

With that sentiment, McCollum echoed many of the protesters, who have been camping out in the public park since Oct. 15 in a prolonged demonstration of their political and

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It’s been a landmark year for the University of Nebraska Foundation.

The organization that collects private donations for the University of Nebraska system raised a record-breaking $172.1 million during the past fiscal year. According to a press release, this total marks the sixth consecutive year that donations have exceeded the $100 million mark.

“The Foundation’s extraordinary success is exciting news both for the University of Nebraska and the people of the state,” said James B. Milliken, president of the University of Nebraska. “The generosity and vision of our donors has positioned us to establish groundbreaking initiatives.”

Among the major projects and gifts donated during the past year is a $1 million scholarship endowment from World’s Foremost Bank, which is associated with Cabela’s, a gift to create the Buffett Early Childhood Institute and a donation of $1.2 million to support the engineering faculty at the University of NebraskaLincoln.

Robb Crouch, Director of Public Relations for the University of Nebraska Foundation, said the size of the gifts given by donors was very wide ranging.

“We had five to ten-dollar donations to multi-million

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dollar donations,” he said.

Crouch also said that the donations go to every college.

According to Crouch, one of the direct results of the donations has been a large number of scholarships and programs for students.

“Because of the gifts provided by donors, $23.6 million has been provided for students,” Crouch said. He also added that over 10,000 students in the university system receive financial aid as a result of these donations.

As for the cause of these record-breaking donations, Crouch pointed to confidence in the university and its future.

“Donors tell us they’re very excited in the direction

the university is going,” said Crouch. “They’re excited about the leadership on all campuses and are excited about UNL moving to the Big Ten and the athletic and academic opportunities that come from that.”

Crouch also believed that a big reason for the large number of donations was that the foundation is in what he called “campaign mode” for a project called Campaign for Nebraska that hopes to raise $1.2 billion to help the university system by 2014.

“We have been contacting

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Let the shuffling begin.

With goals to grow to 30,000 students, increase graduation rates and hire more faculty and staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by 2017, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced the realignment of the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs divisions on Oct. 28.

“I hope this will signal (to) the campus as a whole that there is a need to rethink everything we do and to become almost fanatical in working to grow and enhance the academic profile of the university,” Perlman said in his realignment announcement.

Under the realignment, the following offices move to Academic Affairs: • Admissions • Registration and Records • Scholarships and Financial Aid Student Affairs will oversee the following offices and others: • University Housing • Campus Recreation • Nebraska Unions • University Health Center • Student Involvement • Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services (OASIS) Perlman and his colleagues said the realignment will not affect day-to-day operations of the offices, but rather will increase communication as the university aspires to become like its Big Ten peers.

“This isn’t a creative change by any means,” Perlman told the Daily Nebraskan. “It’s the kind of thing other institutions have done for a long time,” he said.

Other than Northwestern University — a private university of 20,541 students in 2010 — every Big Ten school has adopted a similar structure, he said. Discussions about realigning into the Big Ten model began in October, Perlman said.

With realignment, Academic Affairs will focus on enhancing the academic experience through dean and faculty communication, he said. Student Affairs, on the other hand, will look to expand overall student engagement, focusing on the international and nonresident student experience in particular, Perlman said.

Alan Cerveny, Dean of Admissions, said the need for better collaboration became evident after Perlman’s address two months ago.

“We need to be proactive, not reactive,” Cerveny said.

A bigger university will require increased enrollment efforts. But Cerveny said it’s not just about getting more students here. Admissions needs to not only help the individual colleges recruit, but it also needs to ensure classes are open and financial aid is available to the new students when they arrive, he said. All that comes with open

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Imprints remain on the Centennial Mall where Occupy Lincoln tents once stood. In the background, others bear the marks of Wednesday’s north winds. Some protesters packed up temporarily, some returned home for good; but still more, including local college students, said they’d stick around as long as they could. dan holtmeyer | daily nebraskan

Jessica Lienemann fights against the wind and rain yesterday to pull an Occupy Lincoln tent, one of several that had collapsed, back upright Wednesday afternoon on the Centennial Mall, close to M Street. The 29-year-old said she’d packed up her own tent a few days before out of concern over the weather, but still visits the camp often.

economic frustration.

Still, many members remain undaunted despite the weather. Some, including a Marine veteran, have coldweather experience, and the camp has had seminars on preparation for the imminent chill. The camp has also seen a steady stream of coats and blankets, donated

by supportive Lincoln residents and quickly put to use.

But for some protesters, those apparently weren’t enough. Several rectangular patches of yellowed grass, where tents once stood, were visible among the multicolored domes.

“I think knowing and actually doing are two different

things,” Ivanhoe said. “This is the first time I’ve done this in rain and snow.”

Some might have left for only the day to avoid the weather, said Brian Ellis, 31, who joined the movement at its beginning in protest of the country’s income inequality and what he called money’s “corrupting

influence” in politics.

Others are like him, Ellis said: He isn’t camping out, partly because of weather concerns, but comes to camp often to help organize its plans and several committees.

Down the mall, Jessica Lienemann, 29, was trying to pull a collapsed red tent back upright, shaking off snow from the canvas. She’d been camping until a couple of days ago, when she decided to pack up her tent and support the movement from her nearby home. Even though

Nebraska community blood banks seeking O-negative donations conor dunn daily nebraskan

Blood banks in Nebraska and across the U.S. are making a desperate call to action to find O-negative blood-type donors.

“There has been an unusually large number of blood transfusions from three local hospitals in the past three weeks,” said Joyce Halvorsen, the communications director at the Nebraska Community Blood Bank.

Halvorsen said last week the blood bank was down to the single digits in the amount of O-negative blood they store.

The blood bank had to request six units of blood from its partners in Minnesota.

“It was really frightening,” she said. “That may not seem like a lot of blood, but it was enough to cause a struggle for them as well.”

O-negative blood can be given to any blood type in an emergency. However, O-negative patients can only receive O-negative blood. Some Onegative donors are donating as often as they are allowed.

This includes Jennifer Snyder, the marketing coordinator of the University Health Center at the University of NebraskaLincoln, who said she has donated around four to five gallons of blood in her lifetime.

“It’s an easy and good thing to do,” Snyder said. “You can help four lives by one donation.”

According to Halvorsen, a common problem among today’s society is that 75 percent of the population doesn’t know its blood type.

“That’s why it’s best if people come in and donate so that they can figure that kind of information out,” she said. “The entire process only takes about an hour, and to be honest, the actual donation takes only about five to seven minutes.

The rest of that time is filling out paperwork, eating cookies

and drinking water.” donating blood Halvorsen said college students are ideal donors because Donor requirements they are generally the healthiest. A first-time donor also re1. Be 17 years or older. ceives either a free “I Bleed 2. Weigh 115 pounds or more.

Husker Red” or “True Legends Bleed Husker Red” shirt.

3. Have general good health.

“The good thing about our 4. Present an official photo ID. downtown collection site is that it’s close to campus, so stuNebraska community blood bank dents can walk there with no collection sites problem,” she said. “We also offer a free lunch every day to 100 N. 84th St. those who donate.”

2700 Fletcher Ave. Jessica Ann Hellwig, a freshman pre-elementary education 2917 Pine Lake Rd. major and O-negative student 131 S. 13th St. said she wishes she could donate blood, but can’t because of medical reasons.

“I only have one accessible something about actually see- born three months premavein running through both ing my blood coming out of turely and weighed less than half a gallon of milk together, my arms and my doctor says I my body that freaks me out.”

Halvorsen said that Rezac’s Halvorsen said. need it for emergencies,” Hell“They had to go through nunervousness is also common wig said.

Halvorsen said Hellwig’s sit- and it’s a mentality that can merous transfusions in order sometimes be to survive,” she said. “Blood uation is not unimpossible to donations could very well give common. “Some It’s actually these twins their first birthday. overcome. people just have “This is If you think about that, the fear healthy for men poor veins,” why I ap- of needles is in the rear-view Halvorsen said. to donate their preciate the mirror. I understand how cerHalvorsen also blood because fact that our tain people may not want to be said that males staff are so poked by needles, but neither it reduces the in good health experienced,” do these kids who need blood are the ideal doamount of iron in H a l v o r s e n transfusions in order to live nor because men their systems. said.

“We’ll healthy lives.” have a higher Halvorsen said the O-negjust walk you amount of heJoyce halvorsen right through ative blood shortage isn’t just moglobin than nebraska community blood the process limited to Nebraska, it’s bewomen. bank communications director and try to come a nation-wide problem.

“It’s actually make you as She said that many researchers healthy for men are trying to figure out ways in to donate their blood because comfortable as possible.” which O-negative blood types According to Halvorsen, it reduces the amount of iron in their systems,” said Halvorsen. several people who come in would be able to receive blood Other college students get to donate blood experience universally, but that type of retoo nervous, which causes their the same kind of nervousness search is nowhere near complete. pulse to speed up and blood Rezac has gone through.

“This is about saving lives,” “I’d always ask these nervous pressure to drop, making them unable to donate blood at that folks why they kept coming she said. “If you are thinking time. Devon Rezac, a freshman back if they were so afraid,” about making a blood donaSpanish, German and pre-med she said, “and they’d tell me tion, please call the Nebraska major, said he would donate in that they just had to think of Community Blood Bank at a heartbeat if his body allowed that one baby or that one sick 877-486-9414 and we schedule child whom they knew would you an appointment and anhim to.

“I just can’t seem to calm be getting a second chance swer any questions you might down,” Rezac said. “I’m fine thanks to the blood they do- have.” conordunn@ with needles in relation to nated.” dailynebraskan.com Recently, a set of twins was tattoos and piercings, but it’s

she’s from Minnesota and used to cold, she said, she wasn’t ready to camp in it.

“We’re separating the men from the boys now,” said Jo Tetherow, 60, as she helped McCollum with his tent and surveyed the rest of the camp. There hasn’t been a shortage of blankets, she said, and she thinks the movement can handle the winter, though with some reservation.

“Do we have enough weather-worthy tents?

Good question,” Tetherow said. But she added,

“Mine’s still up. I’m staying here.”

On the north end of the mall, in front of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Andersen Hall, two UNL alumni sorted through their waterlogged storage tent. Their other two tents, which they share with several current students, withstood the cold rain.

“This isn’t a setback,” said Charles Holm, who graduated in 2009. “It’s an inconvenience.”

Even if everyone here leaves, he continued, the movement wouldn’t be stymied. They can support it from home, like some already do, or participate in the marches every Saturday at noon at the Nebraska Capitol Building. Other protests across the country will also likely have a milder winter.

“It won’t be a defeat,” Holm said.

In the meantime, at least one person will keep showing up and holding a sign, met by the occasional supportive honk from passing traffic.

“I’m going to try to stick it out,” Ivanhoe said through chattering teeth.

“Even if I’m the only one here.”

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FOUNDATION: from 1 more donors and more potential donors than ever before,” he said.

Milliken, in a statement, expressed the importance of organizations like the University of Nebraska foundation and their private donors.

“Private philanthropy plays a critical role in the

university’s ability to achieve its highest priority — maintaining affordable access for Nebraska students,” he said.

“Our donors’ generosity has made higher education more accessible for thousands of NU students. We cannot thank them enough for their tremendous support.” jordanmartin@ dailynebraskan.com

celebration: from critical thinking, research and presentations.

“These are skills that you can take into the workplace,” Jones said.

According to Jones, another important reason to offer this major is purely to satisfy student interest. She believes students should

take at least some of these courses, not only to further their careers, but to learn new and interesting content.

“The main goal of UNL is to be a place of learning,” Jones said.

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ACADEMIC: from 1 dialogue between the deans of Admissions, Scholarships and Financial Aid and Registration and Records, Cerveny said.

Opening communication now will help the various deans and departments reduce student body growth problems and ensure UNL doesn’t have “gotchas” along the way, he said. Cerveny said the old alignment wasn’t necessarily wrong, but under the new plan, each division has a chance to increase collaboration in their respective areas and also continue to work together.

Juan Franco, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, said realignment will magnify his division’s focus on students’ “day-to-day lives.”

“What they will realize is there’s much more opportunities to engage with us,” Franco said.

The new design, he said, will help UNL become a leading institution in student engagement as Student Affairs administrators hone in on retention and student life.

And some of that engagement has already begun.

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students and the E.N. Thompson Scholars, comprised of globally minded students, have met regularly this semester, he said.

That interaction should help bridge the gap that often exists between domestic and international students and help the campus experience for both groups.

UNL’s best days are ahead, according to Cerveny, and he hopes heads will turn when people hear about UNL’s strategic decisions.

“People across the country will say, ‘Wow! Look what’s going on at Nebraska,’” he said.

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Grad student issues focus of ASUN meeting

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Michaela Sova, a senior broadcast major, walks across campus during the first snow of the school year. “I hate it,” Sova said. “It’s really cold. I wish I could be back in shorts.”

Newman Center holding Eucharistic Procession Justice Jones Daily Nebraskan

Thursday, the University of Nebraska’s Newman Center will hold its fifth annual Eucharistic Procession beginning on campus at the center.

The UNL Eucharistic processional was started in 2006 by a group of students and staff at the Newman Center, who were inspired by a video of a procession done in New York.

The Roman Catholic faith views the Eucharist as the “Body of Christ.”

“It’s a means of adoration, taking the body of Christ around to bless our campus,” said Zachary Kane, a senior history and political science major.

The Newman Center will be doing the processional to pray for the campus and its students and faculty members.

“I feel like it’s a good idea

that the Newman center is doing this,” said freshman psychology major, Philip Snow.

“Not only are they teaching other people about the Catholic Church, but it also shows how many of our student groups care about the campus.”

This event will begin with a 7 p.m. Mass at the Newman Center, 320 N. 16th St. It will then form into a processional around campus.

“We will take the body of Christ in a monstrance to three different altars around campus,” Kane said. “These altars were made by different student groups in the Newman Center.”

During the procession, students on campus will be able to witness members of the Catholic Church celebrating the Eucharist by singing songs, and stopping at the Nebraska Union and other areas on campus to listen to the benediction, a short prayer

for divine help recited by the head priest of the church, the Rev. Robert Matya, and assistant chaplain the Rev. Ben Holdren.

With the Newman Center growing, many students said they are looking forward to the processional, because of the large support that came from the campus last year.

“Some friends of mine told me that almost 400 students came to the event last year, which is pretty nice,” said freshman broadcast major, Carlos Barron.

Freshman journalism major, Raen Garcia, said although she isn’t Catholic, she is anticipating taking photos at the processional, because it will be candlelit.

“I am excited for the ceremony, because of the beauty of the processional,” Garcia said. justicejones@ dailynebraskan.com

The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska finished its meeting in less than an hour, and passed all of the bills presented. ASUN internal vice president Jeff Lopez, a senior chemical engineering major, encouraged senators to keep questions and discussion short so the town hall meeting could begin on time.

A large amount of discussion during the senate meeting centered around the issue of graduate student needs.

Jared Leighton, a member of the Graduate Student Association and a history graduate student, presented during open forum.

“What are the problems facing grad students?” Leighton asked the senate. “The main feeling is they don’t feel represented by the student government.”

A survey was given to graduate students about how ASUN had addressed their needs and their feelings about ASUN, Leighton said to the senate.

He listed four issues graduate students face: graduate student pay, the number of assistant positions, how student fees are used and the availability of travel funds.

These issues would be addressed by the Graduate Student Task Force, which was created with Government Bill #7.

“Their job is to bring a voice to the graduate student committee,” ASUN President Lane Carr said. “This is an ad hoc committee; it’s a completely outside thing just to provide an undergraduate voice.”

Carr, a senior political science and history major, said he feels the task force will be a success.

The task force would consist of nine members: up to two graduate student senators appointed by Carr, two graduate students appointed by GSA and four graduates and one undergraduate student appointed by Carr.

The findings of the group would be presented to ASUN on Feb. 29, 2012. However, concern was raised regarding the inclusion of an undergraduate representative. Leighton mentioned during open forum that many graduate students felt uncomfortable serving

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Government Bill #7 — Graduate Student Task Force Senate Bill #4 — East Campus Task Force Government Bill #8 — Money Smart Week issues Bylaw H reworded a section of the bylaws concerning special committees within ASUN so any special committees can be appointed in a more timely matter.

This bill creates a Graduate Student Task Force, which will represent the graduate students at UNL and bring their concerns to ASUN. The task force will also determine the best way to address graduate student needs.

This bill re-establishes the East Campus Task Force, which actively seeks ways to better East Campus through academic services and other general improvements.

This bill was brought to ASUN as emergency status and encourages students to take part in the Money Smart Week. votes Passed Passed Passed Passed among undergraduate senators. The reasoning was that the graduate students might be the instructors of some of the senators or a member of the executive board.

“What’s important about the undergrad situation is most of our graduate students are straight from undergrad,” said Sen. Clay Livingston, a graduate business student. “I think this undergrad position will create a continuity of information flow that won’t get lost anywhere.”

The other three bills were passed unanimously and required little to no discussion.

The Diversity Strategic Development Committee was in charge of the town hall meeting and spoke to the diverse students on campus. About 25 nonASUN members attended the meeting.

Student groups addressed in the presentation were

nontraditional students, students with disabilities, the veteran student community, female students, international students, LGBTQA students and the religious student community.

Each member of the diversity committee presented basic information about each group, addressed issues and answered questions from those who came to the meeting. Questions were written on flashcards and brought to the front.

Emily Koopman, DSDC chair and a senior economics and marketing major, felt the night went well and served as a learning experience.

“We spoke as a committee after the meeting and we just feel this is a wake-up call,” Koopman said. “Knowing there are students who want us there, it breaks the barrier.”

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Contrary to media portrayal, Chinese invest in US prosperity

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ews that makes China sound bad is generally popular among American media. Some of the most popular topics may include “China holds huge amount of American debt,” “Chinese steal Americans’ jobs” and “Chinese government manipulates its currency.”

Media usually tend to describe events in a way that fits their agenda. Some of them just don’t like the fact that China is improving.

They see China as a threat, as an enemy. No matter what China does, they would find a way to criticize the country. As a result, the general public tend to believe that China isn’t a good country.

They’d have you believe that Chinese people prefer to do business that undermines the American future.

There is nothing wrong with getting information from media, including some biased news sources. However, it’s just not a good idea to trust whatever the media say. You have to think for yourselves.

Recently, an article published in the Wall Street

Journal was titled “One Loser in U.S. Presidential Polling: China.” The article discusses how American political parties believe China is the source of many American problems.

If you haven’t noticed, you can pretty much blame China for everything nowadays. For example, the recent American economic slowdown could also be a fault of China. Some people would say that because the Chinese government manipulates its currency RMB (Renminbi, the name of Chinese currency), products made in China would be cheaper compared to those made in the U.S. As a result, the U.S. has more imports from China and fewer exports to China.

In other words, the U.S. is losing money in its trade with China. When there is a deficit, the U.S. government has to borrow, which leads to the great U.S. national debt issue. As you may see from the news during the last several months, the trade deficit and the national debt have been in the headlines.

So, the belief some people hold today is if the U.S. could push the Chinese government to increase the value their currency, then all the problems in America will be solved in minutes.

If you are familiar with history, this kind of blame has been around for a while. Between the end of World War II and the collapse of the USSR, the threats were from the Soviet Union. After the 1990s, the competition comes

from Japan. After 2001, when China joined the World Trade Organization, China started to become cited as a reason for many problems. It seems like whenever a country becomes prosperous, the media would prefer to see that place bring threats instead of opportunities. Maybe, it will be better for both sides if opportunities become highlighted.

If you are familiar with the idea that China has taken Americans’ jobs away, then you should also think about how Chinese students bring jobs to America. According to The Christian Science Monitor, 130,000 Chinese students were studying in the U.S. in 2009. This means they will generate demands for everything, especially in education industries.

These aren’t exact numbers, but they should be reasonable. Let’s assume all those Chinese students are living right around the U.S. poverty line. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, that is about $10,830 per person per year. With 130,000 of them, this number will turn into $1,407,900,000 per year.

Where do they spend the money?

Not surprisingly, the students will put their money into their education first.

That will increase demand in higher education. This will generate many job opportunities in American higher education institutes. And many of those new jobs are well paid. As a result, we

might have enough evidence to say that while low-payment manufacturing jobs are shipped to China, better-paid jobs in the university are generated by the increasing number of Chinese students.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln an international student can expect to pay about $36,464 for a year of schooling, according to UNL’s estimated tuition webpage. That’s just tuition and other school expenses!

If you pay attention, you will find Chinese students in restaurants, bookstores and coffee houses. Those are consumptions “imported” from China, but it eventually generates GDP (Gross Domestic Product) right here in the United States. This is a fact that’s not mentioned by many media outlets.

There are many differences between the U.S. and China. And definitely, the unbalanced trade generates conflict, but we shouldn’t always focus on these issues. China is the largest foreign holders of treasury securities, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Every Chinese person has a share in U.S. prosperity. To some extent, that shows China’s trust in U.S. economy and U.S. government.

A developing China would be beneficial to America as well. Just look at the education sector when there are more Chinese students studying in America: More well-paid jobs in higher education institutes

will be generated to replace jobs losses in the manufacture section.

The development of China could be a threat but also could be an opportunity. It might depend on how you look at it. An increasing supply from China might hurt

the low payment manufacturing jobs in the U.S., but an increasing demand from a prosperous China could benefit America as well.

Jiajun (Abe) Xu is a Junior Finance & Economics major.

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Special session of Legislature requires order

Since Gov. Dave Heineman called for a special session of the Nebraska Legislature late last month, much debate has been made in the media about whether the session will be able to take any significant action in the Keystone XL pipeline debate.

One thing that has become apparent to the Daily Nebraskan, however, is that there won’t be any action possible unless senators can move a bill through the Legislature quickly. The only problem? There has been little preparation, focus on direction or discussion of what powers the Legislature has on the impact of a potentially passed bill.

The disorganization of this special session is disturbing. In Tuesday’s session, Sen. Annette Dubas of District 34 became the first to introduce a bill, according to the Daily Nebraskan. KHAS-TV reported Wednesday evening that two more bills had been introduced, one by Sen. Bill Avery and one by Sen. Chris Langemeier.

While the introduction of bills is a key step in the legislative process, the Daily Nebraskan wonders if the process taken was the most efficient means of organizing state senators in this critical session. It has become apparent that senators haven’t been advised properly of their abilities in this unique case.

With the end of the Keystone XL project in the near future, it’s imperative that the Legislature be able to exercise all political options for examining the pipeline’s placement in Nebraska.

By entering this session so unprepared, the state has taken a step back in being a voice for the people, and the Daily Nebraskan hopes the Legislature will enter future special sessions more prepared.

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acebook knows who you talk to, what you’re listening to and where you are. Because of this, privacy watchdogs are quick to jump on Orwellian allusions.

These don’t exactly stack up.

Facebook keeps us connected and social like never before, and humans are social creatures. But what if the Facebook of the future could actually read minds? Resisting the acceleration of technology is as counterproductive as it is futile. But profound shifts are closer than many think, and recent innovations suggest a future worth preparing for.

On Oct. 27, Martin Dresler published a study in “Current Biology” that used lucid dreaming to match specific brain activity to dreams. Lucid dreamers are able to control their dreams, almost as if awake.

Most people experience this at some point, though it usually doesn’t play out as spectacularly as “Inception.” Still, many have learned how to perfect the skills to manipulate lucid dreams, and scientists are learning a great deal from the phenomenon.

Dresler asked participants to shift their eyes left to right two times to show they were ready to begin the experiment. Eyes are easy to track, because they stay active while the rest of our body stays limp. After this, participants were asked to clench their left hand 10 times in their dream, then their right hand 10 times. Their actual hands, of course, stayed motionless. It may help to picture Leonardo DiCaprio to keep things straight. The participants signaled that they had completed their sets by twitching their eyes as before.

The images from fMRI and near-infrared spectroscopy showed the same neurological traces as if the participants had actually been clenching their fists. Theoretically, this is common sense. But it was the first time science has shown that the brain behaves while sleeping as if it is awake.

Reading and explaining dreams is close to becoming a reality. The implications are thrillingly reminiscent of Isaac Asimov’s short story, “Dreaming Is a Private Thing,” in which “dreamies” can be recorded, marketed and shared like films.

On Oct. 11, “Current Biology” published another study, which linked fMRI machines to researchers watching a

cameron mount bombardment of YouTube and film clips.

One of the films was “The Pink Panther” remake, which may explain why the researchers couldn’t recruit volunteers. Jack Gallant and his research team were then able match fMRI images to the clips, frame by frame, and look for correlations. After feeding their computer 5,000 additional hours of YouTube clips, they were then able to construct what the corresponding fMRI patterns would look like.

The last step for the researchers was to spend two more hours in the fMRI machine, watching a new set of movie trailers. By looking at the reactions of the researchers’ visual cortices frame by frame, the computer was able to reconstruct what the film clips looked like from the fMRI scans alone. The results, while of course fuzzy, are surprisingly recognizable. The videos can be viewed at gallantlab.org, and if nothing else, it proves that “The Pink Panther” can be entertaining, an incredible feat of science in itself.

In the third study, published in August in “Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,” Francisco Pereira applied Gallant’s premise to thoughts rather than images. While Pereira’s findings are at a cruder stage than the other experiments, together they show the amazing ways in which their findings will be able to build off each other.

Pereira showed 60 pictures of labeled objects to nine volunteers, then had their brains scanned as the participants imagined those objects. His pattern-detection algorithms weren’t able to discern the exact objects the participants had seen, but they revealed the type of object. So, while they couldn’t tell a carrot from a stick of celery, they could discern that they were both vegetables.

While Gallant’s study mined YouTube, Pereira took advantage of Wikipedia. He was able to see how objects tended to

cluster in the gigantic online database and found that our brains naturally cluster information in a similar way.

The basis for mind reading is there, crude but quickly growing. And it isn’t being built from government plots to control and subvert. The building blocks are YouTube and Wikipedia, resources that are not just realities, but ubiquitous parts of our everyday lives. When mind-reading technology comes, it will slip into our culture in much the same way. Already, currently playing songs from friends pop up in my Facebook timeline, my phone provides GPS walking directions to any of my Google Latitude contacts, and recommendations of all kinds have been distilled to near-perfect algorithms. Vague premonitions have become tangible norms, and our social lives have adjusted with our basic senses of privacy intact.

We’ve smoothly adapted to some rather incredible innovations, which should ease how we receive scientific breakthroughs and only increase the push for innovation.

For the first time, we can imagine how technology like mind reading can make its way onto our newsfeeds and dictate the ways we socialize.

A chief concern is lying, which could realistically become a thing of the past.

Humans aren’t the only species to lie, and surviving in a social environment often demands it. Communication of all kinds, from parenting to comforting, involves a delicate interplay between personal feelings and expression. In a world of increasing publicity, our minds are one of the last places to hide.

But while mind reading has profound implications, there’s reason to expect cultural transitions, not seismic upheavals.

New social technology proves that perspectives shift much more smoothly than our dystopian predictions. Without lying, corrupt politicians would be weeded out, uncomfortable truths would be normalized and creative self-expression would enter a new era. Boundless possibility has started crystallizing into a concrete future, and there’s more reason than ever to be excited.

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

Gaming provides mental balance after years of changing

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ecently, I’ve been killing Mutalisks, building SCVs, queuing Marines and, in general, having to mine more minerals.

I started doing something that makes me feel like I’m back in the throes of eighth grade: playing Starcraft.

Of course, I haven’t regressed completely: This is Starcraft II, the sequel to the classic real-time strategy game.

It was released last July, more than a decade after the original, so I’m about a year behind the curve.

When I was a child, I played video games voraciously. I was a consummate Nintendo fanboy; I had Zelda T-shirts, four rumble paks, a GBA SP and also dabbled in various PC games, usually FPSs (Unreal Tournament) with the occasional RTS (AoE II) or RPG (Morrowind, FTW).

If this last paragraph was nonsense to you, I don’t blame you at all, but you’ve missed out what gave me a huge percentage of my childhood joy.

This was pretty much the only way I spent my free time from elementary to early high school, other than reading “Harry Potter” books. However, around 10th grade, things started to change. I eased out of my gaming tendencies, though not by choice,

really — it just sort of happened that way.

I started to spend most of my spare time with the solid group of friends.

I found myself reading more, using Facebook and doing schoolwork.

By 11th grade, I’d acquired a steady girlfriend, which pretty much spelled doom for all chances of serious gaming.

I think it’s remarkable how this change occurred; there’s no really solid reason that gaming stopped taking up virtually unending hours of my time. I didn’t have a moment when I came to a sudden realization of video games as some wasteful extravagance I needed to abandon. Nor did I have a moment where I mourned my lost love, gaming, to the harsh vicissitudes of high school obligations. Games just became less essential.

Over the years, I adopted an almost mystical view of how this happened: Maturity, capital M, stepped in. Maturity, a strange and magical force, simply imposed itself upon some of my habits and straightened them out.

Voila: increased maturity.

This theory strikes me as off. The previous statement in no way resembles how maturity works in my life presently. Maturity seems a cold, impossible ideal that hovers on the

Marc koenig distant horizon. I can’t ease into discipline. More often, it has to be struggled for daily, in small and nonglamorous victories.

So, new theory. I said earlier that video games became less essential to me. I think that word “essential” is apt here: I didn’t reject video games by conscious choice. It’s more that in the middle of high school I experienced some radical interior changes to my priorities and interests. These things, exterior to video games, altered what was essential to me.

Newly important was a sense of social belonging; I realized this by hanging out with friends. I came to understand, on some non-cognitive level, that I needed the feeling of purpose or growth. I realized this through choir, learning guitar, finding new music. Growing in understanding became essential, so I read on my

own time and engaged in my schoolwork more intently.

I’m not saying these things replace video games directly, nor that I purposely decided to change my priorities. The reality is that a certain desire for the kind of entertainment video games offered, while still valid, simply became more supplementary.

So why now? Why the return to video games after the previous rift?

Starcraft is still peripheral to my key interests, relationships and imminent graduation, which makes killing Zerglings all day a pretty tough thing to justify.

Starcraft is back in for the same reasons it was out: It registers with something vital. Video games were once the standard object into which I poured my time, desires and passion.

There are other things now, but video games still register with the a few needs.

Starcraft allows me to engage in difficult, mind-stretching problems. The stakes feel high but they are low. Like chess, the game allows one to engage parts of their logical, problem-solving skill set that aren’t necessarily engaged daily.

The reasons can be pragmatic, too: I’ve learned from Starcraft that many little actions over a period of time can

lead to huge differences in efficiency and overall success. Starcraft is all about management: time, resources, multitasking. Invaluable lessons, all.

And what’s perhaps the most persuasive reason is gaming is a hell lot of fun. Playing a few rounds of Starcraft is to the gamer roughly equivalent to going to a party on Friday night: a way to relax, blow off steam and engage in some mindless, repetitive happiness. And this, I argue, is a great thing.

Maybe this cycle recurs throughout life, like a pendulum. Wherever there’s the initial push toward responsibility and growth, it’s always countered with a natural response toward lightness and irresponsible fun.

I think that, probably, video games will always maintain a healthy corner of my inner life, whether their actual presence in my life is large or small.

They keep things balanced and stop my own perfectionistic cycle from getting out of hand.

And that, in a nutshell, is why I’ve ended up playing Starcraft again, after all these years.

It’s a blast. Maybe even an essential one.

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

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hen she was in fourth grade, Cali Daby rounded up the neighborhood kids and put on her own production of “Les Miserables.”

In the years since her neighborhood acting and directing escapades, the senior theater performance and directing management major, has intensely studied theater and is preparing to test her skills in the big league: New York City.

True to her theatrical nature, Daby goes above and beyond normal gesticulation and acts out every word when speaking, be it through facial expressions or slight movements in her chair. She speaks quickly and purposefully, pausing slightly before answering each question, holding the press

You have been wandering the desert for a week with no food, and in the distance you see an all-you-caneat pizza buffet.

off for a few more seconds.

From the time she saw a production of “Cats,” when she was 6 years old, Daby has had her heart set on becoming an actress, and specifically, an actress in New York City.

This was the role and the dream she inhabited throughout high school. And then Daby’s drama teacher gave her a list of schools to audition at and, in a sense, planned her future for her.

But she spent her freshman year as an undeclared major at Webster University in St. Louis in an attempt to plan her own life — a life away from theater — until she saw a rendition of “Anton in Show Business.”

And that was it.

“I called my parents and I was like, ‘I can’t do anything else; I

have to be in theater,’” she said.

She’s been at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since then and will be graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in December. Then it’s time to head to the city.

“We encourage all of our students to recognize the facts that if they want to be working actors they need to go to one of the cities where working actors are paid,” said Virginia Smith, associate professor of acting and directing at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.

But Broadway’s allure cannot turn Daby’s head — she has her sights set on nonmusical theater.

Ideally, she would like to work with new or contemporary pieces being produced in up-and-coming “theater communes,” which consist of a group of actors who write,

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Combining the indie sound and the American folk tradition is by no means an uncommon pairing. Jesse Wohlman certainly has his own take on the blend, however.

The Blair, Neb., native, is a junior music major at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Wohlman began his journey as a solo artist as a freshman in college and released his first EP, “From the Barn,” in the summer of 2010. He followed that effort with “The Deluge,” an album he intends to promote on tour this summer. And yet the road hasn’t been all that long yet for the musician who didn’t teach himself guitar until his sophomore year of high school.

“I never took lessons for voice or guitar until college,” Wohlman said.

And yet the steady rhythm guitar and Wohlman’s soaring vibrato don’t suggest any lack of experience.

His writing was spurred on by an interest in indie and folk music that he discovered when he started playing guitar. One artist especially, Andrew Bird, inspired Wohlman to create a similar genre of music.

“His music is accessible,

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You are minding your own business, chilling in the woods. You look up and discover you are surrounded by two dozen ninjas with weapons drawn.

produce, direct and act in their own shows, rotating responsibilities with every show.

Even her backup plan of directing or working as an audience development representative keeps her in the world of theater.

At this point, she aims to be packed up and moved to New York City sometime in January. Until she is able to find an apartment of her own, she will live in the apartments of other actors, who are currently off on tour.

Then it’s time to start working, and in her spare time, auditioning.

End of plan.

Daby shrugs, indicating that she knows the future is uncertain. She knows the risks. She knows she will audition more than she will act.

“I’m probably going to end up

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doing tiny little shows in 40-seat theaters,” she said. “But I’ll be in New York City.”

Actors sign up to live a “Bohemian lifestyle.” They drift between projects, spending a set amount of time in each, and then it’s time for the next gig. Sometimes priorities can become skewed in the pursuit of work.

One of her professors had to choose between paying her rent and getting new head shots, Daby said. She added that her professor chose to live with her brother for a while, much like Vincent Van Gogh frequently chose art before food.

A positive and unrelenting attitude is necessary to be an actor, Smith said, adding that Daby possesses both qualities.

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Jesse Wohlman, a junior music major at Wesleyan University has been making indie folk music for six years. “My friend introduced me to the guitar and then for some reason I just started writing songs,” Wohlman said. Wohlman has performed at the Bourbon Theatre, Crescent Moon Coffee and the Zoo Bar among others places. yet genuine,” he said.

But, as one might hope for any young musician, the writing process is a personally expressive one, not overly steeped in emulation.

His latest album, “The Deluge” strikes this chord.

“This last album was really an accumulation of certain events ... it’s kind of

personal,” Wohlman said. “It was a way to get through a time and understand what was happening.”

Wohlman also noted the writing of his latest album as containing “elements of nostalgia.” Writing songs about troubled times served as a therapeutic vehicle for acceptance and recovery.

Prior to his experience as a solo artist, Wohlman served as the lead singer and composer for the now defunct Blair outfit, Dutch Hall Road. But whether it was booking Omaha gigs

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With a little help from their friends — and the website Kickstarter — two University of Nebraska-Lincoln film students have found funding for their senior project.

“Home Roam” is a joint thesis project between senior film and new media majors Rudy Jansen and Elizabeth Baquet.

Jansen is directing and Baquet is producing the project. The film will be around 12 minutes when finished and features an astronaut trying to find meaning in desolate landscapes.

The original idea for the film came to Jansen in July 2010. Paintings of a cosmonaut by artist Jeremy Geddes inspired Jansen to explore similar visuals, but in the medium of film. “(The paintings) are photo real, but also abstract in a way,” Jansen said. “It’s really stirring to me.”

The idea gestated until summer this year when Jansen had time to write the script.

The script was finished in July and shooting began this fall.

During UNL’s fall break, a crew of five traveled north

to shoot at Lake Michigan, which was a feasible substitute for the ocean setting that appeared in the script. The crew plans to shoot on location again in the spring at an abandoned amusement park in Kansas and a small town in Arkansas.

In Jansen’s mind, evocative locations will be a key part in the film’s unique visuals.

“They’re physically interesting places,” Jansen said.

“They have a look and feel to them.”

“It really is a visual film,” Baquet said. “It’s telling how things look the way it’s shot.”

In search of this visual dynamic, “Home Roam” makes use of black and white photography, normal color and shots with enhanced hues.

With the location shooting, astronaut costume and post production work combined, the film’s unique qualities demanded a modest budget to keep the director’s vision intact.

After hearing success stories about how fellow students in

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KATIE NELSON Home, for me, is about 200 miles west of Lincoln and about two miles north of the greatest tourist attraction ever built across an interstate system (the Kearney archway, of course).

Kearney has about 30,000 inhabitants and one public high school. Parents and students attend high school activities religiously, and this past weekend Kearney High’s fall musical was on the community calendar.

As my sister had a leading role in Kearney High’s rendition of “All Shook Up,” and as a former thespian myself, I ventured home.

For reasons previously listed, this is something I don’t normally do. I take great pride in my roots as long as I am hundreds of miles away from them. But when immersed in Kearney’s culture, I tend to look for the nearest exit and bolt.

However, this weekend, that changed. Call it a sign of maturity or an increased appreciation for what I have.

But I beg to differ: This weekend, my eyes were opened to a fine art I had previously taken for granted.

First, though, some background. Every year, Kearney High School puts on two theatrical productions, a fall musical and a winter play. The remaining theater budget is split between one-act productions and the spring thespian show.

But the latter three productions don’t really matter — the fall musical is held almost in as high esteem as Friday night football.

Every year, more than 100 students audition and about 80 or 90 are cast. Students spend, on average, four hours in rehearsal, three nights each week. Costumes, makeup and sets are designed and built by students. Upperclassmen and alumni choreograph every number. And, without fail, there is a live orchestra every year.

Oh, sure, we have a director and conductor, but for the most part, the show is run by students.

By performance time, students have put so much of their blood, sweat and tears into the production that it only makes sense they are proud of it.

But for the inattentive parents, or even, those alumni (myself included) who have forgotten the work and dignity that goes into each production, it’s simply cute.

It’s good — for being a

high school production. It’s an activity, not art.

So, there I was on Saturday afternoon, sitting in the auditorium that looks precisely that same as it did when it was built in the 1970s. Everyone is wearing his or her Husker red. Immediately before the curtain opens, a voice drifts from the sound system, asking all in attendance to please turn off cellphones, reminds us that flash photography is prohibited and finishes by giving a quick score update for the Husker game (some things will always remain more important than high school theatrics).

And then the play begins.

And, after two hours and a quick intermission, it’s over.

In hindsight, it doesn’t really matter what the plot was or which kid had the best voice or if the chorus line was in step with one another the entire time. No one really cared that parts of the set were cardboard cutouts and that the orchestra and actors occasionally suffered timing miscues.

Sure, it was flawed, but it was also damn good.

I am not lying to you, dear reader, when I say that some of the songs gave me goosebumps. There were also the occasional moments when flat notes or bad harmonies made the hair on the back of my neck stand.

And during the curtain call, the beaming faces of everyone involved told you that what you had just seen might as well have been the finest theater around.

It’s a different kind of fine art. It doesn’t flaunt a large budget or tour the country. The actors aren’t paid, and the school isn’t going to come close to breaking even on its budget.

And for the first time, in my eyes, my high school theater became the Lied Center, and the lanky lead seemed like a professional actor.

There was something in the enthusiasm, the developing voices and the awkward acting (or, really, the awkward actors).

No, it wasn’t Broadway — not even close. To some, it may not have even been good.

It was merely a conglomeration of bright-eyed children.

But from that high school concoction came the purest sense of wanting to impress and entertain, and that, my friends, has to be the best thing any theater can do.

KATIE NELSON IS A SOPHOMORE BROADCAST JOURNALISM MAJOR. REACH HER AT KATIENELSON@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

With the launching of the Nebraska Mosaic website at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on Thursday at 5:30 p.m., the College of Journalism and Mass Communications hopes to shed a bit of light on a community shrouded in darkness.

Hidden within a predominantly white community, Lincoln’s refugee population numbers in the hundreds or even the thousands but often goes unnoticed, according to Tim Anderson, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and major player in creating the website.

“If you walk around downtown, you don’t see a lot of Sudanese and Iraqis and Bosnians around,” Anderson said.

“But they’re here. Part of our goal is to give them a voice and let them be a part of the community.”

Nebraska Mosaic will publish news and informational

media targeting Lincoln’s refugee population. The website will premiere alongside “Crossing Salween,” a 20-minute film about a young Burmese refugee who must make her way to safety after her family is killed.

“This is a dramatic way of bringing home the message of the difficulties these refugees have faced before they ended up with us,” Anderson said.

A special topics journalism class titled “New Voices,” taught by Anderson and assistant professor of advertising Phil Willet, created the website with a two-year grant from J-Lab and an additional grant provided by the Lincoln Community Foundation.

The grant required the sevenstudent class to create a webbased news organization for a community without a voice, and the group chose Iraqi, Sudanese and Korean refugees in Lincoln as its target audience.

“We thought we would write a lot of stories about the great difficulties in their past lives,”

Anderson said. “But to the refugees themselves, these stories are not particularly interesting.

They’ve all lived through it.

What they want to know is what life’s like here.”

With this interest in mind, the class reported primarily on services offered to refugees and the people involved with those services. Content for the website is produced via class assignments, and Anderson said the class will be offered for at least the next three years. Eventually, Anderson hopes the refugee population can help create content for the website and receive content on multiple platforms.

“A lot of refugees when they get here don’t have a home computer, which makes creating a website kind of a ridiculous notion,” Anderson said. “But that was a requirement of the grant. In the future we will probably also try to reach them through printed materials and DVDs to distribute in the community. We’ll

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create the media however we need to reach them.”

Anderson said Nebraska Mosaic will also post local news content to further engage refugees and attract the general population. Students who sign up for future sections of his class can participate in generating content and bringing attention to the refugee community, one story at a time.

“This is a way that you can express interest in things internationally and cultures very different from ours and not have to leave Lincoln,” Anderson said.

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M83’s latest stays true, oozes “epic” KELSEY LEE DAILY NEBRASKAN

According to an interview with Pitchfork magazine last fall, M83 frontman, Anthony Gonzalez, described his next album “very, very, very epic,” an ambitious comment made quite early on in the stages of the album’s development. Gonzalez’s previous record, though, certainly gives us reason to hold out for the possibility of a very, very, very epic album moving forward.

M83 has clung to the spirit of the ’80s in their past albums.

The “Saturdays=Youth” track and “Kim & Jessie” could easily have been featured in a John Hughes film, with keyboards and guitar exuding soft and muffled bellows over dreamy vocals. M83 makes music for the eternal summer, filled with young love and daydreams.

The trend continues with M83’s latest, “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” But, is it really epic?

It’s an exhausted word when it comes to describing M83’s work, because no other word is fitting enough to describe it. And so remains

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the case with this album. It’s truly their most impressive to date.

“Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” is a title that immediately alludes to a tone of nostalgia and fantastical dreams.

The album does hold on to the sugary pop sounds of “Saturdays=Youth,” but that sugar swells up into something louder and more ... epic. And that stays true for the entirety of the record.

Further adding to the overall impressiveness of this

effort is that it boasts a running time of a whopping 74 minutes. That’s 22 tracks.

To sit down and listen to a double album seems daunting, but “Hurry Up” is an easy album to listen to in its entirety. It has progression, exploding sound into a peak and bringing it back down to a calm with ease. You can approach the final notes of the last track before you realize you’ve made it that far.

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WOHLMAN: FROM 5 with the band and playing at Lincoln’s Crescent Moon Coffee, Zoo Bar or Bourbon Theatre as a solo act, it’s the passion for performing that drives Wohlman on.

“I love being able to stand up on the stage and get lost in the music,” Wohlman said.

It’s this “different world” and the engulfing nature of the music that keeps him coming back to the live stage.

“I close my eyes when I play, and when I open them, the lights are shining

and people are quiet and listening to me,” he said.

He loves seeing the reactions of his audience when he’s done playing, which is one of the main reasons he performs. A favorite performance of Wohlman’s occurred at Crescent Moon Coffee. The audience had been chatting all through the night, but they went silent when Wohlman began playing.

“That’s the best reaction I’ve ever had,” he said.

After his shows, Wohlman hands out free CDs.

His albums are also available at www.label-free.org, which is run by his friend, Will Harman, a senior English major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Harman helps Wohlman lay down the tracks, as well as aiding the musician in creating album covers.

“He has most of the ideas himself, but I help him flesh those out,” Harman said.

He also owns the equipment and software that are used to record Wohlman’s songs.

“It takes one take for him to record,” Harman said.

“To hear it come out as a finished product is satisfying.”

Though Wohlman writes and plays his songs on his own, he has included

Harman for backup vocals when he played at the Bourbon and also a little on “The Deluge.” Wohlman also worked with Harman’s younger brother, Cal, as a percussionist. “(The album) has been pretty well received, and that’s what I expected,” Harman said. “His talent is obvious and that comes through to whoever is listening to him, regardless of taste.”

Harman feels lucky to be able to help Wohlman and relishes in watching his friend grow as a songwriter.

“Every time we record Jesse, his songs get better, more complex and deeper,” Harman said.

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the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film funded their own projects, Baquet turned to the website Kickstarter. The website brings creative projects in disciplines, from food to fashion to film, to backers willing to fund them. Artists pitch their projects to the masses with videos, images or descriptions of how the project will turn out, as well as their reasoning behind the funding request. Individual projects must reach their own preset goals by a certain deadline, otherwise no funding goes through.

All-or-nothing funding can motivate artists to promote their work and eliminates the risk of attempting to complete a half-funded project.

“Home Roam” reached $2,070 in pledge money, surpassing its $2,000 goal, and the project was officially funded Nov. 1. Many project backers were the filmmakers’ friends and family members.

Kickstarter creators must offer rewards with varying increments, much like those offered for public television and pledge drives. “Home Roam” offered backers a special thanks in the

The lifestyle is unceasing. Even after certain sacrifices have yielded employment, social sacrifices lie on the horizon.

On more than one occasion, she has had to miss senior recitals, other plays or even just casual time with friends for rehearsals or performances.

“You have that strain on the relationship already,” she said. “Then, when you aren’t in rehearsal, that time is so precious that half the time you’re like, ‘I need to just go lie down and be in a dark place by myself.’”

Relationships may not be out of the question, but they’re not at the top of her list right now.

“I don’t want to fuck it up, I mean, if I have this family,” she said. “I wouldn’t want to do that to anyone else and have me be the reason that something didn’t work out for them.”

Daby says this with the same smiles and large gestures she’s been using all night despite the solemn

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Even friendships developed with fellow cast members are a completely different breed of relationship.

She compares it with going to summer camp: One spends large amounts of time with the people in their group and then, once camp is over, everyone disperses and is on to the next part of their lives.

“After the show is over you’re like ‘Oh my God, we were in a show together,’” she said. “We have that forever.”

Throughout the years, her family, friends and faculty at the Johnny Carson School have helped to support her.

And despite the fears she may have or the challenges she may face, nothing will make her cash in her oneway ticket to New York.

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PRACTICE NOTES FOOTBALL Nebraska staying away from costly penalties As the season has progressed, the Nebraska offense has been putting together more and more sustained drives that work to wear down opponents. Assistant offensive line coach John Garrison said some of that has to do with NU’s elimination of costly penalties.

“Anytime you get a holding penalty or a false start it’s going to set you back,” Garrison said. “You’re hurting yourself.”

This season, the Huskers are committing almost two penalties per game less than they were last season.

Garrison attributed this to how Nebraska deals with penalties in practice.

“I think it goes back to what we did in the summertime in how we approach penalties,” he said. “We didn’t wait until after practice to punish somebody. We immediately stopped practice and it was addressed right then and there.”

And the punishment isn’t for the penalized player; it’s for the entire team. Garrison said that system translates to games well.

“In a game situation I don’t want to punish my team by jumping offside or holding or doing something silly like that to put us in a drive stopping situation,” he said.

Thorell spreading his time Nebraska defensive back Lance Thorell made one of the biggest plays for Nebraska this weekend with his interception of Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins. He isn’t the most well-known NU defender, but the nature of his position makes him have to prepare a little extra during the week.

Depending on what the Huskers are practicing on a certain day, Thorell might find himself with the linebackers or the secondary

“When he’s in our Will (or) dime position where Lavonte usually plays he’s with me,” Nebraska linebacker coach Ross Els said. “When he goes out to the nickel type spot he’s with Coach Raymond. He’s got to know both, we put a lot on his plate, but he’s a smart kid.”

Thorell has started 2 games this year for the Huskers and has played in all eight. He has 15 total tackles and two pass breakups.

Burkhead the sure-handed option This season, freshman Ameer Abdullah has been one of the best return men in the country. But Saturday against Michigan State he had difficulty fielding a couple of kicks.

“Fielding punts isn’t as easy as it looks on TV or from the stands,” Nebraska special teams coach John Papuchis said. “It’s a pretty difficult thing to do at times.”

Papuchis said Abdullah has worked in practice this week to redeem himself for the mistakes. Papuchis added that he hasn’t lost any confidence in his young returner.

Even with Abdullah’s explosive ability, there are situations when running back Rex Burkhead is back fielding punts.

“A lot of times when Rex has been back there it’s been in situations where really all we’re looking for is to get the ball back to our offense,” Papuchis said, “In situations where we’ve had a lead or we’re fake concerned and we have our punt safe unit in.

“That’s not a knock on any of our returners. It’s more of a credit to Rex.” And has Papuchis ever seen Burkhead drop a punt before?

“Knock on wood, I don’t think that he has,” Papuchis said.

“But he still has a lot more balls to field in his career.”

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Luke Fickell likes to talk about his players.

The Ohio State coach is constantly praising his team, noting its physical and mental growth and its improvement on and off the field. But three days after his Ohio State Buckeyes (5-3, 2-2 Big Ten) ran away with a 33-29 upset victory against Wisconsin, he found himself tackling an unusual subject: himself.

Tuesday’s Big Ten Teleconference saw Fickell answering questions regarding his job security — specifically, whether the coach himself thought he was in the running for a long-term contract. Fickell quickly dismissed any speculation on the subject.

“It wouldn’t change the way I’m doing things if they told me one way or the other right now,” he said.

“That’s where I’m making sure I stay focused. We ask our guys to be unselfish and not just think about their selves. If we don’t show them that we can do that ourselves then it’d just be words.”

Fickell did note that he was adjusting comfortably to his position as head coach, before characteristically shifting the conversation back to his team.

“It’s just like going to any new job,” he said. “Once you know your routine... you’ve got a little bit more feeling for what you’re doing and how you’re going about it.”

But Saturday’s events were anything but ‘routine.’

Minutes after the Buckeyes defeated 12th-ranked Wisconsin under the lights, Ohio Stadium played host to thousands of jubilant fans and rowdy students rushing the field. Any hint of field turf was noticeably absent to the naked eye.

“It was quite a night, and obviously made special because of the fans and the students,” Fickell said.

The coach noted how far his players had come along since their week-three blowout loss to Miami (Fla.) and the shocking giveaway to NU in early October.

“When you go through tough times you see...sometimes there’s guys that have to see in order to believe, in their general lives as well,” he said. “They see each other caring for each other.

They start to believe in one another a little more so they can ask for help when they

need it, and that’s a sign of growing.”

Media hoopla aside, Ohio State didn’t secure the only surprising victory this weekend. Minnesota coach Jerry Kill talked Tuesday about his team’s first Big Ten win, wherein the Gophers made a stunning 4th-quarter stand to beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 22-21. For a Minnesota team (2-6, 1-3 Big Ten) that has struggled all season — at one point seeing Kill suffer an on-field seizure — the victory over Iowa presented a rare moment of rejoice.

“It’s good to get a win under our belt,” he said.

“Hopefully that will help us gain a little confidence. But we still have a lot of work to do and we understand that. But when you watch the Michigan St. film you go back to, uh, not sleeping at night.”

The Gophers take on Sparty at noon Saturday in East Lansing.

The coach of another faltering team had a more positive outlook for his program’s future prospects.

Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald answered questions Tuesday regarding sophomore Kain Colter and his role within the offense.

Colter, a Denver native, is the team’s leading rusher and a key aspect of the offense. A breakdown of his six touchdowns includes two rushing, three passing and one receiving, securing his status as a multi-faceted offensive force.

“You look at the way he performed at the end of last year, especially in the bowl game, you had a really good indication of the kind of young man he was going to be on the field,” Fitzgerald said. “But then as we went through the offseason, you could just see him mature from a standpoint of being comfortable.”

Colter filled in for senior quarterback Dan Persa when he was still rebounding from an Achilles tear. When Persa returned, offensive coordinator Mick McCall and his staff were forced to accommodate for his skill set, assigning him both running back and receiver positions.

“Once Dan got himself to a healthy standpoint, we were going to use Kain in a lot of different ways,” Fitzgerald said.

But in spite of Colter’s dynamic role, Fitzgerald declared Tuesday that the sophomore’s future would be at quarterback.

Successful seasons aren’t always defined by the number of first place finishes or the amount of AllAmerican candidates.

Just ask the women’s golf team, which wrapped up its fall season on Tuesday at the Alamo Invitational.

Out of the five tournaments Krapfl the team participated in this fall, the Huskers only once finished outside the top 10. They also recorded three top-five finishes.

When asked about this season was considered a success or not, coach Robin Krapfl didn’t hesitate.

“Yes. We had excellent senior leadership. It was a really exciting season. Next spring we will be a team to be reckoned with,” she said.

When the season began, however, there were questions as to how the year would turn out. Sophomore Steffi Neisen, sophomore Katelyn Wright and true freshman Shelby Martinek were all depended upon to step up.

“We had a couple of young players, but they kept improving,” Krapfl said. Senior Madeleine Sheils added: “The progress that our team showed, that’s what I’m most proud of. There were a lot of improvements from beginning to end. The effort by everyone was awesome.”

To begin the season, the Huskers placed three members — Kayla Knopik, Steffi Neisen, and Madeleine Sheils — in the top 10 of the Chip-N Club Invitational. In their second tournament at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational,

Sheils placed first overall and tied the school women’s golf individual record (67). The team finished seventh overall.

The Huskers’ worst performance came at the Lady Northern Invitational, where it placed 11th out of 12 teams. The top scoring Husker finished 18th overall. This became the watershed moment in the Huskers’ season. They took this poor showing to heart and never looked back.

Next, they traveled to Carmel, Ind. where they finished fourth overall in the Hoosier Invitational.

Once again, Sheils dominated the course and placed fourth overall.

The best performance of the year, however, took place in the team’s final tournament. In a very strong pool of teams at the Alamo Invitational, the Huskers broke the all-time scoring round record on Monday. By Tuesday, the Huskers led all teams, but some sloppy play landed them at fifth overall by the tournament’s end.

Despite the last round catastrophe, Krapfl referred to her team as “a force to be reckoned with” after its performance at the Alamo. Sheils, the senior from Boise, Idaho, had the same opinion.

“Those first two rounds were huge for our confidence and helping us realize that we are capable of playing at that level,” she said. “I definitely think we’ll build off that for next spring.”

Until then, Sheils and the Huskers are going to take a much needed break. The team has been playing since February, so Sheils plans to just “rest and relax” with her time off. That doesn’t mean she won’t be thinking about next season, though.

“Next spring, I definitely see our team consistently at the top of the leader boards,” she said.

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NU’s Caleb Walker said he doesn’t expect the Big Ten to be more difficult than last year if the team plays together. of 13,276, and is promoted as one of “college basketball’s most respected basketball theatres,” on the Buckeyes’ website.

“It’s a 35-year deal that this league has led the country in attendance,” Sadler said. “A lot of people can talk about what you can do this year and next year, but when you talk about a 35-year record, that’s pretty solid.”

But with all of the hoopla of 35-year traditions and “basketball theatres,” Walker’s goal hasn’t changed for the season.

It’s a goal he shares with every Husker and every Buckeye, Badger and Boilermaker.

“To be at the top of the Big Ten conference,” he said.

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Caleb Peterson wiped the crust from his eyes as he climbed into a shower in Abel Hall, floor 10. He peeled two hard-boiled eggs, microwaved a bowl of oatmeal and drank a bottle of 5 Hour Energy.

Peterson pulled on a black Under Armor top, imprinted with the Huskers’ logo. He knew today could break him.

Hours later he walked home, defeated and emotional. He was angry. He had run sprints, strained himself during endurance drills and lifted weights all semester in preparation for a two-hour tryout. He forced himself into a strict workout routine, only to learn he was too small and too slow to make the Nebraska football team as a walk-on.

Not only was he valedictorian and class president at Omaha North High School, he was also captain of the football team. He wasn’t supposed to fail. He wasn’t built for this kind of rejection.

His older brother Josh saw Peterson after two separate tryouts. Josh said the discouragement was evident from the moment Peterson walked in the door. He appeared both beaten down and disappointed. Even so, from what Josh could tell, his younger brother tried to keep his head up.

The brothers share a sarcastic sense of humor and tease each other often. They mock each other about eating habits, girls and cleaning the house they share. But times like this are different.

“I let him do the talking,” Josh said. “I make fun of him for a lot of things, but on a day like that, I would never make fun of him.”

Through the disappointment and sadness Peterson set new goals. He would try out again and again.

He wanted to play safety for Nebraska more than anything and he planned to get there. He thought about the movie, “Rudy.”

But if this was to be Peterson’s goal, he would have to work for it.

He looked for other ways to stay fit. Peterson discovered UNL’s Ultimate Frisbee team, Cornfed, as a freshman. Shy and reserved, he didn’t know how to interact with veteran players. He said the first practice was difficult because he didn’t know anyone and was unsure of specific rules. It wasn’t until the following summer that Peterson said he felt like part of the team.

He played with the Summer Omaha Ultimate League (SOUL). At that point, his game started to make sense and his throws improved. He grew close to older Cornfed players such as Scott Curry and Ryan Martin. At the Cornhusker State Games, a teammate, Kyle Orians, gave Peterson a nickname — LaBeef. Though the name may seem trivial to many, to Peterson it was a sign of acceptance from older players.

“I finally had a group in college that I was part of,” he said. “At the start of the next year I felt more confident in my playing and things started to go up

from there.”

Peterson, a junior, is now captain of the men’s team.

This is a rebuilding year for Cornfed. Last spring, the team lost numerous senior players including last year’s captain, Jimmy West.

According to friend and former Cornfed teammate, Kyler Sharp, Peterson is the best man for the job.

He has the skills to turn a team full of rookies into a national contender. Cornfed took third place in its first away tournament this fall. It improved for the next away tournament in the hopes of taking home some hardware. However, the squad settled for second place. In the championship game, Cornfed lost to the Kansas State Huckstables by a single point.

“There are people who see something bad and turn it to good,” Sharp said.

“He (Peterson) is a captain that can do that.”

Although Ultimate Frisbee has given him the opportunity to lead, football will always be Peterson’s favorite sport. According to Josh, he lives and dies for each game, whether he is watching or playing.

This was especially true during Caleb’s final high school football game.

Omaha North had hopes to make the state championships and play at Memorial Stadium.

What Peterson recalls most vividly about this game was his coach’s halftime speech. He told the team to wake up, to play with pride, to show intensity. That was it, he yelled, “all or nothing!”

“Whenever he stopped talking for a second, there was no one talking or moving,” Peterson said.

“I could barely even hear myself breathe.”

Omaha North held the lead for most of the game.

However, Millard West came into the fourth quarter with a new strategy and won 29-19. Peterson’s Vikings were sent home heartbroken.

After the game, the family of each senior player came onto the field. Players cried. Josh said Caleb came over to the family bawling. His dad wrapped his arms around him, with comfort and pride.

“I remember each of us hugged him and I expressed my love and admiration for him,” Josh said.

“It was a sad moment, but it was a great moment at the same time.”

Peterson tried out for the Nebraska football team again on Oct. 17. He has not heard back from the coaches yet, but thinks he’s improved since the last two tryouts. If he makes it this year, he plans to give up his position on the Frisbee team.

He called his parents full of frustration after his very first tryout. His father advised him to channel that energy into the next tryout.

“It wasn’t fair that those guys had the natural ability to make it,” Peterson said. “My dad asked if I’d given up and I said ‘No, I’m not giving up.’ He told me to keep doing it until I can’t physically do it anymore. Once you feel like you’ve given it your all, either you make it or you fall short.” carawilwerding@dailyNebraskan.com

In their last meet, Nebraska tennis players Christopher Aumueller and Benedikt Lindheim were defeated 9-7

by Tulsa University in the USTA/ITA Regional Championships f i n a l aumueller match.

“Going into the match Ben and I were pretty excited,” Aumueller said.

“Unfortunately, I struggled with a couple balls near the end and that can’t happen.

Now we’re thinking of the national indoors next week.”

The winner of that match automatically received a spot in the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, which will be played Nov. 3 through Nov. 6 in Flushing, N.Y. Aumueller and Lindheim had to wait until this past weekend to hear whether they would be selected as one of the 20 teams to compete in the indoor tournament.

Their coach, Kerry McDermott, received the call Sunday accepting the two into this weekend’s competition.

“We’re happy for them,” he said. “They were disappointed last week when they lost in the regionals. After the match we checked out the other teams they had a chance to qualify and the criteria’s, and we saw they had a chance.

“Then we got a call saying they qualified and they were extremely excited after I told them.”

Aumueller and Lindheim received an at-large bid and a first-round bye in the doubles main draw.

The No.13-ranked duo comes into the tournament 8-2 and will play its first match Thursday, Nov. 3, at 10 a.m. The pair will play the winner of New Mexico’s Phil Anderson and Jadon Phillips against Florida’s Billy Federhofer/Nassim Slilam match, which begins Thursday at 8 a.m.

On Tuesday, the Huskers received more good news, as Aumueller qualified as an at-large entrant in the singles main draw. Aumueller is currently ranked No. 31 in the country and begins his first

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Benedikt Lindheim and Christopher Aumueller are 8-2 this fall in doubles play. match Thursday at 3:30 p.m., against Duke’s Chris Mengel.

McDermott said the two have had a good week of practice and are excited to return the court.

“We’re hoping by the end of the tournament those guys will come home as national champs,”

McDermott said. “They have great chemistry and I know they can do it. You put them in that time of environment, it’ll bring out the best in them.

“I’m hoping they’ll shine some light and bring back a national championship.”

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“It was fun to see the new campuses and play against Daily Nebraskan teams with different styles,” Bri Badje described the Badje said. “Our coaches 2011 season for the Nebras- did a great job of preparing ka women’s soccer squad in us for those different teams one word: disappointing. and their styles.”

“This season was definiteSome more bright spots ly not what we were look- for Nebraska in the 2011 ing for,” Badje said. “We un- season were found in the derachieved so much.” competition. NU knocked Nebraska finished its 2011 off Virginia Tech, which season with a 7-10-1 record, was undefeated at the time, including a 4-7-0 record in in a come from behind win its debut in Blacksburg, in the Big Va. The Huskers It would have Ten Condown two been awesome were ference. goals at halftime U n f o r - to win the Minnesota but rallied to tunatewin in overtime ly, that game and be able to behind junior r e c o r d continue our careers Jordan Jackson’s d i d n ’ t further, but that was two goals. provide Another overnot the case.” a good time win against enough Michaella Fulmer Iowa was anhusker senior resume to other highlight give the to the season.

Huskers Junior Morgan any post-season games.

Marlborough was the hero The Huskers were unable in this game, scoring one of to beat Minnesota Friday her six game-winning goals night in St. Paul, Minn. and on the year late in the overwere eliminated from Big time period.

Ten Tournament contenDespite these moments, tion, finishing 10th in the though, there were an final conference standings equal amount of bad of moas only the top eight teams ments every time something make the tournament. A good happened, according poor overall record will to Badje. The Huskers lost keep the Huskers out of the to 6-12-1 Indiana and the NCAA Tournament, as well. loss began a five-game los“It would have been awe- ing streak and that severely some to win the Minnesota harmed NU’s postseason game and be able to contin- chances. ue our careers further, but Inconsistency killed NU that was not the case,” se- in the long run, according nior Michaella Fulmer said. to Badje.

The inaugural season in “We were able to beat the Big Ten did provide anyone but we were also some memories for the able to lose to anyone,” Huskers though, according Badje said. to Badje.

Some Huskers won

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Nebraska forward Morgan Marlborough, who is 10 goals from the school record, will be one of two seniors next year. individual postseason awards in their first year in the Big Ten. Both Marlborough and Jackson made the first and second All-Big Ten teams, respectively. Sophomore Stacy Bartels was one of 12 players in the conference to win the Sportsmanship Award.

Marlborough finished the regular season ranked in the nation’s top five in four offensive categories: total goals (20), total points (46), goals per game (1.11) and points per game (2.56). She also tied the Huskers record with hat tricks on the year including one in Nebraska’s first game in the Big Ten. The junior will return for her senior year to attempt to break the all-time scoring

record at Nebraska. She currently ranks second with 59 career goals, 10 behind the leader.

The Huskers lose four players to graduation, but Badje said that the Huskers will benefit from having one of the nation’s top scorers as their leader next season.

“Hopefully we won’t miss the people graduating to much but having someone like Morgan leading us next year will be awesome,” Badje said. “We know what this team will be capable of next season and we will want to come back and prove to people that we can win.”

happened time after time last year. We made a big emphasis on fixing that and it’s helped this year.”

At Monday’s press conference, it quickly became clear some players, including Martinez and Kinnie, were annoyed with some of Michigan State’s “injuries.” Kinnie, never one to be short on words, said he let the Spartan defenders know what he felt about it.

But at the same time, the phenomena of faking injuries

is a kind of testament to the Huskers’ offense. If the defense is resorting to such ends to stay fresh, it speaks to the offense’s ability to wear them down.

“A few times, just like, ‘Come on. You can’t just fake injuries all the time,’” Martinez said.

“If that’s what they want to do to stop the clock, that’s what they’re going to do. At least our offense is in really good shape.”

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football: from 10 wilt late in games.

“Once you hit that sevenminute mark of the fourth quarter, sometimes the defense gets a little tired,” Bell said. “That’s a testament to our strength and condition staff. They do a great job with us.”

One of the reasons the faster tempo was employed was the number of delay of game penalties NU had last year.

The Huskers often struggled to get to the line in time,

and lost either five yards or burned a time out as a result.

This year, that problem has evaporated. NU gets to the line quickly, giving Martinez plenty of time to scan the defense and audible if he deems necessary.

“We aren’t rushing at the end of the clock,” coach Bo Pelini said. “You get those delay of games and false starts and it takes away your efficiency. You end up in 1st and 15, 2nd and 15, and that

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Pedal Metal

Trainers attend to MSU defensive tackle Jerel Worthy during Saturday’s game. Some Nebraska players asserted that the Spartans might faked injuries to slow down NU’s offense.

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Nebraska’s Quick Offensive tempo wears on opposing defenses

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ime after time Saturday afternoon, a Michigan State defensive player would remain down on the field following a play, prompting a break in that action as the trainers came out to check on him. While some of the injuries may have been more serious, some Huskers have another explanation for the apparent epidemic of minor injuries.

The Spartans were faking.

“We just kind of laughed at each other like, ‘Come on. What are you guys doing?’” Taylor Martinez said.

The Huskers aren’t trying to be insensitive. Any football team understands injuries happen. But Brandon Kinnie used the example of one Spartan played who didn’t

even bother feigning an injury — he simply dropped to his knee.

While this strategy has been employed against teams with breakneck offensive tempos in the past, NU had never dealt with it. But with offensive coordinator Tim Beck installing a high-speed offense, opposing defenses don’t get a chance to substitute or rest between plays, at times forcing them to resort to desperate measures.

“You see stuff like that on TV with Oregon and stuff like that,” Kinnie said. “So when you see you are actually doing it and you still have all your breath and aren’t as tired, it makes you feel good.”

Kyler Reed won’t go as far as to saying the Spartans had some

bogus pain, but does believe some of those injuries were a direct effect of the Huskers’ offensive pace.

“I think you’ve definitely seen in our last few games the defenses are getting tired, especially when we go quick,” he said. “I think they’re just cramping, but that could be because our pace is so quick. I think coach James Dobson got us in really good shape this summer. That’s definitely key because we like to go fast.”

Kenny Bell is another Husker to compliment strength and conditioning coach Dobson on the work he did with the Huskers that allowed them to play at break-neck pace.

Bell said he’s seen defenses, particularly Ohio State’s, start strong but

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NU setter Cook to miss Sadler, Huskers adjust weekend’s matches men’s basketball

to new conference

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The switch to the Big Ten Conference has created new challenges for Nebraska athletics. But so far, programs across the board have answered the call.

The football team is 3-1 in its inaugural season of Big Ten action. The volleyball team is 11-1, including victories against seven ranked conference opponents.

But what about Nebraska basketball?

Last season the Big 12 sent seven teams to the NCAA Tournament, while the Big Ten only sent five.

Still, Coach Doc Sadler isn’t convinced it’s going to be the same story this season.

“This year I think (the Big Ten is) the best league in the country,” Sadler said. “Last year I thought the (Big 12) was the best.”

Nebraska’s schedule includes three current top25 teams, including No. 3 and Big Ten favorite Ohio State.

And for the players, having a chance to compete in a new conference is a welcome challenge.

“It’s an opportunity for all of us,” guard Caleb

Walker said. “We have each other, you’re not getlots of good games on the ting a chance to watch schedule. It’s an oppor- them play against yourself, tunity for everybody the and so you think that you maybe can do a little bit coaches and the players.”

But Walker contends that different.”

But Sadler is thinkthe new schedule won’t lead to more difficult ing about more than just scouting reports. games for the Huskers.

The sixthAs long year coach as the team ...(N)ow you is looking stays uniget a chance forward fied, he to playing said, Ne- to play in probably braska can the best or at least in what he succeed in considers to be some its new en- the most attended vironment. of the most college facilities in i m p r e s “I wouldn’t the country.” sive basketsay it’s going to be a hardDoc Sadler ball facilinu basketball coach er year,” he ties across said.

“We the nation. have to “How many come together and say, chances do you get as a ‘look, we have to do this college athlete to have as one.’” played in the places that Nebraska didn’t get an you’ve played at?” Sadler opportunity to play against said. “And now you get a Big Ten squad last sea- a chance to play in probson. But Sadler’s unfamil- ably the best or at least the iarity with the conference most attended college fadoesn’t faze him. The Big cilities in the country.”

Sadler is excited to play Ten teams haven’t played in loud venues, too. Neagainst Nebraska either.

He said that it’s impos- braska will be traveling to sible to know a team sim- places like Ohio State’s St. ply based on seeing them John Arena, with a capacity play.

“The thing about it,” basketball: Sadler said, “(is) you’re watching them play against

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Nebraska coach John Cook announced in a statement Wednesday that junior setter Lauren Cook won’t play this weekend.

John Cook – Lauren’s father – made the initial announcement on his radio show Tuesday night and a formal one Wednesday morning.

“I have made the decision that Lauren Cook will not play in our matches this weekend against Michigan and Michigan State,” John Cook said in the statement Wednesday. “As the legal system continues to progress, we will make further determination on Lauren’s playing status. Lauren is still a member of our program and will continue to train and practice with our team.”

The statement comes three days after a traffic incident that led to the star setter’s arrest on possible charges of leaving the scene of an injury (a felony) and driving with a suspended license (a misdemeanor).

The matches Cook will miss are Friday’s match against No. 23 Michigan and Saturday’s match against Michigan State, which is tied for fifth in the Big Ten conference. The statement made no mention of future absences. Cook’s next scheduled court date is 2 p.m. on Nov. 8, when formal charges are expected to be announced.

Senior Brigette Root will start at setter in Cook’s place

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The No. 2 Huskers will be without the 2009 Freshman of the Year Lauren Cook against Michigan and Michigan State. for the No. 2 Huskers, who are coming off of a loss at Penn State on Saturday and hold a

one-game lead in the Big Ten standings.

— Compiled by Sean Whalen