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Psychiatrist Holt speaks out on importance of early support for LGBT youth Kim Buckley Daily Nebraskan

In terms of LGBT suicide, the numbers don’t lie.

Almost one-third of LGBT youth have attempted suicide while more than 40 percent of transgendered people have attempted suicide.

Those are the numbers Ron Holt, a psychiatrist from the Kaiser Permanente, South San Francisco Medical Center and an advocate for the LGBT community, gave at a lecture at the Nebraska Union Tuesday.

Fair provides career connections Students learn about importance of face-to-face networking Jordan Martin Daily Nebraskan

A swarm of well-dressed men and women has swooped in at the University of NebraskaLincoln. These finely attired people are not government or university officials. They are students.

Students are fitted in their best duds because from Oct. 4 to Oct. 6 is UNL Career

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Services’ Fall Career Fair.

Monday, a large crowd of students filled the Nebraska Union Ballroom and Centennial rooms to become acquainted with countless employers in the engineering fields.

According to Christina Fielder, assistant director of Career Services, employers come from various places including local Nebraska companies, national Nebraskabased companies, local and national governments and large, multi-national corporations.

“Microsoft is in there,” she said.

Tom Bader, a junior

agricultural engineering major who attended the fair, said he enjoyed the large variety of employers.

“I’ve been talking for three hours with seven employers,” he said.

Bader said the amount of time he spent talking with these businesses and organizations surprised him.

Tanner Letcher, a sophomore construction management major who also attended, said the fair was a positive experience.

“I was surprised how friendly the employees were and how much they appreciated us coming,” he said.

Letcher said the event was

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a really good chance to network and to get his name out to companies.

Networking is exactly what the fair is about, according to Fielder. She described the fair as a good way for employers to reach out to the students and for students to learn how to introduce themselves and get connected with jobs that fit their fields of study.

“I think it gets underestimated – the value of face-toface,” Fielder said.

The Career Fair will continue today from 10 a.m. to

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Community support is vital in preventing LGBT suicide and bullying, Holt said in his lecture.

“The first words you say when someone comes out to you are the most important words you say,” he said.

The lecture is a part of a series of events in honor of LGBT month.

Holt told those in attendance that suicidal ideations, previous suicide attempts, isolation and

homecoming update Day two of the Homecoming Blood Drive was an emotional ride for Julia DeLaRosa, a freshman secondary English education major.

DeLaRosa’s iron levels were too low to donate Monday, but when the Red Cross staff tested her levels Tuesday, the reader read 12.9 – an acceptable number.

She was almost squealing for excitement when she was put in the chair and set to donate. The beginning was effortless.

But then, according to DeLaRosa, one of the staff members said, “Uh oh, you’re slowing down.”

The vein where the needle was placed began bruising. The bruising didn’t bother her, but staff had to end her donation. There was not enough

homecoming: see page 3 today’s homecoming events Final day of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus blood drive where: Champions Club (west of Memorial Stadium) when: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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cops briefs Student runs from police officer On Sept. 28 at 1:35 a.m., officers on bike patrol observed a male sitting at a picnic table smoking what officers believed to be marijuana by the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. When police approached Vinson Warner, a freshman electrical engineering major, he ran. Officers were unable to locate a pipe and Warner was cited for obstruction of a police officer for running from the scene of a crime, according to Charlotte Evans, director of patrol operations for University Police.

Fight breaks out on Innovation Campus At 9:58 p.m. on Sept.

30, Nebraska state troopers were working a hockey event when a fight broke out between non-students Jonathan McCarty, Bridger Shipp and Zachery Shipp.

University Police separated the party. All three males received citations for disturbing the peace and were released.

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career fair: from 1 3 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ballroom and Centennial rooms with employers from business, service, government, liberal arts and science. Fielder estimated there will be about 115 employers and around 1,000 students at the fair.

She also said students planning to attend should research the companies and organizations that will be there and be sure to have a resume ready to hand to potential employers.

Thursday, groups from the fields of agriculture and natural resources will be in the Great Plains Room in the East Campus Union from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Oct. 13, there will be a fair for actuarial science from 4 to 7 p.m. During the course of this week’s and next week’s career fairs, Fielder expects more than 300 different employers will have been given the chance to connect with some 2,500 students.

As Bader puts it, the Career Fair “presents all those opportunities in one spot … and free stuff.” jordanmartin@ dailynebraskan.com

Man found trespassing in Oldfather Hall University Police were dispatched to Oldfather Hall on reports of a man in the building on Sept. 29 at 11:36 p.m. Non-student Terry Clements was issued a trespassing citation and banned from campus.

Faculty Senate discusses NCAA athletic reforms

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29 at 1:40 a.m. The driver was identified as Cassie Gruidel, a junior biochemistry major, and was cited for driving while intoxicated and negligent driving.

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Fifth-year senior civil engineering student Derek Johansen talks with a BNSF Railroad representive at the career fair during UNL’s Nebraska Union on Oct. 4. The three-day fair devoted Tuesday to students in engineering majors.

At Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, Chancellor Harvey Perlman addressed a number of NCAA-proposed reforms concerning intercollegiate athletics.

After a retreat this summer, the directors and chancellors of NCAA universities discussed the downfalls of the association and how they can be solved.

The reforms will help ensure that student athletes are focused on being students first. The system that is currently in place mathematically assesses

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·· Athletes at UNL already face certain academic requirements, which ensure they are making adequate progress toward a degree or face ineligibility. ·· The football team set a record last year for the team’s highest collective grade point average.

While Perlman did not mention the specific GPA, he said it was above 3.0.

all NCAA teams’ academic eligibility. Through a complex equation, teams are given a number, based on a scale of 1,000 possible points. If a team receives a 900 or below, the team members face considerable consequences, including potential ineligibility in the NCAA. The present marker for an adequate team is set at 925 points. But one of the reforms would move that marker to 930.

Perlman said controversy among intercollegiate athletics affects academics too.

“There has been enough controversy about intercollegiate athletics that it has a carryover on higher education,” he said.

Another “student athlete welfare reform” proposal is allowing universities to pay for athletes’ cost of attendance, in addition to room and board and tuition.

Another reform would allow coaches an unrestricted number of text messages they can send to prospective recruits.

Perlman said these reforms would be presented and voted upon within the next year. While he is uncertain about the welfare reforms, Perlman said he is confident the academic reforms will make it through.

The senate also addressed committee reports, which included the Academic Standards Committee. The committee, which is in charge of looking at

“There has been enough controversy about intercollegiate athletics that it has a carryover on higher education.” harvey perlman unl chancellor

the written requests from former students to appeal their dismissals from the university, faced an increase in approved repeals.

“There were an inordinate number of medicalrelated appeals this year,” said Jennifer Nelson, assistant director for the division of general studies.

In the past 10 years, the University of NebraskaLincoln’s Academic Standards Committee approved approximately 66 percent of all appeals.

Lane Carr, a senior history and political science major and president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, came before the senate to present the student initiative put behind the faculty Plus One campaign. The campaign aims to allow UNL employees to claim dependents aside from spouses and children in their benefit packages.

“This is an issue that just needs to get done,” Carr said. haleywhisennand@ dailynebraskan.com

lgbt: from 1 various places on campus, a complete list of which can be found on the UNL LGBT Resource Center website.

Sathiyaseelan said that she felt the bathrooms were hard to find on campus and often in arbitrary parts of the buildings.

“It’d be really nice if they put gender-neutral bathrooms in really accessible places,” she said.

Ted Weidner, assistant vice chancellor of Facilities Management, discussed how the gender-neutral bathrooms came into existence.

“We were contacted maybe four years ago, saying we needed bathrooms for transgender students,” he said.

The gender-neutral bathrooms on campus today used to be single-occupancy bathrooms, he said. And the effort doesn’t stop there.

“We should be ensuring that every new facility has gender-neutral bathrooms,” Weidner said.

UNL’s Campus Recreation Center provides one gender-neutral changing room, which is available for all students to use.

Also, the issue of preferred name and pronouns is a prevalent problem for transgender students. While students have found professors to be accepting of using preferred names and pronouns in class, many have found it difficult dealing with things like Blackboard and Husker email accounts, where legal names and sexes are recorded.

Students, however, can contact Information Services if they are having problems with names, and solutions can be discussed.

Additionally, the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at the University Health Center is open to counseling transgender students in order to help them in the transition process and to provide an open ear to any problems they may encounter.

Another issue transgender students face is gender segregation in terms of residential housing. While single-occupancy dorms

are available, freshman students are not allowed to live in them, and they are about $600 more than shared housing. Knoll Hall is an option for transgender students. Knoll provides single-occupancy rooms for sophomores, juniors and seniors, and their shared rooms have private, genderneutral bathrooms. However, the price of Knoll, like the single-occupancy rooms in other residential halls, is higher.

“I don’t think it’s going out of its way to be transfriendly,” Sathiyaseelan said of campus.

She mentioned that students are aware of gay issues but not so much transgender issues.

Catherine Balta, the program coordinator at the UNL LGBT Resource Center and a sophomore advertising major, agreed that gay and lesbian issues are more widely known than issues transgender students may experience.

“I think it’s forgotten about a little more than the rest of the (LGBT) community,” she said. But she said she did see some positive improvements in how UNL handles transgender issues.

“There are more resources coming up, which is good.”

To ensure that UNL’s campus is safe and accessible for all students, education is key, Sathiyaseelan said.

“More teachers could incorporate this into their curriculum,” she said, “because it’s definitely relevant to a lot of classes.”

Treating transgender issues like everyday issues, instead of making a big deal about them, would increase acceptance and accessible resources, Sathiyaseelan said.

“I think campus has improved tremendously in the past seven years,” Sallans said. “Of course, there are areas that could use improvement, but I feel a lot of the staff working toward trans-inclusion on campus have their heart in the right places.”

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HOLT: from 1 drug and alcohol dependence are warning signs of suicidal behavior.

Factors that increase the risk of suicidal behavior include seeing other LGBT members commit suicide, substance abuse and not having Gay-Straight Alliance groups (GSAs) in school.

The community can help by enacting discrimination policies in the workplace and in schools, Holt said.

Resources like The Trevor Project, a 24-hour free hotline to support LGBT members, along with support groups like GSAs and Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) are important in curbing suicide in the LGBT community, Holt said.

But the current resources and support groups may not be enough for some of the younger members in the LGBT community, he said.

Holt said he thinks these groups need to be in junior high schools as well as high schools and colleges, because younger adolescents are less equipped to deal with isolation.

During his lecture, Holt defined the difference between “sexual orientation” and “sexual activity.”

Sexual orientation relates to thoughts and feelings while sexual activity relates to acts, he said.

Holt said sexual orientation is fixed and unchangeable, while sexual activity is not.

“A lot of time, there’s a lack of knowledge of the definition of sexual orientation,” he said in an interview after the lecture.

QUICK FACTS ··80 percent of LGBT youth say they have heard the word “gay” in a negative way. ··45 percent of transgendered youths have seriously contemplated committing suicide. ··40 percent of homeless people are members of the LGBT community. ··Female racial minorities in the LGBT community are more at risk for attempting suicide. ··While more women attempt suicide, men are more successful.

— Ron Holt, psychiatrist from Kaiser permanente, South San Francisco Medical Center

“And sometimes people think it’s a choice.”

This lack of knowledge can lead to bullying because some think LGBT members choose to be different, Holt said.

Holt has had personal experience with homophobic bullying.

Holt told the audience about his coming-out experience. Telling his father he was gay in 1989 wasn’t easy.

“My dad was a homophobe and he bullied me, so I wasn’t going to come out (before then),” he said.

It happened during a phone call. His father called and threatened Holt and his partner. Holt said his partner moved because of the threats. Holt set a restraining order as an ultimatum in order for his father to stop.

“He died three years ago and I don’t miss him,” he said.

Holt said dealing with his father helped him become a better person and inspired him to help others in the LGBT community.

“I don’t want other kids to go through what I went

through,” he said.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln LGBTQA Resource Center sponsored the lecture.

“It’s intermixed with what I already know,” Pat Tetreault, director of the center, said. “Having family and friends that support you makes a tremendous difference in being happy.”

Tetreault said people need to know they are valued and have emotional support, so experiencing discrimination and prejudice really impacts a person’s ability to be mentally and emotionally healthy.

She has known people in the LGBT community who have attempted suicide.

“I actually have worked with students at UNL who were in high school and being harassed, and (where it) didn’t seem like people cared, who have attempted suicide,” Tetreault said. “(It helps to have) someone who really cares. It also makes a difference when people speak publicly about these issues.” kimbuckley@ dailynebraskan.com

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Eating junk food helps when he’s just not that into you

Damien Croghan Ladies and gentlemen, it’s happened again. That guy you’re really into just confirmed your pessimistic thoughts. He’s not into you.

Sure, he was into you enough to go on a few dates. Maybe he even convinced you to put out too quickly. Guys only screw you if they care, right?

Sadly, no. What you just ended was the bastard child of a relationship and a one-night stand. Friends with benefits, if you will.

Unfortunately, you just learned about the stagnant nature of your pseudo-relationship. You had real feelings. He had real orgasms, but no emotional attachment. Sucks that you faked it now, huh?

The question on every woman (and gay man’s) mind is “What now?” There are probably better solutions, but I eat my feelings.

For those of you who don’t know, “eating your feelings” is synonymous with stress eating. It’s a quick fix, and in my opinion, the most effective.

Warning: if you are a nutrition science major, read no further. I’ve convinced myself that my body converts grease, sugar and booze into essential vitamins. My diet is awful, and only gets worse with heartbreak.

With an unbroken heart, moderation is key. When a man tramples on your romantic subconscious, excess is necessary. Have your cake and eat it too!

No, really, eat the whole damn cake.

A spoonful of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream can have the same mind-clearing effect as a Zen garden. But where the hell do you find a Zen garden in the Midwest?! Food devoid

of nourishment is readily available to soothe the psyche.

There are many healthier ways to deal with a breakup. And as time goes on, you should move onto those better coping mechanisms. I just believe and subscribe to one simple truth: Breakups shatter the sanity of a perfectly normal mind.

And it’s always those iffy breakups! You know, the ones where it was never Facebook official, but you thought it was exclusive.

Those will send you over the edge.

Abruptly ending puppy love is the worst. You didn’t get far enough into the relationship to start noticing his flaws. You still haven’t seen past his cute smile.

It’s the idea of the relationship you’re hung up on. It’s the “What if … ?”

You wonder why he kept acting interested, yet clearly used you.

The first step is this: realizing that his douchebaggery does NOT reflect poorly on you. Of course, you won’t see this for a day or two. That’s why you have Nutella and a spoon.

That sanity you lose during a quasi-breakup? It can be gathered again at some point in the near future.

However, during the first few hours, your goal is to just make it without blowing up his phone. Junk food is the glue that will begin to resolidify the cracks in your damaged heart.

And you need a lot of glue.

The second step to moving on: getting dressed up and flirting with the nearest somewhat attractive person. Remember, if a cute guy wants to talk to you AFTER seeing you inhale Imperial Palace at the Nebraska Union, he’s a winner. At least for now.

Rebounding while gorging probably won’t get you many numbers. But you don’t need another guy yet.

You just need some eye candy … and real candy as well.

Halloween’s around the corner. Buy one of those

“family size” bags of Reese’s for yourself. If your friends ask, say you’re giving them to trick-or-treaters. Problem solved.

That leads me to the third step: inviting the cute boy to your place to watch a scary movie. This is appropriate for two reasons.

One, it’s October, so scary movies are in season. Two, it’s easy to get rid of awkward situations with food.

Bust out that bag of Reese’s and tada! Both of your mouths are too full to have any real in-depth conversations. Now, you can’t explain why you’re heartbroken about a boy you didn’t technically date.

Trust me; he didn’t want to hear about it anyway.

Now you’re ready for the fourth step: realizing this cute boy is shallow, lame and totally not worth your time. This might seem hypocritical at first. You just used this boy to get away from another. You chose this guy because of his looks. This is, technically, superficial.

But it’s not the time for self-critique. It’s time for you to stop gaining the “freshman 15” and let your optimism flourish. You don’t need any more jars of marshmallow fluff. Or Double Stuf Oreos. Your thoughts have shifted from hating Boy One to ignoring Boy Two’s texts/ offers to hang out again.

Unless, that is, Boy Two is really attractive and has an awesome personality. Then go for it! Don’t let a dumb guy hinder your happiness for too long.

As a competitive person, I like to think of everything as a contest. It might sound petty, but it works.

If you’re competing with the guy that unofficially dumped you, it works like this: If you find a decent person before him, you’re winning.

If you find this decent person while eating like a saturated fat addict, that’s bi-winning. damien croghan is a senior journalism and international studies major. reach him at damiencroghan@ dailynebraskan.com.

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RHA meeting results in three new bill proposals Elias Youngquist Daily Nebraskan

The first Residence Hall Association meeting of October ran considerably smoother than last week’s, with three new bills proposed, at least one attempted amendment and a more heated and active debate than in previous weeks.

Special Resolution 09: “Resolution Regarding Mailbox Stuffers,” was introduced as a way to speed up meetings.

The bill gives President Kevin Rush, a junior special education major, the executive authority to approve or disapprove flyers to be placed in dorm mailboxes. In prior years, each request to place flyers in students’ mailboxes had to be presented to RHA, taking up time at an already lengthy meeting.

An amendment to the resolution was presented to potentially hold Rush accountable to RHA advisers for controversial issues that may arise. The amendment failed one to 26 with seven abstaining.

“There is nothing that says that Kevin would no longer be responsible to the RHA senate,” said Speaker of the Senate Thomas Grant, a junior journalism major.

The amendment later passed with 34 for the bill, zero against the bill and one abstaining.

The second resolution was Special Resolution 10: “Resolution Concerning RHA Funds and OTMs.” The resolution requires that every group for which RHA provides partial or full funding for an event be required to fill out an “Of the Month” form to be submitted to the National Residence Hall Honorary. The forms take around 30 minutes to complete and

rha meeting, oct. 4 bills 1. SR 09: Resolution Regarding Mailbox Stuffers 2. SR 10: Resolution Concerning RHA Funds and OTMs 3. SB 07: Allocation of Funds for Haunted Husker issues 1. The resolution gives Residence Hall President Kevin Rush the executive authority to approve or disapprove any requests for mailbox flyer permissions.

2. The resolution forces every event that is funded or partially funded by RHA to fill out an “Of the Month” form. Each form takes 30 to 45 minutes and is used to enter the UNL RHA for regional and national recognition.

3. Husker Hall wants $185 to assist in putting on a Halloween event for neighborhood kids. votes 1. Resolution passed. 34 for, 0 against and 1 abstained 2. Resolution passed. 31 for, 1 against and 3 abstained 3. Bill passed. 36 for, 0 against and 0 abstained can potentially gain recognition to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s RHA for its support and work.

“It’s a great feeling to know that we won something on a regional and national level,” said bid chair Kimberly Folk, a sophomore hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major.

The resolution passed with 31 members voting for, one voting against and three members abstaining their votes.

The final bill was Special Bill 07: “Allocation of Funds for Haunted Husker.” Husker Hall requested $185 to assist the Haunted Husker

event the hall wants to host for the neighborhood kids.

The area includes several married student housing apartments and the event has attracted at least 50 children in the past.

“Are you really going to vote against the children?” said Rep. Daniel Hoppens, a freshman philosophy major, during one portion of the discussion.

The bill passed unanimously with 36 members voting for the bill.

Next week’s meeting will be held at the East Campus Union at 6:30 p.m.

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“They explained that they’ll still use it for research purposes,” DeLaRosa

said.

Health officials remind donors to get a healthy amount of sleep — a minimum of six hours is suggested — and to maintain hydration before and after

donating. The Red Cross also emphasizes that donors should eat meals that are high in iron, such as steak, hamburgers and beans, before donating. haleywhisennand@ dailynebraskan.com

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Transgendered students need more options

At a public university where equality is often stressed, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln may fall short.

The Daily Nebraskan acknowledges the increased efforts of UNL to be more LGBT friendly.

There’s certainly acknowledgment of transgender students and their needs. But having a few sporadically located “gender-neutral bathrooms” and a single genderneutral locker room in the Campus Recreation Center isn’t enough.

Transgender students shouldn’t have to search for gender-neutral bathrooms. They shouldn’t have to pay extra for a single room or to live in Knoll Hall. And they certainly shouldn’t have to give up a locker room to visiting teams.

Out of the numerous buildings on campus, only 20 are listed as having gender-neutral bathrooms. It’s preposterous that transgendered students must make a trek across campus — or search for gender-neutral options online — just to go to the bathroom. Accessible bathrooms for all university students, including transgendered students, should be a priority, not an afterthought.

Traditional residence halls should also offer either gender-neutral rooms or single rooms for freshmen. Yes, transgendered upperclassmen can get single rooms, but freshmen are left without options. In addition, genderneutral bathrooms should be the norm.

There should be more open discussion of issues on campus. Gay and lesbian issues are acknowledged, but transgendered ones often fall by the wayside. Without encouragement to express concerns openly, students can feel isolated. It’s important for every student voice to be heard and given the attention it deserves.

As UNL Queer Ally Coalition adviser Sinduja Sathiyas-

eelan said, education is key to improving accessibility and acceptance of transgender resources on campus.

UNL has made great strides toward a more transgender-friendly campus, but there is work to be done. There is room for improvement. And improvement will lead to acceptance.

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Crazy preachers set bad example

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hey lurk in front of the Nebraska Union. They feed off of the innocent passers-by trying to get to class on time. They make good Christians look like arrogant assholes. I’m talking, of course, about the Jesus freaks.

I have no problem with people stating an opinion or speaking freely in a crowd, but most would agree these people take it to an obnoxious level.

Every year they sit outside the Nebraska Union, most of the time with a Bible in hand, and sometimes with pamphlets telling you when and why you’re going to Hell.

We don’t really know why these people are here. I’d like to believe they really do care about mankind and they really think by preaching on our campus they’re helping save our souls.

However, the real question is why students crowd around them, giving them their main desire: attention.

Some students may want to further educate themselves and some may just be entertained by them.

If the speaker’s aim is to educate, reading a Bible and screaming at college students isn’t the most efficient approach to conversion. In fact, the more I see them waving Bible verses in people’s faces and calling students names, the more I resist going to church.

The most frustrating part of watching them is that I know there are classes and religious educators on campus who aren’t trying to push beliefs on anyone.

Classes that study different religions are set up to educate people about different religious beliefs, like the origins of certain religions, or the reason behind religious practices. There are more than 15 classes, including Philosophy of Religion, World Religions, Introduction to Asian Religions and more.

World Religions, which studies

carrie zepf Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, would probably be a good class for those students who stop to listen to Bible-thumpers.

It’s true that enrolling in such classes isn’t free, and, of course, listening to someone outside of the Nebraska Union costs you nothing.

However, you get what you pay for.

A better way to educate yourself without spending money is to partake in the services offered by various religious groups on campus. Whether or not going to a religious service is your thing, you can set up a time to talk to the head of the organization, or attend a certain group’s youth program.

For example, organizations such as the Campus Crusade for Christ, have weekly Bible studies, and Campus Impact, another organization, is holding a retreat this month.

If the point of these speeches by religious fanatics is indeed to inform us, I think the university has already got it pretty well covered.

However, it’s true that a lot of people want to listen simply to pick fights with the preacher.

I think that’s hilarious for two reasons. Most of the time, the students’ questions really light a fire under the speaker’s ass, and second, the speaker can never answer the question.

So, here you find the speaker getting

both worked up and frustrated, while a crowd of students both religious and non-religious laugh at him or her.

There are also those speakers who take the ignorant, “Your question isn’t worth my time” approach.

These people fascinate me the most.

So, let me get this straight: You came here to try to push your religious beliefs on me and you’re not even willing to answer one of my questions? That makes no sense. However, a new kind of speaker emerged last year, and even has her own Facebook page.

I am of course talking about the socalled “crazy blue protesting lady.”

In all honesty, I don’t mind “crazy blue protesting lady” on campus. Unlike the Jesus freaks who stick to their Bibles for backup, the “crazy blue protesting lady” will take you down for just about anything and doesn’t need anything to back up her claims. Well, other than her crazy.

From telling students that talking on a cellphone will send them to Hell, to claiming that iPods are the creation of the devil, “crazy blue protesting lady” has turned into one of the best forms of free entertainment on campus.

I honestly believe the Jesus freaks could find something better to do than shove religious ideas down our throat.

It bothers me that these people might snag a student or two, wheras “crazy blue protesting lady” won’t snag anyone with her beliefs.

If she does, well, have fun without a cellphone.

Unfortunately, as long as they continue to be entertaining, Bible pushers will infest our campus. But if you’re someone who wants any real religious education, I’d just keep walking.

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

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ome folks I know recently became baristas, and as I discussed their jobs with them, one surprising theme reoccurred: discontent toward customers who never tip.

It turns out my barista friends don’t perceive tipping to be an occasional exceptional act of appreciation. Instead, not tipping represents a failure of basic human decency, and a kind of appalling stinginess. This was news to me.

Now, instead of encountering the old, blissful void, I approach coffee counters with apprehension. No longer can I write off tip jars as a symptom of bartendingenvy, reserved for truly mythical levels of service (or courtesy change if I have cash). When I go to sign, I now feel aggressive expectation between me and my barista.

What’s the rationale for a socially mandatory barista tip? Have I been out of the loop this whole time? Is the analogue to bartending justified? What’s an unassuming coffee drinker to do?

I’ve since heard a lot of perspectives on this classic firstworld problem. Here are some arguments for tipping your barista.

Argument 1: Baristas have to learn a lot of stuff. Basically, the job a barista does is difficult and demanding. They often go through extensive job training. It isn’t easy, and this fact is underappreciated, so a tip is in order.

The obvious first objection: The same likely applies for hotel cleaners, surgeons, dental hygienists, roofers, plumbers and the cooking staff at restaurants.

For these jobs, one hopes (or knows) these persons are compensated by their employer accordingly. So, if we extend the argument’s claim, we’ll have to tip most professionals.

The second objection is that this argument requires customers know more than they possibly can. How much of the barista’s work goes on behind the scenes?

How much training is required?

What if I don’t know the drink well enough to distinguish exceptional care? We often don’t how much a barista worked for our drink.

Argument 2: Specialization.

Because baristas provide you an individualized service, like bartenders and wait staff, they should be tipped.

But what if you purchase drip coffee or an item that requires nothing more than pressing a

marc koenig button and pressing the lid to a cup? How does this distinguish baristas from, say, gas station cashiers? Again, this argument seems too expansive.

Argument 3: Pay those working under minimum wage. This is the justification for tipping waiters. But many baristas are paid at least minimum wage, making this an argument against tipping. However, bartenders make minimum wage, and tipping is expected – why not baristas as well?

After considering many arguments and objections, I think it comes to this: you’re not required to tip baristas. Why? Just because. Tipping is an expectation in certain fields, and that’s the only reason those fields are tipped. It’s a pretty arbitrary social expectation, and hasn’t yet shifted to encompass baristas.

It’s interesting to note that if

you’ve been a barista, you’re probably more likely to tip, or at least think about it. Former baristas often have a greater appreciation for the occupation. Tipping is a matter of empathy, not just raw cognition.

Perhaps this gets closer to why one might tip a barista – it’s more a matter of personal compulsion and benevolence. An act of gratitude, merited or otherwise, from one person to the next.

What’s compelling to me is that it’s often a very good thing to tip baristas, even though it’s not required. It’s a good thing, like helping a friend when they need their car jumped, halfway across town.

Or good, like throwing a few dollars to a street musician in passing, even if you don’t stop to listen.

Or good, like washing all the dishes in the sink, though you didn’t use 10 of the 12 dishes, because, hell, you’re already washing the others, and you can remember when those were your two dishes.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not talking about altruism or pure, unyielding selflessness. It’s doing something because it makes you the sort of person worth becoming. Charitable acts reward you: the 50 cents you drop into a tip jar are almost certainly less

valuable than the effect on you by dropping them.

Our money acts as a vote for what we value and wish to promulgate. These acts, taken as a total, comprise society and what it values. Tipping someone for your coffee is a minute thing, but it can cultivate an attitude of charity and stewardship in more important aspects of life.

I try to tip baristas. I appreciate them and the work they do, and want to express that. Having had friends as baristas, I know what a difference a small tip can make.

I’ve been told even a few coins helps – the 50-cent tips add up really fast.

It’s OK not to tip. I’ve come to appreciate the practice, as a way of showing what I value, and hedging myself against a miserly, self-focused mentality I fall into far too often.

I value a well-caffeinated drink, a room buzzing with conversation and creativity, a bunch of people groping at the hazy idea of community. Tipping baristas is a little nod to the people who allow this.

Plus, it’s just kind of nice to do.

Marc Koenig is an English major.

He’s never professionally served coffee, but sure does like it. Feel free to email him at marckoenig@ dailynebraskan.com.

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ummer and winter bring on a slew of activities. From swimming to sledding, even the most particular person can be entertained.

But in the odd seasons of spring and fall (granted, these seasons only last a few weeks in Nebraska) activities can run short.

So, for the limited weeks one has to enjoy these seasons, homecoming, pumpkin patches or even drinking apple cider can pass the time.

VALA’S PUMPKIN PATCH For those who prefer a little road trip, Vala’s Pumpkin Patch is located in Gretna, Neb. Beyond the entrance gate are activities suitable for any age group, ranging from hayrack rides to a three-acre corn maze to jumpi n g pil-

lows. And, of course, a pumpkin patch.

Live performances can be found on multiple stages throughout the day and food stands jump out at every corner.

“The jumping pillows are something that little kids like and that college kids like a lot, too,” said Tim Vala, the owner of Vala’s Pumpkin Patch.

“A lot of people come here because they like to eat and I know a lot of college kids like to eat.”

No two years at the patch are ever the same, as the Valas constantly add to and expand the farm.

“Every year we try to add something,” Vala said. “(We) try to make it a little nicer for the customers to come out, give them more to do.”

Vala’s started 27 years ago, with 30 rented acres of land.

As business began to grow, so did the patch – so much that Vala’s now expands to more than 213 acres of land.

Throughout the years, the Vala family continues to run the pumpkin patch with minimal outside help.

Aside from the many activities available for visitors, Vala promises a picturesque scene.

“I think it’s just a nice place to come,” he said. “It’s just getting outside and having a neat environment.”

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Vala’s is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday through Wednesday and on Sunday, and is open an hour later Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Admission is $12.99 on weekends and $9.99 on weekdays.

They can usually hear the beats of worship music from the Navigators’ meeting on the other side of the wall, but the members of Secular Humanists of the University of Nebraskan–Lincoln don’t sing at their Thursday meetings.

Instead, they talk.

About evolution, about Evangelical preachers, about logical fallacies.

And their voices are always louder than the songs.

Secular Humanists of University of Nebraska-Lincoln (SHUNL) is heaven on earth for nonbelievers.

Sophomore philosophy major and president Kate Miller called it a “safe place to be faithless.”

Almost all the members of the group are atheist, but according to Thomas Zimmer, a senior psychology, biology and biochemistry major who founded SHUNL in 2008, the definition of “secular humanist” is far more inclusive.

“It only means that you like humans and you

HOMECOMING For those who wish to stay on campus this weekend, homecoming will be at its peak on Friday and Saturday.

Activities are not exclusive to students involved in registered student organizations, greek houses or residence halls.

“Well the thing that’s great about homecoming is that you don’t necessarily need to be in something to be involved,” said Garrett Mardock, a senior political science and economy major and the 2011 Husker Homecoming Coordinator. “There is no single individual student that is left

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Three undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will showcase their passion for music in a major way this month.

The performers, who go by the name of the Meadowlark Trio, will be performing in the Carnegie Room Concert Series at Nyack College in Nyack, N.Y. April Sun, a junior piano performance major, Janny Joo, a senior violin performance major, and Timothy Paek, a senior cello performance major, are eager to participate.

“It’s a huge deal. It’s like we’re stepping into the professional world,” Joo said.

This opportunity began after Yashar Yaslowitz, the artistic director of Carnegie Room Concerts, performed at the 2010 American Liszt Society Festival held at UNL. From then on, Yaslowitz requested tapes of the students’ work and communicated with them until they were booked in the series.

Each of the students has a passion for the music that he or she produces. The challenge not only lies in physically preparing to perform, but also mentally, to translate emotion into melody.

“It’s like running a marathon doing this program … It requires so much, not only thought, but heart,” Joo said.

The concert will be on Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. The trio will travel to Nyack a few days before performing to get settled and prepare. The students received a stipend from Carnegie Room Concerts. In addition, John W. Richmond, UNL professor and School of Music director, supported their participation and helped with travel expenses. As a result, this opportunity and performance was made possible.

“The school of music was incredibly generous in helping to support this school … we’re lucky that UNL supports undergrad research,” said Paul Barnes, a professor in the School of Music and co-chair of the

piano department.

This concert will be the first time they perform together as a trio, and their close bond adds to the excitement.

“We’re best friends, so it comes through to our music,” Sun said. “We’re so lucky because I think we take for granted being able to play with people we click with instantly.”

Each of the students has played his or her instrument for more than 10 years. This dedication to music was decided to attend UNL due to the university’s music program.

The group references the Chiara String Quartet, as well as their instructors, for being sources of inspiration.

Paek commented on advice he has received.

“My private instructor, Gregory Beaver, told me, ‘At any venue, you have to play at the highest level possible because you never know who’s out there … every venue counts.’”

The students will perform pieces from the Brahms

When you play something like this, you can’t have that mask, it’s who you are in essence that is shown.”

Janny Joo

senior violin performance major

category of the concert. The first two pieces will feature two of the students, while the third piece includes the entire trio.

The performers are excited for the concert and feel connected to the music they will play.

“Music isn’t just notes or a tune. It is like putting your whole self for the world out there to judge. Everyone has things they hide and no one is ever truly that vulnerable in a normal setting,” Joo said.

“When you play something like this, you can’t have that mask, it’s who you are in essence that is shown. It’s an incredible experience.”

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The next couple of nights, little bits and pieces kept coming back to me during front porch conversations and text messages asking how the day after was and if I got sick. But it always stopped somewhere.

Out on the street in front of Zen’s we smoked another cigarette and announced to the party that Jake’s was the next destination. A few people walked up and joined and I took a moment to take everybody in. Matt, his girlfriend, Peter, four theater girls, the two who had been waiting for me, Jordan, Adam, Kate and the bartender from Zen’s.

“You guys mind if I tag along?” he asked, and we all grabbed his shoulders and stomped off down toward Jake’s.

By the front doors of the Grand I heard someone yell, “RULEAUX!” Running from across the street were two girls, old friends from high school I’d almost forgot still lived in town.

“Holy shit!” I yelled and they handed me a little baggy with a classic old ashtray in it and four copies of, “The Working Girls Doodle Pad,” which were just sticky notes with naked dudes on each piece.

In Jake’s I kept getting shots handed to me, and fancy flavored beers to chase and taste.

“This is a three kings shot.

It’s what they give us in the sorority,” one of the girls said while I pounded down the shot. It had no flavor, nothing did at this point. From that moment on, all drinks tasted like water.

“Try this one,” the Zen’s bartender said, handing me a bright purple shot that he took one of with me.

“Smile!” One of the theater girls had pulled out a camera and started snapping after me with every new drink. The flash of the camera reminded me of all those protected images on Facebook. It took me back to all the basements, porches and kitchens filled with people yelling, dancing and kissing.

My friend Will, his girlfriend and my friend Casey showed up next. Will began following me around, photo-bombing the theater girl’s pictures, which I had started to photobomb myself as we got family pics with everyone in the party.

“Let’s smoke a cigarette,” Casey said, pulling me from the mess out to the sidewalk.

I lit my smoke and suddenly heard: “RULEAUX!” In the same fancy orange car he had at graduation sat David, another Waverly High School pal.

“Holy shit!” I yelled sprinting through the street to his center lane car.

“What are you doing? The light’s going to change!” He laughed, dealing with my driver’s-side window reach in hug.

“Park! We’re at Jake’s!” I yelled as I stumbled back to the sidewalk.

Eventually he joined us, and then another old high school friend joined in as well. And then two more college friends and then, “Let’s head to the

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Paintings showcase East Campus to host loss of simple farm life homecoming concert Danielle Rue

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“I Spy” and “20 Questions” are popular ways to make long car rides more interesting, but V....Vaughn (artist name) prefers a clean canvas and oil paints.

This Friday, Texas artist Vaughan returns to the Great Plains Art Museum with an exhibition of her newest project, “Passing America” – a series of plein air paintings depicting rural farms across America created “from the passenger seat.”

Vaughan will be at the opening this Friday for a reception at the museum. The exhibition opens Oct. 7 and will run through Dec. 11.

The museum hosted Vaughan’s first solo project, “Last Year on the Farm” in 2007. The exhibition featured 365 plein air paintings documenting the last year on her family’s farm, which had been in the family for four generations.

Like her exhibition “Last year on the Farm,” “Passing America” features plein air paintings. En plein air, a French expression that means “in the open air,” emphasizes the quality of light outdoors. Vaughan adopted this style after learning to paint under Kevin Macpherson and Ray Vinella, two plein air artists from New Mexico.

Vaughan was inspired to start “Passing America” by the response she received from her previous project.

“I started hearing from people all over the plains about their lost farms, or how people grew out of their farms,” Vaughan said. “(‘Passing America’) was a matter of taking my

Stop the pomping, the homecoming competitions and the parade-float-making for a night filled with country music.

For the first time at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Josh Gracin and DJ Miller will be performing live for the homecoming concert Oct. 6 at 8 p.m.

The concert will be held on East Campus and is open to the public, as well as the students, with free admission for all.

Rachael Pickerel, a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major, is organizing the concert, along with her committee. They expect 1,200 to 1,500 people to attend.

“I want this to be an opportunity for City Campus people to experience East Campus, get excited for homecoming and experience a great concert,” Pickerel said. “It should be really lively and fun.”

The major sponsors for organizing this concert include University Programming Council, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, Student Involvement, Campus Nightlife, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Student Affairs and radio station KIX 96.9. These sponsors teamed up to make a lively homecoming concert for the enjoyment of the students.

Josh Gracin and DJ Miller are two well-known country singers. Gracin, from Michigan, was finished fourth place in the second season of American Idol.

He served in the Marines for a few years, and went on tour as an American Idol finalist after fulfilling his military requirement.

DJ Miller, a country singer from Indiana, is only 21 years old, setting the stage as a young country star.

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personal feelings from it and showing what other people are going through.

Not everyone is facing it the way I’m facing it; I like not thinking it’s one way.”

Amber Mohr, curator of the Great Plains Art Museum, anticipates similar reactions.

“I think that fans of Vaughan’s ‘Last Year on the Farm’ will be similarly touched by ‘Passing America,’” Mohr said. “There are personal connections to the lifestyles she is depicting and I do expect many viewers to have an emotional response.”

Vaughan uses her “driveby” painting technique to stress the increasing rarity of small farms and rural American lifestyle. As she described on her blog, “I am creating an exhibit of original oil paintings depicting this in a way no one has done before: on the move, while PASSING the Great Plains. I am painting the passing of a way of life.”

Even if farming isn’t a large aspect of someone’s life, Vaughan’s message is

if you go Passing America when: Oct. 7 through Dec. 11 where: Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. how much: Free

still accessible, Mohr said.

“Everyone can respond to that moment of having a car window frame the world outside and realizing how picturesque and perfect a fleeting moment in time can be. Some of these moments remain firm thanks to Vaughan’s paintings.”

Vaughan’s message to her audience is clear.

“What’s being lost, as a lot of the farms are being lost, is the loss of life,” Vaughan said. “A lot of people have never seen the sunrise or set. They don’t even pay attention to it.

“I want people, after they look at my work, to go away and be eager to see a sunrise.” daniellerue@ dailynebraskan.com

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Since the concert is on a Thursday evening, it will help students relax from the stress of schoolwork and prepare themselves for the weekend, getting them hyped up for the homecoming football game against Ohio State on Saturday.

And as Pickerel said, the concert will allow students the chance to discover other parts of the university, like East Campus.

Desiree Botica, a freshman computer science major, said, “I cannot wait for this concert on Thursday. I have two midterms this week and getting to hear some awesome country music will just wash away all the stress from my classes and leave me ready to cheer on the Huskers.

“Plus, I love Josh Gracin.”

if you go Homecoming Concert with Josh Gracin and DJ Miller when: Thursday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. where: East Campus Mall how much: Free for students Many posters advertising the concert can be found around campus in most residence halls and the Nebraska Union. It is expected to have an impressive turnout and to be a night filled with country music and a boot-stomping good time for everyone.

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Live in high definition and 4,000 miles away, National Theatre Live proves that technology can play a major role on the stage.

On Friday, The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center will serve as one of more than 500 cinemas broadcasting Arnold Wesker’s critically acclaimed black comedy “The Kitchen” from the London

National Theatre.

The play takes place in the 1950s in the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant, as the English, Irish, German and Jewish chefs, waitresses and porters strive to survive the hectic atmosphere and drama while dreaming of better lives.

Julie Borchard-Young is president of New Yorkbased BY Experience, which has broadcast National Theatre Live events since the

series began three years ago, spoke of her excitement for “The Kitchen.”

“I’m told it’s just a visual feast and very well-received by the critics in the UK,” Borchard-Young said. “We’re very much looking forward to it.”

A bustling story requires a properly large cast, and “The Kitchen” will feature as many as 30 actors on stage at any given time. BorchardYoung says the fast-paced nature of “The Kitchen” makes it a perfect fit for broadcast.

“It’s really about the majesty of the stage and less about interplay between individual characters, which is more difficult for the director to capture,” she said. “So from what I hear, I think this will play very well on the big screen.”

Danny Lee Ladely, director of The Ross, says the first National Theatre Live broadcast of the

if you go National Theatre Live broadcast of “The Kitchen” where: Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 North 13th St. when: Friday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m. and Sunday Oct. 9 at 3 p.m. how much: $16 general, $5 students online through theross.org season, “One Man, Two Guvnors,” was well-received, and expects similar success for “The Kitchen.”

“N.T. Live was really a good match for us, just like the Met(ropolitan) Opera,” Ladely said. “The theatre is located on university campus, so we have a kind of natural built-in audience for these sorts of things.”

He said a major boost has come from the Hixson-Lied

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Endowment fund, which allows students to see National Theatre Live and Metropolitan Opera performances for $5, compared to the regular $16.

“We really build up our student body thanks to that

grant,” he said. “I hope we can continue that in the future.”

While the signal for the broadcast is beamed out live from London, most U.S. theaters, like The Ross, record the Thursday night feed to play back Friday evening, because of time zone logistics. A repeat showing will take place Sunday afternoon.

And while the feed may not be live, Ladely says “The Kitchen” will take full advantage of The Ross’ recently installed 4K digital projection system.

According to BorchardYoung, the experience is as close as you can get to live theatre without being there.

“The goal is to provide wider access to theater-lovers wherever they live, and not just rely on the theater audience being able to go to London,” she said. “Of course, nothing beats that live experience.”

Borchard-Young views BY Experience as working with, not against, live theatre.

“We’re not doing anything to extinguish that,” she said.

“In fact, it’s quite the opposite. People tend to want to go more to see something live after they’ve experienced it in HD.”

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Students can participate in the blood drive or attend University Programming Council’s homecoming concert that will feature Josh Gracin with DJ Miller on Thursday night on East Campus.

Friday afternoon continues the festivities with the homecoming parade, which will feature more than 25 different floats and 30 walking entries.

This year’s theme, “New Kids on the Block – The Big Red in the Big Ten,” has encouraged extra creativity.

Students can expect to see things from antique automobiles to tractors rolling through the streets, Mardock said, adding the equestrian team will also ride through.

A pep rally and block party are scheduled to round out Friday night.

Saturday will ring in with cheers of “Go Big Red” as the Huskers take on the Ohio State Buckeyes.

The weekend will be topped with the announcement of the homecoming king and queen, whom students can vote for now at unl.edu.

taste-testing multiple treats, including apple pies and apple donuts.

For those 21 and older, Kimmel Orchard also has a variety of apple-inspired wines to test, including their newest: apple pie wine.

“It’s a great little day trip,” Olson said. “If you go to the game on Saturday, it’s a great Sunday activity to do.”

They are open everyday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

However, if a day trip doesn’t seem possible, this elixir can be purchased at Ideal Market, HyVee, Russ’ and Super Saver here in Lincoln. It is also available at the Coffee House, located at 1324 P St. With the changing leaves and shortening days, it is easy to overlook fall in anticipation for winter. So, wake up and smell the cider and find the best fun fall festivity that suits you.

NEBRASKA CITY’S FAMOUS APPLE CIDER However, no leaf-watching day is complete without a tall glass of the world’s best apple cider to top it off.

And Kimmel Orchard in Nebraska City, Neb., can supply the cider.

“We’ve been doing it for 86 years, and we’ve got it down pretty well,” said Erik Olson, the orchard manager for Kimmel Orchard. “Over the years, people have come to love it.”

The cider is made solely with a variety of apples from Kimmel Orchard. Sparing preservatives are added for shipping purposes only.

Olson recommends students make the trip to Nebraska City for a day filled with picking apples, pumpkins, or even,

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major said. “And I always think, ‘Are you saying that your morals come out of fear of a celestial dictator?’

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And you just feel pity, like, ‘I’m sorry you have to be threatened into morality.’”

Conversations about religion are like concert tickets or candy for the SHUNL members, but said they prefer not to force their ideologies on others. They would rather discuss the differences.

“There’s no way I’m going to try to convince you that your beliefs are wrong and you should accept my views,” said Michael Milone, a senior psychology and philosophy major and vice president of SHUNL. “I do my best to give most religious people the benefit of the doubt.”

Every SHUNL member has a unique story of how he or she came to be a non-believer. Some of them were raised Catholic.

Some were raised without religion. Some have yet to tell their parents of their newfound lack of beliefs.

Discovery of doubt, and often hypocrisy, is a common thread in their stories.

“I walked out of church and (thought), ‘This doesn’t make a lot of sense

think we should be nice to them – not for a religious reason,” Zimmer said.

But on a campus with more religious organizations than SHUNL members, it’s easy for a non-believer to feel outnumbered. They say they don’t have a problem with religion – but they do take issue with street preachers, evangelism and misinformation.

On Oct. 27, the group will host an “Ask an Atheist” panel in the Nebraska Union auditorium, and members will also host a book drive this winter. For fun, Zimmer likes to hand out copies of “Evangelist Bingo” cards tiled in words like “Jesus” and “sin” to play when street preachers roam the campus.

“They’re just openly mockable,” Zimmer said.

“They’ll represent positions that are obviously immoral as moral because they’re written that way in the Bible.”

The label of secular humanist comes along with a few familiar questions: Do you celebrate Christmas?

(Usually.) Do you worship Satan? (No.) Do you have morals? (Yes.) “People say, ‘How do you atheists have morals?’” Collin Lysford, a junior math

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Week one of conference play is in the books. You’re either undefeated or you’re winless.

Teams would like to run the table in non-conference play, especially if you’re an Alabama or an Oklahoma team who have national championship aspirations.

However, most teams grind day-in and day-out for a spot in their conference championship game and a shot at a BCS trophy.

When you win the conference opener, you’re sitting pretty. Campus is circulating with energy and talk beings to buzz around, implying that this year is the year.

When you lose, you’re in a hole, and the finger pointing begins.

During the Big Ten coaches weekly teleconference, the media mainly pointed their questions at the quarterback position.

More specifically, the position at teams like Ohio State, which has yet to decide on a full-time starter.

During the Buckeyes 10-7 loss against Michigan State, coach Luke Fickell pulled freshman quarterback Braxton Miller and replaced him with senior Joe Bauserman in search of an offensive spark.

With Miller listed as the starter again this week, Fickell was asked if the true freshman would be operating on a shorter leash.

“We don’t want a guy going in thinking that,” Fickell said. “Braxton is the guy right now who is our starting quarterback. We made the change last week because of what they were doing at the time, and what we needed to do offensively.”

Fresh off a 58-0 loss, Minnesota coach Jerry Kill fielded questions about the Gophers’ tag-team quarterback situation. Minnesota heads to Purdue this weekend and Kill said freshman Max Shortell will make the start u n d e r center.

Shortell has completed 48 percent of his passes this season and has thrown shortell the same number of touchdowns as interceptions at two. Junior MarQueis Gray is still recovering from a toe injury.

“I told our staff, I told our trainers, I told everybody, we can’t afford to be playing people that are not full speed where we’re athletically compared to other people in the Big Ten,” Kill said. “We better have somebody out there full speed.”

Penn State is in a similar situation as Ohio State with Rob Bolden and Matt McGloin. The two quarterbacks have both played in each of the Nittany Lions

games this season, with Bolden starting all five.

However, it’s McGloin who is winning the statistical battle by a wide margin.

McGloin has thrown for more than 150 yards more than Bolden in nine fewer attempts, and has thrown four touchdowns with no interceptions compared to Bolden’s one touchdown and four interceptions.

Nonetheless, in coach Joe Paterno’s eyes, it makes no difference who is tossing the rock in Happy Valley.

“I don’t see much of a difference in the way we perform under either kid, I really don’t,” Paterno said.

“They both work so hard, they’re good kids, good students, good citizens and the whole bit. I can’t go out there and say, ‘Hey, you’re better than the other guy,’ because right now I honestly can’t tell you one’s better than the other.”

The 84-year-old coach reminded the reporters of the short timeframe they had when question’s continued about the quarterback situation. Paterno also continued to stick to his beliefs.

“I think I’ve made that clear,” he said. “It doesn’t make any difference. I’m not even sure the players know who is starting when we go in there. We’re not going to play one just because everybody says to play one, and you’re talking to a guy that’s always been a one-quarterback guy. This year we have two.” austinepp@ dailynebraskan.com

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football: from 10 But it’s not just newcomers who are making mistakes. Safety P.J. Smith was sucked on a play-action run in which Wilson bootlegged to the left. Smith wasn’t able to hold contain on the outside and Wilson walked in for a 10-yard score.

“It was just a lack of concentration and a lack of focus and trying to make a play when I wasn’t supposed to,” Smith said. “I bit too hard and he got outside and they scored a touchdown. Small things like that kill us.”

Last week Smith said the defense needed to work on being more aggressive, saying players were lining up too far back because they were nervous about giving up the big play. Cassidy said on Monday the big plays given up against Wisconsin weren’t because of over-aggression.

“If anything we still need to be more aggressive,” Cassidy said. “The times we got beat it wasn’t an aggression thing. It was a mental mistake or having our eyes in the wrong place. I wouldn’t

We practice with all different groups of guys so when we get to a game it’s not like we’ve never seen each other out there.”

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Huskers setter Lauren Cook (2) and Nebraska join Illinois at the top of the Big Ten standings after a 2-0 weekend against Michigan and Michigan State.

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Nebraska midfielder Ari Romero has a single goal and two assists so far this season. She was one of two freshmen to start every game for the Huskers last season.

As a sophomore, Romero has continued to succeed.

She has started all 12 games for the Huskers at center midfielder.

“You can put her anywhere on the field and she will excel in that position,”

Bassett said.

This season Romero has recorded one goal and two assists for a total of four points. The glory of scoring is not what Romero cares about, though.

“The goal is to just to go

out there and obviously compete,” Romero said. “I want to win games and my teammates want the same, so I’m just going to go out there and play my heart out every night.” andrewward@ dailyNebraskan.com

PRACTICE NOTES FOOTBALL Pelini wants linebackers more active Nebraska’s run defense this season hasn’t been what Husker fans have come to expect from a Blackshirts unit. NU has given up an average of 152.8 yards per game on the ground. When asked about the play of the linebackers in Saturday’s loss to Wisconsin, defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said he would like to see that group play more “reckless.”

“They want to be perfect all the time in their run fits,” he said. “I want them to make plays, get off blockers, not just get in the right fits all the time. It’s just a different mindset. I want them more active.”

Big Ten Title remains the main goal After Saturday’s 48-17 loss to Wisconsin, the Huskers are looking up at Michigan and Michigan State in Legends Division. Nebraska still has a long conference schedule ahead of itself and a Rose Bowl appearance that

comes with the Big Ten title is still possible.

“It’s never easy to get over a loss,” offensive tackle Marcel Jones said.

“You do have to have a short-term memory when it comes to those things.

“Our goal is to win the Big Ten. And when you win the Big Ten, you go to the Rose Bowl. When you go to the Rose Bowl, hopefully that will set us up for a national championship. That’s what we’re chasing.

That’s what we’re striving for.”

Caputo impressed with Long Sophomore Spencer Long is one of three Nebraska offensive linemen to start all five games at his position this season. The right tackle has helped NU become the second best rushing offense in the Big Ten at nearly 250 yards per game.

“Spencer’s got great feet,” center Mike Caputo said. “He plays fast and he plays hard and that’s what makes Spencer good. He’s got a bright future in front of him.”

— Compiled by Doug Burger

Through the second week of Big Ten Conference play, two teams have separated themselves from the pack: Illinois and Nebraska. Combined, the teams are 20-0 since Sept. 3, and their only matchup of the season — Oct. 22 in Lincoln — already appears to be the biggest Big Ten volleyball match of the year.

The coaches are already excited.

“I know who they’ve got and they’re ranked No. 1 for a reason,” Nebraska coach John Cook said at Monday’s press conference. “(NU and Illinois playing) is great for volleyball and it’s great for us.

Like I said, it brings out the best in us. It’s kind of fun, (it’ll be) a great challenge.”

However, it remains to be seen whether those are the two best teams: their opponents this weekend can make a case they are the second best team in the league. Illinois defeated Purdue this past weekend, and Nebraska took down Penn State the week before that. Those two schools are a combined 6-0 against everyone else in the conference, and this weekend, Purdue travels to Lincoln while PSU hosts Illinois.

Should Purdue upset Nebraska and Illinois win, the Boilermakers would have a strong case to be considered second-best in the conference. Conversely, if NU won and the Illini lost,

PSU would have a similar case.

It’s all just another week in the Big Ten Conference.

Illinois retained the top spot in the AVCA Coaches Poll and are the last undefeated team in the country.

With fan support at an alltime high (4,261 watched the Purdue match in Champaign’s Huff Hall) Illinois has found an extra boost as it tries to reach its first Final Four since 1988.

“For people to believe that this sport has value is huge,” coach Kevin Hambly said on fightingillini.com. “It’s exciting because I feel like we have a good product here and these kids are working their hearts out. The staff is working hard to put out a good product and I hope people had fun tonight.”

Michigan volleyball fans didn’t have much fun this weekend as Nebraska came to town, defeating both schools Michigan and Michigan State. Despite facing the pressure of its first ever Big Ten Conference road game, the Huskers withstood Michigan State’s NCAA-leading offense on Friday before sweeping Michigan the next night.

The Huskers have climbed to sixth in the poll after falling out of the top 10 following a loss to Colorado State and, with home wins against Purdue and last-place Indiana, could take sole possession of first place, as Illinois faces a road match against No.

25 Ohio State the night before their showdown with No. 8 Penn State.

Despite their recent successes, the Husker players actually think they could be playing better at the moment. “(The offense is coming together) slowly, but we’re starting to figure each other out,” Nebraska setter Lauren Cook said. “I’m starting to learn my hitters better and it’s all starting to come together.”

Several Big Ten teams aren’t coming together well at the moment, though.

Partly as a result of having seven ranked teams — plus an extremely tough Michigan State team — Iowa and Indiana have yet to win in their eight Big Ten matches, despite carrying a combined 18-7 record into conference season. Luckily, the two play Friday at Iowa, so at least one will be carrying a conference win into next week.

Another team looking for a break is Minnesota. Considered before the season to be a dark-horse Big Ten title contender, the Gophers didn’t win a set during the weekend in losses to Ohio State and Penn State on the same road trip Illinois faces this week.

The losses set the Gophers back four spots to No. 14, where Minnesota sits with an 8-5 record. The Gophers take a trip to Michigan this weekend, facing Michigan and MSU back-to-back.

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SPORTS UPDATE MEN’S & women’s TENNIS Lindheim continues strong play, weatherholt falls in three sets On the fourth day of play at the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla., three Nebraska men’s tennis players remained in action.

In singles, NU senior Benedikt Lindheim continued his tear through the qualifying round of the tournament, winning in his only match of the day Tuesday. After putting away Illinois State’s Alexander Pelaez, 7-5, 6-1, he will play Wednesday against Spencer Newman of Florida.

In the only other NU match of the day, the doubles team of juniors Eric Sock and Andre Stenger won 8-6 against Johnny Grimal and Leon Nasemann of Memphis. They will look to extend their tournament in another qualifying match Wednesday.

On Thursday, the main draws of the invite for singles and doubles get underway. Lindheim will join NU senior Christopher

Aumueller, who is also playing in the singles side of the tournament, on the court in doubles play.

Lindheim and Aumueller are the No. 13 NCAA men’s doubles team in the country.

In the women’s ITA Riviera All-American Championships in Los Angeles, the Huskers had only one match Tuesday.

Senior Mary Weatherholt battled Emily Fraser of Virginia, but fell short in the long match. Fraser won in three sets, 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (97).

Despite Weatherholt’s qualifying-round loss, the NU women will remain in California for a few more days. Nebraska’s doubles team of senior Madeleine Geibert and junior Patricia Veresova, who were seeded highly enough to advance automatically to the main draw of the invite, will begin play Thursday.

— Compiled By Zach Tegler

WOMEN’S GOLF Huskers remain in 10th, but team improves induvidual scores on day two The Nebraska women’s golf team’s second day at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational wasn’t much different than the first.

The Huskers are in 10th place for the second consecutive day with a total team score of 54 strokes over par.

“We were a little bit better today,” coach Robin Krapfl said. “We just really want to improve on our first two rounds tomorrow.”

Senior Madeleine Sheils had another terrific day at the par-72 Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash., shooting two strokes over par with a score of 74.

Sheils sits in fifth place and trails tournament leader Cassy Isagawa from Oregon by four strokes.

The rest of the Huskers had another tough day.

Senior Kayla Knopik is second for the Huskers in Washington after shooting eight strokes over par for a total score of 160 through two days.

Sophomore

Stephanie Neisen improved on her Monday score by two strokes and is tied for 50th after two rounds. Sophomore Katelyn Wright responded well after a tough first day of competition and shot six strokes over par for a total score of 165. Freshman Shelby Martinek was the only Husker that shot worse than her first round score on Monday, shooting 85 after opening with a score of 83.

Although the invitational hasn’t gone exactly as the Huskers had hoped, Krapfl feels the Huskers can still leave Sammamish on a positive note.

“If we can improve on the areas we’re struggling, we can finish this tournament on a high note,” Krapfl said.

The Huskers enter the final day of play Wednesday, with tee times beginning at 10 a.m.

— Compiled by Phil Scherer

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Soccer is life for Nebraska sophomore Ari Romero.

She has played plenty of it throughout her life since she joined Sereno SC, Arizona’s top-rated soccer club, at a young age.

The midfielder out of Surprise, Ariz., led her club team to eight state championships and three Region IV semifinal appearances.

Her play caught the eye of Mexico’s under-20 national team in May 2010.

Though unable to play any games for the team due to commitments at Nebraska, Romero was asked to participate in a World Cup camp in Mexico City, which she did in July 2010.

The experiences Romero had gained throughout her soccer career have influenced her collegiate career as well.

Romero was one of two freshmen to start every game in 2010. She started as a midfielder for the Huskers and her defense helped NU put up five shutouts that season.

The sophomore’s natural instincts are what helped her succeed at such a young age, according to assistant coach Dan Bassett. He said that he and the other coaches noticed Romero’s soccer smarts early her freshman year.

“She is more of an instinctive soccer player rather than an athlete,” Bassett said. “Now, I’m not saying she is not athletic because she has great ability but she just has natural defensive and attacking attributes that most athletes don’t possess.”

Romero relates her ability to play soccer instinctively to the amount she has participated in throughout her life.

In high school, Romero chose to play club soccer instead of playing on her school team. The school was not very good at soccer and she wanted to compete at the highest level of play year-round, Romero said.

Injury was a risk that Romero did not want to take by playing both soccer with her school and with her club.

She was also able to gain a mental advantage by competing against different clubs with a variety of playing styles.

Playing so much soccer has led Romero to prepare for the different roles she has experienced as her career has progressed.

However, Romero does not see these different roles as change but rather an experience.

“It really doesn’t matter what position I play because it’s all about communication in soccer, especially here at UNL,” Romero said.

Finding her role during her freshman year was tied directly to the amount of communication she had with her teammates, Romero said. However, it helped her have a better understanding of the game and honed her instinct even more.

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Nebraska defenders Josh Williams (98) and Terrance Moore (90) stand with defensive coordinator Carl Pelini late in Saturday’s loss to Wisconsin. The Huskers have focused on getting back to practice this week and preparing for Ohio State.

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hen the Huskers boarded their plane back to Lincoln early Sunday morning, they were beaten up physically. But the soreness and aches couldn’t match the pain that came from a blowout loss in what many called the Huskers’ biggest game of the season.

“We’ve got guys on the team that hate to lose a lot more than they like to win,” receiver Kenny Bell said. “That losing feeling is a feeling that rots in every part of you, mostly your heart.

When you put so much pride and so much time into something like football, to lose is just devastating, especially with the stakes that we did.”

But that game is finished. As much as the Huskers would love to go back and play it again, that’s not an option. NU receiver Brandon Kinnie said the only choice was to move forward, and the team was eager to get back on the practice field Monday to take steps toward erasing the bad taste from their mouths.

“Everybody’s ready to get back after it,” Kinnie said. “We can’t get low on each other or point fingers. We’re all in it together.”

One of the themes that emerged during fall camp was a stronger sense of togetherness on the team. Players hosted barbecues and other hangouts for the entire team in an effort to become closer. Kinnie said these are the times when those efforts pay off.

“We never lose confidence,” defensive end Eric Martin said. “We’ve all got to stick together and overcome this obstacle.”

Bell said that while losses are always tough to take, mistakes are magnified in a town like Lincoln where football is king. Every piece of the game is dissected by the rabid fan base, which has been grumbling about the play of the defense and quarterback Taylor Martinez.

“We’ve got, in my opinion, the best fans in the nation,” Bell said. “Any time you lose, there’s some negativity and people are going to jump on that bandwagon. Times like this are the most important times for a football team. You rally around each other.”

The Huskers know the season is far from done.

There are plenty of games left on the schedule.

Kinnie compared the Wisconsin loss to last year’s defeat to Texas. NU was devastated after

falling to its rival, but recovered and still went to the conference championship game a few months later.

The thought of winning the Legends division and meeting the Badgers again in the Big Ten Championship is something he said will drive the Huskers from here on out.

“The goal’s still out there,” Kinnie said. “We can make it happen and play them again. I think that’s something to work even harder toward.

It’s a little bit more motivation.”

That makes it all the more important that, as Martin said, the Huskers learn from their mistakes and forget about this game. The road to Indianapolis continues this Saturday against slumping Ohio State. It’s the kind of game that could give the Huskers the necessary confidence boost to get back on track.

“The only thing we can do is turn the page and move on to the next week,” Bell said. “That’s the most important thing. We can’t let this loss Saturday turn into a hangover loss for this coming Saturday.”

DanHoppen@ dailynebraskan.com

Huskers secondary not ‘that far off’ Doug Burger daily Nebraskan

Austin Cassidy doesn’t have eyes in the back of his head.

Neither does Andrew Green, Ciante Evans or Alfonzo Dennard.

“I wish that I had eyes everywhere,” Cassidy said.

“But we’ve got 11 sets of eyes out there and if 10 of them are on the right thing and one of them is on the wrong thing, that can be a touchdown.”

What Cassidy and the Husker defense are trying to avoid happened far too often Saturday against Wisconsin. Badgers quarterback Russell Wilson found free-running receivers twice on top of NU’s defense late in the first half, which turned a one-point Husker lead into a 27-14 deficit heading into halftime.

Wilson’s play-action fake toss to Montee Ball caught safety Daimion Stafford’s eyes in the wrong place for just long enough to allow UW’s Jared Abbrederis to sneak by, leading to a

36-yard score. A minute and a half later Nick Toon was hauling in a 46-yard score.

“A lot of times if you mess up as a d-line, no one knows,” Cassidy said.

“If you mess up at linebacker, no one knows. But if a safety comes running up on a play or a corner blows a coverage everyone is looking at him and saying hey, ‘That’s the guy that messed up.’”

Nebraska’s defense is currently ranked eighth in the Big Ten Conference in pass defense, giving up an average of 224 yards per game. The Huskers boasted the top pass defense in the Big 12 Conference last season.

But coach Bo Pelini said the secondary isn’t “that far off” from being to the caliber it’s been in past seasons.

“It is about technique, fundamentals and your eyes,” he said. “It is about playing disciplined football. To play great defense, you need to hit on all cylinders and we didn’t do that.”

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Safety Austin Cassidy is the only Husker to start all five games in the defensive backfield this season. He said all 11 players need to be keyed in on each play to be successful. the 2010 to the 2011 secondary is experience. At the safety and corner positions, only Cassidy has started all five games this season. The Huskers haven’t solidified a starting unit and each

week new players are on the field covering opposing receivers.

“We have to be ready to go no matter who’s out there,” Cassidy said. “We practice with all different

groups of guys so when we get to a game it’s not like we’ve never seen each other out there.”

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