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friday, september 7, 2012 volume 112, issue 015

Enunwa, Huskers face California test

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Quincy Enunwa is one of nine Californians on the Nebraska roster. Saturday’s game at the Rose Bowl against UCLA provides the players with an opportunity to play a game against a high-scoring team in front of family.

Study: Parents may underestimate college costs Emily Nitcher DN Less than one-third of parents are considering the total cost of college and slightly more than twofifths have steered their collegebound children toward a certain major based on its future earning potential, according to a study released Aug. 29.

Fidelity’s sixth annual College Savings Indicator surveyed parents with college-bound children of all ages. The report analyzed families’ current and projected household asset levels and general expectations as well as their attitudes toward financing their children’s education.

The findings suggest that because parents aren’t planning for

large future earning potential. college’s total cost, students will “As a parent, I want them to bear more of the load in financbe happy, but in the end, they ing their education. Parents and students alike are split over who have to pay their bills,” Kathy Tokach said. “I holds the responsicome from an unbility to pay for colI think derstanding that lege and whether it’s more certain positions majors should be make more monchosen based on important to be ey, but you have pleasure or payeducated than to to love what you checks. do.”

Kathy Tokach have a trade.”

Kathy Toand her daughter Rekach’s three chilnae Tokach were visZachary Austin english major dren have based iting the University their college deof Nebraska-Lincoln cisions on where on Thursday for a college visit. With her daughter they can receive the most scholarship money, she said. Her chilset to attend college, Kathy Tokach said she’s split 50-50 when dren say they want to leave their home state of North Dakota for she thinks about encouraging her kids to find a major that offers a school, but paying out-of-state tu-

ition makes them think twice.

Kathy Tokach aligns with the 31 percent of parents considering the total cost and the 61 percent who are making adjustments to help curb potential post-graduation debt.

Those adjustments, according to the report, include opting for less expensive schools, 38 percent, and relying more heavily on financial aid, 28 percent.

Kathy Tokach said she has always encouraged her children to apply for as many scholarships as possible. She tells her children spending three hours applying for a $1,000 scholarship still means more money then they can make working elsewhere.

Still, Renae Tokach said she wouldn’t let the cost of college

Additional Findings from the Sixth Annual College Savings Indicator • $70,300 - The average annual salary that parents who encourage a specific major expect their child to earn • $44,442 - The average starting salary for class of 2012 graduates • 57 percent - The average percentage parents plan to pay for their child’s college costs • 30 percent - The average percentage the parents expecting to pay 57 percent can afford

rule her enrollment decisions.

But it’s not just scholarship application decisions that some

parents are influencing.

Sixteen percent of parents

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Picnic Season

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Security footage from the Nebraska Bank of Commerce on 14th and Q streets shows the suspect in an armed bank robbery that took place Thursday morning.

Bank robbery suspect remains at large Anna Weigandt, Millie Schledewitz and Kelly Henry enjoy dinner together at the Milder Manor nursing home on Thursday. Weigandt, who is on the Husker track and field team, and a handful of other Husker baseball, softball and track and field athletes volunteered Thursday night, passed out food, served beverages and chatted with the residents during a picnic held by the Milder Manor.

Students recieve alerts as a bank 1 block from City Campus is robbed

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As the fall sports season gets underway, Nebraska athletes take time to give back to community, their supporters with a picnic at Milder Manor

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ebraska softball and track and field student athletes prepared a picnic at Milder Manor nursing home in south Lincoln on Thursday night.

Sophomore softball player and life skills team leader Mattie Fowler spent most of the picnic eating and talking with nursing home residents. Life Skills

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is a program that focuses on University of Nebraska-Lincoln student athletes’ lives outside of sports.

“Being athletes, we’re role models,” Fowler said. “Everyone supports us, so this gives us a good name and gives us a chance to meet and socialize with people we wouldn’t get the chance to otherwise.”

Although every sports team at UNL

is required to do at least two community outreach projects a year, athletes consistently go far above and beyond that requirement, said Keith Zimmer, associate athletic director for Life Skills. Last year, each of Nebraska’s athletic teams volunteered for its required two projects and, collectively, volunteered for 250 more.

“Nebraska receives such great sup-

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staff report DN A man with a bandage on his left cheek robbed the Nebraska Bank of Commerce on the corner of 14th and Q streets, a block south of City Campus, Thursday morning, according to Lincoln Police.

Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood said police responded to an armed robbery call at about 9:30 a.m., after a man entered the bank and passed a note to a teller claiming he had a weapon.

The teller then calmly handed him an undisclosed amount of money, and the suspect left in a unknown direction, Flood said.

As of Thursday evening, po-

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Newman Center breaks ground Construction begins on Greek houses, larger church

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To just drift away Drift Station owners to close gallery, focus on other projects

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lice haven’t found the suspect.

Because the robbery occurred so close to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University Police sent out an alert using the UNL Alert system.

Sgt. Jeffrey Hohlen said university and Lincoln police officers searched City Campus for the suspect.

Security footage from the bank captured an image of the man’s face, obscured by his apparel and a bandage. Lincoln Police Capt. David Beggs described the suspect as a white man, weighing about 220 pounds and about 5 feet, 7 inches tall. The man was wearing a black baseball cap, black sunglasses, a brown Tshirt, khaki pants and had a black backpack. He also had a piece of gauze taped to his left cheek.

Students are urged to call 911 if they see a person matching the description of the suspect.

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Allergies flare up, thanks to drought, mold

Newman Center begins construction Theta Phi Alpha and Phi Kappa Theta begin construction on new houses elias youngquist dn

Allergy sufferers are paying the price; Experts say weather patterns to blame

record-melting heat. But this time around, the drought actually worked in favor of a particular type of mold called alternaria, which grows on dormant grass.

Throughout the summer, plant leaves withered, died and fell to the ground, said Loren Dan Holtmeyer Giesler, a UNL plant pathology DN professor. And they kept falling.

Without rainfall, bacteria and This summer ’s drought has baked fungi, including alternaria mold, crops, turf and trees across the couldn’t begin decomposing the Midwest, but one thing has surleafy blanket. vived the heat: allergies.

In other words, no mold or Despite many plants going other organism could come to dormant and pollen counts at the leaf buffet, Giesler said, so it roughly half their typical level, kept building up. But just after local clinics are seeing unusually the semester began, rain – some strong seasonal allergies in higher of it carried by the final gasps of numbers this semester.

Hurricane Isaac – finally made “We’re seeing more people it to the Lincoln area. Suddenly feeling miserable that haven’t felt the mold’s normal processes of quite this bad for several years,” decomposing leaves and making said Kirk Kinberg, a doctor and spores roared back to life. allergist with Allergy, Asthma & “I joke about (alternaria) beImmunology Associates in Lining cheeseburgers for fungi,” coln.

Giesler said. “It allowed all those Here on the University of natural fungi that break things Nebraska-Lincoln campus, the down to just explode.” story’s the same.

Alternaria’s black spores, “In recent memory, I think usually so small they’re invisible this is the worst year I’ve seen,” to the naked eye, appeared in said LeAnn Holmes, a nurse pracsuch numbers that they blankettitioner at the University Health ed some lawns like soot, Giesler Center. “It’s definitely increased.” said. Farmers also told him they Because antihistamine medisaw what looked like smoke comcations like Benadryl and nasal ing out of their combines. sprays are available over-the“It’s not related to the fuel,” counter, Holmes said she hardly Giesler told ever sees patients them.

“It’s coming in needing spores.” additional firepowI’ve never The sneezes er. Not this year. those spores seen “Because they’re caused have trying those and anything like this topped off an they aren’t working already rebefore. It’s been ... I’m seeing three markable year or four a day when fascinating the for allergies.

I usually wouldn’t Last winter and way the year’s see any,” she said. spring’s unusuDale Benham, played out.” ally warm tema biology professor peratures sent at Nebraska Wespollen skyrockLoren Giesler leyan University, eting weeks, unl professor who monitors the even months, area’s official pollen ahead of schedcounts, pinned the ule. blame to one tiny culprit: mold “I’ve never seen anything spores. like this before,” Giesler said.

“I’ve never seen as much “It’s been fascinating the way the fungal spores,” said Benham, year ’s played out.” who has been in his position for He also had good news for about a decade and has two deallergy sufferers: If the weather cades’ worth of data available. goes back to being dry, the alterHe couldn’t provide numbers for naria molds should settle down. the spores, saying the counting According to the National Weathprocess for spores is more time- er Service, the drought is forecast consuming and intricate than for to continue into November. pollen.

For now, people affected by “My sense is it’s really bad,” the spores can turn on their air Benham said. conditioning to filter their air and Molds reproduce by releasshower before bed, said Holmes, ing microscopic spores into the the health center nurse. winds, which eventually settle “Then they’re not taking the in a cozy spot and begin growing pollens on their skin and their and sending out tiny branches. clothes to bed each night,” she Those branches are what give said. She added with a laugh, many molds their fuzzy appear“Eventually it will freeze, and ance on fruit peels and old bread. then we’ll all feel better.”

Mold is usually associated news@ with dark, cool and wet condidailynebraskan.com tions – far from the summer ’s

Within the last few weeks, the former University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union building was reduced to a pit of pink insulation, stacks of steel and mounds of miscellaneous rubble.

Beginning with the first stroke of the backhoe, three and a half years of continual construction began for the Newman Center ’s series of building projects.

Once the last project is finished by 2015, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will boast a new fraternity house, new sorority house and a Newman Center roughly twice its original size.

According to Jude Werner, director of development for the Newman Center, the total project costs $25 million, with $17 million going toward the church.

The Newman Center has raised $10.1 million to cover the costs and will continue fundraising for two more years.

The construction of the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity house is the first portion of the project and is slated to be ready for fraternity members by August 2013.

The Theta Phi Alpha sorority house will be the last portion of the project, ready to use by 2015.

While neither house is directly associated with the Newman Center, the Rev. Robert Matya kick-started both projects after a more than 70-year hiatus.

“Both Phi Kappa and Theta Phi Alpha were on campus in the ‘40s as Catholic Greek houses,” Werner said. “When there was an interest in getting those back, Father Matya helped to work with them to get re-established.”

Both Greek organizations were once strictly Catholic but have since lowered the restrictions to accept members of all faiths, according to Kelly Heldridge, a senior broadcasting

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A construction crew works on the new Theta Phi Alpha house. The sorority’s house will be on the corner of 16th and Q streets.

major and Theta Phi Alpha president.

According to Heldridge, when the sorority was founded in 1912, other chapters had quotas for Catholic women, creating a need for a solely Catholic sorority. When the organization sought to join the National Panhellenic Conference in 1960, it opened to all faiths.

“We still have the opportunities to grow within the Catholic faith, but it’s not required,” Heldridge said.

Both Greek organizations maintain their own identity, according to Werner, but keep a close association with the Newman Center as well. According to Tony Duren, Phi Kappa Theta president and a senior secondary education and mathematics major, two priests will sit on their housing board committee.

“Otherwise, (religious roots) can easily be lost over the years,” Duren said. “This way we make sure the chapter isn’t losing its identity.”

Both organizations still recruit heavily from the Newman Center, according to Duren. Phi Kappa Theta has 85 percent Catholic members.

“There are Catholic morals and values that the fraternity lives by, but we just look for members that have strong morals,” Duren said.

Duren admitted that the new Phi Kappa Theta will likely be the most expensive fraternity, but it should still be cheaper than traditional dorms with a meal plan.

Both Greek organization members are just happy to be able to find a place for a house in the alreadycramped Greek row.

“It’s really the last place on

campus a Greek house could go,” Heldridge said. “It’s exciting to be the last piece of the puzzle.”

The Theta Phi Alpha sorority will move to the lot on 16th Street where the Fellowship Of Catholic University Students building is located after the new Newman Center is built in 2014. While the Newman Center is under construction, the church and center will operate out of the FOCUS building.

“The core of our project started with our church,” Werner said.

“We’ve been overflowing our church and the number of Catholic students continues to grow every year, as does the number of students that are involved with the church. It’s not ‘If you build it, they will come,” Werner said.

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Study suggests more women attend college University of Nebraska-Lincoln numbers don’t correlate with findings Heather Haskins DN A new National Center for Educational Statistics report suggests that women are more likely to attend and graduate college than are men.

But that doesn’t seem to be the case at the University of NebraskaLincoln.

The study, titled “Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persis-

tence Study,” analyzed nationwide data from 2004. In that year, 96 percent of female high school students planned to attend college, compared with 90 percent of males.

While that data showed more women aspired to go to college in 2004, there were more freshman men than women, 54 percent to 45 percent, enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the fall of 2005, according to UNL Institutional Research and Planning. But in the 2003-2004 fiscal year, women earned 49 percent of 3,119 bachelor’s degrees at UNL. And last year, women made up about 47 percent of the student population and earned about 49 percent of 3,719 bachelor’s degrees.

“If you go back and look … there has always been more men

than women,” said Mary Werner, associate director of the UNL Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

According to the report, women also were more likely to attend college right after high school.

In 2004, three-fourths of female students did so while about twothirds of male students did. The report also suggested that women were more likely to receive financial aid, with 82 percent of women receiving aid compared to 77 percent of men.

Jan Deeds, director of the UNL Women’s Center, said the military might provide an explanation for why fewer men enter college directly out of high school.

“We still have a lot more men than women entering the military

right out of high school,” Deeds said. “You can go to the military and then earn money and come back to college.”

Deeds said she wondered if the difference between enrollment rates and graduation rates between men and women was significant enough to be considered a trend.

“There are lots of factors that affect someone’s ability to enter college,” Deeds said. “Gender is not the only factor.”

Werner said the differing rates could be due to more boys being born than girls in the general population. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention records, more boys than girls are born in the Midwest.

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parents: from 1 who are making college-cost adjustments are asking children to change their major to secure a better salary, the report said.

For parents with children already in college or starting college this fall, 42 percent said they had encouraged their children to choose a major because of the future earning potential, according to the survey.

Zachary Austin’s parents were happy with his decision to major in chemical engineering and his Regents Scholarship.

They agreed to help him pay for housing.

“Satisfied is the perfect word for it,” said Austin, a sophomore English major. “They were happy I was going to be self-sufficient.”

Two weeks into his freshman year he changed his mind. And later that year, he lost his scholarship.

Austin said his parents were disappointed when he switched his major from chemical engineering to English because they very worried about his future earning potential. And with his loss of scholarship he had to take out loans to pay for school.

“They’ve given up on the concept of me having a productive income,” Austin said. “They still try to get me to go back to

chemical engineering. Or any kind of engineering. Or the business college.”

Parents encourage computer science, nursing, engineering, psychology, biology and accounting majors the most, the report said.

Erin Wirth, program coordinator and accredited financial counselor with the UNL Student Money Management Center, said students are wise to consider earning potential and how much debt they will have upon graduation.

Wirth said she’s noticed students choosing majors that offer more practical skills.

“Most of the undergraduate students I work with are doing the thing they love,” Wirth said.

“I think graduate students are choosing majors that will give them more practical skills.”

As for Austin, he expects to leave UNL with about $30,000 in student loans. Falling in debt has offered Austin a new perspective on college, but he said he wouldn’t think of changing his major.

“I think it’s more important to be educated than to have a trade,” he said.

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Grant funds biology education program Maren Westra DN Judy Diamond is bridging the gap between the knowledge of experts and the knowledge of the everyday person.

Diamond, the University of Nebraska State Museum’s curator of informal science research, has received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Science Education Partnership Award program to fund the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Biology of Human education project.

The Biology of Human project aims to help children and adults better understand biomedical research advances, Diamond said.

It’s important for people to be well informed about how their bodies work, she added, so they can make better decisions about their health.

Charles Wood, professor of biological sciences and director of the Nebraska Center for Virology, and Julia McQuillan, sociology professor and chairperson,

are working with Diamond on the project. Using books, comics and apps, the Biology of Human project focuses on middle school students.

McQuillan said this targeting is because while most students are set in their habits and ideas by the time they reach high school, middle school students are more open to ideas. Diamond called middle school “a good time to motivate kids to think about science.”

According to McQuillan, her role in the project is largely to ensure the information is communicated in a way middle school students will understand.

“If you lay the foundation,” she said, “it could help them as they take in more information.”

The project is an expansion on Diamond’s most recent project, the World of Viruses.

New content from the Biology of Human education project will be available in about one year, Diamond said.

According to a UNL press release, the project focuses on four themes: “the biology of human cells and their transformations,

”We hope that by … changing the way kids think about themselves ... it rubs off on their parents.”

Judy Diamond

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such as cancers; the diversity of organisms living inside human bodies and their associations with disease; how health and disease relate to evolutionary history; and potential medicines available through global biodiversity.”

Diamond said there’s a gap between what experts know and what the public knows regarding biomedicine because there are so many new developments in the field.

In the last two decades, a better understanding of the human genome has led to a both a better and a rapidly expanding understanding of medicine, she said.

The researchers know middle school students don’t always make their own health decisions.

But they hope teaching the students can improve their ability to stay healthy instead of having to

defer that decision to their parents.

“We hope that by … changing the way kids think about themselves and about biology, it rubs off on their parents,” Diamond said.

Wood was unavailable for comment. Diamond said his role in the project is coordinating science advisers and organizing content to ensure it’s portrayed accurately. She said scientists in all fields, not just biomedicine, are trying to communicate specialized knowledge to the public.

But for this project, the researchers say reaching middle school students is key. “(We are) starting younger to lay the foundation for these topics,” McQuillan said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Local program celebrates 27 years of aiding children Charlie Brown program helps children grieve with loss of parents CL Sill DN Members and volunteers alike crowded the Sheridan Lutheran Church on Thursday evening to celebrate an anniversary.

The occasion was the 27th year of the Charlie Brown’s Kids support group. This volunteer association meets twice a month and devotes its time to helping area children whose parents have died.

“The evening is about everyone coming together and celebrating their time with Charlie Brown’s,” said Bev Prucha, who co-founded the group in 1985.

The event featured pizza, bingo and a balloon-making clown, as well as the presentation of a $500 check to Charlie Brown’s from the Heritage League.

Later in the evening the children and families took part in a balloon launch, where they could write a message to their deceased parent and let it float its way up to them.

Joyce Schuette, a project specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been working with the group for nearly 20 years. She said the group likes to focus on simply letting the kids talk about their grief.

“The more you talk about it, the easier the grief is,” Schuette said. “They can talk about anything.”

“Anything” might be a memory of their lost parent or even something like cremation.

Schuette said children sometimes don’t understand things that an adult wouldn’t think twice about, so she helps them make sense of even the simplest of topics.

Schuette also uses her personal experience to guide her volunteer work. Schuette’s mother was 29 years old when she died, and

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James, 7, plays in the gym of the Sheridan Lutheran Church on Thursday night at the Charlie Brown’s Kids Reunion.

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Rose Olsen laughs while leaning back in her seat at a cafeteria table at Sheridan Lutheran Church on Thursday during the Charlie Brown’s Kids Reunion. The children at this event have suffered through a family trauma, and its purpose was to help them through the grieving process. grieve right along with the chilSchuette said that many of the dren. feelings brought on by grief are Corkill is the same no matter now raising the how old you are.

The more two adopted Those feelings children of her have now grown into you talk good friend Heia great appreciation for the time that she about it, the easier di Vontz, who died of breast did get to spend with the grief is. They cancer in March her mother, as many 2011. of the children in the can talk about “We get to program lost their anything.” deal with our parents at a much own grief and younger age. the children’s, “I now know how Joyce Schuette too,” Corkill blessed I really was to unl project specialist and have my mom for 29 charlie brown’s kids volunteer said. “And we get to talk as years,” Schuette said. adults about That’s one of the how our chilgreat things about the dren are behaving.” group, according to Jane Corkill: Many of the adult volunteers The parents and volunteers get to

Luncheon to address academic integrity Upcoming Academic Integrity Week focuses on ethics, honesty Tammy Bain DN Academic integrity doesn’t just mean “don’t cheat” to Steve Swartzer. It’s about values, he said.

Swartzer, assistant director of University of NebraskaLincoln’s Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching and Studying of Applied Ethics, will help kick off Academic Integrity Week at UNL with a brown bag luncheon Monday at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. From 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., attendees will discuss the topic of integrity in academic work.

“When you talk about academic integrity, it has different meanings to different people,” Swartzer said.

A majority of the discussion will be academic values such as honesty, fairness, trust, respect and responsibility as well as talk condoning cheating and lying,

Swartzer said.

“These issues can be kind of murky, and they can be complex,” said Swartzer, who said even ideas about what constitutes a value differ between people.

For example, he said, each individual has preset ideas of honesty and dishonesty in his or her mind.

“Situations may not involve lying, but are they being honest?

Are they really trustworthy in this situation?” Swartzer said.

When one person has expectations of honesty preset in his or her mind, he or she evaluates what another person says based on those expectations, Swartzer said.

“We want people to share their own discussions and share their own ideas,” he said. “I’d rather not sit and talk at people.”

The center has two brown bag luncheons every month: one for graduate students and one open to the public, Swartzer said.

However, this one kicks off a series of events through Academic Integrity Week.

“In Graduate Studies, we really wanted to do something on campus,” said Mandy BergeronBauer, recruitment and retention

coordinator for UNL Office of Graduate Studies.

Other events include: a talk on plagiarism at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center ’s Writing Center at 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 and a keynote speech

by Dr. Daniel Wueste, director of the Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University, in the Nebraska Union at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 12. news@ dailynebraskan.com

has gained national recognition.

An annual report by the National Consortium for Academics and Sports has ranked UNL in the top five for the last 10 years in number of events and people impacted.

“Serving food at the People’s City Mission, hospital visits, school carnivals and lots more: You name it, we’ve done it, and the athletes are always happy to

help,” Zimmer said. “We definitely stand out. We’re among the giants.”

For some student athletes, the community outreach helps their respective teams as well.

“It helps us grow as a team,” said Hailey Decker, a freshman softball infielder.

The positive impact on the team was evident to Fowler, who said the entire softball team at-

Ethical Dilemmas in Academic Integrity: what:

Brown bag luncheon and discussion of academic integrity gray areas where: Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center when: Monday, Sept. 10 how much: Free what else: If you didn’t RSVP, you can still go.

Bring your lunch.

at Charlie Brown’s relate to each other in this way, as a number of them are former members who lost a parent as a child.

One of these volunteers is Bonnie Martin, a UNL junior English major. Martin lost her father when she was 8 years old and now spends her time speaking with junior high and high school students who have experienced the same thing.

“I think it’s good for them to see someone older talk about their feelings,” said Martin, who believes that kids of that age sometimes feel like it’s not “cool” to talk about their own feelings.

When the kids do open up and begin to speak about their experience, it can make the volunteers realize the value of the program.

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ABOVE: Bonnie Martin, a UNL junior English major, works in her second year as a volunteer for the Charlie Brown’s Kids Reunion.

The organization helps children cope with the loss of a parent.

Prucha said watching these kids and their families go through this process is what makes her work so worthwhile.

“It is watching the transformation, and seeing the kids begin

to laugh and smile again,” Prucha said, “and knowing that the group had a part in that.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Staff member gives crash course on open access staff report dn “Open access” means free access with no strings attached – but it’s not that simple, according to Paul Royster’s presentation on open access journals and institutional repositories at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Hall on Thursday afternoon.

About a dozen people gathered to hear the coordinator for the Uni-

versity Libraries’ Scholarly Communication’s crash course on open access journals.

Open access journals, or scholarly works posted online for the viewing public, often detail the results of experiments conducted by field experts.

Journals are used primarily in the presentation of new and developing topics, including research papers, dissertations and theses.

In the past, scholarly journals were only printed on paper and distributed by mail or by hand.

With the emergence of the electronic age, journal authors began publishing their works online, first charging readers a fee to view the work.

Today, Royster said, institu-

tions like colleges have acquired site licenses, which allow authors to publish their works from anywhere within a certain area surrounding the institution, called an institutional repository, and readers can view the works at will. That led to an explosion of open access journals.

The term “open access” actually has two separate definitions and two accompanying schools of thought, Royster said.

The first definition, called gratis open access, holds that open access means freedom to “access, use and store (journals), with no purchase, fees or registration required,” according to Royster’s PowerPoint presentation. By the laws of gratis open access, the owner retains the copyright for the content and controls any re-use.

The second definition, called libre open access, holds that ”open access” also allows the freedom to re-use, modify or re-distribute the content. The owner keeps the copyright but grants a Creative Commons license, which allows others to re-use or modify the content with attribution. Users may not re-use the work for commercial purposes.

“Some advocates say gratis

(open access) is not open access enough,” Royster said.

Open access schools of thought split again when it comes to business models. “Nobody pays” under the “green” business model, Royster said, but article authors pay processing triple- or quadruple-digit processing fees under the “gold” open access model. Royster said the leading open access journals are “libre” – Creative Commons-licensed – and “gold” – the author pays a processing fee.

“This is an OK deal, if you can afford it,” Royster said.

Royster went on to recommend the Directory of Open Access Journals, which boasts more than 8,000 journals, both “gold” and “green,” all of which are quality-controlled and peer-reviewed. He also recommended UNL’s own Digital Commons, which acts as the campus institutional repository and is “gratis” open-access.

Doctoral dissertations and master theses are also available in the UNL repository. To submit an article to the UNL repository, email Paul Royster at proyster@unl. edu or call him at 402-472-3628. news@ dailynebraskan.com

helping: from 1 port, (volunteering) is just the right thing to do,” Zimmer said.

Some athletes say volunteering isn’t only the right thing to do: It’s fun, too.

“I like people,” said Devandrew Johnson, a junior track and field jumper and junior history major. “Here I can kind of mix and mingle, engage with people and put a smile on their face.”

UNL student athletes’ service

tended the picnic.

“Events like this definitely help you grow as a person,” said Jillanna Scanlan, a junior track and field jumper and business administration major . “It’s good for your image and it just makes you feel a lot better.”

Milder Manor resident Irma Meyer sat and talked to three softball players sitting with her at the dinner table.

I like people. Here I can kind of mix and mingle, engage with people and put a smile on their face.”

devandrew johnson junior track and field jumper

“Are you having a good time?” asked Courtney Breault, senior softball player and management major.

“Oh, yes thanks,” Meyer said with a smile. “I’m having a great time.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

conjecture is discredited by their own earlier reporting. Many of the perceived issues that the editorial board has identified as issues in the channel seem based upon students being uninformed. While we are constantly working to explain how the channel works to residents, the Daily Nebraskan clearly has the resources to actually aid us in this effort.

We, and most students, agree that the cost of $2 per semester is worth the price of 10 new movies a month. All of the feedback we’ve heard so far has been positive and we’re excited to see what this great platform leads to during this year and upcoming years.

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letter to the editor

Complaints about RHA movie channel based on misinformation We were dismayed to read the Daily Nebraskan editorial about the Residence Hall movie channel because it contained numerous falsehoods, as well as uninformed interpretations and accusations.

First, the claim that students were not given an opportunity to voice their opinion on the movie channel is completely untrue. Last year, every student living in the Residence Halls was given an opportunity to vote on whether they would be in favor of a student fee increase of three dollars per semester for a residence hall-wide movie channel. On Jan. 23, each student was emailed a unique link to a ballot with that and other related questions.

That link stayed open for over two weeks. After those two weeks, 876 students had voted, with 76 percent in favor of increasing student fees to pay for the movie channel. (The actual fee is less than what was asked

at $2 per semester). This information was reported by Conor Dunn in the Daily Nebraskan last year on April 4 in an article titled online as “RHA approves residence hall student fee increase for on-campus movie channel.” It is accurate that students did not vote on the movie channel during the ASUN elections, but that’s because the movie channel does not in any way concern ASUN. Housing fees are not voted on in ASUN elections. They instead are handled internally through the Residence Hall Association and University Housing. ASUN ballots are not even programmed to distinguish students’ living status. Doing so would have been technologically arduous and unnecessary.

Second, it is absolutely incorrect to say that gaps between movies are the result of non-planning or system error. The reason that these gaps exist between movies is because movies are scheduled to start on the hour so students will know when new programs will begin. In addition, soon there will be campus wide events, notifications and other promotional materials displayed on the channel between movies. But

since the movie channel is only a month old, on-campus departments and groups haven’t had time to make their contributions.

Making this resource available was one of the reasons why the movie channel was pursued in the first place. We understand this may have caused some confusion at first, but with any new system, it takes some time for people to understand how it works. RHA has been answering all questions that have been e-mailed to them in a timely manner. Those who are still experiencing difficulties are encouraged to e-mail Melissa Peters at mpeters2@ unl.edu to express their concerns.

Third, the movie schedule is available on our Facebook page, “UNL RHA.” This information was made available at New Student Enrollment, where we reached out to every freshman we could. In addition, this information was given to all RAs at the beginning of the year.

We will be continuing to advertise the channel and its schedule, but it is worth noting that efforts have already been made to do so. It has been less than a month since movein, and obviously it will take some

time for students to be able to understand that this new resource has been made available to them.

Contrary to what the DN might think, students have been asking RHA about getting a movie channel for years. Students confirmed this by voting for it in the Residence Hall election. The movie channel is not semi-operational, it is fully operational.

Obviously, the editorial board is entitled to their own opinions, but as a newspaper they have a public obligation to at least make an effort to make that opinion informed. We would, and do, always welcome the opportunity to talk with the board to make sure that their opinions (current and future) are not founded on misconceptions. The problem is especially egregious when their

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guns up

Concealed weapons are often the source of great controversy, with some believing they create safety; others, distraction and terror

Concealed guns on campus instill unnecessary fear

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magine gunshots ringing out as clearly as fireworks and terrified students running in every direction, some trapped in hiding, too petrified to move. These are not the grim scenes of a horror movie. They are the very real nightmares lived by students that have been devastated by shootings at their schools.

No specific guidelines exist for the locations in which these horrifying acts take place. There is no particular size of school or demographic of those who are selected for execution. In fact, the only predictable thing about something as heinous as killing unassuming students in a classroom setting is how terribly unpredictable such a crime is. What the past has shown us is that these acts can happen anywhere, at any given time. Even in our dear and relatively quiet – besides on gameday – Lincoln, Neb. There are those who would have us believe that if events like the shootings at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University or Columbine High School were to occur at UNL, we would be better protected if students were allowed to conceal and carry guns on campus. Although, in theory, allowing conceal and carry could help, there are still several arguments as to why the ban of firearms should continue.

The first argument is based on human error. Just because

someone is a permit carrier does not mean they are a professional sharpshooter trained in tactical hostage recovery. If someone were to enter a lecture hall and open fire on a crowd of unsuspecting people, history has shown all hell would break loose. The likelihood of hitting the intended target would decrease. The margin for error would be significantly higher as would the chance that a bystander would be shot amidst the panic.

The recent shooting at the Empire State Building proved that even the prestigious New York Police Department’s rigorous training and years of experience can fail them. Civilians can still be injured in the process of bringing down a gunman. According to the Lawyer Herald, “The police fired as many as 16 shots, before shooting down Johnson. The remaining nine victims have incurred injuries as a result of the police firing.”

Human error doesn’t only mean shooting the wrong person. It could be as simple as forgetting to set the safety and having a weapon go off in your backpack or misfire while cleaning it in a residence hall room.

The second thing we must consider is that if a hostage situation were to occur at UNL, the Lincoln Police Department and University Police at the very least would respond within a matter of minutes. If, when they were to arrive on the scene, multiple gun-wielding students were in the middle of a shoot-out, it would be nearly impossible to distinguish the original assailant from the others. Someone trying to be a savior in the crisis could then end up a victim of accidental homicide at the hands of the very people sworn to protect us.

Another argument that can be made against concealed carry on campus is the age, maturity and hor-

AMANDA KEENAN mone levels of the average college student.

The fact that someone is of age to have a gun permit doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily mature enough to own one and use it responsibly, nor does having a gun permit mean that one is beyond committing a crime or experiencing a moment of rage.

According to the Violence Policy Agency, “Since May 2007, concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least 175 individuals – including nine law enforcement officers – in 26 states. Of the 104 incidents that resulted in the deaths, in half (52) the concealed handgun permit holder has already been convicted or committed suicide after the shooting. Of the 52 cases still pending, the vast majority (46) are charged with criminal homicide, two were unintentional shootings, three are still under investigation, and one involved a concealed handgun permit holder who was also shot and killed during the incident. Of the 104 incidents, 16 were mass shootings.”

By allowing concealed carry on campus, we would be permitting the means to react in a hostile way to situations. Suddenly receiving lower grades from a pro-

fessor or having a fight with a roommate could have entirely different results. The last thing that anyone needs is for someone with too much testosterone to become a vigilante, or for someone with a Napoleon complex to shoot another who turned him or her down for a date.

A final argument against concealed carry on campus is the level of discomfort generated from having a gun around.

People go to institutions of higher learning mainly to get an education. Allowing guns in classrooms would prove to be a distraction more than they would be a necessity.

Students would lose their concentration during tests and stare aimlessly as the lights reflected off the steel of a .57 magnum.

If students became uncomfortable enough to stop attending large lectures where there was a higher gun carrier to non-gun carrier ratio, there is a possibility that having guns in a university setting could contribute to a drop in attendance and grade point averages.

Would professors and faculty also be allowed to carry guns for their protection?

If so, this might damage student-professor relationship if neither of them felt safe being around the other.

Students living in the dorms would be forced into uncomfortable living situations if they were against guns and their roommate was allowed to have one. Even worse, if the student with the permit was a law-abiding citizen but their roommate was untrustworthy, a perfectly legal gun could still fall into the wrong hands. Robberies and assaults on campus could potentially

escalate to assault with a deadly weapon.

Sexual assaults could also increase as victims would be less likely to fight back when their assailant is armed.

Overall, allowing concealed carry on campus would cause more harm than good. In an ideal world, people would stop doing such horrible and hateful things to each other, and guns would not be a part of the equation. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world.

However, guns still have absolutely no place in the classroom. Even their intention to protect glorifies violence. What universities should do is invest in things such as metal detectors and more security on campus. Perhaps a wiser way to invest tax dollars would be to hire more campus police if safety is a concern. We should allow these trained officials to do their duties to protect and serve us.

The desire to carry a gun so someone can hypothetically play hero someday is reason enough that college students are overall ill-equipped for the responsibility that comes with handling something capable of taking a life. And if that doesn’t do it for you, how comfortable would you feel if you asked the person next to you in class to borrow a pen and a gun fell out of their backpack?

Amanda Keenan is a Junior advertising and Public Relations major. Reach her at Opinion@ DailyNebraskan. com

Concealed firearms essential for self-defense

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n April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, while injuring 17 others. This was one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.

Upon entering Norris Hall, Cho chained up and locked the three main entrance doors. Once the perimeter was locked down, he began shooting. Shots were heard and within a short amount of time, almost 50 people were dead or wounded. After the first shots were fired, police were called. Within 10 to 12 minutes the attack was over, and Cho had shot and killed himself.

The police never had a chance to take him down. His reign of terror lasted as long as he wanted it to. Cho fired about 174 rounds and the police never had a chance to intervene.

Yet, isn’t that what our police force is for? They are supposed to be there to protect and serve, which they do most admirably. But sometimes, the police don’t arrive in time to prevent a crime. They are called in after it has been committed to deal with cleanup or to hunt down a suspect. In the case of the Virginia Tech massacre and other school shootings, it would be better if the students were allowed to defend themselves.

Campuses around the country need to make it legal for students and faculty to conceal and carry on campus. It is quicker to respond to a threat with my own weapon in less than 10 seconds than it is to call the cops who may take, at minimum, two minutes to respond. In that amount of time, I would be dead. All they would find is a man, lying in a pool of his own blood, with a dial tone whining through the receiver of the phone.

Obviously, the reason we should be allowed to have our own weapons on campus is for protection. In the unlikely event that a crazed man tries to shoot up my classroom, I want to be able to say we survived because we were prepared. Thankfully, most days, and on most campuses, crazy people don’t get the chance to kill others.

This protection leads to a sense of security, and we all like to feel like we’re secure.

These are the reasons why guns should be allowed on campus. It isn’t enough to think that society has raised people not to kill oth-

ZACH NOLD ers. We must protect ourselves, and it is better to be safe than sorry.

Critics of this stance will base their arguments on two main points. They will say that if there were more guns, then we would have more crime. That buzzer sound you hear in the background is the sound of these anti-gun supporters being wrong. If more people had weapons on them and others knew that, then a crazy person would think twice before doing something stupid.

Let’s look at some of the statistics.

One misleading notion people have is that gun owners are prone to kill. However, according to Reuters.com, the approximate number of guns in the U.S. in 2007 was 270 million. Now, let’s be modest and assume that each gun owner has two guns. This would make nearly half of the American population gun owners. If one compares statistics of the number of gun owners versus the 14,748 murdered in 2010, one will find a massive discrepancy.

Even if you add assault – 778,901 in 2010 – to the equation, and assume that all assaults happen with a gun, the total murder victims, plus assault victims, will not add up to 1 million.

Let’s also assume that a separate person committed each murder and assault each time. For the benefit of the doubt, we will also round up and say that 1 million people committed gun crimes. The other 134 million gun-toting Americans didn’t commit a violent crime with a gun. Instead, they used their weapons for what they were intended for, including self-defense and recreational purposes.

Anyone who claims that a human who has a gun will kill is wrong. Otherwise,

wouldn’t there be 134 million more murders in American in 2010 alone?

The other point that most anti-gun supporters claim is that guns kill people. I don’t even need to cite statistics to prove this point wrong. All I need are a few satirical remarks. If this statement is true, my pencil causes me to write. My shoes cause my feet to kick people. My spoon makes me fat, and my car causes fender benders. The point is human beings as individuals, and as a society, are to blame for the murders of others, not the weapon with which they perform the act.

I am not trying to scare anyone into buying my opinion, so here it is broken down: Your chance of being murdered or assaulted this year, based on the statistics above, is less than 1 percent. That is pretty reassuring.

However, if there is ever a time when someone does want to harm you, don’t you want to be ready?

I know I do.

Frankly, I want to go down swinging. If the cops show up in my classroom after a gunman has tried to shoot my fellow classmates, I want them to find a classroom full of safe students. I want them to find one body lying on the ground, the body of someone who wanted to harm others.

Other campuses have already legalized the carrying of firearms, including Colorado State University, Utah State University, and the Community College of Denver.

Giving the power back to the people and letting them defend themselves is essential. This not only helps them, but makes the police’s job easier as well.

Per capita, the United States owns the most guns. Yet, it still ranks below other nations in firearm crime ratings. So, let’s bring that number down even more. Let’s reduce the number of future casualties by protecting our campus and our way of life here at UNL. Legalize the carrying of firearms on campus.

Zach Nold is a Senior English Major. Follow him on Twitter @ZachNold and reach him at opinion@

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friday, september 7, 2012 dailynebraskan.com @dnartsdesk

First Friday List of Events

Drift Station to close, owners to experiment with online presence

“The Everyday Interest of Young People”

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rift Station is closing its doors, at least its literal ones.

The art gallery will show its final exhibition at its 18th and N streets location on Friday during the First Friday Art Walk.

But the gallery’s owners, Jeff Thompson and Angeles Cossio, have plans to continue the project in a virtual way.

“It’s a huge amount of work to have a show and we’ve basically been creating a new show every month,” said Thompson, an assistant art professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “We curate everything. It’s a huge undertaking. As an artist, you know there’s a shelf life ... artists have to be nomadic.”

Drift Station’s name derives from that same idea: It’s named after Arctic research stations. As the ice floes the stations were built on would melt, researchers would have STACIE HECKER | DN to move their stations somewhere else.

Artist and educator Jeff Thompson sets up the art for the final exhibition at the Drift Station gallery before After Friday’s exhibition, Drift Station September’s First Friday Artwork. will exist as an virtual space, which Cossio, a visiting instructor in art at Nebraska Wesleyan University, said will involve using the gallery’s website as “an online curatorial platform.”

Thompson and Cossio consider Drift Station to be an “experimental curatorial practice.”

“As studio artists, we’ve used the gallery to experiment with ideas we couldn’t realize story by Katie Fennelly in our studios,” Cossio said.

The artists have shown more than a dozen of these curatorial exhibitions at the 18th and N location, and will present “FieldGuide” on Friday at 7 p.m.

Thompson said the book is We curate a reference tool for other artists looking to develop their own everything. galleries.

It’s a huge “We really hope that more people will open galleries and undertaking. As an encourage even more people to open galleries,” Thompson artist, you know said. And we hope that ‘Field- there’s a shelf life Guide’ will be a catalyst for that. There’s so much informa- ... artists have to tion that comes firsthand, from be nomadic.” trial-and-error, from learning how to build a wall – and how jeff thompson much it costs to build a wall – drift station co-owner and ‘FieldGuide’ looks to explain how to do that.”

Thompson and Cossio will have about 200 free copies of the book on hand for people who attend Friday night’s closing party for the venue and launch party for the book. More than one hundred real es-

driftingaway Artist animates others’ trauma in watercolor

drift station: see page 6

when: Friday, Sept. 7 through Saturday, Sept. 29 where: Tugboat Gallery, 116 N. 14th St., second floor of Parrish building above Gomez Art Supply what: The exhibit features works by Wendy Weiss and Jay Kreimer.

“Art and Work”: Nebraska Wesleyan Faculty Show Opening Reception

when:

5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Lux Center for the Arts, 2601 N. 48th St. what: The exhibit features works by Wesleyan faculty. The theme of the exhibition is their desire to make artwork while making a difference in their students’ lives. The exhibition runs from Friday, Sept. 7 through Saturday, Oct. 27. where:

Sheldon Museum of Art’s First Friday Reception

when:

5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sheldon Museum

where:

of Art

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The Sheldon will celebrate the opening of the “Five Decades of Collecting” exhibit and unveil a recently acquired Lee Krasner painting.

The band Release Time will perform live. There will be a silent auction of Lincoln’s Independence Day street signs, with proceeds benefiting the Lincoln Arts Council.

“Illuminating The Still Life” Opening Reception

when:

p.m.

6:30 p.m. to 9:30

where:

Painter’s new studio serves as artistic universe

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William Holland, an Omaha artist, poses for a portrait outside Screen Ink in Lincoln, Neb., on Sept. 5. Holland will be showing his work during the First Friday Art Walk on Sept. 7 beginning at 7 p.m. inside of Screen Ink, which is located at 416 S. 11th St. Kelsey Haugen DN

Local artist Gerardo Meza finds comfort and privacy in his Parrish Studios space shelby fleig dn Gerardo Meza’s studio and showroom in Parrish Studios on 14th and O streets is a world unlike the studios surrounding it.

The floor is now a black and white checkerboard. The walls go from white to salmon. There is wine and comfy chairs, so sit and relax for a while; you’ll have plenty to discuss with the artist himself once you see his work.

Meza moved from his basement studio at home to Parrish Studios in May after looking around Lincoln for the perfect place. Because he knew the owner, Jim Stevens, and felt comfortable in the space, he rented it right away. Since then, Meza has been able to focus on his art, spending weekends and late nights at the studio he has grown to love.

“My basement was distracting,” Meza said. “You have to have some isolation. It’s kind of nice to be here by myself.”

The first thing he does when he comes into the studio is turn on the air conditioner. It can get hot upstairs, especially in the summer.

With just the hum of the air, Meza starts working. Sometimes he’ll leave the window open to hear the people and sounds of downtown.

Once he has a general idea of how the painting will look, he might turn on some music: He gravitates toward mellow indie music that becomes his “theme song” for his work. And when he’s feeling very comfortable with the painting, he’ll

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Gerardo Meza sits in his studio at Parrish Studios on Aug. 31.

Meza moved into his new studio in May.

One person who has done just turn on an “old, obscure R&B (song) that is Pablo Rangel, Meza’s longfrom the ‘50s – something with some time friend and a graduate teachrhythm” while he adds highlights ing assistant at the University of with white chalk and shadows with Nebraska-Lincoln. charcoal.

Rangel owns almost Finishing one “My a dozen Meza origipainting almost nals which hang in every time he’s at basement his home and office. the studio, Meza is “Gerardo helped a relatively quick was distracting. me understand what worker. But nothYou have to have art means,” Rangel ing is spared in his endeavors. some isolation. It’s said. “I think knowing his personal life Self-described as and family so well “representational kind of nice to be connects me with his images of subcon- here by myself.” art even further.” scious thoughts,” When Rangel his paintings often gerardo meza was just 17, living in spark questions durartist the UNL residence ing First Friday Art halls and attending Walks. his first college class While he doesn’t tell anyone ever – Chicano Literature – Meza what is specifically going on in the picture, he urges viewers to come strolled in late and sat next to Rangel, the only other Chicano in the look and find their own stories in class besides the professor, he said. his paintings.

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Each day William Holland spends helping reconstruct the lives of patients who have suffered traumatic injuries, he finds more inspiration to create watercolor paintings.

“I work for a great company called Quality Living, Inc., a rehab center for brain and spinal injuries that focuses on rebuilding lives of those individuals and their families,” Holland said. “I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.”

The Omaha artist will be showcasing his art Friday evening at Screen Ink, a screen printing company in Lincoln that has been holding First Friday events since the fall of 2008. During the event, Holland will have many of his prints available for purchase, as well as the last 12 original pieces from his portfolio. Screen Ink will offer food, drinks and tee shirts with Holland’s art screen printed on them.

Holland has been working at Quality Living, Inc. in Omaha for the past four years, but he started his professional career as an artist six years ago.

“It was at that time that I fell in love with ink and watercolor,” Holland said. “I also (incorporate) random paints, markers, metal leaf and anything else that suites the piece.”

For Holland, getting to know the patients at the rehabilitation facility generates ideas for new art. By working with people who have endured distress from a serious injury, Holland said he is able to sympathize with them and attempt to convey those emotions through paintings.

“At QLI, I get to be a part of changing people’s lives up close and personal,” Holland said. “I work with people my age who ... get injured in ways I have not. This leads to a lot of internal reflection. The passion comes from (that) same place.”

Although Holland pours his own feelings into his art, he said the sensations given off from a piece are solely for the viewers.

“In a gallery, I can stand back and watch my creation evoke an emotional response from a person whom I have never met, which is super cool,” Holland said. “I am a fan of all emotions, be it anger, joy, fear, lust, envy. (But) what others feel from what they see is for them.”

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Gallery Nine, 124 S. 9th St. what: “Illuminating The Still Life” features new work by artist Jeremy Goodding. The exhibition runs until Sept. 30.

Burkholder Project Opening Reception

when:

7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The Burkholder Project, 719 P St., Haymarket District what: The gallery will showcase three exhibits by various artists in September. The exhibit “Imagine” will be in the Main Gallery. It will feature paintings by Patsy Smith and Batiks by Sammy Lynn. The Outback Gallery will feature works

by Elizabeth Hefly and Bobby Sward, titled “Flora & Fauna”. Howard Kaye will show new works in the Skylight Gallery. The exhibits will run through Sept. 29. where:

Drift Station Opening reception

when:

7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Drift Station, 1746

where:

N St.

what:

Drift Station is hosting a book release and closing party for “FieldGuide: A Practical Handbook to Starting An Artist-Run Space.” The book will be available Sept. 7 through Sept. 30.

The book will be available in both print and digital for free.

“Watercolors by William Holland”

when:

7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Screen Ink, 416 S. 11th St. what: Watercolor artist William Holland will join Screen Ink for an evening of fun and refreshments where:

– Compiled by Kim Buckley, community@ dailynebraskan.com

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Success of ‘book movies’ depends on text I'LL HAVE WHAT HE'S WATCHING

cameron mount Blame it on the weather or on Oscar-baiting, but something about the transition to autumn trades capes and spider-bites for literary fever.

Many of the biggest releases left in 2012 are based on bestselling novels like “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Life of Pi,” “The Hobbit” and “Cloud Atlas,” and certified high school reading list classics like “Les Miserables,” “Anna Karenina,” “On the Road” and “Great Expectations”.

The talking points are ageold and obvious: “Is Hollywood running out of ideas?” and “The movie is never as good as the

this week in film At the Ross: “Celeste and Jesse Forever”

Directed by: Lee Toland Krieger • Friday – 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

• Saturday – 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

• Sunday – 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

“The Invisible War”

Directed by: Kirby Dick • Friday – 5:15 p.m., 9:35 p.m.

• Saturday – 3:05 p.m., 7:25 p.m.

• Sunday – 3:05 p.m., 7:25 p.m.

“The Imposter”

Directed by: Bart Layton • Friday – 7:25 p.m.

• Saturday – 12:55 p.m,, 5:15 p.m., 9:35 p.m.

• Sunday – 12:55 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 9:35 p.m.

National Theatre Live: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”

book.” But looking at the track record of adaptations and considering the specific artistic merits of film versus prose, the tradition deserves much more credit.

First, there is an important distinction between “great literature” and “great stories.” It has nothing to do with snobbery, and neither type is inherently better.

“The Hunger Games” is a perfect example of a great story that is not great literature. Collins’s book is riddled with grammatical laziness and blunt narration.

But Collins had a great story with great imagery and she put it on paper. That kind of story can be transferred to film and stand to gain more than it loses.

The final two books in “The Hunger Games” series are significantly sloppier than the first and will benefit even more in the

transfer to screen. The two books’ strengths are in their plot and visual universe, so it makes sense to adapt. “James and the Giant Peach,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Fight Club,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “Wizard of Oz” are classic examples of movies better than their source material, because their stories aren’t reliant on their author ’s prose.

Whether they succeed, filmmakers have the chance to improve on these types of stories with the added capabilities of film. There is relatively little risk beyond the need to condense.

Yes, you can imagine a climactic piece of dialog as you’re reading, but face it: The voice in your head does not have the acting chops of Gene Wilder or Brad Pitt.

Things get risky when the source material goes beyond great dialogue, plot and imagery – when the arrangement of words themselves carry the power. After Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” was delayed from this winter to next summer, critic David Ehrlich responded via Twitter “of course

THE GREAT GATSBY was de- Kanye West and Jay-Z background music and lurid “Moulin layed. i mean, *you* try rendering Rouge”-esque visuals, to the hor‘boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’ in ror of literary purists everywhere.

But why not? Stylistic prose CG.” and poetry cannot be directly He’s right. When style and prose play a significant role in a transferred to the big screen. Film works with a different artistic book, filmmakers have a lot more palette: strategic angles instead of work on their hands. But it can metaphor, interbe done. “Fear and cutting instead of Loathing in Las Vegas” has a distincFilmmakers varied sentence music tive literary style, can achieve lengths, and shadow in but since this mostly place of tone and involves frenetic, creative heights wordplay. offbeat writing, it Filmmakers wasn’t terrible dif- as well as authors, can achieve creficult to translate but they pull ative heights as into frenetic, offbeat well as authors, filmmaking.

“The different strings.” but they pull difShining” and “A ferent strings. Or Clockwork Orange” rather, they pull remain classics prethe same strings with different cisely because they bring fresh motions. To succeed, directors style to already well-stylized must weigh their own strengths novels. against an author ’s and create In the Internet age, critinew ways to convey their purposcal analysis starts months and sometimes years before a film is es. Filmmakers that don’t do this even release. “The Great Gatsby” fail and uphold the false claim that adaptations are useless. trailer, rather than mining songs “Extremely Loud and Incredibly and styles of the 1920s, featured

‘Imposter’ harrows viewer, challenges human truths A family ignores the truth to hold on to the past in true-crime documentary ingrid holmquist dn It’s difficult not to feel haunted by “The Imposter” when staring into the eyes of sociopathic con man, Frederic Bourdin, as he reminisces about his successful attempts of stealing the identities of missing children. The film straddles the line of a true crime documentary and mysterious film noir. Juxtaposing confessional interviews with artistic re-enactments of reallife events creates a film that both shows and tells.

The film keeps the audience captivated far after the credits have ceased. With twists and turns that leave the story open, the audience is set up to play detective. Along with filling in the blanks, viewers will be left pondering human traits and their relation to truth. “The Imposter” is a reminder that sometimes humans accept being fooled to avoid blatant, painful truths. Along with the whirlwind of thoughts and emotions, the end of this film is the first opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief in 99 minutes.

“The Imposter,” directed by Bart Layton, is about the unsettling disappearance of 13-yearold Nicholas Barclay. Three and a half years later, the torn family is greeted with the exciting news that their long-lost son and brother has been found in Spain.

The boy returns home, but with darker skin, an unshakable Spanish accent and a different eye color.

Why won’t the family recognize these stark differences and accept that they have taken an imposter into their home? Maybe they fear the experience of the same pain they felt when they lost their son the first time. Perhaps the family figured living in fiction would be better than living without some form of Nicholas.

Bourdin, the imposter, admits his twisted plan as the visual film noir scenes unfold. We follow the real-life pathological liar and impersonator as he tells his selfish tale.

“I cared about myself. Just about myself. And fuck the rest of it,” said Bourdin matter-of-factly in one of his interviews.

The scariest thing is that in certain instances, Bourdin will force you on his side.

There are moments when empathy kicks in and we are reminded how easy it must have been for Nicholas’ family to be swayed.

He’s articulate, charismatic and convincing. With these charming qualities, he was able to finagle many others with his impersonations and believability.

The film relied heavily on dialogue (both in the documentary and cinematic halves), but the filmmaker justifies this by bringing to life these colorful, dynamic characters that remind the audience that these are real people with real hearts.

Had this been a mockumentary, Layton might have done well to expand more on the noir edge of the film, but with accounts from real people, there is no part of any interview that should be sacrificed for action.

One theme, though there are many, of the film and of the historical event is that reality is subjective. People can fixate long enough on an idea and shove it,

Close,” “Watchmen,” “Slaughterhouse Five” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” are underwhelming films because they try to transfer vision to screen without compensating for the limitations of film. By comparison, Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” attempted a distinctive style but failed to seem authentically creative.

Adaptations span the spectrum from trash to masterpiece as fully as original screenplays.

They require the same engagement, artistic sensitivity and creative vision on the part of filmmakers. In many ways, they must work from the ground up to do so. Baz Luhrmann has his work cut out for him with “The Great Gatsby,” as do all filmmakers taking on best-selling giants. But far from demonstrating laziness, these movies showcase the very ambition and risk that movies are all about.

Cameron Mount is a senior secondary English education major. Reach him at arts@ dailynebraskan.com.

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The utterly gripping and provocative tale of real-world trickery and manipulation of reality has the potential to be one of the best films of the year. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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courtesy photo Break out the tissues and ice cream. It’s time to get emotional.

“Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father” is sad. Like, really sad. But it’s also a beautiful and important documentary.

This is a documentary that is best viewed without much prior knowledge, but know that it was originally designed as a remembrance of Andrew Bagby, a friend of the director, meant to show Bagby’s son how much his father was loved.

However, during the filming process, certain events occur that change its direction and meaning.

This isn’t a film to gather a group of friends and watch together; instead, it thrives as an intimate experience for the viewer, showing how fragile life is and giving him or her a greater appreciation for the blessings in life. compiled by Tyler keown – arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Meza uses a combination of chalks, charcoal and acrylic paint in his work. The Lincoln artist recently moved to a new space in the Parrish Studios.

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Gallery co-owners Angeles Cossio and Jeff Thompson set up shop at the Drift Station gallery Thursday night. This First Friday will be the gallery’s last, as the owners move to experiment with other artistic projects. tate listings will blanket the walls of the gallery; their hope is that these listings will inspire people to find a space to open their own gallery and “just do it,” as Thompson said.

He added that for people unable to attend, “FieldGuide” will also be available as a PDF on the gallery’s website, driftstation.org.

Both artists stressed that while they hope the book will inspire Lincoln artists, they hope its impact extends on an international scale.

“Our goal has been to reach the community we are in, but also to be global at the same time,” Thompson said.

“FieldGuide” isn’t the pair ’s

first venture into a global community. Last summer, Thompson and Cossio launched “mailto:” It started when they created an email account and asked people to send emails to the address with the promise than all emails received before the exhibition’s opening would be displayed as part of the project. Thompson said they received and displayed more than 2,500 pages of more than 650 emails.

“There was no room,” Thompson said. “From floor to ceiling, we covered the gallery. Even then, we didn’t have enough room.”

Cossio added that the experience enhanced their approach to art.

“As an artist, you want to get

multiple perspectives from people all over the world,” she said. “It adds to the complexity of the end product.”

While they hope to make a global impression, Thompson said their focus is also on curating an encouraging art scene in Lincoln.

“We hope it will show a lot of people that it’s possible to open galleries,” he said. “To make Lincoln a place that people talk about, a place they come to see because there is such amazing stuff going on.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

They got coffee at the Nebraska paintings are just some of his faUnion afterwards and have been vorite things about his friend’s close friends since. work.

“My intention isn’t just to “Death is always there, but in make a pretty piccontest with life,” ture,” Meza said.

My intention Rangel said.

Some have So when isn’t just posed the question Meza is ready to of what Meza is to make a pretty work, he heads to trying to say in his the studio. After paintings; one per- picture.” teaching, if he’s son even suggestfeeling inspired, gerardo meza ed he was “fucked he’ll stop by the artist up” upon seeing studio. Or during the dreamy, dark daylight on the artwork that covweekends, when ers his studio walls. Because his the lighting is perfect. Sometimes paintings come from Meza’s subhe’ll work during breaks while conscious, they can reflect feelings performing solo or with the Mezfrom some moment in the past. cal Brothers at the Zoo Bar or “Instead of being stuck in that Crescent Moon Coffee. time, I’m explaining it,” he said.

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holland: from 5 Working at QLI gives him an opportunity to use his artistic mind on a daily basis. Holland enjoys spending time with patients and then being able to leave his workplace and have new ideas for art. However, Holland said he is also inspired by music, relationships and specific artists, like Bill Watterson, the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes.”

“I do not intentionally make (animals) cartoon-like,” Holland said. “I just draw them the way I see them. I prefer art that is applied with intent; however, I cannot always explain my motives or styles.”

Holland currently has some animal drawings in the works for a comic book, which he has on the

back burner.

“He has a lot of fun creating characters and animals that aren’t always true to form,” said Jason Davis, the owner of Screen Ink. “They’re more animated in that way.”

Davis said he is excited for Holland to share his new work on Friday, especially since Holland has never displayed his work at Screen Ink. “From what I’ve seen, I just really enjoy how he leaves everything on the page, so you can see the line work with pencil,” Davis said. “It’s something that I really appreciate – seeing all the steps that sometimes people try to cover up.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Artist William Holland works at Quality Living, Inc., a rehabilitation center in Omaha. He said he draws inspiration from working with people who have endured stress from injury, and attempts to convey that emotion in his watercolor paintings.

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Nebraska baseball coach Darin Erstad’s team faces a tough schedule in 2013. After playing 31 home games at Haymarket Park in 2012, the Huskers will have just 21 this season, plus two neutral-site games in Omaha. Nebraska plays 19 of its first 24 games on the road, including contests against perennial power Cal State Fullerton and former Big 12 foe Texas. Nebraska will also host former coach Dave Van Horn’s Arkansas Razorbacks in a two-game series in April.

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Nebraska cornerback Josh Mitchell will make the second start of his career at UCLA and attempt to slow down a Bruin offense that racked up 646 yards and 49 points against Rice last week.

“Any time you play any version of an option-style offense, discipline and taking care of your job are the keys,” Papuchis said. “That’s obviously the emphasis this week; making sure that each guy is taking care of his responsibility.”

That’s easier said than done.

When the Bruins weren’t slicing through Rice on the ground, they were killing them through the air.

New starting quarterback Brett Hundley completed 21 of his 28 passes for 202 yards and two touchdowns in his very first game for UCLA. “To have as many plays as they had over 70 yards, it’s going to be a challenge for us,” secondary coach Terry Joseph said.

“Tackling is going to be something that is going to be vital for us to have success in this game.”

Thankfully for the Huskers, only one starter in the secondary is new to the lineup – cornerback Josh Mitchell, who escaped relatively unscathed in Saturday’s 49-20 win against Southern Miss.

“I’ve came a long way,” Mitchell said. “I have tried to become a better teammate.”

Teamwork is what it’s going to take for the Huskers to stop the Bruins’ passing attack. Led

by Joseph Fauria, a tight end on the Mackey Award watch list, UCLA’s passing game is a cause for concern for Nebraska.

“They have good offensive skill,” NU coach Bo Pelini said.

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“There’s always that element make plays on you. I think they of ‘What are they going to do?’” showed that against Rice.”

Pelini said. “That element is goA key factor for the Huskers will be the mental game. Pelini is ing to be there, but I think we trying to prepare his squad for have a little more to go on this week than we did a week ago, another team with a new head but there’s still going to be some coach, as Jim Mora is in his first adjusting that has to go on.” season with the Bruins.

For most of the team, the trip Pelini and Mora are no strangers. In 1997, Mora took serves as just another game, albeit at a historic over Pelini’s posistadium. But for tion as defensive My dad nine Nebraska backs coach for players, this the San Francisco gave me a game is a trip 49ers when Pelini back home. left to coach for list, but it had 50 Wide rethe New England names on it, so I ceiver Quincy Patriots.

Enunwa is one “We have don’t know how NU’s Calidifferent backmany I can get. He of fornians. While grounds on dethe battle on fense, but we’ve gave me the list the gridiron on had some crossand I said ‘I have Saturday will be over,” Pelini said.

“He worked with friends, too, Dad.’” tough, the battle to find tickets in some of the guys Nebraska’s bloc when I left San Quincy enunwa for his friends nu wide receiver Francisco. There and family are some correlacould be equally tions there. difficult.

“I don’t know “My dad gave me a list, but how involved he is with the defense. I have no idea what he’s it had 50 names on it, so I don’t know how many I can get,” doing. But he has a 3-4 backEnunwa said. ground from when he was with “He gave me the list and I the (New Orleans) Saints. ... You said ‘I have friends, too, Dad.’” kind of see a mix and match of Nebraska and UCLA kick off what his background is. You can Saturday at 6:30 p.m. central, see a lot of different things.”

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In Nebraska’s first match at home since defeating defending national champion UCLA, Haggerty tallied a game-tying five blocks against Oklahoma.

Through the first two sets against the Sooners, Haggerty pinned five kills on seven total attacks (.714).

She finished the match with 11 total attacks, tallying nine kills to and a .818 hitting average. val kutchko | dn Before Thursday’s matchup, Nebraska volleyball coach John Cook has been impressed by Meghan Haggerty’s performance so far Haggerty averaged 2.21 kills per set. She led the team with a .510 this season. Cook said he expects big things from Haggerty in her Husker career. hitting percentage entering the match, tallying 31 kills on 51 swings. and was averaging 1.07 blocks per against Colgate and UC-Irvine, And Haggerty has proven to The freshman has looked imHaggerty was honored Monday set. be a clutch performer, too. pressive so far, according to Cook. as she was named the Big Ten “She’s very calm and coachThe freshman’s best match “She has a great hand on the freshman of the week. able and makes adjustments,” the so far this season arguably came ball. She can see and has expeThe middle blocker was stel- in game three against then-No. 1 coach said. “She’s had great trainrience,” Cook said. “Those are ing with her club team and I think lar against UC-Irvine, when she UCLA. Haggerty assisted in the things that are hard to teach.” averaged 2.3 kills and 1.3 blocks she has a chance to be special.”

3-2 win against the defending naDespite Haggerty’s modesty, per set in the match. She finished Haggerty’s impressive play tional champions by leading all the freshman has shown domiwith four blocks and a .545 hitting hasn’t gone unnoticed by the conattackers with 17 kills. nant play on both sides of the net. ference either. After assisting the average, recording seven kills on The double-digit performance Entering Thursday, the middle team with two wins last Saturday 11 swings. was the most by an NU middle blocker led the team with 15 kills

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Senior Hannah Werth led Nebraska with 14 kills and 13 digs in Thursday night’s sweep of former Big 12 foe Oklahoma. The performance was Werth’s sixth career double-double. blocker since the 2006 national semifinals when Tracy Stalls recorded 17 kills.

After her exceptional performance Thursday night, Cook said he’s thrilled to have Haggerty on his team and can’t wait to watch the freshman blossom the next

three years as a Husker.

“Her experience level is very high, and I was most impressed with her blocking tonight,” Cook said after the win. “She’s got all the ingredients to be great.”

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Scouting report UCLA Bruins

Pasadena, California All-time record: 548-388-37 Claimed national titles: 1 (1954 – UPI) Conference titles: 17 Heisman Trophy winners: 1 Consensus All-Americans: 39 Stadium: Rose Bowl (92,452 capacity) Rivals: California, USC Notable current players: TE Joe Fauria, RB Johnathan Franklin, QB Brett Hundley Notable former players: Troy Aikman, Jimmy Johnson, Gary Beban, Jonathan Ogden, Maurice Jones-Drew All-time vs. Nebraska: Nebraska leads series 6-4, won 6 of last 7 meetings Coach: Jim L. Mora (first year) Overall head coaching record:

33-34 Playing career: Defensive back/ linebacker, Washington (1980-83) Head coaching career: Atlanta Falcons (2004-2006), Seattle Seahawks (2009) Notable assistant coaching stops: San Diego Chargers (defensive QC, 1985-1988; DB, 1989-91), New Orleans Saints (DB, 199296), San Francisco 49ers (DB, 1997-1998; DC, 1999-2003), Seattle Seahawks (DB, 2007-2008)

University of California, Los Angeles

Established: 1882, public university Students: 39,271 (27,199 undergraduate) Motto: “Let There Be Light” Specializations: Health care – In

2007, the UCLA Medical Center was ranked the best hospital in the West, as well as top-three in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. The program consistently ranks among the top 25 in many major publications.

What makes it unique: UCLA is the most selective university in the United States, also boasting the highest number of applicants.

In 2011, the university fielded 72,699 applicants, approving only 15,478 (about 21 percent).

Key matchups NU DB Ciante Evans vs. UCLA TE Joe Fauria Fauria is the top receiving threat for UCLA. If the Huskers want to limit the Bruins’ offense, Evans will have to have a big game

stopping Fauria.

NU defensive line vs.

UCLA offensive line No matter how well Evans does against Fauria, it’s only a matter of time before the 6-foot-7-inch target shakes free. The Blackshirts have to generate a pass rush to limit the time UCLA QB Brett Hundley has, and that starts with penetration up front.

NU QB Taylor Martinez vs. UCLA secondary Nebraska might be forced to fight fire with fire this weekend. If the Blackshirts can’t hold UCLA, Mar-

Soccer team looks to build momentum Younger players stepping up as team improves chemistry, consistency, works through early inexperience issues Angela Hensel DN As the Nebraska women’s soccer team’s nonconference schedule winds down Saturday against Southeast Missouri State, the Huskers will be looking for a boost of confidence.

Nebraska started out the season with some struggles. The young team was missing crucial veterans Ari Romero and Jordan Jackson. They lost their first three games, including a 1-0 loss against Drake. The Huskers couldn’t seem to get strong shots on goal and weren’t finishing their games.

But then the Huskers started to see some small signs of improvement. Young players were stepping up and contributions were felt from all players. Despite a tough 3-0 loss at Baylor last weekend that included many defensive and offensive problems, the Huskers did grab some significant victories against New Mexico and Cincinnati in their nonconference play.

“We just really talked about getting back to basics and returning to the foundation we are all about, which is making tackles, winning balls in the air and being an overall physical team,” junior defender Bri Badje said.

Perhaps one of the biggest problems with such a young team is having everyone communicate and work together. While Badje is a veteran of the team, she is also a first-year starter. It can be tough for everyone to figure out their roles at the beginning of the season, but that is starting to change, she said.

“We’ve had people figure things out. The freshmen who have come in have contributed and done really well,” Badje said.

Part of the reason Nebraska is starting to see more success is that it isn’t just a few individuals

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Junior defender Bri Badje said underclassmen have had a big impact on the team this year. Freshmen and sophomores have scored all seven of Nebraska’s goals this season. that are stepping up. The Huskers are starting to see strong play

from newcomers across the board.

All five individuals that have

scored goals for the Huskers this season have been freshmen or sophomores.

“I think the team has really improved. We’ve definitely stepped up more as a team, and team chemistry is coming along,” freshman midfielder Katie Kraeutner said.

While the team chemistry is important, both Kraeutner and Badje agree it begins with continuing to work hard and fulfilling their individual roles.

“Personally, for me it would be to just contribute to the team as much as I can. Obviously it’s great to start, but I need to do my job,” Badje said.

“I think I just need to keep working harder and be relentless up front,” Kraeutner said. “I need to play simple and try to score as many goals as possible.”

Now if all of these things can come together, Nebraska is looking for another victory to help give the team some momentum before Big Ten play begins Sept.

14 against Northwestern.

Southeast Missouri State has only won one game this season, but that was against Drake, who beat Nebraska in August. While Nebraska is capable of a win against the Redhawks, it all depends on if things can come together.

“We have shown every year that there are times where we can beat almost any team in the country, and there are times we can play and lose to teams that aren’t nearly as good as us,” Badje said.

Finding that balance of consistency will especially be crucial once Nebraska hits conference play. Last year, Nebraska managed only four wins in conference play and was not invited to the eight-team Big Ten Tournament.

“We let a few games slip away from us last year, so we want to win those games that we did last year but also correct our mistakes from last year ’s losses,” Badje said.

And for that consistency to happen, it’s all about staying in it for the full 90 minutes.

“We just have to have an overall put-together performance. Offensively, defensively for two halves we have to play to the best of our ability,” Badje said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

opportunity: from 10 in the top 10 and lost 9-6 with an to win those games very often.

Saturday is another opportuabysmal offensive performance.

Nebraska recorded 306 yards but nity for Pelini’s Huskers to make also committed two costly turn- a statement on national television. overs in that game.

This game is The year before This is not on ABC, it’s on that Nebraska lost FOX, but nonetheat Virginia Tech Nebraska’s less this is a big opin another close chance to win portunity for Negame, 16-15. braska.

All three of a big game. The There are no those games I other quality mentioned were BCS voters will games on a nationon ABC, in front be watching. This al network other of a national audithan Nebraska ence. I didn’t even is the Huskers’ vs. UCLA. No. 7 mention the Big only real test Georgia plays Mis12 championship souri on ESPN2, games from the before Wisconsin but other than that Pelini era. Both of comes to Lincoln the Bruins and the those games were Huskers are it. on ABC as well. to kick off Big Ten This is NeYou all remember conference play. ” braska’s chance to the Texas game. win a big game.

How about blowBCS voters will be ing a 17-point lead watching. This is the Huskers’ against Oklahoma?

I’m not saying Nebraska only real test before Wisconsin hasn’t played well in nationally comes to Lincoln to kick off Big broadcasted games, because it Ten conference play.

If the Huskers pass the eye test has. The Huskers just don’t seem

here, they’ll be sitting pretty until Wisconsin. Lose the game and it’s going to take a lot for them to gain any type of at-large BCS bid.

UCLA is a quality opponent; I don’t care what you say. The Bruins will cause Nebraska problems, especially in the running game.

UCLA ran for 343 yards against Rice last weekend. Starting running back Johnathan Franklin ran for 214 yards and three touchdowns.

Granted, Rice isn’t exactly a powerhouse out of Conference USA, but still, those types of numbers are impressive. Considering the Huskers’ run defense was subpar at best against Southern Miss, this could pose a problem for Nebraska.

Also, UCLA has a mobile quarterback, a nightmare for the Blackshirts dating back to last season. Michigan’s Denard Robinson ran all over Nebraska last season, tallying 263 yards total offense and four touchdowns, two rushing and two passing.

Even last week, Southern Miss’s third-string quarterback,

Anthony Alford, ran for 84 yards on 15 carries.

If the Bruins’ freshman starting quarterback Brett Hundley has the type of game he had against Rice, it will be a long night for Nebraska. Last week he ran for 68 yards and a touchdown, while throwing the ball for 202 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

Watch out if he gets going in front of a home crowd Saturday.

Remember, too, that UCLA went to the Pac-12 championship game last year. Yes, it was through default because USC could not play in the postseason, but still the Bruins made it to their conference championship game. That’s more than the Huskers can say.

Nebraska has a chance on Saturday to impress BCS voters and make a statement, while also proving to its fan base it’s back to elite. Time to take advantage of the opportunity.

Andrew Ward is a junior broadcasting major.

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tinez and the up-tempo Husker offense will have to get to work.

UCLA’s defensive backs aren’t the strongest, and Martinez could have another big day if he plays his cards right.

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Club curling chances limited in Nebraska While most curling club members have never played before their freshman years, the sport has proven addictive for current players

ships before. While Binder said he enjoys curling against other colleges, he is all business at the competitions.

“It’s real fun, but when it comes down to it, you’re just thinking, ‘How can I help the team with this shot? How can you strategically plan around what the other team is doing?’” he said.

In competition, Binder and Turley each said their favorite moments were when they scored Zach Tegler triple take outs – throws that DN knocked three of the opponent’s Chris Turley had never set foot stones out of the house to earn on a curling lane when he came points for their team.

“That was a pretty tough to the University of Nebraskashot,” Turley said, “and I just Lincoln; that was apparent when chucked it as hard as I could.” he curled for the first time as a But participating in the club freshman. requires a strong dedication to “I saw it on the Olympics when I was a kid and I always the sport – strong enough to wanted to do it,” Turley said. commute to Omaha once a week for practice.

“You fall down a lot when you “It’s about a four-hour-afirst start, but after about an hour out on the ice, it’s really week commitment, but everyone who’s on the team is really easy.”

Even with the rough start, it dedicated to curling and really loves it, so it’s not a problem to didn’t take long for Turley to get commit the time,” Turley said. hooked on the sport.

With the 2012-2013 season “Probably about 10 minbeginning in November, Turley utes. As soon as your first stone is looking to add four more curlleaves your hand, you’re addicters to the club and form a third ed,” he said.

Four years later, the senior team. He said everybody should have a chance to enjoy the growsocial science education major from Omaha is the president of ing sport.

“I feel like everyone should the UNL club curling team, and try at least once his story is not in their life. I unique for the It’s just a know I’m glad I club’s eight memdid,” Turley said. bers. dominant “Usually if we get “Most evpeople to try it, eryone on the sport in the they stick with it team starts when world. There’s because it’s just they come to coljust something addicting.” lege,” Turley said.

Binder said “We’ve only had about it, some the 2014 Winter one kid with prior mysterious Olympics will experience.” fuel popularity That one per- awesomeness of the sport in the son is sophomore U.S., and he and actuarial science that you just see a few teammates major Cameron and find out, and are going to try Binder, who startto qualify for the ed curling for a it’s just fun.”

U.S. Olympic high school club Team for those chris turley team in his homepresident, unl curling club games. town, Mequon, “We’re going Wis. to go against the “Once you best in the country, which at get a feel for the sport and get some parts, can be the best in the your balance, then it’s a real fun world,” Binder said. “We think sport,” Binder said. we can hang up there. We’re just While Wisconsin has about going to go and see what hap30 non-collegiate curling clubs, pens.”

Nebraska has only one: the AkFor Turley, there is nothing sarben Curling Club in Omaha. else like curling.

When Binder tells people he is “It’s just a dominant sport on the Nebraska club team, the in the world,” he said. “There’s reaction is usually one of bewiljust something about it, some derment. mysterious awesomeness that “Normally it’s, ‘I didn’t you just see and find out, and know we had a curling team, but it’s just fun.” that’s pretty cool,’” Binder said.

And Turley plans to continue “I like being involved for reprewell after his college career has senting the university. It’s really ended. cool to wear the name ‘Nebras“You just want to keep doing ka’ on your shirt.” it once you start. I want to do it The team travels to tournafor the rest of my life,” Turley ments with as many as 15 other said. schools from around the counHe has come a long way from try. Last year, the club placed the freshman who had never set second at a regional tournament, foot on a curling lane. and the team has been runnerSports@ up at the national championdailynebraskan.com

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Quincy Enunwa is one of nine Huskers from the state of California. Enunwa has had trouble finding tickets for his friends and family in Nebraska’s seating bloc for his first college game in his home state. The wide receiver is a key contributor on an offense that ranked fourth nationally in total yards after its first game.

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with a similar background are set to take the stage Saturday at one legendary venue – the Rose Bowl.

Everything is in place for an exciting, high-scoring battle when Nebraska travels to take on UCLA. It starts on offense. The Bruins posted more than 300 yards rushing and passing, combining for 646 total yards and 49 points against Rice on Saturday, ranking them No. 3 in the country – one spot ahead of Nebraska.

“I think they are explosive. Obviously, they had 650 yards of offense and scored a lot of points in a hurry,” NU defensive coordinator John Papuchis said. “Their skill guys are explosive and athletic, and they are pretty solid up front.

We know we have a tough task going there, but we are preparing well for it.”

The Blackshirts are faced with the task of stuffing UCLA’s readoption offense, which propelled

the Bruins to a 49-24 win against Rice last week. The Huskers have struggled with mobile quarterbacks since last season, with Big Ten speedsters Denard Robinson, Kain Colter and Braxton Miller giving the Huskers headaches. The trend continued last week, when the Blackshirts gave up 83 rushing yards to Southern Miss quarterback Anthony Alford.

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Haggerty proves worth early

Andrew Ward I’m going to be frank. Tomorrow is a big game for Nebraska.

Before you start yelling profanities at me about how the UCLA Bruins are in rebuilding mode and the Huskers should kill them, hear me out.

Nebraska is 14-10 on the road

against teams from the six power conferences under Bo Pelini.

That’s not bad by any means, especially playing in conferences like the Big 12 and Big Ten. However, some of those losses were bad and on national television. Look back to last year.

Wisconsin humiliated the Huskers on ABC’s “Saturday Night Football.” Not only did the 48-17 loss affect Nebraska’s chances to win the Big Ten’s Legends Division, it hurt its chances of making any type of BCS game as well.

It’s all about the eye test for BCS voters. Right now, Pelini’s teams have struggled in games when the Huskers needed to look impressive.

It happened against the Badgers last season. It happened against Texas A&M two seasons ago when Nebraska was ranked

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Freshman middle blocker making immediate impact on talent-laden team; Huskers sweep old foe Oklahoma Nedu Izu DN After two road wins in California, the Nebraska volleyball team is ready to play at the NU Coliseum again – this time as the No. 1 team in the nation.

The Huskers (6-0) hosted Oklahoma on Thursday night, defeating their former Big 12 Conference rivals 25-14, 25-11, 25-16. The match was the first for NU in the Ameritas Players Challenge, the weekend event where Nebraska will also face Duquesne on Friday and No. 19 Kentucky on Saturday. NU’s three opponents all have something in common – they all won their previous match and led their opponents in blocks.

At the end of the 2011 season, the Huskers lost lead blocker

Brooke Delano, who tallied 103 blocks in her senior year.

Thankfully for NU coach John Cook, freshman recruit Meghan Haggerty decided to bring her talents to Nebraska.

The Glen Ellyn, Ill., native was the last Husker to officially join the team and brings a lofty resume along with her.

During her senior year in high school, Haggerty was a 2011 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection and was named an Under Armour first-team All-American.

The freshman was also named the Best Middle Blocker at the 2011 National Junior Classic and was ranked No. 14 on Prepvolleyball. com’s list of senior aces.

Despite being one of the best at blocking in her high school days, Haggerty’s found the adjustment to offense a bit easier.

“The hitters are a lot bigger than what I was used to in club,” she said. “It was a lot harder making that adjustment than I thought it would be. The hitting comes easier for me.” val kutchko | dn And it has shown, the middle Freshman Meghan Haggerty had nine kills on 11 swings Thursday blocker has proven to be one of

night against Oklahoma for a career-high .818 hitting percentage.

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