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LETTERS FROM THE EDITORS

Hey guys,

Last night, I attended a storytelling gathering. Inspired by The Moth podcast series, a group of people (some friends, some strangers) gathered at an apartment and told real stories of notable moments in their lives.

I had to leave after only four stories because I’m a slave to the Daily Nebraskan office, but what stories I did hear left a mark.

One girl spoke about her first day studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Another middle-aged women talked about adventuring through New York City in the ‘80s. A friend told the emotional story of realizing the love of both his biological and adopted mother during a kidney transplant. Not all contained profound thought, however. Another friend talked about the time his friend peed on a student teacher in grade school.

Before the event began, a friend and I began brainstorming ideas of what our own story might be. Both of us came up with the same conclusion: we had no interesting stories to tell.

I found this ironic; seeing as how, as a journalist, it’s my belief that everyone has a story to tell. Whether that be the story of their life or of a specific, interesting event. Yet at a gathering where people accepted the stories of strangers and warmly welcomed each other, I couldn’t think of a single story worth telling.

I’d like to think I’m not a boring person. I’d like to think I’ve had life experiences and funny moments that others might value, but when I think about it, no story of mine seems to hold up to the stories I hear on a daily basis from others.

Oftentimes, when I get to know people, the listener and the journalist inside me comes out, and I let my stories take a backseat to theirs. Though I find gratification in talking about myself (I mean, who doesn’t?), my favorite moments come from listening rather than talking.

As I consider my future, one thing is certain: If I continue to work as a journalist, my life will be filled with the stories and lives of others.

And if at the end of it all, my story is simply the combination of those stories that people have graciously given to me, I’ll be happy.

Much love, Gabriella Martinez-Garro Arts & Entertainment editor

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Daniel Benes shows Chris McVay a necklace at Timeless Treasures, an antique store at 17th and O streets. Benes and his wife Debra co-own Timeless Treasures.

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ith only one window, the space above the Zoo Bar is inconspicuous from the street.

Above the famous Lincoln jazz bar, the large room with a patch of ceiling caving in is cluttered with posters of jazz and soul artists, a few chairs and a broken copier, among other things. It’s also where local R&B/soul band, Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers, practices. But today it’s being used for something other than the ruckus of a ninepiece band that features background singers, guitars, horns, drums and keys. Sitting in the middle of the room, smoking a camel and sipping Coke, is its leader and local music hero Josh Hoyer.

“Shit man, I’ve learned it doesn’t take that much money to get by in this world, it really doesn’t,” Hoyer said. “Being patient and feeling your way through life is a good thing to do.”

The 38-year-old Hoyer, who’s the keyboardist, singer and songwriter as well as the namesake of Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers, has become an authority on patience. That quality has taken shape on the band’s second album, “Living by the Minute,” which Hoyer said is the most mature record he’s worked on to date.

The album, which will be released on Friday, is the product of a 17-year-long career and a life full of experiences that have taught Hoyer patience. It’s also a large reason why Hoyer’s fully realizing what it means to be a musician this late in his career.

On his records, Hoyer is unmistakable with a powerful voice that blends with fat horn sounds and guitar licks. But as he sits in the empty practice area, he’s more soft spoken as he describes his thoughts on music, life and his place in all of it.

“It’s (a musician’s) job to raise people up and give them a new sense of confidence, power or whatever it is, through that joy,” Hoyer said. “And it sounds kind of cheesy, but the older I get the more I believe it and the more I understand that’s what our work is for.”

Getting older is something that’s been on Hoyer’s mind lately.

It’s a quality of Hoyer that reveals a journey which spans two decades of traveling the country, trying to make it in music, having kids, settling down and figuring out how to fit all those experiences into his work. But before he could belt out tunes about where he’s been, where he’s at and where he’s going, he had to

Josh Hoyer sings at a practice in anticipation for his band’s release of their new album on Friday. sing a little John Cougar Mellencamp.

From an early age, Hoyer’s parents saw a lot of talent in him as a singer and encouraged him to explore different musical opportunities. His first performance came in a Malcolm High School talent show where he covered Mellencamp’s “Hurt So Good” when he was 4 years old. In elementary and high school, he played saxophone, but it wasn’t until he was in his twenties that he found his true calling.

A college dropout, Hoyer was traveling the country and living out of his van without any idea what he wanted to do with his life.

He met a lot of good people, heard a lot of sad stories and saw a lot of different parts of the country. But the place that had the greatest effect on him was New Orleans.

“Music is a way of life there,” Hoyer said.

“And if the people there say they love you, it’s not bullshit. And if they don’t like you, they’ll

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tell you right off the bat.”

So he got an apartment in the Northeast corner of the French district, which was gated for reasons he can’t remember considering how beat up his place was. He lived there for six months in a building half rotted and half rat-infested working at a minimum wage job just to get by. And he loved it.

He was so inspired by the culture of the city that at 21 years old he bought his first

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“I was putting myself out there in a city that didn’t give a shit who I was, and I was working my tail off to take care of myself,” Hoyer said.

“It was just kind of the formative years of learning to trust yourself and work for yourself.”

But it wouldn’t last. After one night where Hoyer’s roommates got into a fight and smashed his family heirloom saxophone, he left New Orleans in the middle of a rainy night to return home to Lincoln.

Since coming home, Hoyer’s done a lot of different things. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a wife and two daughters and a foundation of different musical projects that led him to Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers. He also worked at a homeless outreach center called CenterPointe because of a realization of what he could give back.

“There comes a point in your life where you kind of realize what you’ve been fortunate enough to have or what you’ve been blessed with,” Hoyer said. “And at that point, you can either help someone else or take advantage of it.”

He had to quit, though, because as he put more time into it, Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers turned from a local project to turn-

ing heads in the national scene. He also felt his work wasn’t as effective as he had hoped and that he was opening doors for people that didn’t want to go through them.

In the end though, his attention to the band has paid off. They’ve got the record label, the West Coast tour and they’re doing things and making strides in the music industry that Hoyer never thought would be possible. But for Charlie Hull, the band’s partner at their record label, Silver Street, it’s not surprising that someone like Hoyer, a total package artist, is finding success.

“He’s got great songs, a great band, a killer live show, a strong local/regional fan base, great work ethic, a humble attitude, and has made a total commitment to his music career,” Hull said. “Many artists have one or two or these, but rarely all of them.”

But despite all the big things happening for the band, Hoyer keeps himself grounded.

Throughout the years of living out his van to establishing himself in the local scene to finding a footing in the industry, Hoyer’s never forgotten where he’s been and why he’s here.

“You might think just because doors are opening you have to change what you’re doing, but you need to just keep doing what you’ve been doing, work hard and be thankful,” Hoyer said.

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Hanna Bendler, Megan Spain and Kim Moser, backing vocalists of Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers, sing during band practice above The Zoo Bar in Lincoln on Sunday.

Soul-filled melodies create dynamic album JOE WADE DN Rise up and heed the funky word because there are some new tunes coming out of Lincoln’s local music scene to tickle your ear and make you feel good.

In fact, it’s so good that it’s like falling in love with music all over again.

The new album by Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers, “Living By The Minute,” will be released locally on Friday at the Bourbon Theatre. The release party show starts at 9 p.m.

“Living By The Minute” is what you’ll be doing when you listen to this groovy majestic beast of soul music, and you’ll find pleasure in every second.

I can’t remember the first time I heard rhythm and harmony swirling in my head like honey, making my whole world spin with delight like this album does. For those of us who love music, we can’t imagine life without it.

It digs into our souls, it changes the mood of a moment, and it changes our lives the more we travel down that path of sonic vibrations.

Listening to a song like “A Man Who Believes His Own Lies,” the fourth track, radiates so much warmth it’s like reliving tender, youthful moments when everything just felt right. Hoyer’s vocals carry the weight with a bluesy croon with just a touch of raspiness, while the silky tone of the backing vocalists takes the listener to ecstasy.

It’s like combining the best vocal characteristics of Van Morrison, Ray Charles and Tom Waits. Musically, this song is masterfully

crafted and polished with brooding, savory horn parts that built to just the right flavorful intensity to pour over the funky beats of the rhythm section like gravy. For me it’s like the fun coziness of getting tipsy without getting sloppy drunk, while watching a Quentin Tarantino film. The song just hits that sweet spot at every twist and turn, whether it’s the lyrics, saxophone solo or the breakdown at the end of the song.

The song “The First One” gives the listener a more mellow experience with a slow waltzing groove and a feeling of longing that makes you want to sit by a fire next to someone to hold you tight. The song begins with the backing vocalists singing like a church choir that testifies about loss and loneliness.

Fear not though, because if you listen closely to the horn part, there’s the slightest graceful touch of doo-wop to get you dancing again.

My personal favorite song on the album is “Over The City.” The guitar part has a confident stride with a cool swagger from the effect of the wah-wah pedal. Really, if you like soulful R&B music, you could pick out any song on the album and find a musical moment to get stuck in your head. But “Over The City” is an easy early favorite because of its smooth melodic hook worth listening to repeatedly.

Overall, “Living By The Minute” is merely the next great thing that Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers have done for music, so far. If you’ve never given them a proper listen or not exposed yourself to the fantastic music coming out of the local music scene, then this album is an impressive place to start.

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Student artist paints with unexpected colors Non-traditional painting and drawing student Brian Andrew Coate paints portraits of people he’s drawn to LAUREN BROWN-HULME DN Brian Andrew Coate said when he starts to paint a portrait, he spends a lot of time staring at a blank canvas.

He’ll start by sketching the outline of a face, using the source’s photo as a source.

He’ll mix paint, choosing colors such as bright pinks, greens and blues to exaggerate hues in skin tones. When he’s done, he’ll snap a photo of his finished product and post it to his Instagram feed.

The junior painting and drawing major said he chooses to paint subjects who mean a lot to him and that the process in deciding whom to paint is intuitive.

“I paint people I’m drawn to, some of which are close friends, others are not close, but I perceive them as interesting people, visually, intellectually and emotionally,” Coate said.

He said he’s had a knack for visual art since he was a junior in high school. When he first began taking art classes, he was bumped up from beginner to advanced placement level courses.

“It’s the only academic endeavor I really enjoy doing,” he said. “I can’t think of any other field I would go into.”

Coate’s path as an art student at UNL has spanned several years. He began as an art major in 2007. He took several years off when he couldn’t pay tuition. But by 2012, he had finally become a full-time student.

Now, as a 26-year-old, Coate balances his full load of studio classes each semester with his job working at The Mill coffee shop in the Haymarket.

He often uses his fellow baristas as subjects for his work. He said he simply gets a feeling when he wants to paint a person. To him, it seems very natural to paint people rather than other subjects.

He’ll begin by shooting photos of the person to use as source images when painting.

The first few images are for the actual painting, but he also takes reference shots from different angles to make sure he captures the lighting in the room correctly.

One such subject is Coate’s friend and former co-worker, Kalee Olson. Olson has sat for two different pieces, and she said she finds his technique fascinating.

“I’m always really impressed how he basically just does brushstrokes,” Olson said.

“When you look at them individually, they don’t really say much, but when you look at them together, it creates a perfect picture.”

She added Coate’s color usage is interesting to her. She said he mixes colors that one wouldn’t necessarily think would create a skintone or hair color, but that it makes sense once the portrait is completed.

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Brian Coate, a non-traditional student painting and drawing major, sits in front of his work in Richards Hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln on Sunday. Coate specializes in portraits. He will show his collection of work at The Hot Mess Bar as a part of Lincoln’s monthly First Friday art walk.

Coate said drawing is another one of his interests. Currently, he’s working on a series of figure drawings of Band Aids for an assignment dealing with students’ reflections on childhood.

“Kids fall down and scrape their knees – it was a visceral image for me,” Coate said. “I’m using a set of children’s watercolors. They’re cheap, so the image will eventually fade, like looking at a memory. I felt nostalgic to use those materials.”

Images like the Band Aid series as well as his portraits will be shown at The Hot Mess bar this Friday as part of First Friday artwalks. He has also displayed his work at Tangerine Hair Salon and the Ink Spot bookstore.

Some of his art hangs in The Public shoe store within The Black Market Clothing Exchange.

“Lincoln has a pretty strong community of artists,” Coate said. “There are a lot of galleries around and increasingly so. There are a lot of talented people, not just with visual arts, so

I paint people I’m drawn to, some of which are close friends, others are not close, but I perceive them as interesting people, visually, intellectually and emotionally.”

BRIAN ANDREW COATE junior painting and drawing major

it’s nice to see these places popping up to set that stage for creative people to expose themselves and their works.”

Coate said that developing relationships within the art community of teachers and other students has taught him a lot while at UNL. Olson said she believes Coate brings something to the Lincoln community as well.

“(Coate) tends to paint a lot of familiar faces to people in our community,” Olson said. “His posts will pop up on Instagram, and I’ll say ‘Oh that’s so and so.’ He really seems to be capturing a community of Lincoln people.”

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5 oddities found in shops around Lincoln KATJA DUERIG DN

Okay, I’ll admit it. Some Sundays I’ll get a little too comfy on my aunt’s couch and spend hours watching reality TV. We all do it. And if you think there’s shame in kicking back and wolfing down a bag of microwaveable popcorn to the tune of other people’s craziness, I invite you to come down from your high horse and explore the wonderful world of “Oddities.”

“Oddities” is a half-hour reality series that has run on the Science Channel since November 2010. It explores the bizarre and often creepy items in New York City’s Obscura Antiques and Oddities shop. Inspired by a solid four hours of archaic automatons, pickled appendages and a prostate warmer, I took to the streets of Lincoln to find some oddities of my own.

As a disclaimer, complete histories specific to the items aren’t included because they’re widely unavailable.

Many items are acquired through auctions, and if the seller doesn’t tell or the buyer doesn’t ask, the story is out of stock before it even reaches the shop. An unfortunate truth, but with the characteristic clutter and square foot coverage of antique shops, it’s easy for anything to get lost.

my unusual standards, but one of her 20-something vendors had just the thing.

In Victorian England, people made jewelry, accessories, wreaths and even grand art displays of their loved one’s hair. This was commonly used as a way of honoring the dead, but the hair of the living was also used as a gesture of sentimentality. Though this trend didn’t make it past 1925, Cunningham said that the surface of hair-made pieces would be covered in some sort of wax or varnish for preservation.

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Cabinet used by the Mason brotherhood in order to pass secret messages through six compartments at Conner’s Architectural Antiques on 10th and L streets.

tion and Bancroft Hall during demolition. He shared two noteworthy A glass eye is for sale at Vintage Village oddities with me. antique store on O Street. The eye is First, he showed me a wooden likely of German origin made in the 1920s, sauna, estimating it to be from the according to the store owner. early 1900s. It was basically a large trunk with a bench in the center and 2. Glass Eye at Vintage Village a compartment for the water and hot This glass eye was a mystery that stones. These saunas opened in the neither Adam McNeil, owner of Vinfront as an entrance and on the top tage Village, nor I could solve. He said where the flaps would come down the same vendor had sold one from and surround the neck once the perthe store previously, but there was son was safely inside. no word on the background of either creepy ocular aid.

If we know anything, it’s that this eye was made before World War II. Like many industries during WWII, glass eyes were replaced by plastic ones and popped into the sockets of PHOTO BY ANDREW BARRY | DN injured soldiers. This was a modest Hair jewelry from the late 1800s and early progression, compared to the glass 1900s are not selling very well right now, eye’s Egyptian origins. As early as 500 according to Burlington Antiques employ- B.C., priests created painted clay and ees. The hair pieces were commonly used cloth contraptions to be worn outside PHOTO BY ANDREW BARRY | DN to prepare the body.

Antique cast iron banks are sold at Timeof the eye. less Treasures on O Street. The banks are 3. Antique Sauna at Conner’s old toys used to put coins in them.

1. Victorian Hair Jewelry at Architectural Antiques Burlington Antique Mall Sid Conner of Conner’s Architectural My first stop was Burlington Antique Antiques has had a diverse history 4. Masonic Cabinet at Conner’s mall, located in the Haymarket. working in the salvage business. He Conner’s is also home to a hexagonal At first, owner Diane Cunningham was there to pick up the remnants of cabinet pulled from a Masonic Temstruggled to find something that met the Cornhusker Hotel during renova- ple. This ornate, wooden structure PHOTO BY ANDREW BARRY | DN

has six secret compartments, one on each side, supposedly for passing secret messages between Masons.

Not exceptionally eerie - unless getting scalped spooks you. Since the Mason brotherhood is intentionally mysterious, some have claimed that one punishment for revealing the brothers’ secrets is slicing off the top of the skull.

5. Cast Iron Bank at Timeless Treasures Alright, ya got me. This one’s a remodel. But I had to say something when I picked up this brightly colored collection of cast iron mechanics, clearly meant to be a children’s toy but with no obvious function.

Turns out it was a bank, a 1980s reissue of the late 19th century trend.

America exclusively used cast iron in toy-making, but the banks were inspired by Victorian money-management values. With this specific bank, the coin is placed in the pocket of the dentist, and when the lever is pushed, he extracts the other man’s tooth and he falls onto the gas bag, letting the coin in the bank portion. The real deal is estimated to sell at $5,000 to $8,000.

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Co-op grocery store stays ahead of the curve Open Harvest officially opened its doors 40 years ago as a pioneer in fresh, local organic food ALEX LUCKE DN Open Harvest is a modern cooperative grocery with a mentality centered on quality food and company. Its enduring sense of community has withstood the test of time, and with a 40-year anniversary right around the corner, the co-op aims to continue putting the business in the hands of the customers.

Co-op stores are generally made possible by a passionate community, and Open Harvest is no exception. The store is owned by the people who shop there, who are as passionate about their food as the farmers who provide it.

“Open Harvest is a community-owned grocery store, so instead of having it owned by an individual or family or being corporately owned by shareholder investors we are collectively owned by the people that shop at our store,” brand manager BJ Birkel said. “The ownership, the control, the use of the business is all happening by the same group of people so they’re able to make decisions for the co-op.”

At the recent annual meeting, Open Harvest owners came together to celebrate another successful year and an increase in local sales. A fifth of the total product that left Open Harvest’s doors was produced within 200 miles of its 16th and South streets location.

“Last year we sourced everything that went through our doors, and 18.7 percent was local, and this year we went over 20 percent, so that’s something we were really excited about,” Outreach Coordinator Amy Tabor said. “It just speaks volumes about our customers and about our community. It’s something we’re very proud of.”

Loyal Lincolnites support Open Harvest because of the consistent and prestigious standards the co-op expects its local products to uphold.

“We require products we carry to meet certain standards that we have whether it’s certified organic, verified non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organism), or it’s produced by a company that just has responsible practices in general is usually what it requires to find a place on our shelves,” Birkel said.

These standards ensure that the variety of products that enter through Open Harvest’s doors is nothing short of exceptional.

“We focus on fresh, organic, locally grown natural foods,” Birkel said. “We have a produce department, from-scratch deli, bakery. We have meat that’s raised by local farmers all over the state. We are one of the only places in town that gets fresh seafood

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Izzy Koch restocks assorted cheeses at Open Harvest Co-Op on Wednesday. Koch has been working at Open Harvest since June 2013 and recently went to California to get certified as a cheese professional. was happening.” that’s never been frozen.”

“You still run into people who are like ‘oh Open Harvest also does its part to make are you new?’” Tabor said. “And nope, we’ve sure the community knows exactly where its been around for a long time.” food is coming from and who’s providing it.

The humble nature of Open Harvest’s “We do a farm tour that was part of the beginning adds to its ‘eat local’ challenge charm. where we actually get We’ve been around “We kind of startpeople out to our farmed unofficially around ers’ farms to see where longer than the 1971,” Birkel said. “We their food is coming from,” Tabor said. entire company of Whole floated around from a garage to a church baseOpen Harvest ment to the back of a redidn’t follow the natu- Foods has been around. cord store, and 1975 was ral food trend, Birkel We were ahead of what when we actually opened said; it started it. In was happening.” our first storefront on 1975, Open Harvest 27th and Randolph.” was the front-runner The advantages to in a food sensation that BJ BIRKEL operating on a smaller was picked up by coropen harvest brand manager scale, Birkel said, outporate giants, Whole weigh the disadvantages Foods and Trader Joes, of Open Harvest’s businearly a decade later.

“We’ve been around longer than the ness model.

“We can build direct personal connecentire company of Whole Foods has been around,” he said. “We were ahead of what tions with the farmers that we’re buying

from,” Birkel said. “We can take the time to work with the farmer who’s bringing us one truck a week, or one who might bring us squash once a month. We’re able to support these community growers. It allows us to have a much greater diversity of locally grown products than what you’ll find in any of those other stores.”

While a strong sense of community isn’t unique to Open Harvest, the level of passion the co-op’s shoppers feel for the store is in its own league, Tabor said.

“It’s not an exclusive group but there’s a real community,” she said. “When you walk in the store, you have conversations I don’t think I’ve ever had at any other store. You just hear interesting things. The thing you hear over and over again is ‘Open Harvest is my religion.’ This is my community. This is where I’m comfortable. Food is what I’m passionate about.”

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Multimedia students share stories from abroad Photojournalists who traveled to Indonesia to document poverty, social issues will present their work Thursday CHAS BOGATZ DN Brianna Soukup is still making final cuts.

The senior journalism and Spanish major is preparing her short documentary for “Indonesia’s Unforeseen: Stories of Tradition, Culture and Survival,” an event put on by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

The event will be at the Bourbon Theatre Thursday at 7 p.m. It’s free to the public and will be preceded by music from the Mezcal Brothers at 6 p.m.

Soukup’s documentary will be presented along with the works of eight other students who took the trip to Jakarta, Indonesia, in May 2014. She’s now in her third month of editing.

Her documentary follows two Indonesian women, both of whom are transgender. Known as “warias,” an Indonesian word combining man and woman, the Indonesian culture surrounding transgender people is unique to the world.

“Before colonization, transgender people were seen as deeply spiritual, like two souls in one body,” she said. “There is a deep-rooted cultural acceptance of it.”

Despite the relatively open culture, Indonesian transgender women usually end up in the sex industry as prostitutes.

“Those are really the only avenues they can pursue,” Soukup said.

One of the women, Mami Yuli, is a student in Indonesia. She’s attempting to break down the barriers for these women and open up opportunities for education and other forms of employment.

Her second subject, Miska, is a sex worker.

Soukup’s documentary shows the hardships faced by Indonesian sex workers.

“Miska has friends who have been murdered,” Soukup said. “She herself gets raped two to three times a year.”

Despite the heavy material, the Indonesia trip was one of Soukup’s lighter experiences.

“These women were super fun women,” she said. “They live life to the fullest.”

The Indonesia trip was Soukup’s fifth with the journalism college. The endowment given to UNL by Howard G. Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, allows for two international trips each year. Any student who goes is responsible for making a multimedia presentation with their footage. The average trip lasts about three weeks.

Past trips include Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Kosovo and South Africa. The international trips are headed by photojournalism associate professor Bruce Thorson.

Matt Masin, a senior journalism major, racked up his fifth trip this May. “The goal of the trip is to shed light on people in need,” he said.

Masin followed workers in the shipwrecking business. The shipwrecking yard he visited

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Shipbreakers in Cilincing, Indonesia, work 12- to 14-hour days dismantling ships deemed too expensive to repair. The job, which provides no training or safety gear, is highly dangerous. Steel-cutting torches can explode, the noxious gasses can cause longterm health issues and huge hunks of steel from ships fly overhead on cranes. The workers make only $60 a month and send the money home to their families, who are often several hours away. and documented is paid to dismantle outdated ships and to sell the scraps for parts. Indonesian shipwrecking is a large business because of the low costs in comparison to other nations in the world where the labor is more expensive.

His three main subjects were all young men between the ages of 19 and 22. Unlike past trips, the workers were very open to being documented. Many even hoped he would keep coming back each day.

“I gave these guys my phone number,” Masin said. “Every night they would text me goodnight and ask if I was going the next morning.”

The environment, Masin said, was dangerous. He said the workers have 10 to 12-hour days and primitive cutting equipment.

“They’re cutting these ships apart with torches,” he said.

In addition, the shipwrecking yard has large chunks of steel moving above the workers constantly. Deaths are common, especially at night. The holes in the ships from the cutting are harder to see then, and many people fall right through.

The workers make $60 a month, and the young men are supporting their wives and children. Many live hours away but commute to the yard because it’s the only option.

“Many of these guys hopped on because they could not finish school,” he said. “This is the only job they could find.”

Masin said he hopes his documentary will move people to considering different viewpoints.

“I want people to feel a sense of curiosity,” he said. “I want them to take that curiosity a step further and help.”

The college is accepting donations. This money will be sent back to the subjects in the students’ documentaries.

Masin is optimistic about the event. He said this trip was special and unique in its high production value. As last-minute edits are made, Masin said the documentaries have taken off.

“There’s going to be a lot of great and interesting things,” he said.

He is especially excited to share his work with members of the community who have never been exposed to stories like these.

“I think it’s cool that you can come to something in downtown Lincoln produced by students that is going to expand your world view on issues you had no idea about,” Masin said.

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Local catering company offers homemade favorites ALLI HUPPERT DN Greta’s Gourmet isn’t a typical catering company.

The company, owned by Lincoln residents Kevin and Shalla Mandigo, caters, prepares meat and even has a cafe inside for customers to come in and enjoy soups, salads or fresh meat sandwiches.

The two owners, Kevin and Shalla Mandigo, met through a mutual friend because they had a mutual interest in cooking and restaurants.

After spending some time and getting to know each other, the couple got married in 2007 and opened Greta’s Gourmet Catering in January 2011.

The shop was named after the couple’s daughter, Greta, who is now 4 years old. Pictures of Greta cover the walls of her parents’ restaurant.

The full-service catering company caters wedding receptions, holiday parties, tailgates, company parties and in-home dinner parties.

They work with customers to plan their ideal menu and make it come to life.

“We cater anywhere from lunches of four to events of 800 people,” Kevin Mandigo said.

“Fifty percent of all of our business is strictly from catering.”

Though Shalla and Kevin Mandigo are the primary chefs at Greta’s Gourmet, they have a staff of 10 professional cooks to help them out.

“You can usually find me around the shop during the day, but the professional chefs are always there to help out the customers, as well,” Kevin Mandigo said.

The shop, located at 5560 S. 48th Street, has a “warm, inviting, exciting environment,” as Kevin Mandigo described it.

“There’s always something going on,” he said. “There are always a lot of people around who have an interest and care about food.”

Greta’s Gourmet has more than just freshly prepared meats. They sell specialty items unavailable at most grocery stores, such as gourmet teas, sauces, crackers, spices, oils and vinegars, and various types of chocolates.

They also have hot dinner specials and $4 weekly lunches at their cafe each day. The specials vary by day, but past specials have included smokehouse chicken, BBQ grilled salmon and smoked wings. The restaurant tends to be very busy during the lunch hour, especially on Fridays because the restaurant has Burger Madness with discounted burgers.

The list of hor d’oeuvres contains more than 100 different options from fruit and veggie trays to bacon-wrapped crab skewers.

Both the owners of Greta’s Gourmet have

experience when it comes to managing and working in restaurants.

Shalla Mandigo earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an associate degree in occupational studies for culinary arts from the Western Culinary Institute/Le Cordon Bleu Program in Portland, Oregon. She has worked at Pebble Beach Club XIX in Pebble Beach, California, and she owned and operated her own personal catering business for four years in Lincoln.

Kevin Mandigo, who is originally from Waverly, has a bachelor’s degree in education and human sciences, also from UNL. He worked as a manager at many restaurants in the area, including the Garden Cafe, Famous Dave’s BarB-Que and Granite City Food and Brewery. His experience in the restaurant industry spans 21 years.

The two decided to open the family owned business in 2011.

“We felt that there wasn’t many butcher shops in Lincoln,” he said. “We wanted to offer different products to the city that weren’t already offered so we opened Greta’s Gourmet.”

At Greta’s Gourmet, everything is made from scratch. It sells Certified Angus Beef, pork, poultry, fresh seafood and more than 27 types of sausages and jerky. The sausage and jerky is

prepared in a climate-controlled sausage kitchen with original recipes by Kevin Mandigo and his father, who has had 45 years of experience while working at UNL as a professor of meat science.

The deli-roast beef cooks for 20 hours before it is ready for customers to buy. They make hickorysmoked hams and turkey and different types of bacon, such as pork and beef bacon.

They have five types of burgers, including a cheddar jalapeno burger, Greta’s burger, which contains bleu cheese mixed in with the ground beef, and their house burger, which has their special seasoning on it.

The restaurant was recently awarded one of the top five burgers in the state by the Nebraska Beef Council and are still in the running to be Nebraska’s best burger. Greta’s Gourmet is the only retailer in Lincoln that sells Certified Angus Beef.

In future years, Kevin Mandigo said they hope to become the dominating catering company in the Lincoln area and that they hope to open a second location in this area within the next five years.

“We have an incredible record of growth in the first three and a half years,” he said. “Moving forward, we are hoping to continue to grow.”

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second-hand stacks PATRONS FIND WIDE VARIETY OF BOOKS IN A NOVEL IDEA BOOKSTORE STORY BY STEPHANIE CAVAZOS | PHOTOS BY MORGAN SPIEHS

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t all started in 1991 with a dash of Cinnamon and about 2,000 books. Add a business partner, a dream and some prime real estate on 14th Street, and you’ve got A Novel Idea.

Cinnamon Dokken and her father built the shelves that are now home to more than 50,000 books. The books are shipped in and picked up from places throughout the country. Dokken and her business partner Katherine Bergstrom carefully select each book that comes into the store.

“Over the last couple of decades, we’ve developed a very good sense of what will sell in our store,” Dokken said. “We also choose things that we don’t necessarily think will sell, but there’s a certain caché to having them and they’re interesting and they should be in the store.”

The bookstore sections their inventory into different interest groups including Native American studies, LGBTQ studies, pulp fiction and others.

There are several folio society letterpress Shakespeare volumes in clamshell boxes that may never sell, but Dokken said they’re good to have around.

“I just don’t care,” Dokken said. “I’ll have them forever, and I’ll enjoy them. We try to buy things that are interesting, quirky and important.”

A unique feature to the bookstore is the furry friends that call it their home. Padric and Eddy, the cats that reside in the shop, are currently their most popular staff members. The cats make the store feel homey.

“Having the cats in the store provide an immediate home-like feeling,” Dokken said. “I think people trust people who care for animals. It’s an indication that if someone can care for an animal, they can care for their customers. Book shopping can be a surprisingly intimate experience, and people are looking for hope or guidance or a distraction from reality through these books. I think having the animals around makes a quicker connection for us and for the shoppers.”

Dokken is no stranger to making connections with her clientele. A Novel Idea hosts “Books and

Bottles” private book buying parties. Reservations are sold in January and sell out for the entire year.

Each Thursday before First Friday festivities, the guests are invited to a closed bookstore for buying purposes and are served a seasonal drink. This Thursday, guests will be served mulled wine while they shop around for discounted books.

“One of the best things about a book store is being there after hours,” Dokken said. “It’s tremendous fun to offer that experience to a group of people who are not afraid to pop out between the shelving and say, ‘Hey! Have you read this? It’s great!’ and ‘Oh I found this!’ The people are much more vocal, and it’s a great opportunity for book clubs.”

Allan Masters, who has worked for A Novel Idea for three years, said the bookstore has provided him with greater reward than if he were to be sitting in an office job.

“It’s really fun here,” Masters said. “You get to meet a lot of really interesting people that pass through everyday. And of course there’s the books.”

Masters said the patronage that flows through the bookstore each day make the job worthwhile.

“The core people that walk through here are your average book nerds,” Masters said. “The ones that come in all the time and check their certain sections to see if there’s anything new. But otherwise, we get a lot of students usually at the beginning of the year. I usually see them coming back again and again because they realize they really like it here.

We have a lot of families with children that come in because we have a fantastic children’s book section that are all really cheap.”

Clay Lewis, a store regular, frequently stops in to check if there’s anything new.

“It’s a ‘hometown hero’ sort of thing,” Lewis said. “They’ve been doing this forever. It’s super organic.”

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WORDS TO LIVE BY DN A&E REPORTERS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE READS “AGAINST LOVE” BY LAURA KIPNIS

The names of classic literature adorn stairs between A Novel Idea’s first floor and basement.

“From a very young age we are taught that marriage is great, but it will never be easy.

We will have to work at the relationship to make it survive years and years of change and heartbreak. As a child, I had a front row ticket to failed marriages and relationships thanks to my indecisive parents. So, for me, Kipnis’ arguments hit home one after the other. How is there such a disconnect between the passionate love we see repeated in movies and literature and the “hardworking” love that is a modern marriage?” - Rachel Kermmoade

“PRETTY MONSTERS: STORIES”

BY KELLY LINK

“Link’s stories gave me the opportunity to let my imagination run wild while simultaneously teaching very important lessons.

Link taught me as a reader to appreciate and understand that a story doesn’t need a traditional ending to be fantastic or memorable.

As a writer, I was led to understand that a story can be as outlandish as possible as long as it serves a purpose that people can interpret.” - Madi Weinberger

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“I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM” BY HARLAN ELLISON

“Harlan Ellison’s short story ‘I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream’ can only be described as diabolically dark. So dark, in fact, that it manages to paint a more hopeless, bloody painting of agony than most stories.

It reads slowly, and there’s no real action, but the unique characters and gnarly setting clawed into me like no other story has, and the short story inspired me like no lengthy novel has.” - Miles Rothlisberger

“WHERE THE MOON ISN’T” BY NATHAN FILER

“Having a schizophrenic as your narrator makes you feel as insane as Matt. But that’s how sobering this novel is. I went into the first few pages thinking about how mental Matt was and how it was all his fault. I couldn’t believe his perspective on reality and wanted to shove his medication down his throat.” - Chas Bogatz

“THE BELL JAR” BY SYLVIA PLATH

“‘The Bell Jar ’ tackles issues about materialism and expanding out of the presumed responsibilities of one’s gender, but most importantly it accurately depicts unshakable sadness. Reading this at a shaky place in my life, I found solace that I was not alone.

Things did not end well for Plath, but time has passed and even though it’s a tumultuous tale I think there is still hope to be found within it.” - Cassie Kernick

“A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN” BY BETTY SMITH

“I spent a lot of my life angry, upset or confused, and Francie Nolan taught me that I’m not alone. That it isn’t healthy to empathize with self-destructive people or to try to cure the world by letting yourself be a vessel for its sadness and tragedy. But most of all she taught me that life moves on and that even if someone comes from a background that sets them up to fail, they can overcome and see life as fresh and beautiful as they could ever imagine.” - Chris Bowling

“WOMEN” BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI

“I took a creative writing class my junior year of high school. One day, a fellow student asked me if I had ever read Charles Bukowski. When I answered no, he acted surprised and told me that my writing sounded a lot like his. This interested me, and I asked what I could find by Bukowski. He gave me a copy of his novel, ‘Women,’ and Bukowski has been one of my favorite authors ever since.”

- Jack Forey

“THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

BY J.D. SALINGER

“During my senior year, I decided to reread ‘Catcher ’ and found a novel that was unrecognizable. I didn’t see the invincible Holden Caulfield anymore. Instead, there was this sad, lonely misanthrope, angry at everything for no clear reason. He exists in a perpetual state of self-pity, putting the blame for his misfortunes and unhappiness onto anyone or anything but himself. Part of what makes Holden interesting as a character is the way he embodies different stages of adolescence.” - Dillon Mitchell

A Novel Idea owner Cinnamon Dokken (center) and manager Katherine Bergstrom (right) pinky promise they won’t buy any more books for a week or two while talking to regular customer Jerry Kreps on Wednesday. “It’s hard for me not to buy books,” Dokken said. “It’s like opening Christmas presents.”

“EMMA” BY JANE AUSTEN

“Although I have read ‘Emma’ several times, it took time before the fictional story’s message brought me into realization about myself and how I needed to change. Like Ms. Woodhouse, I have always been a people pleaser, to the point that I would make sure everybody was at peace without caring for my own comfort. This can be seen as an endearing quality, but it took me longer in realizing that my own happiness was just as important.” - Cait Thiesfeld

“GONE WITH THE WIND” BY MARGARET MITCHELL

“When I moved to Nebraska for my first year of college, I had the joy of moving on from my boring suburban hometown to bigger and better things. Now, however, moving back from Ohio for my sophomore year became much harder when I realized that it had been awhile since I really spent time with my family. I miss spending the night at my grandparent’s watching ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ I miss going to the magic shop with my dad on the weekends and I miss running around the house with my brother and sister.

Much like Scarlett, I’m afraid of time taking away what means the most to me.” - Hannah Eads ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

A Novel Idea shop cats Eddy (left) and Padric lay in the store’s window Wednesday afternoon. The shop’s cats are popular with Lincoln residents, and a past cat was even featured as a part of a question on Jeopardy!

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21 Nebraska businesses that offer student discounts 1. Buffalo Wild Wings

15. Toms Shoes

2. Chipotle

16. Adobe

3. Subway

17. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

Students get free shipping on all orders.

Students get 10 percent off their order.

Students can get 60 percent off a license for Adobe’s Creative Cloud software.

A valid student ID will get you a free drink with any purchase.

Students get 10 percent off their order.

Students pay discounted prices: $6.75 for a matinee, $7.25 for an evening show.

4. The Limited

The women’s clothing retailer offers a 15 percent discount on in-store purchases for students.

18. Arby’s

The fast-food chain offers a 10 percent discount for students.

5. Marcus Movie Theatres

The Grand offers $5 movies with a valid student ID on Thursdays.

6. Dunkin’ Donuts

Students get 10 percent off their order.

9. J Crew

12. Apple

Students get 15 percent off in-store purchases at the clothing retailer.

Apple offers student pricing, including up to $200 off a new Mac.

10. The Lied Center

13. Amazon Student

20. Supercuts

11. Qdoba

14. Spotify

21. Valentino’s

The campus venue offers discounted student ticket prices.

7. Juice Stop

Students get 10 percent off a 24-ounce smoothie.

8. Scooter’s Coffeehouse Students get 10 percent off their order.

A valid student ID will get you a free drink with any purchase.

Membership is free, includes six months of free shipping, and comes with a 50 percent discount for Amazon Prime.

19. H&M

You’ll have to trek to Omaha for this one, but students get 15 percent off at the store.

A 20 student percent discount makes a cheap haircut even cheaper.

Students can eat at the buffet on Wednesdays Students get 50 percent off a Spotify Premium and Sundays after 4 p.m. for $6.49. membership.

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CAMPUS STYLE

MORGAN BOYLE SENIOR ENGLISH MAJOR Morgan Boyle has a quirky and crafty style that’s reflected in her Michael Kors cat-eye glasses and Goodwill self-tailored dress. Not a day goes by where she doesn’t have on her glasses or a piece of thrifted clothing.

She said she admires vintage clothing because it’s one of a

kind. She also shops at American Apparel and Target.

Glasses – Michael Kors Cardigan – Goodwill Dress – Goodwill Shoes – Target

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“I bought this dress when I was 18 years old,” Boyle said. “It use to be very long until I shortened it. It’s the first and best dress I’ve ever shortened. It’s been my favorite dress since.”

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Conor Dunn Managing editor

Ben Curttright Assistant Opinion editor

OPINION

Faiz Siddiqui Print News editor

Zach Fulciniti Print A&E editor

Eric Bertrand Print Sports editor

Amy Kenyon Opinion editor

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Eco-friendly bike-share system will help students Nothing is more frustrating than not having a car or bike and then missing the bus. It can leave you tired, frustrated and on top of all that, late to class.

The day is ruined before it’s really started.

But there could be a new program coming to Lincoln that will help.

On Tuesday, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska is holding a roundtable discussion on environmental sustainability. Students and specialists alike are invited to attend the event, which features an explanation of climate change and the science involved with it to help educate the students. In addition, students will be discussing a proposal to implement a bike-share program in Lincoln.

Twenty-nine college campuses across the U.S. have already adopted a bike-sharing program. By following their example and joining with the City of Lincoln to create a program, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln can take a major step toward limiting pollution and supporting sustainable practices among students.

Once established, the bike-share program could be supported through a membership system. Students could buy a daily, monthly, semester or annual pass, which could be loaded onto either an NCard or a separate membership card. To check out a bike, a student would just swipe his or her card at

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a street-side bike station.

Alternatively, bike sharing could use a deposit system modeled on existing parking meters. Under this system, the student or rider would pay for how long the bike is used.

Either way, a bike-sharing program would make getting around campus

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

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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

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a lot easier for students. In a pinch, students could check out a bike and ride it anywhere, as long as it ends up checked back into a station.

These programs aren’t just limited to colleges, though. They’re also used in cities all across the U.S., including New York City, Boston and Denver.

Lincoln does have some public transportation thanks to StarTran, but those buses often get cramped. In 2013, StarTran buses had close to 2.5 million riders, and many times, a bus will end up skipping a stop because it’s already too full. The bike-share program will give students an alternative transportation option, which could help alleviate the congestion on the buses.

Ultimately, the bike share helps the environment.

The timing for a discussion on this program couldn’t be better. Between the ASUN sustainability forum, the upcoming Humanities on the Edge lecture on biopower and predictions of another extreme winter in the U.S., the issue of climate change keeps popping up. This is something simple that students and Lincoln residents can to do help reduce air pollution. With more people riding public bikes as opposed to driving to campus in their own cars, carbon emissions will decrease.

This program has one downside: the cost. A bike-share program could take up to $1 million to start up in Lincoln.

But the advantages for UNL students would outweigh the cost of the program. The bike-share program would benefit not only the environment, but also students just trying to get to class, dinner or around town.

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Students need to abolish prejudice in all forms Ronnie Turner

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he University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a serious problem with on-campus prejudice.

I remember two weeks into this semester, when a friend of mine from high school introduced me to the college social media site called Yik Yak. The app, which works as a sort of anonymous Twitter, is a place where many UNL students come to talk about anything from class and sex to their roommate issues and the weather.

But there’s also a much darker side to this app. Some have taken to using Yik Yak as a place to spew hate at international students, Asians in particular.

Now it might seem as if I’m making a mountain out of a molehill; after all, these students are posting these messages anonymously. If someone needed more proof that

there was an issue, they don’t need to go further than Selleck.

Selleck Quadrangle is a coed residence hall where many of our international students live. Selleck is a great place with one of the friendliest atmospheres at UNL. The staff is welcoming, and the students are highly intelligent. Still, the international students here find themselves at the end of a lot of jokes regarding their looks, culture and economic status by students from other residence halls who dine at Selleck.

I can recall one time in particular when some friends and I decided to eat at Selleck during the weekend. While I was standing in line for food, I overheard some students speaking in a fake and exaggerated accent, obviously mocking the Asian students who were standing only a few feet away from them.

As an African American, and more importantly as a human being, it deeply bothers me that some of my fellow students are being given a reputation based only on their ethnic origins. It wasn’t so long ago that racial ignorance resulted in the legal discrimination and deaths of many blacks all over the country.

My own grandmother and her friends faced violent torture on their way to school in the form of rocks and water hoses.

When I asked around about this problem

When you pass someone at the Nebraska of prejudice against Asians in Nebraska, I Union who was born under a different flag, was shocked to find how common it could speaks in a different tongue or even lives be in places throughout the state. One of my with another faith, you should be proud. You friends from a nearby small town told me should hold your head about how prevalent hahigh because you’re tred against Asians was No matter what both a part of the same where he grew up. Others group it’s aimed at, world and the same told me about Asian prejuniversity. There’s a udice being commonly all prejudice and racial place for everyone at linked to mistreatment of hate comes from the this university. MeetNative Americans. ing people with difPeople made com- same place: ignorance.” ferent backgrounds ments about them being should make you more lazy, alcoholics or even, understanding of the ironically enough, bigots. world. It should excite you. It should spark That upset me. In that moment, the uniyour interest in other cultures. versity didn’t resemble the one I felt so proud We should remember that the point of to attend when I started school here. I asked a university is to make us better people. As myself how any student could consider Benjamin Disraeli once said, “A university themselves intelligent and still harbor racist should be a place of light, of liberty and of thoughts toward an entire group of people, learning.” Part of that is growing into more most of whom they had never even met. open-minded and warm-hearted people.

No matter what group it’s aimed at, all To those among us who cannot shake prejudice and racial hate comes from the same place: ignorance. Making fun of some- their own feelings of prejudice, I would advise them to open their eyes. The world is one else’s dialect or culture doesn’t make rapidly changing and the old way is quickly yours superior. It doesn’t make you seem dying out. stronger in nature. Rather, it points to your RONNIE DUPREE TURNER IS A FRESHown personal weaknesses. It’s stupid to fear MAN POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR. REACH or hate someone just because they’re differHIM FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ ent than you.

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Feminism should mean equality for all Susannah Foos

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he other night, while discussing feminism with two of my guy friends, I began to realize that I have a complicated relationship with the word “feminism.” I think stereotyped sexist jokes can be funny because deep down I know those stereotypes aren’t true. I can deal with basic sexist jokes about sandwiches and kitchens because women usually know how to cook.

The traditional gender role of women in the past was to be a homemaker – meaning women took the nurturing, submissive role in the family.

However, as time passed, women began to work, leaving their stay-at-home mom careers behind for more fulfilling jobs and higher education. On social media, I often see students post about wanting to “drop out of college and become a trophy wife or stayat-home mom.” Although people sometimes troll on social media, posts like those bother

me to the point of questioning the individual. ment. We suffer from a double standard.

Women have gone to great lengths to obtain We’re meant to raise a family, nurture and carry children. However, some employers higher education and voting rights. Yet, as think that a woman is less dedicated to her women we’re still discriminated against.

And when it should be simple, identifying as career because of her role as a homemaker and mother. Thus, men are hired and paid a feminist has become complicated.

Emma Watson gave a speech at the Unit- more because employers believe they’re more dedicated and more willing to work ed Nations headquarters in New York in September promoting the campaign “HeForShe.” overtime.

This gender stereotype is wrong; women Watson defined feminism as, “the belief that men and women should have equal rights are just as dedicated to their careers as men. and opportunities; it is the theory of political, There are more single women pursuing their economic, and social equality of the sexes.” education and career than men. So why is Throughout her speech she addressed femi- there still this gender inequality?

Last Tuesday, during the midterm elecnism as an “uncomfortable word.” I totally tions, we passed the agree with Watson. The threshold of having word feminism makes me There is just one 100 women in Conthink of the women who gress for the first time. only do things created, definition that truly However, 80 percent based and for women of federal legislators only. Although there embodies the whole idea are men. While these are some very extreme of feminism: ‘The belief hundred women have feminists, there’s also the that men and women made a huge stride for feminists like me. feminism, there’s still a I am a feminist, not to should have equal rights large amount of gender be confused with a maninequality in our govhater. I believe in equal- and opportunities.’” ernment. ity of males and females.

Hillary Clinton has Feminism is taking action toward making this equality – social, eco- done amazing work for our country as a feminist. During her time as the First Lady, Clinnomic, political – a reality.

Women have the same jobs and do the ton assisted her husband throughout his two terms as the U.S. president. After she ran in same work that men do but receive less pay-

the primary for the Democratic presidential candidate against Barack Obama, she was appointed to the Office of Secretary of State in 2008.

I am a liberal Republican, but if Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2016, she has my vote. Think about the extraordinary accomplishment this would represent for women and the statement it would make in favor of gender equality throughout our nation. I’ve heard people telling jokes about a female president, like “What happens if it’s her time of the month?

She might blow up the country.” I laugh at these jokes, though I know they’re wrong.

Women are caring and rational people, and we definitely know how to take some Midol during our menstrual cycles.

We’re people. We’re all people. So why are we unequal? Why is the word “feminism” so intimidating? The term is daunting and carries so many different personal meanings; however, there is just one definition that truly embodies the whole idea of feminism: “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” Feminism is equality.

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Democrats lost in Congress, but have policy wins Mark Batt

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or the first time since the latecongressman Peter Hoagland represented Nebraska’s second Congressional district, Nebraska is sending a Democrat to the House of Representatives. Congressman-elect Brad Ashford was a rare pickup for Democrats in an lopsided election that widely favored Republicans last night. Many pundits and political entrepreneurs are discussing the pros and cons of a Republicancontrolled Congress and its potential impact on issues from the Affordable Care Act to immigration reform. No one’s sure how the White House will strategically deal with, or refuse to cooperate with, the new senate majority leader. However, Nebraskans should be more concerned as to how our new delegation will represent us in the city of gridlock and if anything will change for the better.

Senator-elect Ben Sasse, a conservative hard-liner, will represent Nebraska in the upper house of Congress. Adrian Smith and Jeff Fortenberry haven’t been the vocally obstinate politicians who have helped cause deliberate destruction on Capitol Hill; both

have been fairly pragmatic, with Fortenberry not supporting the government shutdown last fall. Sasse may not feel too much support from the rest of the delegation right now, but their cooperation is going to be much needed in the next two years.

Brad Ashford has pledged to work across the aisle to better represent Nebraskans and help create a dialogue between the parties.

He ran against Lee Terry in a controversial race with plenty of mudslinging. Only time will tell if this promise of bipartisanship will amount to real change or not.

Moving away from Congress, however, I want you to focus on the statewide constitutional offices that were also filled last night.

Some of these elections were particularly unglamorous, resulting from down ticket races that weren’t covered as greatly by the media.

In addition to winning the race for governor and filling our vacant Senate seat, Republicans won four other statewide offices: the auditor of public accounts, secretary of state, the attorney general and state treasurer. John Gale, secretary of state, and Don Stenberg, state treasurer, were both Republican incumbents and were re-elected. Two newcomers, Charlie Janssen, the new auditor, and Doug Peterson, the next attorney general, will be handling Nebraska’s financial investigations and justice issues, respectively. Even with Ashford in Washington, there’s still plenty of red here in the heartland that was re-elected without much contest.

Some of you might be thinking that an entirely Republican delegation off in Washington may be fantastic. While I admit that

the Republican delegation well represents stand that even if there are more Republicans in Congress or in our statewide offices, such many Nebraskans, Democrats from our as the governor and auditor, we can still get state will be underrepresented, at least for things done. So I implore you to forget your the next two years. Many Republicans who beat incumbents last night or who won re- pessimism and look forward to rays of light election campaigned on many of the same is- that have shone through this depressing cycle of negative ads and sues on which they’ve bad mouthing. been focusing since We have to With the exception the last election cycle. of the Terry and Ashford Some members who understand that race, most other camwon seats last night paigns in the state were are willing to work even if there are more run with a certain etiwith people across the Republicans in Congress quette that should be apaisle, but there is still a great deal – some of or in our statewide offices, preciated regardless of the outcome. For example, whom are right here such as the governor and Dave Domina’s campaign in Nebraska – who refor Senate was one of repeat the same mantra: auditor, we can still get spect and professionalism Repeal Obamacare and things done. and can be an exemplary shun the president. In model for campaigns outaddition, we can’t forside our state. In the end, get the government Terry chose not to contest the close results of shutdown propagated by individual senators who felt inclined to close the govern- the election with Ashford, gracefully conceding by saying, “Democracy wins, and I rement down for nearly three weeks over an ideological disagreement about a law already spect our democracy.”

Regardless of whether you voted yesterwritten and approved by all three branches.

This seems to be the normative strategy for day, there’s going to be some ripple effect on nearly everyone in Nebraska. Be sure to learn neo-conservatives in the House and Senate.

With that said, there’s now one party con- about these new officials and brush up on the incumbents, because 2016 is just around the trolling all of Nebraska’s statewide, constitutional offices. That means the half million corner, and you don’t want to be left in the registered Democrats now have zero elected dust when the next cycle comes around.

MARK BATT IS A SENIOR POLITICAL representation in our statewide offices, from SCIENCE MAJOR, YOU CAN REACH HIM AT the governor ’s mansion to the justice departOPINION@ ment. And this was pretty much the case for DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM Democrats nationally. We have to under-

Voters need to be informed on candidates’ platforms Oliver Tonkin

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ike many of you fine Nebraskan voters, I participated in the democratic process on Tuesday. Some 539,230 in all exercised their civic duty and voted in this election.

We imposed our collective will to vote for the minimum wage increase, elect Ben Sasse, Pete Ricketts, Brad Ashford, – Wait– We voted for Ricketts and Sasse, AND we approved increasing the minimum wage?

What incoherent madness is this?

U.S. Senator-elect Ben Sasse was initially against an increase in the minimum wage during the primary. Since the minimum wage increase got on the ballot, he chose to exercise reticence to avoid possible political

them. backlash.

Ricketts employed the standard arguGovernor-elect Pete Ricketts has consistently disapproved of increasing the mini- ment asserting any increase in a minimum wage would harm those it meant to help and mum wage. Both candidates won by large increase unemployment. Yet this is an emmargins, as did the minimum wage increase pirically false argument. The vast majority of initiative. How did that happen?

Consider the case of Illinois Republican scrutinized and reproducible research data governor-elect Bruce Rauner, whose cam- on the effects of an increase in the minimum wage conclude that it has no measurable efpaign platform included lowering taxes and fect on losing jobs. decreasing, not increasFurthermore, most ing, the state’s miniIn any case, the professional economists mum wage. He narrowagree that the benefits ly defeated Democratic same people voted of a minimum wage incumbent Pat Quinn increase far outweigh with little more than for both increasing the any actual or theoreti50 percent of the vote. minimum wage and for cal costs. In any case, Also on the ballot were the same people voted initiatives to raise the candidates who oppose for both increasing the minimum wage and increasing the minimum minimum wage and for to increase the state’s candidates who oppose marginal tax rate on wage.” increasing the minimum income greater than wage. I acknowledge it’s one million dollars that more complicated than would then be used on that, but to those claiming the Republican schools. Both measures passed. Some of the Party won a mandate this past Tuesday, I assame people who voted to pass these ballots also voted for the candidate who was against sert that they just run a better campaign. The

average American voter has made it abundantly clear that they don’t agree with much of the Republican platform. Why, then, do people vote against their interests or beliefs?

Democracy is working just fine. It’s just the electorate who are failing to fulfill their duty. I wrote last week about how the democratic process can empower us to build a new world. However, that’s predicated on whether or not we’re a well-informed and good-intentioned electorate. I believe most people have good intentions, but few of us are sufficiently informed. I admit my own failing as an informed voter. I don’t know the qualifications of every candidate on the ballot, whether it was the sheriff, natural resource districts or the judges seeking to retain their positions.

Voting isn’t enough. Whenever I saw “Go Vote Today!” or some variation, I felt ambivalent. Yes, let’s all vote, but we can’t use this power blindly. Throughout the country, the American electorate sent mixed signals.

Americans voted to legalize marijuana, defend a woman’s right to choose, raise the minimum wage and increase taxes on the rich, yet the Republican Party, whose plat-

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form contradicts each of those, took over the U.S. Senate and increased its power in the House of Representatives.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m an equal opportunity political critic. The Democratic Party isn’t much better. There are numerous examples of impropriety and bad statecraft

by Democratic politicians. That’s the way the world is. A shade of purple. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are purely good or evil. Every politician must be accountable, but our duty as citizens is to ensure we enforce this accountability. We aren’t doing a good job of that.

What can we do about voter ignorance or apathy? Engage your fellow citizens. If you didn’t vote and are unhappy with our na-

tion, then vote.

If you voted but are unhappy, then do more. Educate your friends and neighbors. Volunteer for an organization, petition your representative.

Organize protests, write letters to the editors of newspapers and engage in civil discourse on Facebook. Don’t sit idly by if you are dissatisfied with the U.S. Making the U.S. better is the most American thing you can do. If you voted and are pleased with the results, then make sure your elected representatives are accountable to their campaign platform and to their constituency, both those who voted for and against them. Passiveness and indifference proliferates bad policy. It’s only the vigilant, civic-minded citizen who can ensure

democracy is working.

Our representatives are supposed to represent us. If we don’t participate in democracy as an well-informed voter, and well-informed, active citizen, then our representatives cannot fulfill the duties of their elected office.

One oft-forgotten event is the primary election. This past primary election the Republican Party had numerous candidates for governor and senator. Nebraska now allows for independents to vote in either party’s primary.

Voting in the primary is a crucial step in the election process. It’s arguably more important than the general election, at least in Nebraska, where the Republicans have had recent success. Many thought that the “real” election was the Republican primary election; whoever tri-

umphed in the GOP primary was sure to win the general election. The next primary is only a year and a half away. Before long people will announce their intentions to run for Congress and the State Legislature. Make sure you vote in the primary because that election may be more influential than the general election.

Above all, be a good citizen and cast your vote in an informed manner. We have the power to change the world, but we, as an electorate, are dysfunctional. Your duty as a citizen didn’t end after you voted Tuesday; it has only just begun.

OLIVER TONKIN IS A SENIOR POLITICAL SCIENCE, GLOBAL STUDIES AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES MAJOR. REACH HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER @THEBRUTALWOLF.

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Sensitivy training Instead of being flippant about ADHD, students should educate themselves

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et’s be honest: If you were struggling to complete an essay on time and someone offered you Adderall, you’d be tempted to take it. “Adderall? You mean that stuff that gives you super-human concentration and helps lazy people pass classes? Heck yeah, I’ll take some!” Adderall and a variety of other prescription stimulants used for treating ADHD are widely available on college campuses such as the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, even replacing marijuana as the illegal drug of choice among the high-achievers (Neihardt, I’m looking at you). Illegal distribution of ADHD medication is nearly ubiquitous across American campuses and is seen even among Ivy League students as a quick way to get better grades. In some colleges, the prevalence rate of prescription-stimulant abuse is as high as 80 percent.

ADHD medication is so often abused by college students seeking a quick ‘A’ that the condition itself seems to have become synonymous with “kid who can’t concentrate on homework.” Probably one of the most common things I see fellow students do after they’ve spaced out in class is casually assert they have ADHD. But the way so many students abuse the medication as a scapegoat for their own laziness and bemoan that they “probably have ADHD” when they have difficulty cramming boring anatomy terms proves that people, especially college students, are pretty uneducated on what the disorder actually is.

I have ADHD. Let me tell you: it’s not a lack of concentration. The fact that ADHD medication has little effect on the concentration of people without the disorder should be enough to prove this. Although Adderall may cause a non-ADHD person to feel temporarily more alert, producing the allusion of concentration, there isn’t evidence that it’ll actually help their academic performance. On the flip side, however, medicine significantly increases academic performance for those who do have ADHD. This is because we have different neurological wiring than typical people.

We have a lower metabolism in “the areas of the brain that control attention, social judgment, and movement” and the lack of blood flow typically causes shrinkage in our prefrontal cortex, cerebellum and other brain structures. This in

no way affects our intelligence, as many of us have very high IQs. It does, however, usually damage our academic performance, as even the most intelligent students struggle “in school and often also in social relationships because of their ADD-related problems.”

Medication helps us with ADHD concentrate because it restores dopamine – the brain chemical that regulates reward and pleasure – to our brains, which, along with having weakened blood flow, also have weakened dopamine receptors. One child with ADHD mentioned having the disorder is “like watching TV and someone else has the remote and keeps changing the channels,” and the added dopamine helps our brains find balance so that they stop constantly “switching channels” without permission.

People with ADHD don’t have difficulty concentrating because we’re bored; we have difficulty concentrating because we physically cannot make our brains focus on anything we want it to.

Imagine trying to focus with all your might on what your friend is telling you. Imagine focusing very hard, hearing all the words come out of her mouth and understanding every word individually but being unable to piece what she’s saying into a coherent sentence because you can’t force your brain to do it. You have to ask your friend to repeat herself several times because, no matter how much you tell it not to, your brain is still choosing to concentrate instead on that strand of hair that’s stuck up from her ponytail even though you don’t care about it at all. Now imagine that happening during nearly every interaction you have.

That’s ADHD. This is why people with ADHD struggle with social problems as well as academic ones.

People with ADHD have difficulty with control, with our brains hyperactively focusing on whatever it wants without consent, so we can’t regulate our behavior well and thus are often rejected by our peers. Not only does ADHD often cause us to have poor conversational skills, but it also causes us to have “trouble regulating emotions, or controlling emotional reactions.”

We want to make friends, to listen, to behave normally and often realize our behavior is inappropriate, but our brains just don’t allow us much control over how we act. We may be very hard workers but will still be perceived as lazy because our overactive brains can make us unnaturally tired, causing us to sleep all day before we can do homework, or anything. Because of this, many of us with ADHD wind up becoming very depressed and anxious because we’re so often judged, rejected and disliked by our peers.

Usually we’re blamed for our own social rejection, being seen as willfully lazy, annoying or rude, and so we often receive little support from our families as well. ADHD, if left untreated, is associated with a greater risk of suicide.

This is why it’s important for us to under-

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stand what ADHD really is. Misinformation convinces students to take dangerous stimulants and allows us to overlook the seriousness of the disorder. As someone who has ADHD, I’m sure I speak for many others when I express my annoyance with the flippancy it’s treated with by my peers. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people insist they have ADHD because they “get bored too” and even go as far as to tell me to stop taking my medication either because they don’t think I need it or because I

don’t have a real condition . ADHD is real, and it’s serious. If a peer or a loved one has ADHD, please try to be more understanding. Please don’t write off their condition as laziness or something that can be treated if they “just try.”

And please, oh please, don’t take their medication unless it’s been prescribed to you.

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NEWS FLASHBACK: ELECTION DAY

PHOTO BY ANDREW BARRY | DN

Former Gov. Kay Orr meets with attendees at the Cornhusker Marriott hotel during Governor-elect Pete Ricketts’ victory party. Orr was governor from 1987 to 1991 and was the first female governor of Nebraska and the first Republican woman to be elected governor in the U.S.