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Tech help desk changes hours, adds call center tammy bain daily nebraskan

Students may be in for a surprise as they seek on-campus computer help. The Information Services Computer Help Center changed its hours beginning Sept. 11.

Neil Wineman, client services manager for information services at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln explained that before these changes, the computer help center was open from 7:30 a.m. until 11:30 p.m. seven days a week. Now, the center is open from 7:30 am to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 7 p.m. on Saturdays.

In addition to the changes, there is now a call center available for computer help, which is open 24/7, 365 days a year. The call center staffs both professionals and students who can help students, faculty and staff with their computer troubles.

“We did a study of traffic, a study of calls, looking at the number of data, looking at the number of calls coming in and adjusted our hours to better adjust to people using them,” Wineman said.

The help center also altered its staffing to meet the needs of students, he said.

“We’ve got more staff available during our peak hours, which is mostly 10 (a.m.) to 4 (p.m.) during the day,” Wineman said. “Our call volumes

in the evenings were extremely low.”

Wineman said it didn’t make sense for the center to utilize resources where they weren’t needed. Instead, the call center is there to help.

Information services will also feature “more self-service capabilities than we had previously,” he said.

Wineman said the help center’s website now has self-service for simple things, like forgetting a Blackboard password, and includes more answers to frequently asked questions.

“While it looks like we’ve reduced our hours of availability, our walk-in hours have decreased, but we have more availability than we did,” Wineman said.

The help center takes an average of 100 calls a day, though Wineman said that at the beginning of each of each semester “it’s quite a bit higher.”

Wineman also said the help center plans to keep their former extended hours for the first weeks of every new semester to handle the high call volume that comes with the changes.

The changes are to address student needs, as well as to keep up with the Big Ten. “With our joining of the Big

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Study unveils growing impact of college degrees on lifetime income

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incomes.

There is still a slight gender gap, but it appears more when looking at the long term, Smith said.

Pat McBride, associate dean of admissions, said students not only need the degree, but also need to work hard in college to set themselves apart from the others in the competitive job market.

“I think most people agree that the job market is fairly competitive,” McBride said. “People need to put themselves in a better positions and be as competitive as possible.”

Andersen said he feels the pressure not only to get a bachelor’s degree, but to go to graduate school. Having a bachelor’s degree in anthropology won’t initially open doors, Andersen said.

“My adviser printed a sheet with different job paths that relate to anthropology and all but maybe one or two highly suggested graduate programs,” Andersen said. “The most that I could expect, I was told, from an anthropology bachelor’s degree was an hourly wage job as a cashier or some other job with no future.”

Some careers don’t require getting a degree higher than a bachelor’s degree, like psychology, English or any liberal arts majors.

“Some students limit themselves by thinking they have to get the job directly in their major,” Smith said.

For UNL students, there are some advantages to finding a job in this economy, he said. One of the advantages is the low unemployment rate in Nebraska. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nebraska is one of the states with the lowest unemployment at 4.2 percent.

With a strong agricultural focus, Smith said Nebraska has held its own and UNL students successfully embody the hard-working Nebraska stereotype.

“They are not only perceived as having excellent work ethic, but they actually have that work ethic,” Smith said.

tudents feel more pressure to get a college degree in order to make a comfortable income, according to a study released by Georgetown University.

The study, titled “The College Payoff,” found the importance of having a college degree has increased. In 2002, a person with a bachelor’s degree could expect to earn 75 percent more than a person with a high school diploma, according to the study. Today, that figure has jumped to 84 percent.

“A person with a college degree, on average, is going to have a higher income,” said Kelli Smith, assistant director at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Career Services. “Certainly, it is your choice not to pursue higher education.”

Rule number one of the study: Degree level matters.

A person with a professional degree will make about $3.6 million during a lifetime compared to a person with a bachelor’s degree, who will earn about $2.3 million, according to the study.

Smith said the likelihood of someone with only a high school degree earning more than a person with a bachelor’s degree is low.

But a surprising find from the study showed there was an earnings overlap in certain cases. Of the Americans with a high school diploma, 14.3 percent earn more than a person with a bachelor’s degree.

This leads to rule number two: Occupations can trump degree levels.

“I think the importance (of a degree) is put (on students) because success is viewed in terms of income and not necessarily skill,” said Alan Andersen, a sophomore anthropology major. “Tech schools offer great experiences and job opportunities without granting a degree.”

While some might be able to work their way up from cashier to manager, rule number three of the study is that degree level still matters most within individual occupations.

One example of this is in the accounting field. Accountants and auditors with a high school diploma make $1.5 million during a lifetime compared to the $2.4 million accountants and auditors with a degree make during a lifetime, as listed in the study.

The last rule: Race and gender are wild cards when it comes down to degrees and

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Carcass class beefs up Study: Student hook pupils’ food knowledge up lingo not universal Kim Buckley

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The name of the class — Animal and Carcass Evaluation — may sound macabre. Its curriculum, however, is anything but.

The class, Animal Science 200, lets students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln see the entire animal food production process – making sure burgers, bacon strips and beef jerky taste good. Bryan Reiling, an associate professor of animal science, gives lectures full of student interaction.

The class is consumerbased, meaning the goal is to learn how to produce meat that tastes good to the consumer.

“It’s important for us to understand the product,” Reiling said. “It’s important to know what (consumers) think and how we can best provide products that benefit their needs and purchases.”

Later in the semester, the students will perform sensory analyses, essentially taste tests, of different retail cuts.

“As a result, they can see

In their early years, boys and girls give each other crayons as a way to show affection.

And then there’s college, an entirely new world. “hooking up” is the trend, and it’s a permanent piece of campus culture.

This month, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s department of communication studies released a study on “hooking up” and how college students define it in their conversations.

“College students talk about hooking up more than they’re actually doing it,” said Amanda Holman, a graduate communication studies student and

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Students observe three adult cows in the animal and carcass evaluation course on East Campus. how palette differences affect value change,” Reiling said.

The class comprises students with and without animal judgment experience.

Students attend lectures on Wednesdays and Thursdays and laboratories on Mondays.

“I would say most of (the students) enjoy what we do in the laboratory setting the most,” Reiling said.

During laboratory, the students in the class inspect and

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QUIRKY COURSES evaluate the worth of live animals from outside animal pens.

“They’re very representative of animals raised for produce,” Reiling said.

co-author of the study.

Holman said 300 students at the University of Montana participated in the study as a communications class requirement.

“It was an online study that was completely anonymous so students wouldn’t have to worry about being identified,” Holman said. “A majority of the students agreed that hooking up isn’t planned and it is usually influenced by alcohol.”

Talking about hooking up can be “strategically ambiguous,” she said.

“If a guy says, ‘I hooked up with her last weekend,’ he could mean that he simply kissed her and his friends would think he was having s e x , ” Holman said. “ A girl

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could tell her friends that she hooked up with someone and the conversation would end there, because there would be a mutual understanding of what the girl had done.”

Hooking up can’t be generalized on every college campus, she said.

“It’s not the same population, especially between public and private universities,” Holman said. “There’s always going to be multiple definitions for hook ups.”

Katherine Marie Coates, a freshman health and exercise science major, said she thinks hook ups are “dumb.”

“In situations like that, someone almost always ends up developing feelings for

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dn flashback Prof. Pound May Be Dean Death of Harvard Law Dean Causes Vacancy—Former Nebraska Instructor Being Considered Sept. 23, 1915 Prof. Roscoe Pound of the Harvard University law faculty and former Dean of the College of Law at Nebraska, is being considered for the deanship of the college of which he is now an instructor.

The Springfield Republican says: “There will be keen regret that ill-health and consequent despondency, following physical inability to do his work, led Prof. Ezra Ripley Thayer, dean of the Harvard law school, to take his life. He was a great worker and intensely devoted to the law school, where his father had won distinction.

ROTC Band Bows to War; Coeds March Sept. 23, 1943 Even the university R.O.T.C. band has had to yield to the exigencies of war, it was revealed today by Col. J.P. Murphey. This year there will be coeds in the marching band, and freshmen will be eligible to play in it. Both of these features are inovations (sic). In previous years, girls have played in the band at concerts, but have not been allowed to march.

This year the R.O.T.C. has dwindled and soldiers in the library are not allowed to play. Miiltary (sic) might yielded to feminine appeal, and women were the answer to the problem. The only catch was the uniforms.

Half pants, half skirts was undesirable, so it was decided the girls must also wear pants as R.O.T.C.’ers do not look like soldiers, by any stretch of the imagination, with 18 inches of bare leg tramping along.

Huskers Warm Up With Crusher Sept. 24, 1962 “Please Mr. Burns, I don’t want to go!” sang the South Dakota players to Coach Bob Burns before departing from Vermillion, S.D., to take on a Nebraska crew that tromped them, 53-0, Saturday afternoon in Memorial Stadium.

Twenty-seven thousand fans watched the Huskers warm up for Michigan in a methodical manner to make Coach Bob Devaney’s debut in Huskerland a successful one.

Students could ‘chow down’ with new food system Sept. 24, 1984 Students who eat in the UNL residence hall cafeterias soon will be able to “chow down” if a new unlimited food system is approved, according to the university’s food service manager.

Douglas Rix said that in the near future, the university probably will change from the serving line method to unlimited food buffets. The change could come within the next two or three weeks, he said.

Students get another shot at national television glory Sept. 23, 2005 For those who didn’t make the cut at Wednesday’s “The Real World” auditions, today brings another opportunity to land a spot on national television. Representatives from the new National Lampoon Network will be on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus today from 1 to 5 p.m. for the “Dis-Orientation Casting Tour.”

—Compiled by Mitch Mattern Mitchmattern@dailynebraskan.com

Meeting addresses union problems jacy marmaduke daily nebraskan

The State of the Union address Thursday afternoon was the Nebraska Union’s first major effort to acknowledge a problem area for the facility.

“In our departmental review, it was suggested that we increase communication with the staff,” said Charlie Francis, director of Nebraska Unions. “This is an example of that.”

Francis invited all union staff and board members to the public meeting in the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, with about 30 in attendance. He and other departmental heads took to the podium to address topics like strategic planning, union branding and technology updates.

The meeting was the first of its kind, but it won’t be the last – Francis said he is

planning another address for the spring semester.

Strategic planning, or developing long-term goals and a vision for the facility, is Francis’ top priority, he said, but he also stressed the more short-term goal of brand integration. Attendees viewed computergenerated images of the upcoming attempts to integrate more red and University of Nebraska-Lincoln logos in the union. Retail and lounge renovation plans are also in motion, and Francis said the planned closing of the Nebraska Union Dairy Store will fit into those renovations. The brand integration plans had undergone aesthetic review by staff and students, he said.

“You could be in many spots in the building and be in any union in the nation,” Francis said. “We really tried to keep that

in mind.”

Departmental heads also detailed updates to remodel and increase efficiency, another problem area cited in the departmental review.

In addition to a range of remodeling efforts in the Nebraska East Union and the multicultural center and planned technology updates throughout the union, Student Involvement director Veronica Riepe introduced a software program that will computerize much student organization activity.

“Our goal is to make life easier for our RSOs (recognized student organizations),” Riepe said. “Far less paper. RSOs currently have to parade around our campus to get signatures when they want to have an event. Eventually that will be all electronic.”

Francis said he hoped the meeting would help union

staff members “put names to the faces” of their coworkers. Linda Rabbe, a sales clerk at the information desk, said she appreciated efforts to increase communication between departments.

“If you need to call somebody for help, we’re supposed to be able to answer everything for the whole university,” Rabbe said. “The more we know about what’s going on at this facility, the better we can do our jobs.”

Attendance did not represent all departments of union staff, but Francis called it a “good start” in fostering communication.

“We’ve got a strong organization here,” Francis said.

“I think it can be better.

We really want to be at the point where other unions are looking at us for an idea of what to do next.”

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Big Ten professors to lecture at UNL kim Buckley Daily Nebraskan

When the University of Nebraska-Lincoln moved to the Big Ten Conference, Chancellor Harvey Perlman promised more research and academic collaboration with other schools in the conference than in previous years.

The Big Ten National Academy of Sciences Biotechnology/Life Sciences seminar makes use of this collaboration by bringing professors from Big Ten schools who are also members of the National Academy of Science to UNL. “I got the idea since we’re new to the Big Ten that it might be a way to introduce us to the Big Ten (schools),” said Jim Van Etten, a UNL professor in the plant pathology department who is in charge of the series. “I wasn’t sure we could pull this off.”

Van Etten himself lectured Wednesday about the giant viruses infecting algae.

Each lecture takes place on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the

Beadle Center.

The university started the seminar more than 20 years ago, which Van Etten has been in charge of organizing.

Two speakers originally scheduled to speak canceled but have already committed to come in the spring semester.

Van Etten said he hopes it works both ways, in that the lecture series is also a way for the speakers to welcome UNL to the conference.

“Of the three or four I know reasonably well, they thought it was an interesting idea and glad to participate,” he said.

Van Etten said he hopes that the seminar will showcase the university and what is happening on campus, helping to solve what he calls an identity problem across the country about UNL. May Berenbaum, an entomology professor at the University of Illinois, will speak at UNL Nov. 2, giving a lecture on a group of enzymes called the cytochrome P450 that insects use to break down toxins.

“New genome tools has allowed for (a) more efficient analysis of this gene family,” she said.

Berenbaum said UNL moving to the Big Ten Conference wasn’t a factor in her deciding to speak at UNL. “UNL has always been a part of the academic community, so (athletic) conferences were irrelevant,” she said.

When UNL was still a part of the Big 12 Conference, Berenbaum was asked to speak at UNL, but canceled because of health issues.

Berenbaum said the athletic conference a college belongs to has very little to do with the opportunities for academic collaboration.

“When I was asked to speak at UNL, it certainly really wasn’t in the back of my mind,” she said. “I didn’t really think of it.”

Van Etten agreed that the change in conference wasn’t a big factor in the speakers accepting the invitation to participate in the symposium.

“A lot of us have spoken at

a lot of universities, so I don’t think it will be a change (in the number of speakers from Big Ten schools),” he said. “I have my own research and I work with eight groups worldwide that may or may not be Big Ten schools.”

The other common factor the speakers have is acceptance of membership to the National Academy of Science.

“It’s a real honor,” he said.

“There’s no question it’s a great day in one’s life when you’re called and told you were accepted.”

Berenbaum will visit the campus for the first time in November.

“I have some wonderful colleagues (at UNL), so seeing those I know, and meeting new ones” is something she said she is looking forward to.

But she is also interested in something related to sports.

“I would love to find out more about the past mascot of the football team,” she said. “It used to be the Bugeaters.” kimbuckley@ dailynebraskan.com

Report: Admissions offices creep Facebook Haley Whisennand Daily Nebraskan

Students working on admissions applications constantly look to better their exam scores and grade point averages in hopes of making their application as desirable as possible.

But perhaps they should also consider what they are posting on their Facebook page.

Or more importantly, who can see what they are posting.

Admissions offices around the United States began to look at prospective students’ social media pages actively during the decision process in 2006, according to a report from Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.

Kaplan released results in late 2008 stating that one in 10 of the nation’s top-500 universities visit applicants’ social networking accounts. This month, Kaplan also reported that one in five business school admissions offices explore applicants’ accounts, particularly their Facebook pages.

Universities mainly go to social media networks to gain

more information on applicants, the report said. On occasion, though, they uncover less attractive information. Of the nation’s top universities, 38 percent reported finding information that negatively impacted a student’s candidacy. Many universities, however, lack any written policy concerning checking an applicant’s social networking accounts.

“The vast majority of schools we surveyed said they have no official policies or guidelines in place regarding visiting applicants’ social networking websites – nor are they considering plans to develop them,” said Jeff Olson, executive director of research for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.

The admissions staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said it is one of the many national universities that view applicants’ accounts if they have access. Recently accepted students, however, remain carefree about what admissions may have seen.

Kevin Kuehl, a freshman journalism major, said he didn’t have a problem with

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admissions viewing his Facebook page.

“I see that as pretty acceptable,” Kuehl said. “Obviously the university doesn’t want to admit someone who’s not going to take their time seriously.”

Spencer Garrett, a freshman international business major, agreed that universities should be allowed to view applicants’ social networking accounts.

Garrett said it is the applicant’s responsibility to keep his or her profile clean of questionable or possibly negative material.

“I try and keep mine clean and the big thing is never posting stuff about my life,” Garrett said. “Personal stuff is just that.

Personal.”

While the percentage of admissions officers that reportedly check out applicants on Facebook is small — 22

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percent — the results admissions get have been known to influence decisions on whether students get accepted. The most notable instance of a college denying a student’s application due to their social profiles occurred in 2006. Reed College in Portland denied an applicant after viewing a post on their LiveJournal account, which appeared hostile toward members of the admissions staff.

“If the applicants are putting up information that might be detrimental to their acceptance at a university, then the student should think twice about posting that information,” said Hayley Wiegand, a freshman elementary education major.

Kaplan’s study made it clear that these statistics should not frighten anyone going through the admissions process. The data exposes the reality that students’ refusal to

set up privacy settings on social networking websites can influence their probability of getting admitted at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The best advice admissions officers have to offer, according to the Kaplan study, is students should either secure their accounts or censor what they post. ››

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Incentives lure larger student pool for surveys RESEARCH

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Philosophy and political science students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have seen the emails: research credit offered for taking surveys. By answering survey questions developed by UNL investigators, students can earn credits toward class research requirements and, in some cases, even get paid.

But this method raises some questions regarding the accuracy of the results.

Amanda Balzer, a political science Ph.D. candidate, is one of the several investigators conducting a survey on campus. Her research, which compares the relationship between religious and political beliefs across generations, ended Thursday with an estimated 275 participants. Balzer plans to use the experiment for her dissertation.

Balzer said when no reward is given, the number of people wanting to complete the survey is confined to a small percentage of the population already interested in research.

“By offering an incentive, you get a wider swathe of people,” she said.

To combat the risk of inaccurate findings, Balzer employs a number of different methods to determine if a student has been responding randomly to the questions.

If a participant completes the survey in less than five minutes or answers certain control questions with anything other than a specific response, Balzer throws out the data.

There are multiple reasons students may lie on the surveys, according to Dylan Oxley, a sophomore business administration major.

Students may want to get the survey done with quickly or answer the questions in a humorous way.

“I once had to answer a survey for psychology and one of the questions asked if I believed that only women — and all the women — should be working in the dining halls,” Oxley said. “So of course I said, ‘Yes.’” However, having controls

in place has shown Balzer that most students take the time to answer accurately.

The same survey that has been running for the past few weeks was also given in the spring, to about 450 participants. Only about 50 students’ surveys showed indications of inaccuracy and were excluded from the results.

Joel Kenton, a freshman social science education major, thinks he has an explanation. Kenton, who is interested in studying psychology, said answering honestly is important to get correct research. “(When people lie, it’s) an example of social desirability bias,” he said, “which means that people may lie about how many times they go to church or how much alcohol they drink, and that doesn’t give us the right data or the right results.”

Balzer emphasizes the importance of taking the time to answer truthfully.

“The kinds of questions (I’m asking) are, ‘What are your religious beliefs?’ and ‘How do you feel about politics?’ I don’t see the motivation, really, for purposely lying,” she said.

Kenton agrees with this sentiment.

“Why worry about lying if it’s anonymous?” he asked.

The program used to compile the data is called Qualtrics, which puts survey results into a spreadsheet and then does data analysis on the results. Though the research projects are often spearheaded by graduate students who, like Balzer, run them as a way to attain information for dissertations and other degree requirements, the results often reach a wider audience. Balzer’s long-term goal is to get her results published.

“The data is really important,” she said. “It can conform the way we see the world.” marenwestra@ dailynebraskan.com

carcass: from 1 The class allows Katerina Kristensen, a junior animal science major, to evaluate animals she hasn’t worked with before.

“Earlier in the year we judged pigs, and I’ve never judged pigs before,” she said.

Kristensen hopes to use what she learns in the class in her hometown of Minden, Neb. “I live on a farm back home and I am going to go back to the farm,” she said.

“Hopefully I can use what I learn from this class to control my herd.”

She is one of few women in the class this semester.

“I really think women can do just as well as the guys in this industry with this kind of stuff,” Kristensen said.

The laboratory part of the class is her favorite.

“I’m just looking forward to learning more about evaluation,” Kristensen said.

Caleb McKeever, a sophomore animal science major who is also in the class, agreed.

“We’re trying all of the different methods (of evaluation) and finding out their effectiveness,” he said.

McKeever said he likes the interaction between Reiling and his students.

“It’s a hands-on class,” he said. “There’s only 20 people in the class. There’s a one-on-one relationship with the professor.”

McKeever said getting experience in the process of animal production “from the gate to the plate” is great, since the producer can also

be a consumer.

“That kind of stuff, I think people take for granted,” he said, adding that the class “has a lot to offer. It’s very informing. A lot of people don’t know the entire process.”

Larry Berger, head of the animal science department, said the class is helpful for students because it gives them first-hand experience in animal production. “The reason (the class) is important is that we’re going to have a huge increase of demand (of food) in the world,” he said. “Part of that will be animal proteins or food.” Animal agriculture is a key part of the economy in Nebraska, he said.

“Having this course trains our students in the food industry in what’s required in animal production,” Berger said.

All students considering a career in services pertaining to the animal industry benefit from taking this class, Berger said. It’s essential to learn about the entire process of animal production, he said, whether it be for loan officers in an agricultural bank or people collecting statistics for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Reiling summarized the class in a few sentences.

“We look at live animals,” he said. “We will evaluate the carcasses. It’s critical to see both the live animal and the retail product that is generated from that animal.” kimbuckley@ dailynebraskan.com

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Katz named associate director of Plains Humanities Alliance Ryan kopelke daily nebraskan

Wendy Katz believes regions are important. They are social constructs that can intimately affect an individual’s identity, though people rarely consider themselves from a regional standpoint.

Fascination with this concept led Katz, an associate professor in the department of art and art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to become a member of both the Center for Great Plains Studies and the Plains Humanities Alliance.

Now she has been promoted to associate director of the center and projects administrator for PHA. Founded in 1976, the Center for Great Plains Studies aims to foster a deeper understanding of the Great Plains through promoting scientists and those who study the humanities, all on a tight budget.

“We have almost no money,” Katz said.

Katz’s journey toward her executive positions began in graduate school during an art history lecture.

“We were discussing Cincinnati and the culture of the area in 1840,” Katz said. “They proclaimed that Cincinnati was the home of Western art and culture. It was an economic movement but it had social effects as well. By promoting this new culture, it led to a more open society. After this I was hooked on the concept of regionalism.”

When the National Endowment for the Humanities first created the Plains Humanities Alliance in 2002, Katz was a natural choice for a team

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member. Earlier that same year she published “Regionalism and Reform,” a study of the effects of Cincinnati’s push to create Western art.

“I was asked to contribute to the project because of my book and my interest in regional studies. After that I started to know what was going on with the program and become more involved,” Katz said.

During the 2005-2006 academic year, Katz received a golden opportunity to express her leadership ability. Timothy Mahoney, the former director of PHA, left the country on a Fulbright scholarship, leaving the PHA for Katz to run.

“It was one of my favorite experiences working for the PHA,” Katz said. “It prepared me to take on my new role as programs administrator.”

Later that year, Mahoney left the position permanently to resume his career as a full-time teacher during the 2010-2011 academic year. Again Katz took the lead in the organization.

On Aug. 1, Katz was named the projects administrator for the PHA. Only recently put in a position of authority, Katz is not yet ready to declare her “manifesto,” as she calls it, but she hopes to spearhead efforts in a five-state region: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas.

From the testimony of her peers, Katz is exactly the type of person needed to lead, with enthusiasm and bright, new ideas.

James Stubbendieck, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, said the qualifications for heading the PHA requires a

person who is well-organized, has excellent ideas, a good work ethic, is an excellent scholar and is someone who can communicate well with others.

Wendy Katz was, and is, absolutely qualified for the job,” Stubbendieck said.

Katz also hopes to expand the organization’s horizons with digital media and undergraduate involvement.

Most of the effort has been in creating digital knowledge research projects such as archives of Great Plains information.

“Whatever we do in the next few years, I hope we can do it in partnership, because that will show a real community that we have created,” Katz said. ryankopelke@ dailynebraskan.com

Professor finalist for MS studies award Christine scalora daily nebraskan

A collaboration between the University of NebraskaLincoln’s Carl Nelson, an associate professor of biological systems engineering, and Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital has produced a new rehabilitation system designed to help people improve the ability to walk or relearn to walk.

The Intelligently Controlled Assistive Rehabilitation Elliptical (ICARE) system was recognized as a finalist for a da Vinci award, sponsored by the Michigan Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Thursday in Dearborn, Mich. The award recognizes technologies that help people overcome multiple sclerosis and other physical limitations.

The ICARE system is a modified elliptical machine

with platforms and ramps for accessibility, an overhead body-support system to support patients who can’t stand independently and a control dial to let the patient or the physical therapist control the speed of the workout.

Nelson created the ICARE system with Judith Burnfield, director of Madonna’s Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering and director of the rehabilitation institute’s Movement and Neurosciences Center. At Madonna, Burnfield saw a need for a way to help patients practice walking with a “customized level of assistance” to get enough practice they need during rehabilitation.

“We need affordable technology that can allow patients to practice a movement pattern that’s very, very similar to walking so that they can have that mass repetition,” Burnfield said.

One of the unique features

of the ICARE system is its cost; the system is much cheaper than other types of rehabilitative therapy.

“The main novelty of this device is the ability to design it around an existing elliptical machine,” Nelson said, and the add-ons of the system are only a few thousand dollars, making it much cheaper than similar types of rehabilitative therapies. “In terms of scale of cost this is 20 times different,” he said.

The system can be used for many different types of patients. Stroke patients with weakness or coordination issues, or patients with multiple sclerosis who might have trouble controlling their muscles, can use the ICARE system to improve their ability to walk. Patients recovering from car accidents or brain injuries can use the ICARE system to stimulate the nervous system to relearn how to walk. The accessibility of

the system also helps patients improve their cardiovascular health, because it gives patients a way to exercise.

So far, about 150 patients have used the ICARE system, Burnfield estimated. Being selected as a finalist for the award is another positive sign of the system’s success.

“It’s an indicator that what we’ve done is a useful innovation and technology that can potentially be helpful for a lot of people,” Nelson said.

“That’s always good for a researcher to hear.”

Nelson and Burnfield said they would like the ICARE system available in many more places than Madonna.

“As a commercial product, we’d like to see it adopted by a manufacturer and sold to hospitals and facilities and even individuals,” Nelson said. “We’d like to see people get use out of it.”

need to be there.”

Rachel Valenziano, a sophomore fisheries and wildlife major, sympathized with those who may find the 24/7 support inconvenient.

“There’s a lot of people on campus who aren’t used to computers, or who aren’t from this country, who need

someone to do it for them,” she said.

The help center is located at 501 Stadium Drive, commonly referred to as “the 501 Building.” Students can find more information at http://www. unl.edu/helpcenter/, as well as http://mysupport.unl.edu.

services,” he said. “This year we’re excited about opening our free HIV testing that will be in the Gaughan Multicultural Center on Oct. 7.”

The Students for Sexual Health organization also tries to prevent risky sexual behavior. The group’s mission is to promote sexual health, discouraging poorly made decisions when it comes to sexual activity.

“Every Friday the SSH has a booth in the (Nebraska) [U]nion where we give students the opportunity to obtain information about safer sex practices, educational information, condoms, and

they are free to ask any questions,” said Vince Marasco, a senior psychology major and president of Students for Sexual Health.

Hooking up is nothing new, according to Holman.

“Hooking up has been going on since around the 1960s,” she said. “However, the way we are talking about it now is changing.

College students perceive that everyone’s doing it, and the conversation they are having almost normalizes their ideas of the risky behavior it can come with.”

christinescalora@ dailynebraskan.com

help desk: from 1 Ten, we’ve looked at what a lot of our peer institutions are doing and are aligning our operations to consider,” Wineman said. “It wasn’t a huge factor, but it was a factor we looked at – where our peer institutions were available for walk-in traffic.”

Wineman said, at the

moment, the call center only takes calls and doesn’t come to the location of a student calling. However, support would like to be able to expand services in the future.

“I’d say that’d help,” said Taylor Shapland, a junior construction management major.

“Their main power doesn’t

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hook ups: from 1 the other person or thinks that the hook up actually meant something,” she said.

“My advice? Don’t get that drunk.”

Megan Auringer, a freshman construction management major, said she thought differently of hooking up.

“This is college,” she said.

“It’s what we do.”

But with a culture of hooking up also comes the potential for risky behavior. To reduce that risk, the University Health Center’s Sexual Health program offers wellness education and awareness in order to

promote student health.

“We know people engage in all types of activities,” said Lee Heerten, a wellness educator and clinic outreach coordinator at the University Health Center.

“We don’t consider hooking up to be good or bad. We’re just here to offer the tools that can help prevent bad risks from happening.”

Nebraska is dealing with a chlamydia and gonorrhea epidemic, Heerten said, which certainly has an effect on college campuses.

“In response to situations like that, we offer several prevention and awareness

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DN quotes of the week “I know that people know how to cheat with them, I’m not dumb. If the student is dumb enough to get caught, they deserve whatever they get.”

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Brad Buffum

instructor at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film

“Once you are fully aware of your tendency to pedestalize 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.”

Dillon Jones

Opinion Columnist

“A secondary theory: in an attempt to secure American dominance on music, Michael Bolton’s genes were spliced in an attempt to create a new generation of ultimate pop sensations.”

Neil Orians

Features columnist

“It’s getting everyone, my roommate and I both had colds like two weeks ago, and then my whole floor started getting sick. At first I thought it was allergies or maybe just my throat hurting from screaming too much at the football game.”

Taylor Anne Maass

Freshman advertising major

“His times were a lot more rough than ours, but he went through a lot of adversity and overcame it.”

Anthony Blue Jr.

Senior art major speaking about George Flippin, UNL’s first African-American athlete

“I am most amused, I suppose, with the evangelical bingo game some people play. This is probably the least harmful, but you’re still standing there listening to something you clearly disagree with. Put the bingo cards away and save them for your weekly laughing-at-Pat-Robertson party.”

Zach Smith

Opinion Columnist

“The funny thing about progress is that one should never take it for granted. There’s nothing inevitable about change ... The reality is there’s a long way to go.”

Ann Mari May

economics professor

“News has become so commonplace, we dismiss the chance that it might be incorrect. Because if 2 billion people are on Twitter, it certainly can’t be wrong, can it?”

Kaley Cook

Opinion Columnist

“Peter complained about there being too many flies inside. He’d start yelling at the flies and then started yelling at me, ‘Stop sipping that beer, boy! What have we been training for?’”

Nate Ruleaux

Features columnist

“We beat Goliath tonight.”

Gina Mancuso

Nebraska outside hitter after the Huskers defeated Penn State Wednesday night.

“I’m going to go home and probably go to sleep. It’s been a tough three-week run so far.”

Barney Cotton

NU offensive line coach

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Banned Book Week hits home The meaning of Banned Book Week changes with the times

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ith evereasier access to risqué and edgy media, many assume banned books are a thing of the past. But we’re not talking about Judy Blume levels of debauchery anymore. Consider two popular books written for young adults in the last year: In “The Marbury Lens,” after the young protagonist is abducted, he is transported to a world “covered with impaled heads and other dripping, black-rot body parts: hands, hearts, feet, ears, penises.

Where the fuck was this?”

Or “Rage,” in which teenage Missy’s becomes victim to a sadistic sexual prank in which “[s]he had sliced her arms to ribbons, but the badness remained, staining her insides like cancer. She had gouged her belly until it was a mess of meat and blood, but she still couldn’t breathe.”

Meghan Cox Gurdon quotes the aforementioned books in a Wall Street Journal editorial. She isn’t advocating for “Leave It To Beaver” morality, she’s worried that we’ve passed the threshold of portraying how “dark” the real world is. Books have the power to transform and inspire when written well. To assume these books won’t affect teens is naive, especially as adolescents develop their world views. Gurdon worries that rather than helping adolescents through thoughts of suicide and self-mutilation, authors are normalizing extremes that don’t exist. The characters may overcome great evil and depravity, but by portraying the world as more evil and depraved than it is, authors create a future of despairing pessimists out of relatively happy and stable individuals.

Gurdon may scoff at censorship, but she represents a view toward the meaning of literature to young readers that is utterly off-base and just as dangerous.

Readers read to be affected.

If they aren’t, they’ll either stop reading or won’t take anything away. What Gurdon and the majority of censorship debate today fail to realize is that if any part of a text triggers the slightest reaction, feeling of solidarity or sympathetic curiosity, this is a good thing. Books unravel the emotional and psychological processes behind the most uncomfortable instincts and most inexplicable judgments.

Teens need to see the complexity of the thoughts in their head directly transferred to words on a page if it’s to seem real. If a young reader connects to a book, they are enjoying the empathetic benefits. If it’s a dark level, the books are providing a rational and humane grasp of thoughts that mean something to the reader and may have seemed out of their control.

Fiction may exaggerate darkness for effect, but readers will only respond according

cameron mount to their own experiences, at the level meaningful to them.

Another manifestation of modern censorship mentality is found in the manipulation of the text students see. In a 2002 New York Times article, a mother uncovered that in a majority of the required state English exams she looked through, excerpts were “sanitized of virtually any reference to race, religion, ethnicity, sex, nudity, alcohol, even the mildest profanity and just about anything that might offend someone for some reason.” Students were asked to answer interpretation questions for famous texts that were stripped of their complexities and humanity. Reading is viewed as a transaction of content rather than an interaction. Students are asked to take real meaning from a reading when the characters aren’t honest representations of people and the complex perspectives that come with that.

The 2011 edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” replaced any use of “nigger” with “slave,” “Injun” with “Indian” and “half-breed” with “half-blood.” How can a story’s meaning possibly be separated from the context in which it was written? There is a massive misunderstanding about the relationship among author, text and the way students come to experience what a book has to say. Uncomfortable values help students understand the cultural lens authors write through. By realizing this, they can realize their own lens they experience the world through, and can question cultural assumptions that each generation takes for granted. These realizations promote critical thinking. They engage readers to take on new perspectives and advance their empathy.

This year’s Banned Book Week focus on picture books about penguin adoption, secret libraries run out of student lockers and an incident involving “The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby” might better represent how far free speech has come rather than how much work it needs. But the mind set behind the lesssensational headlines reveals a troubling approach to the empathetic power of literature – a purpose needing even more attention after research has led to headlines asking “In our social media world, is empathy dying?” As technology transforms how and what we read, our discourse about what “Banned Books Week” means must evolve as well.

Cameron Mount is a junior Secondary English Education major. Reach Him at cameronmount@ dailynebraskan.com.

Banned books are a great time to reflect on First Ammendment right

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anned Books Week is a wonderful annual tradition. It represents a touching tribute to times past, when the people cared enough about books to ban to them.

Walk into a bookstore this coming week – they’ll probably have one table of traditionally challenged books. They might feature the original justifications.

Here are some highlights: “Huckleberry Finn” uses the “N-word” 200-some times, in an unseemly portrayal of treatment of black Americans.

“Brave New World” discusses systematized drug use, flagellation, hedonistic free love.

“Madame Bovary” talks about independent married woman, infidelity and (spoiler) suicide.

Today, these examples look tame. We’re likely to encounter these ideas almost anywhere. As a society, we’ve decided this is a good thing. We see it as culture becoming more open and less wantonly judgmental.

I firmly stand with the First Amendment. It’s a wonderful, historically exceptional thing to have a governmental infrastructure that actively protects writers and their work, and promotes its distribution.

But could the impulse to ban books ever be good? Or is it bigotry? Stick with me here. That fact that a book is banned doesn’t tell us anything about its quality.

A banned book might be worthy of rejection.

The freedom to read banned books represents the freedom to find literature that nourishes the praiseworthy aspects of what it means to be human. But the freedom to reject those works that appeal to the unsavory parts of one’s self is just as important. The result of our great liberty isn’t that we should read every book but that we’re free to reject many on our own terms. It seems to be distinctly American to view freedom only in terms of “freedom from” some constraint instead of in terms of the powerful “freedom to.” We must embrace the freedom to impose constraints upon our own consumption.

Freedom from censorship tears down the fence and opens our doors to the arduous responsibility of choosing from the many “freedoms” presented.

These choices can uplift or crush us; they can widen our perspective on this world, or narrow it. What’s most tempting for me is to simply opt out: interpreting Banned Books Week as an invitation not to think about what I’m consuming every day, simply accepting each proposition without engaging in the time-consuming process of discrimination.

This pretty much reduces

marc Koenig one’s consumption to captivity. Not choosing is a choice in itself – a choice to serve whatever’s simplest; serving not the will of some arbitrary government or fundamentalist mindset, but the undeniable, childish hedonism and laziness of unconsidered reactions. This creates a society defined by instant gratification and self-centricity. Aldous Huxley rolls in his grave at the thought.

Governments shouldn’t ban the distribution of controversial books. But the impulse to ban books can come from a healthy place, at least a place where there are things worth protesting and being indignant about.

There are things we should be upset about, frankly.

Our words should be taken seriously – the art we create, the things we say, the way we relate to the world: all intertwined, with consequences. A book that’s banned exists as a tribute to this. That book is worth fighting about. It communicated more than talking points: It said something real.

What we usually have is a diluted sense of “political correctness,” which, rather than addressing an argument, peddles in knee-jerk reactions to superficial elements of presentation.

Politicians walk on eggshells, more concerned about whether their statements are demographically inoffensive instead of morally defensible. Books are special in that they force the opinion-holder to present transparent, fleshed-out perspectives of complex issues. You can’t really get away with the weak platitudes that a clipped presidential debate or even an op-ed column produces.

They force the reader to engage an issue at length unlike many mediums.

It comes down to this: It’s our responsibility to decide what influences we allow to permeate our lives and sustain us, not our government’s.

Banned Books Week is a testament to this: Go read some books! It’s great that we live in a country that tries hard not to smother any voices – we can hear them all and decide which are worth listening to. Or, as an oft-banned book put it so succinctly: “Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.”

Marc Koenig is a senior English Major, and has banned numerous books from his bookshelf.

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Rachel Foehlinger, a junior advertising major and only Husker baton twirler, performs for the half-time show of the Washington football game at Memorial Stadium.

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achel Foehlinger stood, bent over the sink, nose inches away from the mirror.

She methodically applied layers upon layers of foundation, blush and eye shadow, chatting about makeup, baton twirling and glitter.

Baton twirling is almost a genetic trait for Foehlinger.

Her mother, Sue Foehlinger, began twirling when she was 7 years old and began teaching lessons when she was 14.

The private lessons evolved into Sue’s Stepper-ettes, a baton twirling studio.

The youngest of five, Rachel Foehlinger looked up to her three older siblings, Tami, Tina and Bobby, who were also baton twirlers.

Foehlinger has committed most of her

life to baton twirling, but that commitment was partially inspired by death.

Bobby was killed in a car accident when she was 12 years old.

Before his death, he was the leader of the Stepper-ettes, and since then, Rachel has filled that role, trying to maintain the positive leadership her brother brought to the studio.

“Basically, ever since I could walk, I’ve been playing with a baton,” she said.

In elementary school, Foehlinger discovered her intense passion for twirling, continuing through middle and high school and now, college.

She has remained active in her mother’s studio, Stepper-ettes, as both an instructor and a member of the competitive twirling team.

Foehlinger paused to nibble on a

breakfast bar lying opposite her makeup, then picked up a package of fake eyelashes, applied glue to them and then the stuck lashes above her eyes.

“I’m a pro at these,” she said with a grin.

The junior advertising major who answered the door 30 minutes earlier had ample freckles and light eyelashes.

Now, her freckles ceased to exist, and her lashes jut from her face, creating a dark, black line around her eyes.

She said the multiple layers of makeup are necessary so that the gameday crowd can see her facial features as she leaps and twirls across the field during the halftime show.

VegFest provides more than a farmers market Katie Nelson Daily Nebraskan

The Nebraska State Fair has nothing on the festival rolling into town this weekend.

Bethany Park will host the Sixth Annual VegFest: A Community Celebration of Harvest and Markets Sept. 24 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The festival was started by KZUM, a volunteer-driven radio station that has been in operation for more than 30 years, with help from Community CROPS. Community CROPS is a local organization that started as a single community garden, growing into 16 sites as well as a training farm and Community Supported Agriculture program.

Throughout the years, they have

been devoted to helping people learn about sustainable living and growing healthy foods.

The combination of the two vegetable masterminds has created a festival that, in its first year, had more than 800 people attend.

“We basically got this great idea, got other organizations involved and it just grew from there,” said Bertine Loop, one of the creators of VegFest.

For the next three years, the festival was held in Havelock Park, but the growing number of attendees encouraged yet another change of locations.

This year’s attendance at Bethany Park is expected to be a record high.

However, VegFest is more than merely a glorified farmer’s market.

if you go where:

Bethany Park, 66th and Vine streets when: Sept. 24, 2:30 p.m.- 5 p.m. cost: free This year, it will feature several different produce vendors and craft vendors, as well as informational booths and demonstrations.

VegFest is focusing on environmental awareness this year.

The Beehive Design Collective, based in Maine, will be stopping in Lincoln to lecture about environmental destruction, coupled with a collage

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You can run, bike or walk, but under no circumstance will you be allowed to drive.

On Sept. 25, “Streets Alive!” will close a loop of 3.23 miles of Lincoln’s streets off from motor vehicles and open them to anyone using human-powered transportation.

The event is being held

by Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln, an organization started in July 2010. Multiple other businesses are sponsoring or participating in the event.

The closed-off streets will be accessible to all Lincoln residents, regardless of the part of town in which they live.

“I love the idea of different neighborhoods coming together and finding out about each other,” said Linda Kern, the project coordinator for Streets Alive! “It doesn’t discriminate against age, it doesn’t discriminate against socioeconomic groups – I love that.”

From 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., residents can enjoy simply stretching their legs, or they can participate in a number of available activities.

More than 50 local companies and nonprofit organizations will set up booths with information, healthy activities and demonstrations for those passing by.

Yoga from Lincoln Yoga Center, YMCA, sidewalk chalking from Early Development Network, Witherbee Neighborhood Association and Zumba dancing from Zumba Influence are only a few of the activities people will pass.

There will also be informational sessions on fire safety from Lincoln Fire Department/Burn House, sustainable gardening from Community CROPS and diabetes from Action NOW, to name a few.

All activities are sorted into different neighborhoods, with a fairly even distribution of activities and demonstrations in each.

Available maps will have each of the neighborhoods, along with the list of demonstrations, color-coded for ease of location.

If one is hungry after so much physical activity, snacks, water and tea will be provided by Russ’s Market, Super Saver and Starbucks, respectively.

Live music and performance will also be a large part of the day, with some sort of band or group in each neighborhood. Acts will range from Kusi Taki’s traditional music from Ecuador, Peru and Chile to the Japanese drumming of Kokyo Taiko.

Dance groups from the Capital City Dance Shack, En Pointe Dance Academy and other solo acts will also be featured.

“When I heard about the event, I thought, ‘Gosh, what a great way to get people involved in our community,’” said Michelle Welch, the Lincoln Public Schools District wellness facilitator.

“I also think it’s kind of neat you can jump in on the loop wherever is closest to where you live.”

“Streets Alive!” is based off of similar events held elsewhere in the nation. Some cities hold their events more frequently, sometimes holding these events every week.

Others close off larger areas, at times between five and seven miles of city streets.

For Lincoln’s first endeavor, cooperation, compromise and patience were required.

Kern said the original distance was shortened due to the city’s ability to close off streets.

She looks for “Streets Alive!” to be successful this

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Ross features pipeline film in movie talk Bethany Knipp Daily Nebraskan

Nebraskans will have a chance to discuss a timely issue on Sunday that literally hits close to home, and for some, too close.

The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center’s monthly movie talk will be about TransCanada’s KeystoneXL pipeline.

The movie talk features a documentary before the discussion.

“The Pipe,” is about the Irish village of Rossport battling Shell Oil Co. after the company planned to lay a pipeline through the village without telling Rossport residents in advance.

“The Pipe,” directed by Risteard O’Domhnaill, follows

a four-year campaign against Shell involving opposition by not only residents, but the Irish government and police, as well.

The movie tells of Rossport’s journey to protect its farming and fishing that could have been affected by the Shell pipe, and what it took for a village to stand up against a corporate giant.

After the movie, the talk will feature guest speakers Diana Amdor, John Bolenbaugh, Ben Gotschall, Duane Hovorka, Jane Kleeb and Ken Winston.

The guests, asked to speak by the Friends of the Ross, are mostly, if not all, anti-pipeline, said Danny Ladely, director of the Ross.

Ladely said the Friends of the Ross contacted representatives

if you go Movie Talk: The Pipe when: Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m. following 3 p.m. screening of “The Pipe” where: The Ross, 313 N. 13th St. how much: Talk: free movie: Students – $6.50; General – $7.50

from TransCanada and propipeline people to create a balance of opinion, but none of them responded back.

Jane Kleeb, a movie talk speaker and editor and founder

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Modern ‘Earth’ ‘The Pipe’ shows community, contains less strength, and perseverance substance Cameron Mount DAILY NEBRASKAN

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Tom Helberg Perhaps the biggest difference between the two film versions of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is timing.

Director Robert Wise’s 1951 film was released when international tensions were so thick you cut could them with a knife.

McCarthyism was picking up steam and the film served as a metaphor for making peace out regarding our own international squabbles.

Director Scott Derrickson’s 2008 film is a warning against global warming? Littering? Top 40? Even if the film knows what it’s talking about, it’s keeping the rest of us in the dark.

Wise, who early in his career edited “Citizen Kane,” went on to direct films as diverse as “The Sound of Music” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” His film is an undisputed classic of 1950s science fiction. Shot with a documentary-like quality and using real locations when possible, the film tried to realistically portray what would happen if an alien ship landed in Washington, D.C. The alien on board, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), comes with a message for all people of Earth. As soon as he steps off his ship, he announces that he comes in peace. How do members of the U.S. military, who have surrounded the ship, respond? They shoot him.

He is transported to a hospital where a government liaison at least tries to see what Klaatu has to say. The alien insists that he speak to a congregation of all the world leaders, a feat that, during the Cold War, is deemed impossible.

Klaatu escapes and tries to live among humans to get a better feel for this world.

Though the film is science fiction, Wise strives for realism. He cast real

network anchors of the time to read the news in the film and didn’t use an overabundance of special effects. He also cast the then-unknown Rennie as the lead, as he would seem more believable as an alien than a big movie star.

One could argue then that casting Keanu Reeves as Klaatu in the remake was a bad idea, but he’s actually a good fit. He doesn’t have to do anything that resembles human emoting. Reeves’ Klaatu is more heartless, inconsistently blowing up who he has to in order to get by, yet saving the lives of others when it suits him.

Klaatu doesn’t come in a spaceship in the new film.

He comes in a glowing orb of some sort, and his body is cased in a whale blubber embryo, though he too is shot upon first contact. Unlike Rennie’s alien, Reeves is never given the benefit of a doubt and is on the defense from the start.

The remake is a much darker film, with most of the action taking place at night. The special effects are a bit grotesque. The picture is far too focused on spectacle, though the images are ugly and muddled. Even though it’s fiction, the science doesn’t make any internal sense.

Klaatu’s robot, Gort, is transformed from a 7-foot bodyguard to a 50-foot CGI menace that will serve as mankind’s killer. And Jaden Smith makes an obnoxious turn as a rebellious kid, making me wish he would have quit acting after “The Pursuit of Happyness.”

When the remake sputters to its conclusion, it finds it has nothing to say.

That’s anything but true for Robert Wise’s 1951 classic, which still speaks volumes today about the state of our planet and human nature.

Tom Helberg is a senior film studies major. Reach him at tomhelberg@ dailynebraskan.com.

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When Shell Oil Co. discovered an untapped natural gas field off the coast of Ireland in 1996, it assumed it had stumbled on a gold mine. What wasn’t considered, however, and remained unconsidered for the next 15 years was just how fiercely the small coastal village of Rossport would fight to keep a potentially dangerous oil pipeline off their property. Frustrating, intimate and wonderfully shot, “The Pipe” is a moving testament to community spirit and a timely indictment of impersonal corporate rashness.

The Irish government does nothing to help the Rossport village, and in fact, protestors are beaten and jailed early on in the battle. As standoffs with police become increasingly violent, all captured vividly on camera, many residents back off. And while many scoff at Shell’s offer to compensate some of the residents, it clearly sharpens an already-bitter divide in the community. As the residents meet again and again, the only progress is evermore viciousness

and desperation in the shouting matches they inevitably end in.

Director Risteard O’Domhnaill follows around some of the more lively personalities for the four years it took to shoot the film, including outspoken crab fisherman Pat O’Donnell. Four years is a long time for any film, let alone one that takes place on a single remote village, but the sense of community that comes through in the ups and downs of their fight is strengthened by the devotion O’Domhnaill affords to them.

The highlight of the film comes toward the end when O’Donnell sails his tiny fishing boat directly in the path of Shell’s behemoth pipeline ship. It’s beautifully shot and a meaningful, if not stubborn act of bravado. The film never has the need to inject sentimentality but instead runs swiftly off the raw tenacity of residents like O’Donnell.

With an obviously passionate public, glaring safety concerns and even a proposed alternative route, what was Shell thinking? Well, we don’t exactly find out by watching “The Pipe,” an

omission that keeps the film from reaching its full potential.

The opposite side of the battle is portrayed only through media statements and protest intervention by the police.

It isn’t a surprise, of course, that no Shell employee or government leader wanted to embroil themselves in such a heated mess. But it nags on the viewer what that other side’s argument is and what exactly the walls are that are preventing rational dialogue. Money, of course, is the driving factor, but what about the sensible route proposed by the community, or the awful public image Shell was sure to come away with?

Rational or not, there is a glaringly missing side that is vital to understanding where the community stands in the debate.

This isn’t a dire annoyance, however, due to the fact that the story is as much about the community as the pipeline. Despite its depressing subject matter, Rossport is decidedly hopeful. Their community, after all, has a much deeper bond than the most expansive of pipelines can tear apart. In the film’s final

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moments, O’Donnell touchingly showcases his signature vigor and humor in the face of unsettling news.

O’Domhnaill couldn’t have foreseen BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill when he set out to make this movie, but its relevance certainly heightens NAMES OF LOVE the sharpness of his arguments.

Starring: Jacques Gamblin, At Sara just under 90 minutes, “The Forestier Pipe” is a worthwhile view into Maryimplications Riepma Ross the of corporate exploits on a community. And perhaps most admirably, the Grade film never takes on a preachy tone, though it had many opportunities to do so. Instead, “The Pipe” proves the magnitude of humanity, persistence and passion that can be found in the smallest of areas, when simply provided with the voice they deserve.

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Kleeb said one reason she is against the pipeline is because her husband, Scott Kleeb, had family who homesteaded in the Nebraska Sandhills, where the pipeline would be placed.

“Anyone who’s been to the Sandhills knows how risky it is to put a pipeline there,” she said.

Kleeb said it is up to Gov. Dave Heineman to protect the

Sandhills and Nebraskans from the pipeline, and there will be consequences for him if he doesn’t.

“I think he will feel it and so will Nebraskans,” Kleeb said.

Adam Hintz, co-owner of Meadowlark Coffee in Lincoln and a “pro-Sandhills” person rather than an anti-pipeline person, will be attending the movie talk on Sunday.

Hintz said he is against the pipeline for a variety of reasons.

largest in the world.

Despite the potential harm by the TransCanada pipeline, Hintz said he predicts that, “This will be one of those moments where the government listens to the people rather than corporations.”

“A lot of people think you can’t stop corporate giants,” he said. “I think for once people (will be) heard and corporations (will be) told no.” bethanyknipp @dailynebraskan.com

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twirler: from 5 Foehlinger became one of three marching band twirlers her freshman year at the University of NebraskaLincoln. The other two twirlers graduated at the end of her freshman year and since then, Foehlinger has been the feature twirler.

However, she is required to audition every year for the position.

She grabbed a large, sequined “N” and pinned it to her hair, added some glitter around her eyes, took one final look in the mirror and grinned, satisfied with her work.

She shoved the containers, brushes and pencils into her bathroom cabinets and hurried into her room to pick out a costume for the halftime show.

Foehlinger designs each and every one of the costumes she performs in. Although the outfits are sewn by people or companies outside of her family, Foehlinger and her sisters place rhinestones on their own costumes.

She reached for a crate, pulling out jars of rhinestones and glue to illustrate her point.

Glancing at the clock, Foehlinger cut the reminiscence short and slammed a couple of costumes into her baton bag. It was time to leave for practice.

Several hours later, crowds swarmed the southwest corner of campus to watch the band’s pregame performance.

Foehlinger warmed up in the Sheldon’s sunken garden with her parents nearby.

Hintz said that first of all, TransCanada is a foreign company that would be using United States land for its own profit.

Hintz is also against the pipeline because of its potential for disaster to cause devastating health effects for Nebraskans and others and because of the dangerous chemicals the tar sand pipeline would have, especially because the Sandhills are a part of the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer, one of the

Each week, she creates her routine for the halftime performance. She explained she has learned several different sections, or routines, at her mother’s studio. Each week, she morphs the routine to fit the pieces the band plays.

“I don’t think I could have ever stopped her – it (twirling) was what she dreamt of always,” Sue Foehlinger said. “She never had a question in her mind: This was where she wanted to go.”

Her father, Bob Foehlinger, glanced in his daughter’s direction.

“Clearly, it’s given her self-confidence and poise,” he said. “You have to have that to go out in front of 80,000 people.”

But the Nebraska stadium isn’t the only place Rachel Foehlinger performs.

She and her twirling team have competed at the National Baton Twirling Association World Championships in Europe on two separate occasions, first when she was in third grade. This past summer, her 28-member team qualified to compete at the world championships for the third time.

Because of the model set for her, Foehlinger continues to twirl and, each day, she works to be better.

“I had something just naturally inspiring me because I knew he (Bobby) was, you know, watching,” she said. “Every day, I just try to do something that he would be proud of.” katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com

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activity afterward.

There will also be a presentation by the city’s Rain Garden Project, discussing the importance of clean water and rain gardens.

There will also be several presentations about healthy eating by a dietician, as well as local chefs.

Other booths will include information about composting and how to keep families active.

“We’re really trying to make it a festival and not just a farmer’s market,” said Ingrid

Kirst, the executive director of Community CROPS and one of the creators of VegFest.

Although the festival is aimed at families, University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are encouraged to attend.

“I think it’s a good chance to help them connect with the local community,” Kirst said.

“It’s going to be our best event yet, because people are going to be exposed and educated by participating,” Loop said.

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“The Names of Love” begins with a fast-paced sequence in which Arthur and Baya address the audience, taking turns talking about their childhoods, where they fall on the political spectrum and stories about their parents. This section, which borrows the tone and style of Woody Allen’s “Radio Days,” is the funniest part of the film and sets up the characters’ backgrounds without it feeling like exposition.

The story isn’t just concerned with Arthur and Baya’s romance, as it focuses on their parents and to what extent they feel like French citizens. Baya’s father is Algerian and remembers the French Army killing his

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After a solid start in its first home Big Ten Conference game, the Nebraska women’s soccer team hits the road for its first conference games away from Lincoln.

The Huskers (4-3-1) will travel to the state of Indiana this weekend to take on Purdue on Friday and Indiana on Sunday. Both teams lost their conference openers – Purdue (3-6-1) to Michigan State and Indiana (4-4-1) to Michigan.

Despite both opponents losing their season openers, NU has struggled on the road in recent years no matter the opponent. This year has started in similar fashion, as Nebraska is 1-2 when away from Lincoln in 2011.

However, the one victory was against then-No. 25 and undefeated Virginia Tech, which provides some confidence, according to freshman midfielder Samantha Areman.

“We have been a good traveling team this year and have been competing well against our opponents on the road,” Areman said.

When the Huskers visit Purdue, the odds will be in their favor, as the Boilermakers are only 2-4-1 at home this season. On the other hand, Indiana has played only one game outside the state of Indiana and is 3-2-1 at home.

Being comfortable away from Lincoln is something that Areman said has improved this season.

“Playing on the road takes some of the pressure off us,” Areman said. “We aren’t expected to do quite as well on the road so we therefore play better because we can breath easier.”

The Huskers’ tough schedule has also led to being more comfortable, according to freshman Caroline Gray.

“We already played a bunch of really good teams including now-No. 1 North Carolina, which helps us expect more out of ourselves when approaching each game,” Gray said.

Junior forward Morgan Marlborough has been on a goal-scoring terror in recent matches. She has scored 12

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Nebraska coach Rhonda Revelle said her team is looking forward to playing against other teams for the first time this fall.

NU freshman Fowler preps for first action Huskers to take on Colorado State and Nebraska-Omaha this weekend at Bowlin Stadium

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The Huskers will look to improve upon their 4-3-1 record this weekend in Indiana against Purdue and the Hoosiers. Freshman Caroline Gray (12) said getting off to a fast start will be an important part in winning. goals in the last six games including a pair of hat tricks, the last of which coming in Nebraska’s Big Ten opener against Northwestern.

The forward currently leads the country in goals per game with a 1.5 scoring rate and ranks second in both points per game and goals. She also only needs a

pair of goals this weekend to tie with Kim Engesser at 53 for second place on the all-time Nebraska scoring list.

The school record is 69 goals and is held by Christine Latham.

The Purdue game will start Friday at 6 p.m. while the Indiana game will begin at

noon Sunday.

Coming out and dominating early will be a key to the weekend, Gray said.

“We will expect two teams that work extremely hard,” Gray said. “Coming out and performing in order to put the games away early will be huge for us.” andrewward@ dailynebraskan.com

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“Consistency is what you look for,” he said. “Every game is a big game. We just want to be even keel going into each game. It shouldn’t matter what opponent you’re playing. You should prepare the same way.”

Even NU coach Bo Pelini is looking forward to the road trip. With lots of young faces on offense and in the secondary, he views it as a warm-up for the tough road tests the Huskers will face in the Big Ten. “I think it is good to have a road game for the guys to play away from home for the first time,” Pelini said.

“It gives us a dry run going into conference play. Every place is different but there are some benefits to doing this for the first time. It is a good thing to put your guys through.”

The Cowboys might be amped to face a big-time opponent, but if they hope to hang with the Huskers they’ll have to improve in a hurry. UW is 3-0, but one win came thanks to a touchdown with 22 seconds left to beat Weber State. Another came when the Cowboys blocked an extra point with

three seconds left to beat Bowling Green 28-27.

While Christensen would like to see his team have more-convincing victories, he thinks the clutch finishes will help his team in the long run.

“I think it’s important that the team knows how to compete and win in the fourth quarter,” Christensen said. “The more opportunities you get and if you have success doing it, I think it builds confidence.”

The Cowboys will need all that confidence and more, especially with the longlasting hype surrounding the game. But Christensen thinks once the game begins, the nerves will fade and it will just be another football game.

“After a couple of snaps, when everyone’s settled down, a lot of that stuff goes by the wayside,” Christensen said. “It’s a football game on a 100-yard field. We just happen to have a top-10 opponent coming to town. It’s going to be an electric atmosphere, but I think our kids will do a good job focusing in on what they have to do.” danhoppen@ dailynebraskan.com

pitching to her in practice she was a tough out and that’s a great compliment in regards to her.”

In her hometown, Fowler was selected as the Gatorade Player of the Year following her senior season.

Although the freshman is competing for a starting Nedu Izu position with her junior daily Nebraskan teammate, she said she After three weeks of prac- thinks it’s helping both of tice and intrasquad games, them become better dethe Husker softball team fensive players.

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NU coach Rhonda Rev- that healthy competition elle said her team is anx- in practice.”

The infielder admitted ious to start its fall season. that Nebraska wasn’t her “We’re really excited to get an opportunity to first choice when picking play,” she said. “We’ve a college, but a visit to the practiced three weeks school changed her mind.

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Mattie Fowler man Heidi husker infielder Revelle Foland, fans called Fowler will get an a great player and said she opportunity to see new resettled in right away. cruit Mattie Fowler.

“She’s got great game “From a physical standpoint she’s got good feet savvy and is a very poised and hands,” Revelle said. athlete,” Revelle said. “She “We’ll be rotating her and came into practice and fit Gabby Banda from third in right away. She’s got to shortstop. I think she a great pedigree for the broke a state record in Ari- sport and high expectazona last year in RBI and tions.”

The Cornhuskers kickoff I know she’ll step in the this weekend playing a pair lineup and compete.”

In her last year of high of games against Colorado school, Fowler batted State at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m .569 with 22 doubles and on Saturday. They round the 49 runs scored in just weekend out playing the 37 games. She also hit a Rams Sunday at 1:30 p.m. school record 17 home and the UNO Mavericks at 4 runs and a state record 91 p.m.

Fowler said she’s eager to RBI. Fowler is the third high play in her first college exhischool star to sign with bition games.

“I’m just excited to put on Nebraska in the last 10 a Husker uniform and see years, and Revelle thinks what we can do this weekshe’ll challenge pitchers at end,” she said. “I just want to the plate this year.

“When there’s an RBI come in and help the team presented she’ll be at the as much as I can. We have plate ready to drive run- a team that can really go far ners in,” she said. “Those this year and I just want to are things you can’t teach. do whatever I can to help.

“I’m just excited to kickoff As she gets stronger her this season.” power will get stronger. neduIzu@ Hagemann said when dailynebraskan.com

I’m just excited to put on a Husker uniform and see what we can do this weekend.

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three keys wyoming Cowboys

No. 9 Nebraska

1. Defensive Assignments Wyoming’s defense was diced for 541 yards of total offense in its opener against FCS Weber State — 227 of which came on the ground — and the Cowboys ceded 514 yards in last Saturday’s victory at Bowling Green. Much of these astronomically bad totals can be attributed to poor tackling and assignment mixups. The Cowboys cannot allow established threats like Taylor Martinez and Rex Burkhead — or potential young game breakers like Jamal Turner and Ameer Abdullah — to find big gaps at the line of scrimmage and accelerate into the secondary.

Wyoming’s defensive front four is significantly undersized, and it will be up to the Cowboy linebacking corps and secondary to fill gaps and come up to make tackles within three yards of the initial line of scrimmage. Junior defensive end Korey Jones must come through with a Herculean effort, as he is the one player in the Cowboys’ front seven who is fast and athletic enough to spy Martinez, but will also have to deal with Nebraska linemen who outweigh him by more than 80 pounds.

2. Sustain Drives In Wyoming’s 51-6 shellacking at the hands of Boise State last season, the Cowboy offense stalled on its first three possessions with a pair of three-and-outs and a turnover which resulted in a Boise State touchdown. This offensive ineptitude took the capacity crowd at War Memorial Stadium completely out of the game before the first quarter had even expired, and Boise State rolled with astonishing ease the rest of the way.

The Cowboys will need to execute their spread offense with precision and confidence if Wyoming is to avoid a similar result. Speedy receivers like Robert Herron, Chris McNeill and Dominic Rufran will need to find separation within five yards of the line, and freshman quarterback Brett Smith will have to make his reads more quickly than he ever has in his young career.

1. Continue to mix up the play calling The days of zone read after zone read are finished. Nebraska opened last weekend’s win with an option play that burned the Washington secondary for a 50-yard pass to Kenny Bell. Four different Huskers had yards-per-carry averages of at least 5.5 yards and quarterback Taylor Martinez’s average was 4.9. Seven different players caught p a s s e s against the Huskies as well.

The H u s k e r s scored 17 points in the third quarter against the Huskies and NU even had a rare fullback carry go for 36 yards.

Nebraska will have to get the ball to its many different playmakers to keep defenses off balance.

That trend was seen at times against Washington in week three, but it will need to continue against Wyoming.

3. Hold Ground in the Trenches Another offensive deficiency that has crippled Wyoming against top opponents during the past two seasons has been run blocking. In five losses to Texas, TCU and Boise State during the previous two seasons, Wyoming averaged just 56.2 yards per game on the ground. If the Cowboys scheme away from Jared Crick, they’ll have to deal with Cameron Meredith and a lightning-quick Nebraska linebacking corps. Center Nick Carlson and tackles Clayton Kirven and John Hutchins must play the games of their careers on Saturday, both in run blocking and in taking the pressure off of a young quarterback playing the biggest game of his life just one month into his college career.

— Compiled by Mike Morris, Branding Iron (wyoming) football Beat Writer

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The Nebraska men’s tennis team has nine players on its roster.

Only four will be making the trip west this weekend for the Denver Invitational.

Tom Blackwell, Brandon Videtich, Robert Schulze and Drew Freeman will compete Friday through Sunday in both singles and doubles during Nebraska’s first action of the fall. The other schools competing in Denver are Air Force,

Denver, New Mexico and Texas Tech.

Husker coach K e r r y McDerm o t t said that during the fall season the team doesn’t like to mcdermott send all of its players to every fall event. Those players not competing this weekend

will stay in Lincoln to prepare for NU’s second fall event in Tulsa, Okla., next weekend.

“We’re going in there with the idea of getting a lot of experience,” coach McDermott said.

Blackwell heads into the weekend with just one career fall singles match under his belt, while Schulze will be competing in his first. Videtich was 3-3 in fall singles matches last season and Freeman finished last fall at 1-3. sports@ dailyNebraskan.com

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2. Protect the quarterback Both players and coaches were impressed with quarterback Taylor Martinez’s decision-making after NU’s 51-38 win against Washington. The sophomore is starting to understand that if he wants to play a whole season, avoiding hits when possible is a must. The Cowboys have been able to get at the quarterback so far this season: Wyoming has nine sacks and 20 tackles for losses. Nebraska’s opponents have only been able to record four sacks this season.

The offensive line did a good job winning the line of scrimmage and keeping Martinez on his feet against Washington. With conference play just around the corner, NU will need a healthy Martinez if it wants a chance at claiming its first Big Ten title.

3. Tackle, tackle, tackle Nebraska had problems tackling early in the season last year and changes in the lineup came as a result. Expect the same this weekend in Laramie, with some new faces in the defensive backfield. After an abysmal tackling display at times last week, NU will need to shore up that area of the game against the Cowboys. The Huskers allowed Washington running back Chris Polk to rush for 130 yards on 22 carries Saturday with a large chunk of those yards coming after NU’s first attempt at a tackle. Wyoming is averaging 226.7 yards per game on the ground this season and will be looking for any advantage it can against the No. 9 Huskers. Free extra yardage and first downs for the opponent won’t lead to a 4-0 start for Nebraska.

— Compiled by Doug Burger, DN sports editor

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no carryover one bit from Urban Meyer at Bowling and we’ve been working week to week.”

Green before taking the hard on doing that. That’ll While the Huskers are head job there for six sea- play out on Saturday, the approach that they take offaced with yet another sons. new offensive attack this NU junior Linebacker fensively.”

Defensively, the Cowboys weekend, Sean FishPelini said er said that don’t stack up as well. They ...we’ve struggled the Huskers Husker fans let 32 points go to Weber are slowly can expect State in week one and anwith are the emerging Wyoming to other 27 to Bowling Green motions and from their bring an of- last week. shifts...Once you Wyoming’s defense did foggy nightfense simibite down last week though, mare. lar to an old show a weakness holding off the Falcons with “They’re foe. in that regard, starting to “I think the help of six forced turnyou’ve got to be settle down,” one of the overs. Four of those turnhe said. “I things that overs were interceptions. prepared for it...

The Cowboys’ special really feel maybe helps teams may be more responlike there’s us is cercarl pelini a couple of tain things sible for the third win of the husker defensive coordinator quarters in that they do season as they blocked the that Washthat kind of potential game-tying PAT ington game where we kind mimic, maybe some of the with only three seconds left.

This is the first Wyoming of settled in a little bit. I’m stuff that Missouri has done seeing that this week too.” in the past,” Fisher said. squad to start the season Pelini is confident that “We can watch ourselves on with three consecutive wins Huskers are growing more film against Missouri a little since 1996. Nebraska has comfortable with the week- bit and see kind of how met the Cowboys five times ly grind as well. we played it in the past in history with every game going the Bringing that fourth of- and what Huskers’ way fensive nightmare are the we want to in Lincoln, Cowboys of Wyoming. The change and We can watch which makes `Boys enter this weekend maybe how ourselves on film for some exwith a 3-0 record spurred it will relate against Missouri citement in by a talented offensive ap- a little betWyoming’s proach. Using the spread of- ter.” a little bit and locker room fense under assistant coach Pelini said see kind of how – something Gregg Brandon, Wyoming the Huskthe Blackhas jumped into the top-40 ers’ ability we played it in shirts aren’t of three major offensive cat- to handle the past. overlooking. egories. something “I’m sure The Cowboys rank 16th in they haven’t they’re fired the country in total offense seen will sean Fisher up just as with 492.3 yards per game depend on Husker linebacker they would and are 20th at rushing the the Cowbe regardless apball with an average 226.7 boys’ of who they played,” Fisher yards every week. Wyo- proach.

“What we’ve struggled said. “And, you know, we’re ming enters Saturday as the 36th-most-efficient offense with are the motions and coming in their house so through the air with 265.6 shifts and those adjust- we have to make sure that ments,” Pelini said. “Once we have a good game plan yards per game.

Brandon has a long histo- you show a weakness in for this week and come in ry with the spread. He was that regard, you’ve got to be ready to play.” jeffpacker@ an assistant coach under prepared for it every week dailynebraskan.com

Nebraska middle blocker Hayley Thramer tallied eight block assists in NU’s five-set victory against Penn State Wednesday night. The Huskers will continue Big Ten Conference play Saturday against No. 24 Ohio State at the NU Coliseum. time against PSU. It was the first time she played in five straight sets since high school.

Thramer also put together eight kills and hit .500 on the night. Those stats aren’t where the value is for Thramer, though. The sophomore from Ewing, Neb., is just happy to be on the court getting some significant playing time.

“For a great player to be great, it’s about getting experience,” Thramer said.

“Getting experience for anybody is positive in every way possible.”

That might have been the first time Thramer had personally played five consecutive sets, but other Huskers like Brooke Delano have had that kind of experience

and coach Cook trusts second Big Ten game, NU them to come through even knows what will be coming when the schedule gets for them. tight like it “I feel like is right now. every game ...but they’re “ O u r in the Big players are Ten is gonna still ranked and used to be a pretty they’re still part of big level of this,” Cook the Big Ten. said after excitement,” We d n e s Thramer said.

“And everybody day’s match.

“They’re not wants to beat us “If we were ranked as because we’re the high as Penn p l a y i n g (Thursday) State, but new dogs.” then I’d be they’re still a little conHayley Thramer ranked and cerned, but they’re still husker middle blocker we’re going part of the to have to Big Ten. learn the mentality of play“And everybody wants to ing a match then playing beat us because we’re the another.” new dogs.” robbyKorth@ Even though there isn’t as dailynebraskan.com much hype for Nebraska’s

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No. 9 Nebraska at Wyoming | Saturday, 6:30 P.m. | Laramie, Wyo. War Memorial Stadium | T.v. : Versus

DEAL

A PRETTY

BIG

For many Nebraska fans, The Huskers’ trip to Laramie is just a quick pitstop before Big Ten Conference play begins. Not for those in Wyoming.

They’ve been looking forward to this game for three years. story by dan hoppen | art by lauren olson

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yomingNebraska is the Most Anticipated Game in UW Football History.”

Visitors to the Wyoming football website this week were greeted with this headline. The game has long been sold out and UW officials have even added seating to the north and south ends of the field, expanding War Memorial Stadium’s capacity from 29,181 to more than 32,000.

Think people have been looking forward to this game a little?

“We’re excited about a game of this magnitude coming to Laramie,” Cowboys coach Dave Christensen said on the Mountain West teleconference this week. “The town of Laramie and the state of Wyoming have been getting ready for this game for three years.”

The excitement began on Dec. 2, 2008, when the two teams announced

the game. It’s uncommon for a team of NU’s caliber to play an away game against a lesser opponent, and the Wyoming fans want to take advantage of this rare opportunity to see a top-10

program on their home turf.

Christensen understands his players are hyped up as well.

While he encourages their emotion, he doesn’t want them to overdo it.

injury update Crick “questionable” for Wyoming The Huskers may be without the services of defensive tackle Jared Crick for Saturday’s game against Wyoming. After Crick missed practices this week due to injury, head coach Bo Pelini said that his senior defensive lineman is questionable for Saturday.

When asked if the injury was a concussion, Pelini said, “I don’t know the terms and all those things. He got dinged. Ask the doctors. I don’t know.”

Like the specifics of the injury itself, it remains unclear when Crick suffered the injury.

Dennard “more than likely” will start Saturday.

Alfonzo Dennard has yet to play this season. The 5-foot10, 205-pound senior corner has been kept out of action due to a slight tear to the quad in his left leg, which he suffered in practice a little more than five weeks ago.

Bo Pelini said that he is unsure whether or not Dennard will start for NU against Wyoming. However, he was far more definite in speaking on whether or not Dennard, who suited up but did not play last week, will play Saturday.

“He’s playing,” Pelini said. “Alfonzo is ready to go.”

— compiled by Matt Palu

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Husker lineback Sean Fisher said Wyoming’s offense is similar to Missouri teams from the past few years. The Cowboys are ranked 16th in the nation this season in total offense, averaging almost 500 yards per game.

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Consistency from the opponent hasn’t been a luxury granted to the Nebraska defense this season.

The Blackshirts have faced three different

offenses, all of which brought a different attack to the table. Wyoming’s offense won’t be breaking any trends for the Pelinis and Co. “Three extremely different offenses and then a fourth that’s different from

anything we’ve faced,” NU defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said.

With a defensive backfield laden with younger faces, the adjustment week in and week out can be a difficult one, Pelini said.

“Working with young

DBs, with (Alfonzo) Dennard being out, some new guys in different positions – it’s been a nightmare,” Pelini said. “To face four offenses, there’s

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Nebraska is flying high after a win against No. 5 Penn State.

It took five sets for NU to take care of the Nittany Lions, but that didn’t matter to the Huskers.

“It feels like we won a national championship or something,” setter Lauren Cook said.

But now No. 10 Nebraska is 1-0 in Big Ten Conference play. Even though the inaugural victory put Nebraska on the map for the rest of the conference, beating the team that has won the last eight conference crowns, it’s time for Nebraska to look at the next test, No. 24 Ohio State.

“We can just use (the victory over PSU) for motivation,” Gina Mancuso said. “That builds on our confidence. I think that every team is gonna be a challenge, we just gotta

approach it like normal and play how we play.”

Even though coach John Cook recognized this game as one of the biggest ones of the season, he still feels that his players know they need to come out firing on all cylinders against the Buckeyes.

“I think our players understand that it’s going to be like this every night,” he said. “So they know they’re going to have to show up and play, so I’m not concerned about that.”

Middle blocker Hayley Thramer said she feels like the team is going into Saturday with the same attitude they did against the Nittany Lions.

“It’s the same game plan,” Thramer said. “You can’t let up in the Big Ten, you know that it was even like that in the Big 12, everybody wants to beat Nebraska.

“That’s the thing, we just need to stick to our game plan and we’ll have a great night.”

Thramer got a significant amount of playing

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