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incoln’s police force has one of the smallest officer-to-citizen ratios in the country, but city officials say there’s no reason to panic.

The city has recently come under fire by the Lincoln Independent Business Association for having 1.22 officers per 1,000 citizens, well below the national average for a municipality of its size. The complaint comes after a recent spike in gang violence.

“Every day the local media reports another armed robbery, fatal beating or hit-and-run,” LIBA President Coby Mach told the Lincoln Journal Star earlier this month. “Lincoln’s citizens are assured the situation is not dire; however, Lincoln is a growing community and crime is growing with its population.”

The national average for cities Lincoln’s size is about 1.96 officers per 1,000 people, and Nebraska’s average is about 1.80 per 1,000. This year, Lincoln was rated the Happiest City in the U.S. in a GallupHealthways Index, with one factor of the poll being the city’s safety.

Lincoln’s relatively small police force isn’t an issue, said Tom Casady, director of public safety for the City of Lincoln.

“There is no direct correlation between the number of officers in the city and the amount of crime that happens,” Casady said.

Lincoln’s police department boasts a relatively small force not only because of budget constraints but also because having a larger force is “simply not necessary,” Casady said.

“It’s citizens who need to make decisions about tax resources,” he said.

During the past few years, the Lincoln Police Department has made several budget cuts in ways that don’t affect public safety, police officials say.

Casady said the department doesn’t respond to calls concerning smaller issues such as an automobile accident on a private street or parking lot. Officers also do not show up to every medical emergency and are not as much of a presence in public elementary and middle schools.

“We’re not going to show up if someone didn’t pay for their gas at the pump,” Casady said.

Casady said not responding to less urgent calls

Lincoln’s safety officials say small police force does the job

Officer Conan Schafer of the Lincoln Police Department writes down the plate number of a car after officers responded to a call about a suspicous person possessing a needle in the front seat. After officers obtain a search warrant, they write down an inventory of the contents of cars and the cars’ license plates. saves the department about 10,000 dispatches every year.

With around 800 officers on duty at any given time, the Omaha Police Department is able to respond to more calls. The city’s police force boasts an approximate ratio of 1.95 officers per 1,000 people.

“We respond to everything that we can,” Lieutenant Darci Tierney of OPD said.

Depending on budgetary restraints, the department is also planning to add more officers to the force in the near future.

According to Casady, Lincoln’s isn’t.

Lincoln’s officer-to-citizen ratio was highest in 1999, when there were 1.39 officers per 1,000 people.

The ratio has been steadily falling since then. Casady said the department is replacing officers as they leave or retire, but there aren’t any plans to increase the size of the force.

JoAnn Asch, president of the Antelope Park Neighborhood Association in Lincoln, said the low officer-to-citizen ratio hasn’t negatively impacted the crime situation in her neighborhood.

“We haven’t had an astronomical amount,” Asch said. “We’re nosy anyway, and we check up on everyone.”

The Antelope Park neighborhood doesn’t offer any formal neighborhood watch programs. But Asch said they aren’t really necessary for her area.

Asch said the most serious crimes she’s aware of in her neighborhood involve random instances of graffiti.

The only time she wishes that there was more of a police presence in the neighborhood, Asch said, is when children are leaving school at the end of the day.

“It can be dangerous with the kids crossing South Street,” Asch said. “I know there are creeps out there.”

Daniel King, of the Greater South Neighborhood Association, said he has no problem with the current officer-to-citizen ratio.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to have a larger force,” King said. “I think our force is doing a great job right now.”

Even though the neighborhood association doen’t offer a formal neighborhood watch organization, King said there are various leaders in the neighborhood who help fight crime.

“There’s an unwritten pact to watch out for the elderly and the kids,” King said.

In general, King said the only real crime he sees is just the “occasional kid making a bad decision.”

He said there are sometimes instances of a car or garage break-in.

“But if I’m being honest, the (crime) is almost unnoticeable,” King said.

Community involvement is not the only factor of keeping a city safe, Casady said. An increase of technology in both the hands of officers and citizens, he said, makes a major impact on the amount of crime that occurs in the city.

“The proliferation of cellular phones and video

story by Colleen Fell | photos by Matt Masin

Schafer responds to a call about a group of teenagers loitering in a parking lot. Most of the teens dispersed when Schafer arrived.

surveillance has raised stakes on lots of kinds of crime,” Casady said. “It’s not as easy anymore for a criminal to get away with something.”

Casady said one of the good things about being a smaller force is that calls are carefully prioritized. He said each department can more efficiently target its efforts, and the pressure to be efficient filters down to each officer.

“I know that we’re small,” he said, “but frankly, we’ve done a good job.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

ON-CAMPUS CRIMES FROM JAN. 1, 2009, TO SEPT. 10, 2013

TYPES OF CRIMES MURDER – The unlawful and premeditated killing of a person

ALCOHOL INCIDENTS WITH ARRESTS

TOTAL: 1,422 Memorial Stadium: 72 Fraternities and sororities: 44 Residence halls: 341

ROBBERY – The seizure of another’s property from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by violence or intimidation

TOP THREE

Abel: 100 Sandoz: 50 Schramm: 37

RAPE - The unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse

DRUG INCIDENTS WITH ARRESTS

TOTAL: 399

BURGLARY - Breaking into and entering the house of another with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day

Residence halls: 208

THEFT - Crimes in which a person intentionally and fraudulently takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker's use (including potential sale)

REPORTED SEXUAL OFFENSES TOTAL: 20

TOP THREE

Abel: 69 Selleck: 26 Pound: 20

Memorial Stadium:3 Harper Hall: 2

REPORTED BICYCLE THEFTS

ASSAULT - Attack carried out by a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm

Union: 25 Fraternities and sororities: 18 Residence halls: 133 TOP THREE

Selleck: 28 Cather: 19 Neihardt: 18

PROSTITUTION - The act of paying for sex or offering one's self for hire to engage in sexual relations DRUG OFFENSES – Illegal possession, sale or transport of controlled substances except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. These illegal drugs include marijuana, heroin, cocaine, LSD, opium, methamphetamine, angel dust, hashish and numerous chemically designed hallucinogens, as well as drugs with a legitimate medical use such as morphine

REPORTED BURGLARIES

TOTAL: 66 Kappa Delta: 5 Selleck: 3 Ferguson: 3 (Torn down in 2011)

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Autumn Wood

TOTAL: 10 Robbery: 1 Burglary: 3 Theft: 6

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Belmont

POPULATION: 6,962 A thief escaped from Harbor Freight Tools with a gas-powered chainsaw and assorted tools on a morning in November 2010 after spotting the items unsecured in the bed of a pickup truck. Theft is frequent in Belmont, which saw 799 reported incidents during the last three years.

Thieves even struck a laundromat on a night in January 2011, when a person reported a dolphin-themed bedspread missing from a dryer.

TOTAL: 965 Rape: 14 Robbery: 19 Burglary: 202 Theft: 799 Assault: 76 Narcotics: 90

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Capitol Beach

POPULATION: 735 Capitol Beach didn’t see much crime between 2010 and 2013, but the incidents that did happen were scary enough: a resident of Manchester drive reported a .25 Cal handgun and a revolver missing after a guest left late one night in May 2011. The area’s one drug incident came in February when a person gave friends prescription antidepressants. Despite the low crime rates, thieves have cleaned house on a number of occasions: a Lakeshore Drive resident saw a Winchester 12-gauge shotgun and a case of Coors beer stolen from an open garage just after 11:30 p.m. on a January 2012 night.

TOTAL: 32 Burglary: 2 Theft: 29 Narcotics: 1

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TOTAL: 1,005 Murder: 1 Rape: 14 Robbery: 32 Burglary: 96 Theft: 572 Assault: 79 Prostitution: 2 Narcotics: 209

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Clinton

TOTAL: 1,369 Rape: 18 Robbery: 23 Burglary: 217 Theft: 762 Assault: 133 Narcotics: 216

East Campus

POPULATION: 3,448 East Campus hasn’t seen a violent crime since July 13, when a group of unidentified attackers tripped, punched and stole alcohol from a victim on N. 35th Street shortly after midnight. Thefts, burglaries and narcotics charges made up nearly all of the 525 reported crimes in East Campus during the past three years.

TOTAL: 525

Everett

POPULATION: 3,820 Lincoln police made two trips to 9th and Washington streets the night of Sept. 3 — the first when a woman threw a glass bottle at her boyfriend’s head and the second when the boyfriend struck back 30 minutes later, pointing a gun at the woman. The two reports were among nine assaults during the last three months and 92 assaults during the last three years in Everett. The neighborhood also had 22 reported rapes, more than most other areas,

TOTAL: 916 Rape: 22 Robbery: 39 Burglary: 147 Theft: 339 Assault: 92 Prostitution: 4 Narcotics: 273

relatively low crime rate with four burglaries, one auto theft and one rape reported since 2010. There were 49 reports of theft reported for the area during the same time period.

TOTAL: 56

Rape:1 Burglary: 4 Theft: 49 Prostitution: 2

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POPULATION: 5,316 On a late summer night last August, a resident of the 40th and A neighborhood was attacked by an acquaintance who hit the victim in the head with a wooden beam, causing injuries that required stitches. More than 20 people have been assaulted in the neighborhood during the last three years, with two assaults reported so far this year.

TOTAL: 407 Murder: 1 Rape: 3 Robbery: 5 Burglary: 70 Theft: 255 Assault: 22 Narcotics: 51

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Greater South

POPULATION: 3,662 The second most common offense in the Greater South neighborhood was narcotics crimes, with the most recent charge being a student who had a disc pipe with burnt marijuana residue in his backpack at school. The Greater South area had 99 narcotics offenses since 2010, second only to reports of theft, which numbered 266 during the same time period. The third most common offense was burglary, with 44 incidences during the past three years.

TOTAL: 427 Rape: 1 Robbery: 3 Burglary: 44 Theft: 273 Assault: 7 Narcotics: 99

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Hartley

POPULATION: 4,264 In the area’s only reported murder since 2010, one Hartley resident was shot in the heart and killed during an altercation with an acquaintance on a late July night in 2012. During the same time period, Hartley saw reports of 22 rapes, 21 robberies and 113 burglaries. There were also more than 50 reports of assault, including an instance where a victim’s boyfriend tied a rock on a rope and hit the woman in the head and neck, causing minor injuries.

TOTAL: 1,194 Murder: 1 Rape: 22 Robbery: 21 Burglary: 113 Theft: 786 Assault: 57 Narcotics: 194

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North Bottoms

POPULATION: 1,333 On July 27, someone poured bleach on a victim near N. 9th and Court streets. It was one of 31 reported assaults during the last three years in the North Bottoms. Compared to other Lincoln neighborhoods, crime is relatively low in the North Bottoms — most incidents came from narcotics possession and thefts.

There were 13 robberies in the time period, all of which were labeled as non-business.

TOTAL: 395

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Havelock

POPULATION: 8,664 Havelock residents have experienced a rash of burglaries during the past three years, with 229 reports of break-ins. One burglary in the spring of 2011 involved a person cutting the screen window of a side garage door open and stealing puppies from the home. Havelock’s most common offense is reports of theft, with 829 reports since 2010.

TOTAL: 1,365

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Rape: 5 Robbery: 8 Burglary: 79 Theft: 330 Assault: 20 Prostitution: 2

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POPULATION: 5,252 It was an unhappy fourth of July for one Clinton resident. About 10 p.m., a burglar removed a screen window from the victim’s home and escaped with the homeowner’s gray cockatiel bird. The bird was a casualty of 13 home burglaries in Clinton during the past three months, and 217 during the past three years. Clinton leads Lincoln in total number of crimes committed. More than half of those are thefts.

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Far South

POPULATION: 662 It was the middle of the day one January afternoon when Lincoln Police responded to a rape accusation by a Far South neighborhood resident. The victim was allegedly coerced into having sex with the attacker. The attack has been the only rape allegation in the neighborhood during the past three years. Far South, which has a population of 662, has had a

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Homestead Expy

POPULATION: 503 Police were called to a home near Enterprise Drive and Wolff Lane after a boy stole his uncle’s Union Bank checkbook from his house one day in July 2011. Autumn Wood, evidently a rare site of crime, saw its last reported incident on July 19, a burglary. Crimes in the neighborhood of 503 might be few and far between, but some are still worth crying over. Thieves stole a Fisher Price toy box full of toys and an antique glass dish around 7 a.m. from an Autumn Wood home one day in November 2010.

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48th St.

Rape: 1 Robbery: 3 Burglary: 22 Theft: 83 Assault: 3 Narcotics: 23

POPULATION: 2,573 Just before 9 on a Tuesday morning in July, Lincoln rescue workers found a 58-year-old Lincoln man stabbed to death in his apartment. It was the third Lincoln murder in 2013, and the only reported in Capitol View during the past three years. More than 550 thefts were reported during the last three years -- ranging from a bag of “Cheese Fix” Munchies to a red ‘95 Acura Integra in the Lincoln High School parking lot. The neighborhood also had more than 200 narcotics-related incidents.

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TOTAL: 135

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POPULATION: 1,014 In July, two people at Jefferson Ave. and Sumner Street in Antelope Park were held at gunpoint by suspected robbers carrying pistols and a set of brass knuckles. The victims lost their iPhones and wallets. The incident is one of three robberies that have happened in the neighborhood since 2010 – all occurring in the past year. Other frequent crimes in the neighborhood of 1,014 include burglary, theft and narcotics offenses.

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Rape: 17 Robbery: 43 Burglary: 229 Theft: 829 Assault: 83 Prostitution: 2 Narcotics: 162

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POPULATION: 3,434 On Aug. 27, someone stole The Hobbit Strategy game from Gauntlet Games, located at 3231 S. 13th Street. It was one of 193 reported thefts in the neighborhood during the last three years. The neighborhood has fairly low crime compared to many other Lincoln neighborhoods. Between 2010 and 2013 the area had no reported murders, rapes or prostitution arrests.

TOTAL: 286 Robbery: 5 Burglary: 41 Theft: 193 Assault: 15 Narcotics: 32

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Malone

POPULATION: 124 Lincoln Police responded to a fight between two siblings late one July night in 2011, with one family member punching his brother in the face, causing a crown on one of the victim’s teeth to fall out.

The Haymarket is one of Lincoln’s smallest neighborhoods, with only 124 residents. The neighborhood had reports of 22 burglaries, 22 narcotics offenses and eight assaults during that time period.

POPULATION: 3,139 Malone has seen four reported rapes during the past three years, two of which were reported in the past two months. Aside from theft, the crime that Malone residents experienced the most between 2010 and 2013 was narcotics possession.

There were 131 total reports in the three-year span: 26 in 2010, 27 in 2011, 41 in 2012 and 37 in 2013. Burglaries were next, with 49 reported

TOTAL: 147

TOTAL: 742

Rape: 2 Robbery: 3 Burglary: 22 Theft: 90 Assault: 8 Narcotics: 22

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Highlands

POPULATION: 6,117 In a sting operation earlier this summer, Lincoln Police made six reports of prostitution near West Commerce Way and Northwest 12th Street including several prostitutes who offered sex to undercover officers in exchange for money. The Highlands area is one of Lincoln’s few neighborhoods to report prostitution activity since 2010.

The area also saw nine reports of rape, 37 burglaries and 39 narcotics offenses during that same time period.

TOTAL: 476 Rape: 9 Robbery: 3 Burglary: 37 Theft: 368 Assault: 14 Prostitution: 6 Narcotics: 39

statistics compiled by lincoln police from aug. 11, 2010 to sept. 1, 2013

Rape: 4 Robbery: 5 Burglary: 49 Theft: 541 Assault: 12 Narcotics:131

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Near South

POPULATION: 10,571 On Aug. 22, police arrested a person who had a dirty spoon and hypodermic needle near 19th and Garfield streets. The area also had a murder in July 2012, when a victim was shot and killed at 13th and Sumner streets. And the neighborhood saw two incidents of prostitution — in 2011 a person was arrested for giving oral sex for money, and the next year another person was caught trying to sell sex for money. Near South had four rapes during the last three years, all before 2013.

TOTAL: 3,146 Murder: 1 Rape: 4 Robbery: 93 Burglary: 401 Theft: 1,846 Assault: 231 Prostitution: 2 Narcotics: 568

Rape: 6 Robbery:13 Burglary: 65 Theft: 246 Assault: 31 Narcotics: 34

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Riley

POPULATION: 5,383 On Sept. 6, a 1999 red Jeep Wrangler stolen from a home at 55th and T streets in Riley was found crashed into a building on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

There were 76 total reports of narcotics possession in the threeyear span. Burglaries, including residential and non-residential, were the second-most committed crime.

TOTAL: 537 Murder: 0 Rape: 3 Robbery: 61 Burglary:56 Theft: 317 Assault: 24 Prostitution: 0 Narcotics: 76

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University Place

POPULATION: 11,417 On Sept. 6, a girlfriend stabbed her boyfriend with a pair of scissors at 52nd and Knox streets. The area had one murder in the three-year time span in 2011, when a man fatally shot his girlfriend in the head. University Place led all the neighborhoods in reported rapes with 26 during the last three years.

TOTAL: 2,284 Murder: 1 Rape: 26 Robbery: 29 Burglary: 342 Theft-:1,433 Assault: 113 Narcotics: 340

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Woods Park

POPULATION: 3,856 Woods Park saw its last murder in December 2010, when someone struck and killed the victim with a wooden stick at 14th and Sumner streets. Thefts led reported crimes with 602, while drug-related offenses followed with 235.

TOTAL: 1,093 Murder: 1 Rape: 13 Robbery: 29 Burglary: 143 Theft: 602 Assault: 70 Prostitution: 0 Narcotics: 235

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Crime requires vigilance, even in mostly safe Lincoln The peace of mind University of Nebraska-Lincoln students might feel when walking alone in downtown Lincoln — sometimes late at night — can be a blessing and a curse.

For all the hundreds of Lincolnites who stumble home safely after a night of drinking at a downtown bar, there’s surely someone passed out on a sidewalk, bleeding after a bar fight or even knocked out after being struck by a passing car while biking home.

Sure, the crime situation in the capital city could be worse. Students from Chicago, Kansas City and even nearby Omaha realize as much. Residents of these Midwestern cities are well-versed on which neighborhoods to find safe entertainment in and which ones to, if possible, avoid (though avoiding crime in Chicago is starting to seem more impossible by the day).

But crime in Lincoln is more complicated. With UNL students, young professionals and the varying levels of wealth dispersed throughout the city, illicit activity in Lincoln is not only harder to map, it’s harder to predict.

A 2010 study by the Center for Public Integrity showed students are notorious for neglecting to report crime. The report stated that 95 percent of rapes on college campuses are not reported to police. Lincoln residents should be wary of the fact that, despite Lincoln’s reputation as a safe haven for college students – a midsized city with that small-town feel — assaults, rapes and even murders occur within the capital city’s borders.

Students often suffer the moral dilemma of witnessing crimes at parties and deciding whether to report them, especially when it involves their friends.

However, they can encourage a reduction in crime by ensuring that police have accurate numbers on the books.

Lincoln’s somewhat-sparse police force, with 1.22 officers per 1,000 citizens, has been shown to efficiently protect city residents with the resources it has. But law enforcement is not perfect. And crime is, frankly, unpredictable.

Students should feel comfortable in Lincoln, knowing crime in the capital is relatively low compared with the situation nationwide.

But they should walk the city’s streets with the caution they’d need anywhere else.

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Leave Miley, ‘Wrecking Ball’ alone

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iley Cyrus just can’t catch a break these days.

There was the backlash from the VMA awards, and now there’s a new fuss brewing over her music video for “Wrecking Ball.” This whole thing is starting to get out of hand. Sure, Cyrus has made some questionable artistic choices lately, but this video is not one of them.

Here’s a summary of the music video. She’s naked basically the whole time. She alternates on Vevo in a 24-hour period. As of Sunday between riding a wrecking ball and licking a night, the video is sitting at more than 101 milsledgehammer. And she cries a lot. lion views. Clearly, the controversy is helping The video got an overwhelmingly negative her sell the song to the masses. reaction from fans and press, which struck me This backlash against Cyrus would make as interesting. I wasn’t victimized by the vid- more sense if it happened to other artists, too. eo. It’s not like she’s mounting babies’ heads Do we remember Katy Perry’s firework boobs? on spikes. She’s naked. We’ve all seen a naked Or how about a more recent example: when body before.

Lady Gaga strips down to nothing in “ApOur sexualized culture forgets that some- plause”? Yet Perry and Gaga didn’t get buried times nudity can be used as art. Maybe that’s under a mountain of criticism. What’s up with why it took a couple of days before anyone that? considered the idea that the nakedness in the Male artists have gotten away with featurvideo had a purpose. ing naked women in their music videos, and Terry Richardson, the director, and Cyrus that’s where this gets ridiculous. In “Blurred actually put some thought Lines,” Robin Thicke prances into it. The nakedness is a around a bunch of women wearing metaphor for how vulneraThis nothing but blank, submissive exble Cyrus feels inside about pressions. Justin Timberlake’s video backlash her relationship with her for “Tunnel Vision” features a bunch on-again, off-again fiance, against Cyrus of completely naked women in proLiam Hemsworth. Licking vocative poses. These women don’t the sledgehammer shows would make do anything but pose as objects that she “secretly still loves more sense if it for the viewer. They have about as the pain” that the relationmuch depth as the average paperhappened to other ship creates. It’s pretty baweight. sic stuff, but also power- artists, too.”

Both videos were taken down ful. Once you get past the from YouTube for the nudity, but “OMG BOOBS” mentality, then both bans were lifted later that is. on. Since then, “Blurred Lines” has Cyrus even asked fans to “take their minds been played on the radio so much that I can’t off the obvious” and look deeper into the hear “hey hey hey” without twitching. Jusmeaning of the video. So she basically told tin Timberlake’s career continues to soar into everyone to grow up. Miley Cyrus, twerking the heavens. Everything’s fine for these guys, extraordinaire, had to tell everyone to quit be- which leaves me wondering about their backing so childish. Wow. lash. Where is it?

Even so, a pop star using sex appeal to sell It’s worth noting that a group of ladies is not a new concept. If Cyrus is making all made a parody video to “Blurred Lines,” but of that symbolism up (which I highly doubt, it got taken down from YouTube for being but let’s go with this idea), then she still wins too graphic. Unlike its predecessor, though, because of the shock factor. “Wrecking Ball” it hasn’t gotten permission from YouTube to broke the record for most views (12.3 million)

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come back yet. The parody — being a parody — had the same vibe as the original video. It used the same tune and moves. The only difference was that the parody objectified men (and only to prove a point about the original version), and the original video objectified women.

At least Cyrus, Perry and Gaga only objectify themselves. They leave other women out of the whole affair.

Before I conclude this column, I want to tackle the timeless “think of the children” stance. Many people have freaked out about Cyrus’ video because kids shouldn’t see nudity. Nude images can wreck a kid’s development. It can also make him or her grow horns and speak only in tongues. Beware of these children. They cannot be saved. (Or am I just paraphrasing a “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast now?)

In response to that argument, it’s important to note that Cyrus’ audience now extends beyond the 12-year-old girl demographic. She was Hannah Montana at one point in her life; that does not mean that she’s stuck playing that role for the rest of her days. That’s not how it works. She doesn’t have to “think of the children” every time she makes a video. She is an artist. Artists push boundaries, and she can shoot for an R-rating if she wants. Parents who don’t like it can heed the “viewer discretion advised” warning and not let their kids watch it. People of any age, actually, who don’t like the video can follow the same policy: Don’t watch it.

If you can, though, go watch the video, and when Cyrus looks into the camera, try to maintain that eye contact. It’s immensely difficult. I guarantee that her vulnerability will either leave you impressed or uncomfortable (or both). She is up close and personal with the viewer and has nothing to hide behind. Not even clothes. And you know what? That’s fine.

Critics are holding Cyrus to a standard that doesn’t apply to other pop stars. It’s ridiculous that we’re still offended or alarmed by nudity in art. You know what’s more interesting than the “Wrecking Ball” video — or Miley Cyrus in general — right now? Syria.

Freak out about something important.

Emme Grafton is a senior English major. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Technology creates deficiency in critical thinking

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ou are right,” Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” In fact, his prose, under the roll of a typewriter “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” That’s how Friedrich Nietzsche observed the way new technology, at least his typewriter, had metamorphosed not only his writing but also his way of thinking.

It may be safe to say that intellectual technology or “the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities,” as the sociologist Daniel Bell has described it, has changed the way we think. Smart technology and the Internet both contribute to online searching and surfing, checking or writing emails or simply adding something to the great databases of the National Security Agency.

While the Web has been a godsend for researchers, bloggers and web-users in getting that telltale fact or pithy research you were after, it actually doesn’t stop

at some quick clicks on hyperlinks. Our mind would easily get caught up in the Web’s info-reading, watching videos or just tripping from one link to another.

In fact, that comes at our brain’s expense. Some of us have grown aware of the difficulty of reading a book without having that overwhelming urge to get up and check your email, browsing through the internet or making sure you don’t miss anything going on in the neighborhood.

One could say that reading a lengthy article or immersing oneself in a book has become quite different and fidgety.

Our brain begins to behave differently, losing our train of thought, unable to focus on one thing without drifting away and starting to look for something else to do — either by juggling a lot of things on the Internet or on digital media. Yes, it is human nature to crave new information and to multi-task. Yes, it’s true that we may read more today than in the past few decades, but deep thinking is rarely the case anymore and has become a struggle.

That being said, the way technology helps us think and do certain work

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impacts our brain. I think one can trace this impact all the way back to the usage of maps and how it impacted people’s perception of locations and how to get around certain places.

In other words, we could replace our sensory apprehension of the world with an abstract representation. While it allows us to travel with confidence and do a lot of practical things, it somehow nurtures a more abstract representation of the world, which in fact contradicts the principle behind the creation of that technology.

Further still, think of the mechanical clock and how it broke our perception of time into little pieces, into milliseconds,

seconds, minutes, etc. It has rendered pages can provide instead of intellect. things measurable and turned the world Being a shallow or a machine–like nerd into this clock-like gearing system that is neither the original principle of those has a cause and effect. The historian and who introduced this intellectual technolcultural critic Lewis Mumford described ogy nor the easy assumption to supplethis process, arguing ment or replace our own inthat the clock “disastelligence. The playwright sociated time from huOur brain Richard Foreman said as we man events and helped are drained of our “inner repbegins to create the belief in an ertory of dense cultural inherindependent world of behave differently, itance, ”we risk turning into mathematically mea“‘pancake people’ — spread surable sequences.” losing our train of wide and thin as we connect He continues with the thought, unable to with that vast network of inconcept that the “abformation accessed by the stract framework of focus on one thing mere touch of a button.” divided time” became without drifting But as we continue to rely “the point of reference on “Google” and consider our away...” for both action and human brain too “outdated” thought.” to solve our problems and Again, this is not to trivialize or come try to mediate our understanding of the to grips with the deep cognitive use of world, it is our human intelligence that any of these technologies, but rather to flattens into fake intellect.

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Michael Bublé christened Pinnacle Bank Arena on Friday night to a packed crowd. The jazz/pop singer attracted audiences of all ages — regardless of whether they knew who Frank Sinatra is. The Daily Nebraskan scouted out concert-goers in line to find if the key to a Bublé fan’s heart is a crazy little thing called love or just a crazy little thing.

Fans of Michael Bublé wait in line outside the Pinnacle Bank Arena before the concert Friday. Bublé was the first artist to perform in the new arena.

“His voice is probably the most perfect thing in the entire world. It’s like a combination of One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Adele all in one. If I ever met him, I would probably tear up a bit — not cry, because that would be embarrassing — and hug him and smell him.”

“I don’t know. They told us he’s a really good singer. But he’s married to this girl from Argentina who’s in soap operas, and we’d rather meet her.”

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“We really like his music. But mostly because he’s really good-looking.”

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“When I moved to the United States, the first music that really caught me was jazz and blues.

And he’s, I think, the best one out there today.

My favorite songs are ‘Come Fly Away’ and ‘I Want to Go Home’ because I always want to go home.”

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Stoffel: Avoid fall fashion mistakes Cut-off shirts are a no-no, but ‘90s grunge makes a comeback Amanda Stoffel dn I’m no Meryl Streep. But during the course of the past three months, I have found myself feeling more like Miranda Priestly. And by that, I mean I’ve been judging others’ clothing choices harder than Joan Rivers at the Emmys. While summer 2013 offered some positive moments, in terms of fashion anyway, it appears as though the warm days of crop tops, cut-off shorts and cutouts are gone. And we’re

quickly approaching the chillier fall season featuring trends sure to prompt the inevitable “...Really?” from later generations.

Say what you will about clothing, whether you find it necessary to the way you live or simply a tedious necessity of society, at the end of the day, we don’t all live in a nudist colony.

Meaning that putting on pants (or shorts or skirts or dresses) every morning is important.

Even those who find the fashion industry shallow and irrelevant have to get dressed, and your choice of attire says a lot about you, whether you want it to or not.

As such, there are some things that must be said about the state of our garments. As someone nearing the half decade mark of working in retail, I have had the unique opportunity to witness the good, the bad, the

Even those who find the fashion industry shallow and irrelevant have to get dressed in the morning, and your choice of attire says a lot about you whether you want it to or not.” ugly and the really ugly when it comes to what designers think those in the public should wear.

2013 isn’t heading on as dark of a path as say, 2003, but there are plenty of things to be done to keep you from face-palming in 2014.

(Disclaimer: there are exceptions to every rule. The following are general rules and notes on your choice of attire. But be honest with yourself. Not everyone can pull off paisley, and that’s okay.)

Let’s start simple. Guys, you have the great fortune of being

able to wear the same clothes you bought four years ago and not become a complete social pariah. Does that mean you should wear the Aeropostale shirt you got for your 17th birthday as a junior in college? Probably not.

Does that mean you’ll get the side eye from fellow classmates?

Probably not.

However, I don’t know who decided that cut-off shirts are OK to wear as everyday attire for those who aren’t working out, but I would really like to

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Congratulations, freshmen!

You’ve made it to the mid-semester check. It sounds like quite the milestone, if you’re not keeping track of the fact that we’re only three weeks into the school year.

This week as a reward freshmen from across campus will be listlessly herded into the Nebraska Union and party the night away to a “timely review of aca-

demic responsibilities.” And like all the best parts of college, it’s mandatory.

Funny thing about the word “mandatory.” It’s really tough for the university to mandate anything to 4,400 freshmen, and they’re particularly negligent if they’re not turning a profit. More accurately, it’s mandatory so long as you have nothing better to do that night. So if the dining halls aren’t serving mini-pizzas and it doesn’t conflict with your Zumba classes at the Campus Recreation Center, you should totally stop by.

There’s nothing 18-year-olds love as much as compulsory workshops, but before you whip our your planner, you’ve got some

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Willis Earl Beal’s quirky music plays out best live Zach fulciniti dn

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Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer star in “The Family,” but the film fails to develop characters to their full potentials.

‘The Family’ struggles in American gangster genre Mob movie focuses too much on violence, not enough on character development Sean Stewart DN The gangster movie is perhaps the most American of all film genres. Robert De Niro is perhaps the most iconic star of the gangster film.

“The Family,” a new mob movie starring De Niro, is perhaps the worst incarnation of America’s art form I’ve seen in recent memory.

The film stars De Niro as Giovanni, a former mob boss now in the witness protection program after snitching on his former colleagues. Michelle Pfeiffer — no stranger to the mafia movie herself — co-stars as De Niro’s wife.

The film begins as Giovanni, his wife and their two teenage kids are relocating, once again, after their fake identities are compromised because of the difficulty of leaving rough habits behind.

Once in their new home, the dysfunctional family almost immediately resumes its vices.

Giovanni buries a body in the backyard the night they move into the place. His wife burns down a supermarket after being insulted by the manager. Their 17-yearold daughter follows by beating a boy with what appears to be a

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badminton racket and stealing his car, and their 14-year-old son immediately delves into the underworld of the high school, dealing in forgery, the sale of cigarettes and assault.

If this all seems like a bit much, let me confirm that it is.

The film’s characters are immediately revealed to be excessively violent and absent of any self-control. Plumbers get 12 fractured bones for arriving 45minutes late. All of this violence is unsettling because it is the primary device the film uses to characterize each family member. Even more disturbing, there are absolutely no consequences for any of the attacks. No guilt is ever displayed or expressed, and no law enforcement is ever present, let alone imposed.

This film is also the first I’ve seen use one of its stars’ previous movies in his newest.

Scorsese’s masterful mob film, “Goodfellas,” which stars De Niro, is used as a plot device in the latter part of the film.

The clip of “Goodfellas” shown doesn’t have De Niro in it, but is used as an underhanded way of referencing his persona as a mafia tough guy by tapping into his brilliant career.

The problem with referencing one of the greatest gangster movies of all time is that “The Family” completely misses its point and those of all the other great mob movies. What made “Goodfellas” so powerful was how it paralleled the protagonist’s growing status in the mafia with his moral and personal decay. The classic gangster movies are all looks at the dark side of the American Dream

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through the lives of desperate or ambitious men who have turned to crime.

“The Family” never finds its voice and doesn’t achieve its goal to make mindless violence humorous. It fails to make us care about its characters or to provide meaning in their actions.

De Niro is fun to watch, as usual, but he can’t fill a film that is so entirely empty. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Classic Movie Series

“Star Wars” – Nothing beats the feeling of watching Darth Vader tell Luke Skywalker that he is his father or watching the Death Star explode into thousands of pieces. If you’ve never seen these movies, you’ve never lived.

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“James Bond” – Never will a movie series be so everlasting and timeless. For more than 50 years, Bond-a-thons have taken place during Thanksgiving celebrations, and America has uttered the famous introductory quote: “Bond. James Bond.”

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“Lord of the Rings” – Though these movies may be painfully long, they’re worth your time.

Scenes like Gandalf the Grey’s return as Gandalf the White and Gollum caressing the ring in his hand while saying “My preciousss” are classic for a reason.

“Harry Potter” – This is the most popular movie and book series of our generation. We grew up with Harry – a lot of us even cried when we didn’t get our letter to Hogwarts.

“Indiana Jones” – If watching the Indiana Jones movies doesn’t make you want to buy a hat and a whip, you don’t have a soul. These movies bring history to life, even if the screenwriters have tainted it a bit.

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My introduction to Willis Earl Beal was a video of him performing his song “Evening’s Kiss” on “Later... with Jools Holland.” The song is poetic and sweet, with Beal’s howling vocals punctuated only by his light guitar plucking.

About three and a half minutes into the performance, he starts to cry. Straining his voice, he perseveres and completes the song to much applause. I’ve been a fan ever since.

Unfortunately, Beal’s debut, “Acousmatic Sorcery,” wasn’t successful in translating his live intensity to the studio. The sped-up, lo-fi rendition of “Evening’s Kiss” on the album pales in comparison with his performance on “Jools Holland,” and viewings of his other live performances establish a pattern. The guy has incredible talent, but putting that talent on record has been a challenge.

His sophomore effort, “Nobody Knows.,” is a step in the right direction. Individual tracks are hit and miss, but there is

enough of Beal’s trademark yelping and clever lyricism to carry the record.

The opening track, “Wavering Lines,” has been performed

by Beal in both minor and major keys. He opts for a major key, mostly an a cappella rendition here. His choice is an appropriate one, as his lyrics and vocals are his strong suits. Working out instrumental arrangements tends to trip him up, a problem that plagued “Acousmatic Sorcery,” which he recorded on a karaoke machine.

“Nobody Knows.” is a vast improvement in that sense. The bluesy, soulful arrangements are a perfect pairing for Beal’s howls.

With a stomp-clap beat, dissonant backing vocals and guitars, “Too Dry to Cry” is the album’s highlight. “I got nine hard inches like a pitchfork prong/So honey lift up your dress and help me sing this song” is certainly a contender for my favorite lyric of the year. “The Flow” and “Coming Through (feat. Cat Power)” are the other standouts.

Beal can sing like the best Chicago blues singers, but he’s far

NOBODY KNOWS Willis Earl Beal more lyrical. Formerly homeless, he has become something of a folk hero. He’s hard to pin down and probably always will be. That’s okay, though. Aside from the one that signed him, labels are dumb, and hopefully Beal will make a career out of defying them. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

check: from 5 decisions to make. Luckily, the schedule for the event is posted online so you can plan ahead for your magical evening of scholastic planning. Here is a preview of the night’s academic fare: Welcome! Success at Nebraska: The background to this PowerPoint slide will be a picture of Memorial Stadium.

Financial Planning: This can’t-miss lecture is perfect if you like the sick irony of getting couponing tips from an institution that has put you thousands of dollars in debt. For example, ramen noodles are a cost effective way to romanticize poverty while providing the absolute minimum nourishment to your body.

Get Involved: Extracurricular activities are important not just for your resume, but also for making the most of your college experience. Check out the campus Recognized Student Organization list, or dive into the city’s seedy underbelly to find a wide array of fight clubs, cults and mole people communities.

Finding the Right Major: Now, they won’t come right out and tell you this, but there is a right major. It’s actuarial science.

It’s in high demand, with great starting salaries and plenty of vertical mobility. All other majors are wrong. The sooner you give up on your dreams of being a writer and figure this out, the better off you’ll be.

Navigating College Math:

To be truthful, I haven’t taken free if you have a meal plan and a math class since high school, tastes like the ambrosia of the but are all the even-numbered gods. Plus your portion sizes answers still in the back of the will never look more reasonable textbooks? than next to a college athlete’s Time Management: It’s im5000-calorie diet. portant to remember to learn It’s also worthwhile to visit how to gauge your time durEast Campus, even if you don’t ing your freshman year at colhave any classes there. Your free lege. If you can, get hooked bus pass can get you to the Dairy on the 30-minute Store and some comedy TV shows of the prettiest If the dining parts of camavailable on Netflix.

What’s a better use pus. Plus, bushalls aren’t of your time, one es are fun in a mid-semester check serving mini-pizzas filthy, terrifyor three episodes of and it doesn’t ing sort of way.

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That about covprefer The Mill ers the high points of or The Cofthe check. Many freshmen aren’t fee House? These are important used to the college workload, questions to ask. They can help and the mid-semester check exyou determine who you have plains the many resources availthings in common with and who able to help their transition. If are your enemies. this doesn’t sound like you, skip Mid-semester check can be it, and enjoy falling through very valuable or a huge waste the same bureaucratic cracks of your time. The same could be that can miscalculate your class said for college itself. The best credit and force you to graduate approach is to get what you can a semester late. out of it, and remember that at Whether or not you’re interthe end of the year, monotonous, ested in the official mid-semester mandatory lectures, taking the check, there are certain unofficial wrong bus route and everything checks you should have done by in between are just rites of pasnow. Every freshmen should go sage. arts@ online and make a reservation dailynebraskan.com at the athletes’ dining hall. It’s

bad fashion: from 5 have some words with him or her. Seriously. This epidemic has been plaguing high school and college campuses for longer than anyone would care to admit, and it must be stopped.

I’m all for “sun’s out, guns out,” but there’s a difference between wearing a tank that is made to fit and cutting the sleeves off of your favorite pee-wee football shirt that you just couldn’t bear to part with. Again, if you’re a gym junkie who just forgot to change after your totally rad lift session or if the temperature outside is reaching desert wasteland levels, whatever. Do what you must. If not, either learn how to hem your sleeves or suck it up. I guarantee you’re not going to make more friends or meet your future significant other while flashing your oblique muscles — or in some cases, the lack thereof.

The world of women’s fashion offers more difficulties in discerning what is acceptable versus disastrous. This summer, designers decided to take a page out of (young) Madonna’s playbook and put crosses on everything. In the process, they have crucified a trend that could have offered some subtle edge to an everyday wardrobe. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if some people developed stigmata from all of the action that the holy symbol is being given. Moderation is key, folks. And for those who are religious, wearing a cross no longer expresses their beliefs, but rather, appears as a fashion accessory.

Moving into the cooler months of the year, there is one trend that I am very much in support of. Get ready to pull out your oversized flannel, worn out jeans, and greasiest hair because ’90s grunge is back. Although I am thrilled to once again rock what I like to call the “Claire Danes in ‘My So Called Life’” look, there are three key stipulations to keeping the trend an improved version of the original.

First, no camouflage. I understand that camo was a staple to grunge the first time around, but as history repeats itself, we learn from our mistakes. Unless you’re hiding in shrubs, stalking your favorite celebrity or going for the Destiny’s Child “Survivor” effect, there is no need to blend in with the nature that surrounds you.

Second, spikes kill. This attempt to add some edge to everyday items has turned dangerous very quickly. I honestly don’t think “moderation” is a word

rebecca rickertsen | dn taught in fashion school. Trying to hug a friend has started to look less like a sign of affection and more like a murder attempt.

Instead of spikes for some edge, how about a nice pair of statement earrings? They’re probably cheaper and definitely safer.

Finally, no more pleather. I’m all for saving the animals and going for a cheaper alternative. But pleather dresses, skirts, sleeves and, god forbid, PANTS are probably not giving the effect that you think they are. In the constant search for the ultimate edgy and unique look, many have fallen

victim to the tacky. There is a time and a place for pleather, but it’s usually at a KISS concert, not a chemistry class.

Ask anyone who ever wore a uniform in high school: Clothing is a way of expression. Sometimes you just need a push (or stitch) in the right direction. Rome wasn’t built in a day and your style wasn’t either. Have fun with fashion, learn from mistakes, and think for yourself. But just like everything else in life, ponder before you purchase. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Touted as the “Netflix of books,” Oyster seeks to provide the future of reading.

The analogy is appropriate for a number of reasons.

The first is that the app, currently in private beta, will more than likely be a success. The second reason is that the interface works well, allowing users to change fonts, type size and screen brightness.

There’s even a handy dic-

tionary feature for offbeat words such as “kismet” and “pinky.” The third reason is the library, which currently boasts more than 100,000 titles. The fourth reason is that,despite its size, it leaves something to be desired.

Trust that there are enough books available to keep any reader occupied while Oyster expands its library. But searching “Hemingway,” “Faulkner” or “David Foster Wallace” could leave one largely disappointed by the results.

These are just examples, and there is still plenty of awesome fiction and nonfiction content with books

by Michael Chabon, Howard Zinn and many more.

But there is no guarantee that the book you’ve really been wanting to read, which for me was Wallace’s “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” will be available. That’s okay, though: my favorite bookstores usually don’t have every book I seek out. But they do have personality, and Oyster seems to have

that as well.

Since purchasing the $9.95 a month subscription a week or two ago, I’ve completed “David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview,” and I’m about 100 pages into Philip Roth’s “American Pastoral.” In the past two years, I’ve purchased at least 50 books, and I’ve read maybe eight of them. So fiscally speaking, Oyster seems to be a good move. I spend a lot of time staring at my phone anyway, so being able to effortlessly flip through a

chapter with a slide of a finger is nice.

The biggest drawback is that Oyster is currently available only as an iPhone app, although the developers are working on an iPad version. So the big question for now is whether or not one can tolerate reading on a 3- or 4-inch screen.

I’ve found that I can, and I quite enjoy it; it has me reading more, which is all I can ask for.

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the No. 12 seed, lost to Baylor’s McKenzie Craft 6-7, 2-6 to end her run.

In her first collegiate tournament, Brewster lost to Rice’s Dominique In freshman Mary Hanna’s very first Harmath, the No. 5 seed, 1-6, 6-3, (6college tournament, she went toe-to10). In the consolation bracket, Brewtoe against the No. 21 ranked player ster beat Texas State’s Monica Pieratt in the nation, Rice University’s Nata6-2, 6-4. Then Brewster just barely lie Beazant. beat Kansas UniverBeazant, who was sity’s Paulina Los and the champion at the 2012 lost to Penn State’s Racquet Club Collegiate Devan McCluskey 2-6, Invitational, was fighting 7-5 (5-10) in the next against Hanna in the third round. round to keep her title, and Brewster then she barely maintained it, teamed up with Lehmwinning 7-5, 7-5. icke in the doubles According to assistant tournament, where coach German Dalmagro, they won against Hanna was right there North Texas’ Alexis with Beazant the whole Thoma and Kseniya time. lehmicke Bardabush by default “Just to be at that level and lost to Millie Nichand to be competing with ols and Seda Arantekin a player who is ranked 21 in the nafrom TCU by a score of 3-8. tion and being that close showed that Zeppernick and Hanna also Mary handled it really well,” Dalcompeted as a duo for the first time magro said. “She just barely came up against Texas State’s Eva Dench and short, but for her that’s good. I know Jessica Kahts, winning 8-4. In the secthat match made her a better player.” ond round, they lost 6-8 to TCU’s SteHanna beat TCU’s Hanna Vicfanie Tan and Simona Parajova. torsson 6-3, 6-0 and North Texas’ “We could have played a little Agustina Valenzuela 6-2, 6-3 before better in doubles, but we haven’t her match against Beazant. practiced much,” Damalgro said.

According to Dalmagro, the en“We’re early in the season and we just tire Nebraska women’s tennis team don’t have much experience right performed well at its first meet on now. We’re happy with the perforFriday, Saturday and Sunday in Midmance of all the girls this weekend. land, Texas, where 18 teams from We have some things to work on, but around the nation came to compete. we competed well.”

Coach Scott Jacobson and DalAfter practicing for one week, the magro took four players to the tourteam is still figuring out the best duos nament: senior Maike Zeppernick, for doubles matches. According to sophomore Maggy Lehmicke, freshZeppernick, however, she and Hanna men Brittany Brewster and Hanna. are a good match.

Each of these players competed in “It’s a really good chemistry besingles and doubles matches. tween us,” co-captain Zeppernick “Overall, it was a good tournasaid. “We get along very well. She ment,” said Damalgro, who is a firstmakes me laugh all of the time and year assistant coach for Nebraska. we enjoy working together a lot.”

“The competition was very good With the first invitational of the considering there are a lot of ranked fall season out of the way, the team teams here. The freshmen adapted to is looking to prepare for the competithe competition well, and the uppertive spring season, according to Zepclassmen competed hard. With only pernick. one week of practice, we are defi“We all practice over the summer, nitely headed in the right direction. but we have to get into match-play I think the girls improved with each again,” Zeppernick said. “We’ll use match they competed in.” the tournaments in the fall and match Zeppernick lost in the first round practice, and matches against each by a score of 0-6, 0-6 against Matea other to get better and improve as a Cutura, the No. 7 seed from Pepperteam overall for the spring season.” dine before falling in her consolation The entire women’s tennis team match 4-6, 4-6 against Texas Tech’s will travel together for the first time Claire Williams. this coming weekend to compete at Lehmicke was the only Husker the Missouri Invitational in Kansas other than Hanna to triumph in the City, Mo. first round of singles play, beating sports@ Abilene Christian’s Brittney Reed 6-3, dailynebraskan.com 6-1. But Lehmicke, who entered as

Top players return home for invite Nebraska’s top two golfers, Steffi Neisen and Cassie Deeg, lead Huskers to event in Minnesota Staff Report DN Sophomore Cassie Deeg and senior Steffi Neisen finished first and second in the Nebraska women’s golf team’s first tournament, last week’s Chip-N Club Invitational at the Huskers’ home course, Wilderness Ridge, in Lincoln.

But Deeg, who earned the Big Ten’s Women’s Golfer of the Week award, and Neisen had to wait one more week to return to their home.

Deeg and Neisen, both natives of Minnesota, will join Husker teammates Katelyn Wright, Jordan Chael and Cassidy Stelzmiller as Nebraska travels to the Minnesota Invite in Minneapolis.

“I’m really excited,” Deeg said. “It feels really good to be

back here.”

The event will take place at the Minikahda Club, a traditional country-club style layout.

“It’s very tree-lined, very hilly. The greens are very undulated,” Deeg said. “It’s a lot different from the course we just played back home at Wilderness.

But we’ve played these types of courses before, and we got to know it really well.”The Huskers are playing a tournament in Minnesota for the first time since 1994 – a month before Deeg turned 1 year old.

“It’s just great timing,” Deeg said. “Especially because Steffi, she’s a senior, she gets to play a tournament in her home state.”

Wright and Chael also finished in the top 10 at the Huskers’ opening event. Stelzmiller qualified for Nebraska’s lineup by being the team’s fifth finisher at the Chip-N Club Invitational, finishing in 33rd place to make the squad for the Minnesota Invite. Stelzmiller will be in the NU lineup for only the fourth time.

Joining Nebraska in the 12team field are Cal State Fullerton, Illinois, Kent State, Minnesota, San Diego State, Texas State, UC Irvine, Idaho, Long Beach State, Jacksonville and Georgia Regents.

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Nebraska sophomore Cassie Deeg, coming off her victory in the Huskers’ first event, and the women’s golf team will try to maintain momentum at the Minnesota Invitational in Minneapolis.

For the first 36 holes of the 54-hole tournament on Monday, Nebraska players will be paired with players from Illinois and Georgia Regents.

The Huskers will look to maintain momentum after their first tournament championship

since 2008.

“Golf is so mental,” Deeg said. “And knowing that we can win and we can shoot good scores really helps us going into this tournament.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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“(The team) is younger on a whole,” Spangler said. “We have a great work ethic, and I am excited to see who steps up with leaderIt’s the start of a new golf season ship as the tournaments come.” for the Nebraska men’s golf team.

Joining the team this Head coach Bill year as assistant coach is Spangler returns for Husker alumnus Judd his 13th season as Cornell. Cornell brings the Husker golf team more than collegiate starts its year Mongolf experience to the day at the Columbia table. He has been a NCAA Regional Prepart of many different view. professional tours since The No. 1 golfer graduating from Nefor the Huskers to braska in 2006. start the year is sophThe men’s golf team omore Aaron Wong. starts the year at a familWong averaged a iar place in Columbia, score of 79 per round lapa Mo., at the Club at Old a year ago.

Hawthorne. The course Joining him for is a very tight one, with this tournament is junior Ross narrow fairways and difficult Dickson (75), sophomore Kolton greens.

Lapa (74), redshirt freshman Na“We’ve played there a bunch than Wong and senior Matt Record the last few years in the spring,” (75).

Spangler said. “Anyone who can

hit off the tee; it’s a tee shot golf course.”

“I would say that this course favors Ross Dickson,” Lapa said.

“He hits his driver really straight, and off the tee he is really accurate.

I mean, as long as you’re hitting fairways on a tight course, usually you’ll be playing very well. He has probably hit the most fairways out of anyone on the team during qualifying.”

This tournament will be a tough one for the Huskers, with many top-notch teams. In the field are Missouri, Tulsa, Kansas State, Austin Peay, Iowa State, Ole Miss, San Francisco, Louisiana, South Alabama and Memphis.

“Every team in this field is good. That’s why it is a preview for regionals,” Spangler said.

“One of my goals was to step up our tournament schedule.”

And that re-vamped schedule starts right away at Nebraska’s first event.

Missouri already won its first tournament of the year and is looking to build off that success. Tulsa finished seventh in the NCAA Regionals a year ago and brings back some very talented golfers. Kansas State has no underclassmen competing in this tournament, giving the Wildcats an advantage with experienced players. Austin Peay is coming off a record season that included an Ohio Valley Conference championship. Ole Miss has redshirt freshman Blake Morris, who posted 5-under par at the Rebels’ last tournament to land him in second place. Memphis is looking to make the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year.

This tournament will truly test this young Huskers as they make their way towards the ultimate goal of making an NCAA Tournament appearance of their own at the end of the year. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Garbage is emptied from one garbage truck into another after Saturday’s football game.

Members of the UNL ROTC collect an estimated 1,340 pounds of trash at each football game in Memorial Stadium, and none of it is recycled.

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Tessa Harding, a senior pre-med and psychology major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, helps empty canvas trash bags into a garbage truck at Memorial Stadium after the football game Saturday. Harding and other members of the UNL Army ROTC cleaned the stadium after the game against UCLA.

UNL Army ROTC is tasked with cleaning the stadium after gameday every weekend. Read the full story on dailynebraskan.com.

VOLLEYBALL: from 9 Once play started, the Huskers jumped out to a big lead of 134. Freshman Kadie Rolfzen was the offensive leader in the first game, with five kills. The Huskers took the first set 25-13.

The second set was a seesaw battle, and neither team had a clear advantage.

A key moment happened when it appeared junior Mary Pollmiller served an ace, but the call was overturned. Cook received a yellow card while arguing the call, and the crowd of 8,293 let out a monstrous roar to help swing momentum back to the Huskers, as Kadie Rolfzen notched a kill on the next play.

“The yellow card proved to me that this place can ramp it up,” Cook said. “That was awesome.”

With the score 21-18, in favor of the Huskers, the Cyclones

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Football: from 9 took their final time-out of the set.

The score bounced back and forth between the two teams, and the Huskers took the game, 25-22.

The close battle continued into the third set, as the Cyclones held a slim lead until the score was tied at 18 apiece.

The Huskers managed to get in a match-point situation with the score at 24-23, but Amber Rolfzen recorded a service error and gave the Cyclones another chance.

After kills from both teams, the score was tied at 25. Then Pollmiller recorded one of her two kills in the match. With another match point, Kadie Rolfzen took a big swing to give the Huskers a 3-0 win against their rival.

“I think it was a huge match, just because it was Iowa State,” Robinson said. “And that’s a huge rivalry.”

According to Cook, Nebraska kept to its game plan well to keep an all-Big 12 player, junior Victoria Hurtt, without a kill.

“We knew we had to shut her down,” Cook said.

The Huskers had three players with double-digit kills. Kadie Rolfzen and Robinson led with 16, and Amber Rolfzen notched 10 kills and 11 digs to give her another double-double.

Amber Rolfzen earned the MVP award of the competition, while Robinson and Pollmiller were awarded spots on the alltournament team. The all-tournament team also included senior Kristen Hahn of Iowa State, sophomore Janna Krafka of Dayton and senior Sarah Reams of Saint Mary’s. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

reer receptions list; Moss recorded a career-high two sacks.

But the personal bests weren’t enough to overcome the players in blue and white.

The Bruins shut out the Huskers in the second half, and

according to Pelini, going scoreless in the half was not surprising with the way the offense was running.

“Offensively, we didn’t show up in the second half,” Pelini said. “We had a number of op-

portunities to move the sticks, to take the momentum back, to at least gain some momentum to stop what was going. We didn’t do it.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

ond half, Johnson tallied another goal on a through ball from Jackson to give the Huskers a lead that they would keep for the rest of the contest.

With the Kansas Tournament finished, three Husker players were honored. Senior defender Ari Romero, Johnson and Jackson were named to the all-tournament team.

The Huskers return to play

their first home game in more than three weeks, and the team is glad it has momentum heading into this week after a successful weekend, Bartels said.

“We played very well this weekend,” Bartels said. “It’s definitely great to have two road wins heading into conference play, and I’m really excited for it.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Soccer: from 9 weekend, NU took control. After San Diego’s goal, the Huskers were relentless on the attack and tied it up 16 minutes later, when Kraeutner scored on a cross from an unlikely source, senior defender Kylie Greischar, to make things even between the Huskers and the Toreros. The goal was the first of the season for Kraeutner and the third of her Husker career.

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o Pelini looked at his Nebraska football players and saw a shared expression on their faces he’d never seen before on the sidelines.

“I felt like at times I was looking at our guys on the sideline and they looked like they saw a ghost,” Pelini said.

After three touchdown passes by senior quarterback Taylor Martinez gave the Huskers 21-10 lead entering the second half of Saturday’s game against UCLA, the No. 16 Bruins (2-0) used a 28-point offensive burst in the third quarter to defeat No. 23 Nebraska (2-1) 41-21.

Nebraska, which led by as much as 18 points with 57 seconds left before halftime, never got the momentum back in the second half, according to Pelini.

“We needed to get the momentum turned back the other way, and it didn’t happen,” Pelini said.

The first loss of the season broke the Huskers’ 14-game winning streak at home against non-conference opponents and four-game winning streak against ranked opponents at Memorial Stadium.

Along with his touchdown passes, Martinez recorded 203 passing yards en route to eclipsing 10,000 total yards as a Husker.

The Corona, Calif., native began the game firing on all cylinders. After Martinez hit senior receiver Quincy Enunwa for the Huskers’ first touchdown, the pair connected again seven minutes later to increase Nebraska’s lead to 11.

Pelini noted the offensive production in the first half.

“I thought our guys were confident, playing hard, playing fast,” Pelini said. “I felt good with where we were.”

Martinez’s second touchdown of the game marked the fifth time this season he has found Enunwa in the end zone for six points. The pair of touchdown receptions helped Enunwa surpass his total of three last season.

The defense provided mo-

mentum with its physical play throughout the first half, too.

During the second play of the game, sophomore Randy Gregory forced a fumble for the first time this season after a 4-yard gain by Hundley. A sack by redshirt Avery Moss assisted the Huskers in allowing only one Bruin – Paul Perkins – to cross the goal line the entire half.

With Nebraska leading 2110 at halftime, it appeared that the Husker defense – in new black jerseys – was on its way to earning its nickname, the Blackshirts. But that was just the first half. The latter half of the game was a different story, according to Pelini.

“I think we showed a little bit what we’re capable of as a football team in the first half,” he said. “But in the second half, we got away from fundamentals.”

Despite its aggressive play to begin the game, the Husker defense surrendered four consecutive UCLA touchdowns to start the third quarter.

Senior cornerback Ciante Evans said he and his teammates’ misplays in the second half cost them the game.

“We just didn’t have the same intensity in the second half,” the captain said. “It seemed like we lost our step and lost a sense of urgency.”

The Bruins finished the quarter with four touchdowns, including three passing touchdowns by Hundley. UCLA’s final touchdown in the second quarter, along with its four in the third and a field goal in the fourth quarter, helped UCLA to 38 unanswered points.

“That’s what you call a team loss right there,” Pelini said.

“We got beat in every phase of the game in the second half.”

The Huskers had a multitude of career-high performances put on display in the game. Martinez became the ninth player in Big Ten history with 10,000 career total offense yards; junior wide receiver Kenny Bell bumped his career reception total to 98 to pass Matt Davison for seventh place on the Huskers’ total ca-

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Nebraska receiver Quincy Enunwa leaps into the end zone for the second of his two touchdown catches in the first quarter Saturday. The Huskers tacked on another score in the second quarter before being held scoreless in the second half.

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Huskers sweep two games in Kansas Nebraska soccer team shuts out San Francisco, comes back to beat San Diego to end five-game trip Josh Kelly DN

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Nebraska freshman outside hitter Amber Rolfzen recorded double-doubles in all three games of the Ameritas Players Challenge, leading the Huskers to three wins and earning MVP honors.

No. 12 Huskers drop just one set in 3-0 tournament Eric Bertrand DN The Ameritas Players Challenge came to a close Saturday, as the No. 12 Nebraska volleyball team went 3-0 to secure a tournament win.

The first day pitted the Huskers against the Gaels of Saint Mary’s. Even though the Nebraska struggled early, the Huskers came out on top, three sets to one.

Freshman Amber Rolfzen and senior Kelsey Robinson recorded double-doubles, with kills and digs.

The next opponent for Nebraska was Dayton, which lost to No. 17 Iowa State 3-0 the previous day.

The Huskers had a strong start going with the score 20-14, but the Flyers started a comeback effort to bring the game within one point. The Huskers managed to keep their lead and take the first set 25-20.

The second set was a close one, as there were seven lead changes throughout the game. The Huskers came on late to win the set by a score of 25-21. Both teams’ attack in the second was subpar, as the Huskers had a hitting percentage of .111 percent and the Flyers had a hitting clip of -.023 percent.

Nebraska had its strongest performance in the third set, hitting .345 percent and keeping Dayton to another negative attack

with a percentage of .-037. The Huskers took the game handily, by a score of 25-13.

Friday’s game marked the second consecutive game Amber Rolfzen and Robinson tallied a double-double with kills and digs.

“Well, I liked the finish better than the start,” Nebraska coach John Cook said. “Not looking at the score, but just how we played.”

The final match of the tournament between the Huskers and the Iowa State Cyclones was delayed because of five-set thriller between Dayton and Saint Mary’s, which Dayton won.

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On Sunday, the Nebraska women’s soccer team ended its five-game road trip on a high note, as the Huskers won a pair of matchups in Lawrence, Kan., at the Kansas Tournament. Nebraska won against San Francisco on Friday, 3-0 and defeated San Diego on Sunday, 2-1.

The Huskers opened the weekend on Friday, firing on all cylinders in the match with the San Francisco Dons. Less than one minute into the game, junior forward Mayme Conroy tapped in a goal after a long cross by a teammate, senior midfielder Stacy Bartels, to give the Huskers an early 1-0 lead over the Dons.

In the 64th minute, senior forward Jordan Jackson, the team’s leader in shots, was given a penalty kick after one of San Francisco’s players was red-carded for a tackle.

Jackson stepped into the box and booted the ball past the San Francisco goalie, who dived the wrong way, giving the Huskers another goal and a 2-0 lead.

The final goal came from freshman forward Jaycie Johnson. Johnson was sent into the match in the 80th minute to give her team a boost, and after two minutes on the field, the freshman scored after a long run off an assist from sophomore forward Katie Kraeutner to give Johnson her fourth goal of the season and her team a 3-0 cushion.

For the sophomore, it was about having the team working together this weekend rather than putting herself in the spotlight.

“We had a good team effort in

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Nebraska senior midfielder Stacy Bartels assisted on a Mayme Conroy goal less than a minute into the Huskers’ win Friday. our two wins, and I was just glad to contribute to our team,” Kraeutner said. “It was a great feeling to get, what I thought, were two very important road wins.”

After winning the first nonhome game at the neutral site, the Huskers’ record was 3-2-1 heading into Sunday with a match against San Diego.

The game Sunday started at 9:30 a.m., and like Friday’s match

with San Francisco, there was an early goal – but this time, it was San Diego that was able to find the back of the net. Less than two minutes into the game, freshman forward Michaela Dooley scored off a cross to give the Toreros a 1-0 lead on the Huskers.

Nebraska was down early, but after allowing its first goal of the

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UCLA receiver Shaquelle Evans, center, celebrates a 28-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter, which gave the Bruins their first lead of the game at 24-21.

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Senior quarterback Taylor Martinez accounted for 203 yards of offense on Saturday, making him the first player in Nebraska history to surpass 10,000 yards in a career.

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Nebraska senior receiver Quincy Enunwa flips over after landing in the end zone with a first-quarter touchdown grab.

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Nebraska had an 18-point lead of 21-3 late in the second quarter. UCLA’s comeback was the largest against the Huskers since 2010, when Oklahoma beat Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship after falling down 17-0.

Stanley Jean-Baptiste’s firstquarter interception was his third of the season, tying teammate Ciante Evans and six others for the national lead in interceptions.

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Nebraska junior receiver Kenny Bell hauls in a second-quarter touchdown past UCLA cornerback Fabian Moreau.

game balls Brett Hundley A game ball could have been awarded to several of the Bruins’ offensive players, but ultimately, UCLA’s sophomore quarterback took charge of the game. While Nebraska’s defense shut Hundley down for nearly the entire first half, Hundley finished the third quarter a perfect 8-for-8 passing for 141 yards, including three touchdown passes.

–Kyle Cummings, Assistant Sports Editor

The Boneyard, Nebraska’s student section Notorious for being classy, the Nebraska student section outdid even themselves this week. After UCLA walk-on Nick Pasquale died Sept. 8 in a car accident, the students honored the player’s passing by releasing 200 baby blue and yellow balloons. The action from the students symbolized the mind-set surrounding the game, showing some things are bigger than football. There were also signs showing support around the stadium with Pasquale’s number, 36.

–Chris Heady, Football Beat Reporter

Quincy Enunwa Nebraska receiver Quincy Enunwa caught three passes for 39 yards Saturday. In the first quarter, senior quarterback Taylor Martinez connected with Enunwa in the end zone to give the Huskers an early lead. Enunwa scored again late in the first quarter to increase the Nebraska’s lead to 10. It was the second game in a row that Enunwa caught two touchdowns, and he increased his season total to five touchdowns, two more than his 2012 total.

–Nedu Izu, Football Beat Reporter