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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Hey there,

I went to Bhupi G’s last night.

On a frigid November evening, my fellow editors and I snuck out of the Daily Nebraskan office in search of spicy, soul-warming Indian cuisine.

We found it at Bhupi G’s Hurry Curry – a gaudily-decorated takeout spot next to Papa John’s. We came back with brown bags of tikka masala, naan and mulligatawny soup.

Normally, I don’t have much of an appetite. I guzzle coffee in the morning and spend the rest of the day shoveling down whatever sandwich or ambiguous wrap is necessary.

Indian food is an exception – aromatic, colorful and inviting in ways a Flatizza could never hope to be.

Ostensibly, this is because I grew up on it: my mom’s succulent tandoori chicken, my dad’s savory kabobs and my grandma’s spice-filled signature biryani, which I’d honestly pit against any dish in the world.

Try me, Bourdain.

Between work, internship applications and preparing for my looming graduation, it’s been a bit of stressful semester for me. At times like these, when it’s cold and bleak, when simply getting out of bed is a monumental task, I suppose we all cling to what makes us comfortable.

For me, it’s biryani.

Let me tell you how much this particular rice dish means to me. When I was a freshman living in Cather Hall, I had my dad mail me a container full of it, packing the box with dry ice to keep the meat fresh. When I was in pre-school, my teacher found me breaking off bits of yellow play-doh, rolling them between my fingers and arranging them neatly into a pile.

“What are you making?” she asked.

“Biryani,” I told her, expecting Mrs. Burns to comprehend that I was molding my glob of imitation clay into a popular rice dish. That’s prob-

ably the most Indian thing I’ve ever done.

Is this some kind of weird obsession, you might ask? Isn’t play-doh supposed to be fun to play with, not to eat, you idiot?

I don’t have answers to these questions. But I do know I’ve changed a lot over the course of these four years, and this viscerally soothing reaction to Indian food has remained constant.

As we grow up, I suppose we can all discover something that makes the world slow down a bit, that takes us back or eases our stresses and fears – if only for a moment’s time.

Mine tastes pretty good.

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Lyft drivers try to provide personality to riders CHRIS BOWLING DN Elle Meyer isn’t a cab driver.

The senior advertising and public relations major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a 22-year-old with dark bangs that sit level with her eyebrows, said there’s one big difference between her and taxis or other commercial transportation.

“When you think of a cab ride you don’t necessarily think of it being super friendly or invested in you,” Meyer said. “But Lyft is people in your community that are interested in the same things you are. We have fun talking to customers.”

To Meyer, what makes Lyft – a transportation service that utilizes smartphones and social media – unique is the fact that it’s so community oriented and personable. The drivers are focused on establishing a good connection with the people they pick up, often having things like snacks, water and candy in addition to fun attitudes.

It’s a relationship that senior marketing major and fellow Lyft driver Mary Beth Pinckney said is absolutely important to the community mentality of the company.

“Drivers are not drivers picking you up and dropping you off; we are friends, with a car, helping you out when you need it the most,” Pinckney said. “The one thing I hear passengers say the most is, ‘You were so fun.’ I can’t say I’ve ever wanted to tell a taxi cab driver the same.”

Another thing that adds to the unique nature of Lyft is its use of social media and rating systems. Both the drivers and users looking for rides are connected to their Facebook accounts, which Meyer said allows an aspect of accountability.

Both parties are also allowed to rate each other on a five-star scale by the quality of the ride, something that Pinckney values about the service.

“If someone felt the experience was creepy or otherwise uncomfortable, either party can rate the experience with three or less stars and neither of you will be paired together the next time,” Pinckney said.

If the driver’s rating dips below 4.5, they can get kicked off the platform, Meyer said, which to her is just another way that shows Lyft cares about the quality of its drivers.

Meyer found out about Lyft after seeing an ad for an internship with them that wasn’t what she was looking for. But she thought it looked like a fun way to make extra money, so she signed up.

After downloading the Lyft app and connecting with Facebook, a user can register to be a driver. This is followed by an approval process that includes a background check and a Lyft-appointed mentor inspection.

The mentor inspection includes a full 10-point car inspection and a ride-along, because Lyft doesn’t want people in charge of passengers if they make others uncomfortable, Meyer said. Once drivers are eligible, they can choose their own hours by switching their availability on and off whenever they want.

When she’s driving, Meyer sees a lot of different people using the system. Although the

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Elle Meyer is a Lyft driver and mentor in Lincoln. Meyer says she works mostly on the weekends but also picks people up between classes when she has the time. most common demographic is people under 30 years old, which she attributes to the fact that the app is social media and smartphonebased, there’s still diversity. One of Meyer’s favorite rides was a funny group of older men who rode in her car for 20 minutes to Air Park.

There’s also a diverse group of drivers.

There are young college kids, but there’s also people such as Rhonda – an older woman who’s a small-time celebrity for breaking 1,000 rides in Lincoln – and Meyer’s mentor, who drives for Lyft because he’s retired and looking for something to do.

“He’s probably the oldest one I’ve met, but he’s so cool,” Meyer said. “I wish I was related to him because he’s such a nice guy.”

But despite the communal atmosphere it promotes, Lyft isn’t fully legal in Nebraska.

In April, when the services started popping up, law enforcement cracked down because without a state certificate to transport passengers the service is illegal, Mark Breiner said.

Breiner is the director of transportation at the Nebraska Public Service Commission.

This is a big reason why Pinckney hasn’t

When you think of a cab ride you don’t necessarily think of it being super friendly or invested in you, but Lyft is people in your community that are interested in the same things you are. We have fun talking to customers.”

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driven since July.

“I was nervous about getting ticketed,” Pinckney said. “When other Lyft drivers from Omaha started getting citations from the PSC that was my last straw, just too close to home.

Plus I don’t need that on my record. I really don’t want to have to explain to my future employers why I have a misdemeanor on my record.”

Meyer said she’s also frustrated by the outdated legislation, but despite that she still

likes the service because the community has been welcoming even if lawmakers haven’t. It all ties back to the fact that Lyft isn’t a regular transportation service that works for a profit and that, for Meyer, it’s all about the community and offering a good experience.

“The whole motto of Lyft is, ‘We’re going to give you a fistbump,’” Meyer said.

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Mexican restaurant serves into wee hours of morning El Chaparro cooks up authentic Mexican food for all kinds of characters, especially the late night crowd MICHAEL JOHNSON DN On the corner of 13th and F streets sits El Chaparro, a local, authentic Mexican restaurant known for its great prices and late hours.

An unassuming, grey block of a building, it doesn’t look like much on the outside. The interior is equally modest. A white-walled room with some chairs, tables and basic booths. A television tuned to a Spanish channel perches in one corner of the ceiling and Hispanic music pipes in from the kitchen.

Marketing itself as “Lincoln’s go-to restaurant for authentic Mexican,” this small restaurant has been doing business for the past 14 years and is still family run.

“I’m one of 15 kids. My mom started it because she wanted to make sure all her kids would have jobs,” waitress Karina Sanchez said.

And the restaurant seems to have fulfilled this goal. Even after most of her siblings have graduated from college and moved on, El Chaparro seems to be doing well. It doesn’t seem to lack customers and does fairly steady business through most of the day.

“The mornings are just a blur, everyone’s in and out, in and out,” Sanchez said. “We have to get the food as fast as we can. Clients are eating in like, 10 minutes.”

Evenings are easier. About 6 or 7 p.m. the atmosphere becomes much less hectic as families come in to sit down and eat dinner. The nights though, can be much more eventful.

El Chaparro gets a lot of traffic after hours, especially after the bars close. It stays open well into the wee hours of the morning for just that reason. And while those customers are plentiful, they’re not always the most polite.

“It gets chaotic at nighttime,” Sanchez said. “The drunk people screaming at you that they want more salsa, they want their food, that you’re taking forever.”

On any given night, El Chaparro will be fairly busy, and it can be hard for the staff to keep up with their customers. The restaurant has had its share of fights as well.

“The last fight we had was about 30 people fighting,” said Sanchez. “A chair ended up outside, it got thrown into a few cars.”

Despite this, Sanchez said she feels safe working at El Chaparro.

“I’ve been working here for too many years now, and I’m used to these situations.

I know my customers and my regulars. I’ve learned how to tell if someone is going to start a fight,” she said.

Sanchez takes it upon herself to keep some of the peace around the restaurant. By keeping a careful eye on the parking lot, where

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El Chaparro Mexican restaurant, located on 13th and F streets, serves authentic Mexican food until 2 a.m. most of the fights start, she has been able to stop more than one fight before it starts.

When she catches wind of yelling or any of the other telltale signs she has learned to recognize, Sanchez said she will drop whatever she’s doing and go outside to try and calm the people down.

If a fight does start, and it hasn’t for a while, Sanchez said, the restaurant immediately locks the doors, calls the police and shuts the blinds. No one leaves until the police have given the all clear. The staff knows how to handle these sort of situations.

Luckily, their crisis-handling skills aren’t always needed. Most of the time, Sanchez said, the drunks know how they need to act if they want to stay in the restaurant. Most of them just want some food in their bellies before they head home.

Last Saturday, there were only about four or five different parties of people eating, talking and waiting for food. A good amount of people for 12:40 in the morning, but otherwise nothing out of the ordinary. Of the two

“I’ve been working here for too many years now, and I’m used to these situations. I know my customers and my regulars. I’ve learned how to tell if someone is going to start a fight.”

KARINA SANCHEZ el chaparro waitress

or three couples and two more tables of tiredlooking middle-aged men, no one was disruptive.

At one table sat Raylin and Breana, employees at a local Chili’s.

Once they finish their shifts, the two like to stop by El Chaparro and eat before going home. They said they usually eat there at least two or three times a week.

“We’re kinda regulars,” Breana smiled.

While they said they had seen the restau-

rant get completely full a couple of times, usually after the bars had closed, nothing ever got too rowdy.

They like El Chaparro for the same reasons many others do: the food and the hours.

“It’s good, it’s open late,” Raylin said.

Sometimes it’s just that simple.

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GUIDE TO LOCAL BREWERIES ERIN MANSUR DN It’s amazing what a few beers can do.

I don’t mean the feeling it gives you to get up and do something drastic. I am talking about its ability to craft a community.

For the last couple decades, Nebraska has interacted with very few local brewing communities. The super-giants such as Budweiser, Coors Light and Busch were practically the only know beer providers to mainstream Nebraskans.

However, in the last five to 10 years, homebrewing has changed from being a personal hobby into a business for many beer enthusiasts.

Local brewing has taken off across the nation and is becoming a growing industry in Nebraska.

“People are becoming brave enough to become a brewer,” said Ingrid Bangers, long-time bartender and beer expert at Yia Yia’s Pizza & Beer. “Most brewers seem to be genuinely nice people and make it a very welcoming community to join. The brewing community, whether it

is statewide or nationwide, all seem to be nice people and are collaborating with one another.”

Regardless of where you go in Nebraska, you will encounter friendly people. In the brewing and distribution of beer in Nebraska, you get an identical mentality. Local restaurants and shops around Lincoln have a wide selection of domestic and craft beers. Places like Bread & Cup, Jake’s Cigars & Spirits and Yia Yia’s Pizza & Beer all take pride in the local beer they bring in and suggest to their customers.

“I ask customers what they have been

enjoying lately,” Bread & Cup owner Karen Shinn,said. “Then I can use that as a reference point to get them something that is close to what they’ve been drinking lately.”

Among those three places and in grocery stores surrounding campus, the four-pack of most noticeable local brewers are Blue Blood, Empyrean, Modern Monks and Zipline. Each brewer has similar roots because they were grown in Lincoln, but all are active members in a variety of other communities within the city.

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Watch Man IPA- Heavily hopped IPA with notes of floral and citrus. 6 percent alcohol Chaco Canyon Gold- Dry golden ale with notes of honey. 4.8 percent alcohol Burning Skye Scottish Style Ale- Malty-sweet and smooth with a hint of smoked character 5.3 percent alcohol Luna Sea ESB- Brewed with English malts with notes of caramel. 6.3 percent alcohol Third Stone Brown- Dark, sweet and smooth with nutty hints of roasted caramel flavor. 5.3 percent alcohol Dark Side Vanilla Porter- Brewed with Chocolate coffee and vanilla. 5.7 percent alcohol Collapsar Oatmeal Stout- Heavily malted stout with notes of roasted coffee. 5.6 percent alcohol Seasonal (in-season) Aries Marzen Oktoberfest- Brewed with notes of sweet corn, caramel and citrus hops. percent alcohol Winter Axis FestivAle- Ale with notes of fruit and herbs. 6 percent alcohol

NOTE: alcohol contents not readily available Robust Porter- Dark porter, with notes of chocolate and toffee and an earthy hop.

Espresso Porter- The Robust Porter with espresso from Cultiva Coffee.

Classic American Pilsner- Golden lager.

Belgian IPA- Belgian yeast with American hops, dry, crisp, with notes of citrus and pine.

Alt Bier- Smooth brew with notes of caramel, biscuit and a low-malt sweetness.

Orange Wheat- Brewed with organic orange peels and coriander.

Kölsch- Light and crisp ale with hints of fruit.

Seasonal Tripel- Light and fruity brewed with Belgian candy sugar.

Just the Tip- Dark Russian Imperial Stout aged for 8 months.

Dunkel- Medium-bodied lager.

Chaka Porter- Blended Robust Porter with bourbon-soaked wood, vanilla beans and chipotle peppers.

Empyrean’s history in Lincoln goes back decades, and they distribute beer across nine Midwest states.

After a lot of early collaboration with Lazlo’s Brewery & Grill, Empyream became its own entity in 1997 and has brewed out of the Coffee and Spice Building in the Haymarket since 1991.

“They were one of the first brewing companies on the market in Lincoln,” Vorhies said. “With Lazlo they were able to pair beer with food really well and gather themselves a following.”

With seven beers sold year-round, Empyrean has about six beers that rotate depending on the season. In addition, with the seasonal beers, Empyrean hosts an event called Beer Quest, where homebrewers can compete to have their brew featured on Empyrean’s seasonal beer list. Brad Wooten at Ideal Grocery said they mainly sell Empyrean’s seasonal beer.

“They bring in a lot of non-traditional beerdrinkers who are looking for something in season,” Wooten said. “It very popular because it’s a good local product.”

Modern Monks was started in 2007 by the “holy men;” David Oenbring, Robert Myers and Joshua Charles Ames.

Their beer is brewed in Lincoln’s oldest brewing facility at the downtown Misty’s Steakhouse and Brewery.

Oenbring said Modern Monks’s involvement in other local food markets helps gather a following with foodies and beer fans alike.

“We’ve grown in a very organic way with the slow foods movement,” Oenbring said. “It means that people are sitting down and enjoying the beer with and in their meals.”

In addition to serving $2 pints on Monday nights at Misty’s, cans of Modern Monks can be found at local stores like N-Street Liquor, The Still and Meier’s Cork and Bottle. Canning was just started in March of this year. They also work with Branched Oak Farm to rind cheese.

At Misty’s, Modern Monks’s best-selling beers are the Orange Wheat, brewed with organic orange peel, and the Belgian IPA that combines Belgian yeast and American hops.

“It’s big because of its drinkability,” Oenbring said. “Beer geeks tend to go for dark intense flavors, but the majority of people just wants something easy to drink.”

M a rc u s Powers quit his day job in 2012 to make his hobby into a career by creating Zipline.

He had been homebrewing since 2008, but the Powers family has been brewing beer in Nebraska since he was a child.

Many local restaurants and grocery stores said they carry Zipline because it’s popular across the community.

“All their stuff is clean and simple,” Vorhies said. “People in Lincoln like to support local places and they like to support Zipline because it’s a really good beer.”

Shinn said that Zipline is probably the most popular brand at Bread & Cup. The Copper Alt, a German hybrid ale and lager, and the Zealand IPA, a fruity New Zealand hop, sell the best when either are on tap.

“It’s nice to see people recognize the Zipline lever when it is on tap,” said Shinn. “Lots of people who really enjoy it never shy away from trying the new stuff the put out seasonally.”

Blue Blood was opened by Brian Podwinski, who was an officer at the Lincoln Police Department from 2000 to 2006. When he left the department, he began homebrewing and kicked off his own brewery in December 2011.

Podwinski said he built the brand out of an appreciation for his previous job to honor fellow force veterans and active officers.

“They have a strong following with people in and out of LPD,” said Topher Vorhies, store director of Leon’s Grocery. “Their beers all have numbers of police officers that Brian has known. He also hires other officers on to his crew to keep the brewing going.”

Blue Bloods brews kegs for tap that are distributed to Wilderness Ridge Golf Course, HF Crave, Zen’s Lounge, Bread & Cup, Sandy’s, Jake’s Cigars & Spirits, The Bourbon Theatre, Old Chicago, Iguanas and Parkway Pub. They have six brews total, including one seasonal brew.

Their most popular, best-selling beers at Leons and Jake’s Cigars & Spirits are the 1335 Wicked Snout, a farmhouse ale, and the 1327 Pod’s ESB, a Copper Alt- German hybrid of an ale and a lager sweet malt brew. with notes of chocolate and hazelnut. 5.2 percent alcohol 467 Ethan’s Stout- Stout with notes of roastNew Zealand IPA- New Zealand hops with ed barley and caramel. 5 percent alcohol notes of tropical fruit, blackberry and tangerine. 6.8 834 Happy As Ale- Pale Ale brewed with percent alcohol American hops and notes of citrus. 4.6 percent Nitro Pale Ale- Pale ale brewed with local or- alcohol ganic oats and fruit. 5.2 percent alcohol 1327 Pod’s ESB- Sweet malt and bitter Oatmeal Porter- Dark porter with strong notes hopped beer. 5.6 percent alcohol of dark chocolate and coffee. 6 percent alcohol 1335 Wicked Snout- Farmhouse Ale. 6.4 perSeasonal (in-season) cent alcohol Nut Brown- Available August to November: 1800 Big Log Wheat- Wheat with notes of English-style brown ale with notes of hazelnut and clove. 5.4 percent alcohol caramel. 5.8 percent alcohol Seasonal Black IPA- Available November to January: 543 Skull Creek Pale Ale- Pale Ale emphaMade with roasted chocolate malt with citrus hops. sizing the locally grown hops from Rhynalds 8 percent alcohol Hop Growers. 4.5 percent alcohol ART BY IAN TREDWAY | DN ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

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8 easy ways to combat late-night boredom Hey there, sport. Say, isn’t it past your bedtime? Nah, I’m just joshing, but seriously, it’s getting late.

Is it homework? No? Then why are you up?

Well, regardless, you look bored.

So we guess we can help you with some activities to keep you busy.

1. Binge watch Netflix. Hey, this isn’t necessarily the most creative option, but if nothing else seems possible, then watching “Dexter” or “Breaking Bad” could still be a fun way to spend the night. Invite a couple of pals over to the session too, and relive those good ol’ slumber party times. Except, you know, in college and stuff.

2. Write a story. With a candle on the side of a desk and the inky embrace of the night permeating through the window, any lover of writing could take advantage of the tranquility and write something. On a windy and noisy winter night, maybe a short little tale about an adventurer on a mountain seems to be in order. Or maybe the eerie silence and paranoia will help inspire a creepy short story. Regardless, even just starting on a writing project is a wise use of the unmentionable hours in the night.

3. Go out for a drink in a new bar. We won’t be the people to tell you that drinking alcohol and letting the fun times roll is “unhealthy” and stuff. But why not check out a new place to chill and think about existentialism and pizza? Maybe that dingy-looking pub has a rustic quality to it that you’ll enjoy. Or, maybe you’ll just feel sticky all over. But trying new things will lead to interesting experiences and that is spending the night hours well.

4. Edit cover letters, resumes, portfolios, etc.

The after-dark hours will give you plenty of time to either start on cover letters and resumes or to refine them. Keep in mind that you can chuck humility to the side and beat it bloody when it comes to these papers. Also keep in mind that the format of the papers makes a world of difference, just as the content does. Even though it may seem silly or even pretentious, ironing out that cover letter with a pleasing font and some other graphical touches could land you a position.

6. Read a book that you don’t think you’ll enjoy. Sure, you could simply read a story that you think you’d love. But that’s fairly typical. What might be kind of neat is reading a book that you might find absolutely repulsing. On one hand, your opinion may not change about the book or author, and so be it; you can have a ball pointing out the flaws or tidbits that ruffle your stockings. But maybe the book will surprise you and offer a little insight to the literary world. You might just have newfound respect for the author, which may lead to you reading more books by them.

7. Express your deep emotions visually.

We’re not quite sure, but drawing or painting or something along those lines could be both constructive and mentally relaxing. Even if you’re not a natural artist, just working with the hands could sooth the mind. And, sure, that picture may look more like a chicken than the Eiffel Tower. But we love it anyway, sport.

8. Read multiple stories by the DN. Heh, we tried.

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5. Try to learn a new skill. The Internet is a treasure trove of guides and step-by-step instructions for all kinds of skills, from origami to weaving and from knitting to yoga. Learning to do something that you find neat could help expand and relax you while also keeping you busy. In addition, you can show your friends your new rad-tacular talent.

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Late-night streets populated by colorful characters Matrix” were pretty dumb…they could have just used cows instead of humans as batteries, and they would have gotten much more energy out of them.

JF: Or elephants.

Stranger: Right.

JF: We soon crossed a very noticeable, yet invisible line that distinguishes civilization from all the rest, and this is the desolation that surrounds the O Street bar scene on a typical late night.

MR: The apocalyptic scene would have depressed even the most optimistic drunk.

No wonder no one breaks from the crowd to see The Black Market all abandoned and dark or trek through the eerily lit brick streets of the Haymarket. There’s a sort of serenity when exploring streets devoid of life. If one were sentimental and prone to letting the mind wander, he or she might experience the walls of universal aloneness closing in. But, you know, Jack and I aren’t.

JF: Fuck no, we aren’t.

So, what do you do when you can’t sleep?

MR: Plus, the wind was freakishly cold, Or, in some cases, what do you do when you don’t want to sleep because the world so we just walked around cracking jokes and can’t control you, dammit? Well, Daily Ne- creeping out whatever kinds of creeps that braskan writers Jack Forey and Miles Roth- might have been following us. But still, with lisberger went out into the night scene, got the way the soft yellow lights of the Haymartheir delicate faces chapped due to the wind ket scene truly bought a sense of peace, all and walked around, slinging banter left and you had to do was walk back to O Street to ruin this sense of peace. right.

JF: But at least there’s beer there.

Jack Forey: As I was walking downtown MR: When all else fails, you can take to meet Miles, several cop cars were speeding advantage of the situation. Think about it. down O Street.

When we began the walkabout, some- You’re walking around like a bonafide jackone was being wheeled into an ambulance ass, likely looking all suspicious and alone (or, if you’re like Jack and I, you’re with an as people were getting blind drunk in every direction. The flashing lights of the cop cars equally suspicious person) as you trudge complimented the neon signs of the O Street around the dark in an ungodly hour.

So, everyone on the streets at the same pubs, and the night was off to an exciting time as you might judge you for being weird start. before, you know, talkMiles Rothlisberger: ing to you and then conSo, really, the vibrant It looks like the firming their assumpcolors of pub lamps and At least, that’s the pulsating cop lights night life of Lincoln, tions. what the loud voice of can only be improved if paranoia keeps telling you’re inebriated, right? Nebraska, actually has you. So, you might as Or in intense pain from a quite a bit to offer.” well harmlessly follow fractured femur. some people and have JF: What better way JACK FOREY some fun. That’s what to lay your finger upon DN ARTS WRITER Jack and I did, like the the irregular pulse of the pinnacle examples of late night community than to strike up a conversation with some- human kindness that we are. We ended up following some poor guy into a hotel in the one unknown? That’s what Miles and I did, stopping a few times to speak to people we Haymarket, right into the elevator.

MR: Hey there. How’re you holding up? met on the street.

Poor Guy: I’m alright, I’m pretty drunk.

One of the first was a man about to ride JF: Well, at least you’re not dead (thinkhis bike. We walked up and started asking ing: like you will be in a minute). questions.

MR: We should totally run into that MR: Hey man, uh…We have some quescrowd or something. tions for you. How are you doing?

JF: I like that idea.

JF: Do you like tennis?

MR: Wait, we should run to the Bourbon?

MR: Who did it?

But isn’t there a street in between?

JF: I can turn on all the faucets in my JF: Run across it, I’ll follow you. house at the same time.

MR: And that was that. I “stole” Jack’s MR: You know, this isn’t real. “prized” Diet Coke bottle, and he chased afJF: Yes, none of this is real. ter me through crowds of intoxicated people Stranger: None of what? to supposedly beat the living shit out of me.

MR: Everything, it’s all a dream.

I was shocked to see that no one wanted We discussed “The Matrix” briefly.

Stranger: You know, the robots in “The to stop me from stealing a poor guy’s diet soda. I mean, I didn’t expect anyone to try

Jack Forey

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and clothesline me or something, but no tripping or anything? Come on. I almost felt bad about mock robbing someone.

So, really, unless you’re going to fake violence by having someone fake breaking your ribs, after which you will fake spitting our fake blood, the thrills of fake crime may not last long.

JF: It looks like the night life of Lincoln, Nebraska, actually has quite a bit to offer.

The company of the hundred or so colorful

people who populate the strip on a nightly basis should be reason enough to get your boring ass off the couch or wherever you are right now and shoot some late-night excitement into your veins. What say you, Miles?

MR: Yeah – yeah. Shoot it real deep in the veins. If you aren’t bleeding after your fun at night, you aren’t having enough fun. Or something like that, I dunno. Go have at it.

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Music professor continues his connection to Boston CHRIS BOWLING DN Early in the afternoon on April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The explosions killed three and wounded 264 others. Fourteen people required amputations.

About 1,500 miles away in Lincoln, Tom Larson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jazz studies and history of jazz and rock ‘n’ roll professor, was relieved to hear a good friend of his running the race wasn’t one of them.

“He had just turned onto Boylston Street and had about six blocks to go when the bombs went off,” Larson said. “They literally went off right in front of him. Fortunately he was not hurt, but if he would have been just a few seconds ahead of where he was, he would have been.”

Larson’s son was also in Boston at the time of the explosion, studying at Berklee College of Music, although he wasn’t anywhere near Boylston.

Larson’s friend and son aren’t his only connection to the race and its city. Larson graduated from Berklee in 1977 and, as a runner himself, competed in the Boston Marathon in 2005, 2006 and 2007 as a way of rekindling his relationship with the city.

“It has been said that you can take the boy out of Boston, but you can’t take Boston out of the boy,” Larson said. “Berklee, and my years in Boston, had a huge role in shaping my identity as a professional musician.”

That identity is on display Nov. 21 at the Cornhusker Hotel, where Larson will play the piano alongside the Nebraska Jazz Or-

chestra. The show will feature his original work as well as titles that he’s arranged. Although he hasn’t played with a big band the size of the NJO since the ‘80s, Larson isn’t worried about anything that a few practices and a sound check can’t solve.

This intuitive nature is something that Paul Haar, director of the faculty jazz bands, said he notices in Larson as a musician. Haar said Larson is able to anticipate other players and add a tremendous sensitivity to his own playing, but his greatest skill lies elsewhere.

“I really think that his greatest gift is as a composer,” Haar said. “He just is able to understand the character of the player and fit it, the music, with their ability.”

As far as his original composition and playing goes, Larson draws from a lot of different influences. In the jazz realm, he pulls from the likes of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. But equally important in his personal style is his experience with the rock music Larson grew up with, including The Beatles, Frank Zappa and Steely Dan. “When I first became a professional musician in 1970, I was playing in a rock band,” Larson said. “It wasn’t until around 1974 or 1975 that I became very interested in jazz.

Those years playing rock music, 1970 to 1974, when I was 15-19 years old, were my formative years as a musician.”

So with a degree from Berklee and a dream of teaching music at the college level, Larson returned to UNL and got his masters in music composition. But by the time he graduated in 1985, his interests had shifted toward owning his own recording studio.

As co-owner of Studio Q, Larson scored

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Tom Larson works in his office at the Westbrook Building Tuesday afternoon. Larson is the former co-owner of Studio Q Recording in Lincoln and now teaches History of American Jazz, History of Rock Music and jazz piano at the Glenn Korff School of Music. projects about everything from Willa Cather to American history and produced music for television, radio advertising and film documentaries. But it wasn’t exactly what he

wanted.

“While that career was fun and very re-

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MELIA HORSWILL customer service manager of university bookstore

Melia Horswill is the customer service manager at the University Bookstore and has been working for the bookstore for nearly five years. She just graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in accounting. In addition to wearing trendy clothes, she also knits hats and scarves for herself and friends, which is a good hobby

to have with our cold Nebraskan winters.

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They’re really fun to make!”

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Freshman follows multiple paths in musical ambition After years of honing her own skills in music, a student devotes herself to passing them on to others MADI WEINBERGER DN

Lia Havlena, a freshman English major and music minor, sings and plays four instruments, but her interests don’t end there.

“I basically want to do many different things, music being the primary,” Havlena said. “I’m thinking about adding a film minor.”

At a young age, Havlena became interested in music. She was involved with her church choir, took piano lessons from her aunt and sang at family events. When a family friend recommended Havlena take music lessons at Blue Raven Music Studios in Lincoln, Havlena began to pursue other instruments as well as other music genres, especially blues.

“There’s nothing like it,” she said. “It’s got such grit to it.”

It was at Blue Raven where Havlena took on voice lessons and learned how to play guitar, banjo, ukulele and upright bass. Havlena said she wants to learn more instruments such as the harmonica and the saxophone.

“If I find something that I like, I’m gonna try it,” she said.

Havlena began to aspire to other musical interests. During her freshman year of high school, Blue Raven owner and instructor Matt Richardson asked her to join a local band, The Blues Messengers. Havlena said she dealt with stage fright for her first appearances, but over time she became accustomed to performing live.

At the 17 years old, Havlena was asked to perform as a vocalist and instrumentalist for the teen bluegrass band, Prairie Creek Ramblers. Since last year, the group has performed at venues such as Roots Music Shop, Meadowlark Coffee and other hometown spots.

Last summer, Matt and Jenny Richardson asked her to perform in the folk country bluegrass trio Midnight Wanderers.

“Music kinda morphed into being the huge part of my life it is now,” Havlena said.

“It’s always been there, but it’s been more present in the last few years.”

Havlena described her overall experience of being a young musician as challenging and invigorating. Over the years, Havlena has appeared in several performances in coffee houses and other venues around Lincoln.

Videos of her performances can be found on the Blue Raven Music Studios channel on YouTube. The main comments she has heard from her audiences, she said, compliment her talents and her attributes as a young musician.

Aside from performing, Havlena has contributed some original songs for shows. Her song “Fred” has been performed by Midnight Wanderers. She said she has written many other songs, but wishes to only share a few.

“I’ve probably written 150, but I really only like 15,” Havlena said.

Havlena has participated in other music

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Lia Havlena, a freshman English major with a music minor, gives Makenna Adams, 10, her weekly guitar lesson at Blue Raven Music Studios. Adams has been taking guitar lessons from Havlena for about a year. Havlena said Adams is one of her best students. events such as fellow Blue Raven musician warding part of teaching young musicians is Steve Hanson’s bluegrass camp. Winning the the warm reception her students receive.

“I love seeing how proud the parents are,” Steven Hanson scholarship two years in a row she said. “They’re just so granted Havlena the opproud seeing their kids portunity to experience Music kinda playing songs even if it’s blues music in a different something simple like setting. morphed into being ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little “It’s wonderful,” she Star.’” said. “Being around all the huge part of my life it Havlena wants to those other musicians, is now. It’s always been continue teaching and who are just so good at performing. She would what they do, makes it there, but it’s been more like to eventually work really fun.” present in the last few on an album with her Havlena plans to conbandmates, to continue tinue attending the camp years.” to explore her instrusince there is no age limit ment skills and incorto participate.

LIA HAVLENA freshman english major porate different music Havlena also offers styles into her perforukulele and guitar lesmances. Havlena’s plan sons for children at Blue after graduation is to find a career that relates Raven. She began instructing students more than a year ago and currently has a roster of to her English major and maintain music as a primary commitment. eight students. Havlena said that the most re-

“I have a lot of other passions,” Havlena said. “I love writing, reading and movies, but music is the forefront of all of that.”

Even as a freshman, Havlena presents herself as a versatile, persistent and wise individual. She said she would like to consider herself a “music evangelist” who encourages and inspires others to pursue musical talents.

Her main goal is to continue with school and to improve her musical talents.

“There’s always something you can improve on,” Havlena said. “The key is to look for ways to add more flavor or a little bit more emotion to the music.”

She may not be able to fully predict who she will grow to become in the next five years, but she said she anticipates that she will continue to keep music in her everyday life.

“I like who I am now, and I think I’m going to like the person I am planning to be,” Havlena said.

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How to prepare to enter the mosh pit MADI WEINBERGER DN At one time or another, every student will attend or at least watch a mosh pit.

Whether it’s at a rave or a hardcore concert festival, it pays to be prepared for what some might encounter in the pit. Here’s how to handle specific situations when you wander into the realms of a mosh pit.

1) Dress for crowds.

Girls, it’s best to leave the heels at home. Stabbing other moshers on their toes if they dare to steal the front stage spot can be a first-class ticket to hair-pulling fights and bloody dance floors. Mosh pits can be a cluster of people dancing, jumping and pushing. Stilettos or pumps are, first of all, a pain to navigate through the monstrous crowds and to actually enjoy the mosh experience. It’s recommended to wear flat shoes or heavy duty shoes (to protect your toes) and an outfit that ventilates (since it will be hot on the floor).

Guys, this is the opportunity to whip out the bro tanks as well as attend shirtless. Now that Nebraska is reaching its prime cold-weather season, sweaters, hoodies and jackets are a great idea outside, but once a mosher reaches the pit, that sweater will be a sweat mop that cleans up the blood on the floor the stiletto girl left behind from her last victim.

Most of the time, the staff at the event will hold things such as jackets, sweaters, sunglasses and other miscellaneous loose items behind a booth,

bar or inside a designated room. Depending on the venue, the service to keep items behind the counter so they don’t get lost or stolen is typically free, but other places may charge a fee. Another thing to keep in mind is to travel light. Large bags or drawstring bags are usually prohibited at most concert events, plus a person is left lugging around items that could be ripped off while in the mosh pit.

After attending a few mosh pits, a person will become acquainted with the outfit of his or her preference for future moshing.

2) Prepare for attack.

There are times when things get out of hand in a mosh pit very quickly. Everyone is there for a different experience, but the general idea of a mosh pit is to be as dynamic as the body will allow.

How people show their excitement is something one needs to acknowledge. Whether it’s flailing their arms like a wacky tube man, head banging or mauling faces, a mosher generally must have a plan to avoid such situations which will prevent more injury than necessary.

3) When in a rumble… protect the face.

Despite the preparation, there’s no definite way to predict when a rumble will take place. Assuming some readers are mosh-pit virgins, mosh rumbles are random, sporadic rough-housing that typically involve groups of people shoving each other into certain sections of a crowd or the whole mosh pit. Some moshes don’t always reach these described extremes, but it is possible that such events can occur. It is very possible that shirts could tear, bodies could get bruised and stuff could break. For those who are audacious enough to at-

tend, be sure to either protect your face or wear the battle scars with pride come classtime Monday.

4) Participate in crowd surfing.

It doesn’t matter if a person is the surfer or part of the wave, participating in a crowd surf can be the most challenging yet most exciting attribute to a mosh pit. Surviving the surf cannot be predicted; sometimes a person just has to ride the wave. As a crowd member, it’s respectful to not leave the surfer hanging. Working together to move the mosh surfer (even the bigger ones) shows a sense of community and admirable mosh pit etiquette.

Plus, it strengthens those upper body muscles.

5) Respect the performer(s) and fellow moshers.

Understanding that those who attend concerts come from various backgrounds, it is fair to say that people will clash. Everyone has the right to disagree, but in any situation, it is generally in everyone’s best interest to be respectful.

Yelling out angry (most likely alcohol-fueled) words or threats to strangers is uncouth and unnecessary. Concerts are meant to be appreciative to the artist and the music. Instigating extreme violence and disrespect in a mosh pit is, for the majority, not appreciated and leads to unwanted impairments.

If a mosher falls to the floor, help him or her out. Falling, tripping or being stomped on in a mosh crowd is not pleasant. Save a life and lend the mosher a hand.

Also, don’t throw beer cans or other items at people. Whether it is intentional or unintentional, just place the stuff in the trash.

One more rule of etiquette to consider is to leave the performer(s) alone. Grabbing at their junk or sneaking onto the stage isn’t a VIP pass to hop onto their tour bus. They’re there to perform, which means hands off, moshers.

If a person feels that these rules are overbearing, then security will show him or her to the door.

6) Prepare for exposure of body parts some wish have stayed hidden.

Alright, let’s be honest, there have been concerts where we’re exposed to some wild and obscene personalities, whether it’s the random fellow doused on an unnamed substance or those people who strip down to their knickers and/or flash body parts, some of which may not be the most appropriate or attractive for the public eye.

We’ll leave you to assume, rightfully, that stripping at a rave will probably not look appealing on a resume.

7) Have a blast.

Mosh pits may not be for everyone, but the general experience is invigorating. The muscles are sore, but the soul is alive. Looking back, it’s something to remember. You’ll never forget the sprinkle of ice cold beer or water on the crowd or swimming through confetti, glitter, paint and feathers at a rave.

Overall, some may consider that the best part of surviving the mosh pit to be the people who were there. Admittedly, there are bad apples in the pit, but as a whole they provide a unique concert experience.

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ith a special invitation and a plane ticket from Virginia, Melora Kordos was on her way to University of Nebraska-Lincoln to direct “Love’s Labor ’s Lost.”

The production runs Nov. 13 to 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Howell Theatre on the first floor of the Temple Building. Additional performances are held Nov. 18 to 21 at 2 p.m.

The lesser-known Shakespearean play takes an 1890s renaissance twist on the original script with the help of Kordos.

“The original text was written circa 1590,” Kordos said. “In order to engage our contemporary audience, I felt that setting the show in the 1890s would help the characters and issues they deal with resonate with our audience and show that Shakespeare’s plays transcend the centuries.”

Kordos made an executive decision to keep as much of the original script as possible, despite the attempt to connect more sufficiently to the audience.

“When a director approaches a classical text, the idea is to not cut anything, if at all possible,” Kordos said. “Sometimes scenes or text must be cut to aid in the pacing of the play so that it is not too long for our audiences to comfortably sit through. The danger, especially with Shakespeare, is taking away the rhetoric that has been so beautifully crafted into the scene. It’s not an easy task and takes many, many readings and passes through to find the right solution.”

Shade Ingraham, the lead actor with more than 20 percent of the lines, said Kordos was very generous when choosing which parts to keep and which to let go. Some of the original monologues were cut in half in order to aid the actor in preparing for his role of Berowne.

Using different techniques to prepare for memorization, Ingraham said he prepared for this role just like any other. Although unfamiliar with the composition, the actor familiarized himself with rehearsal, rehearsal and more rehearsal.

“I like to write my lines down,” Ingraham said. “Especially the lines I have trouble with. I like to say them over and over. I read over the entire piece twice before I even auditioned.”

Each cast member dissected the original Shakespeare piece word-for-word and created their character dynamics. With the help of Kordos, the analysis of the script became a group effort.

“When we begin rehearsals, we start with

Abbie Austin, Nicholas Prior, Christian Novotny and Andrew Hill peform in Love’s Labor’s Lost in the Howell Theatre at the Temple Building. The set was designed by graduate student David Tousley. In collaboration with the lighting crew, Tousley and Sarah Resch created the “smoon” that could act as the sun and moon for different parts of the production. a read-through of the play,” Kordos said, “and then spend the next few days at table work where we start at the very beginning and talk through the play line by line and make sure we know precisely what is being said and why.”

The actors spend countless hours preparing for the role and researching the dynamics within the script. Hunter Mruz, who plays Lord Longaville, said Kordos was flexible with the angles the actors wanted to take on

their characters.

“We’re still finding things out about our characters,” Mruz said. “Melora and I decided that we wanted Longaville to be the ‘drunk character,’ so I asked if I could carry a flask. At the next rehearsal, I had a flask.”

The guest director and the crew have been amped since Day 1. The cast works together well and uses Kordos as a guide to make the show successful.

“Everyone has been a blast to work

with,” Mruz said. “The cast members and the crew have amazing chemistry with one another. Our director, Melora, is wonderful. She knows her stuff when it comes to Shakespeare. I’m really grateful to be able to work with her; I can’t praise her enough. She knows what’s good, and it’s only going to make the show that much better.”

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East Coast poetry group to perform at UNL KATJA DUERIG DN More and more, poetry is being used as a performing art.

Those who wouldn’t normally read or study poetry are taking opportunities to be engaged and, as a bonus, entertained by poems. One collective, The Strivers Row, is taking the art of speech to the next level to shed light on current issues.

The poets will perform Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ballroom.

The group consists of five poets from the Northeastern United States, most of whom are also scholars at Ivy League universities.

These young artists have traveled across the country, even accepting an invitation from Barack Obama to entertain the White House in 2009.

Poets perform individually, in pairs or as a group. The content of their work is often direct and emotional, including topics such as poverty, racism and homophobia. Often, there is a musical or dramatic element added to embolden their speech, and it is their robust, stirring style that attracts so many young people.

The University Program Council, along with the Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services, is bringing The Strivers Row to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ashley DiGregorio, events coordinator of OASIS, helped put the event together.

DiGregorio said OASIS is more than an academic organization. When searching for events to put on, organizers take cultural awareness and engagement heavily into consideration.

“The name itself underlines how our most important topics or services are to help students with their academic success,” she said. “Understanding that being a part of a diverse campus and community and being able to interact with it and help in any way is part of that success.”

DiGregorio said she’s happy to have the poets on campus to both entertain and teach.

“Some of the moments you learn the most from are when you use art and creativity to highlight perspectives or ideas that aren’t the same as your own,” she said. “That’s what I think of when I think of Strivers Row.” Telling powerfully raw tales of different forms of discrimination, The Strivers Row were invited back to UNL to meet OASIS’s goal of diversity awareness. They performed in the Gaughan Center two years ago, filling a 200-person room and leaving a group of students carefully listening in from the door.

This year it has moved to the Union Ballroom. Although the event will begin at 7:30

COURTESY PHOTO p.m., it may be worth showing up early, and not just to save a seat. From 6:30 to 7:15 p.m., UPC and OASIS will invite students to the stage for an open-mic poetry session.

Senior broadcasting and psychology major Chinedu Izuegbunam is excited to see spoken word performers at UNL. He said an event such as this is likely far more appealing than a regular poetry reading, as the sensation of live performance is incomparable.

“I haven’t been to (a performance), but I’ve seen videos,” Izuegbunam said. “I like stuff that conveys such raw emotion. It makes it more personal when the poet’s acting out with such conviction.”

It is exciting for DiGregorio, who studied poetry in college herself, to see students interested in the event. She said that it’s an

Poetry is a way that people can access their creative side.

Poetry somehow has a connection that (is unlike) some other creative ventures we don’t necessarily relate.”

ASHLEY DIGREGORIO oasis events coordinator

outlet for many students, even those in fields other than English.

“Poetry is a way that people can access their creative sideshe said. “Poetry somehow has a connection that (is unlike) some other creative ventures we don’t necessarily relate.”

Izuegbunam has a different idea of students’ connection to poetry.

“If you wanna pick up a girl you can use poetry, that might help,” he said. “It’s an art form that illustrates how you actually feel.”

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He’s training for his 13th marathon, an event in Lincoln this May, with the hopes that he can qualify for the Boston Marathon one more time. But this time it’s not just about him and his relationship with the city. If he’s able to return to Boston as a runner in 2016, it’s going to be a family affair.

“My stepdaughter has already qualified for that race, and my wife will also be running with me,” Larson said. “We hope to have three members from the same family running Boston together. That would be pretty awesome.”

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FACULTY: FROM 10 warding, I always maintained a close relationship with UNL and people in the School of Music, either playing gigs with them or hiring them for recording sessions,” Larson said. “So, when my present job opened up in 1998, I applied for it.”

Since then, Larson has become an integral

part of the school. Haar said his course has been one of the most popular on campus for years. Larson also recorded an album of his own originals in 2003 under the title “Flashback.” But when he’s not working on music or performing with the likes of the NJO, he’s pushing toward his big project of 2015.

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Husker basketball teams step into spotlight The hype is real. Nebraska basketball is officially on the map.

Last year, the Nebraska men’s basketball team made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998. For a lot of fans, this was their first meaningful engagement with Husker basketball, and understandably, they’re excited. But building fan interest isn’t necessarily the most important factor in putting basketball in the limelight in this football-crazed state.

It’s the recruits.

When the big-name recruits come in, so does the attention. The focus can be on the relatively new arena both teams play in. Both coaches have said Pinnacle Bank Arena has become a recruiting highlight.

More and more people trying to go to the games will also help the Haymarket area because some fans won’t always be able to get into the games, so they can watch at a nearby bar or restaurant. If top-level recruits from around the nation don’t want to come to Nebraska, the program will never really flourish. In the past, Nebraska has had a lot of trouble on this front.

But this is starting to change.

This Wednesday was the National Letters-of-Intent day for some college sports, including basketball. Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams are bringing in several exciting players for the 2015 season.

On the men’s side, the big pick-ups were Illinois natives Ed Morrow and Glynn Watson. Both were four-star recruits and listed among ESPN’s Top 100 high school seniors.

If Terran Petteway decides to play

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his senior season, Nebraska could return one of the most dangerous line-ups in the 2015 season. Next season will also feature Kansas transfer Andrew White, who can’t play this season but will be a large part of the team next year.

EDITORIAL POLICY The editorial above contains the opinion of the fall 2014 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board.

It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

A column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily

Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of Daily Nebraskan employees.

But there’s reason to be ecstatic for this season. Petteway will try to repeat the type of season he had last time around, when he led the Big Ten in scoring per game. Shavon Shields and Walter Pitchford will be the perimeter shooters on the

team. Freshman forward Jake Hammond and senior transfer center Abraham Moses will greatly help the inside game for the Huskers.

The women’s team has been consistently at the top end of the basketball world with coach Connie Yori at the helm.

Last season, the team won the Big Ten title and made the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive year. The women’s team is bringing in the No. 8 recruiting class in the nation, according to ESPN.com.

Forward Jessica Shepard is the headliner of the class as the No. 3 overall recruit in the nation. She’s the highesttouted player who Nebraska has ever brought into the basketball program. The Lincoln native could see playing time in her first year as senior forwards Emily Cady and Hailie Sample are both graduating after this season.

Another recruit is Lanie Page out of Alma, Kansas. She’s the 11th-best wing in the country. Her sister, Kaylee, is a freshman on the Huskers’ squad this season.

The women’s squad has the problem of replacing a star player for the second straight season. First it was replacing Lindsey Moore, and now the task is to find the production of Jordan Hooper. The Huskers do have a couple players to pick up where Hooper left off.

Junior Rachel Theriot, Cady and senior Tear’a Laudermill could be a dynamic trio of high-octane scoring this season.

Husker basketball is ready to step into the spotlight.

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Omaha zoo puts business above animal welfare Ben Curttright

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ast weekend, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo held a free admission day to celebrate being ranked the No. 1 zoo in the world. Though I’m aware that I might just be unique among native Nebraskans, I wholeheartedly believe this is a bad thing.

Not the “free admission” part. I don’t have a problem with that at all. I have a problem with the other 363 days a year (they’re closed on Christmas) when the Henry Doorly Zoo participates in the extended commodification of animals.

Though I acknowledge the positive effects zoos have had for conservationist and environmentalist causes, I believe it would be not only possible, but beneficial, for us to do the same kind of work outside of zoos.

Both in principle and in reality, zoos just aren’t good places for animals to live.

My argument, like many, is based on a feeling of sort-of-weirdness. Like, isn’t it sort of weird that we as a society are OK with individuals owning some animals (dogs) but not other animals (pandas), eating some (cows) but not others (horses) and encouraging population growth among some (dolphins) but selectively killing others for population control (deer)?

Because these animals, from an evoluIf zoos actually were some kind of bastionary standpoint, aren’t all that different tion of conservationism, their less-thanfrom each other, or from us. ideal living conditions might be excusable.

The overall happiness of animals in zoos However, zoos are, like almost everything is a constant debate among conservationists else, a business. There’s a great deal of eviand animal rights activists. Some claim that dence to suggest that zoos stopped seeing a life in captivity is, ideally, one without the the well being of their animals as an end stresses of searching for food and avoiding goal long ago. predators. Others see unnatural behaviors Zoos operate not as a place of rehabilisuch as constant pacing, self-mutilation, tation and release, high levels of stress and but as a permanent obesity and reductions in However, zoos home for their anilongevity as evidence that mals, concerned are, like almost animals in zoos are being only with maintainsorely mistreated. everything else, a ing the optimal ocThe truth is probably cupancy for viewer somewhere in the middle business. There’s a great enjoyment.

When and depends on the environ- deal of evidence to an animal is injured ment required by the animal or dies, as was the in question. Giving a small suggest that zoos stopped case for four flamincreature such as a hedgehog seeing the well being of gos at the Hattiesan adequate life would be burg Zoo in Missismuch easier than arranging their animals as an end sippi, a replacement for the long-term happiness goal long ago.” is purchased from of a dolphin. But this in itanother zoo. When self is an argument against the opposite hapzoos: the idea of a zoo is that all its animals, pens – when animals procreate healthily, not just some, are treated fairly, consider- as they would in the wild – the offspring, ing that Henry Doorly Zoo’s Cat Complex, if they cannot be sold, are euthanized, like which claims to be a “leader in the preser- Marius the giraffe, a young, healthy juvenile vation and management” of tigers, consists, giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo who was put last time I checked, of glass boxes with con- down as a “surplus animal.” crete floors.

In many, if not all, cases, the welfare of

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the animals held within zoos is blatantly disregarded when financial issues are at stake.

In 2012, the St. Louis Zoo announced it was committing $20 million, or the equivalent of 40 percent of its annual operating budget, to building a new polar bear exhibit. At first glance, this kind of investment in the future of the polar bear seems like it can only be a good thing. Since being prominently featured in Al Gore’s 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” polar bears have become a poster child for adverse effects of human-caused global warming on the natural habitats of animals. The problem? The American Midwest, despite the decidedly Arctic weather this week, isn’t a good place for polar bears. The St. Louis Zoo had a polar bear exhibit active until 2009, when its last polar bear died without ever seeing the wild.

Instead of investing in the conservation of the natural habitat of the polar bear, instead of advocating for reduced carbon emissions, the zoo is spending millions so it can purchase another polar bear.

This is the same kind of logic used every day at the Henry Doorly Zoo. Remember when it was trying to get pandas?

In a 2013 interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Lee Simmons, head of the Omaha Zoo Foundation, described the zoo’s multi-year “hunt for pandas” as incredibly frustrating. For Omaha zoogoers, pandas

were the one thing not showcased and the one thing keeping the San Diego Zoo ahead of the Henry Doorly Zoo in the race for No. 1. Because there are pandas in San Diego. In fact, you can watch them 24/7 on the San Diego PandaCam. The giant panda, native to China, is classified as an endangered species, and birth rates among adult pandas are remarkably low, making pandas incredibly valuable to those who manage to capture or breed them. Simmons said the loan fee for adult pandas is $1 million a year, and though pandas would have been a “great attraction” for the Henry Doorly Zoo, $1 million wasn’t worth it for, in his words, “big, fuzzy, black-and-white bears that slept most of the time.”

This isn’t the language of a conservationist weighing the potential benefit of his actions against the harm caused by taking the panda away from its kin. This is how a businessman talks about raw materials. And if you see all animals, from dogs to giant pandas, as objects that can be bought and sold without regard for their well being, maybe that’s OK. If you don’t, though, isn’t it sort of weird?

BEN CURTTRIGHT IS A SENIOR ENGLISH MAJOR AND THE ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR. REACH HIM FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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Defining the relationship leads to less stress, worry Jaz Schoeneck

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ey there, reader. So, we’ve been seeing each other for a while now, and I think it’s time to talk.

I really enjoy the way you read my articles and I know that you enjoy perusing my works at least a little, so I just thought it might be time we consider something a little more serious. Hold on a second! Don’t walk away from me, this is important. I’m not trying to move too quickly am I? I just thought it’d be nice if, you know, you’d become my steady reader. If it’s too soon that’s OK (I don’t want to push you into something you’re not ready for), but I do think we need to talk about defining the relationship and why that’s so important for our social growth.

I suppose you have your reasons for avoiding this talk. Perhaps it’s too soon. I know a lot of people are worried that if they try to define their level of commitment, their partner might think they’re desperate or clingy. I’ll be honest,

several of the women I’ve been involved with were at a different mental stage in the relationship than I was at the time. On one occasion, I asked a lady to go to dinner, and she told me I’d completely misread the signs. Apparently she considered me more of a confidant than a potential partner. I’ve also been on the other side, where a lady friend of mine thought I was much more interested in her than I actually was. I’m a natural flirt, you know.

This isn’t going to be easy. It takes guts to evolve a personal relationship into something more. You have to be ready for the best and worst outcomes because you don’t always know how a person really feels. I wrote an article on perspectives discussing how we can’t always see the world the way another views it. I know that just about every person has, at some point, had a crush on someone. It can be a great feeling, but it also brings about a ton of worry.

I’ve been there and, if you can believe it, worried a ton. I was constantly wondering whether they felt the same as I did, whether they were looking for a more committed relationship, whether or not they could see me hiding in their tree; you know, the usual worries. I’m no professional at relationships (despite what I might put on my resume), but I know one thing for sure: regardless of how terrifying it seemed to open up to someone about how I felt, I always felt better after we defined our relationship, no matter the outcome. And maybe you don’t worry – per-

haps you’re confident enough to just take life in stride. That’s great – keep that up! For the rest of you worrywarts, there’s no need to fear; I do think you’re pretty special.

Defining the relationship (DTR) isn’t just for your beau, though. Interpersonal relationships aren’t all romantic, but they can all be equally complicated. DTR is really about setting boundaries and parameters between you and another person. Perhaps you have a friend who wants to hang out ALL THE TIME. Every day you wake up to a text from them asking if you “wanna hang” later. Does it annoy you? Do you want them to know that it annoys you? Well then get down with the DTR. Sure, it can be even scarier to have that sort of conversation with a friend.

You don’t want to hurt their feelings, but establishing boundaries in a friendship will ultimately strengthen your bond. Knowing where you stand with another individual will eliminate worries.

What’s that, reader? You just want to be occasional acquaintances? You’ll read my articles when they pop up on your news feed IF you have a free moment, but you’re pretty busy at the moment so it might be a while before you get around to reading them? That’s perfectly fine, I’m actually relieved to hear you say that.

Perhaps I misread the signs, or perhaps you have commitment issues. Commitment is a difficult concept. It means you’ll have to dedicate time and effort, and you don’t always know

if that’s going to pay off in the end. I’ve dealt with it too. I ended a two-year relationship because I couldn’t see what the future held for us.

It happens before relationships even start. One person might be putting a lot of effort into a relationship and the other might not seem to be working as hard. The more committed person is rightly worried that they might scare off their potential partner, but that doesn’t mean defining the relationship is a bad idea.

Above all else, the thing to remember when defining the relationship is this: It’s not always going to work out, and that’s perfectly fine. So he doesn’t love you, that just means he wasn’t the one for you. Maybe she’s interested in another guy and sees you as a friend, so what? You weren’t cosmically destined to be with her and thinking you were is just going to make you sad.

That said, defining the relationship isn’t always necessary. If it works, it works. And if it’s easy, let it be easy – but if it’s a struggle, then DTR or GTFO, because you deserve to be happy. When it comes to you and I, dear reader, it’s always easy. Right? Hey, where are you going? I’m a great writer, I don’t see why we can’t make this work!

JAZ SCHOENECK IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND FILM STUDIES MAJOR. CONTACT HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR ON TWITTER AT @JAZ_SCHOENECK

Congress should focus on reforming immigration policy Ronnie Turner

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s soon as the Republican Party succeeded in adding Senate control to their majority rule in the House of Representatives, the national conversation shifted to the United States’ problem on the Mexican border.

Last fiscal year, 38,833 children, many of whom were 12 years old or younger crossed the U.S./Mexican border without a parent or guardian. Some analysts expect the number of unaccompanied child migrants to continue to grow.

When this story dominated the airways months ago, President Barack Obama announced his intention to use his executive powers to solve part of the immigration and refugee crisis. This may include more human deportations, an allowance for some undocumented residents to stay or even a delay of the deportations of non-criminal men, women and children who have made positive contributions to the

United States.

I, like, many other Americans, have grown tired of the constant delaying of action on immigration reform. This immigration system is broken, and it will take a whole lot more than an increase in patrol officers to solve the problem. With the constant bickering in Congress and the reluctance of Nebraska’s state government to embrace immigration reform, it seems that the executive actions of President Obama are the only chance we have to finally turn things around.

A presidential executive order isn’t the preferred method for anyone. In early 2013, Democrats Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, Bob Menendez and Chuck Schumer joined Republicans Marco Rubio, Jeff Flake, John McCain and Lindsey Graham in pushing for immigration reform. That immigration bill passed through the Senate but wasn’t even brought to a vote in the Republican House of Representatives.

The House took a bipartisan solution and turned it into a political blood sport.

This is an issue we have had for a long time, and it used to be one in which liberals and conservatives could collaborate. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were two former Republican U.S. Presidents who both understood that immigration reform was an issue of civil rights, family values and fairness.

The conservative narrative that paints undocumented residents as criminals looking to corrupt this country is wrong. When we talk

about these migrants we should remember what it is that they do here. They are crop pickers, cooks, yard workers, community activists and proud parents. The only thing that the majority of these people want is to improve their neighborhoods and to prove to their adoptive country that they belong here.

When young children begin journeys from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, they do so in hopes that they can be safe from drugs, rape and murder. These are children who look north to our country, and they see a nation where there’s hope for the strong and mercy for the weak.

For some of these kids, the U.S. is the only chance they have. They deserve a chance to survive and prosper. Those children and their families are Americans at heart, no matter what their birth certificates might say. We cannot turn our backs on our own. We cannot turn our backs on those who care about our country the most.

Last year, after hearing personal stories of those touched most by the issue, I made a point of contacting some of the most influential public officials from Nebraska and across the country.

I sent letters pleading for reform to Nebraska’s two Senators, Deb Fischer and Mike Johanns and sent other emails to Obama, Vice President Biden and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. I knew at the time that the chances that they’d read my message would be low but I had to try.

I had to speak up for those who were being si-

lenced by the noise of our political discourse.

And it isn’t just an issue of lobbying Congress. The state of Nebraska has had its own share of controversy regarding the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program would allow young people who, through no fault of their own, came into the U.S. before their 16th birthday. Not only have Gov. Dave Heineman and his successor Pete Ricketts come out against deferred action, but they have also denied the rights of undocumented people to receive a driver’s license, making the lives of their families even more difficult. Many of these people are tax payers and the denial of these basic rights and privileges go against what we as Americans value most: fairness and equality before the law. Nebraska needs to change its policies regarding the new people who live in our state. We could start by embracing DACA and looking to other states in the country for inspiration on both sides of the aisle.

The American Dream belongs to those who will work for it. If we want to remain the greatest nation on Earth we must accept the responsibility that comes with it. These children from Latin America are an investment in our future. They’re Americans and I stand by them. I hope our new Congress and our state will too.

RONNIE DUPREE TURNER IS A FRESHMAN POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR. REACH HIM FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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Life should be celebrated daily, not just on birthdays Putting too much emphasis on celebrating birthdays fails to take the realities of the other 364 days into account VICKI KLAFTER DN “

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irthday sex/ birthday sex/ the best day of the year, girl…”

After the chorus, the lyrics by rapper Jeremih continue on to describe sexually pleasing a female partner and the privileges she “gets” to enjoy because it’s her birthday.

This song includes just one of several reasons why I hate birthdays and their connotations.

On birthdays, we honor a person because 18 or 23 or 116 years before, his or her mother spent hours contracting her abdominal (and many other) muscles, which resulted in the emergence of a bloody and slimy infant who was then assigned a gender from the choices offered by a binary system and cradled in the arms of an exhausted mother. The miracle of birth.

So to commemorate this phenomenon, we mark the day it occurred and after every period of 364 days, we celebrate it again. Although I may approach this cynically, I don’t approach birth with a jaded perspective. Birth is one of the most amazing, and to me, supernatural events, on this Earth. When I’m tired of life and this messed-up world, I remember that there are still babies being born into it by marvelous feats of biology and God, so I put my head down and keep trying.

That being said, it irks me to no end that birthdays have been equated to a personal holiday – a one-day-ayear celebration of someone’s birth and his or her life from that point on.

In order to get to a birthday, we have to survive the other 364 days. Do we just ignore those?

Unfortunately, most of us do. We don’t fully appreciate the effort put into those 364 days. I definitely took that for granted until I had my first real experience with depression. Simply getting out of bed can seem impossible. One day is a marathon and getting to the next morning seems the farthest imaginable horizon. Reminding people that life is worth celebrating needs to be a daily practice, not a yearly reward.

As the song by Jeremih recognized, we have adopted the idea that people deserve preferential treatment on their birthdays.

Whether in sex, dining choices or in deciding who has to take out the trash, we defer moderate inconveniences so as to maximize the special feeling of a birthday. Why do we set aside just one day to be nice to each other?

While I haven’t been a fan of birthdays,

especially my own, for years, I still willingly – albeit reluctantly – take part in celebrating others’. My best friend’s birthday was two weeks ago, and leading up to it, I noticed some alarming behavior on my part.

First, I was worried. I was worried that she wouldn’t like what I got her, that it wouldn’t ship on time, that the items would be damaged, that the Earth would veer off course and crash into the sun in a cosmic traffic accident before she’d receive the items and I’d have to do one of those annoying “Failure to Deliver” reports with UPS. Because of my worrying, which was unbeknownst to her, I was short-tempered with her when we communicated. I was functioning with the attitude of,

“Do you know what I’m going through for you?” Obviously, she didn’t, because that’s the idea of a surprise, but that didn’t eliminate my irrationality. Not until I realized that I was undermining the entire idea of a birthday: being kind to someone.

Some may say that my opinion toward this is based on my own experiences and can’t be generalized to the entire idea of birthdays, and they’d have a point. However, personal experiences are what shape the idea of

birthdays, and my personal experiences are as truthfully representative of human behavior as anyone else’s.

Finally, I admit that I am slightly torn about my final reason for disliking birthdays: the presents. They make me happy and are mine and are free with only the small fee of obligatory friendship in return. However, presents aren’t a birthday. And in opposition to most retail propaganda, gifts aren’t celebration. People are celebration, and gifts are merely the symptoms of contagious joy.

So I encourage you to get in the habit of telling the people you love, “I appreciate your existence,” more often than once every 365 days. Birth is incredible and worth celebrating, but it’s not about presents or special treatment. The people are the real life of the party.

VICKI KLAFTER IS A FRESHMAN JOURNALISM MAJOR. REACH HER FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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Quotes of the week: Nov. 13-20 “#HarveyCloseUNL”

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unl student on the one inch of snow lincoln received on monday night

“I have a fear that the more that people disengage from our democracies, the less representative our democracy becomes.

When our democracy becomes less represented, it’s less responsive to the needs of citizens.”

ADAM MORFELD state senator-elect

“As long as I’m in charge, the DN isn’t going to ruin the career prospects of the readers we represent in exchange for page views.”

JACY MARMADUKE daily nebraskan editor-in-chief on why the dn no longer names students who get MIPs

“We really want to be a place that helps come around people and say we believe in who you are, we believe in what you do and can we help you do that to the best of our ability.”

BEN HARMS Owner and founder of The Pilgrimer, a coffee shop that opened oct. 20

“Men cannot speak on behalf of women. It’s as simple as that.”

JESSIE GRAY opinion columnist, on the viral catcalling video

“(Colin wrote) ‘I’m not always the smartest person in class, but I’ll try as hard as I can,’ and everyone in the room kind of laughed because we all knew that he was the smartest person in the class, But he was so humble he would never even think of himself that way.”

KEVIN BRODERSEN friend of deceased alumnus colin hays

“I know I either want to coach or keep playing somehow because it’s been a part of my life for 18 years. It’s crazy that it’s all over.”

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“Ji is an honorific, so it’s just like saying sir. The simple way to do it here is use the apostrophes: Bhupi G’s.”

JASON ABLES

“We’ve rolled with the punches for 15 years. There’s been times when things were really thin, and now things are really booming.”

JASON HUTCHISON

I think’s it’s kind of cool that we get to play for a trophy, but you still have to treat it like any other game. You just have to come out to win, because if you don’t, you’re not getting any trophy.”

NATE GERRY

senior forward on playing her last game with the Huskers’ women’s soccer team

manager, jake’s cigars and spirits on the impact of the upcoming indoor smoking ban

on the transformation of sher-e-punjab to a takeout restaurant, bhupi g’s hurry curry

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#GamerGate’s followers harm its cause Gamers’ attempt to reform gaming journalism fails to achieve its goal because of its hateful messaging BRYANT GRIMMINGER DN

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very now and again, something pops up on the Internet to remind us that the World Wide Web isn’t perfect. GamerGate is one of those things. In its quest to better the gaming world, this social media movement has harassed a great deal of women. Even though GamerGate has some important arguments to make, it isn’t making them in a logical manner. Whether you’re a gamer who wants to make video games better, a woman who wants equality, or both, you need to realize that this movement is harming many people for no particular reason. GamerGate supporters have threatened to do everything from spamming email inboxes to mass shootings. The movement is harmful simply because everyone knows who they’re fighting against but not what they’re fighting for.

First off, let me explain that the term “GamerGate” could be interpreted hundreds of ways by thousands of people. I’ll attempt to define this movement as best I can. At the core of GamerGate are people who are an-

gry with gaming journalism. These people ery online platform. This is why GamerGate supporters can be so terrifying: the more believe that the online gaming press, such as the influential site Kotaku, has become you rely on social media, the more devastattoo political in its coverage of video games, ing their attacks will be.

Generally, these GamerGate supporters generally focusing on feminism or the treatwant to see video games advance as an art ment of women in video games, and that online journalism has too much power over form, like a kind of interactive book or movie. However, they aren’t the only type who video games. For small-budget indie games, a recommendation from one of these sites support GamerGate. Some of the people who can be huge, and GamerGate supporters are participate in the movement are doing so for concerned that, instead of focusing on qual- reasons based not in fact or logic but instead ity, developers will end up pandering to on their hatred of feminism. These people outside political interests. They worry that have posted thousands upon thousands of feminism and other movements will harm hateful comments, and in some cases, have or degrade the video game market, leading even made rape threats. Although they may think they’re doing to the banning of certain this for the good of video games.

GamerGate’s fatal video game culture, The GamerGate moveangry GamerGate ment started when Zoe flaw is that it relies posts are more about Quinn, the creator of the bashing feminism video game Depression on the Internet to scare than discussing the Quest, ended a romantic and intimidate anyone evolution of video relationship with a blogger games. and freelance programmer with different opinions.”

So how can so named Eron Gjoni. Gjoni many people say didn’t take it too well and falsely claimed that Quinn had cheated on such toxic things? Because they can use the Internet. Many of the heated arguments that him with a writer from an influential gamoccur over social media tend to be illogical ing website. or unthoughtful. Just look in the YouTube Here’s where things got crazy. Thoucomments of any popular video. People say sands of people were outraged that Quinn could have potentially furthered her game’s horrible things because they’re anonymous, success by seducing a gaming journalist. or at least because they don’t know the peoGjoni revealed Quinn’s personal informa- ple they’re arguing with. Sometimes, the Intion, and Quinn received tons of angry ternet can seem to be full of people having tweets, messages and calls. Soon after that, irrational arguments with each other. Imagmany women, often those who publicly ine Congress, but with less transparency.

Despite its methods, GamerGate has shared feminist views on the Internet, began to be targeted on their YouTube channels, had some marginal success. Many videogame journalists have had to comply with Facebook pages, Twitter and virtually ev-

new ethics guidelines. If nothing else, the movement has brought attention to ethics in online journalism. However, GamerGate has now grown too large to properly focus on any of its goals. It’s hard to promote video games while some, if not most, of your members are simultaneously spewing hateful comments across the Internet. I enjoy video games as much as the next guy (probably a bit more than the next guy), and I’m thrilled with the idea of video games moving in a new, more artistic direction. However, GamerGate isn’t properly conveying its purpose and therefore isn’t solving the problems it originally set out to correct.

Social media isn’t a weapon. GamerGate’s fatal flaw is that it relies on the Internet to scare and intimidate anyone with different opinions. The reality is, many of those people could help. Women play video games. In the case of my sister, they may not play them well, but they enjoy them just as much as anyone else. Feminists aren’t invading video games; they’re just pointing out the tendency for video games to present women in a certain, often demeaning, manner. I’m fine with saving Princess Peach, but if she wants to throw her kidnapper into some lava for a change, I’m fine with that, too. For all the problems GamerGate supporters have with feminism, they are not opposites. Both movements want to see video games change for the better. If the people behind GamerGate truly want to improve video games, perhaps they should be willing to let video games change.

BRYANT GRIMMINGER IS A SOPHOMORE ACTUARIAL SCIENCE MAJOR. REACH HIM FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

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For Information and Interview times: CALL BRENT @ 402-525-8880 or Apply within at The Office Gentlemen’s Club 3pm -2am 640 W. Prospector Ct. Lincoln. (HWY 77 & W. Van Dorn St.) Join the CenterPointe Team! Part-time positions available in residential program working with substance abuse/mental health clients in a unique environment. Must be at least 21 years of age and be willing to work a varied schedule including overnights and weekends.

Pay differential for overnight hours. For more information visit: www.centerpointe.org.

Join West Gate Bank!

Part time Teller posiItions available at West Gate Bank.Multiple shifts and locations. Fun and friendly environment. Visit westgatebank.com/careers.aspx today!

Help Wanted McFarland and Son’s Authentic Irish Pub is now accepting applications for Servers. We are looking for experienced, reliable people servers with open availability. Stop in at 710 P Street to fill out an application or send your resume to officemochara@gmail.com. Relaxed Work Atmosphere, Meal Discounts, Great Tips!!

Part time nanny for work at home mom in unschooling/positive discipline family, 6yo/4yo/2yo/baby. 12-16hrs/wk, $10/hr. Patience, gentleness, kindness, intelligence, creativity, flexibility, an adventuresome spirit. Play, encourage, facilitate, google, discover, explore, pretend, build, race, dig, create, have fun.

Minecraft and MLP experience a plus.

Seeking positive students with initiative for marketing and graphic design internships. Cornerstone Print & Marketing offers paid internships with flexible work hours for qualified students. Visit CornerstonePrintMarketing.com/careers for more information.

Seeking tellers to specialize in check cashing services. Are you reliable, ambitious, hard working and enjoy working with the public? We need you- FT position, friendly supervision, opportunities for advancement, convenient work schedules. Night and Weekends We train you, good wages & benefits. Apply at 233 N 48th St, Suite H

Help Wanted 3-5 hrs per week doing house hold cleaning, call Cindy at 402-423-4924 SERVERS & BARTENDERS McFarland & Son’s Authentic Irish Pub in the historic Haymarket district , offers you the opportunity to have flexible hours, a fun and safe place to work, a beautiful dining room with awesome earning potential, an ever growing guest base that is friendly and fun. We are seeking a very hard working and committed staff of professionals. Applicants should display a strong hospitality mentality, good knowledge of wine and spirits, and enjoy working in a professional fast paced restaurant environment. Growth potential with our locally owned and operated restaurant concept is unlimited. If you fit these requirements, please apply in person at 710 P Street Tues through Thurs between 2 and 5 pm.

Meetings Alcoholics Anonymous meeting Mondays 7:30 p.m. at University Lutheran Chapel, 1510 ‘Q’.

Open Speaker Meeting.Public Welcome.

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$1 movies and popcorn for UNL students at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center with student ID.

African Students Association presents “Taste of Africa” in the Union at 7 p.m. $3 for students with Ncard, $5 for general public.

UNL Theatre’s “Love Labor’s Lost” at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Building.

Saturday Nov. 15 Get your quilt evaluated “Antiques Roadshow”-style at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. The cost is $15 per quilt plus museum admission for nonmembers.

Hip-hop artist Ty Dolla $ign is performing at the Bourbon Theatre with Lil Bibby. Tickets are $20 in advance, doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

“Foreigner” performs at the Lied Center at 7:30 p.m.

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Sunday Nov. 16 The Wildwoods will be performing an early show at Duffy’s Tavern. All ages are welcome, tickets are $5 and the show starts at 6 p.m.

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Theatre students preform in costumes by fellow student Katie Davis. This adaptation of a Shakespeare classic takes place at the turn of the century. Davis designed the costumes from late 1800s and early 1900s fashions.