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Husker swimmer Ariel Weech got her start with competitive swimming with the Bahamian National Team at 11 years old. But life hasn’t always been easy. Last season, the swimmer failed a class after the death of a family member and she missed all of swimming season. But now she’s working toward redemption.

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Advances in technology cause students and professors to disagree on what is academic dishonesty and what is fair game.

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Fake IDs pay off for bar doormen

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story by Dan Holtmeyer | art by Natalia Kraviec

n April, almost 100 cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado were accused of cheating on an online calculus test by using the web-based calculator WolframAlpha.

In June, about 80 students in New York City’s Stuyvesant High School, one of the most prestigious and competitive public schools in the country, were charged with cheating on tests with text messages.

And in August, 125 students at Harvard University in Massachusetts were accused of cheating after they worked together in groups on a take-home final.

With such widespread cheating scandals emerging so quickly – along with studies

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finding at least two out of three students have plagiarized, collaborated when they shouldn’t have or outright cheated in high school and beyond – many academics and experts have declared academic dishonesty officially mainstream.

“People have said, really in the last 10 years or so, that this is reaching epidemic proportions,” said Ken Kiewra, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who has studied cheating in the Midwest at the high school level.

“It’s obviously a huge problem.”

Researchers pin some of the blame to shifting notions of what cheating means, especially when information or answers are

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UNL requests proposals from medical providers

Bringin’ the Razzle Dazzle Artist talks about musical hiatus, new inspiration

UNL searches for outside provider to construct new building

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Grady Williams, a sophomore international business major, rests his clipboard on the “Occupy the Voting Booth” sign as he fills out a voter registration form Wednesday at the Nebraska Union Plaza.

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For some students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nov. 6 will be their first chance to have their political voices heard – but only if they register in time.

Looking to boost registered voters, “Occupy the Voting Booth” set up in front of the Nebraska Union Wednesday afternoon.

Only 48 percent of eligible voters aged 18 to 24 voted in the 2008 elections, according to U.S. Census data. Overall, 63 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots in the last presidential election. As a voting demographic,

18- to 24-year-olds usually see the lowest voter registration and turnout. The 2008 election saw an increase to about 12.5 million 18- to 24-year-old voters from the 11.6 million who voted in the 2004 election.

At “Occupy the Voting Booth,” 300 voter registration forms were completed and ready to be mailed, said Jessica Sanchez, a recent UNL graduate who helped coordinate the event.

“Right at 11 (a.m.), about 100 cards were filled out,” Sanchez said. “Many multicultural students registered, which was part of our target audience.”

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Voter turnout over the years Total voters (rounded to nearest thousandth) 2008: 131,144,000 2004: 125,736,000 2000: 110,826,000 Voters aged 18 to 24 2008: 12,515,000 2004: 11,639,000 2000: 8,635,000

Source: The U.S. Census

dents who are used to the health center’s centralized location on campus.

“It’s not as convenient, yes, but we think it’s still walking distance,” Franco said.

The new provider is expected to maintain the health center’s conor dunn current medical services at the dn same or lower costs, Franco said.

Today’s health center was One day after University of built around 1960 and renovated Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor in the early 1990s, Franco said.

Harvey Perlman announced he Because of its aged infrastrucwanted to privatize and build ture, the building doesn’t match a new building for the Univerthe university’s standards, he sity Health Center, the universaid. Once the new health center sity sent a request for proposal to is constructed, the university will outside medical providers. destroy the UHC’s current buildThe proposal was sent ing. Franco expects the open Wednesday, said Vice Chancellor space will be temporarily used for Student Affairs Juan Franco for parking before at the Association a new building is of Students of the On a constructed in its University of Neplace. campus, one braska meeting ASUN also apWednesday night. of the main things proved Senate Bill The university 2, which defined doesn’t have the we accept is free the Committee for funds to construct Fees Allocation’s a new building, speech.” bylaws and proFranco said, and cedures and was L.J. McElravy doesn’t want stuits first piece of asun electoral commission dent fees to go up. director legislation this seHealth center mester. It passed employees will unanimously with have 90 days of no debate from the senate. guaranteed employment as soon ASUN’s Ad Hoc Commitas the new provider takes over, tee also spoke during open fowhich could be May 1, 2013 if a rum. The committee was formed vendor is approved, Franco said. last year to research how other The provider must consent schools manage their student to paying for the new health cen- government election procedures. ter’s construction on a universiSeventeen percent of the stuty-provided lot, which UNL exdent body voted in ASUN’s last pects to be completed in 2014, he election. One of the Ad Hoc Comsaid. The proposed location for mittee’s goals was to find a way the new health center will be at to increase voter turnout. After 21st and Vine streets. researching 19 other schools, inSen. Mike Dunn, a senior cluding those in the Big Ten, the communication studies major, committee didn’t find any school asked Franco if the new location would present a problem for stu-

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Steve Purbaugh (left) of Purbaugh Masonry discusses the next step in construction of a gateway to campus just west of the Nebraska Union on Tuesday.

Campus gateway nears completion Gates and parking lots part of larger project to improve campus entrances

er quite know when you are on campus, that the entry points are not well marked,” Perlman said.

“They developed the design you see constructed at 14th.”

Perlman said the university has not yet had the opportunity to execute the design anywhere jordan huesers else, but it will be used at various dn entry points around the campus.

“If you have been to other Construction on a $760,000 projcampuses that have executed enect to implement a gateway entry tries well, you would understand feature near the corner of 14th better how important this can and R streets – and enhance two be in recruiting prospective stuparking lots – should wrap up dents and giving a ‘campus feel’ next week. for all of us,” he said.

The project aims to provide Bartling said other suggesadditional parking and tidy up tions from the consultant are the area to better represent the visible throughout campus, inUniversity of Necluding entry colbraska-Lincoln. ors in core areas, They UNL news handicap signage observed director Kelly and updated signs Bartling said the that you never near buildings. university hired Lee Lephiew, Corbin Design quite know project manager from Traverse City, for the construcwhen you are on Mich., five years tion at 14th and ago to look at the campus, that the R streets, said campus and make workers on the suggestions about entry points are site removed two things like sig- not well marked.” buildings in the nage, campus pesouthwest area to rimeter and markenlarge the parkHarvey Perlman ers. The gateway ing lot, restrucunl chancellor entry arose from tured the souththese suggestions. east parking lot Chancellor and created the Harvey Perlman said the consul- gateway feature. tant suggested ways to give the “Before, the three areas here university a “sense of place” and did not even resemble each otha wayfinding system. er,” Lephiew said. “Now, we are “They observed that you nev- hoping to not only have the ad-

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Jason Novotny of Purbaugh Masonry smooths out cement on a newly built column for the university gateway. The gateway will give a distinctive entrance onto city campus. ditional parking but also the nice improvements to the area aesthetically.”

Total cost for the project reaches $762,534. Lephiew said funding came from both Parking & Transit Services and through the chancellor ’s office.

According to the construction schedules, the selection, design and bidding for this project began on Feb. 17 and ended on May 9.

Workers began construction

on May 14 and were projected to be finished on Aug. 24. However, Lephiew said they look to wrap up next week because of unforeseen obstacles. While working, he said they discovered parts of old buildings from the 1930s or ‘40s underneath areas of construction. Removing those buildings caused a delay.

“We are working toward that goal diligently now,” Lephiew said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Speaker suggests saving scenery Big Idea speaker worrys wind farms may obstruct natural scenery Demetria Stephens DN James Palmer warned Nebraskans at his Big Idea seminar Wednesday afternoon that the state’s open spaces are vulnerable.

Nebraska’s scenery is an untapped resource, and that could change quickly as power lines, billboards and wind turbines fill the horizon, said Richard Sutton, a professor in agronomy and horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“Nebraska is ripe for wind farms,” Sutton said.

Nebraskans haven’t set a value on scenery because “they think, oh, (scenery is) something I can see on vacation in Colorado,” Sutton said.

Sutton chose Palmer, a senior

principal at Scenic Quality Consultants in Burlington, Vt., to speak Wednesday at the first of five Big Idea seminars on “Scenery as a Natural Resource.”

Scenery is a non-renewable resource because once it’s disturbed, it can’t easily be restored, Palmer said.

“It’s valuable because it exists and it needs to be respected,” he said.

He spoke to a crowd of around 50, mostly students, teachers and Nebraskans, at the Nebraska East Union.

Palmer said scientists are asking nature walkers for the first time to rate how much wind turbines hurt the beauty of a landscape. He showed the crowd a study in Maine that asked people walking on trails to rate how wind turbines would affect their view of the Appalachian Mountains on a scale of one to seven, with seven having the most impact.

Palmer said most of those surveyed agreed the turbines had a great impact.

Maine initiated the study because it enacted an emergency act

It’s valuable because it exists and it needs to be respected.”

James Palmer

senior principal at scenic quality consultants

to build enough wind turbines to generate 2,000 megawatts of energy, which could power around two-thirds of all houses in the state by 2015, Palmer said. He added the act had a standard that turbines couldn’t unreasonably hurt current use of land and the study was conducted to find out if natural beauty was important.

Palmer told the crowd two main problems with the Maine study.

First, he said, the study needs to be conducted after the wind turbines are constructed to show the actual visual impact.

Second, the study can’t be applied to Nebraska because the landscape is different, Palmer said. Nebraska is far behind Maine in turbines, with 196 around the state generating 337 megawatts, according to data from the Nebraska Energy Office.

Suzanne Gucciardo, natural resources specialist with the National Park Service in Nebraska, said the information from the Maine study was crucial in her effort to preserve the Lewis and Clark Trail. She said she wants to know how the power lines and turbines affect visitors’ view of the trail. Gucciardo said a similar study on the 3,700-mile trail, which is open to the public 24 hours a day, would be a major project.

“We have to find a way that we can evaluate the scene in the downtown Kansas City area just as they would evaluate the landscape at (Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge) in Montana, where there is nothing,” Gucciardo said.

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whether holograms on each card reflect in and out, as they should, or consistently glow, confirming a fake.

Tripp said bouncers are taught to As the doorman at Iguana’s bar, Jason Sughroue was like a spider. He identify sure signs of false identificaspent his weekend nights waiting tion like frayed edges, peeling plastic for a fly with a fake ID to fall into his and just comparing the face to the card. trap. A timid, baby-faced boy would “A lot of the faces don’t match up approach, flashing an obviously false at all,” Tripp said. persona. Bingo.

The Bar manager Tony Hill said Another fake ID confiscated, anhis business sees a lot of action every other $30 in the pocket. week from fake IDs. While it’s part of the job for door“The majority of people that men and bouncers at bars to check come here are regulars, so when we IDs, some bars give the guys up front do take a fake, it’s from someone that a little extra incentive to keep underwe haven’t ever seen around before,” age drinkers out of the bar.

Hill said. “We see probably five to 10 Sughroue, a senior nutrition, exercise and health science major, a week and when we take them, we usually just tell the kid to beat it. And worked at Iguana’s for nine months the next day we turn the fakes in to last school year. the Lincoln Police Department.”

“I usually worked Thursday While he didn’t disclose the through Saturday,” Sughroue said. amount earned per “We would catch card confiscated, two to three fakes a We see Hill said the three night on weekends doormen on staff probably and make $30 per will usually make as fake on top of $11 an five to 10 a week much as it costs for a hour. It was a pretty and when we take minor to buy a fake nice setup.”

ID in the first place.

To avoid the them, we usually “Most people fines associated with just walk away withminors purchasing just tell the kid to out a fuss when we or drinking alco- beat it.” take it, but others hol, some bars have will plead with you adopted a method Tony Hill or offer to buy it the bar manager of paying doormen back for $80 to $100, extra cash for every because that’s how fake ID they confismuch it usually costs them to buy cate.

Kelly Tripp, a bartender at one,” Hill said.

Online sites can make a fake ID Duffy’s Tavern, said the doormen for $50 to $100. But the costs can far at the bar get paid a cash bonus for every fake collected but would not exceed the benefit of getting into a bar if police get involved. If caught disclose the amount.

“We probably see two or three a trying to purchase alcohol, a minor can be imprisoned for up to three week,” Tripp said. “We have black months, fined up to $500 or both, lights to check each ID and drivers license manuals that show what each according to “Affordable Alcohol state license looks like. Really, it’s all Training.” news@ about educating the doorman.” dailynebraskan.com The black lights determine

UNL hosts openhouse session for master plan University partners with Sasaki Associates, to gather campus data Jordan Huesers DN An open-house session in the Nebraska Union Wednesday night detailed the projected master plans for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and allowed attendees an opportunity to give input.

The university partnered with Sasaki Associates, Inc., to work on the master plan, which will guide the growth of the university for the next 15 years.

Throughout the next few months, Sasaki Associates will gather data from the community on what will accommodate the needs of the university most effectively.

The master plan must accommodate the new 2017 goals set by UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman, including enrollment growth to 30,000, the hiring of 160 new tenure-track faculty and an increase in annual research expenditures to $300 million.

Greg Havens, principal at Sasaki Associates, said his company is considering Perlman’s 2017 goals, particularly the enrollment increase, in its creation of the plan.

“How can we really work with this community to provide a better future for the campuses?” Havens said.

University space planning analyst Chad Christensen said the university and Sasaki Associations are going out of their way to encourage people to participate in the master plan.

“Hopefully people take advantage of it and give their input,” he said. “I am curious as to how others view the campus and kind of what direction things are going in the future.”

My Campus, an online, interactive mapping tool provided by the firm, asks a series of questions about how people use the campus.

“We use it so we can get a better understanding,” said Alexis Canter, landscape architect for Sasaki Associ-

ates. “As a firm, we take public involvement (and) public engagement very seriously and really believe the projects that we involve the public in are the strongest. The feedback we receive will be very much taken into consideration through all the stages in the project.”

Gina Ford, principal at Sasaki Associates, said the firm can provide an outside perspective on the campus, but it needs the UNL community to provide insight into what works and doesn’t work.

“I think outreach and engagement with the community is really crucial in a master plan,” she said.

“It’s really important to us to balance the ways we ask for feedback. So forums like this where we get to talk one-on-one are great.”

Havens said the firm conducts open-house sessions on many campuses.

“We find this is a good way to really understand what is on peoples’ minds,” he said. “It helps us do a better job, and it helps us reveal to the university what might be the undercurrent in the conversation on campus.”

Graduate student Laura Coombs attended Wednesday’s open house to offer a student perspective. She said she wished more students would have taken advantage of the opportunity.

“I am very interested in the future of UNL, the growth plans and what this looks like for the campus,” she said.

Sasaki Associates presented information collected about the history of UNL regarding aspects such as landscape, buildings and land use.

“The university provided us with a lot of good research,” Ford said. “That history piece we did because we think it is really important to know where you’ve come from and also to understand why certain environments feel better than others – why they were planned the way they were.”

Another open house will be from noon to 2.p.m Thursday at the Nebraska East Union. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Jai Mediratta, a freshman pre-health major, asks senior criminal justice major and Delta Sigma Theta member Ciera Tolbert how to fill in the “county” portion of the voter registration form at the “Occupy the Voting Booth” table at the Nebraska Union Plaza on Wednesday.

For Markita Clark, a junior art major, the 2012 election is her first chance to vote. She was 16 during the 2008 election.

“I’m excited, but it is a totally different feeling,” Clark said.

“Obama has been president for four years, but it’s still as important.”

Rashad Middleton, a senior finance major, said he was happy people were energized about registering.

Andre Fortune, director of

the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, organized the event. Fortune said he thought students needed more information on the democratic process.

“I realized that education was the first step in increasing the youth vote,” Fortune said. “Many students that we work with in the Multicultural Center aren’t familiar with the political process itself.”

Fortune also said apathy and inconvenience tend to deter young

people from voting.

“I remember the ‘Vote or Die’ campaign,” Fortune said. “It’s isn’t enough to just vote – you need to know what you are voting (for) beyond party or race.”

The Multicultural Center, Kappa Alpha Psi, Delta Sigma Theta, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Office of Academic Success & Intercultural Services, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska and the Center for

Civic Engagement worked together to organize the event. It’s the first in a series of events to boost the voter turnout, Fortune said. He said events meant to inform students about candidates are in the planning stages, and dates will be released soon. He wants to make sure students are educated about their choices come November.

“If you don’t have a reliable source, you don’t know what you are fighting for,” Fortune said. nEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

bally discuss their intent to run during that time. The committee believes this will stop students from becoming annoyed with a long election season and also relieve stress for the campaigning candidates.

But L.J. McElravy, a human sciences graduate student and director of ASUN’s Electoral Commission, said preventing candidates from visually campaigning is limiting free speech.

“You have to have really good reasons (to limit speech),” he said. “On a campus, one of

the main things we accept is free speech.”

McElravy also said shortening the campaign season would create more difficulty for the candidates.

Graduate students weren’t reached in last year’s campaign season, he said.

“When we talk about students getting sick of the campaign,” he said, “I think we’re talking about all of our friends, not the campus at large.”

The committee also recommended that party executives run

as a group during a campaign, but the other candidates run individually. This means the party name won’t show up next to the candidate’s name on the ballot.

The committee lastly recommended that the Electoral Commission clarify the meaning of a campaign event.

The Ad Hoc Committee’s recommendations are only recommendations. The election rules won’t be presented until later this semester, according to McElravy. news@ dailynebraskan.com

asun: from 1 with a voter turnout more than 20 percent last year. Because of this, the committee said it doesn’t believe reforming election procedures will increase or decrease voter turnout.

The committee also said UNL has a longer election season (nine weeks) than other schools.

Thus, the committee suggested ASUN’s Electoral Commission, which decides the rules and procedures for the election process, should cut visual campaigning to one month. This means election party members could only ver-

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With the 1.6 percent overall enrollment decrease at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this year, some colleges are feeling the shortage of students more than others.

The Exploratory and PreProfessional Advising Center, formerly the Division of General Studies, saw the largest decrease in enrollment this year with a 20.2 percent decline. Next up was the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts with a 7.5 percent decline and the College of Architecture with a 5.5 percent decline.

Bill Watts, director of Campus Advising at UNL, said several factors could have influenced the large drop in the number of undeclared students.

“During slow economic times, some students may feel more pressure to declare a major rather than start undecided,” he said.

“In addition, UNL has not previously made recruitment of undecided students a priority.”

The number of undeclared students dropped from 1,637 students in fall 2011 to 1,307 this year.

Watts said a new advising center was opened this year to make prospective students feel more at ease if they are undecided on a major.

“The creation of the Explore Center is meant, in part, to address (the recruitment) shortcoming and make future prospective undecided students more aware of the services available to help them,” Watts said. “We want students who are undecided to know they have a home at UNL and that UNL will be here to help them find their path.”

At the College of Architecture, enrollment dipped to 376 undergraduates from 398 last year. The decrease continues a four-year trend in decreasing enrollment at the college. Undergraduate enrollment in the college has de-

Colleges with biggest enrollment decreases since 2011 Exploratory and PreProfessional Advising Center - down 20.2 percent Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts - down 7.5 percent College of Architecture - down 5.5 percent creased nearly 30 percent.

Administrators from the College of Architecture couldn’t be reached for comment.

Charles O’Connor, the endowed dean at the College of Fine and Performing Arts, said although his college saw decreases, he thinks it was mostly due to the overall trend of university-wide enrollment decreases. UNL saw a decrease in enrollment of 386 students this year. Enrollment for fall 2012 was 24,207 students, according to university figures.

Enrollment at the fine arts college sits at 608 undergraduate students, down from 657 in fall 2011. O’Connor said these decreases only represent undergraduate enrollment at the college and that graduate student enrollment increased nearly 27 percent this year.

“This reflects our increased strategic recruiting in that area and competitive fellowships (that were) offered,” he said about the graduate numbers. “We were pleased to see those numbers.”

O’Connor said the College of Fine and Performing Arts has been in a transition phase for the past year, which is why he wasn’t entirely surprised by the decrease in enrollment numbers.

“But I’m very confident that we have much to be excited about moving forward,” he said. “We will continue to increase our recruiting efforts to get the word out.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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I wouldn’t say it’s acceptable, but I would say you do find it a lot. Perception is everything.”

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“The information age that we live in has changed the equation,” said Matt Hecker, UNL’s dean of students and head of Judicial Affairs, which oversees policy and punishment for academic dishonesty. “The faculty is of a generation that didn’t grow up with technology.”

UNL seems to have avoided the worst of the problem, Hecker said. Last academic year, the university penalized 84 students for dishonesty – about 10 more than the three-year average but fewer than 1 percent of UNL’s student body.

“We haven’t had anything of that size or scope here,” Hecker said, referring to Harvard’s ongoing investigation. “Could that happen here? Well, yeah, of course it could.”

While UNL hasn’t seen dozens of students charged with cheating at once, several students were unsurprised by the news from Harvard and elsewhere. Echoing some of the students under investigation at Harvard, they said standards of what cheating means were often vague and inconsistent, leaving the average student to come to his or her own conclusions.

“I wouldn’t say it’s acceptable, but I would say you do find it a lot,” said Mercedes Bender, a freshman child psychology major.

“Perception’s everything.”

Rachel Gehringer-Wiar, a senior English major, agreed, adding she thought the Harvard students had a point.

“Mostly I see cheating as you’re taking a test and deliberately looking at someone’s answers,” Gehringer-Wiar said. As for a take-home test, she said, “It’s sort of the same to me as studying together, but you have the test in front of you.”

Two years ago, Kiewra, the education psychologist, took a survey of 100 high school juniors in a large Midwestern town to study student opinions. The distance from the classroom – and the professor – indeed makes a big difference in whether something is considered cheating, he said.

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The effort required to cheat also has an impact, he said, as when students are less comfortable sharing answers than giving test questions to friends for them to answer on their own.

Academic dishonesty, defined in eight points in the Student Code of Conduct, includes plagiarizing other sources, sharing answers or other “unauthorized” information about a test, falsifying grade reports or helping another student do any of the above. Consequences, which can be appealed by students, typically range from failing the course to suspension or expulsion.

The wording of the policy gives professors wide discretion over what constitutes cheating.

They often make a quick reference to their standards on the first day of classes or in their syllabi, but other than clarifying any standards that aren’t in the code of conduct, professors don’t have many hard-and-fast rules for their policies.

“Each faculty will give a different answer,” said Rigoberto Guevara, a modern language professor and president-elect of UNL’s Faculty Senate. “At the end of the day, it’s each professor ’s responsibility to enforce it.”

This libertarian approach might cause some problems, said Hecker, the dean of students.

“There’s some legitimate confusion,” he said. “We know we need to be doing more.”

Academic Affairs and the Faculty Senate are working to form a task force to review standards and their clarity, Hecker said, though he added recent events had no role in that decision.

“We’re just getting started,” he said. “It’s more a matter of recognizing that, on a regular basis, we need to review what we do.”

This week is also Academic Integrity Week at UNL, featuring a series of talks and workshops on the subject. A talk Wednesday titled “But I Didn’t Know: Tips for Maintaining Academic Integrity” focused on unintentional cheating, pointing to university-wide standards that may be out of date or hard to find.

Even quoting a text as recognizable as the Bible without attribution or recycling work from past classes falls under academic dishonesty, according to Andre Fortune, director of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center and the event’s main speaker.

But despite university plans and events designed to spread awareness of academic integrity and dishonesty, Kiewra said he was skeptical of students’ claiming they don’t know what cheating means.

“People, when caught redhanded, often play the ignorance card,” he said. “Students can understand something’s cheating and they rationalize.”

Barbara LaCost, an associate professor of educational administration who primarily works with graduate students and doesn’t put an academic honesty policy on her own syllabus, also put some responsibility back on students.

“I just think you’re an adult when you get here,” LaCost said.

“And I think if you’re not sure, you should ask.”

Tammy bain contributed to this report. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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K Rule No. 003

“Seeing a friend in Between Classes”

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Cheating spoils integrity in education It’s probably been drilled into your head since you started learning the alphabet in pre-school, but it’s true.

Cheating doesn’t help you.

When you cheat, you’re not learning information; you’re recycling it. And isn’t learning the reason to devote four years toward a college degree?

Universities like ours are a place for expanding minds.

We came here to take in information and use it for the rest of our lives, not to simply skate by. If you take the easy way out, you’re only going to end up with diploma and an empty brain.

Coming to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is an investment in your mind for your future. Value it. Don’t tarnish your education with cheating.

Academic dishonesty doesn’t just keep students from becoming an educated member of society.

It can also have serious consequences while you’re still in school. When you get caught cheating, you will fail the course, and you could get suspended or even expelled. It can spoil your investment.

But knowing when you’re cheating isn’t always clear cut.

It’s easy to collaborate with a classmate on an assignment outside of class time or to tell somebody in another section of the same class some answers to the test you just took.

Students all think they know what cheating is, but they should know how it’s outlined in the Student Code of Conduct. Academic dishonesty includes plagiarizing, sharing answers or “unauthorized” information about a test, falsifying grade reports or collaborating with another student to commit an act of academic dishonesty.

With that broad definition of academic dishonesty, professors are given a wide range of discretion to catch and punish cheating students.

Make sure you read the syllabus for a class carefully. If anything is unclear, talk to the professor to understand his or her definition of academic dishonesty so that you can be on the same page.

Last academic year, 84 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students were caught cheating. That’s less than a one-hundreth of a percentage point of the student body.

As students of this academic institution, we need to keep that number low. By not cheating we’re increasing the value of our degrees and helping ourselves out in the long run.

Because you’ve known it since you started going to school. Cheating is bad; it doesn’t help you.

Opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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Lot fees harm students, economy

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aturday night has arrived, the Huskers just won a big game and you want to go downtown to celebrate.

But instead of settling into the old routine of finding fairly accessible parking in the Andersen Hall lot, students pulling in are greeted by an employee looking to charge $5 for the privilege.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Parking and Transit Services has implemented a $5 fee for parking at Andersen Hall, the Alexander Building and the lots on the corners of 13th and 14th Streets and R Street on weekends. Students are greatly inconvenienced and dissuaded from spending money to stimulate the Lincoln economy.

True, if a student already has purchased a parking pass, he or she doesn’t need to pay the charge. But most drinking-age students live off campus. And because a good number of off-campus students know paying the ridiculous price for a parking pass is in vain because of limited parking options, they simply don’t purchase one.

UNL parking passes costs $395 for a standard, nine-month permit. Comparatively, at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, a similar pass costs $158. It’s $207 for a pass at the University of Iowa, $121 at Iowa State University and about $195 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Because of their proximity to downtown hotspots, the aforementioned lots were popular places for students to leave their cars.

They’d wander downtown and pump money into Lincoln’s economy to the tune of a meal, some beverages and a contribution to the washboard man.

So when PTS started this fee, and the lots were subsequently emptier, students weren’t happy. Neither was Association of Students of the University of Nebraska President Eric Kamler.

“We don’t have an answer right now because they just threw it out there,” Kamler told me in an interview about why PTS started charging students for parking. “I’m not too pleased right now.”

According to Kamler, the new charge wasn’t in PTS’s budget presented to ASUN last year. He did say, however, that it will be addressed when ASUN approves its budget for the coming year. Judging from his attitude, it seems safe to assume the legislative body will seek to halt the fee.

according to the government’s College Drinking Prevention website.

“Students get their money’s worth when they take advantage of the service,” Kamler said.

That being said, $93,000 is still a lot of money and nearly bankrupted ASUN in the past.

So if it’s insisted we pay a fee, why not direct the $5 students are using to the 475-RIDE program? This especially makes sense considering those students are in turn most likely to use the service later that night.

ASUN is doing its part to assuage the cost of the service, however. The student governbenjamin welch ment will save between $9,000 and $12,000 this year by making the switch to using Happy Cab Co. as their program provider. Happy Charge receipts are going toward “parking operating and maintenance, to clean the mess- Cab charges less and has more vehicles in its fleet than the previous provider, Servant Cab, es left when necessary and to repair damage,” said Daniel Carpenter, the director of PTS, in and is more efficient by using an automated system based on swiping a student’s NCard. an email.

ASUN can request usage statistics to make the While undoubtedly well-intentioned, the justification is tough to follow. Seemingly, it’s program more efficient and to see who may be a cycle of charging students to pay the per- abusing the service.

However, passing additional savings on to son who’s charging the students. I could be students is hard to argue with. A measure like ignorant, but sweeping up a few broken beer this allows for ASUN to allocate bottles or – god forbid – some funds to other projects to serve barf doesn’t validate charging Seemingly, students instead of blowing the students extra to relax after a budget solely on taking care of long week of school. it’s a cycle the inebriated.

UNL can afford to clean up Unfortunately, bureaucracy a parking lot from sales of per- of charging currently won’t allow for this. mits alone. It shouldn’t matter students to pay Parking and Transit Services, whether a student parking in which controls parking lots, is the lots in question has a permit. the person who’s separate from ASUN, which is The sky-high cost of tuition charging the contracted with Happy Cab for is undoubtedly already allothe 475-RIDE program. cated toward parking lot and students.”

The two sides should realbuilding repair. Charging stuize UNL exists to serve students. dents twice for the same services makes the university seem greedy and The best way to achieve this is by giving them a great education and social experience in the uncaring. most cost-effective manner. Safety is, of course, a A possible solution exists to solve this ditop priority as well. Reallocating funds incurred lemma, however. from charging students to park on the weekLast year, ASUN spent approximately ends is the right step in this direction. $93,000 on cab rides in accordance with the If this compromise can’t be achieved, just 475-RIDE program, Kamler said. The service leave our parking lots alone and end this ripicks up intoxicated students who have no diculous trend of making everything both exother option for returning home at no cost.

Removing drunk drivers off the streets pensive and inconvenient.

Benjamin Welch is a graduate should be campus safety’s No. 1 priority. Of student of journalism. reach him at this there is no doubt. Especially considering opinion@ 3.36 million students between the ages of 18 dailynebraskan.com. and 24 drive under the influence of alcohol,

When reality TV exploits the poor, no one wins

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man, chronically unem- contestants, some simply take their beployed, falls behind on longings and turn them over for a profit.

You have Spike TV’s “Repo Games.” paying his bills. The bank comes to repossess his People are unpleasantly surprised when belongings. But there’s a the show’s hosts come to repossess their twist; if he runs through an items … unless they can answer enough obstacle course on a game show, he can trivia questions! The obvious outcome for many people is looking like a fool on avoid having his stuff repossessed!

The pitch goes something like this: camera, only to have their car or furniture forcibly removed from their home.

Take advantage of the poor for the sake The hosts appear to help the contesof entertaining the wealthy. This sounds tants. After all, winning a possession is a lot like the dystopian society depicted in “The Hunger Games,” where children better than having it taken away, right?

However, it’s extremely condescending are forced into participating in a televised and debatably unethical; death match. This doesn’t having your ratings spike sound like reality televiIn short, by compromising somesion airing on MTV or these one’s self-worth on camera VH1. is questionable at best.

Unfortunately, these television shows On one episode, a conshows aren’t only real, but testant is asked to name all immensely popular. And are doing a they’re a stepping stone on disservice not only four members of The Beatles. After guessing their the pathway toward “Hunnames were “Jessie, Rich, ger Games”-like program- to viewers, but Adam and Rob,” the first ming. to people on the step toward repossession The recession is an inoccurred. While the names escapable modern reality. show.” of Paul McCartney, Ringo A lot of people struggle to Starr, George Harrison and keep up on basic expenses.

Maybe game shows that benefit the poor John Lennon are obvious to most, not knowing their names shouldn’t result in with monetary compensation are the anlosing your mode of transportation. swer.

Then there’s Storage Wars, which airs Then again, why is a handout the anon A&ETV. While you don’t see the previswer? And if the handout demeans the ous owners of the storage unit, what you receiver, is it really beneficial? do see is the hosts rummaging through Reality television places poor people in compromising positions and then their personal belongings. Afterward, they find and sell valuable items auctionbroadcasts their financial woes as “enterstyle. tainment.” While many of the shows offer That piece of jewelry may have been cash prizes to assist their disenfranchised

damien croghan worth $100, but it may have had sentimental value to someone else. Profiting off of someone else’s misfortune isn’t commendable, and it certainly shouldn’t be enjoyed by the prime time television audience.

The exploitation of impoverished people on television isn’t new. In 2006, MTV debuted “Trailer Fabulous.” As the title implies, trailers were remodeled to look “classier.” Not only was the trailer remodeled, but the show gave the people living in it makeovers also.

In short, a team of upper-class designers came into a low-income household, made them vaguely mirror an upscale lifestyle and called their problems fixed.

Ta-da! Who knew that the poor just needed a makeover to move up the corporate ladder?

“Trailer Fabulous” played into two negative social archetypes. The first is

that trailer parks are the epitome of what isn’t fabulous and that they’re a social metaphor for poverty. The second is that poor people just need a better wardrobe and house.

The show furthers a superficial understanding of the world. If the poor place more emphasis on their appearance, they’ll make it. However, it’s difficult to buy designer clothing when you’re worried about putting groceries on the table.

And that souped-up trailer is hardly impressive to most onlookers.

Other examples of this “rags to riches” reality TV gimmick include “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” While the emotional reactions of homeowners are heartwarming, what’s less exciting is learning about homeowners who lose their new houses after being unable to pay property taxes. Or even the electric bill associated with the carousel in their backyard.

In short, these television shows are doing a disservice not only to viewers, but to people on the show. There isn’t a quick fix to poverty. And using the poor as pawns in a game is not improving their socioeconomic status.

There are people who willingly sign their lives away for fame. The Kardashians come to mind. They want the limelight, and chase after it. Then there are people who choose to humiliate themselves on television, believing it will benefit them.

Reality television script writers use the poor as their notepads.

Maybe it starts with financial compensation, as seen in shows like “Who

Wants to Be a Millionaire” or “Cash Cab.” Then it evolves into many of the shows mentioned earlier, which will pay off debts. You can also see evidence of this in sweepstakes where you win free gas for a year.

The shift from a lottery with obscene amounts of money to a lottery providing basic sustenance occurs. Eventually, this could become something darker. The impoverished could start competing for food, just to survive. You have “The Hunger Games.”

Fast forward to 2100. Imagine a new TV series has just debuted. Each part of the United States (West Coast, Northeast, Midwest, South, and East Coast) is called a Region. Each Region will send a contestant. If the contestant wins, their Region’s state government will receive enough money to adequately feed their population.

And the losing Regions? Some may starve. Those who can afford cable will be amazed by the theatrics of real-life violence unfolding on their television screens. This is hardly a win-win situation, and can hardly be labeled as fun for the whole family.

The next time you’re flipping through channels, choose a sitcom. Or, at the very least, question the cost of the reality show’s production. Sometimes it’s better to watch actors play out a script than it is to view the loss of someone’s dignity.

Damien Croghan is a senior news-editorial and international studies major.

Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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EARLY OSCAR FAVORITES PREMIERE, BRINGING BIG NAMES, BIG BUDGETS BACK TO BIG SCREEN

BY CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER

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he long and bountiful days of summer exist now only in memory and so too do the capes, the foul-mouthed teddy bears and a sequels not about Jason Bourne that appeared to be entirely about Jason Bourne.

And in comes the fall, a magical time when the Oscar-spying indies – that’s “indies” in name only – start to throw their weight around. From the prodigious, young directors we’ve waited on with bated breath to the triumphant, but uncomfortable return of Joaquin Phoenix, the big-screen lineup for fall 2012 offers real promise … and “Dredd.” Perk up, kids. I am the law.

directed by Paul Thomas anderson

Premieres Sept. 21

WITH Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams Welcome back, Joaquin. Never leave us again and if you do, try to be more subtle about it.

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s first offering since 2007’s “There Will Be Blood,” PTA gives us “The Master,” an unofficial L. Ron Hubbard biopic. Phoenix plays a troubled veteran returning home from World War II, who falls in with Lancaster Dodd (Phillip Sey-

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mour Hoffman), the leader of a faith-based organization with resemblances to Scientology. With a cast that also includes Amy Adams and Laura Dern, we’ve come to expect stirring performances in films from a director who likes to work with stirring performers. And Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) composed the score. Buckle up, believers.

directed by ben affleck

Premieres oct. 12

WITH Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Ben Affleck In the turmoil of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Ben Affleck’s beard must “exfiltrate” six U.S. embassy employees caught in the middle of a violent regime change, characterized by vehemently anti-American sentiments. Ben Affleck has a beard in this movie, is what

we’re saying. “Argo” is the director-actor ’s first film since “The Town,” which drew him critical praise for his work on both sides of the camera. It’s also Affleck’s first directorial effort to be set outside the comfortable confines of Boston.

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CLOUD ATLAS

Premieres oct. 26 directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

WITH Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Grant Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, “Cloud Atlas” currently lays claim to the label “most expensive indie film of all time” with a budget of more than 100 million dollars. For those who haven’t read the book, early buzz about “Cloud Atlas” is decidedly vague, but the film should touch on souls and human kind and

Premieres oct. 12

epical implications for the future. One assumes the actual film will come off less like a loaded undergrad English paper, but audiences can expect a mind-bender. Tom Tykwer of “Run Lola Run” fame and “The International” infamy directs. Make it more like the former, Tom.

directed by MARTIN MCDONAGH

WITH Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken Martin McDonagh (director of “In Bruges”) appears poised to serve audiences another haywire, fast-paced romp with a dynamite cast. “Seven Psychopaths” follows an ailing writer, played by Colin Farrell. As in Farrell’s last partnership with McDonagh, things go awry quickly as the writer’s friends kidnap a Los Angeles

gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) cherished Shih Tzu and chaos and violent hilarity ensue. If “In Bruges” is any indication, you can’t go wrong with a wild crew of halfwitted, fast-talking thugs yelling and swearing at each other.

with Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro Bradley Cooper hasn’t exactly crackled in leading man roles recently, but he looks to turn that trend around in “Silver Linings Playbook” with David O. Russell at the helm. After being released from a mental hospital, Pat Solitano (Cooper) moves back in with his parents and put his life back together in comedy-drama that also stars Robert De Niro, Jennifer Law-

rence and Chris Tucker. Sure “Limitless” was pretty limited and “The A-Team” was more like the B-team, but Russell has shown great skill in the last decades with funny, but emotional outings, like “The Fighter” and “I Heart Huckabees.” Few auteurs are better with down-and-out characters. arts@dailynebraskan.com

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Premieres nov. 21

directed by david o. russell

Missy Higgins brings ‘Razzle Dazzle’ back to Omaha ingrid holmquist dn After her hiatus from music, Missy Higgins is getting ready to take the stage Friday in Omaha at the Slowdown to flaunt her newly released album, “The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle.”

The Daily Nebraskan spoke with Higgins about her musical style, her break from music and the inspirations that followed.

Daily Nebraskan: It’s rumored that your touring album tells a much different story than previous albums.

What are you trying to say with “The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle?”

Missy Higgins: I’m not really trying to say anything. It’s kind of a diary about my experience over the past few years about where I’ve been emotionally with trying to find my love again of music, trying to find inspiration again. I kind of got burnt out with music a little bit, and I thought I would quit music forever. I kind of had an existential crisis and wanted to find out who I was without music in my life. There are a lot of songs that try and reconcile the performance and the entertainment side of my personality with the personal.

DN: You said you wanted to find who you were without music in your life. What did you find?

MH: I don’t know. It’s pretty hard to describe. I guess I found that, ultimately, there was a sadness in me

when I walked away from music, and it was more about trying to find a way to live with music that felt kind of bright and that felt honest and inspired me again. Ultimately I found that I didn’t want to be without music.

DN: What was it that made you walk away from music in the first place?

MH: I think a number of things.

I did it for a really long time without taking a break and I went to L.A. and really pushed it hard. I think I forgot to really get to the personal side of my life. There was so much that I felt I really missed out on, you know, birthdays and weddings. I guess I started to resent the fact that I’d been away for so long. There was a side of me that just really wanted to spend time at home. I probably just needed a break, because I hadn’t been home for so long that it all just kind of built up and built up.

DN: What did you do during your break from music?

MH: I went to college and studied Australian Indigenous studies, and that was really interesting and felt like it was something really important to do. There’s so much dysfunction in the aboriginal communities in Australia that we really have the responsibility to do something about as a nation. I did that for a while, and I helped out with some environmental causes. You know, I spent a lot of time with my family and friends and really enjoyed kind of staying put.

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Missy Higgins will showcase her new album, “The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle” at the Slowdown in Omaha on Friday.

DN: What inspired you to do more for social issues?

MH: I guess I just felt like it was what I was supposed to do and what I was interested in. I guess, honestly, I felt like music started to feel selfindulgent after traveling around, so I wanted to do something that I felt was much bigger and more important than that.. It was kind of two causes that I feel strongly about put into one in an area of Australia that I really love and that I’m passionate about. I just want-

ed to do something that would really make a difference.

DN: A word I often hear to describe your performances is “natural.”

How do you think your live sound compares to the album?

MH: Well, it’s hard because, on the album, there’s so many things going on, and there’s no way to replicate that live. I do have a band and all of them sing really, really well, so we have a lot of amazing background vocals going on. A lot of them are really versatile

and can play some really interesting instruments. It’s actually a really fun show. A lot of people say they’re surprised by how much we do sound like the album, live. We do a good job at doing a good live show.

DN: Some of your older songs, especially your hits, “Where I Stood” and “Sugarcane,” are both very beautiful and very vulnerable. Years later, how do you keep them as emotionally driven as they were when you originally wrote them?

MH: I just try and get into where I was when I wrote that song, emotionally, or you can always relate old songs to something that’s going on in your life at the time. Or just get lost in the storytelling aspect of it. I don’t really invent exact emotion every time I play a song, otherwise the emotion would be exhausting. I just try and get inside the story as much as possible.

DN: How does it feel to know that those emotionally driven songs might be hitting home for an audience member?

MH: It feels really great. I mean, that’s what it’s all about. Trying to touch people with my songs and really create a connection between me and the audience. When I come on stage, and I feel like the audience and me are on the same wave the entire time, it’s an amazing high. I think that’s kind of what songwriting is all about for me — creating a point of relatability and empathy between you and a whole lot

if you go

Missy Higgins w/ Katie Herzig & Butterfly Boucher when:

Friday, 8 p.m.

The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St., Omaha how much: $20 where:

of strangers.

DN: Do you think that writing about love and relationships lends itself to personal scrutiny?

MH: It depends who’s interviewing me. Yes, of course, whenever you write personal songs, people are going to be curious about exactly what experience that song came from. You only have to take that curiosity as far as you want. You don’t have to talk about anything you don’t want to. I kind of like to keep it slightly mysterious because I want people to put their own interpretation into my songs. I don’t want them to know exactly what they’re about because they might have a harder time relating to the song.

DN: Do you ever sense a double standard at all as to the way vulner-

missy higgins: see page 6

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Grad student creates art on actors, sidewalks alike

this week in lincoln Brighton Beach Memoirs

kelsey haugen dn Mallory Prucha waits at a table at The Mill, detailing sketches for potential costume designs. She’s able to set it aside long enough to chat, but it’s obvious she’s always working, always creating some form of art.

Healthy or not, she’s working.

Prucha’s appearance doesn’t even hint at her hectic lifestyle or the fact that she has bronchitis. Her hair is perfectly highlighted and her makeup is applied so flawlessly, only a makeup artist could have done it.

“There’s, like, this part of me that really wants to end post-modernism and start a new art movement,” Prucha said, “but I don’t think that will happen.”

When Prucha first started college, she said she was more interested in studying science. However, she received scholarships to study art, which convinced her to take that route instead. She earned a Master of Arts in theatre arts and a Bachelor of Arts in studio arts at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and has won several art and design awards.

Prucha is currently in her third year at the University of NebraskaLincoln Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in costume design.

“I’m constantly looking at theater through the lens of an artist by not just making costumes but trying to make humans into artwork,” Prucha said.

In addition to creating wardrobes for plays and fashion shows, Prucha is a fine arts, technician and stage makeup guru.

“I consider myself a fine artist first, but I like to dress people up as well.,”

when: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. where: Miller Theater 51st Street and Huntington Avenue. how much: $10 adults, $7.50 seniors, $5 students

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Mallory Prucha works in the costume warehouse, located in the basement of the Temple Building, where she stores many of her completed designs.

Prucha said.

One of Prucha’s ways of sharing her work publicly is by putting it right in front of a person’s nose or more accurately, feet. She creates chalk murals on sidewalks, usually near the Union.

“It’s much less pretentious than putting my work in a gallery,” Prucha said.

Much of her chalk art is done to promote upcoming events, such as plays at Nebraska Repertory Theatre.

Such companies often reach out to Prucha for her illustrative abilities.

Although drawing is the underlying theme in all work Prucha does, she first became interested in design through sewing when she was very young.

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private business making dog clothes, called Marti-Paws and Santa-Claws,” Prucha said. “I could have been a millionaire if I’d kept with it, but suddenly, I was dressing up my friends and then started making some textile art.”

It was at that point, Prucha said she realized she could perfectly fuse her sewing skills with her passion for drawing.

“I get to represent the human figure in all its forms during different time periods,” she said. “I also get to play with a lot of fun elements, such as makeup and hair. It’s like creating a three-dimensional, walking canvas.”

This year, Prucha has been even busier than usual as she is taking classes, accepting numerous offers to design costumes or do other art for companies and teaching a stage makeup course at UNL. “Sometimes people ask, ‘Well, when do you have time to relax?’” she said, “But work, in many ways, is relaxing for me.”

Although she will always be creating her own art, Prucha said she ultimately wants to be a teacher.

“I love watching students connect the coursework to their lives and find out something about themselves,” she said. “I teach them to take creative risks and to find the joy in what they’re doing. (Art) is a very daunting business, and it’s all about a labor of love.”

William Grange, the Hixson-Lied professor in the Johnny Carson School, said he has enjoyed seeing Prucha use her artistic skills both in her own life and in teaching students.

“She’s a great teacher, because she really brings her energy and talent into it,” Grange said.

One of Prucha’s latest side-projects was illustrating a theatre history textbook written by Grange.

“She’s got an imagination that goes on forever, but she’s also very disciplined and hardworking,” Grange said. “She is unique in that way – no one works harder than Mallory.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Associate professor Patrice McMahon sits among her students during her Introduction to International Relations Honors class on Aug. 30. Because the class contains mostly freshmen, McMahon likes to integrate opportunities for the students to join in discussion and get to know each other.

Professor carries global travels into life, classroom shelby fleig dn Patrice McMahon’s childhood was filled with the whispers of distant relatives and family friends visiting her grandmother’s home in a tiny town in upstate New York.

She rarely knew the visitors but was always intrigued by their constant discussions, sometimes in Polish, other times in Russian or Lithuanian. They were talking politics – Polish politics – talking about hardships in then-communist Poland with which some of her family was still living.

So when McMahon got the chance to study abroad in Poland at the age of 19, she said there was no doubt she would go, and what she experienced abroad would continue to shape her lifestyle, outlook and education throughout the rest of her life.

McMahon, now a political science professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has traveled to more countries than she can count to teach, research, write and experience cultures around the globe with her family.

From a young age, McMahon was interested in the world around her.

“I think I started reading Newsweek when I was about 10,” she said.

“I knew I wanted to see the world from a young age.”

After graduating from American University, McMahon worked for the German Marshall Fund in Washington D.C. while she finished her Master’s at George Washington University. That was when she decided she wanted to be a teacher, so she headed to Columbia University for a doctorate and, from there, ended up at UNL. “I have the best job in the world,” McMahon said. “I deal with curious, interested and mostly optimistic students who want to change themselves and the world. It really can’t get much better than that. I still live in a world where the glass is half full.”

Linda Major, UNL assistant to the vice chancellor, has worked closely with McMahon for seven years.

“Students can’t sit still in her classroom,” Major said. “It’s what makes my work so fulfilling – to have colleagues like Patrice is the best of both worlds.”

Working on the E.N. Thompson Forum committee together, McMahon and Major have both devoted much of their time to making UNL a more global campus that offers more opportunities for domestic and international students to interact.

“I’m serious when I say Patrice is the one who walks the talk,” Major said. “By her very presence she challenges me to be better and do better.”

McMahon’s passion for international issues was just budding as she sat in a Foreign Policy of Great Powers class at American University. She now describes the lecture as “amazing and dazzling,” and, in the end, she got more than she expected from the course. She met her husband, Jeff

Cole, also an avid traveler, and they married shortly after.

“I feel so blessed to have found someone whose career allows me to do the things I love to do,” Cole said.

McMahon said she always knew she wanted a happy family.

She and Cole have two daughters, Hana and Julia, 15 and 12, respectively. But when both of your parents are educated world travelers, you become one too.

“We wanted to maintain sense of adventure and are taking our kids along with that,” Cole said.

McMahon and her family took their first big trip in the summer of 2008 to Xi’an and lived “close to the ground,” as McMahon put it.

They don’t stay at resorts. She said they aren’t shelling out money at tourist attractions. They try to live like they’re natives of the country.

McMahon’s daughters, Hana and Julia, attended a public school in China where they were the first and only foreigners to ever attend that school. McMahon said her girls grew more mature than ever after seeing how other children were living in an environment so different from their own.

“I think you have to get away from your culture to realize there are lots of different ways to do things,” Cole said.

McMahon said she was happy to see her girls appreciating how easy their life in the United States really is and respecting cultures they aren’t familiar with.

“What teenagers and young people expect, they don’t expect it,” McMahon said. “They don’t expect to get a car from us. To make spending money, they make two meals a week and sell them to people in the neighborhood. I’m glad they’ve figured out, in their own way, how to make money and take advantage of opportunities in the U.S.” But traveling comes with a price tag.

Airfare is the biggest expense, Cole said, so the family makes sacrifices to make the family trips they love so much.

Sharing one car that was given to them, the family also saves money by mostly cooking at home and not buying expensive clothes. When the girls were younger, they sometimes made comments about their friends who drove nice cars and lived in such big houses.

McMahon said she would explain to her daughters, “That’s great for them, but our family has decided that these are our priorities and you may not understand now, but someday you can decide for yourself if it’s worth it.”

Major said she truly appreciated the sense of adventure McMahon has instilled in her children, saying Cole “fully shares Patrice’s passions and willingness to expose their girls to so many people and places.”

Visiting China regularly as a family since 2007, as well as many other Europe and Asia trips while McMahon is researching, doing interviews and teaching UNL classes, has made her career and family lifestyle mesh in a unique way.

“To be honest, I don’t even know what my salary is,” she said. “It’s enough, so how great is that when you don’t even have to worry about how much your making and love the people you work with every day? I feel really grateful and lucky.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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MH: I feel like I haven’t experienced that at all. I really admire guys who show vulnerability. In the singer/songwriter world I feel like it’s quite equal in that respect.

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MH: Probably. I think I always wanted to try something different. Once you have two albums that are kind of in the same genre, the same league, it’s always a good idea to push yourself and try new areas. I think, for me, I just felt like I didn’t have anywhere else to go with that sound, and if I was to make an album that sounded like my first two albums it would bore me. I wanted to surprise myself and surprise other people, and I just wanted to try something new and get inspired again. I get inspired when things surprise me. I get inspired, so I wanted it to be new and something I didn’t expect.

DN: I think you truly have done just that by inspiring others through your work, but besides the musical aspect of your life, what else would you like to be admired for?

MH: Gosh, I don’t know. Just probably being a good person. In life, the most important thing is how my friends and family see me because they’re the ones that really know me. They know me without the music and without the performance and without the razzle dazzle. So, to have their respect and their admiration is the greatest honor that I could have.

DN: One quick closing thought: what are you looking forward to most in your musical career?

MH: I guess I’m looking forward to finding out what my next album will be like because I’m looking forward to surprising myself with that as well. I’m also looking forward to trying out new areas. I would love to do music for film or theater or something like that. I’m hoping to push the boundaries. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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weech: from 12 a college to take her swimming casurrounded by it, after all – and she taught them how to swim in reer. Even though Amber was off to Wagner College in New York, the sea. Ariel, her twin sister Amformer NU assistant coach Doug ber and younger sister Andreas Humphrey persuaded her to visit would ride on their grandfather ’s Nebraska. boat off the north shore of Para“When I came here, I just dise Island, then Theda would loved the team atmosphere,” Artoss them overboard into the Atiel said. “Being so far away from lantic Ocean. home, I knew that I “We learned had to find a family, how to swim by I think not just a team. And playing in the washe’s set I found that here.” ter,” Weech said.

It probably Then the girls up to have a didn’t hurt that Nejoined the Sea braska’s coach won Bees Swim Club great senior year a gold medal in the in their home- of buildup and 1984 Olympics and town of Nassau, two more in the 1992 the capital and improvement and Games. And when largest city of the focus.”

Pablo Morales went island nation. to visit Ariel in Nas“Swimming Pablo morales sau, her mind was was basically my nu swimming coach made up. life from as far “Going to the Baback as I can remember,” Weech said. “We had hamas would normally kind of be a destination or an opportunity to practice in the morning somethat people would go, ‘Oh yeah, times. School, then practice again. sure, you’re going to go work in Almost all of my friends swam, so I didn’t have anything outside of the Bahamas,’” Morales said. “But it was (going) in, I watched her swimming besides family.”

At the age of 11, Ariel made practice, I sat down with her and her parents and early next mornthe Bahamian National Swim Team. She was a backstroker back ing, I was gone.”

Her freshman year at Nethen, and she couldn’t understand braska, 2009-2010, Ariel won the significance of being in the top echelon of the sport in her coun- two events and made top-5 in three others, swimming primartry. What 11-year-old could? ily in freestyle sprint events. As a “It was just like, ‘I’m dreaming,’” Weech said. “Looking up sophomore she notched five more to swimmers saying, ‘I want to be victories and garnered a total of 13 top-five finishes. At the Big 12 there someday.’”

Fast-forward a few years, and Conference meet, Ariel was the anchor of a record performance the time came for Ariel to choose

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She got the tattoo in late July. After her run at the Olympics. After everything.

“Never failure, always a lesson,” says the ink inscribed on the bronze skin above her heart. Every time Ariel sees the calligraphy, she is reminded of everything she has learned from her setbacks.

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On the night of Jan. 21, 2011, Dennis Gomez, a prominent lawyer in Nassau, was shot outside his law firm. He died the next day.

Soon afterward, Ariel Weech went home to be with her family.

Dennis Gomez was her uncle, but she says he was like a father to her.

So Ariel fell into depression.

She failed a class, and she missed some others. And just like that, she was ineligible to compete for Nebraska in fall 2011.

“Being down that low, you can only go higher, you know?”

Weech said. “If something knocks you down, you can’t just stay down. You can’t. People will run over you. People will beat you.”

Even though she couldn’t take part in NCAA competition, Ariel trained with her teammates at Nebraska.

“That’s always a very, very difficult thing,” Morales said.

“You could be here every day, you could be training hard, doing all the right things, but if you’re not able to have that competitive release along with everybody else, it’s hard.”

In October 2011, Ariel got that release, swimming in the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. She won the B-final of the 100-meter freestyle and

with the Huskers, ready to swim a full slate of events in her senior campaign.

“I think she’s set up to have a great senior year, and that’s the result of three years of buildup and improvement and focus,” Morales said.

After everything, Ariel takes her spot on the starting block in lane six of the swimming pool inside the Bob Devaney Sports Center. She and her teammates are wrapping up a September practice with a 25-meter underwater sprint. Morales calls the swimmers to attention.

“Take your mark! Hut!” Ten swimmers torpedo into the water. One length of the pool, and no one emerges for a breath.

Their coach yells anyway.

“Fast hips! Fast speed! Drive through the finish!”

The swimmers glide through the water, the red and white lane ropes bobbing in their wakes.

“Keep the tempo up!”

At the end of the lap, one head, the one wearing a red cap with a white Husker “N,” comes up before anyone else.

It’s Ariel Weech. She had come out on top. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

earned second in the 50-meter Bfinal. In the 4x100 freestyle relay, Weech earned 7th place with Alicia Lightbourne, McKayla Lightbourn and Alana Dillette.

That relay team had a chance to qualify for the Olympics in spring 2012, but once again, life got in Ariel’s way.

This time, it was her cousin Kemar, also shot and killed in Nassau.

“That was another thing that was like … I have to deal with this, and deal with training,” Weech said. “Didn’t want to do it, but I did. Preparing for the Olympics is nothing easy.”

In the end, Weech, Lightbourne, Dillette and VanderpoolWallace could not qualify for the Olympics in the 4x100. Ariel will have to wait four more years.

“Devastating, but it’s also motivating. I can’t stop until I get there,” Weech said. “I’ve been really close in 2008, really close in 2012, so 2016, I’ll be there. I have to.”

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offense: from 12 said. “They didn’t want us running downhill. They forced us to get outside, and we were trying to get outside, but we just weren’t doing very well on the edges.”

The few times that Nebraska was able to reach the outside, it had a great deal of success, according to Beck, but those times were few and far between. Nebraska did not expose the weakness UCLA presented.

“You have to execute in the passing game when they are doing that,” the coordinator said. “Taylor was like zero for 6 in the fourth quarter. How many incompletions has he thrown all year? 18? That’s uncharacteristic of him with the way he has been playing.”

Martinez was not the only Husker to struggle in the second half, Beck said. The entire offense performed poorly to finish the game. With Arkansas State up next for the team on Saturday, Nebraska needs to stay the course, according to the coach.

“We’ve just got to be patient, keep playing our game, and not try to overtake the game on our own,” he said.

“It’ll come to us. We just have to keep playing.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Quarterback Taylor Martinez goes down for a safety against UCLA last Saturday. Martinez had uncharacteristic struggles during NU’s loss to the Bruins, NU offensive coordinator Tim Beck said.

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Ameer Abdullah is working to follow in the footstops of Rex Burkhead. He leads the Huskers in yardage and carries. times,” Abdullah said. “I want to have the ball all the time just to make a play for my time. I always want to be on the field.”

In Saturday’s game at UCLA, Abdullah was on the field plenty.

He set career highs for attempts and yards in the Huskers’ loss, but even his best performance couldn’t distance himself from Heard, his roommate, let alone put him in the conversation with Rex. “I liked the way both of those guys played,” offensive coordinator Tim Beck said at Tuesday’s practice.

“They were quick and decisive, and they ran hard.”

Was Johnny Rodgers ever a part of “both of those guys”? How about Ahman Green or Mike Rozier? The Husker greats never want to be a part of a tandem. It’s the feature back that gets all the love.

And for Abdullah, a guy who borrows from Rodgers’ game, that time will have to wait. Electrifying returns and big-play capability, the

things Abdullah hopes to emulate, are a work in progress. A step in the right direction.

“You can never give enough effort on the field. That’s something I want to do,” Abdullah said. “I want to be the guy just flying around the field, finishing when I don’t have the ball.”

Abdullah’s time at Nebraska is still in its infancy. But in his second year, he has already laid a strong groundwork for success. He is beginning to establish a reputation of reliability, the same kind of reputation Rex Burkhead was establishing two years ago.

While Abdullah, the individual, needs to distance himself from Burkhead, Abdullah, the running back, craves the same respect and attention.

“The way I play and the way I carry myself on the field, I try to be a good example and a good leader,” he said.

Just like Rex. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

three keys 1. Offensive line keeping it up

1. Get speed on the field

These guys stepped up huge for Arkansas State, allowing just one sack in the past few games.

The offensive line gave Ryan Aplin, Sunbelt Player of the Year, plenty of time to find targets in an electric no-huddle offense, and the unit can make big openings for big plays in the running game.

Arkansas State coach Gus Malzahn loves to spread the field and stretch defenses horizontally, as well as vertically.

Nebraska coaches talked earlier this week about getting the fastest players on the field, and that seems like a great plan against this offense. The Huskers will be asked to defend all parts of the field. Having players that can swarm to the ball quickly will benefit them.

2. use team Speed In the game against Memphis, Arkansas State had 97 plays for 619 yards of total offense. Despite those big numbers, ASU is capable of more. The Red Wolves have been a little sluggish on drives this year, but they can get the ball downfield in a hurry when they kick it into high gear. If Nebraska cannot set up their defense quickly enough, expect huge openings to come up for ASU touchdowns.

3. The unknown Ever heard of Rocky Hayes? The running back went through all of training camp on defense and started practicing a little offense last week. In fact, he was actually listed on the defensive roster for ASU’s game against Memphis.

Gus Malzahn called his number for four plays, and he delivered an average of 17 yards per carry, executing several big plays on every touch. ASU is loaded with untapped talent and can catch teams off-guard with players stepping up in unexpected ways.

- Benton Bajorek, Arkansas State Herald staff writer

2. Wrap up Tackling issues plagued Nebraska a week ago against UCLA. The Nebraska defense was in position to make plays, but failed to finish. Arkansas State will bring a similar offensive philosophy to this game, and the Huskers will be tested in space. If they can make enough of these plays, the Red Wolves can be corralled. Nebraska is athletically superior, but they must make the plays to shut this team down.

3. Protect the quarterback Taylor Martinez looked like a magician against Southern Miss and in the first half against UCLA, but he struggled last week when the Bruin front got to him in the second half. The Husker offensive line has to keep Arkansas State off of its quarterback and give him time to make his reads. If they can do this, Martinez has the ability to pick apart a defense.

- Lanny holstein, Daily Nebraskan football beat writer

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Senior Allsion McNeal makes an impact for No. 1 Huskers Nedu Izu Dn The date was Aug. 26. The opponent was New Mexico State.

Most of the Nebraska volleyball team was in Albuquergue, N.M., that night, except one player – Allison McNeal.

The Schulenburg, Texas, native sat out her junior year because of an unspecified medical condition and an offseason injury. But after being sidelined an entire year, the now senior is back on the court.

McNeal said she’s feeling better than ever and is thrilled to be able to play the sport she loves again.

“I have been so hungry to go out there and show what I got,” she said. “This is the best I’ve ever felt and things are going good.”

After defeating St. Louis, No. 2 UCLA and Notre Dame to begin the 2012 season, the No. 1 Huskers (8-0) traveled to California for its first road trip of the season – this time with the entire team.

The trip was a homecoming for California natives Lara Dykstra, Kelsey Fien and Alexa Strange, but it wasn’t just the NU players from the Golden State that displayed sparks in that weekend.

In the team’s match against Colgate, McNeal tied her careerhigh, slamming 10 kills out of 14 swings (.571) while tallying four blocks.

It was exciting for McNeal to show off her hard work, she said.

“It was a lot of fun. We just went out there and had fun and good things happened,” she said.

The impressive play left her coaches pleased and more confi-

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After sitting out last season, middle blocker Allison McNeal is making up for lost time in appearances in all eight of Nebraska’s games this season. dent with her the rest of the season.

“Allison played great all night and had a monster match for us,” NU coach John Cook said.

And McNeal has only continued her solid play since then.

Through eight matches, the middle blocker has shown she’s fully recovered by tallying 16 kills and 14 blocks, including a five-kill and eight-block perfor-

mance against Duquesne last Friday. Her totals in both kills and blocks are the most among NU’s non-starters.

In 23 matches during the 2010 season, McNeal recorded 77 kills and 51 kills as a sophomore.

Assistant coach Dan Meske said he’s pleased with how McNeal has played after being out all last season. He added that he sees her putting up better numbers this year.

“It’s definitely a struggle to miss a whole season for any reason,” he said. “Allison’s done a great job in taking that year to learn and improve as a player even before she was out. She’s much better now and she’s done a great job since coming back.”

Her contribution has proven that Nebraska has improved in something they didn’t have much of last season: depth.

The team is currently undefeated and has swept six of its eight opponents this season.

One reason the team has been ranked the best team in the nation for three weeks straight is because of their depth and the coaching staff, McNeal said.

“The coaches have been doing a great job preparing us,” she said. “We do a lot of scouting and that’s helped us to be ready for all our opponents.”

Besides McNeal, the Huskers currently have two middle blockers competing for a consistent starting role.

Freshman Meghan Haggerty and junior Hayley Thramer currently lead the team with 26 and 23 blocks. Although they currently lead the defense in stopping the volleyball from crossing the net, the coaches aren’t ruling the possibility of rotating the three NU players the rest of the season, Meske said.

Despite uncertainty about who will start most games, Meske said having three outstanding middle blockers is a good problem to have.

“All our middle blockers are going to help us win every night,” the coach said. “They all play at an extreme level. It’s nice to have a lot of depth, especially the way they’ve all been playing.

It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s not just one solid starter by the time the season’s over.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Huskers search for scorers, leaders NU looks for offense after seven players score goals for young squad Angela Hensel DN The Nebraska women’s soccer team heads into conference play this weekend, and it’ll be looking for a leader to emerge offensively.

The young Huskers are looking to some of their few key veterans to help lead the way. Nebraska has looked to strong play from junior goalkeeper Emma Stevens and the return of junior midfielder Ari Romero has also helped strengthen the defense. “(Coach) John (Walker) always tells me the older players of the team are the leaders and they lead by example, so I only do the best I can, show them the right picture, and hope they think that it’s right as well,” Romero said.

But without senior forward Jordan Jackson in the lineup, the Huskers need some more offensive support.

Last year, the Huskers had the dynamic duo of Morgan Marlborough and Jackson to lead the team with a combined 28 of the Huskers’ 43 total goals.

This year the Huskers are seeing players step up offensively from across the board, with seven different players scoring for the Huskers. As they head into difficult Big Ten play this weekend, NU will be looking for some more star power on offense.

In the Huskers seven games this season, they are averaging less than two goals per game.

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Sophomore Mayme Conroy leads NU with three goals. NU is looking to fill the voids left by a departed Morgan Marlborough and an injured Jordan Jackson.

Because of this, most of the players who have scored goals for the Huskers only have made one or two.

Sophomore forward Mayme Conroy leads the scoring for the Huskers with three goals so far.

With the injured Jackson still out of the lineup, Conroy and junior

Stacy Bartels are the only two returning starting forwards for the Huskers.

While the Huskers have seen some strong play from its younger players, Conroy says they still need someone to be a leader on the offense.

“I think that having other players score is fine, but I still

think we should have someone who is our leading scorer or have that forward that you look for with scoring,” Conroy said.

With aspirations of making the Big Ten tournament after failing to do so last season, Nebraska hopes it will be able to power its offense to some more convincing victories.

“I think that from how much we have practiced, we haven’t really completed that many goals.

We still have a lot to work on from there,” Conroy said.

Nebraska had its highest number of goals scored this weekend with its 4-0 victory over Southeast Missouri State during which the Huskers recorded 30 shots on goal. With their largest margin of victory coming before the start of Big Ten play, the Huskers hope they can build off that offensive momentum into their next few games.

In order to help lead the Huskers offensively, Conroy hopes she can do more to get close to the goal.

“Mainly my coaches tell me that they want me in the box because I’m one of our bigger players,” Conroy said.

Although the Huskers are in need of a stronger offense, it isn’t just Conroy and the rest of the Huskers’ offense looking to step up. Even with strong veterans like Romero, the Huskers hope they can continue to show improvement with all of their players to put together some better performances.

“As a leader, I want to grow more and be more consistent.

With that and more practice, I want to master all the techniques,” Romero said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU swimmer Ariel Weech poses for a portrait at the Devaney Natatorium on Wednesday. Weech was ineligible last season and she hopes to seek redemption in 2012.

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Ariel Weech poses at the Devaney Natatorium Thursday. Weech, a native of the Bahamas started swimming for the Bahamas National Team at 11 years old.

Ariel Weech is at the bottom of the start list.

She is swimming in the B-final of the 50-meter freestyle, at Canada’s Olympic Trials in Montreal, Quebec, because her native Bahamas doesn’t have Olympic trials. Ariel qualified last for this final, so when the time comes, she takes her spot on the starting block in lane nine.

As the competitors dive into the water, a trip to the Olympics is on the line.

One length of the pool that hosted the 1976 Summer Games takes less than half a minute, and at the end of the race, one head pops out of the water nearly a second ahead of anyone else.

It’s fellow Bahamian Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, whose time of 24.98 is fast enough to make it into the London Games.

Then another swimmer finishes. Then another. Then three more.

Weech touches the wall 7th, with a time of 26.44 seconds – 1.46 seconds behind Vanderpool-Wallace and missing the Olympics by .87 seconds.

“Just blink your eyes,” Weech said. “That fast.”

When Ariel was 3 years old, her mom, Theda, decided it was time for her daughters to get comfortable in the water – the Bahamas is

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Abdullah moving from Offense works to get past under Burkhead’s shadow last two quarters of action Chris Peters DN Ameer Abdullah is an individual.

Nebraska’s sophomore running back was thrust into the starting role after Rex Burkhead, the team’s figurehead, went down with an MCL sprain. Since then, the questions have all been about Rex. Do you mold your game after Rex? What do you expect to happen when Rex comes back? Have you proven that you can be the guy after Rex leaves?

Never mind his 200 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns in two games. The sophomore is not valued as the top guy. He’s expected to be the Robin to Burkhead’s Batman.

“I like to just think of myself as an individual,” Abdullah said.

An individual with patience.

Abdullah fields the questions, one after another, about Burkhead, or with a slight angle hinting at Burkhead. The questions are rarely just about Abdullah.

How could they be? Burkhead was a pre-season immortal in the eyes

of the media and the fans. Awards not really worried about how the fans were showered upon the senior be- think I am as a back or anything, I’m just working for the team really.” fore the season had begun.

There it goes again. Rex. The guy Abdullah? He was regarded as the speedy scat back, joining Braylon after Rex leaves. Not the guy while Rex is here.

Heard and Imani Cross as one of three He knows. Once Rex comes back, hopeful heirs to Burkhead.

Now, two games in, Abdullah he’s No. 2 again. The yards per carry and the consistent is Nebraska’s leadoutput don’t matter. ing rusher in yards I’m not This is Rex’s team. and attempts, add“I’m not thinking ing in an average of thinking about when Rex gets 6.5 yards per carry. about when back and if a lot of carHe has stolen some ries are going to go,” spotlight for him- Rex gets back..

Abdullah said. “At self, gained some the end of the day, it’s distance on his com- it’s not about the not about the carries, petitors and showed carries, it’s about it’s about the win. If he’s more than just a it’s 10 (carries or) two, speed back – he can the win.” catch, he can lower Ameer Abdullah it’s going to be the two best plays of the his shoulder and, the nu i-back game. That’s how I most surprising, he want to make it.” can block.

He wants the ball in his hands.

“I’m excited for the fans to really support me and to feel like I can be Those are his yards, his points, his that guy after Rex leaves, but I feel end zone.

“I want to be on the field at all like that’s not something I really want to push for,” Abdullah said. “I just abdullah: see page 11 want to work on my game, and I’m

Lanny Holstein DN Tim Beck struggles to explain why Nebraska’s offense fizzled out in the final half of play against UCLA. The Bruins ran the same scheme the entire game, the one the Huskers had prepared for during practice, according to Nebraska’s second-year offensive coordinator. They tried to pressure quarterback Taylor Martinez with a bevy of blitzes and zone coverage schemes.

So why did Nebraska score 24 points in the first half, but only muster six more in the second?

“Things that we weren’t making mistakes on in the first six quarters, we were making mistakes on (in the second half),” Beck said. “Bad snaps, penalties, turnovers, poor decisions, missed blocks, just things like that. We weren’t doing that stuff early, but (in the second half) for some reason we did.”

Martinez suggested that poor field position played a role in the unit’s struggles to move the ball.

“It is very difficult for coach Beck to call a game plan when we are backed up on the 5-yard line,” he said. “It shortens up the play calls that we can make.”

Nebraska began two second-half possessions inside its own 10-yard line, and the team’s best starting field position of the half was its own 38-yard line. Being backed up altered Nebraska’s pace getting plays in and out of the huddle, Martinez said. He also said mistakes slowed the team in the second half.

“It’s very important to establish a rhythm and a tempo early on,” he said. “It’s kind of difficult if you are stuck on the 5 or 10-yard line every time or if we get first and 15, third and 15, so it’s kind of hard to get a rhythm going if we keep getting penalties.”

Wideout Quincy Enunwa said he saw a difference in the Nebraska tempo as well. From his spot on the outside, the junior said it looked like UCLA was able to disrupt the Nebraska passing game with its blitzes and athleticism.

“With Southern Miss, we were firing on all cylinders, we were going fast, tiring out the defense,” he said. “Against UCLA, they were blitzing us, kind of slowing us down. That affected our whole game plan.”

The UCLA front made strides in the second half, landing multiple blows on Martinez. Their game plan was successful, clogging the quarterback’s throwing lanes and making him uncomfortable.

The Bruins also made a concerted effort to stop Nebraska’s interior running attack, according to Beck.

“Between the guard and guard they had five guys,” he

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