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NU Culture Center plans chosen in China danae lenz daily nebraskan

If the Confucius Institute, a center that promotes Chinese culture on the University of NebraskaLincoln’s City Campus, is the yin, the new American Culture Center to be built in Xi’an, China, will be the yang.

UNL was selected by the American Embassy in Beijing in a competition with other American universities to create a bond between the people in the United States and China, something NU President James B. Milliken said is important to create cultural understanding.

The proposal will receive about $100,000 in seed funding. The center will expose students and faculty to all things American: history, government, art, law, medicine and culture.

“Too often,” Milliken said in a press release, “impressions of the United States are formed through films, television and other artificial mechanisms rather than interaction with real Americans. Assuring

a physical presence of Nebraska students and faculty in Xi’an with the ability to interact on a personal level will provide a better and more balanced view of the United States,” Retired UNL professor of mechanical engineering David Lou will serve as the deputy director of the center until a permanent director is found. He is also the founding director of the Confucius Institute at UNL. Xi’an Jiaotong University, where the center will be built, is a research facility that includes 20 schools, eight colleges and eight affiliated teaching hospitals. It offers programs in science, engineering, medicine, economics, management, art, philosophy and education. The current enrollment of the university is more than 30,000 students, 13,000 of whom are graduate students.

Xi’an is known as the “gateway to western China.” It’s known as China’s third international city, making it an important city for exposure to American culture.

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Perlman, who led the discussions and signed the agreement with XJTU said in a

press release, “This deepens the relationship between XJTU and the University of

Nebraska and opens up expanding opportunities for student exchanges and

joint research.”

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Wall Street protests spark interest in college students dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan

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UNL and MIT work together to plan future Lincoln tammy bain daily nebraskan

Architecture students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated this semester in research that will ultimately propose the best plan for Lincoln’s expansion during the next 40-50 years.

Twelve graduate students from MIT gathered in Architecture Hall Oct. 13 to meet 16 UNL undergraduate and graduate students, as each of the architecture students shared the research they’ve gathered this semester. The findings showed how the city might look 40-50 years from now with a doubled population.

Kathleen Dahlberg, Lizzie Woods and Lili Knorr, MIT graduate students, said the students used Geographic Information Systems for their research. The research consists of converting agricultural land to urban land, looking at

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factors such as the food prices, which are on the rise, and land with more agricultural value.

Unlike many cities, which can expand without affecting nearby land, much of the land that surrounds Lincoln has rich agricultural value.

This contrasts with other cities that have less agricultural value and opportunity cost in surrounding land, the students said.

The students said their goal was to find places with overlapping information and develop it into a project, using mapping and research.

“We were given very broad topics,” Woods said.

Students found that land values in Lincoln were higher in the center of the city, as well as the peripherals of the city.

This goes against what is assumed to be common knowledge of land values, they said.

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The Occupy Wall Street movement has been going strong for more than a month, reaching dozens, perhaps hundreds of cities on many continents and throughout the United States.

Among its supporters: college students around the country who have supported the movement through class walk-outs and by joining the demonstrations.

That movement reached Lincoln on Saturday, Oct. 15, kicking off with hundreds of protesters marching through downtown and around the Capitol Building and continuing with dozens camping in Centennial Mall. Many local college students were and still are in attendance as the movement continues.

Forrest Teske, a freshman broadcasting major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, wants to involve the campus even more, and has created a Facebook page to build awareness and support. Teske said he’ll have a meeting for the group when it reaches 100 likes.

As of late Wednesday night, the group had 76 likes. While some students share his energy, some of whom have been part of Occupy Lincoln since its beginning, others have yet to hear about it.

“It’s something I’d read more about,” said Chris Ganshert, a freshman psychology major who was among the latter. “I’m not sure how interested I am in taking part.”

Occupy Wall Street started in Manhattan as a manifestation of popular anger about a variety of issues, including corporations’ power over politics, historic income inequality in the country and other effects of a recession

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that has hit some far harder than others. Students, Teske said, aren’t immune to these issues.

“The problem that we have is billion-dollar companies buying our politicians,” he said.

Corporate interests convince those politicians to mismanage government money, Teske continued, and that includes the funding for student aid.

“We would like to see more of

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cops briefs Man removed from Love Library On Oct. 13 at 3:20 p.m., University Police were dispatched to Love Library on a disturbance call. Police made contact with a male who was talking to students about the Bible. Police directed him to the free speech area on the west side of the Nebraska Union.

Damages made to UNL property At 12:42 a.m. on Oct. 15, police were dispatched to Smith Hall on reports of a disturbance. Officers made contact with non-student Jared Sapp, 18. It was determined there were $200 in damages made to UNL property, according to UNL police reports. Sapp was cited for criminal mischief and released.

Student seen holding beer at hockey game An off-duty trooper observed Tyler Hamik, a sophomore general studies major, holding a beer at the Lincoln Stars hockey game. Officers were dispatched to the Ice Box on Oct. 14 at 9:05 p.m. Hamik had a .130 BAC and received a citation for minor in possession.

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Student government discusses bylaws Frannie Sprouls daily Nebraskan

The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska met for about 40 minutes Wednesday night.

The majority of the meeting was spent on executive and committee reports because the two items presented were for information only.

Both items of business concern ASUN bylaw amendments, one of them about the Student Alcohol Committee and the other about written notification of bylaws.

With few big pieces of legislation during the first half of fall semester, ASUN has a lot to look forward to during the second half.

“Now is the time that we have to get to work, especially for this semester,” said ASUN President Lane Carr during his executive report.

An upcoming concern for

ASUN is when the “Say Yes 2 Better Recs” campaign is presented to the legislature.

Carr, a senior history and political science major, told the senate about a planning meeting he had with Campus Recreation Director Stan Campbell, Senior Associate Vice President of University Affairs Ron Withem and Assistant to the Chancellor Michelle Waite.

“Look for me calling you into action because not only are we going to have an opportunity to talk, but we’re going to be doing a lot of ground work,” Carr said to the senators. “This is still the early, initial stages.

I’ll do my best to keep you guys updated.”

Carr said the campus recreation campaign will be brought before the Nebraska Legislative executive committee by the end of the semester. Committee for Fees Allocation Chair Nolan Johnson mentioned

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his committee had its final meeting with Campus Recreation, which consisted of a tour of the City Campus Recreation Center.

Johnson, a junior management major, said the group toured the new cardio room and learned about what else the rec center is planning.

“They’re working on a new marketing membership to make it user friendly for students,” Johnson told the senate.

No one came for open forum and neither of the bills were discussed during the meeting.

Carr only had one announcement at the end of the meeting: ASUN senate will meet on East Campus for next week’s meeting.

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occupy unl: from 1 want to see more investment in the people.”

Teske, like many other marchers on Saturday, said banks were being bailed out, while public funding has been cut during the past several years. Student debt is at an alltime high, and congressional Republicans have repeatedly targeted federal student aid for budget cuts during the past year to trim the federal budget.

Teske said that helped push him into the movement.

“I also think a lot of students agree with us,” he said.

His is just one of the many voices that has proclaimed, “We are the 99 percent,” a popular slogan of the movement and a jab at the top 1 percent that earn a huge proportion of the country’s income and wealth.

But by being inclusive of many people with many problems and goals — as broad as ending the government’s bank, the Federal Reserve, or as specific as fighting the Keystone XL oil pipeline through Nebraska — the movement has shunned a simple, defined message, as some UNL students pointed out.

“The Occupy Chicago website was very vague,” said Trey Hamik, a freshman in

general studies, who was only familiar with the movement in that city. “‘We are the 99 percent,’ that struck me,” he continued, but much of the other information on the movement seemed to be people saying “We are protesting,” he said.

“To be attracted to the movement, I think I’d need more motivation than ‘Change the world,’” Hamik said.

Renee Donner, a freshman anthropology major, hadn’t heard of the movement at all. After learning some of its basic tenets, she said she saw the potential for student involvement.

“You’d get a lot of interest, I feel,” Donner said. “I think a lot of people have strong opinions on it.”

The protest hits close to home for her, she said. Her sister depends on government aid and still needs more. “I’ll have to look into it a bit more,” she said with a smile.

For Teske, that’s a good start. “Maybe that’s all we’re trying to achieve,” he said. “I want to see students involved a lot more.”

He added, “I challenge everybody to come and see what this is about.”

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Hixon-Lied receives donation from Seacrests Ryan Kopelke Daily Nebraskan

On Oct. 6, James and Rhonda Seacrest’s donation to the Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts was announced at a special reception to honor the couple.

The Seacrests aren’t strangers to philanthropic gifts to the university. They have made many gifts to not only fine arts but also to the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the College of Business Administration and Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.

In 2008, James Seacrest was given the Nebraska Builders Award. The Builders Award is the highest honor given annually to those who have “built” UNL with their generous donations.

“James and Rhonda Seacrest’s generosity to the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts — in terms of their time, energy and philanthropy — is

truly noteworthy and immensely appreciated,” said Christin Mamiya, interim dean of the Hixon-Lied College. “We are inspired by their commitment to student and faculty excellence and know that this gift will benefit our students for years to come.

They are true visionaries.”

The Seacrest family funded two trips to Waterford, Ireland for the UNL opera to compete in the Waterford International Light Opera Festival, helped create the Ariel Bybee professorship in the School of Music, and helped support a chamber/ opera orchestra.

The funds given to the university this year will create the James C. and Rhonda Seacrest Program Excellence Fund spreading across all three academic units — the School of Music, Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and the Department of Art and Art History — allowing all students, not just those of musical inclination, to benefit from the Seacrest’s generosity.

“Their generous gifts to the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts have created tremendous opportunities for our students to realize their goals and dreams, particularly in the area of the School of Music and the Opera Program, but now with this recent gift, for all of our students across the College,” Mamiya said.

Money from the Seacrest Program Excellence Fund will also be put to use in areas of travel, awards, fellowships, exhibitions, performances and, most important in the eyes of sophomore art major Ann Brudney, scholarships.

“I think this grant will allow people to get in,” she said. “Not the most talented people who are already establishing themselves, but the people that have the potential to be there one day so long as the scholarship committee can see it in them.”

Another issue Brudney hopes will be addressed is the issue of class materials, which students generally have to purchase and

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add up to more than the cost of books, according to Brudney.

The Seacrest donation was given in conjunction with the University of Nebraska’s $1.2 billion initiative, Campaign for

Nebraska, for which the HixonLied College plans to raise $20 million. The college has already raised $16 million.

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Community desk Our Common Humanity and the Importance of Education keynote address when: Thursday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Auditorium what: Keynote address by author and activist Mark Mathabane. Book signing after address. In conjunction with the African-American and African Studies 40th Year Celebration Event. contact: Nancy Knapp at 402-472-1663 or nknapp@ unlnotes.unl.edu Film screening of ‘The Whistleblower’ when: Thursday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. where: Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center what: Screening of the film “The Whistleblower.” Following the film will be a Q&A session and book signing with Kathryn Bolkovac, a Lincoln police officer whose book

inspired the film.

UPC presents LGBT RoundTable with: ‘Real World’ when: Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Centennial Room what: Round table to discuss issues pertaining to the LGBTQA community.

Conference on Habits of the Mind when: Friday, Oct. 21, until Sunday, Oct. 23. where: Avery Hall what: Conference in honor of Jim Lewis contact: Hollie Swanson at 402-472-9312 or hswanson5@unl.edu ‘Parental Involvement in High School Education: Variations by Student’s Race and Gender’ when: Friday, Oct. 21, 12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. where: Nebraska Union

what: Lecture by Lina Traslavina Stover, a UNL sociology graduate student contact: Sociology Department at 402-472-3631

‘The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Geographical Issues in the Humanities’ when: Friday, Oct. 21, 2 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 228 what: Katherine Walter, professor and co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL will speak about geographical issues in the humanities. contact: Jim Merchant at 402-472-7531 or jmerchant1@unl.edu Community Leadership Banquet with the National Society of Black Engineers when: Friday, Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Nebraska Union, Regency Room what: Banquet for the UNLUNO NSBE. Makola M. Abdullah, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Florida Memorial University, will present his lecture on ‘Striving for Academic Excellence and Being a Positive Role Model.’ cost: $5 students, $7 nonstudents, $40 table in advance; $8 students and $10 non-students at the door contact: NSBE – UNL/UNO Chapter at 402-554-2564 or nsbe@unlnotes.unl.edu Women Interested in Engineering when: Saturday, Oct. 22, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. where: Othmer Hall what: Day for students in high school with an emphasis on females interested in engineering. Register at http:// engineering.unl.edu/Events/ wiie/. contact: Amber Retke at 402-472-7094 or aretke2@ unl.edu

Composting Workshop – Lincoln, Neb. when: Saturday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. where: Pioneers Park Nature Center’s backyard composting demonstration area what: Workshop to teach participants about composting contact: Sarah Browning at 402-441-7180 or sbrowning2@unl.edu Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts

by Women in SNCC lecture when: Saturday, Oct. 22, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Heritage Room what: Lecture by Martha Prescod Norman Noonan. Book signing will follow the lecture. cost: Free and open to the public contact: Nancy Knapp at 402472-1663 or nknapp@unlnotes. unl.edu

Fear Crafters Costume Ball when: Saturday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. where: Falls Reception Hall at 5925 Adams St. what: Costume ball and fundraiser for the Lincoln Lighthouse.

Food, cash bar, raffle drawings, door prizes and music. Must be 18 or older to attend. Register online at www.fearcrafters.com.

Tickets are available at the door, Drac’s Place and the Fringe and Tassel. cost: $20 in advance, $25 day of event The Emergence of Block-Style Quilts in the United States when: Sunday, Oct. 23, 3 p.m. where: International Quilt Study Center and Museum what: Lecture by Janice Frisch from Indiana University on her research on patchwork blocks. contact: The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at 402-472-6549 or info@quiltstudy.org

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Professor inspires new views of Great Plains Kim Buckley Daily Nebraskan

An English professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is trying to change people’s perceptions of the Great Plains.

Frances Kaye, who teaches Native American studies courses, spoke about her book titled “Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains” at the Paul A. Olson Seminar lecture series Wednesday.

She wrote the book while on a Fulbright Scholarship in Calgary, Alberta, in Canada.

“We just have to look at (the land) now and decide what it does best,” Kaye said. “We need to ask what the land does well, how we can work with its great resources.”

She said it’s unrealistic to want the land to look like it did during the pre-colonial era. Instead, she said, evaluating the present and doing

better for the future is what’s important.

Kaye said issues like the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline generate discussion, which is good.

“It’s making us think about what we want (for the land),” Kaye said.

Kaye gave a background of several important events.

“The pioneers saw the Great Plains as deficient,” she said, adding that the pioneers judged in terms of what they could gain from the land, instead of what was best for the land and the people.

Emily Beck, a sophomore at Southeast Community College, attended the lecture for a class assignment. She said Kaye’s perceptions on the Great Plains was her favorite part of the lecture.

“I really enjoyed it,” she said. “Especially the last part of it, where she was going off (her notes) and speaking from her heart.”

Beck said the speaker’s sense of humor engaged the audience.

Kaye said she hoped to change how the people who attended the lecture view the Great Plains. She succeeded in the case of Beck.

“It made you think more back to nature,” Beck said.

“It changed my perspective on how important wildlife and nature is and (the importance) of preserving it.”

In attendance was Paul A. Olson, the man the seminar was named after.

For Kaye, it was a chance to present in front of a mentor.

She said she has known Olson since coming to UNL 35 years ago.

“You know how some people have ‘What Would Jesus Do’ bracelets?” she said, smiling. “I do ‘What Would Paul Do.’” kimbuckley@ dailynebraskan.com

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architecture: from 1 The students said their studies of urban economics show that rent decreases the closer a person lives to the physical center of a city, so fewer people live there. But in Lincoln, it’s the opposite.

More people live there and it costs more.

The UNL and MIT students’ research links this population density to Lincoln’s parks.

They add property value, and the area is less congested than other parts of the city.

So, the students said, with these factors considered, the population in the center of Lincoln cannot increase more than three percent per year in the 40-50 year plan.

Habitat is also an aspect to consider in research and planning, the students said.

During one of the presentations, the larger group discussed whether it was relevant or not to plan around the conservation of the tiger beetle. Some students felt this was irrelevant to planning.

But, as Knorr said, “If you can get the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to protect the habitat of a species, it’s hard to get developers to build. They won’t back

down.”

The project started when Alan Berger, a planning and urban design professor from MIT, came to UNL as a visiting lecturer and Hyde fellow, a fellowship for architects and designers, this summer.

Berger said he had similar lectures at UNL and MIT, and with the same classes at different schools, he thought it would be a good idea to have the students combine their research. MIT not only participated in the mid-semester trip, but also paid significant funds toward it, so that no private sponsors were needed.

Berger said MIT presents all its courses to students prior to registration. Each student working on the project knew what they would be studying before the semester started.

The students began research at the beginning of the semester. However, with UNL’s classes beginning two weeks before MIT, UNL students had a head start.

“Lincoln students are actually teaching MIT (students),” Berger said.

Each of the four or five groups presented their

research to the large group. It then, “opened up to questions about research to make project proposals,” Berger said.

The proposals started upon the MIT students’ arrival home, and included how to plan what Berger called a “Lincolnopolis.”

“I’m very excited about the opportunity,” he said.

Berger said he was not only excited about combining his lectures, but also working alongside his former UNL professors who were mentors.

Woods, an MIT student, said the students all looked forward to their trip to Lincoln, especially to see how students here, “experience the city.”

The MIT graduate students spent Friday sightseeing in Lincoln, and experiencing the city themselves.

While the MIT students didn’t have the chance to meet UNL students one-onone through their 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. presentation session, Berger hopes they will be able to come back to discuss their proposals.

“We’re working on that,” he said.

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n Oct. 7, Texas Governor Rick Perry spoke at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. He was introduced by one of his supporters, the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Later, Jeffress told reporters that supporting Romney would “give credibility to a cult like Mormonism.”

To this point, Romney’s membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hasn’t played a part in the primary campaign.

In a race dominated by economic concerns, the candidates’ religious beliefs are even less relevant than usual. Romney’s Republican opponents recognize this, and even Jeffress acknowledges Romney’s religion isn’t the most important issue. Yet the media remain hell-bent on covering a political controversy that doesn’t— and shouldn’t— exist.

The media blitz began immediately after Jeffress’s remarks. CNN engaged the pastor in a 10-minute interview, conducting follow-up interviews with him later that night and again the next day. Jeffress also spoke with MSNBC and Fox News in the days following the event.

Once the media tired of Jeffress, reporters scrambled to hear what Romney’s primary opponents had to say. They were looking for more

juicy comments to fuel an already juicy story. Instead, the other candidates calmly dismissed the issue.

Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., stated “None of us should sit in judgment of somebody else’s religion.” Herman Cain announced he was “not going to get into an analysis of Mormonism versus Christianity.” Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., called the issue “inconsequential.” Jon Huntsman Jr., R-Utah, a Mormon himself, argued “the fact that we are spending so much time discussing it makes it even worse.” Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said at Tuesday night’s debate that Romney’s Mormonism was “not applicable.”

Even Rick Perry, who is notoriously bad at thinking on his feet, came down firmly on the issue.

When asked whether he agreed with his Jeffress’s position on Mormonism, Perry simply said “No,” and left it at that.

Media outlets claimed that candidates were trying to “sidestep” or “dodge” questions about Romney’s faith. In reality, Romney’s opponents were giving the issue exactly as much attention as it deserved: that is to say, none at all.

This deluge of media attention is wholly unwarranted. The Christian or non-Christian status of Mormonism is a theological debate that has absolutely no relevance to politics.

According to Jeffress, the belief that Mormons are not Christians

Benjamin Kantack generally rests on a disagreement about religious texts. The Latterday Saints recognize the Book of Mormon, in addition to the Bible, as a true testament of Jesus Christ, which clashes with many Christian denominations’ view of the Bible as the sole revelation of God’s word.

Theologically, that’s a big deal.

Politically, it’s irrelevant.

It’s easy to compare reactions to Romney’s Mormonism to the objections levied against John F. Kennedy’s Catholicism in the 1960s.

But there is a significant difference between the two scenarios. As a Catholic, I certainly don’t endorse the anti-Catholic rhetoric of some of Kennedy’s opponents. But at least their opposition was based on a potential political consequence: Many feared that Kennedy, as president, would be subservient to the pope, jeopardizing American sovereignty.

With Mitt Romney, no such risk exists. Whether the Book of Mormon is divine revelation or not has

no connection to American foreign or domestic policy. No one has even tried to explain how it could or would affect Romney’s administration. Romney emphasized this fact back in 2007, saying “No authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions.”

But what of Jeffress’s claim that voting for Romney would legitimize Mormonism? It’s hard to argue that Mormonism isn’t legitimized already in the United States. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Mormons make up 1.7 percent of the U.S. population.

That’s more than Methodists and Presbyterians combined. Currently, 15 Mormons serve in Congress.

Sixty-eight percent of Americans say that whether a candidate was Mormon would make no difference on their vote. Based on the facts, it seems that Mormons have already earned whatever “credibility” Jeffress seeks to deny them.

The sad consequence of the media’s fixation on religion is that it distracts from the real issues at hand. There are plenty of legitimate claims to be made against Mitt Romney. He flip-flops on social issues. He created “RomneyCare.”

He has an absurdly large 59-point economic plan. Yet while there is no shortage of ammunition for Romney’s opponents, news sources

from the right, left and center have jumped to the conclusion that Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination — unless somebody plays the Mormon card.

The media has tried their darnedest to get the other candidates to play that card, but no one has taken the bait. They ought to be commended for their restraint. This sort of name-calling is a low blow and should be beneath America’s leaders. A nation faced with widespread unemployment, a severe recession, a crippling national debt and two wars has no time for such silly games.

Let’s all rise above the petty quibbles of religion in politics and consider the words of President John F. Kennedy: “If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I had tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being president on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser — in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people.”

Benjamin Kantack is a senior political science and Spanish major. Follow him at @BenjaminKantack and reach him at BenjaminKantack@ dailynebraskan.com.

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UNL proves itself in culture center selection

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has finally put itself on the map.

It has put itself not on the Big Ten map, not on the national one, but carved a place for itself on a global scale.

As described in today’s news section, UNL was recently selected by the American Embassy in Beijing as one of several American universities that will help plan an American culture center in Xi’an, China.

The planned American Culture Center will stand as a counterpart to UNL’s own Chinese cultural center, the Confucius Institute, educating visitors about the culture’s beliefs and customs.

The selection comes with $100,000 in seed funding and the potential to foster plenty of cultural education and international good will. More than that, however, and perhaps most importantly for the burgeoning UNL, it comes with a whole lot of prestige.

Being selected to provide the proposal for an international project — especially one aiding ties between two countries with as important an international role as the United States and China — is exactly the kind of success the university needs to be shooting for and achieving in the future. The Daily Nebraskan applauds the administrators who pushed for this development and made the necessary connections to ensure it happened. We wish the best of luck to all those involved with the actual project. More than anything, we hope to see more of these stories in the future as UNL lives up to its potential post-Big Ten transition. opinion@dailynebraskan.comS

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Trite films don’t spell copycat

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f your friends are growing tired of your dismissive criticism of every new blockbuster, there’s a trendy new excuse with half the cynicism and twice the self-importance. Last week in California, Michael Rubin didn’t just complain about the sheer unoriginality of “The Hangover Part II” like everyone else. No, he sued the movie for stealing his life story.

Just how many transsexual prostitutes, drugged marshmallows and kidnapped monks were involved in Rubin’s weekend-that-was-way-crazier-than-yours remains unclear. But like other recent cases, the outcome could set a legal precedent with genuinely serious artistic implications – more serious, I’d even venture, than motorcycling monkeys.

According to his federal lawsuit, Rubin married a Japanese woman named Tamayo in 2007 and experienced a disastrous honeymoon in Thailand and India. After meeting a Bollywood producer who hired him as a leading actor, Rubin began writing a feature film based on his experience. The script, “Mickey and Kirin,” was deposited with the Writers Guild of America, and Rubin later caught wind of “The Hangover” sequel from a Hollywood friend.

“The production of ‘Hangover 2’ is not a complete ‘literary’ or ‘artistic’ works of the ‘Hangover’ Defendants as credited in Hangover 2,” argues the complaint, but an “exploitation of the private real life of Plaintiff in an insulting manner.”

The gaping hole in Rubin’s case is that even if he lived out the movie’s exact sequence of events, complete with Mike Tyson cameo, absolutely no one would ever have made this connection if he hadn’t himself. There’s not even an argument of character theft, because the protagonists are the exact personalities from the first movie. Clearly, the motive is financial, but its absurdity highlights what other cases have skirted around: Claiming someone took your idea is inherently stupid.

Last Thursday, a judge threw out a case against “The Hurt Locker,” which

cameron mount had claimed that the bomb expert in the 2010 best picture winner bore defamatory likeness to Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver.

Mark Boal, who wrote the movie’s screenplay, had spent significant time with Sarver when writing an article for Playboy magazine. However, the judge ruled that enough original, expressive changes were made to meet copyright law requirements of “transformativeness.”

The case may seem more reasonable than Rubin’s, but both suffer from the same ridiculous misunderstanding of art. No story is ever original. Every earnest stab at personal expression is just a reflection of all the culture one has managed to soak up. If you’re scoffing at that thought, you’ve merely soaked up a defiant or skeptical personality, no more original or complex than anyone else’s.

This isn’t as cynical as it first sounds.

The building blocks may not change, but people have unique configurations of DNA, interacting with unique configurations of experiences, against everchanging contexts. This is creativity.

If you come up with an impromptu story about Presbyterian unicorns rowing boats down a mountain, there’s still a reason each of those elements came to mind. They may have come from the most subconscious realm of impulse or a secret desire to seem ironic, but it’s not original. It may be a combination that hasn’t been seen before, possibly, but isn’t almost everything?

Chances are, no sentence in this column has ever been uttered verbatim in human history, but it’s not a new argument. I’ve merely spit it back out using

my own configuration of pop culture, conversations, and whatever chance events shaped me even before I started making memories.

Where do characters come from if not from real people and situations?

In 2005, Ben Rowling, J.K. Rowling’s cousin, famously sought royalties for his uncanny resemblance to Harry Potter.

Ben has dark hair, glasses, a scar, attended boarding school and was Rowling’s childhood playmate. He was also evidently strapped for cash, because he appeared on the show “Lie Detector” to prove once and for all that he was earnestly deluded into an undeserved feeling of importance. It’s obvious, but hardly scandalous, that “Harry Potter” would be a vastly different series without “Lord of the Rings,” Rowling’s school experience, and, likely, her cousin Ben. It makes sense for a clump of traits, especially in a significant and rounded character like Harry Potter’s, to derive from a single source. But every individual element of a story is derived from some real experience, so how could it matter where clumps occur? Our brains have built up associations and connections (perhaps, for Rowling, between dark hair and glasses), and honest expression reflects these patterns.

In all likelihood, Rubin’s script never passed the eyes of anyone connected to “The Hangover.” But even if it did, no one should have to think of worrying about subconscious inspiration, let alone direct defamation. What Rubin, Sarver and Ben Rowling fail to realize is that their traits are universally and interchangeably human. Their experiences and personalities are utterly mundane without the creative configurations of artists that notice them. They find validity by honest and enjoyable depiction.

If Rubin wants to admit he stuffed a coke-head gangster in a Thai freezer, that’s his own business. Until then, crying defamation just invites others to make the connections for him.

Cameron Mount is a junior Secondary English Education major. He can be reached at cameronmount@

Jobs’ achievements highlight life’s time limit

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hat’s on your to-do list?

Whether you have a PC or a Mac, the passing of Steve Jobs surely got your attention during the past two weeks. According to Apple’s official website, Jobs resigned Aug. 24, 2011, as the CEO of Apple Inc. Less than two months later, on Oct. 5, Apple announced that Steve Jobs died. As President Obama stated, “there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.”

His death was a shock to many people, not simply because it was sudden, but because of his achievements in his short lifetime.

It reminded me of a video I found on YouTube called “One Minute Fly” about how a fly has only one minute of life. If you too only had a short life, would you choose to make the most out of it or wait for it to pass?

Jobs had an extraordinary life.

He was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc., one of the world’s most innovative and valuable technology companies. His innovations, according to Obama, “changed the

way each of us sees the world.”

What is more, he managed to do these things in a short, but difficult lifetime.

According to New America Media, Jobs was an Arab-American baby adopted by an ArmenianAmerican family. His biological parents were both graduate students at the University of Wisconsin; his mother was German-American, his father a Syrian. Because his parents wanted a girl, Jobs was unwanted since the day he was born.

As one article from USA Today mentioned, Steve Jobs “battled a rare form of pancreatic cancer for years, undergoing a series of aggressive treatments, including a liver transplant, and surviving longer than many others with the disease.” Once, he stated he treated every day of his life as the last day, and with that sense of urgency, he lived a life that no one could ever imagine.

So, how long is a day? And how much can we do with it?

Based on a rational assumption, for a typical University of NebraskaLincoln student, we have 24 hours in a day, or 1,440 minutes. If we only sleep seven hours and have 30 minutes between waking up and actually getting up from bed and a

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half hour to shower, then we have only 960 minutes left.

If we subtract two hours for eating breakfast, lunch, dinner and maybe some snacks, then we have 840 minutes remaining. If a student takes 15 credit hours, with an average of three hours a day in classes, he or she has 660 minutes remaining.

Let’s allow for one hour walking back and forth between your dorm and class, or commuting between school and your apartment. After that, only 600 minutes left. Finally, if you spend three hours on homework, one hour talking with your significant other, two hours Facebooking, 30 minutes reading and replying to emails, and four hours working, then you actually have negative 30 minutes in your day.

It’s understandable if you still want to add more to-dos, such as

watching football or playing Xbox, but we’re already running a deficit in time. That’s probably why, sometimes, you have to cut your sleeping hours or skip your classes.

Honestly speaking, we don’t have time.

As a member of a family, we have to maintain contact; as a college student, we’re working on a degree; as young adults, we’re trying to live our lives. But is there time in our day for us to think about our lives?

There are bills to pay. There are relationships to maintain. We run out of time to do business that we don’t understand. At our age, maybe it’s OK to postpone a task until tomorrow. If a professor is cool enough, you probably can even turn in late assignments without any punishment.

Definitely, at the end of the week, when you go to a party, that story could give you a great conversation with a stranger. No doubt, it’s cool to share stories like that with others, but that shouldn’t be the reason for you to procrastinate.

Not many people like to think that way, but there’s one fact no one can avoid. We’re all going to die. Here, I just want to illustrate this from a biological point of view, that when

death happens, all the functions of life stop. In other words, there’s no tomorrow for you to back up your unfinished jobs. Being late is probably not an option if today is your last day.

We probably don’t have the ability to choose our families or the ability to choose the length of our lives.

However, we do have the potential to choose how we live. We can choose what to put on our to-do list; we can decide the priority of the tasks on the list.

In the case of Steve Jobs, he didn’t have either a very fortunate beginning or a very happy end, but he did have a great journey in between.

He could have chosen to complain about his circumstances, but instead he chose to live differently. He rocked the world with his style. He attracted customers across the globe.

He made the impossible possible.

And he did it within 56 years.

Do you choose to complain about the unfairness of your life? Do you choose to follow a schedule that always leads to a time deficit? Or do you choose to use your life to change the world?

It’s time to think about what’s on your to-do list.

jiajun (Abe) xu is a junior finance and economics major. reach him at jiajunxu@dailynebraskan.com.

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FACE OF A KILLER Rob Burt played the title character in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Theatrix production of “Killer Joe,” where he embodied a hardened, stoic murderer

from Texas. According to Burt, “working on ‘Killer Joe’ was weird. The entire process was very intensive, but worth the payoff. There’s a special kind of crazy that comes from Texas.” Though he graduated from UNL in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in English, Burt started out as a theatre performance major. “I’ve always been drawn to theater. I used to imitate cartoon voices as a kid. It’s kind of like therapy to me.”

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Professor teaches music with all senses Cameron mount daily nebraskan

Everyone experiences music in their own way, but few can say they literally sense it as color.

Far fewer can say they bring that perspective to direct what’s been called one of the “finest choral ensembles in the Midwest.”

Dr. Peter Eklund is the Director of Choral Activities at the University of NebraskaLincoln, heading the masters and doctoral choral conducting programs and the nationally recognized University Singers and University of Nebraska Varsity Men’s Chorus.

His time is divided among roles of conductor, arranger, editor, teacher, mentor, guest lecturer, husband and father of four.

“It’s a wonderful confluence of students, who are so fun,” he said of the University’s choral program. “I learn from my students every day.”

The University Singers began their 2010-2011 season last Thursday at Kimball Recital Hall, a performance that Eklund said went extremely well.

“It’s changed a lot,” he said of his 14 years with the department. “It’s grown into a large, comprehensive program.”

Eklund’s schedule averages 60 national and international concerts a year. His favorite places to play include an annual Notre-Dame de Paris concert, which is held every summer. Another favorite is in the German Abbey of St. Hildegard von Bingen, located above the Rhine River.

“When we sing in there, the singers’ faces just change,” he said. “They just know that the sound goes out and blossoms.

Often when we go in there and sing, you can see the nuns come running, because they don’t get to hear choirs like that sing in those places.”

What’s not as well known about the director, is that he experiences synesthesia, a neurological condition in which a mixing of the senses occurs. For some synesthetes, letters might be associated with genders, different shapes might have different tastes and visual motion might elicit sounds. It is thought to affect one out of every 23 people, though other reports put the number at one in every 2,000.

The discrepancy is due both to the variety of ways synesthesia can manifest itself, as well as difficulties in obtaining statistics. Many with the condition aren’t even aware the experience is abnormal.

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UNL choral director and synesthete, Peter Eklund, uses his unqiue sensory perceptions to enhance his instruction. masters degree students taking a class,” Eklund recalled.

“And one of the things our professor was talking about was synesthesia, and the psychology of music. He was mentioning that only one out of ten had it. And I just kind of said ‘Doesn’t everybody have it? Isn’t this just what everybody has?’ and everybody goes, ‘No!’” It was the first time Eklund became aware of the uniqueness of synesthesia, a realization he explained through the individual nature of dreams.

“With other psychology issues you hear that

some people dream in color and some people dream in black and white,” he said.

“I presumed that everybody dreamed in color.”

Working with music, synesthesia plays an especially intriguing role.

“To me, the composer Chopin is green,” Eklund said. “I found a book of Chopin piano music and it was a green book and I thought ‘Well, that makes sense.’”

Eklund says the note middle ‘C’ sounds yellow, while

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With multiple theater companies in Lincoln, productions are bound to vary.

From budget size to how actors are hired to choosing the scripts, each company is different.

“They all have their own niche that they do and audiences that they draw,” said Paul Steger, executive director of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. He added that each company has its own atmosphere.

Despite the hundreds of categories theater can be placed into throughout the nation, three categories are dominant: university theater, community theater and professional theater.

Lincoln has all three.

University theater is designed specifically to teach students to become professionals in the field, meaning they will be hired and paid regularly to work in their specialty, such as acting or stage managing.

Essentially, professional theater is the goal for most students majoring in theater at a university. At this level, a person is being hired and paid frequently for their work in theater.

Community theater is localized to a specific community and depends heavily on volunteers.

Each has different qualities, but all provide both the audience and the actors with a learning experience unique to each theater.

The first of these is how to manage a budget. Budgets vary with each company. Companies like the

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Forgive me for my errs, graffiti is indeed art A FINER ART

Katie Nelson A couple of weeks back, I ventured into a beer garden to look at an image of a cat that had been spray-painted on a wall.

Completely disgusted with the lack of intellectual stimulation it gave me, I immediately dismissed it as graffiti, saying it was worthless and should be cleaned off the side of the building.

I did, however, justify painting the side of a building so long as it was “street art.” Now, as I look back on that column, I wonder what in the hell I classified as “street art.” A pretty picture?

A brilliant message?

Even as I wrote, several of my friends here at the Daily Nebraskan tried to convince me I was wrong.

One is even an art major who has extensively studied street art and tagging in his classes.

Today, I sit here writing to you, dear reader, to apologize to you and to tell you how incredibly wrong I was.

You may wonder what caused this change of mind, or really, of heart.

Well, friend, I can now say I have tagged something. You read me right. I have taken spray paint to a concrete wall and have left it, in my opinion, far more beautiful than it was.

It was a rainy night and I was on a date. I’m not sure if it was the surge of hormones or the cigarettes or the alcohol, or maybe the combination of the three, but when he suggested we do something illegal, I was

all ears.

So we did. We went to WalMart, wandered the isles until we faced a wall of aerosol paint. The rainbow of colors dizzied my mind, but finally, I was able to select one.

Then it was time to pick the location.

Now, if you think I am dumb enough to disclose the color of my paint, location I painted or the pictures and/or words I may have drawn, you’re nuts.

But I can tell you that it was absolutely freeing – and not just because I was with a guy I like.

I took a concrete wall, and in it, I saw a canvas.

In my hand, the paint can

dissolved into a paintbrush.

My hand moved fluidly from shape to shape, word to word. Although I could not see the end product, I knew it beat any mud stain that had previously decorated the bland wall.

And, now, I must apologize to all taggers once again. I was wrong to judge a single-colored doodle as less than art.

Who would have thought it would have taken an illegal act to show me where art can be found?

However, I suppose I should add (as a side note) that tagging is illegal and that perfectly wonderful art can be found inside a museum. So go to one of those

first. Or a First Friday event.

However, before you dismiss the letters scrawled across the train cars crawling before your eyes or the wall you jet past on your way to class, stop for a second and look at them, really look at them.

As I’ve said before, art need not hold a deeper meaning for the viewer.

It can simply be visually pleasing for no reason at all.

However, if you find deeper meaning in someone’s tag, more power to you.

As for my activities, well, I plead the fifth.

Katie Nelson is a sophomore broadcast journalism major. Reach her at katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Excitement builds for Mac Miller show Cara wilwerding daily nebraskan

Sophomore political science major Evan Schmeits waited and waited for Mac Miller tickets.

Four hours passed before Schmeits and his girlfriend approached the front of the line. Their patience, however, didn’t pay off. Schmeits saw the last ticket for Mac Miller’s Friday concert being sold to a person only five steps ahead.

Miller will perform Oct. 21 at the Bourbon Theatre.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s University Program Council (UPC) has been working for months to put on this event, but it only took a couple hours to sell all available tickets, which were priced at $8 for students.

“I think they knew that Mac Miller was going to be a big show,” said Rachael Pickerel, a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major and the entertainment chair for UPC. “He’s kind of blown up in the past couple months, so a lot of people are familiar with him.”

Sophomore speech pathology major Kelly

Woodworth had better luck than Schmeits. She arrived at the union at about 8 p.m. with her sorority sisters.

She recalled ticket sales being “pretty crazy” but getting a ticket was worth the trouble.

In her opinion, Miller raps differently than other artists and thinks this can be attributed to his age.

At 19 years old, Miller is one of the youngest widely recognized rappers and Woodworth thinks he uses unique backbeats, original lyrics and a ton of swag.

“His music is a lot different from other people’s,” Woodworth said. “It’s not all about sex. It’s just more chill.”

While he references drinking and smoking marijuana, Miller’s lyrics aren’t focused solely on partying. He raps about other incidental topics, like snap back hats, senior skip day and Donald Trump.

Schmeits likes Miller’s music because it reminds him of old school rap. He compared Miller’s beats to that of the Beastie Boys but claimed Miller still has original style.

“His rap is more positive and not really negative

towards anyone,” Schmeits said. “(It’s) about everyday things; about going to get yogurt, but he makes it unique.”

Miller will release his newest studio album, “Blue Slide Park,” on Nov. 8 under Rostrum Records. According to The Source magazine, “the sky is the limit for this Pittsburgh native.”

Casey Veggies and The Come Up will be the opening acts for Miller’s show at the Bourbon.

By most accounts, this downtown Lincoln concert spot is a small venue for an artist of this caliber, so Pickerel thinks the show may get crazy. To keep people in order, she is counting on assistance from other UPC members.

“It might be louder and more rambunctious than other concerts,” Pickerel said. “I obviously can’t manage a million people on my own, so everyone needs to hold themselves accountable.”

Pickerel sees this concert is different from those in the past because students were required to pay for tickets. Last year’s Big Boi concert was free to students and community members

alike. Held on the green space outside the Nebraska Union, the concert attracted an estimated audience of 5,000.

Some students, like Schmeits, believe the Miller concert should be free to students, as well on the grounds that it was cheaper for UPC to book Miller than it was to book Big Boi. “I don’t know,” Schmeits said, “Maybe they wanted

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to make money on it (Miller’s concert). It would have been pretty huge if it was free and on campus. That would have been a great thing for students.”

Despite the disappointment of those who didn’t procure tickets, Pickerel believes the show will be successful. In her eyes, seeing everyone come together to

create the show is a great feeling.

“I’m excited to see that line when people are first waiting to get in and seeing their faces when Mac Miller comes on stage,” Pickerel said. “I think people will be thrilled.” carawilwerding@ dailynebraskan.com

UNL clubs host film screenings in violation of copyright Cameron Mount Daily Nebraskan

Movie-watchers have seen so many FBI logos and warnings whiz by, and by now many have forgotten what they actually mean.

For student organizations at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, however, the implications are serious. Most recently, the UNL Russian Club has found that some of their film screenings may have unwittingly violated copyright laws.

“We do show films to students of Russian,” said Mila Saskova-Pierce, Ph.D., faculty advisor for both the Russian Club and Czech Komensky Club. “In the past we were opening a classroom to people who were not taking Russian classes.

But we were informed by Dan Ladely, the director of the Ross Theatre, that actually it might be against the copyright.”

Saskova-Pierce said the club believed they were protected by both their setting and the time in which copyright laws came into effect in Russia.

“We were showing films from the 1930s, during the time when Russians were not bound to the Copyright Convention,” she said. “We always included the movies into cultural context. That is, when the film was made, why it is so important, and what we want students to learn from it. We thought that classrooms were open

by law to visitors as long as they told us that they were going to come. We thought that we were kind of protected on two sides.”

Danny Lee Ladely, director of he Ross Theatre, said these misconceptions are common. He finds two or three violations each semester and emphasized that they are a serious matter.

“In the eyes of the law, ignorance doesn’t just let you off,” Ladely said. “When you rent or buy a DVD or a Blu-Ray, at the beginnings there’s always this big warning, and nobody ever pays any attention to that.

But it’s right there.”

The violation is a felony offense, but Ladely says that many clubs believe that not charging admission is enough to stay clear of trouble.

“That’s not the case at all,” he said. “Any time that a film is shown to the public or in a public area for the whole university — in classrooms, the Ross, the Nebraska Union, all public space — you have to have a public screening rights license.”

The two major distributors in the United States are Swank Motion Pictures, which handles most major studios, and Criterion Pictures USA, which handles 20th Century Fox and a handful of others. A brochure tailored to colleges, detailing how to obtain proper licensing, can be downloaded from

the Swank Motion Pictures website.

Exceptions to the rule, for example, exist when a film is screened only to students enrolled in a registered accredited college classroom when the film is an “integral part of a class session.”

The screening can still not be announced to the public.

“Student Involvement tries really hard to inform all of the organizations on campus,” Ladely said. “But I just don’t think people pay any attention.”

Much of the reason the violations are so severe comes from financial implications.

“It’s tantamount to stealing,” Ladely said. “Because everybody that works for the film, who is entitled to residuals, gets money every time you rent a film. If you’re just renting it for a couple of bucks from RedBox, that’s a lot less than if you’re renting it from Swank for $500. It really is a serious matter.”

As a theater specializing in independent filmmaking, the Ross has an especially high stake in clearing up these misconceptions.

“We’re showing films here at the Ross all the time,” Ladely said. “And if a student group is showing a film in a classroom for free, that means that somebody might not come to the Ross.

We have to get butts in the seats to survive. If you want to do a film series and pay for it, more power to you,

but you have to make sure you’re doing it legally.”

Ladely said that when he sees notices for upcoming screenings that could be breaking the law, he contacts those involved to make sure they know of the requirements.

“Mostly I want to protect them,” he said. “I don’t want them to get in trouble.”

Of course, different organizations require different steps.

Brianna Tichy, a senior international studies major and president of UNL’s Czech Komensky club, said her organization has taken proper precautions to avoid overstepping the law.

“Our program is funded primarily through the Czech Language Foundation at UNL,” Tichy said. “But also we get permission from the Czech government to play our movies, because we play them for educational purposes. They actually send us films to show.”

Saskova-Pierce said the Czech Republic has been supportive of the club and its screenings.

“With the Czech films that are shown by the Czech club, they were provided by the Ministry of Culture of the

Czech Republic and also by the Ministry of Education,” s h e

said. “ T h e y cleared for us the copyright dues.

That’s the ministry, the government, and they have the right to do it. And they did it as support of the Czech language program at the University of Nebraska as part of their financial support.”

While the club has attempted to contact the proper authorities for screening Russian films, they’ve yet to receive proper permission.

“We have contacted the Russian embassy, but we didn’t get any answer,” she said. “So we just don’t have the support from the Russian government.”

While it may seem the chances of being caught are a long shot, Ladely said the Internet makes announcements too public to be safe.

“Some companies don’t care too much,” he said. “But still, if you were showing a

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Disney film, Disney is really persnickety, and they probably have staff that Google and look for violations like this all the time.”

He likened the process to scalping football tickets, which earlier this year caused some University of Nebraska-Lincoln students’ tickets to be revoked. When each screening is meant to cost hundreds of dollars, studios take notice.

“It wouldn’t be that hard to find the (Daily Nebraskan) article about the Russian club showing movies, especially if you list titles,” Ladely said. “It doesn’t sound like you could ever get caught, but you could.”

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eklund: from 5 the note ‘A’ sounds blue.

While every synesthete’s experiences are different, he says there tend to be patterns and trends in associations.

With the creative implications of this kind of perception, it stands to reason that synesthetes would gravitate toward arts and music. It’s a phenomenon that often shows up in the classroom.

“It’s not unusual for me to ask ‘What color is this section?’” Eklund said. “I can’t be the only one that has it in the choir, because someone will say ‘light blue.’ For some kids it’s very easy for them to come up with colors like that. Others really have to work at it, like ‘what are you talking about? What do you mean what temperature is this piece?’”

In Eklund’s manner of thinking, experiencing music as color gives unique nuance and control to conducting.

“In a way I want my ensemble to experience a similar mood, one mood at a time,” he said. “If I’m with my University Singers, 75 of them, I want them to all have one mood. Because then when you’re sitting in the audience, and you’re getting one emotion from 75 people, you get it.”

Synesthesia also brings an awareness that everyone, synesthete or not, experiences the world in their own way.

“Plain and simple, we are all wired differently,” Eklund said. “The associations that people make, how people see something and relate it to something, or hear something and relate it, or smell something and relate it. We all bring different life experiences to the table.”

When teaching and mentoring individuals, this can be a vital skill.

“You’re thinking on a visual level, while they’re thinking on an aural level,” he said.

“We, as teachers, all have to

have a kinesthetic way of explaining and a cognitive way and an aesthetic way. Because you can give a cognitive response to somebody, and that doesn’t mean they’re going to get it. It means you probably could explain it in a better way.”

While conducting, Eklund says he focuses on establishing and maintaining trust and synergy and two University Singers members had high praise for Eklund’s skills in music and teaching.

“He is a father figure for me in college and is so involved in everything he does,” said Wyn Wiley, a sophomore business and music education major. “Dr. Eklund makes it a priority to show that he loves and cares for every one of his students in the Music College.

He has created a community at UNL that many students look for and love.”

Wiley believes that Eklund’s work extends to teaching clinics at high schools around the state, as well as working with choir directors across the Midwest. Josh Huls, a junior music education major, agreed that Eklund’s presence has benefited the university.

“His ability to diagnose problems in a choir is second to none,” he said. “When students are off-key, out of time or producing the wrong tone quality, Dr. Eklund will hear it, even if there are only a few people that are singing incorrectly.”

Whatever the sources of Eklund’s success, they appear to be working, and continue to be recognized.

“He is very professional yet still personable in and out of the choir setting,” Huls said.

“The school of music wouldn’t be the same today if it weren’t for the amount of effort that Dr. Eklund has put towards investing, challenging and educating his students.” cameronmount @dailynebraskan.com

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Louisiana-based band focuses on toe-tapping audience participation Kelsey Haugen Daily Nebraskan

Sure, it’s about their infectious rhythms and catchy songs, but above all, the purpose of any Dirtfoot concert is engaging an audience. The Louisianabased band wants its listeners on their feet all show long.

Dirtfoot consists of six musicians: Matt Hazelton (lead singer and acoustic guitar), J Bratlie (banjo and backing vocals), Scott Gerardy (saxophone and backing vocals), Nathan Woods (upright bass), Daniel Breithaupt (percussion) and Lane Bayliss (drummer). Hazelton and Bratlie have played together since 2000, but the band wasn’t formed until 2002 and the six-man crew didn’t begin taking their craft seriously until a few years later.

Dirtfoot’s music has been called “gypsy punk country grumble boogie,” but the band members generally choose not to classify it as a specific genre.

“There are so many different elements to the band, so it’s hard to classify exactly what it is,” Hazelton said. “It’s definitely a flavorful band.”

Though Dirtfoot doesn’t create a certain style of music, all of the members contribute their own musical taste to create an eclectic and multi-faceted sound.

“I think what makes this band unique is that we all come from different backgrounds of music, like jazz and musicals,” Hazelton said. “But on top of that, I would say there’s a lot of modern musicians who have inspired us, such as

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Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits.”

According to Bratlie, other artists have inspired Dirtfoot as well, such as R.E.M. and They Might Be Giants. The band may occasionally cover some of these artists’ songs, but the rest of the songs are their own, exhibiting a sound that’s quintessentially Dirtfoot.

It’s a sound that’s so rich and specific, it inspired the band’s moniker.

“It really just came from the vibe of the musicstomping on the front porch kind of thing,” Bratlie said. “It’s not really a literal meaning, but it just describes the feeling of the band.”

The band is currently promoting their latest album “Live and In Prison.” “(The album) was actually recorded live at a prison in front of about

300 inmates,” Hazelton said. “What we ended up doing was we made a music video. That was really cool.”

Not surprisingly, it was a little nerve-racking for the band to record their album in such a setting, but the experience ended up being very interesting and exciting for them.

“There were different elements from fear to excitement,” Hazelton said.

Dirtfoot created the album independently, as they do with all of their work. The band doesn’t have a record deal.

“In today’s world, we can do a lot of things ourselves, but if somebody big came along and the deal was right, we would definitely consider it,” Bratlie said.

For now, the band is self-funded and is content with that. The guys are

in it for their passion for music and to share it with others.

“I love the vibe when the crowd is involved,” Bratlie said. “It creates a unity between the band and the crowd, which is what we strive to reach.”

Hazelton also loves this aspect of performing.

“I like the rapport with the audience,” he said.

“It’s almost like our music is like a conversation that the audience becomes a part of.”

In this vein of appreciation, Dirtfoot hands out bean cans for audience members to shake at their concerts to get them to interact with the music. It’s part of the way they exhibit their passion.

“Play for seven people like you would for 700 people,” Hazelton said. kelseyhaugen@ dailynebraskan.com

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Lincoln Community Playhouse or the Johnny Carson School’s Theatrix program are “producing theater companies,” according to Shannon McClure, director of marketing and public relations for the Lied Center.

The Lied Center, on the other hand, buys its products from producing theater companies.

The Johnny Carson School provides each Theatrix show with a budget of $125 dollars. Compared to the Lincoln Community Playhouse’s annual budget of $500,000, a university student’s first lesson is how to make a little money go a long way.

Jordan Deffenbaugh, a senior theater major, recently finished directing “Killer Joe.” With his $125 budget, he said he first had to evaluate what he had and what he could get from others.

“The absolute last thing is buying,” Deffenbaugh said.

With a secured venue and lighting and sound system, the director and cast turned their eyes to the set, costumes and props.

Although an elaborate set, Deffenbaugh said nothing was paid for. Instead, they pulled parts of their set from a dumpster, a friend’s basement and various closets in the college itself.

“Theatrix has gotten much more creative in how they put together the productions,” he said. “With my

production, we were only given $125 and, if I’m not mistaken, we were under budget.”

Despite a vastly larger budget, the Lincoln Community Playhouse still looks for ways to stretch every dollar.

Morrie Enders, the executive director of the Lincoln Community Playhouse, said the first step in budgeting is figuring out what a production requires and whether the theater already has the items in stock.

“When you’re budgeting, what is it going to take to turn money into production in order to tell the story to the audience that we want to tell?” Enders said.

Extra expenses are sometimes added depending on the kind of show being produced. A musical may require the theater to hire a musical director or choreographer.

At the base of each production is a learning experience for all.

The Johnny Carson School is part of the National Association of Schools of Theater, which is part of the arts accrediting body. Similar to accrediting associations for any other college on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, the association is in charge of making sure the theater students at the university are receiving a full education.

Part of the educational experience is a varied canon.

Pieces ranging from those written by Shakespeare to those written in ancient Greece to those written by modern playwrights can be found on a college stage.

“It allows students to take what they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it on stage,” Steger said. “For audiences, it allows them to see a variety of plays and a variety of different styles, so it also educates them.”

Although educational on a content level, college theater also has the ability to educate on an emotional level.

Some productions push limits, be it through explicit violence, sex or some other means.

Often at UNL, it’s the Theatrix program that picks these scripts. Steger explained the student group is completely independent and, aside from abiding by the school’s bylines and minor supervision from staff, they are responsible for putting on the production from the day they pick the script to opening night.

“They can push the boundaries a bit because it’s not about curricular-ly learning; it’s about them pushing their own limits,” Steger said.

On the other hand, professional theater provides a near-perfect theater experience for the audience.

Top actors brought in from across the nation, sometimes around the world, are cast in each part.

“When we bring in the greatest artists in the world, that certainly is an educational experience,” said Bill Stephan, the executive director for the Lied Center.

But caught between the professional and the professional students is community theater.

“We kind of have a little bit of the professional part as well as the educational part,” Enders said.

He explained that community theater is directed at teaching community members the “theater trade.”

Not only does the Lincoln Community Playhouse strive to put on top-notch performances, but it also hopes the six-to-eight weeks of rehearsals leading up to opening night are just as enjoyable for cast members.

Community members have the opportunity to learn technical skills, such as lighting, sound, set-building or costumes, or acting through the production process.

Unlike professional theater and university theater, community theater also provides the unique opportunity for those involved to work with varied age groups and varied levels of talent and

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Often characters are portrayed by people close to their age, Enders said. For example, a child’s part will be cast with a child.

“You can have, on the same stage, someone who’s never been in a play before and someone who’s been in so many plays, they could be professional,” Enders said.

The differences between those involved, Enders argued, provide an opportunity to expand social skills and create a welcoming environment for those looking for their niche.

“Everybody needs their own spot,” he said. “For some people, it’s being involved in a theater production, so we

need to be there for those people.”

And for some, community theater is a way for those enamored by it to stay involved throughout the years.

“A lot of times, kids develop a passion for theater,” Enders said. “But somewhere along the way they decided they wanted to eat regularly and have a family.”

No matter what lessons are learned, however, there is nothing quite like a live show.

“It’s exciting; it’s fresh; and you never know what’s going to happen,” Stephan said. “It’s a very personal experience.”

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david: from 10 running backs, is it uncommon to see a small guy like David have great success?

“Maybe 10 years ago, I would have said yes,” defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said. “But you look around the league now and the guys

playing that position are more similar to him than the old style.

“Football as a whole has changed. There’s a lot of movement in the direction of speed guys like Lavonte’s type. The thing about Lavonte

that I think people lose sight of is that he’s 220 pounds. He can run like a safety, but at the point of attack, he’s as physical as anyone we have. He’ll take on a 240-lb. fullback. He isn’t just a speed guy. He’s a physical football player.”

Part of the reason David has adjusted to the Big Ten is his natural instincts. David arrived on campus a year ago just before the start of fall camp and was in competition with several other linebackers that had been in the complicated Pelini system for several years.

But David quickly picked up what he needed and figured the rest out on the field. And while he’s not taking down ball carriers at his record-breaking pace of last year, Pelini said he can tell the senior has a much better grasp

on the defense.

“I think I got a lot better knowing the concepts of the defense: knowing where I got to be, communicating,” David said. “I think I came a long way.”

Not only has David had to adjust to the guys across the line of scrimmage, but also those next to him. Last year he was commonly flanked by cornerbacks as NU went heavy on nickel and dime defenses.

This year, the Huskers have employed much more of a

traditional 4-3 look, putting David next to fellow linebackers Will Compton and Sean Fisher instead of defensive backs.

But, as it always seems to be with David, the transition has been seamless. He’s currently tied for second in the Big Ten in tackles.

“He’s played like an AllAmerican,” Pelini said. “I haven’t had one critique of him. He’s played really well all year.” danhoppen@ dailynebraskan.com

football: from 10 said. But days can still wear at a guy.

“I’d say the physical grind is a little bit more outweighing,” Bell said. “But any time the physical gets, the mental is going to get worse.”

Several players and coaches have said NU’s bye week helped the situation, giving everyone a break for some mental and physical relaxation.

“You’ve just got to lock down as a team. It’s not a single guy, it’s a team mentality” Bell said. “It’s tough not only for us, but for everyone in the nation. Those top ten teams that choose to strap it up and get ready for the second half – those are the guys you’re going

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Sophomore Stacy Bartels and the Huskers know the game against Iowa is big for their hopes of getting to the Big Ten conference tournament. exhibition game in Lincoln.

Even though the game will give Nebraska something to prepare for, don’t expect the same Iowa team to step onto the pitch on Thursday, according to Bartels.

“They are a good team that has beaten some impressive teams,” Bartels said. “The difference between now and when we played them in the spring is that during the spring we are just looking to gain experience while now in every match so much is at stake.”

Emotions will be high when both teams take the field with so on the line, according to freshman Caroline Gray.

“This game will be a grudge match,” Gray said.

“Both teams know what we’re playing for and we are going to do what it takes to win.”

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on Thursday, the remaining games for the Huskers are against teams battling for a spot in the Big Ten Tournament. Nebraska will host second place Illinois and then travel north to take on Minnesota, who is in a tie for sixth.

Winning out will most likely have to be the case for Nebraska to have a shot to make the tournament according to Gray.

Despite the pressure to win, the Huskers are just going to keep doing what they have always done, according to sophomore goalkeeper Emma Stevens.

“We are just going to do what we always do,” Stevens said. “We are going to continue attacking both offensively and defensively. If we do that, we will have the best chance to win.” andrewward@ dailynebraskan.com

volleyball: from 10 definitely impressed.

“She’s been turning it up for a long time this season,” he said. “Her and Lauren are in a really good rhythm and they’re doing a nice job.”

Hannah Werth carried Nebraska in the first set, with five kills and seven digs in just 39 rallies. After the 1111 start, NU utilized Werth and setter Lauren Cook, who had three kills in the first, to go on a 14-3 run and take the first set. The team hit .286 in the first set, a number that would have been .333 if a questionable Gina Mancuso error call had gone NU’s way. Iowa hit .047.

The second set was hardly better for coach Sharon Dingman’s squad. The only real accomplishment the Hawkeyes had was stopping NU twice on set point – they still lost 25-14. Mancuso led the set with six kills, and narrowly missed the boundary on two others.

With the match well out of hand, Cook gave some lesser used players a little seasoning in the third set, with Jordan Wilberger, Shelby Winkelmann and Brigette Root putting in cameos. The result: more of the same. NU had a seven point run to start and, after briefly struggling, had another before eventually winning 25-11. Wilberger had a major impact off the bench, with three kills, two digs and three block assists in the set.

All told, the 4,134 fans in attendance were able to get home pretty early, as it took only 1:23 for the Husker victory. They may have used the extra time to

think about the next time NU takes the court: NU faces undefeated, top-ranked Illinois on Saturday in a match that could decide next week’s No. 1 ranking in both the AVCA and RPI and will leave the victor in sole possession of firstplace in the Big Ten conference.

The players certainly seemed excited after the match.

“It’s going to be a great opportunity,” Lauren Cook said. “It’s going to be great.

It’s going to be a fun time.

We know that no matter what, we’re going to give it our all and just have a great time.”

What excited them even more, however, was their play tonight, which resulted in NU’s 14th straight win overall and 27th straight at the Coliseum. NU has now won the front end of each of their home-and-away Big Ten matches (the Huskers face Illinois and Northwestern only once), including four sweeps.

“We really focused yesterday on not looking past this game, and (not) letting this team getting points on us and possibly taking us to five (sets) or getting a win,” Mancuso said. “So we really focused, not to look ahead to this weekend, but on tonight’s match.”

That focus had a little help from six little items coach Cook found in his office.

“Coach put little mouse traps in our locker room,” Lauren Cook said. “I almost stepped on one – they were fully loaded. That was his way of showing us.” seanwhalen@ dailynebraskan.com

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Gusts of wind lift the heavy tarp sides of the tent, slamming them back down against leaning galvanized poles. Head coach Jay Dirksen’s eyes squint as the blistering breeze cuts through.

“Our men didn’t perform well at all this past weeke n d , ” D i r k sen said. “ T h e m e e t was the best I’ve seen in 42 years of coachi n g .

T h e r e dirksen was so much talent there.

Twenty of the top 30 teams in the nation in men’s and women’s were there.”

Last Saturday the Husker cross country team traveled to Madison, Wisc., competing in the Adidas Invitational at University Ridge Golf Course. Senior co-captain Ashley Miller placed 91st in the meet while junior Trevor Vidlak led the men, placing 171st. Overall, the women’s team placed 32nd and the men’s team placed 38th.

“Coach Dirksen isn’t one of those guys who talks a

lot to get his runners motivated,” Vidlak said. “He expects us to have the desire to get better every day and I respect that.”

After 29 seasons with the Huskers cross country team, Dirksen plans to retire after this season, moving to Hot Springs, Ark. with his wife.

Rubbing his eyebrows, Dirksen takes a deep breath of the dry autumn air.

“It’s frustrating when you see someone with lots of talent and they don’t push themselves to get better,” Dirksen said. “We don’t have a lot of experience in meets like this last one where all the teams have great runners. I don’t think this last meet reflected the full potential of any of our runners.”

Dirksen knows that his life won’t be the same after this year.

A string of runners make their way into the tent lacing up their shoes, preparing for the chilly gusts swirling around the outside of the tent.

“My life has revolved around track and field for a very long time,” Dirksen said. “I’m going to miss the relationships I develop with the kids starting when they’re freshmen and going all the way through their senior year.”

Dirksen won a state meet

in high school and multiple conference meets as a student at South Dakota State.

He went on to become the women’s coach at Missouri, an assistant men’s coach at Illinois and men’s coach at South Dakota State, Dirksen says he decided to stay at Nebraska for the 29 years he’s coached because of the balance of student athletes.

Dirksen greets the runners, asking them about their day and how they feel.

“They do things the right way here,” Dirksen said.

“They make sure that kids get an education and then they can compete. I wanted to be a part of that.”

Growing up in South Dakota, Dirksen’s father worked as an engineer and his mother as a nurse. He says that he learned early in his life that he had to work hard to get what he wanted.

“People nowadays seem to think that people owe them something,” Dirksen said. “In running you only get out of it what you put into it. There’s no shortcut.

I hope that after I leave they will know that they have to keep practicing and pushing to get better.”

Dirksen says that he treats his runners like he would expect to be treated.

“The respect that he has for us and that we have for him doesn’t happen all the

He’s one of those guys who, at the end of the day, treats you like family.”

Trevor Vidlak nebraska junior

time,” Vidlak said. “He’s one of those guys who, at the end of the day, treats you like family. He shows up everyday ready to help us get better.”

Suffering from a heart attack last summer, Dirksen says he can’t wait to start running again.

“I’m 66 years old but that doesn’t mean I can’t stay healthy and active,” Dirksen said. “I walk every day but I’m hoping my doctor will clear me soon.”

Dirksen stands up and slides his chair underneath the bare round table, massaging his shoulder.

With the Big Ten conference championship next in the season, Dirksen says he’s preparing for life after track and field, finding comfort in a motto he applies to both running and life.

“The first step out the door is always the hardest,” Dirksen said. “Once you get out there it’s really not so bad.” codyelmore@ dailynebraskan.com

men’s tennis

Huskers prepare for fall regionals Nedu Izu Daily Nebraskan

After having three days of rest, the Nebraska men’s tennis team will play in the Regionals Tournament starting Thursday hosted in Tulsa, Okla.

The Huskers are coming off a tournament in Norman, Oklahoma where they came back with a doubles championship won by seniors Benedikt Lindheim and Christopher Aumueller.

Lindheim said he was p r o u d with his doubles play at the OU Invitational. “ I t ’ s always a great feeling winning lindheim a title,” he said.

“I had two great wins but in the semifinals I didn’t play my best, but that happens. I think Christopher and I did a good job overall in the tournament.”

The duo of Lindheim and Aumueller went 3-0 in the tournament, including two straight wins Sunday to earn the title for Nebraska.

NU coach Kerry McDermott said the two have good chemistry and having being working hard for this weekend’s tournament.

“It was good to see their hard work payoff last weekend,” he said. “Now they’re trying to get ready as a duo this weekend for the regional. They’re working to get better together and they know there will be some competition this weekend at the regionals.”

The Regionals Tournament will mark the second time this year Nebraska has visited Tulsa. The trip will also include teams such as Arkansas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, teams the Huskers played in their last invitational.

Lindheim, who had one of his losses last weekend come to Cowboy’s tennis player Rifat Biktyakov, said

he’s happy to get another chance to play the same competitors.

“I’d love to play him again,” he said. “I want to get revenge and play him again. I think it’s great to play against the same guy again because for me, it’s motivation.”

McDermott said this is the best and most competitive tournament the Cornhuskers will play this semester.

“For this tournament, teams will bring at least their top two players,” he said.

“Some will bring all their guys but only the top 32 will qualify for nationals. This weekend will bring out the best in our guys and I know they want to rise to the challenge.”

Since the Huskers came back from their trip, they’ve been practicing every day in preparation for the tournament. Tennis coach Joerg Barthel said that he’s been proud with the play of Aumueller and Lindheim lately.

“They’re very different and that’s what makes them a good team,” he said.

“They’ve known each other for 15 years. They both return very well and that they can beat any team in the country. That’s why they’re ranked so high.”

However, the coach thinks the leadership by the seniors needs to be stronger.

“In order to get better you need to work harder every day,” he said. “We’ve been pretty sloppy the last 10 days of practice. Some guys have been bothered by things off the court. I think we need to be more aggressive and have that attitude we had at the All-American Tournament and realize we need to go after it.”

Another doubles team the Huskers will be sending to Oklahoma to compete are Andre Stenger and Robert Schulze.

Barthel said he would not be surprised if the two make it into the finals this weekend.

“They play well, positively, and we’re pretty confident with these two as our No. 2 doubles team,” he said.

“I would not be surprised

actually if they beat or go farther then Lindheim and Aumueller. The two haven’t played much together, but right now they’re showing us how well they communicate, how they need to work together as a team.”

In their freshman year, Aumueller and Lindheim both played in the Regionals tournament and qualified for the finals. McDermott said it would be nice to see the pair win it all this time around.

“Coaches were shocked to see them perform so well in their first year,” he said.

“Now as seniors they’re ranked 13th in the country and they want to win it this time. I know when they step on the court they’ll be thinking ‘We did it as freshman; now let’s do it as seniors’.

“If they win their next few

matches they’ll qualify for nationals. I think they can do that this weekend and it’ll mean a lot to them and be great to see.”

The tournament runs Oct. 20 – Oct. 24. Lindheim said that although it’s been the shortest break Nebraska’s had all year, he’s ready to get back on the court and play with his teammate.

“It’s only been three days but it hasn’t been that bad,” he said. “It’s our last year and I’m looking forward to playing with him again.

We’ve been to the finals before. I think it’s time for us to finally win it all and I’m pretty confident.

“I think if we continue this winning and keep aggressive, we’ll hopefully play in the title match.” neduizu@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska defeats iowa 25-14, 25-14, 25-11

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Lavonte David has made his presence known for a second straight season.

NU volleyball captain Brigitte Root and the Huskers picked up their ninth win in Big Ten play, taking them to their weekend match against No. 1 Illinois.

avoiding the

trap

The No. 2 Huskers used all facets of their game to take down Iowa

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ooking at the court Wednesday night, one would think the Nebraska volleyball team had just won a national championship. The entire team was huddled at center court screaming, and Hannah Werth was lifting cocaptain Brigette Root into the air.

NU hadn’t won a national championship: They had just swept an overmatched Iowa squad. But the fact that senior co-captain Root, a backup setter, had come in for just one rally and came away with the match-ending

kill that had several players feeling very emotional.

Not that Root thought twice about it.

“Coach always tells us to swing on game point and Hannah set a great ball, so why not?” Root said.

That kill was just the cherry on top of a dominant Husker victory. After three Iowa points evened the first set at 11, the Huskers (16-1, 9-0) played up to their conference record. Nebraska swept 25-14, 25-14, 25-11 to stay unbeaten in conference play.

NU won with balance, as three players had at least 20

attacks. It won with defense, out-blocking the Hawkeyes 8-1 and having more digs (63-45) while holding Iowa to a 0 hitting percentage.

And it won thoroughly, using only two time outs and never letting Iowa come anywhere near taking a set.

All in all, just another night of playing “Nebraska” volleyball.

“I think everything’s been clicking a lot lately,” Gina Mancuso said. “And we’ve just been figuring it out it’s all about having fun and just executing. Everyone’s doing a great job.”

Mancuso was the star of the night, notching 14 kills, nine digs and two block assists while hitting .345. She said she “couldn’t (have nights like these) without my teammates,” but with Morgan Broekhuis having a bad night (.100) and no other player with more than eight kills, her offense was invaluable to the team – particularly in the final two sets, where her 11 kills matched the entire Hawkeye team.

Coach John Cook was

Smaller David maintains big numbers Dan Hoppen Daily Nebraskan

If the Big 12 was characterized as a quarterback-driven league filled with high-scoring offenses and dictionarysized playbooks, the Big Ten was billed as a physical, black-and-blue conference that left its participants with scores of bruises each Sunday morning.

While the flashy skill position players got the publicity in NU’s former league, in the Big Ten it’s more about the guys up the middle, the linemen and linebackers. And they’re big guys.

Lavonte David is not.

David is 6-foot-1, 225 pounds and has safety speed, making him perfect for the Big 12. But some fans wondered how the AllAmerican candidate would fare against the beefy offensive lines and fullbacks of the Big Ten, where the power running game rules.

David heard all the hype of Big Ten linebackers

coming in. He understood most of those guys were bigger than he is. He just didn’t care.

“I knew it was going to be a great linebacker conference,” David said. “I don’t worry about what people have to say about me. I just have to do what I have to do.”

It’s hard to argue with the results.

After setting the school record for tackles a year ago, David has again been the focal point of the NU defense. He has 58 tackles, six of which are for loss, to go along with his two sacks and an interception.

His strip and ensuing recovery of Ohio State’s Braxton Miller in the Oct. 8 win completely changed the tone of the game.

But in a conference when dominant linebackers look more like tight ends than

david: see page 8

Soccer pins tourney hopes Huskers look toward strong finish on Iowa defeat volleyball: see page 9

Andrew Ward

Jeff Packer Daily Nebraskan

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Six games down and six to go.

Coming out of their bye week, those on the Nebraska football team find themselves looking ahead to an October and November full of new opponents.

Along with that, they’ve reached Big Ten divisional play and they know they need wins.

“We’ve got some big games coming up,” NU receiver Kenny Bell said. “The number one thing we want to do is win out.”

These Huskers don’t think that expectation is lofty. When looking at the late-season performances around here the past few years, one can understand why.

Nebraska is 15-3 in the final six games of each of the three regular seasons under NU coach Bo Pelini’s staff. The only losses in that span were to Oklahoma in 2008, Iowa State in 2009, and Texas A&M last season.

“Well, I would hope that you always get better the more you’ve practiced, the more development that happens,” Pelini said. “I think we’re getting better right now. I feel good about where this football team is going and what its potential is.”

The right to play in the Big Ten Tournament is on the line in Lincoln Thursday afternoon.

The Nebraska women’s soccer squad will host Iowa in a critical conference showdown. Both the Hawkeyes and Huskers are in the middle of a six-team battle for four spots to play for the Big Ten title in Evanston, Ill. Penn State, Illinois and Michigan State hold the one through three spots in the standings with 21, 16 and 15 points respectively.

Those three teams, barring complete catastrophe, will play in the conference tournament at the end of the season.

For the remainder of the Big Ten, Northwestern receives an automatic bid despite having only four points in 2011 because it is the host team. With the top three spots seemingly taken, that leaves four spots for the rest of the conference to claim.

Just four points separate six teams, ranking four through 10 in the Big Ten standings. In the match

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The Huskers have been tough to beat down the stretch during the Bo Pelini era at Nebraska.

In the month of October, Pelini’s squads have posted a 7-5 record. In November, the Huskers are 10-2 in three seasons.

Senior defensive end Cameron Meredith believes the Huskers’ conditioning has made the late-season success pattern possible.

“A lot of it has to do with Coach Dobson,” Meredith said of the program’s strength coach. “He’s done a great job with conditioning and the way we lift weights. I think that’s a big key to our success.”

The Huskers have reached the point in the season when players can hit a mental and

physical grind. In a contact sport, getting over each of those humps can be difficult.

The Huskers will mix up their use of pads in practice as the season wanes down, Meredith

football: see page 8

in Lincoln Thursday afternoon, the winner will take a significant step toward a chance to compete for the Big Ten title, according to sophomore Stacy Bartels.

“Every game is now vital for us to win,” Bartels said.

“If we win, it will be like a six-point swing for us, we will get three points, which in turn means our opponent will not get a chance to receive those points.”

Two points is the difference between Nebraska and Iowa as the Huskers enter the match in tenth place with nine points while the Hawkeyes enter in a tie for sixth with 11 points. However, if NU wins it will move ahead of Iowa in the standings.

Unlike some of the other teams Nebraska has played this year, the Huskers have had some experience against this team even though they are from a different conference.

NU is 4-0-0 against the Hawkeyes overall, though the last time the two teams played, it was a spring

soccer: see page 9