fooD Drive: see page 2 frannie sprouls story by The videos and stories on Facebook speak for them- selves, Garrison said. Ellis said the protesters don’t want to see in- cidents like the ones at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. The pos- sibility is still there, though, he said. “Police are in the position universities are a hub for free speech for students. of all places, it’s important to have free speech through universities” revamped fairy tales lack originality, depth of story kim buckLey
DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011 VOLUME 111, ISSUE 064 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM Mundane media magic REVAMPED FAIRY TALES LACK ORIGINALITY, DEPTH OF STORY LOCAL SINGER DRAWS FROM LIFE OBSTACLES, HEALTH PROBLEMS DESPITE LOSSES, THE IOWA-NEBRASKA GAME REMAINS IMPORTANT A heart full of song Plenty to play for FOOTBALL PAGE 10 WEATHER | CLOUDY A&E PAGE 5 BARTZ PAGE 4 @dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan 47° 25° Thanks! THANKSGIVING BOARD GAME ON PAGE 5 T he University of Nebraska-Lin- coln will wel- come two new suite-style resi- dence halls to its campus by August 2014. The halls will be just east of the Robert E. Knoll Resi- dential Center on the blocks of 18th, 19th and R streets. Together, the halls will house about 1,034 students, said Sue Gildersleeve, di- rector of University Hous- ing. “We’ve had such a strong response to the Knoll Resi- dential Center,” Gilder- sleeve said. “There’s been way more demand for it, so it made sense to go with that same style.” Combined with Knoll, the two additional build- ings will create a suite-style complex. “They’ll have a cen- tral front desk so stu- dents will go to the mid- dle building to get their LIS ARNESON DAILY NEBRASKAN Lincoln’s Salvation Army wants to meet the needs of its community. But this year, an influx in demand and in- creased difficulty obtaining food is proving to be prob- lematic. The Salvation Army is run- ning extremely low on its food supply because more people coming in, said Cap- tain Jamie Pennington. “A year ago, we had a little over 3,000 families coming in (the whole year),” he said. “This year, over 13,000 families, which is somewhere over 25,000 peo- ple. So we’ve seen about a 500 percent increase.” The Food Bank of Lincoln is a top supplier of food for the Salvation Army, Pen- nington said, but this year it hasn’t been able to contrib- ute as much food. “Our supplier is just not able to get their hands on the food as well,” he said. “Government grants and cor- porate donations to the Food Bank have been less.” At the University of Ne- braska-Lincoln, groups like the Multicultural Students in Media are doing their part to make up for the short- age. Co-president Andrea Vasquez, a senior news-ed- itorial and broadcast major who also works at the Daily Nebraskan, said she was informed of the situation last Tuesday while working on a film project at the Salvation Army. “We’re a group concerned with diversity, and this is a form of diversity — socio- economic diversity,” she said. She told other members of Multicultural Students in Me- dia, and they collected food items at their meeting Mon- day night. Vasquez encour- ages other students to con- tribute what they can. “They’re still taking food even though it’s just a cou- ple days before Thanks- giving,” she said. “They need food throughout the year.” The Sal- vation Army wants to help those in need, Pennington said. “(Our goal is) to meet human needs in the Lord’s name, whatever hu- man need might be out there,” he said. Throughout the year, the Salvation Army col- lects and distributes food for those in need as well as providing budget or credit counseling. “I think there are a lot of stereotypes out there about the people who come in,” Pennington said. “Our aver- age client has a job and an income; they’re just having trouble making ends meet and they’re living paycheck to paycheck.” Pennington said they are requesting holiday-meal foods, but even the small things are appreciated. “Even if you don’t have much to give, a can of food goes a long ways,” he said. “Especially around Salvation Army short on food for holidays LAUREN OLSON | DAILY NEBRASKAN FOOD DRIVE: SEE PAGE 2 KIM BUCKLEY DAILY NEBRASKAN Occupy Wall Street protesters at the University of California, Davis were pepper sprayed by police on Nov. 18. The pro- testers, comprised of college students, received national attention because of the inci- dent. A YouTube video of this attracted thousands of views and caught the attention of people in Lincoln. The Occupy Lincoln move- ment will show its solidarity for students involved in this incident during the “Solidar- ity Action with Students fac- ing Police Brutality” event Tuesday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The event will be in the Nebraska Union at 4 p.m. UNL alumnus Jason Nord came up with the event. “The idea that people are trying to take away our First Amendment right is outra- geous,” said Dana Garrison, a junior agricultural educa- tion major involved with Oc- cupy Lincoln. “Universities are a hub for free speech for students. Of all places, it’s im- portant to have free speech through universities.” Garrison has a personal connection to the incident. She grew up 30 miles from UC Davis. “For me, it was heartbreak- ing to see this happening,” she said. “It’s disgusting that the police thought they could do that.” It’s important to show soli- darity to let the country know those students aren’t alone, Garrison said. Brian Ellis, a member of Oc- cupy Lincoln, agreed. He said it shows that the police action against protesters wasn’t going to be tolerated. “People need to be held accountable for using exces- sive force,” he said. “Students are just like any other citizen. They deserve the right to pro- test.” The videos and stories on Facebook speak for them- selves, Garrison said. Ellis said the protesters don’t want to see in- cidents like the ones at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. The pos- sibility is still there, though, he said. “Police are in the position where the only option they have is to follow orders or else they’ll lose their job,” he said. Garrison said whether there will be a simi- lar incident on UNL’s campus depends on the circumstances. The police have acted profes- sionally and have held dia- logue with the protest move- ment, she add- ed. The movement has an ex- tremely accurate legal team, she said, and the protesters are educated about legal ordi- nances on protesting. “I think that Occupy Lin- coln participants are willing to stand up in the sight of injus- tice,” she said. “We know what we’re allowed to do within the laws of our country, state, city and county.” Ellis said he believes these incidents won’t stop the Oc- cupy movement in Lincoln or around the country. “It can withstand anything,” he said. “I think (these inci- dents) will anger people and drive them to join the move- ment.” KIMBUCKLEY@ STORY BY FRANNIE SPROULS Universities are a hub for free speech for students. Of all places, it’s important to have free speech through universities” DANA GARRISON JUNIOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION MAJOR Occupy Lincoln to hold vigil for brutality victims DORMS: SEE PAGE 3 Contruction to begin on two new suite-style dorms at the end of the semester COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY PHOTO Suite Life
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The University of Nebraska-L in-coln will wel-come two new suite-style resi-dence halls to
its campus by August 2014.The halls will be just east
of the Robert E. Knoll Resi-dential Center on the blocks of 18th, 19th and R streets. Together, the halls will house about 1,034 students, said Sue Gildersleeve, di-rector of University Hous-ing.
“We’ve had such a strong response to the Knoll Resi-dential Center,” Gilder-sleeve said. “There’s been way more demand for it, so it made sense to go with that same style.”
Combined with Knoll, the two additional build-ings will create a suite-style complex.
“They’ll have a cen-tral front desk so stu-dents will go to the mid-dle building to get their
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Lincoln’s Salvation Army wants to meet the needs of its community. But this year, an influx in demand and in-creased difficulty obtaining food is proving to be prob-lematic.
The Salvation Army is run-ning extremely low on its food supply because more people coming in, said Cap-tain Jamie Pennington.
“A year ago, we had a little over 3,000 families coming in (the whole year),” he said. “This y e a r , o v e r
13,000 families, which is somewhere over 25,000 peo-ple. So we’ve seen about a 500 percent increase.”
The Food Bank of Lincoln is a top supplier of food for the Salvation Army, Pen-nington said, but this year it hasn’t been able to contrib-ute as much food.
“Our supplier is just not able to get their hands on the food as well,” he said. “Government grants and cor-porate donations to the Food Bank have been less.”
At the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln, groups like the Multicultural Students in Media are doing their part to make up for the short-age. Co-president Andrea Vasquez, a senior news-ed-itorial and broadcast major who also works at the Daily Nebraskan, said she was
informed of the situation last Tuesday while working on a film project at the Salvation Army.
“We’re a group concerned with diversity, and this is a form of diversity — socio-economic diversity,” she said.
She told other members of Multicultural Students in Me-dia, and they collected food items at their meeting Mon-day night. Vasquez encour-ages other students to con-tribute what they can.
“They’re still taking food even though it’s just a cou-
ple days before Thanks-giving,” she said.
“They need food throughout
t h e year.”
The Sal-vation Army wants to help
those in need, Pennington said.
“(Our goal is) to meet human needs in the Lord’s
name, whatever hu-man need might be out there,” he said.
Throughout the year, the Salvation Army col-lects and distributes food for those in need as well as providing budget or credit counseling.
“I think there are a lot of stereotypes out there about the people who come in,” Pennington said. “Our aver-age client has a job and an income; they’re just having trouble making ends meet and they’re living paycheck to paycheck.”
Pennington said they are requesting holiday-meal foods, but even the small things are appreciated.
“Even if you don’t have much to give, a can of food goes a long ways,” he said. “Especially around
Salvation Army short on food for holidays
lauren olson | Daily nebraskan
fooD Drive: see page 2
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Occupy Wall Street protesters at the University of California, Davis were pepper sprayed by police on Nov. 18. The pro-testers, comprised of college students, received national attention because of the inci-dent. A YouTube video of this attracted thousands of views and caught the attention of people in Lincoln.
The Occupy Lincoln move-ment will show its solidarity for students involved in this incident during the “Solidar-ity Action with Students fac-ing Police Brutality” event
Tuesday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The event will be in the Nebraska Union at 4 p.m. UNL alumnus Jason Nord came up with the event.
“The idea that people are trying to take away our First Amendment right is outra-geous,” said Dana Garrison, a junior agricultural educa-tion major involved with Oc-cupy Lincoln. “Universities are a hub for free speech for students. Of all places, it’s im-portant to have free speech through universities.”
Garrison has a personal connection to the incident. She grew up 30 miles from UC Davis.
“For me, it was heartbreak-ing to see this happening,” she said. “It’s disgusting that the police thought they could do that.”
It’s important to show soli-darity to let the country know those students aren’t alone, Garrison said.
Brian Ellis, a member of Oc-cupy Lincoln, agreed. He said it shows that the police action against protesters wasn’t going to be tolerated.
“People need to be held accountable for using exces-sive force,” he said. “Students are just like any other citizen. They deserve the right to pro-test.”
The videos and stories on Facebook speak for them-selves, Garrison said.
E l l i s said the protesters don’t want to see in-c i d e n t s like the ones at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. The pos-sibility is still there, t h o u g h , he said.
“Police are in the position
where the only option they have is to follow orders or else they’ll lose their job,” he said.
Garrison said whether there will be a simi-lar incident on UNL’s campus depends on the circumstances. The police have acted profes-sionally and have held dia-logue with the protest move-ment, she add-ed.
The movement has an ex-tremely accurate legal team,
she said, and the protesters are educated about legal ordi-nances on protesting.
“I think that Occupy Lin-coln participants are willing to stand up in the sight of injus-tice,” she said. “We know what we’re allowed to do within the laws of our country, state, city and county.”
Ellis said he believes these incidents won’t stop the Oc-cupy movement in Lincoln or around the country.
“It can withstand anything,” he said. “I think (these inci-dents) will anger people and drive them to join the move-ment.”
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This year, many stores are opening their doors earlier than ever, but some Black Friday deals are falling short compared to those offered on Thanksgiving itself. Instead of more traditional 4 a.m. openings, many stores will open their doors at midnight on Black Friday or even on Thanksgiving Day.
“This is a trend that start-ed about three years ago at the larger shopping centers,” said Julie Lattimer, market-ing director for SouthPointe Pavilions. She said stores sur-veyed their customers and found that most were ready to start shopping by the end of Thanksgiving Day.
“This is also a way to shop with family that has come into town for the holidays. Lincoln is just catching onto this,” she said.
Last year, Old Navy, Gap and Gap Kids, as well as Mi-chaels, opened their doors for the first time on Thanks-giving Day. All three stores and the movie theater will again welcome customers on Thanksgiving Day. Old Navy and Gap will open at
midnight, along with Bed Bath and Beyond, Bath and Body Works, Banana Repub-lic, Gymboree and American Eagle.
Jasmin Stonacek, a fresh-man speech pathology major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has worked at Amer-ican Eagle for a year and a half and this will be her first Black Friday.
“I chose to work on Black Friday, but I also love shop-ping,” Stonacek said. “But I’m now realizing that all the other stores are also opening at midnight, so now I won’t get the good deals I always have gotten in the past be-cause I’m working 11:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.”
SouthPointe isn’t the only place where stores are open-ing early; Target stores across the nation will open their doors at midnight on Black Friday for the first time ever. Target employees shared their outrage by creating websites, petitions and Face-book groups, such as “Tell Target to Save Thanksgiving.”
The petition was created by Anthony Hardwick, a Tar-get employee from Omaha.
“A midnight opening robs the hourly and in-store sal-ary workers of time off with
their families on Thanksgiv-ing Day,” the petition reads. “By opening the doors at midnight, Target is requiring team members to be in the store by 11 p.m. on Thanks-giving Day. A full holiday with family is not just for the elite of this nation — all Americans should be able to break bread with loved ones and get a good night’s rest on Thanksgiving!”
However, some employ-ers at SouthPointe said they haven’t faced opposition from employees.
“I heard from the Old Navy manager she was having trouble picking who to work because so many people wanted to work,” Lattimer said. “This is a great oppor-tunity for college kids who were not able to travel home for the holidays. Plus, many are getting holiday pay or time and half.”
Stonacek said she thinks working on Black Friday will be exciting.
“My mom was confused why I’d want to work Black Friday when I love shopping so much,” she said. “I’m not sure why I decided. I guess I thought it’d be fun.”
Eyes beginning to droop and jackets wrapped tightly, shoppers wait outside vari-ous stores on Black Friday waiting to get the best deal first.
But there is another op-tion out there: ZingSale.com.
Created in late 2008, Zing-Sale is an online shopping option for shoppers who would rather sleep in.
Prices of products change constantly and it can be dif-ficult to keep up with the changes. ZingSale does the work for the consumer.
“We try to take advantage of those changes by letting them know when it’s found cheaper,” said Chris Garlot-ta, co-founder of ZingSale.
The concept is simple. Consumers create a free ac-count on ZingSale, select the products they wish to buy and an alert email is sent to their inbox when the lowest price is found.
Using a special code, Zing-Sale searches several hun-dred times a day and sends an email when it has found the lowest price, Garlotta
said. “We do a lot of our search-
es through Amazon, which gives us access to 10 (thou-sand) to 15 thousand mer-chants,” Garlotta said. “We’re really inde-pendent of who’s selling it. We’re more c o n c e r n e d with what’s the lowest price.”
Klaire Zoll-ner, a junior history ma-jor at the U n i v e r s i t y of Nebraska-Lincoln, had never heard of ZingSale but said she would probably use it because it al-lows shopping without hav-ing to go to a certain store.
Zollner said she doesn’t participate in Black Friday shopping.
“It’s just too many people,” she said. “They are over-commercializing (Black) Fri-day and there’s never any-thing for Thanksgiving.”
Another UNL student has seen Black Friday shop-pers while working at the
SouthPointe Pavilions’ Old Chicago.
“It’s just crazy when peo-ple go out in large numbers,” said Schuyler Geery-Zink, a freshman international stud-
ies and pre-law major. “It’s danger-ous and it puts stress on buy-ers and sell-ers.”
Geery-Zink said she does a lot of online shopping and she likes the idea of Zing-Sale.
For many people, Black
Friday has become more of an event, Garlotta said.
“People enjoy going out shopping, they enjoy getting a good deal,” he said. “But you don’t have to go and leave the house in order to do that. By shopping online through ZingSale, you get a wider selection of stores and more merchants who are looking and competing to sell those products.”
On Nov. 27, 2010, 130 small business groups and public organizations joined forces with American Express in what marked a new form of holiday shopping called “Small Business Saturday.”
Small Business Saturday, which was created through a branch of American Ex-press called American Ex-press OPEN, gives smaller businesses an opportunity to rally support from mem-bers in their communities amid commercial-centered events, such as Black Fri-day and Cyber Monday. As
the shop local campaign gains attention, Lincoln’s own local shops hope the event has a positive impact on holiday sales.
Although this is only the second year Small Business Saturday will take place, many local businesses in downtown Lincoln plan on participating.
“I didn’t know about it until I received a letter from American Express,” said James Jeromchek, a Pacific & Maine manager. “We don’t have any signs for it yet, but we’ll still open up for business even if we don’t get a lot of cus-tomers.”
Pacific & Maine, located at 1339 O St., specializes in custom promotional prod-ucts and fashion retail.
Some managers, such as Jeromchek, feel that even though the event helps small businesses, the pub-licity for Small Business Saturday could be higher. “The only problem is that no one knows what it is, which is why I don’t think we will have a huge differ-ence in traffic,” Jeromchek said.
But some UNL students do plan on going out to support these local stores.
“I didn’t hear about Small Business Saturday until
recently when a friend of mine told me that they wouldn’t be doing Black Friday shopping this year,” said Justin Mueller, a fresh-man biology major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Mueller said he plans on going to some smaller shops in Lincoln for his holiday shopping.
“It will be great to see some of the local stores re-ceiving revenue,” he said.
Megan Suing, a freshman elementary education ma-jor, said she plans on tak-ing her mom shopping at local businesses.
“I want to promote small
businesses in this area,” she said.
Students like Suing see this as a chance to give back to the community as a whole.
“As shoppers we always go to the name-brand stores. I think it would be cool to see what other business have to offer,” Su-ing said. “I mean, you nev-er know what you will find until you try it out. It’s our community and it’s great that someone out there is finding a way for us to support it in any way pos-sible.”
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This holiday season, Toys for Tots stationed several drop-off opportunities for toy donations at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“The goal is to provide a tangible form of hope for underprivileged children,” said Matthew Knipe, a Ma-rine Corps Reserve Corporal and assistant coordinator for the Omaha-Council Bluffs Toys for Tots campaign.
The campaign has made its way to campus.
During several Husker ath-letic events between Nov. 18 and Nov. 25, Marines will be available to collect toys for their annual drive. The Ma-rines were at the women’s basketball game against Uni-versity of Southern Califor-nia and the volleyball game against Wisconsin.
They will be at the men’s basketball game against
Oregon on Nov. 23 and the Nov. 25 Heroes game with Iowa.
Fans can donate new, un-wrapped toys or cash during the games.
“All cash received will be taken and used to buy toys,” Knipe said.
Butch Hug, associate ath-letic director for facilities and events, helps coordinate these events and has been the UNL contact person for the Marines.
Hug said by having the Marines dressed in their uniform, it gives people a reminder of “gosh, I forgot a toy, I will donate some cash.”
He said toys do get re-ceived but there is a higher amount of cash being do-nated.
“It is just another oppor-tunity for people to give back,” Hug said.
There are about 700 drop off areas in the
Omaha-Council Bluffs re-gion, which stretches to sur-rounding areas as far as Ke-arney.
The campaign started Oct. 1 and will run until Dec. 16. The toys will then be col-lected, sorted and put in the correct age bracket, he said.
By Dec. 21 and 22, the toy sorting has to be completed so the toys can be distribut-ed, Knipe said.
The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots pro-gram’s mission is to collect toys from October through December. The toys will be distributed as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community, he said.
Knipe said the campaign supports boys and girls, newborns to 14-year-olds.
“Books, stuffed animals, LeapFrog, jewelry and re-mote control cars are just a small slice of the types of donations we receive,” he said.
It is completely 100 per-cent donations, Knipe add-ed.
“We get some support from our corporate sponsors and the national program, but it is our local supporters who help out a lot,” Knipe said.
The campaign doesn’t col-lect food or clothing, but does ask that toys donated
are non-violent and non-religious.
“We run into issues to get toys,” Knipe said. “Toys for 12-year-olds are more expensive than a toy for a 3-year-old.”
United Way takes care of the distribution of the toys, he said.
“It is great to see so many places get involved,” Knipe
said. “There are small busi-nesses, corporate stores, schools and even bars that get involved as a place to drop off toys.”
Knipe said it’s all for the kids.
“We do it for the kids to make a Christmas dream come true,” he said.
the holidays, people have to choose between putting food on the table or buying toys for their kids.”
Pennington emphasized the significance of giving back and helping those in need.
“We’ve all been in a posi-tion of need at one time or an-other, so it’s important to help out fellow humans in need,” Pennington said. “It makes you feel good to be part of the solution rather than contribut-ing to the problem — to be a part of something bigger than yourself.”
Donations can be dropped off at the Salvation Army’s lo-cation at 27th and Holdrege streets.
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In a new series, one Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln professor wants to know “What in the Hell are You Talking About?” Shane Farritor, an engi-neering professor with an emphasis on robotics, is leading a series on how to innovate, which, according to Farritor’s website shane-farritor.com, will give a person “several tools to make you more innovative and creative.” NUtech Ventures and the College of Engineering sponsor the seminar series that Farritor gained inspira-tion for while raising capi-tal for his startup company, “Virtual Incision.”
“We’ve worked quite a bit in the past,” said Jill Thayer, operations and marketing
manager for NUtech Ven-tures.
Thayer said Farritor has a unique perspective in that he didn’t start out as a busi-nessman. His perspective made it easy for NUtech Ventures to collaborate with him, she said.
“We felt that he learned some great lessons and wanted to support him,” she said.
The core concept of the seminar is discovering indi-vidual gifts that aren’t easy to find, Farritor said. You must be special and creative to be innovative, he said.
“We all have gifts to give, we just have to work hard to find them,” he said.
Farritor gained inspiration for the series by reading various books on innova-tion, and each seminar topic reflects ideas from his read-ing. One in particular is his
fifth seminar titled “Where Good Ideas Come From.” The seminar is based on a book from Steven Johnson by the same title. Farritor said he believes certain en-vironments promote good ideas.
“This has particular im-pact with the Innovation Campus coming,” he said.
Being innovative requires two key things, Farritor said: Be clear in what you are trying to communicate and be special in what you try to present.
“A pet peeve of mine with some of my students and even some colleagues is that there is just poor com-munication,” he said. “I’m just trying to give my take on communicating great ideas.”
Farritor added that it pays to be innovative in today’s world, as more employers
want unique ideas. “In the old days your job
would be what your degree is in,” he said. “Not any-more.”
Students can produce
innovative ideas, Farritor said.
“We can’t all be a genius like Steve Jobs, but we can all be innovative, if we try,” he said.
Farritor’s latest seminar will be today from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Room 110 in Jorgensen Hall.
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mechanical engineering professor shane Farritor sits in front of mechanical sketches drawn on a whiteboard wall in his office on nov. 21. Farritor will conclude his seminar series, “How to innovate,” today at 12:30 p.m. in room 110 in Jorgensen Hall.
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professor shane Farritor shows off one of the inventions that he had a hand in creating. the magnetic camera can be used as a less invasive way for doctors to see inside of a patient’s body during surgery.
mail,” Gildersleeve said. “It’s where the RD offices will be. It’ll be similar to the welcome center at Abel/Sandoz.”
Nearly 420 parking spaces from three separate parking lots will be sacrificed with the building of the new halls.
“Parking and Transit Ser-vices will accommodate the residents in the remaining spaces in the parking lots located west and south of the Beadle Center,” wrote Dan Carpenter, director of Parking and Transit Ser-vices, in an email. “The re-maining resident students may purchase parking in the 19th and Vine Street ga-rage.”
Any faculty and staff park-ing spaces will be moved to the surface lot east of the 17th and R garage.
As with Knoll, students will need a meal plan be-cause the suites won’t have a full kitchen. The halls will be open to a combination of freshmen and upper-classmen. Gildersleeve said University Housing has yet to figure out how signing up for the hall will work.
About $71.5 million is budgeted for the project, which will come from stu-dent room and board rev-enue during the upcoming years.
“We’ve issued bonds and those bonds will be paid back over 30 years,” Gild-ersleeve said. “We’ll use (room and board) revenues to pay back the bonds.”
The plan for the suite-style dorms is to replace Cather and Pound residence halls. After conducting a study with the intention to renovate Cather and Pound,
Gildersleeve said it would make more sense to put money toward construc-tion rather than spend more money on renovating.
“We wouldn’t really be improving student experi-ence,” Gildersleeve said.
Both Cather and Pound will be open for the 2012-2013 school year. In 2013-2014 and beyond, only one will remain open until the second suite-style hall is completed. Gildersleeve said she isn’t sure which building will close first.
The question is how suite-style halls will factor into UNL’s goal of 30,000 students.
Gildersleeve explained the capacity of the new suite-style halls is more than what Cather and Pound would be, especially since
Cather and Pound have a lot of single rooms. She said the suite-style halls will help UNL reach that goal.
“That whole issue is under study,” Gildersleeve said.
“It will take some planning and studies to meet that de-mand (of reaching 30,000 students).”
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“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
Do the words of President Herbert
Hoover sound familiar? Politicians have been courting “the youth vote” with quotations like this for almost a century. As America’s national debt climbs, more and more voters are demanding that the United States bal-ance its checkbook. But every time someone brings up the burden of debt on future generations, no one seems to do anything about it.
Last August, Congress hashed out an 11th-hour agreement to raise the debt ceiling and preserve the United States’ top-tier credit rating. As part of the deal, a 12-member bipartisan “supercommittee” was created to come up with $1.2 trillion in revenue.
But there was a catch. If the super-committee failed to propose a plan (or if Congress failed to pass it), its failure would trigger automatic cuts in defense and Medicare spending.
Monday was the deadline for the supercommittee to propose its plan to Congress. They failed to strike a deal and Congress will head home for Thanksgiving no closer to a real budget solution. But the supercom-mittee was doomed from the begin-ning. Congress ordered the group to find agreement and then populated it with legislators who would never agree. The plan was doomed to fail from the beginning.
The disaster of the debt supercom-mittee began at its inception. The long, bitter fight over raising the debt ceiling proved that bipartisan agreement among 535 members of Congress was unfeasible. To remedy this, Congress asked Republicans and Democrats to nominate three sena-tors and three representatives each to serve on the supercommittee. The idea was that each party could select its best economic policymakers and negotiators to work out a solution.
However, some members were se-lected specifically for partisan loyalty, and the group as a whole was gener-ally uninterested in compromise.
Each half of the supercommittee
blamed the other for slowing prog-ress. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., complained that Republicans were unwilling to cross what she called a “line in the sand” to raise taxes on wealthy Americans. On the other side, Rep. Jon Kyl. R-Ariz., lamented that “If you look at the Democrats’ position, it was ‘We have to raise taxes.’”
There was, how-ever, a flicker of hope. Last Thursday, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., broke with Republi-can economic policy and offered a plan that included tax hikes. But Democrats rejected the compromise.
There is no excuse for the supercommittee’s failure. All it needed was a simple majority vote to pass a plan. If just one member had put purpose over party, we would have a plan for Con-gress to vote on. Instead, we have nothing.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Con-gress tried to encourage the super-committee by threatening automatic spending cuts if no deal was reached. The cuts would slice defense spend-ing and prevent some Medicare payments to hospitals, essentially holding America hostage. But like any hostage situation, it would only work if someone cared enough to do something.
Obviously, that didn’t happen.Now Congress is in a bind. They
can absorb the cuts, which Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta claims will be crippling to the U.S. military. Or, they can try to disarm the trigger, which could send the stock market into chaos and prompt another credit
downgrade. The supercommittee should have
spent the last three months going through all governmental depart-ments. The legislators should have identified waste and inefficiency and then eliminated them, period. In-stead, some committee members tried to bargain for tax hikes along with the spending cuts. You don’t need more money to spend less.
For years, the U.S. government has been unwilling to confront the status quo of massive overspending. Instead, they have repeatedly kicked the can down the road, postponing the issue until the problems are most dire and the solutions most drastic. When Congress had to address the situation in August, they passed the
buck onto a collection of 12 scapegoats whom they fondly called the supercommittee. Then, while these 12 politi-cians rejected deal after deal, Congress contin-ued to spend its way toward the next debt crisis.
Herbert Hoover’s wise words have been re-peated for decades. But
changing the culture of Washington is easier said than done. Here we are in 2011, with a Congress hell-bent on buying things we can’t afford with money we don’t have and ignoring the consequences.
America’s dependence on fiscal ir-responsibility is depressingly similar to that of a drug addict, desperate for his next fix. How many times in recent months have politicians come begging to the American people for one more stimulus, one more jobs bill, one teensy-weensy tax hike? When they tell us this will be the last one – promise! – should we believe them?
If the United States gets another credit downgrade, we deserve it. Would you entrust anyone so irre-sponsible with your money?
Benjamin KantacK is a senior po-litical science and spanish major.
Follow him at @BenjaminKantacK and reach him at BenjaminKantacK@
dailyneBrasKan.com.
irresponsible Congress’ fix fails
Enjoy holiday break, but keep safety a priorityFinally, Thanksgiving break has arrived. For many stu-
dents, that means a quick trip home before heading back to Nebraska’s game against Iowa on Black Friday. For others, it means staying in Lincoln for a five-day break.
But regardless of what your travel plans may be, the Daily Nebraskan encourages all students to be safe dur-ing break. The holiday season is always a tough time to travel — many people are on the road, speeding to family holidays and the potential for drinking always ac-companies a break.
The weather for the end of the week will be nice, with temperatures expected in the 50s and 60s during the game, which means, weather-wise, travel should be safe. But the DN reminds everyone to be extra cautious in all activities, no matter where or what events may be.
With little more than two weeks of school remaining after break, there is an end in sight to the semester. A safe holiday is important to everyone’s return.
Is it just me, or are movies becoming more magical? As I looked over movie listings recently (wishing I could af-ford leisure time for them), I realized something. A star-
tling number of movies out right now are fairy tale or myth-inspired. There’s “Puss in Boots,” “Immor-tals,” “Breaking Dawn” — even the movie “Jack and Jill,” while not a fairy tale, is an obvious allusion to the nursery rhyme. Furthermore, two adaptations of Snow White are starting to be advertised for release next year. ABC now has a Snow White TV show. Keeping all the dif-ferent adaptations straight is rather difficult.
I would be surprised by this as-sault of stories straight out of my childhood, except fairy tale adap-tations and allusions are nothing new. Disney obviously has this niche in the bag with its profusion of Disney princess movies, from the original “Snow White” and “Sleeping Beauty” to “Pocahontas” and “Mulan.” “Tangled” and “The Princess and the Frog” are the most recent, although live-action inter-pretations with a more adult twist have become more popular than
animated ones lately.While I appreciate attempts to
give new visions to myths and fairy tales as much as the next person, it makes me wonder: Why are we being fed the same stories over and over? And why are there so many movies of the same story at the same time? The constant revamping of ancient formulas is getting old.
People think they want to see something new, but secretly, they don’t. Major movie studios like Disney know this and would much rather risk money on a story that already works than on a complete-ly new one. Not only that, but they can’t let their rivals steal the spot-light, so they have to make their reused story better than another studio’s reused story. Chances are their target audiences are going to see them all.
I know we hate to think of ourselves as target audiences, but think about it: Do you have a favorite genre? Are you guaranteed to see a movie if it’s a horror or a romantic comedy or a biopic? I bet your answer is yes. Unfortunately, we can’t deny we have prefer-ences, and studios are going find out what they are and capitalize on
them.That leads me to my next point:
Fairy tale movies appeal to our childhood nostalgia, especially fan-girls. I would bet anything that you couldn’t find one girl who couldn’t name her favorite Disney princess or her most treasured bedtime story as a child. Studios count on the fact that older girls and women will give most fairy tale remakes a chance just to see if they did their favorite stories justice.
For instance, I knew I had to see if “Ella Enchanted” lived up to the book (it didn’t). I also had to know whether the new “Red Rid-ing Hood” was eerily like “Twi-light” (oh, it definitely was). We see the same pattern with comic book nerds who flock to mov-ies like “The Dark Knight” and
“Spider-Man” and so on. Those movies have to live up to nerd ex-pectations, but even if they don’t, at least the studio snagged their money. Luckily for the studios, criticism is the inevitable constant of nerd life.
On a more positive note, how-ever, the fairy tale movie trend is also a result of our need to see beloved childhood figures turned on their heads and updated for the current generation. The upcoming adaptations of Snow White give her a more active role in the story. In both “Snow White and the Hunts-man” and “Mirror Mirror,” Snow White actually fights to take back her kingdom from the evil queen, instead of being like the passive Snow White in the animated ver-sion.
In 2004, Hilary Duff starred in “A Cinderella Story,” a modernized re-telling in which Cinderella is a high school student, and her “Prince Charming” is the most popular boy in school. “Beastly” (a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast”) goes along the same lines but focuses on the “beast,” who’s a high school bully cursed with a scarred face by one of his victims.
While most everyone loves the originals, the main characters (fe-male ones most of all) don’t always match our changing norms. If I have a daughter, I’ll want to show her the classics. However, making more movies like “The Princess and the Frog,” in which the hero-ine makes her own destiny, would be very welcome. Letting the oldies dominate in fairy tale adaptations would simply be detrimental to future generations. Not that major movie studios are particularly wor-ried about this, but they’re at least aware that it’s something we want.
Seeing the same movie plots over and over will still make me groan. Hollywood needs to dig up more original material. Audiences are go-ing to get sick of it eventually and it’ll show. However, the trend isn’t all bad because it’s necessary to keep old legends fresh. Otherwise, we’ll simply forget about them. And we can’t just forget about the Prince Charmings, or the Sleeping Beauties, now can we?
erica Bartz is a senior Film studies major. reach her at
ericaBartz@ dailyneBrasKan.com.
Viewers should demand less cliché fairy tales
erica Bartz
Benjamin KantacK
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The day after Thanksgiving is usually a day for Black Fri-day shopping, football, eat-ing leftovers and once again claiming fatigue after eating turkey.
But instead of sleeping after the leftovers this year, there’s a more entertaining way to spend the day. The Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O St., is hosting Cold Turkey 2011 from 3 p.m. Friday until 2 a.m. Saturday. This event in-cludes a fundraiser and food drive for the Food Bank of Lincoln.
The event will feature several bands, including Mouth, Blue Martian Tribe and Wrekafekt. Some of the bands, such as Sharp, You Beautiful Creature and Sol-id Gold, have University of Nebraska-Lincoln students. The show will start in the Rye Room and the late-night acts will perform on the main stage.
Craig Mustard, who runs open-mic nights and orga-nizes events at the Bourbon,
is putting together this event with his band, Zed Tempo.
“The major focus of our first-annual Cold Turkey is to raise awareness of the event itself (and) to estab-lish the event as a place where Lin-coln and Nebraska residents can come spend their holiday weekend with fam-ily and friends,” Mustard said.
Because this event is new, the number of people at-tending is fairly uncertain, but Mustard hopes that it will be a great turnout so that they can host it every year. Regardless of the num-ber of people who show up, any donations will be help-ful and greatly appreciated, he said.
“Honestly, everything helps. Some folks feel that $1 is not very much help, but when you look at that multi-plied by just 1 percent of the Lincoln population, that is almost $2,600,” Mustard said.
Even if people are only willing to give a dollar or a
can of food, he will be sat-isfied. So far on the event’s Facebook page people seem to be very willing to donate. Some who aren’t able to attend the show still want to contribute to the fundraiser. It’s a great time
of year to ask for
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na-tions for the f o o d b a n k , Mustard said.
“We have found great sup-port from the mu-sic community and feel it’s a great time to get everyone togeth-er to give back,” Mustard
said. “I can- n o t wait to s e e the
responses from the commu-nity.”
The lineup of bands for the event on the
Facebook page consists of sev-eral local bands as well as a few from out of town, includ-ing Mouth. This Kansas City funk and dance band mixes ele-ments of elec-tronic-inspired textures and
improvisation to create a dance-
party style of music. The band’s drummer,
Stephen Gunn, is excited to play at the Bourbon for this event.
“(Cold Turkey) is being hosted to bring people to-gether in an effort to collect food to donate ... we’re excit-ed to be part of such a cool event,” Gunn said.
The band recently released their 2011 holiday mix en-titled “Escape From the
Moon,” and they may play some songs off that album at the show. Mouth has played in more than seven states in the past three years, and they always create a party atmo-sphere within a show that is unique each time.
“Overall, we’ve been ex-tremely fortunate in our op-portunities,” Gunn said.
For this show, Mouth hopes people will come to hear their music, join the party and find it in their hearts to give a little during this holiday weekend.
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if yOu gOcold Turkeywhen: Friday, 3 p.m.where: Bourbon The-atre, 1415 O St.how much: Free until 10 p.m., then $7 for ages 18-20, $5 for 21 and over
Donations of three cans of food receives $2 off admission
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Heather Sticka swears by the primary rule of songwriting: She writes about what she knows.
She knows what it’s like to spend 3 1/2 hours a week washing dishes in a bathtub and rubbing ashes from the carpet of a three-bedroom apartment in exchange for guitar lessons.
She knows what it’s like to take part in a bank robbery in her adolescence and not go to jail for it.
She knows what it’s like to miss work because the white-hot jolts of pain in her limbs leave her unable to sit up-right.
She writes what she knows.And she has for 16 years,
ever since she perfected the six basic guitar chords and learned how to play Nirvana’s “About a Girl” (she still loves that one.) Three days later, she wrote her first song, “An-gel.”
“I do have a lot of life al-ready behind me,” Sticka said. I always have. (My hus-band) says that sometimes he feels bad because he knows he can never catch up. I al-ways tell him, be glad that you can’t.”
The 33-year-old is the front-woman for Tsumi, a four-piece indie-something — they don’t like genre labels — band based in Lincoln. Heather moved to Lincoln 13 years ago for a relationship that failed. When she started playing at open mic nights nine years ago, she was the only girl who played regular-ly. The Lincoln music scene has broadened since then, and now Sticka’s band plays regular shows, sometimes in local standbys like the Zoo Bar and sometimes in metal dive bars – that’s when their cover of Tool’s “Sober” comes in handy.
She met Luke Sticka, her husband and Tsumi’s guitar-ist, at an open stage eight years ago. At the time, his
daily routine was to sleep until 3 p.m. and bike to the Highway Diner to play card games all night. They’d both recently ended relationships, Heather because she realized that she and her boyfriend went together like “bagels and dog shit.”
“I didn’t have any confi-dence in anything I was do-ing anymore,” she said. “I didn’t like what I was writing; I didn’t like how I sang. But (singing) was the only thing that made me feel normal, ever, my whole life.”
When she sang, things felt brighter. It didn’t matter that her lyrics felt awkward some-times and she was the only girl on stage and she didn’t always know what to do with her hands. She and Luke formed Tsumi with two other members (the current lineup includes bassist Ash Sharp and drummer Brandon Fil-bert) and began dating a year later. In 2007, they married.
“It wasn’t like ‘We’re dating, so we should be in a band,’”
Luke Sticka said. “As intrinsic to our lives as it is, the band is still a separate entity. It’s more than the sum of our parts.”
He calls his wife, who has some vocal training from grade school, a “molasses and smoke alto.”
“Here’s this woman who should be in a staring contest with Norah Jones, and instead she’s here playing rock music with her husband,” he said.
Although she’s found musi-cal fulfillment in Tsumi, the Stickas have had “a hell of a five years.” They’ve weath-ered four layoffs and a recent bout of health issues that left Heather in surgery and im-mobile in bed for weeks at a time. Over time, music lost some of its luster.
“When you can’t sit up and you can’t play, you kind of start to not like it anymore,” Heather Sticka said.
So she learned to crochet. She made hats, hand warm-ers, microphone covers. She watched Netflix. And she had a realization: In all her years, she had never seen the ocean or most of the country. And she wanted to.
The future is uncertain, health-wise, but Heather plans to tour the southern U.S. in the spring by herself. She’ll hit eight different cities, staying in each one for a few days.
“I’m done with my life get-ting in the way of me living,” she said. “I don’t want that to happen anymore. It’s good that all these things happen, because otherwise I wouldn’t be angry and fighting for the life that I’ve just been expect-ing for as long as I can re-member.”
In the meantime, Heather is a cook (try her Thai car-rot soup), a painter (glue on glass is a favored medium) and an assistant office man-ager at Open Harvest, a natu-ral foods grocery store. She’s an avid fan of role-playing games like Final Fantasy and Baldur’s Gate. She’s a host to the touring bands that play in the front room of her and her husband’s home, and she cooks secret-recipe pancakes for attendees. She’s a step-mother to Luke’s 10-year-old daughter, Alaina, whom she called “the most amaz-ing creature I have ever met in my whole life.” And al-ways, she is a musician. Af-ter a long plateau in her skill
development, she just recent-ly “leveled up” and plays by the phrase “if you quit trying to get better, you might as well quit.”
“Music is something that just happens for me,” Heath-er Sticka said. “I had a good muse for a while, and he was really pushy about all that stuff, but then he just went away. I had to figure out that the muse was inside of me anyway. Most of being a grown-up is just getting off your ass. If I want to be a grown-up musician, I’ve just got to get off my ass and do it.”
This winter, Tsumi will be-gin work on recording an-other album. Heather Sticka wants to host a recording party, where friends and fam-ily can hang out and enjoy the music with some beers. They practice in the same front room that hosts travel-ing bands, a space the size of a child’s bedroom with walls covered in gig posters for Tsumi and associated acts.
She strums on an electric guitar, a new addition to the band, as she leans in close to the mic. She bares it all in the songs she performs. Her prime example is “True Sto-ry,” a song the band had to stop playing live because of audience reactions.
“(When I wrote it) I didn’t try to be crafty; I didn’t try
to be smart,” she said. “I broke up with someone who wouldn’t listen to the fact that I was leaving him. He was good, he just wasn’t it. The lyrics say ‘I’m sorry if you want to kiss me, you just can’t anymore. I’m sor-ry if you want to touch me, you just can’t anymore.’ The lyrics are just blatantly hon-est. When you have to break somebody’s heart, and you have to watch them slowly get it – that was awful.”
Whenever the band played the song live, Sticka would watch as her friends in the audience left the room, one by one, on the verge of tears, using a sudden need for a cigarette as an excuse. In the song’s live recording, her own voice cracks mul-tiple times, and she can still remember why. That night, a few of her friends who usu-ally left the room when the song began stayed to listen. They just stood there in front of her and cried.
“I’ll tell anybody anything, but I’m probably not going to tell you how I feel about it,” Sticka said. “On stage, I get to tell people how I feel. Watch-ing other people respond with their faces, and dancing, and coming up afterwards and telling me, ‘This song made me feel this’ – it makes me feel whole.”
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In the face of mounting criticism, Drake released his new album, “Take Care,” Nov. 15.
During the past few months, music critics and fans alike have complained that most of Drake’s songs sound too similar. They said his rapping lacked depth, and even though his songs have achieved suc-cess, Drake looked to be approaching the zenith of his celebrity.
On his new album, Drake exceeds expectation and proves the critics wrong with a flurry of solid songs.
“Take Care” has com-plexity and playful lyrics. The songs are unique and play to the Canadian rap-pers strength and the end result is one of the best rap albums of the year.
“Take Care” is the mature
project that Drake needed to prove to his fans that he isn’t a one-trick pony. His lyrics have never been the problem, and they certain-ly aren’t on this album. The beef that critics and rap fans had with Drake was the similar sound of his songs, and the same tone Drake used on all of his verses. This album dispels all of these qualms. On most of the tracks, Drake switches between his trademark crooning and hardcore rap skills, and the results are brilliant.
The first track, “Over My Dead Body,” sounds like a Coldplay song rewired for Drake. His flows comple-ment the unique beat won-derfully, and his lyrics are as clever as they’ve ever been. As the album plays on, the beats are excep-tional and Drake sizzles on all of them.
With solid cameos from
Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Andre 3000, Drake assures that he has enough rapper friends to supplement his impressive new sound. On “HYFR,” Drake and Lil Wayne ab-solutely kill it. The song begins with Drake blazing through his verse with fe-rocity, and then suddenly, he switches it up and slows it down. These kinds of progressions are examples of the changing style of Drake.
He’s no longer the rap-per with one tone, and his new album, “Take Care,” is nothing less than extraor-dinary.
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Thanksgiving break might be coming for students at the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln, but for Nebraska’s men’s basketball team, the break features two more games on NU’s difficult non-conference schedule.
“I don’t know that there’s a better schedule in the coun-try,” NU coach Doc Sadler said.
Wednesday night the Husk-ers welcome their second Pac-12 opponent on the season, Oregon, into town, and Satur-day night NU will host South Dakota State University.
Sadler expects the Ducks, led by former Creighton coach Dana Altman, to be a chal-lenge for NU.
Oregon center Tony Woods, a transfer from Wake Forest, is itching for playing time. Woods sat out last season in order to become eligible to play for the Ducks, and this season he’s started all three of the Ducks’ games. Woods is looking to make the most of playing time now, Sadler said.
“(Oregon) is going to be a well-coached team that’s tal-ented,” Sadler said. “They’ve got some talent that was sitting out last year. It’ll be a difficult ballgame, of that I’m sure.”
He also anticipates that the Ducks will keep the defen-sive pressure on NU, based on games Sadler coached against Altman in the past.
“Dana’s teams I’m sure are gonna press a bit,” Sadler said. “Mostly play man-to-man, he’s going to have guys that can shoot the basketball.”
And that Oregon game is all NU is worrying about at the moment, even though it has to take on SDSU and then Wake Forest the following Wednes-day as part of the Big Ten/ACC challenge.
“We’re just getting ready for Oregon,” guard Brandon Rich-ardson said. “That’s our big-gest game, we’re just going to worry about them (this week) in practice. You can’t worry about other games because you just have to take care of the game that’s next.”
But once again NU will have to play without forward Andre Almeida, and at this point in the season Almeida’s progress on his knee injury has Sadler feeling pessimistic about his return to the court this season.
“Unless something drasti-cally changes, Andre’s not go-ing to play,” Sadler said. “Here it is almost December and it’s going to take Andre a month, so right now it’s not looking like he’s going to play at all. So we’ll red-shirt him and see where he goes from there.”
Almeida’s absence aside, Sadler feels confident in his ex-perienced team’s ability, even at the end of a close game.
There are multiple players that can take a shot and attack the rim, and this Husker squad is as offensively talented as any team he’s coached, through three games, Sadler said. And after the victory against Rhode Island he’s confident that his
team can put it through the hoop.
“If (guard) Caleb Walker goes 7-of-8 (shooting) most games, then we’re going to be in pretty good shape,” Sadler said. “But (guard) Dylan (Tal-ley) can score; Brandon (Rich-ardson) is shooting the ball.”
It all boils down to guard Bo Spencer’s ability to create good shots with his passing ability, Sadler said.
“When a shooter knows he’s going to get a good pass when he gets into a position to be open, they usually shoot bet-ter,” Sadler said.
Spencer credits his ability to pass to the shooters around him. He feels his teammates will always be looking for an open shot and that he can trust them.
And with that trust, Nebras-ka can get far in its inaugural Big Ten season, Spencer said.
“With the maturity we have anybody will take any big shot with the clock going down,” Spencer said. “It’s just confi-dence we’re developing and if we keep on winning and we keep on playing, the sky’s the limit for us.”
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After training for seven months, the Nebraska wom-en’s gymnastics team is ready to compete again.
In their first meet since the 2011 NCAA Championships in April, the Huskers posted a score of 195.75 before an esti-mated crowd of 200 people at Mabel Lee Hall this past Friday.
University of Nebraska-Lin-coln coach Dan Kendig said he was pleased with the results from his gymnasts.
“We had them compete in Olympic order and they did well in all four events,” he said. “As a team they rallied and did a great job. We didn’t have ev-eryone compete but they had great scores in all events and I was really impressed.”
The Husker women com-peted in the vault, bars, beam and floor events in their intra-squad meet.
“I was pleased with the crowd that showed up,” he said. “We had close to 300 people in Mabel Lee that night. It was a great atmosphere.”
Sophomore Jamie Schlep-penbach was the leading scor-er in the vault event and said it felt great getting back on the mat.
“We trained all summer and preseason was pretty long,” she said. “It was pretty crowd-ed and it felt great performing in front of a crowd, again.”
Fans got to see sophomore Emily Wong take home the all-around crown, as she tallied a 39.35 from all four events.
Schleppenbach said she saw only positive signs in her team’s first intramural meet.
“We didn’t have any major mistakes,” she said. “Everyone hit their routines and there were no falls. It was nice to see everyone get up there, hit their
routines and have no mistakes. It was a great sign.”
The meet featured four gym-nasts who have earned All-American honors during their career — senior Lora Evens-tad, junior Kassandra Nathe, and sophomores Wong and Schleppenbach.
Although All-American ju-niors Janelle Giblin and Brit-tany Skinner didn’t perform, fans also got to see a couple newcomers in freshman Jes-sie DeZiel and senior Katelyn Busacker, a transfer from Ball State University.
DeZiel helped the US cap-ture the gold medal at the Pan American games in late Octo-ber.
Kendig said the true fresh-man and Busacker had great performances along with the rest of team and thinks the team has more depth compare to last year’s roster.
“Everyone hit their routines and did very well,” the coach said. “Now we go home for Thanksgiving and get ready for the second intrasquad meet in December.”
Kendig said the team has been working hard since the first day of school and said Fri-day’s meet was the first check
point in preparation for the 2012 season.
The coach added that if the team continues what it’s been doing the last few years, he thinks this year’s team has the potential to be better than last season’s roster.
“To do what they need to do they need to train year round,” Kendig said. “Our goal is to win the conference champi-onship, get to the Super Six, finish in the top four, and like always, fight to win a champi-onship.”
The team’s next Intrasquad meet will be held Dec. 9 at the Devaney Center.
Schleppenbach said the break comes at a great time for the team.
“The break will be nice to get healthy and take care of injuries,” she said. “I think be-tween the break and the sec-ond intrasquad meet we’re going to work on cleaning up and getting ready for competi-tion settings.
“We won’t change much; we’ll just work on getting ad-justed for real time competi-tion so when we go to the Devaney we’ll be ready.”
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morgan spiehs | daily nebraskanJamie Schleppenbach led the huskers in the vault event scor-ing during Nebraska’s Intrasquad meet on Friday.
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Travel can serve many pur-poses. It can be a funda-mental aspect of one’s ca-reer, or it can provide an escape from the daily grind. For Czech students Jirka Miklosy and Ludek Klucina, travel is a means of receiv-ing a quality education.
“I want to put what I’m learning toward my career,” Miklosy said.
In the Czech Republic, Klucina is an undergradu-ate international business major, while Miklosy is pursuing his masters in in-formation technology and business. Because they are only at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a year, Miklosy and Klucina did not declare majors; they are just taking courses that suit their interests.
Both Miklosy and Klu-cina received the Paul Rob-itschek Scholarship to study at UNL for two semesters. The scholarship, which Robitschek established in 1996, covers tuition, room and board, and books and fees, according to UNL’s website.
“Because of his commit-ment to democracy and free market economics, Paul established the program to give talented Czech stu-dents, who might not oth-erwise have the means or opportunity, to spend a year studying in the Unit-ed States,” the description reads.
“College is free in the Czech Republic, but the quality of education is much lower,” Klucina said.
Miklosy said he had the option of studying in either Spain or at UNL.
“I had met only a few American people back in the Czech Republic and I knew a lot of Europeans, so I wanted to come here,”
Miklosy said, smiling. “Spain was my second choice, but I think here is better.”
Miklosy and Klucina said they have come to appreci-ate Nebraska in a number of ways.
“It’s totally different (than the Czech Republic),” Mik-losy said. “People are much nicer here — more friendly. People are very kind.”
Klucina said he agreed.“The mentality is com-
pletely different,” he said. “In my country, people just get up and go to work and complain about it. Here, people seem almost excited to work. Overall, they are more happy. We are more
grumpy.” But they said they miss
certain aspects of home. Family meals are a bigger priority in the Czech Repub-lic, Miklosy said.
“Every time when we (my family and I) eat, we eat to-gether — every meal,” he said. “When I’m home on weekends, every lunch and dinner we eat together, un-like here.”
Klucina said he misses the availability of fresh pro-duce.
“In the Czech Republic, we have fresh fruits and vegetables on every cor-ner,” Klucina said.
Both students said they
appreciate the network of international students at UNL. Miklosy and Klucina are members of the Euro-pean Students Union.
“I had to spend my first day here without my fam-ily, and I was homesick,” Miklosy said. “It was my birthday. My friends, inter-national students, came to my room and stayed there with me. It was very nice to see familiar people I had known for three months. It was good to not be alone.”
Despite experiencing ini-tial homesickness, Miklosy said he recommends study-ing abroad, especially as a means of expanding one’s
worldview.“Open your eyes,” he
said. “You will find a lot of beautiful things. Even
though it can be hard, it’s worth it.”
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JIRKA MIKLOSY AND LUDEK KLUCINACzech Republic
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brianna soukup | daily nebraskanJirka Miklosy, an informational technology master’s student (left), and Ludek Klucina, an undergraduate international business student (right), pull on their country’s flag while posing for a portrait nov. 18. The two became fast friends when they met at UnL.
1. MichigaN state (9-2, 6-1 big teN) at NorthwesterNthe Spartans took care of business last weekend against an Indiana team desperate for the season to be finished. And in doing so, wrapped up the Leg-ends division and punched its ticket for Indianapolis.
2. PeNN state (9-2, 6-1) at wiscoNsiNPenn State goes on the road to Madison for a de facto Leaders division championship. the Nittany Lions earned a good win against the buckeyes last week, effectively knocking ohio State out of the divi-sion race.
3. MichigaN (9-2, 5-2) vs. ohio stateMichigan routed a Ne-braska team at home that appeared to be struggling after an emotional win against Penn State the previous week. For the Wolverines, an at-large bCS bid is likely, as long as brady hoke’s team can beat the buckeyes.
4. wiscoNsiN (9-2, 5-2) vs. PeNN stateWisconsin wants to get to Indianapolis and show ev-eryone that the Michigan State loss was just a fluke. but the badgers have to go through a team that lost to Nebraska the same week longtime coach Joe Paterno was fired and was beat only by Alabama prior to that.
5. Nebraska (8-3, 4-3) vs. iowathe huskers’ last road game in the big ten ended like its first: a blowout loss
due to many miscues. the loss to Michigan knocked Nebraska out of the Leg-ends division race and bCS bowl contention. the husk-ers’ new rivalry against the hawkeyes begins Friday and is the final opportunity to improve its standing with bowl representatives.
6. ohio state (6-5, 3-4) at MichigaNohio State was knocked out of the Leaders division race by the Nittany Lions, who seem more comfort-able on the road than in happy Valley, where many questions still surround the program. the buckeyes are now simply playing for a better bowl game and trying to keep its seven-game win streak against Michigan intact.
7. iowa (7-4, 4-3) at Nebraskathe hawkeyes finally took care of their road woes, beating the boilermakers in West Lafayette. but Iowa’s season finale promises to be a tougher test in the day-after-thanksgiving matchup against the husk-ers in Memorial Stadium, a stadium where the hawk-eyes’ record is 2-13-1.
8. NorthwesterN (6-5, 3-4) vs. MichigaN statethe Wildcats have made quite a late-season push, winning their last four games. they must now take on the Legends divisions champions, the Michigan State Spartans, who have lost two of their four road games this sea-son, falling to Notre dame in September and Nebraska in october.
9. Purdue (5-6, 3-4) at iNdiaNa Purdue enters the final week of their season, needing one more win to become bowl eligible. the boilermakers are winless on the road this season, but the hoosiers are win-less against the FbS this season. At least some-body gets a win here.
10. illiNois (6-5, 2-5) at MiNNesotathe Illini, after a 6-0 start, have lost five straight. the Illini gave Wisconsin a scare in the first half last weekend but then allowed the badgers to score 21 unanswered in the second.
11. MiNNesota (2-9, 1-6) vs. illiNoisMinnesota has been very inconsistent. they almost beat uSC and Michigan State and pulled off an upset against Iowa, but lost to North dakota State and New Mexico State. they certainly have a chance to build some momentum by beating the slumping Illini.
12. iNdiaNa (1-10, 0-7) vs. Purduethe good news here is Indiana is one game away from a fresh start. the last (and only) win came against South Carolina State on Sept. 17. the hoosiers latest loss was a 55-3 loss at Michigan State, which is lower than the 59 points surrendered to Wisconsin and North-western. hopefully the offseason treats Indiana better than conference play has.
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Many coaches rely on senior leadership for success.
Nebraska women’s swim-ming coach Pablo Morales, on the other hand, doesn’t.
With strong performances by several underclassmen over the weekend, the Nebraska placed fourth at the TYR Invitational in Chicago, Ill.
A number of young Huskers played a role in Nebraska’s re-spectable performance.
For starters, freshman Kelly Dunn surprised the eight-team field — along with her coaches — with a third-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle. She also made an impact in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing seventh.
Dunn wasn’t the only fresh-man to make some noise. Re-bekah Land also contributed two top-eight finishes that day, posting sixth and seventh place finishes in the 50- and 100-yard backstroke events. She was also a part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team that finished second.
“We had some of our young-er girls step up,” said assistant coach Doug Humphrey. “I was pretty surprised, but I’m really excited for them.”
Another Husker underclass-man posted some impressive numbers, but her performance didn’t draw any surprise.
Sophomore Bailey Pons — last year’s Husker swimmer of the year — came into the invite with three first-place finishes in last weeks match against the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
“She’s not the vocal leader on the team,” Humphrey said. “But she comes in, day in and day out, and puts up big num-bers.”
The sophomore from Cedar Falls, Iowa earned a runner-up finish in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing just three seconds be-hind Northwestern’s Meredith King. Teammate Morgan Flan-nigan, a sophomore from Mil-lard West, finished seventh in the event. In the 200-yard free-style, Pons posted a sixth-place finish. Perhaps one of the more surprising performances of the weekend was that of sopho-more Shannon Guy. Her lowest finish came in the 200-yard but-terfly, an event she dominated in last week’s match against UNO. This week she placed sixth. Her next two events earned her third (100-yard butterfly) and fourth (50-yard breast stroke) place finishes.
The always reliable Hayley Martin posted two second-place finishes (50-yard freestyle, 400-yard freestyle relay) and two fourth-place finishes (50-yard backstroke, 50-yard freestyle). The junior also placed sixth in
the 100-yard back stroke.Martin’s contribution at TYR,
and essentially over the fall sea-son, hasn’t gone unnoticed.
“Hayley continues to im-press, continues to get better,” Humphrey said. “She always steps up and does very well for us.”
The TYR Invitational offered the Huskers their first glimpse of Big Ten action. Out of the seven other teams competing, two were from the Big Ten, including Northwestern and Illinois. These two conference foes finished the invitational at first and second, respectively.
Although Nebraska finished fourth overall, some could ar-gue that the diving team’s ab-sence became a factor in the final score. The divers didn’t make the trip to Chicago. The Huskers only finished 177 points behind Illinois, so when you factor in three events in which the Huskers didn’t com-pete at all, it certainly could have had an impact.
Instead of competing at the TYR, the diving team will travel to Iowa City, Iowa on Dec. 2 to participate in the Iowa Invita-tional. Payton Michaud, Kaitlan Walker and Alyson Ramsey will get their first taste of Big Ten action. The swimmers won’t compete again until Dec. 15 at the U.S. Diving Nationals.
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4th-place finish aided by talented underclassmen
Coach seeks improved play following month-long break
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while dealing with legal issues.But none of that fazed the
Huskers. And Werth is proud of how NU responded to ad-versity to get where it is this season.
“There’s always bumps and bruises along the way,” Werth said. “How you react to those is going to determine a lot about character, the game and trust for each other.”
But it isn’t over.All Nebraska has done is
given itself an opportunity to be the only team to be given the title Big Ten Conference champs, Cook said.
“And that’s all it is, an op-portunity,” he said. “We’ve got to go out there and take it.”
And that opportunity is about more than simply win-ning a conference title. Cook said he thinks that NU’s vol-leyball conference title could show other programs at
Nebraska how competitive the Big Ten is in its sports across the board.
“Tuesday night is about making history here,” Cook said. “To be the first Nebraska team to win an outright Big Ten Championship, every other sport can see how tough it is to do this in this confer-ence.”
Even more, Nebraska’s name atop the standings at the end of the season will be a new sight to teams that have been competing in the confer-ence for years.
“For (eight) years nobody has been able to win the Big Ten except for Penn State,” he said. “So there’s a big chal-lenge there. There’s also a big challenge in that we just joined the Big Ten. It’d mean a lot, but first we’ve got to win a match.”
And even though the
matches are against Iowa (1-17 in Big Ten play) and North-western (6-12 in Big Ten play) Cook remains cautious.
Last time Iowa came in to the NU Coliseum he set up mousetraps in the locker room so players wouldn’t get trapped into thinking they could just roll over the Hawk-eyes.
“At this point there’s no mousetraps,” Cook said.
NU just needs to get the win however it can, coach Cook said. That’s something the Huskers have learned to do well this season, and some-thing they need to remember if things get rough over the road trip.
“It may not be perfect every night,” Cook said. “It may not be great, but we find ways to win no matter how it looks.”
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It’s called going the extra mile. It can be applied to helping out someone in need or exerting an ounce more of effort to achieve a better result. In the case of the Nebraska women’s rifle team, though, the extra mile is about improving in the 54 days before its next match.
Against now-No. 11 Ohio State Saturday, the No. 14 Husk-ers fell by a final tally of 4,619-4,605.
The dual was NU’s last in Lincoln for the season, and Ne-braska won’t be in action again until they face Memphis on Jan. 15.
As a team, the Huskers’ strug-gles in the smallbore portion of the event continued. Only one Husker, junior Joyce Kim, was able to top the 580-point mark in smallbore.
“We have to improve the score, plain and simple,” NU coach Morgan Hicks said.
And while not one shooter from Ohio State shot more than 580, no one shot worse than 565 – and NU was forced to put sophomore Sunny Russell’s score of 559 toward the team total.
Smallbore has hindered Ne-braska throughout the season. NU senior Katelyn Woltersdorf said that in particular, the team
has suffered from bad perfor-mances in the kneeling position of the event.
“My smallbore wasn’t where I wanted it to be,” she said.
However, Nebraska did come in with good scores in the air rifle part of the competition. Senior Sheena Mahloch led the way with a 584, while Russell, sophomore ReAnn Wilson and junior Janine Dutton followed with scores of 580, 579 and 578, respectively.
Woltersdorf said a good at-tribute of the Huskers’ showing against OSU was that no indi-vidual performance drastically outshined the rest.
“We were more consistent and together as a team,” Wolt-ersdorf said.
After a 1-6 record (which has no bearing in whether the team qualifies for nationals or not) in the fall half of its season, Ne-braska will have a month and a half to prepare for its next out-ing.
Woltersdorf said the most frustrating part of the season so far has been shooting sixes and sevens (out of 10) every once in a while.
“We are dropping two, three, four points in one shot,” she said. “We just need to work on shooting one shot at a time.”
Hicks said the short offseason will be good for NU.
“We need a break,” Hicks
said. “It’s been a long season so far.”
To Woltersdorf, the winter break represents an opportuni-ty for her team to improve and attain the level of performance it wishes to.
“It’s going to take a lot of people putting in extra effort,” she said. “We just have to be willing to put in as much effort in our offseason and off-time as we do in our in-season.”
If Nebraska can take advan-tage of practices in its 1-1/2 month break, Woltersdorf said it will be able to find a better comfort zone when competi-tion resumes in January.
“When we do shoot our first match, it’s not like, ‘I haven’t shot in a month and a half,’” Woltersdorf said. “It’s as if I nev-er left and never had a break.”
The Huskers want to work hard in order to find this men-tality.
It’s all about going the extra mile.
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he has done everything in his power to help us out.”
Some worry if the program is stalled on the field, though, unable to get over a hump. The Huskers’ loss to Michigan brought up an ongoing wound: Nebraska has lost three games in the regular season for the third time in four years. They’ve lost to an un-ranked team at home in each of Pelini’s four campaigns.
Pelini pointed to the Huskers’ conference records. In the Big 12, they had either a share or outright ownership of their divi-sion title.
“This year it didn’t happen for us,” Pelini said. “We have had some tough times. We have had a lot of injuries. We have had some things happen to us, but our kids are still coming out and representing the program the right way.”
The walk-on program was discussed in length Monday. Callahan essentially did away with a program that was consid-ered vital in the Huskers’ cham-pionship years of the 1990s. Bringing back such a tool was important to Pelini.
“I think it is a testament to the
players and how hard they’ve worked and developed,” Pelini said. “It speaks to the type of commitment they’ve given. You go across the board and see a lot of guys who have contrib-uted. Some of them have giv-en up scholarship money and such, and it shows the type of young men they are.”
Regardless of his defenses, there are still naysayers. Cassidy understands some believe that nine wins aren’t enough.
“We respect what the fans have to say and we appreciate their support, but we have to do what we have to do to pre-pare for the next week or move on. That’s really what our focus is at.”
Cassidy knows one thing for sure: Things have changed those who have been in the program for four years.
“Not much is the same around here from when we first got here,” Cassidy said. “We stuck together, we stuck through it and it’s going to be one of the most memorable things in my life to go out with those guys one more time.”
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Savannah State University Ezinne Kalu entered Mon-day night’s game averaging 23 points a game. The way Husker freshman Tear’a Laudermill played defense, no one could tell.
The Nebraska women’s basketball squad took care of Kalu and Savannah State at the Bob Devaney Sports Center 70-50 to improve to 4-0 on the season. The match-up was also the last of a four-game home stand for Nebraska as it hits the road for its next four.
Laudermill along with fel-low freshman Brandi Jef-fery provided a nice spark off the bench for the Husk-ers as they shut down the Lady Tiger’s top scorer, Kalu. The duo frustrated her, leading to her scoring just 18 points on 42 percent shooting while committing six turnovers.
During the first half, Kalu had only six points and was visibly frustrated, especially when Laudermill was on the court.
“After watching film I knew she was a good play-er, and coach kept telling me to pick it up in prac-tice,” Laudermill said. “I knew I had to respect her.”
Laudermill also caused three offensive fouls against
the Lady Tigers. Originally from Riverside,
Calif., Laudermill finished the game with nine points while Jeffrey added six points for Nebraska in ad-dition to their defense.
Sophomore Jordan Hoop-er continued to lead the way for Nebraska, scoring 15 points. She also had a game-high eight rebounds, just two rebounds shy of her third straight double-double.
Big Ten Player of the Week junior Lindsey Moore was consistent scoring 10 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals. Moore also helped out on defense, guarding Kalu with Laudermill and Jeffery.
Though freshman Emily Cady has not been a huge scorer so far this season, she has passed the ball well in the paint. She finished Monday night’s matchup tying a game-high four as-sists.
“Emily is starting to pass the ball really well,” coach Connie Yori said.
Despite the 20-point win, Yori said that the Huskers came out flat after a big win Friday against No. 23 USC. The youth of Nebraska’s team was the main reason it did not play as focused Monday, according to Yori.
“It was nothing strategi-cally we did, but I defi-nitely started to see some red flags,” Yori said. “We did not have a good shoot-around and usually there is a direct correlation between that and the game. Mentally
we just aren’t there yet.”The older players did
have a nice contribution to the game because of their maturity, according to Yori. In addition to the play of Hooper and Moore, senior Kaitlyn Burke and junior Meghin Williams provided a nice spark. Burke fin-ished with four points and Williams recorded six re-bounds, five of which were offensive.
Nebraska will need to mature quickly as it en-ters a three game, nine-day stretch in the southeastern part of the country. The Huskers begin the stretch against Florida A&M on Fri-day and will stay in Florida to take on Florida State.
NU finishes up the stretch by traveling to Georgia for the Big Ten/ACC Chal-lenge at Georgia Tech. Both the Yellow Jackets and the Seminoles are receiving votes in ESPN/USA Today’s
top-25 poll.“These next three games
are really going to chal-lenge us,” Yori said. “I don’t think I have ever had a team that is going to miss this much school.”
For the Husker players, they are not worried about the challenge of the upcom-ing games because of the team’s chemistry, freshman Rebecca Woodberry said. The combination of hustle players, smart players and key role players is perfect, according to Woodberry.
“Overall, we are gell-ing really well as a team,” Woodberry said. “Off the court, we are always bust-ing jokes and I think that kind of chemistry can be seen on the court.”
Nebraska will travel dur-ing Thanksgiving to play at Florida A&M at 2 p.m. Fri-day afternoon.
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With its victory against Wiscon-sin Saturday coupled with a Penn State win against Purdue, Nebraska volleyball clinched at least a share of the Big Ten Championship.
But a share of the Big Ten crown isn’t good enough for NU coach John Cook. He wants this volleyball team to win the first Big Ten Conference Cham-pionship for Nebraska athletics as a whole.
“We ’ r e not going settle and even talk about that we have a share of it,” Cook said. “We don’t want to share it, we’ve come this far, we want to find a way to win this thing.”
As the standing sit, No. 7 Il-linois, No. 8 Purdue or No. 12 Penn State could join the Husk-ers as champions if NU loses both its matches this week and any of the three teams win both of theirs.
On Tuesday University of Ne-braska-Lincoln goes on the road to face off against Iowa in Iowa
City, Iowa and on Saturday the Huskers travel to Evanston, Ill., to take on Northwestern.
NU went into this season not knowing what to expect. But how well Nebraska responded is a testament to the program in such a difficult conference, Hannah Werth said.
“It just goes to show Nebras-ka volleyball accommodates to change really well,” Werth said. “Being part of the Big Ten is something everybody has grown accustomed to, we love this conference because every single night you’re getting the best volleyball you can get.”
And Werth did her part to put NU in a position to at least share a piece of the Big Ten title this week. For the first time this sea-son the junior received the Big Ten player of the week award.
Werth posted two double-doubles with 14 kills and 17 digs Wednesday against Min-nesota alongside 14 kills and 13 digs against Wisconsin Sat-urday.
After Werth’s struggles early in the season she was forced to wear glasses again, the team dropped an early season matchup to Mountain West op-ponent Colorado State, and Lauren Cook missed two games
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Four years ago, Nebraska was preparing for a season finale in Boulder, Colo., but many were looking at how far things had fallen. Doubts filled the air.
The future of an athletic di-rector had already been de-cided and the end of a coach’s time was all but certain. The walk-on program was widely considered to be nonexistent. Many streaks in school history had come to an end as well.
Fast forward to Monday. Some doubts are rearing their heads, compounded by diffi-culties the Huskers have faced this season as well as in the past three under NU coach Bo Pelini. He’s not worried about outside perception.
“I don’t really care what is out there,” Pelini said. “What I con-cern myself with is where the program is right now, and I’m proud of where it is right now.”
Pelini was quick to mention his pride in his players and the program’s progress.
“We are a better football team
and the program has made strides from where it was when I walked in the door here,” Peli-ni said. “Our players are doing well academically and our kids represent the state and universi-ty the right way. They’re a good representative of what you want this program to be about.”
Pelini has molded four teams now, guiding a group of se-niors that will play their final game in Memorial Stadium this Friday. One of those is senior safety Austin Cassidy. A recruit of the Bill Callahan era, Cassidy has seen a lot of change. He’s had two different coaches and athletic directors. There have been three defensive secondary coaches in his time.
“I think we’ve come a long ways. I would say that cultur-ally, it’s a completely different culture,” Cassidy said. “Like I said earlier, I think coach Bo is all about winning, but more importantly helping us out and turning us into good people. And I would honestly say that
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Bo Pelini often looked frus-trated during Monday’s press conference as reporters lobbed questions about why he didn’t play Brion Carnes or how he’s handled the roller-coaster performance of his team.
But, unlike in some of his earlier years, he held that frustration in, refraining from hostile retorts for the most part.
Until the last question.A reporter had the guts to
ask the NU coach what his team had to play for this weekend now that the Husk-ers’ chances of winning the Big Ten or even the Legends Division have evaporated. Pelini remained calm, but didn’t bother disguising his displeasure.
“It amazes me that people could ask that question,” Pelini said. “Obviously, when you’re an athlete, you compete to compete. It isn’t always about trophies. There is a lot that plays into it. When you go to compete, you go to compete.”
There were no further questions.
It’s been an up-and-down season for the Huskers. There were victories against Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State that had the Huskers dreaming of Big Ten trophies and BCS bowls. De-flating losses to Wisconsin, Northwestern and Michigan shook NU awake.
The Huskers won’t be making a trip to Indianapo-lis this year, nor will they be attending the Fiesta Bowl. Reportedly the Fiesta Bowl organizers were salivating at the opportunity to pair NU
against Oklahoma.Running backs coach Ron
Brown admitted that’s a tough reality for the team to accept. The Huskers made it clear at the beginning of the season that one of their goals was to win the Big Ten.
But according to Brown, the Huskers’ psyche will be very much intact come Fri-day’s match-up with Iowa.
“This time a year, it’s an act of the will,” Brown said after Saturday’s loss. “That’s not an excuse. You’ve got to dig down deep.”
Brown knows a thing or two about winning. He was a coach on all three national championship squads in the 1990s, all of which had per-fect records.
But 18 times, Brown’s team fell short of its ultimate goal. And Brown said these
are the times when you tru-ly learn what your team is made of.
“Three out of 21 doesn’t sound like a very good per-centage, but that’s how it is in this game,” he said. “If you’ve got any character at all, you fight back. You still have an opportunity to have a great season and be in a very respectable bowl game. You’ve got to learn how to learn how to fight back.”
That fight begins this Fri-day when new post-Thanks-giving rival Iowa comes to Memorial Stadium. The Hawkeyes have also fallen short of some of their goals and sit in third place in the Legends Division with a 7-4 overall record.
But Iowa is dangerous, particularly on offense. First-year starter James
Vandenberg has thrown 23 touchdowns and just five interceptions and receiver Marvin McNutt is first in the conference in receiving touchdowns and yards.
So while some reporters may question it, the Husk-ers know they still have a lot to play for Saturday. There’s a chance to finish with nine or more wins for the fourth straight year and the oppor-tunity to improve itself in the eyes of bowl scouts.
“This game means a lot for us on a lot of different lev-els,” Cassidy said. “This is huge for us. It’s going to de-termine probably where we end up going in the postsea-son, so there’s no time to re-flect too much. We’ve got to learn from what happened and move on.”
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file photo by patrick breen | daily nebraskanCoach bo Pelini surveys the field during Nebraska’s loss to Michigan at Michigan Stadium Saturday.
file photo by patrick breen | daily nebraskanSafety Austin Cassidy pursues Michigan quarterback denard Robinson. despite not competing in the big ten Championship game Cassidy says the team is still motivated.
brianna soukup | daily nebraskanNebraska’s Rebecca Woodberry holds off ezinne Kalu. Woodberry recorded nine points in 16 minutes in Nu’s win.
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Although Huskers dropped three games to conference opponents, coaches and players are determined to be sure season finishes strong
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Laudermill, Jeffery hold SSU’s leading scorer to five below season average
