INSIDE COVERAGE ONLINE Tournament Time This week in the Big Ten From ‘beer to there’ Posthumous profiles Lucky Clovers Husker women take on Iowa after bye in first round See what’s going on at UNL’s peer institutions Lincoln breweries collaborate on biking beer tour Websites send messages after user’s death NU women’s golf team plays in Clover Cup @DAILYNEB FACEBOOK.COM/ DAILYNEBRASKAN Think first, shake second Taylor Kibbie, bar manager at Zen’s Lounge, shakes a cocktail called the Broth- er’s Keeper. After holding more than 30 bartending jobs across the country, Kibbie can anticipate what each customer might order before they even make a request. “If you’re going to be a car mechanic, you should know how to fix a car,” he said. “If you’re going to be a pilot, you should be able to pilot a plane. If you’re going to be a bartender, you better be a damn good bartender.” DN THE FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013 VOLUME 112, ISSUE 117 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM 10 3 6 4 5 Kamler: Regents won’t end readership program Regents postpone health center vote University Libraries asks volunteers to record pages from old yearbooks Story by Jake Garbison | Photo by Michael Miller UNL to focus on violence education, safety KELLI ROLLIN DN National legislation address- ing violence against women will reach the University of Nebras- ka-Lincoln in the form of a cam- pus safety push. The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and the SaVE Act, which empha- sizes more crime reporting, for crimes such as stalking and dat- ing violence and sexual assault and abuse education. Matt Hecker, dean of stu- dents, said the new law won’t result in change to university policy, but it will inspire con- centrated effort in education and prevention. “The intent of the law is to ensure that the campus is a safe place for all, and anything that we can do to make that campus safer is a benefit,” Hecker said. “Personally, I’m anxious to do more with the education. That’s an interesting challenge. We need to think through the victim expe- rience and why someone would be hesitant to report. In a sense, put ourselves in their shoes and try to find education strategies that would target whatever that fear or trepidation may be.” He said UNL has a safe cam- pus, but officials should keep challenging themselves when it comes to safety. “We do know what our num- bers are in terms of people who are reporting,” Hecker said. “We don’t know what our numbers are in terms of people who aren’t reporting. Our numbers are a real reflection of what is happening: We don’t know.” Hecker also said the law spec- ifies that an institution’s evidence and punishment process must be separate from the court process, a measure that he agrees with. He said it’s important for the campus process to differ from the judicial process because they have different sets of rules. For example, Hecker said the maxi- mum punishment on campus is getting kicked out of school, whereas in the judicial process, punishment is much greater. He said some colleges used to wait to see court action before taking any action on campus. VIOLENCE: SEE PAGE 3 READERSHIP: SEE PAGE 2 YEARBOOKS: SEE PAGE 3 JACY MARMADUKE DN A narrow majority of student voters in Wednesday’s Associa- tion of Students of the University of Nebraska elections didn’t ap- prove the Collegiate Readership Program, but ASUN president Eric Kamler said the program is here to stay. The readership program, which provides free copies of The New York Times, USA Today, the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star to students five days a week, receives $4.37 per student per semester. It failed by 36 votes, with 2,315 students voting against and 2,279 students voting in favor. But the program is a Fund B user, Kamler said, meaning that student vote can’t eliminate it. Rather, the Univer- sity of Nebraska Board of Regents will address the issue at its March 15 meeting. “It won’t be controversial,” said Kamler, a senior agricultural economics major. “You can’t get that kind of quality at that kind of price anywhere else. It’s silly to even consider axing the pro- gram.” Kamler said he emailed all of the regents about the program af- ter he saw the election results and will visit with each of them in person before the board meeting. Kamler said he isn’t sure why students voted down the pro- gram, which ranks third in dis- tribution among the 450 college readership programs nationwide. Student votes cannot eliminate program; Board to decide at March 15 meeting MICHAEL MILLER | DN Taylor Sidles, a junior history major, helps transcribe old yearbooks for online use at Love Library on Wednesday. Volunteers have been helping transcribe the yearbooks since Feb. 2 and have transcribed more than 4,000 pages to date in an effort to preserve some of the university’s history. T he transcription page is a scanned piece of yel- lowed paper with “Poly-Con Club” written in a flowery old English script at the top of the page. Underneath and opposite, an illustration of a student asleep with his head on his desk reads, “U of N Political Economy Club, The Science of Hu- man Weal.” It’s the 181st page of the University of Nebraska- Lincoln’s 1896-1897 yearbook, and University Librar- ies wants your help transcribing it. The transcription is part of a campaign started Feb. 2 to use online volunteers to transcribe all of Violence Against Women Act inspires university push for crime prevention JACY MARMADUKE AND RILEY JOHNSON DN The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has further postponed a vote on the pro- posed privatization of the Uni- versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Uni- versity Health Center. The board’s Executive Com- mittee on Monday morning de- cided to remove the vote from the March 15 meeting agenda be- cause the members would like to see more research conducted on the proposal, said UNL Student Regent Eric Kamler, who serves as president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. “It’s important to get all the questions answered,” said Kam- ler, who sits on the committee. “How this entire process has gone has been kind of backwards as far as how a $14 million project should go.” University administrators admitted that they didn’t re- search the effects of privatization before Chancellor Harvey Perl- man’s Sept. 11 announcement of his plans to privatize the health center. Regents are talking about hiring a consultant to determine whether privatization is the best route for the health center or if modifying the current facility and business model is a better Board removes UHC privatization decision from March 15 meeting agenda As a manager, this is really difficult on my staff. They would much rather have had a yes or a no.” DR. JAMES GUEST UHC DIRECTOR HEALTH: SEE PAGE 3 transcribing time
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Tournament Time
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From ‘beer to there’
Posthumousprofiles
LuckyClovers
Husker women take on Iowa after bye in first round
See what’s going on at UNL’s peer
institutions
Lincoln breweriescollaborate on
biking beer tour
Websites sendmessages after
user’s death
NU women’s golf team plays in Clover Cup
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Taylor Kibbie, bar manager at Zen’s Lounge, shakes a cocktail called the Broth-er’s Keeper. After holding more than 30 bartending jobs across the country,
Kibbie can anticipate what each customer might order before they even make a request. “If you’re going to be a car mechanic, you should know how to fix a car,” he said. “If you’re going to be a pilot, you should be able to pilot a plane. If
you’re going to be a bartender, you better be a damn good bartender.”
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National legislation address-ing violence against women will reach the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln in the form of a cam-pus safety push.
The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and the SaVE Act, which empha-sizes more crime reporting, for crimes such as stalking and dat-ing violence and sexual assault and abuse education.
Matt Hecker, dean of stu-dents, said the new law won’t result in change to university policy, but it will inspire con-centrated effort in education and prevention.
“The intent of the law is to
ensure that the campus is a safe place for all, and anything that we can do to make that campus safer is a benefit,” Hecker said. “Personally, I’m anxious to do more with the education. That’s an interesting challenge. We need to think through the victim expe-rience and why someone would be hesitant to report. In a sense, put ourselves in their shoes and try to find education strategies that would target whatever that fear or trepidation may be.”
He said UNL has a safe cam-
pus, but officials should keep challenging themselves when it comes to safety.
“We do know what our num-bers are in terms of people who are reporting,” Hecker said. “We don’t know what our numbers are in terms of people who aren’t reporting. Our numbers are a real reflection of what is happening: We don’t know.”
Hecker also said the law spec-ifies that an institution’s evidence and punishment process must be separate from the court process, a
measure that he agrees with.He said it’s important for the
campus process to differ from the judicial process because they have different sets of rules. For example, Hecker said the maxi-mum punishment on campus is getting kicked out of school, whereas in the judicial process, punishment is much greater.
He said some colleges used to wait to see court action before taking any action on campus.
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A narrow majority of student voters in Wednesday’s Associa-tion of Students of the University of Nebraska elections didn’t ap-prove the Collegiate Readership Program, but ASUN president Eric Kamler said the program is here to stay.
The readership program, which provides free copies of The New York Times, USA Today, the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star to students five days a week, receives $4.37 per student per semester. It failed by 36 votes, with 2,315 students voting against and 2,279 students voting in favor. But the program is a Fund B user, Kamler said, meaning that student vote can’t eliminate it. Rather, the Univer-sity of Nebraska Board of Regents will address the issue at its March 15 meeting.
“It won’t be controversial,” said Kamler, a senior agricultural economics major. “You can’t get that kind of quality at that kind of price anywhere else. It’s silly to even consider axing the pro-gram.”
Kamler said he emailed all of the regents about the program af-ter he saw the election results and will visit with each of them in person before the board meeting.
Kamler said he isn’t sure why students voted down the pro-gram, which ranks third in dis-tribution among the 450 college readership programs nationwide.
student votes cannot eliminate program; Board to decide at March 15 meeting
michael miller | dnTaylor sidles, a junior history major, helps transcribe old yearbooks for online use at love library on Wednesday. volunteers have been helping transcribe the yearbooks since Feb. 2 and have transcribed more than 4,000 pages to date in an effort to preserve some of the university’s history.
The transcription page is a scanned piece of yel-lowed paper with “Poly-Con Club” written in a flowery old English script at the top of the page. Underneath and opposite, an illustration
of a student asleep with his head on his desk reads, “U of N Political Economy Club, The Science of Hu-
man Weal.” It’s the 181st page of the University of Nebraska-
Lincoln’s 1896-1897 yearbook, and University Librar-ies wants your help transcribing it.
The transcription is part of a campaign started Feb. 2 to use online volunteers to transcribe all of
Violence Against Women Act inspires university push for crime prevention
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The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has further
postponed a vote on the pro-posed privatization of the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Uni-versity Health Center.
The board’s Executive Com-mittee on Monday morning de-cided to remove the vote from the March 15 meeting agenda be-cause the members would like to see more research conducted on the proposal, said UNL Student Regent Eric Kamler, who serves as president of the Association of Students of the University of
Nebraska. “It’s important to get all the
questions answered,” said Kam-ler, who sits on the committee. “How this entire process has
gone has been kind of backwards as far as how a $14 million project should go.”
University administrators admitted that they didn’t re-
search the effects of privatization before Chancellor Harvey Perl-man’s Sept. 11 announcement of his plans to privatize the health center.
Regents are talking about hiring a consultant to determine whether privatization is the best route for the health center or if modifying the current facility and business model is a better
Board removes UHC privatization decision from March 15 meeting agenda
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The photo-editing app and social media site Instagram is no longer confined to the digital world: the Instagram concept is now going to be incorporated into a physical device to be released in 2014.
Socialmatic, a company “fo-cused on creativity and innova-tion”, is marketing the Social-matic Camera, which is basically a physical version of Instagram.
Like Instagram, the Social-matic Camera allows users to take a photo and post it to various social media sites, as well as edit the photo with multiple filters. However, because it’s an actual camera, the Socialmatic Camera includes Wi-Fi, a 3G network and 16 GB of internal storage as well as a slot for external storage.
Antonio De Rosa, who is from Italy, is CEO of Socialmatic and creator of the idea for the Insta-gram-inspired Social-matic Camera.
De Rosa, who has also come up with many innova-tive ideas including iWatch, said he was just looking at some icons when he came up with the idea.
“I think there’s space in social media for a new concept of digi-
tal photography,” De Rosa said. “It’s really important (to me). After years of some good ideas, such as the iWatch, finally I can see something become real.”
The new camera is bringing back old concepts by allowing photos to be printed from the camera itself. An internal printer allows the camera to work just like a Polaroid, allowing the pho-tos to be printed immediately. When the photo is printed, a QR code is included on the photo, al-lowing others to scan and follow the photo in both the real and on-line world.
He said the project benefits people because it will “fill the gap between virtual and real” and bring physical photography back as a “cool thing.”
The project has made prog-ress quickly, as De Rosa had the idea in April 2012, the project was started in September 2012 and the cameras are expected to release in the first quarter of 2014, De Rosa said.
On top of all this progress, De Rosa also said Polaroid is now Socialmatic’s main partner in this
project. He is positive toward the work that is being made and hopes that the camera is popu-lar.
“I think if we work hard and good, it will be,” he said. “Now we are working on three sides: Le-
gal sides to transform our MoU (memorandum of understanding) in the final agreement, the hard-
ware side, that is going on very well and the software side, also in good position.”
De Rosa said he has heard lots of good feedback about the camera and is happy that more people are aware of it.
Dwayne Ball, interim chair-man and associate professor for the marketing department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said from a marketing standpoint he sees potential in the Social-matic camera.
“This appears to be a multi-function device that not only takes digital pictures, but also allows editing, instant uploads to social media and prints on demand,” Ball said. “Whether or not this product would suc-
ceed in the marketplace depends upon how many people need all those functions and are willing to pay the price for it. I see some potential uses for this camera, so it might succeed.” However, Ball said sales always depend on if people will be satisfied with the product to pay for it.
“Whether or not there are enough people who would be sat-isfied by the quality of the pho-tographs produced and would be willing to pay the price for the camera, upload capability and paper and ink cartridges is the question,” he said.
Shannon Dierking, a fresh-man veterinary sciences major, said her purchase of the product depends on the cost.
“I would probably (buy it) if I had all the money in the world and could afford it,” Dierking said.
However, Anna Kuhl, fresh-man pre-veterinary medicine ma-jor, said she doesn’t see a need for the Socialmatic Camera.
“I probably wouldn’t (buy it), just because I have my phone, and I have Instagram on there anyway, and I feel like I never print out pictures anymore,” Kuhl said. “Everything’s online.”
Though she doesn’t see the camera as a product she’d use often, Kuhl said she likes the con-venience of getting instant prints from it.
Dierking also liked this aspect of the camera because when she takes pictures with her digital camera she procrastinates print-ing the photos, she said.
Dierking added that people with certain interests might be more apt to buy this product than others.
“I think it depends on if you’re really that much of a photogra-phy buff,” she said. “If you’re all about the new advancements in photo technology, then maybe it would be more appealing.”
Because the project is still developing, De Rosa said when the agreement with Socialmatic’s partners is effective, the name of the camera will change, but for now they are keeping the Social-matic Camera name.
He said at this point, the cam-era doesn’t have a set price and only prototypes have been made.
But De Rosa said “it will be a camera for everyone.”
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Years of research paid off for a team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers when an aca-demic journal named their peer-reviewed article 2012 Article of the Year.
Susan Sheridan, lead author of the article and director of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, accepted the award Feb. 15 at the National Association of School Psychologists’ 2013 annual convention in Seattle. School Psy-chology Review, the association’s major journal, granted Sheridan and her team the award.
“It’s the major research publi-cation in the field,” Sheridan said. “It has very broad reach and scope and impact. We are very excited.”
The article analyzes the re-sults of a four-year, large-scale experimental trial of Conjoint Be-havioral Consultation, which is a structured consultation model aimed at improving behavioral problems of students identified as disruptive in the classroom, Sheri-dan said.
Under the model, a school psychologist works with the par-ents and teachers. They work through this process of identify-ing the behavior and develop-ing an intervention plan that’s individualized for each student, Sheridan said.
“All parents want to do what’s
best for their children, but they don’t always know how and they don’t always have the support,” Sheridan said. “This model pro-vides that opportunity for parents to be involved and to be meaning-ful participants in their child’s education.”
The students were divided into two groups. The students who took part in the eight-week consultation program displayed significantly greater increases in
social skills than those in the con-trol group, Sheridan said.
“We are very encouraged that this intervention framework is ef-fective at promoting social skills
in students who are struggling in their behaviors,” she said. “A lot of times these behaviors are af-fecting the student’s learning.”
Sheridan said an integral part
of the behavior change in the CBC children was the program’s posi-tive impact on parent-teacher re-lationships.
“The goal is to create the no-tion of a shared partnership and meaningful parent involvement in their children’s education,” Sheridan said.
The trial was conducted with children in kindergarten through third grade at schools in Lincoln, Crete and Elmwood-Murdock public schools.
Amanda Witte, a graduate student in psychological studies in education and CYFS project manager for the center, said the participating schools were very welcoming to the UNL research-ers.
“It was fun to work with so many teachers who were open to new ideas and who were eager to learn new strategies, and they were really willing to do what it takes to meet the needs of their students,” Witte said. “We see it extend not only to the kids who are participating; a lot of time the whole classroom climate becomes more positive.”
Sheridan, who has been doing research on the CBC model for 20 years, said the scope of the study was much more extensive than prior studies have been.
“To be honored by this and to have the findings validated by the National Association of School Psychologists and the Psychology Review is very rewarding,” Sheri-dan said.
Sheridan and the other CYFS researchers are testing the same model in a second large-scale study in rural schools in Nebras-ka, Iowa and Kansas.
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Although donations to colleges and universities have increased more than 2 percent nationwide, the University of Nebraska Foun-dation doesn’t reflect the trend.
The foundation, which ac-cepts donations for the Univer-
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Nebraska at Kear-ney, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, oper-ates the Campaign for Nebraska. Donations topped $172 million in 2011 but fell to about $165 million in 2012, a 4 percent decrease, ac-cording to foundation’s website. Nationwide donations increased 2.3 percent in 2012, according to a Feb. 20 Chronicle of Higher Education article. Gifting in-creased more than 8 percent in 2011, the article said.
Robb Crouch, the founda-
tion’s public relations director, said donors have been generous this year, but he doesn’t want to speculate as to whether 2013 will see an improvement in dona-tions. The fiscal year will end on June 30.
The campaign’s donation progress, according to the official Campaign for Nebraska website, began in 2005 and ends in 2014.
“The public phase was an-nounced in 2009, but we’ve been raising gifts since 2005,” Crouch said. “It’s a common practice when managing campaigns to raise half as much of the cam-paign goal, before you announce
it publicly. It just shows other donors that the campaign is suc-cessful and encourages them to participate.”
As of Thursday, the campaign had raised more than $1.38 bil-lion, surpassing the campaign goal of $1.2 billion. Nearly $592 million of the fundraising has gone to UNL.
Currently, the foundation is working on a Veterinary Diag-nostic Center projected to cost $55 million with $5 million al-ready pledged by the state. The campaign funded the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center in 2010.
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“Maybe they didn’t quite un-derstand what the program was about,” he said. “I think people were mostly just confused.”
Senior English major Kaitlin Harvey said she “was really dis-appointed in the student body.”
“I have a lot of friends who rely on the program for their news,” she said. “As much as the Daily Nebraskan is a good pa-per, it’s not what The New York Times is.”
Dan Kiser, a junior family sci-ence major, said he thought the vote came down to cost.
“I think it’s pretty crappy of (the voters),” he said. “Even if all students don’t read it, some do. Probably they thought it was un-necessary because it didn’t apply to them.”
Kamler said he’s recommend-ed that the next ASUN president organize public information ses-sions before elections to inform students on the services their fees are funding.
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option, Kamler said. He ex-pects the regents will vote on privatization at their next meeting in June.
UHC Director Dr. James Guest heard the news of the postponed vote on Thursday, when the March 15 meeting agenda was made public.
“I don’t know if privatiza-tion is a good idea or a bad idea, but you’ve got to do your research beforehand,” he said. “It’s good that some-one is stepping back.”
But he said he was con-cerned about keeping his employees “in limbo.”
“As a man-ager, this is re-ally difficult on my staff,” he said. “They would much rather have had a yes or a no.”
More than eight UHC em-ployees have left the health center since Perlman pro-posed privatization, Guest said.
“We’ve never had this many key officials gone at the same point,” he said. “It’s dif-ficult to recruit for those posi-tions.”
If the board votes to privatize the health center and Bryan Health takes over operations, staff would be as-sured employment for at least one year, according to Bryan Health’s bid.
Bryan Health would be
charged with building a new health center, and each stu-dent would pay an additional $12 in fees per semester to fund its operations, accord-ing to the non-binding refer-endum on the ASUN ballot Wednesday.
Association of Students of the University of Nebraska 2013 election ballot. Sixty-two percent of student vot-ers approved privatization in
the elections on Wednes-day, but ad-minis trators and regents have not said whether they will take stu-dent opinion into consider-ation.
B o a r d of Regents C h a i r m a n Tim Clare, of Lincoln, said the privatiza-tion proposal
is a complex decision. The regents must weigh multiple factors such as who controls the new health center, how student fees are determined and how much they will fluc-tuate in the future, Clare said.
For Clare and the board, it’s a lot to be comfortable with.
“We have to be sure not only tomorrow, but 10, 15 years from now that we’re able to provide the best ser-vice to students at the best price,” he said.
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Replacing silicon transistors could change the future of electronics, and a team including several Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln re-searchers may have found a way to do it.
John Burton, a research as-sistant professor of physics and astronomy, and colleague Evg-eny Tsymbal, Bessey professor of physics and astronomy, are two main contributors to the project. They elaborated on the current state of their research in a Febru-ary edition of Nature Materials.
Burton said almost all mod-ern technology is based on sili-con, which causes a limit to be reached on how dense electronic components (such as antennas and circuits) can be packed into one piece of silicon. Because these are packed into electronic devices such as cell phones and comput-ers, electron flow is contstant, which causes more consumed en-ergy.
“What’s in technology right now is reaching an efficiency limit, where we won’t be able to pack more bits (anything that is shuffled around in anything digi-tal, such as cell phones) into a de-vice because of constraints on size and heat generation, or wasted energy,” he said.
Burton said he and his col-leagues aim to discover a new physical phenomena that could function as a switch, memory unit or sensor in electronic devices.
Burton said ferroelectric mate-rials have the capability to exhibit an electrical polarization that can be changed. This means that when a ferroelectric material is paired with another material, electric charge can be pushed or pulled from it. The team found that a ferroelectric material, barium ti-tanate, leads to a major change in resistance when put next to man-ganit, a magnetic material. The combination could prove a re-
placement for the current silicon transistor technology.
He said any electronic com-ponent can be used as a switch, which when interconnected, can process information. Burton said every digital device has tons of these switches, which work just like a light switch, that switch many times during use. He said this research and theoretical pre-diction could cause technology to work faster because each switch-ing operation would waste less energy and therefore, more bits
could be packed into a device. He said this also means the battery in a mobile device would last longer.
The research may be confus-ing to some, but Burton said its importance can’t be underesti-mated.
“We have an energy crisis,” he said. With computers running almost 24-7, especially things like big servers which require external cooling, this causes a drain on the grid. If you can leave your com-puter at a zero power mode and still turn it on really quickly and
not waste so much heat while you’re actually operating the computer, this could help save lots of energy and wasted power.”
He said Tsymbal worked on this concept since 2005, but in 2011 came up with an interesting way to get the idea to work.
Burton and Tsymbal collabo-rated with Alexei Gruverman, a professor of physics and astron-omy, to perform tests and further experiments.
Burton said the most impor-tant experiments done were mea-surements of resistance, which is
how easy it is to make electrical current flow.
A group of experimentalists led by Qi Li, a physics professor at Penn State, helped with measure-ments of resistance. He said when using his and Tsymbal’s theoreti-cal prediction of pairing barium titanate and manganite,the resis-tance went from a few hundred to 10,000. Burton said the large change is good because it means it takes less energy for these switch-es to change. Therefore, the larger change in resistance can result in less power a device will consume.
Gruverman, whose role was to interpret results of the tests and experiments, said the team has advanced capabilities, which puts their research at a “cutting edge level.”
“I think it’s a perfect recipe for a breakthrough research,” he said. “It’s not just rudimentary or routine studies. It’s a really revo-lutionary type of research.”
Though all of this work is based on models and currently only works at very low tempera-tures, Burton and the team of researchers are getting closer to possibly causing change in energy and technology in the future.
“It’s pretty exciting to have the possibility that this kind of phenomenon could be utilized and revolutionize how electronic devices work, but it takes a lot more work beyond establishing the basic physics before it is in-corporated into modern devices,” he said. “What we’re working on now is basic fundamental physics that could affect how devices may operate in the future.”
Gruverman added that if the research project is successful in the future, it will “expand our possibilities in terms of storing and processing information, and that’s what our society’s about.”
Burton added that revolution-ary research like this takes years of developing before it’s actually implemented. But he’s OK with the wait.
“I’m a physicist, and I find this stuff interesting in and of it-self,” he said. “I would probably be working on this stuff even if it didn’t necessarily make it into devices.”
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bethany schmidt | dnJohn Burton, a research assistant professor of physics and astronomy, stands outside of his office in Jorgensen hall. Burton is one of the University of nebraska-lincoln researchers who are working on finding an alternative that could replace silicon transistors in electronics.
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The University of Minnesota lillehei heart Insti-tute is approaching muscle regeneration by rely-ing on reprogrammed or induced pluripotent stem cell technology instead of the controversial use of human stem cells. experiments are proving that by combining pluripotent stem cell and genetic correc-tion technologies in mouse trials, muscle regenera-tion is possible, according to a science press re-lease. applying this same process to human induced pluripotent stem cell could be a potential treatment for muscular dystrophy in humans for the future, the release said.
Purdue universitylast Friday, Purdue University announced that it
will freeze tuition for at least the next two years at its West lafayette campus. according to a Purdue news release, this will be the first time since 1976 that the university students will not experience a tu-ition increase. The press release included data from a Purdue’s data digest report and said tuition has risen about 6 percent in the last decade. This freeze will mandate that tuition costs cannot increase for two years for undergraduate residents of Indiana not including activity, student, and wellness fees, the release said.
northwestern universitynorthwestern University recently received a $6
million donation from the robert W. galvin Foun-dation to help pay for costs associated with the expansion of the henry and leigh Bienen school of Music, according to a press release. The release detailed how this new recital hall is not only going to be a beautiful lakefront addition to northwest-ern but will also accommodate different depart-ments and achieve an environmentally sustainable certification from the United states green Building Council. oliver Ionita, senior director of develop-ment and external relations for the Bienen school of Music, has played a major role in the direction of the Bienen school of Music expansion since its construction began in 2012. “This is really going to be a state of the art facility,” Ionita said. “The recital hall is certainly going to be excellent for re-cruitment and attracting good faculty and students to northwestern.”
Ionita said the donation from the galvin Founda-tion is going to help the university complete the project by the fall of 2015 and one of the most inter-esting benefits the completion of the recital hall will be to northwestern is that departments, faculty and students alike will be brought together in one place.
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“This law says that’s not a good strategy,” Hecker said.
Jan Deeds, director of the UNL Women’s Center, said it’s likely that a task force to end violence will soon be reunited to address some of these education issues and other requirements of the new law. The task force, funded by a grant, operated from 2002-2005, Deeds said.
Deeds is also the adviser for PREVENT, a student organiza-tion that works to educate people on prevention and intervention in relationship violence and rape. She said not many people
are involved in or know about PREVENT, which hopefully will change with this new law.
“I’m interested in how we can … provide this training and get this information out to every-body about how you can safely intervene and what you can do to help prevent this kind of vio-lence,” she said.
Though awareness of these crimes is important, Deeds said it doesn’t mean violence won’t happen.
“There are things you can do to help yourself be safer, but that doesn’t prevent violence,” she
said. “The only person who can prevent violence is the perpetra-tor.”
Deeds said the law’s protec-tion of a victim’s confidentiality is significant.
“That’s a plus,” she said. “The old act wasn’t clear about that, so I think this is helpful from the perspective of trying to encourage people to report.”
But Deeds said the new law doesn’t only affect victims of vio-lence or assault.
“This isn’t just about wom-en,” she said. “It’s under the Vio-lence Against Women Act, but it’s
about male victims and female victims. This has an impact on everybody. If you’re not a victim, you’ll know someone who is, and that’s what will affect your life.”
Both Hecker and Deeds are favorable to what the new law will address and look forward to making campus a safer environ-ment.
“It pushes the campus to-ward greater transparency,” he said. “Hopefully we come back to that goal of the campus being a safe place for all.”
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the university’s yearbooks back to 1884. The idea is that lots of anonymous volunteers doing small amounts of transcribing will be much more accurate than a scanning machine.
“Many pages include script, Greek characters, or distinc-tive layouts which would prove problematic for OCR software to read,” reads the FAQ on the proj-ect’s official website, transcribe.unl.edu. “It is our belief that hu-man transcribers are the most ef-fective way to create a searchable text of the yearbooks.”
The University Libraries has long been wanting to digitize some of their most noteworthy
documents, said Joan Barnes, a development and outreach li-brarian. The department has been preparing the project for more than six months.
After the volunteers finish with yearbooks, there are plans to digitize Charles Bessey’s field notes, vintage Husker football programs and even early Board of Regents minutes.
“Alumni contact us looking for college background on their parents, grandparents and other elderly relatives.” said Andrea Cranford, senior publications di-rector for the Nebraska Alumni Association. “This transcription project will make it possible not
only to search quickly for a rela-tive in a particular yearbook but also to help determine which yearbooks to search.”
Since Feb. 2, nearly 4,000 pages have been transcribed, leaving about 30,000 remaining. It’s not unusual for as many as 20 pages to be transcribed in an hour. Volunteers can transcribe
everything from poems to pranks – snapshots into the lives of long-dead college students.
“Volunteers discover and help us preserve – and they can help other people discover fasci-nating stuff about the history of the university,” Barnes said.
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alumni contact us looking for college background on their parents,
grandparents and other elderly relatives.”ANdreA crANford
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privatization is a good idea or a bad idea, but you’ve got to do your research beforehand.”
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Social media has helped us communicate with the living. Now it’s help-ing the dead speak to us.
No, it’s not the Phi-losopher’s Stone that
grants people immortality. Sites like DeadSocial and If I Die let us-ers schedule posts and tweets to their accounts after they are dead. Some people find it creepy. I think it’s something that can help peo-ple through the grieving process.
A third to half of college stu-dents know someone who died recently, according to the National Students of AMF Support Net-work.
More than 30 million profiles on Facebook belong to someone who’s dead. People are already memorializing those Facebook profile pages after the death of someone they knew, and several social media sites have policies on how to handle profiles posthu-mously.
For some people, that social media message may be the only goodbye they get from a loved one who died. Those messages comfort them. They’re something people can use to remember those who have passed away.
How are people leaving social media messages post-death any different from other normal ways of grieving? It isn’t.
Many people keep mementos in a box to remember loved ones who died. Others read letters writ-ten before the death of a family member or friend. Some even look at the old Facebook statuses that a loved one had posted before they died.
Some critics believe sending social media messages from peo-ple who died just delays the griev-ing process. They argue it makes it harder for family and friends to move on after a death. I disagree.
There isn’t an expiration date on grief. The grieving process for each of us is different because we all have individual ways of griev-ing. Reading social media posts sent by loved ones after they pass away is a valid way for someone to deal with grief. The messages can help people remember the good times they had with a loved one who’s deceased. It won’t help everyone but would help enough people to give these sites value.
Some of these mementos could be read in the privacy of
one’s house. People have the right to grieve in private. Some people might say social media takes that privacy away.
While many Twitter and Face-book accounts are open to the public, there are privacy settings on some of these sites. Social me-dia apps like If I Die give users the ability to send private messages via email. DeadSocial is working on making some of their services private. These privacy settings would let people maintain their privacy while expressing their grief in a healthy way.
More so, these kinds of social media sites could help grieving friends, family members and the deceased. More than 200,000 users have signed up on If I Die.
Death can be a scary concept, so writing down goodbye mes-sages can help people conquer their fear of dying. If you can com-pose a sincere goodbye message to friends and family in 140 charac-ters, more power to you.
For some people, leaving so-cial media messages after death lets their families know how important they were. Users can express their feelings in these messages and they can provide closure.
Also, sites like DeadSocial can let people control how friends and family perceive them after death. For instance, by sending out per-sonalized messages after death, they can help people remember them as who they were in life. Sure, they can also exaggerate how much of a good person they are, but on the other hand, users can make fun of themselves at the same time. They can find humor in life and in death.
Of course, there should be lim-its. No one likes trolls, especially in times of grief. Both users and
social media sites can help with potential troll problems.
Most of the time, people will be sensitive when interacting with someone who had a loved one die. Users are also less likely to troll if they have their real name attached to the profile. Sites can also have policies in place for people to re-port these trolls. Privacy settings can also be used so only friends and family can see a user’s profile page, cutting down on the likeli-hood of trolls.
These sites can also help peo-ple deal with the grief of losing someone if users show common sense. For instance, only posting posthumous messages on special occasions, instead of every day.
Some people might be under-standably uncomfortable receiv-ing these messages. Social media users can take the opportunity to communicate with their friends and family about handling ac-counts post-death.
Tell your loved ones if you don’t want to receive any messag-es when they’re dead. Unless they have spiteful friends or family members, people uncomfortable with receiving a Facebook mes-sage from the beyond shouldn’t get one. Having these kinds of sites can open up discussion on what people want to happen when they die.
Sounds macabre? Sure, but the alternative is being unhappily surprised by a Facebook post from a dead parent at an unexpected time.
At the moment, there are a lot of debates on what rules and regulations there should be for us-ers when they pass away. At this point, we’re still figuring what is socially acceptable and what isn’t on Facebook and on Twitter.
Using social media to commu-nicate with loved ones after death has its benefits, even though it isn’t for everybody. These sites have value for society. We just have some fine-tuning to do be-fore we get it absolutely right.
Sites like DeadSocial are just another way to ensure that while you may be gone when you die, you won’t be forgotten.
kim buckley is a senior news-editorial maJor.
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From the moment you were born, you have been get-ting closer and closer to your own death. And while many will argue what ex-actly happens to us after
death, we’re all disheartened when we think about the loved ones we are leaving behind and how they will cope without us. Many people cre-ate wills, letters or scrapbooks full of pictures in order to leave mementos of the life that was. However, social media services are beginning to allow messages and condolences to be sent from beyond the grave – something that inhibits a sense of closure and deters the healing process involved in the death of a loved one.
Sites like DeadSocial and apps like If I Die allow members to pre-record messages and pay for a certain amount of messages to be sent after a social media site has been notified of their death. Basically, you can sub-scribe for one final message, or you can have a weekly message for a few years on end after your death.
But before we dive into these sites, let’s look at the current policies on so-cial media sites and the controversy around them.
Current Facebook policies al-low friends and family to contact the website and establish a memorialized page for their deceased loved ones. This allows limited functions such as wall posts, but discontinues the deceased from showing up on pub-lic searches, mutual friend lists and friend suggestion lists.
Also, once memorialized, no one is allowed to login to the account. If that doesn’t appease the friends or family, they are allowed to request that Facebook take down the de-ceased user’s profile page. However, Facebook doesn’t give the username or password to any friend or family member. Twitter runs on similar poli-cies.
However, as more social media users pass away, the ownership of their profiles has been put into ques-tion. In fact, last month New Hamp-shire State Rep. Peter Sullivan put forth legislation “giving the execu-tor of an estate control over the dead person’s social networking pages.” Sullivan pushed this legislation in response to a deceased teenager who continued to be bullied on Facebook, even after her suicide.
Sullivan argues that the owner-ship of the account should belong to “the executor of the estate,” (in this situation, the young girl’s parents)
for them do to as they please with the online account. The profile shouldn’t remain open for hackers and bullies to target.
Acquiring the account informa-tion would allow families to search through the account like reading someone’s diary after they have passed away. Or, they can simply shut the profile page down themselves. However, giving out such information can still be a tricky situation in regards of whom to trust with the information and how that would be verified. The legislation has been sent back for revi-sions, but will soon come up again.
But regardless of who has what access, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts already leave behind a sort of phantom you, a digital impression of your life and words. Usually these pages receive farewells and blessings before fading away into the eternal depths of the Internet. They shouldn’t speak back.
However, websites like DeadSo-cial or If I Die want to provide more than just a memorialized profile page. As noted before, they offer everything from one last farewell, all the way up to six messages a week.
If you are going to do the one last message, just write a letter to be given along with your will. Personal, handwritten messages have a lot more bearing than an electronic message in regards to sentiment. I’d much rather have a loved one write a letter to be given to me upon his or her death. This way, the letter is tangible – some-thing I feel holds a lot more merit – and can be accessed when I’m willing to read over it.
If you want to send more mes-sages, you’re only deterring the heal-ing process of your loved ones left behind. The finality of the situation is postponed until they receive the last Internet message. At that point, they finally think to themselves, “It’s over. No more new letters.” Until then, they
are constantly hanging on for these new fragments of contact with the de-ceased, constantly wondering when they will get your next message. Peo-ple need a sense of closure and finality in order to move on in their lives.
However, receiving tweets or messages from a loved one years after they passed away is unsettling and unnecessary. I can’t imagine logging on to Facebook or opening up my email account to find a message from a loved one who had passed away a month ago. At first, I would think it was a cruel joke before finding out the message was pre-recorded when they were alive. Still, something about re-ceiving new contact, words that were intended to be spoken months after one’s death, would spook me out.
Though you might argue this is no different than a will, I would argue that it is. Not only is a will conveyed in a formal, legal setting – one we are more likely to be accustomed to – it’s more personal by the fact that it wasn’t done via the Internet. Would you rather receive a happy anniversary or happy birthday via Facebook, or by a handwritten card or letter?
Even if they say the same thing, the handwritten letter is personal just by the fact that you can see the per-son’s handwriting, which is in itself personal. Digital font doesn’t hold the same personality, no matter how many emoticons are placed in it. Also, the letter would be yours. A physical object you can possess and read at any time. Sure, you can print the message, but that still goes back to the handwrit-ing issue.
Also, in the case of a will, the mes-sage is given during a time of grieving, so you are by no means over the death and you’re not ready to move on. This is when a letter will shock someone the least, and they can still hold onto it into the future for memory’s sake. However, messages sent after one has done their fair share of grieving will only shock them. It will send them back into a bit of grief and confusion, wondering, “why didn’t you just tell me this before?”
I understand people grieve in dif-ferent ways, and perhaps this just isn’t for me. However, whether it’s good or bad, posthumous messages delay the grieving process, and are more likely to spook someone out than a letter or memento left behind.
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Improvised dubstep is no joke, but EOTO sure does know how to get their audiences going.
Combining the likes of rhyth-mic tunes with audience moods, EOTO (End.Of.Time.Observa-tory.) offers something new with each performance. Even they aren’t sure what’ll happen; it all depends on the mood and the groove of where they’re perform-ing and what live instrumenta-tion they choose to incorporate on given night.
The use of all-natural instru-ments have been routinely cited as EOTO’s defining quality, in conjunction with their complete improvisation on stage.
The duo of Jason Hann and Michael Travis will visit the Bourbon Theatre Friday night with a helping of their live elec-tronica.
Hann took some time out to talk to the Daily Nebraskan about the genesis of his improv roots with Travis, and how it has been filling rooms ever since.
Daily Nebraskan: What is it ex-actly that made EOTO want to combine something as high risk as improvisation with dubstep?Jason Hann: When (Michael and I) started playing together, it wasn’t even like the idea of try-ing to form a project. I’d go over to Travis’ place, we’d get the in-struments set up and play, and we’d entertain ourselves from 10 at night until four or five in the morning. So we kept hav-ing more fun with the idea, and eventually we recorded a show, and we thought it was good enough to play in front of people. We just decided if we could make this music for hours and hours on end, we could also do it in front of an audience.
DN: I know that when you’re
playing a show, you like playing off of the audience’s vibes. How do you guys keep in tune with them?
JH: It’s pretty apparent. Our thing is we’re playing music for people to dance to. If they’re not dancing, then we’re going to try and mix it up and get them moving. I feel like we have good enough musical instincts to make it work whether I switch up the beat or Travis mixes up the sound. We’ve done over 800 per-formances, we feel comfortable about switching it up.
DN: EOTO has a distinct em-phasis on how it likes using only organic instruments and music. Why is this so important to you?
JH: I really love that effect of having a live drummer, it just does so much for you when per-forming a live show. It’s so good, just the way you can play along and bring the music to another level.
DN: What misconceptions do you guys challenge about dub-step?
JH: Dubstep has become the new techno, which is the way people describe just about any electronic music. I think some of the misconceptions are that we’re
either a dubstep band, or we’re not a dubstep band. But for the past two years, we’ve really tried to get back into playing these dif-ferent genres that we know how to play like bass and ’70s soul and all that funky stuff to mix things up.
DN: Improvisation takes a lot of energy, so how do you guys keep the energy rolling especial-ly when you’re doing more than 200 shows a year?
JH: You know, it feels a breeze and part of that confidence comes from doing (these shows) so many times. From the past couple of years, there has been a lot of falling on our face and lis-tening to recordings of ourselves and finding that one part of the performance was pretty boring. Now, if we have a problem it’s normally something technical. But probably for the past four and a half years, the confidence we have is what keeps us going and wanting to throw a killer dance party every night.
DN: Let’s talk about technol-ogy. You guys utilize a 3D map-ping stage that changes colors and changes throughout your show. How does this enhance your performance?
JH: Oh yeah, it’s not just changing colors, but going through so many layers of ani-mation. It’s an interesting thing, so people can not only get lost in the music, but with the stage’s appearance as well. It’s like two people bouncing on a trampo-line: You can bounce someone a lot higher if someone times it right. So, that’s what happens with that visual. Our projection-ist needs to be able to feel when our music’s going a different di-rection and change it to help fit the next type of mood.
DN: The albums EOTO sells are recorded live from perfor-mances. Why don’t you guys ever record an album in a studio, or have you ever thought about it?
JH: Yeah, we have as far as re-cording a studio produced track. It’s a little bit interesting with what we have production-wise. It would be more satisfying for us if we could do what we do in the studio and then give them to other DJs to remix rather than just trying to put actual songs together and be expected to play them at shows. It’s a lot more fun to do our improvised shows. It feels like a better adventure do-ing what we’re doing now.
DN: So, what are you guys looking forward to when you come to the great city of Lincoln?
JH: We always have a good time in Lincoln. It was one of the first cities that really turned out big for us. So that puts a good amount of pressure on us to de-liver you guys a great show.
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Phat Jack’s offers family-friendly atmostphere
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In a Lincoln barbecue scene that boasts many worthwhile eater-ies, one North Bottoms destination draws consistent business by nur-turing customer relationships and aiming to put the “family” in fami-ly-owned.
Phat Jack’s BBQ, located at 2441 N. 11th St., has been serving up au-thentic Kansas City-style barbecue since 2008. Matt and Jackie Burt, who own and operate Phat Jack’s along with Matt’s parents Ron and
Kris, are originally from Lincoln.After getting married in the fall
of 2004, the younger Burts moved to Olathe, Kan., where they took up competitive BBQ as a hobby. Phat Jack’s was originally the name of their team, but five years ago, they decided to move back to Lincoln to share their passion for barbecue with their home community.
Since then, Phat Jack’s has tried to establish itself as a must-visit in the Lincoln restaurant scene and set itself apart with award-winning cui-sine prepared from scratch daily.
“Our BBQ is close to what you would receive as a Kansas City Barbecue Society BBQ judge,” Matt said. “Most franchises receive their product frozen or prepared and re-heat it on site. We, on the other hand, have a large smoker on site
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museYou hurry inside from the bit-
ing cold wind and sit at the bar. You need a drink.
Before you say any-thing, Taylor Kibbie has an idea of what you want. Your clothes, de-meanor and even your weight give it away.
More important than anticipat-ing his clientele, Kibbie is deter-mined to make you a “damn good” drink. And according to him, that can be hard to find.
Kibbie, 26, works full time as the bar manager at Zen’s Lounge in Lincoln. He’s worked more than 30 bartending jobs across the country, gathering bits of information along the way, and aims to turn getting a drink into an experience for every person he serves.
Looking at the backlit array of liquor at Zen’s on 11th and O streets, Kibbie can recite the history of each bottle’s production, his personal re-view of the alcohol and what drinks it’s best suited for.
“If you’re going to be a car me-chanic, you should know how to fix a car,” he said. “If you’re going to be a pilot, you should be able to pilot a plane. If you’re going to be a bar-tender, you better be a damn good bartender.”
But he didn’t absorb the history of alcohol in just one gig. For years, Kibbie traveled the west coast on a Yamaha Virago 1100. Some jobs last-ed a few months. Some lasted a few days. Sometimes he slept in a tent. Other times he couch-surfed.
Stinky’s was a memorable job.A dive bar on the edge of Los
Angeles, Kibbie said the walls are lined with skunks that shoot steam every hour, announcing drink spe-cials. When he wasn’t selling “ri-diculous $9 Pabst Blue Ribbons,” he served Jack Nicholson regularly, but was never starstruck by the Califor-nia clients.
“All the other bartenders asked for a picture or something, but I wouldn’t do that so I think I got on their good side.”
Kibbie took off after a few months and worked other jobs around California. He stopped in Oakland and other cities but kept
traveling when he wanted to.“That really helped me a lot,”
he said. “I just got to bartend, pick things up from all these places, learn the menu quick, see what works and what didn’t and move on.”
Kibbie even ended up serving drinks at a bar near a resort in Puerto Rico. Originally traveling there for a quick vacation with friends, they decided to extend their stay. Kibbie worked at an American bar, which he said entertained the tourists.
Kibbie sold his motorcycle be-fore going to Puerto Rico and started biking everywhere – a pastime that’s still important to him.
Kibbie, in his own tradition, con-tinued to travel around the United States bartending. Stops in New York and Chicago exposed him to more chic, successful menus that he
was able to learn and perfect before returning to Nebraska, where he had lived for a few of his teenage years.
Kibbie could recognize the dif-ferences in the bar scene immedi-ately upon arriving in Lincoln.
“The Lincoln palate is a bit dif-ferent than other places because Lin-coln is kind of the last place to get hit by these things.”
Kibbie started working at Zen’s about two years ago. He said he loves working there because he was given the freedom to use his vast knowledge of bartending and work his way up to bar manager.
He admits his experience makes him picky when he goes out. He pre-fers a handful of dive bars around town to the more popular venues.
eoto makes electronica mark with improv shows, live instruments
bartender leads student-of-alcohol lifestyle
story by shelby Fleig | photos by cara Wilwerding
if you goeoto w/ 3d map-ping lotus Flower
stagewhen: friday, 9 p.m.where: bourbon theatre, 1415 o st.how much: $16 (ad-vance), $20 (day of show)
taylor kibbie, the bar manager at Zen’s lounge, puts the finishing touches on a Pisco sour. even when he’s not at work, kibbie is constantly researching new drinks and recipes to continue expanding and pleasing his clientele. “i’ve had so many jobs and served thousands of people,” he said. “more than anything else, i just like serving regular customers. i get a lot of good regulars here and just get to hang out with them. it’s the best.”
courtesy photo Jason hann and michael travis make up the improv dubstep duo eoto. the performers are widely known for their use of natural instruments on stage to produce their live dubstep.
kibbie adds various ingredients to a cocktail before shaking and adding garnish. “i supposedly have extra taste buds, so i think i’m naturally oriented to bartending and cooking. i love the extremes of taste: super spicy food or very bitter drinks that punch you in the mouth.”
1. have an idea of what you want.
“People will always come in and say, ‘oh, just make me something.’ it’s very aggravat-ing. you don’t know if they want something sweet, something tart, something bitter.”
2. stick to the classics. “if something’s going to stick for
100 years, it’s fucking good.”3. Give smaller brands a
chance. “Patron is just atrocious. lunazul
and espolon are half the price and twice as good.”
4. become a regular. “it helps to keep coming in
and coming in. you can’t show up once a year and expect us to know what you want if you haven’t been coming in.”
5. tip appropriately. nebraska has the lowest
minimum wage pay for servers at $2.13 an hour.
“People come in here and think they’re paying us ok and they’re not. and plus, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar. you’ll probably get served faster.”
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stuart mckay | dnbruce morgan enjoys his Jack’s combo meal at the local bbQ joint on Wednesday. Phat Jack’s has been open since 2008 and serves award-winning bbQ monday through saturday.
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For many college students, a photo-graph is a way to show their Facebook friends how hip and popular they are. For Gregory Crewdson, a photograph is much, much more. It’s a way to show our deepest human emotions reflected back at us. It’s a way for Crewdson to make sense of the world.
“There are images in my head I want to get out in the world … to be able to explore my own anxieties and fears,” he says.
Director Ben Shapiro deftly exam-ines the way these anxiety-laced im-ages are meticulously crafted in “Greg-ory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.”
Shapiro followed Crewdson and his crew for nearly a decade as he be-gan and completed the series “Beneath the Roses.” The series is his brooding take on small-town Americana. The images are hauntingly beautiful, even more so when Shapiro shows just how much time, effort and craft are put into each one. Crewdson’s routine is odd, yet obviously fruitful. He drives aimlessly around the Massachusetts countryside, waiting for inspiration to strike.
“I don’t know why I’m drawn to this place, but I literally feel the creative urges flowing when I’m here,” he says.
When not driving, he ambles around, searching for a hidden gem of a spot to shoot. Oddly enough, one of the only times he’s shown not holding a camera or standing beside a camera is when he’s location scout-ing. The images he holds in his mind are paramount. The actual staging and shooting of the photos is just a simple
execution of what’s already been there for a long time.
“Brief Encounters” does a nice job of delving further than the pho-tographs to get at the heart of what makes Crewdson tick. There’s a scene where he’s flipping through old photo albums, reminiscing on a childhood and family long gone. Those candid, slice-of-life photos are polar opposites of the immaculately staged, large-scale photos he produces; yet it’s obvious that the emotional resonance hits just as hard for the artist. Shapiro then takes us through Crewdson’s forma-tive years, showing us how he went from wannabe rock-star to one of the premiere photographers in the world. Ironically, the only hit his band, The Speedies, had was a minor one called “Let Me Take Your Photo.” Roots run deep, indeed.
The most memorable aspect of “Brief Encounters” is when Shapiro allows the audience to sit back and watch Crewdson at work. He and his crew take two days to produce one photograph, the first day being en-tirely setup. For the final photo shown, Crewdson and company waited around two days for a snowstorm, and then scrambled to shoot before the virgin tracks could be tampered. They used 75 lights, half a mile of space, closed down Main Street and cut down street signs that were obtrusive.
When Shapiro shows patrons walking around the gallery view-ing the 49 photographs that compose “Beneath The Roses,” the film makes asks if they have any idea as to the combination of vision, drive and sheer work it took to produce them. Crewd-son doesn’t really consider it work,
though. It’s simply his duty as an artist.“Every artist has one central story
to tell, which at the core remains the same. The challenge is finding new ways to really tell that story.”
“Brief Encounters” does a brilliant job of telling this particular artist’s sto-ry, whose photographs try to tell our story.
“salma”directed by: kim longinottowhen: friday - 9:45 p.m.
unl college of architecture hyde lecture
when: friday - 4:30 p.m.
“sisters in law”directed by: kim longinottowhen: saturday - 1 p.m.
“rough aunties”
directed by: kim longinottowhen: saturday - 3:15 p.m.
“divorce, iranian style”
directed by: kim longinottowhen:saturday - 5:30 p.m.
“Gaea Girls”directed by: kim longinottowhen: saturday - 7:20 p.m.
“shinjuku boys” / “ella es
el matador”directed by: kim longinottowhen: saturday - 9:35 p.m.
“Forbidden Voices”
directed by: barbara millerwhen: sunday - 1 p.m.
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Come for the food, stay for the beer, dance to some polka and leave on your bike.
This Saturday, a group of Lincoln businesses is holding a bicycle tour of Lincoln’s local breweries called “Beer to There.”
The project is the brainchild of Robert Myers, head brewer at Mod-ern Monks Brewery, and Dan Warren, co-owner of Jerk & Go food truck. In-spired by the successes of other craft brewery communities, they have as-sembled an array of local businesses to participate in “Beer to There.”
Participants will bike between Empyrean, Modern Monks, Zipline and Blue Blood Breweries. Additional-ly, fledgling brewery Ploughshare will be offering samples of its forthcoming suds at the Modern Monks facility.
Jerk & Go and Pepe’s are taking care of the food – for carnivores and vegetarians respectively. There will be T-shirts made at local print shop, Screen Ink, and polka music from the Bolzen Beer Band. Lincoln’s Monkey Wrench Cycles is the official bike shop sponsor.
The organizers initially expected about 80 people for the event, but more than 200 riders have already signed up, according to Myers.
Despite high demand, organizers are still taking reservations through Saturday at Modern Monks Brewery, or through Facebook. However, those who sign up after Friday may not have their choice of meal.
The key to the event, according to the organizers, is cooperation.
“Beer seems to go with a lot of fun
stuff,” Myers said. “Anything I can put beer into that becomes fun, people are usually into it. I’ll sit down with anyone from the community and talk about how we can cooperate. We’re al-ways trying to seek new things to keep us entertained.”
“Lincoln is becoming a more progressive community,” said Brian Podwinski, co-owner and president of
Blue Blood Brewery. “People are really buying into the idea of ‘buy local.’ And it’s not just brewing, Lincoln’s busi-ness community has been amazing. No one is out to get each other. It’s that Midwestern attitude, people just get along.”
It’s not just the “cyclists and hip-ster kids” getting in on the trend, ac-cording to Warren.
“We’ve had people sign up from 21 (years old) to 60,” he said. “We are really tapping into a broad spectrum of the community.”
It seems the last priority for ev-eryone involved is the business as-pect.
“If we were trying to make mon-ey on this, we would have had to charge everyone $40,” Myers said.
“When you start trying to make money, you suck all the fun out of it.”
“For me it’s probably more about interest and passion than business consideration,” said Jason Davis, co-owner of Screen Ink and self-professed fan of craft beer. “We don’t really have an agenda … it’s definitely small businesses helping small businesses.”
What is important, Myers said, is putting on a fun event for the community, which he often refers to as a “family.”
“So many of my friends who are (bike) riders, are also vegetarian,” Myers said. “We just released a glu-ten-free beer that will be available … basically we’re taking care of every-one, so nobody can bitch now.”
To put it simply, “Beer to There” is a group of local business owners put-ting an event to do what they love.
“When I’m on my cruiser I’m like a big, little kid,” Myers said. “I love to see everyone’s smiles, and there’s a positive energy around bicycling.”
Films could take new lesson from interactivity of gaming
cameron mountConversations about film and about video games rarely have much cross-over. You didn’t find Sony’s Playsta-tion 4 announcement on movie blogs, and from 1993’s infamous “The Super Mario Bros.” to Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, video game adaptations have rarely been a good idea transferred to the theater.
This is too bad, because the time for film fans to follow video game in-novations is now. If recent trends are any indication, the line between the two media may, before long, disappear altogether.
You don’t need to look further than the Daily Nebraskan’s own Na-than Sindelar for analyses of video games’ increasingly exciting growth, so I’ll just use one recent standout as an example: Watch Dogs. Watch the latest trailer from this year’s Sony press con-ference (go ahead, I’ll wait) and you’ll see an experience quite unlike the con-fines normally assumed for even the best games.
The open-world game follows a hacker with a dizzying amount of freedom over his environment. He can see every civilian’s augmented reality feed, letting him know who’s most in danger and who to follow to stop potential crimes. These objectives play out how you make them play out: parkour-style chasing down this street or that, through this building or that park. Streetlights, phones and other objects in the city must be hacked into for money or to trigger a needed dis-traction.
Unlike the more narrow objectives of the “Grand Theft Auto” franchise, everything and everywhere is seam-lessly at your fingertips. You fulfill the story’s objectives by thinking like the protagonist and making it happen.
In some ways, it’s a natural step up from the games of just a couple years ago. More and more, the ad-vantages of film over video games are eroding. Loading times are increas-ingly masked in creative ways like elevator rides, like in “Dead Space 3” and “Mass Effect 3.” Settings were once confined to the grid of a specific objective (and most of it used as static scenery), but more recent games make an entire city, including the interior of its buildings and businesses, a player’s free reign.
Soon, video games will be so cre-atively open-ended that a game artist’s themes and plot will be as versatilely manageable as a director with script, cast and camera. Creative visions will flourish.
Rather than the games of studios like Ubisoft, Activision and Rock-star, you have the latest releases from Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan and James Cameron.
Rather than watching Tarantino’s latest or playing an adaptation, you’re inside of Tarantino’s next story, com-plete with the cinematography and camerawork you’ve come to expect from his vision.
The most difficult and essential obstacle to this happening is control. In the theater, you’re empathizing with a protagonist who plays with your emo-tions. You agree with one action, then are angered by something she says and surprised when she finds what she’s looking for somewhere else.
The trust we place in filmmaking experts to craft their stories may seem contradicted by the choose-your-own-
adventure spirit of video games. But this leeway is up to the storytellers. Nolan’s next Batman installment (if only …) might be 90 percent cinematic with only a handful of choices, letting viewers immerse themselves a little more dynamically than traditional theater seats allow.
The next “Star Wars” on the other hand, may be 50 percent cinematic, with more room for viewers to engage in battles and run down this hallway versus that in the heat of the moment. With a more flexible thematic struc-ture, an action film like “Transform-ers” may allow the greatest amount of viewer control.
When creatively appropriate vi-cissitudes of story open up, so do opportunities to deepen a viewer’s relationship with what is on screen. The “random” catalyst of “Cabin of Woods” becomes more meaningful when you, as a viewer, decide which monster attacks. The DVD of “Clue” comes with three possible endings, but what if it was your engagement that decided which occurred?
It seems less likely that filmmak-ers will embrace the traditional video game controller, but intuitive controls may be ubiquitous very soon. Google Glasses, the search giant’s upcoming augmented reality eyeglasses, project Android-based GPS directions, your Facebook feed and video capture di-rectly in front of you. Technologies like this will make video game decision-making as simple as shaking your head or looking at your watch.
Films and video games will con-tinue to serve different purposes as these technologies are explored and fine-tuned. But we’re nearing the time when the roles of filmmaker and game-developer might be blurred into a new label: storyteller.
As more barriers are dropped and artists are allowed unprecedented cre-ative control, tomorrow’s stories will ask us to dramatically reconsider how they’ll be most powerfully told.
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“dead man down”
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and prepare it and cook it daily, ribs cooked 2-3 times daily.”
Phat Jack’s special attentive-ness to the quality of its food does not go unnoticed. Many Lincoln residents, including University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, stop by Phat Jack’s reg-ularly to satisfy their cravings.
“I can’t get enough Phat Jack’s,” said senior business ad-ministration and finance major Andrew Weis-b e c k - Yo u n k i n . “The pulled pork is top-notch, the brisket is heav-enly, and their sauces just bring it all together. I’m getting hun-gry just thinking about it.”
Tr a d i t i o n a l barbecue staples, like pulled pork and brisket, aren’t the only popular dishes that keep fans coming back to Phat Jack’s.
“Our favorite menu item is the Burnt Ends,” Matt said. “A little known fact – Phat Jacks was the only restaurant in Nebraska serving Burnt Ends for several years. Now a couple small-town restaurants have tried their hand at them too. The (BBQ) nachos are also very popular, as well as the “psycho” sandwich, which is half pork and half brisket.”
In addition to the food, Phat Jack’s welcoming atmosphere is part of its allure.
“The atmosphere at Phat Jacks is a family style (and) of-ten times people at one table will
converse about the BBQ with other tables,” said Burt. “I think the fact that its family owned and operated creates that family-friendly environment.”
The combination of fresh food and a warm, personable dining experience has earned Phat Jack’s many loyal custom-ers, giving the Burts the chance to develop some real connec-tions with their regulars.
“We have many customers that we have de-veloped close re-lationships with,” said Burt. “We don’t do much advertising, so we have been very blessed to have so much word of mouth, and that loyalty was bound to develop some friendships.”
For the folks at Phat Jack’s, the opportunity to create meaningful
relationships with happy cus-tomers is the most gratifying as-pect of operating the restaurant.
“The most rewarding thing about owning and operating your own business by far is the people you meet,” Matt said. “Putting out a product that so many really like and enjoy is very rewarding, hearing such kind words is very humbling, and watching a business grow each year is such a great compli-ment.”
thing about owning and operating your own business by far is the people you meet.”
matt burtphat jack’s owner
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brief encounters”directed by: ben shapiro
Event check-in, tour and �rst samples at 11am at Modern Monks Brewery
Depart for Zipline Brewery Co. at 12:15pm
Zipline tour and samples from 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Depart for Empyrean Brewing Co. at 1:35pm
Empyrean tour and samples from 2:00 - 3:00pm
Depart for Blue Blood Brewing Co. at 3:05pm
if you go
“beer to there”when: saturday, 11 a.m.where: starts at misty’s steakhouse & brewery, 200 n. 11th st.how much: $25
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Help Wanted
Help Needed Sending Emails and Making Phone Calls March 4-22. These are not sales calls. Great Pay and Food included. Call Debra at 402-429-9722 for details
Join the CenterPointe Team! Part-time posi-tions available in residential program working with substance abuse/mental health clients in a unique environment. Must be at least 21 years of age and be willing to work a varied schedule including overnights and weekends. Pay differential for overnight hours. For more information visit: www.centerpointe.org.
Miller Seed Co.Now hiring part time warehouse positions. Groundskeeping/landscaping. Farm experi-ence helpful. Call 402-438-1232.
Part- Time Sales Clerk @ Meier’s Cork and Bottle. Lincoln’s premier wine shop. 21 and over. Flexible scheduling. 15+ hrs per week. Email resume to [email protected]
Pioneers and Holmes Golf courses are now accepting applications for Snackbar/beer cart and Pro shop help. Must be 19 and customer service oriented. Apply in person in the clubhouse.
PLAY SPORTS! HAVE FUN! SAVE MONEY!Maine camp needs fun loving counselors to teach All land, adventure & water sports. Great summer! Call 888-844-8080, apply:campcedar.com
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PT morning teller Mon.-Fri. 7:30am-12:30pm, and Sat 8:30am-noon. Location at 5705 S 86th St, Lincoln, NE 68526. Applications e-mailed to [email protected].
Retail Sales position available. Day, Evening and Weekend hours needed. Retail sales experience a plus. Apply at Play it Again Sports 800 N 48th St, Lincoln, NE 68504
Child Care Needed
Part time Child Care Aide, flexible hours be-tween 7am-6pm. Childcare experience pre-ferred. Email resume to [email protected] or apply in person.
Summer Jobs
YMCA Summer Part Time Job Fair
See for yourself why over 500 part time em-ployees LOVE working for the Lincoln YMCA! Join us for a summer Part TIme Job fair! You’ll find free food, prizes and information on all kinds of job opportunities at all of our locations including: camp counselors, pool, child watch, front desk and custodial staff. Please join us:
Thursday March 1411am - 4pmFallbrook YMCA700 Penrose Drive, Ste. B
Bring your resumes, come dressed fro success and be prepared for informational interivews. The Lincoln YMCA offers flexible work sched-ules, free Y gear, a fun work environment and we are proud of our family! Join us on March 14th and visit ymcalincolnjobs.org for more in-formation.
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Post & Nickel clothing & footwear super sale for men & women! Extra 30% off already marked sale items! Stop in for designer jeans, fashion & footwear! 2 blocks from UNL at 14th & P! Come see us! Also hiring! Apply within!
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AQUATIC STAFF WANTED!
Enjoy the outdoors working at YMCA Camp Kitaki. Earn up to $2500 working at the pool or lake while having fun, and making a difference with kids. Make lifelong friends and gain valua-ble [email protected] or visit our website www.ymcalincoln.org.
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Inbound Call Center RepPart time
LOOKING FOR A JOB that will flexible enough to work around your changing school? Our in-bound Call Center is expanding their hours and is starting a new training class soon! Day-time, evening, and weekend hours available so that you can work around your class schedule.Speedway Motors is a growing catalog order company that sells classic and performance automotive parts to customers all over the world. Positions are available in our busy call Center to process orders and answer general customer inquiries. Apply Online: www.speedwaymotors.com or in person at: 340 Victory Lane, Lincoln NE (off of West ‘0’. Speedway Motors is s Drug Free Workplace. EOE
Part Time PrepressProduction Specialist
The Lincoln Journal Star is seeking a part time Prepress Production Specialist for the Remote Design Center.Focus of this position is to efficiently and accu-rately aprocess electronic publishing elements, documents, images fro publications. Two years experience with Adobe Photoshop is re-quired. Candidate must be familiar with scan-ners and scanning software. Experience with Adobe Createive Suite CS5 (InDesign, Photo-shop, Illustrator and Acrobat) is strongly de-sired. Basic computer knowledge is essential.Candidate for this position must be able to work in a deadline driven environment. Early morning, evening and weekend hours required. Applicants must apply online at www.journalstar.com and clck on “Jobs” and then “Work at the Journal Star”. Please attach your portfolio with your application/resume. We are a drug-free workplace and all appli-cants considered for employment must pass a post-offer drug screen prior to commencing employment.
Houses For Rent
Between Campuses4 BR, 2 BA, 5234 Leighton, $850
All C/A, Parking. Call Bonnie: 402-488-5446
Great Houses Close to UNL. Available in May.402-432-0644. Must See! Reserve Yours Now!3204 Holdredge...3 Bed....1.5Bath...$900.001438 N 21st.........4 Bed......2 Bath...$900.001541 N 26st..........4 Bed.....2 Bath...$975.001541 Whittier.... ...5 Bed.....2 Bath..$1200.00927 N 30th............6 Bed....2 Bath..$1600.00More information and photos at:www.pooley-rentals.com
Quality student housing. 3,4,5 bedroom houses. Excellent condition. Washer/dryer in-cluded. Off street parking. Call 402-499-8567.
Duplexes For Rent
Close to campus. 4/5 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 stall attached garage, $1150 + uti l it ies. 402-432-8485.
Apts. For Rent
Darling 1br/1ba apt for rent. No one above or below. Great porch, large closets, fully reno-vated, washer & dryer, new everything, also available for rent is 2br/2ba house attached and 2 car garage. 1240 Peach St 402-730-7778
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Roommate needed in a three bedroom house. House is located off of W South St. The house is a new build. Rent includes electric, cable, water, internet,etc, and a spot in garage. $500.00 per month. Contact Emily at (319) 415-3056
We are two college students living in a house at 727 S 33rd st. with three more rooms avail-able. The house has two bathrooms a kitchen with dishwasher and combination washer/dryer. Both of us are quiet, friendly people and ideally our roommates would have similar dispositions. So if a house with a lot of natural light that’s about ten minutes from both UNL campuses with friendly, slightly nerdy roommates then email Sam at [email protected] for more infor-mation.
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Great Houses Close to UNL. Available inAugust.402-432-0644 Must See! Reserve Yours Now!836 Y St........2 Bed....1 Bath....$650.00804 Y St........3 Bed....1 Bath....$825.001531 N 22nd..3 Bed...2 Bath....$900.002219 Potter....4 Bed...1.5 Bath..$1000.00621 N 24th.....5 Bed.......2 Bath..$1000.00709 N 25th.....4 Bed.......2 Bath...$1100.00More information aand photos at:www.pooley-rentals.com/b.html
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Looking for someone to take over the lease for my apartment this summer at The View Apart-ments, 301 W. Charleston St. Lincoln, NE, May - August 1st. It is 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom, Unfurnished. Rent is $309 per month plus utili-ties (cable, electric). Rent payments are on an individual room basis so you are just paying for your room within the apartment. The other 3 rooms will be filled randomly. Washer/Dryer in the apartment. Refrigerator, Dish Washer, Mi-crowave and Private Balcony included, 24 Hour Fitness Center, Free Tanning Machine at the Clubhouse, Swimming Pool, Hot Tub, Bas-ketball Court, Sand Volleyball Court, Barbeque Grills. This has been a good place to live while I have rented here, I’m just moving home for the summer. Very Safe, no issues with security, haven’t had any problems with our appliances not working. Also, the other rooms will need to be filled so if you are looking for a place as a group or just yourself I can help you accom-modate either way. If interested please contact Matt at [email protected] or 402-677-7866.
Room available at Northbrook Apartments, $348 rent plus 1/3 uti l it ies. Pets are okay. Looking to move out ASAP. If interested con-tact Lia at (402) 617-7652
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250 N 13th Street. Looking for someone to sublet our apartment for the summer. These are the new Parkhaus Apartments located in the Larson Building on 12th and Q street. It is a 4 bedroom apartment with 2 baths. 3 of the 4 are leaving in May and. Rooms available May-August. The base rent is $540 and that in-cludes utilities and cable. Parking is available on the 6th floor of the parking garage for an extra $70 per month. Individuals looking for a place are welcome or if three people would like to move in together.
Very secure building with access granted to only residents and security personnel always available.
Here is the apartmentwebsite: http://theparkhaus.com/suites/ . The suite available is a Bond on the 8th floor with a patio that opens directly to the rooftop deck, quick and easy access to grills and rooftop lounging.
Contact Taylor at 651-398-1159 if interested.I am looking for a roommate for a 2 bedroom apartment. Rent is $280/mo. I would prefer a female roommate. 1520 S Folsom St. Contact Aly at 402-620-8382
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he said. “If you’re a chef at a five-star restaurant, it’s kind of nice to go to McDonald’s on the way home.”
When Kibbie goes out, of course, he can’t make his own drinks. He said he suspects most Lincoln bar-tenders are in it to make temporary money and don’t understand the proper components of a good drink. So he orders a beer or scotch.
“Not to be pretentious, but I can’t go to a lot of bars and get a drink that’s good,” he said. “If you can make a Jack and Coke, you should be able to make a proper Manhattan or martini.”
Luke Edson met Kibbie when they worked together at The Bour-bon Theatre. Having worked side
by side as bartenders, Edson said Kibbie’s passion for bartending ex-ceeds that of most others.
“At a lot of bars, it’s a ‘slam, bam, thank you ma’am’ kind of thing where (they) slap some stuff in your glass with no consideration for what they’re putting in your drink,” Edson said. Edson is cur-rently working on opening a bar next month in the Old Market in Omaha called The Berry & Rye.
“(There’s) not that many of us (who) study what we do,” Edson said. “He’s one of the guys that does study and cares about it.”
Kibbie gets home from the work around 4 a.m. most nights and sleeps in most days. But when
he’s home, he is constantly read-ing magazine subscriptions and books to find new drinks, flavors and historical information.
He said his research is what sets him apart from the bulk of Lincoln servers.
“I’m really a career bartend-er,” he said. “That’s why I like working at this place. I’d like to do a really good job.”
His love of alcohol original-ly comes from wine – his “first love.” He particularly loves the complexities and slight differ-ences in wines and how they pair with food.
“I supposedly have extra taste buds, so I think I’m naturally
oriented to bartending and cook-ing,” he said. “I love the extremes of taste: super spicy food or very bitter drinks that punch you in the mouth.”
For his clients who aren’t so drink-savvy, Kibbie is willing to help. He wants his clients to un-derstand what they’re drinking and not fall victim to misconcep-tions of what a good drink is.
Most popular brands – like Patron, Grey Goose and Bacardi – all have higher quality, and usu-ally cheaper, alternatives, Kibbie claimed. Getting the best alcohol is a challenge in the Midwest be-cause an overwhelming majority of imported alcohol gets delivered
to and stays in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
That’s why Kibbie does all the buying for Zen’s and samples each new brand of alcohol both straight and in a recommended drink from the seller before buying it for the bar.
He is currently planning to renovate Zen’s with new paint and furniture and is looking to develop a seasonal drink menu this summer.
“Zen’s is a great spot,” Edson said. “The more freedom he has to do what he does, the better it will turn out.”
Kibbie has no plans to pack up and travel in the near future. He said he is excited to be at one bar
long enough to see it change and improve.
“I’ve had so many jobs and served thousands of people,” he said. “More than anything else, I just like serving regular customers. I get a lot of good regulars here and just get to hang out with them. It’s the best.”
Making the leap from a pod-cast to a television show can be problematic.
Viewers come to expect the same rhythms and style for every show, and the transition from a purely au-dial medium to visual can be tricky. “Comedy Bang Bang” nails it.
The humor is a bit toned down to fit the standards of cable TV, but it captures the irreverent essence of the podcast perfectly. Where the podcast was more of a pure avenue for comedians to be silly and weird, the IFC show is a hybrid of that for-mat mixed with talk-show satire.
Before descending the rabbit hole of wackiness, spend a minute on the menu screen, because the episode titles alone are oddly hilari-ous: “Jon Hamm Wears A Light Blue Shirt And Sil-ver Watch,” “Amy Poehler Wears A Black Jacket And Grey Pants,” etc. The format is the same every episode, but it never tires because of the revolving guest cast of comedy gems.
Host Scott Aukerman will make a few “jokes” that are more like winking parodies of the banal nature of late night yucks. Then he and DJ/sidekick Reggie Watts banter until one of them goes off on a bizarre tangent. Suddenly, the main guest star will just appear on the couch next to Scott out of the blue.
The random, surreal na-ture of the monologue and guest introduction help make “Comedy Bang Bang” the antithesis of what most conceive a typical talk show should be, and that’s a good thing for both comedy and television.
Sophomore Robert Kokesh, ranked No. 4 in the nation at 174 pounds, is seeded third, as is No. 8 Ihnen at 184 pounds. Sue-flohn and Green, sophomores at 149 pounds and 157 pounds, re-spectively, enter the tournament as No. 4 seeds.
Senior Ridge Kiley is the sixth seed at 141 pounds, and junior 133-pounder Nagel and freshman 165-pounder Aus-tin Wilson are No. 8 seeds. Heavyweight Spencer Johnson, 197-pounder Caleb Kolb and 125-pounder Eric Coufal round out the Huskers’ lineup.
Manning said in order to win the team championship, his wrestlers need to ignore the seeds and win matches they might not be favored to win on paper.
“You’ve got to make sure each guy’s doing their part, each guy’s wrestling hard and trying to place the highest they can,” Manning said, “You’ve got to get some guys in the finals. You’ve got to get some champi-ons.”
That mindset has one obvi-ous hole: Every other team will be trying to knock off higher-seeded wrestlers as well.
“You can’t overlook any-body, and you have to be ready
to go every match,” Ihnen said. “Everybody is going to be try-ing to peak at the end of the year, but I think the coaching staff here really knows what they’re doing as far as getting everybody ready for the post-season.”
The conference’s 174-pound-ers are certainly ready; in that weight class, eight Big Ten wrestlers are ranked in the na-tion’s top 11. For the Huskers, Kokesh’s only losses on the sea-son are to the top two seeds in the tournament: Minnesota’s Logan Storley and Iowa’s Mike Evans.
With such a strong field, Ih-nen said in some weight classes, the Big Ten Tournament is just as difficult to win as the ensuing NCAA Tournament.
And this weekend’s confer-ence meet is just a precursor to nationals.
“It’s kind of a mini-national tournament coming up for us here. You prepare the best you can and make sure your wres-tlers are ready mentally to go,” Manning said. “Our guys, they seem at a great place right now. We’ve got to bring some energy and intensity to the mat come Saturday and Sunday.”
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Matt Durendn
The No. 12 Nebraska women’s gymnastics team will travel to Minneapolis this weekend in hopes of clinching a share of the Big Ten regular season title.
The Huskers (7-1, 5-1 Big Ten) will face No. 14 Minnesota (12-3, 4-1 Big Ten), No. 25 Arkansas (4-5-1, 1-5-1 SEC) and Centenary (1-7) in a quad meet beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday.
After No. 3 Michigan secured at least a share of the conference title last weekend with a final mark of 6-1 in Big Ten action, Nebraska can earn a share of the conference crown with a win over the Golden Gophers.
Although they would not win the conference outright, Nebraska women’s gymnastics coach Dan Ken-dig said it’s a big meet and his team is ready to go.
“The girls are going to be ready,”
Kendig said. “We had a short week of practice, but I thought it went well for the most part. This is another big meet just like the rest of them, so we have to go in there and do well.”
Kendig said that although a share of the Big Ten title is on the line, the team’s mindset is still the same.
“We mention it, but we don’t dwell on it,” Kendig said. “I think sometimes when its a big meet, and a lot is on the line, the team steps up. So we’ll see what happens this week-end.”
The Huskers are also coming off an emotional and convincing win on senior night against Iowa, in which Nebraska notched a season-high score of 197.675.
The team still can improve in mul-tiple areas, according to Kendig.
“Because of the short week of practice, we just want to maintain this week,” Kendig said. “Dismounts are one thing we need to improve on. They aren’t hitting all of them, but they are hitting a better percentage of them. I think dismounts are a lot like free throws. One game you make 80 percent and the next you make 50 per-cent. It makes a big difference in the outcome of the game, so that’s what we have been trying to improve.”
For the Gophers to earn a share of the Big Ten title, Minnesota must finish above Nebraska at Saturday’s quad meet and also beat Ohio State the following week.
Last week in its loss to Florida, Minnesota showed its potential, scoring a season-high team score of 197.175. The Gophers were led by freshman Lindsay Mable, who notched a 39.525 all-around.
Arkansas has taken on a tough schedule in 2013, with all five of the Razorback losses coming to teams in the top 15. They have relied on strong performance by junior Katherine Gra-ble, a four time All-American.
Centenary is led by junior Robyn Price, a 2012 USAG Collegiate second-
team All-American.The Huskers will start their Big
Ten title hopes on uneven bars, then move to balance beam. The second ro-tation will take them to floor exercise, and Nebraska will end the evening on vault.
For senior Kassandra Nathe how-ever, the end of March is what she is looking forward to.
“It would nice to win the Big Ten, but it is not the real cham-pionship,” Nathe said. “The Big Ten tournament is where it will all matter. The end of March is what we are shooting for.”
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Gymnasts need win for share of b1G title
5 huskers to shoot in ncaa championship
8 NU tracksters trek to Fayetteville for
NCAA championshp
Jessica Westdn
The Nebraska rifle team will com-pete in its last match of the season this weekend at the NCAA Cham-pionships in Columbus, Ohio.
The last NCAA appearance by the Huskers came in 2010 when the team finished in sixth place overall.
NU is one of eight teams competing for the title.
The other teams competing are Air Force, Alaska-Fairbanks, Army, Jacksonville State, Kentucky, TCU and West Virginia.
“This is a tough event,” NU coach Stacy Underwood said. “There are a lot of great teams com-peting. It’s truly anyone’s event.”
The match will take place over the course of two days. It begins on Friday at Converse Hall with the smallbore individual and team com-petition. The air rifle portion will take place on Saturday morning at the French Field House. There will be an awards ceremony and the Na-
tional Rifle Association (NRA) ban-quet that evening to conclude the weekend.
Only five members of the NU rifle team are able to compete in the match. Seniors Janine Dutton and Katelyn Woltersdorf, junior Sunny Russell, sophomore Kelsey
Hansen and freshman Denise Martin will be competing in team events for both smallbore and air rifle and are also eligible for the individual competition.
“The girls are really excit-ed,” Underwood said. “I’m sure they’re a little nervous, too, but they’re ready for it to happen.”
The team has spent the better part of the last week training and preparing itself for this moment. Underwood said that the key to this match is to treat it like it’s just a regular match.
“You can’t hype this match up,” Underwood said. “When you make a big deal out of these types of matches, for any sport, it can end up hurting your perfor-mance.”
With a lot of talent on the range this weekend, it is impor-tant that each member of the team remains calm and focused, Under-wood said, much like they have all season.
“We just have to stay true to Nebraska rifle,” Underwood said. “We can’t control the per-formance or outcome of any other team here. Any one of these teams can win on any given day. We just have to want it more.”
Not only does this match fin-ish out the season for the rifle team, but for the two seniors com-peting, it’s the end of their college career.
“I don’t think it’s hit them yet,” Underwood said. “Maybe when they fire their last shot, they’ll realize it. It’s bittersweet.”
With the end of it all looming over their head, Underwood said that she’s confident that it won’t negatively impact their perfor-mance.
“If anything, they are more determined,” Underwood said. “It gives them something to fight for.”
As a first year head coach, Un-derwood couldn’t have asked for a better season, regardless of the outcome of this match.
“I’m really glad that we made it here,” Underwood said. “I’m very proud of my team and I know we’re capable of great things.”
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women’s Gymnastics track anD fielD
Jacy leWisdn
The Nebraska track and field team will finish the indoor sea-son in Fayetteville, Ark., at the NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend. The meet will be-gin on Friday at 10 a.m. and will continue on Saturday at 11 a.m.
Eight NU athletes will be competing against the best in the nation. Of Husk-ers who qualified, only one will be com-peting on the wom-en’s side. Mara Griva will compete in long and triple jump.
“Well, my first goal for sure will be to make finals,” Griva said.
Coach Gary Pepin would like to work on future recruit-ing efforts to get more Husker women to the NCAA Indoor Championships. He thought more Husker men would qual-ify for the meet as well, but they were out-done for spots in the end.
“On the men’s side, Chad Wright was disappointed that he didn’t get here because he was really close,” Pepin said. “The distance medley relay ran really well, but it wasn’t quite good enough. Miles Ukaoma has been hurt most of the indoor season, so that was disappoint-ing that he didn’t get here and wasn’t able to help us out.”
The men’s 4x400 meter relay qualified for the championships with a time of 3 minutes, 6.67 seconds, breaking Nebraska’s school record. Ricco Hall, Dex-ter McKenzie, Christian Sand-erfer and Janis Leitis are ranked sixth in the event.
James White, who came out of obscurity at the beginning of the year, will compete in men’s high jump. He led the nation in high jump at the start of the season with a height of 7-5 1/2. White is tied for fourth in the nation going into the NCAA Indoor Championship at the same height.
In men’s long jump, Patrick
Raedler and Leitis qualified. Raedler is tied for fourth place at 25-10, while Leitis is in a three way tie for tenth with a leap of 25-6. Leitis also qualified in triple jump with a mark of 52-10 3/4. He is ranked seventh go-ing into the meet.
“When you go into a meet like this there will be a lot of changes,” Pepin said. “The qualifying mark that you have coming into the meet, if you can duplicate that in the meet, you will do pretty well in the meet. So I hope we can do as well as we have already or slightly im-prove upon those performanc-es.”
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Nebraska 5-1 in conference, within striking distance of Michigan
file photo by bethany schmidt | dnJanine dutton looks over the barrell of her rifle. dutton, katelyn Woltersdorf, sunny russell, kelsey hansen and denise martin are com-peting in the ncaa championships for the huskers this weekend.
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Wisconsin. A matchup with Purdue could be a classic. Each of the teams’ last three matches have gone into overtime, including the dou-ble-overtime championship game last year that Purdue won. This season, Nebraska was ousted 69-66 in over-time at home.
A win against Purdue will mean another shot at the Big Ten tournament title, and most likely another shot at the No. 1 seed Penn State. The Lady Lions will have to make it past No. 9 seed Ohio State, and then probably No. 4 seed Michigan State to make it to the champi-onship. If this is done, two of the hottest teams in the Big Ten will meet yet again for a thrilling
finish. Though Nebraska lost to Penn State 82-67 in the Huskers’ season finale, the team played close with the Nittany Lions for 34 minutes, and could have snuck away with a win if their defense near the end didn’t let up.
A Big Ten tournament run could help the Huskers seed-ing in the NCAA tournament. As of now, ESPN analyst Char-lie Creme has the Huskers as a No. 3 seed. A win against Penn State in the championship, or even just an appearance, could possibly get the Huskers to a No. 2 seed. On the flip side, if Nebraska exits early, a No .4 or No. 5 seed wouldn’t be out of the question.
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the girls are really excited. i’m sure they are a little nervous too, but they’re ready
for it to happen.”stacy unDerWooD
rifle coach
file photo by matt masin | dnnebraska’s Jordan hooper goes up with her right hand. hoop-er and the huskers are looking for a deep big ten tournament run to cement a no. 2 ncaa tournament seed.
Dutton, Woltersdorf, Russell, Hansen, Martin to compete this weekend
i think sometimes when it’s a big meet and a lot is on the line,
we step up.”
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If you were to compare the Ne-braska baseball team from a month ago to the current group, you would think Darin Erstad was coaching two different squads.
This month’s team can’t stop winning.
After going 4-0 in its home-stand against New Mexico and Northern Colorado, the Huskers (4-7 overall) will travel to Ruston, La., to take on Louisiana Tech (3-10) for a three-game series this weekend.
Senior right-handed pitcher Ryan Hander (0-1, 3.97 ERA) will start game one of the double-head-er Saturday for Nebraska against the Bulldogs’ Phil Maton (2-0, 0.49 ERA).
Husker junior right-handed pitcher Christian DeLeon (1-0, 1.45 ERA) and Louisiana Tech’s Trevor Petersen (0-2, 3.86 ERA) will take the mound in game two, while Brandon Pierce (0-2, 8.10 ERA)
will duke it out against Richie Na-vari (0-2, 7.50 ERA) for the rubber match Sunday.
Against Northern Colorado on Wednesday, starters Jeff Chestnut and Aaron Bummer combined for seven innings and eight strikeouts to get Nebraska rolling in their 10-5 and 5-1 wins.
Erstad said he was impressed with the freshman and sophomore in their debut starts as Huskers.
“ ( C h e s t n u t ’ s ) thrown strikes since they day he’s got-ten here,” Erstad said. “(Bummer’s) started his whole life, and we’re just going to give him the opportunity to do that and see where it goes.”
In game one, Bummer swiv-eled out of tough jams in each of his three innings, striking out five batters while allowing just three hits and one earned run.
Chestnut said seeing the southpaw and the bullpen’s suc-cess in game one helped him with his solid start in game two.
“It motivates everyone – see-ing what the last pitcher just did – to equal what the last pitcher just
did, if not do better,” he said. “We proved that (Wednesday).”
The Husker offense too is be-coming more comfortable at the plate, according to right-fielder Austin Darby.
“We knew that once we start-ed getting in the groove, every-thing would kind of click,” he
said. “We’re all good hitters. We’re one of the best hit-ting teams, I think, in the nation. So we knew it was going to be there.”
One big differ-ence in the hitters now is they’re en-joying the game and having fun, Darby said.
“Everybody was playing tense after we lost the first couple of games in California,” he said. “We’ve just been saying ‘let’s have fun, let’s go out there and have fun’. And I think everybody’s en-joying the game more than press-ing and feeling a lot of pressure.
“From every aspect I think we’re playing more as a unit now. Everyone’s just having a good time and coming together.”
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huskers travel to louisiana tech with chance to even record
Josh kellydn
After handing the undefeated No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners their first loss of the season and climbing up in the rankings, the No. 22 Huskers look to continue their eight-game road streak this weekend against the Wichita State Shockers.
Last weekend, Nebraska went 3-1 in two doubleheaders where it faced Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Saturday, the Huskers de-feated No. 1 Oklahoma in the sec-ond game of their doubleheader.
Adding another important win for the Huskers in the circle was freshman Emily Lockman, who took things step by step against the best team in college softball.
“Anybody can come out and beat anybody, so each time I go out I have to make sure I have my A-game and that I’m fo-cused on each and every pitch,” she said.
The freshman right-hander was the Big Ten Fresh-man Player of the Week for the second time this season this week. The first time came from when she threw her first career no-hitter at the Hill-enbrand Invitational in Arizona a
few weeks ago. So far this season she has provided a consistency to a young pitching staff that coach Lori Sippel wants.
“Emily did a good job in game two (against Oklahoma), as did
Tatum (Edwards) in game one until a sloppy inning,” Sip-pel said. “I’m just extremely proud of our team right now.”
This weekend the Huskers must face Wichita State, beginning with a doubleheader Sat-
urday and finishing with a game on Sunday. The Shockers are cur-rently 9-9 and unranked, a breath of fresh air for Nebraska after fac-ing ranked teams three weekends
in a row.Although Wichita State has
had its share of losses early in the season, it’s averaging 3.8 runs per game and outscoring its opponents by 13 runs.
Nebraska has two Kansas Na-tives on roster, freshman Kiki Stokes and senior Brooke Thoma-son. Stokes is from Olathe, Kan., and Thomason is from Overland Park, Kan. Stokes played along-side the Shocker infielder Laura Vickers in high school and Thoma-son was a teammate of Kacie Eich while both attended Blue Valley Northwest High School in Over-land Park.
The doubleheader on Saturday begins at 2 p.m. at the C. Howard Wilkins Softball Complex.
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No. 22 Nebraska to play 3 games with Witchita State on Saturday, Sunday
kyle cuMMingsdn
Zaire Anderson thought he played through a torn ACL for three days – at least that’s how long his knee had been swollen before trainers had suggested he get an MRI. In fact, the injury may have existed much sooner than when he pulled out after the Arkansas State game last season – when he originally thought the injury happened.
Anderson then learned the ACL tear may have been from ju-nior college, he said.
“The doctor told me it was over a year (since the injury),” he said.
Trainers never realized he had a serious injury, he said, and An-derson certainly wasn’t trying to hide from it. So how did his knee go unnoticed for so long?
“(Trainers) didn’t believe it was an ACL tear because I played the same,” the linebacker said.
Anderson only played three games last season before he pulled out. In that game even, the junior college transfer recorded three to-tal tackles, including one solo.
Those numbers are by no means impressive, but they show decent production from a first-year player.
His journey back from his tear, Anderson said, has been tough. He’s never experienced a road back from an injury quite like this, he said.
Because Anderson was still trying to perfect the defensive schemes when his injury cut his playing time short, he continued to progress by learning what he needed to do from the sideline, he said.
“I had to focus on the mental part in rehab,” he said. “The was the hardest part of the ACL tear was the mental part. Mental reps – that’s the most important part. Just knowing what I have to do just by looking helped me out a lot.”
Injuries are never a blessing,
and rarely do they bring sense of fortune like Anderson’s ACL tear did for him. As Anderson was able to learn off the field, he felt the in-jury actually helped his develop-ment. Not only that, but Anderson still has two full years of eligibil-ity left; meaning because he only played three games, he was award-ed a medical hardship.
It has now been five months since Anderson’s surgery, and he’s way ahead of schedule he said, even practicing in full pads. He’s not sure what the doctors would tell him, but he said he feels 100 percent, and his coaches agree.
“He’s full go,” Nebrasksa head coach Bo Pelini said. “He’s ready to go, and he’s pretty much practic-ing full time. He’s doing fine, he’s healthy.”
Even though Anderson has
only played three games as a Husk-er, he may have to guide the line-backers come fall – a task he said he’s ready for.
As part of his comeback, An-derson is wearing a new number. He ditched No. 8, which he wore last season, for No. 13 this year.
Maybe people will begin to no-tice him that way.
“Everyone knows who Ameer (Abdullah) is,” Anderson said of the running back who sports No. 8 on offense, “So I had to get a differ-ent number. People keep mistaking me.”
He doesn’t really care as much about the number as he does play-ing, he said, but he doesn’t want to be mixed up with anybody.
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Pro day brings nfl scouts to lincoln to see former huskers
grant Muesseldn
In front of a handful of NFL scouts, Nebraska seniors omitted from the NFL scouting combine got a little more clarification on where they stand in the upcoming NFL Draft in April.
The extra info doesn’t mean much though, according to Will Compton.
“There’s so much wild stuff that happens,” he said. “(NFL Draft analyst Mike) Mayock and them are right up until about pick six, after that, everybody’s shocked.”
Thursday’s pro day gave Ne-braska’s graduated seniors and two former Huskers a chance to show off in front of scouts and assistant coaches from eight NFL teams. Compton said scouts in-formed him he helped himself quite a bit, after 24 bench press reps of 225 pounds and a 40-yard dash time below 4.6 seconds.
“I was kind of nervous about that,” Compton said. “As long as I beat what everybody else out there thought. When I hit (4.54) today I was ecstatic.”
Rex Burkhead, Brett Maher, Eric Martin, Joe Carter, P.J. Mangi-eri, Kyler Reed, Ben Cotton, Seung Hoon Choi, Cameron Meredith, Alonzo Whaley and Daimion Staf-ford ran drills for scouts, along with former Huskers Mike Capu-to and Curenski Gilleylen. Baker Steinkuhler sat out of the drills.
Stafford, who wasn’t happy with his combine performance,
slimmed down to 210 pounds for pro day. He improved his 40 time from the 4.6 range down to a low 4.5 seconds.
“I shouldn’t have done any-thing at the combine,” he yelled up to a group of cheering onlook-ers at the Hawks Championship Center.
Scouts from the Saints, Raid-ers, Falcons and Packers were present. Mangieri got a hard look from a scout from the Eagles – for-mer Husker kicker Alex Henery’s team. A Chiefs scout spent time checking out Mangieri and Maher.
Maher nailed all 10 field goals he attempted in front of the scouts, the final of which sailed in from 60 yards out.
“I’m kicking really well right now,” he said. “I just feel really good about how the ball’s coming off my foot.”
Two Steelers scouts came to check out Smith and Stafford, who both spent time one-on-one with a scout from Pittsburgh. Smith said the scouts told him he has NFL talent, but “just has to put the work in.”
Multiple scouts including the Green Bay Packers and Oakland Raiders spent time talking to Bur-khead, who impressed in running back drills as well as pass-catch-ing exercises.
Bengals assistant linebackers coach David Lippincott came to see Nebraska’s linebackers and spent time in the meeting room with Compton. The two went over defensive formations, and Lippin-cott was impressed with Comp-ton’s defensive knowledge.
“I got a bunch of great feed-back,” the linebacker said. “I’m real flattered and humbled. It’s been a great day. I can’t wait to go call my parents.”
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NU on a 4-game winning streak after opening with seven straight losses
file photo by jon auGustine | dnnebraska linebacker Zaire anderson makes a tackle against arkansas state last season. anderson is recovering from a torn acl.
file photo by kelly kuwitzsky | dnnebraska pitcher christian deleon hurls a fastball toward a new mexico hitter. deleon and the huskers will play three games against louisiana tech this weekend.
the hardest part of the acl was the mental part. mental reps - that’s the
most important part.”zaire anDerson
linebacker
file photo by bethany schmidt | dnnebraska linebacker Will compton keeps an eye on the pile against michigan state last season. he ran a 4.54 40-yard dash at nebraska’s pro day thursday.
file photo by kaylee everly | dnhusker pitcher emily lockman winds up to throw a pitch. lock-man was big ten freshman of the Week for the second time.
Will Compton, Rex Burkhead have big days in front of intersted crowd
everybody was playing
tense after we lost those first games in california.”
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The linebacker recovering ahead of schedule from torn ACL
Upstart nebraska looks to add onto its impressive early season resume
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Fresh off an exciting 53-51 win in their last game at the Devaney Center, the Huskers take to the court for one more regular sea-son basketball game Saturday afternoon in Iowa City.
The Huskers take on the Hawkeyes for the second time in two weeks. The last time the two teams met, Nebraska used a 19-point comeback to beat Iowa 64-60 at the Devaney Center. In that game, Iowa needed a win to help its NCAA tournament cause.
This time around, the Hawk-eyes are still on the fringe of a tournament appearance. The loss they suffered at Nebraska’s hands knocked them down a peg, but a trio of wins in their next three games has them back in the con-versation.
The Huskers will again try to derail Iowa’s hopes and, in turn, move toward one of its own goals: making the National Invitation Tournament. To reach that tourna-ment, the Huskers would likely need a .500 record or better, as the NIT has never accepted a team be-low that mark. Sitting at 14-16, the Huskers have some work to do, but they aren’t out should they win a few games in the Big Ten tournament.
The leading scorer for Ne-braska is Dylan Talley with 14.4 points per game and the leading rebounder is Brandon Ubel with 6.7 per game.
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#10 Northwestern
#7 Iowa
#2 Nebraska
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#3 Purdue
#11 Wisconsin
#11 Wisconsin
#1 Penn State
#4 Michigan State
#6 Illinois
#8 Minnesota
#9 Ohio State
#9 Ohio State
#5 Michigan
#5 Michigan
#12 Indiana
Two months ago, coach Connie Yori wouldn’t have guessed her team would be where it is right now.
“You never expect to win eight or nine in a row in this good of a league,” Yori said in a press conference last Wednesday. “I wouldn’t have necessarily expected to be winning at this rate.”
After starting the Big Ten season 2-3 with losses to Purdue, Penn State and Il-linois, Nebraska won 10 straight games to snag the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten Tourna-ment this weekend.
Penn State, Nebraska, Purdue and Mich-igan State, the Nos. 1-4 seeds, will all re-ceive a one game bye, something Nebraska senior Lindsey Moore says will be a big ad-vantage.
“It will definitely help,” she said. “Last year we were pretty tired in the champion-ship game after playing four games in four days.”
The Huskers will play Iowa, the winner of the seven vs. 10 seed game; Iowa beat Northwestern 60-55 Thursday afternoon. With the Iowa win, Nebraska could face some trouble.
Though they beat Iowa 66-46 on Feb. 24, they barely escaped the Hawkeyes 76-75 in Iowa City on Feb. 11. The key for Nebraska may be Iowa forward Morgan Johnson, who scored 19 points in Iowa’s one-point loss, and just eight in their 20-point loss.
If Nebraska makes it past Iowa they will most likely face the No. 3 seed Purdue, which will have to make it past No. 11 seed
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For the first time since December, the Nebraska wrestling team has had two full weeks to prepare for its next event.
The time away from competi-tion is just a precursor to the No. 12 Huskers’ biggest tournament of the year: this weekend’s Big Ten Championships in Cham-paign, Ill.
And the two-week break since a 19-17 loss at Cornell in the Na-tional Duals has given the Husk-ers – who have been plagued by a dinged-up roster throughout the season – time to heal. NU start-ers Eric Coufal, Shawn Nagel, Jake Sueflohn, James Green, Josh Ihnen and Spencer Johnson have all missed action this season with minor injuries.
“We’re really healthy, and that that’s a great blessing. It’s a physi-cal year,” Nebraska coach Mark Manning said.
He added that the prepara-tion for the Big Ten Tournament has helped his squad make some tweaks in order to win close matches.
“They’re making those little adjustments that we’ve been hav-ing trouble making earlier in the
season,” Ihnen said. “I think that we’re definitely getting ready, and we’re going to have a good post-season.”
Entering Saturday and Sun-day’s tournament, which will send at least the top six finish-
ers in each weight class to next week’s NCAA Championships, four Huskers are seeded in the top four of their weight classes.
healthier huskers say they’re ready for big ten championshipAfter two weeks of rest, Nebraska is as healthy as it has been all season
After big win, Nebraska will close out its season with a game in Iowa
file photo by morGan spiehs | dnhusker wrestler Josh ihnen attempts to use a single-leg take-down against minnesota. ihnen and the rest of the huskers are at the big ten championships this weekend.
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kaylee everly | dnnebraska forward brandon Ubel lays in a bucket against min-nesota. he was fouled on the shot, leading to a 3-point play.
