October 23, 2014

DN

DN Arts chats with Hannibal Buress, Page 9 Statewide candidates share favorite media, Page 7 Editorial: Workplace equality may be closer, Page 16 Volume 114, Issue 017

THE

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

A TASTE OF FRANCE LOCAL BAKERY SERVES FRENCH GOODS, PAGE 7

2 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR I’ve got a confession. For all my professed love of traveling to exciting new locales and taking solitary walks around my neighborhood at dusk and embarking on adorable bucket list adventures with my closest friends, I’m honestly kind of a hermit.

I spend 40 to 50 hours a week at the Daily Nebraskan office in the basement of the Nebraska Union. Our four windows are mostly rusted shut and provide the occasional glimpse of a passing student’s shoes. During the dinner hours, I make frequent excursions to the Wendy’s across the street or, if I’m feeling really bold, I might walk to Chipotle or Noodles and Co. Another 4.5 hours a week I spend in class (online courses rule). I spend a double-digit number of hours on O Street or at friends’ apartments doing the whole “weekend” thing. As for the other 100 or so hours of the week, I’m probably at home.

When I put it like that, I sound sort of pathetic. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy the hell out of my routines. The DN provides a comfortable and fun atmosphere where I can roam around barefoot and order people around simultaneously, a dream job if I’ve ever heard of one. Wendy’s makes a mean BBQ chicken ranch salad. Class is a necessary evil, and of course hanging out with my friends and letting Jim Beam influence our conversation topics is always a good time. Plus, my apartment is basically heaven because I live alone with the best cat known to man and I have a Netflix account, lots of books and Spotify Premium.

The problem with living a life of routine, though, is it can stagnate your thinking a little bit. Exposed to the predictable stimuli of Wendy’s salads, college media and “Gilmore Girls,” I’ll end up regurgitating ideas about, well, leafy greens and newspapers and girly TV. That’s not very progressive. And it certainly doesn’t make me a better editor.

So, while I was driving down O Street today on the way to the Verizon store, I took a good look at some of the businesses I overlook every day and thought of five or six story ideas for the Daily Nebraskan. And I resolved to shake up my routine in small ways, taking different routes to

those places I know best, studying at the Coffee House or Hi-Way Diner instead of at home in my pajamas and getting to know the city of Lincoln better.

College newspaper editors are supposed to give students a taste of what life is like on their campus. And we can’t do that if we spend most of our time hiding in a basement.

It’s time to make a few changes around here. I think for dinner tomorrow, I’ll try that Thai place I’ve always wondered about. Maybe a story idea will strike on the way.

Jacy Marmaduke Editor-in-chief FRONT PAGE PHOTO BY CAHNER OLSON

Le Quartier bakery sells French style pastries. The bakery sells more than five different flavors of macaroons in addition to the strawberry ones pictured here.

DAILY NEBRASKAN FOUNDED IN 1901, THE DAILY NEBRASKAN IS THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA–LINCOLN’S ONLY INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER WRITTEN, EDITED AND PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY UNL STUDENTS. GENERAL INFORMATION The Daily Nebraskan is published by the UNL Publications Board, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448. The board holds public meetings monthly.

COPYRIGHT 2014 DAILY NEBRASKAN

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR ONLINE NEWS EDITOR PRINT NEWS EDITOR OPINION EDITOR ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR SENIOR ARTS EDITOR ONLINE ARTS EDITOR PRINT ARTS EDITOR SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR ONLINE SPORTS EDITOR PRINT SPORTS EDITOR COPY CHIEF ENGAGEMENT EDITOR ASSISTANT ENGAGEMENT EDITOR DESIGN CHIEF VIDEO CHIEF PHOTO EDITOR ART DIRECTOR ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR WEB EDITOR

JACY MARMADUKE CONOR DUNN DANIEL WHEATON FAIZ SIDDIQUI AMY KENYON BEN CURTTRIGHT GABY MARTINEZ-GARRO MADDY CHRISTENSEN ZACH FULCINITI NATASHA RAUSCH JOSH KELLY ERIC BERTRAND STACIE SIKORA ALEX WUNROW JORDAN HUESERS GENEVRA OBREGON CRAIG ZIMMERMAN SHELBY WOLFE LYDIA COTTON MIKE RENDOWSKI MATT MARTIN

GENERAL MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ADVERTISING STUDENT MANAGER PUBLICATIONS BOARD PROFESSIONAL ADVISER

DAN SHATTIL PENNY BILLHEIMER HEATHER WATT CHELSEA EATON DON WALTON

CONTACT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS DESK GENERAL MANAGEMENT ADVERTISING PUBLICATIONS BOARD

214-538-9432 402-472-1763 402-472-1769 402-472-2589 651-280-9181

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 3

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

ON THE WEB

NEWS One year later

UNL’s Andre Fortune reflects on “Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever”

CHECK OUT NEXT WEEK’S

DNEWSMAKERS 11:45 A.M. MONDAY & THURSDAY

NEBRASKA UNION CRIB

LGBT spotlight

HRC Nebraska uses blog series to feature LGBT individuals

SPORTS Money down

Nebraska defense comes up big on third downs this season

S UPER H ER OES WAN TED

Earn up to $360 a month & up to $120 this week 033DN

BRING IN THIS C OUPON FOR AN EXTRA

$10 BONUS!

Donate life saving plasma.

You have the power to save lives!

Schedule an appointment at biotestplasma.com

Lincoln • Biotest Plasma Center 300 S. 17th Street • Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 (402) 474-2335 New donors only. Not valid in conjunction with any other referral fees or bonuses.

Give and get back more!

BiotestPlasmaCenterLincoln

@BPCLincoln

Monday: Meet and ask questions of U.S. Senate candidate Dave Domina Thursday: At 2 p.m. D-Wayne, a student beatboxer, will perform At 8:30 p.m. the DN co-sponsors Campus Nightlife’s Husker Haunt, featuring hay rides, a haunted house, mini-golf, s’mores and a costume contest

ARTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

4

DARK ARTS story by Hannah Eads | Local artists create thought-provoking grotesque pieces

PHOTO BY RYANN LYNN | DN

Jar Schepers creates artwork from recycled objects at his studio in the garage of his Lincoln home on Monday. Schepers uses art to reflect plants, animals and insects that he observes, modifying them so each piece is something that has never been seen before.

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 5

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

F

or the past few years, Jar Schepers has the humans look really real in their clothtaken recycled goods and turned them ing, it’ll magnify how everything else looks. into large-scale, hybrid creatures, It tricks your eyes. It’ll make the viewer believe.” many of them insectoid.

Gordon has also created art for musiThe Lincoln native and University of Nebraska-Lincoln ceramics professor wants to cians.

For the Sufjan Stevens “Silver and Gold” show alteration at its finest.

Christmas box set, he created a pencil drawWhat inspires him is the world around him and in turn the impact humans have on ing for a pull-out poster. The black and white, apocalyptic scene is crowded with more anit. imal-like creatures in front of two buildings “I use the form that I find in thrift stores or on the side of the road, all human-made and a spaceship hovering in the background.

He also drew the cover for Modest objects, and transform them into these sort of horrific creatures,” Schepers said. “It’s a Mouse’s single “King Rat” on 7” vinyl. The reference back to humanity. It’s like looking faded yellow cover features a chubby boy at what a second party has done to this crea- standing in a graveyard with a deserted ship behind him. ture.”

“Ultimately, I try to fit their ideas into Schepers said he wants his art to burn an image in the viewer ’s mind; he wants the my world,” Gordon said. “You get affected viewer to think about and recall his art even by everything. That’s why I listen to lot of classical music when I’m working – because after they’ve stopped looking at it.

Reactions to his sculptures range from joy there are no lyrics.”

One of his less crowded works is called to terror.

“Nephew of Krampus,” a painting of four “When we build houses and roads, we’re altering our environment,” he said. “This is creatures around a bonfire, one of them goatlike, similar to Krampus, a dark creature the uniqueness of humanity and also its potential downfalls and misdirection. It rubs from German folklore.

“I don’t think my art is as disturbing as you the wrong way.”

Schepers chooses to make his sculptures some of our history,” he said. “There’s a lot larger and therefore more imposing, specifi- of weird shit in this world.”

Lincoln artist Pawl Tisdale creates quasically the insect-like ones, because they don’t satirical cartoons and comics commenting look very threatening naturally, he said.

“But if you blow up the scale of any insect on the weird social schisms and behaviors of society. it’s just instantly horrifying,” he said.

His comics comment on reality TV, child Schepers’ sculptures range from human heads on poles to centipedes, mosquitoes leashes, job interviews and more.

Apart from the comics, Tisdale also has and snakes. There are human bodies with paintings, sculpture, glass work and drawspider legs and tiny sculptures that are still ings that he described as surreal and cartoonjust as creepy, Schepers said.

Michigan-based artist Matt Gordon, like ish with some dark elements.

Tisdale likes to work with pen and ink Schepers, said he wants his viewers to think hard about his pieces, but for a different rea- but ultimately works with anything he can get his hands on. son.

Work like “Man Falling Into Ducks,” a Gordon’s works are mostly detailed sculpture of exactly that, has been called acrylic paintings on wood. He wants his viewers to look at his painted scenes as if disturbing, Tisdale said, although he doesn’t think of his art that way. they were a whole movie or book.

“When someone says something is weird, “I like to cover all the bases,” he said. that’s sort of an accomplishment,” he said. “I The paintings have woodsy backgrounds don’t see it as weird, but that mirror the Michigan I might’ve shifted somelandscape he lives in.

I don’t think my one’s perspective. If I Gordon said he spends just painted a cottage, a lot of time mountain art is as disturbing they’d see it as that, but biking and running in if I drew it with tentathe woods and there he as some of our history. cles, I’ve made it weird sees the “strange animal There’s a lot of weird shit for them.” behavior” that inspires He described his art in this world.” him. as “very harmless,” al“I find myself pretty though drawings such much being isolated,” he MATT GORDON as “Sam The Butcher” said. “I don’t really talk michigan-based artist and “Mouse Fear,” two to people that much, so I portrayals of twisted tend to think the outside bodies with visible innards, can be viewed world is grotesque, and (my art) is my reacas dark. tion.”

“That’s kind of the theme,” he said. “My Because his paintings have so much detail, Gordon uses a jeweler ’s loupe while he art can be more dark and bizarre but that doesn’t make it evil. Humans are dark even paints to zone in on what he’s doing. when we’re having fun. When you laugh at Most of his paintings have a lot going on, with both the landscape and the number of a joke, you laugh at the absurdity of it. But characters in them. In paintings like “Wodka most jokes aren’t usually flattering.”

In his drawing titled “Family Man,” a Macheck,” there are more than 20 characnewborn cries while its exhausted parents ters, with a Waffle House sign in the back of a car, an almost psychedelic Jesus in the sky look off into space. But Tisdale describes the family as content and the baby as just doing and different animal-like humans standing alongside actual humans. All of the charac- its job. To him, it might be dark, but it’s dark ters’ eyes stand out as hyperrealistic against in a relatable, funny way.

Tisdale said he works “off the cuff,” but the painted background.

“It’s like a hypnotic trick,” he said. “A lot of my stuff is not believable, but if you make

GROTESQUE: SEE PAGE 8

COURTESY PHOTO

Local artist Jar Schepers enjoys constructing hybrid creatures that combine humanoid features with other life forms, such as insects. He builds his art from recyclables.

COURTESY PHOTO

Local artist Pawl Tisdale is known for his unique visual style and dark humor. “The Middleman” (above) features various types of organism, human or other, bleeding together in the epicenter of the drawing.

6 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Apprentice gains invaluable experience from piercer Big O Tattoo’s expert provides extensive training to novice piercing apprentice over several years CHRIS BOWLING DN He sterilizes his tools, clears off the surface and preps his subject.

He makes the incision he knows is best based on hours of personal research in the latest medical and science journals and through months of observing his higher-up.

But Mark Badberg isn’t a doctor or a surgeon.

Instead of being short a vestigial organ, when people walk out of Big O Tattoo, they do so with added flare: new jewelry and a professionally done piercing courtesy of Know Piercing. However, it hasn’t always been this way for Bradberg. The 23-year-old had a lot of learning to do before he could get behind the needle.

“It started out pretty much as all observing, but I got to the point where I was helping people with piercings they already had, installing new jewelry or swapping out old jewelry,” Bradberg said. “That progressed to the easier piercings, cartilage and ear lobe, now I’m working on harder stuff like the inner ear, lips and tongues.”

And as an apprentice, Bradberg is still learning, practicing and observing every day.

He’s working toward an independent position where he can build his own clientele at Know Piercing, something he’s wanted to do since he started this journey in March 2012.

At the time, Bradberg was living in Lincoln and taking a break from college at Southeast Community College where he majored in culinary arts, then human services, then graphic design. The last of which, he was on a waitlist for so long that he started paying back his student loans.

That’s when he met Matt Bavougian.

Bradberg was getting a tattoo at a shop down the street from Big O and struck up a conversation about how he had an interest in making his own wooden body jewelry. He had a few questions so the tattoo artist referred him to Bavougian, the piercer at the shop. Bradberg showed him what he was working on and got some tips.

He’d leave for two weeks here, a month there, always bringing back more work to critique. Eventually Bavougian offered him an apprenticeship as a piercer and Bradberg took it.

Since then Bradberg’s learning process has been meticulous, detailed and by the book, an experience he knows not every apprentice has.

And a lot of that has to do with Bavougian, who knows this job requires more than “putting a needle through a body part.”

“It’s customer service, ethics, how to properly clean tools and how to sterilize things,” Bavougian said. “It’s how to have bedside manner, it’s knowing why certain materials are better than others and teaching how to re-

PHOTO BY LINDSEY YONEDA | DN

Mark Badberg removes a dermal piercing from a customer on Oct. 16. Badberg is a piercing apprentice at Big O Tattoo located on 1640 O St. search, how to use the scientific method. It’s all the stuff that we complained about in school.”

Bavougian, who’s worked in multiple shops as well as a freelance piercer since starting in the Chicago suburbs in the early ‘90s, emphasizes the professionalism with which he approaches this job as well as his teaching process. It’s a sentiment that not every piercer shares.

“A lot of people are willing to just throw out an apprenticeship to someone so that they can make them a little worker monkey that learns how to be subservient,” Bavougian said.

“They learn how to clean tools, usually poorly, they learn how to sweep, usually poorly, and they learn how to get lunch, usually poorly.”

He said this usually leaves apprentices with little aptitude to learn and ask diligent questions, both traits he values in Bradberg. It applies to piercing, but for Bavougian, no matter what the job or experience level is, a person should never stop trying to learn.

“If you don’t want to learn, stop doing whatever it is you’re doing,” Bavougian said.

“If you’re a mechanic and you don’t think you can learn anymore, please stop being a mechanic. If you think you’re the world’s best

If you don’t want to learn, stop doing whatever it is you’re doing. If you’re a mechanic and you don’t think you can learn any more, please stop being a mechanic. If you think you’re the world’s best teacher and there’s nothing else to learn about teaching, please for the love of God don’t go near my kid.

MATT BAVOUGIAN big o tattoo

teacher and there’s nothing else to learn about teaching, please for the love of God don’t go near my kid.”

And learning is exactly what Bradberg focuses on every day. Whether it’s observing Bavougian, doing private research or practicing on friends or loyal customers, he’s working toward the day that he can graduate apprenticeship and join Bavougian as an equal.

Although nothing’s guaranteed, he said, Bradberg hopes he can make a permanent ca-

reer out of piercing because it’s something that he finds fulfilling.

“A lot of what I like about piercing is the same as what makes me nervous about it,” Bradberg said. “It’s scary and exciting. I love problem solving, I love helping people out even if they don’t know what they want and I like making people feel good and making people feel special.”

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 7

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Bakery serves authentic taste of Europe in Lincoln KATJA DUERIG DN Tacked on the end of a line of shops, a short way from Gateway Mall, is Le Quartier Baking Company.

Run by Lincoln natives John and Seth Quiring, the bakery offers a spread of breads, baguettes, pastries and sandwiches.

John Quiring studied his craft in Montreal and Paris. He returned in 2006 to open Le Quartier in Meridian Park, at first selling his products to restaurants and grocery stores and setting up shop at farmer ’s markets.

Partnered with his brother Seth, John took Le Quartier to Omaha and opened two more locations by February 2008.

The bakery is at the end of the bland strip mall, hard to pick out if you’re not looking for it. However, the inconspicuous location matches the atmosphere of the cafe; quiet, stable and simple.

Le Quartier ’s main dining area offers a variety of seating, including wooden tables and chairs for groups, single leather armchairs and bench seating at the giant storefront window. There’s also extra seating in a wing to the left. Potted vines sit in a cluster at the end of the long window table, and books, magazines and atlases are stacked on a coffee table between two armchairs.

Strings of skeletons and spooky centerpieces decorate the space – ‘tis the season.

Earthy browns, blues and yellows paint the walls and furniture. Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens hum softly from above.

Described by the website as “the best, most authentic European style breads in the Midwest,” the loaves and rolls are displayed on the left wall above a glass case for pastries.

Pass these and you’ll be at the register, with a case displaying daily soups and salads to your right.

Sweeping the dining area is Doug Johnson. Johnson has only been working at Le Quartier for two months, but that’s all it took for him to fall in love with the place.

“The food; it’s unique to Lincoln and the quality is really good,” he said.

He added that people will go there “every single day to come hang out.”

Le Quartier is French for “the neighborhood,” a title that Johnson believes the café reflects. Indeed, the tables seemed to be arranged in an open forum to encourage conversation. He says that customers will sometimes apologize for sitting at a table too long, but he sees it as a sign that they are enjoying themselves and feel comfortable in their environment.

LE QUARTIER: SEE PAGE 8

PHOTO BY CAHNER OLSON | DN

Amanda Clement bags a loaf of sliced bread on Tuesday at Le Quartier Bakery. Clement is an employee at the bakery, located at 6900 O St.

NEBRASKA CANDIDATES SHARE THEIR FAVORITES For Governor:

For Senate: Jim Jenkins

FAVORITE BOOKS:

“The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” by Edmund Morris “Parties Against the People: Turning Democrats and Republicans into Americans” by Mickey Edwards “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin FAVORITE MUSIC: Johnny Cash James Taylor The Beatles FAVORITE MOVIES: “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” “Lincoln” “All the President’s Men” Ben Sasse

FAVORITE BOOKS:“Zero

to One” by Peter Thiel “Seeing Like a State” by James C. Scott

“The Rule of Nobody” by Philip K. Howard

“The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future” by Arthur C. Brooks “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel

Dave Domina

FAVORITE BOOKS:

“Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin “John Adams” by David McCullough “Arctic Dreams” by Barry Lopez FAVORITE MUSIC: “I’d better go with Willie Nelson & Neil Young since they performed at a 8,000-person conference in a Nebraska cornfield for others and me just weeks ago!”

FAVORITE MOVIES: “Lincoln” “What about Bob?” “Skyfall”

Chuck Hassebrook FAVORITE BOOKS: “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway “Death Comes to the Archbishop” by Willa Cather FAVORITE MUSIC: Merle Haggard Grateful Dead The Eagles FAVORITE MOVIES: “Tender Mercies” “Nebraska” “The Blues Brothers” LYDIA COTTON | DN

James Brown

FAVORITE MUSIC:

Tom Petty The Killers Mumford and Sons Alan Jackson FAVORITE MOVIES: “Shawshank Redemption” “Fletch” “Walk the Line”

Pete Ricketts: FAVORITE BOOKS: “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy “Lonesome Dove” by Larry McMurty FAVORITE MOVIES: “Saving Private Ryan”

“The 13th Warrior” “The Lord of the Rings” FAVORITE BANDS: Moody Blues Train Ellis Island (local Irish music band) ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM —COMPILED BY CHAS BOGATZ

8 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

GROTESQUE: FROM 5 his one constant is mandalas. If he has no other ideas, Tisdale always goes back to using his technical pen to start drawing a mandala in the middle of the page and then have it spiral off while trying to keep it as straight as possible.

His website features some of the mandalas he’s drawn since the ‘90s. Some have almost hidden, melting faces in them, some

have what looks like fire on their edges.

“I spend a lot of time with every piece I do, and I try not to show anything I don’t enjoy,” he said. “The best compliments I get are good laughs, and I would love it if someone would turn around and try to make this kind of art too.”

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

LE QUARTIER: FROM 8 Johnson also notes that Le Quartier ’s products are sold at the farmer ’s market in downtown Lincoln, the Old Cheney Road farmer ’s market and several markets in Omaha.

Wayne Rolle sits at an armchair between two potted plants. He has a thick book in his lap and a coffee with cream loose in hand, resting his wrist on an end table.

“Infrequently,” he laughs, when asked how often he visits Le Quartier.

Rolle moved to a neighborhood close to the bakery about 10 years ago, and although he wouldn’t consider himself a regular, he says “It is nice to see (the bakery) down on this corner.”

Rolle was glad that Le Quartier remained open on the strip mall in light of recent building projects. He mentioned the development of a Best Buy and CVS Pharmacy being especially calamitous affairs, compared to the calm of the café.

But as the building went on, the bakery kept churning out wheat, rye, ciabatta and cheese breads, danishes topped with whole berries, macarons plump and pastel and hefty croissants. One man orders some hot tea and a croissant with an extra plate, cuts it in half, and waits for his date to arrive. As a snack, Le Quartier’s croissants can satisfy two.

Le Quartier is something like a cove; tucked away in the business of Gateway Mall and other larger stores in the area, it is an intentionally serene spot that aims to comfort.

The owners’ international influence comes out in the cuisine, but the place still feels fitting in the Lincoln locale. In the words of Rolle – Le Quartier is a place that is “pleasant to have a cup of coffee, read a book and relax.”

Le Quartier ’s hours, menu and locations can be found on their website.

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

STUDENT TONIGHT NIGHT at THE ROSS Show your student ID to get $1.00 TICKETS, POPCORN, AND DRINKS for all screenings of LOVE IS STRANGE, A SUMMER’S TALE, and National Theatre’s FRANKENSTEIN.

The Mary Riepma Ross MEDIA ARTS CENTER www.theross.org 313 N. 13th Street, Lincoln NE | 402-472-5353 | facebook.com/theross.org

Visit our website for more information about upcoming Student Nights and Special events

Now Leasing for Fall 2014 Canopyst.com

601 R Street, Lincoln

402.477.6767

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 9

Q&A with comedian Hannibal Buress KEKELI DAWES DN On the heels of four nights of Dave Chappelle, comedian Hannibal Buress will be performing at the Rococo Theatre next Thursday.

The comedian has two albums underneath his belt, two Comedy Central specials and has been making the late night talk show rounds since 2007. He also has a late night show of his own that he hosts with comedian Eric Andre. “The Eric Andre Show” airs on Adult Swim. His first venture beyond standup was writing for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, and he has since appeared in sitcoms like Comedy Central’s “Broad City,” animated shows like “China IL” and the film “Neighbors” alongside Seth Rogen.

The Chicago-born comedian took some time to chat with the Daily Nebraskan to spread his message about peace, love, getting money, and of course, high-quality apple juice.

DN: You started comedy in college; did it get you laid at all?

Hannibal Buress: Uh, right away? No. I could have. There were probably situations where I could’ve gotten laid but I didn’t know how to finesse the situation. It didn’t get me laid because I didn’t know what to do.

But the opportunities were there.

DN: Then why did you start doing comedy?

HB: I saw other people doing it, and it didn’t look that tough so I wanted to try it out, and it was fun. I had a lot of fun doing it.

DN: You talk a lot about your first rough COURTESY PHOTO year in New York, spending the occasional Comedian Hannibal Buress is known for his two stand-up comedy albums as well as night on the subway. As an upcoming college graduate, do you have any advice on what his work on “The Eric Andre Show,” “30 Rock” and “Broad City.” He is set to perform at the Rococo Theatre on Thursday night. to do when you’re in a new town and money isn’t coming in right?

HB: I don’t know. If you’re good, get better...I dunno. Get money. If it doesn’t don’t know the format that well - I think if I eventually be able to buy three-dollar juices. work, you still have to get money. No matter did it again I think I’d be better at it, but it’s Or you could do it even if it doesn’t fit your lifestyle. You gotta drink for the job you what. I’m not telling them to do anything il- just a different way to get my message out.

Get my message of peace and love and posi- want, not the job you have. legal, but get a goddamn job.

DN: On another tangent, let’s talk about tivity and yoga, self improvement...I’m just DN: Comedians often say you grind pretty hard to get that money. How hard was it to trying to raise awareness and my mortgage “The Eric Andre Show.” It’s drastically different than anything else on television. Have I’m trying to get. This is Hannibal Buress’ consistently work, day after day, and not see any experiences you’ve had on that show apdown payment tour. much good come out of it?

DN: A big part of plicable to anything else you do?

HB: I think the HB: The interview aspect, somewhat. your message is apple standup grind itself is Driving around and juice. Motts or Marti- There’s a lot that gets cut out. I actually ask kinda overrated. If you guests real questions - we don’t use that part doing standup for 15 nelli’s? do three sets in a night, HB: Martinelli’s is of it, but that’s a skill. Researching people, it’s not really crazy work minutes in three places I trying to ask them things they haven’t heard a higher quality apple compared to a real job, juice. Actually, the even before, different questions...that’s part of it. like an office job, or do- guess is working hard, but DN: The show seems like a fantasy of better juice is this Red ing construction, or be- it’s not crazy to me. It’s Jacket Orchards. It’s an what we all wish talk shows could be - it’s a ing a plumber or someeast coast juice. They bit phony, but real at times as well. thing, for 10 hours a fun.”

HB: Yeah, well I don’t know what you make strawberry apple day. Driving around and juice and raspberry ap- mean by “we all;” it’s on Adult Swim late HANNIBAL BURESS doing standup for 15 ple juice with some next night for a reason. Not exactly being put out comedian minutes in three places level stuff and I’m giving to the masses. But we definitely have a fanI guess is working hard, them that plug. I don’t base. It’s a weird show. The people that like but it’s not crazy to me. need anything from the show really like the show. When we do It’s fun. It’s fucking jokes, man. You should live shows, people go crazy. them it’s just a real good juice and the shit is want to do it multiple times in a night.

DN: How much writing goes into the expensive man. Three bucks for a goddamn 12 DN: But you’re not doing just standup show? At first glance, one sees a ton of improv, you’re on primetime, the silver screen, even ounce bottle.

DN: How does it feel knowing you can but it’s more scripted than it looks, isn’t it? public radio. How did you lock down a spot HB: It’s a good amount of improv, but get that high-quality juice money? on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!”?

HB: That’s just what it is man. You work you have to create the structure to improv HB: That was my friend Brian Babylon, a hard - I mean that’s what I tell these young around. So there are bits and set pieces and regular on there. He’d been reaching out for me to do it for a while, so I appeared on it. I comedians. You gotta work hard and you’ll it’s a lot of writing, but we improv within

that. You can’t just....well sometimes we do and say, “You guys just talk for a bit,” and we’ll cut into that. But if we’re interviewing a guest, or in pieces that are set and pre-written, then we’ll mess around within that form.

DN: What are some moments in the show that were too crazy for the tape, that you cut out?

HB: I can’t recall, man. It’s just so much stuff forgotten. Now it’s been three seasons of stuff. You remember it then, but as time passes, it’s on the cutting room floor. There was this one segment where it was this guy and Eric making smoothies, while running on a treadmill. Eric and him, running on a treadmill, making smoothies, with blenders and shit. It was a weird segment, but it got cut.

DN: So, have you heard from Al Sharpton (who Hannibal called the “president of the association of greasy motherfuckers”)?

HB: Nah, Al Sharpton don’t want no beef, man.

DN: You also host a regular comedy showcase in Brooklyn. Do you keep that going to keep you sharp and familiar with standup?

HB: It really started for me to try new material that’s close to my home. It’s really just to try stuff, stay sharp. Usually I would go on the road Thursday, Friday, Saturday and come back Sunday. So that was a time after I did some polished shows on the road I’m able to get loose and try new material.

DN: How important is that incubation period to generate new jokes and bits?

HB: It’s just good to stay fresh, man, and have a place where you can work and try new stuff in front of an audience. The show is free, so there’s no expectations. It’s good for me, and it’s good for how I work.

DN: Do you take tips and bits from comedians you chill with?

HB: Sometimes somebody has a joke, I’m watching them onstage, I think of an idea, and I give it to them. Vice-versa.

DN: You’ve got a wide fan base now.

Some fans know you from Adult Swim, others love you from Broad City, a very different show. You’ve performed across the globe, and have done stand up with all kinds of comedians. Is it important to you to find a way to reach so many people in different ways?

HB: It’s never really calculated like that.

It’s just me doing stuff I like and doing stuff I think is fun. If it’s a good show and good people are involved in it, it’s not me trying to get into a different audience.

DN: Which comedian right now are you really into?

HB: Jerrod Carmichael has a good special coming out. He’s dope. Young dude, real funny. It’s his first special is on HBO. His shit is real good, he’s slick onstage; a comfortable dude. I’m real excited for that.

DN: Is there a non-comedian that inspires you right now?

HB: Oh, Flying Lotus, man! I’ve been listening to a lot of stuff. I listen to his stuff while I write and do stuff. He sent his new album to me; it’s an awesome album. He’s got some good stuff on it.

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

10 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Horror film reboots continue to be successful Popularity of horror movies has consistently endured since beginning of film storytelling

Horror constantly has to be on the cutting edge of cinematic representationalism in order to be effective; in short, it has to horrify.”

JACK FOREY DN The bloody remains of a young woman lay strewn across a clearing in the woods, near a cabin where her and some friends decided to stay for the weekend.

Paul steps over her remains, shielding his view from the horror, on his way to a shed where they all quarantined their friend who fell ill with a deadly flesh-eating virus. When he opens the door, the dog who ate the girl outside is nipping at her weak body. Paul scares him away.

Paul goes to turn over the girl, whom he has known since sixth grade and never quite admitted that he loved, and the bottom half of her face has disintegrated, revealing pearly white teeth and red, damaged flesh.

Paul decides to put her out of her misery with a pickaxe.

This is a scene from Eli Roth’s 2002 film, “Cabin Fever,” and it’s a scene that will be re-staged, presumably shot for shot, by director Travis Zarwiny when “Cabin Fever” is remade from the same script used to shoot Roth’s 2002 film. Roth himself will be executive producing. The remake will have begun principal photography by the time this article goes to print and is likely to be released in April or May 2015.

“Travis had an amazing vision for my original script, and as a scary movie fan I really wanted to see it,” Roth said in an interview with The Wrap. “I almost see this like re-staging a play, and I’m excited to see what ideas Travis and the cast bring to it. They’re all fans of the original and want to make a film that’s a new classic and I believe they will.”

It comes as an especially unique project in a horror movie climate that’s seeing the profitable rise of original horror franchises such as “The Conjuring,” “Paranormal Activity” and “The Purge.” The “Saw” juggernaut also looks ripe for rebooting; original creators James Wan (who recently scored big with “The Conjuring” and “Insidious”) and Leigh Whannel are now attached to a new “Saw” movie project.

Some genres wax and wane in popularity, but horror movies have endured in popularity since the very beginning of film storytelling. Some argue that horror cinema’s innovations, which go back to German expressionism in movies such as “Nosferatu,” drive the progress of cinema.

“Horror constantly has to be on the cutting edge of cinematic representationalism in order to be effective; in short, it has to horrify,” said Wheeler Winston Dixon, film studies professor at the University of NebraskaLincoln and author of the book, “A History of Horror.” “Horror movies of the 1950s and ‘60s, with rare exceptions, simply don’t scare

WHEELER WINSTON DIXON film studies professor

MIKE RENDOWSKI | DN

us anymore – it takes something like a ‘Saw’ film to genuinely frighten audience these days, I’m sorry to say.”

Dixon’s favorite horror films include “Let the Right One In,” “Repulsion,” “Psycho” and the original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974).

“Horror can and should reflect both personal and societal anxieties,” said Logan Galvez, a former UNL student and horror

film buff. “For example, ‘Eraserhead’ pretty closely reflects the anxieties and doubts men cast upon themselves when they first become fathers.

“My favorite horror movies tend to be movies with strong horror elements rather than straight genre pictures,” Galvez said.

“Movies like “Eraserhead,” “2001” and “Under the Skin” which all have terrifying moments and deal with a great deal of anxiety

and dread. Horror takes all forms in everyday life, and it’s everywhere in modern media. You’ve got your visceral thrills in ‘The Walking Dead’ underlined with the standard zombie fears: ‘Would you be able to kill one if it was someone you knew or loved?’”

It can be a popular question among horror fans who find themselves watching more extreme work: “Why am I watching this?”

“In the real world, people simultaneously can experience both happiness and sadness, exhilaration and anxiety,” said Joel Cohen, author of a Journal of Consumer Research study which examined the responses of subjects who viewed horror films. “People enjoy excitement, even if it’s from a negative source. Otherwise, things could be pretty dull.”

The torture porn and body horror subgenres (“Saw” and “The Human Centipede,” for example) both appear to be going strong in the modern era of horror, both focusing on destruction and disfigurement of the body.

We may ask: why subject ourselves to such unpleasant imagery?

“Horror movies are a way of exorcising our worst fears without really putting ourselves in any danger,” Dixon said. “Whatever happens up on the screen, it won’t touch us. In addition, as the various characters in a typical horror movie die, we’re still alive, so audience members feel a sense of artificial immortality. It’s thrills without risk, as we confront our deepest fears from the comfort and safety of a theater seat, or at home with a bowl of popcorn.”

In some cases, horror movies and television face controversy and backlash upon release. This often works to the film’s advantage, as it did with Eli Roth’s “Hostel,” which actively marketed the fact that someone had fainted at an advance screening of the movie.

Recently, the increasingly popular FX series “American Horror Story” was allegedy criticized by Glenn Kohlberger, leader of Clowns of America International, for its depiction of a sadistic, murderous clown in the new season “Freak Show.”

The show’s clown, “Twisty the Clown,” is said to be partly inspired by John Wayne Gacy, the infamous killer who raped and murdered more than 20 young boys, and also worked part-time as a party clown. Gacy is just one among a multitude of famed murderers who take hold in the popular imagination, some of which have also inspired characters in “American Horror Story.”

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 11

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

COURTESY PHOTO

Indie band’s latest album lags behind Cold War Kids release new album, which continues to fail to bring anything new to Indie genre DILLON MITCHELL DN Cold War Kids has been around for 10 years now, which was surprising to me.

I had no idea a band could be around for so long without eventually distinguishing themselves from anything else in the indiewhatever genre, but alas, here’s Cold War Kids, sluggishly completing a decade of activity with “Hold My Home.”

“Hold My Home” is mostly an act of imitation, though it’s rarely a good one. Cold War Kids seem to have gotten stuck between deciding if they wanted to be Wilco or Beirut.

There’s a jammy piano opening and some sweet handclaps. Front man Nathan Willett is either trying to emulate Jeff Tweedy or Bono, but he never accomplishes either one.

This isn’t particularly surprising; Cold War Kids have always been a low tier indie-whatever band. But I’m not sure they’re even trying anymore. “Hold My Home” sounds like its predecessor, “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts,” which sounds like its predecessor, “Mine Is Yours,” and so on.

The main issue with “Hold My Home” and Cold War Kids’ career as a whole is that they aren’t bringing anything new to music.

The indie-whatever genre is already bloated, increasingly so because of the rising marketability and demand for vaguely indie music.

It’s difficult for bands to stand out, and Cold War Kids have been failing to do so for a decade now. “Hold My Home” is boring, uninspired and not even catchy enough to be used in a car commercial, the dream of every indiewhatever band.

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

I USED

HASHTAGS BEFORE THEY

WERE COOL #4TURKEYTOM

SERIOUS DELIVERY!

TM

©2013 JIMMY JOHN’S FRANCHISE, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

12 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Local liberation UNL organizations aid women’s rights in a variety of ways story by Erin Mansur | art by Hayley Heesacker

O

f the various University of Nebraska-Lincoln organizations that foster and support feminist ideals, all agree that the basis of feminism is equality.

“It is this idea that women around the world, on campus and in the Midwest need to raise questions about rights,” said Chantal Kalisa, director of the UNL Women’s and Gender Studies Program. “Whether it’s economic rights, rights to certain resources or rights to sports.

It’s just women looking for equal rights.”

Feminism is associated with other social issues such as education, reproductive rights, violence protection and prevention, self-determined gender, LGBTQA+ identities and civil justice for all ethnicities.

There are no strict requirements for becoming a feminist.

Many people believe that being a feminist requires meeting certain criteria, although they tend to disagree on what those criteria are. Feminists such as Jan Deeds, director of the UNL Women’s Center, argue that setting criteria is unnecessary and inhibits the actions of feminists.

“I think that spending a lot of time defining ‘Are you being feminist enough?’ is a waste of time,” Deeds said. “And it’s a good way to keep women from moving forward, because if we are fighting with each other you can’t notice the real problems that we need to be addressing.”

Feminism has always emphasized equal rights, but the scope of who it advocates for has grown. The worldwide movement is currently in what is called the “third wave.” UNL has several organizations, including the Women’s Center, Women’s and Gender Studies, International Association of Feminist Economics, SAGE and Students for Choice that are fueled by past and present feminist activism and ideals and create events, support and communities for anyone interested in equality.

“I define feminism as understanding women as people alongside men,” said Catherine Medici-Thiemann, a graduate assistant for women’s and gender studies. “It’s the fight for equality for the genders, associating everybody as an individual shaped by their place in society and their place by their world. Not just men in one group and women in another group but everyone as individuals.”

Though feminist is not always used in the title, there are campus organizations that work for the rights and equality of all genders and sexes.

The International Association for Feminist Economics works through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Business and is a direct contributor to the Rice Publishing House’s journal, “Feminists Economics.” It is a worldwide organization with more than 600 members in 55 countries. With the help of other universities’ research programs, the IAFFE gathers statistics and data on issues directly impacting women. The information put out by IAFFE is used by organizations such as the World Bank and the Ford Foundation. Ann Marie May, director of IAFFE, said that the organization works to promote the presence of gender in scholarly research.

“IAFFE is one example of UNL’s feminist work,” May said.

“IAFFE has been doing the work and giving a home to research for the past 20 years. It started out 20 years ago as exceptions,

just asking that women were mentioned in the last chapter and then saying we’d covered gender. It’s caused a complete change in economics, there isn’t a non-government organization out there that doesn’t recognize that to study something like economic development that you have to include gender.”

IAFFE has been at the forefront of promoting the understanding and application of gender’s impact in economics and global physical development. Their mission statement describes them as “an open, diverse community of academics, activists, policy theorists and practitioners from around the world.”

“It’s a place where scholars interested in gender issues and gender research could pursue the studies that bring knowledge about these issues,” May said. “It’s developed worldwide and developed in the state of Nebraska. Our common cause is to further gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis with the goal of enhancing the well-being of children, women and men in local, national and transnational communities.”

The studies published and organized by IAFFE have aided women’s rights in a variety of ways, including showing the benefits of sponsoring a low-income region.

“Our view of feminism is not just focusing on women,” May said. “We happen to think that when everyone is given the opportunities, that families are better and that everyone is better off. Without a home like IAFFE, you can imagine that in an area like economics that women’s issues don’t get analyzed and studied.”

Women’s and Gender Studies is strongly influenced by staff and students who are observant of feminist issues locally and globally. The courses are not specifically altered to follow any feminist agenda but promote equality and understanding of women, gender and sexuality. They look at research, activists, public figures and other members of society throughout the fields of history, English literature, media and psychology.

“Women’s and Gender Studies really advances equal rights for all,” Kalisa said. “They’re going to be involved in civil rights, in sexuality, in studies for the same reason. You can’t just ask for one group.”

According to its first chairwoman Moira Ferguson, the then Women’s Studies Program was sparked by national movements in the 1970s to “elevate the standards of justice and democracy in the United States.”

The coursework is mainly based on looking at gender-related theories and history. The civil rights movement, women’s suffrage movement, women’s liberation, American Indian Movement and Stonewall are only a few of the historical events that are analyzed. The impact of past events and the future of equal rights go hand in hand with the variety of courses that can be prevalent to a student’s specific interest in an equality or feminist topic.

“Women’s and Genders Studies is an academic program, which means we have courses, majors and minors,” said Kalisa. “So, the different instructor’s goal is to look at materials and knowledge. What has been written about it, what has been produced about it. The goal is to promote students’ knowledge and encourage students to ask questions about how relevant it is in real life. We’ve had students who have gone out to do

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 13

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM health work, who are psychologists, who are geologists. You need to have some knowledge.”

Feminism is of course not a required belief system, but feminist theories and feminist perspectives will impact the course work.

The department also supports speakers on the issues facing feminists and women in modern society. It’s promoted Orange is the New Black actress and transgender activist Laverne Cox in her presentation “Ain’t I a Woman” this September. It’s also promoted novelists such as Ana Castillo, activists such as Karma Chavez and many others from around the globe.

Kalisa said she is glad the organization is present on campus because it provides an environment where discussion can take place.

“The fact that we exist, that gender studies exists, means that they are supportive of this kind of knowledge,” Kalisa said.

The Women’s Center is a branch of Student Involvement at UNL, located on the third floor of the Nebraska Union. It was started in 1971 and is mainly a volunteer-run organization.

It houses counseling, a safe space, a discussion room and a resource library that promotes women’s and gender empowerment on campus. Its focus is on students and the Lincoln community, with services and events that can directly aid and encourage women on campus.

“One of my favorite things is when we go and do presentation for PREVENT or the Women’s Center, and seeing people being engaged,” said PREVENT coordinator Jamie Porter. “They contribute to the conversation and share their stories, while coming up afterward and asking how they can get involved.”

The center provides a healthy and positive environment that facilitates discussion about relationships, body image, violence prevention and other gender issues. It houses PREVENT, a student organization that also works with the UNL Athletic Department to end relationship violence and sexual assault. PREVENT provides presentations, group discussions and information about these topics. In partnership with Voices of Hope, the Women’s Center helps organize Week Without Violence in October, where speakers and activities are held around campus to bring awareness to violence against women and minorities. During this event, the center caught the attention of local TV stations in Lincoln when it organized Greek fraternities to write a pledge taking a stand against sexual violence.

“This is a big step, we had all but five fraternities write in,” Deeds said. “To have most of the groups say that ‘this is important, it’s on us,’ I’m very excited about that.”

Though these actions are not dictated to a feminist agenda, the social activism focused on by the Women’s Center parallels feminist ideals.

In addition to prevention of violence, it provides information about sexual health, gender identity and workplace equality. Over the last 43 years, Deed said she thinks that the center’s activism has grown from ideas of volunteers into actions performed on campus.

“That’s one of the joys of being part of a movement for a long time,” Deeds said. “To see it move from a fringe into the mainstream, so then it is just normal.”

Several factors come into play when students choose to identify with a label. They question whether it is relevant to their daily lives and truly a necessary layer to their identity. Regardless of the department or activity, the ideals of feminism are encompassed through alternative words and ideals. Labeling oneself as a feminist is not required.

“The generation we have right now might not need that word to do feminist work,” said

Kalisa. “It might be passé, I think it’s more of an interjection: ‘Why would I need to label myself that way?’ It’s the same mistake that people make about Civil Rights saying, ‘oh, we don’t need to revisit that.’ Some people, men and women, who would say ‘now we can go to college, now we can do this and that.’ Its like people are being relaxed about it. But not realizing there are so many questions that have not been answered. Like 77 cents to a dollar that men make compared to women. Questions about health care. Questions about mothers having to leave their jobs to take care of their kids, whether by choice or not. It doesn’t matter but there is still interesting questions. I think the young generation could just be misunderstood.

We have made progress but we are not there yet.”

In a poll conducted last April by the Huffington Post, 26 percent considered feminism a positive term, while 37 percent considered it a negative term.

“Focusing on the word is always misleading,” said Kalisa. “There are people who practice feminism all the time, who are practicing or asking for equal rights. That’s an act.”

Organizations like the Women’s and Gender Studies department and the Women’s Center choose to use alternative words to promote action of feminists ideals of equality.

“Changing the word to ‘women’s’, or just making it equal rights; everyone in the U.S., everyone in the Midwest gets it,” said Kalisa.

“Equal rights, fairness, equity: these are very useful terms. If you are in a group of people who think feminism is man-hating, use the proper action words: justice, equal rights. If you were to be in a meeting, you would not necessarily use that word. Even my faculty, they don’t use that word because it’s not about the word. It’s about the actions. The point is not to advance the word feminism, the point is to advance the feminist work, like women’s rights and gender rights.”

May said that she too believes that the word feminism shouldn’t be debated because it sidesteps the bigger issues at hand.

“Words create deviations and focusing on the semantics of it is not productive,” said May. “I think there are some people who want to argue about ‘the words,’ but I’m more interested in real world problems. How we can study and put curtain policies in place to make the world a better place.”

The word ‘feminist’ is sometimes met with pushback and reluctance; Deeds said the best way to work through these kinds of definitionbased disagreements is to discuss the issues at hand.

“Redirecting the conversation because it is easy to get caught up on those little things,” Deeds said. “Maybe the word is not as important as what the next work that needs to be done.”

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

14 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Lingerie offers something for everyone Buying new lingerie can be expensive, but its many uses in foreplay and in life make it worth the investment HANNAH EADS DN As much as I love shopping for new lingerie, it’s typically unaffordable for me.

Even the cheaper stuff is, in my opinion, overpriced. But when I have the chance to splurge on something from Victoria’s Secret or ASOS I consider also adding something new to my sex life.

To me, making the cost of lingerie worth it is to do more than just wear it under all my other clothes. A bra that’s upwards of $40 or panties that are $20 make me want to flaunt it, not hide it, and there are plenty of ways to do so.

But maybe lingerie isn’t your thing and you decide to take the opposite route, choosing not to wear a bra or underwear. There’s sexual purpose in choosing not to wear a piece of lingerie, opting for the feeling of vulnerability to the feeling of outside clothes

twisted into an infinity symbol and used and the chance of someone else noticing, just that way, maybe slipped around a bedpost as as there’s purpose in wearing a garter belt in well. They won’t be sturdy or hard to get out wanting someone to notice the lingerie susof, but it’s the sentiment that counts. pender running down your thigh.

Underwear can be used as a gag and a It’s common to be attracted to the idea tickling toy. It can be used to tease the clit of someone not wearing a bra or underwear, just as it’s common to be attracted to the im- both with a partner and during masturbation. age of a red lacy bra on someone.

Little things like using your bra to pull I often go without a bra because I feel like I don’t really need one for support and your partner closer to you also helps add an extra amount of playfulbecause I like the feeling ness to foreplay. of having just a shirt on.

Another way to put But to me, the best part A bra that’s upwards your lingerie to use is about lingerie is the vaof $40 or panties to do a striptease. These riety in materials, looks are fun no matter who’s and functions. I’ve gone that are $20 make me watching. You can strip through phases where I want to flaunt it, not hide in front of the mirror buy nothing but lace, but and watch yourself, there’s also satin, cotton, it, and there are plenty of strip for a partner or sheer and even fishnetstrip for people over the style fabric to choose ways to do so.”

Internet. In stripping, all from. When I want to be parts of lingerie are immore comfortable, I go for cotton, but satin and sheer materials are portant and come in handy. Bra straps can be extremely smooth to the touch and can help pulled down for a tease, same with the sides heighten sensitivity, especially after a shave and backs of panties. Add garter belts and knee-highs or just panty hose to create even or wax.

In that sense, lingerie can be used for self- more layers to it. The benefit of having differpleasure, foreplay and sex as well, on and off ent lingerie in your wardrobe is being able to mix and match and experiment with fabrics the body. and styles.

Really any kind of fabric can be made I’m a big fan of garter belts because it into makeshift handcuffs. Panties can be

adds even more straps to undo in the mix of lingerie. They draw attention to the thighs and are fun to wear in public with a cute dress or skirt.

Heels aren’t really lingerie but are another element that can be added to your sex life.

I encourage undressing yourself and your partner in new sexual ways – going slow, fast, using your teeth, your feet. Unless you’re in a rush to get right to the sex, undressing shouldn’t be skipped over in foreplay. Or if you leave the lingerie on, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t grab or pull at it during sex, with the owner ’s consent.

With Halloween approaching, costume lingerie can also be used for roleplaying.

There’s no limit to what you can do and act out. Websites like Trashy.com sell costumes including superhero and villain costumes, police and cheerleader costumes and much more. Costume lingerie is important for the imagery in roleplaying, but part of the fun is also taking the costumes off.

The more I explore lingerie, the more I want to try on new brands and styles. What’s more exciting than seeing how a new piece of lingerie fits your body and how it looks coming off?

I like to treat myself and my sex life, and lingerie seems to satisfy both.

ARTS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

CAMPUS STYLE

DARCY STEFFENS freshman fashion design major

We love great style here at the Daily Nebraskan Arts and Entertainment section. That’s why this year, we’ll be scouting out the best-dressed students on campus to feature in our very first weekly street style section.

We plan on featuring all interesting UNL style. Whether that be a stylish sorority girl or a man wearing a Scooby-Doo costume

on campus, we’re looking for the best and most unique fashion campus. So to all you trendsetters out there, your next outfit might be printed right here in Daily Nebraskan.

Top - Zara Vest - Kohl’s Skirt - Forever 21 Boots - Dillard’s

“I guess I would describe my style as ‘preppy chic.’ I like to wear classic things with staple pieces and make them interesting. This season I’m loving structured dresses, origami skirts and lots of black and white color palettes. My friend Maddie Joutras and I have a fashion blog, actually.

We just started it because we’re both TMFD majors and like that sort of thing. We only have about one post right now, but it’s fun!”

—COMPILED BY MADELINE CHRISTENSEN

ANDREW BARRY | DN

15

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 DailyNebraskan.com

Jacy Marmaduke Editor-in-chief

Conor Dunn Managing editor

Ben Curttright Assistant Opinion editor

OPINION

Faiz Siddiqui Print News editor

Zach Fulciniti Print A&E editor

Eric Bertrand Print Sports editor

Amy Kenyon Opinion editor

DAILY nebraskan editorial board members

HRC presence shows promise for LGBT rights The Human Rights Campaign has recently established a home in Nebraska, and with that newfound presence, age-old restrictions against LGBT individuals could begin to disappear.

Although advocacy groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Nebraska Appleseed and Nebraskans for Civic Reform are active in our state, never before have we had a state-wide organization solely dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT people.

In September, HRC announced that this local chapter will work to pass legal protections for LGBT people in housing, employment and public accommodations.

Last April, state senators failed to vote on an ordinance that would have barred businesses from discriminating against current or prospective employees based on sexual orientation.

And two years ago, after the Lincoln City Council voted unanimously to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, opponents of the ordinance signed a petition that forced the council to put the issue before voters. The vote has yet to take place, so LGBT individuals remain unprotected in many workplaces.

Omaha is the only city in the state that has found success in barring workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

In a survey the HRC conducted, 41 percent of LGBT Nebraskans said

courtesy photo

they’ve experienced harassment at work, more than 1 in 5 said they’ve experienced employment discrimination and one-third of LGBT respondents in rural areas said they’ve experienced

editorial policy The editorial above contains the opinion of the fall 2014 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board.

It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

A column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily

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

harassment in school on a weekly basis.

Thirty-one states have already prohibited employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. Twentyeight states have prohibited discrimina-

tion based on gender identity. Clearly Nebraska is on the slower end of the LGBT acceptance spectrum.

But it doesn’t have to be. Not when it comes to working a job, which we’ve been taught since childhood is essential to a happy, healthy life.

When LGBT people enter the workplace, they should have the right to feel equal to any other working human being.

They shouldn’t have to worry about being fired for having a photo of their loved one on their desk. They shouldn’t have to worry about being denied a promotion. And they certainly shouldn’t have to worry about being harassed at work.

This doesn’t need to be a matter of religious or cultural beliefs. Our forefathers dubbed America the “Land of the Free,” after all. The only thing Americans should have to fear in the workplace is being fired for a lack of dedication to their jobs.

Change isn’t expected to happen overnight or even in one legislative session. But with the establishment of HRC Nebraska, the state is closer to legalizing everyday rights for LGBT individuals and making them feel like an equal part of society.

The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board would like to extend its support to HRC for recognizing the need for more advocacy in Nebraska, and we look forward to seeing what progress it can foster.

opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

letters to the editor policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor and guest columns but does not guarantee their publication. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit or reject any material submitted. Submitted material becomes property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be returned or removed from

online archives. Anonymous submissions will not be published. Those who submit letters must identify themselves by name, year in school, major, and/or group affiliation, if any.

Email material to opinion@dailynebraskan. com or mail to: Daily Nebraskan, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Lincoln, NE 68588-0448.

16 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Homelessness in Lincoln POINT

Lincoln sends wrong message to homeless Emily Kuklinski

L

incoln, Nebraska: Visit nice, join in on the good life. In many ways, Lincoln is a great place to live.

In 2013, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found our city to be the happiest place in the United States. We have high job satisfaction and an overall feeling of safety walking the streets at night. The only downside would be the benches.

The Daily Nebraskan has devoted quite a bit of coverage to this issue. News writer Annie Bohling recently covered the new P Street benches and how they’re meant to discourage people from sleeping on them.

Downtown Lincoln Association President Terry Uland defended the new bench designs in the article, saying that this measure was adopted as a method to prevent downtown Lincolnites from feeling unease and fearful of aggressive panhandlers in the area.

Although the benches weren’t placed out of malice toward the downtown homeless population, they aren’t in their best interest, either. There are days when I walk out of rehearsal to the parking garage and I find people huddled in tattered blankets outside on the sidewalk. It seems odd that we’re placing laws to dissuade panhandling in certain areas, and at the same time, denying them places to sleep.

Nebraska is supposed to be nice. When I first moved here in 2005, I was perplexed by how welcoming people were. It’s a social sin to not wave back to someone when you pass

by them on the street. When you say, “Hello,” to someone, they talk to you. A woman in my neighborhood noticed that I walked my dog every day at a consistent time, and without having met me before asked me to babysit her children. People in Nebraska are trusting and trustworthy people. They’re nice, warmhearted.

The big-little city of Lincoln also proved to live up to its happiness rating. For a capital city, the people here still act like my neighbors in Papillion, which, for a person who has lived in and been around big cities for a good portion of her adolescence, is unheard of. Everyone seems to know everyone, people will stop their cars in the middle of an intersection to see if the guy with his blinkers on is alright at 11 p.m.. Even Lincoln’s most aggressive panhandlers, in my experience, have good manners.

I can walk around in Downtown Lincoln, and although I notice people sitting on the sidewalk with signs asking for food or money, I’ve never had someone pressure me into giving them anything. Or if I ended up giving them food or a water bottle, I don’t read aggression or a want for more. Instead, they gladly accept my offer and go about their day. Compared to other cities, Nebraska’s homeless population is not intrusive.

When I lived in Washington, D.C., panhandling was something I saw on a slightly more aggressive scale. Anytime we were stuck in traffic in D.C. (which was all the time), there’d be a few people knocking on the stopped car windows attempting to sell bouquets of flowers for $5. Although I was little, I felt bad that I couldn’t give them anything then, and it makes me feel guilty when I can’t give anything now. Establishing laws where people are prevented from asking for money within 20 feet of an ATM, although it might seem aggressive in some ways, helps keep people on a tight budget from feeling guilty .

Homelessness is a problem, it’s not a disease. While we’re trying to cure panhandling

14th St.

IAN TREDWAY | DN aggression, the only aggressors I’ve identified are found wedged on our benches. When we place these specialized seats around the city, it’s a way of publicly saying that they’re doing something wrong by intruding on us. What we need to be saying instead, as a community, is that we’re here to help. Instead of creating benches to dissuade them from taking shelter for the night, why don’t we give them a place to sleep instead?

Per usual, the Canadians have found a polite way to handle this issue. In Vancouver, they have created benches that have written across them “Find Shelter Here.” The bench then opens up to give the people laying

down on the bench a roof over their head for the night to protect them from the elements.

In New York City, there’s a bus that drives around offering the homeless a free place to shower, and San Francisco is planning to start doing the same thing.

If we were to begin incorporating ways to humanize the homeless rather than alienate them, Lincoln could be an even happier place.

EMILY KUKLINSKI IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND THEATRE MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR FOLLOW HER ON TWITTER @THEFUNNYEMILY

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 17

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

COUNTERPOINT

University should help homeless find new place to live Jaz Schoeneck

I

don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but homeless people hang out in the Nebraska Union. They’re a bit hairy, a bit smelly and definitely not students. Sometimes they’re sitting with a Runza or a cup of coffee, sometimes they’re sleeping, sometimes they’re just staring off into space. I’m

GET A JOB. COME WORK FOR THE DN. APPLY AT OUR OFFICE OR AT DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

sure they’re great people who are just down on their luck, but I see this as an issue. It’s mostly a personal hygiene issue, but I don’t think that we should have homeless people using the union as their home. Instead, I’d like to see them provided adequate housing and nutrition so that they can be helped to their feet because it’s just not appropriate to have the union become a place where vagrants and the like just live.

I don’t want to come off as heartless. Those who are without homes and jobs are in need serious help. There are homeless people that sleep on just about every street and in the doorways of a number of downtown businesses. If you’ve spent even a moment downtown you’ve likely seen one with a rolled up sleeping bag and

SCHOENECK: SEE PAGE 22

48th & R. Lincoln

Four Roses Single Barrel 750mL.....................................$29.99 Karkov Vodka 1.75L........................................$8.99 Ciroc Vodka 750mL.....................................$26.99 Barcardi Rum Flavors 750mL.....................................$14.99 Kinky Blue, Pink, Gold 750mL.....................................$13.99

Bud, Bud Lt. 24pk warm............................$16.49 Tallgrass Brewing 4pk 16oz................................$6.99 Schells Oktoberfest 12pk warm............................$10.99 Tommyknocker Brewing 6pk warm..............................$7.99 Lagunitas Brewing 6pk warm..............................$7.99

Prices good through October 29th

http://nstreetdrivein.com/

18 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Should

student-athletes

be paid? point

Paying student-athletes will harm academic institutions Oliver Tonkin

C

ollege athletes shouldn’t be paid for their time and efforts representing their universities in sport and competition. Shifting from amateurism to professionalism contradicts the very nature of academic institutions and its athletic programs. The purpose of collegiate sport is to enhance the experience and accessibility for students. I wrote about this issue in March, partially focusing on the National Labor Relations Board decision to grant employee status to Northwestern University football players. I argued against the Northwestern football team’s ability to unionize. After some consideration, I might conditionally yield and support a studentathlete union that can barter and advocate for certain things such as more safety precautions and healthcare but not salaries. No student-athlete should ever get paid because it would result in the degradation of academic institutions and collegiate sport and would likely cause severe inequalities between men’s and women’s athletics.

One of the primary objectives of the National Collegiate Athletic Association is to encourage academic success. Most student-athletes will never go professional and will seek gainful employment beyond their brief athletic career at college. If collegiate sport shifted from amateurism to professionalism, this would discourage academic involvement, which is fundamentally the purpose of academic institutions. Paying student-

athletes could existentially threaten other athletic ketball team? What about other sports or women’s teams? Do we pay all athletes irrespective of programs such as soccer, tennis and swimming. their gender, role and participation? There are too Furthermore, any sort of salary compensation in many unanswerable questions. addition or outright replacement of scholarships Imagine if only revenue programs gave out might detach athletics from academics entirely. In salaries. This would further entrench the hierprinciple, it is wrong. In practice, it’s impossible. archical paradigm of Division I sports. Athletes Paying student-athletes is infeasible withwould likely go to whichever college was offering out ignoring fiscal responsibility and legally the most money. This might result in Alabama, mandated equality. Title IX requires equal opportunities for women at schools who receive Nebraska or Oregon always winning the champifederal funding. This mandate includes a literal onship, much to the chagrin of most other teams.

No big deal to non-sports fans, but it definitely 1:1 gender ratio. Any benefit afforded to a male athlete must likewise be granted to a female ath- harms some fans.

What if all athletes got paid the same salary? lete. Paying student athletes could existentially If cost was no concern, then everything would threaten other athletic programs. With few exceptions, only some Division I men’s basketball and be peachy, right? Maybe not. The reason why football teams are able to financially sustain their there’s been such a movement for male football and basketball athletes to be paid in particular programs. All other athletic programs in Division is that those programs make money. If everyone I and the other divisions are non-revenue programs and rely on subsidies from the university got paid the same, football and basketball playand its donors. The Nebraska Cornhuskers foot- ers could reasonably demand more.

Many studentball team could probably afathletes, like many ford to pay their players. But Even giving athletes non-athlete college stuwhat about Vanderbilt? East dents, are from modCarolina State? Only 23 of an inch could open est backgrounds with 228 athletic departments of up Pandora’s Box. little resources to pay the NCAA Division I public for things. I grant that schools earn revenue. Even If athletes can receive the NCAA and colleges then, most revenue-earning money for autographs, can often take advantage of programs received some college athletes. Athletes subsidies,and recent trends they endorse Gatorade or sacrifice their bodies in indicate an unsustainable order for the university cost versus revenue that Nike?” to make money. Husker would threaten the solvency running back Ameer of these athletic programs.

Abdullah runs the ball 20-30 times a game on But what if somehow we managed to fund average. He’ll likely be drafted in the NFL next most or all football and basketball programs from year, though his window to make use of his talpublic and private institutions? How would we ents as a running back is very small. But most disperse salaries? Would star players get paid student-athletes won’t see a single cent for playmore? Would all players be paid the same? Would ing a sport. basketball players get paid more than football The universities and the NCAA should enplayers because there are fewer athletes on a bas-

sure there’s a comprehensive healthcare package that covers all athletes for any potential, lingering or future injuries or issues that have derived from their time as a college athlete. Furthermore the universities should be obligated to encourage student-athletes to finish their degree and prepare them for a career in their field of study. That’s entirely the point of enrolling an accredited academic institution. Otherwise, I believe that tuition, housing, food, athletic gear and insurance are the only compensation that anyone can reasonably justify for college athletes. Athletic scholarships give enormous benefits to athletes that aren’t available to normal students. While academic scholarships exist, it makes sense because it’s an academic institution whose primary purpose is to educate someone.

Amateur status as required by the NCAA impose that student-athletes never use their status to take any money or financial consideration, such as a car or dinner, from anyone.

I might consider an amendment to this clause.

The NCAA is investigating Jameis Winston, the much maligned quarterback from Florida State University, for possibly accepting money in return for autographs. This seems like a mild offense that could be reformed and embedded into the NCAA’s permissible practices. Yet, even giving athletes an inch could open up Pandora’s Box. If athletes can receive money for autographs, can they endorse Gatorade or Nike?

Practical and principle arguments can only point to one answer. Don’t pay student-athletes.

This would inevitably harm the academic institutions and might result in harmful inequalities on gender and the student-athlete themselves.

Oliver Tonkin is a senior political science, global studies and Latin American studies major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com or on twitter @thebrutalwolf.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014 | 19

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

COUNTERPOINT

Student-athletes deserve stipends, medical benefits

T

SUSANNAH FOOS DN

o pay or not to pay student athletes for their endeavors has been an argument since the beginning of the NCAA. Colleges and universities award athletes with scholarships and merchandise.

But what happens if an athlete gets seriously injured while playing? What happens to their athletic aspirations? Do they lose their scholarships to play? What happens to those who aren’t on scholarship?

Student athletes sell their soul to their college, dedicating four years of their lives to their sport. Their day includes waking up early to lift, going to classes and practice, lifting again, another possible work out then coming home to study. Maintaining grades in college is tough enough; add the pressure to maintain a sports scholarship or even stay on the team, and it becomes clear that being a student athlete is a never ending job. So why shouldn’t they receive some form of payment for their dedication?

The NCAA should pay student athletes a stipend for their participation in college athletics, similar to the stipend arrangement used by ROTC programs. To receive an ROTC stipend, cadets must pass physical training and sign a contract to join their preferred military branch upon graduation. Military cadets on contract receive a tax-free allowance each month in school, and during the summer, they can receive a stipend of $450 to $500 depending on the cadet’s year. These stipends reflect the additional work a cadet is expected to put in. Because their demands are higher than those of an average student, they’re compensated on top of scholarships.

Each individual athlete would receive the same stipend amount allowing equal representation of each sport and gender and individual. This would mean that each athlete – starter, substitute, bench warmer or practice squad player would receive the same stipend amount. Stipends would have to fluctuate because of specific sports’ greater accomplishments. Basketball-dominant or footballdominant schools wouldn’t receive more money because of their higher performance.

It would be an equal amount of money given per individual player. These stipends would be distributed through the NCAA, instead of individual universities. The NCAA makes incredible profits off these student-athletes.

Teams and specific players are often advertised in merchandise, which increases profit for the NCAA. Think of all the merchandise sold and publicity the NCAA received just through March Madness. March Madness 2013 generated $1.15 billion in advertising revenue.

The NCAA – a nonprofit organization – makes bank off of student athletes. I believe that it’s the NCAA’s duty to award some stipend to athletes. The United States is in major debt, yet it give stipends to its ROTC college students. The NCAA should give student-athletes similar respect.

Furthermore, the NCAA shouldn’t allow athletes to leave empty handed with a major injury at the end of their college career. After four years of this job, some students leave with life-changing injuries that were inflicted during their collegiate career. Taylor Martinez could have progressed as a professional football player had it not been for his injury, causing his failure in the physical entry exam for the NFL. Some athletes, such as Martinez, are determined to become professionals in their sport; when a major injury robs them of their possibility, their future is turned upside down.

Additionally, not all injuries show themselves immediately. Neuroscientists have begun to see links between subconcussive brain injuries and brain disease later in life.

While a stipend might not sufficiently cover all medical costs, these injuries are currently going completely unnoticed and uncompensated. The NCAA should give additional money to these injured players after their career to assist with medical costs.

These medical benefits would be determined through a physical and mental health exam at the beginning and end of athletes’ college careers. The beginning exam ensures an athlete’s health is in playing condition for each season. The end exam would determine any injuries during the course of four years that could have negatively impacted the player ’s future. Examples of these injuries could range from severe concussions to a torn ACL. Athletes who might have subconcussive brain injuries or other long term injuries should be required to have a checkup after five years to determine any medical issues that might have arisen since graduation.

The NCAA should be responsible for following up on the health of its student-athletes.

Not all collegiate athletes achieve professional status after graduation, but these stipend formats would reward athletes for their participation. The stipends would also ensure a small form of medical benefits from the NCAA. There’s enough money, so why aren’t our athletes receiving a fair stipend for their athleticism while they are promoting and advertising for the NCAA? SUSANNAH FOOS IS A FRESHMAN ADVERTISING/PUBLIC RELATIONS AND BROADCASTING MAJOR. FOLLOW HER @ SUSANNAHFOOS OR REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

LYDIA COTTON | DN

20 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

CDC should better educate public on Ebola Tegan Colton

T

he mass hysteria surrounding the Ebola virus is unfounded, at least according to official warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and the Federal Government. It makes sense that Americans shouldn’t panic: The virus hasn’t had any real outbreak in the United States, and the only two people who caught the virus contracted it after direct contact with a patient.

Americans probably just need to be calm and understand they’re safe, but I can’t help but feel frustrated when the government lies to us in order to promote that sense of safety.

“Ebola is actually difficult to catch,” CNN reported in an article last week. “People are at risk (only) if they come into very close contact with the blood, saliva, sweat, feces, semen, vomit, or soiled clothing of an Ebola patient,” the article said, concurring with what the government and CDC have been insisting. “You cannot get (Ebola) through casual contact,” President Obama said in a public

statement two weeks ago. Both the media and the government are doing their best to explain to how difficult it is to contract Ebola by presenting us with facts to calm our worry. These are good efforts because there probably isn’t a good reason to worry.

What is worrisome is how Americans are being presented with false information like this – and we’re believing it.

The truth is Ebola isn’t difficult to catch, and one doesn’t have to come into direct contact with an infected person to contract it. Ebola can be spread through sweat, tears and saliva and can be transmitted through contact with an object an infected person may have touched. The virus can survive on surfaces after an infected person touched it and any casual contact with said surfaces could cause another person to contract the disease. The Ebola virus can survive on surfaces for up to 23 days. It can also survive in male seminal fluid for up to 7 weeks after clinical recovery and is capable of being transmitted even after the patient seems to have fully recovered. Additionally, an infected person may spread the virus quickly with others because their “initial symptoms may be non-specific” and be mistaken for the flu or a mild fever and feel fine leaving their house, according to the Daily Mail.

The Ebola virus is spread easily, and it’s deadly.

According to the World Health Organization, Ebola has a 50 to 90 percent fatality rate. Recent reports covering the epidemic in West Africa calculate the death toll to have exceeded 4,500 since it began in March, with twice as many people in-

fected currently seeking treatment.

The Western world seems to believe the outbreak in Africa is a result of their extreme poverty and medical ignorance. As a result, the CDC has placed a lot of blame on the two Texan nurses who contracted the disease in the U.S., citing a “breach of protocol” and assuring civilians the disease was only spread because of their extreme clumsiness. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise. More than 240 health care workers across the globe have contracted the disease, with many, if not most, rigorously following the safety requirements established by WHO. Nurse Teresa Romero Ramos contracted the disease earlier this month while caring for patients in a Madrid hospital, even though she was wearing a fully protective suit. When asked how she suspects she caught the disease, Romero Ramos said, “I can’t tell you, I haven’t the slightest idea.”

The nurse said she didn’t do anything that would put her at risk and is confident that she followed all required protocols. Many other doctors and nurses are coming out expressing similar sentiments, explaining they took all necessary precautions and contracted the disease anyway.

Perhaps if the West didn’t rely so much on its assumed intellectual superiority we could learn a few things from our suffering brothers and sisters in Africa – more is required to stop Ebola.

This Tuesday, WHO declared Nigeria Ebola free after its government took significant efforts to educate its workers and contain the virus. The

efforts prove that Ebola is containable but only with proper education and extreme caution. How we’re educating our citizens and health care workers here isn’t enough.

If the CDC had admitted this and told civilians the truth about their ignorance and Ebola’s highly contagious nature, maybe American journalist Ashoka Mukpo would have better known what to avoid when visiting Africa: “For the record – no idea how I got it,” he tweeted. “My best guess is I touched a surface and didn’t chlorinate fast enough.

Thought I was keeping a good distance, wish I knew exactly what went wrong.”

Misinformation kills. I understand the CDC’s efforts to calm people down. There likely won’t be an outbreak in the U.S., so worrying about it in our day-to-day lives is essentially pointless. However, telling people half-truths in order to put them at ease will only make the situation worse. People are dying because of ignorance; people are dying because the West won’t admit what it doesn’t know. The truth is not that Ebola isn’t very contagious. The truth is that it’s contagious and deadly.

The only real way to prevent an outbreak and stop the situation from getting worse is for the West to explain the full truth, admit its ignorance and take every precaution necessary to keep its civilians away from this deadly disease.

Tegan Colton is a senior English major. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Nebraska behind on race, LGBTQA issues Ben Curttright

R

ight before fall break, right before what was already promising to be an exciting weekend, one of my professors said something extremely troubling about Nebraska.

The assigned reading for the day was Ta-Nehisi Coates’s brilliant feature in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations.” Our conversation about relative privilege and political power became a lot more personal, though, when we began discussing how issues of race and gender have been treated in our state.

“When I moved to Lincoln in the 90s,” the professor said, “it was like going back to rural Illinois in the ‘70s. People were saying the n-word in grocery stores. It was nuts.”

We like to think that these problems will sort of work themselves out throughout time. That the next generation will be more tolerant than the last; that we’re always improving as a society; that things are, in short, getting better. And that was my first reaction. Lincoln was worse back then, I thought, but it’s not 1990 anymore. Of course, so

many inequalities still exist, and so much is still wrong, but at least people can walk down the street without having slurs hurled at them, right?

Except, they can’t. As Nebraskans, we haven’t done nearly enough to effect social change. Our state has a well-deserved reputation for being backward or behind on race and LGBTQA issues. That has to change.

Last Saturday night, my new band had our first live show at a house in Omaha. I was understandably very excited; while stressful for its own reasons, playing music doesn’t come with the same kinds of difficulties as critiquing Nozick’s political philosophy through the lens of critical race theory or analyzing the woman-less Moby Dick’s place in the English canon.

The real world came crashing through the proverbial window on the way to the show. Our trumpet player, Eric, and I were walking to my car outside a friend’s house in midtown Omaha when a white truck came speeding by. The driver yelled something in our direction, which I didn’t catch.

Eric, though, stopped short.

A bit of background: Eric has identified as nonbinary for several months now, but lately, she has been feeling more and more comfortable presenting as female and openly identifying as a demigirl.

In simplest terms, she would explain that she is transgender, but as she’s explained to me several times, it’s not that simple, and to assume that it is – that a designated-male-at-birth person is either male or transgender – is to dehumanize much of the queer community from the start.

Dealing with her gender identity has been difficult for her at home, though. She still lives with her parents at their house in a suburb of Chicago, and because of the ever-present fears of ostracization and judgment, she’s been forced to keep her gender identity secret at home. This weekend, before driving out to Omaha to play our show, she mentioned being excited for the opportunity to dress comfortably without having to face her family. Apart from the occasional reminder to take a few photographs of her from the waist-up, giving her the opportunity to hide her skirt from her parents, the weekend was supposed to be, again, less stressful than usual.

Think of how awful I felt, then, when she turned to me on that Omaha street corner and said, “Well, now I’ve had the f-slur shouted at me for the first time.”

She was visibly shaken after the encounter.

Despite assurances that things would be OK once we got to the show, she decided at the last moment to change out of her skirt and into gender-neutral black jeans right before our set. She didn’t feel safe performing while presenting as female.

She had so many legitimate reasons to be upset.

Slurs, whether related to gender, sexuality, race or other factors, are, as DN columnist Walker Edwards wrote earlier this week, inherently dehumanizing.

But, they also carry with them a threat. Despite visible advances in the general political consciousness for the LGBTQA community, violence against transgender women especially has increased over the past several years, and transgender people are 28 percent more likely to experience physical

violence than people who are gender normative.

Hearing the f-slur yelled at you in a strange city is more than just uncomfortable; it brings to mind the significant dangers of identifying as transgender or non-binary.

This isn’t an isolated incident, either. Our online news section wrote today about the aftermath of Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Senator Cameron Murphy repeatedly using the n-word during an ASUN meeting last fall. Murphy was eventually reprimanded by the university and censured by ASUN. Since then, there has been little conversation about the issue.

Both incidents, though they deal with different groups with different histories, are representative of the same kinds of oppressive social structures that have long prioritized the rights and comforts of the white male ruling class above all else. And in both cases, the instigators went essentially unpunished by our community as a whole.

We as individuals can work to change this. We can call out friends for using slurs and correct the kind of logic that leads to discrimination. We can fix Nebraska’s backward reputation by becoming educated Nebraskans and educating other Nebraskans about social justice issues.

Because the worst part is this: How many of you reading this column are surprised that a transgender girl was verbally harassed in Nebraska?

That alone means we have a problem.

Ben Curttright is the assistant Opinion editor and a fourth-year English major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | 21

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

Why not finish what you started at SCC?

You can do this!

Finish the degree you started at Southeast Community College!

Deli Fresh

Pizza

11

Select Varieties, 12”

2/$

What is Reverse Transfer?

Reverse transfer is the process of awarding an associate degree to students who begin their education at SCC, transfer to another institution, and complete their associate degree requirements while working toward a bachelor’s degree. In this case, UNL.

Why do it?

• The completed degree is a marketable credential for your resume and an important milestone in your education.

• Employers value a degree as evidence of your commitment to expanding your knowledge and achieving your educational goals.

• A degree can help you land a better job while continuing your education.

Old Spice or Secret

Fresh

Deodorant

Seedless Green Grapes

1

Select Varieties, 2.6 - 3.25 oz.

1

$ 18

$ 98

Lb.

SIGN UP TO HAVE WEEKLY SPECIALS, RECIPES AND MORE EMAILED TO YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE

www.Super-Saver.com Employee Owned

“This process has allowed me to accomplish my educational career goals. I’m very appreciative of all the advising staff at SCC who helped me. It was a very quick and easy transfer, and in the end I felt a sense of accomplishment.”

Brooke Werner, Associate of Science Degree, Academic Transfer Graduate, December 2013

We Sell for Less

OPEN 24 HOURS AD EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 23 - 28, 2014

Go to www.southeast.edu/CompleteYourDegree to learn more

WED

THURS

FRI

SAT

SUN

MON

TUES

23 24 25 26 27 28 We reserve the right to limit quantities, require minimum purchases and correct typographical errors. While Supplies Last.

• 27th & Cornhusker Hwy. • 48th & O St. • 27th & Pine Lake • 56th & Hwy 2 • Hwy 34 & Fallbrook Blvd.

View all of our ads, recipes and more at

www.Super-Saver.com

22 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

SCHOENECK: FROM 17 probably a backpack sitting in front of Raising Canes. It has become such an issue that the city has begun replacing its old benches with benches that prevent the homeless from sleeping on them. The Daily Nebraskan just featured an article about it last week. If you’d like more information on that. While those new benches are beautiful, this is simply a reaction to an issue, not a solution to it. The city seems to do a lot of reacting to the issues of homelessness.

The city has its own issues to work out, but what about the campus? The university has trespassing restrictions on a number of buildings after dark, whichprevents people from sleeping in class buildings, but the union is almost always open. It may just be one guy now (that I know of) but that could easily increase. As much as I’d like to just let the

issue slide, there cannot be homeless people living in the union. It’s just not sanitary, and it could potentially be a safety issue. I don’t want to generalize all homeless people, but the potential for incident is there. I also don’t think the solution should be simply kicking everyone out. I propose a different, more universally beneficial solution: micro-houses.

The university and the student body doesn’t have to sit back and watch the issue of homelessness unfold across the city. Instead, we can be proactive and thoughtful to the community.

Micro-houses come in many shapes and varieties, but they’re essentially small, wellbuilt and insulated structures that provide a place for people without a home to sleep and potentially live. They exist to provide

safety and shelter from the elements. They aren’t expensive, and they can be made out of a storage shack if need be. A man in Utah built micro houses with materials he bought from a hardware store. They weren’t lavish, but they were incredibly helpful. They gave people a place to live where they could get back on their feet and where they could feel a modicum of homeliness. They also eliminate some of the dangers of homelessness.

Robbery,assault and arrests are some dangers homeless face.. Lincoln may be a fairly safe place, but there is an inherent danger to living on the street.

I know there are those out there who don’t think it’s the university or students’ responsibility to deal with the issue. I used to be the kind of person who would much rather

bring in the police and get rid of the issue. I don’t want to be that person anymore. I want to seek out ways to help those who have been given a weaker lot in life, who the hand of fate has tossed aside. I don’t have all the time in the world to dedicate to the endeavor as of now, so I want to push others to come up with solutions and help me put them into effect. I don’t want to see a homeless man in the union anymore.

I want to see a man with a home enjoying the union. Together, we can fight this issue and create a better university experience for students and non-students.

JAZ SCHOENECK IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND FILM STUDIES MAJOR. REACH HIM AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM OR ON TWITTER AT @JAZ_SCHOENECK

CLASSIFIEDS

Jobs Help Wanted : Looking for friendly, reliable people to join our Subway team. Hiring for all shifts. Apply at 3245 South 10th St. or online at www.subway.com store #13825 A&M Contractors, Inc. is hiring part-time help installing roofing material on flat roofs. No experience required, but construction or agriculture background preferred. Candidates should ideally have one full day or multiple half days M-F available to work. Visit www.amcontractorsinc.com for more info.

Call/text Owen at (402) 890-2343 to apply.

Do you enjoy working with teens and children and would like to make a difference in a child’s life? Join the CEDARS team! CEDARS Youth Services is currently hiring a FT Tracker, Youth Specialist II & III positions, Nutrition Specialist III, Street Outreach Specialist and a variety of other full-time, part-time and temporary positions. Please visit our website at www.cedars-kids.org for a full listing of our current positions and apply on-line.

Dominos:

Now hiring delivery drivers, pizza makers. Day and evening hours available. P/T flex-schedule.

Cash daily for milage and tips. Must have own vehicle, valid drivers license, and good driving record. Apply at Dominos, 11th & Cornhusker.

Eagle Group is a downtown Lincoln printing company in need of a part-time delivery driver/bindery person. Willing to work around your schedule, M-F 8-4. Need a person who can lift heavy boxes, has a clean driving record, and is good working with people. Ideal candidate is available to work most afternoons, especially Friday. Please call 402-476-8156 to setup an interview.

Help Wanted EARN UP TO $1000-$1500/WEEK Upscale& Classy,THE OFFICE GENTLEMEN’S CLUB hiring Exotic Dancers. Vegas Style Gentlemen’s Club Finally comes to the Midwest! Come work at the Best Club in Lincoln.

For Information and Interview times: CALL BRENT @ 402-525-8880 or Apply within at The Office Gentlemen’s Club 3pm -2am 640 W. Prospector Ct. Lincoln. (HWY 77 & W. Van Dorn St.) Experienced Kinze 1100 grain cart operater for immediate hire.

Near Waverly 402-202-4253.

IT Assistant

Are you looking for a great part time job close to campus that will work around your class schedule? The Clark Enersen Partners is seeking an IT Technician who is familiar or interested in supporting an IT/Microsoft infrastructure. If you like working with people and technology in a support role submit a resume to peggy.merkel@clarkenersen.com

Seeking tellers to specialize in check cashing services. Are you reliable, ambitious, hard working and enjoy working with the public? We need you- FT position, friendly supervision, opportunities for advancement, convenient work schedules. Night and Weekends We train you, good wages & benefits. Apply at 233 N 48th St, Suite H

Shakers Gentlemans Club

Now hiring for following positions: Door Person, Bartender, Wait staff. Part-time only.

Starting wages $9-10/hour plus tip. Must be 18 or over. Apply in person, 5pm-8pm, Tuesday through Saturday. 12001 Highway 6. No phone calls.

Internships

Looking for a great way to earn $$$ for the holidays or during the school year? The Pinnacle Bank Arena is looking for highly motivated associates to join the food and beverage team for the upcoming UNL basketball season. Rates range from $8.50 - $11.00 per hour based on skill set and experience. What a great way to earn extra money and be a part of the excitement of UNL basketball at the Pinnacle Bank Arena. Apply at the Pinnacle Bank Arena Website or hoverturff@smglincoln.com, 1-402-904-4444.

Looking for Swahili tutor. If interested, please call Jenny at 402-601-5816.

McFarland and Son’s Authentic Irish Pub is now accepting applications for Servers. We are looking for experienced, reliable people servers with open availability. Stop in at 710 P Street to fill out an application or send your resume to officemochara@gmail.com. Relaxed Work Atmosphere, Meal Discounts, Great Tips!!

Neeman & Sons, Inc.

Looking for hardworking, dependable employees to work construction. Must have drivers license, and be able to work atleast 20 or more hours per week. Call 402-423-4853.

For Sale Misc. For Sale : Holton Farkus French horn-Collegiate H650.

Great shape. Comes with case, also in great shape. $700 firm.

Housing Roommates

Internships offer...

• Competitive Paid • Flexible Scheduling • Work With Your Peers • Real-World Experience • Travel During School Breaks

APPLY TODAY!

and Fridays will appear in print the following Thursday or Monday.They will also appear online.

Rates per print issue

Students: $5/15 words + $.15 additional word Non-Students: $9/15 words + $.15 additional word Discounts for additional issues Email ad to dn@unl.edu or place online at DailyNebraskan.com

Apts. For Rent

Northridge Dental *Accepting New Patients* 5 minutes from UNL/downtown at 14th and Superior. Call us today 402-477-1177.

Meetings

Roommate ads are FREE in print and online.

E-mail yours to dn@unl.edu and include your name, address and phone number.

Holroyd Investment Properties, Inc.

Roommate wanted! As soon as 11/1/14 or as late as 12/20/14. Any gender & must be okay with pets. Rent $250 each, just minutes north of east campus, and split utilities. Ending July 2015. Call or text 402-955-9142

Apartments, Townhomes and Duplexes

Travel

Classified Ad Deadlines & Rates Ads placed by 3 p.m. on Wednesdays

House for Rent $610 / month Village of Weston 2 br / 1 bath home.864 square feet living space plus open front porch and enclosed back porch.

Early Prairie Style Cottage. Bright and charming!Major appliances included: washer and dryer, stove, refrigerator, central air and heat.

Disabled and elderly friendly.Large, landscaped yard. Year round landscape maintenance including snow shoveling is provided.

Spacious, detached garage,12-month lease.

Security deposit: $610.Credit and criminal checks required. Previous landlord references required.No smokingCall Donna 818-522-0259

Looking for a female roommate. Apartment is 3bed 3bath plus a loft. Rent is $277/month cable & wifi $45 & we split the LES bill. Washer & dryer in unit Place is super close to downtown, it is located on 8th & G

Join the CenterPointe Team! Part-time positions available in residential program working with substance abuse/mental health clients in a unique environment. Must be at least 21 years of age and be willing to work a varied schedule including overnights and weekends.

Pay differential for overnight hours. For more information visit: www.centerpointe.org.

Ideal customer service job is waiting at the Dry Cleaning Station for high energy, detail oriented UNL student. Great wages, flexible work hours. Phone 402-423-5580 today.

Announcements

Houses For Rent

Help Wanted

1-2 & 3 Bedrooms 402-465-8911 www.HIPRealty.com

Alcoholics Anonymous meeting Mondays 7:30 p.m. at University Lutheran Chapel, 1510 ‘Q’.

Open Speaker Meeting.Public Welcome.

The Parking Advisory Committee will meet Friday, October 24, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. at Parking and Transit Services, 625 Stadium Drive, Suite A.

Travel

COLLEGE SKI & BOARD WEEK

Parking Advisory Committee

Travel Breckenridge • Vail • Beaver Creek Keystone • Arapahoe Basin

Opportunities in:

Advertising Sales Marketing Human Resources Bilingual Sales & Marketing Software Development Graphic Web Design

20 Mountains. 5 Resorts. 1 Price.

FROMY ONL

plus t/s

$15 / hr Apply at www.sandhills.jobs

WWW.UBSKI.COM • 1-800-SKI-WILD • 1-800-754-9453

23

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 DailyNebraskan.com

JUST FOR FUN

PLAN YOUR WEEKEND

Thursday Oct. 23

Friday Oct. 24

Saturday Oct. 25

Sunday Oct. 26

Solar eclipse viewing at the stadium drive parking garage from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Faculty and staff will provide eye-safe solar telescopes and protective solar glasses.

Open Studios will take place in the Woods Art Building and Richards Hall from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Department of Art and Art History students will feature their artowrk.

Maze of Terror in the Nebraska Union from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Admission is $5 per person and $20 for groups of 5.

UNL Chamber Singers will perform at the Sheldon Museum of Art at 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The Husker Equestrian team will host Boo! at the U on East campus from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. $3 per child.

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble performs at the Lied Center at 7:30 p.m.

“The Tell-Tale House” tour will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Ferguson House. The free tour of the historic house by The Colonel Mustard Amateur Attic Theatre Company lasts 40 minutes.

Mayday Parade performs at The Bourbon at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the show.

The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Thursday, September 13, 2012

Edited by Will Shortz ACROSS 1 Droplet 5 They’re seen on the neck 10 Small step 14 Turning point 15 Caravan parking spot?

16 Club of song 17 It comes out of a trunk 18 Up 19 Part of FEMA: Abbr.

20 “There’s no hope!”

22 Objet ___ 23 With 24- and 45-Across, game represented by this completed puzzle’s grid 24 See 23-Across 25 Imitator of

Bush the elder on “S.N.L.” 32 Salmon variety 33 Spoil 34 Teacher’s note on a failing test 35 “… and she bare ___”: Ruth 4:13 36 Rat-___ 37 Line at an airport 38 Mad Libs specification 39 Be blue 40 “The First Time ___ Saw Your Face” (Roberta Flack #1 hit) 41 River of York 42 Chemical suffixes 43 Common restaurant fish

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

mike rendowski | DN

B A E Z

C O L A

A M U R

L U A U

J A C O B

A D A N O

C L I M B D O W N

B O R N

A S T E R I S K

A M A Z O N

I S C I V A S M I N A X T B L E I O N N O S

R O N B O R E O B O O X I N C O N G A U F R I T S E E R T T E N S O E N T N S P E E B O R C A N O R A D I I A N E E D B O N D S

A R O N M A N I E N O N A N E N T E R O H O M E V A L H E U S O R I A O S D I Z E Z I A E M S D A Y

45 See 23-Across 46 Turn blue, maybe 47 Mini-terrors 49 Handle online 56 Common restaurant fish 57 Force out 58 Old-timey oath 59 Calendar heading: Abbr.

60 Like a mouse 61 Tear apart 62 Flat sound 63 Fearful sort 64 Turning heads, perhaps DOWN 1 Island with a Hindu majority 2 Way out 3 Form of relief 4 Society add-ons 5 Rain man?

6 Skateboard park feature 7 In ___ (actually) 8 Relationships 9 Employee data: Abbr.

10 Whizzed through 11 Classic Andy Warhol subject 12 Place to take binoculars 13 1984 U.S. Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics 21 Dog command

1

2

3

4

5

14 17 20

6

7

8

No. 0809 9

10

15

16

18

19

21

26

13

54

55

24

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40

42

43

41 44

45 47

12

22

23 25

11

46 48

49

50

51

52

53

56

57

58

59

60

61

62

63

64

Puzzle by Joe Krozel

25 Playmakers?

26 Independent 27 “Fame” actress 28 Tear apart, oldstyle 29 In distress 30 Gulf moguls 31 “You betcha!”

32 Aids for camp chefs 44 Objectivist Rand 48 School period: Abbr.

49 They usually end at six 50 Roman 112 51 Eyeglass

holders 52 New Haven alumni 53 Writer James 54 Language known to native speakers as Gaelg 55 It’s a small whirl after all

For answers, call 1-900-285-5656, $1.49 a minute; or, with a credit card, 1-800-814-5554.

Annual subscriptions are available for the best of Sunday crosswords from the last 50 years: 1-888-7-ACROSS. AT&T users: Text NYTX to 386 to download puzzles, or visit nytimes.com/mobilexword for more information.

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 2,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Share tips: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/learning/xwords.

24 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

WHY LIVE

ANYWHERE ELSE? A P P LY O N L I N E F O R FA L L 2 0 1 5

PRIVATE SHUTTLE TO CAMPUS + FURNISHED APARTMENTS AVAILABLE + PRIVATE BEDROOMS + PRIVATE BATHROOMS AVAILABLE 24-HOUR FITNESS CENTER + 24-HOUR COMPUTER CENTER + TV LOUNGE WITH GAMING CONSOLE + FREE TANNING SWIMMING POOL WITH HOT TUB + SAND VOLLEYBALL & BASKETBALL COURTS + COVERED PARKING AVAILABLE

REDSTUDENTHOUSING.COM 402. 475 . 4 411 | 301 W. Charleston Street Amenities subject to change. See office for details.