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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers,

I can use this space for virtually anything I want, and as much as I’d love to curse you all and the God that made you, I’m gonna get all self-righteous about journalism for a minute.

It’s that time of year again, a time that matters to everyone, not just the half of the country that participates in the festivities: election day is coming.

For journalists, this isn’t just a time to scrutinize our elected officials and their electoral challengers. For us, it’s a time to think critically about how we cover elections.

As always, print and broadcast news alike have focused their coverage on the election itself, or the “horse race” as it’s called, and not the issues that actually matter.

Nebraska is particularly susceptible to this kind of journalistic failure. This year we have a Senate election, a gubernatorial election and a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage.

Our televisions are bombarding us with advertisements informing us how our respective choices on each side of the spectrum are planning to lead us to ruin. It’s a counterproductive game, and I don’t think I speak for myself alone when I say that I’m sick of it.

Money is everything. Nine out of every 10 elections are won by the candidate with the most money. While our election laws and our candidates are a big component of this trend, the media’s tone-deaf election coverage makes it even easier for campaign advertisements to sway us one way or the other.

As a journalist and a member of the electorate, I’m in tune with the fact that we deserve better. We as journalists have a responsibility to prepare voters to make a well-informed choice. For some time now, we have failed to do that. If the media can’t be an “independent watchdog” as intended, then you all have to be. That’s right; you’re on your own. The vast amount of information available in print and online is more than enough to prepare you, but as any good editor would say, always double check your sources.

Best of luck, Zach Fulciniti

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Caitlin Gilmore plays the piano in her studio Wednesday afternoon in the Haymarket. Gilmore, a senior music major, has a studio set up in her apartment in order to write music for the upcoming Wet Ink! concert during the spring semester.

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story by Hannah Eads art by Hayley Heesacker Lincoln natives with body modifications find varying levels of societial acceptance

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ible body jewelry. ast week, a man reached over The Mill’s Hair is still not allowed to be any “unnatural” counter and touched barista Melissa color.

French-Sloan’s light purple hair without This is a little less strict than other places such her permission.

The barista and Le Quartier front-of-the-house as Runza, whose policy prohibits any body art or employee said she receives comments on her seven non traditional ear or body piercings that aren’t covered by the Runza uniform. tattoos and eight piercings nearly every day, many French-Sloan said she encourages policies in reof them negative. gards to offensive tattoos, especially in workplaces Some customers tell her they don’t approve, like daycares. But what offends people will vary some say they don’t agree with her choices and some tell her she simply doesn’t look good with from person to person, she said.

“I’ve never seen an offensive tattoo in person,” that many tattoos and piercings, she said.

“I have a regular who says if I took all the metal she said. “I’ve seen tattoos that have female nipples on them, but I could tell it’s not supposed to off my face then I would look so much more attracbe raunchy. But it would probably offend an older tive – he’s 65 (years old),” she said.

She gets even more negative comments when woman in Nebraska.”

French-Sloan said it’s mostly older people who she “politely declines” to tell customers the meanmake comments on her tattoos or ask her what ing of her tattoos. color her hair is and why she “I bite my tongue and dyed it. try to make it light-hearted,” Sometimes they She said the stigma still French-Sloan said. “I can’t say exists in places like Nebrasmuch because I’m working. It think you have ka because people are more doesn’t offend me anymore, “stuck in their ways,” and it’s just annoying because I different values and those people don’t like it bedon’t care about their opin- morals than them just cause it’s different from what ions.” they usually see.

Her tattoos include a pic- because of your tattoos.”

“Sometimes they think you ture of her grandfather, a have different values and morWinston Churchill quote, a MELISSA FRENCH-SLOAN als than them just because of lyric from the Bright Eyes song barista, the mill your tattoos,” French-Sloan “Poison Oak,” Medusa and said. “If they saw me smoking more. She said although not a cigarette next to a businessall of them have serious meanman in a suit who was also smoking a cigarette, I ings, they are all still personal for her. think they would judge my smoking instead of his In all of her job interviews, French-Sloan said she makes sure to bring up her tattoos and pierc- just based off how I look.”

University of Nebraska-Lincoln special educaings so that her potential employers won’t have a tion professor John Maag chooses to wear a longproblem with it. sleeve shirt to cover up his arm tattoos when he She said she has observed more leniency in does workshops and consultations because he workplaces when it comes to body modification, especially because body modification such as tat- doesn’t want anything to distract from his message to the audience. toos, piercings and unnatural hair colors are makOtherwise, he makes no effort to cover up any ing waves among young people.

In fact, Starbucks recently updated its policy of his 11 tattoos when he teaches, and he said he’s in regards to body modification: employees are al- unaware of any body modification policy for professors at UNL. lowed to have tattoos, so long as they’re not on the “Because of the profession and because I’ve gotface or throat and so long as they’re not offensive. ten older no one told me to cover or not cover up, I The policy states, “We want our customers to focus felt comfortable not hiding them,” Maag said. “And on you, not your body art.”

Starbucks also allows no more than two small- you can’t really hide them when you get more than two.” to-moderately sized ear piercings, ear gauges no Maag said although there has already been bigger than 10mm and nose studs, but no other vis-

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Student composer works until last minute for show CHAS BOGATZ DN No, it’s not a Star Wars reference.

Junior music education student John Kosch came up with the title “A New Hope” after lingering on the melody. To him, the dramatic build up conjures up hopeful thoughts. The culture around him simply filled in the blanks.

Kosch’s piece will be performed at this semester’s Wet Ink, a biannual event in the Glenn Korff School of Music that showcases the original compositions of undergraduate and graduate students. The event is split up between two days, Nov. 24 and 25.

The nights are split with undergraduates on Monday and the graduate students on Tuesday.

Both nights will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Westbrook Music Building and are free and open to the public.

“Wet Ink is an awesome chance to show off your piece, perform it and get it recorded,” he said.

He’s not new to the event. Kosch’s performance this fall will be his fifth, and this semester is already standing out among the rest.

“This semester is a little different for me,” he said. “ ‘A New Hope’ is extremely daunting.”

Kosch wrote the piece for UNL’s Jazz Orchestra, which now has a completely new structure. Instead of a traditional set of instruments, the ensemble has a few unconventional instruments, including a French horn and a string section.

Kosch has never written for an ensemble like this and still has to cut it down.

The piece exists only as a computer program. Electronically, Kosch enters the notes one by one and is able to listen back as he writes.

Everything is written down from the lead trumpet to the sprinkling of the light drum kit.

Kosch is used to spending hours getting the sound just right.

His program, Sibelius, is present during all the phases of his composition.

“There are four stages of composition,” he said. “The first is the melody.”

His song does sound “Star Wars-y,” he admits. But the tune starts slow and calm. The lounge jazz walks tentatively into the piece.

“I then harmonize the melody,” Kosch said.

This stage makes his melody richer as he adds instruments to the tune, opening up the sound of the orchestra.

“The rhythm and feel comes next,” he said.

“Lastly, I orchestrate the piece.”

Orchestrating is the act of writing all of the pieces down so other musicians can play them.

“Being a pianist really helps with this last part,” Kosch said.

So far, “A New Hope” lives only on his Macbook, far from the stage. Kosch is expected to get an ensemble together to perform the piece.

“We have to find our own musicians and plan our own rehearsals,” he said.

While he may get the occasional glimpse from a professor, Kosch is all on his own for the entire preparation of Wet Ink Playing the piece with musicians is a huge part of the final revisions before the big show.

“This is a great change for feedback from people who are actually playing your music,”

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John Kosch, a junior music education major, has been preparing for the Wet Ink composition event next semester. Kosch began writing music when he was in high school and has since gone on to write several compositions.

he said.

In addition to being in charge of composing an entirely new piece of music and preparing an ensemble and rehearsing the song, Kosch also has to write about “A New Hope” for the event program.

“Wet Ink is a good opportunity for introverts to break out and speak about their music,” he said.

The entire operation happens once a semester for Kosch, who has a composition specialization.

“I submit a piece every semester,” he said.

“Normally, people submit their big piece for Wet Ink.” However, Kosch is already looking far ahead of the performance and the rest of his undergraduate degree. His vision is set on graduate school.

“Grad school looks for three things: that you write well, people have performed your piece and you have good recordings,” he said.

“Wet Ink knocks a few of these requirements out.”

Wet Ink is a good opportunity for introverts to break out and speak about their music.”

JOHN KOSCH Junior music education major

Kosch also hopes to expand his credentials for grad school.

“The main goal is to have another performance and item to add to the resume,” he said.

“A New Hope” is not an easy addition to his resume.

“This piece is taking up all my time,” Kosch said.

He has been working on the piece for an entire semester and will still be making lastminute changes right before the performance.

Still in its adolescence, “A New Hope” needs

to be fleshed out and perfected, he said.

So far, the piece is at 10 minutes. He was aiming for a shorter tune, around five or seven minutes. However, his professor urged him to expand on many of the parts. The constant revising and increasing size of “A New Hope” is consuming all of Kosch’s energy.

He said he hopes the final piece will reflect all of his preparation.

“I’m going to go get some Gardetto’s and compose for the rest of the day,” he said.

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Caitlin Gilmore, a senior music major, writes most of her music for the Wet Ink event at her studio, in her home. The event features the work of students who have written their own original compositions.

Composer spends 80 hours on piece for Wet Ink CASSIE KERNICK DN For senior composition major Caitlin Gilmore, when she’s not writing music, she’s dreaming up more music to write.

“Music can be pretty life consuming,” Gilmore said. “When I’m not composing or rehearsing I try and get out and pretend I’m not some introvert who would rather be at home with my piano.”

Although when she began at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln she wasn’t certain of her exact career goals, composing music was

one thing she knew she was passionate about.

Having discovered this love early on, Gilmore has composed for Wet Ink for the past six semesters and is preparing a piece for the fall concert.

This year, Wet Ink will take place Nov. 24 and 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Westbrook Recital Hall. The first night is intended to showcase undergraduate compositions, while the second night features more seniors and graduate students.

“I think it’s the most important thing we do,” said Kurt Knecht, Gilmore’s applied composition professor. “No matter what

happens in classroom instruction, the most important thing a young composer can do is write something and hear it.”

Gilmore’s piece will be performed on the second night. This year, her composition is a fusion between a vocal jazz choir and a string quartet, producing what she calls a “romantic harmony.”

“I’m definitely trying to utilize mixing a lot of different elements together that aren’t normally combined while I can get people to play for me,” she said.

Making meaningful relationships with talented students has been an incredibly re-

warding part of her composition career at UNL, Gilmore said. These connections become especially crucial when recital time comes around and she needs individuals to play her creations.

Even before recital, knowing individuals who are masters of instruments that she may not have as much experience with is a key part to the composing process. Gilmore cites her roommate, junior German major and cellist Molly Rezich, as being a huge help when she has questions about cello parts in

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GILMORE: FROM 7 than anywhere else.” her pieces.

She also likes to light some essential oils “I love working with Caitlin,” Rezich said.

“She has a definite idea in her mind as a com- to boost her energy. Once a fusion of grapeposer of what she wants the piece to sound fruit and peppermint has been lit and a cup like, but she allows her players to bring their of tea is perched on her desk, she is ready to own spice and musicality to the table. I love create.

If the piece she’s working on includes lyrthis as a player because it becomes a mutual ics, Gilmore said she has to tackle the lyrical mix of musical ideas and musicality.”

While Gilmore said she has invested more side before she can move on to writing the than 80 hours in preparing a piece for Wet Ink, actual music.

Once the lyrics are the musicians typically set, she composes for only have two weeks with I never thought the different instruthe completed composiments in no specific tion before performance.

I’d be able to order. Often times she In that time, Gilmore will write out of order typically holds only five do half the things I’ve for all different instrurehearsals for the musi- accomplished.” ments as it comes to cians to work through her, and then piece it the piece together. In an CAITLIN GILMORE together at the end. Beideal world, she said she senior composition major cause of this she likens would like to have more her creative process to time to rehearse but is ultimately grateful for any time they can spare. a jigsaw puzzle. When inspiration is lacking, “I always bring food to rehearsal because Gilmore has a foolproof system to help spark these musicians are donating their incredibly new ideas.

“When I get really stumped I take a showprecious time to help me,” Gilmore said.

Meditation is typically Gilmore’s first step er,” Gilmore said. “Sometimes when I have in composing a piece. Once she has spent time something due I’ll take three showers in a relaxing she can then begin composing in her night to get the musical juices going.”

Gilmore added that her roommates are delicately assembled environment.

“I have this corner set up in my room with used to her sprinting from the bathroom, my piano next to my desk,” Gilmore said. barely taking the time to grab a towel, and “Usually just being there is a creative, happy darting to her room to start writing.

While playing piano, saxophone and singspace. I have my plants and art there. That helps me get the juices flowing a little faster ing jazz are her biggest musical inclinations,

courses at UNL have given her a basis with nearly all instruments. This knowledge allows her to write for nearly all instruments.

“I’ve been given so many opportunities here,” Gilmore said. “I never thought I’d be able to do half the things I’ve accomplished.”

In addition to producing a film score for a friend during her second semester at school, Gilmore has also been able to learn about connecting visual art and music while at UNL. Her Wet Ink composition isn’t a multimedia piece; however, her spring rehearsal piece will incorporate visual arts.

“We’re really the only school in the Mid-

west mixing all the different forms of art together,” Gilmore said. “You’d have to go to a coast to find what we’re doing here.”

Graduate school along with getting a doctorate are among Gilmore’s future plans.

However, upon graduating in May she hopes to take a gap year to continue to build her portfolio and learn more about composition.

“Music is one of those master crafts that you’ll always be getting better at until you stop,” Gilmore said. “I think I need some time to digest all of the things I’ve learned here.”

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Club aims to increase mental health awareness Active Minds, a national organization, comes to UNL to educate students on mental health issues MICHAEL JOHNSON DN College is often idealized by those who have already graduated. Parents and alumni, with encouraging smiles and misty memories, will often tout college as “the best four years of your life.” Students are expected to swing at every opportunity that comes their way.

They’re told to make the most of their time, because it’ll be over all too soon. They’re told to be ready to be fully functioning grownups with internships and resumes and health insurance and all the other accoutrements of adulthood when they come out of college.

And in this day and age it seems like students must stretch themselves so desperately thin do the things they need to or want to. Just going to college and trying to succeed adds tremendous stress to the lives of students.

For the past semester, Brock Thompson, a junior economics major, along with a group of other University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, have been working to bring a chapter of Active Minds to campus. Active Minds is a national organization dedicated to mental health awareness among college students. Its focus ranges from students dealing with the everyday stress of coursework to those who live with diagnosed conditions.

Thompson said he began noticing the ways that mental health issues affected people personally and as a community when a family friend, who had been struggling with bipolar disorder, took their own life.

“It really struck me,” Thompson said.

“Since then, other stories on the news where mental health is a factor seem to keep popping up in really big ways.”

When he saw a poster in his dorm trying to recruit students to bring Active Minds to

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UNL he knew it was something he wanted to be involved in.

Helping him is Gina Keplinger, a sophomore English and pre-dental major. So far, she said, their meetings consist of a lot of member education. Active Minds is open for everyone to learn and to talk about mental illness in a personal and social context. The group goal is to teach people that mental illness isn’t just something that happens to other people, and it’s OK to ask for help.

“College is really hard,” Keplinger said.

“Socially. Academically. Mentally. Nobody is

willing to acknowledge that. We need to stop being so afraid of sharing our weaknesses with people. We need to make people feel like their experiences are valuable.”

It’s especially important that freshmen are able to feel validated in their campus experiences, Keplinger said. It’s such a formative time, no one should have that marred because they felt weird or ostracized for experiencing anxiety or depression.

The main goal of Active Minds is to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness, specifically on college campuses, so that

said. “I would never suggest anyone get their first tattoo on their forehead. Once you get into whatever profession you’re in, you can feel it out and decide what you want to show and what’s appropriate.”

At the Barkley Center where Maag works, there are two or three other faculty members who have visible tattoos and a few faculty members who have nose studs as well, he said.

Nose studs are one type of body modification that seems to become more mainstream, he said.

Unlike French-Sloan, Maag said he

couldn’t recall getting any offhand comments from friends or strangers.

Maag said his tattoos are a part of him, and he has gotten more comfortable the older he gets with himself. Overall, he said body modification has already become a much smaller issue.

“Look at how much more acceptable and mainstream they’ve become,” Maag said. “It’s not just people in the military and bikers that have tattoos anymore. I think it’s going to continue to the point where it’s not an issue, unless someone wants to make it one.”

people don’t feel ashamed to ask for help.

The club facilitates discussion about different mental health topics and provides a safe space to talk about personal issues. You don’t have to share if you don’t want to, Keplinger said, but the club is there to provide a safe space if anyone needs it.

“Nobody’s going to judge you,” she said with a smile.

In addition, the club also facilitates discussion on mental health topics. This is one of the reasons Keplinger feels like it’s such an important club to bring to campus.

“People use language that is so stigmatized,” she said “It’s normal to say someone’s crazy, OCD or bipolar. (When we use these words) we create an environment that says you’re a freak, you’re unaccepted, you’re not allowed.”

Thompson added that while a lot has been done to combat hate speech in the past decade, people still use mental health terms as nothing more than casual pejoratives. For students who are just stressed and those for whom mental health has been a constant struggle, Active Minds provides a safe space to come, talk and be yourself.

“We do a hodge-podge of different things (at the meetings),” Keplinger said. “Hopefully as the year progresses and new members join, we’ll get more specific.”

The meetings themselves mostly focus on educating people about what Active Minds does. They also talk about the way they can get their name out on campus, and how to do outreach. They already have a few different ideas, including a dance and an open mike night. For the latter, students would be invited to come and sing or read poetry (either their own or others) that would celebrate moments of vulnerability and let students share their own stories an experiences in a safe environment.

While not an official RSO yet, Active Minds is open to new members. Meetings are generally Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. For more information on the group, email Gina Keplinger at ginaspeaks7@gmail.com.

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Contrary to French-Sloan, who got a tattoo of her grandfather on her forearm the day after she turned 18 years old, Maag started off by getting a tattoo on his right shoulder and then one on his left calf, places that normally aren’t visible in his typical job outfit.

“I consciously chose to put (my first tattoo) in an area where, unless I was swimming or wearing a tank top, no one would see it,” Maag

French-Sloan, whose mother told her when she was younger to get tattoos in non-visible places, said because body modification policies still exist in some professions, she would be unsure what kind of advice to give her future kids, other than to wait until they’re 18 years old and able to get one on their own.

“I’ve thought a lot about it,” French-Sloan said. “And I would definitely want to raise my kid to think of body modification as a normal thing.”

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Frozen yogurt business changes with weather Local businesspeople say frozen yogurt sales rise and fall with seasons, but most stores will stay open MADI WEINBERGER DN The cold Nebraska winds have finally arrived.

As everyone replaces their tank tops and shorts with knitted sweaters and sweat pants, summer trends are taking a winter break.

Despite several frozen yogurt shops closing in the past year, industry insiders maintain that fro-yo business is still going strong.

“My theory is that it’s a seasonal business,” said Robin Eschliman, who works in investments for Eschliman Commercial Real Estate.

The Franchise Help website stated that frozen yogurt made its first waves of sales growth around the 1980s. The sales decline in the late ‘90s led some to believe that the product was simply another trend. According to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, while frozen yogurt sales declined from 1998 and 2003, ice cream sales went up 24 percent in the same time period.

Franchise Help’s 2014 Frozen Yogurt Industry Analysis states that frozen yogurt will maintain as a long-standing trend as more franchises adopt a “chill” atmosphere and quality fro-yo.

For Lincoln, the success of frozen yogurt PHOTO BY CALLA KESSLER | DN stores has waxed and waned over time. From With the decline of frozen yogurt, vendors like Red Mango might suffer from a loss of business.

2012 to 2014, there were 10 frozen yogurt businesses that are on record within the city of Lincoln. But that number has long-since UNL students particularly seem to enjoy peaked. Red Mango closed in December 2013 and reopened downtown this year. Both exploring their food options in Lincoln. The combination of franchises and family-owned Cherry Berry locations were closed as of February 2014. Zestos at Super Saver closed in businesses in Lincoln provides a diverse ofAugust, but the Pine Lake location remains fering of dining options.

Originally from Texas, Paige DeDecker, open. Kelly’s Frozen Yogurt and Yogurt City a freshman music and accounting major, is were both closed as of September 2014. overall pleased with the options that are proThe remaining frozen yogurt shops look vided in Lincoln. DeDecker added that the poised to remain where they are and maincity’s restaurants represent a variety of cultain the same business model, for the time tures. “I really like it,” being. Traditional ice she said. “I think there’s cream shops, such as a diverse selection. I feel “My theory is that Ivanna Cone in the Haylike I’m at home.” market or Cherry On it’s a seasonal When it comes to froTop on Pine Lake Road, zen confection choices, have said that the fro-yo business.”

DeDecker said there are trend doesn’t constitute a variety of flavors and a threat to their busisees little difference beness. And Lincoln’s reROBIN ESCHLIMAN tween a fro-yo and a traeschliman commericial real estate ccim maining fro-yo shops, ditional ice cream. including Yogurtini Other students are and Bubbles, don’t feel threatened by the overall downturn in fro-yo less interested in the difference in flavor or texture, however, and more interested in frofortunes and stick with their goals. yo as a healthy alternative to other desserts.

“Even when the others were still here, “It’s my excuse for trying to be healthy,” we’ve always thought that we will live by Shannen Lambdin, a junior computer science our rules and our mottos,” Roger Clark, and math major, said. owner of Yogurtini, said. “The customer will PHOTO BY CALLA KESSLER | DN make the choice.”

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Downtown restaurants offer hidden menus Wisconsin. Although Toppers doesn’t have a secret menu, they’re still open to customer Imperial Palace, Noodles and requests, he said, even the strangest ones.

“We’re willing to do whatever the cusCo., among others will make tomer requests,” Crain said. “We still get reitems not on regular menu if quests for cream cheese pizza. It’s pizza with pepperoni, jalapenos and cream cheese topyou just ask pings, and it’s actually really good.”

The weirdest request Crain said he’s received is a pizza with all 47 of their possible toppings.

CATHERINE BRACKETT “It went through the oven two and a half DN times just to cook all the way,” he said.

Toppers also lets people submit recipes to Restaurants try their best to cater to the needs their website to be considered for the menu. and wants of their customers. This makes the “The corporate office is willing to take prospect of a secret menu, or off-menu items, recipes,” Crain said. “If you come up with a all the more interesting. Why do restaurants recipe with their listed toppings menu you have menu items not readily available to the can submit it to their website.” public, and what makes secret menus so seMany people believe Starbucks has an cret? extensive secret menu, but according to Cleo For Chipotle, “secret” menu items are Mullison, shift manager at the downtown not quite: the “quesarito,” Chipotle’s main Lincoln location, that isn’t the case. She off-menu item that combines a burrito and said, however, they’re willing to work with quesadilla, is relatively well known thanks customers’ wants and will create a drink for to word of mouth, brand recognition and the them if they provide a recipe for it.

Internet.

“Not all the baristas know how to make “I feel like our secret menu isn’t really these certain drinks, so it’s helpful if somethat much of a secret,” said Mitch Eisentragone has a recipe that we can go off of,” Muler, kitchen manager of the downtown Linlison said. coln location.

Unfortunately, off-menu drinks come at Eisentrager has been here for almost a a cost. year and has been managing the kitchen for “If someone comes in with a drink, we a few months now. Lots of so-called “secret” can make it for them, but it can get pretty exitems, he said, are simpensive,” Mullison said. ply strange requests She said there are a Our secret menu is from regular customlot of people who request ers. basically just things the same drinks, howev“There’s all kinds er. They have a popular of stuff people can get that used to be a part of cotton candy frappucthat’s not actually on cino, as well as a Snickers our menu,” Eisentrager our menu but have gotten frappuccino. said. taken down or replaced “A popular one is a Eventually, word frappuccino that tastes spreads through the with other menu items. like mint chocolate chip community and more We have a meatball sub, ice cream,” Mullison said. people start ordering “It’s a green tea frappucwhich is really, really, the same thing. cino, add java chips and Imperial Palace Ex- really good.” peppermint syrup.” press, in the Nebraska Noodles and ComUnion food court, also pany is also known for has a secret menu. Acsecret menu items, alcording to manager CODY MOELLER though Cody Moeller, NOODLES AND COMPANY MANAGER Stanley Jou, however, manager of the downthe menu is not-sotown Lincoln location, secret. It’s on display would disagree. Instead, for everyone to see, with about 30 different he calls them hidden items. menu items, written in Chinese characters.

“Our secret menu is basically just things “It allows students from China to order that used to be a part of our menu but have things more easily,” Jou said. gotten taken down or replaced with other He wants to provide more authentic cuimenu items,” Moeller said. “We have a meatsine to the students who miss it from home ball sub, which is really, really, really deliand who are familiar with authentic Chinese cious.” cuisine.

Moeller said usually the only way cusThe menu isn’t really a secret, so much tomers know about items that aren’t on the as a language barrier that draws in Chinese menu are from coming in frequently. students and flies under the radar of other “If you’ve been here, and you know, and students who don’t read Chinese characters. you’re like, ‘Hey, where’s that at?’” Moeller “It’s not always available, because we said. “You can always ask for it and we’ll have big rush hours from 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m., make it, you can basically ask for anything but we like to make the students happy,” Jou and we’ll make it.” said.

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Chemistry professor Rebecca Lia defended vampires in yesterday’s SciPop Talk titled “Vampires vs. Zombies” at Love Library.

Students and staff dressed in their best vampire and zombie attire at the SciPop talk at Love Library.

UNL Librarian Tom McFarland joined students at Love Library for the Vampires vs.

Zombies SciPop Talk

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12 last-minute Halloween costume ideas 1. Patrick Bateman from “American Psycho”

This murderous lunatic will be a hit at any Halloween party. Find a clear poncho, some dress clothes and fake blood. Don’t forget to include violent and condescending inner-monologues.

7. Louis CK

The comedian’s classic look is simple: black T-shirt, dad jeans, tennis shoes and a microphone in hand. Rub your face a lot, look disappointed and say “Jeeeeesus!” a lot. People will totally get it. Bonus points if you’re a natural ginger or willing to invest in some orange hair dye.

2. David Bowie circa 2014

Have you seen David Bowie lately? He looks totally normal. And so do you! This costume requires essentially nothing more than a coiffed ‘do, scarf and black blazer. People will respect you for trying and for trying to emulate someone cool and respected.

3. Groot

Tape a bunch of sticks and leaves to your body, wear all green and go around bellowing, “I am Groot.” Topical and funny.

4. Matthew Perry

Arguably the least successful and most underrated cast member from “Friends,” this Halloween is Perry’s time to shine. Choose from Perry’s many era’s and strive to recreate his Average Joe look.

5. Your mother/father

Wear a sweater vest and dad jeans for your dad and some comfortable shoes for your mom. The rest should come naturally. You’re looking more like them everyday, after all. You should also give them a call once you’ve nursed your post-Halloween hangover.

8. Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” The iconic character is extremely easy to pull off.

Simply buy or thrift a little black dress (preferably a longer one), find some costume pearls and a long cigarette.

Invest in a stuffed tabby cat, or haul around a real one if you’re into that kind of thing.

9. Witch

Thanks to “American Horror Story: Coven,” trendy witches are in style. Dress in all black and buy a classic witches’ hat to get in the holiday’s spirit.

10. Tom Cruise in “Risky Business”

Have you seen “Risky Business?” Neither have we.

Doesn’t matter. Throw on an oversized white buttondown, some sunglasses and some white socks to complete this iconic costume.

11. Sassy girl emoji

You know the one. The brown-haired emoji girl in the pink, long-sleeved v-neck will be an automatic hit at any spooktober celebration. Be prepared to strike one of her signature poses.

12. Rosie the Riveter.

6. A piece of moon rock.

Paint yourself and your clothes silver, draw on craters and walk around saying, “Far out man!”

Throw together some red lipstick, a denim shirt, a red bandana and a tough attitude. Then don Rosie’s signature flexin’ pose and voila, you’re cute AND iconic.

Everyone’s doing it and so can you.

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Local band members’ faith brings them together Lincoln’s Sheridan releases Christian pop album about their faith journeys that led them to where they are ERIN MANSUR DN

Lincoln might not always feel like a small town with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus, expanding city limits and a growing population, but you’re always able to find pockets of people who are only a person away from knowing the whole town.

The band Sheridan is exactly that. Made up of three members from different parts of the city, they all are connected by their faith.

Christian Hale, Seth Bashford and Zach Lardy have been playing in churches across Lincoln since they were in high school and found each other through this spiritual network.

They belong to different places of worship around Lincoln, but play all around town with Sheridan and other bands such as VOTA and High Life as well as with soloists such as Jessica Nickels. The band has played together in churches across town as well as local outreach shows such as Arts Collective and Raise Your Voice. Recently they’ve played outside of Lincoln in Ord and Omaha and at VEGA in downtown Lincoln.

The music is popish; the band compares themselves to groups such as Owl City and Coldplay.

“It’s rock, pop kind of stuff,” Lardy said.

“Super catchy and melodically, not too complicated and just fun to play.”

The band said the lyrics on their latest album, “Everything Feels Right,” are easy to remember.

“The thing that stuck with me was how some melodies and lyrics just got stuck in my head,” Hale said. “That’s when I felt that we had some really catchy stuff and like it or not, it stuck with me.”

Sheridan was formed by Lardy two years ago, but after his original pianist and guitar player moved out of town, Lardy began scoping out the local music scene for new talent.

Hale and Bashford didn’t come in to the band together, but do have a personal history that takes them back to elementary school.

“I knew Seth from like second grade, when I first moved to Nebraska,” Hale said.

“Even though I didn’t know Zach, I knew a bunch of people affiliated with them.”

Hale is a graduate of Lincoln Southwest High School’s class of 2012. He plays keyboard and background vocals. After knowing Lardy’s girlfriend Sydney King for most of high school, he was recommended to the band when they were in need of a new pianist two months ago. He’s studying music education at UNL and said the band has been a great opportunity to meet new people with exceptional talent.

“The pleasure of getting to know these guys and how they can play is awesome,” Hale said. “Being in such a small place you

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pretty cool and said, ‘let’s give it a shot.’” can find very talented guys that are really Lardy started Sheridan when he moved cool.” back to Lincoln from Minneapolis, after four Bashford is referred to by Hale and Laryears playing in a band dy as “the most reliable he started called See guy (they) know.” After for Dream. When Lardy playing guitar at Lincoln It’s fun listening came to Lincoln on a Berean Church for many through the album, baseball scholarship, he years, Hale and Lardy said, his old band toured asked him to join the because I can remember with his music without band last minute to fill each moment I started permission. He was also in for their guitarist who homeless for a period of left to record in Nash- writing them.” time, he said, because an ville, Tennessee. internship turned out “He played some ZACH LARDY to be much less helpful insane solo once at the sheridan than he had expected. church and ended up in Though these experiencSheridan,” said Lardy. es were hard, Lardy said Aside from being a guitarist, Bashford is an electrical engineer his ability to write music was an outlet for and said he was a bit hesitant about joining him to come to terms with some of the issues he was facing. the band.

“From losing that, to being a part of a “At first I was like, ‘oh, he just wants me church that couldn’t keep its promises and to like his group on Facebook,’” Bashford said. “I met with Zach and thought it was being homeless to being 500 miles away from

my girlfriend; with all those experiences formed together I created ‘Just Biding Time,’” said Lardy. “It’s fun listening through the album, because I can remember each moment I started writing them.”

He said his faith never waned and that the music reflects his hope for a brighter future, both personally and for his music.

“I wrote thinking I was far away, where I wanted to be,” Lardy said. “There is a lot of hope, but also a lot of real passion in it too.

The resounding thing is hope, and finding love throughout all of that.”

Because the music has been recorded and shared through social media, Lardy said his goal is to keep the music gaining momentum in the Lincoln music scene.

“I’m really shooting it towards radio and record labels,” Lardy said. “I think this music is really good, and a record label could definitely put it out for us.”

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Q&A with Saddle Creek pop singer Performer Orenda Fink will be ending her tour in what she considers her hometown, Omaha STEPHANIE CAVAZOS DN Ending her tour in her hometown, Orenda Fink will be playing at the Slowdown in Omaha on Saturday at 9 p.m.

After pop duo Azure Ray, a group she started with Maria Taylor, disbanded in 2004, Fink started her solo career and moved to Omaha.

The singer has four solo albums, including Blue Dream that was released in August.

She’s been touring the South for the last month and will be closing this chapter on Saturday.

Fink took the time to chat with the Daily Nebraskan to talk about her inspiration for the album and what the best part of her profession includes.

Daily Nebraskan: I know that you’re coming to Omaha soon, which is where you live, correct?

Orenda Fink: Yeah, I do. I’ve lived in Omaha for about ten years now.

DN: Did you pick the cities that you were performing in for this tour?

OF: Well, my booking agent picked a lot of them but I did have some special requests.

DN: Was Omaha one of those?

OF: Yeah, I definitely wanted to play Omaha at the beginning or the end of the tour. I thought it would make for a good homecoming show.

DN: Whenever you come to Omaha, do you make that show more special?

OF: Yeah, I mean, we’re not doing anything necessarily different for that show. But I think it will be special playing in Omaha with the bands I’m playing with and playing the songs from the new record. It’s the first time we’ve done that.

DN: I wanted to talk about the new record that was released over the summer, Blue Dream. Is there sort of an inspiration or a backstory that led to the making of this album?

OF: Well, essentially, what happened was that my dog died a couple years ago; I had him for sixteen years. It really threw me into a deep depression – almost bordering an existential crisis. I kind of realized that I didn’t really have any framework to deal with death, or to understand death. I was kind of trying to make sense of everything and just move forward. I spent the next year in therapy with a dream analyst.

I started having dreams about the analysis and the dog that were pretty intense that lasted for a year. So at the end of therapy, I started writing about the experience and that ended up being Blue Dream.

DN: Do you find that a loss is easier to depict musically than gaining something?

OF: For me it is, but I know everyone works differently. I think that at a certain point in my career writing pertained as almost a cathartic exercise and almost therapy in it of itself. You

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Fink began her solo career and moved to Omaha after pop duo Azure Ray, which she started with Maria Taylor, disbanded in 2004.

OF: I’m still close and great friends with take your more intense emotions that need to Maria Taylor, but we don’t have any immedibe reconciled and work those out through art or lyrics or songs. I think that I’m more driven ate plans as of right now. There’s always something moving on the hoto write about loss than rizon for Azure Ray, but gain because I don’t feel nothing in the immedithe need to express that I think it will be ate future.

I’m just happy. It’s easier special playing in DN: What do you for me to write about loss and I’m more inspired to Omaha with the bands I’m enjoy most about making music as a solo artwrite about loss, it’s just ist? kind of been, throughout playing with and playing OF: I like the catharmy career, the way I deal the songs from the new tic nature of writing and with life. record.

It’s the first time then taking that into a DN: Are you expecting performance aspect. I to move forward in the up- we’ve done that.” like creating and music coming year? is what I’m best at creatOF: I actually have a ORENDA FINK ing. I like collaborating side project with a friend singer, musician with my friends so I’m of mine named Cedric extremely lucky to work Leymone and our project with my peers in that is called “O+S”. We are sense. working on our sophomore record right now; DN: What’s the best part of performing, in the pre-course is finished, so for 2015 one of your mind? our plans is to finish that record.

OF: For me, the creation part is my favorite DN: Are you planning on doing any other collaborations with artists in the future: maybe part. Performing is great, but I get really nervous. Even still, I battle nerves at every show.

Maria Taylor?

I feel like performing is kind of like the hard part. The easy part is the making the music, the hard part is taking that thing that you were able to focus your time and energy and then handing it over to real time and you don’t know how they’re going to receive it, that’s the hard part.

DN: If you could release music, and not worry about the performing part, would you?

OF: Well, I’m slightly hesitant to say that performing isn’t more important in the grand scheme of things, but to me it isn’t. You have to be creative to perform in the first place; creating is the most necessary step and the performance is something taking it to the next level of communicating to your audience.

DN: Where do you find your biggest source of ideas that help you connect to your audience?

OF: I would say, generically, through my life experiences; internally and externally. I pull from my dreams because there is such vivid imagery in my dreams, personally, that are highly symbolic of my inner life, so it’s almost as if my dreams are writing the poetry for me.

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STUDENT VOICE Don’t say that you don’t play favorites. Because you do. And on Halloween night, we’re the most inhumane of candy connoisseurs.

There will always be that one treat that we will prize as the ultimate of all sugar delights. But at the end of

the candy train lies those despised favors that not even the most desperate trick-or-treater enjoys. Usually these discarded sweets would end up with our unfortunate siblings or parents. Maybe they end up in the local dumpster or found

“My favorite is the Three Musketeers Bar.” “I really hate Cookies ‘n’ Creme Hershey’s Bars.”

MAKENZIE COUFAL

“My favorite candy as a kid was Milky Ways.”

“Probably anything that had coconuts - so that would be Almond Joys.”

KATIE SIEDLIK

senior anthropology major

freshman elementary education major

years later adrift in the ocean after being flushed down the porcelain throne.

Fellow University of NebraskaLincoln students have voiced their ultimate favorites and undesirables. Did they make your list? If

you, the reader, feel that your candy deserves justice, then speak up for your sweet. Surely somebody must enjoy Almond Joys.

“The best Halloween treat is the Kit Kat bar.”

“I didn’t like it when they gave us raisins.”

LARISA EPP

freshman advertising and public relations major

“Kit Kats.”

“I’d probably say Jawbreakers.”

“Favorite...that would be Hersheys Chocolate Bars.”

“Probably those Dum Dums.”

ANH KHOA HUYNH freshman computer science major

“I would have to say Skittles or Starburst.”

“The worst would probably be Almond Joys.”

BRIAN EDWARDS sophomore business administration major

AHMED RESHAD ABDUL BASIR freshman biological sciences major

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CAMPUS STYLE

KAITLIN HARVEY Senior English Kaitlin Harvey can always be found around the English Department with some sort of eye-catching bag and clothing article. Today, my attention was drawn in by her burnt orange jacket, which, it turns out, was hiding a Barbra Streisand graphic T-shirt. Her style is never excessive, with clothes and accessories that simply accentuate her thrifty

style and bold personality.

Keeping on a budget is one of her top priorities, making her a natural when it comes to finding great clothes at the local Goodwill. She only wears jeans from Urban Outfitters and will occasionally splurge on other threads found there. This outfit is layered in clothing from Urban Outfitters, Target and Goodwill.

“The Lincoln Goodwill’s are really great, but in Omaha I got a 2006 Prada Shirt for a dollar.”

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Don’t let Pete, Joe Ricketts buy governor’s election Pete Ricketts and his father, Joe Ricketts, want to buy our governor’s office.

And they’re willing to spend millions.

Ricketts’s increased spending is part of a national trend toward highly competitive, negative and expensive elections. The past four years have seen the Supreme Court strike down limits on campaign contributions, both from corporations in 2010’s Citizens United v. FEC and from individuals in McCutcheon v. FEC earlier this year.

As the law now reads, private individuals can now give an unlimited amount of aggregate money directly to candidates during one campaign cycle, in addition to being able to contribute without restraint via Political Action Committees.

The virtual lack of regulation has only made it easier for the super-rich to pour money into campaigns. In some cases, its candidates spending their own money on TV ads, like the $75.1 million Florida Gov.

Rick Scott pumped into his campaign in 2010. In others, it’s billionaires across the country throwing incredible amounts into tight races at the national and state level.

The Koch brothers’ network of family members and uber-rich allies spent $490 million on the 2012 elections alone, 95 percent of which went to Republicans.

The third-largest spender on behalf of Republicans during this election cycle has been the recently created and ironically named Ending Spending Action Fund, founded and run by Joe Ricketts.

The last time Nebraskans saw Pete Ricketts, he was running for U.S. Senate in 2006.

In his race against incumbent Ben Nelson, Ricketts spent $11.6 million of his own personal fortune. He lost by 28 percent.

For the current election cycle, the Ricketts campaign has raised and spent $6.5 million, including almost $1 million from Ricketts’s personal account and more than

$1 million from his parents.

Ricketts’s total campaign spending is more than twice that of his opponent, Chuck Hassebrook, whose campaign has raised $2.3 million and whose most significant donor has been Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet, to the tune of $100,000.

In so many election cycles, this $100,000 donation would have been a campaign windfall. Compared to the $18.6 million Ending Spending has given to Republicans since 2012, it’s hardly worth noting. The money matters. Consistently, the candidate who spends the most, wins. In 2008, 93 percent of House of Representatives races, 86 percent of Senate races and 80 percent of state legislative elections were won by the bigger spender. In our race, this is holding true; as of Oct 23, Ricketts was winning in the polls.

And, for what purpose? Ricketts is fervently against gay marriage, despite the

fact that his sister, Laura Ricketts, is openly gay. He’s against expanding Medicaid, claiming to prioritize education spending, but he’s also against education spending because, “the bureaucracy can’t love.”

State spending on Medicaid, if expanded, is estimated to hit $25 million, or significantly less than the Ricketts have spent on elections in the past 10 years. Really, Ricketts seems to be against any sort of spending that isn’t directed at getting him into office.

Though voting against Ricketts won’t change the status quo, the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board supports any steps toward eliminating big money in politics.

As long as they’ve been able, Pete Ricketts and his father have been buying elections across the country. Don’t let them buy ours.

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Wearing Halloween costumes in class should be accepted SUSANNAH FOOS DN

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alloween is a day away, and that means one thing: costumes.

Halloween is a day when people can dress up in a large array of costumes ranging from the classic cat to Optimus Prime. However, is it appropriate to wear them during the day in classes? Depending on the person, his or her level of courage and his or her costume’s level of awesomeness, I would say go for it. Just don’t come to class in lingerie telling me that you’re a mouse.

When asked about the concept of costumes in class, University of Nebraska-Lincoln freshman Sara Beka said “Some people wear some really inappropriate things as costumes that don’t fit the classroom setting.”

Look at the Halloween scene in the movie “Mean Girls.” Gretchen, Karen and Regina all wear small costumes mostly made of lingerie and ears and consider themselves an animal.If

people want to dress up like that to class, go for it; just be prepared for some gawking stares.

This also goes for people who want to dress up like a Taco or SpongeBob. I will easily accept and appreciate their bravery and the courage it takes to stand up to the judgment they might undergo.

Freshman Morgan Frodyma agreed.

“Costumes are more of a going out thing,” she said. “You’re in college, not middle school.

You’re supposed to focus in class, and the costumes would be too distracting.”

A valid reason because there are parties all weekend where people can wear their costumes. However, there is no other joy like walking around campus in an epic costume.

People might judge you, but as long as you take pride in yourself, you should be able to wear your costume around classes with pride.

Think of the saying: “dress to impress.” If you feel like a costume will improve your day and make you more confident, who are we to stand in your way?

I figured asking a professor about their view on Halloween costumes was appropriate.

“On the day, I’m OK with costumes, just as

long as it isn’t distracting and interfering with classroom activities,” associate professor in the School of Music Therees Hibbard said.

Her key words were, “on the day.” Acceptance of people’s creativity is in the nature of the music department, Hibbard pointed out.

She left me with the thought that Halloween may be mostly be about candy for little kids, but for young adults, it’s about expressing ourselves more openly on a day when dressing up is socially acceptable.

Hibbard makes a good point about costumes as distractions. At what point is a costume too distracting? Is it when the people behind you can’t see; when everyone is paying too much attention to your costume and not the lecture; or when the costume becomes a distraction to yourself? I admit that certain costumes can be considered too distracting.

However, we can trust students to determine which costumes can be worn to class.

Moral of the story is, students with the courage to wear their Halloween costumes to class shouldn’t be judged for it. Rather, these students should be applauded for their bravery because deep down we all wish we had the

courage to dress up like the Red Power Ranger for class. We are in college, a place that prides itself on its freedom of expression and individuality.

Every home game, people dress up as Daft Punk, Power Rangers or a banana with a gorilla in the student section. Those people dressing up aren’t judged for their individuality. Halloween is a day to celebrate the individual’s creativity, plus get some candy. Who are we to judge these people’s Halloween spirit during the daytime? We sure don’t judge people’s Halloween spirt during the parties.

I am anxiously waiting Friday to see who has the bravery to go against the judgers of our society and prance around in their Halloween costumes. Though we’re in college, we have the chance to become kids again through this holiday. We might not get as much candy, but we sure get a bigger kick out of all the costumes.

SUSANNAH FOOS IS A FRESHMAN ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS AND BROADCAST DOUBLE MAJOR. FOLLOW HER @ SUSANNAHFOOS ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM.

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Everyone should unplug, play board games EMILY KUKLINSKI

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play Dungeons & Dragons every day, and so should you.

We are a nation that’s addicted to technological innovation, especially video games. In the United States, video and computer games dominate the market, making more than $21 billion in revenue in 2013. A recent survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found 97 percent of children and teenagers play video games. However, despite the obsession with virtual reality, more people than ever are also being drawn to board games.

Board game cafes are popping up all across the country. These are places where people go to play board games with one another, where they have tournaments and take a break from staring dead-eyed into a computer screen. At Spielbound, a board game cafe in Omaha, players can buy memberships to play their favorite games with others around the area. But why are these places becoming popular?

Board games have always been a love of mine. They’re an interactive experience that encourages socialization and contemplating your enemy’s demise. Dungeons and Dragons is like a friendship ritual: I get home from rehearsal, my roommate, her boyfriend and his roommate gather around the coffee table, and we Skype our friend Kreklow in. Then it’s two to three hours of my drunkard Scottish half-elf Kilta Haggessi trying to rescue her immortal sprite, Carlos, from an unknown enemy, all while the rest of our team tries to get back our caravan.

What’s great about it is that board games don’t tend to care about your experience level. My friends and I just started playing DnD a month and a half ago, and we all level up together. As our characters grow more experienced, not only does our level of play increase, but we’re able to grow more as friends as well.

This doesn’t mean that video games can’t instill friendships. But board games tend to be overlooked. Sometimes, we crave simplicity over graphics. We’re blessed with technology. It’s what allows us to be innovative.

It makes us feel like futurists, the people who our parents and grandparents dreamed of being. Who doesn’t feel like Captain Kirk when they whip out their cellphone, or Picard when you conduct meetings via your

iPad? The “OK Google” is practically like us hailing Scotty to beam us some information.

We want our technology to emulate life.

We have the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that features one-to-one movement: when you move your head, your character moves theirs as well. With the Xbox Kinect, the main draw is that it can sense your movements and mimic them on screen. Although the hype for both of these gaming innovations was high, and people – myself included – were eager to have a go at it, eventually you want to go back to playing with a normal controller.

dance rather than eat at us.

Actively doing things outside of technology is interesting. It’s open-ended, and the stories aren’t entirely predetermined. In games like Dungeons & Dragons, your dungeon master has the ability to alter and create new worlds for you to explore. It’s never dull, so long as your friends are as fired up as fighting the dreaded Owl Bears as you are.

I believe everyone should play Dungeons & Dragons. I believe they should cross stitch something for their grandmother on their birthday, that they should have a tabletop board game night with their friends at least

And that’s the way our culture is beginning to shift. Yes, we can buy our produce at the super market and eat artificially flavored fruit gummies.

We can purchase songs on iTunes and read books off of our Nooks and Kindles, and we can enjoy the simple pleasures of buying over-priced, premade birthday cards for our grandmothers. But there’s no heart in any of that. There’s no real worth to something if you don’t know who made what you’re using.

Although we’re constantly told that our technologically induced boredom with be the end of us – that it will be the thing that prevents us from remaining hungry for knowledge and innovation. Boredom is also a device that riles us. We become bored to the point of being restless. There’s a fire that burns deep within all of us, and the longer we’re still, the fire spits at us with a growing intensity. It’s when we’re moving, doing something that we’ve never done before or creating something that the fire begins to

once a week and that they should create something with their hands. There are certain things that technology isn’t able to give us just yet. But instead of complaining about how Skyrim doesn’t have a multiplayer mode, you can always pull out your D20 and create the perfect gaming system of your own.

EMILY KUKLINSKI IS A JUNIOR ENGLISH AND THEATER MAJOR. REACH HER FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

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All parties should vote for Hassebrook RONNIE DUPREE TURNER DN

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ext Tuesday, the people of Nebraska will go to the polls to elect representatives for our state and independent districts. Candidates are up for the State Legislature, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and, of course, the all-important governor’s seat. After Nov. 4, we can finally enjoy our short well-deserved break from the negative campaign ads.

Traditionally, the state of Nebraska has been solidly red. The Republicans have held the governor ’s mansion for 19 of the past 27 years. Going into these elections, many of us would assume that the trend would continue.

There seemed to be no alternative to the Republican political machine.

Then came Chuck Hassebrook, a University of Nebraska regent and an advocate for rural Nebraska and small businesses.

In the beginning, it seemed as if Hassebrook had no chance of winning, but since his campaign started in June 2013, Hassebrook has won the hearts and minds of people all over our state, and Hassebrook has proved

himself worthy of being the next governor.

As the Nov. 4 election gets closer, our two gubernatorial candidates have more clearly differentiated themselves from each other.

Hassebrook supports Medicaid expansion that would improve the health of many Nebraskan families. He supports expanding green energy and sees it as a grand opportunity for our workforce and a chance for Nebraska to lead on the national stage. Hassebrook has also made it clear that he wants to make higher education more affordable for Nebraskans.

As a member of the University of Nebraska’s Board of Regents, Hassebrook spent 18 years assisting the needs and concerns of students, professors and parents. Hassebrook woke up every day ready to work hard and uplift his fellow Nebraskans. It was here that he gained a reputation for working for the poor, the rich and the middle class.

Hassebrook understands that nothing comes without hard work, but at some point, everyone needs help. He bases his opinions and decisions on the facts and his own good judgment.

Republican Pete Ricketts, on the other hand, has set his sights on stopping the health care opportunities created by the Af-

fordable Care Act and has told the Omaha World-Herald that he believes the issue of climate change is “far from clear.”

Hassebrook and Democratic Senate candidate Dave Domina have both come out against that kind of thinking. They both took the tough position of opposing the Keystone XL project that they see as a threat to property rights, the environment and the overall public interest.

The positions of Ricketts and Ben Sasse represent a growing issue with American politics. As good as their intentions are the country needs more right now than conservative partisanship and an every-man-forhimself mentality.

Hassebrook and Domina are offering a new direction for Nebraska, one where every voice matters and every person is respected and given proper dignity.

Hassebrook wants more than for our state to hold its current position. Hassebrook has envisioned a Nebraska with the best schools in the country, a Nebraska that would invest in a clean energy future and that would ensure that all of our residents have the chance to reach the American dream.

American elections have to be more than a partisan team sport. Every so often, we all

have to come out of our own political tents to decide what’s best for the entire state.

From Lyons to Lincoln, Hassebrook has fought to support people across the Cornhusker State. Today, when many Americans are losing faith in government, we have to take whatever chance we can to elect those who have never stopped working for the people. A hard-lined ideology isn’t enough to run a state successfully; it takes dedication, hard work, faith and leadership.

Hassebrook cares about the state of Nebraska. He cares about what happens to our ranchers, our schools, our families and our reputation. He isn’t a man focused on the glory of political office. For Hassebrook, a man who has spent his life training small business owners and finding ways to help more families afford college, being governor of Nebraska is a logical next step.

Voting for Chuck Hassebrook is the best investment for Nebraska’s future and sends a clear message to the rest of the nation that Nebraska intends to grow and compete in the 21st century.

RONNIE DUPREE TURNER IS A FRESHMAN POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR. REACH HIM FOR COMMENT AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

FarmHouse members’ arrests send wrong message SAVANNAH TYRRELL

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wo tragedies in the past two months have stemmed from alcohol consumption in regards to the FarmHouse fraternity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The first occurred during the early hours of Sept. 5. Clayton Real, freshman agricultural economics major and member of FarmHouse fraternity, was found dead in his fraternity house. Later it was reported his death was due to acute alcohol poisoning.

The second tragedy is less obvious. Four of Real’s fraternity brothers were arrested on felony charges of procuring alcohol to a minor resulting in injury or death. This means they could serve up to five years in prison and be accountable for a $10,000 fine.

There are two arguments that can be made here. One is that these four men broke the law, which resulted in the death of a peer; they deserve to be put behind bars.

The second is this: The death of a young man was due to a longstanding culture of binge drinking and no particular individual is to blame, and these charges are meant to send a message.

The wrong message is being sent.

This is a discussion of where responsibility or blame rests. Is Real’s death a result of him lacking personal responsibility, or was the loss of his life due to an absence of social responsibility? The answer to this question is not black and white.

The type of message officials are attempting to send by punishing four of Real’s fraternity brothers won’t stop future irresponsible drinking. It won’t save lives. It will result in additional regulations for fraternities and raise awareness of laws put in place for this type of situation. Do more rules truly solve issues concerning minors and excessive alcohol consumption? No. We cannot logically say these fraternity members were responsible for Real’s death.

As a society, we feel the need to place blame, even when doing so doesn’t get to the heart of the issue. If we want someone to be at fault, let’s not use these four men as scapegoats. Let’s take responsibility for our role in the issue because in reality there are numerous factors involved.

I could have easily been in attendance at that party. It doesn’t become my duty to make sure everyone there’s drinking responsibly. We can’t blame Real’s death on some-

one who didn’t know what was chemically going on inside his body. We shouldn’t simply blame Real’s family, friends or health problems either. Maybe UNL as a whole is to blame – because officials, professors, administrators and students pretend to see no evil when it comes to the cultures of partying, hazing and drinking.

It could even be said the responsibility rests with the hundreds of FarmHouse fraternity brothers, past and present, who have been a victims of social pressures themselves, participating in drinking to near death for years. These four people did what their big brothers did before them.

The first point that arises is rules are clouded by social pressure and it’s ignorant to think otherwise. The second, more prevalent, point is there’s collective blame here.

Putting four members of a fraternity house in jail won’t solve the problem. It will result in an attempt to be more sly while binge drinking and not telling the truth about what occurs behind closed doors.

When I was younger, my sister and I fought constantly, and we received one of two punishments. The first was a timeout, where I would sit in my room, wasting two hours of my life pondering ways I could get back at my sister because the fight wasn’t my fault. I sat there attempting to justify my part in the conflict.

The second, more effective punishment was when my parents made me spend time

at the library to research the long-term effects of fighting with someone close to me. I was forced to learn the true consequences of my actions. The information I learned one day at the library has stuck with me for 10 years.

The same concept can be applied here.

Throwing four young men in jail, men who would otherwise be on a journey toward contributing to society, will do nothing for the bigger picture. Placing blame and administering this type of punishment won’t get to the root of the problem. And it won’t bring Real back.

We should be trying to spark a discussion between generations and among collegeaged students to educate and hold each other accountable. Perhaps there should be a mandatory alcohol consumption class. The bottom line is that we need to change the culture surrounding alcohol, specifically considering fraternities.

The true lesson here is that no one could have known that this particular purchase of alcohol would result in the death of a wonderful, young soul. We can’t deny that this story is a heartbreaking one – a heartbreak that no amount of law-changing or discussion can relieve. But I challenge you to ask yourself this: Will ruining four additional lives truly solve the underlying issue?

SAVANNAH TYRRELL IS A JUNIOR ADVERTISING & PUBLIC RELATIONS MAJOR. REACH HER AT OPINION@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM.

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