color guarD: see page 3 malaysia: see page 3 first round of color guard tryouts tests candidates on routine memorization, marching skills among changes, students must earn at least a b in transfer courses Working with an excellent faculty to embrace the new challenges of more interdisciplinary preparation and research is very attractive to me.” CriStina WooDWorth GeorGe Thrush story by Christina woodworth | photos by kyle bruggeman Demetria StephenS Staff report dailynebraskan.com
DEMETRIA STEPHENS DAILY NEBRASKAN Alice in Malaysialand made laughter boom through the Centennial Room of the Ne- braska Union Saturday night. The comedy, “Teh Tarik: A Magical Musical,” centered on the theme of unity for Malay- sian Night 2012 put on by the Nebraska University Malay- sian Students Association. Every year for about 20 years, 100 or so students have volunteered, worked late and become friends while pro- ducing the event, said Leen- Kiat Soh, the student group’s adviser and an associate pro- fessor of computer science and engineering. Some vol- unteers backstage during the 2012 event were running with props. Others sneaked under projector screens with water for nearly 500 guests. DAILY NEBRASKAN MODAY, APRIL 2, 2012 VOLUME 111, ISSUE 129 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM It’s all bad in the hood TRAGIC SHOOTING IN FLORIDA ILLUSTRATES U.S. RACE ISSUES UNL FINDS PLACE FOR GENRE WRITING AMID LITERARY TRADITIONS HUSKERS CAN’T FINISH WEEKEND, LOSE ROAD SERIES TO WILDCATS Coming to terms Elusive in Evanston BASEBALL PAGE 10 WEATHER | FOGGY FICTION PAGE 5 CROGHAN PAGE 4 @dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan 78° 48° HUSKER LINEBACKERS ARE READY TO PERFORM LOCAL ARTIST GAINS ACCLAIM WITH CELEBRITY DRAWINGS Loss of David doesn’t faze corps, Compton and Co. prepared PAGE 10 Jimmy Hill’s depictions of pop-culture figures enhanced by character immersion PAGE 5 CBA transfer credit rules to change ABOVE: Cheyney Greer, a freshman pre-med, psychology and biology major participates in color guard tryouts in the Mabel Lee Hall gym on Saturday. RIGHT: Rachel Watermeier, a junior speech pathology major, spins her flag. Architecture dean candidates visit campus Malaysian Night focuses on unity NICKOLAI HAMMAR | DAILY NEBRASKAN John Tessalee, a sophomore marketing major, and Lorena Carmona, a senior news-editori- al major, stand off stage as voice actors for the play written for Malaysian Night, which was hosted in the Nebraska Student Union Saturday night. STAFF REPORT DAILY NEBRASKAN Transfer credit requirements in the College of Business Administration will undergo a myriad of changes start- ing in the fall 2012 semester. The college will require stu- dents to earn higher grades in business credits applicable for transfer from certain in- stitutions, and students will no longer be able to trans- fer credits for upper-level coursework from certain institutions, among other changes. Kathy Farrell, senior as- sociate dean of the College of Business Administration, said the changes are part of the college’s effort to con- tinuously review and reassess coursework. The college is also chang- ing the maximum for transfer credit hours from 66 to 60, in accordance with a previous reduction in the number of hours required to graduate. “We probably at that point should have reduced our transfer credit hours because you’re typically only sup- posed to allow 50 percent of your total credit hours to come from another institu- tion,” Farrell said. The transfer credit policy changes generally apply to two-year institutions and schools that are not certi- fied by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business: The college will CBA: SEE PAGE 2 T he Mabel Lee Hall north gym echoed with the rustle of scarlet red flags spinning and twirling through the air. Dropped flag poles hit the polished wooden floor with an explosive bang. A cho- rus of voices counted aloud “Five, six… five, six, seven, eight” as the dancers spun and stepped through their routine in syncopated rhythm. Tryouts for the University of Nebras- ka-Lincoln color guard had begun. Twenty-one females attended the first round of tryouts on March 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The audition included learning and memoriz- ing a short flag routine and work- ing on marching techniques. In the afternoon, candidates were divided into groups of four for the official audition, which took place in front of UNL color guard instructor Ashlea Jurgens-Woitzel and four flag line leadership team members. “I’m shaking so bad,” said Holley Hostetter, a freshman secondary ed- ucation major, after emerging from her audition. “My legs were just shaking the whole time.” Hostetter decided to try out again this year after not making the flag line last year. “It went a lot better than last year,” she said. “I freaked myself out last time and totally forgot the routine.” Hostetter said she enjoys color COLOR GUARD: SEE PAGE 3 Among changes, students must earn at least a B in transfer courses CRISTINA WOODWORTH DAILY NEBRASKAN GEORGE THRUSH The two finalists for the dean position of the College of Architecture visited cam- pus last week and this week to hold public presentations and receptions. George Thrush visited campus on March 26. Thrush is a professor and director at the School of Ar- chitecture at Northeastern University in Boston. His research, writing and teach- ing topics all focus on con- temporary urban issues in architecture, according to a March 23 press release. Thrush said he was de- lighted to find out he was a finalist for the dean position DEAN: SEE PAGE 3 with colors flying First round of color guard tryouts tests candidates on routine memorization, marching skills story by Christina Woodworth | photos by Kyle Bruggeman MALAYSIA: SEE PAGE 3 Working with an excellent faculty to embrace the new challenges of more interdisciplinary preparation and research is very attractive to me.” GEORGE THRUSH FINALIST FOR THE DEAN POSITION OF THE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
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Alice in Malaysialand made laughter boom through the Centennial Room of the Ne-braska Union Saturday night.
The comedy, “Teh Tarik: A Magical Musical,” centered on the theme of unity for Malay-sian Night 2012 put on by the Nebraska University Malay-sian Students Association.
Every year for about 20 years, 100 or so students have volunteered, worked late and become friends while pro-ducing the event, said Leen-Kiat Soh, the student group’s adviser and an associate pro-fessor of computer science and engineering. Some vol-unteers backstage during the 2012 event were running with props. Others sneaked under projector screens with water for nearly 500 guests.
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It’s all bad in the hoodTragic shooTing in florida illusTraTes u.s. race issues
unl finds place for genre wriTing amid liTerary TradiTions
huskers can’T finish weekend, lose road series To wildcaTs
loCal artIst gaIns aCClaIm wItH CElEbrIty drawIngs
loss of david doesn’t faze corps, compton and co. prepared page 10
Jimmy hil l ’s depictions of pop-culture f igures enhanced by character immersion page 5
cBa transfer credit
rules to change
above: Cheyney Greer, a freshman pre-med, psychology and biology major participates in color guard tryouts in the mabel Lee hall gym on Saturday.
right:rachel Watermeier, a junior speech pathology major, spins her flag.
architecture dean candidates
visit campus
malaysian night focuses on unity
nickolai hammar | Daily nebraskanJohn tessalee, a sophomore marketing major, and Lorena Carmona, a senior news-editori-al major, stand off stage as voice actors for the play written for malaysian night, which was hosted in the nebraska Student Union Saturday night.
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Transfer credit requirements in the College of Business Administration will undergo a myriad of changes start-ing in the fall 2012 semester. The college will require stu-dents to earn higher grades in business credits applicable for transfer from certain in-stitutions, and students will no longer be able to trans-fer credits for upper-level coursework from certain institutions, among other changes.
Kathy Farrell, senior as-sociate dean of the College of Business Administration, said the changes are part of the college’s effort to con-tinuously review and reassess coursework.
The college is also chang-ing the maximum for transfer credit hours from 66 to 60, in accordance with a previous reduction in the number of hours required to graduate.
“We probably at that point should have reduced our transfer credit hours because you’re typically only sup-posed to allow 50 percent of your total credit hours to come from another institu-tion,” Farrell said.
The transfer credit policy changes generally apply to two-year institutions and schools that are not certi-fied by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business: The college will
cba: see page 2
T he Mabel Lee Hall north gym echoed with the rustle of scarlet red flags spinning and
twirling through the air. Dropped flag poles hit the polished wooden floor with an explosive bang. A cho-rus of voices counted aloud “Five, six… five, six, seven, eight” as the dancers spun and stepped through their routine in syncopated rhythm. Tryouts for the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln color guard had begun.
Twenty-one females attended the first round of tryouts on March 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The audition included learning and memoriz-ing a short flag routine and work-ing on marching techniques. In the
afternoon, candidates were divided into groups of four for the official audition, which took place in front of UNL color guard instructor Ashlea Jurgens-Woitzel and four flag line leadership team members.
“I’m shaking so bad,” said Holley Hostetter, a freshman secondary ed-ucation major, after emerging from her audition. “My legs were just shaking the whole time.”
Hostetter decided to try out again this year after not making the flag line last year.
“It went a lot better than last year,” she said. “I freaked myself out last time and totally forgot the routine.”
Hostetter said she enjoys color
color guarD: see page 3
among changes, students must earn at least a b in transfer courses
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GeOrGe THrUsHThe two finalists for the
dean position of the College of Architecture visited cam-pus last week and this week to hold public presentations and receptions. George Thrush visited campus on March 26.
Thrush is a professor and director at the School of Ar-chitecture at Northeastern University in Boston. His research, writing and teach-ing topics all focus on con-temporary urban issues in architecture, according to a March 23 press release.
Thrush said he was de-lighted to find out he was a finalist for the dean position
Dean: see page 3
withcolors flying
first round of color guard tryouts tests candidates on routine memorization, marching skills
story by Christina woodworth | photos by kyle bruggeman
malaysia: see page 3
Working with an
excellent faculty to embrace the new challenges of more interdisciplinary preparation and research is very attractive to me.”
GeorGe Thrushfinalist for the dean position of the
college of architecture
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almost 900 students and members of the wider Lincoln community walked or ran around the Campus recreation Center’s Cook pavilion for Saturday’s relay for Life, an annual fundraising event for the american Cancer Society that ran from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday. Some cancer survivors were among the crowd, and almost everyone knew someone affected by the disease, whether it was a boyfriend’s sister, a grandpar-ent or a friend. teams often took the relay in shifts, with members camping out in the middle of the field resting, socializing and working on homework.
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morgan spiehs | Daily nebraskanBella mcKittrick, 6, watches a flood demo at the UnL Weatherfest Saturday at east Campus’ hardin hall. the event informed families how to keep safe during severe weather conditions.
Scott Johnson, a sopho-more architecture student, meets a volley from one of neihardt hall’s teams in relay for Life’s volleyball tournament. it was his first time attending the relay with his fraternity, tau Kappa epsilon, which was one of several greek houses that sent a team. Besides the continuous rotation of walk-ers and joggers, participants threw frisbees and foot-balls, played volleyball and enjoyed free food through-out the 12-hour event.
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require students to earn a B rather than a C in the business courses taken at those institu-tions, and 300- and 400-level coursework can only be trans-ferred from four-year schools.
“If coursework’s taken at a two-year institution, it shouldn’t be transferring in as junior- and senior-level coursework at the university,” Farrell said.
The new policies will ap-ply to coursework completed on or after Aug. 20. The grade requirement change will affect credit for five classes: ACCT 201 and 202 and ECON 211, 212 and 215, but it won’t apply
to schools certified by the As-sociation to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, including the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
“If we are trying to give stu-dents a University of Nebraska-Lincoln degree, our preference is that students take all of their business coursework here,” Farrell said. “But recognizing that students have many rea-sons they need to take their coursework elsewhere, we didn’t want to eliminate the possibility to transfer credit. We just wanted to make sure that
it’s consistent with our overall accreditation status.”
Farrell said the college’s transfer credit requirements are actually “relatively generous” when compared to those of other business schools in the Big Ten, but the new policies will nonetheless ensure the quality of a UNL business de-gree.
“We’re supposed to be attest-ing to the quality of our pro-gram and our students, but if we don’t influence the course-work that they’re taking, we can’t control it,” she said.
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UNL’s 12th annual Family Weatherfest and Central Plains Severe Weather Sym-posium took East Campus by storm on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hardin Hall on East Campus.
“The Extreme Weather of 2011, Are We Prepared for 2012?” focused on the need for families to be ready for the unpredict-able nature of weather. Barbara Mayes Boustead, a meteorologist and climate program manager at the National Weather Service Omaha/Valley, delivered a lecture titled “A Look Back at the Severe Weather of 2011, and A Look Ahead to 2012.” She was also asked for her prediction for Ne-braska rainfall this year.
“This year, for predic-tions, we have nothing re-ally good to hang our hat on,” Mayes Boustead said. “It could be above, below or normal for rain in Ne-braska.”
Early in the day, a weather balloon was re-leased outside with a large crowd of onlookers. The weather balloon had a vid-eo camera and a still cam-era attached to it. The bal-loon, filled with helium, would easily float higher than 90,000 feet. Later in the day, at the auditorium,
the video from the balloon was shown. In 30 minutes the balloon had reached 40,000 feet. The still camera did not work, so there were no photos, but the video provided views high among the clouds. The video can be found at nstar.org.
UNL students formed a core group of the volun-teers at Weatherfest. Brooke Grossenbacher, a junior food science and technol-ogy major, was one of the first people at the sympo-sium.
“The event started at 9 a.m., but I got here at 6 a.m. to set up coffee for everybody,” Grossenbach-er said.
Students from food science and technology helped serve Big Texas Cin-namon Rolls and coffee to attendees. As the day heat-ed up, hotdogs and lunch were sold outside. UNL Dairy Store ice cream was also available, with the very Husker flavor, Scarlet and Cream.
The second floor of Har-din Hall provided fun op-portunities for the young and young-at-heart.
The family activities in-cluded “Tornado Genera-tor,” “Clouds All Around Us,” “Nature Corner” and “The Great Reservoir Race.” More than 20 UNL meteo-rology students helped man the stations all day.
The station “Picture Yourself in the Storm” al-lowed people to have a photo taken with a tor-nado backdrop, and in-volved props including an umbrella and a “SpongeBob Squarepants” poncho.
Kids all day flocked to the Automated Weather Data Network machine.
“They are machines that collect all different types of weather data,” said Holly Lussenden, a senior me-teorology and climatology major. “They take tons of readings. There are over 200 of these in our six-state region, with at least six around Lincoln.
“Kids like to spin and play with the gauges, and watch the humidity rise when they cover the gauge with their hands. The best part is when the kids play with the rain gauge. They pour water in until it begins to flood, and they get a kick out of that.”
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hang our hat on. it could be above, below or normal for rain in nebraska.”
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at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“I thought my initial meet-ing had gone well,” he said, “but one never knows the full context, the other candidates and all of the other factors that can go into making such an important decision.”
He added that he was hap-py just to have been consid-ered at all.
“As they say at the Oscars — it’s an honor just to be nominated,” he said.
Thrush said he is interested in coming to UNL because of its strong history in top-notch design education.
“(Nebraska) has long pro-duced highly skilled design-ers who have gone on to very successful careers in archi-tecture, interior design, land-scape and planning,” Thrush said. “And the prospect of working with an excellent faculty to embrace the new challenges of more interdis-ciplinary preparation and research is very attractive to me.”
Thrush said his passion for
architecture originated from his childhood.
“I grew up in downtown Chicago, completely sur-rounded by great architec-ture and just assumed that every place was like that,” he said. “I soon realized that was not the case.”
Thrush said he didn’t de-cide to actually become an architect until he was al-ready in college at the Uni-versity of Tennessee and decided to take some time off from his studies to build houses in rural Tennessee with a “bunch of aging hip-pies.”
“(Building houses) changed my whole direction, and I im-mediately transferred to archi-tecture school,” Thrush said.
According to the original advertisement for the dean position, the main qualities the 11-person search com-mittee was looking for in a candidate included someone who is “organizationally sav-vy,” “open and receptive” and is good at “inspiring others.”
The committee originally
decided on three finalists: Thrush, Craig Barton, associ-ate professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Archi-tecture, and Daniel Friedman, dean of the College of Built Environments at the Univer-sity of Washington.
Barton withdrew his can-didacy for the position last week.
DaNiel FrieDmaNThe second of two final-
ists for the dean position is scheduled to visit campus this week.
Daniel Friedman will have a public presentation and re-ception today from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Sheldon Mu-seum of Art auditorium.
Friedman said he has al-ways held the architecture program at UNL in high re-gard.
“I’ve known about the ar-chitecture program at Ne-braska for a long time,” said Friedman, who has been the dean of the College of Built Environments at the Universi-ty of Washington since 2006.
“The world of accredited ar-chitecture schools is a fairly small community so you re-ally get to know the people.”
Friedman said he came into the profession of architecture in a somewhat roundabout way. He grew up on a cul-de-sac in a small suburb of Washington, D.C., where several architects also lived.
“I lived on the same street with the architect who de-signed my parents’ house,” Friedman said. “Two out of the 10 families who lived on that street were architects.”
His passion for architec-ture, though, didn’t emerge until he worked as a foster parent for a severely handi-capped boy, he said.
“We knew he (the boy) needed a special environ-ment to live,” Friedman said. “So we started touring all of the homes in the state for the profoundly challenged.”
Friedman said he was hor-rified by the conditions and designs of the facilities he toured, describing them as “hellholes.”
“I started talking to (the boy’s) doctors about design for troubled kids,” Friedman said. “I was very interested in the relationship between psy-chology and space.”
Friedman said his time as a foster parent fueled his pas-sion for incorporating high design in architecture with social issues like affordable housing and social equity.
“I see architecture as an unusual way to get around to helping people,” Fried-man said.
Friedman said in college he got more into architectur-al theory and design after a professor suggested he take a drawing and design class.
“You just get drawn into the culture and the world of high design,” said Friedman about taking design courses during his college years at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
He described his profession now as a hybrid of bringing together social architecture and theory and high design.
Friedman added that
although he would love the opportunity to work at UNL, he is equally excited for the conversations he will be able to have with people while visiting campus.
“I’ve been around the block, and I’ve been through search processes like these before,” said Friedman, who has been in the architecture profession for about 30 years, “What I like to focus on is the conversations I’m going to have with members of the community, not if I get the job or not.”
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impact party asks for involvement from those who want to improve UnLWe, as former members of the student election group known as Impact, were trou-bled by the divisive nature of this previous election pro-cess. These divisions go be-yond any one organization and beyond the Association of Students of the Univer-sity of Nebraska. ASUN does have some inherent responsi-bility as the official represen-tative body of the students, but it can only be as strong as our campus decides to make it. We have a lot of work to do before we can say that we, though elected by students, are truly representatives of the student body as a whole. Because of our desire for ASUN to be stronger and as diverse as our campus is, we would like to pledge, as new-ly elected officers, senators and board members, to adopt an attitude of inclusivity and to encourage active participa-tion this upcoming year. We pledge to fully evaluate all policies of ASUN which may have in the past kept us from being fully inclusive.
But we will also need your help. We hope those of you who ran and were not elect-ed, do not let your passion for involvement and desire to improve UNL run dry. We hope those of you who never considered running at all find a specific place within ASUN to pursue your goals for campus improvement. We want you, and the thousands of other students who attend
this university, to apply for the many student govern-ment positions that are cur-rently open, and the many more that will open up soon.
Perhaps consider applying for the Government Liaison Committee, a group which represents UNL student in-terests at the local, state and national levels of govern-ment. Consider applying for Women’s Issue Representa-tive, a position which allows you to investigate and pro-mote women’s issues on our campus. There are nearly 200 students appointed each year, and in general, ASUN posi-tions are flexible to allow stu-dents with great ideas the free-dom to make their appointed roles their own. You can find these applications on http://asun.unl.edu/open-positions-asun. Eighty or more of these positions are currently open for applications. Applications are due on April 9th. In addition, please take advantage of the new RSO presentation form, found at http://asun.unl.edu/rso-presentation-form. This is a request form for a member of ASUN to come speak to your student group about campus issues and what ASUN is cur-rently doing about them.
We want you to bring your individual and group concerns to our attention. It’s only with your help that we will be able to fulfill our elected positions this upcoming year. UNL’s campus is composed of many diverse communities: This could be its greatest strength. We will need your help to re-alize this.
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guard because of the per-formance aspect — a feel-ing echoed by many of the candidates.
“Being on the field and getting to perform the rou-tines in front of so many people just gives you a feel-ing you can’t get anywhere else,” said Hostetter, who has been involved in color guard since high school.
Samantha Adrales, a fresh-man English major who was a member of the UNL color guard last year, said her fa-vorite part was also getting to perform.
“I really like performing in general,” Adrales said. “I spin flags. It’s what I do.”
Another veteran color guard member, freshman forensic science major Kris-ta Stapfer, said she loved performing at the football games.
“Game days were defi-nitely my favorite part,”
Stapfer said of being on color guard last year. “It’s really fun getting to be on the field.”
The UNL color guard works with the Cornhusker Marching Band to add vi-sual elements to the march-ing shows, according to Jurgens-Woitzel.
“We try to visually express what the music expresses,” said Jurgens-Woitzel, who has been the color guard in-structor at UNL for the past four years.
For the auditions, the routine each person had to memorize was set to a remixed, techno version of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep.” It included 12 rhyth-mic counts at the end where candidates had to impro-vise their own moves and finish in a final pose. The song blasted over and over again from a loudspeaker as the group ran through the
routine several more times before official tryouts.
“We’ve got some perform-ers in this group. Good job everyone!” called Jurgens-Woitzel from her spot at a folding table on the side-lines.
The four leadership team members watched the rou-tine intently, looking for areas the candidates could improve.
“You just have to sell it,” said one leadership mem-ber. “Even if you don’t know (the routine), just smile and pretend like you do.”
Jurgens-Woitzel estimat-ed that 40 to 50 girls total will try out for about 30 spots on the flag line. An-other round of auditions will be held on May 26.
“The biggest thing we’re looking for is overall per-formance,” said Jurgens-Woitzel. “It’s all about how
they hold themselves.”Jurgens-Woitzel said she
knows how nerve-racking auditions like this can be. She was on the UNL color guard herself for five years and went through a similar audition process.
“I was in-credibly ner-vous,” she said about her tryout in col-lege. “There were so many people, and I had never even done tosses in high school. I just practiced and practiced and practiced.”
Huddled in the hallway before auditions, this year’s candidates sat in clusters and chatted nervously.
A lively discussion started
up about flag line members carrying their flags around campus and being mistaken for being members of the ri-fle team. Bursts of laughter erupted from some of the candidates.
Other girls crouched si-lently, fid-dling with the white a d h e s i v e name tags s l a p p e d onto their shirts, looks of deter-mined inten-sity on their faces.
“I just want to go in there and get this over with,” one
voice calls out.Someone else says, “I feel
like I’m going to throw up.”As each group emerges
from the gym, most girls are smiling and look relieved.
“I think the audition went really well,” Stapfer said.
“It could’ve been better,” Adrales said. “But it went OK.”
Jurgens-Woitzel an-nounced that everyone would receive an email informing them whether they made the squad by Thursday of this week.
“Thanks for a great day everybody,” she said. “You all worked extremely hard and learned a lot in a very short amount of time.”
The group then shuffled down the stairs and out the doors, their dreams of gameday performances and shiny, twirling flags dependent upon an email message that would arrive in their inboxes in a mere five days.
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being on the field and getting to perform the routines in front of so many people just gives you a feeling you can’t get anywhere else.
a march 29 article previewing malaysian night 2012 incorrectly said the character hang tuah was the “bad guy” in a theater production for the night. however,
hang jebat was the bad guy.if you spot a factual error in the daily nebraskan, please report it by calling (402) 472-2588. an editor will place the correction that will run in the print edition, also using bold type.
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Volunteers who worked hard last year wanted to relax and watch the show this year, Soh said.
At least one volunteer stuck around for his third year at Malaysia Night — Mamur Hossain, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh. Hossain was the voice actor for Hang Jebat, the show’s bad guy. Each charac-ter had an actor on stage and a voice actor behind the scenes with the script and a micro-phone. The main character, Alice from America — played by Amaris Baker, a freshman psychology major, and voiced by Lorena Carmona, a senior journalism major — went to Malaysia and got lost in an-other world called Magika. She found a friend, Hang Tuah, a lost-at-heart character — played by Karanbir Hundal, a sophomore actuarial science major, and voiced by Jacob El-liot, a freshman English major. Hang Tuah was upset because his friend, the queen of Magika — played by Nadzirah Razif, a junior psychology major, and voiced by Fadhilah Raihan Lokman, a senior political sci-ence major — was turned into a statue at a door leading to the real Malaysia. She could only be freed if she drank teh tarik, “pulled tea.”
Teh tarik is made with water, tea, milk, sugar and a pinch of salt. It’s made specifically with condensed coconut milk, said Rajkrishna Paul, a senior me-chanical engineering major and a server for the event’s buffet.
The trouble in the story: Teh tarik was banned by Hang Je-bat — played by Muhammad Hafizuddin Syafiq Bin Supar-lan, a senior actuarial science major, and voiced by Hos-sain — who took over Magika when he pushed the queen onto the door. Alice and Hang Tuah went on a quest to find the ingredients for teh tarik. They united the three main cultures of Malaysia, China and India in the process.
Hang Tuah and Hang Je-bat were warriors and friends in 15th century Malaysia, Soh said. Hang Jebat got kicked
out of the country after he be-trayed Hang Tuah. The student group modernized this story, he said.
The three cultures are em-phasized each year at Malay-sian Night, Soh said. Some-times they also focus on the “native-natives,” he said. “Peo-ple who live in the woods, for example.”
He said this year it’s more about stereotypes and unity.
Hossain said intermis-sions kept the show moving smoothly.
The food was a surprise for some. Malaysian food isn’t re-ally strange, or very spicy, Hundal said. There is a lot of fresh fish, with seas surround-ing Malaysia, he said. There are also many vegetables and a heavy use of coconuts, he added. Coconuts are staple of Malay food, he said.
The buffet had Nasi kerabu: rice, mackerel, vegetables, toasted grated coconut and sambal. The sambal was Ma-laysian chili gravy. It could be followed by fried chicken, vegetables, rice noodles and a dessert, “honeydew sago,” made of fruit. The meal was served with iced lime juice.
A first-time guest, Jake Hoy-Elswick, assistant director of international recruitment at the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln, asked a volunteer for the night, “Is this authentic Malay-sian food?” The student looked at the food and said, “Yeah, yeah.”
Hoy-Elswick said he helps recruit Malaysian students to UNL and has been to the Ma-laysia several times. Malay-sian college students can go through the American Degree Program to transfer to UNL, he said. The program has U.S. curriculum that lasts about two years.
Hundal started out college in Malaysia, but then transferred. He said he was excited to find UNL’s actuarial science pro-gram.
Back on stage, Hundal picked up two cups as Hang Tuah. An elastic band was stuck to both cups. Hundal pulled the cups apart several times, slow and sometimes parallel to the ground. He was “pulling” tea.
The elastic stretched. The crowd laughed. Real tea would have spilled.
Then, volunteers hurried
with pitchers of real teh tarik, walking upright in front of the projectors. It wasn’t re-ally “pulled” tea because there were no volunteers with the skill, Hundal said. Pulling the tea makes froth and the tea cools down, he added. The tea was served warm and had a sweet spice and a milky taste.
The play ended with Hang Jebat asking, “Why do we have to be united?”
The queen replied, “All these different ingredients come to-gether to make delicious tea.”
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Dear nervous white peo-ple,
I’d like to apologize to every one of you. Like Trayvon Martin, I wear my hoodies in
public. I was unaware this made me appear threatening. I’ve been enlight-ened. The message is clear: Wearing a hoodie makes me worthy of being shot by a nervous neighborhood watchman.
I’ve looked through my wardrobe and tried to gauge which hoodies are the most threatening. Is it my red and white striped Hollister one? Or maybe the gray hemp one I bought from a secondhand store? What about the multitude of red and black Husker hoodies I purchased from the Nebras-ka Bookstore?
Which one of those will get me shot?According to FOX News commen-
tator Geraldo Rivera, “if (Trayvon) didn’t have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy (George Zim-merman) wouldn’t have responded in a violent and aggressive way.” Like the $43.99 Skreened hoodie says: “Guns don’t kill people, hood-ies do?” Rivera’s words exposed to me an uneasy truth. Interestingly enough, you could purchase a Fox News hoodie in its online store before Geraldo’s comments condemned them. Fox News claims this isn’t the case, of course. Unfortunately, since Trayvon’s death, I couldn’t help but notice none of my friends stopped wearing hood-ies. One of my girlfriends stepped out in a pink Victoria’s Secret one. The rhinestones and gems adorning it only make her more of a target. She’ll be easier to spot by the neighborhood huntsmen.
I mean watchmen. I’m fearful for my friend’s safety as well as my own.
Trayvon’s case is a reminder that the color of my skin, accompanied by a wardrobe choice, could result in my
death. I’m sorry my clothing causes so much alarm. However, I believe not wearing my hood up on a windy day could result in something more unset-tling; my wind-blown hair.
Contrary to popular belief, people have many reasons to wear their hoods up. Sometimes you want to preserve your good hair day. Other times, it’s raining. If it’s cold outside, wearing the hood up can insulate your head and keep your ears warm.
None of this matters, though. I’ll let my ears freeze off in the winter if it means preserving my life.
When someone is described as “a black male with his hood up,” the connotation is that they’re up to no good. Talking about Trayvon’s hoodie demonizes him in mainstream media and allows people to justify his death.
A 17-year-old is dead, and we’re playing a media-fueled blame game rather than finding justice. Let’s blame the hoodie. Or the bag of Skittles he was carrying. Because the bag clearly resembles the shape, size and color of a pistol.
Is that true? Let’s examine. A bag of Skittles weighs 2.17 ounces. A Beretta M9 pistol weighs more than 2 pounds (and that’s unloaded).
A package of Skittles is red. Most guns are black. And nothing is really gun-shaped except a gun.
This case, however, is old news. Trayvon’s death happened more than a month ago, on Feb. 26. Racial profiling
is commonplace: Everyone does it ev-ery day. That moment you see a crowd of black teenagers approaching your car, then reach for the lock button? Racial profiling. Or that moment the same crowd of dark-skinned kids walk behind you in a mall, and you clench your purse in fear? That counts, too.
Subconscious racism leads to real-world problems much larger than locking your car or holding your purse tighter. It led to George Zim-merman stalking a teenager because he looked “suspicious.” It ultimately led to Trayvon’s death.
Hate crimes against blacks have been a consistent problem. There were 3,133 racially motivated hate crimes in 2010 alone. According to the FBI’s official website, 47.3 per-cent of 7,699 recorded hate crimes in 2010 were racially motivated, and 31.4 percent occurred near the home.
Trayvon’s case echoes these com-monalities. He was mere blocks away from his home. While the racial moti-vation in his death is being debated, the injustice of Trayvon’s case is fact. Zimmerman is a free man and is only receiving criticism for killing because of media attention.
It makes you wonder how many cases like this never get on CNN or Fox News’s radar. Or how anyone (even conservative news pundits) de-cided to blame the hoodie rather than our culture of hushed racial prejudice.
Let’s retain our cultural sense of de-nying racism. Instead of acknowledg-ing the problem, let’s blame the hood-ie. Or Trayvon’s candy of choice. From this point on, let’s boycott Skittles.
Tasting the rainbow isn’t worth bit-ing the bullet.
Sincerely,Paranoid brown college kid
Damien croghan is a senior journal-ism anD news-eDitorial major. reach
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Hoodie doesn’t justify murderCBa enhances program quality with new rules
The Daily Nebraskan applauds the College of Business Administration’s new transfer credit rules, designed to enhance the value of a degree from the College. Beginning in fall 2012, CBA will impose more stringent requirements on grades in transfer courses and will no longer accept some transfers for upper-level coursework.
This is a small, but much-needed step. As the uni-versity downsizes its credit hour requirement from 125 to 120 to graduate, making every credit hour count has never been more important. Requiring higher grades — a B or above in some courses — only makes a CBA degree more valuable. And it’s good that CBA recognizes our business leaders should at least be able to pull Bs or higher in economics cours-es from lower-level institutions.
By instituting this change, though it may frustrate some students, CBA enhances the quality of its pro-grams and its students through one of their most controllable aspects — coursework. The new rules effectively balance the need of certain students to take some business courses elsewhere with the desire to promote a 100 percent UNL-CBA degree.
The DN is encouraged by this step from CBA ad-ministration and looks forward to seeing similar poli-cies put forth by UNL’s other colleges. For the past year, a major focal point of university policy has been academic competition with Big Ten peer institutions. This is the kind of concrete change necessary to begin down that path.
Here’s a tip for the young idealist types who wade into the morass that is the Palestine and Is-rael conflict: Use
Google.Several weeks ago, many of my
classmates saw nothing wrong with comparing the Israeli occupation of Palestine to the Holocaust. In fact, a fleeting attempt was made to directly compare the Nakba to the Holocaust. It shouldn’t need to be explained why this is problematic.
However, it appears people aren’t interested in complexity. Here’s why you should never compare what’s currently happening in Israel to the worst act of genocide thus far in human history.
In the interest of space, I’m go-ing to limit this discussion to a few points.
First, prominent Palestinians ac-tively supported Adolf Hitler before and during World War Two.
Google “Haj Amin Al-Husseini.” In his zeal to prevent the estab-
lishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the Haj recruited Muslims into the Waffen-SS. Incidentally enough, that same organization was in charge of the concentra-tion camps that must never be
forgotten. The Haj wasn’t some fringe
figure. His father was the Mufti of Jerusalem, arguably the most important religious figure in Pal-estine. For the Haj to collaborate with the person who attempted to single-handedly wipe out a people suggests that he saw Jews as less human than himself.
No nationalist sentiment should be used as justification for geno-cide. I’d love for a Palestinian sympathizer to contact me with an explanation for just that.
Why else is it problematic for the Nakba to be compared to the Holocaust? Might it be the fact that the vast majority of Holocaust denial comes from the Muslim world? When the political leader of a major state openly calls for the destruction of Israel and hosts conferences for Holocaust deniers, comparing the two events turns from a questionable decision into tragic comedy.
Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahma-dinejad of Iran fits this description exactly. Argue over translations or the meaning of his discourse all you’d like. At the end of the day, the man actively stirs anti-Semitism to achieve political ends. Americans play directly into his hand by not
voraciously denouncing his words.I’d suggest many Palestinian
sympathizers fail to do so because at bottom they are as delusional as hardline Israelis. Both parties seem to hold a fantasy that if they just protest or kill each other enough, one morning the other side will decide to self-deport.
That isn’t going to happen. There will someday be a two-state solu-tion, and that’s for the best. In fact, I’d recommend that those who truly care about the plight of the Palestinian people support exactly that. A two-state solution, although imperfect, allows for self-determi-nation in a land that has never had such options.
Obviously, that would require Hamas to recognize the obvi-ous fact that Israel exists. That might even require Westerners to cease actively aiding and abetting
organizations that wouldn’t main-tain relevance without terrorism and armed struggle.
Finally, people should avoid calling Israeli actions reminiscent of the Holocaust out of simple respect. The state of Israel exists today because Zionism proved to be true. Unless the Jewish people have a national homeland, they can never feel secure.
If you’ll use the Google machine again, look up the Holocaust. Look deeper and realize the virulent anti-Semitism existed not only in Nazi Germany but also worldwide. The Nazis generally had no problem getting occupied peoples to hand over their Jews.
Look, the situation in the occu-pied territories sucks. Calling Gaza the world’s largest open-air prison is harsh language, but it’s compel-ling because it has a grain of truth. By maintaining the occupation, Israel does itself no favors at home or abroad.
Americans tend to support Israel because its national culture is so much more like our own than Israel’s neighbors. Only in Israel can gays live in peace and security. Only in Israel are women’s rights taken seriously. Only in Israel exists the liberal democracy that is best at
minimizing human suffering. So, Palestinian sympathizers (a
category in which I would include myself), please recognize the power of language. Each time you toss out comparisons of the Nakba and Holocaust, you demean both events. The Holocaust wasn’t bad because it could be compared to something. It was bad because Eu-rope (with support from a promi-nent Palestinian, remember) sought to exterminate an entire race of people.
Israel isn’t trying to exterminate the Palestinians. The Palestinians, I would argue, aren’t trying to exter-minate the Israelis. Both sides have locked themselves into a belief that the other will just leave.
As that isn’t happening anytime soon, the best thing Americans can do is to stop adding fuel to the fire. The Palestinian conflict is only six decades old, in political terms. Peace can be reached. The inconsistent and typically incorrect advice and pressure coming from Americans is hurting rather than helping that process.
justin green is a senior politi-cal science major from sutton, ne. reaD his blog at huskerreD.tumblr.com. tweet him at bear-
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Despite an upswing in the number of books published in genres like paranormal romance, mystery and sci-fi in the past decade, many universities still place a heavy focus on the strict guidelines associated with literary fiction.
While it is easy to say that any book with a genre is included in the definition of “genre fiction,” defin-ing “literary fiction” can be more difficult. Most schol-ars agree that it is loosely defined as any work of fic-tion not included in genres like sci-fi, mystery, chick-lit, horror or teen fiction.
Genre fiction, while not new, has become more prevalent throughout the 20th century, with the greatest boom happening roughly in the late ‘90s. Many credit the publica-tion of J.K. Rowling’s “Har-ry Potter” with expanding genre fiction to children, as
it sparked a movement in books about paranormal ac-tivities, magic and vampires in America.
Teen genre fiction is cur-rently one of the greatest profit-making sections at Barnes & Noble, according to the store director, Jenny Bayer, at the SouthPointe Pavilions branch in Lincoln.
Although Bayer was un-able to release specific data because of store policy, she said sales in genre fiction far outrank sales in literary fiction. With so many new genres to contend with, Bayer said it was expected that people would fall away from more conventional writing to read books they find more accessible and exciting.
“People tend to find a section they like and stick with it,” Bayer said. “I think people are scared of clas-sics.”
But with universities fo-cusing on exposing stu-dents to those kinds of books, few people are
afraid classic literature will fall by the wayside.
“There is a broad range (of texts) in composition courses, but literary texts predominate in literature courses and creative writing courses,” said Laura White, professor and vice chair of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
According to White, a third of the students ma-joring in the English de-partment are interested in pursuing creative writing. With such a large percent-age of students interested, some may find it surprising that one of the most prof-itable aspects of writing is not taught, but UNL English professor Judith Slater said preparing students to be professional writers is not the main goal at the under-graduate level.
“Most of them don’t have that as a career goal, any more than someone who takes violin lessons wants to be a professional violinist,” she said. “What I do want
is to give them a chance to explore their imagination and strengthen their creativ-ity, to be more observant and aware of the world and themselves, to read more deeply and fully.”
This creativity leads many students to take an interest in a specific genre, and both White and Slater stressed that help is always offered to those who ask for it.
“(The Writing Center) of-fers assistance to writers at every stage and across all disciplines, and does not require that students be working with specific class assignments to get help with writing,” White said.
In addition to the help offered at the Writing Cen-ter, the English department is unveiling new courses in genre fiction for the fall 2012 semester. These cours-es, including a special top-ics course in science fiction,
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Jimmy Hill thinks of himself as a messy person, unless you’re talk-
ing about his artwork or his eyebrows — and both have been obsessions for him from a young age.
“My first name is really Jimmy Lee, but I don’t go by that because it sounds like I should be an opening act for Dolly Parton,” he said, intro-ducing himself as a starving artist.
But he’s selling work. In fact, he’s selling work internationally.
Hill credits his mother with discov-ering his ability to draw. She used to tape the show “Pappyland” for him.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever seen it,” he said. “It’s like a really redneck version of Bob Ross. It has the creepy puppets like Mr. Rogers had.”
Hill’s mother, Julie, noticed he was able to draw almost perfect copies of the cartoons characters on the show, so she enrolled him in adult art class-es.
But Julie didn’t stop with helping her son to discover his artistic abili-ties. Jimmy said his mother is the reason he’s been obsessed with his eyebrows since he was eight.
“I am my mother’s child ... I always loved Elizabeth Taylor’s eyebrows because ... they never look bad.”
Hill hasn’t taken many art classes since. After being bombarded with courses as a child, Hill cut back when he went through high school. And he didn’t even think about going to college for art; he went to hair school instead.
“The way people talk about col-lege, they (professors) want to teach you to draw a certain way,” he ex-plained. “I’m afraid if I think that ... then I’m going to lose the ability to draw like I do now. I already know how to draw. I don’t need a degree.”
Hill dropped out of hair school and headed west to Colorado. In Colo-rado, Hill lived with his cousin and her DJ/artist roommate. The two got a group of girls together who were dive artists and ran a theater where they featured artists like 303 before they reached stardom. Hill was able to hang his artwork in the theater.
And he began to experiment with his work. Hill explained he has al-ways had an obsession with wom-en like Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood because of their beauty, but he was also aware that most pictures of them were painted on to cover im-perfections.
“They (Monroe and Wood) looked completely fabulous all the time and (never) disgusting or evil,” he said. “I just wanted to show that just because they’re beautiful, wonderful people doesn’t mean they don’t have the same nasty, disgusting insides as you do.”
Simply redrawing the picture — even if the women’s flaws were in-cluded — wasn’t good enough. Hill said he didn’t want to make copies of photos. So he began drawing themes of death into his work. Hill might draw a celebrity as a zombie or with flesh peeled off his or her face to re-veal muscle and bone beneath.
“I like how he juxtaposes that dark edge against a lot of these pop icons,” said Danny Sullivan, a friend and fellow artist to Hill.
“If I wanted to draw horses and flowers, I would draw horses and
flowers,” Hill added. “I’m not the horses and flowers kind of girl.”
Then he sold his first piece.It was a drawing of Audrey Hep-
burn as a zombie.“This lady was ... a doctor or some
sort of medical person and really wasted and was telling me how fab-ulous I was,” Hill said. “I mean, I’d heard from my family members that I could draw well, but I’d never seri-ously considered it until then.”
Now, he has also begun to use antlers a lot in his work after seeing a self-portrait of Sullivan’s, in which he portrayed himself with antlers.
“I remember him seeing it and being very thrilled about it,” Sulli-van said.
Hill has since moved back to Lin-coln and works for Hudson Bay Company. In the long run, he said he wants to become a tattoo artist once he can combine his draw-ing skills with being able to handle a “five-pound shaking pencil and all the blood.”
For now, though, he posts his work on Tumblr and Facebook and is be-ginning to show it more regularly. His last show was in Parrish Studios during March’s First Friday. He’s also begun selling his work and prints of his work. He made his first interna-tional sale when a girl from Florence asked him to draw Lady Gaga as a zombie.
Hill’s process is far from the elab-orate. He usually begins a piece for fun or out of boredom and his job al-lots him plenty of free time to draw. Hill said he peruses magazines or
Tumblr until he stumbles across a picture that strikes him. And he’s al-ways drawn in by beauty, especially in women.
“How would I define beauty?” Hill said. “Probably in a very vain way because I am a pop culture queen.
Beauty can either be humorous or it can be Megan Fox, Elizabeth Taylor flawless.”
Hill has just started willingly adding color to his work this year, something he has avoided because of his inabil-ity to paint. He doesn’t create full-col-or pieces, but he said even the small bits of color he adds using colored pencils can drive him insane.
“Obviously, I can’t afford nice col-ored pencils, so I’m talking, like, Cray-ola, Walmart 12-pack pencils is what I’m working with,” Hill said, adding
that working with such a small palette of color forces him to think in layers.
“I always think in black and white for some reason,” he said. “Maybe be-cause it’s easier.”
But his process isn’t only in art; it’s also personal.
Hill said his mother has always told him stories about celebrities and reasons why they’re good people or how they’re beautiful.
“My head is just filled with this ridic-ulous amount of pop culture knowl-edge and it always tends to gravitate toward women,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong: as a homosexual, I have an appreciation for men, but (art) al-ways goes toward the feminine. Plus, I mean, most of the ladies I draw have a great rack and who doesn’t love a great rack?”
Hill explained that he thinks of the female figure as diverse, something the male form lacks. While women can’t control the size and shape of their bodies, they have more freedom according to societal conventions to play with makeup, hair, clothing, etc.
“(Women) have so much to hide and so much to show,” he said, “so much to give and so much to hold back.”
As he draws, Hill said he watches movies about his subjects. Even if he’s watching Marilyn Monroe or Edie Sedgwick being played by oth-er actresses, Hill likes to be able to watch them.
“I can look up and be like, ‘Ah, you were so wonderful,’” he said.
Hill admits to letting himself get lost in his obsession with some of the
women he draws, sometimes to go as far as to try and embody some of their physical and personal qualities.
Right now, he’s hung up on Edie Sedgwick, which explains why these days the artist sometimes wears a red blouse. He said it also explains the mole he’s been drawing under his eye.
Hill’s boyfriend, Tyler Weston Krug, said it helps Hill to draw a subject if he immerses himself in the way the subject lived.
“I think it’s just like moving on to something that interests him in the time being,” Krug said.
Hill recommends that everyone try to embody parts of people they idolize.
“Just doing the Edie Sedgwick thing — walking around, dressing in the shirts, putting on the makeup — I mean, it gives you an odd sort of self confidence,” he said.
And while walking the walk, Hill said he sometimes talks the talk.
“I’m stupidly good at accents too,” he said. “If I’m getting super obsessed with someone, I’ll talk in their accent just on occasion ... es-pecially when I’m intoxicated.”
Hill said he never knows when pieces are finished, as he will con-tinue to find miniscule imperfections with them. In a way, they continue to be works in progress, even when they’re on public display. And with the way Hill works to embody each of the women he draws, he could be called a work in progress too.
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local artist Jimmy hill poses with some of his drawings in his lincoln apartment on Sunday. hill said the residence doubles as his work space.
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{getting into character}Jimmy Hill’s works of art display an eccentric take on pop culture icons
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the way people talk about college, they (professors) want to teach you to draw a certain way. i’m afraid if i think that ... then i’m going to lose the ability to draw like i do now. i already know how to draw. i don’t need a degree.
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The Flatwater Shakespeare company’s portrayal of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika,” is a play that inspires and redefines the blurred lines between gay and straight people.
Directed by Bob Hall and performed at the Haymarket Theatre, “Angels in America” fo-cuses on a few gay men, mainly Prior Walter, played by Andy Dillehay, and Roy Cohn, played by Richard Nielson, who cope with AIDS.
Prior is visited by ghosts and an angel who proclaim him to be a prophet. He must deal with the surreal reality of his in-curable disease and potentially being a prophet. The rest of the characters fill in the gaps with subplots, but one of the more important characters is Cohn, who displays the difficulties of being gay in the 1980s. Cohn is a self-loathing and power-hungry hypocrite who struggles to accept his sexual orientation. He is more interested in keep-ing the integrity of his political appearance than being true to himself.
“Angels in America” is a very
emotional yet optimistic play. Hall uses a balanced mixture of humor and delicacy to make the play come to life. The play deals with the hardships of AIDS, the strain on relation-ships, and understanding of one’s self.
There is nudity in the play, but its presence is justifiable because it is necessary to show the affection between the char-acters and allows the audience members to delve further into the plot.
Hall tackles the play and hits the ground running to make the theatrical experience a memo-rable one. The audience is quickly pulled into the delicate lives of the characters, and it’s hard to withdraw in the end.
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When we’re asked to intro-duce ourselves in any official capacity at this university, name and major are typically expected. It’s a coded way of asking “What should I call you?” and “What the hell are you going to do with your life?” When I say “Chance Solem-Pfeifer, junior English ma-jor,” that’s code for “My par-ents are social liberals who thought they’d torture their son with a pair of confusing last names and I’m not going to make any money in the foreseeable future.”
It’s one of the cliches of being an English major and having aspirations to write or teach for a living: “you know you’re not going to make any money, right?” yeah, man, I know. So you can argue until you’re blue in the face that you’ll be the next Jonathan Franzen, and you’ll never want for any-thing or be the first to make a joke about your imminent
unemployment. Either way, find a way to handle this gen-eral and persistent criticism.
But beyond the realm of “you’re an English major, so good luck with being poor and not knowing your multi-plication tables and never be-ing loved by your dad,” I’ve heard it said from more in-telligent mouths that creative writing at the undergraduate level is something of a moot point. The reasoning behind the criticism varies.
It’s argued that for the stu-dents who excel at writing and creativity, the classes will bolster and refine their preex-isting skill sets and for those students who don’t have “it,” well, they’ll just be giving it a go until the go is over.
It’s argued that you can’t teach creativity or inspiration from the ground up.
It’s argued that undergradu-ate creative writing programs aren’t intensive enough to narrow the field down to a se-lect few that will “make it” in a professional sense. There’s a perceived disservice here — that the only thing undergrad-uates are being prepared for is, perhaps, disappointment.
Now, these aren’t criticisms I’ve heard leveled by non-readers or haters of creative writing, but rather observers who just don’t believe tat cre-ative writing is best instructed in an academic sense, but
that practice outside the class-room is just as valuable and hell of a lot less expensive.
That said, I’m not sure I agree with any of these points.
Not every business major who graduates from this uni-versity will find a job, not by a long shot. Some people are more driven and just better at what they do than others. Are they being set up for disap-pointment? And buried in this is that ever-present falsehood that “college should prepare you for the rigors of the real world.”
Many of us, myself includ-ed, have no idea where we’ll end up. And that’s not UNL’s fault. Whoever told us as kids for the first time that col-lege was a good idea, wasn’t wrong, but the perceived im-plication that a bachelor’s de-gree is as good as a 9-to-5 job and a house in Pleasantville is way off in 2012. Maybe ya-hooNews told me so. Maybe my eyes did.
But here I want to cite the limitations of creative writing classes and what people in-side and outside of them see. I would argue most instruc-tors of creative writing under-stand much of their focus will be on craft, the experience of the reader and making that as effective as possible. Inspira-tion really is up to the stu-dents.
The central contradiction as I see it in undergrad classes is the disconnect between how we’re taught to tear into literature and how we enter-tain the writing of our peers during workshops. It’s a gap that seems to be founded on the idea that none of us are really that good of writ-ers, and criticism will be the building blocks of improve-ment. But by that same to-ken, we don’t have any of the reverence for the guy sit-ting next to us that we hold (or should hold) for canon-ized writers.
So what we’re essentially asking for is a balance, and balance is hard. In a work-shop setting, you have to respect the writing of the person next to you while re-alizing that he or she is not T.S. Eliot or Alice Walker — that’s it’s your duty in the context of the class to help them with constructive feed-back, but know that maybe they’re working with some ideas that aren’t fully devel-oped. So “I don’t get this and we’re done here” is not an ac-ceptable response in the same way you’d be reproached for stopping short were you to offer that in a literature class.
In the end, calling creative writing classes at the under-grad level a “moot point” is a pretty short-sighted opinion. Could anyone really argue
with any validity that under-graduate writers at UNL don’t learn anything in the four, five or six classes they’ll take be-fore running the grad school application gauntlet? No, you couldn’t. Not with the driven students and instructors in the English Department.
But it does present chal-lenges and inconsistencies not present at the next level. Not everyone in ENGL 253 or 254 is there for the same thing. Not by a long shot. That one guy sleeps in that desk all week, you’re pretty sure.
And, of course, college is a time when we’re encour-aged to get involved in ev-erything. In my experience, it’s rare to find that under-graduate writer with the sin-gular focus that’s imperative for success in an MFA pro-gram and beyond. That I’m told is imperative, I guess, is a better way of writing that. I’ve never been to grad school. Please let me go to grad school, guys.
chance solem-Pfeifer is a Junior english maJor.
reach him at chancesolem-Pfeifer@
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will enhance students’ knowledge of the genre in general and may spark more interest in writing.
“I think, though, it’s im-portant to keep in mind that when we do teach those courses, we will teach them not as ‘how-to courses,’ but as courses that explore the historical and cultural con-texts of the genre,” Slater said. “(The courses will) ask students to think about, for example, why there’s such a hunger for mysteries and sci-ence fiction — and students can expect to read works that transcend the genre.”
Jennifer Bryan, a gradu-ate student who teaches fic-tion and literature courses at UNL, said although more of these courses could be ben-eficial, often people don’t re-alize that styles used in liter-ary and genre fiction can be combined to create a story that has the kind of intrigu-ing plots that make genre fiction exciting as well as the talented writing expected of literary fiction.
“Plot has become this dirty word in literary writing,”
Bryan said.While genre and literary
fiction do not have clear cut lines that separate them, the two categories have histori-cally held very different plac-es in literature.
One of the main reasons Slater believes in the impor-tance of thought-provoking literature is the studies that show how beneficial it can be for the brain to encoun-ter vivid sensory details or metaphors in fiction writing.
According to an article in The New york Times , sev-eral brain studies showed that people who read this kind of in-depth fiction are able to empathize and respond to others more than those who do not.
One of the scientists who conducted some of these studies, professor and nov-elist Keith Oatley, said, “Just as computer simulations can help us get to grips with complex problems such as flying a plane or forecast-ing the weather so novels — stories and dramas — can help us understand the complexities of social life.”
The responses our brains get from reading, the stud-ies said, help us cope with real-life situations.
“you can’t just read on auto-pilot,” Slater said. “you have to really engage with the work, take an active role in it.
“Popular fiction like mys-teries have their place, cer-tainly, but reading in-depth, thought-provoking fiction fills a need in our souls that more escapist literature just can’t.”
The tug of war between genre and literary fiction has been going on for years, and despite moves by authors and professors to engage students in both forms, Bry-an said she does not think it will end anytime soon.
“Americans read pop fic-tion because it moves, be-cause things are happen-ing,” she said. “I think you’ll always see people fall on the literary side and you’ll always have the detective novel that you read at the beach.”
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Football practice notesCarnes gets first-team reps
After Saturday’s spring practice, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said the Huskers scrimmaged for about half of the practice.
He said the team scrim-maged about 100 plays, al-lowing for many younger players to get a few snaps.
“We had a good go of it today,” Pelini said. “I thought some guys showed up and I thought the tem-po was good.”
The quarterbacks were impressive throughout the scrimmages, according to Pelini. Taylor Martinez scrimmaged for the first time this spring.
“We haven’t scrimmaged Taylor for a really long time, but I thought he was very sharp out there to-day,” Pelini said.
Second-string quarter-back Brion Carnes also took snaps with the first team. Pelini said Carnes has developed nicely and is able to check plays bet-ter at the line of scrim-mage.
Burkhead reCeives some rest
The younger Husker I-backs were able to get some more snaps in Sat-urday’s scrimmages, as se-nior Rex Burkhead did not
participate.Pelini said the backs re-
ally did a nice job taking advantage of their oppor-tunity.
“Those are two guys that were thrown into the fire early last season, and they are both backs with a lot of talent,” Pelini said. “Aaron Green ran tough today. Ameer was impres-sive too. Those guys are good backs.”
Burkhead did not scrim-mage for a coaching reason, not because he was hurt, Pelini said af-ter practice. He said he doesn’t want to risk inju-ry to the All-Big Ten per-former.
“I look at it this way, I know what Rex brings to the table, and we have some younger backs that need development,” Pelini said. “To be honest with you, Rex took a lot of hits last year, so it makes sense to leave him out of the scrimmage and it gives us a chance to look at our younger guys.”
offensive line looks for depth
Pelini talked after Sat-urday’s practice about the depth on the offensive line that is being developed this spring.
Andrew Rodriguez
moved to tackle at the start and has looked good in the early going, according to Pelini.
“I think he’s a pretty natural player there. An-drew’s going to be a heck of a football player out there at tackle just like we thought he was going to be at guard,” Pelini said.
The Huskers hope to be two-deep at every offen-sive line position, Pelini said. Ryne Reeves was moved to play guard also at the beginning of the spring and has looked natural at that position as well, according to Pelini.
other notes• Wide receivers Ja-
mal Turner and Tyler Ev-ans were both limited in Saturday’s practice with hamstring injuries, Peli-ni said. Neither player scrimmaged.
• Pelini said the play-ers were practicing better in the spring than most of his other teams that he had to “pull teeth” to get to play well.
• Pelini said the center battle is going well with all three players — Cole Pensick, Mark Pelini and Justin Jackson — “playing good football” right now.
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ranked second to David in most defensive categories last year playing alongside him in the middle.
After Compton, though, the experience drops significantly for the backers.
Sean Fisher is a senior out-side linebacker and has the most playing time in the group besides Compton. However, he has been injured the majority of his career, which has made it hard for him to develop any sort of consistency, Pelini said.
After Fisher and Compton, Alonzo Whaley and David San-tos should share playing time for the other linebacker posi-tion in the middle, according to Pelini.
Whaley is a senior, but has received little playing time throughout his career at Ne-braska, while this will be San-tos’ first year playing in Memo-rial Stadium for the Huskers
after redshirting his freshman year.
Sophomore Trevor Roach could receive some early play-ing time as well, according to Pelini. Pelini also said Whaley showed improvement in the offseason and developed to compete for the starting role.
Talks with David helped him with that development Pelini is talking about, according to Whaley.
“(David) might shoot words of encouragement a couple of days in the week to me,” Whal-ey said. “You know like, “Stay focused,” “Stay hungry” and “Keep up the grind,” stuff like that.”
Both Whaley and Comp-ton frequently talk to David throughout the week, Whaley said, sometimes as much as ev-ery other day. The seniors also watch film of the former star to try and pick up on what he did
well. Compton said the lineback-
ers may not be as talented as David, but they can be just as effective as a unit.
“So far I think the want and willingness to learn is really helping our group,” Compton said. “Hopefully, we’ll have a strong one-, two- or even three-deep at the position.”
David was one of the best linebackers to play at Nebraska, and his numbers back it up. Compton said he knows what David did and appreciates it, but this will be a completely different team in the fall.
“It’s not really a chip on our shoulders, but we just want to prove that we can do it without him,” Compton said. “All of the stats in his place spoke for itself. I mean you can’t really replace a Lavonte, but we’ll have guys in there doing the job.”
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LEAGUE BOUNDLavonte David is expected to be a first or second round draft pick in the NFL Draft later thismonth. The linebacker played only two seasons for Nebraska after transferring from Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College, but he’ll go down as one of the best to play the position for the Blackshirts. Here is a look at some of this record-breaking stats during his time at NU:
First-team All-American in 2011
Fourth all-time on Nebraska’s tackles list
Holds Nebraska’s all-time single season tackles record (152)
YEAR2010 (Big 12)2011 (Big Ten) Career
TOTAL TACKLES152133285
TFL12.512
24.5
SACKS6
5.511.5
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file photo by mAtt mAsin | dAily nebrAskAnNU’s Benedikt Lindheim won his No. 2 singles match in three sets to clinch Sunday’s 4-3 victory agaisnt Penn State.
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The Husker men’s tennis team split weekend confer-ence matches on the road, falling to No. 2 Ohio State and defeating Penn State.
Nebraska’s 4-3 victory against Penn State Sunday marked the Huskers’ first Big Ten Conference win, giving the team a 1-3 conference re-cord and 8-9 on the season. The victory against the Nit-tany Lions snapped a four-game losing streak the Husk-ers were riding since their last victory over Ventura Col-lege nearly two weeks ago.
The match came down to a tie-breaker in the third set between NU’s Benedikt Lind-heim and Russell Bader of PSU. Lindheim clinched the game winning point for the Huskers on the No. 2 singles court after he and fellow se-nior co-captain Christopher Aumueller helped Nebraska sweep the doubles point for an early lead. Freshman Stefan Gollner and sopho-more Tom Blackwell won NU’s other two points on the No. 5 and No. 6 courts respectively, defeating PSU’s Chris Young and Christopher Pasyn in straight sets. Black-well’s victory marked his first singles win also since the Huskers’ match against Ven-tura College.
The victory at State Col-lege came after the Huskers dropped their third confer-ence match of the season to second-ranked Ohio State — the Big Ten Confer-ence’s highest rated tennis squad. The Huskers avoided the shutout when Aumuel-ler upset Ohio State’s Blaz
Rola, ranked fifth nationally in individuals. Rola was the highest-ranked oppo-nent Aumueller has faced this season and the highest-ranked opponent he’s ever defeated.
The Buckeyes swept the doubles points, including an upset over NU’s top doubles
pairing of Aumueller and Lindheim who rank 19th nationally in doubles play. OSU’s 39th-ranked pairing of Ille Van Engelen and Devin McCarthy defeated Aumuel-ler and Lindheim 8-5 in the only portion of the match in which NU was favored.
Aside from Aumueller, the
other five of Nebraska’s sin-gles players lost in straight sets to OSU, which featured a lineup of five players ranked in the top 110 individually by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The win moves Ohio State to a 23-2 record and an undefeated 5-0 in the Big Ten Conference.
According to Aumueller, one of the Huskers’ main goals for the season was to finish in the top half of the conference. After the week-end of Big Ten play, the Huskers fell to eighth in the conference.
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“The park and the weath-er played no factor to (the losses),” Pritchard said. “Clearly it didn’t affect them so it shouldn’t have affected us. They played us in the same stuff we played them in. They just wanted to beat us more than we wanted to beat them.”
The Huskers gave up 18 runs on the weekend and only managed 12, statistics that spelled doom for Ne-braska, a squad looking for its first conference road se-ries victory since 2008.
“It’s a very simple formu-la: you pitch well and you need timely hitting,” Husker coach Darin Erstad said. “We got beat in all three. We’re actually fortunate we even won one game here.”
And in the Friday game where the Huskers managed the win, they were the more balanced team. The Huskers
managed more than half of their runs for the series in the 7-4 win and kept the Wildcats to their lowest total in a game on the weekend.
Starter Tom Lemke put up six innings and gave up three earned runs on 11 hits and only one walk.
Pat Kelly also came through for the Huskers at the plate. The freshman went 3 for 4 and had a solo homer that tied the game in the fifth inning and started a rally in that inning that Nebraska didn’t look back from.
Kelly’s clutch home run alongside his three-hit per-formance is proof that he’s adjusting well to baseball at the collegiate level.
“(Kelly) looked great, and he looked great his last couple outings as well,” Er-stad said following Friday’s game. “He’s a kid. He’s just
starting to get up to speed in the field, he’s obviously getting up to speed on the plate, but he’s starting to get the speed of Division I base-ball.”
Nebraska then capped the Friday game with a two-strikeout performance from closer Travis Huber for his fifth save of the season.
Saturday’s game was less than kind to Nebraska, mostly because of poor de-fensive play and the right arm of Brandon Magallones in an 8-4 loss.
The Huskers’ staff, behind starter Jon Keller and re-liever Brandon Pierce, didn’t give up any earned runs, while their defense gave up six errors.
“When you play on a field that’s pretty choppy, you have to be ultra aggressive,” Erstad said. “You have to go get the hops up front and
you can’t play timid and you can’t sit back on your heels and that’s ex-actly what we did today.
“We got a little spooked.”
And the s p o o k i n e s s all started with two er-rors by third baseman Kurt Farmer in the third inning. First Farmer misfired a ball that could’ve resulted in an inning-ending double play that left runners on the corners with one out.
Then Farmer misplayed a ball with two outs that could’ve ended the inning again after a Wildcat sacri-fice bunt put a run home.
And the problems were
contagious. Keller then walked three straight batters
with two outs; two with the bases loaded and the Wild-cats extended their lead to 3-1 and never looked back, in that game or the Sunday one.
Northwest-ern’s Zach Morton threw a one-run c o m p l e t e game and the
Wildcat bats stayed alive as the Huskers lost 6-1.
Nebraska was just unable to generate any offense. The Huskers put together seven hits, but were only able to get more than one hit in a single inning. They couldn’t put up any runs in
that inning as Nebraska’s inability for timely hits put Zach Hirsch’s solid start of 5 2/3 innings and only three earned runs on seven hits to waste.
For Erstad and company, this isn’t the end of the world. There’s a lot of base-ball left and Nebraska can perform with the best of them, he said.
This weekend against Northwestern was just the result of Nebraska getting outplayed by an opponent, but it shouldn’t be repeated, according to Pritchard.
“It was a funny weekend and there was a weird atmo-sphere around our team,” Pritchard said. “It wasn’t a normal Nebraska weekend. That’s not the way we’ve played for that 17-game homestand.”
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You have to go get the hops up front and you can’t play timid and you can’t sit back on your heels.
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Coming off the court, Ne-braska women’s tennis player Madeleine Geibert looked fatigued, but relieved in finally getting the victory she was looking for.
With Geibert’s 6-0, 6-2 singles victory against Penn State’s Carmen Sandor on Sunday, she became the school record holder with 173 combined wins between singles and doubles matches. Nebraska’s previous record holder was Sandra Noetzel, who had 172 combined wins in her career from 1996-2000.
“I’m just really happy for her,” NU head coach Scott Ja-cobson said. “She has strug-gled recently, but has kind of come back to the true Mad-eleine Geibert today.”
Along with Geibert’s victo-ry in singles, the 18th-ranked Huskers captured five other wins to beat the No. 48 Nit-tany Lions 6-1 Sunday in Lin-coln. The Huskers also add-ed another Big Ten victory to their record this weekend by beating Ohio State 4-0 on Friday. Some of the Ohio State matches were cut short because of weather.
Although the highlight of the weekend was Geib-ert’s school record, it wasn’t an easy route for her to get there.
Coming into Sunday, Geib-ert was tied with Noetzel’s record, and needed only one victory in either singles or doubles to stand alone in the record books.
This task proved to be a difficult one in starting out the day with a tough dou-bles match for Geibert. The No. 1 doubles team for Ne-braska of Geibert and Ste-fanie Weinstein lost a close match to Penn State’s Petra Januskova and Chelsea Ut-ting 8-7 (6).
In her doubles match, the frustration and fatigue began to show for Geibert. With the temperatures rising and long rallies, the lead changes kept going back and forth. Along with the close match, Geib-ert’s frustration with the line judges was apparent with some of the close line calls that went against her and Weinstein.
“It is always difficult to keep concentration anyways, even more so with the line calls,” Geibert said. “But even so, that stuff is out of your control.”
After dropping the dou-bles match, Geibert came back out on the court look-ing like she hadn’t played a long match beforehand. She powered through the first set with her 6-0 win, and left
the doubles match from be-fore completely out of her thoughts.
“It’s a new match, a new chance to play. I just leave the loss behind,” Geibert said.
While Geibert battled her way to victory in her singles match, the rest of the Husk-ers had their own battles to fight as well.
“It was a hard fought bat-tle today,” Jacobson said. “Penn State had just come off a close loss to Iowa, so we knew they were going to be playing some of their best today.”
Along with Geibert and Weinstein’s doubles loss, there was another close match in the No. 1 spot. Emo-tions ran high as Nebraska’s No. 1 singles player Mary
Weatherholt battled back and forth with Penn State’s Janus-kova. After winning the first set 6-4, Weatherholt dropped the second set 5-7.
At that point, it all came down to the tiebreaker. Weatherholt mustered her strength and came out on the winning end of the tie-breaker to give the Huskers another team victory.
With tough outdoor condi-tions and many long matches against Penn State Sunday, the continued hard work for the Huskers will ben-efit them as they extend Big Ten play against Purdue and Indiana next weekend.
“We want to continue to compete with a strong mindset,” Jacobson said.
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Women grab 2 more victories
file photo by kyle bruggemAn | dAily nebrAskAnNebraska senior Madeleine geibert became the program’s all-time leader in career com-bined wins this weekend with her singles victory against Carmen Sandor of Penn State.
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Nebraska junior Mara griva won the triple jump with a distance of 12.86 meters this weekend at the arkansas Spring Invitational.
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Nebraska’s jumps squad carried over its success from the indoor season, as it came away with 14 top-five finishes this weekend.
The Huskers headed to Fayetteville, Ark., for the Arkansas Spring Invitational over the weekend, bring-ing a full 34-person squad for the first time in the 2012 outdoor track and field sea-son. They left the meet with four first-place finishes and 28 total top-five finishes, with half of them coming in jump events.
Long jumper/triple jump-er Mara Griva said the com-petition level at the meet was standard for an early season meet, so the Huskers
took advantage.“It was a small meet and
it kind of felt like practice,” Griva said. “There weren’t different schools to push us.”
All-American long jumper Chris Phipps won the men’s long jump with a jump of 7.73 meters, followed by fellow-Husker Bobby Cart-er, who finished fourth. In the men’s triple jump, Ne-braska’s jumpers claimed five of the top nine spots, led by Patrick Raedler, who took second in the event with a jump of 15.36 me-ters.
On the women’s side, Griva won the triple jump with a mark of 12.86 me-ters, as the Huskers took four of the top five places
in the event, including first and second. Anna Weigandt and Kara Mostoller finished fourth and seventh in the long jump, respectively.
Rounding off the order for the jumpers, the Huskers claimed three third-place finishes in the pole vault, as Cami Jiskra and Breanna Bussel both tied at 3.80 me-ters, while Nate Polacek’s jump of 5.15 meters on the men’s side gave him a place in third. Marusa Cernjul added a second place finish in the high jump.
While Griva brought home a victory in the triple jump, she said she still isn’t at 100 percent after recov-ering from hamstring and back injuries that held her out of last month’s NCAA
Championships.“I tried not to think about
it in competition,” Griva said. “I was a little bit wor-ried. I felt like I was kind of saving myself.”
Team-wide, Griva said the Huskers had a strong meet.
“I felt like coaches were pretty satisfied,” Griva said. “We are putting in still a lot of work.”
Some of that work is start-ing to show off with the success of some of Nebras-ka’s young athletes.
Freshman Greta Kerekes placed first in the women’s 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.93 seconds. The 4x100-meter relay team of Kerekes, Monique Lewis, Breunna McCarty and Mara Weekes, which is composed
of all freshmen, except Weekes — a sophomore — took fifth place in the event behind a time of 46.38 sec-onds.
One reason to explain Nebraska’s early success in the outdoor season is the unseasonably warm weath-er, which has allowed the Huskers to get outside and practice more in a competi-tion-like environment.
Events like the javelin and discus are difficult to prepare for indoors. In ad-dition, factors such as wind and air quality aren’t easy to train for when the team can’t practice outdoors.
“It’s always better to prac-tice outside,” Griva said. “You get used to outdoors more. It might seem that it’s
not a big difference (but it is).”
Nebraska’s other top fin-isher, Miles Ukaoma, post-ed his second straight week with a first-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles, as he won with a time of 50.72 seconds. Ukaoma currently ranks first nationally in the event.
While the team remains confident that they’re off to a good start, the season has only begun, with the con-ference championship meet still a month away.
“We are not ready yet for our best marks,” Griva said. “We need to be in our best shape when conference comes.”
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adjustment to her mechan-ics.”
Edwards made up for her costly pitching in the third when she connected for an RBI double in the top of the fifth inning to tie the game, 3-3. Two batters later, junior Brooke Thomason drove Edwards in to take the lead, 4-3.
Thomason was im-pressed with everyone’s contribution Sunday.
“Everyone put in their work and did their job,” she said. “Hagemann pitched a great game.”
However, that lead didn’t last long as Minne-sota answered in the bot-tom of the sixth inning to the game at four. Hage-mann held the Gophers’ bats to zero runs the rest of the game.
After losing its pair of games in Saturday’s dou-bleheader, 13-7 and 8-5, Nebraska knew that in or-der to win the final series matchup, the team would have to capitalize on Min-nesota’s lack of offense Sunday.
A five-run collapse in Game 2 on Saturday was all the motivation the team needed heading into extra innings.
Thomason began the top of the eighth with a walk
and later advanced on a sacrifice bunt by sopho-more Taylor Edwards. The junior being in scoring position would eventually set up Fowler to deliver the game-winning RBI and send Nebraska back to Lincoln with a 4-2 record in the Big Ten.
“I feel like this is exact-ly what Nebraska softball needed today,” Thomason said. “We had an obstacle to overcome and we did that today on the field.”
After two tough games the day before which snapped the season-high nine-game winning streak, the victory was what the team needed heading back home, Revelle said.
“(Saturday) was a very difficult day for us,” the coach said, “but this bus ride home is definitely a lot livelier than it would have been 24 hours ago.”
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...(T)his bus ride home is
definitely a lot livelier than it would have been 24 hours ago.”
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For the Nebraska soft-ball team, this weekend a streak was broken, but a new one began.
Although the softball team dropped its first two games to Minnesota Satur-day, snapping a nine-game winning streak, the Husk-ers finished the series vic-torious, defeating the Go-phers 5-4 Sunday in eight innings.
A single hit by fresh-man Mattie Fowler with two outs in the top of the eighth inning provided the go-ahead RBI as the Husk-ers escaped the series fi-nale with a win in extra innings.
Senior Ashley Hage-mann, who came into the game with one out in the bottom of the third inning, picked up her 14th win on the season and improved her team’s overall record to 21-14.
The pitcher allowed one run on two hits and four walks while striking out 11 Gopher batters. Hagemann finished the game striking out the side in the bottom of the eighth inning to se-cure the win.
The Elkhorn native re-placed sophomore Tatum Edwards, who began the game for the Huskers. The starter gave up three runs on three hits in 2 1/3 in-nings and left the circle
with the Huskers down, 3-2.
Although she walked two of the first three bat-ters to begin the third, the Huskers escaped what could have been a bigger deficit with Hagemann’s superb pitching the rest of the game.
“It’s great to have two arms going,” NU coach Rhonda Revelle said. “(Ed-wards has) been fighting some pain after her el-bow injury earlier in the season but she’s made an
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Rocky Miller Park. Isn’t that where the Milwaukee Brew-ers play?
Nope, in fact it’s the home
field of the Northwestern Wildcats (10-15, 3-3 Big Ten), “Chicago’s Big Ten team.”
And this weekend marked the first time the Wildcats made the trip back to their home turf for the 2012 sea-son.
“It’s very difficult to go on the road,” Northwestern’s Kyle Ruchim said. “You’ve got to protect that home field so that when you go on the road and have a tough time it can be easier.”
And Northwestern pro-tected its home field this weekend taking two of three games from Nebraska base-ball (19-11, 3-3 Big Ten).
But before Husker fans go blaming the series loss on poor weather that never went above the 60s or a park that could only hold 600, Mi-chael Pritchard has another explanation.
missing tACklesL avonte David might as
well wear size 20 shoes because the Nebraska defense will have a hard
time filling them. That’s why the NU players
and coaches aren’t trying to fill those shoes, according to coach Bo Pelini.
“To sit there and say we will clone Lavonte David and say we will get the same kind of play and production out of that spot, it doesn’t work that way,” Pelini said.
The type of production Pelini was talking about was record-breaking.
In just his first year as a Husk-er, David recorded a school-record 152 tackles in a single season. He finished with 285 tackles on his career, ranking him fourth all-time in tackles at Nebraska.
David swarmed to the ball on the field. He and Austin Cassidy led the team in interceptions last season with two apiece, while David also was in the backfield the most with a team-leading 5.5 sacks and 13 tackles for loss last season.
How are the Huskers going to replace that kind of produc-tion? Pelini said it will need to be a combined effort.
“We have numbers at the line-backer spot and we will just see how it plays out and evaluate it and figure out the best com-bination as we go,” Pelini said.
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Linebacker Will Compton (center) had 82 total tackles, including seven for losses, last season for the Husker defense. The senior is the most experienced returning linebacker on the NU defense.
file photo by kAylee everly | dAily nebrAskAnNebraska’s Pat Kelly went 3 for 4 on friday during NU’s 7-4 win against Northwestern. The freshman is hitting .418 this season with four home runs.
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Huskers take series opener, but errors, quiet bats hinder squad rest of the weekend
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file photo by morgAn spiehs | dAily nebrAskAnPithcer ashley Hagemann allowed just one run in 5 2/3 innings of relief work to help the Huskers top Minnesota on Sunday.
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team improves to 21-14 on the season with back and forth battle with Gophers in series finale
