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CBA, CoJMC AND CASNR ENROLLMENT BOOSTS: Several University of Nebraska-Lincoln colleges experienced surges in undergraduate enrollment and total enrollment in the fall of 2012.

Although UNL’s total enrollment dipped this fall, the College of Business Administration saw the greatest increase in its undergraduate enrollment numbers with a 4.5 percent jump to 3,172 students.

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the first time ever in our college,” Plowman said. “This is the first time we’ve put together cards and broDonde Plowman has a penchant for chures as a college.”

Plowman said CBA’s 452 firstsaying “hello.”

Every time she sees a recruiter time freshmen enrolled this semeswith a group of prospective stu- ter is the largest class the college has dents in the College of Business had in 16 years.

In fall 2011, CBA saw a 3.7 perAdministration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she walks over cent increase in enrollment.

UNL’s peer institutions saw and introduces herself. varying enrollment fluctuations in “I always like to go up and say, their business colleges this year with ‘Hi, I’m the dean,’” Plowman said.

Colorado State UniverHer personalized sity seeing a 3.3 percent tactics, along with sevincrease and Iowa State eral changes in CBA’s University a 0.9 percent recruiting efforts, may decrease, according have paid off this year. to the institutional reCBA saw the biggest search and planning ofrise in total enrollment fices at those schools. of UNL’s colleges with a Plowman said CBA 4.5 percent, or a 136-stuhas a goal of reaching dent, increase to 3,172 5,000 students by 2017. undergraduate students While several atfrom last year. tempts to contact CoThe College of JourJMC officials were unplowman nalism and Mass Comsuccessful, Steve Waller, munications saw the CASNR dean, said his second-largest increase — 3.8 percent to 894 students — fol- college was already anticipating lowed by the College of Agricultural a growth in enrollment this year Sciences and Natural Resources based on applications, campus visits with a 3.7 percent increase. Admin- and enrollment deposits. CASNR’s istrators at CBA and CASNR say a enrollment for fall 2012 was 2,009 combination of programs and re- undergraduate students.

Waller said CASNR has seen encruiting efforts helped boost their rollment increases for the past eight enrollment totals all while UNL’s years ranging from 3 percent in 2006 total enrollment dropped by 386 to 12.9 percent in 2008. students.

“Our goal is always to optimize In the past year, CBA created its own recruitment material for the our enrollment growth while mainfirst time, along with trying to fos- taining a quality educational expeter more of a community feel among rience that aligns with the career opportunities to our graduates,” he students at the college, Plowman said.

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CASNR CBA CoJMC SOURCE: UNL INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND PLANNING

Our goal is always to optimize our enrollment growth while maintaining a quality educational experience that aligns with carreer opportunities to our graduates.”

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Associate journalism professor Joseph Weber and Donna Shear, director at the Nebraska Press, both received jobs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after Shear was offered a position.

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In spring 2011, Marilyne Stains was offered an interview at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

She and her husband Cliff had applied to 20 to 30 other institutions. And, at that point, the couple had accepted they would most likely be living on opposite ends of the country.

“Very few of our friends end up in the same geographic region,” said Cliff Stains, who, like his wife, is an assistant professor in chemistry.

Because of the ADVANCE-Nebraska grant, the couple was able to move to Lincoln together and both begin working at UNL in July 2011.

The ADVANCE grant, created by the National Science Foundation, aims to do more than keep couples employed in the same place. The program wants to hire more women in science, technology, engineering and math fields (STEM), said Mary Anne Holmes, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at UNL. But the grant is running out.

With one year left, Academic Affairs will have decide how to continue the dual career programs without the ADVANCE grant, said Jill Hochstein, ADVANCE-Nebraska project manager.

“We do get a one-year, no-cost extension,” Hochstein said. “But the money runs out in 2014.”

When UNL STEM fields got the $3.8 million ADVANCE grant in 2008, they decided to use the money to hire couples.

A Stanford study showed that more than one third of the U.S. academic workforce have a partner in academia.

Among scientists, the proportion of men who are married to a scientist in academia is 54 percent, according to the study. That percentage reaches 83 percent among women.

STEM has hired 12 couples in four years, Holmes said. The original goal was eight.

But not every dual career at UNL comes from the ADVANCE grant. In late 2008, Donna Shear was offered a job as the director of the University of Nebraska Press. That was a bigger job than her position as director of Northwestern University Press at the time, she said.

But her husband Joe Weber, who was the chief of correspondence for Business Week and Chicago Bureau Chief, could be put out of a job if the couple moved to Lincoln.

“She came to me and said, ‘This would be a big step up. You’ve always been interested in

teaching,’” said Weber, now an associate professor in the college of journalism at UNL. After the couple weighed the decision, Prem Paul, vice chancellor for Research and Economic Development, and Mike Zeleny, assistant vice chancellor of research, contacted the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Weber said.

Though there wasn’t an opening then, a job was created for him.

“My acceptance (of my job offer) was contingent on our both getting offers,” Shear said.

Even without recruitment like the ADVANCE grant, it isn’t uncommon for professors to move together, Weber and Shear said.

Weber has seen departments lose qualified candidates when UNL cannot accommodate the candidate’s partner, he said.

Like the Stains, Brandon Ruud and Greg Nosan were ready to live in different regions for their careers.

When Ruud got his position as curator of transnational American art at the Sheldon Art Museum, however, Daniel Veneciano, director of

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Ten people gathered in the dimly lit Georgian Suite B of the Nebraska Union to discuss the future of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student government elections Tuesday evening.

Eight of the ten had ties to the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska.

After only 17 percent of the student body voted in last year’s Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections, ASUN hosted the event to glean insight from the student body on election procedures. Despite the low turnout, Mike Dunn, ASUN’s government liaison committee chair, said the discussion accurately reflected the problems the election procedures face. “(ASUN elections) aren’t something everyone cares about,” said Mike Dunn, a senior communication studies major.

Dunn said ASUN needs to reexamine problems that have arisen in past ASUN elections.

One of the main concerns presented was how to increase voter turnout in elections. An idea was to shorten the length of ASUN’s current nine-week election season — because students become annoyed with how long the campaigns run and often end up caring about the party more than they care about the ASUN election.

But other meeting attendees said awareness of the elections and voter turnout are less likely to increase if the campaign season is shortened.

“Students get tired of (campaigns) because the candidates keep tapping into the same (voter base),” said L.J. McElravy, a human sciences graduate student and director of ASUN’s electoral commission.

Candidates need to reach out to other student groups during the election season that are often ignored, such as veterans, graduate students and non-traditional students, McElravy said.

But ASUN internal vice president Kaitlin Mazour said it can be difficult for a campaign to reach out to other student groups it isn’t familiar with when close to the election deadline.

“It’s better to hit the same population where you know you have a voter base,” said Mazour, a senior English and history major.

Despite the disagreement, Dunn said there wasn’t a correlation between the length of the campaign and the voter turnout, if last year’s election results are any indication.

ASUN may also look into extending the length of the election voting process to two days.

Another concern discussed was improvement of ASUN’s rules when removing a candidate from a party’s slate during the election season.

During last year’s election, Impact Party removed one of its candidates

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elections: from 1 because of a Facebook comment it deemed homophobic and not representative of its campaign.

Despite the removal, the candidate still appeared on the electronic ballot during the election because the deadline to remove the name from the electronic ballot had passed. As a result, the “removed” candidate received more votes than the other Impact Party member running for the same senate position. The election ballot must be finalized four weeks prior to the election, according to Mazour.

ASUN plans to look into creating a set of rules for removing a candidate from the campaign slate so it doesn’t face problems again.

The involvement of philanthropies in an election campaign was also discussed. ASUN plans to clarify how involved philanthropies and organizations can be in a party’s campaign.

“There’s a lot of gray area on campaigning,” said Blake Rostine, a junior political science and German major. “If four members of the same party go to a bar, does that make it a campaign event?”

ASUN will research the concerns presented during the meeting and form a plan of action by its senate meeting next week. news @dailynebraskan.com

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SUGGESTED ELECTION PROCEDURES ASUN plans to research the following suggestions for election procedures: • Increase the voter turnout and students interest in student government • Procedures for removing a candidate from the election slate • Shorten the election season and extend election voting to two days • Examine the pros and cons of the party system • Define a campaign event and decide how involved a philanthropy or organization can be in a campaign’s event

Productivity increases for fully staffed RHA RHA able to pass budget with the addition of new RHA senators Emily Nitcher DN The University of NebraskaLincoln Residence Hall Association adopted a constitution and $32,654 budget Tuesday night, launching the organization into full swing for the 2012-2013 academic school year.

Now that all senate members from Harper, Schramm and Smith residence halls have been elected, RHA revisited a bill to amend the constitution and bylaws.

The amendments to the constitution and bylaws changed the secretary position to the chief of staff. It also shrank the number of committees from six to three.

There was more agreement than debate over the committee

changes to the RHA constitution, and the bill passed unanimously.

“I feel more comfortable changing the constitution now that the elected officials are here,” said Taylor Lucas, CPRA senator and a senior marketing major.

Treasurer Nate Watley, junior computer engineering major, presented the budget for the 20122013 academic school year, which includes a total of $9,000 for committees. The rest of the budget will be spent on other expenses, the movie channel, general programming, initiatives and improvements and the contingency fund.

The budget sparked no discussion and was unanimously passed.

“It’s really great to have the senate elected,” said Meg Brannen, RHA president and junior advertising and public relations major. “The first committee meetings are on Sunday, and with the budget set we’re ready to go.”

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possible,” Hohlen said.

UNLPD is housed in the parking garage where the vandalism ocFifteen cars parked in the 17th curred.

Court proceedings will later and R streets parking garage were decide what kind of penalty Kerby vandalized Sunday evening, with per-car damage estimates ranging could face. According to Nebraska from $300 to $2,500, according to criminal law, a felony criminal misUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln chief charge is punishable by up to five years in prison and fines less Police.

Grant Kerby, a sophomore than or equal to $10,000.

Kerby will also face sanctions chemical engineering from the University major, was arrested of Nebraska-Lincoln. on felony vandalism Matt Hecker, dean of charges of more than students, said judi$1,500. Kerby was taken cial affairs will issue to Lancaster County sanctions on Kerby in Jail. Sgt. Jeffrey Hohlen the coming weeks. Beof UNLPD said police cause Kerby is charged suspected Kerby used a with a felony, the unibaseball bat and a kind versity may choose to of “punch-tool” to damsuspend or dismiss age the vehicles. Police Kerby from the stusay he began breaking dent body in accorwindows and tail lights KERBY dance with the UNL on cars parked on the Student Code of Confourth floor of the parkduct, Hecker said. ing garage, heading up “In general, we try to enact sancto the fifth floor. A person who was on the fourth floor notified the po- tions consistent with the nature of lice of the vandalism. According the violation,” Hecker said. “Any to police estimates, total damages student vandalizing property on campus will face disciplinary acamount to $10,440. The insurance agents of the 15 victims will pro- tion.”

Hecker could not comment on vide a more accurate statement when each victim files the dam- what sanctions Kerby will receive at the time of this report. ages.

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Kaitlin Coziahr, a senior finance and economics major, expresses her opinion about issues relating to the coming election. Coziahr participated as one of the leaders of the ASUN election event.

couples: from 1 the Sheldon Museum of Art, told him a couple of positions would be opening that Nosan might qualify for.

“It made sense,” said Nosan, now the curator of education and publications at the museum.

Living in the same city as one’s partner helps the experience, Stains said.

“It makes the process very smooth, very stress-free,” she said.

Nosan agreed, saying the closer it came to Ruud’s move, the harder it was to imagine being

apart long-term.

“As (Ruud’s) search here took form, we imagined we’d commute back and forth,” he said. “It was easier to imagine in our minds than it was to adjust.”

But UNL was an easy adjustment for some.

“The people at UNL were so welcoming, so accommodating,” Weber said. “In Nebraska, people just have more time for you.” news @dailynebraskan.com

campus briefs unl libraries expands research opportunities

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries has joined the 63-year-old Center for Research Libraries. The center provides members with unlimited access to more than five million print and digital resources, including 38,000 foreign journals and 80,000 foreign dissertations from all over the world, according to a Aug. 29 press release. UNL joins more than 260 university, college and independent research libraries from the United States, Canada and Hong Kong in the partnership. The center’s library includes the largest collection of circulating newspapers on the continent, with more than 10,000 newspapers from most countries in the world. UNL researchers will now have access to thousands of foreign government documents from more than 100 countries and more than half a million U.S. government documents dating back to the earliest periods of U.S. state governments. To find out more about center resources, visit http://www.crl.edu.

police seek crowd control volunteers

The Lincoln Police Department is seeking as many as 75 volunteers for a crowd-control preparedness exercise Sept. 12. Volunteers will be required from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., according to a Volunteer Partners press release. Contact Volunteer Partners at 402-4352100 or emergcoord@volunteerpartners.org for more information. Volunteers must be 18 years or older, or 14 years or older if accompanied by an adult.

speakers bureau enters 18th year

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Speakers Bureau has released a list of its 25 speakers and their topics for the bureau’s 18th year. According to a university press release, the bureau connects speakers, all of whom are university affiliates, with groups that require speakers on topics ranging from cosmic rays to cattle.

Bureau topics include: -“Ancient Roman Religion and Nebraska Football,” Michael Hoff, professor of art history -”Does Music Make You Smarter? It Depends On What You Mean!” John W. Richmond, professor and director of UNL School of Music -”Teaching Journalism in China: A Semester of Surprises,” Joseph Weber, associate professor of journalism

Rick Haugerud, director of Information Services, said he believes the alleged hack might have been caused by a phishing scam. He has Confusion spread through Univerworked with Allison on similar sity of Nebraska-Lincoln libraries downloads in the past.

Friday when an alleged hack cut off “We try to educate students on proaccess to specific journals and offtecting their NUIDs,” Haugerud said. campus access.

Also, a spreadsheet containing University Libraries Director the name and NUIDs DeeAnn Allison said of roughly 270 new an off-campus IP adIt was graduates from the dress downloaded College of Arts and too much a large amount of Sciences was somematerial from the information how leaked into libraries’ site. The Google docs where vendor that hosts downloaded too it could be accessed the information no- quickly for it to be publicly. tified UNL of the UNL news distrange activity. No a person.” rector Kelly Bartling sensitive data was said the information lost during the suddeeann allison has since been reuniversity libraries director den download. dacted, but she and “I’m fairly certhe university are untain it was some kind of program that downloaded that in- certain as to how it got released. In an email, Bartling said the informaformation,” Allison said. “It was too tion was circulated through advisers much information downloaded too within the college, and it somehow quickly for it to be a person.” got put online. The people who have The library hosts a large number been affected now have new logins of journals that can only be accessed by a person with an NUID. Allison to protect their information.

“Basically this incident was just believes the sudden download was an accident,” Haugerud said. an attempt to build a personal dataInformation Services has taken base. Allison suspects it was either a down the information that could student or a faculty member behind have been accessed using any search the massive download because only engine. Haugerud estimated that as those with NUIDs can access the sysof Saturday, none of the information tem, but she said it could have been anyone. As for the motive, Allison was publicly available.

Allison said these occurrences suspected the individual wished to have the information so they wouldn’t have been unusual, but UNL Libraries plans to improve security funchave to purchase it at a later time. tions in the future. By December, “Activities like these really stick access to libraries online will be out,” Allison said. “This isn’t a norprotected by a personal identificamal person doing research.” tion number. The change will allow The person will be not penalAllison and Information Services to ized, but they will have to re-regisbetter monitor access. ter on the libraries’ website. At this “We’re also implicating a single time, Allison only has the NUID and sign-in program,” Allison said. “It IP address of the person who downwill be the same as signing into loaded the information. She does not know who the person is, and Blackboard.”

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correction

University of NebraskaLincoln decreased by 386 students. The Daily Nebraskan regrets this error.

An article headlined “UNL enrollment drops by 400 students” in the Sept.

4 edition of the Daily Nebraskan incorrectly reported the enrollment decrease in the headline.

Total enrollment at the

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COPS briefs Argument leads to MIP citations

University of Nebraska-Lincoln police officers found two men arguing loudly as they walked north near North 16th Street early Aug. 30. Logan Wachal, a freshman civil engineering major, and Andrew Dre, a non-student, appeared to be intoxicated, according to police. Dre had a blood alcohol content of .0276, and Wachal refused to be tested, police said. They were both cited for minor in possession and sent to detox.

Students found smoking in parking lot

Early Saturday morning, a community service officer smelled marijuana and saw small flickers of light coming from inside a vehicle parked in a lot at 19th and Vine streets. Inside the vehicle, three people were smoking marijuana, police reported. William Gregersen, a freshman agribusiness major, Aaron Consentino, an 18-year-old Omaha resident, and a 16-year-old minor were found inside. Consentino and Gregersen were cited for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, minor in possession, possessing a controlled substance and possessing drug paraphernalia. The minor was cited for minor in possession.

Gregerson had a BAC of 0.115, and Consentino had a BAC of 0.126, police said.

Party leads to numerous citations

Officers were called to the parking lot north of Harper, Schramm and Smith residence halls late Sunday evening. A group of 10 students were conversing and listening to music around a red Jeep, and some were drinking and smoking marijuana, police said. A case of 30 cans of Keystone Light was visible in the back of the Jeep. Four students were cited with minor in possession: Davonta Culliver, Meghann Grave, Jesse Nesbitt and Alexander Justman, a freshman general studies major. Additionally, Tyler Murtaugh, a 19-year-old Omaha resident, Joseph Nihsen, an 18-year-old Omaha resident, and Sadie Rich, an 18-year-old Omaha resident, were cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Nihsen was also cited for minor in possession.

For a full list of speakers and more information regarding booking, visit www.speakersbureau.unl.edu.

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ANNA REED | DN ABOVE: Crystal Tegtmeier, of Milford, Neb., practices the Argentine Tango with her dance instructor, Nick Hernandez, at the DelRay Ballroom in Lincoln Tuesday night.

Tegtmeier started dance lessons last November, after her sons graduated and moved out of her home. RIGHT: Nick Hernandez dips his dance student Crystal Tegtmeier while rehearsing the rumba in a private her dance lesson on Tuesday at the DelRay Ballroom.

Tegtmeier said she enjoys the Latin style dances, especially the salsa and cha-cha.

‘Job Search Survival’ aids international students

enrollment: from 1 said. “We are fortunate to have such a high demand for our graduates.”

Agricultural colleges at ISU and CSU each saw growth with increases of 8.6 percent and 3.3 percent respectively.

CASNR has expanded its academic programs the past few years, which Waller credits as bringing in more students. Majors like microbiology, forensic science and turfgrass and landscape management are new options for UNL students.

Waller also said his college relies on a large number of transfer students to boost enrollment numbers. Nearly a third of this semester’s undergraduate students enrolled in CASNR transferred to UNL. At CBA, Plowman said the college tried out several new programs in the past year to bring in more students. She said one of the most popular programs was used

at New Student Enrollment this summer where free sunglasses were given out to incoming freshman who followed Plowman on Twitter and liked CBA on Facebook.

Other ways they’ve tried to boost enrollment include updating the CBA website and sending out personalized marketing material.

“We wanted students to start recognizing each other,” Plowman said. “We worked hard to create a sense of community among the new students.”

Plowman said recruitment efforts were hastily put together last year and said she hopes CBA can put together a more thorough recruiting plan this year.

“We were just thrilled with the enrollment numbers this year,” said Plowman. “We’re planning on spending even more time with recruitment in the coming year.” news@dailynebraskan. com

Seminar hosted by Career Services helps international students with job search, too.

Carl Mejstrik DN Diana Awuor, a general assistant with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Career Services, knows how difficult it can be for international students to gain experience in an unfamiliar setting.

Awuor was among those speaking on her job experience at the UNL Career Services Job Search Survival series of seminars at the Nebraska Union Tuesday.

Born in Kisumu, Kenya, Awuor studied as a medical student assistant in Dubai before earning a Fulbright Scholarship to study in

before she began the United States, working as a general eventually coming You need to assistant for the proto UNL. gram.

“I had experivolunteer, Seminars inence and finding a you need to get cluded resumes job requires experiand cover letters, ence, but I came in internships and networking and an not knowing anyyou need to find interviewing session one, and I needed with an employer networking to meet part-time jobs. panel. people,” Awuor When I did these, Nearly 100 stusaid. dents attended the While the four they made me seminars breaking seminars were didown the basics of rected toward any- respect people, the job search proone interested in and they helped cess. searching for a job, Wei Tsen Chan, nearly three-quar- me network.” a junior actuarial sciters of the students Diana awuor ence major, arrived in attendance were unl carreer services looking for new suginternational stugestions. A native dents. of Kuala Lumpur, Awuor, who is studying student affairs administra- Malaysia, Tsen said, “I learned some tion, said Career Services helped her resume-building strategies that will find employment around campus hopefully help me when I gradu-

ate.”

Chris Timm, interim director of Career Services, broke down how to build and write a resume. She also touched on topics that were more applicable to international students.

“You should always include your experience on a resume,” Timm said. “Too many international students are hesitant to include experience from their home country.”

Having experienced many of the obstacles international students will face, Awuor had some words of wisdom for those entering the job market.

“You need to volunteer, you need to get internships, and you need to find part-time jobs,” Awuor said. “When I did these, they made me respect people, and they helped me network.”

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lauren vuchetich | dn

UNL shouldn’t compete with Big Ten salaries yet The fact that Chancellor Harvey Perlman and University of Nebraska President J.B. Milliken have substantially lower salaries as compared with others in their position from various Big Ten schools has some people worried.

Claims are made that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln cannot compete with other Big Ten schools because of the salary discrepancies. How will Nebraska ever be able to hire suitable employees by offering them undesirable salaries once Chancellor Perlman retires? With the economy creating cost restrictions, can UNL afford to significantly increase salaries right now?

A veil of concern covers the question of whether UNL is even capable of continuing its growth in the future with fewer native Nebraskans enrolling at the university.

However, there are two things we need to keep in mind.

First of all, we are new to the Big Ten. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but it is a thought that is often neglected when comparing ourselves to other colleges in the conference.

To expect that simply changing our conference and playing a different set of teams in our athletic and academic competitions will suddenly transform us into a prestigious school is absurd.

We need to remember: baby steps. We are not going to be the most competitive university in a more prestigious conference two years after joining. The only thing the current comparisons should be used for is marking goals and setting standards in our new academic environment. If we are still behind 10 years from now, then we may have a cause to worry, but only then.

And though we may sometimes get ahead of ourselves with making comparisons based on current circumstances, small steps are constantly being taken to improve our university and make it more apt for the Big Ten. In due time, the results of these current undertakings will be positive improvements in regards to the integrity of UNL. Second, there is no direct, positive correlation between administration salaries and a university’s capability. Though it may show that a school has more money to pay its employees, it cannot possibly be in direct relation to the competence of chancellors or presidents.

The University of Nebraska has a lot to offer. Though we may not be able to lure in the experienced, high-salary earning administrators with our current salaries, that does not mean that we will be deprived of newly rising, equally qualified candidates with fresh ideas to lead UNL in the right direction.

In due time, after continuing to make improvements, as we are now, pay will rise and UNL will be just as competitive as the rest both in terms of capability and salary. Until then, comparing UNL with its Big Ten counterparts is only effective for creating unmerited concern.

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Thorough sex ed essential for all

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he average age that men and women in the U.S. have sex for the first time is 16.9 and 17.4, respectively, according to the Kinsey Institute. That means most students had their first sexual experience prior to coming to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and many of them have missed out on being properly educated in that area. If we had comprehensive and continuous sexuality education from a young age, everyone could have more positive experiences.

Have you gone through puberty?

Have you ever been in a relationship with someone, or do you want to be?

Have you had sex? Do you want to?

Have you considered having children?

Have you felt attracted to anyone?

If you answered yes to any of these questions (and I can pretty much guarantee that you did) then you need an education in sexuality. Whatever our preferences—abstinence, safe sex, men, women, monogamy—we need to know about our own bodies, our partner’s body and what happens when we get together. We need to have the knowledge and skills to communicate effectively.

Sexuality education in schools varies across the country. Some schools are abstinence-only, some have comprehensive programs and some ignore the subject completely. It differs by grade level, by district, even by teacher. Why is that, when the reasons for sexuality education are universal?

One could say that it is inappropriate to begin this kind of education to elementary-age children.

Wrong!

Babies discover their genitals during their first year. Around 2 or 3, children become aware of male and female gender identities. Most kids go through a masturbation phase between ages 3 and 5.

Questions come next. “What is a penis?”

“Why do I have one and she doesn’t?” “How do girls pee?” “Where do babies come from?”

Sexuality is unavoidable no matter the age, but it can be addressed in an age-appropriate manner.

At this point, that means the basics. Names and functions of body parts, what to do if someone touches you ‘down there’ and other general facts.

Do you remember your first sex education class?

Mine totaled, at most, four days during fifth grade. For those four days we watched slideshows about puberty. The girls will grow breasts and start bleeding. The boys will have wet dreams and their voices will crack. Everyone will discover dark body hair. Did I mention that everyone would start to smell a little gross, too?

Here, take this travel-sized deodorant sample.

I remember labeling black and white draw-

VALERIE KUTCHKO ings of genitalia. Cervix. Labia. Urethra. Vas Deferens. Scrotum. I can’t recall what the vas deferens does, but I’m sure it is something impressive.

The four-year gap between fifth and ninth grade (the next time that I had a sex ed class) must have been too long for me to retain much.

Even so, my crash course on puberty was better than what some people receive. At least the boys and girls were allowed to stay in the same room and learn about each other’s bodies!

The National Conference of State Legislatures reveals how much variation exists for sexual education requirements. Thirty-three States require that students learn about HIV and AIDS. Only 21 states require that public schools teach sex education. A pathetic 18 require that sex education curricula be medically accurate and/or age appropriate. With poor regulations like that, how many schools offer truthful information, if they offer it at all? What a shock it must be for those kids when they have their first period at school or get an erection during English class without prior knowledge of what’s going on.

While many parents briefly touch on these subjects at home, it’s still vital that it be a constant at school. Some parents are uncomfortable to discuss puberty and sex. Talking about it at home and at school can help break the cycle of silence that often surrounds sexuality. When your mom or dad doesn’t want to talk about it, you become uncomfortable with it. When it is rarely discussed at school—a place where you are surrounded by kids experiencing the same things—that silence is reinforced. Why be silent on a topic that is experienced universally?

During the pre-teen age, sexuality education is even more important because this is when sexual feelings really begin to emerge. At this point it should become more detailed and topics such as healthy relationships, body image, orientation, sex and sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, should be introduced. This education should be

continuous over the next few years—you can bet that puberty isn’t going to disappear after a few months, and you can bet that those feelings are there to stay.

My ninth grade health class was pretty useless. The chapter on STIs was longer than the chapter on sex, reproduction, and dating.

Coach Carr in “Mean Girls” was only slightly less informative. “At your age, you’re going to have a lot of urges. You’re going to want to take off your clothes and touch each other. But if you do touch each other you will get chlamydia and die.”

The general trend seems to be trying to frighten teens away from having sex. These scare tactics are failing. Approximately 47 percent of high school students report having sexual intercourse, according to a 2011 survey by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

All that kind of education does is cast sex in a negative light. If sex is represented negatively, then people will forever associate it with feelings of guilt, impurity, disease, and unplanned pregnancies. That’s not how I want to feel about sex, regardless of my age or relationship status.

Informing people about the possible risks of engaging in sexual activity is important, though.

Pregnancy, STIs, and HIV infection, as well as physical and emotional abuse should be discussed in sexuality education. Learn how to use a condom—properly—and how to communicate with your partner.

For those who choose abstinence, way to go!

It’s something to be encouraged, but only if it is right for you. However, sex ed still applies to you, assuming you want to one day be intimate with someone.

In case you still aren’t convinced of sex ed’s importance, just think of Missouri Rep. Todd Akin. He thinks pregnancy from rape is rare because, from what he understands “from doctors,” the female body “has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” I am frightened by the idea that members of government, who vote on health issues, have managed to avoid any sex ed.

I am terrified that there might be doctors who are ignorant of the female body.

For the sake of women who are pregnant by rape, for the sake of future generations’ sex lives and relationships, make sure that you, your partner and future generations receive a real sexuality education. Check out www.plannedparenthood.org, www.thenationalcampaign.org, www. kinseyinstitute.org, www.siecus.org or www. scarleteen.com for more information regarding sexuality education.

Valerie Kutchko is a sophomore journalism major. reach her at opinion@dailynebraskan.com

Sexist, racist advertising sneaking into normalcy

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exism and racism are becoming sneaky.

Most people probably remember the Dr. Pepper Ten commercials that came out last year.

One of the infamous ads features a couple guys in a jungle fighting off bad guys. The script goes like this: “Hey, ladies.

Enjoying the film? Of course not. Because this is our movie, and this is our soda. You can keep the romantic comedies and lady drinks. We’re good.” And, of course, the catch phrase of Dr. Pepper Ten is “It’s not for women!”

Different blogs call this kind of sexism different things, including “hipster” sexism, “ironic” sexism and “retro” sexism. All of these basically mean advertising agencies and other companies exploit sexist stereotypes to the extreme and then giggle behind their hands and go, “Aren’t we hilarious?”

But, really, they’re just being sexist. And we let them get away with it!

Anita Sarkeesian, host of the YouTube channel Feminist Frequency, says, “They know that I know that they know that they’re being sexist.”

The sad thing is, like most advertising,

this just goes right over our heads unless we take the time to analyze it (or unless it’s Dr. Pepper Ten, which outright admits to being sexist). We realize it’s sexist, but we don’t put any thought into it. Instead, we do the same thing the companies do: we just laugh.

But it doesn’t stop at sexism, and it doesn’t stop with big companies who can invest millions of dollars in advertising — it happens around us all day, every day, and I’d be willing to bet we don’t even notice it most of the time.

Sadly, racism is still a huge issue in our country, and there’s a new thing white people (myself included) have come up with to make it seem like we aren’t being racist.

Jezebel’s Lindy West asks the question, “We prove we’re not racist by acting as casually racist as possible? Not our best, white people. Not our best.”

I, too, have been caught laughing along with racist jokes because most things that hyperbolize are funny, but that doesn’t make them OK. It’s an easy rut to fall into, and it’s easy to not even realize you are in said rut.

We white people try so hard to not be racist that we end up being racist in the process.

DANAE LENZ A lot of people have scoffed at me when I’ve said this, but Lincoln is much more diverse than my hometown in Montana.

Truthfully, before I moved here a year ago, I knew one black person — and he thought he was whiter than I was.

When I started my job as a cashier here, I noticed I became flustered around black people when they’d come up to pay, and I’d go out of my way to be really friendly

to them so they would know I wasn’t racist. It was totally ridiculous and, thankfully, a phase I quickly grew out of, but I don’t think I’m the only white person to feel that way. In fact, it was probably the cause of ironic racism. Like, “Hey, I’m totally not racist, so I’m going to go out of my way to be as chill as possible.” It’s very similar to when people say, “I’m not homophobic! My best friend when I was 14 was gay.” (And I think every person has heard that more than once.)

Here are a few more common examples of hipster racism.

“The Asian”: You and your friend snap a picture of yourselves, but the sun is in your eyes, so you’re squinting. “We look so Asian.”

The “I’m just kidding!” excuse: “That guy’s black. He must be a gangster. I’m just kidding!”

What West from Jezebel calls “Recreational Slumming”: You go to a “scary” hipster bar that has people who actually aren’t just college aged and then afterward you talk about how it was so ghetto, but maybe you’d go back again.

“White People Problems”: This is es-

sentially just a way of mocking how what we have and how we live is “so much better” than what people of other races have. People of other races don’t have to deal with technology problems because they’re not dealing with starvation or living paycheck to paycheck. Isn’t that so funny?

“The Mexican”: “I didn’t fail that Spanish test and I love Mexican food. I must be Mexican!”

These are just a small handful of examples. The possibilities are endless.

Fact of the matter is, maybe our sheltered lifestyles have led us to believe this is OK. You might think you’re being funny or cute, but you’re really not.

Laughing when you see sexist or racist advertising is just what companies want and expect. You might not be able to start a movement to get companies to stop doing this, but you can always start somewhere.

Next time you hear your friends say something ironically sexist or racist, put them in their place.

Danae Lenz is a senior journalism major. Reach her at opinion@dailynebraskan.com.

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campus Jeff Haag (left), a junior mechanical engineering major, flips a longboard after putting a finishing coat on it at his shop on Sunday.

“My dad has also helped me out a lot, he’s been there to say ‘that’s not going to work’ and laugh at me and then show me how it does work,” Haag said.

Jeff Haag (above) puts a protective coat on the bottom of a longboard in his shop on Sunday. “My favorite part is probably just being able to ride something that I built,” Haag said.

on board UNL student Jeff Haag builds, sells longboards at his company Cause Walking is Lame

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ou can’t spend more than a few days on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus without seeing Jeffrey Haag cruising around on his longboard.

But most people don’t realize that the junior mechanical engineering major actually makes his own boards.

Haag started a longboard press, a company that goes by the name Cause Walking is Lame, in the basement of his dad’s dentistry shop about eight months ago. He

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taught himself the building process with the help of online blogs and support from friends and family.

“I was interested in riding them, and it just seemed like a logical step since I’m also interested in woodworking,” Haag said. “It’s taught me more about material science, which is very interesting to me, as well as the stress and strain of how those materials react to extreme situations.”

The first step in the process is giving the board its

Wesleyan student chases record deal Allison Rabel hopes to make it big in LA this fall with her pop, rap stylings

I was a senior doing a history project about three amendments, and I decided to make up a rap about each one.”

kelsey haugen DN Allison Rabel is slightly disappointed that Amy Heidemann (of Karmin) beat her to the punch in becoming Nebraska’s own pop singer/rapper darling. But there’s no shame in being second to stardom, as Rabel, who describes herself as a spunky, outgoing, “little white-girl rapper from Nebraska,” tries to make it big in Los Angeles with her jazzy, pop/rap songs and mash-ups.

For someone who never even dreamt of making a career out of performing, Rabel hit the ground running when music producers found some of her YouTube videos and started sending her Facebook messages about flying out to California.

“I’ve been asking myself, ‘Is it ridiculous that I maybe want to pursue a career as a rapper?’” said Rabel, a senior history major and journalism and gender studies minor at Nebraska Wesleyan University. “And then I decide that it is ridiculous, but I still want to try it out.”

In June, Rabel received a message from Lawrence “Ready Red” Mcintosh, the president of A&R at The Senate Music Group, a Los Angeles production company with a stable of Grammy Award-winning producers and songwriters.

“All of a sudden I was in L.A., songwriting and doing demos, and (The Senate) offered me an internship and said I might be able to make a career out of it,” Rabel said. “I had never recorded or even written a song before, but I learned a lot.”

This first trip to LA really came as a shock to Rabel because until recently, singing and rapping had merely been hobbies for her. She said she has always loved singing, but she hasn’t been uploading her song mash-ups to YouTube for very long and claimed to have only discovered her talent for rapping in her last year of high school.

“I was a senior doing a history project about three amendments, and I decided to make up a rap about each one,” Rabel said. “(Students) loved it, and old-ass professors just ate that shit up. I got all A’s for my raps.”

Years later, Rabel said she is still able to recite many of these academic raps she wrote in high

Allison rabel On her early raps

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Allison Rabel, a Nebraska Wesleyan student, recently shipped out for Los Angeles and some studio work with the Senate Music Group. Rabel auditioned for NBC’s “The Voice” this past summer. school, as well as some of the more current ones from college.

Rabel said she even breaks them out at parties and everyone loves it.

“Now it’s just a thing I do,” Rabel said. “I rap battle people, and they never expect it based on the way I look.”

Rabel sometimes participates in shows at The Bourbon Theatre for small crowds. But she doesn’t care about the size of the audience; performing is a means of relaxation for her.

“I just like to sit on a stool and perform — usually jazz music and pop/rap covers — in a laid-back atmosphere,” Rabel said. “I get

anxiety sometimes, but when I’m performing, I don’t even worry about that. I’m just in the moment.”

This summer, NBC’s “The Voice” asked Rabel to audition, and she chose to do a song she thought reflected her style: a mashup of “Look at Me Now” and “Colt 45.” Although she only received a “maybe” from the judges, Rabel said it was all worth it.

“I was waiting and thought I heard Bruno Mars practicing, but found out it was Justin Bieber,” Rabel said. “I waited around to meet him, but didn’t find him yet, so I went back to the studio.

That’s when a producer was in the

middle of doing a demo for Beyonce and needed a female voice.”

Rabel was asked to try singing a few lines of the song, but the producer loved her voice and let her record the whole demo for Beyonce. After that, she ended up seeing Justin Bieber.

“The opportunity to meet him was the damn highlight,” Rabel said. “I talked to him briefly and tried to be casual, but I couldn’t keep it together.”

On Thursday, Rabel will be performing in LA as part of the Hollywood Music Summit, which will be filled with producers, agents and musicians.

“They put me dead last, so I have all this pressure and I’m freaking out,” Rabel said. “But it’s a push in the right direction of being discovered.”

Although she hasn’t been offered a record deal yet, Rabel is working with The Senate and taking the fast track to a possible career in music.

“The best part has been proving to myself that I can do it,” Rabel said. “I went from being really pessimistic to a little optimistic.

I’m still realistic, but I feel like I could have the potential to fit in in LA.” However, Mcintosh, who has worked with big names such as Lady Gaga and Bieber, said “fitting in” is not exactly what producers are looking for; they’re looking for individuals who stand out.

“I think Allison’s potential as an artist is limitless,” Mcintosh said. “She’s raw, yet very skilled and humble, yet very edgy. She’s also very believable — she can take any song, whether she’s lived the lyrics or not (and) bring the best out of it.”

Mcintosh said Rabel’s future as a mainstream artist looks extremely promising.

“I enjoy every second I spend working with Allison,” Mcintosh said. “I’m very lucky to have discovered her.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

shape, curvature and figure, Haag said. He uses a dense plywood called Bolted Birch on all the boards. After it comes out of the press, Haag paints the board, gives it the final shape, sands it and puts on a finishing coat, grip tape, trucks and wheels. The entire process usually takes somewhere from 20 to 24 hours.

Recently, Haag also started using fiberglass to im-

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Fashion event to feature local, student design Fashion’s Night Out to celebrate Lincoln boutiques, aspiring designers

gram is a collaboration between American Vogue, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, NYC & Company and the city of New York.

“Fashion’s Night Out is an maddy Christensen event that started DN in New York City in 2009 and has Senior fashion communications spread to cities major Chelsea Rice argues that across the country University of Nebraska-Lincoln and world over the students aren’t aware of the last couple years,” fashion that is available to Rice said. them right here in LinShe said coln via boutiques and she believes local clothing stores. the event will So this year, Rice — give Lincoln a third year member the chance of the University Proto show off gram Council (UPC) what it has — proposed hostto offer ing an all-campus through fashion event: Linits many coln’s own “Fashboutiques ion’s Night Out.” and students The website designers curfor Fashion’s Night rently studying Out, which is an fashion on caminternational series of pus. fashion showcases, “The event gives describes the event students a look into as, “an unprecethe different styles dented global iniboutiques are offertiative created ing this fall/winter in 2009 to celseason, what their ebrate fashclassmates have ion, restore designed here in consumer Lincoln and what confithe high fashion dence, trends are globboost the ally, all in one industry’s place,” Rice execonomy durplained. ing the recesSenior UPC sion, and put Entertainment Chair the fun back in Clare Maney is excited to host the shopping!” event.

The event “Throughout the night we will be held will be showing a live feed of this Thursday, shows straight from NYC’s Fash6 p.m to 11 ion Week,” Maney said, “And p.m., in the students are also encouraged to Nebraska dress up in the latest fashions Union Cen— you can go all out if you tennial want to! UPC will be taking Room. Adpictures of everyone’s outmission is fits.” free for all Fare from local boutiques UNL stuwill also be making an appeardents, facance, including from The Black ulty, staff kyle henderson | dn Market, Blu Velvet, Duo Shoes, and the Embellish, Penny Lane Trading Lincoln Community.

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Daydreaming Dating this ‘Alice’ was no leads to daily trip through Wonderland love affairs That could have gone better: an ongoing series about relationships that didn’t go on

A STUDY IN SCARLET

A & E columnist

Columnist muses about a high school crush, his one and only date with ‘Alice’ ››Editor’s note: To avoid the deflating long-term effects of sheer embarrassment, the names of all parties in the following column have been changed. Relationships, hey, hey, hey.

She was the kind of girl that made you go “aww” in your head when she walked by.

She was no taller than five feet, but was packed to the centimeter with adorable. Her dark brown hair hung just over her ocean blue eyes and she had an electric laugh. She was peppy as popcorn when she bounced into the room with a beaming smile and squealing “Hello!” to anyone she knew in the vicinity.

We met through our journalism publication in high school; her on yearbook, me on newspaper. We had always playfully flirted, but nothing more.

She liked the Beatles and could have passed as Zooey Deschanel in a look-alike contest. She was dangerously cute and made me laugh.

Alice might as well have had a sign on her back that said, “Date this girl.”

It wasn’t until we went to journalism camp when things started to actually click between us. We slow danced to fast songs at the annual dance. We gradually picked up pace and eventually waltzed so quickly we became unaware of our surroundings, turning over chairs and knocking

and would have to miss football games on Friday for this club and Saturday nights would be busy with that club. She’d hardly have time to breathe!

It was the nicest way anyone has told me they weren’t interested.

But it didn’t stop there. She then went on to talk about her constant drug use, of which she knew I wouldn’t approve. How she loved getting high with her middle school friends and how her mom didn’t care about when she threw parties at her house.

As a naive high schooler who was so far from the party scene, I didn’t even know what a “handle” was, this was shocking coming from a girl I assumed shared the same ignorance. She looked so innocent, so cute. How could she know how to smoke out of a bong?

Surely cute girls don’t know how to do that, right?

I sat there quietly, nodding my head and fake-laughing at all of her “party” stories as I ate my salad which had far too many croutons and not enough dressing.

On the ride to the outdoor play, I dialed up the oldies station, hoping a Beatles song would come on so we could share that moment.

“You actually listen to this stuff?” she’d jest.

“I...uh...”

She turned the dial to the alternative station, which was no problem to me. I enjoyed it, though I could’ve done without her turning it up so loud I couldn’t get a word in.

After I dropped her off at home, I was crushed that the night hadn’t gone as I’d expected. Alice wasn’t who I had expected her to be. I had no intention of asking her for a second date.

She had fooled me with her cuteness and the bubbly personality.

School and summer camp were just momentary charades.

I didn’t like the Alice I knew; I liked the Alice I thought I knew. I may never eat a steak salad again.

Suffice it to say, that could’ve gone better.

Arts@ dailyNebraskan.com

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She liked the Beatles and could have passed as Zooey Deschanel in a lookalike contest. She was dangerously cute and made me laugh.”

others out of the way. We found ourselves slamming into the ground, right next to each other on the navy carpet ground; green and blue strobe lights flickered on our faces as we laughed hysterics over our clumsiness.

I asked her out the next day.

I picked her up 12 minutes early on our first date because I didn’t want to be late. She wasn’t ready, so I had an awkward conversation with her father, which was luckily cut short by her cascading down the stairs before our “where are you looking at colleges?” talk turned into the “intentions” talk.

She wore a yellow dress with red lipstick, which made her blue eyes sparkle. Her white headband with a fake flower in her hair made my knees weak.

We went to a local salad restaurant for dinner. While standing in line I asked what she wanted to eat.

“Oh, I already ate,” she said coldly.

I laughed. She stared. She wasn’t kidding.

Though I asked multiple times if this would be a sufficient place to eat and after her telling me “yes” multiple times, she decided to go ahead and eat before instead, leaving me to eat a hefty salad across from her, looking like a complete and total buffoon with chunks of steak and wads of cheese hanging from my mouth with every word I spoke.

We sat in one of those, boothchair combo tables. She took the booth and sat back in a very reserved sort of way. Legs crossed.

Very little eye contact. I was thrown off.

“So, Alice, you excited for junior year?”

“No, not really,” she said giggling. Adorable.

“Oh, well why not?”

“Well,” she started and then went on to list club after club she would be a part of and how little time she was going to have to do anything.

I mean, anything. She was probably going to lose friends with her packed school schedule

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too much.

The main problem I see with my weird daydreaming is I don’t know what it says about my definition of “love.” Assuming I’m falling in love with every girl with pretty eyes, makes love seem shallow and ever-moving, like quicksilver.

I like to think love is a gradual process, something that happens as you grow close with someone else, until you realize that they’ve become a big part of your life.

But that might be a pipe dream created by Jennifer Aniston movies and ads for jewelry. Love might be something that occurs within seconds of seeing someone for the first time. Love could very well be a cursory emotion, something that people expect too much from. Relationships so rarely work these days. Maybe marriage should just be prearranged again. That’d certainly make things a lot easier.

I’m not as bad as I used to be about this. Like all of my less-thandesirable behaviors, I’m blaming it on my small-town upbringing.

There were like eight people in my high school; wandering the sidewalks of UNL, the amount of culture and beauty overwhelms me and activates my small-town sensibilities. I want to settle down and start a family with every girl I see.

This is what happens. It’s not emotional and physical insecurities causing me to look for the validation that presumably comes with a loving relationship. That’s dumb, and you’re dumb for thinking it.

I’m 21 years old. I don’t need a family of my own. I need a few bucks to get dinner at Chipotle. I need to discover myself or some new-age malarkey.

But my brain is hardwired.

This is who I am.

I’ll always remember that “Friends” episode where Rachel said, “You are who you are. If you stare at girls and become infatuated, then picture yourself meeting that girl’s parents, that is totally fine, Tyler. It’s kind of attractive actually. You are so much less neurotic than Ross, Tyler.” tyler keown is so used to rejection. reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

tyler keown I am the Jennifer Aniston of people who are not Jennifer Aniston.

This is assuming that Jennifer Aniston is the character who always falls in love with people. She might not be stereotyped as that character anymore. She might not have ever even been that character.

Let’s just pretend that she was, though.

To reiterate: I am like Jennifer Aniston because I fall in love with people all the time. In hindsight, that would’ve worked better as an opening line. I am also like the big J.A. because of my beautiful blue eyes and my past with Brad Pitt, but this column isn’t supposed to be a soap box.

For real, though, I fall in love with people I don’t know basically every day. Girls, to be specific.

This wasn’t a major problem until I came to school; I apparently left rationality back in my hometown.

It’s the weirdest thing — I see a girl in a class. I notice the way her eyes are the same color as passion.

Oh my, her skin is but high-quality paint on a high-quality, curvy canvas. I am the person you should build a life with, girl in my class. I am your answer.

Goodness, red-haired girl walking next to Andrews Hall.

Your fair skin is all that matters in this moment. Share your secrets with me, my love. Let us blossom together. Let us go to Target and put things on our wedding gift registry.

Your jeans are too tight, girl on bike across the Selleck greenspace.

Is your intellect tight, too?

Writing this, I’m aware that I probably come off as creepy. The guy who stares at girls, but I’m the fella who thinks about what books he would leave on his desk the first time she comes to my apartment so she’s knows how deep I am. The guy who thinks of inside jokes before he even gets inside.

Of a relationship. Yeah, like starts a relationship.

Maybe I’m creepy then. Maybe I’m just making this all up to force my editor to decide how much is

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jourdyn Kaarre The moment I considered arranging a conjugal visit at the state penitentiary just to have the excuse to write a column, I knew my life was going nowhere.

Meg, of course, would do the

conjugating. That plan didn’t materialize, but her alibi for Tuesday afternoon is as clear as dishwater.

My apologies to my mother for that. I honestly never looked at visiting the state penitentiary.

It was more of an annoying idea swimming around my head as I searched for Steve Buscemi merchandise on the web and de-

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And really, the moment I knew my life was going nowhere came about when the tip of my tongue touched the lid of the nacho cheese cup to make sure there was no residual cheese (which would leave millions of people starving in vain).

Since visiting criminals is out of the question, Meg and I took our business elsewhere.

With “That’s My Bitch,” a Jay-Z and Kanye West original, blaring from my speakers and exceeding (barely) the 7 mph speed limit, Meg and I took on the Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari.

The safari, which sits off the South Bend exit on Interstate 80 (it’s technically located in Ashland), is one of the many unexpected gems Nebraska has to offer, because really, why the hell would there be a safari in Nebraska?

Rolling hills, various trees of the deciduous and coniferous variety and graveled paths set the scene. There is a small fee of $6.50 per person to enter the park, which is damn good deal if you ask me, but then if you compare it to the number of soft shell tacos you could have purchased at Amigos, you start to second-guess yourself.

Crossing through the wooden gates into an open prairie, I was all sorts of hot and bothered.

I can’t speak for a severely hungover Meg, but I presume she was only trying to keep down the copious amounts of Barton’s she consumed the night before.

This would also be an excellent

opportunity to interject that she happened to be wearing the same clothing from the night prior. Including wedged heels.

First, we see American elk and white-tailed deer, which were really like the elk and deer corpses you see strewn about and bloody on the shoulders of interstates and highways, but in this case, they were glorious — and alive.

However, Meg repeatedly asked in disbelief if they were real and followed up with, “I can’t wait for one of them to ram the shit outta us.”

After the riveting drive through the stationary beasts, we headed to the “Pelican Wetlands.”

It happened to be raining (never mind that we’ve been in a drought for months and the sky felt the need to downpour that day), so the birds were flocked together and incredibly uninteresting.

The last time I visited the safari, it was a different story. The pelicans were like the residents of the Island of Misfit Toys. Bloody, eyeless and one wingless, they were an incredibly interesting bunch back then, but everyone needs to sober up at some point.

Following the trail to the “Eagle Aviary,” we reached the most terrifying part of our journey.

Visitors enter the aviary on foot and Meg did so haphazardly, as she struggled to make it up the mulched incline in heels. After a reassuring “bald eagles will rip your head off” from Meg, we fearfully entered the exhibit. The two eagles stared at us in the same way fraternity boys look upon freshman girls on bid day. Needless to say, we snapped a few

The pelicans were like the residents of the Island of Misfit Toys. Bloody, eyeless and one wingless, they were an incredibly interesting bunch back then, but everyone needs to sober up at some point.” jourdyn kaarre dn columnist

photos (because if it’s not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Myspace or Xanga, it didn’t happen) and left.

The next part of the trip I cannot even begin to bore you with.

There is a trail which guests take on foot to view the bears and “Wolf Canyon.”

The carnivores were hiding from the rain, so there is no need to discuss why at least 57 OneTouch Ultra strips were scattered along the trail or how parents whispered to their children “Move over here, honey,” as Meg and I passed, giggling and wearing each other ’s shoes. Have I mentioned it was raining?

Finally, we arrived at the “Bison Plains.”

I retract my statement earlier about the bald eagles being the most terrifying. This was it. These beasts stared at us, sucking out our souls little by little with their big buffalo eyes.

Meg and I watched with terror as a few started to circle and head-butt one another. I anxiously waited for at least one mounting to occur, which it did just as we left.

My thoughts raced knowing that at any moment my life could

end if and when they charged my car. Meg, on the other hand, thoughtfully offered, “It’s so weird they’ll never go to college or see the picture I’m taking of them.”

She took a special liking to the white buffalo.

Leaving the park, we took a gander at the visitor shop.

Inside, we purchased “one of the most beautiful and comfortable printed t-shirts you will ever wear.” Those words are printed on the packaging. I’m not even shitting you. Turns out, the Tshirts are the most beautiful garb I will ever wear, because there is a MAJESTIC WHITE BUFFALO FORCEFULLY PERCHED UPON A SNOW COVERED MOUNTAIN WITH HIS LOYAL PACK OF BUFFALO IN THE BACKGROUND. Meg and I exited the visitor shop wearing our matching buffalo shirts (I haven’t taken mine off since). For wildlife enthusiasts, the Wildlife Safari will not disappoint. For hungover, broke-ass college students, the Wildlife Safari will give you the best day of your debt-riddled existence. jourdyn Kaarre is a junior journalism major.

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longboard: from 5 of nearly 24,000 was a big change prove the final product.

“It strengthens boards, pre- for Haag. He said making boards provides a tranquil get-away. vents snapping and gives them a “Working in my shop is very nice finish,” Haag said. “It allows me to make lighter decks because peaceful,” Haag said. “Occasionally I’ll have music going, but noththen I can use less wood to make a thinner deck that’s more flexible. It ing too loud, usually just classical. just increases the overall value of It’s pretty quiet and it’s nice to have a little bit of alone time when a board.” you’re in college Friend and forand around peomer roommate I was ple all the time.”

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“His first board I’m also interested to do so, California is the ideal lobroke when it hit a cation. really big pothole,” in woodworking.”

“A lot of Dean said. “Since Jeff Haag downhill skatethen, I don’t think boarding compeany have broken.” titions are held Haag gave Dean one of his first boards, a pintail there, and a lot of competitions are design with a Ronald Reagan based out of the West Coast,” Haag “ray-gun” paint job. Other charac- said.

Hoping his longboarding ter paint jobs have included Clint Eastwood, Christopher Walken workshop will help him gain experience in hands-on engineering, and James Dokes from “Dexter.”

Haag has some ambitious ideas of After making a few boards for himself and friends, Haag began what the future could look like.

“I want to go into either the auselling his work. He has already tomotive or aerospace industry,” sold nearly 30 boards to date.

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biG teN telecoNFereNce Notes braDy hoke, michiGaN

On rebounding from a 41-14 loss to Alabama- “We had a great practice last night. I think we had a good mentality.

I think we had a lot of good tempo, as far as how we like to practice. I think our guys are mature enough to understand that that’s one of 12 guaranteed opportunities we have and we have 11 left.”

On communication with new coaches- “I think everybody, particularly when you have some staff changes, probably works on that during the course of the preseason. I know that we did. That’s one thing I’m really pleased with going back to the first week of spring ball. I thought everybody’s really hit the ground running and done a nice job in regards to that.”

On his team’s resiliency- “For our football team, and the kids, they have really worked hard in the offseason to do what we’ve asked them to do. They’ve prepared hard and some things didn’t go our way. We just hung in there, and I was very impressed.”

bo peliNi, Nebraska

On UCLA- “They have good speed. They have good athleticism. And I think they’re a well-coached football team. They put stress on you, they give you multiple looks on both sides of the ball. You combine that with their athleticism and they’re a good football team.”

mark DaNtoNio, michiGaN state

On the importance of margin of victory- “They just count one. We feel fortunate to have won in the way we won the other night, and that’s what’s important to me, in terms of how we performed and how we move ahead. I’m not really looking around the country and saying, ‘Well, this is going on or that’s going on.’”

On running back Le’Veon Bell’s 44 carries against Boise State- “He’s feeling great. He’s practicing today. There’s no more bumps and bruises than he would usually have. I think that, if anything, it creates some excitement for him, the fact that he was able to do that, and it builds even more confidence for him.”

On quarterback MarQueis Gray’s performance- “Compared to what we did last year, he did very well, but we left a lot of points out there on the field. There’s no question about that. He overthrew five or six deep balls that, (if) we throw and catch, it’s a different game. I think his adrenaline was flowing.”

pat FitZGeralD, NorthWesterN

On sitting starting quarterback Kain Colter in the fourth quarter- “Getting ready to go into two-minute drill and Kain said, ‘I want to be out there, but I think right now, Trevor [Siemian] might give us a better chance based on what I’m feeling.’ It’s about as unselfish of an act as I’ve ever heard of from a teammate. I think that shows you the confidence Kain has in himself, but also the trust that he has in his teammate, in Trevor. That was why the decision was made to go with what we did.”

On forgetting to sing the fight song with Penn State fans after the game on Saturday- “Yeah, I messed that up. That’s completely my fault. I meant to do that, and we will do that next game.”

bret bielema, WiscoNsiN

On road games- “Road games are what they are. You have to wrap your arms around them, hug them up and embrace them.”

On narrowly escaping a comeback attempt from Northern Iowa- “You were able to walk out of that game a winner.

I’m not a rocket scientist here, but I think half the teams out there lose each Saturday.

You’re able to walk away a winner, that’s a big, big step in the right direction.”

urbaN meyer, ohio state

On having the first game of the season after class started at Ohio State- “I am very appreciative of the fans for coming out. It was the first time we’ve had students here for the first game of the season, I think, in school history.”

tim beckmaN, illiNois

On traveling to the West Coast- “You try to match the things that we do with a Midwest travel game. We’ll do some things here at home, and then we’ll travel out to Arizona and try to prepare it like we’re playing a game at home even though there is a two-hour time change.”

On what makes a quarterback dangerous“The guys that can’t pull it down and run, they better be great throwers. The guys that can pull it down and run, those are the guys that can really hurt you. They can extend drives. Those are the guys that usually beat you.”

On the late start time this week against Arizona State- “When you’re in the Mid-America Conference, it seems like you play a lot of night games, so I’m used to that from my time there. Yeah, it’s late though. It’ll be at 9:30.”

kirk FereNtZ, ioWa

On season openers- “After any first game, at least typically — this is 14 years, I guess — I can’t remember one where you just walked out of there and said, ‘Boy, everything looked great.’ It’s really the first time that we’ve gone full-speed against outstanding competition like that.”

On his play calling- “You’re always trying to achieve balance. You know, ultimately you would like to have a 50-50 run-pass ratio, but at the end of the day you have to do what it takes to win the game. Probably at the end of the Ohio game, I need to do a better job of calling some more runs. That’s for sure.”

jerry kill, miNNesota

On Alabama’s offensive line- “Do I think they’re talented? There’s no question about it. They do a good job. I think they’re well-coached. But I think at the same time, there were things that we did that probably didn’t help us as much as we’d like to.”

On traveling to California- “At the end of the day, you’ve got to execute your football.

You’ve got to go out there with a focus in mind of why you’re making the trip out there and understand the challenges that are involved with it. It’s a business trip.”

bill o’brieN, peNN state

keviN WilsoN, iNDiaNa

On the Hoosiers season-opening win over Indiana State- “We didn’t score as much as we moved it. We left a few points on the field and kept the game a little closer than we needed to, but as young as we were, to get a ‘W’ is a big start for us.”

DaNNy hope, purDue

On the team’s season-opening win“We’re proud of the win this weekend.

Eastern Kentucky is one of the top FCS universities in the history of the game.”

On the Hoosier running back situation“I don’t know that anyone is playing right now at a great, great level. I think everyone is playing pretty equally. You might see any one of those four guys in the game.”

-compileD by laNNy holsteiN aND Zach teGler

On his decision to start senior Caleb TerBush at quarterback- “I thought throughout training camp he outperformed the other quarterbacks hands down.”

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Southern Miss. The Bruins recorded 650 yards of total offense in their victory at Rice, scoring 49 points.

“They got a bunch of explosive players and they are pretty solid up front,” Papuchis said.

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The Nebraska football team took another step forward in studying UCLA for Saturday’s game.

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going there, but we’re preparing well for it.”

One of those explosives is tight end Joseph Fauria. At 6 feet 7 inches, Fauria will be a matchup problem for the Huskers, Papuchis said.

“He’s a big, athletic target,”

Papuchis said. “We have a plan, but I’m not going to expose it now. But he’s a tough match up.”

UCLA’s read option offense also has been a focus for the NU defense, Papuchis said.

“Any time you prepare for any type of option, discipline and taking care of your job is the key,” Papuchis said.

“That’s obviously been the focus this week.”

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Aaron Curry and Avery Moss, freshman defensive linemen, were both on the field for eight to 10 plays Saturday against Southern Miss, Papuchis said.

“Until we knew what was going on we didn’t want to put them in a situation they weren’t going to do their best,” Papuchis said. “We wanted to make sure the game was in hand when we

put them in so they could get their feet wet.”

Papuchis said the players are still too young, but more playing time is in their future. Both players have been impressive so far this week, he said.

“I expect that they’ll get to play more and more as the season goes on,” Papuchis said. “The reality was, we were careful with them, they are babies. They have no game experience. They’ll play more and more.”

recruitiNG

Husker players Josh Mitchell, Taylor Martinez, Quincy Enunwa and six other players are from California.

Papichus said all of those players are excited to go home Saturday when Nebraska takes on UCLA. However, Papuchis said the Huskers will benefit more from the California trip in recruiting.

“Obviously, we got some guys on our team that are excited to come home,” Papuchis said.

“ However, we have some targets out there that are from California, some guys that are committed, some guys that aren’t. So we need to go out there and give them some good exposure and hopefully get some (verbal commitments).”

other Notes

Tight end Ben Cotton practiced in a blue, non-contact jersey for Tuesday’s practice because of a rib injury sustained in Saturday’s 49-20 victory against Southern Miss.

Cornerback Mohammed Seisay practiced on Tuesday. The junior college transfer has been healing from a nagging ankle injury. Papuchis said he is still day to day. “We’re going to kind of let this week dictate (whether he plays),” Papuchis said. “He looked good in practice today, but he’s got to have a good week of practice to play Saturday.”

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Romero returns after run at Japan U-20 World Cup Nebraska midfielder represented Mexico at summer games, missed NU opener Angela Hensel DN With such a young team like the Nebraska women’s soccer team, a veteran can make a large impact.

This weekend marked the return of Ari Romero, a junior midfielder who was a big-time player for the Huskers last season, starting all 18 games.

Romero made her return after competing with the Mexican national team in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Japan the past two weeks.

After losing its opening match against Japan, Mexico came back to win its group by defeating New Zealand and Switzerland. Despite the strong group play, Mexico fell to Nigeria in the quarterfinals on Thursday, ending Romero’s run.

In the four games of the tournament, Romero managed to make quite the impact. Not only was she a starter, but she also saw some of the most playing time with the team, playing 390 minutes with two assists over the four games.

The end of the FIFA U-20 World Cup also marked the end of a busy six months for Romero. In March, she was named to the U-20 Mexican national team that competed at the CONCACAF Championships that month in order to

We let them get the better of qualify for the World Cup. Along with competing with us,” freshman midfielder Katie Kraeutner said. the U-20 national team, Romero But with Romero’s return on was also a member of the Mexican national team this summer in Sunday, it brought some new life the 2012 CONCACAF Women’s to the Huskers and helped conOlympic Qualifying Tournament. tribute to a strong performance.

“Ari’s really good, so she Although this was the tournament that would give the Mexi- brings an added dynamic to our can national team the chance to team and it helps give us confidence knowing that she’s back. qualify for the Olympics, it failed to do so after losing to Canada She is just a great player,” Hayes said.

3-1, which later went on to win With a team full of younger the bronze medal in the London players such as Kraeutner, RomeOlympic games. ro can be a source of inspiration.

Despite this busy schedule, Romero was quick to return to Like many members of this new a Nebraska uniform following squad, Romero got into the competition right away Thursday’s loss. and started every Within three days She’s game of her freshafter her last game definitely a man and sophoin Japan, Romero more year. was back on the top-class player.

“She’s defifield for Nebrasnitely a top-class ka’s 2-1 victory on She gives you player. She gives Sunday against motivation on and you motivation on Cincinnati. and off the field,” “I think it defi- off the field.”

Kraeutner said. nitely helps whenKatie Kraeutner With Romero ever you gain a freshman midfielder back on the field, player who is a the Nebraska womcrucial part of your team and they come back,” junior en’s soccer team hopes she can give some consistency to the rosdefender Maritza Hayes said. ter. The Huskers look to remained While the Nebraska defense focus as they prepare for a final has been fairly consistent in the first few games this season, it tune-up Saturday before they befaced some struggles against gin Big Ten play at Northwestern Baylor on Sunday. Nebraska had the following weekend.

“We need to get back to the trouble stopping a fierce Baylor basics of what’s helping us win,” offense that accumulated 28 shots Hayes said. “Just building on our on goal throughout the game. communication and working for “I think as a team we weren’t as focused, and we weren’t will- each other.” sports@ ing to commit our bodies to make dailynebraskan.com some sacrifices for our team.

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Ari Romero heads a ball in a 2011 game. Romero spent the summer representing her Mexican national team in Japan, where the country competed in the U-20 World Cup, where she was a starter.

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Lavin aims for Visit to NU won Deeg’s pledge consistent game Sara Hinds DN

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and that school,” he said. “My dream was to play college golf, to be able to come to the United States and play for Fifteen feet stood between Manuel a good university.

“I accomplished my dream.”

Lavin and a championship.

Spangler said that when Lavin He had tied for first place in the came to Nebraska, his game was still National League Championship at the young.

Country Club of León in León, Mexico.

“He’s a late bloomer,” Spangler In a sudden death said. “He really hasn’t playoff, Lavin had had a lot of instruction, My dream given himself a a lot of structure to his chance to win on was the play golf. He’s getting that the green of the parhere and he’s taking ad4 18th hole. college golf.” vantage of it.”

He drained the In his three years 15-footer to win the with the Huskers, Lavin title. has worked with NU asAccording to sistant Tony Bedient to Manuel Lavin Lavin, now a junior improve his skills. junior golfer on the Nebraska “Tony’s done great men’s golf team, work with Manny and that tournament is the highlight of his golf career — but I think they’re clicking. They know they’re a good match and they have you can’t tell by his reaction a few good camaraderie,” Spangler said. years later.

After a freshman year in which “It was pretty nice,” Lavin said. he only played in two tournaments, That soft-spoken attitude is one Lavin put in extra work on the course Nebraska coach Bill Spangler said the and was able to play every tournament Aguascalientes, Mexico, native carries in his sophomore campaign. every day.

“Last summer I came two months “He’s got kind of a sneaky sense earlier to practice here, and I think that of humor,” Spangler said. “He likes to kid the guys, but in a quiet way. When helped me a lot,” he said.

The practice paid dividends in the he speaks his mind, people notice beform of a career best finish (second) cause he doesn’t do it very often.” and three-round total score (215) at the The NU coach said he first saw Lavin play in a junior tournament in Fairway Club Invitational in SeptemTexas. Spangler had never had a recruit ber 2011, but that success did not carry into the rest of the season. from Mexico, and although Lavin’s “He had a couple decent tournagame had a few flaws, he could recogments and kind of leveled off in the nize the young player’s ability. spring,” Spangler said. “A lot of that “It was a little raw in terms of how to practice and what to do,” Spangler was newness to him: the travel routine, the time management, the different golf said. “His grip was a little off and a courses. Second time around this year, couple of swing mechanic things, but he should be that much more prepared.” all the pieces were there.”

He added that Lavin is a year betLavin has been playing golf since he was eight years old, when he ter, wiser and more confident. And although his coach has high expectations learned the game from his parents. for his junior year, Lavin is not going to “I used to finish school and get exforce anything. cited about going to practice golf in the “I’m a really patient guy,” Lavin afternoon,” Lavin said. “It was always said. “If I made a mistake, I know I something that I enjoyed.”

But it wasn’t until his early teen- have time to compensate it. If I keep working hard enduring the golf age years that Lavin got excited about course, I think that’s going to pay off playing golf collegiately. at the end.”

“I just remember watching the sports@ pros playing on TV and they mendailynebraskan.COM tioned he used to play in this school

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major contributors Kaczenski said.

“Physically, both of those guys, we knew they were physically mature enough to handle it. It was more important that they handle the mental aspect of it,” the coach said. “They’re both great big athletes that can move around and can stay active, but are they able to do those things in high pressure situations and stay active when they are not going against our offense, when they are doing it in front of 85,000 people, and I’m not standing behind them telling them what to do?”

Kaczenski said those things worry him, but that is typical for any freshman he coaches. Curry and Moss are ahead of the curve.

“Those are both two sharp kids that football is very important to, and they have a great grasp of the system,” he said. “They are not afraid to ask for help. They’ve got a pretty good idea of

what’s going on.”

Curry may know what is going on in the trenches, but when he got his first taste of Memorial Stadium and the game day atmosphere on Saturday, it was still a little overwhelming he said.

“Coming out for the tunnel walk, I just got chills,” Curry said. “I was thinking this is crazy. I was dazed and stuff.”

The freshman didn’t look dazed on the field, according to Kaczenski.

He and Moss made the most of their time and are on track to see the field more in coming weeks.

“In all the drills, we always talk about translating what we do in individual drills to the field, and that’s what we’ve seen,” Kaczenski said.

“That’s why those are the guys that we are counting on down the line this season.”

“Whoa.”

That was Cassie Deeg’s thought when she visited Nebraska. She had plenty of other thoughts about the visit beforehand.

Deeg didn’t see the reason in visiting NU’s campus. It was August of her senior year in high school and Deeg wanted to commit to a college soon. Idaho, Illinois and Missouri were at the top of her list. Nebraska was not on the list.

Then NU’s women’s golf head coach Robin Krapfl called Deeg and asked her to come down for an unofficial visit. The Stillwater, Minn., native Deeg would be in Omaha for a golf tournament already. Deeg didn’t care for the logic, and she didn’t care to visit Nebraska either.

“I was like ‘I don’t know why I’m going to visit here,’” Deeg said. “It’s so late; it’s Nebraska, I don’t even wanna go see it!’ So I was kind of bitter, and I came here and I was like, ‘Whoa.’”

Deeg drove around Lincoln with her mom and Krapfl.

They checked out the women’s golf practice course and facilities. They toured campus. They stopped by Memorial Stadium and NU received a second “whoa” from Deeg.

“I loved everything,” Deeg said. “I loved the coach. I loved

the girls. I loved the campus. I loved the city.”

Nebraska, Deeg’s underdog school, if even that, had won.

“It just basically felt like home, and it felt right,” Deeg said. “I was like ‘I’m going there.’”

Deeg verbally committed to NU a week later.

After showing what her NU had to offer, Krapfl wasn’t surprised at Deeg’s decision, besides the speed of it.

“I could tell that she was just a good person along with being just a quality individual along with being a good golfer,” Krapfl said.

Now a freshman, Deeg is eager to play Cassie in her first match as a Husker. There is another round of qualifying Friday to determine who starts for Monday and Tuesday’s Chip-N Club Invitational. Krapfl thinks Deeg could potentially grab one of those spots.

“We’re still in the middle of qualifying – we have one more round to go — but it looks like she has a good shot of being in the top five,” Krapfl said. Deeg’s “biggest supporters” will be watching this weekend: her parents are coming down to watch their youngest daughter play as a college golfer. It’s an occasion

Deeg’s dad, Len, thought could happen.

When Deeg first played golf, Len planted the idea of college golf in his daughter ’s mind.

“But I didn’t really care at that point,” Deeg said. “And then by the time, probably ninth grade (was) when I knew I wanted to compete and I knew I wanted to get better. Then I was like, ‘I wanna play college golf.’”

Len was guilty for introducing his daughter to the sport in the first place. He was without a golfing partner after his son Peter left for college. There were two Deeg children left as candidates.

“My sister was into studying, so she Deeg was out,” Deeg said.

“So he got me a lesson and once again I didn’t wanna go.”

But Deeg kept returning for lessons and made the high school varsity golf team as a seventh grader. She was the Minnesota Class 4AA State Champion as a junior and placed third at the state championship a year later.

She improved her score between her junior and senior year, but lost to younger girls, one of whom is the younger sister of current NU teammate, Steffi Neisen.

As unwilling as Deeg was

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Neil Dufford – Senior – Midland, Texas Manuel Lavin – Junior – Agauscalientes, Mexico Jordan Reinertson – Sophomore – Gibbon, Neb.

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Cassie Deeg – Freshman – Hugo, Minn.

Steffi Neisen – Junior New Prague, Minn.

Katelyn Wright – Junior – Incline Village, Nev. to play golf in the first place, the sport is her focus alongside school. She said she likes to keep busy; it teaches her time management and discipline.

“With school and with golf I’m always going going and I love that,” Deeg said. “I don’t like sitting around doing this, doing that.”

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But the form was far from perfect. Sullivan darted through the arm tackle and took his only catch of the game for a game-tying touchdown.

While the Huskers struggled to tackle all day, that play stood out as the most detrimental.

“You look across the board and that’s probably the thing we need to get better at,” Pelini said. “We were sloppy tackling in a few instances. It’s the first game. Usually you get better.

“I want to say we had 11 tackles for loss, and I think we left four or five out there on the field. We left a couple sacks out there. There

are just some little things here and there we need to clean up.”

Coming out of halftime, the Blackshirts cleaned up quite a bit, stopping Southern Miss’ drives short. While the unit allowed a similar amount of yards and an equal amount of first downs in each half, the points stopped coming.

“I thought we made the right corrections and adjustments at halftime and on the sideline,” senior linebacker Will Compton said. “It wasn’t overwhelming out there.”

In the second half, the Huskers outscored the Golden Eagles 21-3, thanks in part to the defense, which began to stuff Southern Miss right from the get-go.

The Blackshirts opened the second half by recovering a fumble on a bobbled handoff, then went on to

force three punts in the remainder of the game.

While the Husker defense held Southern Miss to only 13 points of offense, the team remained unimpressed. Missed tackles and a lack of a pass rush are important areas of emphasis moving forward.

“I feel like we could’ve done a lot better,” senior defensive end Cameron Meredith said. “The positive side to that is that we ran a lot of different stuff, and we had some missed assignments here and there, but I think we got a lot of good stuff on film to learn from. I think that was a part of (defensive coordinator John Papuchis’) plan.”

“I think he wanted to see how we would do with all of those different calls and looks. I think we handled it well.”

On the positive side, the Huskers stifled Southern Miss’ passing game, holding USM quarterbacks to 7-of-19 passing for just 75 yards.

“I thought the secondary did a good job executing, a good job adjusting,” Pelini said. “For the first time out, I thought there were some positives. I have confidence in that group.”

But confidence isn’t enough.

Pelini wants his defense to keep grinding, to keep improving. The goal is an elite defense, one opponents fear. This group has that potential, Pelini said.

“It has a chance to be outstanding,” Pelini said. “I think we’re ahead of where we were a year ago.

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Blackshirts’ sloppy tackling form cause for concern moving forward Chris Peters DN The Blackshirts went in blind.

Southern Miss was nearly a complete mystery for the Huskers. With an entirely new coaching staff came new offensive and defensive schemes, as well as new personnel, leaving Nebraska with essentially no reliable game film to use in preparation for Saturday’s game.

“We didn’t have anything to go off of,” Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. “We don’t have the luxury of watching them practice.

There was total guesswork going into that game defensively as far as what we were going to see.”

The result: a variety of defensive looks and a wait-and-see approach that cost the Husker defense 17 points and 10 first downs in the first half of Nebraska’s 49-20 win on Saturday.

The Blackshirts held the Golden Eagles to 13 points on offense in the afternoon (7 points came on a kickoff return for a touchdown), but gave up 20 first downs, allowing an average of 3.9 yards per rush. It was the first half, when Southern Miss was finding ways to break through the Husker defense, that gave Nebraska cause for concern early.

“That’s to be expected in game one, especially in a game where you didn’t have a whole lot to go off of going in,” Pelini said.

What wasn’t expected was sloppy tackling.

With 13:09 left in the 2nd quarter, Southern Miss quarterback Chris Campbell fired a shot to wide receiver Dominique Sullivan. NU cornerback Andrew Green made a play on the ball,

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Nebraska cornerback Andrew Green misses a tackle in Saturday’s 49-20 victory against Southern Miss. The missed tackle, one of many for the Blackshirts, resulted in the lone touchdown surrendered by the defensive unit. Wide receiver Dominique Sullivan converted the catch into the game-tying score with 13:09 left in the 2nd quarter.

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Freshman defensive end Avery Moss pursues a Southern Miss ball carrier. The true freshman is one of two defensive linemen to see action in their first game in a Nebraska uniform. Defensive coordinator John Papuchis said he expects to play Moss often.

Nebraska is prepping for the future along its defensive front.

Saturday’s 49-20 win against Southern Miss saw a pair of freshman make their Husker debuts in the later stages of the game. Aaron Curry and Avery Moss got on the field for Nebraska’s final nine defensive snaps, and what they did with those snaps impressed their position coach Rick Kaczenski.

“We’d liked to get them in a little bit more, but when they were in there, we didn’t miss a beat,” Kaczenski said.

“They are big physical kids. You know the big challenge for young guys is the mental aspect of it, and they handled it in a good way, but it also wasn’t that high of a pressure situation for them.”

It won’t be long before the pair is in the game earlier, getting those highpressure snaps, according to the coach.

Nebraska is counting on them to add depth to its defensive front, a critical area against Big Ten offenses.

“You hope to never have to count on freshman right away, but with the way the depth chart works out and with injuries, we have to count on some young guys here over the next few years,” Kaczenski said. “They

By the numbers: In Saturday’s 4920 win vs. Southern Miss, the Blackshirts: Allowed: 20 first downs 75 passing yards, 1 TD 185 rushing yards, 3.9 yards per carry 121 kickoff return yards, 1 TD Forced: 5 punts 2 three-and-outs Recovered: 1 fumble add depth to you, and they give you something that maybe you weren’t anticipating or expecting. You throw them in the fire and just see how they handle it.”

Nebraska’s coaching staff has been pleasantly surprised with what Curry and Moss have provided to this point in their careers. As freshmen, they have a lot to grasp coming in, but are making strides toward becoming

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Despite impressive offense, special teams, defense need some work

ANDREW WARD Wow, this offense is good. Everything else, though, could use some work.

Nebraska looked about as good as you can offensively, Saturday.

For starters, Taylor Martinez was

impressive, really impressive. And guess what? He ran the ball only six times for 21 yards. Dare I say, it was his passing that impressed me the most.

The guy looked like a wizard against a young Southern Miss secondary. It was like watching Tim Tebow back when he was winning championships at Florida.

Martinez was accurate; hitting 76 percent of his passes — almost 20 percentage points higher than his career average. Not only was he accurate, but he was also able to distribute the ball to 11 different receivers.

I’m not going to give Martinez all the credit, though. I’ll give it to the Nebraska coaching staff. They found a way to get 11 different receivers involved, with 10 catching passes before

halftime.

It takes guts to play that many guys, especially when five of those receivers saw little to no action in 2011.

The coaches have been talking about how good this receiving corps is, and they stuck by their word.

The Nebraska receiving corps looks to be as deep as any in the country. It’s hard for Martinez not to look like Tom Brady distributing the ball to that many capable receivers.

Let’s not just give praise to the passing game though. Bo Pelini has said for a while he likes this backfield, and they didn’t disappoint Saturday.

When Rex Burkhead went down in the first quarter with a knee injury, I was as skeptical as any. I didn’t give any credit to Ameer Abdullah. I didn’t

think he could be an every down back.

I thought he was just a speed guy.

Granted, it’s the Southern Miss defense, but Abdullah was solid. He showed good vision and strength, adding to the speed and quickness we all knew he had. This could be his breakout year, especially with Burkhead nursing a sprained MCL. Braylon Heard filled the backup role just fine, as well, and even freshman Imani Cross provided some needed carries for the Husker offense.

As good as the offense was Saturday, everything else was pedestrian.

Defensively, Nebraska wasn’t bad.

Believe me, I’ve seen worse. However, the Blackshirts have to figure out a way to stop the run.

Southern Miss succeeded in run-

ning the football Saturday. The Nebraska defense did a better job stopping the run in the second half, but the Golden Eagles were forced to throw the ball to chip away at a significant deficit.

If Nebraska’s defense wants to be considered elite again, stopping the run has to be a priority. The seniors on that defensive line need to get together and step up. It’s not going to get any easier than Southern Miss as far as running the ball goes.

The secondary seems solid, even though Southern Miss threw the ball only 19 times Saturday. However, there weren’t any breakdowns in coverage, and every player seemed to know what they were doing. That’s a start.

Even though many questions remain on defense, the special teams

provided the biggest disappointment Saturday.

After senior kicker Brett Maher was named preseason All-America, he missed both of his field goal attempts on Saturday. Granted, they were both more than 40 yards, but those field goals have been chip shots for Maher in the past.

Add those misses to a 100-yard kickoff return by Southern Miss standout Tracy Lampley in the second quarter, and that equals a bad performance from the special teams.

Nebraska wants a Big Ten Championship. It has the offense, it proved that on Saturday. But if the Huskers are going to win, the defense and special

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