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Maly said she feels appreciated throughout the year.

“They’re very considerate each year; you get to know some of the students real well,” Maly said. “I have international students working for me. I bring them out into the country so they can see things besides the city.”

Inside the new College of Business Administration advising office at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, five students waited for the next available adviser, degree audit and homework in hand. A busy advising office is the first sign of registration season at UNL. The focus for improving enrollment this year was decreasing waiting times in advising offices and staggering registration days by grade level. That way, older students can get into their needed classes for graduation.

The five students in CBA would have occupied every available chair in the center’s previous location, said D’vee Buss, assistant dean of the College of Business Administration. In its new location, the advising center has taken several steps to reduce congestion in its waiting area, allowing students to make advising appointments, opt for a cellphone notification when an adviser becomes available or take advantage of the additional seating, Buss said. Also, the center allotted specific times for each class, senior through freshman. So far, according to Buss, the changes have paid off.

“You don’t see massive amounts of people, and you don’t see people standing in line,” she said.

Priority registration for next semester kicked off Monday for graduate students and seniors, with the period ending Nov. 8.

But the process established to speed up enrollment is sometimes confusing, with some younger students allegedly registering before more seniors.

While it might appear some students have registered ahead of their class appointment, Earl Hawkey, UNL director of Registration and Records, said that’s not the case. Some class registration periods run backto-back. Hawkey said that might create a scenario in which freshmen register on the same day as sophomores.

Ultimately, the format for class registration isn’t meant to punish freshmen, he said. Instead, Hawkey said the format helps those with few options secure the classes they need and stay on track to graduate on time.

Hawkey said while theoretically the ability to enroll every student at once exists, it doesn’t make sense from a practicality standpoint and puts too much pressure on students and advisers.

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Aaron Hill, a junior business administration major, searches for a book for his film studies class in the basement of Love Library North on Oct. 25. The library’s collection experiences a great deal of wear and tear over the year, according to Joan Barnes, development and outreach librarian, but the library has a variety of options to help retain the books before recycling them.

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ome people pack unwanted books in cardboard boxes and store them in the attic or basement, while other books gather dust sitting on bookshelves. Some send unwanted books to Goodwill or donate them to local libraries. University of Nebraska-Lincoln libraries do not have the same options.

UNL Libraries houses more than 3 million books, according to the UNL Libraries “About” page.

“All of our libraries are pretty packed with material,” said Joan Barnes, a development and outreach librarian at UNL. “Our storage facility on East Campus is 80 percent full.”

With that, many books in the library collection books go unused, begin to fall apart or are just out of date. Shelf room becomes limited.

So what is done to make more room on the shelves?

The choice to donate is not available, because the books are state-owned property, Barnes said. The quality of some books is also an issue.

“Donating something that’s falling apart to charity is not going to help the charity,” she added.

Because books are not donated anywhere, another option is to recycle them.

“It’s necessary to do this to create room for volumes of new information,” Barnes said. Shipping unwanted books somewhere is more costly for UNL Libraries. Its budget is used for acquiring books, not for shipping, Barnes said.

But recycling books is the last option when it comes to making room on the library shelves. The actual number of recycled books is small.

Librarians take other steps before choosing to recycle a book: looking at the book condition, determining if there are new editions and the possibility of repair.

Spines of books fall apart, the paper becomes brittle and mold sometimes develops on books.

Roddy Humeniak, the lead preservation technician at UNL Libraries, has seen all kinds of book damage, ranging from dogs chewing on books to people spilling coffee to the use of duct tape.

“Tape is the worst thing you can do to a book,” Humeniak said. She repairs about 100 books per month and has seen her fair share of beat-up books.

Older books are placed in micro-climate boxes, which protect the book’s spine and protect the book from humidity, light and temperature. Microclimate boxes help slow down deterioration.

“If we can repair (the books) early, we can keep the books from microclimate boxes,” Humeniak said.

If pages are crumbling or the book is unusable, she checks the five-state area to see if the book is available there. She also checks with librarians to see if the book is worth preserving.

“They might see something I don’t see,”

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Roddy Humeniak, lead preservation technician for UNL Libraries, demonstrates the measuring process that she and the preservation staff use for each book before ordering the micro-climate boxes that protect older books from further wear. Humeniak said it’s important for the micro-climate boxes to be a tight fit so that the fragile books don’t bounce around inside when handled.

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College students are messy.

With late nights of homework, jobs and extra-curricular activities, hygienic living spaces can get lost between stacks of old pizza boxes and the piece of lint that is slowly gaining a consciousness. Luckily for students, teams of maintenance workers and custodians work tirelessly to keep the halls, bathrooms

and lobbies of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s buildings clean.

This week, from Oct. 24 to Oct. 28, is Residence Hall Appreciation Week, aimed at recognizing those responsible for the behind-the-scenes work that occurs on a daily basis for the benefit of UNL students.

Throughout the week, students made sure to thank maintenance workers, residence hall workers and many others with

posters, notes and the occasional verbal “thank you.”

Though residence halls’ methods of recognition vary, most share the same schedule. Monday was dedicated to recognizing facilities workers and Tuesday was for dining services. Wednesday is Residence Hall Government and Student Leader Recognition Day, followed by Residence Life Recognition Day and Central Housing Recognition Day.

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Despite the dedication of the week to the cause, many workers are unaware of the occasion.

“We were getting all these thank yous and a beautiful sign from the staff and we didn’t know why,” said LuAnn Maly, the custodial supervisor for Knoll Residence Center, Selleck Quadrangle and Kauffman Academic Residential Center.

Despite her department being unaware of the week,

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1. Allocation of $350 to purchase the remaining mugs from the company before the mugs are destroyed.

2. Absorption of national communication chair’s duties into the duties of the vice presidents and the removal of the national communication chair’s position. votes 1. Bill passed 35 for, 0 against 2. Resolution passed 32 for, one abstaining and 0 against

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donated by friends, family and professors. The group raised quite a lot of donations, but not enough, according to Pimsiree Suwan, treasurer for the group and graduate student in food science and technology.

It’s still possible to send donations through Nov. 2 for the effort, and anyone willing to help can contact Suwan at psm_24@hotmail. com.

All of the additional donations will be transferred to “Relief Thailand 2011” for a flooding relief organization called “Nam-eay Najmai.”

“The flood has been very bad,” Suwan said. “We still need more money.”

This is not the first time that Thai Association has reached out to its home country. In 2005, the group organized a fundraiser and collected $1,000 for flood

relief in Southeast Asia after the Tsunami in December 2004. One of the members at that time, Angela Pochanasomburana, a UNL graduate geography student, helped the fundraising in her own way by performing a traditional Thai dance at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture. The International Student Organization Tsunami relief effort group also benefited from the assistance of the Thai Association when the group helped raise $3,000 for the UNICEF relief fund for the same cause.

The group has been on campus since 1999, when it was founded by Thai students and became a Recognized Student Organization. One of the students’ goals was to introduce peers to the culture of their homeland. To do that, the association organized a

number of events, among them the celebrations of the Songkran Festival, the traditional Thai New Year, which was celebrated in April 2001, and “Thai Night” in 2004.

Apart from that, the group also joins public events on campus, as well as outside UNL, building strong ties to the Thai community of Lincoln, which meets the group with general support.

The organization’s website provides prospective students from Thailand with guides to housing, information about where to buy a phone and other tips. To become a member of the Thai Association, a person doesn’t have to be enrolled at UNL. University staff, alumni and people who are not affiliated with UNL are all welcome to join.

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MyRED added a shopping cart for students to compile a variety of classes to choose from. MyRED registration also led to enrollment appointments, which rotated when students registered based on a randomly assigned time and date that changed priority every semester.

Online registration allowed students to input their course call numbers and view their class selections at once. Times depended upon their year in school and the last digit of their Social Security number.

registration: from 1 Students would call one of the 48 university-phone lines and dial the call numbers for their selected classes individually.

Humeniak said. “I might see a book falling apart, but they might see a first edition.”

Other problems plague books, such as red rot and mold.

Leather bound books face the issue of red rot, which is the deterioration of leather. Humeniak said nothing can be done to repair red rot.

Mold is the other issue.

“Occasionally, we get a book with mold,” Humeniak said. “That’s the last thing you want in a library. It’s immediately bagged and withdrawn from the shelves.”

The libraries are well maintained, Humeniak said.

Books taken off the shelves are usually replaced with a newer edition or an electronic edition. Even though Barnes said students prefer the electronic versions, they are much more expensive. But increased electronic purchases have left a little more room on the shelves.

“People have connected (selecting old books) as a negative process,” Barnes said. “But because of the amount of room we have on the shelves, some of it’s a positive process to deselect materials that are falling apart.”

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Students filled out bubble forms requesting classes then, waited three to four weeks to find out which classes they recieved. Students would have to make an appointment to add or change classes, waiting for several hours to change their schedules.

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ROBIN WALZ Last Friday, students in the Nebraska Union helped raise money for flood relief efforts in Thailand — by eating egg rolls.

On Oct. 21, the Thai Association of University of Nebraska gave away free egg rolls to encourage donations. Thailand has been hit by heavy rainstorms during the monsoon season; an estimated 8.6 million people have been affected in the densely populated country, and more than 300 people have died in Thailand alone. So the Thai group decided to do something to help.

“The group is very active,” said Ian Newman, the group’s adviser and professor of educational psychology. “They were hoping to raise funds for a donation.”

Two channels were used to bring the relief funds to where it was needed: Relief Thailand 2011 and the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington, D.C. Kanokwan Teingtham, president of the Thai Association and agronomy graduate student, the group strategically chose spring rolls.

“We wanted to show appreciation for the people who donate,” Teingham said. “Everyone here loves spring rolls so it worked well.”

To make sure its donation goal was reached, the Thai Association was planning to donate the remaining amount from its own funds. Luckily, the fundraising managed to make $300 in donations, and the remaining sum was

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gives students time to take care of last-minute advising questions and avoids flooding advisers, he said.

“It’s not because we hate freshmen,” Hawkey said.

“But from a scheduling perspective, they have the most flexibility.”

Adi Gill has a lot of flexibility in her schedule.

Gill is a freshman who recently switched her major from special education to international studies.

She hopes her classes remain available when she

enrolls on Nov. 3. Adding classes to her MyRed shopping cart inside the Nebraska Union, Gill said she didn’t get the chance to experience the enrollment process this summer because she was visiting Israel and had to fill out the mail-in enrollment packet.

“I don’t know if I should be worried,” she said.

But Gill said her adviser helped alleviate some of the stress of registration.

Gill said she was bombarded with information at

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One member resigned and others discussed upcoming Halloween events at the most recent Residence Hall Association meeting.

The Oct. 25 RHA meeting started off on a light note with pizza provided by Residence Life in honor of residence hall government and Student Leader Recognition Day as a part of Residence Hall Recognition Week. After a 10-minute recess to delve into Domino’s, the group moved on to a more somber focus: the resignation of the national communications chair, Dan Muccino, a sophomore mechanical engineering major.

“Basically, it was a discussion Dan and I had last night,” said RHA President Kevin Rush, a junior special education major. “Due to some prior obligations, some external factors, he and I decided the best means for our organization to move forward was for him to step down. He sent me a letter of resignation this afternoon.”

Because of the step down, a change of constitution was brought forward as Special Resolution 10, a revision to the constitution. The resolution passed with 32 in favor and one abstaining. Under the resolution, the national committee chairman’s position is now absorbed into the vice president’s list of duties.

“With this constitutional change we have today, in the future, whenever the vice president is elected that person will automatically be considered in the national communications role as well,” Rush said.

The position’s duties included coordinating

delegations to national and regional RHA meetings, attending regional meetings and maintaining communications on a national level.

The second important point of the meeting was Special Bill Eight, an allocation of funds to buy the remaining sustainable RHA mugs from the supplier.

Mug sales thus far have provided $2,000, leaving 156 mugs that the company made but did not sell.

“We only purchased a set amount but they made more because we fly through them,” said RHA secretary Sarah Elwell, a senior animal science major. “They made them and they’re there, and it’s either we purchase them or they get recycled.”

Treasurer Ryan King asked the senate to consider the future when looking at the purchase.

“We’re going to need them in the future so why not purchase them,” King said.

The vote to buy the remaining mugs for $350 from Whirley-DrinkWorks passed unanimously with 35 votes.

The events planning committee came forward with an advance notification of ’90s night, planned for Nov. 10. The advertising committee also announced its plan for “Twitter Trivia Tuesdays” and “Facebook Fridays,” the prizes for both of which will be put into a drawing for Red Mango bucks. Various residence halls also came forward with Halloween-themed events, including a murder mystery for Kauffman Academic Residential Center students and a Harper, Schramm and Smith Halls Halloween event for children.

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her latest advising session.

Ultimately, her adviser outlined which classes she should take next semester.

And if she has any questions, Gill said she could get help from her sorority, Alpha Phi, which hosted a registration help session for its youngest members Tuesday night.

Until Nov. 3, Gill said all she can do is hope her introductory Spanish, philosophy, political science and history courses stay open.

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rha week: from 1 Maly originally took the job 25 years ago as a part of a group of women from Valparaiso.

“And now they’re all retired and I’m left,” Maly said. “It’s 28 miles one way, 56 miles a day, but it’s been a wonderful experience. (I) got to know a lot of nice people.”

Those people are the reason she enjoys her job. However, cleaning up some of the messes in the restroom is her least favorite part. “But we do

it anyway,” she said with a chuckle.

Elmer Wemhoff is another worker who, while feeling thanked, was unaware of the special week.

“I haven’t noticed; it is just about the same,” said Wemhoff, a maintenance worker at Neihardt. “I saw some signs up on doors and maybe that’s how they were doing it. I’m recognized every day though.”

After working as a carpenter

for 25 years, Wemhoff took the job 13 years ago to keep out of the elements.

“I was 50 then, and now I’m 60,” he said. “This is a wonderful place to work.

“My favorite thing is, well, I like doing everything. I don’t really have a favorite thing.

I’m just glad to do it for them.

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Religious beliefs filter into everyday actions

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writers “How did you come to your religious beliefs?” Each day, the opinion section will run one or two columns answering this question. today features columnists bethany trueblood and carrie zepf.

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was in junior high the first time I wrote my testimony, my story for how I came to faith in Jesus Christ. During the years since, my testimony has become more than a one-time decision of faith: It’s about how I choose faith everyday.

My story begins with my parents. They were Christians when they married and intended to raise their children in their faith. Their methods weren’t authoritarian or controlling; they simply wanted my brother and I to know God. They helped us know God by reading the Bible to us.

They prayed with us before meals and just before bed.

They took us to church. My parents’ convictions of their faith inspired me to want to know God the way they did.

My parents also wished to share God’s love with us, which they expressed in many ways. They hugged and kissed me. They comforted me when I was sad. They ensured my well-being and encouraged my pursuits. They also disciplined me. When I was old enough to understand their discipline, I sometimes resented them, but I always respected them.

I was 5 when I decided I wanted to be a Christian.

Maybe it seems like a young age for one to decide his or her spiritual fate, but I was pretty sure I believed in God. I trusted my parents and my teachers at church that God must be real. I believed God created me, loved me and wanted me to love Him, too.

I believed Jesus, the son and human image of God, died on a cross as a measure of love. I didn’t entirely understand why Jesus died, but I knew that what he did seemed pretty important. I also believed Jesus miraculously raised from the dead, and that meant something, too.

My decision of faith came one day while I was walking up the stairs in my house. I thought about Bible school and a prayer I had learned.

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prayer, I stopped and dropped to my knees and officially told Jesus I believe in him.

As I grew older, I continued to develop my faith. Whether or not I realized it, I was making the decision every day to continue in my faith. When I came to college, I could have stopped being a Christian. I could have pushed God to the side while I pursued my education and formed new relationships.

But I couldn’t imagine my life without God. So I joined a campus ministry and found churches to go to. I made God a priority.

I’ve learned more about the meaning of faith in the past four and a half years than I have in my entire life. My faith in God acknowledges my faults and inadequacies; it admits my need for His grace to sustain my life when my human efforts fail. My faith is a belief that God’s love is more fulfilling than anything else I pursue, which isn’t to say I still don’t try to pursue other things, though.

Everyone, I’ve concluded, pursues that which they believe will give them life. I thought pursuits like becoming a successful writer, getting good grades, having lots of friends and being loved by a guy would give me life. While those things aren’t inherently bad, they don’t fulfill me like I hope they will. Sometimes I fail and relationships fall apart.

The experience of disappointment and the pain of a broken heart, though, always brings me back to God, the source where I find meaning. My belief in God doesn’t guard me from getting hurt.

But it does give me hope that I can get past the disappointment and brokenness and look forward to a better future.

Experience has been a key part in developing my faith.

As I’ve gotten older, life has become harder. There have been moments where my faith in God has been tested. My beliefs have been challenged and my heart turned upside down. I’ve had to wrestle with some deep questions.

All of this has only helped to strengthen my faith as I try to persevere through doubt.

That’s really what faith is, though: sticking to your beliefs when there is no clear evidence that what you believe is true.

Because my faith is shaped largely by experience, it’s hard for me to describe. I don’t get into intellectual battles with people over faith because I don’t think it’s about who is smarter. Faith is letting go of some of your intellect and accepting that there are some things you don’t understand.

I don’t really understand why God loves me. But I’ve felt His affection through the embrace of a friend. I’ve heard His soft voice in the encouraging words of my dad. I’ve gained strength I can only attribute to God to preserve through heartache. If there is one thing I do understand, it’s that I have a deep desire to love God back.

I remain a Christian because my faith is more than a set of beliefs — it’s a relationship with God. To walk away from my faith would be to cut off my deepest relationship, which I can’t imagine my life without. I feel a deep need for God and desire to keep pursuing Him. My testimony — my story — will only continue to evolve as I choose each day to keep following God.

Bethany Trueblood is a senior news-editorial major who enjoys conversations about faith and reading books by Donald Miller. reach her at bethanytrueblood@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Study abroad opportunities deserve notice

International Affairs has undergone a bit of a transformation recently. Students who visited might notice the turnover: Former director Christa Joy retired in early September. Rebecca Luhrs is the new acting director of study abroad, and Maegan Stevens-Liska is the acting assistant director.

Luhrs spent time in Morocco in the Peace Corps and has experience with Middle Eastern study abroad programs, a growing region for study abroad given the importance of Arabic. This coordinates well with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s new Arabic language program and its longstanding programs in Chinese, Russian and Japanese, all critical languages. The Daily Nebraskan hopes the university can continue its initiatives in these areas and that the addition of Luhrs to the staff will encourage the study of nontraditional languages in nontraditional locations.

One way students can do this is through UNL’s Global Gateway scholarships, $1,500 grants for language study programs or UNL faculty-led programs from December 2011 through August 2012. The deadline is Nov. 11, and the Daily Nebraskan encourages all students studying abroad in spring or summer 2012 to apply.

More importantly, the DN applauds the university’s efforts at global engagement, highlighted by Chancellor Harvey Perlman in his State of the University address.

Undergraduate study abroad and academic enhancement outside Nebraska are key ways to get the most out of college.

While study abroad is a financial burden for many students, it’s encouraging to see the university developing ways to make programs affordable, from academic exchange programs where students continue to pay UNL tuition and fees, to scholarships like the Global Gateway and others through International Affairs.

The Daily Nebraskan congratulates Luhrs and StevensLiska on their positions and wishes them all the best in guiding UNL’s study abroad efforts. We urge students to take advantage of the new voices and to consider studying abroad as part of their academic career. opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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Death shouldn’t be celebrated

››ARI KOHEN’S OCCASIONAL SERIES IN THE DAILY NEBRASKAN WILL FOCUS on problems of justice, CONTEMPORARY POLITICS AND POP CULTURE. A LONGER VERSION OF THIS COLUMN CAN BE FOUND AT HIS BLOG, KOHENARI.NET.

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f there’s one thing on which most Americans seem to agree, it’s that a celebration is in order when people are killed.

Of course, it’s not just any killing that we like; it’s executions. Since May, in person, in print and online, we’ve come together to publicly rejoice at the deaths of Osama bin Laden, Anwar alAwlaki, and now Muammar Gaddafi. But we’re not only interested in the executions of terrorists and tyrants overseas; a crowd also vigorously cheered the hundreds of executions over which Rick Perry has presided in Texas. There’s just something about death that makes us stand up and applaud ... or worse.

I should begin by noting that I’m not really going to be writing about the people I just mentioned; this won’t be a reflection on the lives of the terrorists, tyrants and murderers, and so you won’t find a list of the reasons I’m not spending a lot of time mourning their passing. What I want to consider, instead, is the way in which Americans think about justice.

When I think about justice, I tend to reflect back on something Socrates said in Plato’s “Republic”: “If someone asserts that it’s just to give what is owed to each man — and he understands by this that harm is owed to enemies by the just man and help to friends — the man who said it was not wise. For he wasn’t telling the truth. For it has become apparent to us that it is never just to harm anyone.”

I recognize that this makes me somewhat unusual, both because I turn to a text written around 380 BCE even when thinking about contemporary issues, and because the vast majority of people seem to think exactly the opposite about justice.

For most people, justice involves some sort of gut feeling rather than the sort of reasoned argument Socrates uses to arrive at his position. It tends to involve someone getting what he or she deserves and so, in the context of the people I mentioned above, this means exacting vengeance.

And so, when Americans see someone getting what he or she deserves, being paid back in kind for the harm he or she has done, they rejoice.

ari kohen But, of course, I think it’s a mistake to simply equate justice with vengeance, both because I have yet to hear a persuasive argument against Socrates’ claim and because vengeance elevates the worst in us at the expense of what is best.

Instead, I am reminded of Portia’s speech to Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice”: “The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven ... It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice.”

Even though Shylock believes harming his enemy accords with both justice and his own best interest, Portia argues any understanding of justice that is bereft of mercy or compassion can never, ultimately, be in one’s best interest: “Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy.”

At bottom, then, it’s the distinct lack of compassion that’s bothering me when I see our increasingly ghoulish displays of glee at the deaths of others (even those who have done the most terrible things).

They highlight either an inability or an unwillingness to see the humanity in others and, consequently, yield a diminishing of our own humanity.

When people ran into the streets and cheered bin Laden’s death as if their hometown team had won the World Series, I wrote that the singing and flag-waving demeaned us by highlighting the extent to which the culture of vengeance pervades our society.

When a crowd of people cheered about the deaths of more than 200 of their fellow citizens, I wrote that the justice they were cheering could only be the kind that was done to someone else: “Never to them, never to anyone they care about or have even met.”

And now, when so many people

positively raced to Facebook, Twitter, email and blogs to share pictures and video of Gaddafi’s bloody visage — either dead or dying — I was reminded once again how far removed we are from a time when we might conceive of justice as more than simply the paying back of violence with violence. When we gloat over the dead bodies we’ve managed to pile up — regardless of the reason that led to those deaths — we’re really celebrating the basest part of our nature.

In “Republic,” Socrates tells the story of Leontius, who noticed the dead bodies of executed criminals outside the city wall and felt the desire to look at them. At the same time, he was disgusted and forced himself to turn away, struggling with the decision and covering his face. But finally, overpowered by his desire, he opened his eyes wide, ran toward the corpses and said, “Look, you damned wretches, take your fill of the fair sight.”

The problem for Americans today, of course, is that we’re not even having this struggle with ourselves. We immediately lamented the fact that we weren’t given any pictures of bin Laden’s body. We relish information about murderers’ last meals and we pass around pictures of Gaddafi’s corpse like they’re actually pictures of last weekend’s dinner party.

Personally, I’d like to imagine what our country might look like if it was populated by a citizenry that approached the deaths of others with a certain solemnity rather than one that celebrates the corpses produced by our government, to paraphrase Salon’s Glenn Greenwald. Personally, I’d like to see Americans reflecting on the idea of justice and the proper role of compassion, on why corpses are the only possible validation for so many of us, on what a society that applauds a body count is ultimately missing, on the prejudices and privilege that allow us to cheer and sing when others die.

But we’re so very far away from doing any of those things right now. All of our major newspapers ran full-color, close-up photographs of a dead or dying man on their front pages this week. They know what we want.

Ari Kohen is Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. He blogs at kohenari.net.

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Questions lead to loss of faith, agnosticism ››this week, we asked our writers “How did you come to your religious beliefs?” Each day, the opinion section will run one or two columns answering this question. today features columnists carrie zepf and bethany trueblood.

I have no idea if my beliefs will be the same later in life, but for now, I feel pretty comfortable being agnostic.

For those of you who don’t know, being agnostic roughly means I pretty much refuse to take a side. I’m not saying there is a God, and I’m not saying there isn’t.

I grew up in Creighton, a town with 1,200 people and nine churches. My church was the second biggest, and I hated going there with a passion.

I had different reasons for hating going to church when I was little. It meant having to wear a dress, wake up early, go to Sunday school and sit and listen to some guy talk for an hour with no comprehension of what he was saying.

However, I hated it less as I got older and eventually didn’t even mind it. I would go Saturday night with my mom so I could wear jeans, and I had begun to actually listen to the sermons. I even found one interesting from time to time.

When it came time for me to get confirmed in the seventh grade, something pretty terrible happened to our church. Our pastor, the one who had been teaching my confirmation

class all year, robbed the church and skipped town about a month before I got confirmed.

A substitute came in to teach the class, which I was very confused about, considering our pastor’s only job was to preach and teach that class. She never answered us when we asked where he was, and it wasn’t until a couple weeks later I found out by eavesdropping on my parents.

Confirmation day was not a religiously fulfilling day by any means.

After dealing with confusion and anger toward our previous pastor, for me, confirmation only meant my mom couldn’t make me go to church anymore.

However, after everything that happened, I was still a Lutheran. I hated going to church again, but I still believed in God and whatnot.

In fact, in the ninth grade I even got into a fight with my best friend because she said she didn’t believe in God anymore. It was a big deal for a while, and it really didn’t end until she told me she believed again.

Yep, I was a product of Christianity all right, until I lost someone.

Richard was my brother’s best friend. He was also like a second big brother to me. My own brother was usually pretty mean as big brothers usually are, and Richard was always the one to tell me not to worry about it or tell my brother to lay off.

He was killed in a motorcycle

carrie zepf accident in August 2008. I was on my way back from school shopping with my parents when my brother called my dad and told him.

The second my dad told me what had happened, I lost my faith. I still remember every minute of that car ride; I was bawling all the way back and my parents were silent.

No one could tell me why it happened. No one could answer why it had to be him.

All people kept saying was that God had a plan and that God worked in mysterious ways. In my opinion, God was wrong. God had made a mistake, and I swore off religion for good.

Coming to college fueled that fire for a while.

I took a Greek mythology class in which I compared their gods to the Christian God, wondering what made their beliefs so ridiculous and Christian beliefs so accepted. I also started asking questions. Will a Catholic go to Heaven if he asks for forgiveness after

killing a child? Or is a man of Jewish faith destined to go to Hell no matter how good of a person he is?

I’ve been asking questions like those for a couple years now, finding the answers to be unfair or unsatisfactory. I might be asking the wrong people, but after what happened when I was getting confirmed, I don’t really trust religious leaders anymore.

Although, sometimes I honestly miss being a Christian.

Having faith meant not being scared of death. It meant my loved ones were somewhere safe, somewhere better than this world.

However, I’m not trying very hard to get back to my faith. Things such as science offering more answers than the Bible, Jesus freaks shoving religion down people’s throats, cults and years of religious persecution in history make me more comfortable not picking a side.

I fell away from Christianity, but I still respect it and other religions. I believe it takes a very strong person to have that much faith in something, and an even stronger person to uphold beliefs throughout a lifetime.

My respect for those religions is exactly why it would take me a very long time to convert back to Christianity. I want to truly believe in what the Bible says and truly take something meaningful away from church.

I just can’t do that right now. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do it again.

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I’m too stubborn to accept some aspects of Christianity and therefore, will challenge it with questions and, sometimes, anger.

Some pretty significant events led me to lose my faith, and it will take some pretty significant events to get it back. Until then, I’ll enjoy a comfy seat on my fence.

carrie zepf is a junior broadcasting major. reach her at carriezepf@ dailynebraskan.com.

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dress up, dress down students prefer simple costumes for this year’s halloween festivities story by jacy marmaduke art by bryan klopping Forget Angry Birds, Charlie Sheen and Steve Jobs. The most popular Halloween costumes this year may be a little more basic.

At Drac’s Place in Westfield Gateway Mall, the top-selling women’s costume isn’t Snooki or Duchess Beatrice — it’s a “sexy cop” outfit.

Days before the last-minute costume rush, “Sultry SWAT officer” is already sold out, and co-owner Sandra Hernandez Frantz said she’s placed two orders for CSI costumes.

Flintstone’s costumes are also a big seller at Drac’s Place, according to Hernandez Frantz. But she said the once-popular Wizard of Oz costumes are falling fast.

“It used to be everybody wanted to be Dorothy,” she said. “Not this year.

Nobody wants to be Dorothy.”

At Ruby Begonia’s, a vintage clothing store on P Street that sells and rents costumes during October, sailor outfits and bumblebee costumes are making a strong showing.

Wigs — both colorful and “anything that can pass for Lady Gaga” — are also big sellers, according to store manager Hannah Voelker.

She said the warm weather and a spirit for the daring nature of the holiday will likely encourage girls to show more skin this year.

“They go big or go home,” Voelker said.

“That’s what holidays are for.”

But not all girls are taking the sexy route.

“I’m going to be a sailor,” said Jaimie Pruden, a junior music major. “But it’s not gonna be sexy. I think it’s strange and gratuitous to take regular everyday things like police officers and rabbits and make them into objects. It freaks me out.”

For more modest shoppers, most Halloween stores offer ‘50s poodle skirts, flapper dresses and Cleopatra costumes – all good options for showing less skin, according to Voelker.

Going for a silly costume is another way to

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UPC presents horror films at Ross theater Megan Peda Daily Nebraskan

There are few things truer to the spirit of Halloween than costumes and horror movies.

University Program Council is excited to present an opportunity to break out your costume a few days early and indulge in some classic horror films at their “MonstROSSity” movie night.

Tonight, “The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb” and “Night of the Living Dead,” two movies from the ‘60s, will be shown free to the public at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13 St., at 8 p.m. Along with these two showings, there will be a costume contest for the ultimate classy or trashy costume.

UPC’s mission is to try and bring entertaining and diverse events to

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if you go MonstROSSity Movie Night: “Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb” and “Night of the Living Dead” when: Tonight, 8 p.m. where: The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center how much: Free with NCard, not open for the public the students said Lauren Jewell, a senior actuarial science major and UPC’s vice president.

“We work closely with the Ross, and like to use them as a venue, and it’s the perfect time of the year to show these movies,” she said.

“The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb” was

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TV-inspired News readership rates leveling off JoBob’s sells bit of everything Fewer newspapers are distributed as Readership Program ages jacy marmaduke daily nebraskan

Call it the seven-year itch.

As the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program enters its eighth full year since implementation, the honeymoon period is officially over.

The program, which offers students free copies of USA Today, The New York Times, the Lincoln Journal Star and the Omaha World-Herald at 31 locations around campus, distributed 528,914 papers last year. That’s nearly 200,000 fewer papers than were distributed in 200506, the first year with existing documentation, and the decline has been relatively steady during the years since.

But it’s par for the course, according to Jason Meyer, who oversees the Collegiate Readership Program at about 500 schools across the country.

“When a program is really new, there’s so much excitement,” Meyer said.

“Numbers are through the roof for the first few years.

(The decline) isn’t necessarily an indication that students aren’t reading the paper anymore, it just means they may not be grabbing it every day like they used to.”

The Lincoln Journal Star has consistently been the most popular of the papers, with distribution numbers topping 175,000 last year — more than 100,000 fewer papers than were distributed in 2005-06. USA Today and the Omaha World-Herald have trailed tens of thousands behind in recent years, and The New York Times distribution has consistently come in dead last.

But only a small portion of student fees fund the readership program. Even still, Association of Students of the University of Nebraska President Lane Carr said that something clearly needs fixing.

“We need to do a better job of letting students know about the service,” Carr said.

“It’s practically free, so (students) may as well take advantage of it.”

The program provides

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It’s a buy-and-sell-everything shop, a discount tobacco outlet and a store where you can get a custom computer. And the name is catchy, too.

Open since July 1, 2011, JoBob’s has been serving the Lincoln area with cheap cigarettes and antiques.

“We were inspired to open up JoBob’s from all the great TV shows ‘Pawn Stars’ and ‘Hardcore Pawn,’” said Steve Massey, one of the two owners of JoBob’s. “We are just a buy-and-sell shop now, but we’re gonna be a full-blown pawnshop. We need to get our broker’s license in order to be a pawnshop, and we’re supposed to get that in 30 to 60 days.”

Massey estimated that there are 5,000 to 10,000 items for sale in JoBob’s.

A few noted gems are a 1920s cash register, 1930s classic toys, a 1944 10cent slot machine and a

Discount tobacco has helped with the buyand-sell part of the shop. steve massey co-owner of jobob’s

1940 tri-automatic oxygen purifying machine. “(The tri-automatic oxygen purifying machine) was the grandfather to all air purification machines that was invented at the University of NebraskaLincoln,” Massey said. “It was one of the first, and it produces purified oxygen that is similar to the oxygen found in the ozone.”

JoBob’s has acquired a lot of their merchandise from estate sales, storage garage auctions and customers bringing in objects to the store to sell.

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“An antique is only as valuable as much as the customer willing to pay for it,” Massey said. “A lot of negotiating goes on, but we buy cheap and sell cheap.”

Keeping with the cut-rate policy of JoBob’s, the store is also a discount tobacco outlet.

“We also sell tobacco products that are the cheapest in Nebraska,” Massey said. “We became a fullblown tobacco discount outlet in order to get people off of the street and into our store.”

JoBob’s is also going to experiment in the premium cigar market. Massey built the humidor himself.

“It’s a beautiful business model,” Massey said. “Discount tobacco has helped with the buy-and-sell part of the shop.”

If that wasn’t enough, JoBob’s makes its own customized computers.

“You can’t buy stuff like this in a department store,” said Matt Terry, a computer specialist at JoBob’s. “It’s a computer that was built for (the customers) themselves. A customized computer allows for them to do advanced uses such as video-gaming, video-editing, photography and running an Internet business from a main server. It is also a lot cheaper than a name brand computer, and also allows for someone to have an incredibly awesome computer.”

Terry began customizing computers in 2000. He made his first with the help of his friend out of an old Compaq computer.

Since the store’s opening, Terry has been working on computers in his spare time while he runs his own business as a technical support for small Internet companies. He is also working on the store’s website, where JoBob’s can sell some of their items to out-of-state clientele.

“Our goal is for JoBob’s is to have a computer repair shop, where customers can take their computers here and get them fixed,” Terry said.

Building customized computers is just one aspect of the shop, but another is

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Steve Massey, left, and Christopher Neal, co-owners of JoBob’s on the corner of 33rd and Y streets, pose for a portrait behind the counter of the shop Oct. 24. The store is largely dedicated to being a pawn shop but also offers a vast supply of tobacco products and snack items.

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Clinton Hawkins, a regular at JoBob’s, grabs his cigarettes off the store’s counter on Oct. 24. “I appreciate that (they are) willing to work with you on breaking deals,” Hawkins said. the name “JoBob.” It has a unique origin according to Chris Neal, the other owner.

Neal said, “JoBob grew up in the Badlands in South Dakota. He frequently visited a store called Wall Drug in Deadwood, S.D. He later opened up a shop that had a little bit of everything. The shop was noted to give a free glass of

water to anyone that came into the store. He became a well-known entrepreneur and well-known around the Midwest.”

The name itself inspired the main goal for the owners by keeping with the philosophy that JoBob set when he started his store.

“JoBob had a little insight when he opened up the

store but had a little bit of everything for everyone,” Neal said. “It’s just like the quote from the movie ‘Field of Dreams’: ‘If you build it, they will come.’”

Or in JoBob’s case, if you open up a store with a little bit of everything, customers will come.

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The next movie features living dead of a different sort. George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” follows the bedlam that occurs after a strange series of events causes the recently departed to come back from the grave hungry for living flesh. Pandemonium ensues as people flee from the

zombies. One young lady takes cover in an old farm house where she finds others hiding from the flesheating zombies. However, they soon find that they cannot stay there. Their only hope to escape is a truck running on empty past the corpses waiting outside. As plans unfold, tensions add to the alarm that builds as

they try to survive.

No Halloween party would be complete without dressing up, and UPC is giving a prize to people with the classiest and trashiest outfits. Tim Kinoshita, public relations chair of UPC and senior biological systems engineering major, said the fun that surrounds Halloween is getting dressed up and seeing scary movies.

“We’re trying to get people in to the mood of actually physically dressing up for Halloween,” he said.

Prizes will also be awarded to the best costume from each category, and winners will be chosen by a group of UPC members and announced between the two movies. The winners will each be given two tickets to the Pretty Lights concert Thursday night at the Pershing Center, 226 Centennial Mall South.

“It’s the theme of the season,” Jewell said. “If you like movies, this will be fun and entertaining and hopefully enhance your evening.”

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The stuff I don’t remember.

I guess it’s all just flashes of still images, really.

The occasional remembrance of bright lights in the dark, Cliff’s Lounge or the strange heightened colors I remember seeing in a Jimmy John’s sandwich somewhere.

Either way, the last events of my twenty-first birthday were gone by the next morning. I couldn’t remember really anything coherent or true. Just bits and pieces. From what I’ve been told, I can compile this much.

Shortly after that one guy with the tattoos about kicked the shit out of me, the party decided it was best to leave O’Rourke’s and head over to Cliff’s. It was a Sunday and kamikazes were half off.

Most of the original party had left by this point.

Both of my roommates had bailed. The original two attendees we first ran into at Zen’s Lounge were gone. The two girls from my high school left, but the guys from back home all stayed, as did two of my craziest guy friends of college: Adam and Jordan.

There were still three or four theater girls in the group plus my girlfriend.

So in summary we were smaller, but not by much.

At Cliff’s, a few things are said to have happened: I apparently spent quite a lot of time trying to show the doorman my Social Security card instead of my I.D., which led to several realizations later: A. Never bring my Social Security card downtown. B. Never try proving to a doorman who knows you’re drunk that you’re not. And C. It’s always good to have a guy with you who knows someone who works at the bar. One of the high school buddies knew a barmaid there.

I apparently, at this stage of drunk, became pretty friendly ... with everyone.

People were worried I might suddenly reach out and kiss the barmaid, but I didn’t. It was just that the point I was at obviously near loss of self-control.

But no worries because the guys I talked to say I was just drunk and falling all over the place, and the girls say I was drunk-guyhuggy, which just means kind of smelly. Either way it’s a scary thought now to think about fucking up during a blackout night.

I’m in a long-lasting relationship, and the thought of screwing that up, without any control or memory of screwing it up, is terrifying. It’s one of the dangerous traps I think many guys and gals fall into.

At one point in the night, several kamikazes later, I was said to have reached over to the girlfriend swinging her down

in a dramatic end of the war pose for a huge kiss.

Then when I stood up to cheers I turned around and tried to do the same thing to my tough-guy buddy Adam, who started smacking me around a bit.

At one point, they got the VIP table at Cliff’s. I hear it’s very nice. All I remember was a dark corner with occasional Polaroid shot memories of Christmas lights and mirrors. It was here in the VIP room where we apparently (“we,” as in the crazy drunk guys of the table) began to scream out incorrect lyrics to the Beastie Boys on the jukebox. Followed by the shouted lyrics of “The Ballad of Chasey Lain” by the Bloodhound Gang, which if you are familiar with the song, isn’t the best one to sing with ladies present.

Eventually, as we sat there with kamikazes and talked, my puppeteered vacant body said, “I think Cliff’s kind of fucking sucks,” to which my table giggled. Then I turned to the entire bar and said, “If anybody here thinks Cliff’s kind of fucking sucks, raise your hand!”

A few hands popped up with some laughs, before my friends pulled my ass down to my seat, mouthing “sorry” to the bar.

Following this embarrassment came another.

At one point, I knocked over a glass. It apparently fell underneath the table. It was empty, no spill, just a dropped glass ... but by this point I was so far gone, that I apparently shouted, “BAIL!” and hopped out from the table and ran out of the bar, leaving everyone at the table to apologize their way out.

Out on the street, we made some shabby, thrown-together plan to head over to Duffy’s and see if there was a cover.

I think back and see how lame it was to make such an ass out of myself at Cliff’s, which makes me think about how many people make asses out of themselves downtown every night. I guess it’s usually easily forgiven, especially on a 21st or an engagement party or something.

Adam started to yell at the cops on O Street. I was apparently in need of being carried. Everyone was having a good time. Or at least that’s what they say. It’s the strangest thing not remembering something after a night of drinking.

What’s even stranger is not remembering hours and hours of bar hopping. With all this going on, me doing whatever, on autopilot for the rest of the night, it just sounds like something you could never forget.

Nate Ruleaux is a junior theater performance and news-editorial major.

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“Would you consider roleplaying out a rape fantasy with partner who asked you to?” is the fifteenth question out of 100-plus questions that the online dating site OkCupid asks its new dating members. These questions are designed to help the site determine who is best suited for each other.

OkCupid is a free site that allows everybody to view everybody’s profile and can message them if they believe that user could be their soulmate. But most importantly, according to Chris Coyne, one of the creators of OkCupid, “I think you’ll find smarter, better people here than anywhere else.”

The majority of the OkCupid frequenters can be of any age for 18 to 99 years old, like Cdrranger, a 44-year-old single man from Kissimmee, Fla. According to his profile, he is looking for straight girls between 18 and 19 years of age.

A reason people are looking for relationships on dating websites is because they are looking for someone who is different than the run-of-the-mill people they meet on a daily basis or they are too busy with work or school to be able to meet someone.

Dak2408, an OkCupid frequenter wrote in a message, “I wanted to meet some nice women on this site, who actually have personality and are looking for the same thing I am, a relationship. I was tired of meeting women who are either unmotivated in life, too immature to handle a relationship, or they just simply aren’t my type.”

Of course, some people

only envision dating sites as places for people to either creep or be unconventional. And there are those who use online dating sites for unconventional reasons, like asking women for pictures of themselves holding spoons or writing poetry for women they have never met.

But lest it be forgotten that people can do those things in person as well.

Online dating can just be an outlet for those interests.

However, it is still more important to meet people in person according to the online daters.

Huskerdave, another user, wrote in a message, “I mainly choose this site to meet new people, not really expecting to find ‘that special someone’ online. I would suggest that people do their best to meet people in person because that is where the most intimate human interactions come from, but online dating can help introduce you to people you wouldn’t have met otherwise.”

Online dating sites allow people to reach out to other kinds of people they would not meet regularly and are given a chance at the utmost happiness. However, social websites are a bit scattered when it comes to what the social norm is. Thus, people can end up spilling their guts, never aware of what they are doing might not be a turn-on, like what RussellJr has done.

“I have five younger brothers that live in Wisconsin,” he wrote in a message.

“I have been in Lincoln, Nebraska for about 3 months.

I was born and raised in Wisconsin. I moved to Lincoln because 7 years ago my father and mother got a divorce, my father gave

me an ultimatum back in December: Quit school find a job and start paying him rent again or get out.”

RussellJr continued, “When my mother and father got divorced I started to struggle in school. I moved out of my father’s house back in the middle of December. A few days before my father’s deadline, I reconnected with my mother back in April. I moved down here after I graduated high school. I enjoy getting outdoors, watching TV, playing video games, my job at Wal-Mart. I hope this is what you are looking for in a guy.”

RussellJr’s story is an example of how dating etiquette has the possibility of floundering when it comes to online dating. But on the other hand, according to Match.com, one in five relationships begins online.

So perhaps there isn’t a rule book for online dating in this new technological age.

“I was actually hesitant to join an online dating site, but I do love meeting new people. I am not really surprised that (so many) of relationships start from online dating,” Huskerdave said. “It seems like we as a society have kind of moved in that direction where a lot of us are conducting day to day human interactions online.”

There are many different views and opinions about online dating sites. Some are positive and some are not.

However, when venturing to online dating sites, one must keep in mind that not everyone is looking for a crazy night in bed. The sites are designed to provide the best possible match for someone who is, first and foremost, looking for a change. sarahlambert@ dailynebraskan.com

readership: from 5 UNL with copies of the newspapers at discounted educational prices (less than 50 cents per copy, depending on the newspaper), and undistributed copies are sent back without charge. The university has gone over budget with spending on the program in past years, but the process doesn’t turn much of a profit for USA Today, which organized the program.

“There is a little bit (of profit), but it’s nothing to write home about,” Meyer said. “It’s not about margin, it’s about developing readers and keeping students informed.”

The program could become more costly, however, as USA Today works toward implementing a digital platform. But Meyer said the logistics of such a system have not yet been determined.

“The waters are pretty muddy now,” Meyer said.

“We’re hoping to come up with something soon, because we know campuses are looking for it.”

Meyer cited the trend toward digital media as another potential reason for the decline, but he said it shouldn’t be exaggerated. According to surveys of campuses offered a digital test platform, most students still preferred the print newspapers to their online counterparts.

“That’s pretty powerful considering that we’re in a digital age,” Meyer said.

“Everyone’s on computers, smart phones, whatever it is,

and for students to still prefer having the actual newsprint in their hands says quite a bit. It’s convenient, it’s portable, you don’t have to be in a Wi-fi hotspot or have a 3G connection. You can pick it up and come back to it later. It’s hard to get rid of it.”

For students who utilize the program, convenience is key. Freshman art major Christopher Bush said he reads the newspaper — usually The New York Times — three to four times a week, partially because of availability.

“In high school, to read The New York Times, I’d have to get up earlier and go to Starbucks and buy a copy,” Bush said. “That builds up quickly when you don’t have a subscription.

Now, when I leave for classes in the morning, I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s a new paper out.’ I’ll just grab it.”

Even as the clock ticks on a new platform, all involved expect the decline in distribution to level off. The university’s program remains the third largest for distribution, second only to Penn State and Utah State University.

“In general, our program is still very successful,” Carr said. “Even though our numbers have gone down, the interest is staying the same.”

Students take nearly 3,000 newspapers from the distribution centers every day, and according to Meyer, readership could be even larger.

“For most newspapers, somewhere between two and three people read a single copy in a given day,” he said. “Theoretically, that’s touching 9,000 people a day, and that’s a pretty significant portion of your student population. Whether or not students recognize it, reading the newspaper is learning.

Students who normally read the newspaper are being inspired because they’re more aware. They’re less likely to sit back and watch life go by. They’re gonna jump in and take action.” jacymarmaduke@ dailynebraskan.com

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Ghouls and goblins come out early at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Kicking off the Halloween festivities on campus, the members of Campus Nightlife have organized a Husker Haunt to provide students with an alcoholfree way to spend the Halloween weekend. Held on East Campus, the Husker Haunt will take place from 7 p.m. to midnight on Oct. 28.

“We are just excited this is one of the first years we have done a big Halloween event,” said Ellen Muehling, a sophomore marketing and psychology major involved in Campus Nightlife.

Originally planned to be held at Wick Alumni Center, the Husker Haunt was moved to East Campus because of scheduling conflicts with another event and the ease of planning the hayrack ride through East Campus.

“Originally the event was planned to be at the Wick Center, but we decided to do that on East Campus because it is a lot easier to get the hayrack ride,” said Hailey Desch, a freshman early childhood education and elementary education major also involved in Campus Nightlife. “There is a tractor museum, and they have hay bales. We also didn’t need city permission to use the East Campus streets. It is our only event on East Campus, too.”

With the change in venues for the event, Campus Nightlife will be providing a series of haunted shuttles between the two campuses to ensure that everyone can enjoy the holiday festivities.

Once there, students can enjoy a series of holiday events. Husker Haunt will provide haunted hayrides through the East Campus Loop, photo booths, crafts and pumpkin decorating,

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and what Muehling thinks will be the highlight of the night, haunted laser tag.

Coming from Bass-Schuler, an entertainment agency out of Chicago, the Haunt’s laser tag offers something different than most. It is fully inflatable and lit by backlights.

Because of its expected popularity, the haunted laser tag will be one of the more regulated events.

“I think the biggest pull will be the laser tag, but I think people should come because it is a free event and fun and there is nothing to lose,” Desch said.

“There aren’t a lot of people on the committee that haven’t been on a hayrack ride, and I imagine there are a lot of students on campus that haven’t either.”

Campus Nightlife has been planning this event since the end of the last academic year, according to both Desch and Muehling.

While they are both recent additions to Campus Nightlife board, they are both

if you go Husker Haunt when: Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. where: East Campus Union how much: free for students excited for the events.

“My favorite part has been it’s fun to work on an event where you know people will be excited to show up for and to see their reaction when they arrive,” Muehling said.

Aside from a Halloween celebration, the members of Campus Nightlife hope this event will be able to bring in students who might not have events planned for the holiday.

“The reason we did it was because a lot of students don’t have anything, and I think it isn’t fair to assume that everyone has plans,” Muehling said. “This is our way of getting everyone involved.” ryankopelke@ dailynebraskan.com

costumes: from 5 avoid showing too much skin. Sophomore elementary education major Crystal Stratman said she’s thinking about going as “Thing One and Thing Two” from “The Cat in the Hat” with her roommate, because she “doesn’t do sexy.”

“It’s just awkward,” Stratman said. “It kind of makes everyone feel uncomfortable.”

It may be difficult to tell what costume reigns supreme for men this year.

According to Voelker, they haven’t quite gotten around to deciding yet.

“Guys are always so lastminute,” she said. “I don’t even think I’ve rented (a costume) to a guy yet.”

For when the men do show, Ruby Begonia’s offers Halloween costumes for sale and for rent. The racks include everything from disco attire to a solitary Gorilla suit. Despite prominent displays of Michael Jackson costumes and Jersey

Shore getups, Hernandez Frantz cited police uniforms and a “Droopers” costume — a play on the name of the popular restaurant “Hooters” — as two top sellers at Drac’s Place.

“Guys like to keep it simple or funny,” she said.

Sophomore math major Henry Mattern proved Hernandez Frantz’s observation: He’s going as head football coach Bo Pelini.

“I think he’s pretty legit and a good coach,” Mattern said.

“I admire him.”

Lincoln doesn’t have a lot to choose from in the way of Halloween shopping. Drac’s Place is the only locally owned Halloween business, and a few chain stores offer Halloween costumes and decorations.

Options or no, Americans

will spend $1.2 billion on adult costumes this year, according to a Nation Retail Federation study. In the same study, “witch” came in first for most common adult costume, followed by pirate, vampire, zombie and “Batman” character. Movie characters also ranked high on the list: “Superman” characters, “Harry Potter” characters and “Alice in Wonderland” characters were among the top 20 most popular choices. Movies offer more than a few costume ideas for students.

“I’m gonna be Tom Cruise in the dance scene from ‘Risky Business,’” said Aliana Keplinger, a sophomore English and psychology major. “We’ll see if I actually go out in public like that.”

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volleyball: from 8 the progression of a team he wasn’t impressed with after the season opener at NMSU. “From where we started to where we are right now, how we progressed, it’s been the biggest learning curve, biggest improvement, team since I’ve been here,” he said.

“When I say I’m shocked, I know where we started. I know how bad we were ... I still have nightmares about our first match against New Mexico State, how bad we were. I was in shock then too – I couldn’t believe this was a Nebraska team. I remember turning to my coaches and (saying) this might be the worst performance I’ve seen by a team I coached here at Nebraska.”

Cook praised the development of his team from there — specifically crediting cocaptains Jordan Wilberger and Brigette Root with their leadership — and said this season has been among the “most rewarding” for him as a coach.

Delano has also noticed the development of trust — she calls it love — between the team, and the gaps between NU’s and other teams’ camaraderie. She calls the Huskers unity advantage “out-teaming” the opposition. “(Finding a way to win) comes back to us being a team and us coming together every time — laughing and smiling out there,” she said. “It’s just the part of us learning to love and trust each other out there.”

Out-teaming, which Delano called a key to NU’s victory over Illinois, often comes at a personal sacrifice. Delano, who is not yet fully recovered from shoulder surgery in January, has had to sacrifice some personal statistics for her team to win.

Last season Delano averaged 2.73 kills and 3.63 points per set in her All-American campaign.

This year, those numbers are down to 1.93 and 2.4.

She couldn’t be happier.

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While the team may be more or less indifferent to being college volleyball’s new top squad, the players are pleased to be recognized for the hard work that’s led the team that struggled with St. Mary’s to being able to dominate Illinois six weeks later.

Number one or not, with trips to Ohio State and Penn State looming, the Huskers certainly can’t rest now.

“Each road trip we’ve gone on has been upping the ante,” Cook said. “This definitely ups the ante to a different level.

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Before playing in the championship game at the USTA/ ITA Central Region Championship, Nebraska’s duo of Benedikt Lindheim and Christopher Aumueller defeated four teams in a row.

Their wins included shutout victories against Western Illinois and Minnesota, 8-0 each. But it was their final match of the tournament that gave them the most trouble, as the Huskers were defeated by state host and No. 1-ranked University of Tulsa, 9-7.

NU coach Kerry McDermott said he was happy with his players’ performance.

“I was proud and our guys fought hard,” he said.

“In the end, the other team just played a little bit better and those things happen.”

The No. 2-seeded Cornhuskers began the match with a 6-4 lead against UT’s Ashley Watling and Clifford Marsland. But the Golden Hurricanes went on 3-0 run to regain the lead, 7-6.

“We had a chance to get up 7-4 but couldn’t do it,” McDermott said. “Our men came back 7-7, which was nice to see. I thought our men battled hard and were going to find a way to win, but their guys broke Lindheim and came back.”

In the tournament, Lindheim was seeded No. 8 in the singles bracket and made it all the way to the quarterfinals before being defeated by Oklahoma’s Tsvetan Mihov, 6-2, 7-5.

The senior finished the tournament with two 6-2 singles wins against Minnesota’s No. 11 Phil Arnot in the quarterfinals.

Aumueller said he was

impressed with his teammate’s play this weekend.

“Bene had a good tournament, and I’m sure he wishes he took home a title as well,” he said.

Aumueller was the lone Husker to make it to the semifinals. On his road to the final four, the senior defeated three opponents, including a semifinal win against Chris Haworth from Oklahoma State.

Aumueller, who was defeated by the OSU freshman last weekend, said he was happy to get another chance to play against him in this tournament.

“I played him last week in Oklahoma, and I lost to him in three sets,” Aumueller said. “I was really disappointed in that match because I wasn’t playing too well. I’ve never played that bad, and I asked myself ‘What’s going on?’ I was fired up to take advantage of that loss, and I’m happy with how I played in that quarterfinals match.”

Aumueller won that match, 6-1, 6-1, but his winning streak came to an end in the semifinals Monday when Drake’s Anis Ghorbel defeated him, 6-4, 6-3. The victory advanced Ghorbel to the championship match where he was defeated by OU’s Mihov.

To begin his run to the final match, Ghorbel also defeated NU’s Andre Stenger in the first round, 6-2, 6-3.

Aumueller gave Ghorbel praise and called him an excellent player.

“We didn’t know what to expect from him,” he said.

“It turned out that he was an amazing player.”

Like his coach, Aumueller said he was positively surprised with the play from his sophomore teammate, Robert Schulze.

“He had a tough firstround loss but played a good kid from Tulsa,” he said. “He played a good match and came up short, unfortunately. He showed

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a really good attitude, and we saw he fought for every point. It was important for him to play a guy like (Grant Ive of Tulsa) and I thought he performed well.

Overall, if you look at the wins we produced from both doubles teams and singles, it was a relatively good tournament.”

Schulze and Stenger won their first round in the doubles bracket against OU’s Mihov and Peerakit Siributwong, 8-4.

McDermott said that overall his team played as good as an eight out of 10.

“I think the guys came away from this knowing we’re one of the best teams in our region,” he said. “Most teams took four to eight players; we only took four. It makes you think what results

we would have had if we brought our other guys.

Hopefully the success this past weekend will give the team confidence and help them realize good things can happen.

“The good news is that we had a good tournament. The bad news is that we didn’t have a great one. Now our two guys are waiting to see if they qualify for the indoor championships next weekend.”

Lindheim and Aumueller will now wait to hear whether or not they qualify for the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, hosted Nov. 3-6. Competition will be at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York.

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Crick replacements come up big When redshirt freshman Chase Rome got the starting spot vacated by the injured Jared Crick Saturday, it was a bit of an upset. He had only played for brief stretches in the Huskers’ past four games, recording four tackles and a sack.

With senior Terrence Moore and redshirt sophomore Thad Randle as competition, it was a bit of a surprise to see Rome start the game with such limited experience. Defensive end Cameron Meredith said he thought Rome and the other two tackles all played well, and none showed any animosity toward one another because of playing time.

“Those guys stepped up in a big way, and we needed them to,” he said. “(They) know what the situation is right now and they’re all helping each other out.”

Rome has also established himself as one of the group’s vocal leaders over the past couple of weeks. Meredith said he’s made an effort to reach out to the other young tackles and help them out. It’s a bit unusual to look to a freshman for leadership, but Meredith has no problem with Rome stepping up.

“When you’re in college, you don’t really think about what classes people are in,” Meredith said. “You kind of just flow together. The aspect that he’s 19 years old is a little different, but we don’t look at it that way.”

Spartans’ dramatic win will lead to any carry-over in confidence.

“They’re a good team and well-coached,” Pelini said. “I’m not in that locker room, but I’m guessing they’ve moved on. They better. I don’t worry about that because I’m not in that situation.”

As for Michigan State, some have wondered whether the Spartans will still be thinking of their shocking win when they line up against the Huskers.

When asked to put himself in the shoes of Michigan State, Pelini referred to the Husker coaching staff’s MO. “Around here, our

Jean-Baptiste still learning after first start Pelini was impressed with a few members of his secondary that saw their playing time increased against Minnesota. Sophomore Stanley JeanBaptiste made his first start at cornerback and senior Lance Thorell spent much of the game in the Peso position, the hybrid spot the defensive staff created for Eric Hagg last year.

Jean-Baptiste recorded three tackles after seeing his first career action at cornerback just two weeks earlier.

“He made some mistakes, but it didn’t hurt us,” Pelini said. “They didn’t catch any balls on him. It was great to give him that experience. He got the jitters out of the way and can move on now.”

As for Thorell, it’s unknown how much playing time he’ll get in the future. Minnesota didn’t run many power running sets, so the Husker defense resorted to the style it used for most of last season, boosting Thorell’s playing time.

“He’ll be used when we need him,” Pelini said. “If a team wants to line up and play smashmouth, we’ll use the three backers. Lance has been playing well all year. It’s just what we get when we match that personnel.”

approach is that it doesn’t matter how you win a game, or for that matter, lose a game,” Pelini said.

“You move on to the next game. You’re playing a different team in a different place. You aren’t going to gain too much from that. I don’t buy into that.”

The Huskers are in a juggling act when it comes to devoting their attention.

They’ve forgotten about the Spartans’ wild win in East Lansing and their rank as they come into Lincoln.

They’re motivated by the revenge that would come in a potential trip to the big Ten title against Wisconsin.

Above all the drama that

Scott Willman’s 16 birdies helped guide the Nebraska men’s golf team to a 12thoverall finish at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate on Tuesday in Las Cruces, N.M. The short game became an issue for a few of the Huskers in their fifth and final tournament of the fall season. The Huskers finished the second round ranked 13th overall, but Willman’s 1-under par third round was enough to boost the team to 12th. He shot 212 through three rounds and earned his fifth straight top 20 finish.

Also, the senior’s 16 total birdies tied for third most.

“Scott’s been playing very well for us,” said teammate junior Neil Dufford. “He’s been doing it all year. Very reliable.”

Dufford, a junior f r o m M i d land, Texas, recorded the second b e s t score DUFFORD for the team, finishing 13 strokes behind Willman. His best round came on Tuesday when he shot an even-par 71. But in spite of this effort, he still recorded his lowest overall finish of the season. He’s not worried, though.

“Yeah, I’m a little disappointed. I didn’t play well,” Dufford said. “I hit the ball well, probably as good as anybody out there, but my putter let me down today.”

Teammate Manuel Lavin

also had problems with the putter over the two-day period. Nevertheless, he still managed to improve each day. He shot a 2-over par in the third round, which proved to be five strokes better than his first round.

He tied for 59th overall, shooting 226.

The putting woes didn’t manifest earlier in the season when the Huskers finished first at the Fairway Club Invitational, but they certainly became a problem as the season progressed.

Dufford described the season as a “rollercoaster ride.”

“Golf is just one of those games,” he explained. “Manuel and I were talking (on Tuesday) about how well we started the season as compared to how we ended it. We’re both going to take something from this fall.”

For the fourth consecutive tournament, the Huskers earned a 12th-place result.

Dufford attributed this to faster playing surfaces and “an overall stronger field.”

Another reason may be the Huskers’ youth. In addition to sophomore Lavin is freshman Ross Dickson, who shot 2-over-par in Tuesday’s final round at New Mexico State Golf Course. He also turned in rounds of 76 and 78.

Dufford described the team as having “a lot of potential” and that the slump in the mid-to-late part of the fall season is something the Huskers will benefit from next spring and in the future.

“We are definitely a toptwo caliber team,” he said.

“Our youth and inexperience showed, but I truly believe we will be a better team because of it.”

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NU freshman wide out Kenny Bell said the team is definitely aware of the game’s importance. With a loss to the Spartans, Bell believes the Huskers would be playing for little more than the Outback Bowl.

“We’ve got to win our division to move on to play whoever — I think it’s going to be Wisconsin still — but whoever wins the Leaders,” Bell said. “Without a win over Michigan State, I don’t think it will happen.”

In a game where momentum is labeled as key, Pelini doesn’t believe the

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PRACTICE NOTES FOOTBALL Safeties contribute in run game Defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said the NU rushing defense made some strides Saturday, and he attributed the improvement to the two guys furthest from the line of scrimmage.

“I thought our safeties did a great job of playing their roles and communicating better,” Pelini said. “I think we’re getting better at that aspect of the defense. If we continue to get better at that, we’ll be more sound defensively.”

Austin Cassidy and Daimion Stafford combined for 10 tackles and Cassidy took a fumble recovery back for a score.

The Huskers will need to see more of the same this Saturday against Michigan State. Although the Spartans have the Big Ten’s worst rushing attack statistically, Pelini said their running game sets up what they want to offensively.

“They take what you give them,” he said. “They’re a power running team, and teams have been loading the box against them. When that happens, their receivers can have some success. When you spread out and start to defend the wideouts, they go back to the running game.”

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Senior Benedikt Lindheim and teammate Christopher Aumueller were defeated 9-7 by Tulsa’s top-ranked doubles team at the USTA/ITA Central Region Championships.

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one season has to offer, Nebraska is focused on the one game they’ll play this week.

“If you switch up your method because you are playing someone different, then you are going to get everyone off track,” NU running back Rex Burkhead said. “You have to prepare like you would always prepare for any other game. It can’t be different because you are playing someone else or you will get everyone out of sync and out of focus. So we are going to go out there and prepare like we always have.” jeffpacker@ dailynebraskan.com

met their child at her respective number to present flowers and an autographed team picture.

For Goetzmann, nothing in the world could ever amount to her experience in the Nebraska soccer program.

“These have been the best five years of my life,” Goetzmann said. “I have grown really close to these girls, and I have been so blessed to be able to be a part of this program.”

The seniors have left a lasting impact on Nebraska soccer, according to Thomas. They have started a combined 195 games with a 46-40-11 record during their time at NU. With all of those games played by the seniors, a few have stuck out more than the rest. Last year’s defeat in the Big 12 Championship semifinals was an incredible experience that will not be easily forgotten, according to Thomas.

However, the game that left the greatest impact on these players was the comeback victory this season against then undefeated Virginia Tech, according to Slapper.

“It’s the best feeling in the world to know that you gave it your all, winning that game the way we did, it was an incredible feeling,” Slapper said.

The quartet as a whole has scored 27 goals and dished out 47 assists in their careers for a total of 101 points. Although the goals and assists are nice to look at on paper, the seniors hope to be remembered most for their commitment to Nebraska soccer, according to Fulmer.

“Hopefully we have shown the underclassmen what it takes to be committed to this program,” Fulmer said. “I believe we have shown them how to play and work both on

and off the field.”

All four seniors have been in the program for at least four years; Slapper, Goetzmann and Fulmer each redshirted a year to be on the team for five years.

With that many years of play, the coaches held the seniors to a high level of responsibility by 2011. But according to Thomas, each senior accepted her role with excitement.

“We all felt different coming into this season, because we were the ones leading,” Thomas said. “This year’s schedule was one of the more difficult ones we have seen at Nebraska, but it was fun leading the team out of its comfort zone a little bit.”

Nebraska soccer has influenced these four players in more ways than just on the pitch. Three of the four players in the senior class have received firstteam all-academic honors in the Big 12 Conference at least once in their careers.

Balancing school and sports is something that many student athletes struggle with, according to Fulmer. However, the NU seniors thrived at it during their years in Lincoln.

“School comes first, and we were all able to find a balance between the two in order to succeed at both,” Fulmer said.

As far as how much Husker soccer has affected the lives of these four seniors, no words can express the amount of influence it has had, according to Slapper.

“It made me more grounded and helped me step out of my comfort zone,” Slapper said.

“Those are aspects of life I’m going to need no matter what I end up doing; I now know how to push myself to the absolute limit.”

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Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and his team currently have three ranked opponents left on the schedule.

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Receiver Kenny Bell celebrates with teammate Ben Cotton after his 82-yard touchdown run against Minnesota. It was the longest rushing touchdown by a freshman in school history.

STAYING BLUE

Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins chanted from his spot in the end zone in East Lansing, Mich., and the fans in the stands yelled right back.

They had all played witness to Keith Nichol’s catch on the Wisconsin goal line for the gameending and game-winning score.

Watching a state away was Nebraska tight end Ben Cotton.

“It was a fun game to watch and it was an exciting finish,” Cotton said.

“I love seeing games like that.”

While the junior was aware of the Legends Division standings, he just wanted a good game on the tube.

“I know that people say we’re supposed to be pulling for Wisconsin to try to help us in our division,” Cotton said. “But

we know we’re in control of our own future, and we’re confident in what we’re doing.”

The Huskers are looking at a second half of the season that includes No. 18 Michigan (6-1) and No. 19 Penn State (7-1). Comparatively, the Spartans, who lead the Legends Division with three wins, have a weaker schedule, making Saturday’s game in Lincoln a vital one.

As for the aftermath of the Michigan State victory, the Huskers aren’t worried, Cotton said. They’re just focused on Saturday’s matchup against the Spartans. They’re worried about what they can control, not what they can’t.

NU coach Bo Pelini twice said that the Huskers are aware of what is at stake when a No. 9 Spartan team will come to

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Redshirt freshman Bell remembers roots as scout teamer, stays humble while bringing spark to Nebraska offense Dan Hoppen Daily Nebraskan

Before the Minnesota game Saturday, Kenny Bell had a moment of panic. He thought he’d misplaced his blue jersey, the one he wears during almost every football-related activity, even lifting sometimes.

“It was a bad sight,” Bell said with a smile. “I don’t play without my blue.”

Luckily, the redshirt freshman was able to find his prized piece of apparel and contributed in a big way a few hours later, leading the Huskers in catches and scoring on an 82-yard reverse.

The jersey holds special meaning for Bell. All members of the scout team wear blue uniforms over their pads in practice. The thought of the work he put in on the scout team last year keeps him grounded.

“It really just reminds me of what I work for, where I’m

from and what I am,” he said.

“There’s just so much that holds for me. It’s tattered and beat up, but it’s not going anywhere.

You’ll see it all four years I’m here.”

Bell and his blue jersey are a big part of why the Nebraska offense has become more explosive this season. He has four plays of 20 yards or more this season, and his 82-yard scoring run on the reverse against Minnesota is the Huskers’ longest run from scrimmage since 2004.

It was the longest touchdown run by a freshman in school history.

Not that he knows any of that.

Many players profess that they don’t care about their numbers, only the team’s wins. But when Bell says it, he means it.

“I don’t really set individual goals,” he said Monday when a reporter asked him about his production. “I don’t know.

What are my stats? I know I had

that 82-yard run. Besides that, I don’t know my stats.”

A few moments later, another reporter fetched Bell’s stats and handed them to the receiver.

“I’m doing alright,” Bell said after glancing at his numbers.

“I think I could contribute a lot better as far as catches go. I just wanna win.”

As far as NU receivers go, his catching numbers are just fine.

He’s second on the team in both receptions (13) and yards (188). And there’s another defining quality he brings to the Husker locker room.

“He’s got the best-looking afro in the country,” junior Iback Rex Burkhead said.

Almost as impressive as his signature hairstyle is his ability to quickly pick up offensive coordinator Tim Beck’s offense.

After not seeing much time in NU’s opener against Tennessee at Chattanooga, Bell has started five games and has multiple

receptions in three of them.

“He’s come in and made an impact right away,” Burkhead said. “He’s a very mature kid.

He’s very knowledgeable of the game. I think that’s the biggest thing. He’s a very gifted physical talent, but his intelligence of the game is a lot better than people have seen.”

Bell’s speed and intelligence have allowed him to make an impact earlier than most expected. He said much of that credit goes to the blue jersey and the daily reminder it provides. Its inspiration even prompted him to tweet a question to Husker nation Monday.

“I wander if I can get fans to start wearin blue jerseys with 80 on the back? #swag,” Bell tweeted.

If he continues to play like this, the trend idea might not be so far-fetched. danhoppen@ dailynebraskan.com

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Katie Goetzmann along with three other seniors played their last game at the Nebraska Soccer Field Sunday.

Seniors reflect on Poll doesn’t concern Nebraska’s Cook Husker careers after final home game volleyball

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On Monday afternoon, a poll of college volleyball coaches made official what many Nebraska fans had thought since Saturday night: Right now, the best team in the country plays its home games at the NU Coliseum.

After gaining 38 of the 60 first-place votes, the Huskers sit atop the AVCA poll for the first time since they were swept at Texas a week before Halloween in 2007. The (almost exactly) four years between holding the top spot — due largely to Penn State’s

recent dominance — was the longest dry spell NU has had under coach John Cook.

The ranking puts the cherry on top of NU’s 15-match winning streak, in which it defeated seven teams who currently sit in the top 25. For the first time in almost every Husker’s career, NU is now the frontrunner, not the pursuer.

Still, the numbers don’t mean much, according to the team. Not only did both Cook and Brooke Delano say the ranking would have no impact on the team, Cook spoke of the poll itself, just a few hours before NU’s coronation, with something close to contempt

at his press conference Monday.

“I never worry about (the AVCA poll), nor do I care about it,” he said. “I’ve seen teams this year (where) they lose and they move up three spots. It makes no sense. It just tells me that people aren’t paying attention to what’s going on on that. We don’t worry about that.”

Cook praised the RPI index, saying that RPI is what the selection committee will be looking at before the tournament.

If he’s right, NU will still be in good shape: The Huskers have been ranked second in both of the weekly rankings issued by

NCAA.com. They continue being ranked behind Illinois despite a convincing victory over the Illini on Saturday night, and a nonconference win over Iowa State (No. 3 in RPI).

The fact that this Nebraska team is now No. 1 comes as a surprise to many who were skeptical of the team early on in the season, when it fell as far as No. 11 in the poll after losing to Colorado State and struggling against New Mexico State and St. Mary’s.

And that includes Cook, who said he was “shocked” at

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Sophomore Emma Stevens grabbed the hand of senior Katie Goetzmann on Sunday afternoon after the Nebraska women’s soccer team lost to No. 25 Illinois at the Nebraska Soccer Field.

The sophomore looked at the senior and smiled; the senior smiled back.

Then the two looked at three other players, and the five shared a collective grin.

For Goetzmann and those three other seniors, Molly Thomas, Blair Slapper and Michaella Fulmer, this was the last time they would play at the Nebraska Soccer Field as Huskers. They were recognized after that game at a ceremony on the field.

Each senior was honored with their number painted in red on the grass. The parents of all four players

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