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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012 volume 112, issue 050

Speaking in tongues

Comeback from chaos

International students take on language barrier

Setter Cook rebounds from legal trouble

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Grace Brown, a sophomore political science major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has weathered the backlash after coming out as gay to her family in 2011.

UNL student opens up about the difficulties of sharing sexuality Maren westra dn Grace Brown says it’s been almost two years since she figured out she’s gay — and in those two years, that realization has shaped much of her college experience.

October is LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) History Month. For 31 days, the accomplishments of LGBT icons are celebrated, and youths struggling with their sexuality are encouraged and motivated. It also features a National Coming Out Day: Oct. 11. Though Brown didn’t come out in October, she has been through the process and said she understands the many

ways it can change a person’s life.

Brown, a sophomore political science major, has always been comfortable with homosexuality. As a freshman in high school, she joined her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance.

One year later, she became the president of the GSA. When she was growing up, her sister Lindsay’s best friend was a lesbian and her parents were tolerant of homosexuality. And she was raised in Colorado, a state she describes as “gay-friendly.”

But when winter of her senior year rolled around and she kissed a girl for the first time, she knew the road ahead of her would be filled with obstacles. She had never dated, kissed or even had a crush on anyone in high

school, so her attraction to girls was newfound. Her extended family disagrees with homosexuality, viewing it as “unnatural” and “ungodly,” Brown said. And though her parents tolerated her sister’s gay friend, they spent years making it clear to Brown and Lindsay that homosexuality within the family was a different story.

The girl Brown kissed, Haleigh, whose name has been changed because she requested anonymity, had been Brown’s friend since their freshman year. She had also been openly gay since her freshman year and would spend the next months helping Brown come out.

Grace Brown on coming out Coming out is hard no matter who you are.”

“I wanted to be open with my relationship and share it with people.”

“The only thing that makes me different is the person that I’m in love with.”

“No matter what, I’ll always be queer.”

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International student numbers increased by 10 percent Cristina Woodworth DN The number of international students enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has increased 10 percent in the past two years and administrators say they’re expanding programs to keep up with the growth.

“We have more students to serve, so we’re trying to meet their needs,” said Pat McBride, associate dean of the Office of Admissions, “along with the fact that we are always wanting to improve our services.”

The number of international students enrolled at UNL increased by 316 students to 3,475 from fall 2011 to fall 2012, according to UNL Institutional Research & Planning.

The number of undergraduate international students enrolled during the same time period grew nearly 18 percent, from 1,642 students to 1,936.

McBride said the growth of the international student body on UNL’s campus has signaled the need for more specialized classes catered to those students’ needs.

He said UNL offers a psychology class that teaches international students the differences between

higher education systems in various countries and the cultural expectations of those countries.

“We’ve increased our programming for these students by offering more sections of the class,” said McBride, who said the university used to offer only one section of the psychology class, but now offers four sections. “We’ve also had to move (the class) to a bigger lecture hall from the rooms in the union that it previously met in.”

Amber Hunter, director of admissions, said the increasing number of international students at UNL is partly because of increased recruitment efforts by the admissions office.

“To meet the chancellor’s enrollment goals, the Office of Admissions has reenergized and reorganized its efforts to recruit academically talented Nebraska, out-of-state and international students,” she said.

Hunter said UNL has increased its presence in China, India, Brazil, Vietnam and other countries to help recruit more students.

She also said the university participates in programs such as Science without Borders, where international students from Brazil come

TOP 10 COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - FALL 2012

Japan: 171 South Korea: 276 China: 1,268 Vietnam: 52

India: 325 Iran: 59

Nepal: 79

Malaysia: 147

Brazil: 82 Saudi Arabia: 198

SOURCE: UNL INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & PLANNING

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Symposium explores definition of ‘Jew’ History and culture have led to identity issues for Jewish community Elias Youngquist DN

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Psychology professor Susan Swearer poses outside of Teacher’s College Hall for a portrait on Tuesday. Swearer has taken the leading role on a new research advisory board through Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.

Professor leads ‘Born This Way’ board lis arneson dn Susan Swearer, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said she believes self-esteem, self-empowerment and anti-bullying are important, relevant issues among youth today. And her ongoing work with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation is a reflection of this belief.

Last week, the Born This Way Foundation announced Swearer’s leading role on a new research advisory board within the foundation.

The foundation was launched in 2011 by Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta with the mission of “fostering a more accepting society, where differences are embraced and individuality is celebrated,” according to its website.

“It’s really neat that Lady Gaga and her mother are making a commitment to youth and inspiring bravery,” Swearer said.

Swearer, who has worked at UNL for 15 years, was part of the foundation’s launch on Feb. 29, 2011, at Harvard University. She has been working with the group ever since.

“It’s been really fun to be part of this,” she said.

The Born This Way Foundation created a six-person research advisory board to keep the foundation informed, according to Swearer. The board is consulted before the foundation starts new programs. It will also evaluate Born This Way’s existing programs.

“They ask the research advisory board for our opinions and if their

projects are consistent with the current research — if they’re solid and sound,” she said.

An existing program Swearer and her fellow advisors are lending their expertise to is Born Brave Nation. She said the board was “consulted on the development of those nations — in terms of a way of synergizing youth activism.”

The program consists of youthled groups working to foster more accepting environments in their homes, schools and communities.

The advisory board also played a role in a film and book library on the foundation’s website, which features the film “Akeelah and the Bee” and the book “100 Simple Secrets of Happy People” by David Niven.

“The foundation is committed to working on issues that affect youth ... To psychologists today, these are important issues,” Swearer said.

Marjorie Kostelnik, dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences, said Swearer’s position in the research community makes her well-suited for chairwoman on the advisory board. Swearer put together the Bullying Research Network, Kostelnik said, which is composed of international researchers who share their findings with one another.

“She has excellent connections within the research community,” she said.

Kostelnik said Swearer is very good at “translating” research.

“She is very good at taking a very complex study and talking about it with the public in a way that is very accurate and engaging.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

A rabbi, a lawyer and an anthropologist walk into the room. For the next three hours, they and three other speakers will tackle the issue that has stumped some Jews during the last few decades: What is a Jew? Academics from the U.S. and Israel convened Tuesday at the Jews at the Margins symposium to present their perspectives to the question, “What is a Jew?” “This is a very lively and contemporaneous question,” said Jean Cahan, director of the Norman & Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “Jews have been thinking about their religious identity for thousands of years, but it has taken on contemporary urgency.”

The problem in identifying who is Jewish and who isn’t, Cahan said, comes when you try to determine whether being Jewish is a cultural,

religious or ethnic matter.

As proof of Judaism’s cloudy definition, Cahan couldn’t say for certain whether all of the six speakers were Jewish or not, as it all depends on the definition. While all six identified themselves as Jewish, the definition varies from person to person.

Naomi Leite, assistant director of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies and a speaker at the symposium, was raised in a universalist church by her parents, but discovered later in life that, because her mother was Jewish, she was Jewish as well.

“A lot of friends I talked to described it like being transsexual,” Leite said. “It’s like realizing you’re a Jew in the wrong body.”

The talks from Leite and Misha Klein, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, focused on issues with living in Portugal and Brazil respectively as Jews. Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg from the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Israel and Netanel Fisher of Hebrew University in Israel focused on the shifting definition of Judaism in Israel.

Philip Schwadel, associate professor of sociology at UNL,

discussed how the majority of adofor the children to be Jewish as well. lescent Jews in the U.S. view them“They serve in the Israeli army, selves as cultural Jews. they pay taxes ... According to the Cahan explained that the issue national-secular definition, they are is coming to a front, because in Is- Jewish. According to the religious rael there is an increasing conflict definition, they are not,” Fisher between the religious law and nasaid. tional law as well as within the reSteve Riekes, the last speaker ligious law. and a lawyer from Omaha, brought “Kind of like forward a case that the Supreme Court, came before We can see recently they disagree on Britain’s Supreme the interpretation,” hints of the Court, where the Cahan said. court provided a Disagreement crumbling of the definition of Judabroke out between common Jewish ism.

Rothenberg, Fisher “The same court and an audience identity.” that tells me that member over the Orthodox court whether non-Jews is racist could come Netanel fisher can be married and tell me how to israel native in Israel. Both run my own synaRothenberg and gogue and my own Fisher are Orthodox Jews, denoted school system and my own affair,” by the flat, black Kippot they each Riekes said. “I believe the British wore on their heads.

Supreme Court crossed a very im“We can see hints of the crumportant line.” bling of the common Jewish idenSummarizing the entire situatity,” Israel-native Fisher said. tion, Riekes voiced his frustration There are significant cases of with the complicated issue. non-Jewish Jews, those whose “We Jews are a complicated mothers aren’t Jewish while their people,” he said. news@ fathers are, Fisher said. Under Jewdailynebraskan.com ish law, the mother must be Jewish

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Pagan Life’s advisor Jan Deeds participates in a ritual at the Nebraska Union plaza Tuesday asking for prosperity in the coming year. The ritual was especially focused on the drought. “When farmers do poorly, we all do poorly,” said Kyrie Payton, a senior classics and religion studies major.

cops briefs RUNAWAY FOUND IN DORM ROOM

An 18-year-old runaway was discovered by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police in Schramm Hall on Oct. 24.

The man ran away from his parents in North Carolina months before and had visited UNL to see one of his friends. Because the man had been missing for several months and was a minor, he will be treated as such until he is returned to his parents. Police said the student did not know his friend was a runaway. No charges were pressed on the runaway or the student.

GRADUATE STUDENT ARRESTED ON ASSAULT CHARGES

Police were called to the Vine Street Apartments Friday around noon on a report of a man abusing his wife.

Police say Dong Hyun Lee, a management graduate student, hit his wife in the face. When police arrived, the victim said Lee had a history of violence and had threatened to kill her with a knife several times before. While the officers were assessing the situation, Lee continued to yell at his wife, police said. Lee was arrested on thirddegree domestic assault and terroristic threats charges.

SMITH LAUNDRY ROOM VANDALIZED

Residents of Smith Hall’s third floor found their laundry room and communal living area vandalized Friday. The sink in the laundry room had been intentionally clogged with a cloth, and the water faucet had been turned on, flooding the laundry room and soaking some of the floor’s carpet, police said. Washing machines and dryers had been moved and some of the electrical cords were cut, they said. The lint filters to the dryer were hidden in the communal area as well. In the living area, the seat cushions were torn, with stuffing strewn across the room. University Police are still investigating. Police estimate collective destruction caused $299 in damage.

—Compiled by Daniel Wheaton news@dailynebraskan.com

Pagan Life holds ritual for improved harvest In honor of the Pagan new year, the RSO held a public ritual for a better harvest kalee holland dn To many, this week brings to mind costumes, candy and pumpkins.

To the University of NebraskaLincoln’s Pagan Life community, however, this week signifies the end of a limited harvest and the opportunity to ask for a better one next year.

Tuesday, 15 students and their adviser gathered in the Nebraska Union plaza to do just that.

Lis Morton explained the nature of the club.

“Pagan Life is about Earthcentered religions that are based around agricultural society,” Morton said. “It involves a variety of people with a variety of beliefs.”

Morton said this year’s devastating drought was one of the main reasons for holding the ritual.

“We are asking for help from the spirits of nature ... calling on the energies of the Earth to have a better harvest next year,” Morton said.

Halloween was once an old harvest holiday and still is to many practicing pagans, Morton said. “(Pagans) don’t have a set book we follow,” Morton continued. “Many rituals and beliefs are passed along verbally, although

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Jason Fleisner, a sophomore music major and Elizabeth Sanford, a sophomore general education major, take part in the UNL Pagan Life ritual Tuesday. there are a few writers whom we all enjoy reading, such as Scott Cunningham and a writer named Starhawk.”

Josh Bivins, a junior history and religious studies major, led the ritual.

“Today we are gathered here in this sacred time and this sacred space to ask for prosperity in the coming year,” he said.

All those in attendance were asked to stand in a circle around a table that held six candles. A red candle facing south represented fire, a blue candle facing west represented water, a green

candle facing north represented earth, a yellow candle facing east represented wind, and a black and white candle in the center represented the god and goddess they addressed. Each element was invited into the circle, then those participating chanted together, “As it was in days of old, so it is now.”

Bivins read aloud from a script to those in the circle, emulating the god they beseeched.

“Listen to the words of the Horned God, the Guardian of all things wild and free, and Keeper of the Gates of Death, whose Call

all must answer ... I am the fire within your heart ... the yearning of your Soul ... I, who have been called Pan, Herne, Osiris and Hades, speak to thee in thy search ...”

Morton followed, who took the place of goddess.

“Listen to the words of the Great Mother, who of old was called Artemis, Astarte, Demeter, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Diana, Arianrhod, Brigid, Hecate, Isis and by many other names ... I am the beauty of the Green Earth and the White Moon, and the Mysteries of the Waters. From Me all things proceed, and unto Me they must return ...”

Both named the god and goddess as various aspects of the Earth, such as death, the harvest, the wind, storms and rebirth.

Bivins then restated the purpose of the ritual: to ask for prosperity in the next harvest. Both Bivins and Morton listed ways the god and goddess of the Earth could be more merciful, like producing more fertile soil, more adequate rain, a less harsh sun and gentler wind.

Then, Morton and Bivins asked their ancestors in “the next world” for their blessings “in all (their) endeavors of the coming year.” The god, goddess and spirits of the four elements were released, and the ritual came to a close.

Pagan Life meets in the Nebraska Union every Tuesday in room 212 at 4 p.m. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Grace Brown says her family has been accepting of her sexuality, but she senses her mother “secretly hopes that it’s just a phase.”

Deciding to tell

It was December 2010 when Brown realized she had a crush on Haleigh. She told her best friend at the time and, for a month, it remained a secret known only to the two of them. But during the next few weeks, Brown said she began to hint to Haleigh that she liked her.

In January, Haleigh kissed Brown for the first time.

“She says she moved very slowly,” Brown said. “I think she leapt.”

Brown said Haleigh’s family welcomed her and made her feel comfortable. For two months, only a small circle of people knew about the relationship, Haleigh’s parents included. But in March 2011, Brown decided it was time to tell her own mother.

Brown said at first her mom “told me that she was ashamed of me,” but later took back that statement. According to Brown, it took her mom about a year to come to terms with her daughter’s sexuality.

“She accepts me. She’ll invite my girlfriend over,” Brown said. “(But) you can tell that she still secretly hopes that it’s just a phase.”

The reaction from her parents was probably also affected by Lindsay, who also came out as gay around the same time, Brown said.

“My parents aren’t bad people, and they’re not homophobic,” she said. “It’s just not what they wanted for their kids, because it adds challenges ... They wanted their children to be normal.”

Brown said she felt envious of

Haleigh, who had been out to her parents for years and had a more supportive family.

But despite the challenges, Brown had help. Her sister understood what she was going through and provided advice and comfort.

Haleigh and her family accepted her, welcomed her and gave her an easily explained reason to come out. And her years in GSA reminded her she wasn’t alone.

After all, she had been a part of the only Gay-Straight Alliance in her school district for a while. They had marched in Denver PrideFest, coordinated LGBT History Month at their school, led discussions about gay acceptance and much more. These experiences taught her how to rely on people who understood her challenges.

Still, “coming out is hard no matter who you are,” Brown said.

Being upfront

Brown never formally came out to her father or to her high school peers. Her mom told her dad, and the people she went to high school with only found out when Haleigh and Brown attended prom together that May. Her mother’s reaction was the hardest thing Brown dealt with after coming out, Brown said, because college has enabled her to handle it differently.

Now, Brown “comes out” on an almost daily basis — every time she meets a new person, she makes it clear up front that she’s gay by casually mentioning that she has a girlfriend.

“I don’t have to tell (people)

later or hint at it,” she said.

Reactions vary. According to Brown, some people become noticeably uncomfortable, and she won’t hear from those people again.

Other people like her all the more because of it.

“All of a sudden I was cool,” Brown said. “They were like, ‘Oh, you’re a lesbian. That’s really cool.’

I thought that was funny.”

Brown said telling people she’s gay from the very beginning makes her feel better because she doesn’t feel like she has a secret or a confession she’s hiding from others.

“I wanted to be open with my relationship and share it with people,” she said. “It’s just a weight off your shoulders.”

‘They’re People’

Jade Lombard, a sophomore special education major and one of Brown’s roommates, said she has seen others treat Brown and Haleigh differently because they are a lesbian couple. She’s witnessed staring, name calling and other forms of harassment, she said.

“I get mad for them. It’s disrespectful,” she said, adding Brown “doesn’t start anything. She’s very professional. She’s just like, ‘This is my life, and this is how I live my life.’”

The worst experience Brown had because of her sexuality was when she was visiting Haleigh, who is a student at Drake University in Iowa. They were walking around campus when someone saw them kissing. The man began yelling at them and calling them “faggots.”

“I was so shocked that I did not do anything,” Brown said. “Afterwards I was pretty pissed. But really, it just hurts.”

It was a sobering experience for a couple who waited five months to go out in public. But now Brown said she doesn’t fear being open about her relationship or her sexuality.

She said people have misconceptions about members of the gay community, but she wants others to know it’s OK to ask questions. According to Brown, she and other gay and lesbian people she has met would rather be asked a question than spend time with someone who is obviously uncomfortable about something.

Lombard wants people of all sexual orientations to become more accepting of people in the LGBT communities.

“I love people, and I feel like people deserve to live however they want,” she said. “They’re just like you and me, trying to find love.

They’re people.”

Brown said her sexuality doesn’t define who she is as an individual and that, for the most part, she’s just like anyone else.

“I’m not as different as you think I am. Really, I am a student.

I was raised in Colorado. I love the Huskers. I’m in marching band,” she said, saying this is what she wants the world to know and understand. “The only thing that makes me different is the person that I’m in love with.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Abbie Milligan knows what it’s like to miss the bus. The University of Nebraka-Lincoln freshman business major had to call a friend Monday to inform her she’ll be late to Alpha Delta Pi’s weekly dinner. Taking a shower and getting dressed up took too long, and the bus went on by. But with the help of a new StarTran location tool, she may not have to do it again. In July, StarTran premiered its Automated Vehicle Location system (AVL) for UNL commuters traveling from City Campus to East Campus. Passengers see the AVL technology in action on StarTran’s Get On Board website. AVL is “a computer-based, vehicle-tracking system, which provides the actual real-time position of buses and other transit fleet vehicles,” according to the city of Lincoln’s website.

This means students can now track how far away a bus is on their smartphones or computers.

Milligan rides the bus four days a week to and from East Campus.

She said she just learned about the location system.

“It says when the next bus is going to be at the stop you’re at,” she said. “It’s been pretty accurate since I’ve been using it.”

Another StarTran innovation is in the works as a mobile application using AVL technology. This application will also include a Trip Planner, according to Kitty Elliott, StarTran’s marketing director. The Trip Planner, along with the AVL system, will

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to UNL to study science-related fields. These types of programs increase UNL’s international reputation and enrollment, Hunter said.

Neo Shi, a senior business administration major, came to UNL from China in August 2011 as a transfer student. He said UNL offers several programs and classes to help international students transition to life here, but he doesn’t think they are all completely necessary.

“We have to take an English class our first semester here,” Shi said. “Those English classes are not that helpful, though. They teach you basic things that we sometimes already know.”

Shi said he mainly decided to come to UNL because the college he was attending in China at the time had a partnership program with the university. He said he came to the United States with a group of about 20 other students from his previous college.

Chinese students make up the majority of the international student body at UNL with about 36 percent of the students. India brings in the second-largest amount of international students with about 9 percent, or 325 students, while students from South Korea make up the third-largest international student population with almost 8 percent, or 276 students.

Fang Xie, an animal science graduate student, said she thinks UNL needs to work harder at helping students from all different countries adapt to the cultural barriers of living in a new country.

“There are a bunch of (international students) who might act badly, and it makes Americans think we are all like this,” said Xie, who came to the United States from China in 2008. “UNL should have more cultural instruction to tell international students what is right and what’s wrong.”

Shi agreed, saying he wished there were more opportunities for international students to interact with American students.

“I wish there were more writing classes and times for international students to communicate with American students,” Shi said.

“We need more practice with cultural things.”

Shi also said having more cultural programs would encourage international students to break out of their usual comfort zones.

“Chinese students all sit together in class,” Shi said. “And when they leave class, they still speak Chinese instead of English.

UNL gives one class for international students, but it’s not that much.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Dressed for success

be able to estimate the time it takes to travel from beginning and ending locations, bus stops and fare costs.

Junior English and journalism major Kelsey Comfort is an avid bus rider and is looking into buying a smartphone for Christmas.

“The bus is the only transportation I have because I don’t have a car,” Comfort said. “Using the app would make it a lot easier to get from one place to another if you could know how far away the buses are and when they would be at the stop.”

She isn’t the only one interested in the mobile application.

“I just barely missed the last bus that came, so now I have to wait longer to get to East Campus,” said freshman insect science major Junsuk Kim as he waited for the next bus. “So it would definitely be helpful for those situations.”

The AVL mobile application is just the beginning for StarTran, Elliot said. The AVL mobile application is part of a plan conducted by StarTran and UNL to increase the number of students taking the bus, according to the city website. During the past three years, StarTran has seen a 20 percent increase of passengers throughout Lincoln.

“Starting at the first of the year in January, StarTran will be initiating to take over the entire bussing operation at UNL,” Elliot said.

This past January, StarTran increased the number of buses commuting from City and East campuses from four to eight. news@ dailynebraskan.com

A cow, a harlequin, a pirate and others gathered in the Heritage Room of the Nebraska Union Tuesday night for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Residence Hall Association meeting.

Most RHA senators arrived uncostumed to discuss the board’s agenda, which included just one piece of legislation for the campus residence halls.

A special bill asking for the allocation of $1,000 for Cather Hall’s “Black White Red” event was discussed. The money was proposed to fund the event, which will feature blackjack, roulette and other casino games as well as an auction, food and drinks and a showing of “Ocean’s 11.”

After minimal discussion, the bill passed with unanimous approval.

This semester’s “Black White Red” event is expanding to commemorate Cather’s last year. In the past, the event has only been open to residents of the Cather-Pound-Neihardt complex. This year, all UNL students will be welcome to attend.

Cather is closing at the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year in anticipation of a new suite-style residence hall.

Money raised from the event will benefit Matt Talbot Community Kitchen and Outreach Center, which has provided hunger relief and worked to prevent homelessness since 1992. RHA expects to donate at least $500 to the organization, but because of the expansion of the event, it is anticipated that the money raised will exceed this amount.

The only issue raised with the bill was the feasibility that the event would be successful as a philanthropic event — the budget for it is

more than the amount it is expected to raise. But “Black White Red” is not just a philanthropic event; it’s a social event as well. The senators approved it for its dual purposes.

Local sponsors have contributed items for the auction. Additionally, a football signed by both Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne and football head coach Bo Pelini will be sold at the auction.

In addition to the bill, RHA announced a new vice president from Selleck Quadrangle. Justin McCully, a freshman political science major, was elected to replace Allie Lietzen, a freshman pre-law major, who resigned approximately two weeks ago for undisclosed reasons.

“I wanted to see some of the ideas that a lot of the floors were having come to fruition ... (and) come up with ideas for events that make people form lasting connections,” McCully said.

He said he was inspired to do this because of Selleck’s diversity.

Residential Enhancement Chair Shailana Dunn-Wall, a junior history major, said a meeting is scheduled for Wednesday with Facilities Management & Planning officials to discuss improvements to the residence halls.

According to Dunn-Wall, these improvements include adding glass recycling to the halls and allowing students to change the color their dorm rooms are painted to make them feel more at home.

Dunn-Wall said the room-painting idea was discussed at a very brief meeting earlier this week, but Wednesday’s meeting will be a more in-depth discussion. “(Facilities) seem really open and willing about resident suggestions,” Dunn-Wall said.

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Cane's for Best Costume winner.

Congratulations to Johanna Rhoads, who submitted this photo and won a free lunch at Raising Cane's. Thank you to all who competed!

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Senior film and new media major Kevin Burns, the vice president of the Cinema 16 student organization, presents Carl Erickson, a junior film and new media major, with the first place prize in the annual Cinema 16 Halloween Film Festival costume contest at the Ross Theater on Tuesday. Erickson dressed up as the imaginary superhero Quailman from the Nickelodeon show “Doug” as an ode to his ’90s roots.

Photo contributed by Johanna Rhoads.

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University should be transparent in UHC decision-making On Oct. 11, the Daily Nebraskan was denied a request for a copy of the bid submitted by Bryan Health for the potential privatization of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s University Health Center.

On Oct. 30, The DN received an advisory opinion on its public records petition from the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, stating that the university is “required to disclose certain portions of the bid or bids it has received.”

We at the DN are disappointed with the university’s reluctance to release the bid.

Initially, William F. Lynch III, director of the University of Nebraska’s University Records Management division, rejected our request, saying the bid was not subject to state law, and he later cited university policy. After the DN submitted a request for an advisory proposal to the attorney general’s office, it contacted Lynch, and he shifted his reason for witholding the information to Neb. Rev. Stat 84-712.05(3), which, according to the response from the attorney general’s office, “allows a public body, at its discretion, to withhold from disclosure ‘(t)rade secrets, academic and scientific research work which is in progress and unpublished, and other proprietary or commercial information which if released would give advantage to business competitors and serve no public purpose.”

The attorney general’s report then found it “highly unlikely that the bid documents at issue in this instance constitute commercial or proprietary information in their entirety.”

We at the DN believe a university should be open and honest with its students — especially on an issue of such importance.

If the university is worried about giving a competitive edge to a bidder, that idea should immediately be realized as a nonissue.

With only one bidder, where would the other competition arise?

The university is not accepting more bids at this point.

Our purpose is to serve the student body by informing it on issues that matter. This issue matters.

In the coming week, the DN will publish a special page on its website providing all content related to the potential privatization of the University Health Center. A FAQ will be published, featuring broader questions than the university’s current FAQ mentions. It will include a timeline of events that have happened and are expected to happen. The page will also serve as a one-stop-shop to find all past articles written on this issue and update readers on events pertaining to the evolution of this story.

This issue affects every student, and students need to be aware of what the facts are. Without full cooperation and transparency from the university, this becomes much more difficult.

It shouldn’t take nearly a month of writing requests, fielding denials and seeking advisory opinions to get information on what our university is doing behind closed doors when there is no reason to be hiding these facts.

Opinion@Dailynebraskan.com

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letters STudent reacts to Nold’s voting column I can’t believe you would allow the publication of such hateful, derogatory and discriminatory

vitriol. The idea that people who are poor, homeless or otherwise shouldn’t have the right to vote is absurd and offensive. You all should be ashamed you include such backwards thinking in your paper.

Russell Troxel UnL Student

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FEATURED LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Voting is an inherent right for all

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s an advocate who has worked to protect voting rights and make elections more accessible for youth, low income, seniors and people with disabilities for the past seven years, I feel compelled to respond to Zach Nold’s misguided and blatantly unconstitutional perspective on voting rights. His theory, which states only those who are “productive” members of society should be allowed to vote, is flawed from its inception.

First, it’s important to clear up a few factual misstatements made by Mr. Nold. Voting isn’t a privilege but a fundamental right. This right is confirmed by Nebraska’s very own Article I, Section 22 of the state constitution and by numerous United States Supreme Court opinions. These rights aren’t “inherit” (as the column describes them) but rather “inherent” in that they cannot be taken away.

Next, the United States Constitution never stated that only landowners could vote. Rather, there were several states that had restrictions that allowed only white landowners and mercantilists the ability to vote. These restrictions on what is considered a fundamental right were eventually struck down as unconstitutional.

What Mr. Nold proposes to do is create a society of second-class citizens which will in most cases not be based on ability, but rather circumstances far too complex to simply create a 50 percent income threshold. This is the same reason that literacy tests and poll taxes were struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.

While poll taxes and literacy tests being applied to everyone seemed fair to many, in practice, they singled out and discriminated a whole swath of primarily African American and some European American citizens.

The Fourteenth Amendment is intended to protect all citizens from discrimination. Arbi-

ADAM MORFELD trary requirements to vote such as income or government subsidy levels discriminate on the basis of economic circumstances that are often far beyond an individual’s control.

Today, with the lack of a meaningful living wage provided by most jobs, stagnating middle class incomes, skyrocketing health care costs and an economic downturn, millions of Americans would have their right to vote stripped away from them based on a series of complex economic events that no one person can control. Are we really going to take away people’s right to vote because they lost a job, discovered that they have cancer or are using Pell Grants to get an education?

Mr. Nold provides many exceptions to his general rule, which only better illustrates the argument against this proposal. He provides exceptions for those who are disabled and physically cannot work, military veterans or seniors who have “already put in 40 or more years of hard work.” These distinctions quickly become arbitrary in the case of a grandfather who worked 35 years as a janitor but retired early, not because he

absolutely could not work, but because arthritis made it hard to work. He also receives social security that comprises more than half of his salary.

Does he no longer have a right to vote? Or what about a woman who is partially disabled and works hard but requires government assistance for health care and other needs but cannot cover all of her expenses because of her disability?

Would she be disenfranchised as well?

Finally, a single mom who decides to return to college and must rely upon food stamps and Medicaid is no less productive than a wealthy Wall Street executive who equally relies upon government programs like tax breaks, subsidies and other incentives to be successful and profitable. However, the only person who loses their right to vote under Mr. Nold’s theory would be the single mom.

The key to a more engaged and robust democracy is not stripping citizens of their right to vote based on socioeconomic status and other similar discriminatory measurements, but rather more robust civic education and engagement in our schools, promoting more responsible and less biased journalism, teaching critical thinking skills and promoting robust debate among students and encouraging our friends, family and neighbors to be engaged. These are all things that myself, and my non-profit, have worked on for the past seven years.

Mr. Nold would wield the power of government to determine who is qualified to be full citizens of our democracy by use of arbitrary distinctions that would further divide our country. It’s a misguided and twisted vision of government that cannot be characterized as a democracy. Such a right afforded to only an exceptional few should never be seen as a privilege.

Adam S. Morfeld, J.D. Executive Director and Founder, Nebraskans for Civic Reform

Local elections shouldn’t be forgotten

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he presidential election is six days away. Are you prepared to enter the voting booth? Do you know who you’re voting for president? U.S. Senator? How about state senator?

Regent?

While most of us know whether we’re voting for President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney, it’s safe to say that fewer of us have decided who we’re voting for in local elections.

Even if you’ve been trying to avoid information about the presidential election, no doubt you’ve at least seen the silly debate memes: binders full of women, Big Bird and “Sesame Street” and maybe even horses and bayonets. The same can’t be said of state and local elections.

That’s a shame. Local elections matter. Not casting your ballot in local elections is a mistake.

First off, we should talk about ballot fatigue.

Basically, this is an idea that ballots are too long and voters are “tired” and don’t vote for the other positions on the ballot. Sounds ridiculous, right?

Well, it happens to be true. (That being said, it’s still ridiculous.)

University of California, Berkeley professor Ned Augenblick and data scientist Scott Nicholson experimented with ballot fatigue and concluded that “increasing the position of a contest on the ballot significantly increases the tendency of voters to abstain or rely on decision shortcuts, such as voting for the status quo or the first listed candidate.”

In non-academic speech, this means fewer people vote on the races that are lower on the ballot. By switching up the order of the races, the researchers found out that people would vote more on the contests with a higher position on the ballot. If they lowered the same exact race’s position on the ballot, then fewer people would vote.

Crazy, right? But, sadly, it’s true. So what does this have to do with local elections? The short answer is the federal elections (the presidential, senatorial, etc.) are at the top of the ballot. Local elections are farther down. Ditto for ordinances

RHIANNON ROOT and other local issues. Therefore, fewer people vote in those races.

Readers, we’re smarter than this, and we’re better than this.

Coupled with the lower status on the ballot is the idea that these positions are less prestigious and therefore less important. Such an idea translates into fewer news stories, which means less information is out there about the candidates.

Worse yet, many people believe that politicians in this position don’t create legislation that affects them.

State and city governments make decisions that affect your daily lives. State governments issue licenses, set minimum wages, set drinking ages, decide how much to tax items, decide educational policy and what limits (if any) to put on abortion. Those aren’t small things!

Furthermore, you as a voter probably have more influence with your local government. For example, the state legislature holds hearings on all sorts of bills. Those testimonies can often sway committee members’ votes on a particular issue.

The key is actually voting in the election and contacting your local representative when an important issue surfaces.

Yeah, that means paying attention to what’s going on, and that can be time consuming. But hey, whoever said democracy was easy?

I won’t go on a cliched rant about the importance of every vote. Really, we’re all sick of that.

But, I’ll tell you that State Sen. Colby Coash won the District 27 seat by 79 votes in 2008.

Your voice matters. Casting your ballot is the best way to ensure that the people you agree with most are voted into office. Don’t you want to make sure as many people as possible are speaking for you? Defeating ballot fatigue is what will make this possible.

The key to avoiding ballot fatigue is to come into the voting booth fully prepared. While there isn’t as much information out there about, say, Kyle Michaelis as there is about Obama, that doesn’t mean it’s not worth looking into.

There are multiple websites and voter guides out there to help you in your decision making (This is why local newspapers are an essential part of any city’s landscape). The Lincoln Journal Star has a guide. The College of Journalism and Mass Communications has worked on a voter guide, too. (Full disclosure, I’ve worked on that guide.)

Even if you’re not from Lincoln or Nebraska, I’d bet that your local newspaper has some sort of voter guide. Take the time to look it up and educate yourself.

Readers, this election isn’t just about Obama vs. Romney. Leadership, innovation and bipartisanship need to happen at the state and local levels, too. You owe it to yourself to learn about local politicians and how they represent your voice.

You’re better than a ballot-fatigue statistic.

Bring a voter guide and a 5-Hour Energy to the voting booth if you have to. Do what it takes to stay focused.

Rhiannon Root is a senior news-editorial and history major. Follow her on Twitter @rhiannonroot and reach her at opinion@dailynebraskan.com.

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Being Here: An Ongoing Series on the UNL International Student Experience Part 1 - Language

UNL international students reckon with translating academic, personal identities story by Cameron Mount | art by Chris Rhodes

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osting more than 1300 international students from more than 100 countries, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has a strong commitment to providing integration and support for its diverse population. While the cultural benefits are clear, the system comes with challenges, especially regarding gaps in language and culture.

Angel Velitchkov has experience as an international student at UNL, graduating from the College of Law in 2006, but his story exemplifies how challenging that path can be. He came to the United States from a mountain village in Bulgaria with only a suitcase, no money and a limited grasp of English.

“I still remember what it was like getting off the airplane for the first time,” Velitchkov said. “A 16-year-old, alone, not knowing anything that was going on around me. When I attempted to talk to people

is totally different.”

John Tessalee, a junior marketing major from Thailand, said he was proficient in English when he came to the university, but sees areas in need of improvement in campus support systems.

“Sometimes the Writing Center is very structured, and they don’t have much time,” Tessalee said. “My friend was thinking of starting to make connections between English students and international students.”

Carol Ochsner is Interim Coordinator for Programs in English as a Second Language at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and she spoke about some of the specific supports the University provides, as well as areas for improvement. She said the Intensive English Program assists students whose English proficiency doesn’t yet meet the University’s full admission requirement.

“We focus both on helping students to achieve that language proficiency and also helping them become familiar with an American academic culture,” Ochsner said.

“In addition to language acquisition and practice, then, we also target skills such as understanding assignments, note-taking, working in groups, paraphrasing and summarizing, and asking questions during class.”

The program also works to address gaps between cultures, partnering with American students through the IEP Peer Mentorship Program and campus services such as New Student Enrollment (NSE), Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and resident halls. Instructors also make use of clubs (such as IEP Club, which

“It can be confusing as to who offers what services to which students,” she said. “Steps are being taken to correct this situation by improving the communication and cooperation between the different entities.”

Zichun He, a sophomore business administration major whose first language is Chinese, offered advice for professors with international students.

“Sometimes it takes courage to talk to native speakers, and sometimes it’s a little difficult to understand what a professor is saying or teaching,” He said.

“They could post what they are going over in class so we can read, or post videos.”

Velitchkov said while services connecting international students to the campus at large may be lacking, the university still provides excellent crosscultural opportunities.

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I think it’s difficult. I need to study 30 to 40 hours a week.”

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and ask a question about where I should go, all I got was shoulder shrugs. Luckily, an officer at the airport understood one word I said, “Minneapolis,” and led me to the gate where I was supposed to catch a connecting flight.”

From there, Velitchkov became a scholarship student, working his way through experiences such as a United Nations internship to eventually become Congressional staffer for Representative Jeff Fortenberry. He credits his success foremost to supportive teachers, as well as observing and listen to others and watching closedcaptioned movies. He acknowledged that not knowing the language well can be extremely frustrating in the beginning.

“One feels as though you are a prisoner in your own head,” he said.

“And no matter how hard you try, you cannot escape. Also, when you try to talk to people and have troubles understanding what they are saying, they think you are deaf, because they start talking louder and slower. So many times I wanted to say ‘I am not deaf, I can hear you, but I just don’t understand what you said!’”

These miscommunication hurdles were repeated by several current UNL international students, who spoke about their biggest obstacles.

“Sometimes, with speaking or listening, I want more help from professors,” said Evan Ju, a freshman accounting major from China in the Intensive English Program (IEP). “Reading and writing is not as useful. Speaking and listening is better for me.”

Jiazhong Zhou, a freshman mechanical engineering major from China, has been learning English for eight years. He cited accents and the need for new ways of thinking as the major difficulties.

“You need to change your thinking when you convert a concept into English,” Zhou said. “You need to change everything. It’s quite different than speaking Chinese, especially with some of the grammar. The grammar

builds informal connections across cultures), speakers and trips to cultural hotspots and activities, depending on students’ language abilities.

Ochsner said that many of the difficulties international students face are the same as those for any new student, but complicated by the shock of an entirely new culture.

“They have to learn many of the same skills all freshmen learn in terms of managing their time and new-found independence,” she said.

“But they also must deal with different expectations, different food, different behaviors and unexpected responses from the locals. We try to help them manage those challenges and find new ways to cope.”

Yue Zheyu, freshman finance major in the IEP program, noted the challenges when a new language is compounded with a rigorous workload.

“I think it’s difficult,” Zheyu said. “I need to study 30 to 40 hours a week.”

With such a demanding and complex support system to address these concerns, Ochsner said it’s easy for students to become lost in the many programs available to them.

Yue ZHeyU

freshman finance major

Sometimes the Writing Center is very structured, and they don’t have much time. My friend was thinking of starting to make connections between English students and international students.”

John Tessalee

junior marketing major

You need to change your thinking when you convert a concept into English. You need to change everything. It’s quite different than speaking Chinese, especially with some of the grammar. ” Jiazhong Zhou

freshman mechanical engineering major

Sometimes, with speaking or listening, I want more help from professors. Reading and writing is not as useful. Speaking and listening is better for me.”

Evan ju

freshman accounting major

Professor preaches inquiry learning ANDRILL developer David Harwood demands passion of his students

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Lincoln band Solid Gold performs at UPC’s Rock the Vote event in the City Campus Union. Solid Gold is made up of Matt “Wynntafresh” Wynn, Alex “Brown Town” Brown and Jake “The Snake” Arneson, who said the band plays “groovy” jam-band tunes.

Solid Gold united by garage funk, filth Lincoln band aims to entertain with passion and humor in original music jourdyn kaarre dn They once dressed as Russ’s Market employees for a show and cat urine is near and dear to their musical process.

Meet Solid Gold, a Lincoln trio that hopes its rhythm will make you want to shake it.

“We have music you can drink heavily and dance to,” said Jake Arneson, the bassist and “background yeller” for Solid Gold.

Former and current University of Nebraska-Lincoln students Matt Wynn, Alex Brown and

Arneson comprise the band. The Omaha natives made a stop on their “resurgence” into the Lincoln music scene this month at a UPC event, where they opened for Satchel Grande. However, they are not new to the university or to making music.

Brown and Arneson played guitar together in high school and brought their music to Lincoln when they enrolled at UNL. The duo played many an open-mic night at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso, where Wynn watched and was eventually asked to contribute his drumming skills to the band. Solid Gold went on to play at various house parties, campus events and downtown venues such as The Zoo Bar and the Bourbon Theatre. They played their first gig, however, at a homecom-

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the teachers. One of the courses he has taught, Geology 160 — a geology field course for future teachers — took students into the mountains of Wyoming for hands-on experience. While there, the students of the class had little to go on, but their curiosity.

“In Summer 2012, I went on the joe wade summer two-week field course,” said dn Leilani Arthurs, assistant professor for the Department of Earth & AtmoOne of the topics frequently discussed spheric Sciences at UNL. “The main in academic and political circles and purpose I had for going was to obmany circles in between is the subject serve how the course was taught and of global climate change and the poshow students approached learning sibility of sea levels rising from the during this intensive field course. Dr. melting of ice at the poles.

Harwood’s approach to teaching this The hole in the ozone layer above course is grounded in inquiry-based Antarctica has resulted in the blinding learning.” of seals from exposure to harmful UV Inquiry-based learning, as Arrays. Another observed change on the thurs and Harwood describe it, is a continent, which most individuals hands-on approach. According to presume to be covered entirely by ice, Harwoood, students learn by “makis moss growing on newly exposed ing observations, asking questions rocky surfaces. and making interpretations” instead David Harwood, a geologist of being presented information in a and professor at the University of traditional setting.

Nebraska-Lincoln, is one of the sci“This course challenges traditionentists involved in al norms for what it studying these remeans to teach and From the cent changes, as well learn,” Arthurs said. as how Antarctica time I was “When students has been changing fully participate in 7 years old, I was throughout history. this experience, they His passion for sci- keen on geology can make leaps and ence has led him in strides in developing the development of and rocks, so I kind their own indepenANDRILL, an interof knew I wanted to dent identity as selfnational project that assured learners.” collects sediment be a geologist.”

The class Harsamples by drilling wood has been most David Harwood through ice shelves involved with recentgeology professor in the Antarctic. ly is Geology 125. StuHarwood has dents who take this created classes to class will learn about the physical and better inform students about climate biological environment of Antarctica. change. One of those classes is GeolThe class also emphasizes the geologic ogy 125 “The Frontiers in Antarctic and climate history of the region to betGeosciences,” which will be available ter inform students about Antarctica’s online this Spring and fulfills ACE 4 interconnectivity with the Earth. and ACE 9 requirements.

“There is so much nonsense and “Outside of the science that I do, lack of information, or lack of science I’m pretty buzzed about the educaliteracy, in our public because we get tion and trying to make a difference to so much information from just quick, the students and to the public,” Har- short soundbites,” Harwood said. wood said.

“This course that I’ve designed was Apart from the courses he teaches (kind of) trying to put a tagline to it: at UNL, Harwood has also tried to ‘It’s your planet: give a shit about it. educate and inspire a passion for sci- C’mon learn and understand how science in students of all ages, including ence works.’”

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David Harwood is a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at UNL and one of the developers of ANDRILL. In the classroom, Harwood subscribes to the method of “inquiry-based Harwood has been to Antarctica 15 times, averaging two months for each visit. For him the interest in rocks developed at a young age and the desire to do research in Antarctica didn’t come about until he attended the University of Florida, where the core samples are shipped and studied.

“I come from a scientific background,” he said. “My father was a chemistry professor at the University of Akron. From the time I was 7 years old, I was keen on geology and rocks so I kind of knew I wanted to be a geologist.”

Arthurs describes geology as an underrepresented discipline despite its important connection to humans and society. Fundamentally, the Earth is a system of interconnected components and understanding the complex questions about our environment depends on understanding how those components interact.

“If there was one thing that I would like the general public to be more aware about,” she said. “It is that science is an exciting process of inquiry and despite all that we currently know about the Earth, there still remain many unanswered questions for many an inquiring mind to pursue.”

In 2006 and 2007 ANDRILL recovered core samples from the sediment beneath the ice sheet and seawater. Those core samples are a record of warming and cooling patters that region has experienced for nearly the last 20 million years.

“One of the motivations to build the ANDRILL program was to get the long sediment records that could actually be used to interpret the history of Antarctica,” Harwood said. “Now, with ANDRILL, we have indicated from our results that the West Antarctic ice sheet has been a very active player in past climate change.”

Antarctica is a continent cut out for scientific exchange, Harwood stated, and while he is not there, he hopes to encourage others. “(My goal is) enhancing science literacy and climate awareness, so that we can have a transformation shift in how we view the planet,” Harwood said. “I hear a lot of folks say, ‘I don’t believe in global warming’ and I say, ‘What is it you don’t believe?’ and often it stops right there. They don’t really have enough knowledge to have an opinion.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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fall 2012 video game preview Nov. 11 Nintendo 3DS

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask Oct. 28 Nintendo 3DS

Nearly a year after its Japanese release, “Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask” is coming to the rest of the world. The fifth entry in the series, but the first on Nintendo 3DS, “Miracle Mask” continues the adventure puzzling gameplay into the third dimension, taking advantage of the 3DS’s power for unique environments and fresh problems. A true gentleman waits.

Orleans and runs on the same engine as its console brethren. A female protagonist leads with a unique set of animations and similar abilities as previous assassins, all playable onthe-go. The two versions of “ACIII” can intertwine via the PS3 and Vita cross compatibility.

The first game in the Paper Mario series since 2007’s “Super Paper Mario,” “Sticker Star” is shaping up to continue the trends of the series, namely funny writing and a beautiful paper-based art style. The next installment, changes a few conventions of the series, removing partners in battle and progressing the game in a level-style, as opposed to the openworld setting of previous games.

ZombiU Nov. 18 Nintendo Wii U

Black Ops 2 Nov. 13 Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, Microsoft Windows

Halo 4 Nov. 6 Xbox 360

Assassin’s Creed III Oct. 30 PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Microsoft Windows

Set during the American Revolution, “Assassin’s Creed III” brings Ubisoft’s revered open-world stealth to players once again. This time, however, instead of Renaissance Italy or Jerusalem, expect Boston, New York and a variety of untamed frontier locations.

The combat system has been redesigned for more fluidity, mirroring the series’ standard freedom of movement. Oh, and naval battles too.

Master Chief returns for the start of a new “Reclaimer Trilogy.” How 343 Industries would handle developing one gaming’s best known series weighed on skeptic’s minds. However, from the footage shown and new features detailed like seasonal, cooperative, “Spartan Ops,” or the new take on competitive multiplayer, “War Games,” Halo 4 looks to be one of 2012’s best.

The Playstation Vita counterpart to “Assassin’s Creed III,” “Liberation” is set in 18th century New

Developer Treyarch’s signature stake in the “Call of Duty” franchise returns with a futuristic twist. Look for another refined singleplayer extravaganza featuring branching storylines.

A redesigned multiplayer class system with full support for broadcasting games live will support the growing E-sports community, and, of course, zombies are back but with a far more ranging scope of play styles.

Wii-U release Nov. 18

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Oct. 30 Playstation 3, Vita

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see something occur on the television screen and something else on their controller’s screen.

The holiday season will see the release of Nintendo’s latest console, the Wii U. The main attraction of the console, aside from the bump up to high-definition graphics, is the controller.

Players will use a tablet (with physical buttons next to the screen) to control games, allowing players to

One of Nintendo Wii U’s launch titles, Ubisoft’s “ZombiU” looks to showcase the system’s potential, utilizing the controller’s unique motion capabilities and large screen to accentuate survival horror. Set in London, this first person shooter focuses on a system that forces players into a new character each time they die, encouraging them to find their old avatar, now a part of the undead, and kill them.

New Super Mario Brothers U Nov. 18 Nintendo Wii U

The flagship title of the Wii U’s launch, “New Super Mario Brothers U” looks to be very similar to this year’s 3DS exclusive “New Super Mario Brothers 2,” both aesthetically and gameplay-wise. You con-

trol Mario as you progress through levels, collecting mushrooms and coins alike, while avoiding goombas and other enemies.

even some from other video game universes will be playable. Big Daddy anyone?

Hitman: Absolution Nov. 20 PS3, XBox 360, PC Nintendoland Nov. 18 Ninentendo Wii U

Nintendo’s other first party game at the Wii U’s launch, “Nintendoland” is a mini-game collection designed to show what the Wii U is capable of, a la “Wii Sports” at the Wii’s launch. Players will be able to play games featuring their favorite Nintendo characters as they use the new controller in interesting ways.

Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale Nov. 20 Playstation 3, Vita

Fans of Sony characters accumulated throughout the years should be excited about “Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale,” a fighting game in the vein of Nintendo’s “Super Smash Bros.” Kratos fights Nathan Drake fighting PaRappa the Rappa duking it out with Sly Cooper. Several other Playstation exclusive heroes and villains,

“Hitman: Absolution” is the fifth game in franchise and the first since 2006. Agent 47 returns bent on revenge, in what is being billed as a more personal story. Like in previous games, players will control Agent 47 as he stealthily moves in the shadows, disguises himself in crowds and assassinates targets.

The game also features new mechanics, like an improved cover system and more dynamic assassinations.

The Walking Dead Dec. 4 PS3, Xbox 360, PC, iPad

Released episodically (the fifth and final episode is due out next month), “The Walking Dead” has thus far been a surprisingly emotional adventure, jettisoning fast gameplay for a focus on storytelling. A collection of all five episodes will be released in time for Christmas. compiled by Nathan Sindelar and Tyler Keown - arts@ dailynebraskan.com

solid gold: from 5 ing celebration for students at J.P. Lord, a school for developmentally and mentally disabled students. They wrote, dedicated and performed their first song, “J.P. Lords,” for the students.

“It was pretty exciting. It was well-received. Roses, everything,” Arneson said.

Today, they have an enhanced repertoire of songs, including tracks titled, “One Wasp, One Fig,” “Tomatoes” and “Circadian Rhythms.” Their music is a conglomeration of original material, samplings from other artists and

mash-ups. The sound, according to the band, is an “infectious groove,” a type of music listeners feel in the physical sense, according to Arneson and Brown.

The men of Solid Gold incorporate much of their own personalities into the band. On stage, Arneson enjoys telling awkward anecdotes before a song or making a “sound of passion” mid-set.

“Our thing is, we just do things with conviction,” Arneson said. “Even if it’s ridiculous. If we do it like we fucking mean it, then that makes it good, I think.”

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Brown, who performs lead vocals and plays electric guitar, Arneson and Wynn all reside in one-bedroom apartments, which makes practicing difficult, unless they can meet in their friend’s basement, but even that presents challenges.

“Their cat pisses all over the place,” Arneson said. “It smells down there. Actually, that’s a motif of the band is there will always be cat piss involved. The old place we used to practice was covered in cat piss, too. I don’t know (how) that plays into the sound.”

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ment yelled and enjoyed the music while one inebriated audience member puked on Arneson.

“Music of the people. People of the places,” Wynn said.

From house parties and campus events to the Lincoln Exposed festival and The Zoo Bar, Solid Gold intends to stick by its number one goal: to make music. Arneson said he’ll follow the dream until it goes down the drain. Even then, he’ll probably follow it.

“I think the plan is to become famous enough that I can start

selling rock star sperm to people who want to have rock star babies,” Wynn said. “I will also have my Ph.D., so it’s like Ph.D-rock star babies. I think there’s a big market for that.”

For now, Solid Gold is making its rounds in the Lincoln music scene and Arneson reminded all buyers the band will “always accept free drinks.”

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Wynn added, “You hear what we smell.”

Despite having to practice in a cat foul-smelling environment, the band believes they’ve managed to make music people enjoy listening to. They give a lot of credit to their friends, who attend nearly every show, dance along and know the inside jokes the men tend to exchange on stage.

The music they create is reflective of their immediate lives, according to Arneson, however unpleasant. At one house party performance, half of the base-

Throughout film history, high school movies have been prominent in pop culture.

The 1980s were riddled with them with, see “Pretty in Pink,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” The 1990s slowed down the trend a bit, but still had hits such as “Clueless” and “American Pie.” But since then, there hasn’t been a big high school movie since “Mean Girls” in 2004. But the wait for the next big high school movie is over and “The Perks of Being of a Wallflower” is among the best ever made.

Charlie (Logan Lerman) has had a troublesome past few years.

The details are shaky. All we really know is middle school was full of hospital visits and mental instability from childhood trauma and his best friend’s suicide. He’s looking to turn things around his freshman year of high school, trying to not get “bad” again, as he says it.

It’s the same old song and dance we’ve seen in countless high school movies. The loser, trying to fit in.

But this stereotypical idea is shed in a new, creatively brilliant light, as Charlie latches onto a group of seniors, Patrick (the incredibly talented Ezra Miller) and Sam (the lovely Emma Watson) in particular, and is cast into a new world full of love, loss

from Lerman and Watson, whose and heartbreak. on-screen chemistry was so strong The book, which is written in letters from Charlie, was adapted in- the feelings and sadness of first love/ credibly well from words to screen, loss could almost be tasted in the thanks to the author/director Ste- audience. Readers who loved the troubled, shy and awkward Charlie phen Chbosky directing his own book-adaption. There are voice overs are sure to be head over heels with and shots of Charlie writing that lend Lerman, and Watson’s flirty “catchme-if-you-can” sexiness feels very the viewer to believe he is telling the story. Chbosky’s movie rendition true to Sam. She’s sure to break some stuck true to the book’s description in hearts in the audience.

Bottom line, this is the high shockingly great detail. Everything from the famous tunnel the three go school movie for the current genthrough, to Charlie’s ranch house in eration, “The Breakfast Club” of the suburban Pennsylvania, to the place 2010s. The incredible highs and lows where Patrick secretly meets his boy- push the piece to new high-schoolfriend Brad (who coincidentally is movie extremes and the characters face problems that feel distinctly the high school quarterback. How’s that for a twist on a high school ste- topical taking a new road for movies in the genre. reotype?).

The emotional toll the movie What drives this movie are the performances across the board. From takes is so prominent. “Perks” is sure to remind audiences of when they Charlie’s English teacher who tries AND “BLAK BLU” were a Patrick, a Sam or a Charlie; to keep him on the right path (Paul Rudd) to Charlie’s mother (Kate whether it was when they felt sad Clark andJr.alone, or uncontrollably happy Walsh), who despite herGary limited lines, plays a significant role in the and “infinite,” as Charlie puts it.

“The Perks of Being a Wallflowdevelopment of the Charlie’s family. er” is a hipster’s wet-dream, filled But the best part of this movie is Miller. If his coming out party wasn’t with a soundtrack with The Smiths, his haunting role in “We Need To mix tapes on cassette players and Talk About Kevin,” it’s this. The depressing undertones. But “Perks,” flamboyant, quirky, hysterical man- even with that demographic, is sure nerisms of Patrick are perfectly cap- to have even most mainstream of tured by Miller, a performance that moviegoers swooning.

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Coffee shop dream date is crushed by ring

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I have a not-so-secret (and, I know, notso-original) fantasy that I’m going to meet my husband at work.

At the risk of sounding like I live in a Sandra Bullock movie, we’ll say I work in a coffee shop and I’m pretty certain that some day, the man of my dreams is going to waltz in on a blustery afternoon and become completely captivated by the way I steam milk, and it’ll be happily ever after from then on.

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tionship I’d been in since early high school, the only “real” one I’d ever had in my life, had just ended (which, incidentally, also could have gone better).

I was having a pretty hard time with things, but was still determined to make to the most of what I’d dubbed “my last summer of doing hoodrat things with my friends.”

Having been on and off with the same person for the last five years, I decided it would be good to try to put myself back out there in an unattached sort of way, aiming for some Danny and Sandy-style summer lovin’.

If you know me (and thankfully you don’t), you’d know that “putting myself back out there” is not very “me.”

In fact, most summer evenings, I would probably have been happier curling up with “Laguna Beach” reruns (not ashamed) or with my dog than with some hunky bro I’d met at the pool; but still, I was going to try.

My opportunity came on a hot July evening. It was another dull night of barista chores, until “he” walked in, and I knew. He was wearing dark wash jeans that fit well, a plain white T-shirt, combat boots he could pull off remarkably well, and he had his hair artfully arranged to appear like he

didn’t give a shit. Essentially, he was everything I value.

As he sauntered up to the counter, I could tell he was at least a few years old than me, but I decided to look past that. As I took his order, he made conversation past the typical “I am pouring your coffee, so let’s talk about the weather while you stand here,” explaining he was in town for the weekend helping out a friend with a Lied Center production. He asked for some dinner recommendations and can’t-miss Lincoln spots, thanked me and smiled his way over to a corner chair.

Throughout the evening, we kept “accidentally” making eye contact, blushing and smiling; I took this to mean we were now in love.

He’d stayed past close, and I was excited. After it was clear I had no more chores to do, he came back to talk to me at he counter, despite “espresso grounds and syrup-covered hot mess” look I had going. I got more excited.

“So, I think I’m going to check out that pizza place you recommended tomorrow,” he began. “Could I buy you a slice?”

“COULD YOU EVER,” I said.

That’s not what I said. I was pretty pumped, though. I told him I’d love

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I choked on a mouthful of pepperoni, feta and disbelief. “Your WHAT is Swedish?”

It was only then that I noticed the ring on his finger.” that, and he handed me back the receipt from his coffee, his name and cell phone number scrawled across the bottom.

The next day, I made my way back downtown for the big date. I arrived to find that he’d already ordered my favorite pizza: the one I’d enthusiastically recommended the night before.

I was pleased he’d remembered.

Dinner progressed nicely with batting eyelashes and flirtatious smiles and with conversation about our shared interests, music and travel. As I was explaining my plans to study abroad the following year, he animatedly agreed, relaying his dream to up and move to a European country some day soon.

Just as I was about to gush over his spontaneity, he added, “Maybe Sweden. My wife is Swedish, so that would work out well.”

I choked on a mouthful of pepperoni, feta and disbelief. “Your WHAT is Swedish?”

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It was only then that I noticed the ring on his finger.

After dinner, he asked if I’d like to walk around. I (somewhat) politely declined because while it might be all right to go on a date with someone that you didn’t know was married, IT IS NOT TO OK TO FINISH THAT DATE ONCE YOU KNOW THAT PERSON IS MARRIED. Then I turned on my heel and made my way back to the car.

I’m still not really sure what the intentions of Mr. Married Dreamboat were in asking me to dinner. We’ve understandably lost contact, and his number is nowhere to be found in my phone these days. In retrospect, it’s been a fun story to tell, and maybe it helped build character or learn some moral lesson or something. But as far as my workplace romance goes?

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jourdyn kaarre Halloween costume, activity ideas are endless with a fleshtoned bodysuit Halloween is my eighth favorite time of year after Christmas, the Fourth of July, my cats’ birthdays (don’t remember the dates), the anniversary of Ratigan’s death (my guinea pig who died in 1998), my annual gynecology appointment, Flag Day, Arbor Day and the point in the fall when it becomes socially acceptable to stop shaving your legs.

Last year, my participation in Halloween festivities was nonexistent. I hoped to at least have a costume this year, but all of my “friends” shot down the glorious ideas I had in mind. Unbeknownst to them, the ideas are still in my dark hole of a mind, and they will still happen.

Both costumes require a fleshtoned bodysuit.

Option one: Rob Delaney. I have no doubt I am an illegitimate remnant of his “skablorb” some 20 years ago. This costume requires more prep time than I allowed. He is a hairy man. I should’ve collected discarded hairs long ago if I really wanted to do the costume justice.

But, I am generally a lazy person when it comes to rounding up

man to the next. So, maybe I’ll pull MISADVENTURES OF out my two front teeth too.

Halloween is only once a year, MEG & ME right? Anyway, I will throw on some painted stitches, attach the blow up doll’s mouth to the towel wrapped around my bum and call it good. But, fingers crossed no one steals my blow up doll by the end of the night. If that happens, you’ll pubes from people, so I will settle likely discover me in a corner with with patches of fur purchased from blood on my face and wearing the local Hobby Lobby. Finally, I only a towel because no one unwill need a green Speedo. I feel derstands my costume or me anymore. like he’s a silk or velvet guy, but Now that I’ve warded off every there’s no way of knowing for sure to know the textile he’s wearing in potential suitor in the DN’s readership, I’ll elaborate on an activhis Twitter picture. I’ll need some stocking stuffers if you know what ity you can do for entertainment, which is really the purpose of this I mean, because he has got to be column. packing some heat down south.

Go to a haunted Add a few, house. I pushed “420NO’s,” “Gonna I am Meg to one. She’s paint the town red stronger than most generally tonight! With hupeople give her man blood I’ve been a lazy person credit for. I had not stockpiling in jugs the slightest clue in an old school when it comes to bus” and “Gonna rounding up pubes she was such a trollop when it came to lick you outta those facing things that jorts, Susan” lines from people, so might make her shit and this costume is I will settle with herself. complete.

We ventured Option two: The patches of fur through the house Human Centipede. purchased from as she clung to my I received more oversized sweatshirt criticism for this the local Hobby and yelled, “Fug choice, along with off, bro” at every my weird fascina- Lobby.” monster that came tion with the movie toward her. I laughed and screamed (sorry, it’s funny), but the costume itself is doable and environmen- the whole time, much like I do when I write letters to Congress. tally friendly.

Take some advice from the least If you haven’t seen the movie, credible source of advice: Don’t watch it. I do not have time to exgive any sort of fug when it comes plain in this column. Basically, a to your costume and let Halloween mad scientist sews three people tohave its way with you. gether ass to mouth; thus, a human I would say let it all hang out, centipede. I digress.

All I need for this costume is the but do not take that literally. Unless you can crack an acorn with your body suit, a white towel, face paint, fake blood and a blow up doll. If abs, for the love of God, do not let it all hang out. you’ve seen the movie, you know jourdyn kaarre is a he pulls out their teeth, so the hujunior journalism major. man centipede cannot prevent the reach her at arts@ flow of body fluids from one hudailynebraskan.com.

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That metaphorical crown Gary Clark Jr. sings about on “The Life” is still a few sizes too big, but if he follows the progression of “Blak and Blu” in the coming years, it should fit when: Friday, 7:30, him just right.

Despite this album being his Sunday, 3 p.m. major label debut, Clark has been where: Kimball Recital OF “BLAK AND BLU” “THE PERKS around for years. After a couple selfHall produced albums, Clark got his big A WALLFLOWER Gary Clark Jr. break tearing the house down at Eric how much: $20/adults, Clapton’s annual Crossroads Guitar $10/students but it never quite gels. With “Please STARRING Logan Ler Festival in 2010. The buzz for his Come Home,” he lays down an anEzra Miller, Emma debut has been building slowly and gelic, Motown-esque vocal track that steadily since then, as he’s released perfectly complements his lilting DIRECTED BY Stephe his “Bright Lights” EP and perguitar. “Travis County” is an electriformed at nearly every music festival Chbosk fied honky-tonk number filled with in the world, from JazzFest to Bonnaenough “oohs” to last you a lifetime. roo to Newport Folk.

It’s one of those songs that’s fun to It’s clear Clark and Clapton sing along with, but instantly forgetshare influences that led to their imtable. pressive guitar chops, especially on On the infectiously fun openthe album closer “Next Door Neigh- ing track “Ain’t Messin’ ‘Round,” bor Blues.” There Clark does his best Clark Jr. lets the world know of his Robert Johnson impression, includunique talent. “I don’t believe in ing some authentically distant, early competition/Ain’t nobody else like 20th-century style production. The me around,” he sings. A few of his most obvious connection they share, guitar-virtuoso peers — such as Jack when: Monday, 4:30 however, is through Jimi Hendrix. p.m.

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Go as Michigan’s backup quarterback, Russell Bellomy. Wear a Michigan jersey and walk around with a football, telling people that you’re going to pass it to them and then throw the ball directly into the ground as you scream for your life.

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Go as the MUSTARDIS. Dress up like a British police booth, but paint it mustard yellow. Don’t worry about whether everyone gets the “Dr. Who” reference, because it’s guaranteed that anyone who does will talk to you about your costume for the next five years.

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Go as Hurri-pe-cane Sandy. Get a few packages of Pecan Sandies and dump them in a bowl. Mix in a few glasses of water, then head out. Throw the goop at people while telling everyone to evacuate. It might be kind of a stretch that anyone understands, but you’ll get attention for sure.

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Go as a hash tag. Get really high on life then wander around town, playing tag with strangers while yelling things like “Can’t afford four more!” and “White girl problems!” It’s topical, easy and if it’s an awful experience, just get higher on life.

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The Nebraska women’s golf team finished 14th in a field of 15 teams at the Alamo Invitational Tuesday.

A total of three rounds were played; one a day starting on Sunday. The top four teams finished under par at the end of all three rounds played by five women from each team: Oklahoma shot 16 under par, Texas A&M eight under, and the University of Texas at San Antonio tied with Tulane in shooting one under par.

For the Huskers, the secondto-last finish is one of their lowest finishes of the fall season. Their highest finish was a sixth place out of 15 that they shot at the Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial Oct. 15 and 16. Granted, nine out of the 15 teams in the Alamo Invitational were ranked nationally. Of the top eight finishers, seven teams were ranked.

NU improved its overall score in the third round when it finished the day shooting a 302 (+14). The first round the team shot a 308 and then finished the second day quite a bit above par, shooting a 314.

Keeping scores consistent has been a skill-in-progress, Steffi Neisen said.

“We’re putting together rounds a little bit better,” the junior said. “I know we can still improve on them but I think we’re getting better at avoiding the bigger numbers which is crucial in scoring. But once we eliminate

(big numbers) ... I think we’ll be “I know we hoped for better a lot better. I think that’s one of finishes,” Neisen said. “But overthe things we’ve improved on the all there were a lot of improvemost — putting together 18 solid ments, but we did a lot of good holes.” things as well.”

Saturday, before the seasonWright also recognized the ending tournament, head coach things the Huskers did well, but Robin Krapfl said she wouldn’t be she said as a team, the confidence surprised if Neisen would have a level can come up. good weekend. Krapfl said Neisen “I think it all comes down to was looking more relaxed and confidence,” Wright said. “I think “ready to break that one of the best out.” things that we can I know we Neisen led NU take away from this hoped for in two of the three weekend, as well as rounds shooting better finishes. playing with such three over par on good competition, the par-72 course But overall there such tough field, in the first and secis that we need to were a lot of ond rounds. She know that we befinished tied for improvements, long there and trust 47th with a score ourselves.” but we did a lot of 227. In first place The Alamo Inindividually was of good things as vitational marked Maribel Lopez Porthe end of NU’s fall ras of Tulane with well.” season. The Huska three-day score ers get the rest of katelyn wright junior Golfer of 209. the year off before Nebraska’s two traveling south to other consistent Rio Mar, Puerto top scorers finished one after the Rico, for the Lady Puerto Rico Inother with freshman Cassie Deeg vitational Feb. 10-12. shooting a 232 to nab the 58th Coach Krapfl said until then, spot and junior Katelyn Wright the golf clubs should be put down. finished tied for 59th by shooting “We’ll take some time off from a 233. golf and let them just catch up on Redshirt freshmen Jackie school and kind of recharge the O’Doherty and Morgan Smejkal batteries,” Krapfl said. “And maytied for 74th after shooting 246. be do a little individual work, but For a young team, Neisen said really I want them to take a break every tournament the Huskers away from golf.” sports@ play in is just piling experience on DailyNebraskan.com the girls.

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cook: from 10 John Cook’s role as a coach and as a father, saying his allowance of her play was embarrassing. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Telander wrote: “Everything about (the situation) is shameful and everybody knows that,” and went on to say “more and more, everybody’s a cover-up artist.”

A commenter on a Lincoln Journal Star story compared the situation with Lauren Cook to the situation with Jerry Sandusky, saying “Am I the only one who sees parallels between JoePa and Penn State and T O and Nebraska?” The writer, “Ricky From River City,” added “Presidents of the University’s cater to their athletic departments. JoePa covers up for crimes committed at PSU and T O enables behavior of a coddled athlete at UNL. Somebody at the UNL should put their foot down before everything is out of control in Lincoln like in Happy Valley.”

Through it all, Cook stayed silent, left in the dark to take the beating.

“I have gone through hell this past year from getting slayed in the media,” Cook said. “And I wish people could see how much pain I felt and how terrible I felt and how much I care. I feel like a lot of people said ‘Oh, she doesn’t care, she thinks she’s this and that and can just do whatever,’ and I just wish I could sit down with each person and be like, you know what, this is what really happened, this is what I went through, this is how I feel. I am really sorry, and I made a mistake, I know I made a mistake, I know I made a big mistake, and I have learned from that.”

The main goal for Cook was to ignore what was being said about her.

To push it away, focus on what was important.

“People can say what they want, but at the end of the day it’s not going to bring me down. It’s just going to help me grow and become a better person.”

Daddy’s Little Girl

big ten teleconference Bo Pelini, Nebraska

On the Husker defense – “I think we’re getting better defensively.

I think we’re executing better.

There’s still a lot out there for us, but I think we’ve made some significant improvement ... it’s a week-toweek thing. You’re only as good as your last outing, and I think our guys understand that. Our preparation’s been good, and that needs to continue.”

On predictions against Michigan State – “You never know how games are going to go, week-to-week, you have no idea.

We need to play well in all phases of the game and no matter what happens or what type of team it turns out to be — be prepared to win it any way you have to. You can’t look at it on paper, you just don’t know how the game’s going to unfold.”

Kirk Ferentz, Iowa

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Lauren Cook sets a ball in a game against Penn State in which Cook and her teammates upset the top-ranked Nittany Lions. leaving the Lincoln native with a yearning for home.

A Fresh Start

The Nebraska Coliseum was euA new school meant a new start, phoric after Nebraska’s upset victory along with proving herself again. Her over No. 1 ranked Penn State Sunday. father made her walk on, telling her A teary-eyed John Cook pulled that she wasn’t going get a scholhis daughter toward him, smiling, arship just because she had one at as the 4,193 people on hand went ba- UCLA. nanas around them.

Cook’s arrival to the team was “You know, in that second set not taken well by all members. Her when you got nailed in the face?” position, setter, was then held by the John Cook told his daughter. “That two-time All-American Sydney Anwas the turning point of the match.” derson, but John Cook still decided The daughter giggled and the fato lessen Anderson’s role and put ther laughed. Lauren Cook leaned a in a two-setter system, allowing his lot on her father during the past year. daughter to play.

“I’m the only girl, besides my After a rocky start, things soon mom, obviously, but I’m kind of became normal for Lauren Cook on daddy’s little girl,” her new team. BeCook said. “He does of the bonds a great job of being I have gone cause she built in her first a father to me, and through hell year with the team, he’s always there her teammates were for me, he’d do any- this past year from there to support her thing for me. I can’t a year later while speak enough of getting slayed in Cook was taking him.” the media.” heat from the media.

Their bond “They were all Lauren Cook strengthened when there for me,” Cook NU Setter Cook began getting said. “They’ve done criticized for transso much for me, and ferring to Nebraska I couldn’t be more thankful for that.” to play for her father after her freshHer closest friend on the team, man year at UCLA, in which she Hannah Werth, can attest to her earned AVCA Freshman of the Year strong bonds. honors.

“Lauren Cook has a huge heart,” She said she chose UCLA after Werth said. “I mean, anybody would deciding she didn’t want people to be lucky to know Lauren, and I’m bethink she could just get anywhere ing completely honest.” because of her last name. Though Werth watched Cook this past she was in love with the school, the year and said she was amazed by coaching staff and multiple players how well she handled things, both in left the program after her first year,

public and behind the scenes.

“I think that she’s handled it as best as she could,” Werth said. “I think that in sports in general, there are so many people who judge people based off of their performance, whether that be on the court, off the court, they just think things, they hear things, and then they believe them. And that’s not even close to being right. I wish I could just put out a general flyer for the entire world that says ‘Meet people, and accept them for who they are, not how other people perceive them.’”

The path ahead for Cook is still foggy. A professional career in volleyball could be ahead, or she could use a degree in Event Planning to start a career. Either way, Werth said she is confident that Cook will excel.

“Being mature about (her) situation, constantly being a fighter, I’d say says a lot about her character,” Werth said. “It shows that she’s not going to let anything get in her way, or her team, or friendships or anything like that.”

One year removed from her accident, Cook’s team is coming off upsetting the No. 1 team in the country, she is out of legal trouble and is preparing to wrap up her senior season under her father’s guidance alongside her best friends.

“I’m just glad everything kind of panned out perfectly,” Cook said. sports @dailynebraskan.com

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Ridge Kiley wrestles in a match last season. Kiley is one of four seniors returning, and wrestles in the 133-pound division, which coach Mark Manning said is a focus for the young team.

(157), Josh Ihnen (184), Ridge Kiley (133) and Tyler Koehn (174). Ihnen, Kiley and Koehn have been NCAA Championship qualifiers on multiple occasions.

“We have first class competitors who have the right kind of attitude and work ethic,” Manning said.

Kolb will be stepping up into a higher weight class and higher grade

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this season. He is transitioning from the 174 weight class to the 197 weight class. Kolb said this change has been beneficial for him after injuring his knee last year.

“It is a lot nicer not having to cut any weight,” Kolb said. “Last year, I weighed 190 and had to try to cut down to 174 every week. It was really bad on my knee.”

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As a result of the weight gain, Kolb has had to lift more for this season than he has for his past seasons.

As for Kolb’s goals, he just wants to focus on matches as they come.

“I am focusing more on the process and not getting ahead of myself,” Kolb said.

Kolb wants to be a good role model and a good influence during the season. He wants to lead through his actions on and off the mat.

Manning wants to see the wrestlers improve week to week. He would like to see a lot of the wrestlers receive All-American status.

“We have a number of guys who have their mind in the right place and they just need to take one week and one match at a time,” Manning said.

Manning is optimistic about the season. Like any coach, Manning would like to see a Big Ten Championship trophy in Lincoln at the end of the season.

“We have a tough league but we are a tough team,” Manning said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

On challenges of Indiana – “They’re doing a lot of things really well defensively.

They’re playing a lot better than they did last year. It starts up front – they’ve got two veteran guys inside that play really well. They played well a year ago and they’re playing even better now.

They play at a high level. They’re secondary’s very talented and athletic.”

Urban Meyer, Ohio State

On quarterback Braxton Miller’s passing abilities - “I hate to say it like this, but I’m very disappointed.

I think he could be better than he is. It’s just fundamentally he gets so tied up in a knot, and Saturday was not good. He’s a great player, works hard, mechanically he can throw the ball very well. We have to settle him down and work harder at developing his fundamentals.”

On being undefeated at the end of the season -“We are a tired, beat-up team. It’s a one-game season. There has been no discussion inside this facility or with me about that undefeated word. Nowadays to go undefeated, that’s so hard to do that. We’re trying to go through this bye weekend and beat Illinois.”

Tim Beckman, Illinois

On the pressure of going up against an undefeated Ohio State - “We understand that Ohio State is a good football team but the only thing that we can control is what we do and those are the things we talk about every day we step out there on the practice field or the meeting room, how can you improve yourself today?”

On quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase - “It’s not all on Nathan Scheelhaase’s Mark Dantonio, Michigan State shoulders. It’s on our whole offense and On defending that’s the greatest thing about the game Nebraska’s offense of football is that it’s not on one person’s – “They got so many shoulders, on all 11 out there and this Illini different weapons family that we have.” with (Taylor) Martinez and all the Danny Hope, Purdue quarterback runs.

On quarterback I think they do an Matt McGloin outstanding job of and the rest of mixing things up, Penn State’s creating run/pass offense -“Their conflicts at times. Outstanding tailback whole football with (Ameer) Abdullah, and if (Rex) Burkteam should be head is able to play, he is an outstanding applauded; they’re an outstanding football football player in all capacities. And then team. They play the game the way it’s you got a great group of receivers as well. supposed to be played and they certainly They’re a tough football team to defend.” play with a great passion. It’s very obvious that they have an us against the world Brady Hoke, Michigan mentality that they’ve all balled into.”

On Minnesota – “We go on the Bill O’Brien, Penn State road and play a On Penn State’s Minnesota team special teams that I think is “I thought our well-coached kickoff return from a standteam was terpoint of fundamentals and techniques. rible. We’ve got Jerry (Kill) and his staff do a tremendous to do a better job. I think their quarterback Philip Nelson job there. We’ve is a guy that is mobile and is also very ac- got to coach it better and we’ve got to get curate in throwing the football.” going there and do a better job.”

Bret Bielema, Wisconsin On status of quarterback Denard RobinOn the competition son – “He should be fine. It’s just one of at quarterback bethose things that flutters up now and then tween Danny O’Brien depending on how he gets hit. He’s betand Curt Phillips ter every day. I think he’ll be fine. He’s a - “Curt and Danny pretty special player, and he’s proven that. both have got game We’re pretty confident that he’ll be ready experience. They’re Saturday.” both veteran quarPat Fitzgerald, Northwestern terbacks. We’ll see On team’s play in Ocwhere we get this week during practice. tober – “I’d give us a C I don’t know if I’ll name a starter for sure ... I think that’s pretty to the outside world, but our players will average. We had two know in place by Tuesday of next week big wins, and they both where we’re going.” came off the heels of two games we let slip On his role in new NCAA rule making away. We give credit to head coaches responsible for their assisour opponents in those tants - “I spoke very strongly about if one two games, they outof your nine accountable assistants – one played us in the fourth of the guys that you’ve hired to carry your quarter. It’s disappointing but I definitely program across the country – is doing think our team has matured. I think we’ve things in a way that’s not in the NCAA, grown up and we’ve taken very positive then head coaches should be responsible steps in this month. But we need to be as well.” a lot better if we want to achieve our Kevin Wilson, Indiana goals.”

On the possibility of Indiana making it to On key for the rest of the season – “When the Big Ten ChampiI look at the way the season, on paper, onship - “We’ve got looked like in August, I wasn’t thrilled a long way to go in with having a bye week at this time of the building our team. year. Now that we’re in the middle of it I We’ve had very short don’t think it could have happened at a success, very small better time. We’re in midterms this week, success. I don’t we’ve been through a grind and we have think we’re strong three great games ahead of us. We really enough to look at big needed this week to recover.” pictures, we’re just trying to keep it very small, very simple. Our total focus this Jerry Kill, Minnesota whole year has been talking about conOn quarterback stant, daily, consistent improvement.”

Philip Nelson – “He’s very On being the only team in the nation that composed, and he comes from a hasn’t lost a fumble- “Part of our deal good high school when getting here was learning how to program – one play hard, learning how to play smart, that won state championship. He’s just learning how to play physical. We’re still got the knack for playing the game. He’s trying to learn all three of those phases. got a quick release. He’s still learning – But reducing penalties, reducing negative only played two games. For a freshman plays, missed assignments, and taking he’s played two very good football games care the ball are things that win. So it’s and hopefully we can continue to move just something we emphasize.”

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Senior safety PJ Smith celebrates. Smith has been in and out of the starting lineup for the better part of three seasons while at Nebraska. This season, he has solidified the starting safety role.

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Senior setter Lauren Cook celebrates after a point. Cook returned to Lincoln after a year at UCLA to join her dad at Nebraska.

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Cook overcomes scrutiny, succeeds on court one year after hit-and-run arrest story by chris heady | file photo by morgan spiehs Lauren Cook’s meals are planned by a team nutritionist. She gets in trouble if she doesn’t take her vitamins, so she takes them. Then it’s lifting. And pre-practice exercises. Then practice.

Cook has to be at practice early to do extra setting, so she shows up at 2:30 every day, setting balls left and right before the rest of the team shuffles in at around 3.

There aren’t a lot of things Lauren Cook can control, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t happy. It’s structure. It’s planned.

“Volleyball is my place to be normal when everything else is affecting me,” Cook said.

Volleyball is her escape, one of the few constants in her life.

On the Court

The ball floated off of Gina Mancuso’s hands toward the left side of the court. Cook sprinted from mid-court toward the ball, preparing her hands for a bump to put the ball back in play.

But Cook hit the brakes as the ball falls in the middle of two cheerleaders, Cook and Hannah Werth standing over them, towering like giants.

The point is lost, but the smile on Cook’s face couldn’t be wiped off.

“Are you OK?” she asks one of them.

The cheerleader confirms, and Cook returns to the court with her teammates all breaking a smile when seeing hers.

Nebraska’s opponent Penn State’s score changes from 14 to 15, and the next point begins.

Cook’s smile slowly fades.

Under Fire

Cook is known for her smile.

Teammates regard her for it. But as she sits, facing the media, her smile is gone. Her head is down.

She readies herself to dictate a prepared statement as she sits next to her father – her lawyer seated next to Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne.

Cook knew this was her first

chance to let people know how bad she felt, how sorry she was.

But she knew they wouldn’t listen.

They wouldn’t believe her. She begins to read: “I’ve let a lot of people down: my parents, my teammates and, you know, just the University of Nebraska.”

Her voice was shaky and her brown eyes were tired from the tears and frustration from the past few days.

“I’ve always worked hard for things in my life, and I’m gonna work hard for this. I’m going to work hard to regain trust and, you know, hope that one day people accept my apology.”

There is a pause. She takes a deep breath and stares into the deep green granite table. She swipes hair away from her eyes.

She knew she couldn’t win.

But Cook’s mistake was an enormous one: fleeing the scene of a crash after hitting two people on a parked motorcycle with her parents’ black Toyota 4Runner, breaking 31-year-old Nathaniel Kollar’s leg along the way. Cook, who had a history of poor driving with six tickets in her past, drove away, but pulled over after realizing her front tire was shredded. She called home, then called herself in to the police and was arrested shortly after noon on Oct. 30, 2011. She

While the sport gives her peace, controversy has never been too far behind Cook. It followed her to UCLA during her freshman year, and it followed her back to Nebraska, when she transferred after just one year at UCLA to join her father’s team.

Controversy followed her again as she drove down Humphrey Avenue in Lincoln one year ago, when Cook was returning from physical therapy. It followed her down the road after she hit two people on a parked motorcycle.

Volleyball has also been how she’s dealt with the controversy.

It’s how she’s dealt with the past year, being a public figure who many Nebraskans think got away with a felony. spent a few hours in jail before her volleyball coach and father made the $500 bail to get his daughter.

Lauren Cook was charged with a felony and faced a maximum of five years in prison.

Through a gutsy legal process with her lawyer, Cook applied for a pretrial diversion program that would diffuse the prison sentence and replace it with community service. If Cook was accepted into the program and could complete it, the process would allow her back on the team, with her coach/ father’s approval. One missed game later, she was back to her haven on the court.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

The controversy created by the accident was perpetuated after her acceptance into the program, which spurned rumors of preferential treatment because of her volleyball-star status.

In a report filed by the Omaha World-Herald, a review of thousands of Lancaster County pretrial diversion cases since 2009 showed that Cook was the only applicant accepted into the program on the felony charge of leaving the scene of an injury accident. Most lawyers hadn’t even attempted pretrial diversion, doubting they could ever get away with it. But Cook did.

In a specific example, the re-

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Cook’s mugshot after an Oct. 2011 arrest for felony hit-and-run. Cook faced a whirlwind of criticism from the fallout of her accident.

porter pointed out a 65-year-old woman with a perfect driving record that was turned away from pretrial diversion in 2009, for almost the exact thing Cook was accepted for.

Media from across the nation, from ESPN to Deadspin berated her in papers for weeks, infuriated that Cook had been accepted into the program and allowed to play. A Seattle blogger questioned

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Smith grows into role in secondary during senior year Lanny Holstein DN

“The safeties make the calls, and the corners, they just let us know that they got the calls from us,” Smith said. “They have to Senior safety P.J. Smith has gone through the highs and lows of a look to us because we are checkfive-year Nebraska football ca- ing things, and we have to let them know what we are going to reer. do. That tells them what they are After redshirting in 2008, going to do.”

Smith bounced in and out of the Smith has a solid grasp of NeHusker lineup for a few years. It seemed he would be in for a larger braska’s defensive schemes, and he is able to read his keys smoothdose of playing time as a sophomore, but the safety fell back on ly this season, he says. But that’s the depth chart after starting a not the way it has always been.

As a young player, Smith’s few games. Again, he fought his head was spinning with all the way back into the mix a year ago but was never able to grab hold of nuances required of his position. Coach Bo Pelini’s defensive a starting spot.

All the while, Smith kept fight- schemes and terminology didn’t ing for more playing time, doing come naturally to the young safety.

“It took me a anything he could little while,” Smith to see the field. As I’m really said. “It’s a tough he bounced in and system to play in, out of the lineup, proud of and these are tough Smith was a rock coaches to play on special teams, him, and he’s for. You get better making 10 tackles getting the every single week on special teams in rewards of his with them. If you 2011. do the things they As a senior, work.” are asking you to Smith is a seasoned do, you will be Terry Joseph veteran. He’s been NU Defensive Backs Coach fine, but it’s a chalon the field, in a lenge, though. It’s multitude of roles, not easy.” for the better part of Pelini asks a lot of his players, three seasons. When former safety Austin Cassidy graduated in 2011, according to Smith. There isn’t much room for error when you Smith was ready to assume his play for a coach who expects perrole as leader of the secondary.

Defensive backs coach Terry fection on every snap.

“He brings so much fire and Joseph is impressed with the way his senior safety has handled the passion to the game,” Smith said.

“He wants everything to be 100 responsibility.

“P.J. has been consistent for percent correct, and as young guys, you don’t really understand us,” Joseph said. “He does a good that.” job of getting us lined up along Smith gets it now. In his final with (Daimion) Stafford, and he’s go round as a player, he is loving probably a guy who’s playing his every minute of his college career. best ball since he’s been here. I’m Just as Cassidy was for him a year really proud of him, and he’s getago, Smith tries to be a mentor to ting the rewards of his work.”

Smith describes himself as a his younger teammates, spreadvocal leader in Nebraska’s defen- ing his knowledge and enthusisive backfield. He has to be, he asm for the Nebraska defense.

“I keep guys focused in the says. Smith is responsible for the secondary,” he said. “I try to keep getting the Huskers into the coreverybody up and looking forrect coverages and spends much of his time yelling out instructions ward to the next play.” sports@ to his fellow defensive backs. dailynebraskan.com

Huskers prepare for Buckeyes Big Ten tournament opens for Nebraska with No. 2 vs. No. 7 rematch Staff Report DN As the Nebraska women’s soccer team kicks off play Wednesday in the Big Ten tournament, it will have a daunting challenge ahead.

No. 7 Nebraska will take on No. 2 Ohio State on the opening day of the Big Ten tournament in Bloomington, Ind. Earlier in the year, the Huskers lost 4-0 at home to the Buckeyes.

But that doesn’t faze them.

“It’s a whole new game,” junior midfielder Ari Romero said.

“We are going to fight for our identity.”

Coming into the tournament, the Huskers are treating their game against the Buckeyes as a new chance to redeem themselves. Romero said the Huskers have been watching lots of film from their game earlier in the year against the Buckeyes, along with film from other games, so they can analyze what they need to work on.

Coming into the season, the expectations for the Huskers were uncertain. With a young team filled with new freshmen, the Huskers weren’t sure what this season was going to bring. In not making the Big Ten tournament last year, Nebraska was fighting harder to do so this year, despite all of the newcomers.

At the beginning of the season, when Nebraska lost some close non-conference games, the team was struggling. After missing the first few games of the season because she was competing with the Mexican U-20 national team, Romero said things were rocky for the Huskers when she first came back. But that soon began to change.

“I believe that we have come a long way,” Romero said. “We have probably gone beyond our expectations.”

That progress throughout the season has allowed the Huskers to make the tournament after their disappointment in not doing so last year.

But they don’t want to stop by just making the tournament.

Although the Huskers are seeded No. 7 out of the eight teams that qualified for the tournament, they don’t want that ranking to discourage them.

“Our standard is to win the game,” Romero said.

At the last meeting between the two teams, Ohio State jumped out to the early lead when defender Lauren Granberg scored a quick goal for the Buckeyes less than five minutes into the game. Granberg was an offensive powerhouse in the game, adding two goals in the second half to score a hat trick and help secure the win.

In order to come out on the winning side this time around, the Huskers are looking to come out with the early control.

“We need to come out stronger as a team and demanding more

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Junio midfielder Ari Romero goes up for a header against Penn State. Romero is a member of a team playing in its first Big Ten tournament, after missing last season’s competition. from individuals,” Romero said.

Especially critical for the Huskers will be not getting behind at halftime. They have not won a game this season when trailing at half.

Although the pressure is on the Huskers to win Wednesday’s game and keep their season alive, they know that they are capable of handling it.

“We all have the same goal

and promise each other that we will do what we need to win,” Romero said.

Nebraska (7-11-1, 4-7-0 Big Ten) takes on Ohio State (13-4-1, 8-2-1) at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bloomington. The game will be live streamed on the Big Ten Network’s website, BTN.com. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Nebraska’s wrestling team is trying to make the most out of an underclassmen-heavy roster.

Four seniors, five juniors, eight sophomores, four redshirt freshmen and sixteen true freshmen make up the 2012-2013 NU wrestling team.

The Huskers lost two seniors in the 197-pound and heavyweight weight classes, but they gained two freshmen in those weight classes. They also have returning wrestlers who will help fill that void.

Coach Mark Manning was pleased by the turnout and hard work done by the wrestlers after practice opened earlier this week.

“I think it went really well. It was good exposure for our guys,” Manning said. “It put pressure on them.

“Our training has been going good. I like the chemistry of our team.”

Redshirt freshmen Donny Longendyke and Collin Jensen will be competing in the heavyweight weight class. Longendyke has shown improvement from last year and has acquired a lot of discipline, according to Manning, who was also enthusiastic about Jensen joining the team.

“Collin (Jensen) has a promising

future,” Manning said. “We have really high hopes for Collin.”

Senior Caleb Kolb was a redshirt last year, but he will be beefing up to the 197 weight class along with sophomore Spencer Johnson. Johnson, who wrestled a lot last year in this weight division, is fighting a nagging injury in the preseason and will likely return later in the year at full strength.

Weight classes 133 and 165 will be filled with young Huskers this season.

Senior Ridge Kiley will be returning to the 133-pound weight class and will be competing alongside freshmen Eric Coufal, Adam Joseph and Ben Morgan. The 165-pound weight class will be composed of freshman Shaun’qae McMurty, redshirt freshman Austin Wilson, sophomore Robert Kokesh and junior Michael Klinginsmith.

The open practice helped the team come together and prepare for its first meet this weekend. The Huskers will be starting their season at the NU Intrasquad that will be taking place at the Devaney Center in Lincoln starting at 7:00 p.m. Friday.

Although the team lost two seniors to graduation, Tucker Land and James Nakashima, they are being replaced with 2012 seniors Ross Grande

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