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During the past 10 years, some UNL colleges have seen enrollment skyrocket, while others’ headcount has dipped.

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he College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln made the largest undergraduate student growth in the past 10 years, according to recent university census fig-

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Since fall of 2002, undergraduate student enrollment at the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) jumped 44.7 percent to 1,938 students from 1,339, according to Institutional Research and Planning.

Steve Waller, the college’s dean, said the growth came across the board, not just in farming areas.

“CASNR is more than production agriculture,” Waller said.

“We’re preparing our students for careers in everything from animals to plants, soil to climate, golf to business, mechanization to leadership and food to forensic science.”

Waller said the college also looks to attract more students with a joint microbiology major shared with the College of Arts and Sciences starting next fall. It’s all a part of increasing enrollment numbers to match UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s goal of 30,000 students on campus by 2017, Waller said. Looking ahead, Waller and other UNL deans said size will make teaching and scheduling adjustments necessary, but the move to be big doesn’t mean a bad education for future students.

“Big is important and big is a challenge,” said Marjorie Kostelnik, dean of the College of Education and Human

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The sports broadcasting class offered through the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of NebraskaLincoln is one of a kind.

It is an elective class for students of junior status and above that allows pupils to broadcast on the radio through the university’s radio station, 90.3 KRNU. The students broadcast commentary and play-by-play events for all sports.

The sports broadcasting class could even be considered a large lure for the journalism college, professor Rick Alloway said.

Josh Peterson, a senior broadcasting major from Omaha, said it was one of the reasons he came to the

Undergraduate enrollment at the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources surged over the past 10 years, increasing 44.7 percent since the fall of 2002. The deans from several colleges said future enrollemnt increases will present new challenges.

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Athletics OKs Love of volunteering sparks new club club’s collection of recyclables clubs

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University of NebraskaLincoln Recycling has been given permission to collect recyclables after football games again.

The group opened an email from Nebraska Athletics on Sept. 12, which allowed them to once again collect recyclables inside Memorial Stadium after football games.

Fewer than 10 volunteers showed up after Saturday’s game, however. The group was hoping for 30 to 40 volunteers.

With two weeks until the next home football game, Neil Tabor, a senior environmental studies major and president of Sustain UNL, will work with UNL Recycling to create flyers and spread the word.

Tabor is not sure if in-stadium recyclable collection will happen after the Ohio State homecoming game on Oct. 8.

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“We’ll be at the Michigan State game for sure.

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and see if there is student interest,” Tabor said. “We’ll be at the Michigan State game for sure. The rest will depend on support and coordination.”

Recycling pickup inside the stadium after the Michigan State game on Oct. 29 will be a part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Game Day Challenge, a competition to promote waste reduction.

The system for in-stadium recycling will be the same as the Game Day Challenge used in 2010.

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There’s a newcomer in the extra curricular arena here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the club is ready to change the world one service project at a time.

UNL Service and Leadership was founded on the idea of fostering student’s relationships with the community through service, leadership and networking.

The club was conceived after a volunteer trip last year.

“We all went to the Alternative Service Base to New Orleans through the Service Learning here on campus,” said Liz Allen, a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major and a co-chair of the club. “When we got back, we wanted to continue volunteering here in Lincoln.”

She said she wanted to create a club that continues

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volunteering beyond the trip and get more people involved.

Allen co-chairs UNL Service and Leadership with Danny Martin, a senior environmental studies major.

Sarah Kalhorn, a senior English and psychology major,

runs communications coordination.

The club’s first official meeting was during the last weeks of school last spring, but with a new school year underway, UNL Services and Leadership hopes to gain more momentum.

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“We decided we’d really start getting our group going this (fall),” Allen explained.

“Right now we’re focusing on recruitment; our goal is

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More people than ever are studying to become lawyers, but fewer people are succeeding, according to a recent New York Times study.

According to local lawyers, the reality of the market is close to home.

Harry Moore, a criminal defense attorney in Lincoln, said that many go to law school in hopes of finding a good-paying job immediately after graduation, which doesn’t always happen.

Moore said this is partially because of the economy.

He remembers there being a higher need for lawyers when the economy was better. He said now the number of lawyers is higher than the demand for them. The market gets tougher as more students choose law school, raising the competition.

Moore even sees a tough market in Nebraska, where the economy hasn’t hit as hard.

“Nebraska is good for job opportunities,” he said. “But it’s still not as good as it was.”

Ramzi Hynek, a practicing lawyer at Rembolt Ludtke in Lincoln, graduated from law school in 2007. She said the market was still full of many opportunities when she first entered her job field. However, in just four years, she’s seen those opportunities diminish.

Hynek is involved with recruitment for her firm, and while the firm’s “hiring efforts have been consistent,” she still sees a tough field for many recent graduates.

“I have seen and heard, anecdotally, students have had difficulty in finding positions, both as law clerks and full-time positions upon graduation,” she said.

The result, Hynek said, is more creativity in how students try to land jobs. While still in school, students will ask to shadow an attorney or take unpaid internships, to

better “gain real life experience-getting out of the classroom, basically.”

Despite the difficulty, Hynek doesn’t discourage law school.

“Most students’ only exposure to the legal field is TV and movies,” she said. “What they don’t realize is that an education in the field of law will open many different doors to them.”

Omaha lawyer Jim Clements, who practices in litigations, agreed with the Lincoln attorneys. Many of his own friends and people he knows are facing that same tough job situation that he says is not as easy as it seems up front.

Like Moore, he said that the tough job market, combined with high numbers of students and law schools in general can keep recent law school graduates from landing jobs in their field.

Some students, he said, go into law school to put off having a job after their fouryear degree. They still face a hard situation afterward.

“Students going in might not realize this isn’t the answer to getting a job right away,” he said. “Even with a law degree.”

This adds to another of Moore’s opinions that the job market is scary for more than just paying bills.

Moore said that while law school is a great time for students to put off their loans, they add up fast after graduation, especially when they don’t find jobs right after law school.

“I’ve heard numbers as high as $150,000,” he said.

However, Clements said that if anyone is seeing it, it’s the law schools themselves.

“At least some are starting to realize that more students are graduating or being accepted” than there are jobs when they graduate, Clements said.

Clements was right. This isn’t the first time Tasha Everman, assistant dean and director of Career Services at

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the UNL College of Law, has heard of the tough job market for lawyers.

“The class of 2010 faced the worst job market nationally since the mid-`90s and the class of 2011 is facing a similar market,” she wrote in an email.

Everman agreed with Hynek that while the market may be tough, jobs are still available, just not always ones that everyone first thinks of. She said that while some graduates still choose private practice, others take the path of policy, non-profit management, corporate government or private business ownership.

“What constitutes a ‘good job’ is different for each graduate,” Everman said.

“There are opportunities for ‘good jobs’ in Nebraska and nationwide. The key is finding the right fit for each graduate.”

And, while Everman still encourages law school for anyone interested in it, writing that the education is what leads to “meaningful employment,” she’s not in denial about the tough market for law school graduates.

“I think you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who is not aware that we are experiencing a tight legal market,” she said. “We (Career Services) focus on who is still seeking and what we can do to help them find that first post-graduate position.”

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Kostelnik has seen her college’s undergraduate population grow 21.6 percent in the past 10 years. With 3,200 students enrolled this fall, the CEHS is the second-largest college on campus behind the College of Arts and Sciences.

Since 2004, CEHS, like CASNR, has seen steady, upward growth. Kostelnik said she expects that to continue. For professors, that likely means more students in introductory courses and larger classes.

But Kostelnik said CEHS and UNL are not about to become institutions of mass lectures.

“We’re certainly not going to do business as usual and stuff more kids in the seats,” she said.

Instead, Kostelnik envisioned a large lecture space with mobile chairs where groups are able to move into smaller groups for discussion.

She said the interaction is the key to helping large classes learn.

UNL’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications did not experience the kind of growth that CEHS or CASNR did since 2002. Census figures pin undergraduate enrollment at 861 for this fall — 9 percent lower than 2002’s 946 students .

But College of Journalism and Mass Communications Dean, Gary Kebbel, said the freshman class increased 24.6 percent from last year, from 138 to 172.

Kebbel credited the enrollment boom to UNL’s move to the Big Ten, saying many of the new students have come from conference cities such as Chicago and Minneapolis.

Faculty and administrators at the journalism college hope that is the beginning of a new trend. Kebbel said some of the increase is due in large part to the college’s addition of a public relations sequence to its advertising major, which now puts the college on par with other journalism and

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mass communication colleges across the country.

This year’s increase and the prospects of future increases mean an entirely new enrollment animal for Kebbel’s college to handle. A majority of Kebbel’s class sizes have accreditation demands attached to their capacities. To keep the college’s journalism and mass communication accreditation, skills classes in the journalism and advertising sequences need to have no more than 18 students, he said.

So an increase in the number of students and a stable, if not increased, retention rate puts pressure on classrooms across Andersen Hall, he said.

However, Kebbel said that problem can be easily addressed by fixing Fridays.

Many instructors do not offer classes on Fridays at the college, he said, and the building is by no means booked for the entire day. The dean said journalism college faculty and staff will look into how to efficiently use the building, so the college can handle the ambitious enrollment he thinks the college and university are likely to see.

At Agriculture Hall, Waller said CASNR wants to not only add 635 students by 2017, but he said the college also wants its total enrollment to increase from 3,056 professional, undergraduate and graduate students to 4,200.

At Andersen Hall on the other hand, Kebbel said he’s looking to boost enrollment and eclipse one of the journalism college’s competitors — the Medill School of Journalism — in Evanston, Ill. “Northwestern (University) has about 1,000 students,” he said, “and I just want to be bigger than them.”

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Community desk Excel Spreadsheets Made Easy when: Monday, Sept. 19, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Teachers College Hall, Room 142 what: Workshop session for faculty and staff to help participants understand the Excel program. Participants should register at http://itg. unl.edu/workshops contact: Ranelle Maltas at 402-472-0585 or rmaltas2@ unl.edu ‘The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan’ lecture when: Tuesday, Sept. 20, noon where: College of Law’s Hamann Auditorium what: Lecture by Gerard Magliocca, a professor from Indiana University’s School of Law, on his book.

Interior Dialogue: A Panel Discussion on Psychology and the Creative Writing (and Reading) Process when: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 3 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Auditorium what: Author Timothy Schaffert, UNL psychology department chair David Hansen and Debra Hope, the director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic,

will speak on how the science of psychology can help with the writing fiction. cost: Free Russian Club meeting Tuesday, Sept. 20, 4 p.m. where: Kawasaki Reading Room (11th floor Oldfather Hall) what: Meeting of the Russian Club when:

Backpack Assessment when: Wednesday, Sept. 21, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. where: Health Education and Outreach booth at the Nebraska Union what: Backpack assessment by the Health Education and Outreach and the Physical Therapy Department at the University Health Center to see if backpacks’ weights are bad for one’s back. cost: Free contact: Deb Henderson at 402-472-7442 or dhenderson1@unl.edu Study Strategies Workshop when: Wednesday, Sept. 21, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Mari’s Lounge in the Abel/Sandoz complex what: Kenneth Kiewra will lead the workshop for students interested in learning how to integrate information.

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‘Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin’ when: Wednesday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. where: Sheldon Museum of Art, auditorium what: Lecture by Timothy Snyder, professor and historian at Yale University. cost: Free contact: Betty Jacobs at 402-472-2069 School of Biological Sciences seminar series when: Thursday, Sept. 22, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hamilton Hall, Room 112 what: Lecture by Concetta DiRusso. contact: Tammy Kortum at 402-472-6676 or tkortum1@ unl.edu Faculty artist: Kevin Hanrahan when: Thursday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall what: Recital by Kevin Hanrahan. cost: Free and open to the public Fifth Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture when: Friday, Sept. 23, 4 p.m.

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where: Avery Hall, Room 115 what: Lecture by Paul Zorn

about elementary calculus.

Refreshments beforehand in Avery Hall, room 348 from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. cost: Free and open to the public

‘Bring Nature Home’ Friday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m. where : Hardin Hall what : Lecture by author Douglas Tallamy on his research on plant and insect interaction. cost : $10 for arboretum members, $12 for general public or free for UNL students with I.D. Tickets can be purchased at arboretum. unl.edu/tickets or at 402472-2971. contact : Karma Larsen at 402-472-7923 or klarsen1@unl.edu when :

National Falls Prevention Awareness Day screenings when : Friday, Sept. 23, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. where : Barkley Memorial Center on UNL’s East Campus what : Risk-of-falling screenings to promote and increase public awareness on how to prevent and reduce

falls among older adults. cost : Free contact : Julie Honaker at 402-472-5493 or jhonaker2@unl.edu

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Fall Plant Sale when : Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. where : East Campus Greenhouse what : Plant sale of rare, native and rain garden plants.

Lutheran Student Center Wood Auction when: Sunday, Sept. 25, 5:30 p.m. where: The Lutheran Student Center what: Fundraiser for the Lutheran Center. Meal, chats with artists and bidding on wood items such as furniture and art. cost: $35

Quilts for Community when : Saturday, Sept. 24, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. where : International Quilt Study Center and Museum what : Interact with the Lincoln Quilters Guild as they work on Quilts of Valor. contact : 402-472-6549 or info@quiltstudy.org Sixth Annual Veg Fest when : Saturday, Sept. 24, 5:30 p.m. where : Bethany Park what : Cooking demonstrations, vendors, environment education and workshops. contact : 402-474-9802 for more information or visit www.communitycrops.org/ vegfest Husker Watch Party when : Saturday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m. where : Memorial Stadium

Watch party to watch the Huskers play Wyoming on the Memorial Stadium jumbo screen. Free food, giveaways and contests.

Women’s Self-Defense Class when: Sunday, Sept. 25, noon to 4 p.m. where: Campus Rec Center what: Class for women to learn basic awareness posture, how to stay vocal, deal with carjackings and using everyday-purse items as weapons. Pre-registration required. cost: $25 for UNL students and CREC members, $75 for general public. Visit http:// crec.unl.edu/recclasses for more information. contact: 402-472-3467 — compiled kim buckley kimbuckley@ dailynebraskan.com

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opportunity to report live on the sporting events.”

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GAMEDAY RECYCLING DUMPSTER LOCATIONS The University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers dozens of recycling bins throughout campus on gameday. Also available are 10 dumpsters located near the stadium for game attendees and students to toss their recyclables.

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Liz Allen, president of the UNL Services and Leadership club, works on a project in New Orleans. Participating in a winter break service project inspired her to volunteer more and encourage others to join. to get people interested.”

Tentative plans for the year include volunteer opportunities at organizations like Habitat for Humanity, the Open Door Mission and local nursing homes.

The club will also promote larger trips through the Civic Engagement Center.

“There is going to be a trip this fall in Missouri, helping out with some of the tornado wreckage that went through there,” Kalhorn said. “And this winter we’re going to Alabama.”

Allen says she hopes the club will make volunteering easier and more accessible for interested students.

“We just want to show kids the opportunities that we have for them,” she said. “If people in our club decide they want to buddy up and go volunteer one weekend they can. They

don’t have to try really hard to get those options; it’s easy for them to find without having to search everywhere for it.”

Martin said the club is providing an opportunity for students to get involved in the community.

UNL Services and Leadership’s next meeting will be tonight at 8 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.

“It’s really important to just volunteer,” Allen said.

“It looks good, and it’s a great feeling putting smile’s on people’s faces.”

Kalhorn agrees.

“One of the best benefits (of our club) is just the people you meet,” she said. “You all have the same goals – you just want to help people.

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UNL Bike Shop connects UNL campus with downtown eateries The UNL Campus Recreation Center is getting students to see downtown Lincoln from a different perspective.

The center is hosting weekly bike rides so students can explore local restaurants in Lincoln. The series “Bike and Dine” is free, though students should bring cash to eat at the restaurant.

Students can also rent bikes and gear from the UNL Bike Shop for a fee.

Students interested in participating in these bike rides should meet at the Nebraska Recreation Center’s Outdoor Adventures area before 3 p.m. on Fridays. Restaurants include Grateful Bread, Buster’s BBQ and La Paz Mexican Restaurant. For more information, visit http:// go.unl.edu/dayride

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UNL names nanoscience building after donors The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will name its new nanoscience technology building in honor of a pair of donors who gave a campaign gift to UNL. UNL College of Engineering alum Don Voelte and his wife, Nancy Keegan, chair of the University Foundation’s board of directors, contributed a $5 million campaign gift to help nanoscience research. The 32,000-square-foot nanoscience building will allow better collaboration among physics, chemistry and engineering researchers.

to help us so much in the future.”

Soon, the sports broadcasting class will be getting to broadcast nationally through the Big Ten Network, giving the students another opportunity to start broadcasting for the Internet and cable television. The class is one of four sports media courses offered at the journalism college, allowing for 12 possible hours of sportsreporting experience.

“This is my favorite class to teach and it is a big draw for journalism students, and I’m very appreciative of the athletic department to have all of the opportunities the department gives us,” Alloway said.

Having a recorded professional portfolio, national broadcasting and hours of real-world experience under their belts, these students are going to be more prepared for their futures than they ever could have imagined. They have been allowed to improve their skills with the best technologies there are to offer through HuskerVision and KRNU, Alloway said.

“I know it sounds super

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UNL Libraries have programs that teach faculty how to create data management plans by workshops and personal consultations. The library also has a website resource for faculty that includes sample plans and checklists.

Faculty can get more information by visiting http://go.unl.edu/t3g.

college.

“When I first came here, I heard about the class on a tour and immediately became interested,” Peterson said.

Alloway teaches the class every Thursday night in Room 15. Last Thursday, the students analyzed interview profiles they had recorded, which included intimate details and littleknown facts about various players and coaches.

Through this night class, students are given opportunities to learn and make mistakes in real-life situations, helping to prepare themselves for life outside of Andersen Hall’s walls.

Marc Zakrzewski, a senior broadcasting major, who attended the University of Notre Dame for his first two years of college, said, “I wanted to do sports broadcasting and this was the best place to do it.

“I mean it’s kind of a weird meeting time and you have to sacrifice some of your schedule, but it’s worth it because Rick knows more about this stuff than probably anyone else in the state and being able to work in real-life situations is going

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Nominees must have made a significant contribution to international education at UNL or have distinguished themselves in an international context.

Undergraduate student nominees need to have a 3.25 grade point average and have junior standing by the end of the fall semester. Graduate students must be enrolled in a degree program.

Nominations should be mailed to Phi Beta Delta, c/o International Affairs, 420 University Terrace-0682 by Sept.

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After the football game, volunteers meet around Gate 15 in the northeast corner of the stadium. Volunteers then head out into the stands with canvas bags in hand to collect plastic bottles. Volunteers start collecting recyclables before Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) members come out for trash pick-up.

Tabor said there has been a lot of cooperation with the U.S. Navy branch of ROTC. “If they catch up with our volunteers, we’ve informed ROTC to leave plastic behind,” Tabor said.

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hour and a half, said Tabor.

Jeff Henson, community and regional planning graduate student and UNL Recycling coordinator, said he hopes many of the volunteers from “Go Green for Big Red”, a pregame recycling pick-up around Memorial Stadium, will come after the game to recycle.

“I think the best thing is that students are still able to watch the game and still be able to contribute,” Henson said.

Recycling inside of the stadium will be left up to Tabor and Sustain UNL, making it a student effort. UNL Recycling will still help with recruiting volunteers and support the effort, according to Henson.

“We feel it’s important that the students led this to show the university that sustainability is important for the student body as well,” Henson said.

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‘Wet-day’ policy may benefit police, football tailgaters

The sun is shining, the cars are lined up and the dirty 30 on the grass is looking more and more delicious with each passing gameday hour. It’s time to tailgate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the only thing that could stop the party on this dry campus are some vigilant police officers.

UNL enforces a dry-campus policy prohibiting the presence of alcohol anywhere on university property, except in cases of special permits. This poses a problem with the number of tailgaters, who participate in gameday activities off campus but also spill into areas such as residence hall parking lots. Many of those who consume on and around campus, including alumni, are at least 21.

With University Police already focusing attention on Memorial Stadium, as assistant chief Charlotte Evans described in a Sept. 16 Daily Nebraskan story, the resources to actually enforce dry-campus policies aren’t always there. Implementing these policies prompts tailgates to spread throughout Lincoln, increasing potential for drunk driving and making catching minors far more difficult.

The inability to bring alcohol into Memorial Stadium also contributes to the need for additional security at its entrances, as attendants feel they have to consume more — often too much — beforehand. Police remove about 25 to 30 people from each game due to intoxication, according to Butch Hug, associate athletic director of facilities and events management. Perhaps that amount could be cut down if fans felt they could save some beer to pace out between plays.

It’s nothing new. Tailgating, and the drinking that accompanies it, has been a part of UNL for decades. Yet UNL now finds itself in the company of four other schools that have found a solution to some of the problems of gameday drinking with limited resources – allowing it to happen.

Indiana University, Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota and Penn State University are Big Ten schools that enforce dry-campus policies, except for tailgating on gamedays.

Penn State, for example, opens up a tailgating parking lot at 8 a.m. each gameday. While its police force responds to unruliness, all problems are confined to a single, authorized, on-campus area. Students and alumni can enjoy their tailgating in a way far more conducive to police patrol and within walking distance. It’s safer, easier and doesn’t spread resources thin in attempts to stop a practice which cannot be stopped.

The Daily Nebraskan isn’t asking UNL to reverse its drycampus policy. We simply ask that officials take a look at the examples peer schools have set and examine whether or not UNL might benefit from a few wet days each fall.

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Apathy to blame for poor grammar

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uick! What’s the difference between farther and further? How about weather and whether? How do you use an apostrophe? Don’t know the answers? You’re

not alone.

Mastering the English language can be a challenge, especially when so many of the rules are broken on a regular basis. How someone uses language and style also varies when your audience changes: for example, the difference between journalistic writing and historical writing.

However, what’s terrifying is that I see so many of us just give up or disregard the rules on a regular basis. I see friends and family use “ur,” instead of “you’re” or “your.” Sometimes, I’ll see a misplaced apostrophe. Sometimes, I’ll see a string of spelling errors. My friends and family members aren’t the only people who do this – it’s all over the place. I’ve seen these atrocious errors in TV shows, movies, signs, posters and on T-shirts.

The moment I try to point out a mistake, I’m labeled a “Grammar Nazi.”

Sometimes I’m called “elitist.” It’s disconcerting when you try to help a person clarify his or her meaning and that person spits insults at you. One day, I’m sure “you’re so educated” will become derogatory.

I’m more lenient with those who make a mistake when speaking. I get tongue-tied, too and occasionally the wrong conjugation of a verb slips out.

But when the mistake is in writing, I’m less sympathetic. Presumably, if you’re writing you have time on your hands to check these things.

Is it just me, or do we have no respect for our language? Knowing how to communicate your exact meaning should be something we all strive for.

So why is that so many of us don’t?

See, bad grammar can make even a genius look like a moron in an instant.

Isn’t it worth a little bit of your time to ensure that you come off as smart as you are?

Now, I might be in the minority here, but I don’t think we suck at grammar

rhiannon root because we’re lazy. Nor do I blame text messaging or the media.

I’ve heard these explanations in the past 48 hours. They are annoying.

“Text messaging is bad because people don’t spell out everything!” “The media (media is a plural, damn it!) are evil because they are perpetuating terrible grammar in our culture!” “Americans don’t care about grammar because they’re lazy!”

Text messaging or chatting online isn’t the problem. In these conversations, it’s usually about speed of communication. The person you’re communicating with probably knows you well and can infer your meaning without too much trouble. I should add that this person is probably a peer of yours and not a boss or a professor.

Media aren’t the problem either. The media’s job is to communicate to the public. Sometimes, that means dumbing down a thing or two. There isn’t a mass conspiracy among the media to make language skills deteriorate. If anything, editors strive to bring back class and finesse in writing, but it’s difficult because the audience might not get it.

Who or what is to blame for the sad state of our grammar? I believe that being apathetic toward grammar is a bit like being apathetic toward politics.

The complaints are similar enough: The rules are nonsensical and too complex.

People are fed up with it. They’ve decide to live in a Wild West state of grammar.

And it doesn’t help when sticklers fight each other regarding established rules. For example, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on why “Strunk and White’s Elements of Style” is “stupid” a few years ago.

Try reading through that one, I dare you. Parts of it are interesting, but most of the article is dull and nitpicky. The criticism is certainly valid – I’ll give the author that. However, when trying to discuss this article with people, their eyes will glaze over and they won’t pay attention.

These are the exact things we need to avoid when we write about grammar!

So here’s what we need to happen for a more harmonious world of grammar. First, debate is important, but we need to make our rules and reasoning accessible to someone who doesn’t necessarily know every little detail of the debate.

Second, we need to focus on communication. Saying something like, “Hey, I wasn’t sure of your meaning here. Do you mean that the panda eats then shoots up the place and leaves the premises? Or did you mean something else?” is much more effective than simply berating that person for a comma issue. (Bonus points to the readers who get that reference.)

Third, if you’re being corrected by somebody, know that this person means well, usually. He or she isn’t trying to make you feel bad about yourself. All we want is to help you out.

Lastly, we need to make sure that we teach grammar in schools and enforce it. In my high school career, our class discussed grammar for about a month in one of my sophomore English classes. We weren’t taught very well. Learning the rules and respecting them are the keys to getting better grammar in the world.

What I’m asking here is simple: Let’s respect our language by using it correctly.

And hey, if you still can’t wrap your head around misplaced modifiers, hire a proofreader. We love fixing this stuff.

Rhiannon Root is a senior newseditorial and history major. Follow her on Twitter @rhiannonroot and reach her at rhiannonroot@ dailynebraskan.com.

Idealization sets men up for disappointment

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ately, I’ve started to realize I have the tendency to idealize women.

In truth, the fault is all mine, and there really is no such thing as a perfect girlfriend.

I would say I have a new kindergarten crush at least every other week. I’ll meet a girl, be impressed by her style, by something she says, by what she’s reading, or shoot, even by the fact she reads. My brain will then begin to construct a mental postulation of what she must be like, based solely on that minimal information.

What always happens next is the discovery that the mental construction of my crush, and the tangible person I actually interact with are not one and the same.

This revelation leaves me somewhat deflated and frustrated.

Until recently I was unsure of the origin of my vexation. I kind of just chalked up each misconception to be her fault; I felt like she had deceived me. As if sometime, during the banal discussion about things that could be found on our respective Facebook pages, she had somehow promised to embody all the qualities of my perfect girlfriend.

In the past, the idealization has gotten so intense that I found myself unable to approach a crush. Here’s an example: One day last semester after microeconomics, I was chilling with my friends by the fountain, chatter boxing about the ethics of swooping. The most attractive girl I’ve probably ever seen walks past us. Her hair was dark and long, her yellow dress stood out, her boots were hip; my friends said it was like I blacked out for seven seconds.

One commented he had seen her around before and suggested I go talk to her. I was hesitant; I had never spoken to a goddess before. Yeah, I know, sounds dramatic, cliché, objectifying and all of that stuff. But that’s kind of the point.

When I blacked out, I unconsciously elevated her to deity status. When stated this way, it sounds kind of cool, even flattering. But here’s another way to put it: By placing her on a pedestal, I completely ignored that she was first and foremost a person. I idealized her to the point where I couldn’t conceptualize actually speaking to her. In a way, she wasn’t even real.

Here’s another (I’ve got tons of

dillon jones these but you’ll have to be satisfied with two). Last year I spent a significant amount of time in the Nebraska Union peoplewatching. I saw one girl almost every day. I remember her because she wore this weird hipster beanie thing and scarf everyday.

She had a Moleskine (which is like my kryptonite) and I immediately assumed she must be the bee’s knees, even though I didn’t know anything about her.

No, I didn’t talk to her either.

If I spoke to her, something that she did or said might shatter my mental image.

What I’m trying to get at is, by idealizing these women, I was holding them to expectations no women should be expected to meet. I mean, God forbid any girl have a blemish, or Moleskine-girl actually be writing in a regular notebook that just happened to

resemble a Moleskine.

Idealization has other forms.

Take, for example, what has become a tendency to assign women value via the use of numbers. “She’s a 10, but I would probably only give her a seven.”

Categorizing women and declaring 10s to be worth (as if they’re commodities) more than sevens isn’t just superficial, it also inhibits their ability to exercise their individuality without fear of social reproach from men. It means if a woman is to be considered supremely desirable, then she must embody qualities that a male thinks she should embody, whether or not this is truly who she is.

It seems to me, in a large sense, to idealize women is to assume that there is such a thing as the “quintessential woman.” No such thing exists. Furthermore, it takes away an important degree of humanity.

I’m going to take a leap here and assume this problem of idealizing women also afflicts other males. Our brains are hardwired to objectify and idealize women.

It’s reflexive, a sort of default setting. To those males: If you’re hoping that I will present to you the solution to circumventing this

thought pattern, this is all I’ve got. I would pose that half the battle is simply acknowledging it’s something you do.

Once you are fully aware of your tendency to pedestal-ize women, the real work starts.

Every time you consciously make an assumption about a girl without sufficient information to back it up, throw the thought out. Just throw it out. Or better, why don’t you ask her? Take an interest in her, discover the person she is.

Maybe you’ll find the real person is better than the one you imagine.

Then again, maybe not, but I’ve come to realize finding out for sure is a hell of lot better then conjuring up images and becoming disillusioned later. It’s surely better than becoming so transfixed by the mental pictures that you are left sitting by the fountain, or in the Nebraska Union, mouth agape in self-imposed wonder.

I’m going to make more of an effort to stop playing in the clouds. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes.

Dillon jones is a sophomore english major and a single male. follow him on twitter at @dillonjones6 and reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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As the venerable Albus Dumbledore would say, “words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” In the realm of reality, many writers would agree, and might also extend the quote to describe words as a prominent vehicle for social change.

Kwame Dawes, one of the University of NebraskaLincoln’s newest English professors and the recently appointed editor of “Prairie Schooner,” will be participating in 100 Thousand Poets for Change with a poetry reading at Lincoln’s Crescent Moon Coffee this Saturday.

100 Thousand Poets for Change is part of a worldwide effort to celebrate poetry, while promoting political, environmental and social change. This global demonstration will occur on Sept.

24 at 600 different locations stretching across 450 cities in 95 countries.

Dawes will join 10 other writers at Crescent Moon’s poetry reading, including UNL’s Stacey Waite, an assistant professor of English, and Grace Bauer, a professor of creative writing. The poetry reading will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Crescent Moon, located on 8th and P streets.

Melinda Martinson, the owner of Crescent Moon, is encouraged by the celebration of poetry.

“We know that there is music and we know that there is visual art, but I think people miss out on poetry as a performance art,” she explained. “I think we miss out on poets sharing their feelings with us. You can find yourself in a lot of poems.”

Dawes agrees with that sentiment and encourages people to stop being intimidated by poetry.

“We fear poetry because one day, probably in middle school, someone told us to explain a poem,” he said.

“Someone asked us, ‘What

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does it mean?’ That killed it for us. We realized that someone knows that meaning and we could be wrong.”

100 Thousand Poets for Change plans on 250 separate reading locations in the United States alone. Saturday’s reading at the Crescent Moon will be a part of what Stanford University recognizes as a historical event – the largest collective poetry reading in history.

So what can we expect from Dawes’ reading?

“I trade in beauty,” said Dawes. “Not prettiness, not

cuteness, not elegance — not beauty in that sense, but beauty in the Aristotelian sense — a constructed sense of the world that appeals to us for its truth, for its integrity and for the grace that it promotes.”

The experience of a poetry reading is extremely personal one, not only for the audience, but for the poet, as well.

“I remember reading in Swansea, Wales about 15 years ago, to a small audience of older folks,” Dawes said.

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In a novel with no deepseeded historical context, we don’t often think of creative writers as striving for any great academic accuracy. Timothy Schaffert, the author of “The Coffins of Little Hope,” is an exception.

During the creation of Schaffert’s latest novel, which received widespread critical acclaim in the past year, he consulted with University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s David Hansen, the chair of the department of psychology at UNL for some analysis on one of his characters. Schaffert, Hansen and Debra Hope (the director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic) will publicly discuss their efforts and how psychology can inform literature in a panel discussion this week called “Interior Dialogue.”

The pairing of Schaffert and Hansen was a bit of a unique instance in the first place.

“I wouldn’t say it was terribly common; if you’re a creative writer, you’re most likely relying on your imagination and memory and perspective,” said Schaffert, who is an English department lecturer at UNL. “Nonetheless, something

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like a novel will require a fair amount of research, and several writers I know have consulted with professionals of various kinds in order to create an authentic portrait of a time or a place or a character.”

In “Coffins of Little Hope,” the author and the psychologist collaborated primarily regarding Schaffert’s character Daisy, the mother of a potentially abducted child and a woman who possesses what her creator terms “warped maternal instincts.”

The opinion of townspeople and professionals on Daisy’s hysteria was so central to the novel that Schaffert felt a professional opinion was pertinent.

“Ultimately, she becomes a sensation in the little fictional town of the book and she’s analyzed by both amateur and professional psychologists,” Schaffert said.

“I needed to know more about how society would

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Historian to present lecture on link between Eastern European genocides Kristina Jackson daily nebraskan

Despite being separated by several countries, two of history’s most heinous and notable dictators persecuted many of the same victims.

Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, will lecture on his book “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” Wednesday at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Snyder specializes in Eastern European history and his book focuses on the connections between Soviet and Nazi policies on persecution.

In the course of his research, Snyder observed that much of the brutality perpetrated by both regimes occurred in the same countries, including Poland, Ukraine and Belarus, areas he’s come to refer to as bloodlands. Historians who write strictly national histories of these countries, Snyder believes, miss the big picture. According to Snyder, the story is broad enough to overlap both histories.

“This was the great unwritten book in Eastern European history,” he said.

The lecture is sponsored in part by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, an institution that was interested

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in Snyder’s research on Adolf Hitler’s policies toward Jews.

“He has a lot to say about the Holocaust,” said Jean Cahan, director of the Center for Judaic Studies.

Snyder ties the Holocaust to Stalin’s genocides in the Soviet Union by recounting

both countries’ actions in the bloodlands, as well as their relations with each other. The countries were allies at the beginning of World War II, but Snyder suggests the level of their atrocities may have been heightened when they became enemies.

“They provoked each other to do things worse than they would do otherwise,” he said.

Soviet brutality began long before the Holocaust,

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After a weekend of performances at the Walnut Valley Festival, Jason Shaw was finally able to sit down for an interview.

The performer was in Winfield, Kan. during the weekend and will now showcase the musical chops that have won him local and national championships.

The Lincoln Association For Traditional Arts (LAFTA) will be hosting Lincoln’s legendary folk artists in their Winfield Winners show on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

LAFTA is a local nonprofit organization that promotes traditional music, dance and other art, with an emphasis in folk music.

The show will feature four artists: Bruce Graybill,

Steve Hanson and John and Jason Shaw.

The Shaw brothers and Steve Hanson are no strangers to the LAFTA stage, but Graybill will be making his debut performance.

The musicians will play two separate sets, one featuring individual performances and another where the four will play together.

Shaw promises a variety of music, including folk, bluegrass, jazz and classical.

“If it’s bluegrass, it’ll be jumping too,” said Charles Wooldridge, the president of LAFTA. “You may see things like two people playing the same fiddle!”

The featured artists play a variety of instruments, and

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‘Drive’ satisfies with violence, brilliant acting DRIVE

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The first five minutes of “Drive” play like a cinematic “Grand Theft Auto” mission: two thieves rob a pawn shop and escape into the backseat of a white Chevy Impala driven by a silent chauffeur. They skirt the fuzz and disappear into the night.

With skillful editing and a dynamic soundtrack, Nicolas Winding Refn makes his Hollywood directing debut with a thunderous roar. The cast of “Drive” and its pitch perfect blend of tenderness and viciousness makes this film the most entertaining and original movie of the year. When award season rolls around, don’t be surprised if the director and stars score a boatload of nominations.

Ryan Gosling’s stoic performance as a Hollywood stuntman, who drives a getaway car for criminals by night, is a tour-de-force, and proves that an actor doesn’t need lengthy monologues to showcase his acting chops.

“Drive” is essentially two movies. The first hour follows Gosling and his attempt to befriend a beautiful woman (Carey Mulligan) and her young son, who live down the hall from him. The family is awaiting the return of Mulligan’s husband from jail and

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Gosling provides a friendly face in their troubled existence.

The film’s supporting cast reads like a who’s-who of today’s hottest television actors. There’s Bryan Cranston of “Breaking Bad” fame, Ron Perlman from “Sons of Anarchy” and Christina Hendricks, who is best known as Joan, the secretary from “Mad Men.” The return of Mulligan’s husband marks a shift in the tone and style of the film. The husband is brutally beaten and assured that unless he carries out one more heist, his entire family will be killed. Ryan Gosling agrees to drive for him and from then on the film puts the pedal to the metal and drops the audience into a tale of revenge, carnage and redemption.

With “Drive,” Refn brings fresh blood to the elite realm of Hollywood’s top directors. Not since Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” has the mainstream movie industry seen such a unique

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and polarizing film enter the public consciousness.

I have a feeling “Drive” will divide moviegoers: some people will leave the theater bitching about the

lack of dialogue and cheesy 1980s music, but just as many people will leave with a strong sense that they’ve seen something special. I belong in the second category.

“Drive” is one the best movies I’ve seen in years. I love the over-the-top violence, I love the `80s soundtrack and retro credits. I think Gosling is going to blow up

as a result of this movie.

“Drive” is out now, and if you’re looking for some grand, American violence, go along for the ride.

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‘Ballad’ offers little more than historical intricacy Rachel Staats daily nebraskan

“Hang down your head, Tom Dooley …”

So goes the first line of “Tom Dooley,” a folk song by the Kingston Trio, which tells the story of a murdered girl and her killer.

Even though it’s based on real people who lived in North Carolina in the years following the Civil War, the song itself may be far from the gospel truth.

And Sharyn McCrumb’s novelization of the events, “The Ballad of Tom Dooley” paints a far more intricate picture.

After the death of a local girl, Laura Foster, two suspects are taken into custody: Ann Melton and Tom Dula.

Ann is the beautiful wife of a local farmer, famous for her laziness and temper. Tom is her childhood sweetheart, a Confederate soldier with a profound distaste for employment.

“The Ballad” tells the familiar story from two new perspectives.

Zebulon Vance is Tom “Dooley” Dula’s lawyer and an ex-Confederate soldier who will

do everything in his power to help his former brother in arms, Tom. Pauline Foster is the unfeeling cousin and servant of Ann Melton, Tom’s married lover, who will stop at nothing to bring trouble to the picturesque Ann. The story itself is intriguing, but McCrumb’s writing renders the novel somewhat confusing. Adding a second narrator to a story can be tricky business and it’s clear that McCrumb did not make ideal use of their unique perspectives.

Vance and Foster come from different social standings and levels of education, but at times Foster uses the same language (and at times, the exact same sentences) as Vance.

As I saw it, only one narrator was needed, because they essentially provided the reader with the same information.

There was also an intense repetition of clichés in the text that added nothing to the language. How many times can Pauline say something was a “nine days wonder?” Too many, apparently.

As a reader, I try to identify

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with one of the characters and see the world through his/her eyes. Unfortunately in this novel I couldn’t find a character with any redeeming qualities and most were flat to boot. The only character with an ounce of sense is Pauline and she spends all her energy trying to bring on the destruction DRIVE of everyone in her life.

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snyder: from 5 with the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933, in which Joseph Stalin collectivized the land and directed hunger at Ukrainians. This was followed by the Great Terror of 1937 and 1938, which resulted in mass shootings based on social class and ethnicity.

At this point, Snyder begins to bring together Nazi and Soviet histories. Both countries invaded Poland and engaged in what Snyder calls “cooperative decapitation.”

“They destroy the educated class through shooting

and deportation,” he said.

The Nazis then invaded the Soviet Union and starved about 4 million people. When they met resistance, Snyder said, the Nazis killed civilians in both Belarus and Poland.

According to Cahan, the Judaic Studies Center invited Snyder partially because of his new and unique views.

The perspective is a bit controversial, she said, because some historians wonder if it is useful to draw ties between Stalin and the Holocaust. Snyder, however, holds firm that at a certain

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point it becomes a disservice to extricate the atrocities.

“I started to feel that it had to be done,” he said. “It’s the most important event in modern European history.”

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Murals connect Vietnamese history to Lincoln residents Brianna Foster daily nebraskan

California artist and photographer, Binh Danh, sheds light on the Vietnamese community in Lincoln, Neb., without the use of words.

With help from myriad individuals, Danh was able to both capture and collect enough photographs to create two murals, which will be displayed at the Sheldon Museum of Art. “We have never had an exhibition that encouraged participation and involved partnerships and collaborations from people in the Vietnamese community,” said Sharon Kennedy, curator of cultural and civic engagement at the museum. “We are proud of that and hope it will bring people in to talk more about that history.”

The plan to collaborate with Danh began after Kennedy viewed the artist’s work. It was decided early on that the project would focus on the Vietnamese community in Lincoln. The rest of his plans for the exhibition, however, were not predetermined. Having visited Lincoln multiple times before, Danh recognized the diversity within the city and decided to illustrate it through collages.

With the sponsorship of the Lincoln Community Foundation, the project was funded and came to fruition. Sarah Peetz, one of three vice presidents for community outreach at the Lincoln Community Foundation, spoke on the importance of the exhibit.

“We really like this project because it supports arts and culture, raises awareness and brings attention to the very unique

relationship Lincoln has with Vietnamese culture,” Peetz said.

In one week, Danh reached out to the Vietnamese community by requesting photographs from various families. Some of the photographs are dated as far back as the 1980s.

He also worked with several additional groups in the community and on the University of NebraskaLincoln campus. Although he has never been a resident of Nebraska, past visits contributed to his desire to photograph the community. Additionally, the immense amount of support Danh received, combined with the close-knit feel of the city, made this project more intimate.

“Lincoln wasn’t too big and people would recommend other family members to participate,” Danh said. “I was thinking of Omaha also because I was told there was a larger Vietnamese community there, but focusing on Lincoln was enough. I was able to get personal with the community rather than try to include all of Nebraska.”

“Viet Nam, Nebraska,” will feature two murals and archival footage. The exhibition will be open for viewing beginning Friday, Sept. 23. Danh hopes viewers will feel connected to the mural, just as he has his own connection to the project. As refugees, Danh’s family emigrated from Vietnam to the United States when Danh was only 2 years old. Growing up in California, Danh wanted to be more in touch with his family history in Vietnam.

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mother had not brought any family photographs to the United States. As a result, Danh became more intrigued and interested in the importance of photography.

“Photography became important to document my life in the U.S.,” Danh said. “Through my childhood and teenage years, and through college, photography has always been there.”

Through this, Danh has been able to provide insight into both the past and the present.

“I use the camera as a tool to research these histories because when we look at history, we look at pictures,” Danh said.

“I fill in the history that I feel like I’m missing. This project became a part of that history, too.”

Prior to the debut of Danh’s murals and archival footage, the artist is scheduled to give a photography tutorial on Tuesday, Sept. 20. As a whole, Danh’s artwork is likely to provoke thought and discussion among people of all backgrounds.

“This exhibit helps us think about our history and our family’s immigration ... recognizing that we all make sacrifices for a better life,” Kennedy said.

Ultimately, the imagery provides a refreshing look at history through the photos of local families.

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In the opinion of Judith Slater, a UNL professor of creative writing, while the collaboration between writer and psychologist may be unique, this kind of in-depth and unconventional research is typical of what readers have come to expect from Schaffert’s work.

“Timothy Schaffert is indeed a special novelist and from what I know of his books and the way he writes, he’s constantly doing research,” she said. “He’s curious in the best sense of the word and that curiosity, that constant questioning, gives his novels added depth and richness.”

Slater also offered the perspective that learning a few ins and outs of psychology is an essential instrument in any fiction writer’s toolbox.

“I’d encourage both psychology and creative writing students to attend this panel because I’ve always felt strongly that writers have to

be part detective, part psychologist in order to write convincingly about what Flannery O’Connor called ‘the mystery of personality,’” she said.

As for whether or not we can expect this brand of research from Schaffert in the future, the writer feels that the name of the game is relevance.

“I don’t feel inclined to research everything I don’t know,” he said. “For example, I didn’t interview any 83 year olds despite the fact that I was writing from the point of view of a woman that age. In some cases, it’s important for a writer to rely on instinct.”

Schaffert has just seen the rights of his forthcoming novel, “The Swan Gondola,” bought by Riverhead, a literary imprint of Penguin Publishing.

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After struggling to adapt a new playbook in the first two games, Nebraska’s offensive line had a breakout game, helping the teammates behind them post 309 rushing yards.

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Barney Cotton has been under fire for the last couple of weeks. The offensive line coach has seen his unit struggle at times while adjusting to new faces and a new offense. He’s been second-guessed by many people, few of whom truly understand all the facets of his job.

So after a strong performance by the offensive line in Saturday’s 51-38 win against Washington, how did Cotton plan to celebrate, a reporter asked. Was it time to kick back and relax? Enjoy a beer, perhaps?

“I’m going to go home and probably go to sleep,” Cotton said. “It’s been a tough three-week run so far. This hasn’t been a cakewalk. Tonight’s a night to rest and get ready to get up tomorrow and get ready to do it all over again.”

At least after this game, he can sleep easy.

The Huskers posted their highest rushing total of the year by far (309 yards) despite missing starting left guard Andrew Rodriguez and replacing him with Seung Hoon Choi, a walk-on who had played in just two career games previously.

Much of NU’s success was due to a new wrinkle Cotton and assistant John Garrison implemented. The Huskers started Yoshi Hardrick, Choi, Mike Caputo, Spencer Long and Tyler Moore, but unlike previous weeks in which only five or six linemen played, NU rotated players on a predetermined schedule.

Jeremiah Sirles, Marcel Jones and Brandon Thompson were subbed in to keep

everyone fresh, and the results were promising.

NU averaged 5.6 yards per carry and scored a season-high 51 points. As the game progressed, Sirles said he could see the Washington linemen start to wear down.

“There was no way we were going to lose that game,” tight end Ben Cotton said. “We wanted to do it up front. We wanted to be the ones that finished on the field. It didn’t matter if they played 11 guys in the box. We’re going to run the ball right at you and that’s what we did.”

Nothing exemplifies this point better than a string of fourth-quarter plays.

Trying to bleed the clock, passing was nearly out of the question for NU. So the Huskers lined up and ran Rex Burkhead over the right side of the line time and time again, 10 times in 11 plays during a span of two drives.

One of those drives resulted in a touchdown, the other a turnover on downs after moving the ball to the Huskies’ 22-yard line.

“It’s pretty demoralizing when you say, ‘All right, we’re going to line up right here and run it right here. Stop it,’” Sirles said. “We just kept doing it and doing it and it seemed to work.”

“That’s the kind of football we want to play,” Thompson added. “We were calling the same exact play the last few drives when we were moving on them.”

Another reason for the success was increased level of comfort for several of the younger players. Moore, Long, Hardrick and Choi had never started a

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“I think all those guys that are starting for the first time are starting to figure it out, and it’s only going to get better as the year progresses,” Sirles said. “I remember last year in my first few starts, it felt like the world was spinning. As you progress, you start growing into your role and start figuring out what’s going on. I think that’s what happened to those guys.”

So don’t blame Barney Cotton if he just wants a chance to rest. He’s had to quickly prepare a group of green youngsters while adjusting to a new offense and hearing criticism from nearly every direction. Saturday’s performance validates the job he’s done, and while Cotton said the line isn’t a finished product, it’s improving.

Now maybe he can get everyone off his back.

“People have no idea,” Cotton said.

“All I care about is doing a good job for Bo, doing a good job for our linemen. I absolutely will not now, or will not ever, derive my self-esteem by what others think about me.”

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I-back Aaron Green (2), celebrates one of his two touchdowns during the Washington game. first time since Nebraska’s Jeff Packer game against Tennessee-ChatDaily Nebraskan tanooga. NU back Braylon Ameer Abdullah’s 100-yard Heard also carried the ball five kick return for a touchdown times for 34 yards. against Fresno State was a “These kids are competitaste of the young talent Ne- tive and they expect to play,” braska boasts this season.

NU running backs coach Ron The Cornhuskers’ game Brown said. “They want to get against Washington may have out there and contribute. I was provided a mouthful of food really proud of Aaron – he and for thought on Nebraska’s Braylon both. Just the way young talent. they handled not being able Aaron Green led the way to play last week, coming in for Nebraska’s freshmen in and playing the way they did Saturday’s 51-38 win over today.”

Washington. The San AntoWhile opponents have chalnio native had the best game lenged them, Brown feels that of his young collegiate career, the young running backs are carrying the ball five times for showing real progress.

36 yards and a touchdown. All “There have been a lot of of which came after a 25-yard people doing things against touchdown catch in the sec- us where we just don’t get just ond quarter. gaping holes to run through “I didn’t really expect to all the time, but they’ve made play that much, but whenever a lot out of small creases so my number is called, I’m go- far,” Brown said. “And the ing to give it my all,” Green young kids are starting to said. “I just tried to get in there come along.” and contribute to the team.”

Green’s performance highGreen’s performance came lighted a freshman class that after a tough experience last gave sizeable contributions to week when he didn’t get into the Huskers’ scoring cause. the Fresno State game.

NU coach Bo Pelini was “Last week was pretty hard,” pleased with the new backs’ Green said. “Coming from performance as well. high school you’re used to “I thought Aaron (Green) playing a lot and I didn’t play ran great, I thought Braylon at all last week. I just had to (Heard) did some nice things,” keep my head up, and just Pelini said. “I feel good about keep praying and stay focused our backs.” and stay positive.”

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Apparently people really care about helmet color.

On the morning of Nebraska’s biggest test of the young season, a rubber match with Washington, the Husker region of the Twitterverse was buzzing not with last-minute analysis of the opponent, but rather with rumors of NU wearing black helmets for the game.

However, by the end of the game the query du jour shifted subjects from the color of helmets to the color of shirts, leaving people wondering, “Where are the Blackshirts?”

The Nebraska defense gave up 38 points and 420 yards of total offense to the Huskies. Washington gained 340 yards of total offense in their 19-7 Holiday Bowl win against the Huskers last season.

The vast improvement showed in the Nebraska offense hanging 51 points on Washington on Saturday may have overshadowed the underwhelming defensive performance if it were not for last week’s game with Fresno State.

The highly touted Husker defense has given up more than 400 yards of total offense, more than 250 passing yards and have allowed opposing running backs to rush for more than 100 yards in each of its last two games.

Moreover, the defensive line, which entered the season regarded by some as

the best in the nation, has amassed only two sacks in two weeks.

So, it’s time to panic, right?

No. Not hardly.

“The sky isn’t falling, defensively,” Bo Pelini said after the game.

While Saturday’s defensive performance wasn’t the 2009 shutout of Arizona in the Holiday Bowl, it wasn’t the 2007 41-40 Ball State debacle either.

If anything, the play of the Husker defense in the latest Washington game should lead to as much optimism as possible for a game in which 38 points were given up.

In order to look at the big picture defensively let’s first zoom in, specifically to the third quarter.

Nebraska outscored Washington 17-0 in the third quarter after entering halftime ahead 20-17.

The Huskers outgained the Huskies 231 yards to 63 yards, allowing only 21 yards rushing, four first downs, one successful third-down conversion and forcing a turnover on downs, all while having the ball for less time than Washington. All of this without Alfonzo Dennard, who very well may be the best player on the defense.

The defense that played the third quarter was the defense Husker fans expected to see throughout the first three games.

The fourth quarter that followed was frustrating. But being frustrated is better than being terrified. Though the Husker defense looked lax in the game’s final quarter, giving up three touchdowns, a Washington game without

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Sweep of No. 12 Iowa State brings back confidence robby korth daily nebraskan

That was exactly what Nebraska needed.

In a convincing 25-23, 2515 and 25-18 sweep of No. 12 Iowa State, the Huskers finally looked like the team they can be.

With as much talent and athleticism as No. 10 Nebraska has, it was surprising when they lost their first two sets to New Mexico State, stunning when they went five sets with St. Mary’s and finally won the fifth 15-13 and absolutely shocking when they lost to Colorado State.

Now it appears as if NU has arrived.

ISU was the highest-ranked and most-talented team Nebraska had met up with this year.

The team felt magic from this victory, and their confidence is soaring.

“Going back into the locker room was a different feeling that we haven’t felt before,” middle blocker Brooke Delano said. “We want to remember this and keep going back into the locker room and ending a game feeling like this.

“It’s great.”

Who can blame the Huskers for feeling great? Finally, they left a game confident and collected, looking more like a team that can go deep in a tournament than ever before.

The positive feeling couldn’t have come at a better time either.

Nebraska is gearing up for a high-intensity game against another elite program, opening Big Ten Conference play with No. 5 Penn State on Wednesday, and they needed to hit their stride if they want to win that game.

Penn State has been the powerhouse of the Big Ten and

college volleyball as a whole this millennium. For the past eight years the Nittany Lions have won the conference, and they also have captured the last four national title crowns.

However, Penn State has looked vulnerable this year, with a loss to Oregon snapping a 94-game home winning streak and losses in Palo Alto, Calif., at the Nike Big Four Volleyball Classic at the hands of Texas and Stanford.

Confidence will be key Wednesday night and Nebraska has plenty of it, thanks to the sweep. Following the victory against the Cyclones, NU was riding high and chatting about bringing on the Nittany Lions.

“Right when we got back into the locker room we were talking about getting ready for Penn State now,” Delano said.

“That’s going to be our mentality … on our day off and Monday come practice time we’re going to be ready for it.”

Now that NU is confident, it’s time to get ready for a big challenge. It’s going to be a tough new season; the Big Ten is a talented volleyball conference and with five teams excluding Nebraska in the top 25, coach John Cook thinks that this win couldn’t be more helpful.

“Our team took a step forward,” Cook said. “We’re getting better. And we need to get better with the schedule of the teams we’re playing coming up. But this was a great test.”

That great test should pay huge dividends going into this week when Nebraska faces PSU and No. 25 Ohio State on Saturday. This win will go a long way in building a successful season.

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Big Ten play approaches with Huskers clicking on all gears Sean Whalen Daily Nebraskan

As far as cyclones go, the one that hit the Devaney Center seemed pretty mild.

After spending the week looking for more consistency, the Nebraska volleyball team found it Saturday night, thoroughly dominating 12thranked Iowa State in a 2523, 25-15, 25-18 sweep. The match — which happened before 10,380 fans at the Devaney Center — was huge for a Cornhusker team looking to move past uneven performances earlier in the season and assert itself heading into its first ever Big Ten match Wednesday against four-time defending national champion Penn State.

The match didn’t start off great for NU, however. ISU went on a 4-1 run to take a 10-6 lead in the first set, aided by two service aces and a NU service error, and NU coach John Cook called timeout. After the timeout, NU stormed back with a 7-2 run to take the lead and only trailed by more than one point in a set once (when they went down 13-11 in the third) the rest of the match.

Cook tallied the sustained NU run to his players, as opposed to anything he said during the timeout.

“That was the thing we did well tonight … we didn’t play up and down all night – we played at a pretty consistent level,” he said. “And that’s something we’ve had a hard time doing this year so far.

When we play consistently well, we have the ability to put up sustained runs.”

The biggest cog behind those runs was Gina Mancuso. She had 11 kills, seven digs, a service ace and no

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Nebraska celebrates a point against Iowa State. Team confidence will be necessary as the Huskers enter Big Ten Conference play, which has five teams ranked in the top 25.

NU prevented ISU from errors of any kind on 18 hits goggles, something Cook the first two sets, for an in- said will “make a lot of happy making very many great credible hitting percentage of kids.” Unfortunately, her use plays, as they had a 13-to.611. While she cooled off in of said goggles came from a 1 blocking advantage and the final set — only hitting recurring eyesight issue and, held the Cyclones to a .087 .118 — her totals of 14 kills, after receiving them Friday, team hitting percentage. three aces and .371 hitting she only had half of a prac- While ISU may not have percentage (with just one er- tice to adjust to them before been as strong as their No. 12 rank indicated — they ror on 35 hits) led the team, the match.

Cook said that may have were also swept Tuesday at and her 11 digs were second had something to do with her No. 15 Northern Iowa — the only to Hannah Werth.

“It’s a very nice accom- .091 hitting performance — big win against a former Big plishment, but the team made lowest of any NU player with 12 rival seemed to be satisit so easy for me tonight, I five hits — that brought her fying nonetheless.

“There was some really couldn’t have done it without season average down to .153. them,” Mancuso said. “They However, Werth’s defense good volleyball played towere taking care of every- was stellar, as she led the night,” Cook said. “(We thing, they were getting digs, team with 14 digs, including played at a) much higher Lauren (Cook) was setting, several nearly impossible level than anything we’ve everyone was slowing their saves that led to NU points. done this year, I can tell you “This whole season, teams that. I told the team Iowa offense down, it was just are going to make great State was going to bring out easy.”

Another notable perfor- plays,” Brooke Delano said. the best in us, and they cermance to Husker fans was “Knowing that we can put tainly did that.”

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Marlborough records second hat trick in conference opening Andrew ward daily nebraskan

The Nebraska women’s soccer team kicked off its first Big Ten season in victorious fashion Sunday afternoon.

The Huskers defeated Northwestern 3-1 at a soggy Nebraska Soccer Field.

Junior forward Morgan Marlborough said that NU played well in its first Big Ten Conference game.

“Every game counts whether or not it’s in the Big Ten,” Marlborough said. “We need to take everyone the same way day by day, this is a good start.”

It was Marlborough who once again led the way for the Huskers. She recorded her second hat trick of the year, scoring her 10th, 11th and 12th goals.

Marlborough also increased her status as one of Nebraska’s

all-time-best goal scorers. She became just the fourth player to score more than 50 goals in her career and is now third on the all-time goal list with 51, trailing Christine Latham (69) and Kim Engesser (53).

The sloppy conditions had no affect on the Huskers as they came out and scored early. Junior Jordan Jackson recorded her fifth assist of the year at the 14:46 mark in the first half to Marlborough.

Marlborough said that the conditions really had no effect on NU’s game plan.

“Our coach is big on getting one-on-one situations and today was no different,” Marlborough said. “We knew that the ball would slip away more and it’s more difficult to control but we still can do what we need to do to win.”

The wet ball showed even less affect on Nebraska when Marlborough tapped in her

second goal with her heel after receiving a low cross from senior Molly Thomas. The assist was Thomas’s third on the season.

It seemed the Huskers were going to roll into their first conference victory of the year going into halftime with a 2-0 lead, but Northwestern came out with a much more aggressive tempo in the second half.

A handball by sophomore Stacy Bartels allowed the Wildcats a penalty kick, and they did not miss the opportunity as Northwestern’s Briana Westlund put the ball in the back of the net.

Northwestern dominated most of the second half, giving NU almost no chances to score.

However, it was Marlborough who sealed the game at the 76:10 mark when she rocketed a shot off the crossbar and into the back of the

offense: from 8 The first play from scrimmage featured wideout Kenny Bell, who hauled in a 50-yard catch to set up Nebraska’s first touchdown one play later.

“Taylor (Martinez) told me right before we went out,” Bell said. “He told us exactly what the play was; he said, ‘Get open, I’m gonna throw it, and go get it.’”

Bell, who got the first start of his college career, was tackled just short of the end zone and finished with two grabs for a team-leading 59 yards. Fellow freshman wideout Jamal Turner also grabbed two catches for 34 yards.

Before leaving the game late

in the first half with an apparent injury, running back Ameer Abdullah racked up 129 yards on three kick returns. Abdullah returned the game’s opening kickoff 40 yards to set up the NU offense’s first score. His longest return went 66 yards early in the second quarter and gave NU the ball at the Washington 34. Four plays later, Martinez hooked up with Green for the freshman’s first touchdown.

While the freshmen had solid performances, there was also plenty of praise for the veterans on the NU roster.

“I thought it was pretty good,” Green said of NU’s running game. “Especially

at the end when Rex (Burkhead) put us on his back. We just had some amazing runs. I could have swore on one of those runs he broke like 10 tackles over on the right side.

We kept calling the same play and they couldn’t stop it.”

Bell believes there is no replacement for having the ability to break open the big play, but having Burkhead is never a bad thing.

“With a guy like Rex Burkhead, moving the chains isn’t going to be too much of a problem, I don’t think,” Bell said.

Getting to that point will undoubtedly come with several more moments of frustration, but it’s certainly a much quicker fix than upgrading a flat-out bad defense.

With two weeks until Wisconsin, fixing fundamentals and upgrading assignmentrecognition are much easier

than making your players bigger, faster and stronger in short order.

Knowing what the Husker defense needs to improve on is infinitely better than not knowing what it’s capable of.

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palu: from 8 the defense performing like it did in the third quarter would be terrifying.

Husker fans now know how well their defense can play, they don’t assume it.

The key for NU is now sustaining a high level of play the likes of which they maintained in the third quarter.

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Nebraska was just too comfortable with its lead at the start of the second half, which was the reason for the slow start, according to Marlborough.

“The two-goal lead just made us a little too comfortable,” Marlborough said. “We started out the second half really slow but we came out of it and ended up playing pretty well.”

The Big Ten Conference schedule continues for Nebraska, as it will travel to Purdue on Friday.

Senior Michaella Fulmer said that the Huskers will continue to play confidently.

“We have played well the last few games and our record shows it,” Fulmer said. “We will take that confidence into our next games.” andrewward@ dailynebraskan.com

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Morgan Marlborough continued to put balls into the net, finishing the weekend with 12 goals this season.

Cross-country women win, men finish third at home invite staff report daily nebraskan

There were a lot of things to be smiling about for the Nebraska cross-country team Saturday.

The 22nd annual Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational was held Saturday at Pioneers Park on a day that brought success for NU’s squads.

The women’s team finished first, winning their seventh consecutive Woody Greeno title, while the Husker men finished third.

The Husker ladies were led

by Jessica Furlan, who finished third with a time of 21:32.08.

Erica Hamik, Katie White and Ashley Miller all had top-15 finishes and Sarah Plambeck just missed the top 15 by finishing 16th.

Although the men’s teams didn’t finish as well as the women’s team did, there were still a lot of positives to take from Saturday’s meet. Trevor Vidlak finished fourth with a

time of 24:46.30 and senior Brad Doering placed 10th. Doering’s performance was particularly notable due to the fact that he was out all last season after tearing his hip flexor.

“I think I’m finally over it,” Doering said. “I don’t feel any worse today and I think the injury is finally behind me.”

A healthy Doering could be a boost for the Husker men this season as the team feels they are getting better every day.

“We’re heading in the right direction,” Doering said. “We just have to keep putting ourselves in the right position to improve.”

Despite the team’s impressive performance, Saturday’s meet also had a bittersweet feeling to it as it was head coach Jay Dirksen’s last Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational.

Dirksen has been a major contributor to the meet and has played a huge role in helping the Huskers host almost

60 teams and more than 700 student-athletes annually at the meet. Dirksen was given a plaque by Nebraska Wesleyan head coach Ted Bulling, commemorating all the hard work Dirksen’s done for the Nebraska cross-country program and the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational.

Being that it is Dirksen’s last year as the head coach, both the women and men teams feel a bit of added pressure and motivation to succeed this year.

“I mean the motivation’s definitely there in our heads,” Doering said. “Before the race we talked about how we were the end of coach Dirksen’s legacy, so we need to go out and make his last season a good one.”

Overall, it was a successful day for the Nebraska crosscountry team and maybe a sign of things to come.

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Tyler Legate (48) finds his way into the end zone after a 3-yard pass from quarterback Taylor Martinez for Nebraska’s first touchdown Saturday against the Huskies.

nebraska 51, washington 38

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END Z O NE Offense has breakthrough, earns 464 total yards

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Number of games it took Nebraska to score a touchdown on its first possession again.

The last time the Huskers were able to find the end zone on their first drive was against Missouri last season. NU needed just two plays to score on its first possession Saturday and took an early 7-0 lead.

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seven Number of points Nebraska kicker Brett Maher has scored this year. The junior was a perfect 3-for-3 on field goals Saturday, moving him to 7-for-7 on the season. He’s also a perfect 16-for-16 on PATs.

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Nebraska’s rank in scoring defense in the Big Ten after three games. The Huskers have given up 24.7 points per game, including 29 to Fresno State and 38 to Washington. The last time NU gave up 29 points or more in back-to-back games was in Bo Pelini’s first season (2008) against Oklahoma and Kansas.

4 Number of teams in the Big Ten Conference that remain undefeated.

Nebraska is joined in that category

by Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. This is the third time in Bo Pelini’s four seasons as head coach that the Huskers have started 3-0.

The last time Nebraska started three offensive linemen who originally joined the program as walk-ons. Center Mike Caputo, who was put on scholarship in 2009, was flanked by walk-on guards Spencer Long and Seung Hoon Choi to start Saturday’s game.

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Running back Rex Burkhead flips upside down during one of his career-high 22 carries. He finished the day with 139 all-purpose yards.

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Linebacker Lavonte David (4) beats Washington’s Austin Seferian-Jenkins (88) to the ball, recording his first interception of the season.

game balls Taylor Martinez The sophomore signal caller threw for two touchdowns and ran for another in the Husker win. Martinez also showed improved field awareness, having zero turnovers and even showing off a couple slides to avoid potential big hits on run plays.

— Matt Palu, football beat writer

Barney Cotton The offensive line coach rotated linemen in and out on a predetermined schedule, keeping his players fresh. The result was a strong performance by the line, particularly in the fourth quarter, when the Huskers repeatedly pounded the right side of the line with Rex Burkhead, consistently gaining yards and bleeding the clock.

— Dan Hoppen, football beat writer

Rex Burkhead Rex Burkhead managed to rack up more than 100 yards on the ground for the second time against the Huskies in 12 months, finding the end zone twice in nine seconds in the third quarter. Burkhead got most of his work done late in the game when NU offensive coordinator Tim Beck called the same running play 12 times in a row. With his yards on the day, Burkhead moved up to 33rd on the NU all-time rushing yards list with 1,547 yards on the ground.

— Jeff packer, assistant sports editor