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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 volume 112, issue 38

Inside Coverage

A Husker welcome

The low rumble

Shawn Eichorst takes center stage Tuesday morning

Lincoln Calling kicks off at Bourbon Theatre

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Dancing on the ceiling

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Senior advertising major Derrick Sloan dances on the roof of his Ford Ranger pickup truck. A lover of impromptu, public dance exhibitions, Sloan is also an aspriing comedian, who regularly performs at Duffy’s Tavern.

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RACE & HIGhER ED Report: minorities increased at UNL

I think UNL is more diverse than a lot of other campuses out there. I have a class that’s made up almost entirely of minority students. We offer a lot of opportunities for minorities that help them come here, like scholarships, so I think we are already doing a lot to attract more diversity.”

Cristina Woodworth DN

JOE BARREDA

freshman, general studies

It’s not un-diverse.

It depends on what the definition of diversity is. We have a start, but it needs improvement. You need to generate a nucleus of minorities and help the numbers grow from there. There are already a lot of outreach programs the university puts on for minorities, though.” alex enders

It’s definitely more diverse on campus than in my hometown. Blair is mostly just white, hick people so it was a difference coming to UNL.”

Report’s Findings

LEXUS WELLMAN

The Century Foundation report showed an increasing number of Hispanic and black freshmen students attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2004 to 2010.

The number of Hispanic and black first-time freshmen students attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln increased slightly from 2004 to 2010, according to a recent Century Foundation report. But since then, the number of black students has started to decline.

“It’s important to have a diverse student body because it helps our student population become more aware and prepared for the world,” said Marlin Perez, a junior criminal justice major and president of the Mexican American Student Association at UNL. “I have heard many students that come from rural areas say that UNL is the first time they have communicated and socialized with people outside their cultural background.”

freshman, sociology

I don’t think UNL is all that diverse, but I’m from Minneapolis so it all depends on your perspective. For people from small-town Nebraska it might be a lot more diverse than what they’re used to. I don’t think (UNL) has done anything to shun diversity on campus. I’m Spanish, and it’s not like I’ve ever felt like an outcast here. There’s just not a big range of ethnicities in Nebraska to choose from.”

• The number of Hispanic freshmen students increased 1.1%, to 889 students • The number of black freshmen students increased 0.1%, to 588 students

minority: see page 2

FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN ENROLLMENT BY RACE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN FALL 2012

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AMANDA DRONTLE sophomore, music

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assistant professor, physics and astronomy

You see a lot of people of different races, ethnicities and sexual orientations in classes and walking around on campus.

There’s a lot of programs for minorities like Spectrum UNL and the different student organizations for minority races.”

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Our campus is pretty diverse. I don’t think UNL needs to attract more diversity because there are already enough people from different countries here.”

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3,182 White

jianeng wang

freshman, chemical engineering

191 Hispanic

99 Black or African American

10 Native American or Alaska Native

94 Asian

TYLER BOWDEN junior, architecture

SOURCE: UNL INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND PLANNING

US Supreme Court begins re-examination of affirmative action Dan Holtmeyer DN The question of affirmative action in higher education — whether race should be a factor in college admissions — is before the U.S. Supreme Court once again, and experts say its outlook is bleak.

About a decade after the court last looked at the issue, arguments begin today in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that potentially could prohibit a student’s race from being a factor in colleges’ admission decisions.

Abigail Fisher, who is white, claims she wasn’t accepted by the University of Texas at Austin because of her race — a charge sometimes referred to as “reverse discrimination.” The country has moved past using a racial lens, she said in a recent interview with The New York Times.

“I’m hoping ... that everyone will be able to get into any school that they want no

matter what race they are but solely based on their merit and if they work hard for it,” Fisher told the Times.

The University of Texas says Fisher wouldn’t have been accepted anyway, but argues more broadly that the benefits of diversity and persistent inequalities across racial lines in opportunity and achievement — relics of centuries of discrimination — mean race remains an important factor in admission decisions.

Several states, including Nebraska, already ban giving race or gender any role in college decisions. Nonetheless, the court’s decision either way could affect schools across the country.

“Either they’re going to say you can take race into consideration or you can’t,” said Anna Shavers, a law professor at the Univer-

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Case History: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

The U.S. Supreme Court and Affirmative Action in Education JUNE 1978: Regents of the Univerisity of California v. Bakke: The court bans racial quotas but allows race to remain a factor in admissions decisions MARCH 1996: Hopwood v. University of Texas Law School: Supreme Court invalidates Bakke, ruling racial diversity is not a compelling state of interest JUNE 2003: Grutter v. Bollinger: Supreme Court invalidates Hopwood, reinstating race as an allowable factor in admissions decisions but only as one factor among many

JAN. 2011: Fisher takes case to U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which agrees with the district court

AUG. 2009: Western Texas Districs Court rules against Abigail Fisher, finding the University of Texas acted within the bounds of Grutter v. Bollinger

OCT. 2012: Supreme Court will hear argument, with a decision likely within a year

Sept. 2011: Fisher’s lawyers petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case; it agrees in February 2012

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Booths demonstrate UNL researchers to examine dangers of drinking toddler sleep patterns, behavior DANIEL WHEATON DN With her arms stretched to maintain balance, Patience Mudundulu struggled to take a step forward. She mustered the courage, took a step and nearly fell over.

“That’s why you don’t drive drunk,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln police officer Aaron Pembleton said as he asked for the beer goggles back.

Mudundulu and about 150 other students took part in activities for National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week on Tuesday. Numerous booths were set up in front of Broyhill Fountain around noon, informing students about different aspects about alcohol.

The event was sponsored by the University Health Center.

“We just want to raise awareness,” said Leah Wilmes, a graduate student in education and a peer educator with the health center.

Crysta Chalupa, a junior nutrition and health science major, also helped out at one of the booths. Chalupa said that the event’s message of risk reduction was a good way to communicate the dangers of alcohol.

She said students ignore messages about alcohol from authority figures.

“It’s easier to relate,” Chalupa said. “They know that I’m not trying to tell them to stop.”

Wilmes handed out information about blood alcohol content and provided “mocktails” for people at the event. Wilmes said many first-time drinkers aren’t sure what a drink actually is, which leads to overdrinking.

The health center provided models of each unit of alcohol: a shot glass, 4 ounces of wine and 12 ounces of beer.

University Police also provided a short obstacle course to show the difficulty of walking impaired. Students had to walk in a straight line, navigate several cones and throw a ball into a box wearing beer goggles.

Pembleton routinely works with the health center to speak with students about drinking.

According to data from the University Police, there were 216 alcohol-related violations in 2011.

“I’ve never been drunk, but it was very difficult to walk,” Mudundulu said. “It shows you how dangerous it can be.”

Additionally, the University Health Center brought in the Beller Car — a vehicle that suffered extreme damages from a drunk driving accident that killed four people in 2002 near Albuquerque, N.M. The collision left the front half of the vehicle smashed

Drinking at UNL • 64 percent of UNL students drink 0-4 drinks while partying • 67 percent of students keep track of drinks consumed • 88 percent of UNL students use a designated driver • 92 percent of students stay with the same group of friends while drinking Source: UNL Health Center inward, leaving only inches of space in the front seats. The car has traveled the nation as a physical representation of the dangers of drunken driving.

Mudundulu said the car was the most striking representation of what can happen.

“People die every other day,” Mudundulu said. “It’s really sad and can be prevented.”

Matt McKay, a DJ from KFRX, helped publicize the event during an on-site radio broadcast. McKay asked students in attendance to say a few words on-air about drinking.

“Don’t drink and drive or you’ll kill people,” McKay said.

McKay said he hoped most students would plan ahead if they choose to drink. He said students should designate a driver or have a number for a taxi company in their phones just in case.

“It’s a lot easier to plan before you go out instead of 2 in the morning,” McKay said.

The Nebraska Department of Roads also provided a drunken driving simulator for students. The driving simulator would slowly become less responsive, mimicking the difficulties of drunken driving. Once the driver had made a number of mistakes, the software displayed all of the traffic violations that had been made. DeWayne Taylor, a freshman general studies major, tried the simulator and failed a few minutes in.

“I thought I was doing OK, then I crashed into a tree,” Taylor said.

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COPS briefs east campus gas line severed

A construction crew working on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus accidentally hit a gas line on Oct. 4. Workers from Black Hills Energy were digging near the northwest corner of the Morrison Life Sciences Research Center on 42nd and Fair streets when they struck the small gas pipe. UNLPD and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Facilities Management and Planning were quickly notified, police said, and the gas line was shut down. Police did not find an excess amount of gas in the building following the incident.

Smoking in car LEADS TO NUMEROUS CITATIONS

Police said they found four teenagers smoking marijuana in a car in the second floor of the parking garage at 18th and R streets Sunday morning. After searching the car, a community service officer found 6.9 grams of marijuana, three multicolored marijuana pipes, wrapping papers, five 12-ounce cans of Busch Light, a bottle of Captain Morgan and a bottle of Country Club Vodka. Dylan Dravland, a freshman computer science major, Dylan Lind, an 18-year-old Valley resident, and Hunter Davidson, an 18-year-old Valley resident, were all charged with minor in possession, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and open container. A 16-year-old girl from Valley was cited with MIP, open container, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The 18-yearolds were cited and released and the minor was released to her mother.

BIKE STOLEN FROM HSS

A bike worth $575 was stolen from the bike racks south of Schramm Hall on Saturday. Police described it as a red, white and black Wahoo Trek Bicycle. It was locked with a combination lock on the rack and last seen on Friday. Police said it was probably stolen on Friday. Local pawn shops have been notified of the bike and are asked to contact UNLPD if someone pawns a bike with that description.

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sleep relates to self-regulating measures, which are a function of temperament.

“My main interest According to a Uniis I study young chilversity of Nebraskadren’s temperament,” Lincoln research team, she said, adding that she irregular sleep patterns also studies the ability of aren’t restricted by age. kids to internally reguChildren as young as late their temperaments.

2 ½ years old can have “Self-regulation is argutrouble sleeping, say ably a huge contributor Dennis Molfese, Victoto how well they do in ria Molfese and Kathy school ... (and) sleep Rudasill. and self-regulation are Molfese, the chanmolfese related. There’s really cellor’s professor of no question they are rechild, youth and family lated.” studies, is the lead auThe study will help answer the thor on a study about the sleeping questions whether self-regulation patterns of toddlers between 2 ½ and 3 ½ years old. The study is led leads to better sleep or vice-versa or both.

by Indiana University and UNL and Rudasill’s specialty is in figurits UNL Center for Brain, Biology ing out how different temperaments and Behavior will collaborate in researching the sleep patterns of 200 play out in the classroom and how schools can adapt to a wide range of toddlers. The project received $1.4 million from the National Institutes temperament in children.

For example, she said, a child of Health.

According to a UNL press re- who can’t sit still, fidgets a lot and lease about the study, the team is has trouble staying quiet will have trying to “identify links between trouble fitting into the classroom.

But this isn’t necessarily because the these sleep habits and toddlers’ social adjustment in home, child-care child is naughty — it’s because he or she has a natural predisposition and preschool settings.” toward this kind of behavior.

Rudasill, associate professor “People, as soon as they’re born, of educational psychology, is a coinvestigator. She will focus on how are different from each other,” she

said.

Rudasill said temperament is a biologically based natural response, and this becomes more of a problem when it affects a child’s ability to sleep.

She said she isn’t sure if sleep patterns reflect temperament or if it’s the other way around and temperament causes sleep problems.

She said she predicts that sleep exacerbates pre-existing disposition, making irregularities in a child’s temperament more severe.

Elliot Turner, a senior history, classics and religious studies major, had trouble sitting still in his elementary school classes. He said he had a lot of energy that sometimes got him in trouble with teachers.

But he said he never had trouble sleeping.

“When it’s time to go to bed, I pass out,” he said.

He and his three older brothers followed a strict and consistent bedtime routine, which Rudasill said is “critical to good sleep.” She said she believes sleep patterns are a product of both nature and nurture, and that parents are at least partly responsible for helping their kids establish healthy sleep patterns.

“We need to teach kids good sleep habits,” she said.

Sophomore broadcasting and advertising major Brian Hall also

described himself as a bit of a troublemaker in elementary school and said he sometimes had difficulty fitting into the classroom environment.

Although he sometimes had trouble falling asleep, he said once he got to sleep he usually slept soundly through the night. Like Turner, he had a strict bedtime as a child.

Hall’s older brother and sister were calmer in class and slept better than he did, he said, but maintaining a healthy sleep schedule was never a problem for him.

Rudasill said the team will equip about 40 toddlers a year for the next five years with sleep monitoring devices called ActiGraphs. The ActiGraphs will be measured at three time intervals — once at 2 ½ years old, once at 3 years old, and once at 3 ½ years old.

Rudasill said even at this age, toddlers can experience stress, even if they don’t understand what it is. She said she believes stress is a mechanism of the family and children pick up on it and internalize it, which can also lead to sleeping problems.

“Stress, I think, has a direct relationship,” she said, but she added that’s only her guess. “I’m not a sleep expert. I’m a temperament expert.”

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UNL prof studies childlessness’ effects Many women feel pressure, but don’t fret childlessness, study says Kalee Holland DN As far back as memory goes, women have been valued for their childbearing. Today, however, women are childless for more reasons than just infertility.

A recent national survey conducted by a University of NebraskaLincoln professor examines the different reasons behind childlessness and their ties with the emotional well-being of women.

Women who choose to remain childless reported experiencing more pressure from society but less personal distress, according to sociology professor Julia McQuillan’s survey. Women who were involuntarily childless felt less societal pressure and more personal distress, the survey said. This is especially true if those involuntarily childless thought child-bearing was important.

In “Does the Reason Matter?

Variations in Childlessness Concerns Among U.S. Women,” McQuillan, the study’s lead author, and other researchers surveyed almost 5,000 women and their sexual partners between 2004 and 2006.

“There are a lot of data sets out there (about childless women), but there aren’t any about subjective well-being,” McQuillan said.

Of the childless women surveyed, 12.5 percent were voluntarily childless, 38.3 percent reported being infertile, 33.2 percent had situational barriers such as income or no partner and 15.9 percent weren’t pregnant but wanted children. Overall, 24.6 percent of the 4,792 interviewed women were childless.

The survey’s results were mixed.

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UNL sociology professor Julia McQuillan recently published a study indefying the affects of childlessness on women’s emotional well-being.

White women reported being voluntarily childless more than Hispanic and African American women. The opposite was true for involuntarily childlessness, with Hispanic and African American women reporting higher numbers than white women.

Women surveyed who were voluntarily childless tended to have a higher family income, as opposed to the lower family incomes of the involuntarily child-free, the study found.

“A lot of women feel like if they go into fields like business, medical or science, they can’t have kids,”

McQuillan said. “There are some jobs that are really hard if you want kids.”

Religious influence also seemed to play a role. Those who were more religious received fewer social pressures to reproduce than those who were less religious.

The study was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

“The ongoing research was a focus on infertility,” McQuillan said.

“We needed to understand fertility over the last 10 years.”

Women interviewed were between the ages of 25 and 45 and with

a variety of ethnic backgrounds.

The survey questions were multiple choice, said Patricia Wonch Hill, a 2010 UNL graduate and postdoctoral research assistant.

“Many of (the questions) asked them if they have a hard time during holidays and family events,” she said.

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of first-time freshmen included in these two minority groups both dipped slightly.

And since 2010, the number of black students has decreased by nearly 8 percent, while the number of Hispanic students has continued to increase by about 9 percent.

Greg Wilson, a junior nutrition and health sciences major and president of the Afrikan Peoples Union, said he’s noticed the number of core members at APU meetings has decreased during the past couple years.

“When I was a freshman and sophomore, there were always tons of people at the meetings,” Wilson said. “But this year, it’s harder to draw people in.”

He also said the decrease has only seemed to affect APU’s group

of members who usually come to every meeting, not the members who just come every once in a while.

“The number of our overall participants have grown, it’s just the regular attendees that have decreased,” he said.

Wilson said he thinks the university needs to do a better job recruiting black students because he said some minority students might feel out of place in a predominantly white environment.

“I think if they work more at recruiting minorities, people will see that and feel more comfortable about coming here,” he said. “There would be a group of people who are similar to them.”

Perez said she believes UNL already has a diverse student body and said she thinks minority stu-

dents have several places on campus that can help them find their niche.

“I believe UNL has a very diverse student population that is welcoming to everyone,” she said.

She said services on campus such as the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center and TRIO programs help serve UNL’s minority student population by providing places for racial organizations to meet and learn about different opportunities like scholarships.

“Though it is still predominantly white, our minority students have places that welcome multicultural students,” Perez said.

Dan Holtmeyer contributed to this report news@ dailynebraskan.com

minority: from 2 From 2004 to 2010, the number of Hispanic students at UNL increased by 1.1 percent, to 889 students. During the same period, the number of black students increased 0.1 percent, to 588 students, or about 2.7 percent of UNL’s entire student body.

In 2004, UNL dropped the consideration of racial preferences from admissions decisions as part of a university-wide decision.

The Century Foundation report after UNL stopped considering race as a factor showed the number of Hispanic and black students both increased, continuing to follow a three-year trend that started in 2002.

But after the passage of Initiative 424, a measure banning affirmative action that Nebraska voters approved in 2008, the number

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ABOVE: Sarah Warner, a junior animal science major, leads a horse named Minor into the Animal Science Complex’s arena area during a class Tuesday afternoon. Leena Tottle, a professor in the complex, said about 80 students use just 20 horses for their coursework this semester and that a new complex would be able to house more animals, effectively reducing the workload for each horse. TOP LEFT: Minor is one of the horses housed on UNL’s East Campus. Here, he spends the afternoon in the college’s lone outdoor facility for their animals. One other outdoor area on East Campus is dedicated for horses, but it currently can’t be used due to EPA regulations regarding animal waste runoff into waterways. BOTTOM LEFT: Smarty is a new arrival to East Campus and is kept in a small barn outside the Animal Science Complex.

affirmative: from 1 sity of Nebraska-Lincoln and an education law expert. The question before the court, she added, is whether colleges can get diversity on campus in another way.

The case is the most recent in four decades of controversies and Supreme Court decisions on the issue, each of which typically scaled back race’s role in employment and education law little by little.

The court last looked at the issue in education in 2003, when it ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger by a 5-4 split that race could only be a consideration among others as part of a “ho-

listic review.”

But the court looks a bit different this time around.

“What’s new is the membership of the court,” said John Gruhl, a professor of political science who specializes in American courts and law.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, usually conservative, was the swing vote in 2003 that allowed race to continue to play a role, Gruhl said. Since then she has retired and been replaced

by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., who is considered much less likely to take a middle-of-the-road position.

Because of this shift, Gruhl said,

racial consideration is in hot water.

“It looks to me like they’re going out of their way to take this case,” he said, pointing out that Fisher has already graduated from another university. “If they want to address it, they probably want to do something different.”

Gruhl also turned to the vote from Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative like Alito. The chief justice caused a stir among conservatives during the summer when he became the only right-leaning justice to rule President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act constitutional.

After siding with the court’s lib-

eral bloc, Gruhl said, Roberts might be more willing to vote in the opposite direction.

“There’s a lot of speculation among legal scholars that this will give him a free pass,” Gruhl said.

“It’s almost like it gave him space ... to do whatever he wants without being criticized too heavily.”

But several factors make prediction difficult, if not impossible, said Shavers, the law professor.

“Sometimes courts like to have precedents stay in place ... even if they don’t personally agree with it,” she said.

This tradition even has a name: stare de-

cisis, Latin for “let the decision stand.”

A similar case on race and higher education has come before the Supreme Court before. Allan Bakke, a white student rejected from his college of choice — because he was white, Bakke claimed — went to the court in 1978. The court ruled then that universities couldn’t use racial quotas but allowed race to remain a factor in university decisions.

However, as a point against stare decisis, the Supreme Court also reversed Bakke, then reversed that reversal in 2003.

And only eight of the nine justices

will decide — another complication.

In the event of a tie, previous court decisions against Fisher will stand. Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the decision because of previous work on the issue as U.S. Solicitor General.

Shavers, who supports taking race into account, also said she disagrees with Fisher’s claim that colleges can ignore race today.

“I don’t think it’s time yet,” she said. “I cannot predict it. I’m a little bit nervous, (but) I’m not necessarily pessimistic.”

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Mueller to host RHA exchanges ideas with Ohio State laser show Morrill Hall’s planetarium event to combine musical, visual on Oct. 19-21 Mara Klecker DN Lasers, colored strobe lights, fog machines.

Highly visual shows choreographed to hits from the Beatles, Pink Floyd and various country artists.

This is Laserfest — the series of music-themed laser shows that Morrill Hall’s Mueller Planetarium will host on Oct. 19 through Oct. 21.

Lightwave International, a renowned special effects production company, will use two laser projectors to fill the planetarium’s full dome with dazzling images and effects, according to event and planetarium coordinator Jack Dunn. Lightwave has produced light shows used in performances by Kanye West, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Madonna, according to the company’s website.

Zach Thompson, a part-time worker at the planetarium, said Laserfest audiences this year can expect a new experience.

“This year’s Laserfest is going to be bigger and better than anything Mueller Planetarium has done,” Thompson said. “The shows will be different, the lasers will be different, the music will be different.”

Laserfest’s show will be very different from the educational documentaries that are projected on the dome every Thursday night and on weekends.

Mueller Planetarium began bringing in laser shows in 1977.

Since then, it has served as twotime host for the International Laser Display Association’s conference, which is usually held in large cities such as Orlando, New York or Amsterdam.

The planetarium started hosting its own laser productions in the 1980s. Those shows continued until 2004, when the planetarium couldn’t cover the cost of replacing a broken laser.

After eight years without laser shows, Dunn has been looking for the perfect group to bring in an impressive show.

“Based on our history and reputation, we didn’t want to go backwards with amateurs,” he said.

Despite the time gap, Dunn believes the reputation is still strong. “I get at least two phone calls or emails a week from people asking if we still do the (laser) shows.”

Rebuilding the tradition will also attract new audiences, he said. He predicts the publicity from the laser shows will benefit

IF YOU GO Friday, Oct. 19 • 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., “Laser Beatles”; 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., “Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon Laser Spectacular.”

Saturday, Oct. 20 • 3:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., “Laser Beatles”; 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., “Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon Laser Spectacular.”

Sunday, Oct. 21 • 3:30 p.m., “Laser Country” (various artists); 7 p.m., “Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon Laser Spectacular.”

Matinee show tickets (including museum admission) are $10 for adults, $7 for children 18 and under, and $4 for Friends of the Museum and UNL staff, faculty and students with valid NU ID. Evening show tickets (museum exhibits closed) are $8 for all ages, $7 for Friends of the Museum. the planetarium’s regular programming as well.

For Dunn, though, bringing back laser shows is about more than just arousing new interest in the planetarium — it’s about nostalgia.

“We have an entire generation of people in the area who grew up coming to the (laser) shows,” he said. “Lots of them remember them from date nights at UNL. So there’s a history for us.”

Laserfest 2012 is looking to continue that history.

“We’re hoping this will be an event that people will be talking about for a long time,” Thompson said.

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On weekend trip to Ohio State’s halls, RHA president picks up ideas for UNL Emily Nitcher DN

The Residence Hall Association at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is taking some tips from fellow Big Ten school Ohio State University.

RHA president Meg Brannen, a senior advertising and public relations major, said she and other student leaders at UNL traveled to Ohio this past weekend for a student leader exchange. Brannen presented ideas inspired by her trip to Ohio State at the RHA meeting on Tuesday night.

Brannen was part of a student leadership team from UNL, which

included representatives from the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, the University Program Council, the Campus Recreation Advisory Committee, the Union Board, Interfraternity Council and the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. Campus Director of Recreation Stan Campbell was the faculty advisor for the trip.

Ohio State residence halls decorate their lobbies as part of the Homecoming competition, something Brannen would like to bring to UNL. Brannen said it could be another way for students in the residence halls to get involved with homecoming. And it can act like the Greek lawn displays for the residence halls, Brannen said.

While UNL’s Dining Services “blows Ohio State’s out of the water,” Brannen said she experienced an “Ohio Dog” — a hot dog loaded with mashed potatoes, corn, bacon, shredded cheese, green onions and

It’s a great way to network to better both campuses.”

Meg BRannen

rha president

topped with barbecue sauce.

Brannen wants to have a student competition to create a “Nebraska Dog” and have students vote for their favorite.

Aside from partaking in Homecoming activities and experiencing the Ohio Dog, Brannen said she visited the school’s residence halls and spoke with the RHA president.

Brannen said the Ohio State RHA president was interested in UNL’s movie channel and finding a way to bring a similar service to Ohio State students.

The exchanging of ideas was the point of the trip, Brannen said.

“Just to connect with another

campus and get other ideas and pass along ideas,” Brannen said. “It’s a great way to network to better both campuses.”

Ohio State offers residence hall students indoor bike racks, a service Brannen said she thinks UNL students would appreciate.

UNL hosted several student leaders from Ohio State at last year’s homecoming game, Brannen said.

Brannen’s trip to Ohio State was sponsored by University Housing.

Melissa Peters, assistant director of Residence Life for Student Leadership, said the money for the trip came out of a contingency fund.

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University dismissed 666 students last year Faculty Senate meeting examines academically dismissed students

rage at 18th and R streets.

“It has some risk associated with it, for sure,” Perlman said, who addressed the Board of Regents about the same issue Tuesday. “If we really are committed to growing the university, then housing is going to be a signifilis arneson cant need, and we don’t have the dn land space to build it ourselves.

We may as well have someone The University of Nebraska-Lincoln else build and pay us the revenue academically dismissed 666 stu- stream.” dents during the 2011-2012 academPerlman also addressed quesic year, according to an academic tions about recently named Nebrasstandards committee report intro- ka Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst. duced at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate “I think he has a meeting. strong commitment The Academic If they to the academic sucStandards Commitof his student thought that cess tee, which issued athletes,” Perlman the report, is respon- was a realistic said. sible for reviewing Eichorst was a plan, (they academic dismissal law faculty memappeals, during decided) to allow ber at Marquette which students ask University, and to be reinstated. The the student to Perlman said he has committee accepted stay one extra “indicated some in117, or 62 percent, terest in continuing of the 189 appeals semester.” his teaching activiin the last academic ties as soon as he year.

Katie Kerr has time to get acassistant director, The commitclimated in his prigeneral education studies tee looked at plans mary responsibilistudents presented ties.” for their appeals, Kimberly Barsaid Katie Kerr, assistant director of rett, assistant director for wellness general education studies. “If they services at Campus Recreation and thought that was a realistic plan, representative for the Chancellor’s (they decided) to allow the student Committee on Wellness, presentto stay one extra semester,” she ed information about upcoming said.

“Wellness on Wheels” events for Fifteen students disagreed with faculty. the rejection of their appeals and reThis is the pilot year for Wellappealed to Associate Vice Chancel- ness on Wheels. Barrett said these lor for Academic Affairs Amy Goodevents were planned based on data burn. She overturned four of these collected in recent health assessappeals. ments.

Chancellor Harvey Perlman also “We look at what employees are addressed the senate and explained interested in and where our health his support for the proposed private risk factors lie,” Barrett said. housing on top of the parking ga-

STUDENTS DISMISSED IN 2011-2012 A total of 666 students were dismissed from the University of NebraskaLincoln for academic reasons during the 2011-2012 academic year, and 189 sought reinstatement. Of those students seeking reinstatement, 117 had their appeals accepted 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0

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SOURCE: ACADEMIC STANDARDS COMMITTEE REPORT

The Chancellor’s Committee on Wellness narrowed the top interests for the 2012 academic year to nutrition, physical activity programming, weight management and health screenings that are age- and gender-appropriate.

Faculty wellness events will take place on at the Nebraska Union on Oct. 23 and at the Nebraska East Union on Oct. 24.

Flu shots will be available from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Faculty

members can also register for stroke detection plus screenings, which indicate one’s risk factor for stroke.

Barrett encouraged faculty members to attend the upcoming wellness events.

“It’s a chance for you to get a look at your own personal health and to make decisions about moving forward.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Shawn Eichorst deserves a fair chance from fans The new Nebraska Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst walked to the podium and read from a script.

At the press conference officially welcoming Eichorst, who previously held the same position at Miami, to Lincoln he seemed robotic at best. Trying to crack a small joke or two, he only received small chuckles from the audience, failing to win over Nebraska in his first impression.

Eichorst came off very matter-of-fact and methodical, good traits for an athletic director, but he didn’t capture the hearts of the officials in the audience. As he tries to follow up Nebraska legend Tom Osborne, that first impression is critical.

Husker fans never cared much for Steve Pederson, Nebraska’s athletic director during the “dark ages” of Nebraska football (2002-07). Pederson never bought into the Nebraska culture, firing Osborne’s hand-picked successor, Frank Solich, adding a new mascot and hiring an outsider, Bill Callahan, to coach Nebraska’s beloved Cornhusker football team.

Fans practically ran Pederson out of town in 2007.

Eichorst would be wise to avoid falling into the same mold.

As an outsider with no experience with Nebraska, Eichorst has an uphill battle. His time at Miami, only 18 months, was marked by very few accomplishments. The most noteworthy perhaps being the hiring of a new basketball coach.

The biggest thing Eichorst may have working in his favor is an endorsement from Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin’s athletic director and a former NU linebacker. Eichorst said Alvarez preached that Wisconsin should follow “the Nebraska way,” which Eichorst said rubbed off on him.

Eichorst’s address to reporters and officials Tuesday focused around his ideals that make him a good fit for Nebraska, but the fashion in which he told those stories didn’t cement his likeability.

Perhaps it’s just hard to move on past Osborne. Most candidates will look like chumps compared to the Husker great, but the endorsement from Alvarez could mean a lot.

Alvarez is one of the biggest Nebraska supporters outside the university. Maybe he’s on to something; maybe Eichorst is for real.

Early impressions are shaky, but if Husker fans want to make this guy work out and not become another Pederson, it would be smart to give him a chance. Be patient, Husker fans.

Opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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‘Revolution’ embraces real bodies

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ady Gaga is many things. A cow isn’t one of them.

Recently, the Mother Monster reportedly gained 25-30 pounds and is starting a “Body Revolution” rather than feeling ashamed about her

weight.

It’s disgusting how much the press criticized Gaga for gaining some weight. The fact is Gaga looks healthier. Having a curvier frame makes her more representative of the female population, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

The Body Revolution is going in full-force.

The premise is simple: Every day people are uploading pictures of themselves — sometimes in their bras and underwear. The purpose is to show everyone what real people (not Photoshopped or overworked) look like.

A lot of individuals may not like Lady Gaga’s public antics. Her meat dress is questionable, and some of the messages in her music put certain people on edge. However, regardless of your music tastes, you should be able to appreciate this revolution.

In a scathing review published in The Guardian, Sady Doyle says that the Body Revolution is just another ploy Gaga is using to become more famous. The editorial also says that the Mother Monster is exploiting undesirable populations as a demographic for record sales.

I respectfully disagree. Even if this were true, and Gaga made a trillion dollars and ended body image dysmorphia, I’d say that’s a win-win. This also addresses another point: Whenever a celebrity endorses a cause, we assume there’s an ulterior motive as if it’s impossible to empathize with people or be genuinely interested in their well-being.

The fact is, Lady Gaga has admitted to suffering from eating disorders since she was 15. I believe it’s possible that she’s empathizing with people who’ve had a similar struggle with their weight. Lady Gaga may be a pop star, but she is

DAMIEN CROGHAN just one of many men and women everywhere who suffer from this problem.

As someone who has suffered from both anorexia and bulimia, I can personally attest to just how bad the pressure is to stay unhealthily thin.

Starting in middle school and ending junior year of high school, I went through a cycle of purging, starving and over-exercising.

Is my admission a ploy for attention? No. Admitting to a struggle isn’t. Looking skeletal and still trying to lose weight is.

I’ve gotten over my eating disorders. I no longer count calories like my life depends on it. I don’t fixate on my weight. The same can’t be said for too many people. This is an ongoing problem, and the Body Revolution is meant to shed light on it.

The more people share their stories, as well as images of themselves, the more they will realize that they have nothing to be embarrassed of. It’s better to build a sense of community rather than bash people who are uncomfortable in their own skin.

Where exactly do these issues stem from?

While the factors differ for some, many people complain about looking at magazines. Seeing these perfectly proportioned people who look

more like Greek statues than anyone you encounter on the street causes some to doubt their body image.

The problem is that we aspire to look like fitness gurus but don’t have the time to dedicate to our bodies. Work, school and life in general can spread us thin. Yet, we want to get thinner. Because of this, sometimes looking too unhealthy means we achieve our desired figure.

Also, it’s important to note that models rarely represent the general population. Even more important is to note that fitness gurus are paid to be in shape. If your 9-5 job was literally dedicated to eating properly and exercising, you’d probably have a statuesque physique, too.

I mean to speak on behalf of the 24 million Americans who suffer from an eating disorder.

The purging, calorie counting and internal bashing of one’s figure has to stop. But this isn’t meant to be confused with an endorsement of obesity.

Sure, go to the gym. Get on the treadmill. Be healthy. Get your desired body! But if you’re not quite there yet, don’t slip into a pattern of selfloathing. Instead, allow the progress to happen, and allow for it to happen slowly! Crash-dieting never works in the long run. Almost always, you gain the weight you lost plus a few pounds afterward.

Trying to change your body shape in too short of a time frame can prove detrimental to your health. It’s about slow change: Eat healthier, but don’t give up every comfort food. Aim to be comfortable with yourself; don’t aim to look like a model. Their bodies, if attained in a healthy manner, take many months (and sometimes years) to get.

And even if you’ll never look like a model, the Body Revolution has a simple message: Love your body; you were born this way.

Damien Croghan is a senior newseditorial and international studies major. Reach him at opinion@dailynebraskan.com

Nike commercials trying to make change, not fun

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hen you think of a fat athlete, you think of a sumo wrestler, not a long distance runner.

On television, it’s uncommon to see an overweight or obese person in a commercial that isn’t promoting a new “magic” diet pill or a weight loss program. It’s even more uncommon to see overweight people in advertisements produced by companies that sell athletic clothing and gear. Perhaps this is why people were shocked when they saw Nike’s latest commercial, which premiered during the Summer 2012 Olympics.

Some viewers like Lindy West from jezebel.com argued that Nike exploited those who struggle with their weight in an unrealistic commercial as yet another moneymaking scheme. Viewers thought the commercial would make children self-conscious about their body image. However, they failed to realize that the main motives behind Nike’s very realistic advertisement were to crush stereotypes and inspire people to change their lifestyles.

For those of you who don’t watch television, you are probably not familiar with Nike’s latest controversial “Find Your Greatness” commercial. It shows a young, overweight boy jogging on a dirt road. He looks like he’s going to pass out, vomit or maybe both.

Tom Hardy, better known as Bane

from the latest Batman movie, does a voice-over explaining the meaning of greatness: “Greatness. It’s just something we made up. Somehow we’ve come to believe that greatness is a gift reserved for a chosen few, for prodigies, for superstars, and the rest of us can only stand by watching. You can forget that. Greatness is not some rare DNA strand, not some precious thing. Greatness is no more unique to us than breathing. We’re all capable of it. All of us.”

This commercial can be taken many different ways. According to the article on jezebel.com, some viewers of the advertisement thought Nike was trying to exploit those who are fat. They thought that the advertisement focused too much on the heaviness of the runner and were giving off messages that the only way the boy was going to achieve greatness was if he were thin.

The commercial had to focus on the heaviness of the runner in order to get the message across. Nike was trying to show that greatness is overcoming barriers. In this case, one of the boy’s personal barriers is his weight. If Nike were to picture this boy doing math or trying to learn the piano, the commercial wouldn’t have made much sense.

By casting an overweight boy in its commercial rather than the typical, muscular man or woman, Nike is also crushing the stereotype that fat equals lazy. It shows body size doesn’t measure how ambitious

JOVANNA BALQUIER you are or how determined you are to overcome obstacles. The goal of the commercial was not to exploit the child, but to show the importance of respecting those who are putting in an effort to change. Nike spokesman KeJuan Wilkins said, “It’s not just championship athletes that aspire to push their limits.”

Others think Nike’s latest commercial is unrealistic. According to the same article on jezebel.com, “It’s not realistic, and you know it’s not realistic because it’s not real. That kid didn’t just get up and run— he vomited in a ditch halfway through the shoot.”

The fact that the boy vomited during the shoot makes the commercial real. If you push yourself to your limits while exercising, you will more than likely vomit.

This is true for anyone, regardless of body size. The fact of the matter is the boy is overcoming another barrier, a message that Nike is trying to stress in their campaign.

Seeing an overweight person in an advertisement is more realistic than seeing someone with washboard abs. By placing an overweight person in the commercial, Nike recognized that even those who aren’t fit or thin work out. Nike also recognized that its customers have a wide range of body size, some who can better relate to overweight people in advertisements.

The article on jezebel.com also argues that showing an overweight child exercising on television might make children self-conscious of themselves. This is an ignorant assumption. The shirtless athletes or picturesque models that usually frequent Nike commercials are the ones who make people obsess about their body images. By seeing the overweight child in this commercial, children of all sizes will be motivated to live a healthy lifestyle and won’t be discouraged.

According to buzzfeed.com, Nike is making millions from the commercial. If the boy featured in the commercial continues to lose weight, Nike is going to make a follow-up commercial. They will make millions more. This may upset people, but what did you expect? Nike is a billion-dollar company. They have thousands of employees who need to be paid. However, Nike would

have made just as much money if they’d shown LeBron James dunk a basketball or Tim Tebow say a prayer before a game. Nike chose to portray an overweight person as an effort to stimulate change.

Nike’s main motives probably had more to do with shoe- and athletic-wear sales than inspiring average people to be active. However, inspiration for change was still something they were trying to achieve. “The idea behind ‘Find Your Greatness’ is simply to inspire and energize athletes everywhere to celebrate achievements, participate and enjoy the thrill of achieving in sports at their own level,” said Greg Hoffman, Nike VP of Brand Design & Communications.

The number of Americans who are overweight or obese is at an all-time high. New restrictions in schools and restaurants in various cities have been made to target this alarming problem. However, people aren’t going to change their ways unless they want to. Nike and other companies have started using overweight models in their advertisements for good reasons. These advertisements are not meant to poke fun at those who struggle with their weight. Instead, these ads are meant to inspire people to change their lifestyles. Even if these advertisements only get one person to become active and healthy, it’s still a victory.

JoVanna Balquier is a freshman English major. Email her at opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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campus (Left) Derrick Sloan balances a boombox on his head beneath the Rosa Parks Way overpass. Sloan uses the boombox in his impromptu street dancing performances.

His favorite song to dance to is “Run the World (Girls)” by Beyoncé.

(Above) Hanging from the back of his truck, Derrick Sloan displays his “dancing shoes.” He purchased the shoes at a garage sale when he was delivering sandwiches for his job at Jimmy John’s, but the shoes were too stiff, leaving them

It seems like everyone has a story about Derrick Sloan.

“He reaches into the front of these ridiculous baseball pants he’s wearing in the middle of the set and pulls out a cucumber,” said Jack Comstock, who does stand-up comedy with Sloan on Monday at Duffy’s Tavern. “He unwraps the cucumber and takes a big bite out of it and keeps going.”

“He’s a bit out there,” said Bill Sloan, Derrick’s father. “He had the soundtrack to ‘The Bodyguard’ by Whitney Houston. He was maybe 7 and he would always sing ‘I Will Always Love You.’” Sloan, a senior advertising major, has been doing stand-up off and on for three years.

“I approach comedy as a performance, no matter what I’m doing,” Sloan said. “When I’m on stage, I’m there to make others laugh.”

And he does. Sloan is known for his absurd humor with audience members often taking a few seconds to get his jokes.

“Do monsters drink energy drinks called ‘Human’?” Derrick joked during a recent set. “Has a baby ever changed an adult diaper?”

In between jokes, Sloan seems to drunkenly bob around the stage and takes pauses that last just a second too long, adding up to a stage presence that draws laughs even when Sloan isn’t talking.

“I’ve never seen Derrick perform and not laughed,” Comstock said.

“He’s one of the most consistently funny comedians doing open mics here in Lincoln.”

Sloan said he first realized his gift for humor after trying to fit in at a new elementary school.

“I remember moving to Georgia in third grade and thinking, ‘How am I going to make new friends?’” Sloan said. “I ended up grabbing a cigarette butt on the ground and acted like I was smoking and everyone laughed. That’s when I realized I was funny, I guess.”

Sloan’s father agreed, bringing up an anecdote from when his son was in sixth grade.

“I took him to an Atlanta Hawks game,” Bill Sloan said. “When the Chicago Bulls were shooting free throws, he took off his shirt and starting waving it around. He was a little chunky, so he grabbed the attention of other fans, who were all cracking up.”

It also grabbed the eye of a member of the Hawks’ advertising team, who came over and confronted Sloan with a proposition.

“I thought Derrick was going to be in trouble for exposing himself,” Bill Sloan said.

Far from it. Sloan was asked to perform during the halftime show of the next game he attended. He would go on to do just that, winning a dance-off with the Hawks’ mascot, Harry the Hawk.

Dancing has stuck with Sloan, who often breaks out his boombox to give public performances.

“He’s one of the most amazing dancers I’ve seen,” Comstock said.

Sloan’s favorite track to dance to is “Run This World (Girls)” by Beyoncé. He slides around to the beat, popping his arms and sliding his feet this way and that, all the while gathering laughs and howls from passersby.

Sloan is currently in the process of branding himself as a comedian. As seems to be the case with Sloan, his first step was not a conventional one.

He was with a friend when he noticed some wooden panels leaning against his friend’s house. He got the idea to bleach the wood and draw his face on it, using a projector he’d borrowed from the same friend’s workplace. He then put the wood panels on the hood of his Ford Ranger pickup, effectively giving Sloan free advertising everywhere he drives.

“It’s been on the hood for about three weeks,” Sloan said. “I’ve gotten like eight new twitter followers already.”

On the back of the truck hands an old pair of white high-top Reeboks, which Sloan refers to as his “dancing shoes.”

“I got the them when I was doing a delivery for my job at a garage sale,” Sloan said. “They were too stiff to dance in, so I threw them on the hitch of my truck. It’s like in ghetto neighborhoods when they throw the shoes over the powerlines. Also, it was kind of making fun of the guys who put testicles on the back of their trucks and whatever. It works on multiple levels.”

The UNL senior is currently in the planning stages of a cross-country comedy tour, during which he’ll also use his newfound advertising degree to do copywriting.

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‘Dirty Talker’ talks low rumble: Lincoln calling begins Lincoln Calling joe wade dn It’s the one show for which you won’t need to take a shower before seeing.

Dirty Talker will be performing Wednesday at 12:30 a.m. at the Zoo Bar during 2012’s Lincoln Calling. The band has been performing in the Lincoln music scene since the members’ high school years in the 1990s. The rock trio offers a stripped-down approach to music, while still shooting for creative versatility. Some bands feel the need for vast pedal-boards to enhance their sound. This is one group that likes to keep it simple and warmly distorted: namely, dirty.

The band is comprised of Adam Anderson, aka Adam 2000, Brendan McGinn and Justin Kohmetscher.

The Dirty Talker fellas were kind enough to sit down with a reporter from the Daily Nebraskan and share their thoughts on Lincoln Calling and their new album, “Letters.”

Daily Nebraskan: “Letters” came out in July, right?

Justin Kohmetscher: We released it in Omaha at O’Leavers Pub, where no one bought any and no one knew who we were; it was a great show.

Adam Anderson: Yeah, we did release it there, but we haven’t really had an official release show where we played last.

JK: It was awesome, Adam’s dad had to save us for that show because Brendan’s truck, one of the tires blew a belt and we hobbled 15 miles to a gas station. Then Adam’s dad came out with power tools to try to get the spare tire on, couldn’t do it and then rented us a truck.

This is our first record, we’ve been together going on three years now but we’ve played together as a band for...

DN: I read on Hear Nebraska that it’s been close to 15 years. Is that about right?

JK: Yeah, a little more than that, I think.

Brendan McGinn: I started playing with these guys in January of 1996.

AA: It’s been 16.

DN: How many projects do you guys have going on? There’s this, Her Flyaway Manner.

JK: And then I’m in, Sputnik Kaputnik and the Cherry Mashers.

if you go Dirty Talker @ Lincoln Calling when: Tonight, 12:30 a.m. where: Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. how much: $5 (21+) Brendan has a solo thing, although he hasn’t played much.

BM: In a couple years.

JK: He has a kid now, so there’s that.

DN: That does limit availability.

BM: I think about that project every now and then, mostly I have to buy things to make that happen.

DN: What kind of things?

BM: It’s like a splitter pedal thing. Something that I’m not sure has ever been made, so it might have to be me making it. Normally they have two outputs and one input, and I need to have that but with two inputs. So like a guitar to go to one or both, and then a keyboard to go to one or both.

DN: With the different projects how do you decide, like when you are working on a song, which project that song goes to?

AA: If I write something on the guitar it would be for Dirty Talker, if I write something on bass then it would be for Her Flyaway Manner.

DN: Thinking about Lincoln Calling are you more excited to perform or see the other bands?

JK: Both, I love Lincoln Calling because you’ll go see shows and bands. It makes you want to go play music. That feels great and it’s also great to be in a town like Lincoln when something like this is going on where you know 70 percent of the people wandering around. Some of them just got done playing a show and are going to see somebody else.

It feels like a First Friday for bands.

DN: What would you suggest to the audience of Lincoln Calling?

JK: Buy the big bracelet. Do the thing were you are free to run around to each bar and catch even just a song of a band. I’d really take advantage of the chance to see a ton of different bands all in a night or two. But, see the whole Dirty Talker

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(Above) Seattle-based Ivan & Alyosha headline the opening night of Lincoln Calling at the Bourbon Theatre. This is the band’s third time playing the venue. (Bottom left) Patrick Boyer, lead guitarist for Desert Noises, gives the audience at the Bourbon a lively performance. Desert Noises traveled from its hometown of Utah Valley, Utah to perform during Lincoln Calling week. (Bottom right) Omaha’s Great American Desert (Max Holmquist) kicks off Lincoln Calling week at the Bourbon Theatre on Tuesday night.

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lincoln calling 2012 wednesday and thursday showtimes Wednesday, Oct. 10 Bourbon Theatre 6 p.m. Homegrown Film Festival $3 all ages 8:30 p.m. Classes (Lincoln) 9:30 p.m. Minor Birds (Twain Harte, Calif.)

10:30 p.m. Gayle Skidmore (San Diego) 11:30 p.m. Flashbulb Fires (Denver) 12:30 a.m. Orion Walsh (Lincoln) $5 for 21+, $7 for 18-20 Duffy’s Tavern 9 p.m. Good Show Great Show (Lincoln) 10 p.m. Tenderness Wilderness (Omaha) 11 p.m. Hume (Baltimore) 12 a.m. Carrot Carrot (Lincoln) $5 for 21+, $7 for 18-20 Zoo Bar 6 p.m. Jazzocracy (Lincoln) 7 p.m. Emily Bass (Lincoln) 8 p.m. McCarthy Trenching (Omaha) $3 for 18+ 9:30 p.m. Omni Arms (Lincoln) 10:30 p.m. Touch People (Lincoln) 11:30 p.m. THEMES (Portland, Ore.) 12:30 a.m. Dirty Talker (Lincoln) $5 for 21+ Black Market 7 p.m. Demos (Lincoln) 8 p.m. Domestica (Lincoln) $5 for all ages Fat Toad DJ Aim (Lincoln) Christian Brabec (Lincoln) No cover, 21+ Mix Barcade Moeglie (Lincoln) Shark Week (Lincoln) Bassthoven (Lincoln) No cover, 21+

Thursday, Oct. 11 Bourbon Theatre 9:30 p.m. Cowboy Indian Bear (Lawrence, Kan.) 10:30 p.m. UUVVWWZ (Lincoln) 11:30 p.m. Laetitia Sadier (Paris, France) $8 adv, $10 dos 18+

Duffy’s Tavern 9 p.m. Shipbuilding Co. (Lincoln) 10 p.m. The Lepers (Omaha) 11 p.m. Christopher the Conquered (Des Moines) 12 a.m. Poison Control Center (Des Moines/ Ames) $5 for 21+ Zoo Bar 8 p.m. Bonehart Flannigan (Lincoln) 9 p.m. the Big Deep (Omaha) 10 p.m. The Bears of Blue River (Chicago) 11 p.m. The Spring Standards (New York City) 12 a.m. Low Horse (Lincoln) $5 for 21+ The Spigot 9:30 p.m. Discourse (Lincoln) 10:30 p.m. Skullskowski (Lincoln) 11:30 p.m. Diamondz R 4Eva (Lincoln) 12:30 a.m. Piss Poor (Lincoln) $5 for 21+ Black Market 7 p.m. Guilty is the Bear (Omaha/Lincoln) 8 p.m. Fraternal Durango (Lincoln) No cover, all ages The Alley 9 p.m. Alex Walker (Lincoln) 10 p.m. Intergalactic Fu (Lincoln) 11 p.m. Zed Tempo (Lincoln) 12 a.m. Drum and Disorderly (Lincoln) $5, 21+ Fat Toad Nick the Quick (Lincoln) Adam A (Lincoln) No cover, 21+ Mix Barcade Grindhouse presents Digitalove featuring $pencelove (Lincoln) Cocky Cat (Lincoln) Cake Eater (Lincoln) No cover, 21+ Yia Yia’s 10 p.m. Professor Plum (Lincoln) 11 p.m. Powerful Science (Lincoln) 12 a.m. Time Hammer (Lincoln) No cover, 21+

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Beau Poehlman and Kent Steen of Lincoln City Jugglers and the UNL juggling club meet in front of the Nebraska Union Sunday evening.

Lincoln jugglers enjoy life in the air UNL students and Lincoln citizens share common love of unconventional pastime chris heady dn The clicking and clacking of the pins can be heard from the Nebraska Union steps. There are three men standing on the grass of the Selleck Quadrangle in the form of a triangle, tossing what look like nine bowling pins high into the air, catching them with ease before thrusting the pin back into the evening sky, for their corresponding angle in the triangle to catch and throw again.

The sun is low, but the level of concentration is heightened between the three men.

The man at the disadvantage, charged with taking care of his two partners’ three clubs each, is Jim Brennan, a railroad shop worker and active member of the Lincoln City Jugglers. He looks to see how the club lands in his partners’ hands.

“Is it standing up straight in his hand?” he must ask himself, counting as each club hits his hand, three ... three ... catch ... catch.

Click-clack, click-clack.

Adjacent to Brennan is sophomore broadcasting major Beau Poehlman, the face of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln juggling club, a club without RSO status because of the lack of faculty sponsorship.

Beads of sweat drip onto Poehlman’s square glasses and into his scruffy beard, as the sun shines its last rays before dark.

Click-clack, click-clack.

Four feet to the right of Poehlman stands Rick Prevett, a retired software engineer. A “code-monkey,” he says. He wears blue jeans, white socks and shirt of a winking Marilyn Monroe that reads “I screw jugglers.” His tan face looks like sagging clay, and his brown eyes behind his circular glasses yield concentration with each passing pin.

Click-clack, click-clack.

The three banter.

“Good catch.”

“OK, behind the back. Here comes something weird.”

“Oh, no, I never like when he says that.”

“Oh, hey, you caught it!”

“All right, coming back atcha.”

In juggling, as in life, Brennan says, all good things come to an end.

This routine of the three passing jugglers, “Binky,” they call it, eventually does when Poehlman bobbles a catch and the pins come crashing down.

No one gets mad, no one gets angry. The three laugh and pick up the pins again and start right back up.

Click-clack, click-clack. * * * The group of jugglers outside the Union has no name. They are a mötley crüe of the UNL jugglers and the Lincoln City Jugglers. And on a good Wednesday or Sunday eve-

ning, about 10 total jugglers can be seen propelling objects into the air.

“We practice out here for gigs and festivals,” said Brennan, who started juggling 30 years ago. “The festival we put on is usually in June and costs $3,000, All the money we make from gigs for two years goes towards the festival.”

The festival, which will be in July next year, will host more than 300 jugglers from all over the Midwest. The jugglers are usually from the region, but every once in a while, there will be someone from out of the country, a real treat for Nebraskan, land-locked jugglers. And if they’re really lucky they may even get a few “hoopers,” as they’re called in the juggling community, or people who do tricks with hula hoops.

“They’re usually the cute ones,” Brennan joked.

At regular gigs, the jugglers are usually just ambiance: more of a welcoming act, than the main act.

But they’re OK with that.

“It’s just fun to go juggle in front of people,” Prevett said, who picked up juggling 40 years ago after someone showed him how with three rocks. “It’s usually at a party or something, but we get different, various kind of gigs. We have performed at the Pershing Center, Big Red Welcome, the Champions Club, other random places.”

The entire group can juggle three pins and pass: that’s the meat and potatoes of their act, but each member has a specialty. For Brennan, it’s the Diablo, or an enlarged Yo-Yo attached to two rods by string. For Prevett, it’s winding and spinning tops in his hand. And for their fourth main member, Charles Leslie, the assistant administrator for East Campus Education in Media, it’s mass juggling with props.

Usually with bean bags, it’s not just for fun, it’s a science.

“Yes, I’m entertained by it but the other (reason) is I kind of want see what my human limits are,” Leslie said, who was a member of the UNL juggling club when he was a student.

“There is a cognitive psychology aspect to it where your brain has to adapt overtime, kind of like playing a musical instrument. A person, no matter how coordinated they are, can’t just pick up a few balls and juggle them easily. You have to really learn in your brain how to do it over time, otherwise, it’s not possible for a standard human to do it.”

The group also uses its money from gigs to travel to other festivals around the Midwest. They go to Kansas City, St. Louis, Wisconsin and Minneapolis each year, as well as to the International Jugglers Association’s weeklong festival each year, which was held in Bowling Green, Ohio, this year.

There, they learn tricks and techniques from other juggling groups around the country, as well as attend professional juggling shows.

In juggling, pattern and rhythm is everything, and for this group, that’s what the club is, as well. The members perform gigs, raise money for their trips and festivals, spend the money on those two things, and then raise more money for the next

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Josh Cox is a junior computer science major as well as the most recent addition to UNL’s juggling club. Cox laughs as he attempts to juggle for the first time. trip or festival. That’s it. There are no glimmering goals or aspirations.

“We just would like to have a lot of fun with a lot of jugglers and have the money to do it,” Brennan said.

“Nothing really more than that.”

For all of them, it’s an escape.

“It really relieves stress really well,” Beau said. “Unsurprisingly, when you’re trying to keep three objects in the air, you can’t really think about anything else. All your troubles kinda go away.”

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As the sky gets dimmer, the jugglers move closer to the light post by the sidewalk.

After a few minutes, a student walks by, calling out toward Leslie.

“Hey, dude!” he exclaims loudly, his voice echoing off the Union walls. “Did you just do all six of those balls?

Charles laughs bashfully, his face flushed red.

“Uh, yeah.”

“Do it again.”

“Well I can’t usually do it on demand but...”

Leslie flings ball one into the

air at seven-ball height, the highest a ball can go to juggle sufficiently.

He then follows that with balls two through six, juggling three in one hand and three in the other. Head tilted back, eyes up at the sky toward the now-pink clouds, Leslie can’t help but laugh as the balls tumble down after 10 or so touches.

“Damn, dude! That’s awesome!” the student yells, punching at his friends arm and pointing to Leslie as they walk away.

Leslie picks up his specially made bean-bags and laughs.

“I could have done more,” he says to Brennan.

“Yeah, yeah, we all know you could have,” Brennan jokes. He then calls out directions to the group.

“All right now, let’s do a self, a left pass, on a — let’s say — three count.

Cycle repeats every three, sound good? Alright, one, two, three ...”

The jugglers resume their routine, and as the sun finally sets, they’re hard to see in the dark, but the sound of pins hitting hands is still audible across the Quad.

Click-clack, click-clack. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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We want to 2013, and then mayAA: Given that be release it in the fall it’s Wednesday and see more for when students we are playing late, come back. Also, I’m going to go with students at the we’d kind of like to Red Bull or coffee. damn shows.” do a music video.

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Lecture series to host talk on simulated American reality andrew larsen dn The Humanities on the Edge lecture series is used to tackling big questions, none of them bigger than the nature of reality.

The next installment of Humanities on the Edge, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln speaker series, which aims to encourage discussion across disciplines in the Humanities will be held Thursday night at 5:30 at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Mark Greif, assistant professor of literary studies at the New School in New York City and editor of n+1 magazine, will visit UNL to present his lecture, “Reality in America: A Counter-Aesthetic for the Present.”

Greif has written extensively on the subject of reality television and its prominence in the American conception of reality today, a topic he plans to cover in his lecture. He is particularly interested in the “emulation” or artificial construction of what we call reality.

In his 2005 essay “The Reality of Reality Television,” Greif writes, “The reality of reality television is that it is the one place that, first, shows our fellow citizens to us and, then, shows that they have been changed by television.

This reality is the unacknowledged truth that drama cannot, and will not, show you.”

The idea of reality being fundamentally changed by television is analogous to politics for Greif.

“Television and recorded media have changed politics because suddenly the day-to-day changes you make in a speech become a problem because someone will record that and take it to another place that is slightly different,” he said. “Ultimately it makes politics impersonal.”

So impersonal, in Greif’s view, that we’ve come to expect no more truth or genuineness from Mitt Romney than from Snooki.

“In (politicians’) official presentation, they’ve become — by a rule —

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n+1 magazine editor and New School assistant professor Mark Greif will speak Thursday in the Humanities on the Edge series. fake and not expressive of their immediate reactions. It’s sad you have to go to the Food Network to see spontaneity of judgment that politics no longer offers.”

Greif’s writings fall in line with the 2012-2013 theme of Humanities on the Edge: “Aesthetics/Performance/Politics.” Marco Abel, associate professor of English, who co-founded Humanities on the Edge with Roland Vegso, assistant professor of English, cited the changing nature and perceptions of reality as being central to Greif’s questioning of contemporary reality. “‘Reality’ usually is a concept also closely connected to concepts and values, such as ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality,’” Abel said. “What happens to such concepts, and the value we place on them, if today, reality is no longer ‘real’ in the traditional way, but virtual or simulated, that is, when the real itself is no longer invested in being authentic or original?”

Greif’s lecture will be the first Humanities on the Edge lecture of the 2012-2013 academic year. New this year, for students who are interested in the lecture and connecting with the material on a deeper level, there will

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be a reading and discussion of Greif’s essay on reality television Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Bailey Library of Andrews Hall.

“This reading group is open to anyone who would like to attend, but is aimed mostly at undergraduates,” said Tim Lundy, a senior English and classical languages major, who is organizing Wednesday’s session. “The hope is that the group will help undergrads to engage with and enjoy the lectures more and will help to include them in the intellectual conversation on campus.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Ditch headphones, try real world

tyler keown I have never seen “Back to the Future Part III.” I’ve heard about it, though: how it ditched the magic formula of the first two films for the Old West motif and how it didn’t work. I heard about the trains and horse-riding and whatever else. My sister (among others) told me to never see it, as it may dampen my love for the first two parts, so I never did.

Consider my column last week as the “Back to the Future Part III” of my columns. Well-intended, but your friends probably told you it wasn’t my best work.

Mine sure told me.

So I’m doing a director’s cut. For those who didn’t read last week’s column (a.k.a. “chumps”), I discussed wearing headphones on campus. I danced around the issue a bit, somehow ended up with 600-ish words and walked away.

Not this time.

The thing about wearing headphones as you go to class is it causes disconnect with others. When I see people lost in their music, I’m not going to talk to them, because they’re obviously preoccupied and it’d be an-

noying for me to interrupt them, even if I’m about to hit them with my Sedan.

I’m as guilty of this as anyone (I’ve been pumping Of Montreal everywhere I go lately), but if someone were to ask me whether I’d prefer to listen to “We Will Commit Wolf Murder” for a 350th time or have a light conversation with someone, I would take the conversation in a heartbeat.

It makes me wonder about the future and what it holds for us all.

Walkmans and similar products didn’t show up until the late 1970s, so if you wanted to listen to something as you walked somewhere, you had to choose between nature, the voice of another person or your own babbling.

Now you see most students lost in their phones or their music or their books (if they’re a weird sitcom nerd).

It’s all part of larger, Generation Y movement to isolate ourselves. This is even more notable in social media, but I’ll discuss that more in a later column.

If I feel like it.

I’m not trying to tell anyone to throw the headphones down and introduce yourself to the next guy you see (that sounds terrible), but I’m instead trying to point out that social interaction is harder if you can’t hear anyone. I can’t/don’t want to stop anyone from doing anything they enjoy, I just think it’s an interesting path we’re on.

2042 A.D.: A man wakes from his 30-year coma. He wanders the streets after his release from a strangely quiet hospital. The world is silent, save for the sound of hovercars and the faint sound of music.

“Hello!” he shouts. There is no reply. Just blank stares from strangers with headphones that seem to have

been surgically attached to their heads.

“Where am I?” he wonders. “What has happened to my fellow man?”

I feel like I haven’t made enough jokes in this column. Have I already sapped that whole owl-carrying-aperson joke yet? I’m gonna wring that thing for all it’s worth. What if I tried it with other animals? Starfish that suction themselves to your feet, then swim you wherever, while you casually stand on the water like Jesus? Did that make you laugh, reader?

All right, back to content. I’m not going to stop wearing my headphones to class, and if others don’t want to, they shouldn’t either. I’ll just realize the next time I handle a social situation badly that I could’ve been practicing interacting with others in my day-today routine.

Hey, what about a bear that wraps itself into a ball around you and literally rolls you wherever you want to go, screaming “TA-DA!” when he unfurls and you pop out? Please tell me I’m funny.

And that’s this week’s improved column, I hope. Chance, did you like that? Check back next week when I’ll explain why counting your eggs before they hatch is never a bad idea. tyler keown is a sophomore broadcast journalism major. reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

Professor studies bridge between genetics, politics jourdyn kaarre dn

“There were quite a few different things that could be done to see if maybe who we are politically was shaped by biological and deeper psyHe showed up in bunny ears and face chological forces,” he said. paint to class on Halloween. He was Mike Gruszczynski, a doctoral on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewcandidate of political science, said art. He is one of the leading political scientists in a new field of study: ge- of Hibbing: “From an academic pernetics and politics. He is John Hib- spective, his professional trajectory has been very interesting. 20 years bing. ago he was studying congressional He could be one of your profespolitics; 10 years ago he was studysors. ing public attitudes toward Congress Since his arrival at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1981, and other democratic institutions; and now he’s all-in with the study of Hibbing has worked in the College bedrock political attitudes. He’s left of Arts & Sciences’ political science an indelible mark on each of these department. He served as chair of areas of research. the department in “From a nonthe 1990s and has “I don’t think academic perspecsince taught undertive, his ability on the graduate classes, they are basketball court is riworked with graddiculous,” he added, just lazily uate students and noting Hibbing’s conducted his own uninformed. I experience playing research on brains college ball at Dana and politics. think probably College. “He doesn’t “We’re hoping miss shots.” this research can the world does Hibbing decided facilitate a little bit look differently to to take political sciof understanding of ence to another level. this so called ‘other them.”

Thus, he took his inside,’” he said.

John hibbing quires and ideas to Dana College in Politcal Science Professor John Alford at Rice Blair, Neb., which University and Kevin no longer exists, is B. Smith at UNL and the three have where Hibbing’s academic journey been conducting research together begins. Although he went to college ever since. to play sports with the dream of be“If you’re going to be jumping coming a high school teacher and off a bridge, it’s nice to be holding–– coach, he ultimately changed his hands with someone else I guess,” mind. He served as a TA and found Hibbing said. it was not something in which he was They established the political particularly interested, so with a sophysiology lab at UNL, which is one cial science major, he attended graduof the only political science departate school.

At the University of Iowa, in his ments in the nation to have one. They have physiology equipment that home state, he enrolled in graduate measures skin conductance, heart school and began his research in political science. For the first 20 years of rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia and various other pieces of equiphis career, he practiced very traditionment, according to Hibbing. “Psyal political science such as legislative chology departments have those all studies, Congress and elections. over the place, but for a political sciAbout 10 years ago, Hibbing ence department, that is pretty unbegan to question political science usual,” Hibbing said. beyond “surveys and socialization.”

The political science department He felt there was “something deeper has been open to Hibbing’s research. than that” to the field of study.

The department offers four courses That’s when he started researchon the subject genetics, brains and ing other areas outside political scipolitics. ence like biology, psychology, physi“That’s one place where we’re ology and economics. At that time, really unique. I don’t think there are undergraduates could have seen many, if any political science departHibbing in the chair next to them, ments that would have that series of as he took classes in those particular courses. For better or for worse,” Hibfields at the university. bing said.

The research done by Hibbing and his colleagues involves delving deep into biology and politics. Their studies found conservatives tend to be more reactive to something negative in the lab environment. They measured this by showing individuals disturbing images and, in turn, monitoring their physiological reactions (sweat) and cognitive actions (eye movement) and found conservatives tended to look at the images longer.

“We really work hard at making observations like that without being judgmental and saying that therefore it’s better to be liberal or conservative ... because people get very sensitive to this,” Hibbing said. “They don’t want their ideology to be demeaned in any way. We don’t mean to do that, but we do want to point out that they’re very different.”

The research conducted by the UNL political scientists has drawn national and international attention.

Hibbing has travelled the world and country to share the research. Additionally, he has plans to visit Israel, the Netherlands and Denmark in the coming year.

Not to mention, Hibbing has been on “The Daily Show.” After many persistent attempts by the TV show, Hibbing finally gave in. The research has its fair share of critics and Hibbing was uneasy to be put in the spotlight for fear they would demean the research.

However, that was not the case.

The show came to Lincoln and left Hibbing feeling untarnished and satisfied with the way they handled the sensitive research.

Hibbing isn’t just learning about other people’s brains and politics.

He’s learned about himself, as well.

“I think it has made me more understanding of people who are different than I am politically,” he said.

“I don’t think they are just lazily uninformed. I think probably the world does look differently to them.”

Ultimately, Hibbing said he hopes the findings with Alford and Smith can help bridge the gap between partisan hardliners: “Maybe if we could spend more time instead of just saying the other side is stupid and uninformed, say ‘hey, it’s a little bit of a different world that they see,’” Hibbing said.

“So, we’re probably naive, but we’re hopeful that maybe it can increase understanding.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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derrick Sloan : from 5 “I have a map,” he said, explaining where he was in the planning process. “Really, the worst thing that can happen on the road is that I get murdered, right?” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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John Hibbing, a UNL political science professor, researches potential biological predispositions in people who are active in politics and those who aren’t as a means of studying political self-affiliation. In 2008, Hibbing was featured on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

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Message in a bottle: a reunion to forget

This not-so-romantic evening of broken alcohol bottles could have gone better ››Editor’s note: To avoid the deflating long-term effects of sheer embarrassment, the names of all parties in the following column (Part 6 in our series of failed romance stories) have been changed. Relationships, hey, hey, hey.

We all do dumb things when we’re inexperienced.

That’s what I repeated over and over in my head while rocking back and forth in the fetal position at the end of the night, But let’s backtrack a bit.

I met this girl in the terribly romantic, circumstantial way Jack met Rose, or Harry met Sally. Actually not really. She was the daughter of my manager at the job I worked.

She’d come in periodically to hang out and do something I’d only read about in books, something the kids

call “flirting.” I found her attractive, but between my utter obliviousness and the fact she was blood-related to the person who could fire me at any time, I didn’t think much of it.

The months rolled on and turned to years and we kept in touch through random texts and Facebook messages. The texts seemed to come, coincidentally, when either one of us or both were under the influence. The combination of alcohol, boredom, regret, longing, lust and curiosity makes for a potent cocktail, indeed.

We hung out twice through those years, once to go to a movie and once when she came over to my house. The second time was my very first kiss. I’ll spare you the gory details, but let’s just say I thought putting Cat Stevens’ Greatest Hits on my turntable would be an instant panty-dropper. The only reason we kept our relationship in the digital realm after that was that she went to a school in another city, and honestly I was too lazy to drive out there. I figured she’d either come to me or the universe just didn’t want it to happen.

What a lost soul I was.

Eventually we decided to test our mettle and hang out. She’d just moved back to town and had yet to find a roommate.

“So you have the place to yourself?” I asked.

“Yup.” That she decided to tell me this fact shot my expectations through the roof. Immediately I started thinking of things two consenting adults can do when they have a place to themselves. Because of this

I left a bit later with an odd mix of triumph, tequila, OJ and defeat swishing around in my gut.” mental frenzy, I think some of the wiring in my brain is permanently fried.

When I told my friends about this “date,” they were ecstatic and proceeded to fill my already-expanding head with more hot air.

We decided Tequila Sunrises would be the perfect complement to our night. After receiving a bottle of grenadine from one friend, an unopened bottle of Jose Cuervo from another, I stole some orange juice from home, grabbed a handful of funny yet syrupy comedies on DVD and dashed to my impending doom.

After mixing up a batch of drinks, mine more potent than hers for some dumb reason, I sat next to her on the aptly named love seat. As “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” inched closer to its end, the lighting seemed to get dimmer, the drinks got tastier, and I inched closer to her end. After the movie was over, we both sat there staring at the screen, half-awash in the glow of Steve Carell finding true love and getting laid, and half-awash in awkward silence.

So I did the only thing I could think of. “I gotta go to the bathroom,” I said. When I came back I sat next to her with her doggy between us. This is not a euphemism; the damn dog wouldn’t leave us alone all night. She finally chucked him outside, and we turned to business.

After a few minutes she looked at me and said, “You’ve gotten better at this.” To which I replied halfjokingly, “Yeah, I’ve been practicing in the mirror a lot.”

As things progressed, we remained stationary, like two boulders that just happened to be leaning into each other. Things were lacking spice, so I did something Casanova himself would be proud of: I attempted to take my shirt off.

I say attempted because as soon as I started the motion, a hand came down swiftly on my chest like a guillotine on an 18th century Frenchman’s neck. I let out a meek “sorry” and we continued, but it wasn’t the same.

I left a bit later with an odd mix of triumph, tequila, OJ and defeat swishing around in my gut. I pulled up to my house 20 minutes later, collected my belongings and made the walk of shame to the door. Halfway up the driveway, the bottle of Jose broke though the plastic bag but miraculously did not smash. As I was thinking what a nice metaphor for the night that was, the bottle of grenadine crashed to the pavement, spilling red, syrupy liquid everywhere. As I hosed down my driveway at 1 a.m. and swept up bits of glass, I thought, “You’re right universe, this is a better metaphor.”

That could’ve gone better. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Toward the end of non-conference play for the Nebraska women’s soccer team this season, sophomore forward Mayme Conroy said she was looking to step up as a leader.

Last year, Conroy made her impact as a freshman and saw significant playing time. But she started in only two games and scored one goal throughout the season. Coming into this year with a young team, Conroy wanted to have more of a role offensively.

At the beginning of the season, the Huskers didn’t seem to have that offensive leader. As with the difficulties of any young team, the non-conference season was all about working out the kinks. While having some strong performances, Conroy had only three goals during non-conference play.

As the Huskers progressed throughout their non-conference schedule, they had a lot of close games, including many that resulted in one-goal losses. Nebraska was also without one of its key offensive players from last year, senior forward Jordan Jackson.

So as the Huskers hit competitive Big Ten play, Conroy knew it was time to step up; and Big Ten play has seemed to bring out the best in Conroy, who is now leading the team with 11 goals this season.

Conroy has managed to score in every Big Ten game this season, including three goals on Friday against Wisconsin to give Nebraska the 3-2 overtime victory. The hat trick was the first of Conroy’s career. The performance was good enough to name her co-Big Ten Player of the Week along with Illinois’ Vanessa DiBernardo.

Mayme Conroy sophomore forward

Conroy’s increase in goals isn’t felt just with Nebraska but throughout the entire Big Ten Conference. Conroy is tied for second in the Big Ten in goals scored this year.

Part of the reason for Conroy’s strong performance in the Big Ten is she is built for it. At 5 feet 9 inches, she is the tallest player on the Husker roster, which lends itself well to the physical play of the Big Ten. While Conroy has had much success in the Big Ten, she said there really hasn’t been one specific thing leading to her success.

She said it just all has come with hard work and becoming more confident.

But as the Huskers hit the midway point of their Big Ten play, they want to continue with their level of play, Conroy especially. Conroy said she doesn’t want the success to be just individual, though.

“I would just say I want to keep scoring more goals and winning,” she said. “I want to help other players score more goals as well, especially with the next games coming up.”

The physical play Conroy brings is exactly what the rest of the Huskers have been trying to build on in their last few games. Although the Huskers have had some recent close losses, their hard work really

showed against Wisconsin on Friday.

“We knew we just needed to keep on doing what we were doing well against Michigan,” junior goalkeeper Emma Stevens said. “We were physical when the ball was in the air, we communicated, we tackled hard and generated some dangerous attacks.”

Continuing that physical play will be necessary for the Huskers to gain some more Big Ten wins in the next few weeks. Last year Nebraska failed to make the Big Ten tournament after struggling in the second half of the season.

But as Stevens said, the improvement for the Huskers this season is there — they just need to keep it up.

“We’ve definitely improved throughout the season,” Stevens said. “We can see that we aren’t playing bad.”

With the aspirations of making the Big Ten tournament on their minds, the Huskers hope they will continue this improvement with Conroy helping to lead the way.

“I think we just need to keep training like we are and build off this game,” Conroy said. “We need to keep improving and win a couple more of these games at the end of the year.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Staff Report DN It didn’t take long for the Nebraska women’s golf team to improve in the second day of its tournament.

In the second round of the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational, NU golfer Cassie Deeg led her team with a score of 70 to climb up to seventh place with teammate Katelyn Wright following closely behind.

The true freshman’s score matched the best round of the day out of the 76 golfers in the tournament and helped her slide up

15 spots on the individual leaderboard.

Deeg’s impressive outing helped Nebraska climb up to sixth place in the team rankings.

Wright, who opened with a 71 on Monday, added a 74 in the second round. On Wednesday, the junior will aim for her third straight top-20 finish to open the season.

Redshirt freshman Morgan Smejkal also moved up five spots on the individual leaderboard with a score of 76. Teammate Jackie O’Doherty added a 79 to move into a tie for 69th place.

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dn Big ten homeroom Brady Hoke, Michigan

We let the fourth quarter slip on us ... next thing you know, the game was out of our hands.”

On a 17-play, n i n e - m i n u t e On chewing tobacco on the sidelines durdrive the Wol- ing the Wisconsin game - “It’s a bad habit verines put and one that will definitely be corrected.” together this Kevin Wilson, weekend - “As you all know, we play betIndiana ter defense when we are watching out ofOn Ohio State quarfense, so that was good to see.” terback Braxton Miller - “He’s one of the best On how he keeps his team from looking players in the game. ahead to a couple important divisional His ability, his commatch-ups - “I don’t think we have that petitiveness is what I problem with this team. We were just like. When the game’s struggling to become a good football team, on the line, he makes trying to improve and compete everyday. plays ... He’s got nice We have too much that we have to worry players around him, but he’s the straw stirabout with us, so we can’t worry about the ring the drink and he’s pretty good.” other football teams.”

On whether Ohio State is a benchmark game - “It’s not a benchmark, but we’re On running back Rex gonna play the Buckeyes every year. It’s Burkhead’s status - a phenomenal program, it’s a tremendous “We’re not going to challenge, but we need to build this prodo a lot with him in gram so we can compete and not be a practice this week, team in this league but start being a winbut the injury wasn’t ning team in this league, and it’s what bad. We expect him to be full-go for North- we’re trying to get going here.” western.”

Bo Pelini, Nebraska

On what he’s heard about new AD Shawn Eichorst - “I’ve heard nothing but great things from Shawn, and I look forward to working with him.”

Urban Meyer, Ohio State

On avoiding a letdown after a big win - “We’re not at the point where Mark we can start overDantonio, looking anybody, Michigan because we cerState tainly don’t have the answers. So that is a On what has been the concern, however. These kids are 6-0 right most disappointing now, and a lot of people are telling them to him this season how good they are, and quite honestly, we - “When you lose a have a long way to go.” couple games, especially close ones, you On quarterback Braxton Miller - “He is our get frustrated at times, but that’s football.” best runner. I think he’s one of the top five runners in America. … (Former Florida WR/ On having a couple big backs in his back RB) Percy Harvin and Braxton Miller are the field - “We want people that are big, powtwo best runners I’ve ever had.” erful and explosive at every position on our football team. Le’Veon (Bell) is obviously an Bill explosive player, and Lawrence Thomas is O’Brien, a guy that can sort of double up as a big Penn tight end and a big fullback. We felt like as State a defensive player he wasn’t getting on the On transition field enough, so we needed to transition from being an him to offense.” assistant to a head coach Kirk - “Everything’s new. Having never been a Ferentz, head coach, it’s like drinking water from a Iowa On the bye fire hose, so to speak. Something happens week Iowa just every day, so you try to budget your time had - “It came and do the best you can.” at an opportune time for our football team probably. I think it was a good week for us to work on some things that we weren’t doing well.”

On media mentioning him as a coach-ofthe-year candidate - “We’re 4-2, and we have murderer’s row coming up here, starting with Iowa. There are a lot of great coaches in the country. I’ve only coached On what he thought of the “Cleveland ’95” six games in my whole career, so that is the documentary he was part of - “It’s like any- farthest thing from my mind.” thing you do in life. I think everything you Danny do in life helps shape your experiences, Hope, and experiences help shape who you are.”

Jerry Kill, Minnesota

On if quarterback MarQueis Gray will play this week “It’s too early to say in the week. He did no reps last week. We did do some things on Sunday.

He did move around more than he did the last two weeks, so we are going to give him a chance to play this week. He had no chance last week.”

Purdue

On how decision-making factors into quarterback play - “The one that can manage it the best, along with if he’s talented enough to win, is the guy that you want to have out there. If decision-making wasn’t a big part of it, if you weren’t really sure that you had certain plays that you wanted to run against certain defenses, then we wouldn’t practice. We wouldn’t have any playbook, we would just send them out there and let them play and run their own deal.”

On if Gray is eager to get back on the field - “Oh, he’s eager. As a senior, you only have On some fans wanting QB Robert Marve to so many games left to play, so yeah, he’s start - “I’m not perplexed as to why some of the fan base would prefer Robert Marve. eager to get back out there.”

That’s a tendency on a national level. The No. 2 quarterback is always the favorite. …

Pat Fitzgerald, If not, you wouldn’t have anything to write Northwestern On preparing for two quar- about.” terbacks this week versus Minnesota - “You have to prepare for both. There’s no question about that.

I’ve been really impressed by how Max (Shortell) has stepped in there. I think he’s done some great things for them, but obviously MarQueis (Gray) is a great player.”

Bret Bielema, Wisconsin

On the Purdue game potentially deciding the Leaders Division race - “Believe me, I understand, at the end of the year, On Minnesota’s Jerry Kill being a coach’s coach - “When you watch his teams play, you can look back and say that. But right they embody his toughness. He’s overcome now, every game matters in Big Ten play, a ton of personal adversity. To see the way whether it’s Leaders or Legends.” he goes about his job, it’s not a lot about flash and pomp and circumstance. Jerry’s On the remainder of the schedule - “Somebody’s trying to say this is the game that’s just a tough guy.” going to decide it all. That’s the furthest (thing) from the truth. Your overall conTim Beckman, ference record is going to come into play.

Illinois On fourth-quarter collapse … There are six games out there on the vs. Wisconsin - “As a foot- schedule for us and every one of them is ball team, I was proud of in the Big Ten.” the way that we played for -Compiled by Brandon Olson three quarters, but we all and Lanny HOlstein know this is a game of four.

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Huskers struggle in frosty Ohio

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Pitcher Zach Hirsch hurles a pitch for the white squad in Tuesday’s game one of the three-game Red-White scrimmage series.

Hirsch shows off new pitch in Red-White game

Staff Report DN

After struggling in the opening round of the Firestone Invitational on Monday, the Nebraska men’s golf team came back Tuesday to finish in 13th place out of the 17-team field.

The tournament in Akron, Ohio, was cut short because of cold temperatures on Monday that brought frost, so golfers played only two rounds between finishing pitches.

Chris Heady Monday and “I would cut myself off last year, DN Tuesday inand today I was really just focusing stead of the staying through on every pitch,” he It was hard to keep a smile off of jutypical three. nior pitcher Zach Hirsch’s face after said.

T h e Coach Darin Erstad said he has he led the white team to a 4-0 shutHuskers had seen growth in his pitcher during the out victory in the first of three Reda slow start last few months and said he was imWhite series games this week. to the tourHirsch, who led the team with 13 pressed with his performance. nament on “I think he kept the ball down game appearances last year, pitched Monday, finbetter, changing speeds in his breakReinertson 4 1/3 innings, finishing the game ishing in 16th ing ball and throwing strikes and with only four hits, one walk and place with a two strikeouts, including two hitless letting his defense work and three team score of 303. Although the Huskshutdown innings after we scored,” innings. ers didn’t score much better on Tues“It felt good out there today,” Erstad said. “That was something we day with a team score of 302, they were focused on a lot this fall and it’s going Hirsch said. “It’s been a good fall, better off than some of the other teams, been feeling a lot more comfortable to be very important for us moving including Big Ten rival Wisconsin, and forward.” on the mound this year. And it was wound up finishing 13th with an overAccording to Erstad, Hisrch isn’t a good day, and I was really enjoying all team score of 605. going to overpower any hitters, so in myself out there.”

Ball State ran away with the inviorder to keep control, he must stay This summer, Hirsch pitched a tational with a final team score of 569, total of 63 innings in the Northwoods down in the zone.

13 strokes better than second-place fin“He’s been doing a nice job of League and worked on keeping his isher St. Mary’s College in California. control and keeping the ball down. that this fall,” Erstad said. “He’s been Leading the way for the Huskby far and away our best statistical He even developed a new pitch to ers was one of their newest members, pitcher, and he’s worked hard. He’s add to his repertoire, a slider/cutter.

Kolton Lapa. in great shape, and it means some“I didn’t have a pitch to put The freshman from Mesa, Ariz., thing to him, and he’s working for people away with, and so I wanted started off strong on Monday with a it.” to develop something I could have score of 72 to finish tied for 21st place.

The Huskers’ next game is an edge on, especially on righties,” He continued to maintain a similar Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at Hawks said Hirsch. “It was tough to get in pace in the second round, posting a 73 on their hands, and with that pitch Field. Though Hirsch will sit, he may to drop one spot, finishing the tournait’s helped me establish the inside make an appearance Thursday when ment tied for 22nd. the Red-White series concludes. part of the plate.”

Maryland’s Sean Bosdosh won sports@ Other than the new pitch, anoththe tournament with a score of 139. dailynebraskan.com er thing Hirsch said he worked on is The next closest finisher for Nebraska was the lone senior in the lineBy Wayne up, Jordan Reinertson. Reinertson finGould ished tied for 41st with a score of 150.

Despite a strong third place Every row, overall finish for Nebraska at its last column and 3x3 tournament, sophomore Ross Dickbox should son struggled in the opening round contain the of the Firestone with a 79. Even with numbers 1 thru 9 the slow start, Dickson fared better on with no repeats Tuesday, posting a 75, finishing tied across or down. for 68th.

Junior Manuel Lavin also experiAnswer to enced some of the Huskers’ struggles Previous this weekend, finishing last in the Huskers’ lineup with a score of 156.

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Eichorst introduced as new athletic director

Former Miami AD tries to embed himself in Nebraskan culture for new job Andrew Ward DN Harvey Perlman stepped to the side, gesturing his arm toward Shawn Eichorst as he walked to the podium.

Perlman shook hands with the future of Nebraska athletics and sat down on a bench to the side.

Eichorst took center stage at the podium.

“I’m humbled and honored to help lead one of the country’s best athletic programs and universities,” he said. “This a very special place, a very special city and a very special state.”

Perlman officially introduced

Eichorst as Tom Osborne’s successor as athletic director on Tuesday.

Eichorst, the former athletic director at the University of Miami, spoke to the media.

“I believe we have attracted a person who has the expertise and experience needed to move our department forward,” Perlman said.

Along with media members, athletic department members were also in attendance for the introduction Tuesday, including basketball coach Tim Miles and associate athletic director Jamie Williams.

Eichorst’s wife Kristen and their three boys Jack, Joe and Ben also listened as Shawn Eichorst talked.

Eichorst will officially take over as athletic director on Jan. 1 when Osborne retires from the Nebraska Athletic Department. Eichorst left Miami after being offered the Nebraska job early last week.

Perlman first contacted Eichorst in late August and interviewed him on Sept. 9.

Eichorst was Miami’s athletic director for 18 months. He said the NCAA sanctions against the university had no affect on his decision to leave, saying the athletic department was in good shape when he left.

“I think that we have left it in a better place than we found it,” Eichorst said. “It wasn’t so much of me leaving Miami as much as me heading to Nebraska.” The prestige of the Nebraska athletic program drove Eichorst to leave Miami, he said. Not only the prestige of the program, but also the prestige of his new mentor, coach Osborne.

Eichorst will move to Lincoln during the three months before he takes over as athletic director. The sooner he moves, the more time he will have to learn under Osborne.

“I think Warren Buffet said it best,” Eichorst said. “‘When most people think of Tom Osborne, they think of a good football coach. When I think of Tom Osborne, I think of a man of personal character that ef-

fectively improves the lives of everyone he encounters.’ I very much look forward to improving my life working with coach Osborne.”

Eichorst said he hopes to learn as much as he can before Osborne officially steps down.

“He’s probably going to get tired of seeing me, I’m going to be in his back pocket so much,” Eichorst said.

“This is just a wonderful setup so I can immerse myself in Nebraska.

For me, it’s an opportunity to take a deep breath and do a lot of listening and learning.”

Eichorst didn’t lay down many goals on Tuesday. He said he will need time before he can know those goals. One thing is for sure though — he said he’s going to stick to his style.

“I don’t really want to be out front, but I know that at a place like Nebraska I’ll have to do that, and I’m prepared to do that,” Eichorst said. “I want to always make sure that we ground what we do in

I’m humbled and honored ... This is a very special place, a very special city and a very special state.”

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preparing our young people, and that’s preparing them for the game of life. I don’t want to be bigger than that; I want to be a part of that.”

Eichorst’s time as athletic director is almost here. The Loan Rock, Wis., native said he is excited to get started as the face of Nebraska athletics. He said he knows, with the tradition already built at Nebraska, he can do a good job as athletic director.

“With more Academic All-

Americans than any other school, Nebraska has so much to be proud of,” Eichorst said. “With multiple conference and national championships in a variety of sports, Nebraska has so much to be proud of. With a fan base of loyal, knowledgeable, supportive and enthusiastic men and women, young and old, Nebraska has so much to be proud of.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

First months of Eichorst regime to be critical

Chris Peters Cornerback Josh Mitchell looks on after dropping Saturday’s game to Ohio State. The Huskers gave up a Bo Pelini career-high 63 points in the loss. This week, the team has a bye week and a number of issues to work on.

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Huskers to use bye week to fix mistakes, aim for championship

he lights dimmed on Ohio Stadium, the fans filed out and the bus left for Lincoln.

Silence.

That’s the last fans or media have heard from Nebraska players or coaches.

The Monday press conference was canceled and the media was shut out from practice. Nebraska’s bye week, coupled with a throttling in Columbus, resulted in complete mystery on the Nebraska news front.

Six games remain on the Huskers’ schedule. At the midway point in the season, Nebraska sits at 4-2, having just suffered its first conference loss, and begins its bye week workload.

Only the select few insiders — players, coaches and assistants — know for sure what is going on behind closed doors in Nebraska’s practices during the bye week. All there is to go off of is postgame chatter in the small period of time the media got with Pelini and a few of his players and assistants.

Pelini gave mostly general comments regarding the goings-on of the bye week. One of the few details revealed in his vague address was the focus on perfection from this point forward.

“The plan is to work,” Pelini said. “Because the way I see it we have six more football games left.

And we need to win six football games to get to Indianapolis.”

Work is a pretty abstract term. Work on what?

Tackling, positioning, turnovers, penalties, blocking, pass accuracy, decision-making — all are concerns for this team after its second loss.

“Taylor Martinez did a lot of good things offensively, but turning the ball over kills you,” Pelini said after the game. “Special teams-wise we played lousy and not nearly well enough to play championship football. We also had problems in the penalty area.”

The list of things to fix this week is ever-expanding.

Junior guard Spencer Long narrowed it down more specifically.

“The crowd noise was a definite factor,” Long said. “But it’s tough to win when you beat yourself.

We have to get better.”

The team beating itself has been a big topic of discussion in the Pelini era. Penalties and turnovers have plagued his teams time and time again. This year is no different.

On Saturday, the Huskers threw three interceptions and fumbled twice, losing one. Nebraska also committed nine penalties for a loss of 75 yards. Nebraska had a 14-7 lead in the game and ended up beating OSU in first downs, 21-19, but lost momentum as a result of the self-inflicted wounds.

“You’ve got to go over that film and see what you did that caused us not to perform the way you

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performed,” receivers coach Rich Fisher said. “Nothing you can do about it. We’ve got to move forward.”

A lot of that mentality transfers over to the defensive side of the ball, where coaches were frustrated by how much the defense was exposed to dual-threat quarterbacks such as Braxton Miller, who rushed for 200 yards against Nebraska on Saturday.

“We need the extra week, we really do,” said linebackers coach Ross Els. “We need the extra week to go back to square one. We need to make a lot of changes and see if we can’t do something because right now defensively we’re not getting anything done.”

The players have not been executing up to the coaches’ standards, said Els, but he places the ultimate blame on himself and the coaching staff.

The bye week will serve as an important week for growth, not only for the players, but for the coaches as well.

“I know it’s a coaching issue,” Els said. “What can we do with the little things to make sure this doesn’t happen again?”

In less than two weeks, the silence will be broken and Nebraska will take the field again at Northwestern, hoping to show off a much-improved product to launch the second half of the season. sports@ Dailynebraskan.com

Shawn Eichorst could have his hands full quickly.

Nebraska football has fallen well short of expectations thus far in 2012, already halfway through the season. Coach Bo Pelini is in his fifth year heading up the Huskers and has had a chance to fill the team with his recruits. It’s judgment time.

For every head coach who happens to last five seasons, the half-decade point marks a key moment to analyze a coach’s performance. Nebraska will likely take a long, hard look at the direction in which the football program is heading upon the conclusion of this season.

Eichorst, who begins his duties as acting athletic director in January, will be leading the charge to analyze the program. The decisions he makes in that period of analysis will likely be his first big actions as athletic director.

Those decisions will have a monumental impact on how Eichorst will be remembered at NU. While Tom Osborne will still be around to advise Eichorst, the decision is ultimately his.

He could take the bold step — he could fire Pelini.

Or he could be a pushover and let Pelini call the shots.

Perhaps he tells Pelini he has a short leash — that he needs to deliver a conference championship or he’s done.

Every decision seems to come with consequences for Eichorst.

If he fires Pelini, he could be on the fast track to firing himself.

Former Nebraska Athletic Direc-

tor Steve Pederson canned Frank Solich, and met his own demise four years later.

But if Eichorst lets Pelini call the shots, he could be viewed as weak, especially if football doesn’t pan out and doesn’t break the drought free of conference titles.

What a tough call.

That’s what comes with the territory, I suppose. Nebraska football is in a shaky state right now. The transition to the Big Ten is coming to an end, and the Huskers are residing in the purgatory between mediocrity and glory.

Eichorst will need to take a deep breath. He’ll need to examine all the elements.

First, Pelini has reenergized this program. Bill Callahan’s damage has been erased, and the Huskers are back in the conference title picture each and every season. Second, Pelini has reestablished the “Nebraska feel.”

The program isn’t about highprofile recruits and fancy offenses — it’s about discipline, respect, sportsmanship and tradition — or at least, that’s how things seem in comparison to Callahan.

Pelini has made a mountain of progress and has done it under a lot of duress. For Eichorst to enter the picture and put more pressure on Pelini would be unwise.

The program is still in its toddler stages of rebirth, trying to walk again.

Five years might seem like a long time, but the program has come a long way in that time.

Husker fans aren’t prepared to settle for mediocrity, but they need to remain patient as Pelini puts things together. It hasn’t always been pretty, but the product is a heck of a lot better than it was in 2007, when the Huskers failed to make it to a bowl game.

So for Eichorst, who has a lot to wrap his head around, I advise one thing regarding the football program: Be patient.

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

Reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

New AD relies on past to focus on football Experince in multiple conferences gives Eichorst perspective, guidance for NU Lanny Holstein DN Nebraska’s newest athletic director appreciates the focus his new state puts on its football team.

Shawn Eichorst was introduced to the media on Tuesday at the Van Brunt Visitors Center, and one of his first orders of business was to establish himself as a “football guy.”

After thanking various people for giving him his latest opportunity, Nebraska’s newest AD gave the media a football-oriented history lesson.

Growing up in Wisconsin, Eichorst said he was not a Husker fan, but he knew about the Cornhusker program.

“Like my friends, I lived for do everything that we can to position Saturdays in the fall to watch Big ourselves there. I get it. I appreciate Ten and Big Eight football, staring the awesomeness that it is. Having in awe at the great athletes on the been in the SEC and the Big Ten, it’s television, including the deal. We don’t your own, and soon shy away from that.”

I get it.

I to be my own, Mike Eichorst said he Rozier, Dave Rimhasn’t spent much appreciate ington and Roger time with football the awesomeness coach Bo Pelini. The Craig,” he said.

Taking over at a that (football) is.” two “just missed football school like each other” at a numNebraska is nothing ber of events, accordShawn Eichorst future nebraska ad new to Eichorst. He ing to the new AD, was a part of Wisconbut they have met sin’s athletic departjust briefly. ment under former-Husker Barry Building a relationship with PeliAlvarez and served at South Caroni is one of Eichorst’s top priorities lina before rising to his first AD job moving forward. The three-month at Miami. Still, football might be even period before he takes over on Jan. 1 more important to Nebraska than it will be a huge help in the familiarizawas at any of his previous stops. tion process, Eichorst said.

Eichorst doesn’t mind that. In “I think that whether it’s the head fact, he embraces it. football coach, the person that works “It’s a big deal,” he said. “It’s a at marketing, academic support, huge deal and the engine that drives tickets or compliance, we all need to this deal, and we all know that. have a relationship and work closely There are no secrets there. We will together,” said Eichorst. “With Bo,

folks that I know and respect spoke highly of him. I’m looking forward to spending a lot of time with him.”

Eichorst’s ability to make those connections with his coaches and to relate with them is one reason NU Chancellor Harvey Perlman found him to be an impressive candidate.

“I think everything that I’ve learned about Shawn through this process is that he is strongly supportive of his coaches and that he has a good interaction with them,” Perlman said. “As much as our coaches may seem different on a personality basis, they are all at heart very competitive people. I have faith that Shawn will be supportive of the range of them.”

Eichorst may have a role with multiple coaches, but he knows football is king at his new school.

“I get it,” he said. “Like I said in my opening comments, I’m all about football.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Football coach Bo Pelini complains to an official. New Nebraska AD Shawn Eichorst and Pelini have only met briefly, but Eichorst said the relationship between the two is an important one.