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Softball opens fall with three victories

Nebraska sophomore infielder Hailey Decker slides home past Nebraska-Omaha catcher Ditto Campbell in the Huskers’ 9-0 victory against the Mavericks in the Big Red Classic on Sunday at Bowlin Stadium.

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foodfight Students, dining employees spar over taste, nutrition of food at UNL

story by Natasha Rausch | photos by Spencer Myrlie

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t’s 12:45 p.m., chemistry’s over for the day and freshman Luke Monhollon’s stomach is growling. Strapped for time, he hurries out of Hamilton Hall and heads to the Lewis Training Table for lunch. He walks to the sandwich bar and asks for the ingredients that remind him most of home: a ninegrain whole-wheat bun, slices of roast beef, freshly cut pepperjack cheese and a squirt of mustard. On the side is a large salad of mixed greens, cheese and shredded carrots with balsamic vinaigrette. He grabs a bowl of cantaloupe before sitting down alongside a host of Nebraska athletes, administration members and fellow students.

When looking for a bite to eat, University of Nebraska-Lincoln students like Monhollon have plenty of options on City Campus: CPN Dining Services, Selleck Dining Services, Abel/Sandoz Dining Services and Harper

Dining Center. But some students say they’re left dissatisfied with the nutritional value and quality of the meals there, and they prefer the selection at the East Campus Union Cafe & Grill and the Lewis Training Table, which requires advance reservations for non-athletes.

University officials, however, attest there are good – and healthy – meals to be found all over campus.

Assistant Director of University Dining Services Pam Edwards said all the dining halls order their food from the same local vendors.

The difference, she said, lies in how the individual menus are put together.

“Each of the dining halls develops their own menus,” Edwards said. “You’re not going to find the same thing at all four City Campus dining halls on the same day. They all order from the same vendors. They all select their recipes from the same foods. They just

have different menu arrangements.”

Although Edwards oversees the City and East Campus dining, she said the training table, which is provided specifically for UNL athletes, is a separate entity from the university dining halls altogether. In order for students who do not participate in university athletics to dine at the training table, on the west side of Memorial Stadium, they must make reservations for specific days. Dinnertime is excluded from this offer.

For Monhollon, the training table is the best place to get sandwiches because it’s “actual meat.”

“If you look at processed meats, like Jimmy John’s or Subway, they just look like uniform pieces,” said Monhollon, a biological systems engineering major. “If you look at the meats at the training table, you may as well be sitting there with a knife cutting it. It looks

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Students crave earlier, later dining hall hours Colleen Fell DN After arriving at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this fall, Adam D’Josey didn’t expect to be paying for 20 more meals a week than he could eat.

Like some other students, the freshman exploratory major is feeling the sting of what he calls “UNL’s inconvenient dining hall hours.” No dining hall on campus is open past 8:30 p.m. on weekdays.

During the week, D’Josey has class – with few gaps – from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., making it difficult for him to access dining centers during normal hours.

“It does a really good job of not being open when I need it to be,” the freshman said of dining halls campus-wide.

Dining hall hours vary depending on the day, but the earliest that any UNL dining hall opens on weekdays is 6:45 a.m., and on weekends, the first dining hall doesn’t open until 10:30 a.m. For dinner, a student is hardpressed to find an option after 8 p.m. aside from Selleck Dining Services, open until 8:30 p.m.

Monday through Thursday. But administrative officials within

University Housing and Dining Services said the current dining hall hours are fit for the needs of students. Meanwhile, with marketplace and self-serve dining options cropping up on campuses nationwide, other universities are starting to change their hours to accommodate students’ latenight schedules.

Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, currently offers a late-night option for students who have later classes. Monday through Thursday, TCU’s Market Square Dining Center closes at 9 p.m., then reopens at 10 p.m. and stays open until midnight.

A dining hall at the University of Minnesota: Twin Cities, similarly, remains open from 7 p.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday. UNL, which has more than double TCU’s enrollment of 9,925 students at 24,207 students, could benefit from adopting late-night options like these, students say.

Brennan Connelly, a sophomore athletic training major, said he wishes UNL dining halls stayed open at least until all his classes ended.

“I have class until 9:30 (p.m.),” Connelly said. “So it would be nice if I could get dinner after that.”

In the past, students have complained about the availability of dining halls on weekends and their delaying the starts to their days. But D’Josey, who is a resident of Smith Hall, wishes the Harper Dining Center were open on Sunday evenings. Students who live in Harper, Schramm and Smith can access the Harper Dining Center via an underground tunnel. D’Josey said he does not expect to be able to rely on the more-distant dining halls when it gets to be colder outside, as he would have to walk across campus to either the Selleck or Abel/ Sandoz dining centers.

“I don’t see myself trying to brave the cold to get a piece of ‘just OK’ pizza,” D’Josey said.

Fielding food-related complaints from students is a common occurrence for universities, but UNL’s reliance on local food sources and organic food programs has, in large part, kept student complaints at bay.

UNL has a number of different food suppliers, including both local farms and processing plants such as Cash-Wa Distributing of Kearney/Lincoln for various food items, Hiland Dairy Foods

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MEAL PLANS AROUND THE U.S. Cornell University – Ithaca, N.Y. An on-staff registered dietician and nutritionist is always available to help Cornell University students make healthy choices at the dining hall. The school features 30 on-campus dining locations and 10 all-you-caneat dining rooms, where students can be found indulging in poached salmon, masala tomato soup and spinach lasagna prepared by world-class chefs. The school’s cooks have worked at restaurants, five-star hotels and even Grand Slam tennis tournaments.

Northwestern University – Evanston, Ill.

University of California, Berkeley – Berkeley, Calif.

Continuous dining is available from breakfast through dinner at three dining halls in Evanston. Northwestern University’s dining halls feature allyou-can-eat buffets with vegan and vegetarian options such as edamame nut salad. Every meal includes a choice of fresh fruit and beverages, along with salad and deli bars. The university offers late-night meals Monday through Thursday, when one dining hall keeps its doors open until 11:30 p.m.

Bowdoin College – Brunswick, Maine

University of Washington – Seattle

Berkeley operates on a meal points system at 16 facilities, including seven restaurants and four retail markets. Each of its four dining halls offers an expansive menu: On an ordinary Sunday night, a student could choose to dine on margherita pizza, garlic roasted red potatoes, chicken tikka, vegan chocolate mousse pie, carrot cake or hummus and pita bread. Late-night dining includes a quesadilla bar, mac and cheese, burgers, pizza, breakfast food, shrimp skewers and fresh fruit.

Bowdoin College’s largest dining hall features soaring ceilings and ultramodern lighting.

Students eating at Thorne Hall sit at wooden tables looking out at the tall pines towering over the school’s campus. Meals regularly include vegetarian and vegan friendly options such as Mandarin Noodles and Grilled Spinach and Mozzarella on Sourdough. The university offers a Super Snack meal option on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, where students can eat from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Students have 40 choices for on-campus dining, from taco trucks to Subway to Pan-Asian cuisine. The dining plan works like a pre-paid debit card, so students can select a “level” with an allotted budget for food each week. The dollars can also go toward purchases at various cafes and convenience markets, so a dining plan can purchase a bag of Skittles as well as a banh mi sandwich.

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Ohio State University – Columbus, Ohio Meal plans are flexible at Ohio State, where students can opt for a set number of “blocks” to buy food at on-campus locations, unlimited or limited dine-in access at traditional dining halls or a combination of the three. The campus offers more than 25 places to eat, including a diner, coffee shops, a burrito restaurant and innumerable pizza joints.

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Dining Services sources food from four primary vendors in Nebraska and more than 60 other vendors around the state. Here’s a breakdown of a few of them.

O’NEILL

MULLEN

WEST POINT

MADISON OMAHA MARQUETTE

RAYMOND

LEXINGTON

COZAD Herbal Gatherings Founded in 2010, Cozadbased Herbal Gatherings supplies dining halls with the original, spicy and mixed mustard topping students’ burgers and sandwiches every day. The company’s products can be found in six states.

KEARNEY

LEXINGTON MULLEN Sandhill Ranchers Beef Co. More than 90 beef farmers supply meat to the Sandhill Ranchers Beef Company, which has a packing plant in Mullen. The beef is grass-fed and finished, meaning the cattle spent their entire lives on a pasture and forage diet rather than traditional grainfeeding. The meat contains no hormones or antibiotics.

BY THE NUMBERS Dining Services spent approximately

$7.5

LINCOLN

COZAD

Teresa’s Tortilla Bakery Teresa’s Tortilla Bakery in Lexington supplies UNL with the flour tortillas used to construct monstrous burritos at dining halls campus-wide.

The bakery has recently started selling meat and Hispanic groceries as well.

KEARNEY Cash-Wa Distributing of Kearney/Lincoln* Cash-Wa is the 20thlargest broadline foodservice distributor in America. Interstate drivers have probably seen its trucks delivering thousands of products in bulk to hospitals, restaurants, convenience stores and schools in 11 different states. Products range from 24-pound bags of frozen guacamole to precooked crispy pollock fillets to Barilla farfalle pasta, and the company has its own line of aged steaks – “Nebraska’s Finest Beef.” The company was founded as a candy company in Kearney about 80 years ago, and today, two of its three distribution centers remain in the Cornhusker state.

MARQUETTE Grain Place Foods, Inc. Grain Place Foods specializes in – get this – grains.

But its products, all of which are certified organic, range from brown rice to barley to freeze-dried blueberries. It has a 24-person staff.

O’NEILL Garden Fresh Vegetables Producing and selling fresh tomatoes and cucumbers yearround, Garden Fresh Vegetables in O’Neill employs 114 full-time employees annually and about 135 at peak production in the summer. The company grows its fruits and vegetables through hydroponics, roughly described as growing plants without soil.

WEST POINT Kvam Family Farm This small family farm located about 90 miles north of Lincoln offers antibiotic- and growth-hormone-free milk and cream, eggs, broiler chicken, beef and honey.

MILLION on food items last year, the majority of it during the academic year.

MADISON Bluestem Farms Based in Madison, Neb., Bluestem Farms is not certified organic or biodynamic, but farmers say they work to create healthy soil to sustain habitats suitable for people, livestock and wildlife. The Good, Fresh, Local food provider supplies produce to UNL dining halls.

The tract of land was bought in 2000 and named Bluestem Farms because of the abundant bluestem grasses that grow in Northeast Nebraska.

RAYMOND Branched Oak Farm Another family farm, Branched Oak sits on a 230acre plot 15 miles north of Lincoln. The certified organic, grass-based dairy farm specializes in cheese that its farmers make onsite, but it also offers beef and eggs.

Its cheese can be found at the Farmstead First Artisan Cheesemakers booth in the Lincoln Farmers market, as well as on students’ plates.

Common Good Farm With a full 4 acres devoted to vegetables and herbs, Common Good Farm in Raymond harvests more than 45 different kinds of produce. Eggs are available year-round at the farm and at Open Harvest in Lincoln. The farm also raises pastured pork and grass-fed beef, which is butchered annually in late fall and early winter.

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OMAHA

Hiland Dairy Foods of Omaha/Lincoln* Another Midwestern food industry staple, Hiland Dairy Foods delivers dairy products from its 11 plants to more than 10 states. Those products include milk, cheese, butter, sour cream and yogurt made from locally farmed milk, in addition to orange and apple juices. The company is farmerowned, and its milk doesn’t contain artificial growth hormones. It also engages in sustainability efforts by recycling cardboard, batteries, oil and plastic, reusing field manure and using reverse osmosis water silos in its farms.

Rotella’s Italian Bakery* Omaha-based Rotella’s Italian Bakery supplies fresh frozen breads and rolls to customers nationwide. The business began in Calabria, Italy, when Domenico Rotella first grew his own wheat and milled it into flour. Rotella’s product line-up now includes more than 240 varieties of breads, rolls and other baked goods. The Nebraska Restaurant Association named Rotella’s Italian Bakery as its Purveyor of the Year in 1999. The business continues to be family operated after more than 80 years as a wholesale bakery.

ShadowBrook Farm Lincoln-based ShadowBrook Farm is a small, family-owned specialty vegetable farm that values sustainable farming practices.

The farm’s produce can be found at six Nebraska locations.

About 10 of the farm’s 34 acres are devoted to growing certified organic specialty vegetables and herbs.

Valhalla Bee Farm About 5 miles from campus, Valhalla Bee Farm produces honey in liquid and cream form. Its website invites you to indulge in its “irresistible nectar of the Gods” with flavors like cinnamon and raspberry.

Greenberg Fruit Co.* Greenberg Fruit Company has been distributing fresh fruits and vegetables in Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa since 1936.

The produce supplier conducts regular food safety analyses, and donates to local non-profits and charities. Products include peppers, blueberries, tomatoes, raspberries and potatoes. The business is centrally located to serve all of Omaha and Lincoln, sitting within a mile of Interstate 80 - providing easy access to all points East, West, North and South.

The majority of food is purchased from

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PRIMARY VENDORS Other products are sourced from

60+

Nebraska farms and food processors. The most expensive food products are protein, beef, poultry, pork and fish.

Dining Services often receives new deliveries every

24 HOURS

Dining Services buys a large variety of food products – more than

3,000

separate items from Cash-Wa alone.

*Primary vendor

food fight: from 1 exactly like if you were at your house cutting it yourself. You can taste the difference.”

The most-visited dining halls are Selleck, HSS and Abel/Sandoz because of their proximity to the residence halls, but the East Campus Cafe remains a favorite among students. The dining hall inside the East Campus Union offers made-to-order grill options, Dairy Store ice cream produced in a nearby plant and food from local farmers and producers through the Good, Fresh, Local program.

“Pretty much everyone I talk to says that East Campus food is way better than City Campus,” freshman biological systems engineering major Ethan Cox said. “I figure that most of the City Campus food is really similar to a lot of the food I would get in high school, it’s just that there’s more of it at one time.”

Cox said his favorite part of the dining halls is the buffet style in which the food is served. But according to dietician Janet Buck, buffets are contradictory to a healthy lifestyle because they distort meal portions.

“Portion sizes are definitely an issue,” Buck said. “And buffets promote larger portion sizes. Buffets encourage people to go back and go back so people make sure they get their money’s worth. Studies show that you are going to eat as much as you can if you have the option.”

Nebraska is trying to limit this commonality by promoting a new initiative of the United States Department of Agriculture’s. What began merely as a circle and then evolved into two varying pyramid styles has now become a plate.

Worried the classic pyramid wasn’t representative enough the USDA launched MyPlate in 2010 as a new method of informing people how to eat correctly.

MyPlate posters are placed around the dining halls, yet Monhollon says a

hours: from 1 healthy plate is most promoted at the Training Table because they have clearly visible nutritional signs to help students choose the right foods and portions.

“They really do have it broken down on what you should eat,” Monhollon said. “They have signs that are well-viewed that you don’t have to sit there and read what’s in the food, and it’s not in tiny writing.”

According to another dietician, Jamie Kabourek, college students should be cognizant of what goes onto their plates because the habits they create now will carry on later in life. Kabourek says the freshman 15 is actually a fallacy according to recent studies conducted. She said she doesn’t “buy into the whole 15,” because students only gain a net 3 to 12 pounds in their first two years on average. In order to keep away the “freshman 3 to 12,” Kabourek says approximately two-thirds of a student’s plate should be fruits, vegetables and grains. The other portion should be protein and a cup of milk, she said.

Even though fruits and vegetables should be the majority of a person’s meal, these products constitute only one of the bars at UNL dining halls.

Other bars include pizza, pasta, hamburgers and desserts. But Kabourek said the availability of these options isn’t necessarily a problem.

“I absolutely think it is OK to offer all types of foods to students because as they grow out of college, they are going to be exposed to unhealthy situations lifelong,” Kabourek said.

Using local food items takes a lot of the unhealthiness out, Buck says. The longer the food transportation process takes, the more nutrition lost in the fruits and vegetables because of heat and light. Edwards said UNL promotes a healthy student body through its dining hall options. She said programs such as Good, Fresh, Local, where local

farms and food producers supply fresh produce to the dining halls on a monthly basis, encourage healthy eating.

For sophomore Giles Hovseth, the most alluring options aren’t always the healthiest. Hovseth prefers East Campus and CPN because the food tastes more home-cooked.

“Selleck, HSS and Abel are edible,” said Hovseth, a philosophy and advertising and public relations major. “Eat too much of it and you just feel bad.

CPN and East Campus, I think, have better quality, and the grill on East Campus is what I love the most.”

Dining Services tries to educate students about how to properly construct a meal for themselves on a daily basis, making for healthier students, according to Edwards.

“We offer a variety of food and try to educate the students on how to make healthful choices with the food that is offered,” Edwards said. “We have a variety of fruits and vegetables — that includes fresh, frozen, canned. All of our canned fruits are packed in natural juices. You can make a perfectly healthful meal on a daily meal plan, it’s all about how you put it together. And of course portion sizes play a major role in all of that.”

Variety definitely comes into play for college students who would rather not be eating the same thing day-in and day-out. When Monhollon was deciding between the schools of his choice, the dining halls came into consideration as much as his major and the honors program.

“Definitely I didn’t want to be eating at the same dining hall every day,” Monhollon said. “You get into kind of a monotonous rhythm. I didn’t want it to be like high school where I had the same thing, copy, paste every week.

There was a lot of variety at Nebraska.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

of Omaha and Lincoln for milk and dairy products and Rotella Bakery of Omaha for bread and bread products.

The university has also made efforts to ensure that a portion of food served is fresh and local. UNL began the Good, Fresh, Local program in 2005 as part of the Lincoln Sustainable Food Project. The program defines local as food that comes from Nebraska farms, manufacturing plants and producers.

The Good, Fresh, Local program offers special meals each month at each dining hall and features GFL items every day at each dining hall. The program also makes efforts to promote healthy meal options and to educate students about sustainable agriculture.

UNL obtains part of its meat supply from Nebraska providers, such as Omaha Steaks and Del Gould Meat Co. in Lincoln. Some of UNL’s produce supply is grown on campus by the UNL Agronomy and Horticulture Department. Other produce sources include Arbor Day Farms in Nebraska City and ShadowBrook Farm in Lincoln.

Last year, UNL Housing Dining Services spent approximately $7.5 million on food. Ron Burke, executive director of UNL Housing Dining Services, said the most expensive food products are beef, poultry, pork and fish. Daily delivery of food items is available from

suppliers and is sometimes necessary because of the large volume of meals and limited food storage. Daily deliveries also ensure freshness of product.

Like UNL, TCU obtains much of its food supply from local manufacturers. Michael Dahl, director of operations at TCU Dining Services, said the main goal of the college’s dining services is to promote nutritious choices among students.

“We are always on the lookout to expand our local offerings,” Dahl said. “We use local bagels, breads, buns, honey, a multitude of catering items including candies and sodas, spinach, tomatoes, potatoes, grapefruit and anything seasonal we can get.”

At TCU, resident directors meet with students to help them make choices for their specific dietary needs.

Other universities have also instituted ways for students to figure out exactly what they are putting into their bodies, with a techsavvy twist.

The University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., offers an online calculator that students can use to track their calorie intake. Students can choose a dining center, meal time and exact meal items. The system then describes the exact ingredients in the meal, as well as calories, fat and other vitamins. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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best dining halls on campus

I’ve lived on City Campus for two years now, and I would eat at East (Campus Cafe & Grill) whenever I could. The staff is friendly and the food is actually fresh. Also, they prepare food that people will actually eat. When I lived at Abel, it was a bunch of weird things that just didn’t look appetizing. I would often resort to a diet of cereal and salad.

I honestly think that (East Campus) is better ‘cause of the quality of the food. I mean, sure, city has the quantity (and) selection, but east really does have the home-cooked food. And the best thing is walking into east and having the cooks and staff talk to you. Some know me by name.

I think overall, the East Campus dining hall is my favorite. I love going to the theme days at dining halls on City Campus, though.

Aaron Colwell

Taylor Cooper

Tyler Schindler

freshman veterinary science major

freshman forensic science major

sophomore agricultural education major

The food is just as good as any on City Campus. The cooking staff is awesome, and it’s just a really friendly atmosphere on East Campus. You can pretty much sit down with anyone and have a half-hour conversation — and there’s Dairy Store ice cream on Fridays.

I really like the food at East Campus.

I eat here every day since I live here, and for lunch and dinner we just always have something different.

The food is always fresh.

Shay Torres

sophomore animal science major

Levi Schroer

Selleck has the same thing every day. Even if they’re trying to change it up, you can guarantee on the pizza, pasta, hamburgers.

Luke Monhollon

freshman animal science major

freshman biosystems engineering major

news

UNL to host ‘Building the 22nd Century’ conference Mid-October event in Omaha will examine preparing for the next 100 years mara klecker dn Fast-forward 100 years. The nation is dominated by megacities – metropolises with millions of people.

“Building the 22nd Century,” a conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will focus on predicting and preparing for the scenario that could be to come in the next century.

The conference will be held Oct. 14 through Oct. 16 at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha. Presenters include Ray Kurzweil, the director of engineering for Google; Stanley McChrystal, former U.S. Forces Afghanistan commander; and Henry Cisneros, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Each speaker has been asked to answer the question, “What do you think the 22nd century is going to look like and what will its built environment look like?”

Tim Wei, dean of the College of Engineering said the goal of the conference is to identify common themes from the presentations and plan research and academic programs around those themes.

Wei sees the conference’s lineup as a sign of the topic’s relevance.

“It’s really exciting to have this collection of people,” Wei said. “It affirms that we have identified a topic that resonates with a variety of people.”

Wei anticipates an attendance of about 200 to 300 people, including deans from top engineering colleges across the country who are attending as part of the Big Ten Plus Engineering Consortium.

“This is really a high-profile event,” Wei said. “It is good for Nebraska and good for society in general, but it really hits the mark in elevating our stature as a college of engineering.”

Those with interests outside of engineering and architecture are also encouraged to attend.

The speakers will approach the issue from a variety of perspectives, Wei said, and all students should

It’s fascinating to me to imagine the world that my grandchildren or my great-grandchildren will live in.”

Jane -stewart engebretson communications and martketing manager

have an invested interest in the future.

“The rationale for 100 years out is that the students that we graduate are going to have 40- to 50- year careers,” Wei said. “As University of Nebraska alums, we hope that they will be successful leaders. At the end of their careers, they will be training and hiring and developing the next generation of leaders.”

Jane-Stewart Engebretson,

communications and marketing manager for the College of Engineering, agreed that the envisioning and planning for the future is crucial. She also said looking toward the future is important for everyone, regardless of area of study.

“It’s fascinating to me to imagine the world that my grandchildren or my great-grandchildren will live in,” Engebretson said.

She said she predicts changes

in social life, the legal environment and the way people communicate and gather information.

“It’s important that we understand that some of the things we think about today will impact the lives of future generations,” she said.

For details on the conference sessions and registration information, visit buildingthe22ndcentury.unl.edu. UNL students, faculty and staff can register for all conference sessions for a $50 fee, or sign up for individual sessions.

McChrystal will give a free, public presentation about the U.S. military’s mission of rebuilding Afghanistan at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln on Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Dancers and drummers from the Omaha group African Culture Connection greet guests of the Gala Celebration of African Art, Cuisine and Fashion at University of Nebraska-Lincoln International Quilt Study Center and Museum on Friday. The event, sponsored by the Malaika Foundation, raised money to send Nebraska teachers abroad to obtain a global education and help enrich their classrooms.

Tanzanian celebration

photos by Rachel Wood Liberata Mulamula, Tanzanian ambassador to the United States, is recognized at the quilt center with the Tanzanian First Lady’s delegation. More than 380 guests welcomed Mulamula and the rest of the First Lady’s delegation to Nebraska with a warm round of applause.

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On campus what: Beyond GMOs to a More Honest Dialogue About Our Food when: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hardin Hall Auditorium more information: Free public lecture, preceded by 3 p.m. reception what: University Faculty Brass Quintet when: 6:30 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hall more information: $5 general admission, $3 students/seniors what: Barry Lopez Public Reading when: 7:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Union Ballroom more information: Free event, open to public

IN LINCOLN what: Catholicism Live Roundtable Discussion when: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. where: The Mill, 800 P St. more information: Free event

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our view

UNL needs to provide late-night dining options Everyone in college is awake between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m., and because the dining hall hours are somewhat counterintuitive, everyone is hungry during this time. It’s a natural law.

Which is why it’s absurd that after 8:30 p.m., there isn’t anywhere an emaciated sophomore can find food on campus that doesn’t require a microwave. As a result, we’re forced to trek downtown for a burrito, a sub sandwich, chicken fingers, noodles or fries. Or call Metro Dining Delivery. All are options that cause money to be needlessly funneled off campus.

But this isn’t the case at all other universities. According to today’s Daily Nebraskan, Texas Christian University, a private school in Texas, has a dining hall that reopens at 10 p.m. and stays open until midnight. The University of Minnesota has dining options that are open from 7 p.m. until midnight five days a week. These services accommodate the students who have night classes, who don’t have time to eat dinner until late in the evening or who are just generally hungry after 8:30 p.m. Claims that the current UNL dining hall hours are reflective of student needs are out of touch. It makes basic sense to offer these services to students. Besides the fact that a late-night, on-campus food option would clearly be more convenient than the current options, this is also an opportunity for the administration to take more of our money. Everyone wins.

And it doesn’t have to be a whole dining hall. The basement of a residence hall would suffice. Neihardt is an attractive candidate — it’s located near the center of City Campus. This establishment could offer a limited number of options to maximize resources. Maybe we could call it the Lounge.

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Banning books wastes time, energy

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ast week was Banned Books Week.

(Yeah, I know. Book banning is apparently still a thing.) People are still finding ways to keep books off the shelves to protect the eyes and ears of our children. Book banning is an absurd practice because it’s wholly ineffective and based on a subjective set of ethics.

“Eleanor & Park,” Rainbow Rowell’s first novel for young adults, is a book that didn’t escape this form of censorship. John Green described “Eleanor & Park” as a “beautiful, haunting love story,” and he said that it reminded him “what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.” The book quickly became a New York Times bestseller after it hit the shelves, so the folks over there apparently agreed with Green wholeheartedly. In fact, most people have agreed that it’s a great novel. Only a few haven’t felt that way, but they’ve managed to cause quite a stink all the same, thanks to the joys of book banning.

Long story short, two parents in Minnesota bullied their school district and the local library into canceling Rowell’s visit. The district told her not to come, even after she offered to visit for free. Now the parents are on a crusade for “Eleanor & Park” to be removed from bookshelves because it’s a “dangerously obscene” book. They came up with a 13-page report that expanded on that two-word phrase, of course. You have to admire their creativity.

They should write a book.

By “dangerously obscene,” they must mean, “full of touchy topics that certain parents don’t want to acknowledge exist.” Eleanor, the main character, has to live with her abusive and alcoholic stepfather. She also deals with school bullies who call her “Go Big Red” in reference to her curves and red hair. Many young adults could relate to these things.

Here’s Rowell’s take on the bullying and abuse: “Teenagers swear and are cruel to each other. Some kids have terrible parents. Some girls have terrible stepdads who shout profanity at them and call them sluts – and some of those girls still manage to rise above it.”

In other words, there’s a method to her madness. By acknowledging the problems, she’s also acknowledging the kids who are dealing with them. These parents think that they’re protecting the precious children. Turns out they’re doing precisely the opposite. Ignoring a kid’s reality doesn’t make it go away.

It just means the kid gets to suffer alone.

ban “Fahrenheit 451” in the past. The most recent attempt was in 2006, where a Texan couple wanted it removed from their daughter ’s reading list because of all the cussing and how it takes God’s name in vain.

So Rowell isn’t the only author who’s been inconvenienced by censorship. In 2012, people filed at least 464 formal complaints, hoping to get the books out of libraries and/or schools.

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, “The Kite Runner” Also, just to clarify, the parents counted by Khaled Hosseini, “Looking for Alaska” by 227 “offending” words, including 67 Gods, 24 John Green and “Beloved” by Toni Morrison were in the top 10 most challenged books last Jesuses and four Christs.

I’m going to take a moment to address the year.

In case anyone’s wondering, those are all Christian thing. Many teachers respect the Christian faith, I’m sure. However, the people great books. (Ban Toni Morrison? Ban John in charge also recognize that not everybody’s Green? Really, guys?)

Oh, and guess what the number one most Christian. There is a separation of church and challenged title of 2012 was? The books from state for a reason. If the assigned reading offends you because of a religious aspect, that the “Captain Underpants” series by Dav Pilkey. is not the teacher ’s (or the author ’s) problem.

I know.

Moving right along, the other I really wish I were kidoffensive words in “Eleanor & ding on this one. Why on earth These Park” are ones that good ol’ Bo is a character that runs around uses often (and I don’t blame him parents in a cape and underwear wor— football’s stressful at the best thy of censorship, you may of times). The stepdad and the think that they’re ask? I wish I knew. “Nacho Libullies are actually responsible protecting the bre” didn’t have to deal with for most of the book’s profanity, this crap. Why didn’t parents which is appropriate and realis- precious children. throw a fuss when that movie tic. You show me someone who Turns out they’re came out? didn’t encounter a load of profanThis is why Banned Books ity in high school, and the first doing precisely Week exists: to uphold the thing I’m going to ask is if that the opposite. freedom of reading and to disperson was homeschooled or not. courage book banners from To quote the 2009 film “Pirate Ignoring a kid’s ruining the fun for everyone Radio,” “If you shoot a bullet, else. If you don’t like the book, someone dies. When you drop a reality doesn’t don’t pick it up. If you don’t bomb, many die. You hit a wom- make it go away.” like what the teachers have asan, love dies. But if you say the fsigned your child, accept the word, nothing actually happens.” teacher ’s choice and move on.

Profanity’s not the worst thing in The instructors are getting paid for a reason. the world — not by a long shot.

They know what they’re doing, I promise.

Despite this, “Eleanor & Park” caused a And in any case, in a country where there’s fuss. Not because of outlandish, underage sexa mass shooting nearly every week, where ual acts. Not because of underage drinking or general drug use. No, just for a few f-bombs, people are targeted for hate crimes based on their sexuality or race and where obesity runs a couple of Jesus Christs and some negative rampant, book banning should fall to the bottopics. tom of the list.

It really makes you wonder if any of these Emme Grafton is a senior English complainers have read “Fahrenheit 451.” Maymajor. Reach her at opinion@ be they’ve been avoiding that one for the same dailynebraskan.com. reasons they’re avoiding “Eleanor & Park.”

Quite ironically, many people have tried to

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Millenials must face harsh reality

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illennials are nihilists. But it’s not our fault. Yes, the future looks bleak for our species. It’s been heavily debated whether the millennials signal the destruction or salvation of our civilization. It sounds heavy — but it’s true. As a generation, millennials are going to enter a system determined to fail.

And they’re blaming us. Told it’s on us to fix it.

Critics paint the youth as apathetic and complex. It sounds so utterly radical, but these narcissistic. That’s fine, but we are products of are the debates that drive our politics. the generation before us. As a know-it-all colEven worse, our domeslege kid, I have been manufactic issues have grown so large tured into this self-indulgent, It’s a harsh that the presidential debate on entitled and narcissistic epiforeign policy focused on probreality. demic. An egoist, if you will. lems within our borders. PolitiWe are jaded, cocky and have Millenials had cal polarization is as extreme as probably earned the moniker it was before the Civil War. Not bestowed upon us by Emory a deregulated to mention the entire country professor Mark Bauerlein as childhood — our seems to have accepted the fact “The Dumbest Generation.” that money drives policy and are It’s unfair to throw around government generally apathetic about it. The these premature judgments. financial crisis illustrated this abandoned Condescending from an ivory shortcoming when thousands of tower is never productive, food regulation homeowners were forced out of and millennials have been their homes while the U.S. govdrowned out of the conversa- and education ernment posted bail for all the tion. What’s not being talked programming... biggest firms. about is the state of the world And honestly, I could choke we entitled, cocky brats are in- and criminalized all of this down if the education heriting. homosexuality.” system wasn’t so dismal and the Millennials are receiving a unemployment rate wasn’t so world that is barely holding ithigh. Or if students could find a self together. I can appreciate the Cold War in decent job after college and income disparity the sense that the international system didn’t wasn’t determining outcomes. Or if the nablow itself up, but I wonder at times if anytion was prepared for climate change, if our thing has actually been learned. The nationhealthcare was affordable and we didn’t jail a alist paranoia exploited by Joseph Stalin has quarter of the world’s prison population. been amplified over the years, and right here Damn, at least someone enjoyed it while at home: a perpetual war on terror and indefiit lasted. nite detention threats, the dissolution of civil Drowning in an overload of media saturaliberties and an unchecked military-industrial tion, information leaves our head as quickly as

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we can open the next Internet tab. We are more branded by corporate consumption than any generation before us; walking advertisements.

We don’t seem to comprehend the word authority and can’t stop watching relentless self-promoters on whatever channel happens to occupy the tube (the remote is just too far away!). It’s a crime we can’t sit through a 50-minute history lecture without a little bit of Adderall, but what do you expect from sugarhappy soda addicts? It’s a harsh reality. Millennials had a deregulated childhood — our government abandoned food regulation and educational programming, denied climatechange and criminalized homosexuality.

I feel entitled. Honestly. Born and raised in the greatest country on earth, bolstered by our God-given exceptionalism, I don’t see any reason why it would be too much to expect the rosy America that was painted for us in our youth. It’s not necessarily about the arrogance and the half-truths, but couldn’t we have been vaguely honest?

With information at my fingertips, I’m a part of a generation that can fact check faster than you can say “fact check.” Solutions to big problems are out there, and we have the know-how to see them out more efficiently than ever before. Yes, we’re impatient.

We’re not going to put up with injustices at home as quickly as before. We expect change when a candidate calls for “Change” and we’re pissed when we don’t get it. Our apathy is matched by ambitions that connect millions worldwide. We can maneuver cyberspace to bring change at the pace that we wish. When power structures get in the way, we work around them. For the most part, the debate as to the future of millennials is unproductive. It is being led by those on the outside looking in.

Dave Gottschalk is a Senior Political Science Major. Follow him on twitter @gawdchalk or email him at davegottschalk08@gmail.com

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or many, a trip to Disney World entails various amusement rides, theme park food and, of course, lots of fun.

However, some University of Nebraska-Lincoln students had the opportunity to mix work and play through internships with the Disney College Program. Kaitlyn Baumfalk, Tina Martinez and Liz Adams interned at the Disney World Resort. Adams and Martinez both learned about the internship through a Google search, and Baumfalk got involved with the program through a conversation with a friend.

“I had always known that I wanted to work at Disney World,” Baumfalk said. “It was the perfect balance, working at Disney World while

Disney College Program interns hope to share their experience through recruitment of UNL students

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New ‘Harry Potter’ movie creates campus buzz “I think it’s a cool idea. I trust J.K. Rowling’s ability to write anything. I’d read a dictionary if she wrote it.”

Conner Kozisek freshman communications major

“Because our generation came of age with Harry Potter, I don’t see how you could not be excited about it.”

Annie Himes sophomore history, global studies and Russian major

“I thought it was a rumor, so I don’t have an intellectual answer. But I’m super excited. I love Harry Potter. I think it will be interesting to see if it’s different than normally what she wrote about with Harry Potter.

Hopefully she can make a textbook interesting.”

Madison Costello freshman speech pathology major

“I think it’s exciting to see that new part of the world of Harry Potter.”

Sarah Resch junior theater major

“Will Dumbledore be in it or anything? Cause he’s old as balls right? I guess I’m excited. I mean prequels are usually the better ones. Did you see ‘X-Men: First Class?’

That was way better than any other X-Men movie I saw.”

Joe Shea senior technical theater major

“It’s about a textbook? I don’t know.

I’m not the biggest Harry Potter fan.

I mean I watched them just because they’re popular. I’m kind of like a Harry Potter hipster, like, too cool for it, I guess.”

Christian Andrew senior marketing major

“First of all, I think it’s a good idea because she’s going back in time instead of forward in time because then everyone would be like, ‘Well what’s Harry Potter doing at this time?’ But you don’t even have to worry about it because he’s not even born. I like that (J.K. Rowling) was really adamant about doing it because she like has this whole universe in her head and she doesn’t want anyone to mess it up, and I respect her for that, too. I’m glad that it’s not an extension of actual Harry Potter. I’m glad that it’s a different person’s story. Yeah, I’m pretty excited for it.”

Jessie Gray junior advertising and public relations major

“I haven’t seen any of the other movies. I’ve read all the books, but never seen the movies. I might see the new one. I’d have to see the other ones first.”

Max Duggan junior accounting major

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Author Barry Lopez gives advice on life direction Diversity and change should help motivate students to explore new paths in college Akua Dawes DN Barry Lopez is a renowned author, known best for “Arctic Dreams,” a National Book Award-winning look at the Far North territory. A photographer-turned-writer, Lopez brings artistry and deep insights to his beliefs about nature, the world and our role in it. Recently, Lopez has collaborated with University of Nebraska-Lincoln literary journal the Prairie Schooner to talk about his opinions on diversity. The DN caught up with Lopez to talk about his essay published in the journal, as well as his experiences traveling across the world and teaching in a university setting.

Daily Nebraskan: In your essay for the Prairie Schooner, “Six Thousand Lessons,” you talk about diversity and how it is a necessity for life in the various places you have traveled. But in a place such as Nebraska, which remains predominantly white, how imperative do you find diversity to be in this environment?

Barry Lopez: Well, you know, racial diversity is one kind of diversity, and I’m sure that if you dug into the soil of Nebraska you’ll find a mind-boggling diversity of organisms there. So my overall point is that diversity is a necessity of life but not every place has every kind of diversity.

And maybe a long-term goal and the direction the world is going in is a much more porous distribution of people with different ethnic and racial and cultural backgrounds than was the case, say, 200 years ago. So, some places, you know, Southern California or Southern Florida or the city of Toronto, you can find lots of places; any of the major cities now have an every year increasingly diverse population, human population.

And that’s the direction we’re going, and I think that’s a good direction, but you can’t have that kind of diversity in every place immediately, so it’s, as they say, a process.

DN: So, in your essay “An Intimate Geography,” you talk about the many places you have been, but you also said that your ideal place to live is your house in Oregon. What about that place makes you want to stay there and not any of the other places you’ve visited?

BL: Oregon is a political invention, and I don’t have an allegiance for that is the political state of Oregon. It is a shorthand way of saying that the place I miss the most or that I want to be in is my home. I’ve lived in that same house for 43 years and the woods here, and that means that the longest conversation I’ve had with a place has been here, and that’s the conversation I want to continue.

I could go to a place for a month or whatever and be tremendously stimulated by those places, but the

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The environments in “Dark Souls” capture the despair of its gameplay as much as they do the beauty and thrill of victory.

Difficult ‘Dark Souls’ captivates gamers Miles Rothlisberger DN

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Writer and photographer Barry Lopez won a National Book Award for “Arctic Dreams” in 1986. Lopez is known for his work in the humanities. investment of my mind and spirit and body is in my home, and the home happens to be in this place called Oregon.

DN: What would you suggest young people do to become more aware and influential in the future?

BL: As far as young people are concerned, I feel a fierce determination and obligation to spend as much time with people in this transitional landscape, you know, going to universities and such, as I can. The real reason I want to be in university environment is to see what’s on students’ minds and to talk to those who are interested in what they might be doing in the future. And when I think about this situation, it pains me to know that so many students have got this burden of looking for a job and trying to find a way to perfect their education in such a direction that they become good candidates for jobs when they graduate. Like, that’s not a good reason to be in university.

A major reason for being in university is to discover what you mean by your life. You’re an individual; you’re not some kind of clone. The processes of leaving home and going to university is the process of letting go of the familiar place you feel relatively safe and jumping into the deep end of the pool and finding out what do I really mean by my life.

When it comes to saying goodbye to some of your high school friends because you’ve grown and they haven’t, that’s really hard,

but you have to do it if you’re going to not be looking in the mirror when you’re 40 years old and thinking, what did I do, why did, where did this path go that everyone seems to follow. I want it to do more. So you’re in college to find out what do you mean by your life and what do you want to mean in the world.

And the second part of being in university is trying to discover how to say that: Do I say that as a writer? Do I say that as a mathematician? Do I say that as a psychologist? How am I going to say what I mean in the world, which is a way different thing than a job.

So when I think about students the last thing I want to do is come up to a student I don’t know and say, “Hey, this situation we have in the world is really bad. Sorry about that, and good luck cleaning it up.” You know, like, get out of my way because you’re no help to me. It’s the wrong approach to say to people, ‘Here’s how bad things are in the environment, and you have to clean it up.’ Know what you people have to do. The difference between your generation and my generation is that I have experience but I don’t have your energy, and I don’t have your facility with the way information moves. So if your idea is to do something to halt this destructive process that could kill people, at my age, I would advise to work with young people and use their energy to help change the world. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Christ in heaven, “Grand Theft Auto V” has been racking up the sales.

However, after all that carefree running amok in a virtual world, there is something about a truly challenging game that invigorates the soul. There are many things to love about hard games: the sweat that builds up between palms and the controllers after completing a triple corkscrew through a ring of fire, the blood pulsing in the brain after screwing up for the 32nd time on that horrendous, cruel boss-battle, the throat soreness after screaming into the poor, nonliving television that innocently stood there and took the punishment.

One such game happens to be “Dark Souls.”

“Dark Souls” immediately sets players in a vibrant, yet hopecrushingly dreary land known as Lordran, a once-thriving realm now blighted by demons. Players are cast into this fray after being cursed as “Undead” and banished from safe civilization.

In this game, players must traverse wretched landscapes ranging from a trap-filled fortress to a poisonous bog to a landscape of pure ash. Of course, in said places, absolutely Goddamn everything that moves wishes to end adventurers’ lives with smiles to boot.

Crystal giants the size of bulldozers, fearsome black knights and dragons that spend little time playing around lie in wait, ready to keep the world in darkness.

Even animals that are associated with cuteness like cats, butterflies and rats are twisted into disturbing versions of their past selves, with thirty rows of pointy teeth or even magic-firing abilities.

Then there are the bosses, and boy oh boy are they a doozy. From a double-teaming duo of gargoyles to a tree that shoots fire at a mound of conjoined skeletons, these bossies are about as dark and unsettling as a Metallica album cover, as merciless as a pack of hyenas with machetes and as difficult to beat as it is to break through a boulder with fists.

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Bonfires riddled throughout the world of Lordran offer the few places of respite in an otherwise hostile world.

Luckily, players are divine heroes with superpowers, ready to tackle these evils and save the land from the demons, right? Unfortunately, reality has something else in mind. Players are about as vulnerable as role-playing characters get. Sure the controls work excellently, and there are a plethora of weapon and magic options to customize the flimsy fleshbag of a protagonist, but realistic physical limitations keep players grounded in the game’s difficulty. “Dark Souls” provides limited resources and usable abilities, and because of that, the game is strict and challenging.

But, there is also a fairness to “Dark Souls.” Whatever mistakes are made, 99 percent of the time they are not the game’s fault or its evil minions, but instead, sit directly on players’ shoulders - a balance that enriches each gruesome moment.

Of course, the game is hammering-skull-into-wall hard sometimes, but the harder it gets, the more satisfaction that’s gained. Every enemy encounter is a potential challenge that’s edgy and full of intensity. At each corner, suspense grips players with the unknown dangers that lurk ahead.

Finally, with every painful step closer to the end, even before a boss is beaten, there is an undeniable urge to cheer and celebrate

that small victory in and of itself.

Even if death comes in the next moment, the fact that such progress was made at all deserves a little pride. The game is tough, dammit. And, once that flying glutton with a club goes down for the count, there will be fireworks and ominous applause as the text “You Defeated” shows up (also a hilarious Japanese translation).

However, this is merely a ploy by the game to lower players’ defense so that the next terrible beastie cleans up house - likely out of the spite and cruel sadism the developers coded into every single square inch of Lordran.

“Dark Souls” is something fellow masochists and gamers in general need to try. For more story-oriented players, the subtle tale may not be a suitable choice, but that is not really the point of this game. As a visually and technically intimidating, yet ultimately rewarding game that’s easy on the collegian wallet as well as a lengthy and worthwhile playing experience, “Dark Souls” definitely delivers.

It may be tough, and frustrations may grow high at times, but faith, if just a little, will help players “Praise the Sun” once again.

Plus, staggering death counts could be something to brag about with buddies. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

2013’s fall fashion features oversized grunge styles Trends in New York Fashion Week inspire both classic and outlandish looks Maria Barmettler Dn The most wonderful time of the year has arrived, and, no, I’m not referring to the MLB post-season.

Autumn is here, and it’s by far the superior season for many reasons. Just think about it. Perfect weather, haunted houses, Halloween, crunchy leaves, bonfires and don’t forget the ever-clichéd

Pumpkin Spice Latte.

But the best part of fall is fall clothing.

Scarves, hats, leggings, boots, you name it. As a shopaholic myself, this season is extremely dangerous to my bank account, especially with a college budget. I buy too many boots in too many different colors. I cannot resist.

Through the years, I have learned to hold back, though, and only focus on what’s in season.

The question then remains, what are the trends for this fall 2013?

Don’t stress; that’s what I’m here for. Some may seem a bit out there or not what you might first pick up at a clothing store or boutique, but just keep in mind that most of these trends come from this year’s New York Fashion Week, which

means they can be a little over-thetop. Nonetheless, these will definitely be making an appearance this season.

One of my personal favorites this fall would most definitely be the knit beanie hat. I’m pretty positive I have at least nine of them, and if I were to go shopping and stumble upon more, I would purchase them. These are especially great for girls when we have a bad hair day. It happens to us all and is pretty much unavoidable.

Another trend to keep your eye out for is oversized outerwear.

Kind of like a guy lending his coat to a smaller girl and her upper body drowns in it. Yeah, that’s the look I’m referring to. But hey, it gives an edgy, yet comfortable look to women. It won’t just be over-

sized coats either, but oversized shirts, pants, scarves and more. It almost resembles a grunge look.

Now, you must make sure that you have something leather this season as well. I’m not just talking leather accessories; leather clothing in all regards will be a big hit, and you don’t want to miss out on it. Leather skirts and jackets will be the most popular, but you could always get creative.

Pleated skirts. Some of you may wonder how this fits with fall and not spring or summer, but pleated skirts kill it in the fall and winter as well. Match a simple pleated skirt with a fashion forward pair of tights, and don’t forget combat boots to complete the look.

One important trend I would like to touch on is classic and old

fashioned prints. These are very simple, yet stylish and extremely similar to ’60s mod style. I am quite excited to see how people react to this trend and how well it catches on.

As for a popular color, watch out for emerald. This was a popular choice last year, and you can bet it’ll be back once again. Beautiful and elegant, emerald is a color that flatters just about anyone.

This last trend will be making a definite appearance - layering.

This, I will have to say, is my favorite. The easiest fall outfit I can throw together is a pair of leggings, shirt, flannel, jean jacket, beanie and combat boots. Right there are three layers just for the top of my outfit. Just like the oversized clothing, layering adds to the

grunge-type look that will be seen all over this season.

For all you summer and warm weather lovers out there, I am sincerely sorry. I understand how bitter you must be about the cold temperatures coming our way, but you don’t have to completely despise this season. Try out some new trends, and maybe you will learn to love it. No? Probably not.

But you could at least give it a try!

Next time you’re shopping or having some retail therapy, keep in mind what’s in season and what’s out.

When you look good, you feel good, and who doesn’t love that feeling? arts@ dailynebraskan.com

“First and foremost, the safety of our guests was focused on.”

Along with Martinez, Baumfalk had the opportunity to work as an actor on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” attraction. Her duties included operating the ride, interacting with guests and making sure everyone had a magical experience, which she admits is a lot harder than it sounds.

Although the interns received a salary, they were required to pay their own rent and buy their own food.

Disney provided buses that would take the students to grocery stores every week. Most of the interns were housed with multiple roommates, all of whom were complete strangers.

“The hardest thing for me was moving in with five strangers,” Adams said. “At times, we were each others’ best friends, but at others, not so much. But I think I learned more about how to handle others’ differences better because of this living environment.”

All three of the interns agreed

The three of them said they that one of the best parts of the exthink Disney is one of the best perience was meeting new people. places to learn tourism and hospiSince they were part of an intertality. As one of the world’s most national program, there were infamous sites, it attracts millions terns from all 50 states and from of visitors every countries all over the year. world.

The absolute “I learned that “I also got a Disney does guest crash course in combest part management and munication skills,” guest service betBaumfalk said. “You was making lifeter than anyone also get to put that long friendships. else, and that has you worked for helped me more Disney on your re- I had incredible in recent jobs,” sume. The benefits coworkers Adams said. are pretty great, too.

Although the You get free admis- and built great job had its benesion into the parks, fits and provided discounted tickets relationships.” great work exand merchandise, Liz adams perience, it came special behind-thedisney world intern with some negascenes opportunities tive moments. All and you just happen three said that to work at the ‘Hapbeing thrown into a new environpiest Place on Earth.’” ment with completely new people “The absolute best part of the experience was making life-long was overwhelming at first. Because the program was long, they friendships,” Adams said. “I had missed several holidays and even incredible coworkers and built family birthdays. great relationships.”

“It’s definitely scary when you first get down there because you don’t know anyone and you’re in a strange new place, but you adjust quickly because everyone is experiencing the exact same thing,” Baumfalk said. “I guess the worst part was not being able to be home for six months.

However, Disney sure does know how to celebrate Halloween and Christmas.”

Like many internships, the jobs at Disney were very demanding. Since the theme park has a reputation for quality service and experience, employees were under pressure to provide a magical experience for everyone.

“The worst part was the hours; this is when I developed my Red Bull addiction,” Martinez said.

The opportunity to intern at Disney provided these three students with a chance to learn more about themselves and their long term goals. They were stretched in ways that made them grow up faster, such as learning to cook for themselves and move away from

their families and friends for an extended amount of time.

“For the first time in my life, I was nearly on my own, and because of that I feel like I developed more as an individual and learned more about my own identity while cultivating meaningful relationships,” Adams said.

“Honestly, it was probably the most incredible experience of my life,” Baumfalk said. “I made lifelong friendships and experienced living on my own while working a full-time job for an awesome company.”

Although the three students no longer live at Disney World, they are still employed as Disney College Program Campus Representatives, meaning it is their job to recruit new interns. If any students are currently interested, they can contact the campus team at unldisneycampusreps@gmail. com.

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Disney: from 5 taking classes online through my home university.”

Although none of the interns found the application difficult, they said that it was extremely time consuming. After applying online, an interview via the Internet and phone is required. Waiting for the final decision takes anywhere from two to three weeks.

Adams, a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major worked as a hostess at Disney’s Signature California Grill. She had multiple responsibilities at her job, including providing good customer service.

“I was surrounded by a management team that supported my goals and also had suggestions on how to achieve them,” Adams said.

Martinez, also a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major, was employed as a pirate on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” attraction.

“Basically we had to create an experience that will last a lifetime for our guests,” Martinez said.

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The film, though breathtaking and emotionally taxing, has few events and relies mostly on dialogue to let the film affect its audience. That being said, the film is in Romanian, but even with the language barrier, the dialogue feels real and well thought out.

It focuses on two college roommates, Otilia and Gabita. Gabita wants an abortion — except it’s 1987 in communist Romania, and any sort of contraception and abortion is prohibited from women their age. The girls give more than they intend to as payment for the procedure, and the relationship between them, and between Otilia and her boyfriend, is stressed by both the morality and legality of the situation.

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Two Huskers advance in ITA All-American On Sunday, Boyer and Herrmann won their matches and Boyer, Herrmann moved on to the last round of the pre-qualifying singles. make it through “Both guys showed a good fight weekend of and mentally kept strong,” Nebraska coach Kerry McDermott said. pre-qualifying in Boyer won a tough three set match against Michigan State’s John championships Patrick Mullane, by a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. He then beat LSU’s Harrison Kennedy 7-6 (4), 6-1.

Staff Report “He was positive,” McDermott DN said. “He displayed that he can push, rally and hit big when he Four players from the Nebraska needs to.” men’s tennis team made their way to Herrmann won his match Tulsa, Okla., for the start of the weekagainst Northwestern’s Mihir Kulong, nationally acmar 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 after claimed ITA All-Ameribeating Illinois State’s can Championships on Rolando Torrrellas 6-1, Friday.

7-5 and was down in Only the top 32 playthe third set. He trailed ers from last year’s ranktwo games to four and ings received invitations, served at 15-40. along with the nation’s “Marc came back top players. The other and held his serve,” Mcplayers in the event have Dermott said. “He broke to go through pre-qualihis opponent’s serve fying and qualifying in late in the match and order to make the main came back and won.” draw. They are all set The two sophoboyer to compete for the first mores will be the only men’s national title of the singles players that adfall season. For the ninth vance to Monday’s comstraight year, the University of Tulpetition. Blackwell will not move sa’s Michael D. Case Tennis Center on after losing to Virginia’s Jordan is the location, and the pre-qualifying Daigle 0-6, 1-6. matches started strong for the Husk“Tom had a rough go. He played ers. a kid who was on On Saturday, sefire,” McDermott Tom had a nior Tom Blackwell said. “Those things rough go. He happen, and he’ll and sophomores Dusty Boyer and played a kid who get over it. He’ll be Marc Herrmann ready the next time proved they were was on fire. Those he steps onto the the right players to things happen, court.” be there in the first The Huskers do of many matches and he’ll get over have all four men in on Saturday. Blackthe doubles’ main it. He’ll be ready well beat Clemson’s draw qualifying Christian Harris 7-6 the next time he round that will take (5), 6-2. place on Monday.

Boyer beat steps onto the The teams are HerMarquette’s Dan court.” rmann and BlackMamalat, the No. well, and Boyer and Kerry MCDermott 17 seed in prequaliTreyz. The competimen’s tennis coach fying, 6-4, 7-6 (4), tion will be tough, while Herrmann and if the Huskers beat Xavier’s Zach lose during doubles play, then they Mueck 6-2, 7-6 (2). will only have two singles players in Junior Beauregard Treyz lost to competition.

East Tennessee State’s David Biosca On Monday, the Huskers will hit 6-4, 6-4 and will not move on in the the court ready to prove themselves singles competition. and prove to their coach that they The pre-qualifying rounds on deserve to be ITA champions. So far, Sunday were the same as the first the Huskers have done well, accordday: If the player loses, he is finished ing to McDermott, and he expects playing in the tournament. they will continue to play well.

To advance to the qualifying “We are anxious,” McDermott draw, the Huskers must win their said. “We are hoping they pull the second-round matches, as well as rabbit out of their hat and surprise third and fourth round matches, some people in this week.” to proceed from the pre-qualifying sports@ dailynebraskan.com bracket.

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Nebraska senior Isabel Andrade led the women’s team by finishing 105th with a time of 22:45 at the Roy Griak Invitational.

NU runners struggle in invite Vanessa Daves DN The Nebraska cross country team competed against some of the top Division I and Big Ten competitors this weekend at the Roy Griak Invitational in St. Paul, Minn.

After winning the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational two weekends ago, coach David Harris was hoping the team would continue its success. On the men’s side, he was hoping to place in the top 10, and on the women’s side, he was hoping to place in the top 20.

Led by senior co-captain Trevor Vidlak, who placed 57th with a time of 25:21 in the 8-kilometer race, the men’s team placed 16th out of 24 teams.

“I didn’t have my best race because I’m dealing with some back issues right now,” Vidlak said. “My team needs me at the front, and I’m going to work hard to be there for them. The rest of the guys on the team did really well, and I’m really proud of everything they’re doing.”

Vidlak was followed by sophomores Jacob Olson, who placed

mined to go up and be in our top 77th with a time of 25:35; Matt runners,” Harris said. “We need Bloch, who was 87th with a time of 25:41; and Jonah Heng, who him up there to be a better team.

He still needs a little more racing finished 88th with a time of 25:43. in him to get there.”

Harris was especially pleased Going into the next few weeks with Bloch’s performance beof training, Harris hopes to see cause he ran a race that moved improvement in him to the top five the consistency of in the team. the men’s pace.

“He probably I thought Although they do impressed me the we’d do a a job of getting out most because he front in the beginmade a major little better, but ning, they have a move on our men’s we’re so close.” hard time holding team,” Harris said. their place in the “Last year, he endDavid Harris race, said Harris. ed the season becross country coach On the woming second on the en’s side, seteam. Who knows nior co-captain Isabel Andrade – maybe he’ll do that again this led the team. Individually, she year.” placed 105th with a time of 22:45 Senior co-captain Jarren Heng placed 98th with a time of in a 6-kilometer race. The team as a whole placed 24th out of 28 25:48. After recovering from inteams. Following Andrade was juries before this season, Heng is working back to where he was at junior co-captain Sarah Larson, who placed 143rd with a time the start of his junior year. Harof 23:22 and freshman Kristiana ris said Heng is still not where Oslund, who placed 153rd with a he needs to be, but during these time of 23:32. next few weeks the team will be “They are kind of shy about training hard in preparation for getting out in front,” Harris said. the Big Ten meet.

“We need to get out there faster “Jarren needs to be deter-

and harder.”

Junior Hannah Edwards placed 155th with a time of 23:35.

At the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational, Edwards made a major move forward on the women’s team, according to Harris, running a personal record and placing third on the team.

“Hannah ran well, but not like she did at Woody Greeno,” Harris said. “She proved at Woody Greeno that she could be one of our top runners. We’ve just got to get some consistency there.”

Although he thinks the runners adjusted well in this meet, Harris sees a lot of room for improvement over these next few weeks. With no meet for three weeks, he is planning a strenuous workout schedule for the team, focusing on pace and planning a lot of tempo runs.

“I thought we’d do a little better, but we’re so close,” Harris said. “The best thing to do is look at the Big Ten schools and train really hard over these next three weeks. We’re almost there.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

BASKETBALL: from 10 Lots of threes out here tonight. Kind of like my high school days. Lots of threes, no ‘D.’” Tim Miles

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“How ‘bout this place, eh?”

Miles said, motioning to the crowd, now on their feet making noise over the new arena.

One by one the players took the microphone and passed it along the line, introducing themselves to the crowd for the first time.

“Kye Kurkowski, Grant, Nebraska.”

“Hey Husker Nation, Walter Pitchford.”

Miles stood in the dark as the spotlight shined on his players.

Hands crossed, feet slightly adjacent, it was clear things were going his way from the proud smile on his face.

Twenty-one minutes later, that smile would fade.

The men’s team split off into two teams, Red and White, and began its first scrimmage. The White team held a 6-2 lead after freshman Nathan Hawkins hit a three in the left corner. Senior Ray Gallegos answered with a three on the next possession.

“Lots of threes out here tonight,” Miles said into the microphone to the crowd. “Kind of like my high school days. Lots of threes, no ‘D.’” A smile drew across the player ’s faces as they held back laughter.

Thirteen minutes.

The teams went back and forth, each taking guarded threes, trying for dunks, doing what they could to give the fans a show.

Miles, roaming the sideline and crowd, gave live commentary. At one point he found his father.

“Hello, I taught this guy everything he knows,” he said.

One minute.

The teams were tied 12-12 when junior college transfer Deverell Biggs brought the ball up court on the right side.

“Hey, Walt,” said Biggs, the White team’s point guard, motioning to teammate Pitchford with a head-nod.

The 6-foot-10 sophomore turned around and set a screen for Biggs, who quickly came off the ball, waited a beat and threw an alley-oop to Pitchford after he

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Freshman guard Nathan Hawkins, who scored five points and participated in the 3-point shooting contest, drives during the men’s basketball team’s open practice on Friday night. rolled off the screen. Pitchford dunked the ball with emphasis, and “oohs” and “ahs” rang from

the crowd as Biggs and Pitchford celebrated.

But behind them, sophomore

Shavon Shields snagged the ball on the inbounds pass and bolts down the court behind them.

Out of instinct, Pitchford turned and took off after Shields.

10 seconds.

Sheilds saw Pitchford coming and rose anyway, ball in his right hand, left arm out for protection.

Pitchford flew in the air with him, right arm swinging for the ball.

They collided. Shields lost the ball, falling hard to the floor and landing on his right hip.

More “oohs” more “ahs,” but the opposite kind. Then the arena with approximately 7,500 people went silent as Shields lay motionless on the ground.

“Well, that’s not what I wanted,” Miles said, sitting at the edge of his seat on the bench.

One minute passed, and Shields was still on the floor, just right of the basket. It’s clear it was more than just a fall.

Pitchford walked toward midcourt, head down, deflecting looks of “what-was-that” from Gallegos and sophomore guard Benny Parker.

Two minutes.

Three minutes. Still nothing from Shields.

His legs began to shake, bobbing up and down, clearly from pain.

Miles and teammates surrounded Shields as he finally stood up, his face squinting in agony.

He walked on his own, favoring his right leg.

“Ladies and gentleman, Shavon Shields!” the announcer said.

Amid the applause, the players set up for free throws, which were taken by a substitute.

As the first shot hung in the air, Biggs walked by Parker mid-court.

“Damn,” he said.

Parker nodded. In the foreground, Shields took off his jersey in frustration as he limped into the locker room.

Pitchford would go on to receive more cheers by winning the dunk contest at halftime, which also included a 3-point competition won by Gallegos. The Red team would hang on for a 39-37 victory, thanks to freshman Tai Webster’s game-winning jumper.

But all that was overshadowed by one thing: the absence of Shields on the court the rest of the evening. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Freshman outfielder Lotte Sjulin dives for a catch during the Big Red Classic. Sjulin had one at-bat and scored two runs in the Huskers’ 9-0 shutout of Nebraska-Omaha on Saturday.

Softball team hosts, goes 3-1 in classic Huskers host UNO, Colorado State in Big Red Classic, get strong pitching from Tatum Edwards David Stover DN The start of the weekend provided much to be excited about, as the Nebraska softball team hosted the Big Red Classic and played four games against Colorado State and Nebraska-Omaha.

In the first game of the weekend, against Colorado State, senior pitcher Tatum Edwards set the tone by producing a gem of a pitching performance. Edwards threw seven innings of shutout baseball while only walking three and giving up eight hits. She had help from her teammate, freshman infielder Marjani Knighten, who went 1 for 3 with 2 RBI. They turned out to be the only runs Edwards needed as she maintained the Nebraska lead.

Although Edwards seemed to have the game on autopilot, she did have a hiccup toward the end of the game. She was stuck in a bases loaded jam in the fourth, but remained composed and overcame the adversity. By delivering the pitches when she needed to, Edwards helped propel Nebraska to its first win of the fall, 2-0.

Nebraska carried its momentum into Game 2 as it beat instate rival UNO 9-0.

The Huskers had 16 hits. With key performances from freshman infielder Kat Woolman and sophomore infielder Hailey Decker, who both went 4-4, and Knighten, the Huskers had a strong

game overall.

“When I’m in the box, it’s more about just competing and belief in myself,” Decker said.

Senior catcher Taylor Edwards ignited the team with a lead-off single in the third. Coach Rhonda Revelle decided to use small ball and called for Decker to bunt. She did so and reached second base on an errant throw from UNO pitcher Kat Barrow.

Senior infielder Kylee Muir hit an RBI double down the line to score two. A few batters later, sophomore catcher Sammi Noland hit a bases-loaded single to score Muir, and Knighten added an RBI to give the Huskers four runs in the inning.

The right arm of sophomore starting pitcher Emily Lockman produced a three-hit shutout.

Going into Sunday’s set of games, the Huskers looked to keep the bats hot. They attacked CSU pitcher Larissa Petacoff, scoring five runs in the second inning.

Woolman doubled, and junior infielder Mattie Fowler singled to put runners on the corners.

Freshman outfielder Austen Urness and sophomore infielder Dawna Tyson hit back-to-back RBI singles. Sophomore outfielder Kiki Stokes followed with an RBI single. Petacoff then used her fielders to help her, and no more runs were scored for the Huskers.

The Huskers carried a 5-0 lead into the third inning, and CSU turned to pitcher Holly Reinke, who held the Huskers scoreless until the final inning. Lockman had a rough fifth inning. CSU benefitted from errors by the Nebraska infielders on its way to six runs in the frame, which were sparked by a walk and a single.

The Rams added four in the seventh to take a 10-5 lead. In the bottom half, Taylor Edwards led off with a single, and Decker drover her in with a double. Ne-

braska scored two more times in the inning, but Urness struck out to end the game before the Huskers could come back. Colorado State won 10-8.

“You never want to lose,” Revelle said, “but sometimes coming up short on the scoreboard is a great teacher.”

The final game was a pitchers’ duel between Nebraska’s Tatum Edwards and UNO’s Dana Elsasser. Nebraska was able to bounce back from its loss to win 1-0.

Edwards had nine strikeouts and allowed five hits in a complete game, while Elsasser had a strikeout and gave up 5 hits as well. The Huskers ended up scoring the game’s lone run in the second. With runners on second and third, Stokes hit a ground ball that UNO first baseman Amber Lutmer bobbled, allowing Woolman to run home.

After Sunday’s defeat, Revelle said motivation was not an issue.

“It was actually pretty easy today because we were coming off not a first successful first game,” Revelle said. “So they just went inside. They got cooled off, got a sandwich, they put their feet up, rested for an hour and were back in the cages.”

Revelle said the fall season is a time to focus on the fundamentals. And that’s what the Huskers did. The pitching was superb, with three shutouts, and the bats were alive and well.

If the fall is a brief synopsis of what is to come in the spring season, people in Lincoln have a lot to look forward to. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sophomore Hannah Luebke hits her favorite club, the driver.

Golfer thrives in many sports Sophomore brings athleticism to women’s golf team.

Zach Tegler DN Hannah Luebke doesn’t know why she chose golf.

She was an All-German middle blocker and outside hitter for Schickhardt Gymnasium’s volleyball team, in Stuttgart, Germany.

She used to play tennis. She surfs.

She wakeboards. Every Christmas, her family goes skiing. And in her early teenage years, Luebke won her region in the heptathlon – three years in a row.

But when she came to Nebraska in 2011, she came to golf.

“What I really like about golf is that you can just go out with friends and play for fun, and it’s just very relaxing,” Luebke said.

“And that’s not how volleyball, for example, is. It’s very intense.

I love it, but it’s different.”

When Nebraska women’s golf coach Robin Krapfl traveled to Germany to watch Luebke play for the first time, the recruit’s length stood out more than anything.

“And just her athletic ability,” Krapfl said. “You can tell that she’s an athlete, whereas some golfers are just golfers.”

Luebke isn’t just a golfer. She used to play speed golf, a hybrid of golf and cross country in which players try to shoot the lowest score in the fastest time.

“You cannot really call it golf,” Luebke said. “You just run.”

In order to play quickly, Luebke would use only two clubs, carrying an 8-iron in one hand and a sand wedge in the other.

But her favorite club is the driver.

“I’m a long hitter, and I just love my driver, so every really, really good drive really long drive is a pretty good shot,” Luebke said. “And you go off the tee, and you’re like, ‘Yeah that was pretty sweet.’”

Krapfl said Luebke is prob-

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out of the first 16 points in the first set. Nebraska used its first timeout at 17-12 and ended it at 25-16.

Nebraska had a hitting percentage of .405, while Northwestern hit .194 in the first set.

Robinson and Rolfzen combined to attack 26 times in the set; Robinson had seven kills, and Rolfzen had eight. Junior setter Mary Pollmiller dished out 16 assists.

The Wildcats came out on top during the second set. Northwestern adjusted to hitting outside of Nebraska’s blocks and to the Huskers’ outside hitters. Nebraska gained momentum with a block by senior right side hitter Morgan Broekhuis and sophomore middle blocker Meghan Haggerty on Stephanie Holthus of Northwestern at 16-12.

But the Wildcats didn’t back down and came out with a win, 25-20. Neither team was able to hold its serve since the score was 18-14.

“I think we calmed down a little too much,” Rolfzen said of the second set. “They got the groove and the momentum, but we figured it out the third set

again.”

Although Robinson was able to get seven kills and Haggerty had four in the second set, the team’s hitting percentage dipped to .135, while Northwestern’s was .357.

In the third, the Huskers found the lead at 6-4 on an error

by Northwestern. With Haggerty and freshman outside hitter Amber Rolfzen providing a double-block later in the game, the Huskers got ahead at 13-10. Another successful block by Kadie Rolfzen and sophomore middle blocker Cecilia Hall brought the score to 17-13. A kill by Hall and two double-blocks with Amber Rolfzen ended the set at 25-21.

Pollmiller delivered 13 assists in the third set, with Robinson getting six kills, Kadie Rolfzen getting three and Hall getting two. The Huskers hit at .314. Northwestern hit at .194 but out-blocked Nebraska 8-7.

Early in the fourth set, Pollmiller had a block that brought the Huskers 6-4. A double block by Haggerty and Pollmiller and a kill from Robinson brought Nebraska to 22-18.

Nebraska won the set 25-20 to

end the match.

Robinson and Kadie Rolfzen combined to have 11 kills. Nebraska hit .393 in the last frame, with Northwestern hitting at .067. In the end, Nebraska hit .307 and Northwestern hit .200, and the Huskers finished with five more digs than the Wildcats.

Even with Nebraska’s first Big Ten win this season against Northwestern, the players didn’t think much about celebrating.

“It was a relief to get the first win of the Big Ten on the road,” said Kadie Rolfzen. “We were excited about it, but when we got back to the hotel, we immediately started thinking about Illinois the next day.”

On Saturday in Champaign, Ill., the Huskers swept the Fighting Illini 25-20, 25-14, 25-22, leaving the Huskers 2-0 for this weekend’s Big Ten play at Huff Hall.

Going back and forth in points, the Huskers gained the first-set lead at 14-10 and again at 19-15 with a kill from Robinson.

Two kills from Kadie Rolfzen and a long rally concluded the first set.

Nebraska out-blocked the Il-

conference opponents in Iowa and No. 13 Michigan. The game against the Hawkeyes will be Thursday at 4 p.m., while the match versus the Wolverines will be Sunday at 1 p.m. With eight

games left in the regular season, the team isn’t thinking about the postseason at the moment.

“We’re taking it one game at a time,” Conroy said. “We’re focusing on the little things, prac-

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lini 2-0 and had a higher hitting percentage as well: .289 against Illinois’ percentage of .216.

The next set began with a lead for the Huskers. A doubleblock from Hall and Amber Rolfzen gave Nebraska a 1610 lead. Freshman libero Alexa Ethridge served five in a row to expand Nebraska’s advantage to 21-11, with Pollmiller ending the set on a kill at 25-14. Nebraska was able to put up six blocks against the Illini.

In the third set, the Huskers hit at .200, while Illinois hit at .125. The set was close, but the Huskers took it away at 25-22, leaving them at 9-2 for the season.

Coach John Cook was pleased with how the Huskers competed this weekend and believes their performance reflected their preparation for these games.

“Our girls did a great job of serving and passing – we definitely won that battle,” Cook said. “For a team this young and inexperienced, that’s what I’m really, really happy about, is they were able to come in here and execute a game plan.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

ably one of the longest hitters in college golf.

“When you hit it so far, obviously it’s a lot of fun to be able to do that, and people notice when you hit the ball a long ways,” Krapfl said. “That’s the way that she gets noticed. She is a great driver of the golf ball.”

But now, Luebke needs to translate her ability off the tee to her short game.

“Hopefully, once she looks at her statistics and everything, she’ll realize that, ‘Yeah, that’s where I’m losing my shots, and that’s where I need to spend my time,’” Krapfl said. “It’s not as fun working on those shots as it is the driver.”

Luebke, now a sophomore, had her best output in the last start of her freshman season, finishing tied for a career-best 38th and coming in as Nebraska’s second-highest finisher at the Big Ten Championships.

When she came to the U.S., something she knew she wanted to do for college since she traveled here with her family, Luebke had trouble adjusting to more than the different grasses and stiffer winds of the golf courses.

She was sick often early in her Nebraska career. She had to adjust to a bigger world – she gave the example of larger supermarkets with more cereal choices – and to a culture where the straighttalking, direct communication of Germany didn’t mix with people who mistook abruptness for offense.

But at the end of the first year, Luebke made up for all of it.

“My last season wasn’t very good,” Luebke said. “I had some trouble to get used to everything here, so I started out really bad and I got kind of frustrated. And at the end, like toward Big Tens, I felt like I could play really well.”

After averaging a score of 83 in her freshman season, Luebke is averaging 84 so far in her sophomore year. Even though the momentum from her finish at the conference championships has not translated from the spring, Krapfl still hopes it will carry on.

“I think it gave her a shot of confidence and really showed that the things that she was working on were beneficial to her golf game,” Krapfl said.

But there is still work to be done, so on a Friday afternoon of golf practice, Luebke works in the southwest corner of driving range at Lincoln’s Wilderness Ridge Golf Club.

She still hasn’t mastered the wind, but today, it’s directly at her back. She slips her driver out of her golf bag and tears off the head cover – the gray tail of a “husky butt.” Luebke’s older brother, Lars, has the other half of the head cover, the husky’s head.

She tees up a golf ball and assumes a powerful stance: stiff and vertical, her knees bent slightly and her torso more upright than those of her teammates’. Luebke draws the driver back and twirls it subtly at the top of her backswing. Then she flings the club through the ball and around her 6-foot-1-inch frame.

“On the round, you’ll have like 15 drives, depending on the course,” Luebke said. “But there’s only that one drive on the round where you think, ‘Oh, that was good.’”

Luebke repeats the process, catapulting ball after ball 270 yards into the opposite corner of the range, seemingly with little effort.

“See what I mean about looking like an athlete?” Krapfl says.

After about 10 drives, Luebke slides her driver into her bag and wields a wedge, taking aim at one of the metal targets scattered within 100 yards of the tee area.

On her second attempt, she hits one, sending an aluminum crash into the air.

“Yeah, Hannah!” Krapfl says.

After the long bombs of Luebke’s drives, the short-distance sharpshooting is a display of versatility one would expect from a former heptathlon champion.

“I can’t say I’ve ever had a heptathlete,” Krapfl said. “A lot of basketball players, but never a heptathlete.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Illinois natives Kelsey Robinson, Meghan Haggerty lead Huskers to victories at Northwestern, Illinois to open conference schedule 2-0

Senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson led Nebraska with 35 kills and 27 digs in the Huskers’ wins against Northwestern and Illinois last weekend. She added two service aces against the Fighting Illini, who the Huskers swept 25-20, 25-14, 25-22.

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he Nebraska volleyball team executed its game plan this weekend in Illinois, opening its Big Ten conference play with wins at Northwestern and Illinois.

“We’re meshing well together, and this

weekend was the first step we had to take, knowing that every game is going to be tough,” freshman outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen said.

Friday night, No. 12 Nebraska began its first Big Ten weekend with a win against the

Northwestern Wildcats in four sets, 25-16, 2025, 25-21, 25-20, at the Welsh-Ryan Arena.

The match began with a kill by senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson, getting the Huskers to a 7-4 lead. Rolfzen contributed six kills

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Huskers win two in Illinois Nebraska remains unbeaten in Big Ten play with one-goal wins at Northwestern, Illinois Staff Report DN Allison Hess | dn

Nebraska sophomore guard Shavon Shields was taken down while going up for a layup in the first half of the Huskers’ open practice Friday night at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Shields hurt in men’s basketball open scrimmage Red team outlasts white team in exhibition, but game overshadowed by player’s tumble Chris Heady DN For 29 minutes, everything went right at Nebraska’s first scrimmage of the year.

The night started at 6:55 p.m., when the lights at Pinnacle Bank arena went out for the first time to introduce a basketball game.

The smell of nachos hung over the court, and the sound of rustling pom-poms rang in-between masses of people shouting “Husker” and “Power.”

At 6:59 p.m., the Huskers emerged, sporting their new red warm-ups and clean red and white jerseys.

From the shadows, coach Tim Miles emerged as well, holding a microphone.

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The Nebraska soccer team had its first two-game conference weekend, and the Huskers came out on top, defeating both Northwestern and Illinois on the road to strengthen their record to 8-2-1 for the regular season.

“It felt really good to win both games this weekend,” junior forward Mayme Conroy said. “It doesn’t happen much for us, and we’re feeling very confident right now after winning two Big Ten road games.”

Heading into the weekend, the Huskers were 1-0 in conference play after defeating Michigan State at home 1-0 on Sept. 19.

As for Northwestern and Illinois, neither team had won a conference game heading into the weekend of play.

The first match for the Huskers was on Friday evening against Northwestern under the lights in Evanston, Ill. The Wildcats started the game firing, but it would be the Huskers who scored first.

The first goal of the game came off a 21st-minute corner kick from junior midfielder Caroline Gray, which was knocked in by sophomore forward Katie Kraeutner to give Nebraska a 1-0 lead against the Wildcats.

Then with little time left in the first half, the Huskers were able to get another score in when senior forward Jordan Jackson took the ball into the box and chipped a low shot into the net

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Junior foward Mayme Conroy scored two goals, including the game-winner in the 61st minute, for the Huskers in their 3-2 victory against the Fighting Illini of Illinois. to give Nebraska a 2-0 lead going into the half.

Northwestern continued the aggressive attack in the second half and would get itself within one goal of the Huskers after senior forward Kate Allen capitalized on a penalty kick. After that goal, no more shots found the back of the net, and Nebraska won 2-1 against the Wildcats.

After the Wildcats game, the Huskers traveled down to Champaign, Ill., to face the Fighting Illini on Sunday afternoon.

The Huskers were playing lights out after the conference win on Friday, and they had a 2-0 lead heading into halftime, just as they did on Friday. The Fighting Illini would bounce back in the second half, though.

During a three-minute span between the 52nd minute and 54th minute, junior forward Jannelle Flaws scored both of the Fighting Illini’s goals to tie it all up with the Huskers.

Soon after, Conroy scored her second goal of the game on

a header to give the Huskers the lead and the game-winning goal, leading NU to a 3-2 victory against Illinois. For Conroy, it seemed like the team was running on fumes heading into Sunday’s matchup but managed to defeat another conference opponent.

“Just getting the win on Sunday after Friday’s conference win was very difficult,” Conroy said.

“The first half was tough for us,

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