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Chancellor Harvey Perlman announces the hiring of new NU Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst at the Van Brunt Visitors Center on Thursday. Eichorst, who has served as athletic director at the University of Miami since April 2011, will join UNL staff in Lincoln on Oct. 9 and take over as AD on Jan. 1, 2013.

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letic director for Osborne, who will retire Jan. 1.

Eichorst, who was named Miami’s athletic director in April 2011, accepted the Nebraska offer Wednesday night and resigned his posiThe decision was clear for Harvey Perlman. tion in Miami on Thursday.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chan“It is truly an honor and privilege cellor knew exactly who he to be a part of one of the great uniwanted to replace retiring Athversities in America and one of the letic Director Tom Osborne after strongest athletic departments in all he asked Shawn Eichorst a single of college sports,” Eichorst said in a question. statement Thursday.

“I asked him, ‘If you were ESPN broke the news after here five years from now, how Eichorst resigned and said he would would you measure your sucleave Miami to be Nebraska’s athletic cess?’” Perlman said. “His redirector, forcing Perlman to make the sponse was, ‘If the coaches and announcement earlier than planned. student athletes have been sucEichorst first visited UNL’s camcessful and nobody knows my pus Sept. 9, the day after Miami’s name, it will be a success.’” football team played Kansas State Perlman announced Thurseichorst in Manhattan, Kan. Eichorst toured day that Eichorst, former athletic the athletic facilities and interviewed director at the University of Miwith Perlman. ami in Coral Gables, Fla., will take over as ath-

Perlman said he knew almost immediately Eichorst was a top candidate to replace Osborne.

“He has all the talents the University of Nebraska needs,” Perlman said. “He also has the characteristics, admiration and respect for the culture of Nebraska, the great success we have had in athletics.

“I know there are people within the department who are disappointed that they weren’t more involved in this process. But this was so clear and so compelling for me to make this decision for Nebraska at this time.”

The process of choosing Osborne’s successor began in early September, after Osborne told Perlman he planned to retire because he didn’t want to be in a position where his age would affect his administrative duties. Perlman informed Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini before Osborne made his announcement

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Morale falls for UHC employees conor dunn dn Deb Vocasek has worked at the University Health Center for 34 years.

Since she was hired as a medical assistant in 1978, Vocasek has dreamed of achieving 35 years of service to the health center.

But because the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has plans to privatize its health center to an outside provider, giving the staff 90 days of guaranteed employment after the new provider takes over in May 2013, her dream may be lost.

“I will be just shy of my 35th year,” she said. “I would’ve been so proud.”

Many health center employees have suffered a similar loss of pride since Chancellor Harvey Perlman gave his State of the University address on Sept. 11.

And although many students are unaware of the health center’s privatization, or of what privatization even means, the university has asked UHC staff, as well as the students on its health center review board, to “keep quiet” about the issue, according to UHC officials.

UNL leaders have sought privatization for the health center because they want a new building, but don’t have the money to fund its construction on 21st and Vine streets. University administration said privatization was its only option because it didn’t want to raise student fees.

Bids for a new health center are expected Friday.

Since Perlman’s announcement, some employees have begun looking for jobs, while others have considered early retirement.

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Robin Barrera, a freshman pre-physical therapy major, works his back muscles with a medicine ball with the help of physical therapist assistant Drew Goeden at the University Health Center on Thursday. Barrera injured his back during weightlifting last year.

Vocasek believes the health center will lose half its staff by spring, putting the health center in a position in which it won’t have enough staff to take care of the students.

“Who in their right mind is going to stay around when they know they’ll have to leave?” she said.

UHC director Dr. James Guest has told employees they must keep their spirits high and remain professional for the students.

The first employees likely to be dismissed if a new provider takes over

are the business and administrative workers, because the provider already has those employees, said Guest, who has been researching the effects of health center privatization in the U.S. – a task university leaders said they neglected to carry out. Guest is among those likely to be replaced if the center is privatized.

The employees the new provider chooses to keep would likely have the lowest seniority in the office and be at the bottom of the pay scale, Vocasek said.

But she said leaving has its drawbacks, too.

“I’ll feel like a nobody if I go somewhere else,” she said. “This has been a home to me.”

One of the reasons Perlman provided for privatization of the health center was a need to begin recording medical records digitally.

But the health center has used digital records for the past six and a half years, according to Chris Rindone, the electronic medical records (EMR) manager and chief radiologic technologist, and UHC’s longest-serving employee. Rindone has worked at the health center for 38 years.

“It hurts a lot,” Rindone said in regard to Perlman’s comments. “We pride ourselves on having the best cutting-edge technology. I think UNL administration has no idea what we do here at the health center.”

Although she could retire, Rindone continues to work because she loves her job. She said she feels like she’ll have a job available to her with a new provider because she knows how the UHC’s EMR system operates, and if the new provider wants to learn how to use that system, she would teach it to that provider.

The health center has received positive satisfaction surveys from the students over the past decade, Rindone said. The health center has also operated itself within its budget, according to officials.

“What this means to us is that you can do your best, and they will still do this,” Rindone said of the university’s plans to privatize the UHC. Stephanie Hammer has worked

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eichorst bio • Shawn Eichorst is from Lone Rock, Wis. • He was an all-conference defensive player at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and graduated in 1990 • He served as athletic director at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 1999-2003 • He served as an associate athletic director at the University of South Carolina from 2004-2006, including a stint as interim athletic director in June 2005 • He was senior associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin in 2006 and executive associate athletic director in 2007 before becoming deputy athletic director from 2009-2011 • Eichorst became University of Miami’s athletic director in April 2011

Lecture follows evolution of Mulan story lis arneson dn Carol Levin, director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, wants to dispel the notion that renaissance studies are limited to Europe.

This notion prompted her to invite Kristine Harris, associate professor of history and director of the Asian Studies Program at State University of New York at New Paltz, to this year ’s Mary Martin McLaughlin Memorial Lecture, an annual lecture on medieval women, gender and family.

On Thursday, about 70 people gathered at the Great Plains Art Museum to hear “Mulan and Her Sisters: Women of the Middle Period Re-Imagined in Chinese Film and Visual Culture.”

“I really wanted to have professor Kristine Harris come because I think it’s important for people to see that the medieval and renaissance studies program here focuses not only on Western Europe, but also is

global,” said Levin, who is also a history professor at UNL. Harris’ presentation followed the evolution of the story of Mulan in Chinese culture.

“I think Mulan is such a fascinating figure, and I thought that when the Disney cartoon came out,” Levin said. “But it’s fascinating to see the whole history of Mulan in popular culture in China.”

The original Mulan legend consists of Mulan posing as a man and serving 12 years in the Chinese army. She then returns to domestic life. The crux of Harris’ argument focused on Mulan’s gradual transition to the domestic sphere and how she became nearly equal to men.

Harris’ lecture included illustrations and clips from 1910s and ‘20s films based on the legendary heroine.

“I would hope that students and other people who are visiting and hearing it might be able to think of the different ways that the middle period or the medieval has been viewed at different times and in different

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Sorority to host ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes’

Alpha Chi Omega’s event will raise money for the Friendship Home Elias Youngquist DN Men and women will tout high heels for a mile-long shuffle or walk, depending on their high heel proficiency, around the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus Saturday.

Alpha Chi Omega will hold its first Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event Saturday at 10 a.m. to raise

awareness for domestic abuse and domestic violence.

“It’s definitely not going away, and it’s everywhere,” said Tracy Hofmann, development coordinator for Friendship Home, a shelter for women and children who are victims of domestic abuse. “It’s a silent problem that people don’t like to admit. We’re seeing more and more needs for our services.”

At 10 a.m., a breakfast for all participants will take place at the Alpha Chi Omega house on 16th and Vine streets, followed by two speakers on domestic violence – the UNL Women’s Center victim’s advocate and Lawrence Chatters, the center’s men’s programs co-

ordinator. After the speakers, the mile-long walk in high heels, should participants choose to wear them, will begin.

“The main purpose is the pun, to have men walk around in high heels,” said Jan Deeds, associate director of the Women’s Center.

“That’s the metaphor, trying to put yourself in the situation of women who are more likely to be victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse.

It’s the vulnerability.”

Alpha Chi Omega does two other annual fundraisers for Friendship Home but was looking for another way to raise awareness, said Lauren Peterson, a senior advertising and public relations major and the phi-

lanthropy chair of Alpha Chi Omega.

“October is domestic violence awareness month, and we wanted to raise awareness,” Peterson said. “We heard about this in March and we wanted to bring it to UNL.” High heels and T-shirts will be provided for those who pre-registered, though everyone is welcome to bring his or her own heels or just walk in the march, Peterson said.

“If you do decide to go out and get high heels, get them bigger,” Peterson said. “And for women who participate, make sure they’re comfortable. Yeah, it’s going to be uncomfortable, but it’s also for the good of the cause.”

According to Deeds, little data

exists on how much domestic abuse occurs in Lincoln or at UNL because it is so infrequently reported.

“While we’re educating ourselves about it and letting people know it’s not the victims fault, there’s a lot of shame the victim feels,” Deeds said.

The need for a safe place for victims of domestic abuse is increasing, Hofmann said.

“Over the course of the year, we serve 1,600 women and children,” Hofmann said. “On average, daily in our shelters, we’re serving 72 women and children. And there’s another 69 who are waiting to come in. We could build three more shelters, and they’d be full.”

The hope, Deeds said, is that the event draws attention to the fact that most men aren’t abusive, but need to recognize the signs of domestic abuse and know how to step in.

“It’s good for guys to stand up and volunteer with groups and know how to respond when things happen,” Deeds said. “We have these events with a lot of people participating that recognize that this is really important and say, ‘I want to continue to do something.’

So if you’re interested in making campus and the world a safer place, there’s ways to get involved.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Enid Newman, a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln International Folk Dance Club, teaches a dance at Russian Culture Night at the Nebraska Union on Thursday.

Club hosts annual Russian Culture Night Carl Mejstrik DN The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Russian Club held its annual Russian Culture Night on Thursday, celebrating Russian culture with lively, traditional Russian dance, colorful dress and a Russia trivia version of the game “Jeopardy!” Winning answers were rewarded with Russian candy.

The UNL International Folk Dance Club was in attendance, teaching the more than 30 audience members how to perform customary Russian dances. The group of seven dancers instructed three dances.

One, called a troyka, was a youthful, energetic dance in which dancers twirled yards away from their partners, kicking feet in and out on multiple occasions before switching partners. The second dance was simply called a “by the spring” dance because of its slow-moving, gentle pace. The final dance, known as korobushka, or mixer dance, was a lively number in which three dancers lined up and weaved under each others’ arms before spinning toward a new set of partners.

Two of the folk dancers, clad in

customary Russian garments called sarafan, were a husband and wife who have been a part of the International Folk Dancers since 1980. Allen and Linda Collingham have been teaching dances since they first began and know a number of cultural dances.

“We know traditional French, Columbian, Mexican and about 80 percent of the Balkan states’ dances,” Allen Collingham said.

Mila Saskova-Pierce, a UNL associate professor of Russian and Czech, was one of the sponsors for the culture night and invited the folk dancers to the celebration. Wearing an orange dress and a white blouse embroidered with red, blue and pink flowers known as a rubashka, Saskova-Pierce helped with the preparations for the event.

“This is a great opportunity to celebrate this culture,” SaskovaPierce said. “There’s a sizable amount of students with heritage from Russian states in the Soviet Union here in Lincoln. This night does not celebrate just Russian heritage, but the cultures that are tied to Russia.”

Sevil Bauers, a senior political science major, Russian Club presi-

dent and Turkmenistan native, coordinated the event.

“I first learned about Russian Club last year and I immediately became interested and joined,” Bauers said. “I loved the dancing and the events that were held, and this year I decided I should try to become president and make it even better.”

Participants seemed to enjoy the dancing, as well.

Nick Wensel, a freshman Russian major, was lucky enough to wear a customary shirt while he danced.

“It was pretty fun, but also pretty tiring,” Wensel said. “I couldn’t stop laughing the whole time.”

Julie Phillips, a Russian and Spanish teacher at Papillion-La Vista High School, brought six students with her to experience the event.

“We’re the only high school in Nebraska that offers Russian as a language course, so we try to take advantage of anything that celebrates this kind of culture,” Phillips said. “We’ve been to some of these in the past, and it’s always a great event that we have an opportunity to take part in.”

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Unlike many other students, University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior Matt Osborne isn’t worried about his chances of finding a job after college. He says it’s because he’s a nutrition and health sciences major.

A recent study backs him up.

According to Indiana University research, people with health, education and biological sciences degrees have a better chance of finding a job after graduation than people with architecture, industrial arts and engineering graduates.

The study surveyed graduates of public colleges and universities in Indiana between 1999 and 2008. The findings showed that only one out of every 44 graduates with health, education and biological sciences degrees faced unemployment, compared to one out of 13 graduates in architecture, industrial arts and engineering.

“I know that the medical field is a vastly expanding thing and there is a high need for a lot of different practices,” Osborne said.

The study looked at 178,000 Indiana residents who graduated from public or state universities. The data came from the Indiana Workforce Intelligence sion, there were some people System. that were thinking about retiring Because health majors tend to go on to other colleges af- but didn’t,” Timm said. “Now, they are, which opens up jobs.” ter graduating from UNL, the Timm also said the public is university does not track the number of students with health becoming more concerned with degrees who find jobs after grad- physical health, opening more jobs for health majors. First uating.

Lady Michelle The study also Obama, for found that people There is example, has who graduate with started an inidegrees in architecso much tiative to help ture, industrial arts curb childhood and engineering are unknown in obesity. more likely to have biology, (so) a ton “There is a periods of unemlot more attenployment, but that of research jobs tion spent on those stints were are needed.” nutrition edurelatively brief. cation,” Timm brittany adams Chris Timm, assenior forensic science major said. sociate director of L o u i s e UNL’s Career SerLaFramboise, vices, said she has seen the employment trend hold the director of the Undergradutrue nationally and said she is ate Nursing Program at the looking forward to the creation University of Nebraska Medical of jobs as the economy slowly Center, said she’s also noticed the study’s trend. But she said improves.

“Because of the recent reces- the conditions were due to the

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“There was a very brief bubble when the economy declined when nursing jobs were more limited,” LaFramboise said.

“You had to be more flexible.

Maybe you didn’t get to work at your first choice job. That lasted for a couple of years.”

Despite a current nursing shortage, LaFramboise said she expects an increase of 700,000 nursing positions between 2010 and 2020. Because of that projected increase, students who obtain degrees in nursing are almost guaranteed jobs, she said.

When senior forensic science major Brittany Adams heard about the study, she was thrilled.

“That’s awesome,” she said.

“It will work great for me. (The trend) is probably because they are such growing fields. There is so much unknown in biology, (so) a ton of research jobs are needed.”

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uhc: from 1 six days a week at the health center for 25 years as a clinic clerk. Students meet with Hammer when they want to schedule an appointment.

“It breaks my heart,” she said.

“I love my job. I love my students.

They don’t forget about you. In the real world, it’s a whole different ball game.”

UHC dental office manager Sue Heng said the health center provides students with a hands-on dentistry experience. Because the dental office and the College of Dentistry are under the university’s umbrella, Heng said students are learning the most advanced dentistry techniques available.

With the health center located in the heart of City Campus, student workers can come and go in between classes, Heng said. The new building’s proposed location is farther away, about a half mile, and the distance will provide problems for those students, Heng said.

Another department worried about its student workers is Health Education and Outreach, which is funded through two grants that can’t be used by a for-profit provider.

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Freshman Robin Barrera stretches his back during a physical therapy session on Thursday at the University Health Center. ness Advocates are two groups of students that promote health on campus.

Suzanne Forkner, UHC’s lead wellness educator, said it’s unlikely the

new provider would hire 60 student employees for health education and outreach on campus as the UHC currently does.

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Jessah Hofker, a senior marketing major, hands her NCard to Stephanie Hammer while setting up an appointment at the University Health Center on Thursday.

One of Health Education and Outreach’s grants is used to recruit first-generation students and minorities to UNL. Removal of the program

due to the health center’s privatization would go against Perlman’s mission to increase student enrollment at the university, Forkner said.

UHC nurse practitioner Terry Thomas has worked at the health center for the past four years and in the medical field for more than 32 years.

Thomas, a native of New Mexico, said Nebraska was the hardest place for her to find a job, and she worked three part-time jobs before she was hired at the health center.

When Thomas learned the university wanted to privatize the health center without medical input from the UHC staff, she was shocked, she said.

Last week, Thomas and one of her usual patients cried together after the patient found out Thomas could lose her job.

“My job isn’t about getting hugs, it’s about making a different in students’ lives,” she said.

And for Thomas, it’s not the building that matters, she said. It’s the service.

“I love my job. I’m intending on staying and going through this,” she said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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news briefs nu scientists to speak on effects of climate change

Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, scientists will speak in the Hardin Hall auditorium about climate change and its potential effects on Nebraska. Speakers include Robert Oglesby from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Song Feng from the School of Natural Resources, Adam Liska from the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and Andrew Jameton from the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The event is free and open to the public. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wildlife Club and local Sierra Club chapter are hosting the event.

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Evan Ibach, a junior animal science major, talks with Tim Brhel, agriculture financial specialist for Water Street Solutions, about possible internship opportunities at the Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources Career Fair at the Nebraska East Union on Thursday.

7 businesses stay for three-day career fair Carl Mejstrik dn Seven companies were in the Fall Career Fair for the long haul.

In addition to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration, seven businesses held booths for all three days of the fair, which wrapped up Thursday at the Nebraska East Union. Each day catered to students seeking jobs and internships in a different category of field. The final day hosted more than 60 companies focusing on agricultural

sciences and natural resources.

Robert Guthrie, human resources coordinator for Hormel Foods Corp., mingled with students at the company booth for all three days of the fair.

“We are looking to fill positions that a lot of engineer-based majors could fill,” Guthrie said. “The first day of the career fair we had a large number of chemical engineers talk with us and apply.”

However, interest waned for the next two days.

“On the second day I saw a lot of business majors just walk straight on by,” Guthrie said. “I mean, we have a Fortune 500 company. You shouldn’t just walk by without at least speaking.

But (Thursday) we haven’t had many

bites either.”

For every company that held a booth each day, student response varied.

Lindsey Eastwood, director of talent sourcing for Gallup, had four people working a booth on Wednesday while only two worked on Thursday.

“We had our best turn out (Wednesday), and today is much slower,” Eastwood said. “But overall, this year has been a lot busier than last year.”

Linda Tucker, a recruiter for the Peace Corps, didn’t expect much interest during the fall career fair, but she said the spring fair will likely bring more buzz.

“You deal with highs and lows,” Tucker said. “During the fall it’s low because a lot of people are in school still and haven’t thought much about after graduating. But come spring, they don’t have jobs, and I’m here.”

This isn’t to say that Tucker didn’t catch the interest of any students at the fall career fair, particularly on Tuesday, which featured engineering and technology jobs.

“I saw the most interest on Tuesday,” she said. “Engineering majors were interested because they like to build, especially when it’s involved with water sanitation.”

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Students talk with potential employers at the Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources Career Fair at the Nebraska East Union on Thursday.

Sandhills Publishing human resources manager Heather Thomas has been representing her company at career fairs for the past 10 years.

Although she saw the most activity on Tuesday, she said it’s important to show up at every career fair.

“When we come to these a vari-

ety of students have a variety of companies to experience,” Thomas said.

“And each year these fairs grow with the university making more students more accessible.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

EDEP hosts run to encourage healthy lifestyle lis arneson dn Karen Miller, faculty sponsor of UNL’s Eating Disorder Education and Prevention (EDEP), wants to encourage running as a healthy habit rather than a form of weight loss with the group’s third annual 5K run at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Sunday.

“The theme of the run is ‘run for the health of it,’” Miller said.

“We often have people running for weight loss reasons. It’s a non-competitive, 5K fun run. Not to lose weight or running for a speed – just as part of a healthy lifestyle.”

The group’s president, junior nutrition and health sciences major Jamie Mullen, agreed that the focus was on health rather than weight loss.

“You shouldn’t be running to lose weight or burn calories; you should just be doing it to be healthy,” Mullen said.

Since Sept. 7, a group with Campus Recreation has been meeting each Friday at 7 a.m. to take part in a five-week program for those new to running.

The 5K, which will take place at 9 a.m. on East Campus, has about 35 participants signed up so far. Those interested can still sign up at crec.unl.edu. Students

can also register on the day of the race. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. between the Home Economics Building and Ruth Leverton Hall. There is a $10 registration fee.

Mullen said she hopes to spread the word about EDEP through this Sunday’s event.

“Our goal is mostly just to raise awareness of our group and what we do and kind of educate the public but do it in a fun way,” she said. “I think eating disorders are kind of hushed toward the public. People don’t really talk about them even though they are happening everywhere.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Eating Disorder education and prevention 5k fun run • Fee is $10 for UNL students and CREC members; $15 for the public • Students can register online at crec.unl.edu, or on the day of the race • Registration begins at 8 a.m. on East Campus

eichorst: from 1 Eichorst was at Miami for 18 public, asking for Pelini’s advice on months before he resigned to take choosing an AD. over the Nebraska position. PerlAfter talking to Pelini, Perlman said a stout contract will keep man hired Jed Hughes, a search Eichorst from leaving Nebraska consultant with Korn/Ferry Inearly like he did with Miami. ternational, and made a search “Well, there is always a conadvisory committee. The comcern,” Perlman said. “The way mittee included Pelini, Big Ten you can assure you have a hire for Commissioner Jim Delany, NU basketball coach Tim Miles and 10 a long time is to hire someone noother coaches, donors and former body else wants. I don’t believe in that. What you do is find the most student athletes. talented people you can find and However, none of these advisask them to come.” ers were involved in the interview Eichorst will be paid $973,000 process, including Osborne. annually with an “It’s an unusual added $750,000 circumstance,” PerlHe has all bonus if he stays man said. “At the the talents past five years. If same time, my perEichorst leaves sonal belief is incum- the University of within the first bents shouldn’t be year, he will owe involved in choosing Nebraska needs.”

Nebraska $2 miltheir successor. That lion initially, then is just an awkward harvey perlman $500,000 each situation to put anyunl chancellor of the next four one in.” years.

Perlman interHowever, Perlman said he viewed two candidates for the position, Eichorst and another sitting doesn’t think Eichorst will leave before his contract ends. Eichorst AD Perlman wouldn’t name. said he chose to be NU’s athletic Osborne wasn’t involved in the director because of its prestige in decision to hire Eichorst until this last week when Nebraska played college athletics, Perlman said.

“He told me it was the long Wisconsin, Perlman said. history, the tradition, the success,” Eichorst worked for Wisconsin Perlman said. “The history of this Athletic Director Barry Alvarez program being one that does it as an associate athletic director right and force student athletes for five years. Alvarez, a Husker beyond what they do on the field alumnus, played for Osborne in and the court. This is a great prothe 1960s, and the two remain on gram and we shouldn’t be surfriendly terms today, according to prised it attracts people here.”

Perlman.

Perlman also said the life skills Osborne and Alvarez talked program and research enterprise about Eichorst during the Wisconimplemented by Osborne excite sin game, Perlman said.

Eichorst about his future as Ne“Tom told me Barry was very braska’s athletic director. Overall, high on Shawn,” Perlman said. the chancellor is comfortable with Perlman thought about offerhis decision. ing Eichorst the job for a few days “The Athletic Department is in more before he called him Wednesgood hands,” he said. day night. Eichorst will be officially NEWS@ announced as Osborne’s successor DAILYNEBRASKAN.com Tuesday at 11 a.m.

The Nebraska Latino-American Commission will host a celebration of the sixth annual Hispanic Heritage Month at the Capitol Building on Friday at 3:30 p.m. At the event, Govenor Dave Heineman will sign a proclamation declaring Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 Hispanic Heritage Month in Nebraska. The commemoration will recognize six Nebraska students, two organizations and two local community leaders. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Juan Franco will be the keynote speaker at the ceremony, which will last about an hour. A reception following the ceremony will feature performances from local artists and Latin American food.

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Photographer Grace Brown is inviting sexual violence survivors to take part in her global photography project while she’s in Lincoln on Monday.

Brown photographs sexual violence survivors holding written quotes from their attackers.

She will also speak in the Nebraska Union Auditorium on Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Brown created Project Unbreakable in October 2011 after hearing a friend’s story of sexual violence. Since then, she has photographed more than 200 people across the U.S. In January, TIME magazine listed the project’s blog as one of the top 30 Tumblrs to follow.

Those interested in being photographed for Project Unbreakable on Monday can email projectunbreakable@gmail.com with the subject line “photograph me – Lincoln.” Self-portraits can be submitted to projectunbreakablesubmissions@gmail.com.

mulan: from 1 parts of the world,” Harris said.

Her talk examined the trend of reworking classic narratives in film and advertisements in the early 20th century.

“There are fluctuations in the perception of different periods in the past,” Harris said. “Definitely for China in the years after the fall of their last dynasty, you see this question of ‘What is the future of China?’ And they look at a period like the middle period which followed the breakup of a major dynasty and they see that things got better in some ways, so there was hope in that past.”

Tony Foreman, a medieval and renaissance studies graduate student, said he attended the lecture to gain perspective on China during the Middle Ages.

“I wanted to see how the modern Chinese portrayed their middle period versus how we’ve been portraying our middle period,” Foreman said. “One of the most interesting things I found out was it seemed that they’re prouder of their history during that time period than we are (of the European Middle Ages).”

Levin encourages students to attend other public events hosted by the renaissance studies program.

“I thought this was a great way for people to get more of a sense of the range of what we do in medieval and renaissance studies,” Levin said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Two columnists weigh in on Wednesday’s presidential debate, from the candidates’ policies to their loyalty and individual principles Governor Mitt Romney bursts out of starting gate, presents solutions for country’s economic turmoil

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omney throws an uppercut and catches Obama on the chin. Gaining momentum, Romney steps up and throws two quick jabs. Obama is on the ropes, folks. Could we be seeing the downfall of the King of Change?

Yes, that’s what you saw Wednesday night in the first presidential debate of 2012. We saw two great debaters go toeto-toe with each other, and we saw one of them get cut down – caught in his lies and called out more than the other.

Obama didn’t lose the debate because he was a worse debater; he knows how to debate. Obama lost this debate because his policies, views and overall ideology were called out. The question is, how can he back up his policies when most of them don’t work?

Romney aptly pointed that out.

Due to limited space, I won’t be able to address all the arguments from the debate, but I can point out why Obama lost.

Besides the fact that Obama’s policies are a failure, the reasons he lost this debate are simple.

First off, Romney presented a five-point plan to help out the economy. Obama had nothing but blundering policies to fall back on.

Secondly, the president lied.

When he said the U.S. is producing more oil, (which is true) he got called out on it. The fact is oil companies are producing more despite government setbacks and regulations. Therefore, the success is not because of the president’s policies in any way.

Finally, Obama was called out when he tried to lie about Romney’s plan to cut taxes.

Romney told him he had his facts wrong and specifically stated that what

ZACH NOLD Obama said wasn’t part of his platform.

Essentially, Romney asked the question, “Why would you vote for a liar and a man whose policies have already failed?” Give him a second chance? I think not.

My first example of Obama’s failed economic policies comes in the form of energy. Obama stated that our country is producing more energy today than it was four years ago. This is true. However, it isn’t because of his policies, but because the private sector keeps fighting to produce oil for our country despite his attempts to shut down offshore drilling and the keystone oil pipeline.

According to Dinesh D’Souza, the political writer known for the documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” Obama has shipped our government’s oil drilling overseas. He has given billions of dollars of taxpayer money to other countries to drill oil for us and sell it back to us at higher prices.

This is something the American people don’t want, and Romney pounced.

According to Romney, his own policies will double the amount of drilling, open the coal industry back up, finish the Keystone Pipeline and create four million jobs in the process.

Obama has no plan to create energy independence in today’s age of a gasoline-powered nation.

How can you vote for a man who is so blinded by the future energy sources, (which he doesn’t have a way to pay for) that he doesn’t think about the present problems?

It’s logical to think that if we are oil independ e n t a n d t h e gov-

ernment was making money from this oil independence through taxes and subsidies, that some of that money could be put towards future energy research.

The second reason why Obama lost this debate is he is lying about the facts. He stated he was going to cut the deficit in half four years ago. Yet, he has added an equal amount, or more debt in the last four years, than President George W. Bush did in eight years. His plan to cut the deficit is to raise taxes across the board, even though he claims to be a voice for the middle class.

Obama doesn’t know how to cut the budget, help out the middle class and keep money rolling in to keep the government running. He just keeps spitting out lies with no way to back them up. Romney pointed this out, and the fact of the matter is, Romney knows how to run a business and understands economics better than Obama.

He also has a plan to cut the deficit and a way to explain it that doesn’t sound like a bunch of mumbled “we will see if it works” political jargon.

Finally, Obama told voters Romney w a s going to implement a $5 trillion tax cut. Adm i t t e d l y, Romney’s tax plan would cut $5 trillion in the span of a decade.

However, to counterbalance these tax cuts, Romney said they wouldn’t all be at once, and unnecessary programs, deductions and loopholes would be closed to keep revenue rolling in.

According to factcheck.org, “Romney always has said he planned to offset that massive cut with equally massive reductions in tax preferences to broaden the tax base, thus losing no revenue and not increasing the deficit. So to that extent, the president is incorrect: Romney is not proposing a $5 trillion reduction in taxes.”

In the end, Obama was called out on his failed policies and simply outgunned by a better-prepared man – one who has a legitimate plan to fix our economy.

Look at Obama’s body language; he looked tired and beaten. He didn’t refute the lies he was called out on, and simply looked down at his paper wondering where he went wrong. He blamed others for his problems and didn’t take responsibility for his actions.

Romney looked confident, had an actual plan to fix the economy and a way to create jobs. Obama did not, and he has no way to back up his already failed policies.

How can anyone vote for a man who has already failed?

“Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me.”

That’s what Americans should be thinking. Obama has already fooled America once, are you going to let him do it again?

Zach Nold is an English Major. Follow him on Twitter @ZachNold and reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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his presidential election stands as one candidate’s to win and the other’s to not lose. The two presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, stood on stage for their first debate Wednesday evening.

Before the debate, polls showed President Obama was leading in swing states. It’s a promising outlook for the president. However, after the debate, a CNN poll showed that 67 percent of viewers felt Romney gave a better performance.

Debates are painted to be strong determinants of elections, but most viewers have already made up their minds by the first forum. Swing voters may watch debates to observe the political joust between the candidates, but they are looking for principles, not necessarily the details, of the individual policies. Both candidates spent more than the allotted time criticizing the other’s math and factual accuracies, but Obama was quicker to remind the American people of the principled stances behind his policies and goals as president of the United States. While Romney was perhaps the better debater, President Obama was more attractive to winning the swing vote.

President Obama and Governor Romney first debated on the economy, specifically what each candidate will do to create more American jobs.

Obama stuck to his mantra of protecting the middle class.

While Romney was articulate, his “five-part” plan was too cumbersome.

Obama is motivated by basic concepts and these simplified ideas are allowed to resonate with t h e American people. He wants to reform the tax code to take the burden off the middle class, empower small businesses and increase taxes on the very wealthy. The numbers and the minute distinctions between the two candidates are arbitrary to the swing voter. Obama captured some of his most fundamental aims and presented them clearly to the audience.

The next topic of the debate was the federal deficit, where the president has faced the harshest criticism from Republicans. Both parties fear the increasing deficit, and much of their campaigns have depended on the promise of decreasing the national debt.

In a legitimate political move, Obama made it clear he entered office with a huge deficit – in an effort to shift some of the blame from him and his administration.

In the overall discussion of this topic, Obama started to weaken and Romney was able to gain momentum. Both candidates attacked each other with falsehoods and pointlessly debated the integrity of some hyphenated legislation about which most Americans won’t care. Romney was more prepared in this area.

However, the swing voter won’t find the intricacies of numbers, or even the economic policies, particularly interesting. Obama should have further discussed his plans to help education programs and criticized Romney’s intention on increasing spending on defense. For voters, this is a clear contrast with which to be presented. Romney’s budget doesn’t include much room, if any, for an expanding education system. No candidate wants to be caught admitting cuts to our beloved schools, teach-

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JANE SEU ers and universities. Obama lost an opportunity to provide his own appeal to the American people.

Naturally, a good portion of the allotted 90 minutes was spent discussing the Affordable Health Care Act. President Obama took proud ownership of the term “Obamacare,” even though it was a pejorative term invented by Republicans.

The health care debate itself is a tricky minefield for Romney when debating against Obama. While Romney wants to repeal it immediately, he enacted a similar state-level plan in his state of Massachusetts during his governorship. Obama attempted to remind viewers Obamacare is a similar, federal model of healthcare as that in Massachusetts, but he shouldn’t have dwelled on it.

In debate, it didn’t help him. It actually only gave Governor Romney to discuss his own vision of healthcare at the state level. President Obama let his basic philosophy of making healthcare affordable overall be his final message, but he was unable to properly defend it as a federal policy.

Despite the distracting economic discussions, attentive swing voters should have noted the discussion of the final topic – the fundamental role of government. This question is said to be the foundation of differences between Republicans and Democrats themselves, and Obama was clear to articulate his position.

Simply put, Obama believes the federal government should protect the American people. He reverted back to his commitment to the middle class, small businesses and to his education goals. Romney wants to protect the American people with a strengthened military and to protect the rights of free individuals.

According to Romney, the fed-

eral government should interfere as little as possible. These are both fair arguments and voters should keep these in mind in November.

No matter who is elected, policies and promises will alter, and priorities are fluid. Debates give viewers the chance to visualize their future president. Who can they picture standing at that podium? As they do so, they should ask themselves which man with these basic beliefs about my government do I trust to serve at the head of it?

I’m not a swing voter. I’ve already made my decision. However, I don’t think debates are absolutely critical in swaying those who haven’t. Few are mesmerized or even concerned with the numbers of an economic plan that are presented, refuted and then presented again in a debate as they were on Wednesday.

Voters look for clear, committed principles.

Most critically, debates leave out the discussion of social issues, a significant factor in determining votes.

Swing voters get none of these answered in these debates and are left to determine them on their own.

Obama surely needs to show a stronger performance in the coming debates, but it’s all an exercise in political resilience. He needs only to stand in a position not to lose, while Romney must win the election. His performance wasn’t so weak that he seemed incapable of a second term, but neither was Romney’s so dominant that the presidency is within his grasp. Those who have not yet determined which candidate they will vote for should look to each candidate’s commitment to their respective principles and understand policies as a reflection of these ideals.

JANE SEU IS A JUNIOR POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR. FOLLOW HER ON TWITTER @ JANE_SEU AND REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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Lincoln songwriter to release ‘optimistic’ album With his debut solo record “Waiting for Patience,” Alex Walker shares soulful songs with reflective undertones lindsay mccoy dn

for his work did not come easy. In the beginning, Nyffeler struggled for weeks to design a poster for a touring band stopping at Lincoln’s Box Awesome until he finally found his niche.

“I had finally figured out my style,” he said. “Things went into overdrive after that.”

It’s a style, he admits, that involves a

Once in the electric funk band Higher Empathy Movement, Alex Walker is now flying solo.

The Lincoln native is releasing his album, “Waiting for Patience,” Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Zen’s Lounge.

Walker said he hopes the album’s seven songs, featuring soulful acoustics and cheerful lyrics, will bring a breath of fresh air to Friday’s crowd. It’s optimistic music from a man who likes his songs to reflect his own positivity.

“Some of (the songs) are selfexamining,” Walker said. “It’s a way to figure things out in my own life, but at the same time, I hope others can relate to them too. Life, in general, is inspiring.”

The album title, “Waiting for Patience,” comes from the last track, which popped out during the project’s final stages. To Walker, it is about the importance of patience and sticking it out.

“It is a subtle reminder that you aren’t always going to have everything you want right when you want it,” he said. “But in time, everything works out as it should. What will be, will be.”

Moving forward, Walker plans to continue exposing people to his music. His only hope is that he won’t be hit with “some degenerative throat disease and have to get (his) vocal chords removed.”

A look at the past: Walker ’s parents influenced what he could and could not listen to. He was exposed to pop radio until high school, when he discovered the language of music, as well as his own natural talents.

Walker has been influenced most profoundly by reggae and soul, but also finds inspiration in fellow local musicians.

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Eric Nyffeler, owner of Doe Eyed, sits in his studio in the Haymarket on Wednesday. Doe Eyed has done design work for major music artists like The Black Keys, Andrew Bird and Gotye.

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Nyffeler flips through the pages of his sketchbook on Wednesday. He says he starts his designs by drawing them out and then moves to the computer to complete them.

Doe Eyed, a one-man design company, creates artistic promotional posters for bands, TV shows and films What do The Decemberists, The Black Keys, The Avett Brothers, Iron & Wine, Gotye, Andrew Bird, East of the Wall and St. Vincent have in common?

Eric Nyffeler’s brain.

The musicians previously mentioned – all for whom Nyffeler has designed posters – only skim the surface of his repertoire of work. With his self-operated design studio, Doe Eyed, he also worked his way into designing posters

for films and TV shows, like “Adult Swim” and “Arrested Development.”

And he has a design for an undisclosed major motion picture in the works.

Tucked away in the Haymarket is a one-room studio where Nyffeler produces his work. He is Doe Eyed’s owner and only employee.

“I feel extremely fortunate making a living doing what I do,” Nyffeler said.

The graphic designer started free-

lancing in college, when he attended the University of Nebraska Kearney. After college, he held a day job until he decided working 80 to 90 hours each week wasn’t something he could continue doing. This led to the birth of Doe Eyed in 2008.

Since then, he has worked with numerous artists, designing promotional and artistic posters.

However, finding a personal identity

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Vague film endings Film professor explores old studio practices walk wire between cheap, innovative I'LL HAVE WHAT HE'S WATCHING

cameron mount Open-ended films are nothing new.

But ever since the final shot of “The Sopranos” had viewers scrambling to see if their TiVos were broken, directors have taken ambiguity to an almost sadistic extreme.

In 2011 alone, there was “Take Shelter,” “Another Earth,” “Drive” and the most ambiguous of all, “Martha Marcy May Marlene.” The Coen brothers have led their fans to expect confounding endings, with “No Country For Old Men,” “Barton Fink” and a sudden inexplicable tornado in “A Serious Man.” But no film genre sparks these discussions quite like science fiction, often because the implications come with grand moral messages. Is Leonardo DiCaprio still dreaming at the end of “Inception”? The topic of virtually every post-viewing discussion of that movie, both online and off, would imply that it’s the only part of the film of any importance.

The takeaway “it doesn’t matter if he’s asleep because he’s already committed to living in his head” might satisfy critical analysis, but for viewers it feels like manipulation.

Here comes “Looper,” the new

Rian Johnson time-travel film about Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s mission to kill his Bruce Willis self. Compared to “Inception,” “Looper” is more open-ended but also more graceful in its ambiguity, outlining what it takes to legitimize this increasingly cliche device. (Warning: BIG “Looper” spoilers ahead).

In some ways, “Looper” pokes fun at the entire concept of timetravel movies. When Young Joe (Gordon-Levitt) questions Old Joe (Willis) about the impossible logic of it all, Old Joe angrily replies “I don’t wanna talk about time travel. We’ll be here all day drawing diagrams with straws.” A certain suspension of disbelief is expected and necessary.

The basic paradox (and major spoiler) of “Looper” is this: If Cid the Rainmaker exists in 2073, it’s because Cid grows up angry at the world in the 2040s, when the film takes place.

Old Joe thinks he can prevent this by coming back and killing him, but by shooting Cid’s mother instead, he ends up predetermining the whole thing (including grazing Cid’s jaw and foretelling his future prosthetic one). Once he comes to understand this cycle of upholding fate, Young Joe commits suicide to remove the Joes from the timeline entirely.

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Dixon unearths realities of pre-1960s Hollywood contracts, corporate egos

production directors like Columbia Picture’s Harry Cohn.

“They were really all sociopaths,” he said. “Harry Cohn was really a poet of profanity. He literally would curse his employees out from morning, noon, to night. Just casually passing you by in the corcameron mount ridor he would scream purple indn vective at you just for kicks, more or less to make you feel small.”

Film studios today run almost like Another example Dixon gives clockwork: A script is packaged is former head of Warner Bros. stuwith actors, a director and crew, the dio Jack Warner, telling the story movie is made and the studio disof the aftermath of a car accident tributes and advertises. due to drunken driving.

But in the first half of the 20th “(His son) Jack Warner Jr. century, the system was fueled by came over to the hospibrutal contracts and tal and was genuinely corporate ego­­ , a time concerned,” Dixon given little attention in said. “The reporters film academia. Wheeler were all gathered in Winston Dixon, profesthe hallways, and he sor of film studies at the said, ‘I don’t think University of NebrasPop’s going to make ka-Lincoln, delves into it.’ And the minute he this fascinating era in heard this, Jack began his new book, “Death of to rally straight away, the Moguls: The End of and the first thing he Classical Hollywood,” did when he got back which was released in to the studio in Holdixon August by Rutgers Unilywood was to disown versity Press. his son Jack Jr.! On the “They all figured grounds that that comthey’d be immortal,” Dixon said, ment itself was proof that he was referring to the corporate “rulers scheming against him to take over of film” before their collapse in the the studio.” late 1950s and early 1960s. “They These complex personalicouldn’t envision a world where ties were often difficult to parse they didn’t exist. They couldn’t enthrough accurately, and Dixon vision a world in which they were said the book took about a year not the head of 20th Century Fox or and a half to finish. the head of Columbia or the head “All of them lied. Like rugs,” of Paramount or the head of MGM he said. “What I found is that you or the head of Universal. When look at one source and that tells they died, a huge corporate scram- one story, then you look at anble began.” other source and that tells another Dixon’s book explores the ego story. But then you look at another and shortsightedness of these stu- source and another source. So by dio executives, using revealing the end I was marshalling literstories to get inside the heads of

which screened their films exclually hundreds of sources to piece together the truth about each indi- sively. vidual.”

“The whole family would go Dixon said piecing together out to the pictures,” he said. “And the true story amidst conflicting they didn’t think of them as picbiographies, autobiographies and tures from certain directors. They documents led to new discoveries said, ‘Let’s go see what’s playing at and surprises. the Paramount, let’s go see what’s “Even knowing these films playing at the Fox.’” and knowing them as well as I do, These commercial abuses by they’ve always come across as lov- studios only changed in 1944 with able pirates,” he said. “Hard, ruth- the ‘de Havilland decision,’ which less, brutal men, but at the same made actors free agents, and the time, underneath, a heart of gold 1948 Paramount Decision, which and interested in making good forced studios to give up their thepictures. Nonsense. These people aters. It was also a landmark time were monsters. And they treated for censorship, with the release of their employees like slaves. And movies like “Psycho” and “Who’s when the employees rebelled, that Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” leading was really the end of the studio to a new ratings code and the end system.” of the classical studio These employera.

These ees, like Olivia “I got in on a people were de Havilland of child’s ticket,” Dixon “Gone with the monsters ... all said of the theatrical Wind” fame, were release of “Psycho.” reacting against figured they’d “Back then ‘Psycho’ ruthless condi- be immortal. and ‘Pinocchio’ were tions, like seventhe same rating: ‘acyear contracts Wheeler Winston ceptable to all.’ And that could be endthen they began to Dixon lessly extended. rate things.”

On Classic Hollywood Execs Actors, directors, “Death of Moscreenwriters and guls” was just recinematographers leased in August, but who refused were suspended and Dixon said he has already finished couldn’t accept work anywhere his next book, “Streaming: Movies, else until they caved.

Media, and Instant Access,” set to “You had a whole factory,” Dixarrive next summer and currently on said. “If you wanted to start a being copy edited. movie, you basically said, ‘We start “It’s about streaming delivery Monday, here’s the script.’ And ev- of movies, media, music, film, text,” erything was there – the sets and he said. “It’s about how streaming the whole bit. You just made the has become the predominant, overmovie and spit it out the door.” whelming delivery system and the This was a time before televi- consequences on our society.” sion, when 60 percent of the AmeriDixon said he’s unsure what can population went to the movies subject he’ll look at next, though every week. Studios took advantage of this by owning theaters

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Spike Lee’s back in Brooklyn with his latest film, “Red Hook Summer,” but there aren’t any brownstones around.

There isn’t Public Enemy blasting in the streets. There are no fade haircuts or boomboxes.

Instead we see mohawks and iPads. Things are a little different in Brooklyn, and at first, it doesn’t seem like your typical Spike Lee film.

At the start, “Red Hook Summer” is about a kid, Flik (Jules Brown). He’s been sent by his mother to the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn to live with his nononsense preacher grandfather for the summer. He misses home in Atlanta. He has no friends – he just has his iPad 2, which he uses to take pictures of dead rats. He hates church. His grandfather loves it. Everything sucks.

Spike Lee uses this familiar “the worst summer ever” narrative to idly guide the viewer into a vision of this single Brooklyn block with all its deep-seated conflicts.

Just as Lee used the texture and aesthetic to his advantage in his first film “She’s Gotta Have It,” “Red Hook Summer” uses high-definition shots effectively.

It’s great to see Lee play in this new context, though. He rips out of the line of realism for signature shots and gags. The idiosyncrasies come through sharper and more dynamic than ever.

At first, Lee’s deadpan, heavyscripted writing style doesn’t seem to fit in high-definition. The film doesn’t hide behind nostalgic filters. It’s real – as sharp as real life captured by an iPad 2’s fivemegapixel camera. All the young actors are from the school a few blocks away from the Red Hook projects and the film was shot in a little over two weeks.

Red Hook tackles faith – in God, in morals and values, even in Obama. To Bishop Rouse (the grandfather, played by Clarke Peters), good faith is blind. But to Flik, faith is blinding.

“My grandfather’s a bully and he’s got God,” Flik confides in Chazz, his only friend in the new city and his little summer crush.

“The Bloods run everything and they had God. And these white people in their nice houses, they don’t want us around and they have their God ... that’s why I don’t believe in God. He lets too much bad things happen.”

As Flik resists his grandfa-

If anything, this much is for sure: “Neil Young Journeys” is definitely not meant for the casual Neil Young fan. It’s either die hard or go home.

The third biographical Young film to be done by director Jonathan Demme, “Journeys” is not so much a “get-toknow-him” type of story, but an intimate concert experience for the loyal Young fan. When the movie begins, the audience finds itself in the passenger seat of Young’s 1956 Crown Victoria on his way to perform at Toronto’s Massey Hall. His brother, in the car ahead of him, seems to take a detour to the theater, driving through Young’s hometown of Omemee, Ontario.

He reminisces about his childhood and points out a variety of houses where people he once knew lived and a pond where he used to fish. The time he spends talking about his past is short-lived and those who know little of Young will leave the movie theater knowing just as much about him. Long-time fans of Young, however, will find the minimal information given to be a treat and worth the money.

Whereas the biographical context is lacking, the concert footage primarily drives the film. For those who haven’t heard much of Young’s newer music, it’s an imperative prerequisite for enjoying the documentary. The majority of the songs he performs are from his 2010 “Le Noise” album with a mix of some of his older music as well.

Without this background, the documentary is a bit like attending a concert for a band you’ve never heard of: maybe enjoyable, but disconnected.

The concert experience is not as invigorating as it could have been, and for the most part, is

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penders, loafers, glasses and loud patterns can acceptably make their way from grandma’s closet into yours.

ingrid holmquist Personally, I don’t believe in fashion “don’ts.” The way people access their chosen looks are far too diverse and personal for there to be a fashion Big Brother laying down the laws for clashing colors and pattern flukes.

Albeit, I think we can all agree blatant fashion faux pas do exist – I have yet to see a good version of the UGG boot/denim skirt combo (if that still happens outside of seventh grade in 2005.)

But, for the most part, the rules of fashion are as flexible as silly putty. In fact, in many cases, items are fashionable because they’re not fashionable.

Phrases like, “I love your sweater! It’s so beautifully ugly” are not uncommon.

In this age and college context where high fashion is just as stylish as articles deemed “unfashionable,” there have been many age-old appearance myths disproved – for now at least.

Myth 1: Brown and Black, AKA “The Rachel Hohlen Anthem”

One of my favorite belied fashion rules is the idea that you may never, ever, under any circumstances, wear black and brown together. As a lover of earth tones, this rule put many restrictions on my wardrobe throughout high school. However, according to many fashion week runways, this rule is a thing of the past. But it’s still a color pairing that should be carefully analyzed – not every shade of brown will correspond with black clothing. Proceed with caution, but gone are the days of the brown and black fear.

Myth 2: Granny style

She’s the queen of the family. If her feet hurt, you can bet all 27 grandchildren are ordered to the shag carpet to pamper her calloused phalanges. Her undies might go past her bellybutton, but there is a lot to learn from your grandmother, or grandfather, in regard to fashion.

Take note of your grandparents’ floral and lace-printed living room and apply these trends to your wardrobe. Large sweaters, long skirts, sus-

Myth 3: Nerd trend

Remember in middle school when the one thing we were avoiding when we dressed ourselves in the morning was to look “nerdy?”

And most all of us tragically failed.

Throw away the anti-nerd stigma and embrace the large-framed glasses, graphic novel paraphernalia and chunky sweaters, because, after all, individuality is fashionable. Don’t be afraid to channel your inner Steve Urkel and rock collared blouses and cardigans. But maybe leave the calculator necklace at home.

Myth 4: Tight vs. baggy clothing

The fad that used to exist in the hip hop scene is making its way onto the runway and into collegiates’ closets. While form-fitting clothing is not necessarily unfashionable, baggy clothing is just as hip. (My after-dinner-tummy and I are currently dancing a jig in my oversized sweater.)

However, like the brown and black dilemma, there is also a middle ground in the oversized apparel world. Be careful not to cross the line from comfortable and fashionably oversized to the grungy, honey badger approach to fashion.

Marilyn Monroe said it best: “Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman, but loose enough to show you’re a lady.”

Try pairing a loose item with a more form-fitted option. For example, high-wasted shorts with a flowing top or a shrunken jacket with a maxi skirt.

Myth 5: The ‘90s are dead

Coming from the girl who used to worship Sporty Spice and “Space Jam,” I wish I could personally thank the fashion gods who are bringing back clothes from the decade of my birth. Platform shoes, crop tops, printed leggings, friendship bracelets and high-wasted pants are creeping into 2012 and I, for one, am so incredibly glad.

If Y-Ties – the curly, no-tying-necessary shoelaces – make a comeback, life will be perfect.

Ingrid Holmquist is a sophomore broadcast journalism major. reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

looper: from 5 With this act, he hopes to give Cid a chance at growing up with love instead of bitterness.

There are holes seemingly everywhere in this logic. It implies the multiverse theory of “Back to the Future” where every change sparks a new universe (the Rainmaker doesn’t have to be evil in one timeline, even though the timeline that would make that possible has already played out in a contradictory way.) But it also implies the single timeline theory where actions affect the immediate present (Young Joe’s scar marks show up on Old Joe’s arms and Old Joe disappears after Young Joe’s suicide).

The movie solves this problem with concepts like shifting memories, which accommodate changes and theoretically allow this mix of timelines to occur. It’s vague, but makes perfect sense within the movie. Why? Because the concept of fate itself is vague and paradoxical.

The characters in “Looper” uphold their fate, but a single action can open up an infinite number of paths as stark as Cid’s “extreme good” versus “extreme evil.” Likewise, our every action is indicative of a genetic code playing itself out, but we still make choices that can direct or redirect our lives in an infinite number of ways.

In the world of “Looper,” timetravel timelines are ambiguous. In our own world, our own paths are uncertain. We conform to and break from cycles without knowing where those choices will take us. And the

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Spike Lee

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center ther’s sermons, the grandfather himself is pushed to not simply lean on religion, but to teach. We see a preacher, steeped in scripture and sermon learn how to be an instructive father figure.

Lee slowly pulls in the viewer: the characters are flat, but suddenly the floor gives. They’re shaken and they change. Once that shift happens, Lee’s got you hanging on to every word, because even the characters’ cadence, pace and perspective have been altered.

Their direction and orientation of thought changes and the film begins to move.

Lee’s films intensify quickly.

They get hot fast. But “Red Hook Summer” shows patience, moving just like a creeping summer away from middle school. It starts slow and idle, but by the time its over, there are fond memories to be had.

It’s familiar; it’s warm. There are no major undertones of tension or uncertainty a la “Do the Right Thing.” There is no intensifying sense of anticipation and finality a la “Malcolm X.” It doesn’t get messy and impossibly tense a la “Jungle Fever.” Instead, we’re gifted the nostalgia of “School Daze,” but the pace is less urgent on the journey to the heart of the film.

Lee never forgets how life can slide into chaos and madness.

That’s the nature of the artist.

Now, it’s clear Lee has gotten better at what he does best – his edges bite harder than ever. But time has made him gentler. The theme still is to “wake up,” but that phrase is only used once in the entire film. Not all the contrasts are stark, making for another brilliant, nuanced feat. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS DIRECTED BY

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Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center mellow. Young is the only one on stage – excluding the awkward stagehands who move his instruments – and although he may be a rock ‘n’ roll icon, his ego is unable to fill the whole space. As rash as it may be to say, Young could take a page out of Justin Bieber ’s playbook and add some stage effects.

However, Young does share the stage with one particular special guest: his spittle. There is an extremely unsettling camera angle that flirts with his facial stubble and the camera is overcome with this blur of spit on the lens. Rather than the film editors just editing that out and using more complementing shots, they keep that angle rolling. For most, this would be rather disgusting, but then again, this movie was meant for the fans who desire intimate acquaintance with the rock star.

Don’t just see the film to ogle over the spittle on the screen, but for a certain kind of Young devotee, that could be the icing on the performance cake. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Dixon: from 5 readers can expect it will come with the same drama and surprises of his latest. Since it’s release, “Death of Moguls” has garnered praise from many in the industry. “‘Death of Moguls’ is a very entertaining book as well as a deeply informative one,” said Steven Shaviro, cultural critic

and film professor at Wayne State University. “The autocracy of the old moguls was not a pleasant situation, and yet, great films were made under it.

Wheeler Winston Dixon gives a great account of the transition from then to now.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Alex Walker: from 5 effects can be as dramatic as Cid’s choice; fulfillment might sit on the cusp of regret or extreme cynicism might be a tiny happening from extreme optimism. Hate and love might be two sides of the same coin, and it takes living out unclear situations to decide which prevails.

“Looper,” then, is a movie without a clear answer. Whether Cid ends up good or evil will depend more on the level of optimism from the viewer than evidence from the film. But the ambiguity here isn’t a stagnant cop-out; it represents the uncertainty and tension driving the entire film.

“Looper” might be the most satisfying example of a film that exploits the anti-ending to maximum effect, without withholding important answers because all of the “possible” endings do technically occur in “Looper.” According to its logic, an infinite number of universes might exist to satisfy a viewer’s every interpretation. And even though only one timeline prevails in the real world, all timelines have the possibility of existing. It’s this unknowable question mark that drives life forward.

To make that uncertainty known in “Looper” would undermine that universal theme.

The next time a film leaves big questions up in the air, it might help to consider the purpose. It might be lazy filmmaking. But it just might thrive on its own uncertainty.

Cameron mount is a senior Secondary Education major. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

“It’s inspiring to watch your if you go peers and people you have gotten to know from playing shows around town get up on stage and wail,” he said.

Walker realized his personal inspirations and aspirations for when: Friday, 8:30 “Waiting for Patience” with the p.m. help of a high school friend, Tywhere: Zen’s Lounge, ler Reynolds, founder of Aimless 122 N. 11th St. Entertainment.

Aimless is a Lincoln-based how much: Free company that seeks to straighten the “aimless” direction many local artists endure as they begin their careers. Reynolds reaches been an absolutely amazing out to passionate Lincoln and experience handling day-toOmaha artists to day manageprovide support ment for The and navigation.

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first friday community desk

Burkholder Project Opening Reception

when:

7 p.m.

The Burkholder Project, 719 P St. what: The gallery will showcase several exhibits by various artists throughout October. The Main Gallery will feature a series of oil paintings by Anne Burkholder (“Country Roads”) and jewelry

by Pam King (“Rockspired Jewelry”). The Outback Gallery will feature photos by Alan R. Smith (“Nebraska Landscapes”) and Raku pottery by Eric Stearns (“Memories”).

The Skylight Gallery will feature “Ruminations & Obsessions Weavings”

by Sharon Vandenack. where:

The Special Exhibit Room will feature oil paintings

by Barb Ritter (“Traveling With My Paintbrush”). The exhibits will run through Oct. 30.

“The Calendar Project” opening reception

when:

5 p.m.

Lux Center for the Arts, 2601 N. 48th St. what: Katie Frisch, Lux artist-in-residence, will celebrate her residency by displaying a grid of 365 felted tiles. She spent a year using wool, silk, alpaca, yarn spinning and natural dying to create one felted tile a day. The exhibit runs through Oct. 27. where:

“Everyday Life” opening reception

when:

6:30 p.m.

Gallery Nine, 124 S. 9th St. what: Ronda and Robert Esquivel will show new work exploring adventures that come up in daily living. The exhibit will feature photographs by Ronda and paintings by Robert. The exhibit runs through Oct. 28. where:

First Friday reception: “The Geometric Unconscious”

when:

5 p.m.

Sheldon Museum

where:

of Art

what: The Sheldon Museum of Art invites first Friday participants to compete in a fashion contest for the opening of “The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction” exhibit. Wear clothing inspired by geometric abstraction and you might win a prize.

The exhibit runs through Jan. 20.

“High Tech, Low Tech and Who Cares?” opening

when:

7 p.m.

Tugboat Gallery, 116 N. 14th St., second story of Parrish building above Gomez Art Supply what: The exhibit will where:

feature work by Michael Burton, Brian Pytlik Zillig, Angela Carbone, Donald Fodness and Alvin Gregorio. The exhibit runs through Oct. 27.

First Friday Reception: “Westward Bound: Big Color”

when:

5 p.m.

Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place what: “Westward Bound: Big Color” will feature landscape photographs by Michael Farrell of the Great Plains. Farrell will be present to meet with guests and discuss his artwork. where:

Hors d’oeuvres will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

The exhibit runs through Dec. 9.

— Compiled by Kim Buckley, community@ dailynebraskan.com

Community Desk will run the first Friday of each month with First Friday art events happening in Lincoln. Submit a First Friday art event online at dailynebraskan.com or email community@dailynebraskan.com. Please include the name, date, time, location, contact information and general information of each event.

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this week in film At the Ross: “Red Hook Summer”

directed by:

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Bronson

“Bronson” is a trip.

It’s a harmoniously violent British flick, so it’s filled with absurd black humor. The film stars a bald, handlebar-mustached Tom Hardy, playing Michael Peterson, an English prisoner who likes his gory life on the inside better than out.

His secret? You can get very famous very quickly by beating the life out of every guard who crosses your path. He becomes a celebrity: Charles Bronson, Britain’s most violent prisoner. The bloodier the fights, the more famous he gets and the madder he becomes. And the better the film gets.

It’s hardly a cheery film and viewers won’t likely (we hope) see themselves in the compulsively violent Charles Bronson. But for a portrait of darkness, it paints vividly on Hardy’s worthy canvas. In blood.

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doe eyed: from 5 lot of animals, geometric shapes and some decapitations. Oftentimes, he said ideas come to him in dreams.

Although he has plenty of business, he generally sticks to creating posters.

“That’s my bread and butter, but I’ll do most cool things if I think they’re cool,” he said.

The process of producing a poster can be a daunting one. On a given day, Nyffeler bikes to the studio at 8 a.m., responds to emails, packages and ships merchandise, brainstorms and sketches, designs the poster on the computer and still has time to play in local bands “Masses” and “Kill County.”

“It’s a weird life,” he said. “It takes a lot of work.”

Karen Kunc, Cather Professor of Art at the University of NebraskaLincoln and Nyffeler’s aunt, said of his work ethic: “He has consistently worked hard to gain experience, to put his work out there, to take chances as an independent artist and designer that have gained attention for his work. It is impressive to see how he orchestrates his projects, keeping the work flowing, with his mental timeline and priorities in place … that work makes work, and this has become a fulfilling passion

for him.”

Nyffeler also takes his designs across the country. This summer, he set up booths at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Pitchfork in Chicago and Bumbershoot in Seattle. At the festivals, anywhere between 50 and 100 vendors set up booths to sell their merchandise.

As for the future, Nyffeler would like to keep Doe Eyed a oneman business, although he joked he could see himself hiring someone to do the packing and shipping orders to simplify his life. But in the end, Nyffeler said he enjoys the small, intimate parts of his design job and wants to devote himself to his simultaneously professional and personal projects.

For years, Nyffeler has done what he loves. He turned his passion into a business that leads him all over the country and will allow him to do what he enjoys for years to come. However, like many people, he had to search for what he’s best at.

“College students have to try out different hats and approaches,” he said. “You can’t pull it magically out of thin air.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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• Friday – 4:45 p.m., 10 p.m.

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New In Theaters: “Taken 2”

directed by:

Olivier Megaton starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

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Nebraska senior running back Rex Burkhead said the Big Ten conferenence schedule is a challenge each and every week. The Huskers play their first Big Ten road game Saturday at Ohio State. a different style of runner at the quarterback position, so we’ll see some different plays, but there are a lot of similarities there, too.”

If the Huskers are able to put a cap on Miller ’s production, the rest of the Buckeye offense is untested. The quarterback has provided 73 percent of the total offensive yardage this far.

Saturday’s game marks the first time Pelini will be a visitor at Ohio Stadium. The coach played for the Buckeyes as a safety from 1987-1990. He says playing his alma mater won’t affect what he does on the sidelines.

“Yeah, I have pride in where I went to school, in my career there,” he said. “But that has nothing to do with Saturday. It doesn’t

ure out what they are doing, we won’t be stopped,” he said.

Ohio State presents the Huskers with a unique set of obstacles this weekend in Columbus. As first-year coach Urban Meyer continues to implement his spread scheme, the Buckeyes become more dangerous each week, according to Pelini.

The Buckeye offense, led by sophomore quarterback Braxton Miller, is extremely balanced, throwing for 194 yards and rushing for 224 yards per game on average. Miller leads the team in both categories, making him the focal point of Meyer ’s strategy.

“I think there are a lot of similarities from when (Meyer) was at Florida,” Pelini said. “They have

really make any difference what happened in 1987-1990. That’s a different time in my life.”

With all the storylines surrounding the game, from Pelini’s homecoming to the Braxton Miller show, all the team really wants is a win.

“Our goal is to win the Big Ten.” Smith said. “We have come close twice (to winning a conference championship), but getting close doesn’t cut it. This is one team that is in our way, but we just got to win. The senior class has been through a lot; we just need to stop messing around and get this win.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska senior infielder Courtney Breault said this weekend’s Husker Fall Classic, when the Huskers face UNO and Colorado State, will be trying but exciting.

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This weekend the Nebraska softball team will be competing in the Husker Fall Classic at the Doris Bair Softball Complex. The team has had a successful start to their fall season with a 3-1 record.

“Anytime you can compete, it helps rally the team together,” said NU head coach Rhonda Revelle.

The team’s games against South Dakota and Creighton have helped the Husker players adjust to each other. The teammates are ready to start playing more games and blending their skills together. The Huskers want to become good teammates so that they can support each other throughout the season, she said.

Revelle is very optimistic about the Husker Fall Classic.

She added the players have been working hard all week in practice and can’t wait to take the field. Playing competitors will be a nice change to just scrim-

ericks in the Husker Fall Clasmaging in practice. sic and lost one game to Colo“The reason why we practice is to make it to gameday and rado State. Nebraska plays two compete against other teams,” games against each opponent Revelle said. “The games are a this weekend. reward for our practices.”

“We will have some great Last year the Huskers won games at Doris (Blair Softthree of the four games they ball Complex) against UNO,” played during the Husker Fall Breault said.

Classic. Winning is not the first She thinks that the oppothing on Revelle’s mind, though. nents for this weekend are very Instead, she just wants to imdiverse and will bring different prove each game, and playing aspects to the game. During the different teams first game they will help the will be able to It is going Huskers be diget a feel for their to be an verse on the field competition. for the spring sea- exciting, yet long “The second son. game will be “The goal for weekend with more important this weekend is four games.” for bonding as to stay focused on a team,” Breault the process of get- courtney breault said. nu senior infielder ting better,” RevBreault also elle said. mentioned a lot Senior Courtof players will ney Breault wants to continue to have the chance to play for their win while improving everyone’s families this weekend. skills at the same time. Breault Nebraska’s game against was injured for part of her ju- UNO on Saturday is at 12:30 nior year, but came back to start p.m., and the team takes on 49 games last season.

Colorado State at 3 p.m. The “We want to win every game, Huskers face the Rams again on and it helps that we have played Sunday at 10 a.m. and play the our matchups for this weekend, Mavericks again at 3 p.m. last season,” Breault said.

“It is going to be an excitShe is most anxious to play ing, yet long weekend with four against UNO this weekend. Last games,” Breault said. sports@ year the Huskers beat the Mavdailynebraskan.com

Rifle team opens season against NC State, Alaska Senior Woltersdorf believes 10th-ranked Huskers are better team than last year Cara Wilwerding DN Ready, aim, fire.

With the approach of its first match of the season, the Nebraska rifle team has its sights set on success.

The No. 10 Huskers will face No. 18 North Carolina State on Friday, and No. 4 Alaska-Fairbanks on Sunday. Both meets begin at 8 a.m. at the Nebraska Rifle Range in the Pershing Military and Naval Science Building.

“As a team, we expect to do well,” said Katelyn Woltersdorf, the team’s only senior. “We’ve been practicing and making sure we’ve been putting in the time.”

The women on the team train individually three times a week, and as a team twice a week.

Despite their hard work, Woltersdorf said the start of a new

As a team, we expect to do well ... We’ve been practicing and making sure we’ve been putting in the time.” katelyn woltersdorf senior rifle member

season can be difficult and nervewracking.

“The first match sometimes can be rough, getting back in the swing of it,” Woltersdorf said. “For me, I just expect to be confident and relaxed. I’m just looking to deal with different pressures.”

Having mental confidence during matches is very important, she explained. It’s a lesson Woltersdorf and other veteran shooters are hoping to teach the team’s four new freshmen: Alexandrea Lorentz, Marissa Major, Denise Martin and Magdalena Mical.

Later in the season, the Huskers will face teams such as Ole Miss, TCU, Ohio State, Air Force

and West Virginia.

Woltersdorf said she and her teammates are not quite satisfied with how they finished last year, but believe they’ve improved immensely. She said their inner-team communication and cooperation skills are much stronger than years prior. While the Huskers finished with a 10-15-1 record last year, they want more wins this time around.

“I think we’re a better team,” Woltersdorf said. “We have strong athletes, and we’re determined to do really well this year. We really want to do a good job this year and make UNL proud.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska sophomore libero Lara Dykstra said the Huskers know that every Big Ten Conference team will give NU a fight to the end. The Huskers go on the road to face Purdue on Friday and Indiana on Saturday.

Huskers focus on Boilermakers Nedu Izu DN It’s official: John Cook is not going to be Nebraska’s next athletic director.

Since Tom Osborne announced his plans last week to step down as AD on Jan. 1, 2013, rumors have floated around as to who will take over the 75-yearold’s job, one of them pointing to Nebraska’s own volleyball coach.

Cook was flattered with the idea earlier this week.

“I can’t say anything at this point. I hear I’m on several watch lists. But I find it ironic that Coach Osborne’s timing is on January 1, right when our season’s ending, so the timing could work out,” Cook said with a laugh.

Thursday, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced that former Miami AD Shawn Eichorst will be the one to succeed Osborne next semester.

Although Cook was flattered with the thought of becoming NU’s next athletic director, the

volleyball coach can now focus on more important things, like how to cool off his squad’s next opponent.

Before meeting up with Indiana (8-8, Big Ten 0-4) on Saturday, No. 4 Nebraska (11-2, Big Ten 3-1) will compete against hot-hitting No. 12 Purdue (13-2, 4-0) in a matchup on Friday.

The Boilermakers head into the match on a major winning streak, taking all four games against conference opponents.

In order to keep clear from being their opponent’s fifth Big Ten victim, Cook said the Huskers must reduce the amount of swings from Purdue’s senior outside-hitter.

“Ariel Turner is just a great hitter,” he said. “She gets a ton of swings and does a great job of managing the game.”

Turner, who was named Big Ten player of the week on Monday, currently ranks fourth in the conference with 4.23 kills per set.

Turner, the 2011 All-American was also the Big Ten player of the year last season and assisted in

State and Michigan along the way. sweeping Nebraska in last year’s The winning streak has helped meeting.

Nebraska rank fourth in the conIn order to defeat Turner and her teammates this time around, ference, which currently has seven the Huskers will have to stay teams in the AVCA Top 25 poll.

NU sophomore Lara Dykstra focused throughout the entire said to stay successful in the best match, Cook said. conference women’s collegiate “Last year we went there, we volleyball has to ofwere just going fer, the team must through the seaCoach keep motivated. son and … we hit told us “Every night’s bottom there,” the a battle,” Dykstra coach said. “We that in the Big said. “Coach told didn’t compete. us that in the Big They jumped on Ten, no team is Ten, no team is gous, and we just going to give up. ing to give up. Evweren’t ready to eryone’s going to play. I hope our Everyone’s going fight until the end.” players remember to fight until the Friday’s match that and are ready against the Boilerto do something end.” makers will begin about it.” at 7 p.m. and can be So far, the NU lara dykstra seen on the Big Ten nu sophomore libero players have shown Network. After Fritheir driven focus day’s showdown, in the last three conthe Huskers will travel south to ference matches.

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Soccer team looks to rebound Recent losses make Nebraska’s game with Wisconsin a key part of remaining schedule Angela Hensel DN A tough loss hurts.

And that’s what the Nebraska women’s soccer team experienced this weekend with two close losses against Michigan and Michigan State. The Huskers lost both games 2-1, with goals given up to their opponents near the end of both games.

But with a week’s worth of rest and time to recuperate, Nebraska is looking to move on. The Huskers want to take away the lessons they learned from last weekend, but also come out this weekend as a new team.

“Obviously it was disappointing, but we just need to go back to practice and keep our work ethic up and hopefully we can get some wins,” freshman midfielder Katie Kraeutner said.

Despite being disappointed with losing two close games, the Huskers know that they are right there in competing with the top tier of the Big Ten. It just all comes down to staying focused to help grab some key victories.

“For me, I like being challenged both physically and mentally so I think it was a good test for us and everyone showed they could compete both physically and mentally,” Kraeutner said.

The Huskers will have another good test this weekend when they hit the road against Wisconsin on Friday. The Badgers dropped out of the Top 25 after losses the past two weekends. After losing to Michigan two weekends ago, Wisconsin also lost to Minnesota and tied Ohio State this past weekend. For both teams, a win on Friday would be key to picking back up some momentum.

Last year the Huskers suffered a shutout loss to the Badgers. Nebraska led Wisconsin in shots on goal, but the Badgers made their shots count to get the 2-0 victory.

For Nebraska especially, a win would get the Huskers one step closer to making it to the Big Ten Tournament, which they failed to do last year. Eight teams make the tournament, and the host school automatically qualifies. This then allows for only the top seven other teams to qualify.

This game marks the halfway point of the conference season for the Huskers, who will have five more games remaining after this weekend.

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Nebraska senior tennis co-captain Eric Sock said the Huskers competed well this week but came up short.

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In the wake of two narrow defeats, Nebraska freshman midfielder Katie Kraeutner said the soccer team just needs to stay focused and the wins will come. easier. After Friday’s game Nebraska will continue to face some of the top teams in the Big Ten, including a game against No. 4 Penn State at home next weekend.

The Huskers will look to build on the success of sophomore forward Mayme Conroy, who has thrived in the physical Big Ten play

to lead the team with eight goals this season.

“Going into these games, we just need to be mentally strong and physically aggressive,” Kraeutner said.

With that aggressiveness and desire to win, the Huskers know that anything is possible, and a

victory this weekend is just within their reach.

“I think our entire team is going into that game wanting to win and we will do anything that we can to come out of the game with a win,” Kraeutner said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

practice, we can beat some good teams in the spring.”

Herrmann knows what he has to work on to improve.

All good things come to an end “I need to work on my serve eventually. This is what happened to get more free points in singles.” to the Huskers men’s tennis team Head coach Kerry McDermott this week at the ITA All-American reflected on the letdown of his Tournament in Tulsa, Okla. team not qualifying.

The Nebraska team had been “It’s disappointing not to performing well as of the last tournament, the Denver Invita- get anybody through the first tional, but then they seemed to round of the pre-qualifying,” he said. “I thought hit a roadblock. had a little bit Nebraska’s I thought we we of bad luck with Marc Herrmann, all competed the draws. We reSebastian Florczyk ally had some reand Andre Stenger well, we just ally, really tough all had first-round draws.” byes in the pre- didn’t have our “Our guys qualifying singles, best tennis that have to learn put but lost in the seca little bit more day.” ond round. pressure on their “I thought we eric sock opponents in douall competed well, nu senior co-captain bles.” we just didn’t have McDermott our best tennis that had positive day,” said senior co-captain Eric Sock. “Unfortu- things to say about his team after nately we just came up a little Herrmann and Stenger notched short, but still good experiences.” wins in the backdraw.

“It’s good that those guys got Herrmann fell to Mississippi a couple of wins, we got one win State’s Stefan Vinti 6-4, 6-3. TCU’s Arnau Dachs defeated Florczyk after they had lost, got a little ex6-0, 6-2. Stenger won his first set perience there.”

The biggest thing for the before falling to Ohio State’s ConHusker team is Sock and Stenger stantin Christ 3-6, 6-0, 6-3. playing doubles late Thursday Herrmann and Florczyk also night against a USC’s Roberto lost in doubles, losing to Florida Quiroz and Raymond Sarmiento.

State’s Dominic Cotrone and An“They have big serves,” derson Reed 8-5.

McDermott said. “They have “Doubles was very unlucky. a chance to beat anyone in the We lost some points, and in tennis a few points decide a match,” country.” sports@ he said. “But Sebastian and I dailynebraskan.com played a good double. With more

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Perlman kept AD search out of NU Athletic Department Chancellor cites lack of experience as reason for excluding internal candidates Lanny Holstein DN Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman went outside the Athletic Department to find the program’s newest athletic director.

The chancellor named former Miami AD Shawn Eichorst as the department’s next leader, citing his broad spectrum of experience and understanding of Midwestern values as reasons for the decision.

“That’s an advantage of hiring someone from the outside,” Perlman said. “You’re not quite so insulated.

You get some different ideas.”

Perlman said at his press conference there weren’t any internal candidates that met his criteria for the position.

“I think there are people there with potential, but I don’t think they compare to what Shawn presents,” he said. “We just haven’t moved people around and given people broader responsibilities.”

Nebraska’s potential internal candidates weren’t as diversified as Perlman wanted. Most members of the Athletic Department have been in their same role for many years, he said.

People just haven’t moved around.

“I don’t know that we didn’t do it,

ing about schools of this stature.” but it just seems to me that we didn’t To find the right outside hire, do it,” Perlman said. “The credentials Perlman formed a group of that I am looking for search advisers before he just weren’t there.” began interviewing candiPerlman said this dates. Nebraska coaches, isn’t a criticism of curincluding football coach Bo rent Athletic DirecPelini and basketball coach tor Tom Osborne. His Tim Miles, were among methods have worked, those in the group. Big Ten according to Perlman. commissioner Jim Delany “It’s not a critiwas also among them. cism of Tom,” he said.

“They did not interview “Maybe it wasn’t posthe candidates,” Perlman sible to do it. There are said. “And they did not some people there who know about which canwant to be athletic dieichorst didate was selected until rectors and probably earlier today, but they did have the potential to be engage with us in terms of athletic directors, but the credentials that were desirable in a they need more experiences within an athletic department if they are think- candidate, the sets of experiences that

were desirable, the kinds of things our athletic department needed and kinds of things they wanted me to look for.”

Women’s gymnastics coach Dan Kendig, one of the search advisers, said he wishes the group would have had a larger role in the process.

“Honestly, I didn’t feel like I had a role,” he said. “They called me one time and asked what I thought the new athletic director should have as far as qualities. Then today I find out that we have a new athletic director.”

Perlman said he made the hiring decision without the approval of the search advisers. The group found out on Thursday morning, like everyone else.

“I haven’t talked to (Eichorst),” Kendig said. “I just have to hope that Perlman made the right decision for

us and the rest of the Athletic Department. It would have been nice to have some more input, but in a few months, we may think this is the best decision we’ve ever made. I think everyone would like to have had more input though.”

Kendig said there were internal candidates who were interested in the job, but didn’t know why they weren’t seriously considered.

“I don’t know why they did what they did,” he said. “I think there were two to four internal candidates that wanted a shot. I wasn’t really involved, so I don’t really know why they did that. I think they must have just found what they thought was the best candidate, and they just went with it.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Eichorst appears to be good fit for UNL

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Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez and the Huskers will try to cut down on penalties and other unforced errors this week at Ohio State. Martinez said if the team does that, the Huskers have a good chance of beating the Buckeyes on Saturday.

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Huskers head to Columbus, Ohio, for Big Ten road opener as underdogs for first time this year

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week after the second-largest comeback in school history, Nebraska squares off with another opponent capable of taking the game to the wire. When the Huskers travel to face No. 12 Ohio State on Saturday, they will be the underdogs for the first time all

season.

“That’s the Big Ten Conference,” said running back Rex Burkhead. “You’re going to have a challenge each and every week. You have to be ready.”

The contest will be only the second road game of the season for the Huskers and will be played in one of the Big Ten’s most hostile environments. Ohio Stadium – also known as “the Horseshoe” – packs in more than 102,000 fans, the fourth largest on-campus stadium in the country.

“It’s a great venue,” said Nebraska coach Bo Pelini.

“It’s a great environment with great tradition. It will be a great place for our kids to play, and it will be a great

experience for our players.”

After falling behind early a week ago versus Wisconsin, the Huskers are wary of getting off to a slow start.

Ohio State may not allow the Huskers to get back into the game like Wisconsin did, according to safety P.J. Smith. Getting out to an early lead is crucial.

“You got to start out on the first play and set the tone,” Smith said. “Let them know we are here to take care of business. It will be huge to score on the first drive and then get a three-and-out on the first defensive drive.”

Talk coming out of Husker camp has focused on fixing unforced errors this week. Cleaning up the fumbles and penalties that put the them in a hole last week has been priority No. 1.

Quarterback Taylor Martinez is confident his team can do that. “(Early) in the last game, we didn’t have much momentum, but when we do catch that momentum and fig-

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Shawn Eichorst got one heck of an endorsement.

Nebraska’s newly hired athletic director was second-in-command to Barry Alvarez at Wisconsin. Alvarez is about as close to Nebraska as anyone outside the program, and his opinion holds a certain influence greater than most, even within Nebraska.

Alvarez, once a Husker linebacker, recommended Eichorst for the Nebraska AD position, which Eichorst received just eight days after Tom Osborne announced his retirement.

The biggest concern with Eichorst to this point: Who the heck is he?

I won’t get into scrappy details, you can pick those up in any news story (including the one on the front page of this newspaper), but I will say that he appears to be what some would call “a Nebraska guy.”

Eichorst holds a degree in law, played football in college, grew up in the Midwest and came up through the ranks with a mostly Midwest mindset. And his connection to Alvarez, a former NU player, doesn’t hurt.

He’s a quiet guy – he hasn’t spoken to the media in five months at Miami. He appears to be relatively conservative, at least in terms of his personality. But it’s clear that the young gun must have some professional fire under him if he was able to leap up so high in such a short amount of time – he’s only in his mid-40s, after all.

NU Chancellor Harvey Perlman made a good decision not trying to replace Osborne with another figure like him, but I think he also did a pretty good job of finding a suitable guy to fill the role. He found a guy who still has a lot of the right mindset, but still possesses some of that new pizzazz.

Professionally, Eichorst has had to deal a lot with the Nevin Shapiro scandal, in which Shapiro paid Miami football players certain amounts for big plays – and, as a result, many of his accomplishments were clouded. But when you look back at Eichorst’s 18-month term in Miami, it shows a lot of optimism, with increased boosters, groundwork for new facilities and the ushering in of a new head basketball coach.

My one concern with Eichorst is that he may not be the perfect guy for Nebraska’s current situation. Eichorst managed the chaos at Miami, and he did it well. But Nebraska isn’t in a state of anarchy right now. It is in a state of growth, with facility upgrades in line for programs to flourish. It will be interesting to keep an eye on Eichorst’s plans past the simple idea of rebuilding.

Thankfully, Eichorst has a sixmonth period on training wheels, with Osborne holding his hips as he finds his balance. Once Osborne calls it permanent quits in January, Eichorst will have to ride on his own. That’s when we’ll finally begin to see if he’s a true “Nebraska guy.”

Early signs are positive. While you can’t see much, the slits of light poking through the fence are awful bright.

Chris Peters is a senior journalism/advertising & public relations major.

Reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com