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Rock Bottom After losing to Purdue 55-45 on the road this weekend, the Huskers are now 3-6 on the season, the first Nebraska team ever to lose six times before November. What now? Our coverage inside.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Hello, and welcome to the Bill Callahan Era Part Two. On your right is a “high powered” offense from the West Coast, on the left a defense unable get off the field, and if you just kinda look around, you’ll find a once great program searching for any sort of identity.

But it wouldn’t truly be a Callahan-like era without a Callahan-like loss, and on Saturday we got just that.

The Purdue loss Saturday was appalling. Abysmal. Inexcusable. And worse than any loss in the Callahan era.

Let’s look at Callahan’s arguably worse loss, which came in the first year of his coaching stint at Nebraska.

October 9, 2004. Nebraska is 3-1, scoring 27 points per game and keeping opponents to 15.

The offense is averaging 411 yards per game, and the Huskers are coming off a 14-8 win over Kansas.

They’re playing Texas Tech, a 3-2 team under fourth year coach Mike Leach. The Red Raiders are a semi-well oiled machine, winning 31 games since 2000 and fresh off a Holiday Bowl win in 2003. They average 513 yards and 33 points per game.

Tech absolutely obliterates Nebraska 70-10.

The 60 point loss is the largest ever in the 114 year history of the Huskers. The 70 points are the most ever scored against Nebraska. Husker fans from Sidney to Nebraska City question the hire of the new leader, and the pride of the 2001 season is sucked up and thrown away.

Any momentum from the Solich era vanishes.

Nothing could get worse, could it?

October 31, 2015. Nebraska is 3-5, scoring 31 points per game and giving up 24. The Huskers are coming off of a 30-28 loss to Northwestern, and next up is Purdue, a joke of a program. The Boilermakers are 1-6 and barely getting 30,000 people into the stands. They average 23 points per game and give up 36. Common logic says Nebraska wins easily, even in a down year.

Then boom. Nebraska gives up 55 points to the 94th best offense in the country, can’t move the ball when it needs, can’t get stops when it needs and loses to a team that, in the past two years, has only beaten two FBS teams: Western Michigan and Illinois.

Nebraska has now lost six times before November for the first time ever. Confidence in the hire of the offensive minded head coach is dwindling, if not already lost, and the possibility of missing a bowl game for the first time since 2007, Callahan’s last season, has now gone from worst-case-scenario to absolute possibility. Throw away any momentum from the Bo

Pelini era, it’s now officially gone.

Josh Kelly said it first, and I’ll say it again. This is rock bottom. This is worst case scenario.

This is panic-button time. The 2012 Big Ten Championship blowout loss to Wisconsin looks like a dream now. At least that game meant something.

You can barely say the words “Callahan Era” to a Husker fan before they shush you to pretend like it didn’t happen. But Callahan actually did turn it around. In 2005 the Huskers went 8-4, and in 2006 they finished first in the Big 12 North with a 9-5 record.

So sure, things could turn around.

But really, is there any more room to fall?

Sincerely, Chris Heady Editor-In-Chief

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Nebraska’s Head Coach Mike Riley (left) shakes hands with Quarterback Ryker Fyfe (17) after the Huskers 45-55 loss to Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium, in West Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 31, 2015.

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Junior works to make Greek community greener FLORA ZEMPLENI DN Morgan Battes has always loved leadership.

She’s been involved in student government since middle school, a passion that merged with a new interest she developed in high school – the environment.

So once Battes, a junior natural resources and environmental economics major, came to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she became involved in both, first joining the Envi-

ronmental Leadership Program her freshman year and then the Environmental Sustainability Committee last year.

It was last year when she moved into her sorority, Chi Omega, that Battes saw the need to improve the sustainability of the Greek community.

For example, Battes said the women in Chi Omega only have access to Styrofoam on the weekends. She said the problem with Styrofoam is that it cannot be recycled and so it goes directly into the landfill.

“It doesn’t really break down naturally, especially in the landfill,” she said.

Sophomore Grace Evans, a global studies and French major, said she saw these issues as well.

“Living in Chi O(mega), I just saw how wasteful everybody was, and it was really frustrating,” she said. “Nobody recycled. We had recycling bins in the kitchen, and that was it, and nobody used them ever. I think most people thought we didn’t even have recycling.”

So last year, Battes started her own project

with ESC, an ASUN committee, called Greeks Going Green to address environmental issues in the Greek community.

“I figured if my chapter was not doing very well with it, other chapters were probably having similar issues,” Battes said. “So I was like, ‘OK. Let’s do something about it.’”

Greeks Going Green is now going into its second year. This year, it joins other ESC projects such as Earthstock – a month-long cel-

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Experts use drones to control, fight wildfires NOAH JOHNSON DN A group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln experts is working with partners across campus to change the way wildfires are fought, as well as encouraging the use of prescribed burns for conservation purposes.

The Nimbus Lab is creating a flying drone that can help reduce the danger associated with controlled burns.

“The Great Plains, California and other locations around the world are seeing an increasing number of bigger and more intense wildfires in recent years,” said Dirac Twidwell, a faculty member in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and range ecology expert, in a UNL news release. Twidwell said there is a trend in land management, species invasion, drought and climate that contributes to wildfire.

The drone would be able to ignite and monitor controlled fires in remote areas.

“The idea is to provide a safe mechanism for people to perform fire management tasks with less risk and higher efficiency,” said Sebastian Elbaum, a UNL computer science and engineering professor and drone researcher, in the news release.

The team has performed indoor tests with the prototype that have proven successful. The

researchers have also worked with the Federal Aviation Administration. They hope to have permission from both the FAA and fire departments to perform field tests as early as March 2016.

Prescribed burns are recognized as an effective conservation tool that eliminates invasive species, restores native plants and reduces the risk of wildfire. One of the major drawbacks to prescribed burns is their perceived safety concerns. Twidwill recently performed a study in his lab showing that prescribed burns are less risky to landowners than other management techniques. The study also showed that using drones would further lower this risk.

The drones carry balls filled with potassium permanganate powder and are injected with a liquid called glycol. The reaction between these two chemicals creates a flame after several seconds. This method is also being used with helicopters and handheld launchers. The drones would be able to drop these balls in a precise pattern over their targeted area.

Currently, the team seeks grant funding so it may develop a next generation prototype of the drone that will have more sophisticated sensing and actuation abilities.

The drones could be an effective tool in combating the invasive tree species, Eastern Red Cedar. The drones may also be used in

COURTESY PHOTO place of aircraft and hotshot teams of firefighters in some wildfire situations.

“What we’re doing is supporting the expert and the user in the field,” Elbaum said in the news release. “The drone and the operator

work together to make the job safer, more efficient and cheaper.”

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Yik Yak app often used to offend feminists Universities across the nation faced chaos after people bash feminists via anonymous app Yik Yak. KELSEY CONNELLY DN What started as a harmless social media application recently created chaos at universities in the country.

The social media app Yik Yak gained popularity at the University of NebraskaLincoln along with other universities in November 2013, but since its release, many college campuses have faced problems regarding racist, sexist and homophobic posts.

While users can only see “Yaks” from those posting within a five-mile radius, all posts are anonymous.

Many posts are not offensive, but some people use the anonymity to make posts such as this “Yak” from Oct. 27: “This is why I don’t f***ing believe in women’s rights. Leave it to women to turn a simple compliment into feeling like they’re being objectified.”

It takes just a few scrolls through Yik Yak to find a mildly offensive “Yak” regard-

ing race, gender or sexuality.

“This constitutes as psychological and emotional abuse, even if it’s from an anonymous source,” UNL Women’s Center director Jan Deeds said.

When your name is not tied to a post, you can easily demean a specific group, said Rae Thomas, UNL Women’s Center programming assistant and senior psychology major.

“The issue with Yik Yak is that because it’s anonymous, it takes away this shield of responsibility,” she said.

This growing problem sparked a conversation on many college campuses, resulting in the banning of Yik Yak from some universities. These universities quickly faced backlash from students who said this censorship violated their First Amendment rights.

“The issue is that you have the right to say stuff, but there are limitations to that,” Deeds said. “You don’t have the right to make serious threats about rape or someone’s life.”

Chancellor Harvey Perlman recently addressed the issue of speech protected under the First Amendment after the university was unable to reject a religious group preaching in front of the Nebraska Union.

But the anonymity of Yik Yak makes handling harassment such as this more difficult.

“If it’s an anonymous, generalized threat, it makes it hard to specify ramifi-

cations of their actions,” said UNLPD Sergeant Aaron Pembleton.

If someone’s safety was to become a serious concern because of a post on Yik Yak, the police department would take action, Pembleton said.

“Just because it’s anonymous doesn’t mean we can’t find where it’s coming from,” he said.

While no major issues have come from Yik Yak on UNL’s campus, Deeds said students should be paying attention to other universities’ problems with the application.

Deeds said education is the best way to prevent any problems of our own, so students can intervene on the app themselves.

“I think that the best way to respond to things like this is to give counterbalance,” she said. “We need to have people who are wanting to reduce racism and sexism and homophobia by commenting back on these posts.”

In this case, more speech is often the answer to offensive speech, Deeds said.

“I don’t know that banning Yik Yak all together would be the answer,” she said.

“But I do know that our community has some strength in responding to the problem.”

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Junior finds passion after two schools, two majors Casey Seline transferred from Notre Dame, then switched out of the Raikes school as a junior.

LINDSAY ESPARRAGO DN The biggest decision most fourth graders at Swanson Elementary agonized over was what game to play at recess, or whether to get seconds at lunch, but Casey Seline’s decisions peered a little further into the future.

When the junior University of NebraskaLincoln student was in the fourth grade, she toured her first college campus: Pepperdine University. Her time dedicated to sifting through universities to find the perfect fit increased from that point on.

“I was that weird kid that was obsessed with college in high school,” Seline said.

Seline’s dad was the one who instilled the value of choosing the right college in her head at such a young age. Her dad never took the opportunity to go on any college tours, so he went with his gut and attended Pennsylvania State University.

It wasn’t long until he realized he didn’t fit in and transferred to the University of Nebraska Omaha. Seline said her dad encouraged the constant college tours, in hopes she and her three siblings wouldn’t go through the same experience of transferring.

But Seline had her heart set since a tour her freshman year of high school, during her spring break. The scenic entrance with trees surrounding visitors on both sides of the sidewalk, leading to the massive golden dome, caught her attention and kept it.

The University of Notre Dame was her dream school. She made the goal of getting accepted. She did. And she attended – for one year.

“A lot of the people at Notre Dame were very close-minded,” she said. “People were competitive about everything and the religious vibe surrounded every aspect there. It was a little uncomfortable.”

The university doesn’t allow freshmen to choose a major, so Seline didn’t meet anyone with similar interests. When she went to declare her major for the next year as a computer applications major, her advisor told her the head of the department had left and the major was no longer an option.

Then came the dreaded FaceTime call to her parents – she didn’t fit in at her dream school. With an experience similar to her dad’s, she switched to the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at UNL her sophomore year.

“Raikes was a support system I didn’t have at Notre Dame,” Seline said. “But everything at Raikes moves very quickly. As

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Junior English and film studies major Casey Seline spent her first year of college at Notre Dame, but transferred to UNL after a year. After spending a semester in the Raikes school, she knew computer programming wasn’t her passion - what she really wanted to do was adapt films to movies and tell epic stories.

“I always planned on having a stable caa beginner, I had to dedicate all my time to learning computer programming and proj- reer path … screenwriters don’t get that,” she said. “Not having that path is still something ects. I wanted to do more than that.”

I have anxiety about, Stability. It’s what her but I needed school to parents wanted for her, I just want to help offer me more creativand deep down, Seline ity. I wasn’t getting that said it’s what she was people fall in love before.” looking for, too. ComBeing a lot happier puter science gave her a with stories I love...I want to and having the desire sense of stability, as she do it right.” to go to her classes could get a job anywhere makes up for the lack as a female programmer.

CASEY SELINE of a clear path, she said.

But it wasn’t enough to junior english and film studies major Before, Seline went to keep her in Raikes. AfUNL’s Counseling and ter one semester, Seline made the switch again – a polar opposite Psychological Services because of the way she felt at Notre Dame. switch.

The transition improved Seline’s conShe declared an English and film studies fidence and mental health, and she has her major to fulfill her dreams that had been buried underneath Notre Dame and computer frustration over past films that didn’t live up to the books to thank. science: turning books into films.

“I just wanna help people fall in love with stories I love,” she said. “I want to be part of the crafting, and I want to do it right.”

The first novel she hopes to screenwrite is “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tart – what Seline calls an “epic story.”

Seline’s college year ’s full of constant changes and transitions, and now the challenge to land a film studies internship – an “epic story” in itself – is far from stable, but it’s what she needed, she said.

“Don’t force yourself to do something you know you don’t like – even if there are some positive aspects,” Seline said. “I think … I think I’m pretty set now.”

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Nine student groups compete for $1,000 grants COLLIN SPILINEK DN

Co-director for the UNL chapter Jessica Bartak said Camp Kesem’s selection last year showed how far the group has come since it Students can now vote for University of started at UNL in 2012.

“When I was a freshman and first joined, Nebraska-Lincoln student groups to receive hardly anybody knew about Camp Kesem,” a $1,000 grant through the “Give Back. Big.” she said. “To be able to win a grant based on program.

The program provides grants to student the most student votes was truly incredible groups that submit proposals to the Center and shows how much we have grown in the for Civic Engagement with a goal of making past few years.”

Camp Kesem used the grant toward its the world a better place. goal of sending 65 chilThe money is provided dren to last summer ’s It’s such a cool by the vice chancellor of camp.

Because the the Student Affairs office, opportunity to get camp is free for famiand finalists range from lies, expenses can add well-established organi- funds to be able to give up, Bartak said. zations to smaller, local back to the community.”

It costs about $500 projects. to provide year-round Nine proposals were WHITNEY JOHNSON support for each campsubmitted this year, two center for civic engagement office er, and last year ’s “Give more than last year.

Back. Big.” grant alGrants will be awardlowed for two more ed to two student groups: one selected by a committee of faculty, staff campers to participate.

Bartak said she is confident for Camp Keand students, and another by popular vote.

“It’s always exciting to see what stu- sem’s chances to win again this year.

“All of our counselors and volunteers are dents come up with,” said Whitney Johnson, a graduate assistant for the Center for Civic really great,” she said. “They all did a wonEngagement and Greek Affairs. “It’s such a derful job of encouraging students to vote cool opportunity to receive funds to be able for us. Our goal is to have 80 campers this year, and in order to do this, we need to raise to give back to the community.” $65,000. This money will give us a good start Students are able to vote online via the Center for Civic Engagement website, while to our fundraising for this year.”

“Give Back. Big.” grant recipients will be the committee reads and scores using a ruannounced Nov. 10 at the Fall 2015 Franco’s bric.

List celebration at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Last year, Camp Kesem won the popular Union auditorium. vote and has submitted another proposal to be considered this year. Camp Kesem seeks NEWS@ funding for an initiative to organize a free, week-long summer camp for 80 Nebraskan DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM children affected by a parent’s cancer.

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Crime: student locked in Love Library, DWI Man barred from Nebraska Union locked inside Love Library over the weekend, a stolen car and a DWI. STAFF DN

A library lock in, a stolen vehicle and a DWI. Early Friday morning, a UNLPD officer was dispatched to Love Library South in response to a custodial staff’s report of a male who had been locked in the library after hours. The male, who had been banned and barred from the Nebras-

ka Union on April 2, 2014 for being inside after closing, said he was listening to music and didn’t know the library was closing. The officer issued a trespass policy letter and escorted the man out of the library.

At 1:25 a.m. on Sunday, a UNLPD officer ran the license plate of a red Pontiac near 17th and R streets and found it had been stolen from the Omaha area. The vehicle was stopped, and the occupants were removed and placed into handcuffs, according to the report. Further investigation concluded that the vehicle had been sold and the purchasing check didn’t clear, making the issue a possible civil matter.

The occupants of the vehicle were released, and the vehicle was towed for the Omaha Police Department.

DWIs Just after midnight Friday, a non-UNL student was pulled over for speeding and was found to be under the influence of alcohol. Nicole Chonis, 20, was cited and released for DUI (0.177 BAC), speeding, driving without a license, minor in possession and open container. A 20-year-old UNL student who was in the vehicle was also cited and released for minor in possession.

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UNL ties for last in Big Ten Campus Pride Index ranking BAILEY SCHULZ DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is working to accommodate transgender and gender fluid students this year. Gender-inclusive housing was available for the first time this fall, and students are now able to give their preferred name to the registrar. Yet UNL is ranked relatively low on the campus pride index, especially when compared to other Big 10 schools.

Dr. Pat Tetreault, director of the LGBTQA+ Resource Center, has worked at UNL for more than 20 years and has advocated for the LGBTQA+ community’s rights the whole time. She said UNL has made some major steps in the right direction in recent years.

Students now have a preferred name option where they can get their preferred name to show up on class and grade rosters, Blackboard and the UNL directory. Soon, having their name changed on the front of their NCard will be an option as well.

Students can also use their driver’s licenses or passports to change their gender marker information on official records, another feature new this year. Before, UNL would only go by the gender shown on a student’s birth certificate, something that’s impossible to change in the state of Nebraska unless he or she has sex reassignment surgery.

“Not all gender fluid or trans individuals want surgery or can afford surgery,” Tetreault said.

A driver’s license requires a medical practitioner’s approval for the gender marker to change.

Now that students only have to show their driver’s license, it’s much easier for them to get their gender marker changed in the UNL system.

The university also has the student blue insurance plan, which covers transgender health care.

Even with so many changes, UNL still has room for improvement.

Tetreault said more resources at the university would be a big benefit to the transgender and gender fluid community. Tetreault is currently the only professional staff at the resource center; the other staff members are students.

“We just don’t have the types of resources that allow us to do as much programming, especially related to particular identities as we would like,” she said. “I think that it would be excellent to have more

resources so that we would be able to do some of the academic success and support services that some of the other resource centers on campus do. …We’ve grown a lot since we’ve opened up the center, and (I think) that it’s challenging to continue to grow and meet all the needs that we see without having some additional support.”

Ty Zink, the outreach and communications coordinator at the LGBTQA+ Resource Center, said while UNL does a great job on an administrative level and has made many strides to accommodate transgender and gender fluid students, they still face difficulties that other students don’t.

Zink said as a transgender student it was difficult to navigate coming to college because the faculty and staff were just as lost on the methods that they were to take as he was.

Zink recommended that faculty and staff have uniform training on the proper conduct when advising transgender students.

“I know when it came to getting my name changed, as far as on Blackboard, that kind of thing, lots of hoops needed to be jumped through,” he said. “I think some of it was just because the staff I was dealing with hadn’t had to deal with that. …

We’re striving to keep doing better on campus. Just everybody else kind of needs to be kept up to speed on what we’re doing.”

He also advised that more faculty become

aware of the p r o g r a m s that are put in place to help transgender students.

Zink said some of the best resources on campus for transgender and gender fluid students are registered student organizations such as Spectrum, the resource center (which has a trans guide on its website) and Counseling and Psychological Services, which has a variety of mental health resources available to students of all sexualities and gender expressions. “(CAPS) have done a lot of work into making sure that they’re as accommodating as possible to LGBT students,” he said.

Along with a number of resources, UNL now offers transgender and gender fluid students the chance to live in gender-inclusive housing. Melissa Peters, assistant director of Residence Life for Student Leadership and Diversity Initiatives, said UNL’s gender-inclusive housing has been a success so far.

“They are all currently full,” she said. “So we’re holding double the amount of space for next year.”

This year, gender-inclusive housing includes two four-person suites, a private suite and one twobedroom. In total, there are 11 spaces set aside for gender-inclusive housing.

Peters said there’s a need for gender-inclusive housing at UNL and at campuses across the country.

“We want everybody to feel safe, comfortable and included in the environment that they live in,” she said. “So having inclusive housing for any stu-

of light bulbs were used, if houses were using Styrofoam and the total amount for the energy and water bills for each house. The bills were then divided by the amount of people living in the house, providing a per capita amount to use for comparison between houses.

“There wasn’t really anybody who was amazingly standout-ish, like ‘Wow, you’re doing amazing things.’ But at the same time, there was nobody that was like ‘Wow, you’re a horrible chapter,’” Battes said.

Then the houses were compared and evaluated.

“We took into account what was going on in every chapter and tailored specific solutions to give to each green rep, in terms of what would be most beneficial for that specific chapter because obviously things are going to be different depending on your situation,” Battes said.

In addition to providing these suggestions, Greeks Going Green also provided recycling

bins and red stickers with each house’s Greek letters printed on them to put on light switches, reminding members to turn off the lights when they leave rooms.

This year, Greeks Going Green still works on distributing these items. The group also works to reestablish green reps, as some of the initial representatives have either graduated or left.

Battes has seen improvements as a result of the initiative. She said Chi Omega has decided to get rid of Styrofoam, switching to a sugarcane product. She said a couple of other chapters are moving away from Styrofoam as well.

But right now, there are no repercussions for chapters that choose not to improve as was recommended.

Battes said Greeks Going Green currently works on implementing a rating system, using standards such as gold, silver and bronze, with different requirements for the different levels.

“Hopefully if someone sees they have the

dents that are transitioning and going through that process and feeling safe is really important for us.”

Peters said before gender-inclusive housing came to campus, transgender or gender-fluid students would often live off-campus, an option that isn’t as convenient as staying on campus, especially their freshman year. Now, gender-inclusive housing gives them an option on campus where they’ll feel more comfortable.

“They typically feel a lot safer because they’re living with people that identify similarly to how they identify,” she said. “It’s great for our students to see that we as administrators find it important and not just students find it important.”

According to Peters, the number of genderinclusive housing offered is similar to the number offered at other Big Ten schools.

“We do it on an as-needed basis, so we’re holding that amount of rooms,” she said. “If we don’t fill them, obviously we’ll release them and fill them as normal.”

In addition to gender-inclusive rooms, each residence hall has a gender-inclusive or family restroom on the first floor. According to the LGBTQA+ trans guide, there are 25 gender neutral/ unisex bathrooms available on the UNL campus, all of which are one-room or one-stall facilities with locks.

While UNL’s gender-inclusive housing may be comparable to the rest of the Big Ten, data from the Campus Pride Index suggests the university needs improvement in other areas. Campus Pride Index, a website that rates colleges’ LGBTQ-friendly policies, programs and practices on a five-star rating, gave UNL a three out of five.

Although not every Big 10 university is listed on the website, UNL ties with Michigan State as the lowest ranked of the conference.

“We’re kind of at the bottom in terms of the rankings,” Tetreault said. “But, in the past year, we’ve actually gone up from a one-and-a-half when it comes to gender identity, and we’ve moved up to a three on a five-point scale. So we have a three, but I think that UNL has actually been a progressive force in the state of Nebraska.”

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BATTES: FROM 4 ebration in April, centered around Earth Day – community outreach and zero waste initiatives. Zero waste events mean that 90 percent or more of the waste is diverted from a landfill.

This year, Battes is the chair of ESC, so ESC members Emma Himes and Evans have become project managers for Greeks Going Green.

“This is a way I can try to make an impact on every single Greek house, because there are some that are better than Chi O, and some that are worse,” Evans said.

During the first year of Greeks Going Green, Battes and ESC began by appointing a volunteer representative, or a green rep, in each chapter that wanted to participate.

“They are kind of the liaison between their chapter and their chapter members and the ESC committee,” Battes said.

Next, the houses were audited. Battes and members of ESC looked at waste streams, whether houses had recycling, at what kind

lowest rating out of any house, they will want to improve,” Evans said.

“Friendly competition is never a bad thing,” Battes said. “But at the same time, we never want to really pin chapters against each other directly. Like, we don’t like sororities competing head-to-head and saying, ‘This one is better than this one,’ which is why we are steering clear of a ranking, and it’s going to be a rating. Everybody could be gold certified if they were up to a certain standard, which would be really awesome to see.”

Ultimately, Battes hopes the green reps and the goals of this initiative will be institutionalized in the Greek community, making the project unnecessary for ESC as it becomes something that chapters do on their own.

“And then everyone will love the world, and it will be great,” she said.

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KELLY: Room for excuses has run out for Mike Riley JOSH KELLY DN

On Halloween of all days, I’m not going to sugarcoat it for you. It’s scary how bad Nebraska was on Saturday -- and on a historic level, too.

I can talk the specifics of it.

I can talk about how Ryker Fyfe wasn’t prepared for this game. I can talk about how the special teams has progressively been getting worse this season. I can talk about how the defense will never learn.

But you know what? For a coachings staff that applauds how they practice during the week, this team was not prepared to come into a sleepy West Lafayette, Indiana, to beat one of the worst Power Five conference teams out there.

No more excuses.

No more saying the Huskers are 13 points away from being undefeated, because on Saturday, they lost by 10 to one of the worst opponents on their schedule.

The bottom line is that Nebraska’s now dead last in the Big Ten West, and it only gets worse from here.

But how can it get worse?

To compare this to last year’s heart-wrenching loss to Wisconsin, which one is worse?

The Huskers allowed 59 points in a game that mattered, but on Saturday, they allowed 55 points against a team that hasn’t scored more than 50 points since Nov. 24, 2012. They lost to a team coached by Darrell Hazell, who had only beaten two FBS programs in his career at Purdue heading into Saturday.

This loss damages the Nebraska football brand worse than any before. This loss is worse than Wisconsin last November as the 55-45 loss is the most humiliating loss in Nebraska’s long, storied history.

The scarlet ‘N’ used to be looked at as the best of the best; a model that all of college football strived for. Now, it’s looked at as a program that’s out of touch, trying to find the lightning in the bottle again.

With this season’s struggles, the new lows are being set. This week was no different. In fact, it’s worse.

This is the first time in school history the Huskers have had six losses before November.

That alone would have Husker fans’ heads spinning in circles.

But this isn’t any sixth loss of the season, which is weird to say. This is a horrific performance against an underwhelming opponent.

Against the worst rush defense in the Big Ten, the Huskers only ran for 77 yards. That’s inexcusable. For someone such as Devine Ozigbo to not get a single carry in the second half after Terrell Newby was injured is borderline insane.

Here’s what coach Riley had to say about that after the game.

“I’m telling you, we do want to run,” Riley said. “We need to do better. And we will.”

I don’t buy it. I don’t buy it at all.

Yes, this team is transitioning into a foreign system, but you have to play to your strengths to win. It’s not even scheme that’s killing Nebraska.

The fact of the matter is that, each week, they’re not prepared from a week of practice and they don’t execute. On top of that, most importantly, is that the simple answers aren’t taken.

We saw simple answers against Illinois. We saw simple answers against Northwestern. We saw simple answers against Purdue. Yet, all three are losses this season under this staff.

When the Big Ten Conference was realigned yet again and the Huskers were put in the lackluster Big Ten West, fans laughed. Everyone thought the division was just like the Big 12 North, in that every year is a lock for a spot in the conference championship.

They look at teams such as Illinois, Northwestern and Purdue and laugh. A walk in the park, right?

Well, all three of those teams beat the team they hold so dear; Purdue being the most embarrassing, of course.

After the loss, Riley was asked what happened up to this point to have a 3-6 Nebraska team. He said it was difficult to say to, noting that each week has had a different story.

“We wrote a new one today,” Riley said.

It’s pretty darn simple, coach. This staff doesn’t know how to handle the expectations and the team that they were given.

Yes, Mike Riley has had plenty of coaching experience. 40 years, to be exact. But has he ever had to deal with expectations such as the ones he’s been given in Lincoln?

He brought Oregon State from irrelevant to a sleeper pick for a lot of analysts. He inherited a San Diego Chargers team that hadn’t had an above .500 season in years, and to this date, they haven’t won a Super Bowl. Comparing that to Nebraska, where the only thing that matters is Husker football, expectations are higher here than they are in Southern California.

So for Mike Riley, even with his prior experience, this is uncharted waters.

Mike Riley is the nice guy everyone loves at first when he’s on the job. But at what point will people stop making excuses for him and his staff? The timetable and the patience wears thin each week he leads the Huskers.

Since 1893, there have been 29 full-time head coaches at Nebraska. Right now, Riley’s 3-6 record ranks as the seventh-worst winning percentage in that group. Out of those coaches, only one of them was given more than two years and that was coach Bill Jennings from 1957-1961. With the standards nowadays, Riley will not be given the same timetable as Bill Jennings did in the pre-Bob Devaney days when Nebraska had never won a National Championship.

Chances are Nebraska will lose to Michigan State and Iowa, even Rutgers. The best case scenario for this team is a 4-8 record, which would be the worst season since 1961 when the Huskers went 3-6-1 under, you guessed it, Bill Jennings.

Three losses to cap the season off will make it the worst season in school history. Only once has Nebraska ever had nine losses, which was 1957 with our old friend Bill Jennings. Only once in 125 years of college football has Nebraska accom-

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Mark Banker’s defense gave up 274 passing yards and four touchdowns to Purdue Freshman quarterback David Blough in his fifth collegiate start.

plished that.

Nebraska let me introduced you to rock bottom. Rock bottom, meet Nebraska.

Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst hired Mike Riley because he thought the veteran coach would be able to do what Bo Pelini was able to, and that is to win the games that matter. But what happens when you lose in ugly fashion to the teams you’re supposed to roll over?

The 90s are over. Now, Nebraska is closer to irrelevancy than to being a championship-caliber

program once again. It’s a harsh reality that’s been mismanaged by the wrong people for years now.

The last generation was able to experience the best of times and now it looks like this one will experience the worst of times.

There’s no sugarcoating it: Nebraska is no longer a team to reckon with in college football.

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Josh Kelly, Senior Sports Editor Michigan State 38, Nebraska 20

Nick Wilkinson, Print Sports Editor - Michigan State 42, Nebraska 24

At this point, nothing can get worse. Another loss won’t surprise Husker Nation.

This is one of the first times where all odds are absolutely against Nebraska. Coach Mike Riley thrived in that situation at Oregon State, and that is why Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst hired him.

Despite a few rocky games, Michigan State is undefeated at 8-0. This is undoubtedly the most important game on the schedule. This is one of the last chances Riley has to prove himself this season.

On Saturday, the Huskers will have more trouble in the secondary as they face one of the most efficient quarterbacks in college football, Connor Cook.

Cook has thrown 17 touchdowns compared to two interceptions. He isn’t mistake-prone at all.

On the first couple drives, the Spartans will convert on well-run drives the Husker staff has been trying to achieve all season long.

They’ll have a comfortable lead early as Nebraska struggles to get anything going. The Huskers have to get a running game going to be able to muster anything. But that’s tough against one of the best rush defenses in college football, which only allows 115.5 yards per game on the ground.

Nebraska loses this game early, making its record 3-7.

Ryker Fyfe is not the guy. He’s not. But who else is there?

There is no timetable on Tommy Armstrong’s return. Purdue grounded the already crumbling Nebraska tradition Saturday with a 55-45 win in West Lafayette. At the beginning of the season, with no expectations of Mike Riley, I thought Bo Pelini’s men on the Nebraska roster could get their redemption with a win over Michigan State in Lincoln. Now, absolutely no way.

I want to say the loss of Armstrong was the reason things went so sour against Purdue.

Freshman quarterback David Blough, in only his fifth collegiate start, completed 28 of 43 passes for 274 yards and four touchdowns for the Boilermakers. The loss (and every one before it) is clearly a defensive problem. Mike Riley has too many friends on his staff to say, “Hey, you fix this or you’re out of here.”

An 8-0 Michigan State team has to be grateful for tune-up games in Nebraska and Maryland before taking on Ohio State University.

Sparty embarrassed Indiana (4-4) last week 5226. I would not be surprised if they put up 60 against Nebraska. Riley is on the hot seat and he must know it. Practice won’t be fun this week.

Brett Nierengarten, Online Sports Editor - Michigan State 41, Nebraska 17 In its last game, Michigan State beat Indiana 52-26.

The Spartans were off last week, so they had a bye week to prepare for the Huskers. Want to know what happened the last time a team had a bye week to prepare for Nebraska? The Huskers lost to 1-6 Purdue. And although the Spartans were pushed to the brink of defeat by Purdue, they’re not Purdue. They’re much, much better.

Quarterback Connor Cook leads a good Spartan offense into this one. Cook is averaging 258 yards per game through the air and has tossed 17 touchdowns to just two interceptions.

The Huskers continued their trend of letting average, even bad, quarterbacks sling it all over the yard against them by allowing Purdue’s redshirt freshman David Blough to throw it for 274 yards and four touchdowns.

If that’s what a guy starting his sixth career game can do against them, I don’t want to see what a guy like Cook, the best quarterback NU has faced this year, will do.

Don’t expect the Huskers to get blown out early. Maybe it’s a 21-10 game or so at half, but in the second half, Cook and Sparty will be too much for the 3-6 Huskers.

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Vanessa Daves, Football Beat Writer - Michigan State 45, Nebraska 21 Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did.

Michigan State is undefeated, and Nebraska is, well ... not.

Some people – some diehard Husker fans – think we still have a chance. I just don’t. After losing to 1-6 Purdue, Nebraska’s confidence is down. At the press conference after the game, the athletes and coaches were at a loss. Nebraska coach Mike Riley spoke for about a whopping eight minutes. A few players spoke. They all talked in circles, saying some of the same things over and over.

They have to keep their head up. They play a better team next week. They’ve still have to play football for another season.

But how do they keep their heads up, prepare for a better team and play football when they’ve lost six games before November for the first time in the history of the football program?

It’s going to be a rough end to the season for both the athletes and the fans. And this weekend will be the start of that rough ending.

Sure, Nebraska will put up a fight. But Michigan State will inevitably overcome them and walk away winning by a few touchdowns.

Michael Dixon, Football Beat Writer - Nebraska 24, Michigan State 17 It may be really, really bad. But Nebraska’s still Nebraska. And because of who they are, the Huskers will never be scared to play anyone.

Coach Mike Riley’s been in this situation before, too. Coaching a program completely overshadowed by others in the national spotlight, only to occasionally coach his behind off and come up with some pretty substantial upsets?

That’s basically what the guy was known for at Oregon State.

So with all that said, give me Nebraska by a touchdown.

Why? Because it literally doesn’t make sense. Because that’s been the narrative of 2015.

Michigan State’s sleepwalked its way to an 8-0 record and the possibility of a berth in the College Football Playoff. If the Spartans don’t wake up soon, they’re liable to lose.

Why not Saturday?

Give a team starving for a win some motivation to ruin Sparty’s season, and things could get very, very interesting. Of course, I might be the only one to pick NU this week, and I’ll go down swinging. But if any team in the top 10 is on serious upset alert, it’s MSU. It’ll be a tough test.

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NCAA rule change to affect gameplay RILEY BOWDEN DN

There is no way of guaranteeing the Nebraska men’s basketball team will improve on its 61.5 points per game from last year, but NCAA rule changes taking effect in 2015 could help.

The NCAA approved several rule changes in the summer, the most notable of which is a reduction of the shot clock from 35 to 30 seconds. That change was first implemented in last year’s NIT. The NCAA looks to make the biggest changes in increased scoring and faster pace of play.

There were 32 teams in college basketball that scored less than 60 points per game last season, and the national scoring average dipped to 67.5 points per game, which neared historic NCAA lows.

Nebraska will be negatively affected by the change unless the Tim Miles-led squad’s ball movement is significantly improved from last season. The Huskers were ranked outside the top 300 in assists and points per game, and shot 41 percent from the field a season ago.

In his preseason press conference, Miles said with the exit of Terran Petteway, the Huskers will have to become more unpredictable on the offensive side of the ball. He said it starts with the outside shot. NU shot 28 percent from beyond the arc last season.

The Huskers did get some experience playing against a 24-second shot clock in Spain in the summer. Miles said his squad was able to add some quick-hitting plays to the playbook, and he said the team should make the adjustment fine.

Miles said the changes in foul calling will affect the game even more. The NCAA moved the restricted area arc out to four feet from underneath the basket instead of three feet.

“I think that in the NIT, you saw some members where scoring went up, but not necessarily because of the clock,” Miles said at Big Ten basketball media days. “(But) because of the charge line with the fouls.”

The freedom of movement changes were made prior to the start of the 2013 season, but calls have been made subjectively by referees.

“You’ve either have to tighten it up with the officials or make it a bigger court,” Miles said.

“And I don’t think they’re going to make the court any bigger.”

A rule change that will affect Miles personally is the taking away of coaches’ ability to call a timeout during a live ball.

“I think I’d prefer that control,” Miles said.

“But at the same time, I understand we need to have our guys ready to go.”

Live ball timeouts can now only be called by players on the court, making situation awareness key for the five guys playing. Savvy point guards are always at a premium, but this change puts extra responsibility on guys such as Tai Webster and Benny Parker.

Other changes were approved by the rules committee. Class B technical fouls are now oneshot technical fouls; players will be penalized for flopping; shot clock violations can be reviewed throughout the entire game, and dunking is now allowed in pregame and halftime warmups.

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The NCAA approved several changes this past summer, the most notable being the reduction of the shot clock from 35 to 30 seconds.

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Husker wrestlers shine at SDSU meet CODY NAGEL DN In the first event of the 2015-2016 season, No. 10 Nebraska wrestling finished the Warren Williamson/ Daktronics Open with six weight class winners.

Junior No. 12 Tim Lambert and freshman Kris Williams moved efficiently through the 125 pound weight class, splitting the title.

Junior No. 12 Eric Montoya (133), senior No. 6 Jake Sueflohn (149), redshirt freshmen Tyler Berger (157) and Dustin Williams (165), and junior Micah Barnes (174) all won their respective weight classes.

After winning by two major decisions and a fall in 4:29, Montoya won an 8-6 decision against Minnesota’s Samuel Brancale to reach the first place match.

Montoya then defeated sophomore teammate Colton McCrystal (133) by a 6-5 decision in the first place match.

In his first meet back from a torn ACL, Sueflohn eased through the competition, defeating North Dakota State’s Clayton Ream by an 8-7 decision.

Berger proved he is capable of filling the spot left by James Green, as he defeated Minnesota’s Daniel Cartagena by technical fall 20-2 in the semifinal round.

With senior No. 7 Austin Wilson (165) sitting out, Williams won all four of his matches by one point to take first place.

With Robert Kokesh (174) now graduated, Barnes proved he can fill the spot by defeating

South Dakota State’s David Kocer by a 3-2 decision.

McCrystal and five other Huskers finished the tournament on the podium.

In the absence of senior No. 7 Anothony Abidin (141), freshman Colin Purinton (141) placed third in his first career tournament. Purinton defeated Minnesota’s Benjamin Brancale by a 12-5 decision.

After losing his first match of the day in a 7-0 decision to Minnesota’s Nicholas Wanzek, freshman Jaquon Sowell (174) made his way through wrestlebacks to finish in sixth place.

Junior No. 7 Aaron Studebaker bounced back to finish in third place after losing to Augustana’s Clayton Wahlstrom in the semifinals.

Freshman Patrick Grayson (285) and junior teammate No. 13 Collin Jensen (285) tied for fourth after an automatic forfeit in the third place match.

Jensen lost to Minnesota’s Rylee Streifel in the semifinals by a 3-2 decision, but advanced in wrestlebacks.

Because teams were allowed to enter more than one wrestler for each weight class, there were no team points determined.

Of the 26 Huskers that competed, 13 placed in their weight classes.

The next event for Nebraska will be an intrasquad meet Nov. 6 at the Devaney Center.

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Of the 26 Huskers that competed in this past weekend’s meet, 13 placed in their weight class. Nebraska will compete next Friday at the Devaney Center.

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Huskers embrace new roles in weekend sweeps SETH OLSON DN Sometimes, players must step into new roles and embrace them for the sake of the team.

To help the Nebraska volleyball team reach the Final Four in Omaha, certain Huskers are doing that this season.

The new roles were on full display last weekend in wins against Rutgers and Maryland. Two of Nebraska’s outside hitters, senior Alicia Ostrander and sophomore Annika Albrecht, were prime examples of doing anything to help the team succeed.

Both Ostrander and Albrecht come off the bench for the Huskers, and when they do, they make the most of their time on the court.

Albrecht tallied seven service aces, 15 digs and four kills in the two matches last weekend.

Six of those aces were notched by the sophomore walk-on against Rutgers Friday when Nebraska put up a season-high 10 aces as a team. Albrecht’s night at the service stripe left her one ace shy of the school record.

While Albrecht didn’t quite make the record books, she did join significant company. The last Husker to record six aces in a match was Michelle Lynch in 2004. Albrecht also broke freshman outside hitter Mikaela Foecke’s single game record of service aces from earlier this season when Foecke posted five service aces in a match.

Junior outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen, who was merely an innocent bystander in the friendly competition between teammates, pointed out to Foecke during the Rutgers match what Albrecht was closing in on.

“I was actually telling Mikaela tonight ‘Anni (Annika) is about to break your season record of aces,’ and she (Mikaela) got a little mad,” Rolfzen said. “Anni has always been one in practice where she always tries to beat us – and she’s pretty good at it too. She has always had a good serve.”

Although Albrecht has always had a good serve according to her teammates, it is no accident a player chalks up six service aces in only a three set match.

Quite simply, practice makes perfect. Albrecht and the Huskers get plenty of practice with serving. At Thursday’s practice, Nebraska turned its serving drill into a competition. Whoever could ace the graduate assistants the most would win.

Albrecht tied with Rolfzen Thursday, but Albrecht was the clear winner Friday – even though she did not want to admit it was all talent.

“For a couple of the serves, coach just gave me a zone to hit,” Albrecht said. “I didn’t even get close to it, but sometimes you get lucky.”

NU coach John Cook was quick to point out although Albrecht might not get as many swings on the front-line, she still is a pivotal piece of the team’s success.

“She gets some sets in the back row,” Cook said. “But I think she understands she has a very valuable role on this team.”

Ostrander was the other Husker to embrace a new role. Although the senior does not get as much playing time as she would like because of the deep roster, Ostrander had an instant impact against Maryland.

Ostrander contributed immediately by recording four kills on six swings in her one set of action. Ostrander scored back-to-back points on kills to put the Huskers up 11-5 in the third set.

Ostrander got the second of those kills off a cross-court set assist and put it away with a soft touch. A soft smile came over Ostrander’s face as she turned to her teammates. The crowd of 8,011 roared for Ostrander, realizing the senior deserved her moment in the spotlight.

Cook was happy to have Ostrander take advantage of the opportunity, which he needs all of his substitutes to do in the season’s home stretch.

“It’s always so hard to sub when you’re on a roll,” Cook said. “Alicia took some big swings, which is what I’ve been asking her to do, and she went after it. We have to keep getting our subs in, because we are going to need them.”

Sophomore defensive specialist Sydney Townsend is another Husker accepting a different role. With freshman Kenzie Maloney seeing more time defensively alongside junior libero Justine Wong-Orantes, Townsend has shifted her game to the service stripe, where she has become one of the team’s best servers.

“Our one big focus was to come out attacking with our serve,” Cook said. “It was a great serving effort tonight (Friday). It’s the strength of our team. I told the girls back in the summer, ‘If you can serve, you are going to play. And if you want to play, you better have a good serve.’

Townsend now gets to play because of that very fact – she can serve.

Townsend, Ostrander and Albrecht have embraced new roles for the Huskers to make an impact.

“Sydney is another one who has accepted her role, and she’s a great serving sub,” Cook said.

“The last two weeks we’ve had a serve-off. Sydney keeps winning it, so she gets to serve. That’s what we want. We want people who want to win and can trust their serve and then stick it. You want those subs coming in feeling like they can make a major impact on a game.”

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Junior Kadie Rolfzen led No. 9 Nebraska versus Rutgers with 12 kills and 15 points. Rolfzen also racked up a team-leading 10 kills and 13 points on Maryland the following day.

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Nebraska rifle team takes down Army West Point STAFF DN The Nebraska rifle team earned its third win of the season in Charleston, South Carolina, after outshooting Army West Point on Sunday, 4,663-4,616.

Junior Denise Martin finished with a score of 581 and earned the title of best performer in smallbore.

Senior Rachel Martin shot 578, while freshman Nina Radulovic fired 572. The team finished with a smallbore score of 2,300.

Nebraska has been performing well in air rifle all season, and Sunday’s match was no different.

Hannah Virga tallied 597. She now holds the program’s record for the highest air rifle score by a freshman.

The Huskers are 3-3 on the season. They will

return to action Nov. 14 when they host Kentucky at the NU Rifle Range for the first home match of the season. The match will begin at 8 a.m.

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Freshman star shines in first game

BECCA MANN DN

Sunday afternoon’s match against the University of Nebraska-Kearney provided Nebraska fans the first glimpse of this season’s women’s basketball team.

The Huskers last met with the Lopers during the 2013-14 season at the Pinnacle Bank Arena. NU won the game 75-34 with help from All-American forward Jordan Hooper and AllBig Ten forward Emily Cady.

With nearly as many rookies as veterans on the team, Sunday’s game showed a major roster change is exactly what the team needs. Nebraska is competing with a revamped roster this season, including four freshmen, one redshirt freshman and two seniors who are new to the team.

Senior Alicia Ostrander is a familiar face for Husker fans who have watched her dominate on the volleyball court under coach John Cook for the past four years. Ostrander will be joining the team at the conclusion of the volleyball season.

Senior guard Kyndal Clark graduated from Drake University in May. She started 98 games during her time at Drake before suffering a season-ending knee injury during her 2014-15 senior season.

Freshmen forwards Rachel Blackburn and Jessica Shepard and freshman guard Maddie Simon started for the Huskers, accompanied by seniors Rachel Theriot and Clark.

Although the team is made up primarily of young players, the Huskers proved early in the game they’re a force to be reckoned with. Shepard set the tone for the game, putting Nebraska on the board just 30 seconds in.

Shepard took control offensively for the Huskers in the first quarter, accounting for 11 of Nebraska’s 23 points. Seventeen of those points were put up by freshmen players.

Two free throws by Theriot at the end of the first half gave the Huskers a solid 46-31 lead heading into halftime. Theriot proved she was back and ready to start her senior season strong with 14 points and three rebounds in the first half.

Nebraska dominated in the match on both offense and defense, holding the lead through

all four quarters.

NU relied primarily on field goals, attempting only four three-point shots. With new players and new team strengths, it’s something Theriot said fans should expect more of this season.

After forty minutes of play, the Huskers finished with a 92-54 win against the Lopers.

Shepard and Theriot provided a powerful offense throughout the game, securing spots as the team’s two leading scorers. Shepard led the team with 27 points and Theriot followed closely behind with 24.

“We’ll see some great players in Division-II and the MIAAs especially, but those will be two of the best players we’ll see all year,” Lopers head coach Carrie Hofstetter said.

Although an exhibition, Sunday’s game meant a lot to the team’s freshmen. For many players, it was their first time in a Nebraska uniform. For Shepard, she wasn’t sure if she’d get to play until this past week.

After a season-ending ACL injury last December, Shepard missed most of her senior season. Cleared for full court play last Monday, Sunday’s exhibition was the first game she’s played in 10 months.

“When I first heard, it was just tears of joy because it’s been so long, and it’s been such a hard process for me. It was just a relief,” Shepard said.

This season, Nebraska is a powerful team, and people know it. Ranked at No. 8 nationally

by ESPN, the Huskers showed they have the capabilities to make this one of the most successful seasons yet.

“The exciting thing today for us is that we had 64 points in the paint,” Yori said. “We only attempted four threes and didn’t make a three.

If we were playing the same team last year with the same personnel as last year, we probably would’ve taken 20 or 25 threes. We’re very different, and it’s so much fun.”

NU will play one more exhibition game on Nov. 8 against Winona State. The 2015 season will begin with a Nov. 14 match-up against Arkansas Pine-Bluff.

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PHOTO BY ADAM WARNER | DN Freshman Jessica Shepard shoots over a UNK defender. The freshman star had a double-double in her first game in a Husker uniform.

Swim team dominates over weekend TREV MCDIFFETT DN Nebraska swim and dive was one thing this Halloween weekend: scary good. Friday and Saturday, the Huskers took home 24 victories out of 26 events and outscored their opponents 330-197. The Huskers have won three consecutive meets.

The dominance started with a trip to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where Nebraska took on Northern Iowa. Nebraska took home first in 12 of its 13 events.

Nebraska continued its supremacy in the relay events, as the team swept both the 200-medley and freestyle relays away from Northern Iowa. The medley relay team made up of

Jacqueline Juffer, Jordan Ehly, Taryn Collura and Lindsay Helferich finished with a time of 1:46.88. To finish the meet, the 200-yard freestyle team of Juffer, Collura, Alex Bilunas and Erin Oeltjen took first place with a time of 1:36.22.

While in Iowa, diver Anna Filipcic continued to dominate as she snagged victories in the one- and three-meter dives. Filipcic received scores of 316.27 and 323.02 in her respective events.

Nebraska won 150-88.

The Huskers turned around to face the South Dakota State Jackrabbits at home after arriving in Lincoln early Saturday morning. Nebraska was able to continue its winning ways.

NU started the meet with another strong performance from the 400–yard medley relay

team of Morgan McCafferty, Jordan Ehly, Bria Deveaux and Collura. They posted a time of 3:53:13.

Head coach Pablo Morales was happy with the results of his relay teams.

“Relays are a really important part of our overall goals for the year,” he said. “If we have really good relays at the conference meet, that’s really going to help us out in the standings. Our girls have put a really good focus on relays. Our girls are a tight group. They have a lot of camaraderie, and they care about each other a lot.”

Kaylyn Flatt picked up victories in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle. She finished with a 1:56.04 time in the 200 and a 5:11.52 time in the 500. Collura joined Flatt by taking home victories for herself in the 50-yard freestyle and the

100-yard butterfly. She posted a 23.59 time in the 50 and a 56.59 time in the 100-yard butterfly.

Anna Filipcic put together another dominating day at the diving well, where she took home first in both of her events. In her three-meter dive, she finished with a final score of 322.05.

Filipcic’s 310.80 score earned her first in the onemeter dive as well.

The victory over South Dakota State marks the last home meet until Jan. 23, when Nebraska will host Big Ten foe Illinois. Until then, Nebraska will be on the road starting Nov. 6 in Lawrence, Kansas.

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