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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 volume 112, issue 024

‘big, big trouble’ Husker students, families feeling pressures provoked by historic drought STORY AND PHOTOS

BY DAN HOLTMEYER

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on Burenheide looked out on the rows of stubby plants, bone-dry and bare except for about 10-inch-long bean pods on each. Soybeans are usually up to his thigh. These have managed a height just above his ankles.

“They say if you’re farming for a drought, you shouldn’t be farming,” Burenheide said earlier in his kitchen, where the soybean field is visible through the front screen door. “You’ve got to go for the maximum, I guess.”

Out on the field, he cracked open a pod, cupping the shrunken, pitted beans in his palm. The farmer from Howells, Neb., a two-hour drive north of Lincoln, said he hopes for about one-fifth his usual soybean harvest this season.

His corn ears were about half their usual size, but he has had to start harvesting a month early, before the corn withers away completely. Alfalfa and cattle pasture on the family’s land were in about the same shape.

“Just kind of wears on the mind,” Burenheide said. “Just been awful hot and dry. It’s kind of scary.”

For Nebraska farmers and others across the Midwest, this year ’s corn, grain and soy harvest – forecast to be down more than 10 percent from last year and the lowest since 2006 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – comes amid one of the worst droughts in living memory.

Hopes of a record harvest this spring have dried up in the world’s breadbasket, leaving many farmers – including University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and their families – to break even at best and absorb massive losses at worst.

“Last year we didn’t have anything to worry about,” said Burenheide’s daughter Amber, a freshman agribusiness major at UNL. About half of Nebraska’s corn and soybean is non-irrigated farmland like her family’s, according to the National Agriculture Statistics Service office in Lincoln.

“There’s really not much we can do,” Amber Burenheide said. “Just watch our crops burn up.”

The most widespread drought since the 1950s continues to intensify over Nebraska and Kansas, even as the drought fades elsewhere. According to UNL’s National Drought Mitigation Center ’s latest report, about 71 percent of Nebraska is under “exceptional drought,” the most severe category, indicating widespread crop loss.

Much of the state’s northeast, including the Burenheide farm, is nearly a foot behind in yearly rainfall. At this point, any rain now would be too late for the plants in the fields.

“The crops this year are done,” Ron Burenheide said.

A Long Time Coming

This fall only caps off one of the warmest, driest and most difficult years for farmers in more than a century of records, thanks to ocean and atmosphere cycles that together held the line against cool, northern air to the north of the most of the U.S. January brought temperatures in the 70s for much of the country, toppling hundreds of records. Spring, in turn, seemed to end early, bringing trees, grasses and allergies out of hibernation weeks, even months ahead of schedule.

“We had a very, very early break of (winter) dormancy,” said state climatologist Al Dutcher.

“The crops just ran out of gas as we went into the summer.”

The unusual warmth only got worse from there. By July, extreme heat and dryness gripped more than half the country, mainly within the Great Plains.

“It rained maybe three times all summer, and then it was just barely rain at all,” said Angela Aberle, a freshman animal science major. Her family raises cattle and grows corn south of Kearney, but even irrigation could only do so much.

Ron Burenheide, whose daughter Amber studies agribusiness at UNL, looks down at an ear of corn from his harvest this year. Following one of the worst droughts on record, Burenheide’s corn ears are half their usual size, and farmers across the Midwest are seeing substantial losses.

“Not as green, not as tall,” she said of their corn crop. “It all looks kind of puny.”

Hers wasn’t the only corn in trouble. Across the country, corn crops began falling to the heat by July.

In some areas, the corn stalks didn’t grow any ears at all. Others areas saw growth not worth the cost to harvest.

“We ended up cutting everything to silage,” or chopped-up corn stalks fed to livestock, said Alix Mashino, a freshman agricultural journalism major who lives on a third-generation farm in north-central Nebraska. “We weren’t able to combine any of it.”

Her family’s lucky in that they can feed that silage directly to their own cows, Mashino said. For other cattle farmers around the country, a withering corn and hay crop meant bringing out winter feed for cattle months ahead of time or simply running out.

Prices for those crops edged skyward, and fears of the same grew for all food. Corn syrup and other products find their way into many processed foods, for example, and corn prices indirectly affect livestock prices.

Instead of waiting, many farmers started selling off their livestock.

“We didn’t have enough pastureland to actually feed them,” said Halsie Large, a freshman animal science major whose family raises about 450 cattle in Hayes Center, Neb., near Colorado. They had to sell some of their older cows, she said.

“We’ve had to sell before, but not because it’s just so dry,” Large said.

A corn cob pokes out of its husk on Burenheide’s dryland farm just outside Howells, Neb., a small town 100 miles north of Lincoln. He expects a fraction of his typical crop yield this year.

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ASUN open forum airs concerns about health center Privatization proposal draws questions from advisory board Conor Dunn dn The University Health Center Student Advisory Board voiced its concerns regarding the health center privatization process to University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials for the first time Wednesday at the open forum of the Association of the Students of the University of Nebraska meeting.

The board requested that ASUN ask the university to an-

swer its questions regarding the request for proposal (RFP) the university sent to medical providers and made public last week.

The RFP asked a provider to build a new health center on university property and take over all health center functions.

The student board members wanted to know how the university would ensure the new provider would maintain the same quality of services the health center offers.

Vice Chancellors Juan Franco and Christine Jackson were present at the meeting. Franco, vice chancellor of Student Affairs, attends ASUN senate meetings each week and elaborated on the health

center privatization process to the senate at last week’s meeting.

Franco said he was disappointed the student board waited until ASUN’s meeting to ask its questions. The student board, Franco and Jackson exchanged questions and answers, which prompted some ASUN senators to say the conversation between the university and the student board should’ve been held elsewhere and not during the senate meeting.

During the questioning period, Sen. Mike Dunn, a senior communication studies major, asked the room to consider the senators’ limited time for open forum. His suggestion caused a few frowns

from the student board.

However, the senate extended the time limit for questions twice so the student board and senators could continue the conversation with Franco and Jackson.

Because students and health center faculty weren’t consulted in the decision to issue an RFP and privatize the health center, the board wanted to know how it will be able to express its opinion in the provider selection process after the RFP is due Oct. 5.

An undergraduate and graduate student will be on the review committee, which will select the new provider, Jackson said. “(The number of students on the committee) is not representa-

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tive,” Jackson said. “That’s the simple answer. The evaluation is done by a small committee, and it’s for reading and clarifying purposes.”

Some ASUN senators said this wasn’t a balanced ratio to the amount of students that use the health center.

“I feel the students are underrepresented,” said Sen. Matan Gill, a senior construction management major.

Gill suggested the university increase the ratio of students on the RFP review committee to accurately represent the university.

The discussion ended when ASUN senate speaker Natalia Santos, a senior nutrition and

health sciences major, said the senate will look into the health center ’s privatization process and help the student advisory board to answer its questions.

The senate also passed a government bill at the meeting. The bill allowed the Iron N, a student organization formerly known as Take Back Gameday, to add an option to the Homecoming ballot for students to vote on the new name for the Memorial Stadium student section as well as vote for Homecoming royalty.

The options for the student section’s name are the Corner, Big

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Native American CEO makes laws work for tribes DANIEL WHEATON DN

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Matthew Cserhati, a biologist by training, speaks six languages including his native Hungarian.

Curiosity sparks love of language for biologist Beadle researcher pursues language as hobby, extra source of income Cristina Woodworth DN Matthew Cserhati’s first word was “lámpe,” the Hungarian word for lamp.

It might seem like a humble beginning for a person who now speaks four different languages and can read and write two more.

“If you’re proficient in more languages, it really breaks down the barriers between groups,” Cserhati, an associate bioinformatics researcher at the Beadle Business Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said. “If you know a language, it sends a deep message that you are interested, that you play by their rules.”

Cserhati speaks Hungarian, English, Dutch and German. He can read and write in Swedish and Norwegian, and he’s also in the process of learning Spanish and Afrikaans. He teaches occasionally and works on translation projects. And he’s a Nebraska Association for Translators & Interpreters board member.

“It might be some sort of genetic thing I’ve inherited,” Cserhati said about his gift for acquiring languages. “My mother and maternal grandfather were both linguistics professors.”

Born in California in 1979 to Hungarian parents, Cserhati said his first language was Hungarian, which he spoke until he was 5 years old.

Next came English, when Cserhati moved to Maryland and started elementary school.

The family then moved to Hungary in 1993, where Cserhati attended high school.

he has taught two people Hun“We learned German in high garian, one person Dutch and anschool,” he said. “(My brother and I) were able to understand other person German. He said he more of the nuances between Ger- wishes more people would try to man and English because we al- learn languages besides English.

“It would be really great if ready knew English.”

From there, Cserhati attend- more Americans could be more ed a university in Belgium and proficient in several languages,” Cserhati said. “Learning other got his Ph.D. in biology.

“Since I was in a Dutch en- cultures is a good mental exervironment, I thought I might as cise, and it’s a really wonderful well learn Dutch,” he said. “My experience.”

Cserhati said he has worked Dutch friends were amazed that on several translation projects I’d learned their language.” as well. The biggest was in 2001 Cserhati says he then decided when he translated a 230-page to learn Swedish because he was book about mycology, the study “on a roll.”

To learn a new language, Cser- of mushrooms, from Hungarian to English. hati said the first Others who thing he does is “You have know Cserhati purchase a gramto practice said they found mar book, a dictionary and a sep- the language daily. his zeal for languages impressive. arate text in that It’s not just an “He’s always language. on the ball,” said “You have to isolated type of Marsha Conroy, practice the lanowner of MarCon guage daily,” he thing.”

Translation Sersaid. “It’s not just an isolated type of Matthew Cserhati vices in Omaha beadle researcher and fellow board thing.” member on the He said he Nebraska Associareads from the Bible’s New Testament every day tion for Translators & Interpretwhen he is practicing or learning ers. “He’s very knowledgeable, a language. He owns that text of course, and extremely dediin eight languages, including cated and determined.”

Conroy said she was so iman Icelandic copy he purchased pressed with Cserhati’s skills that merely out of curiosity.

“If you (learn a language) she was the one who asked him through independent study, it to be a board member for NATI. “He has good questions, and might be easier than having to learn it for a grade in a class- he thinks before he talks,” she room,” said Cserhati, who learned said.

Cserhati said although many Swedish in 13 months and Norwegian in three months. “You’re languages seem to come naturally to him, that’s certainly not the doing it out of your own desire to learn it, not because you’re case for all of them.

“There was a time when I being forced to.”

Cserhati said he mainly pur- learned Japanese,” he said. “It sues languages as a hobby. He proved too difficult, though, also offers language lessons and and I discontinued it after a short while.” translation services. news@ Since coming to Nebraska dailynebraskan.com about a year ago, Cserhati said

EdMedia launches training series Training shows iPad is for more than playing games Carl Mejstrik DN On Wednesday morning, 17 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty and staff took a turn on the other side of the classroom.

In an East Campus room filled with tables and chairs from the ’80s as well as multiple iPads, Mac computers, projectors and a teleconference machine, UNL’s Educational Media program teamed with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture to present the first monthly tech training seminars for staff and faculty. The initial seminar featured general topics such as iPad capabilities, integrating technology and teaching and web development for beginners.

“It can be difficult to stay up to date with technology that changes

so quickly these days,” said Mark Hendricks, a system administrator and web designer for EdMedia.

“But this technology makes a job so much easier. It can help in the classroom and it can help with research.”

Hendricks and three others spoke for an hour with the 17 staff and faculty in attendance.

Of the 17 attending, 14 people had an iPad out to help follow along throughout the presentation.

Adam Wagler, an advertising lecturer working on a National Institutes of Health stimulus grant project to develop iPad applications, led a presentation on the benefits and advantages of apps.

When asking the audience about the purpose of apps, an excited voice from the back answered, “It’s for games!”

Tim Brown, with the Office of Online and Distance Education, was that excited voice. He used an attachable iPad keyboard to maximize note-taking speed on a device with which he isn’t yet familiar.

“I’ve only had an iPad for a few months, so it’s relatively new to me, and this seminar gives a great overview on the fundamentals of this thing,” Brown said, pointing to his iPad. Brown works on managing online courses for high school students, many of whom are being issued iPads in school.

As the seminar continued, members of the audience often looked at each others’ screens, hoping for help. Presenters attended to the occasional blank stare.

Leona Barratt, a technology training services associate, attended the seminar although she was already familiar with much of the technology.

“I’m working on a website that showcases how professors access technology,” Barratt said.

“This seminar is valuable to let these professors know how to check in to their own websites or how to engage with students better through Blackboard.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Facing centuries of oppression and poverty, Lance Morgan has turned a difficult situation into a profitable one.

Morgan, chief executive officer of economic development corporation Ho-Chunk Inc., and a member of the Winnebago Tribe, spoke Wednesday afternoon at the Great Plains Art Museum about how laws have stunted the economic growth of Native Americans. The talk, “Lack of Opportunity on the Plains: How Law and Public Policy Have Shaped Tribal Economic Development,” is the first of the Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies series.

Wendy Katz, director of the Plains Humanities Alliance, described Morgan as a “Native American Warren Buffett.”

“Unfortunately, ‘the Winnebago Wizard’ doesn’t have the same ring to it as ‘the Oracle of Omaha,’” Katz said.

Morgan, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Harvard Law School alumnus, used his law background to fight laws that restrict development of tribal communities. Governmentowned trust lands cannot be managed like typical farmland, Morgan said. Native American farmers aren’t able to provide collateral for loans.

Without loans, seed and farming equipment are beyond their reach.

“This is how we get screwed over by the man,” Morgan said.

The same legal system that prevents Native Americans from investing in their lands provides the framework that created Morgan’s success.

He explained that tribal governments are considered sovereign from the federal government. This sovereignty provides a number of exemptions to tribes.

“We do not pay taxes — like

“When you see poverty, you imagine the dilapidated house, the snot-nosed kid and the car parked in the front.” lance morgan ceo ho-chunk inc.

47 percent of Americans,” Morgan joked.

Using the existing laws, Morgan turned this negative into a positive.

Because tribal governments are exempt from most forms of taxes and can’t be sued, they have a competitive advantage against other businesses. Additionally, they function using tribal law.

“If we want something done, we just write a new law,” Morgan said.

Using his resources in HoChunk, Morgan provides the necessary capital for Native Americans to buy their own homes and start their own businesses. Morgan started a small community called Ho-Chunk Village in Walthill, Neb. Ho-Chunk provides down payment assistance and credit services for Walthill residents.

“When you see poverty, you imagine the dilapidated house, the snot-nosed kid and the car parked in the front,” Morgan said. “What you are seeing is a lack of pride.”

Ho-Chunk’s model of using existing legal framework to its advantage has been used by other tribal communities as well, Morgan said.

Mike Crosley, land manager of the Santee Sioux Nation, said Morgan has allowed his tribe to thrive.

“Anything that brings jobs to the (reservation) is great,” Crosley said.

Crosley said his community, located in Santee, Neb., faces problems with housing and employment. Rob-

ert Campbell, treasurer of the Santee Sioux Nation, said Morgan has helped fight for equal economic opportunity for Native Americans.

However, Ho-Chunk’s business practices have made it some enemies with large corporations. Morgan has fought legal battles with the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature over laws that prohibit free trade between the reservation and the state. The Winnebago tribe started manufacturing cigarettes, which angered Marlboro.

“I filed a Freedom of Information Act against the government to find out more,” Morgan said.

He received emails that showed a joint attempt of the Unicameral and Marlboro to work around existing tribal commercial law. Morgan brought this issue to the Unicameral, where it was ultimately struck down.

“We’re like a brick wall,” Morgan said of the Winnebago tribe’s government.

Morgan has been in similar fights with other companies. He said the conflicts have resulted in a number of misdemeanor arrest warrants against him in other states. He said his mother once called him after he appeared in a newspaper for angering a company and said she was happy he was fighting for his people.

“If something bad happens,” Morgan said, “at least my mom will like it.”

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Pinball champ maintains high score, trains competition Demetria Stephens DN For Theodore Victor Redmond, it’s all about the high score.

Redmond, a junior history major at the University of NebraskaLincoln, is the grand champion of the Lord of the Rings pinball machine at the Nebraska Union arcade, the Rec Room. His score, attributed to “TVR,” sits at 154,046,250 points.

But he thinks he or one of his friends can top that.

“We’re going for the high score,” he said. “If one of us happens to hold it at the time, it’s maybe more incentive.”

Redmond plays around five times a week for 45 minutes to three hours each time, always with $2. He started playing on the machine while taking a year off from school in 2008. It sits in a hall lit with spotlights and the glowing lights of several other arcade games. The game is six events long and takes players through the Lord of the Rings storyline in no particular order.

He’ll be the champion until a mystery player initialed “DLD” reclaims the title. DLD trails Redmond with a score of around 144 million points.

DLD held the high score when Redmond started playing. At first, Redmond said he thought DLD’s high score was on a global score board. He was wrong. Redmond played regularly and eventually beat the high score.

“The score was on there so long, I assumed the guy was gone,” Redmond said.

But DLD struck again, trumping Redmond’s score.

Paul Eric Hilger, a senior electrical engineering major and former grand champion, has competed against DLD’s pinball scores since 2008, too.

“I think he crawls out of the mist to play pinball,” Hilger said.

Redmond said he wants to meet DLD but doesn’t know what he would say.

“This dude is a grand champion,” Redmond said. “I must learn his style and adapt it to my own.”

About a year ago, Neil Andrew Kahle, a junior computer engineering major, started playing pinball with Redmond. Kahle has played regularly since then and holds the fastest time playing the last event of the Lord of the Rings machine: 45 seconds to “destroy the ring.”

Kahle left Wednesday to attend

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Theodore Redmond, a junior history major, tries for a new high score on the pinball machine in the arcade of the Nebraska Union on Wednesday afternoon. New high scores make it onto the leader board “every six months, or so,” Redmond said.

Senshu University in Japan for a semester.

“It’s going to suck not having my pinball buddy around,” Redmond said. “But on the other hand, it increases the chances that I’ll beat his ring time score at some point.”

Redmond said he was teaching Lynnie Krause, a senior sociology major, and a couple others to take Kahle’s place. “(Redmond) knows all the inner workings of the machines,” Krause said.

In fact, Redmond has seen the inside of his favorite machine more than once when it required repairs.

“I’ve seen the guts of this pinball machine many times, and it’s really great,” Redmond said. “It’s

like, this is the circuitry that takes all of my money.”

Redmond replays the Lord of the Rings storyline nearly every day on the pinball machine and can recount how to get through each level, but he’s only read the first of the three books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

“Tolkien’s got a style and that style is not for me,” he said. “That’s probably going to come off as blasphemy for fans, ‘And the grand master of the Lord of the Rings pinball machine doesn’t even finish the books? What madness is this?’”

To that, Redmond said, “You want me to read the books? Beat my score.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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drought: from 1

By August, half the country’s counties were declared drought disaster areas, unlocking emergency, low-interest government loans for farmers. Nebraska’s Platte River nearly ran dry, prompting Lincoln to institute mandatory water-use restrictions.

But by then the damage was done.

Roughly two-thirds of the country remains officially in a drought disaster, according to the USDA.

The Aftermath

As with the Burenheides, many farmers have begun harvest early in response to the dryness.

The corn harvest, for example, is already about one-fifth complete, compared to the usual one-fiftieth by this time, according to the USDA. Still, some farmers managed a fairly decent crop, mostly thanks to heavy irrigation.

“We all had to start watering a lot earlier,” said Darren Wright, a freshman animal science major who over the summer worked on a corn and soy farm and feedlot about 60 miles west of Lincoln.

The corn crop will probably be smaller but with higher prices, “I think we’ll be about even,” Wright said. “It’s kind of bittersweet. I’ve talked to my grandpa, and he said it’s the driest summer he can remember.”

Other farmers, including Amber Burenheide and her family, will largely depend on crop insurance. The federal government subsidizes this insurance to pay back the difference in lost harvests in case of disasters like this year ’s drought.

This year ’s insurance payout is forecast to reach a record $20 billion for the U.S., according to Reuters. Specific numbers weren’t available for Nebraska, but about 85 percent of the state’s farmers are covered, said Bobbie KrizWickham, assistant director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.

“There’s people that are worried that crop insurance won’t have enough money to pay everybody out,” Ron Burenheide said

more than 10 percent smaller than last year’s.

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Burenheide inspects a soybean field. The plants are about half their usual height and bear only about a dozen bean pods when with a laugh.

He said this year would be “disastrous” without the program, but he added, “I guess my biggest concern is the livestock.

You can’t feed sheep and cattle and pigs on dollars.”

Drought also brings secondary problems, Ron Burenheide said. First are aflatoxins, poisonous chemicals secreted by a mold that thrives in drought and can spoil a whole corn crop.

Then there’s the risk of fires in fields that are essentially giant tinderboxes.

“All the dust is just ignitable,” said Mark Burenheide, 24, one of Amber Burenheide’s older brothers and a member of Howells’ volunteer fire department. With harvesting equipment reaching high temperatures, he went on, “If it’s a windy day, it’ll jump a road in a heartbeat.”

These and other concerns have most farmers keeping a closer eye on their wallets no matter how their crops do.

“It makes my parents ner-

vous,” said Melinda Knuth, a freshman horticulture major whose family bales hay in the southeast corner of South Dakota.

“Eventually beef and other produce prices are going to come up.

Who knows if next year ’s going to get any better?”

Turning toward the Future

With this year ’s crop locked up, attention now moves to the need for a major reset in water tables across the state in the coming months.

“A good soaking rain is what we need,” said Ron Burenheide.

“If this would last two or three years … I think the whole economy in Nebraska would start feeling it then.”

Subsoil moisture across the state is nearly nonexistent, said Dutcher, the state climatologist.

Even here in Lincoln, trees with roots deeper than six feet are dropping leaves or dying. Most of the state is six inches or more behind on yearly rainfall.

c this year.

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The sun sets on a corn field and pasture north of Lincoln. Harvests nationwide are expected to be

everything up in the spring. If it mirrors last fall, we are in big, big trouble.”

But despite a rough summer and these ominous predictions, many farmers agree they can only move forward and deal with whatever happens.

“I think they’re still hopeful

“To eliminate those types of deficits would require at least three times normal precipitation,” Dutcher said.

Such a drastic switch in the weather is unlikely, he said. Even with no drought, winter is typically dry for most of Nebraska.

This drought could last until at least November as well, according to the National Weather Service.

While the spring could bring increased rainfall, Dutcher said, farmers can’t afford many chances.

“We are highly dependent here … on fall and spring recharge,” he said. “We don’t want a dry fall and then have to make

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ASUN: from 1 Red Boneyard and Children of the Corn.

Senators argued over whether ASUN should allow a non-affiliated RSO to use the ballot as advertising.

“I’m not very concerned with the eligibility (of the organization to advertise with ASUN) because

this affects such a huge student body,” Santos said. “It’s very related to what (ASUN) is doing.”

The Iron N had a booth in the Nebraska Union last week giving students the opportunity to offer suggestions for the student section’s new name. The three listed above were the most popular,

said Tyler Gruttemeyer, a senior music education major.

The Iron N decided to change the name of the student section as a part of its mission to promote attendance to Husker athletic events. Gruttemeyer said the organization hopes to have a named student section for all Nebraska

for the next couple of months,” said Cameron Menard, a sophomore animal science major from a cattle and poultry farm in Arlington, Neb. “You’ve got to roll with the punches.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

sports in the future.

The senate amended the bill to add a “none of the above” option below the three choices for students who do not like the name options. The bill passed with 21 approvals and three denials. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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TransCanada must avoid destruction of tribal lands While Nebraska’s own qualms with TransCanada over the Keystone XL pipeline have mostly evaporated, controversy in Oklahoma is kicking up.

TransCanada’s plans currently involve cutting through land belonging to, or with a history of belonging to Native American tribes.

The Daily Nebraskan urges TransCanada to avoid any such land, no matter the cost.

An action such as this is deeply insulting to Native Americans.

Many of the tribes live in Oklahoma today because the U.S. government forced them to relocate, according to a Sept. 17 Washington Post article. They don’t need TransCanada digging up their land and building a pipeline through it.

TransCanada could accidentally dig up a sacred burial ground or other historical sites.

Oklahoma’s numerous tribal lands make it more difficult than in other states to avoid such properties. But that shouldn’t matter.

TransCanada also doesn’t think it legally needs work with the Native Americans while digging up their lands. ransCanada is certainly making efforts to work with the Native Americans. And some Native Americans are in support of the pipeline.

But, everything that can be done needs to be done to avoid these lands and respect the Native Americans. It’s a respect that’s overdue. And it’s a respect that’s owed to them.

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Cooking at home boosts energy

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he typical day of an average college student is at least 80 percent any combination of class, work, homework and sleep. We have that extra 20 percent, a little more than four hours, to use as we wish.

If you asked a student if she wanted to spend about half that free time cooking, she’d probably say no. A $1 microwave burrito or Chinese take-out sounds easier than two hours in front of a stove. And who could blame her?

Last spring, my course load, in combination with my work schedule, was so heavy I was lucky to get five hours of sleep a night. Cooking my own meals was definitely low on the priority list. Sometimes by the time I got home, I would’ve had to stay up until midnight just to make a homemade dish — and then begin homework. What person would choose that?

I decided I would start cooking my own meals again this summer. I was working two jobs but not in class, and I was living with a roommate who was rarely home at the same time as me. It took a while sometimes; occasionally, I literally fell into bed immediately after making food for the next day. But it yielded some pretty fantastic results.

When I survived on quick dinners and fast food, I felt tired almost all the time. My piles of homework definitely helped that along, but I can guarantee you it was due in part to what I was eating. The saturated and trans fats, refined flour and sugar, and allergens present in fast food meals are linked to increased fatigue, as well as a host of other health problems like heart disease and high blood pressure. Obviously, fast food is more expensive than cooking your own meals.

However, this might not be the case with your average frozen burrito or a pre-packaged Chef Boyardee-esque dinner. But the chemicals in these foods – even simple ones like aspartame, also known as a major ingredient in Splenda (Diet Coke fans, beware) – can cause some pretty serious health issues, like difficulty breathing, damage to your heart and hyperactivity in children.

Cooking your own meals gives you the ability to (almost) fully control what goes into your body. Processed foods are filled with unneces-

RUTH ANN BOETTNER sary ingredients and large amounts of added salt, whereas fresh foods will offer you great things like natural hydration and essential nutrients.

The first thing to remember is no one is expecting you to be a professional chef. You aren’t cooking so you can be Rachael Ray; you’re cooking so you can be a little healthier and feel a little better. Mistakes will happen; this is coming from someone who has burned Ramen noodles.

People may have told you in the past that you need precise measurements, but cooking isn’t an exact science (if you’re baking, that’s another story). A lot of ingredients are to your taste.

A lot of great culinary inventions were made by mistake!

Start simple.

If you’ve never cooked before, you probably don’t know about paella or beef bourguignon — so don’t try and cook them! Even a Google search of “easy recipes” can yield some fantastic results.

If you’re willing to actually purchase cookbooks, I recommend anything from the “Hungry Girl” series. The recipes are all pretty easy, and the series also offers low-calorie options for those who are counting. Dudes, don’t automatically pass these up; this “food for hungry chicks” will taste the same no matter which gender you are.

Another great way to practice in the beginning is to try and dress up foods you already

make. You can add meat to any package of Ramen noodles. Put bacon in your mac and cheese. Add chocolate chips, blueberries, or another fruit to your pancake mix (my personal favorite: apples and cinnamon).

You can also find copy-cat recipes of foods you buy on the go. Noodles and Company’s chef has a video demonstrating how to make its penne rosa. You can easily run an Internet search and find a close second to Chipotle’s cilantro-lime rice. Take note of the ingredients in your Panera sandwich; you’ll probably find a lot of them in your usual grocery store.

A lot of dishes you can make in large amounts and refrigerate or freeze the rest. You don’t have to buy from the frozen section to have a quick meal.

When you start moving up in difficulty, you’ll probably run into a variety of spices you don’t usually have. That’s OK — in cooking, a lack of a spice will usually not make or break your dish, although there are exceptions to the rule. Plenty of websites also offer ingredient substitutions, and you’ll be surprised by what you find. For instance, while making pancakes from scratch, I ran out of vanilla extract. However, I found out I could use equal parts of my pancake syrup instead.

Last tip for now: buy locally grown whenever you can. These foods can be harder to find, but sometimes they’re cheaper, and usually they’re better quality. I made stuffed squash one night using some squash a farmer’s market and some from a grocery store. The market squash had far better texture, taste and cook-ability.

Cooking and baking can be therapeutic — if you don’t psyche yourself out. I found there was a noticeable difference between my life with fast food and my life with home-cooked meals. My energy was up and my weight dropped. Coupled with exercise, this can lead to even better results. With our college course loads and work schedules, we need all the energy we can get. And we don’t have to overdose on coffee and energy drinks to get it.

Ruth Ann Boettner is a senior French and global studies major.

Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

China, Japan still battling quietly

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n Sept. 11 this year, two shocking things happened. Four American diplomats, including the ambassador to Libya, were killed. That same day, Japan declared it would buy the Diaoyu Islands, one of the many disputed territories between Japan and China. To China, this is an old wound dating back to World War II that hasn’t had a chance to heal.

The anniversary of 9/11 should have been a time for the world to reflect. But there are always organizations or countries that are irresponsible. Instead of blaming others or taking actions to make the other side feel worse, it’s time for us to calm down and think about what kind of world we want to live in and what kind of world we should build for the next generation.

Let’s start with a brief review of World War II. On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. One hundred and eighty-eight U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed . The following day, the U.S. declared war on Japan. That’s a tragedy, but the Americans fought back. Two nuclear bombs were dropped in two Japanese cities. In 1945, Japan lost the war.

During World War II, China was on the same side as the U.S., The Allies, and fought against the Axis. At that time, China mainly fought against Japan.

Within 6 weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese citizens were murdered in Nanjing, China’s former capital, by the Imperial Japanese Army.

That’s 50,000 per week. That’s more than the whole population in Lincoln. And that wasn’t the only incident. The number of people who died in that massacre was 100 times more than the attack on Pearl Harbor. But unlike the U.S., China didn’t have the power to fight back.

That’s probably when the Chinese learned

No different from Americans, the Chinese people value the right of to pursue happiness and prosperity. The difference is at the bottom line. For Chinese, it’s not about minimum wages or health care. It’s about protection. In the last 200 years, China, as a nation, has lost more than 5,000 square miles of land. Countless citizens have been killed in foreign attacks.

On the other hand, countries like Japan have never apologized for any of their activities. This time, on Sept. 9, 2012, it declared to the world that it owns those disputed islands, which it gained control of through war. It’s a lot like when Japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 and tried to justify the heinous action.

ABE XU Chinese businessman Mr. Chen Guangbiao spent $30,000 to advertise in the New York Times about the Diaoyu Islands. In the ad he asks, “How men aren’t created equal. The freedom to prowould Americans feel, and what would America tect your life isn’t free. If the country isn’t do, if Japan announced that Hawaii was its terristrong enough, the nation has no rights. Because of budget constraints, there isn’t even a precise tory?” In an interview, Chen said the ad’s copy originally said “Pearl Harbor” and not “Hanumber of victims recorded. The Chinese can’t tell waii.” a clear story to the world.

For a long time, strong The media always try to emYou may not economic ties were believed phasize the difference between the learn about to help countries avoid war.

U.S. and China. For example, the media talk a lot about the human this in your history However, if the younger generation doesn’t learn from hisrights issues in China. The media tory, war will still happen. We may get the facts correct some- class, but the all understand the tragedy of times, but the Chinese understand tombs of those war, but sometime we forget to it differently. The difference is from reflect on how friends could get history, not value. victims are still into fights as well.

In the late 1900s, Chinese emWhat does 9/11 really mean perors believed if they limited there. ” to the world? It shouldn’t only interactions with the rest of the be memories about more than 3,000 people world, they could protect themselves from invasion. It didn’t take too long for Britain getting killed. It should also be a time for the world to reflect on how to avoid the next tragto force China to trade and to legalize opium edy. in the First Opium War. Chinese people were Jiajun (Abe) Xu is a Senior Finance killed. You may not learn about this in your and Economics Major, reach him at history class, but the tombs of those victims Opinion@ are still there. dailynebraskan.com

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Amelia Barrett (Elle Woods) and Michael J. Corner (Emmett) act together during a rehearsal of “Legally Blonde - The Musical,” showing at the Lincoln Community Playhouse. The musical will run September 21-23 and 27-30.

Lincoln Community Playhouse brings Broadway hit to Lincoln stage

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oments after checking the cast list for “Legally Blonde – The Musical,” senior communications major Amelia Barrett could be seen jumping up and down, screaming and “doing the whole American Idol bit.” She had just been cast as the musical’s lead, Elle Woods.

“Oh my gosh, I was in shock,” Barrett said. “I was just so excited, and the enthusiasm hasn’t stopped throughout the whole process. Now opening night is all that I can think about.”

“Legally Blonde – The Musical” will open Friday night at the Lincoln Community Playhouse.

The musical follows University of California, Los Angeles sorority president Elle Woods. Elle lives a storybook life with her sorority sisters and seemingly perfect relationship. However, the night she thinks her boyfriend,

Warner, is going to propose, he breaks up with her to focus on Harvard Law School. Elle, who is madly in love and incredibly driven to get Warner back, follows him to Harvard and, in the process, finds new friends and a new romantic interest, while ultimately succeeding academically.

Both Barrett and director/choreographer Courtney Piccoli are branching out with the new contemporary musical.

“My forte is normally the classical musical,” Piccoli said. “I have a 14-year-old girl, and I realized that I’m with young people all of the time, so it was not hard for me to wrap my brain around this production. This will be kind of a cool challenge because I haven’t really done anything like this.”

Barrett is also making the transition.

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An ensemble playing a group of sorority girls sings one of their musical numbers in their rendition of “Legally Blonde - The Musical.” Tickets are $10 for students.

‘Paint party’ plans colorful Lincoln debut Life in Color fills Pershing with trapeze artists, LED walls and paint splashes ally phillips dn Paint will be thrown, DJs will perform and LED walls will be on at the Pershing Center this Friday night. According to Life in Color representative Matt Meyer, this is the “party of the year.”

“Dayglow is one of the best experiences you could have,” Meyer said. “I don’t know any other place where you come knowing you’re going to get messy and want it and enjoy it.”

Life in Color, which used to be known as Dayglow, was recently rebranded during its transition to

create a bigger and better production. Life in Color is a live show featuring local and international artists and aerialists, or trapeze artists. The performance becomes a paint party as the audience watches and dances alongside performers.

This year, Life in Color will stop at over 250 venues internationally. When looking for future sites, the group searches for large cities.

“We’re looking to be a stronger face in college markets,” Meyer said.

Life in Color wanted to reach out to Nebraska and searched for the largest college town.

“It was a no-brainer that we thought the kids at the (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) would love to see the show,” Meyer said. “We knew this would be an awesome opportunity to introduce the show

something I didn’t really want to to Nebraska.”

Meyer said they hope to branch pass up.”

He set up a team to help proout to other large Nebraska cities, mote the event such as Omaha, in through social methe future.

When am I dia, word of mouth Representagoing to get and fliers. tives contact stu“Facebook and dents attending an opportunity to Twitter can be used universities in the powerfully,” Johntowns in which do something like son said. “Some they’ll be performmay find it annoying to set up a this again?” ing, but it draws team to promote Lyle Janicek the event. Life in landscape architecture major people’s attention and that was key.”

Color contacted Tickets were on senior political science and economics major Tyson sale this summer starting at $28.

Johnson. The organization said At the time of the interview, they they were interested in his ties to could be purchased for $43. As the Greek community. Johnson is demand increases, so do prices, the president of UNL’s Interfrater- Meyer said.

“This is something (students) nity Council. have never seen before, and I sug“These are things I certainly gest saving up an extra few dollars enjoy going to and am interested and seeing the show,” Meyer said. in,” Johnson said. “It seemed like

“It’s definitely worth it.”

As of Wednesday afternoon, there were less than 500 tickets left.

“I just keep reminding myself: when am I going to get an opportunity to do something like this again?” said junior landscape architecture major Lyle Janicek. “It’s pricey, but hey, you remember the memories you make from events like this. I’m not going to live forever. YOLO (you only live once), if you will.”

Johnson added tickets are cheaper if purchased directly from the Pershing Center box office.

Two different kinds of tickets were sold for Life in Color, VIP and general admission. Those who purchased VIP tickets will receive a bag of merchandise including a

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Patrick Sather leaned over to greet a timid new member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln forensics team during its second meeting. The freshman turned and introduced himself to Sather, a senior English major. As the two raved about the upcoming season, it became clear the UNL speech and debate team is more than an academic extracurricular.

“It’s not about the trophies; it’s about the people you meet along the way and the sense of community,” Sather said. “Win or lose, they all care about you, and that’s the kind of thing you’ll remember forever.”

From working with fellow teammates to hanging out with students from other universities at competitions, the UNL team is social and interactive, to say the least.

“Only six colleges in Nebraska have competitive speech and debate teams, so we know everyone in the community,” Sather said. “It’s like an extensive speech family.”

With the amount of time these UNL students spend together, Sather said they become a close group.

“When it’s time for nationals, we’re so focused, yet so close-knit,” said Josh Planos, a junior advertising major. “The team is really my family on campus.”

Throughout the year, the team works diligently to perfect its events for tournaments. One of the most popular categories of speech events is interpretation, which, at UNL, is made up of prose, poetry, drama and duo.

Last year, Planos placed fifth in the country in an event called program of oral interpretation.

“Basically, you take a wide variety of genres of literature and put them toward an argument,” Planos said. “You have full range of creativity, so I often incorporate drama, prose and poetry.”

Marc Otero, a senior family science major, said interpretation events are his favorite. More specifically, he prefers poetry and duo.

“Poetry is when you find a bunch of poems that have the same argument, and you piece them together to build one cohesive argument,” Otero said. “Duo is finding a script, from a play or musical, for example, and performing it with someone else.”

As for the debate side of the team, UNL only has one event because the majority of the team does speech. This research-based event is called Lincoln Douglas (LD) debate, which requires two students to argue about a given issue of public policy.

“Last year, we had at least one debater place first at every tournament,” said Derrick Stevens, a sophomore philosophy and political science major, “so we ended up being pretty successful.”

In October 2011, UNL’s speech and debate team won the university’s first Big Ten Title. The group then won the Nebraska State Champions title in February 2012.

“At nationals last year, we were eighth in the country,” Sather said.

“We had one national champion, which was our first in four years, so that was really exciting.”

The speech champion from last year, Nick Herink, graduated from the team, but is still at UNL doing practicum work for a year. Herink came back to the team this year as a coach.

He works with the graduate student coaches, as well as the director of the team, Aaron Duncan, to help students individually as they prepare for competitions.

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Readers deem Garfield biography ‘One Book–One Lincoln’ winner Libraries encourage community to experience ‘Destiny of the Republic’ together rachel staats dn After hundreds of submissions, countless hours of reading and months of debate, the winner of Lincoln City Libraries’ annual One Book – One Lincoln program has been decided.

This year’s book, “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President”

by Candice Millard, is not only a biography of the life of James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, but a historical account of the time in which he lived.

“It’s sad, because in most history classes (Garfield) is just a blip when you move on to Roosevelt,” said Shannon Coch, a librarian at the Bess Dodson Walt Branch, during a book club discussion at the Bethany Branch

on Sept. 14.

“I love this book for the way it was written,” Coch said. “I think she wrote this book in a way that I didn’t feel like I was stuck in high school history class.”

One Book – One Lincoln, sponsored by Lincoln City Libraries, is a community reading program established in 2002. The program’s goal is to encourage readers in Lincoln to engage with each other by reading the same book at the same time.

People have had the option to submit books for consideration since the program began, but recently Lincoln libraries have made more of an effort to get people involved by allowing them to vote on finalists instead of allowing the One Book – One Lincoln committee choose.

Although the number of submissions to be considered this year was normal, the number of votes for the finalists was down because of a procedure change, according to Barbara Hansen, administrative aide to the libraries’ director, Pat Leach.

A limit of one vote per IP address was instituted this year after online voting resulted in irregular voting pat-

terns in previous years. “(The program) has been growing every year,” said Layne Pierce, adult services librarian and head of this year’s One Book – One Lincoln committee. “But we’d like to get more young people involved.”

Growth is something the committee has been striving for since the program began, but it comes with its own set of challenges. Currently, “Destiny of the Republic” is so backed up in the system that it will be weeks before some people have the opportunity to read it.

“The good news is there are a lot of people that want copies,” Pierce said. “The bad news is we can’t meet that demand.”

But of those who have been able to get their hands on a copy, many have said the experience was overwhelmingly positive.

One aspect of the book many people expressed appreciation for was how it pointed out the cultural differences between then and now.

The book speaks to issues of medicine, ethics, law and politics.

It’s a common belief that the substandard medical care of the day is

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Author Candice Millard’s novel, “Destiny of the Republic,”beat out two other novels in the city’s One Book-One Lincoln competition. what resulted in the death of President Garfield nearly four months after he was shot.

“What astounded me still was even after he was shot there was no, ‘We need to protect the president,’”

Coch said. “It took another president being shot 20 years later for them to say, ‘We might want to watch out for these guys.’”

Pierce said Garfield can be an example to everyone, even though he

was only president for a short time.

“I think Garfield is a politician that everybody of all generations can feel good about,” he said. “‘Destiny of the Republic’ is a book that is dealing with the relationship of ethics and politics.”

To enhance readers’ understanding of the book and its themes, Lincoln City Libraries provides supplementary programming to go along with the book.

“What we do with the programming is try to enhance and add value to the total experience,” Pierce said.

This year’s events will include a talk in October about the history of medicine and how Garfield being shot affected the way medicine is performed. Additionally, a panel discussion on the criminal insanity plea in November, an exhibit of political cartoons paired with a talk by local cartoonist in December, and a dramatic reading of excerpts from the book at the Lincoln Community Playhouse in January are also scheduled.

For more information, visit lincolnlibraries.org. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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this week in lincoln World Day on the Mall

when: Thursday, 11 a.m.-2p.m. where: Pershing Auditorium 226 Centennial Mall South how much: free

“Legally Blonde - The Musical”

when:

Sept. 21-23,

27-30 where: Lincoln Community Playhouse 2500 S. 56th St. how much: $20, adults, $10, students

Day Glow: “Life in Color 2012”

when: Friday, Sept. 21, 8:15 p.m. where: Pershing Auditorium 226 Centennial Mall South how much: $46 $67.50, 18 +

Sheldon Friends of Chamber Music

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Friday, 8 p.m.

Sheldon Museum of Art how much: free where:

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speech: from 5 “It’s a year-long process that is about finding good topics, doing revisions and getting better as the season goes on,” Duncan said. “They have to practice over and over until it becomes second nature.”

After they have researched and practiced repeatedly, the speech and debate students are ready for weekend tournaments.

“I like how you’re up there individually in speech competitions (except for duo), just seeing how well you stack up against everyone else there,” Otero said.

Although debate students have a similar goal in competing, the way LD works is different from speech events.

“You’re being judged on the things you say rather than how well you say it, which is more how speech is judged,” said Jeff Garst, a sophomore English and speech education major. “Debate is usually more impromptu than speech. You have to think on your feet.”

When the team won the state tournament last February, Duncan said the best part was seeing the group’s hard work pay off.

“I love seeing (the students) learn and evolve, accomplishing things they never thought they could accomplish,” Duncan said.

But these students know how much they have to put into the activity. They know how difficult it is to succeed in speech and debate in addition to keeping their grades up in school.

“It takes a lot of maturity balancing (forensics) and academics, but once you figure it out, there’s a rhythm to it,” Otero said.

Planos agreed, adding, “You kind of have to throw yourself into it head first.”

Since the activity is such a big commitment, Sather said there is a necessary level of responsibility to be a part of the group.

“You must be able to be in an academic setting where you attend because you actually want to,” he said. “You also have to be more willing to digest ideas and philosophies and be truly passionate about it.”

Although it can be tough for the students to juggle forensics and school, it’s a challenge they are willing to take on for the benefits the activity provides.

“We get 10 minutes (for speech

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Junior Roger Allen performs his dramatic interpretation piece. events) to talk about a topic uninterrupted, with people’s full attention,” Planos said. “There’s no other activity that lets you do that.”

As the forensics team members continue working to improve their events throughout the year, Planos said they are always learning from mistakes along the way.

“I still learn new things every day, which is not something you can say about a lot of other activities,” he said.

Since Sather, Otero and Planos are upperclassmen on the team, they tend to act as leaders.

“As you become an upperclassman, you just assume that role … we have students looking up to us,” Otero said. “We’re there for the freshmen as well as our own class.”

Although the forensics team celebrates all the students’ successes, they are especially encouraging toward the newest members.

“If freshmen break at their first tournament, we really acknowledge them,” Otero said. “We call it ‘getting your Zulu.’”

During the group’s Monday afternoon meetings, Duncan and the

other coaches tell the students what they’ve been doing well and the areas in which they need to improve.

These meetings are also a time to celebrate individuals’ accomplishments.

“Mondays often wrap everything up, and the coaches offer a lot of positive feedback,” Sather said.

The speech and debate team has the opportunity to receive plenty of constructive criticism as well as support, especially since it is the group that has been around the longest at UNL. “When your group is this old and tradition-based, it means there’s an extensive amount of alumni, which is great,” Sather said.

With all the past members and current coaches that help with the team, Sather said the students are able to keep improving. The coaches, however, are who help the team the most.

“They’re like life coaches,” Sather said. “They are always there for us no matter what, just like our teammates are.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

the way that I think Elle would say Barrett faced another chalthings.” lenge: Elle struts her stuff during Barrett also studied the part of dance numbers in four-and-a-half Elle by talking to her friends who inch platform heels. are in sororities and learning how “Those are the shoes that we close they are with their “sisters.” think that Elle and her friends A l t h o u g h would be wearboth women say ing,” Barrett said.

“It’s more the show is light“There’s a scene than hearted, Piccoli where we do Irish added there is also dancing in the just dance; it’s a moral. four-and-a-half “The show’s inch heels. Person- choreographing an ally I’m more of a entire production.” message is to be who you are and flats person.”

Preparing for COurtney Piccoli not judge other people for what the role of Elle director/choreographer they appear to be required a lot of and get to know research and reflecthem,” Piccoli said. “Don’t judge a tion.

“I went through the script a bazillion times,” Barrett said. “I tried not to watch the original cast on the online MTV version. I didn’t want to get Laura Bell Bundy’s version of Elle in my head, because I want to create it myself by reading the lines for myself and saying them

book by its cover.”

She added the 26-member strong cast is working hard and believes “the show is in great shape and ready to roll.”

“There’s something in the show that will appeal to everyone,” Barrett said. “‘Legally Blonde’ has a nice plot where someone can find something that they like about it, whether it’s the humor, the love story, the music itself or the visually appealing costumes and set.”

Piccoli added, “It’s a night to get away from everything that’s bugging you in your life and take a break and watch something that’s fun, wonderful and joyful.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

legally blonde: from 5 “Usually, I’m in shows that are dated a bit,” Barrett said. “‘Legally Blonde’ is very contemporary and is very close to an operetta where the plot all happens in song.”

The production is primarily music and has very little dialogue. Along with little dialogue, the show is also entirely choreographed. From dance numbers to set movement, the production’s fluidity follows careful choreographic choices.

“The set is moving all the time, and the cast moves in and out of characters,” Piccoli said. “It’s more than just dance, it’s choreographing an entire production.”

Piccoli said choreographing the set was her biggest challenge.

“Community theater doesn’t have all of the benefits of a Broadway production,” Piccoli said. “We don’t have a giant hall in the form of an elevator that can bring stuff up and down, but the way that we maneuver the set has been worked down to a science.”

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I’m an outlier in the fashion guru community, not only because of my inapplicable major (broadcast journalism) but, admittedly, I rarely buy anything over the cost of 10 lattes. I’m a frugal fashion fiend.

Yes, I count the cost of clothing by how many cups of coffee I will have to forgo that week.

With the majority of your nonpaid internship money funneling into the university (and The Coffee House), it’s not only environmentally conscious, it’s necessary to turn to second-hand clothing for fashion-forward desires.

If you were to peruse my closet, or my pile of wadded up clothing stacked high atop my beanbag (“Beans” for short), you would find a surprising majority of my clothing was snagged from the hangers of thrift stores and sale racks.

However, this frugal and ecofriendly mindset for compiling my wardrobe took some time to perfect. Heighten your thrifter status from novice to veteran by noting some of the rules I think are most important when consignment shopping.

1. Be patient.

Because thrifting is truly a hitor-miss adventure, the best thrifters value patience. When it comes to bargain-hunting, the age-old cliche that “patience is a virtue” lends itself well.

Along with patience, don’t be afraid to adventure. Sometimes the rubies are hidden in piles of overflowing racks of less-thandesirable clothing. You must sift, rummage and search for that hidden treasure. You will rarely have a big black “X” to direct you to the gold mine.

2. Keep an open mind.

Don’t rule out articles of clothing because they have little defects, forcing them into the ridiculously cheap pile. Let the DIY crafter in you do the thinking and consider ways to revamp salvageable items into fashion-forward head-turners.

We live in an age where everything seems disposable, including textiles. In fact, it is said North America generates an astronomical amount – roughly 12 million

tons – of textile waste a year.

Embrace the fact that your clothing had a previous life, and don’t fear age. Many times you might snag collectible, rare items for chump change or less.

3. Get it tailored.

The waiting game can be unbearable when all you want to do is flaunt your new articles of clothing, but if you find a cheap, second-hand article of clothing that is falling off your shoulders, schmooze up to your friend with a sewing machine. Or do it yourself.

If neither option is applicable to you, support your local tailor.

4. Promptly wash new clothing.

I hear scabies are disgusting and painful. Contrary to popular belief, scabies aren’t only transmitted sexually. Many victims receive rashes and abrasions from secondhand clothing as well. Alert: Wash your new second-hand clothing.

The scabies scare is not meant to deter you from supporting your local thrift shops. The pros of secondhand shopping vastly outweigh the costs. Usually thrift stores wash their clothing before putting them out for retail, but “better safe than scabby,” that’s what I always say.

5. Give and Get. Thrift stores are just as excited to sell you their second-hand items as they are to buy clothes from you.

Keep the pile on your hypothetical beanbag from growing too colossal by donating or selling your illfitting clothing.

Now equipped with necessary thrifting tips, you’re probably thinking, “Ingrid, I’m so jazzed to get out there and search for hidden gems and donate my pre-diet (or pre-sophomore-15 butt) jeans!” and wondering, “Ingrid, where do you go bargain-hunting in Lincoln?”

Good ol’ Goodwill is always full of hidden treasures, as well as The Black Market, Ruby Begonias, Cause for Paws, Plato’s Closet, One More Time Clothing and Fashion II Consignment Boutique. My sincerest apologies if I left out your personal thrifting mecca.

Thanks to thrift stores, basking in the post-shopping glow no longer needs to result in a surprising call from your credit card company.

Ingrid is a sophomore broadcast major. reach her at arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Life in Color invites students to attend the official after-party at the Bourbon Theatre which will begin once the event is over and last until 2 a.m. “(Life in Color) will be bigger than probably any other get-together, besides a football game or something, for students on campus,” Johnson said. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Hunting numbers to decrease due to wildfires Unlike some, Douglass MatNebraska Game and ulka, a senior secondary math edParks expects permit ucation major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, isn’t worried numbers to drop by about his hunting results this year.

Matulka primarily hunts whitetail 400 to 500 deer, but he’s also gone after pheasants, turkey and wild boar at his Cara Wilwerding hunting spot near Valpraiso.

DN “The wildlife here is pretty consistent,” Matulka said. “Out West, Two Nebraska wildlife managethe fires are going to push deer ment areas, Metcalf and Bighorn, towards rivers, so a lot of hunters were entirely burned by wildfires won’t see numbers on their land.” this summer. The Nebraska Game He advises hunters to attract deer and Parks Commission warns by providing a natural, sustainable hunters of these conditions in the food source. It is also important to state’s northwest corner. keep your wildlife search restricted Jeff Hoffman, assistant administo areas near rivers or ponds. trator in the wildlife division at the Amy Paulsen, of Norfolk, reguNebraska Game and Parks Comlarly hunts turkey and deer. She mission, said wildfires this year are mainly stays confined to Stanton considerably worse than any in the County, Lane County and Cuming past 30 years. The summer drought County, areas that also haven’t been is one of the biggest reasons for hit by wildfires this year. this, Hoffman said.

Because wildlife is so sparse “All of the grass is just tender this year, Paulsen thinks hunters and dry,” Hoffman said. “When should be conservative, especially you get thunderstorms and lightwhen hunting deer. It’s important ning strike, you get fires. There’s to take care of what’s around us nothing to stop them, so they just and think of the future. go unabated.”

“Let the younger ones grow While Metcalf and Bighorn up,” Paulsen said. “There’s no have experienced sense in killing a the worst condiyoung deer if you’re It’s going to only going to get 10 tions, other wildlife management areas pounds of meat off be a tough have seen damage of it. You can watch as well. Ponderosa year, so don’t get them grow and when was 40 percent greedy and think they’re big enough, burned and Chadthen you can kill ron Creek Ranch of the safety of all them. Hunting is was 20 percent part of the circle of the other hunters burned. life, but don’t get Damage in these around you. greedy.” areas makes it difWhen looking ficult for wildlife to for viable game, Amy Paulsen norfolk hunter survive for numerHoffman urges ous reasons. They hunters to check out have no cover from alternative hunting the elements, no food or water areas. They need to do their homesource and nowhere to hide, Hoffwork, he said. man said.

“They’ll have to go to other “Wildlife basically have to leave public lands, which may present these areas to find those prerequi- crowding problems because it will site needs that they have,” Hoffman put more people in a small area,” said. “Until things start to green up Hoffman said. “Or they may have again, most wildlife will vacate this to find private land to hunt on and area in search of some other type of in some cases pay landowners for cover.” access to their property.”

And when wildlife vacates, Paulsen advises hunters to stay hunters have a lower chance for optimistic and hunt smart during success. Hoffman said the departdifficult conditions. ment expects to see 400 to 500 fewer “It’s going to be a tough year, hunters than last year. so don’t get greedy and think of “We’ll see a reduction of people the safety of all of the other hunters buying big game permits or deer around you,” Paulsen said. “Patience permits,” Hoffman said. “They’ll is going to be the key this year.” probably end up hunting elsewhere sports@ dailynebraskan.com or not at all.”

LineBackers move on after Anderson injury Tuesday’s news that Zaire Anderson tore his ACL was devastating for a linebacking unit that was trying to find a solid starter in the will linebacker position. On Wednesday, linebackers coach Ross Els broke down Anderson’s replacement options.

The top two names: former starter Alonzo Whaley and redshirt freshman David Santos.

“David’s been as prepared (as Anderson) and Whaley’s known this stuff for quite a while, so he’s ready to go too,” Els said.

Whaley, who has been in and out of the starting lineup for years, is expected to battle neck-and-neck with Santos for the starting spot, with Corey Cooper coming in on passing downs as the will in the dime package. Beyond Whaley and Santos in true linebacker packages, options are limited.

“There are a lot of guys that need to produce,” Els said. “But fortunately we have a little bit of depth there. I think we’ll be fine.”

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Amy Paulsen, an avid hunter from Norfolk, shot this turkey in the spring of 2010. Hunting will be more difficult this spring because of wildfires that torched Nebraska this summer.

The Nebraska Games and Parks Commission offers these reminders on burned areas Anyone with respiratory problems should be concerned with ash.

Watch where you walk and park vehicles, as burned weakened trees may fall at any time.

Boundary fences are burned but still visibly delineate boundaries.

Most signs are melted and being replaced.

County roads are in bad condition because potholes caused by dry conditions and heavy traffic.

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Fresh legs help on defense The deployment of a threeman front by Nebraska caught some off-guard.

Defensive line coach Rick Kaczenski said the move is something the team has always done and shouldn’t be a surprise. One thing that may surprise some is how beneficial the formation has been in preventing fatigue of defensive line players. “(Defensive tackle Baker Steinkulher) can’t play 70 snaps,” Kaczenski said.

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Sloppy Practice Els said the Huskers’ practice on Wednesday wasn’t great.

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“Today’s practice was just okay,” Els said. “We’ve got to be a lot sharper to prepare for Idaho State.”

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With the damaged depth at linebacker, Els said he would consider removing one of the freshmen from redshirt status.

Both Thomas Brown and Michael Rose, true freshmen, are expected to compete for a chance to forfeit their redshirt year for an opportunity on the field this season.

“I’m excited about Thomas,” Els said. “He’s been giving our offense fits when he comes off the edge on a pass rush.”

A late arrival, Jared Afalava, will receive a redshirt, with little chance of him coming off that status this season, Els said. Afalava could benefit from a full season to grasp the concepts and ideas of the Blackshirt defense, according to Els. “Jared is a raw, very talented football player,” Els said.

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NU defense needs more speed

Lanny Holstein Husker defensive coordinator John Papuchis wants more speed.

There wasn’t enough of it on the field for the Nebraska defense against UCLA. The Bruins were able to get fast players in space and exploit a Nebraska defense that tackled poorly all night. Athletic mismatches allowed the Bruins to beat the Huskers.

That shouldn’t happen.

It’s not as if the Husker defense is slow and clumsy. There is plenty of speed to go around on that side of the ball, but it isn’t always in the right places.

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quires. But it is possible to find playFranklin torched Nebraska a week ago with his speed out of the back- ers with them.

Zaire Anderson, officially a will field. He was routinely covered by a linebacker coming from the inside out linebacker, was Nebraska’s closest guy to that skill set. Papuchis said last – a major mismatch. week he wanted to get Anderson on Nebraska’s linebackers don’t the field because of his speed, but an have the speed to match up with a back like Franklin in the open field. ACL tear ended Anderson’s season The unit is built to stuff the run and after only one game of action.

That’s a bigger blow than most plug holes, not go cut for cut with a people realize. The Husker coaching speed back. Nebraska is missing the staff was excited about Anderson, hybrid players it utilized to much and I imagine they had some sort of success in the Big 12. hybrid role in mind for him. His inWhere is the Lavonte David, the jury leaves Nebraska Eric Hagg or Dewithout a lot of depth.

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Nebraska is Without a true hyNebraska brid player, Nebraska needs a player missing the has to put its defense or two with inin positions that it between size and hybrid players it can win. It has to get speed. Somebody utilized to much its players in the best who isn’t quite as possible matchups for big as a linebacker success in the Big their skills. but also isn’t quite 12.”

Will Compton, as small as a corfor example, is a very nerback. A player good player, some with the speed to publications had him as a preseason cover a quick running back or slot receiver and the size to be effective in all-Big Ten linebacker, but he is too big to cover the quicker players Nebraska the run game. has seen from three spread offenses.

Players like those don’t just grow He needs to be in situations where on trees. It is a rare combination of he is comfortable, where he is filling skills that the hybrid position re-

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Husker balances life, swimming Krista Van Wie tries to stay fit in pool, smart in classroom and involved at NU Jacy Lewis DN Krista Van Wie has a lot on her plate.

Van Wie isn’t just a studentathlete for Nebraska’s swim team; she is also a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

Van Wie was born and raised in Scottsdale, Ariz., then moved to Grand Island seven years ago. She began swimming in grade school and never stopped. Even the change of states didn’t deter her from her dreams.

“It was hard (coming to Nebraska) because I came from a really comvan petitive swim team to a swim team that wasn’t as competitive,” Van Wie said. “But ultimately got me to where I am now so it was worth it.”

At Grand Island Senior High School, Van Wie set records in the 200 individual medley in 2009, and both the 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay in 2011. She also received an AllHeartland Athletic Conference honor.

“My records have made me realize that I have the ability to do well and improve,” Van Wie said. “Becoming a Husker has proven to me that I have more potential than I thought I did.”

NU coaches have watched Van Wie compete at the high school level and are excited for her to join the Huskers this year.

“Our thoughts are that she is one of Nebraska’s finest swimmers,” NU coach Pablo Morales said. “She is someone we have been watching over the years at the club level and at the Husker swim camps.”

During her senior season, Van Wie finished No. 6 in the 2011 Nebraska High School

State Championships and swam on the Quicksilver Swim Team.

At NU, Van Wie would like to connect with her teammates and improve in her 200 IM and 100 breaststroke. She also wants to contribute in meets and help her team win Life Skills, a community service project and resume builder for the athletes.

Van Wie’s goals aren’t exclusive to the swimming pool though; she also wants to excel in the classroom. She received an academic excellence award while in high school and is majoring in accounting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“Choosing between the sorority, swim team and academics is more difficult than I thought,” she said.

During her freshman year, Van Wie would like to earn a 3.5 or 3.6 GPA and get off to a good start in a new school.

On August 13, wie Van Wie prepared to go to her first day of Rush Week. She decided to go through sorority recruitment, like her sister who is a member of Delta Gamma sorority, and potentially join a chapter.

“Seeing her go through rush and make the friends she did made me want to do the same thing,” said Van Wie. Van Wie made it through Rush Week to Bid Day on Saturday and pledged Gamma Phi Beta. To be in Gamma Phi Beta, Van Wie has to attend Monday night dinners, volunteer and help with their philanthropy.

She is sometimes split between her commitments to her teammates and new-found friends. So far, Van Wie has been able to prioritize her activities and make the most out of the time she has.

“Knowing that I can be with the swim team during the week and my sorority sisters on the weekends helps me manage my time,” Van Wie said. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

up in the run game. Too often against UCLA, and in Nebraska’s other two games as well, Compton had to run from his spot in the middle of the field out to the flat where a running back was open for a pass. Making a big linebacker run through traffic is a recipe for disaster.

Nebraska has enough experienced players at each defensive position, barring the defensive line, to be effective if it can stay out of mismatches.

The issue with the Husker defense isn’t one of talent. Yes, more talent is always good, but Nebraska has the players. They need to get them in better spots. Many of Nebraska’s missed tackles thus far have came from athletic mismatches.

Coach Bo Pelini said a week ago he knows how to fix his defense.

There was improvement versus Arkansas State, but that was Arkansas State. With Big Ten play looming, it’s time to get the speed on the field.

Lanny Holstein is a Junior broadcasting and business administration major. Reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

three keys

NEbraska 1. Prepare for the air raid Idaho State loves to throw the football. Quarterback Kevin Yost leads all of college football with 40 pass completions a game. He has already attempted 109 passes in just two games this season and is averaging 401 yards a game through the air. The Husker defense improved last week against a crazy Arkansas State offense; let’s see what it has against Idaho State.

2. Don’t get caught in a trap All week the media has been downplaying this game.

Nebraska can’t fall into a trap before it starts Big Ten play against Wisconsin in its Big Ten opener. The Huskers must stay focused for this game. The Bengals are a great opportunity for players to rest and for the younger guys to gain experience before the long haul.

If Nebraska doesn’t focus right away and take care of business, it could struggle.

3. The return of Rex Rex Burkhead returns this week after missing the last two games with a sprained MCL. A lot of questions now remain. How will Burkhead look? How many carries is too many for the senior?

How does the coaching staff split the carries with Ameer Abdullah, who played well in Burkhead’s absence?

Hopefully these questions can be answered Saturday.

- Andrew Ward, DN football beat writer

Idaho State 1. Stop the run Idaho State has had a tough time stopping the ground game this season. The Bengals’ front was exposed against the Air Force Academy earlier this season. The Falcons No. 1 rushing attack racked up 484 yards on the ground. ISU needs to slow down I-back Rex Burkhead in his first game back from a sprained MCL. This season NU has managed to attack teams on the ground effectively, averaging 6.3 yards per carry, mostly via backup tailbacks.

2. Stick with the bread and butter Nebraska’s secondary has given up 522 yards passing through the air in its first three games and only managed one interception.

Quarterback Kevin Yost and talented wideout Rodrick Rumble need to connect on as many passes as possible if the Bengals hope to hang in this contest.

3. Keep composed Idaho State’s 2-9 record in 2011 was actually an improvement for the struggling program. Between 2004 and 2010, the Bengals won five games. If Idaho State wants to hang around in this one it needs to forget about the past and not get rattled by the 80,000 strong in Memorial Stadium. It’s just another game, the Bengals should go out and have a little fun.

- Robby Korth, DN Sports Editor

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player. By improving from the tough play of NCAA Division I soccer, she hopes she can fulfill her ultimate goal of playing with a national team.

Nebraska women’s soccer midfielder “I’m sure there are a lot of resourcKatie Kraeutner came to the Huskers es and support here that will help me with high aspirations. get there,” Kraeutner said. “I’m trying Ever since Kraeutner was young, she had dreams of playing for an to take in everything and learn so that NCAA Division I team. The British I can develop as a player and I’m really Columbia native wanted a chance to enjoying it.”

Despite all the goals, Kraeutner experience the tough, aggressive play still wants to focus on the now, espeof United States-college soccer. cially with her team. Kraeutner and Although Kraeutner was looking to come to the US to play college the rest of the Huskers hope they can improve as they hit the midway point soccer, Nebraska wasn’t really on her list of schools. But all of that changed of the season.

“Just competitively when Nebraska coach we need to continue to be John Walker, who knew strong and we need to be Kraeutner’s club coach, more consistent,” freshcame to visit. man defender Caroline As Walker watched Flynn said.

Kraeutner play and As Nebraska extends talked with her, her interBig Ten play this weekest in Nebraska began to end, Kraeutner knows change. A visit to campus she will continue to face sealed the deal. even tougher play with “When I came to visit the physicality of the Big I knew this was definitely Ten and the Huskers will a place I wanted to be and kraeutner have to step up their play I wanted to make an imeven more. pact,” Kraeutner said.

“We need to be winAnd the freshman ning balls in the air for sure, and just midfielder has been an immediate continuing our competitive play, with impact. Kraeutner has started all nine more 1 v. 1 and finishing,” Flynn said. games for the Huskers and has two Kraeutner got her first chance to goals and one assist this season.

While starting as a freshman can experience the difficulty of Big Ten play last weekend when Nebraska be nerve-wracking, Kraeutner doesn’t secured a 2-0 victory against Northlet it get to her. western.

“Of course it’s intimidating and “I think every game in the Big Ten very humbling for me to come in and will be very tough, so I think that first play but I’m trying to make the most of win really gave our team confidence,” it,” Kraeutner said.

But by getting the playing time Kraeutner said.

Perhaps the greatest success and experience right away, Kraeutner with the Northwestern victory last hopes she can be on the fast track for weekend was Nebraska coming tosuccess, so she can be someone to step gether as a team, which is just what up for the Huskers in the future.

“I’m hoping to make the biggest Kraeutner is looking for in her first impact I can on the Husker team and season.

“We really defined what we hopefully we can win championwanted to be as a team which is a ships,” Kraeutner said. hard-working, hard-to-play against While Kraeutner is looking to team,” she said. make a name for herself with Nebrassports@ ka, she said the number one reason she dailynebraskan.com came to the US was to get better as a

papuchis: from 12 said. “Most guys don’t get the chance to call a game with a 25-point margin. It’s not like I could feel the heat was on.”

The experience of the last couple weeks has stayed with Papuchis, he said. After losing to UCLA, he dealt with questions about a subpar defense. After the first half of Saturday’s game, he dealt with coaching not only the defense but also the entire football team.

Papuchis said he hopes he and

the team improve mentally.

“I hope that we grow every week,” Papuchis said. “Even myself, I hope I’ve grown from experiencing what I experienced a couple weeks ago. I hope each player is better from what they learned from that experience. If we don’t learn from those negative experiences then we will never become the team we want to be.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

penn state: from 12 responded with a 9-1 run at the beginning of the fourth set, refusing to lay down for the Nittany Lions. From there, Nebraska dropped eight points in a row, letting Penn State back in, and eventually dropped the set.

The shining light in the Huskers second loss was Hayley Thramer, who finished the match with 10 kills and eight blocks, an impressive stat line for Cook’s team, against a much taller Penn State.

“I thought Hayley had a hell of a match tonight,” coach Cook said.

“Penn State has some great players and she did a super job following the gameplan and that’s how you get eight blocks against a team like this.”

Lauren Cook finished with five kills, 44 assists and four blocks for the Huskers, and though disappointed in the outcome, is looking forward.

“As a captain you gotta figure out, okay, what do we gotta do this week to

keep everyone on the same page and everyone to bounce back and rebound from this,” Lauren Cook said at NU’s press conference on Monday after losing to Iowa State on Saturday.

The road doesn’t get much easier for the Huskers. They will take on No. 23 Ohio State on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.

“It’s a big week, we’re starting off (Big Ten play) with a bang,” coach Cook said. “It’s a long Big Ten season, so you can’t put too much into one game. One way or the other, you just start getting ready to grind it out.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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wideouts: from 12 We try to be as aggressive as possible.

My main goal is to get into the end zone.” quincy enunwa nu wideout

zone.

Martinez cocked back his arm, and drifted a ball just short of Bell.

“I saw one-on-one coverage with Kenny,” Martinez said. “I knew that any DB out there can’t stop Kenny. I knew if he catches the ball he has a good chance of getting in the end zone.”

So he put it where the defensive back couldn’t get it, on Bell’s back shoulder. Any player running quick enough to catch up to Bell wouldn’t be able to stop in time to make a play on it. The ball was Bell’s to lose.

He delivered, snagging the ball and falling into the end zone.

“Great players make great plays,” Enunwa said.

Enunwa makes some great plays in his own respect. While his speed doesn’t equal Bell’s on the field, his ferocity is unmatched.

Enunwa has earned a reputation for throwing bone-crushing blocks and for tearing through defenders, breaking tackles.

In high school, he played running back, and refuses to go down, even in his role as a wide receiver, a position typically associated with more finesse.

“We try to be as aggressive as possible,” Enunwa said. “My main goal is to get into the end zone.”

Although Enunwa has yet to find the end zone this season, he will do whatever it takes to get a Husker into an opponent’s end zone.

In Saturday’s game, Bell and Enunwa met up and combined forces to put another score on the board.

Midway through the second quarter on the 25 yard line, Bell took off, receiving the ball near the goal line. He was trying to shake off a defender.

Enunwa was near the play and ran over, giving Bell, and the defender who hung on him, a shove. Bell fell into the end zone, giving Nebraska an 18-point lead.

“I was going to push him in,” Enunwa said. “As soon as I saw him coming toward me, I was like ‘oh, he’s going to get into the end zone no matter what.’”

Bell and Enunwa have emerged as the two threats Nebraska has been searching for at wide receiver, but they don’t speak about it like they’re the chosen ones. Bell said it’s just a matter of being in the right place and holding on to the ball. He said the offensive line, the quarterback and the running back all have more complicated roles.

“I think we’ve got the easiest job,” Bell said. “It’s just executing routes.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Quincy Enunwa provides a big target for Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez. Enunwa leads NU with 13 receptions.

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Nebraska receiver Kenny Bell has stood out for the Huskers this season. Bell leads NU receivers with 205 receiving yards this year.

NU wideouts Bell, Enumwa coming of age Nebraska receivers give offense best options in recent memory

receiving and more than 10 receptions. Bell has found the end zone three times, twice last Saturday.

While the end zone has eluded Enunwa, he was a mere two feet from scoring in Saturday’s 42-13 win against Arkansas State.

Much of the credit for the deChris Peters velopment of Bell and Enunwa DN can be attributed to their relationship with NU quarterback Taylor Nebraska football has been in Martinez, with whom they have search of a top-flight receiver ever worked for three seasons now, since its career record holder in Bell during his redshirt year. receptions, Nate Swift, graduated “I’ve been throwing with in 2008. them for the past two or three Players have come and gone, years so it’s good,” Martinez said. some more promising than others. “We have so much confidence in Niles Paul had a good run and each other. I know where (Bell is) Brandon Kinnie showed flashes going to be and he knows where of productivity.

I’m going to throw the ball.”

But it wasn’t Both Enunwa until midway and Bell are becomWe’ve through last season ing favorite targets that two players worked hard for Martinez, but began to emerge that’s where the as potential stars. to become the comparisons end.

Quincy Enunwa unit that we are, Each player has a and Kenny Bell led very different style the Huskers in re- and it’s starting to of play. ceiving yards last Bell’s game show now.” season, both reelbenefits from his ing in more than top-notch speed.

290 yards and mulKenny Bell “In practice he tiple touchdowns. nu wideout runs past everybody,” It’s this season, Enunwa said.

Enunwa’s junior year On the field, Bell was able to and Bell’s sophomore campaign, show that off on Saturday. Late in that both players have exploded the first quarter, Bell faced single onto the scene. coverage from an Arkansas State “We’ve worked hard to becornerback, whom he quickly come the unit that we are, and it’s torched as he headed for the end starting to show now,” Bell said.

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Nebraska outside hitter Gina Mancuso struggled in Nebraska’s loss to the Nittany Lions. The senior managed 12 kills on 35 swings, but, she also had a team-high seven errors.

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ebraska volleyball trailed Penn State 17-13 in the fourth set, down two sets to one, when the ball floated Lauren Cook’s way in the front row. She elevated, sneakily flipped the ball behind her head, and it dropped in between two Penn State defenders, cutting the Nittany Lion lead to four. Slapping teammates in celebration, trying to will the Huskers out of a hole, the senior captain was lighting a fire under Nebraska.

Paige Hubl serves the next point, all momentum behind Nebraska, though down two sets to one. Penn State’s Micha Hancock digs the serve, setting up Deja McClendon for another vicious kill, her 15th of the match. The crowd erupts, the momentum shifts, Cook’s face goes blank with emotion. Another opportunity down the drain.

Losing momentum became a pattern throughout the Husker’s 3-1 loss to Penn State in Happy Valley on Wednesday night. The Huskers dropped their second straight match and first Big Ten contest of the season.

“I’m disappointed,” NU coach John Cook said in his postgame radio show. “I felt like we had a shot to win this, but we went soft at critical times.”

The size and strength of the Nittany Lions, a concern Cook had ad-

dressed all week, was the pitfall for the Huskers. Penn State’s Ariel Scott had a dominant performance that no Husker could defend. Scott registered 23 kills on 50 attacks. Her counterpart, Deja McClendon, added 16 kills and 13 digs, willing the Nittany Lions past the Huskers.

The Huskers came out swinging in the first set, sneaking by with a 25-23 win behind Laruen Cook’s 15 assists and Hayley Thramer’s five kills and two blocks. But from there, everything went downhill, the Huskers dropped three straight sets 26-28, 17-25 and 24-26.

“If you can serve and pass you can do all the other things, you can scheme and put blockers in certain positions and get some kind of rhythm,” said Cook, who is now 1-2 against Penn State in Big Ten play.

“But we didn’t do that tonight.”

Game two came down to extra points. At 24-24, Penn State’s Micha Hancock served the ball far out of bounds, but the referee controversially called that a Nebraska player touched it, giving Penn State the lead, and PSU eventually captured the game 26-24.

“I thought in game two we had a chance to win that and then we got some horrible calls,” Cook said. “And that was a huge turning point.”

In game three the Nittany Lions flexed their muscles, making it difficult for Nebraska to get the ball down, dominating 25-17, but Nebraska

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Papuchis makes a memory coaching Huskers in win NU defensive coordinator talks about being thrust into the spotlight

I have tremendous confidence in my staff that they were going to handle things the right way. They did a great job.”

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Andrew Ward DN John Papuchis cut out a newspaper article Sunday morning.

The article talked about Nebraska’s 42-13 win over Arkansas State the day before. However, it talked mostly about the absence of Nebraska’s coach Bo Pelini on the sideline. It mentioned his replacement as well.

Papuchis plans on hanging on to that article.

“I’ll save it and show it to my kids when they get a little older,” Papuchis said. “Hopefully it’s not the pinnacle of my coaching career.”

The Husker defensive coordinator was the fill-in coach for Pelini, who left the game at halftime because of illness. Papuchis and offensive coordinator Tim Beck took over for Pelini, but Papuchis patrolled the sidelines, taking care of the head coaching responsibilities.

Not exactly what he expected entering Saturday’s game, Papuchis said. Did he feel the pressure?

“A little bit,” Papuchis said. “I

mean you get into the game and you get involved. The referees needed to know who to talk to when making decisions on penalties. But there weren’t any real tough decisions to make. I kind of got off easy.”

After watching the film a little closer, indeed nothing special happened, Papuchis said. Though his family and friends got “a kick out of it,” after watching the game again.

They had more to say than Pelini. The NU coach congratulated Papuchis on a job well done and that was it, Papuchis said.

“I have tremendous confidence in my staff that they were going to handle things the right way,” Pelini said. “They did a great job. It was business as usual as far as what we needed to do to win that football game.”

Papuchis said the compliment was more than enough praise for him.

“Bo is Bo,” Papuchis said. “After Sunday we talked about it a little bit.

I asked him what he thought about some of the calls defensively. There were a couple calls he wouldn’t

have made he said. I thought they were about the same aggressiveness. I thought for the most part he was happy with what we did.”

Indeed, Papuchis did nothing out of the ordinary in the victory.

The most outrageous thing he did was in the third quarter when he pumped his arms in the air to get the Husker defense and crowd fired up.

That doesn’t mean Papuchis wasn’t thinking about doing something unorthodox, he said.

“I was joking when I was talking to Bo that I was thinking of faking a field goal and onside kicking it.” Papuchis said. “That would have been a short range for my head coaching tenure.”

Though Papuchis jokes about it, he does think the experience will help his resume in the long run, he said. However, Papuchis said he came in at the right moment to prove he could coach.

“Let’s put it this way, if I put on my resume that I blew a 25-point lead, that’s a problem,” Papuchis

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Husker defensive coordinator does a postgame interview with ESPN after Nebraska’s win against Arkansas State last Saturday. Papuchis subbed in for ailing coach Bo Pelini who left at halftime.