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NCAA reforms raise questions about grad rates, aid RILEY JOHNSON DAILY NEBRASKAN

Student athletes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and across the country will now have the opportunity to receive additional financial support after an Oct. 27 approval by the NCAA. The Division I Board of Directors approved an initiative that would provide full-scholarship athletes an opportunity to receive a stipend worth up to $2,000 or the full cost of attendance, whichever is less, according to an NCAA press release. The measure will also apply to athletes on partial scholarship who receive other financial aid with athletic aid. Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne told the Daily Nebraskan he welcomes the new student-athlete aid. “It’s something that’s been overdue,” Osborne said. Osborne remembers a day when student athletes received a monthly stipend on top of

their athletic scholarships for miscellaneous expenses. As the intercollegiate athletics business has boomed, pressure on student athletes has also increased while aid has stayed the same, according to Osborne and UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman. For UNL’s 443 student athletes on scholarship, Perlman and Osborne said this stipend is a chance to lighten the load. “Limitations on athletic assistance have been in place for a long time,” Perlman said. Student athletes do not have the same college experience as they did in the past, he said. Now, intercollegiate athletics has grown into a high-revenue, high-expectation business centered around students and coaches, Perlman said. Just as coaches see added pressure to perform, student athletes are much more visible on campus

GRADUATION BY THE NUMBERS In 2010-2011, the six-year graduation rate for University of Nebraska-Lincoln student-athletes hit 74 percent, according to the NCAA. With the Division I average climbing to 82 percent, Nebraska Athletic director Tom Osborne said NU needs to improve and could receive help from new NCAA transfer rules and a continued focus inside the athletic department.

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LPD arrests Occupy protesters UNL ‘plus one’ future awaits Regents’ vote

ACTIVISTS FACE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES AFTER SILENT PROTEST IN BANK

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From left, Kathryn Lewandowski, Justin Tolston, Devin Greggs and Tyler Mcintosh are escorted by Lincoln Police officers in the lobby of Wells Fargo bank Saturday. The four took a seat inside the O Street entrance of the bank and peacefully refused to leave as the weekly Occupy Lincoln march chanted outside.

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Taking a page from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, four Lincoln residents, including a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, were arrested Saturday afternoon for trespassing and failure to disperse after refusing to leave the lobby of the downtown Wells Fargo building. Justin Tolston, Kathryn Lewandowski, Devin Greggs and Tyler McIntosh are members of Occupy Lincoln, the city’s offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City seven weeks ago. They are the city’s first arrests connected to the movement. Two of them stressed, however, that they acted independently of Occupy Lincoln, which camps on Centennial Mall and held its fourth march, 150 strong, through downtown at the same time. Occupy Wall Street coalesced from JON AUGUSTINE | DAILY NEBRASKAN economic and political frustration, most consistently centered around the nation’s Kathryn Lewandowski, a Southeast Community College student in Lincoln, is seated in the back of a Lincoln police cruiser after being arrested in downtown Lincoln on Saturday. Lewandowski was demonstrating with three others by refusing to leave the bank’s OCCUPY: SEE PAGE 2 lobby. The four were arrested for trespassing and failure to disperse.

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The future of “employee plus one” benefits rests in the hands of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. Plus One was presented to the board at its Oct. 28 meeting. The earliest the plan could be voted on is the Dec. 8 meeting, and the plan would be implemented July 1, 2012. Employee plus one benefits would allow employees to enroll dependents beyond spouses and children on their benefits packages. In the benefit proposal, an estimated 240 employees in the NU system would enroll a dependent in the plan. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the only school in the Big Ten Conference without some sort of plusone or domestic partner package. The benefits package affects faculty and staff directly, but it would also affect students, according to Robin Whisman, assistant director of Campus Recreation administration and staff chair of the Committee for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns. Students would be affected by the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff. Whisman explained that when faculty and staff are looking for jobs, they put a lot of weight into the benefits package that’s being offered. When they are applying to UNL and other universities, it makes it hard for UNL to compete, she said. “I think students will feel

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the difference,” Whisman said. “They’ll know that the university is handicapping itself when it comes to recruitment and retention of faculty and staff members.” Pat Tetreault, director of the LGBTQA Resource Center and treasurer of the Committee for LGBT Concerns, said it’s in the students’ interest to support employee plus one. “I do think that any student interested in issues of fairness and social justice should be aware of this,” Tetreault said. Tetreault said there is one other thing students might not be aware of: students have the option of having a domestic partner with the University Health Insurance Plan. As listed on the University Health Center website, students have the option of adding a spouse or domestic partner on their insurance plans, along with children. Students have gotten involved in the employee plus one campaign too. Emily Schlichting, a senior communications and political science major, is a student leader for the campaign. Schlichting is also the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska speaker of the senate. Schlichting said she first heard of the issue when she ran for ASUN senate as a sophomore. “It’s something that really interests me,” Schlichting said. “Equality is really

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Professors seek biological link to our political views danae lenz daily nebraskan

It’s a common belief that political views are based on rational explanation. However, a recent study revealed that those beliefs might be hereditary. And they might be tied to a variety of factors far outside the realm of rationalization. In the study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors of political science, Kevin Smith and John Hibbing, found a relationship between disgust sensitivity and political leanings. Just less than 50 participants participated in the study. They were given an extensive survey in which they self-reported their disgust reactions and explained their political views. During the lab, each participant was shown a series of “disgusting” images, including a man eating worms, and their physiological responses to each image were recorded and then compared with their answers in the survey. In the survey, men reported they were less disgust responsive, while females reported that they were more responsive. But the overall study showed that there is no difference between men and women in that regard. “We think what’s going on there is that there is an element of socialization,” said Smith, the writer of the study. “Guys are basically socialized to, you know, ‘Well that doesn’t bother me,’ while females are socialized perhaps to be a little more squeamish to things.” The other main link discovered was that the physiological reaction to these images independently predicted political views. “So what we think that we’ve got here is that disgust measures is probably picking up a socialized element

of disgust sensitivity,” Smith said. “The physiological element is probably picking up a subconscious, literally gut-level response to disgust sensitivity.” However, Smith said, the results are not totally complete because a lot of different elements affect your political beliefs. But he did say the results tended to correlate. He chose a particular example to explain this: gay marriage. “I can’t hook you up to a machine and tell you with 100 percent accuracy because you physiologically responded to this guy eating worms that you are for or against gay marriage,” he said. “What I can say is that if I bring 50 people in, on average, people with higher responses to those images will be more likely to oppose gay marriage.” All of this leads to the question of whether or not political tendencies were hereditary. And that’s where the project gets a little controversial. “I think people have generally approached politics as something that’s really special,” said Hibbing, the other main researcher. “They’re proud of their political beliefs. They think that they’ve arrived at them for very rational reasons. And so the notion that maybe there are deep-seated biological predispositions that could nudge you one way or the other without you being aware of it, I think, sometimes goes down hard.” Hibbing went on to explain that both liberals and conservatives are against the idea. Liberals don’t like to think that political attitudes aren’t controlled by environment. Conservatives “think it’s some kind of plot to show that conservatives are biologically deficient.”

Smith said genes contain blueprints for humans, making up who we are and also acting as systems for processing information. “They take in information from the environment and they prepare you to do things,” he said. “They are involved in our emotional states.” If one person saw a bear in the woods, that person might have a very different reaction than someone else. This might have a psychological impact affecting all sorts of things. So why couldn’t it have an effect on politics? Smith stressed that environment cannot be discarded. Environment and genetics take a role in political tendencies. In some cases, genetics are controlled by the environment. “If I am biologically predisposed to be a jealous lover, I have a hot temper, a short trigger and if I think somebody is moving in on my significant other, I’m just going to blow up and become violent,” Smith said. “Let’s say … just congenitally, innately, that’s just my nature. If I never have a lover or I have a lover and am never given a reason to be jealous, that is never going to be expressed. That biological disposition is being completely controlled by my environmental circumstances.” This kind of nature-nurture thinking is something political scientists have been thinking about only for a short period of time, but Hibbing thinks this is the direction the social sciences are moving. “It’s a movement, we like to think,” he said. “And it’s not a way that most political scientists have thought about politics and political issues for the last few decades.” danaelenz@ dailynebraskan.com

Occupy: from 1 historic income inequality and what protesters see as the undue influence of wealth and corporations in politics. In the past several weeks, marches and protests have popped up in cities across the country and around the globe, including Lincoln. Saturday was International Bank Transfer Day within the movement. It encouraged protesters to cancel their accounts at large banks and move them to small, local credit unions. Wells Fargo was Saturday’s target, two of the four said, because it is just one of the banks bailed out by taxpayers after the 2008 recession, with little subsequent benefit to the citizens footing the bill. “If those trillions actually went down to the people, then we would be in a lot better situation,” said Lewandowski, 23, a student at Southeast Community College. She and Tolston, a senior political science major at UNL, also cited a recent report from two nonprofit advocacy groups saying that Wells Fargo and several other companies paid no net federal taxes during the past three years. “The facts are there,” Lewandowski said, so she, Tolston and Greggs researched the history of civil disobedience and the applicable Lincoln city ordinances. The tactic, refusing to obey the law to build awareness of some issue, appears to have worked: Facebook photos of the event have drawn supportive comments from cities in places as close as Iowa and as far as the Netherlands. After their preparation, the three sat down in silence at 1:19 p.m. in the lobby, after withdrawing some money or getting change – actions calculated to avoid trespassing. Seated in a row, they remained mute. The fourth, McIntosh, joined them after the simultaneous march halted at the Wells Fargo building, as it has each weekend in the past month to give the bank

an extra earful of drums and chants such as, “We are the 99 percent” and “They got bailed out, we got sold out.” Dana Garrison, a junior agriculture education major at UNL, was managing the crowd, leading chants and calling out facts about Wells Fargo and its bailout. She knew about the civil disobedience inside beforehand, but little else was planned, she said. “There was no orchestration about it,” she said, saying the crowd was largely invigorated by the four’s actions. “I was definitely on a high.” The reported drums and chants, in contrast to the four’s silence, suggested she wasn’t the only one. After a short time, Wells Fargo employees asked everyone to leave. The crowd complied. The four did not. They called the police, several marchers said. The four didn’t move, and the police didn’t come. The crowd surged back in. It was only after a few more calls and at least a halfhour that several officers arrived, said several participants. Some people heard from a police scanner that law enforcement wanted to wait out the crowd at first, Tolston said. He and the other three spoke to them only to give their names, as required by law. Once the officers confronted the four, everyone agreed, they were calm and respectful. “I’ve never been arrested before,” Lewandowski said, adding that the officers asked if they could just give the four tickets right there and release them. The four, committed to silence, did not respond. “They were very nice, but we made it clear that this is what we’re going to do,” Lewandowski said. They were arrested at 2:24 p.m., Tolston said. “I always thought being arrested would be this shameful process,” he said. But as he and the others

were led through the energetic crowd, Tolston said, “It was exhilarating. It was empowering.” Afterward, the protesters were driven to the police department garage, handed citations, given court dates and released. “We’re really fortunate in Lincoln to have such a wonderful police force,” Lewandowski said with a smile, echoing the ubiquitous praise of the officers’ handling of the situation. That response offered a stark contrast to law enforcement elsewhere. In Oakland, Calif., and Denver, Colo., for example, protesters seem to have strained the patience of their cities – several nights last week, the streets of downtown Oakland were filled with clouds of pepper spray and the booms of flash bombs. But in Lincoln, the protest has had a cordial relationship with local law enforcement since the beginning. While many said the Occupy Lincoln march was energized by the four’s act of civil disobedience, several protesters expressed their frustration at what they called the “hijacking” of the march Sunday afternoon, at one of the camp’s regular general assemblies. They pointed out that many marchers weren’t aware of the plan, including parents who brought their children, not expecting any confrontation with law enforcement. Other marchers had wanted to keep moving or go back as the afternoon wore on. “We’ve just got to take this as a learning experience and build from it,” said Alex Svoboda, an Occupy Lincoln organizer, to the group, which agreed that more communication would be needed if something like the sit-in is planned again. And it will happen again, Tolston said. “There is no doubt,” he said.

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Community desk Lecture: ‘Fatal Omission: The TransCanada Pipeline and the Sandhills’ when: Monday, Nov. 7, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. where: East Campus Union, Cottonwood Room what: Lecture by Anne Vidaver about the TransCanada Pipeline and how it would affect plant pathology in the Sandhills. UNL Women’s Rugby Club Noodles & Company benefit night when: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. where: Noodles & Company on 14th and P streets what: Benefit to raise money for new jerseys, practice equipment and travel expenses to away games and tournaments. contact: Angela Wickard at 308-279-1761 or angela. wickard@gmail.com Foreign Language Social when: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. chere: Nebraska Union what: Social to visit friends and speak a foreign language. contact: Kris Miller at 402-

472-2487 or kmiller14@unl. edu Lecture: Deliberate Engagement: Using Laptops in Large Lecture Classes when: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 4 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Auditorium what: Lecture by Perry Samson of the University of Michigan to speak about tools he has created for large lecture classes and the data he has collected on students using laptops in his classes. contact: Kevin Lee at 402472-3686 or klee6@unl.edu Lecture: ‘Oil Spills, Ethics, and Society: How they intersect and where responsibilities reside’ when: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 107 what: Lecture by W. C. “Rusty” Riese, a geoscientist based in Houston, Texas. cost: Free and open to the public contact: Mark Kuzila at 402472-7537 or mkuzila1@unl. edu

Workshop: Money Management Workshop Series when: Thursday, Nov. 10, noon to 2 p.m. where: Nebraska Union what: Learn how to manage student loans and credit with a series of workshops by the Student Money Management Center. Sessions include: -Happy Hour/Happy Wallet from noon to 12:30 p.m. -Managing Student Loans from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. -All About Credit from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. -Financial Health Check-Up from 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Another Happy Hour/Happy Wallet session will take place at Abel Hall on the UNL East Campus from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Beta Theta Pi Burrito Bash when: Thursday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m. where: Beta Theta Pi Chapter House at 1551 R St. what: Benefit to raise money for Lighthouse. Unlimited burritos, tacos, nachos and other food. cost: $4 in advance, $5 at the door contact: Rahul Batra at 402-319-

1340 or rahulbatra36@gmail.com RSVP Deadline: Nebraska Sustainability Roundtable when: RSVP by Friday, Nov. 11. Event will be held Tuesday, Nov. 15, 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Regency Suite what: Roundtable for students, faculty and industry experts to discuss energy, materials, water and campus sustainability. RSVP at bit.ly/sustainrsvp. Meet the Artist: Yvonne Wells when: Friday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: International Quilt Study Center and Museum what: Friends of the IQSCM can meet Yvonne Wells. For more information, visit http:// www.quiltstudy.org/visit/calendar/event/2011/11/11/friendsof-the-iqscm-event. contact: The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at 402-472-6549 or info@ quiltstudy.org. 2011 Experience the Power of Red Open House when: Saturday, Nov. 12, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: UNL East Campus

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COMMUNITY DESK what: Open House for high school and transfer students to learn more about East Campus. To register, visit http:// casnr.unl.edu/openhouse. contact: Laura Frey at 402472-4445

Natural Dyeing Art Event when: Saturday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. where: Morrill Hall what: Program to dye porcupine quills using dyes made from plants along with a demonstration by tapestry artist Grete Bodogaard from South Dakota. contact: Dana Ludvik at 402472-3779 or dludvik2@unl.edu.

India Nite Saturday, Nov. 12, 5:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Centennial Hall what: Celebration of the Festival of Lights. cost: $15 students, $20 general. Tickets will be sold at the Nebraska Union starting Monday, Nov. 7. when:

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Penny wars, Corn Bowl become school traditions

GRADUATION: FROM 1 and their practice demands have increased at the same time they are expected to perform in the classroom, he said. With full credit and practice loads, it simply isn’t practical to expect a student athlete to get a job, and full athletic scholarships do not cover the living expenses many students see in college, Perlman said. While some may question whether the stipend initiative moves the NCAA closer to paying student athletes, both Perlman and Osborne said no. “It’s a move toward being fair to student athletes,” Perlman said. Osborne said that would change the character of college athletics. NCAA President Mark Emmert made that clear speaking to the Houston Economics Club on Nov. 3, according to an article by the Associated Press. “We’re still supporting them as students, not as somebody we’re paying to play a game,” Emmert said. “When you move from that model to a model where the students who play the games are paid, well, now you don’t have student athletics anymore. We already have that. That’s the NFL and the NBA and Major League Baseball.” GRANTS In addition to the stipend, the NCAA approved a proposal that allows for multiyear scholarship grants worth up to full-term eligibility. Both Perlman and Osborne said they have questions about the fairness of a multi-year scholarship because the grants do not feature athletically related conditions. “It’s a little bit of a dangerous concept,” Osborne said. In the case of a four-year scholarship, Osborne said nothing other than getting good grades and following team rules bind the athlete to the aid. There’s no condition based on performance. Currently, athletic scholarships are renewed annually, and most non-renewals are the result of poor grades or violation of team rules, he said. “My test for all this stuff is how does it compare to the academic side of the institution,” Perlman said. Students who receive academic scholarships need to meet the metrics — grade point average, credit hours or test scores — of that scholarship to renew the aid, he said. Student athletes should have the same performance conditions attached to their scholarships, Perlman said. “With a four-year scholarship, there’s really not an impetus for the student athlete to perform well,” Osborne said. While Osborne acknowledged many student athletes would strive to perform their

YOUR THOUGHTS Eighty-eight readers shared their opinions this week at www.dailynebraskan.com. Check each Sunday for a reader poll. This week: The NCAA recently approved $2,000 stipends for student athletes already on full scholarships. Agree or disagree?

58% Disagree - It’s too much. The students are already on full ride and may move on to pro status.

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40% Agree - The opportunity to earn $2,000 extra pay is deserved.

2% Don’t care. SOURCE: DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

best, he said it is possible an athlete could get a free education and receive little playing time. Osborne said multi-year grants need further evaluation. GRADES AND GRADUATION Student-athlete six-year graduation rates at UNL improved slightly in 2010-2011, climbing one point to 74 percent. However, UNL lags behind the Division I national average, which jumped three points to 82 percent. The NCAA uses a measure called the Graduation Success Rate (GSR), which measures whether a freshman graduates from his or her school in six years and excludes students who transfer from the institution. In the federal graduation rate, transfer students are considered dropouts. Compared with last year’s overall UNL six-year graduation rate, 64 percent, the federal graduation rate for UNL student athletes was 57 percent. Osborne said UNL has a long way to go in terms of improving its graduation rates, but it can be done “with some new (NCAA) rules and a sense of increased scrutiny.” In the new NCAA changes, the Division I Board of Directors also approved the following academic changes: · The transferable gradepoint average increased from 2.0 to 2.5. · The number of transferable physical education courses would be limited to two. ·Two-year college transfers who didn’t qualify academically out of high school would be required to complete core classes, including English, math and science.

Under those changes, transfer students would come to UNL more academically ready, not just ready to play, Osborne said. Many student athletes come to UNL thinking they are ready to play and don’t always take their coursework seriously, he said. That leads to trouble, which some athletes have difficulty overcoming. In addition, some student athletes leave early to play in the pros, which counts against the university’s graduation rate. Along with those changes and an emphasis on recruiting college-ready athletes, Osborne said the athletic department will continue to maximize its academic services and resources available to student athletes, such as the Student Life Complex. Perlman said he’s confident in the ability of the athletic department to raise graduation rates. “I’m comfortable that our program makes a major investment in assuring our student athletes are successful academically and that our coaches have a culture of supporting this effort,” Perlman said. In the short run, Osborne said he wants to see the GSR increased to 80 percent in the next few years – which would bring UNL into the middle of the Big Ten. The Daily Nebraskan contacted all 11 of UNL’s Big Ten colleagues for comment. Several athletic department officials said they have not had enough time to look into the changes and others refused comment. As for Osborne, the recent NCAA reforms are a mixed bag. “Most of (the changes are) a step in the right direction,” Osborne said. “But some bugs need to be ironed out.” RILEYJOHNSON@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Whether it’s a lackluster homecoming parade showing or a supposedly quieter Memorial Stadium, murmuring of a decline in student school spirit and traditions abound. However, amid the quiet deaths of traditions, the Innocents Society is making an attempt to create at least two new traditions this month for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With a goal of becoming UNL’s newest tradition, the Corn Bowl, will be unveiled at the Husker vs. Iowa football game on Nov. 25 by its stewards, the Innocents Society. To up the ante, a competition is being added alongside the new tradition _ a penny war will take place starting Nov. 7 and ending Nov. 18. The penny war will be a competition of raising dollars and change between different greek houses and residence halls. Ultimately, the competition is between UNL and the University of Iowa. “What we’re doing is going around on Monday, giving containers to greek houses and

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Born as a “pipe dream” in the Neihardt Lounge last year, the Party Party is crafting its platform for the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska spring elections with three pillars and a directive for student government: Stop taking everything so seriously. “We recognize that student government does serious things, but at the same time, we are students. We can have a good time in college,” said Blake Rostine, a sophomore German and political science major and prospective internal vice president of the party. “Things don’t need to be so hoity-toity uptight like they’ve been in ASUN in the past.” The Party Party leadership held an informational meeting Friday afternoon to explain its platform and hear student feedback. Discussion ranged from curbing the sour smell of the campus gingko trees to adding bike lanes to areas of heavy foot traffic. But the focus was primarily on the party’s three pillars: environmental awareness, bridging the Recognized Student Organizations gap and campus unity. The gap between small and big RSOs was a hot topic for the party members, who feel that ASUN should lend its weight to

BIG TEN PLUS ONE BENEFITS The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the only Big Ten school that does not offer plus one or domestic partner health insurance benefits to its employees. Here’s a look at when other schools in the Big Ten began offering these benefits.

SCHOOL University of Iowa University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Northwestern University Michigan State University Indiana University-Bloomington Purdue University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University University of Wisconsin-Madison

YEAR IMPLIMENTED 1992 1993 (reimbursement plan) 2002 (full coverage) 1994 1996 1997 2002 2003 2003 (reimbursement plan) 2006 (full coverage) 2004 2005 2010 SOURCE: UNL PLUS ONE BENEFIT PROPOSAL

“Then we also just did a rally on campus ... we had a big, giant slide and we had cotton candy,” he said. “During that rally, people had the opportunity to sign an online petition saying they support the initiative.” The decision of approving the employee plus one benefits is left to the Board of Regents. NU President J.B. Milliken supports the plan, as does Chancellor Harvey Perlman and the three other

chancellors. All four faculty senates, as well as ASUN and the UNO and UNK student governments, passed resolution statements in support of the benefits plan. “At this point in time, there’s more support across the whole system,” Tetreault said. “As in the past, I don’t think it’s been as consistent to have all of that support. Everyone is kind of on the same page at this point.” But students can show their

a matter of getting the artwork to them and making it how we want it to look.” Norris’ title, “keeper of the bell” originates from his position’s previous duty of keeping watch over the Victory Bell that was exchanged with Missouri. After the move to the Big Ten, Nebraska no longer had a trophy to keep track of, thus a vote was held to determine the new trophy. The Corn Bowl came in first with 35 percent of the vote with a pitchfork coming in second with 32 percent. Though the Victory Bell was originally started by the athletic department, the ownership later moved to the student body and the Innocents Society. In keeping with tradition, the Corn Bowl is entirely associated with the student bodies of UNL and UOI. “I think the Corn Bowl is a great opportunity for a new tradition,” said Lane Carr, student body president, a senior history and political science major and Innocents Society member. “I’m excited that it is something that the student body got to pick.”

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Up-and-coming ASUN party emphasizes need for fun

PLUS ONE: FROM 1 important and I hold it very high.” Schlichting got the campaign for employee plus one benefits off of the ground during the fall of 2010 when she applied and received the Progressive Partnership Grant from Campus Progress, a part of the Center for American Progress, for the campaign. She said they were able to purchase buttons, signs, food for events and buy the website. ASUN passed a senate bill at its Sept. 14 meeting, which stated that ASUN supports the adoption of employee plus one benefits. University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are not the only students to bring attention to the issue. Terrence Batiste, a junior psychology major at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is a senator for the University of Nebraska at Omaha Student Government (SG-UNO). SG-UNO passed legislation supporting the employee plus one campaign during the 2010-2011 school year. When UNO switched conferences, Batiste said legislation was passed again. Batiste is the author of the legislation and the point person for the campaign at the UNO campus.

hopefully residence halls,” said Matthew Norris, a senior mechanical engineering major and the keeper of the bell in the Innocents Society. “We’re hoping the organizations raise more money than each other so that we can raise more money than Iowa.” All proceeds of the penny wars will be going to the Armed Forces Campaign, an organization that gives phone minutes to men and women stationed overseas. For this occasion, it will be more specifically given to men and women from Nebraska and Iowa. “The goal is to raise more money than Iowa so that we get to choose the recipient of the money next year,” Norris said. The group that wins the penny war will receive a private showing of the new trophy, before it is shipped to Iowa for more private showings at the University of Iowa. “It’s going to be a nice bowl attached to a base and have field corn in the bowl,” Norris said. “We’re working with a trophy company so it’s just

support for employee plus one, as well. Tetreault said the most beneficial thing for students to do is to call their regent to let the regent know they support plan. Schlichting said she would love to have the plan passed by the regents by the end of the semester, fingers crossed. “It would be a very nice feeling to slide into winter break with this,” Schlichting said. FRANNIESPROULS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

attract attention for events hosted by smaller organizations. “It would be such a simple thing to do,” Rostine said. “Lend some time to help them. Put our name on a poster with them to get people to their events. It’s never been done, and I was really disappointed in ASUN for that.” The party also wants to provide RSOs with a wider variety of options for advertising their events. “RSOs really have no inexpensive or free way to help themselves promote and make these kinds of materials, and that’s a big part of having an RSO and putting on events,” said Kate Miller, a sophomore philosophy major and prospective president of the party. “It’s missing a really big piece of what RSOs are all about.” To address its environmental awareness pillar, the party would reduce dining hall waste and combine the multitude of recycling and consciousness efforts on campus to create a unified movement. “[The environmental groups] don’t work together,” said Dillon Jones, a sophomore English major and prospective external vice president of the party. “If they were to work in unison, they could actually make some real improvements on campus.” The party plans to throw a

party. The proposal of a campus-wide “birthday party” on Feb. 15, the day the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was chartered, was just one idea to promote unity. Party leaders also suggested theme days for students; for example, free cupcakes for all students who come to the Nebraska Union in their pajamas or root beer floats for every pair of students who dress as twins. Its mission statement reads: “The members of the Party Party believe ASUN should function as a unifying force that acts to bring students from all communities on campus together. Our mission is to stay excellent to each other. We will give every student at UNL a totally excellent and unified collegiate experience through personal, cultural, and professional policies developed to maximize the benefits received by students.” Despite promises of fun and games, leaders said the Party Party can bring about actual change if students get behind its campaign. “We’re legitimate,” Jones said. “We do have platforms, we do have ideas, we do have people interested in learning more about it. We’re very serious about running and potentially winning.”

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Scholarships should require multiple incentives

University of Nebraska-Lincoln student athletes may be allowed multi-year scholarship grants that would not be based on performance in athletic competition, according to a new policy proposed by NCAA President Mark Emmert. The proposal would do away with the current system of yearly scholarship renewal, opting instead for a system that allows athletes scholarships for four years. Athletic Director Tom Osborne and Chancellor Harvey Perlman believe there should be other stipulations required for student athletes to continue to be given money. The Daily Nebraskan agrees there is a need to take a second look at the proposition being discussed by the NCAA. While student athletes already must meet requirements for the academic side of things, Osborne noted it is possible an athlete may use the grants as way to gain a free education only, and not push oneself athletically to the best of one’s abilities. The area of academics and athletics can be tricky, but the process of reviewing a proposal such as this will be beneficial in the long run. Student athletes need incentives to perform well in the classroom, but they also need incentives to do well in their respective sports. Continuing with the current policy offers both the university and student athletes the best opportunity to succeed, and the Daily Nebraskan encourages the athletic and academic administrations to search for a solution.

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letters Raikes students are innovation leaders

As students that have been associated with the computer science and engineering departments here at UNL for the past four years, we were very disappointed to read Faiz Siddiqui’s recent editorial on our apparent lack of people skills and drive for innovation. His stereotypical “computer geek” — the one that sits in a dark basement drinking Mountain Dew and playing World of Warcraft — surely exists, but it remains a stereotype. If Siddiqui had taken a moment to look around UNL, he would have seen that his observed issue with computer science and those who practice it really isn’t an issue at all. In fact, he would have realized that the same issues plague all of the majors within the university. The education we receive is inherently one that drives us to specialize (and specialization can be a very good thing). Having a broad understanding of the way our work (in any major) relates to the greater world is crucial to creating useful products. As the French mathematician and physicist Jules Henri Poincaré wrote, “To create consists precisely in not making useless combinations and in making those which are useful … Among chosen combinations the most fertile will often be those formed of elements drawn from domains which are far apart.” Computer science students at UNL are encouraged to pursue minors in areas other than mathematics for precisely the reason that Siddiqui argues is a fault of the major as it stands. Gaining perspectives in areas that may seem irrelevant can only help us to develop a better understanding of the work we, as computer scientists, do. Within the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, these socalled “computer geeks,” who are afraid to leave their rooms and who don’t have the guts to innovate, are soliciting product requirements from organizations that often know nothing about computer science, having weekly meetings with corporate executives, demoing products to entire business units and innovating on old practices in order to bring them into a digital age. This year, Raikes students are even pairing several of their

projects with the Jacht Club — a student-run advertising agency out of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications — to help design unique user experiences and innovate on tried and true software implementations. Our computer science courses have introduced us to some of the most innovative and creative people we’ve met. If you take a computer science class, which we recommend you do, you will find students from many different cultures. Unlike in many other classes throughout the university, however, computer science classes require you to work with the other students. This isn’t because the instructors mandate group work, but because the assignments are simply too challenging to complete without the help of your peers. Without a doubt, the most social classes we have taken at this university have been in the computer science and engineering department. To criticize the computer science and engineering department for not fostering innovation is simply misguided. Innovation is not something that can be taught, and not something that everyone will do. Those of us who don’t innovate aren’t lazy, we’re average. Many of the students who graduate in computer science or engineering are those who persevered the extremely rigorous major to become the innovators Siddiqui encourages. They are campus leaders, creative minds, hard workers and social beings. Siddiqui’s editorial is rampant with misconceptions about computer science, painting us as social pariah when we are, in reality, strikingly similar to the rest of campus. The issues Siddiqui confronts with our major are the same for any major. If we focus on just one topic, we will always fail to understand the complex world in which we live. We can’t all be Steve Jobs, but we can all broaden our perspectives, and we must remember to never confuse Jobs’ idea of foolishness with ignorance.

Matthew Munger

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Carpe diem, carefree days are numbered

graduated from high school two years ago. That’s mind blowing. Where did the time go? It really doesn’t seem like that long ago when I was completely reliant on my parents, wondering if I’d even be able to succeed in college. Yet here I am, two years later, completely independent, a place I always thought would be impossible to reach. Though I always dreamed of getting here, it’s scary, and at times I can’t help but want to go back. Every time I get on Facebook, I see pictures posted of people’s children. I also see more and more people change their relationship status to “engaged” or “married.” At first, it was always people who were years older than me, so I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. Now more of them are people my own age. I want to scream out, “Stop, you can’t do this. If you grow up, that means I have to, as well. I mean, after all, we’re the same age.” It’s terrifying to see girls my age with children of their own. People with children are supposed to look like my parents. Except my parents are almost 50 and all of their children are more than 16 years old. How did this happen? It seemed like just yesterday my little brother Noah was 8 years old riding his bike around the neighborhood. Now he’s driving a car. Aging is scary, and seeing others age is even more scary, because then you know, without a doubt, it’s really

gabrielle lazaro happening. I remember in high school, all I wanted to do was graduate, be independent, do whatever I wanted and be able to ignore my parents. Looking back, though, my life was pretty carefree. All I had to do was go to school and work at a simple job for maybe 15 hours a week. I never studied, had barely any homework, all my meals were cooked for me, my laundry was done and I didn’t have any bills to pay. Nowadays, I work more than 30 hours a week, go to school full time, and studying and doing homework aren’t optional. If I don’t do both, I simply won’t pass my classes. I have to cook my own food, but let’s be honest: that usually consists of me stopping by the drive-thru. I can’t cook, nor do I have the time. I have to do my own laundry and clean my house, which can actually be a tiresome chore. How in the world did my mom keep our house so clean? I haven’t quite mastered that task. And, on top of it all, I have to pay bills. I’m not trying to complain, I just can’t believe how naive I was. Now

that I can do “whatever I want,” I really can’t, because I have responsibilities and don’t have the time. More than anything, though, the worst feeling is knowing you can’t ever go back. Recently, it’s hit me that, “Oh yeah, I can’t just stop and decide to be a teenager or child again.” For some reason, I used to think, “Well, this is what I’m doing now, but I can change it anytime.” The reality is no, you can’t. Sure, you can quit your job and quit school, but that doesn’t make you a child again. It just makes you someone who’s confused, angry, upset or seen as a bum. You’re still the same age. It’s hard for me to realize I won’t live at my parent’s house again. I’ll never wake up on Christmas morning with my brothers excited to open the presents we’d been looking forward to all year. Last year, I got a set of towels from my parents for Christmas. Childhood is definitely finished. It’s frightening knowing you’ve pretty much surpassed carefree days. College can be somewhat carefree, but after that, you’re really done for. Then you have to get a real job and enter the real world. Cherish where you’re at in your life, despite its flaws and any struggles you might be having. Before you know it, that time of your life will be done. You can’t ever go back, and you will miss it.

gabrielle lazaro is a junior newseditorial major. Reach her at gabriellelazaro@ dailynebraskan.com.

‘Healthy fast food’ will not cure obesity One of my most profound childhood memories is going to Burger King. It’s not really an isolated recollection, like a birthday or a Christmas or an injury, but more an amalgam of different memories on different occasions. I simply remember going to Burger King as a kid. Fast food was different back then. It was all french fries, chicken tenders and single, double, even triple cheeseburgers. Other than a few notable exceptions — Runza had the Runza, Arby’s had the roast beef sandwich, and so on — those three things, along with a soda to wash them down, were the cornerstones of takeout and drive-thru experiences. Not anymore, though. Times have changed, and not for the better. These days, people are all healthconscious. Apparently, there’s this thing called obesity going around, and it’s gotten so bad people are referring to it as an epidemic. An obesity epidemic – sounds all scary and medical, right? Well, it’s not. I did some research, and it turns out an obesity epidemic is just a fancy way of saying that a lot of people weigh a lot more than they should. Blame for the epidemic falls on many different factors, and it’s no surprise poor nutrition is one of them. After all, how do you put on weight? That’s right, by eating food. Good job, gold star for you. Anyway, in accordance with blaming the obesity epidemic on poor nutrition, fast food joints the world over have come under quite a bit of fire recently. “Frozen and/or processed meat? Ugh, disgusting!” “Your portions are too large! How’s anyone supposed to eat all this?”

david smith “Don’t you have anything healthier to eat? Like, maybe a salad or something?” “Your doors aren’t wide enough! I can’t fit through them!” OK, maybe not that last one. But you get my point. People want healthier food, so naturally it’s the restaurants’ responsibility to serve them healthier food. You know, because when people go to a place like Burger King these days, there’s a good chance it’s for a salad. Or a Vitamin Water. Or apple wedges. All right, I think that’s enough sarcasm. Apple wedges? Are you kidding me? APPLE WEDGES? Who goes to Burger King for freaking apple wedges? If I wanted to eat something like apple wedges — or a salad, or any of that other healthy stuff, for that matter — I’d stay home and avoid paying extra cash for something I can pick up at the supermarket. It really irritates me that people think this solves the obesity epidemic, or even plays a part in solving it. Fast food joints, as well as the shoddily prepared food they serve, have been in existence for decades and predate the obesity epidemic by a number of years. Furthermore, obesity rates have been steadily climbing in recent years – you

know, in spite of the healthier menu items many fast food chains now sport on their menus. I’m not an idiot – I know that as Americans, we don’t eat as healthfully as we ought to, and I know that a steady diet of burgers, fries and pop won’t do a body any favors. The food is a problem, yes, but it isn’t the only problem; it doesn’t matter if you eat french fries or apple wedges if you aren’t willing to get up off the sofa to burn it off. In that regard, I petition that the indoor and outdoor playgrounds that used to be a staple of places like Burger King and McDonald’s make a comeback. Those are one of the things I remember from when I was a kid – not only were they a blast to play in, but they tired you out. All that running and crawling and climbing … show me a more effective, more convenient and more appealing way for kids to get active after a fast food meal, and I’ll order the apple wedges while dressed as one of those guys from the Fruit of the Loom ads. Back when I was a kid, I remember going to places like McDonald’s and Burger King for food you couldn’t get via a quick trip to Hy-Vee. The cheeseburger and french fries were a rarity, an indulgence, a guilty pleasure, and more often than not, they were followed by a period of intense physical activity. That’s the secret – what you eat is irrelevant if you don’t work it off. So ditch the fast food salads. They’re a bit of a contradiction, anyway – they look like they take a long time to prepare.

david smith is a sophomore newseditorial major. reach him at davidsmith@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Bluestem Books does not trade in best sellers. In fact, they often make a point of selling worst sellers. They like the challenge. The owners of the notable Lincoln used bookstore, Scott and Pat Wendt, met in 1974. Both were in school for the second time; he was studying history and she was studying English. Both were avid readers, but they never planned to open a bookstore. Pat, a long-time collector, got Scott interested in book scouting and in 1984, Bluestem Books was born. The goal of Bluestem, located at 137 S. 9th St., is not to be known worldwide or to make millions, Scott explained. They just want to keep the doors open and stay solvent. “We want to sell an individual book to an individual who would like it,” Scott said. “I think if Borders kept that goal they would still be around, instead of bankrupt.” He asserted that many of history’s best books are out of print today. While they are no longer being sold at national bookstore chains, Scott thinks these books have stood the test of time. Bluestem sells books in unusual genres, such as military history, quilting and Eastern religions. Scott said it’s nice to have these books available locally. Employees at Bluestem are all in the family. Scott and Pat currently work with their daughterin-law and two granddaughters. They both said working with family has been a pleasure. “It’s the best of times, the worst of times,” Pat said. “When we opened the store, we never dreamt that would happen. Everyone is closer because of it and we’re closer to our grandchildren.” Pat joked that the only downside of working with family is she can’t go home and complain about the jerk she works with. Scott realizes the importance

of reading and tries to show it to every customer he encounters. “All the collected knowledge of the millennia are stored in books,” he said. “You learn so much about other people and other times by reading.” While they used to travel to book fairs across the country, the Wendts now buy most of their books from regular customers. When someone runs out of space, moves, downsizes or changes their interests, the Wendts gladly buy informative and educational books. With customers worldwide, Bluestem experiences a diversified taste. They have met Rod Stewart’s bass player, Sawyer Brown band members and the conductor of the London Symphony. Notable authors that have appeared in Bluestem include Larry McMurtry, Jim Harrison, Dick Cavett and Roger Welsh. The Wendts said some regular customers have also become personal friends. “That’s the problem,” Pat said. “When something bad happens to one of our customers, it’s heartbreaking. They’re like a family member.” After the deaths of regular customers, Scott and Pat are often given the opportunity to buy their collections. Scott said they are happy to buy the books, but always recognize the circumstances of losing a customer. They have lost numerous good customers and friends through the years. In many ways, however, the deceased individuals are remembered through their books. “The people with interesting books were interesting people,” Scott said. “They were informed and enthusiastic about the subjects they liked. You can tell a lot about a person by looking at their books, but you can’t tell by looking at the outside of their computer.” The Wendts bought one literary estate for $30,000. It’s the quality of the books that’s important, not the quantity,

according to Scott. There is no reason to count books, he said. Bluestem doesn’t have an electronic database because every book has been personally selected. As long as he has his memory, a computer won’t be necessary. And as a historian, Scott does indeed have a great memory. His daughter-in-law, Kelly Thompson, said this trait is helpful when assisting customers. “Someone can come in with a very obscure book and not know the title or author,” Thompson said. “They will start talking about it and he will name it immediately. I’ve seen him do it many times.” Some of the most notable books in the store include bound plays from the early Shakespeare portfolios, as well as signed Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz pieces. Collectables however, are not a big part of Bluestem’s business. While a small glass case houses a sample of collectable books, 99 percent of the material sold goes to individual readers. A number of these readers come from the university. Whether it’s a retired professor or a current student, the Wendts have seen their fair share of University of Nebraska-Lincoln affiliates. Many students would rather buy an aesthetically pleasing hardback than buy a cheap paperback, Pat explained. “There’s nothing better than sitting behind the desk and seeing young people getting excited about what they see,” he said. Because they are so busy buying and selling books, Bluestem does not host regular events. The business of books is their only job, Scott explained. Since all their energy is focused into keeping the shop up, they don’t have time for book signings or readings. From places as far as Ireland and London, the range

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Bluestem Bookstore sells a variety of used books, some of them rare collectibles, from its current location at 137 S. 9th St. bottom: Louise Foster of Lincoln flips through the pages of a book at Bluestem on Nov. 4. “They’ve got a great selection,” Foster said. “I usually find what I’m looking for.”

of material and selection in the shop is nothing, if not broad. Bluestem is going into its 28th year of business – and

there’s no question why. “We just take all our money, throw it in books and hope it works out,” Pat said.

“We don’t drive a Lexus, but we’re happy.”

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Local students to perform ‘Sum’ reveals author’s with Munich Symphony genius in 40 afterlives

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Cadie Jochum (second from left), a junior music major from Nebraska Wesleyan University, rehearses “Mozart’s Requiem” with a select group of singers from the Wesleyan University Choir on Nov. 5 for their performance with the Munich Symphony. Because of limited rehearsal time with the symphony, the choir used part of its Saturday rehearsal practicing with a recording of the orchestra.

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It’s been more than two years since the Munich Symphony performed in the United States. Monday night they will be returning to the country with a concert at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The ensemble will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. before a projected audience of more than 1,600 people. The Munich Symphony (Munchner Symphoniker) was founded in 1945. It

plays more than 100 concerts every year in Germany and other parts of Europe and also makes frequents stops in the USA and Asia. For this performance, the symphony will be led by its honorary conductor, Philippe Entremont. Tonight, the symphony will be accompanied by both the Gloriae Dei Cantores and the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir. The Gloriae Dei Cantores is a Massachusetts-based choir that has toured in 23 countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The choir

IF YOU GO Munich Symphony when: Monday, 7:30 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts how much: Half-priced for students sings in 18 languages and possesses a repertoire of more than 50 recordings. Both the choir and symphony extended the

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Reviewers of literature throw around the word “engaging” like it’s going out of style – in a manner of abuse that’s ultimately neither becoming nor engaging. It’s an abuse that results in a lack of definition. As it stands now, it’s just a more verbose substitute for “good.” I sure did like “Wuthering Heights.” Crazy engaging with those heights and all. So is anything that doesn’t induce slumber engaging? Is anything that’s topical engaging? Whatever the specific circumstances are when we find the word appropriate to use, we must admit the dependence on the reader. A text itself is not engaging without a relative audience for its content. A superb lecturer may make for an interesting class, but without eliciting participation or reaction or questions from his or her students, we can’t consider the course engaging. So I reserve the term. I reserve it for books that make the reader stop and pace about the room, or swear, or pose unanswerable questions to empty rooms. I reserve it for books, like “Sum.” A book, after all, has never compelled me to frantically try and remember my

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great-grandfather’s name and utter it aloud for fear that he’ll be lost to the abyss beyond his third afterlife. This vision of an afterlife where a person finally dies when no living person remembers his or her name, and 39 others comprise the bundle of imagination that is David Eagleman’s “Sum.” Eagleman, a neuroscientist and best-selling author, presents 40 versions of the

afterlife with all the imagination and ingenuity that a child or conspiracy theorist could muster, everything from second universes to multiple deities to dying into the dreams of others. Granted, literature, like a film or painting or play or rock album, is like a buffet.

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This past weekend, crowds wandered the Omaha Ramada Convention Center brandishing huge swords, wearing animal tails and sporting every hair color imaginable. No one batted an eye. Such is the draw of Anime NebrasKon, an annual convergence of anime fans from around the Midwest. People from all shakes of life are brought together by their mutual love of all things anime, in a place free of judgement or social stigmas. “It’s so fun,” said Katrina Buhman, who was dressed as “Trunks” from the show “Dragon Ball Z.” “There’s so many neat people here. I love it.” Katrina’s younger sister, Abby, was dressed as “Goten,” also from “Dragon Ball Z.” She agreed to an interview with the condition that she could use her “character voice,” a higher, nasally voice similar to Goten’s. “It’s really fun and every nerd should go to it,” Abby

Buhman said. “Even if you think you can embarrass yourself here, you probably can’t.” This was a common trend at the show – a lack of inhibition. People committed themselves to their characters, walking with unusual strides, speaking in unconventional voices, and if the character called for it, not speaking at all. There were staged fights in the halls. At the end of Friday and Saturday night, there were raves held, riddled with glow sticks, glitter and crazed dancing. Chris Rolloff, who ran the “Furry Fandom 101” panel, was appreciative of the omnipresent sense of acceptance throughout the convention. Furrydom, a community of people who enjoy dressing up as animals, is often portrayed in society as a perverted fetish. “People come to Furrydom because of freedom of expression,” Rolloff said. “We have furries that are in all gambits of life.” Furries, and other subsets of the anime community,

often face tough social situations. During the panel, people told stories of being kicked out of stores and having rough conversations with parents. “I just hope people change their perceptions,” Rolloff said. “We’re not at all like what we’ve been shown as.” While some people attended NebrasKon to experience a more accepting environment, others came just to take a breather from their normal lives. “You hang out with hundreds of people that like the same exact things you do and understand you and think you’re awesome for being yourself,” said Reed Felderman, a sophomore English major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “NebrasKon is amazing because it’s a break from the boring, monotonous lives that people live. Plus, it adds a sense of community.” The community aspect was very apparent. Attendees sprawled out in the hallways, played cards and chatted with people who

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John Knudsen waits in the registration area at Anime NebrasKon dressed as the character Guts from the comic series Berserk. He took six months to put his costume together for this event. they’d met minutes ear- elsewhere. With panels that asked what he liked about lier. During panels, people ranged from “Your Anime NebrasKon. “It’s a nice chance to be would yell out jokes and Sucks, and Here’s Why” to others in the crowd would “Belly Dancing to Dubstep,” with friends and others,” he the convention attracted all said. “It’s fantastic.” laugh and offer their own. TYLERKEOWN@ Anime NebrasKon offers sorts of people. DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM Rolloff smiled when an experience hard to find

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The first thing that struck me about Manchester Orchestra’s Friday night show at the Bourbon Theatre was how, well, into it everyone seemed. Not just the audience – the band, too. I’m talking eyes-squintedshut, shoulders-hunched, soul-crushing intensity, which is pretty impressive coming from a band that’s been there and done that for five years and has been touring practically non-stop since April. I’m sure the Bourbon’s seen larger crowds (Mac Miller, anyone?), but it was still pretty crowded, especially considering the band has never even played in Lincoln. The stagnant body-to-body fatigue disappeared as soon as the band finally began to play, though,

for me, it temporarily returned whenever the pot-bellied man with the six-inch beard came too close. The band played what seemed an even mix of songs from each of its three albums, and even the older tracks I should be tired of by now — “I Can Barely Breathe,” “I’ve Got Friends” — were full of a raw energy, and had the same appeal they boasted in high school. Head-banging songs like “Everything to Nothing” and “Shake It Out” were made for live performance, though the lyrics don’t exactly keep the listener up at night pondering life’s complexities. And with the occasional subdued tune, like the title track from the band’s third album, “Simple Math,” the concert offered a little something for everybody. Maybe that’s why there were so many audience

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members old enough to hold a political office. But the best moments of the night were when lead vocalist Andy Hull’s voice shined through the cacophony: moments sandwiched between throaty yells and guitar riffs meant to sound like screams. Hull’s raspy voice lamented like that of a little boy who doesn’t want to go to school, in drones and whines and anguish. He could sing about self-destruction until my ears go numb, and I’d still want to keep listening.

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Taylor Montgomery, a senior fisheries and wildlife major, holds up a corn snake for Maddie Sack, 8, and her friend Sophie Cogan inside Morrill Hall at Naturepalooza on Sunday afternoon.

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The recipient of the art is presented with a full spread and takes away what they want, based the particular elements of art they have a personal affinity for. Anyone with an appreciation for “idea books” is going to find their home here. I’m no expert on the afterlife (in other words, I’m not a huge liar), but I’m left with the question, “Dave, how did you come up with that?” All right, I’m being silly, but that’s a question I ask authors as a way of showing I’m interested in their thought process and their effort. But most of the time the answer is not all that surprising.

“How did I think of this immigrant family? Because I’m from an immigrant family.” Pretty open and shut case. But Eagleman is not from another reality so far as I know. Were he, the work wouldn’t be so admirable. But it’s Eagleman’s objective pleasance that carries the tales. Were his voice preachy or judgmental or overly academic, it would be easy to dismiss the book as a zany idea from someone who spends too much time pointing at shapes in the clouds. On the contrary, his voice is flawlessly simple, beginning each tale free of any pretense

beyond the book’s solitary one. “You die and then ... ” In this sense, he succeeds by not committing himself too heavily to a voice that feigns depth or mocks it. It thrives on the feeling that a very intelligent writer is communicating the most abnormal ideas with a modus of normality. So now we’re left wondering just how smart is David Eagleman? A neuroscientist and a talented creative writer? I’m feeling both shamefully inadequate and stuck with the pressing question, “Dave, how’d you get so good?” I know, of course, that my

reaction to Eagleman’s writing is mine alone, but I feel strongly that it takes an especially deft touch to provoke the reader into thinking the way the writer does – seeing the world (or what’s beyond it) the way the writer does, if even for that briefest of moments when you’re scrambling to save your ancestor’s spirit from being snuffed out in the life beyond life. Ole Solem was hit by a car in 1938. There I said it. And I’ll think of him often, just in case.

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sYMPHONY: from 5 invitation for Lincoln students to sing with them during Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln choirs were unable to participate, as they have previous obligations to fulfill. However, the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir was available for Monday night’s performance. Allotted only 30 slots, choir conductor and professor of music at Wesleyan, William Wyman, chose to give the opportunity to juniors and seniors in the ensemble. For the past five weeks, the choir has been meeting

every Saturday for two-hour rehearsals to whip the requiem into shape. None of the students had previously sung the piece. Wyman, however, has worked with Mozart’s Requiem three times, including the newer addition that will be sung at tonight’s concert. For the first four weeks of rehearsal, the Wesleyan choir worked out technical kinks in the music, but during the last practice, they used a recording of the symphony, which may the closest they will get to the symphony musicians prior to the concert. Shortly before the show,

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Northwestern 28, Nebraska 25

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Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter celebrates after his team’s win Saturday against Nebraska.

Do-it-all Colter leads Wildcats to road upset

Nebraska receiver Quincy Enunwa fumbles in Northwestern territory during the second quarter of Saturday’s loss. It was one of two lost Husker fumbles on the day.

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ne’s focus on an activity directly affects the outcome. Eric Martin knows that. The Nebraska defensive end said as much after Nebraska’s 28-25 loss to Northwestern. “We just weren’t focused. You win the game during the week and we just didn’t win the game during the week,” Martin said. “Give a lot of credit to Northwestern, they came out and played their hearts out. We just laid an egg.” The Huskers’ (7-2, 3-2 Big Ten) preparation was called into question more than once in Nebraska’s post-game interviews. Following a game where blame was assigned all over the spectrum, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini offered words that pointed the finger toward every facet of the game. “We didn’t play well enough to win, period,” Pelini said. “You want to talk about a team loss, that was a team loss. Every phase of the team; offense, defense and special teams contributed to it.” The Huskers heaped praise on the Wildcats (4-5, 2-3) for their execution, saying they made the big plays that Nebraska couldn’t. Northwestern racked up 468 yards on offense against a Nebraska defense that was coming off its best performance of the year against Michigan State. “We blew a coverage, we played undisciplined,” Pelini said. “We had a couple opportunities to get off the field and they run a little pivot route and get 35 yards on it.

At the end of the day, you’ve got to make plays. You’ve got to cover somebody and make the tackle.” Northwestern ran for 207 yards, a result Pelini felt came from the Huskers’ undermanned defensive line. The Huskers were missing injured junior tackle Chase Rome, not to mention already-injured senior Jared Crick. “We didn’t tackle sharp there toward the end,” Pelini said. “They were just getting the push. It looked like we’d have them stopped for no gain and it’d leak for three or four yards. We called a number of different things to try and help our guys and it was just ... I don’t know.” Offensively, the Huskers saw quarterback Taylor Martinez guide the offense with his arm, throwing for almost 300 yards. However, dropped pass attempts, penalties and turnovers crippled a Nebraska offense that was held to a season-low 122 rushing yards. “I think in the beginning they were in a different front than what our offensive linemen expected, and maybe it threw them off a little bit,” Martinez said. “I think in the second half we still couldn’t really figure out how to block, and I think that’s what killed everything in our running game.” Martinez led a 12-play scoring drive to cut Northwestern’s lead to 21-18 midway through the fourth quarter. The Wildcats followed with a 13-play scoring drive that took more than seven minutes off the

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clock. Nebraska’s early mistakes dug a hole that was too large to completely get out of. The Huskers had six penalties for 41 yards and committed two turnovers, both coming on fumbles deep into Wildcat territory. “Anytime you shoot yourself in the foot it’s a tough time,” receiver Kenny Bell said. “It’s a problem that we’ve had the entire year. We frequently do it and we need to get it fixed.” The fumbles stirred up memories of Nebraska’s loss to Iowa State at home in 2009, when the Huskers set a school record turning the ball over eight times. Ultimately, Pelini said the game came down to each team’s will to win. “Sometimes in this life it comes down to ‘want-to,’” Pelini said. “I’m not saying our guys didn’t want to, but maybe they wanted it a little more than we did.” The Huskers’ slip-up against Northwestern isn’t the end of the world, though. Michigan State has regained control of the Legends Division, but that won’t stop Pelini and Co. from working toward a 10-2 record. “Yeah, I think we have a lot of character on our team.” Pelini said. “All you can do is do what you can do. We’ve got three games left, we’re going to try to win out and see what happens from there.”

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Kain Colter has a goal on his mind. “I still want 100, 100, 100,” the Northwestern quarterback said. Colter means 100 passing yards, 100 rushing yards and 100 receiving yards in a single game. He said he doesn’t know if it’s ever been done. But based on his performance Saturday in Lincoln, the goal doesn’t seem too farfetched. Colter had 115 yards passing, 57 yards rushing and 57 yards receiving during Northwestern’s 28-25 victory. “He’s a special dude,” backup quarterback Trevor Siemian said. “I sure as heck haven’t been around a player that can do as much as he does. If you take a step back it’s just fun to watch him go.” Colter, a Denver native, originally committed to Stanford during his junior year in high school. After blowing out his shoulder during his senior year, plans changed. He had interest in Nebraska, but the Huskers had just signed quarterback Brion Carnes. Northwestern gave him the opportunity that he felt Nebraska couldn’t – the chance to play right away. “When the ball is in his hands, usually good things happen,” Wildcats coach Pat

Fitzgerald said. That was the case on Saturday. Senior Dan Persa started the game under center with Colter starting at receiver. But Nebraska defensive end Eric Martin took down Persa awkwardly late in the first half and Persa didn’t return in the second half. Northwestern has been without Persa before, though. The Bethlehem, Pa., native missed the Wildcats’ first three games recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon that he suffered last season. Colter started those three games at quarterback. But when Persa returned in the Wildcats’ fourth game against Illinois, Colter wasn’t stuck on the sideline. He continued to stay on the field as a receiver – something that helped him on Saturday. “When you’re out there playing receiver you get to see what the defense is doing, whether they’re running blitzes to how they’re covering,” Colter said. “Once you go back there at quarterback it makes your reads a lot easier.” Colter capped a six play, 59-yard drive to open the second half against the Huskers with a wildly athletic threeyard touchdown run. Early

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Brigette Root’s first career start wasn’t taking off as planned. No. 2 Nebraska trailed Michigan 13-9 in the first set and the Huskers were without setter Lauren Cook. Then a pass came Root’s way and the ball slipped through her hands and hit her in the face. The match was getting out of control. No. 23 Michigan was on a 5-0 run and had a 15-9 lead. But then a spark came from the senior setter. Root received a pass and got a kill from a dink pass after committing the error. It was her first of five kills on the night. “I didn’t realize I had that many,” Root said. “But at the moment I was just like, ‘this sounds like a good option.’ It’s just setter instinct.” That sequence painted the picture of the match. When Nebraska blundered, it would come back and get points. NU was unable to battle back in the first set and lost 17-25. However, the Huskers came roaring back and won the next three sets 26-24, 25-20 and 2521. And the victory for the Huskers was a result of errors, even though the Wolverines had 18 more kills than the Huskers.

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Senior Brigette Root (left) notched 34 assists and led the Huskers to a .263 hitting percentage in the team’s three-set sweep of Michigan State on Saturday. “Sometimes it’s a funny game,” NU coach John Cook said. “Sometimes the stats don’t make sense, all that matters is the three games, two points better.” The Michigan squad had 22 more errors, and that’s where the victory came from, coach John Cook said. The next night against Michigan State, NU didn’t look back. The Huskers swept MSU 25-11,

25-18 and 25-23. The Huskers were able to hold the Spartans to a .026 hitting percentage, including a -.107 percentage in the first set. “It doesn’t get much better than that,” Cook said. “To hold them to .026 is a great job by our players, and it’s a great job by (assistant) coach (Dan) Conners. They just did a super job of executing and that was impressive.”

And according to Cook, Conners was an integral part to the Huskers performance this weekend. While Cook worked on getting his team in the right mindset, Conners coached the Huskers in practice and strategized for the weekend’s matches. “I was concerned for my

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There are a lot of negatives to harp on from Saturday’s upset loss and they will all be rehashed quite a bit this week. But for those Husker fans who like taking the glass half-full view of things ... how about that Martinez guy? I’m not saying that seeing Taylor break out like that is worth a defeat, especially as devastating as that one was to Nebraska’s Big Ten title game chances. But Martinez’s seemingly spotless play at least dulls the pain to some extent. He was magnificent, completing 28 of his 37 passes for a career-best 75.6 percent rate. He had 289 yards and two scores through the air despite battling the vicious wind that ripped through Memorial Stadium. And all those numbers could have been boosted even higher if the receiving corps could hang onto the ball (I can recall at least four

drops). He was good on the ground too (53 rushing yards), but we see Martinez use his legs effectively all the time. It’s not often, however, that we are treated to that kind of aerial exhibition. And with that, I owe Taylor a bit of an apology. When everyone was ripping Martinez after the Wisconsin game, I wrote a column defending him, saying that he was Nebraska’s best option at quarterback and that he’s a pretty darn good option at that. But I made a mistake – in said column, I said Martinez couldn’t throw. I said he was a tremendous runner and capable leader, but he wasn’t capable of carrying the Huskers with his arm. I was wrong. Martinez has teased us with a tremendous passing performance before – remember Oklahoma State last year? The 323 yards and five touchdowns? Kind of hard to forget. After that game, he returned to putting up middling

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Nebraska basketball has been reclusive this season. On Oct. 30, the Huskers took on Iowa State in a closed scrimmage. Coach Doc Sadler and his players wouldn’t comment on the event. That means Monday’s exhibition match against Doane College will be fans’ first opportunity to watch the Huskers play. And that makes a difference to the players, guard Brandon Richardson said. “I was excited to play Iowa State,” Richardson said. “But I’m excited now because fans get to see our team. Our fans are like our sixth richardson man, especially where we have games where it’s crunch time and we need a lift, all the time the fans do that.” NU takes on the Tigers Monday at 7 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Doane is 3-0 so far in its exhibition games this season. Nebraska is 49-6 all-time in its exhibition games, including 10 victories against in-state opponents. And since 2005, NU has

played at least one Nebraska school in an exhibition game, and the Huskers have won all of those matchups. But after the ISU scrimmage and the preseason practices, Sadler did comment on the condition of his team. He was happy with the way it performed and its ability to work hard every day. “As a whole, I’m really, really pleased with these guys,” Sadler said. NU needs to perform well in every aspect of preseason basketball to be ready for a new conference, and getting sharp in the beginning, from studying to conditioning, is a building block for basketball, Caleb Walker said. “We have to do everything right,” Walker said. “Whether that’s off the court or on the court, lifting weights, whatever it is, we have to do it.” And one player Sadler will look to learn more about is Mike Fox. The former walkon was only on the court long enough to take four shots last season, but he made all of them. Sadler looks to give Fox, a junior, an opportunity on the court in a forward role, despite the fact he is only 6-foot-4. “We can find a place for Mike,” Sadler said. “Preseason, it’s not that big of an issue, but in the league it becomes more of a disadvantage. But he’ll

play.” Sadler cited former Husker, 6-foot-4 forward Ryan Anderson as an example of an undersized forward finding success at NU. And Sadler thinks Fox might even be better. “We have found in the past we can use an undersized guy,” Sadler said. “He’s much more athletic than Ryan Anderson was, he defends just as well.” And defense was an important part of Anderson’s game at Nebraska. In 2009 Anderson was a member of the Big 12’s All-Defense team with 41 steals and 3.8 rebounds per game. This game is a stepping stone for NU into the season. One in which Richardson hopes to perform well, he said. “We’re looking for a collective effort from the guys,” Richardson said. “Especially on the defensive side of the ball because that’s where we can make our mark.” And the key to winning the defensive battle against the Tigers will be keeping on them and working as a unit to stop Doane’s attacks on the basket, he said. “So the more pressure we can apply to the opposing team, the better we can put ourselves in a scoring position,” Richardson said. “So really it’s a team effort.” robbyKorth@ dailynebraskan.com

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Just because Nov. 4’s annual Nebraska Wrestle-Offs were exhibition matches doesn’t mean there was any shortage of competition. Supported by hundreds of enthusiastic fans, the Huskers faced off against each other Friday night at the Devaney Center, where none were spared from the hostile environment of intrasqaud competition. “We keep it 100 percent,” senior James Nakashima said. “Everybody is greedy, everybody wants to win matches, nobody wants to give up points.” Nakashima, who won his only match of the day, noted the added challenge in competing against teammates who are familiar with each other’s tendencies and strengths and weaknesses. “We know each other’s style a lot so we’ve really got to open up and score points,” he said. “And you get to see the really tough kids on our team and how we perform.” Others were unfazed by the competitive setting. Junior Ridge Kiley led off the day with a pin against redshirt freshman Brandon Rubino in just more than two minutes. And redshirt freshman Robert Kokesh, who won 34 matches as a true freshman, netted two impressive victories at the 165-lb. weight class. Kokesh defeated sophomore Michael Klinginsmith by technical fall, 17-1 before later pinning junior Tyler Koehn in 35 seconds. All three of Nebraska’s returning NCAA qualifiers, including Kiley, recorded victories on the night in bonus-point fashion. Still, Kiley and the rest of the Huskers didn’t dwell on wins and losses.

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Junior Ridge Kiley said the experience gained at Nebraska’s Wrestle-Offs will help younger wrestlers this season. “It’s good experience, but we wrestle each other day-in and day-out so this isn’t really different from what we do on a day-to-day basis,” Kiley said. While the wrestlers were wary of the added potential for injury, according to Kiley, few adjustments were made to prevent it. “You can’t really predict an injury, so we wrestled to the best of our abilities,” Kiley said. “Everyone just did their best and there were really no surprises.” Exposing newcomers to the competitive setting was pivotal to the team, which sees its first NCAA competition Thursday. The Huskers’ season opens Nov. 10 in a bout with the Bucknell Bison in Lewisburg, Pa. The added experience of wrestle-offs is a leg up on the other teams, according to Nakashima. “It’s a big event for everybody

on our team,” he said. “The older and the younger kids come out here and get some match experience right off the bat.” But for the senior, Friday’s wrestle-offs served a dualpurpose. In his experience with the Huskers, the annual event has usually highlighted those in attendance as well as the wrestlers. The Huskers finished off the night mingling among each other, signing autographs for the younger fans and rolling up the wrestling mats. “In Nebraska we have good fans – it’s a good time to get out with them,” Nakashima said. “It’s a great day. We hang out in the locker room and then we have a good time hanging out with the fans afterwards.”

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After nerves affected the start of Nebraska’s first exhibition, they were not an issue at the outset of Sunday’s game against University of Nebraska at Kearney, according to senior Kaitlyn Burke. An increased tempo both on the offensive and defensive ends got the Huskers going early. NU outscored UNK 37-16 in the first half and went on to win 85-55 in its final preseason tuneup before the 2011-12 season begins. Junior Lindsey Moore said the Huskers practiced out some of the nerves of a week ago. “Things just seemed to click better today with one game under our belts,” Moore said. The up-tempo style was led by Moore, who finished the game with 14 points and seven assists, many of those coming in the first half. Nebraska was led in scoring by sophomore Jordan Hooper once again, as she added 28 points. She scored 24 in the first exhibition against Pittsburg State. Burke said that rotating fresh players into the game was a key attribute to Nebraska’s fast tempo throughout the game. “That’s the style of play that we want to have,” Burke said. “Rotating players in constantly in order to have everyone 100 percent all of the time.” A lack of turnovers also helped Nebraska get off to a faster start, according to coach Connie Yori. Yori said the result was something that could be a foreshadowing of the remainder of the year. “The first half was more of a picture of the teams this system can develop,” Yori said. “It all starts on the defensive end by getting a rebound to finish our defense then we can run.” As good as the Huskers were in the first half, they struggled at times in the second due to a lack of rebounding, Yori said. NU was also beaten in the paint a few times in the second half,

hoppen: from 8 passing numbers (although a lot of that had to do with injuries) and the excitement from that performance wore off. But on Saturday, there it was again. At the most crucial point in the game, the ball wasn’t in Rex Burkhead’s hands. It was in Taylor’s, and time and time again he came through. He threw 19 times in the fourth quarter for 136 yards. The Huskers scored 15 points. He did his job. But the defense didn’t. But is this just another flashpan performance? Will Martinez return to aerial mediocrity next week? I don’t think so. The three games leading up to this one suggested a breakout like this

have been thrown any better. Northwestern gave the Huskers a gut punch and it’s going to hurt. But Martinez’s pinpoint passing brings hope at least. The Legends Division is not yet decided. The current leader, Michigan State, appears to have an easy slate from here on out. But the Spartans were challenged by Minnesota Saturday and they still have to play those pesky Wildcats from Northwestern. NU will almost assuredly have to win out to give itself a chance. If Martinez can keep that golden arm firing, the divisional race is far from decided.

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NU’s Jordan Hooper goes up for a layup Sunday at the Devaney Center. The Huskers defeated the Lopers 85-55. according to Yori. “We are young and we don’t know who to box out or pick up sometimes,” Yori said. “They high-lowed us a few times even though they were significantly smaller.” Defense also struggled despite the lopsided score, according to Burke. The Huskers gave up 39 points in the second half after allowing 16 in the first. NU was also beat by a couple of run-outs during its full-court pressure. “Defense is something that we need to work on, especially because we can’t be beat by things as simple as run outs,” Burke said. Midway through the second, an injury interrupted NU’s pace of play. Loper senior Lea Ann Jameson attempted to take a

charge on Nebraska’s Tear’a Laudermill but did not get the call. As the play finished out, Jameson remained on the floor. The senior hit her head on the court when she fell to the ground and was carted off in a stretcher to be driven to the hospital. As she was being taken out of the Bob Devaney Center, the crowd showed its concern by giving her a standing ovation. Jameson appeared to be fine and was still able to move her fingers and had feeling in all of them as well, according to UNK coach Kevin Chaney. Nebraska opens its season on Saturday at the Bob Devaney Center against Arkansas-Pine Bluff with tip off at 3:05 p.m. andrewward@ dailynebraskan.com

volleyball: from 8 team more than for Michigan or Michigan State,” Cook said. “And I told coach Conners he would have to do a great job this weekend ... and our team did a wonderful job at (practice) of preparing, and I could tell that they were really dialed in.” And the second win on the weekend became an important cap for Root. The senior captain was more than satisfied with NU’s

was possible. In those contests, Martinez completed 36 of his 57 passes (63 percent) and threw four touchdowns with just two picks. Those games included some tosses so perfect they would make Peyton Manning jealous. But numbers don’t always tell the whole story. Sometimes you just have to judge something based on what you see. And what I saw Saturday was a confident signal caller who routinely put the ball exactly where it needed to be on almost every occasion. His on-the-run toss to Ben Cotton near the goal line that set up NU’s first fourth-quarter score is a perfect example. That ball simply could not

performance against MSU. She averaged 11.67 assists per set against the Spartans, after averaging 8.5 assists per set against Wolverines. “A win is a win, especially after the week we had,” Root said. “I just think we played unbelievably (against MSU) so it’s a really good feeling.” And Root’s performance during the weekend quickly became a rallying point for NU. Against the Spartans, Root

helped Mancuso hit .385 and Hannah Werth hit .296. And both hitters appreciated Root and used her as inspiration. “I am so proud of Brigette,” Werth said. “She’s done an excellent job, this situation is not easy whatsoever, for not only one team, but for one person. She’s held herself amazingly and it shows what a great person she is, on and off the court.” robbykorth@ dailynebraskan.com

in the fourth quarter he hit Jeremy Ebert for an 81-yard score to give the Wildcats an 11-point lead. “The sky is the limit for him and for his future,” Fitzgerald said. “But more importantly he just stayed in the framework of the offense – to take advantage of the clock, to do things that winning quarterbacks do.” Northwestern scored touchdowns on its final two possessions. The first — Ebert’s touchdown — took 46 seconds. The second was exactly the type of drive the Wildcats needed to leave Lincoln with an upset win — and Colter gave it to them. Nebraska had stolen some momentum back from Northwestern by cutting the lead to 21-18 with just less than nine minutes remaining. The Wildcats responded with a 13-play drive — all runs — including a 4th-and-1 conversion by Colter. The more than sevenminute scoring drive gave the Wildcats a two-score lead, but more importantly gave the Huskers little time to make a comeback. “We just really wanted this game, and I feel like as the season’s gone on we’ve let some games slip away that we shouldn’t have,” Colter said. “Our record so far really doesn’t reflect the team that we have.” The Wildcats finished with 468 total yards with 229 coming from Colter. It probably wasn’t what most people expected a week

after the Huskers held Michigan State to three points. For Colter, though, it went according to plan. “It’s a huge upset for

everybody else,” Colter said. “But we came into this game believing that we were going to win.”

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Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez attempts to escape two Northwestern defenders Saturday. The sophomore finished with 12 carries for 53 yards.

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Total yards for Northwestern sophomore Kain Colter. The quarterback/ wide receiver passed for 115 yards, ran for 57 yards and caught three passes for 57 yards. Colter leads the Wildcats in rushing this season and is third in receiving yards.

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Return yards on Austin Cassidy’s third quarter interception, which occurred in the end zone. The turnover was a possible 14-point swing, as the Huskers turned the good field position into seven points. The Nebraska defense forced three Northwestern turnovers. The Wildcats entered the game with just eight turnovers all season.

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Northwestern fans cheer during the Wildcats’ three-point victory against No. 9 Nebraska Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

Consecutive completions for Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez from the second quarter to the fourth quarter. Martinez completed 28 of his 37 passes for the best completion percentage (75.7) of his career. He finished with 289 yards through the air for two scores.

Rushing yards for the Huskers on Saturday. Nebraska entered the game with the conference’s second-best rushing attack at 252 yards per game. The Huskers are now 1-2 this season when failing to break the 200yard rushing mark.

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Nebraska receiver Tim Marlowe fights for yardage on a kick return Saturday against Northwestern.

game balls baker steinkuhler With Jared Crick, Thad Randle and Chase Rome all on the mend with injuries, someone from the front four needed to step up. Steinkuhler was that guy, finishing with nine tackles, seven of which were unassisted, and the Huskers only sack. NU’s ground defense ended up being its downfall in the fourth quarter, but Steinkuhler did his part. -dan hoppen, dn senior reporter

tim marlowe NU receiver Tim Marlowe, who has constantly been praised for his work ethic in his time at Nebraska, had a career day against the Wildcats. Marlowe grabbed 4 passes for 44 yards, including a 15-yard touchdown that put the Huskers back on track in the third quarter. He snagged another 15-yarder on a third and long for the Huskers. It was a career high for the junior in every category and his first score as a Husker.

kain colter Northwestern’s sophomore quarterback was the best player on the field Saturday. Colter threw for 115 yards and a touchdown, while combining for another 114 yards receiving and rushing. After starting quarterback Dan Persa was no longer available due to injury, Colter helped the Wildcats score 21 second-half points to knock of N0. 9 Nebraska in Lincoln.

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-doug burger, dn sports editor