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JOHN COOK

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$49,492

Volleyball Coach

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2013 Lexus GX460

$400,000 salary

RONNIE GREEN

NU VP/Vice Chancellor IANR

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$304,440

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2010 Ford Expedition 113, issue 035

BO PELINI

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Bicycles for bait $2,975,000 salary

UNLPD catches bike thieves using GPS

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Football Coach

$36,298

cost of vehicle First edition 2012 Nissan Armada,

Membership UNL’s first to Country Club of Lincoln fraternity boasts diversity

TIM MILES

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Freshman quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. escapes a block during the Illinois game last Saturday. Armstrong will be the starting quarterback at the Purdue game Saturday, coach Bo Pelini said.

$49,492 2013 Lexus GX460

$400,000

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HARVEY S. PERLMAN

$349,579 salary

$31,892

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CONNIE YORI

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$400,000 $304,440

2013 2010Lexus Ford GX460 Expedition

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RONNIE GREEN BO PELINI NU VP/Vice Chancellor IANR

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$304,440 salary $2,975,000

2010 Ford Expedition 2012 Nissan Armada, Membership to Country Club of Lincoln

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BO PELINI TIM MILES Football Coach

Women’s Basketball Coach

$22,353

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Men’s Basketball Coach

$36,298

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$2,975,000 $1,525,000

2012 Nissan Armada, Membership to Country Club of Lincoln

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JAMES B. MILLIKEN

TIM MILES HARVEY S. PERLMAN Men’s Basketball Coach

NU President

$33,348

$31,892

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$420,757 salary

2010 Ford Expedition LTD, Membership to Omaha, Lincoln Country Clubs

2010 Lexus ES 350, Membership to Country Club of Lincoln

$1,525,000 $349,579 salary salary

HARVEY S. PERLMAN UNL Chancellor

$31,892 cost of vehicle

Assistant AD for Football

$70,684

$304,440 salary

2010 Lexus ES 350, Membership to Country Club of Lincoln

$349,579 salary

2009 Land Rover Range Rover, Membership to Madonna Proactive

CONNIE YORI

MARY PAT PELINI

Women’s Basketball Coach

$22,353

Spouse of Football Coach

$25,859

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UNL Chancellor

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JEFF JAMROG

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NU VP/Vice Chancellor IANR

Almost 100 Nebraska University employees receive perks, Common Case Nebraska reveals

“The president has announced he’s going to get a ome jobs don’t just include salary.

2.5 percent raise, but it doesn’t talk about all the other Administrators and high-ranking athletic staff things,” Gould said. “If I were in their shoes, I would at all four University of Nebraska institutions rewant the contracts online, so the public can see what’s ceive perks such as cars, car allowances and club memberships, according to Common Cause Nebraska, in it.”

He said if an institution is receiving thousands of a government watchdog organization that released the dollars in donations, it has a responsibility to make sure information Wednesday. information is public. He said employees’ perks should The NU Foundation and University of Nebraska boosters provide the perks to almost 100 employees, ac- be discussed with the public at the same time pay raises cording to Common Cause Nebraska. In some instances, are discussed.

Free vehicles for athletic staffers and administrators employees get both a club membership and a vehicle. aren’t unheard of in Big Ten schools. Chancellors at the Chancellors from each of the four NU campuses received a vehicle or a vehicle allowance and club mem- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Purdue University $693,396 2012 Chevrolet Equinox, and the University of Michigan all receive free cars, and berships.

Jack salary Gould, issues chair for Common Cause Nebras- Ohio State athletic staff get cars as well, for example.

Membership to Wildrness Club The NU FoundationRidge providesCountry country club memka, said NU employees’ salary and perk information should be visible to the public so they’re informed of where money is being spent. free ride: see page 3

Volleyball Coach

JOHN COOK RONNIE GREEN Volleyball Coach

UNL Chancellor

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JOHN COOK

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2012 Chevrolet Equinox, Membership to Wildrness Ridge Country Club

$693,396 salary

2011 Nissan Quest

CONNIE YORI Women’s Basketball Coach JAMES B. MILLIKEN cost of vehicle

$22,353 cost of vehicle $33,348 Athlete Ally founder urges LGBT acceptance in sports NU President

2012 Chevrolet Equinox, Membership to Wildrness Ridge Country Club 2010 Ford Expedition LTD, Membership to Omaha, Lincoln Country Clubs

$693,396 salary

$420,757 salary

tyler williams dn Becoming an ally is becoming a champion for inclusion, said Hudson Taylor, a three-time NCAA top wrestler and Columbia University wrestling coach.

Taylor, founder of Athlete Ally, spoke to a full auditorium in west Memorial Stadium on Thursday night using music, picture slideshows and video clips.

Athlete Ally is a nonprofit advo-

cacy group for gay people within collegiate athletics, and Taylor ’s lecture focused was on being an ally to the LGBT community.

There are three simple things anyone can do to promote inclusion on campus, Taylor said to the crowd. The first step is speaking out for inclusion on the Internet.

The second step is wearing your beliefs on your sleeve, whether it’s through pins, bracelets, stickers or anything that shows support. The final step is to “fix the broken windows,” or be the

change you want to see in the world, Taylor said.

“For the last few years of my life, I’ve been a loud, proud ally for the LGBT (community) in sports,” Taylor said. “I wasn’t always an ally.”

Taylor said he had to overcome his family history of devotion to Christian principles, which made him afraid to speak out as he dedicated his life to wrestling.

Even though he loved his sport, he said he recognized hurtful, derogatory language from

his teammates and how these attitudes and phrases are deeply embedded in the modern world of sports.

“We have this athletic culture where female athletes are fighting off a $420,757 lesbian label and male athsalary letes are staying in the closet, … and no one was speaking out,” he said. $304,440 Taylor said that the root cause salary of most of this derogatory culture was in the power of conformity and its impact on the decisions and actions of individuals – it’s

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easier to stay silent than to speak Campaign on his wrestling head out. gear, and in 2011, he founded Ath“Because of the culture of the lete Ally. Three core principles locker room, I didn’t know any- guide Taylor ’s actions: treating one who was gay,” he said. others the way they want to be When his theater classmate treated, seeking to maximize hapand friend came out publicly, Tay- piness and minimize suffering 2010 Ford Expedition LTD, lor decided to make a personal and acting as though the burdens change. of actions don’t outweigh the benMembership to Omaha, Lincoln Country Clubs “It made me realize that this efits of the actions.

Land Rover Rover, type2009 of conduct isn’t what I Range want Tony Moran, a senior philosoin my athletic community,” he phy major who attended the talk, Membership to Madonna Proactive said.

He began wearing an equalally: see page 3 ity sticker from the Human Rights

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UNL police use bait bikes to stop theft

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On campus what: Hubbard Lecture, featuring Gyasi Ross when: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Sheldon Museum of Art

what: Lincoln Stars UNL Night when: 7:05 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Ice Box, 1800 State Fair Park Drive more information: Cost is $8. Contact (402) 474-STAR, Ext. 1, or steve@lincolnstars. com for tickets and information.

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Colleen Fell DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln students will want to think twice before stealing a bicycle on campus.

UNL police are currently using “bait bikes,” which look like normal bicycles but are outfitted with hidden GPS systems, to help deter bike theft on campus.

UNLPD Sgt. Jerry Plessel said these bikes are stolen about once per week.

UNLPD has received more than 40 calls reporting stolen bicycles since August. Of these, four bikes were reported by police as UNLPD-owned.

Officer Koan Nissen of UNLPD said bike theft is a recurring problem at UNL. “Bicycle theft is a nationwide problem, particularly on university campuses,” Nissen said. “UNL is not immune to this problem.”

Plessel said the UNL policeowned bikes are of virtually every brand and color so they can blend in with other bikes.

He said the bikes are strategically placed throughout campus in undisclosed locations, which are chosen based on statistics of where police see bike theft most often on campus. University police officers don’t ride these bikes.

Police would not disclose the number of “bait bikes” on campus or the location of the GPS, so that potential bike thieves would not be able to figure out the probability of stealing a policeowned bike.

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A woman walks past bicycles in front of the Nebraska Union on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus Thursday. The UNL Police Department is working to cut back on bicycle thefts on campus. ing” about two years ago, and Plessel said it has been relatively successful.

“It does deter individuals from recurring instances of theft,” Plessel said.

The bikes have been placed

on both City and East campuses and are present every day, Plessel said. He said each stolen bike equipped with GPS has been recovered.

This technology has helped police in some cases. After police

Chemistry Colloquium – “Gut Reactions” when: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hamilton Hall, room 112

Student organizations will present ideas for event taking place in Nov. 11 to 15

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what: Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra: “Dances with Orchestra” when: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. where: Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.

correction Photo captions for an article in Thursday’s Daily Nebraskan on the retirement of two maintenance workers incorrectly spelled the name of one of the retirees. His name is Steve Waltman, and he is maintenance manager. Mike Leupold is a retired assistant director for Nebraska Unions operations. If you

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what: Fall Plant Sales when: Noon to 5 p.m. where: Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Greenhouse

Hayrack Ride when: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. where: Pioneers Park Nature Center, 3201 S. Coddington Ave. more information: $7 per person.

were called about a stolen bike on Oct. 1, they were able to track down Jerrod Easter, a freshman pre-architecture major at UNL, near Knoll Residence Hall after he had taken the bike from the area of Brace Hall and Behlen

Laboratory. Easter was later charged with theft and unlawful taking.

The bikes used as bait have been decommissioned. Some are old patrol bikes. Instead of sending the bikes to auction, they are repurposed by police for this cause.

If one of the bikes is stolen, there’s a variety of repercussions depending on the type and price of the bike, Plessel said.

If the bike is cheaper, it counts as unlawful taking and a misdemeanor charge. However, if the bike is more expensive, individuals may be charged with a felony.

Plessel said the bikes ridden

by UNL police officers are generally not threatened by thieves.

“All of the officers that use these bikes are in the bike patrol and all of the officers are certified to use them,” he said.

UNL Bike Patrol currently owns about 10 of these bikes, each of which are outfitted with lights on the front and flashing red lights on the back. These bikes are always at the police station or with an officer, Plessel said.

UNLPD said students can take preventative measures to ensure their bikes are not stolen.

“UNL Police encourages all bicycle owners to register their bikes on our web site,” Nissen said. “Finding a stolen bicycle is easier if we have serial numbers.”

Students can register their bikes at bike.unl.edu. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Educator Cole Meador shows Omaha’s Sunny Slope Elementary students equipment utilized by dairy producers.

Nebraskan 4th graders attend agriculture festival Melissa Allen DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Agriculture Research and Development Center in Mead hosted its 17th Agriculture Awareness Festival Monday through Thursday this week.

The center invited fourth grade students from Omaha and across eastern Nebraska to celebrate and learn about one of Nebraska’s largest industries: agriculture.

Since it began in 1996 with a one-day festival for sixth graders across eastern Nebraska, the festival has expanded to be a threeday event for fourth graders, with about 950 students attending. Between 1996 and 2011, more than 10,979 students have gone to the festival. A separate event is hosted for Lancaster County students at the Lancaster County Event Center in Lincoln.

“Fourth grade is the ideal age to bring the kids to the festival,” said Deloris Pittman, member of the Ag Awareness Coalition and manager of marketing and promotions for ARDC. “They are learning about Nebraska at this age, and information that they are learning at the festival is a great tie-in. It’s important to get this information to them because many children just don’t have a connection to agriculture.”

The students went through eight 20-minute rotations that focused on beef production, water and irrigation, corn and soybean production, agricultural by-products, agricultural technology and dairy production.

“It is really important that the students understand that production happens on farms and ranches and that the grocery store is not where those products are made,” said Karna Dam, an ARDC extension educator, in an email. “There is no better place to help youth learn about agriculture than to immerse them into an environment where agriculture is surrounding them.”

The fourth grade class of St. Wenceslaus Catholic School in Wahoo attended the festival on Thursday.

“I live on a farm. My husband is a farmer,” fourth grade teacher Rita Kavan said. “But even though we live in a rural community, students are knowing less and less about agriculture.”

Kavan said her class had been learning about Nebraska agriculture as part of the curriculum before they went to the festival.

“We haven’t talked about it too in-depth,” she said on Wednesday, the day before her class went to the festival. “So when they come here, they can learn by experiencing it first hand, and say, ‘Wow! This is really cool!’”

Kavan said her favorite part of taking her kids to the festival is their reaction to learning about food and crop production.

“They get to see what come out of corn and beans,” Kavan said. “Some of them like to just be with the animals. Last year they got to have a baby calf suck on their fingers.”

One of the purposes of exposing kids to agriculture and food production is to present possible career paths, said Kavan.

Bob Meduna, ARDC Southeast Research and Extension District 4-H Program Coordinator, taught a session addressing how corn and soybean crops are produced

by Nebraska agriculture producers.

“I try to make the students aware of the tremendous capacity of Nebraska farmers to produce great quantities of safe, wholesome food for consumers all over the world,” Meduna said. “I also make them aware how important subjects such as science, biology, chemistry and math are that they are studying in their classrooms.”

The festival leaves lasting impressions on the students, Dam said.

“The Ag Festival is hands-on learning at its best,” she said. “The students get to see it, feel it and experience it first-hand. There is no better way to learn than that.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

IF YOU GO what: International Education Week when: Nov. 11 to 15 where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Nebraska Union

Two departments will host a events planning meeting Friday at 3 p.m. in conference room 127 at Love • Photo exhibit Library South to hear opinions • International about possible events for next Soccer Trivia night month’s International Education Week.

• “Girl Rising,” “The Student organizations and Dialogue” movie leaders are asked to bring event showings ideas for International Education • International Week, which will be from Nov. 11 to 15.

Food Bazaar So far, the week, sponsored

by International Engagement and Education Abroad, includes but a location hasn’t been decided a photo exhibit, a soccer trivia night, a movie night, a luncheon on.

Recipients of the Edythe and presentations from Education Wiebers International Studies Abroad scholarship recipients.

Program Scholarship will share Marnie Nelson, Education their study, research or intern Abroad coordinator, said the abroad experiweek is an imporence to their tant one for the Unischolarship We are versity of Nebraskasponsors with Lincoln. trying to formal presenta“We are trying tions. to build internation- build international The week al engagement and engagement will end with global understandan International ing and awareness,” and global Bazaar at she said. understanding and Food the Nebraska Nelson said Union during photography is an- awareness.” the lunch hour other way for stuon Nov. 15. marnie nelson dents to share their Nelson said stories of traveling education abroad coordinator International abroad.

Students Education Week and faculty who have studied, researched or in- used to be administrated by Interned abroad will produce the ternational Affairs, which restructured its offices in 2012. The Study photo exhibit, which will be on Abroad Office changed its name Nov. 12 and Nov. 13 in the Kawasaki Reading Room at the Jackie to Education Abroad to focus Gaughan Multicultural Center components of studying abroad as a part of the restructuring. from noon to 5 p.m.

International Engagement Nelson said coordinators haven’t figured out what prizes focuses on majors, minors and will be available for the Interna- certificate programs with an intional Soccer Trivia Night. The ternational focus; visa services event is slated for Nov. 12 from for international students and scholars; international partner6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and is sponships; education abroad possibilisored by UNL Globetrotters. ties and a range of international The movie dates and times events, opportunities and rehave not yet been set, but they both support international aware- sources that help UNL students and faculty engage the world. ness, Nelson said. news@ “Girl Rising” and “The Diadailynebraskan.com logue” will be shown that week,

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Students increase poverty rates in college towns, census indicates tammy bain dn It’s not the fanciest house. It sits right in the middle of the North Bottoms, just north of Memorial Stadium and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The clown pictures from Goodwill hang on the wall, between the “Usual Suspects” and “Pulp Fiction” posters. On the other wall are the old records, recorded by artists the guys don’t know. A bunch of them were free on O Street one day, and they bought them just to destroy. They kept the leftovers to hang up. There’s some fast food clutter on the coffee table, between couches and chairs given to them from Grandma and other relatives.

But the old-fashioned front porch, home to a recliner and outdoor chair, is where Jared Yoesel, a senior agriculture business major, and Nathan Hansen, a senior film and new media major, sat to take in the fall night.

Tell them they’re below the poverty line – that is, $11,344 a year or less for a single individual younger than 65 – and they’d almost scoff.

“I don’t feel like I’m in poverty, that’s for sure,” Hansen said.

But in July, the U.S. Census reported that cities with large college populations have lower poverty rates if you don’t count the number of students, such as Hansen and Yoesel, who live off campus and not with relatives.

“Examining the Effect of Off Campus College Students on Poverty Rates,” a working paper published online, analyzed how much college students affect their city’s poverty rate. In Lancaster County, 15.6 percent of the 272,070 population lives in poverty. The number drops to 12.4 percent when off-campus students are excluded.

But the reason Hansen and Yoesel both moved off campus was to save money.

It’s cheaper, they both said. They save more money living away from dorm and suite life. It’s quieter – even in the North Bottoms, where gameday craziness is something you get to used to after three years.

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A roommate of Yoesel and Hansen lounges on a sofa donated by Hansen’s grandmother. Even though the roommates live below the poverty line, they do not feel like they are poor, they said.

It’s a trend that’s matched at UNL. In the 2010-11 school year, the number of available beds was 232 out of 6,824 and then increased by about 4 percent to 277 during the 2011 to 2012 school year. The number of available beds increased about 84 percent to 509 for the 2012 to 2013 school year and went back to 179 this year. This year’s numbers did not include the beds in Cather Hall, which was opened to accommodate the increase of housing contracts.

An empty “bed” is more defined by an empty room, said Susan Gildersleeve, director of housing at UNL. “If a dorm room is sold as a single, the extra bed space is not considered open,” she said.

Yoesel, Hansen and their three other roommates never struggle to make rent – but not because of finances. They each work: Yoesel at a grain company as a merchandising intern and Hansen at HuskerVision, producing video, film and editing a

football show.

Sometimes the rent date is easy to space off, and one guy will cover the other. This month, Yoesel had to cover Hansen. But Hansen will write Yoesel a check, or buy him a beer.

“Two beers,” Yoesel said, correcting Hansen.

But if it’s not the summer when the guys can work full time, they don’t make enough to put in savings. Their simple life is a paycheckto-paycheck lifestyle, with little to no help from parents, they said.

Not every off-campus student lives the simple life.

Matt Jensen, a junior computer science major, lived on campus in a fraternity house his freshman year with a set amount of money his father left him before dying of colon cancer.

But he decided to transfer to the University of Nebraska at Omaha to live with his mother, then took a job as a manufacturing representative for Sealy Mattresses in Boston, hoping to save more money and pay for his

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Jared Yoesel and Nathan Hansen spend the evening relaxing outside on their front porch. They live in a five-bedroom house located in the North Bottoms. tuition at UNO. Now Jensen is back at UNL, struggling to pay his debt to UNO while living off campus for fear of racking up more debt.

If he works full time, he doesn’t have time for classes, he said. Working part time, he pays the bills but still struggles to pay what he owes.

If Jensen, Yoesel or Hansen had lived on campus as full-time undergraduates this year, they would have been billed about $9,532 each, assuming they lived in a traditional residence hall like Abel or Sandoz.

Had they lived in an on-campus apartment-style suite, like The Courtyards or The Village, they would have paid $6,796 for a two-bedroom apartment, or $6,178 for a four-bedroom.

Computer network safety rests on users Sam Egan DN Network security is a top priority at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and not just because October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

This is the 10th anniversary of the awareness month, which is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

UNL’s network connects to the commercial Internet, as well as Internet 2, an advanced network used for academic research worldwide.

With connection speeds of 10s of gigabits per second, UNL has access to many research opportunities and capabilities that other universities lack.

According to Byrav Ramamurthy, a computer science and engineering professor at UNL, there are a number of security measures in place on UNL’s network – such as requiring valid credentials to access a public computer and a filter that scans internal emails for malicious code – but network security is ultimately up to the users.

Ramamurthy said students should start with the basics to prevent computer virus infections and

improve their security.

At the very least, he said, students should install trusted anti-virus software and choose long, hardto-guess passwords and change them frequently.

For students looking for extra security and some privacy as well, Ramamurthy recommended students connect to UNL’s encrypted network, as opposed to the unsecure UNL-AIR. To access the encrypted network, students must authorize their laptops at secure-it. unl.edu.

Beyond that, students can also encrypt their hard drives, emails and text messages with the proper software.

“It’s everybody’s responsibility to make sure these infrastructures remain secure,” Ramamurthy said.

UNL’s network activity isn’t limited to research, as email, grading and class registration are all handled on UNL’s servers. This also means students can take advantage of those speeds for their own non-academic purposes.

With bit torrent software combined with UNL’s Internet speeds, there is a lot of potential for illegal downloading, but Information Security Analyst Ricky Keim said bit torrent has too many benefits to simply be blocked.

“While we know it can be used

for piracy, it has legitimate purposes,” Keim said. “At this time, we allow bit torrent.”

Keim was quick to point out UNL’s three-strike policy on piracy.

Even though analysts aren’t actively searching for illegal torrents, students illegally downloading still run a chance caught, he said.

Keim said any Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, notifications, are passed on to the students responsible.

Ramamurthy said he didn’t know the extent to which illegal downloading occurs on campus but wants students to acknowledge the serious nature of network security.

“It’s very important that users don’t abuse that connection because it could negatively affect research,” Ramamurthy said.

Between smartphones and laptops, people can connect to UNL’s network in a variety of ways from anywhere on campus. Ramamurthy said this could complicate things for network administrators.

“Suddenly you have a machine on the network that the administrator can’t control,” Ramamurthy said.

In this way, he said students are their own network administrators – if they aren’t careful, they might inadvertently expose UNL’s network

to security threats and viruses.

Ramamurthy urges students to treat security as a serious matter, saying there might be more at stake than UNL’s network, such as students’ passwords, website accounts or private photographs or vital personal information.

To counteract this, he said trying to limit what important information we carry around is always a good thing.

“If you lose your phone or you lose your laptop, can you honestly say you’d be OK?” Ramamurthy said.

Sophomore computer science student Daniel Schaefer said computer security is one of his hobbies, but he’s not worried about his personal information being stolen for a couple of reasons.

“First of all, there are a number of less well-funded institutions,” Schaefer said, “which are frankly better targets (for cyber attacks) because they’re lower-hanging fruit.”

Schaefer said he didn’t have much to lose.

“What’s the worst case? Someone gets my social security number and empties my bank account,” he said. “There’s no denying that would suck, but at the end of the day, the bank’s liable, not me.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

free ride: from 1 “If we’re talking about the directors and people who come from out of state, that’s a good incentive for them to stay here.

They have to have a way to get to campus every day. Same thing if you’re the director of a company.”

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senior agricultural engineering major

“If it’s coming from tuition or tax money, I don’t think that’s right. But if it’s donations it’s OK.”

But Jensen isn’t a full-time student. To pay his bills, he’s only able to take two classes and will likely transfer to a community college next year to save more money, he said.

Costs for living on campus next year will increase 4.5 percent next year, which was also implemented last year, Gildersleeve said.

But the costs are worth it, she said.

“Many students move back on.

They felt they had the opportunity to find people and meet friends,” she said.

Gildersleeve also noted the positive effects on-campus living has on academic careers, which she said is supported in various studies. Students on campus are less likely to skip class on a rainy or cold day, she said.

Yoesel said he wishes he could have stayed on campus as a sophomore, which would have given him opportunities to meet people.

“I’d do it again,” Hansen said in disagreement.

Both like the off-campus lifestyle they’ve chosen now, in poverty or not.

“We’re supposed to be in poverty,” Yoesel said. “We’re students.”

They plan to someday have careers where they won’t live paycheck to paycheck, and won’t be classified under the poverty line. But for now, they don’t mind.

“There’s gotta be some poor bastard out there who’s worried about it,” Hansen said. “But not me.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Pi Beta Phi sorority offers defense class in honor of sister staff report dn The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Pi Beta Phi chapter is giving Lincoln women a free opportunity to learn how to defend themselves against attackers on Wednesday.

The class will be at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union and is for women on campus and in the community. Participants must be at least 12 years old. Trainers from TAKE Defense Training will teach safety awareness and basic self-defense moves, including time for practice.

The TAKE Defense Training program is part of The Ali Kemp Educational Foundation. The foundation was started by Ali Kemp’s parents, Roger and Kathy Kemp, after her murder in 2002.

Ali Kemp was 19 years old when she was murdered by a stranger in Leawood, Kan. Kemp had just completed her freshman year at Kansas State University, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi. In 2005, the foundation partnered with the Johnson County Parks and Recreation District in cooperation with the Blue Valley Recreation Commission and the Leawood Parks and Recreation to start TAKE Defense Training.

Taylor Behmer, UNL’s Pi Beta Phi president and a senior speechlanguage pathology major, said when the chapter’s members were reevaluating what philanthropic initiatives they wanted to support this organization seemed like the perfect way to support their sister.

“This event means being able to support our sisters nationally,”

she said. “And in light of this event, learning ways to prevent it in the future and learning from what happened to hopefully save lives.”

Behmer reached out to the foundation through its website and received an enthusiastic response, she said.

“Once we decided, it was really easy to get in touch with (the foundation),” she said. “They were very open and enthusiastic about holding an event on our campus.”

Behmer said, the women of Pi Beta Phi are hoping that this class will give women in the community an opportunity to learn and be prepared.

“I’m hoping from this class, they will be more knowledgeable of ways to prevent attacks,” Behmer said, “and if they are ever faced with a situation of being attacked, they will be able to defend themselves.”

Giving women on campus a way to get involved in the program was an important goal for the sorority, Behmer said.

“We thought it would be a unique opportunity to get the students engaged and also raise money,” Behmer said. “It is a way to give to back to the community.”

While the class is free, they will also be raising money for the foundation by holding a barbecue at Sigma Phi Epsilon, 601 N. 16th St., after the class. Food tickets are $5 and raffle tickets are $3. The barbecue is not exclusively for women, and everyone in the community is invited to attend. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Lucas Castro

senior civil engineering major

“Honestly, it’s unnecessary just because they already make a lot of money based on what they do and their position at the University. Their paycheck is already quite a bit.”

Patrick Opperman sophomore biology major

“It’s not out of the norm that these people are privileged and are compensated because it’s our society that likes sports.”

Mary Pistillo

junior mechanical engineering major

berships and cars for NU administrators, such as Chancellor Harvey Perlman. Users of the vehicles pay for gas and insurance.

In an Oct. 10 Lincoln Journal Star article, Melissa Lee, a spokesperson for the university, said chancellors and administrators get to pick which vehicle they use.

Dorothy Endacott, director of communication at the NU Foundation, said of the 100 vehicles and club memberships provided to NU employees, the NU Foundation only funds nine vehicles and four memberships.

Athletic staff’s cars, such as

head football coach Bo Pelini’s 2012 Nissan Armada, come from booster clubs and the Wheel Club program, which allows car dealerships across Nebraska to donate cars for a tax-deductible donation credit. The cars are leased and rotated regularly.

Endacott said the foundation is trying to support the chancellor and other administrators who promote the academic side of the university.

In a statement, the NU Foundation said, “The University of Nebraska Foundation provides funds for the vehicles and club memberships for the Univer-

sity’s academic leaders, because they are traveling across the state to carry the University of Nebraska’s message, which directly supports our fundraising mission.”

The statement said providing the perks is a good business move, especially in certain situations.

“Ronnie Green, for example, travels to every corner of the state through his work at (the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources),” the statement said. “Purchasing his car, rather than reimbursing his mileage, is a good business decision. Simply

put, the foundation staff cannot raise funds without the direct support of the university’s leadership and their efforts to expose Nebraskans to the university’s programs and priorities.”

Gould said he questions why professors don’t get perks like administrators and high-ranking athletic staff. He said professors are an important part of providing an education.

“We’re not saying it’s right or it’s wrong to get the perks,” he said, “but the public should see it.” news@ dailynebraskan

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Hudson Taylor, wrestling coach at Columbia University, speaks to student athletes at Memorial Stadium Thursday. Taylor founded Athlete Ally, an organization focused on ending homophobia and transphobia in sports. thanked Taylor for what he has done for the LGBT community within collegiate athletics.

“You’re doing great work,” Moran said.

But Taylor wasn’t received well by all.

“I don’t think it’s OK that a white, straight, male was speaking for the rights of a minority community without having members of that community present with him,”

said Rebecca Fedorko, a senior psychology major.

Taylor offered advice for those who want to make a personal change within themselves.

“First, realize why it’s important not to use destructive language,” Taylor said. “Second, speak out when we do hear it.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU perks would be better spent on research, not cars In the wake of the news that the NU Foundation and University of Nebraska boosters provide almost 100 university administrators and athletic officials perks such as club memberships and cars, it’s easy to dismiss the intent of the rewards. It seems excessive and irresponsible to give such perks to public employees with already high salaries, especially compared with how the university could benefit from the money in other ways. But the reality is that the school needs to make these jobs competitive.

Other schools do it, so it makes sense for Nebraska to do the same.

While those receiving perks are working hard to promote the university, it seems unfair that many other professors and staff on campus also work long hours under great pressure to uphold the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s image, but without the perks. Both Bo Pelini and his wife drive cars paid for by the university, a 2012 Nissan Armada and 2011 Nissan Quest, respectively.

President J.B. Milliken gets a $12,000 annual retirement supplement, $24,000 housing allowance, $22,000 expense allowance and $50,000 deferred compensation on top of a $431,276 salary. These people are important to UNL’s success and deserve appropriate compensation given the circumstances, but it is difficult to justify such immense amounts of money being spent.

The money comes from private donors, some of whom donate specifically to the athletic department. In theory, the NU Foundation and boosters are allowed to do as they wish with the money. But as Jack Gould, issues chair for Common Cause Nebraska, who released the information Wednesday, asked in a press release, “Is the integrity of the public university threatened when more private funds are accepted for personal use?”

We understand providing perks is a common practice among large schools, but it does seem like a bit much when so many professors are struggling to find research money and when academic programs are being cut. To truly justify the NU Foundation rewards, they would have to be much more widespread across the university, toned down to a realistic level and documented for public access. opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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Women are more than advertising

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his column starts with a confession: I wear makeup everyday. Though I am conscious of the complicated relationship between the beauty industry and women’s self image, I am still untangling the ways that advertising affects my daily routine. I previously thought I had reached a comfortable resolution (or perhaps a state of well-maintained ignorance) on the matter; a new study about marketing to women has me again grappling with my feelings about the beauty industry and my own appearance.

The study, conducted by the marketing firm PHD and publicized by The Atlantic, tracks when women feel the worst about their appearances during the week. But they aren’t gathering this info just to generate fun facts; the information is meant to help advertisers to most effectively advertise to women during certain times of the day. So for example, advertisements on Monday mornings, when women supposedly feel least attractive, should “be focused on quick beauty fixes.” When women feel their best on Thursday evenings, the study says that ads should “stress dressing for the weekend.” Yes, advertisers are pinpointing your greatest moments of vulnerability and using them to sell you things. But don’t worry, they also know that your greatest weaknesses (at least according to the women surveyed) are feeling “lonely, fat and depressed,” so they can offer products specifically targeted to exploit these feelings. They know which buttons to press to make you shell out the big bucks for that eyeliner or pair of Spanx that will make all of your problems go away.

This information is particularly disturbing when you consider the pseudo-empowering language that beauty advertisers have been using during the last decade. Their strategy, as outlined in a 2009 academic study by Michelle Lazar, contains multiple levels. They first assure us that we all have the potential to be beautiful (whatever that even means) and then co-opt feminist wording to sell us the tools that “empower” us to achieve the conventional standard of attractiveness. Think of L’Oreal telling you that “you’re worth it.” One

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beauty salon advertisement referenced in the study wants customers to “discover a radiant and beautiful you!” by “celebrating independence and womanhood.” This beauty is innate and inside, because it must be discovered, but can only come out through independent womanhood, which apparently involves going to a beauty salon.

The best example of this technique comes from Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign. For those who haven’t seen the commercial, it features a series of women who have to describe themselves to a professional sketch artist from behind a curtain. The artist then does a pair of drawings of the women: one based upon the women’s descriptions of themselves and one based on the descriptions of strangers with whom the women talked early in the day. The two are then hung side by side in front of the participants, who tearfully realize that they’ve been denying their natural beauty this entire time. The video closes with the words “You are more beautiful than you think,” fading ever so gently into white.

Ads like this may make you feel good, but we can’t forget their true intentions – to sell you things. By saying that we are all naturally beautiful and offering us the products to “enhance” or “reveal” this beauty, they benefit from the artificial self-esteem boost that they create in their audience. The PHD study shows just how interested advertisers are in exploiting women’s insecurities about their looks.

They don’t want to make these insecurities better; they want to profit off of them. They don’t challenge the unobtainable beauty standards in this culture. Instead, they tell women that they’re closer to reaching this standard

than they think (natural beauty!), and that they have the power to achieve it by simply buying mascara, BB cream, Slim Fast and selftanner to a sickening extent.

What’s so problematic is that these ads, at their roots, reduce women to only their physical appearance. As a woman featured in the Dove Real Beauty commercial eerily says, “I should be more grateful of my natural beauty … It impacts everything. It couldn’t be more critical to your happiness.” But is it really?

Surely our creative endeavors, our intellectual pursuits and our relationships are all more central to us than how we look. As women, as people, we are much more than just how we compare to some arbitrary physical standard.

Words like “independence,” “strength” and “goddess” once were used to refer to things besides diet pills and shaving cream.

They were a part of the calls to action against the kinds of repressive messages now used by advertisers to trap women in a cycle of inadequacy and consumerism. They want to keep us wrapped up in our own looks while also appearing to be progressive and subversive.

They’re feeding us the same bullshit messages that we’ve been getting for decades, but have sweetened it just enough with faux empowerment to make it palatable.

The value of the PHD study is that it reminds us of the true motives of advertisers and, more importantly, that we must not be seduced by their messages. I say “we” just as much to convince you of what I’m saying as to convince myself. We can’t settle for the quickfixes of buying into their messages and temporarily feeling pretty. Instead, we must challenge the entire system that profits off of the physical insecurities that it creates. We have to be critical enough of ads to recognize manipulation packaged as empowerment and strive to aspire for something deeper than the vision of womanhood that they promote. In short, we must replace “We are all beautiful” with “We are so much more.”

Kate Miller is a senior philosophy major. reach her on Twitter @TheKateriarch or at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Pay adjuncts more or higher education will get shafted

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argaret Mary Vojtko worked as an adjunct professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh for 25 years. When she died on Sept. 1 at the age of 83, she was destitute and nearly homeless. Her $10,000 per year pay without benefits such as health insurance or retirement wasn’t nearly enough to cover her radiation treatment for her cancer or to repair her house, which was falling apart.

Unfortunately, Vojtko’s story isn’t an outlier. Stories similar to hers are happening at university campuses across the nation. Though her story and her death have sparked debate about whether adjuncts should be allowed to unionize, the problem is nowhere near being solved.

The problem is right here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, too. And as much as we, as students, may want to ignore it, we can’t — and we shouldn’t. It directly affects us.

Part-time faculty members make up 75 percent of instructors nationwide.

How much do they make on average? Between $20,000 and $25,000 annually.

There is a common misconception that adjuncts are less educated or less qualified to teach college courses, and so they

should get paid less. However, in most cases, these are highly educated people.

Many have a doctorate or are working toward one or are doing so in hopes they might end up on a tenure track, but that is unlikely to ever happen.

That means these highly educated people have to take on other jobs or are forced to be on food stamps. In 2010, more than 360,000 of the 22 million Americans with a master ’s degree or higher were using some kind of federal assistance. That’s more than double the number from 2007.

Tenured professors are expensive.

When one retires, it costs far less money to pay two or three part-time professors than it does to pay one tenured faculty member. One CNN columnist asked the question, “If American higher education says to students and society that a college education is the path to the middle class, how can we justify such treatment of these professionals, with advanced degrees, who are teaching the students?”

And that’s just it. Since elementary school, we are told we should work hard so we can get into a good school and get a good job. But why even bother getting a degree when you’re going to spend a good portion of your post-grad life paying off student loans and working subpar

danae lenz jobs? You could sell cars and easily make as much or more than a part-time professor. The message this is sending is that education isn’t worth it. If things continue the way they are, I’m going to be lying to members of future generations when I tell them they need to get degrees.

In 2010, only 62 percent of college graduates were working jobs requiring a college degree. And only 27 percent had jobs directly related to their majors.

Without a major overhaul, the U.S. higher education system is going to be something laughed at worldwide. (Free higher education, anyone? Most of the world is doing it.) One of these days, people are going to catch on. Eventually, there are going to be fewer people going to graduate school; there are going to be less-educated people teaching classes.

I know education funding is constantly being cut. I know it’s hard to fund fulltime, tenured professors, but this adjunct trend is a disgrace to the supposed best country in the world.

UNL is also pushing for massive open online courses, commonly known as MOOCs. MOOCs allow many students to take a single class. They have their plus sides. Many of them are free, so anyone can take them and better themselves regardless of income. But do you know what’s even more inexpensive than paying adjuncts? Paying one professor to teach thousands of students.

The members of the philosophy department at San Jose State understand it.

They wrote a letter explaining why they were declining the use of a MOOC in the department. The letter said, “Students benefit enormously from interaction with professors engaged in such research. The students not only have a teacher who is passionate, engaged and current on the topic, but in classes, independent studies and informal interaction, they are provided the opportunity to engage a topic deeply, thoroughly, and analytically in a dynamic and up-to-date fashion.” They added that MOOCs are just a move to get rid of more professors, and that is absolutely the wrong way to go about teach-

ing. The faculty added, “Professors who care about public education should not produce products that will replace professors, dismantle departments, and provide a diminished education for students in public universities.”

MOOCs lessen the amount of diversity in thinking, too. If you have one person teaching thousands of students, the diversity is far less than if those students were taught by 20 or 30 professors.

So here we have a messed up equation. The growing number of low-paid adjuncts plus constantly increasing tuition plus push for MOOCs equals lowered education for an increasing cost? I fail to see any advantage here.

The university system is messed up.

Everyone needs to acknowledge that so we can collectively find a way to fix it.

Legislators need to stop cutting funds.

Universities and colleges need to stop raising tuition, and they need to start treating the highly educated, part-time faculty as human beings. The Margaret Mary Vojtkos of the world need to start being the outliers instead of the rule.

Danae Lenz is a senior journalism major. Reach her on Twitter @danaelenz or at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Geoff Thiele, a senior biology major and president of Phi Delta Theta, and junior chemistry major Adam Cheloha toss the football in their house’s front yard. “We don’t have the best skills, but that’s why we don’t play on Saturdays,” Thiele said.

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ith 109 members that include distinguished scholars, campus leaders and community volunteers, the Phi Delta Theta fraternity is nearly as old as the University of Nebraska-Lincoln itself.

The Nebraska Alpha chapter, established in 1875, was the first fraternity on campus. After being refounded in 2003, the brotherhood has established a prominent presence on campus, and members continue to seek opportunities to improve themselves.

Last year, the Nebraska Alpha chapter received the Harvard Trophy, an award given to the most outstanding of the nearly 180 chapters internationally. It’s considered the highest award possible within the Phi Delta Theta organization, and for Alpha chapter President, Geoff Thiele, it was one of the crowning achievements of his four years as a Phi Delt.

“I was at a housewarming party when I got the call about the Harvard Trophy, and I was elated,” Thiele, a senior biology major, said. “I remember running around the house yelling, ‘We won the Harvard,’ and my family had no idea what I was talking about it.”

The prize takes into consideration a chapter ’s academic performance, campus involvement, intramural success and Greek awards. This marked the third time in the past six years that the UNL chapter has received this honor, but as president, Thiele believes there is still room for growth as organization.

“My main goal is just to keep the train rolling and not to get complacent,” Thiele said. “We’ve been such a good chapter internationally and, while I don’t want to be the president who loses it, I also don’t want to plateau.

We’ve always got to keep improving.”

The success of the Nebraska Alpha chapter since its reinstatement nearly a decade ago lies in both institutional and individual efforts to achieve excellence. The fraternity is guided by three key character values: moral rectitude, friendship and sound learning.

Junior supply chain management major Adrian Corral sits outside of his fraternity Phi Delta Theta on Thursday evening. Corral and his fraternity brothers like to pass time outside on nice days.

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Omaha musician acknowledges his humble roots Tim Kasher debuts new sound on “Adult Film” with lyrics inspired by personal experiences Jake Greve Dn Most musicians from Omaha, Neb., seem to have a distinctive sound about their music that sets them apart from the rest.

The larger artists to come out of Omaha are on the Saddle Creek record label. While these artists have their own unique musical styles, one, Tim Kasher, not only differentiates his from the other artists on the Saddle Creek label, but also plays several varieties of music through his multiple bands.

Kasher, 39, grew up in Omaha at the time of Saddle Creek’s creation. From an early age, he was eager to write music, so he started out on the keyboard and eventu-

they probably seem insignificant ally made his way to a hand-medown guitar he received from now, since the rise of Kasher ’s his older sister when he was 13. music career on Saddle Creek ReKasher took inspiration from art- cords. Kasher is now the lead man of three bands: Cursive, The Good ists like Simon and Garfunkel, Life and his self-titled band, Tim The Smiths and The Cure.

Kasher ’s curiosity about mu- Kasher. All together, Kasher has released 12 fullsic would start length albums with taking him placIt covers a Saddle Creek. Under es as he entered few themes his own name, Kashhigh school. Ater has released “The tending Creigh- that are all kind Game of Monogaton Preparatory my” (2010), “Bigamy: High School, of a part of my, I More Songs from the Kasher became guess, songbook.”

Monogamy Sessions” good friends (2011) and his newest with Matt Oberst tIM kASHER album, “Adult Film,” and the two musician which was released would attend lojust this Tuesday. cal music events “I think it is a bit more eclectic with Oberst’s brothers. . for me. I tried to give it a decent While Kasher didn’t enjoy his time at Creighton Prep much, it range of styles,” Kasher said. “It did present him with opportuni- covers a few themes that are all kind of a part of my, I guess, songties for performing music. Kasher and friends played for his class at book that I like writing about, which deals with relationships, Prep’s homecoming dance. my own writing and mortality.”

“Playing at those homecomOne song that works with the ings and getting those gigs were kind of a huge deal back then,” theme of mortality is “A Lullaby, Sort Of.” The song deals with the Kasher said.

Though playing at those danc- issue of cancer, which Kasher dees seemed like a big deal then,

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Nebraska native Tim Kasher recently released his solo album, “Adult Film,” under Saddle Creek Records.

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NETFLIX Oftentimes when one hears the name “Tim Heidecker,” words like “drama” and “serious” generally don’t follow.

That is, until the premiere of the misleadingly titled Rick Alverson film, “The Comedy,” in 2012’s Sundance Film Festival, which became available to the public through Netflix last October.

With the ironic title following suit, “The Comedy” offers a commentary on the emotionally hollow, ironic and self-satirical hipster subculture through Heidecker’s character, Swanson.

Swanson is a 35-year-old, out-of-shape, careless Williamsburg, Brooklyn, yuppie who does not possess a single likable quality. He spends his days waiting for his comatose father to finally die so he can inherit his wealth, while concurrently trying to suppress his dissatisfaction with his own overprivileged existence by harassing anyone he interacts with outside his circle of like-minded

friends.

This theme is made apparent in his first line of dialogue, in which he asks the male nurse treating his father if he knows what anal prolapse is and proceeds to explain it in graphic detail.

If this movie had a face, it would be ugly. Its eyes would be the grossest brown color, always halfasleep and wandering.

Its nose would be running carelessly, unfazed by what others think. Its mouth would be constantly mumbling droll remarks toward anything in its path. Nothing about it is especially positive, but that’s the appeal.

Anyone who is familiar with Heidecker’s past work (“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” and “Tom Goes to The Mayor”) should be warned of the misunderstood appeal and also know to expect the unexpected with such a vaguely titled movie. It also features the other half of the “Tim & Eric” comedy duo, Eric War-

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heim, quite often.

As for anyone who is not familiar with Heidecker and Warheim’s comedic brand, this movie is good on its own as an exploration of how people turn out when they are financially stable, even though they have never worked, and how the hipster subculture may one day implode on itself as a result of its contemptuous attitude.

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I can’t say whether rapper Danny Brown’s sophomore effort, “Old,” is any better than his debut, “XXX.” Furthermore, I don’t think there’s any point to it. It’s only necessary to say that “Old” is excellent — aurally, lyrically and aesthetically, so much so that it makes “sophomore slump” sound like a phrase Brown has never even heard.

It’s taken two albums for me to understand what Brown’s appeal is. He is, by all accounts, insane. He dresses like he has four different voices in his head. His vocal delivery is high-pitched and screechy, bordering on unpleasant. His lyrics, while impressive and clever, are excessively profane. The production is usually dark and boisterous.

But with all of those factors in play, the result is something endlessly hypnotic. Catchy isn’t the right word, because catchy implies mass appeal. Brown definitely doesn’t have that;he puts his name on songs such as “Torture,” a gospel-esque tale of the horrifying imagery that keeps him up at night, like the drug

dealer who subjected a crack fiend to the voracious appetite of his pit bulls.

The song is classic Brown, though. The lyrical content is horrific, brutally authentic and the kind of thing you can’t turn away from no matter how hard you try. Musically, it is a lament, a rise and fall on repeat, backed by a simple drum loop.

“Smokin & Drinkin” is essentially a sequel to the “XXX” track “Blunt After Blunt,” with Brown yelping “Bring Backwoods of that OG/We smokin’ them back-to-back.” Rapped by anyone else, the relentless praise for marijuana would be obnoxious, but Brown is passionately shameless and the chorus is, again, hypnotic. It makes me wanna spark up and just lose it.

I’m not condoning, of course.

OK, I am. Get your grandma stoned.

For Brown, “Old” is something like a return to form. Not necessarily a better one, just an older one, characterized by the erratic and creative bursts of expression that come from being isolated to a world that is itself characterized by absurd violence and destitution. “Wonderbread,” for instance, is the musical equivalent of Edward Munch’s “The Scream.” Brown witnesses a terrible force rippling through nature and channels his emotional reaction into a two-minute lyrical trance.

This world, the one Brown grew up in and draws his inspiration from, is dominated by drug use. Not the way Brown uses; his drugs of choice are alcohol and weed, with a bit of

OLD Danny Brown Molly for good measure, as he clarifies on the overtly silly trapstep anthem “Dip.” His use is a lifestyle choice. The drug use he describes isn’t a choice, but an encumbering epidemic, a burden on the land. “Wonderbread” makes that clear.

And that in itself is another of Brown’s paradoxical absurdities. He’s seen the violent repercussions of drug abuse, and he speaks volumes about them with his unique brand of sorrow. But then, only a track later, he boasts openly about smoking Swisher after Swisher packed with sweet, sticky OG. It might be his way of coping with the horrors he’s witnessed.

The lyrical contradictions, I mean, not the drugs. Though I’m willing to bet the drugs help, too. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

phi delt: from 5 I know every fraternity guy says this, but nothing compares to brotherhood. People will say that the Greek system makes you pay for your friends, but I strongly disagree with that.”

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Junior accounting major Powers Schurrer walks down the spiral staircase at Phi Delta Theta.

Schurrer and his fraternity brothers like being known for the easily recognized stairwell.

But while these words provide a foundation for the organization, it is up to the individual members to personify them.

“Overall, the values are great, but it also comes down to the individual chapter and how they as individuals really exemplify those principles,” Thiele said.

“For us specifically, those three principles really branch out into every part of our life.”

Sophomore biological systems engineering major Bryan Brunson said that when he was rushing, Phi Delt immediately made a distinct impression.

“Before I even made my decision, I toured the house and saw that Phi Delt had a lot of diversity,” Brunson said. “Being a traditional fraternity with a lot of minorities, it stuck out to me right away.”

Now one of the fraternity’s social chairs, Brunson believes the diversity in membership is one of group’s greatest strengths.

“We don’t want to be a house where each guy is pretty much the same,” Brunson said.

Corey Thiele, the Phi Delta Theta scholarship chairman, knows this variety in membership helps distinguish their chapter.

“From California to Texas to Minnesota, we’ve got guys from everywhere in all different majors,” Corey Thiele, a junior architecture major, said. “And our members represent a lot of different backgrounds. The stereotype of a fraternity that is just a bunch of wealthy (men) doesn’t really apply to us.”

Challenging stereotypes of fraternities is nothing new for Phi Delt; the fraternity’s strict no-hazing policy is made clear to incoming members from the first day.

“I was surprised by how strong the anti-hazing policy was right away. The guys take it really seriously,” Brunson said. “Even when we were pledges, the active members

always treated us as their friends, and we respected them more for that.”

Brunson said that in the absence of hazing rituals, pledges (known within Phi Delta Beta as “Phikeia”) prove themselves through scholastic achievement and campus involvement. Unlike most Greek houses, Phi Delta Theta pledges are not officially initiated until the second semester, but the process forges a lasting bond between members.

“There’s a special connection of being initiated into Phi Delt that you carry through your whole life,” Corey Thiele said.

“You have something that just you and (your brothers) know about, whereas a friend from somewhere else, you can’t really talk about that.”

In addition to initiation, some of the most important experiences for members come from living in the fraternity house. On the corner of 16th and R streets, lies a three-story home, with a towering bay window and a manicured lawn. It houses not only the headquarters of the Nebraska Alpha chapter, but also nearly 70 members of the fraternity. Geoff Thiele has lived in the house for the past four years.

“I’ve thought about moving out, but the way I see it, I have the rest of my life to buy an apartment,” Geoff Thiele said. “But there are only four years of my life when I can live with 65 of my best friends.”

Pat Ryan, a junior Phi Delt and business administration and finance major, said life in the house is characterized by friendship and unexpected diversions around the house.

“Usually around the time of the Masters, we set up cups around the house and play puttputt down the stairs,” Ryan said, who also serves as the chapter’s philanthropy chairman.

Many deeper bonds within

the group are forged during retreats and excursions. Each year, pledges road trip to other Phi Delta Theta chapters around region.

Getting away from campus life often opens up communication between members.

“There’s just 80 or 90 guys making a bonfire in a field, hanging out all night,” Corey Thiele said. “In environments like that you end up talking about things that probably never would have come up from just hanging out in the cafeteria.”

Brotherhood in Phi Delta Theta also pushes members towards being more involved community members.

“If I wasn’t a Phi Delt, I’m not sure I would have gotten into volunteering, but now I really like doing it,” Ryan said. “We go to the Malone Center and the Children’s Museum and it’s a really fun time.”

Each Friday, members volunteer around the Lincoln community. The fraternity also hosts an annual Waffle Bash to benefit the ALS Association, which works to fight Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Two years ago, the brotherhood coordinated with the Creighton chapter to run a relay from Lincoln to Omaha, which raised more than $20,000 for the cause.

The motto of Phi Delta Theta is “Become the Greatest Version of Yourself.” It’s a goal that motivates members to realize their individual potential and surround themselves with positive, lasting relationships.

“I know every fraternity guy says this, but nothing compares to brotherhood,” Brunson said.

“People will say that the Greek system makes you pay for your friends, but I strongly disagree with that. These guys are my best friends and the last two years in Phi Delt have been some the best memories of my life.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Miranda Lambert sings at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in the Haymarket on Thursday for her Locked and Reloaded tour. She was recently nominated for the Country Music Awards’ Vocalist of the Year and her single “Mama’s Broken Heart” was nominated for Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year.

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Dierks Bentley opened for Miranda Lambert on her Locked and Reloaded tour at the Pinnacle Bank Arena on Thursday night.

Bentley and his wife welcomed a baby boy on Wednesday, the day before the concert in Lincoln.

KASHER: from 5 scribed as a topic that’s becoming more prevalent in his life as he gets older. The people around him run into the issue more often than they had before.

The album as a whole is different from his first release as a solo artist. Whereas “The Game of Monogamy” was archaic and orchestrated, “Adult Film” is full of modern rock and pop.

Kasher specifically noted that his favorite song off of the new album is “A Looping Distress Signal.”

“I guess I like it because it is very straight forward, but it breaks down into an interlude, so it’s a bit more for me than other songs on the record,” Kasher said.

Even with 12 full-length albums released and a dedicated fanbase, Kasher still strives for a humble attitude about his life as a musician. He is often very hard on himself about his abilities.

“Really, I am not a very good musician, I think,” Kasher said. “I have no manual dexterity, so that will trouble me, but I think that I manage to get by with decent ideas, I guess.”

Kasher rides himself hard to continue his writing. He describes himself as both a care-free and easy-going individual, and someone who will constantly attack himself in order to make sure he is still working on his writing. Outside of writing, Kasher said he en-

joys watching television, movies or playing video games at home.

In his music, Kasher seeks a universality for all the sounds and themes. This makes his songwriting process a bit more difficult, but this carefully crafted universality helps his songs speak to a larger audience in the end, he said.

Though he may have a self-depreciative attitude at some points, Kasher is certainly not giving up.

Even after releasing a new album earlier in the week, he wants to start working on his next batch of songs.

Kasher said that he would like to continue making music for as long as he can. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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You’ll be able to fry all your eggs on the sidewalk.

Buying pans will be an activity for suckers.

Now I don’t want things to get TOO spooky, but Halloween is right around the corner.

It’s nearly time for skeleton decorations, pumpkin patches and spiked pumpkin juice. If you’re into that sort of thing.

Though most regard Halloween as the spookiest time of year, I’ve seen more scary things just being a college student than I ever would inside a haunted house.

Terrifying things that would send even Dracula back to his coffin.

Like professors who don’t email back. And frat parties. Those sweaty, cramped, dark basements often operate as more of a torture chamber than anything.

Though perhaps more practical and realistic than, say, dancing skeletons, the real-life problems of any college student are as, if not more, terrifying as anything you might dream up in a horror film.

It’ll give you continuous fodder for small talk.

You’ll always have something to talk about with your awful co-workers.

No one will be able to tell you to leave the kitchen ifyou can’t handle the heat, because there is only more heat outside of the kitchen.

Everyone will be hot. No one can point out how much I sweat without being hypocritical.

Think of the white-knuckle terror you experienced the last time you realized you had a fivepage paper due in an hour with nothing but your name typed out.

Or the chills that ran up and down your spine after forgetting to pay your rent and hearing from your landlord that it is already a week late.

I’d take being forced to watch “Halloween” on repeat over dealing with the spookiness of daily responsibilities any day of the week, and this is coming from a bona fide scaredy cat. I covered my eyes during almost all of “Paranormal Activity” and have been too scared to ever enter an amusement-style haunted house despite being an almost fully grown adult.

Though I can certainly appreciate the eeriness October brings, I’ve never been one to dive head first into scary situations. And then I started freshman year, where the horror of starting fresh at a giant university completely tackled me. Somehow, I survived.

After a year of dealing with difficult social situations and praying that I would somehow pass my classes, I saw these situations as less of a curse and more of a

challenge.

They were still scary, for sure.

But I began to realize these responsibilities are simply a part of entering adulthood: a thought much worse than imagining Freddy Krueger trying to crawl into my dreams — or whatever it is he does.

Perhaps the truly scary thing is that, unlike Halloween, this isn’t just a season. These realworld responsibilities and dilemmas will likely stick with us from this point on. Horrifying as they may be at times, we typically deal with them and move on. We face our fears and learn to deal with the consequences, not completely unlike the heroes and heroines of horror films and novels, although we will hopefully keep our heads and throats intact at the end of these few years of higher education.

College may not get the month-long celebration that Halloween merits, but the horrors we students face are greater than anything you might find on Oct. 31. gaby martinez-garro is a sophomore journalism major. Reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Freshman tennis player adjusts to new team, country Andersson attributes this sson stuck with it. happy-go-lucky personality to the “I just loved it,” Andersson said. “I like winning, and I like team’s tight-knit atmosphere.

“I just want my team to do competition, and I like being well, and when I got here I liked alone on the court. Tennis gives my team and my me all of that.” coaches, and I Small tournaI like like everything ments led to big winning, and here so much,” tournaments, and Andersson said. big tournaments led I like competition, “It just made me to bigger tournaso happy.” ments. Before An- and I like being vanessa daves She loves the dersson knew it, she alone on the dn family-feel of the was ranked seventh for her age and 34th court. Tennis gives team, she said.

Lisa Andersson likes to be in con- in the nation, and she She’s never lived me all of that.” trol. more than an was being contacted And that’s why she likes tenhour-long train by schools such as nis – when she’s on the court by the University of Nelisa andersson ride from home, freshman tennis player herself, playing the game she and now she’s braska-Lincoln. loves, she has control over everya day’s worth “Combining thing. of travel away. school Andersson, a freshBecause she is so far away from and tennis, UNL is a man, is in a country home, having a group of people great school for me,” where she doesn’t she can always turn to is really Andersson said. “I completely understand important. want to eventually go the language, culture “We always have fun togethpro, but I still want to or food. She feels lost, er,” Andersson said. “The girls on have my studies.” out of control, uncenthe team are so great – I feel like I Andersson’s matered. But tennis gives jor is business ad- can always talk to anyone if I need her the control that she to.” ministration, and lacks, even if it’s just They went to Kansas City, although she doesn’t for a few fleeting moknow what she wants Mo., for a tournament last weekments during practice end, and they went out to eat to do with it, she or a match. andersson wants to have some- and went shopping at the CounLucky for her, she try Club Plaza. Bonding with the thing to fall back on. lives, eats and breathes team during that event and being She likes the tennis tennis. able to see different places in the team because the coaches are easy She wakes up, goes to practo work with and the girls on her country is what she loves so much tice, goes to class, and practices about her college decision. team are all so close. again. She rooms with a fellow “Everyone is helpful here,” According to coach Scott teammate, German native and Jacobson, Andersson has an in- Andersson said. “Before I even freshman Katerina Matysova. She valuable vibrant personality and got here, they were so helpful. spends her spare time studying or They would all tell me, ‘When attitude that is contagious to the hanging out with her team. you come here, we can take you other girls on the team.

Andersson, a native of Sweshopping for your dorm. Just let “She has good energy and is den, has been playing tennis for us know.’ It’s nice because they always positive,” Jacobson said.

13 years. She started playing “On the court she leads by ex- know what it’s like. It’s a big comwhen she was 6 years old after her ample. She has a great work ethic fort.” mom signed her up to play with and is always receptive to suggessports@ her neighbor. Even though her dailynebraskan.com tions.” neighbor stopped playing, Ander-

football practice notes

Lisa Andersson, a native of Sweden, provides invaluable attitude and work ethic, coach says

volleyball: from 10 Ten Player of the Week with the Huskers’ senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson was Lauren Wicinski who is on her way to being in the NCAA’s top-25 alltime hitters. Having 2,112 kills in her career, with 143 more she’ll reserve her spot.

Another leading hitter for the Spartans is Alexis Mathews.

Mathews is hitting at .459 and has been averaging 1.42 blocks each set. Over her career, she’s been hitting at .343.

Other players to watch are Kristen Kelsay (hitting percentage of .526) and Chloe Reinig (hitting percentage of .383). Kori Moster is leading the Spartans in digs with 227 for the season, averaging 4.45 digs per set.

The Spartans are serving tough at .902 as a team and averaging 12.02 digs per set.

“Going into it knowing that Michigan was (in the) final four

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Senior Pat Smith has earned kicking responsibilities after a week of practice, coach Bo Pelini said Thursday.

Tommy Armstrong Jr. named starter

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini announced Thursday that redshirt freshman quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. will start for the third game in a row against Purdue on Saturday. Senior quarterback Ron Kellogg III will get playing time as well.

Still, injured quarterback Taylor Martinez will be traveling with the team.

“Taylor is going with us,” Pelini said. “Taylor is still day-to-day, and he’s getting better. He’s a lot better than he has been.”

Huskers prepared for first road test

The past two weekends we did so well so we kind of had a little bit of confidence going in.” justine wong-orantes freshman libero

last year and Michigan State is undefeated in conference… It kind of hypes us up and wanting to go in and kind of take them, so it should be fun this weekend,” Wong-Orantes said.

The Huskers are ranked in the top 10 in the nation within two categories. In assists, Nebraska ranks No. 6 with an average of 13.83 in each set. In kills, Nebraska ranks sixth again, having an average of 14.87.

Additionally, the Huskers are leading the conference in

hitting (Meghan Haggerty, .446), assists (Mary Pollmiller, 11.60), kills (Kelsey Robinson, 5.67), and points (6.23).

“They (Michigan State) run a two setter system, so they’re always gonna have three hitters in the front row, so they’re very difficult to defend,” Cook said.

“And Michigan just plays really good volleyball, so it’s gonna be a tale of two halves this weekend.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

After five consecutive home games, Nebraska will travel to Purdue for its first road contest of the season.

“This team is looking forward to going on the road for the first time,” Pelini said. “We’re playing a football team that’s had two weeks to prepare; sounds like they’re making some changes and that type of thing. Like I just told our team, we can’t worry about what they’re going to do, we have to execute our football and be ready to play our best football, which is still out there for us.”

As Purdue true freshman Danny Etling makes his first career start against Nebraska, Saturday’s game brings an element of the unknown from the quarterback.

“We’re preparing for their offense and a guy that we know can throw the ball around,” Pelini said. “Like I said, I don’t know what they’re going to do and we’ve prepared for a lot of different things. We have to prepare for the offense we’ve seen up to this point and we have to be ready to make adjustments.”

A few players out with injuries

An injured Martinez will be traveling with the team for Saturday’s game, but a few other players will not be traveling because of injury.

Wide receiver Tyler Wullenwaber will not be traveling with the team because of a shoulder injury, Pelini said.

“He kind of hurt his shoulder in the game and he kind of redid it yesterday in practice, so he won’t be going with us,” Pelini said.

A few players who were previously injured, Jamal Turner, Zaire Anderson and Jonathon Rose, have all been practicing and will be playing against Purdue, according to Pelini.

Tight end Jake Long is out for Saturday’s game with a hamstring injury.

“He’s getting better, but he won’t play,” Pelini said.

Pelini noted he expects the younger tight ends freshman Cethan Carter, redshirt freshman Sam Cotton, sophomore David Sutton and redshirt freshman Trey Foster to be capable of filling Long’s void.

“I like what those guys are doing, they’re getting better every practice,” Pelini said. “Cethan, I’ve told you, I think he’s going to be a force as he keep going and he gets comfortable. It’s a good group. They’re young but they’re coming along and playing good football.”

Pat Smith takes kicking duties

Missing two extra points in last Saturday’s game against Illinois promoted Pelini to name Nebraska’s kicking game a concern. After a week of practice, Pelini said senior Pat Smith has earned the kicking responsibilities.

“I saw improvement, which after last week isn’t saying a whole heck of a lot,” Pelini said. “I thought Patrick had really good week, so the guy you’ll see in there will be Patrick Smith.” compiled by kyle cummings sports@dailynebraskan.com

football: from 10 “I’m excited to watch Tommy (Armstrong Jr.) play on the road this week and see how he handles it. I have nothing but confidence in him. He’s one heck of a competitor and one heck of a football player.” kenny bell

junior wide receiver

games at home has given players confidence heading into their second conference matchup.

“I kind of talked about that in the preseason going in and where I thought we would be to start and the level of work that was in front of us,” Pelini said, “The schedule set up well for us as far as being able to get that accomplished.

“I think it’s playing out to a certain extent because I’ve seen a significant amount of progress in the past couple weeks.”

Armstrong has completed 20of-28 passes for 304 yards and a passing efficiency of 197.99. He said he’s prepared to perform in front of an opposing crowd.

“I like playing at home, but it’s just a great feeling to just have an away game,” he said. “Our offense is feeling comfortable going into the Big Ten, so we’re ready.”

Junior wide receiver Kenny Bell said he’s eager to play alongside Armstrong this weekend and feels his teammate will only progress with each game.

“I’m excited to watch Tommy play on the road this week and see how he handles it,” Bell said

during Monday’s press conference. “I have nothing but confidence in him. He’s one heck of a competitor and one heck of a football player.”

In their last game against the Fighting Illini, the two paired up twice, including in the third quarter where Bell pulled down a one-handed pass to scamper into the endzone for the Huskers’ final touchdown. The play was impressive enough to land the wide-out third on SportsCenter Top-10 that night.

Bell, who said he hasn’t watched the catch as many times as some of his fans, said he was thankful with the response it garnered from the public.

“SportsCenter is the only one that really surprised me. That was kind of cool,” he said. “I’m not used to that. I was surprised I caught it. I was just blessed to make the play.”

Pelini described Bell’s surprising catch as “phenomenal” and said they’ll have to duplicate even more extraordinary plays Saturday and carry out progress made during the week.

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Junior wide receive Kenny Bell runs during the Illinois game last Saturday. Bell said he has confidence in freshman quarterback Tommy The Huskers can’t let the opposing crowd get to them if they expect to improve its conference

record to 2-0, Pelini said. ”The first thing we have to do is take care of us,” Pelini said. “We

have to fix us and continue to increase our level of execution and knowledge and get ready to play

our best football on Saturday.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

how they stack up | nebraska vs purdue NEBRASKA PURDUE Record 4-1 (1-0) 1-4 (0-1) Last game W 39-19 vs. Illinois L 55-24 vs. Northern Illinois Points per game (National rank) 42 (16) 17 (114) Points allowed per game 25 (57) 37 (112) Yards per game 501 (19) 302 (117) Rush yards per game 292 (8) 87 (116) Pass yards per game 210 (86) 215 (81) Rush defense yards allowed per game 183 (86) 183 (88) Pass defense yards allowed per game 263 (98) 230 (66)

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NU heads into first intercollegiate competition We’re going to have to have a team effort if we are going to beat Iowa State.”

After Intrasquad and Alumni meets, swimming and diving will compete against Iowa State Saturday

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natasha rausch dn After competing in the annual Intrasquad and Alumni meets during the first two weeks of the season, the Nebraska swimming and diving team is heading into its first intercollegiate competition against the Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday.

“The intrasquad and alumni meets are more practice meets,” said assistant coach Patrick Rowan, who helped the team to a school record of 12-dual-meet victories last year. “This is live. This is real. We want to get off on the right foot with a really solid effort from everybody and hopefully a great team effort and hopefully a win.”

In last year ’s meet, the Huskers traveled to Iowa State where they defeated the Cyclones, as well as South Dakota, with a final score of 176.5-122.5 and 240-59, respectively. According to Rowan, the Huskers and the Cyclones have a long history, so each year the athletes look forward to the competition.

“We’re going to have a great competition,” Rowan said. “Iowa State is a solid team. They are the best when they come to race the Huskers because we have a lot of history with them. This is a dual meet that both teams look forward to, and it’s always a good rivalry, so it should be a fun meet.”

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Junior Natalie Morris competes during the swimming and diving team’s annual Scarlet versus Cream Intrasquad Meet at the Devaney Natatorium on Oct. 2. The team will compete against Iowa State Saturday.

Like the Huskers, Iowa State also held an intrasquad meet in which seniors Katie Vollhaber and Jessica Henderson led the team, while the nine freshmen made

their collegiate debut.

“Iowa State has a lot of strong swimmers,” Rowan said. “They have a couple really strong sprinters and a couple really great breast

strokers. They have some young freshmen coming onto the roster this year that are going to make their team a lot deeper. We’re going to have to have a team effort if

we are going to beat Iowa State.”

In her second year as a Husker swimmer, junior Taryn Collura is looking forward to the competition this Saturday because she

said it will “set the tone” for the rest of the season. Collura is likely to compete in sprint or butterfly races and relays.

“I expect really good things from us,” said Collura, who helped the Scarlet beat the Cream in the 400-yard freestyle relay in the Intrasquad meet. “I think that we’ve prepared enough to really give them a run. I’m excited to see what we do because Iowa State is a really good competitor and this is the first kind of real meet of the season.”

Although Collura says that the meet will be “exciting,” Rowan is still looking ahead at the Big Ten Championships and the NCAA Championship. He says that every meet and practice is in preparation for them because they are the most important part of the season.

“Preparation for this meet is going to be a day or two ahead of time getting a couple of extra turns in, getting a couple extra starts, making sure we get our finishes down,” Rowan said. “It’s a normal training week with a little bit of emphasis on the extra racing at the end of the week.”

After the first intercollegiate meet of the season for both Nebraska and Iowa State, the Huskers will have the following week off before they head to Fayetteville, Ark. to compete on Oct. 26. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU team opens season against No. 5 West Virginia

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far this season 4,657 to 4,648 over No. 6 Ohio State.

Nebraska shooters The Huskers are looking to bounce back from last year ’s will face the matchup in Morgantown where Mountaineers, the they put up a season-high overall score of 4,661, but still came defending national up short 4,689 to 4,661. This was champions West Virginia’s most narrow margin of victory in their 2012-2013 12-1 regular season. Junior Kelsey Hansen was the top returning brett nierengarten shooter from the match last seadn son, firing a career best 589 in the air rifle portion of the competiThe Nebraska rifle team does not tion. get the benefit that most other “Our matchups against West Husker sports teams get.

Virginia are always a fun experiThere are just two conferences ence. I look forward to competing and only 20 teams in with them.” Hansen the nation, making evSaid. ery match a big match.

Underwood is There’s no time to ease confident in the way into the season with every shooter on the any type of inferior team has performed in opponent. the team’s pre-season The Husker rifle practices, she said. team will open the “Everyone is lookseason against defending good. We made a ing national champion lot of changes within West Virginia at the the first five weeks Nebraska rifle range and this past week Sunday. Second-year we have been refining underwood coach Stacy Underthose changes,” Unwood said she is aware derwood said. “I look that taking down the for everyone to have a great first Mountaineers may be a tall task, match.” but by no means an impossible Like her coach, Hansen is also one. excited about the team the Husk“We talked about executing ers have this year. our game plan, being disciplined “Everyone has different perwith our shot plan. If we are able sonalities and strengths.” Hansen to be disciplined and fearless we said. “It makes for an awesome will be successful,” Underwood team atmosphere.” wrote in an email The Huskers interview.

“The season high from “We want great thing about last year is four the sport of rifle to compete points better than is that no matter West Virginia’s your opponent you against the best opening match this are always shootseason, they will and show that ing against the need a terrific percourse.” no matter who formance if they Underwood hope to beat the looks forward to our opponent is Mountaineers for the challenge of we are fearless the first time since shooting against 2006. Hanson is not competitors.” the best team in the focused on scores, country so early in but more the prothe season. cess of competing. stacy underwood “We want to “If we stick to rifile coach compete against every step of the the best and show process and trust that no matter who our preparation we will have the our opponent is we are fearless confidence to compete at our full competitors,” Underwood said. potential,” Hansen said.

The Huskers fell from No. 6 Following the West Virginia to No. 9 in the first regular sea- match, the Huskers will get alson edition of the Collegiate Rifle most two weeks off to prepare for Coaches Association rankings de- Navy, which visits the Nebraska spite not having a match yet this Rifle Range on Oct. 26. season. West Virginia fell to No.5 sports@ after winning their only match so dailynebraskan.com

Dancing duo offers classes at Campus Recreation Center for students who want to exercise, meet others vanessa daves dn For Don and Polly Anderson, dance has always been a part of their 56-year marriage. The foxtrot, the tango, the waltz – you name it.

“At night, we always dance.

We’ve always done it,” Polly said. “My husband was trained as a dance teacher from a national studio in the ’50s, and then he taught me, and we’ve been doing it ever since.”

From studios to universities to schools, the couple has gone all over teaching dance.

They’ve taught at Pla Mor, Southeast Community College and other places across Lincoln.

The couple offers a ballroom and country dance class through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Recreation Center, once

a week for an hour and a half for four straight weeks.

The class has been offered through the university for nearly 20 years. In the class, Polly and Don cover ballroom dances such as the waltz and the foxtrot as well as Latin dancing, swing dancing and country dancing.

They’ve noticed the popularity of dancing continue through their years as instructors.

“I know a lot of UNL students go to Pla Mor a couple of times a week,” Polly said. “We always ask in our class, ‘How many of you have been out dancing before?’ And not very many raise their hands. They come to our class to learn the basics, and then they go out dancing after learning.”

Polly thinks it’s a good opportunity for UNL students because it’s good exercise.

“It’s good for balance and equilibrium,” Polly said. “It’s really great for your body.”

She also thinks a good social environment because it teaches you how to be comfortable on the dance floor in a social situation, and it teaches men how to lead their partners. On top of that, she thinks it’s a great way to meet people.

“At some point in time, they’re going to experience a situation where they can either dance or watch.” don anderson

ballroom dancing teacher

“You really need a partner for the class — that’s the best,” Polly said. “People will bring a friend or a boyfriend or whatever, but sometimes singles show up. And when that happens, they always find a partner anyway. It always works out.”

Don was always interested in dancing. His sisters taught him different dances growing up, and he loved it. But his interest grew even more when he was in the Marine Corps. He was in a dance contest and came in second in a close competition, and that’s what made him decide to pursue it. He decided to go find a place to dance, and he eventually was offered to be trained as a dance instructor. He took the opportunity and ran with it.

“Whenever I went somewhere, I was the one that danced,” Don said. “I’d go somewhere with my friends in the

Marine Corps, and while they’d be going somewhere else, I’d be finding a ballroom.”

After his six months of training, he came to UNL to get a degree in business. While a student, he would be called all the time to teach dance lessons. It picked up, and before he knew it, he and his wife were buying a studio to teach people to dance.

Now, Don and Polly mostly teach through schools. They think it’s an incredible opportunity, and they love to watch it impact others’ lives the way it has impacted theirs.

“They’re the right age right now,” Don said. “At some point in time, they’re going to experience a situation where they can either dance or watch. Everyone should learn to dance, just so they have the ability to dance.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior midfielder Stacy Bartels kicks the ball during the soccer team’s game against Denver at the Nebraska Soccer Field. The team will travel to Indiana to face Purdue this weekend. have six games left in the regular season, with three on the road and three at home. Out of the six teams that NU will face, two of them, No. 34 Wisconsin and No. 2 Penn State, are ranked.

According to freshman for-

ward Jaycie Johnson, the Huskers’ leading scorer, the team needs to look at what they did wrong against Michigan and use that as motivation to finish the season on a good note.

“We have to take every game

as it is and improve on all of the mistakes that we have made,” Johnson said. “It’s just begun for us, and we have so much to prove and we want to be the team that people don’t want to face. We want to be that Nebraska team that other

teams are afraid of offensively and defensively. We want to win the Big Ten championship and then move onto the NCAA tournament.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Freshman quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. escapes a block from Illinois junior defensive back Earnest Thomas III last Saturday at Memorial Stadium. As senior quarterback Taylor Martinez remains on the sideline with an injury, Armstrong Jr. will start against Purdue.

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very day since mid-September, the same question has lingered in the minds of Husker fans everywhere.

Who will start this Saturday as quarterback?

Since his turf-toe injury at the beginning of the season, senior quarterback Taylor Martinez has been questionable to play, and he has sat on the sidelines for the last two games.. His replacement? Tommy Armstrong Jr. “(Armstrong) has done a good job of being level-headed and staying poised,” offensive coordinator Tim Beck said after practice Tuesday.

The redshirt freshman has been the Huskers’ (4-1, 1-0 Big 10) starting quarterback the last two games in place of fourth-year starter Martinez. And the result? Two wins and a No. 1 ranking conference position in passing efficiency.

With Martinez out of pads in practice for the second week, Armstrong will get the nod to start his third-straight game this Saturday at Purdue (1-4, 0-1).

Although the trip to Lafayette, Ind., will be Nebraska’s first away game of the season, coach Bo Pelini thinks that having the first five

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Volleyball prepares for road trip Seventh-ranked Nebraska will face No. 27 Michigan and No. 9 Michigan State this weekend anna thomas dn The No. 7 Nebraska volleyball team (11-2, 4-0) is on the road again this weekend to take on Michigan Friday and Michigan State Saturday.

Having beat Minnesota in three sets last Friday and grasping another win against Wisconsin in five, the Huskers look forward to another Big Ten road trip to Michigan as a young team.

“The past two weekends we did so well so we kind of had a little bit of confidence going in,” freshman libero Justine WongOrantes said. “Then again, we didn’t know what to expect since we’re all so new.”

The No. 27 Michigan Wolverines beat Northwestern last weekend, winning 3-1, but also lost in five sets to Illinois.

“Michigan’s record right now in the Big Ten is very deceiving,” coach John Cook said. “It didn’t bother them last year.”

The Wolverine’s Lexi Erwin had a successful weekend against Northwestern with 10 digs and a match-high record of 19 kills. Erwin posed nine digs against Illinois last weekend, as well as three blocks and 19 kills for the match.

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Freshman libero Justine Wong-Orantes celebrates during a recent volleyball match. Wong-Orantes said the team has more confidence going into this weekend’s games against Michigan and Michigan State.

Another key player for the Wolverines is Jennifer Cross, whose blocking is crucial. Cross is only two blocks away from breaking Michigan’s school record of 472 blocks and 22 block assists away from breaking the record of 419 block assists in a career.

Last weekend against Northwestern, Cross contributed 11 digs (a career high) and had 15 kills. Against Illinois, she had 16

kills and managed seven block assists.

Other players to watch include Gabbie Bulic (hitting percentage of .565), Lexi Dannemiller (hitting percentage of .333 and 581 sets) and Tiffany Morales (230 digs for the season).

As a team, Michigan is hitting at .249 for the season. The Wolverines are serving at .71, digging at 14.12, and blocking at 2.12.

The No. 9 Michigan State Spartans are 15-1 and 4-0 this year in the Big Ten. The Spartans are coming off of two wins last weekend against Illinois and Northwestern.

“Michigan State went at Penn State and won, so they’ve shown that they can play at a really high level,” Cook said.

Also receiving the title of Big

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After a loss at home against No. 14 Michigan, the No. 18 Husker soccer team looks to rebound this week when it travels to face Purdue Friday evening.

NU is currently 9-3-1 with a 4-1 record in Big Ten play and tied for first in the conference with No. 2 Penn State. With many tough games ahead of them, the team wants to maintain a spot near the top, according to senior midfielder Stacy Bartels.

“Midseason is where teams rise and take a step back and winning away games are crucial and wins on the road give us confidence when we come back home to play,” Bartels said. “It’s always going to be tough facing the Big Ten teams.”

Heading into last Sunday’s matchup against Michigan, the

Huskers were on a seven-game win streak, the longest win streak since 2004.

“Each game in the Big Ten is so crucial and looking at the teams that have won and lost, it’s all over the place,” Bartels said. “And there’s going to be a lot of teams rising and falling in the standings, and we hope to stay towards the top of the Big Ten conference.”

So far this season, the Purdue Boilermakers are 8-4-1 with a 3-2 conference record, with all three wins coming from their last three games. Ohio State, Illinois and Northwestern allfell to the Boilmakers 1-0.

Up to this point, the two squads have only faced each other five times with NU leading the series 3-2.

When the Boilermakers visited Lincoln last season, they defeated the Huskers in double overtime 2-1.

Both teams have already surpassed what was accomplished last year as the Huskers improve from seven wins last year to nine already this season.

Purdue has improved from last year’s seven-win season to eight already this year.

After this weekend’s game against Purdue, the Huskers will

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