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Inside Coverage

Rolfzen leads Huskers in new home

Huskers pick apart Golden Eagles

Volleyball team wins first two at Devaney Center

A week after a close call in its season-opener, Nebraska blew past Southern Miss for the second year in a row behind two first quarter interceptions returned for touchdowns and a balanced offensive attack.

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9 And the winner is...

Multicultural greeks showcase dance moves in Stroll-Off

for greener pastures

3 Tug of war Columnists discuss potential Syria intervention

4 Social sculpting Pottery house fosters community through creation

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Where they’re going Click through a map of young Nebraskans’ new homes

They’re young. They’re educated. And they’re leaving. story by Cristina Woodworth | photos by Morgan Spiehs | graphics by Gabriel Sanchez

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f someone asked Mark Pleskac whether he missed Nebraska as he swam in the crystal clear waters of Oregon’s Crater Lake a few weekends ago, he probably would have said no. Pleskac, a 2012 University of NebraskaLincoln graduate, would have responded the same way while hiking in Washington’s North Cascades National Park, rock climbing in the cool weather of the Pacific Northwest or just riding his bike around Seattle, where he now lives. “(It’s been) nothing short of fantastic,” Pleskac said about his experiences in and around the Pacific Northwest. “I was not that amazed at how much I like Seattle over Lincoln.”

A Lincoln native, Pleskac is among the hundreds of UNL students who are choosing to move beyond the Cornhusker state’s borders after completing their educations, contributing to what some are calling a “brain drain.”

The term refers to a loss of young, educated people from an area, usually from more sparsely populated regions to urban centers. This loss of young professionals from a community or state can lead to aging populations and a dwindling workforce.

“My main reason for leaving Nebraska was a strong desire to just live

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somewhere new,” said Pleskac, who is using his computer engineering degree to work for Microsoft. “I wanted a new experience, a new lifestyle and to meet completely new people.”

Although Nebraska’s brain drain numbers have improved in recent years, the state still experienced a net outmigration of about 650 people aged 25 or older holding at least a bachelor’s degree from 2009 to 2011, according to the University of Nebraska at Omaha Center for Public Affairs Research.

David Drozd, research coordinator at the research center, said the brain drain is an issue monitored closely.

“In general, the numbers have improved with the recession as Nebraska has maintained low levels of unemployment and have attracted people from surrounding states looking for jobs,” Drozd said. “We’ve also had fewer people leave the state in recent years because of our unemployment levels.”

From 2006 to 2008, Nebraska experienced a net outmigration of 1,470 persons age 25 or older holding at least a bachelor’s degree. From 2008 to 2010, though, the state experienced a net migration of 289 people in this category.

The improving numbers lead some to say the brain drain isn’t really that big of a problem here.

Colin Kennedy never planned to whip up his grandma’s signature dishes for casual diners in the Haymarket. The senior English, classics and religious studies major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln thought as recently as last year he’d return to Omaha after graduation or even move west, some place like California. But then the 22-year-old aspiring chef found a rare opportunity.

Kennedy, who’d worked in kitchens since he was 15 years old, decided the chance to start a new local business with an old boss was too good to pass up.

Kennedy’s experience goes against a recent theory offered by business

owners and economic experts.

Nebraska has been experiencing a “brain drain” in recent years, the experts say. Between 2007 and 2011, the state experienced a net loss of of college-educated people. According to census data compiled by the Center for Public Policy at University of Nebraska-Omaha, Nebraska lost about 1,100 people with college degrees in the fouryear span. The year 2010 marked the first time since 1996 that Nebraska saw a net gain of people from other states.

U.S. Census Bureau data from 2005 to 2009 shows Nebraska experienced a net loss of college graduates 25 and older to other states. The data shows “moving three-year time frames” in which Nebraska experienced a net gain from 2008 to 2010, but a net loss from 2009 to 2011.

This trend was found to be most prominent among non-Hispanic white people. Between 2000 and 2010, 20,181 more white non-Hispanic people between the ages of 20 and 29 left than any other group.

But this trend won’t necessarily cripple Nebraska’s economy, said Eric Thompson, associate professor of economics and director of the Bureau of Business Research at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“The Midwest is becoming more competitive,” Thompson said. “And Omaha is becoming a critical city.”

An employee of Bread & Cup in Lincoln, Kennedy said he was approached eight months ago by the restaurant’s owner and asked if he would be interested in helping him open a new restaurant. When the new res-

taurant, called Jack & June’s, opens in early October, Kennedy will serve on the executive team and as the chef de cuisine.

Kennedy said he’d have moved were it not for the opportunity.

But brain drain isn’t specific to small businesses. The Midwest, Nebraska in particular, is responsible for manufacturing equipment that is sent to various locations. China and India are prominent customers of Nebraska’s manufacturing, Thompson said. He added that, in general, most people in the area will not see dramatic changes in the economy, but population trends will ensure that agriculture remains the economic backbone of Nebraska in 50 years.

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BY THE NUMBERS Iowa was the No.1 state Nebraskans migrated to from 1989 to 2009. Net immigration is highest among

5 to19year-olds

During the recession, there was net out-migration among

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Young people left in search of work, and retirees moved to sunny destinations such as California.

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Zach fulciniti DN A trend called “youth drain” could spell the eventual death of the rural community in Nebraska, population and agricultural experts warn.

“When young people move out of the state, they’re often taking a spouse or a small child,” said David Drozd, research coordinator for the Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “There are fewer births in those communities, and schools have to consolidate because there isn’t enough population. In some cases the deaths actually exceed the births, and the population is literally dying out.”

According to researchers at UNO, Nebraska’s been experiencing a “brain drain” and a decrease in youth population for the past four decades. The trend peaked during the farm crisis of the ’80s and stabilized in the ’90s, but the new century reversed it once again.

Using U.S. Census Bureau data, the Center for Public Affairs Research concluded that Nebraska experienced a net loss of college graduates older than 25 between 2005 and 2009. But between 2008 and 2010, during the Great Recession, there was a net gain for every age group except the 20-to29 and 55-to-64 ranges. Measured again from 2009 to 2011, Nebraska experienced another net loss.

Drozd attributes these numbers to rural communities whose young people leave for higher education then leave the state completely when they graduate.

The effects of “youth drain” can be seen far and wide across rural communities in Nebraska.

According to Jon Bailey of the Center for Rural Affairs, one of the negative aspects of the population trend is a decrease in volunteerism.

“Fire and rescue squads, volunteers for committees — there aren’t people to do these things,” Bailey said. “And these are public services that rural communities need.”

Bailey added that because technology reduces the labor demand for farming, young people pursue other interests and are unable to work in their own communities when they graduate.

So, he said, they leave for greener pastures.

“There is a lack of employment opportunity for these young people,” he said. “They go to school and the fields they go into aren’t available in their local communities. So they end up leaving for Lincoln, Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City and other metropolitan areas.”

Bailey also pointed to a tendency among young people — especially those from sparsely populated rural areas — to want to explore, leading them to other states. Young Nebraskans have most commonly migrated to Iowa. University of NebraskaLincoln history professor Tim

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In3,509 addition to those waves, both “There is a mix of residential OUT-MIGRATION (2000-2009) Lincoln and Omaha are popular and commercial developments, 1,578 and we are seeing growth in the refugee resettlement locations.

“Lincoln is a hub for Iraqi Lincoln music scene,” he said.

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Somalia, and now we’re seeing As far as solutions toOUT-MIGRATION the (2000-2009) youth drain go, both Drozd and them come from Burma and even the Congo.”

Borstelmann point to immigraRefugees and immigrants tion. From 2000 to 2010, Nebrashelp account for Nebraska’s ka’s population grew by 6.7 percent, and more than 95 percent of population growth even in the face of youth drain, as well as the that growth can be attributed to minorities: Mexican, Iraqi, Soma- strength of its economy, particularly in Lincoln and Omaha. But lian and Sudanese immigrants, to even with what Borstelmann calls name a few.

Nebraska’s “extraordinary agri“Opponents tend to confuse cultural base,” the nature of the the issue and hide the benefits of industry and Nebraska’s largely immigration,” Borstelmann said. consistent migration trends over “But this is how you’re gonna keep culture, and the economy, the past century mean the youth

drain question isn’t going away.

“Right now, farmers are making money,” Bailey said. “The short-term forecast is good. But agriculture is cyclical, and cycles go up and down.”

But the picture may not be as grim as population and rural community experts say. Sixtynine percent of UNL’s 2012 graduates stayed in Nebraska after receiving their degrees.

Junior electrical engineering major John Batenhorst has no plans to leave Nebraska when he graduates. Batenhorst said electrical engineering enrollment is down at UNL, a claim supported by a 2010 American Society for Engineering Education study.

The junior from West Point said he still thinks Nebraska has something to offer young people.

“There’s a good economy, the cost of living is good,” Batenhorst said. “All the baby boomers are retiring, so employers are gonna need engineers.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Those interested in giving back to the state after graduating can start by staying in it.

During the past few weeks, there’s been a lot of buzz in Lincoln about coming and new attractions: Pinnacle Bank Arena, the West Haymarket Entertainment District, a revitalized Nebraska Union.

These projects are critical to keeping Lincoln shiny and growing, but they alone are not enough to keep young people here in the long run.

Ultimately, the decision to make Lincoln attractive to the young and educated rests in the hands of those masses themselves.

In Monday’s edition of the Daily Nebraskan, readers will find a package of comprehensive stories detailing Nebraska’s “youth drain” – the migration of people under 25 to other states – and an accompanying decrease in statewide brainpower. It’s a vicious cycle: Nebraskans find employment, living and entertainment elsewhere – sometimes in hipper, seemingly more progressive locales – and stain Lincoln’s allure in the process. But Lincoln can never become a vibrant, attractive city if intellectuals and creatives keep darting for the coasts, large metro areas and even Iowa as soon as they receive their UNL degrees.

Many students and grads, perhaps, can take a lesson from the newest chef de cuisine of Jack & June’s, a restaurant coming to Lincoln’s West Haymarket district. Colin Kennedy, 22, figured he’d move home to Omaha or even go west to California upon graduating in December.

Then he got an offer he couldn’t refuse: head a team of young cooks and even incorporate some of his Grandma’s recipes as founding member of a restaurant among the city’s newest. For Lincoln residents, opportunities like this are no coincidence. Those looking to make their mark on budding industries like tech and social media will find oases in companies like Hurrdat and Hudl, the former being a digital marketing agency and the latter a software developer for coaches, athletes and recruiters. Right now, firms like these stick out as exceptions.

But if more promising Nebraska grads stick around, they could become the norm. opinion@

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grads leaving: from 1 “We really have to think about whether this is really weakening us socially or economically,” said Randy Cantrell, an extension educator at the University of Nebraska Rural Futures Institute. “And that’s not a closed question. I’m not totally convinced that rural areas are just a funnel where we’re losing all of our best and brightest.”

Pleskac said there really wasn’t anything that could have been different in Nebraska to convince him to stay and said he has heard similar opinions from his classmates.

“Many people I know leave for job opportunities or the chance to live somewhere new or in a more progressive city,” he said.

The top five destinations for young, educated Nebraskans moving out of state after college from 2000 to 2009 were Iowa, Texas, Missouri, Kansas and California, according to the Center for Public Affairs Research. Looking just at UNL graduates, the most popular areas outside of Nebraska were Kansas City, New York City, Denver and Chicago, according to UNL Career Service’s Annual Report of Graduates.

Several university officials said they aren’t too concerned with trying to keep students in Nebraska after they graduate.

“One thing we have to think about is as we grow our international and out-of-state student populations, some of the students might want to stay in Nebraska after graduating, but many are going to want to move back home and live closer to their families,” said Chris

d n e d i to r i a l b oa r d m e m b e r s

Timm, associate director of UNL and the quality of life and people who left said the same thing.”

Career Services.

Representatives from the UNL About 69 percent of UNL’s 2012 graduates stayed in the state after Alumni Association said they have receiving their degrees last year, heard similar opinions from their association members as well.

Timm said. Students who were Larry Routh, an alumni career originally from Nebraska were even specialist for the association, said he more likely to stay here after graduhears many alumni say they moved ating, with about 80 percent choosing to live in the state. Students who because of family and friends.

“It’s often centered around peocame to UNL from a different state were much less likely to stay here ple,” Routh said. “There are usually relationships involved or a signifiafter graduation, with about 30 percant person in their life. Sometimes cent choosing to do so, according to it’s also just wanting to move back Timm. home.”

“Some people attribute the Routh said one number of people change he has noleaving the state It’s not ticed in the past to the (notion) that couple of years has Nebraska doesn’t that these been an increasing have anything to offer,” Timm said. students don’t like number of UNL “It’s not that these Nebraska, though. graduates choosing to move back to the students don’t like area after living out Nebraska, though, They just have of state for a few they just have fam- family in other years. ily in other areas or “Lincoln is behave other reasons areas or have coming more of a for moving away.” other reasons for place that people The Annual Rewant to be,” said port of UNL Gradu- moving away.”

Routh, noting the ates used to ask new West Haymaralumni to specify chris timm ket district and the reasons they had eiassociate director, construction of Pinther for moving out unl career services nacle Bank Arena. of state or choosing “I think Nebraska is to stay in Nebraska. seen in more of a positive light than Timm said administrators decided to stop asking those questions just it was 20 years ago.”

With an increasing number of this year after receiving the same NU alumni wanting to move back responses over and over. to Nebraska, the alumni association “It didn’t change,” Timm said. has partnered with the University “Basically, people who stayed here said it was because of the people of Nebraska Kearney Center for Ru-

ral Research and Development to create a program that aims to draw more out-of-state professionals back to their rural roots in Nebraska.

The project, which also partners with software company Xpanxion LLC, will include creating a website that allows certain companies and employers to post job listings that will then be emailed to every UNK and UNL alumni member. Eligible companies will be ones that utilize rural sourcing, or the practice of strategically locating operations in rural areas to reduce labor costs and increase employee reliability.

Project organizers hope the website will convince more out of state UNL alumni to return to rural Nebraska to pursue better employment prospects.

“Rural sourcing isn’t just recruiting people back to the state,” said Shawn Kaskie, director of the Center for Rural Research and Development. “We’re bringing wealth back from out of state to non-metro Nebraska. It will be a great way to bring alumni back to the state.”

It’s going to take more than a good job to convince some UNL students to stay in-state after graduating, though.

“I would never want to move back here,” said Claire Love, a senior environmental studies and psychology major who said she plans to move to San Francisco or New York City after graduating next May. “People that don’t like change stay here. Other cities are exciting and full of life.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Thompson added that Nebraska has a strong market for jobs in fields such as engineering and insurance.

However, there are probably not enough jobs for all who currently attend the university.

Lucas Miller, a recent graduate of UNL, decided to take his skills elsewhere after graduating.

Miller, who currently holds a master’s degree in marketing, communications and advertising, said that while he was not encouraged to move out-of-state, he had always planned on leaving Nebraska.

“I don’t think there are the same opportunities in Nebraska,” Miller said.

Miller, a Lincoln native, currently lives in Minneapolis and works for a digital marketing company called Outsell.

“In terms of digital media, the experimentation and development of tech firms in Nebraska is smaller,” he said. “The industry in Nebraska is just in its infancy and I don’t have the drive to start my own company.”

Kennedy, however, sees great potential for young professionals and new businesses in Lincoln.

“Lincoln has the right tools to become a great food city,” he said, “The opportunities here are endless.”

There are also several new businesses, ranging from advertising to social media, cropping up around the downtown Lincoln area.

Kennedy thinks that the job market for young people is on the upswing.

“It’s amazing to walk into these companies, such as Archrival (a youth marketing agency in Lincoln) and everyone that works there is

only five years older than you,” he said.

Hurrdat, a small digital media agency based in Lincoln, boasts a workforce among the city’s youngest, with all employees younger than 27.

Ariel Sinha, creative director of Hurrdat, stressed the importance of employing younger people to ensure a forward-thinking business. It is the company’s responsibility to be at the forefront of innovation, Sinha said.

“We want people who are best suited for the industry,” Sinha said, “And it’s important for them to be tech-savvy.”

But jobs in fields such as technology, teaching, and journalism may be scarce in Nebraska, Thompson said.

Still, he said, that many students return to Nebraska despite moving to another state after college.

It’s a phenomenon economists refer to as the “boomerang effect.”

According to economists, many people who move out-of-state after graduating college will return when they decide to have families of their own. Thompson said this is true for Nebraska.

He said that the target group of new residents are young parents and middle-aged people with children.

“Nebraska has what people want for their kids — great schools,” Thompson said. “Education is highly valued here and it creates a positive environment.”

He said there are also many benefits of having a combination youth drain and boomerang effect. “(People) got out into the world and bring back what they learn.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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On campus what: Oxford Study Abroad Information Session when: 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. where: College of Business Administration, Room 114

what: Fall 2013 Grassland Seminar Series – Virginia Jin when: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union more information: Free and open to the public

what: Institutional Review Board Information Sessions when: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. where: Alexander Buildingwest, Room 201, 312 N. 14th St. more information: Register online at research.unl.edu/events/ event.php?eventID=702.

In Lincoln what: Piano Hour with Emily Bass when: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. where: The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.

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Sigma Lambda Beta grabs Stroll-Off title Colleen Fell DN Hoots and hollers could be heard throughout the Nebraska Union on Friday night as more than 600 people crammed in the Centennial Room to watch the annual Multicultural Greek Stroll-Off competition.

Fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta won the stroll-off, which was a synchronized movement dance-off. The event consisted of 13 multicultural sororities and fraternities.

Stroll dancing incorporates four to six people each walking rhythmically in a synchronized way. The movements can be performed with or without music.

The competition showcased various versions of strolling. Each group that performed was judged on certain credentials such as creativity, timing, no usage of obscene hand gestures and staying within the time limit.

The Stroll-Off is a multicultural Greek tradition that has existed since before the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center was built more than four years ago. Multicultural fraternities and sororities have existed on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus for more than a century.

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We’ve been practicing for a few hours every day since before summer.”

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Members of the audience jump on stage to dance during the OASIS stroll-off competition held in the Nebraska Union Friday. show a different aspect of Greek life on campus,” said Sylvia Hall, scholars counselor at the Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services (OASIS).

Hall said the event, which is put on by OASIS, used to be held outside of the Nebraska Union until it was moved insideto be able to hold more attendees.

Each group that performed had put months of work into rehearsals, said Nick Banks, a se-

nior communications major.

“We’ve been practicing for a few hours every day since before summer,” Banks said. Some some groups started even earlier.

Banks, a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity, acted as one of the “stroll-masters” for his group and was responsible for choosing music and creating routines.

Each group was responsible for creating its own movements, and it was frowned upon if a

Aidan, 9, rides his bike through an obstacle at the opening of the Lincoln Bike Kitchen at 1635 S. 1st St. on Saturday. The Lincoln Bike Kitchen let users pick a bike from its collection to ride throughout the course of events that day. The event also featured games, prizes and a cookout. The Bottletops, Life is Cool and DJ Relic played live music later that evening.

group stole movements from another, Lisa Chase said, a junior marketing major.

“There are moves that are basic and everyone can use,” Chase said, “but some moves are organization-specific.”

However, a female group sometimes uses different movements than a male group, Chase said.

“Strolling started with men, so a lot of the moves are basically the same,” Chase said. “But the guys usually do slower strolls.”

All members of multicultural sororities learn strolling, which has roots in African dancing.

“Usually, if there’s multicultural events where there’s music, you’ll probably see groups strolling,” Brooke Micek said, a senior biological systems engineering major.

Chase said she didn’t know how to stroll until she joined her sorority. She learned by watching

YouTube videos.

“I’ve learned the history of it, and now I appreciate it more,” she said.

The Stroll-Off is the only major showcase event for strolling at UNL, but the fraternities and sororities use it throughout the year to show new members to the public.

Chase said it is used as a kind of initiation process for each new member.

“It gives (new members) and the group a sense of pride and shows our unity,” Chase said.

Banks, who has been taking part in strolling since he was a child, said he thinks anyone can do it but must be respectful of the dance.

“Really learn to recognize it as an art form,” he said, “and learn to appreciate it.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

‘Joe the Quilter’ proves hobby isn’t just for women Famous quilter speaks at UNL about his inspiration, approach to centuries-old activity Melissa allen dn Joe Cunningham began quilt-making in 1979. During his 10-year career as a musician, he took up an odd job recording different types of quilts for a catalog.

“If you’re going to write about quilts, you’re going to have to learn how to quilt,” his employer at the time said.

Thirty-four years later, Cunningham is the author of 11 books, has had columns in national quilt magazines such as The Quilt Life, and has been featured on HGTV’s “Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson.” Friday, Cunningham came to the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of NebraskaLincoln to lecture on his 2010 book “Men and the Art of Quiltmaking,” the first book on the subject.

Many of Cunningham’s quilts are in permanent collections in museums and personal collections. With more than 200 quilts made, he now performs his musical quilt show, “Joe the Quilter,” and participates in lectures on the subject across the country.

“When people find out that I’m a quilter, socially, the leap isn’t upward in wolfpack terms. It’s downwards,” Cunningham said during his lecture.

“Usually, a man can become a quilter in one of two ways: Either they were unfit to work, or they were confined, or sick and desperate and take up quilting.”

Cunningham spoke on the role of men and women in the history of quiltmaking. Around the 1800s, manufactured European bed-coverings became a colonial trend. Wealthy women began taking up quilting to match the European styles.

“Quilts changed from being fancy, manufactured, European bedcoverings to being handmade gifts that a woman would make,” Cunningham said. “It changed the very definition of what a quilt is. It took on a whole new personality. Because it serves no economic purpose, men didn’t care about them. But they couldn’t complain about women making them, because quilts still served a reasonable purpose. It’s useful work.”

On his own journey in the world of quilting, Cunningham has incorporated his own artistic style into the creative process.

“People think a quilt’s purpose is what it looks like,” he said. “Not me.

I’m drawn to the ideas they inspire.

The creation of it. If you do it long enough, you can get your own style; create your own prick on the quiltmaking wall of life.”

Cunningham presented about 20 quilts he made. Using different colors and designs, his quilts each have their own story. Some of his quilts are

inspired by current events, such as the quilt that he sprayed oil on that represented the BP oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and another quilt symbolizing the Haiti Earthquake that occurred in the same year.

Julie Brandon, a retired music teacher from Morley Elementary, attended the lecture.

“He is by far the most creative person who manipulates the elements of the design of quilting,” she said. “I love the way he uses his creative process. It’s a totally different approach than any man or women I’ve ever seen.”

Cunningham said he owes his creative process to his own unique tastes in colors and design.

“When I start to think about what other people would like in a quilt, I stop,” he said. “I don’t do that.

I can’t do that. What’s the pointing of living when you think like that?”

There are a lot of misconceptions of quilts, Cunningham said.

“People believe quilts were made from necessity — they’re not,” he said. “Quilting is the dumbest way to make a blanket.”

Cunningham’s presentation also included guitar playing and jokes.

“Sometimes I’m in my studio, and you would be amazed by how much I crack myself up,” he said.

“Then I go to my wife and kids, and for some reason, they don’t think I’m that funny.”

Laura Chapman, the communications coordinator for the quilt museum, said Cunningham’s humor and musical style in his lectures draw big crowds. About 100 people

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Quilter Joe Cunningham came to the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Friday.

He creates modern quilts that often have political messages. showed up Friday.

“He’s known in the quilting world; a lot of people know him,“ Chapman said. “He’s humorous, entertaining and easily relatable.”

Cunningham said the quilt museum has an important function in historical preservation.

“The quilt museum is a magnificent institution,” he said. “In the art and history museum world, quilts are the stepchildren of artifacts. This museum brings them to the forefront.”

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Speaker tells foreign students to get involved whitney carlson dn

and can talk with the students. We hope to help the Chinese students learn from this conversation.”

He started off talking about his When Ping He came to the United company, J.A. Woollam, which a States to study physics in 1985, his UNL professor founded in 1987. It first friend was the janitor. specializes in the technology develHe, a research engineer for J.A. Woollam Co., was the guest speak- opment and assembly of spectroer at the Forum for Chinese Com- scopic ellipsometry and have more munity in the Nebraska Union on than 100 patents for their products, and he described some of the prodSunday.

“I was the only Chinese person ucts that are used for companies in my department,” he said. “Yeah, such as Intel and Samsung.

Before He came to the United it was lonely, but it really helped States, he was educated at the me to learn the language.”

He talked about the culture University of Science and Technology Beijing, formerly the Beijing shock and isolation that many international students feel after Steel and Iron Institute. In 1985, moving to a new country, and he he traveled to the U.S. and began encouraged the 16 Chinese stu- his master’s in physics at North dents in attendance to get involved Dakota State University. In 1993, he finished his physics doctorate and study hard. The students participated in a round table forum at UNL. While He was attending UNL, he was in hopes of learnthe president of ing more about the Work so the CSSA for two American culture years. He has lived and Western workhard that in Lincoln for 25 place etiquette. years and has been The series, spon- people notice with J.A. Woolsored by UNL’s Chi- when you’re lam for 20 of those nese Student and years.

Scholar Association, gone.”

Work ethic was aims to support ChiWei Wang a focus of He’s lecnese students and forum host ture. He encourhelp them assimilate aged the students to and thrive in the to take ownership, American culture. demonstrate capability and be pasThe Institute of International sionate in order to excel at their Education reported that about 200,000 of 764,000 international careers.

“If everyone works eight hours students are Chinese. At the Unia day, you work nine,” He said. versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chi“Work so hard that people notice nese students make up about 36 percent of all international stu- when you’re gone. Make sure you dents, said Wei Wang the forum contribute to the company so they depend on you.” host.

The CSSA plans to have at least “With the cross cultural difference, there are many things six more forums with a variety of topics such as career planning, that they need to adapt to,” Wang child bearing and parenting, and said, an educational psychology master’s student set to graduate in the U.S. health care system. The next forum is on Sept. 29, and its December. “We’re hosting this forum for the Chinese community in topic will be “Child development and education.”

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TUG While tensions rise in the Middle East, a question also rises: Is U.S. intervention the best option? art by Rebecca Rickertsen

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U.S. intervention in Syria won’t save lives, hasten end of conflict, advance policy goals

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his week, the most memorably accurate statement on the Syrian conflict came not from President Barack Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry, but from “The Daily Show’s” recently returned host, Jon Stewart: “You’re saying the only way to keep America’s penis from looking small is to take a somewhat ineffective action purposefully designed to accomplish very little?”

That’s essentially what the president is advocating. Obama’s proposed “shot across the bow” of Syrian President Bashar alAssad’s regime is a move that would have no significant effect on events in Syria. It would not advance any U.S. policy goals.

It would not save civilian lives, and it would not hasten the end of the conflict. However, it would give the United States yet another chance to become embroiled in a complex, violent conflict between religious, political and ethnic groups in the Middle East. And, with how poorly we handled Afghanistan and Iraq, God knows we need that, right?

Now, I’m not saying that the situation in Syria today is identical to either of the past two Middle Eastern wars the United States has been involved in. It’s actually far worse. At the time of U.S. invasion, both Afghanistan and Iraq had semi-functioning governments — the Taliban and the Ba’ath Party respectively. These two groups were incredibly cruel in their treatment of their citizens and committed countless human rights violations, including Saddam Hussein’s Kurdish genocide of the late 1980s. In these cases, America didn’t just enter the fray.

We created the fray by invading, destabilizing the existing governments, hunting down their leaders and attempting to build new nations out of the wreckage.

America did not go to war with Afghanistan or Iraq in response to any sort of moral outrage over their deplorable actions. Instead, we attacked after 9/11 and when Hussein wouldn’t let us inspect his weapons facilities.

America attacked when our leaders got pissed off. This is where U.S. policy toward Syria starts to look frighteningly familiar.

The current civil war in Syria is an ongoing conflict that began in 2011. A massive drought combined with mismanagement of government funds to cause a complete economic collapse. The Syrian people, inspired by successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, protested. President Assad responded by opening fire on his own citizens. The military shot dissenters in the streets. The United States did nothing.

Since then, Syria has dissolved into a collection of rebel factions with little in common other than the desire to overthrow Assad.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 110,371 Syrians have died in the war so far. That number includes 40,146 civilians. Let me stress that those 110,371 deaths are extremely tragic. They’re awful. But we cannot do anything about them.

Was there an opportunity, two years ago, for America or NATO or the United Nations or someone to step in and quell the fighting? Possibly. But we didn’t.

The closest anyone came to showing support for the Syrian rebels was Obama’s statement on Aug. 20 2012: “We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to

ben curttright other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.”

Almost exactly a year later, on Aug. 21, someone utilized chemical weapons in Syria. President Obama has since declared that military action is necessary to “hold the Assad regime accountable.” The kind of action our commander in chief has proposed is a limited missile strike, intended to show Assad that we do indeed have missiles and that he better not mess up again.

That is the administration’s only reason for launching missiles at another country: an unprepared statement about a “red line” from an interview.

There are several objectives that, if they could be accomplished, would justify U.S. military intervention in Syria. For one, we could try to broker some sort of treaty with Assad’s government. If an American missile strike could force Assad to the negotiating table to work on a peace deal with rebel groups, it would be a valid action. American actions up until this point render this possibility very unlikely. Remember, Obama did not condemn Assad for killing thousands of his own people by conventional methods. After the dust from the U.S. bombs settled, the war would go on as though we’d never done anything.

A second possible goal would be an organized overthrow of the Assad regime. Obama has explicitly stated that this is not his goal, though, and if it was, I’d be hard pressed to understand why.

Directly removing Assad would involve thousands of American troops on the ground in a long, dangerous mission. After Assad’s inevitable defeat, we would have yet again created a power vacuum that leaves someone responsible for rebuilding a reasonable structure of governance.

So the Obama administration and war hawks left and right have seized on a third, more abstract objective: We must not withdraw from our red line. President Obama has taken it upon himself to enforce the international idea that chemic a l

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weapon use will not be tolerated.

But the United States has not only tolerated, but supported, use of chemical weapons in the past, most notably during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. Our reasons for believing that Assad deployed chemical weapons aren’t even concrete; they’re based on historically dodgy Israeli intelligence and an incomplete U.N. inspection of the affected areas.

After the British Parliament found the evidence unconvincing, I’m skeptical.

After the intelligence debacle in Iraq, I’m even more skeptical.

And after decades of aggressive U.S. involvement in so many countries, not based on where we could do the most good, but on who was pissing us off at that particular moment, it seems like the chance of actually accomplishing anything positive in Syria is long gone.

All that’s left is the idea that we should launch a few missiles at yet another Middle Eastern country – not in pursuit of some greater humanitarian goal, not as a strategic measure, not in defense of American lives or in retribution for lost Syrian ones – but because we are America, and we said we would.

That isn’t good enough.

Benjamin Curttright is a junior English major who does not have a twitter.

You can yell when you see him on campus or email him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Surgical strike on Syria best course of action to preserve international norm

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ast month, Bashar alAssad’s regime in Syria used sarin gas killing armed rebels and civilians alike.

The indiscriminate nature of chemical weapons has been universally condemned by the international community. President Barack Obama seeks domestic and international support to attack Syria.

I support a surgical strike against chemical weapons stockpiles. The world would see a nontrivial decrease in the likelihood of chemical weapons use in Syria and future conflicts. Conflicts where chemical weapons are used will result in more civilian deaths than conflicts without chemical weapons.

American and European intelligence agencies determined the Syrian government’s culpability in this attack. Some question the authority and integrity our intelligence has in evaluating Syria. I acknowledge the credibility gap our intelligence community has with WMDs in Iraq and the NSA Prism fiasco. The NSA row exists independently of Syria and our intelligence methods have changed since 2003. They do not tolerate politicization in their assessments. We must continue to default to their expertise and trust our analysts, if not our policy makers.

The decision to use military force falls under the umbrella of both policy and ethics. Some argue that war remains immoral under any standard. I may subscribe to this belief in an ideal world; however, we live on a brutal planet where rampant injustices occur. The decision to use chemical weapons is strictly an ethical issue. Nobody can sensibly argue for the deployment of these weapons of mass destruction, but when it does happen, we must respond.

Most Americans are against involvement in Syria.

Many anticipate mission creep, where we involve o u r selves beyond the

oliver tonkin original framework of the mission, escalating into a full blown theater of war involving boots on the ground.

They say that our involvement will lead to more civilian casualties. I argue the opposite. If we do not act, Assad and other leaders in future conflicts will have no incentive to not use chemical weapons. Furthermore, we must dissociate Iraq and Afghanistan from Syria. Congress will not approve funding of any large-scale operations in Syria, nor does the Obama administration have the political capital— at home or abroad — to secure a coalition.

Let me be clear: the United States should play no direct part in the civil war. Our aid to some of the rebels may mitigate most of the dangers of participating ourselves, but our investment into this conflict should end there. It is, however, not the civil war we would engage in if we attack Syria’s chemical weapon stock, but rather the threat to the international abolition of chemical weapons use.

Others argue that since we have so many domestic and international concerns, we should commit our efforts and resources to these problems. I agree that we ought to confront issues that plague our nation, including social justice, economic and environmental grievances. Yet the inaction of reconciling these challenges doesn’t invalidate the legitimacy of the dilemma in Syria.

It is the responsibility of our operators and policy makers to ensure we take all reasonable precautions to avoid harming non-combatants.

The immeasurable amount of civilian deaths at the hands of American forces, as a result of various international conflicts, is unforgivable. The hypocrisy of the United States is noted.

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criminate between soldiers and civilians. Its use is unequivocally unethical. When someone deploys chemical weapons, his or her control over the situation ends, as opposed to conventional weapons, which remain in the command of those who wield them. Thus, the use of rifles, mortars and jets are not inherently unlawful or unethical in the context of warfare. We judge on the manner in which they are used. If a soldier uses his or her weapon to kill civilians, that soldier contravenes the Geneva Convention and all ethical standards.

I support reforms in our foreign policy and a moratorium on operations that result in indiscriminate civilian casualties. The consequences of conventional weaponry can determine the legitimacy of its use. There is no legitimate use for chemical weapons.

We have institutions in place to reconcile crimes against humanity.

Yet these institutions fail. The United States, France, Great Britain, Russia and China make up the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. This prestige affords them veto power, which Russia and China used in 2012, blocking an attempt to start the process of intervention in Syria. Russia and China seek to undermine US credibility, legitimacy and influence within the international realm. Their national interests fail to consider the objective ethical dimensions. Any rhetoric or veiled threats they employ constitute simple posturing. They place their relative international position above the consequences of allowing chemical weapons.

The United Nations, and all subordinate functionaries including the U.N. Security Council, has been complicit in the establishment of certain international norms. One such norm was the prohibition of deploying chemical weapons. Yet the world has failed to react to Syria.

The United Nations’ role as a police force in global governance has consistently failed to prevent or respond to human rights violations.

This is precisely why the United States must act. Nobody else will.

We can ill-afford to indulge the liberal sensibilities, nor can we heed any hawkish right-wing fancy. The situation is simple. We must not allow for the proliferation of chemical weapons on this planet. If we want to live in a world that tolerates indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction, then by all means, contact your representative and demand them to reject any congressional bill that authorizes use of force against Syria.

I support a multi-lateral solution to world problems. When injustices or humanitarian crises occur, and it is within our power to do something about it, I strongly advocate action versus inaction. Yet if nobody steps up, the same imperative just doesn’t vanish.

The result of striking Syria will echo across the globe. All governments, allies and rivals of the U.S. alike, will not ignore the response.

The load roar of a Navy jet or a Tomahawk missile, or the deafening silence of inaction will have global implications. The question is not what might happen if we attack Syria, but rather, what might happen if we don’t.

Oliver Tonkin is a senior Political Science and Global Studies major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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Anthology puts gender abuse in spotlight

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Indigo Bridge Books celebrated the poetry anthology “Women Write Resistance,” created by a UNL professor, last Thursday.

Kathleen Grossman, local artist and business owner, uses the basement of her home as a store to sell her work: handmade pottery.

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he front yard of 3318 Randolph St. holds a child’s dream playground with a tree house, a trampoline, a full garden and three miniature dachshund guard dogs. The home’s backyard is a parking lot — the back entrance to Kathleen Grossman’s dream: her own pottery studio and business, Down Under Pottery.

Grossman moved to the corner house on Randolph in 1997 after being charmed by its atmosphere. She thought it would be the perfect place to build her paint studio upstairs, and also have a basement pottery studio. The goal was to keep her work close to home so she could stay home with her kids.

Instead, Grossman built her business inside her home.

“We were actually looking for a place like this,” Grossman said. “As soon as we found (this house) we began to renovate it and set up my studios.”

To Grossman, this house cannot only be described as an at-home pottery business. It is her place of giving, a warm

spot for social gatherings. Outside of her kiln room where she fires her students pottery at 2,000 degrees, there is a bulletin board collage filled with smiling mug shots of all of her customers.

“These people are my social life. I don’t leave my home a lot.” Grossman said. “I really enjoy my potters, and I want a place for them to have fun working.”

Grossman’s home has always been the place for gettogethers. Not only does she teach classes on week nights, but she works Saturday mornings as well. The studio has also been frequently used for her kids’ and potters’ activities. Potters come to the house to gather around the wheels and share a common creative talent, while her children have used the studio for date nights. Grossman also hosts art shows and has previously hosted her kids’ school events.

Sixty-eight-year-old painter, Karna Cronn has been going to Down Under Pottery for the past 15 years. When she first began looking for a place to learn pottery, there were a few potential places to choose from, but she said Gross-

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Kathleen Grossman holds a piece of pottery inside her business, Down Under Pottery, on 33rd and Randolph streets. She’s owned her home and business since 1997.

lence against women and I was teaching,” Wiseman said. “So I Women Write was like, there’s gotta be a way to put this all together.”

Resistance talks Poets such as Jennifer Perrine, about gender violence an associate professor of English at Drake University in Des through poetry, Moines, Iowa, heard about WWR spoken word from a request that Wiseman made for any other poets across the country who had anything relevant to submit.

Hannah Eads When it’s Perrine’s turn, she Dn read her poem “After He Breaks Her Arm,” one that’s featured Five women took turns standing in WWR about a woman who is in front of the children’s section at abused, taken to the hospital and Indigo Bridge Books, while an authen to a home of a friend who dience of fewer than 20 watched. takes care of her until she is betThe back of the coffee shop- ter. The experience, like many of bookstore hybrid was small; A the poems submitted, is loosely few bookshelves were moved in personal. order to fit the table showcasing “I took her into my home for a each poet’s work. few days and knew that I couldn’t “At first, it was because the keep her there and that she wantsex was great,” read Grace Bauer, ed to go back to where she was creative writing and contempoliving,” Perrine said. rary poetry professor at the UniAlthough Perrine has not been versity of Nebrasabused herself, it’s ka-Lincoln. the “accumulation Not talking Five years ago, of seeing it happen on this day, Inover and over” to about digo Bridge Books the women around (gender violence) opened to the pubher that drives her lic. Thursday, the is…what allows it to almost obsesWomen Write Resively write about sistance anthology, to continue.” gender violence, a collection of poshe said.

Grace Bauer etry about violence When Marianne creative writing professor against women, Kunkel, managing was celebrated. editor of Prairie “Not talking Schooner, walked about (gender violence) is, in a up to the microphone, she read way, part of what allows it to conher poem “In Praise Of A Cotinue to exist,” Bauer said. “Someworker,” an experience she had times it’s hidden in plain sight.” as an editor of a sales company The anthology of poems was where her regional sales manager created by Laura Madeline Wise- walked her to the hotel she was man, a poet and an English pro- staying at and proceeded to text fessor at UNL who wanted to raise her that night, asking if they could awareness of violence against cuddle and if he could come over. women. After earning her Ph.D. The incident was, according to in creative writing, Wiseman Kunkel, acknowledged and filed worked on WWR for about seven by the company. The man was years, asking poets she knew for later named the company’s “Team submissions.

Player of the Year.”

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First Friday gives artist new venue for paintings

the art displayed, a wide array of wine and finger foods were available to the patrons of all ages.

Local artist, Jessica Ten different paintings lined Prenosil, sells artthe walls of the quaint shop. The pieces ranged in price from $75 to work and makes new $300, and a couple were sold that night. All of the pieces were done connections at First in acrylic, but they varied in color, Friday size and meaning. Prenosil listed Picasso and even graffiti as some of her biggest influences.

A fellow artist, Ariel Dowell, Kieran Kissler bought a piece called “Horse CarDN For some, a Friday night could rot Heroine” from Prenosil. The work was one of the most talked involve relaxing at home or going about paintings of the night and out with friends.

Prenosil’s personal favorite.

For local artist Jessica Prenosil, “Seeing the full thing was certain Friday nights have a greatso beautiful,” Dowell said. “Jeser significance.

This past Friday was her first sica said it was so perfect that I was the one who time involved with bought it, because First Friday, a LinI’ve been we have had many coln event where discussions about painting artists display their the inspirations work in galleries on and off for and meanings that around town. As are in that painting. the name suggests, probably 14 years She told me that she it happens on the thought a lot about first Friday of each now.”

Joan of Arc when month.

Jessica Prenosil she was painting “I’ve been local artist it.” painting on and “We all suffer, off for probably 14 no matter our backyears now, but this is my first time being part of First ground, but that is how we learn, grow, and improve ourselves,” Friday,” Prenosil said.

Prenosil wrote in a description that First Friday is a nationwide campaign that encourages commu- was posted alongside the painting.

Another First Friday frequentnities to showcase the artwork creer, Amy Cederlind, expressed inated by local artists. Duo Shoes, at terest in a portrait titled “Swan.”

13th and O streets, hosted Prenosil

and several of her acrylic paintings last Friday. As an added bonus to

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Keown finds Rodizio caters to meat lovers ‘Internet fame’ through tweet New Brazilian Steakhouse provides many meat options, uninteresting atmosphere

TYLER KEOWN Columnist featured on Buzzfeed, despite his hatred for the site Tyler Keown DN Saturday morning, I woke up to a text saying I was on Buzzfeed.

I was mortified.

I don’t like Buzzfeed. I don’t like the way they write articles purely designed to make people our age feel special. All of us remember cartoons from the ’90s. Oh wow, look at those 45 GIFs of a cat YOLO-ing.

That’s definitely a list of memes about college. Oh, if you keep a tab open, it’ll alert you when new stories are posted. That’s handy.

Even as I write this, one of the top stories on the site is “10 Dogs That Will Do Anything for a Treat.”

You know who’ll do anything for more page-views?

That’s fine, whatever. I’ve gotten good at ignoring when 15 different friends share “25 Celebrity Tweets That will Make You Want to Literally ROFL” on Facebook. There can’t be an upper echelon of journalism if there isn’t a bottom.

They also report “news” (see also: “What Is Benedict Cumberbatch’s Perfectly Sculpted Bottom Up To This Weekend?”) from time to time. Friday night, they wrote a piece about how Subway was offended by a story from the Onion.

That’s when I was involuntarily involved.

Here’s the backstory: Friday, the Onion published “New Subway Promotion To Honor Subtember 11,” which is a trademark Onion cringe-then-laugh-and-share-withyour-best-friend kind of story. I read the story after seeing it on Twitter, laughed, and went on with my day.

Later on, I was on Twitter again (surprise) and saw Subway post that tweet about how they were “deeply offended” by the story just “like everyone.”

I was filled with an instinctual anger.

First off, “everyone?” Who are you talking about? Did you survey everyone that came in to your res-

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taurant as they waited for their double-meat, double-cheese, hell-noI-don’t-want-vegetables-on-it subs to be toasted? Did you ask Jared?

Jared seems really laid-back, plus he’s probably too busy marvelling at how big his old pairs of pants are to be offended by a piece of satire.

Second, “deeply offended.” I understand that the tweet was likely written by a 24-year-old recent PR grad that’s trying to build a résumé, but that’s a bit much.

That’s kind of a “yikes” thing to say, I know. 9/11 was and is a terrible event, and there’s nothing funny about the deaths of thousands of people. That’s the thing, though; that’s not what the piece was about. The piece was a look at how shameless advertising can get.

It was about using sports stars and celebrities and holidays to sell sandwiches. It was pure satire, and many people missed the point, assuming that it was trying to be funny just by mentioning 9/11. That kid (or kids) from your high school whose whole sense of humor was built around dead baby jokes and gay sex, “humor” built from being taboo.

The Onion is smarter than that, Subway. Satirical humor is derived by paralleling a real-life situation (In this case: how shameless companies will get to sell their product. We both know Blake Griffin doesn’t eat Subway.) and changing one variable to show how ridiculous real life really is. 9/11 was used because there are a few things that would make a company more shameless than using it to sell fast food. That’s it. That’s the story. It wasn’t written to make fun of 9/11 or its survivors.

Is there a line somewhere?

Yeah, of course, and it’s relative.

For people with different backgrounds and in different contexts, I’m not trying to tell you to not be offended. I’m just explaining why I think this whole thing is so goofy.

So I tweeted at Subway. I made fun of their gross mini-pizzas (Really, have you ever had one of those? God awful.) and the tweet kinda caught on and ended up on a website that grosses me out. I was proud of the fact they thought I was being mean to Subway, though, because I was trying to be.

I’m also pretty psyched about being an Internet celebrity now. I got like 150 favorites on that tweet!

I can finally stop trying so hard.

For real, though, Subway, chill out. You’re a sandwich chain, and the Onion wrote an article about you and now I’m on a website I don’t want to be on.

Thanks for that. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Gimme five ways to make friends in the dorms.

Leave your door open. Everyone knows that the guy chilling with the door wide open and the music playing loud is a real socialite.

Blast your subs. Bass isn’t only good for letting people know who runs the streets, it also tells people who here knows how to throw a rad dorm party from five floors away.

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Group showers. Get to know your neighbors inside and out. You don’t have to knock, just head on in there.

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Hang out in your floor’s study room. There’ll be no mixed signals, because nothing says ‘let’s hang out’ more than someone trying to study for calculus.

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Lincoln meat fanatics may have a new place to hang out.

Nestled in the Haymarket District between Ivanna Cone and Scooter ’s Coffee House, Rodizio Grill just opened, adding to this Brazilian Steakhouse’s 14 other locations across the nation.

Walking into Rodizio, the atmosphere might come off a bit lackluster and deceiving. Parts of the restaurant are ornately decorated – such as the salad bar ’s ostentatious, brightly colored sculpture – while others remain untouched, like the bare walls. In the background, what seemed to be Brazilian elevator music was playing. In the back of the resmorgan spiehs | dn taurant, there is an open space Rodizio, at 737 P St., proves to offer new options to the Lincoln dining scene, but falls short of a where you can see the kitchen. perfect dining experience.

This inconsistent atmosphere may cause you to think Rodizio is much more casual than it actuOf all the meats, there was vegetarians who are roped into ally is. going to Rodizio, it’s not worth only one that really stood out During lunchtime, the restaurant was mostly empty, so I going unless you’re getting the among the 12, which was the “Full Rodizio.” At about $18, this center-cut steak. There were was seated right away and a staff about seven other options that includes the salad bar and an member immediately brought were still good, just not mindme appetizers. Instead of having unlimited amount of meat servblowing. And then there were a a traditional menu, Rodizio is set ings. At lunch, Rodizio provides few that were less than satisfac12 different meats, up as an “all you tory – sausage that simply tasted while 18 are can eat” dining like bratwurst, for example.

It’s not served at dinner. option. They give The service was outstanding.

The server you two different worth going Every employee seemed genugives you an choices: an unlimhourglass-shaped inely happy to be there and was ited salad bar and unless you’re very informative about everyobject, with one the “Full Rodizio,” getting the ‘Full thing that was being served. Afgreen side and both of which inter finishing my meal, a dessert one red side. This clude the appetizer Rodizio.’” is used to signal table was brought out, providing for the day. six very tempting and foreign opservers when you The unlimited tions. salad bar is about $13, and al- want to be served, need a break All in all, Rodizio’s alternathough it seems a bit steep, the or are finished eating. While the salad bar doesn’t only have salad. green side is facing up, an array tive style is a fun experience. It RODIZIO GRILL has satisfactory food and service, of meats are brought to you and It also has pasta, including penne even if the atmosphere is a little sliced right off a kabob onto your with Alfredo sauce. It has a soup unexciting. So, is it worth it? plate. From common, household option. Beef stroganoff. Sautéed Only if you eat meat, and eat a dishes like pork tenderloin or tomatoes with mozzarella cheese.

CUISINE: Brazillian grilled chicken to chicken hearts lot of it. Otherwise, it’s not worth Pre-made salads and ingredients your money. (yes, chicken hearts), Rodizio to make your own.

LOCATION: 737 P St. arts@ provides an array of options for And although this salad bar dailynebraskan.com any meat lover.

PRICE RANGE: $15-$20 is stellar and a good option for

sculpting a community: from 1 man’s stood out from the rest.

“This is the one I chose, because of the house,” Cronn said.

“It was definitely a place where I was glad that I came.”

Cronn goes to Down Under Pottery, even when she doesn’t have anything to make. To her, Grossman’s house is like a second home, a place she has met some of her closest friends and brought some of her pre-existing ones too.

“It’s a good group of people,” Cronn said. “Saturday morning is the support group. It’s the therapy group of all the sessions.

Sometimes I don’t even do any pottery when I come. It just depends.”

Cronn doesn’t have the patience to sit and work on a pottery project for hours at a time, she said. If she can’t make it in five minutes, she won’t do it.

But her pottery is anything but basic.

“I do leaves, I do really big leaves,” Cronn said. “I must be in my leaf phase now, you see.

Two years ago I told Kathleen, ‘Next time you see me come down the steps and I have leaves in my arms, turn me around and make me go back outside.’ Well, it didn’t stick because I am still doing leaves.”

Cronn searches for large leaves that have detailed skeletons and then flattens the veins against clay to give the dish texture. Once this is finished, she cuts the clay into the shape of the original leaf, making any type of dish she wants.

Next to Cronn’s shelf of clay leaves is a large rack full of a couple dozen clay bowls, each unique in their own regard. By the spring, Grossman’s basement will be filled with at least 1,000 clay bowls. This is part of a group project that Grossman’s students, including Cronn, have been a part of for the past 12 years. The Down Under Pottery group will donate all of the bowls to the Lincoln Food Bank for the Empty Bowl Luncheon in the spring of 2014.

“It’s a fun project to work on.

The day that it happens is just amazing,” Cronn said. “It’s fun to watch people look at the different bowls we’ve made.”

The project also sparks a little bit of friendly competition in the group.

“A friend of mine challenged me to make the number of bowls that I am (in) age, so I am doing 68 bowls and he’s doing 67,”

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Kathleen Grossman stands in the gallery of Down Under Pottery, which also happens to be her front living room. Grossman offers classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays.

Cronn said. “If I don’t get them done before December I have to do 69.”

Grossman works on the bowls daily as well. The process is therapeutic for her. She makes it look easy, Cronn said.

It wasn’t always so, though; it took perseverance.

“I had some connective tissue problems, and I still have some issues with it,” Grossman said.

“Sometimes, if I feel my fingers tingling, I know that I have to quit.”

Grossman’s master ’s degree was originally going to be in pottery until the tissue problem in her hands grew to be too much.

Because Grossman didn’t think she could continue with pottery at that level, she switched her area of study and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Wichita State.

However, while her hands posed impossible hurdles, Grossman couldn’t go without pottery for much longer.

“I have to make sure that my hands and arms stay strong,” Grossman said. “I discovered

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According to Wiseman, there have been around a dozen readings so far across the country where other poets featured in the anthology live.

“I wanted to create an opportunity for poets in the anthology,” Wiseman said. “I wanted to celebrate everybody else.”

Each event tries to raise awareness for violence against women and donate to local women’s organizations. The readings in Lincoln have do-

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that as long as I am working continuously I don’t have as much problems with it anymore.”

Cronn sits on a stool and mimics the way Grossman makes pottery. She holds her hands around the air and weaves her fingers up and then pushes the air back down to mold her invisible pot.

“I had always wanted to be able to throw a pot on the wheel,” Cronn said. “Kathleen makes it look easy, and it’s not.

But anyone can do it, and everyone should try it.”

Anyone who is interested in trying their hands on the pottery wheel can attend a class on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. or on

Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Down Under Pottery runs two events every year around Christmas time and Mother ’s day to sell artwork. Classes meet once each week for eight weeks and include up to 20 pounds of clay, a supply of tools, a range of glazes and firing for $150.

Over time, Grossman’s home has become a community with a shared love for art and, more specifically, pottery. One might consider this a cheap price for an avenue to create art and a group of people of which to belong.

The first time I came here I was really jazzed up for it,” Cronn said, “and I still get jazzed for each new class.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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anthology: from 5 Hang out in your residence hall’s smoking section. You won’t make many longtime friends, but friends with shortened life spans are better than no friends.

I really enjoy my potters, and I want a place for them to have fun working.”

nated to both Voices of Hope and the Friendship Home, local organizations for women who have been the victims of abuse.

Indigo Bridge Books will be giving proceeds from the anthology to Voices of Hope through this September.

“This is her project, her idea,” Bauer said. “It’s an important topic, and unfortunately, it occurs everywhere.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

The painting showcased the bird in it’s natural habitat.

“I’ve watched her do almost all of it,” Cederlind said. “This one has done such a transformation. It really represents her metamorphosis in her personal life over the last several years.”

Dowell and Cederlind were just a couple of spectators on a night that was filled with Prenosil’s friends and First Friday regulars. Several of the patrons had long discussions about the artwork with each other, and many ap-

proached Prenosil themselves to offer a congratulations and appreciation of her hard work that night.

After painting for 14 years, Prenosil has established several connections within the art community of Lincoln. She was excited about the success of her first experience with First Friday.

“The best part about tonight was having the confidence to share myself and my work with the community,” she said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Husker men win meet in S.D. Natasha Rausch DN The Nebraska cross country team opened its season in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Friday at the Augustana Twilight meet, where senior cocaptain Trevor Vidlak earned first place with a time of 18:18.03 and senior co-captain Isabel Andrade earned fourth place with a personal record of 16:55.70.

After returning from an injury last season, Vidlak was excited to see what he and his team could do, even without the help of seniors Jarren Heng and Connor Gibson, who sat out the meet because of injuries.

“I was confident that our team could pull together in this first meet without them,” Vidlak said. “Coach Harris knew we had a tough competitor in Augustana, and after the meet I think he was really proud and excited for the season.”

After not racing for almost two years, Vidlak was nervous to get back into the swing of things.

“I’m definitely starting to build my confidence for the season,” Vidlak says. “Individually, it was a good start to the season.”

Apart from Vidlak securing a first-place finish for the Huskers, three other men’s runners also finished in the top 10, including freshman Joe Harter and sophomores Jonah Heng and Jacob Olson. Harter finished fourth with a time of 19:02.41, Heng finished seventh with a time of 19:03.46 and Olson finished ninth with a time of 19:07.66.

Although the men’s team showed its strength in depth on Friday, the women’s team proved its lack of depth was not even an issue with its second place finish out of 21 teams.

“Augustana was our main competition, and we got second to them,” said freshman Kristiana Oslund, who placed 12th overall.

“They had a bunch of girls all really close in the race, so I just tried to keep up with them.”

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Nebraska junior Sarah Larson finished 14th with a time of 17:19.89 at the Augustana Twilight on Friday. The Nebraska women finished second as a team, while the men won the event.

Along with Andrade, three other Husker women finished in the top sixteen in the 3-mile race, including Oslund, who ran a time of 17:14.39 in her first collegiate meet.

“Before the meet, I was pretty nervous for my first college race,” said Oslund, who was battling allergies all week. “At the beginning of the race, I got out fast so I wouldn’t get boxed in, and I found a comfortable pace.”

During the race, Oslund was just focused on moving up to-

wards the pack of Augustana runners in the lead. She was shocked when she found out her time was a new personal record.

“I guess I have more confidence in myself now, knowing that I can run with those older girls,” Oslund said. “I’m really going to try to stick with them at practice.”

Junior co-captain Sarah Larson and junior Jessica Wright were the other two runners who placed in the top sixteen with times of 17:19.89 and 17:27.11, re-

spectively.

As captain, Andrade was proud of the women’s finish.

“I think it went really well,” Andrade said. “I was feeling good about my fourth-place finish and I was happy with the results and with how the freshmen ran in their first race.”

The Huskers’ next meet will be at home on Sept. 21, when they host the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational at Pioneers Park. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

UCLA wide receiver Nick Pasquale died Sunday morning after being hit by a car while walking in his hometown, San Clemente, Calif. He was 20.

Pasquale, a redshirt freshman who walked on for the Bruins last year, played in UCLA’s seasonopening victory against Nevada but did not accumulate any statistics. UCLA was idle on Saturday and will play at Nebraska this weekend.

“This is a tragic loss,” UCLA coach Jim Mora said in a statement. “Nick was an outstanding young man who had a positive impact on everyone who knew him. He was a great teammate who was loved and respected by his entire team.

Our thoughts are with the Pasquale family.”

On Twitter, teammate Xavier Su’a-Filo said Pasquale, who took snaps on the scout team during practices, was “the definition of a true team player.”

Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Strachan of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said the driver of the car stopped, called authorities and stayed with Pasquale, nicknamed “Pacman” by his teammates, until they arrived.

Strachan said no arrests had been made.

“The UCLA family lost a wonderful young man who represented the university, his team and his family well,” UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero said. “Our hearts go out to the Pasquale family, and we will do everything we can to assist and support them, as well as his teammates, as they go through this unthinkable tragedy.”

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Women’s golf team opens season in Lincoln Zach Tegler DN

ist University won the event with a three-round score of 39 over.

But on Monday, Nebraska will be more comfortable at Wilderness Ridge – the squad’s practice venue.

“We’ve played this course a zillion times, so it’s going to be good,” Deeg said.

The 12 teams joining Nebraska at the tournament are Central Arkansas, Creighton, Houston Baptist, Missouri State, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota State — which finished third in last year’s event and is the highestfinishing team returning to the event — South Dakota, Southern Miss, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, MissouriKansas City, Wichita State and Big Ten opponent Iowa.

Holding the season-opening tournament at home eases the nerves that come with starting a new year.

“Mainly because our parents, all the parents are coming,” Neisen said, “and local support always helps.

“You just feel really prideful that you’re here in Lincoln.”

Nebraska hasn’t won the Chip-N Club since 2008. A high finish in the tournament could not only spark higher confidence heading into the bulk of the schedule, but could also carry some more concrete consequences.

“It also helps for rankings, too,” Neisen said. “Just because spring is

If the Nebraska women’s golf team is going to experience success when the climax of its season comes next spring, then the foundation for it will be laid Monday and Tuesday at the Huskers’ first event of their fall season.

Though their conference championships do not come for another seven months, the Nebraska golfers will look to begin their campaign on the right foot at the Chip-N Club Invitational at Lincoln’s Wilderness Ridge Golf Course.

“I think a big thing is just confidence,” senior Steffi Neisen said. “We carry confidence in the fall. We know we have a good fall season; that carries over to the spring season.”

Neisen and fellow senior Katelyn Wright, with sophomores Cassie Deeg and Hannah Luebke and freshman Jordan Chael, will compose Nebraska’s lineup as the team opens up on a layout it has played a lot.

“Our home tournament on our home course,” Deeg said. “That’ll make it a lot better.”

Last year, the Huskers finished seventh out of 13 teams in the tournament at the Country Club of Lincoln.

Wright led the team by finishing in a tie for 11th, and Southern Method-

our major tourwnaments, everything in the fall counts toward our rankings as well, so if we’re projected to be seeded high in the Big Ten, that helps our confidence, along with our rankings.”

Experience will be another key for the Huskers this season, as they had no graduating seniors last year. Neisen and Wright return to lead a squad that was the youngest in the Big Ten a year ago. The other seven golfers on the roster are underclassmen, and of the freshmen, the team is most excited about the future of Chael, who is from Overland Park, Kan. “I’m really excited,” Neisen said.

“I think a lot of the girls have worked really hard this summer, and they’re really improving. And I feel like we’re ready to play on Monday. We’re really excited, so it’s a great thing for us.”

After a summer away from competitive golf, the Nebraska women’s golf team is ready not only to get its year off to a strong start, but also to gain confidence that could extend to the remainder of the season.

“We’ve been playing a lot this past week, week and a half, and so I think we’re all really excited to get out there and play a competition round,” Deeg said. “We’re looking pretty good.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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NEBRASKA VS. SOUTHERN MISS STATS NEBRASKA Total offense Rushes – yards Passing yards Completions – attempts First downs 3rd down conversions Time of possession Three plays later, Southern Miss had stormed to Nebraska’s 5-yard line. Bridgford found receiver Marquise Ricard for what appeared to be a 5-yard touchdown pass. But a flag for an illegal formation instead pushed the Golden Eagles back 5 yards.

Then a delay of game pushed them back another 5 yards. After nearly driving for a touchdown, Southern Miss had to settle for a 34-yard field goal.

In response to the defense’s help, Martinez and the Husker offense found their rhythm. Nebraska marched down to the Southern Mississippi 12-yard line on passes to receivers Quincy Enunwa and Kenny Bell, as well as several runs from running back Ameer Abdullah.

On 2nd and 9, Martinez dropped back and, without a clear throw, darted off to the left. The senior quarterback stepped out at the four-yard line. But the run was called back on an illegal formation penalty – just what had happened to Southern Miss at the other end of the field.

Nebraska, though, capitalized on the next play as Martinez hit Enunwa for a 16-yard score.

Southern Miss took over from its own 25-yard line after a touchback, and the offense looked

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Nebraska sophomore Cassie Deeg, who was the Huskers’ highest finisher at last season’s Big Ten Championships, finished in a tie for 36th at last year’s Chip-N Club Invitational.

479 46 – 285 194 19 – 28 30 7 of 12 31:55

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I was just going to make the tackle, but he ended up dropping it, and I was right there. So that’s all she wrote for me.” ciante evans senior defensive back

rattled. Bridgford was forced into another delay of game penalty before throwing a deflected pass into the hands of senior defensive back Ciante Evans, who ran back the pick for 22 yards and a touchdown to put Nebraska up 21-3.

“I was just trailing him,” Evans said. “I was just going to make the tackle, but he ended up dropping it, and I was right there. So that’s all she wrote for me.”

Southern Miss finally found the end zone just seven plays into the third quarter, when Bridgford connected with Bradley on a 41yard touchdown, cutting Nebraska’s lead to 35-13.

Pelini said he was disappointed with how the team came out in the third quarter.

In response, Bell took the Golden Eagle kick-off for 63 yards, giving Nebraska its best field position of the game.

The very next play, Abdullah

found a crease in the Southern Mississippi defense for a 37-yard touchdown.

Following the trend of the game, on the next Southern Miss possession, Evans stepped in front of a Bridgford pass for another interception. On Nebraska’s first play of the ensuing series, Martinez found Sam Burtch for a 26-yard touchdown to put the Huskers in control, 49-13.

“We were hawking the ball a little,” Pelini said. “Our guys, for the most part, were in the right spot, right areas.”

Splitting play-calling between quarterbacks Ron Kellogg III and Tommy Armstrong Jr. throughout the second half, Nebraska pounded the ball up the middle with freshman Terrell Newby and sophomore Imani Cross to seal the 56-13 win. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

We need to put it away a lot earlier and just hopefully come out on top next time.”

Hannah Dittmar junior midfielder

The first shot on goal for the Huskers didn’t come until the 17th minute, when senior forward Jordan Jackson attempted a shot but was denied by the Arkansas goalkeeper, freshman Cameron Carter. Carter was able to hold off the NU offense for the rest of the half to keep a 1-0 lead over the Huskers.

When halftime came, the Huskers led in shots, with seven, and shots on goal, with three, but they were not able to capitalize on any of the opportunities that they had during the first half of play.

Late in the second half, the Huskers were finally able to put one into the back of the net, when junior midfielder Hannah Dittmar took a rebound off the post in the goal box and sent it into the net to knot the game at 1-1.

In the final minutes of the game, the Razorback offense pressed on Nebraska goalkeeper Emma Stevens and Greischar, but the duo was able to hold off Arkansas in the second half to force overtime for the second time in a week.

Neither team scored in the first overtime, and the game ended almost immediately in the second overtime, when Arkansas senior midfielder Evan Palmer scored on a one-touch into the left bottom corner of the net to notch the win for the Razorbacks, after a defensive showing by both teams.

After another overtime in which the Huskers were not

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Nebraska junior midfielder Hannah Dittmar (24) scored the Huskers’ lone goal, her first goal of the season, in a 2-1 double overtime loss against Arkansas on Sunday. able to convert, Dittmar hopes to change things next time it occurs.

“This has happened twice in one week now, and we need to put it away a lot earlier and just hopefully come out on top next time,” Dittmar said.

Arkansas continues its program-best run at 6-0 and will travel to Logan, Utah, on Friday to play against the Utah State team that also took Nebraska to overtime.

Nebraska fell to 2-1-2 on the

season, and after suffering a late loss to the Razorbacks, the Huskers will continue their road trip this weekend to the Kansas Tournament, where coach John Walker ’s team will face off against San Francisco on Friday and San Diego on Sunday.

After the Kansas Tournament, the Huskers will return to Lincoln for their Big Ten opener against Michigan State on Sept.

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o one criticized Nebraska’s defense “He baited the quarterback and made a nice break after Saturday’s game against South- on it,” Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. “He played the ern Mississippi, and there was no talk technique the way he was supposed to play it and about handing out the Blackshirts too took a chance and made a heck of a play on the ball.” early.

The immediate momentum swing Nor did anybody was huge for Nebraska’s offense.

[Jeanneed to worry about Nebraska’s of“It was a huge boost just showing fense failing to finish out the game, as that our defense came ready to play Baptiste] the Husker defense took most of that today,” quarterback Taylor Martinez pressure off the offense early in the took a chance and said.

Huskers’ 56-13 win Saturday.

But Martinez’s first drive didn’t go made a heck of a Almost as soon as Southern Miss as smoothly. The Huskers began their quarterback Allan Bridgford trotted play on the ball.” opening drive pinned on their own out on the field, the Nebraska defense 7-yard line and moved only as far as bo pelini had his number. the 15-yard line. football coach On the third play of the opening “It’s hard to tell what a defense is series, Bridgford threw his first of four doing on the 1-yard line,” Martinez interceptions during the game. said.

Stanley Jean-Baptiste waited a few yards back, atSouthern Miss took over from its own 26-yard tacked Bridgford’s throw and took an interception 43 line with just less than 10 minutes remaining in the yards for a touchdown. first quarter.

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minutes of play in the first half.

The Razorbacks were playing a style that the Huskers weren’t used to, according to senior defender Kylie Greischar.

“They were tough,” Greischar

said. “They went down the field a lot more, and we’re more of a diagonal passing team, so it was definitely a challenge for us.”

On Sunday, the Nebraska women’s soccer team continued its five-game road trip in Fayettesoccer: see page 8 ville, Ark., in a battle with the undefeated Arkansas Razorbacks.

After tying with Utah State in their previous matchup, the Huskers competed in their second straight overtime game against Arkansas.

Though Nebraska carried momentum into overtime, the Razorbacks defeated the Huskers 2-1 in double overtime.

The Huskers were 2-1-1 after traveling to Utah where the team lost to No. 6 BYU before the draw against Utah State.

Arkansas was undefeated at 5-0, the best start in program history, and in four out of the five wins, the Razorbacks won with shutouts.

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Nebraska freshman outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen led the No. 13 Huskers with 14 kills and two solo blocks in their 25-14, 25-13, 20-25, 25-20 victory against Villanova on Friday night.

Eric Bertrand DN Voices boomed throughout the renovated Bob Devaney Sports Center as the 8,321 fans in attendance shouted the “Husker Power” chant, and the Nebraska volleyball team got its first real experience of the new arena.

The Huskers hosted the Villanova Wildcats and the Georgia Bulldogs during the weekend. Before the match started against the Wildcats on Friday, the Huskers dedicated their new home court Terry Pettit Court after the former coach.

As the competition began, Nebraska coach John Cook said both teams came out jittery. In the first five points of the match, there were three errors: two service errors by the Wildcats and an attacking error by freshman Amber Rolfzen.

The Huskers seemed to find their rhythm with the help of freshman Kadie Rolfzen. The outside hitter paced the offense with five kills on 10 attempts, and two of those kills came on big swings late in the set. The Huskers took the first set 25-14.

Kadie Rolfzen was cleared to play this week, but Cook had to see she was physically and mentally ready.

“She had the look in her eye,” Cook said. “Like, ‘I’m ready to try this.’”

The second set was much like the first. Kadie Rolfzen and senior Kelsey Robinson each dealt another five kills, and the Huskers won the set 25-13. Cook said the second game was the best of the night for the team, with only one attacking error.

The Huskers went into the third game with the feeling the match was

over, Cook said. The Wildcats took advantage of the Huskers’ attacking errors and the “let-up” mentality. Villanova’s attack in the third was led by freshman Claire Crutchfield, who had five kills, and the offense was set by the sophomore Emma Pettit with 11 assists, as the Wildcats took the third set 25-20.

The fourth set was a tight one, as the Huskers and Wildcats traded leads until the score was tied at 20.

The Huskers ended the match by winning five straight points, with Robinson getting two of her three kills in the set during the five-point run.

The attacking leader for the Huskers was Kadie Rolfzen, as she notched 14 kills, 11 digs and two solo blocks. Junior Mary Pollmiller set the offense with 36 assists on the night and was the starter in the 5-1 system.

After the game, Kadie Rolfzen wasn’t shy about discussing her nerves in playing her first match.

“I mean, we’re playing in front of 8,000 people,” she said. “Of course I’m nervous.”

Going into Saturday’s competition, the Georgia Bulldogs were 4-0 and hadn’t dropped a set in those four matches.

The Huskers didn’t start well, committing nine attacking errors, hitting .111 percent attacking percentage and hitting into the Bulldogs’ blocks, Cook said.

Despite the poor start, the Huskers found themselves barely trailing with a score of 21-18. After a couple of quick kills, a service ace and two Bulldog errors, the Huskers were up 24-21.

The next point played out in a long rally, with both teams counter-

ing big shots with acrobatic digs to keep the point going. When it appeared one team had the edge, the other team would make an impressive play to swing the advantage back into its favor. Georgia senior Brittany Northcutt took a shot, which fooled the Huskers, but it landed just outside the line.

The Huskers took game one from the Bulldogs 25-21.

The second set was an even closer competition, and the Huskers were led by sophomore Meghan Haggerty, who was perfect on her attack with five kills on five attempts.

With the score 24-23 in favor of the Huskers, the Bulldogs were trying to keep the set going when Bulldogs junior Inutiraha Le’au ended the comeback effort by serving the ball into the net.

The third game was less dramafilled, as the Huskers hit a matchhigh of .448 percent and went on to win 25-14.

Kadie Rolfzencontinued her strong performance from the Villanova match, earning another 14 kills with only four attacking errors.

Pollmiller also had continued success, with 31 assists in the match.

Cook was nervous going into this match, as Georgia’s head coach, Lizzy Stemke, spent four years as an assistant at Nebraska.

“I’m glad that one is over. I didn’t sleep last night for a couple of reasons,” Cook said. “One: Georgia is hitting about .350 on the year. Two: it’s hard to coach against former coaches and players.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Receiver Quincy Enunwa battles Southern Miss defensive back Ed Wilkins for a catch in the second quarter. Enunwa finished with five catches for 58 yards and a touchdown.

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Players touched the ball on offense for the Huskers on Saturday. Quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr.; running backs Graham Nabity and King Frazier; and wide receivers Jordan Westerkamp, Sam Burtch and Cethan Carter got the first touches of their Nebraska careers.

Southern Miss has lost 14 straight games since winning the Hawaii Bowl in 2011. The Golden Eagles lost those 14 games by an average score of 38-19.

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Freshman running back Terrell Newby stiff arms Southern Miss defensive back Alexander Walters in the third quarter.

game balls The Secondary The Nebraska defense faced scrutiny last week after allowing 602 yards against Wyoming, including 383 passing yards. But the secondary came up huge this week to silence critics.

Against the pass-heavy Southern Miss attack, the secondary intercepted four passes, which it turned into 14 points on returns for touchdowns from Stanley Jean-Baptiste and Ciante Evans. Evans had two interceptions in the win and was the first Husker to have two picks in a game since 2009.

—Chris Heady, Football beat reporter

Taylor Martinez Though Taylor Martinez didn’t put up the numbers he’s produced in some of his better games, the senior quarterback kept Nebraska running smoothly with smart decisions. Martinez did throw for 170 yards and three touchdowns, but he ran for just 34 yards. While Southern Mississippi quarterback Allan Bridgford recorded more yards than Nebraska’s slinger, with 222 yards, there was no question that Martinez was in full control of Saturday’s game.

—Kyle Cummings, assistant sports editor

Ameer Abdullah Junior running back Ameer Abdullah ran the ball for 114 yards on 17 carries. It was the second time this season the I-Back has rushed for more than 100 yards and eighth of his career. The superb performance moved him up five spots (to 37th) on Nebraska’s career rushing list (with 1,515 yards). Abdullah displayed his footwork early, scampering by three Golden Eagle defenders to give Nebraska a 25-point advantage in the second quarter. The junior showed off his speed not too long after, with a 37-yard breakout run in the third quarter for his second touchdown.

—Nedu Izu, Football beat reporter