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A batch of homemade doughnuts is finished on Monday morning at The Doughnut Hole. Before opening the shop, the owners operated a booth at the Haymarket Farmers’ Market on Saturday mornings.

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niversity of NebraskaLincoln students have the convenience of using blue telephone poles in case of an emergency on campus. However, these poles may be out-of-date, according to UNL Police Chief Owen Yardley.

UNLPD and the Association of Students at the University of Nebraska are talking about creating a BlueLight app system for smartphones.

The BlueLight app system, which is currently in use by nine other universities, is able to pinpoint a student’s location and send it to an emergency responder in five seconds. An average phone call to 911, according to the app’s website, takes 45 seconds. The app offers two buttons. The first, is the “campus safety” button, in which two taps from the user will send his or her exact location to a dispatcher. The other button is “alert contacts,” for which a student can put in their emergency contacts who will be notified by a prewritten text message. The system will remain active even if campus phone lines were to go down.

The poles, which were installed in the early 1990s, have virtually no infrastructure. The poles are not equipped with cameras or speakers, and communications are run through a copper wire.

Yardley said the poles are activated approximately 30 times a month.

“A few of those calls are accidental and some are to ask general questions,” Yardley said. “I can’t remember the last time that they were used for an actual emergency.”

The blue light poles have been somewhat replaced by cellphone usage, Yardley said. He said the idea of using the poles for safety reasons seems like a foreign concept, especially with younger generations of incoming students. Of all college students, Yardley said msot have a cellphone with them at all times, making the poles not as beneficial.

“Technology changes so quickly,” he said.

Kayleigh Lewandowski, a sophomore microbiology major, said she has never used the blue poles before, nor does she know anyone who

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STEM professor named ELATE fellow tammy bain dn Jennifer Brand’s mother wanted to be a doctor. But because it was uncommon for women of her generation to take positions in the medical field, the mother of six worked as a nurse instead.

So when Brand, now a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at University of NebraskaLincoln, wanted to pursue science, her mother was very encouraging.

After applying for the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering program, or ELATE, through Drexel University in Philadelphia, Brand was accepted for the 2013-14 ELATE Fellowship last March. She joins 18 women from across the country who work in the science, technology, engineering and math, or the STEM fields.

The fellowship was originally for women in the medical field, Brand said, and this is the second year it includes women in engineering.

The fellows learn their strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to become better leaders in their current fields, Brand said.

It was about a year ago that she first heard of the ELATE fellowship, she said. She began the application process between December and January.

“I really wanted to be more ef-

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Housing renovates staircase flooring in Courtyards Kelli Rollin dn Carpet on staircases is going out of style at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The sound of rips and tears echo throughout the Courtyards, an apartment-style residence hall, as the carpet on the staircases is replaced with rubber flooring.

Larry Shippen, associate director for UNL Housing facilities operations, said replacing the floors in staircases and landings has been an ongoing project. He said the project began six months ago and work has been gradually done on all staircases. He said the project was spread out to “limit disruption to student traffic,” in the residence hall.

Shippen said the project is to update the staircases to make the flooring last longer.

“The carpet was worn and the building is 10 years old,” he said.

Work on the staircases has

picked up during the past week to finish the remaining staircases that still have carpet.

Shippen said most of the staircases have been replaced with rubber and all construction should be finished by the end of the week.

He said UNL maintenance crews are removing the carpet, but a private contractor will install the new flooring.

“We are trying to do it as economically as we can to keep student fees down,” Shippen said.

Some staircases have been closed since last week because of the construction, so residents had to find alternative routes to go to other floors.

Kyler Wimbush, a junior women and gender studies major and Courtyards resident, said the construction on the staircases hasn’t been an inconvenience to him.

“I knew what was going on, but I just didn’t know what staircase to use all the time,” he said.

Wimbush said he ran into an

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A staircase in the Courtyards receives new flooring Tuesday. odd situation during a fire drill last week. He said he was heading

toward the stairs to go outside for the drill, but a worker was doing

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construction on the staircase. WimMonday when both staircases were bush said he went to another stairclosed.” case to go outside for the drill, but She said she used other stairit was over before he made it out of cases when the stairs on her side of the building. the building were Wimbush said closed, but someWe are he didn’t know why times used the eltrying to do evator because it the staircase flooring was replaced, it as economically was easier. but he wasn’t opShippen said as we can to posed. the rubber flooring “If it makes it keep student fees is convenient in better, go ahead,” he many ways. down.” said.

“It’s a lot more Taylor Whitdurable and lasts a larry shippen ney, a sophomore lot longer,” he said. associate director of unl meteorology maHe said the housing facilities operations jor and Courtyards rubber is easier to resident, said she maintain and only uses the staircases takes a couple of often, so she’ll be excited when the sweeps to clean it, rather than tryconstruction is finished. She said ing to clean carpet. He said when when the staircases she regularly Knoll Residential Center was built, uses were closed, “inconvenience” rubber flooring was used for the wasn’t the best word to describe it. staircases. And he said the rubber “It was more annoying if anyseemed to hold up well. news@ thing,” Whitney said. “Especially dailynebraskan.com because there was some overlap on

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Director stresses diversity in African wildlife gabrielle lazaro dn Wildlife in Africa is a bit more complex than what is shown on Animal Planet, according to professor John Carroll.

The newly appointed director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources presented “Fun with Wildlife in Africa: Beyond the Animal Planet,” at Hardin Hall on East Campus Tuesday.

Carroll said the purpose for his lecture was for those who haven’t lived or worked in Africa to gain a greater appreciation of it. He focused on the diversity that exists in Africa, placing an emphasis on Africa being much more than what we see on TV and movies.

“Most of what we know about Africa ends up being what we read about or watch on television,” Carroll said. “The African continent has a huge amount of charismatic species… it makes for really good TV footage.”

There are more than 50 countries and a variety of ethnic groups and languages spoken, he said.

Caroll discussed the time he spent in Africa over the past summer researching pygmy hippos and bonobos, which are endangered species, in Sierra Leone.

Pygmy hippos are miniature hippos, weighing about 500 pounds while a regular hippo weighs about 5,000 pounds. They’re considered to be very rare and no research has ever really be done on them, he said. Carroll and his team focused on educating the local people about the pygmy hippos to increase support for the conservation.

“They are the only people in the world who have pygmy hippos that actually sold well with local people,” Carroll said. “They took pride in having these animals in their backyard.”

Bonobos are another endangered species the team focused on. Working in the Lomako Yokokala Faunal Reserve, an area about the size of Nebraska, Carroll and his team worked to estimate the abundance of bonobos in the area. Intensive studies on bonobos were done to figure out how they can be protected.

Carroll ended the lecture with information about an upcoming project called the Northern Tuli Predator Project. Taking place in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana this project has been going on for a few years. There are plans for a group of UNL students to hopefully travel to the reserve in July.

The project is focusing on the loss of male lions and the effect it has on their social structure.

By using research programs, they hope to enhance reserves in the area. The loss of lions is specifically important because they have declined by 90 percent in the last 50 years and are already extinct in 26 African countries – only seven countries in Africa have over 1,000 lions, Carroll said.

The project has been successful thus far. Through GPS monitors, the lions are able to be tracked. When a lion was shot and killed, a local farmer was caught on camera and the authorities were able to take him to court, Carroll said. The Northern Tuli Predator Project is being lead

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John Carroll reveals some of the PowerPoint photos from the Northern Tuli Predator Project in Botswana. wane University who is now a Ph.D. student at UNL. Other students who attended the lecture included Ree Tanasarnpaiboon, a graduate student studying ecology, who learned

about the presentation from an email and enjoyed the lecture.

“I’m interested in going to African and studying abroad,” freshman fisheries and wildlife major Jazmine Castillo said. “Car-

roll was helpful because he gave me the email address of the guy going and told me to contact him after I develop my senior thesis.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Wellness Wednesdays offer service to ‘know your numbers’ Whitney Carlson DN The University Health Center is offering laboratory services on “Wellness Wednesdays” for people wanting to see their wellness profiles.

The wellness profiles will display total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, hemoglobin and glucose levels. The testing will be done the first Wednesday of the month at the health center lab in Room 205 from 8 a.m. until

BLUE LIGHT: from 1 has. In a given situation in which she felt as if she were being pursued, she said would use her cellphone to get help.

“I’m not going to search out a light pole, unless my phone was dead,” Lewandowski said. “If you call 911, at least you will be on the phone with someone.”

Yardley said the average response time for any blue safety pole on campus is between two and three minutes.

Officer Koan Nissen of the UNLPD said students should be aware that their call from one of the poles is going to UNL Police, not the Lincoln Police Department.

“If you press the button, you are not going to get 911,” he said.

Nissen said when the button on one of the poles is pushed, the call first goes to a UNL operator, then transferred to UNL Police. If a crime is more serious, Lincoln Police can be called later.

Lewandowski said she thinks the response time of the blue poles is too long.

“If someone’s pursuing you, you’re not going to ask them to hang out by the pole and wait three minutes for the police to get there,” she said.

One important aspect of the poles, is that no call will go unanswered, Yardley said.

“The fact that we respond to all calls helps in providing safety,” he said.

Lewandowski said she thinks the app might be more trouble than its worth.

“If UNL Police were able to come up with a comprehensive system with 911, the app and UNL Alerts, that would be better,” she said.

It has not yet been decided if UNL will implement the app on campus. In the meantime, Yardley said it can never hurt to use the tried and true method of calling the city police.

“It’s best if students have both UNL Police and 911 programmed into their phones at all times,” he said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

noon. No appointment is necessary, but people should check in at the front desk so they can be entered into the health center’s system.

Wellness Wednesday will be at East Campus on the second Wednesday of the month. The testing will be done in the East Campus Union on the third floor from 8 a.m. until noon.

Wellness Wednesdays are part of the UHC’s wellness initiative and are processed in the UHC laboratory.

“The wellness profile offered on

Wednesday mornings is an easy way to ‘know your numbers,’” health center director Dr. James Guest said.

He said it’s an American Heart Association program used to encourage people to identify health risk factors.

“It’s an opportunity for university students, staff and faculty to come in and have their cholesterol checked without a doctor’s orders,” lab managerKaren Griffin Sieber said.

The health center laboratory provides a full range of diagnostic

tests for the University of NebraskaLincoln. Usually, a doctor’s order is required for the lab work, but Wellness Wednesdays allow anyone to see their own test results.

“It is important for people to know and keep track of their wellness numbers,” Sieber said. She also said that being aware of test results can help people prevent possible health issues.

Cholesterol and lipid levels affect a person’s risk for heart disease, which is the No. 1 killer of Ameri-

cans, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Checking glucose levels is also a great way to watch out for diabetes, Sieber said. The Centers for Disease Control reports that diabetes affects more than 25 million people, which is about 8 percent of the U.S. population.

“The recommended screens are blood glucose for high blood sugar, cholesterol, especially the low density lipoprotein, blood pressure and BMI (body mass index),” Guest said.

“Once you have your values, it’s good to talk with your health care provider so you can understand thoroughly what they mean for you.”

To have the most accurate reading, patients should fast for 10 to 12 hours prior to the testing and only drink water.

The services cost $20 for students and $25 for university staff and faculty. news@ dailynebraskan.com

elate: from 1 I’m an engineer who happens to be a woman. But a lot of people see me as a woman who happens to be an engineer.” jennifer brand

professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering

fective, and know what I needed to do on a broader scale,” she said.

The fellowship’s homework and conferences began in May, and the first session in Philadelphia began in July. She’ll go back this December and March for two more, she said.

The trips to Philadelphia are pretty strict business, she said, and while there, she didn’t get to do much tourism. But the hard work and learning is all worth it, Brand said, and gives the fellows a broader look into their future years from now.

Along with her nurse mother and a father who was a chemical engineer, Brand credited her natural love of science to growing up on a farm near the Ozarks in Missouri with six brothers. She said it wasn’t that unusual that the girl who followed her brothers around and did what they did loved science.

“It’s just what kids were doing,” she said. “It was a way of explaining why the frogs were croaking and why the machine was working like that.”

Brand’s family moved around for her father’s work, mostly west of the Mississippi River, and she completed high school in Southern California. Through it all, her family kept the cattle farm in Missouri, where they made regular visits and where her mother resides today.

“I think growing up on a farm gives you lots of exposure,” she said. “You learn how things work, and you learn how to get things done.”

After graduating high school, she was off to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and worked various positions after graduation, from consulting to work in national laboratories she said. She always stayed consistent with jobs in energy and environment.

“I remember thinking, ‘when I’m a professor, I’m going to have done it,’” she said.

Brand graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, and in 1992 saw the same down-to-earth work ethic in Nebraska that she’d seen on the family farm. Considering that and the fact that her daughter would be close enough to the farm to get to know her grandparents, she chose to move here, she said.

In her tenure, Brand said the number of women in STEM fields has increased, first in the ‘80s and tapering off before rising again.

But Brand doesn’t feel gender is the only thing that should make a professional unique.

“I’m an engineer who happens to be a woman,” she said. “But a lot of people see me as a woman who happens to be an engineer.”

Brand said the STEM fields need diversity, and not just in visual characteristics, like racial and ethnic backgrounds or gender, “but on an intellectual level,” Brand said.

“Just because you didn’t grow up on a farm, doesn’t mean you can’t design tractors eventually,” Brand said, adding that all sorts of people from different backgrounds bring different aspects to the table.

Brand said she hopes no student feels intimidated from entering the STEM field for any reason, and used the example of sewing.

“If you ever see a professional tailor, they’re using spacial thinking,” she said, adding that every student can “bring something to the table.”

“Not all girls think they can do that in high school,” she said. “It’s really, really sad.”

While Brand said the leadership that the fellowship teaches will lead many fellows to formal

leadership, but professional advancement doesn’t have to be the only outcome.

“Leadership does not always come with the title of ‘dean,’” she said.

Brand plans to stay active in her professional societies, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Chemical Society.

The love of science remained in Brand’s family, as five of her six brothers wound up working in the STEM fields. Brand’s love of science was passed down to her daughter, Susanna Webb, who is working on her own Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“Her mother had a rock collection,” Brand said about her daughter with a laugh. “She was doomed!”

Webb said she always had a curiosity when she’d visit her mother’s office, or when she’d hear talk at the dinner table. Her mother explained things to Webb, but there was never pressure to enter the science fields.

“I grew up in a household where science was always an option,” she said. “But if there was an archeology kit I wanted or history book, I could do that too.”

The same came for when Webb was contemplating graduate school, in which her mother gave her own experiences, but never pushed one way or the other, Webb said.

As for the future, Brand said she doesn’t know exactly where her fellowship experience will take her, but she said she would like to be wherever possible to give the next generation that best education, which she said doesn’t always have to be in-classroom work.

“Whatever it takes,” she said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Jennifer Brand is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After applying for ELATE through Drexel University in Philadelphia, Brand was accepted for the 2013-14 ELATE Fellowship last March.

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RHA OKs $1,000 donation for Dance Marathon sponsorship Whitney Carlson DN Jacob Thomas pounded his chest.

“It really hits me right here,” he said through tears. “I’ve done this in high school, and I’m doing it now. It means so much that you’d donate this money to help the kids.”

Thomas, a junior management and international major and recruitment chair for Dance Marathon, was moved to tears when the Residence Hall Association allocated $1,000 to Dance Marathon in its weekly meeting Tuesday night.

Dance Marathon is an event that raises money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The money raised at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln goes to the local Children’s Miracle Hospital, which is the Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha.

“The money that we raise goes to Children’s Hospital in Omaha.

It’s a close place to my heart,” said Sarah Barnes, a senior nutrition science major and internal vice president of Dance Marathon.

“I’m really passionate about it. It brings the UNL community to-

gether and helps kids.”

The original bill stated a donation of $500, but an amendment passed 31-1 in favor of raising the donation to $1,000 to have the RHA sponsorship listed on the back of Dance Marathon T-shirts.

Ethan Wright, a Yard Association for Residential Development senator and sophomore chemical engineering major, seconded an amendment to raise the donation amount to $1,000. By raising the amount, the donation would be a Platinum Level.

“It’s a big event on campus, and it was a blast last year,” Wright said. “Our logo will be seen more if it’s on the back of a T-shirt rather than just being on a banner.”

A second amendment was passed to donate all of the unused RHA funds to Dance Marathon.

The final vote was unanimous, with RHA allocating $1,000 from their charity events budget to help sponsor.

The UNL chapter is one of 150 colleges and high schools nationwide who participate. Last year, the UNL chapter raised about $80,500.

The event is 12 hours long, and participants are entertained by

games, music and dancing. Every hour, a family affected by Dance Marathon takes the stage and tells their story.

“We’re on our feet for 12 hours for kids who can’t,” Barnes said.

This year, the UNL chapter is hoping to get more students involved. It has been mostly a Greek event in the past, but it’s trying to reach out to residence halls.

“I really like the idea that they’re bringing in all of the school, not just the Greek community. It’s a great opportunity for us,” said Emily Nemec, a senator from Cather Hall.

Dance Marathon will be held in the Campus Recreation Center from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Feb. 22, 2014. The time was changed from an overnight schedule in an effort to be more family friendly. The $20 registration fee will cover the cost for T-shirts and food.

The meeting ended with a passionate thank you.

“I came in with the aspiration to hope for $500 and you blew me away,” Thomas said. “I really thank you from the bottom of my heart.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Perlman to push greenspace areas near Memorial Stadium paige osborne dn Tuesday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting was short and sweet, with an appearance by Chancellor Harvey Perlman and two motions passed for revision of faculty syllabuses.

Perlman took to the podium at the Nebraska Union’s auditorium to address the greenspace property, the status of the merging of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s engineering departments and green heating, an initiative to use water from the city to heat the innovation campus.

The green space property has been under some debate by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. Originally part of the regents’ master plan, the property east of Memorial Stadium to the University Health Center was to be repurposed to be a green mall to make the campus more “visually alluring,” said Ken Nickerson, Faculty Senate presidentelect.

Perlman said he wanted to continue working toward making

it a recreational property, instead of the parking lot that stands.

“He’s really focused on enrollment and making an attractive campus is part of it,” Nickerson said. “For tailgaters, they didn’t want any part of that.”

Perlman said the regents had approved the resolution for the Peter Kiewit Institute, located in Omaha, at its Sept. 20 meeting.

The resolution aims to improve the institute’s organization, investments and enrollment. And under the plan, UNO’s Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering and UNL’s Department of Electrical Engineering in Lincoln will merge.

Perlman also discussed the green heating initiative, which is projected to cost $12 million and begins later this month.

“Basically, what we’re doing is contracting with the City of Lincoln so that you can extract the energy, the heat or coolness of the water, that is disposed into Salt Creek and you use it to cool or heat, whatever you need,” Faculty Senate President Rigoberto Guevara said.

Nickerson was impressed with Perlman’s “perl of knowl-

edge” about the heating initiative.

“I’m impressed that the chancellor, as a lawyer, expresses it very nicely. He’s very good at explaining things,” Nickerson said.

Motions to revise the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the Faculty Compensation Advisory Committee syllabuses were voted on and unanimously passed.

The Faculty Senate Executive Committee syllabus took away the requirement that one member of the executive committee should chair the budget committee. It added that one member from the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources must be an extension educator and a member of the committee has to be a non-tenure track faculty member.

The Faculty Compensation Advisory Committee changed the number of faculty members, from four to five, for a non-tenure track member that has been employed at UNL three years successively and who works about three days per week. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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letters to the editor Licoln has just as much to offer as larger cities As much as I admire Kayla Simon’s piece, “UNL’s out-of-state students struggle,” I have to politely disagree. When I moved to Lincoln I was prepared for a culture shock. I must have missed it. I’m East Coast born and bred, raised in Connecticut and attended undergrad in Vermont.

Maybe it’s because I am a graduate student here at UNL that I haven’t been exposed to the freshman boys being insensitive to ethnicity or women.

But I question whether that is a Lincoln, Neb., experience or a large state university experience (see 14 examples of racist parties on Huffpost), maybe even cultural experience.

As for Lincoln-the-springsemester-ghost-town, between Morrill Hall, Mueller Planetarium, the state capitol tour (this may sound lame, but it was freakin’ awesome), the Zoo Bar (OK, I guess you have to be 21–I’ll leave bars and the many wonderful breweries out), Sheldon Museum of Art as well as dozens of other galleries (from painting, to sculpture, photography, performance art, First Fridays), the Lied Center, The Ross, numerous beautiful parks (Pioneer, Antelope, Holmes Lake, Wilderness, just to name a few), the Children’s Zoo, Sunken Gardens, various cute coffee shops, as well as a plethora of cuisine choices (Thai, African, Mexican, Vegetarian Mexican, BBQ [we are in Nebraska], Italian, Vietnamese, Mediterranean, Indian, you get the point), an incredible dairy store, the miles of biking or walking paths and the variety of speakers UNL brings in (Temple Grandin, Barry Lopez) that when my mom came to visit there wasn’t enough time to take her to the places I wanted to – and I didn’t even mention the word football yet.

I agree with Kayla’s dad, Lincoln is like “a simpler time.”

People are friendly; they stop if you need help, they smile when you’re passing by, hold doors, let you cross the road and ask how you are doing for no reason (do I know you?…). I enjoy the communal feeling and spectacle of red on gamedays (which I

Coming from outof-state is always difficult adjustment I am a student at the University of Missouri - Columbia. While many of my Husker friends will probably take offense to this article and consequently my response to it, I appreciate your opinion. After leaving Nebraska, I realized how cult-like the state really is, raising closed-minded individuals who are rarely exposed to any diversity of people, thought or experiences. There’s a lot more to life than just Husker football, and there are a lot of wonder-

think happens at most universities for various sports), and the pride people have for their home state. I’m living here, too, and although it may not be my home state, I want to feel proud that I chose to live here too (and if people were embarrassed rather than proud, then I’m probably in the wrong place).

I haven’t encountered a “cult personality” (or maybe we have different definitions), although some intense die-hard fans, but everyone has been very friendly and genuinely inclusive (while at some point asking me what brought me to Nebraska). Lincoln has small-town charm for a decently sized city. And yes, you can visit feed-lots, test tractors, artificially inseminate a cow, but along with that experience you can go to one of the many farmers markets, natural food stores, attend a community event such as Ignite Lincoln or Conservation Jam, or garden in a Community Crops plot, and that is something I can be proud of.

Compared to Omaha, Lincoln has 152,000 fewer people, meaning less crime, less traffic, and oh – a lower STD rate. So maybe there is more nightlife (and nine more Wal-Marts) in Omaha, as it is a bigger city, but I’ll choose Lincoln any day of the week.

Again, Kayla’s article was respectable in that she pressed some boundaries and made people reflect on other ’s experiences. And maybe that’s what she was trying to do – provoke a student to speak up about their time at UNL (which I also admire). So I did, because I just haven’t had the same out-ofstate experience and don’t agree with some of the broader statements (“And I don’t know if I’ll ever really be part of it. That really goes for all students who aren’t from Nebraska”). Albeit, I can agree with her opinion that Runzas are just expensive Hot Pockets – but hey, Hot Pockets are delicious and it’s a bonus when you don’t have to push the buttons on the microwave.

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ful places to live outside of area codes 308 and 402. As an out-ofstate student, I can 100 percent back up many of the points you made. It is extremely difficult to move somewhere where you know NO ONE and NOTHING, literally starting from scratch, and I can understand her struggle to fit into a culture that is simply not her. So kudos to you, Kayla, for stepping outside your childhood box to expand your life experiences, for I truly believe life starts outside your comfort zone.

P.S., I never really liked Runzas myself.

Maggie Konz

Columbia, MO

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ollege is probably one of the most expensive purchases you will ever make. As a student, you probably have some kind of financing to pay tuition and other expenses that come from the university or other sources. When it comes to the university awarding aid, there is a distinct divide between merit-based and need-based aid. The politics of allocation shouldn’t seek to further this divide. Instead, resources and efforts should be made to expand the pool of aid so that it can be offered to more students.

Merit-based aid is usually given to academically talented students in the form of a scholarship. Need-based aid is for students who demonstrate financial need based on personal or familial circumstances. Recently, universities have been trending toward offering more merit-based aid to deserving students while leaving those in financial distress out to dry. This preference generates more revenue.

A university can take an amount of money and divide it among several outstanding students or take that same amount and give it to one financially needy student. The former is called “financial leveraging.” While private universities have been using it for years, public universities are also starting to choose to disperse more merit-based aid in this way. Thus lowincome students who want to go to college are even being neglected by public institutions, which are supposed to be more affordable and accessible to them.

Catherine Rampell of The New York Times recently wrote of this disturbing trend, claiming that the rich are given a “freebie” while less wealthier families are left out to dry. She points out that students deserving of meritbased aid often come from families who are wealthy or not as financially needy. So the university expects that those students will give preference to that school and the families will make up the difference in tuition. But if the university gave a big chunk to one student who was in financial need, then it would potentially lose that other group of students who

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have already shown strong academic promise.

Allocating financial aid in this way is part revenue and part academic clout.

As a student, I am fortunate enough to receive merit-based aid to attend this university. That aid was generous enough that it kept me in-state. Offers from other private schools and out-of-state universities didn’t even come close.

Without that aid, I wouldn’t be at this school. I worked hard in high school to take difficult classes and to do well in them. I continue to work hard every day as a college student. To be eligible for that aid every year, I’m expected to remain a full-time student and maintain a 3.5 GPA. I’m lucky that I was able to focus on school and that I don’t have to work full time now as a student. Even so, those privileges have been earned. Academic work is one of my strengths as a human being and I should be encouraged to pursue my talents. However, college is a national resource that shouldn’t be exclusive to the wealthy or the talented.

Rampell suggests a picture of one large pie that must be divided between need-based and merit-based aid. Instead of redistributing shares, the entire pie needs to be expanded.

Catherine B. Hill, president of Vassar College, believes that in order to improve access to low-income students, university institutions need incentives to offer more financial aid.

Neither private nor public universities can be expected to simply generate that aid without making some other significant sacrifices.

The federal government needs to allocate

more dollars to higher education and then properly use those funds to improve access for low-income students. These opportunities shouldn’t come at the expense of those who have worked hard to earn their merit-based aid.

Federal dollars and policies also need to be directed toward K-12 education so that students are well-prepared to enter college. This includes offering a full curriculum and teaching students the proper skills to achieve at a high academic level and to face the realities of college and adult life. They should know how to be problem solvers and independent thinkers. They need access to good teachers and knowledgeable advisers. High schools need sufficient resources to inform students of college options and the financial aid process. A lack of these resources can keep a student from certain financial opportunities even if they are otherwise academically qualified. If a school is ill-equipped to help its students go to college or if the students come from families who are also ignorant of the process, they may never have knowledge or access to financial aid possibilities at all.

Rampell finds that if institutions can invest in low-income, well-performing students, they can elevate the overall economy of the state.

While this is true, those of high academic caliber should still be rewarded. Good students are not necessarily from exceptionally wealthy families. Instead of creating a deep political divide, universities and the federal government ought to work together to be able to offer more aid to those who are in financial need. The integrity of the merit-based program needs to be maintained to continue to encourage young students to work hard. The need-based programs need to be evaluated and expanded so that more students have the opportunity to go to college. We need to fight for a bigger pie for everyone, not just for our own bigger share.

Jane Seu is a senior political science major. Follow her on Twitter @jane_seu. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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opping out at $180,797,782, the direct cost of the Pinnacle Bank Arena is more than the GDP of a small island nation. The project is part of an accelerating trend of building more and more stadiums with hopes to stimulate local economies with Americans’ seemingly insatiable appetite for amusement. Many cities have rushed to build new entertainment venues under the same pretexts as Lincoln, but few have seen the promised returns. Despite intelligent measures taken by the city to soften the risk of failure, the Pinnacle Bank Arena will likely join the underwhelming ranks of empty stadiums soon enough.

The conventional theory behind the stadium-building effort says that it will create jobs and bring cash flow into the city as spectators from far and wide converge upon Lincoln to cheer for our volleyball team or jam out at a Bon Jovi concert.

Both of these claims are true, but once the initial fanfare fades away, the events become too expensive, and the Jay Zs and Chers begin to opt for Omaha, what will be left?

This chain of events isn’t uncommon, especially for cities of comparable size and location. Victor Matheson, an economist at Holy Cross University who studies sports stadiums, has a simple tool for determining the true returns of building a sports stadium, “Take whatever number the sports promoter says, take it and move the decimal one place to the left. Divide it by ten, and that’s a pretty good estimate of the actual economic impact.”

The official economic analysis made by Leib Advisors in May 2009 predicts that the $340 million West Haymarket development project will bring in $260 million annually, as well as create 7,800 construction jobs and 1,200 permanent jobs. The arena is the centerpiece of the effort, which also includes hotels, a community plaza, retail and office space and upscale residential units.

All of this development sounds like it ought to jump-start the economy, but not all development is made equal. Dollar-for-dollar, entertainment facilities lack the productive capacity of other infrastructure projects.

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Entertainment activities are “substitutable goods,” just as Coke and Pepsi are substitutable goods. The happiness that people experience from their expenditures on “X” number of movie tickets is equal to “Y” concerts. Because consumers have a fixed entertainment budget, they will end up choosing one or the other. This means that a devoted Husker fan will likely forgo his or her weekly trip to the movies if he or she is buying tickets to watch volleyball every weekend. Leisure, unlike many sectors of the economy, is a zero-sum game.

Matheson goes on to say that “building a new arena doesn’t seem to have any effect on a city’s employment, per capita income, hotel occupancy rates (or) taxable sales.” Much of this is rooted in the fact that, on average, 80 percent of ticket sales come from within the local community, according to Richard Powers, business lecturer at the University of Toronto.

He continues in saying that “while local businesses may see an increase in sales around the stadium, it’s sales and money that would have been spent in other parts of the community, for the most part… so they’re just redirecting it into a certain area.”

This is especially problematic for Lincoln with its proximity to Omaha, a city that is generally more interesting in every way compared to Nebraska’s relatively dull capital. Why would an Omahan spend his or her money in Lincoln when home is only an hour away? If the arena events are anything like the football games at Memorial Stadium, we will likely see a big chunk of that other 20 percent of ticket sales leaving a few minutes before the end of the fourth quarter so they can be the first on

I-80 to get out of the city.

In some respects, however, the arena won’t be as bad as most other cities’ experiments with stadium building. Often building arenas comes at the expense of other public expenditures, like infrastructure and public-sector jobs, creating a negative drag on the long-term economy. Wisely, Lincoln decided to form a separate government entity, known as a joint public agency, to keep budgeting transparent and to “protect other city budgets from being raided if there’s a cash crunch,” according to Dan Marvin, the city’s arena coordinator.

Most of the funding for the stadium comes from taxes on those who spend money at the stadium, making it partially self-financed.

More than 60 percent comes from taxes on restaurants, bars, hotels, parking and rental cars.

The bulk of those taxes are concentrated in activities around the arena, making spending one’s limited leisure money in Lincoln, and especially the Haymarket, less desirable. The consumer demands the most leisure for his or her dollar, and there will always be ample opportunities to find that outside of the Haymarket.

When they do start to leave, and the entertainment tax revenues start to slip below debt payment obligations, the JPA will first increase ticket surcharges, (making tickets more expensive) which will likely only exacerbate the problem further. If that doesn’t work, they will start to tax property owners in Lincoln.

Suddenly, Lincolnites will find themselves shouldering payments for entertainment that is too expensive for them to enjoy.

Greg Mankiw, professor and chairman of the economics department at Harvard University, writes in his famous introductory economics textbook that 85 percent of economists believe that governments should stop subsidies for sports franchises. The consensus is that building stadiums is never an efficient use of funds or political capital. Now that the arena is finally complete, there is little left that we can do but hope that our little Lincoln turns out differently.

Shariq Khan is a sophomore biochemistry major. Reach him at opinion@dailynebraskan.com.

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Brothers Nate and Lucas Gingery fry a batch of cake doughnuts Monday morning at The Doughnut Hole, their newly opened doughnut shop. The shop, located in the Haymarket, offers gourmet doughnuts, baked goods and fresh coffee.

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“I didn’t really know how to go about doing it, so I The two brothers, and former models, are started at the farmers market, and that went nearly ready for the opening of really well,” Nate said. “The farmers market their new gourmet doughnut and Bottom line: has been awesome for us. Then we started coffee store, The Doughnut Hole. A store that for a location, and ultimately we were they feel will be the first of its kind for both we’re using looking approached about this space, and everything Lincoln and the greater Nebraska area. just kind of fell into place.”

After living in and traveling to larger cities the best quality Despite loving the culture of gourmet where gourmet bakeries and coffee shops are stuff we can get baked goods, the brothers entered the doughmore prominent, the duo found their inspiranut business with no previous culinary expetion to begin baking. our hands on.” rience. The two started off with a single small “I moved to New York a few years ago for Lucas Gingery fryer at home and began testing recipes to see modeling, and I was living in Brooklyn, but work was tough to come by,” Nate said. “So co-owner of the doughnut hole what worked, Lucas said.

“There was a lot of trial and error,” Nate I ended up coming home. While I was there, said. “There were a lot of bad doughnuts I kind of fell in love with the coffee culture, made, but eventually, just like anything else, if you practice bakery culture up there and wanted to do something here.” it enough, you’re going to know what’s wrong and just fine Though The Doughnut Hole store in Lincoln’s new shoptune the product. We practiced for about a year before movping area, The Railyard, is brand new, the brothers have been

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Gabor Racz (left) and Scott Gardner examine a parasite in Nebraska Hall, which hosts the secondlargest parasite collection in the Western Hemisphere. The first largest is a federally funded collection in Beltsville, Md. resources for its own benefit of passing on the genes for survival.

With such a broad spectrum of creatures and environments to consider, the Manter Lab’s research reaches many different parts of the world. Research has taken place in countries like Bolivia and Mongolia, specifically for the Mongolian Vertebrate Parasite Project. Another project, explained by curator and professor of Parasitology Scott Gardener, involves the study of a species of tapeworm known as echinococcus.

Francisco Tiago Melo, a student who earned a grant from Harvard University to study fish parasites known as diplectanum, said that parasites not only provide data for future generations on how animals and parasites function, but also allow the present a larger understanding on the ecology of biological life.

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The Gingery brothers said they also plan on using as many local ingredients as possible for their doughnuts and want to use the best ingredients.

“Bottom line: we’re using the best quality stuff we can get our hands on,” Lucas said.

The Doughnut Hole wants to make a name for itself in terms of coffee as well.

John Ferguson, the former owner of Cultiva, has traveled around the world to work with and try various types of coffee. Ferguson, who moved back to Lincoln after living and working with coffee in Minneapolis for over a year, will be taking over the coffee side of The Doughnut Hole.

“Honestly, at this point, I think our coffee product is more unique than our doughnuts,” Nate said. “We’re working with John, and he’s got an idea on what we should do with coffee.

We’re not taking any shortcuts.”

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UNL holds 2nd-largest parasite lab

Hearing the term “parasite,” one might feel a cold shudder run down his or her spine. Images of bloated ticks or bot fly eggs in the side of his or her head arise, alienlike creatures that roam Earth mostly unnoticed.

But for the crew at the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology in UNL’s Nebraska Hall, a life crawling with parasites is the norm.

The Manter Laboratory of Parasitology was founded in 1971 as part of the UNL State Museum. It stands as one of the largest parasite collections in the Western Hemisphere, just shy of the U.S. National Parasite Collection in Beltsville, Md. Within the laboratory, students use an archive of vials, slides, books and scientific articles to study the various specimens of parasites that are involved with numerous categories of other creatures. Parasitic organisms, according to the laboratory’s collection manager Gabor Racz, interact with various departments of study.

“Parasitism is more of an ecological term,” Racz said. “It describes how two species interact: a host and a parasite. It involves a parasite stealing resources from a host, and this is usually not fatal.”

Racz further elaborated that parasitology can range from nematodes, flatworms and thorny-headed worms to botanical parasites and protozoans. Even the cuckoo bird is considered a brood parasite, as it lays its eggs in a different species of bird’s nest so that the bird will unintentionally raise the cuckoo egg and young, thus stealing the bird’s

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East Campus invites students to Husker Hunt posts with different contests at each spot.

As part of Ag “It’s a scavenger hunt, Amazing Race kind of style on East Olypmics, campus Campus,” Gabel said. hosts scavenger hunt The teams start on the mall and race to the first spot where for students to the winner of the race gets to learn, explore choose their clue first. Each clue will send contestants to different places on campus where the team has to complete a certain task beStaff Report fore they receive their next clue DN and move on to the next station.

“At one of the places we have Last year students milked an eleca sundae-eating contest, so they tric cow, flipped tires and ate pie have to eat a sundae to move at the Ag Olympics on the East on,” she said. “And in one place Campus mall. we will have a tire-flipping place, This year, students are invited where they have to flip a tire so back to compete in far to complete the renovated Husker station.”

“It’s a Hunt. The event The clues can scavenger has been modified be solved in any and merged into hunt, Amazing order, so the routes a scavenger hunt, will not be all the which will cover Race kind of style same for all parthe entire campus, on East Campus.” ticipating teams, giving all students increasing the coma chance to expetitive edge of the abbie gagel plore and get to event coordinator event. know East Campus Prizes, such as through a fun and a night stay at the competitive team-based contest.

Courtyard Marriott and giftcards Compared to last year ’s Ag to Arby’s and the University Olympics, the Husker Hunt Bookstore, will be awarded to the should be more widespread, said winning teams. A grill-out will Abbie Gagel, event coordinator follow the race with free food for and Student Involvement mem- all contestants. ber,“ so we could try to get more Student Involvement on East of the East Campus involved inCampus has organized the event, stead of just having it here on the with help from other students mall.” from the hospitality and tourism This way, students who do not department. visit the East Campus frequently, “The (students from) Ador at all, can become familiar with vanced Events Class and Intro to the area, as well as many of the Events all have been giving ideas buildings and facilities available and kind of helping out putting to University of Nebraska-Linon this event,” Gabel said. coln students, she said.

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TV show helps son accept dad’s illness Jake greve

On Sunday, the day that marked the end of the hit TV series “Breaking Bad,” I was looking for a ride back to Lincoln from Omaha.

I go back to the city that I grew up in nearly every weekend to visit friends and relax. I don’t have a car here in Lincoln, so consequently, I have to get a ride back to Lincoln every Sunday night. This weekend I was getting a ride back from my father at 9 p.m. I arrived at my parents’ house at the set time of departure and told my mother that I was ready to head back. She told me to go to my father’s room and ask him if he still felt he was able to drive me.

My father, Bill Greve, is a 53-yearold cancer survivor. In 2009 he was diagnosed with stage-four cancer of the esophagus. He underwent harsh treatments, yet he was able to overcome his battle with the disease. Though he is cancer-free now, he also struggles with the scars that were left from his treatments. The radiation that he had to receive destroyed the tissue on the inside of his esophagus, leaving him unable to swallow any kind of food, so he must use a feeding tube for nourishment. He also was left weaker than he had been before. Once a man who would be working before sunrise and not coming home from work until late at night, he now finds himself in his bed for a long time during the day because he doesn’t feel well enough to get out of bed.

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his throat. These are reasons why my father has a room of his own: to be left alone to rest.

I went into my father’s separate bedroom and asked if he was able to drive. He told me that he wanted to finish watching the show that was on, and that he was still up for taking me back to Lincoln. I left the room, put all that I needed in the car and waited in our kitchen for his show to finish. I saw Bryan Cranston on his TV screen as I had been in his room, so I knew that he must have been watching “Breaking Bad,” just like everyone else I know.

A minute more went by and I saw my mother headed toward my father’s room, presumably to tell him to hurry up and take me. I told her not to force him to stop watching the show, seeing as it was the last episode. She agreed not to take him away from the show and went back to her room. As I stood there in my kitchen, it occurred to me that my father had been watching “Breaking Bad” since it first aired back in 2008. I thought that was cool — most of the people I know only started watching it on Netflix after it had been hyped up by the media. This thought made me happy that he was able to finish watching the episode.

I continued to think more about how cool it is that he has seen every episode when they first played on AMC, and then I realized something else: my father had been watching the show before, during and after his fight with cancer.

When he was diagnosed with cancer, I was just graduating the eighth grade. From the moment my parents sat my younger sister and me down to break the news to us, I was an unchanged person. I didn’t cope with the pain of my father’s illness, I just went on with my life pretending as if it never happened.

Even up until this point, over four years later, after he had been cured, and after an entire television series

came and went, I had never truly recognized that my father had struggled with cancer all alone in his room.

As the clock read 9:05 p.m., my father was out of his room and ready to leave, so we started our drive back to Lincoln.

While I was driving, I asked if he had been watching “Breaking Bad.” He told me that he had been. I told him how I made sure that my mother didn’t force him to leave before the show’s end, seeing as how he has been watching it for so long. He laughed and thanked me, and said that he had been watching the show since before his diagnosis. I asked him if Walt’s cancer caused him to form an emotional connection to the show, being diagnosed during the series. He said that he hadn’t thought of it that way before, but that he did feel that it had played a part in why he was so invested in the show.

My father’s confirmation to the question made me realize that shows like “Breaking Bad” aren’t only made to entertain the masses, but also intended for the emotional connections that can be formed with individuals like my father who are facing hardships that not many others would understand.

My father’s answer also made me realize something else about longrunning programs like “Breaking Bad.” I was able to see that programs like this, that have been around for a long period of time, serve as a medium for people from all walks of life to be able to relate to one another and have a common ground to discuss issues that they might not normally talk about with each other. For me, this was the issue of my father’s cancer.

Through the simple topic of a television show, I was able to accept that it happened and talk with my father about his cancer for the first time, more than four years after the fact.

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Halloween costumes to start working on now

A bird costume containing a feather from every single type of bird. That’s a lot of birds, dude. You should make a plan for that and also learn how to catch birds.

A to-scale Earth costume. The globe is pretty big.

Like, you might have to go to a few craft stores to get that much paper mache.

A volcano. Allow millions of years of pressure and high temperatures to turn your mantle into magma.

Erupt on Halloween and impress everyone.

A Gimme 5 piece. These things take forever to write, so I assume it’d take even longer to make a costume representing one.

Bo Pelini. You can start working on the costume now and have it leak to DeadSpin two years from now, just in time to go trick-or-treating.

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‘Drug War’ deserves distinction as thriller erage exposition.

“Drug War” succeeds because it never allows its audience to put a finger on just exactly who is the predator and who is the prey at any particular moment. The film becomes less about crime and justice and more about a lethal dance between two equally destructive forces: determination and desperation. Sun and Koo capture this struggle brilliantly through their increasingly agitated and muddled portrayals. As each man reaches the limit of what he is willing to do and it becomes clear that both cannot walk away, “Drug War” pushes itself a powerful step further by asking if either can.

Lighting is used extensively throughout the film to parallel the ever-thickening plot. As Zhang forces Timmy to take him deeper and deeper undercover and the line between facade and reality become increasingly blurred the lighting grows darker and more moody. This subtle trick is brought full circle when all of the acts are finally dropped and the figurative “drug war” becomes quite literal in the clarity of broad daylight.

“Drug War” is the kind of rare film that manages to recover from a lackluster start and build to become a marvel. It’s the kind of film that makes you forget you’re reading subtitles because of its level of sustained, mounting tension to the last wrenching frame. It’s the kind of film born when smart directing of a beguiling script meets com-

pletely engaged acting.

In short, it’s the kind of film that actually earns the title of its genre: thriller.

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An intoxicated top-level drug lord, Timmy (Louis Koo), crashes through a market and is arrested once he is taken to the hospital by a detective, Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei). What follows is an absolutely riveting, and often bitter, game of cat and mouse between the two.

After the film’s initial action, it seems to fall into a familiar niche.

Detectives, drug dealers, betrayals and flashy chases dominate the screen, all accompanied by a bad, electronic, daytime-television score and similarly toned acting.

As soon as Zhang forces Timmy to help him go undercover to arrest Timmy’s associates, however, the score takes a backseat and the cast wakes up. The script saves the film by layering plot element upon plot element quickly and breaks through from the misleadingly av-

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Rappers Flynt Flossy and Yung Humma, made famous by their 2010 “Lemme Smang It” video, just released a new song and video, entitled “Naughty Farmer.” Let‘s walk through this.

0:00- Open on a scene of a farm as a synthesized drum beat plays in the background. The farm is simply a picture of a landscape with cutout animals moving up and down on it, an editing feat most likely accomplished with the use of paint and Windows Movie Maker.

0:11- The viewer sees Flynt Flossy with his signature bushy goatee and sunglasses, but now wearing baggy overalls and a plaid shirt, attempting to look as thug as possible in such attire.

0:15- Flynt Flossy opens his hands to show the camera sunflower seeds that are somehow glowing a dim blue, to give the illusion they are magical or were exposed to gamma rays at some point.

0:18- Flynt flossy throws the seeds onto the ground, and out pops beautiful women in seductive cowgirl wear.

0:28- There’s a brief interlude of a still lion laying casually as an eagle flies in the sky behind it (Note: the eagle it not actually flying, a picture of an eagle is being dragged across the screen).

0:29- Flynt returns, singing the chorus, “Call me naughty farmer/I grow str8 freaks,” as he dances in front of a cartoonish green screen image.

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courtesy photo 0:51- Well into the chorus, the video shows Flynt seducing a seemingly proper girl to “bang on the refrigerator.” It turns out the girl is not at all proper, but actually a str8 freak.

1:22- We get a clever allusion to the nursery rhyme “Old Macdonald,” where Flynt says “Old MacFlossy is a freak so E-I-E-I-OOOO,” which then leads into the chorus.

1:25-2:58- The dancing and singing continues as Flynt Flossy continues to describe how he both grows str8 freaks and coaxes them out of their shell.

2:59- Yung Humma finally makes his appearance with his long hair braided into two pigtails.

In his high but smooth voice, he begins to tell the story of him and this freak as a woman poses Captain Morgan-style beside him, using his

knee as the barrel.

3:27- Suddenly there are three Young Hummas, mostly transparent, in blue, purple and green. They disappear as quickly as they came.

3:40- There is a final recap of the chorus, this time with two other men dancing alongside Flynt Flossy. The seemingly proper girl proves her freakiness by tearing Flynt Flossy’s shirt off and pushing him to the ground.

4:37- The song closes with more dancing, more slow grinding and more women. It closes on Flynt Flossy crouching down as six women (in reality there are three but they were duplicated in editing) dance promiscuously behind him. The str8 freaks crop has bloomed, and it is time for harvest. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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I think, basically, what we’re trying to do is offer the best from the best roasters we can find. I think it engages the community as well because it’s always something fresh and something new.”

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coffee includes using top-of-theline equipment and rotating coffee roasters. They hope to constantly get the best batch of coffee from various roasters, something that they will conduct through blindtaste tests.

“I felt that (The Doughnut Hole) could really be a way to emphasize that third-wave of coffee culture,” Ferguson said. “As far as the rotating roasters go, it’s going to be a new concept for Nebraska pretty much. I think, basically, what we’re trying to do is offer the best from the best roasters we can find. I think it engages the community as well because it’s always something fresh and something new.”

It was after a message exchange on Facebook that Ferguson decided to join The Doughnut Hole’s team.

The brothers’ drive was clear and he saw an opportunity to try something unique in Lincoln, Lucas said.

“I think that’s why I’m doing it, because the mindset is there,” Ferguson said. “It’s obvious. Their food background and the whole doughnut thing, put those two together. I just know that I tried one of their doughnuts and it was the best doughnut I’ve ever had. So I thought it would be great to pair that with some of the best coffee I’ve ever tasted.”

Lucas said in addition to serving gourmet product, he hopes The Doughnut Hole will also create a comforting vibe for its customers.

One that may remind them of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.

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Nate and Lucas Gingery, the owners of The Doughnut Hole, cut out a batch of doughnuts on Monday morning. After traveling across the country sampling different types of doughnuts, the brothers developed their own signature styles and flavors.

“A lot of people love our logo,” Lucas said. “It was inspired by ‘Lord of the Rings,’ kind of The Shire. That was kind of our main

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nized by students, for students, and serves an opportunity to get more involved and take an active break from studying.

“It’s right before the Homecoming concert, so it’s good for students to come early and get a spot for that, but also see what East Campus is all about.” Gabel said.

Following the race and the presentation of prizes is the Homecoming Concert, featuring country musician Craig Morgan.

The concert will start at 8 p.m., and is free for all UNL staff and students, and a DJ will be on location during the grill-out until the concert starts.

Registration closed last Friday, and by now all registered teams have received a packet explaining the different contests.

This gives every team a chance to strategize before the actual event and plan their tactics for the different contests.

By now the date to sign up for the Husker Hunt has passed, but even if you forgot to register your team, there is still a chance to come out, watch the festivities and cheer your favorite team on. The race will take place on Thursday and will start on the East Campus mall at 4 p.m. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Thoughts on Apple’s new operating system, iOS7

“It’s really girly. That’s what everyone has been tweeting, even celebrities. I like the photos that come up in group texts now, but that’s about it. Siri’s voice changed, too, and that’s weird.”

“It looks like an Android. I don’t like it, but I’m getting used to it, I guess. It’s a lot more complicated to me. And Siri isn’t taking too many requests these days.”

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“Once you understand the lifecycle of a parasite, you understand a little about the environment, how things are connected, and the relationship between the parasite

“I’m loving it. The design is more beautiful. I prefer it to iOS 6.

I think it’s crazy that we have to update so much, though. They’re always changing just little things. I don’t know why it matters that much to people.”

“I like it. It wastes the battery, but it’s alright.

A lot of people say it’s a lot like an Android, but I don’t really care.

It’s pretty. I don’t even remember what it looked like before.”

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“I think it’s very good.

It’s convenient to open and close apps.

However, I bought my phone in China, and it changed the keyboard setup.”

“It’s pretty cool. It’s slower, but for a higher aesthetic value. I’m cool with that. I really like the flashlight feature.

People just need to embrace change.”

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Men’s doubles advance to Wednesday at ITA Huskers doubles team to return for next round of ITA All-American Tournament Sydny Boyd DN Tuesday marked the fourth day of the ITA All-American Championships at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla.

Out of the four men that were sent from the Huskers’ tennis program, one doubles team remains in the competition after Tuesday. Senior Tom Blackwell and sophomore Marc Herrmann will hit the court early Wednesday morning. Blackwell and Herrmann beat DePaul’s Filip Dzanko and David Vieyra earning big points on the scoreboard and in coach Kerry McDermott’s eyes as well.

“Marc and Tom played very well today,” McDermott said. “They played freely and they play similar tennis, which gets them big points. They just seemed to click today at critical times and it paid off.”

“I’m really excited for me and Marc,” Blackwell said. “We have a good shot tomorrow to get a win in the qualifying round.

We’re going to go out there and work as hard as we can and win as many points as we can.”

Playing doubles in the ITA All-American Championships is not an easy task with such stiff competition and both men are fully aware.

“Tom and I play the same type of tennis,” Herrmann said.

“It’s tough. The other players come right up to the net and they have to make a big effort to make a point against us. It is always tough at All-American. We are playing the best of the best, but we can do it.”

Teammate sophomore Dusty Boyer lost his singles and doubles matches on Tuesday, but is confident that his teammates will win on Wednesday.

“It’s hard to know what the doubles teams are like because most of them have never played before,” Boyer said. “But as long as they are strong and play smart like they did today, they’ll be fine.”

After Boyer ’s marathon of tennis matches Monday, he lost on Tuesday in the second qualifying round to East Carolina’s Joran Vliegen 7-6, 7-5.

“I played a lot of matches and a lot of different people,” Boyer said. “I played people that had a totally different game than I do.

It was interesting to change my game according to whom I was playing. It taught me a lot. I feel stronger and my physical and mental conditioning paid off. To make it this far is pretty good.”

Boyer played seven matches total while competing during the ITA All-American Championships and the combination of endurance, work ethic and pure

skill carried him throughout the weekend.

“Dusty played some amazing tennis this tournament,” McDermott said. “I feel like he made a big jump in his game this week while still staying positive. Every match is different and there will always be some ups and downs. He controlled his attitude and came out and will continue to improve.”

Looking toward Wednesday’s doubles matches, McDermott is looking for a strong sense of team camaraderie and a combination of all of their skills this far in the tournament, he said.

“Marc made a big jump this week and realizes that he needs to continue to believe in his game,” McDermott said. “He will only get better and he needs to take that out onto the court with him.”

Blackwell has been hard on himself since he lost during his singles match after what McDermott called a “rough go” but is mentally prepared and ready to take on the doubles match, he said.

“I’m ready,” Blackwell said.

“I’m going to fight and work hard. They are going to have to earn every point against us.”

If Blackwell and Herrmann win Wednesday’s doubles match, they will move onto the fourth round of qualifying doubles.

“I’m looking forward to the doubles match,” McDermott said. “I think they’ll surprise us.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

the first time and got to know her.

“Just seeing her passion for Nebraska at these camps was amazing,” said Rowan. “I’m sure that was the biggest reason why (head swim coach) Pablo (Morales) wanted to make her a Husker, not to mention the fact that she is a very talented swimmer. Her energy and passion for Nebraska was just undeniable.”

Besides attending Husker camps, Pons swam for club teams in her hometown in South Dakota before moving to Cedar Falls, Iowa during her junior year where she swam for a high school team for the first time. According to Pons, this was the stepping stone to a successful college career.

“Moving to Iowa was great because I was able to get the high school experience,” Pons said.

“There is that team unity atmosphere in high school swimming that I was missing in South Dakota.”

That team aspect of swimming is what drove Pons to attend UNL, where she now double majors in English and geology. She loved the fact that in such an individual sport, the Huskers manage to make it a team affair, she said.

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When I was 3, my mom would fill those small plastic pools with water during the summertime and I would just play all day.”

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year at the invitational meet in Kansas when we had dinner at one of the girl’s houses,” Pons said. “We were just together as a team swapping old stories. It was just one of those moments where I was so proud to be a Husker.”

So far during her swimming career as a Husker, Pons has made her footprint in the distance events.

In the 2012-13 season alone, she set a personal-best time of 10:06.52 in the 1,000-yard freestyle against San Diego State. She also won the 1,650yard freestyle at the Kansas Classic with a meet record of 16:48.88.

“I’m a distance swimmer,” said Pons who set her career-best time at the Big Ten Championships in the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 16:34.75. “When it comes to really long free-style sets, the races that

feel like forever but are really only 45 minutes to an hour, I would say that’s my strength.”

Between her sophomore and junior year, Pons made her Olympic-trial debut in Omaha for the 400-yard freestyle. Now as a senior and co-captain at Nebraska, Pons is looking to finish her last season strong, and maybe even make it all the way to the NCAA championships, she said.

“Because of the nature of swimming, there isn’t much beyond college,” Pons said. “To make NCAAs would be the one thing that I haven’t gotten to explore. It would be great for our team to get a whole bunch of people to go to NCAAs and I’m hoping that I’m one of them.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

“I knew that there’s a girl on the team that was a little ahead of me at Woody Greeno and I wanted to try to stick with her at the beginning,” Lush said. “Both of us got out a little faster than expected. I got to the 1K mark and I was shocked at my pace, but I figured I was already out there so I needed to keep going.”

She kept gaining spots on the team, and before she knew it, she finished the race with a time of 23:44 – a personal record by about 30 seconds.

“It was a nice surprise to see that from Megan,” Harris said. “It was her second race ever and she placed fifth on the team.”

Lush is happy with her performance at the meet and is focusing on spending these next three weeks training as hard as she can since there is no meet. She’s taking the season week by week, meet by meet, just trying to do as well or better than she did at her previous race.

“It’s nice for me to have a team again to give me that motivation,” Lush said. “I’m surrounded by a group of people who do every workout with me and every race with me; people who understand running. I missed that.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

runner: from 10 from running 15 to 25 miles per week on her own to running 50 to 60 miles per week with the team.

It came with a lot more structure, which Lush liked, and a lot more fatigue, which took some getting used to, she said.

Lush’s first race on the Nebraska cross country team was the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational two weekends ago. In that race, she placed 57th with a time of 24:19.6 in the women’s 6K. Her race ranked her eighth on the team.

Going into last weekend’s race at the University of Minnesota, Lush was hoping to improve her performance, she said.

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Purdue coach Darrell Hazell Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald Wisconsin coach Gary Anderson

On receiver Jared Abbrederis’ ability to draw separation from defenders: “Whether it’s zone coverage, man coverage, a contested football, he’s unbelievable. He’s a well-rounded, well-schooled, very, very smart wide receiver who is a big part of our offense and hopefully that continues.”

On focuses during bye week: “We look for a lot of things. We look to get ourselves as healthy as possible, we look to keep the kids crisp and fresh playing throughout the year and we also like to spend a lot of time with our young kids throughout the bye week. So that’s kind of how we like to split it up.”

On the expectations against Ohio State: “I don’t know, we’re in the bunker. We’re so focused on what we need to do. I think our guys are just excited to get the chance to play the game they love to play and is why they came to this school is be apart of Big Ten football.”

On his mindset for his team: “Any time you get into these types of challenges it put a lot of stress on what you’re trying to accomplish on a play by play basis. So we are really focused on the here and now. We had a great workout this morning and hopefully we’ll continue to do that and just keep getting one day better as we keep getting ready for the challenge.”

On upcoming bye week: “This is a good time for us to have a bye this week.

We are a lot of things that we need to reevaluate, assess and make sure we’re making improvements in all those areas, and that’s what we’re looking to do this week.”

On mindset on quarterback situation: “We’re going to talk to the quarterbacks here in the next 45 minutes or so and let those guys know where they stand. I thought Danny (Etling) came in and did a good job and we’ll find out where we’re going to go with this thing in the next half an hour or 45 minutes or so.”

Michigan coach Brady Hoke

On Minnesota’s run game: “We go into every game wanting to stop the run and I think those numbers are probably skewed to some degree. But they do such a good job at the point of attack running the football with their power play and their combination blocks and the angles they get you on. It’s going to be a big test for us.”

On changes to offensive line: “We haven’t made any decisions yet, so tonight will be good work day for us and a great competition and evaluation time.”

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer Penn State coach Bill O’Brien Illinois coach Tim Beckman

On quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase: “The opportunity for Nathan to be healthy is a first and foremost. He got dinged up last year in the first football game so he was never fully 100 percent but now you see a Nathan Scheelhaase that’s 100 percent. I think that has to do with the offense coach Cubit has brought in here and coaching staff have done a great job making it player friendly and enables Nathan to be successful with the things we’re doing.”

On quarterback competition for 2014: “It’s going to be a great one but that’s in the future and that’s down the road here, and we’re worried about Nebraska. But heck, as a football coach, as a head football coach, I’m extremely excited.”

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini

On Illinois offense changes: “They look like they’re being real efficient. Their quarterback is playing well. I think they’ve upgraded talent-wise. I think they have good talent, good skill. I think all the pieces are in place to move forward, and I think they’re playing good football right now.”

On balancing recruiting over bye week: “It leans a little bit more toward working on ourselves and getting better as a football team, but you know we took some time in there to do some recruiting, which I think you have to do. There’s a balance. It’s always tailored toward improving as a football team and what you have to do right now.”

On Indiana quarterback Nate Sudfeld: “He’s a very, very accurate quarterback. You can tell he’s a smart guy, competitive guy. You know some of those throws that you have to make in that offense, require a lot of accuracy; the ability to throw the ball to certain areas that aren’t always ‘normal’ areas to throw.”

On Indiana running back Tevin Coleman: “I think we’re focused on the whole package here at Penn State. They have, to me; a very diverse offense that can run the ball and that can also throw the ball equally well. I think what that young man has added is another space player, another guy that can go in there and make people miss and just has a really good knack for finding the open window and getting in there.”

On differences between Northwestern’s defense and Wisconsin’s defense: “It’s very different. Coverage scheme’s not much different. Very different up front. Very sound. It was a lot like Wisconsin a year ago when you knew when we struggled against them where you earn every yard you get. I can’t tell how many hours already we’ve spent on that thing and just trying to find either a formation, formation into the boundary, different ways of trying to plus a gap or plus the numbers, and they’re really well coached.”

On comfort level with quarterback Braxton Miller’s return last week: “Much more comfortable. I was uncomfortable until Thursday last week. Not that he couldn’t do it, but like most players, he’s a guy that needed the practice. And his Thursday and his preparation was great. But he’s full speed today, and so much more comfortable.”

Indiana coach Kevin Wilson

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio

On coming off a bye weekend and going on the road to Iowa: “I think the most important thing you have to have at any away game is, you got to have a high motor. You got to have your attitude right. So, you know, we’ll do some different things in the morning to make sure that when we do hit 12 o’clock eastern time, which is 11 (p.m.) out there, that we’ll be ready to go.”

On the offense’s explosive plays: “I believe explosive plays come with execution.

There’s obviously play calling involved but there’s always opportunities to go up top when you feel there’s certain routes that have guys tied in up top. It’s a combination of a lot of things. But I think execution is the No. 1 thing.”

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz

On where he saw his team’s confidence boost: “I don’t know if there’s one point, but I think it’s been gradually building. We lost our opener, which doesn’t do a lot for anybody’s confidence. We knew, like any game, anything can happen in a game. We knew we were playing a really good football team, and they were, and are. You just keep pushing.”

On offense’s conversions on third down: “I think you have to give (quarterback Jake Rudock) a lot of credit. It starts with the quarterback certainly.

That’s quite frankly one of the more pleasing things that’s happened in the past couple of weeks, because we were struggling in that area recently. But it’s a team thing. The protection is always paramount and receivers working to get open, knowing where the chains are and doing the things necessary.”

Minnesota coach Jerry Kill

On disappointments against Iowa: “I think that anytime you can run the ball, you have a chance to win. Iowa did a good job. I said all along, ‘they’re a better football team than they were a year ago.’ They fundamentally did a better job than we did.

They used their hands better and their feet. And we had trouble moving them and executing.”

On confidence going to Michigan: “We played better a year ago against Michigan at home. We did some good things in that game, however we also made some mistakes; offside penalties and things of that nature. I know we’ve done a good job of not having many penalties and so forth. I think, again, each week, when you play in the Big Ten, you have to line up and play. There’s nothing easy about it.”

On how fast tempo on offense affects defense’s performance: “We’re not trying to just think offensively. At the same time, I don’t think we can score the points that we need to score if we don’t maybe do some of the things we do up-tempo. (Penn State coach Bill O’Brien) uses a fair amount of tempo in his stuff. I think Oregon’s playing as good as anyone, playing tempo as fast as anyone.

If you want to rest your defense, you can, but you’ve still got to go out and play good defense. We have to play good offense as well, and with the dynamic of our team right now, we just think it gives us a little bit better chance to sometimes use the tempo. But we try to slow it down. Each game’s different, each week’s different. But at the end of the day, we try to do what we can to score points to win. We’ve also got to play better defense. If it hurts our defense, it does. But at the same time, I don’t know if we’ve played good enough defense that we can play conservative and score enough points.”

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Nebraska senior Emma Stevens shares a few words with the team earlier in the season. The Husker soccer team has won six games in a row, the best in program history since 2004.

Huskers ride 6-game win streak After taking down then-No. 26 Denver, Nebraska has entered Top 25 rankings Josh Kelly DN Heading into this season, things seemed unclear about the direction of the Nebraska soccer team after finishing 7-9-1 last season and being knocked out in its first game in last year ’s Big Ten tournament against Ohio State.

This year seemed different for the team, though. They have high expectations now that the Huskers are exceeding several expectations with an 8-2-1 record thanks to the longest win streak in program history since 2004.

“It feels absolutely great,” senior goalkeeper Emma Stevens said. “It’s something we knew we were capable of this season and

it’s something we knew we could do ever since I started playing here. There are so many possibilities for this team.”

Halfway through the season, the Nebraska soccer team has a lot to feel proud about. Coach John Walker ’s squad has beaten ranked team, No. 16 Denver that has only lost to the Huskers this season. The Huskers also are 3-0 in Big Ten play after defeating Michigan State, Northwestern and Illinois.

The six-game win streak started on Sept. 13, after the team suffered two losses and a tie on the road. That night the Huskers beat San Francisco 3-0 in the first game of the Kansas Tournament.

Then, after winning both matchups in Kansas, the team caught fire.

“After we played in the Kansas Tournament, we then realized we can beat teams at home and also on the road,” senior midfielder Stacy Bartels said. “It definitely hit us from there that we are able to win in any environment and that this team has high expectations.”

Following the Kansas Tour-

nament, the Huskers returned aged to defeat a ranked team.

Nebraska will attempt to home to win their conference opener against Michigan State, bump its win streak up to seven this week when the Huskers which helped Nebraska carry enough momentum to beat No. face off against Iowa at home on 16 Denver. The victory over Den- Thursday.

The match will take place at ver gained national attention for Nebraska, as the Huskers were 4 p.m. at the Nebraska Soccer Field and if the Huskers defeat voted into the coaches’ poll at the Hawkeyes, No. 23. The rankthe 2013 Nebraska ing was the first squad will tie the since 2005 for the We’re very 2004 team’s run Nebraska soccer tough, and that reached seven team. wins. Nebraska’s “It’s really we’re a team 2004 team went on exciting,” Barto make it to the tels said. “It’s that wants to third round of the awesome for our succeed.”

NCAA Tournateam and our proment, a point that gram. To be a top Emma Stevens this year ’s team 25 team, and the senior goalkeeper believes they can powerhouse that reach. we know we are, “I think this is amazing.”

Now, when you compare this team is capable of it,” Stevens year ’s ranked squad to the 2004 said. “We’re very tough and we’re a team that wants to sucseason when the Huskers were ceed. We have a lot of experience still in the Big 12 conference, other than scheduling, there are and depth on this year ’s roster many parallels. First off, both and we’ve always known that we teams were coached by John are a good team.” sports@ Walker and during both of the dailynebraskan.com win streaks the Huskers man-

Football: from 10 I feel like we have kind of stood in the middle of adversity and have been frozen by it and not been able to do much with it.”

Avery Moss

redshirt freshman defensive end

improve from here?

“Execution,” Pelini said.

Nothing new here. Yeah, he knows everyone is tired of hearing the word. But that’s the main problem, Pelini said.

“At times we’ve been our own worst enemy with our assignments and our communication,” he said. “Our execution, our fundamentals and technique have gone out the window at times.”

Since the South Dakota State game, Pelini said he pulled a couple of young defenders aside to have conversations about being prepared and having confidence in what they’re asked to do.

Plus, the coach talked to the entire team at the weekly Sunday team meeting.

“He just told us that we’re getting into Big Ten play, so it’s time to pick it up and play better than we have,” senior receiver Quincy Enunwa said. “He said we knew what we needed to improve and that we should work on those things during the bye week so we could bring it to Illinois.”

And, according to Enunwa, the players responded to the coach’s meeting throughout the first bye week.

Actually, Pelini has seen the response too, he said. After giving up 202 rushing yards to South Dakota State running back Zach Zenner, who was held to just four rushing yards the following week against North Dakota State, Pelini said he needed to see more of a “killer instinct” out of the defense.

He’s seeing the team step in the right direction, he said.

“I have seen our sense of urgency starting to go up in how we practice, and how we execute in practice,” Pelini said. “In how we respond to details and how we compete play to play. Having that sense of pride and doing your job every single play and how you do it.”

The young defenders’ struggles came to no surprise to the coach either, he said. While he said he demands perfection from week one, Pelini said he knew the defense would need to gain experience in order to improve.

With four games behind them, the players have experienced those struggles first-hand and have a sense of where they need work.

“I feel like we have kind of

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Sophomore defensive end Randy Gregory wraps up a Southern Miss player on Sept. 7. Coach Bo Pelini said he has seen the sense of urgency increase in his young defense.

stood in the middle of adversity and have been frozen by it and not been able to do much with it,” defensive end Avery Moss said.

Facing that adversity, Moss said, will be the first step of execution.

“I feel like once we get comfortable playing with adversity then we can really lock in and focus for four quarters,” he said.

“When things get tough, don’t get strung up on what happened the last play and what you messed up on. Just go out there on the next drive and make plays.”

Make no mistake, though.

Pelini knows corrections don’t happen overnight, and he’s fully prepared to keep pressing the young defense.

“You just continue to show

them,” Pelini said. “(It’s) the exact same things we talked about.

It came back to eye discipline.

It came back to reading your keys. It came back to your focus.

It’s why you have to keep putting them through it. That’s just where you are. That’s why every single day and every single rep is important.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Redshirt freshman Tommy Armstrong throws down field during the South Dakota State game this season. Armstrong, though not the named starter for Saturday, is prepared to step in for the injured Taylor Martinez.

Martinez Still Out, Beck with decision

The resolution as to who will play quarterback Saturday against Illinois doesn’t seem to be coming anytime soon. Quarterback Taylor Martinez sat out of practice again on Tuesday with turf toe and again, senior Ron Kellogg III and redshirt freshman Tommy Armstrong split the first team snaps.

Though Armstrong started last week’s game in place of the injured Martinez, offensive coordinator Tim Beck wouldn’t say if Armstrong would start again or if Martinez would be completely ruled out of Saturday’s game.

“He’s a guy that could probably miss a couple of practices and still probably get in (the game),” Beck said. “It’s a dayto-day thing and just see what happens.”

Beck mentioned that though Martinez didn’t full-on practice, he did do some throwing drills and had talked about the game plan with the offense and other quarterbacks. For the time being, though, with Martinez out of practice, the battle between Kellogg and Armstrong resumes just as last week: neck and neck.

“Those guys are competing hard and having a really good week of practice,” Beck said. “I like where they’re at right now, how they’re competing and how they’re learning the offense, very similar to what we were doing leading up to the last game.”

At the moment, Beck said the two-quarterback system that the Huskers executed in the 59-20 win over South Dakota State, could possibly be in effect again. But again, he’s just going to play it by ear, he said. “(I’m just going to) see as we go into the game,” Beck said. “See if anyone has the hot hand or seeing things better or what the game plan unfolds.

There are so many scenarios that go into the decisions being made, and I think those guys

understand that.”

Besides the quarterback position, Beck is looking for his team to keep the momentum after the win over South Dakota State, and focusing on not hurting themselves with turnovers and mental mistakes.

“Most teams that are winning games aren’t turning the ball over,” Beck said. “They’re converting on third downs and they aren’t shooting themselves in the foot with penalties. You are going to win more games than you lose if you’re doing that. I liked our mentality going into last game and I like where we’re at right now.”

Armstrong ready to step in

Armstrong stayed a few minutes late after practice and threw short passes with running back Ameer Abdullah while Martinez walked out after practice in street clothes.

Armstrong, who has not been confirmed the starter for Saturday, is preparing for this week against Illinois like any other week, though he could very well get the starting nod from Beck Saturday.

“If Taylor plays, he plays, and if he doesn’t, he doesn’t,” Armstrong said. “Just because he’s is not out here with us, that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s not going to play. He’s been there, he’s done that. Just because he’s not out here preparing, mentally he still thinks he’s ready to go.”

Armstrong said he hasn’t had time to step back and realize the success he’s had early in his career, both starting and winning in his first career start.

Armstrong has tried to keep a mindset that he’s not “the” guy quite yet, he said.

“It’s just one game and I have to prepare and prove to be the number one guy, that’s what I’m out here trying to do,” Armstrong said. compiled by Chris Heady sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Senior Bailey Pons cuts through the water during the Scarlet vs. Cream Intersquad on Thursday. Pons took home 23 top-five finishes last season, including 24 victories for the Nebraska swimming and diving team.

born to swim story by Natasha Rausch | photo by Amber Baesler

Nebraska senior, Bailey Pons is no stranger to the water. After catching the eye of the Husker swimming coaches during camps in high school, Pons has set her sites on making the NCAA championships this season

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enior swimmer Bailey Pons was born for the water.

She started swim lessons when she was 5-years-old and immediately switched to swim team because the coaches could already see her passion and talent for the sport. But for Pons, her love for the water began

even before swim practices, all-day meets and distance races.

It began in a baby pool.

“When I was 3, my mom would fill those small plastic pools with water during the summertime, and I would just play all day,” said Pons, who swam to 23 top-five finishes last

season. “Then when I was done, I would take two-hour baths. I just couldn’t get enough of the water and that transitioned naturally to swimming in competition.”

Once she started competing, she began attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s swim camp. She first met the coaches when she

was 10.

“The coaches knew who I was, because I just kept on coming,” said Pons, whose favorite swimmer is Missy Franklin.

Assistant coach Patrick Rowan coached at the Husker swim camps, where he met Pons for

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Husker runner earns spot on team Sophomore runner Megan Lush took challenge to heart, made the cross country team Vanessa Daves DN

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Redshirt freshman Avery Moss pushes off a block against UCLA earlier this season. Nebraska’s defense has given up an average of 463 yards of total offense per game so far.

NU defense ready to bounce back Kyle Cummings DN At times, it takes a pop to the mouth to wake up. According to coach Bo Pelini, anyway.

The Nebraska defense has taken several hits in the mouth this season, allowing, on average, about 463 yards of total offense per game, including 284 yards through the air.

“I am not talking about the score or yards; I am just talking about being able to have success and that understanding,” Pelini said. “Also that level of commitment you have to have when you walk on the practice field to give yourself the best opportunity to play well on Saturday.”

Now, how does the defense

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It’s 6 a.m. and Megan Lush is doing 1,000 meter repeats at Oak Lake Park, just like coach Dave Harris told her. He told her if she could handle these workouts, then they could talk – and maybe she could join the team.

A few hundred feet away, the cross country team is running fartleks. They notice the other girl there, but they don’t pay her much attention. They just wonder who else would be awake this early in the morning. Who else has that kind of dedication to running?

“Looks like I’m going to have to recruit that girl,” Harris jokes with the team.

After they finish the workout, Harris decides to go talk to her.

It isn’t until he sees her face up close that he realizes she’s the one who came and talked to him a few weeks ago about walking on to the team.

One week later, Lush officially joined cross country.

In high school, Lush ran cross country for fun because a lot of her friends were on the team, she said. She never ran a varsity race, but she loved being a part of the team.

“I don’t have very good coordination, so sports aren’t my forte,” Lush said. “But I love to compete. And I love running; it’s the one time a day I can clear my head.”

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Sophomore Megan Lush looks ahead during the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational earlier this year. Lush walked on to the Nebraska cross country team after being challenged by coach Dave Harris.

Even though she didn’t continue running on a team in college, she kept running on her own.

During her freshman year at the University of NebraskaLincoln, she decided to run a half marathon in the spring. She finished with a time of 1:50.23 and placed seventh in her age group, which qualified her to go to the Boston Marathon.

“I knew I was getting faster and better, but when I qualified

for Boston I was like, ‘Maybe I’m faster than I thought,’” Lush said.

Her sophomore year, she wanted to run at the Lincoln marathon again, but she couldn’t decide whether to run the half or full marathon.

“I remember my friend told me, ‘Well, you do half marathons all the time just to get a long run in, so why not try a marathon?’”

Lush said. “So I signed up for a marathon. I love that aspect of running where it’s like; you can

always go out and do something you’ve never done before.”

At the Lincoln marathon that year, she finished with a time of 3:24.40, placing fourth in her age group. After what her friends noted as an impressive finish, they encouraged her to talk to Harris about walking on to the cross country team.

The transition onto the team wasn’t easy, Lush said. She went

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