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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dear reader,

I took a day off from the Daily Nebraskan yesterday.

By “day off,” I mean I didn’t come to the office because my throat felt like it had been attacked by a piece of sandpaper, and I saw rainbow spots every time I made the journey from the bed to the toilet.

But, devoted student newspaper soldier that I am, I still fulfilled a few of my duties, one of which is called “checking teasers” in DN-speak. All that means is I go on Hootsuite, the website we use to manage our social media accounts, and look over the short descriptions attached to the links we post on Twitter and Facebook.

In a burst of sickbed inspiration, I changed a Sports headline from “Top 4 college towns” to “4 college towns that blow Lincoln out of the water” because I thought the latter sounded more interesting. I fiddled with the Facebook teaser, too, changing it to read, “Sorry, Huskers: Lincoln didn’t even make the list.”

Commenter Jesse William Schmidt, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior according to the student directory, quickly noticed my error: “How exactly would Lincoln make the list of towns that blow Lincoln out of the water?” he wrote.

And that is the story of how the editor-in-chief of the DN made the newspaper look stupid on the Internet.

I’m telling you this fascinating anecdote for a reason: I want you to tell me when the DN messes up.

See, the DN is run by real, live students who get super sick sometimes and have no idea what we’re doing after graduation and… well, make mistakes. And it’s really important to me that we learn from them.

At its core, the DN is a teaching newspaper staffed predominantly by students with little to no professional journalism experience. Our senior staff members, who have more experience at the DN and at outside internships, lead the rest of the staff to produce the best newspaper and website we can.

Every time you tell us about a mistake, whether it’s through an email, on

our website or via Facebook, we get a little bit better.

So don’t go easy on us. Comment away. Please take the time to point out errors.

Because I’d rather have 1,000 likes on Jesse’s funny Facebook comment than zero. As long as you’re still reading and we’re still learning, I’m pretty happy.

But next time, I think I’ll ask someone else to check teasers.

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DOWN THE BLOCK 11TH STREET OFFERS OFF-THE-BEATEN-PATH ENTERTAINMENT OPTIONS

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Beacon Lounge

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The Old Pub S 12th St

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Old Pub’s diverse crowd keeps it young The Old Pub has had the same regulars for years, who come back for good service, enjoy history of the bar ERIN MANSUR DN The extensive history on 11th Street keeps the Old Pub young. After 37 years and going through its fair share of locals, nothing can faze the establishment. The bar, staff and crowd are a conglomerate of Nebraskans varying in age, lifestyle and culture.

Located at 420 S. 11th St., the bar holds a long tradition in the Lincoln tavern scene. It’s currently owned by Doug Lynch and managed by Debra Barbee. In the last year, Barbee said the two helped move the pub from its last location two doors down, where the Hot Mess is currently located. “(Doug Lynch) a year ago was primarily worried that the pub would close after it lost its lease down the street, and he wanted to keep his old stomping ground going,” Barbee said. “I’ve worked downtown for a long time and this is my and a lot of other people’s favorite happy hour stop.”

The bar’s affairs are mainly guided by Dan Young, 74, one of the original bartenders.

Since opening in 1978 the bar has gradually moved south on 11th Street.

“We were down the street at 308 S. 11th, lost our lease there in ’85, and moved up the street,” Young said. “I like moving toward the warm weather; when we have the ‘Old Pub South’ in the grove of Jamaica, I’ll be totally happy.”

When entering Old Pub, one is welcomed with a smile from one of eight bartenders; classic rock plays over the speakers and is mixed with the smell of salt and beer. Though it’s in the center of Lincoln, it reflects a friendly small-town tavern vibe rather than a college-town bar.

“The fact that it has been in business for 37 years, the same customers for 37 years, and the same bartender, there’s a lot of originality to it,” Barbee said. “It’s a conformable atmosphere to come to, either after work or on the weekends. You’re not going to deal with big crazy crowds, normally.”

Young said the crowd is made up of normal run-of-the-mill Nebraskans who have been coming back for years.

“We’ve had regulars for years come in,” Young said. “They bring their children and their grandchildren. We have everything; quite a few legal people, working class people and college people.”

They serve from noon to 1 a.m. on weekdays and to 3 a.m. on weekends. Though they don’t serve food, they always have warm popcorn and people can bring food for gatherings and sporting events.

“We give out food on Friday – pizza or tacos,” Young said. “We do a lot of potlucks for different occasions like birthdays or retirement parties. Gameday brings in a lot of people and their food.”

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Dan Young, who has been a bartender at the Old Pub for 36 years, serves a beer to a customer on Wednesday afternoon. last 37 years. A steady stream of regulars enter The layout is open with high ceilings, and the chairs are spaced respectably apart. and chat with the bartenders and other cusThere’s plenty of elbow room and space to tomers.

On weeknights there isn’t any urgency, move and breathe easily, something not althe crowd is laid back and engages in converways found in O Street bars. sation with old and new friends. Everyone is The decor is simple. Next to the bar there hangs a 7-foot portrait of a man wearing an welcomed and comfortable with one and other.

Old Pub hat with tattoos covering his arms Happy Hour, gamedays, sporting events and and a cigarette clenched in his broad smile. Soul Night bring in college students, regulars and working class NeThe atmosphere is invitbraskans together from ing, humorously decorated with things such as We have everything; around the downtown area. the large painting of the quite a few legal Young said he and Three Stooges opposite the rest of the Old Pub the bar. people, working class staff have lots of expe“Though it’s a little rience in bars all over bit different from our last people and college town. location because it’s a bit people.”

“I worked at Little cleaner, the bar is practiBohemia; I’ve worked cally replicated the same,” DAN YOUNG original bartender at the old pub at the Moose Lodge; I Barbee said. worked at the old Spigot In the back there’s a when it was across from dance floor. Along the side there are several tall tables able to seat the Cornhusker Hotel,” Young said. “Most of the ‘tenders are girls but we’ve got two or three five to six people. Along the opposite wall the bar stretches nearly the length of the pub. Its guys. They’ve worked all over. Some have counter is made from barn wood used at the worked in the Ally; one worked at Randy’s.

Philip, who is our main night guy, managed original location. at the Cornhusker and worked at Rodizio; he’s Though moving sometimes makes it a struggle for businesses to find new clientele, from South Africa.”

Though they’re not the main demographic, the Old Pub’s slight movements and friendly the Old Pub manages to earn the business of staff has kept many patrons returning for the

college students by providing a different experience from the typical downtown bar.

“They come here and can be normal,” Young said. “Or at least as normal as college kids can be. More graduate students, the folks who are old enough to drink. We try to be as welcoming as we can because we get everything, and I’ve seen everything.”

The beer is cheap, sometimes running as low as $2.50 for a pint of beer. Its drinks are not showy but like the staff, have history that dates back to when the bar first opened. Its Bloody Mary has been made by Dan Young for the last 37 years and continues to gain popularity.

Young said social media has helped promote his favorite drink.

Another pull for students and young folks is the Old Pub Soul Club. This is an all vinyl DJ night the last Saturday of every month.

It’s hosted by the Gettin’ Hipper Fun Bunch, which plays soul, jazz and groove music from the ‘50s. Rik Minnick, or DJ Ol’ Moaner, frequently spins at Old Pub Soul Club.

“The crowd at the Old Pub is just the way we want them,” Minnick said. “Most of the crowd is made up of 20-somethings, but people of all legal ages come out and get down with us. Nobody fights. Everybody shows each other love, and they all keep beggin’ us for more.”

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‘Dive bar’ thrives on loyal regulars, music history A self-proclaimed dive bar, Duggan’s Pub has hosted local bands, well-known musicians through the years CAIT THIESFELD DN The city of Lincoln, especially downtown, is full of character, history and charm. Each bar, restaurant and business has a theme that works to create an image. The 11th Street strip of bars and businesses owns a different culture that creates a home for regulars to continue coming back to.

For more than 30 years, Duggan’s Pub has continued to draw in regulars and gameday patrons through a dive bar atmosphere and endearing staff and ownership.

Jack Gross, Duggan’s owner, opened his drinking establishment on Nov. 1, 1978.

“It was the day that Nebraska beat Oklahoma when they were No. 1,” Thomas “Mole” Kiser said, one of the pub’s original bartenders. “It was crazy. People were coming in too, they brought the goal post down 11th Street. They were selling torches, cutting off pieces of it. So that’s how we started.”

Gross, who is described by colleagues as a “stubborn German,” was born and raised in Scottsbluff. At “69 going on 20,” Gross has seen his bar move to several locations along the 11th street strip and countless bands from in and around Lincoln perform there.

The bar has gone through several changes since the late 1970s.

Duggan’s was originally located where the College of Hair Design is today. It then moved further south down 11th street to the building where The Old Pub is now. On Jan. 9, 1993, Duggan’s Pub made its third and most recent move. Its last move has kept them on the same block, but at the corner of 11th and K streets.

Moving to different locations is consistent with the colorful history of the pub.

“We used to have a pretty rough crowd back in the day… a bunch of bikers,” Kiser said. Bartender Sarah “Sizzle” Meedel added, “We still have the ‘no club collars’ sign up still from back then.”

Duggan’s has since become more of a classic dive bar, fitting the definition offered by the August 2010 issue of Playboy: “a church for down-and-outers and those who romanticize them, a rare place where high and low rub elbows – bums and poets, thieves and slumming celebrities. It’s a place that wears its history proudly.”

Duggan’s Pub has had quite a history of local and well-known musicians and bands performing. Through the years, music genres including jazz, blues and rock ‘n’ roll have graced the pub’s stage. Magic Slim was one the pub’s most well-known and beloved musicians.

“He’d come down here when he moved from Chicago,” Kiser said. “He’d be sitting at the bar. He’d get up and play with everybody.

Tom Kiser, a bartender from Duggan’s Pub, mixes a drink on Wednesday afternoon.

When we first opened, we used to have people standing in line to see Leroy and the Liars.”

Special occasions at Duggan’s have become ingrained as a memorable history at the pub. On one evening, Magic Slim, Duke Robillard and two of the members of Three Dog Night came and performed at Duggan’s after performing at The Zoo Bar. Holly Williams, granddaughter of Hank Williams, surprised the bar with her visit on July 28, 2013.

Local bands, including The Wheezetones, Soul Dawg and Dude Won’t Die, have been hitting up Duggan’s Pub for gigs through the years. Other memorable performances include blues band Kevin Selfe & The Tornados and Omaha’s rock/pop band Two Drag Club.

Each performing musician and band has stamped their music style on the floorboards of the pub, adding to the culture and style of the dive bar.

“Whether they’re famous or not, talent is talent,” Gross said. “There are countless other artists that have a tendency to drop by the bar without notice.”

Duggan’s Pub is at its busiest on weekend nights, along with Karaoke on Sundays and Tuesdays and Open Mics on Wednesdays.

There are several other things that stand out about Duggan’s Pub. 11th Street evokes for Duggan’s a different ambience than the O Street bars. Just off the beaten path, there’s a relaxed atmosphere inside the bar and outside in the beer garden, which allows for smoking.

“We’re downtown, but don’t get your typical frat bar, bar-hopping crowd,” Meedel said. “They are super casual and diverse … you get a lot of the same people that hop around the 11th Street bars.”

Duggan’s Pub also has a great amount of artwork on the walls around the bar and eating/drinking area. Drawn in 1993, the lyrics to “House of the Rising Sun” along with a variety of paintings of memorable musicians by Tim Scott, a disabled Vietnam veteran, have been added to the walls. These musicians include Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Jim Morrison and Eric Clapton.

“Tim Scott was a military man from Lincoln who has never done artwork before,” Gross said. “He asked if he could do a piece for The Old Pub of Marlon Brando. We were really happy with that piece so then he came down to Duggan’s and told us what he want-

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ed to do and we let him. Around that time more people started seeing his work and selling stuff. A few years later, he moved to central Missouri.”

The pub also serves food. Regular patrons said their favorites include waffle fries and fried pickles.

Local regulars Brad Ogden and Thurman Hines of Lincoln have been loyal to Duggan’s for years.

“I’ve been coming to Duggan’s since I was 19,” said Ogden, who became a patron in the days when the legal drinking age was 18. “We know all the bartenders; we grew up with them pretty much. It’s just the kind of bar I like. We don’t like glitzy, glammy places. We like dive bars.”

Hines also used to work at the pub.

“I’ve known the guys here for 36 to 38 years or so,” said Hines. “The owner is kind of special. It’s a good bar. It’s got a good clientele. When they do have some good local bands play here – the Jerry Pranksters, Wheezetones, the Rocking Fossils – those bands are all bands that we grew up with. It’s a working class bar. That’s why we like it.”

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Low-key bar may be best-kept Lincoln secret decided to implement some changes that reflected his vision for the bar.

Libations bar and reception Some were small, like bringing in wine to sell by the bottle or glass, and adding beer spaces provide quiet on tap. Perhaps the most major change Musil atmosphere with original made was his renovation of the extra space in the building. Within the first two years, the artwork on walls room next to Libations’ main bar was remodeled into L2 (advertised outside the building as The Grand), a quaint reception space with a separate bar, additional seating and even a DILLON MITCHELL small dance floor. Later, he would update the DN second floor, CluBlue, with the same amenities but double the size. The entire Libations The strip of South 11th St. between L and M building can hold approximately 400 people, streets is mostly forgettable. and Musil said about three-quarters of their Coming from the North, the left side of business comes from the reception space. the street is occupied by the College of Hair That’s important, because the bar business Design and a parking garage, both relatively isn’t always hopping for Libations. This most new and modern looking. On the right, there’s recent summer was particularly tough. a string of brick buildings with awnings of “We were making zero dollars,” said Muvaried colors. It’s led by the Night Before sil. “My last bartender moved to Omaha in Lounge, which touts “EXOTIC DANCERS” July, and I didn’t have to replace her until two and windows that have been blacked out, weeks ago.” followed by The Beacon Lounge, an Electric Musil blamed the revamping of the HayShaver & Appliance Service shop and finally market area for drawing business away from Libations and its associated reception spaces, Libations, as well as the overcrowding of bars CluBlue and The Grand. in Lincoln. He specifically mentioned BrothThe front of Libations is unassuming and ers Bar & Grill, claiming part of their mission uncluttered. Its green awning juts out of the statement is to drive other bars in the area out building and is emblazoned with the estab- of business, although nothing on the Brothers lishment’s name and a Clip Art-esque martini website, which features a mission statement, glass, signifying the bar’s specialty: 31 types substantiates this. He also has gripes with a of martinis, the names of which range any- Lincoln ordinance that doesn’t allow busiwhere from mouth-watering (Orange Push- nesses to provide outside seating if their sales Up) to confusing (The Sandman) to horrify- of alcohol exceed 40 percent of their gross ing (Monkey Cum). The windows are tinted, sales of food or drink, an issue for anyone though not to the extent of the Night Before, who might want to enjoy Libations while siand there’s a small tree next to the door for multaneously smoking a cigarette. reasons unknown.

Mudloff, who runs “the business office” One step inside, however, and Libations of Libations, said that he expects business to reveals its charms immediately. The room’s pick back up once the novelty of the Haymarlights are dimmed and string lights hang ket wears off. from the ceiling, creating a warm, cozy am“Any new bar or restaurant is going to bience. Besides the short bar, there are mul- temporarily take customers away from estabtiple leather couches and chairs, as well as lished businesses,” said Mudloff, who works two large televisions and as a surgical Registered various board games Nurse at South West People who come spread throughout the Lincoln Surgery Center room (chess, a tic-tac-toe to Libations do during the day. “I’m just board and the peg game as guilty as anyone to so because they want native to Cracker Barrel, want to try and see new to name a few). to have a good bar places. Historically, after Libations’ environthe newness wears off, ment is “low key,” as experience. They know people like to reconnect owner Harlan Musil put that when they come to their old stomping it. There’s no bouncer ground.” here, their drink is being and no cover charge. The Mudloff would also only fight they’ve had in made right. They’re not like to expand into a the seven years Musil younger clientele who has owned the bar oc- going to forget a drink that he said might feel incurred during a private we make them.” timidated to try the bar. party in one of the recepHe hopes word of mouth tion spaces.

HARLAN MUSIL will draw in people tired “We found out [the libations owner of the typical bar scene. party] was being held “Sooner or later, by a gang when another younger crowds gradugang showed up,” Musil said with a laugh. ate to bars like us,” said Mudloff. “They’re “Obviously we called the police and canceled sick of the college scene and want a more the party.” adult experience. I want them to think of us as Musil prides himself on running Liba- a great place to take a date and be able to have tions as an alternative to what he dubbed a conversation.” “the college bar.” He described their crowd as The two owners of Libations want you to anywhere from late 20s to early 50s. When he know that they are there. Musil described the took over Libations seven years ago with his bar as one of Lincoln’s biggest secrets, and business partner JD Mudloff, Musil quickly

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Harland Mussil shows up early to prep Libations before open Thursday evening.

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Libations offers a laid-back drinking scene with comfortable furniture and unique art. one of its best.

“People who come to Libations do so because they want to have a good bar experience,” Musil said. “They know that when

they come here, their drink is being made right. They’re not going to forget a drink that we make them.”

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Screen Ink provides eco-friendly prints 11th Street business offers screenprinting services, donates some proceeds to local nonprofits HANNAH EADS DN About three decades ago, Screen Ink was born in Dan Harlan’s basement, where its screenprinting services were offered to local friends, acquaintances and other small businesses.

In the early ‘90s, he began offering embroidery services as well.

Then in 2004, employee Jason Davis bought Screen Ink and moved it to 11th Street four years after.

“My vision for Screen Ink is far different from what it was when I started working there,” Davis said. “(When I bought it), I wanted to get more involved in the downtown community, but I didn’t turn away any old work.”

Davis learned all his screenprinting skills on the job when he started at Screen Ink in 1997.

The business has been growing steadily every year, Davis said, with more than three times the amount of sales than when it originally started.

Its main business comes from local community events, such as fund-raisers, but its web presence also makes Screen Ink nationally available.

Screen Ink has also made shirts for the American Outlaws, a Lincoln-based group of U.S. national soccer team supporters, since the Outlaws were founded. This year, Screen Ink made them about 15,000 shirts in one month for the World Cup. Davis said with Lincoln being both the capital of Nebraska and a college town, the need for screenprinted materials is higher.

“The (screenprinting) market’s pretty saturated, but there is a lot of demand,” he said.

“And there’s no definite print shop that will swallow up all the work.”

But what differentiates Screen Ink from other screen printing businesses is Davis’ eco-consciousness.

Davis uses phthalate-free ink, recycled and organic apparel, promotes biking to work with his employees and considers himself an “avid recycler.” Screen Ink doesn’t use aerosol spray adhesive anymore, favors board tack and uses a soybean solution to clean the screens for printing.

“It costs more, but I’m willing to pay for it so we can comfortably work and not worry about volatile organic compounds,” Davis said. “It’s a healthier way to get the job done, especially when we work with those solutions every day.”

Davis also reused sliding doors from Ecostores Nebraska to separate Screen Ink’s back room work area from the front showroom.

When he decided on Screen Ink’s current

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Jason Davis coats a screen with emulsion in order to set it up for screening designs onto shirts the next day. The screens, once emulsified, must be given time to set in a relatively dark space so the colors can transfer to the material properly. location, he gutted everything inside, rede- Screen Ink) and making sure your prints are signed the layout and picked out the store’s consistent and accurate and high quality,” Swift said. “It takes a lot of attention to decolor palette.

And with the amount of screen printing tail, but I think Jason provides quality service and product.” businesses in town, Swift and Davis Davis was able to have known each hire all his employees For me, keeping other for years, and through both word-ofwhen Davis needed mouth and the interest in touch with the some extra help in the of other screen printshop, Swift jumped ers and artists. community is a way to on it.

Each of the emkeep Lincoln smaller than “I thought it ployees specializes in would be a fun opsomething different a big city. We’re not a big portunity,” Swift said. at Screen Ink: graphic city, but sometimes it feels “Jason’s a big supdesign, embroidery or porter of the local art screen printing. like we’re growing.” scene, and he’s a real Ben Swift, a partcommunity-oriented time employee, was JASON DAVIS guy.” hired about a month owner of screen ink Davis uses the ago and has been front room of Screen helping out with Ink to showcase a new screen printing postexhibit for every First Friday Walk. These exers and apparel.

He made screen printing his hobby 10 hibitions can be from one artist or it can be a collaboration of artists working with one years ago when he began making posters for theme. In the past, the showroom has held his band, The Killigans.

“It’s a lot of organizational challenges (at 50 custom-decorated skateboards where all

the proceeds from art sales went to Skate For Change, a nonprofit movement geared toward helping the low-income and homeless.

Their current exhibition is a collection of Instagram pictures that Lincoln community members posted with the hashtag #MYLNK. Davis typically lets customers choose which local nonprofits Screen Ink will donate the proceeds to, he said.

“It’s just something we like to do to get involved in the community and show that we care,” he said. “For me, keeping in touch with the community is a way to keep Lincoln smaller than a big city. We’re not a big city, but sometimes it feels like we’re growing.”

Davis said he was disappointed when he couldn’t afford a place in the Haymarket for Screen Ink but has since embraced its current location on 11th Street.

“We’re not really down in the hub of the First Friday Walk,” he said. “We’re more of a destination, but we like the bike path on our block. We’re not that far away from everything. I feel like in the upcoming years this will be a great sort of district; our own part of downtown.”

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Rich Lounge touts relaxed atmosphere for bar-goers CHRIS BOWLING DN It started as a Croatian energy drink.

In 2012, Lawrence Chatters, a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was looking for a way to advertise Rich Energy Drink, a Croatian product for which he and a business partner owned the U.S. distribution rights. After looking around downtown for billboard space, they found they’d be spending close to $3,000 if they went for the Wells Fargo-sized spaces. Instead, they happened upon a different idea.

Smooth was a failing bar at 17th and O streets that never got off the ground because the owner failed to obtain a liquor license. By the time it was close to shutting down, the only people working there were the owner and another person who came and went every now and then.

So in the interest of branding his product with alternative methods, Chatters bought the place and opened a new bar – the namesake of the energy drink.

“We were really looking for a way to continue the branding process for Rich Energy Drink, because if you look at Red Bull they’re not just an energy drink,” Chatters said. “They

have NASCAR, IndyCar racing and other great first impression as soon as you walk in the door.” things like that. So we decided to open a club The diverse staff is another detail that both on one of the busiest corners in the city.”

Lund and Chatters see as something that sets Since then, the bar has turned into one of the more unique bars on O Street. It features the bar apart from other spaces. From a mandesign and architecture that Chatters said is all ager who speaks fluent Swahili and Arabic, to in the effort to make the bar a comfortable and a hookah professional, to a bartender with vast experience, Rich is as intricate in personnel as relaxing environment. it is in design and archi“It is a work of art,” tecture. he said. “It’s intricately It is a work of “The management detailed and that whole art. It’s intricately is great,” Lund said. perspective of how beau“We really take care of tiful it is puts you at ease. detailed and that whole the place and you can It’s a place where you can tell Lawrence and other come in and automati- perspective of how management cares about cally relax. In most other beautiful it is puts you at it.” bars you can go and have In addition to provida good time, but Rich is a ease.” ing a unique atmosphere laid back, sit down and LAWRENCE CHATTERS for the typical bar setrelax kind of place.” owner of rich lounge & bar ting, Rich also provides Another aspect of the amenities that set it apart bar that DJ, bartender from other downtown and hookah master Jerry Lund, who’s also a senior psychology major at spots. As of now, Rich doubles as a hookah lounge, although management is moving away UNL, sees as unique is how clean it’s kept.

“We like to keep the place very clean,” from that as cigar bars and tobacco retailers have been removed from the exceptions in the Lund said. “I know a lot of bars especially on O Street are really trashy and dirty, but Rich is original indoor smoking ban. This won’t hurt clean, decorative and pretty, and that makes a Rich’s business too much, however, as the bar’s

hookah aspect was never crucial to its identity.

“The hookah thing never took off the way we expected it to,” Chatters said. “We started it at the end of last school year, and by that point, of a lot of students had gone home already so our main demographic wasn’t even in town, and by the time, they got back the Supreme Court had already made the decision that cigar bars were unconstitutional.”

Rich also offers its space for rental services which, aside from a possible café that might open to utilize the front of the venue during the day, is ultimately where Chatters sees the business going.

Rich is open Thursday through Saturday, and on any given weekend most of their time is taken up by groups renting out the space.

They do everything from host sorority and fraternity formals to Latin salsa dancing nights.

With a limited availability of spaces like Rich, Chatters only sees this aspect of the business growing.

“There aren’t many reception halls or rental spaces in the immediate downtown area,” Chatters said. “So that’s the future expectation: that the place is going to be a beautiful reception hall in the downtown area that’s close to the university.”

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Film experiments with live-action, animation SEAN STEWART DN “The Congress” opens with a close shot of Robin Wright’s face.

She’s visibly anguished – straining. She’s crying. Her skin is weary and becoming wrinkled. Whatever her struggles are, her distress is palpable. It’s perhaps the most vulnerable Robin Wright we’ve ever seen on screen.

In “The Congress,” Wright stars as a slightly fictionalized version of herself. Her professional career is as we know it. The only details that have been tweaked are those of her personal life. Even here, only minute changes have been made. For example, Robin Wright has two children; in the film she also has two children. But the names and presumably the personalities have been created.

As the lengthy initial shot carried on, my initial astonishment was replaced with a deeply growing respect. The camera pulled back slowly and, off-screen, Wright’s agent gave a monologue concerning the derailment of Wright’s career because of a series of poor choices: the ‘wrong’ substances, men, movies.

Finally, the shot breaks and more traditional cuts take the place of the intensely personal opening. Wright’s agent, played by Harvey Keitel, explains, because of all the disappointments brought by Wright’s choices, he has been able to secure one final offer from the movie studio. The offer: she’d have to digitalize herself. Submit to scans orchestrated by the studio with the intention of creating a 100 percent reliable, versatile, digital actress stored in the studio’s comput-

ers, essentially immortalizing herself and her career while making a lifetime of easy money.

The catch: The real Robin Wright must agree to never act again.

This concept is brought to the screen from the mind of Israeli writer/director Ari Folman, very loosely adapting the novel, “The Futurological Congress” by Stanisław Lem. Folman chose to split the film between live action and animation. The first half of the film, which is live action, chronicles Robin wrestling with the decision of whether to submit to the scan. The second half takes place 20 years later, when Wright travels to a city in the desert founded by the film studio to renew her 20-year digital contract. Entrance to the city is contingent on consuming a reality-altering drug, accounting for the animation.

This hybrid format is tricky, at best, to tackle.

It can be very problematic to carry over tonally into animation what was set into motion with flesh and blood performance. “The Congress,” unfortunately, often falls prey to this difficulty.

Much of the fault, strangely enough, lies in the strength of the film’s live-action portion. Watching Wright struggle with, and ultimately, give in to the decision to be digitalized is the sort of rare gift filmgoers aren’t often given. Her performance is nuanced and affecting. Folman’s direction in these sequences is nothing short of masterful. In one scene, Wright walks through the studio hallway and stops to look at a poster of what is indisputably her most iconic role, Buttercup in “The Princess Bride.” The role represents all of the innocence and potential of her youth and it stares back at her, tragically framed

in much the same way as the opening shot.

The most wonderful melding of performance and direction, though, comes in the breathtaking sequence in which Wright is actually scanned. She stands inside a cage-like frame of lights and sensors, forced to replicate her various expressions and mannerisms while the machine captures it all. She is forced, in essence, to give her final performance – the one that will both immortalize and destroy her career as an actress. As the lights in the framework flash, they invoke the dual imagery of stage lights and camera flashes. Setting the scene up in this way, Folman forces us to acknowledge our responsibility in her surrender. We’re the audience, the ones who wanted both her performances--invoked in the “stage lights”--and her life, suggested in the “camera flash” in the hands of paparazzi. Wright literally sells herself by allowing herself to be scanned, but Folman implicates us, suggesting that selling herself is exactly what we’ve been forcing her to do all along.

Throughout this scene, Keitel’s agent character speaks to Wright to elicit a wide range of emotions for the computer to scan. Keitel rises up to meet Wright’s level of intensity. When the two are on screen together they’re remarkable to watch. The film is rounded out nicely with an excellent supporting performance by Danny Huston as a studio boss and smaller roles from Jon Hamm and Paul Giamatti. Rarely does a cast come together as fluidly as in “The Congress.”

Unfortunately, the film transitions from the incredible scanning scene to animation almost immediately. With the transition most of the film’s problems begin. The screenplay becomes

more opaque, nearing fever-dream levels at times. As the story readjusts to focus on Wright’s attempt to reconnect with her son and break free of the illusion of the animation-inducing drug, we’re left coming down from the performance high the first half of the film induced. We’re never lifted even close to that state again.

This section of the film, though, certainly has strengths of its own. The animation is indisputably gorgeous. The sober imagery of the film’s live action segment is taken over by the zany and even Looney Tune craze of the second. And there is plenty going on behind the wackiness.

The scope of the themes and ideas Folman is trying to explore are impressive and, though they aren’t pulled of to full success, the oftenpsychedelic trip is well worth the ride. In the end, though, the shift in filmmaking techniques is too abrupt. The screenplay loses its surety and leaves us frustrated, feeling somewhat betrayed as an audience.

“The Congress” is near impossible to describe. By its very nature it could have, probably should have, been two separate films. Because of the absolute chasm between the two sections of the film, drawing any kind of final judgment will inevitably be misleading. I fervently wish the film had ended at what for me was the climax: the digitalization sequence. As it is, however, “The Congress” is a bold experiment in filmmaking. Its ambitious animated second half is often too much. The astounding live action half, however, is as breathtaking as it is thought -provoking. It’s dangerously close to perfect.

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Beacon Lounge regulars consider place home ALLI HUPPERT DN Neon lights advertise different beer brands from spacious windows.

In front, there’s a fenced-off area with black wrought iron patio tables and ashtrays.

The wide, blue sign at the top says the name in white block letters: The Beacon Lounge.

Though the 16-year-old Beacon Lounge may appear to be just another run-of-the-mill bar in Lincoln, it’s much more than that. Located on 11th Street, it has in-house karaoke with more than 110,000 songs, 800 of which have been recent hits. Monday through Saturday, customers pile in to have a few beers, head to the stage area and belt out some lyrics.

Bartender Jennifer Blachford said this is one of the best and most fun parts about working at the Beacon Lounge.

“When some high school thespians came to UNL for a convention this summer, many of them came over here to sing karaoke,” Blachford said. “It was a blast to hear them perform.

They were all amazing singers.”

College students aren’t the only customers that frequent The Beacon Lounge, though.

Blachford said the majority of customers are in their mid-to-late 20s and 30s.

Blachford said she has worked at The Beacon Lounge for years. She said her favorite part about working at the bar is seeing all the regular customers and building friendships with them over the years.

“This is their home,” she said. “It’s always great to catch up with them.”

Blachford works on gamedays and sees a lot of the same people from out of town each year.

“If you provide good services, they find where they like to go and stick with it,” she said. “They always come back.”

The bar customers tend to separate into different areas. Blachford said the people who just want to sit and chat sit in the cafe area toward the front of the bar. Those who take karaoke seriously sit near the stage. There’s an area for the common pool player and another place for

those who are more intense and competitive about the sport.

On top of the Beacon Lounge’s multiple pool tables, they also have a foosball table and televisions that play sporting events. Sometimes the bar has foosball leagues for their customers to compete in. They also have a party room with pool tables, which is more secluded than the rest of the bar.

The bar also holds different events for many holidays, including New Years Eve, St. Patrick’s Day, Mardi Gras and Valentine’s Day. “We’re open on days other places are usually closed, like Memorial Day, Labor Day and Christmas Eve,” owner Gary “Bo” Bohaty said.

“The only holiday we’re actually closed for is the Fourth of July.”

Though the bar itself doesn’t have a menu, it has a few different options for customers if they get hungry. The bar’s staff make pizza, Totino’s Pizza Rolls and chicken nuggets. Bohaty said their customers are primarily interested in the alcohol.

“Shots are very popular here,” he said, “but our most popular drink is probably the Liquid Ice Energy Drinks and various types of vodka.”

Though the grey, antique ceiling is the original ceiling from the 1900s, the bar has gone through many changes since Bohaty opened it.

“We had to chisel three or four inches of plaster off of the wall to get the original brick behind it visible,” Bohaty said. “We also shortened the bar a bit and also took out a few walls to create more access between each of the rooms.”

Bohaty has gone through a lot concerning the smoking ban in Lincoln. The ban began in 2005 and has been a problem for The Beacon Lounge and other bars along the strip on 11th Street.

“The Beacon Lounge was the first of the smoking areas here when the ban came on,” Bohaty said. “I got a few tickets because of this but have fought it and have never gone to court for it. We knocked down our smoking room wall so now it’s just all outside.”

MIKE RENDOWSKI | DN Bohaty said he hasn’t heard from the Lancaster County Health Department since.

The bar has many specials, including free pool on Mondays and various drink specials depending on the day. They have ladies’ nights, gentlemen’s nights, penny pitchers and domestic pitchers, just to name a few.

Blachford said she thinks this draws the new

customers in and keeps the regular customers coming back.

“It was either buy an acreage or buy a bar,” Bohaty said. “I figured since an acreage wouldn’t make any money, I would go for the bar instead.”

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Album showcases duo’s personal, professional chemistry GABRIELLA MARTINEZ-GARRO DN A jazzy album of standard covers from Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett is something nobody probably wanted.

The collaboration between 88-yearold Bennett and 28-year-old popstar Gaga sounds like a publicity stunt or some type of joke.

Still, the duo released “Cheek To Cheek” on Tuesday with renditions of classics such as “I Won’t Dance,” “Anything Goes,” “Nature Boy” and more.

Perhaps the most unlikely part of “Cheek To Cheek” is how well the whole thing works.

Despite his age, Bennett’s voice still remains smooth and vibrant while Gaga’s take on

jazz is a natural fit. After her disappointingly low-selling “Artpop” album, it appeared that Gaga needed a comeback of sorts; something that might get her back into the spotlight of her “The Fame” album days. To the surprise of many, however, Gaga’s next step was not another publicity-garnering outfit on the red carpet or another stab at Top 40. Instead, Gaga takes a more conservative approach with “Cheek To Cheek.”

For fans of Gaga, hearing her sing jazz is no surprise. The classically trained popstar has delved into the genre many times, on her Christmas album and in live performances of her own songs.

The thing that sticks out immediately on the album is Gaga’s voice. With a slightly gravelly tone and lower pitch, her voice

appears tired and flawed. Fortunately, this works for evoking emotion and matching Bennett’s tone.

Aside from the kitschy Cher-circa-1987 look Gaga has adopted for the album and its live performances, the album feels genuine.

The pair sounds natural singing together as Gaga does most of the swing and vocal acrobatics, leaving the harmonies and slower parts to Bennett.

Going beyond the album, a simple Google search and a bit of research shows that Bennett and Gaga’s friendship has been around for a few years. The two clearly have an admiration for one another, and it shows on the album. Neither artist attempts to outshine the other, leaving plenty of room for collaboration and improvisation from the two.

Despite the obvious appeal of the Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin standards, the tracklist dulls down the duo’s efforts.

Songs such as “Let’s Face The Music And Dance” and “But Beautiful” feel like they were created to play as background music in a hotel lobby. Not to any fault of the singers, but such an inventive duo deserves to either sing unique songs or sing standards in an inventive manner. Either way, some of the renditions on the album could be skipped.

Despite dullness, the talent on the album is abundant, and the chemistry is too. The collaboration is one that nobody may have looked forward to, but “Cheek To Cheek” might just be the breath of fresh air both Bennett and Gaga need.

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DN Dare: Columnist challenged to rock out on plaza Miles Rothlisberger

It’s time to rock out, Nebraska.

Hell yeah. It’s time to rock out to some Husker Red chords and tear a fissure through the crusts of the earth and render a Husker Red world.

Yesterday afternoon, the radtacular Daily Nebraskan band, Be Kind Rewind, set out onto the Nebraska Union plaza for a purpose. My guitar-wielding friend, “Gibson Joe,” his guitar, Lucy, and I, “Wild Miles,” had a gig to meet and a time to throw some crazy notes.

Well, “gig” is not quite the word. We weren’t hired by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to perform and, I guess, I was originally dared by my editors to actually sing badly to decent guitar playing on the union plaza.

But those are just, like, boring details, man.

What a drag. What matters is that we rocked out, man!

We totally blew the audience out of the water with our mad songs. Did a couple dames ovulate when they heard Joe’s A-minor? Oh, I bet. Did I totally wow people with my angelic voice? Well, I wouldn’t say “wow” so much as “serenade.”

Let me throw the juicy stuff down. First, we opened up with a killer ballad, called “Skinny Clothes on a Line,” which discussed the serious culture surrounding tight clothing while being absolutely meta. After that, we played “Suffer-

ing from Inferiority Complex,” a song about how we’re all husks of anxiety and pain on the inside and how we hide that pain.

After that, we played some more songs, were total dudebros and left the scene before groupies stampeded.

But yeah. We have songs called “Voices Bequeathed On Ice” and “Inner Harlequin of Journalism Fjord.” I’d explain them, but their meanings and the theme of the lyrics are probably super obvious.

But seriously, man, at the end, we scored two dollars from some fans. Two dollars! I bet Bon Jovi didn’t rock out as awesomely and earn so much money when he started.

How did we do so well, you ask? The first thing you’ve got to know is that it’s not easy being a rocker like me – it’s super hard, in fact.

It takes a lot of hard work or really, really good genes.

Like, I would never have known that I was such a great musical prodigy if my editors hadn’t turned into “the Man” and made me work. It was a downer at first, but after I started revealing my natural talent, I was all like “whatevs.”

“I’m a rocker, now,” I said to myself. “I’m not some, like, dweeb or nub or something.”

So you just gotta shout out.

Then, you need to find an awesome guitarist. If you’re gonna be a gnarly and dank lead singer, you can’t be the one, like, using your hands for anything other than air-guitaring and making some weird hand signals and shit. In my case, I’m lucky to have “Gibson Joe” to play some awesome tunes while I scream wickedly into the ears of our newly loyal and loving audience. With his help, we totes helped ensure that the union will become a new Woodstock in the future.

Then, get the hair, man. Grow it out. Let it run wild like a water buffalo or gazelle. Then swing it around like a medieval flail as your

HALEY HEESACKER | DN hoarse voice shrieks lyrics of intense emotion into the air and straight through Zeus’ skull.

I have to say, my friends, I’m glad I did that dare, despite my inner dude or something calling me “tone-deaf” and stuff as I sang really loud to Joe’s music. I think we’re gonna kill it, if we keep going.

If you want to hire Be Kind Rewind at your

next social event, give a call to our managers at the DN. If you just wanna chillax, show us how much of a rocker you are and maybe we’ll consider letting you sing with me.

As a kindness. They don’t call me an “acoustic douchebag” for nothing.

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‘Tusk’ blends comedy, horror to perfection JACK FOREY DN “Tusk” is a movie you’re not quite ready for.

It’s the kind of movie you go into expecting one thing, and you get that thing, but you get so much more than you bargained for. In this case, that would be Justin Long going through one of the worst on-screen ordeals in recent history.

The inception of “Tusk” has been well publicized: the script spontaneously developed out of an episode of Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier’s podcast, during which the two discussed a Craigslist ad posted by a man who offered free room and board if the rentee would dress like a walrus. The duo developed a story around the bizarre artifact, then took to Twitter to ask if fans would like to see the idea turned into a movie. Fans tweeted #WalrusYes, and now here we are.

Our main character Wallace (Justin Long) is also a podcaster, who with his friend Teddy (it’s Haley Joel Osment, people. “I see dead people,” Haley Joel Osment is in this movie) runs a

shock humor brand called the “Not See Party.”

We open on these two characters shooting the breeze, and everything feels fine. It’s funny banter and all the familiar Smith-isms are there.

This is a devious trick the movie pulls.

Soon, Wallace is on his way to Canada to interview an internet celebrity. Canada itself soon becomes a character in “Tusk.” Wallace meets an airport employee who coaches him on “Cana-do’s and Cana-don’ts.” He complains to his girlfriend that Canada is so painfully normal. He goes to a gas station and buys the Canadian version of a Big Gulp: a Chug-Eh-Lug (get it?). The quaint waters of the True North are disturbed when Wallace hunts down a new story, driving into the Canadian countryside to meet a storied man who calls himself Howard Howe (Michael Parks).

When Wallace gets to Howe’s home, there is a very long scene of dialogue between the two of them. It’s a fascinating, even pleasant conversation that I didn’t find myself bored with once.

Howe tells Wallace about his long, eventful life, which includes getting lost at sea and meeting

Ernest Hemingway. Wallace laughs and gushes at every single beat of the man’s story, not seeming to absorb the gravity of his words. It’s an excruciating scene to watch knowing what comes after.

Howard drugs Wallace and explains to him what he plans to do. He wants to sew Wallace’s body into a realistic walrus suit, so that he may once again enjoy the company of a creature he perceives as more pure and good than mankind.

The premise borrows a few beats from “The Human Centipede,” but here it’s executed with more humanity. It’s that humanity that makes “Tusk” all the more terrifying.

“Tusk” may be the best horror film I have seen in years because it takes a different approach to horror entirely. Gone are the conceits of jump scares and freeze-dried ghosts from Smith’s vision. What makes “Tusk” so horrifying is its tendency to unexpectedly slip back and forth between comedy and horror. This isn’t a comedy horror film in the vein of “Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil” or “Shaun of the Dead,” but a straight horror film that uses comedy as a weap-

on. The quaint Canadianisms and witty banter of the podcasters betray a grisly reality waiting for our main character in the darkness of Manitoba, in the way that Kyle MacLachlan discovered the madness of Frank Booth in his childhood neighborhood in “Blue Velvet.”

Known primarily for his comedies, Kevin Smith has been a considerable talent ever since his bare-bones debut “Clerks” back in 1994. Occasionally, he proves himself to be a director capable of brilliance. He has two films I would consider brilliant: “Chasing Amy,” and now “Tusk.”

It could be that even though he’s a gifted comedy writer, Smith’s true calling is horror in the vein of this film. “Tusk” is a disturbing marbling of the silly and sick and is best described as just a plain icky film. But horror is as horror does, and “Tusk” left me feeling a sublime combination of giddy joy and existential terror.

It also left me pondering a mystery older than the Sphinx: Is man actually a walrus, deep down?

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LPD investigates rape in former faculty member’s apartment Police were called to the apartment in May to investigate the sexual assault of a 21-year-old female STAFF DN The Lincoln Police Department is investigating the rape of a 21-year-old woman at the apartment of a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty member, the Daily Nebraskan has learned.

According to the initial police report, Lincoln police were called to an apartment complex located near the Capitol on May 8 at 4 a.m. The report states that a woman was raped, but all information related to the suspect has been redacted. Lincoln Police aren’t releasing the suspect’s name, and the Daily Nebraskan has chosen not to publish the name of the faculty member, which was

received through an anonymous tip.

The apartment belongs to a former faculty member of the Glenn Korff School of Music, according to an online database and neighbor confirmations. That employee no longer works at the university, UNL News Director Steve Smith said in an email.

“Because this is a personnel matter that is confidential, we cannot comment further,” Smith said in an email Wednesday.

The DN was informed of the sexual assault after receiving an anonymous tip on July 25. The source accused the former faculty member of raping a student in May during finals week. The source, who claimed to be a friend of the victim, said the sexual assault occurred the week of the victim’s graduation.

On Monday evening, the DN received another anonymous tip claiming details similar to the first source. The second source said the former faculty member was released from employment last week and was supposed to be voted for tenure this week.

LPD Public Information Officer Katie Flood said the case is still under investigation and no arrest has been made.

“All I can confirm is that LPD is investigating a sexual assault reported to have oc-

where the alleged rape occurred. curred in early May,” Flood said in an email When he asked what was going on, the Wednesday. “The victim reported that she knew the suspect – it was not a stranger at- officer said Lincoln Police were following up on an investigation. tack.”

“The cop asked, ‘what kind of people live The investigation comes at a time when here?’” Berger said.

Congress, the White House and many uniThe DN reached versities have begun to out to UNL’s Title IX crack down on campus Because this is a office on Tuesday to sexual assaults. UNL confirm that the uniis one of 200 schools personnel matter versity was conducting helping in the White that is confidential, we its own investigation House-led effort “It’s of the sexual assault.

On Us,” which aims to cannot comment further.”

Under Title IX, UNL shift the conversation is required to take away from furthering STEVE SMITH immediate action to rape culture and victim unl news director eliminate sexual hablaming. rassment, prevent its The Centers for Disrecurrence and address ease Control and Prevention says that nearly one in five women its effects, even if the victim doesn’t want to file a complaint. and one in 71 men reports being raped.

Arturo Perez, associate director of Equity, A knock on the door of the former facAccess and Diversity Programs, oversees ulty member ’s apartment went unanswered UNL’s Title IX office. He said he couldn’t Wednesday afternoon. Neighbors said a Linconfirm if the university was investigating coln police officer had been on their floor the reported sexual assault. earlier this week. Casey Berger, a senior NEWS@ electrical engineering major at UNL, recalled DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM an officer knocking on the apartment door

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8 fun things to do on a budget in Lincoln Let’s face it. You’re sick and tired of asking your friends the same old question: “What are we gonna do tonight?” The usual problems arise. Your friends are either broke, cheap or unimaginative. Well, here are a few day and night outing ideas that even your cheapest, dullest friend

might enjoy.

1. $5 movie nights at the Grand and $1 student movie nights at The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Movies today are expensive. An average movie ticket costs $8 to $14 depending on if the movie is in IMAX or 3D, and which theater it’s shown at. Luckily, the Lincoln Grand Cinema offers $5 movies on Tuesdays for everyone and $5 movies on Thursdays for students. If you’re looking for more indie-type films, The Ross also offers student appreciation nights every few weeks, where movies, popcorn and drinks are all $1.

2. First Fridays

5. Free shows for students at the Lied Center for Performing Arts The Lied Center hosts an “Arts For All” program that allows students to get free tickets to select shows throughout the school year. Tickets for fall semester events are available. Tickets for spring semester events are available beginning Jan.13.

6. Pioneer’s Park

First Fridays in Lincoln are perfect for nights out on a budget.

On the irst Friday of every month, art galleries and businesses downtown, such as Gallery 9, Tugboat Gallery and Burkholder Project, open for free. The public is invited to pursue art, listen to live music and sample free drinks and food from various places.

Living in Lincoln without discovering Pioneer’s Park is a bit of a crime. The massive park, which is free, contains everything from serene ponds to buffalo that are contained within its space. Whether it’s a study date or a romantic one, Pioneer’s Park contains enough beauty and sprawling land to accommodate anyone.

3. Dad’s Beer Night at Duffy’s

7. Sunken Gardens

Everybody seems to love dads nowadays. Luckily, Duffy’s Tavern offers patrons the chance to drink the beers of the dad world for cheap. Every Tuesday starting at 9 p.m., Duffy’s offers PBR, Busch Light, High Life and Hamm’s for $1, and Rolling Rock, Old Style and Grain Bell for $1.50.

The season of the Sunken Gardens is a special one in Lincoln.

Located on South 27th Street, the beautiful gardens are perfect for an afternoon stroll. Though only 1.5 acres, the free gardens feature more than 30,000 individual plants, a gazebo and multiple koi ponds.

4. Sheldon Museum of Art With more than 12,000 objects in their permanent collection, the Sheldon is one of the most interesting places in Lincoln. In one outing to the museum, it’s possible to see works from artists such as Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper. Not to mention it’s free.

8. Taco Truck on 118 N. 27th St. As far as we know, this food truck has no name. But like a horse with a similar predicament, we find ourselves coming back to it again and again. It serves chicken, steak and seasoned pork in your choice of tacos, tortas, burritos and baked potatoes.

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The problem with pluto Point/Counter point

Pluto case proves science evolves Amy Kenyon

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n Aug. 24, 2006, dear Pluto was demoted from its status as the ninth planet in our solar system. I remember the news, an explanation on the basic reasoning from my dad and a brief discussion in my eighth grade science class. More importantly, though, my generation remembers the important homages to Pluto: the Magic School Bus solar system episode, the name of Mickey Mouse’s dog and occasional irate Tumblr posts. Plenty of us have yet to adjust to this decision, even though it was made eight years ago. I, for one, took the change personally then, and the verdict remains controversial today.

At the International Astronomical Union meeting in Prague, 424 astronomers made the decision to reclassify Pluto. It came after years of debate and resulted in new definitions for planet, dwarf planet and small solar system bodies.

The main arguments for demoting Pluto were that it has an irregular orbit that crosses into Neptune’s path, dips above and below the orbital plane of

the other planets and hasn’t cleared its orbit of other spacial objects. According to NASA, Pluto has five known moons.

The largest of these is Charon, which is almost half the size of Pluto and affects the center of mass for Pluto’s revolution.

There are several holes in this argument. If Pluto cannot be a planet because of Charon, why is Charon still considered a satellite, or moon, rather than a fellow dwarf planet? Maintaining Charon as a satellite seems to say that Pluto is, in fact, the stronger celestial body. In addition, “Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune all have asteroids as neighbors” and “Jupiter has 50,000 trojan asteroids,” said Alan Stern, lead investigator on NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. At what point do we distinguish between satellites and objects that interfere with planetary status?

Pluto’s status was part of a much larger issue of clarifying planetary classification. As more objects were discovered in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, scientists had to reconsider the limits of our solar system. As the New York Times reported, the event was “a triumph of science over sentiment.”

Pluto couldn’t remain a planet simply because it had been classified as such for 40 years.

I realize that I can’t defend Pluto simply because of the time I spent identifying Pluto on charts, naming it on quizzes and trying to wrap my young brain around something that small

and far away. However, as eight years of ongoing debate – including today’s columns – will tell you, erasing that knowledge doesn’t occur easily.

I’m not arguing that scientific definitions are never going to change. If that were the case, science textbooks would still insist that the Earth is flat.

Instead, I’m pointing out how scientific decisions don’t exist inside a vacuum.

Though they should perhaps rise above social influences, they cannot assume they will have no social influence themselves.

I am not a scientist. I took one semester of astronomy my freshman year.

However, the first unit of that class was on the history of thinking about space and developing models to try to explain what’s beyond us. If I learned anything from that class, it’s that astronomy is often, quite literally, a shot in the dark.

Of course it’s constantly changing and of course we have to redefine what we know. As columnist Taylar Morrissey points out in her counterpoint, we don’t always understand what we’ve discovered. Pluto’s story tells us that science is often about finding new ways to describe and organize what we’ve learned.

So perhaps we should also change how we present scientific facts to students. My education classes have had multiple discussions about what we should expect students to know at different check points and what subjects may be too advanced for certain age groups. Too often we give students

over-simplified textbooks and expect them to be accepted as law. We classify “achievement” as memorizing and regurgitating facts for standardized tests.

Then we put students in advanced classes and tell them half of what they thought they knew is wrong. That’s where my devotion to Pluto came from as well as my frustration with its change.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t trust scientific knowledge. Everyone needs a basic understanding to function in society, and plenty of scientific laws have been continuously evaluated and proven true. But we shouldn’t act like the process of these discoveries is a big, mysterious thing beyond students’ ability. We can still break down subjects and teach them in comprehensible steps, but let students know that each step leads to another.

Maybe we shouldn’t try to teach students that the truth is black and white. Maybe we should trust them to understand that some fields are complicated and likely to change. Maybe we should realistically prepare students for the great big complicated universe.

Maybe I wouldn’t be so offended by Pluto’s loss if I hadn’t been given false assurances as a child.

Amy Kenyon is a senior Secondary Education English and Theater major. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com or follow her on Twitter @ AmyKenyawn

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Science declares Pluto isn’t planet Taylar Morrissey

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luto is not a planet.

I’m sorry if this revelation ruins your childhood mnemonics or countless TV shows and movies, but it’s a fact. Pluto is not a planet nor does it deserve any status as an “honorary” planet.

It has been eight years since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, and people are still upset about it. From heart-wrenching comics to Internet stand-offs, for some reason people cling to the idea of Pluto as a planet. Why? I swear no one cared at all about Pluto until scientists reclassified it.

Let’s look at the facts. In 2003, astronomers discovered Eris, an object roughly the same size as Pluto but farther out in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt contains thousands of small icy objects similar to Pluto and Eris. Eris’ discovery led to a debate between astronomers, and by 2006, they developed a list of characteristics to define a planet. A planet orbits around the Sun, has sufficient mass to assume a nearly round shape, is not a satellite and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.

Pluto and other dwarf planets meet most of these characteristics but lack certain crucial elements. The main difference between dwarf planets and regular planets is the last point on the list. Dwarf planets, Pluto included, haven’t cleared the neighborhood around their orbits and therefore aren’t classified as planets. In fact, there are currently three known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt: Pluto, Eris and Makemake.

Dwarf planets in this particular region are called plutoids, in honor of Pluto.

Lately, journalists have hailed new scientific discoveries about Pluto as “Pluto’s big comeback.” One particular article comes originally from the Scientific American and was published on salon.com. There are many things I could say about this article and the way it’s titled specifically as clickbait for the website, but I’m going to focus on the science. In the article, astronomer and Pluto advocate Ken Croswell gushes

about Pluto’s newest assets on its “planetary resumé” including five moons and an atmosphere. While these are exciting discoveries with respect to our solar system, they have no bearing on Pluto’s place as a planet. Croswell is quick to throw around some passive-aggressive jabs like in his opening hook: “Poor little Pluto. In 2006 astronomers ganged up on it and voted to strip it of its planethood…” However, he fails to acknowledge that the main distinction between actual planets and dwarf planets hasn’t changed, nor has Pluto overcome it. Pluto is still unable to clear the neighborhood around its orbit, which means whether it has one moon or five, it’s still a dwarf planet.

Really, “dwarf planet” is one of the best ways to describe Pluto. This little icy rock has a diameter of about 2,300 km, or about half the width of the United States, and is smaller than Earth’s moon.

The smallest planet in our solar system, Mercury, is twice the size of Pluto. Since Pluto takes 246 Earth years to orbit the sun and wasn’t discovered until the 1960s, Pluto didn’t complete even one rotation around the sun between its discovery and its reclassification as a dwarf planet.

So, why, with all this science, do people still insist on giving Pluto honorary status or clamoring for it to be a planet? The answer is more human than we might like to admit. Humans are creatures of habit. We resist change. In its 40-year run as a planet, Pluto was

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part of the curriculum for several generations of students. Reclassifying Pluto forces us to reevaluate what we know, and we don’t always like that.

While Pluto may hold a place in some hearts, it’s scientifically, and for all intents and purposes, not a planet. It probably shouldn’t have been classified as a planet in the first place. Instead of holding on to the sentimental memory of Pluto the planet, we should accept that our knowledge of the universe is ever-growing and changing. We don’t always understand what we discover, and we could be wrong about what we find at first. Advances in science aren’t always welcomed with open arms (just look at Galileo), but where would we be without them? Instead of fighting our new knowledge, we should be open to our new discoveries. You never know what we might find next.

Taylar Morrissey is a Senior Film and New Media major. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com or follow her on Twitter @ tayngerous

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Women shouldn’t hyper-sexualize themselves There’s little to no evidence supporting the notion that women choosing to hypersexualize themselves is liberating or even different from present cultural attitudes.”

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omen’s sexual liberation might be more complicated than we think. Women are declaring their freedom from oppression and patriarchal dominance by asserting their right to their own sexuality.

The fight for freedom of choice is at the forefront of the news, and contraceptives are being made widely available and increasingly affordable. Female music artists especially have been happily enjoying this newfound sexual freedom, using their music as a way to express their sexuality and ability to enjoy their bodies. This is all well and good, but I struggle to understand how these proud declarations of freedom have resulted in a long series of prurient musical gems like “Booty” and “Anaconda.”

Apparently, they’re empowering. Or, at least I think that’s what I’m supposed to believe. Both music videos involve women wildly twerking and slapping their rears to snappy beats. The artists’ main focus isn’t on the music but on the excessively sexual content, which has understandably sparked discussion on whether their lurid displays are feminist or not. Many have applauded their efforts. Derrick Clifton, staff writer for online magazine Music Mic, praises Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” as empowering to women. “...It’s important when women like her fire back against male perspectives,” Clifton said. “She’s showing that it’s not only men who should be allowed to show themselves as sexual beings, in and out of their music.”

Maybe this is what Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Lopez, Iggy Azalea, Miley Cyrus and the rest of the long list of female musicians believe they’re doing when they hyper-sexualize themselves in music videos. If that’s so, then they’re seriously misinformed. The truth is throughout history women have never been allowed to be anything but sexual beings.

Historically, women have been regarded as mere extensions of their sexual capabilities. According to Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness,” most medical professionals in the 19th century believed “female psychology functioned merely as an extension of female reproductively, and that women’s nature was determined solely by her reproductive functions.” This idea has been around for centuries, dating back as far as Plato, who also believed women were controlled by their “animal-like” sexual organs. Everything about a woman was

mike rendowski | DN considered sexual because her only “grand purpose” was to bear children. This sexual objectification of women, believing they were predominately made for reproduction, caused people to assume they were filled

with “insatiable lust” and “prurient desires.”

If you want to know where repressed female sexuality came from, you needn’t look any further than this. Women weren’t allowed to express their sexuality because they were

believed to be inherently sexually deviant.

Basically, they weren’t allowed to be sexual because they were too sexual.

We can see how this insidious attitude has poisoned our culture. It’s no surprise that women are continually and totally objectified by our media. The documentary “Dreamworlds 3,” written by Sut Jhally, describes in detail the appalling way women are used as nothing more than pornographic props in the music industry. In the film, Jhally laments the one-dimensional prison women face as being routinely presented “only as sexual beings whose main function is to be pleasing to men.” Jhally said the problem isn’t in sexual images or making objects of our desires, but in our society “women are portrayed as nothing else.”

Women are so routinely depicted as sexual objects that even seeing a woman’s body can cause some men to mentally dehumanize her. A study led by psychologist Susan Fiske of Princeton found when presented with images of a woman’s sexualized body, some men’s brains associated her with an object – rather than an agent – of action.

Alarmingly, these men’s brains indicated no activity in the area that recognizes another person’s mental state or consciousness. In other words, they didn’t recognize her as a real person.

And yet, we’re still being told that women who portray themselves as hypersexual beings are somehow empowered by it. There’s little to no evidence supporting the notion that women choosing to hypersexualize themselves is liberating or even different from present cultural attitudes. In fact, it’s far better argued that it only further tightens the age-old sexist chains that have ruled our gender relations for centuries. If women were considered to be mere extensions of their sexuality for centuries, gaining “empowerment” from objectifying themselves is like returning to prison after captivity and calling it “freedom.” Women aren’t liberated by getting naked and singing questionable serenades about their “booty.”

Women will be liberated when they’re free to be powerful without being objectified at all.

Tegan colton is a senior English major at UNL. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com or follow her on Twitter @teegsbeegs

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Sexual assault fight belongs to everyone Savannah Tyrrell

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here is a hidden crisis on our campus.

It’s an offense where alcohol is the weapon of choice, where the criminal often doesn’t think what they’ve done is a crime and where most cases go unreported. The crime is rape. The crime is that those of us who aren’t victims remain silent.

Sexual assault psychologist David Lisak conducted a survey on the University of Massachusetts campus about men’s sexual experiences. Out of 1,800 men 120 readily admitted to raping women – many of them reoffending up to six times. Together these 120 men were responsible for 439 rapes, none of them were reported.

Last week Generation Progress launched a campaign with the White House to “change the at-

titude of college students and faculty members on sexual assault by making people think of sexual assault not as something just between a victim and a perpetrator, but an incident in which the rest of us have a role.” The movement is one that largely focuses on the male role in preventing campus sexual assault. The name of the campaign: It’s On Us. It’s on all of us to intervene and educate potential perpetrators of campus assault, to listen to victims and to be aware of our intuition – because rape rarely involves men in dark ski masks yielding a knife. There is no rape radar. So, we need to intervene when we sense something wrong and to express negativity when derogatory names are used to identify women. We must tell our youth and peers that the word “force” implies aggression and that it’s not OK to force a woman to engage in sexual activity.

We can prevent rape because the opinions of peers are a huge influence in behavior. NPR columnist Laura Starecheski gives an example derived from their research, she said, “Let’s say you have a peer group of 10 guys… one or two are constantly talking about, ‘Oh, I bagged this b- - - h.’ Many of the men listening to that are uncomfortable, but they think that the other men support it through their silence.”

This is one of the instances where silence can

lead to a woman, intoxicated and unable to defend herself, ending up with the words “I was raped,” on her tongue the next morning.

We can be silent no longer. Starecheski mentions MVP, or Mentors in Violence Prevention, “which matches (high school) upperclassmen with groups of incoming freshman,” to take on difficult discussions regarding relationships, drinking, sexual assault and rape. This program is beneficial in both the mentors and mentees’ lives. One MVP now said he isn’t afraid to talk with his fraternity brothers when they address women in a way that makes them uncomfortable. And he channeled his own advice to help a girl at a bar in college. The way he helped? He used his intuition to sense that something was wrong between a man and a woman and he simply went up to the girl and asked her to walk away with him – and she did.

Most people know that rape is wrong. In fact, John Foubert, a psychologist in Oklahoma, said, “It’s important to remember that 90 percent of men have never committed a rape. The key is opening their eyes to what’s going on with the other 10 percent, so they can see it and intervene.” We need explicit awareness to diminish rape, and the “It’s On Us” campaign is a huge step. We now have a platform, backed by the White House, to hold ourselves accountable for preventing sexual assault.

This is the way to instill in people’s minds that it isn’t OK to manipulate a situation in order to have sex with someone – “like we have eroded the idea that it’s fine to get drunk and get in your car,” one MVP said.

By visiting ItsOnUs.org you can find tools to help with your breach of silence. You can pledge to recognize that non-consensual sex is sexual assault, identify situations in which sexual assault may occur, intervene in situations where consent has not or cannot be given and create an environment in which sexual assault is unacceptable and survivors are supported.

Mychal Denzel Smith of The New York Times said, “If the goal is to reduce or eliminate rape, getting men to stop raping would seem the logical solution. But this would involve an honest conversation about our devotion to a warped and toxic vision of masculinity, sex and power that would completely uproot the current social order.”

It’s time to uproot the current social order. And, while this may seem like an impossible task, we can do it together. Because as Emma Watson recently quotes in her speech to the United Nations on feminism, “If not me, who? If not now, when?”

Savannah Tyrrell is a third year Advertising & Public relations major.

Reach her for comment at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

Throwback: More than an agenda ››Editor’s Note: Today is Throwback Thursday.

Every so often the DN will republish columns from our archives. This segment is meant to give readers an idea of what columnists felt were issues worth writing about during their time at the DN. ››Original Editor’s Note: Each Tuesday this semester, the Daily Nebraskan will print an opinion column from a guest columnist. Each works at the University of Nebraska or is involved with an issue that affects our campus or our students.

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he Women’s Studies Program. Feminism? Lesbianism? Of course! And a lot more. Women’s Studies isn’t just about “understanding gender differences and how they continue to affect different aspects of society,” as Jessica Flanagain puts it.

It is about rewriting history to include women and rethinking traditional and contemporary mancentered theories and practices in all academic fields, including English, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, family science and the study and application of the natural sciences and technology.

And it is political. It came out of a political movement.

There is an assumption that all fields other than the obvious ones, like Women’s Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Queer Studies and Ethnic Studies, etc., are apolitical.

However, the university itself, as a publicly funded institution, came out of a political movement. It is inherently political, as are all fields within it, including philosophy, English and journalism.

It is also assumed that the status quo is apoliti-

cal, objective and representative of everyone’s experiences. In fact, the very presence of women in the university at all is a result of a political movement.

It is true that the Women’s Studies Program ensures students the opportunity to examine “alternative lifestyles” when we define this phrase as one that allows the student to step outside of stereotypical boxes and labels. Examining “alternative lifestyles” includes studying lesbians’ experiences as well as those of single mothers, welfare recipients, transgendered persons, sex workers or any other “lifestyle” that is typically ignored in the traditional androcentric discourses.

Women’s Studies is about deconstructing the institution of gender and about women defining themselves for themselves. It is about women learning about their context and understanding that “gender differences” are socially constructed.

What actually continues to “affect different aspects of society” is the assigning of roles and proper characteristics to each sex according to the institution of gender and then systematically valuing one constructed “gender” schema over the Other.

The women’s movement today and our Women’s Studies Program are about making sure not only that we include women’s experiences and knowledge and accomplishments in history, theory and activism, it is about including all women.

Class, age, race, able-bodiedness, sexual orientation and ethnicity, elements that shape the pervasiveness of racism, sexism, classism and homophobia in our culture make Women’s Studies necessary and valuable.

Homophobia is part of the gendering process in acting as a tool to help control people. This pervasive attitude/norm of strict heterosexuality makes it unacceptable for people to live outside the roles set for them. Because of this, there is obviously a great deal

of discussion about homophobia, heterosexism and sexual orientation in Women’s Studies, including lesbianism and people’s fear of it.

Women’s Studies seeks to provide a space for women to bring themselves back to the center. Although our classes often include students who are simply there for the required credit, we are there to learn and to grow -- a goal that is often hindered by resistance in the classroom when one point of view is privileged above the Others.

Women’s Studies students read and listen and critically examine each other’s work and ideas and the work and ideas of their teachers and of other academics. We frequently respectfully disagree, and we challenge each other intellectually. We critique, and we learn, and we are proud of our work and of our diversity in perspective.

Although we don’t share a single philosophy, we come to this field knowing that we will study and theorize about and work on issues not necessarily our own. We have an understanding that learning about and working on each other’s struggles is an inherent part of our studies. The only “agenda” we have is to respect each other’s viewpoints.

There is no “feminist agenda” agreed upon by all feminists. What we agree on is that women have been systematically and historically subject to the standards, norms, laws, politics, science, art, literature and interests of men, and they still are. We also agree on the compounding effects of factors of race, class, sexual orientation, age and ability that contribute to disadvantage for women.

There is no “black women’s agenda” and there is no “lesbian agenda.” Although these groups of women may have common concerns and issues in their lives, not all of these issues coincide, and women will not all agree on why they are faced with them, how to address them or how to solve

the problems that issues pose.

The concerns of different women often intersect, and one woman often deals with race, sexual orientation and class simultaneously. There is no list anywhere that could possibly sum up the complexity involved in these issues and narrow them down to an “agenda.” The assumption that such agendas exist is absurdly narrow, given the diversity of women.

We want to thank Ms. Flanagain for directing the attention of the readers to our Women’s Studies Web site at http://www.unl.edu/womenssp/ wshome.html. If any readers looked at it, they would have found that the word “lesbian” is mentioned four times among 4,000-plus words, and it is clearly not the only theme addressed.

Even if it were accurate that one English class Ms. Flanagain took featured lesbian work “70 percent” of the time, three credit hours for one class is one semester of a four-plus year, 125-plus credit hour undergraduate degree seems to be very little. In fact, it would make up .0168 percent of a college degree.

It seems to us that Ms. Flanagain could take another couple of Women’s Studies classes and still keep the amount of woman-centered curriculum in her education down to less than 51 percent.

Finally, if Ms. Flanagain thinks that the Women’s Studies Program at UNL promotes a “Slanted Agenda” perhaps she should do some research and theorizing about the agenda of mainstream American education institutions. There are some staggering statistics there to ponder.

Tina Giambastiani, Angie BC DeVoss, Jill Matlock, Erin Hansbrough, Andrew Ascherl, Amanda Lighter, Keri Wayne, Kat Koscho and Gretchen Obrist are undergraduates in Women’s Studies.

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Abdullah continues to be Huskers’ bright light

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It’s a speck of light.

Last week, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston stood up on a table and shouted an obscene phrase in the university’s union.

Winston, last season’s Heisman winner, was suspended for the game against Clemson.

Abdullah and Winston trained together in high school. When asked about Winston’s actions, Abdullah said, “You should see yourself as a young guy but hold yourself to a higher level of maturity. Definitely he has a long way to go.” This is a 21-year-old giving advice to a 20-year-old.

It’s a glimmer.

Last Saturday, Nebraska faced off against one of their traditional rivals, the University of Miami. Early in the game, Abdullah scored

exual assault, domestic violence and immaturity plague the football scene at both the college and professional level. It seems like almost every day another player has done something that warrants a suspension or a fine. Is there hope for football?

Nebraska’s senior running back, Ameer Abdullah, is the face of Husker football right now. Not only does he concentrate on the field, but he also focuses in the classroom.

He decided to stay with the Huskers for his senior year, as opposed to entering the NFL draft. So many players declared for the draft instead of their senior year of college, but not Abdullah. He said he didn’t want to be the first of his siblings without a college degree.

a touchdown and to celebrate, he briefly held the Hurricanes’ celebratory “U” sign upside down. This was well before the brawls happened. After the fights did happen, did Abdullah throw up the upside “U” again?

No. He had an opportunity to taunt Miami following a fourth-quarter touchdown, but he didn’t try to instigate anything.

Shortly after the first brawl happened, Abdullah was tackled by the neck. He just popped right back up and tapped the player ’s helmet and started to line up for the next play. With a heated game like that, many players would let emotions get to them. The game was already tense, and any retaliation could have caused benches to clear and more chaos to ensue.

The light is brighter.

Abdullah hasn’t been in the negative spotlight. He hasn’t had to learn by making a mistake like so many players have. Abdullah is only shown on SportsCenter when one of his trademark touchdown runs makes their weekly Top 10. His praise and recognition focus on his skill, rather than the minor speed bumps in his past. Abdullah, a Heisman candidate this year, brings attention to Nebraska for all the right reasons. After years of disappearance from the national perspective, Abdullah is putting Lincoln back on the map.

The light is blinding.

Players like Abdullah give football hope. opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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M/F roomate to share two bedroom hse. Great neighborhood. Approx 37th and J . Non smoking, no pets.House avail October 1st. 375.00 month plus 1/2 gas and elec. $300 deposit.call 402 610-4067

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Houses For Rent Townhouse for rent. 910 Newport Blvd, Lincoln. 2+ Bedroom, 2 Bath house in north Lincoln, easy access to downtown and University Nebraska Lincoln. Finished basement. On quite street, yard work and snow removal covered by HOA fees. No animals. Available now. $1150 a month. Please contact Mary Kaiser at 402-430-1338.

Duplexes For Rent 2 Bedroom Brick Duplex between city and east campus. 1210 North 26th Street. $550/month.

1 year lease required. 402- 560- 9792

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Help Wanted ACADEMIC ADVANTAGE CDC is NOW HIRING for Part Time, Full Time and Substitutes.

Please visit www.AACDC.com for more information, fill out an application and drop it off at any of our 3 Lincoln locations. Wages range from $7.25-$9.50/hr. Come and make difference in a child’s life today!

CNA positions with top pay and flexibility - exactly what a student needs! You can choose either facility work or homecare, day or evening hours are available that will work around any class schedule. Choose part-time or as many as 40 hrs. Some CNA exp. req. Must pass background checks. TO APPLY: www.interimhealthcare.com or our office at 6040 S. 58th St. Suite A- Lincoln.

Eagle Group is a downtown Lincoln printing company in need of a part-time delivery driver/bindery person. Willing to work around your schedule, M-F 8-4. Need a person who can lift heavy boxes, has a clean driving record, and is good working with people. Ideal candidate is available to work most afternoons, especially Friday. Please call 402-476-8156 to setup an interview.

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Help Wanted Part time experienced havest help. 20 miles north of Lincoln. 402-443-5487, leave a message.

Parthenon

Currently hiring hosts and servers. Exp. not necessary. Apply in person. 5500 S. 66th St. (402)423-2222

Sam’s Club Career Opportunities

We’re looking for motivated, career driven individuals to join the Sam’s Club team in its new South location. Stop and apply in person at 8480 Andermatt Dr, or online at Samsclub.com.

Questions call 402-975-6902.

Speedway Motors

Students love our flexible schedules. Full & Part-time positions available. We are a fun and fast-paced inbound call center. No automotive experience needed - We will teach you everything you need to know!

Apply online at www.careers.speedwaymotors.com

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Holroyd Investment Properties, Inc.

1-2 & 3 Bedrooms Apartments, Townhomes and Duplexes

402-465-8911 www.HIPRealty.com

Jobs Help Wanted Are you ready to make a difference in someone’s life? Behavioral Health organization is looking for Recovery Support Specialists to support clients in an inpatient addiction treatment setting. Knowledge of addictions and an Associates or Bachelor degree in a related human services field preferred. Must have good driving record and CPR/First Aid. Competitive wages. Positions open on 2nd shift and weekends with some on-call shifts. Send resumes to info@summitcareandwellness.com or call 402-435-2273 to apply.

Bartender wanted: Must have 1 year experience, be fun, responsible, reliable, team player, be able to multi task. Send inquiries to nightclubhiringmanager@gmail.com

Aspen Child Development Center is hiring Part time Teachers 15-20 hours per week Monday-Friday. Tues./Thurs shifts also available. 3PM-6pm Apply in person to 9300 Heritage Lakes Drive. Any questions please call us at 402-483-5511.

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Aspen Child Development Center is hiring Full time 3 yr. old preschool teacher and full time infant teacher. 40/hrs. per week. Apply in person 9300 Heritage Lakes Drive or call 402-483-5511

IT Assistant

Are you looking for a great part time job close to campus that will work around your class schedule? The Clark Enersen Partners is seeking an IT Technician who is familiar or interested in supporting an IT/Microsoft infrastructure. If you like working with people and technology in a support role submit a resume to peggy.merkel@clarkenersen.com Join the CenterPointe Team! Part-time positions available in residential program working with substance abuse/mental health clients in a unique environment. Must be at least 21 years of age and be willing to work a varied schedule including overnights and weekends.

Pay differential for overnight hours. For more information visit: www.centerpointe.org.

Neeman & Sons, Inc.

Looking for hardworking, dependable employees to work construction. Must have drivers license, and be able to work atleast 20 or more hours per week. Call 402-423-4853.

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and Fridays will appear in print the following Thursday or Monday.They will also appear online.

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Students: $5/15 words + $.15 additional word Non-Students: $9/15 words + $.15 additional word Discounts for additional issues Email ad to dn@unl.edu or place online at DailyNebraskan.com

PLA MOR BALLROOM presents the Bobby Layne Orchestra big band dancing Wed Oct 8 7:00-10PM special student adm. only $5.00 (reg adm 12.50) 402-475-4030

Meetings Alcoholics Anonymous meeting Mondays 7:30 p.m. at University Lutheran Chapel 1510 ‘Q’.

Open Speaker Meeting.Public Welcome.

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Thursday Sept. 25

Duffy’s Tavern is hosting “Live Bandaoke” night, where you can sing your favorite tunes along with a full live band called Shithook. There’s no cover charge and the music starts at 10 p.m.

SAVOY is headlining at the Bourbon Theatre, with Bright Lights, Barbershopcutz and Darren Keen opening.

18 years old and older only, and tickets are $18 at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m.

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Saturday Sept. 27

The Lincoln Children’s Museum will host its “Adult Game Night” from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., with oversized board games such as Jenga and Twister. Unlimited play is $10 with a valid student ID; $25 without.

The 14th Annual Lincoln Arts Festival takes place at SouthPointe Pavilions from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free for anyone under the age of 12, and $1 for anyone older than 12. This event carries into Sunday.

Desert Noises is headlining at Vega, with AZP opening. 18 years old and older only, and tickets are $8. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m.

Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre is performing Henrik Ibsen’s “Pillars of Society.” Tickets are $10 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and $5 for students.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday Sept. 28

The Old Cheney Farmers’ Market will feature its second annual Chef’s Challenge, sponsored by Open Harvest Co-op Grocery. Free samples will be provided.

The “Things Speak” Bike Tour II, which includes the Sheldon Museum of Art, Pioneers Park Nature Center and the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, will take off from the Sheldon at 1 p.m. The tour is free The New York Times Syndication Sales with anCorporation online reservation.

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