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Novel inspires weather research Climate ignored among GOP maricia guzman dailynebraskan

Barbara Boustead was irritated. The meteorologist for the National Weather Service made her way home after spending the night in her office for yet another storm during the winter of 2009-2010. She got home

and picked a book to read.

“The Long Winter” by Laura Ingalls Wilder wasn’t a new read by any means, but this particular reading had her thinking about the validity of Wilder’s claims.

Now Boustead is working on a research project investigating the severity of the winter of 1880-1881, the

winter Wilder describes in her book. She’s creating a scale to help determine the severity of a winter season.

The book is a classic tale about one family’s harsh winter in De Smet, S.D. Although fiction, “The Long Winter,” like the rest of Wilder’s “Little House” series is based on her experiences

growing up on a prairie.

Boustead received a bachelor’s of science in meteorology and geology and a bachelors of arts in English from Central Michigan University. Researching Wilder’s account is an opportunity to combine her interests.

Boustead’s research is funded through the

University of NebraskaLincoln’s School of Natural Resources and the National Weather Service.

The winter of 1880-1881 began with an early freeze, ice and an October blizzard, records say. Eventually the

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library Labyrinth DANAE LENZ

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After renovations 10 years ago, the Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library on East Campus is filled with light most hours of the day, a stark contrast to many of the less-than-sunny attitudes of studying students. The loudly colored legal books offset the lofty silence.

There’s disparity between the room where students must be totally quiet and the bust of former College of Law Dean Roscoe Pound that students frequently pay homage to, quietly wishing for good luck.

Even the law librarians take their commanding love of law and help students navigate their way in the labyrinth that is law school.

Associate director and professor of the law library Sandra Placzek said it’s all about the treasure hunt.

“That’s kind of what law librarians do,” she said with a laugh. “We help you figure out how to find the answer.”

The love Placzek has for her job is apparent from the way she carries herself through the library to the way she speaks about it. And it is that kind of attitude that makes the law library such an ideal place for students to study. It isn’t just because the library has books and wireless Internet and squishy chairs in the basement; it’s because the librarians love their jobs and they love helping students. Their attitudes make even the most boggeddown student feel at home. They can even bring out a few laughs.

A nontraditional second-year law student Charlie Morton, who joked with a smile on his face to be “the

oldest and best-looking law student,” said, “It’s an awesome, awesome staff; it’s a very nice place to study. They’re super helpful.”

The library itself is full of nooks and crannies. Each student scopes out his or her favorite study spot and most of them stick to it.

First-year law student Ken Smith’s favorite study spot is on the lefthand side of the first floor, back in the corner.

“Not a lot of traffic, a lot of sunlight, strategically located near the restroom,” he said. “It’s my roost.”

One popular, yet quirky, study place is the M. Brian Schmid Reading Room, more commonly known as “the quiet room,” a space used for absolutely silent study. It’s located in the far back of the library, completely closed in with glass.

Even approaching the room, the air feels a bit different.

“It got to the point where we talked about not allowing even food or drink in there,” Placzek said, “because someone would pop open a can and you’d hear the sound, or you hear the rustle of paper and everybody would turn and glare at the person who made the noise, because the acoustics are so good in there.”

For the average law student, taking 15 or 16 credit hours and studying at least three hours for each class, the space is welcome.

“There’s a lot of work involved,” said Placzek, “and any quiet space that you can find to sit and read and study is at a premium.”

The law library owns a lot of historic British books and library workers thought the quiet room would be a great place to store them.

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As the field of presidential hopefuls takes shape, the candidates for the Republican nomination have, with little exception, aligned themselves against environmental regulation and the science of climate change.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who emerged at the top of the group in Iowa, said she wants to close the doors of the Environmental Protection Agency and called climate change “manufactured science,” at a campaign event last month in South Carolina.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, another possible presidential candidate, called the scientific consensus that the world is getting warmer due to human activity a “beautifully concocted scheme” of the political left on conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh’s radio show last summer.

Other Republican candidates, including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Sen. Ron Paul, have generally agreed with this party line.

But some students and professors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln think it might hurt their chances of winning in the long run.

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Derek Hoffman, a dental student, studies in the Law Library late Wednesday night. He pages through his histology book and works in silence till he leaves at 11 p.m. that night.

“We lined the walls with a lot of that historic British stuff,” Placzek said. “So when people come in there, there’s not a lot of disruption of people pulling books and dropping books on tables.“ She said they also almost had to tell people they couldn’t wear headphones because the acoustics in the room are so good the sound would still echo.

“There are times when we can’t do anything about (people talking),” she said. “You know, because people talk and you don’t want to discourage people from that kind of learning.”

As a general rule, though, the farther back in the library a person goes, the quieter it tends to get.

Another place students like to

study is the basement, or the “dungeon,” as it is more affectionately called.

Especially when the weather is gorgeous, Placzek said, law students choose to study in the basement to avoid reminding themselves they aren’t outside.

“The other thing that’s really nice about the basement is we have the furniture we had before renovation,” she said. “A lot of students really prefer the padded chairs.”

Although it is a little crowded in the basement, with tall shelves and low ceilings, it does have a certain cool appeal, especially on hot days.

The Science of Climate Change The Republican candidates’ degree of skepticism isn’t in line with mainstream science, which generally agrees on the basic tenets of climate change, said Robert Oglesby, a climatologist in the School of Natural Resources.

“Humans don’t cause climate change,” he said, and there is much scientists still don’t understand. “And I get a lot of funny looks when I say that.”

Climate has always changed and ecosystems have always had to adapt, Oglesby went on. “That said, could human activity affect the way climate changes? Almost certainly.” In fact, looking at larger patterns of climate throughout time, “We’d expect we’d be going into a cooling period” about now instead of warming, Oglesby said.

Skeptics, Oglesby said, fit into two categories: those who have real questions and simply want to understand and deniers, people with “closed eyes and closed ears,” Oglesby said.

“I hear a lot of, ‘I don’t believe in climate change,’” he said, to which he responds, “I hate to tell you this, but the climate system doesn’t care (and will change anyway). If the person talking about climate change isn’t a climate scientist, why should you believe what they’re saying?”

As for Nebraska, it’s much the same, but a colleague once told him, “‘You know, Bob, you’ve got to love the Midwest.

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ASUN postpones voting on bills Frannie Sprouls Daily Nebraskan

After the long weekend, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska said it needed another week to vote on new business.

Only two items of business were on the meeting agenda.

Bylaw C, which is an amendment for the ASUN bylaws, was only given to the senators for information purposes. It was not scheduled to be voted on.

Senate Bill #1 was scheduled for a vote. This bill deals with the Committee for Fee Allocations bylaws, which the senate needs to approve. The bill was brought to emergency status because it wasn’t turned in until earlier Wednesday.

Sen. Nolan Johnson, a junior management major, told

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the senate the bylaws were carried over from the year before and no changes had been made to the bylaws.

Johnson joked that most of the senators probably did not even read the bill.

Sen. LJ McElravy, a graduate student, motioned to discuss and vote on Senate Bill #1 the following week.

“I don’t feel comfortable having the senate vote on something they didn’t read,” McElravy said.

McElravy told the senate he had not had the chance to read through the bylaws because he had been in classes up until the meeting started.

Emily Schlichting, a senior communications and political science major and speaker of the senate, pointed out the bill had not been printed until

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4:30 p.m. Schlichting asked how many senators had gotten the chance to read through the bill and only a few raised their hands.

“I’m not blaming anyone because I know things happen in a really short week,” McElravy said. “I just don’t think we should set the precedent of not reading legislation.”

Some senators questioned whether tabling the bill would affect the CFA in any way.

“We’ve already voted on cochair,” Johnson said. “So nothing will be affected by tabling the discussion and voting.”

Bylaw C — Amend ASUN Bylaws: The Shirt Committee

Senate Bill #1: Committee for Fee Allocation Bylaws issues

A section of the ASUN Bylaws was amended to change the title of the Shirt Committee to the Traditions Tee Committee. This piece of legislation was provided for information only.

The 2011-2012 Committee for Fee Allocation approved their bylaws and this bill presents those bylaws to the Senate to be approved.

vote Vote will be next week.

Tabled.

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Stories concerning domestic violence have littered local news media for decades.

Voices of Hope, a nonprofit organization aimed at helping victims of sexual assault, abuse and incest, is set on changing that.

On Sept. 11, Voices of Hope will hold their second-annual Music in the Vines fundraiser.

“We are hopeful that we will raise $5,000 or more,” said Patsy Martin, a Voices of Hope worker organizing the fundraiser.

“We hope to make this an annual event.”

Last year’s Music in the Vines was fairly successful, considering the day’s unfortunate weather, she said.

“Last year was our first year for Music in the Vines and it fell on, just about, the hottest day of the summer,” said Martin.

Nonetheless, the event brought in more than $3,500 of donations to the organization.

This year, Music in the Vines will feature four local musical acts, which range from classic rock to contemporary bluegrass. Chef Joe Andersen from The Lodge at Wilderness Ridge will be cooking food for guests to purchase and enjoy at the event. Wine will be available for purchase from Deer Springs Winery, and grape stomping and raffles will also be featured.

The event will be at the Prairie View Vineyard in Eagle, Neb., which is owned by one of Voices of Hope’s staff members.

Originally intended to be a oneyear deal, the owners are now hoping that the event continues on annually.

Formerly known as the Lincoln Coalition against Rape, the

where:

Prairie View Vineyard in Eagle, Neb. when: Sept. 11 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. what: Fundraiser for Voices of Hope cost: Suggested donation of $15 a person organization began in 1974 as a community group providing support to sexual assault victims. By 2007, the organization opened a new addition to their headquarters on N Street and expanded their services to aid victims of domestic violence, incest, children who had witnessed domestic assault, teens experiencing peer relationship violence and a 24-hour intervention and crisis center.

The appeal to University of Nebraska–Lincoln students was simple for Martin to explain.

“Great venue, great music, great food, great wine — for those 21 and over — and all for a great cause,” she said.

Guests are urged to bring chairs or blankets, as seating will not be provided. The music begins at 2 p.m. with Out Loud, a classic rock cover band, and ends at 7 p.m. with a collection of traditional and contemporary bluegrass performed by the Toasted Ponies.

Voices of Hope suggests that each attendee donates a minimum of $15, though a donation is not required to attend.

Should the weather change, an alternative rain-day site will be set up at the Lancaster Event Center. Any announcement of a location change will be made 24 hours in advance on the Voices of Hope website, www. voicesofhopelincoln.org.

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Some students don’t have to wake up for class until 10 or 11 a.m. For University of Nebraska-Lincoln band members, practice starts between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m., and some of them go to bed earlier than most college students.

At least they try to.

Some students were kept awake by blaring music last “Thirsty Thursday” night as the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma held its “Kappa Karnival,” one of the year’s first philanthropy projects. While the event was a hit for many, others who live in close proximity saw it as a nuisance. The loud music kept students awake, and the controversy went as far as ranting Facebook statuses featuring heated debates and comments.

One status, posted by a band student, pleaded that Greek Row save the loud music for the weekend, when students don’t have to be awake for practice or classes at early hours. The music played until 3 a.m., while students — many

“I did understand how people would feel with it being so late on a Thursday,” she said.

Those at the Kappa Karnival had their justification.

L i n d a Schwartzkopf, director o f

Greek Affairs, explained that each philanthropy goes through a long line of approval, and a number of signatures are required to make an event official.

“On events like this, there’s usually a noise variance required,” she said, “which is issued by the city.”

This echoes a popular philosophy on the subject,

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“Welcome to college,” or, as Schwartzkopf put it, “Welcome to life.”

“Even when you’re older, people could have a backyard barbecue and it goes late and they have music,” she said.

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Police arrested a Lincoln man last week on charges of recording a video under a woman’s dress while she was dancing at the Fat Toad.

The county attorney’s office charged 23-year-old Baxter Luethje Aug. 28 with misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace and false reporting. His actions did not meet the elements specified in the statute for his original citation of unlawful intrusion, said Katie Flood, public information officer for the Lincoln Police Department.

library: from 1 Perhaps the most notable part of the library is the bust of Roscoe Pound. He’s the first sight through the front doors of the library, a small statue with a worn nose that makes him look like he’s wearing sunscreen.

“In 1906, while he was dean of the UNL College of Law, he delivered a speech to the American Bar Association,” Placzek said in an email. “The speech had a tremendous impact in the legal community, and, as a result of that speech, he is credited with beginning a movement to reform the court system.”

Placzek said the statue, which students and faculty call “Roscoe,” is one of only three made and they are very fortunate to have it.

“Why is he important? I’m sure everyone has their own opinion,” Placzek said, “His work influenced a number of people, making them think about the law in a different way. He made a difference.”

The nose of the statue has been worn down over the years because law students rub it for good luck.

“He’s great,” Morton said of the statue. “We rub his nose and pat him on the head.

He’s the guy. He’s the most famous dean we’ve ever had here. He went from here to Harvard, which is a pretty good job.”

Placzek said that, around finals time, students will make

of them honors students living in Neihardt Hall — finished up homework and tried to sleep with practices and classes only a few hours away.

A week later, the controversy remains for many.

“I was trying to sleep,” said Sophia Loveless, a freshman history major, who said the music became, “pretty loud.”

Tess Jordan, a junior marketing and management major, heard about it too.

“I was working at The Courtyards and I got a call about it,” Jordan said. “(The student) said they were trying to study.”

However, not all students living close by were affected by the noise. Many students living in Cather Hall, Pound Hall, Neihardt and buildings near Greek Row hadn’t heard any music.

Freshman nursing student, Ava Coughlin, attended the Kappa Karnival.

“It wasn’t too loud,” she said of the music.

However, Coughlin did sympathize with upset students who just wanted to sleep or study.

Luethje was arrested at the downtown bar where he received a citation for unlawful intrusion. Luethje was lodged in jail after the incident but was released after his arraignment Aug. 29.

Officers seized the phone used to make the video as evidence for the case, Flood said. A forensic examination on Luethje’s phone will be conducted by the Lincoln Police Department’s Electronic Evidence Unit. The examination on the phone allows for the video to be extracted and used for prosecution.

Luethje’s court date for the incident at the Fat Toad

is scheduled for Sept. 12, where, if convicted, he faces penalties ranging from no more than one year of imprisonment or a $1,000 fine or both as the maximum.

He faces a maximum penalty of three months in prison or $500 fine or both for his charge of disturbing the peace, Flood said.

In March, Luethje had been involved in a similar situation when he was charged with unlawful intrusion and disturbing the peace for recording a woman changing in a dressing room at the retail store Gordman’s.

His court date for this incident is set for Sept. 26.

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To reduce the chances of becoming a victim in crimes such as this, “Be aware of your surroundings and report any suspicious activity immediately to employees,” Flood wrote in an email.

“Try to retain specific details about the suspect,” such as, “hair color, eye color, tattoos, scars, clothing, etc. to assist in identifying him or her after the incident.”

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offerings to him as a last-ditch attempt to get him to help them on their finals.

“Some of the classes also decorate him at graduation,” she said. “One year, we came in and he had a toga on and he had a little crown on his head. And one year, they decorated him with a hula skirt.”

He even had a hard-hat until recently.

Placzek thinks bonding over Roscoe is a really great way to get students to come together.

Another way the law school tries to create unification among students is through Mel Shinn Day. When Shinn was a student back in the 1960s, he passed away while still at law school. After his death, friends of his created Mel Shinn Day in honor of his passing and it is still a tradition today. Although there are going to be many events, Placzek was particularly excited about the nine-hole mini-golf course to be set up in the library during this year’s celebration Sept. 23.

With an estimated 375 students this year, Placzek says the school is a good size.

People really get to know one another.

“I love being a law librarian,” she said. “It sounds cliché, but everybody is really, really excited about what we do. We want to turn out people that are the best lawyers.

We really get the opportunity

in this environment to get to know the students one-onone. That’s what’s really nice about the size here.”

Matt Novak, assistant professor of law library and reference librarian, also loves his job.

“The part of my job that I liked the most when I was practicing — I was a public defender — was assisting my clients,” he said. “Just kind of the one-on-one counseling interactions with the clients. I wanted to find an aspect of a legal career that allowed me to do that more readily, and I felt that law librarianship allowed me that opportunity, and it does. I’m one-on-one a lot with students, faculty. I’m a counselor in terms of helping them with their research and that sort of thing.”

Placzek said most years they get one or two students who want to be law librarians and they are always honest about the pitfalls of the job, but also about the upsides. They take time to immerse the students in all aspects of being a law librarian, so when it comes time to graduate, they know if it’s something they want to pursue.

“It isn’t a goal every year to get one or two law students who want to be librarians,” Placzek said. “It’s the goal to make this the best legal education experience they can possibly have.”

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Even the climate skeptics are polite,’” Oglesby said with a laugh.

The Link between Science and Politics “It is true that the most prominent skeptics (of climate change) are Republicans,” said Michael Wagner, an assistant professor of political science. “It’s been that way for the last few decades.”

Since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Republican philosophy has favored returning power to the states and has been against more government regulation, and environmental regulations are the worst, Wagner said, because of their costs to businesses.

Wagner added that candidates waver from this position at their own cost. Jon Huntsman, a former U.S. ambassador to China, has publicly supported the science of climate change and is at the bottom of the polls.

Many UNL students took a moderate approach.

“I would say, definitely put some (regulation) there, especially if there’s businesses that don’t care (about the environment),” said Ramsey Jaber, a freshman biochemistry major.

But they shouldn’t be too restrictive for business, either, he added.

Jessie Stephenson, a freshman biological sciences major, said regulation of areas like pollution was within the

government’s role, regardless of the human role in climate change.

“Interestingly, it was a Republican president who created the Environmental Protection Agency: Richard Nixon,” Wagner said.

Since then, the position against environmental regulation has become increasingly entrenched, as has resistance to the notion of human-influenced climate change.

“You could make the argument that skepticism to climate change is a strategy to say, ‘We don’t even know what to regulate,’” Wagner said.

Nebraska generally fits into this pattern as well, he said.

One dramatic difference is the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, Wagner said, which would pass over Nebraska’s Ogallala Aquifer. “But that’s really the only place that I’ve noticed a major break with the party line.”

Leading Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and Sen. Mike Johanns, both Republicans, oppose the current plan.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea,” said Lou Cubrich, a junior mechanical engineering major. “The aquifer’s a big deal here in Nebraska.”

The Political Impact By taking a stance against environmental protections, the Republican Party in general might not be doing itself

any favors.

“It’s not the kind of issue that sways independent voters to the Republican side,” Wagner said. In fact, independents tend to endorse Democrats on the environment, he added.

Jaber, who identifies himself as independent, said he’d want someone “versed in climate science,” preferring knowledge to opinion.

“That makes me a little bit skeptical about their policy,” Cubrich agreed. “I wouldn’t vote for somebody who’s throwing (the science) out like that.”

But for the moment, the candidates are running for the party nomination, not the general election, Wagner said, and it’s a smart strategy for now. Where it might hurt the candidates is a growing evangelical movement in support of environmental protection, a movement Stephenson said she agreed with.

“That’s what we were put on the Earth to do: Take care of the Earth,” she said.

However the nomination and election turns out, the growing trend of Republican unfriendliness to environmental protection and science looks like it’s here to stay, Wagner said.

“The smart money is this will continue to be an entrenched position.”

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Students frustrated by weak Internet Alicia Mikoloyck Daily nebraskan

Trying to complete an online homework assignment, Rachel Compas, a junior meteorology major, sighed with frustration as her Internet connection began to weaken and finally disappear.

Living in Robert E. Knoll Residential Center, this loss of connection happens to Compas often, but seems to be contained to smaller spaces.

“The connection in my bedroom and even some of the study rooms can be good at times, but then at other times it can be spotty and eventually go down to nothing,” Compas said. “It made me feel very frustrated. I don’t like it when my Internet doesn’t work when I’m simply trying to finish my homework.”

Many students around City Campus could attest to the fact that University of NerbaskaLincoln’s wireless connection

may not be reliable at all times – especially in crowded places like the Nebraska Union or a large lecture hall. For Compas, she has troubles connecting in Nebraska Hall and occasionally Andersen Hall.

“It isn’t bad everywhere though,” she said. “The union and many buildings on the west side of campus do have faster connections and seem to be more reliable.”

Many greek houses on campus, particularly on East Campus, have opted to get their own private Internet, completely separate from UNL. “Having our own Internet is nice, but we still run into problems when we are all on it at the same time trying to complete homework,” said Brock Rezny, a junior elementary education major.

Rezny lives in the Alpha Gamma Sigma house on East Campus. Rezny said even their private Internet can lose its connection at any time.

wilder: from 1 trains stopped running and were unable to bring supplies to families in need.

Wilder actually writes about the trains stopping in her book.

“We have measuring tools for other weather, such as hurricanes, earthquakes or tornadoes, but we currently do not have a classification system for winter seasons and their severity,” Boustead said. “In addition to creating a measuring system, I’m determining what parts of ‘The Long Winter’ were real.”

In the novel, Wilder describes blizzards coming in waves for three days and a one-day reprieve. She says this recurs throughout the season.

However, Boustead found this to be exaggerated.

“The people of Laura Ingalls’ time were in danger because of food and warmth supplies running out, but, because not many people ventured out, the death toll was surprisingly small,” Boustead said. “So the blizzards and dangers she describes are definitely real, but sometimes she embellishes in the blizzard’s severity.”

Boustead is also interested in exploring how such a harsh winter would affect society today.

“The death toll was so low because, at the time, people were able to prepare for the winter,” Boustead said. “Many times when people died from blizzards it was because it caught them unprepared.”

Today, people probably aren’t very prepared in terms of fuel and shelter, Boustead said. However, there is more technology and more resources if a blizzard like Wilder describes were to hit.

Boustead collected much of her information from historical documents and personal accounts from people who lived during Wilder’s time.

And she is impressed with how Wilder described the weather with such accuracy and detail.

“Wilder really was talented in the way she described weather,” Boustead said. “She described weather well in all her books, including the

“We could upgrade our Internet package, but it would cause an increase in price,” Rezny said. “Our Internet is still good, but not the greatest.”

Rezny said that the Internet on East Campus, especially in the library, tends to be a bit faster, but mainly because it’s much less crowded.

“UNL is adding wireless capacity and also monitoring what areas on campus might need additional improvements to keep the wireless speeds moving quickly,” said Mark Askren, chief information officer of Information Services.

Those who live in the residence halls might have slower wireless speeds due to Xboxes and Netflix usage, Askren said.

But UNL is constantly monitoring the problem and looking for areas requiring more attention, or maybe just more routers.

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book ‘These Happy Golden Years,’ when she describes a tornado. Her descriptions have been very helpful to me.”

Boustead would also like to create curriculum for elementary-age students to connect “The Long Winter” with science in the classroom.

“One of the best things about this research is it can be applied in many areas in the classroom, such as history, geography, literature and math,” said Martha Shulski, director of the School of Natural Resources and one of Boustead’s advisers, along with Ken Hubbard, a professor in the school.

They both are excited Boustead has been able to see the project progress from an idea to research that can actually be applied to reallife tools.

“In addition to looking at the Laura Ingalls account, the fact that this research might create a measuring system for winters today makes this research exciting,” Shulski said. “Boustead is figuring out ways to make the information she finds useful to the public.”

Boustead is hopeful that researching Wilder’s story will help others and not just satisfy her curiosity.

“I hope to be able to help transportation agencies or businesses, which might need to be able to scale weather,” Boustead said. “There are many opportunities for applications from this research.”

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The DN editorial board seldom fails to disappointment me, but the Sept. 7 editorial (on the discrepancy between Gov. Dave Heineman’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and TransCanada advertisements appearing during state fair and Husker football games) was more than disappointing – it was downright

shocking. Let me see if I have this straight. When the state’s political leadership comes down on one side of a question, it should “cease to be an issue of debate” within the state, and opposing viewpoints should be banned from state-controlled media.

Please run, don’t walk, to a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and look up the First Amendment. It’s something that real journalists actually care about.

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DN supports ASUN’s 9/11 memorial events

This Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. For University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, those events were the defining national tragedy that marked our childhoods.

Sept. 11, in so many ways, is responsible for much of how our generation views the world. From changes in air travel security to increased screening of international students, the aftermath of the catastrophic events reverberates throughout every aspect of our lives.

Think about where you were on Sept. 11, 2001. Some of us may have been in school, watching the towers fall on TV as classes paused in stunned silence. Some of us may have been traveling, hearing the news on the radio.

It’s hard to believe it has been 10 years. In that decade, America — and Nebraska — has experienced dramatic events. The immediate aftermath of the attacks led to two wars. Since then, a global recession has battered the U.S. economy. In Iraq and Afghanistan, 54 Nebraska servicemen and women have died. And yet Nebraska — and America — are still here and stronger than ever.

This week, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska is commemorating the anniversary of the attacks. All week, flags will be laid out on the Selleck greenspace to commemorate Nebraska soldiers who have died. On East Campus Tuesday and Wednesday, and on City Campus today and Friday, a display memorializing the events are in the respective unions.

But the most important of all the events is the culmination on Sunday. ASUN, in partnership with Service Nebraska, is hosting a Day of Service. The Daily Nebraskan fully supports this idea and believes one of the best ways to remember those who died 10 years ago is to exemplify the values that make us uniquely Nebraskan and uniquely American: hard work, honesty, perseverance and service.

Above all else, take time this Sunday to remember the anniversary. Remember those who tragically lost their lives in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Remember the Nebraskans and the Americans who fell in service to the United States overseas. And remember how these men and women lived their lives, and emulate their selfless example.

This Sunday is the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

It is a day of sorrow, a day of remembrance, but also a day of hope for the future. opinion@dailynebraskan.com

editorial policy The editorial above contains the opinion of the spring 2011 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. A column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of Daily Nebraskan employees.

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Dorm friends form brotherhood

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or the past two weeks, I’ve been faced with the unthinkable burden of associating myself with the obnoxious, abrasive, entirely too personal self-proclaimed fraternity that has the audacity to call itself “Cather Nine Omega.”

I couldn’t love it more.

We’re a group of misfits, a brotherhood of undergraduates who share in the collective misery of being the last class to grace Cather Hall’s leaky windows, rusty bedframes and spine-scalding showers with our presence.

Believe me, you’ve heard of us.

We roam the campus chanting, “Who are We? Cather 9! What is pain? Strength!” before breaking into cries of “Awooh, Awooh, Awooh!” in an attempt to emulate those rugged masses of Spartan flesh and testosterone from “300.”

We treat our women like goddesses, catering to their every need, providing blankets when they’re cold and massages when they’re stiff. We engage in vicious games of ninja, leaving as little mercy for one another as one swift body motion will allow. We even have our own dance wherein we, in synchronized, swift motion, showcase our kinesthetic prowess to the techno ensemble “Sandstorm.”

Led by a resident assistant who embodies the leadership and charisma of a young Leonidas, the famed (maybe infamous) Togolese political science major Vincent “Chevy” Chechevi, it’s no surprise the residents of Cather 9 live in harmony with one another. A quick look at my floormates confirms that we’re nothing short of your quintessential greek house.

There’s Eddie, your everyday bowler-hat clad genius. The ladies love his dancing abilities, some likening him to a significantly whiter version of teenage “Babyface” Usher.

There’s Parviz, the Tajik mechanical engineering major who can more often than not be found sporting his father’s

faiz siddiqui bathrobe, brandishing his infinite masculinity and imploring that you “look at your man, now back at me, now back at your man, now back to me. Now sadly, he isn’t me...”

And then, beneath his mountainous pectorals and rugged abs, there’s Matt.

Women salivate over his muscles, his cowboy boots, the fact that he bears a striking resemblance to those Muffler Men you see propped up beside highways in small towns like North Platte. We love him because he can only juggle so many women, leaving the rest of us to fill the voids that he creates in their hearts.

Finally, there’s Brandon. He’s the physics genius who turned down a dual-admissions medical program to pursue engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

He refers to his floormates as his “wolfpack,” in similar fashion to Zach Galifianakis’ zany, borderline-insane character Alan in “The Hangover.” Ask him why he didn’t choose medical school and he’ll quickly inform you that he wasn’t interested in the money before inviting you to his dorm room for a cold Mountain Dew and a quick game of “Call of Duty” on his roommate Alex’s Xbox.

Let’s be honest, this whole dynamic is, if nothing else, surprising to me. After growing up in a boomburb outside of Cincinnati, I never thought I’d end up in what I perceived to be a corn-laden wasteland where football ruled and education was just something that happened in between watching it and selling insurance. If I could

have described my perception of the state before I arrived, I probably would have said “white,” or, to be more elaborate, “really, really white.” But to arrive to such a welcoming, diverse environment was not only refreshing, but also encouraging. To put it simply, this was the ideal college experience. Having pledged to never join a fraternity, here I was living among brothers of my own. And so as rush week concludes, as pledges sort into their respective houses and rejects re-accustom themselves to dorm life, it’s time to set the record straight. Companionship isn’t defined by wild parties and greek tradition.

Maybe we at Cather Nine Omega didn’t pay our way into an organization so that we could intermingle. Maybe we’re not about the snapbacks and bro-beaters. People won’t see us doing kegstands anytime soon, and as far as accreditation goes, we aren’t interested.

But there are 30 or so of us who can testify that we don’t take this “brotherhood” thing lightly. People might think we’re a joke because we’re ambitious and conceited enough to think we’re a fraternity.

But we couldn’t care less.

We know we’re different. We embrace each other’s differences, even going to the lengths of adopting diversity as this year’s floor theme.

If nothing else, our battle cry is just our means of expressing who we truly are.

Those repeated cries of “Who are we?” serve as a constant reminder of something we’ve strived to ingrain in our minds since day one. It’s the tenet we promote when we watch foreign films together and hold open discussions about faith and morality. It’s the idea that, underneath it all, we’re one and the same.

Just don’t expect to see me in cowboy boots anytime soon.

Faiz Siddiqui is a freshman journalism news-editorial major, and a proud member of cather nine omega. follow him on twitter at @faizsaysthis and reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Poorly made movies, while dumb, can be fun

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eaders, I have a confession to make. It’s pretty bad. I hope you won’t think less of me. Here goes: I enjoy watching awful movies.

By awful movies, I mean ones with bad dialogue, illogical plots, terrible special effects, abysmal acting and excessive violence. Even better if people are naked for no apparent reason. These elements don’t all have to be present. It doesn’t have to be violent, but it does have to make movie critics cringe.

There are more of these flicks out than anyone would like to admit.

There are a couple of reasons for this, but suffice saying it’s because Hollywood is clueless and doesn’t know how to produce quality movies like it used to. Heck, this is why movie sales are down in a big way.

Not that bad movies are problems for somebody like me. Last week I saw the fantastically awful reboot of “Conan the Barbarian.” This movie sucked on an epic level. The bad acting paired with a bad script was priceless. The action scenes were illogical. The plot was somehow too convoluted and too simple all at once.

But was it worth spending two hours watching this hulking monstrosity of cinema? You bet it was!

I laughed harder that night than I

have in months. I loved the awful and bloody effects. The action scenes were fun, if a bit silly.

But mostly I loved watching Jason Mamoa kill the bad guys. It helped that he was shirtless and covered in blood for most of the movie. That man is gorgeous. Rawr. I’ve had an awkward crush on Jason Mamoa since his first appearance on “Game of Thrones.” Mmmmm ... Kahl Drogo.

I have every intention of catching “Columbiana,” too. Same revenge plot, only it’s Zoe Saldana! Yay! However, “Conan” and “Columbiana” are only the most recent in a proud tradition of bad movies. Ever hear of Ed Wood? He’s probably the worst director of all time. He’s responsible for such hilarious horrors as “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” “Bride of the Monster” and “Glen or Glenda.” Imagine painted paper plates standing in for flying saucers!

Imagine bad edits that change the scenery from day to night in seconds! And that’s just “Plan 9.”

Now I should mention that there are bad movies that are enjoyable and those that certainly aren’t.

Case in point: “Howard the Duck.”

I couldn’t make it through that George Lucas turd of a movie. I made it a whopping 20 minutes.

And I thought the prequel “Star Wars” movies sucked! No. “Howard

rhiannon root the Duck” makes “Phantom Menace” look like “Citizen Kane.” Seriously.

Under no circumstances should anyone ever view that movie.

Wait, there’s one exception: to mock George Lucas. He needs a good mocking.

Here’s what makes a movie that sucks enjoyable: a self-awareness on the part of the creators of the movie that it’s there to entertain the audience, not, say, to create fantastic art. It helps if the movie has a sense of humor about itself. This is what separates “Snakes on a Plane” from “Battlefield Earth.”

“SoaP” is brilliant precisely because it knows how utterly ridiculous it is. This is why the line “I’m tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!” is so much fun. It sums up the movie’s attitude in a hilarious nutshell.

Bad dialogue is half the fun of a bad movie. When such awful dialogue is paired with subpar acting,

the results are entertaining if not brilliant in its absurdity.

Another goldmine for bad movies is the SyFy channel. Low budget?

Check. Illogical plots? Check. Clunky dialogue? Check. Bad special effects?

Check and check! (Bonus points if Coolio is in the movie.) Anytime there’s a shark, octopus or dinosaur monster-type-of-thing, watch that movie. Cheer for the terrible looking beast that chomps on our stereotypical heroes.

What? I usually cheer for the monsters in these movies. The writing is so bad that I feel zero empathy for the poorly written and acted characters that I cheer for their deaths.

Often these characters have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, so the monster should be able to eat them for lunch, don’t you think?

I don’t mean to sound like a violent plebe here, but I adore these movies. And it’s not to say I don’t watch the classics. I enjoyed “Gone With the Wind.” Scarlett O’Hara owns everyone in that movie! It was brilliant! Scarlett O’Hara is a compelling and terrifying human being.

Why she won’t see that Rhett Butler is a stud is beyond me. Ashley Wilkes, are you kidding me? Can you say “weasel?” Oh, and yeah, the whole illustrating-the-damage-doneby-the-Civil-War thing was pretty good too.

Another great film that will be a classic is “Black Swan.” The movie is a deeply disturbing and fantastic. Natalie Portman deserved that Oscar. It’s also incredibly painful to watch because you feel what Nina feels, you feel her frustration, her desire and how utterly trapped she is. The movie keeps the audience on their toes. I wasn’t sure where that movie was going, and in a way, that’s scarier than Nina’s psychological issues. Art isn’t always safe, nor should it be.

But sometimes, I don’t want art.

Sometimes I want my entertainment to be mind-numbing and silly. Sometimes I just want to watch a bunch of piranha eat a sleazy dirt bag of a character. Sometimes I need to see a sexy man beat the bad guys. Sometimes I want to see the giant squid monster chomp on a dumbass high school kid.

Sometimes I want to watch a piñata rack up a body count on a tropical island. I crave the simple things, you know?

Bad movies are a catharsis. They don’t ask me to do anything other than enjoy the moment. And for me, that’s the perfect cure to a life that’s much too serious and lacking in silliness.

Rhiannon Root plans on watching “Piñata: Survival Island” sometime soon. Follow her on Twitter @rhiannonroot and reach her at rhiannonroot@ dailynebraskan.com.

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When it originally opened in 1957 on Broadway, “West Side Story” was inundated with awards and nominations, eventually opening doors for community and professional performances across the world.

Although the Lincoln Community Playhouse’s incarnation of the classic likely won’t garner any Tony Awards, it will be opening the establishment’s 66th season.

“I’m really excited about our opening show,” said Karen Freidmund Wills, a member of the Board of Directors and the chair of the Volunteer Development Committee at the

There’s a buzz that’s happening at the Playhouse. We’re... just trying to make a bold statement.”

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Lincoln Community Playhouse. “That is the show that brought me to the Playhouse in 1997. I ended up getting in the show and the choreographer made me the dance captain, and I got an award for the role I did.”

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Eli Barts applies eyeliner inside the back of Club Q before a show. Barts, a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sings and dances regularly as a drag queen to large and enthusiastic crowds at the Q.

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Motown melody comes over the loud speaker.

“Mm, L.A....”

Black high-heeled shoes poke out from one side of the I-shaped stage. “…proved too much for the man…”

The heels step forward, revealing the full visage of Kharizma Valentine. Black leotard, a white mesh dress just long enough to reach the top of nyloned thighs, a skinny black belt cinching in at the slender waist. “... so he’s leaving the life, he’s come to know. ...”

Valentine pretends to belt the words from painted lips, shiny blonde hair tousling with every major note. She struts around the stage, showing Gladys Knight’s conviction through outstretched arms, dramatic pauses and hair whips.

At the song’s end, dollar bills fill Valentine’s hands and substantial cleavage. She disappears backstage and is replaced by another of Club Q and Cabaret’s drag performers.

But hours earlier, before the crowd filled

the dim club, it was Eli Barts who walked into the dressing room, armed with makeup, dresses, shoes, wigs and duct tape.

Barts, a 21-year-old senior communication studies major at the University of NebraskaLincoln, has performed regularly at Club Q since July 2010.

“Seeing the queens when I was just a spectator, like seeing Jessica Bower or Sharen Coxxx, those performances, it was just really inspiring,” Barts said. “I think it’s so fabulous, so I just wanted to be a part of it.”

Valentine took the stage for the first time on open drag night, in a short black dress with a rhinestoned halter. She performed a remix borrowed from friend and fellow queen Sharen Coxxx.

After the show, Kharizma was asked back and soon became a regular.

Barts grew up in Newport, Maine, until moving to Bellevue, Neb., in early high school. He acted in high school theater and competes on UNL’s speech and debate team.

Valentine, a former member of the Q’s

story by andrea vasquez | file photo by patrick breen Girls of Desire (the handful of consistent performers at the club’s regular drag and house shows), now holds the title of the Q’s Miss Fire and Brimstone. Valentine still performs regularly at the Q and a couple of gay bars in Omaha, but left the Girls of Desire to give Barts more time and energy to focus on school.

When he graduates next summer, Barts plans to find a job that incorporates his major in communications and his passion for drag – probably as a show promoter for a bar, he said.

Drag queens — men who sing, lip-synch, dance and perform dressed as women — evoke images of teased hair, long eyelashes and RuPaul. Barts spends an hour in the dressing room, employing what he called “magic Chinese secrets,” before emerging as Valentine.

“I like the illusion of going from full

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KRNU aims to broaden Mainstream pop music, culture has its merits audience with revamps Molly Mahannah Daily Nebraskan

The University of NebraskaLincoln’s student-run radio station, 90.3 KRNU, is making some big changes with their online-only station KRNU2 – formerly called Studio 201.

One of the biggest alterations to Studio 201, besides the name change, is a partnership with The Bourbon Theater, which will enable the station to stream a handful of live shows online.

In the new scheme, KRNU proper will maintain greater focus on new music and a constantly changing lineup of songs, while KRNU2 will have more of a classic format and is designed to play local music and classic “indie rock.” It will continue to host specialty shows.

“We’re trying to get KRNU back to a more varied sound and we want there to be a lot of variety on the station,” said senior broadcasting major Casey Welsch, one of KRNU’s music directors. “There’s not going to be any pop music or any big mainstream rock, but there’s definitely going to be a lot more variety and bands you would never hear anywhere else.”

The inception of KRNU2 is the result of the lack of listeners to the online station.

“Rick Alloway, the station manager, and I kind

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of came up with the new name together,” said senior Joe Teplistky, another music director at the station. “Basically, the station is going to play the same kind of music, but we’re trying to expand our reach into Omaha more with the online station.”

Along these lines, a recent partnership with the Maha Music Festival allowed for the streaming of one of their showcases that took place at the Slowdown. This, and KRNU’s growing relationship with the Bourbon Theater, are all part of the plan to fully form KRNU2.

“It’s just a matter of trying to draw people to it and increase its popularity,” Teplistky said.

KRNU2 will additionally

be fully staffed, which is new for the online-only station.

According to both music directors, the KRNU website is also changing a bit with the aim of becoming more interactive and content-driven. The station will eventually receive a new logo, as well as begin to post a list of the select shows they are streaming from the Bourbon Theater.

Ultimately — fear not, devout online listeners — the foundation of “Studio 201” will remain the same.

“It’s still the same eclectic taste in music, but hopefully these changes will draw an audience,” Teplitsky said. mollymahannah@ dailynebraskan.com

A mere two columns under my belt, I’ve already decried the day “Jersey Shore” first aired. I’ve senselessly condemned every angle of pop culture, stating that those who immerse themselves in it are stupid. Well, I still believe that to a point, at least, the part about immersing yourself in pop culture without expanding beyond it.

In fact, last year, I had to make a commercial for a class project. Everything was running smoothly until the group began editing the film.

Our commercial encouraged people to buy a brick (not my idea) to support cancer research and we needed serious, sentimental background music. Unfortunately, Rihanna’s “S & M” wasn’t going to cut it.

I was the only one who had anything beside top-40 hits in my iTunes, and I don’t even have good taste in music!

I still believe that one should expand their horizons beyond pop culture, but now, I must make a confession. Last Wednesday I did possibly the poppiest thing I have ever done in my life.

I went to the Ke$ha concert at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs. The only thing trashier than the fact that I was

at the concert (that featured a dancing penis on stage) was the fact that the concert was located in Council Bluffs.

But, reader, attending this show taught me to embrace something I never thought possible: It’s OK to enjoy pop music.

Now, don’t interpret this incorrectly; I still believe in attending live performances at local theaters, going to art galleries or merely adding some classical music to your iTunes.

However, if you constantly stick to stuff that’s off the charts, you are missing just as dynamic a part of the arts culture as those who refuse to refute their obsession with pop culture.

There is no shame in being aware of the latest trends, and if you back it up with substantial knowledge about the years of trends that came before it, I would say you have a pretty good balance working for you. With this combination, you have the knowledge and ability to speak with virtually anyone about topics people are passionate about.

Think about it: How many times do you catch a snippet of a conversation in which people are debating the latest movies or music? Entire sections of newspapers, channels and websites are devoted to entertainment. The more you know, the more mature your opinion will be. And, in turn, you will have more to say about the topics than “I like it.”

Don’t get me wrong, just because you know about the latest music or movies, it does

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not mean you have to like it.

Your style is your style.

Hopefully, though, part of your style is being accepting and understanding of others disciplines as well.

And last Wednesday night, I changed my style for a bit to listen to the auto-tuned crap leaking from Ke$ha’s blue lips. I shamelessly caked on sparkling eye shadow and topped off the ensemble with ripped tights. I even bought a Tshirt at the concert. And I had fun, damn it!

I cut loose from my classicist, baby sloth-adoring persona and immersed myself in the glitter. And the photos on my camera show a crazy, wonderful night and confirm that half the stuff that happened at that concert were not hallucinations.

You should not feel ashamed for doing the same – cut loose sometimes! Tap your toe to a new beat or learn the nonsensical lyrics of some auto-tuned garbage. Just as long as you remember which is art and which is entertainment.

And in the words of Ke$ha, actually, scratch that.

She has never said anything worth repeating.

Katie Nelson is a sophomore Broadcast journalism major. Reach her at katienelson@ dailynebraskan.com

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NU racing team fuels need for speed in and out of classroom Cara wilwerding daily nebraskan

Spitting mud off its back tires, the red and black off-road vehicle completes another lap. That makes 32.

The driver has been at it for nearly three hours, but he isn’t slowing down. After two long semesters and innumerable hours in a lab, it’s his turn to drive.

The Husker Racing team, Baja SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) allows students to produce a new off-road vehicle every school year. The team is responsible for designing, building, testing, promoting and financing the vehicle, which must then pass a series of stringent tests.

President Cory Kruse, a senior mechanical engineering major, was introduced to Baja SAE during a freshman tour of the engineering college. While he enjoys the design aspects of the first semester, the second is where he really thrives.

Vehicles are powered by a ten-horsepower Intek Model 20 engine, donated by Briggs & Stratton Corporation.

“The engine is open,” Kruse said. “Essentially it’s all automatic; there’s no gears shifting or anything. It’s so much faster

than manual.”

While the team is not allowed to modify this engine, they have control over all other aspects of design, such as the vehicle’s suspension and overall appearance.

By designing and constructing the vehicles together, Baja SAE members get hands-on practice that is not available in most classrooms. However, the most thrilling aspect of this club happens outside the classroom and the lab.

“In the competition you do a lot of driving and get tested over so many things,” Kruse said. “That’s the highlight of building a car; going out to race it and beating people.”

Each competition has different events, including a fourhour endurance race, a suspension and traction course, a tractor pull, a maneuverability course and an acceleration course.

At their most recent competition in Pittsburg, Kan., the team took third place in the suspension and traction course and seventh place in the tractor pull. Overall, they finished as the 27th team out of 85.

Despite the relatively impressive ranking, Zach Blackford, a junior mechanical engineering major, is not yet satisfied.

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“Each year improves and gets better as our group gets older,” he said. “We’re expecting a top10 finish this year.”

Kruse drove the agility course at the Pittsburg competition.

He said the greatest challenge of each event is that you never know what you’ll run into.

Teams must design a universal car that can handle anything.

Blackford drove the endurance race, where more obstacles were present. Concrete slabs, rocks and tree trunks were buried in the rough back wood terrain and Blackford says it’s very difficult to focus on the obstructions while also worrying about the well-being of your vehicle.”

“It’s a really exciting experience because you’re passing cars, trying to avoid obstacles,” Blackford said. “There will be a car that flips right next to you and you have to make sure you don’t hit them and continue the race. It can be scary at times.”

During competition, all drivers were required to wear a racing jacket, neck brace, helmet, goggles, wrist restraints and gloves. Regardless of these precautions and his experience in motocross racing, the four-hour endurance race still took a toll on Blackford’s body.

“Your neck gets very sore because your helmet weighs a lot and when you’re bouncing around the obstacles...” he said.

Both Kruse and Blackford see the value of being involved in Baja SAE. They have both been offered jobs and internships because of the real world experience they have gained.

“If you walk into a career fair with a resume and they see Baja, they instantly know what it is,” he said. “Any kind of job likes to see the hands-on experience that you get from this.”

While the team is currently composed mainly of engineering majors, Kruse would love to see involvement from students with different specialties. He believes a marketing or business major could add a lot.

“We make a vehicle that’s meant to race but also with an intent to sell it,” Kruse said. “We have to give sale and design presentations, and it would be so great to have someone that’s good at making posters or decals.” carawilwerding@ dailynebraskan.com

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‘Gameday’ movement plans to energize student section Matt havelka daily nebraskan

It’s football season in Nebraska. T-Magic is healthy, the option is back and a new student-run group, Take Back Gameday, is working to rev up student interest in the football Saturday atmosphere.

“Our group is all about fan involvement,” said Taking Back Gameday Organizer, Jason Dunn.

The group will hold rallies every Friday night before home games at 8:30 p.m. on the southeast corner of 14th and Vine streets.

And though their first meeting was hampered by rain, the group didn’t panic.

They moved the party indoors and that didn’t stop the students from raising a ruckus. The first meeting was attended by University of Nebraska-Lincoln cheerleaders, who pumped up the crowds with chants of “Husker Power!” and “Go Big Red.” “We wanted it to feel very natural,” said organizer Christina Condreay, a junior news-editorial major. “The group is created by students, for students. We didn’t want to force these issues on the student body.”

Each week at the Take Back Gameday rallies, students will be exposed to new methods for immersion in the game day experience.

“Our first meeting informed students on ways to get involved during the break between the third and fourth quarters of football games,” Dunn said. “But we have a lot more planned for the future.”

At last week’s Take Back Gameday rally, the group

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introduced a new student cheer, “Can’t be beat, won’t be beat!” and, this week, the marching band will show off their skills for the students.

“This Friday we will be learning songs with the drumline,” Condreay said. “They are going to teach us their cadences and the songs that they play, so students can be more involved with some cool cheers and songs during the games.”

This is one of the group’s focal points: integrating the enthusiasm of the student body with UNL’s cheerleaders and marching band to help bridge the gap between the students on and off the field.

“We want to see this thing grow bigger and bigger,”

Dunn said. “The more people that attend, the more noticeable the student presence will be on Saturdays.”

Dunn sees no reason why the group can’t continue to grow as the football season pushes on. By the time the Ohio State Buckeyes come to town in October, Take Back Gameday aims to have enough involvement that the student section will lead creative cheers and chants during pivotal moments in the game.

“We really wanted to rustle a few feathers and try to get students to get excited about our university,” Dunn said. “It seems a lot of students share our passion.”

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club q: from 5 boy and then to having size D breasts by the end of the night,” Barts said. “It’s not the fact that I want to wear the dress ... the appeal is the performance and what you give to that crowd.”

Coxxx agreed; Drag is about more than costumery.

Off stage, Coxxx is Michael James, a 21-year-old Lincolnite who got his start at open drag night in November 2009.

“I don’t do big hair, big makeup, big lashes, big overdrawn lips, gaudy eyes, because I see that as female impersonation, not drag,” James said, “To me, drag isn’t a job.

Drag is an entertainment that comes from a passion that I have.”

Drag queens may be gay, bisexual or heterosexual, and similarly drag kings are females who dress as men. Drag queens and kings, who dress up “for performance or entertainment,” are different from cross-dressers, who “dress like another sex or gender, more for personal reasons and enjoyment,” said Pat Tetreault, assistant director of LGBTQA Programs and Services at UNL. “I go to school as a guy and I’m having a coffee as a guy.

We, drag queens, are performers – that’s the big key,” Barts

said. “It is a part of my life, but I’m a student first.”

From the beginning, drag has been an open part of Barts’ life: Friends were in the audience at Valentine’s first performance, and Barts’ parents know and accept their son’s interest.

As Barts’ “drag mom,” James supports Valentine but warns against letting stage personalities get too big. James said he’s seen queens lose the line between their characters and themselves.

“They all want attention being this one person, (and) they don’t get that attention as a boy,” he said. “They forget underneath all that makeup and underneath all the jewelry and all the clothes and all the beautiful accessories, there is a person.”

Barts and Valentine live in two worlds. Dark-haired, trimfigured Barts sits in class, shops in the men’s clothes department, spends time with friends and participates in speech and debate; Valentine comes out at night, in heels and hair, performs for the crowd and jokes around offstage with her “family” of drag queens and the Q staff.

One thing allows the two to coexist.

“Confidence. It’s all about confidence,” Barts said. “If you go out there — even if you know your words right and you look stunning — if you don’t serve it then no one’s going to tip you, no one’s going

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Since Kharizma’s inception, the reaction has been positive – she landed a spot as a Q regular and has performed at other schools’ Gay-Straight Alliance banquets. But Kharizma has been a source of some problems in Barts’ romantic life.

Barts, who is gay, has had boyfriends break up with him because he does drag.

“They think I want to be a woman and that’s not true,” Barts said. “They like me, but once they find out I do drag, a lot of them get really scared by it. It’s something that they don’t understand.”

Drag has a decades-long history — including being part of what many consider the beginning of the gay rights movement — but still faces very mixed reactions, even within the LGBTQA community. But the audience at the Girls of Desire performances speaks for itself: Men and women from their late teens to 50s sip cocktails, dance to the songs and wave dollar bills at the performers as they stride and swagger across the stage.

“Drag queens are, in my opinion, leaders of the gay community,” Barts said.

“They’re people to look up to.

They’re beacons of light for the gay community. At least from the gay man’s perspective, doing drag does not make you any less of a man.”

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“Classic Past ... Bold Future.” “We have ‘Lend Me a Tenor,’ which is a farce,” said Morrie Enders, the playhouse’s executive director. “I think it’s one of the funniest of modernday farces.”

Other productions include “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” “Twelve Angry Men,” “The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood,” “Dearly Beloved”

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The first question asked of Brigette Root after Monday’s practice was the easiest one for her to answer.

“Absolutely not,” she said, when asked if Nebraska fans should panic afterlosing to Colorado State despite being up two sets to none Friday night. “It was the third match of the season. Nobody knows, but the first two sets of the match, we played like an absolute machine. We could’ve done some things better in the final three sets, but it was a great learning experience for us.”

Nebraska fans will be able to decide for themselves Thursday night whether or not it’s time to panic when the Cornhuskers take on Creighton in their home opener at the NU Coliseum.

Usually, when a Creighton team comes to Lincoln to face Nebraska, it’s more than just another game on the schedule. The athletic rivalries between Nebraska’s two most reputable universities are numerous, from women’s soccer and softball to even more heated ones between NU and CU men’s basketball and baseball teams.

But volleyball? Not so much. As NU gets set to take on Creighton, the focus is not — as usually befits a Nebraska-Creighton game — on an interstate rivalry, but on the Huskers playing a meaningful home match for the first time since December.

“I feel like we have (bigger rivals) in other teams,” Lauren Cook said. “Iowa State, Texas. Now, it’ll be different, because we’re in the Big Ten, probably Penn State. The teams we play in conference every year, two times a year (are our rivals).”

When scouting Creighton, it appears the Bluejays are a good bounce-back candidate for the Huskers.

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Brigetter Root and the Husker will host in-state rival Creighton, glad to play at home for the first time this season. won 21 matches last year, including a shocking upset of Iowa State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

One match the Jays didn’t win in 2010, however, was their bout against NU on Aug. 31. That match, played at CU’s DJ Sokol Arena, was a Husker sweep that lasted less than an hour and a half. Not that the result should have been surprising: CU has won just one set (in 2006) against Nebraska since coach John Cook took over in 2001, despite playing Nebraska eight times during the span.

Because the Jays aren’t rivals and are just another opponent to NU, the focus instead turns to the Huskers finally being able to play at home after a tough four-match road trip that saw them drop from their No. 5 preseason ranking to 11th in the latest AVCA poll.

“We’re so excited. It seems like literally forever since it’s been red, white (in the stands) and we’ve been home,” Root said.

“Just the fact to be home a weekend and not have to travel, and play in front of our home fans, it’s just really exciting – especially to play the next six matches

at home. It’ll be great.”

Creighton isn’t the only opponent NU faces this weekend. As part of the Ameritas Players Challenge, the Huskers will also face off against a rough St. Mary’s squad — who recently defeated No. 18 Duke — Friday night and a hapless Weber State team — 0-6 this season after going 4-27 in 2010 — Saturday afternoon.

These three games will serve as an important warmup for the Huskers, who, afterward, face No. 17 Iowa State at home Sept. 17, followed by Big Ten play the following week, before their schedule gets tougher. The tournament will also serve as an important experience for several members of the team, including freshmen Lara Dykstra and Taylor Simpson, who have never played a meaningful game at the Coliseum.

“It’ll be cool for all of the freshmen to see what a real Coliseum match is like, besides the red/white scrimmage,” Jordan Wilberger said. “It’s going to be three really tough matches in a row, and it’ll be another test for us.”

Friday night’s match will also mark a milestone for the program; It will mark

the 150th consecutive sellout at the NU Coliseum, an ongoing NCAA record for women’s sports and a number that will reach 152 by Saturday if the sellout continues and 162 by the end of the season.

To coach Cook, 150 sellouts isn’t just a fan achievement: It’s a record earned by the entire program.

“All I remember is when I got here after the 2000 season, everyday I’d walk by (Memorial Stadium) and I’d see the sellout streak for football, and I thought, why not? Let’s try to set a sellout streak for volleyball,” he said at Monday’s press conference. “And, 11 years later, we’re at 150 straight sellouts, which is pretty awesome. It’s a great tribute to the Husker fans.”

The team plans to pay the fans back in their own way: by continuing to improve and play consistent, winning volleyball.

“I want to see the team keep pushing another step and to take each team seriously,” Wilberger said. “It’s going to be a really big test of our side of the court. It’ll show our toughness and show the work we’ve been doing. I’m excited to see what happens.” seanwhalen@ dailynebraskan.com

PRACTICE NOTES FOOTBALL Dennard doubtful for Fresno State Alfonzo Dennard walked off of the Hawks practice field in workout gear but no pads. The preseason All-American corner missed the season opener with a leg injury and is not expected to play this Saturday. Secondary coach Corey Raymond said not to expect any changes to the starting lineups this weekend.

“When we get him healthy, I’ll be able to tell you what we’ll do with him,” Raymond said of Dennard when asked a question about a particular defensive set.

Brown impressed by freshman running backs Ameer Abdullah, Aaron Green and Braylon Heard all saw considerable playing time in Saturday’s 40-7 win against TennesseeChattanooga. And thus far, running backs coach Ron Brown has liked what he has seen.

“To be honest with you, I’m very pleased with their mental makeup,” Brown said after Wednesday’s practice. “None of those three guys have a lack of toughness, from what I can see. They’ve had their share of injuries throughout the fall camp like everyone

else, and they battled and fought through it. They weren’t looking for a way out. I’ve been very pleased with them.”

Staff readies for big recruiting weekend This weekend’s matchup with Fresno State will be the first game in which having young recruits attend the game will be a primary focus.

Recruiting coordinator John Papuchis downplayed any individual adjustments for preparation this week and for the game this weekend.

“You know, for me, in

season it doesn’t change a whole lot,” Papuchis said.

“We have a great, great administrative recruiting staff who handles a lot of the responsibilities during a game weekend. My job is more organizational to get everything to roll.”

While this week may not be too much of a change for Papuchis, he points to the significance of it being a night game.

“The night game is terrific because a lot of guys play on Friday night and it gives them Saturday to travel. The night game helps us.”

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Chris Aumueller had it all figured out.

He would study in his native Germany. After all, Bayreuth, the small Bavarian town of about 75,000 was all he knew. It was where he found his tennis roots, practicing with amateur coaches since the meek age of five. It was where his family resided, along with most of those who cared about him.

Aumueller wouldn’t think twice about it. For him, academics always took precedence over tennis, and that meant studying in Germany. But four years ago, when Aumueller was barely aware college tennis existed, let alone a mid-sized Midwestern town called Lincoln, Neb., that all changed. It was then he received a call from NU Men’s Tennis Assistant Coach Joerg Barthel.

“I got this first call and it sounded pretty exciting,” he said. “I started looking into it a little more deeply and it turned out that I had five or six really good offers.”

The high school tennis instructor from Bayreuth had options he never knew existed. But Aumueller, whose parents remain in Germany, took a strong liking to Nebraska from the beginning.

With its tradition of recruiting German players and its close-knit team environment, it was almost a home away from home. To Aumueller, the decision was a relative no-brainer.

“Nebraska showed me they really cared and really wanted me,” he said.

“It’s really helpful to have a group to talk to about life, even nontennis-related issues. Nebraska really did that for me and I never really regretted it.”

Aumueller hasn’t looked back since. Four years later, anxious and excited for his senior season, he looks to shatter his own personal feats, hoping to secure the regional championship and even qualify for the NCAA tournament.

“I’ve been close to all these goals but I haven’t really accomplished them yet,” he said. “I obviously set pretty high standards for myself.”

It’s no surprise he has lofty ambitions. After all, Bayreuth is no stranger to tennis glory, with Association of Tennis Professionals stars Philipp Petzschner and Florian Mayer both calling it home as well. Aumueller is familiar with both.

“I know them pretty well, they know me pretty well,” he said. “I’ve never actually hit with them, though.”

And as team captain and perennial first singles player, Aumueller has found hometown fame of his own.

“You get recognized on

the streets sometimes,” he said. “It’s not like I really care about it, but it’s nice.

It showed me that I was doing something right, and I’m proud of what I accomplished.”

And Aumueller has much to be proud of. In his three years with NU, he has attained All-Big 12 status in both singles and doubles along with being named Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Yet in spite of all this, he remains m o t i vated as ever.

“I think I did a aumueller p r e t t y good job my first three years and I’m definitely proud of what I accomplished but I obviously want to finish strong as well,” he said.

With co-captain Benedikt Lindheim, he hopes to make a name for his team in the new-look Big Ten. Teammate and fellow senior Drew Freeman has always seen the leader in him.

“He’s been a very vocal leader,” Freeman says.

“When he tells you to do something, he’s just trying to make you get better.”

Freeman remembers back to when Aumueller first arrived in America. Though language wasn’t much of a barrier (he already spoke English), the cultural divide was evident.

“There was definitely a learning curve,” he says.

“We would go to football games (as a team) and we’d have to explain things to the German players.”

But now the half-German, half-American team finds itself embracing European culture as well. Aside from going to movies and dining together, they engage in exhibition soccer matches with each other.

And even though he found his cultural roots in Germany, Aumueller is yet unsure of where he’ll begin the next chapter of his life. With job opportunities in both Nebraska and Germany, he finds himself at somewhat of a crossroads.

He faces the life change ahead of him with careful thought and consideration.

“I’m definitely not sure if I’m going to stay in Nebraska or go back,” he said.

“That’s probably something I should think about pretty soon.”

Maybe not so much. But while his future plans remain in the balance, he rests assured that he made the best decision four years ago as just a young high school graduate in Bayreuth.

“I love it at UNL,” he said. “I love Nebraska. Even though so many people back home at Germany asked ‘Why Nebraska? Why didn’t you go to California?’

It’s not really that big deal to me. I’ve never regretted my decision and I’m very happy I (came here) actually.”

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Stafford’s love for hitting gave Husker fans something to think about last Saturday.

Lots of big hits prove juco transfer’s potential Matt Palu Daily nebraskan

Daimion Stafford likes to hit.

If you don’t believe him you can ask Chris Awuah, Tennessee-Chattanooga’s starting running back. The two got better acquainted with one another in the third quarter of NU’s 40-7 win as Stafford laid Awuah out on a monstrous hit that blew up a stretch play toward the sideline.

“I read the play, saw that the back was tip-toeing through the hole, so I hit him,” Stafford said.

The nonchalance the junior college transfer had in describing his hit is reflective of the approach he’s taken from the transition from juco to Nebraska.

“Football is football,” Stafford said.

But like football, math is math, and Memorial Stadium’s capacity of 81,067 is still larger than the few thousand held at Grigsby Field, where he played while attending Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

“I was a little nervous,” the Norco, Calif., native said. “I just tried to block the crowd as much as I could. But it’s definitely exciting to hear all of those people cheering for you when you make a hit.”

Stafford made two helmetjarring hits in tallying six

tackles in his Husker debut, entering the game as a relative unknown to a large portion of Nebraska fans. Arriving just a couple of days before the start of fall camp, the 6-foot-1, 210-pound safety is drawing many comparisons to the team’s defensive MVP and Big 12 Newcomer of the Year Lavonte David.

And like David early in the season last year, Stafford hasn’t had any trouble transitioning into the physicality of Division I football.

“I like to hit,” Stafford said. “It’s always came naturally to me. It’s just football.

I just had to learn the playbook, read my keys and go out there and hit.”

Stafford may not view the ease at which he’s made the leap as anything extraordinary, but his coaches speak highly of his potential.

“He’s a talented person,” secondary coach Corey Raymond said. “He’s extremely physically gifted. He’s an athlete. And being able to tackle like that at safety is a good thing.”

Husker faithful may have got a glimpse of the Stafford who built a reputation as a huge hitter during fall practices, but Raymond says Stafford is far from one-dimensional.

“His play against the pass is good,” Raymond said. “He has really good ball skills. He can cover people too, along

with making hits.”

Head coach Bo Pelini and defensive coordinator Carl Pelini have both been complimentary of Stafford every time they’ve been asked about him.

With such high praise from a coaching staff and such little time in front of Husker fans, the question of just how good he is or can be is a valid one.

But perhaps the more pressing question involves how much more we will see of Stafford this season.

After popping up in early August as a legitimate contender to start at safety, Stafford entered the first game of the season as a backup to junior Courtney Osborne. However, it was Stafford, who was thought to be committing to USC for a brief period of time this summer, who saw the majority of snaps in the second half. Yet Raymond discourages reading too much into the number of reps backups Stafford and other safety P.J. Smith had Saturday.

“There was no real decision,” Raymond said. “We were planning on rotating those guys and that’s what we did.”

To Stafford, the amount of playing time he will get this season is up to him and how he performs. And the prospect of possibly starting comes down to one thing: “I just have to execute.” mattpalu@ dailynebraskan.com

roach: from 10 cream.

Although linebacker is one of NU’s thinner positions, Roach found himself behind fellow backups Alonzo Whaley, Eric Martin and Mathew May on the depth chart and redshirted. Even after Martin moved to defensive end during last season, Roach’s playing time prospects looked thin heading into this season.

But coaches kept talking about this kid from Elkhorn during the spring. When reporters would ask about the status of the linebacking corps, Roach’s name kept popping up.

“I just gave my all every practice,” Roach said, “I just started creeping through and getting noticed a little bit.”

Not even a hamstring injury during fall camp could slow Roach’s progress. By the time NU’s depth chart was released last Friday, Roach had just Compton standing between him and a lot of playing time.

“I had total confidence in him, even before he went in,” Cassidy said. “There were really no steps taken back when he was in.”

Since Pelini’s hiring in 2008, it’s not uncommon to see walk-ons and former walk-ons play on Saturdays.

Cassidy, starting center Mike Caputo and several other Huskers walked on before earning scholarships later in their careers. Others still, like kicker Brett Maher and linebacker Graham Stoddard, played while still trying to earn theirs.

But it is truly rare to see a walk-on play so early in his career. As Cassidy explained,

walk-ons typically redshirt, then spend a few years on special teams or the practice squad. By the time they are juniors or seniors, maybe their opportunity will come.

But for a walk-on to play almost the whole first game of his freshman year? It’s nearly unheard of. But Cassidy made it clear that, based on Roach’s play in practice, he earned his role.

“Obviously he can play, or he wouldn’t even be in that position,” Cassidy said. “He’s just a hard-nosed kid that brings it every day. No matter what the coaches ask him to do, he’s going to do it to the best of his ability.”

The status of Compton

for Saturday’s game against Fresno State is still uncertain. Pelini confirmed there was no structural damage in Compton’s foot during Monday’s press conference but didn’t offer any more details on how long the junior will be out. If Compton misses more time, the Huskers are confident that Roach can step in and capably fill the void.

“He’s going to be a great player for us,” Jared Crick said. “With Compton down for a little bit, now’s a good time for Trevor to really blossom in that role as starting Mike and really lead that defense.”

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In May 2007, Jordan Reinertson was a junior at Gibbon High School. Reinertson was on the mid-Nebraska school’s golf team, one that w a s heading into the Class C State To u r n a m e n t confident they c o u l d b r i n g home a reinerston title.

By the end of the 36-hole tournament, the Buffs had won the state championship.

Reinerston would finish the tournament shooting a two-round total of 145 — three over par.

Just one thing, though.

His younger brother, Josh Reinertson, bested him by four strokes to finish first in the individual competition.

Jordan, now a redshirt junior, ended up in second place but was not angry with the result. He had a state title of his own from the previous year, and he was happy to see Josh win.

“We’re each other’s biggest fan,” Jordan said.

Four years later, the brothers, who have played together since childhood, are on the Nebraska men’s golf team.

As the fall season approaches, NU coach Bill Spangler, the Reinertsons and the rest of the team are preparing for competition

after losing their top two players from the 2010-2011 campaign.

However, of the eight golfers on the Huskers’ roster, only two — Josh, who redshirted his freshman year last season, and Ross Dickson, a true freshman from London — lack experience in college play.

Spangler and Jordan Reinertson said the kind of experience the other six players have is very valuable. Knowledge of practice setup, competition routine and academic expectations are three fewer things to worry about for a team this well-versed.

“An experienced team like we have is only going to pay dividends,” Jordan said. “Everybody’s capable of going out and playing well.”

So far in the team qualifying, Spangler has been particularly pleased with the play of senior Scott Willman, the squad’s top returning golfer. Willman has scored under par in four of the six qualifying rounds up to this point.

“I don’t recall any of our players doing that over the last 10 to 11 years,” Spangler said.

Spangler, who took over as men’s golf coach in 2001, also said while Willman has separated himself in terms of play, there are a lot of opportunities for younger players to step in.

“It’s been real competitive,” Spangler said.

The Huskers will open their fall season Monday at the Fairway Club Invitational at ArborLinks Golf Course in Nebraska City, Neb.

An experienced team like we have is only going to pay dividends.”

Jordan Reinerston

junior golf team member

Although the event will be the golf team’s first as a member of the Big Ten Conference, the team will not feel immediate effects of the conference switch.

Because this year’s schedule has been set since before the re-alignment, the golf team’s schedule will not be significantly affected until the spring season, with the Big Ten championship coming in April.

But the Huskers don’t expect the season to end with the conference tournament.

“We want to make regionals again,” Spangler said.

To qualify for the NCAA Regionals, the golf team must either win the conference title or be one of 53 at-large bids. The top 30 teams from regional play will advance to the NCAA Championships in early June.

But right now, there is no time to think that far ahead.

“All we can do is work hard and continue to move forward and improve,” Spangler said.

Then, the Nebraska golf team will have nothing to worry about.

“The results will take care of themselves,” Spangler said.

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redshirt freshman Trevor roach has impressed his peers early this season

After steadily climbing the depth chart during spring and early fall practice, Roach entered the game as the backup middle linebacker, so he expected to get in Saturday’s game. But after junior Will Compton exited with a foot injury during Tennessee-Chattanooga’s first series, Roach found himself in the action much earlier than anticipated.

“He definitely got thrown into the fire,” safety Austin Cassidy said. “He played great and he didn’t really screw anything up. That’s the biggest hurdle sometimes when you’re out there for the first time.”

Twelve months ago, this kind of early success was difficult to envision for Roach. After a tremendous senior year at Elkhorn High, in which he had 100 tackles and rushed for more than 1,000 yards, Roach received scholarship offers from Northwest Missouri State and Nebraska-Omaha, as well as a walk-on invitation from Iowa State. Roach turned those offers down for a chance to take the field in scarlet and

senior safety

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No matter what the coaches ask him to do, he’s going to do it to the best of his ability.”

roach: see page 9

revor Roach looked uncomfortable. He’d never been in this position before.

Saturday was the first time he’d be exposed to such a daunting task, and the redshirt freshman appeared uneasy.

A group of eight reporters encircled Roach, eager to learn how a second-year walk-on had shot up the depth chart during spring ball and gotten into Nebraska’s season opener after watching just a few plays on the sidelines.

So how do you think you did out there, Trevor?

“I made a lot of mistakes,” Roach said. “I did pretty good ... I did all right.”

Roach may not feel at ease in front of the media horde just yet, and that’s just fine. Lots of young guys aren’t.

But it’s not his job to be a media darling. His job is to tackle opposing ballcarriers, and on Saturday he did it like a seasoned pro.

Roach finished with seven total tackles, second on the team only to human homing missile Lavonte David. Two of those tackles resulted in losses. As the MIKE linebacker, Roach was also responsible for making most of the calls for the Bo Pelini’s defense, a tall order for a veteran, much less someone playing their first game.

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