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Inside Coverage

Husker linebackers improving NU linebackers prove themselves against Michigan

Down with the sickness

10 Moving forward with Obama 2012

Local solo metal act, Plack Blague attempts to entertain and disturb audience members during each show. He spoke with the Daily Nebraska about growing up in a musical family, forming his first band and writing music about his personal fettishes.

In the aftermath

DN endorses the president for a second term

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Eli Mardock joins Life Is Cool, produces own music

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Nadine Stuehm and her daughter Cecilee Panter pose in front of a staircase. Moriah, a UNL student, Stuem’s daughter and Panter’s sister, died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism in April 2012.

Months after the news, student deaths overwhelm families story by Tammy Bain | photo by Morgan Spiehs

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un a Google search on Moriah Panter, and a few accounts appear of what happened on April 13, 2012.

News reports and family interviews reveal Panter died of a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot that traveled from her leg to her lung. But no one talks about the aftermath of Panter’s death – or of the five other University of NebraskaLincoln student deaths between 2011 and 2012.

Earl Hawkey, director of registration and records, said four students died in 2011, and two in 2012 – one of which was Panter, a sophomore

business marketing major.

In the aftermath of a student’s death, family and friends face a new barrier every day. From unpacking a dorm room, to dealing with financial aid, to processing the grief, they, like Panter’s family, are still overwhelmed even months after the news.

The night before she died, Panter told her friend Tamara Kendall she felt sick. But she still showed up to Spanish class in Oldfather Hall, where Kendall, now a sophomore psychology major at Hastings College, said she looked ill.

Soon after the beginning of class, Panter went to the bathroom. She didn’t come back.

When Kendall went to check on her, she found her friend had collapsed.

That wasn’t Panter’s first fainting spell.

She’d had another a month before, Kendall said.

But Panter had woken up after a few minutes, and Kendall said a University Health Center employee told her friend it was just fatigue.

This time, Panter didn’t wake up. Kendall

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It sits next to the large-size Reese’s in the vending machine. Colored hot pink and purple, it almost blends in with the candy surrounding it.

But upon closer examination, the brightly colored package is different from all the rest. It’s a Kotex tampon. And its vending machine on the first floor of Love Library is one of the last places on the University of NebraskaLincoln campus to sell feminine hygiene products.

UNL no longer fills the machines in the women’s restrooms on campus.

The majority of machines now host red “Do Not Use” stickers.

“I wondered that a few days ago,” said Rae Novich, a junior biology major. “Why all the machines have red ‘Do Not Use’ stickers.”

Kelly Bartling, news director at UNL, said the final decision

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to discontinue refilling the feminine product machines was made about a year ago.

Bartling said cost was a fac-

tor in the decision. She said the products that fit into the dispens-

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High parking costs raise concern Costs for UNL student parking permits have increased 6.6 percent since 20102011 year

A tampon dispenser inside the women’s bathroom of Mabel Lee is out of order like many on campus.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln administrators are considering requiring upperclassmen on academic probation to live in University Housing, according to University of Nebraska Regent Tim Clare.

In an article in the Lincoln Journal Star, Clare said the university was considering requiring these students to stay in dorms.

He cited the 900 empty beds in UNL residence halls, saying UNL Housing has room to house students on academic probation.

Clare told the Daily Nebraskan that living off campus only makes matters harder for students with academic struggles. Living on campus means being closer to classes, libraries and resources campus living offers, he said. And he added that empty beds aren’t good for the university financially.

“We’re paying for the beds whether they’re empty or full,” Clare said.

Clare called the possible plan a “two-prong benefit.”

Clare said the university and the NU Board of Regents are deciding if the proposition is feasible to pursue.

It’s an issue UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman has been looking into, Clare said.

“We are looking at this possibility as one of many things to increase our graduation rates,” Perlman said in an email to the Daily Nebraskan.

“We know students who live on campus in University Housing probably have a greater chance of success academically. But this is something we are currently thinking about.”

Perlman and Clare cited Ohio State University’s plan to house all

In a meeting last Friday, University of Nebraska-Lincoln parking officials discussed the possibility of increased costs for parking permits to help fund the StarTran bus service. If approved, these rising permit costs would follow a trend at the university.

The average price for all types of student parking permits at UNL has

increased 6.6 percent since the 20102011 school year, according to UNL Parking & Transit Services. Student parking permit prices increased an average of 3.7 percent between the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years. The pricier parking permits has some students upset.

“I’m paying more money this year for an even smaller amount of parking spaces in the exact same lot I paid for last year,” said Connor Shapiro, a sophomore advertising and public relations major.

Shapiro, who parks his Toyota 4Runner in the outside lot at 17th and R streets, said half the lot is dedicated to staff parking while last year the lot was all for students. The cost for this type of parking pass, a student commuter pass, is $528 this

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panter: from 1 called 911, and soon the EMTs arrived and stabilized Panter. They told Kendall that Panter would be OK. Still, she followed the ambulance to Bryan LGH East.

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Nadine Stuehm – Panter’s mother – was already on her way to Lincoln for her job as a lecturer and placement coordinator at the University of Nebraska Kearney when she got the call. But in light of the earlier fainting incident, Stuehm said she was unfazed.

“I’ll pick her up, it’ll be fine,” she remembered thinking.

Charlotte Evans, assistant chief of UNL police, said tending to the student takes first priority for emergency responders. So a witness often ends up making phone calls to family members first, Evans said.

If a student is found dead at the scene, UNL police will contact the parents’ local law enforcement after investigation. Local officers then tell the parents face-to-face.

Panter hadn’t told her mom she felt ill on the phone that morning.

She was excited to come home for a weekend visit, Stuehm said.

When Kendall arrived to the MORGAN SPIEHS |DN hospital, staff told her that her friend A photo of Moriah Panter sits among materials received since her death in April. Panter fainted in was dead.

Oldfather Hall and never regained consciousness. After her untimely death, her family was forced “At first, it didn’t register,” Kendall said. “Then it hit me, and I broke to confront matters like organ donation and cleaning out her dorm room. down.”

But staff told Kendall not to tell Stuehm of her daughter’s death, refunded - a surprise, Stuehm said, on her deck, just thinking. She visits since they hadn’t notified her yet. On borowski said. since only a few weeks remained in Moriah’s burial spot every day. the phone, Stuehm tried to coax KenMoriah’s cousin stopped at the Cecilee also left school early but dall to go back to classes, saying that dorm on his way from Omaha, grab- the semester.

Federal student loans would’ve came back for finals. She didn’t want Panter would be fine. bing bracelets, jackets and dresses been forgiven, said Craig Munier, to return in the fall, but she did, and Looking back, Stuehm underfor the funeral, Cecilee said. director of the office of scholarships now she’s taking her time to gradustands why Kendall stayed.

That afternoon, Stuehm arrived and financial aid. Not all private ate. She’s moved out of her mother’s “I’m sure she knew,” Stuehm home to a packed house. said.

“This is it; they’re just going to loans allow such forgiveness, Mu- home but said she still spends time nier said. there.

When Stuehm arrived at the take care of me.” she remembered The tough parts are things you hospital, front desk staff led her to thinking. The rest, she said, was a ‘Still on Autopilot’ a private waiting room – her mediblur.

Moriah is buried in Kearney’s never think about, Stuehm said. She can’t sit down and read something cal background told her that was a Stuehm’s sister wrote Moriah’s cemetery. Stuehm can see the evbad sign. There, she met a hospital obituary while others helped with ergreen treetops of the lot from her she always loved. When Stuehm sees chaplain. She insisted on seeing her arrangements. Friends and famkitchen window. Around the block Cecilee pull up in her sister’s car, she daughter, and the man left. ily, including the girls’ father who and through a gate, a hot-pink still feels a pang of excitement.

“I think we’re still on autopilot,” Shortly after, Kendall entered the lives in Hildreth, stayed at Stuehm’s Shepard’s hook, decorated with Stuehm said. “We get up, and we do room where Stuehm sat alone. home all week. flowers, lawn ornaments and ribbon what we have to do.”

“I’m so sorry,” she said.

That Wednesday, 500 people serves as a headstone until Stuehm Bible verses, crosses and picThat was when Stuehm knew. attended Moriah’s funeral – many and Cecilee are ready for one. tures of the sisters cover the walls When the doctors told her the news, donning pink, Moriah’s favorite Stuehm said she can ask the UniStuehm just stared back at them. color. She even had a pink casket versity Health Center anything but and fill the tables and shelves in “There wasn’t anything to say at Cecilee’s idea. And you couldn’t find cannot receive a copy of Moriah’s Stuehm’s living room. Both Cecilee and Stuehm said they aren’t any less that point,” she said. a single pink flower autopsy without a lawyer.

Stuehm’s first in Kearney that day.

Jim Yankech, associate director sure of their Christian faith since MoAll I want to Moriah’s funeral of the Health Center, said Family riah’s death. thought wasn’t to “I think I’ve spent a lot of time grieve – first, she them out.

Educational Rights and Privacy Act know is, was soldEmployees being mad at God,” Stuehm said. had to tell Moriah’s of laws come into play when local hossister, Cecilee Panter. she sick? Did we Hastings Books, pital records of a student who dies “But I just know.”

While Cecilee said she’s asked If Cecilee, a seMusic and Video are sent to the health center. The U.S. miss something?” nior special educastore, where Moriah Department of Education website “why,” she doesn’t doubt her sister tion major at UNK, worked, wore cus- said it’s a student’s choice if parents is in heaven.

“I know she wouldn’t come hadn’t been as busy Nadine Stuehm tom-made T-shirts. access records after the student turns panter’s mother at the home she Butterflies were 18. The choice is whether parents can back,” Stuehm said as she began to shared with Stuehm, released after her access all or none of the student’s cry. “I know she’s very happy.”

One of Moriah’s cousins leaves she might have funeral, something records, with no picking and choosMoriah flowers every time he passes found out from Facebook, she said.

Stuehm said Moriah wanted at her ing what can and cannot be accessed, through Kearney in addition to callAfter contacting professors and emwedding. such as grades or medical reports. ployers, Cecilee allowed herself to The next Friday, with two Stuehm had no reason to believe ing her cell phone every Monday, as grieve. In Lincoln, Stuehm had to friends’ help, Stuehm and Cecilee Moriah was sick, she said. Moriah he always has.

The family won’t shut off her answer questions first. went through Moriah’s dorm, where suffered headaches, which made her “What was Moriah’s medical Moriah’s roommate left a note with unable to attend school in the fall, cell phone until everyone’s ready, history?” condolences, Stuehm said. but was well by spring. While medi- Stuehm said.

Cecilee said Moriah’s death was “Any complaints?”

But despite offers of help from cation for the headaches increased just as hard on her cousins, who have “Medications?” the university and a floral arrangechances of blood clots, Stuehm said “Could anyone else answer ment from Moriah’s floor, when the headaches themselves were irrel- extended the same support Stuehm received from her friends. questions?”

Stuehm and Cecilee arrived with two evant to Moriah’s death.

“They lost a sister too,” she said. to collect Moriah’s things, no “All I want to know is, was she Navigating the blur friends What isn’t hard, Stuehm and Ceone would make eye contact or even sick? Did we miss something?”

The news still had to be delivered cilee agreed, is talking about Moriah. acknowledge their presence – except Stuehm said. to Moriah’s dorm. Associate Director “We talk about her all day, every But she hasn’t asked any quesof Residence Life Keith Zaborowski for one young man who held a door day,” Stuehm said. “I think the hard tions. said if a student hasn’t already found open for them. part is, we don’t want people to forStuehm said the people at UNL “There are some days when I out his or her roommate died, an inthink I’m ready, and then, you know get.” house counselor, assistant director didn’t know what to do with them Cecilee won’t forget a warm fall and were at a loss as how to help. … ” As Stuehm trailed into tears, and director of residence life deliver “I wouldn’t have wanted to put looking out her back window, Ceci- day when butterflies flew over Morithe news together. ah’s burial spot – unlike her mother, lee finished.

The roommate can stay in the up with us either,” she said. she doesn’t visit the cemetery every For Stuehm, that day was the “It’s not going to make us feel dorm room or move to a new one, day. hardest because it’s the first she any better,” she said. depending on his or her wishes “I don’t need to go to feel my siscan remember after her daughter’s Stuehm still receives cards, and available accommodations. At ter,” Cecilee said. “I see her in most phone calls and company, all of a floor meeting, other residents are death.

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Charles Holm starts an event hosted by the UNL International Socialists Club Monday night in the Colonial Room of the Union. During the event, they watched a video and discussed the application of monsters to capitalism.

Event compares capitalists to the living dead DANIEL WHEATON Dn Capitalism might be making you a zombie.

Instead of screaming for brains, people are acting like mindless corpses for money, said David McNally in a video shown at the “Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism” event Monday night.

A group of about 10 gathered in the Nebraska Union to watch the talk by McNally, a professor of political science at York University in Toronto, and to discuss changing America’s capitalist society.

The University of NebraskaLincoln International Socialist Club hosted the event, which was an opportunity to discuss socialism.

McNally said monsters such as vampires, zombies and Frankenstein are the results of anger against the status quo. He said the routine of work for capitalistic gain was similar to a vampire sucking blood, and the repetitive action turns the working class into a zombies.

Charles Holm, a history graduate student who organized the event, said the metaphor of monsters helps lead conversations about problems with capitalism.

“The seeds that caused Mary Shelley to write ‘Frankenstein’ are still in place today,” Holm said.

McNally said Frankenstein’s monster, which was made from assorted body parts and brought to life by electricity, is a parallel to the capitalist system. Workers replace the body parts, and wages serve as the electricity.

Individually, McNally said a worker is just like a zombie.

“You spend a third of your life working for someone else, one-third of your life in bed,” Holm said. “That is two-thirds of your life that is gone.”

George White, a senior political science major, said the tragedy of working is the sacrifice of hope and dreams for a paycheck.

McNally said the body has become a conduit where effort is exchanged for money. Emotion and personality are stripped from the worker, and only effort matters. McNally described a new folk tale where people are magically transported to a hotel room and begin vomiting money, becoming a human ATM. Salem Elzway, a senior history major, said college students and white-collar workers face intellectual demands that impede creativity, leading to intellectual zombification.

“It’s an inherent nature of any money-making enterprise that any action or thought that does not produce profit is worthless,” Elzway said. “You can’t think outside of the structures that control the world you live in.”

Elzway said universities have become a new place of indoctrination where students consent to the system.

“This is where you don’t learn how to be a creative critical thinker or a citizen in a democratic society,” Elzway said. “This is essentially the new vocation.”

He said new college graduates entering the workforce will become the tools that transform America into a service economy.

He said the benefits provided by the system convince most people to join in, furthering capitalism.

Celia Schinkel, a senior English major, said the demands placed on blue collar workers are the same, except physical exhaustion replaces the mental.

This talk was one of the International Socialist Club’s first events on campus. Holm founded the club at the beginning of the semester. He said his group aims to inform and promote socialism on campus.

White said recent events like Occupy Wall Street and the recession have helped promote discussions about socialism.

“Socialism is less of a dirty word,” White said. “But some people still use it as an accusation.”

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NU Foundation raises $165 million in donations Staff Report dn Donors gave $165 million to the University of Nebraska this year through the University of Nebraska Foundation, making it the foundation’s thirdbest best year ever for total donations.

“We very much believe in sharing information face to face with donors and potential donors,” said Robb Crouch, director of public relations for the NU Foundation. “We’re meeting with donors across the country to tell them how they can make an investment in the university.”

The foundation transferred almost $124 million to university campuses during the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to an NU Foundation press release. More than 99 percent of those funds were given to a specific campus or for a particular purpose such as student support, faculty, research and capital improvements.

The NU Foundation is a nonprofit organization that raises private funds for the university and its four cam-

TOTAL AMOUNTS RAISED BY THE NU FOUNDATION

Gifts received Transferred to the university Total assets

2012

2011

2010

2009

$165 million

$172.1 million

$136.9 million

$128.1 million

$166.5 million

$123.7 million

$130.2 million

$107.3 million

$102.8 million

$130.1 million

$1.8 billion

$1.7 billion

$1.6 billion

$1.4 billion

$1.6 billion

2008

SOURCE: NU FOUNDATION

puses.

Crouch attributed much of this year’s fundraising success to the ongoing Campaign for Nebraska initiative, now in its seventh year.

“We’re using the campaign to

share opportunities with donors,” Crouch said. “It’s definitely the driving force behind our fundraising efforts.”

More than 82,000 donors have contributed to the campaign so far,

which ends in 2014. The original goal of the campaign was to raise $1.2 billion for the university, which the foundation announced they had surpassed in May of this year.

Since the beginning of the cam-

paign in 2004, several major projects have been completed at the UNL including the creation of the $30 million Charles W. Durham School of Architectural Engineering & Construction, construction of the $13 million Interna-

tional Quilt Study Center & Museum and $20 million to establish the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program.

Across all donation areas, donors have given more than $591.9 million to UNL since the start of the campaign, according to the foundation’s 2012 annual report.

Crouch said the foundation sometimes places more attention on certain fundraising goals than others.

“One of our priorities right now is providing more scholarships for students,” Crouch said, adding that the foundation tries to explain all donation options to donors.

More than $121 million has been donated to UNL for student support and scholarships since the start of the campaign.

The NU Foundation had its greatest number of donations ever in 2011, when it raised $172.1 million. Its second-best year was in 2008 when $166.5 million was raised. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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all dressed up photos by Shelby Wolfe below: The superhero duo, Ty and Grant Lebow, wait in line at the Lincoln Children’s Museum during Halloween Hurrah to begin trickor-treating.

Left: Four-year-old Milo Penfield gets into character as he plays in his Power Ranger costume downstairs in the Lincoln Children’s Museum.

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dn flashback Oct. 30, 1914 SUFFRAGE QUESTION NEAR THE CLIMAX

The fight for woman suffrage is fast coming to a climax and there are nothing but predictions of success to be heard from the feminine sex. University women seem to be almost unanimously in favor of equal suffrage. Several lady members of the faculty have been conspicuous in the campaign and their efforts have, no doubt, influenced many of our young men to come to the conclusion that women are their equal and should be granted equal rights. Tuesday will be a great day and instead of seeing university men leading young ladies to the polls, as they do at our university election, no one need be surprised to see the co-eds hurrying from building to building, locating voters, and taking them away in automobiles to the polls.

1941 Altho (sic) It’s Woman’s Domain, Ag Prof Knows His Kitchens

Inquiries at the various schools are shuffled around until the school which has carried on definite research involving the question finally furnishes the correct solution.

Established in 1928 under the direction of Dr. Greta Gray, now head of home economics work at the University of California, the laboratory went under the direction of Prof. Barager when it moved to the home ec annex, ten years ago.

Prof. Barager is a physicist. In fact, he was a member of the physics department faculty until he went into the “housewife” department. The move was made because of the need for the principle of physics in carrying out research. Prof. Barager has never regretted the change.

1968 Motivated by money, beliefs, cyclists an emerging breed

Panhellenic Council revises bylaws Once approved, the revision to its constitution will be the first since 1997 Elias Youngquist DN In the Panhellenic Executive Council, everyone would be considered a vice president under proposed changes to the Panhellenic constitution and bylaws announced Monday.

“Right now, we have a system like president, vice president and on down,” said Stephanie Nelson, a

senior psychology major.

In the new system, the president will remain while all other positions are retitled as vice president, Nelson said. Under the name change, the current vice president will assume a title such as vice president of community outreach and recruitment coordinator would be vice president of recruitment.

The name changes were one of many slight changes made to the Panhellenic constitution and bylaws at Monday’s meeting. According to Nelson, the changes are needed since the last revision took place in 1997.

Another inclusion in the

changes was a Greek Affairs fee increase from $25 to $30 per member each semester, a move Nelson said took place last year and was voted on by all delegates. The shift to the new fee has already been implemented, it’s just a matter of including it in the constitution and bylaws.

None of the changes will be final until Nov. 5 when the Panhellenic Council will vote on whether to approve the changes or not. In the meantime, delegates were given a copy of the old documents and the revised ones to take back to their chapters.

Panhellenic Vice President Jill Docter also announced the chapters

that donated the most toward Huskers Against Hunger, an all-Greek philanthropy that purchased and packaged food to send to hungry children around the world.

“We got the Huskers Against Hunger stuff back finally,” said Docter, a senior child, youth and family studies major. “Sigma Phi Epsilon went (almost) 150 percent over their goal, so they won a TV.” The second-highest donor was Sigma Nu, Docter said. Each Greek house chapter was asked to raise $18.69 per member to donate to the philanthropy.

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parking: from 1 year, $24 more than last year.

“I feel like the university is making more money off less available space,” Shapiro said.

“In 2012 and 2013, parking permits fees increased $24 each year to raise capital for the 18th & R streets garage, reducing the amount we have to borrow and to help fund the transit system,” said Dan Carpenter, director of Parking & Transit.

UNL offers students three types of parking permits: reserved, nonreserved and garage. The two reserved lots – the Stadium Loop and the parking lot on the southern end of Memorial Stadium – charge $960 for annual parking. Non-reserved parking includes access to most lots surrounding dorms such as the Robert E. Knoll Residential Center, The Village and Harper-Schramm-Smith halls, and the permits cost $528 per year.

The three parking garages are located at 14th and Avery streets, 17th and R streets and 19th and Vine streets, and access is $636 a year.

So far during the 2012-2013 year, UNL has sold a total of 9,692 parking permits for a total of nearly $5.7 million in permit sales for its nine available student parking lots, according to Carpenter.

Compared to other University of Nebraska institutions like the University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Nebraska Kearney, UNL brings in a considerable number of permit sales.

UNO has increased parking permit prices over the years as well, although prices have only increased

beds: from 1 sophomores on campus.

Sue Gildersleeve, director of Housing, said the 900 empty beds is a number that reflects capacity if every room on campus was sold as a double.

“Right now we sell a lot of our rooms as singles,” Gildersleeve said.

Selleck Quadrangle, Cather Hall, Pound Hall and East Campus residence halls all have single rooms.

With enrollment down this year, Gildersleeve said not all of the rooms are filled. And she said the 900 empty beds could increase to 1,000 if enrollment doesn’t increase by fall 2014, when Cather and Pound halls close and the new 17th and R suite style residence hall opens.

Gildersleeve said the plan has been mentioned to her as a possible step to take.

Gildersleeve remains focused on keeping the residence halls clean and the food up to a high standard, she said, regardless of who lives there.

“We are working very hard on doing everything we can to keep our operation strong,” Gildersleeve said.

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PARKING University of Nebraska-Lincoln earned nearly $5.7 million in 2012-2013 parking permit sales, down 23 percent from 2011-2012 sales of $7.4 million. All four University of Nebraska campuses have increased permit prices since 2011-2012.

UNL permit sales 2012-2013:

$5,697,552

UNO permit sales 2012-2013:

$1,460,654 UNK permit sales 2011-2012 (2012-2013 numbers unavailable):

$222,525

Sources: UNL Parking & Transit Services, UNO Parking Services and UNK Parking Services *UNMC not included because parking permits are reassigned monthly

about 1.8 percent in the last year for a largely commuter school. Parking permit sales totaled $1.4 million for UNO so far this academic year, an increase in sales of more than $140,000 from last school year.

Matt Wurth, a senior business entrepreneurship major at UNO, said many students just give up on parking permits and try to find free spots in or around campus.

“One day it was blistering cold out, and I gave up finding a spot for

free,” Wurth said. “So I tailgated a car into a parking garage, which clipped the top of my car. I then discovered that I was being tailgated as well … by a campus cop.”

Wurth ended up getting an illegal parking ticket.

Despite availability of free parking around the fringes of UNO campus, the school still sells its share of permits.

“Fall sales account for approximately 75 percent of our annual

sales,” UNO parking manager James Ecker said. “The price increases were required in order to cover increasing operating and maintenance costs for the parking facilities.”

Despite making less than a quarter of UNL’s permit sales this year, UNO also offers free shuttles from the nearby Crossroads Mall and UNO’s Scott Campus, which both offer free parking for students.

UNK increased the prices for three of its four parking permit types by an average of 12.3 percent between the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years. The university raised prices for resident parking from $70 to $85, commuter parking from $55 to $65 and perimeter parking from $50 to $55. Motorcycle permits remained the same at $35 annually.

Although data for the current year is unavailable, UNK raised more than $222,000 from permit sales in the 2012-2011 year.

Although UNL made as much as four times the sales of UNO and 22 times the sales of UNK, it still made about $1.7 million less this year than in the 2011-2012 school year, when sales totaled $7.4 million for the university.

With the construction of the new dorm on 18th and R streets, UNL will lose a large amount of parking spaces.

“If you are comparing UNL to other NU campuses in the system, remember that UNL has a significant number of parking spaces and parking structures and thus cost(s) more to operate,” said Carpenter. news@ dailynebraskan.com

tampons: from 1 er slots cost twice as much as the quality of the products they do quarter to get one, and the ques- offer are unappealing.”

Krista Bayne, a sophomore tion became who would subsihospitality, restaurant and dize that cost.

It also became too difficult tourism management major, agreed with for custodial serHumphries. vices to maintain Why waste “In high the machines and school it’s difkeep cash for the the money ferent, but now machines, she said. you should The machines when people are found less and aren’t going to use know better,” Bayne said. less frequently in “Why waste the public buildings, it?” money when Bartling said.

KRISTA BAYNE people aren’t “Feminine sophomore going to use it?” products have beBartling come more discreet said since the and women have a machines stopped being stocked way to carry them around with last year, girls have not comthem,” Bartling said. “Choices of plained. products that women have make “We haven’t heard much in it difficult to choose which ones terms of feedback,” Bartling said. to put in the dispensers.”

“I think it’s something that evJillian Humphries, a sophomore journalism major, agreed eryone has grown accustomed to: needing to be prepared because that the wide variety of products available would make it difficult the dispenser of the past is probably gone.” to stock the machines.

Amy Michaletz, a senior “Being a girl, we come prebiology major, said she didn’t pared,” Humphries said. “The

understand why the university couldn’t supply the tampons. After all, she said, they don’t expire.

“They should spend less money on giving the football players iPads and give us tampons,” Michaletz said.

Pepsi runs all vending machines on campus, including the one in the library. But not all the vending machines sell tampons.

“It would be at their discretion what products they want to market in those machines and figure out what they are going to have a profit on it,” Bartling said. “And what there’s a demand for.”

Bartling said the feminine hygiene machines will eventually be removed.

“It will be a process to get them all down,” Bartling said. “It’s nothing urgent, nothing we need to spend money on. In the coming years as we repaint and remodel we’ll take them down.”

For now, the machines will remain the restrooms. They’ll sit vacant, awaiting their fate. news@ dailynebraskan.com

They rest in groups, huddled around the entrances to all the classrooms.

They are silent, unmoving. Unless you look for them, you will never even notice they are there at all.

They are bicycles, the cheapest and most mobile means of transportation on campus. There are still very few of them here in comparison to other campuses in the States, but their popularity is growing. * * * THE ADVANTAGES are many, and those who ride them are purists, true hardy individuals, and very often quite broke.

One major advantage, as pointed out by an international cyclist, is that the bicycle takes you right to the door of your classroom building.

1979 NORML (SIC): marijuana study needed

Research into the effects of marijuana on pregnant women and women who are nursing should be done quickly, the Nebraska State Coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said Sunday night.

Don Felder said that almost all research done on the effects of marijuana is on man, which means that definite yes or no answers cannot be given to pregnant or nursing women on whether marijuana is harmful.

“We have to tell them, ‘Don’t smoke,’ because we don’t have any definite answers right now and that is a pity,” Fielder said.

1987 ‘George B. Cook’ considered name for rec center

The Central Planning Committee recommended Thursday that the new recreation center and indoor football practice field be named after George B. Cook, a former president of the board of the University of Nebraska Foundation.

Terry L. Fairfield, current NU Foundation president, addressed the committee Thursday and suggested the name because the largest single contribution to this “Phase I of the Campus Recreation/Athletic Facility” was made by Cook, former chairman and president of Bankers Life Nebraska, and his family.

Fairfield said Cook also served as a member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors for 16 years, the longest tenure of any individual volunteer.

1998 Grants let UNL search for a supercomputer

With about $200,000 in its pocket, UNL is shopping for a supercomputer thanks to a grant the university will receive over the next three years. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will match funds from the three-year, $750,000 grant, said Dale Finkelson, network engineer for Information Services.

The computer, which the university will purchase with its first-year grant funds, will be housed in the Research Computing Center in the Walter Scott Engineering Building next semester.

The grant, from the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research will increase the speed and productivity of UNL researchers by giving them a more powerful computer that can handle extremely complex information or projects involving huge amounts of data, Finkelson said.

—Compiled by kalee holland dailynebraskan@news.com

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our view

ENDORSEMENT: Obama supports young Americans The Daily Nebraskan endorses President Barack Obama for a second term because he supports policies that could lead to a better future for college students.

Obama’s Affordable Care Act sets the framework for a sustainable healthcare system that will allow young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans until the age of 26. Obama’s plan will broaden coverage for all Americans. If Republican candidate Mitt Romney wins the election, Obama’s healthcare plan could be largely disassembled, and months of effort and political capital on the part of the Obama administration will have been in vain.

Obama’s economic policies promise to create jobs and increase government revenue through fair taxation of millionaires and billionaires. Americans should trust the man who prevented what could have been, according to many economists, a second Great Depression. An improved economy means better prospects for students after graduation – and Romney’s policies don’t promise an improved economy. The numbers for his economic plan of decreased taxes and increased defense spending simply don’t add up.

Obama also shows support for two groups Romney systematically ignores: women and gay Americans. Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which allows women to sue for fair pay for equal work, and he’s fought against the de-funding of Planned Parenthood. He’s nominated two women to the Supreme Court, promising consideration for both sexes in future decisions.

He’s also the first president to publicly support gay marriage, and he repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Romney, on the other hand, shows no support for gay marriage rights or Planned Parenthood funding, and one of his advisers revealed this month that Romney didn’t support the Lilly Ledbetter Act while it was being passed.

Obama’s push to build clean energy and decrease oil imports will help protect the environment, an issue of increasing importance as climate change and drought take their toll in the Midwest and around the world. Meanwhile, Romney opposed Obama’s stimulus funding of clean energy and wants to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions.

Obama’s push to extend low student loan rates, as well as his Student Loan Forgiveness plan, show significant support for college students. That’s a strong contrast to Romney’s foot-in-mouth advice to college students that they simply borrow money from their parents to finance their education – as if all parents have ample funds for borrowing.

In today’s world, college students must grapple with a recovering economy, increasingly competitive job markets, modern questions of civil rights and more. Obama shows considerations for the problems we face, but Romney represents conservative, big business interests far removed from the average college student. The Daily Nebraskan hopes young voters will consider the future represented by each candidate before casting their ballots — because they’re the ones who will have to live with it.

Opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of Daily Nebraskan employees.

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Voting means societal contribution

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ur Bill of Rights lays out inherit rights that we have as human beings. The right to free speech, the right to worship whomever, the right to bear arms: the list goes on and on. The right to vote, however, wasn’t deemed an inherit one.

In the Constitution only landowners could vote.

The Founding Fathers believed that if you contributed to government, and in turn society, then you should get the privilege to participate in this great country’s government.

Obviously, with this restriction our Founding Fathers disenfranchised many people based on their race and gender, none of which was right.

But they understood a concept that should be applied to today’s voting system. Only if you contribute to the betterment of a country can you vote in its elections.

The law for this process should look like this: anyone who receives more than 50 percent of his or her income from the government shall not vote in an election. Exceptions to this law include: a soldier receiving VA benefits for serving his or her country more than most, a senior citizen receiving benefits who has already put in 40 or more years of hard work and a disabled person who physically can’t work.

What does this mean for high school and college students? If a high school student makes $4,000 a year and takes no benefits personally, then he or she should be allowed to vote. A high schooler’s financial support mainly comes from his or her household. College students who take loans (which aren’t benefits because you have to pay them back) would be able to vote as long as they don’t take benefits equal to more than 50 percent of their income.

What about stay-at-home parents? If you have a spouse in the work force who makes enough money to support the family, allowing you to eschew government benefits, you would be allowed to vote, too.

Essentially the law states that everyone who receives more than half of their income from the government wouldn’t be allowed to vote, with the exception of the three aforementioned categories. In theory they’re taking more than what they’re contributing to society.

What would one consider contributing to society? If you make an income of $12,000 a year,

riage ends in divorce, that would be their choice as well. If this caused the need for government benefits, then through their choices they ended up being the ones not allowed to vote.

If someone is poor and needs government aid, I’m not saying suspend it by any means. I’m saying that until they get back on their feet, they won’t be allowed to vote. For most Americans this wouldn’t be a big deal. We all fall on hard times, and the country has fallen on hard times in recent years. This law wouldn’t prohibit a person from accepting aid; it would only lay down guidelines for voting if you did accept aid.

Those who contribute to society, and give more than they take, should be allowed to participate in ZACH NOLD it. The fact is that millions of people take voting for granted, and it’s worrisome. They, in turn, vote for those that will give them more handouts. This aland you receive $12,000 or more in benefits, you lows them to become less and less productive memwouldn’t be allowed to vote. If you look at yourself like a subsidized project, and more than half bers of society.

There once was a time when Americans took of you is supported by someone other than yourself, then you wouldn’t be making the biggest pride in hard work while giving back to their country and society. Kids were raised right and people contribution. Hence you wouldn’t be contributdidn’t look favorably on those who fed off the goving to society, much less yourself. ernment. We need to get back to a society that holds Our society would be benefit greatly from this others accountable for what they contribute. law. Able-bodied individuals would be forced Allowing only those who contribute to both off their couches and into the work force if they government and society to vote wanted to vote. Kids would work is a way to do exactly that. Those harder in school and strive harder Those who who want to vote would be alto obtain better jobs so they, in turn, lowed to under this law, assumcould participate in government. contribute ing they work hard and contribMost importantly, it would ute to society. A sense of pride keep those like the “Obama Phone” to society, and and accomplishment would be lady – those who choose to stay low give more than given to those who earn the right income by sponging off the governto vote. Which, in turn, hopefully they take, should ment – from voting. makes them tell their children Those who choose not to work be allowed to they need to work hard so they, hard and expect society to take care too, can earn the right to vote of them, when they are perfectly ca- participate in it.“ once they enter the work force. pable of taking care of themselves, The law wouldn’t be about shouldn’t be allowed to vote. A voting law isn’t an attack on the poor; it’s a way to keeping anyone from voting. Hard work and actively participating in the betterment of society is keep those like Obama phone lady from picking what such a law would encourage. Why would our leaders. I don’t want her picking what color Crayola to write with, much less my future presi- you give a kid a trophy for a football game when he didn’t play or add to the team? Same concept, dent. only on a bigger scale.

What about single parents? The concept Zachary Nold is a Senior English doesn’t change. In this day and age, it’s usually Major. you can follow him on Twitter the parent’s choices (exception: rape) that created @ZachNold AND reach him at opinion@ the kid in the first place. If an individual’s mardailynebraskan.com

Willpower can conquer allure of forbidden fruits

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case, you may have to turn to some unfamiloseph Gordon-Levitt. Oreo balls.

Skipping class to catch up on “Pretty iar methods of getting out of bed.

Before turning off your alarm clock and Little Liars.” catching some more Z’s, deeming your first Much like Eve and her apple, we’re all faced with temptation. class (or entire day of classes) unimportant, you should instead try some different techSome decisions result in the fall of niques to wake up. Are you the type to hit human kind, while others don’t have quite the snooze button to the point of no return? the same effect.

Instead of setting your alarm for when you Falling into temptation can have a should wake up, set it for at least 20 minpretty crappy outcome. And the crappiness utes before. By the time your alarm goes off doesn’t always stop at you. The effects of for the third time, your body is already that succumbing to temptation can affect several much more awake than it would have been people. As college students, we must be able to recognize we are constantly surrounded without setting the extra alarms.

Got a problem waking up to an alarm? by temptations. After this is realized, we must use a trait we’re all equipped with: Use your roommate to your advantage.

Ask them to make sure you’re awake every willpower. morning. Depending on someone else for a As freshmen, our discipline skills are undeveloped. Cultivating these skills takes small responsibility like this can make you feel like a child. Which in time and intense self-return can make you more selfflection. You can also learn Cultivating reliant if you don’t want to from other people’s willfeel that way. Unless you do, power shortcomings and these skills which means you might have successes. some bigger fish to fry.

Here’s a few tips to takes time and 2.) Keeping off the tackle temptation. intense selfpounds. A prime example 1.) Going to class. Getof someone famous that has ting to class when it’s only reflection.” fallen off the weight wagon a few hundred feet away is Oprah Winfrey. Numerous sounds simple, doesn’t it? times she’s gallivanted around her show, Unfortunately, getting a hungover college talking about her awesome workout/diet student out of bed at 8 a.m. on a Friday is that’s helping her lose so much weight. about as easy as getting a Husker football Months later, she’s got a special episode fan to stop drinking after a game.

So how does one go about climbing talking about her unfortunate weight gain, again and again. out of the luscious cocoon we call bed? Just I will be the first to admit that I have think about it. You (your parents, or scholarfallen off the wagon enough times to not ships that you’ve worked hard for) are paysee any reason to get back up. Trying fancy ing for this amazing opportunity to advance diets, buying gym memberships and having your education. Is sleeping another hour or two really going to be worth all the money a “full speed ahead” mindset only lasts for you’ve already put into it? Also, if you skip so long. If you don’t see results fast, focus can be lost. That motivation can be replaced once, there’s a sizable chance of no return. with a fried Twinkie in no time.

Unfortunately, these thoughts tend to be You may already have the attitude that overlooked. They may worry you, but still no matter how hard you try, there’s no way not enough to get you out of bed. In this

SAMEE CALLAHAN your body will change. However, this is untrue. Baseball icon Yogi Berra once said, “Baseball is 90 percent mental, the other half is physical.” I believe this to hold true with exercising as well. If you believe you can do it, your willpower will make sure you do.

One example of helping boost your willpower while exercising is to do it with a buddy. Two heads are always better than one. If you don’t feel that your mind is strong enough, the support of a buddy can really help keep you accountable.

On days where I wasn’t practicing or playing rugby, I would take myself to the gym because I wanted to be better for my team. I knew working out and eating well would improve my stamina in the game.

You should want to be the best for you and for those who need you at your best.

Getting fit takes time. Look in the mirror, find one thing you wish to change, and work at it with all your might. Put together a set of realistic goals you wish to accomplish. Remember, the key word here is realistic. You don’t want to go too easy on yourself at the gym, but you also don’t want to go too hard.

Overall, do it for yourself. You are the

one who has to go through the agonizing hours at the gym. You’re the one who has to avoid the greasy pizza and get yogurt instead. You’re doing everything you can to fix your body, so do it for you.

3.) Staying faithful to your significant other. Love is a really a difficult thing. And to be in a committed relationship in college, it takes a lot of freakin’ effort to make it work. However, no matter how in love you are with someone, temptation can still rear its ugly head.

There are various types of temptation in this situation. Temptation No. 1 is badly timed “love at first sight.” The crazy butterflies you get when you find someone both physically attractive and mentally sexy.

Once the connection is made, it seems to be almost impossible to not develop feelings.

After both parties acknowledge the attraction, the best thing to do is take a step back and analyze. Under this kind of pressure you have some choices to make.

Basically you’re choosing between your long-term partner and this newfound love interest. A lot of deep contemplation is required in choosing which person is right for you.

However, finding out by having any sort of intimacy should be completely out of the question. If the conclusion is that the person you want isn’t your current partner, then letting him/her know right away is vital.

If you find that your love for your partner is stronger than the hunkiest of the hunk, you must distance yourself from your crush. Leading this person on any longer won’t only hurt him/her, but it will also hurt yourself and your partner. If the new love interest persists, you must completely take that person out of your life. If the love of your current relationship is worth the stress of denying a new one, this shouldn’t be a problem.

Temptation No. 2 is a person that you

may stumble upon one drunken night. The ever-so persuasive and attractive temptation can really take you for a whirl. Combating the desire to act on impulse can be ridiculously difficult with this situation. That’s when you have to bring out the heavy-duty guns.

Going to parties is an entirely different experience when in a relationship. A huge reason people go to parties in the first place is to meet new people. Some of whom they may find to be attractive and a possible mate. As a person in a relationship, going to a party means making new friends while letting loose with your old ones.

Occasionally, you may be very drunk and Temptation No. 2 might not want to leave you alone. Obviously it’s more difficult to make decisions if you’re mind is hindered by alcohol. In this case, you should be sure to take certain precautions before beginning to drink.

As you walk into a party, look around and be aware of the people in your environment. If you tell yourself to steer clear of a certain attractive person before you’re drunk, there’s a larger chance that you will.

Also, always have a buddy with you who is looking out for your best interest. A good friend won’t let you make big mistakes that can largely affect your life. Being drunk is no excuse to forsake common sense.

Know that this steamy one-night stand will probably be nothing more than that. The infidelity will derive nothing but pain.

We all make mistakes. Avoiding these is simply conquering temptation with the use of willpower. We’re all equipped with this awesome tool; using it will save yourself and others from a lot of pain.

Don’t you think Eve would agree?

Samee Callahan is a freshman Journalism major. Follow her on Twitter @sameecallie and reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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sickness story by Joe Wade | photo by Kat Buchanan Plack Blague ‘weeds out’ audiences with noise-music, shocking live performances

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Ross “Raws” Schlesinger formed “anti-danse” noise rock band Plack Blague in 2001 and released the band’s most recent album, “Heavy Leather,” in February of this year.

Schlesinger prides himself on the fact that audience members have often walked out of Plack Blague’s live performances due to the band’s abrasive musical style and explicit content.

ost bands play live to get listeners interested in their music and, more importantly, to keep people coming back for more. But one Lincoln band, Plack Blague, has some audience members walking out, sometimes never to return. That would have most bands reconsidering their strategy. But for Plack Blague, it is part of the fun.

Plack Blague formed on Halloween 2001 and is the artistic musical endeavor of Ross “Raws” Schlesinger. His most recent album is “Heavy Leather,” released Feb. 2012. With the help of other artists, a remixed version of the album is currently in production.

“I’ve always wanted to go against what people consider regular or typical in this town,” Schlesinger said. “I think Lincoln does have a staple indie sound, like a bar-rock indie sound that was brought on by bands like Sideshow and Mercy Rule in the 1990s; people still really want to cling to that, which I don’t really understand.”

While growing up, Schlesinger became interested in music through

his father, who played drums in country bands, and his older brother, who plays guitar for Lincoln death-metal band Ezra. Aside from Plack Blague, Schlesinger plays drums for Ezra, sings for the band Vickers and was one of the founding members of the band Wasteoid with Jeff “Jeffmetal” Sayers.

“By the time I was 5 years old, there was always loud guitar playing, so I started learning to play guitar when I was 12 and started a band with my friends in middle school,” Schlesinger said.

When he was in high school, Schlesinger said he decided he wanted to start a power-violence band, which is basically fast punk.

“No one I knew could play drums like that, so I decided to play drums and start a band like that,” Schelsinger said.

According to Schlesinger, part of the concept of Black Plague is the “anti-danse” style of noise-infused obnoxiousness.

“I’ve always had a real love for noise-music where there is, like, harsh noise or experimental music,” he said, adding the motivation was to create something original and truly different.

“The first Plack Blague show was at Zero Street Records, in the window, on Halloween in 2001,” Schlesinger said.

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Mardock ventures into solo recording, supergroup production Lincoln singer stays occupied with Life is Cool, forthcoming album gabriella martinez-garro dn Eli Mardock is no stranger to the Lincoln music scene.

The former member of Eagle Seagull has been making music in Lincoln for years, both with bands and as a solo artist. Fresh off of a show in New York, and between releasing two EPs, a full-length album and producing music, Mardock said he doesn’t have a second to spare.

“I’m mixing the second EP now, and I’ll probably put one of the newer songs on Facebook pretty soon,” Mardock said. “I’ve also been working with Jim Reilly on this new project, called Life is Cool. I recorded that, and then I’ve just been mixing the album, so it should be done pretty soon.”

Though Mardock has been focusing on his career as a solo artist, he has also found time to perform and work with the Life is Cool supergroup.

Mardock said he is also talking with “I really like Jim, and he sent me a couple of demos and I really other bands about recording their liked those, so I was like ‘Hey, you music.

“It just kept building up until it know, I’d totally love to work on got to this point to where I felt comthis,’” Mardock said. “So that’s kind of how that got started and then, at fortable doing the recordings mysome point, he just asked if I wanted self,” he said. “I guess Life is Cool was kind of my guinea pig are far to play some shows with them and I just told him sure. It’s been fun, I’ll as ‘Do I feel comfortable recording other people’s music try to play as many as much as mine?’ shows as I can. I “I’ve just Yeah, it’s gone really don’t know if I’m an great and I really official band membeen getting love the way that it ber. I kind of am, my name out turned out and I’m kind of aren’t.” pretty excited about In addition to there again.” working with other making music, Marbands as well.” dock has been reEli Mardock Jim Reilly, cording and mixing lincoln singer-songwriter founder of Life is his own recently. He Cool, recalled the said he is self-taught process of recording and started recordwith Mardock. ing demos in his late teens.

“Eli had me perform in an emp“It’s never bad to be in a studio; ty basement of an empty house,” he it’s kind of nice,” Mardock said. “I said. “We did drums, guitars and think what I like about recording vocals in there. When we recorded my own stuff is that creativity is not necessarily something that’s always the saxophone, that was done in an ‘on.’ So when you’re in a studio and abandoned building on O Street.

During recording, he promised that you’re paying for time, there’s a lot he’d purchase me a bottle of olive of pressure to make the most out of every minute, every hour. It can be oil — first pressing. That was one promise that he did not keep.” pretty nerve-wracking. So I like the flexibility of recording myself.” mardock: see page 7 Aside from his own projects,

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Former Eagle Seagull member Eli Mardock is currently part of the local supergroup Life Is Cool, in between EPs, working on an album and producing music.

Chicago rock band ponders sincerity, post-post-modernism Billy Yost of The Kickback discusses Lincoln Calling and a forthcoming LP chance solem-pfeifer dn The Kickback may be the closest thing Lincoln has to an honorary band.

The rock four-piece, which hails from Vermillion, S.D., by way of Chicago, will play its second Lincoln show in less than a month when they take the stage with The Renfields at Duffy’s Tavern Thursday night.

On Oct. 24, the band debuted their third live one-take video produced by Nebraska’s Love Drunk mobile studio. The recording of “Little Teach” was picked up later that day by Paste Magazine. Following the conclusion of their North American tour this winter, The Kickback will take their shimmering rock music into the studio to work on their first full-length album with producer Dennis Herring of Modest Mouse and Elvis Costello production fame.

The Kickback’s lead singer, Billy Yost, spoke with The Daily Nebraskan from Chicago via phone, re-

capping the band’s Lincoln Calling performance, detailing the in-studio highs and lows leading to the band’s forthcoming LP and discussing the personal anxiety that shadows honesty in songwriting.

Daily Nebraskan: You said on stage at your Lincoln Calling set that (your drummer and brother) Danny (Yost) was really sick. How was he doing after the show?

Billy Yost: He went straight to bed but, honestly, we had such a good time, the adrenaline rush takes over, and you’re good to go for a couple hours. But he then crashed pretty hard.

DN: Did you have to talk him into playing that night, or is it always “never say die” with you guys?

BY: No, he had been sick all week, so he basically rationed cigarettes and Mountain Dew in a way that wouldn’t have impacted him too much for the show on Friday.

He tried to cut down … so that was probably half a 12-pack and half a pack of cigarettes.

DN: Hey, that’s good. You have to exercise some restraint.

BY: (Laughs) I miss Lincoln Calling. We missed it last year because our van exploded about a week before we were supposed to make it out, so nothing could’ve kept us

away this year.

DN: I think a lot of Lincolnites’ first exposure to you guys, mine at least, was through a very early Love Drunk video where you played “Sting’s Teacher Years” on top of Sandy’s. How did the ongoing connection between The Kickback, Love Drunk and HearNebraska form?

BY: Originally it was all facilitated by Jeremy “Dub” Wardlaw, who is kind of a powerhouse in the Lincoln music scene and one of the people who helps to keep the Lincoln music scene fresh and amazing for us, at any rate. He hooked us up with Django (Greenblatt-Seay) who does Love Drunk.

DN: And that’s a good working relationship, it seems.

BY: Django and I are both cut-tothe-chase sort of people. Neither of us drinks, and we both swear an awful lot. So we’ll do videos with those guys until the proverbial cows come home.

DN: You guys are in Lincoln quite a bit.

BY: Well, saturation is our game.

DN: (Laughs) Sure. You want everyone to get tired of you and then surprise them.

BY: Right, and then we won’t be

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Last week The Kickback released their third live video, “Little Teach” with the Nebraska mobile recording studio, Love Drunk. The Chicago band’s first full-length album is due out next year.

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this week in film Live shows: Datsik w/ Terravita, Xkore & Getter

when:

Tuesday, 8 p.m.

The Bourbon, 1415 O St. how much: $20 (in advance), $25 (at doors) where:

The Renfields w/ The Kickback and Ideal Cleaners

when:

Thursday, 9 p.m.

Duffy’s, 1412 O

where:

St.

how much:

$5 (21+)

Father John Misty w/ Le Sera and Jeffertitties Nile

when:

Thursday, 9 p.m.

The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., Omaha how much: $10 where:

The Sword w/ Gypsyhawk and Eagle Claw

when:

p.m.

Monday, 7:30

where:

The Bourbon, 1415 O St. how much: $15 (in advance), $18 (day of show)

New in albums: “Hands of Glory”

artist: Andrew label: Mom

Bird & Pop

Music genre: Indie Rock, Indie Folk

“Psychedelic Pill”

artist: Neil Young

Crazy Horse label: Reprise genre: Folk Rock

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kickback: from 5 back for two years and act slighted and broken-hearted. We’re trying to be like abusive boyfriends. First we shower you with too much praise, and then we accuse you for a while and then we have a loving reunion because you keep coming back.

That was the dumbest analogy I ever could have made.

DN: (Laughs) I understand. Do you think the relationship between The Kickback – with homebase in Chicago – and Nebraska is a unique one, or is the music community in the Midwest smaller than people realize?

BY: I think it’s both. Lincoln reminds Danny and I a lot of the town where the band started. It’s like a bigger version of Vermillion. We’ll be unloading equipment, and we’ll immediately recognize someone we know. It’s like a giant little town, if that makes sense.

But, also, the music scene in the Midwest is also a lot smaller than people give it credit for. It’s fun to play kind of across the plains and pull up to a bar and see posters for other bands and think, “Oh, I know those guys. We played with those guys. And we had to sleep next to those guys one night and their drummer tried to touch me in ways I’d like to forget.” I like that about it.

DN: With The Kickback podcasts, your work with Love Drunk and your use of social media, you guys seem pretty comfortable in your skin as a 21st century band. In 2012, is that by choice or is that a necessity for bands like you guys to embrace technology?

BY: I don’t know if we have any choice. Honestly the things I love – like Batman and comic books and Muppets – I have such a problem keeping that to myself anyway.

Things like our podcasts and our Facebook page have been another way for me to force those things on other people. And people seem receptive to it, but for better or worse we are kind of relentless that way.

DN: Sure, but as a supplement for you guys as a touring band, is it a benefit? Do situations arise where you get to a gig and someone feels like they know you or something about you because or what you post on Facebook?

BY: That’s kind of the biggest deal for me. I feel if you can give people an opportunity … I apologize – I’m literally parallel parking while answering this one. It could be an amazing acrobatic feat.

DN: No worries.

BY: But I think people can connect to us if they like Michael Keaton as Batman or have watched the movie “Mallrats” 369 times. I just like making friends. And maybe the band is just a terrible way of doing that.

DN: I don’t think it’s so terrible.

Now, looking at your influences, there’s a mix of more melodic acts and some much heavier. A lot of your songs in their last movement or in the third or fourth minute tend to break or crack. Do those breaking moments come out of the natural accumulating emotion of playing or is that planned in writing?

BY: Weirdly enough, I think it’s kind of a reaction to early on, in the first year or two of the band, a whole song could be that way — go until something breaks. And I think as the years have gone on you start trying to include more finesse. That

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Billy Yost is the lead singer of Chicago’s The Kickback, which formed in 2006. The rock four-piece played Lincoln Calling earlier this month and is set to release its first LP next year with the help of famed producer Dennis Herring. part of the song still exists, but you 2006, and this will be your debut have to vary it. I can’t be screaming full-length album that’s still forthcoming. Why the wait? Was waituntil I pass out.

DN: So it’s not so much a mo- ing important to you guys in putment that breaks out of a song, but ting out this LP? BY: At first we were really sure taking that raging feeling and putwanted to do (the album) by ourting a limitation on it? selves, but after a year we weren’t BY: Yeah, I think that’s a good happy with anything, and we deway of characterizing it. I’m kind of a high-strung sort of guy and I cided we needed some help. Not that our EPs are terrible, but if I think the ends of songs feels like a natural place to expel some of that could go back and redo them I would, and I think energy. You’re not as that’s how I’ll feel afraid you’ll mess it I just like with anything I up. ever make. But for DN: Makes making our first record we sense. Are you all friends. And don’t want to have parked? All good? to feel like that.

BY: (Laughs) I’m maybe the band is And I was willing good now. Sorry. just a terrible way to wait for as long DN: Nah, no as that would take, worries. I just have of doing that.” and it wound up some really heady taking a hell of a questions and I while.

Billy Yost didn’t want you to the kickback DN: If you’ll crash trying to think let me nerd-out them over. on you here for a BY: (Laughs) second – I’m an English major – I No, let’s go with those.

DN: Do you have an inkling know you’re an English teacher — BY: Yeah! right now of how this forthcoming DN: (Laughs) I saw that postLP might compare to what we’ve heard on the EPs? How will work- post-modernism was in the bands interests on the Facebook page – ing with Dennis Herring play into BY: I think I need to change it? that. I had a recent revelation. MayBY: I hope our arrangement be you and I can maybe talk about. skills can finally be felt a little more DN: Absolutely. What’s that? viscerally. That’s going to make a BY: Have you read at all about terrible, stupid quote. “the New Sincerity”? David Foster Dennis can almost look at muWallace was a big champion of it … sic like a giant Tic-tac-toe board, about really owning emotion and and you can reach out and touch trying to overcome irony, which is the part of his music that you love so easy to give into. And I realized and we’re hoping he can do that for about a month ago that there are us.

DN: My question more gener- some bands in the new sort of folk ally then, Billy, would be what do thing – the fake folk thing – that are you want from a producer? Those really based on that. You put on a bolo tie and sing about experiences kinds of orchestration talents? you never had and do it with meanBY: Danny and I, for sure, need ing. And you have a mandolin. someone to tell us when to stop.

I realized this post-post modDN: Stop what? ernism thing is going to come with BY: Just stop. Stop adding so unwanted baggage; that everything many parts or stop trying so hard or stop screaming at each other. We you love has to come with something kind of shitty attached to it. both go into this sort of tailspin of DN: So prior to this revelation, not being terribly confident in what was sincerity a big aim for you in we’re doing and wanting so badly for things to be perfect. I remember your songs?

BY: I don’t think so. I think I one night this summer we did 57 inject … my absolute worst fears vocal takes of the same half-verse.

We got four in and I knew we or biggest hopes and then sort of weren’t going to do it, but I was cover them retroactively with some nice window dressing because it trying to prove to him I could and he was trying to prove to me he still does feel kind of silly.

I don’t really want to scream, was willing to waste two and a half hours. We just kind of had this “My mom and dad got divorced. brotherly shootout and we could’ve For Godsakes, somebody try to make sense of this.” I would much used someone to step in and tell us rather make a joke about it before to go get some water. we play a song and then play a song And likewise, we don’t just that doesn’t mention it explicitly. need a referee. Dennis has an inI think we get a lot more honsane knack for arrangement, and esty covered in between the songs that’s one area where we’re strong than in them, which isn’t – I don’t and he could make us stronger. think – a recipe for success.

DN: You guys have had two DN: So it seems like we’re talkEPs out since your formation in

ing about personal insecurity in if you go writing a little. How do you move away from that if you want more honesty and to achieve that “recipe The Renfields w/ for success?” the Kickback, Ideal BY: Where are you from?

Cleaners DN: Omaha.

BY: So you’re kind of right in when: Thursday, 9 p.m. the middle of it. I think there’s eswhere: Duffy’s, 1412 O pecially a Midwestern bootstrap St. mentality where you think, “I’m not going to sing about this. I’m eihow much: $5 (21+) ther going fix things or suck it up and be a man and sing about something where I don’t want to cry at the end of it.”

Bright Eyes took a huge gamyou’ve seen it – this is so much less ble. You can see where singing very important than what we’ve been honestly and very sincerely can be talking about – but have you seen the both very appealing to people and YouTube comments section on the incredibly off-putting. Maybe it’s Love Drunk “Sting’s Teacher Years” the fear of that kind of backlash, video? even though we don’t have the fanBY: No. YouTube comments base for that kind of backlash. make me really sad. Seeing I don’t know. I feel like I’m thoughtful comments that get shat tremendously unimpressed with upon by people who can’t use the myself and always asking myself right “you’re” gets me down. to evolve, and that’s really all I can DN: Sure, sure. I only bring it ask right now. up because the comments have to DN: Ducking back to postbe well-over half high school stumodernism or what comes after it, dents exalting Mr. Yost as the coolwhat’s your take in the band on est substitute teacher ever. shooting for originality. What role BY: (Laughs). I don’t know if does chasing newness play in your being the coolest substitute teacher songwriting? is something to aspire to.

BY: I think the best thing you DN: Is that a little bit of an oxycan do is try to rip off things people moron? haven’t heard before.

BY: I think so. I’d rather be the I think age plays into that a bit.

It’s very easy to get jaded and once most respected or the most feared.

But I look like I’m 17 still, so it’s you see one trick, it can be very unhard to instill any kind of fear that impressive the next time you see it wouldn’t be based on creepiness. come around in any capacity. But Maybe in a few the trick is not to let years I can get the it get you down. fear of the devil in This But I don’t know. them. But I appreciI’ve really stopped post-postate that they don’t worrying about trywrite “Mr. Yost ing to be so incred- modernism thing sucks balls.” ibly original that it is going to come DN: (Laughs) blows people away.

No, none of them God, I don’t know. with unwanted think that.

I haven’t thought baggage; that BY: As long as about this in awhile. they’re spelling DN: Well, from a everything you “balls” right. fan’s perspective: for love has to come DN: I don’t the average person know if their aposwho was in Duffy’s with something trophes are in the for Lincoln Calling, shitty.” right place, but their did they want “origihearts are. nal” or did they want Billy Yost BY: It’s funny. what you guys gave the kickback I just came home them? from school today BY: I don’t if anyand every time we body wants real originality because leave for tour, it’s a little hard. I do that means ignoring all the civil instilike being around them and doing tutions that have governed us foreva little bit of good for one day for a er. Real originality probably involves breaking some laws and taking some group of kids. But the rock is calling. hostages.

DN: The rock?

But I think people are most imBY: Yeah, if you can put “the pressed by something they know or rock is calling” in a quote – maybe thought they knew or forgot, when right at the end – it could make me it’s reinterpreted a way they never sound like an ass. That would be imagined. The popularity of mashamazing. ups really demonstrates that. arts@ DN: And lastly, I don’t know if dailynebraskan.com

this is my jam

“Apologies to the Queen Mary”

by Wolf Parade

tyler keown dn “Apologies to the Queen Mary” by Wolf Parade (Sub Pop, 2005) is the kind of album that makes me want to break something.

The reason? Partly because there are moments of pure rock on songs like “Fancy Claps” and “Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts” that call for thrown fists and jumping kicks. But also because nothing, not even later Wolf Parade albums, have the kind of allure “Apologies” does.

The real magic of this album is the moments it gives listeners, like the melodic yelps in the background during the second half of “Modern World.”

Like the way “Shine A Light” builds and builds, only to explode at the end in a whirlwind of sound. Like the way each band member screams “I’ll believe in anything if you’ll believe in anything!” in the second half of “I’ll Believe in Anything,” which is undoubtedly my favorite moment in any song, ever.

“Apologies to the Queen Mary” isn’t lightning in a bottle. It’s an entire thunderstorm in a barrel. There’s really nothing like it out there, and that is why it’s my jam.

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Grown-up Swift refuses to act her age Album revisits mind-bending heavy-metal Pop star’s lastest album “Red” can’t stave off its own grave immaturity

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There’s no way to know how old Taylor Swift is, really.

A Google search and a listen to “22,” the senseless party track from the pop star’s new album “Red,” reveals she is just a couple years past her 20th birthday. But everything on the latest record – save the artist’s actual date of birth – places Swift’s music somewhere between the diary of 12-year-old and the career retrospective of a faded starlet who always claimed to be more jaded with marquees and paparazzi than her unapologetic pop sound and ruby lipstick could ever lead anyone to believe.

What “Red” marks most noticeably with its 16 official tracks (and 6 bonus tracks) is Swift’s flight from the country arena. The new album’s pop/rock sound nods at its roots with the occasional Swiftstrummed acoustic guitar, only be drowned out by bass, synth and Auto-Tuned vocals once its 30 seconds of “Our Song” nostalgia is up.

The fatal flaw of “Red,” aside from its length, its disunity as an al-

bum and the fact that its songs are virtually indistinguishable, is that Swift’s music appears forever drifting toward the thing it disdains most: an impression of truth and the futility of youth.

With “Red,” the first record in her 20s, Swift appears to struggle against the feelings of dependence, artificiality and ignorance she clumsily proves around the very next corner.

Musically, Swift has chosen to clarion her entrance to a more mature sound by recording songs less performable live than ever. She also attempts to claim legitimacy with a complacent pop/rock ambiance that’s signaled illegitimacy for countless other artists, such as Cold War Kids, Train and Snow Patrol.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, Swift croons a duet with Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody on the album.

The title track “Red” is a wellwritten and agreeable mix of punchy and lyrical abstraction. At the song’s conclusion, the listener has all of five seconds to wonder what “loving him was red” actually means and whether Swift has grown into her 22 years before an onslaught of contradicting evidence emerges. There are two songs that come off as passive-aggressive love notes John Mayer would throw away: the haphazardly ironic and painfully overproduced single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” and “Stay, Stay, Stay,” a

rompy but shoddy homage to the early glee of acts like Noah and the Whale.

And the undermining patterns continue throughout.

“The Lucky One” chides a manufactured classic Hollywood image, only to see Swift plastered all over her album looking like a Crosby, Stills and Nash groupie or a fair-haired Natalie Wood.

Lyrically, Swift builds herself up and then can’t help but reveal she was just playing as an adult.

She’s a woman made strong, hurt too many times by calloused men but swoons like an Arthurian princess over a guy who open doors for her.

Forcibly electric pop jams, like “22,” exclaim how confusingly great it is to be 22 while targeting 15-year-old audiences with a giant, self-effacing wink. Swift quotes Neruda’s “Tonight I Can Write” in the liner notes, latching on to the lines “love is so short, forgetting is so long.” And yet the memory within each of her songs is all of three minutes worth, letting reticence slip through its fingers the next time a four-chord pattern needs resolving.

It’s an album of 16 singles, each with varying degrees of Top40 merit – none complex, some not unpleasantly so – but none with any real reminiscence or satiation.

If Swift’s hit “Fifteen” and her megahit “You Belong with Me”

name Aw shit. My grandma had these fucking Jonny Quest VHS tapes and when I was a kid, I didn’t really know what it was. So she had these tapes and I would watch them all the time, so that’s where I found out who Jonny Quest was. I used to watch “Toonami” at night with all those late cartoons at night on Cartoon Network, and they had Jonny Quest. My favorite rapper in the whole world is MF Doom and when I was younger, I used to bump his shit all the time, and I still do. And he kind of took his moniker from the Fantastic Four, and I was just like, ‘Ah, shit!’ so I decided to be Black Jonny Quest, because he’s kind of like the villain, but I always wanted to be like the dogooder, know what I mean?”

-Alexander Elliott a.k.a. Black Jonny Quest

conchance

Back in the day I was trying to do graffiti, and I was rapping and shit … but at the time I really wanted to be a graffiti artist. I’m not creative in that sense, but I wanted it. So I was looking for a name that would be a play on letters but a play on the name that meant something. I was playing with some letters, and it was just like “con-chance,” playing off of “conscience,” obviously. It’s just kind of one of those things that are super easy and almost cliché but also, at the same time, straight to the point. As far as writing it, that’s why I started tagging. I started rapping more and stuck with that.

As years went on my friends developed much better skills at graffiti, and I was really whack. So I quit doing graffiti. But it really stemmed from a handstyle. I really wanted a nice handstyle, and I still say, to this day, my ‘conchance’ hand style is pretty nice. Not super nice.”

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-Juan Manuel Chaparro a.k.a. Dojorok

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kethro

-Keith Rodger a.k.a. Kethro

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“APOCRYPHON”

Local hip-hop artists share how they named their acts

-Brenton Walstrom Gomez a.k.a. Conchance

When I was real, real young – even before I got my first turntables – I wanted to be DJ Snooze, like snooze on the alarm clock. It’s just funny because everybody hates hitting the snooze button so then, everyone knows what it was, so I thought it would be a catchy name at the time. I thought of it when I was 13, thought it was cool. I was like, ‘When I buy my turntables, you’re gonna call me DJ Snooze!’ and I never actually did it. And sometimes I would use other monikers, like Brother Earth. And on Earth Day I would be Brother Earth Day. So to be honest, I was pretty lazy about mine – I just combined my first and last name. And then when I combined them together I wanted it to sound kind of like ‘cut throat,’ so when I was wording it out – I was actually on an Xbox, throwing out a gamer tag thinking I was trying to pick out something cool. And I was coming up with all these combinations and then I saw ‘kethro’ and it sounded like ‘cut throat,’ and I thought it would be cool for a turntablist.”

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The Sword’s new album, “Apocryphon,” brings back the fantasy and groove to heavy-metal.

The album was released Oct. 22 Taylor Swift The and is TheSword Sword’s fourth album since their debut in 2003. Fast guitars, double-bass kicks and hypnotic vocals will have listencaptured with affection what it is ers crawling on the floor from the to be 15 and 18, respectively, then weight of psychedelic, crushing, “Red” is a context-less, journeyBlack Sabbath-like rock ‘n’ roll. less monster: colorful and eerily “Apocryphon” is everything a boundless like a shopping mall “RED”metal “APOCRYPHON” album should be – if it was but somehow homeless and flailthe early 1970s.

Structurally the ing like the kid who lost her mom Taylor album Swifttakes the choicest elements The Sword inside. of blues-based heavy-metal. The And here we find Swift, all too drums explode like anti-aircraft happy to paint herself as a fool who physical universe. What I’m curifire. The rhythm and bass guitars deserves redemption, a musician ous about is how exactly did this gallop like a charging cavalry of seeking respect by banging on the concept find its way into a song heavily armored war horses. Imdoor of the genre people respect lyric? Was a 20-sided dice inages of brutal, science-fiction fanleast and fighting a hopeless, victimvolved, or did the members of The tasy play in the listener’s head as filled battle for romantic love.

Sword go on a mystical journey of the lead guitar screams down like death from above. There is no is- their own? The most likely reason for the odd reference is far more Arts@ sue with the quality of music – it’s mundane: the band Meshuggah dailynebraskan.com kick-ass. The issue is the current cultural lack of mind-altering, hal- released an album in March with lucination-inducing substances, a song titled “Demiurge.” I highly doubt the possibility of mere cowhich can conjure visions of druincidence, but based off the lyrics ids performing dark rituals. An alfrom the rest of “Apocryphon,” bum like this just isn’t happening I’m still rooting for good ol’ fashanymore in mainstream music. ioned substance abuse as a means The retro influence upon mufor creativity. sic will always be there, which is Much of The Sword’s previgood. But typically it is merely an influential aspect that is integrat- ous material, written by front man ed into modern musical elements. John D. Cronise, also revolves Done properly, the outcome is around lyrics of a fantastic or science fiction nature. exciting and new. “Apocrypon” The song “Freya” from their is exciting throughout its 45 min2006 debut album “Age of Winutes, but it rarely sounds new, at least in the sense of ground-break- ters” (which notably was included on the video game “Guitar ing innovation.

Hero 2”) shares in that conceptual The title track, which appears theme. at the end of the album, opens Despite the music not jourwith a bouncy, electric-synth lead.

Then the guitars and drums roll neying too far from its roots, the band has gone through a couple in to build up the blood pumpchanges. The original drummer, ing musical action that will carry the listener through the rest of the Trivett Wingo, has been replaced with Jimmy Vela, and the band song. Similarly, the lyrics allude to has signed on with the label Razor something otherworldly. & Tie. The opening verse is “Set Like a good Kung Fu movie, adrift in the multiverse/by the some genres will never go out of whims of fate/in thrall to the destyle no matter what new thing miurge/we all wait escape.”

Midtown Marauders is a hip-hop ensemble out of OmaFor those curious, “demiurge” the industry is pushing. For metal ha who toured together long before they decided to join refers to a Greek philosophical fans that go with their gut, “Apocforces as a group. Rapper Black Jonny Quest proposed that ryphon” is a fun trip. concept for a subordinate being he, DJs Dojorok and Kethro and emcee Conchance, should arts@ that created and maintains the form a group. Soon they found themselves touring togethdailynebraskan.com er in Lawrence, Kan. He thought of the name right away – it pays homage to the hip-hop trio, A Tribe Called Quest, who released a classic album “Midnight Marauders.” The plack blague: from 5 name was a homage, and as he remembered saying that night, “We’re from Midtown, and we maraud shit.” However, coming up with their own names wasn’t as simple. sex, basically,” Schlesinger said.

“The people walked by on the One song off his latest alsidewalk, and people get really interesting when you’re performbum, “Peeping Tom of Finland,” ing in a window display case. We is about a man who “wants to dojorok got a lot of boobs in the window jerk off watching you do whatand butts. People would flash ever you do” and draws from you, and it was just something Schlesinger’s interest in fetishes that was super funny to do.” and perversions.

On April 1, Plack Blague ap“I’ve had people come up peared on “Chic-A-Go-Go,” to me and grab me and tell me I which is a dance television show need to stop right now,” he said. in Chicago, similar to shows like “Sometimes people are just really “Soul Train” and “American surprised and act truly shocked Bandstand.” The show originated because they’ve maybe never seen in 1996 and has featured bands someone dancing around in just a like Motorhead, Snoop Dogg and studded jock-strap and a leather OK Go. jacket, not really knowing what “As far as they’re thinking, a performance, what they’re doAnd you that’s probing or why they’re ably my favoreven there.” don’t want ite, because it’s “I like watchfunny and ironic everyone to ing other people (to have) Plack get it because and the shock of Blague dancing in it,” Macias said. front of a group not everyone is “I’m not interestof children,” entitled to get it.” ed in making othSchlesinger said. er people happy, “I was told the but I’m interested Ross Schlesinger whole time ‘just in making an implack blague don’t be scary,’ I pression. I like told them not to watching someworry about it and one who’s not inthe kids just loved it.” terested at first but, then, during Plack Blague performances the course of the set they get reare usually for adult audiences ally into it, and it opens stuff up due to the artistically abrasive in themselves.” style of music and sexual content.

The diversity within the LinAccording to Schlesinger and his coln music scene and the tranpartner Loren Macias, these charsient nature of its fanbase, partly acteristics have been the reason because of the comings and gofor some individuals walking out. ings of University of Nebraska“I think part of it, too, is that Lincoln students, helps create an you almost want to, maybe in a atmosphere for individuals to inconscious or a subliminal way, tegrate, according to Schlesinger.

It’s a weird story. I used to do graffiti back in the day weed out the wimps,” Macias “What I like (when) I’m on and I was at my homie’s house, and he was the one said. “So you come on a little stage is to watch people react to who put me on to graffiti and hip-hop and making strong, come on a little hard and me,” he said. “Sometimes you can beats. He just had a whole room tagged up with a bunch of it scares people off and the right see people gradually understand different stuff and since he was an emcee, he always had plays people are left: the people who get and by the end of the set, everyon words. So I saw the word “dojo” on there, and I was like it. And you don’t want everyone one’s having a dance party in the ‘Oh man, that’s pretty cool; I like the way you rock the O’s to get it because not everyone is front, other people get frustrated and I thought ‘dojo-rock,’ and those words kind of resonated. entitled to get it; it’s all about the and walk away; it’s funny.”

Later on, I looked up what dojo meant and it’s like a karate arts@ perverts.” gym, a place of learning and experimentation, and rock is a dailynebraskan.com “Plack Blague is always about style, so it’s kind of a progressive learning style. It’s more of a personal thing; I don’t really tell a lot of people.”

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“RED”

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As for his own music, Mardock said his latest album will be different than his past projects.

“It’s a kind of dark album, sound-wise,” he said. “There’s a lot of synth and it’s a little psychedelic. It’s definitely a departure from stuff I was doing with Eagle Seagull. I’m really happy with it, and I think it’s the best work I’ve done so far. But I guess I have to think that.”

Mardock said the new album and EPs are very personal as he was the primary writer and performer on all songs.

“On all of the EP songs, I’m the only writer and I’m the only performer for some of those songs, as well,” he said. “For the LP, there’s one song that I cowrote; it’s called ‘If You’re With Me Then You’re Against Me.’ It was actually co-written with one of my old Eagle Seagull bandmates.”

As for his favorite song from his new material, Mardock said it can be found on his upcoming album.

“I think my personal favorite is one that’s on the LP, and it’s called ‘Everything is Good,’” he said. “I mean love them all, of course, but if I had to choose, I think I enjoy that one the most.

It’s the closest to what I wanted it to be.”

As for the hardest part of working as a solo artist, Mardock said it’s all about starting over.

“It’s been a lot of work just getting things set up again and getting a team assembled for the releases,” he said. “I’ve just been getting my name out there again.

There was a lot of bad energy after Eagle Seagull broke up, so it’s just kind of been trying to start all over.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Huskers look for consistency in all facets of the game Angela Hensel DN During Friday’s 4-2 loss to Minnesota, it was a tale of two halves for the Nebraska women’s soccer team.

The Huskers struggled early on with Minnesota dominating the first half. The Gophers led in shots on goal by working long passes and putting pressure on the Huskers, which gave them the 2-0 lead heading into halftime.

While getting back into the game looked like a difficult task for the Huskers, they played their best midway through the second half. Sophomore forward Mayme Conroy led the comeback with two goals in less than 10 minutes.

But the momentum for the Huskers didn’t last long, as Minnesota scored twice within the final few minutes to secure the victory.

“We played horrible in the first half, came back and tied it up, but when it comes down to it we weren’t strong enough,” junior defender Bri Badje While the Huskers are looking to move past Friday’s loss heading into the opening round of the Big Ten tournament as the No. 7 seed, they hope to take away some valuable lessons from the Minnesota game.

On Wednesday, Nebraska will take on the tournament’s No. 2 seed, Ohio State. Earlier in the season, the Huskers lost to the Buckeyes 4-0 at home.

One of the biggest areas in which the Huskers will look to improve upon for Wednesday’s game is consistency, which the Huskers lacked in their up-and-down play against the Gophers.

“I would say that we all need to work on consistency,” Badje said.

“Making sure that we know who’s going to show up when and it’s not pulling out of a hat to see what we get.”

One of the problems for the Huskers that has been apparent all season, including against the Gophers on Friday, is coming out strong offensively. Nebraska hasn’t won a game this season when trailing at

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halftime.

“We just didn’t really do anything we were supposed to in the first half,” Conroy said. “But in the second half we came out and did better.”

But if the Huskers are going to come out with the win against Ohio State on Friday, they will need to come out strong — especially after giving up four goals to the Buckeyes earlier in the season.

Even though Nebraska will be looking for a quick start on Wednesday, it will also need to think about finishing the game strong, which it failed to do against Minnesota.

“We work on set plays a lot and

Another ankle injury for Martinez

“It’s interesting because a lot of the same concepts we used against Ohio State, we’ve employed the last couple weeks,” the coach said.

“We’ve just done them better.”

Pelini said stopping the Northwestern and Michigan running games was key to his defense’s success in those games. He and defensive coordinator John Papuchis identified the run as one phase Nebraska must limit.

Pelini said he’s used more defenders closer to the ball in some situations the past couple games.

“Maybe that’s been to a certain extent what we’ve done, but there’s some give and take with that,” Pelini said. “To say we’ve committed everyone to the run game – that really isn’t true. We’ve picked and chose the amount of ways that we’ve done it.”

Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez is feeling hobbled this week after the junior’s ankle took a nasty hit in the second quarter versus Michigan. He is feeling the effects of the twisting hit this week.

“I feel a little banged up,” Martinez said. “But I’ll fight through it.”

The quarterback was hobbled by an ankle injury for much of last season, although he never missed a game. This injury is unrelated to that one, as it involves the opposite ankle from a year ago.

As far as the extent of the injury, Martinez said it isn’t that serious. He said will be ready to go this weekend versus Michigan State.

“I’ll be doing treatment,” Martinez said. “But I’ll be fine for the game.”

Pelini simplifies the defense

Cracking down on the run game

Nebraska’s defense can be hard for college kids to pick up.

Because the number of calls and checks Pelini requires his defenders to make can be a lot for a college athlete to handle the coach has decided to tone down the complexity of his scheme in an effort to make things easier on his players.

“Maybe I’ve reduced the amount of calls in some instances of what we’ve done in certain situations,” Pelini said. “I’ve altered what we’ve been doing philosophically a little bit, but not a lot. We’ve kind of stayed in the same structure and maybe limited certain areas of it and allowed us to play fast and

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said stopping the run has been a focus of the Husker defense in recent weeks.

After giving up 371 yards rushing to Ohio State, the Nebraska defense has filled many of the holes it left open in that game. The unit only allowed 180 yards to Northwestern and 95 yards to Michigan on the ground.

The Huskers are playing the same schemes they did against Ohio State, but the increased focus on execution has lead to increased success, according to Pelini.

three goals that they scored on us were on those,” Conroy said. “So we just need to work on those more.”

Particularly problematic for the Huskers this season has been overtime games, in which they are 2-3-1 on the year.

But as the Huskers showed on Friday, they are capable of making a comeback. It comes down to maintaining that strong play in the final minutes of the game.

With Wednesday’s game determining whether the Huskers will move on in the Big Ten tournament, every minute counts. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

aggressive and maybe with a greater deal of understanding.”

Pelini likes what he’s seen out of the Husker defense since he changed a few things in the wake of the Ohio State game.

“We haven’t made a lot of big mistakes,” he said. “Our mental errors have been few and far between. That’s a big deal and a big difference.”

Nebraska players dawned the vaunted “Blackshirts” for the first time this season on Monday After refusing to wear them a week ago, the Husker defense felt its performance versus Michigan was enough to earn the famous practice gear this week. Defensive linemen Cameron Meredith said after practice that he is proud of the way his unit played over the past two weeks. It means a lot to him to get the jerseys midway through the year.

“It means a lot to us as defensive players after all of the great defensive players that have been through here,” he said. “Of course, in the beginning of the year we didn’t have some good games against UCLA and against Ohio State, but I think you can earn them during the season. I think that’s a big part of why they don’t give them out in the beginning of the year.”

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linebackers: from 10 a freshman, Santos has compiled 18 tackles, peaking with his 10 tackle performance against Michigan. Papuchis said Santos’ speed helped him stand out in fall camp.

“He’s an explosive athlete and that’s probably the best thing he brings to the table,” Papuchis said.

“David was starting to make a pretty good push during the end of fall camp … (as the season has gone on,) I think he’s started to make that push for being the guy that we want him to be.”

For the Blackshirt defense to

continue its success, it will need to rely on linebackers like Fisher and Santos, as the defense has thrived when those two are playing at their peak. Whaley said that if Santos wants to continue on the path he has begun on, he will need to continue to soak in as much as possible.

“The name of the game is that you never can learn too much,” Whaley said. “I think he understands that. I think that’ll make his future a lot brighter.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

targetting: from 10 The NCAA’s rule aims to prevent injury to a defenseless player.

The rule book defines a defenseless player as ‘one who because his physical position and focus of concentration is especially vulnerable to injury.’ The rule book gives examples, including a player attempting to receive a pass.

Papuchis’ biggest concern with the rule is that either way you spin it, player health is jeopardized. If the contact is made, the player being hit could be at risk. Papuchis said that, while the rule is in place to protect that player, his players are put at risk by playing hesitantly.

“If you start coaching them out of it, you’re going to take the aggressiveness out of your players,” Papuchis said. “That’s what really leads to injuries.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

1. Ohio State (9-0 Overall, 5-0 Big Ten)

6. Michigan State (5-4, 2-3)

The Buckeyes rebounded from a shaky couple weeks with an impressive 35-23 win against Penn State. Ohio State’s offense looked impressive in the second half, cashing in on three touchdown drives of 75 yards or longer and one of 57 yards. Braxton Miller continues to be the driving force behind this team, contributing more than 100 yards passing and rushing.

The Spartans showed they can pass the ball this week against Wisconsin, as quarterback Andrew Maxwell threw for 216 yards and two touchdowns. However, the problem with the Michigan State offense was its inability to finish drives. Much of that was fueled by a flat rushing attack that compiled only 61 yards. The defense looks tough, but the offense needs to pull itself together if this team wants to salvage its season.

2. Nebraska (6-2, 3-1)

7. Wisconsin (6-3, 3-2)

3. Michigan (5-3, 3-1)

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niors Fisher and Compton are very close as friends, Santos has made a noticeable effort to get in with the group so he can learn this season.

“He’s kind of in that stage right now where he’s trying to consume everything,” Whaley said. “He’s quiet, he’s willing to learn and he’s willing to listen and watch us. He asks questions, and you have to respect a guy like that who doesn’t get above himself because he gets a little playing time.”

In Santos’ playing time, which some could argue is not so little for

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Nebraska looked like the Legends Division-leading team it is supposed to be. The Husker offense wore on the Michigan defense and got better as the game went on. Nebraska was able to minimize turnovers offensively and steal some away defensively. Although aided by Denard Robinson’s injury, the Huskers looked to be on the path to victory even with Robinson in the game.

The Huskers are in the driver’s seat for the division now.

Husker forward Mayme Conroy fights for a ball in last Friday’s match against Minnesota. Conroy and company are looking to eliminate mistakes headed into the Big Ten Tourney this week.

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NU safety PJ Smith tackles UM quarterback Denard Robinson.

Smith and the Huskers often lead with their heads on tackles instead of playing tentatively, which can lead to penalties.

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The Wolverines offense has failed to score a touchdown in the past two games now. An injury to Denard Robinson against Nebraska leaves this team in a bad place.

Michigan is no longer in control of its own destiny in the Legends Division with question marks about its quarterback’s health. The Michigan defense looked good until the tail end of the game, when it wore down, but the concerns for this team are almost exclusively on the offensive side of the ball moving forward. Still, the firepower and coaching alone on this team makes them dangerous.

4. Penn State (5-3, 3-1)

The Nittany Lions fell to Ohio State in a 35-23 loss this weekend, ending a five game winning streak for PSU. With only 32 yards rushing in the game, the ground attack is a big concern for Penn State. While the team has looked strong in the passing game at times, it hasn’t looked good enough to warrant a successful one-dimensional attack. Penn State should keep beating mediocre opponents, like Purdue this week, but will struggle against top-level defenses.

5. Northwestern (7-2, 3-2)

Northwestern continues to play within the same mold. The Wildcats once again utilized quarterback/ wide receiver Kain Colter, who accounted for 246 total yards and 4 touchdowns. The Wildcats faltered again in the fourth quarter, giving up momentum late, which has proven to be the biggest flaw in this team. Until Northwestern can learn to close out games, they’ll continue to reside in the mid-to-low section of the conference.

Freshman quarterback Joel Stave broke his collarbone for the third time in his career. Stave’s injury will keep him out for the rest of the season, with transfer Danny O’Brien taking over. Last week against Michigan State the Badgers’ offense looked rough, rushing for only 19 yards. Stave was 9-of-11 passing for 127 yards before his injury, but when O’Brien came in the passing game shifted to 5-of-11 for 44 yards.

The Badgers need to find an ide ntity on offense and start getting some production or the wins will stop coming.

8. Iowa (4-4, 2-2)

Iowa’s offense is producing a fair amount of yards, but can’t come through in clutch moments. The Hawkeyes were 8-of-17 on third down against Northwestern and couldn’t seem to put much together. Iowa still faces tough tests in Michigan and Nebraska, and if the Hawkeyes can’t get past Purdue they likely won’t make

a bowl trip.

9. Minnesota (5-3, 1-3)

Minnesota’s record is deceiving, as it has yet to prove itself against a quality opponent this season. We’ll know more after this week’s game against Michigan.

10. Indiana (3-5, 1-3)

Indiana has played surprisingly well this season, giving Ohio State and Michigan State a run for their money. The Hoosiers snap an 11-game conference losing streak this week with a win over Illinois, but are still far from a viable team in this division.

11. Purdue (3-5, 0-4)

Purdue was supposed to be a possible Leaders Division champion this season, but after an 0-4 start, they look like they may be destined for the bottom of the league. The Boilermakers are averaging 4.4 yards a rush but have looked painful in the passing game, trying out three different quarterbacks.

12. Illinois (2-6, 0-4)

Illinois did the one thing no team in the Big Ten should do: lose to Indiana. The Illini have yet to play a team in the conference close this season, and should be headed for an 0-8 conference record.

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Nebraska stuck at 14th of 15 after round two of Invitational Staff report DN Nebraska women’s golf sits at 14th after the second round of the Alamo Invitational ended Tuesday in San Antonio. The Huskers have shot 46 over par over the first two rounds with Steffi N e i s e n l e a d ing NU’s charge into the final round. The junior shot neisen

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63. Cassie Deeg 156 T68. Katelyn Wright 158 72. Morgan Smejkal 160 77. Jackie O’Doherty 172

a 75 the first two rounds on the par 72 course and is tied for 37th.

Freshman Cassie Deeg is 63rd after shooting a 76 on Sunday and an 80 Monday. Junior Katelyn Wright shot an 81 and a 77 to tie for 68th. Redshirt freshman Morgan Smejkal nabbed the 72nd spot after scoring a 76 and an 84.

Fellow redshirt freshman Jackie O’Doherty sits in 77th after shoot-

ing a 90 and an 82.

Oklahoma is in first place after only three of their five players shot over par once each. The ninth-ranked Sooners have a total score of 563 after two rounds. NU has a total score of 622. The final round of the Invitational takes place Tuesday. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

with 17 points, including 16 at halftime and nine rebounds. She was able to get into a flow offensively after a stress fracture in her right foot kept her out of some fall practices.

She fell hard to the floor a couple times Monday night, but the junior claims she will be alright.

“I feel fine,” Hooper said. “I’m just kind of clumsy sometimes.”

Lizzy Jeronimus, who finished with nine points, led Pittsburg State.

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Eight last season after losing to Nebraska last year in an exhibition game.

They didn’t reach more than 10 points until five minutes into the second half.

It wasn’t pretty, but Yori said her team played better than anticipated Monday.

“A lot of things to fix, a lot of things we need to get better at, but I was definitely more pleased than what I was anticipating seeing tonight,” Yori said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

basketball: from 10 went off to end the first half.

“I knew she was going to get that ball,” Hooper said. “It was awesome.

It was a great play from her.”

Later in the second half, a Pittsburg State player drove the ball down the lane on a fast break. Moore came out of nowhere to block the shot and crashed into the bleachers.

Moore finished the game with three points, five assists and three steals.

Nebraska kept a 3-point barrage on Pittsburg State the entire game, making 13 long-range jumpers and shooting 54 percent from behind the arc. Six Huskers made a three in the game with Hooper, Woodberry, Jeffery and Tear’a Laudermill each making at least two.

Jeffery, added to the starting lineup Monday to replace the graduated Kaitlin Burke, finished with solid numbers, adding 11 points. Laudermill also sparked the Nebraska bench effort with 12 points and a fiery defense.

“I thought both of those guys played within themselves better than they did last year,” Yori said.

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Nebraska linebacker David Santos makes a tackle during NU’s 23-9 win agaisnt Michigan on Saturday. Santos was named the Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week after getting 10 total tackles against the Wolverines.

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ebraska’s defense had just given up 63 points to Ohio State – the highest total of NU coach Bo Pelini’s career. The Huskers were embarrassed and seemingly further away from earning the Blackshirt practice uniforms than any time in recent memory.

“I felt like a loser,” said defensive coordinator John Papuchis. “I felt horrible.

“It was probably the lowest point of my career.”

The team needed a rebound. It needed its linebackers to step up and make an impact to turn the Blackshirts around.

Two weeks after the loss to the Buckeyes, the Husker defense shut down dual-threat quarterback Kain Colter, limiting him to less than 100 yards – a game that inspired Pelini to hand out the Blackshirts, which his team declined.

Linebacker Alonzo Whaley said the squad felt like it needed a big-time win to prove itself.

The Blackshirts rallied together and pulled of a dominating victory against Michigan, holding them to zero offensive touchdowns, limiting Denard Robinson to less than 100 yards during his time in the game and holding the Wolverine passing attack to less than 33 percent.

Nebraska’s linebackers stepped up as well. In-

stead of Will Compton, the team’s leading tackler, it was Nebraska’s other three linebackers that led the way. Whaley and Sean Fisher, seniors, and redshirt freshman David Santos combined for 23 tackles in the Huskers’ 23-9 win against Michigan.

Whaley said he was happy with how he played, but was even happier for Santos and Fisher, who has battled for more than two years since breaking his ankle in fall 2010.

“It’s just nice seeing those guys emerge and seeing those guys grow right before your eyes,” Whaley said.

For Fisher, the game was less a reflection of growth and more a reflection of reemergence, according to Papuchis.

“If you ask Bo or (former linebackers coach) Mike Ekeler, two years ago, prior to his ankle injury … we thought he was going to be a great player for us,” Papuchis said. “He got hurt, came back and wasn’t quite the same guy he was a year ago. I think this is the same Fish that we expected to see a couple years ago.”

Fisher broke through on Saturday, totaling 7 tackles and two tackles for loss. Whaley, who has been around for Fisher’s entire process returning from injury, said that Fisher is more than deserving

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“He doesn’t complain – he hasn’t gotten a lot of playing time with the different kind of offenses that we’ve faced – but he’s put in his work day in and day out,” Whaley said. “It’s one of those feelings that, ‘Dang, this guy is really not selfish and he does it for the team.’ So it’s great to see those guys go out and do things for this defense, not only for themselves.”

Fisher’s big performance on Saturday was outshined only by Santos, who earned Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors for his career-high 10 tackles. Whaley said that while he and fellow se-

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Jordan Hooper drives during Nebraska’s exhibition win against Pitt State on Monday. Hooper led the Huskers with 17 points during NU’s 78-34 victory.

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Nebraska volleyball player Hannah Werth celebrates a point during her team’s comeback win against Penn State on Sunday.

Werth helped lead NU to its 10th conference win against PSU. set of the match where it seemed Nebraska, especially Werth, came alive.

Before then, the senior’s numbers were far from glamorous.

In Nebraska’s 25-12 first set loss, Werth finished with a -.286, recording two errors and no kills on seven attacks. By the third set, Cook was forced to take his player out for the second time.

Although she went on to record seven kills in the second set to assist NU to a 32-30 win, Werth would go on to accumulate six more errors through the next two sets.

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Hannah Werth and her teammates are drained.

Down 2-1 after three sets, the No. 4 Nebraska volleyball team stormed back into its match against then-No. 1 Penn State to tie the game at 2 apiece, and eventually earn the victory 3-2 (1225, 32-30, 19-25, 25-23, 15-10).

It wasn’t a national championship, a final four or even a first round NCAA tournament match, but the hard work the team displayed in its quest for a comeback had all the ingredients of one – or all three.

After the match the Huskers are still feeling the agony from the team’s victory, but according to Werth, it’s a good feeling.

“We’re all pretty exhausted,” she said. “But it’s a satisfying exhaustion. I was bawling after the match because I was so proud of everyone.”

The Huskers began the two-match weekend with a 3-1 loss against No. 20 Ohio State Friday. It was the first time all season a team defeated the home team at the NU Coliseum.

In the first set of Sunday’s match it seemed its grind was nowhere to be found, according to NU head coach John Cook.

“We were in a funk … it couldn’t get much worse,” he said. “We just were playing like we have been.”

It wasn’t until the fourth and fifth

The concussion-prevention craze sweeping across college football has resulted in a stricter enforcement of controversial calls, one of the most stirring of which is the “targeting” rule.

Often referred to as a “judgment call” by the referee, the rule is aimed at preventing head injuries on defenseless players, but often results in questionable calls and uproars from fans.

On Saturday, with the Huskers trying to shut down Michigan’s offense, the rule reared its head again. Nebraska cornerback Josh Mitchell was called for targeting in the game, while safety PJ Smith was called for a “hit to the head,” a 15-yard penalty similar to the “targeting” rule. The pair of penalties cost the Huskers 30 total yards on judgment calls by the referee.

“I don’t like that call at all,” said cornerback Stanley Jean-Baptiste. “I don’t think it should be out there, but the refs just called what they wanted to call (Saturday). The game almost went in their hands, but we just kept playing hard and didn’t let that bother us.”

The NCAA lists the “targeting” rule as Rule 9-1-4 of its NCAA Football Rule Book, which reads, ‘No player shall target and initiate

contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, elbow or shoulder.’

The rule is prefaced in Rule 9-1-3, ‘No player shall target and initiate contact against an opponent with the crown (top) of his helmet.’

“Sometimes it’s hard to not do that,” Smith said. “That one they threw on me, I feel like that’s a bad call, but they called it.

“Sometimes you just can’t help it. You’re just trying to go make a hit and wind up making a helmetto-helmet hit.”

Smith said he doesn’t think about the rule when playing football. He said if the refs want to make the call they can go ahead and make it, but adjusting his game to the rule or scaling back intensity wouldn’t be the right response.

“It’s just like if they call pass interference,” Smith said. “We don’t think about it, go out there and try to make a play. If you get a penalty then so be it. Move on.”

From a coaching standpoint, defensive coordinator John Papuchis said there’s no way he can prepare his players to play around the rule.

“It’s impossible to coach,” Papuchis said. “Josh Mitchell is like 5-foot-3, I don’t know how he could target anybody, he’d need a stepladder.

“I don’t know what you tell a safety when he’s diving to make a catch.”

court to frown on her mistakes, the 2011 All-American used the break to think of how to assist her team to a comeback win against the best team in the nation.

“It was a time to reflect … to realize that I need to get my stuff together and realize what I need to do for my team to help them out,” she said.

And the senior displayed all of that when she came back.

Though Werth wasn’t pleased with her play to begin the match, it’s not always the final numbers that tell the story, especially in Werth’s case.

The senior came through in the

clutch for her team when they needed her the most.

In the fifth and final set, Werth nailed her ninth kill of the match to increase NU’s score on Penn State to 3-0. Its Big Ten opponent surged back to tie it at 3-3, but once again Werth’s lofty play helped the Huskers to a 4-3 advantage.

Her third kill in the set then pulled Nebraska to a 6-4 lead and the team never looked back. The Huskers went on to win the match by five and hand PSU its first conference loss of the season.

After losing two days prior for just the third time this season, the entire Cornhusker squad was more than content to finish the weekend with a 1-1 record.

Cook said the clutch play from NU’s outside hitters assisted the team to its 18th win of the season.

“You need your big players to make plays,” the coach said. “In game five, Hannah had three kills, Gina made some big kills … those kids stepped up and made some big plays.”

The win was the Huskers’ 10th conference win and marked the third time Nebraska has defeated a No. 1 team at home in two seasons.

When asked at Monday’s pressconference where this match ranks among previous defeats against topranked opponents, Werth said she wasn’t sure, but added that this one will be instilled in the memory of her and her teammates for a long time.

“It was a great feeling knowing we put everything out there and had nothing left,” Werth said. “It’s very satisfying. We’re very proud of ourselves for what we did.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Nebraska upends Pitt State in lopsided exhibition Huskers blow out Gorillas 78-34 in tune-up game for 2012 season Andrew Ward DN Jordan Hooper came off a screen, took a pass from Emily Cady and knocked down her first 3-point shot of the game. The route was on.

No. 18 Nebraska scored the first 22 points in a 78-34 win over Pittsburg State Monday night in an exhibition game at the Bob Devaney Center.

“I was surprised by the way we started,” said Nebraska coach Connie Yori. “I have been watching us for 20 practices and we haven’t played as good of defense as we did tonight in those practices. We played well and a lot better than we showed in our practices.”

Nebraska was off and running early in this one. Seven different players scored in the first half as the Huskers jumped out to a 44-7 halftime lead.

Sadie Murren provided a spark off the bench for the Huskers. The

freshman scored seven points, making the first two shots in her first game in a Nebraska uniform.

“It was awesome,” Murren said.

“I haven’t played a basketball game in a year, so I was ready to go when I got in there. I just wanted to run up and down.”

Sophomore Rebecca Woodberry, who made her first three 3-point jumpers, joined Murren with another solid performance off the bench.

Somebody also forgot to tell Lindsey Moore this game was only an exhibition. The senior guard hustled after the basketball the entire night, including two steals to end the first half.

In the first, she swiped the ball from a Gorilla ball handler, dove on the floor and passed the ball to a streaking Hailie Sample who was fouled on a layup attempt.

The second steal, Moore caught an attempted Pittsburg State pass underneath the Gorilla’s basket. She tiptoed the sideline and saved the ball to Hooper.

Moore got the ball back, dribbled past the half-court line and passed it back to a trailing Hooper, who drained a three as the buzzer

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