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LETTERS FROM THE EDITORS

Hi there,

I accidentally peeled myself Saturday afternoon.

I was peeling potatoes for “Team Thanksgiving,” a yearly potluck hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln speech team.

Because I’m impatient, I nicked a small spud with a little too much force.

A bit of skin on my thumb came off too.

Yes, I’m fine. There wasn’t much blood. Mom, I put Neosporin on it, don’t worry.

But, for the record: There might have been a pinch of online news editor in the potatoes. Don’t worry, I put in enough garlic, butter, parsley and herbes de Provence that you probably couldn’t have tasted it anyway.

It’s at this time of the year when I realize my college experience is different from most.

Namely, I haven’t had a Thanksgiving dinner with my family since 2010.

My parents moved to Paragould, Arkansas, after my junior year of high school, and I chose to finish out my time as a Haymaker in Cozad, Nebraska, a Platte Valley town of fewer than 4,000 people.

Because my parents are a 10-hour drive away, I return to Cozad for Thanksgiving. I spent my senior year living with one of my classmates, and his parents have graciously invited me back to their house for the weekend every year since.

It’s always strange returning to Cozad during break. Without my family, I don’t have a reason to be there. Working in cities, big and small, makes me look at my hometown with a different lens.

Businesses have come and gone, my old high school haunts aren’t the same and it seems to shrink every time I’m there.

It was always a place where if you look down 19th street, you can see cornfields at both ends.

My break will likely be spent catching up on homework, applying for internships and writing my last speech I’ll perform in college.

As cliché as it sounds, I have plenty of things to be thankful for.

After the stress of this semester, I’m happy for a brief reprieve and the chance to see people I’ve stayed in touch with throughout college.

On campus, I’m beyond thankful that I’m part of the speech community. We are a

group of loud, socially conscious and inquisitive college students who care about the world and strive to make it a better place.

Nearly every weekend I get to see performances that make me laugh, change my worldview and sometimes cry.

Sunday afternoon, looking around at my team gathered around a turkey and my skin-seasoned potatoes, I felt thankful I have these people in my life.

Looking at the shiny pink wound on my thumb is a reminder of that.

Whether in Cozad, or hanging out in the teamroom in Oldfather Hall, I have plenty of things to be thankful for.

It’s much more than mashed potatoes.

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UNL students stress over paying debt ANNIE BOHLING DN Patrick Wright is $32,000 in debt despite a Regents Scholarship that pays for his tuition.

“It’s kind of shocking and it’s also kind of frustrating,” said Wright, a junior advertising and public relations major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“I could basically buy a brand new car for the amount of debt I owe, which is crazy when you think about it,” Wright said. “But at the same time, you have to put it in perspective. You’ll easily earn so much more in your lifetime than the amount of your debt.

“You hope to, at least.”

The Regents Scholarship does not cover the costs of university housing, meal plans and other expenses. Wright took out loans to pay for those expenses as he lived at Abel Hall his first two years and then the Courtyards this year, before moving in August into a house in Florida with his partner. From Merritt Island, Wright takes online distance courses in advertising at UNL. Wright’s bill for program facility fees, student fees, University Housing and meals for his first semester at UNL was $4,750. By the beginning of this year, that number had increased to $4,994.

“I believe I took out about $6,000 each semester in loans to cover everything, and I get part of that back as a refund, and I’m not sure how much I have of that saved,” Wright said.

Now that he lives in Florida, he hopes to avoid taking out more loans until he graduates in 2016.

“I think the only reason I would take out a loan is to pay for books for my classes,” Wright said.

Like many students, 21-year-old Wright has used leftover student loan money refunded to him each semester to pay for extra expenses.

“My mom worked all throughout her college education and she was like, ‘I want you guys to – especially during freshman year – to not have to worry about having a job during college and just focus on your education,” Wright said.

The move to Florida was expensive. Wright used money from his summer internships to pay for the move. Now, the Broken Bow, Nebraska native is focusing solely on his education and adjusting to the state.

If Wright wouldn’t have qualified for federal aid, he said it would have been tough.

“I would have had to do something like a loan through a bank or I would have taken up a job,” Wright said. “I would be splitting my focus on my work and doing everything for my courses. It would have affected my learning.”

Wright said he’s put some thought into the future and paying off debt post-graduation.

“I try right now not to focus too much on it and just focus on getting my education,” Wright said.

He and his partner have been together for one year and intend to be together for many more.

Wright said they talked and his partner will help him pay off his debt.

“We’re going to work at getting rid of that debt so we can get to enjoying our life together,” he said.

The average debt for UNL undergraduates post-graduation is $20,567. But the average indebtedness data can be misleading, said Craig Munier, director of the UNL Office of Scholarships

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and Financial Aid. The data doesn’t include money that transfer students borrowed when they were at community colleges, for example. And it doesn’t include private borrowing, like loans from banks. But those factors don’t change the averages much, Munier said.

The misleading part comes when you compare the numbers since 1995. Since then, the indebtedness of the average UNL grad was the highest ever in 2013. But the number of students borrowing also increased, just like enrollment did. Plus, Munier said, the maximum amount students could borrow was the same for many years. It finally was raised within the last decade.

Munier said almost all students borrow money from the federal government for their education at UNL. “If you’re from a modest income family and you want to have a quality research university experience like our students get here, you have no choice but to borrow,” Munier said. “I don’t know what the alternative is to borrowing. So I get a bit anxious talking about borrowing as if it’s something that the student can easily control. For a lot of our students, telling our students that they can’t borrow is like telling them they don’t belong here.”

It’s not about borrowing versus not borrowing, Munier said. It’s about responsible borrowing versus irresponsible borrowing.

“We know that when you borrow money for your tuition, that investment is going to pay a return every year for the rest of your life. That’s good borrowing,” Munier said.

Students borrow irresponsibly when they take out extra loans for the top digital tier of cable, the deluxe cell phone and to eat out almost every night, he said.

“Long after the television is watched, the cell phone is used up and you’ve consumed all the food, the debt still remains with no help of a return on that investment,” Munier said. “So what we tell our students is, don’t be afraid to borrow and invest in yourself. Millionaires are made every day doing that,. Avoid bad borrowing. Try to defer that standard of living until you can afford it yourself.”

Sean Grosshans graduated in May. He has a bachelor’s degree in theatre, directing and management from UNL. Now, he lives in Portland, Oregon, where he found a mentorship program at Third Rail Reporatory Theatre.

“I’m learning a ton,” Grosshans said.

The new graduate estimates his debt will increase to up to $25,000 with interest.

“That’s with the payment options that I have, which I’m probably going to change because it’s bullshit what they expect you pay,” Grosshans said. “They’re like, ‘Oh you just graduated college? How about you pay $160 a month on top of your other bills and everything else.”

His first payment is in January.

“I have been putting off talking to them about

it because I don’t want to deal with it,” Grosshans said.

The reality of the debt sank in for him as soon as he moved to Portland this summer.

“I was just saving up and saving up and saving up to move here,” Grosshans said. “But you don’t realize how much moving costs are. And you have to find and a job and once you find a job, you have to wait for them to pay you.”

Grosshans is now on food stamps. He wants to fend for himself even though he knows his parents would help him.

“Rent’s like $650 and on top of that with bills it makes it about $750, and then on top of that I need to eat and then I want to go out and have fun,” Grosshans said. “It’s hard to do. It’s hard to do.”

The mentorship doesn’t pay, so Grosshans works as a bartender and a line cleaner at a brewery to pay the bills.

In college, Grosshans always realized he was accumulating debt he would have to pay off.

“But it was like one of those jokes that everyone has where it’s like, ‘Oh, I’m going to be in debt. Ha! Ha! Oh, college. More debt! Ha! Ha!’” Grosshans said. “Now I’m starting to realize, like, oh shit, that’s $18,000. And I think I’m realizing how much money that is.”

He was at UNL for five years. He lived in dorms during the first three. As far as his astro-

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Minimum-wage jobs don’t cover UNL tuition costs SARA JANAK DN Rising tuition costs coupled with a stagnant minimum wage has taken a toll on University of Nebraska-Lincoln students.

In 2002, UNL resident tuition, not counting housing, fees and books, cost $3,037. But it has steadily risen to $6,480 in 2014. The minimum wage in 2002 was $5.15, and it increased to the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 in 2009.

Students are finding it increasingly challenging to pay for school and living expenses while working a minimum wage job.

Anna Rosenlof, a junior advertising/PR and broadcasting major said she makes the minimum wage from her job at the information desk in the Nebraska Union.

She said she’s fortunate her parents help her pay for her school expenses, and she acknowledges that’s a resource many students don’t have. Her job at the information desk pays for food, clothes and other general living expenses.

“I’m lucky enough that I don’t have to pay for my tuition for school,” Rosenlof said.

She said she doesn’t know how she would

pay for all her expenses while working a minimum wage.

Andy Lax, another student worker at the information desk, said he’s in a similar situation. He said his parents and financial aid help pay for most his school expenses, but he took his part-time job to pay for his textbooks.

This month, Nebraskans voted to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour by 2016, which is slightly lower than a federal minimum wage of $10.10 proposed by President Barack Obama.

The Better Wages Nebraska campaign collected more than 130,000 signatures to get the minimum-wage measure, Initiative 424, on the ballot.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5.1 percent of Nebraskans earn at or below the minimum wage level.

Increasing numbers of low-wage workers have high school or college educations, and the Center for Economic and Policy Research estimates that more than half of workers who earn $9 an hour or less are over the age of 25.

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(in dance).”

And while dance may be a competitive field, Tatum’s not too worried.

“I think that if you really enjoy it, you Olivia Tatum started dancing at the age of can go far in that career path as well,” she 2. Now a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Tatum has decided to turn said.

William Grange, a professor of theatre her passion into a career. arts and film technology in the Johnny CarShe has dreams of one day working for son School, said the 135 students majoring a dance company.

“It just felt right, doing it in college,” in theatre-performance realize their major the freshman dance major said. “I knew presents a challenge in such a competitive that you don’t get a lot of money perform- field.

“Every single one of them says, ‘Yes, it’s ing in that area, but I really like it and I going to be very difficult,’” said Grange, think it’s worth it.” who said that Actors Equity, the gilded Like thousands of other UNL students, Tatum is taking a gamble on her major. union for actors, has a 93 percent unemployment rate.

She’s in it for the love of the discipline, not While there have been UNL graduates necessarily the money.

In 2011, Time published an article on who have lived their dreams by being in shows or national ads, Grange said “very the lowest-earning majors available to colfew find steady employment.” lege students, based But there’s a reaoff research conducted son so many decide on at Georgetown UniI knew that you this major, the profesversity. The bottom 10 don’t get a lot of sor said. included elementary “It’s kind of like education, early child- money...but I like it and I an addictive drug,” he hood education and said. “Once you start, the performing arts. think it’s worth it.” you can’t stop,” Performing arts salaOLIVIA TATUM Much like perries average $46,000 a FRESHMAN DANCE MAJOR forming arts majors, year and elementary education majors education averages aren’t known for their roughly $45,000 a year, high paychecks. according to the research.

Although teaching kindergarten and But at UNL, the numbers are even lowelementary school does have high job seer for new grads. curity, with the U.S. Labor or Bureau StaA survey showed theater majors who tistics estimating the employment rate to graduated in 2013 have an average salary of $31,667, and early care and education grow 17 percent through 2020, Early Childhood Education majors are second to the majors can expect a salary of $30,789. Combottom on Georgetown University’s report, paratively, the U.S. Census Bureau reports with graduates making less that $40,000 on the median income in 2013 was $51,939. average. Elementary education is slightly Many students who choose majors in low-paying fields do so for their love of the higher, with an average salary of $45,000.

But Ember Stolze, a senior majoring in subject. Tatum, after all, hopes to work for both elementary education and K-6 special a dance company following graduation.

And there are certainly stories of UNL education who hopes to teach special education, is happy with her decision. dance majors living out their dreams.

“Sometimes when I think about it, it Some graduates have started their own dance schools or even moved to New York worries me a little bit, but I also know that I want to make sure that I’m happy with to dance professionally.

Susan Levine Ourada, the head of the whatever I’m doing, and if that means I have to adjust however I’m living to make dance program, said the current 25 dance majors will have a multitiude of career op- sure that I’m happy, that’s okay with me.”

UNL instructors are honest with their tions in their futures.

“A bachelor of liberal arts degree is a students about employment and pay prospects, Stolze said. very, very pliable kind of degree that allows “I once had a really, really wise professtudents with a variety of different majors to excel in their lives,” Ourada said. “One sor, and she said your rewards will never of our former students - she just finished be monetary when you’re a teacher, and I medical school last year - said that when think I would rather have that than a job that paid a lot, because that means more to she went to her interview, all they wanted me. I can’t imagine myself doing anything to talk about was her dance major, because else.” they could see all of her science grades and NEWS@ they could see all of her research, but they DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM were really fascinated by her involvement

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Struggling to pay for school can prove fruitless REECE RISTAU DN A decade from now, University of NebraskaLincoln students who have taken out loans could easily still be paying them off.

The cost of going to college is more expensive than ever before and students can no longer work part-time, minimum wage jobs to go to school. Today’s average college student, without support from financial aid and family resources, would need to put in 48 hours of minimum-wage work per week to pay for courses, according to The Atlantic.

Because of this, many students are forced into other means, the most – and least – popular option being student loan debt.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 59 percent of students who graduated in 2013 used the loan program at some point in their collegiate careers. The average cumulative debt of graduates from the same year was $23,951 and a total of $1.75 million was borrowed, according to UNL’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

If a UNL undergraduate student leaves school with the amount listed above, starts off at a salary of $30,000 per year and pays 10 percent of his or her salary toward loans, he

or she will pay $250 per month for more than 10 years (the current interest rate for Federal Stafford loans is 4.66 percent). If any of those numbers go up, besides the salary, students will pay much more.

Kendra Nebel, a junior global studies and political science major, is avoiding mounds of student debt through a payment plan with her parents, she said. Her parents are paying up front, but she’ll have to pay them back after – essentially a family-owned student loan. Even so, she works as much as possible at a law firm – up to 30 hours a week – to offset costs. Sometimes, having less debt outweighs going to class.

“Right now, I have a class that’s five days a week and it’s right in the height of work hours, so if I’m short on money, I just don’t go,” Nebel said.

Other students simply can’t afford the cost and either drop out, or choose less financially burdensome schools. Justin Hoffman chose both routes.

Hoffman is a student at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. He originally went to Iowa Western University but dropped out after his first year. He said he chose MCC because of the cost and his job.

“It’s a great school because they give you

Right now, I have a class that’s five days a week and it’s right in the height of work hours, so if I’m short on money, I just don’t go.”

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junior global studies and political science major

time to make your tuition money and can do payments,” Hoffman said. “I’m lucky that I have a decent job because if I was working with minimum wage I could imagine it wouldn’t be easy.”

Hoffman works full time in construction.

Another factor in the issue of working to afford school is minimum wage. Nebraskans voted on Nov. 4 to raise the minimum wage to $8 in 2015 and $9 in 2016. The cost of one credit hour at UNL is $216 for 2014-2015 residents, according to UNL Admissions.

With the current minimum wage set at $7.25, students would have to work just under 30 hours a week to pay for one credit hour.

The Atlantic offered Michigan State Uni

versity as an example of how paying for tuition has changed over time: In 1979, when the minimum wage in Michigan was $2.90, a student with a minimum-wage job could earn enough in one day (8.44 hours) to pay for one academic credit hour. A summer job scooping ice cream or flipping burgers could pay for an education. However, the cost of an MSU credit hour has multiplied since 1979 and so has the federal minimum wage.

Today, it takes 60 hours of minimum-wage work to pay off a single credit hour, which was priced at $428.75 for the fall 2013 semester.

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Cyclists risk accidents in Lincoln streets KELLIE WASIKOWSKI DN

JP Davis was once told by fellow bike-riders that if he wasn’t hit by a car, he wasn’t biking hard enough.

That theory came to fruition when Davis was struck by a car while riding his bike between Q and R streets on 13th Street at about 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 3. He tried to pass a car that was stopping for a pedestrian, but was hit when the driver proceeded to make a U-turn to pull into a parking spot.

“In my situation, it was determined that both the car and I were at fault,” said Davis, a freshman journalism major and photographer for the Daily Nebraskan. “I tried to pass on the left and the car turned left, passing over a solid yellow to get to a parking spot on the left side of the road.”

Based on what he knows from riding his bike on the road, Davis said drivers will try and circumvent the laws to get to where they want as fast as possible. He said most cyclists know their burden to be extra-aware of their surroundings because of their vulnerability to car drivers who aren’t paying attention.

“When I bike I usually try to be as focused as possible on whatever is happening in front of me, on either side of the road, and to make predictions on what those people are going to do so I can work around it,” Davis said. “In this situation, I simply got distracted.”

While both parties in Davis’ case may have been distracted, other situations prove how attentive cyclists are when riding.

In the spring of 2013, a car hit UNL alumnus Caleb Uerling while he was riding on a bike trail. And although Uerling had the right-ofway, he was ticketed for the accident because he didn’t ride his bike across the crosswalk.

“I knew of the law but I didn’t think it pertained to bike trails,” Uerling said. “I didn’t think I was going to be at fault because he had the red light, and I had the green light. But Lincoln has a city ordinance that you can’t ride your bike at a crosswalk. So even though he had a red light, I received a ticket for it.”

Uerling said it’s important for cyclists to know biking laws if they’re going to ride on the streets. Oftentimes when cyclists are hit, they are at fault for it, even if they are the ones who receive the injury.

While some states have laws that require bicyclists to wear helmets, Nebraska’s helmet safety laws differ by region. Uerling said he was wearing a helmet when he was hit, and he always wears a helmet.

But many casual cyclists will opt to not wear helmets because they don’t think they’ll get hit, and in Davis’ case, he wasn’t wearing one because he didn’t think they were aesthetically pleasing. With the Centers for Disease Control

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Student aims to rid campus of Styrofoam KELLIE WASIKOWSKI DN Seamus Mulcahy knows the harmful effects of Styrofoam – one resource he thinks is used far too often on campus.

Which is why Mulcahy, a sophomore political science and environmental studies major and member of ASUN’s Environmental Sustainability Committee, is challenging the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to pledge to become a Styrofoam free campus. Mulcahy is leading an ESC project this year that aims to increase education on the environmental effects of what he considers to be one of the most harmful and nonbiodegradable resources, a resource that is used frequently without knowing the consequences.

“The EPA has found Styrofoam to be potentially carcinogenic and toxic to wildlife,” Mulcahy said. “Styrofoam is made up of petroleum, which is a limited resource and is non-renewable, and Styrofoam is not biodegradable, it’s going to sit there forever.”

Mulcahy also quoted one Harvard study that concluded Styrofoam is “polystyrenes made from petroleum, non-sustainable, non-renewable, heavily polluting, and fast disappearing commodity.”

“So there are plenty of reasons to not be using it,” he said.

Mulcahy’s involvement with the HarperSchramm-Smith Residence Association last year brought the use of Styrofoam in residence halls to his attention.

RHA can use its money to support certain products or ideas, which has inspired the bottom up approach he hopes to take with his ESC project.

“Last year, the HSSRA delegated $2,500 each semester to Residence Assistants to have their individual events,” Mulcahy said. “Since the Residence Hall Association was the one providing them with that money, it would be pretty easy for them to say, ‘Hey, we’ve taken this pledge, and we’re not going to be using Styrofoam anymore. Please don’t buy Styrofoam,

especially since you’ll be using our money to buy those products.’”

The bottom-up approach Mulcahy wants to try includes going to different resident associations and Registered Student Organizations and holding informational meetings on the use of the resource and alternatives that can be used instead. After informing them about the environmental effects of Styrofoam, Mulcahy hopes they’ll take a pledge to use alternative, lessharmful products.

“The goal is that when we go to each organization we can have a presentation to first educate them about why Styrofoam is a poor choice, and then additionally be able to say, ‘Now that we agree that Styrofoam is a bad choice, these are the alternatives that you should be using instead and why they’re so much better than the other ones,’” Mulcahy said.

Since the project is still in the beginning stages, Mulcahy is still searching for a sponsor to donate money or plant-based products to show there are alternatives better to the environment that are easily accessible. By doing this, he said, pledgees can decide to choose products such as plant-based materials instead of choosing something that still uses non-renewable resources, such as plastic.

“We want to do this to kind of get each organization that pledges started off,” Mulcahy said.

“So when we go to a residence hall or a Greek house, we could say, ‘We’re so glad that you’ve pledged to be Styrofoam free, here’s an alternative to use instead.’ And we also plan on having a list of alternatives for them so they don’t have to go searching for things to use.”

Because other schools have similar policies, Mulcahy said he thinks his plan could work at UNL. Auburn University is completely Styrofoamfree, and Duke University’s dining halls are Styrofoam-free. While Mulcahy hopes to eventually see UNL be Styrofoam free, his project isn’t a Styrofoam ban but rather a voluntary pledge that organizations will take to use alternative products.

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Styrofoam is widely used across UNL’s campus as disposable dinnerware.

tal Leadership Program members on this project: freshman Emma Himes, a journalism, global studies and Spanish major, and sophomore Nick Flaxbeard, a chemical engineering major.

Himes chose to work on the Styrofoam project because of the effect it could have campus.

She’s involved with the Neihardt Council as well as a member of Chi Omega Sorority and said being involved gives her unique ideas of ways to approach organizations differently.

“I think that Greek houses will probably be more receptive to taking the pledge because it is a great way for a chapter to stand out by being

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“My dad picked me up from the hospital, and we went straight to the bike shop and bought me (a helmet),” Davis said. “Getting into an accident like this is the only thing that will encourage some to start wearing a helmet.

I think this happening has – no pun intended – knocked some sense into me, and encouraged me to ride more carefully in the future.”

According to Lincoln Police Department reports, as of Oct. 31, there have been 125 total bike and car collisions reported to LPD so far in 2014, and 107 of those included injuries.

During the 2014 year, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department has responded to four calls regarding bike accidents, and UNLPD Sgt. John Backer said accidents don’t typically happen during more severe weather,

environmentally conscious,” Himes said.

By educating all organizations on campus about the negative environmental effects of using Styrofoam, a product that can easily be swapped at little cost for something more eco-friendly, Himes said it should be a “no-brainer” that changing habits is worth it.

“The change will be set the University of Nebraska-Lincoln apart from all other Big Ten universities as a leader in environmental sustainability,” Himes said.

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DEBT: FROM 5 but rather happen at random. He said they are usually happening in places where there’s the most movement on campus and where vehicles and cars change direction. In the past, they have been concentrated in places where cars and bicycles meet, such as parking lot exits and at the end of driveways.

“Vehicle versus bicycle accidents are most often due to distracted driving or failure to yield to right of way,” Backer said. “The laws with bicycles sometimes aren’t very well known. If a person is riding a bicycle on a street they are required to abide by every traffic rule, so they’re actually held to the same rules and laws, but unfortunately that’s not always seen in the behavior of bicyclists.”

Backer said that UNL is looking into ways to separate car, pedestrian and bike traffic, but these discussions are still in early stages and part of a future plan for campus.

Uerling, who was on the cycling team and

regularly traveled to other cities for races, said many places that are of comparable size to Lincoln have substantially more established cycling infrastructure.

While Davis understands the accident was partially the cause of him being distracted, he said it’s part of a larger issue of not having a safe place for bicyclists to ride. He said there’s animosity coming from both cars and pedestrians towards bikers, and the lack of bike lanes on campus and in Lincoln for cyclists frustrates him.

“I get so bummed out every time I see bikers on sidewalks bumping into pedestrians and such, especially on campus,” Davis said. “I think a lot of bikers are afraid to ride on the road, and adding more bike lanes would get bikes off of sidewalks and away from pedestrians, as well as on the road but away from cars.”

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nomical bill, Grosshans and his parents have an agreement. His father paid for a third, his mother paid for a third and Grosshans paid for a third—through financial aid. He took out zero loans his fifth year because he had a big enough Pell Grant.

If he wouldn’t have qualified for aid, he said his parents would have found ways to help him get through college.

“It was a big thing for my parents,” Grosshans said. “I definitely grew up in a household where I always knew I would go to college.”

As for Wright, he’d rather face the debt payments than drudge through college much longer.

“I am just so burnt out because I’ve been doing school for a year and half straight basically,” Wright said. “I’m not even enjoying it anymore. I just want to be done and get to a job.”

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Why not finish what you started at SCC?

Give and Get durinG the holidays

You can do this!

Finish the degree you started at Southeast Community College!

What is Reverse Transfer?

Reverse transfer is the process of awarding an associate degree to students who begin their education at SCC, transfer to another institution, and complete their associate degree requirements while working toward a bachelor’s degree. In this case, UNL.

Why do it?

• The completed degree is a marketable credential for your resume and an important milestone in your education.

• Employers value a degree as evidence of your commitment to expanding your knowledge and achieving your educational goals.

• A degree can help you land a better job while continuing your education.

“This process has allowed me to accomplish my educational career goals. I’m very appreciative of all the advising staff at SCC who helped me. It was a very quick and easy transfer, and in the end I felt a sense of accomplishment.”

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So you’re staying in Lincoln for Thanksgiving Break – we get you.

Maybe the trip home is too long or costly. Maybe you’ve never been a big fan of turkey and green bean casserole. Or maybe you’re just trying to avoid getting stuck in a Spanish Inquisition with that one aunt who finds your pursuit of an English degree personally offensive.

Here’s some cheap stuff to do in the Capital City instead.

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Listen to some live music. Crescent Moon Coffee has an open mic night Wednesday, blues on Friday and local singer-songwriter Andy Miller on Saturday. Meadowlark Coffee has an open mic night Wednesday. Wasteland Hop and AZP are playing Duffy’s Tavern for $5 Tuesday night (and there will be $1 tallboys there). And on Thanksgiving night, a medley of electronic artists are playing in something called ROAR Bassgiving at the Bourbon Theatre.

Go to a winter holiday laser show at Mueller Planetarium, which is located in Morill Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. The laser shows consist of holiday and pop music accompanying, well, lasers. The holiday show also chronicles “the world’s only laser penguin, Squeaky, as he tries to figure out how best to return home to Antarctica for the holidays, a big challenge for small, flightless birds,” according to a museum press release.

Tickets to this action-packed thrill ride are $6, and show times are 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Go to a park. We suggest Pioneers Park or Wilderness Park, two of Lincoln’s largest and prettiest places to read, people watch and walk around in. The warmest day of the week will be Friday, with a high of 49 degrees Fahrenheit. You won’t even need to bring your coat.

Spend an afternoon or evening exploring the Creamery Building in the Haymarket. You can stock up on holiday presents or just browse and think about how poor you are. The building’s tenants include Indigo Bridge Books (which has a coffee shop inside), Ivanna Cone, Paint Yourself Silly, Abesque Variations and BOON! Found and Made. Keep in mind that the latter is closed Sunday through Tuesday. Paint Yourself Silly also has half-price rates – $3/hour of painting – if you bring a friend or date on Fridays between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Watch the men’s basketball game Friday night – at home, at a Husker-themed sports bar or in the flesh at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

The Huskers will face the 2-1 Tennessee Martin Skyhawks. Student section tickets are still available for $21 online.

Visit the National Museum of Roller Skating, which “captures the colorful history and the promising future of one of America’s favorite sports,” according to its website. We’ve never considered roller skating among America’s favorite sports, but admission is free, and someone on Trip Advisor called this place “Lincoln’s hidden gem,” so a visit is worth a shot. The museum is usually open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday, but it’ll be closed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving.

Remind yourself that libraries exist and visit one of Lincoln’s eight branches. Libraries rent music and DVDs too, if you’re really set on kicking it old school for the holidays. Hours and locations are listed on www.lincolnlibraries.org.

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Weekly crime: bike thefts, hit-and-runs and burnt popcorn ANNIE BOHLING DN Burnt popcorn and an extinguished candle activated fire alarms at two campus locations this week.

On Thursday, Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to the NETV building on East Campus. Finding no fire, they reset the alarm.

Burnt popcorn had activated the smoke head on the third floor, according to the university police report.

On Saturday, shortly after midnight, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department and LFR responded to another false fire alarm, this time at Sigma Alpha Epsilon on City Campus. The incident report stated students blamed an extinguished candle for

setting off the alarm, which turned out to be the case.

Bicycle thieves are still on the prowl, despite the weather. Three bikes were stolen at UNL this week. Just like last week, the bicycles were locked up for several days, if not weeks.

On Monday, a UNL student told police her bike was stolen from the south side of Sandoz Hall between Nov. 6 and Nov 17. She was able to give police the serial number of her bike, which police say helps in the investigation. Her Fuji bike is valued at $400.

Two more bicycles were reported as stolen on Wednesday, this time from the west side of the CPN Food Service building at Neihardt Residential Center. The silver and red Schwinn and the purple Roadmaster are valued at $220.

Hit-and-runs are happening in on-campus parking areas. Two were reported on Monday.

The first was belated – the victim’s Toyota Camry was hit on Nov. 16 inside the parking garage at 19th and Vine. The total damage to his car cost $600.

The other hit-and-run caused $850 in damage. It happened in the Champions Club parking lot on Stadium Drive, where the police officer found a large hold in the rear passenger side bumper.

There’s a special place for UNL employee issues called the Employee Assistance Program. Here, a UNL employee turned in alcohol, marijuana paraphernalia and a small amount of marijuana that was found in his or her son’s room. University police went to the EAP to pick up and dispose of the items. There were no criminal charges.

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Professor’s Cheney mask shouldn’t be an issue »Editor’s » note: One member of the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board is taking the class in which the following incident took place.

Sometimes it’s OK to be a Dick.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln political science professor John Gruhl dressed up as former Vice President Dick Cheney on Halloween, donning a photorealistic mask and an orange hunting vest before the start of his class. To complete the charade, he mockingly trained an imaginary rifle at his students, alluding to an oft-cited hunting accident that blemished the Cheney vice presidency.

The gag was funny. Maybe a bit over the top. A tad distasteful.

But it shouldn’t have made headlines.

In recent days, a conservative media firestorm has surrounded the professor because a student was offended as he watched the display. The student surreptitiously recorded video of the entire ordeal and shared it with advocacy site Campus Reform, along with audio of Gruhl criticizing Cheney’s performance in office. This kicked off a string of reports from conservative-backed sites including Nebraska Watchdog and Fox News. The Daily Nebraskan has chosen not to publish the student’s name.

Campus Reform, for some perspective, is a website that recently expressed outrage over a college’s decision to admit transgender students.

Its take on the incident should be dismissed swiftly and wholly by anyone desiring any modicum of fairness.

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Across the Web, the whole story reads a bit like something out of The Onion.

Because there’s no real story here.

Wearing a topical and appropriate costume on Halloween is not a controversy. The Daily Nebraskan will not engage in alarmism by making it one.

As for the target, Dick Cheney was a notoriously bad vice president who left

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

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office with an approval rating of a pitiful 13 percent. He was absolutely fair game. And he was a relevant punching bag in Gruhl’s class, The Presidency, which focuses on U.S. presidents, their actions and how their administrations’ decisions affect the country and the world. Gruhl is charged with critically analyzing the powers in office on an

atomic level.

His criticism comes from an informed and scholarly perspective, not a partisan one. And certainly not a malicious one.

Donning the Cheney costume, in this case, is akin to a science professor dressing as Walter White, the genius chemistry teacher who turns to drug manufacturing in “Breaking Bad.” That’s to say, it is an appropriate and fun way to engage students on a holiday. When a UNL professor chose to dress as the famed Heisenberg, who trades in making meth and killing people, no one batted an eye.

For many, college is a time of growth and exploration of new ideas.

It’s a time to have your beliefs challenged and maybe, just maybe, step out of your comfort zone a little. For this student, the class presented an opportunity to learn a little more about the figure he purports to admire.

There’s a line in Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” where a character says, for the sake of his aesthetic feelings, it’s “not only pleasant, but sometimes even beautiful to be offended!” The point being: Sometimes people take pleasure in being offended over a petty issue, when there are real and very important causes in which those feelings might better be invested.

With all due respect, Dick Cheney is not worth the energy.

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Fans create winning atmosphere for NU VANESSA DAVES DN

Nebraska coach John Cook said there’s a relationship between athletes and fans unlike any other.

It involves mutual encouragement and support. It produces a spirit that can’t be matched anywhere else.

“Our players inspire the crowd to really get into it,” Cook said. “And our fans are starting to figure it out. I feel like we can make something really special here at (Bob) Devaney (Sports Center).”

Cook said the atmosphere in the crowd is a big aspect of how the team plays. Cook said during the Michigan game on Saturday night, he could feel the energy in the crowd.

And the team thrives on it.

“When we play relentless defense, and we’re attacking, and we win long rallies, and we fly all over the court, and we make one arm ups and keep the ball alive – our crowd just feeds off that,” Cook said.

The first time the No. 11 Nebraska volleyball team played Michigan this season, Michigan won in a 3-0 sweep.

This time, the tables have turned. The Huskers notched the sweep.

Nebraska made a few adjustments this time. Nebraska hadn’t seen Michigan’s outside hitter Katherine Mahlke before, and the players had to prepare for that. But there were other things Cook attributes to his squad’s success.

“The key, I thought, was we made it really hard on that setter to get (middle blocker Abby) Cole the ball,” Cook said. “That’s why we blocked her a lot. She was really still trying to force it to her … Michigan just, whatever they wanted, they were doing.”

Even during the game, the team had to respond and work together out-of-system.

But Cook said the high level on which the team was playing was evident in the final statistics and score.

“As a coach, I’m really proud of a team like that for responding that way,” Cook said.

And of course, the crowd supplied energy and excitement that fueled the team to its victory, Cook said.

Earlier this week, Nebraska defeated Indiana 3-0. Both of Nebraska’s triumphs this week contributed to an eight-match winning streak.

With only two Big Ten games left in the season, Cook is determined to continue the success. His “Win November” motto has stuck with the team, and last week, he said he intended to win the Big Ten title. He added that “this team can play on a high level when they want to.”

In the game against Michigan, junior middle blocker Cecilia Hall had 13 block assists and sophomore outside hitter Amber Rolfzen had 12. Both were career-high

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Senior setter Mary Pollmiller and junior Cecilia Hall attempt to block a kill against a Maryland player. Pollmiller played her final regular season home game on Saturday against Michigan. She transferred from Tennessee last season.

numbers, and Hall’s were the most of any Big Ten player in a match this season.

“I think (Hall) can do that every night,” Cook said. “She unleashed tonight. I think she took it personal… I’m seeing a side of (Hall) starting to come out that I’ve been waiting about three years for.”

And Hall said the success of both herself and the team this past week comes down to one thing.

“I think we’re just so fired up,” Hall said.

“We want to shut them down.”

And Cook would argue that energy stemmed from the fans.

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NU fails to close out win on road against Rhode Island 13:14 left in the game.

Nebraska trailed 40-39 before baskets by Huskers, Rams couldn’t sophomore guard Tai Webster and senior forward David Rivers put Nebraska up 43-40 decide winner in regulation, with 7:25 left. but Rams find way to down But the Rams scored seven straight to take a 47-45 lead and force a Husker timeout.

Nebraska in overtime Nebraska trailed by two and Rhode Island had the ball with less than a minute left.

The Huskers forced a miss and tied the score at 53 on a Shields’ putback with 35.7 seconds NICK WILKINSON left.

DN URI had two chances at the game-winning shot, but the Husker defense got the The No. 21 Nebraska men’s basketball team stop to send the game to overtime. played its first overtime match-up since the Rebounding continues to be an issue for 2011-2012 season Saturday, when it failed to Nebraska, Miles said. earn its first away victory of the season.

Rhode Island finished regulation with 49 Rhode Island’s freshman guard Jared Terrebounds, 33 defensively and 16 offensively. rell scored six of his 12 points in overtime, Nebraska had 36 rebounds, only seven on oflifting the Rams to a 66-62 win against the fense.

Huskers.

“Our inability to get a defensive rebound Nebraska junior guard Shavon Shields really hurt us,” Miles said. “We have to be a scored 25 points on 10-of-17 shooting and better rebounding team, but we’re not there. grabbed nine rebounds in a career-high 43 We had 16 turnovers and probably nine, 10 minutes. Senior guard bad shots, at least.

Terran Petteway joined “You can’t give — We have to be a Shields in double figures in a close game, on the with 15 points. Nebraska road, in an environbetter rebounding shot 36.8 percent from ment like this — you the field overall, includ- team, but we’re not can’t give 25 opporing three of 20 on three- there.” tunities to your oppopointers. nent.”

“Pretty atrocious,” URI’s Terrell, who TIM MILES Nebraska coach Tim nebraska basketball was just two of 12 in Miles said. “I thought regulation, took advanWalter (Pitchford) had tage of a scramble and some really good looks. I thought Tai (Webgot loose in the corner for a 3-pointer to give ster) had some really good looks, and we just URI a three-point lead. On the next possesdidn’t knock them down.” sion, Terrell gave the Rams a four-point lead, The Huskers led heading into the locker hitting a tough 3-pointer in the corner over room after the first half with a big perfor- Shields to push the lead to 59-55. mance from Shields to take a 23-19 lead.

Nebraska earned five straight points to Shields led all scorers with 11 points and six cut the lead to 63-60 after a pair of Petteway rebounds. Nebraska trailed 19-18 before ju- free throws with 50.4 seconds left. nior guard Benny Parker hit a baseline jumpPetteway also notched a basket with four er to start a 5-0 run to close the half. Shields seconds left to cut the deficit to 64-62, but than capped the half with a driving dunk Matthews was fouled and clinched the win with seven seconds left in the half to give NU with a pair of free throws for the Rams. a four-point cushion.

Matthews led URI with 26 points and 10 In the second half, Nebraska took a 27- rebounds, while Terrell finished with 12 for 23 lead after consecutive Petteway dunks, the Rams. but the Rams’ E.C. Matthews scored eight The Huskers return home to take on the straight points to give the Rams a 31-27 lead.

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Junior guard Shavon Shields tries to make a basket in a game earlier in the season.

The Huskers suffered their first loss of the season to Rhode Island.

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Nebraska holds on to 3rd place in weekend competition STAFF REPORT DN The Nebraska swimming and diving team finished third in the three-day Missouri Invitational over the weekend.

The Huskers were led by divers in Day 1 of the meet, as junior diver Nicole Schwery and sophomore diver Anna Filipcic finished second and third

respectively in the 3-meter dive.

Nebraska’s top individual swim performance Thursday came from junior swimmer Taryn Collura, who raced to fourth place with a time of 22.97 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle.

The Huskers notched two other top-10 individual finishes during Day 1 in Columbia, Missouri.

Junior Bria Deveaux finished in seventh place in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 54.97, and sopho-

more Katt Sickle finished eighth in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:53.57, which is her best time of the season.

The 200-yard freestyle relay team of junior Alex Bilunas, Deveaux, sophomore Erin Oeltjen and Collura was the Huskers’ top relay team, as it finished third with a time of 1:32.48.

Host Missouri led the meet with 397 points, 215 clear of second place Florida International after the

first day of competition, while the Huskers sat in third place.

“It was a solid first day, and we got into the meet well,” Sickle said.

In Day 2, the Huskers were once again led by Schwery and Filipcic, as Filipcic finished second in the one-meter dive with teammate Schwery close

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Club hockey provides competition, camaraderie Players say they love the third division of the American Collegiate Hockey Association because it’s ‘tight-knit’ RILEY BOWDEN DN Ice hockey is the second-hardest sport to play in the world, according to ESPN and a group of sports scientists from the United States Olympic Committee.

And ice hockey is one of the hardest sports to play in college. The process of securing a spot on a collegiate team is unlike any other.

College hockey players at any level get there through a number of channels.

Many come out of the United States Hockey League, the league the Lincoln Stars play in, but according to collegehockeyinc.com, more than a dozen leagues sent players to Division I programs in 2013.

There are only 59 NCAA ice hockey programs in the U.S. The sheer number of junior hockey players compared to the number of programs offering scholarships makes it one of the most difficult sports to play in college.

That’s not to say players, such as Nebraska junior defenseman Brad Martin, don’t have the opportunity to continue on with the sport in college.

Martin came to Nebraska by way of Mississippi College, where he played a year of baseball.

“Baseball became more of a job than a sport,” Martin said. “I wanted to have a more normal college life.”

Martin said club hockey at Nebraska allows him to live a normal college life while being able to compete in a sport he has been playing since he was 5 years old.

The Huskers play in the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s third division.

Martin said the league has a lot of talented guys who are playing hockey in college for the same reasons he is.

Martin compared the competitiveness of the ACHA to the junior leagues many players join before going to a club program. In rare cases, teams reach a higher level of competition — such as Arizona State, which recently announced it will be elevating its club hockey team to NCAA Division I. The goal for any ACHA program is to make the national tournament at the end of the season. They do this by being either a top-two team in the region or by placing first or second in the regional tournament in which the 3-10 seeds in the regional compete.

Nebraska sits in seventh in its region.

Nebraska’s junior goalie Mitch Pangle said the team is full of competitive players.

“The team is a very close knit group who all still want to compete at a high level of hockey while continuing our education for life after hockey,” Pangle said.

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The team is a very close knit group who all still want to compete at a high level of hockey while continuing our education for life after hockey.”

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braska. He said he came to Nebraska because the team has always been competitive and consistently ranked highly in its division.

The team will be playing in the new Breslow Center next year. While the center is not

exclusive, both Martin and Pangle said the $11 million facility will draw a bigger crowd and more general interest in the club.

“The club is heading in the right direction and we expect to make it to nationals

this year,” Martin said. “(The club) will only climb once we get to the Breslow.”

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Nebraska earns win, loss in Alaska trip STAFF REPORT DN The Nebraska rifle team traveled to Fairbanks, Alaska, for matches against No. 2 Kentucky on Saturday and No. 7 Alaska on Sunday. The team split the weekend’s matchups.

Nebraska came into the weekend ranked No. 5 in the College Rifle Coaches of America poll, the highest the team has been ranked since it was No. 4 in the preseason poll.

The team opened the weekend against Kentucky, where first-year Nebraska coach Ashley Rose was an assistant last season.

The Wildcats edged the Huskers 4,6764,669.

Nebraska jumped out to an early 2,3162,307 lead after the smallbore portion of the match. Junior Denise Martin, a 2014 NRA smallbore All-American, fired a career-best of 587 in the smallbore. Junior Maggie Mical and sophomore Rachel Martin also shot well with a 578 and 577, respectively. Sophomore Lauren Phillips and senior Kelsey Hansen rounded out the lineup with a 574 and 571, respectively.

Martin’s 587 was good enough to win the match’s individual smallbore title, edging UK’s Connor Davis by two points.

The Huskers shot a stellar 2,353 in the air rifle, but Kentucky was much too overwhelming with three shooters scoring 594 points.

Nebraska’s top four shooters all scored more than 586 points, but no one was able to shoot 594 or better. Phillips shot a 591 with Denise Martin close behind at 590. Jaycee Carter and Hansen both shot 586 for the Huskers.

The Huskers fell to 6-2 on the season following the loss.

The team rebounded Sunday with a 4,654-3,518 win against Alaska, according to NCAA.com.

The Huskers trailed by 11 after the smallbore. Hansen led the way for NU shooting a 583. Denise Martin and Rachel Martin added a 579 and a 577, respectively, to the Husker score.

Nebraska shot a 2,341 in the air rifle to close the match. Rachel Martin lead the way for the Huskers, as she shot a 597, the second-best score in air rifle. Phillips added a 583 and Denise Martin and Hansen scored a 581 and a 580.

Alaska only had two scores count toward its team score in the air rifle, Sagen Maddalena’s 599 and Ryan Anderson’s 595.

The Huskers now have an overall record of 7-2.

Nebraska will be back in action Jan. 17 against defending national champion West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Junior Denise Martin shot a career-best 587 in smallbore competition against the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday. The Huskers went on to lose to the Wildcats 4,676-4,669.

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Senior forward Emily Cady dribbles inside on Sunday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center against a Utah defender. The Huskers won the game 66-43.

Huskers honor historic past, defeat Utah Utes STAFF REPORT DN The Nebraska women’s basketball team took on the Utah Utes Sunday afternoon as the basketball team continues its Pac-12 swing. The Huskers played their second of three games against Pac-12 teams.

Nebraska took down Utah 66-43 and improved to 2-0 against the Pac-12 and undefeated on the season.

The Huskers, who beat Utah in the Devaney Center, dispatched the Utes with relative ease.

The Huskers were full of throwbacks. Along

with playing in the Devaney, the Huskers were wearing vintage 1988 uniforms. This was the Huskers first game at the Devaney since March 2, 2013.

Senior forward Emily Cady carried the Huskers with a career-high 25 points. Junior guard Rachel Theriot also came up big for Nebraska with 20 points, six rebounds, six assists and four steals. Rachel, who was an All-American last year, is playing at the same level if not better.

The team hit nine of 31 without Cady and Theriot’s contributions.

Nebraska’s defense was dominant against

Utah. The Huskers held Utah to 27.5 percent shooting.

Nebraska coach Connie Yori said she was fully in support of all the festivities that occurred. The Huskers brought back the 1988 Championship team to the game to be recognized and to be part of the cheering section.

“I thought everything that happened today was pretty cool,” she said.

Yori said she was also pleased with how the team played on the court.

“We played some really good pressure defense,” she said. “It was throw-back day on defense, too. That is pressure, deny, front the post.

We have enough veterans on our team that we can change up what we’re doing.”

The Huskers, who are ranked No. 16, will probably move up in the rankings after an undefeated week. The Huskers get almost a week off until they play UCLA in Southern California at 3 p.m. Friday.

The Huskers will have a huge matchupn on Dec. 3 against nationally known and ranked Duke Blue Devils.

The Pinnacle Bank Arena will be rocking and rolling.

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end zone on one of his runs.

On Saturday against the Gophers, ArmAfter poor performance srtong went 12-for-19 with 223 yards and a touchdown pass, while also adding 45 yards against Wisconsin, Armstrong rushing. bounces back against The difference? Relaxing.

“I just talked to Tommy about not putting Minnesota too much pressure on himself and just play football,” Beck said. “And trying to make every play perfect, and every read perfect, and everything perfect.

Nebraska was down 28-24, and it had the Just go back and play.” ball on its own 25-yard line to begin the late Armstrong said he noticed he was doing drive. this to himself, but after discussing it with After a false start, the offense found some coaches and family, he knew what he rhythm. needed to do.

Sophomore quarterback Tommy Arm“I put a lot of pressure on myself,” Armstrong Jr. was leading the team down the strong said. “It was hard on me when it comes field with ease. A 16-yard and a 13-yard to sports and stuff like that. I think that talkcompletion, a 5-yard run and then he took a ing to coach Beck and coach Bo (Pelini) and roughing the passer penalty, which put the my mom, they said to go out there and have Huskers at the Minnesota 31-yard line. fun, be carefree and not worry about what’s The Huskers felt they going on. Just going out were going to score the there and having fun, I just talked to go-ahead touchdown. and I think that’s what Armstrong let a pass Tommy about not I did.” go to the end zone, inThe Huskers came tended for sophomore putting too much pressure out of offense passwide receiver Jordan on himself.” ing the ball early with Westerkamp, but it trickArmstrong completing led out of his hand and TIM BECK five of six passes in the fell incomplete. nebraska football first quarter for a total Then, Armstrong of 94 yards. Aside from threw it to a different the 73-yard broken pass receiver downfield the next play. Freshman play, the idea was to keep the passes short to wide receiver De’Mornay Pierson-El leaped build up Armstrong’s confidence early, Beck above the Gopher defense and grabbed the said. ball, but seconds after the snag the ball came “At some point, you have to have a little out and Minnesota pounced on it to seal the bit of a throw game to be able to win some game. ball games,” Beck said.

“We let out a leak, and it just sucks being With a lot of attention expected to be on able to go out there and execute like we did senior running back Ameer Abdullah, Beck and not finish when it came to getting that said he thought the Huskers could catch the touchdown,” Armstrong said.

Gophers off guard by passing the ball early.

Despite the loss, the young quarterback “Just thought we haven’t thrown it much showed signs of improvement this game, esin the last couple games and had struggled,” pecially after the rough outing against WisBeck said. “We figured they would be trying consin last weekend, Nebraska offensive coto stop the run, which they were.” ordinator Tim Beck said.

The sophomore has a lot to learn still, “I thought Tommy played better,” Beck but he showed some of his potential against said. “I thought Tommy played smarter, the Gophers. There were still some questionmore consistent. It looked like he made some able decisions, and it didn’t help that he was good decisions at times, better than he had sacked four times, but Beck said this was a the last couple games, and that’s a positive to good game for Armstrong. take away from.”

“He did some nice things today,” Beck How much improved was he from last said. “He got better today.” week?

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Sophomore quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. stiff arms a Minnesota defender in the Huskers’ 28-24 loss. Armstrong threw for 223 yards and a touchdown. He also contributed 45 rushing yards.

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Pelini’s record stands out among other coaches ZACH TEGLER ››*EDITOR’S NOTE: This column was published last year, but with the current state of the program, some fans want to see Nebraska coach Bo Pelini gone. A former sports editor provides his take on why Pelini should stay with the Huskers.

Of the 2,053 men who have ever coached major college football, 107 – about 5 percent – had winning percentages of .706 or better through five seasons.

Of those 107 coaches, 43 are in the College Football Hall of Fame. Sixty-two worked before World War II. And eight – much less than 1 percent – won nine games in each of their first five seasons as a head coach.

Of those eight, only one inherited a team with a losing record.

His name is Bo Pelini.

And Bo Pelini is on the hot seat.

A vocal minority of Nebraska fans harangue Pelini for an inability to live up to the standard.

But the real standard in Nebraska isn’t winning conference championships. It isn’t winning national championships.

The standard coached the Huskers for 25 years.

The standard’s name is Tom Osborne.

Four seasons into his tenure at Nebraska, Osborne was on the hot seat, unable to live up to the standard set by his predecessor: Bob Devaney, who led the school to its first two national championships. After the 1976 Huskers (who finished 9-3-1) rallied to beat Texas Tech in the Bluebonnet Bowl, some university regents told Osborne that had he lost the game, he might have been fired.

But Osborne stayed, for 21 more seasons, and he went 60-3 in his final five seasons, winning three national titles along the way and creating the standard every following Nebraska coach would be compared with.

But it’s completely unfair to compare Bo Pelini to Tom Osborne. Pelini can’t be Osborne, because nobody can be Osborne.

Osborne is the only coach in history with more than 250 victories and fewer than 100 combined losses and ties; his career ended with only 49 losses and three ties. Osborne ranks fourth all time in winning percentage among coaches who worked more than 10 seasons. Of the top 18 coaches on that list, Osborne is the only one with more than 173 wins – with 255 wins.And the eight coaches with nine wins in each of their first five years? He’s one of them. So is Oklahoma’s Barry Switzer, who won nine games in is first eight seasons – the second-longest streak ever. But Osborne? He won nine games in his first (and only) 25 seasons.

From 1973 to 1997, Nebraska fans were spoiled by arguably the greatest coach in the history of the sport. They were conditioned to believe that a football program could contend for national championships every other year and make it look effortless.

Osborne’s successors – just like every other coach in college football – have failed to live up to the standard.

Frank Solich, who coached the Huskers from 1998-2003, had the exact same winning percentage (.754) through five seasons as Osborne. Solich took Nebraska to a national championship game, had a team finish the year ranked No. 3 in the nation. But one bad season –

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Nebraska coach Bo Pelini guides his team during the game against Minnesota on Saturday. The Huskers lost, marking the third loss on the season for the team.

which still included a trip to a bowl game, mind you – doomed him.

Solich’s successor, Bill Callahan, had two losing seasons in four years, and by the time he was fired, the program was trending downward.

That brings us to Pelini.

In his six seasons at Nebraska, his first six as a head coach, the highs have not met the standard, and the lows have caused knee-jerk comparisons to Callahan. But through it all, in the big picture, Pelini’s teams have been consistent; pessimistic critics point out that Pelini has lost four games each season. But Pelini has also won at least nine games each season.

Detractors argue that because college football teams play more games than they used to, it’s easier to win nine games in a season in the modern era. Yet only two coaches since 1990 – Pelini and Boise State’s Chris Petersen – have opened their careers with five straight nine-win seasons.

The Nebraska fans who want Pelini fired for on-field performance are living in the ’90s.

Winning takes time, patience, more than six years. Osborne didn’t win an outright conference championship until his ninth season. He shared a conference title in his third season – but so did Pelini. In 2010, Nebraska finished the

season tied for the Big 12’s best record, a feat that would have earned a league title in preconference championship game days.

Osborne inherited a team that had won back-to-back national championships a year before his tenure started, and he didn’t coach a national title contender until 1982, his 10th season.

Pelini inherited a 5-7 football team – yet he was held to the lofty standard of Osborne’s accomplishments after only a few seasons at the helm.

Other people want Pelini out because of his behavior; whenever Pelini is discussed on TV, a montage of footage with Pelini’s yelling and ranting and raving is shown. And that creates an image Nebraska fans don’t want.

But image is all about context. As Florida coach Will Muschamp (who is on a hot seat himself) said on “College Gameday” recently, victory justifies anger. When you’re winning, people call you passionate, he said. When you’re losing, they say you’re out of control.

At the end of the day, Pelini has a winning percentage of .704 in nearly six seasons. In his first five years, he had a winning percentage of .706. Better than Nick Saban. Better than Bear Bryant. Better than Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden, Bo Schembechler, Jimmy Johnson, Frank Beam-

er, Steve Spurrier, Les Miles, Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and, oh, by the way, Bob Devaney.

With a victory in the coming bowl game, Pelini would become the fifth coach ever to win nine games in each of his first six seasons, joining Osborne, Switzer, Petersen and George Woodruff, who coached Penn in the 1890s.

Fifth. Coach. Ever.

Pelini has worked under the shadow of three national titles by one of the best coaches in history, and while he hasn’t spoiled Husker Nation, it would be unfair to say he has underwhelmed. Have there been bad losses? Yes. Have there been embarrassing moments? Yes. But if Pelini is fired for winning at least nine games a season, you’d be hard-pressed to find another person who wants to coach under that cloud.

Nobody wants to coach a program with unrealistic expectations. Nobody wants to face a rabid, impatient fan base. Nobody wants to work at a place where nine- and 10-win seasons get you fired.

For now, there is only one man right for the head coaching job at Nebraska.

His name is Bo Pelini.

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Pelini’s best wins and worst losses, ranked The last 7 years have been a rollercoaster ride for the coach, and this year is no different JOSH KELLY DN Nebraska coach Bo Pelini is in his seventh season and has had more ups and downs than an afternoon soap opera. After a big win, Husker fans rejoice and chant his name in the crowd. After an ill-fated loss, many want him to be fired. But, like any coach, he has had his high points and low points. So here’s an outline of the best and worst games under Bo Pelini in no particular order.

BEST WINS 1. 2011 OHIO STATE

Despite being overshadowed by the infamous recording, the win against Ohio State was one of the more exciting wins under Pelini. The Huskers were down 27-6 in the third quarter, then Lavonte David made one of the biggest plays of his career. David stripped the ball from then OSU quarterback Braxton Miller and recovered it near the red zone. It set up an 18-yard touchdown run by Taylor Martinez and a more manageable 27-13 deficit. Then, in the fourth quarter, Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead put the team on his back. Superman rushed for 96 yards in the final quarter, scored on a 30-yard pass to tie the game up and then he ran for an 18-yard touchdown to give the Huskers the lead with five minutes to go. A lot of people said screw it and left at halftime because of the deficit and cold weather, but those who stayed witnessed the largest, and arguably the greatest, comeback in school history.

2. 2012 WISCONSIN

Husker fans were given yet another great comeback one year after beating Ohio State.

In the homecoming game against Wisconsin the Huskers were down 27-10 in the third quarter. The same amount of doubt was in the air at Memorial Stadium. Wisconsin’s Montee Ball, Jr. had already scored three touchdowns against the Blackshirts. But the game took a complete swing. The first touchdown in the comeback was yet again, a touchdown run

by Taylor Martinez. The real difference in the game, though, was the defense. It was able to shut down the Badgers in the second half, and it was one of the few times the run game didn’t go down the Blackshirts’ throat. Wisconsin was only able to get 56 yards on the ground, averaging 1.4 yards per carry, which is hard to believe a few years later.

3. 2010 MISSOURI

The 31-17 win against the No. 7 Tigers has to be mentioned because they were the highest ranked team that has been defeated by a Pelini-led team. The Huskers started off the game with a 24-0 first quarter, which can be thanked to the legs of Roy Helu, Jr. In the

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first quarter alone he ran for a 66-yard touchdown and a 73-yard touchdown. He broke the school’s single-game record for rushing yards in a game with 307 yards. There weren’t only big runs being showcased, but also the team’s preparation for a big game against Blaine Gabbert and Missouri.

Honorable Mention: 2013 Georgia (Gator Bowl), 2009 Oklahoma, 2011 Michigan State

WORST LOSSES 1. 2012 WISCONSIN (BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP)

The Huskers were feeling pretty confident heading into Indianapolis, Indiana, for the first time. They already beat Wisconsin earlier in the season. The Badgers adjusted, though, and embarrassed Nebraska on the national stage in a 70-31 loss. Although Nebraska had

a few moments such as the Taylor Martinez run and the Kenny Bell block. Other than that, it was pretty brutal. The defense became familiar with Melvin Gordon for the first time.

Gordon ran for 216 yards in nine carries. Gordon, Montee Ball, Jr. and James White helped the Badgers to a total 539 yards in rushing. It was the most surrendered by the Huskers up to that point.

2. 2014 WISCONSIN

This is the freshest of blows against a Pelini team. The Huskers had a bye-week to prepare for one guy and one guy only on the offense: Melvin Gordon. And still, he ran for an NCAA record 408 yards against the Husker defense.

His first touchdown run that went for 62 yards was the beginning of the relentless attack of No. 25. His acceleration and vision proved to be too much for the Huskers, and now the odds are

against Nebraska in getting to the Big Ten Championship, a goal that’s set every year by the team.

3. 2013 IOWA

It wasn’t a match up that was being watched by all of college football, but Husker fans were in a huge uproar when the Hawkeyes defeated the Huskers last season. Iowa scored first and held on to the lead for the rest of the game in the 38-17 win. Nebraska did gain more yards than Iowa on offense. Nebraska had 288 total yards while Iowa had 281 yards. But costly penalties and two interceptions by Ron Kellogg III gave the Hawkeyes enough to find some wiggle room to put give them the win at Memorial Stadium.

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Huskers keep winning streak going to begin season RILEY BOWDEN DN The No. 7 Nebraska wrestling team improved to 4-0 Saturday with wins over Duke and North Carolina State.

The Huskers beat the Blue Devils by a total score of 45-3 early in the afternoon in Durham, North Carolina, before traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina, and defeating the Wolfpack 16-15.

Nebraska won 9 of its 10 matches against Duke. The Huskers got out to a quick lead with a forfeited match in the 125-pound weight division followed by sophomore Eric Montoya’s pin fall over Duke’s Baily Jack. After the first two matches the Huskers led 12-0.

The Blue Devils picked up their first and only points of the dual when Duke’s Marcus Cain won in a decision over Nebraska sophomore Justin Arthur.

Returning Husker All-Americans James Green and Robert Kokesh both picked up wins at Duke. No. 2 wrestler in the 157-pound weight division, Green, won his match in a 12-7 decision over No. 19 Immanuel KerrBrown. Robert Kokesh won by a forfeit, as both continued their dominance at the top of their weight classes.

After Arthur’s loss, the Huskers went on to win the rest of their matches against Duke.

After their matches against the Blue Devils, the Huskers traveled 30 minutes to go up against NC State.

The Huskers had a tougher test in Ra-

leigh, splitting the ten matches with the Wolfpack.

Nebraska and NC State went back and forth the first four matches and were tied going into Green’s match with Chad Pyke.

Green won the match by a major decision earning four points putting the Huskers up 10-6 midway through the dual.

Max Rudolph beat Nebraska’s junior Austin Wilson in the 165-pound division to bring the Wolfpack within a point of the Huskers.

The Huskers’ Kokesh and sophomore Aaron Studebaker both won their matches with decisions putting Nebraska up 16-9.

North Carolina State’s Michael Boykin beat Nebraska’s sophomore Micah Barnes in a decision, which brought the Wolfpack within four heading into the heavyweight match between NC State’s Nick Gwiazdowski and sophomore Colin Jensen. Gwaizdowski came into the match as the No. 2 heavyweight wrestler in the nation; Jensen was ranked No. 15.

Gwaizdowski defeated Jensen in an 8-2 decision, but the three points he earned brought the Wolfpack within 1 point at the end of the dual.

The Huskers are now 4-0 overall and 1-0 in Big Ten matches. The squad is now ranked No. 7 in the nation.

Nebraska returns to the mat in two weeks as it heads to Las Vegas to compete in the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.

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SWIMMING: FROM 14 behind in fourth.

On the swim side, the Huskers’ top finisher was Julia Roller. The sophomore swam a time of 4:25.13 which placed sixth in the 400-yard individual medley.

The Huskers also notched two top-10 finishes in the 100-yard breaststroke: Junior Katie Ditter finished seventh with a time of 1:03.98, and teammate junior Sam Hardewig was close behind in ninth with a time of 1:04.05.

Freshman Cassie Brassard finished seventh in the 100-yard backstroke racing to a time of 55.75.

The top three of Missouri, Florida International and Nebraska held after the second day of competition of the meet.

On the final day of the meet, the Huskers once again got a big boost from Schwery, who won the platform dive with a score of 269.20.

The Husker swimmers turned in their best performance of the meet on Saturday, as they finished in the top 10 in events such as the 200-yard backstroke and 200-yard butterfly.

Sickle notched the first top 10 of the day in the first event Saturday with a 10th-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle.

In the meet’s next event, the 200-yard backstroke, Erin Oeltjen raced to a sixth place finish.

The meet’s third event had Collura race to another fourth-place finish in a freestyle swim; this time it was the 100-yard freestyle where she finished with a time of 50.01. Freshman Jordan Ehly shook off an 11th-place finish in the 100yard backstroke to finish sixth in the 200-yard edition of the event. Ditter, who finished seventh in the 100-yard, was 10th in the 200.

Roller was the Huskers’ top finisher in the 200-yard butterfly swimming with a time of 2:00.74 and fifth place. Senior Natalie Morris claimed seventh place in the event with a time of 2:02.95.

Missouri ran away with the meet title, recording 1,118 points. Florida International was second with 586 points, 73 points clear of the third place Huskers.

The NU divers will be in action Dec. 5 at the Hawkeye Invitational, and the full squad is back together for a dual meet at home against Northern Iowa on Dec. 12.

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The Nebraska women’s basketball team defeated the Utah Utes on Sunday 66-43.

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