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Nebraska vs. Washington:

Celebration of Culture

Part III

For the third time in a 12-month period Huskers and Huskies will meet again – this time in Lincoln PAGE 10

Confucius Institute to host Chinese Cultural Festival PAGE 3

friday, september 16, 2011

volume 111, issue 020

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Thomas talks court, football at law college

NOT SO DRY CAMPUS

Gameday tailgaters may be oblivious to university’s dry-campus policy; police short on resources to enforce BIG TEN SCHOOLS’ ALCOHOL POLICIES Several Big Ten colleges have dry-campus policies similar to UNL’s. However, some campuses have exceptions on gameday for tailgating.

SCHOOL University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa University of Michigan Michigan State University Ohio State University University of Minnesota

CATEGORY Dry Dry Wet Wet Wet Dry with gameday exception Northwestern University Dry with gameday exception Purdue University Dry Penn State University Dry with gameday exception University of Illinois Wet Indiana Dry with gameday exception University of Wisconsin-Madison Wet SOURCE: UNIVERSITIES’ WEBSITES

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Jon Holt, a senior marketing major, watches as Leo Genuchi, a freshman accounting major, takes a shot at beer pong during a tailgate in the North Bottoms Sept. 10. The North Bottoms is one place tailgaters gather to avoid UNL’s dry-campus policies. their tailgates. And despite the conor dunn posted warnings, many taildaily nebraskan gaters awaited kickoff with a For some Husker fans, tailgat- brewsky in hand. When asked ing is as much a tradition as about the dry-campus policy, the football game itself. Every many of these fans said they Saturday of home games, fans had no idea about the dryfrom across the nation flood campus policy, and when they the University of Nebraska- found out, they weren’t happy. Lincoln with campers, grills “Drinking has to be allowed, and coolers in tow. otherwise there’s no reason for However, the tailgating tra- gameday,” said Aaron Truckdition can spark enforcement enbrod, of South Dakota, one issues for University Police of the tailgating Husker fans when those coolers are filled who wasn’t aware of the polwith alcoholic beverages. icy. Though the university posts Tim Russell, another tailsigns strictly forbidding the use gater, also didn’t know UNL’s of drugs and alcohol, fans still dry-campus policy and voiced drink on gameday — some- opposition to the rule. times not knowing it’s banned “People come here from — in UNL parking lots and other schools, drinking all the designated tailgating locations. time,” Russell said. “I’m 22, I Last Saturday, fans filled the Harper/Schramm/Smith Resialcohol: dence Hall parking lot with

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks Thursday with a full crowd at UNL’s College of Law on East Campus.

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The 270-seat Hamann Auditorium on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus overflowed with students, Nebraska judges and College of Law alumni on Thursday to hear words of wisdom from avid Husker fan and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At noon, Thomas spoke at the Roman L. Hruska lecture in the auditorium at the UNL College of Law. Rather than present a speech to the students, Thomas instead had a panel discussion with three professors of law. “I was encouraged to be less formal, when I came to talk, by my wife,” Thomas told the crowd. Professors Josephine Potuto, Richard Duncan and assistant professor Eric Berger sat on either side of

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Thomas and asked questions ranging from his take on the role of the court system today to his affection for RV trips. “It was a great event for the college of law,” Berger said of Thomas’ visit. “Justice Thomas is a warm, engaging speaker with a great sense of humor and interesting points of view.” Throughout the talk, Thomas also reflected on his nearly 20 years on the Supreme Court and the changing times. “Some say it’s a life well spent,” Thomas said. “Well, it’s a life spent.” Thomas frequently returned to the important quality of being humble as a judge as well as retaining a healthy skepticism rather than cynicism. As the talk

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Apparel firm Annual ‘Mindset List’ explores class of 2015, generation gaps offers fair worker wages Tammy Bain

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Alta Gracia Apparel wasn’t supposed to be a non-profit organization. But one year after the debut of the collegiate apparel company, which provides its workers in the Dominican Republic with union rights and “living wages” that are more than triple the standard, CEO Joe Bozich and COO Donnie Hodge have yet to break even. They’re using profits from Knights Apparel, the top supplier of collegiate apparel to American universities and parent company of Alta Gracia, to make ends meet for factory costs. It’s times like these that Bozich likes to remember why he and Hodge started the company in the first place. “A corporation has a greater responsibility than just the bottom-line profits,” Bozich said. “Sometimes what you want to do doesn’t necessarily make

sense on paper and there’s no proven business model to say it will work, but if you care about something enough, you have to be willing to take a risk.” According to Rachel Taber, community education coordinator for Alta Gracia, the risk is paying off. Because, although profits remain an issue, the business model is picking up – more than 400 university bookstores including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln now carry Alta Gracia apparel, almost double last year’s clientele. Duke University leads the pack with $250,000 worth of merchandise. “It’s unprecedented growth for a factory in its inaugural year,” Taber said. “We can grow this model as far as we can grow the desire of students to support it. It’s only a matter of getting the word out.”

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For the class of 2015, music downloads have always been available. “Swiping” is for cards, not merchandise. Shaq and Kobe are bigger household names than Michael, and, if lucky, they got “Tickle-MeElmos” for their third Christmases. Beloit College has compiled its annual “Mindset List.” Every August since 1998, Beloit College, the oldest school in Wisconsin, compiles a list of each freshman class’ mindsets – things its generation takes for granted because it’s never been any other way. For the average college freshman born in 1993, life has always been “like a box of chocolates” and conversations could always be shortened by “yada, yada, yada.” The list can be entertaining, but Beloit College’s website points out its importance. The list, created by Beloit’s former public affairs director Ron Nief and humanities professor Tom McBride, was originally created to remind faculty of dated

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references when teaching students and didn’t take long to become a national example of how each generation sees its world. But the context of the list itself is criticized by a few University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociology graduate students. Anna Bellatorre, a third-year doctoral student, found it interesting how much the list emphasized pop-culture references. She said, “It is fun to look at the list and say, ‘Oh, wow, I’m old.’” However, she didn’t fully agree on how the list, defines “cohort.” Bellatorre, who was familiar with the examples of generational gaps, felt a more equal mix of pop culture and world events should be used in compiling the list. “Some kids may not even know that, also in ’93, the World Trade Centers were bombed for the first time,” she said. Another criticism is that the list could wrongfully assume things about what a generation knows or has experienced. One particular item on the

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list reads, “Refer to LBJ, and they might assume you’re talking about LeBron James.” But the graduate students said they thought this is wrongfully decided. “I think it’s problematic to assume that everyone had the same media and the same capacity,” said Alexis Swendener, a second-year master’s-degree student. Bellatorre agreed. “It’s a slam to the younger generation to assume things that are pop-culture history based,” she said. Bellatorre said she has read

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New media madness

UNL unplugged

Familiar foe

digitial revolution brings opportunity, loss

UPC event draws independent artists for acoustic fest

Huskers to face Iowa State, renewing Big 12 Rivalry

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lists from the past and admitted this year’s list had more of a pop-culture tone than past “mindsets.” “This one it’s like, ‘Got to have a Forrest Gump reference, got to have a Seinfeld reference,’” she said. The list does list a few worldly mindsets: American tax forms have always been available in Spanish, Japan has always been importing rice, the Communist Party has never

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