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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural His-tory has a new, giant resident, due in part to the efforts of University of Nebraska-Lincoln re-searcher Jason Head.

His name is Titanoboa and he’s a model of a monster snake that went extinct about 60 million years ago. The Titanoboa was discovered in the

Cerrejon mine in northern Colombia.Head, an assistant professor in the department of Earth

and Atmospheric Sciences, was contacted by his old friend Jon Bloch, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Florida, to lend his expertise to what Bloch knew was a life-changing discovery.

Bloch’s team had been unearthing fossils from the Cerrejon mine for about four years before an undergraduate student realized the team had found the largest snake vertebrae in history.

“In terms of fossils, we’ve just never seen anything from that area,” Bloch said. “I was very excited.”

Total bedbug costs exceed $300K

Frannie SproulSDaily NEbraskaN

Associate director of Housing Facilities Glen Schumann said it wouldn’t surprise him if Housing’s bedbug-battling costs ex-ceeded $100,000 at a Feb. 1 media briefing.

He was right.Since the first case of

bedbugs on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, much has been done to eradi-cate the pests: a campuswide sweep with bedbug-sniffing dogs, heat-treatments and purchasing equipment.

All of the treatment and equipment costs added up quickly. In two months, Uni-versity Housing spent almost $325,000 on treating bedbug-positive rooms.

“Despite the financial costs and the significant amount of extra work on the part of so many in Housing, I believe it was money and time well spent to be able

to tell our residents that we had checked their room and they were clear,” wrote Housing Director Sue Gild-ersleeve in an email. “And that we had provided the most effective (though cost-ly) treatment when needed.”

According to invoices pro-vided to the Daily Nebraskan via an Open Records request, heat treatments cost $1,400 per room.

So far, 197 rooms have been treated.

Of the total amount spent on treatment, Housing spent almost $61,000 on equip-ment including heat duffel bags, heating equipment and a CO2 unit. Housing made good use of the equip-ment and Gildersleeve ex-pects the equipment to be useful in the future.

“The advantage of this equipment is that it lets us ‘spot treat’ items that a bed-bug-checking dog identifies and, in some cases, can let us avoid the cost and in-convenience to the student that comes with treating the entire room,” Gildersleeve wrote.

With such a large sum

spent on eliminating the bedbugs, thoughts arise of how Housing will recover from the expense.

Vice Chancellor for Stu-dent Affairs Juan Franco said the good thing about the situation is that Hous-ing has a $5 million budget with a small contingency fund. The bedbug expenses fall into that contingency fund.

“We’ve had a mild win-ter and we haven’t had to spend as much (on heat-ing),” Franco said. “We’ve been fortunate in that way.”

The University of Ne-braska Board of Regents set housing rates four years ago, so the bedbug costs will not be factored in for 2012-2013.

If Housing were to ask students to pay for the bed-bug costs, the price would come down to $65 per student. Franco said the amount spent was worth the $65.

“We will budget for this bedbug inspection and treatment expense as we do so many other operat-ing expenses, so students

don’t need to expect to pay an extra fee,” Gildersleeve wrote.

Franco said that while the process was exhaustive and Housing was willing to

spend the money to make sure rooms were cleared, he was delighted it was over.

“It was an effort, but I’m very pleased,” Franco said. “From the beginning, my

goal was to provide a com-fortable place for students to live in. I’m comfortable with where we’re at.”

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NEbraska WiNs! april 7, 1902 By the unanimous verdict of the three judges, ne-braska won the first of the three interstate debates Friday night. The contest was with the team from Colo-rado college and the question under discussion was the municipalization of surface transportation facilities in american cities of over 100,000. nebraska had the af-firmative and the Colorado team argued for the present system of private ownership. The debate was adjudged by old debaters to be one of the best ever listened to at the university.

Co-EDs qUaraNtiNED oN thirtEENth strEEt april 7, 1914 emily Weise and Marguerite Birbenbaugh, rooming at 331 north Thirteenth street, were quarantined Satur-day morning with diphtheria. The girls have been put in charge of a nurse and confined to the third floor. The remainder of the house was fumigated so as to kill any germs. The girls who were fortunate enough to escape the quarantine objected to the smell of the formalde-hyde, and the health officer was compelled to take them out in his car for an airing. Harry rokahr, another university student, rooming at 1337 r street, also found it necessary to go into con-finement on account of an attack of smallpox.

War ratioNiNg givEs ChallENgE to DEsigNErs april 7, 1944 War, with its rationing and restrictions, has been a challenge which fashion designers the world over have met and conquered with apparent ease. When the basic materials for “date” dresses were no longer ob-tainable ersatz materials were pressed into service and have proved to be most satisfactory. a peek into current fashion books will show that the V neckline in both extreme and modified forms is still near the top of the style hit parade. another favorite is the high round neckline so often used when the bodice is of a shear material.

rEligioN, Dorm gUarDs DisCUssED by Csl april 5, 1974 The Council on Student life (CSl) Thursday dis-cussed campus security, student housing and religion.a student visitor used the opportunity to object to the regents’ policy of religion on campus, describing it as the “same policy as in Soviet russia.” Danny Tillman said the policy restricted freedom of Christians to speak for their beliefs. He cited the seg-ment in the July 14, 1973 policy statement which reads: “university facilities will not be available for any orga-nized event or activity if one of its essential features is religious worship or testimony in any of its various forms.”

mUmps may bE hEaDED for UNl april 6, 2006 The crowded classrooms and close living quarters of college campuses can be perfect breeding grounds for infectious disease. and as the threat of a mumps outbreak moves from iowa toward the university of nebraska-lincoln cam-pus, university health and housing officials want to en-sure that students understand the risks of the disease and how to protect themselves. That level of concern increased this week when news of one suspected — not confirmed — case of mumps turned up at unl, said Dr. James Guest, director of the university Health Center.

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students win law competition

CriSTina WooDWorTH

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Two University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln law students recently won the national championship at the Amer-ican Bar Association Law Student Division’s 39th Annual Client Counsel-ing Competition and will travel to Ireland this month to compete against teams from around the world at an international competi-tion.

Audrey Johnson and Christine Baughman, both third year law students at UNL, are the dynamic duo that defeated 11 other schools to win the national championship held March 16 and 17 at North Caroli-na Central University’s Col-lege of Law.

“It was very exciting to win, especially because you don’t get to watch the other teams compete,” Johnson said. “We know for ourselves if we had a good performance, but we can’t compare against the other teams.”

At a client counseling competition, a mock cli-ent approaches each two-person student team with a problem and gets legal ad-vice about how to handle that problem. The teams are judged on several cate-gories, including how they interact with the client and their legal analysis of the situation.

Competitors receive prompts of these sce-narios be-f o r e h a nd , which only i n c l u d e vague de-tails.

“ Y o u don’t know what all the facts are so your goal is to learn the facts and apply it to the law,” said Baugh-man, who also attended UNL for her undergraduate degree in advertising and public relations.

The theme for this year’s international competition, to be held in Dublin, Ire-land, from April 18 to April 21, is the area of law that deals with employers and employees.

One of the prompts for

the three semifinal rounds at the competition is: “Ron/Rita Hilton has an appoint-ment with you to discuss an issue with his/her em-ployer. S/he said some-thing about an account and some harassment by his/her supervisor, but s/he didn’t really want to go into any detail with me.”

Baughman and Johnson both said they have done a

lot of prepara-tion for these competitions.

“That’s why I was also excited to win (the na-tional cham-p i o n s h i p ) , ” B a u g h m a n said. “Know-ing how much time we have put into it. It was rewarding to have such an accom-plishment.”

The duo also credited their strengths as a team as a component of their suc-cess.

“We bring different things to the table,” said Johnson, who graduated from UNL with undergraduate de-grees in women’s and gen-der studies and English. “Christine is really good at listening to the client and

demonstrating that we un-derstand the facts.”

Baughman added that they have been friends since high school and are able to read each other re-ally well.

“It’s easy for us to follow each other,” said Baugh-man. “If Audrey asks a question, I know which question to ask next and I know where she’s going with it.”

The students will travel to Dublin in several weeks to compete against other law teams from 21 different countries including Malay-sia, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.

“I think it will be really interesting to see how they (international teams) han-dle client situations and see how their legal systems work,” said Johnson, who said she has only traveled out of the United States to Canada.

“I love Ireland. I love the culture. I love the people,” said Baughman, who spent time backpacking and studying abroad in Ireland and other parts of Europe as a senior undergraduate student. “I’m looking for-ward to getting to be a part of that culture at the com-petition.”

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cody ElmorE | dAily nEbrAsKAnaudrey Johnson and Christine Baughman, both third year law students, won the national championship at theamerican Bar association law Student Division 39th annual Client Counseling Competition.

duo to travel to ireland for international championship

AUDREY JOHNSONlaw student

i think it will be really interesting to see how they (international teams) handle client situations and see how their legal systems work.”

Blues show to aid mental health programs

larry BroWnDaily NEbraskaN

The Mental Health Asso-ciation of Nebraska will be presenting its fourth an-nual fundraiser, “Jammin’ Away the Blues,” at the Bourbon Theatre Saturday.

Doors open at 6 p.m., with music starting at 7 p.m.

This year’s show in-cludes blues artists Kenny Neal, The Lil’ Slim Blues Band and The Blues Proj-ect. Past artists who have performed include Curtis

Salgado, Lonnie Brooks and Kelley Hunt.

“We are really excited this year,” said James Ter-ry, marketing coordinator at the Mental Health Asso-ciation of Nebraska.

Terry said all the funds and donated money goes directly to the association to keep programs running, along with providing cli-ents a wellness recovery plan.

Nicole Eisele, assistant to the marketing coordinator, said one of the programs that benefits people with mental issues is the HOPE program. HOPE stands for Higher Opportunities Through The Power of Em-ployment.

“It helps people living

with mental issues gain employment,” Eisele said.

James said the HOPE program allows those who have been told, “you can’t,” otherwise.

“It helps people with mental health issues be-come productive,” he said.

Another program sup-ported by the association is Keya House, a peer-to-peer program.

“Keya House is a place where those living with mental issues can work out their problems with-out going to a crisis cen-ter,” she said. Terry said that because people don’t have to go to a crisis cen-ter, Lincoln has saved $700,000 in its first 10

months of operation when it was opened in December 2009.

“We are the best kept se-cret in Nebraska, and we want to change that,” Terry said.

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Mental Health association of nebraska hopes to fund two projects

“Keya House is a place

where those living with mental issues can work out their problems without going to a crisis center.”

james terrymarketing coordinator at the mental

health association of nebraska

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He said he immediately knew Head was the person to call.

On Sunday, the Smithsonian Channel aired a documentary on the Titanoboa, which fea-tured both Bloch and Head. The two traveled to Venezuela for about a week to film.

“It was an incredible oppor-tunity,” Bloch said.

In the documentary, Bloch is attacked by a 10-foot anaconda and left with two teeth lodged in his leg. Head explains the rarity of preserved snake skulls. Pieces of a Titanoboa skull are finally found. And both marvel at the Titanoboa model created by natural history sculptor Kev-in Hockley.

The documentary can be viewed online at smithsonian-channel.com.

Head said he was fascinated by fossils as a kid and college “reinvigorated” his interest in them. He completed his disser-tation studying the way snakes react to climate change at the base of the Himalaya Moun-tains. He described himself as one of very few people who specializes in snakes.

“Paleontology is a small com-munity,” he said.

Bloch initially contacted Head in 2008 to ask for his help in learning more about the Ti-tanoboa.

“He is the world’s expert on snake fossils,” Bloch said.

The two used vertebrae fos-sils and comparisons to mod-ern anacondas and boas to de-termine how big the Titanoboa

was. They found it had a maxi-mum body diameter of more than two feet, was the length of a bus and weighed the same as 20 adult humans. It is the larg-est snake ever known to exist.

Because reptiles are cold-blooded and need heat to sur-vive, Head said a snake of this size would require a mean annual temperature of 86 to 93 degrees Fahrenheit to sus-tain it. He described the mas-sive size of the Titanoboa as a function of the climate it lived in.

Head said that while he can’t know for sure, he specu-lates that climate change may have contributed to the Ti-tanoboa’s extinction.

“The bottom line is all spe-cies go extinct,” Bloch said. “The only question is when.”

A Titanoboa’s diet consisted of primitive crocodiles, giant turtles and fish. Head said that a Titanoboa would eat a human, but that a person wouldn’t be its most satisfying meal.

The model originally went on display at Grand Central Terminal in New York City for two days as part of what Bloch described as a “pub-licity stunt.” It will remain at the Smithsonian until January 2013 before traveling to the Florida Museum of Natural His-tory.

Eventually, Bloch said, it will make its way to UNL.

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Titanoboa had a maximum body diameter of more than two feet, was the length of a bus and weighed the same as 20 adult humans. It is the largest snake ever known to exist.

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Brandon eller, a senior graphic design major, blends a smoothie while pedaling a stationary bike at the Bike unl event outside the nebraska union Thursday afternoon. The event was held to promote bike safety and cycling on campus.

Power to the pedal

MaTT MaSinDaily NEbraskaN

For any heart that’s ever been broken, the Dating Doctor vis-ited the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln on Thursday night.

David Coleman, a self-pro-claimed expert on attraction, traveled from South Dakota to speak to a full room of stu-dents in the Nebraska Union Auditorium about how to rec-ognize true attraction.

Coleman spoke about male-female attraction only, be-cause that’s what he knows best, he said.

For men, Coleman said when women make physical contact — like a pat on the shoulder — she’s into him. For women, when a man makes eye contact, he’s attracted to her.

Coleman claims to have more than 1,000 pick up lines memorized. He said if any student recited one he hadn’t heard of, he would reward them with candy. No one gave it a shot.

When Brody Allen, a 6-foot-4 red-headed senior biological

sciences major stood up and spoke, Coleman was aston-ished at his deep, broadcaster-esque voice and told him he wouldn’t have any problems

attracting women. “That’s God-given talent,”

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Mike Heyl of the lincoln Health Department talks with Kyle Hansen, outdoors activities coordinator at Campus recreation, during the Bike unl event.

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Ordinary citizens can make a difference in maintaining water quality in bodies of water across the United States, according to Sandi Zellmer, an alumni profes-sor of natural resources law at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln.

Zellmer talked about water quality in her Hon-ors Forum lecture, “Water Law for the 21st Century,” held Thursday night in the Nebraska Union Heritage Room. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, passed in 1972, Zellmer talked about prob-lems in maintaining water quality and what citizens can learn from antidegra-dation requirements both nationally and locally.

Antidegradation require-ments are provisions that keep water from becoming worse in quality.

For Zellmer, it was a bit different from lecturing in the classroom.

“We spend more of our time in my environmen-tal law class talking about things that are already dirty and tonight I focused on things that are minimally clean and can be better,” she said.

In other words, she said, students can see the whole forest instead of just trees.

The Clean Water Act fo-cuses on on-point sources of pollutants — sources that can be easily identi-fied, such as oil refineries and jet engines, Zellmer said.

Many agricultural prac-tices, including cropping and ranching, are not

considered on-point sourc-es, Zellmer said.

“Water quality has worked pretty darn well in terms of pollutants from on-point sources,” she said, al-though 44 percent of bodies of water are impaired.

It is important to worry about “clean” water bodies to help prevent the move-ment of industries to those areas, preserve opportuni-ties for economic growth and protect wildlife refuges and the wilderness, Zellmer said.

Bodies of water are mea-sured by tiers based on whether they meet water quality standards. The tiers rate the level of protection of aquatic life and human recreational activities.

Rivers and lakes that meet the minimum thresh-old most deserve protection and restoration measures, Zellmer said.

“We have numerous rivers and streams that need to be protected through antideg-radation provisions,” she said.

Zellmer suggested four solutions.

There should be reforms to help maintain and pro-vide water quality that pro-vides criteria for the state to designate ecologically significant waters and to re-store if necessary, she said. The Environmental Protec-tion Agency could also ad-dress non-point sources of pollution.

She emphasized the role an average citizen could play in being a part of the solution. Zellmer said there should be mechanisms to ensure opportunities for citizen involvement in monitoring bodies of water and bringing grievances to court.

She added the EPA would help citizen involvement by defining degradation and when it occurs.

“It’s not going to take

an act of God or an act of Congress to get this done,” Zellmer said. “We need substantive definitions and standards so citizens can get involved.”

“The thing I think that sets the United States environ-mental law apart from any other country is the free-dom of citizens to go before agencies and then go before the court,” she said.

Christina Hoffman, who is working toward her Ph.D. in natural resource sciences, at-tended the lecture.

“The Clean Water Act is important to everybody in the United States,” she said. “I think it’s interesting to see how well the Clean Water Act is doing.”

Hoffman agreed about the importance of citizens in maintaining water quality.

Zellmer remains optimistic about the quality of water in 40 years.

“I think there are a lot of energetic people who care about the creek in their back-yard,” she said.

Hoffman agreed with Zellmer that more work needs to be done, despite the impact the law has had on cutting down pollutants from on-point sources.

“Even though the law has been in place for 40 years, there are things we can do today to improve this legislation,” Hoffman said. “There is a need to revisit it and protect our water-ways.”

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water talk focuses on citizen engagement

“We have numerous

rivers and streams that need to be protected through antidegradation provisions.”

sandi zellmeralumni professor

mATT mAsin | dAily nEbrAsKAnBrody allen asks David Coleman how to deal with the two types of women that attract him: normal and crazy. Cole-man suggested allen should explore work in the voice-over field because his low voice would fair well.

dating doctor offers dose of love advice

mATT mAsin | dAily nEbrAsKAnDating Doctor David Coleman speaks to students in the nebraska union auditorium on Thursday. Students learned and laughed with Coleman, who handed out bags of chocolate to some students who had some ridiculous dating questions for him.

speaker says individuals must protect own water quality

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It’s no secret that Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are not publicly accessible in mainland China. When Google+ was

launched, it was no ex-ception. But for some un-known reason, Google+ was open to the Chinese for a short period of time this past February, around the time of a visit from the Chinese Vice President.

Since then, “Occupy Obama” became a new activity among Chinese “netters” (a Chinese phrase used to describe people who use the Internet). Google+ imposes a limit of 500 comments per post. For a country with more than 513 million Internet users, it’s definitely a chal-lenge to be the first 500 to comment on Obama’s new post. If you’d like to do the math based on the number of comments in different languages, you might think Obama is actually more popular in China than in the United States.

If you ever won-dered what Chi-nese people think about U.S. politics, President Obama’s Google+ page would probably be the best place to start. Many people would leave comments like “Sofa,” “Occupying a seat” or something like “Front rows.” As one of the Chinese netters suggested to President Obama, if you can’t understand all those Chinese comments, then please use Google to translate them. Those are the translations you’re likely to get.

Comments like that probably don’t make much sense in English. And unfortunately, there hasn’t been an urbandictionary.com for the Chinese lan-guage yet. Those phrases basically just mean taking a spot in the comments list. The possibility of be-ing there is about one out of a million.

Obviously, those types of comments don’t really mean anything. However, some people seem to enjoy it, because American politics don’t make any sense to them either. You may also find comments on Obama’s Google+ posts in Chinese on American health care issues. They showed interest in some type of universal health care coverage in China, and they don’t under-stand why some American people are against low-cost health care.

Some people are very interested in the com-ing 2012 election. One person thought he or she finally understood one post from Mr. Obama so

the comment, again in Chinese, under the pic-ture of the bumper sticker “Obama & Biden” says, “This is so awesome to see American’s election tick-ets.” They’re excited.

Some comments are about Chinese politicians. Possibly, the U.S. president would notice those com-ments about his Chinese counterparts. There are

some people showing

their support to Chinese current Premier Wen Jiabao. Wen governed China for the last 10 years, during which the Chinese economy had ex-perienced fast and steady growth. In the press meeting of the National People’s Congress, he ex-pressed his regret for not being able to do a good enough job.

Maybe some Chinese are losing patience with the process of the U.S. economic recov-ery. You’re familiar with America’s concerns about China. So, what would be the biggest concern about the United States from the Chinese? It’s the U.S. economy. Why? Currently, the U.S. is the largest market for pretty much everything in the world. The Chinese government deposited a lot of sav-ings into U.S. treasury bills, notes and bonds. In many finance textbooks, the treasuries are treated as risk-free assets. Frankly, Standard & Poor’s dis-agreed. On Aug. 8, 2011, S&P downgraded the rat-ing for the U.S. Treasury. That really concerns the Chinese government and

the Chinese people. The comment about the Chi-nese premier was in part about the U.S. economy.

To the majority of the Chinese, the United States is portrayed in movies as a place that is almost per-fect. The standard of living in America is so high that it’s referred to as the envy of the world. No question, you may find posts like “Green card, please,” in Chinese.

Of course, there are Americans who comment-ed on Chinese comments asking “if they can trans-late their comments into English, so that Ameri-cans can understand the comments from Chinese people.” I believe this has always been an issue between the United States and China. There isn’t

enough communi-

ca-tion to help both China and the United States to understand each other. This time, it’s about the language. Most of the time, it’s about the culture, tradition and the history. It’s very difficult to talk about politics in general, American politics in particular. Not many people are thrilled about politics. I found it hard to gather Chinese views about American politics. The Obama Google+ page is a great resource that’s a perfect place to see comments on U.S. politics from Chinese people. If you are one of the few who might be interested, please go and check it out.

A warning: Politics and comments don’t always make sense, and neither do translations. I hope you enjoy! jiAjun (AbE) Xu is A junior

finAncE And Economics mAjor. rEAch

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“Under de-moc r a c y one party always de-votes its chief ener-

gies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule,” as the journalist H.L. Mencken sa-tirically put it in 1956.

Yet, when you look at the ongoing United States election debate, one mumbles: “Yes, it’s about showing the other’s faults and unfitness to rule, while presenting your side as the ultimate redeemer to sort out all problems.”

Each side defines America along its political affiliation. One candidate claims his elec-tion would restore the prom-ises of America, like Mitt Rom-ney, under his slogan, “Believe in America,” recently stated: “I don’t want to transform Ameri-ca; I want to restore the values of economic freedom and

opportunity and limited government

that have

made this nation the leader it is.”Other candidates promise to

bring “change we can believe in.”

By the same token, through-out the 20th century, some American presidents used the same political hemlock to win the hearts and minds of the public. For example, Herbert Hoover’s presidential slogan in 1928, “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage,” led not only Americans, but also the rest of the world, into an unprecedented economic crisis.

The same rhetoric was used by the fiercely proud Texan, Lyndon B. Johnson: “The stakes are too high for you to stay at home.” Then, while Dwight Eisenhower and Rob-ert F. Kennedy accused him of irresponsible domestic policy, the Vietnam War became his foreign policy debacle.

The list can go on, but one notices the political rhetoric of Republicans or Democrats re-mains easy to craft, but reality is often elsewhere. There’s no sharp split when one observes domestic policy as well as

foreign policy.A pluralistic society needs

more than merely two politi-cal parties. So, what does the American political system look like?

Democrats and Republicans are two factions of the same party. In other words, America is a one-party state. The parties have pretty much the same promises with many overlaps — the same triumphalist ideol-ogy, yet with two different names.

In political theory, the U.S. is not a direct demo-cratic society, but rather a polyarchal democracy (coined by Robert A. Dahl), in which power is dispersed among

hold-ers of the wealth of the na-tion. A

nation where

the rich get richer and the

poor get poorer wrapped under the narrative of the American dream

— we’re almost there.

In the writ- ing of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison used the Constitutional Convention to protect the rights of the minority. The latter are now considered the elites.

Elites control several huge corporations, most importantly the media; they dominate major television channels and major newspapers. The latter help safeguard their interests by presenting the candidate as the sole cure to reform the unrecoverable. As a matter of fact, the electoral system is dominated by wealth, and wealth often determines the next president.

Take the November 2000 election, where there was a massive outrage from intellec-tuals about the stolen elec-tion in Florida. Was there any consideration given to this?

The public is carefully monitored. When I talk about the public, I’m not referring to intellectuals. I’m talking about those who struggle on a daily basis to make a living.

Think of the latter’s

perception of the international scene. The rest of the world is quite absent from their think-ing, and if the public happens to “know something,” they only swallow what the media exposes. In reality, the media manipulates and directs the public toward certain political goals.

What’s the people’s attitude toward the government? On what basis do they care about such-and-such candidate?

When I talk to my friends about their preferred presiden-tial candidate, they often reply, “I need to do some research to figure it out,” or, “I’m still undecided which candidate represents my interests,” even though certain states are considered Republican or Democratic ones. But, this idea has some people vote against their interests because they think it won’t make any difference.

It goes this way: There’s a Democrat and a Re-publican, and third party candidates have no

chance. As a matter of fact, the political system is very constrained. As one person questioned, “How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?”

Yes, there are positive traits of the political life in the U.S., such as free soci-ety, people’s professionalism and the democratic attitude toward “the other,” which is better than an absolutist and totalitarian country. Yet one can notice also that there’s a shortage of economic democ-racy, strengthening corpora-tions to control the economy.

Why is that? Because the major variable that de-termines people’s vote is economic affairs. Why don’t we hear about serious issues that concern all Americans, regardless of their affiliation? Aren’t poverty, unemploy-ment and other major eco-nomic problems worthy to be discussed first, instead of having the public lapse into the rhetoric of who is fit to rule better?

Why don’t we see or hear any major decision taken in regards to public protesters or the Occupy movement? Aren’t these protesters Ameri-cans who demand economic justice?

Plato famously said, “Man-kind will never see an end of trouble until ... lovers of wisdom come to hold politi-cal power, or the holders of power ... become lovers of wisdom.”

Can we see lovers of wisdom holding power in this year’s presidential election? Or are we expecting another “Waiting for Godot” scenario, where we talk and talk but the dream candidate never comes?

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Bicycles are great toilet pa-per holders. They don’t make bad butterflies, either.

So when Lincoln artist Mi-chael Walter comes across a bicycle past its prime, he gives it new a life as a func-tional everyday household item or an intricately welded sculpture, like the ones that will appear tonight as part of the “Bikel Art” exhibit, at Screen Ink, located at 11th and L streets in Lincoln.

Walter’s approach is a classic case of one man’s trash being another man’s

treasure.“Instead of going to the

garbage and seeing scrap metals, I saw stuff in it,” Walter said. “I’ve got a piece that’s a big butterfly that I’ve made out of eight rims and a bunch of spokes.”

Before being asked to do April’s First Friday exhibi-tion at Screen Ink, Walter had already become a Mac-Gyver of sorts when it came to bike parts.

“You can get two gui-tar stands out of one bike frame,” Walter said.

Walter landed the art ex-hibit, his first solo show, after sharing a common in-terest in Screen Ink’s slo-gan of “combining art and craft” with fellow cyclist and Screen Ink owner, Jason Da-vis.

“We’ve gotten to know him as a regular here and we’re all pretty avid bikers,” Davis said. “We’ve exhibited

ceramic sculptures in here and other welded sculp-tures, but never with bike parts.”

Hosting two live music performances and an artist that works with large sculp-tures meant Screen Ink had to change their regular approach to First Friday exhibitions.

“This show we won’t be do-ing any live printing because we’re going to have live mu-sic.” Davis said. “It’s such a small space. Usually it’s tough to try and pull off both.”

Musical performances will include sets by local artists VanFantom and an acoustic show from Dean the Bible.

With a solo show of pieces all made from bike parts, it comes as no surprise the ex-hibit has piqued the interest of the biking community in Lincoln. It’s something Wal-ter and Davis intended all along.

“We’ve been hoping to

fill the ear of the right per-son in Lincoln because we definitely end up with bikes locked up to everything pos-sible in front of our space,” Davis said. “If people could lock up to our building, they probably would. It’s kind of a free-for-all.”

Heading in to the show, Walter said he has been hum-bled by the positive feedback leading up to the date.

“I’m really stoked and over-whelmed by the response I’m getting from people I’ve told about it,” Walter said. “I’m su-per excited.”

Hors d’oeuvres will be set out at the show, as well as drinks provided by Nebras-ka Brewery.

Screen Ink will be open for regular store hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and will reopen at 7 p.m. for the gallery showing.

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Local artist transforms old bikes into art, household items

Jon aUGUsTine | daily nebraskanmichael Walter poses for a portrait with a fish sculpture he created out of bike parts. more of Walter’s welded bike art can be seen at screen Ink. (416 s. 11th st.) during tonight’s First Friday festivities.

artist creates First Friday display from bikesartist constructs household items, decorative pieces out of recycled bike frames, parts

represenTaTions of african americans in film and Television

coUrTesy phoTos

The success of “The Help” and “Red Tails” has brought more at-tention to the discus-sion of African Ameri-

cans in film. Even though both films are historic and receive critical acclaim, one can’t say we are living in a time of “post-racial Hollywood.”

Representation of African Americans has always been an

issue in Hollywood and still is today. But this goes beyond the mere presence of African Ameri-cans in films and television; it’s about the roles they play, and how the roles are interpreted.

A film can be received in two entirely different ways. “The Help” was pitched as an inspi-rational, heartwarming story. Kwakiutl Dreher, an English and ethnic studies associate professor

at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Jeannette Jones, a history and ethnic studies associ-ate professor at UNL, both said they feel that the film is built around a redemptive theme, as are countless popular films that discuss race.

“There is a lot about how we want to understand the poli-tics of race as redemptive. And when I say ‘we,’ I’m talking

about everybody in America,” said Jones.

Jones said she believes the use of that theme is a way for people to sidestep an honest conversa-tion about race, effectively ignor-ing the realities of the Jim Crow laws in the South in the 1960s.

“My beef was with the erasure of the Civil Rights Movement from that movie (‘The Help’),” Jones said. “It was a movie that

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“miracle aT sT. anna” Three years before “Red Tails” hit theaters, director spike Lee brought his own film about african american soldiers in World War II to audiences. Despite positive reviews from The Boston herald and Roger ebert, the film was received negatively by many critics and grossed less than 8 million dollars domestically. In a 2008 interview, Lee described the project’s financial woes leading up to production, ironically listing George Lucas as a hollywood figure who he felt wouldn’t have trouble raising funds for such a project: “Very difficult, but again, this is the climate that we live in as far as working in-house through the system; I don’t think ‘They’re picking on spike Lee ...’ or anything like that. everybody goes through it, unless you’re spielberg, Lucas, on that level. It’s hard to get stuff made today that’s not superhero, comic book, TV show, sequel stuff.”

“red Tails” since its release in January of this year, George Lucas’ “Red Tails” has grossed nearly $50 million domestically, but in the public interviews surround-ing the film’s premiere, Lucas was often blunt about hollywood’s skepticism about the all-black cast and the extend-ed difficulties this created in funding the project. In an interview with Jon stewart, Lucas said, “Its because it’s an all-black movie. There’s no major white roles in it at all ... I showed it to all of them (studio execu-tives) and they said ‘no.’ We don’t know how to market a movie like this.” Lucas had been developing “Red Tails” since 1988.

Tyler perry Tyler perry was Forbes’ highest-paid man in entertainment in 2011. his films have made more than $500 million and, on television, he has grossed more than $130 million for his work. From the street, to the stage, to the screen, Tyler perry has cre-ated his own brand of black cinema. his films are accompanied by much controversy because they stereotype gender and racial roles in the african american community and are viewed as melodramatic. spike Lee famously referred to perry’s comedies “Tyler perry’s house of payne” and “meet the Browns” as “coonery baf-foonery.” But “LOsT” producer and direc-tor stephen Williams said, “Though they may be problematic, it is still so refreshing to see black people interacting with each other.”

“Undercovers” This short-lived television spy drama was created by J.J. abrams and Josh Reims. The show cast black actors Gugu mbatha-Raw and Boris kodjoe as the mysterious spy couple, the Blooms, who secretly work for the CIa. after low ratings, NBC pulled the show after 10 episodes. Co-producer and director stephen Williams said he was surprised the show got through initial production, pointing out, “It is interesting to know that the series was not initially con-ceived as involving a black couple.”

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With live music, food, a guest speaker and, most importantly, all proceeds going to the Syria Relief Fund, “The Evolution of the Arab Revolutions: A Benefit Concert for Syria” is an event not to miss.

Middle Eastern Students Unite and Project Nur, an American Islamic Congress movement promoting human rights, are hosting the show on Friday at 7:00 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ballroom on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

“We wanted to choose an or-ganization that wasn’t biased,” said Shams Al-Badry, a junior international business and politi-cal science major and the presi-dent of MESU. “The Syria Relief Fund doesn’t focus on helping only people with a specific reli-gion or ethnicity.”

Although the issues in Syria don’t directly affect her, Al-Badry is especially empathetic toward the country since her roots are from the Middle East.

“It’s the fact that people are being killed for what they be-lieve in,” Al-Badry said. “My family is from Iraq so it hits close to home when people are being killed ... and fleeing their own land for a better life.”

Al-Badry said he hopes to raise awareness at UNL because many people don’t seem to know what’s going on in Syria. By donating all the sales to the Syria Relief Fund, a nonprofit or-ganization, they will help refu-gees who have fled their home-land.

The benefit concert will fea-ture Chance Preston, a Lincoln singer/songwriter, as well as some predominantly under-ground hip-hop performers, such as Ishma Valenti from AZP, Brown and Omar Offendum, a Syrian musician.

“I think having a Syrian artist will help promote the concert and raise awareness about the issue,” Al-Badry said. “It’s also going to be the first time we

bring in artists for an event.”There will also be a guest

speaker, Bridget Blomfield, a professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who will speak about how music has helped the Syrian revolution and about authentic Middle Eastern food.

“There will be great food, per-formers and, best of all, you’re supporting a cause,” Al-Badry said.

Valenti is excited to share his hip-hop style at the benefit con-cert.

“I’m looking forward to bring-ing AZP to campus,” Valenti said. “Bad things are happening in Syria ... and we need to help by spreading awareness and giving medical or basic aid.”

Sheereen Othman, a senior advertising major and the pub-lic relations chair of MESU, took care of most of the advertising for the benefit concert through flyers, stands in the union and word-of-mouth.

“With everything that’s been going on lately in Syria, it’s the only country that hasn’t received much aid,” she said. “We would like to help with the fund, which provides food rations and pre-vents disease.”

Othman said she is also look-ing forward to the night’s blend of information, music and so-cializing.

“I’m really excited for the overall event because it’s the first time we’re bringing in mu-sicians rather than just lecturers,” Othman said. “It doesn’t get bet-ter than food, music and spend-ing time with friends.”

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First Friday in Lincoln is for art, music and drinks. But this Friday, it’s also for social justice.

Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty is holding its first benefit event tonight at The Bourbon Theatre. NADP looks to raise money and awareness for their fight against the death penalty in Nebraska with silent auc-tions, art raffles and dona-tions.

“The death penalty is not helpful to victims because it doesn’t provide the closure that’s promised,” said Stacy Anderson, executive direc-tor of NADP. “It often takes many, many years before the execution takes place and the risk of executing an inno-cent person is just too high. We are working to replace the death penalty with life in prison without parole.”

After a NADP volunteer contacted the Bourbon to set up the event, the venue was eager to get involved.

“The Bourbon has always taken an active roll in the community and have done as much as we can for lo-cal nonprofits,” said Spencer Munson, media director and talent buyer at the Bourbon. “We also have been working on building our role in the First Friday scene.”

Local artists and musi-cians approached NADP and The Bourbon to sup-port the cause. Volunteers include funk headliner Satchel Grande, and music by Toasted Ponies, Inflect, DJesse, Owlsley, State Street Jump and John Klemm & the Party and they will play from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. There will be a brief interruption in the music at 7:30 p.m. for a NADP speaker.

“We suggested that Cur-tis McCarty also come and speak. He has a compelling story of the innocence piece that proves it’s (the death penalty) just too risky,” An-derson said.

McCarty spent 19 years on death row for a 1982 Okla-homa City murder he didn’t commit. McCarty was sen-tenced based on testimo-nies and forensic evidence provided by analyst Joyce Gilchrist. Gilchrist was later found guilty of lab miscon-duct and at least two other cases he worked on were overturned.

“This is a chance for stu-dents to be active in their community as well as learn about much of the local art and music,” said Munson. “The death penalty is a con-troversial but important top-ic that the college communi-ty needs to be informed and aware of.”

Anderson said she encour-ages young people to come participate in the art raffles and silent auctions (you do not have to be present to win) and inform themselves on important issues.

“This is a fun venue to deal with a tough topic,” she said. “I feel like a lot of peo-ple have not thought much about the death penalty and this is a great opportunity to come and learn more about it, specifically how it’s not helpful to Nebraskans.”

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IF yOu GO“The evolution of the arab revolutions” concertwhen: Friday, 7:00 p.m.where: City Union Ballroomhow much: $12, $80 for a table of 8 (all sales go to the syria Relief Fund)

IF yOu GOnadp first fridaywhen: Friday, 6 p.m.where: The Bourbon Theatre, 1415 O st.how much: Free (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) $7 (9 p.m. to 2 a.m.)

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Luke Pettipoole is a self-reliant guy. The last three years his band, The Envy Corps, hasn’t been on a recording label.

The band released “I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To” in 2006, a self-re-leased EP that grabbed them enough attention to earn an opening spot on one of the Kill-ers’ tours.

Last year they released their second album, “It Culls You.”

The band has been playing shows around the Omaha area and will be headlining the Wait-ing Room Lounge in Omaha to-night at 9 p.m.

The Daily Nebraskan was able to catch up with Pettipoole to talk about what has been going on recently in The Envy

Corps’ world.Daily Nebraskan: I’ve heard

stories of you smashing guitars during concerts back in the day. Any truth to that?

Luke Pettipoole: There is a Fender Jazzmaster floating about that Brandon has bro-ken to bits at least three times. His guitars are all custom now, made by a company in Des Moines called Bilt Guitars. They cost quite a bit more than a Japanese-made Fender so the guitar smashing has become less commonplace, which is a shame if you ask me.

DN: What was the main aim with “It Culls You”?

LP: Coming off “Dwell,” which was made for a major label, we wanted to make a record that essentially had no mainstream aspirations. “It Culls

You” is a record that reflected exactly what we wanted to make during 2010 without hav-ing to answer to anyone else.

DN: If “It Culls You” was a potluck, what would each band member bring to it?

LP: I write all the songs. Brandon (Darner) really has an ear for the more practical, sonic vision. For example, (he knows) the correct drum kit or guitar/amp combination to use for a certain sound. Micah (Na-tera) has the technical knowl-edge; he can program synths or tweak an EQ or work with a reverb unit until the sound that Brandon and I envision is real-ized. Scott (Yoshimura) is qual-ity control. In addition to being the most precise drummer I’ve ever played with, he has perfect pitch and is always making sure

the elements of a song are har-monically complementary.

DN: It seems like a lot of your songs build up to big, explosive endings (“Wires and Wools,” “Party Dress,” “Be-fore the Gold Rush,” “Make it Stop,” “Ms. Hospital Corners”) Is that something that you like your songs to do? Do you ever worry you are doing it too of-ten?

LP: We actually made an effort to tone it down on “It Culls You.” In our defense, I’d say “Make It Stop” and “Fools” are the only two songs where we really indulged. “Ms. Hos-pital Corners” is pretty intense the whole way.

DN: Did the song “Story Problem,” appearing on the “Run Fatboy Run” soundtrack, impact your fan base much?

Did you gain new listeners?LP: I don’t really think so. It

runs for almost three minutes in that movie but it wasn’t like the phone was ringing off the hook the weekend it was released. It did help us get a soda commer-cial in Kazakhstan, though!

DN: What are the next steps for the Envy Corps?

LP: To be honest, I’m not sure. We’re still in the middle of this record cycle, we’ve been playing label to ourselves for the past three years and I’ll tell you, it’s not easy-going. There’s a lot of day to day stuff that sim-ply takes time away from mak-ing music. I think we’re ready to join up with someone again. We have some stuff in the pipe-line already, trying to determine when to release it. I’m also writ-ing material for a loose solo-ish

project with my wife and some other friends called Teenage At-torney.

DN: Where did the lion cos-tume come from?

LP: The Theatrical Shop in the Valley Junction neighbor-hood of Des Moines, Iowa. You can still rent it for $50 a day, if you want.

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IF yOu GOThe envy corpswhen: Friday, 9 p,m.where: The Wait-ing Room Lounge, Omaha, Neb. how much: $8

this week in film

At the Ross:

“chico & rita”directed by: Tono er-rando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba schedule: ·Friday — 7:15 p.m.,

9:15 p.m. ·saturday — 3 p.m.,

5:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:15 p.m.

·sunday — 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m.

“The fairy”directed by: Dominique abel, Fiona gordon, Bruno Romyschedule: ·Friday — 5 p.m., 7

p.m., 9 p.m. ·saturday — 1 p.m.,

5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

·sunday — 1 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m.

“american reunion”

directed by: Jon Hurwitz and Hayden schlossbergstarring: Jason Biggs, alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein

“Titanic 3d”directed by: James Cameronstarring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

“meT opera live in hd presents

manon”directed by: Laurent pellyschedule: ·saturday — 11 a.m. ·sunday — 1 p.m.

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made casual reference to the Civil Rights Movement and, if you did not know any better, you would think that the only recourse for those particular women in that context was the white character to tell their stories, which is not true.”

Jones insists “The Help” tried to make a historical state-ment about race, segregation and domestic service, even though it is a fictional piece. As a historian, she is especially critical. She said she found the film one-sided, leaving the stories of the black women in-complete.

“Don’t make it one-dimen-sional,” Jones said. “It was not a one-dimensional experi-ence.”

Dreher said she wanted more from the film as well.

“It is obvious the film is denigrating to African Ameri-can women,” she said. “It’s one thing to make a film about black women in domesticity in white households, but it’s another thing to know how it works.”

She said she feels there is far more to see beyond the black characters of the film and a larger conversation to be had.

“Let me look behind what is obvious,” said Dreher. She referenced Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker’s use of fiction to “get beyond the obvious” and look into the minds of white and black women alike from the days of slavery to the days of segrega-tion.

As a writer, Dreher said she finds it easier to look at films contextually by examining characters within the story and out as well as personnel work-ing on the film. The white women in “The Help” should

not be ignored, nor the fact that the author and director are both white.

“What does this say about the white women?” she said. “Once we start looking at the minor characters, we get a whole different story.”

But that sort of examination takes thought and time and is difficult to do. It would be easier to see a film that takes on a similar issue, but from a different angle.

“Why hasn’t Spike Lee, Darnell Martin, Lee Dash or other African American men or women taken on this role of directing or telling this story?” Dreher asked. “What would it look like in our eyes to tell that story. That’s what my question is.”

In reality, it’s still very dif-ficult to get a black narrative portrayed on television or in film.

Stephen Williams was the director and producer for the ABC drama “LOST.” In 2010 he directed and produced the short-lived spy drama “Under-covers,” a series that follows an African American couple on their endeavors as secret agents for the government. He said he was surprised the show was eventually produced.

“The simple reason/answer why that show got as far as it did has a lot to do with the power in the industry that the executive producer and co-creator of the show, J.J. Abrams has,” he said.

The series was cancelled after its first season, which is often the case for shows that are unable to gain traction. Williams has found that films and shows often have to be pitched to studios and net-works as “specialty” or “niche.”

“That is definitely the case in the terms of feature films, and slightly less so in TV,” Wil-liams said. “It is seen as less of a hindrance in (television) comedy.”

In response to the success of Tyler Perry in film and television, Spike Lee once said in an interview that the black audience can decide what they see on the screen. So the question is, what is the duty of an African Ameri-can consumer who wants to see other narratives in film?

Williams said it’s important to remember there are sev-eral black narratives and they are enjoyed by everyone.

“Because there is a bottleneck at the level of production, you end up extend-ing your good-will to works you might not do if there was a wider range of options available,” he said.

While Williams said some current comedies may be “problematic,” he still finds himself watching.

“It’s still so refreshing to see black folk interacting with each other,” Williams said. “And you find yourself being grateful for that in a way that is skewed because of broader societal and production reali-ties.”

He added, “It is interesting to know that the series was not initially conceived as in-volving a black couple; it just evolved that way through the casting process.”

And casting is crucial.

Critically acclaimed actor Del-roy Lindo said casting is a dif-ficult process.

“It depends on one’s cre-ative position on a given proj-ect,” he said.

It is still difficult for black actors to receive roles in film. However, Lindo said if an ac-tor has a large “creative posi-tion” in a film, as he did with Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” and “Crooklyn,” it can become easier.

“Nobody was doing what he (Spike Lee) was doing or saying at that time, in the way he was doing it and saying it,” Lindo said. “As a direct result,

his suc-cess and popularity paved the way for quite a few young Afri-can Ameri-can direc-tors who came after him.”

Dreher, Jones, Wil-liams and Lindo all agree that

it is still difficult to put black narratives on the screen, re-gardless of the particular nar-rative.

“The dominant culture in this country finds it next to im-possible to have an open and honest discussion about race,” Lindo said. “It’s racial history and the legacy of it’s racial his-tory. Until that changes — if ever it does — films that at-tempt to speak openly in their narratives about race will prob-ably be few and far between.”

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Huskers to face NDSU in exhibition in Norfolk

Michelle o’Donnelldaily NebraskaN

The women got the job done. Now it’s time for the men to give it a shot.

The No. 9 Husker men’s gymnastics team is headed to Iowa to compete in the team’s first Big Ten Champi-onship.

The competition falls two weeks after NU’s women’s gymnastics team grabbed first place, and the men’s team is looking to do the same.

The past two weeks have been full of resting, practic-ing routines, sticking landings and in one case, an injury.

Sophomore Mark Ringle injured his knee at practice last week, and coach Chuck Chmelka wasn’t sure if Ringle could compete this weekend.

“We were kind of going into the mindset he couldn’t compete,” Chmelka said. “But he actually healed up pretty good, so he’s going to do two events.”

Ringle was slated for three events: floor, parallel bars and high bar. Due to his injury he

was pulled from one event to avoid making the injury worse.

“I’ll be competing on high bar and parallel bar, but not on floor.” Ringle said. “I want to give my knee some more time to heal instead of make it worse.”

Sophomore Wyatt Baier took Ringle’s place on floor, an event he has only compet-ed in once before this season.

“He’s doing a great job,” Chmelka said. “It’s definitely helped a lot having our floor set up in the arena. We could do our routines, and we feel good about our lineup. Ev-erybody’s had a great two weeks and we’re ready.”

The two-day event starts tonight with the team com-petition. Once the scores are tallied, the top 10 from each event move onto the indi-vidual competition Saturday night.

“I think we have a really good chance of getting a lot of our guys on the individual events,” Ringle said. “We just need to keep our heads and do what we do in practice.”

The Huskers have seen

most of the teams they’re competing against before. There will only be three teams new to NU: Penn State, Michigan and Ohio State.

“We feel comfortable right now,” Chmelka said. “I know it’s going to be differ-ent than what we’ve been in before, but we’ll learn and make adjustments and han-dle it.”

The Huskers have been working on their weak ar-eas: pommel horse and dis-mounts. Throughout, the season NU’s team score has been getting higher and higher, and the team wants this weekend’s score to break yet another season re-cord.

“We’ve done more pom-mel horse routines in the last two weeks than we’ve done before, we really stressed weak areas,” Chmelka said. “Hopefully they’ll improve and we’ll continue to hit and score high.”

The championships will be held at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena, an arena the Husk-ers competed in earlier in the season against Iowa and

Minnesota.“We kind of know the sur-

roundings and that does

help,” Chmelka said. “We’ve competed on their equip-ment before and did good,

and I know we’re ready to do even better this time.”

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Online at dailynebraskan.cOM:Men’s and women’s tennis: Huskers continue Big Ten seasons against Purdue and Indiana

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Once the Nebraska volleyball team was atop the cliff, the rocky outcropping overlook-ing the sea felt a lot higher. But the height did not hold the Huskers back, and one by one, they dove off the cliff and into the Pacific Ocean.

“We got to this beach, and we saw people on top of this rock and we were like, ‘Let’s do it,’” junior middle blocker Hayley Thramer said.

While on a trip to Hawaii for a spring exhibition with the Rainbow Warriors in March, an excursion to the beach turned into an impromptu visit to the top of the cliff. NU head coach John Cook had his reservations about the ex-perience, but some locals said jumping was safe, and the re-sult was an unforgettable mo-ment of team bonding.

“I think a lot of relation-ships were built or got stron-ger,” Thramer said.

The next destination for the Huskers is about 3,600 miles closer to Lincoln than their last one. Saturday in Norfolk, Neb., the women will battle North Dakota State in an exhi-bition match at the Cox Activi-ties Center. Cook said one of the factors in choosing Nor-folk to host the match was the city’s proximity to Thramer’s hometown of Ewing, Neb., about 50 miles to the west.

“We want to try to get as close to Ewing as we can,” Cook said. “The point of go-ing is for Hayley to share her family and where she grew up with our team. Our girls have never been up there. That will be an eye-opening experience for them.”

The team will visit the Th-ramer household for dinner Saturday night before return-ing to Norfolk.

“I’m pretty fired up,” Th-ramer said. “I don’t know if I’m as fired up as everybody up there. The morning the tickets went on sale in Nor-folk, I woke up to six text messages saying, ‘Do you have tickets?’”

Thramer added, though, that she has grown accus-tomed to that type of an-ticipation after three seasons with the program. Cook said that at the same time other programs around the coun-try are playing exhibitions in half-empty gymnasiums, the spring schedule for Nebraska creates much more excite-ment among its fan base.

“It’s playing in front of very passionate people who want to see us play and think these girls are rock stars,” Cook said. “The reception we got in Hawaii was unbelievable. We signed autographs for an hour, and we’ll be way lon-ger than that in Norfolk.”

At the heart of the Husk-ers’ spring slate is sharpness and continued improvement.

“Some of our goals are to be competitors every day and be good practice players and just continue to get better and build on our team relation-ships,” Thramer said.

Other than that, Cook

identified only one difference between the regular season and the spring.

“We’re not preparing for teams we’re playing. We’re not preparing for Hawaii or, this week, North Dakota [State],” Cook said. “We don’t watch video on them, we don’t study them. We don’t even know who the players are. We’re really just focus-ing on our side of the net.”

He also said a focal point of his squad’s preparation this spring is bettering the players in every aspect of the game — specifically in full-team situations.

“We go back to basics, but we also do a lot of team stuff, too, in a team setting,” Cook said. “We have some young players that need to do that in a team, six-on-six situation.”

And whether the spring takes them cliff diving in the Aloha State or visiting a team-mate’s home in the Heartland, the Huskers are using the sea-son to the fullest.

“We’re going to where it’s fun, it’s exciting and the peo-ple care,” Cook said. “We’re making the most of these op-portunities.”

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Nebraska’s read option presents numerous oppor-tunities for playmaking, including potential play-ac-tion passes to open up the field.

One downside to working the play-action game, with the option and with Ne-braska’s tight ends, is that it takes some of the team’s playmakers at wide receiver off the field. Instead, opting for twin tight ends or a full-back. Beck said that while

the Huskers will use more two tight end packages, he does not intend to slow down the quick tempo that Nebraska’s offense used last season.

“It’s fast. It’s still fast,” Beck said.

Nebraska’s coaches ac-knowledge that the offense needs a change. It’s obvious that more play-action game will be used, but there is still a lot that is unclear. Potential wildcat packages,

new offensive formations and other personnel pack-ages are still concealed be-hind the closed doors of spring practice.

Running back Aaron Green said it’s all a part of the plan.

“We’ve been staying re-ally vanilla, just black and white, and not try and show too much right now,” Green said.

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Rockets. In Chicago, his AAU team, the Irving Fire, was one of the top in the c o u n t r y and pro-d u c e d four Mc-Donald’s All-Ameri-cans.

He has been a m e m b e r of Miles’ staff since last August.

“I am very excited to have Ron join our staff at

Nebraska,” Miles said. “He was a valuable part of the storied tradition of Illinois high school basketball in re-cent years. He comes from two great programs: Mac Ir-ving Fire in AAU basketball and Whitney M. Young, which he helped become a national power in the high school ranks. He is an excellent coach and teacher of the game. He will model the right things for our student-athletes.”

The last addition to the staff is another familiar face, as Jayden Olson spent the last two years as an assistant under Miles at CSU. Olson was the

Rams’ director of basketball operations, and the release said that O l s o n h and l e d tape ex-changes, b r e a k -ing down v i d e o , r e c o r d -ing prac-tices and g a m e s and co-ordinating the team’s video library.

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The Huskers may have lost their last Big Ten series to Minnesota, but that’s not go-ing to change the way that they approach the next one.

When the Nebraska softball team (21-14 overall, 4-2 Big Ten) hosts Illinois today and Saturday at Bowlin Stadium for a three-game set it will be just like any other, according to the team.

“We really just want to go out and attack every team the same way: with our strength,” senior pitcher Ashley Hage-mann said. “We feel that if we play our best we can beat anyone. It is our ability and our execution that is impor-tant to us.”

One of the Huskers’ strengths this season has been playing at home. The team is undefeated in the seven games it has played at home this year and is happy to be back in Nebraska this weekend.

“Playing at home is always a lot of fun because the fans are out there, and I think that there is always the advantage of playing on the same field that you practice on,” junior outfielder Brooke Thomason said. “Travel can also have some negative affects on your body.”

Pitching should be on show when the Huskers collide with the Illini. Both teams feature pitchers who have amassed impressive number thus far.

The Illini are lead in the cir-cle by junior ace Pepper Gay. Gay has started 17 games for Illinois, striking out 107 and producing an ERA of 1.84. Husker hitters will be tasked with scoring runs against the strong right-handed pitcher.

“To me, this is just another pitcher that we are facing,” Thomason said. “We just need to go out and play our game.”

Gay’s Husker counterpart, at least in the series opener, will be Hagemann. The se-nior is second in the Big Ten

and seventh nationally with 194 strikeouts this season. That does not mean she is only trying to get opponents out via the whiff, however.

“I’m not going out there counting how many strike-outs I get,” she said. “I’m just getting outs in the game. If it happens to be a pop up or a strikeout, it’s just helping my team win the game.”

Hagemann has no doubt helped the Huskers win a few games this season. The strike-out stats are evidence to the elusiveness of her pitches.

“I’m just trying to go at a batter with every pitch,” Hagemann said. “Ultimately, I’m just trying to get them to mishit a pitch, but if I get that extra movement on a pitch then (strikeouts) can hap-pen.”

The Huskers, playing a three-game conference series this season, have a lot of in-nings to eat up, more than Hagemann can handle alone. Luckily for them, Sophomore

Tatum Edwards provides an-other solid option for pitcher. Having two legitimate arms is not a luxury that many teams enjoy around the country.

“It’s always helpful to have another pitcher,” Hagemann said. “Tatum and I are com-pletely different pitchers. When we split a game, it is hard for a team to face one and then the other. That goes in our favor when we ex-ecute.”

The Huskers look to ex-ecute their game this week-end in order to avoid losing back-to-back series for the first time this season.

“The Minnesota games were a big step in acknowl-edging the fact that we play better when we don’t worry about the team that we are playing,” Thomason said. “We seem to be an emotional team, but when we handle our emotions we are able to play at our best.”

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Even though it seems the Ne-braska men’s and women’s track and field teams just fin-ished up indoor competition, things are starting all over again.

The Huskers continue the start of their outdoor season by traveling to Tempe, Ariz., this weekend for the Sun Angel Classic. As this is only the third outdoor meet of the season for Nebraska, the team is still get-ting into the swing of things.

“This is still early season, so we are still training harder. You always want to continue to try and get better,” NU track and field coach Gary Pepin said.

So far, the Huskers seem to be doing just that. On the men’s side, Nebraska has had two Big Ten Conference field athletes of the week already in the outdoor season. Soph-omore thrower Chad Wright won the award for the week of March 28th, for winning the discus at the Arizona State Invitational in March. Senior Chris Phipps earned the hon-ors Wednesday for his long jump victory at the Arkansas Spring Invitational along with Penn State’s Joe Kovacs and Purdue’s Geoff Davis.

For Phipps, this strong start is especially important to him. After missing out on NCAA Outdoor Championships last year while qualifying for the

past two seasons, he is looking to make a return back there.

“Last year was a little rough with injuries,” Phipps said. “I just want to continue to stay healthy and positive.”

Phipps isn’t the only mem-ber of NU’s track and field team who is looking for more in the outdoor season. While the Nebraska women were the Big Ten Women’s Indoor Champions this year, the men are looking for a Big Ten Championship of their own.

“I feel like we should have won indoor,” Phipps said. “Ev-erybody has to step up. I feel like if we work hard it will come.”

On the women’s side, the Huskers are carrying momen-tum from their strong indoor season. Along with Phipps winning the long jump, Mara Griva added another strong performance in the jumps cat-egory last weekend by win-ning the triple jump at 12.86 meters. The other women’s victory came from Greta Ker-ekes in the 100-meter hurdles in 13.93 seconds.

While the outdoor season is just starting off, it is just over a month until the Huskers com-pete in the Big Ten Outdoor Championships. With such a short time to prepare, Nebras-ka is looking to be on top of its game and keep technique sharp.

“I’ve been working on tech-nique and speed,” Phipps said. “I especially want to focus on technique in the triple jump.”

And while Phipps has high expectations for this season, Pepin is looking for this same dedication from all of his ath-letes.

“We just have to stay healthy, train smart, and compete hard.” Pe-pin said. “We need all of our athletes.”

Dep th is always an impor-tant factor in a sport that has so many e v e n t s like track and field. However, it is even more so in the outdoor sea-son. The outdoor track season brings additional events to the lineup such as the javelin, hammer throw, and the 4×100 meter relay.

“You have more areas that you need athletes to do well in,” Pepin said.

This next weekend will be a good chance for the Husker athletes to determine which of these areas they need work on and where they are at so they can find where they need to improve.

“We want to try and make improvements to find out where our strengths and weak-nesses are, and how we can learn from them,” Pepin said.

And through this improve-ment, Pepin hopes that the women can continue their suc-cess and the men can get that championship that they are looking for as they progress through their outdoor season.

“By the time you get to out-door conference you want to be able to perform at your best,” Pepin said.

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And for him coming out of the pen changes his mindset for when he enters the game.

“It’s just a different men-tality,” Pierce said. “Pitching from the beginning you get to set the tone, versus pitch-ing from the end you get to lock it up. It’s just a little dif-ferent.”

But the start Saturday didn’t come about on ac-cident, it was a calculated move by Erstad because

Pierce proved he could per-form.

And even though Pierce values every chance to pitch differently, Erstad looks at pitching on the weekends a little differently.

“You’ve gotta earn every start,” Erstad said. “Those weekend starts are valuable and we gave him a midweek start and he went out and commanded the strike zone and took advantage of it.”

And Erstad is relying on Pierce to help the Huskers through a weekend against a tough opponent, he said.

Iowa isn’t going to roll over, but Erstad’s Huskers won’t either. And they won’t be playing passively against the Hawkeyes.

“We’re past the point of re-sponding to adversity and it’s time for us to set the tone and finish business,” Erstad said.

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I came here my freshman year not knowing what role I was going to play. He’s taught me the skills necessary to become an all-around gymnast.

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with courage and confi-dence,” he said. “I just be-lieve that they’re going to win, they’re going to do well, they’re going to succeed.”

Junior Janelle Giblin isn’t as tall as UK’s Anthony Da-vis, but Kendig said she has also played a large role for the team all season.

The 5-foot-2 Husker gym-nast finished first on vault (9.930) and bars (9.910) in the Big Ten Conference and earned a spot on the First-Team All-Big Ten Confer-ence Championship team.

Giblin’s clutch perfor-mances throughout the 2012 campaign led the team to winning the Big Ten Title in its first season, a goal the team’s had since the end of last season.

“The main difference be-tween this year and last year is that every meet we com-pete in, we believe we can win,” Giblin said. “Winning the Big Ten just made the road to our main goal that much closer.”

Winning the conference championship isn’t the only goal Giblin has this season.

In addition to her personal

goals, the San Ramon, Calif., native has had her mind set on the team winning the ul-timate prize — the national c h a m p i o n -ship.

Giblin said Kendig has inspired the entire team to reach that goal.

“I love c o m p e t i n g for him and he just loves the sport so much,” Gib-lin said. “I think he’s r epresen ted all the quali-ties you’d need to become a successful head coach and was very deserving to win that award.

“I came here my fresh-man year not knowing what role I was going to play. He’s taught me the skills necessary to become an all-around gymnast.”

However, there’s one step the team must pass in order to get to the big stage — they must finish strong in the

NCAA Regionals.Last season the Huskers

finished second to Oregon State, a placement they hope

to only im-prove, Giblin said.

A l t h o u g h the team has been success-ful on the road, Kendig said he feels the best is yet to come.

“I just feel that we haven’t had our perfect meet yet,” he said, “and that’s what

we’re after.”In order to win Saturday,

the Huskers must stay in the moment, Kendig said.

“We need to take one rou-tine at a time and we can’t get ahead of ourselves,” he said. “All we need to do is hit our routines. If we go in and hit our routines we’re com-ing out on top. We’re going to Utah to win the regional championship.”

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The Husker offense needs a boost.

Nebraska’s run-based of-fense ranked 15th nationally

in 2011, but scored 20 points or fewer in its final four games, something it did only once in the first nine games of the season. At the end of 2011, the Husker passing attack ranked 104th nationally, 16 teams from the bottom.

“We have to mix it up,” offensive coordinator Tim Beck said. “I think offensively you need to because it’s going to help our run game.”

Beck has a plan. If the team can ride the success of the ground game and translate it to the passing game, the offense could explode.

By faking a run, Nebraska can freeze up opposing defenders and open up more passing lanes to ease the pass-ing game for quarterback Taylor Mar-tinez.

“We were very efficient in our

play-action pass last year,” Beck said. “It was high percentage with a very big gain per catch. We feel like we got to do more of that.”

The ultimate weapons in the play -action game for Nebraska could be its two tight ends.

Kyler Reed, who coach Bo Pelini said has the speed to split out as a wide receiver, is the top receiving threat while Ben Cotton can be a blocker and pass catcher. Both pres-ent matchup problems for opposing defenses.

The tight ends aren’t the only asset Nebraska could use to its advantage.

I-back Rex Burkhead averaged 8.4 yards per reception out of the back-field last season. Many of his 21 re-ceptions came on critical third-down plays, including a 30-yard touchdown reception in the fourth quarter against Ohio State to even the score at 27-27.

In the spring, however, Nebraska

has focused on developing its young talent at running back, opting to rest Burkhead for many of the drills and scrimmages. Sophomores Aaron Green and Ameer Abdullah are work-ing with the offense for their first batch of spring practices and coaches said they want to take advantage of the time to help the offense grow.

“It is our job to put the ball in their hands more often than they did a year ago,” Pelini said. “They’re not fresh-men anymore. They stopped being freshmen a long time ago and I think they can be a force for our football team. They’re both tremendously tal-ented players.”

In addition to taking advantage of Abdullah’s and Green’s speed in the open field, Martinez has been work-ing with the running backs to further develop the option game.

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nebraska running back rex Burkhead rushed for 1,357 yards last season on 284 carries. sophomore i-backs aaron green and ameer abdullah are expected to get more playing time in 2012.

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Every coach looks for con-sistency in his athletes. Ne-braska women’s gymnastics coach Dan Kendig believes that’s what has led his team to a 19-2 record this season.

This weekend the Husk-ers travel to Salt Lake City and will compete against five teams in pursuit of the NCAA regional crown title. Com-petition against No. 8 Utah, Arizona Sate, Iowa State, San Jose State and Big Ten con-ference opponent Minnesota will kick-off Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Husker gymnasts learned last week that the NCAA picked them as the No. 1 seed heading into the meet.

The first place position was an honor to the team, Giblin said, a placement the team started and finished in the Big Ten Conference Champi-onships two weeks ago.

Giblin said it’s important for the team to focus on this meet before even thinking about performing in the Su-per Six Finals on April 21.

“A lot of people don’t be-lieve that we can beat (Utah) again at home,” she said. “It was such a good feeling last time in front of all the fans. All we can do is focus on ourselves and if we do that, we’ll end up in a better place than last year.”

Kendig said he feels his team is similar to another

collegiate team who recently took home the latest NCAA national championship in a different sport.

“This team’s a lot like my alma mater Kentucky,” Ken-dig said. “They’ve played bad and have let their oppo-nents comeback. But every game I’ve watched they’ve never looked bothered. I’m pleased with the chemistry we have and how we go about what we do on a daily basis.

“That’s how I feel both team’s are similar. From our senior Lora (Evenstad) to our freshman Jessie (DeZiel), they just all do a great job of feeding off each other.”

The similarities are there.Like Wildcats coach John

Calipari’s award as SEC Coach of the Year, Kendig was honored as the 2012 Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year in gymnastics two weeks ago. It was the eighth time in his 19-year coaching career Kendig has picked up the award.

But the similarities run deeper than effective coach-ing.

Like the 2012 NCAA Cham-pions of men’s basketball, the Huskers also have had seven athletes contribute in some way or another in near-ly every meet this season.

Kentucky finished with just two losses, perhaps another similarity to come between the two teams at the end of the gymnastics’ season.

Kendig said he feels the depth his team has shown will turn into the same con-clusion the Wildcats had: a national championship.

“This team’s been focused all year and they compete

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Thursday was special for Nebraska baseball coach Darin Erstad.

It was Major League Base-ball’s opening day. And there isn’t a time Erstad doesn’t miss lacing up the baseball cleats, putting on the glove and playing some ball.

“Every day,” Erstad said. “It’s the greatest day of the year in my opinion. Ever since I was a little kid I’ve seen all the banners in all the stadiums.”

But the former Nebraska outfielder’s playing days are over. Now it’s time for the first-year coach to expand on that knowledge and help the next generation of Huskers.

This weekend Erstad’s Huskers will take on the Iowa Hawkeyes in the base-ball version of the Heroes’ game.

But despite the hype for the game played in Memo-rial Stadium, Erstad doesn’t really see the rivalry playing a role in this weekend’s se-ries.

“All our motivation comes from within. I really don’t care who we’re playing,” Erstad said. “That’s no disre-spect to anybody, I just want to make sure we handle our level of intensity and focus and not think about any-body else’s way of playing.”

The Hawkeyes are com-ing into the weekend 12-14 and tied with the Huskers at 3-3 in Big Ten play.

But Iowa still poses a challenge to Nebraska. The Hawkeyes will throw three lefties at the Huskers, some-thing that might cause prob-lems for NU, which is 1 for

9 against left-handed pitch-ing in Big Ten play.

If the offense isn’t there, Nebraska will have to rely on the weekend’s rotation of Tom Lemke, Brandon Pierce and Zach Hirsch.

And those three will need to do a few things better this weekend against Iowa than t h e y have in the past, E r s t a d said.

“(They need to) c o m -m a n d t h e s t r i k e z o n e , work the f a s t ba l l to both sides of the plate, Erstad said. “And get ahead of hitters, early in the game we tend to get 1-0 or 2-0 a lot. And when we throw strikes we gotta get hitters away. Sometimes when we get up 1-2 in the count next thing you know we’re at 3-2 again.

“We want that killer men-tality to go out there to fin-ish guys off.”

Pierce is a fresh face for the Huskers. He’s made one start this season, a three in-ning outing against Kansas State in which he only gave up two hits and two walks on 55 pitches.

And getting that start is a great chance for him to prove himself.

“There’s (15) pitchers on our team,” Pierce said. “Just to pitch at all is a great op-portunity. It’s humbling just to pitch whenever is awe-some. I just want to pitch whenever they want me to. And they will.”

But even though the sophomore only has one start against K-State, he’s leading the Huskers with 23 1/3 innings.

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Nebraska men’s basket-ball coach Tim Miles an-nounced three new hires to his coaching staff Thursday night.

The highest-profile hire j o i n -ing the Huskers was Ben J o h n -s o n , who has s p e n t the last f o u r years as an assis-tant un-der Ben Jacobson at Northern Iowa. Recruiting is a specialty of Johnson, who held the role of UNI’s top recruiter in

2011-12 and has experience in a similar role at Univer-sity of Texas-Pan American.

Johnson, 31, has ties to the Big Ten conference, where he played two years at both Minnesota and Northwestern, and is a Min-neapolis native.

“I think Ben is a rising star in this business,” Miles said in a release. “He’s well-or-ganized, hard-working and great with the players. He can do it all, whether it is game planning or working guys out. I thought it was important to have a guy who’s been in the Big Ten and understands the envi-ronments and understands how to win. I think that’s a huge relationship builder with the players, and Ben will provide that and then some for our program.”

Ronald Coleman, a new Husker assistant, was part of Miles’ last staff at Colora-do State. Coleman has AAU ties from coaching in his native Chicago, and once played for the Houston

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