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Sarah Barrett, a junior English major, talks with Brittany Lammers (right) and Emily Atherton in The Lounge in the basement of Neihardt Tuesday evening. When asked what they thought of the planned change to the shop, all three responded: “Hate it.” For Barrett, the late-night food made the space. “That’s just part of it,” she said. “You eat a Razzle at 11 o’clock at night, because that’s what college kids do.”

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It was 11:52 p.m., eight minutes before closing time at The Lounge in Neihardt Hall.

The pool table was empty and only a few stragglers sat at the tables around the room.

A woman ran in and frantically asked, “Is your Razzle machine still on?”

A calm affirmative from the cashier: the Blizzard-like treat was still available.

“Sweet!” the student exclaimed.

The Lounge, a study and socializing spot tucked away in Neihardt’s basement, also serves as an after-hours dining hall for many students like her, who find themselves hungry for a smoothie or buttery grilled cheese sandwich between 7 p.m. and midnight Sunday through Thursday.

But that Razzle was one of the Lounge’s last, and this is the

snack shop’s last semester.

The Lounge will close Dec. 13 for renovation and re-open next fall as a lunch sandwich shop similar to Husker Hoagies housed in Abel-Sandoz. Dining Services officials say the sub shop is overwhelmingly popular and needs some backup, but some students counter that they stand to lose more than snacks.

“It was the senior staff within housing that said, ‘We think this will make a lot of sense,’” said Pam Edwards, assistant director of Housing Dining Services.

Husker Hoagies, she said, gets anywhere from 700 to 900 students every day for lunch and Selleck’s Dining Hall often sees a heavier demand around then.

“We also think it will help with that as well,” she said.

The future sandwich shop, unnamed for now, will likely have lunch hours similar to

those of Husker Hoagies, she added, which means late-night cooked food would no longer be a feature of the space.

But while the griddle, smoothie blenders and everything else behind the counter will be closed, Edwards pointed out, the rest of the room, including the many booths along both sides, round tables scattered around the room, a stage on the far end and the projection screen above it will still be open for student use.

Nonetheless, students and employees in the lounge Monday evening said the closure could be an unwise move for The Lounge.

“It’d just be another place to study,” said Jamie Briske, a junior biology major, said she came to The Lounge every once in a while.

“It will have less allure,” said

Ken Hamel, a junior criminal justice major, who was working on homework with one of his roommates, Neal Gebhard, a junior English major. “The big thing is it’s a place to get food after the dining halls close,” he added.

Unless the shop’s reincarnation is open into the evening, Hamel said, “I don’t think anyone’s going to want to come anymore.”

The two high school friends come almost every evening to study and hang out with other friends, many from across campus, Gebhard said. Both said they’d likely keep coming after the re-opening, at least to give the partially renovated space a try.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson will speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Lied Center Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. as the next speaker in the Nebraska Black Leadership Symposium.

Jackson, a noted civil rights activist, former presidential candidate and recipient of the Medal of Freedom, will deliver his speech, titled “There’s Still More to Be Done,” in the next symposium hosted by the Gaughan Multicultural Center and Office of Admissions.

“Amber and I thought it would be a great idea to bring a well-known, motivational speaker that’s known nationally and has

a historical prospective,” said Andre Fortune, director of Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center.

High school students will also join UNL faculty and students at the symposium.

Even though he marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. decades ago, Jackson and his message are relatable to black youth because he fought for civil rights just as AfricanAmerican youth fight to continue their education, said Amber Hunter, director of the UNL Office of Admissions.

Initially, Jackson was set to speak in front of UNL students, but Hunter said Jackson expressed interest

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The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska will propose an ASUN constitutional amendment to expand its senate from 35 members to 41 members at its final meeting of the semester tonight.

“We had a lot of different proposals on the table,” said ASUN president Lane Carr, a senior political science and history major. “This has been something we started at the beginning of the year, and it’s been a good argument. I think we have chosen the best one.”

Initially, Carr said he chose 45 as the size of the senate.

But in response to Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s goal to have 30,000 at the University

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of Nebraska-Lincoln by 2017, expanding the senate to 41 senators would be a better solution, Carr said.

“We looked at a 6,000-person increase over the next six years,” he said. “It would be the same ratio as adding six new senators.”

The addition of six senators is necessary for ASUN and its committees, said internal vice president Jeff Lopez, a senior chemical engineering major.

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Diplomas and caps in hand, December’s graduates will have to transition from the student world to the professional world after they walk across the stage. “Operation Graduation,” a workshop designed to help graduating seniors and graduate students make that transition, will be held today from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The workshop, organized by the Student Money Management Center and Career Services, is free and open to all students.

The workshop will cover job search strategies, business etiquette, employee benefits, money management after college and repaying student loans, said Erin Wirth, program coordinator of the Student Money Management Center.

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Tom Allison, Career Services assistant director, said the goal of the workshop is to have all attendees have a job search strategy or the beginnings of a strategy when they leave.

“It’s never too early, nor is it ever too late, to be out there looking for employment,” he said.

Financially, students need to quickly get on the right track after graduation

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RHA passes three bills in final meeting of semester elias youngquist daily nebraskan

At the Residence Hall Association’s final meeting of the semester Tuesday, $5,600 of funds changed hands, which left $1,400 to be transferred to next year’s budget.

The first bill to come forward for the evening was Senate Bill 12: Allocation of funds for Chinese New Year event. Hosted by the Kaufmann Residence hall, the event asked for significantly more than the year before because of the interest students showed last year.

“We asked for $370 last year and now we asked for $600 this year, so it’s almost double,” said Emily West, a junior industrial engineering major.

The event will take place on Jan. 23, coinciding with the Chinese New Year and will feature various Chinese foods for students to enjoy. “(Last year) within 30 or 40 minutes we ran out of food that was supposed to last for two hours,” said Sen. Nathaniel Watley, a sophomore computer engineering major.

The bill passed unanimously with 36 votes for the bill.

RHA also discussed Senate Bill 11: Bull Fry. East Campus residence halls asked RHA for $5,000 to help cover the costs of bull balls, inflatables and other foods and entertainment the event will feature. Proceeds of the event will go to the Yrkoski family of Nebraska, a family of five that has a 17-year-old with stage-four cancer and a younger child plagued with violent asthma attacks and seizures.

“Not only is there costs, but that’s also time lost on the farm,” said Tyler Spilinek, a senior agriculture education major. “That’s not only our job, it’s our lifestyle and to have to put that in someone else’s hands can be nervewracking, and they’ve had to do that a lot this year.”

The event has been happening since 1997 and has since become one of the university’s largest philanthropies.

The bill received a great deal of support from RHA senators, so much so they decided to remove the bill’s requirement to return any leftover funds to RHA. It passed with 30 votes.

The most discussed pieces of legislation were the two senate

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resolutions regarding plans for guest meals, which are not currently included in meal plans.

The first, senate resolution 14, is a recommendation to dining services that three guest meals be added per semester.

“Something we thought would be really awesome would be to just swipe a guest in with your NCard,” said RHA treasurer Ryan King. “Not everybody has cash and not everybody wants to put that on their NCard, it’s just a hassle.”

Under that resolution, meal plans would increase by $15 to $21 dollars for each semester and would exclude “Good, Fresh, Local,” or (GFL), and holiday meals.

The alternate resolution, senate resolution 15, recommended three discounts be added to each meal plan. This plan would come at no extra cost to students and decrease the cost of three or more meals each semester to $3 or $4 dollars for guests. After lengthy

neihardt: from 1 “We’re not the only ones who come here and study all the time,” said Gebhard, who’s been coming to the lounge to study since he finished an essay there freshman year. Hamel chimed in, saying places like Love Library were “too quiet.”

At 11 p.m. Monday, about three dozen students were crammed into booths, playing pool, watching a football game, reading books and computer screens or lining up for chicken strips and fries.

Tuesday nights with discounted Razzles, for example, can have lines that stretch down the long hallway to the Lounge, Gebhard said, and greek groups often come down for their own events.

He and Hamel were soon joined in their booth by Madelyn Krause, a junior sociology major, who said she met the two after tagging along with her sister, another Lounge regular.

She said she was disappointed in dining’s decision.

“I don’t know if it’s because of business, but there are a lot of people who come here,” Krause said. The potential to socialize and meet new friends as she’s done will be hurt by the change, she added. And then there are more immediate concerns.

“Where am I going to get

food?” Krause asked with a laugh. “I guess I’ll just have to make ramen.”

The trio aren’t the only ones unhappy with the decision. Jon Lambert, a freshman computer engineering major, has created a website devoted to saving The Lounge. An informal survey of students there Tuesday evening also found near universal opposition to the planned change.

“I can see why they’d want two (sandwich shops),” said Jenny Rockwell, a junior secondary math education major.

“I just don’t know why they can’t do both,” she went on, referring to sandwiches during the day and the regular snack shop in the evenings. “(The Lounge) kind of brings people together,” said Emily Neal, a sophomore predental student who was eating Razzles with five other Chi Omega members, including Kate Miller. A sophomore philosophy major, Miller said bluntly that changing to daytime hours and to a Husker Hoagies format were “two stupid things.”

The Lounge’s manager, Paul Weber, said some students have told him they’ll miss the place. He and the handful of other employees, all students except for him, will also lose

their jobs with the change.

“My buddy worked here and got me the job,” said Josh Maline, a junior psychology major who was working behind the counter. However, Maline said, moving on will allow him to look for work more related to his pre-pharmacy track.

A job at The Lounge was Weber’s first at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln when he started school in 2003, Weber said, “and I’m going to be the guy who turns the light off.”

“It’s OK,” he said. “This place has seen a good run.”

Edwards, the UNL dining assistant director, said she understood the concerns of The Lounge patrons, but pointed to the light traffic there compared to the hundreds who frequent Husker Hoagies. On balance, the renovation will allow Dining Services to serve more students, she said.

In terms of food, there are convenience stores across the street at the Knoll Residential Center and at Abel-Sandoz, Edwards added, and she’s working on getting vending machines in the room as well.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to take care of at least part of what (the students) see there,” Edwards said.

the election. UNL students will then vote on the amendment.

In the spring, students will still vote for 35 senators. If students vote to change the constitution, the newly elected executive board will appoint six additional senators. Students will vote for 41 senators in the spring 2013 election cycle.

“Constitutional amendments have to be approved by the student body,” Lopez said.

“We’ll do a pretty extensive education campaign to explain what this amendment is and why we think it’s necessary. Ultimately, the students will decide if it’s a good idea.”

The size of the ASUN has not changed since its creation

in the 1960s and constitutional amendments have been difficult to pass, Carr said.

“I think that students benefit from having more representation,” he said. “And ASUN is certainly going to benefit from having a larger senate.”

If the bill passes the ASUN senate Wednesday night, the end of the road still isn’t near.

“You can’t just change the constitution on the fly,” Lopez said. “That’s something that takes a lot of work to do. This number is something that we’ve looked at pretty hard, and it’s a good number for the future.”

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1) SB 11: Bull Fry 2) SB 12: Allocation of funds for Chinese New Year event 3) SR 14: A recommendation for Dining Services to add guest meals to meal plans 4) SR 15: A recommendation for Dining services to add guest meal discounts to meal plans issues 1) East Campus residence halls asked for $5,000 to be allocated for the Bull Fry to occur on April 13 and 14.

2) Kaufmann Residence Hall asked for $600 to be allocated for the Chinese New Year dinner they would be hosting on Jan. 23.

3) SR 14 recommended that three guest meals would be added to the meal plan budget. SR 15 recommended that three guest meal discounts be included in student meal plans with no added cost to students. votes 1) Bill passed 30 for, 0 abstaining and 0 against 2) Bill passed 36 votes for, 0 abstaining and 0 against 3) SR 15 wins with 27 votes for, 5 votes for SR 14 and 1 vote abstained discussion, the senate passed resolution 15 in support of guest discounts with 27 votes, while senate resolution 14

received 5 votes and one voter abstained.

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asun: from 1 In the past couple of years, ASUN has added several committees including the Sustainability Committee and the Student Alcohol Safety Commission.

“We are so strapped for senators this year, just filling committee spots and having people to do what we want to do,” Lopez said.

The ASUN senate will only be voting to put the proposed amendment on the spring election ballot. The bill needs a two-thirds majority vote to pass. During the spring semester, the Electoral Commission has to publish the amendments in the Daily Nebraskan three times prior to

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in speaking to Nebraska high schoolers as well.

So Hunter and Fortune arranged it.

With Jackson’s message, Hunter said she hopes students will see UNL’s commitment to the minority student experience.

“As a recruiter, now that we’re in the Big Ten, I help bring in more young minorities to the campus by having minority speakers come to speak to them and help get their minds ready for a great college

experience here at UNL,” Hunter said.

Free tickets for the speech are still available at the Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services (OASIS) in the Gaughan Center.

Andres Lara and Jai Steadman were the keynote speakers at the previous two symposia hosted in November, the Nebraska Latino Leadership Symposium and the Nebraska American Indian Leadership Symposium.

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workshop: from 1 students should start “solid saving and investing habits,” Wirth said.

That includes balancing repaying student loans with investing in retirement plans and other financial goals, like buying a house, she said.

Student loans should be paid off as quickly as possible to avoid interest, she said.

Employee benefits, like health insurance, life insurance and retirement plans, are important during the job search, Wirth said, even though many students don’t fully understand the benefits.

“Even if one place is paying you a better salary but the health insurance is bad and you’re not getting any other benefits, it’d be smarter to look at another job where you’re getting the nicer benefits but not as much of a salary,” she said.

The workshop will include questions to ask employers about benefits, like finding out how much an employer will match in a retirement fund, Wirth said.

Brian Sunderman, a junior finance major and a member of the student advisory board for the Student Money Management Center, will help

lead the presentation on managing student loans after graduation.

Sunderman will tentatively graduate in May 2013 and said he’s looking forward to using his budgeting skills to manage a bigger income.

He’s seen mistakes others students have made, like buying a new car without properly budgeting or not paying off student loans as quickly as possible after graduating.

“I think that a lot of students don’t really realize how big of a deal graduating is, as far as the financial standpoint,” Sunderman said.

It can be difficult to transition from not budgeting at all to having a fixed income and bills like student loans to pay, Sunderman said.

Students should come to the workshop to learn tips for being more responsible with money during that transition, he said.

“I think it’s important for students to come just to realize they need to build these habits to be financially successful and not make too many mistakes when it really counts in the real world,” Sunderman said.

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cops briefs Student cited for inhaling potpourri in Selleck On Nov. 23 at 12:18 a.m., a community service officer reported smelling marijuana outside a room in Selleck Quadrangle and alerted police. When officers arrived, they contacted the room’s occupant, Jordan Anthony Meier, a freshman communication studies major. Police said Meier admitted to smoking potpourri to get high. He was cited and released for inhaling/ingesting toxic compound.

Lincoln resident taken into custody for warrants At 2:44 p.m. on Nov. 23, a police officer on patrol stopped a vehicle for speeding on 10th and T streets. The officer asked the passenger for identification. The passenger provided the officer with a name because he did not have identification with him, according to police.

After further investigation, the officer found the name to be fake and found warrants for the passenger, Orlando Rey Sifuentez, 40, of Lincoln. Police said they located marijuana in Sifuentez’s front pocket during booking. Sifuentez received citations for false information and possession of marijuana less than an ounce. He was then lodged into Lancaster County for his two warrants.

DUI near Salt Creek Roadway and 14th street On Nov. 25 at 1:21 a.m., police stopped a vehicle for speeding on Salt Creek Roadway.

When police spoke with the 26-year-old driver William Murry of Lincoln, they allegedly detected the smell of alcohol coming from the vehicle. Murry admitted he had been drinking earlier so police then conducted a DUI investigation, according to police. Murry registered a .206 blood-alcohol content and was arrested. Police say officers located a two-thirds full open bottle of brandy while conducting a probable cause search of the vehicle. Murry received citations for DUI, speeding, driving under a suspended license and open container. He was taken to detox.

DUI on Vine and 16th streets At 10:54 p.m. on Nov. 25, police stopped a vehicle for an improper turn. Police spoke with 21-year-old driver Trenton Engel of Waverly, Neb. The officer reported that Engel exhibited signs of intoxication, such as slurred speech and watery eyes, and the smell of alcohol was detected coming from the vehicle, police say. Engel admitted to having one beer prior to driving. Police proceeded with a DUI investigation on Engel, resulting in a .228 blood-alcohol content.

Engel was cited for DUI and improper turn, placed into custody and transported to detox.

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Students should attend Jesse Jackson speech As part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Diversity Leadership Symposia, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is speaking today at the Lied Center. UNL students should attend his speech, titled “There’s Still More to Be Done,” en masse.

Jackson is much more than a controversial figure in our nation’s history. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor, which is no small feat. Today, Jackson works toward bridging divides all UNL students can get behind: ending prejudice based on race, gender and religion. His work to continue the fight for civil rights is commendable.

Students in Nebraska, a fairly racially homogenous community, have much to learn from a storied figure like Jackson. Many of us will never face any of the situations he dealt with; most of us will live our lives free of racial prejudice and with lessened gender and religious prejudice due to work by civil rights leaders in the past.

UNL should be commended as well for bringing leaders like Jackson to campus. Enhancing our school’s understanding of diversity is a tough goal to accomplish, but by programs like the Diversity Leadership Symposia, UNL’s leadership continues to work toward achieving that goal.

Tickets, fortunately, are still available for Jackson’s speech. They’re free and can be obtained in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center and Lied Center Box Office.

If you have a spare hour and a half around 11:30 a.m., the Daily Nebraskan encourages your attendance at Jackson’s speech.

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Online courses restrict learning › ›This week, as part of the lead-up to the Board of Regents meeting Thursday, Dec. 8, the Opinion section asked its writers “What one change would you make to the university, if you could?” Today’s columns come from Kaley Cook and David Smith.

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tudents of today should be thankful for the vast plethora of ways available for them to learn.

Compared to our grandparents, parents and even older siblings, we have access to modes of communication and education that would not have been possible even 10 years ago.

Students today, not just in college but in high school, middle school and elementary school, take in and process astounding amounts of information on a daily basis.

We have access to TV and the Internet, social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook and a nearly inexhaustible supply of ways to keep in contact with and learn about one another.

This variety has begun to work its way into academia, as well; more and more, it seems, organized instruction is moving beyond the classroom and into cyberspace.

Pencils and paper, once the sole staples of the educational experience, are slowly being ousted by keyboards, webcams and online dropboxes.

Here at the University of NebraskaLincoln, this growing prevalence is easy to see. Just look at Blackboard, and how some courses are completely dependent upon it. Blackboard has everything from grade tracking and homework assignments to the administration of quizzes and exams.

Look at MyRED, which now handles everything from class enrollment and scheduling to residence hall contracts and meal plans.

Look at things such as the Love Library’s EBSCO search engine, which gives students access to a greater wealth of information than even the most practiced scholar would know what to do with, and online courses such as the Keller Plan, which allow students to complete coursework and earn credit without having to

david smith leave their dorm rooms.

It’s clear to even the most casual observer that taking in and processing information is far easier for the students of today than it was for the students of 100, 50 or even 10 years ago.

But it begs the question: While the Internet has certainly made learning easier, has it made it better? Not necessarily.

Think for a moment about the fundamental differences between a traditional course, taught in a classroom and one conducted entirely via Blackboard’s online services.

In the former, students are bound by structure and organization. They must attend class on a regular basis or suffer the consequences, typically (though not always) complete regular homework assignments for points and are constantly reminded of the work that needs to be done by the ever-present figure (or specter) of the professor.

Such is not the case with classes taken outside the classroom. The instructions for such courses are, at least in my experience, pared down to the following: “Read this by this date, this by this date and this by this date. There are quizzes on Day X, Day Y and Day Z, and the final exam can be taken at any time during finals week in the testing center. Have a nice semester.”

Now, I know that college is supposed to be a place of greater expectations, of increased responsibilities and better time management skills. I get that, I really do.

But the sad truth is that all too often, giving a student that kind of freedom doesn’t end well.

By removing the sense of structure from a course, you remove the student’s notion that he or she is under any sort of pressure, any sort of time constraint. By removing a constantly present instructor, you remove what is, in many cases, the sole source of motivation students have to do well in a class. You take away the sense of urgency, the sense of immediate requirement and by extension the student’s drive.

Readings are put off or forgotten, material review sessions (if there are any) are blown off or missed and quizzes and exams are ultimately bombed. More often than not, the student will get caught up with work from the other, more traditional courses on their schedule – the ones they remember they have homework in because it was assigned in class this afternoon, or the ones they have to study for because the professor reminded them about the upcoming exam the other day.

Unfortunately, another marked difference between traditional and online courses is that the latters are typically far less forgiving when it comes to things such as deadlines and extensions, making it next to impossible for students to get out of the holes they dig themselves into.

The Internet is a powerful tool. It allows us to share, distribute and absorb more information in a single year than our ancestors absorbed in a lifetime, and its capacity to do those things is constantly growing. What people, educators in particular, need to realize is that no matter how powerful a tool it becomes, the Internet should never become anything more than that: a tool.

There will never be an adequate online substitute for the watchful eye and the stern voice of a professor, nor the pressure of an exam time limit that is about to expire, nor the dismay and subsequent motivation to improve that can come from a handed-back assignment with a failing grade scrawled on it.

Now … off to class.

david smith is a sophomore news-editorial major. reach him at davidsmith@ dailynebraskan.com.

Occupy movement needs concrete list of goals

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he Occupy Wall Street protest movement has succeeded in capturing a significant amount of our collective attention during the past month or two. Personally, I find its premises to be very compelling.

I’ve taught Marx for many years and it’s not at all difficult to explain his ideas about justice and economic inequality to my students or to find examples from our daily lives that highlight points raised in, for example, the “Communist Manifesto.” I’m very sympathetic to those who want to shrink the gap between rich and poor, reduce the influence of corporations on democratic politics and limit the ability of those at the top to generally run roughshod past everyone else. In short, the Marxist diagnosis of conditions in an unregulated capitalist society should rally people to the Occupy Wall Street banner.

Or, that diagnosis should rally people if the Occupy movement could separate Marxist premises from Marxist conclusions. This is difficult, though, because of the revolutionary spirit of some of the organizers of the OWS movement. While not all of the organizers are Marxists — most of the protesters don’t have revolution as their motivation at all — it seems fairly clear that a number of key organizers have in mind some sort of revolution

as an ultimate end goal.

A recent lecture by political theorist Jodi Dean made clear the relationship between OWS and Marxism. Her lecture was well-attended, including a fair number of the protesters who have set up their tents on the Lincoln Mall.

Mostly, Dean was interested in discussing the Occupy movement and what she understood to be its philosophical underpinnings, which was also what the audience really wanted to hear about. Along the way, she repeatedly referenced the work of Hardt and Negri, Lenin and Žižek, the theorists whose work she clearly believes is speaking to the concerns of OWS. What Dean wants — what she deeply believes will happen — is for capitalism to be brought to its knees by this protest movement; she intimated that we will thereafter live in a Marxist-Leninist paradise. To that end, she specifically discussed her opposition to the idea that the OWS movement should put forward goals or demands. As a member of the committee tasked with creating just such a list, she was particularly pleased to convey to the audience that she opposed the idea of demanding job creation until the proposed number of jobs was set at 25,000,000. She liked this number, she said, because it is impossible to achieve.

ari kohen The problem for Dean and other revolutionaries is that the 99 percent they claim to represent don’t share their revolutionary fervor. A great many of the OWS protesters likely have pretty clear ideas of concrete changes to the system that they’d like to see. A college education should be more affordable. Student loans shouldn’t cripple people’s future choices and one should leave college able to find gainful employment.

Preventative health care should be available to everyone. Homelessness is a problem we can solve. We need better and smarter regulation of banks and corporations because we’ve seen what happens when regulation is stripped away by politicians who take a lot of money from banks and corporations.

We can add things to this list, but I think it’s a pretty safe starting point.

The problem is that the movement continues to adhere to the notion that its lack of goals is a virtue so these

ideas remain ones that are simply floated by individual protesters. The arguments for the lack of a single, coherent list of demands are wideranging: It’s too soon to develop a set of goals, the non-hierarchical nature of the movement purposely resists a single list, any set of goals might allow for the movement to be co-opted or the real (and obvious) goal of the occupation is to be seen and heard.

But these aren’t Dean’s arguments.

For her, the idea of a set of goals would negatively impact the OWS movement because there is only one goal: The overthrow of capitalism and the sham democracy supporting the system of exploitation of the 99 percent by the 1 percent.

At an expensive dinner I attended after the event, I specifically asked her about goals that might bring me around to support the movement.

Dean’s response was instructive: I’m just not someone who will ever support the movement because I like capitalism. This struck me as odd, because I’m someone who recognizes the problems identified by the OWS movement as critically important and who sympathizes with the sort of actionable goals mentioned above.

Not everyone involved in the Occupy movement feels the way she does. This is a pretty extreme position not espoused by the vast majority of occupiers. But if the other people

who are very involved don’t believe in Marxist-Leninist revolution, why not move beyond the idea of raising awareness of the problems, especially since this has — by all accounts — been accomplished already?

If it’s a Marxist revolution you have in mind, just tell me that’s your goal.

Don’t tell me you don’t have goals or you resist the idea of goals at all. I’m trying to figure out if what we’re talking about here is the (likely violent) overthrow of the current order and its replacement with a socialist paradise.

If so, I’m just not going to be able to get on board with this movement, no matter how much I agree with its premises — and with Marx’s too — about inequality and justice. And neither, I think, will the vast majority of the 99 percent.

But since I’m guessing that only a tiny handful want what Dean wants, I would argue that a whole lot more people would be ready to put their shoulders to the wheel if there are other goals, ones that attempt to work within the current system, that maintain all of our human rights and that have policy proposals attached to them.

Ari Kohen is Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.

He blogs at kohenari.net. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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General education requirements hold students back that indicate not whether or not you have received a good education, but whether or not it has been general.

General education. It seems to be a big deal.

There’s a huge push to make sure you know a little about everything.

My question is this: What were we doing those 12 years before college? What is high school if not general education?

Please don’t say we suffered through seventh grade prealgebra for nothing. Education is based in four core classes — social studies, English, science and math — for a reason. If you graduated from high school, the assumption is that you have at least a basic understanding of these areas.

It’s not to say that more education is bad. However, I’ll never be fully confident in my ability to mix unstable chemicals

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Yet, when students do find that niche, ACE and other gened requirements stretch their energy.

This is the situation: if an interesting class conflicts with the time of an ACE requirement, ACE takes precedence. The student cannot graduate without it. It becomes more important than interests or talents. It becomes more important than wanting to learn.

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If you don’t know what you want to major in, exploring classes can be great. Shop around. But if you’ve decided, general education often hinders more than it helps.

Maybe you want to be a geneticist. You love science and math. Ever since you were 5, you dreamed of being a geneticist. Awesome. You still have to take history. It doesn’t matter if you hate it. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t good at it. You have to take it. If it screws up your

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Savannah Kurtz, a freshman theatre major, is experiencing her first Nebraska winter. Originally from Arkansas, Kurtz was lacking proper cold weather attire; she recently went shopping to stock up on coats and other accessories to bundle up with.

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Dropping temperatures are par for the chilly course for Nebraska natives, but the coming season is daunting for students who hail from warmer states, many of whom have never seen more than a few inches of snow.

Freshman architecture major Kekeli Dawes grew up in Columbia, S.C., where three inches of snow and ice can shut down the state

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“You don’t see people bundled up (in Columbia) at all,” Dawes said. “You see people walking around in flip flops all year long.

You don’t need winter jackets.”

He said he doesn’t feel at all prepared for the approaching weather despite his recent purchase of winter boots, wool socks (he can’t imagine needing them) and a triclimate coat.

“When we were buying jackets, I said, ‘What’s the point of choosing?’” Dawes said. “Just give me the

warmest one. Because they all look ugly.”

Dawes has never gone sledding, had a snowball fight or built a legitimate snowman. Nor has freshman theatre major Savannah Kurtz, who calls El Dorado, Ark., home. Kurtz has no idea what negative temperatures feel like. The Saturday before Thanksgiving break, she was outside loading her car for the trip home, and the night was so cold she updated her Facebook status about it.

“I said, ‘It’s 10 degrees here and I’m dying,’” Kurtz said.

She didn’t even own a pair of socks when she first came to Lincoln but, since then, her winter clothing collection has expanded to include three coats (not waterproof), gloves and a pair of waist-high ski pants for playing in the snow.

She said she would buy boots if she could afford them. She’s had to bundle up in her dorm lately with a hoodie, pants and a knit scarf wrapped around her

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With thousands of dollars in tuition, fees, textbooks and housing, many students consider unconventional ways to make quick cash. Some work multiple jobs. Some donate plasma.

Others make up to $300 per day by assisting in medical research.

Celerion, located at 621 Rose St., offers testing for a variety of pharmaceuticals. Some medications are nearly complete, while some have never before been tested on humans.

All products are tested on animals before moving on to human examinations.

Senior broadcasting major Devin Specht has completed two studies with Celerion. His first stay, which lasted two days and two nights, was for a diabetes medication.

“When they gave 5 grams of this stuff to rats it caused severe organ damage,” Specht said. “But five grams is a lot. I knew it was fairly safe especially since that was a rat.”

Specht thinks he may have gotten the placebo — a sugar pill with no actual medication inside. He said everyone else in the study was falling asleep but he felt fine. Celerion administers multiple placebo pills as a control in every experiment.

“Say, for example, you give one guy non-alcoholic beer,” Specht said. “He will just pretend he’s drunk even though he shouldn’t be. It’s a controlled thing; they want to know the effects are not something from the group.”

Celerion finds a diverse group of participants for each study by following a strict application process.

Some studies require applicants to be a certain age or have a certain body mass index (BMI). Some studies request smokers, while others want only non-smokers because nicotine and other substances

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After a brief telephone interview, applicants enter a screening process, where Celerion employees take blood and heart rate measurements and administer drug tests.

Applicants who pass the medical screening then participate in a competitive calling process, similar to those held by radio stations.

“Not all of (the applicants) pass the screening,” said Ryan Guthrie, a sophomore nutrition science major. “But there are usually too many people, so the competitive call narrows it down to the number they want.”

Guthrie has completed a handful of studies for high blood pressure and depression medications, among others. For a stay lasting a total of four nights, he made $1,900.

Specht made $860 for his two-night stay. He said he got extra cash for this study because they drew his blood 37 times during the weekend.

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“Revelations,” the newest addition to the best-selling Assassin’s Creed franchise has been the buzz of the video game world for the past two weeks, improving upon the previous installments’ open-world gameplay style took the video game world by storm.

“Revelations,” which takes place in the Middle East during the 1500s, is the final installment of the franchise and video game developer Ubisoft, which is best known for its “Call of Duty” games, pulls out all the stops to make die-hard assassin fans jump for joy.

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With its open-world gameplay, “Assassin’s Creed: Revelations” should keep gamers busy.

Whether you’re exploring 100-year-old cities, slaughtering evil knights or romancing wenches, “Revelations” is one the most ambitious video games to be released this year, and is a must for any Christmas list. matthavelka@ dailynebraskan.com

As the month begins to wind down, so do the hundreds of thousands of writers across the world who were taking part in National Novel Writing Month.

The program, sponsored by the Office of Letters and Light, challenges writers of all ages to write 50,000 words in 30 days, a challenge that many undertake but few succeed.

For Nikki Fritts, a secondyear philosophy graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, there were times she wondered if she was going to succeed. Between being a fulltime student, working and combatting every distraction from illness to out-oftown trips, there were many times her word count was discouragingly low. And, unfortunately, now that the month is almost finished, Fritts is almost positive she won’t be completing the novel. “I found out that this novel is going to be longer than 50,000 words,” she wrote in an email.

“This is a bit unexpected, but I welcome the challenge of writing a longer novel. Now I just need to settle in for a few months of writing.”

The discovery that a novel was meant to be longer than

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Nikki Fritts, a second-year graduate student in the philosophy department, poses for a portrait surrounded by a few of her favorite novels at her apartment on Nov. 28. Fritts participated in National Novel Writing Month this November. “My favorite things to read are fairy tales and mythology because other writers pull from them so much,” she said. Fritts considers herself a collector of mythologies from other cultures. the allotted 50,000 words was not one that Fritts made on her own – thousands of writers were making their very own, identical discoveries throughout the month, including Lisa Kovanda, the municipal liaison for the Lincoln chapter of National Novel Writing Month, as well as the president of the Nebraska Writers Guild.

“I’ll hit 50K or more by Nov. 30, but I won’t be finished with the novel,” she said. “I’m at 40K and I’m less than halfway through what I want to accomplish in the novel.”

For both Fritts and Kovanda, the challenge has meant something completely different. Fritts was working tirelessly to overcome the

guilt she felt every time she set her work aside to do some writing.

“Writing is indulgent, and therefore not as useful as other things I could be doing,” Fritts said. “I have begun to overcome that feeling, realizing it was my

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the blind leading the blind »WHAT » ADVICE WOULD YOU HAVE FOR A COLLEGE FRESHMAN LOOKING FOR LOVE? just New Found Glory,” you stammer, the very visage of desperation.

One awkward coffee conversation and a decade of denial later you have what people call love.

These anecdotes are the gist of my dating advice, freshmen. Unless you’re in the habit of parasailing with attractive people your life will hold no grand tales of gallant, romantic convergence. Accept this now and you’ll have time for other pursuits, like staring at walls in an artsy way.

But once you give up on that whimsical preconception of meeting “the one,” you can pretty much just pull the trigger whenever. That’s what’s so great about lying and desperation. They are always at your disposal.

If this undermines some kind of larger moral code, good luck paying for those parasailing lessons.

And feel free to get outrageous with it. Say, you’re in POLS 100.

Tell the cute guy next to you you’ve already taken the class and this time through you’re really looking for a new perspective on the material. Now he’s on the hook for the whole semester.

Sure, I can help you find the answer, but I’ll have to touch your arm a lot to really pinpoint the spot in the text where that theme is covered.

Oh, no, resource allocation is making me sleepy and your shoulder is so near.

And if you get caught in the lie, what’s the worst that could happen? Oh, another person in the world that doesn’t grant a shred of concern to your existence. Drop in the pond, blue eyes.

Drop in the pond.

Chance “Leave Me alone” Solem-pfeifer You do not enjoy hearing your grandmotherin-law speak and yet her chatter persists at a rate that increases your cognizance of these precious seconds slipping out the ajar window of your life.

“How did you two meet?” she inquires from a seat across from yours at the wedding reception table. She expects to be regaled with tales of romance, of fate, of chivalry. “I saved her from a frenzied street gang of Southern Europeans,” appealing to both the old woman’s perceptions of heroism and her archaic racial conceptions.

This seems to satisfy the prying woman and she returns to stuffing her face with hors d’oeuvres.

The truth? You reach into the past, recalling that your new wife took pity on you when you tripped on a mangled cyst in the pavement.

You were carrying an armful of freshly purchased Star Wars Expanded Universe novels and they went tumbling into the muck-filled gutter. Your mom had just been nagging you about finding a girlfriend an hour before you found this woman helping you to your feet. She was wearing a New Found Glory Tshirt.

“That’s my favorite pop punk band,” you lie.

“Are these your books?” she asks out of obligation. She’s never read “Shadows of the Empire” and at this moment, hell, neither have you.

“I don’t like ‘Star Wars,’

Chance Solem-Pfeifer doesn’t remember that girl’s name.

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Katie Nelson “College is a time to experiment.” I don’t blame you for believing these words – I was also lied to as a freshman. The difference between us?

You probably listened to them. It’s all right – stupidity plagues the 99 percent. Luckily for you, I possess the wisdom of the 1 percent, and I am here to share said wisdom with you.

I’m sure you’ve heard that college is the time to find yourself.

“Go ahead!” the man tells you. “Drink! Do drugs! Smoke everything!”

And do you know why? Because the man wants you to fail. But the vice that will lead to your downfall faster than anything is having sex.

I suppose you might call it “a relationship,” but let’s face it: What are you guys really doing, besides each other?

I highly doubt you’re going on dates – you’re poor, and besides that, you have no class. I’m guessing you’re not talking about anything – you’re too busy having sex to read, so you probably have nothing to talk about.

If that describes a current relationship you’re in, STOP NOW! (And this advice goes out to both guys and dolls.)

Ladies: Cross your legs.

Gentlemen: Keep it in your pants.

Nothing good ever comes from sex – only broken hearts and children. That’s a proven fact. Ask any married couple.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying you need to remain a virgin until you’re married. Some of you really can’t afford to risk

waiting for marriage – you may never lose it. I would say I’m promoting something more along the lines of waiting until you are financially stable and have a degree under your belt. Or maybe just until you turn 20. At least then you will be less inclined to follow hormonal teenage mood swings.

The bottom line is you are in college to learn, not to procreate.

So stop reading Cosmo and pick up your chemistry textbook.

I mean, what’s the big deal anyway? What’s wrong with perpetual independence? It isn’t always necessary to have a special someone.

I mean, sure, I sometimes daydream about that hunk sitting across the room from me in my geography lab. I think about what an incredible date we could go on — a study date — if only he would just take time to notice my existence.

OK, so retainers, mouth-breathing and hand-me-down clothing from my grandmother may not be typical boy-catching material, but I believe in inner beauty. And, deep down, I know he does, too.

Until he comes around, though, I will continue to shop for 20-plus cat housing complexes on petco. com and a new pair of knitting needles – all the premature old maids are doing it.

Honestly, though, the health-ed coach from “Mean Girls” states it best when he says, “Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and you will die.”

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a dirty studydate fantasy to live out with Mr. Geography.

Katie Nelson doesn’t get much very often.

Reach her at katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com.

Tyler Keown If there’s anything you should know about me, it’s that I’m a criminal. I’m a lady killer of the serial variety.

I’ve taken more breaths than a life-long smoker trying to run. I’ve stolen enough hearts to make Link from the Legend of Zelda look like a chump (note: if you get that joke and are female, please contact me. Females who don’t get that joke should also contact me).

I was a bit tentative about writing this column at first. I mean, why should I give others the tools to steal girls away from me? But then I realized who I am, laughed, fist-bumped myself, did a standing double-backflip and turned up the collar on my leather jacket. The last thing I need to worry about is competition in the dating world, especially from freshmen. Come on.

I should probably mention that this advice is for freshmen guys trying to date ladies. I have too much testosterone in my body to even think about writing advice for girls. That’s not to say that women should stop reading at this point, but I would recommend keeping your journal nearby so you can write down all the feelings you’re having.

That way, when you’re old and sad, you can reread it and imagine yourself in a better time. You’re welcome.

The most important step when looking to attract a fine lady is to have money. There’s not much more to say – the most attractive feature a man can have is deep pockets.

Every girl will tell you the same thing: “If he’s poor, he ain’t getting more.” Or something like that. It’s not an issue I deal with.

If you don’t have

money, I feel sorry for you, son. The next best thing you can do is to treat girls you like absolutely miserably. Tell them how unflattering all their clothes/facial features are, ignore all their texts and voicemails and even write threatening letters to their loved ones. Not much has changed from high school – girl logic is still awful and confusing.

Following these tips, you should’ve procured a girlfriend (or three) by this point. While weddings and marriage may be romanticized on TLC shows and in Nicholas Sparks (I’m assuming, I can’t read a Nicholas Sparks book without having a migraine), you’re only a freshman. Leave the marriages to guys who accidentally impregnate girls and are now doomed to a life of food stamps and unadulterated sorrow.

Instead, enjoy the honeymoon period of your relationship, because you’re only going to like her less as time goes on. Take this chance to take dozens of pictures of you and your gal making out (bonus points if you’re laying on a bed and you have your shirt off)! Post these pictures on Facebook so everyone else knows how well your life is going, or at least how well you want others to think it is.

Making out also has the added benefit of not having boring conversations about feelings and emotions. Ugh. Really, from here, you should be able to figure out the rest. Buy spontaneous gifts for her, treat her like a princess, don’t cheat on her with her sister/mom, etc. I hope this column helps clear things up for you freshmen looking to get in on the dating scene.

And remember, if this advice somehow helps you get a girl I have my eye on, I will come for you in the night.

Tyler Keown can fit you into his busy schedule. Reach him at tylerkeown@ dailynebraskan.com.

novel: from 5 decision to feel that way. If writing is something I really want to do for the rest

of my life, I need to learn to let go of guilt and write freely.”

Kovanda, on the other hand, was writing to tell a story that had been

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weighing heavily on her.

“The best part is seeing the word count grow and knowing these characters are coming to life on the pages.”

But it wasn’t just for the story. As the municipal liaison, Kovanda had frequent interactions with fellow participants.

“I love meeting and interacting with other writers,” she said. “In a way, it’s like ‘Novel Bootcamp.’ It’s a team race, and we want to help each other cross the 50,000 (word) finish line.”

But now that the month is finished, what comes next?

For both Kovanda and Fritts, it will be working to finish their novels. They plan to continue writing and editing, as well as getting

back to some of the hobbies and jobs they set aside for the month of November.

“I’ve got five more projects lined up as soon as I get this one done,” Kovanda said. “There are edits on other completed projects, conferences for the Nebraska Writers Guild to finalize, holidays, work … maybe I’ll ask Santa for about 10 more hours a day to get it all done.”

Fritts has plans to prepare for the holidays also.

“My ‘free time’ will be split between finishing my novel and getting back to making one new kind of pastry a week,” she said. “I am excited to start baking again, especially since Christmas is so near.”

November is a haven for writers, a 30-day period in which their words become the most important part of their day. Now that it’s finished, it’s time to get back to the real world, as both Kovanda and Fritts pointed out, a world populated by Christmas preparations, work schedules and noveling that won’t be done at record speeds.

“I’ll be researching the best home for this novel as far as agents and publishing houses go,” Kovanda said.

“But while I’m waiting for responses, you had better believe my fingers will be busy tapping out the next book.”

The heavy clothes aren’t enough to quell her biggest fear, though: slipping on a patch of ice and falling face first into the concrete.

The first snow of the season is forecasted for this weekend, which is around

the time when the out-ofstate students plan to break out their winter gear. They’ve heard the same tips from locals: Wear thermals, even though they feel dorky. Cover up your hands, ears and feet. Just stay inside.

Sophomore Nate Niosco. a forensic science major, heard those same tips last year, when he moved to Lincoln from Honolulu for school.

Niosco saw snow for the first time last year.

“I assumed that I would be freezing when the first waves of cold weather hit,” he said. “Luckily I was able to adjust quickly with the help of a really warm jacket. That was the biggest help in adjusting to the weather. That and a scarf and beanie.”

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Nate Ruleaux My best friend from high school, Duncan, shot me a random text during some holiday break night saying he was in town and we should grab a drink.

I took the parents’ car, a pocketful of bar cash and drove back to my vacant apartment. I arrived at our arranged meeting time of 7 p.m.; he showed at 8.

We sat around and talked, started drinking a few random leftover beers in my fridge from a recent party. He had a backpack full of beer. It made for a sort of variety pack and I had no idea where he’d gotten them. He’d pull out a can of Busch light followed by a bottle of Heineken followed by something else.

It’d been a year since we last saw each other or talked anything more than the occasional late night drunk text of, “Sup.” We sat on the front porch smoking and talking about the time I made our 10th grade math teacher cry because I yelled at her to, “GROW UP!” After a few more drinks, I taught him beer die, and we discovered we were both now student janitors.

He’d never been downtown since he’d been 21. I grabbed my pal Ted and we went to O’Rourke’s. I thought about using this opportunity to branch out, hit up some ridiculous bar

I still hadn’t been to. But that didn’t happen. Ted didn’t want to go anywhere but our usual spots, and deep down, I didn’t either.

At O’Rourke’s I started in on the first pack of smokes in five days. People kept coming in and catching a glimpse of us.

Old pals who my high school friend and I used to hang out with when we were college freshmen.

I ran in to all my regulars there, too. A night out on the town for three guys in relationships is really just a night of drinking, talking and a million brief conversations with other people you know.

“Heeeyyy, Matt!”

“Heyyyyy, Tom!” “Heyyyyy, Kyle!”

“Heyyyy, other Kyle!”

We continued the night at Duffy’s and then went to Iguana’s to meet up with Duncan’s older sister for a ride home.

There were a bunch of dudes from high school there; more from his circles than mine. I realized that everyone from high school just gets bigger and hairier. Except for Duncan.

After a few Long Islands, my old pal roomie from last year showed up to meet us and we went out back to the Iguanas’ smoker’s cage for one last bar smoke.

Outside, we stood in awkward drunk smoke silence for a moment, then this chick

turned around.

She looked the part of your standard English major nerdy chick. But somewhere along the line someone had told her that her short story about an old woman and a bridge was shitty, so she dropped the dream altogether and became a lawyer.

“You should all become lawyers,” she said. “If you’re in the liberal arts, you’ll be poor. Poor people suck, you don’t want to be poor.”

We spent the next five minutes trying to explain that we were performing arts majors, and we didn’t mind the idea of normal life.

Randy kept pretending to be a snob and kept egging her on, trying to milk out more drunken naive comments about the lower class from this lawyer. She’d been drinking all day, ever since the early football game.

Blowing her lawyer money, hopping from bar to bar with a group of Jersey Shore reject dudes, all who were ignoring her completely.

“Got another cigarette?” she asked me.

“No,” I said, hiding the two had left in my pack deeper into my pocket.

“Oh well, I do,” she said pulling out a full pack, “I don’t even want these, want one? Hell, take half of them, I can afford it.”

So I took a handful of cigarettes as if she was sharing Tic Tacs and shoved them into my Pall Mall pocket-crunched box and finished another of those random nights downtown.

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“They would have to ask participants at different times if they were experiencing adverse reactions,” Keller said. “Most of them would be headaches or sometimes people would have flu-like symptoms or respiratory symptoms. Sometimes physicians would determine they weren’t linked to the drugs.”

No matter how trivial the symptoms, Keller is required to report each one. The doctor on duty would then determine whether reactions were caused by the medication or an outside factor.

Specht and Guthrie said they did not experience any side effects. However, medical testing could sometimes be considered risky, Specht said.

“I’ve never seen or heard anything about this stuff going bad,” Specht said. “It’s kind of a gamble, I guess, but so is life. Driving a car is pretty dangerous, too, but I still manage to do it.”

Despite possible dangers associated with medical testing, Keller has seen thousands of willing participants throughout the years. She said companies such as Celerion have made many changes in the past couple decades.

Since so many patents have expired, there are a lot of generic brands on pharmacy shelves, according to Keller.

That was not common when she first started in the industry.

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In the 1980s, very few studies involved women, Keller said. When people found out some drugs affect men and women differently, that had to change.

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Guthrie said the facility was extremely clean, somewhat like a hospital. Participants sleep in a small cubicle with a bunk bed and are fed three meals per day.

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Big ten homeroom 1. Purdue (6-0) at Duke After taking the Cancun Challenge title, the Boilermakers are undefeated and are No. 13 in the country. Senior guard Brittany Rayburn was superb during the tournament, leading her team in points in each of its three games. Purdue will soon be put to the test during the team’s next three games, all against teams in the nation’s top six, including a road date with No. 6 Duke on Thursday.

5. Michigan (7-0) at Maryland Michigan has looked good so far, though it has no wins against top-25 opponents.

Courtney Boylan ranks 10th in the conference with 15 points a game to lead the Wolverines. It has been Michigan’s defense that has been the most impressive, only allowing 51 points a game ­– second in the Big Ten. Michigan needs only to beat No. 7 Maryland Wednesday to prove it is for real.

2. Ohio State (5-0) vs.

Florida State For years the Buckeyes have relied heavily on the frontcourt. However, Ohio State could boast the best backcourt in the Big Ten. Samantha Prahalis and Taylor Hill have shined in the early going for OSU, especially in victory against then-No. 23 LSU. Prahalis and Hill scored 28 and 23 points, respectively, to knock off their only top-25 team thus far. The Buckeyes will host Florida State in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Wednesday.

6. Iowa (4-2) vs.

Virginia Tech The Hawkeyes have lost a couple of games to tough competition in 2011, most recently a home defeat to defending national champion No. 4 Texas A&M. Jaime Printy has lived up to the preseason hype, averaging 19 points a games while dishing out almost four assists a game. Look for Iowa to bounce back when it hosts Virginia Tech Wednesday.

3. Penn State (5-1) vs.

North Carolina The Nittany Lions lone loss of the year was a tough road defeat to mid-major Delaware, which now ranks No. 24 in the country. Maggie Lucas has provided the bulk of the scoring, ranking fourth in the Big Ten with 18.3 points a game.

A matchup against No. 14 North Carolina looms ahead for State.

4. Nebraska (6-0) at Georgia Tech The Huskers are one of the four teams in the Big Ten still undefeated and received votes for the AP poll, but still remain out of the rankings. Nebraska has looked impressive so far winning games against then-No. 23 USC and then at Florida State. If NU can knock off Georgia Tech on Wednesday, Nebraska could enter the top 25.

7. Northwestern (4-1) vs. NC State A win and a loss against a top-25 opponent has been the highlight for Northwestern so far in 2011. The Wildcats beat then No. 23 LSU on the road then lost to No. 22 DePaul at home.

They have been successful this season creating turnovers, as they lead the Big Ten in steals at 11 a game.

Northwestern will host NC State in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

9. Minnesota (4-3) at Wake Forest A loss to lowly Quinnipiac has been the biggest disappointment thus far in 2011 for the Gophers.

One of the main problems for Minnesota is its field goal percentage.

The Gophers are second to last in the Big Ten, only shooting 38 percent from the field. Wake Forest is the Gophers’ opponent in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

10. Indiana (2-3) at Virginia The Hoosiers have struggled in the early parts of this season losing three games to mid-major opponents. They rank 10th in the conference in scoring defense, giving up about 65 points a game.

A bright spot has been senior Georgie Jones, who ranks third in the Big Ten with 9.6 rebounds a game. Indiana takes on Virginia on Wednesday.

11. Illinois (2-5) at Clemson Karisma Penn has provided some of the only optimism for the Fighting Illini, averaging 16.7 points a game. However, it seems Illinois cannot beat a team from a BCS Conference school, as it has lost in five attempts.

IU will look to change that when it travels to Clemson on Thursday.

12. Wisconsin (2-5) vs. Boston College Taylor Wurtz is averag8. Michigan State (5-2) ing 17 points a game, vs. Miami (FL) but no one else on the Defending the Big Ten title Badger roster is matchhas not been too easy for ing up. Wisconsin averMichigan State thus far in ages less than 60 points 2011. State has dropped a game and is the worst a pair of games to subpar scoring team in the Big competition in Villanova and Ten. Rebounding has Florida Gulf Coast. A bright been abysmal as well, as spot for MSU has been its the Badgers rank last in rebounding as it leads the that category. Hopefully conference. The Spartans optimism will come out need to do more than reof Wisconsin’s next game bound against No. 9 Miami against Boston College.

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Five Nebraska volleyball players were named to the 2011 All-Big Ten team Tuesday.

Nebraska, along with Penn State, led the league w i t h t h r e e first-team players.

Lauren C o o k , G i n a Mancuso and Hannah We r t h cook w e r e named to the first team; Morgan Broekhuis and Brooke Delano received honorable mention and Brigette Root was given the Sportsmanship Award for the Huskers.

Mancuso, a junior, was one of seven unanimous selections to the first-team squad.

She averaged 3.54 kills and 2.76 digs per set and in 23 matches she had more than 10 kills in 23 matches.

D e spite a two-game suspension, setter Cook averaged 10.94 assists and 2.76 digs per set.

She also mancuso notched a team-high 16 double-doubles.

Outside hitter Werth received her second straight All-Conference nod while averaging 2.83 kills and 3.07 digs per set.

Middle blocker Delano

But since last week, the Huskers have spent practices working almost entirely on defense, Sadler said. The key for the players is regaining their confidence and relearning how to play effective defense.

“I think we’ve lost our focus on defense a little bit,” forward Brandon Ubel said.

“We’ve been working hard these past few days in practice trying to get that fixed and kind of going back to basics.”

1. Ohio State (7-0) vs.

Texas-Pan American No. 2 Ohio State got off to an 11-0 start against No. 3 Duke and never looked back. The Buckeyes dominated the Blue Devils all night, finishing the game with a 85-63 victory. Preseason All-American Jared Sullinger added 21 points and eight rebounds.

The Buckeyes will be rooting for North Carolina to defeat No. 1 Kentucky on Saturday, which would make Ohio St. the nation’s top-ranked team. Ohio St., at this point, is the heavy favorite to win the Big Ten.

5. Indiana (6-0) at North Carolina State The Hoosiers have been stellar from the field thus far, shooting an impressive 53.2 percent from the field this season. They are ranked first (Big Ten) and 11th (NCAA) in field goal percentage. Will Sheehey scored a careerhigh 21 points and Cody Zeller added 16 for the Hoosiers in Sunday’s win against in-state rival Butler. Zeller and Sheehey — Indiana’s two leading scorers — are among the best freshmansophomore combinations in the country, arguably.

2. Wisconsin (6-0) vs.

North Carolina Don’t put too much into the 6-0 record. The first six games on Wisconsin’s schedule were shockingly easy. The Badgers do, as a result, claim the Big Ten’s best defense, allowing an astounding 39.2 points per game. Wednesday’s matchup against the Tar Heels will be a huge test, a test that will help gauge how good the Badgers truly are.

Sophomore Ben Brust leads Wisconsin in scoring at 12.8 points per game.

6. Michigan (5-2, 0-0) vs. Iowa State The Wolverines dropped a stunner to Virginia on Tuesday night. They were looking to build on some impressive performances at the Maui Invitational, where they defeated No. 22 Memphis and unranked UCLA to place third. Michigan’s only previous loss of the season came in a close game against the third-ranked Duke Blue Devils. Sophomore Tim Hardaway Jr. came into Tuesday’s game as the seventh overall scorer in the Ben Ten, averaging 17.2 PPG. The Cavaliers’ stingy defense held him to five points.

3. Illinois (7-0) vs.

Gonzaga Illinois got its first test against a major conference opponent in Tuesday’s Big Ten/ ACC challenge matchup with Maryland. The Terrapins kept the game close, but the Fighting Illini held them off with a 71-62 victory. Senior guard Sam Maniscalco — a transfer from Bradley University — put up 24 points and hit six 3-pointers.

Next week’s matchup with Gonzaga will be Illinois’ first true test against a ranked opponent.

4. Purdue (7-1) at Xavier The defensive presence of JaJuan Johnson — last year’s Big Ten Player of the Year and NBA first-round draft pick — has been sorely missed by the Boilermakers.

E’twaun Moore also went to the NBA, leaving Purdue without their two playmakers. However, they did return Robbie Hummel, the Big Ten’s second leading scorer with 19.3 PPG. He scored 24 points and recorded five blocks in a raucous Mackey Arena. Purdue outlasted Miami 78-57 after leading the entire game. Purdue looks like a legitimate contender.

— compiled by robby korth

After a week of going through the basics in practice, the Huskers will need the aforementioned swagger for a successful season, Sadler said.

And a game that’s televised on ESPN and pits the Huskers against a program that appeared in six NCAA Tournaments could help NU find that swagger.

“Maybe that’s just what they need,” Sadler said.

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7. Michigan State (4-2) vs. Florida State Michigan State could be the best two-loss team in the nation. Their two losses came early in the season against basketball giants Duke and North Carolina. Senior Draymond Green leads the Spartans this season in points, rebounds and assists.

His 11.3 rebounds per game ranks him as the Big Ten’s best, while elevating his team to the third-most rebounds in the country. Coach Tom Izzo will need huge numbers from Green to compete for a title.

8. Northwestern (6-0) vs. Mississippi Valley State John Shurna dominated Georgia Tech on Tuesday, helping the Wildcats improve to a perfect 6-0 record. He scored 25 points, grabbed eight rebounds and recorded three steals. Surprising?

Absolutely not. He came into Tuesday’s game at Georgia Tech as the Big Ten’s leading scorer, improving his season average to 23.1 PPG. Don’t be surprised if the Wildcats end up in the top half of the Big Ten by season’s end.

9. Nebraska (4-1) vs.

Wake Forest A frustrating loss at home to Oregon does not provide any reason to believe this season will be different from seasons past. However, a strong start to the season by Bo Spencer has Husker fans hopeful that this year could be different. Husker Nation should have a better idea of what to expect from the Huskers after two games this week: Wake Forest and in-state rival Creighton.

After those matchups, it should be a lot clearer as to whether or not Nebraska is NCAA Tournamentbound.

10. Minnesota (61, 0-0) vs. Virginia Tech Tubby Smith will most likely be in for another long season. His Golden Gophers rank 11th in Big Ten scoring defense but have managed to average 75.0 PPG against weaker opponents. Trevor Mbakwe, a defensive and rebounding force, was lost for the season this week after a he tore his ACL. Minnesota will need to have somebody step up to fill Mbakwe’s shoes 11. Penn St. (5-2, 0-0) at Boston College The Nittany Lions should have two games circled on their schedule: both games against Iowa.

Penn St. and Iowa appear to be the Big Ten bottomfeeders, so these two matchups should determine who claims the title as “the Big Ten’s worst team.” A 38-point loss to Kentucky and an 18-point loss to St. Joseph’s support this theory.

12. Iowa (4-3) vs.

Brown Right now, Iowa fans should be rooting for 11th place in the Big Ten. Seriously. The Hawkeyes are dreadful. The top25 Creighton Bluejays destroyed the Hawkeyes in Iowa City by 23 points, Campbell won by a margin of 16 points and Clemson won by 16.

Three double-digit losses in a row? It’s going to be a long season for Hawkeye fans.

— Compiled By J.C. Reid

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received her third straight All-Conference honor. She had a fifth-best Big Ten hitting percentage of .306 with a team-high 98 total blocks.

Broekhuis, the only sophomore to receive an honorable mention in the conference, recorded 93 blocks and averaged 3.06 kills and 1.64 digs per set.

NU will open the N C A A werth Tour nament on Thursday against Jackson State at the NU Coliseum.

And if the Huskers advance, they will play the winner of Wichita State and Kansas State on Friday.

wake forest: from 10 points in the second half. NU then gave up 83 points to Oregon and allowed the Ducks to shoot 49.1 percent from the floor. But even after sound victory against South Dakota State, Sadler showed he hasn’t been satisfied with the team’s defensive performance since the first half against URI. “Against Oregon and even against South Dakota State we gave up some easy baskets — just drives 20 feet from the basket — that we never do,” Sadler said.

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Alfonzo Dennard and NU are waiting until Sunday to see what bowl they’ll be attending. week out it seems like we’re playing the best defense that we’ve seen to date. I think defensive football in the Big Ten is very underrated.”

Fisher has a newfound respect for the league and he feels it has taught the Huskers a thing or two about playing Division I ball.

“I think the guys (are) learning on a week-to-week basis what it takes to compete at this level, you’ve got to really respect your opponent,” Fisher said. “Like Bo (Pelini) said, respect the game, and compare.

There’s no doubt that we have the talent and the mindset and the attitude.”

The Huskers did see hiccups

with Wisconsin and against fellow Legends Division teams Northwestern and Michigan.

For Fisher, those setbacks are all about learning and moving on.

“When you fail, you’ve got to be able to take a step back, look in the mirror and say, ‘Why did I fail, why did that happen?’”

Fisher said.

The Huskers spent time in reflection after their problems in Michigan. The result was a 20-7 win against Iowa. NU back Rex Burkhead is hoping the momentum from their game with the Hawkeyes will carry through the extended break to the bowl.

“You know, time to recover, some much-needed rest and just clear up all the bumps and bruises,” Burkhead said about the time off. “Whatever bowl we’re picked to play in, whoever we’re picked to play, hopefully we’ve grown on this game and we have improved for that.”

Reflecting on their season to this point or not, the Huskers do have a date with a to-bedetermined foe. Once that’s announced, they may not be taking strolls down memory lane.

“We’re going to be ready for whoever,” Dennard said.

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big ten championship preview

Badgers, Spartans ready for rematch in title game Andrew McClure Daily Nebraskan

After wrapping up their respective seasons, Michigan State and Wisconsin find themselves in the inaugural Big Ten Championship game in a rematch of the Spartans’ 37-31 win on Oct. 22.

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio is looking forward to the game, which will be held in Indianapolis, and for the opportunity it presents both teams.

“I feel like clearly the two best teams are participating in that (the championship game), and it’s an opportunity, obviously, to move on and go to the Rose Bowl,” Dantonio said. “And that’s a tremendous opportunity and one that we’ve worked for since, really, last February, since the end of our last bowl season.”

Wisconsin’s Bret Bielema echoed Dantonio’s excitement, acknowledging the accomplishments his team has made to reach the conference’s first-ever championship game.

“This senior class has accomplished a lot, a very different group, and for them to be the first team to ever win the Leaders Division and go to the championship game is very special,” Bielema said. “And to win 10 games already and have an opportunity to get the 11th this weekend is going to be very, very special.”

Dantonio’s team won in the regular season meeting, but both teams went 4-1 following the Michigan State win. The key to this Spartan team is its defense,

which ranks third nationally for fewest yards allowed, at 266.67 a game.

Bielema said he believes that in order for his team to be successful, the Badgers will have to punch a hole through a strong Spartan defense.

“They’re obviously a very good defense,” Bielema said.

“The thing that stands out to me defensively is they’ve got a couple key guys, really, at each tier. So there’s really not a weakness in the group, and that allows them to play consistent.”

He added that maintaining possession and converting on third down will be essential if Wisconsin wants to earn a berth in the Rose Bowl.

Dantonio stressed that his team’s defensive power will face a tough test against Russell Wilson and company.

“When you look at them and start to break down Wisconsin, you have a team that’s first in scoring, first in rushing, first in turnover margin, things of that nature,” Dantonio said.

“They’ve got a great quarterback, as well. Great running back.”

The two teams match up well on paper, each with two receivers in the top 10 for receptions per game in the Big Ten. MSU’s B.J Cunningham and Keshawn Martin average 5.6 and 4.4 catches per game, respectively. Wisconsin’s Nick Toon hauls in 4.7 per game while Jared Abbrederis averages 4.

“A lot of characteristics of

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Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema speaks with a Big Ten Network reporter after his team’s win against Nebraska earlier this season. His 10-2 Badgers will face Michigan State in the inaugural Big Ten title game this weekend. this football team and our football team seem to match up,” Dantonio said. “So it should be very, very exciting opportunity for both football teams.”

For Wisconsin to leave Lucas Oil Stadium with a win, the team’s defense will need to play for 60 minutes, something that didn’t happen earlier in the season and cost the team two losses

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learned in the last time we played these guys, every play matters.”

Dantonio knows that, like Wisconsin, his team has everything to play for, with the potential to earn its first Rose Bowl bid in 24 years.

And just because the Spartans walked away victorious in the first game doesn’t mean his team won’t be looking past Wisconsin.

“We have great respect, I think, for the University of Wisconsin and what coach Bielema has been able to accomplish there in his short time there,” Dantonio said. “We have a lot of confidence as a football team, and we have confidence in the players rising to the occasion as well and playing through adversity.”

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Leadership, depth gives Huskers shot at success Sean Whalen

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Nebraska guard Lindsey Moore leads the Big Ten with seven assists per game. despite having six freshmen that had not played a game outside of Lincoln in a Husker uniform. Moore said the freshmen have been mentally tough throughout the trip, especially in the comeback win against Florida State.

In that game, two freshmen produced career days for NU. Freshmen Emily Cady and Brandi Jeffery each had career highs in points with 14 and 12, respectively, while Cady added five rebounds and Jeffery recorded three steals.

“Our freshmen have responded really well so far for being their first road trip,” Moore said.

“They have the athleticism to play with anyone.”

Having the freshmen play well on the road has added to Nebraska’s depth, according to Burke. Moore said she

and potentially a shot at the national championship.

Bielema said the team knows that seasons can come down to one play in one game, and he hopes the Badgers will be able to avoid those mistakes this week.

“You know from the first kickoff, or first kickoff return, until that final play,” Bielema said. “As we

remembered specific times last season when the Huskers would fall behind and simply not have the firepower to come back.

“We didn’t have enough gunpowder,” Moore said. “We would catch back up to a lead and then just fall behind again because we were so exhausted from coming back.”

Nebraska’s two wins on the road this season have already doubled the team’s one awaygame win total last year.

The depth has been strong in the first part of the road trip, but Nebraska will lean on two veterans for scoring as it has all season. Sophomore Jordan Hooper has been a force in 2011, ranking fifth in the Big Ten in scoring, at 18.3 a game, and fourth in rebounding, at nine a game.

Moore leads the conference in assists at seven a game, and assist-turnover ratio with 3.2 assists to each turnover. She has also continued her overall consistency from a year ago, engineering the best offense in the Big Ten at 78.3 points a game from the point guard position.

The Huskers will take their conference-leading offense to Georgia Tech Wednesday night with a 6 p.m. tip-off.

Moore said she just hopes to continue playing well for her teammates.

“Everyone is really close on the team and we pick up our intensity for each other,” Moore said. “We have more playmakers this year and it’s a great feeling to know that your teammates have your back.” andrewward@ dailynebraskan.com

As March began, the Nebraska women’s basketball team was preparing for senior night against Colorado, hoping to reverse a trend that had seen the team lose seven of its last eight games. Coach Connie Yori was doing her best not to speak of the injuries that had turned her Huskers into a shell of the team that started 8-1 and saw itself ranked in early December.

After CU beat the Huskers, Yori’s post-game words were a bit strange coming from the reigning national coach of the year.

“I told them after the game, you don’t put this one in the ‘L’ (loss) column,” Yori said. “You put this one in the ‘C’ (compete) column.”

That was what the season had boiled down to by late last year: competing.

The Huskers couldn’t do much more than that. Yori plays an attacking, aggressive, press-heavy style that forces opponents to use up a lot of energy, and it’s hard to do that when you only have two guards who can play.

This year, however, has had a start that is, frankly, shocking. Nebraska sits just two spots outside the top 25 in this week’s AP poll following its 6-0 start, which has included wins against favored USC and Florida State teams, with the latter coming on the road. There are two reasons for this: Lindsey Moore is a star and NU’s newcomers are making a huge impact.

Moore hasn’t let off of her spectacular play down

the stretch from last season. Of last season’s myriad disappointments, the greatest may be that, for all her contributions to her team, Moore was only honorable mention All-Big 12 – meaning she wasn’t considered one of the 10 best players in the league that year. Moore’s not the type to puff out her own chest: When asked about All-Big Ten or All-American status before the season, she said she’d try for it, but only because that would mean the team was doing well.

Her stat line through six games: 13.2 points per game on 50-percent shooting, with six assists (to 2.2 turnovers) and 3.2 rebounds per game. She’s done this in only 27.5 minutes per game, and did so with a number of key plays down the stretch, including a scoring burst to ice the USC game and a clutch rebound and free throw combo to help NU close out the Seminoles.

While Lauren Cook, Gina Mancuso and Hannah Werth of the volleyball team and Morgan Marlborough of the soccer team may beg to differ, Moore is making a case to be considered the university’s finest female student athlete.

But, unlike last year, Moore has a lot of help.

While only two players (Jordan Hooper and Kaitlyn Burke) return from her main supporting cast of last year, Tear’a Laudermill, Emily Cady, Brandi Jeffery and Hailie Sample are all playing huge roles as true freshmen, and redshirt freshman Rebecca Woodberry and Katie Simon are combining for 12.8 points per game.

When you combine that production with Hooper’s production (18.2 points, 9 rebounds per game) and quiet improvement from Adrianna Maurer (6.3, 3.7),

the 6-0 start is a little less shocking.

No doubt, this team is young: Only 5 percent of the team’s scoring comes from seniors. But it can run and gun and defend with everyone it’s played so far.

The shooting’s been off at times, but never at the end of close ball games, and the Huskers have shown great team focus in order to close out opponents.

Don’t let me tell you about how close this team feels to one another – let them do it.

“Best thing about this season is we get along so well,” Burke said. “Everyone gets really excited for each other when someone does something good.”

That excitement goes into more than just the basketball game – the team has developed a habit of singing on the bus on the way to games, including classics by Sir Mix-a-Lot on the way to the FSU game.

And when the team gets on the court, those bonding exercises come in handy.

“We are really close as a team and you can see it on the court,” Moore said.

“We pick up the intensity and play for each other.

This year, we know when to bear down and get stops on the road.”

That knowledge is about to be tested Wednesday night in Atlanta. Undoubtedly, the Yellow Jackets, themselves just outside the top 25 as well, have heard what befell Florida State when the Seminoles couldn’t close out Moore and the Huskers.

Just know that, if the Huskers lose, Yori won’t be putting it in the “C” column.

She doesn’t have to anymore: This team can do more than compete.

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challenge accepted members of a New Conference, The Husker men will take on Wake Forest as part of the nationally televised Big Ten/ACC Challenge Wednesday night

T

he Nebraska men’s basketball team’s Wednesday night matchup against Wake Forest (4-2) is more than a nonconference game.

It’s an 8:15 p.m. corporatesponsored, nationally televised basketball extravaganza.

The Big Ten welcomes the Huskers (4-1) to a matchup that pits two elite basketball conferences against e a c h other in the 13th annual B i g Ten/ A C C C h a l lenge – all on the ESPN family of networks.

But the Huskers aren’t buying it.

“The ACC is obviously a great league,” NU coach Doc Sadler said.

“You throw ESPN into it and it probably looks to be a bigger deal than it actually is.”

And his players don’t buy the hype either.

Despite playing in their first nationally televised game of the season, the Huskers don’t feel anything special as they head into their first shot at Big Ten/ACC Challenge glory.

“It’s just like another game on the schedule,” Caleb Walker said. “We take it one day, one game at a time and we prepare the same way.

“It’s nothing special really.”

The apathy from the Huskers could be the result of playing a program that’s lost some of its luster after an 8-24 record last season that included just one conference win.

But the Demon Deacons shouldn’t be counted out just yet, Sadler said.

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Wake Forest is coming off a ninepoint win against a Texas Tech squad that beat the Huskers last season. “(Wake Forest is) a good basketball team,” Sadler said. “They’re a team that’s getting better with each and every game and I think their play has showed that.”

But the nonchalance comes from having an experienced squad. Players like Walker, Brandon Richardson and Toney McCray h a v e played in Big 1 2 tourn a ment games.

Bo Spencer even led Louisiana State to an NCAA Tournament appearance and an SEC regular season championship. So Sadler doesn’t feel like the national stage should affect NU. “Most of these guys have played in a lot of big games,” Sadler said.

“So I don’t know if the ESPNU and all that stuff is going to have any kind of effect.”

However, the Huskers have yet to realize their full potential and could use an attitude adjustment, Sadler said.

“Maybe the coaches are the only ones who think this team can be as good as I think they can be,” Sadler said. “At some point we have to get those guys sitting there to get a swagger about them that they’re a good basketball team.”

After a spectacular defensive effort against Rhode Island in the first half, in which Nebraska held the Rams to a 28.6 percent shooting percentage and gave up 20 points, the Huskers allowed the Rams to shoot 45.5 percent and score 43

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Nebraska takes time to reflect, rest before bowl Jeff Packer daily Nebraskan

The dead period is here.

Husker football fans find their favorite team and themselves trapped in the same lull that occurs for so many teams at this time of the year: postseason, pre-bowl.

With the free time people have on their hands, many want to look back on the year – the first in a new league and one that ended with a 9-3 mark that has some content and others frustrated.

Austin Cassidy will do some reflecting, but the NU senior safety is happy with what his team accomplished in its regular season. He knows the fans expect an undefeated season and league titles. He and his teammates do, too.

“We want to go undefeated and we want to win every game, but when we’re older and we’re reflecting back on this season, you know, nine wins – it’ll be something that we can be proud of,” Cassidy

said.

Fellow defensive back Alfonzo Dennard isn’t spending too much time looking back either.

“We just want to go into the bowl game and just finish off the whole season with another win,” said the senior cornerback.

The Huskers finished league play with a 5-3 mark, the fourth year in a row they’ve managed at least five conference wins. Many believe the Huskers got every opponent’s best effort because Nebraska was the new kid on the block.

NU receivers coach Rich Fisher certainly felt like the Huskers played their fair share of talented groups.

“When you play in the Big 12, it’s like fast-break basketball and the Big Ten, perception-wise, people think of big and slow,” Fisher said. “I tell you, though, week in and

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Nebraska freshman Brandi Jeffery has increased NU’s depth at the guard position this season.

Road stretch to end at Georgia Tech Andrew Ward daily Nebraskan

Twenty-two votes are all that separate the Nebraska women’s basketball squad from being ranked in the nation’s top 25.

Nebraska received 55 votes Monday, second behind Gonzaga’s 73 for the most by an unranked team. The Huskers (6-0) are coming off a comefrom-behind victory against their second ranked opponent of the season.

A win at Georgia Tech in the

Big Ten/ACC Challenge to finish out a nine-day, three-game road trip could catapult NU into the AP poll. The Huskers must first take care of business before they start talking about being ranked, senior Kaitlyn Burke said.

“Georgia Tech is good, really good,” Burke said. “We need to come out with the same intensity as our last game against Florida State (and) use that momentum on a new opponent.”

After beginning the season with four wins, Georgia Tech

lost two straight games to ranked opponents in Puerto Rico. The Yellow Jackets were defeated by then-No. 13 Rutgers by 19 points and were also knocked off by then-No. 18 Green Bay in overtime.

Georgia Tech will be looking for a win against Nebraska in its first game back home since before Thanksgiving. The Yellow Jackets have not lost in three attempts on their home floor this season.

Despite Georgia Tech looking to get back on track, Nebraska

players are worried about themselves, junior Lindsey Moore said. Burke said the last time the Huskers beat a ranked team, they struggled to play the full 40 minutes in the following game.

“We need to come out really focused and take one game at a time,” Burke said. “Mental toughness will be big for us.”

So far this road trip Nebraska has been mentally tough,

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